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Francis TERWILLIGER

Male 1877 - 1935  (57 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Francis TERWILLIGER was born on 21 Dec 1877 in Imlay City, Lapeer, Michigan (son of Henry Hamilton TERWILLIGER and Emeline A. HALL); died on 26 Apr 1935 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1900, Montague, Muskegon, Michigan
    • Census: 1920, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
    • Census: 1930, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

    Francis married Vera BURDICK on 21 Nov 1900 in Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, and was divorced on 21 Sep 1903 in Muskegon, Michigan. Vera (daughter of Charles D. BURDICK and Eva Jane BASOM) was born in Nov 1878 in Iowa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Francis married Anna SMITH on 6 Jun 1916 in Orion, Oakland, Michigan. Anna (daughter of Peter SMITH and Mary Catherine FAY) was born on 20 Nov 1883 in Springfield, Oakland, Michigan; died on 15 Jul 1979 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Henry Hamilton TERWILLIGER was born on 18 Mar 1854 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York (son of Conrad TERWILLIGER and Lucy Ann BUTLER); died on 26 Apr 1924 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1870, Mason, Ingham, Michigan
    • Census: 1900, Montague, Muskegon, Michigan
    • Census: 1910, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
    • Census: 1920, Chicago, Cook, Illinois

    Notes:

    In the fall of 1880, H. H. Terwilliger, of Mason, Ingham, became an associate owner of The Clam Lake News, but retired on January 1, 1881, to engage in the banking business at Montague, Muskegon county.

    SOLVENT BANK OWNER DISAPPEARS IN MICHIGAN.
    Sends Trust Deeds from Detroit to His Home and Says He is Tired of So Much Responsability.
    Special to The New York Times.

     MUSKEGON, Mich., Nov. 20. — Henry H. Terwilliger, for twenty years a private banker at Montague, has gone and he says he will not return. According to an investigation by experts the Montague Bank has $15,000 more assets thant liabilities.Terwilliger went to Detroit Nov. 21, and wrote back from here. The letter contained an assignment an trust deeds making W. F. Nufer and C. L. Streng trustees to conduct the business. The deeds strip their maker of everything, and provide $60 a month for his wife and daughter. The trustees refuse the trust.
     Terwilliger wrote to his son, saying the family would never see him again. The bank’s assets are about $80,000. This statement accompanies the trust deeds:
     “Henry Terwilliger, of humble birth and lowly spirit, unhappily finds himself bearing respondibilites which wear him and rob him of time which he feels he ought to have the liberty to spend in more congenial employment. Nobody will be able to understand his difficulties or appreciate the conditions which drive him to adopt a course of action which may be considered cowardly, if not dishonorable. Neither can any one know what pain it gives him or how keenly he realizes what sacrifice he is making or how deeply he regrets the trouble he is making his friends and patrons, but he has shaped matters so as to fully protect every interest, and is absolutely confident that nothing worse than temporary inconvenience can result to any customer of the bank, as he leaves $15,000 in excess of all liabilities.
     “The cashier dos not carry away a dollar of anybody’s money.Therefore let no man say ‘Twig’ is a defaulter, a bank wrecker, or a thief. He has the utmost abhorrence of such a reputation, a fate which impends over every private banker doing business alone, however honest or smart he may be. No one man ought to have the care of the money of a community. Such a care will stagger any man sooner or later, kill him or wreck him, work him do death, or enslave him if he succeeds an blast his life if he fails. Banks ought to be incorporated.
     “The business men of Montague, through ignorance, cowardice, folly and jealousy, turned down a project to incorporate the Montague bank. Let them now awake to the importance of action in this direction. Terwilliger hopes that by assigning and placing himself out of touch that arrangements can and will be made to continue the business with but little interruption. As there is no reason for any anxiety whatsoever about the funds, let all depositors view the matter sensibly and philosophically, and allow the worried banker to go in peace, and take a vacation, the first in twenty years.
     “The gossips will go into hysterics, of course, and there will be plenty of abuse an ridicule, for the milk of human kindness is not equal to all, but there are those whom memory and conscience will compel to speak charitably of the absent banker, and there are others who will loyally efend him out of pure friendship and sympathy.
     “He goes bearing malice toward none, sincerely regretting his weaknesses and errors and repenting his offenses, and remembering gratefully the kindness extended to him and his family during twenty years of life in Montague.
     “H. H. TERWILLIGER.
     “Detroit, Mich., Nov. 23, 1901.”
    (Source : The New York Times, Nov. 30, 1901.)

    CASE IS ONE OF ELOPEMENT
    So People at Chicago Believe Relative to H. H. Terwilliger

     Chicago, Dec. 3. — That Henry H. Terwilliger, the missing Montague Mich., banker, came to Chicago and met Miss Minnie Schneider either in the city or in some town near its limits is the opinion expressed by the young woman’s uncle, R. D. Tobeck., of 53 Palmer avenue. Miss Schneider, who is a resident of Oceana, Mich., and has known Terwilliger for several years, was a guest at Tobeck’s home from a week ago Saturday until Monday of last week.
     She went away without giving any definite destination, and it is the belief of both Tobeck and his wife that after leaving their house she met Terwilliger. According to the story of Tobeck, Miss Schneider appeared at his house unexpectedly about 8 o’clock on Saturday morning a week ago. She announced that she intended remaining in the city a few days, and then had planned to visit friends in Hammond, Ind., and Grand Rapids, Mich.

    Henry married Emeline A. HALL. Emeline was born on 18 Dec 1854 in Michigan; died on 25 Feb 1905 in Montague, Muskegon, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Emeline A. HALL was born on 18 Dec 1854 in Michigan; died on 25 Feb 1905 in Montague, Muskegon, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1900, Montague, Muskegon, Michigan

    Children:
    1. 1. Francis TERWILLIGER was born on 21 Dec 1877 in Imlay City, Lapeer, Michigan; died on 26 Apr 1935 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.
    2. Mabel TERWILLIGER was born on 23 Aug 1879 in Michigan; died on 7 Jan 1901 in Montague, Muskegon, Michigan; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Montague, Muskegon, Michigan.
    3. Lillian L. TERWILLIGER was born on 26 Jul 1886 in Michigan; died on 26 Jul 1966 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Conrad TERWILLIGER was born on 5 Apr 1798 in New Scotland, Albany, New York (son of Simon TERWILLIGER and Jane COON); died on 3 May 1880 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1850, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York
    • Census: 1855, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York
    • Census: 1870, Mason, Ingham, Michigan

    Conrad married Lucy Ann BUTLER on 27 Apr 1837 in Onondaga, New York. Lucy was born in 1818 in Madison, New York; died on 2 Jul 1875 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Lucy Ann BUTLER was born in 1818 in Madison, New York; died on 2 Jul 1875 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1850, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York
    • Census: 1855, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York
    • Census: 1870, Mason, Ingham, Michigan

    Children:
    1. Edwin TERWILLIGER was born on 12 Sep 1840 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York; died on 14 Mar 1922 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan.
    2. Francis TERWILLIGER was born in 1842 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York; died in 1867; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.
    3. Fanny Augusta TERWILLIGER was born in 1844 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York; died in 1865; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.
    4. Mary TERWILLIGER was born in 1849 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York; died on 20 Dec 1850; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.
    5. 2. Henry Hamilton TERWILLIGER was born on 18 Mar 1854 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; died on 26 Apr 1924 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Simon TERWILLIGER was born on 20 Feb 1760 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; was christened on 23 Mar 1760 in Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, New York; died on 4 Aug 1839 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.

    Simon married Jane COON in 1788 in New Scotland, Albany, New York. Jane was born on 4 Oct 1770 in Albany, New York; died on 4 Apr 1846 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Jane COON was born on 4 Oct 1770 in Albany, New York; died on 4 Apr 1846 in DeWitt, Onondaga, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Jennetje /Koen/

    Children:
    1. Sarah TERWILLIGER was christened on 28 Jun 1789 in First Dutch Reformed Church, Albany, New York.
    2. Ann TERWILLIGER was born on 27 Oct 1791 in Albany, New York; died in Unknown.
    3. Richard TERWILLIGER was born on 6 Jan 1794; was christened on 23 Feb 1794 in Princetown, Schenectady, New York; died on 9 Feb 1881; was buried in Lysander Union Cemetery, Onondaga, New York.
    4. 4. Conrad TERWILLIGER was born on 5 Apr 1798 in New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 3 May 1880 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan.
    5. John Simon TERWILLIGER was born on 16 Sep 1800 in Bethlehem, Albany, New York; was christened in Church of New Salem, Albany, New York; died on 31 Aug 1873 in Centerville, Allegany, New York; was buried in Collamer Cemetery, DeWitt, Onondaga, New York.
    6. Fanny TERWILLIGER was born on 6 May 1802 in Albany, New York; was christened on 13 May 1802 in New Salem, New Scotland, Albany, New York; died on 15 Nov 1881.
    7. George TERWILLIGER was born in 1804 in New York; died in 1890 in Madison, New York; was buried in Pine Plains Cemetery, Sullivan, Madison, New York.