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.
Near this city, February 4, 1905, Bereha Elinor, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Tracy. She was born near Brainard in Butler County, Nebraska, May 26, 1901, being aged 3 years, 8 months and 22 days. The funeral services were held here Sunday at 11 o’clock in the M.E. church by Rev. Mrs. D.S. Smith and the little one was laid to rest in the city cemetery. Elgin Recorder Friday February 10, 1905
Back in 1915, Lucian Moody Kilburn, was engaged to write a history of Adair County Iowa by the Pioneer Publishing Company of Chicago Illinois, he then being at that time a resident of the county for 50 years. The manuscript was divided into two volumes. This volume, numbered 2, provides biographical sketches of 348 leading men and women of the County of Adair including many of its founding families. You can read or download the free eBook from this website.
Amidon Family : A Record of the Descendants of Roger Amadowne of Rehoboth, Mass.
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Robert Ives Lee. In the death of Robert Ives Lee, which occurred at Chicago, Illinois, December 19, 1911, there passed away one of the most prominent horsemen of the Middle West. He was born May 5, 1846, at Boston, Massachusetts, and was a son of the late Brev.-Brig.-Gen. William Raymond Lee III, U. S. V., A. M., A. A. S., and Helen Maria (Amory) Lee, of Amory Street, Boston, the former of whom was descended from Henry and Mary Lee. Henry Lee, the founder of the Lee family of Marblehead, Massachusetts, died at Manchester, that state, in 1675, and was … Read more
Among the very early settlers at Steuben was Lemuel Baker, who came from Roxbury, Mass. He must have come about, or soon after, the time that the Leightons came. He married a Tracy, sister of Mrs. Thomas Leighton, 2d, and Mrs. Deacon Stevens. He settled near the shore of Joy’s Bay, on what is known as Baker’s Point, afterwards near where the George Baker house is. By his first wife he had four children. George, Nabby, Rhoda, and Dolly. After the death of his first wife, which occurred while these children were young, Mr. Baker moved to Massachusetts and there married Abigail Griggs, and by her had two children, Susanna and Eli F., both born in Roxbury, and while they were young again moved to Steuben, where Lemuel and Abigail lived for the remainder of their days.
BOWERS, Sophia Todd6, (Josiah5, Abner4, Ithamar3, Michael2, Christopher1) born Feb. 5, 1814, died March 15, 1891, married Feb. 20, 1834, Isaac, son of Honteta and Eve Bowers. He was a farmer at Lansing, N. Y. Children: I. Harriet Jane, b. Feb. 8, 1835, m. May 23, 1855, Warren, son of David Crocker, of Lansing, N. Y. He manufactured Wegman’s pianos. They lived at Auburn, N. Y. II. Ezbon Lyon, b. Nov. 8, 1837, m. Dec. 2, 1868, Nancy, daughter of John and Sarah Blakely, of Kortright, Delaware County, N. Y. He was a farmer at Skaneateles, N. Y. III. Mary … Read more
Edmund Ingalls, son of Robert, was born about 1598 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England. He immigrated in 1628 to Salem, Massachusetts and with his brother, Francis, founded Lynn, Massachusetts in 1629. He married Ann, fathered nine children, and died in 1648.