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George Wright Hodgson
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George Wright Hodgson was born on 15 January 1842 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He was the son of Daniel Hodgson and Mary Cambridge Wright.
He attended King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia and became an adamant supporter of the Oxford Movement, also known as Tractarianism. This movement was a lean towards older Christian traditions and reinstating them into Anglican liturgy and theology. Eventually this movement was branded as Anglo-Catholic.
George, as a result of Tractarianistic beliefs, became the first Reverend of the newly built St. Peter's Cathedral, in Charlottetown, in 1869. This was an alternate, more traditional, option for Anglican attendees, to compliment St. Paul's Cathedral in Charlottetown. A clergy house was built for him on Grafton St. (5-7 Grafton St.) in Charlottetown.
George married Gertrude Magdalene DesBrisay on 4 March 1884. But this marriage had a short life as George died at the young age of 43 on 20 July 1885, just eight months after he married Gertrude. There is a cabinet card picture of Mrs. Hodgson and her sister at the PEI Public Archives. George is buried in his home Churchyard of St. Peter's Anglican Church in Charlottetown.
George's personal copy of Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry is now part of the UPEI Provenance Collection. His bookplate is inside and it contains the Latin phrase In Hoc Signo Spes Mea, meaning In this Sign [the Cross] is my hope., Mary Cambridge Wright, Daniel Hodgson, Gertrude Magdalene DesBrisay
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Gerald W. Deighton
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Gerald W. Deighton (1893-1916)
Captain Gerald William Deighton was born in the later months of 1892, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Deighton (R.A.M.C.) and Louisa Ellen (née Fisher). Gerald was the youngest son of eight children. His six older siblings included, Francis J., Frederick Montague, John, Dorothy L., Edward Fisher, Winifred Eleanor, and a younger sister Margaret E.
Gerald was educated at Eton College, and in 1908, he received a book as an award from Headmaster Edward Lyttelton. From there, Gerald attended King’s College and graduated with a Classical Honours degree, in 1914.
Gerald enlisted in the military and was Captain of ‘D’ Company, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment but unfortunately on 3 July 1916, he was killed in action. Gerald was awarded Military Cross and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, he is memorialized on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
In UPEI’s Provenance Collection the book, Ethics of the dust: ten lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallization by John Ruskin has a bookplate to student “Geraldo W. Deighton” from “E. Lyttelton” dated 1908.
Sources:
General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
British Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1918. London, England: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Commonwealth War Graves Registers. London, United Kingdom: Peter Singlehurst.
Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.
Captain Gerald William Deighton. Find a Grave.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12394917
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Photo taken from Captain Gerald William Deighton. Find a Grave.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12394917, Louisa Ellen (née Fisher), Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Deighton (R.A.M.C.), Francis J., Frederick Montague, John, Dorothy L., Edward Fisher, Winifred Eleanor, and Margaret E., 3 July 1916
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Glendon Partridge
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Glendon Partridge (1910-1981)
Glendon Forrest Partridge was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on 10 July 1910 to Cyrus, a Canadian National Railway locomotive engineer, and Anna Belle (nèe MacKenzie) Partridge, an active worker in Zion Presbyterian Church. He was one of 12 children: Lester, Glendon, Gordon, Sylvia, Alice, Olia, Vivian, Olive, Violet, Phyllis, Harold and William.
Following his interest in theology, Glendon attended Prince of Wales College, Mount Allison University, and McGill University and its affiliate, Presbyterian Theological College, during the mid to late 1930s. While at McGill, he was a member of the “Rugger” team, the S.C.M. Cabinet, Vice President of a student society, and was also manager of Athletics and captain of the basketball team.
During the summer of 1936, Glendon was a student pastor in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, which laid the foundation for his career as a Reverend after graduating from McGill in 1938.
Glendon married Gertrude Elizabeth Cooke, who was originally from New York, presumably around 1938. Together they had a daughter named Johanna Bergen Partridge on December 24, 1939 in Kinburn, Ontario.
In 1953, in the midst of the Red Scare, Glendon was chairman of a committee in Montreal that held a vigil to protest the conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; a married couple accused of conspiring to send information from the United States to the Soviet Union. Glendon’s committee organized the mass picketing of all U.S. consulates in Canada, involving approximately 500 people. Unfortunately, their protest was unsuccessful, and the Rosenbergs were executed. Glendon gave their final eulogy: “‘They died in the name of humanity, truth, and justice,’ the Minister said...He praised the ‘true strength of these people who would not put anything, even life itself, above the best they believed in.’” Evidently, the couple had maintained their innocence while being imprisoned in a “death house” for over two years (Guardian 1953, 5).
Glendon passed away on 10 May 1981 and is buried in Murray Harbour North Presbyterian Cemetery in Murray Harbour, PEI.
UPEI’s Provenance collection’s copy of The Psychology of Shakespeare by John Charles Bucknill has a bookplate on the inside cover which reads: “UPEI, A Gift to the Robertson Library From the estate of Glendon Partridge”.
Sources:
“Births” The Guardian [Charlottetown] 29 Dec. 1939: 3. Island Newspapers. Web.
Charles Partridge. Library and Archives Canada. Sixth Census of Canada, 1921. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2013. Series RG31. Statistics Canada Fonds.
“Glendon F. Partridge”, Find A Grave Memorial# 95107821. Accessed June 2017.
Glendon Forrest Partridge. “Old McGill” McGill Yearbooks, 1938; p.154.
“In Memoriam: Mrs. Cyrus L. Partridge” The Guardian [Charlottetown] 14 Feb. 1951: 3. Island Newspapers. Web.
“Near Riotous” The Guardian of the Gulf [Charlottetown] 22 June. 1953: 5. Island Newspapers. Web.
“Railway Notes” Charlottetown Guardian 3 Jan. 1936: 3. Island Newspapers. Web.
“Seeking Clemency for The Rosenbergs” The Guardian of the Gulf [Charlottetown] 5 Jan. 1953: 1. Island Newspapers. Web.
“The Central Guardian: To Locate in Mulgrave” The Guardian [Charlottetown] 18 April. 1936: 6. Island Newspapers. Web.
“To Picket All U.S. Consulates” The Guardian of the Gulf [Charlottetown] 9 Jan. 1953: 5. Island Newspapers. Web.
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Courtesy of the “Old McGill” McGill Yearbooks, 1938; p.154., 10 July 1910, Anna Belle MacKenzie, Cyrus Partridge, Gertrude Elizabeth Cooke, Johanna Bergen Partridge
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Grace Gertrude Goodrich
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Grace Gertrude Goodrich (1883-1939)
Grace was born in January 1883. She was the daughter of Rudolph O. Goodrich (son of Wickliffe Goodrich and Julia Pierce) and Ella Stewart (daughter of Freeman Stewart and Helen Conant). Grace had two younger siblings, Helen Hazel and Lowell Pierce.
In 1905 Grace (22) and her sister Helen (16) were working full time as domestic servants, but they both had grander plans. Grace enrolled in Ripon College and by 1907 she was teaching Latin and English. In 1909 she went to Rome to study at the American School of Classical Study. Upon her return she went to the University of Wisconsin, where she received her PhD in 1913. She then took a position at Ripon College (where her education had begun) as a Professor of Classics.
Education was a family affair. Grace’s sister Helen worked as a public school teacher, and her brother Lowell was the Superintendent of Public Schools in Fond du Lac.
Of the three siblings, Lowell was the only one to marry and have a child. Lowell’s wife, Jane B. Jones, also dedicated her life to education. After the death of Lowell in 1949, she became a “housemother” of Ripon College, living as “Head Resident” of Evans Hall. Lowell and Jane’s only child, William Pierce, was born in 1919.
Throughout her career Grace remained living with her parents. By the 1920 Census Grace’s mother had passed away, and Grace and her sister Hazel continued to live at home with their widowed father on Lincoln Street. Grace’s brother Lowell, and his family, lived just around the corner on Thorn Street in Ripon. They can all be found on the same page in the 1920 U.S. Federal Census.
Ripon College has a formidable reputation. The actor Spencer Tracy was a student at Ripon College when Grace taught there, but there is no indication that he took one of her classes. In the 1960’s, Harrison Ford would also attend Ripon College, although he flunked out.
By 1930 only Grace and her father remained living on Lincoln Street in Ripon, Wisconsin. Helen had moved to the neighbouring town of Fond du Lac, to continue her teaching career.
In 1933, Grace became the Dean of Women at Ripon College and she would remain in that position until her death in 1939. According to the Wisconsin Alumnus, Grace died on 19 September 1939, at the age of 56, after a year long illness.
Today Ripon College remembers Grace in the form of an award. The Grace Gertrude Goodwin 1906 Classics Award and Scholarship is a cash award given to the graduating senior who has shown distinction in Classical Studies. The scholarship for tuition is given to the sophomore and junior students who show outstanding aptitude for classical languages.
UPEI's provenance copy of The Arabian Nights includes the following inscription:
St. Louis Mo 12/25/1895
Merry Christmas
Grace Gertrude Goodrich
From Papa
Grace was about 12 years old when she received The Arabian Nights from her papa at Christmas. We are unsure whether ‘papa’ was Grace’s father, Rudoph, or either of her grandfathers, Wickliffe Goodrich or Freeman Stewart. All three of these men lived in Wisconsin. The connection to St. Louis Missouri remains unknown.
Sources:
1900 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Ripon, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0043; FHL microfilm: 1241789
1905 Wisconsin State Census. Wisconsin Historical Society; Madison, Wisconsin; Census Year: 1905
1910 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Ripon, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Roll: T624_1712; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0075; FHL microfilm: 1375725
1920 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Ripon Ward 2, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_1986; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 60
1930 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0023; FHL microfilm: 2342306
1930 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Ripon Ward 2, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_1986; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 60
“Change of Superintendents.” Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporter. Tuesday, 20 December 1966, p.4.
Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book: NSDAR: Volume 113, 1914.
Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1951, 1959
Ripon Catalogue. Awards and Honours. Accessed on 26 June 2020.
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012; School Name: Ripon College; Year: 1919
Wisconsin Alumnus. Volume 41, Number 1 (November 1939).
World War I Draft Registration Card for Lowell Pierce Goodwin. Registration State: Wisconsin; Registration County: Price; Roll: 1674886
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Photo from 1919 Ripon College Yearbook, Wisconsin., Rudolph O. Goodrich, Ella Stewart, Helen Hazel Goodrich and Lowell Pierce Goodrich
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Harrison B. Smith
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Harrison B. Smith (1866-1942)
Harrison Brooks Smith, son of Isaac Noyes Smith and Caroline Quarrier, was born on 7 September 1866. He married Katharine Bowne on 12 May 1896. They had three children: Harrison Bowne (b.abt. 1898), Helen Dana (b.abt. 1900) and Alexander (b.abt. 1908).
Harrison attended Princeton University and then followed up at law school at the University of Virginia. He became a City Solicitor for Charleston, West Virginia, and was an elder in his local Presbyterian Church. He was also the President of the Southern States Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Harrison was a lawyer, but he was also a noted musician, playing the cello and singing. He also enjoyed tennis and was an avid golf player. The 3 June 1927, Princeton Alumni Weekly, (Vol.27, no.33), sheds a bit of light on Harrison's character and the jests of his classmates:
Smith, Harrison B., Jopa, has been off on quite a trip which depleted his stock of bread and butter for his dependent family, so he is unable to spare the time and give a stroke a hole to the other '86 golfers on May 19. Jopa has the psychic advantage as an opponent of golf almost as effectual as Cory Fleming's alarm watch, commemorated in the Class History, which, by a ventrical contortion he makes go off in his fob just as his opponent draws back to drive on the tee. Jopa's advantage lies in the common knowledge of his classmates, that he is a cellist and they are always conscious in memory of the sounds, -I do not say noises,- that used to be emitted in that second-story room opposite Pop Newton's where Smith used to practise with his bow, and harrow the souls of his auditors.
Later in 1927 (16 December), the Princeton Alumni Weekly makes mention that Jopa Smith had written a Princeton song and he is urged to send the song to the leader of the Glee Club. All the '86 men in Charleston W.Va., are lawyers. One half of them are expert musicians and the other half are expert congressmen. Both of them love the Class of '86- more than they do the Democratic Party, which is saying a great deal.
Two years later, the 18 October 1929 Princeton Alumni Weekly tells us of an impressive golf partnership between Jopa and H.R.H The Prince of Wales (later known as King Edward VIII):
Jopa was golfing in England this summer with two friends when the hon. secretary of the club came to them saying there was a player at loose ends, having no partner. “Sure," genially replied Harrison Smith of West Virginia. The Prince of Wales- no less- thereupon joined them. Jopa refuses to say how much H.R.H. took out of him. But the secretary ventures to say that, if Jopa fixed the odds, the flow of gold was towards the U.S.
Harrison died on 18 October 1942. His death was noted in the 8 Dec 1944 edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly:
Harrison B. Smith, known to us as Jopah, died on October 18, 1942, at the age of 77. His widow survived him but a few months. They had three children, one son dying only recently in a tragic accident.
The tragic accident occurred on a return trip from his mother's funeral in Charleston W., VA. On Alexander's way to the Salt Lake City, he stopped in Chicago. He fell off the 14th floor of the Chicagoan hotel. Cpl Smith had been in the Army a year and was enroute to the Air Corps base at Salt Lake City. He left behind a widow, Margaret Shawkey Deisher.
Harrison Brooks Smith and his wife Katherine had five grandchildren: Harrison Bowne Smith III, Dorothy Bowne Smith, Katharine Bowne Fox, John Dana Fox, and Helen Quarrier Fox.
UPEI Provenance Collection
Sands, George. Germaine's marriage: a tale of peasant life in France. New York: Richmond Croscup, 1892. [Bookplate with Harrison Brooks, and Katharine Bowne Smith].
Sources:
1900 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Charleston Ward 6, Kanawha, West Virginia; Roll: 1762; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0048; FHL microfilm: 1241762.
Evans, Frederick. After twenty-five years, class record of 1886 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1911), 164-165.
New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937.
Various editions of the Princeton Alumni Weekly cited within the text., Katharine Bowne, Harrison Bowne (2 March 1898), Helen Dana (2 March 1900) and Alexander (23 March 1908), Isaac Noyes Smith, Caroline Quarrier
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Harry Langslow
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Harry Langslow (1866-1949)
Harry Langslow was born in 1866 to parents William and Sarah Langslow from Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England. He was the third child out of five, he had two older brothers, John (1859-1927) and Howard (1861-1891), and a younger sister, Lucy (1968-?) and brother Frederic (1969-?). By the 1881 England Census, a cousin Florence Dumore was also living with the family.
Harry would start his career as a clerk at a young age and he eventually became a Solicitors clerk in his later years.
In the Spring of 1893, Harry would marry Florence Noad (1865-June 1917) in Worcestershire. They had three children together, Margaret (1893-?), Lucy Winnifred (18 July 1895-Jan 1989), and Jessie Florence (30 July 1898-Aug 1984). Margaret would marry Harold Joseph Hailstone in 1916, and Lucy married John A. Vickerstaff in 1918; Jessie never married.
In 1911, Harry, Florence and their three daughters are living at 139 St Paul’s Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Harry a Solicitors clerk, Margaret a Printing clerk, Lucy a Motor Agency clerk, and at age 12, Lucy was attending school.
Sadly, six years later, Florence passed away at age 52, in June 1917.
In March of 1949, Harry Langslow dies at age 83.
In UPEI’s Provenance Collection, the book, History of the rebellion of 1745-6, by Robert Chambers has his signature “Harry Langslow Birmingham 1891” along with the signature of “Edmund H. Neville, Dec. 25th 1882.”
Sources:
1871, Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871.
1881, Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1881.
1891, Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1891.
1901, Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901.
1911, Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.
General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall., Florence Noad, Sarah Langslow, William Langslow, Margaret (1893-?), Lucy Winnifred (18 July 1895-Jan 1989), Jessie Florence (30 July 1898-Aug 1984)
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Irvin S. Cobb
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Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944)
Myself To Date
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on the 23rd of June, 1876 to parents Joshua Clark Cobb and Mary Saunders. He was born in the United States, in the town of Paducah, Kentucky. As he was growing up in Paducah, he would get his education from both private and public schools, with the inevitable goal of becoming a lawyer at Cade’s Academy. His plans fell through unfortunately when tragedy struck his family and he needed to find work to help support them any way he could. This began his career in media as he took his first job working as a reporter for the Paducah Evening News, he was sixteen by this point.
By the time Cobb was nineteen, he had shown a real talent for the work. Getting himself promoted to the position of Managing News Editor, making him the youngest person of that position in America. He bounced between Louisville and Paducah a couple of times, when he married Laura S. Baker and together (with $200.00 from his father in law) moved their new family out to New York so he could continue to grow in his field. It was not easy for him to find a job immediately, but after writing to some news outlets, expressing his frustration with the lack of opportunities, five of them responded, offering him a job.
Cobb chose to work for the news outlet the Evening Sun, his first major assignment being to cover the peace conference between Japan and the USSR. Though these assignments were typically seen as dull, Cobb was often credited for writing them to seem interesting. In the example of the conference, he did not write about what was happening, but instead he wrote about the people involved. His unique writing style helped him grow his notoriety in the journalism world until he eventually accepted a job offer from Joseph Pulitzer (of the Pulitzer Prize fame). With this job, Irvin Cobb had become the best paid journalist in America.
In addition to his journalistic endeavours, Cobb is probably best known for his work writing short stories. He is even compared to other famous American writers like Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe as a result of his success. Many of his short stories are best known for including his unique perspective on rural Kentucky life. Trying to draw away from the impoverished hillbilly narrative, and bringing much more substance and character to what it is like to grow up there. The best example of this is a character named Judge Priest, who was a fan favourite among the avid readers of his work.
It was the filming of his “Judge Priest” stories that allowed him to go out to California. Once there, he started working as a writer for different scenarios, but in addition, he also became an actor. His face was seen in several films, such as: The Face in the Dark (1918), Steamboat Around the Bend (1935), and Everybody’s Old Man (1936).
Irvin Cobb and his wife Laura Baker had one child, their daughter Elisabeth Cobb. Elisabeth followed similarly in her father’s footsteps, taking up the profession of writing. Her best credit is the 1934 novel She Was a Lady. Cobb would die on March 11, 1944, his body being buried in the Paducah cemetery, his gravestone being a large chunk of granite with the inscription “Home Again” from a book he wrote of the same name.
Sources:
“Irvin S. Cobb Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles.” n.d. HistoryForSale - Autographs, Collectibles & Memorabilia. Accessed February 12, 2025.
“Irvin S. Cobb.” n.d. In Encyclopedia Britannica.
“Elisabeth Cobb.” n.d. IMDb. Accessed February 12, 2025.
Geneanet.org. Accessed February 12, 2025.
“Biography.” n.d. IMDb. Accessed February 12, 2025.
N.d. Archive.org. Accessed February 12, 2025.
N.d. Familysearch.org. Accessed February 12, 2025.
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The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. 2024. “Irvin S. Cobb.” In Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Irving Bloom
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Irving Bloom (1889-?)
Washington Irving Bloom was born about 1889 to father Hiram Bloom in New York, US. He has a younger sister Aimee, and his father married his stepmother Charlotte Koch on 10 June 1900.
Irving was a traveling salesman dedicated to jewelry. He married Adele Newham and they had three children together, Elise, Adele, and Joseph.
Sadly on 28 April 1923, his stepmother Charlotte passed away at the age of 59. Irving was living at 3828 Barrington Road, Baltimore, Maryland at this time.
UPEI’s Provenance Collection has the book, The early poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the inscription “From Aimee and Irving Bloom to I.J.L 1907”. The initials I.J.L are for cousin Irving Jules Lewin, Charlotte’s nephew.
Sources:
Index to New York City Marriages, 1866-1937. Indices prepared by the Italian Genealogical Group and the German Genealogy Group, and used with permission of the New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives.
New York, State Census, 1905. Population Schedules . Various County Clerk Offices, New York.
Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 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.
Original sources vary according to directory. The title of the specific directory being viewed is listed at the top of the image viewer page. Check the directory title page image for full title and publication information.
Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.
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).
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls., Hiram Bloom, Aimee Bloom Isaac, Adele Newham
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Irving J. Lewin
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Irving J. Lewin (1893-1984)
Irving Jules Lewin was born on 23 October 1893, in Brooklyn, New York to parents Josephine (née Koch) and Adolph Charles Lewin.
On 5 June 1917, Irving filled out a World War I draft registration card and he was described as tall, medium build with blue eyes and black hair. He is also working as a Bond Trader for Newburg & Co.
Irving married Sylvia Bernstein on 30 December 1919, in Manhattan, New York, and they had two daughters together, Joan Claire and Suzanne Helene.
In 1942, for Irving’s registration for World War II, he is still working as a stock broker but he is now with the N.Y. Curb Exchange. He is also listed as having a scar on his left shoulder and is deaf in his right ear.
On 8 July 1944, Irving’s youngest daughter Suzanne married Leonard Epstein in Montgomery, Alabama. Joan married Seymour Rosenfield in New York in 1947.
Irving Jules Lewin sadly passed away in October 1984, in New York.
UPEI’s Provenance Collections has the book, The early poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the inscription “From Aimee and Irving Bloom to I.J.L 1907”. Aimee and Irving are cousins by marriage through his aunt Charlotte (née Koch) Bloom.
Sources:
State population census schedules, 1915. New York State Archives, Albany, New York.
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.
Index to New York City Marriages, 1866-1937. Indices prepared by the Italian Genealogical Group and the German Genealogy Group, and used with permission of the New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives.
State population census schedules, 1925.M Albany, New York: New York State Archives.
Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
Marriage Records. Alabama Marriages. County courthouses, Alabama.
Index to Marriages, New York City Clerk's Office, New York, New York.
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.
Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration
Passport Applications, 1795–1905. NARA Microfilm Publication M1372, 694 rolls. General Records Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Passport Applications, January 2, 1906–March 31, 1925. NARA Microfilm Publication M1490, 2740 rolls. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications, 1810–1906. NARA Microfilm Publication M1371, rolls 1–2. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Emergency Passport Applications (Passports Issued Abroad), 1877–1907. NARA Microfilm Publication M1834, 57 rolls. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Passport Applications for Residents of Puerto Rico and the Philippines, 1913–1925. NAI:1244179 A1 539, 67 volumes. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Applications (Chicago, NYC, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle), 1914–1925. NAI:1146000 A1 535. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Special Passport Applications (Military, Civilian Federal Employees and Dependents), 1914–1925. NAI 1150696 A1 536, 29 volumes. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Passport Applications for Declarants, 1907–1911 and 1914–1920. NAI 1244178 A1 538. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Special Diplomatic Passport Applications, 1916–1925. NAI 1150702 A1 537. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Applications for Extension and Amendment of Passports, 1918–1925. NAI 2555158 UD 1006. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Passport Applications Filed at U.S. Territories and Possessions, 1907–1925 (Honolulu, HI, Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico). NAI 1244181 A1 542. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Emergency Passport Applications Filed at Diplomatic Posts Abroad, 1907–1923. NAI 1244182 A1 543. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Emergency Passport Applications, 1906–1925 (Argentina thru Venezuela). NAI 1244183 A1 544. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Emergency Passport Applications for Travel to China, 1915–1925. NAI 1244103 A1 540. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Passport Applications of Wives of Members of the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) in Europe, 1919–1920. NAI 1244184 A1 545. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Division of Passport Control: Applications for Certificates of Identity for U.S. Citizens Living in Germany, 1920-1921. NAI 1244185 A1 546. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington D.C.
Insular Passport Applications, compiled 1901-1911; (National Archives Microfilm Publication A1511, 1 roll);General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Record Group 59; National Archives at College Park, College Park, Maryland
Department of State. Bureau of Citizenship. Passports Surrendered to U.S. Customs Officials, 1917. Series A1 519. NAI: href="http://research.archives.gov/description/1145560"target="_new">1145560. General Records of the Department of State, 1763–2002, Record Group 59. The National Archives at College Park, Maryland., Josephine Koch, Adolph Charles Lewin, Sylvia Bernstein
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J Botume Jr
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J Botume Jr (1826-1892)
John Botume Jr was born 2 February 1826 to parents John Botume and Sophia Hough in Unadilla, Otsego, New York.
He was a merchant in the Boston area and would later become engaged in the pork-packing and provision business, under the firm of Hart, Baldwin, and Botume.
J Botume Jr would marry Elizabeth Augusta Starr Lord (1832-1903) on 4 October 1854 in Northfield, MA. They would have three children together: John Franklin (1855-1917), Martha Sofia (1858-1925), and Bessie Everett (1863-1945).
After his marriage, in 1859, J Botume Jr built a house in Stoneham MA, that is now known as the John Botume House. It is located at 4 Woodland Road along the shore of Spot Pond. The house was built as a summer home and it is now the last surviving property in this area. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation now owns the property, which was acquired in 1895.
In 1865, J Botume Jr was the Sixth Sergeant of the Artillery Co. and became Eighth Sergeant in 1868. He moved to Melrose MA, in 1865, where he was a provisional dealer.
In 1867, he represented the 23rd Middlesex District in the State Legislature and was the President of the Massachusetts Brick Company. He was also on the Arbitration Committee Boston Board of Trade.
In 1877, he was invited to the Reunion of the Free Soldiers of 1848 and a copy of his handwritten confirmation of acceptance to the invitation.
John Botume Jr died on 9 June 1892, in Melson MA, from complications with diabetes. He was buried with Masonic Honours.
In UPEI's Provenance collection, J Botume Jr's signature can be found in the book Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A fable for critics, by James Lowell along with the date “January 28/58".
Sources:
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
1850 Seventh Census of the United States; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Roberts, Oliver Ayer. (1895-1901). History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, now called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888. Boston : A. Mudge & Son.
Botume Jr., John, “Letter from John Botume, Jr. to Samuel Downer accepting his invitation to the reunion,” Hingham Public Library Local History & Special Collections, accessed February 25, 2018.
John Bottume House. Wikipedia.org.
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"John Botume, Jr. (U.s. National Park Service)." n.d. Nps.gov. Accessed October 25, 2024. https://www.nps.gov/people/john-botume-jr.htm., Elizabeth Augusta Starr Lord (1832-1903), John Franklin (1855-1917), Martha Sofia (1858-1925), and Bessie Everett (1863-1945)
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J.A. Irving
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J.A. Irving (1903-1965)
John Allan Irving was born on 6 May 1903 in Drumbo, Ontario, Canada to parents John and Carrie Irving. John is the oldest child, with a younger brother Charlie and a younger sister Margaret.
John’s schooling started in Drumbo but he would attend Galt, Ontario for his high school years. He would then attend Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario in 1922. He was a very talented student and placed first in honours for Philosophy and English for each year he attended and graduated in 1926 with the Regent’s Gold Medal. A year later, he would graduate with a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto.
John would also earn a Master’s degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and after graduation he started teaching at Princeton University, New Jersey. After eight years at Princeton, in 1938, John became the new Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He would eventually return to his Alma Mater, Victoria College, in 1945, where he taught ethics and social philosophy. During his time at Victoria College, John helped found the Canadian Philosophical Association, where he would act as the Vice-President starting in 1962 and until his death in 1965.
John was well known for his knowledge and teachings in the history of Philosophy in Canada. He was also heavily involved in many Committees and Associations throughout his career. From 1941-1945 he was the President of the Pacific Congress on the Teaching of Philosophy. He was also on the Executive Committee from 1939-1941 for the American Philosophical Association and then Vice-President from 1944-1945.
John was an author and an editor, his most well known writings are The Social Credit Movement in Alberta, and Philosophy in Canada: A Symposium both published in 1952. He was also a part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) working on radio programs giving lectures and as an Editorial advisor for the series program The Architects of Modern Thought.
Sadly, on 3 January 1965 in Toronto, John Allan Irving passed away after battling an illness for two years.
In UPEI’s Provenance Collection, the book The progress of international government by David Mitrany has an inscription to John, “J.A. Irving, with sincere admiration from a fellow student D.Mitrany Princeton, December 1935.”.
Sources:
Toronto, U. of. (2016). Staff Bulletin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Retrieved November 18, 2019, from https://archive.org/details/bulletin196503/page/n10
Lamonde, Y., & Trott, E. A. (2012). Philosophy: History Before 1950 | The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 18, 2019, from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/philosophy-history-before-1950
Trott, E. A. (2008). John Allan Irving | The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 18, 2019, from https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-allan-irving
Sparshott, F. (1964). John Allan Irving 1903-1965. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 38, 96-96. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3129485
Census of Canada, 1911. (2019, May 14). Retrieved November 20, 2019.
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[unknown]. “J.A. Irving.” P. N.p., 1 Jan. 1937. Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives. Web. 21 Nov. 2019.
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/arphotos/items/1.0142996. UBC Archives Photograph Collection., Carrie, John
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J.C. MacMillan
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J.C. MacMillan (1862-1926)
John C. MacMillan was born in Dundas, PEI in 1862, to Flora and John MacMillan. He had three brothers and two sisters.
When John was young, he was taken under the wing of Father Francis MacDonald. In the 1881 census, John is living with Father Francis and three other students. After his time with Father Francis, John went to Prince of Wales College and then directly to the Quebec Seminary. Throughout his education, he was quoted as “brilliant.” During his time at PWC, “he distinguished himself, leading in every brand of his studies.” (Red & White pg. 56-57, 1926).
John was ordained on 22 December 1888, in Quebec. After his ordination, he came back to Prince Edward Island to assist Father Francis, for two years, before being assigned to the Acadian Parish of Palmer Road. Here, he started the construction of the Immaculate Conception Church in 1891. Unfortunately John had to resign from this position before the completion of the church as a result of illness. John had to suspend his duties as a priest for quite some time.
In 1898, John’s mother passed away.
In 1905, after a period of rest, he was assigned to the All Saints Church, Cardigan Bridge, Prince Edward Island. He would publish his book, The Early History of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island, a copy of which is held in UPEI Provenance collection, of the same year.
For twenty years, John would go on and off sick leave at the All Saints Church, until he could no longer preach and would retire to the Charlottetown Hospital. John continued spreading the word of God at the hospital until his death on 18 April 1926.
Rev. John MacMillan wrote a lovely poem, in 1912, about living on Prince Edward Island:
No foreign clime my thoughts could move,
nor land my heart beguile,
The home for me in life and death
is fair Prince Edward's Isle
Within UPEI's Provenance Collection is the book, How Canada Is Governed: A Short Account of Its Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Municipal Institutions, with an Historical Outline of Their Origin and Development by John George Bourinot. J.C. MacMillan's signature is twice written in the book.
Other MacMillan books in the UPEI Provenance Collection:
Bryant, William Cullen. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, 1891. [J.C. MacMillan signature.]
Scott, Walter. The Fair Maid of Perth: or, St. Valentine's Day. New York: Waverley Book Company, 1898. [Jno C. MacMillan pst signature and J.C. MacMillan signature]
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family. New York: The Hovendon Co., 1855. [J.C. Macmillan pst signature twice and a “The Sacred Thirst” bookmark on page 57.]
Thackeray, William Makepeace.The Virginians: a tale of the last century. 1859. [J. C. MacMillan, psh signature.]
Sources:
“An Appreciation of Rev Dr McMillan.” May 1926. Red and White. Pg. 56-57. Identifier vre:rw-batch2-2074.
1881 Census of Canada. Census Place: Lot 55, Kings, Prince Edward Island; Roll: C_13164; Page: 59; Family No: 222.
1891 Census of Canada.Census Place: Lot 55, Kings, Prince Edward Island; Roll: T-6382; Family No: 210.
1921 Census of Canada. Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 105; Census Place: Charlottetown (City), Queens, Prince Edward Island; Page Number: 4.
“Died.” The Guardian. 17 December 1889. Island Newspapers. Pg. 1. Accessed 18 July 2016.
Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road 1892-1992 Palmer Road, P.E.I. : Centennial Booklet Committee, 1992.
MacRae, Allan. “The Acadians of Palmer Road Parish,” West Prince Graphic, 19 August 2015. Accessed from peicanada.com on 18 July 2016.
Robb, Andrew. “Michael A. McInnis and Migration from Prince Edward Island,” The Maple Leaf, January 1912, pg. 19. Accessed from IslandMagazine 18 July 2016.
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Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road 1892-1992 Palmer Road, P.E.I. : Centennial Booklet Committee, 1992, p. 86., 1862, Dundas, Prince Edward Island, 18 April 1926, Charlottetown Hospital, Prince Edward Island, Flora MacMillan, John MacMillan
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