The H600 Project Genealogy DB
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| 12601 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo of house, page 117. Past owners: Thaddeus Brown to Isaac C. Horr 1826 Sumner Stone to Isaac C. Horr 1837 Henry Sawin to Isaac C. Horr 1840 William C. Whitney to Isaac C. Horr 1841 John D. Horr to Calvin H. Horr 1862 Calvin H. Horr to Andrew Woodbury 1870 Andrew Woodbury to George Woodbury 1874 George W. Woodbury to James W. McAllister 1891 James W. McAllister to Hattie D. McAllister 1892 Hattie D. McAllister to Willoughby R. York 1894 Charles W. York to Rosa York 1927 Rosa York to Ezra Lebroke 1927 Ezra Lebroke to Willis Littlefield 1937 Willis Littlefield to Ann R. Littlefield 1945 Ann R. [Littlefield] Hart to Hervey and Marjorie Kimball 1950 Marjorie Kimball 1993 | Horr, Isaac (I14618)
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| 12602 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo of James Miller and Sarah Sawin, page 22 Name: Sarah Ann Sawin Gender: Female Baptism/Christening Date: Baptism/Christening Place: Birth Date: 18 Aug 1832 Birthplace: Waterford, Oxford, Maine Death Date: Nov 1856 Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Thomas Sawin Father's Birthplace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's Birthplace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C52146-1 System Origin: Maine-EASy Source Film Number: 12625 Reference Number: yr 1762-1859 p 72 Collection: Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900 | Sawin, Sarah Ann (I46702)
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| 12603 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo of James Miller and Sarah Sawin, page 22 | Miller, James M. (I46703)
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| 12604 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo of Thomas Sawin and Sally Johnson - Page 15 Photo of House, page 114 Name: Thomas Sawin Gender: Male Baptism/Christening Date: Baptism/Christening Place: Birth Date: 26 Nov 1799 Birthplace: Waterford, Oxford, Maine Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Father's Birthplace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Mother's Birthplace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C52146-1 System Origin: Maine-EASy Source Film Number: 12625 Reference Number: yr 1762-1859 p 72 Collection: Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900 | Sawin, Thomas (I46595)
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| 12605 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo, page 26 - Henrietta (Heald) Horr, taken abt 1864. Groom's Name: John D. Hor Groom's Birth Date: Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: Bride's Name: Henrietta B. Heald Bride's Birth Date: Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: Marriage Date: 10 Mar 1863 Marriage Place: Lovell,Oxford,Maine 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: M52135-1 System Origin: Maine-ODM Source Film Number: 11541 Reference Number: Collection: Maine Marriages, 1771-1907 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Henrietta B. Horr Home in 1880: Waterford, Oxford, Maine Age: 39 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841 Birthplace: Maine Relation to head-of-household: Wife Spouse's name: John D. Father's birthplace: ME Mother's birthplace: ME Occupation: Keeping House Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age John D. Horr 42 Henrietta B. Horr 39 Mertie E. Horr 5 Sarah M. Horr 1 Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 Name:Henrietta B Horr Gender:Female Age:79 Birth Date:14 Mar 1841 Death Date:2 Jan 1921 Death Place:Waterford Registration Place:Waterford, Oxford Spouse:John Father:Soloman Mother:Ester Cemetery info was kindly contributed by Jeremy Hersey: jeremyhersey(at)yahoo.com Cemetery: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=horr&GSiman=1&GScid=1605469&GRid=96721459& | Heald, Henrietta (I18407)
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| 12606 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo, page 28 Name: Thomas Hubbard Sawin Gender: Male Baptism/Christening Date: Baptism/Christening Place: Birth Date: 27 Nov 1835 Birthplace: Waterford, Oxford, Maine Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Thomas Sawin Father's Birthplace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's Birthplace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C52146-1 System Origin: Maine-EASy Source Film Number: 12625 Reference Number: yr 1762-1859 p 72 Collection: Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900 | Sawin, Thomas Hubbard (I46704)
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| 12607 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo, page 29 | Sampson, Chloe Elizabeth (I46705)
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| 12608 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo, page 35 | Whitney, Ellen A. (I46696)
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| 12609 | http://www.albanymaine.org/history/Sawin%20Hill%20Road%20History.pdf Photo, page 36 | Henley, Pliny B. (I46697)
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| 12610 | http://www.alden.org/aldengen/pafg329.htm | Simmons, Alzina E. (I41948)
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| 12611 | http://www.ancestors-genealogy.com/chapy/gdata/f266.htm#f1227 | Turner, Gladys Mabel (I28850)
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| 12612 | http://www.ancestors-genealogy.com/chapy/gdata/f266.htm#f1227 | Chapman, Harris Hebert (I28849)
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| 12613 | http://www.ancestors-genealogy.com/chapy/gdata/f266.htm#f1227 | Chapman, Shirley (I28847)
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| 12614 | http://www.ancestors-genealogy.com/chapy/gdata/f278.htm#f1400 | Chapman, Joseph (I14423)
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| 12615 | http://www.ancestraltrails.ca/walker%20for%20web-o/p96.htm#i50250 | Brooks, Martin (I32097)
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| 12616 | http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/memorials/mydad.html (with photo's) Cemetery: http://www.oakfield.govoffice.com/vertical/Sites/%7BD5DF5B3D-AC3C-4AAE-AE6A-6E0DFC85FD3C%7D/uploads/%7BCD791B2D-3487-4068-9E70-F813C93C517E%7D.XLS http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cemeteries/cgi-bin/cemetery.cgi?id=1056013&database=Cemetery%20Records&return_to=http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/&submitter_id= Name: Hottois, Albert L. Born: 5 November 1921 Died or Buried: 1 September 1997 Buried: Reed Cemetery City: Oakfield County/State: Wyoming, NY Notes: Pvt, US Army - WWII http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&rid=3190661 ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 32586038 32586038 NAME HOTTOIS#ALBERT#L######## HOTTOIS#ALBERT#L######## RESIDENCE: STATE 23 NEW YORK RESIDENCE: COUNTY 037 GENESEE PLACE OF ENLISTMENT 2378 ROCHESTER NEW YORK DATE OF ENLISTMENT DAY 19 19 DATE OF ENLISTMENT MONTH 12 12 DATE OF ENLISTMENT YEAR 42 42 GRADE: ALPHA DESIGNATION PVT# Private GRADE: CODE 8 Private BRANCH: ALPHA DESIGNATION BI# Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA BRANCH: CODE 00 Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA FIELD USE AS DESIRED # # TERM OF ENLISTMENT 5 Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law LONGEVITY ### ### SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL 0 Civil Life NATIVITY 23 NEW YORK YEAR OF BIRTH 21 21 RACE AND CITIZENSHIP 1 White, citizen EDUCATION 1 1 year of high school CIVILIAN OCCUPATION 935 Unskilled routemen MARITAL STATUS 2 Married COMPONENT OF THE ARMY 7 Selectees (Enlisted Men) CARD NUMBER # # BOX NUMBER 0535 0535 FILM REEL NUMBER 2.199 2.199 | Hottois, Albert L. Sr. (I30184)
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| 12617 | http://www.archive.org/stream/abraha00bosto/abraha00bosto_djvu.txt Wright, Hon. Thomas ? s. of Hon. Nathaniel and Laura (Hoar) Wright; b. in Lowell, Mass., Ajiril 30, 1822 ; d. in Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 18, 1868 ; began practice of the law in Lowell, but in 1847 removed to and practised in Lawrence ; state senator, 1864. | Wright, Thomas (I44315)
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| 12618 | http://www.archive.org/stream/americanancestry00warn/americanancestry00warn_djvu.txt John Taylor [Weaver] , - b. 1786. m. 5 Betsey, daughter of 4 Samuel Brightman (she m. 2nd, Abiah Booth, and d. 1816). d. at sea May 11, 1812. One son. [[Marriage: https://www.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_331399919%2Fp4&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D | Brightman, Betsey (I35902)
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| 12619 | http://www.archive.org/stream/americanancestry00warn/americanancestry00warn_djvu.txt John Weaver married 5 Betsey, daughter of 4 Samuel Brightman, and had one son, 8 John Taylor Weaver. John Taylor [Weaver] , ? b. 1786. m. 5 Betsey, daughter of 4 Samuel Brightman (she m. 2nd, Abiah Booth, and d. 1816). d. at sea May 11, 1812. One son. | Weaver, John (I56559)
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| 12620 | http://www.archive.org/stream/americanancestry00warn/americanancestry00warn_djvu.txt | Weaver, John Taylor (I14809)
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| 12621 | http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalrec00compgoog/biographicalrec00compgoog_djvu.txt John Hoar was a well known pioneer of the copper regions. He was born in Cornwall, England, and came first to the Lake Superior mining region in the interests of an English mining company, in 1856. He then tried coa! mining in Pennsylvania for two years, after which he returned to the Northern Peninsula, where he bought mining interests with E. D. Hendricks, and later established a business on the same site in Houghton now occupied by Hodgson Brothers & Hoar, buying Mr. Hendricks' interest and taking his brother, Richard M. Hoar, into partnership. The business, under the firm name of John Hoar & Brother, was uninterrupted until the death of John Hoar in 1884, at the age of 67 years. He was a man of excellent parts, and held a number of village and county offices. The death of his widow took place in 1900, at the age of 83 years. Our subject's brother, John M., died in 1882, leaving a widow and two children. His sister, Mrs. Annie Sturgis, lives in Boston. Christening: England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Name:John Hore Gender:Male Baptism Date:5 Oct 1817 Baptism Place:Saint Austell,Cornwall,England Father: Jacob Hore Mother: Gurterdue FHL Film Number:0246827-0246831 Name: John Hoar Death date: 22 Aug 1884 Death place: Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Gender: Male Age at death: 67 years Estimated birth year: 1817 Death place: Houghton, Houghton, Michigan Marital status: Married Father name: Mother name: Occupation: Merchant Film number: 2363673 Digital GS number: 4207813 Image number: 566 Reference number: p 295 rn 15 Collection: Michigan Deaths 1867-1897 Cemetery: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hoar&GSiman=1&GScid=537&GRid=67654530& | Hoar, Capt. John Sr. (I29537)
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| 12622 | http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalrec00compgoog/biographicalrec00compgoog_djvu.txt William B. Hoar, a member of the general mercantile firm of Hodgson Brothers & Hoar, of Houghton, Ploughton County, Michigan, is one of the leading citizens of that village. He was bom at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and is a son of the late John Hoar, who located at Houghton in 1858 and built a tram-way from the Isle Royale mine to the Isle Royale mill site. John Hoar was a well known pioneer of the copper regions. He was born in Cornwall, England, and came first to the Lake Superior mining region in the interests of an English mining company, in 1856. He then tried coa! mining in Pennsylvania for two years, after which he returned to the Northern Peninsula, where he bought mining interests with E. D. Hendricks, and later established a business on the same site in Houghton now occupied by Hodgson Brothers & Hoar, buying Mr. Hendricks' interest and taking his brother, Richard M. Hoar, into partnership. The business, under the firm name of John Hoar & Brother, was uninterrupted until the death of John Hoar in 1884, at the age of 67 years. He was a man of excellent parts, and held a number of village and county offices. The death of his widow took place in 1900, at the age of 83 years. Our subject's brother, John M., died in 1882, leaving a widow and two children. His sister, Mrs. Annie Sturgis, lives in Boston. Since 1859 William B. Hoar, the subject of this sketch, has been a resi- dent of Houghton. He attended the common schools of the ^'illage, took a business course at Detroit, Michigan, and spent one year at Ann Arbor, Michigan, but his entire business life has been passed at Houghton. Until 1887 he operated a dry goods store by himself, but at that date the present firm style was atloptcil, additional members and capital being added. Tlia stock includes groceries and dry goods, and all commodities usually found in an establishment of this kind, which is kept up to the highest standard of excellence. The store building is a commodious double one, located near the corner on Shelden street. In 1875 Mr. Hoar married Cordelia R. Mathews, who was born at Eagle Harbor, Michigan, and is a daughter of the late Mark Mathews, a pioneer of Keweenaw County, Michigan, from Cornwall, England. The two children of this marriage are: Mrs. Henry G, Warner of Detroit; and W. B., Jr., a student at the Michigan Col'ege of Mines. In politics Mr. Hoar is a stanch Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant. Fraternally he is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias, and is also connected with several benevolent organizations. In religious views he is an Episcopalian and is serving as junior warden of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Houghton, Michigan. Mr. Hoar was the first station agent of the Marquette. Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad Company, now a part of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway system: for the L'Anse & Houghton Transportation Com- pany, which operated the first teams overland: and of the L'Anse & Houghton Transit Company, which operated the steamer "Ivanhoe" during the summer seasons. Groom name: William B. Hoar Groom race (on document): Groom age: 25 years Groom birth year: 1850 Groom birth place: Pennsylvania Bride name: Cordelia R. Mathews Bride race (on document): Bride age: 21 years Bride birth year: 1854 Bride birth place: Michigan Marriage type: Marriage date: 17 Nov 1875 Marriage place: Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Father of groom name: Mother of groom name: Father of bride name: Mother of bride name: Marital status: Groom previous wife name: Bride marital status: Bride previous husband name: Additional relatives: Film number: 2342459 Frame number: Digital GS number: 4207584 Image number: 621 Reference number: v 3 p 322 rn 1146 Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925 | Hoar, William Sr. (I32229)
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| 12623 | http://www.archive.org/stream/bradburymemorial00laph/bradburymemorial00laph_djvu.txt | Bradbury, John (I48140)
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| 12624 | http://www.archive.org/stream/braleygenealogy00rand/braleygenealogy00rand_djvu.txt | Braley, Sierra L. (I3143)
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| 12625 | http://www.archive.org/stream/centennialbiogra00baug/centennialbiogra00baug_djvu.txt | Smith, Isabella (I49469)
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| 12626 | http://www.archive.org/stream/commemorativebio00jhbeer/commemorativebio00jhbeer_djvu.txt [[ http://www.archive.org/stream/commemorativebio00jhbeer/commemorativebio00jhbeer_djvu.txt Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio GEORGE N. ROUNDS. a prominent, progressive citizen of Hartland township, is a native of New York, born October 12, 1820. His father, Isaac Rounds, was the son of a Vermont farmer, and grew to manhood on the home farm. When a young man Isaac went to Ontario county, N. Y., and there married Polly Waldron, who was born in that county in 1802. The Erie Canal, which was commenced July 4, 1817, was under construction when he settled in New York State, and there was little difficulty in find- ing work to do on any of the sections. Youncr [Young?[ Rounds went to work with a will, and proved himself a most valuable man. The foreman discovered that he could wheel more clay in a barrow than any of bis fellow-workmen, and considered him a model laborer. The children born to Isaac and Polly Rounds in New York State were: George N., the subject of this sketch; Harriet, who married Aaron Pixley, and died in Clarksfield township; Mary Ann, who died when eight years old in New York State; Benjamin, who died in Hartland township, Huron Co., Ohio, when young; Hiram, who died a few weeks after; Isaac and Jacob (twins), farmers of Hartland township, and Lydia, the widow of James Conoley, of Hartland township. After the removal of the family to Huron county, the following named children were born: Eleanor, widow of Irkskine Horr, of Barry county, Mich.; Olive, married to Joseph Briggs, died at Keokuk, Iowa; Arvilla, Mrs. Matthias McKin, of Iowa; Jane, who died just six weeks after the death of the father, at the age of eight years; and Armenthia, Mrs. George Bostwick, of Prairie City. Illinois. About 1835 Mr. Rounds and his family moved to Cattaraugus county, N. Y., where they resided until June, 1840, when they made the journey to Ohio. Traveling by wagon road to Buffalo. N. Y., they embarked for Sandusky, Ohio, but while on the lake a storm arose, and the boat was driven into harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania. Sailing again they found that a landing could not be made at Sandusky, and the captain headed the boat for Detroit. After the high winds had subsided, the return trip to Sandusky was made, and the family landed. Without delay they proceeded to Hartland township, Huron county, where Mr. Rounds rented a tract of land. Within a year or so he purchased a small farm in Clarksfield township, and later bought a second small farm in Hartland township. The care of these lands, together with other tracts which he worked on shares and laboring for others in clearing land, occupied his attention up to the time of his death, February 15, 1850, when a tree fell upon him, crushing his head to a pulp. The tragic affair cast a gloom over the entire township; for the father of a large family, and a most industrious man, was removed from the circle of pioneers. Politically he was a Wliig? and one who took a lively interest in local and national affairs. His widow afterward married Simeon Chandler, and died August 81, 1878, in Illinois, where she was buried. George N. Rounds was about sixteen years of age when he accompanied the family to Ohio. Already a bread-winner, the change from New York to Ohio was an agreeable one to him, and in Huron county he worked vigorously to make a home for the family. On December 25, 1849, he married Mary Elizabeth Knapp (a daughter of pioneer parents), who was born in Hartland township in 1831. To this marriacre came the following named children: George F., born November 7, 1850; Angie L., Mrs. O. T. Case, of Clarksfield township, and a son who died in infancy, unnamed. The mother of this family died October 13, 1886, and was buried in Hartland Ridge cemetery. At the time of his marriage, Mr. Rounds had practically nothing save good health and strong arms. After his father's death, in 1850, he returned to the homestead and took charge of the farm. Today he owns 186 acres of good land, together with a good home and excellent farm buildings, distancing many of the men for whom he worked prior to 1849, in the acquisition of real estate. His success is due to incessant toil, untiring industry and economy. He now holds a place among the leading farmers of the county, and no one is held in higher respect or esteem. His life goes to prove the logic of the old proverb, " where there's a will there's a way," and will stand a practical demonstration for his descendants. They may learn of the hardships and privations of the pioneers, but never can they endure them. After seventy years of work, Mr. Rounds stands like a giant tree in the forest of weather- worn pioneer oaks. Years have been given to him to witness the settlement and improvement of Ohio, from river to lake, and from Pennsylvania to Indiana, and in surveying the scene he may look round him and say: "I have taken a man's part in bringing about this change, and no one in Huron county has labored for it more earnestly than I have." In April, 1893, Mr. Rounds again visited Cattaraugus county, the scenes of his childhood, and while there met an acqauintauce of his youth in the person of Mrs. Sally Hopkins, a widow, whom he brought back as a wife. George F. Rounds (eldest son of George N. Rounds) has now the entire management of the farm. For some years he was a traveling salesman, and while thus employed journeyed over a large area of country; but in 1885 he returned to the homestead, which has since claimed his close personal attention. He is a musician by nature, and his ability in this direction is as well recognized throughout this section of the State as his ability as an ao-ri- cullurist is in Hartland township. On April 2, 1892, he was married to Jeanette Jarvis. In politics he is a Republican. | Rounds, Isaac (I58208)
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| 12627 | http://www.archive.org/stream/cornetjosephpars01burt/cornetjosephpars01burt_djvu.txt "He was a successful merchant, a man of uncommon force and energy of character, of rare catholicity in his religious views, as also in the breadth of his charities, and was the founder of Parsons' College, Iowa. The English ancestry of Lucina Hoar, and the early history of her family in America, may be found in the researches made in both countries by Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Senator from Massachusetts, and published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January, April, and July, 1899. EXTEACT FROM THE WILL OF LEWIS BALDWIN PAKSOKS. " Fourth. Having long been of the opinion that for use- fulness, prosperity, and happiness of children, a good moral and intellectual or business education with moderate means was far better than large inherited wealth; I therefore herein dispose of my estate mainly to such benevolent objects and enterprises as I think will conduce to the greatest good, earnestly requesting that all my children after giving to their children a good education with habits of honesty, industry, economy, and liberality, will follow my example in the disposition of the property God may give them." | Parsons, Lewis Baldwin (I992)
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| 12628 | 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.) | Parsons, Gen. Lewis Baldwin Jr. (I45511)
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| 12629 | http://www.archive.org/stream/cornetjosephpars01burt/cornetjosephpars01burt_djvu.txt 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: Homer NY Republican 1903-1906 - 0475.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Homer%20NY%20%20Republican/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201903-1906/Homer%20NY%20Republican%201903-1906%20-%200475.pdf 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. Cemetery: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=parsons&GSfn=charles&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1905&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=46398259&df=all& | Parsons, Col. Charles (I45515)
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| 12631 | http://www.archive.org/stream/courtslawyersofi3cros/courtslawyersofi3cros_djvu.txt John J. Bullington was born in Fayette County, Illinois, on the 12th of July, 1879, and is a son of John and Ailcy (Dalton) Bulling- ton, who were born in the historic old State of Virginia, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Illinois after the close of the Civil war. In this great conflict John Bullington served as a loyal and valiant soldier of the Confederacy, having been a member of Company K, Thirty-eighth Virginia Infantry, and having served in the positions of colorbearer and sergeant of his regiment. After the war he established his residence in Fayette County, Illinois, where he and his wife still reside and where he has achieved success and independence through his identification with agriculture and stockraising. He owns a valuable landed estate, is still active in the supervision of his farm and has passed the psalmist's span of three- score years and ten, the date of his nativity having been July 12, 1841, and his wife being about four years his junior. They became the parents of thirteen children, of whom eleven are living, John J. having been the ninth in order of birth. Passing his boyhood on the old homestead farm, John J. Bullington attended the public schools of his native county, and thereafter completed a course in the commercial department of Austin College, at Effingham, this state. After his graduation in this institution he completed a two-year literary course in the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, and in preparation for the work of his chosen profession he began the study of law in the office of the firm of Brown & Burnside, of Vandalia, the county seat of his native county. He was admitted to the bar in 1909. He was immediately elected city attorney of Vandalia, and in that place he continued in the general practice of law until June, 1913, save for the time devoted to official service. In October, 1909, he received appoint- ment to the position of stenographer for the Illinois Supreme Court, in June of the following year he assumed the position of secretary to Judge William Farmer, of the Supreme Court, and in June, 1913, he established himself in the practice of his profession at Taylorville, where he maintained a partnership association with Francis S. Gray until November of that year, since which time he has been the pro- fessional coadjutor of James L. Drennan, with whom he is associated in the control of a substantial and important law business. Mr. Bullington has been prominently identified with the affairs of the Illinois National Guard, and he served as captain of Company I, Fourth Illinois Regiment, from 1907 until January, 1914, since which time he has held the office of captain and commissary of this fine regiment of the Illinois National Guard. He is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose, and is now grand paramount ruler of the Mutual Protective Order of Caribou. Mr. Bullington is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and in politics is found arrayed as a loyal advocate of the cause of the democratic party. On the 23d of August, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bullington to Miss Edna L. Easterday, daughter of Luther and Ann Easterday, of Vandalia, where her father died in October, 1914, and where her mother still resides. Mr. Bullington, by reason of his official position in the National Guard, is familiarly known by his title of captain, and he has a wide circle of friends in this part of his native state. He and his wife are the parents of two children- 1 Bernadine, born May 3, 1911 ; and Winston Edward, born January 21, 1913. | Bullington, John J. (I48376)
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| 12632 | http://www.archive.org/stream/courtslawyersofi3cros/courtslawyersofi3cros_djvu.txt JOSIAH T. BULLINGTON has given excellent account of himself during his years of active practice of law and he is now numbered among the successful and representative members of the bar of Hills- boro, the judicial center of Montgomery County. Josiah Thomas Bullington was born at Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois, on the 3Oth of April, 1876, and is a son of John and Ailcy (Dalton) Bullington, both of whom were born and reared in Pitt- sylvania County, Virginia, whence they came to Illinois after the close of the Civil war and settled in Fayette County, where they still maintain their residence on the fine homestead farm and where John Bullington has gained success in connection with the basic industry of agriculture. He was a gallant soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the North and the South, and was in the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee, besides having been colorbearer for his com- mand in the historic battle of Gettysburg. John Bullington is a sterling and popular citizen of Fayette County, celebrated his seven- ty-third birthday anniversary in 1914 and his wife her sixty-ninth anniversary. They became the parents of thirteen children and of the number Josiah T. was the eighth in order of birth. Josiah T. Bullington passed the days of his childhood and youth on the home farm, in Vandalia Township, Fayette County, and after profiting fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools he taught in a district school. He prosecuted his law studies under the direction of Judge Farmer and Judge Brown, of Van- dalia. He was admitted to the bar on the 5th of June, 1901, and he initiated the practice of his profession at Vandalia, where he became law partner of Judge Brown, his preceptor, Judge Farmer, having been elected to the bench of the Circuit Court. Mr. Bullington continued in the practice of law at Vandalia until 1906, and thereafter held the position of secretary to Judge. Farmer until 1909, when he resigned this position to resume the private practice of his profession. At this time he established his residence at Hillsboro, where he is now associated with L. V. Hill in the control of a substantial and important law business of general order. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, is a staunch supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On the 2d of April, 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bullington to Miss Mary Theresa Thompson, daughter of Thomas S. Thompson, a well-known citizen and business man of Carbondale, Jackson County, and Mrs. Bullington is a popular factor in the social activities of Hillsboro. The first wife of Mr. Bullington bore the maiden name of Edna Hoar, and their marriage was contracted on the 1st of October, 1906; she was a daughter of Lucius K. Hoar of Vandalia, and her death occurred July 12, 1910, the only child of this union having died in infancy. | Bullington, Josiah Thomas (I10287)
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| 12633 | http://www.archive.org/stream/craftsfamilygene00craf/craftsfamilygene00craf_djvu.txt 152. Olive Craft (daughter of Joseph) (74) (Ancestry Joseph, SamueF, SamueP, Lieut. Griffin'). Born at Pomfret, Ct., 15 Mch., 1756. Married Leonard Hoar. They dwelt at Rutland, Vt., and afterward at Walpole, N. H. She died 20 Aug., 1791, .age. 35, and was buried at Walpole. They had three children, as follows : I. Sarah Hoar, b. (date not ascertained), m. Asher Southworth in Rutland, Vt. They lived many years at Walpole, N. H. , and had six ch., as follows : (1) Sarah A. Southworth, m. Henry Lewis, who d. in 1871. She was residing in New York City in 1876. They had seven ch., of whom a dau. Ellen, m. James H. Sherrill, Esq., of Sandy Hill, N. J., and was living in 1876. The family records of the descendants of Leonard and Olive (Craft) Hoar were destroyed by fire in 1869, in the residence of Mrs. Lewis. (2) Laura Southhworth. (3) Jane Southworth. (4) Mary Southworth (5) Edward Southworth (6) William Southworth II. Olivia Hoar, b. (date not ascertained), m. Oliver Allen, a nephew of Gen. Amasa Allen of Walpole, N. H. (with whom he lived and from whom he inherited some property), and gr.-son of Peter and Elizabeth (Craft) Allen. (No. 72.) They resided many years in Rutland, Vt. She d. in Woodstock, Vt., at the house of her son, Henry Allen, who afterward moved to Vineland, N. J., where he was living in 1876. III. Mary Hoar, b. (date not ascertained), m. in Walpole, N. H., to a Mr. Clark, removing thence to Bethel. Vt., where they both died. | Hoar, Leonard (I6968)
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| 12634 | http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819162/cu31924028819162_djvu.txt http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%22harvey%20Robbins%22%20athol%20Massachusetts&sig=tCbCfLw_EWSD-GFXp8A94PcGu1M&ei=IamzS477J4X7lwensJG5BA&ct=result&id=3cwTAAAAYAAJ&ots=RE1MH8UIxk&output=text Harvey Robbins, 27. Reg., was among the recruits that joined this Reg. in N. Carolina in 1862 in season to be in the battles at Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro' and also in the defence of Washington N. Carolina. His health was generally good but he was taken sick and died of a fever at Newbern June 29. 1863. Mr. Robbins left in Athol a wife and four children. | Robbins, Harvey (I49332)
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| 12635 | http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819435/cu31924028819435_djvu.txt "Cyrel Read Brown, the youngest of the family, remained on the farm with his parents, and received the usual edu- cation afforded by the town schools, with the addition of private instruction by Rev. J. Vaill ; he commenced teaching when eighteen years old, and with one excep- tion taught for sixteen successive winters, when, owing to the increasing cares of his farm and family, he was obliged to relinquish the profession, although through life he was active in the cause of education, serving as one of the board of school committee eight years. Resid- ing four miles from the center of the town in one of the small school districts, he felt keenly the inequality and injustice of the method for the division of the money raised for the support of schools ; allowing to each dis- trict only the amount they paid, while he claimed and advocated that every pupil in town was entitled to equal rights and so far as their location would permit, should receive equal advantages from the money raised for schools ; he lived to see this principle adopted by the town, and the school district system abolished years be- fore the compulsory statute for that purpose. In this as in other matters he was governed by the principle of " the greatest good to the greatest number." In 1853, he left his farm in the care of his son and removed to Westfield where he resided several years to give his daughters an opportunity to attend the Normal School and qualify for teaching. Mr. Brown was often elected to town office, serving eight years as assessor, five years as selectman, and in many other offices, discharging .the duties in all with credit to himself and to the acceptance of his fellow townsmen. From boyhood he was interested in the military profession. In 1822, August 26, he was chosen Ensign of the West Militia Company of Brimfield ; was elected Lieutenant 1823, July 24, and Captain 1827, July 5. In 1828, on petition of Cyrel R. Brown and others the West company of Militia was disbanded, and the petitioners were authorized to raise by voluntary en- listments a rifle company, "provided forty-five members are enrolled." These conditions having been fulfilled, 1828, May 6, Mr. Brown was elected captain of the com- pany. While under his command the company was noted for accuracy of drill, precision of movement, soldierly bearing and deportment. Captain Brown was elected major of the regiment, but declining to accept the posi- tion, he continued in command of the company for three years when he resigned his commission and retired from active participation in military affairs. At the re-union of the company September 22, 1862, forty-five members present; July 4, 1865, forty-four members present, and July 4, 1866, at the dedication of the soldiers' monument, forty members present. He, as senior captain, was in command for the day, as erect and with the martial spirit of his youthful days. In November, 1831, he united with the Congregational Church and through life was one of its most active and influential members. He was chosen Deacon November 22, 1838, and held the office till his decease, nearly thirty- one years. His interest in the cause of education led him to take an active interest in the Sunday-school con- nected with the Church, of which he was Superintendent for nearly twenty-five years, discharging the varied duties of the office with marked ability, and to the acceptance of the Church and community. He died of apoplexy, September 4, 1869, eleven days previous to the celebra- tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Sunday-school, and to which, knowing as he did more of the school and its scholars than any other person, he was expected to present much that would add to the interest of the occasion. Much might be added in commendation of the charac- ter and services of Deacon Brown, but his long continued, varied and successful service for the public, both civil and religious, is a better eulogy upon his character than any we can give. He married June 14, 1821, Mary, daugh- ter of Oliver Blair. They had nine children, six of whom survive him." | Brown, Cyrel Read (I56558)
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| 12636 | http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028819435/cu31924028819435_djvu.txt 10. Dkacon Samuel, s. of Bartholomew, b. Feb. 19, 1779 ; d Nov. 17, 1862 ; m. Mary Hoar, Nov. 25, 1802 ; b. Nov. 24, 1779 ; she d. Dec. 24, 1864. | Brown, Dea. Samuel (I4092)
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| 12637 | http://www.archive.org/stream/deaconsamuelhain00hain/deaconsamuelhain00hain_djvu.txt | Haines, Lyman (I48826)
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| 12638 | http://www.archive.org/stream/demaranvillegen00randgoog/demaranvillegen00randgoog_djvu.txt | Demaranville, Jonathan (I53796)
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| 12639 | http://www.archive.org/stream/descendantsofnic01alle/descendantsofnic01alle_djvu.txt | Rhodes, Sarah M. (I56113)
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| 12640 | http://www.archive.org/stream/feltgenealogyrec00morr/feltgenealogyrec00morr_djvu.txt George Curtis Read, b. in Brockport, N. Y., in Sept., 1846 ; m. in New York city, in July, 1871, Mary Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John \\Y. Brown. She was b. in Orange County, N. Y., in 1850, andd. in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 14, 1877. Hem. {2d)ini887, in Batavia, N. Y., Hattie Minnette Hoar, daughter of Richard and Mary Townley (Lawrence) Hoar of Schuyler County, N. Y. She was b. in Geneva. N. Y., July 27, 1863. They reside in Rochester, N. Y., at 27 Mortimer Street. Mr. Read is a traveling salesman and newspaper reporter. He enlisted Aug. 27, 1862, and served as private and musician in Co. H, 140th X. Y. Infantry, un- til mustered out, June 27, 1865. | Hoar, Harriet (I19868)
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| 12641 | http://www.archive.org/stream/fightingmenofill00bart/fightingmenofill00bart_djvu.txt PRIVATE WILLIAM HENRY HORR 20y Ea5t North Street. Danville, Illinois. Born August 8. 18<)5, in Danville, Illinois. Son of Allen Louis and Margaret Camp- bell Horr. Husband of Hazel Horr. Vol- unteered with the 2lloth U. S. Aero Squad- Death Certificate: http://listsearches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IL-Traces/1998-05/0895858280 DEATH CERT: Coutny file # 30726 Vermilion County Illinois Rural Danville, 818 S. "L" St. Tilton , lived there 32 years. William Henry Horr, male, white, married, booking agent in entertainment; Date of death, March 6, 1952; Born Aug. 8 1891, age, 60 years, 6 months, 28 days; born Danville Illinois; Father name, Allan Horr; mothers maiden name, Margarette Campbell; Was in WWI, SS# 348-28-6913; Informant, wife Ruby May Horr, 818 s. "L" St. Tilton , Illinois ; Cause of death, cerebral Hemorrhage and Chronic Glomerulo Nephritis for 1 year; John S. Curtis, MD Danville Illinois attended the deceased from Jan 1951 to March 1952 ; date signed March 8, 1952; Burial March 10, 1952, Springhill Cemetery Danville Illinois, Pape Memorial Home, E. Robert Pape, license # F-4420; Recived for filing March 10, 1952; Local registrar, William A. Gogerty, Danville. | Horr, William (I8913)
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| 12642 | http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalreco1909brow/genealogicalreco1909brow_djvu.txt | Horr, Agnes (I58850)
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| 12643 | http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyhistory00bake/genealogyhistory00bake_djvu.txt 21. Ezra Bakkr 5 of William 4 of Joseph 3 of William 2 of William 1, b. in Littleton, Aug. 2. 1758; m. 1782 Dorcas, dan. of Isiah and Dorcas Whitman. Mrs. Ezra Baker d. 1832. aged 72. Mr. Baker d. Dec. 19, 1820. Ls\\n/c of this marriage: Susannah Baker 6, b. Sept. 12. 1784. Susannah Baker 6, b. Oct. 14, 1786. James Baker 6, b. Aug. 10, 1789. James Baker 6, b. Nov. 15. 1791. Rebecca Baker 6, b. Sept. 22, 1793. William Baker 6, b. Dec. 24. 1796. Lydia Baker 6. b. Nov. 30, 1798. | Baker, Ezra (I48363)
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| 12644 | http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofbreck00brec/genealogyofbreck00brec_djvu.txt Amasa Breck, [3102], b. 20th June, 1788, at Medfield, Mass.; m. 20th June, 1815, Nancy Hoar, (b. 8th Jan., 1797, at Bristol, R. I.,) dau. of Benjamin and Pris- cilla ( Waldron) Hoar, of Bristol, R. I.; he d. at Providence, R. I., 4th Dec, 1846; she d. at same place 12th Nov., 1867. Name: Nancy Anthony Gender: Female Burial Date: Burial Place: Death Date: 12 Nov 1867 Death Place: Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Age: 70 Birth Date: 1797 Birthplace: Occupation: Race: Marital Status: Spouse's Name: Father's Name: John Hoard Father's Birthplace: Mother's Name: Prisilla Hoard Mother's Birthplace: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01171-3 System Origin: Rhode Island-EASy Source Film Number: 2022792 Reference Number: Collection: Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950 | Hoar, Nancy (I43936)
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| 12645 | http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofbreck00brec/genealogyofbreck00brec_djvu.txt Amasa Breck, [3102], b. 20th June, 1788, at Medfield, Mass.; m. 20th June, 1815, Nancy Hoar, (b. 8th Jan., 1797, at Bristol, R. I.,) dau. of Benjamin and Priscilla ( Waldron) Hoar, of Bristol, R. I.; he d. at Providence, R. I., 4th Dec, 1846; she d. at same place 12th Nov., 1867. (same link as above) Amasa Breck was born at Medfield, Mass., in 1788. Early in life he removed to Bristol, R. I., where he engaged in the manufacture of saddles, harness and trunks. Here, in 1815, he married Miss Nancy Hoar. Bristol not proving a satisfactory location he removed in 1829 to Newport, and the next year to Providence, where he estab- lished the same business. The increasing demand for his trunks induced him to abandon his other manufactures and to estab- lish a manufactory of trunks. To this he applied his characteristic indomitable energy and thrift, coupled with a strict integrity, and soon took the lead in that branch of busi- ness. His manufactory was highly prosperous during his lifetime, and was left to his sons Thomas and William, who still carry it on at the same location. Mr. Breck was a genial and social companion, though of very decided opinions, and a devout member of the Episcopal Church. He was stricken down by typhoid fever at the age of 58. The above picture is copied from a portrait now in the possession of his son Thomas. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/Providence/article273.html Trunks and Valises. T. & W. Breck, No. 33 North Main Street, manufacturers of, and wholesale and retail dealers in, trunks, valises, carpet-bags, &c. Business established in 1829, by Amasa Breck. In 1846, his two sons, T. and W. Breck, were admitted as partners, under the firm-style of A. Breck & Sons. The senior member of the firm died in 1846, when the business passed into the hands of the present firm. | Breck, Amasa (I43935)
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| 12646 | http://www.archive.org/stream/harmongenealogyc00harm/harmongenealogyc00harm_djvu.txt ELLIOT HARMON (John, Samuel, John), b. Mar. 7, 1766, in Scarboro, m. Sept. 24, 1789, Hannah Plummer, dau. of Aaron and Elizabeth (Skillings) Plummer. She was b. June 15, 1770, and d. Oct. 26, 1860, aged 91. (grave stone). Elliot not being of age did not serve in the Revolution, but lived on the farm. He received a limited education which was afforded in the primitive schools of the time. He was one of the first settlers on Standish Neck. He d. Oct. 3, 1855 (grave stone at Standish Neck). Children b. in Standish : Israel, b. Jan. 17, 1790, m. Nov. 5, 1812, Dorothy Fogg. Mary, b. Aug. 17, 1793, m. Apr. 9, 1810, William Horr. William, b. July 11, 1796, m. Nov. 2, 1817, Anna Rogers. Samuel, b. Nov. 5, 1798, m. 1st., Sally Murray, m. 2d., Dorcas Foster. John, b. Apr. 8, 1801, m. 1st, Abigail Shaw, m. 2d., Mary Newbegin. Asa, b. Nov. 12, 1804, m. Apr. 28, 1828, Mary Plummer. Lucy, b. May 3, 1806, m. ? , Lewis Rogers. Mehitable, b. Mar. 1, 1809, m. May 3, 1837, Oliver Winslow Plummer. Esther Ann, b. Sept. 7, 1811, m. Apr. 14, 1839, Rev. John A. Bodge. George, b. Apr. 5, 1814, m. ? , Susan Kelly, of Bangor, Me. Elliot Harmon, above, was reared in Scarboro, and remembered seeing Samuel Harmon, son of John, of Wells, Me., when a boy. Elliot was the first settler on Standish Neck and his farm was on Sebago Lake at the location of the Portland water pumping station. (J^rom a statement of the late Rev. George M. Bodge, who questioned his grandfather, Elliot Harmon, about his ancestors, when a boy). | Harmon, Elliot (I15805)
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| 12647 | http://www.archive.org/stream/harmongenealogyc00harm/harmongenealogyc00harm_djvu.txt MARY HARMON (Elliot, John, Samuel, John), b. Aug. 3, 1793, in Standish, m. Apr. 9, 1810, William Horr, of Standish. Children b. in Standish : Leonice, d. young. William, b. - . He was drowned when 10 years old, while sailing with his father and friends on Sebago Lake. Mary, b. - , d. 1907 or 08, unm. Leonice, b. - , m. John P. Davis. They lived in Naples, Me. Issue: Leonice, d. young. Manlius Dallas, d. young. George Dana. Wil- liam H. Henry, d. 1907, single. Leonice, d. young. John Nelson, d. young. William Albion, d. young. | Harmon, Mary (I8719)
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| 12648 | http://www.archive.org/stream/harmongenealogyc00harm/harmongenealogyc00harm_djvu.txt MARY HARMON (Elliot, John, Samuel, John), b. Aug. 3, 1793, in Standish, m. Apr. 9, 1810, William Horr, of Standish. Children b. in Standish : Leonice, d. young. William, b. ? . He was drowned when 10 years old, while sailing with his father and friends on Sebago Lake. Mary, b. ? , d. 1907 or 08, unm. Leonice, b. ? , m. John P. Davis. They lived in Naples, Me. Issue: Leonice, d. young. Manlius Dallas, d. young. George Dana. Wil- liam H. Henry, d. 1907, single. Leonice, d. young. John Nelson, d. young. William Albion, d. young. | Horr, William (I8718)
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| 12649 | http://www.archive.org/stream/harmongenealogyc00harm/harmongenealogyc00harm_djvu.txt William, b. - . He was drowned when 10 years old, while sailing with his father and friends on Sebago Lake. | Horr, William Jr. (I11541)
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| 12650 | 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. | Blair, Oliver (I4054)
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