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His draft registration lists his birthdate as 19 May 1893. | Truman Charles DRYER
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He was the son of William R. and Julia E. DICKINSON DRYER. | William Charles DRYER
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AFN GSQD-QT lists her last name as DUNKON. | Mary DUNBAR
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Added day | Sarah DUPREE
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Sarah E. is a boarder with the James F. Shaw family. She is a widow; had 7 children and 5 are still living. Sarah says her father and mother were both from IL. | Sarah DUPREE
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She is buried in Port Cemetery. | Sarah DUPREE
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She is buried in Port Cemetery. | Sarah DUPREE
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She was the daughter of William DuPree/DuPrey | Sarah DUPREE
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She is living there with four children. | Mary E. DUPUY\DUPREE
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S.R. Durand:
"My earliest definite memory is the day August 18, 1908 when my second sister Elizabeth McVickar (always later known by her nickname "Glee") was born. My brother, sister and I had been sent early in the morning with Guire [their nurse] to a friend of the family's home, a couple of blocks north on Lake Drive, to spend the day. We were brought home about supper time to see our new sister in a cradle beside my mother's bed. ...One year [probably in the 1950's] when my brother, on a sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was teaching at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Mother and my sister Glee spent some time visiting there."
Glee Durand, in contrast with my grandfather's reserved manner, is often first remembered for her sarcastic (and occasionally cantankerous) wit. | Elizabeth Mcvickar "Glee" DURAND
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S.R. Durand, on his father, Loyal Durand: "[My] dad's father, Loyal Root Durand, died when Dad was only three and a half years old, and his brother Samuel Benjamin Durand only one year old. Dad's mother, Maria Elizabeth (McVickar) Durand, inherited $60, 000 in life insurance on her husband's death, and thus was able to build a home for herself and her boys adjacent to that of her widowed father, at what was then 591 Cass Street, just south of Juneau Avenue, in Milwaukee. Her father, Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar, owned an entire city block bounded by Van Buren, Cass, and State Streets, and Juneau Avenue. He was a great horticulturist with extensive gardens and orchards on his property, and employed several gardeners. He died in 1883, when Dad was 15 years old. My father as a young boy had many hobbies and interests. In 1878, when he was 10 years old, his mother took him and his brother east for the summer to visit relatives, and he had a small autograph book in which many relatives wrote and signed notes for him. This started him on collecting autographs of prominent men, and in the next years he acquired a book full of them, including several presidents, cabinet members, senators and congressmen, explorers, etc. I have a paper my father wrote about a visit to Central Park in New York, a very good description by a 10-year-old of the park and the people who frequented it. For several years as a boy my father also collected postage stamps from all over the world, corresponding and trading stamps with other boys. In 1884, when he was 16, he was editor and publisher of a boys' bi-monthly magazine called The Vignette. This was an amateur publication, one of eight put out by groups of boys in Milwaukee. In July of 1884 the National Amateur Press Association held its convention in Milwaukee, with boys attending from all over the country. In the baseball game between the East and West on July 10, 1884, the West won by a score of 24 to 14, with my father playing center field and later second base on the victorious team. He also wrote an account of the convention. Dad as a young boy attended the Cathedral School, a private boys' school of St. John's Episcopal Cathedral. He went later on to the old Milwaukee High School, from which he graduated in 1886. He entered the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the fall of that year. In high school he had been captain of a cadet company organized and drilled by General Charles King, a retired veteran of the Civil War. In college, he maintained this interest in military affairs, and during his four years in Madison became captain of the Univeristy Military Corps. He joined the Sigma Chi social fraternity in the days before fraternities had living quarters. Dad was a good athlete, standing 6'4" tall and weighing 180 pounds. During his college years he played first base for a time on the baseball team, and he was captain and number one player of the tennis team. When Dad's brother entered the University of Wisconsin in 1887, his mother gave up her home in Milwaukee and bought a home at the bend on Langdon Street in Madison. This enabled her to economize somewhat in providing college educations for her two sons, as well as providing a home for them during their university years. Her home became a meeting place for the Sigma Chis, and a place where many parties and dances were held. My father studied law at the University of Wisconsin, and became a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. In his senior year in the law school, he wa svery sick with pneumonia for a long time and was therefore unable to graduate with his "Mighty '90" class in June of 1890. He completed his legal education and recieved his L.L.D. degree in 1891, but he always considered himself a member of the 1890 class, with whom he reunited periodically over the years. He was admitted to the bar in 1892, and then remained in Madison for a year in the office of Burr W. Jones, a Justice of the State Supreme Court. Upon returning to Milwaukee, Dad joined the law firm of Miller, Noyes, Miller and Wahl, remaining with this firm until 1897. During those recession years of the United States' economy, there was practically no opportunity for a young lawyer to get established. Dad often laughed about some of his early legal experiences, such as trying to collect rents at saloons. These instances sometimes necessitated his using good judgment in making a hasty retreat, with the saloon-keeper and several patrons at his heels. In 1897 my father borrowed money and purchased the general insurance agency of Alfred James, who disposed of his agency in order to join his father, who was president of the Northwestern National Insurance Company. Soon after entering the general insurance business my father became the representative of about a dozen fire insurance companies, and also became the general agent in Wisconsin for the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., of London. He wrote the first employers' liability insurance policies for this company in the United States. He established agencies in about a dozen cities in Wisconsin, and for about forty years until his death managed this large business. He quickly became a recognized leader among insurance men, and in the early 1900's was a director for twleve years and president for three of the Board of Milwaukee Fire Underwriters. He was a director for six years and president for one of the Wisconsin Association of Insurance Agents. His office for many years was in the old Marine Bank building at Mitchell and North Water Streets. In about 1915 he moved his office to the Wells Building on East Wisconsin Avenue. It included a large part of the second floor. After 1930, his office was on the eighth floor of this building. When I was very young, I can remember vividly sitting under a large oak tree on our front lawn on late summer afternoons, waiting for my father to come home on his bicycle. We children were always very excited to see him come around the corner from Lafayette Place into Lake Drive and ride the block and a quarter to our home. He had a fine bicycle, a type I've never seen since, for instead of a chain between the pedaling sprocket wheel and the back wheel, it had enclosed gears and a transmission rod. When Dad bought our first automobile in 1910, he abandoned his bicycle, which I at the age of 12 attempted to ride without tires, and badly bruised and scraped my knees and arms as a result. Several of Dad's friends in the years between 1910 and 1930 walked the couple of miles downtown to their offices. Each morning with good weather Dad would wait at a parlor window after breakfast until he saw the group coming down Lake Drive, when he would leave the house to join them. Usually in the evenings, Mother would drive down to get him; later when my brother and I had learned to drive at high school age, we took turns picking him up at about 6pm at his office. Upon returning from work, my father was always eager for some playing with his children, usually with my brother and me. Mostly we played catch with baseball mitts and a hard baseball, and Dad got a big kick out of throwing the ball as fast as he could at me. As a result, I was a star player on my grade school team, and on a neighborhood team that played in the Milwaukee Journal League (something like the Little League of today). Unfortunately, baseball was not played in high school then, so I turned to tennis and became the state interscholastic champion, with Dad's help and encouragement. Dad, upon returning to Milwaukee after his university days, had helped to establish the Town Club, which had five tennis courts. The Wisconsin State Tennis Championships were played at this club in August of each year, and this was the prime social event of the summer season. Dad won the state singles championship several times, and also the doubles championship many times, playing with his good friend Robert McMinn. About 1910, upon joining the Fox Point Country Club, he gave up tennis for golf and became a good player at this sport, usually shooting within ten strokes over par. In addition to playing tennis and golf, Dad was a great gardener, and each summer cultivated a large backyard garden of flowers and vegetables. My father loved outdoor activities, but he was noted also as an expert bridge player. He played bridge several times a week, usually after lunching at the University Club or the Milwaukee Athletic Club. Groups of men always gathered behind his chair to watch his skill in playing and bidding bridge hands. Also, many Saturday evenings during the wintertime, he played Skat, a German card game; usually he played with my uncles Charles Lemon and Seldon Sperry, a Mr. Williams, and a Mr. Booth. Frequently, after dinners at home during the week, we played card games or other games as a family, and sometimes Dad and I played chess. After the First World War, Mother and Dad became even more adventurous. We made several motor trips east to Niagara Falls, and to visit Dad's three aunts, Jane and Louise Durand and Hannah Gould, in Rochester, New York, and several Durand cousins there who were all most hospitable to us. We drove on other trips to Jamestown, Washington, Gettysburg, Valley Forge, and Philadelphia to see many historic places, since Dad's great interest was American history. We visited New York City, where Dad had meetings with the executives of various insurance companies he represented in Wisconsin. We visited many historic places in New England and the old Durand farm homesteads in Berlin and Derby, Connecticut. In Boston, Dad conferred on each trip with the executives of the Employers Liability Insurance Corporation, for which he was the general agent for Wisconsin. These trips were made when long distances had to be traveled over dusty gravel roads, and when we often had to stay in miserable small-town hotels, since it was before the days of concrete highways and modern motels. Mother was a mighty good sport to make these trips of several weeks' duration, for she did not, I am sure, enjoy them nearly as much as Dad did. Each summer from the time I was about 7 until about 16 years of age, we spent several weeks in the country in cottages rented on one of the lakes west of Milwaukee...my father spent the week in Milwaukee, where his mother with the servants maintained our home, and would arrive in the country early Saturday afternoon. At that time, his large office with many employees worked from 8:30am to 6pm each day, and on Saturdays until 1pm. My father's service in public life was outstanding. He gave generously of his time and talents, at a considerable sacrifice to his health and his business interests, over many years. He entered public life in 1919 by being pesuaded to accept and appointment to the Milwaukee Board of Education. The following year he became president of this board, responsible for the school system of Milwaukee, and he was president again in 1924, 1925, and 1926. He was re-elected and served on the school boardfor fourteen years, until 1933, when he declined to run again. I remember so many, many subzero winter evenings when right after dinner, he left for committee or board meetings, and did not return until after midnight. Dad served, too, as a trustee of the Milwaukee Public Library from 1920 through 1926, and as president of that board in 1924 and 1925. One advantage of this service was that he brought home books for a few days before they were selected for circulation; he enjoyed in particular reading books on international politics, history, and biographies of well-known men. Another board my father served on in the 1920's was the Milwaukee Auditorium Board. Besides Dad's great interest and service in public life in Milwaukee, he served the University of Wisconsin in several capacities from 1919 until 1933. He was appointed by the Alumni Association in 1919 as their representative on the Board of Visitiors, an advisory board to the board of Regents. In 1924 he was president of this board. He made frequent visits to Madison, where he conferred with the heads of various departments and many other professors on the needs of the University, and presented his recommendations through the Board of Visitors for action by the Regents. In 1922, he became a director of the University Alumni Association; he was its vice-president from 1928 until 1932, when he withdrew, at a time when his health necessitated reducing demands on his energy. During my father's most active business years he became a director of several Milwaukee manufacturing companies. His investments in insurance companies he represented, such as the Continental Corp., the Home Insurance Co. (later part of City Investing Co.), and the Northwestern National Insurance Co. (later the NN Corp.) were all successful. However, he had bad luck during the 1929 to 1933 depression period with investments in two local companies, a farm loan mortgage company, and in some railroad stocks. But at the time of his death in 1937, he left an estate to mother of over $100,000, which enabled her to have a comfortable income for the rest of her life. Dad's prominence in business and education resulted in his biography being included in "Who's Who in the Midwest." My father's health began to fail about 1935, but he kept up an active social and business life until his death at the age of 69 from heart trouble on October 3, 1937. An account of his life in the Encyclopaedia of American Biography, 1938[?], concludes by quoting an editorial that was printed in the Milwaukee Journal a day after his death as follows: 'Public Education and Library - these were the[four] words that Loyal Durand wrote when asked to provide some data on the many activities of his long career in Milwaukee. They come back to us now, with his passing, as an indication of what he thought was worthwhile. In them, we get an index to his life and the contribution he made to his city and state. Always it was education - forthe children, for the middle-aged, for those who had passed the prime of life but still wanted to improve their knowledge - through the public school system from kindergarten to the university, through such agencies as the public library - always it was education, the spread of knowledge, that counted in the life of Loyal Durand. ...In his quiet, evenly-balanced way, he had a marked influence on each institution with which he came into contact. In the public school system he was looking ahead always to wider service for children. He stood by the university and its young people when the institution was attacked. To him, youth was sound and he refused to see cause for alarm. But he did see cause for apprehension whenever funds were lessened, or an educational institution departed from the path of widest service to all children. And he was quick to say so. Loyal Durand did many other things - good things - in connection with business and civic organizations. That was part of his workday life. But his heart was always with the schools. We have a better public school system, a better university, and a better public library because he lived.' The funeral service for my father was a very large one, attended by many personal friends of the family, business friends, and public officials. His remains were buried in the Durand family plot in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. Dad was a wonderful father to me, always interested in my success in school work, and always eager to participate in sports and games with me when I was a young boy. He was deeply devoted to Mother and to all his four children, and he had many close personal friends who admired him greatly."
I, for my part, know that Bampo was a proud inheritor of his father's staunchly Republican political affiliations. In a letter from the early 1980's, Bampo related to my father's proudly Republican distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt Wood that his father had indeed met Teddy Roosevelt. In fact, he wrote, Loyal Durand was very near Roosevelt when the candidate was shot by a would-be assassin; Roosevelt escaped unharmed, as the bullet lodged in a thick stack of papers he had folded in his breast pocket. Also, I recall Bampo's relating that his father had certain constants in his breakfast diet, which was served to him by his wife each morning: three eggs, three strips of bacon, and three cups of coffee. From our modern, medically enlightened viewpoint, one must assume that this diet likely contributed to the heart attack that ended Loyal Durand's life at the age of 69.
Doran-Wood citation: Ancestry of Samuel Relf Durand, Durand, Samuel Relf (1904-1996) Publication: Palo Alto, CA: Handwritten, circa 1991, Repository: Collection of Derek Doran-Wood, Media: Manuscript, Page: 14-22 | Loyal DURAND
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S.R. Durand: "One year [probably in the 1950's] when my brother, on a sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was teaching at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Mother and my sister Glee spent some time visiting there."
Derek Doran-Wood Note: S.R. Durand: "My brother, Loyal Durand, Jr. was twenty months older than I. He was born July 12, 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the first child of our parents, Loyal and Lucia (Kemper) Durand. In the biographical sketches about my mother and father, I have recorded quite a bit about the family I grew up in, the nice manner in which we lived in the early part of the twentieth century, and the lovely colonial home where we resided in Milwaukee. My brother, two younger sisters and I were the most fortunate of individuals born into this world to have had such wonderful parents. Our childhood was a happy one in a closely devoted family.
My brother was nearly four years old in April, 1906 when we moved to our new home at 384 Lake Drive, now 2112 North Lake Drive. I have several pictures of my brother Loyal Jr. (always called Loy) and me in the garden of our Racine Street home that were taken by my mother, who, during our childhood, was quite interested in photography. My earliest memories of our new home are of playing with my brother in a large sandpile (on a vacant lot north of us) in the summertime, and playing in the snow in our backyard in the wintertime. On the third floor of our home, we had a playroom where we spent many hours on a swing and trapeze, playing with toys, and going through many volumes of bound St. Nicholas magazines preserved from my father's boyhood. I also recall Loy and me crossing the gravel tar-coated street of Lake Drive to stand on a rail fence each day, to watch a boy come to get cows from a field and drive them down Prospect Avenue to be milked in barns behind mansions on the cobblestone street. Often, with our nurse and baby sister Lucia in a carriage, we walked the three blocks to the Lafayette Street bridge over the railroad tracks to watch trains pass by; this was where the railroad left the lakeshore and cut through to follow the Milwaukee River northward.
In 1910, my brother Loy was sent to the Milwaukee Normal Teacher Training School on Downer Avenue, a mile and a quarter north of our home. He entered the third grade, having been taught to read at home by my mother. School commenced at 8:15 a.m., lunch was from 11:45 am to 1:15 pm, and school ended for the day at 3:30. On good days, Loy walked to school, home for lunch, back afterwards, and then home again in the afternoon, a good five miles of walking each school day. I should say jogged and ran rather than walked - after I began school a year later, we ran or roller-skated together, always in a great hurry. When the weather was rainy or very cold, we rode a streetcar which we boarded four blocks north of our home where North Avenue met Lake Drive.
Many days in mid-winter, we struggled through deep snow to the streetcar line and waited a long time in the bitter cold until a snowplow could clear the tracks. On very bad days we stayed at school for lunch. Later, when our sisters (Dit and Glee were our nicknames for Lucia and Elizabeth) were going to this school, too, my mother or father would drive us to school in the morning.
Loy was a brilliant student and always at the top of his class. He enjoyed poring over encyclopedias and history books, and was especially interested in reading about distant countries and studying maps in a large world atlas we had at home. He made many notes in this atlas, and this early interest in geography undoubtedly led him in later life to become an eminent professor of geography and a prolific writer on geographical subjects. He was interested in sports to the extent of participating in baseball games in the spring time and football and soccer games in the fall, organized by boys in our neighborhood. But he did not endeavor to become a good tennis player or golfer because, in the summer time, he suffered from hay fever, which handicapped him greatly for these sports. An interest of my brother when a young boy was drawing cartoons, at which he was very clever. When quite young, he saved the Sunday newspaper comic sections which amused him very much. He drew his cartoons using similar characters to those he found in comic strips and provided much enjoyment for the family with his creations of funny situations and sayings of his characters.
When I was six and Loy was nearly eight years old in 1910, my father bought our first automobile. That summer we made a few trips on gravel roads as far as Delafield, Wisconsin, twenty-eight miles west of our home, where we picnicked with relatives at their country homes. These day-long Sunday trips were really somewhat adventurous in that we never knew how many inner tubes or tires would "blowout" or go "flat" and how many times they would have to be patched and (with inner "shoes" over the blowout holes in the tire) put in and pumped up with a hand-operated air pump. But we enjoyed these Sunday picnics and kept them up for several years.
In the fall of 1911, Loy and I started going to Sunday School at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. My mother or father drove us usually the mile and a half south to the 9:320 a.m. Sunday School service and we walked home afterwards. During mid-winter, we stopped at the Town Club on Farwell Avenue just south of Brady Street to ice skate and to play ice hockey on a portion of the rink on the four tennis courts boarded off or boys' hockey games. We enjoyed stopping, too, at our Uncle Selden and Aunt Sue's home (Dr. and Mrs. Sperry) on Farwell Avenue to be treated to homemade cookies and to see our grandfather, Samuel Kemper, who lived with them. We called him "Bampo". He died at the age of eight-eight in September, 1915.
In 1912 we spent several weeks in the country on a large island in Pine Lake about twenty-five miles west of our home. We occupied the cottage of our Uncle Fred and Aunt Sophy Best. They, with their children, stayed in his mother's summer home while she was in Germany. This was our first experience of country living in the summer time. We watched sailboat races in which my uncle participated on Saturdays and Sundays and we had several motorboat rides around the lake with my uncle. Later in the summer of 1912, we made a long trip in our "Cross Country Rambler" car to Deerwood, Minnesota, which I described briefly in writing about my mother.
During the 1st World War in 1914 to 1918, the boys in our neighborhood played soldier. We built trenches and dugouts in a vacant lot and had great battles with snowballs in the winter time and soft mud balls in the summer time. Fortunately, mother had a large staff of servants to wash our clothes after these battles. During these years, Loy was the principal organizer of a baseball team of neighborhood boys which we named the Lake Drive Lions. We entered a league of boy's teams sponsored by the Milwaukee Journal newspaper. This was along before the days of Little Leagues sponsored by the parents of young boys and there were no adults to umpire and control games. After some good fights with opposing teams from the Irish and Polish wards of the city in which we lost much equipment, we retired from the Journal League. Loy was the catcher on our team, and he ended up several times with a good black eye from catching without a mask or from the fist fights that generally broke up our games. At about this stage of our boyhood, the newspaper sport pages were full of news of prize fights and prize fighters. This was before the time of professional football and some other sports that now fill the sport sections. Many boxers in those days were nicknamed "Kid" so-and-so, and when Loy and I did a lot of boxing in our third floor playroom, we called each other "Kid L" and "Kid S". We continued to call each other by these pseudonyms all our lives as a token of affection for each other.
In the fall of 1914 when Loy became twelve years old, he joined Boy Scout Troop Number 17 at St. Paul's Church. In those days, there were no Cub Scout Troops, and I was mighty jealous that my older brother was a scout before I could become one. Two years later I became a Boy Scout and, for four weeks in July, 1917, we went to a Boy Scout camp when it was first established at Silver Lake, a small lake thirty miles west of Milwaukee. This was a great experience, for we helped to build many of the facilities at the camp.
In the summer of 1918, there was a great need for help in getting in crops on the farms of Wisconsin and an appeal was made for sixteen and seventeen year old city boys to work on farms. Loy became sixteen on July 12, 1918 and through one of the men who worked in my father's large insurance office, it was arranged for Loy to work on his uncle's farm in southern Wisconsin. So for several weeks until school started in September, Loy milked cows in early morning and late evening hours, pitched hay during the day and did other farm work. He was somewhat interested in farming as a career, and had gone for a few weeks in June to the County Agricultural School just west of Milwaukee, but after his experience with actual hard physical labor on a farm, I do not recall his ever talking again about becoming a farmer. I do not think farming offered enough intellectual stimulus to his very keen mind, nor was he physically strong enough at this age for hard farm work. He did go with a friend, Robert Richardson, to a cherry orchard across Lake Michigan in June each of the following two years to pick cherries, at which seasonal work they made good money.
When we were young, we earned fifteen cents a week for cutting and watering grass and helping to plant and maintain a vegetable garden in summer time and shoveling snow off sidewalks and operating the coal-fired house furnace and hot water heater in winter time. We never received an allowance; our father believed we should earn our money. We both had paper routes for a time when in our teens. This was mighty hard work delivering papers often in winter time in sub-zero weather.
Loy entered Riverside High School in the fall of 1916. He rode his bicycle to and from high school a mile and a half each way four times a day. He took a science course that included general science in his freshman year, zoology and botany in his senior year. His only extra-curricular activity that I can recall was joining in his second year the Orient Debating Society. He became president of this group of boys interested in debating in his senior year, which was quite an honor for, I believe, he was the only one not intending to be a lawyer or politician in later life. The big event each year was a debate before the entire school between the Orient and Crescent Debating Societies and, as I recall, Loy in his junior year was one of the three from the Orient Society that won the debate that year.
One of the trials of our boyhood was attending dancing school at the Atheneum (Wisconsin Women's Club) on Saturday afternoons in the winter time during high school age days. Loy did not suffer as much as I did in having to learn ballroom dancing. And he got to go to an evening class for older children after one year. In college days and afterwards, I guess that dancing school paid off, because I, at least, became rather proficient at dancing and enjoyed it very much. There were many big dancing parties at Christmas time which we were invited to; some were tea dances in the afternoon followed by a dinner party and large dance afterwards the Town Club or the Atheneum. «tab»During several weeks of the summer of 1919, our parents rented a cottage on Upper Nebahbin Lake. for short periods from 1916 to 1919, we had spent time in rented cabins in Delafield on Nagawicka Lake, but the summer of 1919 was a memorable one for Loy and me, for we took several day-long canoe trips through the lovely winding Bark River joining small lakes and we swam in the lake two or three times each day. «tab»During part of each summer for many years, Loy and I worked in our father's insurance office. When quite young, one of us would work as an office boy mornings and the other afternoons. When older, we did lots of bookkeeping work as well as driving our car to deliver insurance policies to offices and industrial plants in the city. We walked each day from our father's office (which occupied half of the second floor of the Wells Building) to make deposits in the Marine Bank and another job was to always get the large amount of mail off at 5:30 p.m. Our summer time vacation of a few weeks in the country was usually in August after having worked in June and July. «tab»Loy graduated from Riverside High School at the top of his class in June, 1920. During mornings in the early part of the summer, Loy and I studied French at the college level in a class at the Milwaukee State Teachers' College. We had had the maximum amount of French given in high school, and we were encouraged by my mother to continue studying this language with the hope of being able to travel some day to France. «tab» Later in 1920, our family drove to Rochester, New York, where we had a reunion with many Durand relatives. On this trip, we visited, too, Niagara Falls, which I hardly remembered from previously having been there when a very young boy. Our car had two fold-out seats between the front and rear seats, and my brother and I took turns with our sisters sitting on these hard, uncomfortable seats. When it was our turn to have the back seat, we used up excess energy wrestling for possession of a small pillow. «tab»With the tire troubles often several times a day and engine overheating, we were fortunate to average only about one hundred and fifty miles per day on the loose gravel roads of that era. «tab» In September, 1920, Loy started college at the Milwaukee State Teachers College, now the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. At that time, students could attend any of the Teachers Colleges in the State of Wisconsin for two years and receive full credit when transferring the third year to the Letters and Science Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Loy lived at home for the first two years of college work and entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison at the start of his junior year in September, 1922. He pledged Sigma Chi fraternity, the fraternity our father had been a member of during his college days at the University of Wisconsin, and he was initiated into membership in March, 1923. He had made such an outstanding scholastic record in Milwaukee and continued it at Madison that he was honored by being elected to the scholastic honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year at college in 1924. In January, 1924, while majoring in geography, he was made an assistant instructor six months before graduating in June, 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. «tab»During the summer of 1924 our entire family made an extensive automobile trip in the eastern part of the United States. My father's great interest was in the history of our country, and he had a large library of historical works and read extensively on historical subjects. We visited the battlefield of Gettysburg where my father, my brother and I tramped over much of the ground where monuments revealed where various regiments had fought. After a few days in Washington, where we saw all the important government buildings, monuments and museums, we visited Mount Vernon, the Yorktown National Monument and Williamsburg, Virginia, which was in the process of being restored to its early Colonial charm. We went to Annapolis to see the Naval Academy and we visited the historical buildings in Philadelphia and the churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church where so many of my mother's ancestors are buried in the church graveyards. We saw, too, Valley Forge and we stopped to call on distant cousins living in the old Beach homestead on the Rariton River near New Brunswick, New Jersey. At New Brunswick, we found the grave of Colonel Daniel Kemper in the Christ Church graveyard. «tab»In New York City our father spent some time with executives of insurance companies he represented, but also took us to many historical places and to the theatre several times. We stopped at St. Paul's churchyard in Norwalk, Connecticut to see the gravestone monument of my mother's grandmother, Ann (Relf) Kemper, wife of Bishop Jackson Kemper. In New Haven, we called on some distant Hillhouse cousins of Dad's living in their large manor home on the Yale University campus. And in Berlin, Connecticut, we saw the old Durand homestead where Dad's father had been born. Then we drove to see the military academy at West Point and we called on two elderly Salisbury ladies at their historic Catskill home, descendants of Captain Sylvestre Salisbury, one of my mother's ancestors. «tab»M brother became a graduate assistant in the Geography Department of the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1924, thus earning his living while pursuing studies toward a doctoral degree. He and a good Sigma Chi friend, George Bunker, had rooms in a home on Langdon Street just beyond Lake Street, but Loy did most of his studying in his office in Science Hall. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1925. In the summer of 1926, he was an assistant of the Wisconsin Geological Survey. «tab»Ater I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in June, 1926, I spent that summer traveling with George Bunker in Europe. On returning in September for a year of graduate work in the Physics Department, Loy and I and a good friend, Bill Crutcher, (who in 1932 married our sister Elizabeth - "Glee") had an apartment together in Sterling Court. Actually, we had only two rooms in one of which we had our desks and bureaus and in the other our beds. We ate all our meals in nearby restaurants or cafeterias. In the summer of 1927, Loy and another graduate assistant made an extensive tour together of Europe. They were in Cracow, Poland at the time of a revolution and were standing just inside the entrance to their hotel when a policeman at the doorway was shot and killed. They were not able to get out of Poland for several days to continue their trip to Czechoslovakia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and England. From the fall of 1927 through the fall of 1929, Loy lived at the University Club on State Street across from the State Historical Library, and from 1928 to 1930 he was an instructor in the Geography Department. In 1930 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree. His Ph.D. thesis was published in 1930 and was entitled, "The Geographic Regions of Wisconsin". «tab»A Christmas time 1929, I went from New York where I was an engineer in the International Telephone & Telegraph Company Laboratory to South Bend, Indiana to be best man at the wedding of my brother to Dorothy Lee. We stayed in a hotel where my mother, father and sister Glee were also staying. The wedding was on Christmas Day afternoon and there had been a heavy snowstorm during the night. In walking from the hotel a few blocks to the church, Loy and I were wearing high top hats and were pelted with snowballs by several young boys and arrived somewhat beaten up for the ceremony. However, everything went smoothly and Loy was happily married to a lovely girl who had been one of his students. Loy and Dottie spent a short honeymoon in the south, for Loy had to be back in Madison in January 1930 to resume teaching in the Geography Department where he was an instructor. In June, 1930, he was promoted to be an assistant professor. «tab» I was married in 1931 and Jerry and I were living in Milwaukee after 1932. We drove often to Madison to see Dottie and Loy and they came into Milwaukee often to stay with my mother and father, where we had many happy times together. Loy and Dottie purchased a very nice home on Nakoma Road in the outskirts of Madison and all four of their sons were born during the 1930's in Madison. «tab» Our three daughters Lucia, Jean and Sarah were in between [Loy and Dottie's boys] in age, and many Christmas days with seven small children at my parents' large home in Milwaukee were festive occasions. Each summer Loy and Dottie and their boys spent a few weeks at her parents' cottage at Macatawa on the shore of Lake Michigan. After the boys were older, they went to a summer camp for boys in the Rocky Mountains near Estes Park. «tab» My brother became one of the most distinguished geographers in the United States, largely through writing and having published a great many articles and books on geographical subjects. His first article published in the Journal of Geography in 1925 was entitled, "The Grain Trade of the Great Lakes." «tab» Subsequent to this, he published a great many articles for several years on the dairy industry in Wisconsin and became the most knowledgeable economic geographer in the study of this industry. «tab» Many more of his research articles on many subjects were published in the Journal of Geography and in publications such as the Geographical Review, Wisconsin Dairying, Geographical Press of Columbia University, Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, Economic Geography, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, etc. His first book was published by the Macmillan Company in 1933, entitled "Home Regions of Wisconsin". In 1937 Loy and two other professors published "The Working World, an Economic Geography," through the American Book Company. My brother did the major writing of this very successful book used by several hundred colleges and universities as their most important textbook for geographical studies. Revised editions were published in 1939 and 1947. «tab» In 1938, my brother and a Professor Whitaker wrote a book entitled, "Workbook for the Working World". This book they revised and rewrote in 1949; it was very successful for use with the "Working World, an Economic Geography." In 1939, my brother supplied a chapter on geography for a book published by John Wiley and Sons entitled "Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation". «tab»From 1944 to 1947, he was geography editor for the World Book Encyclopedia and wrote, checked and verified 259 articles for its volumes. In 1951 a book published by the Thomas Y. Crowall Company became the most important textbook for American universities for use in geographic studies in the next twenty years. It was entitled, "World Economic Geography," and was written by perhaps the four most eminent economic geography scholars in the country at the time: my brother Loyal Durand, Jr.; George T. Renner of Columbia University; C. Langdon White of Stanford University,; and Weldon B. Gibson, of the Stanford Research Institute. This book was revised in 1954, 1961 and in later years, largely through the work of my brother. It was a very large book of 758 pages with more than 500 illustrations and maps, most of which Loy prepared. «tab» Loy was geography editor of Groliers' Encyclopedia in 1958. Also, in 1958, he wrote with three other teachers a widely-used textbook published by the Macmillan Company entitled, "Living Together as World Neighbors". These two books were revised and republished by the Macmillan Company in 1966. In 1960 Loy with two others wrote for publication by the Holt, Rinehart and Winston Company, "World Geography Today". In 1961, he and Prudence Cutright wrote and had published by the Macmillan Company, "Our Canadian Neighbors". And in 1968, Prentice-Hall Company published my brother's last book, "Geography of Anglo-America". «tab» Loy did a lot of extra-curricular consulting work on the economic development and use of land resources. He became Land Planning Consultant for the Wisconsin National Resources Board in 1934, and in 1941 became a Special Land Planning Consultant to the National Resources Planning Board. «tab» During the 2nd World War in the summer of 1944, he served in the Office of Strategic Services (now the C.I.A.), Washington, D.C. and prepared several top secret wartime reports. From 1935 until 1941 he was secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters and editor of their Transactions. «tab» In January, 1944 my brother accepted an offer of an Associate Professorship and Chairman of the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee and the family moved to a large home at the campus in Knoxville. In 1946 he became a full professor. Because of his distinguished reputation in the field of economic geography, he was invited every summer, usually by several universities, to give special courses, often posing a problem for him as to which offer to accept. He was a visiting professor during summers at universities such as Penn State, the Universities of Utah, Oregon, Colorado, California at Los Angeles, Nebraska, and others. At some of these schools he gave special courses over more than one summer. «tab» From September, 1957 until June, 1958 Loy, on sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was visiting professor at the University of Hawaii. He and Dottie and their son Lee were in Honolulu during this time and my mother and youngest sister, Glee, visited them there. When the University of Tennessee in 1962 wanted land to expand the campus, Loy and Dottie sold their home to the university and purchased a lovely home about a mile from the campus at 3940 Wilani Road. My brother received many honors during his lifetime. In addition to having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1924, he was honored by being elected to Phi Beta Kappa Associates, a group of two hundred within Phi Beta Kappa. His biography was first published in "Who's Who in America" in 1952 and in subsequent years; it also appeared in "Who's Who in Education," "The Directory of American Scholars" and "American Men of Science." A biography of his life and achievements appeared in the "National Cyclopedia of American Biography" in 1967. | Loyal DURAND
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He was the son of Samuel (Sr.) and Rebecca ROOT DURAND.
S.R. Durand: "I know very little about my grandfather, Loyal Root Durand, who died when he was only 31 years of age. He was born September 4, 1840 on his parents' farm in Berlin, Connecticut. He was one of the youngest of a large family; or, I might say, the second family of his father, Samuel Durand, Jr. The first family consisted of nine children, born between 1814 and 1828. Samuel Durand Jr.'s first wife, Eloisa (Lewis) Durand, died in 1832 and he was remarried in 1834 in Berlin, Connecticut to Rebecca Root, daughter of Asahel and Hannah (Goodrich) Root. Rebecca was born October 21, 1801; so she was 32 years of age at the time she became a second mother to this large family of children. Like one of his older half-brothers, Henry Smith Durand, Loyal Root Durand went to work at the age of 16 in a store in Hartford, Connecticut. «tab»After two years, at the urging and with the help of [a] brother who had been successful in business in Racine, Wisconsin, he went to Milwaukee and became established in the general fire and marine insurance business. During his early years in this business, he became the main supporter of his parents, four sisters, and one younger brother. By that time, his father was in his seventies and was no longer able to make his once-prosperous wheat farm pay [off] due to much lower prices being offered for wheat shipped from the middle west to the east. «tab»During this time, Loyal Root Durand paid to have his youngest sister, Hannah, educated at a private girls' finishing school in Massachusetts. Loyal Root Durand married Maria Elizabeth McVickar on September 3, 1866 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Milwaukee. He as well as his new father-in-law, Dr. Benjamin McVickar, had been among the founders of this church. In writing about my grandmother, I have told what little I know about their short married life. As a young man in his twenties, my grandfather quickly became a highly successful and respected businessman in Milwaukee. In 1865 and 1866 he was president of the Young Men's Association, which maintained the library that had been founded by his father-in-law and six others in 1848. This library was the forerunner of the public library in the city. «tab»After his father's death in 1870, Loyal Root Durand brought his mother, four sisters, and younger brother to Milwaukee and provided for them. He established the younger brother, William Timothy Durand, in the insurance business. My grandfather in 1870 and 1871 was one of the seven directors of the Chamber of Commerce, and also Vice President of the Musical Society. His firm of Helfenstein and Durand was the leading insurance agency in the city. They represented eleven of the largest insurance companies in the country, and wrote up to $200,000 on single risks. Letters I have from my grandfather to his wife indicate that he was often in the east on business. «tab»[In the aftermath of] the great Chicago fire in October of 1871, my grandfather spent many long days in Chicago, helping the insurance companies he represented there settle claims quickly so that people who had lost homes would have funds for their [own] support. After six weeks of day-and-night work, he died as a result of extreme exhaustion and exposure on November 19, 1871. «tab»At the time of his death, he had been offered the presidency of the Northwestern National Insurance Company (later the NN Corporation). Had he lived, he undoubtedly would have remained an outstanding leader in his community for many more years. A newspaper article of November 22, 1871 describes the funeral of Loyal Root Durand in St. Paul's Church on the previous day. It detailed how the businessmen of Milwaukee walked two by two, preceding the hearse from the church to the cemetery, which at that time was near to where the public library is today. It states that the funeral was one of the largest and most solemn ones ever held in the city. After describing the flower decorations of the church and the service, the account concludes as follows: 'the deceased was an universal favorite with all that knew him, and his acquaintances were very numerous. He was free from all ostentation, generous-hearted, plain in speech, blunt in expression, kind in his disposition, a good citizen, a firm friend, a fond husband and father. He was an example for all young men. He had, as a businessman, a fine career before him, gathering friends steadily and in an honest and upright manner; of no young man in Milwaukee could it be said that he possessed better prospects for an independence, so far as worldly matters are concerned. An all-wise but inscrutable God has seen fit to take him away, and today the yet young man, whom but as yesterday was among us and mingling with us in the apparent fullness of robust strength, sound health, and a prospective long life before him, is now in the grave, hidden from our sight, but not forgotten, his memory deeply cherished as one of Nature's nobleman - an honest man. As one of the many who knew him well and intimately - knew well the sterling qualities of which he was made up, and the generous, manly impulses that governed all his actions - as we saw the body of our friend leave the church, we called to mind the prayer of an ancient funeral form, when an invocation at its close was offered up to the Creator, that he 'form another citizen as virtuous as this hath been.' «tab»This final sentence of the newspaper account about my grandfather impresses me with [its correlation to] my father Loyal Durand. Only three and one-half years old at the time of his father's death, [he] grew up to have all the virtues and sterling qualities of his father, and to become one of the most honored men in Milwaukee for his many fine services in the public interest. In a letter my great-grandfather, Dr. Benjamin McVickar, wrote to a cousin in the east telling of the death of his daughter's husband, he mentioned that his son-in-law recently had not only purchased a home for his family, but had also provided one for his widowed mother and his sisters. Moreover, he had left his wife well protected with life insurance and other legacies, and had arranged that for a number of years she would receive an income from his insurance business. He left other legacies for his mother and sisters. This was quite remarkable in view of the fact that his whole business career had been for only a dozen years." | Loyal Root DURAND
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S.R. Durand:
"In 1948, Mother made a trip to England and France with my sister Lucia. In England, they visited Ringwood in Hampshire, where my mother's mother had been born."
My great-aunt Lucia Durand was affectionately called "Dit" by her family during her childhood. | Lucia DURAND
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S.R. Durand: "Philip Durand graduated from Yale University in 1955 and served as a 1st Lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1956 to 1959, stationed part of this time on Okinawa. He graduated from the University of Tennessee Law School in 1961 and was associated with a legal firm in Madison, Wisconsin from 1961 to 1963. He was a legal counsel in the Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa from 1963 to 1965, and a Professor of Jurisprudence at Blantyre University in 1965 and 1966. From 1967 to 1969, he was a Professor at the Kenya Institute of Administration, Lower Kabete, Kenya, Africa.
Since 1970 he was been an attorney in Knoxville, Tennessee." | Philip Poyntell DURAND
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S.R. Durand: "In 1900, my father's brother, Samuel Benjamin Durand, died at the age of 30 in Denver. He had graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1892 with a degree in Civil Engineering, and was the first to graduate a year later from Stanford University with an advanced degree in the same field. He had worked for the United States Radiator Company in Dunkirk, New York, starting in the foundry, where (my father always thought) he had been afflicted with lung trouble from silicosis, and unknown disease in those days. He had risen to the position of secretary of the company and had been married for two years at the time of his death. My grandmother and his wife were with him for many months during his attempt to recuperate in Denver, and it must have been very sad for my grandmother to have lost a son of about the same age as that of her husband at his death." | Samuel Benjamin DURAND
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I feel very fortunate to report that my grandfather was, and still is, a huge figure in my mind's conception of my youth, as well as my continued progress into manhood. I will have noted in this data that the bulk of it was gathered by Bampo, as we grandchildren always knew him. Even without the ominpresent transcriptions of his biographical portraits of his and his wife's ancestors, the volume of names, facts, and dates alone is enough to testify that his hand is on each page of this genealogy.
S.R. Durand, in his own words:
"My earliest definite memory is the day August 18, 1908 when my second sister Elizabeth McVickar (always later known by her nickname "Glee") was born. My brother, sister and I had been sent early in the morning with Guire [their nurse] to a friend of the family's home, a couple of blocks north on Lake Drive, to spend the day. We were brought home about supper time to see our new sister in a cradle beside my mother's bed.
When I was very young, I can remeber vividly sitting under a large oak tree on our front lawn on late summer afternoons, waiting for my father to come home on his bicycle. He had a fine bicycle, a type I've never seen since, for instead of a chain between the pedaling sprocket wheel and the back wheel, it had enclosed gears and a transmission rod. When Dad bought our first automobile in 1910, he abandoned his bicycle, which I at the age of 12 attempted to ride without tires, and badly bruised and scraped my knees and arms as a result.
Dad and Mother belonged to a family social club, the Town Club, which had five clay tennis courts, four bowling alleys, and in winter an excellent ice rink on the tennis courts. Dad won many trophies in tennis and bowling tournaments, but Mother mostly enjoyed ice skating and dances at this club. When I was about thirteen she taught me to play tennis, a game which I loved and excelled in for many years. Upon returning from work, my father was always eager for some playing with his children, usually with my brother and me. Mostly we played catch with baseball mitts and a hard baseball, and Dad got a big kick out of throwing the ball as fast as he could at me. As a result, I was a star player on my grade school team, and on a neighborhood team that played in the Milwaukee Journal League (something like the Little League of today). Unfortunately, baseball was not played in high school then, so I turned to tennis and became the state interscholastic champion, with Dad's help and encouragement.
After 1906, my grandmother [Maria Elizabeth (McVickar) Durand] came to live with us in our new house on Lake Drive, as my father was her sole means of support by then. Among my earliest remembrances of her were the times she took me and my brother on the hour-long streetcar ride to the Soldiers' Home. These were exciting adventures for us, because we could stand on the streetcar alongside the motorman and pretend we were helping operate it. While my grandmother was having tea with friends including Mrs. Sharp, the wife of the commander of the home, General Sharp, we wandered about talking to old Civil War soldiers and hearing accounts from them of battles they had fought in.
My grandmother had friends come in for tea most every afternoon when we were very young. We were allowed to come in for a cookie or a small piece of cake, and very weak tea with lots of warm milk. Tea, when guests were invited, was served in what we called the reception room instead of in the large parlor. This room was sort of considered my grandmother's special room until my parents purchased a piano and victrola, when we called it the music room. When my sisters and I took piano lessons and had to practice each day, this room had the advantage that a large sliding door could be closed to partially reduce the sounds of our efforts, in struggling with the fingering of scales or playing simple compositions.
In 1912, we had made our first long tour in our car to Deerfield, Minnesota, in the iron ore country west of Duluth. We went to the wedding of the daughter of a second cousin of Dad's, Caroline Hall, to Tracy Hale. My sisters were flower girls at this wedding. It took place at the summer home of Dad's cousin Alida and her husband William White, who in the wintertime lived just two blocks north of us on Lake Drive. This trip was quite an adventure, for we had many tire failures and some broken springs. On more than one occasion, we had to be hauled out of deep ruts on sandy roads by farmers with horses. We drove mostly with the top down, and sometimes did not get it put up and the side curtians extricated from behind the back seat and on fast enough to avoid getting drenched by sudden rainstorms. We carried our clothes in suitcases on a rack on the side running board, since this was before the days that cars had trunks for luggage. We returned through Sparta, Wisconsin, to stop and see Dad's old college friend, Lewis Hill, and his family. We also stopped in Madison to see several of Dad's friends there.
For a short time in early 1918, [my mother's] health was poor, and she took my two sisters with her to Summersville, North Carolina. They stayed in an inn near to where her sister, Gertrude, and her husband Samuel Hall had a home. In April, Dad took me and my brother to Washington to meet Mother and my sisters on their return trip. A week in Washington at that time, during the war, was an exciting experience for a fourteen-year-old boy, particularly because my uncle George Wilson, a widower who had been the husband of mother's oldest sister Anne, took us to many historic places, army posts, government buildings, and monuments.
After the First World War, Mother and Dad became even more adventurous. We made several motor trips east to Niagara Falls, and to visit Dad's three aunts, Jane and Louise Durand and Hannah Gould, in Rochester, New York, and several Durand cousins there who were all most hospitable to us. We drove on other trips to Jamestown, Washington, Gettysburg, Valley Forge, and Philadelphia to see many historic places, since Dad's great interest was American history. We visited New York City, where Dad had meetings with the executives of various insurance companies he represented in Wisconsin. We visited many historic places in New England and the old Durand farm homesteads in Berlin and Derby, Connecticut.
Each summer from the time I was about 7 until about 16 years of age, we spent several weeks in the country in cottages rented on one of the lakes west of Milwaukee.
...On the morning of the day Jerry and I were married, my father and mother and sister Glee had come to Kingston from Milwaukee. My other sister Lucia and her husband, Donald Wright, had come from Cambridge [MA]. Two of Jerry's friends from her Stanford University days were also at our afternoon wedding, which was at St. John's Episcopal Church. My uncle, Rev. Poyntell Kemper, was the rector of the church, and he married us. After the ceremony, my uncle and aunt had a very nice reception in their home. The next day, Jerry and I sailed for Europe on a honeymoon trip.
Upon our return from Europe we bought a car in Milwaukee and drove to California. This was during the Great Depression, when four of every five engineers were unemployed. My own job with the International Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York had terminated at the end of February, 1931; their International Communications Laboratory where I had done research and development was closed, and 450 engineers were let go. However, during several months of the previous year, I had been at the ITT plant in Palo Alto, California, supervising manufacture of 60 shipboard radio transmitters that I had designed. Knowing that vacuum tubes were still in production for these transmitters, I got in touch with the manager of this plant. I was told that if I came to Palo Alto, he could give me a job that would last for several months in tube manufacturing work.
We bought a three-year-old Chevrolet car for one hundred dollars, and drove via Yellowstone Park to California. We visited Jerry's family in San Gabriel for a few days before I went to work on the 4p.m.-to-midnight shift at the plant in Palo Alto. Just before Christmas, a large stock of transmitter tubes had been produced, and the plant was closed and its buildings sold to the City of Palo Alto for warehousing space. So, with me out of work again, we went to San Gabriel for Christmas with Jerry's parents and her sister Jean. I got a job for awhile in Hollywood, and Jerry and I had a small apartment there. | Samuel Relf DURAND
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Father: Pierre DURIER b: ABT 1690 in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey Mother: Judith DEMAREST | Daniel DURIE
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Marcia Staton records indicate this person's surname was ROBINSON. | Julia DYKEMAN
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DeKalb Co, Illinois Biographical Dictionary (Ancestry.com) -- GEORGE EASTERBROOK, deceased, was a farmer in section 14, Pierce Township, and had been a landowner in DeKalb County from 1856 until the date of his death. In that year he purchased 80 acres in section 14, and four years later he purchased an additional 80 acres on section 14. In 1883, his wife made a third purchase, of 80 acres on the section last named, under good improvements, provided with suitable farm buildings, and a good orchard.
Mr. Easterbrook was born Dec. 29, 1825, in Sackville, Westmoreland Co., New Brunswick, where he was reared in the pursuits of agriculture and also instructed in the vocation of stone mason. In 1847 he came to Freeport, Ill., and there worked as a farm assistant and also as a mason, alternating between the two callings for two years.
Subsequently he went to Kane Co., Ill. He was there married Feb. 17, 1853 to Priscilla, daughter of James and Caroline (Reed) Outhouse. Her parents were both born in the province of New Brunswick, and were pioneers of Kane County, wither they removed in 1834. They are of Holland descent and are, at present date (1885), residents of Blackberry. The parents of Mr. Easterbrook were of English birth, and his paternal grandfather was for many years a member of the House of Commons in England, and his father served as a member of the Canadian House of Parliament.
Soon after his marriage, Mr. Easterbrook went to Iowa and purchased 100 acres of land in Black Hawk County. He made no location for a home, but returned to Kane County, where he remained until the year named, in which he settled in Pierce Township. He died Dec. 8, 1864 leaving five children--Isabella, James George, Susan Emma, Wilson E. and Alvin W. After his decease, his wife rented the farm and returned to Kane County. She bought a farm where she resided until 1875, when she returned to the homestead in Pierce Township. Her sons are continuing the management of the estate in a highly creditable manner. Isabella married John Vosburgh of Kingston; Susan E. is the wife of William Postle and lives in Virgil Township, Kane County. James G. Easterbrook is the Assessor of Pierce Township. | George EASTERBROOK
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He purchased 80 acres of unimproved land on the northeast quartersection. Four years later he purchased in additional 80 acres in the same section. | George EASTERBROOK
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age 42 | Elizabeth ELDRED
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He is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. | Alden ELLIOTT
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She is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. | Myrtle E. (Walker) ELLIOTT
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He is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. | William Holland ELLIOTT
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Killed in a car accident. V.R. Vol. 13, p. 390. | Burr James ELLIS
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age 6 | Charlotte ELLIS
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Birthdate determined by subtracting his exact age at time of death. | Edward ELLIS
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Died of a cerebral hemmorage. | Edward ELLIS
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Listed as E.L., age 17 | Emma Lavinia ELLIS
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age 2 | Hannah ELLIS
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age 45, property owner, real estate $1500, personal property $500 | James ELLIS
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James was the son of Aaron Ellis. | James ELLIS
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"J.A." age 14 | John A. ELLIS
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She was the daughter of Reuben and Ruth EDDY ELLIS. | Sarah E. ELLIS
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She is the daughter of John and Sarah PERCELL EMBREE. | Hannah EMBREE
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Georgetta was possibly the daughter of James EVANS. | Georgetta EVANS
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He was the son of Samuel and Pheobe SPICER EVARTS. | William Wallace EVARTS
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Verify. Clarice is living in Brooklyn, Wisc in 1994. Certificate: 37517 | Edward M EVERY
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Re: Ruth Field Author: Charles Field Date: 21 Aug 2001 10:01 PM GMT I have DOB for Ruth the dau. of John the immigrant as 7 Jan 1645. As for Ruth Fairbank having been born 1622 at Field's Point, Providence; I would seriously question this. John arrived along with 93 others in 1636. 1636 is also listed in my encyclopedia as the beginning of the settlement of Providence. Since there were Fairbanks in John's hometown (even Ruths), I suspect she was born in England and not in RI. | Ruth FAIRBANK
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He is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. | Boyd FARNSWORTH
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He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth MARTIN (?) FARRINGTON. | Edward FARRINGTON
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Letters of Administration were granted to her step-son, John, for her estate, according to Marcia Staton. | Elizabeth FEAKE
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Marcia lists birth date of ca. 1635 | Elizabeth FEAKE
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Ancestral File 8XVC-H0 lists death place. | Hannah FEAKE
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Ancestral Record 8XVC-H0 indicates she was born in Maltock, Derby, England. | Hannah FEAKE
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In some records Sarah is given as the wife of his father, but it is doubtful Robert, Sr. ever remarried after the divorce.
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, v. 87, p. 212 - 221)
Colonel Banks (The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, p. 69) says he came to America with that fleet, and, if he did not, he must have arrived soon afterwards, for he requested to be made freeman on October 19, 1630, and was accepted May 18, 1631/2. John Winthrop's Journal (1:83, under the date of January 27, 1631/2) states that a certain hill - in that part of Watertown afterwards Waltham - was named for Robert Feake who had married the governor's daughter-in-law.
SUMMARY OF THE FEAKE FAMILY GENEALOGY OF NORFOLK, LONDON, AND COLONIAL AMERICA.
Lt. Robert Feake, second son of James Feake by wife Judith Thomas, is mentioned as such in the wills of his maternal grandfather in1610, and of his paternal grandmother in 1619. He was apprenticed to his father, James Feake, for a period of eight years beginning on September 21, 1615. This would suggest that he was born in 1602, perhaps even on Sept. 20 of that year. It is under his name that the Feake arms have recently been registered in the American Roll of Arms.
He is said to have come to America that the Winthrop Fleet of 1630. He requested that he be made freeman on October 19, 1630, and was accepted on May 18, 1631. John Winthrop's Journal states that a certain hill in Watertown (Waltham) was named for him.
He married Elizabeth Fones Winthrop, wd. of Harry Winthrop, who had d. coming to America in 1630. She was Governor Winthrop's niece and daughter-in-law.
Robert and Elizabeth may have lived for a time in Boston, but soon moved to Watertown. On September 4, 1632, Robert was made a lieutenant under Captain Daniel Patrick of Watertown, and on September 3, was on a committee to prepare fortifications. From 1634 to 1636 he was a member of the General Court, and in the latter year is first clearly recorded at Watertown. His land there is listed as totaling 200 acres in nine parcels He was elected selectman of Watertown in 1630 and 1638, but not in 1637. Before the first term was out he had apparently moved to Dedham where he was present at four town council meetings between Aug. 29, 1636, and January 28, 1636/7. His house and farm lot at Dedham are mentioned on August 11, 1637, but he resigned his right to these on September 21, 1638, and to all his Dedham property on November 23, 1638. In 1639, he was back at Watertown, a gentleman, when he signed a power of attorney.
On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake obtained from the Indians a deed conveying the site of Greenwich, Connecticut, and doubtless intended this to be an English settlement, but Greenwich was so close to the Dutch at New Amsterdam, that they were forced to submit to Dutch authority and became patroons of the Greenwich. Daniel Patrick had married a Dutch wife in Holland ten years earlier.
We don't know when Robert Feake first exhibited signs of the insanity which clouded his later years but the act of submission to the Dutch, dated April 9, 1642, was signed by Patrick and, in the absence and illness of her husband, by Elizabeth Feake. The illness might well have been mental. Insanity had been present in the Feake family in the preceding generation, Robert's aunt, Mary (Feake) Barnham was a lunatic for at least twenty years. However, these are the only known instances of mental illness in the family.
Testimony was later given in court by John Bishop, Richard Lawe, and Francis Bell that Robert Feake "was a man whose God-fearing heart was so absorbed with spiritual and heavenly things that he little thought of the things of this life, and took neither heed nor care of what was tendered to his external property," and so allowed his wife to dominate him. Bishop added that Feake had lived with him, and during this period went to Greenwich and there made an agreement contrary to what Bishop and his wife thought reasonable. For many years before his death Robert was unable to manage his own affairs and apparently made some arrangement with William Hallett to care for them, though there is no record of the agreement. There is, however, on record a letter in which John Winthrop expressed his satisfaction with the way in which Hallett discharged these duties. It would be too much to say that it expresses any approval of the relationship between Hallett and Elizabeth.
Allegations also claim that there was an illicit relationship between Elizabeth, and Daniel Patrick, who was assassinated by a soldier at Greenwich in 1644. However, Governor Winthrop's journal refers to Patrick's "folly" but makes no mention of Elizabeth being involved. On the other hand, considering that Elizabeth was his niece and daughter-in-law, he might have chosen not to record her part in it.
Robert Feake apparently returned to Boston. In 1647, he suddenly went back to England. On March 4, 1649/50, the House of Commons took action pardoning a Robert Feake for some unstated offense. The reason for the pardon has never been satisfactorily explained.
Thomas Lyons, husband of Elizabeth's daughter, Martha Johanna, was apparently very unhappy at not being able to manage Elizabeth's affairs. On April 14, 1648, he wrote to Governor John Winthrop, Sr., referring to Feake's mental difficulties, his sudden trip, and Elizabeth's adultery. "She openly confesses that she is married to him and with his child."
The child was born toward the end of 1648/9 and given the name William Hallett. A letter to her cousin, Governor John Winthrop, Jr., is signed Elizabeth Hallett, and also letters from William Hallett to John, Jr., which make it clear that Elizabeth and William claimed to be married, although Robert was still alive at this time.
It is claimeds by Hallett descendants that there was a legal divorce and that William and Elizabeth were married. There is only one primary source to prove this. It starts out, "Whereas Elizabeth Feax has for adultery, been legally divorced from her former husband Robert Feax, before our arrival, the preceding Director General and Council...."
There has been much discussion as to whether they were actually granted a divorce or just a legal separation with out the right to remarry. This is fully discussed in THAT WINTHROP WOMAN AGAIN. What is certain is that on both March 9, 1649, and on May 17, 1649, they had not married each other, since documents of those dates show them to be persecuted by both Dutch and the Connecticut authorities for continued adultery. They would surely have referred to a legal divorce and subsequent marriage in their defense if such existed. They did not, resorting instead to flight.
(Transcribed from the Dutch) Whereas Elizabeth Feax has for adultery been legally separated from her former husband Robbert Feax, before our arrival, by the preceding Director General and council, and since that time continued to live, cohabit and keep company with her pal and adulterer in a carnal manner, as the witnesses declare, contrary to all good laws and our published order, and endeavored with him to alienate, sell, and to transfer the lands, cattle, furniture, and other property of her former husband Robbert Feex, left to his four children, even to others who reside beyond our government, whereby the children finally impoverished, would became a charge either on the Company or on this Commonalty. This cannot be either suffered or tolerated, in a good and well regulated government. Therefore we do hereby, as well for the maintenance of justice as for the protection of the still minor children, and fatherless orphans, declare the above named Elizabeth Feax unqualified and incapable of disposing, alienating, transferring or selling any property, whether of her former husband, or belonging to the children; and although deserving of much severe castigation and punishment, yet through special favor & for private reasons us thereunto moving, we consent to her living and residing at Greenwich. within our government with the children under such Curators as we have already appointed, or hereafter for the future may appoint, to be supported out of funds that have been left and yet on the condition that she remain herself apart from him on pain of bodily punishment as we do hereby sentence and condemn William Hallet, the adulterer, to remain banished out of this our jurisdiction and entrusted government, and do depart therefrom within one month from date, and not to molest or trouble anyone within our government on pain of corporal punishment: furthermore condemning his pretended property to be forfeit for the benefit and advantage of the child begotten on her, on condition that travelling expenses be allowed him at the discretion of the director and council, and that he, moreover, pay the costs of this suit. Thus done in Council in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 9th March 1649.
William and Elizabeth fled from Dutch jurisdiction to Connecticut where John Winthrop, Jr. was at New London.
On May 17, 1649, the Connecticut Court issued the following:
"Whereas, It is now come to the certeine intelligence of this courte, that one Hallit, with one that was Mr. Pheax his wife, are now come into and lives in the Plantation of Pequett [New London}, and [as is concieued] hath committed in other places, so lives at this present, in the fowle sin of adultery, which is odious to God and man, and therefore this Courte cannot but take notice of it; It is therefore ordered, that there bee a warrant directed to the Constable of the same Towne, to apprehend the said partyes, and to bring them up to the next perticular Courte in Hartford, which will bee upon the first Thursday of the next month; and the Governor is desired to write to Mr. Wenthrope and acquaint him with it."
The records of the Particular Court contain no further record. The couple does not appear before them, instead fleeing on Tobias Feake's boat. {Tobias was Robert's nephew]. What is evident is that William and Elizabeth somehow manage to make their peace with both Connecticut, and the Dutch. On November 25, 1650, William Hallet sells to Jeffrey Ferris [for three score and 10 pounds] the lands purchased by Daniel Patrick and Robert Feke, and this document both names Elizabeth as his wife, and is signed by her as Elizabeth Hallet.
On November 10 1659, while Robert Feake was still living, Tobias Feake instituted a suit against William Hallet concerning a debt of his uncle to be paid by William Hallet. The record reads" "Said Robbert Feeke had been living at Greenwich near Stanford and his wife had married William Hallet. «tab»About the same time Robert Feaks and Daniel Patrick bought Greenwich. The purchase was made in behalf of New-Haven, but through the intrigue of the Dutch governor, and the treachery of the purchasers, the first inhabitants revolted to the Dutch. They were incorporated and vested with town privileges by Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New-Netherlands. The inhabitants were driven off by the Indians, in their war with the Dutch; and made no great progress in the settlement until after Connecticut obtained the charter, and they were taken under the jurisdiction of this colony. (American Memory) ** ROBERT FEAKE«tab»
ORIGIN: London MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown REMOVES: Greenwich 1640, Watertown RETURN TRIPS: 1647, returned to Watertown 1650 OCCUPATION: Goldsmith. He served an apprenticeship with his father, James Feake, for eight years beginning 21 September 1615, but probably never practiced his craft in the New World [NYGBR p13017,110,132; 86:212]. FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "Mr. Robte. Feake") and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Mr. Roberte Feakes") [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:79, 366]. EDUCATION: His 1636 letter to John Winthrop Jr. shows a good education [WP (p13019,110,132); 3:287]. His estate included a Bible [NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:220]. OFFICES: Chosen lieutenant to Capt. Patrick, 4 September 1632 [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:99]; deputy for Watertown to General Court, 14 May 1634, 4 March 1634/5, 6 May 1635, 3 March 1635/6, 25 May 1636, 8 September 1636 [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:116, 135, 145, 164, 174, 178]; committee on fortifications, 3 September 1634 [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:124]; committee on various boundary disputes, 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:139]; appointed magistrate for quarter court, 25 May 1636 [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:175]; committee to arbitrate "difference betwixt Boston & Waymothe at Mount Woollaston," 25 October 1636 [MBCR (p13018,150,180); 1:181]. Chosen Watertown selectman, 10 October 1636, 10 December 1638, 6 December 1639 [WaTR (p13027,160,192); 1:2, 5]. ESTATE: Granted eighty acres in the Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 [WaBOP (p13028,170,204); 4]; granted twenty-four acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP (p13028,170,204); 7]; granted forty acres in the Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP (p13028,170,204); 8]; granted nine acres at the Town Plot, 9 April 1638 [WaBOP (p13028,170,204); 11]. «tab»In the Watertown Inventory of Grants "Robert Feke" was shown to have received nine parcels of land: fourteen acre homestall [ten acres sold to Simon Stone]; fifteen acres upland [ten acres sold to Thomas Bright by 1640 (Lechford (p13032,200,240); 286-87)]; six acres marsh [sold to Simon Stone]; eighty acres upland in the Great Dividend [to John Benjamin]; twenty-four acres plowland [to John Benjamin]; forty acres Remote Meadow [twenty-five acres sold to Edward Howe]; nine acres upland [Town Plot, to Nathan Fiske]; six acres upland [sold to Daniel Patrick]; and six acres meadow in Plain Meadow [to John Page] [WaBOP (p13028,170,204); 71]. (Robert Feake had disposed of his Watertown property before the compilation of the Watertown land inventories; the indication of sales of land given here derives mostly from comparison of the grants made to Feake with the later holdings of others.) «tab»His house and farm lot at Dedham were held barely a year, he resigning them 21 September and 23 November 1638; Robert Feake attended only those early Dedham meetings which were actually held in Watertown, and never resided in Dedham [DeTR (p13034,150,180); 3, 21-23, 25-26, 35, 49-50, 55, 57, 69, 167]. «tab»In 1640 he and Daniel Patrick purchased the site of Greenwich from the Indians, which fell for a time under Dutch authority. The act of submission was signed by Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth Feake, acting in the absence and illness of her husband [NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:214]. «tab»Mr. Robert Feakes was supported by the town of Watertown from 17 October 1650 until his death [WaTR (p13027,160,192); 1:27, 28, 40, 43, 59, 64, 71, 73, 76]. BIRTH: About 1602, son of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake [NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:144-45]. DEATH: Watertown 1 February 1660/1 [WaVR (p13038,170,204); 23]. MARRIAGE: Between 2 November 1631 and 27 January 1631/2 Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop, widow of Henry Winthrop (son of Governor John Winthrop). (See COMMENTS below for their "divorce" and her "remarriage" to William Hallett.) CHILDREN [from NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:220-21 unless otherwise stated]: «tab»i ELIZABETH, b. probably about 1633; m. by 1659 as his second wife JOHN UNDERHILL.«tab» «tab»ii HANNAH, b. probably Watertown June 1637; m. Flushing 7 May 1656 [NS] John Bowne as his first wife.«tab» «tab»iii JOHN, b. probably Watertown about 1639; m. Killingworth, Oyster Bay, 15 September 1673 Elizabeth Prior [NYGBR 87:107-8]. «tab»iv ROBERT, bp. New York Dutch Church 17 July 1642 [NS]; m. Sarah _____, who took administration of his estate 19 June 1669.«tab» «tab»v SARAH, bp. New York Dutch Church 14 April 1647 [NS]; d. before 21 July 1648 when only four children of Robert Feake are cared for [WP (p13019,110,132); 5:238].«tab»
ASSOCIATIONS: HENRY FEAKE of Lynn and Sandwich was apprenticed to James Feake, father of Robert Feake, for a term of nine years in 1606 and was Robert's distant cousin. Tobias Feake & Judith (Feake) Palmer were niece and nephew of Robert Feake, children of Robert's brother James Feake of London [NYGBR 86:209, 211-12; Lechford (p13032,200,240); 228-29]. COMMENTS: In his lengthy article on the Feake family George E. McCracken went into great detail on Robert Feake, and particularly on the matter of his "divorce," arguing that the couple had in fact received only a legal separation, and that Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) Feake was not free to remarry [NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:212-21, 94:243-44]. In 1966 Donald Lines Jacobus reviewed the same problem, and came to the conclusion that Robert Feake and his wife did obtain a divorce from the Dutch government, that she had married William Hallett by August 1649, and that the marriage was performed by John Winthrop Jr., her former brother-in-law [NYGBR (p13017,110,132);> 97:131-34]. Feake was described as "... a man whose God-fearing heart was so absorbed with spiritual and heavenly things that he little thought of the things of this life, and took neither heed nor care of what was tendered to his external property" [NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:214, citing court depositions as transcribed in NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 11:12-24]. To others he was a distracted person who could not manage his estate, and whose lofty connections alone preserved him. Certainly his inability to control his property and his wife was a difficult burden for the Winthrops. His abrupt return to England in 1647 is not sufficiently explained. McCracken suggests that the Robert Feake pardoned by the House of Commons 4 March 1649/50 for some unstated crime might be Robert of Watertown [NYGBR (p13017,110,132); 86:215]. In any event, he left considerable scandal behind him in New England. «tab»In a letter dated Stamford 14 April 1648, Thomas Lyon related to his "loving grandfather" John Winthrop the history of Mr. Feake and Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop: ...when I married first I lived in the house with her because my father being distracted I might be a help to her. Whereupon seeing several carriages between the fellow she now hath to be her husband and she the people also took notice of it which was to her disgrace which grieved me very much ... and seeing what condition she were in I spake to her about it privately and after I discovered my dislike I see her carriage alter toward me ... Father concerning the condition she is in and the children and estate my father Feike going away suddenly, having taken no course about the children and estate only desired a friend of his and I in case we see them about making away the estate and to remove we should stay it ... She also hath confessed since she came there openly she is married to him is with child by him and she hath been at New Haven but could have no comfort nor hopes for present to live in the jurisdiction and what will become of her I know not [WP (p13019,110,132); 5:213-14]. «tab»In a letter dated New Haven 21 July 1648, Theophilus Eaton told John Winthrop Jr.: ...I understand William Hallet etc. are come to your plantation at Nameag, their grievious miscarriage hath certainly given great offense to many. I wish their repentance were as clear and satisfying. It is possible that William Hallet and she that was Mr. Feake's his wife are married, though not only the lawfulness and validity of such a marriage, but the reality and truth is by some questioned, because themselves and Toby Feakes sometimes deny it; but leaving that, I shall acquaint you ... with some passages about that estate. Mr. Feakes from Boston October 6, 1647 wrote to Stamford that he reserved the whole propriety of his estate, till he saw how God would deal with him in England, and desired he and the children might not be wronged etc., after which that estate being from the Dutch in danger of confiscation, they brought it to Stamford, and at their request, it was there seized, as wholly belonging to Mr. Feakes, though after they challenged part thereof as the proper estate of William Hallet, and she besides desired a share in what was due to Mr. Feakes. I was not willing they should be wronged in the least, ... and accordingly at their request, I wrote to Stamford. William Hallet after this brought a letter from your honored father, and told me, he met with some opposition at Stamford, whereupon I advised him to attend the Court of magistrates ... but I perceived in him an unwillingness thereunto.... It was ordered that ... if she settled at Watertown, Pequod, or within any of the English colonies, two of the children, with half Mr. Feakes his proper estate should be put into the power and trust of such English government ... with such respect to Mr. Feakes, as may be meet, and that the other half of the estate should be improved at Stamford for the use of Mr. Feakes and maintenance of the other two children. I hoped that this might have satisfied, but the next news was that William Hallet etc. in a secret underhand way, had taken the children, two cows, all the household goods, and what else I know not, and by water were gone away ... when they had all the estate in their hands, the children went (if not naked) very unsatisfyingly apparelled [WP (p13019,110,132); 5:237-9]. «tab»John Winthrop Jr. interceded with Peter Stuyvesant in a letter in the beginning of 1648/9, asking him to manage what estate was left so that "Mrs. Feakes" and her children had a comfortable living [WP (p13019,110,132); 5:298-99]. By the spring, Andrew Messenger was informing Winthrop that the estate at Greenwich was still unimproved [WP (p13019,110,132); 5:323-24]. Winthrop wrote again in May to Stuyvesant, asking that he honor the agreement made between William Hallet with Mr. Feakes, Feakes having consented to it before going for England "knowing him [Hallet] to be industrious and careful" and also to allow Hallet back into Greenwich to improve the land there [WP (p13019,110,132); 5:338-39]. «tab»Evidently Stuyvesant came through, for Elizabeth (now Hallett) wrote last from Hellgate 10 January 1652/3 saying to her cousin John Winthrop Jr.: Our habitation is by the whirlpool which the Dutchmen call the Hellgate where we have purchased a very good farm through the governor's means ... we live very comfortably according to our rank. In the spring the Indian killed four Dutchmen near to our house which made us think to have removed ... yet now the Indian are quiet and we think not yet to remove [WP (p13019,110,132); 6:239]. «tab»The story of Elizabeth Fones (Winthrop) (Feake) Hallett was told in 1958 in an historical novel called The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton. | Robert FEAKE
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Seton lists death date as 1661 in Watertown, NY. Watertown MA records claim death date of 1661. | Robert FEAKE
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Staton stated that he died before June 19, 1669. "prob. the Robert Feaks of Flushing, intestate, administration given to widow Sarah, June 19, 1669." | Robert FEAKE
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She died before July 21, 1648, on which date Governor Theophilus Eaton, writing to John Winthrop, remarks that the four children of her parents had been separated, two placed with one family, the other two elsewhere.(New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, v. 87, p. 212 - 221) | Sarah FEAKE
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