tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3440798863689461782024-03-13T00:42:43.095-07:00Lanaii The Family HistorianLanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-38340311468192394162018-10-27T20:14:00.000-07:002018-10-27T20:14:40.085-07:00Reading a Death Certificate<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have read many death certificates as a part of my family history research. Often times I found numbers written by hand in the margins and in the middle of the page. I just assumed that they were some codes used in filing the death certificates so I did not pay much attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I was looking at a death index from the State of New York. One of the columns was labeled "cause of death." The contents of that column were all numbers. The numbers were mostly 3 digits long. Being curious as to the cause of death of a relative, I was curious what those numbers meant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is an international classification of diseases (IDC) that has been in existence since the early half of the twentieth century. It has been revised over the years and is now replaced with a different coding system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I revisited the images of death certificates that I have. My great-grandmother's death certificate was one of the first at which I viewed. Her name was Anna Stevens Stoutenburg so it was near the top of the list of files. She died in 1955. Since I remember visiting her and the dresses she made for me, I was hoping that I would find a handwritten number somewhere on her death certificate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the left margin were written three numbers, one on top of the other. They were 277, 270, and 99. None of these numbers in the 1948 revision of the IDC fit with her cause of death. It is written on her death certificate that she died of a cerebrovascular accident, i.e., a stroke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found 270 also written in the part of the form that gives her usual residence. Next to the name of her spouse, I saw written 331X. In the IDC, 331 is the code for cerebrovascular accident. Now I knew what the cause of death of the distance New York cousin.</span><br />
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Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-3703202575393006942018-05-02T20:43:00.000-07:002018-05-02T20:44:23.927-07:00I was briefly a Boy Scout<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is changing its name to Scouts of America. The BSA has seen a gradual decline in its membership. The organization experimented with allowing girls to join in their younger program (7-10 years old). It was a success and the boys in this age group did not have a problem with girls in the organization. <span style="font-family: "arial";">As a former marketing executive the decision by the BSA made complete sense to me for an organization that wants to survive.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">American Express and Wells Fargo are companies that transformed themselves in order to survive. Both of these companies that are well-known in the financial section started out as wagon freight and passenger companies. These companies were threatened by the emergence of the transcontinental railroad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It looks like the BSA is also trying to transform itself somewhat in order to survive. It is no surprise that the Girl Scouts of America is having issues with the BSA's decision as the organization sees the BSA as potentially taking away potential members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Change is hard for many. I remember when my church replaced the hymnals that included the order of service. I had memorized every part of service and then this new hymnal changed a lot of chanting portions. I suddenly felt as if I had come to a new place. I adjusted and thankfully I have been able to adjust to other changes that have happened in my church over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>So when was I a boy scout...</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was in high school in the 1960s. I wanted to be a doctor. I discovered a club at my high school. It was called Medical Explorers so I joined. More girls joined than boys. We went on several trips to the Orange County Medical Hospital. At some point, the Boy Scouts of America discovered that it had a troop of more females than males. That was when I lost my status as a Boy Scout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-85040060877955915042017-10-17T21:06:00.002-07:002017-10-17T21:06:46.092-07:00Trip to Washington and Freemasons<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent several days in Washington, D. C., last week and visited war monuments and museums. The first war monument that I visited was the World War II Memorial because my father was a proud veteran of that war. Unfortunately, he did not live long enough to see the memorial come to reality. As I walked around the memorial, I encountered a few veterans that were visiting the memorial in wheelchairs. They were there because of the Honor Flight Network.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There was a small monument dedicated to the residents of Washington DC who lost their life in World War I. It had inscribed the names of every Washington DC resident who died in that war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Then, I came across the Korean War monument. I was captivated by this monument. Unlike the other monuments, this monument was full of statues of men who looked as if they were in the middle of a march. I felt that a monument like this would have been a better monument to honor the military men of World War II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The last war monument that I visited was the Vietnam veterans' memorial. Like the Washington DC WWI memorial to its dead, recorded the names of all of its dead. Although I am glad that there is a monument to those who died in the Vietnam war, I would have like it to be like the Korean War memorial. I found the name of one of my classmates on that wall.<em> </em>I found myself choked with emotion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The next day, I went to the Portrait Gallery and the Holocaust Museum. As I viewed the portraits of our presidents. I found myself looking at their eyes. I have blue eyes but had learned at some time that blue eyes are recessive. As I looked at these portraits, I was struck by the number of blue eyed presidents. The majority of our presidents had blue, gray-blue, gray and hazel eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Then, I visited the Holocaust Museum. I had no idea that Hitler also targeted freemasons. Fourteen of our presidents were freemasons and 14 of our vice presidents were freemasons. Our founding father, George Washington, was a freemason. But the most chilling moment that I took away from my visit was how much our president's rhetoric sounds like Adolph Hitler.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-37787487557142459192017-08-27T21:26:00.000-07:002017-08-27T21:26:51.881-07:00Britton or Button<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My great-great grandfather was William B. Stoutenburg. I did not know what the initial B represented. Then about 20 years ago, I came across family trees on the Internet that gave William B. a middle name. That name was Britton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As the years passed and I continued my research, I began to think that Britton made no sense to me. It wasn't Britain to honor the British colony in which Luke Stoutenburgh and Elizabeth Case settled about 1800.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So who was Britton? After perusing over many records, I could find no connection, strong or loose, to someone named Britton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">William's uncle Martin was married to Sarah Elizabeth Button. She was the daughter of Major John Button, the founder of Buttonville, York County, Ontario, Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">John Button and his wife married in Dutchess County, New York and moved to Canada in 1799. Button's wife was a Quaker. Such a coincidence! Luke Stoutenburg's wife, Elizabeth Case, was also a Quaker living in Dutchess County and moving to Ontario about that same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">John Button and his family lived in Markham Township at the same time that Luke Stoutenburg and his family were living there. John Button was a war hero in Upper Canada (Ontario Province). As I pieced these events and dates together, I was convinced that William B. Stoutenburg was not William Britton Stoutenburg but William Button Stoutenburg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I had not found any record in which William B. Stoutenburg's full name was recorded. That is until now. William Button Stoutenburg applied for a land grant in Alberta, Canada. His son, Dill Stoutenburg, applied for a delayed birth certificate in which he named his father, William Button Stoutenburg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As an aside Dill was born James Scott Stoutenburg. James at some point decided to be known as Dill James Stoutenburg.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-70722141253917048392017-03-10T20:28:00.001-08:002017-03-10T20:28:35.330-08:00The Money Never Came - A Scam from 1907<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scams and swindles are nothing new. They have been around as
long as mankind has existed. I came across an article that was printed on July
31, 1907 in the Detroit Free Press. The article appeared on Page 6 and was
titled, “MAY INHERIT $15,000,000.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Per the article, “Hiram Stoutenberg” received a letter from
a New York lawyer, “Walter G. Elliott,” indicating that he and his siblings may
equally share in millions of dollars. I would love to see what that letter said
because I found several the statements in the article to be untrue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter Graeme Elliot was the husband of Maud Stoutenburgh, a
descendant of Jacobus Stoutenburgh. She also was one of the founders of The
Stoutenburgh-Teller Family Association, Inc., established in 1942. Maud’s direct
ancestors remained in or near the Hyde Park area while Hiram Stoutenburg’s
ancestors left Dutchess County, New York about 1800 and settled in Canada near
Toronto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter Elliot, on behalf of his wife, drafted the
Stoutenburg Circles (descendants of Pieter Stoutenburg) that was published in
1916. He was an engineer and not a lawyer. I found it curious that the article
reported that it was a letter from Walter. I don’t know precisely when the
project to find the descendants of Pieter Stoutenburg was initiated, but it was
at a time when letter was the most frequently method of communicating with
distant places.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hiram may have received a letter from Walter Elliot, but it
would not have been to inform him that he was an heir to millions of dollars
because the property was leased to the Frederick Vanderbilt many years ago. The
article does not indicate why Hiram and his siblings might be heirs to the Hyde
Park property. It does not say that the alleged lease has expired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that is immaterial because Frederick Vanderbilt
purchased the property in Hyde Park on which he built his mansion in 1895. He
did not lease the property. The property on which the Vanderbilt estate was
built was owned by Samuel Bard by 1799. Jacobus Stoutenburgh did own a large
tract of land in Dutchess County in which the downtown area of Hyde Park would
have been located. However, he divided his property among his children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One last point, Hiram’s great-great grandfather, Jacobus
Stoutenburgh, did not settle in New York when it was known as Amsterdam. The
Dutch colony was New Netherland and on the island of Manhattan was New
Amsterdam. By the fall of 1664, the English had taken control of the Dutch
colony and called it the Province of New York and New Amsterdam, New York City.
Jacobus Stoutenburgh was born in New York city in the Province of New York. He
had settled at Dutchess County about 1742.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hiram was probably very disappointed to learn that he would
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Port Huron, Mich., July 30.—Shades
of Aladdin’s lamp! Just imagine being one of eight heirs to an estate of
$15,000,000. Hiram Stoutenberg (sic), farm hand and machine shop employe,
declares he has received a letter from Walter G. Elliott (sic), a prominent New
York lawyer, informing him that such a windfall may come his way. The lawyer
says the property was leased to the Vanderbilts many years ago by Jacobus
Stoutenberg, Hiram’s great-great-grandfather settled in New York when it was
known as Amsterdam and bought up 1,500 acres of land, part of which comprises
the vast estate to which he may be an heir. Most of the property is in the
downtown section and is extremely valuable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the fortune proves a
reality the following eight Michigan persons will benefit equally: Hiram, (sic)
Stoutenberg, of Port Huron; John, of Port Sanilac; James, of Cedardale; Albert,
of Augres; Jacob, of Prescott; Mrs. Melinda English, of Forestville; Mrs. Mary
Ann Ernest, of Applegate, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hyman, of Port Sanilac.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-91673468971716861242016-10-26T20:34:00.000-07:002016-10-27T21:05:55.408-07:00It is a small world!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many years ago, I had a roommate when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She was born in Switzerland to Chinese parents. Her father was with the UN and held a position as a professor of agriculture at the University of Liberia in Monrovia, Liberia. We lost touch with one another after I moved to Los Angeles and was a student at UCLA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I shared a studio apartment in a cottage of two units. The cottage was one of three cottages on a narrow pathway in the middle of Fraternity Row at UCLA. My roommate was a young woman from Memphis, Tennessee. She was an only child. I was the eldest in a large family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UCLA is situated in the middle of a very wealthy area of Los Angeles. Westwood Village had a number of exclusive shops that were frequented at that time by Hollywood celebrities. My roommate's parents provided her with an allowance that allowed her to shop in these shops. She purchased a dress with a very distinct and vibrant pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One day, as I was sweeping the steps to our studio, a black man passed by on his way to the cottage that housed the men that we called the Black Power People. He had a shirt with the exact pattern in my roommate's dress. I stopped him and told him that my roommate had a dress made of the same fabric. He told me that his mother made him the shirt from fabric that she made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When he spoke to me, I could tell that he was not a native American. His English sounded more like he had learned English in another English speaking country. He was a graduate student at UCLA who earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Liberia. On a hunch, I told him that a former roommate's father was a professor of agriculture at the University of Liberia. It was much further into our conversation that it was apparent that Dr. Ma was this man's thesis adviser when he was working on his masters degree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was many years ago. Recently, I had an online experience that was similar. At the beginning of this year, I happened to see a death notice of a Pam O'Hare. Something about the notice caused me to look at my family tree of my relatives... distance and close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her husband was Dennis O'Hare who is a high school classmate. We were in high school in Orange County, California. Dennis moved to the Bay Area at sometime after he graduated from high school. Apparently, it was there that he met my 7th cousin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dennis' wife was Pamela Lynn Little. Pamela was the daughter of Charles Little and Julia Hurtado. It was through her mother that we are connected. Julia Hurtado was the daughter of Leon Hurtado, Jr. and the granddaughter of Leon Hurtado. Leon Hurtado was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. Leon was the son of Pedro Hurtado and Julia A. Stoutenburg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pedro Hurtado died in Cuba. He had moved his family to Cuba. Some ended up back in the Poughkeepsie area but Leon Hurtado settled in America Samoa for a time. He returned to the US mainland. His daughter, Julia, settled in California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder if Pamela Little realized that she was descended from William Stoutenburgh, whose home is the oldest home in Hyde Park. New York.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-64501948115284540332015-05-30T21:14:00.000-07:002015-05-30T21:14:08.215-07:00Juan Linn, A Street in Victoria, Texas<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A distant relative, John Howland Wood, went to Texas from New York in 1836 to fight on behalf of the residents of Texas who were seeking independence from Mexico. Instead of returning to New York, he remained in Texas and married Nancy Clark, a woman of Irish descent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">John H. Wood's mother was Reformed Dutch and his father was born of Quaker parents. The couple were married by an Episcopalian minister. John was raised in a Protestant community. However, Nancy Clark was Catholic. They were married by a Catholic priest in Texas. His offspring were active in the Catholic church to the point that two of his daughters became nuns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I periodically came across a record in which one of John H. Wood's descendants was living on Juan Linn Street in Victoria, Texas. The first time I saw Juan Linn, I thought it was an odd name for a street. Juan is a name in Spanish and Linn is, it seems, an Irish name. I wondered how a street got such a name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">John H. Wood's children married people with surnames like Sullivan, Mahon, McCurdy, etc., mostly Irish surnames. A little research revealed that Mexico actively recruited the Catholic Irish in the early 1800s. I suspect that the Mexican government was concerned after the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase from Catholic France, a concern that Britain had after the American Revolution when the United States was moving its citizens into the lands to the west acquired by the 1783 Treaty of Paris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Britain had been persecuting the Irish Catholics but also the Irish Episcopalians. At that time the Church of England and the Episcopal Church were not the same. After the close of the American Revolution, the Church of England in the United States and the Episcopal Church were one and the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">John H. Wood must have felt a bit like an outsider as he was settling into his new life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I happened to come across a booklet about the Irish in early Texas and, in particular, a chapter entitled, "The Irish of Victoria." On Page 91, it stated that John J. Linn was one of the most prominent Irishmen in Victoria. He apparently was looked upon in favor by the Mexicans and that did not surprise me as I read the booklet. However, the one item that struck me in the booklet was that he was the son of a college professor who was involved in an Irish uprising and fled to the United States. His father settled at Poughkeepsie, New York, obtaining a teaching position by 1800. In 1822, John J. Linn move to New Orleans, then later to Victoria, Texas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was no indication the John Linn's father moved to Texas, so I assume that his father remained in Poughkeepsie during John Howland Wood's formative years. I have no way of knowing if John H. Wood had any association with John Linn's father or other of his family members that might have had an influence on John Howland Wood's desire to fight in the Texas-Mexican War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">According to the Texas State Historical Association, John Joseph Linn was called Juan Linn by the Mexicans. Because he was fluent in Spanish and could communicate between the Mexicans and the Irish settlers, he served a valuable function to the Mexican government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So a this point, Juan Linn Street doesn't sound so strange to me.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-76904965378323227702015-03-26T17:07:00.000-07:002015-03-26T17:07:09.163-07:00Lena Hull Stoutenburg AKA Helena Hull<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I identify people who are related to me, I try to determine who are the parents of a person who became a relative through marriage. One such person is John M. Stoutenburg who was born in New York in 1833. In 1850, John is living with his parents in the Town of Hurley, New York. By 1860, John is head of his own household in Hurley and is married to "Lany".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">According to the 1860 Census, "Lany" was born in New York. However, the 1870 Census records her place of birth as Ohio and she is identified as Lena. John and Lena are also found</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in Hurley in 1880. The 1880 Census indicates that John's parents were born in New York and that Lena's father was born in Ohio, as was she, and that her mother was born in New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to John's obituary, he married Lena Hull in 1856 Although I learned of her maiden name through John Stoutenburg's obituary, I had no idea who her parents were. The first clue was in her obituary. Her parents were not identified other than they were native of New York and that her mother died when she was five years old, about 1843 or 1844.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lena's obituary stated that she was born December 30, 1838 in Ohio and that her parents returned to New York with her when she was about two years old. It also claimed she was brought up by her grandfather, Conrad Elmendorf. Further, the obituary indicated that she spent the early part of her life in Olive Branch, New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first US census that listed all members of a household was taken in 1850. Since Lena would be about 12 years old in 1850, I assumed that she would be living in Ulster County with her grandfather who allegedly raised her. I did find Conrad J. Elmendorf, age 68, residing in the Town of Olive along with his 71-year-old wife, Sally. The household consisted of just the two. The next household in the enumeration was that of Elias Elmendorf and his family. Elias is 42 years old and appears to be a close relative of Conrad Elmendorf. However, Lena was not enumerated in that household either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Next I looked for any male with the surname Hull living in Ulster County who was born in New York about 1810 plus or minus 2 years. I found a 38-year-old Samuel Hull living in the Town of Hurley. The family consisted of 27-year-old Mary, his wife, and six children ranging in age from 3 to 19 years. The oldest four children could not be the children of Mary Hull as she was only eight when the eldest of the four was born and 15 when the youngest of the four was born. So it would appear that Mary Hull was not Samuel Hull's first wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since Conrad Elmendorf was the name of Lena's grandfather, I found it significant that there was a 17-year-old male, Coenradt, included in the household. Further the family included a 12-year-old girl, Hellen. Lena was often a shortened version of Helena or Magdalena. But according to the census record, Hellen was born in New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I then found Samuel Hull and his family living in Olive, Ulster County in the 1855 New York State Census. The three older children in the 1850 Census were not included in the household but Hellen was. She appears as the eldest child in the family. Her name is recorded as Helena, age 16 born in Ohio. Both Helena and Samuel had resided in the community for 15 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1856, Lena Hull and John Stoutenburg were married. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the couple in Hurley, Ulster County, New York in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 US Census. In 1900, Lena and John were living in Sioux Valley Township in Union County, South Dakota. Based on her obituaries and the various censuses in which I found Lena and John, she was born in Ohio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Given the information from the 1850 and 1855 censuses of the Samuel Hull household, I believe that Samuel Hull is Lena's father and that her birth name was Helena Hull. The next step was to identify her mother's given name. I did come across a couple of family trees that included a Mary Elmendorf who was born in 1811 in Kingston, Ulster County, died in 1843 in Hurley and was married to Samuel Bostick Hull. The trees indicate that she was baptized in 1811 at the Shokan Reformed Church in Olive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lena and her parents moved to Ulster County from Ohio about 1840. I found a Samuel Hull in the 1840 Census in Olive. The household consisted of two adults, Samuel as head, a male between 20 and 29 (1811-1820), a female between 20 and 29, presumably Mary Elmendorf Hull. There were 4 children; a male between 5 and 9 (1831-1835), a female between 5 and 9 and two females under 5 (1836-1840). The age ranges of the children correspond to Conraedt (about 1833), Catherine (about 1831), Matilda (about 1835) and Helena (1838).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1850, John Hull was 8-years-old and a member of the Samuel Hull household. Mary Hull could have been his mother as she was about 19 when John was born. But, in the 1855 Census, Mary Hull resided in the community for 9 years whereas 12-year-old John Hull resided in the community 12 years, meaning he was born between 1841 and 1842. Since Lena's mother died between 1843 and 1844 when Lena was five, John Hull's mother and Lena's mother was one and the same person. Samuel Hull married his second wife a year or so after his first wife's death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lena's obituary says that she was raised by her maternal grandfather, Conrad Elmendorf. That details outlined about does not provide any evidence that Lena Hull was living with her grandfather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Locating a copy of the Arthur Kelly book of baptisms at the Shokan church is the next step to connect Mary Elmendorf to both Samuel Hull and Conrad Elmendorf.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-3180847521276573102015-03-21T23:00:00.000-07:002015-04-13T20:29:14.754-07:00Parke Davis Biological Farm<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was looking for information about Morgan J. Smead, who according to one family tree, died in 1913. Instead of finding evidence of his death having occurred in 1913, I found evidence that he was very much alive as late as 1942. Many of his records indicate that he was involved for many years with the Parke Davis Biological Farm in Oakland County, Michigan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Morgan Smead was born in Pavilion Township, Genesee County, New York. His parents and siblings seem to have remained in New York. However, Morgan </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">studied veterinary medicine at Toronto and then settled in Michigan. He married Alice Elizabeth Stevens, the daughter of John Brown Stevens and Angeline Elizabeth Stoutenburg, in Port Huron, Michigan in 1909.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Veterinarian Morgan and his wife, Alice, were living with her parents in Yale, Michigan in 1910. Morgan's father-in-law was a veterinarian. Alice's older brother, Chauncey was not a member of household in 1910. I have not located his whereabouts in 1910 but by 1918 he was working as a veterinarian in Michigan. As it turns out, Chauncey graduated in 1902 from Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada. (<em>The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives</em> Vol. XXIII June 1902 No. 6 Edited by W. Horace Hoskins. Philadelphia: Office of Publication, 1902. Page 381}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Alice's younger brother, Walker, was enumerated with her parents, her husband and herself in 1910. Walker was a student. He apparently was a student in Toronto studying veterinary medicine in Toronto as his obituary claimed that he was the last surviving member of the Class of 1911 of the Ontario Veterinary College in Toronto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Alice and Morgan met due to the fact that her brothers were veterinarians who studied at the same school as had Morgan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Intrigued that someone would think that Morgan Smead had died in 1913 yet there was much evidence that he was living as late as 1942, I tried to come up with an answer. I discovered that Alice and Morgan has a daughter who was born in 1913 and lived only 5 days. The death certificate names her as "infant M J Smead" and says that she died of "fevers Parthenia following a difficult birth." For whatever reason, Morgan and Alice had no children after the death of that 5-day-old daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">As I looked at records concerning Morgan, it was clear that he had a long relationship with the Parke Davis Biological Farm, where he was employed for many years starting only a few years after the farm was established.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Parke Davis Biological Farm was established in 1908 near Rochester, Michigan. According to page 416 <i>History of Oakland County Michigan</i> by Thaddeus D. Seeley, the farm consisted of 340 acres adjacent to the village of Rochester to the east. The Clinton River crossed the farm from the west and the Stony Creek crossed the farm from the north. Stony Creek joined the Clinton River on the farm proper. Morgan and Alice resided on Parkdale Road in Avon Township.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Looking at a 2015 map of Rochester, Michigan, I believe that a portion Bloomer Park is located at the site of the Parke Davis farm. Parkdale Road runs along the northern edge of the park and Stony Creek joins the Clinton River within the bounds of the park. Parke Davis added another 160 acres along the Michigan Central Raiload line to the farm. The site of the JHP Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing off of Parkdale Road is what remains of the Parke Davis Biological Farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I looked at Plat Maps of Avon Township for the years, 1872, 1896, 1925 and 1947. The Parke Davis farm appears in the 1925 and 1947 Plat Maps. In 1872, a C. Parker owned 340 acres at the approximate location of the Parke Davis farm. However, by 1896, the Parker farm was divided and sold to others. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">he History of Oakland County Michigan suggests that Parke Davis & Company purchased a 340-acre farm, not several farms that together formed 340 acres. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I was able to identify C. Parker. as Calvin Parker who was born in New York about 1820. He was living in Avon Township by 1850 when he and his wife, Mary, were enumerated in the census of that year. They owned a farm valued at $2350, which was valued about twice as much as his neighbor's farms. I found Calvin Parker in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses in Avon Township, Oakland County, Michigan. In 1870, his farm was valued at $19,000. So it would seem that Calvin Parker owned a large farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">He died on May 12, 1888 in Avon Township, according a Michigan Death Index. It is likely that his heirs sold the property between 1888 and 1896. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">In 1925, Parke Davis & Company owned 458 acres in the SE quarter of Section 11 and S half of Section 12.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">In 1947, Parke Davis owned about 540 acres in Sections 11-14 with the largest portions in Sections 11 and 12. Bloomer State Park No. 2 was shown on the 1947 Plat Map. The company at some time between 1925 and 1947 acquired 160 acres along the Michigan Central Railroad line. Although I am speculating, it would seem that Parke Davis Company and Bloomer family jointly donated property or the Parke Davis sold land to the Bloomer family to form the Bloomer State Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Now back to Morgan J. Smead...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">He was a Masonic Grand Master from 1950 to 1951 in Michigan. He died in 1962 in Rochester, Michigan.</span><br />
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Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-1240578779647083742014-11-04T19:25:00.000-08:002014-11-04T19:25:47.781-08:00Pieter Stoutenburg the Man<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Every
family has stories about its ancestors. One side of my family is no exception
to this. Several of my ancestors were in North America at the earliest part of
the European settlement. Today, I am writing a post on my blog about just one
of the family stories.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The story
is that rich Pieter Stoutenburg was the first treasurer of New Amsterdam
or the treasurer of the Dutch Colony. Other stories exist that he was treasurer
when the British took control of New Amsterdam and that he had done such a good
job that the British authorities retained him as treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
found this story repeated in books written in the late 19th century and early
20th century. Many of these books were written on the occasion of the 100th
anniversary of a county, state or community and often included genealogies of
the pioneer families. Then I found the same language repeated in genealogical
and biographical magazines. Now, it's repeated in family trees posted on the
Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There
is often some element of truth in most family legends. It's like the game of
telephone. Each time the story is repeated it has little changes. The Pieter
Stoutenburg story is no exception. Pieter Stoutenburg did at one time serve as
a treasurer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some history :</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pieter
Stoutenburg was born in 1613 in the Netherlands, probably in Utrecht Province
based on his surname as there is a Stoutenburg in that province. I have not
found any record of his arrival in New Amsterdam but he was married in 1649 to
Aefje van Tienhoven in New Amsterdam. Tienhoven is a town in Utrecht Province
as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
records in which he is mentioned don't record his name as Pieter van
Stoutenburg. That did surprise me as the only other person in New Netherland at
the time that Pieter was there is Jacobus van Stoutenburg. Jacobus lived near
current day Albany and eventually went back to the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now back to the story:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New
Netherland was established more like a corporate holding than a colony. The
Dutch West India Company appointed members and employees to management roles in
New Netherland. It wasn’t until Pieter Stuyvesant arrived that the Company
assigned a resident of New Amsterdam to serve as a local treasurer on the
Company’s behalf. Wilhelmus Hendrickse Beekman held that position until the
defeat of the Dutch colony in September of 1664.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The British
established a colonial government in New York and appointed a mayor of New York
City. The mayor appointed a city clerk who served the role of treasurer of
the city. Thomas Willit was the first city clerk in New York City. He served
from 1665 to 1668 when Cornelis Steenwyck was appointed. Cornelis occupied that
position until 1671. Thomas Delavall and Matthias Nicoll also served as city
clerk in 1671. John Lawrence was city clerk in 1672.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
Dutch briefly regained control the colony between 1673 and 1674. The
function doesn’t seem to exist in 1673. Sometime in 1674, Johannes Van Bugh, as
Burgomaster/Mayor, served as treasurer of City of New Orange/New York City. New
Orange was the name that the Dutch then gave to the city in honor of the Dutch
House of Orange. That name didn't last long and the British again called the
city New York.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In
1676, the British established the position, “The Treasurer of the City.” Pieter
Stoutenburg was the first to be appointed to that position. He was succeeded by
Willem Bogardus in 1679. So this is probably where the story that he was the
first treasurer of New Amsterdam arose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Since Pieter
Stoutenburg was in his early 60’s when he was appointed Treasurer of the City
of New York, it hardly makes sense that he was the first treasurer of New
Amsterdam let alone the treasurer of the colony.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So what about the rich Pieter Stoutenburg?</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pieter
had small burghers rights. The wealthiest residents or people in the highest positions
within the Company had great burghers rights. Property taxes were based on
ranking of each property as 1<sup>st</sup>
class to 3<sup>rd</sup> class. Owners of 1<sup>st</sup> class property paying the most and those whose property is classified at 3<sup>rd</sup>
class paying the least. Pieter’s property on the various tax rolls was
classified at 3<sup>rd</sup> class.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Given
the tax records, I am not sure that I would call him rich. However, he
certainly was a man of means and standing within the community. He served as
orphan master protecting orphan rights, as guardian to his sister-in-law’s
orphans, as elder in the church, and other roles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To
me, he sounded like a person who cared about the well-being of children, his
community and his civic involvement. Those mean more to me.</span></span></div>
Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-19922201649886227722014-10-29T20:05:00.001-07:002014-10-29T20:05:23.372-07:0045th Anniversary of the Internet<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is the 45th anniversary of the beginning the Internet. It's a little less than 4 hours from the time on October 29, 1969 that my husband successfully accessed a computer at Stanford Research Institute from a computer at UCLA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first time that I recall an acknowledgment of this day in 1969 was in 1999. I began to receive calls at my office looking for my husband because it would be the 30th anniversary of the day on which he was able to connect his computer to another computer in Menlo Park, California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had just graduated in September 1969 from UCLA and my husband-to-be was a graduate student at UCLA. I joined the UCLA Alumni Association as a life member within a year of my graduation. My husband who earned three degrees from UCLA never did. It was my membership of the UCLA Alumni Association the precipitated these calls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Through the influence of my father, I often found myself as the only female in a male dominated area of study, job, etc. I was the only female in my high school physics class. I was a mathematics major at UC Berkeley where I learned ALGOL and FORTRAN 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At UCLA, I joined the Computer Club in which I was one of two or three females during the time in which I was a member. It was at Computer Club that I met Charley. We had dated off and on for almost 3 years. In September 1969, we were at a wedding of an engineering student friend when we decided to become engaged to marry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By 1969, it was clear to me that I was probably going to marry this guy. I was cooking dinner for him four week nights a week. I was including his laundry with mine when I did mine. I was a bit miffed when his clothes were soiled by crawling in the space below the raised floor in that computer room of October 29, 1969.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ira Flatow asked Charley last Friday if he had any idea of what that night meant in 2014. He said that he had no clue. Charley's response it right on. The only thing that I remember of that time was wondering why the ARPA contract couldn't afford to buy Charley coveralls so he didn't harm his clothing while crawling under the floor.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-77631217386710577012014-10-12T19:13:00.000-07:002014-10-12T19:13:08.038-07:00Oldest House in Hyde Park - William Stoutenburgh Home<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Stoutenburgh-Teller Family Association is the proud owner of the oldest house in Hyde Park, New York. The house was built in the latter half of the 18th Century by William Stoutenburgh, son of Jacobus Stoutenburgh, the first settler of Hyde. Park. The area was known as Stoutenburgh and Stoutenburgh Landing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/frdcsb3.html" target="_blank">William Stoutenburgh Home - Photo at FDR Presidential Library</a><br />
Oldest home in Hyde Park, NY</td></tr>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Donations through the years have helped to support the maintenance of this old house. This year this old house needed more maintenance than expected. A member of the Family Association offered to match donations to the Association between now and October 31st up to $25,000. </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If you are a descendant of Jacobus Stoutenburgh, descendant of his grandfather, Pieter Stoutenburg, or a person who loves to preserve pieces of colonial history, please consider sending a contribution, however large or small, to the Stoutenburgh-Teller Family Association, PO Box 365, Lenoir City, TN 37771-0365. Your donation is tax-deductible.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14.39px/15.45px Helvetica, Arial, "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Make the check out to the Wm. Stoutenburgh Historic Homesite and write "Challenge" in the memo area of the check. Although the matching offer expires on October 31, the Family Association is happy to receive donations at any time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My relative, Harry E. Richardson, was married to Frances by 1930. Trying to identify her parents was a challenge. As I dug deeper in, I learned the names of her parents. It wasn't easy because her father seemed to have an identity issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christian Strohm was born 1871-1872 in Michigan. He was enumerated with his parents 1880 in Elmwood Township, Leelanau County, Michigan at the age of 8. His father was born in Wurtemburg, Germany and his mother, in Baden, Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 1900 Census, he was enumerated as Christ Strohm and born in November 1871. He had been married for 2 years at that time. The young couple were living in Elmwood Township.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1910, the family was living in Blair Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. In the 1910 Census, was he recorded as Christopher Srohm (sic) and is a farmer who owns his farm outright. Frances is the youngest child in the household.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the change in his name a bit strange and credited it to the enumerator. But then I found that he was enumerated as Christpher in 1920 and in 1940. However in the 1930 Census, his name was written as Chris J. Strohm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His obituary in the Traverse City Record-Eagle in entitled, "Christ Strohm, Pioneer, Dies." and his gravestone reads, " Strohm, Chris J. 1872 - 1958."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He used the name Chris In the 1903-1904 Traverse City and Grand Traverse County Directory. But by the next directory, he is recorded as Christopher Strohm. Christopher Strohm is listed in the various directories between 1904 and 1927.</span></div>
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Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-85483581749513810002014-08-29T17:27:00.000-07:002014-08-29T17:27:37.134-07:00How Did Frederick E. Hyde Fjord Get Its Name?
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
trustees of the Stoutenburgh Family Burying Ground in Hyde Park, New York, are
mapping the location of gravesites and identifying how those buried there are
connected to Jacobus Stoutenburgh and his wife, Margaret Teller. I was asked if
I could find out more about Frederick E. Hyde and his wife, Susannah
Stoutenburgh Hyde, who are buried in the cemetery.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The task
was an easy one for me as I already knew who she was and her connection to
Jacobus and Margaret. However, I really didn’t have much information about her
husbands. Frederick Hyde was Susannah’s second husband. The things that I
learned about her first husband will make for a post another time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I located
the couple in the 1925 New York State Census and also in the 1930 and 1940 US
Censuses. He had no occupation indicated in any of the three censuses. The 1940
Census indicated he had income from sources other than wages and that he had
completed five years of college. The couple traveled to Europe often as I found
them on the passenger list of several sailings.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I
searched for Frederick E. Hyde at Google, I received several hits but not what
I expected.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There
is a fjord on Greenland called Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. It is at
least 150 kilometers in length (a bit over 93 miles in length). The fjord is
the northernmost fjord on the island with its mouth on the eastern side of the
island opening on the Arctic Ocean. The shores of the fjord are apparently
ice-free during the summer as seen in photos on the Internet.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frederick
E. Hyde Fjord is located on a peninsula known as Peary Land. The 28th Meridian
West crosses through the fjord.</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggJHWHyfCucx3I7BkVsIaK1Py2f1GDbh8YHk2R8mQEUocx1Gh7gs_-U1MPJ7Uad6yxS6-OdhgifD3BZe49qn3thKFmCLV4Vqng7o4AcJdIoTmCLulup-KpkgPYpc0_GJuqUiPuhAB2WAg/s1600/Peary+Land+Map.png" height="320" width="272" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peary_Land" target="_blank">Peary Land</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Peninsula is defined by the Arctic Ocean to the north, east and west and by two
fjords to the south. The mouth of Victoria Fjord is on the western side of Greenland,
and the mouth of Independent Fjord is on the eastern side. Frederick E. Hyde
Fjord divides Peary Land into North Peary Land and South Peary Land.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other
than physical descriptions of the fjord, I wasn’t finding anything that told me
how the fjord got its name. Some of my earlier research revealed that Dr.
Frederick Erastus Hyde and his sons, Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde and Frederick
Erastus Hyde, Jr., were members of several scientific institutions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr.
Frederick Erastus Hyde was member and benefactor of the Linnaean Society, the
American Museum of Natural History and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science among others. Frederick Erastus Hyde, Jr. and his
brother, Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde, were also members of the some of the
same organizations as their father. They also financed explorations in the
American Southwest between 1893 and 1907. I found no evidence that the brothers were involved with explorations elsewhere.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
recalled from my school years that Robert E. Peary had been the first to reach
the North Pole. Given that the northernmost part of Greenland is called Peary
Land, I decided to see what I could find out about Peary and his expeditions. According
to the Encyclop<span style="color: black;">ædia Britannica, </span>Robert Edwin
Perry explored the area in 1892, 1895 and 1900.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Searching
in Google Books I found many recently published books about Peary’s expeditions
and also some that studied whether Peary was or was not the first to reach the
North Pole. I was delighted to find a digitized book written by Robert Peary
himself entitled, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nearest the Pole: A
Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S.
Roosevelt, 1905 -1906</i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading
page 329, I learned how Frederick E. Hyde Fjord got its name.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EXPEDITION
OF 1898—1902<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Arrived
here at 10:30 P. M., May 20<sup>th</sup>, from Etah via Fort Conger, and north
end of Greenland. Left Etah March 14<sup>th</sup>. Left Conger April 15<sup>th</sup>.
Arrived north end of Greenland may `3th. Reached point on sea-ice latitude 83°
50’ N., May 16<sup>th</sup>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On
arrival here had rations for one more march southward. Two days dense fog have
held me here. Am now starting back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With
me are my man Matthew Henson; Ahngmalokto, an Eskimo; sixteen dogs and three
sledges.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
journey has been made under the auspices of and with funds furnished by the
Peary Arctic Club of New York City.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
membership of this Club comprises: Morris K. Jesup, Henry W. Cannon, Herbert L.
Bridgman, John Flagler, E. C. Benedict, James J. Hill, H. H. Benedict, <strong>Fred’k
E. Hyde</strong>, E. W. Bliss, H. H. Sands, J. M. Constable, O. F. Wyckoff, E. G.
Wyckoff, Chas. P. Daly, Henry Parish, A. A. Raven, G. B. Schley, E. B. Thomas
and others.</span></span></div>
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E. P<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">eary</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Civil
Engineer, U. S. N.</em>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
book includes a chapter on the Peary Arctic Club. Frederick E. Hyde was one of
the founding members and was elected as its first vice president. Morris Jesup
was elected President and apparently is the person for whom Cape Morris Jesup
is named. The cape is located at the northernmost part of Greenland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most
of the founders of the Peary Arctic Club were born between 1830 and 1850.
Frederick E. Hyde was born in 1844 while his son, Frederick, was born in 1874.
Based on the ages of the founding members, I believe that the Dr. Frederick E.
Hyde was one of the founding members and that is for him that the fjord is
named.</span></span></div>
Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-72966011225782709662014-05-28T09:22:00.000-07:002014-05-28T09:22:03.454-07:00Klondyke Bogardus<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the surnames that I trace is Bogardus. Anneke Jans married Evarudus Bogardus in the early half of the 1600s in Nieuw Amsterdam after the death of her husband, Roelof Janszen. Roelof and Anneke had a daughter from whom I descend. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the death of her first husband, Anneke Jans married Domine Bogardus and had four sons. That makes the Bogardus descendants my cousins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The other day, I came across a <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tomás Andrew Morales Bogardus. I was so intrigued with this name because it was not typical of names that I had encountered as I researched the Bogardus family. Based on Hispanic naming traditions, I suspected that <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tomás Andrew Morales Bogardus was born in one of the southwestern states in the United States.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Indeed he was. He was born in California around the same time as my own children were born. So I was curious to figure out how <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tomás was connected to Everardus Bogardus. I still have work to do to make the connection, but as I was doing my Google searches, I came across a Klondyke Bogardus.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">What an odd given name! I found lots of things about him. He spent his life in Lima, Ohio. One of his great-granddaughters fell out of a second or third floor window in Cleveland when she was the age of three.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Klondyke seems to have been a clerk at the Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company. He was born in 1897 in Lima, Ohio. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I learned that the Klondike gold field in Alaska was opened in 1896. So it looks like Klondyke was named from this gold mine. At this point, I haven't been able to ascertain if any close family member had participated in the gold rush in 1896 or if he was named Klondyke as a joke.</span></span></span></span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-22786478360297890922014-05-05T20:59:00.001-07:002014-05-07T20:41:30.688-07:00A Stranger in the Cemetery<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">There is a gravestone in the Stoutenburgh family cemetery in Hyde Park, New York that doesn't seem to be a relative of that family. The deceased is Joseph Teel. So I began the quest to figure out who this person is and why he is buried in this cemetery. This is what I know:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">He married Elizabeth Searle at Stoneham, Massachusetts on
November 12, 1767 by Rev. John Searl. He was living in Medford, Massachusetts
and she was living in Stoneham. Rev. Searl was the minster in Stoneham and
apparently took his records with him when he was dismissed so I haven’t found
any information for Elizabeth Searle.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">I did find a 1919 Rhinebeck, New York newspaper article that mentioned
him. The article is titled, “The last Survivors of the Revolutionary Pensions
in Dutchess County,” by George S. Van Vliet. Apparently the 1840 US Census identified all the living
pensioners of the Revolutionary War or surviving widows. Joseph Teel’s name is
included in the list. He was 95 in 1840 and living in Hyde Park.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Bunker’s (sic) Hill, was in the Massachusetts line and was present at the
surrender of General Burgoyne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">It said that Joseph Teel was an elder at the Hyde Park Reformed
Church for many years. He died at the age of 98 in Hyde Park on February 14,
1843. The article also indicates that he was buried in the Stoughtenburg (sic) burying
ground in Hyde Park.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">The following is taken from Pages 406-407, <i>Commemorative Biographical Record of the
Counties of Dutchess and Putnam, New York</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">This book also claimed that he was a captain in the
Revolutionary War. I suspect that the writer of the newspaper article in 1919
obtained that information from this book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Joseph Teel and his wife, Elizabeth Searle, had a daughter,
their only child. She was known as Elizabeth Dunbar Teel and married Cyrus
Braman on December 25, 1793. She died at Hyde Park December 4, 1801. Joseph
Teel apparently continued a close relationship with his son-in-law as he died
at Cyrus Braman’s home. (<i>A Census of pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services with Their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census</i>, Page 105.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Cyrus was born in Norwich, Connecticut on November 28,
1766 and died at Hyde Park, October 10, 1850 at his son-in-law’s home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Joseph Teel purchased property at Rhinebeck in 1786. He apparently moved to Dutchess County about that time. His daughter and son-in-law were living in Norwich, Connecticut at the time but moved to Hyde Park around 1799 as Cyrus and his wife purchased property in Hyde Park from Phineas Eames November, 1799.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Cyrus and Elizabeth had four children: Joseph Teel Braman,
Elizabeth Dunbar Teel Braman, John Adams Braman, and Cassandana Braman. The
sons never married and Cassandana died 8 days after her mother at age 14
months. Elizabeth Dunbar Teel Braman married John Church of Yates County, New
York.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">I found a house in Norwich, Connecticut named the Teel House. It
was built as a hotel in 1789 and completed in 1790 by Joseph Teel of Preston.
Both Norwich and Preston are communities in New London County, Connecticut. <i>History
of Norwich, Connecticut, from Its Possession by the Indians to the Year 1855</i>,
Page 535, says that Joseph Teel died and the hotel was run by his son-in-law,
Cyrus Bramin, who put it up for sale in 1797. That house is currently for sale
for $330,000.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">It looks like Joseph moved to Rhinebeck in 1796 and his
son-in-law was given the task of disposing of the property.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Then I found Joseph Teel’s application for a pension as a
Revolutionary War soldier. The application claims that he was born April 4,
1745 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. It also indicated that he was not a captain.
He served under 3 different Massachusetts regiments during the war. He was
private and was elevated to that of a guard in the last regiment he served. Richard
DeCantillon Stoutenburgh represented Joseph Teel in his application for a
pension in 1832. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Cyrus Braman married Ruth Hitt after Elizabeth Dunbar Teel died. I looked at their offspring to see if I could find a connection to the Stoutenburgh family. I did not find any connection but I did note that their son, Samuel Hitt Braman, married Helen Van Vliet. The article in The Rhinebeck Gazette to which I reference above was written by George S. Van Vliet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">As it turns out, George S. Van Vliet is the first cousin once removed to Helen Van Vliet, wife of Samuel Hitt Braman. George included notes regarding some of the names in the 1840 list of pensioners. As I was piecing together the Braman and Teel families, I noted that several of the names for which notes were added also appeared in the Commemorative Biographical Record referenced above.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">At this point, I think that Joseph Teel is buried in our
cemetery because of his or the Braman family's friendship to the Stoutenburgh family. Cyrus Braman's property was between that of Dr. Bard's property and that of the Stoutenburgh family's property.</span></span></div>
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</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-58033089900119264152014-03-10T21:01:00.000-07:002014-03-10T21:01:10.120-07:00Edwin Bruce and his widow, Leona Ringo<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The State of Missouri some time ago posted searchable images of death certificates from 1910 into the 1960s. A branch of an ancestor settled in Missouri well before the Civil War. I searched for the surname Ringo and was rewarded with many hits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The female hits were either of unmarried women who were Ringos or women who married a Ringo. As I matched up the death certificates with names in my family tree, I found that I was missing death certificates for Ringo daughters who married. One such woman was Leona Ringo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She was 3 years old when her family was enumerated in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1880. The 1890 Census was mostly destroyed in a fire. The next intact federal census was in 1900. She was not enumerated with her parents and some of her siblings in the 1900 US census. At the age of about 23, she was likely to have married.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Her father was a prominent lawyer in St. Joseph, Missouri and much of the family seemed to have remained in St. Joseph, I took a chance and searched the State of Missouri death certificates for a Leona in Buchanan County. Fortunately she married a man whose surname began with the letter B.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After looking at a half a dozen death certificates, I found her. She was Leona Bruce and died in St. Joseph, MO in 1961. Her son, John, was the informant and he provided the name of her husband. I then found the couple in the 1900 census. She was born in August 1878 and he was born in November 1878. They had been married a year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Next I found an entry in a register of their application for a marriage license and the record of their marriage. Their marriage license was issued in Buchanan County, Missouri on December 31, 1898. They were married by Rev. C. M. Chilton on January 2, 1899 in St. Joseph, MO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1910, Leona and her husband were living in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri where he was in the lumber business. They had a son, John, who was 6 years old and born in Missouri. In 1961, John was living in Norman, Oklahoma at the time of his mother's death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1920, I found Leona and her son living with two of her sisters in St. Joseph, MO. She was identified as a widow. She was a widow at the time of her death in 1961 so I assumed that Edwin died before 1920. But to my surprise, I found the death certificate for Edwin Beldon Bruce who died in 1951 in St. Joseph, MO and was born November 25, 1878 in Princeton, Missouri. Leona was the informant for his death Certificate and was living in the same rural route number as was Edwin at the time of his death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So confused...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I then found a World War I draft registration card for Edwin Beldon Bruce in Missouri who was born November 25, 1878. He was living in Jackson County, Missouri at the time and his wife was Edyna. Edwin and Edyna were enumeration in Jackson, Co. in 1920. I then found the register of their marriage in 1917.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It would appear that Leona and Edwin were divorced by 1917. However, in 1930, Edyna Ringo was divorced. She apparently did not remarry as she died in 1981 and the Social Security Death Index includes Edyna Bruce who was born on December 14, 1888 and died in September 1981. He last residence was Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At this time I have not found either Leona or Edwin in the 1930 or 1940 census, but at some time the couple reunited before his death in 1951</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-47870153974182282232014-03-09T21:41:00.001-07:002014-03-10T20:12:55.307-07:00Where are the oil wells of Southern California?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sight that had never seen in Minnesota when I was growing up was an oil well. I recall seeing pictures of oil wells in Texas and Oklahoma that looked a lot like the windmills over water wells.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When my parents moved us to California, we settled in Orange County in Southern California. The first oil wells I saw were the oil wells off the coast south of Santa Barbara near Summerland as my father drove us north to visit his sisters and parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I mostly noticed them when we were driving south at night after a visit with my dad's sisters and parents. It looked like a city on the ocean, all lit up. As it turned out, the city that I thought was on an island was a series of oil platforms that were not connected to each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The oil wells on the "island" looked like the pictures of oil derricks that I saw as a kid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A few years later I got my driver's license and had a former classmate who was living near Long Beach, California. On one trip to visit her, I had a chance to see the oil wells on Signal Hill. The oil in these wells was being extracted by a pump that resembled a grasshopper, like the image I found below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Occasionally I saw one with eyes painted on the head. After my in-laws moved to Carmel, Charley and I would drive up California 101 to visit and along the route, I saw many of the grasshopper oil wells especially near Paso Robles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SandiMH created the entry at Find A Grave. He/she assumed that the people on the other side of the monument were the children of Edward and Eleanor Houston Stoutenburg because of the text on their side of the monument. It reads STOUTENBURG; Mother Eleanor D and Father Edward B II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Only two of their children are named on the opposite side of the marker. Leola J. is their daughter. She predeceased each of her husbands. Edward B. III is obviously their son but June A. is their daughter-in-law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lace K. is their nephew. He is Lace Kendall Stoutenburg. Carole J. is his wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">SandiMH made the mistake of assuming. It is important not to assume something on face value without looking at all of the evidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a companion marker at a cemetery in San Luis Obispo, California with my father and his sister's names. At the same site are the markers for their parents and another sister. This sister shares a companion marker with her husband. At first glance one might assume that my father and his other sister did not marry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My father and my aunt both did marry. Neither are buried at the site. My father's cremains are in a columbarium at the National Cemetery in Riverside and my aunt's ashes were scattered in her garden in Coloma, California. The marker is called a cenotaph marker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the time that we decided to create the cenotaph marker, my cousin wanted some place that would mark her mother's existence. We didn't know if our sister would give up our dad's ashes for burial with those of our mother, so we decided to create a cenotaph marker with his sister at the site of their parents' gravesite.</span><br />
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<br />Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-48098915209844080442013-12-03T21:16:00.000-08:002013-12-06T20:27:22.972-08:00Mom<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some time ago, I posted a transcription of a journal that my great aunt wrote a few years before she died. After reading it, I learned things about my great aunt that I never expected. Today, I came across a newspaper article from 1941 that mentioned several of my relatives, including my mother and my great aunt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Probably like most of us, it was hard to think of my parents as once having been children, let alone young adults. <a href="http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16022coll2/id/31028" target="_blank">This newspaper article</a>, like Aunt Eleanor's journal, revealed a glimpse of her and my mother when they both were young. My mom was only 18 and Aunt Eleanor was 36.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On July 17 and 18 in 1941 in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, my mother played the role of a riverboat sweetheart in a musical called "A Hillbilly Wedding." It's hard to think of your mother as a sweetheart, let alone a riverboat sweetheart. The names of some of the other characters were quite amusing as well as revealing that a sense of humor has been with us for a long, long, long ... time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was actually glad that my mother didn't perform the roles of Pucklewortz, Judge Itchiebritches, Ura Pumpkinhead, Ima Goosepimple, Lizzie Zilch, or Misery. Ima Goosepimple hit a bit too close to home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When my husband and I were trying to agree on a boy's name and a girl's name after I learned that I was pregnant with out first child. We were so far apart in agreeing on the name for our daughter should we have one. I got crazy and suggested that we name our daughter, Ida, Inn, Dee or Rea. Since my married name is Kline, we both laughed and finally were able to agree on a more suitable name for our daughter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The article would seem to imply that the musical was brief as there were "specialty acts" that followed. One such act was the Peterson quartet. My mother had cousins named Peterson, but in Minnesota, Peterson was like Smith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another act was square dancers. One of the couples was Clarence Peterson and Eleanor Stoutenburg. My great aunt had been a widow a bit over a year when this article was printed. Aunt Eleanor never remarried after her husband's death. Her journal gave no indication that she was a square dancer, so it was a pleasant surprise to see that she was still enjoying life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did, however, find the name Larry in the various US Censuses but it wasn't until 1870 that total number of Larry's enumerated in the census was in excess of one thousand. The number was over 4,000 in 1900 and in 1910. By 1930, the number of Larrys in the census was a little over 11,000. But it wasn't until 1940 that almost 70,000 Larrys were enumerated in that census.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the next step was to look for Lawrence Stoutenburgh. I already had in my tree a Lawrence N. Stoutenburg and his son, Lawrence N. Stoutenburg, Jr. There were some trees that I saw that linked a Lawrence Napoleon Stoutenburg to Edward H. Stoutenburg and his wife, Margaret Montfore. But nothing seemed to match.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After looking at newspaper articles, census images and city directories, I was able to figure out who Larry Stoutenburgh, the billiard player was. Larry is the son of Lawrence Michael Stoutenburgh and Winifred Hennigan. Larry was Lawrence Michael Stoutenburgh, Jr.
His father, Lawrence Michael Stoutenburgh, was the son of Edward H. Stoutenburgh and Margaret Montfore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On January 25, 1912, Larry married Jennie M. Brown in Hudson Falls, NY. The affidavit recorded with the license to marry, names his father, mother and the place in which he was born. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I found the World War I draft registration card for Lawrence Micheal (sic) Stoutenburgh. He was married and living in Erie County, New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The marriage apparently did not endure as he was married Mae Alameda George by 1940 when they were enumerated in Manhattan. Jennie Brown still called herself Jennie Stoutenburgh in the 1920 census while he claims to be single when he is enumerated in White Plains, New York in 1920.</span><br />
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Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-89409245746123248292013-09-14T13:10:00.000-07:002015-03-12T20:53:41.713-07:00Larry Stoutenburgh the Pocket Billiard Pro<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was surfing the Internet for Stoutenburg ancestors, I periodically came across newspaper articles about Larry Stoutenburgh, a billiard professional. Many of the articles were about his attempt to become the billiards champion and would refer to him as Larry Stoutenburgh of Buffalo, New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She died at her home in Manhattan in 1947 at the age of 54 years. Her obituary in The New-York Times identified her as Mrs. Mae Alameda George Stoutenburgh, a former soprano with the Strauss Opera Company. It also indicated that she and Larry performed together in vaudeville; she as a singer and he as a trick shot billiard performer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was able to learn that Mae Alameda George was her stage name. She was born Mary Almeda George in Stouffville near Toronto, Ontario on June 4, 1887. Her family lived in the Toronto area until about 1906 when they were living in Winnipeg, Canada. By 1911, the family had settled in Vancouver where her parents remained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found Mae George in the 1920 US Census single and living in Manhattan. She was 26 years old, 7 years younger than her actual age. I also found a 30-year-old Laurence Stoutenburgh who was single, a proprietor of a billiards parlor living in White Plains, New York. So it would seem that they did not marry until after January, 1920. The earliest newspaper article in which I found mention of the two of them performing together was in a Bridgeport, Connecticut newspaper of 1924.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the January 23, 1919 issue of the Trenton Evening News is an article that states Larry Stoutenburgh had been living in Trenton, New Jersey for the past six months. In 1917 when he was attempting to become the billiards champion he was said to be of Buffalo. I found him in the Buffalo city directories of 1916 and 1917 as proprietor of a billiards room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The earliest record I found of Larry Stoutenburgh was in an Orleans, New York newspaper of 1915. He was in the town to play in a billiards match. The paper did not mention where he was from.</span></div>
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Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-60114071220025667352013-09-08T19:44:00.000-07:002013-09-08T19:44:38.619-07:00A Detour on the Quest to find Larry Stoutenburgh<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last few years, I have come across newspaper articles about Larry Stoutenburgh, a trick billiard exhibitionist. I was never able to figure out how he was connected to the Pieter Stoutenburg descendants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the LDS Church and Ancestry.com keep adding images of records for online access, I periodically go back to see if there is anything new that would help me make a connection. It's taken some time, but </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am happy to say that I have finally figured out how Larry is connected to Pieter Stoutenburg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, in the process, I came across one of those things not intended to be funny but is. I was looking at the 1908 City Directory for Newburgh, New York on which Stoutenburghs were listed. I saw this entry:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I checked with Google maps and found that there is a home at 25 Lutheran Street in Greenburgh, NY. The Moulton Memorial Baptist Church also still exists. The church doesn't have a website but is on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Although I suspect that the minister is not living on Lutheran Street at this date, I couldn't tell where the parsonage was.</span>Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-50923568878869121132013-08-11T09:09:00.000-07:002013-08-11T09:09:04.239-07:00Who Is Marvin?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my last post, I mentioned that my father's friend Marvin Stromgren had come to live with us for a short time. Until most recently, I had no idea if Marvin was related to my father or just a friend. I went on an exploratory expedition on Ancestry.com to see if I could figure out how Marvin and Dad knew each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh did that journey illicit memories of the things that my dad had told me of his past! I did a search on Ancestry for Marvin Stromgren born about the same time as my father in Minnesota. There was a hit in the Minnesota Birth Index. Marvin Berg Stromgren and Kathleen Margaret Barthel came up as the parents of 3 children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That aha moment hit. These were Marvin and Kathy. I don't actually remember much about Marvin and Kathy except that they were friends of my parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I saw the date of birth of the youngest of the 3 children, I was confused. Their youngest child was born in 1951 before Marvin lived with us. However, their next child was born in 1955. The 4-year gap fit with Marvin having been in the military. It was during the Korean Conflict that ended in July 1953, about the time that Marvin lived with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The next aha moment I had was remembering that Marvin and Kathy were one of the families who had a basement house. I now wonder if Marvin stayed at our house while his basement was being built and that Kathy and her child lived with her family at that same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Marvin left behind at our house that wool blanket. That became my blanket and I called it my tickle blanket because it made my nose itch. It was very prickly. Thankfully, the tickle blanket was left behind when we moved to California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So how are Marvin and my father connected?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I learned from the Minnesota Historical Society birth index that Marvin was born in Isanti County in 1925. That was a bummer because my dad was born three years earlier in Hennepin County. From the 1930 US Census images, I found Marvin in Grow Township living with his widowed mother, Olive and his siblings, two of which were born before 1920. The second household enumerated after Olive's was my dad's Aunt Ellen's family but my dad and his family were living in Aitkin County, Minnesota in 1930.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Olive died in 1979. I don't recall if I ever met her but I do remember hearing her name. Since Marvin's father died when he was very young, I don't believe that I knew his father's name. Checking the 1920 Census, I found that Olive, her husband Abel G. and their two children were living in Isanti, Minnesota on Broadway Street. He ran a general store. The Minnesota State Gazetteer of 1922 lists Abel Stromgren and Fred L. Russell proprietors of a general store, Stromgren & Russell, Isanti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On September 12, 1918, Abel Gustaf Stromgren registered for the World War I draft. He was a merchant whose residence was in Constance (Grow Township), Minnesota. Abel named his wife, Olive Mary, as his nearest relative. So some time after September 12, 1918 but before January 6, 1920, the family moved from Constance to Isanti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The family resided in Isanti about 8 years or so. Their youngest child was born in Isanti August 22, 1926. However, by April 2, 1930, Olive was back in Grow Township. According to the census, she was the postmistress. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">From a ledger of post office appointments in Anoka County, I learned that Abel was appointed postmaster in Constance on January 8, 1927. He died on November 24th of that same year. She then became the acting postmistress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found her in Grow Township in the 1940 Census. Olive was the postmistress. The household enumerated before hers was that of Ruth and Mathilda Book. Ruth would become my grandmother's sister-in-law. The appointment ledger noted her several appointments as postmistress of the Constance post office. The final entry was of the closure of the post office effective February 28, 1955, mail to Anoka.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now I know how Marvin and my dad knew each other. It was because of the post office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't know exactly when my dad's parents moved from McGregor, Minnesota to Constance but they were living in the same house on April 1, 1935 (1940 Census). I remember railroad tracks that were near the house where my grandmother was raised. My father told me that his grandfather had convinced the US post office to have a mail stop at his farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Prior to this, mail was sent to the post office in Anoka. As a member of the community had the need to make the trip to Anoka then he/she would check for mail at the post office. The mail train would pass by my great grandfather's farm. Dad told me that the train didn't stop but it did pick up and drop off mail as it passed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1935, my father was 13, old enough to put the bag with the outgoing mail on the pick up hook and retrieve the bag left by the mail train from the drop off hook. My father graduated from Anoka High School in 1940. Between 1935 and 1940 my dad handled the mail bags at his uncle's farm. With Marvin's mother as the postmistress and my dad helping with the mail bag, Dad and Marvin would have known each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Lanaiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12804393276990283276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344079886368946178.post-32188674901047167872013-08-06T20:13:00.000-07:002013-08-06T20:13:52.921-07:00My Childhood House - Fond Memories<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my last post, I mentioned that my grandfather came from California to help my father finish the second floor of our house. They had put up the drywall to form the walls of the bedroom and a closet before my grandfather had to leave. Shortly afterwards, Marvin Stromgren came to live with us for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I thought that he may have been a relative or a friend of my father's. He moved into the unfinished room upstairs for a while. It didn't seem like he was there for a very long time. Marvin had recently been discharged from the Army or Marine Corps as he had a uniform and a wool dark green blanket when he came. I think that he was in the service during the Korean Conflict.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I was composing this post, I actually didn't know how Marvin and my dad knew each other. I did a little snooping on Ancestry.com. From the bits and pieces of information that I found, it looks like Marvin was a friend and not a relative. That's another story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After Marvin's stay ended and before Dad had a chance to work on finishing the second floor, my brothers engaged in a game of dodge ball upstairs. That game ended with a large hole near the floor in the drywall on one side of the room. I remember that we tried to tell our dad that a huge mouse was in the attic and made the hole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My brother and I were consigned to the unfinished bedroom after Marvin left. We apparently were not very good at getting to bed and staying there. My dad was a very astute person and decided to turn the story into one that worked for him. He said that a huge mouse may have made the hole in the wall, but it was the bear who lived in the attic that was now the problem. He told us that the bear would come out when one of us got out of bed before morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My dad sometimes miscalculated things. I started to wet the bed because I was too afraid to get out of bed at night because of that bear in the attic. Since bears are afraid of light according to my dad, he installed a low wattage light (today called a night light) so I could feel free to get up to go to the bathroom. My dad had an explanation why the bear wouldn't come out when I went to the bathroom vs. when I was being a problem child. Dad tried!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That house had gable in front with an air vent. Even before my dad put up the drywall there was a trap door to access the gable. As kids we would pull down the trap door and get into the gable. The small vent would allow us to see the outside of our front yard. My brothers and I would pretend that we were in a rocket ship and that we were looking down at earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Minnesota summers are hot and humid. After my father finished off half of the basement into a rec-room, I found myself spending most summers in the basement reading when I wasn't in some lake. The basement was the only cool place in the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After the rec-room was finished, we started to have Christmas Eve dinner at our house. By that time my mother's sister and her family moved from New York to Minnesota and my mother's brother and his family moved from Chicago to Minnesota. So now Christmas Eve was at our house in our basement. At that point, the Christmas Tree was put in the basement. Up to that time, our tree was set up in the living room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The last time that I remember the tree in the living room was the year that my parents got us cardboard bricks and enclosed the entire doorway to the living room with these bricks. Mom and Dad apparently spent much of the night of Christmas Eve assembling the cardboard bricks and setting them into the door way in hopes that we would take enough time to get through the barricade to allow them some sleep. The lesson I took away from this memory...Don't under estimate your kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thinking about our house also reminds me of our neighbor, Rosie Bryant. She had the most beautiful flower garden in her backyard. My dad had planted a vegetable garden in our yard, but I was entranced by Rosie's flowers. My dad let me have a small plot, about 2 by 3 feet in our small backyard. Rosie helped plant my garden each year and my tiny garden was always beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That little house has so many fond memories for me. It was hard to leave it.</span><br />
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