Harold Lyons Jackons is a veteran of World War I.
Rank: Lieutenant | Unit: 6th Bde HQ (2nd DS Co) | Service: Army | Award: Mention in despatches. 

HAROLD “HAL” E. LARSEN (1934 - ) was born in Gowen, Michigan in 1934 and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to paint. His primary medium is acrylic on canvas or paper. His primary material, he will tell you, is “feelings”. Rather than depicting the world in a literal way, he says, “my work is about my feelings about the world.” Harold Larsen places himself squarely in the great Romantic tradition, and we hear an echo of Wordsworth’s dictum that good art arises from the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions. To be sure, emotions are a persistent theme in Larsen’s work. But these emotions are never simply vented or unleashed upon the canvas. Instead, Larsen allows color, form and line to accumulate gradually, often layer upon layer. We are given a sense of inner exploration and discovery rather than eruption.
 Even when one mood or thought seems to dominate the surface, there is always the suggestion of much more lying underneath, hints of things half-buried, half-awakening, a mix of memory and desire, sometimes, quiescent, sometimes almost playful. In both subject and technique, Larsen shows strong affinities to major Abstract Expressionists and their precursors (he has a special affection for the Fauves). Equally profound influences can be found in the physical environment of Santa Fe, where Larsen has lived and painted for nearly 30 years. Even at his most abstract, he gives us unmistakable glimpses of northern New Mexico’s gorgeous light and air, its vast spaces and expanses of color, its sensuous curves and its sudden angularities. Harold Larsen’s work is represented in international, national and regional museums, as well as in notable private and corporate collections. It has been the subject of articles and chapters in a variety of arts publications over the past three decades.

Larsen family’s paintings created from desert’s colors, light
By Nisha Pulliam (Palm Beach Post Staff Writer) — The Palm Beach Post, Feb. 13, 1988.
Looking for a change of scenery? Go to the Hobe Sound Gallery to take in an exhibit of geological landscapes, paintings and pottery by a husband, wife and daughter team.
Hal, Fran and Kristen Larsen moved to New Mexico in 1976 for the very same reason – a change in scenery – and they haven’t tired of the desert and its Indian inhabitants yet.
It influences their work, though each has a distinct style.
“The land is so vast. I couldn’t contain it all in one piece,” said Hal Larsen, who puts his landscapes on triptychs. “Three pannels seemed so appropriate.”
“Ever since college I was intereseted in meso-American Indian cultures... this thing that happened in America,” his wife, Fran, said. “That’s why we moved to New Mexico in 1976. It’s something that is part of the spirituality of the area.”
“... I was doing architectural detail drawings in black and white and, at one time, Fran said she wouldn’t paint it if it didn’t go with brown,” Larsen said and laughed. “Now both of us have become colorists.”
The Larsens’ daughter, Kristen, a former Miss New Mexico, is a potter. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe during a summer session, the only time the school is open to non-Indians.
What makes the desert so special, artistically? [...] 

Harry Leo Bloser and Ida Dunn Bloser lived on the Chase estate, Highfields, on Highbridge Rd. by 1930, having lived earlier at 315 Whittier Ave. in Syracuse. Mr. Bloser was born 7-15-1885, and the couple wed about 1907. Mr. Bloser worked earlier as a machinist for the Continental Can Co. While living in Lyndon, however, he was a chauffeur and later a maintenance worker for the Precision Castings Co. Mrs. Bloser was born in Constantia, about 1889, and was a dressmaker. She also taught adult education classes in sewing for the Syracuse school district. Mrs. Bloser died on 3-12-1957. and Mr. Bloser died in December, 1969.
 Their children: Bernard Duane Bloser, who was born about 1909, graduated from Syracuse University in 1931 with a degree in engineering, wed Florence Grann about 1935, worked 42 years for the Continental Can, lived in Sandy Springs, GA, at his death on 11-4-1997, and R. Arabelle Bloser, who was born about 1913, married Foster Applegate, and lived at 101 Revere Rd. in DeWitt. (Source: Residents of Lyndon, NY, circa 1940-1960) 

Harry M. Bosselman | Worcester Co., Mass. | U.S. Army | Killed in Action 

Hartwell Blake knows daughter is in deep in Iraq
By Paul C. Curtis - TGI Staff Writer (April 10, 2003)

 Imagine how Hartwell Blake must have felt when he stumbled into the kitchen to make coffee one recent Sunday morning, clicked on the TV and heard that a U.S. Army maintenance company that included a woman had been captured in Iraq. His daughter, 1st Lt. Courtney Blake Sugai, is in an Army maintenance company in Iraq.
 "My heart hit the floor," he recalls. "I was hoping for the best, imagining the worst," and began to understand the feelings of family members of those killed in action, missing in action, or prisoners of war.
 The captured soldiers turned out to be from a unit other than Sugai’s, but her unit has had its share of close calls, too, said Blake, a former county attorney.
 "Initially, I tried to be fatalistic about it," knowing that his daughter and other soldiers are well-trained and well-armed, and that whatever happens happens, said Blake, 58.
 And that was working until he heard that a maintenance company had been captured. Sugai’s company is a maintenance unit, supplying drinking water, fuel and other supplies to the soldiers closer to the front lines, whom Blake calls "the trigger-pullers."
 Her 101st Airborne group is west of Baghdad, near the newly renamed Baghdad International Airport. The last time father and daughter talked, she told him she was in Iraq, but couldn’t tell him where. She told him to watch CNN and they’d tell him where she is, he said. Blake replied that if the cameras ever pan her way, shoot him the shaka sign so he’ll know it’s her. Sugai says, "We’re very, very careful about security," something that doesn’t necessarily give her father a secure feeling. Especially when he tells her that folks on Kaua’i are asking about her and praying for her safe return, and she replies, "I know, we’ve had some real, real close calls."
 Blake said he’s not sure if that’s good news or bad news. The father is also thankful for those prayers, "because that’s something you can’t have too much of," he said. In fact, Blake, who has never seen himself as particularly religious, starts his mornings with prayers not only for the safety of Sugai, but for friends here and elsewhere who also have children fighting a war. It hasn’t been all intensity for Sugai, who with some of her fellow soldiers posed for pictures with Geraldo Rivera a day before he was asked to leave Iraq.
 Sugai, a Kaua’i High School graduate who used to dance hula with Kumu Kapu Alquiza’s Na Hula O Kaohikukapulani, was born and raised on Kaua’i. Her mother is Rosemary Blake, now of Florida. Sugai’s husband, 1st Lt. Iven Sugai, is a native of Ewa Beach, O’ahu, and could be on his way to Iraq now to rejoin his unit, after finishing U.S. Army Ranger training.
 She has been sharing a tent with a French journalist embedded with her unit, and was able to borrow her satellite phone to call Blake in Koloa. He said the connection was better than most on-island connections, calling it "crystal clear." An e-mail he received from his daughter this week gives insight into one soldier’s view of the war. "My goal is to get my soldiers and myself home safe," she said. "Today I reflected on why we are here. It finally sunk in that I am not just here because I was ordered to come here," she said. "I actually realized that I want to he here to help the people in this country have a better life and rid them of this corruption and cruelty." She also said she is thankful to be able to continue the Blake tradition of serving in the armed forces. Her father fought in the Army in Vietnam, she has a brother in the service and other generations of Blakes were soldiers as well. At a Sunday church service, "I prayed that we, the soldiers, remember why we are here, and to remember to be selfless in our service to our country and to the world," she said. She also asked Blake to forward her e-mail to her friends, and thanked all those who have sent letters, care packages and other signs of support. When her unit deployed from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, she told her father, "I don’t want to go, but it’s my duty."
 Some of Sugai’s experiences, of frustration at not being able to keep the front-line troops supplied as well as they and she would like, reminded Blake of some of his similar experiences in Vietnam. So, he told his daughter to remember and reward those who helped her get supplies into the hands of the fighting soldiers. While some items are like gold, even sharing arare or Kaua’i Kookies with those who helped her will leave a lasting impression on the receivers of those goodies, Blake said. Finally, Blake took the interview opportunity to commend The Garden Island for telling the stories of Kaua’i war families. The newspaper articles put names and faces on the conflict, he said. "If any of these people don’t come back, or are horribly wounded, or missing in action, they shouldn’t just be some nameless, faceless statistic," he said. "People should know who these Kaua’i people are who didn’t come back, or didn’t come back whole."
 Staff Writer Paul C. Curtis can be reached at mailto:pcurtis@pulitzer.net or 245-3681 (ext. 224). 

He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1895. At some point, he moved to Clinton, IA. He married Josephine Elliott in Sterling (b. 1883, d. 1936); uncertain about date of marriage. They lived in Clinton for awhile, then moved to Oregon (Portland, Eugene, Roseburg), where they lived until 1917 before returning to Sterling (1917-1921). 

He died as he finished college 

He died in 1819 at Rome, Italy, from injuries received in a fight with bandits. 

He died in infancy. 

He died in the late war at Andersonville Prison in 1864. (122nd N.Y. Vol. Inf. Reg. - see here) 

He died in the service during the Civil War. (122nd N.Y. Vol. Inf. Reg. – see here) 

He died unmarried. 

He graduaded from Maine University in 1902 (Electrical & Computing engineering). 

He graduated from Maine Township High School in 1960, and from DePauw University in 1965. He then served two years as a captain in the U. S. Air Force, stationed at Watertown, NY, before moving to Columbia, MO to attend the University of Missouri, taking a Master’s degree in journalism. In 1965, he married Roberta Sexauer in 1965 in Meadville, PA. They adopted one daughter, Kari Harpham (Rench), 

He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1889 and joined his father’s firm of James Beach & Sons in the manufacture of soap. 

He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894 with a degree in chemical engineering and joined his father’s first of James Beach & Sons in the manufacture of soap. 

He had worked for 30 years with John Horsnell and later with Dorn Keddy, per his obituary. He retired from the G.K. Morse Trucking, Ltd. in 1993. In addition to his wife, children and siblings noted, he was survived by 12 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. 

He is a graduate of Salmon P. Chase Law School (Lawyer). 

He is not married. He lives in New York (Dec. 2000).
 

He lived and worked for many years in Boston, and his wife Ethel, was an accountant 

He lived and worked for many years in Boston, and whose wife Ethel, was an accountant; and Robert Black Skinner, who founded a highly successful construction business in Boston (the First Church of Christian Scientist mother church in Boston and the Central Park Children’s Zoo in New York being prime examples), kept a Park Avenue Penthouse in New York, and a hobby farm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He married twice and had two children by his first wife, and Raymond McCully Skinner. Raymond was born in River Hebert, N.S. in 1883. He worked for the Boston street railway and took night courses, eventually obtaining a degree in electrical engineering. In 1910 he went to Vancouver, B.C. where he supervised the construction of major hydro-electric power installations for B.C.Electric Co. A member of the Association of Professional Engineers of B.C., he died in the early 1950’s….” 

He never married. 

He saw action in France during the Second World War with the 1st Canadian Paratroop Battalion. He retired with rank of major and remained with the militia for many years. He was employed with the Royal Bank of Canada for thirty years, and then was a partner in Basin Insurance Agency until retiring in 1983. He was a member of St. Peter’s Parish, Dartmouth, NS. He was a life long member of Gyro Friendship Club, Windsor, Truro and Dartmouth.

Source: http://www.bowlbyfamily.org/ancestor/d4334.htm:
ALL SET FOR HIS FIRST LEAP is Canadian Paratrooper, Sgt H.R. Bowlby, Yarmouth, N.S. After five jumps he will get his wings. Major Harold R. Bowlby – World War II Veteran
Prologue — Rather than singling out one individual who has made a contribution to our Country, I have chosen to do this project on a group of individuals. This group is all the men and women who served in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War. The person I have chosen to represent this group is Major Harold R. Bowlby, 1st Canadian Paratroop Battalion – Royal Canadian Army – my grandfather.
I was born on September 12, 1917 in the small village of Wilmot in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Here, I grew up on our family farm with my parents, a younger brother and sister, Arthur and Marian, my grandmother and great grandmother. Life seemed great to me even though there were chores, long hikes to school, hand-me-down clothes, and none of the luxuries of life that we have today for work or play. The farm provided us with plenty of good food, including vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat, milk products and honey. This helped our family get through the depression years. School work was a cinch for me and I graduated with honours in 1934 to take up a career in banking with the Royal Bank of Canada.
The out break of World War II in 1939 changed all that. Shortly after this, I resigned from the bank and enlisted in the West Nova Regiment. After completing basic training, I awaited orders to go overseas to England. About this time, volunteers were requested to form Canada’s first ever paratroop battalion. I volunteered among the many and was the second man chosen in Canada to form this battalion. We did initial jump training with the American Army in Fort Benning, Georgia. We then were qualified as instructors and returned to Camp Shilo, Manitoba to instruct other Canadian soldiers.
Our unit arrived in England in July of 1943 and began a long series of advanced combat training. During a training jump in England in late 1943, I had a horrifying experience – my parachute did not open and I thought I was a goner. However, a short distance from the ground, my secondary chute partially opened enough to break my fall. I was laid up in hospital for awhile. After my release from the hospital, I jumped again and transferred to the British Intelligence Service and spent the next few months learning to become a spy.
In early June, 1944, shortly before the D-Day Invasion, in the dead of night, I parachuted into France. part of my mission was to make contact with the French Resistance to establish escape routes for troops of the invasion. With a cyanide capsule drilled and embedded into one of my teeth, I had orders to bite should I be caught by the enemy. It would serve no purpose to discuss any further details of my mission into France. I was merely doing my duty as were hundreds of thousands of other Canadian service men and women. I was luckier than many and was able to return home following the was.
But I did not return home to the same Canada that I left. What was a very young and immature country was now a place of hope and prosperity; it was a land of people who were proud to have stood on their own feet for the first time in history. We had declared war ourselves and fought with the Allies with distinction and honour for freedom. My comrades and I were proud to contribute to this change. We no longer took freedom for granted. 

He served, during the Civil war in the 122nd N.Y. Vol. Inf. Reg. (see here) 

He settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1881 where he engaged in the soap making business. He later became involved in a Minneapolis quarry. He returned to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1918 and joined his father’s firm of James Beach & Sons. (Source: Family genealogy of Richard Beach as researched by Eugene H. Beach, Jr.) 

He was a Baptist Minister. He lived his life in Pennsylvania.

American Baptists in Mission: The Rev. Newton E. Woodbury, American Baptist Churches USA treasurer from 1977-1981, died March 31. He was 83. Woodbury also held national denominational responsibilities as budget advisor in the Office of the Treasurer (1968-1977) and executive director of American Baptist World Mission Support (1959-1968). He previously served on the staff of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention as director of Town and Country work and World Mission Support field counselor. 

He was a blacksmith (US 1910 census) 

He was a carpet merchant in Saint-John (1881 Canadian census) 

He was a Civil Engineer, City of Pittsburg; no children.

Head of Dept of Public Works in Pittsburgh and died before the start of his 4th term, whose foremost achievement was the acquisition of Schenley and Highland Parks for the city. Known as the father of the city’s parks system in Pittsburgh, the city erected a statue of Mr. Bigelow in Schenley Park while he was living (by Giuseppe Moretti, 1895) which was an extremely rare honor! He was very good friends with Andrew Carnegie. Mary Peabody married Edward Bigelow in 1880 and they had no children.

He was appointed Commissioner of the newly formed State Highway Department in 1911 (served 1911-15) by PA Gov. John K. Tener and grew the roads managed from 7,000 to 13,000 miles at a time when the automobile was a novelty, but quickly replacing the horse and carriage as the regular mode of transportation. PennDOT claims more than 41,000 miles today (Sep. 2013). Grant Boulevard was posthumously re-named Bigelow Boulevard in his memory in 1916. 

He was a doctor in Minneapolis, Minnesota 

He was a farmer (US 1920 census) 

He was a farmer and resided in North Berwick, Maine. 

He was a farmer. 

He was a partner in Wheat Brothers, produce, grain and wood dealers in Moravia. (source: Wheat Genealogy, a history of the Wheat family in America). 

He was a physician, specialist in diseases of eye, ear and throat. He came to Hanover in 1893. 

He was a sailor and died unmarried. 

He was a veteran of the World War II (US Navy).
 

He was a well known merchant in Jamestown, NY – (Abrahamson-Bigelow). 

He was an attorney in Pittsburg. 

He was Doctor in Illinois.

From the Saint John Globe, April 9, 1888 : Cambridge (Queens Co.) April 5th, 1888 – Dr. George M. STRAIGHT and brother, of Winchester, Illinois, are now making us a short visit. 

He was foreman in a printing office (US 1910 Census, Maine) 

He was Trapper-shoemaker-farmer. He was called “Black Jim” as was very dark. The homestead of James Parks was visited many times by Harriett Morgan Bissett wife of Charles Bissett and her children, Helen and Charles. It was visited by Audrey Bissett (daughter of Harriett Morgan Bissett) and her daughter Beverly in 1979 and 1981. 

He worked for an organ factory in Boston (US 1880 census). 

Heather is a photographer (www.heathermladek.com). 

Helen graduated from Boston University Medical School (1903). She resided in Dubuque, Iowa in 1935 and furnished information on the family including a number of letters received by her mother in the early 1900’s. 

Her father graduated from Amherst College. 

Herbert graduated from Syracuse University (LL.B.). He was a lawyer in the same town, 1901—. 

Herman Bedak, also known as Chaim Eliazer Bedak, was the son of Leib Bedak and Pesha Gordorovsky. He was probably born in Augustów, Poland (or Letvia). He married Dora Feigel Bialystok, who changed her name to Dora Petenbaum. During the First World War, they took the Turkish nationality, which made it possible them for to emigrate to the Netherlands without difficulty. Herman Bedak worked as a cinema manager in the Netherlands. He worked at Thalia and Alhambra in The Hague, Roxy in Leiden, and Casino and Roxy in The Hague (in that order). 

Herman was naturalized on 24 Jul 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts. The name Kupfer H[erman] is mentioned in successive editions of the Des Moines City Directory:
1877 – Kupfer Emil, cabinet mkr C. & L. Harbach, bds Walnut cor Third.
1877 – Kupfer Herman, cabinet mkr C. & L. Harbach.
1879 – Kupfer H., cabinet maker L. Harbach, r 112 Sycamore
1881 – Kupfer Herman E., cabinet mkr, r 108 Chestnut.
1886 – Kupfer H. E., cabinet maker L. Harbach, r 112 w Chestnut.
1889 – Kupfer Hermann Mrs. r 112 Chestnut

DROWNINGS AT DES MOINES.Des Moines, July 5. — This city furnished her quota of victims to the Des Moines river yesterday, a man and a boy. Late in the afternoon a gentleman by the name of H. E. Kupfer, living at 112 Chestnut street, wend down to the river just below the old mill, accompanied by his two boys. The latter went out wading in the edge of the water. One of them went beyond his depth and the father seeing his danger plunged in to save him. Someone on the bank gave the alarm and Elmer Wickham ran around to the other side of the mill while Col. Olmstead jumped into a boat and rowed up to the dam and pushed over. No one was able to reach the man, and Mr. Wickham having his clothes on was compelled to head for the shore in order to save himself. Mr. Fitzgerald who had followed Olmstead to the bank jumped off to save the boy but was taken with a cramp and his daring effort to save the boy’s life nearly cost him his own. Col. Olmstead and Mr. Griffiths got the boy out before he went down for the last time and the colonel returned with Messrs. Hartley and Wickham and picked up Mr. Kupfer. They took him ashore and done all they could but life was extinct. Mr. Kupfer was about 30 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. (Source: Atlantic Daily Telegraph, July 6, 1888.) 

His lifetime career as a printer took him and his family to Albuquerque, NM and later to Lubbock where he formed his own printing business, STR8s Fotographix, staying there until his retirement. He had been a resident of Amarillo for the past 14 months.