Freeman Briggs was a pianoforte manufacturer.

From source: “I am desperately looking for my daughter Dayna Lynn. If anyone knows her email address (prefered) or anything else about her where abouts, I will be eternally grateful.” — Norman Murr, Richmond Hill (Ontario), 29 Sept. 2007.

From Colin Brooks :
I have an ancestor named Charles Steele (b. May 12, 1821 d. 1890). He married Martha A Boyd (b.1821, d. 1910). She is the daughter of Robert Boyd and Mary Lund Town(e)s. All the children of Robert and Mary were born in Londonderry, NH.
Could my Charles tie into your Steele line? The Boyds are related to Rev. William Boyd who came first to America to survey New Hampshire for the Scotch-Irish group you mentioned. I actually am from two families on those ships. Boyd and McDuffee. Yours would make it three!!

From The Bedford Animal Hospital — Jonathan S. Lewis Jr. founded the Bedford Animal Hospital in 1944. Dr. Lewis, a New Hampshire native, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1943. He returned to New Hampshire and practiced briefly in Peterborough before establishing his veterinary practice in Bedford. The original hospital was a small frame building on Bedford Center Road near the present day Water Center.
 Bedford was a rural community with mainly dirt roads in the 1940’s, with many dairy farms that made up the bulk of Dr. Lewis’s practice. The telephone operator lived not far from the animal hospital. If a phone call for Dr. Lewis went unanswered (34 was the clinic’s number), she would look for his car in the driveway. If he were away on a farm call, she would take a message and give it to him when he returned.
 In 1953, Dr. Lewis was called to duty in the Air Force. He returned in January 1955 and purchased the property on Old Bedford Road where he built the present hospital. During his absence, many of the dairy farms had ceased operation, and the focus of veterinary medicine was changing from farm animals to companion animals. The present hospital was built primarily for treatment of small animals.
 By 1972, much of the farmland in Bedford was undergoing residential development. Dr. Lewis hired Carl T. DePrima DVM as an associate veterinarian in June 1972 to help care for the influx of new pets in the community. The practice grew, as did the need for additional veterinarians. In 1983, Dr. Lewis hired William L. Sofield DVM, PhD. to join the staff. Dr. DePrima and Dr. Sofield, still the current owners, bought the Bedford Animal Hospital from Dr. Lewis in December 1983 when Dr. Lewis retired.
 The house adjacent to the hospital was built in the late 1700’s. It was originally known in Bedford as the Old Cabinet House because the owner David Atwood was a cabinetmaker. He also made the best ox yokes in the area, an important skill as most farm work was done with teams of oxen. The house was rebuilt in 1958 after a fire destroyed most of it.

From Swim Ontario Awards Banquet 2005.
Tom Pinckard started swimming at the age of 5 and continued to swim while living in Brazil, and later while in high school at Ridley College in St. Catherines. He went on to become the captain of the University of New Brunswick swimming and football teams and was honoured with the University’s award for Athletic Distinction. Tom’s athletic interests were multi-faceted, and he received honours not only in swimming, but also in soccer, football, and canoe/kayak. He still holds the CIAU football record for the longest kick (89 yards), and was drafted by the Montreal Alouettes. While at UNB, Tom coached the women’s swim team, with the honoraria received helping to pay his way through law school. In 1967 Tom paddled across Canada in the Voyageur Centennial Canoe Race from Alberta to Montreal.
 He graduated in law in 1969, was called to the Bar in 1971, and has been a practicing lawyer in Huntsville ever since. In 1976 Tom founded the Muskoka Aquatic Club in Bracebridge and was its volunteer Head Coach for 10 years while spearheading the construction of the Huntsville Centennial Pool, which opened in 1986. Volunteering has always been a substantial part of his very busy life, and it still is. A long list of positions of leadership include the following: Director - Ontario Swimming Coaches Association; Chair - Huronia Region; Director and Vice-President - Swim Ontario (CASA – Ontario Section); Chair (6 years)- Swimming Canada; volunteer CEO - Swimming Canada; Member - Canadian Olympic Committee; Vice-President - Commonwealth Games Association of Canada; President - Aquatic Federation of Canada; President - Aquatic Foundation of Canada; President - Swimming Canada Foundation; and the list goes on! Tom pursued other interests as well. He was the Mayor of the Township of Lake of Bays and Councilor for the District of Muskoka (both from 1994 through 2003); Chair - Huntsville Memorial Hospital; Director - Huntsville Chamber of Commerce, Chair - Huntsville Parks & Recreation Committee; and Trustee - Muskoka Board of Education. All organizations benefited greatly from Tom’s dedication and expertise and he has received a plethora of awards for his contributions to Canadian swimming, and sport in general. Among them are the Ontario Aquatic Hall of Fame - Award of Distinction, the Province of Ontario - Award of Distinction; Inductee (Builder) - Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame; Canada 125 Medal; Air Canada Volunteer Coach of the Year; Swimming Canada Volunteer Coach of the Year; and the Canadian Centennial Medal.
 Tom and his wife of 35 years, Dayle, reside in Dwight near Huntsville. They have two sons, Todd and Dan, as well as 2 daughters, Sarah and Emily. Swimming still runs in the family as Emily is a varsity swimmer at University of Ottawa and Tom trains as a Masters Swimmer. The Ontario Aquatic Hall of Fame was proud to induct Tom Pinckard as a Builder. The Ontario Aquatic Hall of Fame is pleased to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of so many, but knows there are many others deserving of the honour.

From Tri-Scottsdale Foundation — I’m (Lewis Elliot) a 27 year old Professional Triathlete from Billings, Montana currently residing in Scottsdale, Arizona. My father Bill, an avid marathoner, encouraged me to start running and cycling as a way to spend time together. I’ve competed for the US National Cycling Team for many years and discovered great success with the sport of triathlon.
I consider being a Professional Athlete a dream come true. I’m the middle of three boys, and I credit my brothers Porter and Blair for giving me my competitive spirit at a very young age.
 In 2006, I won the SOMA Half-Ironman with a bike course record and a personal best time of 3 hours and 58 minutes. The only past winners of this race (Chris McCormack, Chris Legh, and Tim Deboom) are among the most famous and successful triathletes ever to compete.
 2007 was a breakthrough year for me. In March, I finished third at Ironman California and in April I finished 8th at Ironman Arizona. I competed all over the U.S. and traveled to France where I represented the United States at the World Long Course Triathlon Championships. In October, I competed in the Ironman World Championships in Kona.
 In 2008, I hope to win Ironman Arizona as well as place in the top 5 at the Ironman Hawaii World Championships.
 The Tri-Scottsdale partnership with the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity is a very important to me, as my mother passed away from breast cancer in 2003.
Athlete Website: http://www.lewiselliot.com.

From History of Charles Dixon - One of the early English settlers, Sackville, New Brunswick, Compiled by James D. Dixon, a grandson, Sackville, N.B., 1891:
 David Lyons was a shipmaster and also a mechanic. He followed coasting a number of years and then sailed on foreign voyages. They resided at Sackville, and their children were named Rufus Dixon, Annie M., David, William Henry, and Mary Ann, two of whom, 4 Annie M. and 4 David, died in childhood. Capt. David Lyons died at Benin, on the coast of Africa, of fever, on the 22nd of October, 1865, aged 57 years.

From Atlas Map of Scott, illinois 1873, Andreas, Lyter & Co., Davenport, Iowa

DR. H. M. STEWART was born in Bedford, Virginia, on the 22d of August, 1806. His parents, Thomas and Mary Stewart, were both natives of Virginia. His father emigrated to Madison, Kentucky, in 1811, and settled in the town of Richmond, where the remains of both parents still repose in the old graveyard of that place. His father was a carpenter by trade, which he followed many years. They were both members of the M. E. Church, converted under the preaching of Lorenzo Dow, and he was a local preacher, and followed preaching up to the time of his death. The subject of this sketch received his early education in Kentucky, and at the age of nineteen his father died, and he continued to work on the farm until he arrived at the age of twenty. He then began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Jonathan Stout, of Richmond, Kentucky, where he spent three years, when he went to New Orleans, stopping there one year, after which he returned to Kentucky, visiting a short time with the friends of his youth, and then located in Harrison, Indiana, where he continued the practice of his profession until 1837. From there he emigrated to Morgan, Illinois (now Scott County), settling where he now resides, near the town of Exeter, on section 35, which was his first purchase, and where he built and improved. A view of the house which he erected at that time may be seen elsewhere in this map. Here the Doctor began the practice of his profession, which he continues to this day, much against his inclination, but the people will not allow him to retire. He has always enjoyed a large practice, and what is remarkable, has never hung out a sign of any description. He was married in 1830, to Miss Liza A. Madden, a native of Kentucky, and daughter of John Madden, Esq. They were married in Harrison, Indiana, in 1831. Mrs. Stewart died that year. They had one child, Clayton M., who now resides at the old homestead. In 1835 the Doctor was again married, to Miss Caroline Madden, sister of his first wife. She died March 19, 1870. They had six children, five of whom are now living, all married with the exception of one, - Henry C., who is now in Colorado. The Doctor has raised six sons, three of whom are practicing physicians. His son Charles died at the age of twenty.
 Dr. Stewart has always taken a very active part in politics. Since the organization of the republican party he has been an active supporter of its principles, and a staunch friend of the Union during the late war. He was a great admirer of President Lincoln, supporting him in both campaigns. Two of his sons were in the army. He did all in his power to encourage enlistments, and gave liberally of his means to the families of those who volunteered, and also obeyed every call when his professional services were needed, gratuitously, in the families of the gallant boys in the field.
 Dr. Stewart’s eldest son, Clayton M., read medicine in the office of his father three years, attended lectures at the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, where he graduated, and returning home, began the practice with his father, which he continued two years. In 1860 and 1861 he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, where he graduated. The second son, J. Horace Stewart, upon the breaking out of the rebellion, volunteered in the 14th regiment Illinois volunteers as a private. He was promoted to quartermaster of the regiment, which position he held until the regiment was mustered out of the service at the close of the war, when he returned home. In the fall of 1868 he was elected to the office of sheriff of Scott county by the republican party. His third son resides with his father-in-law at or near Riggston. His daughter Eliza Ann is the wife of Dr. B. H. Skinner, who resides at Merit, Scott, Illinois. John H., who now resides in Exeter, graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago. The Doctor has one of the finest grain stock, and fruit farms in the, consisting of five hundred and fifty acres of land. A view of his residence appears elsewhere in this Map.

From Essex, Massachusetts Biographies, 1897.

GEORGE S. JUNKINS
 George S. Junkins, a former Mayor of Lawrence, was born in North Berwick, York, Me. May 10, 1846. A son of Daniel and Louisa (Weymouth) Junkins, he is of the fifth generation in America descended from his immigrant ancestor, who came from Scotland an settled in old York, Me. From York the family subsequently moved to Berwick, Me. Jotham Junkins, the grandfather of George S., born in 1791, was a farmer in North Berwick. He married a Miss Ingraham, of Portland, Me., who bore him one son and three daughters.
 Daniel Junkins, born in North Berwick in 1821, who as a meat dealer in South Berwick, died in his native town in 1893. His first wife, Louisa, also a native of North Berwick, died in 1855, aged thirty-seven. She was the mother of five children, namely : Mary Ellen, who died at the age of seventeen; Oscar W., who became a sea captain, and whose residence is in Lawrence; Daniel E., now a farmer of Buxton, Me. ; George S., the subject of this sketch ; and Sarah A., who became the wife of Charles H. Lindsay, and died without issue in 1895.

The maiden name of Daniel Junkins’s second wife, who came from Smithfield, was Olive Merrill. A most estimable lady, she has been a kind mother to the orphaned children. At present she is living in Somersworth, N.H. Her children by her late husband are : Louise, the wife of Alvin H. Stevens, of Dover, N.H. ; Mary, the wife of Frank Malory, of Somersworth, N.H. ; and Frank, a resident of Lebanon, Me.
 George S. Junkins acquired his early education in the common schools of South Berwick and Lebanon. At the age of sixteen he wen to work in a flannel factory in North Berwick, where he was employed for six years. He then opened a meat market in Lawrence in company with A. I. Mellen. Since that time the firm has established an extensive and prosperous business. Mr. Junkins has ranked prominently among the business menn of Lawrence for over thirty years. He is active and popular among the Lawrence Republicans. In 1890 he was in the Common Council, in 1891 and 1893 he was member of the Board of Aldermen, and since 1893 he has been serving on the Water Board, of which at present he is the President. Elected Mayor in 1896 an re-elected in 1897, he proved a progressive and able chief magistrate.
 Mr. Junkins was married April 2, 1870, to Josie M. McDuffee, of this city, a daughter of Charles and Sarah (Hopkinson) McDuffee. Some time ago, Mr. McDuffee, who was a carpenter and builder, fell from a building, and died one week after from the injuries he then received, aged fifty-nine years. His wife had died at the age of twenty-nine, leaving Josie M., her only child. Mr. and Mrs. Junkins have three children : Bertha L., an accomplished young lady, who, having completed the classical course in Boston University, graduated therefrom June 1, 1898 ; Helen M., who is a teacher in Dr. Sargent’s School of Physical Culture in Cambridge, Mass. ; and Marion W., now sixteen years of age, who graduated in June, 1898, from the Lawrence High School. Mr. Junkins is a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church and a member of several fraternal organizations. The family resides in a handsome home at 6 Greene Street, which Mr. Junkins purchased in February, 1875.

Republicans Select George S. Junkins
 LAWRENCE, Nov 18 — The republican mayoralty and aldermanic conventions tonight made the following nominations: For mayer, George S. Junkins; for aldermen, ward 1, E. H. Humphrey; ward 2, George H. Goldsmith; ward 3, A. H. Robinson; ward 4, Ira D. Blandin; ward 5, S. Byron Bodwell; ward 6, John Haigh. (Source: Boston Daily Globe, Nov. 19, 1895).

From Fifty Years with the Baptist Ministers and Churches of the Maritime Provinces (by. Rev. I. E. Bill), p. 403:

   Joseph C. SKINNER was born at Parrsboro, N.S., in the year 1800, and was early instructed by his godly mother, the late Mrs. Sarah Skinner, in the principles and obligations of the Christian faith. When about twenty years of age he professed religion, and was baptized by the late Edward Manning. He was then regarded as a young man of more than ordinary promise. He removed to New Brunswick in 1825, and feeling a deep interest in the progress of education, he devoted several years of his life to the instruction of the young. In 1836 he was ordained to the pastorate of what was then designated the First Wickham Church. He faithfully fulfilled the duties of his office for many years; and although his pastoral connection nominally ceased some time prior to his death, yet virtually he continued to preside over these people and to watch for their souls as one that must give an account, until removed to join the Church triumphant in the heaves. He departed this life in the sixty-first year of his age, March 23, 1860, in full assurance of the faith he had so long proclaimed as the only ground of the sinner’s hope. He was interred in the churchyard surronding the house in which he was ordained, in the presence of a large concourse of people. Rev. David Crandall preached his funeral sermon from 2 Timothy, 4: 7, 8; “I have fought the good fight”, etc.
 Our departed Brother Skinner stood pre-eminent among his brethren as wise in counsel, evangelical in doctrine, an spotless in life. It was his happiness to witness several interesting revivals of religion during his pastorate, and to induct many valuable members in to the fellowship of the Church; and though his labours on earth have terminated, yet the instructions which he gave, his meek and pure example, and the composure and confidence with which he passed through the valley of death, will continue to give forth utterances distinct and solemn, calling upon the people of Cambridge to “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end ot that man in peace.”

“The Early Baptist of Cambridge Parish, Queens, New Brunswick”, by Ruby Cusack

   With Christmas being only four days away, Cliff and I were getting more and more excited by the hour. Mum had made the fruit cakes well in advance. The shelves in the back pantry were lined with tin containers filled with all sorts of cakes, squares, cookies and pies. I was so tempted to sneak in there for a feed of honey bars but I didn’t want to get in trouble at this time of the year.
 Gord had spent several hours searching the upper pasture for the perfectly shaped fir tree and now it was leaning against the wall in the livingroom. Dad and Gramp took on the task of nailing the board to the bottom, then turning it round and round to find the best side before anchoring it to the window casing with heavy twine. While they were doing this, the rest of us set to work with darn needles and heavy thread to string the coloured popcorn.
 In no time at all, the adults began to chat about the traditions of the Christmases of the past and the church services they had attended as youngsters, which led into a long discussion concerning the members of the families who gathered to worship in the communities where they grew up.
 In 1941, the Reverend Walter R. Greenwood felt that the Church’s traditions were the most valuable possession and should be carefully preserved. It was this thought that prompted his writing of “The Early Baptist of Cambridge Parish, Queens, New Brunswick”. And in so doing he provided information on the members of many families.
 Chapter one deals with the church at Jemseg. The first family being the Wades who migrated in the mid 1800’s to Ontario but was still represented in the community through relationship with Percy McLean.
 Among the names of the Charter member on the rolls of the Waterborough Church are,
– Elijah Estabrooks (Teaching Elder),
– Joseph Estabrooks (Deacon), Ebenezer Estabrooks and John Estabrooks. These are all sons of Sergeant Elijah Estabrooks from whom all the Estabrooks on the St. John River are descended.
– The Rev. Francis Pickle was sent by the Domestic Missionary Society to labor on Grand Lake. There were twelve baptized under his ministry at Cumberland Bay in February and March of 1827.
– David Chase, who was a brother of Rev. Skinner’s wife, pursued his ministry successfully for seven years until, as a young man of thirty-six died of tuberculosis. Three months later his wife Jane died of the same disease.
– William Springer, the Loyalist, who came from Wilmington, Delaware married Sarah Thurston,
– Margaret, the daughter of Squire John Robertson, was the wife of George Wilson and moved to Salmon River.
– John J. Camp was a grandson of Abiathar Camp, the Loyalist.
 The Birthday of the Mill Cove Church could be considered as being on the 26th of June 1825 for it was then that John Branscomb, Ann McLean, Ann Elsworth and Mary Ferris were baptized. John Branscomb was the son of Arthur Branscomb and married Mary Wiggins. Ann McLean married David McIntosh and lived in Mill Cove. Ann Elsworth was a daughter of William Elsworth. Her brother, Hanford, married Sarah Ferris, a daughter of George Ferris, the Loyalist. Mary Ferris was a daughter of John and Mary Ferris. The upper storey of their stone house was used to hold church services.
– William Sharp, Eliza Clark, Jeremiah Oakley, Lucy Gidney and Mrs. David Nevers were the first mentioned of Baptist people living at Lower Jemseg and vicinity as found in the records of Canning Baptist Church during the years 1830-1833.

– In 1836 Joseph C. Skinner, who had come to the community as a teacher in 1833, became the first resident pastor of the church at MacDonald’s Corner. His ministry here lasted until his death in 1860. Elder Skinner was not a robust man but he and his wife were persons of superior mentality. Of their family, five sons became medical doctors in the United States. One of the daughters, Betsy Ann, married Amos Straight and another daughter married Robert Coes.
 Biographical information is provided on the forty-one names that were listed on the roll in 1840. One of the clerks and later made a deacon in 1843, at the MacDonald’s Corner Church was Anthony Flower, who was born in 1792 at Old Gravel Lane, Radclife Highway, London, England. As a young boy he attended the Royal Academy School and was a roommate with Joseph William Turner who became one of the leading landscapes painters of all times. His wife, Mary, was the daughter of James Green. I might add, that today, Anthony Flower is a well known New Brunswick artist. His home has been moved to the village of Cambridge-Narrows. It will be restored to appear as it did during Flower’s life and will be opened in 2005 as a House Museum, dedicated to the life and times of Anthony Flower.
– Rebecca Carpenter, the daughter of Ephraim and Ann Carpenter, married Richard Ryder and lived her married life in Saint John.
 In the evening of December 5th, 1839, a meeting was held at Mr. James Hendry’s to organize a church to be called the second Baptist Church of Wickham. This entry was found in the church records concerning the beginnings of organized church life at Lower Cambridge. The author states that in 1825, thirteen people met in Alexander B. MacDonald’s barn and were duly constituted into the First Baptist Church in Wickham.
 A Baptist Church was organized at Cambridge in the Meeting House near Mr. Amos S. Corey’s on November 5th, 1855... in all 21 members coming into the church fellowship as a distinct church. In 1856 twenty-eight were added to the church. Surnames of the members of this church include, Corey, Hetherington, Cottle, Wilson, Hughes, Belyea, Dykeman, Blizard, Akerley, Robertson, Black, White, Chase, Little, Wood, Straight, Todd, and Pierce. Here again, a review is given of the families.
 — “The Early Baptist of Cambridge Parish, Queens, New Brunswick” by the Reverend Walter R. Greenwood, a 1941, eighty page publication provides a wealth of genealogical information concerning the families who attended the churches in the area. The book is available at the Fredericton Library and the Legislative Library and possibly at other research institutions within New Brunswick.

Source: “Vital Statistics From New Brunswick (Canada) Newspapers” Vol. 15:
– 496 m. Wednesday 13th inst., at house of bride’s father, by Rev. J. SKINNER, Joseph A. Denniston of Scotland / Miss Hannah Appleby of Wickham parish (Queens Co.) 23 November 1850 NBC
– 3059 m. At residence of bride’s father, Wickham (Queens Co.) 14th Feb., by Rev. J.C. SKINNER, William Appleby / Miss Isabella Akerley both of that place. 1 March 1856 NBC

Source: New Brunswick – Canada / Index To Probate Records
SKINNER Joseph C. 1860 Cambridge

Source:
Aaron Jenkins was born on 15 Mar 1826 in Johnston, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada. He died on 27 Jun 1909 in Codys, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada. He has reference number 14. Married by Rev. JOSEPH SKINNER.

From History of the Baptists, p. 501:
SKINNER, B.A., Rev. I. J., died March, 1896; aged 72 years; born in Kings, N.S.; graduated from Acadia, 1855; ordained at Port Medway, 1855; was pastor at Bridge water, Chester, N.S.; Alma and Havelock, N.B.; Tryon, Bedeque and Montague, P.E.I., for about thirthy-five years. He was a good man, full of faith and the Holy Ghost; gently beloved by all who knew him. He was an earnest temperance worker.
History of the Baptists, p. 756:
Rev. I. J. SKINNER reports ministerial labour and pastoral work performed by him at Port Medway, Bridgewater, New Cornwall, Chelsear, Corkum Settlement, St. Margaret’s Bay, Little River, Chester, and Lunenburg. The reviving power of the Spirit was experienced more or less in most of these places so that during the twenty-five years of his ministry he has baptized in all three hundred and sixty-five persons.
From The Diary of Adolphus Gaetz, p. 113:
Rev. Isaac Judson Skinner (1825-1896) was born at Conrwallis, N.S. and died at Liverpool, N.S. He was graduated at Acadia University in 1855. He was a Baptist minister and had pastorates at Port Medway and Chester, N.S., Alma and Hopewell, N.B., and Bedeque and Tryon, P.E.I. He married (1) a daughter of William Troop of Nictaux, N.S. and (2) Mary, daughter of Saumel Freeman, of Milton N.S.

From Indiana Evening Gazette, July 12, 1938
Clean Up Chores Get Married
ATHOL, Mass., July 12 – (AP) – Herbert David Boutall, 63, poultry farmer, and his 16-year old bride spent their first day of married live today at work.
 Boutall, a widower of two years, and Flora Evely Anna May, were married at St. John’s Episcopal Church last night because the Mays, farmers all, insisted they had to clean up their farm chores before donning wedding togs. Previously and afternoon ceremony had been planned.
More than 2,000 persons waited outside the church for a glimpse of the bridal party. The ceremony wiltnessed by 100 guests.

From The St Petersburg Times, Wednesday, July 13, 1938
December and May Wedding Attracts Throng of 2,000
ATHOL, Mass., July 12 — (AP) – While a crowd of 2,000 sought a glimpse of a wedding ceremony held at night because the bridal party couldn’t take time off from their farm chores for a day service, Herberd David Boutall, 63-year-old widower, tonight married his 16-year-old sweetheart, Flora Evelyn Anna May.
 The church ceremony was witnessed by 100 persons, including a number of standees in rear pews, and several policemen, who kept outsiders from opening windows and peering in. A wedding reception was held at Boutall’s farm house. Boutall, busy with 200 hens, is not planning a wedding trip in the near future.

From The New York Age, July 16, 1938.
Hot Weather Item!, by Benezer Bay.
 An Athol, Massachusetts, dispatch of Thursday last told of the proposed marriage of a 63-year-old widower and a 16-year-old girl of that burg. One newspaper carried a picture of the elederly Romeo lifting his youthful bride-to-be, just to show his retained strength.
 “The only ones in the neighborhood who object to the marriage,” he is reported as saying, “are a couple of old maids who think I should marry someone nearer my own age.” “My answer to them,” continued the prospective groom, “is that when I buy a piano, I don’t want an antique, I want one that plays.”
 Boutall, as is said to be his name, should be careful about making assertions about purchasing antiques. His young bride might awaken some fine morning to realize that she has done just that.

From The Amsterdam Evening Recorder, N.Y., Tuesday, July 11, 1939.
Bridegroom of 64 Who Wed Girl 16 Confounds Critics
ATHOL, Mass., Jull 11 – (AP) – Herbert D. Boutall, the 64-year-old Athol chicken farmer who took a 16-year-old wife juste a year ago, looked back with pleasure today on a “happy year” and laughed at the critics who predicted the May-December romance would go on the rocks.
 His pretty, brunette bride, Flora Evelyn Anna, who turned 17 on July 1, agreed and chuckled as Boutall praised her ability as a cook, a thrifty manager and a maker of “wonderful home brew”.
 Boutall, who runs a small egg route, recalled with a grin the “crank letter writers” who told him after the marriage to “leave the chickens alone and take care of the hens”. “The happy year we have had,” and he smiled at his wife, attired in flowered shorts and jacket, “simply proves that we meant marriage in every sense of the word whe we applied for a license a year ago. We knew then that it wasn’t fascination on the part of one and infatuation on the part of the other.”

From The Lewiston Daily Sun 14 apr, 1943
Boutall will not return to England
Athol Man, 68, Who Wed Girl, 20, Gets Probation for Non-Support
ATHOL, Mass., April 13 – AP – Herbert D. Boutall, 68 who announced on Saturday that his marriage to the former Ann Evelyn May, 20, was on the rocks after five years, will not go to his native England as he had planned.
He was under two years probation today after being convicted of non-support of two children, for whos keep he was ordered to pay $12 a week.
 The May-December romance began when Ann left school to become Boutall’s housekeeper two years after his first wife died. Two children were born to them, Barbara Ann 3, and David, 2. Mrs. Boutall and the children live here with her mother while Boutall works and lives in nearby Orange. On Saturday he said he soon would return to his native England to take a war job.

From the blog My Father’s posts dedicated to Ebenezer Ray :
A Piano Lesson ?
 Before there was Rupert Murdoch and Wendi, his pie-spiking wife; before the celebrity sphere was all a twitter about 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison marrying a reportedly 16-year-old Courtney Stodden, there was Herbert David Boutall, 63, and his 16-year-old bride, Ann
 Dubbed a “hot weather item,” in my father’s column on July 16, 1938, the item wasn’t about the temperatures at all. It was about a May-December romance that made headlines across the nation.
 “Both of the characters in this February-December drama are white, but what of it?” my father wrote. “One newspaper carried a picture of the elderly Romeo lifting his youthful bride-to-be, just to show his retained strength.“
 Boutall, a widower from Athol, Mass. is quoted as saying: “The only ones in the neighborhood who object to the marriage are a couple of old maids who think I should marry someone nearer my own age. My answer to them is that when I buy a piano I don’t want an antique. I want one that plays.”
 “Boutall should be careful about making assertions about purchasing antiques,” Ebenezer wrote. “His young bride might awaken some fine morning to realize that she has done just that.”
 In hindsight, Ebenezer might have taken his own advice about making assertions. Ten years later, he would end up in his own May-December romance. My mother, certainly no child, was only 22 years my father’s junior, which doesn’t come close to the Boutalls’ 47-year age difference. Still, it’s a reminder that you never know when your own words will come back to bite you, especially when you are talking about “old” people.
 I followed the Boutall marriage in the archives of the Boston Globe. More than 5000 spectators lined the streets for the wedding on July 11, 1938. The church only seated 120. In August, a subsequent Globe article intimated that the couple was thinking of selling their New England farm and moving to England, where Herbert was from. A year later, they were still in Athol, according to the Globe headline: “Farmer, 64, wife 17, will mark first year of marital bliss today.”
 Then in May 1940, the Globe announced that the “May–December couple proud parents of a girl.” They had a son the next June, but, alas, on April 10, 1943, the Globe announced, “Gap of 47 years too much for Athol pair, so they’ve separated.”
 The paper quoted Herbert as saying, “If she wants a younger man she can have one.” According to that Globe article, Herbert was headed to England to work in a war plant. His wife and children moved back in with her parents.
 Perhaps she got a new piano.

From New Brunswick Author Portal:
Yvonne Wilson — Born Cougle in Saint John, when not quite four learned that HERE in not the only place. Infant imagination burst free; feet followed.
 Graduated from McAdam High, then Dalhousie University but with no healing of the itchy feet. Became a science teacher (B. Ed., University of New Brunswick) but at Campellton was pressed into teaching “composition”- anybody can teach English! Loved it. Taught English in Val-d’Or (Quebec), Montreal, Vancouver, New Zealand, Western Australia. Finished teaching career as first Instructor in the Writing Lab at University of New Brunswick, Saint John.
 Meanwhile, added the name Wilson, edited scientific papers, brought up two daughters, and began to write fiction. Became a book editor with DreamCatcher Publishing in Saint John, then with Trinity Enterprise (specialists in e-Books)
 Ten novels published and one book of non-fiction (about writing) with Allison Mitcham. Novels include the humorous Trinity Romances by “Briann Stuart.” And I think my masterpiece is coming up.

How has New Brunswick influenced your work?
 When you drive over the Petersville hill and see fog ahead, you are coming home. When you feel the plane begin to descend, you smile; you are coming home. When you wake on the train and see fresh snow on the spruce trees that are sliding by, you are coming home.
 I have never seen a bird I didn’t remember or a field of wild flowers under a summer sun; and every one of them stands in comparison with gulls in fog, black flies in dandelions, or the tiny ants in a bouquet of daisies. New Brunswick is home, anchor, standard of reference, behind every inspiration.

What is your favourite New Brunswick book, and why?
 My favourite New Brunswick Book is Funny Fables of Fundy, a book of poems for children by Grace Helen Mowat (1875 -1964). I lost the copy I had as a child and nobody rejoiced more mightily than I when it was reprinted some years ago. Who could have ever forgotten the epitaph? Jersey Lily. Paris Green / Jersey Lily no more seen.

What do you consider to be the highlight of your career so far?
 Cyril Connelly has said “the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence…” (The Unquiet Grave) Experiencing the flow of a story as it writes itself on the page is life-enhancing. Feeling that another book is insisting it be written is life-sustaining – a “Rocky Mountain High”. Best of all is the promise that the masterpiece is yet to be. A successful launch is pleasant; compliments readers whose opinion one respects make the hours on the job worthwhile: a royalty cheque is good; but it’s the writing that counts. I have been lucky. As a book editor, I know that most manuscripts are returned to sender. But I think I would have written my books if not one of them had ever been published. If a story is in you, you have to let it out.

From The American Oxonian, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, 1931
J.P. Carleton, (New Hampshire and Magadalen) according to indirect but reliable news, was married in Paris, on July first, to Miss Alicia Prescott Skinner. He is a member of the law firm of McLane, Davis, & Carleton, Manchester,

From The Annapolis Valley Whitmans, Whitman, Charles B, Private Printing, Weston, Ontario; 1972

From The Bowdoin Alumnus, Jan. 1941. : Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Skinner [class of 1936] annouce the birth of a daughter, Judith Hall, at Richardson House, Boston, on Oct. 30 1940.

From The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, Jun 23, 1871 : m. (St. John) city, Wednesday 21st June, by Rev. T. Harley, R. Chipman SKINNER, Esq., Barrister-at-Law / Elizabeth Clear CLERKE d/o Chas. CLERKE, Esq.

From The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, May 27, 1878 : m. Sackville (West. Co.) 14th inst., by Rev. D.A. Steele, Rev. Isaac SKINNER / Eliza Isabel BLACK youngest d/o Josiah BLACK, Esq.

From The Daily Telegraph, Saint John, November 9, 1893 : m. Higginsville, N.S., Nov. 1st, by Rev. W.F. Parker, pastor of the Immanuel church, Truro, Rev. I.R. SKINNER, Oak Bay, N.B. / Emily H. McCABE, Higginsville, Halifax, N.S.

From The Gleaner (Fredericton) March, 2, 1896 : Charles St.C. Skinner, s/o C.N. SKINNER of St. John has removed to Boston to reside permanently.

From The Kneeland Miscellany, Compiled by Bertha J. and Frank E. Kneeland, 1914-1917.

Page 206. – Frank Elmer Kneeland, born at Searsport, Me., July 27, 1870. Married December 24, 1910, to Bertha Louise Junkins of Brooklyn by the Reverend Doctor Newell Dwight Hillis, Pastor of Plymouth Church, in the parlor of his home at 23 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. For eleven years preceding and six months succeeding her marriage, she was the teacher of Latin and Greek at the Berkeley Institute, 183 (181-3-5) Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Her parents were George Selby and Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins – (her mother was named Mary Josephine) –, born 10, 1846 and February 12, 1848, at South Berwick, Maine, and Rochester, New Hampshire, respectively. [...]
 Mr. and Mrs. Junkins’s eldest child, Bertha Louise, had taken the degree of A.B. at Boston University with the class of 1898 and that of A.M. at Radcliffe in 1899, in September of which year she assumed her duties as one of the Faculty of The Berkeley Institute and became on the the occupants of a table for four in what is now known as “The Victoria” at 42-44 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn — which last is only some three miles removed from the north’east corner of the Manhattan tower of the old Brooklyn Bridge!

Frank E. and Bertha (Junkins) Kneeland have two children:
 (1) Helen Elizabeth Crockett Kneekland – (except for birth certificate purposes the “Elizabeth” has been dropped) –, born at the Prospect Heights Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Washington Ave. and ST. John’s Place) – on December 24, 1911, her mother having been attended byr DR. J.P. Pendelton, 90 Sixth Ave., Broklyn. As I write this (3/12/17) she is scurrying around “The Hill” in Searsport, dragging a sled made for Hal by her Great-Grandfather Crockett and with “Don” as her companion!
 (2) Frances Hichborn Kneeland, born June 20, 1916, at the Methodist Episcopal – (“Seney”) – Hospital, Seventh Ave. and Seventh street, Brooklyn, N.Y., where her mother was attented by Dr. Harold Bell of President Street, Brooklyn, acting for Dr. Louis M. Dusseldorf, 392 Union St., Brooklyn the family physician who had recently lost his right hand in an automobile accident.
 Before she was two weeks old the Infantile Paralysis Epidemic of 1916, in which there were something like 10,000 cases and 2500 deaths in the City of New York alone, had gained full headway in Brooklyn, its place of origin, whence her father, upon learning from Dr. Bailey Sunday evening that seventeen cases had that day been taken from a few blocks in Union Street, had fled the next day, Monday, July 3rd, to Maine with her sister Helen, leaving her and her mother to be brought home from the hospital the next day by “Grammie” Shaw (Mrs. Florence C., the wife of the Rev. Edward B. Shaw of Monroe, N.Y.)–, and on which “Flight into Egypt” he was followed by her and her mother just two weeks later – they arrived at Searsport on July 19th and they’re there yet! She is now (3/12/17) busily, and noisily, engaged in cutting some teeth, two of which are already in evidence! The “Frances” is as near as she could come to being named for her “Daddy” and the “Hichborn” was the middle name of both her Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother Kneeland, on whom it had been bestowed in respect to that Hon. Robert Hichborn of the “Boston Tea Party” who had brougth her Great-Great-Grandfather Edward Kneeland to Cape Jellison from Boston when the American Republic was so young that its Constitution had not yet been adopted nor Washington elected President! — and but for whom our particular branch of the Kneeland family probably never would have landed in Maine! Perhaps they wouldn’t have landed anywhere! Quien sabe?
 A propos of names: – Her elder sister was first called “Helen Elizabeth” but when, upon attaining to the age of about four weeks, she frowned upon her “Daddy” so migthily that he remarked that “she looks just like her Great-Grandfather Crockett!”, her mother seized upon the incident as a good and sufficient reason for making her middle name “Crockett”! I tried to have the name changed in the Brooklyn office of the Registrar of Births for New York but was told that this could not be done — that in the event she should ever wish to obtain a birth certificate, she shoud ask to have it issued in the name of Helen Elizabeth Crockett Kneeland. This curcumstance is set down here – (I forgot to write it under her own name) – for her information in the event that she should need it when her father and mother have “gone away from here”! I may also remark that the “Helen” is for her Aunt Helen MacDuffee (Junkins) Beach, who “improved” on her mother’s spelling of her maiden name by adding an “a“ to it!

Catalog of Names, Radcliffe College, 1919
JUNKINS, BERTHA LOUISE, g 1899 AM; 1898 Boston Univ. AB (Mrs. F.E. Kneeland) JUNKINS,

Publication of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1903
Junkins, Bertha Louise B.A. B. ’98; M.A. Rad. ’99.
Berkeley Institute 183 Lincoln place Brooklyn, N.Y.

From The Nashua Telegraph, 19 Jan 1949:
Ex-Nashuans Observer 51st Wedding Anniv.
Mr and Mrs Henry Erickson, 84 Gates st, Portsmouth, fomerly of this city, are observing their 51st wedding anniversary today. They were married in this city Jan 19, 1898.
Mrs Maude Erickson was the daughter of the late John and Della Forrance of Nashua, but has resided in Portsmouth for the past 40 years.
Mr Erickson came from Sweden 65 years ago at the age of 13 years. They have nine children, 17 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

From The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 89, page 205 :
Mrs. Josephine Mcduffee Junkins.
DAR ID Number: 88646
Born in Rochester, N. H.
Wife of George S. Junkins.
Descendant of James McDuffee, Caleb Hopkinson, Solomon Lombard, and Calvin Lombard, as follows:
1. Charles McDuffee (1825-86) m. 1st 1846 Sarah C. Hopkinson (1827-54).
2. James McDuffee (1796-1868) m. 1821 Hannah Ham (1801-90); Moses Hopkinson (1796-1881) m. 1821 Elizabeth Hamlin (1796-1870).
3. Jacob McDuffee (1770-1848) m. 1794 Abigail Flagg (1774-1870); Stephen Hopkinson (b. 1771) m. Rachel Lombard (b. 1773).
4. James McDuffee m. 1762 Mercy Young; Caleb Hopkinson m. 1770 Sarah Clay Stafford (b. 1745); Calvin Lombard m. Martha Grant.
5. Solomon Lombard m. 1724 Sarah Purington.
— James McDuffee (1726-1804) served on the Committee of Safety from Rochester, N. H., where he was born and died.
— Caleb Hopkinson (1747-1841) served several enlistments and was one of Gates’ bodyguard at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was born in Bradford, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.
— Solomon Lombard (1702-81) was chairman of the Committee of Safety, 1776, served in the General Court and as Judge of Cumberland County. He died in Gorham, Me.
— Calvin Lombard (1748-1808) served as a volunteer with the Gorham minute men. He was born in Truro, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.

From The Kneeland Miscellany, Compiled by Bertha J. and Frank E. Kneeland, 1914-1917. Page 206.
George Selby and Mary Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins [were] born 10, 1846 and February 12, 1848, at South Berwick, Maine, and Rochester, New Hampshire, respectively. They were married at Lawrence, Mass., April 12, 1870 (4/2/70) and, with the exception of the first year of their married life during which Mr. Junkins was in charge of a woolen factory at North Berwick, Me., lived continuously in that city, of which he was twice Mayor, up to the time of his death on November 12, 1900. Some three years after his death and after her daughters Helen and Marian had graduated from the Boston University School of Medecine and Radcliffe College respectively in 1903 (1903), Mrs. Junkins removed with her daughter Helen to Lowell, Mass, where they resided upt to the time of the latter’s marriage to Edward J. Beach at her sister Marian’s home on the grounds of Leland Stanford, Jr. University at Palo Alto, California, in April 1909.
 Having previously sold her home on Tower Hill, Lawrence, (110 Bodwell street), Mrs. Junkins thereafter became a considerable traveller, making frequent visits to her daughters in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dubuque, Iowa, and Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California, taking occasion to see such natural wonders as The Yellowstone, The Yosemite, and The Grand Canyon of Arizona en route, a tour of Alaska in 1911, and one of Europe extending through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium, in 1912. She last visited her eldest daughter at Brooklyn on her return from Europe in September, 1912, at which time she took the pictures of her grand-daughter Helen seated in her baby chairs and bath-tub on the roof of the apartment house at 128 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, with the tower of the Christian Science Church accross the way in the background, which appear in Helen’s baby album. Leaving for Dubuque on this occasion, Mrs. Junkins made the trip up the Hudson on one of the Day Line steamers and opined that, except for the castles, the real Rhine which she had traversed a few weeks previously had nothing on its American prototype! Shortly after her youngest daughter Marian’s third child (Carlton Skinner) was born at the hospital in Palo Alto, California, in April, 1913, Mrs. Junkins herself was forced to become a patient in the same hospital where she underwent two operations for the stomach trouble from which she had long been a sufferer! She rallied sufficiently to make the trip to Dubuque, Iowa, in the early Summer of 1913, but suffered a relapse shortly after her arrival and died in the hospital to which she had been removed in Dubuque on August 6, 1913. Both she and her husband sleep in the lot which he had provided in the Extension to Bellevue Cemetery at Lawrence, Mass. Prior to his election to the Mayoralty, Mr. Junkins had been in the Meat and Provision business. After his second term as Mayor had expired he became associated with the Stanley Grain Company of Lawrence as its Treasurer! It is now owned and conducted by George A. Stanley, whose father was the original founder of the business!

From The New York Times:
Herbert Evans Fisher, 67 years old, Treasurer of the Boston & Maine Railroad for fifteen years, died at his home in Newton, Mass., yesterday.

From U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949:
U.S.S Somers – July 5, 1940 sailing from San Diego, Calif. to Pearl Harbor, T.H. :
POLICH, Matthew Cyril | service number: 381 39 91 | date of enlistment: 13 Mar 1940 (Des Moines, Iowa)

From Who’s who among students in American universities and colleges: Volume 53, 1989 :
SKINNER, JOHN ANTHONY: Taylors, SC; Bob Jones University; b: Oct 27, 1965; m: Paula; p: Genevieve M. Skinner; deg: BS, Educ, Mus Educ, 1989; act: Pi Kappa Alpha, Chpln, Pres; Univ Chorale, Pres; Traveling Vocal Ensemble; Grace Levinson.

Sources: New England Christian Youth Chorus.

From Who’s who in California (Volume 1942-43):
VALENTINE, Dean Percy Friars, A.B., M.L., Ed.D.
Dean and Vice-President. Professor of Psychology, San Francisco State College. Born: Boston (Mass.). Dec. 1, 1884; s. of Emma (Friars) and Richard P. Valentine. Education: Stanford Univ.; Univ. of Calif. Degrees: A.B., Stanford, 1909; M.L., 1914, Ed.D., 1927, Univ. of Calif.
Married: Gladys M. Prestwood, d. of Edward L. Feudner in Dixon (Calif.), Dec. 26, 1915; ch.: Virginia. Hope, Edward.
Supervisor of the Teaching of History and Government. in San Francisco Normal School; Principal of Training School and Instr. in Education and Logic, Fresno State Teachers College; Visiting Professor, Univ. of No. Dakota, Univ. of Utah, and San Diego State College, summer sessions; Lecturer in Education, Univ. of Calif.; Dean and Vice-Pres. and Prof, of Psychology, San Francisco State College, since 1924.
Directorships: Board of Trustees, Alto Psychologic Center.
Publications : California-the Story of Our State (school text. State Printing Office), 1915; The Psychology of Personality (Appleton), 1927; The Art of the Teacher (Appleton). 1931. Contributor to general and professional magazines.
Memberships: Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Kappa. Politics: Democrat.
Bus. Address: 124 Buchanan St., San Francisco, Calif.
Home Address: 2033 Berryman St., Berkeley, Calif.

From Who’s who in New England, volume 2 1915:
FISHER, Irving Jewell, M.D.: b. Somerville, Mass., Oct 6, 1877; s. Hervert Evans and Esmerelda Porter (Delano) Fisher; grad. Boston English High Sch., 1895; advanced class English High Sch., 1896; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1900; house officer Boston City Hosp., 1900-2; Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, summer 1902; med. courses, Berlin and Vienna, winter of 1902-3; m. Gertrude Davis Hall, of Somerville, Mass., Oct. 6, 1905; 2 children, Robert Gordon, Jeanne. Practiced in West Newton, Mass., since Mar., 1903; mem. staff of Newton Hosp. Mem. AMA, Mass. Med. Soc., NE Pediatric Soc., Boston City Hosp. Alumni Assn., Harvard Med. Alumni Assn. Republican. Unitarian. Clubs: Harvard (Boston), Neighborhood, Brae Burn Country (West Newton). Home: 79 Chestnut St., West Newton, Mass.

From Ann Marie Skinner of Washington (Ann Marie Owen a_m_owen@hotmail.com)

From Evelyn Rhodes Mikula’s Rowe Genealogy: “Samuel came west after civil war, farmed until 1891 then employed as
village marshal and street commissioner until 1900 when he was engineer at pumping station. He was a member of MWA (Modern Woodmen of America) in 1900; in 1887 elected a trustee of Mt. Morris, Il.”

From Judy Smith in Evelyn Rhodes Mikula’s Rowe genealogy:

“Joseph R. Row was born December 10, 1827 in Washington, Md. Sometime in 1849 he married Nancy Duffy. Joseph Row did not fight in the Civil War, but paid a substitute a bounty of $300.00 to go in his place. When again he was called for war duty, this time the bounty being $500.00, he left Maryland, moving his family to near Mount Morris, IL. Nancy died in 1870 leaving him with eight children. In 1871 Joseph remarried, this time to Lydia Slifer. In 1872, Joseph and family moved again to near Dallas Center, IA. There he farmed on a farm east of town and always drove a pair of mules. He died 8 July 1910.”

From Bertha Row Emmert in Evelyn Rhodes Mikula’s Rowe genealogy:

“In Maryland, hid horses from Confederate soldiers. Paid cash bounty to avoid Civil War army service. Moved to Illinois 1865.”

From notes of A. Joanne (Irving) Hunt, Litchfield, NH:

From The Christian Messenger (an early Baptist magazine): “Died 15 January 1848 in Cornwallis, Mrs. Sarah Skinner in 88th year, daughter of the late Samuel Osborne of Martha’s Vineyard, U.S. They removed to Casco, Maine, to New Brunswick, then to Nova Scotia. Born 22 July 1760, married in NB at age 16 to Charles Skinner, native of Connecticut. Leaves 8 sons, 7 daughters, 113 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren. Late W. A. Chipman was a brother-in-law. Edward Manning and George Dimock sons-in-law. Rev. I. E. Bill married a granddaughter.”

From the Ada Evening News, February 27, 1927: « Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Le Baron of McAlester are week-end guests in Ada of Mr. and Mrs. F J. McFarland and Miss Ethylene McFarland of the Harris hotel. Mrs. Lebaron is an aunt of Miss Ethylene. »

From the Ada Evening News, June 15, 1927.
 Mrs. H. R. Haas of Sapulpa, Mrs. Pearl Andrews and children, Laura, Grace and Mary of Tulsa, are guests of Mrs. Haas’ sister and Mrs. Andrews’ aunt, Mrs. F. J. McFarland and Mr. McFarland of the Harris hotel.

From the Ada Evening News, September 9, 1927.
 Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McFarland of the Harris hotel left overland today for Sapulpa and Tulsa where they will be week-end guests of relatives and friends.
 Mrs. Pearl Andrews left today for her home in Tulsa following a short visit in Ada with her aut, Mrs. F. J. McFarland of the Harris hotel.

From the Ada Evening News, February 20, 1928.
 Mrs. Pearl Andrews, of Tulsa, spent the week-end in the city visiting as guest of her aunt, Mrs. F. J. McFarland, of the Harris Hotel.
 Mrs. H. R. Haas, returned to her home in Sapulpa following a week-end visit in Ada as house guest of her sister, Mrs. F. J. McFarland at the Harris hotel.

From the Ada Evening News, June 14, 1928.
 Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McFarland of the Harris Hotel have as their house guests Mrs. McFarland’s sister, Mrs. Ella Graham and daughter of Florida, and her niece, Mrs. Pearl Andrews and daughter of Tulsa.

From the Ada Evening News, June 15, 1928.
 Mrs. Ella Graham and daughter, Miss Ruth, left today for Tulsa following a visit in Ada as guests of Mrs Graham’s sister, Mrs. F. J. McFarland and Mr. McFarland of the Harris hotel. They are enroute from their winter home in Florida to their Michigan summer home. Miss Ruth Graham is Queen of the Ponce de Leon celebration, which is an annual event in Florida, and wille rule over the festivities for four years.
 Mrs. Pearl Andrews and little daughters, Misses Grace and Mary, left today for their home in Tulsa after visiting Mrs. Andrew’s aunt, Mrs. F. J. McFarland. Miss Grace and Miss Mary, who attend school at the Sacred Heart convent near Konawa, joined their mother here.

From the Dixon Evening Telegraph (July 23, 1949) — Mr. and mrs Richard Fay, Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hollewell and sons, Milledgeville, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton D. Hollewell in observance of their wedding anniversary and the seventh birthday of their grandson, Gary Lee Hollewell. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kelley and Mrs. Ruth Kelley, Rockford, were afternoon callers at their home.

From the Gastonia Gazette, February 18, 1964.
Youth’s Driving Permit Revoked
A Gastonia youth surrendered his driver’s permit today in Municipal Court until Dec. 1, rather than face a prison sentence on a charge of reckless driving.
City Police Office J. W. Russel said he and Officer D. L. Rhyne said they chased David Arnold Blackburn, 19, of 1007 E. Sixth Ave., from Cox Rd., to Grier School.
Russell said he first heard Blackburn coming down the road at a very high rate of speed. He said Blackburn hit a ditch and his car left the ground and leaped about five or six feet into the air and came to rest about five feed from a utility pole.
Judge Oscar Mason told Blackburn he could surrender his driver’s permit and report to court Dec. 1, 1964 and show he had been of good behavior or else he would sentence him today.

From the Sarasota Journal, Apr. 3, 1970.
Blackburn Loses Car Second Time Around
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — David Blackburn managed to stop his car at a railroad crossing two weeks ago as a train was passing, and lost only his headlights. At the same crossing, Wednesday, police said, a train hit his car again, this time broadside, demolishing the vehicle. Blackburn, 25, again escaped unharmed.

From the Iowa City Citizen, November 24, 1909 :
Adam Gill was born in Homburg, Germany, in 1828, and came to America in 1854, landing in New York City, where he remained until 1855. While there he met Jacob Hötz Sr., the father of our present alderman. Mr. Gill and several others were considering locating in the west and Mr. Hötz informed them that he was going west. They therefore concluded to wait until they could have a report from him as to the prospect. After reaching Iowa he wrote to them to come, and in 1855 Mr. Gill came to Iowa City and has since resided here. He was married in 1857, and has three sons and two daughters, his wife having died thirtheen years ago. Mr. Gill was a tailor by trade and for many years followed that occupation. In 1866 he opened a restaurant and conducted it until 1884. He is one of the most active members of the German Aid society, taking a keen interest in its affairs. He has held offices in the organization at various times and always very efficiently. He was elected president a number of times during the period of his fifty years of membership.

From the Saint John Sun, Aug 17, 1909 : FAMILY REUNION HELD ON SATURDAY — Fifty Four Gather at Mrs. Straight’s. Cambridge, Queens Co. – Some Members of Family Away From Province 30 Years.
 A very pleasant gathering was held Saturday at the residence of Mrs. Amos Straight, Cambridge, Queens, when the children, grand-children and great-grandchildren, to the number of 54, met to celebrate her 78th birthday. Mrs. Straight is still enjoying the best of health and received many congratulations and valuable gifts. There were present at the gathering five sons and five daughters. They were Mrs. J. A. and Mrs. D. B. Black of St. John, Mrs. R. Mott of Central Cambridge, Mrs. W. Akerley of Portsmouth, and Jennie, at home. Dr. George M. Straight of Winchester, Illinois, Edward M. of St. John, John Malcolm and William of Cambridge. Two sons were absent, Amos of Jacksonville, Illinois, and Fred of Louisiana, Missouri.
 Dr. George Straight, accompanied by his wife and daughter, has been spending the last six weeks at his home on the Washademoak after an absence of 30 years and will leave on Friday next for his home in the middlewest.

From the St. Charles Journal (Oct. 20, 1966): Marine Privates Robert Schierding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Schierding, 502 S. Sixth and Phillip Skinner son of Mr. and Mrs. Armour Skinner, 1100 N. Second, were graduated from recruit training at the Marine Corps Base, San Diego, Cal.

From the Fredericton Head Quarters, April 2, 1856 – At the commencement of the Massachusetts Medical College, Boston, 12th ult., the degree of M.D. was conferred upon John SKINNER a native of Wickham parish (Queens Co.) We believe this gentleman was formerly a student at the Baptist Seminary in this city.

From the Saint John New Brunswick Courier, May 18, 1856 – We insert below a certificate from the celebrated Dr. Dix relative to the professional abilities of Dr. SKINNER a native of this Province who has been for some time studying in the United States and who has lately returned to exercise the duties of his profession in this city.... “Dr. John SKINNER having for nearly four years been conversant with certain branches of Surgical practice and passed one year at Tremont Medical School in this city, has for two years past been an attentive and intelligent student in my office. He has graduated with Honor in the Medical Department of Harvard University and I consider him to be fully competent in general medicine and surgery and also diseases of the eye and ear.” (signed) John H. Dix, M.D., Boston 12th April 1856.

From the Halifax Morning Chronicle Mon. July 9, 1866:
Diseases of the EYE, EAR AND HEAD.
Dr. John SKINNER,
Oculist, Aurist, &c.,
Graduate of Harvard University; Fellow of the Mass.
Medical Society, &c. (Central Office, 220 Tremont
Street, Boston, Mass.)



Source: The Medical register for New England v.1, 1877 — John Skinner, MD, 1043 Washington Street.

Source: The Harvard Medical School v. 2, Lewis Publishing, 1905. p. 1655 — John Skinner, practices in Roxbury.

Source: Medical Communications, Massachusetts Medical Society, 1913 — John Skinner, of Roxbury.

From the Robertson Family Bible NOTE:......
Henry(Hervey) ROBERTSON b 4 Oct 1768
Elizabeth F.((LOGAN)) ROBERTSON 25 Apr 1774....
Judith b 18 Jul 1799
Thomas b 18 Jul 1801
Milly b Mar 1 1803
Benjamin b 2 Dec 1805
Anthony b 1 Jan 1809
Cornelius b 14 May 1812
Harvy b 19 Sep 1814
George b 8 Mar 1817
Lucinda b 28 Oct 1819......

1810 Federal Census Amherst Co VA page 285, female 1784-94.

BIRTH: Marilyn L KIDD 390 East 7th South Logan UT 84321; corres dated 19 Sep 1996; NOTE: Elizabeth LOGAN b abt 1774.

CORRES:dated 11 Dec 1999 from Mrs Betty SMITH 529 Old Hwy 70, Rockwood TN 37854; to Mr.ROBERTSON; NOTE: ...very pleased to receive your phone call and look forward to sharing the ROBERTSON family history. Enclosed are copies of pages from the ROBERTSON Family Bible which my grandmother gave to me many years ago... small piece of paper tucked into it contains the names: William SMITH...and John FILYOW..knows not how they connect to the family...
1861
[Elizabeth F. ROBERTSON(LOGAN) died the 21st May 1852 AL
Mr. William SMITH Was Bornd in the year of juble 1729
John FILYOW Was Bornd in the years of jubley 1728].

From the Saint John Messenger and Visitor, November 5, 1890 : m. At home of the bride, Oct. 20, by Rev. A.B. MacDonald, Edward M. STRAIGHT / Ella E. COES second d/o Edward COES, all of Cambridge (Queens Co.)

From “Marblehead Community” — December 14, 2000.

Marblehead man not afraid to make waves at sea
By Stephen Decatur, Special to the reporter

 We who live in Marblehead are fortunate to be surrounded by a fascinating universe. But never mind the harbor, the boats, the wonderful architecture and the myriad other things: one of the most important aspects of this town is its people.
Today we meet a man who has demonstrated a wide range of talents: captain of the world’s largest sailing yacht (though it had no masts at the time), friend of one of this country’s great black artists, governor of the island of Guam, resident of Paris every summer, and owner of a good measure of social conscience.
 Carlton Skinner is our man. Born in California and educated at a venerable New England prep school, he now resides in Marblehead. After college he went to work for the Wall Street Journal. Later he almost joined the Republicans in Spain fighting the fascists during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. He decided against it, however, because he disapproved of the behavior of the Communists who had infiltrated the anti-fascist forces allied against Franco. Then along came the beginnings of World War II.
 As a sailor and boat racer, Skinner’s preference was the Navy or Coast Guard. He was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Coast Guard Reserve and ordered to sea as executive officer aboard the cutter “Northland”. Just several months before the Pearl Harbor attack, the “Northland” landed a shore party on the coast of Greenland. Young Lt. Skinner was in command.
 It seems the Nazis had set up a weather station there. We were not at war with Germany at the time, of course, but the United States had very friendly and “cordial” relations with the Danish government in exile. (Denmark had been overrun by the Germans in 1940.) The weather station was captured and put out of operation with no shots fired or casualties.
 Thus ended what could be considered the first land action by U.S. forces in the coming war, although technically we were still at peace. America had by this time become extremely pro-British and extremely anti-German, even to the extent of our warships protecting Britain-bound convoys. In fact, we had several skirmishes with U-boats, including a most serious one when one of our destroyers was actually sunk.
 After a short stint as commander of an LST landing craft, Skinner became captain of the USS Sea Cloud. She was (and still is) an interesting ship, indeed. Officially a U.S. Navy ship, she was manned by the U.S. Coast Guard. Sea Cloud was owned by the cereal heiress Marjorie Post Hutton Davies and her husband, Joseph Davies, the ambassador to the Soviet Union and later to Belgium.
 The ship was the largest privately owned sailing yacht in the world. Built in Germany as a four-masted bark, she’s 316 feet long and displaces 3,600 tons. (She is still active to this day as a cruise ship in the Mediterranean.) Sea Cloud’s masts had been removed, only enough remaining for radio and communication purposes. Armaments were two 3-inch guns, depth charges and a slew of antiaircraft weapons. Her duties were weather and anti-submarine patrols between Greenland, Iceland and Bermuda, with home ports in Boston or Newfoundland.
 USS Sea Cloud was decommissioned out of the service in late 1944. The Navy fixed her up somewhat and returned the ship to Mrs. Davies, along with $750,000 to complete the restoration. The U.S. government had paid $1 per year to use the ship in the first place.
 After the war Sea Cloud passed through several owners, one of whom was Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. When he was assassinated in 1964 she was resold to a consortium which eventually converted her to a cruise ship.
 Long before boarding the Sea Cloud, Skinner had become aware of the terrible waste of manpower and talent in the Coast Guard and Navy. While aboard any ship at sea, African-American seamen were relegated to being stewards waiting upon white officers, or were mess mates or cooks. This was true no matter what a man’s potential and abilities were.
 Not only that, but the unfairness of it all bothered Skinner, now a lieutenant commander. Skinner wrote to many higher-ups in Washington and finally was allowed to experiment with some of his black crew. Men were at last allowed to study and to achieve ratings such as machinist’s mates, quartermasters, gunner’s mates, or whatever their bent may have been.
 Along the way this would mean a further integration between the black and white crews aboard ship. Skinner had “found the artificial distinction between race and color can disappear,” he said.
 One of the stewards aboard Sea Cloud was Jacob Lawrence. Skinner learned immediately that Lawrence was one of America’s great “social realist” painters. Born in 1917 in Harlem, he had already become famous with his narrative and thematic series of paintings telling of the black experience. Using representational imagery and brilliant colors, his works are reminiscent of the mural and wall paintings so popular in the 1930s. Lawrence is particularly noted for his monumental 41 paintings titled “The Migration Series” of 1940-41. Another series portrayed the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
 In keeping with Skinner’s plans to integrate his crew, Lawrence was put to painting the wartime activities of the Coast Guard. Those works served a valuable function in bringing the war to the American public. Many still survive today in museums and private collections.
 Lawrence painted only two portraits. One is of Carlton Skinner and is now at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Incidentally, Jacob Lawrence died this past June at age 82. His memorial service at the Riverside Church in New York City was attended by 2,500 people.
 So it was that the Navy and Coast Guard fully integrated their ships by 1945, due in major part to Carlton Skinner’s efforts. As a result of his leadership, Skinner was asked to be the first post-war governor of the island of Guam in the Pacific.
 Guam had at that time about 30,000 indigenous people, along with thousands of temporary American civilian and military personnel. Guam was a major wartime base in the Pacific during the war. Few problems arose during Skinner’s leadership of the transition from a military to a civil government between 1949 and 1953.
 After that, Skinner worked in the shipping business and for corporations in the eastern United States. Now retired, he appears still to have a lot of salt in his veins. These days he regularly enjoys the best of two worlds: he and his wife divide their time between Paris in the summers and Marblehead the rest of the year.

This is one of a series of occasional articles about Marblehead people, past and present, and their relationship with the sea.

In June 1943 Lieutenant Commander Carlton Skinner’s proposal that the U.S. Coast Guard establish an entirely integrated force eventually led to the commissioning of the first integrated ship in the armed forces, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sea Cloud. Skinner commanded a 200-man crew that included 4 African-American officers and 100 black enlisted men. Decommissioned in November 1944, this ship’s crew helped break down military segregation at sea.
After World War II, he was a public relations officer in the Department of Interior, and was selected by the Interior Department, nominated by the Navy Department and then appointed by the President to serve as Guam’s first civilian Governor. He took the oath of office on September 17, 1949. (Picture1, Picture2 taken during the 50 years celebration).

Belvedere Man Is Appointed to Tourist Commission By Brown
 Cartlon Skinner, of Belvedere, was named today by Governor Edmund G. Brown as chairman of the Tourism and Visitor Services Commision. The Commission, which was created by the 1964 Legislature, has a total of 15 members. Skinner was named as a general public representative to the Commission. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
 “Carlton Skinner, a man of international reputation, is highly qualified for this new post.” the Governor said. “I am proud that the State of California can attract men of his talent, knowledge and ability as our new tourism and visitor services program begins to move into high gear. With an agressive and imaginative program we can help attract new tourist spending in our state and new tourist industries that can provide a major stimulus fo our state economy.”
 A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Skinner presently heads Skinner and Company, a management consultant firm in San Francisco. He was director of the Virgin Islands Corporation and was formerly employed by the United States Maritime Commision. Skinner is a former trustee of the United Seaman’s Service.
 A former governor of Guam (1949-1953), Skinner was appointed by the late President Kennedy as senior commissioner for the United States on the South Pacific Commission. This Commission is responsible for non-selfgoverning territories in the Pacific. He was formerly executive assistant to the President of the American President Lines, and was vice president of the Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation. (source : Sausalito News, 23 Februray 1966)

Nauru Appoints Honorary Consul
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An airline official has been named honorary consul to the United States by one of the smallest independant nations in the world – Nauru. The government of the South Pacific island Monday named Carlton Skinner, 57, as its consul in San Francisco. Skinner is board chairman here of Air Micronesia and the title was given him as a courtesy. Nauru is 1,300 miles north-east of Australia, measures eight miles square, has a population of 7,000 and is rich in phosphates. (source : Charleston Daily Mail, Tuedsay, December 7, 1971).

Sources:
— WorId War II: The Marine Corps and the Coast Guard
— USS Sea Cloud, IX 99, Racial Integration for Naval Efficiency
— Justice on Guam Post-World War II
— The Explorers Club – Northern California Chapter (p. 3)
— Sea Cloud

— Biographical sketch of Mr. Skinner
— Carlton Skinner Appointed Governor of Guam
— Portrait of Carlton Skinner
— Guampedia - Governor Carlton Skinner
— New Coast Guard facility bears Commander Skinner’s proud name, legacy
— Is Your Ancestor on this list?
— The Long Blue Line: Cutters Sea Cloud and Hoquiam
— Flying Into The Eye of The Storm
— In memoriam Carlton Skinner (1913-2004), par Christian Coiffier
— Governor Carlton Skinner


Carlton resided in Alexandria, VA about 1935.

From: What happened to Parson John Ambrose and his family? (Joanne Major, 26 March 2014)

Juliana Catherine Colyear’s background and ancestry deserves to be examined and we make no apologies for going off at a tangent here and recording the story of her ancestors. Her mother was Harriet Bishopp, daughter of Colonel Henry (Harry) and Mrs Mary Bishopp of Sussex with illustrious family connections. Colonel Harry was the youngest son of Sir Cecil Bishopp and Harry’s sister Frances was the wife of Sir George Warren. In the September of 1791, at the age of 22, Harriet had married one Henry Jackson, reportedly an ’eminent solicitor’ and the two had settled down to married life. In 1793 Henry Jackson suffered a paralytic stroke and Harriet added the role of nurse to that of devoted wife up until July 1799 when she met Viscount Milsington at a ball thrown by Lady Charles Somerset. Milsington, or Thomas Charles Colyear, was the eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Portmore, his mother being a daughter of the Earl of Rothes and he had been married to Lady Mary Elizabeth Bertie, only child of Brownlow Bertie, the 5th Duke of Ancaster and heir to a fortune. One child had been born of that union, a son named Brownlow Charles Colyear in 1796 and Lady Mary Elizabeth had died the following year.

The acquaintance between Harriet Jackson and Lord Milsington was renewed the following summer at Ascot Races and Harriet passed Milsington off to her husband and his relations as the suitor of one of her unmarried sisters, a ruse that was totally believed by all concerned. Henry Jackson positively encouraged Milsington to spend time with his extended family, even inviting him to stay at his own house, keen to have a sister in law married to an heir to an Earldom, never thinking he was being cuckolded. Months passed and by the summer of 1801 Jackson was beginning to suspect that something was amiss, the expected marriage proposal to Miss Bishopp not having materialized and he ordered his wife to break off the friendship and not to allow him to visit again. He left it to his wife to decide how to break this news to Milsington. Faced with the prospect of having to break off contact with her lover, Harriet was distraught and there was an added complication. She had a child, one that although recognized as the legitimate child of her husband, had been born since she had begun her relationship with Lord Milsington (she had fallen pregnant before this but it had resulted in a miscarriage). Milsington expressed his wish to look after her and her child and on the 4th August 1801 she ran away from her husband’s house and eloped with her lover. It is not known whether she took the child with her.

Henry Jackson instituted a criminal conversation or ‘crim. con.’ trial against Lord Milsington and this was heard on the 9th January 1802. The Miss Bishopp whom Milsington had supposedly been paying his attentions to did not appear, through reasons of delicacy, and various witnesses were examined. They all expressed surprise at the elopement, having no idea of the attachment and no evidence was produced against Milsington apart from a letter to his ‘beloved’ and ‘adored’ Harriet which was found in a drawer of her desk.

I hope most earnestly very soon to see that my beloved Harriet was not the worse for the expedition of yesterday. I wished very much to have called this morning, to have inquired after her, but thought if I did, I should not have the pleasure of passing the evening with the only woman in the world that I have the smallest attachment to, an attachment so strong and fixed, that nothing in the world can alter. I never can be happy till we live together, with that dear little angel that so resembles the figure of its dearest mother; it makes me quite miserable, the thoughts of leaving town; I cannot bear to be separated from you, my love; I hope it will not be the case; I am sure we could be happy together, and my only study the happiness of you, my adored Harriet, and the welfare of your children. Pray, my love, let me see you to-morrow if it is in your power. I wish very, very much, that we may meet to fix when we shall meet not to part again. Perhaps you will not have an opportunity of reading this before I am obliged to leave you, therefore I will be in Hart-street, at the usual place, at twelve o’clock to-morrow; pray come as soon after as you can; and believe me most sincerely, affectionately, and faithfully, yours ever, M.

Henry Jackson won the case, being awarded £2,000 damages for the loss of his wife’s affections and society, with Milsington having to pay the costs of the case too.

The Portsmouth Telegraph or Mottley’s Naval and Military Journal reported on the 18th January 1802, shortly after the close of the trial that:

Parmesan and prunelloes seem to be exploded in crim.con. fashions. It appeared on a late trial, that Lord Milsington made his way to the heart of Mrs. Jackson by the means of Sandwiches at Ascot Races. The favourite food of the frail fair has changed much since the original apple.

Seven children were born to Lord Milsington and Harriet Jackson, all out of wedlock. Sod’s Law decrees that the only two for whom we can find no record of their birth or baptism includes Juliana Catherine, the one we are most interested in, but we can record her siblings here.

– Mary Ann Colyear, born 6th June 1802 (died a spinster)
– Thomas David Colyear, born 15th May 1805 (died 8th August 1875 at Dekani near Simlar, Lt Col of the 7th Bengal Light Infantry)
– Charles Frederick Colyear, born 12th June 1806 (married Matilda Frances Winsor at St. Marylebone in 1828)
– Martin Thomas Colyear, born 26th May 1807 (sent out a cadet in the East India Co. army c.1822 and died at Dum Dum, Bengal, on the 13th February 1827)
– Elinor Mary Colyear, born 8th July 1808 (married Jerome Francis Edouard Roger in 1829, possibly died 1878)
– Harriet Frances Colyear (married André Libert Romain Viollet, a professor of languages, died January 1888).

It is worth noting that Juliana Catherine stated that she was 27 years old in 1833 at the birth registration of her daughter Emma in Nantes, putting her birth around 1806. It is more likely that she was actually born 1803-1804 and was knocking a couple of years off her age.

There is also an interesting baptism on the 8th September 1814 at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, for a Catherine Marianne Colyear, daughter of Thomas Charles Colyear and Elizabeth Penny, possibly another child by a different mother.

At the time of Milsington’s marriage with his first wife, the heiress of the 5th Duke of Ancaster, a sum of £38,000 had been settled on the couple jointly. Milsington, often to be found at the races in esteemed company, including the Prince of Wales and Sir John Lade, quickly found himself in embarrassed circumstances and had borrowed £10,000 from an army agent, Mr Bruce, signing over to him his interest in various annuities and rent charges.

The Duke of Ancaster duly died in 1809 and left his property (but not his estate or titles) to his only grandson, Brownlow Charles Colyear, the terms of the will stating that Brownlow should receive some of the money when he came of age and the remainder when he reached 25 years. Upon coming into some of his inheritance on his twenty-first birthday, Brownlow agreed to pay some off his father’s debts and obtained a decree against Mr Bruce ordering a reassignment of the interest. Obviously fond of his half-brothers and sisters even though he had grown up at the Bertie estate of Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire, he agreed that £20,000 out of the £38,000 should be put aside for portions for these sisters.

Brownlow never reached his twenty-fifth birthday. He undertook the ‘Grand Tour’ in 1802 and at Gensano whilst on the road to Rome from Naples, armed banditti rushed out from the cover of a nearby wood and ambushed his carriage, murdering his servants and wounding Brownlow by slashing his arm with a sabre whilst they stole a ring from his finger. Leaving the dead behind they took Brownlow into the mountains, intending to hold him to ransom, but he died of his wounds and of shock three days later aged only 22 years. The other occupants of the carriage arrived, destitute of everything they owned, at Rome some days later, claiming that a post of troops on the road, there to ensure the safety of travellers, had refused to help them. Brownlow’s body was taken to Naples and thence on to England where he was buried, at Weybridge, on the 28th July 1819.

Brownlow Charles Colyear had left his father his entire property but he had died before the executory agreements on the settlement for his half-sisters had been carried into effect and this proved disastrous for those half-sisters. The money from the settlement had been invested in funds which were sold and Milsington, by now the Earl of Portmore had allowed his solicitor, Mr Sermon, to receive the proceeds and to pay Mr Bruce what he was owed. Of the £20,000 which had been promised, £19,000 remained in Mr Sermon’s hands and the seven natural Colyear children, of which Juliana was one, claimed their inheritance but the Countess of Mulgrave, the widow of the surviving trustee of the settlement, blocked this.

Juliana’s unmarried sister, Mary Ann Colyear, began a law suit in 1820 on behalf of her and her three sisters to recover this money. Their father, the Earl of Portmore, died in January 1835, after having made a second marriage in 1828 to Frances, daughter of William Murrells, and the legal case was still rumbling on. The Earl seemed to have changed his mind about the provision for his daughters; perhaps it had been a condition of his second marriage for his wife to have a settlement upon her but he now wanted to money to be used for her benefit. His sons were provided for, two having joined the East India Company’s army and Charles Frederick joining the regular army.

From: History of Lincoln, Oneida, and Vilas Counties Wisconsin (source):
Koth, Reinhold F. proprietor of the Winchester Store in Tomahawk, was born at Reeseville, Dodge, Wis., April 20, 1871, son of August and Louise Koth. The parents were natives of Germany who came to the United States in the late 60’s, Mr. Koth after settling in Reesevile being engaged in farming and blacksmithing, having a shop on his farm. There he subsequently died, and his wife, who survived him, passed away at Lowell, in the same, in 1915. She had married for her second husband Carl Rogga, by whom she had a daughter, Dora, who married Charles Railer and lives in California. Her children by August Koth were: Herman residing in Merrill; Edward, in Milwaukee; Anna, wife of John Huebner of Doyelestown, Wis., Reinhold F., of Tomahawk; George, of Des Moines, Ia.; Oscar, of Milwaukee; Martha, wife of August Lass of Milwaukee, and Louis of Gary, Ind.
 Reinhold F. Koth was reared on the home farm and educated in the district school. His summers up to the age of 18 were spent in agricultural employment, and then, in 1889, he left home and coming to Tomahawk began to learn the tinsmith’s trade with Lamb & Moore, for whom he worked for two years. During the next seven years he was in the employ of Axel Olson, after which he engaged in business for himself, starting a tin and plumbing shop, six months later adding hardware to his stock. This place he sold to the Northern Hardware Co. and was their manager for three years. Then he once more started in for himself and has since continued in the business. He carries a complete line of light and heavy hardware, McCormick and Deering farm implements, trucks, tractors, automobiles and accessories, all kinds of building materials, barn equipment, sewing machines, victrolas, clocks, watches, silverware, pipe and fittings, fertilizer and many other things, and is doing a large business. He also owns a plot of ground 300 x 1330 feet, lying close to Tomahawk, which he has platted as Koth’s Addition, and on which this season he will build cottages for rent and sale. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Tomahawk, the Tomahawk Shoe Manufacturing Co. and the Winchester Firearms Co. His fraternal society affiliations are with the Equitable Fraternal Union and the Maccabees. Mr. Koth was married in Tomahawk, April 19, 1896, to Allie Fogerty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Fogerty, long time residents of Tomahawk. Their married life lasted only about 10 years, as Mrs. Allie Koth died in 1906, leaving one son, Lloyd, born in 1898. The latter entered the naval service of the United States in the World War and trained at Great Lakes, where he was stationed. In 1909 Mr. Koth married secondly, at Des Moines, Ia., Louise Boese, whose father died in Germany and whose mothers resides in Iowa.
Transcribed by Susan Swanson, from pages 579 (with picture); History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties Wisconsin; Compiled by George O. Jones, Norman S. McVean and Others 1924, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.

Gary is Fire Chief at the Struthers Fire Department.

Geoff Rigby moved to Nunavut at the age of two, and grew up in Iqaluit. After graduating from Inuksuk High School, he moved south to study at Ottawa’s Carleton University, and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. As Aarluk’s researcher, Geoff provides support and analysis to projects such as the development of training programs, community economic development plans, wildlife management support, data collection and statistical analysis. His personal interest is in the evolution of environmental and socio-economic support programs, two areas he sees as key to the future of the Territory. Twenty years in Nunavut have given Geoff a deep appreciation of the history, culture and environment that define the Territory, and a sense of pride in the work Aarluk is doing to further its sustainable development.

George and Teresa were married by Rev. J. D. Skinner

George Galloway Town (1972): Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, 1996; B.S., M.S., University of Wisconsin.

George graduated from Tri-State College, Angola, Indiana. He started his career electric welding the seams for caissons to be used in the construction of a bridge spanning the Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville, Kentucky. Later he was employed in the drafting department of the American Car and Foundry Co. Payzant history says m. 1935 Napoleon, Ohio.