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Eugene Albert Demonet, born at Spring Valley, N.Y., August 12/1866,
died at Short Hills, N.Y., December 27/1950, son of Jean Baptiste
(born in Alsace-Lorraine), and Anna Cecile (Vaucher) (born at Lode,
Switzerland), Demonet, who came to America in 1845. Eugene was export
manager of the National Paper & Tube Co., New York. In his early life
he lived in Brooklyn and was president of- the Lincoln Club there He
was a member of the Huguenot Society and Mistletoe Lodge 647 F.A.M.
Brooklyn. He was a veteran of the 13th Regiment of New York National
Guard, Brooklyn. Since 1941 he lived with his son Eugene in Short
Hills, and had a large place on Cove Road, Huntington, L.I. where
they spent the summers.
Issue:
3/1. Cecile Antoinette Demonet, born 1893, died in a few days.
3/2. Eugene Albert Demonet, born July 27/1896. He served in the first
World War in the Navy, then graduated from Polytechnic Institute,
Brooklyn, with an electrical engineering degree. He then Joined the
Western Union Telegraph Co. as consulting engineer and has been with
them ever since. He married at Red Bank, N.Y., in September 1936,
Eleanor Louise Horr, born at Newark July 12/1905, daughter of Luther
William (born at Chicopee, Mass. in 1859) and Mary Eleanor (Lucas)
(born at Brownsville, Pa., in 1852) Horr. Luther lived in Newark,
associated with Minot, Hooper & Co., suppliers of Sweet, Orr & Co.,
makers of overalls. In 1951 they lived at 322 Taylor Road, Short
Hills, N.Y.
3/3. Gregory Faure Demonet, born December 26/1898. In the first World
War he served in the U.S. Navy Air Force as ensign, an instructor at
Pensacola, Fla. In the second World War he rejoined the Navy Air
Force, first in the Eastern Seas Frontier Patrol Force for
submarines, then at Seattle and Alaska in similar patrol work.
He was then appointed Chief of Air Forces at Guantanamo, Cuba,
and finally in charge of the air base at Chincatogue, Virginia. He
married in New York City, on October 12/1940, Irene Margaret Regina
Sullivan of Brooklyn. They had no children and in 1947 he was in the
paper business with Yohanesen, Wales & Sparre, at 250 Park Ave., New
York City.
3/4. Claude Robert Demonet, born November 5/1901, died 1904.
3/5. Cecile Antoinette Demonet, born April 27/1903. She never married
and was a trained nurse: in 1950 she was superintendent of Macy's
Hospital, New York City, and lived at 55 West 11th St.
1/2. Ensley Mills Smith. Born at Lakeville, L.I., August 8/1828, died
there May 7/1886, buried at Manhasset, L.I. In 1855 he went to
Charleston, S.C., where he remained a few years, then went to Peru from
1859 to 1865 working in shipping offices, and at one time at the
Americas, Consulates in Lima and Callao. He married on April 4/1867,
Beulah May Scranton, born at Rochester, N.Y., January 15/1835, died at
Attica, N.Y., January 1/1900, buried at Rochester. Beulah was the
fourth daughter of Edwin and Mary Ann (Sibley) Scranton of Rochester,
and widow of Isaac H. Weaver of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, whom she had married
on January 17/1853, but had no children by him. Beulah was educated at
the Mary B. Allen School, Rochester, and graduated from Converse
Seminary, Burlington, Vt. Beulah's sister Bertha Sibley Scranton, born
November 29/1848, married James Poole of Rochester.
[[Children of Eugene and Eleanor (Horr) Demonet (all born at Newark):
4/1. Eugene Albert Demonet, born February 5/1938.
4/2. Laurence Gregory Demonet, (twin), born March 5/1940.
4/3. David Lucas Demonet, (twin), born March 5/1940.]]
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