Melissa (Kennedy) Book

Melissa was the daughter of David and Ann (Howard) Kennedy and the sister of my ancestor, Mary Agnes (Kennedy) Powers.

Source: 1861 Census

Census Year: 1861

Item Number: 2865710

Province: Canada West (Ontario)

District Name: Lincoln

Sub-District Name: Grimsby

   Ann Canada, b. U.C., 52, Widowed

 Melissa Canada, b. U.C., 21, Single

 Eliza Canada, b. U.C.,  18, Single

  Edwin/Edward Canada, b. U.C., 11, Single

  Howard Canada, b. U.C., 9, Single

 Mary Howard, b. U.C., 66, Widowed

All members of the same family and all of the Wesleyan Methodist Religion

Frame House/One Story/Housing One Family

Canada Census, 1871

Nationality: English

Religion: C Of England

01, Grimsby f, Lincoln 21, Ontario

Household Gender Age Birthplace

George Book M 46 O

Melissa Book F 29 O

Georgianna Book F 17 O

John F Book M 11 O

William H Book M 7 O

Mary C Book F 6 O

Wm Clendenen M 65 O

United States Census, 1880

Pembina, Dakota Territory

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Self George Book M 55 Canada

Wife Malissa Book F 39 Canada

Daughter Mary Lundie Book F 15 Canada

Son Edgar Book M 7 Canada

Daughter Arabella Book F 9 Canada

Son George Book M 12 Canada

Son Robert Book M 5 Canada [b. Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario]

Source

Minnesota State Census, 1895

Spruce township, Roseau, Minnesota

HOUSEHOLD

George Book M 72y Canada

Milessa Book F 55y Canada

Edgar Book M 21y Canada

Robert Book M 19y Canada

Helen Book F 14y Dakota N

Melissa's FindAGrave memorial can be seen here.

Wayne County Probate File# 26130

Image 2300

James Anderson

Brother Of The Estate

1899

Dundas, Minnesota

This one?

Census 1900
Dundas village Ward 1, Rice, Minnesota
HOUSEHOLD
James Anderson Head M 60 Canada Eng
Josephine M Anderson Wife  F 38 Minnesota
Jesse E Anderson Son M 20 Minnesota

Ernest Wasmus, Little Bighorn Survivor

Source

[Excerpt taken from Health of the Seventh Cavalry: A Medical History, edited by P. Willey, Douglas D. Scott, 2015]

The Globe
St. Paul, Minnesota
14 November 1886

Source

Register of Enlistment Fold3 Source
1886 - U. S. Army

Wasmus Ernest

Where Enlisted: Ft. Snelling, Minn.

By Whom: Lt. Col. Vincent

Where Born: Brunswick, Germany

Age: 38

Occupation: Clerk

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Brown

Complexion: Fair

Height: 5'8" 3/4

Dept. Dak.

Ernest Wasmus' wife, Jemima (Jennie) Beulah Cornell, was the sister of Meta Irene (Cornell) Stone. Meta was the grandmother of Jim's cousin, Brandon White.

Eldridge M. Fowler Papers

In Honor Of Fowler's Michigan Connections

Eldridge M. Fowler Papers, 1805-1931 are held at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division.

Title: Eldridge M. Fowler Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1805-1931

Abstract: Papers documenting the lumber and land-related business activities of Eldridge Fowler, brother of Nettie Fowler McCormick.  His companies included Fowler & Chapman of Bay City, Michigan. He was also president of the St. Anthony Lumber Company in Minnesota, and vice-president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.

See a post regarding the death of Eldridge Fowler's son, Melzar Fowler, per an Arenac County, Michigan, probate document.

Indian Agent Taliaferro

Source: MNHS

Protected by this military post the efficient Indian agent, Lawrence Taliaferro, did a great deal toward destroying British influence among the tribes of the upper Mississippi and toward establishing American authority there. [Source]

Walter Pelton And A Coldwater Connection

From Genealogy of the Pelton Family:

Walter Hilliard Pelton...lived in Buckland, Massachusetts; thence to Leeds Corners, New York, thence to Mascow, New York and then to Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, and then to Coldwater, Micigan (1852 - 1866).  He died in Girard, [Branch County] Michigan, September 14, 1876.

He married, 3rd, Eunice* Bassett, widow of Schofield Bassett, and daughter of John Osborn, of the State of New York.  *This one? [Probably; Eunice had a daughter, Rosina Bassett.  There was a Rose Jones [Rosina Bassett?] who was born in Michigan, living in Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.  It was stated that Eunice, widow of Walter Pelton, was living in Titusville with her daughter, Rose Jones.]

Rouse's Confiscated Whiskey

From Reports Of Committees Of The House Of Representatives....

The petition of Lewis Rouse, a citizen of the United States, resident at Green Bay, in the Territory of Michigan...

Fox River, Near Green Bay, Wisconsin

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:

...That in the month of April, in the year 1818, a quantity of whiskey...the property of your petitioner, which he had purchased at St. Louis, and transported to Prairie du Chien, for the purpose of selling the same at the latter place, was taken by the order of Col. Chambers*, then at said Prairie du Chien, in command of the United States' troops, for the use of said troops.

...on the eve of departure on an expedition to the Falls of St. Anthony. [Source]

*Colonel Talbot Chambers loved to make a display was fond of drinking freely and was naturally tyrannical and overbearing, and when intoxicated, was desperate and dangerous. [Source]

Family Of Melvin N. Fowler From Conesus, New York

A Fowler from Conesus, New York, found in American Ancestry:

FOWLER CHARLES GAYLORD of Saginaw Mich...and brother EDWARD WADE Fowler...sons of Melvin Nelson Fowler of Randolph, Wis. b at Conesus, NY July 18 1831, d...La...1866... m Marcia O dau of Harvey R Gaylord*...son of Joslah...m Oct 5 1818 Dorothea... .  *Note: Married Stella Atkins in 1830 in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Melvin N. Fowler, attorney at law, born in New York, was living in Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wisconsin, in 1860, with wife Marcia and sons Charles and Edward.

Melvin N. Fowler in a Civil War index and in a pension file here (both links reference Fold3 paid site).  His widow filed February 28, 1894, for a pension.

The widowed Marcia Fowler was living with her parents in Saginaw County, Michigan.

United States Census, 1880

name: Marcia O. Fowler

residence: Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan

birthdate: 1833

birthplace: Ohio, United States

relationship to head: Daughter

father's name: Harvey P. Gaylord

father's birthplace: New York, United States

mother's name: Stella M. Gaylord

mother's birthplace: Ohio, United States

martial status: Widowed

  Household Gender Age

parent Harvey P. Gaylord M 74

parent Stella M. Gaylord F 71

  Marcia O. Fowler F 47

Charles G. Fowler M 22

Mary A. Fowler F 18

Elizabeth Frank  F 22

Index: SAGINAW DAILY COURIER

Wednesday, December 12, 1883

Thursday, December 13, 1883 (7)

Name: GAYLORD, HARVEY R.

Spouse's Name: STELLA M. ATKINS

Married: 05/05/1830

Spouse's Death: 00/00/1881

Child Of: LEVI & LYDIA (SMITH)OF DELAWARE CO.

Birth Date: 07/25/1805

Birth Place: HARPERSFIELD, NY

Death Date: 12/11/1883

Death Place: SAGINAW, MI

Cemetery:  BRADY HILL

Misc: ABOLITIONIST/FATHER OF HON. A.S. GAYLORD

Church: PRESBYT.

There is a guide to the Atkins family papers at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Melvin Nelson Fowler was born in Conesus.  Was he related to my Elizabeth (Fowler) Richmond who lived in Conesus as a married woman?  I don't know.

Obituary of Edna Headen

From the Tuesday, September 16, 1958, edition of the Orlando Sentinel:

MISS EDNA MAY HEADEN, 53, 2701 Raeford Rd., died Monday in a local hospital. Born in Kansas City, Mo., she moved to Florida in 1935 from Minneapolis, Minn. She was active for more than 15 years as a teacher of exceptional children's classes at Memorial Junior High School and Robert E. Lee Junior High School. She was a member of the Orlando Classroom Teachers Assn., Florida Education Assn., and the National Education Assn. As a member of the Kissimmee Presbyterian Church where her father, the late Edgar Headen, served as pastor for many years, she was choir director. Surviving are two brothers, Horace William Headen, Sunland, Calif., and Harvey V. Headen, Minneapolis, Minn. W. Guy Black Home for Funerals is in charge.

[In 1930, Edna's parents, Mary (Hackler*) & Edgar, were living in Walsh Co., North Dakota, with Horace]

*Per Ancestry, Edgar Headen & Mary Caroline Hackler were married in Lafayette, MO