tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15215414987342918382024-02-06T18:20:39.890-08:00Urthman's Genealogy BlogFamily history and genealogy articles and blogs and photos.Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-60498665640023929672022-04-09T16:40:00.001-07:002022-04-09T16:40:44.246-07:00Three Newspaper Brothers All Die Young <p> Three brothers, sons of Orlando Erastus Chamberlain and Mary Cram, all became newspaper men. These three, Ernest Orlando Chamberlain (1859-1898), Wilbur Johnson Chamberlain (1866-1901), and Walter N. Chamberlain (1869-1900) are my first cousins, three times removed. They all died between 1898 and 1901. Ernest had reached the pinnacle of his profession as managing editor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World" target="_blank">New York Evening World</a> working for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer" target="_blank">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, but the pressures of work then seemed to affect his health, and he finally succumbed to pneumonia at the age of 38. Wilbur and Walter likewise had health problems and died at 37 and 30 years of age respectively. Only Wilbur had surviving children. Here are newspaper notices about them.</p><p>[The Philadelphia Enquirer, Thursday, 8 January 1885, page 8] Elizabeth, N.J. -- The libel suit of ex-mayor L.V.F. Randolph, of Plainfield, against ERNEST O. CHAMBERLAIN, formerly editor of the Plainfield Bulletin, for $20,000 was tried yesterday. The jury returned a verdict for six cents.<br /></p><p><span data-test-more-less-text="">[New York Herald, Tuesday, 19 April 1898, p. 13]<br />ERNEST
O. CHAMBERLAIN, managing editor of the Evening World, died last night
of pneumonia at his home, Rockledge, at Edgewater on the Hudson.
Although Mr. Chamberlain had been ill for a month, his death came as a
shock to his friends. Reports from his home told that he was improving,
and that he would return to his place in the field of newspaper work
after a period of rest. Mr. Chamberlain's condition became so alarming
on Sunday afternoon that his physicians were hurriedly summoned. He
continued to grow worse until the end last night. Mr. Chamberlain was
thirty-eight years old and had earned for himself a conspicuous place
among the editors and writers of the country. He was born at Great Bend,
Pa., in 1860, and received a common school education and began writing
for the Great Bend Reporter when quite a young man. He afterward went to
Dunellen, N.J., and edited a newspaper called the Rock. Just after
attaining his majority, Mr. Chamberlain bought the Plainfield (N.J.)
Bulletin. His treatment of the politics of New Jersey resulted in his
being called to edit the Trenton Times. Afterward, he went to
Philadelphia and became New Jersey editor of the Philadelphia Press. In
1886, Mr. Chamberlain came to New York and was employed on the New York
Sun, where he remained until 1892. His principal work was of a political
nature. From the Sun he went to the World, becoming the city editor.
For five years he had charge of either the morning or evening editions
of the World, except during brief periods when he had charge of the
gathering or writing of news of special importance. In August 1897, Mr.
Chamberlain went to Europe and on his return wrote a series of articles
on the government of European cities, which were widely quoted and
favorably commented upon. Mrs. Chamberlain survives her husband. Two of
his brothers are newspaper men.</span></p><p><span data-test-more-less-text="">[Batavia Daily News, Thursday, 21 April 1898, page 2] ERNEST O. CHAMBERLAIN, news editor of the New York Evening World collapsed a few weeks ago from overwork getting out extra after extra of the yellow journal. He became crazy, and his death occurred this week. <br /></span></p><p><span data-test-more-less-text=""> </span><span data-test-more-less-text=""><span data-test-more-less-text="">W. J. CHAMBERLAIN DIED AT CARLSBAD --
New York, Aug. 15 -- Word has reached here from Carlsbad, telling of the
death of W.J. Chamberlain, one of the best American newspaper men. His
death occurred yesterday. Death was due to cerebral congestion and heart
failure. Chamberlain was born in Great Bend, Pa., on March 12, 1866. He
did his first newspaper work in Jersey City and joined the staff of the
New York Sun in 1890. He continued in the services of the paper until
his death. He had a part in the most important news getting exploits of
his day. His story of the fight at Santiago during the Spanish-American
War caused widespread comment. When war broke out in China, Chamberlain
was sent there. Illness forced him to return to London some weeks ago.
[The Buffalo Enquirer, Buffalo, New York, Thursday, August 15, 1901,
page 8]</span></span></p><p><span data-test-more-less-text=""><span data-test-more-less-text=""><span data-test-more-less-text="">[Philadelphia Enquirer, Wednesday, 18 July 1900, page 4]<br />Plainfield,
N.J., July 17 -- WALTER N. CHAMBERLAIN, who has been engaged in
newspaper work in New York for the past ten years, died at his home in
this city this morning after an illness lasting about two weeks. Mr.
Chamberlain was born in Plainfield 31 years ago, and was a brother of
the late Ernest Chamberlain, who was managing editor of the New York
World for a time. While engaged in professional work at the burning of
the steamship piers in Hoboken June 30 he contracted a cold which caused
his death. He was unmarried.</span> </span> </span></p>Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-22570580576509832692022-01-22T17:17:00.000-08:002022-01-22T17:17:08.834-08:00Death of a Young Woman<p> My 5th Cousin, 3 times removed, a young girl by the name of <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K4FX-FXX" target="_blank">Grace Dearborn</a>, came to a tragic end when she tried to obtain an <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10297561/" target="_blank">abortion</a>. Here is the story as reported in the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/" target="_blank">Boston Globe</a>.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcuV1ewJn5R_Id_X5_L0l1Pgy1rvq54xjtpRAvAjmnGs4g8JR_rUZptrlQ1THLXidUWzhi_gNn_F4mBU94bjkcwanE6FfBjBNxaXJskpeuvz43IOu-xX-9fxflvz6eQnQjMpwGfDVqI8OLXS-34ZBslhKPj-ERszcHwFUPXxiBuIjs4ZNWjYSK8eEN=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1243" data-original-width="1500" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcuV1ewJn5R_Id_X5_L0l1Pgy1rvq54xjtpRAvAjmnGs4g8JR_rUZptrlQ1THLXidUWzhi_gNn_F4mBU94bjkcwanE6FfBjBNxaXJskpeuvz43IOu-xX-9fxflvz6eQnQjMpwGfDVqI8OLXS-34ZBslhKPj-ERszcHwFUPXxiBuIjs4ZNWjYSK8eEN=w531-h440" width="531" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map of New Haven, Connecticut with Wooster Street near the bottom right and Orange Street diagonally on the upper left. These are the streets mentioned in the article.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>[The <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/" target="_blank">Boston Globe</a>, Sunday, 19 December 1897, page 1]<br />WAS PRETTY GIRL. Grace Dearborn Died in New Haven. Belonged in Everett and Was a Clerk in Treasurer's Office. Left Home Ostensibly to Attend a Wedding. Was Ill One Week Before Parents Were Informed. Dr. Bond Held Without Bail on a Charge of Murder.<br /><br /> Dec 18 -- The body of Miss Grace Dearborn, who died in this city yesterday as a result o a criminal operation, was taken to her late home this afternoon by her father, Daniel O. Dearborn, an assessor of Everett, Mass.<br /> Miss Dearborn died at 1 yesterday afternoon at the house kept by Mrs. Frederick Mathis, at 186 Wooster st. Mrs. Mathis and Miss Dearborn became acquainted last summer at <a href="https://www.cityofasburypark.com/">Asbury Park, N.J.</a> Miss Dearborn came here about 7 days ago and told her friend she wanted to stay at her house a while. She visited Dr. Elijah A. Bond, so the authorities say, and he has been arrested by order of Coroner Mix and locked up at police headquarters, charged with murder. The coroner refused to admit him to bail.<br /> Bond had been in trouble before. About three years ago a young girl complained to the city attorney that he had subjected her to an operation, and he was arrested, but the evidence was insufficient and he was released.<br /> Miss Dearborn had been sick one week at the boarding house on Wooster st. and shortly before her death Dr. Welch was called, and he summoned Dr. Russell, but it was too late to save her life. <br /> The girl during her sickness refused to give her name, telling the attendants to call her 'Grace,' and she also refused to give her parents address. Just before her death, however, she gave their address and a telegram was sent to them. Her father reached this city late in the afternoon. He was prostrated over the death of his daughter...<br /> Miss Dearborn was 24 years old. She had been employed in the office of the city treasurer of Everett, and was a pretty girl, well liked by everybody. Her betrayer, it is said, lives in Everett, and it is rumored that he is an official in that town, but the authorities here, although claiming to know his name, refuse to divulge it at present. Miss Dearborn, when she left home, said she was going to attend the wedding of a friend in <a href="https://www.newbritainct.gov/" target="_blank">New Britain</a>.<br /> An autopsy was performed on the body of Miss Dearborn this afternoon, and after it was over, medical examiner White reported to Coroner Mix that death was caused by criminal maltreatment. <br /> The coroner turned the body over to her father, and made the following statement: "This young woman's name was Grace Dearborn. She was 24 years of age and the daughter of Daniel O. Dearborn, on of the assessors of the city of Everett, Mass, three miles from the city of Boston. She was a clerk in the office of the treasurer of Everett. She left home the latter part of last week, and told her parents that she was going to <a href="https://www.newbritainct.gov/" target="_blank">New Britain</a>, this state, to attend the marriage of a friend. Instead of going to New Britain, she came to this city and stopped with friends at 186 Wooster St. In a couple of days she called at the house of Dr. Bond on Orange St. He performed the operation in his own house, and the young woman returned to 186 Wooster st. Mrs. Mathis called in Dr. W. C. Welch. He saw that she was a very sick girl, and it was decided to telegraph her people that she could not live through the day. This was done and her father started at once for this city.<br /> "Dr. Welch called in Dr. Thomas Russell at 11:30 yesterday morning. He saw that she could not possibly live through the day, and he at once drove to my house. I went with him in his carriage to the Wooster st house, and found the girl to be dying. I took her antemortem statement.<br /> "I wired her people that she was dying, and she died at 1 in the afternoon, before her father could reach here. I ordered the body removed at once to the morgue, and requested Dr. White to hold an autopsy this morning."<br /> It seems Miss Dearborn came to this city with a young man whose name the coroner or any one else will not divulge. She tried to be admitted into a maternity hospital in this city, but a physician, who was first consulted, declined to take charge of the case. This is given as the reason why she finally decided to go to the home of the Mathis family on Wooster st. without telling them her plans.<br /></p><br /><br />Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-86407611312002883542019-01-18T11:17:00.001-08:002022-03-08T10:13:56.825-08:00War Photos from Okinawa 6Part6 of war photos from Okinawa shot by the 10th Army photographic team
from the collection of Lt. R.T. Kowallis. Among my father's photos from
his time on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" target="_blank">Okinawa</a>
in 1945 was a book of photos, some with captions, that was likely
produced for the Army. Although the photos are not always of high
quality, they give a lot of views of the terrain and conditions during
the battle on this Pacific island.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
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And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-4.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 4 </a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/11/war-photos-from-okinawa-5.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 5</a> </i></li>
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Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-48411544888875541622018-11-28T07:57:00.000-08:002018-11-28T07:57:43.891-08:00War Photos from Okinawa 5Part 5 of war photos from Okinawa shot by the 10th Army photographic team
from the collection of Lt. R.T. Kowallis. Among my father's photos from
his time on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" target="_blank">Okinawa</a>
in 1945 was a book of photos, some with captions, that was likely
produced for the Army. Although the photos are not always of high
quality, they give a lot of views of the terrain and conditions during
the battle on this Pacific island.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
</ul>
And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-4.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 4 </a></i></li>
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Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-79637162062438176852018-04-16T08:31:00.001-07:002018-04-16T08:45:34.599-07:00War Photos from Okinawa 4Part 4 of war photos from Okinawa shot by the 10th Army photographic team
from the collection of Lt. R.T. Kowallis. Among my father's photos from
his time on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" target="_blank">Okinawa</a>
in 1945 was a book of photos, some with captions, that was likely
produced for the Army. Although the photos are not always of high
quality, they give a lot of views of the terrain and conditions during
the battle on this Pacific island.<br />
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From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY-7_Ohka" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> we read: "The <b>Yokosuka MXY-7</b> <i><b>Ohka</b></i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span lang="ja">櫻花</span> <i>Ōka</i>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom" title="Cherry blossom">cherry blossom</a>"; 桜花 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai" title="Shinjitai">modern orthography</a>)</span> was a purpose-built, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-powered_aircraft" title="Rocket-powered aircraft">rocket-powered</a> human-guided <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze" title="Kamikaze">kamikaze</a></i> attack aircraft employed by Japan against Allied ships towards the end of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. United States sailors gave the aircraft the nickname <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_(word)" title="Baka (word)">Baka</a> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span lang="ja">ばか</span>, "fool" or "idiot")</span>."<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. </div>
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
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And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
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Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-86906776648139821812018-04-16T07:45:00.000-07:002018-04-16T08:23:42.350-07:00War Photos from Okinawa 3Part 3 of war photos from Okinawa shot by the 10th Army photographic team
from the collection of Lt. R.T. Kowallis. Among my father's photos from
his time on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" target="_blank">Okinawa</a>
in 1945 was a book of photos, some with captions, that was likely
produced for the Army. Although the photos are not always of high
quality, they give a lot of views of the terrain and conditions during
the battle on this Pacific island.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
</ul>
And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
<ul>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
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Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-85079524401321498972018-04-16T07:30:00.002-07:002018-04-16T08:09:30.460-07:00War Photos from Okinawa 2More war photos from Okinawa shot by the 10th Army photographic team from the collection of Lt. R.T. Kowallis. Among my father's photos from his time on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" target="_blank">Okinawa</a> in 1945 was a book of photos, some with captions, that was likely produced for the Army. Although the photos are not always of high quality, they give a lot of views of the terrain and conditions during the battle on this Pacific island.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
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And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
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Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-46593139975272620322018-03-07T10:54:00.002-08:002018-11-28T07:47:34.422-08:00War Photos from Okinawa 1My father, Lt. R. T. Kowallis, as I have mentioned in earlier blogs, was leader of a small group of U.S. Army soldiers who produced and analyzed photos in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War" target="_blank">Pacific Theater</a>, notably during and after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">invasion of Okinawa</a>. Among my father's photos from his time on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" target="_blank">Okinawa</a> in 1945 was a book of photos, some with captions, that was likely produced for the Army. I will be posting these photos from the book over the next months to preserve them. Perhaps someone will recognize a family member in one of the photos. I would be interested to hear from you if you do.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
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And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="https://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-4.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 4</a> </i></li>
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Henry Wallick & his wife Mary (McInnis) Wallick </b></span><br />
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(Owners of Hollyrood Farm for 7+ Years, 1888-1895, 1897, 1903)</h3>
Continued from <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_89.html" target="_blank">PART 4</a><br />
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THE LAST YEARS<br />In 1902 and in 1903, James H. Wallick, in addition to managing Eleanor Merron’s plays tried to revive his most successful play, The Bandit King [119], but the revival was a short one and audiences were apparently tiring of the genre. In the years after Mary Wallick’s death, James boarded in Middletown with Eleanor and Archie Cowper, who had moved there after Archie became blind in 1896. [120] James briefly owned Hollyrood Farm again when he purchased it from Moses Crow’s widow, Elizabeth in 1903. [121] He sold the farm to his attorney, William B. Royce in 1905. [122] Archie died in 1906 and following his death James purchased a large home in Middletown––a fine house called the Thistles––where he and Eleanor resided until the property was lost due to mortgage foreclosure. [123] At that point, both he and Eleanor took rooms at the King Edward Hotel in New York City.<br />
<br />Was there more than just friendship between James and Eleanor? There are no reports of any impropriety or any intimacy between them, but for several years they were almost inseparable. James, born in 1843, was fifteen years older than Eleanor, who was born in 1858 [124], both still young enough after the death of their spouses to have had a romantic relationship. Still, it may be that they just found in each other a “kindred spirit,” someone who had experienced the exhilaration of audiences enthralled by their performances, as well as the melancholy brought on by harsh reviews and rejection of new ideas. Whatever it was that brought them together, the combination turned out to be deadly.<br />
<br />It was while they were both living at the King Edward Hotel in New York City that they discussed their failing fortunes (both in terms of money and success) and James failing health. They had both lost long-term companions, something that must have weighed on them deeply. There were no more hit plays on the horizon and for both of these individuals, life seemed to have lost any meaning. James and Eleanor spoke often about suicide during this time and, in April 1908, agreed that it was time to carry out their plans. [125] They were to both take their lives on the first of May at the same time and in the same manner, but in different locations to avoid any unpleasant notoriety. [126] James left New York City and went to Middletown where he took a room in the Commercial Hotel and carried out his part of the agreement on the first of May. [127] But Eleanor delayed. She wanted to make sure James was properly taken care of. He was buried in Middletown in the Hillside Cemetery and the only service performed at his burial was by Eleanor, who read some poetry. [128] The details of what happened in the months following and of Eleanor’s own suicide in November of the same year were reported in hundreds of newspaper articles published across the country. The Ocala Evening Star, for example, reported it as follows:<br />
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<i>Middletown, N.Y., Dec. 4––Details of a suicide agreement that existed between Mrs. Eleanor Merron Cowper, the playwright and actress who shot herself at the Hotel St. Regis in New York on Friday and died Monday in the Presbyterian hospital, and James H. Wallick, the actor-manager, who shot and killed himself at the Commercial hotel in Middletown on May 1, became known today through the publication of letters which Mrs. Cowper wrote just before her death.<br />From Mrs. Cowper’s statements in various letters which are in the hands of her attorney, Special County Judge H. B. Royce of Middletown, it is evident that Mrs. Cowper and Mr. Wallick as long as a year ago contemplated suicide and that both decided to die in the same manner. In one letter Mrs. Cowper says that she and James H. Wallick had often talked over the matter of taking their lives and had agreed that each would do so. While no definite time was set it was agreed that should they come to feel that the world had no further attractions for them they would leave it at the same time and in the same manner.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Commercial House (Hotel) in Middletown, New York about 1900 where James H. Wallick committed suicide. Photo courtesy of the Thrall Library, Middletown, New York.</td></tr>
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<i>In April last, while Mrs. Cowper and Mr. Wallick were staying at the King Edward hotel in New York, Mr. Wallick broached the subject of suicide again. His fortune gone and suffering from illness, he made up his mind that life had nothing for him. Mrs. Cowper’s financial affairs were also in bad shape, and while she had enough to live on she felt that with the death of Mr. Wallick, her closest friend, she could find no pleasure in life.</i><br />
<i><br />The suicide agreement was made and they were to take their lives on May 1, 1908. In order to avoid unpleasant notoriety, it was decided that Mr. Wallick should come to Middletown to do the deed and that Mrs. Cowper should remove from the King Edward hotel to the St. Regis and there take her life.<br />In the last week of April Mr. Wallick bade Mrs. Cowper farewell at the King Edward hotel and came to Middletown. He shot himself in the right temple in a bathroom in the Commercial hotel in this city on the morning of May 1. Instead of taking her life at the same time as agreed, Mrs. Cowper remained at the King Edward and awaited the news of Mr. Wallick’s suicide, deciding that she should personally attend to all the details of his burial and later take her own life. She was deeply affected when she received the expected word that Mr. Wallick had carried out his part of the compact. Then Mrs. Cowper proceeded to put her affairs in shape for her death. She postponed carrying out her part of the agreement from time to time, however, not from reluctance of fear, but because she could not arrange a time for the act that would not interfere in some way with some one’s plans. In particular she did not wish to interfere with any plans her attorney, Judge H. B. Royce, had made, as she wished hem to look after her affairs and burial.</i><br />
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<i> </i><i><br />She continued to postpone the event but made up her mind fully to do the deed on the day after election. Then she learned that Judge Royce was contemplating a pleasure trip at that time and again she postponed taking her life.</i><br />
<i><br />In one of the letters she left she said that she had not had any big time since July but that she “celebrated the day after election as every good patriot ought. I have no grudge against the world and I intend to go in good health and spirits.”</i><br />
<i><br />In the letter in which Mrs. Cowper gave directions for her cremation she stated definitely the sums that should be paid for her cremation and burial as follows: Hearse, $11, coach, $7, ferriage, $1.20, cremation, $25, porters, $8, casket, $75, attendants, $6. Total, $132.20.</i><br />
<i><br />The last letter which Mrs. Cowper wrote just before she shot herself and which she sent to Judge Royce by special delivery, is one of the most remarkable ever left by a suicide. In it she talks cheerfully of her death and avows her belief that there is no future world. [129]</i><br />
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BRIEF GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY –– WHEELER (WALLICK) FAMILY<br /><br /><b>JACOB WHEELER</b> (possibly the father) was born about 1818 in New York and was unemployed at the time of the 1850 U.S. Census. [130] Jacob appears to have either died or deserted his family by 1860. The mother was <b>SUSAN</b> (perhaps <b>ELLSWORTH or WHEELER</b>). Susan was born about 1817/1820 in New York and died on 5 November 1898 at Rondout, Ulster County, New York; she was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange County, New York. [131] Her gravestone lists her name as <b>Susan Wheeler Ellsworth</b>. [132] Susan was working as a domestic servant in the Jeremiah Ten Broeck household of Saugerties, Ulster County, New York in 1870. [133]<br />Jacob (perhaps) and Susan had the following children:<br />
<br /> <b>i.</b> <b>Henry Wheeler</b> (a.k.a., <b>Patrick J. Fubbins or James Henry Wallick</b>) was born 26 June 1844 in Hurley, Ulster County, New York. [134] James was married on 22 August 1867 in Knox County, Illinois to <i>Mary McInnes</i> (or McGinnis or McKenzie), who was born 6 May 1846 perhaps in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois and died on 4 April 1898 in Middletown, Orange County, New York. [135]<br /> There are no known children for this couple, although one newspaper report suggested that they had adopted Mary’s niece, <b>Eleanor Merron</b>. [136] This seems to be incorrect. No connection between Mary and Eleanor has been found and other newspaper accounts indicate that Eleanor and her husband <b>Archie Cowper</b> became acquainted with James and Mary Wallick in about 1897 when Eleanor began acting in Wallick’s plays. [137]<br /> Another newspaper account suggests that James and Mary Wallick adopted his niece, <b>Violet Barney</b>, who married <b>Mr. Williams</b>; Violet supposedly lived with the Wallicks in Middletown or on Hollyrood farm and attended the Ursuline Academy. [138] I have been unable to verify this report.<br />
<br /> <b>ii. </b> <b>Matilda Wheeler</b> was born about 1847 probably in Hurley, Ulster County, New York. [139] She was working as a domestic servant for the Solomon and Sarah Crispell family in Hurley in 1865 and for George and Sarah Wynkoop, also in Hurley, in 1870. [140] Interestingly, the Wynkoop household is listed right after the John Elmendorf family. It was the Elmendorfs who took in her brother as a young boy. In 1880, Matilda was employed as a cook in the Mahaleth Floyd household in Shandaken, Ulster County, New York. [141] Matilda apparently married a <b>Mr. Delemater</b>, but I have been unable to find her with him in any records. [142] She died on 6 November 1899 and was buried with her mother in the Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange County, New York. [143]<br />
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NOTES and REFERENCES<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">119. The York Daily, York, Pennsylvania, Friday, 26 September 1902, p. 1; The Boston Post, Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, 26 May 1903.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">120. New York Times, New York City, Saturday, 28 November 1908, p. 16; Archie was blind by 1896 (see The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Sunday, 19 July 1896, p. 15; The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Wednesday, 27 December 1899, p. 4).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">121. Orange Co. Deeds, Book 465, page 580-582 (deeds index accessed online at FamilySearch.org).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">122. Orange Co. Deeds, Book 479, page 300 (deeds index accessed online at FamilySearch.org).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">123. The house where the Wallicks and Cowpers stayed was probably “The Thistles” a house that was located at the corner of Wawayanda and Willow Avenues in Middletown, NY. The house was later the residence of the Countess Olaeta and was then sold in 1917 to the Carmelite Fathers as a residence and school for boys. See the article on this in the Middletown Times Press, Middletown, New York, Saturday, 28 July 1917, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">124. 1850 U.S. census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 479 (written) and 240 (stamped), household 217, family 226; The Boston Journal, Saturday, 28 November 1908, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">125. See for example, The Boston Post, Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, 2 December 1908, p. 1; The Ocala Evening Star, Ocala, Florida, Saturday, 5 December 1908, p. 1. There are hundreds of newspaper accounts of the suicides of James H. Wallick and Eleanor Merron Cowper.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">126. The Ocala Evening Star, Ocala, Florida, Saturday, 5 December 1908, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">127. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Friday, 1 May 1908, p. 1; New York Times, New York City, Saturday, 2 May 1908, p. 9.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">128. The Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, New Jersey, Wednesday, 2 December 1908, p. 1 & 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">129. The Ocala Evening Star, Ocala, Florida, Saturday, 5 December 1908, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">130. 1850 US census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 479 (written) and 240 (stamped), household 217, family 226.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">131. Gravestone in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York; Daily Argus, Middletown, Orange Co., N.Y., Tuesday, 8 November 1898, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">132. If Wheeler was her maiden name, then the Jacob Wheeler she was with in 1850 would likely be a brother, not her husband and both of her children listed here would have probably been born out of wedlock. The name Ellsworth might then have been the name of a later husband. However, in 1850 she and Jacob were living in the household of James Ellsworth. It seems more probably that Susan and James were brother and sister and Jacob Wheeler was her husband since her children had the surname of Wheeler.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">133. 1870 US census, Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 107 (written) and 244 (stamped), household 674, family 836.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">134. Gravestone in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York; 1850 U.S. census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 479 (written) and 240 (stamped), household 217, family 226; 1855 New York State census, ED 2, Hurley, Ulster Co., dwelling 14.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">135. Gravestone in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York; Middletown Daily Press, Middletown, New York, Tuesday, 23 August 1892; Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Monday, 4 April 1898, p. 5 and Wednesday, 6 April 1898, p. 5; “Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934”, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KFL8-TNQ : accessed 9 December 2015), James H Wallack and Mary Mckenzie, 1867.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">136. The New York Sun, New York City, Saturday, 2 May 1908, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">137. The New York Dramatic Mirror, New York City, Saturday, 25 November 1899, p. 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">138. The Tri-States Union, Port Jervis, New York, Thursday, 7 May 1908, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">139. 1850 U.S. census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 479 (written) and 240 (stamped), household 217, family 226.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">140. 1865 New York State census, Hurley, Ulster Co., p. 67, family 443; 1870 U.S. census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 24, household 197, family 192.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">141. 1880 U.S. census, Shandaken, Ulster Co., N.Y., e.d. 151, p. 7, sheet 180C, dwelling 66, family 72.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">142. She is listed on the same gravestone with her mother where her name is given as Matilda Delemater.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">143. Gravestone in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York; The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, Tuesday, 27 February 1923, p. 11. </span>Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-90368349781633855362018-02-27T12:09:00.003-08:002018-03-07T10:19:31.062-08:00James H. Wallick, the Bandit and Cattle King – An Owner of Hollyrood Farm (Part 4)<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>James
Henry Wallick & his wife Mary (McInnis) Wallick </b></span><br />
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(Owners of Hollyrood Farm for 7+ Years, 1888-1895, 1897, 1903)</h3>
Continued from <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_52.html" target="_blank">PART 3</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eleanor Merron Cowper, friend of James H. Wallick, with whom he later made a suicide pact. Photo and article from The Chicago Tribune, Saturday, 28 November 1908, page 2.</td></tr>
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ELEANOR MERRON––ACTRESS, WRITER, AND FRIEND<br />
Even with all of their financial troubles, James and Mary seemed to be making their way and were considered to be quite successful. An article in Brooklyn Life in 1898 still listed James Wallick as one of the wealthiest actors with a fortune worth over $100,000. In the middle of this success, however, three events occurred in 1898 and 1899 that may have caused James H. Wallick to begin questioning the purpose of life. First, in late March his beloved wife, Mary––his companion, fellow performer, and financial advisor––became seriously ill and for several days lay in the Oriental Hotel in Middletown, New York in a semi conscious state; she passed away at the age of 50 years on the 4th of April. Mrs. Wallick was well-liked in the Middletown area where they lived after selling Hollyrood farm when they were not on the road with the acting company. She was described as “warm-hearted, generous..., and [someone who] did many acts of kindness and charity.” Later that same year, on the 5th or 6th of November, James’s mother, Susan Ellsworth of Rondout, Ulster County, New York, died and was brought to Middletown to be buried near his wife. Finally, a year later on November 9, 1899 his sister, and last surviving member of his immediate family passed away.<br />
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With no children of their own––with the possible exception of an adopted niece, Violet (Barney) Williams, who was married and living in Washington, D.C.––James was left with only two close friends, Archie and Eleanor (Merron) Cowper, both of whom were actors. James was particularly close to Eleanor, who acted in some of his plays and with whom he collaborated, producing her successful play, The Dairy Farm, and less successful play, Her Wedding Day. The collaboration may have begun in earnest, when James showed her he script of a play he was considering. Eleanor commented that she could certainly write a better one. James encouraged her to do so and the result was her play, The Dairy Farm. James managed the production and both he and Eleanor acted in the play. The play opened in September 1899 and was quite well liked by the critics and drew fairly good audiences over the next few years. For example, the Washington, D.C. Evening Times, said of the play that “The Dairy Farm last night [at the Columbia theater] presented one of the very best pieces of its class that has come to Washington this year and the excellent production won the hearty commendation of a large gathering,” while the Hazleton, Pennsylvania Plain Speaker stated that “Miss Eleanor Merron, the author of The Dairy Farm, has received over seven hundred letters from all the prominent clergymen in New York commending its merit as inspiring worthy ideas and affording much innocent amusement.” By October of 1901 the play had already been performed 109 times in New York City, 137 times in Philadelphia, and 133 times in Chicago.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster for the Dairy Farm a play by Eleanor Merron with James H. Wallick as manager. Both James and Eleanor also acted in the play. Reproduction of the poster courtesy of the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014636429/" target="_blank">U.S. Library of Congress</a>.</td></tr>
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Eleanor was born in New Gloucester, Maine in 1858 as Dora Ellen Merrow to John Merrow and Elizabeth Ellen Knight. When she made the decision to become and actress, she took on the stage name of Eleanor Merron and also seems to have distanced herself from her family. She later added her own details to her youth and birth. In her version, she was born in England in 1867 to American parents who returned to the United States when she was 3 months old where she was raised in Gorham, Maine. Her Maine birth record, however, shows that she was born in 1858 in New Gloucester, about 25 miles from Gorham, not in England. Both the 1860 and 1870 U.S. Censuses confirm her birth in Maine and show the family still living in New Gloucester, not Gorham.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advertisement with the cast for a play titled La Tosca by Victorien Sardou later adapted as an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The performances were at the Broadway Theater in New York City. This notice was published in The Theatre, an illustrated magazine of drama, music, and art (22 March 1888, v. IV, no. 8, p. 156, courtesy of Google Books).</td></tr>
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Eleanor states that she left home and began acting with the Boston Theater Company when she was 14 years old (about 1872 if we use her correct birthdate) in a play called The Hidden Hand. Her career may have received a boost in 1888 and 1889 when, according to her own account, she was mentored by the famous actress Fanny Davenport when they performed together for two seasons in Sardou’s play La Tosca. Many other plays came and went over the years, including All The Comforts of Home, The Lights o’ London, The Private Secretary, and Gloriana. The first newspaper report of an appearance of Eleanor on stage that I have been able to find was published in September of 1882 when she would have been about 24 years old. That month, a new popular play by Paul Merritt and Augustus Harris from London, called Youth, opened in Boston with Eleanor Merron in the role of Alice Wenlock, one of the minor characters. Sometime around 1883, Eleanor met an actor by the name of Archibald “Archie” Cowper. Archie was part of an acting family which included his father, John C. Cowper, a brother, Will C. Cowper, a sister, Clara Cowper, and Archie himself. It was perhaps during 1884, while they were both acting in a play called The Lights o’ London, that they fell in love and decided to marry. The ceremony took place in Manhattan on 2 July 1885. Even with a busy acting career, Eleanor found time during this stage of her life to write a novel, As the Wind Blows, first published in 1895. The book received mixed reviews, with some finding it a nice moral story and others complaining that it showed all the marks of a novice writer.<br />
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Eleanor was described in contemporary reports as bright and clever, an interesting talker, plump with golden-hair, and “a stunning looking woman with a pair of blue eyes full of tenderness and sympathy and a keen sense of a jolly situation”; she was also considered a fine actress and writer. In recalling her early days of working with James H. Wallick she recounted the following in an interview in 1902:<br />
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<i>I think the greatest strain I was ever in for mental and financial resources was about four seasons ago when I was about to appear in a new production under James H. Wallick’s management. Mr. Wallick had asked me to buy some things for the stage. I started out just after breakfast to select draperies, table covers, etc., and have them sent to the theater that evening before the performance, so that we could see the effect by electric light. They were to be paid for upon delivery. I could not find what I wanted at a reasonable price, so I decided to purchase the goods and make the articles myself. Then I remembered that I had not enough money to pay for them. I got into a cab, took the things along with me accompanied by a young man with the bill. I thought as it was only a matter of $50 they would certainly pay that at the hotel and charge it to me, but the manager did not appear to be used to such things. I explained and offered my ring for security. He said, “If you will bring me an order from Mr. Wallick, I will pay it.” “Good Lord man,” I interrupted, “if I could see Mr. Wallick I would not need to ask you.” So I drove over to the hotel where Mr. Wallick was staying, but he was not in. I swore a great big swear that those curtains should play in a star engagement that night. On my travels I had noticed a loan office. I had with me only two rings and a gold locket, but I dashed in and said, “I must have $50.” The man looked so astonished that I had to laugh in my excitement. I explained that I had lost my money and he gave me the cash. I had only four hours to cut, decorate and line the things, but I finished and was at the theater at a quarter before seven. When everything was arranged I felt thoroughly repaid and the effect delighted Mr. Wallick. The next day I confessed. Mr. Wallick looked stern. “In heaven’s name,” he said, “why did you do a thing like that?” I said in my chilliest manner, “I am very sorry to have offended you. I promised you to have the things for the scene in time and I thought I had redeemed my promise as few women would. Kindly take the money out of my salary, give me the things and consider the incident closed.” But I was wrong. I had made a big hit with Mr. Wallick. He was amazed and very much pleased.</i><br />
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In 1891, an actor friend of Archie and Eleanor’s, Henry Aveling, committed suicide. The night before, Aveling had met Cowper and told him he was going to end his life, but Archie did not believe him, even though he accompanied Aveling to the drug store to discuss the use of cyanide with the clerk. Apparently, Aveling had attempted suicide or stated his intent to attempt it a number of times before until it had become somewhat of a joke among his friends. This time it was not a joke. Again in 1894 a friend of the Cowpers, actress May Brookyn used carbolic acid to commit suicide. Did the suicides of these friends later play into Eleanor’s own decision to take her life? If nothing else, they may have planted a seed of an idea that later bloomed into reality.<br />
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Continued in <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_26.html" target="_blank">PART 5</a><br />
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NOTES and REFERENCES<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">91. Brooklyn Life, Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, 30 April 1898, p. 32.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">92. The Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Monday, 28 March 1898, p. 5 and Monday, 4 April 1898, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">93. The Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Monday, 4 April 1898, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">94. Gravestone in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York; The Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Tuesday, 8 November 1898, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">95. Gravestone in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">96. The New York Dramatic Mirror, New York City, Saturday, 25 November 1899, p. 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">97. The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, 5 September 1905, p. 26.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">98. The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Monday, 14 May 1900.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">99. The Scranton Republican, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Thursday, 7 September 1899, p. 3; The Times, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tuesday Morning, 19 September 1899, p. 2; The Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY, Sunday, 1 October 1899, p. 14; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, 9 January 1900, p. 9; The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, Tuesday, 18 September 1900, p. 9; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, 9 October 1900, p. 5; The Morning Herald, Lexington, Kentucky, Wednesday, 13 February 1901, p. 2; The Cleveland Leader, Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, 16 February 1902, p. 28; The Reading Times, Reading, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, 11 September 1906, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">100. The Plain Speaker, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Friday, 20 April 1900, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">101. The Wilkes-Barre Times, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Monday, 14 October 1901, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">102. “Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW19-8ZZ : accessed 23 February 2016), Dora Ellen Merrow, 31 Oct 1858; citing ; FHL microfilm 11,587. Several newspaper articles use the name Merrow, rather than Merron when reporting on Eleanor. See for example, The Courier, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sunday, 29 November 1908, p. 1, The Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nevada, Wednesday, 2 December 1908, p. 2, or The Boston Post, Boston, Massachusetts, Saturday, 17 September 1892, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">103. The North American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday, 25 September 1899, p. 9.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">104. “Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW19-8ZZ : accessed 23 February 2016), Dora Ellen Merrow, 31 Oct 1858; citing ; FHL microfilm 11,587.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">105. 1860 US census, New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, p. 34 and 35, dwelling 267, family 288; 1870 US census, New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, p. 5 and 6, dwelling 42, family 33.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">106. The North American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday, 25 September 1899, p. 9; New York Dramatic Mirror, New York City, Saturday, 25 November 1899, p. 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">107. See the included advertisement and playbill for La Tosca from 1888 and 1889 performances of Eleanor with Fanny Davenport, as well as her own account of this time reported in The North American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday, 25 September 1899, p. 9 and in the New York Dramatic Mirror, New York City, Saturday, 25 November 1899, p. 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">108. Most of this information comes from her own account published in the New York Dramatic Mirror, New York City, Saturday, 25 November 1899, p. 2; also The Boston Sunday Post, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, 27 May 1894, p. 11.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">109. Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, 20 September 1882, p. 4; The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, 12 November 1882, p. 5; Eleanor may have played other parts in plays for the Boston Theater Company that year as she was listed as one of the members of the company (see The History of Boston Theater, 1854-1901 by Eugene Tompkins, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1908, p. 295.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">110. The Boston Daily Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Thursday Morning, 21 December 1876, p. 8; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, 15 October 1893, p. 7; Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, Wednesday, 3 January 1877, p. 3; The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Sunday, 19 July 1896, p. 15.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">111. The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, Sunday, 20 January 1884, p. 4; The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York, Tuesday Morning, 15 January 1884.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">112. “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24SN-42X : accessed 16 February 2016), Archibald Cowper and Dora Me...Ron, 02 Jul 1885; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,570,465.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">113. The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuesday, 12 November 1895, p. 4; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Saturday, 19 October 1895, p. 10 and Thursday, 1 October 1896, p. 4; The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, Monday, 21 October 1895, p. 4; The San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California, Sunday, 10 November 1895, p. 23 and Sunday, 1 December 1895, p. 21.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">114. The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, New York, For the Week Ending, 9 February 1902, p.2.; The Morning Times, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, 12 March 1901, p. 5; The North American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday, 25 September 1899, p. 9; Titusville Herald, Titusville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 31 March 1900.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">115. The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saturday, 19 April 1902, p. 18.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">116. The Evening World, New York City, Friday, 20 March 1891, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">117. The Sun, New York City, Friday, 20 March 1891, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">118. The World, New York City, Sunday, 25 February 1894, p. 38. </span>Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-62376750338670296942018-02-27T11:40:00.000-08:002018-02-27T12:15:10.085-08:00James H. Wallick, the Bandit and Cattle King – An Owner of Hollyrood Farm (Part 3)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster advertising James H. Wallick’s Cattle King staring Kate Paxton courtesy of the <a href="http://hdl.huntington.org/" target="_blank">Huntington Digital Library</a>, Jay T. Last Collection of Lithographic and Social History.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>James
Henry Wallick & his wife Mary (McInnis) Wallick </b></span><br />
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(Owners of Hollyrood Farm for 7+ Years, 1888-1895, 1897, 1903)</h3>
Continued from <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_27.html" target="_blank">PART 2</a><br />
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MORE MELODRAMAS, PERSONAL SUCCESS, AND FINANCIAL STRUGGLES<br />
Even though the play continued to be a success for the next decade, James Wallick wanted a second play to perform along with it. Starting in 1886, a new romantic melodrama, The Cattle King, written by William H. Young, was added to the company’s repertoire. [64] The new drama was set in the Rocky Mountains and was similar in style and form to the Bandit King and featured “four trained horses and a trick donkey.” [65] When the play opened in Cleveland in November, a full house of 2,342 were on hand and several hundred others had to be turned away. [66] A review of the performance stated that, “rarely, if ever, has there been heard such shouting and demonstrations of approval, even within the walls of the Cleveland theater. Every act was followed with a curtain call, and the hero was frequently called upon to acknowledge the plaudits of the public with a bow. The drama was excellently staged with new and appropriate scenery, and for a play of that character no fault can be found with the acting.” The negative reviews that had accompanied the performances of the Bandit King were essentially non-existent for the Cattle King.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advertisement placed by James H. Wallick in the Kingston Daily Freeman, Thursday Evening, 10 January 1889, courtesy of Newspapers.com. The ad is typical of those placed in papers around the country advertising the traveling showman and his productions.</td></tr>
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The success of these two plays allowed Wallick to climb out of debt by about 1888 for the first time in many years. [67] During 1888 these two plays were performed almost continuously across the country in over fifty cities (see 1888 travel schedule earlier in this chapter). By the year’s end, Wallick was ready to move on and in December that year he offered the two plays for sale [68], but apparently he did not get the offer he wanted as he continued to perform them in future years.<br />
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Other romantic melodramas followed over the next two decades, including: The Mountain King, Sam Houston, The Blue Grass King, Devil’s Island, When London Sleeps, Queen of the Highway, King of Rogues, The Guilty Mother, She Dared Do Right, Her Wedding Day, Held for Ransom, and The Dairy Farm. None were quite as successful as the first two plays. It was said that, “When Wallick, the Bandit King actor, wants a new play, he turns one of his horses around, changes the name of one of his old plays, and there you are.” [69] By 1902, Wallick was one of the wealthiest stage performers and managers in the country and had accumulated about $250,000 from the success of his plays. [70] But this was perhaps the height of his success and wealth.<br />
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Although James Wallick was good at making money, he was even more skilled at spending it. First, just as he was rising out of debt, he plunged back into it. It was in May 1888 that James and Mary purchased the 264 acres that became Hollyrood Farm near Circleville, New York from Henry Low for $32,000. [71] Later that same month he purchased a large quantity of trotter racing stock to begin breeding his own horses at Hollyrood. [72] The plan was to make the farm a breeding ground for trotters, and Wallick had some limited success. During these years, the Wallick’s seemed to enjoy the time each year that they were able to spend at Hollyrood and the local papers loved to report on their comings and goings. [73]<br />
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But horse breeding and raising stock turned out not to be the ‘golden goose’ for the Wallicks. Three years after buying the farm in 1891, Wallick began advertising his breeding stock, the most famous of which was his stallion Millionaire (see included advertisement published in Wallace’s Monthly, a leading horse breeding journal). He shipped six of his finest horses to Chicago in May of that year to be sold at auction. [74] Unfortunately, the auction was very disappointing and “none of the horses brought the prices they should have. There were several bad features that were against [the sale]. The first two or three days it was so cold that purchasers could hardly stand around where the sale was going on.” [75] Still, in 1892, the Los Angeles Times listed James H. Wallick as one of the wealthiest actors in the country making $20,000 to $30,000 annually. [76]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advertisement placed by James H. Wallick in Wallace’s Monthly, May 1891 (available from Google Books).</td></tr>
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Notwithstanding their published wealth, James and Mary Wallick were often near the edge of their financial limits. In August of 1893, James and Mary deeded Hollyrood farm to James H. Rogers of New York City for $1 and the assumption of their $16,000 mortgage. [77] Rogers also purchased the stock on the farm, including the trotters. The farm at the time of the sale was described as containing “a lot of fine buildings and a half-mile track.” [78] The Wallicks may have also been given some other property by Rogers in trade. To diversify the farm, Rogers purchased from a Mr. James Houston “100 sheep of a very fine breed” to raise. [79] But he was apparently not much of a sheep man and no better with his money that Wallick. He lost the farm a year later. [80] At the foreclosure sale, the trotter horses that James Wallick had so carefully bred and cared for were sold at cut rate prices, including his prized stallion, Millionaire, who was won with a bid of $1,700. [81] Following the sale in the fall of 1894 or perhaps early in 1895, James and Mary Wallick once again became the owners of the property, and, in fact, in October of 1894 they were doing well enough financially to purchase a second large house and adjoining property with other buildings in Newport, Rhode Island. [82]<br />
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However, the next Spring, April of 1895, they were again close to losing Hollyrood Farm to foreclosure. The local paper, The Middletown Argus, reported that: “Hollyrood farm was advertised by B. M. Cox, referee, to be sold under foreclosure of a mortgage held by the Middletown Savings Bank at 2 p. m., at the Russell House, to-day, but at the request of Mrs. Wallick and of the attorney for the holder of a second mortgage, the sale was adjourned until Wednesday, April 24th, at the same place and hour.” [83] When the property was finally auctioned on the 24th, James and Mary Wallick once again maintained their ownership of the property (now at 276 acres, 12 more than what they purchased from Henry Low) with a bid of $17,608.32. [84] Shortly after this foreclosure auction, on the 1st of May 1895, the Wallicks sold the farm, all 276 acres, to Morris Robinson, a Polish immigrant for $20,000. Part of the sale included Robinson taking on the remaining $12,000 in mortgage debt owed by the Wallicks. [85]<br />
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But James and Mary were not through with Hollyrood. Morris Robinson was not able to meet his obligations to the Wallicks and to the farm creditors. The Wallicks filed suit against Robinson in the Orange County Supreme Court in September of 1896 over a disagreement related to promissory notes, jewelry, and the farm property. [86] The case was decided the next April in favor of the Wallicks [87] and on the 2nd of June 1897, Hollyrood was once more on the auction block, and once again James and Mary Wallick put in the winning bid. [88] The property was deeded back to them the next day. [89] This time they held onto the farm for two months before selling it to <b><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2017/07/moses-rockwell-crow-and-hollyrood-stock.html" target="_blank">Moses and Elizabeth Crow</a></b> for $22,000 on August 7th [90]; this was ten thousand dollars less than they had paid for it in 1888. After the sale of the farm, James and Mary continued to make their home in Middletown, near James boyhood home that lay just a few miles to the northeast in Ulster County.<br />
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Continued in <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_89.html" target="_blank">PART 4</a><br />
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NOTES and REFERENCES<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">64. The Patriot, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, 8 September 1886, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">65. The Patriot, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, 1 September 1886, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">66. The Cleveland Leader, Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, 2 November 1886, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">67. The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, 2 June 1888.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">68. The New York Dramatic Mirror, New York City, Saturday, 29 December 1888, p. 11.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">69. Al Thayer, 1894, Ah There: Pickings from Lobby Chatter in the Cincinnati Enquirer, p. 170 (available online through Google Books).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">70. Philharmonic: A Magazine Devoted to Music Art Drama, v. 2, p. 222 (available online through Google Books).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">71. Orange County, New York Deeds Book 358, p. 593.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">72. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, 30 May 1888, p. 6.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">73. The Middletown Times Press, Middletown, New York, Thursday, 14 July 1892, p. 7; Tuesday, 23 August 1892; Monday, 27 March 1893, p. 3; and Tuesday, 25 April 1893, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">74. The Middletown Times Press, Middletown, New York, Tuesday, 5 May 1891, p. 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">75. The Middletown Times Press, Middletown, New York, Tuesday, 12 May 1891, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">76. Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, 22 May 1892, p. 12.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">77. Orange County, New York Deeds, Book 401, p. 567.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">78. The Middletown Times Press, Middletown, New York, Wednesday, 23 August 1893, p. 3. See the chapter on Rogers and his partner Rowe for more on these short-term owners of the farm.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">79. The Middletown Daily Times, Middletown, New York, Monday, 13 November 1893.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">80. The Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Monday, 23 July 1894, p. 8 and Wednesday, 1 August 1894. p. 5. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">81. The Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Wednesday, 1 August 1894, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">82. The Newport Mercury, Newport, Rhode Island, Saturday, 20 October 1894, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">83. The Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Wednesday, 3 May 1895, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">84. Orange County Deeds, Book 415, p. 219.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">85. Orange County, New York Deeds, Book 415, p. 222, dated 1 May 1895.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">86. The Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Friday, 25 September 1896, p. 3; Thursday, 14 January 1897, p. 8; and Monday, 1 February 1897.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">87. The Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Monday, 5 April 1897, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">88. The Middletown Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Wednesday, 2 June 1897, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">89. Orange County New York Deeds, Book 431, p. 271; Orange County New York Mortgages, Book 353, p. 449.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">90. Orange County, New York Deeds, Book 431, p. 275; The Daily Argus, Middletown, New York, Monday, 28 June 1897, p. 8. </span> Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-81127957633845796342018-02-27T10:56:00.000-08:002018-02-27T12:14:58.559-08:00James H. Wallick, the Bandit and Cattle King – An Owner of Hollyrood Farm (Part 2)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Poster advertising James H. Wallick’s production of The New Bandit King, probably from about 1902-1903. Posed in the image are Wallick and his famous acting horses.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>James
Henry Wallick & his wife Mary (McInnis) Wallick </b></span><br />
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(Owners of Hollyrood Farm for 7+ Years, 1888-1895, 1897, 1903)</h3>
Continued from <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king.html" target="_blank">PART 1</a><br />
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THE WALLICK COMBINATION<br />
The Wallack/Wallick Combination, James group of traveling actors, existed at least between the years 1874 and 1879. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_company" target="_blank">Combination groups</a> differed from repertory groups in that they only offered one play, not several and they generally included a famous, headline actor/actress and more elaborate scenery than a repertory company. [26] James Wallick’s troupe performed plays in small and large cities across the country to generally favorable reviews. In 1878, his company, with Charlotte Thompson playing the lead, performed the classic Jane Eyre and received rave reviews. The Atchison Daily Champion reported, “Notwithstanding the inclemency of the evening, and the steady, drizzling rain that prevailed all day, Corinthian hall was almost packed to see and hear Charlotte Thompson’s rendition of Jane Eyre, in the drama of that name, supported by Wallack’s splendid theatrical combination. Never, in the theatrical history of Atchison, has such homage been paid a star as was bestowed upon Miss Thompson last evening. Many of the finer emotional parts of the drama were lost to the audience by the continued applause that met her better efforts, and when she assayed her strongest dramatic powers, the death like stillness that immediately proceeded the prolonged and enthusiastic applause told how acutely the audience were moved by her superb acting. It was a treat which our amusement lovers ever remember, and Mr. Wallack has the thanks of our Atchison people for his enterprise in bringing so brilliant a theatrical star to our city...Of Mr. James Wallack as a manager we cannot say too much. His companies have invariably been the best that have ever visited Atchison. It is a favorite scheme with many combination managers to bolster up a season’s business on the name of a popular star with a low salaried and inferior company to get the rag tail of the profession, which could be had for a song, fill in with anything, and come through the west, with what he calls a money making snap. It is such managers that bring the show business into bad repute. Mr. Wallack has never yet deceived our people. Only the strongest professional people are employed by him, and when his name heads a combination, it is sufficient guarantee that his people are actors and actresses. [27]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advertisement published in the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016487/" target="_blank"><i>Daily Arkansas Gazette</i></a>, Little Rock, Arkansas on Thursday, September 10, 1874.</td></tr>
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In late 1879 and early 1880, however, while performing in the Midwest, the group began to fall apart, due most likely to financial troubles. [28] James and his company were disbanded by May 1880 and he took employment with Sells Brothers Circus as a “business manager.” [29] His stint with Sells Brothers was a short one for by March of 1881 he was working for Hilliard and Demott’s Great Pacific Circus and Menagerie as a “newspaper man.” [30] In this position it was likely that his duties included producing the advertisements for the circus and getting them into the appropriate newspapers as the company traveled.<br />
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But life was about to change for James H. Wallick. A playwright by the name of James J. McCloskey had written a play called the “Bandit King” about the exploits of Jesse and Frank James and in March of 1882 he sold the play to Wallick and a prominent, but unnamed, circus manager, likely Sheldon Hopkins Barrett, brother-in-law to the Sells brothers and manager of their No. 2 show that became known as Barrett’s Circus. [31] The New York Clipper reported:<br />
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<i>J. J. McCluskey [sic.] has sold to Jas. H. Wallick and a prominent circus manager the entire rights of his sensational equestrian drama entitled “Jesse James, the Bandit King,” founded upon incidents in the lives of the noted James Brothers. The horses introduced in it will be, it is said, the best ever trained by George Bartholomew. There are fifteen strongly-drawn characters, and the scenery and mechanical effects will be new. It will receive its first representation in September next, and J. H. Wallick will be the general business manager. [32]</i><br />
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The timing of this purchase could not have been better. The James gang and their associates had been successfully terrorizing banks and trains for more than a decade and had become national icons. But about a month after the purchase of McCloskey’s play by Wallick, on the 3 April 1882, Jesse James was shot and killed by one of his own gang members, Robert Ford. [33] The nation was primed for the release of the play. Almost immediately Wallick tried to obtain the horses, garments, and firearms used by the outlaw. [34] He also inquired of the local press in Missouri for additional details on the life and character Jesse James. [35] In June, the press reported that Wallick had completed the purchase of two horses from the estate of Jesse James and that these horses would appear in the play. [36] The horses were shipped to New York in July where they were put into training under the direction of Barrett’s Circus (a subsidiary of Sells Brothers) equestrian trainer. [37]<br />
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THE BANDIT KING<br />
James H. Wallick set about vigorously organizing a company of actors and preparing to debut the play. [38] However, while he and his circus partners were preparing to launch the play, other enterprising individuals also saw the possible financial advantage of cashing in on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James" target="_blank">Jesse James</a> and began to put on McCloskey’s play or something like it using a similar name. Wallick, supported by the playwright McCloskey took these as serious infractions of their ownership of the work and let it be known that such infractions would not be tolerated. [39]<br />
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By September the play was ready. Wallick kicked off the inaugural tour by linking up with the Ford brothers––one of whom it will be remembered killed Jesse James––for a showcase at Bunnell’s Broadway Museum in New York City from September 18th to the 23rd. [40] Although it does not appear that the play was performed at the museum during this week, part of the attraction for people to come to the museum was to see Jesse James’ horses, called in the museum advertisement Roan Raider and Light Bay (later renamed Bay Raider and Roan Charger). Even though questions were raised about the authenticity of the horses, Wallick had from the Ford brothers a signed affidavit stating that these were indeed the steeds that had belonged to Jesse James [41], and Wallick advertised them as such across the country. [42]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jesse (25y) and Frank James (29y) taken in 1872 at Carolinda, Illinois. Photo courtesy of <a href="https://cdm16021.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/" target="_blank">U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jesse James in April 1882 after he was shot and killed by his own gang member, Bob Ford. Photo by R. Uhlman, St. Joseph, Mo. reproduced courtesy of the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Library of Congress</a>.</td></tr>
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After the closure of this grand opening show at the museum, Wallick and his company embarked on a whirlwind tour of at least 37 cities throughout the Midwest over the last three months of 1882. During the one month stretch between November 13th and December 12th, they appeared in at least nineteen cities with no performance stop lasting longer than two days. Reviews of the play were generally negative, sometimes strongly negative. The Chicago Daily Tribune in a lengthy review called the play a “hot and highly-spiced dish,” but noted that the Olympic Theater was packed every night and police had to be called in to keep the “eager crowds” from breaking down the doors. [43] The review goes on to lament that the “managers will probably make a barrel of money with it, while first-class attractions are forced to the wall for want of public support.” In Milwaukee, the play again drew an overflowing audience, but the critics viewed it as “idiotic slush” attracting the “cattle-yard critics, who when they indulge in the slow and laborious pastime of reading, tackle flashy literature of the dime novel or “penny-dreadful’ order.” [44] In Des Moines, Iowa the play was labeled as immoral and “respectable people” were advised to refuse to patronize it and particularly to keep their youth from attending. [45] The play was also panned by the Cleveland Leader as being trash put on as “a succession of scenes from the life of the outlaw strung together in a bungling way, so utterly bad that they could not save it.” [46] Nonetheless, the theater in Cleveland was full, with only a few empty seats. The Cleveland Herald commenting on the production stated that, “It matters very little whether newspapers do all in their power to discourage the production of such plays as Jesse James, the Bandit King...there will always be found in every large city a certain element who gloat in plays of that description, people so imbued with hero-worship that they will not stop at anything, and even go so far as to applaud and approvingly shout at a stage reproduction of the dastardly deeds that Jesse James was noted for.” The review goes on to say that, “...the character of James is drawn in such a heroic light, train robbery and thieving is put in such a tempting form before the eyes and minds of the young, that we consider it dangerous.” [47]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Show cities for the “Bandit King” after it first opened in September of 1882. The tour cites have been reconstructed here from reports in newspapers found on several websites, including: Genealogy Bank, Newspapers.com, Chronicling America (Library of Congress), and Newspaper Archive. Some cities may have been missed in this search.</td></tr>
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The play was banned from being performed in late November in Battle Creek, Michigan because of its perceived immoral character. [48] But on November 29th, it was performed anyway under the name of “Old Kentuck.” The Marshall Daily Chronicle reported that, “On the evening of the play, the manager (James Wallick) simply changed the name to “Old Kentuck” and altered the names of some of the characters. The mayor and a squad of 20 extra policemen sworn in for the special occasion were promptly on hand to squelch the immoral ‘Jesse James,’ but were powerless against ‘Old Kentuck.’ They therefore made the best of it, and the mayor found an excuse for sitting through the play.” [49]<br />
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St. Louis was one of the few places where the play received a favorable review. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reported that:<br />
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<i>"The largest audience that has ever assembled in the People’s Theater was there last night to witness the opening representation of Jesse James, the Bandit King, a red-hot, blood-and-thunder drama from the pen of J. J. McCloskey, the author of Across the Continent and other extraordinary romantic plays. There were fully 2,400 persons in the house, which was crowded up and down stairs to the very last inch of standing room. The play was found to be all that the hearts of its patrons could desire. Nearly everybody in it, except the females and an inoffensive barkeeper, was a walking arsenal, and every act teemed with thrilling incidents beside which the works of recent English melodramatists...grow absolutely pale. There was the wildest enthusiasm from beginning to end of the performance, and the demonstration was perfectly justified by the situations, which were base upon the bloodiest and most daring events in the career of the James boys.” [50]</i><br />
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The cast of the play in this inaugural season consisted of about thirteen male actors and three females, including both James H. Wallick, as Jesse James, and his wife Mary Wallick, in a minor role as a character named Sarah Jane. [51] In addition, there were approximately fifty others in supporting roles as highwaymen, railroad men, stage drivers, passengers, soldiers, and guards, as well as the two trained horses.<br />
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The success of the play, notwithstanding the negative reviews, attracted the attention of playwright Frank Lavarnie and his partner Sidney C. France. Lavarnie and France filed a lawsuit in November in the U.S. Circuit Court of Philadelphia asking that James H. Wallack, S. H. Barrett, and James J. McCloskey be restrained from continuing to produce Jesse James, the Bandit King because the play was plagiarized from their play entitled The James Boys, Jesse and Frank, the Missouri Outlaws. [52] However, the similarities between the two plays were not compelling enough for Judge Ludlow who heard the complaint; he dismissed the suit. [53]<br />
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The problem of negative reviews and perceptions of portraying immoral behavior as heroic continued to follow the traveling company into 1883. In March, after a performance in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the “Rev. Melville Smith, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church caused the arrest of James H. Wallick, W. H. Hamilton, F. H. Quick, and Hewitt Smith, members of the troupe, for corrupting the morals of the young by making vice attractive.” [54] Wallick was held over for Grand Jury trial and a performance that was scheduled for March 22 in Lowell, Massachusetts, two days after the arrest of the actors, was apparently cancelled. But these disruptions did not substantially slow down performances of the play. By early April, the decision on the immorality of the play was still undecided in the Massachusetts courts [55], but the show was again on the road with performances in towns and cities across New York and Pennsylvania. [56]<br />
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Even though ticket sales were brisk and Wallick was making money on the play, he may have been concerned by these accusations of immorality. So in new advertisements that appeared in 1883, he and his partners began to claim that the play was good, wholesome, family entertainment. “A play you can take your family to without the least hesitation. Not an immoral sentiment or action,” proclaimed the new ads. This may have helped some, but on through the rest of 1883 and into 1884, the play was still not welcomed in a number of communities. For example, it was not allowed to play or was performed under protest in Madison, Wisconsin [57], Jacksonville, Illinois [58], Rockford, Illinois [59], Leavenworth, Kansas [60], Huntington, Indiana [61], Emporia, Kansas [62], Mansfield, Ohio, and undoubtedly other communities. The Mansfield, Ohio Herald on 27 March 1884 reported:<br />
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<i>The equestrian drama of the Bandit King, in which J. H. Wallick personated the character of the murderer and cut-throat, Jesse James, was advertised to be produced at Miller’s Opera House on Thursday evening last. That the tendency of such performances, by familiarizing the youth of the city with scenes of bloodshed, robbery and other crimes, and by making heroes out of outlaw and desperadoes, was corrupting to their morals, was the feeling of a number of people, and that the city might be saved from the disgrace of an exhibition so injurious to the minds of the rising generation, the following remonstrance, as signed, was placed in the hands of the Mayor on the morning of that day:</i><br />
<i><br />March 20, 1884 -- To His Honor, Mayor Stough: SIR: The undersigned respectfully request you to exercise your authority as Mayor, by suppressing the intended exhibition of the Jesse James Co. to-night and by directing further that hereafter all minstrel shows composed of women performers shall not be permitted at Mansfield. We ask you to do this, not because we object to any reasonable or proper form of amusement, but to prevent indecent and demoralizing exhibitions. We want to protect the young, and the old for that matter, from all shows, exhibitions or performances which are vicious or which present crime in a romantic and attractive form.<br /><br /> James Reynolds Charles Herr George Brinkerhoff<br /> L.A. Armentrout F.J. Kalmerten John W. Jenner<br /> F.E. Tracy Simon Grove H.M. Weaver<br /> Geo. W. Blymyer Willis M. Sturges A.D. Knapp<br /> Geo. F. Carpenter A. Kallmerten Jos. S. Hedges<br /> Benj. Blair N.N. Leyman R.R. Maxwell<br /> Hiram R. Smith J.E. Brown S.A. Bronson <br /> F.M. Iams R. Lean P. Bigelow<br /> Martin Hammond W.P. Clarke F.A. Gilbert<br /> Ben Hurxthal Jacob Steinrock Chas. M. Lain<br /> James White Albert Berno A.J. Gilbert<br /> A. Anderson J.M. Waugh Geo. Knofflock<br /> Chas. F. Harding S.A. George B.L. Bevington<br /> J.A. Anderson A. Scattergood Henry Schiret<br /> Hobart Scattergood A.P. Seiler M.D. Harter<br /><br />Later in the day one of the most prominent petitioners sought a personal interview with the Mayor and put the question direct to him: “Do you mean to stop the performance?” The Mayor said he thought he would, but intimated at the same time that he did not wish to involve the city in any litigation that might result unless the petitioners backed up their remonstrance with a bond. This, signed by a dozen or more wealthy citizens, was forthcoming, and the gentleman left the presence of His Honor with the assurance that the play should not be allowed.</i><br />
<i><br />Acting under the instructions of his superior, Marshall Weil in the afternoon called upon M.L. Miller, lessee of the Opera House, and notified him verbally that should they attempt to produce the drama, he would be compelled to exercise his authority. Mr. Miller referred the Marshall to Mr. Wallick, who demanded “the papers” usual in such cases. These could not be produced, and the Marshal, having obeyed the orders of His Honor, retired.</i><br />
<i><br />The Mayor, in his endeavors to retain the good will of Mr. Harter (the long list of other petitioners was ignored), then hunted up and asked the advice of two or three different lawyers as to the most effective way to bring about the desired result. He was told to examine the statutes covering the case in point, and that the best plan to pursue would be to serve an injunction on the manager of the show. Near the hour for ringing up the curtain, the Mayor ran across Mr. John A. Connolly, the City Solicitor -- “my legal adviser”, as referred to by the Mayor when found in consultation with that gentleman in an uptown grocery by a HERALD reporter -- and the two proceeded to the Solicitor’s office to hunt up authorities and to get out the necessary warrants. The reporter went directly to the Opera House to await developments and tarried until the performance was well under way, but no officer armed with power to hustle Jesse James and troupe headlong down the stairway appeared, and the play proceeded to the end undisturbed.</i><br />
<i><br />The Mayor, after passing the greater part of the day at some saloons, finally wandered into the Opera House -- to judge for himself of the immorality of the play -- and was a deeply interested spectator of the blood and thunder scenes there depicted.</i><br />
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Notwithstanding the success of the play, these calls of immorality and the uproar it created, seemed to have some effect. In 1885, James H. Wallick changed the main character’s name from Jesse James to Joe Howard and dropped Jesse James from the title so that it became simply The Bandit King. [63]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advertisement (highlights added) that includes claims of clean, family oriented drama for the Bandit King. Clipping is from the Decatur, Illinois <i>Daily Review</i> (Wednesday, 24 October 1883, p. 1).</td></tr>
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Continued in <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_52.html" target="_blank">PART 3</a> <br />
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NOTES AND REFERENCES<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">26. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_company">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_company</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">27. The Atchison Daily Champion, Atchison, Kansas, Friday, 15 February 1878, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">28. The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, 13 December 1879, p. 6; The Chicago Daily Tribune, Sunday, 14 December 1879; The Chicago Daily Tribune, Thursday, 25 December 1879, p. 8; New York Dramatic Mirror, Saturday, 17 January 1880, p. 3; The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, 24 April 1880, p. 6.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">29. New York Dramatic Mirror, Saturday, 8 May 1880, p. 4; Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, Saturday, 28 August 1880, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">30. Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, Sunday, 27 March 1881.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">31. William L. Slout, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle: A Biographical Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century American Circus: The Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California, 1998, p. 19. S. H. Barrett and his circus appear in several advertisements and news articles about James H. Wallick in 1882 and 1884. He is undoubtedly the unnamed partner mentioned in the New York Clipper article.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">32. The New York Clipper, New York City, Saturday, 4 March 1882, p. 829.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">33. The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Tuesday, 4 April 1882, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">34. Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Saturday, 8 April 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">35. The Atchison Globe, Atchison, Kansas, Monday, 10 April 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">36. The Bloomington Daily Leader, Bloomington, Indiana, Saturday, 24 June 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">37. Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, 15 July 1882, p. 6.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">38. The Topeka Daily Capital, Topeka, Kansas, Tuesday, 18 April 1882, p. 3; St Louis Globe-Democrat, Saint Louis, Missouri, Sunday, 9 April 1882, p. 9; The Atchison Globe, Atchison, Kansas, Monday, 10 April 1882, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">39. The Times Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sunday, 9 July 1882, p. 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">40. New York Herald, New York City, Wednesday, 20 September 1882, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">41. New York Herald, New York City, Wednesday, 20 September 1882, p. 3; Kansas City Times, Kansas City, Missouri, Wednesday, 9 March 1892, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">42. Daily Republican-Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 10 October, 1882, p. 4; Globe-Democrat, Saint Louis, Missouri, 6 November 1882, p. 3; Bloomington Daily Leader, Bloomington, Indiana, Saturday, 24 June 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">43. Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, 8 October 1882, p. 20.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">44. The Daily Republican-Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tuesday, 10 October 1882, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">45. The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Friday, 27 October 1882, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">46. The Cleveland Leader, Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, 19 December 1882, p. 7.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">47. The Cleveland Herald, Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, 19 December 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">48. Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Thursday, 23 November 1882, p. 4 and Thursday, 30 November 1882, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">49. Marshall Daily Chronicle, Marshall, Michigan, Friday, 1 December 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">50. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, Monday, 6 November 1882, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">51. The Cincinnati Inquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday, 31 December 1882, p. 13.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">52. The Times Philadelphia Sun, Sunday, 12 November 1882, p. 6.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">53. The North American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, 15 November 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">54. National Republican, Washington, D.C., Monday, 26 March 1883, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">55. The Arizona Weekly Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, 8 April 1883, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">56. See for example, The Olean Democrat, Olean, New York, Tuesday, 17 April 1883, p. 1, and The Daily City News, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Friday, 3 April 1883, p. 1. The play also performed in April in a number of other cites including Jamestown, NY, Port Jervis, NY, and Titusville, PA.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">57. The Evening Gazette, Pittston, Pennsylvania, Friday, 9 October 1883, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">58. The Daily Republican, Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, 31 October 1883, p. 3.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">59. The Rockford Register, Rockford, Illinois, Monday, 15 October 1883.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">60. The Holton Recorder, Holton, Kansas, Thursday, 22 November 1883, p. 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">61. The Indiana Herald, Huntington, Indiana, Wednesday, 21 November 1883, p. 1. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">62. The Iola Register, Iola, Kansas, Friday, 23 November 1883, p. 9.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">63. The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, 12 April 1885, p. 14. </span>Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-24070224754258133682018-02-27T09:55:00.000-08:002018-02-27T12:14:42.968-08:00James H. Wallick, the Bandit and Cattle King – An Owner of Hollyrood Farm (Part 1)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>James Henry Wallick (a.k.a. Henry “Hank” Wheeler, Patrick J. Fubbins, and James Fubbins Wallack) & his wife Mary (McInnis) Wallick </b></span><br />
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(Owners of Hollyrood Farm for 7+ Years, 1888-1895, 1897, 1903)</h3>
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On May 15, 1888 Henry Low sold a farm near Circleville, New York to Mary McInnis (or McGinnis) Wallick, wife of James H. Wallick, for $32,000, making a nice profit of $6000 on the 264 acres. [2] It was under the ownership of the Wallicks that the farm was first called by the name <i><b>Hollyrood</b></i>. James was an actor and traveling showman. Between January and mid-May of 1888, when he and Mary purchased the farm, Wallick’s company of actors had performed his popular equestrian plays The Bandit King and The Cattle King in a host of cities, including Boston, New York City, Montreal, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Cincinnati. After the purchase, he would take the troupe from Chicago to San Francisco and then back to New York and Boston. [3] The last few years had been good ones for the Wallicks––they were finally making a profit and out of debt. In 1888 the Chicago Times reported on some of their earlier troubles with this article:<br />
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<i>“I wish I had the money you have paid on debts,” said George Fair, the treasurer of the Haymarket Theater, to James H. Wallick, who is playing “the Bandit King” there this week.</i><br />
<i><br />“You could retire on it,” said Mr. Wallick, “but I don’t think you would care to go through what I did when I was paying those debts. I shouldn’t care to again. I believe I have had more summonses served on me than any other man in America. Why one morning, as I stood talking with a friend in front of the Windsor Theater, in New York, a constable came up and served the papers on seventy-two suits against me all at once.”</i><br />
<i><br />Certainly Mr. Wallick has had his ups and downs, and, while his struggles have sometimes been desperate, it must be very satisfactory to him to look back at the manner in which he fought his way through them. In the spring of 1880 Mr. Wallick published an advertisement in the New York and Chicago papers asking everybody who had a claim against him to send it to Mr. Thomas Cratty, the well-known Chicago lawyer. He then deposited every cent he could rake and scrape––about $9,000––with Mr. Cratty and told him to sprinkle it over the claims in such a manner as to keep off attachments until he could earn some more. In a few week he called on Mr. Cratty and asked him if any claims had come in. Cratty put his feet on his table, lighted a fresh cigar, and, with awful calmness looked at his client.</i><br />
<i><br />“What I want to know,” said the lawyer finally, “is how the devil a man without any money can get into debt as you have. Why, man, I’ve got claims for more than $50,000 against you.”<br />“Is that all?” said Wallick. “That’s only a patch of the whole.”</i><br />
<i><br />He then gave Cratty a list of his indebtedness, and after the $9,000 that had been paid was subtracted, there still remained more than $65,000, and he had not one dollar of assets in the world. Mr. Cratty said:</i><br />
<i><br />“Of course you can never pay all this. The best thing you can do is to go through bankruptcy.”<br />Mr. Wallick said he meant to pay every dollar of it and would not go through bankruptcy. The lawyer said he was crazy, but subsequent events have shown that he was not.</i><br />
<i><br />“Three years ago,” said Mr. Wallick, “I closed my season out of debt and went into New York for the first time in my life with money enough to carry me over and start me out on the road the next season.<br />Day before yesterday, Mr. Leroy Payne offered Mr. Wallick $42,500 for his interest in the livery business of Leroy Payne & Co., and Mr. Wallick declined to sell. [4]</i><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Schedule and route for James H. Wallick’s traveling company for the year 1888. The shows being presented this year were The Cattle King and The Bandit King and they typically played to sold-out houses. The information sources for this chart and map come from newspaper accounts and advertisements found at GenealogyBank.com, Newspapers.com, NewspaperArchive.com, and Chronicling America (Library of Congress) websites. Some locations where the troupe performed are likely missing due to lack of available digitized newspapers on the source sites used, but the picture is still fairly complete. The question marks on the map represent gaps in the performance record and may indicate that other cities in these areas were places where the plays were performed.</td></tr>
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Now, by the end of May, the same year (1888) that they purchased the farm, James and Mary were doing well enough that they were able to buy from a Mr. C. F. Emery a large quantity of trotter stock from Emery’s Forest City Farm near Cleveland, Ohio. [5] The purchase of Hollyrood farm and the new career as a trotter breeder perhaps gave some measure of stability to the couple’s wandering lifestyle. They seemed to truly enjoy the time they spent at Hollyrood, and when they had the opportunity, James and Mary entertained local guests and endeared themselves to the local merchants by spreading their wealth around. [6] The farm was, after all, a place to go home to, a place near James’ roots in Ulster County just a few miles to the north.<br />
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JAMES WALLICK’S EARLY YEARS<br />
James H. Wallick was a man who rose from poverty to become one of the most popular entertainers of his day. He was born 26 June 1844 in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, the son of Susan (probably Ellsworth) and perhaps Jacob Wheeler. [7] Because of later accounts, the name of his father is in doubt, even though at the age of 7 years he was living in Hurley in the household of Jacob and Susan Wheeler and listed as Henry Wheeler. In 1908, at the time of his death, several papers gave his original name as Patrick J. Fubbins. [8] Charles Carroll Dominge, in recalling his own boyhood in 1944, recounts that, “His parents died and left him an orphan and he was adopted by the Wheeler family and chose the stage name of James H. Wallick as he admired the famous actor Wallack. I admired this actor as a boy when I exercised his famous acting horses...” [9] He is also referred to as Patrick Fubbins or James H. Fubbins Wallick in a few other newspaper stories all published between 1879 and 1882 [10], a period of time when James was in considerable debt. None of the reports where Fubbins is used during this time period are particularly complimentary of him. However, in published advertisements and stories prior to this time, even as early as 1874, he was using the name James H. Wallack and performing plays with the Wallack Combination, a group of actors that included his wife Mary. [11]<br />
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One other account of his youth published in 1923 by someone named Elmendorph, who claimed Wallick lived with his family as a youth, names him James Henry Wheeler and explains that Wallick’s boyhood was “spent in Hurley––known in those days as Old Hurley. His family, who were poor, sought aid from the town, and [my father] John L. Elmendorph, at that time ‘poormaster’ took the boy to live in his own family, where he had the advantage of a good home and some schooling. Later he was apprenticed to a wagon-maker in Hurley, and learned the trade. The boy, however, was ambitious, and in the years following, was tempted to join a circus, thus laying the foundation of a successful business career. His mother, who was Susan Ellsworth, married a person by the name of Wheeler, and lived the greater part of her life in Rondout. The boy, James Henry, developed a keen intelligence and later proved himself a man of ability, and I may say nobility as well. He disliked the name of Wheeler, and so when he had fitted himself into a different sphere, he had it legally changed to Wallick. Thus the two names, “Hank” Wheeler” and “Jim” Wallick, became identical.” [12] According to what was likely the same source, Henry Wheeler supposedly served in what was called the “Canal Brigade” during the Civil War. [13]<br />
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Which of these accounts is most accurate? After reviewing the evidence, it seems probable that the Elmendorph account is closer to the truth. This account is the only one to claim intimate knowledge of Wallick as a young boy and also knowledge of him at the time of his death and burial in Middletown next to his mother and sister. [14] Other available records verify Elmendorph’s story to some extent. The 1850 U.S. Census of Hurley, Ulster County, New York has, as was mentioned earlier, a Henry Wheeler, age 7, in the household of Jacob Wheeler (age 32 years), Susan Wheeler (age 33 years), and Matilda Wheeler (age 3 years). [15] Interestingly, Susan, not Jacob, is listed as a “pauper” in this census and, although they are listed as a separate family, she and Jacob and the children are living in the same dwelling as James (age 31 years) and Maria Ellsworth and next to the dwellings of William Ellsworth (age 36 years) and Margaret Ellsworth (age 65 years). This appears to be a family group with Margaret Ellsworth likely the family matron and James and William as siblings. It may be that Susan married one of these Ellsworth men later on to become Mrs. Ellsworth or, more likely, this was her maiden name that she reclaimed after Jacob Wheeler disappeared from the picture. She was likely the Susan Ellsworth (age 50 years) listed as a domestic servant in the Jeremiah Ten Broeck household of Saugerties, Ulster County, New York in 1870. [16]<br />
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Further substantiating the Elmendorph account, we find, in the 1855 New York State Census of Hurley, that Henry Wheeler (age 12) was a servant in the household of Jane Elmendorf (age 73, spelled with an ‘f’ rather than a ‘ph’ in this census), who also had in her household a nephew, John L. Elmendorf (age 25) and his wife Elizabeth (age 20). [17] In 1860 the only Henry Wheeler of the right age (17 years) was living with the Anthony Dumond family in Hurley and working as a blacksmith apprentice––not exactly what the Elmendorph account had suggested, which was wagon-maker apprentice, but closely related and might have been confused by either the census taker or by Elmendorph as he recalled the history. In addition, on 8 November 1898 the Middletown Argus reported that “Mrs. Ellsworth, mother of James H. Wallick, died at Rondout.” [18] She was buried in the Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, New York along with her daughter Matilda, who died the next year. [19]<br />
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Another record that backs up the Elmendorph account is the Civil War service record for a Henry Wheeler who enlisted at Rondout, New York on 13 November 1861 at the age of 22 years, was mustered in as a sergeant in Company G, of the 102nd Infantry (also known as the “Canal Brigade”), but was later demoted to corporal, and finally deserted on 1 November 1862, less than one year into his 3-year commitment. [20]<br />
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So, was his name originally Patrick Fubbins? Or was it Henry Wheeler? Other than the newspaper accounts of people who knew him later in life, there is no evidence that his birth name was Fubbins. Patrick Fubbins may have been an earlier stage name created by James Wallick or simply a name he used as he told stories to others about his early life. I will concede it is also possible that he was born out of wedlock to his mother, Susan, and to a man named Fubbins. The only problem with this hypothesis is that I have been unable to find any possible fathers, or even any other Fubbins families, in the Ulster County area during the time that James was supposed to have been born, and all the early records we do find have him as Henry Wheeler. One additional possibility is that after he deserted from the infantry during the Civil War, he changed his name to Fubbins to cover his tracks.<br />
In summary, from all of the accounts, it appears that the boy known as Henry Wheeler in Ulster County was later known by Patrick J. Fubbins, perhaps by James Fubbins Wallack, then by James H. Wallack, and finally by James H. Wallick. It has been suggested that he was an admirer of the great British/American actor, James William Wallack, Sr., who was the founder of the Wallack Theater in New York City and that this was the reason he took for himself the name of James H. Wallack. [21] Actor James William Wallack died on 25 December 1864, but he left two sons, Lester Wallack and Henry Wallack, and a grandson, James W. Wallack, Jr. who continued acting on the stage in New York. [22]<br />
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A second opinion on why Henry Wheeler chose the name James H. Wallack was given by the New York Dramatic Mirror claiming that he was using the name because he wanted people to believe that he was connected to the more famous Wallack family of actors. [23] It seems likely that this is at least partially true. James (Henry) was an opportunist. Using the well-known Wallack name in places across America where most people would not know the difference certainly did not hurt business. An advertisement from the Daily Arkansas Gazette in September of 1874 lauds the traveling company as the “Great and Only Wallack Combination” starring May [sic.] Wallack and James H. Wallack. [24] Since this is one of the first documented appearances of the Wallack Combination, it was a bit presumptuous of James to claim that it was the “Great and Only” Wallack Combination and adds credence to the suggestion that he was using the Wallack name to attract customers. Later, when James and his company became more popular and widely known, his use of the Wallack name irritated the Wallack clan of actors in New York, so he changed his name to Wallick with an “i” rather than an “a.” The change was apparently forced on him when actor Lester Wallack obtained an injunction forbidding him from using the name Wallack. [25]<br />
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Continued in <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/02/james-h-wallick-bandit-and-cattle-king_27.html" target="_blank">PART 2</a> <br />
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NOTES AND REFERENCES<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1. Sketch of James Wallick taken from Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, 30 August 1891, p. 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2. Orange County Deeds, Book 358, p. 593.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3. See the included schedule and route of his traveling show that was compiled from available newspaper accounts for 1888. There are likely several places that the show stopped for one or more nights that have not been identified and are not shown on the map and chart.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">4. Article originally published in the Chicago Times, but republished in Indianapolis News, Saturday, 2 June 1888.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">5. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Wednesday, 30 May 1888, p. 6.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">6. See for example, Middletown Times Press, Middletown, New York, Tuesday, 23 August 1892 and Tuesday, 25 April 1893; Middletown Daily Press, Middletown, New York, Tuesday, 23 August 1892.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">7. Gravestones in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, Orange Co., New York (Susan’s gravestone gives her name as Susan Wheeler Ellsworth and James is engraved as James Henry Wallick); 1850 U.S. Census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 479 (written) and 240 (stamped), household 217, family 226; 1855 New York State census, ED 2, Hurley, Ulster Co., dwelling 14; The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, Tuesday, 27 February 1923, p. 11.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">8. Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, v. 106, p. 475, 14 May 1908; The Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, Sunday, 3 May 1908, p. 15; The Tri-States Union, Port Jervis, New York, Thursday, 7 May 1908, p. 1; The Boston Post, Wednesday, 2 December 1908, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">9. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, 6 August 1944, p. 15.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10. Chicago Daily Tribune, Wednesday, 13 August 1979 and Sunday, 14 December 1879; New York Dramatic Mirror, Saturday, 12 July 1879, p. 2 and Saturday, 2 August 1879; Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, 15 August 1879; Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago, Saturday, 8 May 1880, p. 9; New York Dramatic Mirror, Saturday, 17 January 1880, p. 3; Bloomington Daily Leader, Bloomington, Indiana, Saturday, 24 June 1882; Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel, Saturday, 8 April 1882 and Friday, 17 November 1882; Logansport Daily Journal, Wednesday, 29 November 1882.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">11. Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, Thursday, 10 September, 1874, and Sunday, 13 September 1874; The Atchison Daily Champion, Atchison, Kansas, Friday, 15 February, 1878, p. 4; The Daily Commonwealth, Topeka, Kansas, Saturday, 7 December 1878, p. 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">12. The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, Tuesday, 27 February 1923, p. 11. This history published in the paper was submitted by one of the children of John L. Elmendorph in whose home Wallick spent part of his boyhood; see also The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, Friday Evening, 23 February 1923, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">13. The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, Friday Evening, 23 February 1923, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">14. James and his mother and sister Matilda are all buried in the same family plot in the Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, Orange Co., N.Y.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">15. 1850 US census, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 479 (written) and 240 (stamped), household 217, family 226.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">16. 1870 US census, Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y., p. 107 (written) and 244 (stamped), household 674, family 836.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">17. 1855 New York State census, Hurley, Ulster Co., E.D. 2, dwelling 14.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">18. Middletown Argus, Middletown, Orange Co., N.Y., Tuesday, 8 November 1898, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">19. Both women are listed on the same headstone.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">20. Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the year 1902, V4, Registers of the 100th - 106th Regiments of Infantry, p. 685.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">21. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, 6 August 1944, p. 15; Boston Daily Advertiser, Wednesday, 28 December 1864.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">22. Boston Daily Advertiser, Wednesday, 28 December 1864; The Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, California, Saturday, 8 April 1865; Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Friday, 9 September 1870.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">23. The New York Dramatic Mirror, Saturday, 2 August 1879.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">24. Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, Thursday, 10 September, 1874, and Sunday, 13 September 1874.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">25. The Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, New York, Sunday, 3 May 1908, p. 15. </span>Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-48968536057433097282017-07-26T09:35:00.001-07:002017-07-26T09:36:30.450-07:00Clark Family Wedding and Baptism in MontanaHere are a few of my photos from a family wedding and baptism at my brother-in-law's Montana ranch last week. The ranch sits on the rim of a bench overlooking the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana.<br />
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Lily and father Ben prior to baptism.<br />
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Lily being baptized by her father, Ben Clark, in the Big Hole River.<br />
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Sisters Josie, Bridget, and Lily dressed for the wedding.<br />
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Chairs set up for the wedding on the deck of the cabin.<br />
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Reverend Jed awaiting the bride and groom.<br />
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Flower girls.<br />
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The groom and bride after the ceremony.<br />
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Chris Clark with his three nieces: Lily and Josie behind Bridget.<br />
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Clark Family: Ben, Chris, Erika, Jed, Steve, Kerstin, and Grandpa David.<br />
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Grandmother Stephanie Kovachek.<br />
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Josephine (Josie) Clark.<br />
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Lily Clark.<br />
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Bridget Clark.Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-82211127995017659462017-07-26T08:46:00.002-07:002018-02-27T12:16:10.152-08:00Moses Rockwell Crow an Owner of Hollyrood Farm<br />
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James Wallick, owner of <i>Hollyrood Stock Farm</i> located near Circleville, Orange County, New York, was in financial trouble in 1897. By July of that year, he was desperate enough to auction off all of the furnishings at <i>Hollyrood</i>, including the carpets, bedroom sets, parlor furniture and other effects, some of which had “never been used.” In August of 1897, he and his wife, Mary McInnes Wallick, sold the <i>Hollyrood</i> farm to Elizabeth H. Crow, wife of Moses Rockwell Crow for $22,000. The sale was for 276 acres and included the lands sold to Delphine Stewart by Emma Parmelee as well as the lands sold to George M. Wilkes by Emma’s brother Robert Hill. At the time of the sale, the Middletown Daily Argus reported that “the mansion of this farm was erected in 1856 and is one of the handsomest in Orange county and is situated in a beautiful plot of ten acres, surrounded by lovely lawns, beautiful evergreen hedges and imported ornamental trees and shrubbery.” The farm was held by the Crow’s for about six years until 1903 when Elizabeth sold the land back to James H. Wallick after the death of her husband. Who were Moses and Elizabeth Crow? And what is their story?<br />
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<i>Hollyrood Stock Farm</i><br />
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Moses Rockwell Crow was born in September of 1853 in Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York to the Reverend David Crow and Sarah Burlingame Crow. His father was a graduate of Allegheny College, was fluent in twenty-seven languages, and sought out by scholars due to his knowledge of Sanscrit. During Moses youth the family moved from the Town of Benton in Yates County, to the Village of Ovid in Seneca County, then to Elmira in Chemung County, and finally to New York City. According to an article from the <i>New York Herald</i>, Moses started out as a businessman “in a Pennsylvania town, and, failing there, came back to New York City and entered the New York Law School where he graduated at the head of his class.<br />
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He apparently did not spend much time practicing law, but went to Mexico as a consultant to Mexican President Diaz on financing and engineering a system of water works for Mexico City. This trip piqued his interest in water delivery systems and, in order to better understand them, he went to Europe and studied the water supply systems there and “while returning to the United States he became acquainted with a man named I. M. Weston, who was a wealthy lumber merchant from Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Weston pointed out the advantages of Grand Rapids as a field for water works exploitation. Mr. Crow bought the Grand Rapids Hydraulic Company, converted its spring into a series of huge wells, put in thirty miles of iron mains and built a pump house and huge standpipe.” The New York Herald story continues by saying that:<br />
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“The company thrived for a time, until beset by litigation by the city to oust it and by creditors to collect dues, it went into the hands of a receiver named by Mr. Crow, and this receiver still holds it.<br />
“Mr. Crow then bought the old Mount Vernon Water Company. It was not long before he got into legal difficulties with the firm of Coffin & Stanton, who financed the scheme. Mr. Crow fought the then great concern of Coffin & Stanton, that controlled more than fifty water companies, and ultimately drove it into bankruptcy, to the terror of something like twelve hundred country banks, which had loaned money to the firm and had taken water bonds as collateral.<br />
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“Mr. Crow resolved to broaden his field of operations. In 1891 he made a contract with the Village of West Chester to supply it with water, and this was followed by contracts with the Village of Wakefield, Williamsbridge, South Mount Vernon, Pelhamville, Pelham Manor, Barton and City Island, the Morris Park race course, the city of New York for Ward’s Island and the government for the military reservation of Fort Schuyler.<br />
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“Most of the money to build the necessary works was supplied by Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss, widow and heiress of the maker of the Hotchkiss gun. She gave Mr. Crow railway bonds in exchange for bonds of his water companies, and Mr. Crow controlled the companies. Instead of using all the money to pay for building the plant he retained, it was said, much of it as contractor. For construction materials he gave notes of his water companies secured by bonds of the concerns he controlled. The New York and Westchester Water Company was first capitalized with $500,000 in stock and $500,000 in bonds. Soon more money was needed and a second mortgage was issued of a half million dollars.<br />
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“Later a prior lien mortgage was made to take preference over the other bonds. Of $1,000,000 prior issue of bonds, $200,000 worth were actually sold, and the Court of Appeals at Albany is expected soon to hand down a decision as to whether they are valid or not.<br />
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“More money being needed, Crow organized the <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/history.shtml">New York City District Water Supply Company</a>, with $2,000,000 of stock and $2,000,000 of bonds, many of which he disposed of to Mrs. Hotchkiss. This company’s plant consisted of a single main extending from a point across the Bronx from Wakefleld, known as East Yonkers, to Yonkers proper, a pump house and a standpipe. The original company could have built this, but the scheme was concocted to obtain needed finances. Later Mr. Crow organized, for the same reason, the Upper New York City Water Company, capitalized with $1,000,000 stock and $1,000,000 bonds, which ran a main from the Westchester plant up into the Saw Mill River Valley.<br />
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“This main the original company could have laid. Then the promoter bought the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uX_AZ1WUFdMC&pg=PA661&lpg=PA661&dq=Pocantico+Water+Works+Company&source=bl&ots=Nei2uxdTvg&sig=0s9Vx5-DJukTJJ_Eo2etEgwJHA4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOxcO9pqfVAhVKx1QKHSJcDCEQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=Pocantico%20Water%20Works%20Company&f=false">Pocantico Water Works Company</a>, having a pump house on Pocantico Lake in Sleepy Hollow, North Tarrytown, and connected his system from that point down the Hudson to the Harlem River, thence across the Twenty-third ward to the East River, thence northeast across City Island, thence under Long Island Sound to Hart’s Island, with more than two hundred miles of mains...<br />
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“Mr. Crow [who was still single at the time] in 1892 bought the large house at the corner of Eighty-second street and West End avenue and later added the adjoining property to it. Then he began to spend money in lavish entertainments which attracted much attention. He bought the Hotchkiss estate at Great Barrington, Mass., and spent $100,000 to renovate the house and grounds.<br />
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“On Christmas week of 1893 he took a party of guests, by special train, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington,_Massachusetts">Great Barrington</a> and entertained them for a week at a cost of $50,000. He bought a steam yacht. One summer he rented the largest on the Hudson and leased one of the largest estates on the New Jersey coast at Elberon for the Winter. He took parties on special cars to Florida, and spent money in reckless fashion. Mrs. Hotchkiss became alarmed and refused to advance any more money.” [<i>New York Herald</i>, Sunday, 12 July 1903, p. 3 & 7]<br />
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Perhaps due to prodding from <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gpcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA641&lpg=PA641&dq=Moses+Crow+Hotchkiss&source=bl&ots=TX2qaqe93t&sig=MTkJ7ZNRd-YVyCKT5feDcVfVkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi23aaem6fVAhWIwVQKHUeNAGIQ6AEILDAC#v=onepage&q=Moses%20Crow%20Hotchkiss&f=false">Mrs. Hotchkiss</a>, who was unhappy with the party lifestyle of the man in whom she had entrusted so much of her wealth, or perhaps because of the death of his father in August 1892, Moses Crow decided to settle down in 1893. He had met Louise Doelger, probably at one of his lavish parties. She was young, only twenty years old, and apparently quite pretty––pretty enough to catch the eye of the thirty-nine-year-old bachelor Moses. Louise was the daughter of Jacob Doelger, a well-known and wealthy brewer in New York, and his wife Louise Werner Doelger. It is unclear if the Doelger’s approved of the marriage, but it seems likely that they did. Their daughter was marrying a man of some wealth and influence. The couple was married in Manhattan on the 5th of April and moved into Moses’ house on Eighty-second street. The marriage was actually performed twice due to the religious differences between the families.<br />
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"The marriage of Miss Doelger to Mr. Crow was celebrated by the Rev. Madison C. Peters in the rectory of the <a href="http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/BloomingdaleRef.html">Bloomingdale Reformed Church</a>...[Mr. Crow] is a Protestant and she a Catholic. A second ceremony was performed a week later at the house of the bride’s father by the Rev. Father Taylor, by special dispensation of Archbishop Cerrigan. After the wedding trip they went to live at No. 301 West Eighty-second street, a large brown-stone house fronting on West End avenue. It is furnished luxuriously throughout." [<i>New York World</i>, Friday, 8 September 1893, p. 7 and <i>New York Herald</i>, Friday, 8 September 1893, p. 10]<br />
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However happy they might have been on the 5th of April, by June things had turned sour. On the 16th of June, young Louise left the house with her mother, who was visiting her, and never returned. Her husband returned home that evening to find that she was gone. This was a surprise to him, he claimed, because they had never quarreled and she had given him no indication that she was unhappy. This is likely not the complete truth as Louise’s father seems to have become suspicious of how much money Moses really had and was convinced that it was not nearly as much as he had been led to believe. Three months later the newspapers reported that Moses would not return his wife’s expensive wedding gown and other clothes, supposedly worth $3000. She applied through her lawyers in September to retrieve it and also to appoint her father as her guardian, since she was still not of age. Moses replied that he was not stopping her from retrieving the gown, but that he was not going to send it to her; he professed to be still in love with her and, after all, she was still his wife. She did not remain his wife for much longer, however, as the marriage was dissolved by divorce decree in 1894.<br />
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Not long after the divorce was finalized, perhaps even on the very day of the decree in 1894, Moses R. Crow married a second time to Miss Elizabeth Davis who was about six months younger than Moses’ first wife Louise. Elizabeth, born in May 1873 in New York, gave Moses two children: David born in November of 1894 in New York and Lucile born in August of 1896 in New Jersey.<br />
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Shortly after the birth of his second child, Moses found himself embroiled in a <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024350/1897-02-04/ed-1/?sp=11&st=text">long and difficult trial</a>. He and his benefactress, Mrs. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GbA2WG9m18wC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=Moses+Crow+Hotchkiss&source=bl&ots=f5w9y7g62U&sig=M7UGaE-dEbahzMwr1fJLsqHD8ww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi23aaem6fVAhWIwVQKHUeNAGIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Moses%20Crow%20Hotchkiss&f=false">Maria Hotchkiss</a>, had a falling out over financial matters and Moses sued her, and another financier, Mr. Joseph Richardson, in court for $4,000,000 in securities. Maria, formerly Miss Maria Bissell, was known as a shrewd business woman and had inherited a fortune from her husband, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, who had designed and sold guns. It was apparently not a happy marriage and they drifted apart. Mr. Hotchkiss moved to France where he offered Maria large sums of money if she would divorce him. She refused. He eventually married another woman without the divorce. The second wife was also named Maria (Maria E. Cunningham) and she was unaware that Hotchkiss was still married to his first wife until he died in 1885 in Paris. The courts ruled that the bulk of his estate of several million dollars belonged to his first wife, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, although the second wife did inherit enough to have a comfortable living.<br />
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During the trial, Mrs. Hotchkiss was frequently unable (or unwilling) to remember details and claimed not to even be able to recognize her own signature. Her counsel was none other than <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1912/root-bio.html">Elihu Root</a>, future secretary of war for the United States.<br />
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When the trial of the suit against Mrs. Maria H. Hotchkiss before Justice Lawrence in the Supreme Court was adjourned yesterday, she was again beginning to suffer from a partial loss of memory in reply to Lawyer Bien’s questions in rebuttal. Before recess, under Elihu Root’s gentle guidance, her answers were quickly given and to the point. She identified positively a check for $20,000 given by her to Moses R. Crow, the plaintiff, although on direct examination she had failed to recognise it. Mr. Root asked her if Mr. Crow had not disposed of some securities without her consent, and what she said to him.<br />
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“I said to him: ‘What right had you to sell or dispose of my securities? “she replied, reading from a notebook.<br />
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“And what did he say?”<br />
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“I don’t remember.”<br />
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“Ah,” remarked Mr. Bien, “you did not put that down in your little book.”<br />
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On Friday Mrs. Hotchkiss said that she did not think that she owned any of the Pocantico water works bonds. Yesterday she admitted the ownership of eighty such bonds. Mr. Bien wished to mark for identification a fragment of a letter, and Mr. Root objected.<br />
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“Everybody is fragmentary here,” said the Judge, “and no one seems to recollect anything about transactions involving millions.”<br />
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Mrs. Hotchkiss became very much mixed up in regard to the details of a deal whereby she acquired a valuable estate in Great Harrington, called Brookside, and just as Mr. Bien was trying to show how that deal was connected with the water works transactions very much to her advantage, the case was adjourned until to-day. [<i>New York World,</i> Tuesday, 2 February 1897]<br />
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The trial stretched on from December of 1896 into the next July when the parties eventually decided to drop the lawsuit and come to terms.<br />
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<b>The Crows at Hollyrood</b></h3>
It is unclear why Moses and Elizabeth purchased the <i>Hollyrood Farm</i>. Perhaps they wanted it as a summer retreat from New York City or perhaps they were just investing in what they saw as a good property. The purchase came just about the time that the agreement was reached between Moses, Mr. Richardson, and Mrs. Hotchkiss, and so perhaps it was a celebration purchase at having survived the long trial and, by all accounts, having come out of the affair in good shape. Shortly after buying the farm, however, trouble began with their hired help. In August of 1897 one employee, who they had discharged, was found to be “contracting for the purchase of horses” for Mr. Crow, and had “agreed to pay a Bloomingburgh man $600 for a stallion and to have negotiated with other parties there and in Wurtsboro.” The man’s intent was likely to acquire the horses without putting any money down and sell them himself to make money using his former employer’s name to gain the confidence of the sellers.<br />
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Again in October of 1897 another employee had to be dismissed and created a stir. The <i>Middletown Argus</i> reported that, “Moses R. Crow, who recently purchased <i>Hollyrood Farm</i>, has had Joseph Lemon, a well known character, on his payroll for some time past. He discharged him last week, and this morning “Joe” met Mr. Crow on the Pine Bush train and proceeded to address him in a very foul and abusive manner. When the train crew threatened to put him off he transferred his abuse to them. Complaint was made in Recorder’s court, and search was made for “Joe” about town. He was not found until 2:20. On being arraigned before Recorder Bradner he pleaded “not guilty.”<br />
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The above reports from the local Orange County papers and the 1900 U. S. Census suggest that the Crows did spend time living at <i>Hollyrood Farm</i>. In 1900, they are listed there with their two children, David age 6 years and Lucile age 4 years. Moses also made some improvements to the main dwelling on the farm. In November of 1897 he had the Millspaugh Hardware Company install a central “hot air” heating system.<br />
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The Passing of Moses Crow</h3>
After their few years at <i>Hollyrood</i>, the good times rapidly came to a close for Moses and Elizabeth. What happened over the next few years is summarized in this report from the <i>New York Herald</i>:<br />
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“Mr. Crow built, in 1898, an electric light plant at Dobbs Ferry, where he came in contact with the late J. Jennings McComb. He borrowed money of Mr. McComb, giving the Pocantico Water Works Company as security. During a quarrel he made a savage attack on Mr. McComb,which was overheard by David McComb, a nephew. The young man met Mr. Crow a day or two later, at Fifty-eighth street and Seventh avenue, and struck him down. McComb was arrested, but the case was settled.<br />
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“At about this time Mr. Crow got into a quarrel with Adrian Iselin, who owns the New Rochelle water works. Mr. Iselin had laid a main from New Rochelle to Mount Vernon reservoir. Mr. Crow bought the property across the track and about thirty feet below the reservoir he sank wells and built a pump house for the Westchester county company. Naturally, all the water ran out of the Mount Vernon reservoir and there was no redress, as the water percolated through the gravel bed. The Mount Vernon water supply had to be rebuilt at enormous cost. The city of New York still uses their driven wells to supply Westchester.<br />
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“At the end of long litigation the three Westchester companies were sold under foreclosure to a reorganization committee for $50,000. The committee recently sold the works to the city for $650,000, a sum about one-flfth of their cost. The Pocantico water works was separately foreclosed by the McCoomb interests and taken from Mr. Crow’s possession.<br />
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“Under foreclosure the promotor lost the Hotchkiss estate, his West End avenue house and large interests in Michigan. At Circleville, near Middletown, N. Y., Mr. Crow owned the estate of the late Lester Wallack, actor, of 1,000 acres, on which are many buildings, a private race track and a private railway station of the Erie Railway. This estate was recently taken from Mr. Crow on foreclosure proceedings.<br />
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“Mr. Crow’s ambition was to bring water by gravity from the lofty Adirondack lakes to supply New York at a low price to the consumer. He fought the proposed Ramapo scheme as infamous. He bought a newspaper to exploit his views on the water question, but his paper went down with his other interests. He founded a free hospital in West Chester, but it failed because he could not harmonize his allopathic and homoeopathic directors.” [<i>New York Herald</i>, Sunday, 12 July 1903, p. 3 & 7]<br />
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In the end, Moses Crow lost most of his money and then his health. In July 1903, at the age of 50 years, Moses developed a problem with his brain, perhaps a type of brain cancer. The New York Herald reported that, “While the diagnosis is not yet completed, it is understood that he has softening of the brain and his friends do not expect him to recover. Mr. Crow, who, in his prime, was a magnificent specimen physically, standing six feet high, is now a physical and mental wreck.” In July of that year he was taken from his home in Chatham, New Jersey to be examined at Bellevue Hospital in New York City where he was found to be mentally insane and transferred to the Manhattan State Hospital at Ward’s Island. The Ward’s Island asylum was opened in 1871 and even though it was perhaps a step up in the care available for the mentally ill, the care was less than adequate with approximately 30 patients for each nurse. However, by the early 1900’s when Moses Crow would have been placed in its care, things had improved.<br />
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Manhattan is the largest and one of the best psychiatrical hospitals in the world. It is a hospital in the highest sense. Every patient is treated as a sick person. Many of its patients never in their lives enjoyed such comforts as they now do. The food, clothing and medical treatment are equal to those of the best general hospitals. Each patient is supplied with recreation, occupation and diversion in innumerable forms. Trained nurses and specially selected attendants minister to his smallest needs. His surroundings are bright and cheerful. Pictures, carpets, musical instruments and unlimited reading matter divert and soothe him. His likes and dislikes receive sympathetic consideration. He is nursed and made to feel that he is receiving the care and treatment of a sick man.<br />
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Nonetheless, in spite of the quality of the hospital, Moses died on the 9th of August a few weeks after he was institutionalized.<br />
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<b>BRIEF GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY –– CROW FAMILY</b><br />
<b>MOSES ROCKWELL CROW</b> was born in September of 1853 in Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York to <b>David Crow</b> and <b>Sarah Burlingame</b>. Moses married first on the April 5, 1893, <b>LOUISE DOELGER</b>, the daughter of <b>Jacob Doelger</b> and <b>Louise Werner</b>. They divorced in 1894. Moses married second shortly after his divorce in 1894 to <b>ELIZABETH H. DAVIS</b>, who was born in May 1873 in New York the daughter of <b>Samuel and Sarah Davis</b>. Moses died 9 August 1903 in the Manhattan State Hospital at Ward’s Island, New York and was buried in the Steele Cemetery, Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska near his parents. Elizabeth was living with her parents and daughter Lucy in the Bronx in 1915 and in 1920 and 1930, she was living with her son David and working as a sales lady in a dry goods store.<br />
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Moses and Elizabeth had the following children: <br />
i. <b>David Rockwell Crow</b> was born 20 November 1894 in Manhattan, New York. After his father died, David moved to Falls City, Nebraska where he lived with his Aunt <b>Hattie Crow Mauger</b> and where he later enlisted in World War I. During the war, David was listed among those who were severely wounded. After the war, David continued his education and became a lawyer for the railroads. In 1920, he is listed in the census in both Falls City, Nebraska and in the Bronx in New York City. He later worked for the London Guarantee & Accident Company. In his World War II draft registration, David was described as five feet, ten and three-quarters inches tall, weighing 142 pounds with blue eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion. This same WWII draft registration card lists Iva Crow as his contact person. Iva was David’s wife, <b>Iva Roberts</b>, who was born 3 January 1899 and died in February 1980. They were living in Queens, New York City in 1940. David died in December 1986 in New York and was buried in the Steele Cemetery in Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska.<br />
ii. <b>Sarah Lucille Elizabeth Crow</b> was born 31 August 1896 at Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey. In 1920, Lucile was living with her mother and brother in the Bronx where she was working as a stenographer.<br />
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<b>REFERENCES</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1. The sketch of Moses R. Crow shown here (and incorrectly labeled Moses “F.” Crow) was published in the New York World, Saturday, 5 December 1896, p. 2, a few months before he purchased the Hollyrood Farm.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">2. <i>Middletown Argus</i>, 2 July 1897, p. 8 (accessed online at Newspapers.com). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">3. Orange Co. Deeds, Book 431, page 275 (accessed online at FamilySearch.org). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">4. <i>Middletown Daily Argus</i>, Monday, 28 June 1897, p. 8 (accessed online at Newspapers.com). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">5. Orange Co. Deeds, Book 465, page 580-582 (deeds index accessed online at FamilySearch.org). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">6. “United States Census, 1860,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4F-H49 : accessed 27 July 2015), Rockwell M Crow in household of David Crow, The Village Of Ovid, Seneca, New York, United States; from “1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population,” database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 155, household ID 1196, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,861; “United States Census, 1900,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSL7-GMT : accessed 27 July 2015), Moses R Crow, Wallkill Township (eastern portion excl. Middletown), Orange, New York, United States; citing sheet 12A, family 253, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,142; “New York, Marriages, 1686-1980,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F63T-88Q : accessed 27 July 2015), Moses R. Crow and Louise Doelger, 05 Apr 1893; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,452,478. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">7. <i>New York Tribune,</i> Thursday, 11 August 1892, p. 5. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">8. “New York, State Census, 1855,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6QW-D6P : accessed 27 July 2015), David Crow, E.D. 2, Benton, Yates, New York, United States; count clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 838,913. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">9. “United States Census, 1860,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4F-H49 : accessed 27 July 2015), Rockwell M Crow in household of David Crow, The Village Of Ovid, Seneca, New York, United States; from “1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population,” database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 155, household ID 1196, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,861. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">10. “New York, State Census, 1865,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVNJ-4LL4 : accessed 27 July 2015), David Crow, Ward 05, Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States; citing source p. 43, line 21, household ID 295, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 850,932; “United States Census, 1870,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8X9-GW8 : accessed 27 July 2015), Moses R Crow in household of David Crow, New York, United States; citing p. 63, family 470, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,413. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">11. “United States Census, 1880,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZX4-6TT : accessed 27 July 2015), Moses M Crow in household of David Crow, New York, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district 643, sheet 631C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0898; FHL microfilm 1,254,898. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">12. <i>New York Herald</i>, Sunday, 12 July 1903, p. 3 & 7; <i>New York Sun</i>, Monday, 13 July 1903, p. 2. Cautionary note concerning the accuracy of the facts in newspaper articles: In these articles, the facts about the <i>Hollyrood Farm</i> are mostly inaccurate. Yes the farm was near Circleville and had been owned by an actor named Wallick; however, when this article was written in the New York Herald in 1903, James H. Wallick was neither dead nor named Lester. In addition, the estate was much less than 1,000 acres and there is no evidence that a private railway station of the Erie Railway was ever part of the farm. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">13. <i>New York Tribune</i>, Thursday, 11 August 1892, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">14. <i>New York World</i>, Friday, 8 September 1893, p. 7 and <i>New York Herald</i>, Friday, 8 September 1893, p. 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">15. “New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/27BF-XJH : accessed 27 July 2015), Louise Doelger, 24 Oct 1872; citing Birth, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,055.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">16. “New York, Marriages, 1686-1980,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F63T-88Q : accessed 27 July 2015), Moses R. Crow and Louise Doelger, 05 Apr 1893; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,452,478.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">17. “United States Census, 1900,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSL7-GMY : accessed 28 July 2015), Elizabeth H Crow in household of Moses R Crow, Wallkill Township (eastern portion excl. Middletown), Orange, New York, United States; citing sheet 12A, family 253, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,142.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">18. <i>New York World</i>, Thursday, 28 January 1897.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">19. <i>New York World</i>, Tuesday, 2 February 1897.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">20. <i>New York World</i>, Tuesday, 8 December 1896, p. 10 and Sunday, 26 September, 1897, p. 7.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">21. <i>Middletown Argus</i>, Saturday, 7 August 1897, p. 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">22. <i>Middletown Argus</i>, 12 October 1897, p. 4</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">23. <i>Middletown Argus</i>, 18 November 1897, p. 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">24. <i>New York Times</i>, Saturday, 19 May 1900, p. 14.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">25. <i>Dobbs Ferry Register</i>, New York, 17 July 1903, p. 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">26. Henry M. Hurd and five others, 1916, <i>The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada</i>, volume 3, John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, p. 201-214.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">27. “New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2WXJ-NZG : accessed 28 July 2015), Moses R. Crow, 09 Aug 1903; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,026.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">28. Moses R. Crow in Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">29. New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 58; Assembly District: 34; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 20. This New York census shows Elizabeth and her daughter Lucy living with Elizabeth’s parents in the Bronx. An additional grandchild named Evilian (Evelyn) is listed below Lucy with ditto marks and could be assumed to be named “Crow” as well. But her birth would be in about 1891, 3 years before Moses and Elizabeth were married. The ditto marks could also refer to the head of household, who in this case is Samuel Davis.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">30. “United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJPF-3YR : accessed 7 August 2015), Elizabeth Crow in household of M M Buhrendorf, Bronx Assembly District 8, Bronx, New York, United States; citing sheet 14A, family 283, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,142; “United States Census, 1930,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X766-645 : accessed 7 August 2015), David R Crow in household of Elizabeth H Crow, Bronx (Districts 501-750), Bronx, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0576, sheet 6B, family 151, line 89, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1485; FHL microfilm 2,341,220.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">31. “New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDYD-2HW : accessed 7 August 2015), David Rockwell Crow, 20 Nov 1894; citing Manhattan, New York, New York, USA, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,322,307; “United States Census, 1900,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSL7-GMY : accessed 28 July 2015), Elizabeth H Crow in household of Moses R Crow, Wallkill Township (eastern portion excl. Middletown), Orange, New York, United States; citing sheet 12A, family 253, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,142.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">32. <i>Richmond Times Dispatch</i>, Richmond, Virginia, Wednesday, 11 December 1918, p. 10; “United States Census, 1910,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLH9-7T9 : accessed 9 August 2015), David Crow in household of L C Mauger, Falls City Ward 2, Richardson, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 166, sheet 13B, family 315, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,867.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">33. “United States Census, 1930,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X766-645 : accessed 7 August 2015), David R Crow in household of Elizabeth H Crow, Bronx (Districts 501-750), Bronx, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0576, sheet 6B, family 151, line 89, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1485; FHL microfilm 2,341,220.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">34. “United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCKY-B22 : accessed 9 August 2015), David Crow, Falls, Richardson, Nebraska, United States; citing sheet 25A, family 172, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,000.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">35. “United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3FB-T38 : accessed 7 August 2015), David R Crow, 1942; citing NAID identifier , NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">36. “United States Social Security Death Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBR8-P57 : accessed 7 August 2015), Iva Crow, Feb 1980; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing); Ancestry.com. Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">37. 1940 US Census, New York City, Queens, New York; Roll: T627_2734; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 41-663.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">38. “United States Social Security Death Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK5G-327 : accessed 7 August 2015), David Crow, Dec 1986; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">39. David R. Crow in Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">40. “New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980,” , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCYW-YMN : accessed 9 August 2015), Sarah L. E. Crow, 31 Aug 1896; citing Long Branch, Monmouth, New Jersey, reference p 42; FHL microfilm 494,236; “United States Census, 1900,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSL7-GMY : accessed 28 July 2015), Lucile Crow in household of Moses R Crow, Wallkill Township (eastern portion excl. Middletown), Orange, New York, United States; citing sheet 12A, family 253, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,142.</span><br />
<br />Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-26594613033029982132015-06-19T15:42:00.003-07:002015-06-19T15:42:41.245-07:00Remembering FathersJust a few pictures this week as I think back on my father and on my role as a father to my children. These pictures, mostly taken in about 2002, bring back fond memories on this Father's Day weekend. I had a great father and I have wonderful kids for which I am very grateful.<br />
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Jeff with Grandpa Kowallis<br />
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Melanie dressed for the big dance<br />
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Leanna and Karl at Pearl Harbor<br />
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Jeff and Dad (me) at San Francisco market<br />
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Melanie at her internship<br />
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Jeff and Karl at the MTC<br />
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Melanie, Karl, Leanna, and Jeannie at Grandpa's birthday party<br />
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Playing cards with Leanna, Jeff, Mom, Grandma Clark, and Melanie<br />
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Leanna and Karl in Hawaii<br />
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Melanie on paradeUrthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-7567292003064022802015-02-15T20:32:00.000-08:002015-02-17T11:27:24.405-08:00My Cousin Louis <a href="http://salvomag.typepad.com/.a/6a00e00988aca98833015433b885a9970c-pi"><img alt="http://salvomag.typepad.com/.a/6a00e00988aca98833015433b885a9970c-pi" class="decoded" src="http://salvomag.typepad.com/.a/6a00e00988aca98833015433b885a9970c-pi" height="323" width="640" /></a><br />
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You never know who you might find as you dig into your family history. In the past on this blog I have written about my <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2011/07/magnificent-mcgibneys.html">McGibney</a> cousins who traveled the country performing family concerts in the late 1800s; I have written about my cousin <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-tragic-tale-of-john-abel-wight.html">John Abel Wright</a> who murdered his wife by dousing her in kerosene and then lighting her on fire; I have written about my cousin <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/01/charlotte-eliza-blaisdell-and-francis_27.html">Dougie Duncan</a> who killed two other men in a fight in Montana; and I have written about the tragedy of two cousins <a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-love-story-of-betsey-and-david.html">Betsey and David Corser</a> who were engaged to be married when David died in a snowstorm while they were out for a sleigh ride and Betsey died of a broken heart a few months later.<br />
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I think all of these stories could probably have been told much better by another of my cousins. His name was Louis Dearborn LaMoore. Louis was the grandson of Abraham Trefethern Dearborn and before I tell you about Louis, I want to tell a little of the story of Abraham.<br />
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Abraham was the only child of William Seavey Dearborn and Frederica Garic. He grew up in a troubled home and his parents separated or divorced in 1842 while he was a young boy of about 4 years of age.
The troubles of this family are described in detail in a book
written by Edna (LaMoore) Waldo.
Abraham lived with his father after the separation, but his father, William Seavey Dearborn, died, presumably, under mysterious circumstances while the family was living in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yet She Follows</i>, 125-26, “just before starting off on a long trip to market with a
drove of fat cattle, William, it is supposed, stopped to see his estranged wife Frederica; had he
returned, there might have been a reconciliation. But, accompanied by two hired
men, he went to the market town, several days away through a thickly wooded
country, sold and paid for his cattle, and disappeared. Neither he nor either of
the men was ever heard of again and the supposition was that he had been killed
for his money.” His son Abraham was thereafter raised by his grandparents and
by his Aunt Eliza Jane Angeline Dearborn (my great-great grandmother).<br />
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Abraham T. Dearborn moved in the 1860's to Todd
County, Minnesota near his Aunt Eliza Jane and her husband, Lawrence Alonzo
Chamberlain. After the Civil War began, he enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minn. as
a sergeant into Co. G, 3rd Minnesota Infantry. From a history written by my
cousin David Curtis Dearborn of this family we learn that, "The 3rd
Minnesota Regiment was sent to Fort Halleck, Kentucky to serve on the western
front which, by all accounts, suffered from confusion, changes of command and
poor morale. At the Battle of Murfreesboro (Tenn.), 13 July 1862, the regiment
surrendered without a fight, and A.T. and his men were captured. Part of the
regiment, including A.T.’s company, was paroled two days later at Warren
County, Tenn. back to Minnesota to help put down the Indian uprising. Because
the regimental officers were not among those released, A.T. was put in command
of Co. G. At Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, on about 30 October 1862, he
received a superficial gunshot wound to the right leg. It was on this campaign
that he met his future father-in-law, Capt. Ambrose Freeman of the 1st
Minnesota Mounted Rangers. By May 1863, A.T. was back in Tennessee, where
records show that he was thrown from his horse at Island No. 10. He was
discharged from the service on 2 July 1863, suffering from chronic diarrhea and
general prostration. He did not remain inactive long. On 28 October 1863 he
re-enlisted as a first lieutenant in Co. G, 2nd Tennessee Colored Heavy
Artillery. He was again stationed at Fort Halleck, Ky., and saw little action
during the rest of the war. Records in his pension file show, however, that on
5 March 1865 he received a wound to his left forearm and a severe wound to his
right middle finger. He also suffered from acute bronchitis, rheumatism and
remittent fever, not unusual symptoms for a soldier in the field.<br />
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I like to think that my great-great grandmother Eliza had some influence on Abraham and helped him to grow into the strong, adventurous man he became. Yes, Abraham had an interesting life and perhaps some of that may have may have been passed down to his grandson, Louis.<br />
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So why is it that I think Louis, my 3rd Cousin, once removed, could have told all of these stories much better than I can. Well, Louis, it turns out, had a flair for writing. By the time he finished his career, he had written 89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction. As of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour">2010</a>, his books and stories had sold more than 320 million copies, had been translated into a dozen languages, more than 35 films and TV shows were produced from his books, and he helped to pioneer the use of audio tapes for books.<br />
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Louis died in 1988 before I discovered that we were fairly close cousins. I would have liked to have met him. Although he was born a LaMoore, as a young man he decided to change his name from Louis LaMoore to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour">Louis L'Amour</a>. The name L'Amour was probably the original family name anyway since the ancestry on that side of his family is French or French Canadian.<br />
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Very few writers can claim a wider readership or a more successful career than Louis. He once said, "There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles–famine, disease, and such-like–and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end, it's up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matter."<br />
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Yes, I would have liked to meet Louis and I think I am going to have to read a few more of his books.<br />
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<i>Photo of Louis L'Amour from his Wikipedia page.</i>Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-50692910977116893132014-11-16T11:26:00.001-08:002014-12-09T17:39:48.574-08:00Grandpa Kowallis in the News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I learned something about my grandfather, Karl A. Kowallis, by reading the newspapers–some old newspapers. Grandfather, it appears was very active in town affairs in River Heights, and particularly in affairs related to the schools. Since he died just before I was born, it was interesting to read about his activities and opinions in these old newspaper articles.<br />
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14 April 1931 -- Karl and other parents opposed the closing of the River Heights school.<br />
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23 April 1934 -- The Salt Lake Tribune reported on the dedication of a new chapel in River Heights. Karl was called upon to present the financial statement for the construction of the chapel at a meeting led by LDS Church President Heber J. Grant.<br />
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26 August 1934 -- More school closures opposed by Karl and other parents. These schools were condemned after an earthquake (magnitude 6.6) in March of that year shook the area and caused cracks in the buildings. However, the buildings were declared safe for occupancy and the parents contended that they just wanted to continue thes centralization plan that they had been pushing for several years.<br />
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24 February 1935, Salt Lake Tribune -- Karl reports on the cost of a new water system for River Heights in his role as town clerk. It will be the first culinary water system in the newly incorporated town of River Heights.<br />
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19 May 1935, Salt Lake Tribune -- Grandfather is once again in the news on a school related issue. This time the parents are proposing to provide water and grounds beautification for the River Heights school at no cost to the school board.<br />
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24 March 1937 -- Karl once again is in the news on a school related issue. This time it is more personal. The Logan School District is seeking to prevent Karl's children from attending the city schools because they are not residents of the city. Karl feels they should be able to attend because he runs a tax-paying business in the city.<br />
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27 March 1937 -- Judge Lewis Jones agrees to hear the complaint of Karl Kowallis and Noah Larsen on the issue of whether or not their children should be allowed to attend Logan City Schools. I have not found out what the outcome was of this hearing, but I will keep looking in the newspapers.Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-33284695670926941332014-10-04T16:00:00.002-07:002014-10-04T16:00:35.174-07:00The Love Story of Betsey and David
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1796 Map of the area around Boscawen, N.H. where this love story took place</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Love Story of Betsey and Edward</b> –
[taken from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogy of the Corser
Family</i> by S.B.G. Corser, 1902, p. 213-222</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Introductory Letter</b> from Rev. Enoch
Corser to Samuel Bartlett Gerrish Corser</div>
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Minneapolis,
Minnesota, December 15, 1901</div>
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There is an
unwritten romance, of which I am the present custodian, pertaining to the lives
of two of our family, in days following the birth of our nation. It is in my
thought, so tender and sacred a glimpse of a most pathetic tragedy, that I have
hesitated to make public the old manuscripts, which in October 1864, after the
death of my grandmother, Mrs. Judith Burbank Corser (wife of David Corser,
Jr.), came into my possession. She had at her death been for nearly sixty years
the custodian of the sad story. I give you copies of the two letters of Edward
and Betsey Corser, the latter only a fragment, together with that part of the
story which is told in the endorsements, attached to the letters, written in
1806 by Mrs. Sarah Gerald Corser (Edward Corser’s mother), and the full story
written in 1820 by David Corser.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It seems to me now, that, as all
those who were actors in, or had personal or contemporary knowledge of, this
romance and tragedy of those days long since passed, are no longer living, this
story of our cousins of those early days may properly be told and may interest
others of our name, as it has interested the writer.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Sincerely
yours,</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Elwood
S. Corser</div>
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p.s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have in many instances modernized the
quaint spelling, and in some instances slightly changed the form of expression,
but never changed the thought. –E. S. C.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Letter of Edward Corser to Betsey Corser
(his first cousin)</b></div>
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Boscawen,
N.H., Feb. 26, 1795</div>
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Dear Cousin
Bess,</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I shall on your 18<sup>th</sup>
birthday send to you the little gift which during ten years past has been my
usual remembrance, ever since you were a sweet little girl of barely eight
years, and then you were glad when I lifted you up to receive the kiss which I
was permitted to give to you, and to receive a return in like from “My Little
Sweetheart.” </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How well I can recall those years,
when I used to have you constantly with me in the house, or garden, in the barn
or the fields, and even in long tramps in the woods for flowers in the spring,
and for nuts in the autumn. In those days you were broken-hearted when I shot
the squirrels as they were carrying home the beech nuts to their “wives and
babies,” as you always assured me.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In those days we used to sit for
hours together, while I told you of the battles of the war for liberty, which
had been won by the colonists, poor and ragged, and ill supplied, pitted
against the scarlet-coated British, and their hired Hessian allies. Then you
would listen with wide opened eyes when I spoke of the brave General Warren at
Bunker Hill, and the gallant Stark at Bennington. I am certain that I gave you
to understand that the result at Bunker Hill depended very much upon the valor
of my father, “Corporal Corser,” and we had some doubt whether he was not
really high in command. Then you always came in with the exploits of your
father David at Bennington, and how the Hessians “bellowed” when the Yankee
riflemen poured their fire into their ranks. I can remember that we had in
those years no name for the Hessians but “Dutchmen.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It has come about indeed very naturally,
that I have always loved my sweet cousin and “little sweetheart,” but I knew
but little of this until, as you grew to be a tall girl of sixteen and no
longer had kisses to give, nor would receive mine except when you were home and
with your mother near; and especially when in the singing school, and the
church, your voice was so much the sweetest, that I had no thought of any
other, ---that I came to know that you are all the world, and more than all the
world to me. Then for years you were so timid and so shy, and when two years
since I began to speak to you of my love, you were at first startled and told
me I was only your big brother, and although you have always been kind to me in
many sweet ways, you still have seemed to give me some kinder glances, and in
some manner, I do not know how, I have come to have hope again, that you may
yet become what you so sweetly called yourself in those past years.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In a few weeks our birthday, on the
nineteenth of March, will be here again, and I shall be twenty-six years old
and you will be eighteen. I do not need to tell you that I love you, and have
always loved you, for you know it full well, but I beg of you to think well of
it, and then after you shall have time to answer, ---for I would not have you
pressed or hurried---you will I beg tell me how it shall be. Your love, if it
may be mine, will make my life most happy, and I shall ever endeavor to give to
you all that I may win for you, to make your life still happier than now. If I
had the eloquent speech which I so admire in others, I would tell you all that
I have in my thought of you, but I do not need to write it, for you know it
all, and so I send these words, praying that they may find entrance to a heart
so gentle, that it will not shut its gates and refuse entrance to my messenger.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Your
faithful cousin and lover,</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Edward
Corser</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fragment of letter from Betsey Corser to
Edward Corser</b> </div>
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-----till of
late months I have never dreamed of you as my lover. I have always remembered
those days, long ago before I was eight years old, and long before I used to
follow you through the fields when you came to my father’s house, and listened
with me to the stories of the war, which ended in 1783, when I was only six
years old; and I can remember that when we learned that peace was come again it
seemed as if we were all in a new world. In those very early years we would sit
listening to your father and mine talking of the battles, and of the horrid
Indian massacres, till I would be chilled with fright, and I used to creep
nearer and put my hand in yours for warmth and for protection, for when I was
six years old and you were fourteen you seemed almost grown.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When two years since you began to
speak to me of love, I was frightened and tried to avoid you, but I know that
from the first what you said had a strange and powerful fascination, and I have
always had to hold myself in restraint that I should not appear to seek to give
you opportunity to speak those words I dreaded, and yet longed to hear.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then your letter of last February
came just three weeks before our common birthday. I am certain that while that
letter was in your thought to be written, it was by some hidden mystery also in
my constant thought as already written. During all the nights of the month before
my birthday, and before the letter came, I saw it in my dreams, always in one
form, and identical in its appearance with the real form of the letter which
came; and then always in my day dreams, I knew it would come, and would come
before my eighteenth birthday, and although I still struggled against an
irresistible fate, I knew what the letter would ask, and I knew also what my
answer would be.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have withheld my answer for weeks,
and now it is June, and I have seen the reproach in your eyes, and have felt
the pleadings of my own heart, aching because it has not been permitted speech.
You shall have an answer. I feel shame in my confession, but while I have
lifted my voice in songs of praise to God, I have often feared that you have
been the heaven-descended person whom my heart has praised. How can I—how dare
I write this, but how dare I refrain from writing it? And now it shall be as
you wish. This beautiful June is so lovely that it seems to me a new earth and
a new heaven have been created for us.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You ask that when June shall come
again I shall come to you, and we shall build our own home. It shall be as you
wish. I know now that I am yours and I cannot refuse what you claim. When June
comes again, if you shall claim me, I shall come to you, with gladness and with
song. And now, dear Edward, I pray you do not come to me just yet. In this
letter I have laid bare my soul, and I am shamed and must not see you yet. At
least give me time to clothe myself with my newly confessed love, and then when
you shall take me in your arms, I shall not be shamed before you. Dear one,
when we shall meet, I shall have so much to say to you that no period short of
eternity shall be sufficient for my glad unending speech. How can it be that so
much gladness has come into my life? Not the birds alone, but the brooks also
sing a love song—the leaves whisper it, and the gentle south winds breathe it
with sweet perfume on my cheek, as I sit in the evening moonlight, hiding my
blushes when I think that all these, and the bright stars and the sweet heaven,
know of our love, and all are glad with us.</div>
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<b>Note from
Elwood S. Corser, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 15, 1901</b>—This fragment of
the letter written by Miss Betsey Corser to her cousin lover is all which
remains. Whether the balance of the letter, its opening and closing pages, were
lost after the death of Edward, or were lost later, when in the keeping of Mrs.
Judith Corser, does not appear. All that remain to tell the story are the
endorsements on the wrapper in which the sad drama of the lovers is told. These
endorsements are as follows:</div>
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<b>First
endorsement</b> written by Mrs. Sarah Gerald Corser, Boscawen, N.H., 30<sup>th</sup>
June 1806—These two letters are those which were exchanged between my dear
Edward and the sweet girl he was to have married ten long years ago this month.
They were found by me on his body that fatal morning, the twentieth of March,
1796. I have never shown them. I shall send them soon to Judith Burbank, who
married dear Bess’s brother David, in 1801, and who was so close a friend of
our dear Bess during her short, sweet life.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When these shall come into Judith’s
keeping, I beg that she may shortly afterward send them, at her convenience, to
Miss Betsey Corser, who was born two years after Bess’s tragic death and who
bears her sister’s name. I cannot write more of this. I have had no pleasure in
life since dear Edward’s death, nor is his name ever spoken in our family.
Judith Burbank was fifteen years old when this terrible storm destroyed our
fond hopes, and blotted out these two lovely lives, and I pray that she may
write the sad story, which should accompany these sweet letters. My failing
health warns me that I have not long to live, and I must send them to Judith
before the end comes.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Sarah
Gerald Corser</div>
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<b>Second
endorsement</b> written by David Corser of Ogden, New York to Judith Corser in
March 1820—The enclosed papers came to my wife, Judith Burbank Corser, in 1807,
while we were living in New Hampshire, being given to her by Edward’s mother,
Sarah Corser, wife of Samuel Corser. Afterward, as requested by Mrs. Sarah
Corser, Judith gave them to Miss Betsey Corser, who, having been born two years
later than the time of here sister Betsey’s death, and knowing the close and
tender friendship which existed between Judith Burbank and her sister Betsey,
returned them to Judith, requesting that she should keep them during her life,
and should write and preserve the story of the tragic death of the lovers. At
Judith’s request I wrote the following brief account of this matter, as
remembered by my wife, who was Betsey’s nearest and dearest friend.</div>
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<b>THE TRAGIC STORY</b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Edward Corser, the second born child
of Samuel Corser and Sarah Gerald Corser, was born in Boscawen, N.H., March 19<sup>th</sup>
1769. Eight years later was born, in Boscawen, to David Corser and Ruth
Blaisdell Corser, their oldest daughter, Betsey, born March 19<sup>th</sup>
1777. She was the sister of David (the writer hereof), who was born four years
later. The fact of these children having their birthday on the same day and
month, and that they were very often together in their childhood, caused them
to frequently meet in the home of Betsey’s father, and they were always boy and
girl lovers from early childhood. Edward’s father served as a corporal in the
patriot forces at Bunker Hill, and David as a private soldier under Stark at
Bennington. The letter of Edward, which his mother preserved, with the fragment
of Betsey’s reply, tell better than any other can tell, the story of the
cousins’ early love. The story of their tragic deaths needs but few words. They
had fixed the date of their marriage for June 1796, and it was recalled later,
that during the months preceding March of that year they seemed even more
engrossed in each other than is usual with happy lovers. As if they were already
living, each in the other’s life, it was remarked that while Edward, hitherto,
impetuous and impulsive, even to brusqueness, was refining in the gentle
companionship of Betsey, she, although losing none of the gentle loveliness
which endeared her to all who knew her, matured in independence and
self-expression.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Betsey was a sweet singer and her
music took on a new and most touching sweetness and tenderness. Their common
birthday came on March 19<sup>th</sup> and toward the close of that day, as the
sleighing was fine, they started out with a horse and sleigh for a drive. There
was some snow falling as they left their home, and Betsey’s careful mother
cautioned them not to drive far and to return early. Just after nightfall the
wind began rising, and the snow fall became heavy. By nine in the evening the
storm was terrific and blinding, and the family of David (Betsey’s father)
became alarmed at the failure of the lovers to return. It was thought, however,
they had found shelter at the house of Edward, as they had planned to call
there upon the family before their return. Toward midnight the storm began to
break, and Betsey’s father made his way through the drifting snow to the home
of Samuel. There they found that the missing children had not been seen, and a
searching party was organized and spread out over the country along the roads
over which it was known they must have driven. Toward dawn, when the light
permitted objects to be seen, the body of Edward was found about one mile from
his home, toward which he had made his way for relief. Soon after, about a
quarter of a mile from the body of Edward, was found the overturned sleigh,
sheltered by which and carefully wrapped in the sleigh robes by the tender
hands of her lover, Betsey was found, still living, but chilled and nearly
unconscious. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The lovers had made their drive
longer than they were aware, and when they could not tell the route, the horse
fallen and helpless, Edward had loosened him from the sleigh and started him
for home, trusting to the instinct of the horse to find his way to David’s and
so perhaps give alarm there, while he (Edward), first protecting his companion
as well as possible in the shelter of the overturned sleigh, should make his
way on foot to his father’s home. Unfortunately, the lines were not safely
secured, and the horse, although he had started direct for home, had entangled
the lines in some underbrush and was found only a few rods distant on his way
home. When Edward’s body was exhumed from the snow in which he lay buried, upon
his person were found the enclosed letters, which have been preserved as the
touching story of these unfortunate, but not unhappy lovers.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So terrible was the shock to
Edward’s father and mother that the mother’s death, which followed twelve years
later, in 1808, was directly traced as the slow effect of this tragedy. Lest
her reason should be overthrown, the sad event was never mentioned, at least in
her presence, and this apprehension accounts for the fact that no stone marks
her son’s grave, nor does there appear any trace of this son in the family
records; the few sad lines written by the bereaved mother in 1806 are all that
tell of this son and of the mother’s silent, despairing sorrow.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To the stricken girl there came no
knowledge of this sad ending of the sweet romance until weeks later, when the
first grass of the opening spring was already carpeting Edward’s grave. When
she was restored to consciousness in her father’s home, it was to pass at once,
without knowledge or memory, into the delirium of fever, from which she only
recovered to learn of the past and the present, in the early days of the June
following, in those summer days which had been set for her marriage. The
knowledge of her loss was imparted to her by her mother, and so tender was the
heart to which cane this death blow, that even Judith Burbank, who was always
by the sick girl’s side, the mother could only say, “Betsey was already an
angel when with her hand in mine and her face hiding on my breast she listened
to the sad story, and I must not repeat to any one the words she spoke to me.”
She rallied from the fever, but she was a delicate girl, with indications of a
tendency to consumption, and is soon became evident that she would not long be
parted from the one to whom she had given herself. She lived until August 24<sup>th</sup>
following. She rarely spoke of Edward, and when she named him it was as if
living and near. A sweetness so perfect and so pervading as to defy expression
in words marked these closing weeks of her life. We could not tell why, but
during the last days of her life all those around her felt that she was not
alone, but that she rested consciously in Edward’s arms, and it did not then
seem unreal or strange to those of the household who were near her. On the
evening before her death, when she seemed quite unconscious, she roused and
said plainly with infinite sweetness and pathos, “Yes, Edward, I am so glad for
you that the day has come.” Toward morning she roused again and sang with her
own angelic human voice attuned to heaven’s melodies, and then as her voice
failed we caught plainly these last words: “Edward! Immortal life! Immortal
love!” and then she passed with Edward to that immortal life—immortal love.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have told this story sometimes in
my own words, but its more tender and personal passages are in the words of my
wife, Judith, and she bids me add that it fails far short of the unspeakable
sweetness and pathos of the reality.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Ogden,
N.Y.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>August
1829</div>
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<i>Note from the owner of this blog: Betsey Corser's mother, Ruth Blaisdell Corser, is my 2nd cousin and Betsey my 3rd cousin (both several times removed from me). Our common ancestors are Jonathan Blaisdell and Hannah Jameson. I may also be related to Edward, but I have not found a connection there yet.</i></div>
Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-37976531563767782412014-06-28T18:17:00.003-07:002014-06-28T18:17:53.542-07:00Family History is not just for Dead RelativesFamily History is not something that just happened in the deep past. Some of it happened today, or just last week, or just last month. So here is a little photo journal of a trip to the <a href="http://www.arboretum.org/">Los Angeles County Arboretum</a> with some of my favorite family members in May 2014.<br />
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Of course the most important family member was riding in comfort and style--our Lindi Rose.<br />
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The peacocks greeted us as we entered the arboretum.<br />
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Leanna, Jeff, Beau, and Julee watch as one of the peacocks gets close to Lindi's carriage.<br />
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Melanie protecting Lindi from the sun has her wrapped up from head to toe.<br />
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I'm not sure how Lindi felt about that. We saw many beautiful flowers and flowering trees like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia">camellia</a>, the California poppies, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda">Jacaranda</a> tree below.<br />
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We also saw some unusual plants and trees like the ones in the pictures below.<br />
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One of my favorites was the bamboo forest.<br />
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And some family members felt the need to show their palm tree climbing skills.<br />
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And finally, this shot of a boy and his mom has to be one of my favorites.Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-43393183199361948992014-06-07T20:13:00.000-07:002014-06-08T13:12:08.526-07:00More on DNA Testing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have now taken DNA tests using all three of the major companies (<a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/" target="_blank">Family Tree DNA</a>, <a href="https://www.23andme.com/" target="_blank">23andMe</a>, and <a href="http://dna.ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry</a>) that do testing for genealogical purposes. Here is my personal review of these three.<br />
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First, I have no reason to suspect that the data is bad from any of these companies. They all seem to provide reasonable agreement on my autosomal DNA, which is the only test they do in common. I'll start with FTDNA, which was the first company I did testing with.<br />
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<i><b>Family Tree DNA (FTDNA)</b></i> offers the most comprehensive suite of tests including Y-DNA, mitochondrial DNA, and autosomal DNA. Y-DNA can be used to research your direct paternal line if you are male or if you have male relatives who you can convince to be tested. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited from your direct maternal line and can provide insights into this lineage, however, mtDNA has generally proven to be less useful than Y-DNA or autosomal DNA. Autosomal DNA tests all of your chromosomes except the Y-chromosome and finds pieces of DNA that you share in common with other people in the companies database. I did all three of these tests with FTDNA and here is what I found about my family.<br />
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<b>Y-DNA TEST</b>: With FTDNA, you can have 37, 67, or 111 markers tested. Or you can have what they call the "Big Y" which tests your entire Y chromosome. <b>Costs range from $169 to $268 to $359 to $695 (for the Big Y)</b>. I did the 37 marker test for $169, but may upgrade to a higher level in the future. The only problem I had with FTDNA was that they copied the data from my test incorrectly for two of my markers. I would never have known this except for the fact that another DNA researcher contacted me after I had shared my DNA to indicate that for one of the markers, the value was not a possible value and that I should check with FTDNA to see if there had been an error in transcribing the data. It was corrected fairly quickly when I called to discuss the problem with the company. The advantage of FTDNA, of course, is that they are the only company doing this test for genealogical purposes. So far, I have not found any exact matches to my 37 markers, but I have been matched to a few probable relatives who are perhaps 10-30 generations out from me. All of these matches are from <b>Eastern Europe</b>. This test also gives me my <b>male haplogroup</b>, which according to FTDNA is <b>I-M423</b>, although the haplogroup tree is still evolving and the groups you are initially placed in can change fairly quickly. FTDNA allows you to join or set up groups for research purposes. I have set up a Kowallis Family group and have joined a couple of groups that have been quite helpful in understanding my Y-DNA. I would definitely give <b>two thumbs up</b> for this test but would like to see FTDNA improve their graphics on their Y-DNA pages.<br />
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<b>mt-DNA TEST</b>: I had this test done as well with FTDNA because I have some unresolved issues with my maternal line. The line disappears in Rhode Island in the 1700s with a woman named Frances, who was married to Jonathan Childs. We have been unable to find out anything about Frances. I was hoping that I might tie into a cousin who had the same mt-DNA and had more information on this family line. <b>The cost of the test is $199</b>. It did give me my <b>maternal haplogroup </b>(<b>U3a1c</b>) and 3 matches that are at a genetic distance of 1 (which basically means they are very distant relations). I have as yet not found any exact matches. Still there is the chance that in the future someone will take the test who is an exact match. Even then, they could be a fairly distant relative, but it would be a starting place to perhaps solve the problem of Frances. I would say that this is the least useful of the tests I have had done and, based upon the cost and the possible benefit, I would not recommend it until more work has been done by researchers using mt-DNA to solve genealogy problems. <b>One thumb down</b>. <br />
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<b>Autosomal DNA (Family Finder TEST</b>): This is certainly one of the funnest and most useful of the genetic tests. <b>The cost from FTDNA is $ 99</b>, probably because this is the test offered by 23andMe and Ancestry as well. Competition has brought the price down to a very reasonable level. This test looks at all of your chromosomes (except the Y-chromosome) and finds pieces that are identical to other people in the database. Depending on the lengths and numbers of pieces you have in common with someone else, the test can give you an idea how closely you are related. Additional work by you (looking up your matches family trees and finding common ancestors) can help you to identify which pieces of DNA come from which family lines. These tests also give you information on your deeper ancestry based upon how similar you are to groups in their database. So my Family Finder test gave me over 190 matches with possible cousins, suggested how close these cousins might be (2nd cousins, 3rd cousins, distant cousins, etc.), and allowed me to download the data on my matches. I have contacted several of these cousins and been able to determine who our common ancestors are. My deep ancestry from FTDNA is shown below and suggests that most of my ancestry is European, with 33% from Germany, Denmark, and France, 28% from Great Britain and Netherlands, 26% from Eastern Europe, 8% from the Northern Mediterranean (Spain, Italy, Greece), 3% from Norway/Sweden, and 1% from Finland. The other 1% (non-European) is marked as Anatolian or Caucasus in origin. This is a test that is worth doing; <b>two thumbs up</b>.<br />
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So, what about <i><b>23andMe</b></i> and Ancestry.<br />
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I have already reported on my results from 23andMe in an earlier blog entitled "<a href="http://urthreport.blogspot.com/2014/03/yes-im-caveman.html" target="_blank">Yes, I am a Caveman</a>." But that was only part of the autosomal DNA story from 23andMe. I also got a deep genealogical report from them as well as a report on my <b>maternal (U3a1) and paternal (I2a2a)</b> haplogroups. The map below shows the results from 23andMe. This report shows me to be 99.8% European, with 34% German and French, 16% British and Irish, 5% Scandanavian, 35% unspecified Northern European, 6% Eastern European, and about 4% unspecified European. The remaining 0.2% are from North Africa and Yakut. You can see that there are similarities and differences in the reports from the two companies.<br />
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23andMe also allows me to map onto my chromosomes the regions where these ancestral bits of DNA are located. Below is the graphic they provide. I've modified the colors a bit to make it more readable because most of the colors were shades of blue. This kind of a map could be useful in helping to identify which family lines some of my cousin matches come from. 23andMe, like FTDNA, allows me to download my data and my matches data in an excel spreadsheet for further analysis. I find this to be a very useful feature. The graphics and web site's general appearance and layout are much better on 23andMe than on FTDNA. 23andMe also matched me up with over 900 possible cousins, several of them fairly close. The one issue is that of the half dozen shown as possible 2nd cousins, only one of them has responded to me and shared information. Bummer! But I have been able to link up with several cousins and determine who our common ancestors were. <b>The cost of the test is the same as FTDNA, $99</b>. I give this site and test <b>two thumbs up</b>.<br />
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Lastly, I also did the autosomal test with <a href="http://ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a>.<br />
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They also provide a deep ancestry map shown below. Ancestry puts me at 96% European with 29% Scandinavian, 18% British, 16% West European (German, French, Dutch), 15% Eastern European, 10% Irish, and 8% Italian/Greek. The other 4% are 3% Caucasus and about 1% North African. Again, there are similarities and there are differences with this analysis and the other two companies. Ancestry also matches me up with cousins. I had 84 cousins in this database, one of them a 1st cousin. The problem I have with Ancestry is that they do not allow you to download the DNA information for your matches, so it is difficult to compare data with the other two websites. I would give Ancestry's site <b>one thumb up</b> for that reason.<br />
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Well that's about all I have to say for now on this issue. I may have more in the future, so come back again. You can read more about DNA Testing and understanding your results at these web sites:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.worldfamilies.net/dnatesting" target="_blank">World Families</a> (thanks to this site for the graphic at the top of this blog)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/understanding-dna.aspx" target="_blank">Family Tree DNA</a> an introduction to using DNA in Family History</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780121550899" target="_blank">Science Direct</a> a more general introduction to DNA</li>
<li><a href="http://www.smgf.org/pages/how_it_works.jspx" target="_blank">Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation</a> they sold their database to Ancestry</li>
<li><a href="http://genealogy.about.com/cs/geneticgenealogy/a/dna_tests.htm">About.com</a> on Genealogy and DNA</li>
<li><a href="http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/understanding-your-dna-results.html">Olive Tree Genealogy</a> a blog about DNA and Genealogy</li>
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Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-22673552722660890752014-05-19T10:25:00.001-07:002018-04-16T08:10:20.127-07:00The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945Among my father's photos from his time on Okinawa in 1945 are several of soldiers for which he provided no name or other comments. One soldier, in particular, was part of the Military Police. It may be that Lt. Kowallis was just doing a favor for these other soldiers by developing pictures for them. If you recognize who any of the soldiers are in these photos, I would be interested in that information. Just add a comment below to let me know.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
</ul>
And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
<ul>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If family history and genealogy have a future, we are going to need young people to join the ranks. Everything is heading toward the digital world where the youth excel and some of us grandpas and grandmas struggle. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865601836/Not-your-grandmas-genealogy-anymore.html" target="_blank">Click here for a story about some kids in Houston who have taken the challenge</a></span>. </span></h1>
Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-26434492443831572652014-04-22T09:10:00.000-07:002018-04-16T08:11:03.285-07:00Older Faces from Okinawa in 1945In the collection of photos taken by Lt. Reinhart Kowallis were many photos of young children and young adults, but he also had several of older adults. Here are some of the older generation in 1945. None of the photos were labeled with names, but perhaps some of the descendants or relatives of these individuals will recognize them.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
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And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
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<br />Urthmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00219085121115020326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1521541498734291838.post-37673452101482944222014-04-12T16:59:00.003-07:002018-04-16T08:13:40.929-07:00Young faces – Native Okinawans 1945These are the faces of children and young adults captured in 1945 by Lt. Reinhart T. Kowallis while he was stationed on Okinawa as part of a photo interpretation team attached to the 10th U.S. Army. As I look at these photos, I wonder if any of these people are still alive today and, if so, I wonder if they will ever recognize themselves in these photos.<br />
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While on girl turns to run away from the camera, another gives a big smile.<br />
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A family of native Okinawans at home.<br />
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Two young girls on the side of the road. One of them carrying a boy who was not much smaller than the girl.<br />
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A young girl getting a haircut.<br />
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Three young girls along the road.<br />
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A young boy, comfortably dressed, playing with a hoop.<br />
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An Okinawan family with their catch for the day.<br />
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A group of native Okinawans reaching for something–the photo does not say what.<br />
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Another young native Okinawan boy dressed appropriately for a warm day.<br />
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Young Okinawan boys in the back of a truck.<br />
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A pretty, camera-shy girl.<br />
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Another girl. Not so camera shy.<br />
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Two stylish Okinawan ladies at the beach.<br />
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An American serviceman (perhaps Lt. Martinson from the photo interpretation group) visiting with a young Okinawan boy.<br />
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You can read more about the Battle of Okinawa on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/pacific-civilians-okinawa/" target="_blank">PBS.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa" target="_blank">History.com</a>. <br />
Other good sites for information on the Battle of Okinawa during 1945 include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">The Hawai'i Nisei Story site </a></li>
<li><a href="http://nisei.hawaii.edu/object/io_1149316185200.html" target="_blank">History.net's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/" target="_blank">MilitaryHistory.com's site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter15.htm" target="_blank">US Army Center for Military History site</a></li>
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And for post-war Okinawa, this is a very good site with lots of pictures from 1945 through 1972: <a href="http://www.rememberingokinawa.com/page/remembering_okinawa_home" target="_blank">Remembering Okinawa</a><br />
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<i>Note: Be sure to visit my other blogs on Okinawa in 1945: </i><br />
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<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/visit-to-okinawa-in-may-1945.html" target="_blank">People of Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-more-photos-from-lt-r-t.html" target="_blank">Casualties of war</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/okinawa-1945-capture-of-japanese-soldier.html" target="_blank">Capture of a Japanese soldier</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/lds-servicemen-and-women-in-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">LDS servicemen and women in Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-unknown-mp-okinawa-1945.html" target="_blank">The Unknown Soldiers -- Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-faces-from-okinawa.html" target="_blank">More faces from Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/10th-army-photo-interpretation-group.html" target="_blank">10th Army Photo Interpretation Group</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/surrender-day-on-okinawa-7-september.html" target="_blank">Surrender Day on Okinawa</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/young-faces-native-okinawans-1945.html" target="_blank">Young Faces in Okinawa 1945</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/04/older-faces-from-okinawa-in-1945.html" target="_blank">Older Faces in Okinawa 1945</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2014/03/shuri-castle-okinawa-in-1945-and.html" target="_blank">Shuri Castle</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-photos-from-okinawa-1.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 1</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-2.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 2</a> </i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://urthgen.blogspot.com/2018/04/war-photos-from-okinawa-3.html" target="_blank">War Photos from Okinawa 3</a></i></li>
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