 IOWA]
1903 History of Marshall County
Date: 2/15/03 7:43:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Bare67deb@aol.com
To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com
MARSHALL COUNTY was created in January, 1846,
by a division of the original county of Benton. It lies in
the sixth tier west of the Mississippi River, in the fifth south
of the Minnesota line and was named for Chief Justice John
Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. The Iowa
River flows through it in a southeasterly direction which, with numerous
tributaries, waters a large portion of the county. It
contains sixteen congressional townships making an area of five
hundred seventy-six square miles. Excellent building stone
is abundant and the county contains more than 30,000 acres of
native forest.
Joseph and William Davison were the first
white settlers in the county. In 1847 they took claims in
what is now Le Grand township. The following year Joseph
M. Ferguson, Josiah Cooper and others settled near Timber Creek
and a large number of families made homes in other parts.
In 1849 the county government was organized
by the election of the following officers: David E.
Cooper, clerk; J. M. Ferguson, sheriff; J. Hobbs, probate judge;
Zeno B. Freeman, treasurer; Jesse Amos, Joseph Cooper and James
Miller, county commissioners. The first court was held by
Judge William McKay in the fall of 1851 in a log cabin belonging
to John Ralls which stood in the grove north of where
Marshalltown was built. It 1851 the county-seat was
located at Marietta where a town was laid out. William
Dishon was the
first postmaster, keeping the office in his store. Doctors
Whealen and Nixon were the first physicians in the town and
county.
In the summer of 1853 Henry Anson and John
Childs laid out a town on a claim made by Anson two years
before, where he had built a log cabin. It was named
Marshall for a town of that name in Michigan. But upon
learning of one in Henry County bearing the same name, the
proprietors changed it to Marshalltown. A fierce contest
at once began to secure the removal of the county-seat from
Marietta to Marshalltown which continued for several years until
in December, 1859, a decision of the Supreme court settled the
contest in favor of Marshalltown. The first newspaper in
the county was established by T. J. Wilson in 1855 at La
Fayette, now Albion, named the Iowa Central Journal. The
paper was moved to Marshalltown in 1857 by E. N. Chapin and R.
N. Barnhard who changed the name to the Marshall County Times.
Wells Rice was the first postmaster when the office was
established at Marshalltown in 1854. G. M. Woodbury was
for many years one of the most enterprising citizens in securing
railroads and promoting manufacturing in the growing city.
In 1863 the Iowa and Nebraska Railroad was built through
the county
from east to west, passing through Marshalltown.
Debbie Clough Gerischer
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NEW
JERSEY
Burlington County
[NJ]
CENSUS NJ 1860, p. 1213, Burlington Co., Medford Twp.
Date: 2/14/03 4:05:48 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: MaisieAnn@aol.com
To: NJ-L@rootsweb.com
BURLINGTON CO. NJ, 16 Sept. 1860, PO Mt. Holly, Medford Twp. p.
1213
1213 1 2035 2003
PEACOCK Mary F. 76 f w
NJ
1213 2 2035 2003
PRICKETT Hannah M. 19 f
w NJ
1213 3 2036 2004
WILLITTS John H. 30 m w
NJ
1213 4 2036 2004
WILLITTS Elizabeth G. 29
f w NJ
1213 5 2036 2004
WILLITTS Robert S. 4 m
w NJ
1213 6 2037 2005
WILKINS Ezra 36 m w
farmer NJ
1213 7 2037 2005
WILKINS Esther S. 16 f w
NJ
1213 8 2037 2005
WILKINS Burr 18 w w
NJ
1213 9 2037 2005
WILKINS Henry C. 14 m w
NJ
1213 10 2037 2005 SCULL
Lunette 20 f w house keeper
NJ
1213 11 2037 2005 BROWNING
William 20 m w farm labor NJ
1213 12 2038 2006 STOKES
Joshua 50 m w
NJ
1213 13 2038 2006 STOKES
Elizabeth E. 45 f w
NJ
1213 14 2038 2006 PETERS
Sarah A. 28 f w
seamstress NJ
1213 15 2038 2006 PRICKETT
Matilda 15 f w
NJ
1213 16 2038 2006 JOYCE
Theodore 20 m w
farm labor NJ
1213 17 2038 2006 JOYCE
Daniel 14 m w
NJ
1213 18 2039 2007 STOKES
Joseph W. 55 m w
farmer NJ
1213 19 2039 2007 STOKES
Lydia 32 f w
NJ
1213 20 2039 2007 LIPPINCOTT
Jane 40 f w
housekeeper NJ
1213 21 2039 2007 CHEW
Esther 20 f w domestic
NJ
1213 22 2039 2007 CHEW
Elizabeth 18 f w
domestic NJ
1213 23 2039 2007 BATES
Martha 26 f w
NJ
1213 24 2040 2008 ALLOWAYS
Isaac 23 m w
wheelwright NJ
1213 25 2040 2008 ALLOWAYS
Adeline 22 f w
NJ
1213 26 2040 2008 ALLOWAYS
Allen 1 m w
NJ
1213 27 2041 2009 DEACON
Emmerson T. 30 m w blacksmith
NJ
1213 28 2041 2009 DEACON
Ruth Ann E. 25 f w
NJ
1213 29 2041 2009 DEACON
William B. 1 m w
NJ
1213 30 2041 2009 BISHOP
Timothy M. 19 m w apprentice
NJ
1213 31 2042 2010 PAINTER
William 44 m w farm labor NJ
1213 32 2042 2010 PAINTER
Mary A. 45 f w
NJ
1213 33 2042 2010 PAINTER
Mary E. 13 f w
NJ
1213 34 2042 2010 PAINTER
Sarah R. 10 f w
NJ
1213 35 2042 2010 PAINTER
Susanna 8 f w
NJ
1213 36 2042 2010 PAINTER
William H. 6 m w
NJ
1213 37 2042 2010 GULLIFA
Elizabeth 67 f w
gentle woman NJ
1213 38 2043 2011
COPPERTHWAITE William 53 m w
farmer NJ
1213 39 2043 2011
COPPERTHWAITE Elizabeth 40 f
w NJ
1213 40 2043 2011
COPPERTHWAITE Daniel J. 23 m
w farmer NJ
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MASSACHUSETTS
[GM-L]
Sat Feb 22. Open House. Godfrey Mem Library Afro Am Bio Database
Date: 2/19/03 2:32:29 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: GenAnnual@aol.com
To: GenMassachusetts-L@rootsweb.com
African American Biographical Database.
Special Open House
Saturday, Feb 22, 2003. 2-4pm
The Godfrey Memorial Library will hold a
special open house unveiling the newest database available to
Godfrey Scholars (the library support group). Thanks
to Colleen Cyr of Meriden, CT, the African American Biographical
Database, containing thousands of full-text biographical
sketches, photographs and other data about the lives of Black
Americans from all time periods is now available.
This database is available to researchers
from home as well as in the library. For more information see: http://www.godfrey.org/
.
Godfrey Memorial Library
134 Newfield Street
Middletown, CT 06457
Phone: 860-346-4375
Fax: 860-347-9874
library@godfrey.org
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MINNSOTA
[MINNESOTA]
Edward Francis Mayer The Dalles Daily Chronicle,
1938 (very long)
Date: 2/19/03 8:11:53 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: vhambv@hotmail.com
(Earline Wasser)
To: MINNESOTA-L@rootsweb.com
The Dalles Daily Chronicle, Friday, February 4, 1938, Front page
Information Sought on Accident Death
Minneapolis Man Sends Telegram, Requests Details of Death A
telegram from B.B. Gibbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota to Coroner
C.R. Callaway today requested further particulars about the
Death of the man
identified here as Edward Francis Mayer, formerly of
Minneapolis.
The man was killed a week ago when struck by
a Union Pacific freight train near Celilo (Oregon).
Gibbs asked particulars of the man's death,
whether he had a Buick car, life insurance and money, and the
costs of sending the body to Minneapolis. He gave no details
about his possible connection with the man.
Mr. Callaway said he would dispatch another
telegram this afternoon furnishing further information.
Announcement of the probable identity of the
man was made yesterday by Coroner Callaway and state police. It
is understood that Fred Wegener, an employe of the Railway
Express agency, furnished the lead which resulted in the man's
identification. Wegener took the suitcase and traveling bag for
shipment to Spokane (Washington) and associated the incident
with the death of the man, it was reported.
The Dalles Optimist, February 4, 1938, Front page
Story of Dead Man Revealed
Facts Indicate that He Leaped Under Train
Efforts to Get Help Failed
Last Struggle of Former Prosperous Merchant Told Step By Step.
Although a well dressed man of past middle
age who died this week under a freight train near Celilo
(Oregon) had taken pains, according to the police, to destroy
everything which might serve to identify him or to trace his
origin, painstaking work by Coroner C.R. Callaway and the state
police this week revealed not only his identity but the
desperate efforts he had made during his last few hours in The
Dalles to raise money upon personal effects with which to carry
on the fight which, apparently, he had been making to
keep body and soul together.
"We can now give you all of the facts,
having traced the unfortunate man's actions during the time he
was in The Dalles and for some time previous," said
Sergeant Frank Grimm of the state police yesterday.
"We have found that the man's name was
E.F. Mayer and that his home was in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was
a prosperous clothing merchant of that city up to the time that
his wife died about a year ago. Shortly after that he disposed
of his business, took his Buick sedan and took a trip West which
included a jaunt through the Yellowstone Park. Finally he
reached the Oregon coast and there he disposed of his sedan.
Apparently his funds began to shrink and he set about seeking
employment, but without success. He had a
gold watch, and he sold that in order to get fare to The Dalles.
When he reached here he still had the gold chain, which he tried
to sell for a dollar to several people, but nobody bought. He
also had left a United states 'baby bond' for $25 which he tried
to sell to several person for $10, but so far as we have been
able to learn, nobody would buy it from him.
"He also interviewed officers of the local ELKS lodge, as
he had formerly been a member of that order. However, when he
fell upon evil days his dues had lapsed and he could no longer
prove himself in good standing.
"He ate a meal or two at the Salvation
Army kitchen while here and stayed at
the Obarr hotel. When he arrived in town he had a suitcase and a
traveling
bag. At noon on Friday he shipped both of these, addressed to
himself at
Spokane (Washington), by express. Then he took all the papers by
which he
might be identified and, we believe, destroyed them, including
the baby bond
and the express receipt for the bags."
Members of the train crew saw Mayer's body
strike beside the track and
hurtle for several yards before coming to rest in a crumpled
heap. The train
stopped and it was ascertained that the unfortunate man had died
instantly.
It was at first declared to be accidental, but the facts
uncovered by the
officials make it look more like the last desperate act of a
disheartened
man.
Although the police had sent fingerprints of
Mayer to all the usual sources
of information, not a single one reported that Mayer had at any
time been in
the hands of the police.
END
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The
Dalles,
Oregon
Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser
Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society
c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library
722 Court Street
The Dalles, Oregon 97058
http://community.oregonlive.com/cc/genealogy
Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/
for recently updated
information
regarding Wasco County
Links are at the bottom of page
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OHIO
Hocking County
[OHHOCKIN] Ilesboro, April 4,1905
Date: 2/18/03 9:56:35 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: ldawns1@hocking.net
To: OHHOCKIN-L@rootsweb.com
"Journal Gazette," April 4, 1905; Local News:
Ilesboro
Mr. J. P. Miller closed a successful term of school
here last Thursday. About ten a.m., the patrons of the school
district arrived with well-filled baskets. After a few
recitations, dinner was served to which all did ample justice.
In the afternoon Mrs. Willoughby Huggins entertained with the
xylophone. The pupils entertained by reciting a few choice
declamations. Before dismissing Mr. Miller made an address in
which he declared this to be a pleasant term of school for
himself and pupils. All most cordially invited him to teach our
school next winter.
John Iles made a business trip to Logan Saturday.
Sherman McDowell is on the sick list.
Mrs. Pernell Hankinson and daughter of Ewing,
attended the last day of school here Thursday.
An automobile passing through our village last
Saturday morning caused quite an excitement. A horse belonging
to Bun Iles, who was in the grocery became frightened, and Bun
was notified but before he could reach him he was galloping down
the road at break neck speed. Afterward the horse was found
quietly standing by the gate of Mr. Griffith's barnyard.
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Noble
County
[OHNOBLE-L]
Noble Co., OH Printed Sources
Date: 2/20/03 3:00:35 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: garcher@wdn.com
To: OHNOBLE-L@rootsweb.com
Now for something really different:
"Soackum, a story" by H. Edmund Danford, published by
the author, 1912, hardbound, 5x8 in., 222 pp.
The reprint might be available from the Noble Co. Historical
Society. It
was first offered for sale in 1977 and again in 1988 for $5.30
(!)
Contact:
Noble Country Historical Society
PO Box 128
Caldwell, OH 43724-0128 noblecohistorical@email.com
"Soakum" is historical fiction with
great liberties taken in favor of the
fiction. It is NOT genealogy but was written by a local resident
with some
serious literary aspirations.
This is a gothic novel with a supernatural
undertone based on some sketchy
legends about a real town, Soakum (Matrom) that sold liquor and
"soaked"
overcharged or besotted their patrons. According to the L.H.
Watkins' 1887
"History of Noble Co., Ohio, p. 331, it was named
thus because "...of the
bibulous and whisky-sellng habits of its inhabitants." By
1887 the editors
commenting on the earlier prosperous presence of stores and
"whisky shops"
dismissively said that "Of late Socum has been going down
hill, and it now
appears not far from the bottom." Fifty years after it was
founded only a
few dilapidated houses remained, according to "The County
of Noble," by
Frank M. Martin, Selwyn A. Brant, Madison, WI, 1904, p. 41.
In the fictional Soacum, the community had
been disturbed by "hauntings,"
strange events without probable cause: broken crockery, fallen
pictures,
unearthly noises. The hard drinking residents were finally
shaken by a
revelation that the end of the world was nigh, and the pace of
the story picks up with the excitement this creates. Saloon
conversation is
dominated
by the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule becomes the order of
the day.
Outsiders arrived in droves to witness the end. Preacher Jim
Archer (more
below) arrived to preach and hold revival meetings. On the
fateful day, a
stranger dressed as the archangel Gabriel rode into town blowing
a trumpet,
creating a panic. When the end does not come, the weary people
come out of
hiding and life returns to normal.
It is a terrific read. I have a personal
interest because one of the
characters is Preacher Jim Archer, a true-to-life minister,
James Archer,
(James, James, Patrick) who preached hell-fire and perdition to
the
fictional errant denizens. There are others in the story
possibly based on
real citizens, but the names have probably been changed. You
will find the
names of some of the earliest residents on p. 321 of Watkins'
history. This
is an 1848 Socum (sic) school district (No. 4) with 24 families
mostly from
Maine (based on a list published in "The Republican"
15 Jan 1875):
Blake, Francis / Blake, Simon / Caldwell, John
/ Camden, John / Clymer, John
Dudley, Gilman / Friel, Levi / Gibbs, Dennis /
Harrison, Kellar / Hatton, Boling
Hutchins, Aurelius / Hutchins, Joseph / Kellar,
Michael / McGarry, David
McIntyre, W.F. / Philipps, Ebenezer / Rogers, Thomas
/ Schofield, Joseph
Woodford, Mrs. / Woodward, / Mrs. Woolf / Henry
Zoller/ , Zephaniah
The book has become the basis for
institutionalized hijinks being the
annual Mid-September Soakum Festival held at the Noble Co.
Fairgrounds
since 1987. Sheriff Landon Smith keeps the Soakum tradition
alive by firing
up the still and producing some old-time mooshine to complement
the rural
life exhibits of song, food, and crafts of costumed 21st Century
residents.
Soakum is NOT in the 1876 Atlas. It is not on
any modern maps. According to
the Watkins History, p. 331 and repeated by Frank Martin, p. 41
and an
article in the "Caldwell-Journal" of 14 Sep 1998, by
Pat Parks, the Noble
County historian, the town was originally known as Matrom and
was laid out
by Joseph Schofield, the proprietor and George Bell, the
surveyor.
According to another article (date lost) in
the Journal-Leader, Soakum was
a series of buildings and homes that "...ran along a road
following the high
ground frmo south of town (Caldwell) along State route 78 and
followed Salt
Run out to Noble County Route 52..." Based on this
description, the
settlement would have been somewhere along a 2 mile stretch in
S. 2,T. 6,
R. 8 beginning at the south end of Caldwell and criss-crossing
State Rt. 78
to its intersection with County Rt. 52.
Danford in his book was more vague,
describing it being on Duck Creek near
Salt Run (the site of an old salt mill) and right next to Demon
Holler
(fictional) where "...the devil goes for vacations and
Soakum is on the way
coming and going." You get the flavor of the book from this
omnious
description. Highly recommended if you can find a copy in print.
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RHODE
ISLAND
[RIGENWEB]
Manchester - Cooke
Date: 2/11/03 8:27:33 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Dewolf2323@cs.com
Reply-to: RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com
To: RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com
Rhode Island Land Evidences
1648 -1696
Pub. R.I. Hist. Soc. 18=921
Pub. Baltimore 1970
Page 139 #198
William Manchester to John Cooke
......William Manchester of Punckatest...Yeoman...for seventy
three pound six
shillings and Eight pence...mony of New England,...paid by
John Cooke, senr. of Portsmouth...Yeoman..have..sold..two
shares..belonging
unto a late purchass of the lands of Pocassett and..adjacent;
as
will..appeare by a Deed from..New Plymoth Collony..fifth day of
March 1679.
Unto Edward Grey Nathaniell Thomas, Benjamin Church my selfe and
some other
our bounded Northward & westward by the freemens lotts neer
the fall River
Westward by the Bay or Sound that Runnith between the said land
and Rhode
Island, Southward partly by Saconnett Bounds and partly by
Dartmoth Bounds,
Northward up unto the woods till it meet with land formerly
granded by the
Authorety of Plymoth to other men..Exprest
in said Deed, as alsoe..former Grants therein Excepted as to
Captn
Goulding. David and Thomas Lake, and Captn Morris:...Twenty
fourth day of
November...1680 Wit William X
Manchester, James Card his marke
John Sanford, Mary X Manchester
Her marke
William Mancheste..ssixteenthl day of February One
Thousand six hundred &
Eighty ..owned this John Albro Asistant
Copied as printed Claire
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VERMONT
Washington County
[VERMONT] "Gazetteer Of Washington Co., Vt.
1783-1899," Part IV of History Section added to
Gateway to Vermont web site.
Date: 2/17/03 2:09:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Karima@springnet1.com
(Karima)
Reply-to: VERMONT-L@rootsweb.com
To: VERMONT-L@rootsweb.com
Hello,
I have just uploaded, to the Gateway to Vermont web site, Part
IV, pages
21-27 of the "County History" section of the:
"Gazetteer and Business Directory of
Washington County, Vt. 1783-1899,"
Compiled and Published by Hamilton Child, Edited By William
Adams. The
Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders. Syracuse, N. Y.;
April,
1889.
You can access it from the main gateway page,
by clicking on the "Latest
Additions" button (located in the middle of the page).
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/VERMONTGATEWAY.html
Best wishes and good luck with your search,
Karima
List Administrator
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