tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89374089849485268262024-03-13T05:05:40.892-07:00Erica's Adventures in GenealogyFor years I've tried to climb numerous "brick walls" as I've worked on my family history -- many of my challenges are my women ancestors. I've met many wonderful, helpful genealogists, town clerks, historians, and societies along the way. Some of the names I'm working on: DAKIN, WORTHINGTON, SEARING, RICHARDSON, DeLOSS/LOSS, COPELAND, HARVEY, WRIGHT, EVANS, HELSTEN, SMITH (Conn.), HEARTY, ROBBERT, BOGART, NYE, BLODGETT & COBB.Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-65609842427276249442023-04-02T13:12:00.003-07:002023-04-02T13:38:06.217-07:00Remember the Women! Part 3<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTwivpqeMoxJtzahZ0xLEzRXkVPnw72XLQUOPQqVOY3wG7WdjcFfANd8cfK8zZLY7mLsTCNkyxpTugveb6WDPp8tKRPLp9aGWyrwX0gEyVBXEtibGgbwGCuj3qtgcCzMW7QcIKUJSi17dpYqxV3_hXz4da3NVgLRLeRniHc2QXvqsvLbsOKCfFwYY/s430/Book%20cover%20part%203.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="288" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTwivpqeMoxJtzahZ0xLEzRXkVPnw72XLQUOPQqVOY3wG7WdjcFfANd8cfK8zZLY7mLsTCNkyxpTugveb6WDPp8tKRPLp9aGWyrwX0gEyVBXEtibGgbwGCuj3qtgcCzMW7QcIKUJSi17dpYqxV3_hXz4da3NVgLRLeRniHc2QXvqsvLbsOKCfFwYY/w364-h545/Book%20cover%20part%203.png" width="364" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>I made the decision to focus on the women when I head up our family tree. So many family history books tell you about the vital records of the men, extol their deeds and adventures and maybe if we are lucky tell us the full names of their wives and a hint as to her family. I feel that family history should be more than just birth, marriage and death dates -- to celebrate our families, we should include their stories, after all they were people, not just a list of dates, and thanks to them we are all here now. Not all of their stories are going to include record-shattering achievements of world leaders, and most likely no one in the family is that famous person. </p><p>In my last book, I focused on the women in my great grandmother's generation: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8937408984948526826/6401424335395537061" target="_blank">Mary Alice Smith Dakin, Caroline Matilda Helsten Evans, Mary Louisa Helsten Pomeroy</a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8937408984948526826/4335379132374751165" target="_blank">Martha Elnora Worthington Richardson, and Alice Copeland Harvey</a>.</p><p>This year it is time to move on to my great great grandmother's generation: <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-3/hardcover/product-7zkygz.html?q=voolich&page=1&pageSize=4" target="_blank">Hannah Marie Colburn Dakin, Abigail Jennings Smith, Hannah Elizabeth Redford Evans, Mary Hearty Helsten, Mary A C Bogart Richardson, Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington, Mary Hubbard Nye Harvey, and Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland. Here is a little bit about each of these women.</a></p><p>I know very little about Hannah Marie Colburn Dakin (1807 - 1849) before she married, Robert Dakin the blacksmith in 1830 in Hudson New York. She was born about 1807 in Chenango County, New York and her last name was a probably Colburn, but I've found no birth family information for her. We have not pictures of her or her husband. It was a short marriage, after having 4 children, ages 2, 4, 6, and 8, her husband died suddenly from inflammation of the lungs, leaving her a widow with bills greater than the value of the estate. There was a sheriff's sale listing her and her children as responsible for the debts. Then to add insult to injury Hannah died at age 42 leaving. How did her children manage? Her oldest, Lucy Ann Dakin Wilkinson, was a seamstress in NYC who married a chinaware businessman widower with two children. Lucy lived a good long life. Hannah's youngest, Edward Dakin after being farmed out as an orphan to a Hudson family eventually moved to Connecticut, worked on a farm, saved his money, bought the general store and became the first postmaster for South Kent, Connecticut. He married and had one son, who I'm descended from. The two other sons, Charles Henry Dakin and George Dakin ended up "farmed out" to different farms in the same Connecticut town. A few years later they were fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War. George, the Confederate, died a few days after being discharged in Memphis, Tennessee. His brother Charles made it back to New York, settled near his sister in New York City working as a carpenter. He died from consumption and exhaustion at the age of 35.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJj0pplouxoIUU0BjAmrzmPW03RYuHdaljKb8loZenh3k642F8bgv4FiIvsLbaWxANGlgCTKxyQ-652I3i3kg3XuXyiCLu1ZLqBw5xpicMEnBbMI_68kddWgyVFr2qJqfq4K82up_Zmmn2jRnY4aMPAxcoNezTgiDVBRPHUeC__JlwD_4DruP4BbUx/s1148/DAKIN%20Lucy%20with%20Charles%20WILKINSON.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJj0pplouxoIUU0BjAmrzmPW03RYuHdaljKb8loZenh3k642F8bgv4FiIvsLbaWxANGlgCTKxyQ-652I3i3kg3XuXyiCLu1ZLqBw5xpicMEnBbMI_68kddWgyVFr2qJqfq4K82up_Zmmn2jRnY4aMPAxcoNezTgiDVBRPHUeC__JlwD_4DruP4BbUx/s320/DAKIN%20Lucy%20with%20Charles%20WILKINSON.jpg" width="201" /></a></div>Lucy Dakin Wilkinson with baby Charles Wilkinson. He was named for her brother Charles who died a few months before. She raised their children along with his when they married.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtyHzo_AREetzrG500MvX3eoCDF3blKsxBdfbNSWpEDOU22TpBQlXAO2HoqtekznNNn9XeJW6BR4yDoW3C7LIlUU19UX47HSeTfkdBntOTgRDcpHVvizQi4vBoTcTgGQ6H9AuTMlxSSNtFOJXNMYLp8eo7k26mWRLdIVIMJkUmZUTyoK2jBWR1Wck-/s5448/DAKIN%20Charles%20Henry%201832-1868%20crop.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5448" data-original-width="4261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtyHzo_AREetzrG500MvX3eoCDF3blKsxBdfbNSWpEDOU22TpBQlXAO2HoqtekznNNn9XeJW6BR4yDoW3C7LIlUU19UX47HSeTfkdBntOTgRDcpHVvizQi4vBoTcTgGQ6H9AuTMlxSSNtFOJXNMYLp8eo7k26mWRLdIVIMJkUmZUTyoK2jBWR1Wck-/s320/DAKIN%20Charles%20Henry%201832-1868%20crop.jpeg" width="250" /></a></div><div> </div><div><br /></div>Charles Henry Dakin (1832 - 1868) who survived fighting on the Union side of the Civil War and died from TB (consumption) shortly afterwards.<br /><p>This is a crayon portrait of Charles.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdLpqHJvg8vRIkCqaMT75jRzV2sJbujlCuQgvm4Lha30lQHmuQg_bTEqueuwo-8MpVAix1vAMOrSosocMfJMoATJyYlTATbIXy8qtU3F95yiovEeuwzhOHsW5_NLze1XApneTpLm3Bk8MvIhFDojzWEIcqvDD9KCVY9VftQqA7EyPlf6rhqQ6oZIc/s2306/DAKIN%20Ed.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2306" data-original-width="1362" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdLpqHJvg8vRIkCqaMT75jRzV2sJbujlCuQgvm4Lha30lQHmuQg_bTEqueuwo-8MpVAix1vAMOrSosocMfJMoATJyYlTATbIXy8qtU3F95yiovEeuwzhOHsW5_NLze1XApneTpLm3Bk8MvIhFDojzWEIcqvDD9KCVY9VftQqA7EyPlf6rhqQ6oZIc/s320/DAKIN%20Ed.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><p>Edward Dakin (1836 - 1914) who live to be the postmaster in Kent Connecticut and then to marry Mary Alice Smith, the local school teacher, and to have their own farm in Gaylordsville. I wrote a whole book on is family's experience of the <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/Bulls%20Bridge%20Power%20Plant" target="_blank">building of the Bulls Bridge Power Plant</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Our next woman Abigail Jennings Smith (1833 - 1882), her daughter Mary Alice Smith married Hannah's son, Edward Dakin. She was born in New Fairfield, Connecticut, her mother was Sally Betsy Elwell and her father Lyman Jennings. Her parents farmed and she married another farmer, Stephen Smith who lived in Kent. They had six children, five lived until adulthood.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO21Sy30FpP5jbU4nreHqQX-XJ6fItVO-6a-X84VM0na-OaYQ1nFeUQ_rpgVGXh8B18WaNgka-DB9potf1SGQ27uidaDDAaLIxf8p2L7ij8KwIJrf03tIOEtjT2VjFZOlOJB6ZaA8OSdIoCSRjby-LUUWXbF6-R44hRbCtpi2GRYxOFEdlgtGV0C7E/s2992/SMITH%20Abigail%20JENNINGS%20age%2018%20crop.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="2187" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO21Sy30FpP5jbU4nreHqQX-XJ6fItVO-6a-X84VM0na-OaYQ1nFeUQ_rpgVGXh8B18WaNgka-DB9potf1SGQ27uidaDDAaLIxf8p2L7ij8KwIJrf03tIOEtjT2VjFZOlOJB6ZaA8OSdIoCSRjby-LUUWXbF6-R44hRbCtpi2GRYxOFEdlgtGV0C7E/s320/SMITH%20Abigail%20JENNINGS%20age%2018%20crop.jpeg" width="234" /></a></div>She lived to see her oldest daughters marry. First Clara Wright Smith married Frederick Chase on 30 December 1879 then on 11 February 1880 her daughter Mary Alice married Edward Dakin. When Mary and Edward decided to have a farm they sold the general store post office to William Geer who a year later sold it to the Chases. Geer was a distant relative on their mother's side. All in the family. </div><div><br /></div><div>Abigail died at age 49 from a form of TB. She left David Orange 21, Wilber Grant 19, and Fannie Abbie 13 still at home on the farm.</div><div><br /></div><div>She lived to see her brother-in-law Orange Smith, who worked as a farm hand for them to go off to fight the Civil War. I included his letters home to Steven and their daughter Mary Alice in my first volume of Remember the Women. Also Steven's sister, Fannie E Smith, married Anson B Nichols, he went off to fight the Civil War (his letters are in Volume 2). Fannie had a young child and was pregnant when he left for the war. She died while he was gone, leaving two young children. Their brother Orange and and brother -in-law Anson made it home safely and then Orange moved to Minnesota and died there in 1869.</div><div><br /></div><div>In contrast, our next woman, Hannah Elizabeth Radford Evans (1825 - 1915), lived a long very busy life. She was called Liz or Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born in 1825 in Middlebury Connecticut. I know her parents, Harriet Higgins and Beers Radford. Her mother's family goes back to the settling of New Haven. Her father is still a bit of a mystery -- she has Radford cousins, but I've not identified his parents. Her father was a blacksmith and lived long enough at 91 to be listed on a census under occupation as "old man of the house." <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2U-qm1ekDJPxFNN2F4u_6vI3bKNIf9Hk4z2SxnGFFcRDBa4aOYVcHWJ5WSVMv8uc0qOLpOOUEiBJnnREm8CTrVkFR_o5ht4earhUKgSJ7noXnaJIsz49K6Pe4eaYP-4dtz2V__YMhy3pVNKt8csbuNyN01kt9JLqvjJnpAIcaBqQgUWss91FgDMbv/s1048/EVANS%20Elizabeth%20RADFORD%20crop.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="682" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2U-qm1ekDJPxFNN2F4u_6vI3bKNIf9Hk4z2SxnGFFcRDBa4aOYVcHWJ5WSVMv8uc0qOLpOOUEiBJnnREm8CTrVkFR_o5ht4earhUKgSJ7noXnaJIsz49K6Pe4eaYP-4dtz2V__YMhy3pVNKt8csbuNyN01kt9JLqvjJnpAIcaBqQgUWss91FgDMbv/s320/EVANS%20Elizabeth%20RADFORD%20crop.jpeg" width="208" /></a></div>She had two older brothers, Horace Radford was a successful businessman who possibly was the person who paid for a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8937408984948526826/5577480239511900929" target="_blank">year of college for her in 1844 - 1845 at that new school, Mt Holyoke</a>. </div><div>She <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2014/05/dear-cousin-2-12-years-later.html" target="_blank">corresponded with her Radford cousins</a> in New York about the issues of the day, including schools, books, family, their own work and abolitionists. She came from a family who appreciated her wanting to learn. Her sister married a year before she did. Harriet August Radford married Julius Bronson, a widower with a 12-year-old daughter. </div><div><br /></div><div>When she married Charles Evans she moved to her husband's family farm in Sherman Connecticut. Even while busy raising four children and running a farm from a farmhouse without modern conveniences, she was reading, writing and sharing ideas. Her two daughters married and moved away, her sons formed a local construction company, Evans Brothers, building houses and the town hall around Sherman. Then the sons closed up that company and packed up their families and started a new business running a lumber yard and construction company in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1888. Then in 1899, at the age 74 she and Charles decided to moved into the town of Great Barrington -- no more running the farm. She was busy with activities there, including the Thursday Morning Club -- a women's group who had regular educational activities and speakers. She also would enter crafts she made in fairs. In 1903, shortly before her husband died, the local paper profiled couples who were married more than 50 years. For her 88th birthday the Springfield Union newspaper profiled her colorful life remembering details of 22 presidential campaigns and attending Mt Holyoke College. She died at the age of 90. Elizabeth's son Charles Harold Evans married the daughter, Caroline Matilda Helsten, of our next woman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mary Hearty Helsten (1823 -1902) had a dramatically different life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRkLsUx1LSF-ugLWS-KxJmQgBd5RwXwEETAVZme8FUEONIm-EdGhSWEOMXKqnqQEhBNoeMlmAKu8CmuHcZTNLPZzSOfZKOrD0OXAxwFFfUDRy2So4_hQO3hOpGIPJbfkorokvu1E9ClGEgH8a08d55MS17T56cJ4dmXk1UC1LgQPoMX6yK7uqk1AGO/s631/Mary,%20Eric%20HELSTEN%20crop.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="523" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRkLsUx1LSF-ugLWS-KxJmQgBd5RwXwEETAVZme8FUEONIm-EdGhSWEOMXKqnqQEhBNoeMlmAKu8CmuHcZTNLPZzSOfZKOrD0OXAxwFFfUDRy2So4_hQO3hOpGIPJbfkorokvu1E9ClGEgH8a08d55MS17T56cJ4dmXk1UC1LgQPoMX6yK7uqk1AGO/s320/Mary,%20Eric%20HELSTEN%20crop.jpeg" width="265" /></a></div><div>Mary was born in Dorsy Townland, Parish Creggan, County Armagh, Ireland. Her father was Owen Hearty and we don't know her mother. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8937408984948526826/7936628184436098669" target="_blank">We know his name because he wrote two letters from his daughter during the famine.</a> There were many Hearty families living in that part of what is now Northern Ireland back to the 1600s. But they were so poor, that in the 1827 Tithe Applotment book her father has a bit less than 5 acres to farm. I went to Northern Ireland to research, but couldn't find even anything in the landholding landlord's papers. During the "Great Potato Fanine" (now called the Great Hunger by the Irish), Mary came on one of the "Coffin Ships" -- so named because the death rate while crossing the ocean. She arrived in New York City in 1848 and took a job working as an Irish maid for Benjamin Cowl, a widower running a tannery in Haviland Hollow New York. Working there as a tanner was Eric Helsten, he had arrived in New York City in 1845, and in 1846 headed north to work for Cowl. Life in Sweden wasn't good, but it wasn't a bad famine like Ireland. The two immigrants believed if they worked hard, they could make it here and they did. They saved and bought a tannery and then the house in front of it in Gaylordsville, Connecticut. She not only raised her children but also was housing the workers in the tannery and apprentices. Just imagine the laundry. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Evans family was living just over the town line in Sherman at the top of the hill. They were just across the river from the General store, easy for their kids to meet. Mary and Eric lived in that house until they died in 1902 and 1903. They had one son and 3 daughters. One married Charles H Evans, their oldest Mary Louisa Helsten married a widower with a son and after her husband died, continued to run the business with her step-son. Mary L Pomeroy was the one who stayed nearby her parents as they aged. Their youngest daughter, Sarah married a widower with two sons and moved to Washington DC. Their son married and worked in the resort his in-laws ran in Rhode Island. Caroline who married the carpenter who went to Great Barrington, she and her husband were actually near the trains that ran through Gaylordsville up to Great Barrington and her husband took over running Eric's business behind the Helsten home when she and Eric died. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our next woman was also born abroad, but with a different ancestral life history. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3t6gz8uW9y_HF9oIT47KF-ST-VynbULkTz3uk_-3RRiq7pOylzz5SGRPeh6DbSO4loCGEpDt0_oPD0S0fDC_smRaSIQBqVJCsNl6OrB1KRx6t_hzyL6-2NcX3mP8czl6fqroTsaYfAGvVdvNg9x8zCgh3a2tt7O2pcbavLctKT6MAN6gFkyfuCG3/s1840/RICHARDSON%20Minnie%20A%20C%20BOGART.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1840" data-original-width="1584" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3t6gz8uW9y_HF9oIT47KF-ST-VynbULkTz3uk_-3RRiq7pOylzz5SGRPeh6DbSO4loCGEpDt0_oPD0S0fDC_smRaSIQBqVJCsNl6OrB1KRx6t_hzyL6-2NcX3mP8czl6fqroTsaYfAGvVdvNg9x8zCgh3a2tt7O2pcbavLctKT6MAN6gFkyfuCG3/s320/RICHARDSON%20Minnie%20A%20C%20BOGART.jpg" width="275" /></a></div>Mary A C Bogart Richardson (1841 - 1910) was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of Isabelle Young and Abraham Lazier Bogart. Her father is well documented all the way back to the early Dutch settlers in New York, but we know nothing of her mother's family. When the Mary's paternal ancestors came to what is now Ontario, it was wilderness and they were given land by the British crown for their loyalty during the American Revolution -- they were United Empire Loyalists (U.E.L.). Her husband William Richardson was the son of an Irish immigrant to Quebec who was a shoemaker. He was educated and employed by the Bank of Montreal, traveling around to new branches for short stays around Canada. They married when he was working in Belleville and she moved with him. They had six children, the last one was born in Chicago. Why Chicago? Her husband was <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-family-legend-and-rest-of-story.html" target="_blank">sent to Chicago after the Chicago Fire in 1870 to help with the rebuilding of the city by setting up a bank branch there</a>. When her husband left his job at the bank he started his own marine insurance office and his adult sons worked there over the years. The family moved to Oak Park and possibly that was how they met the future wife of their son Harry Bogart Richardson. Or possibly the fathers met professionally, each was working downtown. The oldest son William Grant Richardson moved away, eventually settling in St Louis and writing using his middle name as a feature writer for the St Louis Post Dispatch. Their oldest daughter Grace Dagmar lived at home and worked in the agency. The next daughter, Minnie Alexandra, died as a child from "softening of the brain"at age 10. Their youngest daughter Thyra married, John Eldon Shepherd and developed kidney problems, moved to New Jersey to see New York doctors, but ended up dying young at age 38, leaving three sons. The two sons who stayed around Chicago, Frederick and Harry Bogart, often worked in the insurance office. Fred was in the newspaper for <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-blind-agents-divorce-rest-of-story.html" target="_blank">his dramatic story of his divorce after going blind</a>. Harry took two years off to look for <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/01/mild-mannered-clerk-or-secret-service.html" target="_blank">counterfeiters for the Secret Service</a> in Denver taking one of his sons with him. Mary died at age 69 from dilation of heart. Mary's son Harry Bogart Richardson married Martha Elnora Worthington, the daughter of our next woman, Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington.</div><div><br /></div><div>Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington (1840 - 1923) was born in Eaton, near Rome, New York. She was the daughter of Elnora Esther DeLoss (Loss) and Nathan Cobb.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7grz5Uh5efrDUiaqjVlhJztezbYh4n99jlh2nK6cV43a-pRvzEVGisiyJtTGSpSzHeJWe6tiJ-EkROXv5cfEMx7PfYGAjjeicGM8v6YV2WvUIsRWi-buNVZdi2-fmkNvs3j0ILGxJcrV9FGO-FKPSxFSqYFWoTXkVY3kUCYbt9dWqp1saYB3hRQv/s956/COBB%20WORTHINGTON,%20Elnora3.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="808" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7grz5Uh5efrDUiaqjVlhJztezbYh4n99jlh2nK6cV43a-pRvzEVGisiyJtTGSpSzHeJWe6tiJ-EkROXv5cfEMx7PfYGAjjeicGM8v6YV2WvUIsRWi-buNVZdi2-fmkNvs3j0ILGxJcrV9FGO-FKPSxFSqYFWoTXkVY3kUCYbt9dWqp1saYB3hRQv/s320/COBB%20WORTHINGTON,%20Elnora3.jpeg" width="270" /></a></div>Her father ran a lumber yard in Morrisville and about 1855 decided he wanted to move to Chicago. There Nathan ran a planing shop, prepping boards for planks and shingles for sale in the construction of buildings. She married Robert the young man who lived next door in Chicago who was 10 years her senior who worked as a clerk in freight forwarding. He also had been born in New York state, and had moved to Wisconsin with his widowed father and his new wife. His father valued education and passed that love of books and poetry on to his son. <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/WORTHINGTON%20Ella%20Cobb" target="_blank">They had one daughter and the love of literature was passed on to her. </a> The three of them survived the Chicago Fire, rebuilding their home in the newly growing suburb of Oak Park instead of where their home had burned in Chicago. Her husband was involved in the rebuilding of the city managing the building of the new Chicago Board of Trade Building. Elnora outlived her husband by 20 years, living next door to her daughter's family in the house they built for her. A home her grand and great grand children grew up in over the years. She died at age 82.<div><br /></div><div><br /><div>Mary Hubbard Nye Harvey (1812 - 1859) was born in Berlin, Vermont. She was the daughter of Mary Andrews and Asahel Hubbard Nye. I have no pictures of her, her parents, husband or son who I am descended from. Her mother died when she was a month and a half old. A year and a half later her father remarried to Sarah Barnard, they had 10 children, 7 living to adulthood. She married a carpenter, Enoch Dole Harvey, someone who also had a challenging childhood with a father disappearing leading to Enoch and his sister getting farmed out to relatives. They settled in Northfield, Vermont. Then a decade later her husband goes to Wisconsin to investigate moving to the wilderness there. When they headed out via horse and carriage and boat, she had four young children (10, 8, 5, and 1). They had 7 children, and when she took sick her older helped run the household and continued doing so when she died in Lake Mills Wisconsin at age 46, leaving children 6, 11, 14, 17, 21 and 26. Her husband outlived her by almost 30 years. Her youngest son, Joseph Elliot Harvey married the daughter, Alice Copeland Harvey, of our next woman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland (1826 - 1919) had quite the opposite lifespan of our last woman. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiJMKJqhlAAA_-V9kvwLuMCKWI60VIxSF1lDT7OHpJ8L6zvhaCvC0oAJcMDIVj5IyJnpRs3m91Bt1tUkRPF71j1T543W9cD-YULcHkTkMl4VUq2bWiDvNSf1X_GgSqErRWEBLmRPNMDgAXnEHaN3h6PzNwLcbJ3DQ1fWqIq_7CvjgOvRpu3n9c2md9/s2984/COPELAND%20Hannah%20Elizabeth%20BLODGETT.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2984" data-original-width="2072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiJMKJqhlAAA_-V9kvwLuMCKWI60VIxSF1lDT7OHpJ8L6zvhaCvC0oAJcMDIVj5IyJnpRs3m91Bt1tUkRPF71j1T543W9cD-YULcHkTkMl4VUq2bWiDvNSf1X_GgSqErRWEBLmRPNMDgAXnEHaN3h6PzNwLcbJ3DQ1fWqIq_7CvjgOvRpu3n9c2md9/s320/COPELAND%20Hannah%20Elizabeth%20BLODGETT.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div>Hannah was the daughter of Rebecca Blodgett and Laban Blodgett. She also grew up in Vermont, Randolph so she probably never met the Nye or Harvey family. Her oldest sister Mary Riddle Blodgett Weymouth had already gone to Jefferson Wisconsin. Mary had 5 children and having some help was probably why she suggested her sister come west, so Hannah went. Mary had another 3 children before she died at age 33. Soon after arriving in Jefferson, Hannah met Charles Copeland, a marino sheep farmer who had gone west on the advice of his uncle, Rev. John Reed the congressman. The next year she married. They had 6 children. He was involved in the community helping to set up wool processing plants and a bank. His cousin, George Copeland along with Lewis Ryder started the Copeland Ryder Shoe Company (Jefferson Shoe Company), it was a family business, and eventually their son was the president of the shoe company. <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/Copeland%20Rider%20Shoes" target="_blank">Hannah died at age 93, after a long life</a>, with obituaries noting her deep interesting in civil and social affairs and the church to the end. She outlived her husband by 30 years.</div><div><br /></div><div><p>If you are interested in any of my family history books, they are available at Lulu.com<a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-3/hardcover/product-7zkygz.html?q=voolich&page=1&pageSize=4" target="_blank">. The link to this book, part 3 is here</a>. Enjoy. If you are researching any of these women, do contact me at my last name at gmail. </p><p><br /></p><p>© 2023, Erica Dakin Voolich</p><p>The link to this page is <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2023/04/i-made-decision-to-focus-on-women-when.html">https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2023/04/i-made-decision-to-focus-on-women-when.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-46125598229728884852019-05-08T10:25:00.002-07:002019-11-11T13:04:55.751-08:00The Four-Generation Picture that Didn't Happen, "Corrected"When Alice Josephine Richardson Dakin was born, the four-generation photo of the Richardson family (above) was taken. Look above at my header with baby Alice and her father, grandfather and great grandfather. Nary a woman in the photo beyond the baby girl. Might they have included their wives?<br />
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Could they have taken a 4 generation photo of Alice with her women ancestors?<br />
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I did make a <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/03/six-photos-of-my-maternal-generations.html">blog post of my maternal line</a> a couple of years ago for women's history month.<br />
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Let's take a closer look now.<br />
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Alice's mother Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson (1893-1971) was alive and well and even had a photo taken with her, possibly the same day as the 4 generation picture with the men above.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice Josephine Richardson with<br />
her mother <br />
Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson</td></tr>
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Alice was named for her maternal grandparents: Alice Copeland Harvey (1860-1921) and Joseph Elliott Harvey (1853-1915). <br />
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Her grandfather had died, but her grandmother Alice Copeland Harvey was very much alive. Alice's family was living with with her when Alice was born.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice with her maternal grandmother,<br />
Alice Copeland Harvey</td></tr>
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Alice's paternal grandparents lived a few blocks way in the same town when she was born. Years later she would live next door to Martha Elnora (Nora) Worthington Richardson (1865-1939) and Harry Bogart Richardson (1863-1932). She had fond memories of living next door to her Richardson grandparents.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice with her paternal grandmother<br />
Martha Elnora (Nora) Worthington Richardson</td></tr>
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So, yes for her mother and grandmothers who lived nearby, they could have been in the picture or taken one of their own.<br />
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What about her great grandmothers?<br />
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Baby Alice had two maternal great grandmothers:<br />
Mary Hubbard Nye (1812-1859) who had died decades before and Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett (1826-1919) who was still alive and well in Wisconsin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland</td></tr>
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In 1909, Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett traveled to Iowa for a visit and a four-generation photo after two of her grandchildren were born in 1907 and 1908 (John Harvey Rhodes and Katherine Ellen Rhodes). Her daughter Alice Copeland Harvey came for a visit at the same time. <br />
Now in 1917, she was getting more elderly, age 91, living with two other daughters and probably not up to the trip. We'll give her a pass on getting there for a photo with baby Alice. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four Generations: Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland, John Harvey Rhodes,<br />
Katherine Mary Harvey Rhodes, Katherine Ellen Rhodes, Alice Copeland Harvey</td></tr>
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Baby Alice had two paternal grandmothers:<br />
Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington (1840 -1923) and Mary A C Bogart Richardson (1841-1910)<br />
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Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington lived next door to her daughter and son-in-law, Martha Elnora Worthington Richardson. Her husband, Robert Searing Worthington (1830-1903) had died so Alice never knew this grandfather. She did know Great grandmother Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington and lived nearby and visited until she was 6 years old.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice with her paternal grandmother<br />
Elnora Esther Cobb Worthington</td></tr>
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Mary A C Bogart Richardson, died 7 years before Alice was born. Her husband was the great grandfather in the above photo.<br />
I don't have many pictures to share, but here is one of her as a younger woman:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-quPS1XHuFa8/XNBtKD6qGyI/AAAAAAAAKIY/Cwzg-Y_eh6ABKN8emEGe8-wevT4XKhGAACLcBGAs/s1600/RICHARDSON%2BMinnie%2BA%2BC%2BBOGART.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1378" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-quPS1XHuFa8/XNBtKD6qGyI/AAAAAAAAKIY/Cwzg-Y_eh6ABKN8emEGe8-wevT4XKhGAACLcBGAs/s400/RICHARDSON%2BMinnie%2BA%2BC%2BBOGART.jpg" width="343" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary A C Bogart Richardson</td></tr>
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So, There could have been another photo taken that day with Alice, 3 and possibly 4 generations of women. All of the families, except for great grandmother Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland in Wisconsin, the folks all lived in Oak Park, Illinois.<br />
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So can we remedy this situation after all theses years? Here is a try.<br />
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As a young woman, Alice went to Medical school starting in 1938, this picture was taken about that time so she is in her early 20s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice Josephine Richardson Dakin</td></tr>
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In this collage below we have Alice in her 20s, her mother (age 21) and one grandmother (age 19) are brides. Her great grandmother in front is 16 in the picture and I'm not sure how old her great grandmother is, many decades past her 20s. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Left to right) Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson (mother),<br />
Alice Copeland Harvey (maternal grandmother)<br />
Martha Elnora (Nora) Worthington Richardson (paternal grandmother)<br />
Alice Josephine Richardson Dakin ("baby")<br />
Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland (maternal great grandmother)</td></tr>
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Thanks to the magic of Janine Smith, our collage is now a portrait of Alice with her women ancestors who were alive when she was born. Not the picture that could or would have been taken then, but now available for our enjoyment. <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6FfIXzfddBM/XNByIQWNGKI/AAAAAAAAKJE/b3qhBKkg9bQHmrUQoq0T4Ae4HnIa2rv4gCLcBGAs/s1600/RICHARDSON%2BAlice%2B%2B4%2Bgenerations%2Bwomen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6FfIXzfddBM/XNByIQWNGKI/AAAAAAAAKJE/b3qhBKkg9bQHmrUQoq0T4Ae4HnIa2rv4gCLcBGAs/s640/RICHARDSON%2BAlice%2B%2B4%2Bgenerations%2Bwomen.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to Right: Alice Josephine Richardson Dakin ("baby")<br />
Alice Copeland Harvey (grandmother)<br />
Martha Elnora (Nora) Worthington Richardson (grandmother)<br />
Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson (mother)<br />
Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland (great grandmother)</td></tr>
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One can only imagine their conversations, if this were possible. "YOU are in medical school! Tell me all about it!"<br />
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Only two women in this group lived to see Alice at this age. Her mother lived to see Alice graduate from Knox College and to go to medical school. Her grandmother Martha Elnora (Nora) Worthington Richardson died the next year. She must have been so proud of her granddaughter, not only graduating from college but one of three women students in Northwestern University Medical School, class of 1942. Nora was self educated, she graduated from high school, spent many years reading and learning and often gave engaging talks to local groups. During the Depression she was hired as part of the team researching and writing the “Historical Survey of Oak Park Illinois” by the W.P.A. published in 1937(Work Projects Administration) a few years before Alice started medical school. To have a granddaughter to to college and then medical school, must have been a great joy to the conclusion of her life.<br />
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I'm working on researching my family history. The most recent book was on my great grandmothers and included Martha Elnora Worthington Richardson and Alice Copeland Harvey. To read a summary, <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2018/01/remember-women-as-we-climb-family-tree_29.html">check out this blog post.</a> The year before, my book was on my grandmother's generation and included Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson, <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html">check out this post</a> for more about her. This year's book is on my great great grandmothers and will include Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland along with each of all of my great great grandmothers.<br />
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If you have a group of people you would like to put into a photo like mine, contact <a href="mailto:landailyn@gmail.com">Janine Smith</a> at <a href="https://landailyn.wixsite.com/potraitdna?fbclid=IwAR0uW25j8EQV4Muii7lTkjZYE35kuiHCUkhOyVyTtCto0u10k7_984SIJ_o">Portrait DNA From Many to One.</a> Janine can sure work magic with restoring old pictures (such as Mary A C Bogart above) and creating new family portraits. Her artistry made this blog post possible. Thank you Janine.<br />
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The link to this post is <a href="https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-four-generation-picture-that-didnt.html">https://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-four-generation-picture-that-didnt.html</a><br />
©Erica Dakin Voolich, 2019<br />
<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-43353791323747511652018-01-29T07:53:00.000-08:002018-01-29T07:57:29.929-08:00Remember the Women as we Climb the Family Tree, part 2b<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made the decision to <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html">focus on the women when I head up our family tree</a>. So many family history books tell you about the vital records of the men, extol their deeds and adventures and maybe if we are lucky tell us the full names of their wives and a hint as to her family. I feel that family history should be more than just birth, marriage and death dates -- to celebrate our families, we should include their stories, after all they were people, not just a list of dates, and thanks to them we are all here now. Not all of their stories are going to include record-shattering achievements of world leaders, and most likely no one in the family is that famous person.<br />
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Last year I focused on <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html">three women in my grandmother's generation</a>: Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson, Marion Elizabeth Evans Dakin and Clarice Theodora Evans.<br />
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This year it is time to move on to my great grandmother's generation: Mary Alice Smith Dakin, Caroline Matilda Helsten Evans, Mary Louisa Helsten Pomeroy, Martha Elnora Worthington Richardson, and Alice Copeland Harvey.<br />
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In the other half of this blog post, <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2018/01/remember-women-as-we-climb-family-tree.html">Remember the Women as we Climb the Family Tree, part 2a</a>, I focused on the first three women who were all from my paternal side. Now, I'm going to focus on the two women on my maternal side, both great grandmothers of mine. The first three women all eventually lived in Gaylordsville, Connecticut; these two women eventually ended up in Oak Park, Illinois, neither was born there.<br />
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Alice Copeland Harvey (23 February 1860 - 24 April 1921) was born on the Copeland Family Marino sheep farm on the border of the town of Jefferson, Wisconsin. It was in the early days of settling Jefferson, her father had come out from Bridgewater, Massachusetts and settled on land that his uncle, the congressman John Reed, had purchased. Another uncle had also come from Bridgewater with a friend to start a shoe company, Copeland Ryder Schools (Jefferson Shoe Company). She came from a hard-working family with lots of aunts, uncles and cousins -- likewise for her husband. Alice married Joseph Elliott Harvey from the next town, Lake Mills on 24 October 1879. He came from a family of seven, his mother died when he was 5 and his oldest sister stayed home to raise him. <br />
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Alice and Joseph had four children: Katherine Mary Harvey (born 22 August 1881), William Riley (born 7 January 1884), Charles Copeland Harvey (born 3 March 1889), and Adelaide Copeland Harvey (born 4 November 1893). When they were raising their children in Lake Mills there were always plenty of relatives nearby to help with the children or to play with them. Joseph was a salesman when he worked, and sometimes he had other problems, so life had extra challenges. When her two oldest, Kath and Riley graduated from high school, they both wanted to go to college. Kath taught school in Lake Mills, then Alice moved the whole family to Madison, opened a boarding house near the University of Wisconsin so they could attend. Kath graduated with a degree in education, Riley in engineering in 1905. Cope wasn't interested in college, he was a musician and wanted to be a Big Band leader. Alice moved her family to Oak Park, Illinois and enrolled her youngest in school. Riley found work and Cope was jobbing. Kath taught in Madison and then moved to Iowa when she married. <br />
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Alice learned frugality back on the farm and how to get by, which stood her in good stead though out tough times in her life. But, not just frugality, she was educated and loved to read.<br />
Her granddaughter told me: "<i>Grandma Harvey sewed so much 'making over and making do' she had a great gentle sense of humor--said her epitaph should read 'Let it rip!' She had read all of Dickens by the time she was 12 years old."</i> <br />
She was known as the person in her generation who knew of the "good New England Stock" which they came from which included folks on the Mayflower and she joined the<br />
D. A. R. when living in Madison. Unfortunately, not all of the family history letters, etc. that folks say they sent to her are among the things that I have or have access to. <br />
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When her youngest child married Adelaide and Bobbie lived with her. Alice was helping Adelaide care for their two young daughters, when Alice had a cerebral hemorrhage and died at age 61 on 24 April 1921. Alice outlived her husband by six years, lived to see all of her children married, lived to see six of her seven grandchildren born, and lived to see her son Cope first as a Big Band director and then to go off to World War 1, returning safely from France. She was at Cope's wedding, he and Julie left on their honeymoon, and she died while they were gone.<br />
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Martha (Mattie) Elnora (Nora) Worthington Richardson (17 November 1865 - 25 April 1939) was born in Chicago and she was named for both of her grandmothers, Martha Searing Worthington and Elnora Esther DeLoss Cobb. Her father, Robert, had moved from Albany, New York to a farm in Wisconsin with his father, Denison, after his mother, Martha, died. His father Robert went to the "big city" to for work. Her mother, Elnora Esther, had come with her parents (Nathan and Elnora Esther) to Chicago from small towns near Rome, New York. Robert S. Worthington was working in freight forwarding and his next door neighbor Nathan Cobb was running a planing mill. Robert married Elnora Esther Cobb, the girl next door. They had one child, little Mattie didn't have many children to play with, but since Robert was the oldest of 10 children, it was not unusual for Mattie to have an uncle living with them as each started out working in Chicago and providing entertainment at home. The family was doing well enough to be building a house, nearby.<br />
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Life changed when Mattie was five in October of 1871 with the Great Chicago Fire. Originally it looked like it was far away, but it grew closer and they spent the night on the North Avenue Beach, where Mattie met Emmy Sharp, another little girl her age and size -- they became life-long friends as did their parents. When her family rebuilt, it was out "in the country" and nearby to where the Sharps also built a home. This "country village" was Oak Park, which became one of the fastest growing suburbs of Chicago, thanks to the Fire. The box of china which melted together in the fire, was taken as a lump and put into the yard of the new home when they built. As awful as the Chicago Fire was, it was fortuitous in that is why <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-family-legend-and-rest-of-story.html">her future husband's family moved to Chicago to help with the rebuilding</a>.<br />
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Her parents were very involved with the Episcopal Church, first in Chicago, then in the mission in Harlem, and then with the founding of Grace Church Episcopal in Oak Park. Mattie was very proud that she knew the general confession backwards and would hit the middle word exactly when the priest did.<br />
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Mattie married Harry Bogart Richardson on 5 December 1889; and once married, started calling herself Nora [her mother Elnora Esther was still alive and her grandmother Elnora Esther had just died, so "Elnora" would be confusing, I suspect]. Nora and Harry had two boys: Robert (Bobbie) Worthington Richardson (born 18 October 1890) and Harold Bogart (born 21 April 1894). Harry worked downtown Chicago for his father's insurance agency or a local bank selling stocks and bond and insurance -- except for a couple of years --SURPRISE-- <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2014/02/mild-mannered-clerk-or-secret-service.html">when he was in the Secret Service, one chasing counterfeiters in Denver</a>. Nora was busy raising her boys and at one time traveling occasionally to see her husband who took the job out of financial necessity, then having Bobbie live in Denver with her husband and Harold with her in Oak Park.. <br />
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Nora grew up in a household with her father quoting the classic poets, she loved learning. As an adult, she never went to college but she was always furthering her education or volunteering for charities in the community. She joined the XIXth Century Club, went to their meetings initially to learn and years later became one of the entertaining speakers there and at the Grace Episcopal Church mentioned in the newspaper. She would study the issues, and so when she and her husband had a difference of opinion on the presidential candidates, there were "dueling" posters in the front parlor windows of the house in 1928.<br />
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In her final years, times were tough, her husband had died, as had her son Harold. She did not have much income beyond the rent from next door. She was hired by the W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration set up during the Great Depression to put local unemployed folks to work in their communities]. Six people were hired hired to help catalog and research the history of the town of Oak Park -- a perfect job for her. She knew the town when it was a few hundred people and saw it grow into the thousands, she knew how to research, and how to write. In 1937, the <i>Historical Survey of Oak Park Illinois</i> was published -- many of the chapters are authored by her [her initials appear on them] and the "Local History Index" became available in the Public Library. The book is still being used by the Librarians when someone comes to the desk asking about the History of Oak Park!<br />
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Nora died on 25 April 1939 at the age of 73 from chronic myocarditis with emaciation and exhaustion contributing factors. She outlived her husband and one son. But she did live to see her oldest granddaughter start medical school and her youngest start college. She must have been so proud of their education opportunities that she probably wished she had had. <br />
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Nora and Alice knew each other -- they met through their children who married, Bobbie and Adelaide. Clearly they were also friends. When Alice died in 1921, it was Nora who wrote the obituary in <i>Oak Leaves</i>, the local paper.<br />
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ALICE COPELAND HARVEY</div>
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Death of Oak Park Woman Brings Memory of a Life Devoted to the Service of Others</div>
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Alice Copeland, wife of the late Joseph E. Harvey, entered into rest on Sunday, April 24, after a brief illness. Mrs. Harvey was born in Jefferson, Wis., her married life being spend in Lake Mills and Madison, Wis., before coming to Oak Park about fifteen years ago. She was essentially a home-maker, a woman of unusual charm and fine mentality, who lived a life of unselfish service to others. A keen sense of humor carried her over many of the rough places of life, and her beautiful serenity of expression showed the power within. </div>
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Mrs. Harvey was a member of the Oak Park D.A.R., having a fine ancestry of which she was justly proud. Her four children--Mrs. Alfred Rhodes of Esterville, Iowa; William Riley Harvey of Rogers Park; Charles Copeland Harvey, and Mrs. Robert W. Richardson of Oak Park, are left with the blessed memories of an unusually beautiful life of devotion to others, cheerfully given.</div>
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Funeral services were held on Wednesday, with burial at Lake Mills, beside her husband.</div>
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The one who sends this brief tribute feels that it has been a privilege to have known Mrs. Harvey, and that she has been enriched by having been one of her friends.</div>
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The stories here are quite condensed from the last 200 pages devoted to these two women's lives in my book <i><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-2/hardcover/product-23420349.html">Remember the Women! Heading up the Branches of our Women's Family Tree, Part 2</a></i>.<br />
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©2018, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2018/01/remember-women-as-we-climb-family-tree_29.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2018/01/remember-women-as-we-climb-family-tree_29.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-64014243353955370612018-01-27T10:11:00.000-08:002018-01-29T07:59:44.550-08:00Remember the Women as we Climb the Family Tree, part 2a<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made the decision to <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html">focus on the women when I head up our family tree</a>. So many family history books tell you about the vital records of the men, extol their deeds and adventures and maybe if we are lucky tell us the full names of their wives and a hint as to her family. I feel that family history should be more than just birth, marriage and death dates -- to celebrate our families, we should include their stories, after all they were people, not just a list of dates, and thanks to them we are all here now. Not all of their stories are going to include record-shattering achievements of world leaders, and most likely no one in the family is that famous person. <br />
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Last year I focused on <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html">three women in my grandmother's generation</a>: Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson, Marion Elizabeth Evans Dakin and Clarice Theodora Evans. <br />
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This year it is time to move on to my great grandmother's generation: Mary Alice Smith Dakin, Caroline Matilda Helsten Evans, Mary Louisa Helsten Pomeroy, Martha Elnora Worthington Richardson, and Alice Copeland Harvey.<br />
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Last year I knew all three women. This year I've heard a few stories about these women, but all of them died before I was born, so I did not personally know them. I have relied on what I was able to find in my research, and what I could confirm from family stories, and what I could find by following the clues found in "stuff" left in my grandmother's home when she died in 1974.<br />
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Starting with the women on paternal side, two great grandmothers and a great great aunt....<br />
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Mary Alice Smith Dakin (30 April 1855 - 13 November 1931) was born and raised on the Smith family farm in South Kent, Connecticut. Her uncle Orange Smith, who lived with her family, volunteered for the Civil War. When she was eight, she received a letter from him from Louisiana. Orange writes about feeling tried -- he doesn't say it, but they had lost a major battle just before he wrote. There were two other letters to her father from Orange -- he was in the War till the end and his letters are revealing and interesting when compared to the documentation of the battles for his outfit, the Connecticut 13th. But there was more to her life than her uncle's war experience and letters home.<br />
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Mary grew up to be the local school teacher who married Edward Dakin, the general store owner/postmaster for South Kent in 1880 -- that was definitely a home-based business with the store and postoffice downstairs and their family's rooms upstairs. She was a farm girl, he had worked as a farmhand before purchasing the store and so they sold the store and bought their own farm in Gaylordsville and settled into their life on their animal-driven farm. Her son Robert Edward (Rob) Dakin was born on 2 July 1888 and while he was growing up, a man with a vision approached farmers in Gaylordsville whose farms bordered on the Housatonic River. He envisioned the power of water to generate electricity -- Mary and Edward sold a rather zig-way path across their farm, right past their home and barns, that the canal for the <a href="http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/bulls-bridge/hardcover/product-20517028.html">Bulls Bridge Power Plant</a> would follow. On the farm were tents housing the Italian immigrants who were hand digging the canal. Unfortunately, the power plant was finished without bringing electricity to the surrounding neighbors who had put up with disruption to their quiet farm and small town lives. Her son Rob went to college -- first in the family to go-- and became a civil engineer who helped build the <a href="http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/bulls-bridge/hardcover/product-20517028.html">addition to the power plant</a> and bring power to the community. <br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/quilts-in-our-family-dakin-richardson-voolich/hardcover/product-18674687.html">Mary was a talented quilter</a>. When I visited my grandmother Marion Evans Dakin, Mary's daughter-in-law, years after Mary had died, there were always hand-made quilts on the four beds in the house. What I didn't discover until after Marion died, was there was a trunk full of quilts from her mother-in-law Mary. When Marion was living in a nursing home, we brought her home for a weekend visit. She collected Mary's quilts off of her beds and took a couple from the closet to put on a quilt show at the nursing home. The quilts she collected included Mary's sampler quilt.<br />
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Mary was known as a traditional quilter. In her church quilt group, individuals would bring square they sewed to contribute to samples for sale to raise funds. If someone contributed a machine-sewn square, she'd take it home and take out the machine stitching and replace it with hand-sewn stitches.<br />
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There is more about Mary in <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-2/hardcover/product-23420349.html"><i>Remember the Women! Heading up the Branches of our Women's Family Tree, part 2</i>.</a></div>
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Born a few miles away in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, and a couple of months before Mary Alice Smith, was Caroline (Carrie) Matilda Helsten Evans (13 February 1855 - 9 December 1918). She and her siblings grew up not on a farm, but in front of the family tannery on the Wimisink Brook leading into the Housatonic River. When she was growing up, her home always had not only Carrie and her siblings but also any apprentices working in the family business. Her parents were immigrants from Sweden and Ireland -- both having come to the USA, both looking for work and a better life in the mid-1840's. <br />
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As a young adult, Carrie worked as a seamstress taking in piece work and sewing clothes for families in Kent between 1876 and 1880. On 26 May 1881, she married Charles H Evans who lived at the top of the hill, just over the townline into Sherman. Her father was a local businessman and so was her husband. Her husband was building homes and buildings, including the new Town Hall for Sherman. Charles and his brother Edward went into construction business together and built houses next door to each other in Sherman where Carrie and Charles started raising their family. She had four children: Harold H (born 8 January 1883), Clarice Theodora (born 21 April 1884), Marion Elizabeth (born 11 February 1886) and Howard Eric (born 1893). In 1888, Carrie and her husband moved their family to Great Barrington, Massachusetts when Charles and his brother saw a business opportunity with the building boom up north. Carrie raised her children there while coming back to Gaylordsville as her parents needed their help. She and Charles moved eventually moved back and took over the family's business ventures in Gaylordsville when her parents died. While in Great Barrington, Carrie joined the currents events group but she was a woman caring for others -- her children, her parents and then her grandchildren. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html">When her daughter Marion was married with two children in Danbury, her son-in-law got sick with the flu. Carrie went to Danbury to help Marion nurse her husband and care for the children. </a> They sent the oldest child, Teddy to stay with Carrie's sister Mary in Gaylordsville. Soon, Carrie was also sick. In a 5 day period, Carrie, her grandson Edward and son-in-law Rob Dakin had all died from the flu, in the 1918 Flu Pandemic.</div>
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Carrie's older sister, Mary Louisa Helsten Pomeroy, was born in Haviland Hollow, Patterson, New York (7 June 1850 - 23 May 1942). Her Irish mother, Mary Hearty, survived the coffin-ship trip across the Atlantic to to marry Swedish immigrant father Eric Helsten. They both worked for Benjamin Cowl; he as a tanner, she as maid. Mary and Carrie's thrifty parents saved their money and bought their own tannery across the border in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, moved to the house in front and raised their family there. Mary was the oldest of four, so she was busy helping her mother in the household that also included apprentices who worked in the tannery. <br />
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Mary and Carrie's father was an entrepreneur. Eric ran the tannery, but seeing there were other opportunities, he built a dam on the Wimisink and closed the tannery and opened a mill. Now he was a dealer in grain and lumber. Eric even published and sold a pamphlet on how to say a man from drowning after doing so himself. Eric partnered with another local businessman, Charles Pomeroy for a while. Then Charles Pomeroy partnered with Charles H Evans, who Carrie married. The Charles and Charles partnership ended when Carrie's husband went into the Evans Brothers Construction business with his brother. Gaylordsville and Sherman were small towns that bordered each other and so everyone seemed to know everyone else. Charles Pomeroy was a widower with a teenaged son and Mary married him on 6 March 1878, even though he was sixteen years older. Charles Pomeroy was also entrepreneurial, he sold lumber out of the barn on their farm, bought teams of oxen to sell, and opened a hardware store. He was a very busy man, and close friend to Mary's father and mother. This closeness is possibly what brought about some of the concerns and distance of Mary and Carrie's other two siblings, William and Sarah (you'll have <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-2/hardcover/product-23420349.html">to read the book for details</a>). He was so close that Eric named him executor of his estate.<br />
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Mary and Carrie's parents died four months apart, Mary in September 1902 and Eric January 1903. Mary was still mourning the death of her parents when her husband died suddenly in July 1903. She applied to the court to take on the job of administratrix for her parents' estate and she did so with a co-administrator. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/POMEROY%20Charles">She took on the job of running the family's home-based business of the lumber yard and hardware store</a> for a number of years until her step-son and grandson took over many years later.<br />
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This is just a hint about the lives of these three women, born mid-1800s, before the Civil War and lived through World War 1. They met the challenges of the first half of the 20th century. The events of their lives fill about the first 200 pages of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-2/hardcover/product-23420349.html">Remember the Women! Heading up the Branches of our Women's Family Tree, Part 2</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2018/01/remember-women-as-we-climb-family-tree_29.html">My next blog post</a> will be about the two women filling the last 200 pages of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-2/hardcover/product-23420349.html">Remember the Women, part 2</a>.<br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-67065339902722227142017-02-26T16:47:00.001-08:002017-02-26T16:48:48.723-08:00Oh, There was an Earlier DAKIN Family History Book... Marion Needed to Get It! Questions Answered?In <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/family-history-research-before.html">Family History Research before FamilySearch, Ancestry and other popular websites</a>, I wrote about the tedious process family historians used to track down all the descendants in published family histories. I told of Albert H Dakin working on his DAKIN family for years and finally after he died his niece Mrs. H B Yamagata published his 716-page work.<br />
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It turns out that this was not the first book on the Dakin family that Albert worked on. The undated 79-page book: <i>Descendants of 1 Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass. and 4 Rev. Simon Dakin of North East, N.Y. 1624-1920</i>, collected and arranged by Albert H Dakin and Emily L Reed.<br />
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In 1938, Marion Evans Dakin had an interest in her late husband's family and had inquired about the Dakins from Evelyn West who in March sent her a couple of hand written pages on the early Dakin Family based on this book.<br />
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<i>My dear Mrs Dakin -</i><br />
<i> Here are the jumbled </i><br />
<i>notes I have in the Dakins --</i><br />
<i> Sorry I didn't copy more -- but</i><br />
<i>am sure you will find it Easily</i><br />
<i>in a good library --</i><br />
<i> Am so glad to know you</i><br />
<i>are interested -- It helps</i><br />
<i>so to fill out records --</i><br />
<i> Sincerely</i><br />
<i> Evelyn West</i><br />
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Then in April, Marion receives a copy of the book from Emily L Reed's son.<br />
<i>Marion Evans Dakin</i><br />
<i> Storrs, Conn.</i><br />
<i>My dear Mrs. Dakin --</i><br />
<i> I am sending you</i><br />
<i>a copy of Dakin Genealogy</i><br />
<i>which my mother Emily L.</i><br />
<i>(Clark) Reed complied</i><br />
<i>some years ago -- A Mr A. H.</i><br />
<i>Dakin of N.Y. City has an </i><br />
<i><u>immense</u> lot of Data of the</i><br />
<i>Dakin Family which he is</i><br />
<i>getting together but I don't know</i><br />
<i>whether he will ever have it</i><br />
<i>in book form as it will cost</i><br />
<i>a good sum of money to have</i><br />
<i>printed in book form --</i><br />
<i>He is a man over 70 and I</i><br />
<i>don't think he feels financially</i><br />
<i>able to have it printed as there</i><br />
<i>is so much of it. The Dakins</i><br />
<i>are scattered all over the U. S.</i><br />
<i>I haven't seen or heard from </i><br />
<i>him in a number of years</i><br />
<i>and I don't know whether he</i><br />
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<i> Thank you for the order.</i><br />
<i> Truly yours.</i><br />
<i> J. Marvin Reed</i><br />
<i> Lakeville Conn.</i><br />
<i>4/18 -- 1938.</i><br />
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Yes, Albert Dakin did have an immense amount of data. When he finally published his 716-page book, it chronicled 6,843 descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass.<br />
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Marvin Reed is writing to Marion Evans Dakin in April of 1938. His mother, Emily Leora Clark Reed, died twelve years earlier on 1 June 1926 [<i>Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass.</i> Albert H Dakin, 1948, page 205]. Marvin's mother researched the Dakin family and was the co-author with Albert Dakin on this first Dakin family book. Marvin had not heard from Albert for a while, and wasn't sure if Albert was still alive and working on his manuscript. However, we know that he was, since <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/family-history-research-before.html">Albert wrote my grandmother in January of 1943</a>, trying to verify and update our family history.<br />
He ended his letter with "<i>I will greatly appreciate receiving an answer from you as I am anxious to complete my records while I have the ability.</i>" He died on 14 March 1945 at the age of 79 [<i>Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass.</i> Albert H Dakin, 1948, page 188].<br />
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The first Dakin family book, followed <u><i>one line of descent</i></u> from the original family settler Thomas Dakin, continuing through that of Thomas' great grandson, the Rev. Simon Dakin. Beginning with the 4th generation [that is why the title includes "... <i>4 Rev. Simon Dakin of North East, N.Y."], </i>only the descendants of this one great grandson were included. Marion ordered this earlier book in 1938, and unfortunately the book didn't include her husband Rob's ancestor, Timothy who went west to New York and joined the Quakers in Oblong, New York. Timothy was a brother of the Rev. Simon Dakin who also went west to New York but was pastoring in another eastern New York town and it was his descendants who are in this book.<br />
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Marion shared the first Dakin book with her son Ted, even though he wouldn't have found his family in it. I remember he loved quoting the Dakin motto:<br />
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I have no idea what that means, but it is in both Dakin books.<br />
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So, when Albert H Dakin's niece, Mrs. H B Yamagata, finally published the <i>Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass.</i> in 1948, did Marion purchase the family history book that included her husband?<br />
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Unfortunately not. I don't know if she even knew about it. Many years after she died, I purchased it from a used book store. A friend of the family called me to say that he heard that "if you were a Dakin in the U.S. then your family should be in this book because every Dakin was descended from one family in Concord." Willie Hills had met another person named "Dakin" and he commented that he knew only one other Dakin. She said that my family ought to be in that book too, so our dear friend Willie called me to tell me about it.<br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-30886336908501553692017-01-30T15:55:00.001-08:002017-01-30T16:24:14.912-08:00Family History Research before FamilySearch, Ancestry and other popular websitesIf you believe the ancestry ads on TV, you can subscribe, type in your name along with your parents' and VOILA! leaves appear and soon you have your family tree emerging. Actually research is not exactly that easy today, but I want to look at researching in the not too distant past, before the internet.<br />
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For the DAKIN family, we have the 716 page "go to book" written over many years by Albert H Dakin, and published, after he died by his niece, Mrs. H B Yamagata in 1948.<br />
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Prior to the internet, I would write letters to town clerks, including the self-addressed stamped envelop (SASE) and a check to cover the cost of sending a birth, marriage or death certificate. Then from that certificate, write more letters for the grand or great grand, etc. parents indicated there -- building the tree piece by piece as I'd learn parents' names of an ancestor. Now with the internet and the availability of some new sources online, I get hints from more than just the birth, marriage and death records -- newspapers, census pages, etc. are full of research clues. But I still send to the town clerks for the vital records for confirmation.<br />
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Just imaging Albert H Dakin working on this not just for years but for decades, starting with the original Dakin settler, <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-date-of-deedtruth-or-fiction.html">Thomas, in Concord MA in the 1600</a>s and working down to "his time" of the 1940's. Checking every child, then every child, then every child .... continuing down the generations. WHEW!! 716 pages of ancestors numbering in the thousands! Actually Albert documented 6,843 descendants of Thomas Dakin and also included an every-name index in his book! IMPRESSIVE work.<br />
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What else might Albert have done beyond writing town clerks in order to find these 6,843 descendants?<br />
Well, he wrote letters! Lots of letters.<br />
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These letters were before the days of email and computers. So every letter was individually typed and contained some information that he already knew and asked for more information for his files.<br />
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This letter written to my grandmother in 1943, inquiring about her family. It tells her who referred him to her, a reference to information sent by her husband a year before he died in 1917, and a chart to fill in and correct if anything is incorrect. He is writing this in 1943, worrying about whether he will be able to finish his project -- he died in 1945.<br />
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<i> ALBERT H. DAKIN 2064 12-35<br /> 977 Anderson Ave.<br /> New York, N.Y.<br /><br /> January 21, 1943<br />Mrs. Marion E. Dakin,<br />c/o College,<br />Storrs, Conn.<br /><br /><br />Dear Mrs. Dakin:<br /> For many years I have been collecting the genealogical<br />records of the Dakin Family and am at present writing up my notes<br />in the final shape. I have not known where to locate you until<br />yesterday when Mr. Charles R Harte gave me your address. I am<br />very anxious to bring my notes up to date and am asking your<br />kind help to secure it.<br /> I am enclosing a blank which shows all the data I have<br />of your family and which is for the most part data your <br />husband sent me in 1917.<br /> Will you please add to this enclosed blank any additional<br />data that may be missing, correct any errors of mine and return<br />the blank to me.<br /> I believe you had another child that I have no record of.<br />If either of your children married will you please give me their<br />address so that I may write to them to bring my notes up to date.<br /> One other question: Is Mr. Dakin’s mother living and<br />if not can you tell me when and where she died.<br /> I will greatly appreciate receiving an answer from you<br />as I am anxious to complete my records while I have the ability.<br /> Sincerely yours,<br /> Albert H Dakin</i><br />
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The Chart arrived in the mail in January of 1943 -- a busy time for Marion. Her son Theodore got married that month with the anticipation of being draft by the US Army & shipped out sometime in the next few months; and as the <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html">First Extension Nutritionist for the State of Connecticut</a>, Marion was busy preparing Farm and State Bulletins on how to manage with the <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/creative-sandwich-suggestions-during.html">Rationing for World War 2</a>.<br />
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Sure looks like she edited incorrect information, added her new daughter-in-law, added her son who had died, and added death information for her husband. <br />
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So, did she mail it back?<br />
Clearly not this one, since I found it among her paperwork when she died decades later.<br />
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It doesn't look like he did.<br />
After all, I found the envelop sent from Albert to Marion in 1943.<br />
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Here is the book entry for her husband's father including his marriage to Marion and the birth of their son Theodore.<br />
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It does not any of Theodore's siblings who died young, or the information on Theodore's marriage. Theodore is entry #3596, but there is no separate entry for him later in the book.<br />
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The documentation of our family line in the "Dakin book" stops with Theodore's birth.<br />
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Marion's not sending the letter back, means that any further information is not included in the Dakin family book.<br />
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But the gift Marion gave us by not mailing it back is to show us what our ancestors who documented our families in past decades and generation did in order to put their family histories together.<br />
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The link to this page is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/family-history-research-before.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/family-history-research-before.html</a><br />
©2017, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-11017106749471008492017-01-03T17:45:00.001-08:002017-01-05T10:22:12.866-08:00Remember the Women, part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you have been doing family history and have tried to trace your family name, you might been thrilled to have the "XX Family History" or "The Descendants of XX" book. I know I was when I first started out and discovered the DAKIN history "was all in" the <i>Descendants of THOMAS DAKIN of Concord, Mass.</i> Compiled by Albert H. Dakin (Tuttle Publishing, 1948). Albert spent many years sending out letters to folks all over the United States trying to trace all the descendants of <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-date-of-deedtruth-or-fiction.html">Thomas who was in Concord, Massachusetts selling land in the 1650s</a>. He made an effort to include the names of the women who the Dakins married and when possible included their parents' names. This is not always the case. The Dakin family descendants were lucky to have that information. Sometimes, when tracing a family, the records only give the first name of the woman and don't identify their parents. The DAKIN descendants were also lucky when Elizabeth H. Dakin took the women in the first few generations and traced their families back in her <i><a href="mailto:ehd18jcd@comcast.net">The DAKIN FAMILY from THOMAS of Concord to THOMAS of Digby Including the Families of Their Wives</a> </i>(Plainville MA, 2008).<br />
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In my own research, I have moved beyond just looking for the names and dates of my ancestors, to also including some of their stories as you probably know just from reading this blog, if not from my genealogy books [shown on the right in this blog]. I have decided to focus on the stories and the genealogy of the women in my family. This year I am starting with my grandmothers' generation. Next year, will be the women in my great grandmothers' generation. I will research not only the direct ancestors, but also interesting sisters who I have been able to include.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adelaide Copeland Harvey Richardson with her daughter Alice.</td></tr>
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Adelaide (Addie) Copeland Harvey married Robert (Bobbie) Worthington Richardson. He always wanted a beautiful woman by his side; and as a young woman, Addie was beautiful. A part of Bobbie's job with magazines involved entertaining the stars who came to town to be photographed and interviewed. Tragically, Adelaide developed a skin infection that left open sores all over her body for decades. Then she was blinded in one eye and partially in the other from cataract operations, as a young woman.<br />
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As their children grew, Bobbie was "looking elsewhere," and when their two daughters were starting their own families, he started another family himself. Then tragically for his new children, Bobbie and his new wife died.<br />
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Addie was a divorcee, legally blind, scarred by sores, and suffering from asthma. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-remember-grawa.html">How did she manage to survive in the world?</a><br />
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Marion Elizabeth Evans married Robert Edward Dakin. He was an engineer who grew up watching the Bulls Bridge Power Plant being built, with the canal across his farm. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-regrets-and-redemption-lead-to.html">He came back and built the addition to Bulls Bridge Power Plant to bring power to the neighborhood</a>. <br />
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When they married, she started a life moving around the state as he moved from one engineering project to another until he died tragically. One week in December 1918, Marion's mother, husband and youngest son, died in the Flu Pandemic. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html">Marion needed to figure out how to support herself and her two-year-old son, Teddy</a>.<br />
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Marion became the first Extension Nutritionist for the State of Connecticut. If something was related to nutrition in Connecticut from 1921 until she retired in 1946, she was probably involved in it. For example, during the Depression and <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/creative-sandwich-suggestions-during.html">the WW2 Rationing</a>, she was helping people cook with the available foods. She was giving talks and <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html">writing farm bulletins</a> and serving on committees.<br />
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Clarice Evans started out as an elementary teacher in Connecticut. She took classes at the State Normal School in Danbury and eventually earned two degrees from Columbia Teachers College. <br />
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Clarice taught many places around the US and even in England before she joined the faculty at New Jersey's State Teachers College in Jersey City where she taught fine art and industrial arts until she retired in 1950. She was an early advocate of Industrial arts in the schools and <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/03/clarice-evans-anna-halberg-life-and.html">traveled to Dartington Hall in England</a> (1928-1930) to introduce industrial arts to Dartington teachers and to surrounding schools. She also studied other progressive schools in England and on the continent and to reported back to Dartington Hall with suggestions for modeling their own programs. <br />
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Since it took me <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-1/hardcover/product-22964730.html?ppn=1">400 pages to report</a> on what I found on these three women in <i><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/remember-the-women-heading-up-the-branches-of-our-womens-family-tree-part-1/hardcover/product-22964730.html?ppn=1">Remember the Women, Heading up the Branches of our Women's Family Tree, part 1</a></i>, I can not begin to describe everything here. Basically, we have three women born in the late 1800s, who came into adulthood in the early 1900s: one a divorcee, one a widow, one never married. All managed to find their way through the challenges of the 20th century. Enjoy. <br />
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©Erica Dakin Voolich 2017<br />
The link to this post is: <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2017/01/remember-women-part-1.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-71715798499761839482016-09-27T09:49:00.000-07:002016-09-27T09:51:07.635-07:00The Gaylordsville Tanner and the the Uppsala Swimming SocietyLast May I received an email:<br />
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<i>Dear Erica-</i><br />
<i>I am working on a short history article about the Uppsala Swimming Society for an upcoming issue of <a href="http://www.usmsswimmer.com/">SWIMMER magazine</a>, the official publication of U.S. Masters Swimming. In researching the topic, I came across your book, A<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/a-ring-and-a-bundle-of-letters/hardcover/product-21297939.html?ppn=1"> Ring and a Bundle of Letters</a>. I was intrigued by a note on page 194 that indicated that Knut Hellsten wrote a history of the Uppsala Swimming Society and I wondered whether you had a copy of that document or could you point me to where I might be able to view this history? (I’m based in Waltham, MA if that helps!) </i><br />
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<i>Many thanks for any assistance you can provide!</i><br />
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Eric Helsten was born in Uppsala in 1822 and in Uppsala there was a swim society, Upsala Simaällskap, that was started in 1796 by the mathematician and astronomer, Jöns Svanberg. The goal was to teach swimming and water safety to the children in the local rivers until they built a swimming pool in 1841. Eric grew up learning how to swim and 13-year-old Eric even won a wreath for his achievements in the annual competitions in 1835.<br />
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Eric must have been proud of this achievement, because when he came to the US in 1845, this laurel wreath traveled with him. It was in his belongings after he died in 1903. His granddaughter Marion Evans Dakin gave it to me years later, when I was on a swim team throughout high school.<br />
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Eric was one of 13 children. One of his younger brothers, Knut, was the "studious, intelligent" one of all the children. Knut became a well-known and beloved educator in Uppsala. Eric's father died leaving this large family for his wife to raise, the youngest was only a few months old when their father died. So, it was a stretch for the family to keep sending Knut to school, and Eric was mailing money home from Gaylordsville, Connecticut to help the family in Uppsala. Knut was the author of the history of the Uppsala Swimming Society for their 90th birthday celebration -- this booklet in Swedish is the information Elaine, my correspondent, hoped I had to share. <br />
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Elaine had a friend who read the booklet in Swedish and summarized it in English for her.<br />
The Swedes weren't swimmers before seeing Russian prisoners who could swim, mostly "dog paddle." The Swedish Swim society emphasized both front and back swimming, with and without clothes on, carrying someone, treading water, moving a stone under water, and more. Much of this sounds like things I needed to learn for both my own safety in the water and maybe saving someone else-- however, I was only picking up something small on the pool bottom rather than moving a stone.<br />
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At the Society's 90th year celebration in 1886, there were honored guests, including Eric, who were given certificates. Here is Eric's, but we have no evidence he actually made it to Uppsala for the celebration.<br />
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Four years after learning to swim in 1835, there was the pressing need to help support his family--his father died in 1839 leaving 13 children, the youngest was 7 months old. Each of the older children worked in different jobs. Eric as the oldest boy was apprenticed to be a tanner, just as his father and grandfather before him. By 1844, Eric was a Journeyman tanner, traveling around the country for a year looking for work. Then in 1845, he immigrated to Havilland Hollow, New York and went to work as a tanner. He saved his pennies, and in 1849 he married and then, in 1852 he and his wife Mary Hearty moved to Gaylordsville, Connecticut where he had his own tannery.<br />
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Eric's tannery was on the Wimisink Brook, very near the Housatonic River.<br />
Working hard over the years to maintain his businesses, Eric didn't forget what he learned in Sweden. Sixty years later, Eric saved a man from drowning on 22 September 1895 and then wrote a pamphlet about how to do it.<br />
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He did follow D W Beach's advice and even got letterhead made:<br />
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And this brings us back to the Uppsala Swim Society and <a href="mailto:ekhowley@usms.org">Elaine K. Howley</a>'s article. She took the time to research the society and her article is in the <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/2053184/Uppsala.pdf?1472064647">September/October issue of SWIMMER magazine</a>.<br />
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Right at the top of the article is Eric's ad that was run in newspapers across the country advertising the directions on how to save a man from drowning! <br />
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Isn't that part of what Eric learned in his swimming lessons back in 1835!<br />
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The link to this blog post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-gaylordsville-tanner-and-the.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-gaylordsville-tanner-and-the.html</a><br />
©Erica Dakin Voolich, 2016.<br />
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Growing up, I remember my father telling the story of his Aunt Clarice buying land. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/03/clarice-evans-anna-halberg-life-and.html">Clarice Theodora Evans</a> (1884-1953) was a professional woman in the first half of the 1900s. Clarice taught industrial arts when it was a new area of study in various schools around the US, advocated child-centered education, traveled to England to teach and to research for Darlington Hall, and spent her final years teaching at Jersey State Teachers College in New Jersey. <br />
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Clarice never married. Her sister <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html">Marion Evans Dakin was a widow</a> who was raising a son, Ted. Both were professional women, but neither woman had any extra funds -- they did not come from a wealthy family. So purchasing land would be a luxury for Clarice. Some land became available near the woods where their father had built a shack in Sherman, Connecticut. Clarice wanted to purchase the land, but it was too expensive. So, Clarice suggested to her friend Amy Herrick, that maybe they could buy the land together. Amy had some money and she agreed. They would purchase the land together. <br />
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My father's story of the purchase:<br />
The land was 60 acres and the farmer wanted three times what Clarice could afford. Clarice and Amy wanted the land surveyed before they bought it, but the farmer said, "It's 60 acres more or less, period." The two women paid the going price per acre, Amy paying 2/3 and Clarice 1/3. When they had the land surveyed to divide it afterwards, Clarice's share was 60 acres!<br />
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The story sounds a bit apocryphal, but I used to tell it in my middle school math class when we would study measurements -- an example of needing to have a sense of the size of measurements that you use each day. In this case, the farmer would probably have some sense of what an acre actually was -- not what I would expect my students to know, but the farmer should. Then we'd do an activity estimating the number of inches, centimeters, feet etc. something was before measuring. Then I'd end with "handy approximate" measures for the inch, and some estimating activities, for example.<br />
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Time to investigate the story: <br />
<i>1. Did Amy and Clarice purchase 60 acres of land in Sherman? </i><br />
<i>2. Did they have it surveyed dividing it into 2/3 and 1/3?</i><br />
<i>3. Did Clarice end up with 60 acre of land as her 1/3?</i><br />
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This is a piece of a more complicated land record search in Sherman that I'm trying to sort out. <br />
Here is the "truth" of the story about Clarice and Amy.<br />
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Amy and Clarice made two purchases of land in the northern portion of Sherman, Connecticut on Ten Mile Hill on 13 December 1938, each with an undivided interest of 1/3 to Clarice and 2/3 to Amy. One piece of property was for 10 acres, more or less, of woodland from Roland Mygatt [see Sherman Land Records, volume 16, pages 310-311]. The other piece was from Helen H Mygatt for 60 acres, more or less [see Sherman Land Records, volume 15, page 161].<br />
Amy and Clarice purchased 10 + 60 acres on 13 December 1938.<br />
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<i>1. Did Amy and Clarice purchase 60 acres of land in Sherman? </i><br />
Yes.<br />
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Amy and Clarice, paid to have the land surveyed and divided, 17 months later.<br />
On 1 June 1940, they signed a portion of the land to Amy and a portion of the land to Clarice.<br />
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Clarice Evans Quit-Claimed three pieces of property to Amy Herrick, one was 5 1/2 acres, one was 10 and one was 10 acres, a total of 75 1/2 acres [see Sherman Land Records, volume 16, pages 340-341]. <br />
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Also, on 1 June 1940, 1 Amy Herrick Quit-Claimed three pieces of property to Clarice Evans, total 55 acres [volume 16, pages 341-342].<br />
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Amy got 75 1/2 acres, Clarice got 55 acres. This doesn't sound like 2/3 and 1/3.<br />
They did own the property together as undivided 2/3 and 1/3 each.<br />
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Looking closely at the deeds on 1 June 1940.<br />
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The land had been surveyed and divided, giving Amy all of the 10 acre piece piece purchased from Roland Mygatt -- a totally separate piece of land sold, none of which went to Clarice. Possibly this piece of land had a higher value.<br />
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The piece of land sold by Helen Mygatt, had been surveyed and divided into three pieces, one was a 6 acre plot which Amy got.<br />
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The rest of the "60 acres" purchased from Helen Mygatt, was divided into two convoluted pieces: a west portion (55 acres) and and an east portion (60 acres). <br />
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So the "60 acres, more or less" piece was actually 60 + 55 +10 acres when a survey was done.<br />
Clarice received the west portion.<br />
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So, back to our questions....<br />
<i>2. Did they have it surveyed dividing it into 2/3 and 1/3?</i><br />
Well, when they owned it together, it was as an "undivided" 2/3 and 1/3. They had it surveyed. They probably divided it into the real estate value of 2/3 and 1/3. Not explicitly stated, since no values were given in any of the original or later transactions].<br />
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<i>3. Did Clarice end up with 60 acre of land as her 1/3?</i><br />
Close to it! She ended up with 55 acres of land bordering on the land her father bought and built a shack on in the 1920s.<br />
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I had always assumed from my father's telling of the story:<br />
They bought "60 acres more or less, 2/3 to Amy and 1/3 to Clarice," with Clarice getting 60 acres would have meant that Amy got 120 acres -- not exactly the the case, but not too far from the truth, I suspect if you look at land values.<br />
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So, did Clarice enjoy her new position of land owner?<br />
Actually, Clarice was very generous. Not long after her purchase, she filed two Quit-Claim Deeds -- giving her sister Marion Evans Dakin a 1/3 undivided interest and her nephew, Theodore Robert Dakin a 1/3 undivided interest. [see Sherman Land Records, volume 17, pages 519-520.]<br />
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Where is the land located?<br />
It is actually hard to find the exact location on Ten Mile Hill by the deed descriptions because names of adjacent land owners might have been long dead and the land is not a simple rectangular shape like suburban lots. ["<i>BEGINNING at the stonewall fence intersection marking the Northeast corner of the six acres field which is bounded on</i> .. <i>thence Westerly along said Northerly boundary about 375 feet to land of Marion Evans Dakin; thence Northerly along land of said Dakin and land of Emery Thorp about 1520 feet to the Northeasterly corner of land of said Thorp; thence Westerly along land of said Thorp about 600 feet to the land of Robert Hungerford; thence Northerly along land of said Hungerford about 1220 feet to the Northeasterly corner thereof; then Westerly</i>..."]<br />
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There was a statement in the deed giving Clarice her land that a photo [Fairchild Aerial Survey] was filed with the land outlined in red ink and filed with the land records. Unfortunately, that photo doesn't exist there now. <br />
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The Town Clerk did find a map showing the land on a map for a nearby property -- Herman Mosenthal's land (actually the land originally owned by Jonathan and Ruth Evans when they first came to Sherman in 1801)<br />
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Now, Clarice, Marion and Ted are land owners!<br />
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©2016, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/08/60-acres-more-or-less.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/08/60-acres-more-or-less.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-45086624073387087082016-06-19T07:06:00.001-07:002016-06-19T07:06:54.759-07:00Honoring Some Fathers in the FamilyIn honor of father's day....<br />
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My father with his father:<br />
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Theodore Robert Dakin (Teddy) with <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-regrets-and-redemption-lead-to.html">Robert Edward Dakin</a> (Rob)</div>
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[Ted: 11 November 1916, New Haven, CT - 20 November 1972, Berwyn, IL]</div>
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[Rob: 2 July 1888, Gaylordsville, CT - 15 December 1918, Danbury, CT]</div>
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Rob at age 30 died in 1918, when Teddy was 2.<br />
Rob died in the Flu Pandemic the same week as his infant son Edward Evans Dakin and his mother-in-law Caroline Matilda Holstein Evans (Carrie) also died. Carrie's husband (Charles H Evans) moved in with Rob's wife, Marion Evans Dakin to act as "baby tender" when <u><a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html">she went to school at the U of Chicago for a term to get more training leading</a></u> to her becoming the first <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html">Extension Nutritionist for the State of Connecticut</a> three years later.<br />
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Charles Harold Evans with Teddy in Chicago.</div>
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[Charles: 23 May 1853, Sherman, CT - 18 February 1928, Savannah, GA]</div>
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Other fathers in the family:<br />
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Edward Dakin (Teddy's other Grandfather)</div>
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[3 October 1836, Hudson, NY - 6 July 1914, Gaylordsville, CT]</div>
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2014/05/memories-of-elizabeth-and-charles-at.html" style="text-align: center;">Charles Evans</a><span style="text-align: center;"> (Teddy's Great Grandfather)</span></div>
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[2 August 1820, Sherman, CT - 4 December 1903, Great Barrington, MA]</div>
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-bundle-of-letters-such-treasure.html">Eric Helsten</a> (Teddy's Great Grandfather)</div>
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[27 February 1822, Uppsala, Sweden - 4 January 1903, Gaylordsville, CT]</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Beers Radford (Teddy's Great Great Grandfather)</span></div>
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Ted had many other generations of fathers, but these are the only photographs that were left to me for our viewing pleasure!<br />
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Happy Fathers' Day, 2016!<br />
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The link to this page is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/06/honoring-some-fathers-in-family.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/06/honoring-some-fathers-in-family.html</a><br />
©2016, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-20062061241313436942016-05-25T13:13:00.002-07:002016-05-25T13:14:34.255-07:00Creative Sandwich Suggestions During WW2 RationingMarion Evans Dakin was the<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html"> first Extension Nutritionist for the State of Connecticut</a> beginning in 1921. Her job involved traveling around Connecticut giving presentations on food preparation and nutrition and also writing bulletins -- <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html">LOTS of bulletins!</a><br />
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Over the twenty-five years while she was teaching the new ideas in nutrition and food preparation to the families of Connecticut, the events of the world continued unabated. The Great Depression (29 October 1929 - 1939), and then World War 2 (1 Sept 1939 - 1945), changed everyone's focus from just preparing good healthy meals for one's family, to also managing to feed a family economically, and then once the war began, working around rationed items. <br />
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Just imagine if there were <a href="http://www.ameshistory.org/exhibits/ration_items.htm">shortages of these items in your life today</a>:<br />
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The War brought employment, but unfortunately with the new employment came a lack of goods families would want to purchase after the decade of lean years. <a href="http://www.ameshistory.org/exhibits/ration_items.htm">The rationing began in January of 1942</a> with tires, followed by cars in February, typewriters in March, gas and sugar in May, bicycles in July, rubber footwear, fuel oil & kerosene in October, and coffee in November. That was just 1942. Then in 1943: shoes in February, processed foods, meats, canned fish, cheese, canned milk and fats in March, and solid fuels in September.<br />
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Many of these are what we would now think of as life's necessities! If you couldn't have a car, well, use a bike -- well, I guess no bike either! My mother talked of using "Shank's Mare" (her feet to get around) and I'm sure that is how she got to work when pregnant with me during the war when they didn't own a car. Oh, and what you consider basic foods to prepare a meal were severely limited. You needed to be creative.<br />
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Marion's job involved finding ways to help people feed their families, and so there were numerous bulletins in addition to her talks which would take into account various shortages and alternatives while including foods from the "Basic 7" food groups. Most bulletins would discuss an topic and include many recipes; or might encourage planting by season and how to use what was being harvested then and,of course, have recipes. Some issues were devoted to individual minerals or vitamins. This September 1944 issue was different in format -- it was written "outline-style" and included much more information and hinted at preparation rather than including the details.<br />
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The September 1944 bulletin was devoted to packing lunches -- these weren't lunches for children in school, these were for the workers working the various shifts. She starts with listing the "Basic 7" and then talks about planning for what type of person needs the meal "very active" or "moderately active" or "not so active," listing how much of each food to pack for each person.<br />
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Next Marion listed the hours of the shifts:<br />
6 a.m. - 2 p.m.: eat a good breakfast first or add extra sandwich for 8 or 9 a.m.<br />
2 p.m. - 10 p.m.: noon meal is the hearty family meal for this worker<br />
10 p.m. - 6 a.m.: lunch at 2 a.m. should be substantial, nourishing and appetizing -- worker's living habits have been turned upside down.<br />
She goes into details of goals for the meal (nourishing, good tasting, carries well, helps morale) and then how to prepare and pack before encouraging variety in lunches with suggestions. Then Marion has a section on Food Shortages!<br />
<i>IV. FOOD SHORTAGES</i><br />
<i> Meat - make wise use of points. Variety meats </i><br />
<i> high in food value.</i><br />
<i> Cheese - use cottage and soft cheese.</i><br />
<i> Butter - use fortified margarine, extenders.</i><br />
<i> Unrationed hearty fillings - peanut butter, eggs,</i><br />
<i> poultry.</i><br />
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Marion includes the "Do's" and "Don'ts" from a Westinghouse survey of workers for packing lunches -- some would apply today. That is followed by sandwich fillings. Remember that sugar, cheese, meat and processed foods are all rationed, but peanut butter isn't.<br />
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Here are the peanut butter suggestions (something for you to try instead of PB&J):<br />
<i>*These fillings may be made ahead of time and kept in the </i><br />
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<u><i>Peanut Butter</i></u><br />
<i>1. *Chili Sauce: 1 c. peanut butter, 1/3 c. chili sauce.</i><br />
<i>2. Bacon: 1/2 c. peanut butter, 4 strips cooked bacon,</i><br />
<i> chopped, 2 tb. salad dressing.</i><br />
<i>3. Celery: 1/2c. peanut butter, 1/3c. celery diced,</i><br />
<i> 4 tb. salad dressing.</i><br />
<i>4. *Ham: 1/3 c. peanut butter, 1/2 c. ham paste.</i><br />
<i>5. *Honey yeast: 1/2 c. peanut butter, 1/4 c. honey,</i><br />
<i> 1 cake compressed yeast.</i><br />
<i>6. *Jelly: 1/3 c. peanut butter, 1/4 c. tart jelly. Mix.</i><br />
<i>7. Carrot: 1/2 c. peanut butter, 1/3 c. grated carrots,</i><br />
<i> 3 tbs. salad dressing.</i><br />
<i>8. Onion: 1 c. peanut butter, 1 small Spanish onion,</i><br />
<i> 1/2 c. mayonaise.</i><br />
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Cheese was rationed, but it seems that cottage or cream cheese or American cheese wasn't, so Marion had suggestions there too.<br />
<i><u>Cottage or Cream Cheese</u></i><br />
<i>1. Bacon: 1 cream cheese, 1/4 c. diced cooked</i><br />
<i> bacon, 1 tsp. pickle or sauce, 1 tb. milk</i><br />
<i>2. *Peanut: 1 c. cheese, 1 c. finely chopped</i><br />
<i> peanuts, 1 tbs. salad dressing, 1/2 tsp.</i><br />
<i> salt.</i><br />
<i>3. Combination: 1/2 c cheese, 1/2 c. raisins,</i><br />
<i> 1/2 c. grated raw carrots, 1 tb. salad</i><br />
<i> dressing.</i><br />
<i>4. *Chipped beef: 2/3 c. cheese, 1/3 c. ground</i><br />
<i> chipped beef, salad dressing to moisten.</i><br />
<i>5. *Olive: 3/4 c. cheese, 3 tb. chopped stuffed </i><br />
<i> olives, 1/4 tsp. salt.</i><br />
<i>6. *Egg: 1/2 c. cheese, 2 hard cooked eggs chop-</i><br />
<i> ped, 2 tb. chopped pickle, 2 tb. salad dressing.</i><br />
<i>7. Spicy: Cheese salted and mixed with any of the</i><br />
<i> following: Chow chow, chili sauce, chopped</i><br />
<i> dill pickle, green pepper, celery, onion, </i><br />
<i> parsley, carrots.</i><br />
<i>8. Onion: 1 c. cheese, 1/4 c. chopped Bermuda</i><br />
<i> onion, 1/4 c. salad dressing.</i><br />
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<i><u>American Cheese</u></i><br />
<i>1. *One-half lb. cheese, 1/2 c. canned tomato,</i><br />
<i> 1/4 c. butter or margarine, 1/4 lb. dried</i><br />
<i> beef, flaked. Melt cheese in double boiler,</i><br />
<i> add tomato gradually, stir constantly. Add</i><br />
<i> other ingredients. Blend well.</i><br />
<i>2. *One-half lb. cheese, 3 hard-cooked eggs,</i><br />
<i> 1 small onion, 1 pimiento, salt. Put </i><br />
<i> through food chopper and then mix. Add</i><br />
<i> salad dressing to slightly moisten.</i><br />
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She then includes recipes for hard-cooked eggs, scrambled eggs and chicken which sound like something someone might suggest today. There were two chicken recipes I might not have thought of for a sandwich filling:<br />
<i>2. *Peanut: 1 c. chicken, 1 c. peanuts chopped.</i><br />
<i> Salad dressing to moisten.</i><br />
<i>3. *Giblets: Giblets from 1 chicken (cooked and</i><br />
<i> chopped), 1 hard cooked egg chopped, 1 tb.</i><br />
<i> top milk, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. Works-</i><br />
<i> tershire sauce, 1 tsp. catsup.</i><br />
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Apparently, variety meats were not rationed, so she included recipe suggestions here. Remember Marion's earlier statement about food shortages: <i>Meat - make wise use of points. Variety meats high in food value.</i><br />
Theses points are your rationing stamps that allow you to purchase different kinds of foods -- if they are available.<br />
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<u><i>Variety Meats</i></u><br />
<i>1. Liver and bacon: 1/2 c. chopped cooked bacon,</i><br />
<i> 1/4 c. top milk, 1/2 c. cooked mashed </i><br />
<i> liver, salt and pepper.</i><br />
<i>2. *Liver: 2/3 lb. liver, cooked and chopped, </i><br />
<i> 1 onion minced, 1 tb. fat, 2 hard cooked</i><br />
<i> eggs, chopped, 1/3 c. top milk, salt.</i><br />
<i> Brown onion lightly in butter. Combine</i><br />
<i> all ingredients and mix well. Store in</i><br />
<i> covered can in refrigerator.</i><br />
<i>3. *Liver Sausage: Chop liverwurst and season</i><br />
<i> with mustard.</i><br />
<i>4. Tongue: Ground tongue and horseradish.</i><br />
<i>5. *Liver Sausage: 3/4 lb. sausage, 1/3 c.</i><br />
<i> chopped sweet pickle, mayonnaise.</i><br />
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Marion even suggests you can mash baked beans and add a variety of ingredients to them. Marion includes fish sandwich fillings and meat, but not the slices of various meats you might think of today -- no sliced roast beef or chicken or turkey sandwiches listed here. If you have some meat, chop and mix with seasonings or make meat loaves [which actually extends the quantity of food].<br />
Marion suggests including "meat" in the lunch, not just in a sandwich: chicken drumstick, stuffed egg, pickled egg, piece of cheese, slice of meatloaf, meat turnover or meat stew in a thermos bottle.<br />
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All of the sandwiches on the preceding pages are what she would have called "substantial sandwich" on page 1, where she recommended the number of substantial sandwiches and succulent sandwiches based on the activity level of the worker. For example a very active worker would need 2 or more substantial sandwiches and one succulent sandwich.<br />
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<i>SUCCULENT SANDWICHES</i><br />
<i>Combination - moisten with salad dressing in most cases.</i><br />
<i>1. Chopped cabbage and shredded carrots.</i><br />
<i>2. " " " diced apples.</i><br />
<i>3. " " " chopped peanuts.</i><br />
<i>4. " " " green pepper or pimiento.</i><br />
<i>5. Chopped celery and green pepper.</i><br />
<i>6. " " " diced tomato.</i><br />
<i>7. Sliced tomato and chopped egg.</i><br />
<i>8. " " " lettuce.</i><br />
<i>9. " " " cottage cheese.</i><br />
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<i>SWEET SANDWICHES</i><br />
<i>1. Raisins with shredded carrot.</i><br />
<i>2. *Raisins and chopped nuts.</i><br />
<i>3. Slices of comb honey or a honey spread.</i><br />
<i>4. Jelly, jam or marmalade.</i><br />
<i>5. Grated carrot and honey.</i><br />
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Marion's suggestions of simple desserts sound like things that would be in today's lunch box: cookies, gingerbread, or tarts. She also suggests various puddings, custards or gelatin -- except these aren't prepackaged, they are in those small jars (with tight fitting lids) she suggested saving back on page 3.<br />
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She finishes with a list of menus using the sandwich fillings for sandwiches with whole wheat, rye or enriched bread.<br />
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If you had to feed your family and the types of food which you were used to serving weren't available because first priority was the troops fighting WW2, you needed information and Google wasn't even imagined (nor were the founders even born), nor were personal computers thought about. The State Extension Service provided a very needed role in both peacetime and war time.<br />
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All of these suggestions for Lunches were part of the regular Bulletins provided by the University of Connecticut Extension Service in Storrs, Connecticut. In 1942, the State of Connecticut set up a State Nutrition Committee, with Marion E Dakin as the general chairman and ex-officio member of each of the promotional committees with local nutritionists taking a more active role.<br />
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This bulletin, <i>PACKED LUNCH</i>, had a date of 9/18/44 at the end. The bulletin <i>HERBS FOR ACCENT AND FLAVOR</i> was dated 9/13/44, just 5 days before. Marion was a busy person, playing an important role for the families of Connecticut.<br />
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The <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html">bulletins I've found</a> in her home after she died in 1974, might not be all that she wrote. <br />
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© Erica Dakin Voolich, 2016<br />
The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/creative-sandwich-suggestions-during.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/creative-sandwich-suggestions-during.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-64996339410543840512016-05-19T07:52:00.000-07:002016-05-30T09:11:16.653-07:00The Life of the Traveling Nutritionist, the Rest of the Story!In <i><a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html">A Life Re-Routed Thanks to the 1918 Pandemic</a></i>, I was telling the remarkable story of my grandmother Marion Evans Dakin who after she lost her husband, mother and youngest son in the 1918 flu pandemic, had to re-invent her life. She went on the become the first Extension Nutritionist for the State of Connecticut from 1921 to 1946.<br />
Marion lived and worked on the Storrs campus of Connecticut Agricultural College (later U Conn). As part of her job, she was traveling around the state, giving talks and workshops. She was also writing the Bulletins that the Extension Service distributed on nutrition and food preparation. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bulletin No. 38, July 1924<br />
The Connecticut Agricultural College, Extension Service,<br />
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I did some searching online and found the following articles:<br />
• 1920, September, short book review of “Meats, Poultry and Game; How to Buy, Cook and Carve,” by “Marion Evans Dakin, Pratt Institute,” in The Journal of Home Economics, vol.12, p 426.<br />
• 1921, January, “What your Child Should Eat” The Connecticut Agricultural College Extension Service, Bulletin no. 47, January 1921<br />
• 1924, July, “Pickles: Chow Chow, Chili Sauce, Sauerkraut, etc.” Bulletin No. 38<br />
• 1925, July, “Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables,” by Marion Evans Dakin & Elsie Trabue, Bulletin no. 90<br />
• 12 April 1931, “Old Connecticut Treats” article on famous New England recipes in <i>The Charleston Daily Mail</i>, (Charleston, West VA)<br />
• 1933, “4-H food club, “What we can do with milk” Bulletin<br />
• 1936, October, “Vegetables in Various Ways,” Unit 9 of the 4-H food program, Bulletin no. 234<br />
• 1938, September, “Winter Salads”<br />
• 1941, July, “Milk in Many Modes,” Bulletin no. 311<br />
• 1942, “Cakes and Cookies that save sugar,” Bulletin no. 332, September 1942<br />
• 1942, October, “Meat Replace” Extension Bulletin<br />
• 1942, “Home Canning,” Extension Bulletin<br />
• 1943, author, "Fats for Table Use and Cooking<br />
• 1984 & 1985, <i>Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1984 &1985: Cookery: Science, Lore,</i>” edited by Tom Jaine, talks about the history of Election Day Cake and on page 59 includes her recipe for a yeast-based election day cake<br />
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My initial thought was: that was a lot of articles, something to be proud of. Then I remembered a box I have from when I cleaned out her house as her executrix in 1974. Looks like there might be a few more articles here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The collection of Extension Bulletins that Marion authored and saved from <br />
her 25 years as the first Extension Nutritionist for the State of Connecticut.</td></tr>
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Undated, Bulletins in a Green Cover with two rings holding together a set of 4-page documents, from Marion’s collection. All titled <i>The Spotlight” by Marion Evans Dakin, Storrs, Conn., Vol</i>. (Probably starting about 1934-35)<br />
Introduction(Vol.1, no.1): <br />
<i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“With this issue we are starting a new leaflet</i><br />
<i>on its way. As so much experimental work is being done</i><br />
<i>in nutrition and foods we want to focus our Spotlight</i><br />
<i>on the information which will help us in the better</i><br />
<i>feeding of our families - especially the children. So</i><br />
<i>the plan for this leaflet is to present nutrition facts,</i><br />
<i>timely food preparation articles, helps in food purchas-</i><br />
<i>ing, and short-cuts. If you have found something</i><br />
<i>which helps you in your job of feeding the family, will</i><br />
<i>you not send it in so it can be shared with others?</i>”<br />
• no.1, November, “School Lunch,” “Suggested Thanksgiving Dinner Menus,” “Market Lore”<br />
• no. 2, December, “Christmas Gifts from the Kitchen and Farm,” “Children’s Teeth,” some recipes, “Market Lore”<br />
• no. 3, January, “Fit the Apple to the Job,<br />
• no. 4, February, instead of titled articles there is a two page discussion of winter planning for spring planting and thinking herbs, time to stock up on canned good, learning to read the label (price per pound and government grade), shelving one’s supply of canned fruits and meats by the month you’ll use it, and ending with an article on vitamins.<br />
• no. 5, March, there is a list of mixed greens to plant in your garden, a “vegetable budget” by the day or week, a discussion of the cost of food up 6% since September (during 1934-35, the average food cost per person was $.33, going to .35 or $7.30 per person per year) with one suggestion to keep this down of planting a garden.<br />
• no. 6, April, “To Make a Bouquet of Herbs,” “Amounts for 50 People,” “Grainola,” “Escarole,” “A Box and Cox Garden,” “Marketing Information”<br />
• no. 7, May, The issue is devoted to eggs<br />
• no. 8, June, The issue is devoted to canning and includes a recipe for Rhubarb and Strawberry Pie since Rhubarb is the fruit of the month.<br />
• no.9, July-August, Picnics (6 pages instead of 4)<br />
• no. 10, September, “September and Schools Open,” “A Fall Jelly,” “How to Get The Blue Ribbon,” “A Christmas Suggestion,” “Youth Learns Cooperation Rather than Competition”<br />
• no. 11, October, The issue is devoted to the school lunch with a note to can chicken meat (non-layers are culled then), the importance of calcium and vitamin A in a Child’s diet, and materials you can send away for from the extension office.<br />
<i>Volume II</i><br />
• no.1, November, “School Lunch Box,” “Some Suggestions for Lunch Box Menus,” Thanksgiving menus suggestions from 1911, “Market Lore,” “Consumer Protected in Potato Buying”<br />
Note: in Vol.3, no.1, <i>“Two years ago we started Volume 2 of the</i><br />
<i>Spotlight but the one number issued turned out to be </i><br />
<i>Hail and Farewell instead of the first of a series.”</i><br />
<i>Volume 3</i><br />
• no. 1, November, The issue is devoted to good nutrition for safe driving and Thanksgiving.<br />
• no. 2, December, “Five-Point Children,” answering a question about Vitamin A for Five-Point Children, and recipes for “Raisin Chocolate,” “Date Sweets,” Peanut Paste,” to replace some of the Christmas candy.<br />
• no. 3, January, “Our Daily Bread,” answering a question about Calcium for Five-Point Children<br />
• no. 4, February, “Month of Holidays,” answering a question about Iron for Five-Point Children<br />
• no. 5, March, “First Aid to a Good Diet- A Good Food Garden,” answering a question about Vitamin C for Five-Point Children, and “St. Patrick’s Day Refreshments”<br />
[number 6 missing]<br />
• no. 7, May, “Five-Point Children,” “Friends School Menu” from a school in England from 1740 (read to parents so they couldn’t complain about food) [Marion <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/search/label/EVANS%20Clarice">got this from Clarice, who got it when she was in England 1928-1930</a> and visited the Friends School, Clarice mentioned it in a letter to Marion dated 11 February 1930], “May Breakfast”<br />
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Uncovered and undated Bulletins from the Cooperative Extension Work in Agricultural and Home Economics State of Connecticut from her collection [most are 8 pages long]:<br />
• “Winter Salads” [ink note: Sept 1938]<br />
• “Yeast Breads”<br />
• “Sweet Rolls and Coffee Cake”<br />
• “Meals for 100% Health” [pencil note: “Revised April 1941”]<br />
• “ABC of Food Preparation”<br />
• “ABC of Cooking”<br />
• “Preparing Some Common Vegetables”<br />
• “Pickles and Relishes”<br />
• “Christmas Cookies” [pencil note: “there is a revision”]<br />
• “Guides in Food Buying: Meats” [there are corrections in Marion’s hand writing on the sample]<br />
• “The ABCs of Canning”<br />
• “Yeast Breads” [pencil note: “1932-3, Revised 1938”]<br />
• “Sweet Rolls and Coffee Cake” [pencil note: “1933”]<br />
• “Yeast Rolls” [pencil note: “1933”]<br />
• “Stretching the Food Dollar” [pencil note: 1933]<br />
• “Soufflés”<br />
• “Rhubarb”<br />
• “Thanksgiving” [note: includes menu from 1887]<br />
• “Doughnuts”<br />
• “ABC of Food Preparation: Batters and Doughs” [pencil note: “1933-4”]<br />
• “ABC of Food Preparation: Batters and Doughs II”<br />
• “Coffee” [pencil note: “1933-4”]<br />
• “ABC of Food Preparation: Pastry and Salad Dressing”<br />
• “ABC of Food Preparation: Pastry”<br />
• “Afternoon Tea”<br />
• “Holiday Dinner” [pencil note: Fairfield Co Annual Meeting 1932”]<br />
• “Suggestions for Sunday Night Suppers”<br />
• “Junior Short Course 1937, Lunch Box Suggestions” [pencil note: “July 1937”]<br />
• “ABC of Food Preparation: Pastry”<br />
• “Uses for Sour Cream” [pen note: “Aug ’33”]<br />
• “Summer Beverages” [pencil note: “Out of print — has been revised 1933”]<br />
• “Camp Cookery” [pencil note: “Revised 1939 — N. London Co Camp 1933”]<br />
• “Foods for the Lunch Box” [pencil note: “1933”]<br />
• “Recipes for Community Meals (Amounts for 25 Servings)”<br />
• “Standards for Some Foods Found in the Breakfast Menu”<br />
• “ABC of Cooking: Basic Methods of Cookery”<br />
• “Guides in Food Buying”<br />
• “Trays for the Sick: Unit 20 of the 4-H Food Program” [pen note: Feb 1940]<br />
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<i>Nutrition Book No.2, Mrs. Dakin</i><br />
Undated Bulletins from the Cooperative Extension Work in Agricultural and Home Economics State of Connecticut from her collection. Probably most from 1937-1939.<br />
• “Outdoor Cookery”<br />
• “The Menu of the Month - November: A week’s Meals for Four for $11.20” [pen: “Nov. 1939”]<br />
• “Supper Dishes”<br />
• “Home Canned Foods in the Family Meal”<br />
• March 1943, “Fats for Table Use and Cooking”<br />
• “Lamb and Mutton”<br />
• [chart] “One Week’s Food Record” [pencil: “Sept 1937”]<br />
• “How to Cook Meat”<br />
• “Pork and Port Products”<br />
• “Veal”<br />
• “Evening Refreshments” [pencil: “Fairfield, Oct ’37]<br />
• “The Menu of the Month - October: A Week’s Meals at Moderate Cost” [pen: Oct. 1939]<br />
• “Food for the Sick and Convalescent” [pencil: “Sept. 1939”]<br />
• “Refreshing and Nutritious Beverages for the Sick and Convalescent” [pencil: Sept. 1939]<br />
• “Estimating Costs and Value of Home Canned Products” [pencil: “Sept. 1939”]<br />
• “Some Skills in Cooking” [pencil: “Jr. Short Course July 1939”]<br />
• “A Polish Dinner” [pencil: “1933 Farm & Home Week”]<br />
• August 18, 1937, “Notice to Growers and Shippers of Citrus Fruits” from the Department of Agriculture [included for dating and context, not written by Marion]<br />
• “Yeast Breads and Rolls: Suggested Outline for Meetings” Unit 13 of the 4-H Food Program [pen: “Mar ’39”]<br />
• “The School Lunch” Unit 12 of the 4-H Food Program [pen: “Feb 1939”]<br />
• “Daily Meal Planning” [pen: “Jan. 1939”]<br />
• “Social Customs in Dining” [pencil: “Nov. 1938”]<br />
• “Table Setting” [pencil: “Sept 1938”]<br />
• “Yeast Breads”<br />
• “Impromptu Refreshments” [pencil: “June Approximate Amounts of Foods to Serve Fifty” [pencil: “April 1938”]<br />
• “Summer Beverages” [pencil: “Revised Spring 1938”]<br />
• “What Price Deserts.” [pencil: Jan. 1938”]<br />
• “New and Old Ways to Serve Potatoes” [pen: “Jan. 1938”]<br />
• “Foods for the Lunch Box (Revised December 1937)”<br />
• “Cost-Weight Table: Table for Determining Cost Per Pound of a Product” [not by Marion, but included in her book, prepared by NY State College of Home Economics at Cornell U]<br />
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<i>Nutrition Book No 4, “What’s Cooking”</i><br />
• “A Polish Dinner” Co-author with Mrs. Joseph Kasper<br />
• “What's Cooking in Your Neighbor's Pot? Polish Recipes,” September 1945<br />
• “Feast Dishes for Easter and Other Russian Recipes” offered in “What’s Cooking in Your Neighbor’s Pot” Program over Station WTIC, April 6, 1946<br />
• “Some Southern Favorites” offered in “What’s Cooking in Your Neighbor’s Pot” Program over Station WTIC, June 29, 1946<br />
• “Habitat Dishes from French Canada” offered in “What’s Cooking in Your Neighbor’s Pot” Program over Station WTIC, June 1, 1946<br />
• “It’s an Old Swedish Custom — The Smörgåsbord” offered in “What’s Cooking in Your Neighbor’s Pot” Program over Station WTIC, May 4, 1946<br />
• “Gulyas and Other Hungarian Dishes Given to Marion Evans Dakin by Mrs. Stevan Dohanos,” March 1946<br />
• “What’s Cooking in Your Neighbor’s Pot: Some Recipes from Italy,” February 1946<br />
• “Cooking Fish the Finnish Way,” January 1946<br />
• “Czechoslovakian Christmas Foods,” December 1945<br />
• “Cakes with Little or No Sugar,” October 1945<br />
• “Meat Replacements,” March 1945<br />
• “Home Preserved Foods in “Basic 7” Meals,” January 1945<br />
• “Home-Made Mixes,” January 1945<br />
• “Packed Lunches,” September 1944<br />
• “Herbs for Accent and Flavor,” September 1944<br />
• “Preserving Eggs in Water Glass,” “Preserving Eggs in Mineral Oil,” April 1944<br />
• “Ways to Use Cereals as Desserts,” [undated]<br />
• “Ways to Use Home Preserved Food: Group III — Other Vegetables and Fruits,” March 1944<br />
• “Ways to Use Home Preserved Food: 2. Tomatoes, Greens, Fruits,” February 1944<br />
• “Ways to Use Home Preserved Food: 1. Snap Beans and Carrots,” January 1944<br />
• “What Every Cook Should Know, Unit 7 of the 4-H Food Program,” 10-25-43<br />
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Dated Bulletins from the University of Connecticut Extension Service, Storrs Conn. from her collection [professionally published quality]:<br />
• June 1933, “Jellies, Jams and Marmalades,” Bulletin 187<br />
• March 1935, coauthor with W. B. Young, “Home Preservation of Meat,” Bulletin 217 (Reprint of No 177)<br />
• October 1936, “Vegetables in Various Ways, Unit 9 of the 4-H Program,” Bulletin 234 (Revision of No. 176)<br />
• February 1938, “Home Canning,” Bulletin 254 (Revision of Bulletin No.219)<br />
• March 1941, “Home Canning,” Bulletin 304 (Revision of Bulletin No. 254)<br />
• October 1941, “Foods to Help Keep You Fit,” Bulletin 316<br />
• April 1942, “Home Canning,” Bulletin 324<br />
• March 1943, “Home Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables,” Bulletin 343<br />
• May 1944, “Jams and Jellies,” Bulletin 355 (Revision of 335)<br />
• May 1944, “Pickles and Relishes,” Bulletin 356<br />
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Everyone always talked about how much driving Marion Evans Dakin did as she traveled around the State of Connecticut. She was said to have known every road, named or not. But no one in the family talked about her as an author of nutrition and food preparation bulletins for the citizens of Connecticut.<br />
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Job well done, Nana!<br />
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©Erica Dakin Voolich, 2016<br />
The link to this page is h<a href="ttp://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html">ttp://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-life-of-traveling-nutritionist-rest.html</a>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-80015139435049769922016-04-02T19:10:00.001-07:002016-05-19T07:54:37.654-07:00A Life Re-Routed thanks to the 1918 Pandemic<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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Marion Evans was born in Sherman Connecticut 11 February 1886, the 2nd daughter of Charles Harold Evans and Caroline Matilda Helsten. Her father Charles and her uncle Edward had built houses next door to each other, at the foot of Evans Hill Rd. where their parents, Charles Evans and Hannah Elizabeth Radford lived on the top. On the other side of that same hill in Gaylordsville, lived Marion's maternal grandparents, Eric Adolf Helstein and Mary Hearty.<br />
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Charles and Edward had a busy house construction business in Sherman and Gaylordsville. In 1888, they decided to move their families and their business north to Great Barrington, Massachusetts where there was a building boom going on. Charles and Edward Evans opened the Barrington Building Co. which ended up building not only houses but also a high school their daughters attended and other large buildings around the community over the years.<br />
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Neither Charles, nor his wife Caroline had any college education. They might have attended high school but I don't know. It is clear that education was important to them: Caroline was involved with the Current Events Club and Charles with the Sons of the American Revolution in Great Barrington. Charles' mother, Hannah Elizabeth Radford Evans, amazingly had <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2014/05/life-at-college-for-elizabeth-in-1844.html">one year of college back in 1844-1845</a>. Caroline's immigrant parents -- Eric Adolf Helsten and Mary Hearty-- came in the mid-1840s and did encourage at least one of their 4 children (Sarah) to have education beyond high school.<br />
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Both Marion (1904) and her older sister, Clarice (1902), graduated from Searles High School. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/03/clarice-evans-anna-halberg-life-and.html">Clarice taught in local schools before going on and getting degrees and eventually teaching at Jersey City State Teachers College in New Jersey</a> starting in 1937.<br />
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As young unmarried women in the early 1900s, they needed to have jobs. One might live at home, but unless you had wealthy parents, you needed to support yourself. Both Marion and Clarice were in school at the same time, each graduating in 1908 -- Marion from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York with a degree in Domestic Science; Clarice from Connecticut's State Normal Training School in Danbury with a teaching certificate-- each with a two-year degree. <br />
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Marion's first job out of college was teaching high school domestic science in Saginaw Michigan. Then she came back east and took courses at Columbia Teachers College for 2 years. Her skills caught the attention of the philanthropist Helen Gould (daughter of Jay Gould) who hired her teach nutritional cooking classes for women in Roxbury New York during the summer of 1912. She worked for Helen Gould all year, helping with setting up a new organization's chapter, the Campfire Girls, in Irvington New York and typing a book of sermons for a minister there. When not working, she would be back home in Gaylordsville Connecticut. Her parents were now living in her <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-bundle-of-letters-such-treasure.html">Helsten-grandparents</a>' former home just over the Housatonic River from Robert Edward Dakin who was back at his parents' home <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-regrets-and-redemption-lead-to.html">working on the Bulls Bridge Power Plant addition</a>.<br />
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Marion and Robert Married on 13 September 1913 in Gaylordsville. Rob was and engineer working projects around the state. So, they would set up house-keeping and when the job required that they move, they did. So they had three children born in three different towns. Robert Edward Jr was born in Danbury on 15 May 1915, dying the next day. Theodore Robert was born in New Haven on 11 November 1916. Edward Evans was born in Derby on 28 January 1918. In August 1918 the family had moved again, this time back to Danbury so Rob could work on the dam at Stevenson over the Housatonic River.<br />
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Marion's busy daily life with children and running the household was abruptly disrupted by the flu pandemic that was sweeping all over the world. On Saturday 30 November, Rob got sick. Marion had two young children -- a two year old and a 10 month old along with a sick husband. She sends her older child to stay with Aunt Mary in Gaylordsville and her mother Carrie Helsten Evans comes down to help. By Wednesday 4 December, her son Edward was sick, as was her mother Carrie. On Tuesday 10 December, her mother Carrie dies, the next day, her son Edward Evans died and on Thursday there was a double funeral. The next Monday, her husband Rob died. So, in 5 days, Marion lost her mother, son and husband to the flu -- she was now a 32 year old widow with a two year old son -- her life had dramatically changed.<br />
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She initially moved back to her father's home to decide what to do; he had lost his wife, son-in-law and grandson with all those deaths but they had no time to grieve. Marion needed to go back to work, she had a son to raise. What to do next? In 1918 there wasn't social security for a widow raising a child. Luckily she already had some education to build upon. Probably not true for many other families who were devastated by the Influenza Pandemic.</div>
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Marion decided to go to the University of Chicago for courses in nutrition during the 1919 spring term with her father going along as "baby tender" -- so Marion, son Ted and her father Charles traveled from Connecticut to Chicago and moved in with her sister Clarice who was teaching industrial arts at the Laboratory School there.</div>
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After a quarter at U of C, Marion was hired at her alma mater, Pratt Institute, to teach home economics. Off they all go to Brooklyn New York -- Marion taught at Pratt for two years before being hired by Connecticut Agricultural College (now U Connecticut) as Connecticut's first Extension Nutritionist in February 1921. She retired from U Conn in July 1946. Her son Ted grew up on the Storrs campus with students who would trade child care for room & board. </div>
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In her job, she was writing extension bulletins on food preparation and also giving talks to local groups and large Expositions and State & County fairs all over the state of Connecticut. </div>
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You already know she had taken many courses and many different schools. She decided to take a leave of absence for a semester and enrolled as a student in the college where she was on the faculty and completed her bachelors degree in teacher training in home economics -- graduating from Connecticut Agricultural College on 9 June 1930. </div>
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When her father Charles died in 1928 in Savannah Georgia on a train home from Florida to New York, one of the obituaries listed his three surviving children and Marion was listed as the wife of a professor at Connecticut Agricultural College!! Her husband had died ten years earlier, SHE was on the faculty, he NEVER was!</div>
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Years after she died, in 1974, the university decided to honor the "pioneer women educators" with a plaque and garden outside Holcolm Hall. Ion 22 October 1991, went to the dedication as did Wilma Keyes, the only survivor of the honorees.</div>
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<i>"The women were faculty members of the School of Home Economics who lived and taught in Holcomb Hall. Built in 1922, Holcomb Hall replaced the first women's building, Grove Cottage, which burned in 1919. </i></div>
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<i>Memorialized for their pioneering efforts to educate UConn women are: M. Estella Sprague, Marion Dakin, Gladys Hendrickson, Wilma Keyes, Lillis Knappenberger, Marie Lundberg, Lisbeth Macdonald, Edith Mason, Elizabeth Putnam, and Elsie Trabue. All taught in what was then the school of Home Economics and is now the School of Family Studies. Keyes is the only one of the ten still living. Her art and design courses led to the establishment of the University's present department of Art in the School of Fine Arts. </i></div>
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<i>The Pioneer Women Educators Memorial is a gift of three UConn women... </i></div>
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<i>'These women were part of the progressive wave who were seeking to carve out new opportunities and careers for educated women,... Home Economics was one of the new areas and these pioneers taught our generations of women to reach beyond the accepted roles of teacher, nurse and librarian.' </i></div>
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<i>"Martha Fowlkes, Dean of UConn's School of Family Studies, comments: 'Our School is proud and grateful beneficiary of the contributions of the women educators in whose honor the garden is dedicated. Through their accomplishments in the field of Home Economics, these women represent both the University's history of women's educational achievement and its attention to the importance and dignity of families and the lives of women, both inside and outside the home..." </i></div>
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There was irony of the picture of Marion at the top of this page. She is sitting in the wagon, the mode of transportation around Sherman and Gaylordsville. Soon after the picture, she married and her husband was an engineer who needed to travel around the state. So, by the time he died, he was driving a car. After he died and she took the job as the first Extention Nutritionist in Connecticut, in 1921 she was driving around the state to make presentations. By the time she died, she & Ted had not only taken a boat to England to visit her sister in 1929, and then before she died she had traveled by plane to Sweden and then Japan. To top it all off, she even watched the landing of man on the moon in 1969. Could she have even imagined the changes in transportation in her lifetime when sitting in that family wagon.<br />
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More details on the life of Marion Evans Dakin (11 February 1886-4 July 1974) are included in my article that was published in <i>TIARA</i> Newsletter, 2 September 2015, vol. 32, no 3. TIARA (The Irish Ancestral Research Association) had a focus issue on Researching the Lives of Women.<br />
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The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-life-re-routed-thanks-to-1918-pandemic.html</a><br />
©Erica Dakin Voolich 2016Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-71407901982391533642016-03-23T18:00:00.000-07:002016-03-23T18:01:54.224-07:00Six Photos of my Maternal Generations in Honor of Women's History Month, well, almost ...In honor of women's history month, I'd like to share some pictures of my maternal line.<br />
I need to throw out a BIG thank you to Marie Spangler Copeland, the <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2011/09/genealogical-hostess-from-heaven-in.html">"Genealogist Hostess from Heaven"</a> in Wisconsin. Marie not only shared Copeland research with me, took me to family sites I wouldn't have known how to find on my family research trip, but diligently copied and mailed photos that she had of my GGG and GGGG'grandmothers (from her husband's family).<br />
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My mother, Alice Josephine Richardson Dakin (1917 -2001):<br />
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My grandmother's mother, Alice Copeland Harvey (1860-1921):<br />
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My great grandmother's mother, Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland (1826-1919):<br />
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Continuing up my maternal line would be:<br />
GGG grandmother: Rebecca Blodgett Blodgett ((1799-1862)<br />
GGGG grandmother: Mary (Polly) Bangs/Berngs Riddle Blodgett (1761-1828)<br />
GGGGG grandmother: Rebekah Moulton Riddle (Riddell or Ridel or Rydel) (1742-before 1806)<br />
GGGGGG grandmother: Rebekah Walker Moulton (1716/17-1792)<br />
GGGGGGG grandmother: Jemima Ward Walker (1693-1731)<br />
GGGGGGGG grandmother: Judith Beaman (maybe) Ward (1667-1746)<br />
GGGGGGGGG grandmother: Sarah Clark Beaman (1620-?)<br />
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Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of the 7 generations of women here.<br />
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However, thanks to <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2011/09/genealogical-hostess-from-heaven-in.html">that wonderful heavenly genealogical hostess, Marie</a>, who gave me pictures of my GGG grandmother, my GG grandmother Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett Copeland's mother<i>-in-law</i> ....<br />
still my GGG grandmother, namely Hannah Reed Copeland (1790-1861):<br />
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©2016, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
The link to this page is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/03/six-photos-of-my-maternal-generations.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2016/03/six-photos-of-my-maternal-generations.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-45167407984899882542016-03-06T12:53:00.001-08:002016-03-07T06:43:47.154-08:00Clarice Evans & Anna Halberg, Life and Opportunities for Women Educators in the early 20th century<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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In my young-child-mind, my great Aunt Clarice was an older woman who I loved to play with on the two occasions when I visited my grandmother, Marion Evans Dakin, in Connecticut. I have such fond memories of making a "play house" in the lilac bushes and painting at an easel she had set up in the backyard. Clarice died tragically from a fall down the stairs on 7 July 1953. Such a wonderful aunt. </div>
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But, was she anything more than just a fun person, a great playmate for a chid to play with?</div>
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I've been researching Aunt Clarice. She was born Clarice Theodora Evans on 21 April 1884 in Sherman, Connecticut, the oldest daughter of Charles Harold Evans and Caroline Matilda Helsten Evans. She wasn't even a month old, when her older brother died at 14 months. She grew up with a younger sister, and a younger brother. She graduated from Searles High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1902. </div>
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The career opportunities for a woman in the early 1900s were limited. She taught in the 1st district one-room school in Sherman (and according to her sister Marion was paid $246.50/year as its first teacher). She went to the State Normal Training School, graduating in 1908. She went on to graduate from Columbia Teachers college with a BS in 1920 and a MA in 1926. From what I've been able to find, she taught in a variety of schools in various states, both as a teacher and as a specialist in industrial arts and then in teachers colleges. Documenting all she did in education surprised me, I only knew of her final job at Jersey City State Teachers College, (1934-1950) in New Jersey and I knew of her teaching at the University of Chicago Lab School for a couple of years starting in 1918. I am still learning about her career -- filling in the gaps. She was someone who believed in progressive educational ideas -- children learning by doing.</div>
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One treasure I found in my grandmother's desk were letters from Clarice when she traveled to England 1928-1930. Clarice was not wealthy -- she <i>wasn't</i> traveling abroad for two years on a "grand tour of Europe" -- No, Clarice was traveling to <i>work</i> at a new school, <a href="https://www.dartington.org/about/our-history/">Dartington Hall</a> in Totnes, Devon, England who had offered her £300 plus transportation, and room & board to come for a year. Dartington Hall was interested in her knowledge of a new area of education -- industrial arts.</div>
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Clarice used her letters to her sister (Marion Evans Dakin), her aunt (Mary Helsten Pomery) and her nephew (Theodore Robert Dakin) as her journal of her trip. And, Marion dutifully saved most of them for Clarice. She wrote about her joys and frustrations and observations of daily life. </div>
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Clarice wrote about life at Dartington, schools she visited, classes she taught, museums & tourist sites she visited, plays she attended, books she read, artists & authors she met (Darlington was the "in place to be" for well known artists, authors, etc.)-- you name it, she wrote about it. She frequently mentioned being cold in the English climate and wearing the same suit for most occasions (actually close to daily). She would write and ask her sister Marion to check out various job opportunities for her upon return -- before extending her stay for a second year.</div>
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Clarice was a professional woman who corresponded with other women who she knew from various jobs and her time studying at Columbia Teachers College. In her letter of 18 January 1929 to her sister Marion, she writes:</div>
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I can only imagine how "sore" Anna is to give up her job to a man, just because she is a woman and the job <i>title</i> has changed! And, while they look for that man who can do ... well, Anna should do all the work!</div>
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I found Anna D. Halberg and her predecessors were all female and "principals;" those who followed, were male and "presidents."</div>
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The link to this page is<br />
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Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-65046381338003937332016-01-16T13:17:00.001-08:002017-01-03T10:47:09.962-08:00The Date of the Deed...Truth or Fiction Written in the Grantor Index?A couple of years ago, the <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2106411" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">Massachusetts Land Office Records found in County Courthouses throughout Massachusetts, 1620-1986</a> came online on <a href="http://familysearch.org/">FamilySearch.org</a>. I was doing my "genealogy happy dance" thrilled to find my Thomas Dakeynes (Dakin) selling his early lands in Concord MA in 1659 to J Hayward. I spent time admiring the beautiful records that I could easily view online, even though they weren't indexed. The joy brought with it some questions, beginning with the actual date. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/05/they-might-have-arrived-on-alien-space.html">I blogged about that in 2013</a>. <br />
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It is easy to say that the Grantor Index clearly gives a date of 12 August 1659, so that MUST be the date of the deed. Looking at the deed "clouds the issue" -- it is NOT dated 12 August 1659. The word "August" doesn't appear anywhere in the deed! </div>
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If you can't easily find a copy of my article in the current <i>MASSOG </i>(it is available online to <a href="http://www.msoginc.org/msogwp/publications/">Massachusetts Society of Genealogists (MSOG) members</a>), I recommend you go back and <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2013/05/they-might-have-arrived-on-alien-space.html">read my blog</a> and you'll understand the challenges of the date of the deed.</div>
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Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-43448695164691864082015-10-15T12:11:00.001-07:002015-10-15T12:13:54.170-07:00Death on the Railroad Tracks, the Sequel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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In two earlier posts [<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/07/death-on-railroad-tracks-rest-of-story.html">Death on the Railroad Tracks part 1</a> and <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/07/death-on-railroad-tracks-rest-of-story_05.html">part 2</a>], I wrote about the death of Nathan Cobb on the Northwestern RR tracks in Oak Park, Illinois on 24 June 1892. I focused on the fact that the train tracks were not elevated and right down the middle of the street -- very easy to be hit by a train.<br />
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At the time, I was amazed how many people had accidents involving either trains or "grip cars" in <i>one</i> day in <i>one</i> article in the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, but I focused in the blog posts on Nathan Cobb.<br />
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I took the time to expand the blog posts into a full article about Nathan Cobb and about the other folks mentioned in the article -- some were in another accident or were helping out someone who had been injured. I included information on grip cars. I ended with an obituary that I wrote for Nathan Cobb -- his life deserved more acknowledgement beyond <i>an elderly man suffering from dementia walking in front of a train</i>. I can only hope the people named in the article will help someone else who is searching for a "missing" relative that seems to have vanished without any death certificate.<br />
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The article is in the <i>Illinois State Genealogy Society Quarterly</i>, volume 47, number 3, Fall 2015, pages 133 - 139.<br />
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When the <i>ISGS Journal</i> arrived, I was surprised to see that the photo of South Blvd and Harlem Ave. from the Oak Park River Forest Historical Society was featured on the cover. <br />
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The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/10/death-on-railroad-tracks-sequel.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/10/death-on-railroad-tracks-sequel.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-30697062064875392872015-06-25T18:35:00.000-07:002015-06-25T18:43:38.938-07:00Johanna Carolina Hellsten, the Rest of the StoryIf you've been reading the saga about<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/did-johanna-meet-up-with-uno-kempff.html"> Johanna Carolina Hellsten and Uno Kempff</a>, you'll notice there are some time gaps that we do not know all the details. This post will fill in all of the details that we know about Johanna, after many posts on <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">Uno Kempff </a>and his<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/wait-theres-more-about-uno-kempff.html"> shenanigans with the law</a>.<br />
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What do we know about Johanna, the oldest daughter born to Carl (Kalle) Hellsten and Johanna Sparr on 25 February 1851 in Nikolai Parish, Örebro, Sweden?<br />
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She was 16 when her family fell on hard times in Sweden. S<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8937408984948526826#editor/target=post;postID=3069706206487539287">he wrote to her uncle in America</a>, describing her talent for handwork in her father's brewery and general store (which had gone bankrupt), appealing for funds to travel and help once she arrived. Eric Adolf Helsten had immigrated to USA in 1845, his mother died in 1863. His brother Manne (Theodor Emanual) Hellsten had managed their mother's estate and there was a small amount of money due to Eric. Eric agreed to have<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-uncle.html"> his niece Johanna borrow</a> those funds. Eric knowing the "reduced circumstances" of his brother Carl's family, he has his brother Manne send the funds to their sister Lovis who lives nearby to Johanna's family and who will give the money to Johanna when she is ready to travel.<br />
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She was a young woman of 17 when <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html?showComment=1433089357137#c3547350081118104969">she immigrated to Gaylordsville, Connecticut</a> arriving in New York City on 22 April 1868. Her uncle had alerted Castle Island of her upcoming arrival and they notifiied him of her arrival. Eric finds a job for her working for the Bostwick family in Gaylordsville. She agrees to a two year commitment to work as a domestic servant for them.<br />
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She was just 21 when <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">she ran away from Gaylordsville to New York City</a> -- nary a goodbye or thank you to her helpful uncle.<br />
The Bostwick family tells Eric how they liked her so much the first year, and Maria Bostwick's mother (probably the Eunice Sanford, age 71, above) liked her so much that she gave her a tip at the end of her service in her final pay.<br />
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Her own family was very worried that Johanna connected with Uno Kempff, someone who was from the same town in Sweden, but <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">who had a criminal past</a>. He had been writing her asking her to help him find work -- much to her family's dismay.<br />
She ran off to New York City in 1871, and we have no record of her meeting up with Uno in 1871, but we have no proof that she didn't. The next time we find Johanna is in <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/did-johanna-meet-up-with-uno-kempff.html">1874, coming back to NYC on a ship from Hull, England with Uno, pretending or actually being his wife</a>.<br />
Since Uno was married to another woman back in Sweden and living with yet another woman and possibly fathering that other woman's child, one wonders about the relationship between Uno and Johanna in 1874. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">The family had heard a rumor in 1871</a>, that Johanna had not only run off to NYC but had also married Uno.<br />
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I have not found Johanna Carolina Hellsten (Johanna, Hannah, Caroline, Carolina) in New York City in 1871, however, I did find her multiple times from 1875-1877 -- advertising her services as a dressmaker.<br />
The first one was in the <i>New York Herald</i> on 31 August 1875:<br />
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In August 1875, she is a "Dressmaker" who can do all kinds of family sewing by the day at a reasonable price, in a couple of weeks (14 Sept.) she is a "Competent Dressmaker," who is available by the day or week at a moderate price, with references. Sounds like she had some practice that first couple of weeks. By 5 December, she is not only competent she can "make old dresses over equal to new."<br />
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By 24 September 1876, she is not only a competent had seamstress, she now advertises her ability to operated any machine. She has also moved to 88 Clinton Street, from 27 Bond, of last year.<br />
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Then, the final listing I find for her as a dressmaker, is 24 April 1877, she is now at<br />
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So, maybe she went home to Sweden after she ran away to New York City for some reason and was never mentioned in any of the many family letters to Eric Helsten (that I had translated and put in the book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/a-ring-and-a-bundle-of-letters/hardcover/product-21298426.html">A Ring and a Bundle of Letters</a>), came<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/did-johanna-meet-up-with-uno-kempff.html"> back to New York with Uno Kempff</a>, and then stayed and worked as a dressmaker.<br />
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In each of these ads, she is Miss J. C. Helsten, or Miss Helsten, not "Mrs. anyone."<br />
Was traveling as Uno's wife, a convenience to get from Europe to New York and not appear to anyone as a single woman, or maybe not?<br />
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She is now called Caroline J Hellsten, 58, single, never had any children.<br />
Go to the next page of the census and you'll find she had Albert F Faberstedt, 45, also from Sweden living there as a boarder. He is listed as married for 20 years, naturalized having came to the USA in 1887. Albert is working as a painter.<br />
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From 1855 to 1922, a woman took the citizenship of her husband, so in order to become a US citizen, Johanna would have had to have married someone who was a citizen (birthright or naturalized).<br />
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[I wrote a blog post about <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/08/fact-checking-can-woman-lose-her-us_23.html">how a woman could lose her US citizenship</a>. Marian L Smith’s wrote two fascinating articles tracing women’s naturalization from 1802 through 1940. These are in <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html">Prologue Magazine.</a> Read the first and click through to the second one.]<br />
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Neither Malin Klangeryd nor I have found anything more about Johanna Carolina Hellsten. No marriages, no deaths. No other census listing, no passages to and from Europe (should be something if "came in 1892"). <br />
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The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/johanna-carolina-hellsten-rest-of-story.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/johanna-carolina-hellsten-rest-of-story.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/uno-kempff-yup-theres-even-more.html">He seems to have another woman</a> other than Johanna Carolina Hellsten in his life besides his wife, and a possible child born out of wedlock (either his or possibly legitimized by his marrying her mother after years of living together).<br />
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A woman named Johanna and that is NOT his wife, Johanna, who is Uno's age.<br />
Both Uno and Johanna's ages are a bit off in this record:<br />
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Our Johanna, born in 1851, should be 23.<br />
What's a few years between friends and before the internet to instantly check!<br />
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This is traveling TO New York City from Hull, England, 3 years after our Johanna ran away to New York City from Connecticut.<br />
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This is the trip where Uno is traveling to New York City to possibly meet up with his friend Anna Charlotta Carlsson.<br />
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We do not have Uno traveling to NYC when he "escaped from Sweden" about 1870 or 71.<br />
We do not have Uno traveling back to Sweden after that.<br />
We DO have him traveling to NYC in 1874 (above).<br />
We do not have Uno and Anna traveling back to Sweden before the 27 March 1875 Household examination for Uno and Anna Charlotta in Stockholm.<br />
We do not have Johanna traveling back to Sweden after she ran away to New York City, only to return with Uno 3 years later.<br />
We do not have any mention in the family letters about Johanna returning to Sweden.<br />
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When searching the records we have looked for Carolina, Caroline, Hannah along with Johanna -- known names that she used. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html?showComment=1433089357137#c3547350081118104969">When she originally came in 1868, she traveled under the name of Caroline Hellsten</a> -- Eric had alerted the folks at Castle Garden that his niece Johanna Carolina was coming, so they notified him when she arrived, even though she left off that first name. When home with her family she often just used Hannah.<br />
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We do have the mention in the <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">letter from Aunt Lovis that the family has heard that Johanna has married Uno</a>.<br />
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Did Johanna Hellsten marry Uno?<br />
She seems to have connected with Uno and traveled with him, but did she marry him?<br />
She wasn't with him back in Sweden when he and Anna Charlotta were living in various places in Stockholm until he died in 1884.<br />
Maybe she pretended to be his wife, for travel purposes!?<br />
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What happened to Johanna, if she didn't go back to Sweden with Uno?<br />
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All the research for these blog posts was done by Malin Klangeryd in Swedish and by myself in English. I'm authoring the blog posts, but Malin is contributing mightily to the research!<br />
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The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/did-johanna-meet-up-with-uno-kempff.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/did-johanna-meet-up-with-uno-kempff.html</a><br />
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-2989060585581854562015-06-19T10:58:00.002-07:002015-06-19T10:59:19.923-07:00Uno Kempff ... Yup There's Even More!Johanna Hellsten's relationship with Uno Kempff was the <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">concern of her family in their letters</a> when she ran away to New York City in 1871.<br />
Malin Klangeryd's research turned up <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/wait-theres-more-about-uno-kempff.html">conviction records</a> and <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">newspaper stories</a> that verified the family concerns about their daughter's friendship with Uno.<br />
At the time Uno was married to Johanna (Sophia) Lovisa Juberg. They had three children who all died young. <br />
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Uno has another woman in his life about the same time that Johanna was heading to New York City -- Anna Charlotta Carlsson.<br />
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Uno leaves for New York on 17 April 1874. We haven't found him on a boat earlier that would have gotten him to NYC in 1871 as indicated in the family letters. There isn't any evidence of Uno traveling with his wife. Anna Charlotta already left for New York on 17 May 1872. So if he was there in 1871, Anna Charlotta might have been on her way to be with Uno.<br />
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Fast forward a couple of years, back in Sweden in the Household Examination (a census taken by the local priest) for 27 March 1875 -18 April 1879:<br />
Anna Charlotta lives on Västerlånggatan 69, City block Ulysses 36, Storkyrkoförsamlingen parish in Stockholm. 13 May 1877 Alma Maria Charlotta (the daugher) is born illegitimate. Father unknown. She becomes legitimate 6 May 1884 [source: Storkyrkoförsamlingen parish, Birth records 1872-1880, SE/SSA/0016/C I a 1/21, page 497]<br />
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Then the Household Examination for 21 April 1879 - 8 June 1880 has Uno Kempff, Anna Charlotta and her daughter Alma Maria living together at Brogatan 25 in Klara parish, Stockholm.<br />
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8 June 1880: Anna Charlotta and daughter moves to Götgatan 24, city block Västergötland 5 in Maria Magdalena.<br />
11 June 1880: Uno Kempff moves to Götgatan 24, city block Västergötland 5 in Maria Magdalena. He is working as shop assistant and later as a bookkeeper.<br />
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7 November 1881: Uno moves to Köpmansgatan 18 in Storkyrkoförsamlingen, Stockholm<br />
10 November 1881: Anna Charlotta with her daughter moves to Köpmansgatan 18 in Storkyrkoförsamlingen, Stockholm.<br />
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6 May 1884, Anna Charlotta married (but it not clear who she actually married) and her daughter is no longer illegitimate. Shortly thereafter, on 29 May 1884 Uno Kempff dies at Köpmanstorget 10 (Street block Europa) in Storkyrkoförsamlingen, Stockholm.<br />
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By 1892, Anna Charlotta and her daughter Alma Maria are each using the last name Kempff.<br />
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So, I guess Johanna wasn't married to Uno as rumor had it.<br />
What was Johanna doing in New York City when she ran away?<br />
What happened to our Johanna?<br />
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There are some more gaps in Johanna's life to fill in.<br />
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©Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
The link to this page is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/uno-kempff-yup-theres-even-more.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/uno-kempff-yup-theres-even-more.html</a><br />
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Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-64717698042798207682015-06-04T18:31:00.000-07:002015-06-04T18:31:49.455-07:00Wait! There’s More about Uno Kempff!Johanna Carolina Hellsten <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-uncle.html">leaves for North America to join her uncle Eric Helsten in April 1868</a>. She might not know anything of her friend Uno Kempff’s history when she departs, they’ve only lived in the same town for a few months, however, <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">in her family’s previous home they were just 3.5 Km apart so maybe they had already met.</a> Once in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, Johanna clearly knows Uno Kempff, as he is corresponding with her in 1869, <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">asking her to find him a job</a> if and when he comes to America from Sweden.<br />
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Malin Klangeryd found not only all of the data for Kempff in <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">“Uno Kempff … Family Scandal or Family Friend?”</a> and our traveler Johanna Carolina Hellsten, but also this revealing Household examination [a record of the Lutheran priest’s visitation with each family in the parish over the years]:</div>
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<i>“By Gefle [Gävle] RR (The Supreme Administrative Court) sentenced for forgery and fraud. Submitted certificate from 10 January 1866 from Långholmen [jail] April 10, 1866. Knut Unio Kempff was by Örebro Hall right 9 January 1868 sentenced for first-degree theft to three months' hard labor and was earlier by Gefle Supreme Administrative Court sentenced to tarnish forever </i>[he lost his honour which meant a reduction in his civil rights]<i>. Appealed by Örebro Supreme Administrative Court”</i></div>
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This is yet another incident — <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">the newspaper coverage was written about an earlier event in 1861</a>!</div>
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Kempff was in trouble a 2nd time, just months before he and Johanna’s family were living in the same town.</div>
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Maybe Uno Kempff is planning to skip town soon when he starts writing Johanna (1868 - 1869), because shortly after contacting her in Gaylordsville, he is in trouble a third time! Sounds like quite the “con artist” at work, as this 23 September 1869 article describes how he conned those who trusted him. </div>
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<i>A nice-nice company. Several years ago, lived in Gevle an merchant named Knut Uno Kempff. for fraud in the trade, he was sentenced to hard labor on Långholmen [a prison]. </i></div>
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<i>While he was serving his sentence, he bought the property Almbro 1 mil from Örebro, and moved after the penalty period had expired there with a miller Sjöberg, a man named Em Paijtsaz and with a other released prisoners. On Almbro he established himself as a miller, but deceived even now his customers. Shortly thereafter, there was a major theft in Örebro, which was followed by that he and his companions, who were missing following the theft, again was sentenced to hard labor. During all this, Kempff had a meeting at Almbro, but sneaked away to Stockholm, where he narrowly escaped arrest. There he devoted himself to House business, resulting in yet a bankruptcy and yet a sentence at Långholmen. After the penalty he escaped to America with a ill-known woman, who he had worked for as a "bookkeeper" for some time. The earlier mentioned miller Sjöberg, who had been involved in the burglary theft in Örebro and also had received a sentence on Långholmen, was freed on July 28 this year [1869], and has again been taken into custody, as defenseless, reappearing in Örebro, after having being arrested for drunkenness, followed by a visitation at his house where there was found a letter from Kempff, whom imposes Sjöberg to take the life of his "good men", treasurer Ekmark and his son and juryman Lars Jonsson at Ökna. Sjöberg had also visited Kempff, but never met him at home. Sjöberg is now volunteering deserted to Carls and borg [prison] and there recruited to emergency work. Before his departure to America, Kempff managed to deceive a gentleman in a House business of 3000 crowns, a down payment as security, why he left some completely useless promissory notes with 16,350 crowns, issued by the aforementioned prison companions. Mr Em-Paijtsaz is still at Långholmen, and Mr Kempff is well in America continuing his path toward the rope"</i></div>
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This might very well be the <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">newspaper article that was shared with Johanna Hellsten by Mrs. Eriksson</a> and upset her uncle Eric so much about Kempff having "escaped from Sweden!"</div>
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So, do we know what ever happened to Johanna? Did she meet up with Uno Kempff as her family feared? Did she marry him as was rumored?</div>
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The link to this blog post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/wait-theres-more-about-uno-kempff.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/06/wait-theres-more-about-uno-kempff.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">Johanna has gone to New York City possibly to be with Uno Kempff.</a></div>
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">Her uncle tried to discourage her, but she left her life as a domestic servant as soon as her agreed upon two years ended. Without even a goodbye, she was gone … gone to New York City.</a></div>
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Johanna's Uncle Eric Helsten</div>
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who paid her way to USA and</div>
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found her work and was upset</div>
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Gaylodsville for New York City.</div>
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So, who was Uno Kempff that the family was so concerned with?</div>
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With the great Swedish research skills of Malin Klangeryd, we know a little something about Kempff and his misdeeds. There are some gaps, but here is what we know about him.</div>
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His full name was Knut Uno Kempff. He was born 8 September 1826 in Örebro. </div>
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He was married 27 October 1854 to Johanna Lovisa Juberg (sometimes called Sophia Lovisa) (born 10 March 1827 in Saint Lars parish, Linköping county). They had three children who each died at a young age:</div>
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1. Anders Gustaf Uno (born 9 June 1855 in Nyköping – died 31 March of croup in Almbro, Gällersta)</div>
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2. Knut Frithiof (born 13 December 1856 in Vaksala – died 17 April 1863 of scarlet fever in Almbro, Gällersta)</div>
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3. Unus Alfred Louis (born 12 January 1861 in Gällersta parish – died 4 April 1863 of scarlet fever on Almbro, Gällersta).</div>
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Uno Kempff and his wife Sofia (Johanna) Lovisa Juberg are twenty-five years older than our Johanna Caroline Hellsten — they are old enough to be her parents!</div>
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How did they meet? Did they know each other in Sweden?</div>
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Malin has constructed a timeline of what she knows about Uno Kempff’s whereabouts from various official records:</div>
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• 1826 born in Örebro</div>
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• 1854-1855, living lat first city block farm nr 66-68 in Nyköping’s west parish. Uno works as a merchant. </div>
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• 1854 Uno married Johanna/Sofia Lovisa Juberg</div>
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• 1855, son born in Nyköping</div>
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• 1856, son born in Vaksala</div>
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• 1860: living in Vaksala parish</div>
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• 1861, son born in Gällersta</div>
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• 1860-21 May1869: living in Almbro (Gällersta parish, Örebro County)</div>
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• 21 May 1869 – in Stockholm</div>
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• 17 April 1874-: departure from Göteborg to Hull, England on the ship Orlando. Destination New York</div>
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• 1880 -1882: living Västergötland 5 i Maria Magdalena parish in Stockholm, working as shop assistant. Living alone </div>
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• 12 August 1882: Departure to America through Hull, England</div>
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There is a gap here in the above timeline from 1869 to 1874 when Uno Kempff leaves for New York City. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html">The family was worried that he was already in New York City.</a> </div>
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… and Johanna Hellsten's timeline while growing up with her parents:</div>
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• 1851, born in Nikolai parish, Örebro</div>
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• 1856 – 15 June 1863: living at plot no. 100 (Örebro, North Nikolai parish)</div>
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• 15 June 1863 – 15 November 1867: living at Norra Bro 6 (Gällersta parish)</div>
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• 15 November 1867 – 27 March 1868: living at Almbro (Gällersta parish)</div>
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• 22 April 1868, Johanna arrives in New York.</div>
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Johanna officially moves 3.5 Km with her family to Almbro (Gällersta parish, Örebro County) on 15 November 1867, <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html">the day after she returned her travel document allowing her to go to North America. </a> She first got <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-uncle.html">her travel paperwork a week before and had the travel money from Uncle Eric already there being held by aunt Lovis.</a> </div>
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Already living in Almbro when the Hellsten family arrived, was Uno Kempff and his wife. It was close enough that the families might have known each other already. Her family ran a general store before her father went bankrupt, maybe Kempff's family had been customers.</div>
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Was her abrupt delay of travel because she had met Kempff when her family planned their move? <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html">Was Kempff going to be the spring traveling companion she would have that her father Carl mentioned in his letter of February 1868?</a> I’m not sure we’ll ever know the answer to that question. </div>
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Malin Klangeryd found this 1861 local newspaper coverage:</div>
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<i>"Severe sentence. Norrlands-Posten [Norrlands newspaper] from Gefle [Gävle] says: grain traider Uno Kempff, which prosecution by the court last year, for deceit and fraud in trade, aroused great attention, and whom by the Municipal Court was sentenced to compensate claimants and witnesses, and to one and a half years in prison, has recently got his sentence by the Court of Appeal; the verdict is not less than four months in prison - a true warning for those who feel tempted to walk in Kempff's footsteps”</i></div>
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• 1861, a stay in prison at hard labor and also financial restitution for his deceit and fraud in trade as a grain trader.</div>
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Our Johanna Hellsten would NOT have been in the same town as Kempff was when he got caught using deceit and fraud with his grain clients. Besides, she would have been a young child at that time. Her parents might not even have known what Kempff's 1861 history of what was probably a friendly neighbor or businessman. </div>
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The link to this blog is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/uno-kempff-family-scandal-or-family.html</a></div>
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Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-15322845922298629862015-05-26T07:37:00.001-07:002015-05-30T07:51:10.943-07:00Living up to Expectations … or Not!Imagine a young woman in Sweden in 1867. Her parents say they can’t keep all four kids because of reduced circumstances. It was not unusual for her younger siblings to be living with various Hellsten aunts and uncles from time to time when life got tough.<br />
Her father ran a store and a brewery before he went bankrupt. As the oldest child, clearly she worked in the family businesses when she says she was “used to brewing, commerce, and rough work.”<br />
She is 17, the oldest, and decides to take charge of her life. <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-uncle.html">She writes her “rich” uncle in “employer America”</a> where “no one finds fault with one’s honest work” to loan her the money to go there where, as her father says, “hard work and frugality is a way to blessing.”<br />
She is an adult in her mind, independent. <br />
"America here I come!”<br />
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<a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html">Johanna goes to Gaylordsville, where her uncle lives</a>. A rural town, about 85 miles from New York City.<br />
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Fast forward 2 years.<br />
Johanna isn’t satisfied with the life of a domestic servant.<br />
Uncle Eric tries to advise her, but she “just won’t listen.”<br />
Just like a 20-year-old today who thinks she knows everything and won’t listen to her parents, she is not listening to the advice of her uncle who probably feels obligated to act like a parent for his young niece.<br />
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Our first hint of a problem was a draft of a letter that Eric wrote to his sister Lovis back in Sweden.<br />
Eric didn’t leave drafts of his letters along with the letters that he saved from his siblings and mother that I used to put together my book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/erica-dakin-voolich/a-ring-and-a-bundle-of-letters/hardcover/product-21298426.html">A Ring and a Bundle of Letters</a>. It would have been wonderful to have his letters with his news and responses to his mother and siblings, but only this one survived.<br />
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<i>Dear Sister Lovis,</i><br />
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<i>I'm taking this moment to write to you to let you know that I am well and that all of mine have the health, and that we all wish you a good new year.</i><br />
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<i>Nothing has changed with us here except that Johanna has left the place where she has been for two years. But where she is now I do not know. When her time was up the 13th of Dec. she went to New York unexpectedly to me. She told Mrs Bostwick that I had found her a position in a factory in Danbury (a town 16 Engl. miles from here) which was a lie, and from others I heard later that she had told them different places that she was moving to. The 8th of Dec. she told me, when I saw her the last time, that there were several good positions where they would like to have her and that she would stay with the Bostwicks 2 or 3 weeks after her time was up.</i><br />
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<i>The reason why she left her position in this manner I do not know. I went to the Bostwicks later, after I heard that she was not longer there. Mrs Bostwick told me that she liked Hanna very much the first year, but the second year she did not like her as well, as she had made so many acquaintances with the other girls there. </i><br />
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<i>Hannah had received a letter from a Mr. Kemf in the first year that she was with the Bostwicks. The first letter that he wrote to her came to me in an envelope. I mailed it to Hannah, and he wanted Hannah to find him a job where she was. But I told Hannah to write to him and tell him that there was no position for him, which she did. Later I heard that he had written to her and she to him. And then I was allowed to read a letter from you to Hannah about him, and at the same time a piece that was cut from a newspaper that had been sent to Mrs. Ericson (I think that was the name) that she had company with her from Sweden, she sent the clippings to Hannah -- I read this at the Bostwicks about his deeds, and more. I admonished her in their presence not to write to Kemf any more, I said that if she wanted to have anything written to him, then I would like to write for her to let him know that we know everything about him. Later Mr. Bostwick told me that they had told Hannah to send him the piece from the newspaper about his deeds and his portrait which she had, she said that she had some so, and she told me that she had done so, which pleased me. If she later had a letter from him, or he from her, I do not know. </i><br />
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<i>Last February Hannah had earned almost 300 dollars since she came to America, but she had not saved any money, she liked pretty clothes, more expensive than she needed. I talked to her about that several times. About 2 months before she left she bought a large trunk, which cost about 7 dollars, which she has filled with her clothes. I do hope she won't lose it when she came to New York and also doesn't lose herself, this has worried me right much since there are all sorts of people in such a city. She had paid me 40 dollars the 9th of July 1870, that is all that she has paid me. --- when Mr. Bostwick had paid her 17 dollars that remained of her yearly pay, Mrs Bostwick's mother gave her 5 dollars as a present. I expect that this is all she had. It was not much to go to New York with. But there is nothing to hinder her to do well if she wants to, it depends only on her, whether she does well or badly. </i><br />
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<i>There was a girl who lived on the next farm that she was acquainted with, who moved back to New York, maybe Hanna had agreed with her to meet her in New York and she did not want me to know about it. She probably knew I would not like it. I hope that she will write to me, if she does not write I will not know what to think. </i><br />
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<i>If you should receive a letter from her so write to me so that I can write to her. Let me know what Mrs. Ericson's address is if you can find out, maybe she will go there when she has some money. I thought it best to write to you to let you know how it is, maybe we will find her out. Maybe it is better not to let her know I wrote you about her, but you can do as you like about that.</i><br />
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<i>I remain your brother Eric</i><br />
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Almost 7 months later, Lovis replies to Eric’s concerns about Johanna, 29 July 1871:<br />
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<i>Pålsboda .. Svennevad 29 July 1871</i><br />
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<i>Dear Brother Eric,</i><br />
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<i>Thank you for your letter, I should have answered it a long time ago. It was sad to hear that Hannah could behave in such a bad manner especially towards you who has been so good to her. We informed her parents as soon as I got your letter. As I didn’t know Mrs. Ericksson or her relatives, I heard later from Kalle that he had answered you as he had promised me and left Mrs. Ericksson’s and Mr Kempfs’ address. </i><br />
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<i>Mr Uno Kempff</i><br />
<i>Nort America</i><br />
<i>Care of Kapten Jåsen</i><br />
<i>New York</i><br />
<i>No 2 Borsling grem </i>[maybe Bowling Green]<br />
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<i>Lansing.</i><br />
<i>Allamaka County</i><br />
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<i>Nort America</i><br />
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Johanna, age 20, has been rebelling this past year.<br />
Her practical-minded uncle, didn’t want her spending money on fancy clothes; but she did so anyway.<br />
She borrowed money for her passage from her uncle, but she didn’t repay him most of it.<br />
Johanna has run off to New York City without even saying goodbye to the family and lying about where she was going! <br />
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She’s been corresponding with a man, Uno Kempff, that she might have married once she got to New York!<br />
A Swedish family friend, Mrs Eriksson in New York City tried to warn Johanna about Uno Kempff.<br />
Uncle Eric tried to discourage her, practically forbid, this relationship after learning about this Swede — described in Swedish paper for his misdeeds. <br />
Kempff “escaped from Sweden” <br />
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What did Kempff do that resulted in his need to escape?<br />
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Unfortunately the newspaper clippings didn’t get saved with all the letters!<br />
Remember, they were shown and given to Johanna to convince her of Kempff’s misdeeds!<br />
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For years, this is where the story ended, for me. I couldn’t find any information about Kempff. Then last November I received an email from a distant Swedish cousin, Malin Klangeryd, who is also descended from Eric Helsten’s parents, Eric Hellsten (1786-1839) and Lovisa Charlotta Robert (1795-1863). She was also researching this Hellsten family. Ironically, she is descended from Eric’s sister Erica. <br />
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Malin Klangeryd lives in Sweden and knows how to search the archives. She has found our mystery man, Uno Kempff.<br />
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©2015, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
The link to this page is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/living-up-to-expectations-or-not.html</a>Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-19222553636896692312015-05-22T09:15:00.000-07:002015-05-22T09:16:44.773-07:00Off to America, thank you dear uncle….Johanna Carolina Hellsten was planning on traveling to USA and applied for a departure certificate from Sweden on 7 November 1867, right after her Uncle Manne Helsten said he would send the funds from <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-uncle.html">her Uncle Eric to her Aunt Lovis when she was ready to travel</a>. She then decided to delay her departure and returned her travel papers a week later, on 14 November.<br />
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By early November, the days are getting shorter as winter is approaching in Sweden and maybe Johanna thought that traveling in the spring might be a better idea.<br />
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Meanwhile, Uncle Eric is still awaiting Hannah’s (Johanna) arrival - he writes on 23 December 1867 to Carl and Hannah, it takes this letter at least a month to arrive in Sweden. Then Carl writes back 3 weeks later saying that Hannah has delayed her trip. Eric is patiently waiting in America for his niece, wondering where she is, maybe even concerned since he hasn't heard after getting the travel funds to her. By the time Eric would find out her changed travel plans, it is probably close to March — about the time for her to actually come!<br />
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<i>Örebro </i><br />
<i>14 Feb. 1868</i><br />
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<i>My dear brother Eric</i><br />
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<i>I received your letter dated 23 Dec 3 weeks ago in which I find you are awaiting Hannah’s arrival. We received the money from Uppsala last fall. But since it was so late in the year they were sent back to Upsala again and the trip was started in the spring. Wherefore she has decided to leave the coming April from Götteborg because she will then have travel company. So God willing she will be in New York in 12 or 14 days. If the trip will be somewhat postponed I will write you about it.</i><br />
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<i>My dear brother, we will probably not see each other in this time [on earth] but how do you stand with God as well as your wife and children? Please write to me about it. Don’t forget to because it would be nice to know if we will meet up there in heaven. Then we will see God and the lamb in the full glory. It will be a blessed switch to be with an eternal glorious transfigured body there be allowed to see God face to face together with his holy angels and the blessed inhabitants of heaven. That eternally be allowed to thank, praise and say his name that brought us here with his blood. It will be blessed and glorified and precious there where the Lord God himself is.</i><br />
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<i>Here in our Sweden the wind of the holy ghost has blown in all the counties so that many sinners have listened to the call and fled to the Lord Jesus. But among our relatives has it unfortunately not been received. Only sister Marie has some inclination but she has not at all come to peace. My wife and children and all the others seem to be dead in transgressions and sins. Now you have heard dear brother how we have it in this most important matter; therefore please pray to the dear God for us if you know Him the Christ reconciled Father -- because it is written in the Bible word in many places in John 16:24 it says “ask ye shall receive and your joy shall be full.”</i><br />
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<i>Greetings to your wife and children from us all.</i><br />
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<i>You devoted brother Carl</i><br />
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Not sure who her traveling company was, but Caroline Hellsten is listed on a passenger list arriving in New York City on 22 April 1868. <br />
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Notice her father Carl wrote of a 12 or 14 day trip. The transatlantic sailing trips when Eric came in 1845 and his wife Mary in 1848, took about 43 days. The addition of steam ships definitely made the trip much faster, and most likely, safer.<br />
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Spring 1868, Eric was waiting for her Hannah. He contacted the immigration folks alerting them of her pending arrival.<br />
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<i>Office of the Commissioners of Emigration.</i><br />
<i>Castle Garden, New York, April 22nd, 1868</i><br />
<i> 5 oclock P.M.</i><br />
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<i>E.A.Helsten Esq</i><br />
<i> Sir</i><br />
<i> In answer to your letter </i><br />
<i>I respectfully inform you that your</i><br />
<i>niece Johanna C. Helsten arrived this</i><br />
<i>Evening pm Steamer Minnesota from</i><br />
<i>Liverpool we shall detain her here </i><br />
<i>until you come or send for her</i><br />
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<i> Respectfuly ce</i><br />
<i> Bernard Casserly</i><br />
<i> Gen. Agent & superintendent</i><br />
<i> Per T.m.d</i><br />
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You might recall that Hannah had written her uncle:<br />
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<i>I, as a big, strong, healthy seventeen year old girl, used to brewing, commerce, and rough work and who longs for work in an unknown country where no one finds fault with one’s honest work or despises the virtuous for his poverty.</i><br />
<i>This in addition to the fact that many of my acquaintances have already left for, the employer America, which is why I, too, this fall intend to go there, if some noble person would help me with travel money and good advice at the arrival.</i><br />
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<i>Since I have heard that Uncle is rich and happy in the country to which many long to go, I now set my hopes and prayers to Uncle for a kind answer to:</i><br />
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<i>Could my dear Uncle please be so kind as to via a postal order to Upsala or a letter give, or, if need be, loan me 200 Kr for travel money?</i><br />
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<i>Could my Uncle have use for, or know somebody, me as hired help for anything?</i><br />
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<i>Could Uncle extend a helping and protecting hand to me at my arrival and until I have a position?</i><br />
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<i>Does Uncle believe that a poor, but swift and untiring, girl can in an honest way earn a meager living through the work of her hands? </i><br />
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Well, dear uncle has provided passage to America as requested.<br />
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Dear uncle has “extended a protecting hand” upon her arrival.<br />
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Does dear uncle find a job for her?<br />
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Lovis writes to Eric, 19 December 1868:<br />
<i>Thousands of thank yous for your dear letter that we received on May 19 and all goodness you proved Hannah in many different ways. I would be a joy if Hannah always remembered this and is thankful towards you. The gold ring was lost was sad they have not found it[.] ... My man with me joins in hearty greetings to you yours and Hannah</i><br />
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Sounds like Eric provided not only for transportation all the way to Gaylordsville, Connecticut from Örebro, Sweden but also helped her find a job nearby.<br />
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Hannah goes to work for the Bostwick family in New Milford. Gaylordsville is part of New Milford, so it could be a couple miles away or next door. <br />
In the 1870 US Census for New Milford, “Johanna Helston" age 20 is listed as a domestic servant.<br />
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This might not have been the kind of work that she was used to at home when she described herself as “used to brewing, commerce, and rough work.”<br />
She probably has plenty of opportunity to "earn a meager living thru the work of her hands" working as a domestic servant. She has agreed to work for the Bostwicks for two years.<br />
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So, did Johanna live happily ever after in America as she dreamed?<br />
Stay tuned!<br />
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©2015, Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
The link to this post is <a href="http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html">http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com/2015/05/off-to-america-thank-you-dear-uncle.html</a><br />
<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225103411139373556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937408984948526826.post-48967865414617978892015-05-21T10:58:00.001-07:002015-05-21T11:09:15.984-07:00Dear Uncle!Eric Adolf Helsten immigrated to the United States in 1845. He married Mary Hearty, an Irish immigrant, in 1849. They worked hard and raised a family in Gaylordsville Connecticut. None of his dozen siblings followed him, however, he kept in touch with letters that were shared back home between his mother and siblings. One can only imagine how life in the the USA must have looked from afar to the children of a brother who was not doing very well back in Sweden.<br />
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Eric’s niece Johanna Carolina Hellsten decides to write to her uncle, appealing for funds to travel:<br />
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<i>Sweden, Mosås and Södrabro</i><br />
<i>24 May 1867</i><br />
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<i>Good Day, beloved Uncle!</i><br />
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<i>Please be so good as to pardon me that I, as the daughter of Uncle’s Brother Carl, with this our taking the liberty to write these lines, which my father does not have time to do, to divulge my heartfelt wish and to beg for an affectionate and happy answer to the questions below, that for me are extremely important and have bearing on my future.</i><br />
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<i>As my dear Father this last year has ceased his work as a brewer and country shop owner and now lives in reduced circumstances and therefore can not afford to keep all four of us children at home, I, as a big, strong, healthy seventeen year old girl, used to brewing, commerce, and rough work and who longs for work in an unknown country where no one finds fault with one’s honest work or despises the virtuous for his poverty.</i><br />
<i>This in addition to the fact that many of my acquaintances have already left for, the employer America, which is why I, too, this fall intend to go there, if some noble person would help me with travel money and good advice at the arrival.</i><br />
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<i>Since I have heard that Uncle is rich and happy in the country to which many long to go, I now set my hopes and prayers to Uncle for a kind answer to:</i><br />
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<i>Could my dear Uncle please be so kind as to via a postal order to Upsala or a letter give, or, if need be, loan me 200 Kr for travel money?</i><br />
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<i>Could my Uncle have use for, or know somebody, me as hired help for anything?</i><br />
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<i>Could Uncle extend a helping and protecting hand to me at my arrival and until I have a position?</i><br />
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<i> Does Uncle believe that a poor, but swift and untiring, girl can in an honest way earn a meager living through the work of her hands?</i><br />
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<i>Please be so kind and make me happy with a longed for answer mailed to my or my father’s address “Sweden Mosås and Södrabo”, which will decide my future fate, because if I receipt travel money and good advice, I plan to leave this fall.</i><br />
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<i>My parents are, thank the Lord, in good health despite all their trouble and ask to send their heartfelt greetings in this letter, and also with loving thoughts for my future give me permission to leave.</i><br />
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<i>In sincere hopes of Uncle’s loving kindness to me, with much respect, the grateful niece now persists.</i><br />
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<i>Johanna Carolina Hellsten</i><br />
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Such a heartfelt appeal. It turns out it came along with a letter from her father, Carl Robert Hellsten (Karl, Calle). He confirms their desperate situation and appeals for both of them to come to the USA.<br />
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<i>Örebro and Yellersta </i><br />
<i>26 May 1867</i><br />
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<i>Brother Eric</i><br />
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<i>It is many years since we last exchanged letters and many things have happened since then. You know from my last letter that I was thinking of going to America. Now this trip has again come to my mind and even my oldest daughter Johanna wishes to do the same trip. Wherefore she here encloses her letter to you. </i><br />
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<i>It is our wish since we hear many tempting letters from America from the ones how have gone there. I do know that everybody is not lucky in America but that hard work and frugality is a way to blessing. But here in Sweden it is a dishonor to work because vanity has taken over. I have now been on my own for eighteen years and during this time made myself know to be frugal, sober and to work hard but this is not enough here. Under this time of 18 years, I have had a general store and during the last 10 years also had a brewery but in spite of all this I had to declare bankruptcy last fall and during this last winter have started to do cork cutting. But loss in circumstances are such her that it is not worth it for the poor to try since [if] he has [declared] bankruptcy [and] if he manages to work, everything up again he loses whatever he inherits or earns without mercy. What then do you have for all the work you do? </i><br />
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<i>In the enticing letters I have read from America they testify to the one who wants to work there does not need to starve. I think I know that all who go to America do not have luck there but it is even so an advantage that you do not have to be ashamed over earning a living in an honest manner. If my information about America is not complete, I ask you to inform me about this but judging from the information I have received, America has big preferences for Swedes. Why should one then bind oneself then to this meager country? </i><br />
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<i>Some of my neighbors have now gone to America and others plan to but we don’t have the money to go. Please give us a complete information as possible and if you consider it reasonable for us to try to work in America and then help us both with the money that you have here in Sweden to lend us as travel money to America. Our brother Theodor Emanuel in Upsala has them. We want to work off the money when we come to you. This is the only security I can give you if you would be kind enough to help me us.</i><br />
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<i>Write an answer soon and help us if you find you would like to do so. Let me also know if brewing beer is profitable in America and also if cork cutting is profitable. If the trip there happens, I would prefer to work in a brewery or, if that’s not possible, in another kind of factory. I assume that you have some Swedish acquaintances in New York that you could be kind enough to address us to when we arrive.</i><br />
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<i>Now dear brother I have written about all that concerns the trip to America. We can have much to write about but it is much better to be able to have a real conversation about it. I will also mention that all of us siblings are alive and as far as I know everyone is in good health. </i><br />
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<i>Lovis is married to a shop owner 20 Km from here whose name is A Nelzon. Mari is close to Stockholm, Lina is in Upland and not far from Upsala Erica and Wennström are well. Tilda is in Stockholm. Ottiljana is in Upsala with our maternal aunt. Now as before, Edla is a manager (director) at the Upsala Hospital. Manne is a watchmaker in Upsala. Frans is a goldsmith in Upsala Oskar is a watchmaker in Stockholm. Knut is a teacher in the big school in Upsala. Everyone has it well except for me and Oskar. Oskar declared bankruptcy the same time I did and now I don’t know how he has it.</i><br />
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<i>I hereby end this letter for this time with a kind greeting for yours from us.</i><br />
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<i>Your brother, Carl</i><br />
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Such heartfelt appeals to Eric, uncle and brother in the USA who must have wealth and success from his hard work, doesn’t everyone?<br />
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Does Eric send the requested funds as his niece suggested and bring over his niece and brother?<br />
Or, does Eric let then use the funds that their brother Manne is holding for Eric in Uppsala?<br />
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Erica does write in pencil on the bottom of Carl’s letter “From L there are two steamers leaving or more every week.” He checks out the costs and availabilities for travel. Travel is much better in 1867 than when he and his wife came in steerage in the equivalent of the “coffin ships” — no steamers for their earlier, much longer, trips. The travel across the Atlantic Ocean has improved in the last couple of decades.<br />
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The letter beloe from his brother Manne (Theodor Emanual Hellsten) indicates Eric’s decision and the means of funding the trip, instead of just sending the suggested 200 Kr each to cover the trips.<br />
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<i>Upsala 29 October 1867</i><br />
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<i>Best Brother Eric!</i><br />
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<i>From our heart I wish your daughter and son-in-law happiness and blessings. We’d also like to thank you for the pictures that you sent us. As you promised in a letter to our brother Carl that he or his oldest daughter Hanna could borrow your inheritance from our parents to pay for the trip to America and Hanna decided to go, I have now sent the money to Lovis, she is married and living in the neighborhood of Örebro as you probably know with a request to her that she give the money to Hanna when she is ready to travel. The reason why the sum of money isn’t bigger can be explained by the following statements. While our mother was alive, she lent Calle 700 crowns which including interest 6% counted up to the day of dividing up the estate 3 November 1864 adds up to 77 crowns 37 öre which sum he has not been able to pay back. When you subtract from this sum his inheritance he still owed each and everyone of his siblings 36 crowns, 45 öre. About a year ago he had to go bankrupt without any assets. At the time of the partition of the inheritance, we siblings did decide to send you at some time a gold ring that belonged to mother and she used and also a teaspoon since we wanted you to have a tangible memory from our parents’ home. These things I will send to Lovis at the same time as the money and ask her to give them to Hanna to bring to you after a safe trip. I now have to end these lines with many loving greetings from all of us to you and yours.</i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Your brother Manne</i><br />
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<i>My wife sends many greetings to you and promises to write at another time.</i><br />
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So Eric will fund <u>one</u> of his two family members to travel at this time. <br />
His mother Lovisa Charlotta Robert Hellsten died in 1863. There was a small estate which brother Manne was the executor. Eric’s share has been held in Uppsala and managed by Manne. BUT, the funds are not as large as Eric expected because there was a debt: brother Calle had borrowed 700 Kr from their dear departed mother and never repaid her and now that debt is shared equally among the other 12 siblings. <br />
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Manne has forwarded the travel funds to their sister Lovis in Örebro who lives near Calle and Johanna and Lovis will give the money to Hannah (Johanna) when she is ready to travel. He did not forward the funds directly to his bankrupt brother.<br />
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Eric’s sister Otillia writes him on 29 October 1867:<br />
<i>Hanna who has the courage to travel to America[,] yes god[,] let her happily and well arrive there</i><br />
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This letter from Manne was written to Eric at the end of October 1867.<br />
So, did Johanna immediately leave for the USA in the fall of 1867? <br />
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Maybe waiting till spring might make for a more pleasant transatlantic crossing.<br />
Stay tuned.<br />
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©2015 Erica Dakin Voolich<br />
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