Col. Charles William Durham is the principal assistant in the engineering office at Rock Island Arsenal. His father, Charles Durham, was born in Belfast, Maine; his mother, Dorcas C. Durham, was born in the town of Brewer of the same State. Mr. Durham, senior, was for the greater part of his life a lumber merchant …
John Pear of Roxbury & Susan Raymond Jan. 2, 1808 Abner Dunton & Mary Dickerman Jan. 2, 1808 Mathew Hayes & Mary Griffon of Beverly Jan. 5, 1808 B. Austin Rubey & Susannah Turpen, (blacks) Jan. 7, 1808 Henry Homes & Dorcas Freeman of Portland Jan. 11, 1808 Asa Richardson & Elizabeth Glazier of Gardener …
Scipeo Peters & Margaret Powell, free Negros Jan. 22, 1789 James Read & Mary Peas Jan. 29, 1789 Edmund Conner & Rachael Lakin Feb. 12, 1789 Patrick Quinn & Elizabeth Perkins Feb. 12, 1789 Benjamin Hearsey & Naby Anchors Feb. 19,1789 Edward Byrne & Margaret Keiff Mar. 3, 1789 Edmund Wright & Mary Pratt Mar. …
William Baker Jr. & Alice Phillips Jan. 7, 1768 John Humphries & Martha Smellage Jan. 7, 1768 Robert Price & Abigail Dawson Jan. 12, 1768 Thomas Sharen & Katharine Young Jan. 19, 1768 James Steward & Tabithy Davis Jan. 21, 1768 Nathan Green & Mary Eaton Jan. 28, 1768 William Downe & Ruth Morris of …
James Glover & Sarah Louis Jan. 4, 1784 Jonathan Adams & Sally Cooper (forbid) Jan. 5, 1784 William Pain & Mary Low Jan. 14, 1784 Armitage Gerrish & Nancy Milward Jan. 15, 1784 Israel Reed & Mercy Davis Feb. 3, 1784 Cesar Johonnot & Ruth Grandison, free Negroes Feb. 10, 1784 Solomon Dose & Elizabeth …
Charles H. Trott, who died at his home in Junction City March 2, 1916, attained many of those ideals for which ambitious men will always strive. He proved a gallant and faithful soldier when the country’s integrity was in danger, was a merchant and business man of the finest integrity, was a good friend, a …
George F. Zerzan, M. D. With his home and practice at Holyrood since 1905, Doctor Zerzan is a man of conspicuous success not only in his profession but by the rapidity with which he had accumalated important business interests. Doctor Zerzan is not yet forty and it would seem that his substantial achiovements to date …
Names Date Town James Riddle & Mary Fairservice Jan. 1, 1753 James Euens & Eliza. Black Jan. 3, 1753 Jacob Ridgaway & Mary Donham Jan. 3, 1753 Angus Gair & Lydia Shed Jan. 4, 1753 Beza Gushing & Hannah Boylston of Roxbury Jan. 4, 1753 Edward Ingerson & Esther Castile Jan. 6, 1753 Samuel Ward …
The history of mankind is replete with illustrations of the fact that it is only under the pressure of adversity and the stimulus of opposition that the best and strongest in men are brought out and developed. Perhaps the history of no people so forcibly impresses one with this truth as the annals of our …
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Wife of the Rev. Joseph Rowlandson, Who Was Taken Prisoner when Lancaster was Destroyed, in the Year 1676; Written by Herself. On the 10th of February, 1676, came the Indians with great numbers upon Lancaster: their first coming was about sun-rising. Hearing the noise of some guns, we looked out; several houses …
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The Reed family of Brockton, Mass., a leading member of which was Judge Warren A. Reed, lawyer and jurist, who for over a third of a century had been one of the foremost citizens of Brockton, and during the greater part of that long period connected with the judicial, civic and financial interests of the city, district and State, is one of long and honorable standing in this Commonwealth, and one the forerunner of which came to these shores over two hundred and fifty years ago. Many members of this historic family have given good account of themselves, and many are there who have been prominent in the history of this country. An account of the branch of the family to which Judge Reed belongs is here given in chronological order, beginning with the earliest American ancestor.
The memorial history of Boston comprises four volumes of manuscripts written by professionals in their field of study at the time, and edited by one of the premier historians of the 19th Century, Justin Winsor. Starting with the first volume in the early and colonial period, this work defines the history of Boston up to the date of its publication in 1880. This work is not restricted to Boston, but also includes the cities of Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, Roxbury, and West Roxbury, Replete with illustrations and facsimiles of autographs, genealogists can use this work to help fill in the historical narrative of their ancestors life in Suffolk County Massachusetts.
One of the prominent citizens of Rock Island, and a man of high standing in the legal profession, was Colonel Henry Curtis, deceased. He was born at Boston, Massachusetts, August 13, 1834, the home of his parents. Henry and Rebecca L. (Everett) Curtis, and in that city he spent his boyhood and received his preliminary …
Among the eminent men of the northwest whose life records form an integral part of the history of Idaho was numbered Hon. Edward J. Curtis. In his death the state lost one of its most distinguished lawyers, gifted statesmen and loyal citizens. As the day, with its morning of hope and promise, its noontide of …
Francis Armstrong & Mary Atwin (forbid) Jan. 3, 1778 Edward Rolland of Salem & Sarah Purbeck Jan. 12, 1778 Nathaniel Wheeler & Ann Clark Jan. 14, 1778 Samuel Webber & Polly Saunders Jan. 15, 1778 Robert McCullo & Sarah Child Jan. 15, 1778 Sampson Signey & Elizabeth Robies, free Negroes Feb. 5, 1778 Thomas Skevens …
Jeremiah Gore & Hannah Richards of Stoughton Jan. 7, 1773 James Barber & Sarah Gleason Jan. H, 1773 Samuel Goddard & Margaret Collier Jan. 16, 1773 David Page & Sarah Cunnable of Fall Town Jan. 25, 1773 Josiah Hurley & Elizabeth McClelan Feb. 1, 1773 James Lamb & Elizabeth Lefebure Feb. 12, 1773 Henry Rice …
Allen, Horace G., son of Stephen M. Allen, was born at Jamaica Plain (Boston), July 27, 1855. His preparatory studies were pursued in the common schools. He was graduated L.L.B. from the Harvard law school in 1876; then became associated with Nathan Morse, Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1877. Later, he …
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Cooke Partridge, a well-known musician of Claremont and a zealous worker in the cause of temperance, was born in Claremont, daughter of Godfrey and Abigail (Hubbard) Cooke. Her paternal grandfather, Captain John Cooke, of Norton, Mass., was among the first of the minute-men to report at Lexington in response to the alarm …
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THOMAS GUINEAN. – The proprietor of the Esmond Hotel, in Portland, Oregon, and one of the most popular men in his line upon the Pacific slope, was born in the city of Quebec, Canada, in 1838. In the year 1849 he was left an orphan and thrown upon his own responsibilities, and went down to …
JAMES FOSTER WELLS – In the Vaux, or Bank, or Bayeux, or de Vallibus family of France originated the De Welles family of Lincolnshire, barons by summons to Parliament. It is one of the most illustrious families known to history. The derivation is traced to the year 794, from which period its members held the …
