Deborah Colton

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Bride's Name: Deborah Colton
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Marriage Date: 10 May 1736
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M02856-8
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 185414
Reference Number: p 214
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Groom's Name: Joseph Hoar
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Groom's Birthplace: Of Brimfield
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Bride's Name: Deborah Colton
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Bride's Birthplace: Of Springfield
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Marriage Date: 11 Mar 1735
Marriage Place: Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M02857-2
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 185416
Reference Number: p 24 r 56
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Deborah married Deacon Joseph Hoar, Sr. on 10 May 1736 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Joseph (son of Capt. Leonard Hoar and Esther Hubbard) was born on 5 Dec 1707 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 7 Nov 1797 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Groom's Name: John Sherman
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Bride's Name: Lucy Hoar
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Marriage Date: 23 Nov 1758
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50616-4
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 223943
Reference Number: p-82
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Lucy married John Sherman, Jr. on 23 Nov 1758 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. John (son of Bezaleel Sherman and Abigail Graves) was born on 12 Jun 1738; died on 29 Apr 1825 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name change in 1830 (Hoar to Homer):
Albany NY Evening Journal 1830 - 0086.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%20Disk3/Albany%20NY%20Evening%20Journal/Albany%20NY%20Evening%20Journal%201830%20pdf/Albany%20NY%20Evening%20Journal%201830%20-%200086.pdf

Groom's Name: Joseph Hoar
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Bride's Name: Mary Hitchcock
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Marriage Date: 03 Dec 1763
Marriage Place: Brimfield,Hampden,Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50062-2
System Origin: Massachusetts-ODM
Source Film Number: 844538
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Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Joseph married Mary Hitchcock on 3 Dec 1763 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Noah Hitchcock and Mary Burt) was born on 5 Oct 1743 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Oct 1820 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://webtree.com/ccbreland/My-Michigan-Ancestors#Deborah-Hoar

Deborah married James Stebbins on 10 Jan 1765 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. James (son of Thomas Stebbins and Mary Munn) was born on 29 Apr 1740 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 21 Jan 1821 in Monson, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://users.sisna.com/mhobart/us/lrhobart-lmtrask/wc28/wc28_162.htm

Death Notice:
New York NY Spectator 1827 - 1829 Grayscale - 0244.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%206/New%20York%20NY%20Spectator/New%20York%20NY%20Spectator%201827%20-%201829%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Spectator%201827%20-%201829%20Grayscale%20-%200244.pdf

Samuel married Dorothy Hitchcock on 2 Jul 1773 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Dorothy (daughter of Noah Hitchcock and Mary Burt) was born about 1752 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Feb 1813 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA; was buried in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA (Glenwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Mercy Benedict in Feb 1814. Mercy was born on 25 Sep 1755. [Group Sheet]

Noah married Louisa Hubbard on 30 Nov 1782 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Louisa was born on 11 Aug 1763 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Groom's Name: Samuel Thompson
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Bride's Name: Asenath Hoar
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Marriage Date: 09 Jan 1783
Marriage Place: Brimfield,Hampden,Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50062-2
System Origin: Massachusetts-ODM
Source Film Number: 844538
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Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Asenath married Samuel Thompson on 9 Jan 1783 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel was born on 5 May 1760 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Ruth married Asa Patrick on 1 Mar 1787 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Asa was born on 30 Apr 1763 in Warren, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Mar 1852 in Warren, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalcelebr00brim/historicalcelebr00brim_djvu.txt
1. BLAIR, Oliver, s. of James Blair, b. at Warren, March 19, 1773 ; d. Kov. 16, 1859; m. Jan. 26, 1796, Emma Hoar, b. March 8, 1775, d. Oct. 24, 1860. Ch. : Oliver Watson, April 2, 1797. Eliza, Oct., 1805; m. Calvin Bishop of Mary, Feb. 22, 1799; ni. Cyril It. IJrown Verona. N. Y., Aug. 12, 1830. June 14, 1821. Harriet, Sept., 1807 ; d. Jan., 1809. Emma, Aug. 3, 1800; m Theodore Mil- Sarah Ann, March 1, 1811 ; m. Groves- ler of New Hartford, N. Y., Feb 14, nor Merrick of Monson, Nov., 1838. 1823. Amos, June 20, 1813 ; d. Feb., 1817. Eliza, Feb., 18'^2; d. Sept., 1804. Joseph Hoar, May 6, 1816; d. Oct. 17, Harriet, Oct., 1803 ; d. Sept., 1804. 18;',6. James Sidlivan, Sept. 2,9.

Emma married Oliver Blair on 26 Jan 1796 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Oliver (son of James Blair) was born on 19 Mar 1773 in Warren, , Massachusetts, USA; died on 16 Nov 1859. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Anna (Unknown) before 1816. Anna was born about 1779 in ; died in in . [Group Sheet]

Mary married Dea. Samuel Brown on 25 Nov 1802. Samuel (son of Bartholomew Brown and Lucy Chubb) was born on 19 Feb 1779 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 17 Nov 1862 in Richland, Kalamazoo Co, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Lucina Hitchcock. Lucina (daughter of Daniel Hitchcock and Lucy Hoar) was born on 15 Jul 1785 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hobart&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1989&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=91718741&df=all&

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Death Announcement:
http://books.google.com/books?id=pAIPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA74&dq=%22Jacob+Hoar%22+Homer&lr=&ei=JS-cSP70B4ziiwHckc37BA#PPA74,M1

Jacob married Cyrene Munn in 1800. Cyrene was born about 1778 in ; died on 21 Jun 1816 in , Cortland Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Rachel married Rowland Lacey. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hoar/messages/663.html

Info About Portrait:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-YDjGSLZw6kC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=%22gideon+hobart%22&source=bl&ots=FduvHTjOUM&sig=R0fWuBaPuxj7TbeigS7SDmP6XDM&sa=X&ei=NQspUO3TFNS16AH2poCwDQ&ved=0CBYQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22gideon%20hobart%22&f=false

http://family.phelpsinc.com/genealogy/d0015/f0000048.asp
Information came from Burhans Genealogy 1660-1893 compiled by Samuel Burhans Jr. for private distribution 1894 at Mio Hudson library, Market St., Poughkeepsie, NY from 1860 Census, Preble page 63. I believe some Hoars assumed the "Hobart" name before it was official. In NY it takes an act of the State to change a name. For at least one year prior to the name change it must be advertised so creditors, etc. will be aware. "In the 54th Session of the NY State Legislature;" Chap. 137. AN ACT authorising certain persons therein named to change their Names. Passed April 16, 1831: "The People of the state of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: " and I will just give the names and places o Ruel Hoar of Sempronius, Cayuga Co., NY o Daniel Hoar of Venice, Cayuga Co., Ny o Gideon Hoar, Joseph Hoar, Samuel Hoar, Chester Hoar, Asa Hoar, Martin Hoar, Amos Hoar, Silvester Hoar, Alpheus Hoar, Johnson Hoar, listed as residing in the town of Homer (not village but that would be included in the town) Cortland Co., NY. The name change automatically included the wives and all children under the age of 21. All names were changed legally to Hobart at that point. And the records were sealed but you can get copies from the Cortland Co. Historical Society. The Cortland Co. Historical Society has a short genealogy of some of the Hoar/Hobart family by Kendall Hobart. His address is 1720 Ryan Dr., Lutz, FL 33549. He has traced the Hoar/Hobart family line. There is also a genealogy by Edgar Hobart of the Hoar- Hobart Family. He has traced the line to abt. 1636 in England and Kendall refers to this as well. There were a group of six brothers, all sons of Lt. Samuel HOAR & wife Doritha Hitchcock, who had been born in Monson, Massachusetts, and later moved to the Homer-Cortland area of New York, who changed their surname to HOBART in April 1831. These were Jacob, Gideon, Samuel Jr., Chester, Asa, and Martin. Another brother, Calvin, who remained in Massachusetts, changed his surname to HOYT at the same time. In about the same period there were a number of other relatives in the Monson-Brimfield area who changed their surname from Hoar. I don't know if any others changed to Hobart, but it is possible. Some in Massachusetts changed the surname to Homer (coincidentally(?) the name of the town in New York where most of the new Hobarts were living. April 16, 1831- Martin Hoar under Chapter 137 allowed to change name to Hobart Hoar/Hobart Gen by Edgar Hobart- The name Hobart in the place of Hoar was selected by several members of the family at Homer, NY for two reasons. About that time, Bishop Hobart, who had been an Episcopal missionary to the penal colony of England at Tasmania was lecturing in the United States. He was such a fine man and so interesting that the Hoars were much impressed by him and his name. Moreover, by taking the name of Hobart they only had to insert the letter 'b' and add the t to the name Hoar, so a majority of the family has adopted the name Hobart. Here and there however, branches of the family have taken the names of Homer, Hoyt or Pierce; and the Mass. branch, of which 3 members have been United States Senators still retain the original name Hoar. There is a tradition in the family that the name of Hoar was first given to the original ancestor from the fact that he was found when a baby wrapped in a shawl on a doorstep in London, England and that the shawl was covered with hoar frost; so the family that adopted him gave him the name Hoar. This story has been handed down from father to son for many generations. Resided in 1900 With his son John.

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hobart&GSfn=gideon&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=91718052&df=all&

Gideon married Electa Wadsworth on 27 Mar 1806. Electa (daughter of Reuben Wadsworth and Ruth (Unknown)) was born on 26 Jun 1785 in Tyringham, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Feb 1870 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA; was buried in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA (Glenwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Samuel married Rhoda Chamberlain in 1808 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA. Rhoda (daughter of Jacob Chamberlain and Mary Vinton) was born on 7 Mar 1785 in Dudley, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Jun 1878 in Jamestown, Chautauqua Co, New York, USA; was buried in Jamestown, Chautauqua Co, New York, USA (Lake View Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/1855friend.html
1855 New York State Census - Friendship, Allegany, New York
Hobart Chester 70 m Mass m 14 Farmer 1 land owner
Hobart Peggy 69 f wife Mass

Chester married Margaret Blodgett on 16 Jun 1810. Margaret was born on 23 Mar 1786 in Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Asa married Anna Hannum on 12 Nov 1812. Anna was born about 1789 in ; died in in . [Group Sheet]

Lucina married Lewis Baldwin Parsons on 10 Nov 1814 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA. Lewis (son of Capt Charles Parsons and Lucy Baldwin) was born on 30 Apr 1793 in Williamstown, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 21 Dec 1855 in Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://users.sisna.com/mhobart/us/lrhobart-lmtrask/wc28/wc28_157.htm

Martin married Pauline Parks in 1816. Pauline (daughter of Nathan Parks and Irena Bascom) was born on 21 Jul 1794 in Westfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 24 Feb 1880 in Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in , Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, USA (Oak Creek Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groom's Name: Calvin Hoar
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Bride's Name: Anna Hoar
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Marriage Date: 11 Sep 1817
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50616-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 223943
Reference Number: p47
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces/name/68.jpg
"That Calvin Hoar, of Northampton; that Phebe Hoar, wife of said Calvin; that William Patrick and Samuel Johnson, children of said Calvin, may each respectively take the name HOYT, instead of Hoar; all of the county of Hampshire. [MA, March 13, 1832]

Calvin married Phebe (Unknown). Phebe was born about 1797 in ; died in in . [Group Sheet]

Calvin married Anna Hoar on 11 Sep 1817 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Anna (daughter of Lt. David Hoar and Catherine Pattrick) was born on 13 Jul 1793 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 2 Feb 1824 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Louisa Patrick Moody
Gender: Female
Burial Date:
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Death Date: 15 May 1874
Death Place: Elyria, Ohio
Age: 68
Birth Date: 1806
Birthplace: Warren Wo...Ter Co., Mass
Occupation: Housekeeper
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Asa Patrick
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Ruth Hoar
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B05174-7
System Origin: Ohio-EASy
Source Film Number: 1294335
Reference Number: v 1 p 1240 fn 1793
Collection: Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997

Louisa married (Male) Moody. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groom's Name: Calvin Hoar
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Bride's Name: Anna Hoar
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Marriage Date: 11 Sep 1817
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50616-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 223943
Reference Number: p47
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Anna married Calvin Hoar on 11 Sep 1817 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Calvin (son of Lt. Samuel Hoar, Sr. and Dorothy Hitchcock) was born on 10 Jun 1795 in Monson, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in in Northampton, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts, USA Or Homer, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Emma married Moses Tyler on 23 Sep 1819 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Moses was born on 10 May 1797 in Warren, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 29 Mar 1881 in Vincennes, Knox Co, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groom's Name: Alven Janes
Groom's Birth Date: 19 Jan 1800
Groom's Birthplace:
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Bride's Name: Mary Hoar Or Homer
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Marriage Date: 28 Dec 1825
Marriage Place: Holland, Hampden, Massachusetts
Groom's Father's Name: Cyrus Janes
Groom's Mother's Name: Lovina Holbrook
Bride's Father's Name: David Hoar Or Homer
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M54144-1
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 886998
Reference Number:
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Mary married Alvin Janes on 28 Dec 1825 in Holland, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Alvin (son of Cyrus Janes and Lavina Holbrook) was born on 19 Jan 1800 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Albigence Newell on 16 Nov 1837 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groom's Name: Harvey Lumbard
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Bride's Name: Harriet Hoar
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Marriage Date: 13 Apr 1833
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50616-5
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 223943
Reference Number: P462
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Name: Harriet H. Hoar Lumbard
Gender: Female
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Brimfield, Mass.
Death Date: 06 May 1889
Death Place: Brimfield, Massachusetts
Age: 80
Birth Date: 1809
Birthplace: Brimfield, Mass.
Occupation: At Home
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: David Hoar Homer
Father's Birthplace: Brimfield, Mass.
Mother's Name: Catharine Patrick Hoar
Mother's Birthplace:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06811-1
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 960240
Reference Number: v 400 p 415
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910

Harriet married Harvey Lumbard on 1 May 1833 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groom's Name: Elijah C. Ferry
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Bride's Name: Amanda P. Hoar
Bride's Birth Date:
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Marriage Date: 28 Sep 1820
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50616-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 223943
Reference Number: p36
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Amanda married Elijah Chapin Ferry on 28 Sep 1820 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Elijah was born on 30 Jun 1790 in Granby, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 31 Jul 1856. [Group Sheet]

Lucia married Col. Douphin Brown on 13 Nov 1854 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Alurid married Ruth Bliss on 28 Nov 1822 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Ruth was born on 1 Sep 1802 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Sep 1889 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Brimfield , Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA (Brimfield Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=500092817515&lds=1®ion=11&frompage=99

Abigail married Dr. Alvan Smith on 16 May 1839 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Alvan (son of Robert Smith, Jr. and Hannah Hoar) was born on 23 May 1811 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth: http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Hampden/Palmer/BirthsS.shtml

1850 Census - Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts (All born Massachusetts)
Freeman Smith, 54
Lillis/Lilles Smith, 44, [Wife]
Hannah [Hoar] Smith, 77, [Mother]
Henry Smith, 22, [Son}
Sarah D. Smith, 19, [Daughter]
Asenath Smith, 12, (Assumed Daughter - Not listed in Palmer birth records)
Harriet L. Smith, 8, [Daughter]
Charles L. Smith, 5, (Assumed Son - Not listed in Palmer birth records)
Nathaniel Reed, 20, Farmer

Freeman married Lillis Dickinson on 22 Sep 1824 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Lillis was born in in . [Group Sheet]

Betsey married Erasmus Holbrook on 21 Oct 1819 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Erasmus was born in in . [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth: http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Hampden/Palmer/BirthsS.shtml

Asenath married Thomas W. Mason on 30 Nov 1820 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Asenath married David Lewis on 28 Nov 1829 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. David was born on 26 Dec 1794 in Ware, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in in . [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth: http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Hampden/Palmer/BirthsS.shtml

Harvey married Annis Hunt on 20 Jun 1831 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth: http://www.ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Hampden/Palmer/BirthsS.shtml

John married Mary Ann Parks on 9 Sep 1834 in Palmer, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. (daughter of Sylvester Parks and Laura Andrus) [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=500092817515&lds=1®ion=11&frompage=99

Alvan married Abigail Hoar on 16 May 1839 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail (daughter of Col. Solomon Hoar and Abigail Bishop) was born on 13 Dec 1812 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Samual F. Smith [Samuel T. on record]
Death date: 29 Mar 1871
Death place: Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Gender: Male
Age at death: 58 years
Estimated birth year: 1813
Birthplace: New York
Marital status: Married
Father's name:
Mother's name:

Occupation: Houskeeping
Film number: 2363450
Digital GS number: 4207820
Image number: 966
Reference number: p 292 rn 213
Collection: Michigan Deaths 1867-1897

Samuel married Mary Loomis Bissell. Mary (daughter of Elijah North Bissell, Jr. and Florella Loomis) was born in in Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=89dee&id=I6238

Francis married Sarah Brown. Sarah (daughter of Col. Dauphin Brown and Sila Patrick) was born in Aug 1822 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA; died in in Byron, Ogle Co, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

[[Death:
https://www.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_311541052%2Fp1&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D

Mary married Cyrel Read Brown on 14 Jun 1821. Cyrel died on 4 Sep 1869. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

[[Birth:
https://www.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_576176815%2Fp1&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D

Notes:

[[Birth:
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Eliza married Calvin Bishop. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Notes:

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Notes:

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Name: James S. Blair
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place:
Death Date: 04 Feb 1901
Death Place: Massachusetts, United States
Age: 81
Birth Date: 1820
Birthplace:
Occupation:
Race:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Oliver
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Emma Hoar
Mother's Birthplace:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I10137-1
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 2057733
Reference Number: p 173
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910

Notes:

Groom's Name: Thomas Hubbard Jr.
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Caroline Hoar
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 09 Sep 1830
Marriage Place: Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Groom's Father's Name:
Groom's Mother's Name:
Bride's Father's Name:
Bride's Mother's Name:
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50616-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 223943
Reference Number: p48
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Caroline married Thomas Hubbard, Jr. on 9 Sep 1830 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. (son of Thomas Hubbard, Sr.) [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Lucy M. Hoar Goodale
Gender: Female
Burial Date:
Burial Place:
Death Date: 01 Mar 1886
Death Place: Brimfield, Massachusetts
Age: 71
Birth Date: 1815
Birthplace: Brimfield
Occupation:
Race:
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Linus Hoar
Father's Birthplace: Brimfield
Mother's Name: Lucy Brown Hoar
Mother's Birthplace: Brimfield
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06797-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 960231
Reference Number: v 373 p 357
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910

Lucy married Nathan M. Goodale on 24 Oct 1837 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. Nathan was born in in . [Group Sheet]

Mehitable married William Rufus Seaver on 26 Apr 1842 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. William was born on 11 Jul 1822 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Samuel D. Arnold on 20 May 1864. [Group Sheet]

Harriet married Samuel D. Arnold on 20 Mar 1854. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Mary A. Spaulding
Gender: Female
Burial Date:
Burial Place:
Death Date: 06 Sep 1895
Death Place: Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Age: 72
Birth Date: 1823
Birthplace: Jamaica, Vermont
Occupation:
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Philip Spaulding
Father's Birthplace: Westford, Mass.
Mother's Name: Theresa Hoar
Mother's Birthplace: Brimfield, Mass.
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B00822-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 1871633
Reference Number: v 8 p 14
Collection: Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910

Notes:

Groom's Name: Phillip D. Spaulding
Groom's Birth Date: 1827
Groom's Birthplace: Jamaica, Vt.
Groom's Age: 34
Bride's Name: Laure A. Day
Bride's Birth Date: 1830
Bride's Birthplace: Warren
Bride's Age: 31
Marriage Date: 09 Sep 1861
Marriage Place: Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Groom's Father's Name: Philip Spaulding
Groom's Mother's Name: Tisiah (Horr) Spaulding
Bride's Father's Name: Lyman Day
Bride's Mother's Name: (Allen) Day
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50119-3
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 186126
Reference Number: 357
Collection: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910

Name: Philip D Spaulding
Death date: 04 Sep 1907
Death place: Springfield,,Massachusetts
Gender: Male
Race or color (expanded): White
Age in years: 80
Estimated birth year: 1827
Birthdate: 1827
Birthplace: Jamaica, Vermont
Marital status: Widowed
Spouse's name:
Father's name: Philip Spaulding
Mother's name: Tirzah Homer
Film number: 2217352
Digital GS number: 4282858
Image number: 01705
Reference number: 202
Collection: Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841 - 1915

Philip married Laure A. Day on 9 Sep 1861 in Amherst, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts, USA. Laure (daughter of Lyman Day and (Female) Allen) was born about 1830 in Warren, Bristol Co, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hoar/messages/430.html
http://genforum.genealogy.com/hoar/messages/431.html

Name Change (Hoar to Hobart):
http://books.google.com/books?id=8r0BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=%2Bhoar+Hobart+Hunn&source=web&ots=KAB8FQVBFS&sig=FT3sYqUWTje785zSDvWbRz4EPsQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

Death Notice
Cortland NY Whig 1840-1847 - 0187.pdf
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Cortland%20NY%20Whig/Cortland%20NY%20Whig%201840-1847/Cortland%20NY%20Whig%201840-1847%20-%200187.pdf
Died age 42 at Springfield, Ma (no published date on the newspaper)

Eli married Hannah Hunn on 21 Sep 1828 in Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/cortland/vitals/d1815-21.htm
Cortland Republican Newspaper - Published Sep 6, 1820
Obituary.
Died - In Homer, on the 4th inst. a son of Deacon Jacob HOAR, aged about 10 years.

Notes:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hoar/messages/663.html

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hobart/messages/436.html

Marriage to Jane:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/cortland/vitals/co182529.htm
Published date: 4 Apr 1827
Married, In this village, on the 29th ult., by Rev. J. KEEP, Mr. Amos HOAR to Miss Jane BROWN

Marriage to Ellen:
Syracuse NY Daily Standard 1875 Grayscale - 0940.pdf http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%20Disk3/Syracuse%20NY%20Daily%20Standard%20Grayscale/Syracuse%20NY%20Daily%20Standard%201875%20Grayscale.pdf/Syracuse%20NY%20Daily%20Standard%201875%20Grayscale%20-%200940.pdf
Amos Hobart, Esq., has succeeded in
winning tho affections of one of the fair
daughters of Syracuse, a Mrs. Barron, and
led her to tho altar on Thursday, the 30th
inst. We sympatise with her many friends
in Syracuse on tho removal of this amiable
lady here, but what is their loss is our gain.
We congratulate Mr. H. on his selection of
a partner and wish them many years of pros-
perity and happiness, and we also welcome
his newly made wife to our midst and hope
she will never have reason to regret coming
to our beautiful place as a resident.

Homer NY Republican 1889-1899 - 0215.pdf
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Homer%20NY%20%20Republican/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201889-1899/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201889-1899%20-%200215.pdf
Sketch of the late amos Hobart.
Amos Hobart died June 11, 1890.
He was born in 1807, being at the time
of his death in his eighty fourth year
He was a son of Gideon and Electa
Wadsworth Hobart, and an elder brother
of Deacon Manley Hobart, who died
in 1883. Nine children- five sons and
two daughters--remain to mourn his
loss. He first married Jane Brown,
who died In 1878. In 1875 he married
Ellen M. Baron of Cortland, who survives
him. He first united with the
Congregational church of Homer in
1826, and after a short residence in Dryden
reunited in 1832. In his death his
family lose a faithful father and husband,
the community a respected and
honored citizen and the church a stead-
fast and consistent member.

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91718347

Concerning his will (heirs and kin)
Cortland NY Democrat 1890 - 0253.pdf
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Cortland%20NY%20Democrat/Cortland%20NY%20Democrat%201890/Cortland%20NY%20Democrat%201890%20-%200253.pdf
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
to Ella M. Hobart, of Homer. Cortland county,
N. Y.: Flavilla C. Hathaway of Oconomowoc.
Waukesha. County Wis.: Durand C. Hobart of
Homer. Cortland county, N. Y.; Amos B. Hobart of
Weaverville. Trinity county, Cal.: Lyman D. Hobart
of French Gulch, Shasta county, Cal.: Caroline L.
Burger of South 4tfth street. West Philadelphia, Pa.:
William M. Hobart of Preble, Cortland county. N.
Y.: Gideon D. Hobart of 121* Bridge street, Brooklyn.
N. Y.: Adeline E. Watson of Homer, Cortland
county, N. Y.: Lucy E. Haskins of Cortland. N. Y.:
William M. Bunker, of San Faneisco, Ca!.; Clark H.
Bunker, of San Francisco, Cal.: Fannie J. Bunker
of San Francisco, Cal.; heirs at law and next of kin
of Amos Hobart, late of the town of Homer, in the
county of Coitlaud, New York, deceased, Greeting :
Whereas. Augustus H. Bennett, one of the Executors
named in a certain instrument....

Amos married Jane Brown on 29 Mar 1827 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA. Jane (daughter of Ephriam Brown and Alice Wilcox) was born about 1806 in Massachusetts, USA; was christened on 13 Sep 1807 in Charlemont, Franklin Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 21 Aug 1873 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA; was buried in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA (Glenwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Amos married Ellen (Unknown) on 30 Sep 1875. Ellen was born about 1831 in New York Or Wales; died on 15 Dec 1891 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91718192

Manley married Caroline Boies on 22 Jun 1842. Caroline (daughter of Rufus Boies) was born on 24 Mar 1822 in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA; died on 14 Feb 1888 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co, New York, USA; was buried in Homer, Cortland Co, New York, USA (Glenwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Horace married Harriet Hill on 5 May 1839. Harriet was born about 1812 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1900 United States Federal Census
Name:Orrin Hobart
Age:85
Birth Date:Jul 1814
Birthplace:New York
Home in 1900:Byron, Buchanan, Iowa
Race:White
Gender:Male
Relation to Head of House:Uncle
Marital Status:Widowed
Father's Birthplace:Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace:New York
Household Members:
NameAge
Wayne Hildreth 64
Frances S Hildreth 61
Orrin Hobart 85

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hobart&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1903&GSdyrel=in&GSst=16&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=106713174&df=all&

Obituary:
Homer NY Republican 1903-1906 - 0101.pdf
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Homer%20NY%20Republican/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201903-1906/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201903-1906%20-%200101.pdf
[[
Death of Orln Hobart.
The Buchanan County Review pub
lished at Wluthrop, la., contains the
following notice of the death of Orln
Hobart, a brother of Mauley and Amos
Hobart, late of this town aud remembered
by many of the older generatlou
of Homer people:
Orln Hobart was born July 81, 1814,
in Homer, Cortland county, N. Y., aud
fell asloep In Wlnthrop, Iowa, December
1,1001), aged 80 years, four months.
He moved to Richmond, Illinois, iu
1845. Twenty-five years ago ho moved
to Woodstock, III., where he lived till
the death of his wife in 1808, since
which time he has lived with his daughter
in Iowa. For over seventy years he
had been a member of the Congregational
church and for forty or fifty years
superintendent in tho Sunday schools
and very active Iu all ohurch work. A
good and a just man has gone to his re-
?Wward.
"Mr. Hobart was known to only a
few Wlnthrop people, but the few who
did know him found in him a man of
sterling worth, and one who loved his
fellow men. His deep love for children
was seen in h|s relations to the Junior
C. E. society of tho Congregational
church and to a few of the neighboring
children who delighted to run in and
have a chat with "Grandpa." Mr.
Hobart strove to live a consistent christian
life and though uaable to mingle in
social circles, because of physical disabilities,
yet his influence for good upon
,those who came in contact with him
was most marked.
"A brief funeral service was held at
the home of W. Hildreth, Tuesday
evening, and then the body was taken
to the train to be carried to Richmond,
Illinois, for burial. The words of St.
Paul make a most fitting memorial to
bis life: 'I have fought the good fight;
I have finished my course; I have finished
my course; 1 have kept the faith.' "

Orrin married Lydia Brown in May 1839. Lydia was born about 1815 in New York, USA; died in 1893-1898 in Woodstock, McHenry Co, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]

Euretta married B. C. Goodell on 8 May 1840. [Group Sheet]

Celinda married Lyman Hubbard. Lyman was born about 1799 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Lucretia married Rev. Martin M. Post on 9 Sep 1832. Martin was born in 1805; died in 1872. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Harriet married Rev. Alexander Lemon on 5 Oct 1843 in , Cass Co, Indiana, Usa. Alexander died on 8 Nov 1862. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Death Notice:
Homer NY Republican 1884-1889 - 0362.pdf
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Homer%20NY%20Republican/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201884-1889/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201884-1889%20-%200362.pdf
HOBART? At his home in Grinnell, Iowa, on
Wednesday, January 13th, of heart disease,
Charles Hobart, aged 71 years.
Deceased was born in Homer In 1815 and Is
a cousin of Alfred Chamberlain and Amos
Hobart. He lived for eighteen years In Homer
and then removed to Arcade, N. Y., where he
remained for thirty-two years. In 1845 he
married Miss Corinna L. Woodruff, of Buffalo,
N. Y. We [sic] went to Grinnell in March, 1865,and
lived there until his death.

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92595780

Charles married Corinna Woodruff on 22 Oct 1845 in Buffalo, Erie Co, New York, USA. Corinna (daughter of Elijah Woodruff and Elizabeth Churchill) was born on 25 Aug 1827 in Sheldon, Wyoming Co, New York, USA; died on 4 Nov 1911; was buried in Grinnell, Poweshiek Co, Iowa, USA (Hazelwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Rhonda married Dr. Elijah Higby Danforth on 8 Apr 1843. Elijah was born on 12 Mar 1817 in Pompey, Onondaga Co, New York, USA; died on 1 Jul 1894. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.woosnap.com/chamberlain/files/ln07964.pdf

Volina married Dr. Elijah Higby Danforth on 24 May 1859 in Marengo, , Iowa, USA. Elijah was born on 12 Mar 1817 in Pompey, Onondaga Co, New York, USA; died on 1 Jul 1894. [Group Sheet]

Jacob married Celia Wadsworth on 12 Dec 1851 in Beloit, Rock Co, Wisconsin, USA. Celia (daughter of Joseph Wadsworth and Sophia Morton) was born on 14 Nov 1825 in Aurora, Cayuga Co, New York, USA; died on 24 Oct 1892 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, USA; was buried in Roscoe, Winnebago Co, Illinois, USA (Roscoe Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/1855friend.html
1855 New Yor State Census - Friendship, Allegany, New York
Hobart Lansing 41 m Cortland m 14 Farmer 1 land owner
Hobart Sylvia 36 f wife Vermont m 26
Hobart Charles 7 m child Allegany 7
Hobart Manley 6 m child Allegany 6
Hobart Harriett 4 f child Allegany 4
Hobart Ella 2 f child Allegany 2
Steenrod Nancy 48 f sister Vermont

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/Friendship1865.html
1865 New York State Census - Friendship, Allegany County
HOBART LANSING 52 M W HEAD CORTL FARMER NATIVE
HOBART SYLVIA 45 F W WIFE VERMONT 5
HOBART CHARLES G. 17 M W SON ALLE CO
HOBART MANLY 15 M W SON ALLE CO
HOBART HARRIET 14 F W DAU ALLE CO
HOBART ELLA 12 F W DAU ALLE CO
HOBART MATHEW 6 M W SON ALLE CO
HOBART CHESTER 80 M W FATHR MASS
HOBART PEGGY 79 F W MOTHR MASS

Death:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/mthopecb2.html

Lansing married Sylvia Diana Gleason on 4 Jan 1843. Sylvia was born on 22 Oct 1819 in Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont, USA; died in 1893; was buried in Friendship, Allegany Co, New York, USA (Mount Hope Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Octavia married William Erastus Sterling in Aug 1838. William was born on 4 Jun 1801; died on 5 Mar 1861. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parsons.html#25K0GGD8W
Parsons, Philo (1817-1865) - Born in Scipio, Cayuga County , N.Y., February 7, 1817 . Son of Lewis Baldwin Parsons and Lucine (Hoar) Parsons; married, June 27, 1843 , to Anne Eliza Barnum. Wholesale grocer ; banker ; member of Michigan state board of agriculture , 1861-63. Presbyterian ; later Congregationalist . Died in Winchendon, Worcester County , Mass., January 12, 1865 . Burial location unknown.

http://www.archive.org/stream/cornetjosephpars01burt/cornetjosephpars01burt_djvu.txt
Tribute by Prof. Joseph L. Daniels, of Olivet College, Michigan, Dec. 2, 1897, Mr. Philo Parsons was born at Scipio, N. Y., February 6, 1817. His early years were spent in Gouverneur, Homer, and Perry, N, Y. At the latter place, he entered into busi- ness with his father under the firm name of L. B. Parsons & Son. And he also married there, in 1843, Miss Ann Eliza Barnum. Their long and happy married life was ter- minated in 1893 by the death of Mrs. Parsons, Mr. Parsons following her three years later, dying at Winchenden, Mass., January 20, 1896. Eight children were bom to them, of whom seven survived their parents. In 1844, Mr. Parsons removed to Detroit, Mich., and entered upon the grocery business under the firm of Parsons & James. A few years later he established a private bank. In 1861, when the Government created the national banking system as an aid in carrying on the war, Mr. Parsons was the leader in organizing the First National Bank of Detroit, was its first president, and for many years one of its directors. He did much to promote the commercial prosperity of Detroit. He entered heartily into the project for bringing the Wabash Railroad into the city, was an active member of the Board of Trade, and for a time its president. For many years he 154 represented his own city in the National Board of Trade and was honored repeatedly as one of its vice-presidents. His discussions in these national conventions show a wealth of information, a candor and breadth of view, and a dis- crimination akin to prophecy. He was an ardent lover of his own city and State, and yet on one occasion explained his vote, apparently against their interests, as " for the greatest good of the greatest number." Mr. Parsons was active in the municipal affairs of Detroit, and for a time a member of its council. The State, too, more than once conferred upon him distinguished honors and trusts; notably as commissioner to the Yorktown Cen- tennial, and as chairman of the Commission to secure the statue of General Lewis Cass to be placed in the Capitol at Washington. He brought to this work all the enthusiasm of a lifelong friendship and a patriotic pride for the honor of his beloved State. The statue, almost vocal with life, crowned his many months of toil and effort and was one of the great joys of his life. He honored himself in honoring the State. Yet political offices and honors he did not seek. He even declined to consider them when they merely appealed to his personal ambition. Too much Puritanic and revolu- tionary blood flowed in his veins to ever regard public offices as anything but a sacred trust, a patriotic service. Mr. Parsons had a lively interest in agriculture, was an active member of the State Agricultural Society of Michigan, and served most acceptably as its president. He was an enthusiast in horticulture and fruit culture, and found relaxation and pleasure in personal work in his own garden, one of the finest in Detroit. He was a royal entertainer, and was never happier than when sharing the hospitality of his elegant home with his friends. His benevolence was a matter of principle. He took special delight in aiding young men who were preparing for the work of Christian ministrjr. He was one of the largest and most systematic givers to the cause of missions. He was an enthusiastic believer in education. While several institutions were looking with eager eyes toward the Ram Library at Heidelberg, Mr. Parsons bought and donated it in its entirety to the Michigan State University. In keeping with his father's spirit, he was espe- cially devoted to the Christian College. He early became interested in Olivet College, Michigan. For thirty-six years he was a member of its board of trustees. He built his name into the history and even the very walls of the col- lege. Parsons Hall and the Parsons Professorship are honored words today. Not only his munificent gifts, but his wise counsels and his lifelong devotion to the work at Olivet are gratefully remembered. And no less were these deeds of benevolence a grateful remembrance to Mr. Par- sons himself. They were his glory and joy in his later years of illness. He found a rich reward in the satisfaction of building himself into institutions of education and religion. Olivet College grew dearer to him. His home church, the First Congregational Church of Detroit, grew dearer. His beloved pastor and his intimate friends at Olivet received frequent letters full of gratitude and joy for what he had been permitted to do, and full of trust and hope in prospect of a blessed immortality. In this spirit, he entered into rest. His death was literally a sleep. He slept on earth to awake in Heaven.

Philo married Anne Eliza Barnum on 27 Jun 1843 in Moscow, , New York, USA. Anne was born on 14 Sep 1822; died on 25 Apr 1893 in Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.archive.org/stream/cornetjosephpars01burt/cornetjosephpars01burt_djvu.txt
and
http://books.google.com/books?id=quJGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=%22lucy+baldwin%22+%22charles+parsons%22&source=bl&ots=6bLogV78Lm&sig=Cg55B2WKngXAGIHU0rQ8HWJz01o&hl=en&ei=klq_SvqnKoen8AbnvojAAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=green&f=false
General Parsons, b. Genesee Co., N. Y., April 5, 1818; Yale College, 1840; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1844; Captain of Volunteers, October 31, 1861; Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Halleck, April 4, 18G2 ; Brigadier-General, May 11, 1865, by autographic order of President Lincoln, for special services; Brevet Major- General, April 30, 1866; Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois in 1880 on the ticket with Judge Lyman Trumbull for Governor. Delegate to the National Democratic Convention which nom- inated Grover Cleveland for President in 1884. Presi- dent Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 1893-97; mem- ber G. A. R. and Army of the Tennessee, and Companion of Loyal Legion. General Parsons's early years were mostly spent at school or in his father's country store at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York. He entered Yale College in 1836. His father having suffered severely in the financial revulsions of 1837, he was obliged to struggle for an education under great difficulties, yet, by his energy and industry, he graduated with reputation in his class in 1840. In order to discharge 156 debts incurred in college, and obtain funds to enable him to pursue his professional education, he taught a classical school in Mississippi for two years, evincing those traits of energy and integrity which not only then met with a just reward, but which have characterized him through his suc- cessful life. Entering Harvard Law School, then presided over by Justice Story and Professor Greenleaf, in 1842, he jjursued his studies till the spring of 1844, when, turning his steps westward, he landed in St. Louis in March of that year, with funds only sufficient to pay a drayman to take his baggage to a hotel, a good library, for which he owed $600; a determined will, and an honest purpose to succeed. Less than twenty years after, the same man had been the financial manager of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad ? one of the greatest commercial arteries leading to the same city; and had been for years engaged in directing the trans- portation of great armies, with all their supplies, animals, and munitions, during a long war of the greatest magni- tude ? controlling, by his single will, under the general or- der of the Secretary of War, all the vast means and modes of transportation, not only of all the rivers and railroads of the West, but of the entire country ? such are the changes of our country and time! Mr. Parsons, soon after reaching St. Louis, went to Alton and became the partner of Newton D. Strong, an eminent lawyer and a brother of Judge Strong, of the United States Supreme Court. The firm did a large and successful busi- ness till Mr. Strong left the State, when Mr. Parsons formed a partnership with Judge Henry W. Billings. In 1853 Mr. Parsons left Alton and became the legal adviser of the great banking house of Page & Bacon, then engaged in construct- ing the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, at the same time purchasing the land on which he has since made the large farm on which he now resides. On the suspension of the banking house of Page & Bacon, Messrs. Aspinwall and associates took possession of the railroad, retaining Mr. Parsons as the general western manager. In the various positions of at- torney, treasurer, manager, director, and president of this road for nearly a quarter of a century, he discharged his duties so as to secure the perfect confidence of all parties and the public in his integrit3^ energy, and capacity. In 1860 General Parsons resigned his official position with a view of rest and a European tour; but, perceiving the country was on the brink of a civil war, he resolved to stay at home and serve the nation. Soon after the commencement of the war General George B. McClellan, who, as vice-president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, had known General Parsons 157 and his abilities, offered him a position under him in the East, which was at once accepted, and he proceeded thither. Early satisfied that the field and the West best siiited his taste, Gen. Parsons obtained an order to report to St. Louis, with the view to raising a regiment. On arriving there. Gen- eral Curtis, commanding the department, placed him on a commission with Captain, now Lieutenant-General, Sheridan, to investigate the affairs connected with General Fre- mont's administration, which soon led to the celebrated Holt-Davis commission of greater civil powers. In the mean time, General Halleck having taken command, and finding nothing but disorder and confusion in the transportation service ? that it was conducted utterly regardless of system or economy ? was inefficient and the source of endless com- plaints by the railroads, who neither knew whose orders to obey nor how to obtain compensation due them, learning of General Parsons's experience and abilities, obtained an order from the Secretary of War placing him on his staff as aide-de-camp, with rank of colonel, and gave him entire charge of the railroad and river transportation. General Parsons accepted the situation with a cheerful confidence, which was amply vindicated by the results, and which soon brought order and harmony out of chaos and confusion. Introducing a few simple, well-defined rules, combining uniformity with responsibility, and efficiency with econ- omy, a revolution was at once effected most satisfactory to the Government officers and the railroads performing service, so that they, as well as all river navigation, became part of a single, central system, acting not only with power and efficiency, but with unsurpassed economy. Such suc- cess gained the entire confidence of the Government, and General Parsons's authority soon became complete and co- extensive with the valley west of the Alleghanies, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Indian wars, two thousand miles up the Yellowstone, as also the Upper Mississippi. In 1863 the Secretary of War ordered General Parsons to Washington, but revoked the order on his tendering his resignation rather than leave the West. In 1864, however, on an imperative order of the Secretary, he took charge of the Rail and River Transportation of the entire country, and in a brief period perfected a complete organization and introduced rules, regulations, and forms, which were made the permanent basis of action for that important depart- ment. It is a singular fact that, though so successful in all re- spects, General Parsons twice tendered his resignation in order to raise a regiment for active field service, which was, as it should have been, imperatively declined by the Secre- tary of War. Happening to be present at the first attack on Vicksburg-, he tendered his services and acted as volun- teer aid to General Sherman, and subsequently acted in like capacity on General McClernand's staff, at the battle and capture of Arkansas Post, where he was among the first to enter the fortification, and for which he received special no- tice from the commanding officers. Soon after the surrender of Lee, General Parsons tendered his resignation, his private business imperatively requiring his attention, but was detained by the Secretary of War for many months to aid in important service. The same firmness, energy, and economy have distinguished General Parsons equally in public and private life, and evinced his superior organizing and administrative abilities. There is upon record abundant evidence from the highest authority ? from such men as President Lincoln, Generals Grant and Sherman, Judge David Davis, E. B. Washburne, and others ? of most meritorious service, all agreeing that General Parsons's administration saved millions to the Gov- ernment. As early as September 13, 1863, that most able and excel- lent officer, General Robert Allen, then Colonel Parsons's superior, in writing the Secretary of War, asking for Colo- nel Parsons's promotion, among other things, said: " Hav- ing had charge of that most important branch of the ser- vice, steamboat and railroad transportation, his duties have been arduous, and highly responsible, and he has dis- charged them with signal success and ability. His admin- istration of this branch of the department has been emi- nently satisfactory. No military movement in the West has failed or faltered for lack of transportation or supplies of any kinds. The wants of armies in the field have been anticipated and met with alacrity and dispatch. If indus- try joined to capacity, and integrity to energy, all possessed and duly exercised in the same person, entitled him to ad- vancement, then I may safely claim promotion for Colonel Parsons." " It is to General Parsons's matchless combinations that must be attributed much of the efficiency and success that almost invariably marked every military movement in the West. When the climax of General Grant's Western renown was reached in the battles before Chattanooga, and he was transferred to the command of all the armies, with headquarters at Washington, he lost no time in bringing General (then Colonel) Parsons to Washington to direct from that centre the machinery that he had become so 159 completely the master of. In 1864 Secretary Stanton ordered him to Washington, extending his duties to the entire country. May 11, 1865, on the autographic order of President Lincoln, for distinguished services, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and, on retiring from the service, April 30, 1866, was brevetted major-general of volunteers." General Parsons's eminent executive ability and success in the rapid movement of large armies for long distances, with their vast supplies and munitions of war, were, among other instances, shown in the movement of General Sherman's army of forty thousand men for the first attack on Vicksburg, as also in the transfer of General Schofield's army from Eastport, Miss., over the Alleghany Mountains, to the Potomac, in midwinter, a distance of fourteen hun- dred miles, in an average time of eleven days, instead of thirty, allowed by the Secretary of War. This movement was pronounced by the Secretary, as also by English and French authorities, as unequaled in rapidity and success in the annals of war. General Parsons's duties kept him mostly from the field, but when present, during several engagements, he volunteered as aide and received special commendation for services rendered, and was also tendered by Secretary Stanton a position in the Eegular Army with rank of Colonel, which he declined. His record of duty is perhaps best shown by the following extracts of letters from Generals Grant and Sherman: May 20, 1865, General Grant writes: " The position (chief of rail and river transportation of the armies of the United States) is second in importance to no other connected with the military sei^ice, and to have been appointed to it at the beginning of a war of the magnitude and duration of this, and holding it to its close, providing transportation for whole armies, with all that appertains to them, for thou- sands of miles, adjusting accounts involving millions of money, and doing justice to all, never delaying for a mo- ment any military operations dependent upon you, evi- dences an honesty of purpose, knowledge of men, and ex- ecutive ability of the highest order, and of which any man might be justly proud." * October 29, 1865, General Sherman writes: " I more espe- cially recall the fact that you collected at Memphis, in December, 1862, boats enough to transport forty thousand men, with full equipments and stores, on less than a week's * General Parsons's Reports, orders and correspondence as found in more than tv/enty volumes of the " Rebellion Record," will ever be the lasting memorial of his services to his country in the hour of its need. 160 notice, and subsequently that you supplied an army of one hundred thousand men, operating near Vicksburg, for six months, without men or horses being in want for a single day. I beg to express my admiration of the system and good sense which accomplished results so highly useful to the whole country." Soon after the war, General Parsons visited Europe and the East, seeking to regain his health, greatly impaired by over four years of incessant labor, he having been ab- sent from duty but twenty-one days while in service. After two years spent abroad, and several years as presi- dent of a bank in St. Louis, General Parsons, in 1874, re- tired to Flora, 111., where he now resides, engaged in man- aging a large landed estate purchased in the early settle- ment of Illinois. During the war, while faithfully serving his country, he never wavered in his political faith. Beginning a Douglas war-Democrat, he continued such, though some of his friends firmly believed this long delayed his just promo- tion. Continuing since the war an earnest but conserva- tive Democrat, he has never been drawn into any temporary political experiments, but has believed that there lay at the foundation of true Democratic principles certain great truths which, in time, would assert supreme power, and in their practical application restore the Government to the simplicity, economy, and honesty of the better days of the republic. General Parsons greatly aided in restoring Dem- ocratic majorities in Southern Illinois, not only by his abil- ities as a public speaker, but by his organizing abilities and great energy of character. Extract from a letter of General Parsons, November 25, 1897: " As a Democrat, I voted for Douglas in 1860. After the war began, I gave my utmost efforts to the Government, regardless of politics. Since the war I have been, as I was before, a Jeffersonian Democrat from deep conviction, and that greatly against my personal interest and the solicitation of my personal friends. I have never sought or desired office, but had I become a Republican political honors were doubtless within my reach. Twice I could have gone to Congress as a Democrat, by accepting a nomination, but I had no taste that way." Extract from report of Captain F. S. Winslow, A. Q. M., to General Parsons, February 13, 1865: " General ? From my peaceful home, looking back on the events of the last four years, and especially fixing my mind's eye on the gigantic movements of armies and supplies. 161 where thousands of miles of distances, and barriers of des- erts and mountains were counted as nothing-, even I, who had something to do with the detail of this great work, cannot help feeling astonished and asking how was it done? The question will be repeated by our children when they come to read the history of the rebellion; and I hope that you, General, will leave them sufficient records to show how, in the age of steam and electricity, and with these as servants, an energetic mind could move armies with almost the facility with which a family changes its residence, and could supply them with the promptness found in a well- regulated household. * * * To you belongs the credit of having accomplished such great results; to me, the satis- faction of having supported you to the utmost of my ability." ? (Compiled from Public Eecords by the Editor.) Note. ? How History once Made is afterwards Falsi- fied. ? The general public takes little interest in war be- yond reports of battles fought. The clash of arms and a few of the chief actors therein absorb the attention, leaving out of account the strenuous exertions of others whose unremitting and sagacious labors supply the forces and the conditions which make victory possible. Thus, after an interview with Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War in the War of Secession, Mr. Henry J. Raymond, then editor of the New York "Times," wrote editorially: "If Secretary Stanton were called on to name the officer who more than any other had distinguished himself in the task of wielding the vast machinery of the Union Armies during all stages of the conflict in response to the plans and re- quirements of our Generals, he would with little hesitation designate General Lewis B. Parsons of St. Louis. It is to his matchless combinations that must be attributed much of the efficiency and success that almost invariably marked every military movement in the West " [where the first and determining successes of the War were won]. General Parsons's exploit in transferring the army corps of General Schofield from the Tennessee Eiver to the Po- tomac, in the depths of winter, in less than fourteen days, and that without the loss of a man, an animal, or a gun. Secretary Stanton pronounced an achievement " without a parallel in the movement of armies," and he therefore requested from General Parsons a special report on the exploit, which report is contained in the ninety-ninth volume of the Rebellion Records. The facts of the case being thus fully established, it might have been supposed that they would thenceforth remain undisturbed. But 162 in 1898 there appeared a book written by Mr. Stanton's Assistant Secretary, Cliarles A. Dana, whose editorial con- duct of the New Yorlc " Sun " after the war became notorious on account of the ceaseless malignity of his vituperation against General Grant. In this book, entitled " Recollections of the Civil War," said Dana appropri- ated to himself the above achievement of General Parsons, in the following words: "Moving an Akmy Corps 1,400 Miles. ? The election was hardly over before the people of the North began to prepare Thanksgiving boxes for the army. From Philadelphia I received a message ask- ing for transportation to Sheridan's Army for boxes con- taining 4,000 turkeys. A couple of months later, in Jan- uary, 1865, a piece of work not so different from the ' turkey business,' but on a rather larger scale, fell to me. This was the transfer of the Twenty-third Army Corps from its position on the Tennessee Eiver, to Chesapeake Bay." His account of how he (Dana) performed this work (really done by General Parsons) Dana concludes by appropriating, with slight verbal changes. General Parsons's own summary of results accomplished, from his (the Gen- eral's) special report to Secretary Stanton! Dana's actual share in that achievement, consisted in his being directed by Secretary Stanton to communicate to General Parsons the fact that said transfer of General Schofield's Army Corps was desired, and to learn from him (General Parsons) how soon he could promise to effect it. Upon con- dition that he (Parsons) was given the right to use the name of the Secretary of War in seizure of cars, boats, etc., w^henever he deemed it essential. General Parsons undertook to transfer said army corps within thirty day's. He actually accomplished it in less than fourteen days, and that in spite of fog and ice on the rivers and violent snow storms in the mountains, amid unusual severities of mid- winter. ? (Editor.)

Lewis married Sarah Green Edwards on 21 Sep 1847 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co, Missouri, USA. Sarah was born on 12 Sep 1820; died on 28 May 1850. [Group Sheet]

Lewis married Julia Maria Edwards on 5 Jul 1852 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co, Missouri, USA. Julia was born on 8 Jun 1830; died on 9 Jun 1857. [Group Sheet]

Lewis married Elizabeth Darrah on 28 Dec 1869 in New York City, New York Co, New York, USA. Elizabeth was born on 25 Jun 1832; died on 2 Sep 1887 in Scarborough, Cumberland Co, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet]

Lucy married Charles S. Cone in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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From the Encyclopedic History of St. Louis. COLONEL CHARLES PARSONS, President of the State Bank of St. Louis. Colonel Charles Parsons was born at Homer, Cortland Co., N. Y., January 24, 1824. He received an academical education at Gouverneur and Homer, N. Y. After spending several years as a clerk in his father's store, in a bank, and as a partner in a commercial house in Buffalo, N. Y., he removed to Keokuk, la., in 1851, where he established and continued for years a successful banking business. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he volunteered, was made captain, and, because of his superior business abilities, was placed in charge of army rail and river transportation at St. Louis, a position which he filled with such eminent success that he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Near the close of the war, he was made cashier of the State 164 Savings Association, now the State Bank of St. Louis, of which he was elected president in 1870, making his entire term of service in the bank to the present time, thirty-three years. The success of his administration is most conclu- sively and concisely shown by the fact that for all these years the bank has never failed to make a dividend of at least five per cent, semi-annually, and for the last twenty- three years has made one of eight per cent, semi-annually, and has, in addition, accumulated during these thirty-three years, a surplus of more than $1,100,000. While amassing a reasonable fortune in his long and active business life. Colonel Parsons has disbursed of his income with liberality and a most catholic spirit, by aiding charitable, religious, and educational institutions, at times in large sums. Colonel Parsons's remarkable success has resulted not more from a natural taste for banking than from his thorough study, accurate knowledge, and comprehensive views of the principles governing commercial and financial affairs, combined with the liberal spirit with which he ever meets and treats private and public interests. The high esteem in which he has been held in financial circles is shown by the fact that for twenty-two years he was annually elected president of the St. Louis Clearing House, was for some years president of the American Bankers' Association, was selected to preside over the World's Congress of Bankers and Financiers at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and that his name has been often mentioned as a suitable candidate for Secretary of the Treasury, and would, it is believed, have been pressed, but for Colonel Parsons's own opposition thereto. In 1892, when there was much public excitement in regard to city finances, owing to a large defalcation, Colonel Parsons consented at the solicitude of many prominent citizens, regardless of party, to accept temporarily the position of City Treasurer, which office he resigned as soon as full investigation could be made, the books put in proper condition, and a new treasurer elected. Colonel Parsons has been, and still is, president and director in many railroads and other public and charitable institutions, taking an active part and im- pressing his own personality thereon. There are few men who are more consulted or whose opinions upon public and financial questions are held in as high esteem. Nor is Colo- nel Parsons merely a business man. Possessing by nature a refined taste, he has during his active life gathered one of the most valuable collections of paintings and other works of art in our country, obtained during repeated visits to Europe and in a trip around the world made in 1894-5, a 165 very interesting account of whicli last trip was published in a volume for private circulation, showing close and accurate observation of men and affairs. In politics, Colonel Parsons has been a strong Republican, occupying a prominent position in party councils and con- tributing liberally for the success thereof. He is also a member of the societies of the Grand Army of the Eepublic, the Loj-al Legion, and the Army of the Tennessee. Colonel Parsons was married in 1857 to Miss Martha Pettus, a member of one of the old well-known families of St. Louis. She died in 1889, leaving no children. Extract from a speech by Colonel Parsons at the Cale- donian Society dinner, in St. Louis, November 30, 1897. " Perhaps, as I represent the New England Society this evening, as its former president, you would like to hear something of the Yankees and how they lived sixty and more years ago, when I was a boy; in the changes that have and are taking place nowadays, we are all getting to be different from what we were; even the Japanese are putting on breeches and coats and discarding their queues and kiminos. More's the pity. They will become poor Europeans and lose the originality and unique character, as well as genuine art, they once possessed. " Well, in my youth, among the Yankees in New England and New York, people were mostly connected with some church, and, generally, business ceased on Saturday night at sundown. Everything ended save works of necessity and mercy. The good orthodox people insisted that the warrant for commencing Sabbath on Saturday night was from the Bible, where it says: ' The evening and the morn- ing were the first day.' Our evenings of Saturdays were spent in learning the Sabbath-school lessons, the catechism, and singing. Ten o'clock Sunday morning was church time, and all who were not ill or too old or too young went to meeting, as it was called. We spoke not of the church as a building, but of the meeting-house. Then came the service; first, the invocation, the Bible reading, the singing, the long prayer, another singing and the sermon, which last was not, perhaps, as long as the Scotch ones; yet it did not lack in that respect. Then Sabbath school of half an hour, after which our lunch, and about one o'clock again another service. The farmers took lunch in summer on the grass around the house; but at other times in the house. It was not customary formerly to have fires in the meeting- house. It was thought best to keep warm by spiritual heat, and the first introduction of stoves was, in many cases, opposed very strongly. In one instance, several ladies fainted 166 the first Sunday after the stoves were put up, but, to their mortification, learned afterward that there were no fires that day in them ? a plain case for faith doctors. The second Sabbath service was like the first, and at its end we went home with the opportunity before us to come again in the evening. Many people had only cold food on the Sabbath. Occasionally some good people had a warm supper, however, and mine were of that sort. When the sun went down, all restraint was thrown off and the solemnity and seriousness that for twenty-four hours had marked every face was succeeded by gayety or great cheerfulness. It was said that even the dogs knew the difference between Saturday and Sunday nights and showed it by jumping and frisking on the latter, instead of lying quietly around as on the former. Sunday was indeed a day of rest for everything, and it was made more so by penal enactments. Indeed, it was said that in Connecticut they whipped the beer for working on Sunday. Travel was not thought proper, except to go to meeting or for the doctor, and as to any amusement, it was not to be tolerated or even thought of. I am told that the same rule existed in Scot- land formerly, and it may yet. The great infiux of foreign continental population in New England has changed all greatly there. " In those old days every one worked who was old enough to do so. The farmer rose at 5 a. m. and, after feeding and watering his horses, cows, etc., ate the breakfast that his industrious wife had prepared; he was then ready to go out on his farm to work, or in winter perhaps out in the forest chopping the trees, eating a cold lunch, perhaps of salt pork, uncooked, with bread and cold potatoes. I have seen them doing this, and they said that the fat pork with a little vinegar was excellent; the best sauce was the appetite. I have known these farmers to draw cord wood three or even four miles to town and sell it for 75 cents a cord and take their pay in goods at the store, and sometimes the merchant who bought it would only give dry goods, as the merchants then made greater profits on those than on sugar, tea, etc. There was no eight-hour law then in town or country; people worked early and late as long as they could find anything to do, leaving time for eating, drinking, and sleeping. Crime and criminals were not much known in the country or country villages; no one had time to con- coct villainy. " My father was a merchant, and as soon as his boys were old enough we had our share of work, at first in weeding the garden, bringing in wood, later in cutting wood for the 167 use of the house. I well remember my young-er brother and myself, he at eleven and I at thirteen years of age, cut- ting in spring forty cords of four-foot wood in three parts, splitting it fine, and piling high in the woodshed adjacent to the house, so as to be convenient for the days when great snows should fall and the thermometer get down to twenty and forty degrees below zero, sometimes. Perhaps this training is the reason why I am alive now at the age of seventy-three. As a special encouragement, we got a note drawing seven per cent, interest for such work at twenty- five cents a cord. I remember collecting mine after it had outlawed. Then a little later I learned to get up at 5 o'clock to go to the store, open it, sweep out, and light the fire before breakfast, at 6 or 6.30. After an academic edu- cation, I went off one November for a trip to the South, only receiving from my father money to get away, and none to return with. In nine or ten months I returned, bringing home some $50 more than I took away with me, which I handed my father; besides having traveled in three-fourths of the United States and spending some time in Cincinnati, Charleston, Richmond, Thiladelphia, and New York, with the ever pleasant memory of ten days in Washington in 1842, when John Tyler was President; Millard Fillmore at the head of the Ways and Means Committee, in which capacity he passed the tariff of 1842. One Saturday, then, I was kindly introduced on the floor of the House by a friend of my father's, and also introduced personally to the President, Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, and Francis Granger. I was telling the above circumstance in my life to a friend, and he said it was not right that I should have given this surplus over what I received to my father; but it was the rule then that a boy's services belonged to his father until he was at his majority, and it was the almost universal custom for boys to work at home until then, and I think it was right. I was only too well pleased to get this leave of absence and to earn the amount of my expenses, returning all I made over that. Why should not a boy pay back by his labor some of the cost of his rearing? In Japan it is deemed a religious duty for a child to take care of the parents at a certain age, and the rich and poor recognize it not as a labor, but pleasure, and expect the retiring from trade of the parent, and all care then to fall on the son. The care of parents was also as customary in old times in Scotland. If our youths were made to do more physical work in youth, they would be stronger, healthier, and the better for it. Our New England fathers lived well, only the food was 168 plain. All through the country the bread was mainly made of com and rye meal, mixed, and, while not quite so palata- ble as wheat, yet without doubt it was more healthy ; there was plenty of beef and pork, mutton and chickens, apples and other fruits, and honey, besides nuts in the woods, to say nothing of the turkey and supposed-to-be-unhealthy pies. The New Englander then made no objection to all sorts of fun and sport in reason ? the husking bee, spelling school, where all stood up to be spelled down by the most capable; the town and baseball games, skating, and sliding on the ice; in fact, every athletic or proper indoor sport that did not endanger life or limb, I don't believe they would have tolerated the ball games we now have, where there is constant danger to the players. Certainly our Yankee forefathers were not the sad and morose people some conceive them to have been. They had a rough time in settling a new country, when there were no steamers or railroads, when it was a six-days' journey from New York to Boston by land, and life presented its serious side to them. They feared God, and wished to do their duty and get on in the world, and so educate their children that they should do the same. They were not so anxious to get office, either, then as now. One of my early ancestors in Springfield, Mass., petitioned the Town Meeting to be released from all town offices for a year, and on payment of twenty shillings his request was granted. He was not anxious to be in the push, or in any sort of combine. My friends, in many respects we have not improved on these people,"

Death Notice:
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CHARLES PARSONS
DEAD IN ST. LOUIS.
Was Born In Homer In 1824 and
Was the Olsest Banker In St. Louis .
A press dispatch from St. Louis under
date of September 17th says:
"Charles Parsons, who was born in
Homer, N. Y., January 24, 1824, is
dead. He was the oldest banker in St.
Louis, president of the State National
Bank, aud founder of a hospital. He
was a grandson of Captain Charles Parsons
of the Continental army."
Mr. Parsons was a relative of the late
Manley Hobart.

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Charles married Martha A. Pettus. Martha was born on 23 Mar 1830; died on 13 Feb 1889; was buried in St. Louis, St. Louis Co, Missouri, USA (Bellefontaine Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

George married Emily Lycett Barnum on 23 Oct 1855. Emily was born on 30 Apr 1830. [Group Sheet]

Helen married George B. Boardman on 16 Nov 1858. [Group Sheet]

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Lewis married Elvira Corbin on 28 Dec 1848 in Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, USA. Elvira (daughter of William Corbin, Jr. and Mercy Howard) was born on 16 Nov 1824 in Henrietta, Monroe Co, New York, USA; died on 30 Oct 1882 in Alma Centre, Jackson Co, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, USA (Oak Creek Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Lewis married Rebecca J. Knowlton on 27 Oct 1886 in Neillsville, Clark Co, Wisconsin, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Robert Knowlton and Elizabeth (Unknown)) was born on 29 Dec 1836 in Butternuts, Otsego Co, New York, USA; died in 1918 in Wisconsin, USA; was buried in Merillan, Jackson Co, Wisconsin, USA (Oakwood Cemetery). [Group Sheet]