The Northern Maine, its Points of Interest and its Representative Business Men manuscript provides historical sketches of the nine towns featured within it’s embrace, as well as biographical sketches of the businesses and the men and women who owned and ran those businesses found within the towns of Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn, and Kingman.
Edward Hunt’s “Weymouth ways and Weymouth people: Reminiscences” takes the reader back in Weymouth Massachusetts past to the 1830s through the 1880s as he provides glimpses into the people of the community. These reminiscences were mostly printed in the Weymouth Gazette and provide a fair example of early New England village life as it occurred in the mid 1800s. Of specific interest to the genealogist will be the Hunt material scattered throughout, but most specifically 286-295, and of course, those lucky enough to have had somebody “remembered” by Edward.
FRANK ADDISON FIFIELD, son of Edward and Rosarah (Spaulding) Fifield of Plainfield, was b. there Nov. 24, 1852; m. first, Jan. 30, 1877, Kate S. Waterman of Lebanon, adopted dau. of Silas and Sally (Wood) Water man. She d. about, 1880, without issue; m. second, Feb. 6, 1882, Thankful Pardy, dau. of John and Phebe (Havens) Pardy, b. Sept. 27, 1856. They came to Cornish about 1885 and settled on the Alfred Nevens place, at that time owned and occupied by Moses Hutchinson and wife, caring for them through the remainder of their lives. Child, b. in Cornish: 1. ERNEST … Read more
A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lade of Gravesend, Long Island; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family. This volume of nearly 400 pages includes a coat-of-arms in colors, two charts, and nearly fifty full page illustrations – portraits, old homes, samplers, etc. The coat-of-arms shown in the frontspiece is an unusually good example of the heraldic art!
FRED LOREN FIFIELD, a brother of Frank A., was b. in Plainfield Nov. 14, 1861; m. May 1, 1895, Ella, dau. of Henry and Mary (Sullivan) Thayer, b. July 4, 1868. They came to Cornish May 7, 1888, and settled on the Benj. F. Plastridge place. Children, b. in Cornish: 1. MARY ROSARAH, b. Feb. 3, 1896. 2. HELEN INEZ, b. March 16, 1897. 3. EVELYN ARABELLE, b. Nov. 18, 1903.
Hiram Charlton took on the publication of the Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont for Lewis Publishing. In it, he enlisted the assistance of living residents of the state in providing biographical and genealogical details about their family, and then he published all 1104 family histories in two distinct volumes.