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Theodore Zhivkovitch
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Theodore Zhivkovitch (1878-unknown)
Theodore Zhivkovitch was born on 15 October 1878 in Yugoslavia, and he grew up speaking Serbian.
He studied at the University of Vienna and then completed his PhD at Sarbonne of Paris.
He immigrated to the United States of America, in 1906, and eventually settled in Chicago, IL.
Theodore became the American correspondent for Serbian, Croatian, Russian and Slovak newspapers. He also wrote in American newspapers highlighting the Slavic point of view, in regards to the Balkan issues during WWI. On 31 October 1915, he published an article, titled The Balkans in the Chicago Tribune. The article can be read online here.
On 7 June 1918, Theodore Zhivkovitch married Marie Wychodilova, who had immigrated to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia in 1903. They were married at Lake County, Indiana. Their only daughter, Olga, was born three months later, on 23 September 1918.
Eleven days before his daughter's birth, Theodore registered for World War I. On the document he is described as tall, medium build, with brown eyes and black hair. His occupation is listed as Foreign Managers Department for the Elgin Motor Car Company.
By 1924, as a result of the recession, the Company went bankrupt. As for the War, it ended only a few months after Theodore was registered. There has been no indication found that he ever served, he would have been just shy of turning 40, when he signed up for the war.
In the 1930 Census, Theodore, Marie and Olga (age 11) were living on Woodlawn Avenue, in Chicago. Theodore's occupation was listed as salesman. Ten years later, according to the 1940 Census, the family were still living on Woodlawn Avenue and Theodore was working privately in social services. In fact, on Theodore's WWI registration papers in 1918, his address is listed as 6143 Woodland Avenue, Chicago, IL, and as late as 1946, the family were still there; according to an Olga related Passenger List. For around 28 years, they remained in the same residence.
In the early 1940's, Theodore also registered for WWII. Again, Theodore's occupation takes a radical change. He is working for Dr. I.V. Sollins, and the Chicago Venereal Disease Program, at 54 West Hubbard Street in Chicago.
Alongside his many and varied occupations, Theodore was also a prominent leader of the New Slav Movement of Chicago.
Theodore's daughter, Olga, attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Later in life, she was employed in the Displaced Persons department of the Unitarian Service Committee, working in Greece and the Middle East.
UPEI's Provenance copy of Recollections of a Foreign Minister (Memoirs of Alexander Iswolsky), translated by Charles Louis Seeger, includes the signature T. Zhivkovitch. This signature matches Theodore's signature on his WWI & WWII Registration Cards.
Other books housed in the UPEI Provenance Collection, and signed by Theodore Zhivkovitch:
Halévy, Élie. A History of the English People, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1926.
Sources:
1930 United States Federal Census Year: 1930; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: 423; Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 0226; Image: 626.0; FHL microfilm: 2340158
1940 United States Federal Census Year: 1940; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T627_931; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 103-335
Glasscock, Jean. Wellesley College, 1875-1975: A Century of Women, Wellesley: Wellesley College, 1975. p.418.
Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 002414695, page 308.
New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957. Year: 1946; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 7206; Line: 1; Page Number: 326
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Year: 1935. Name: Olga Zhivkovitch. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Registration State: Illinois; Registration County: Cook; Roll: 1493509; Draft Board: 16
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942. The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; State Headquarters: Illinois; Microfilm Series: M2097; Microfilm Roll: 325
Zhivkovitch, Theodore. “The Balkans", The Chicago Tribune, 31 October 1915, pg.5. Accessed 10 May 2016., Marie Wychodilova, Olga Marie Zhivkovitch
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Thomas A. Williams
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Thomas A. Williams (1910-1981)
Thomas Alexander Williams was born 9 August 1910, to parents Jeremiah “Jerry” Philpott Williams and Joanne “Joan” Elizabeth MacPhail. Jerry and Joan lived in Point Tupper, Richmond County, Nova Scotia with their 8 children: Thomas Alexander, Angus McPhail (1912-1968), Muriel Catherine (1913-1995), James Steven “Morrow” (1915-1986), Edmund Shires (1917-2004), John Robert (1921-2008), Jeremiah Philpott (Jr.) (1919-1942), and George Henry (1923-1995).
During World War Two, five of the Williams sons were serving, Thomas: Canadian Artillery Forces; Morrow; Edmund: Royal Canadian Air Forces; Jeremiah Jr.; and George: Flight Sergeant. You can view the five brother's photos from Point Tupper War Memorial. “We Will Remember” War Monuments in Canada, under World War II.
Thomas would go on to graduate from Mount Allison University with a B.A. and an Engineering certificate.
In 1942, Thomas’ younger brother, Jeremiah Jr., passed away from Pulmonary Fibrosis; he was 23 years old.
In the later 1940s, Thomas would attend and graduate from Law School at Dalhousie University. His Dalhousie graduation yearbook biography, from 1948, states: “Teaching the three “R’s” after having learned them ; “some time” in the Permanent Force: B.A. and Engineering Certificate from Mount A,: two years with N.S. Dept. of Highways: “several” years in Northern Ontario mines; World War II and five years in Europe: Pacific Volunteer in 1945. Tom was side-tracked into Law when the latter zone of operations was atomized. His extensive experience will be an excellent combination with LL.B. for success.”
It would seem Thomas’s time in the Pacific and witnessing an atomized attack, lead him to leave the military and become a lawyer.
After graduation, Thomas was articled to L.W. Rudson in Port Hawkesbury. Thomas would become a solicitor for Richmond County, Port Hawkesbury and Mulgrave. He would also became the Crown Prosecutor for Richmond County.
In 1977, a war memorial was constructed in Point Tupper for veterans. Thomas would become a trustee and his niece, Angus’s daughter, Yvonne would donate land for it, “A donation of land was received from Mrs. Yvonne Williams Doyle, niece of trustee, Thomas Williams. The land in question had been the site of a store owned for many years by the late Angus Williams, father of Yvonne. This land was situated at the corner of Paint and Tupper Streets, facing the main road.” (Point Tupper War Memorial).
On Sunday, 12 July 1981, Thomas Alexander Williams, Q.C. died in his home at age 71. He was placed in Southbrook Cemetery, Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia.
The UPEI Provenance Collection's copy of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott, has a bookplate stating it was presented to St. Peter's High School St. Peter's, N.S. by Thomas A. Williams, Point Tupper, N.S. Thomas also signed the book, “Thomas A. Williams".
Sources:
1911 Census of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2007. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1911/Pages/about-census.aspx. Series RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels T-20326 to T-20460.
1921 Census of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2013. Series RG31. Statistics Canada Fonds.
Vital Statistics Division of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, compiler. "Birth Registrations: 1864-1877." Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics. Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. (https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/Births.aspx)
Vital Statistics Division of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, compiler. "Delayed Birth Registrations: 1836-1907." Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics. Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. (https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/Births.aspx)
Vital Statistics Division of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, compiler. "Birth Registrations: 1836-1907, 1908-1910." Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics. Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. (https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/Births.aspx)
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
MacDonald, J. (2000). T.A. Williams, Q.C. NS-Cape-Breton-L Archives. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
Point Tupper War Memorial. “We Will Remember” War Monuments in Canada. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
Pharos: Dalhousie University Yearbook 1948. Item MS-1-Ref, Box 196. Archives Catalogue and Online Collections. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935–1980. R1003-6-3-E (RG113-B). Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935–1980. R1003-6-3-E (RG113-B). Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Jeremiah Philpot Williams, died 1942 in Kentville, Kings County. Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
Photo:
From Point Tupper War Memorial. “We Will Remember” War Monuments in Canada., Joanne “Joan" Elizabeth MacPhail, Jeremiah “Jerry" Philpott Williams
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Thomas Foley
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Dr. Thomas Brinsley Foley (1878-1931)
Thomas Brinsley Foley was born 27 February 1878 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island to Margaret O’Holleran and Thomas Foley. He was baptised the day after his birth in St. Dunstan’s, Roman Catholic, Basilica in Charlottetown.
Thomas Jr. had at least two other siblings: Josephine (1875) and Mary Ethel (1880). Thomas’ mother died in 1890 when Thomas was twelve years old. It appears that his sister Josephine died sometime around the same time as she cannot be found in any records after the 1881 Canadian Census.
Thomas received his early education in Queen Square school in Charlottetown.
From 1895-96, he attended Saint Dunstan’s University, Charlottetown, where he was regarded as an excellent and prominent football player.
After graduation, Thomas attended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario where he received his MD in 1903.
Thomas continued his education overseas in England and Ireland, and upon completion he went to Australia as a Ship Doctor with two other physicians, Dr. McKinnon and Dr. Bayfield. During his time as a ship doctor, Dr. Foley would also serve in South Africa and other British colonies.
After Thomas’ journeys, he returned to Charlottetown for a brief visit and then went to Boston, Massachusetts, to practice his profession. According to his Declaration of Intention to become a U.S. citizen (Naturalization), Thomas arrived in Boston in October 1906 from St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The 1910 United States Census has Thomas living as a boarder under James and Mary Ruane with fourteen other people in their home at 752 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1912, Thomas returned to Prince Edward Island for a short visit, travelling aboard the S.S.A.W. Perry from Boston.
According to his Declaration of Intention and his World War I Draft Registration Card, Dr. Foley’s appearance is described as fair complexion, five foot ten inches, brown hair and blue eyes and stout.
In the 1930 United States Census, Dr. Foley was living in Boston with his housekeeper Minnie. That same year, Thomas Foley fell ill but continued to work. The illness lead to his death on 12 November 1931.
An interesting medical story associated with Dr. Foley is described in his obituary in The Guardian on 13 November 1931:
[Dr. Thomas Foley] then went to Boston where he practised his profession with marked success and it was Dr. Foley who was credited some years ago of discovering a case of leprosy in that city.
In 1933, two years after his death, a $200,000 breach of agreement suit was filed against Dr. Foley’s estate. Catherine McCloskey Goodwin of Boston claimed that Thomas had agreed to marry her. She argued that Thomas had postponed the marriage due to ‘business conditions’ and promised to pay her $100,000 if she would not sue him for doing so.
As Mrs. Goodwin had not been paid $100,000 before his death, nor was she mentioned in his will, she felt that she had substantial cause to sue his estate for what was, in her opinion, rightfully hers. We have been unable to ascertain whether Mrs. Goodwin won her suit or not.
One thing that Foley did leave in his will was funds to his alma mater, Saint Dunstan’s University. His estate also donated a large book collection to Saint Dunstan’s. According to the St. Dunstan’s University Calendar of 1960-61, in 1949 a building was constructed on campus which included a chapel, a dining hall, a kitchen, a ten bed infirmary, and a convent for the Sisters of St. Martha. Foley’s donation is acknowledged in the Calendar:
the very generous bequest of the late Dr. Thomas Brinsley Foley of Boston, Mass., which rendered almost $41,000 in 1952, greatly assisted in the erection of this unit”.
That “unit” was later named the Steel Building and today it houses the Music Department of the University of Prince Edward Island.
The Provenance Collection at UPEI still houses several of Dr. Foley’s books. The Green Book, or Gleanings from the Writing-Desk of a Literary Agitator, written by John Cornelius O’Callaghan, was published in 1849. Inside Thomas signed, in red, “Thos Foley No.35”. Also found inside the book (between page 348-349) is a poem cut out from a newspaper. The poem was published as early as 26 November 1871 (as found in the Atchison Daily Champion, Atchison, Kansas):
Teaching Public School
Eighty little urchins
Coming through the door,
Pushing crowding making
A tremendous roar.
Why don’t you keep quiet?
Can’t you mind the rule?
Bless me! This is pleasant,
Keeping public school.
Eighty little Pilgrims
On the road to fame!
If they fail to reach it,
Who will be to blame?
High and lowly stations,
Birds of every feather,
On a Common level
Here are brought to together.
Dirty little faces
Loving little hearts.
Eyes brimful of mischief,
Skilled in all the arts
That’s a precious darling!
What are you about?
“May I pass the water?”
“Please may I go out?”
Boots and shoes are shuffling,
Slates and books are rattling,
And in the corner yonder
Two pugilists are battling!
Others cutting didos,
What a botheration!
No wonder we grow crusty
From such association.
Anxious parents drop in,
Merely to enquire
Why his olive branches
Do not shoot higher;
Says he wants his children
To mind their p’s and q’s,
And hopes their brilliant talents
Will not be abused.
Spelling, reading, writing,
Putting up the young ones,
Fanning, Scolding, Fighting,
Spurring up the dumb ones,
Gymnasts, vocal music!
How the heart rejoices
When the singer comes
To cultivate the voices.
Institute attending,
Making out reports,
Giving object lessons
Class drills of all sorts;
Reading dissertations
Feeling like a fool---
Oh, the untold blessing
Of keeping public school.
Other Thomas Foley books in the UPEI Provenance Collection:
Guizot, M. Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel. London: R. Bentley, 1857. [Estate of Dr. T. B. Foley signed.]
Hay, Ian. The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of “K (1)".” Boston ; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. [Nellie Maxwell 14 Elder St. Dorchester inscribed. Estate of Dr. T. B. Foley inscribed.]
Hazen, Charles Downer. Modern European History. New York : H. Holt and Company, c.1919. [Est. of Dr. T B. Foley inscribed. E. Bail? Signature.]
Quincey, Thomas De. Literary Reminiscences: From the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. [Special Notice for Harvie’s Lending Library. Thos Foley signature with the number 1 attached to it. Estate of T. B. Foley also inscribed.]
Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. New York : D. Appleton, 1860. [Estate of Dr. T. B. Foley inscribed. T. Foley signature with the number 109.]
Lardner, Dionysius. Hand-Books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1851-54. [T. Foley signature with the number 185 attached. Estate of T. B. Foley also inscribed.]
Martin, Theodore. The Life of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort v1-3. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1877-78. [Estate of T.B. Foley inscribed and T. Foley signature (only in volume 1.)]
Pope, Alexander. Works Philadelphia: J. B. Smith, 1859. [Estate of Dr. T. B. Foley inscribed.]
Smith, Sydney. The works of the Rev. Sydney Smith. New York : E. G. Taylor, 1860.
Sources:
1881 Census of Canada. Census Place: Charlottetown Royalty, Queens, Prince Edward Island; Roll: C_13163; Page: 106; Family No: 499.
1891 Census of Canada. Census Place: Charlottetown Royalty, Queens, Prince
Edward Island; Roll: T-6383; Family No: 655.
1910 Census of the United States. Census Place: Boston Ward 12, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_618; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 1435; FHL microfilm: 1374631.
1930 Census of the United States. Census Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: 945; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0136; Image: 297.0; FHL microfilm: 2340680.
“Teaching Public School”, Atchison Daily Champion, 26 November 1871, p.2.
“In Memoriam: The Late Dr. T. B. Foley.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 13 November 1931. P. 10. Accessed through Island Newspapers on 9 February 2017.
“Islanders Will Figure in Court Dispute.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 10 August 1933. Pg. 3. Accessed through Island Newspapers .
National Archives at Boston; Waltham, Massachusetts; ARC Title: Petitions and Records of Naturalization , 8/1845 - 12/1911; NAI Number: 3000057; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: RG 21.
Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island Baptismal Records. Year: 1878. Record Book Number: 2. Book Page: 39.
“S.S.A.W. Perry Arrived in Port.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 16 August 1912. Pg. 1. Accessed through Island Newspapers.
Souvenir Booklet and Directory of all Students Registered since January 17, 1855. Published for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Saint Dunstan’s College, August 7-8, 1929, by the Executive Committee of the St. Dunstan’s Alumni Association.
St. Dunstan’s University Calendar 1960-1961, p.9. SDU Digital Archive. Accessed May 29, 2017.
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Registration State: Massachusetts; Registration County: Suffolk; Roll: 1684882; Draft Board: 07, Thomas Foley, Margaret O’Holleran, Josephine (born in 1875) and Mary Ethel (born in 1880)
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Thomas Hutchinson
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Thomas Hutchinson (1856-1938)
Thomas Hutchinson was born, around 1856, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
He attended Rutherford College, studying teacher training and graduated in 1877. Thomas began his teaching career almost immediately. He took a teaching position in Pegswood, a Northumberland mining town, and eventually became Headmaster at the school. He remained there until he retired in 1920.
Thomas married Sarah Ann Jackson on 3 August 1882, in Newcastle. They had five children: Mary, Winifred, Herbert H., Dora and Ada.
Thomas was also an established poet and wrote for the local paper, The Morpeth Herald. He self published some of his works, and in the 16 June 1888 edition of the Athenaeum Journal, under the heading Literary Gossip we read:
Mr. F. Murray, of Derby, has in the press to be published by subscription, Ballades of a Country Bookworm, by Mr. Thomas Hutchinson.
In that same month and year (June 1888), Thomas paid twenty cents to have his name listed in the The Bookmart under Booksellers' Catalogues Wanted. The journal suggested you list your name with “the kind of Catalogues or Special line of Books interested in". Beside Thomas' name and address he added: Books I buy of all kinds 'neath the sky.
From such statements, Thomas Hutchinson was an avid book collector. He also frequently wrote letters to authors, saved all his correspondence, and was known to attach them to the books and add in newspaper clippings.
UPEI's Provenance Collection copy of My Study Windows includes a letter from the British Museum Assistant Keeper of Books, Richard Garnett, to bookseller Mr. F. Murray (mentioned above). Hidden in the book, under newspaper clippings about the author, is the tiny bookplate of Thomas Hutchinson and his own personal library number, 931.
The UPEI Provenance Collection also has the book John Hare, Comedian, 1865-1895, which contains a hand-sketched version of Thomas' bookplate with the number 15137 and a note from the author T. Edgar Pemberton: “July 4th 1903, With thanks for your good wishes - T. Edgar Pemberton, Thomas Hutchinson Esq.". This also the cases with Young Ofeg’s Ditties it also includes a hand-sketched version of Thomas' bookplate with the number 3976. The letter that is within UPEI’s copy of the Young Ofeg’s Ditties, translated by George Egerton, reads:
Chesham
Bucks.
Dec 15th ‘900
Dear Sir,
It is kind of you to remember my birthday always. Last year your good wishes followed me to Norway, too late to thank you for them-
You once wrote and asked me, I think, to write my name in a book of yours. Of course if it could be any gratification to you I shall be pleased to do so. With many thanks for your courtesy.
I am
Yours faithfully
“George Egerton”
It seems reasonable to assume, the Dear Sir may indeed be Thomas Hutchinson as he regularly corresponded with authors and added their replies into the books of his vast collection.
An unproven connection might also be found in UPEI's A Club of One where the, Wilmington, Ohio, author creates a poem for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hutchinson. There is no Thomas Hutchinson book number associated to it, so it is unclear if it is the aforementioned person.
Thomas Hutchinson died on 28 January 1938. His address at the time of his death was 23 Howard-terrace, Morpeth, Northumberland.
His massive collection of books were disbanded in three waves. First, in 1905, a large part of his collection went to the auction house of Sotheby's. The sale helped finance his son's tuition. In June 1921, a second sale of 978 books were sold through Anderson and Garland Auctioneers, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The remainder of Thomas' collection was donated, by his descendants, to the Preston Park Museum in 1973.
The story of how UPEI received three, possibly four, books from Mr. Thomas Hutchinson's personal collection remains a mystery.
Sources:
C. Barron, “Man with Lifelong Love Affair with Literature", Morpeth Herald, accessed 1 April 2016.
England Census: 1891,1901,1911.
England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973. FHL Film Number: 1564922. Reference ID: it 42 P. 81, no 162.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966. Thomas Hutchinson, Year 1938, page 444.
Richard Halkett (editor), The Bookmark, Volume 6, June 1888, p.52., Sarah Ann Jackson, Mary, Winifred, Herbert H., Dora and Ada.
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Thomas Moult
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Thomas Moult (1885-1974)
Thomas Moult McKellan was born on 23 September 1885 in Mellor, Derbyshire to Samuel Dunseith McKellen and his second wife, Eliza Ann Moult; Thomas' father was an Irish-born photographic engineer. He was baptised on 17 October 1885 at St. Clement's Church on Lever Street, Manchester, England. Thomas was the third of six sons: Arthur, Frederick, Thomas, Samuel, Victor and Roderick.
On 12 June 1936, Thomas officially dropped his last name, McKellan, and signed as Thomas Moult.
In 1911, he married Bessie Boltiansky, born 18 April 1887, a Russian Jew from Elizabethgrad, who had been living in England as early as 1901, as seen in the 1901 Census. The 1927 Electoral Registers lists Thomas Moult McKellan and Bessie Moult McKellan living on Eastside Road, London England, in the Parish of Hendon.
In 1919, Thomas founded the magazine, Voices, which was intended for young writers.
In 1924, Thomas and Bessie had their only child, a daughter they named Joy Sylvia.
Between 1922-1943, Thomas compiled the annual anthology Best Poems of the Year. He wrote works of poetry and novels, including UPEI’s Provenance's signed copy of Sally Go Round the Moon, published in 1931. Thomas inscribed the book:
For Marjorie and Averil Hamilton (and their Mother and Father), with love from Joy Sylvia and her Mother and Father- Thomas Moult. With love and every good Christmas greeting 1932: this little story that they already know.....
Joy would have been 9 years old, and Marjorie and Averil Hamilton have not yet been identified.
The WWII years would be difficult for the Moult family. Thomas’ wife was of Jewish descent and that may have been the determining factor in their decision to head to the United States, just before the outbreak of the war. On 4 June 1939, Thomas, Bessie and Joy Sylvia arrived in New York, aboard the Georgic. Twenty-two days later, on 26 June 1939, Thomas boarded the Samaria in Boston and sailed back to Liverpool, England on his own.
In the 1940 US Census, Bessie and Joy are living on their own in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joy attended the University of New Mexico and on occasion, Bessie gave lectures at the University and local organizations. The 18 July 1940 edition of the Albuquerque Journal states:
Mrs. Bessie Moult, English writer now living in Albuquerque will speak before the organization meeting of the local Committee for Care of Europe's Children at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Hilton.
In 1942, Bessie gave a lecture on writer Katherine Mansfield, stating they were “personal friends” before her death in 1923. Bessie also wrote poetry and her work is in the 1942 short verse anthology, Music in Miniature, edited by Ralph Cheyney and Lucia Trent.
By 1943, Bessie and Joy had moved to Denver, Colorado and were still living on their own. Two years later, in 1945, all three family members, Thomas, Bessie and Joy Sylvia, were reunited while Joy was enrolled in the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine. Within two years, Bessie was living at 239 Johnson Street, apartment 8, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is listed as a teacher and a “(wid Thos)” [widow of Thomas] in the 1947 Santa Fe City Directory. This appears erroneous, as Thomas Moult’s death is registered in 1974 in Colchester, Essex, England. Bessie, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950, also died in 1974 in America.
In 1946, Joy is reunited with her father in England. They are together in the Electoral Registers, but Bessie is not listed with them. In 1947, Joy married British neuropsychologist Oliver L. Zangwill, in England. They had one child, David A. Zangwill, who was born in Oxford in 1952, but died the following year in an alleged accident. Joy and Oliver divorced in 1975.
In 1952, Thomas became the president of the Poetry Society in England. He also had the role of chairman of the editorial board of Poetry Review, a quarterly publication organized by the Poetry Society in London.
It appears that Thomas and Bessie never did reunite after 1945. They remained in separate countries until they both died in 1974. Bessie died in June 1974 in Chicago, Illinois. Thomas died on 19 November 1974 in Colchester, Essex, England.
Sources:
1891 England Census. Class: RG12; Piece: 2787; Folio: 55; Page: 4; GSU roll: 6097897
1901 England Census. Class: RG13; Piece: 3770; Folio: 178; Page: 6
1911 England Census. Class: RG14; Piece: 24209
1940 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico; Roll: T627_2438; Page: 21A; Enumeration District: 1-21
Albuquerque Journal 18 July 1940, p.6.
Anglican Parish Registers. Manchester, England: Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives. Reference Number: M550/1/1/1; Item Number: 2; Archive Roll: 578.
Electoral Registers. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Year: 1927. Ward or Division/Constituency: Hendon.
England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (Marriage). Inferred County: Lancashire; Volume: 8d; Page: 667.
England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (Death). Registration district: Colchester; Inferred County: Essex; Volume: 9; Page: 2090.
Naturalization Declarations and Petitions, 1912 - 1963; NAI Number: 1055070; Record Group Title: New Mexico, Santa Fe County, naturalization records; Record Group Number: RG 21
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Year: 1939; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 6341; Line: 5; Page Number: 22
Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. Registry: London, England; Death 19 November 1974; Probate date 13 January 1975.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, City Directory, 1947, p. 197
Social Security Death Index, Master File. Number: 524-30-6946; Issue State: Colorado; Issue Date: Before 1951., Bessie Boltiansky, Joy Sylvia Moult, Samuel Dunseith McKellen, Eliza Ann Moult
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Tilden M. Patton
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Tilden M. Patton (1884-1957)
Tilden Marion Patton was born on 20 September 1884 in Colfax, Lexington, Illinois, to William Ruddell Patton, a farmer, and Cancis Anna “Annie” Woodard (from Indiana).
At the age of 16 in 1900, Tilden was living with his parents and attending school in Willow Springs, Jackson, Oregon.
In 1910, Tilden and his parents were back to Illinois and living in Lexington. By this time, Tilden also married Rachel Kate Bishop.
Tilden's draft registration for World War I was on 12 September 1915. His registration card describes Tilden as medium build and height, with dark hair and brown eyes. His listed occupation was a self employed farmer. There is a discrepancy with his birth year on the registration card, it indicates 20 September 1881, listing him as 36 years old at the time, instead of the birth year 1884, which would make him aged 31. His wife Rachel is also listed on the registration card as his nearest relative.
In the 1920 US census, Tilden is living with Rachel and his mother Annie and acquired a new career as an Insurance Agent. Tilden and Rachel did not have any children and unfortunately, on 12 June 1920, Rachel passes away. She is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, in Lexington, Illinois.
After five years, on 9 December 1925, Tilden marries Helen M. Swartz (31 May 1899-9 August 2003). He, Helen, and Annie are living together on Chestnut Street in Lexington.
In 1940, Tilden’s mother Annie has died on 3 March. On April 8 in the 1940 US census, Tilden is 55 years old and is living with his wife Helen and a servant Lena Osborne, still in Lexington. His occupation is now listed as an Auto Insurance Salesman.
Tilden would again register for World War II, in 1942. On his registration card, his listed residence is Cor. Pine & Chestnut Street, Lexington, McLean, Illinois. He is 57 years old, born on 20 September 1884, his telephone number is 258. Tilden is self employed, most likely still as an Insurance Agent, and Mrs. Helen M. Patton is listed as the “person who will always know your address”.
On 25 May 1957, at the age of 73, Tilden Marion Patton dies. He is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, along with his family in Illinois.
On the date 26 March 1897, Tilden’s mother Anna presents him the book The First Battle: a Story of the Campaign of 1896 by William Jennings Bryan. The book is now located in UPEI Library’s Provenance Collection. The inscription inside the books reads “Presented to Tilden M. Patton By his Mama” “Date March 26 1897”.
Sources:
1900 US Census. Tilden Patton. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
1900 US Census. Helen Swartz. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.
1920 US Census. Tilden Patton. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
Rachel Kate Patton [Bishop]. “Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original records.
Rachel Kate Bishop Patton. Find A Grave.
1930 US Census. Tilden Patton. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
Annie C Woodard Patton. US Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current. Find A Grave.
1940 US Census. Tilden Patton. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration.
Patton -- Helen M. Patton. McLean County, Illinois History and Genealogy. “Obituaries and Death Notices”. Genealogy Trails 2017., Cancis Anna “Annie" Woodard Patton, Rachel K. Bishop (1891-1920), Helen M. Swartz (1899-2003), William Ruddell Patton
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Virginia Berresford
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Virginia Berresford (1902-1995)
Virginia Berresford was born on 11 October 1902 in New Rochelle, New York, US. She started painting at an early age and attended Wellesley College in 1921. She then attended Teachers College Columbia University in 1923 where she studied under another prominent artist Charles Martin.
Virginia would travel to Athens, Venice, and from 1925-1930, she was in Paris at Académie Moderne, where she met Amédée Ozenfant, a co-founder of Purism. Virginia would be known for different styles of painting such as abstract sea-landscape and still life painting, as well as Magic Realism which became popular in the United States in the 1930’s and 1940’s. She was also a part of many exhibitions, a majority of those being solo. Virginia’s first exhibit at Dudensing Gallery in New York is where she met and befriended Frank Crowninshield. He admired her work and bought several paintings, as well as publishing one on the cover of Vanity Fair.
On 20 July 1933, Virginia married writer Benedict “Bob” Thielen. They would spend most of their marriage living in New York but would summer in Martha’s Vineyard and spend winters in Key West.
In 1954, Virignia opened the first art gallery in Edgartown at Martha’s Vineyard. She wanted to display her own works as well as that of other artists. She also worked as a private instructor in Menemsha, Maryland and in 1989, she published her autobiography, Virginia's Journal an Autobiography of an Artist.
Sadly on 20 August 1995, in Martha’s Vineyard, Virginia Berresford passed away.
In UPEI’s Provenance collection the book, Adventures in Genius by Will Durant, has Virginia’s signature.
Sources:
Virginia Berresford Biography | Annex Galleries Fine Prints. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/190/Berresford/Virginia
Virginia Berresford (1904-1996) United States. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.jlwcollection.com/jlwcollection.com/Virginia_Berresford.html
Thielen, Benedict 1903-1965 | Encyclopedia.com. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/thielen-benedict-1903-1965
Wikipedia contributors. (2018, June 9). Virginia Berresford - Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Berresford
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Wikipedia contributors. (2018, June 9). Virginia Berresford - Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_Berresford.jpg, Benedict “Bob” Thielen
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W. O. Harding
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W. O. Harding (1863-?)
William Osborne Harding was born on 21 August 1863, to parents Gamaliel and Eliza Ann (née Cromwell) Harding in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Harding family also included two older sons Obadiah Cromwell (1847-1929), and Alvin Cromwell (1851-?).
On 10 May 1888, William married Augusta Paunders (1863-?) in Exeter, New Hampshire, J.N. Chase was the clergy who performed the ceremony. William and Augusta went on to have a son, Harry Osborne Harding, born on 19 January 1890 in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
On 5 January 1890, William moved to Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US. From William’s declaration document, he is described as white, with a medium complexion, 5’9 and 140 pounds, he also has light hair and blue eyes and worked as a salesman.
By 1910, William, Augusta, and Harry have been living at 29 Warren Street, Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, where he was a merchant for retail furniture.
Between 1920 and 1923, William was in the process of being naturalized as a US citizen. He would take the Oath of Allegiance on 25 July 1923. From the 1920 US Federal Census, William and Augusta are still living at 29 Warren Street but he is now working as a travelling salesman for lighting fixtures. By the 1921 Census of Canada, Harry, a dentist, would marry Helen Gladys Hatfield Harding and live in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on Brunswick Street.
Sometime before 1930, Augusta has passed away and William is living on Winthrop Street and working as a Broker for Real Estate.
The UPEI Provenance Collection has a copy of Rose à Charlitte, by Marshall Saunders, that has the signature “W. O. Harding Stoneham, Mass” on the inside cover. There is also a signature from “Gary Carroll Yarmouth, N.S Jan 1971”, located on the top right hand corner of the inside cover. They are currently listed under the Unidentified tab, please email booklives@upei.ca if you have any information.
Sources:
“New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659–1947.” Online index and digital images. New England Historical Genealogical Society. Citing New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire.
1910, Thirteenth Census of the United States. (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
1920, Fourteenth Census of the United States. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
Naturalization Records. National Archives at Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Petitions and Records of Naturalizations of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts of the District of Massachusetts, 1906–1929. NARA microfilm publication M1368, 330 rolls. Records of the District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Name Index to Declarations of Intention and Petitions of Naturalization, 10/1906 - 12/1911. Textual Records. 1 Volume. NAI: 6250598 . Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21. National Archives at Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Copies of Petitions and Records of Naturalization in New England Courts, 1939 - ca. 1942. Textual Records. 615 Boxes. NAI: 4752894 . Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787–2004, Record Group 85. National Archives at Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Petitions and Records of Naturalization , 8/1845 - 12/1911. Textual Records. 448 Volumes and 50 Boxes. NAI: 3000057 . Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21. National Archives at Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts.
1930, Fifteenth Census of the United States. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
Canadian Expeditionary Force. CEF Personnel Files, 1914-1918. Accession 1992-93/166. Record Group 150. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1920, Sixth Census of Canada. Library and Archives Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2013. Series RG31. Statistics Canada Fonds., Augusta Paunders, Harry Osborne Harding, 10 May 1888
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