1925 & 1926
Diary
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April, 1925
19 Snow storm here all day -- 7 in. of damp snow falling -- In many places it was much more.
January, 1926
18 But little snow here -- It rained all day. It has been a peculiar month -- snow storms have been light and temperature mild.
February, 1926
16 Mr. Frank Taylor was buried to day. 14 The great coal strike has been settled.
March, 1926
5 Very cold -- Thermometer 16 degrees below this morning.
April, 1926
5 Raw weather -- no snow here -- but much snow in big woods -- some snow birds here.
April, 1926
12 We here (sic) Mr. Alonso Seeber and his son Fred were killed in California by the explosion of the oil wells there. 13 Mr. Luther Burbank is dead.
October, 1926
18 Frost and a litt(le) snow last night -- the first we had this fall -- The weather is very heavy. We went to church yesterday -- the first in a long time.
The October 18th, 1926, entry above may have been the last entry Mr. Gladwyn ever made in a diary. We understand that he wrote many diaries during his long life, but only a few have been preserved. Mr. Gladwyn died July 7, 1929 at his home on Main Street in Brownville, N. Y. He was buried in the Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, N. Y. Mr. Gladwyn’s obit follows:
W. R. Gladwyn
Aged 85, Dies (the age should have read 83)
Brownville - July 8 -- Mr. William R. Gladwyn, 83, died this morning in this village Sunday afternoon (that's the way it was written) following an illness of two years. At that time, he suffered a stroke and during the past week his condition grew steadily weaker.
Mr. Gladwyn was born February 10, 1846, son of William and Charlotte Hamblin Gladwyn. He was a carpenter by trade and for many years was employed by Leonard & Gilmore Company and Binninger & Strange Company, both of Dexter. For the past two years he had been employed. (sic) He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Brownville and at the time of his death held the office of steward.
Mr. Gladwyn was married twice, his first wife being Miss Priscilla Wallace of Brownville whom he married on November 18, 1866. She died on July 3, 1901 and on June 29, 1904 he married Mrs. Anna Walts who survives him. Other survivors are on daughter by his first wife, Mrs. Herbert Conklin of Hounsfield, one grandson, William Conklin of Hounsfield, two grandchildren, Elaine and Leonard Conklin of Hounsfield, one sister, Mrs. Charlotte Prame, Lowville.
Additional notes: Mr. Gladwyn’s daughter, Minnie A. Gladwyn Conklin, wrote the following in her 1934 diary:
“Sunday, August 26, 1934 50 years ago today, Father was elected trustee of the Dexter school. P. S. He hired A. D. Van Allen, Clara Strange and Nettie Parker as teachers a few days later.”Typist’s Note: The tiny 1884 diary from which Minnie (my grandmother) cites was written in Pittman shorthand. When this typist finally found a translator from Britain, the diary appears to have been lost in the home where it was stored. If anyone finds this little, yellow covered, diary -- about 2” x 3” in size, please let this typist have one last look at it.
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