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Descendants of
Dr. Laurens Hull
and
Dorcas Ambler
-
of Angelica, Alleghany Co., NY
by A. H. Gilbertson
7 July 2014
version 0.31
©A. H. Gilbertson 2103-2014.
Table of Contents
Preface ........................................................................................................................................... 3
Laurens Hull and Dorcas Ambler ................................................................................................... 4
Second Generation ........................................................................................................................ 7
Third Generation ......................................................................................................................... 13
Fourth Generation ....................................................................................................................... 28
Fifth Generation .......................................................................................................................... 43
Obituary of Dr. Laurens Hull ........................................................................................................ 63
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Preface
I have been doing genealogy as a hobby for over 30 years, and fairly recently have started to
share some of my research in the form of books, in PDF format. Most of these books are
“ahnentafel books,” which are ancestor tables, with information on ancestors of six of my
eight great-grandparents.
In addition, I have been working on some projects involving descendants. This format is
perhaps more difficult, since I do not have the same degree of information on certain branches
of family that diverged from my own branch many years ago. In some cases I have been able
to contact other family members who have more direct information, but in many cases I am
left to what I can find on the internet. Luckily, with sites such as ancestry.com,
familysearch.org, newspaperarchive.com and genealogybank.com, it is possible to find much
information online. I hope that by sharing what I have, some relatives will come forth with
more information which will make this book more interesting and valuable to future
generations.
This book is intended for the personal use of those who are related to this family. Facts cannot
be copyrighted, and can be used and shared without restriction. However, please do not copy,
word for word, the text of this book, unless your copying is not shared publicly. I have
included numerous footnotes. I encourage interested people to look up the original sources
and put them in their own words, adding to my information where possible instead of merely
copying it. If you are not sure if your use of my book is appropriate or not, please ask
permission.
Note: parenthesis around a first name means that the person was normally known by their
middle name.
Recently (December 2013), I am working on the fifth generation.
I encourage questions and comments. Please direct them to agilbertson@yahoo.com
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Laurens Hull and Dorcas Ambler
DR. LAURENS HULL was born 6 Jun 1779, in Bethlehem, CT.1 He was the son of Dr. Titus Hull
and Olive Lewis. The Hull family included many doctors, in fact Laurens Hull was the seventh
generation of Hulls, in his direct line, to practice medicine. At the age of 19, he studied
medicine with Dr. David Hull of Fairfield, remaining there about two years.2 He was licensed to
practice by the Connecticut State Medical Society in May 1802.3 He moved to Augusta, Oneida
County, NY, in November of that year and continued his studies with his cousin Amos G. Hull. 4
He married Dorcas Ambler 3 Oct 1803, in Bethlehem, CT.5 The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Azel Backus.6 Dorcas Ambler was born 1 Nov 1780, in Bethlehem, CT, the daughter of
David Ambler and Olive Wildman.7
In September 1804 Dr. Hull opened an office in Bridgewater, NY. In 1806 he took part in the
organization of the Oneida County Medical Society.8 He was a surgeon in the New York State
Militia during the War of 1812.9 In 1813 he was elected to the state assembly as a
representative from Oneida County.10 In 1816 he was a delegate to the first state convention
held in NY to nominate a governor and lieutenant governor.11 In 1817 he was a delegate to the
State Medical Society and was twice reelected, each term being four years. In 1825 he served
again in the state assembly. In 1826 he was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians and
1
Puella F. Mason, A Record of the Descendants of Richard Hull (1894), p. 35. The birth date agrees with that und
on a typewritten page handed down through the family - “Hull Family Record.”
2
C. M. Crandall, M.D, obituary of Dr. Laurens Hull in Transactions of the NY State Medical Society, (1867), p. 439ff.
Copy found in the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
3
William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury (1854), Vol. 1, p. 443.
4
Crandall, Transactions.
5
First Church of Bethlehem, typewritten index to vital records.
6
Crandall, Transactions.
7
Conklin Mann, “Richard Ambler of Watertown, Mass., and Stamford, Conn., and His Descendants,” New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record (1933) Vol. 64, p. 357
8
Crandall, Transactions.
9
L. L. Stillwell, Angelica Collectanea (1955), Section 6, p. 24, which states about Laurens Hull: “Husband of Dorcas
Ambler Hull. Was a surgeon in New York State Militia during War of 1812. Lot 516.”
10
Mason, Descendants of Richard Hull, p. 35.
11
Crandall, Transactions.
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Surgeons of the University of New York.12 The following year he received an honorary degree
of doctor of medicine from the regents of the same university.13
In 1836 Dr. Hull and his family moved to Angelica, Allegany County, NY.14 (He was discharged
from the church at Bridgewater April 23 of that year.15) According to C. M. Crandall, at that
time “he became interested in manufacturing pursuits, pretty much abandoning the practice
of medicine.”16 With his brother Andrew, he completed a woolen mill at Joncey, in September
1837. They also erected a scythe and edge tool factory across the road from the mill.17 Later,
he lived in the brick building later known as the Wilson Academy.18
Dr. Hull was president of the State Medical Society in 1839 and 1840, and his address (1839)
on “Quackery” was considered one of the finest papers ever delivered before that body.19 In
1840 his address was on “Improvement in Medicine” which was described as “an eminently
sensible, practical and ably written paper proving clearly that Dr. Hull was no anti-progressive
clog upon the wheels of advancing science, but who believed fully in the doctrine of
progress.”20
From 1837 to 1841 he served in the New York State Senate.21 He served in the sixth district,
then comprising nine counties.22 Politically he was first a Federalist, then a Whig, and lastly a
Republican. In a newspaper article written in 1837, he is described as follows:
“While a resident of this county, Dr. Hull was distinguished for his fidelity to his party
[Whig] and devotion to its principles. When others desponded, he did not; when the
hopes of others sank, his were still warm and sanguine, and when others abandoned to
the contest, he kept the banner flying, with the motto of Lawrence in his mouth –
‘don’t give up the ship.’”23
In 1828 and 1852 he was a member of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.24 He
was a member of the Congregational Church, which at that time was closely united to the
12
Mason, Descendants of Richard Hull, p. 35.
Crandall, Transactions.
14
Ibid.
15
DAR, NY Cemetery, Church and Town Records, Vol. 8, (1928), p. 116; in DAR Library.
16
Ibid.
17
John S. Minard, Allegany County and its People: A Centennial Memorial History of Allegany County, NY. (1896),
p. 411.
18
Obituary of Isabel (Renwick) Hull, August 1905 (or 1903?).
19
Henry J. Cookinham, History of Oneida County, NY, (1912), p. 396.
20
Crandall, Transactions.
21
Weygant, Hull Family in America, (1913), p. 515.
22
Cothren, Ancient Woodbury, p. 443.
23
[Utica] Oneida Whig, Oct. 24, 1837, see http://www.fultonhistory.com.
24
Crandall, Transactions.
13
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Presbyterian Church. He was admitted to the First Congregational Church in Bridgewater, May
24, 1807.25 In his later years he was president of the Allegany County Bible Society.26
In about 1856 or 1857, Dr. Hull retired from business. In August 1862 he became permanently
disabled when he injured “the neck of the femur within the capsular ligament,” requiring him
to use crutches. In about 1864 his health began to decline, and he was eventually confined to
his room.27 He died 27 Jun 1865, surviving his wife who had died 4 May 1858.28 They are
buried in Lot 516 of the Angelica Cemetery.29 His funeral service was taken from Job 42:5, “I
have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”30
According to Henry Cookinham, “Dr. Hull was both in the medical societies and in the
legislative bodies a constant and strenuous worker for the advance and purity of the medical
profession.”31 C. M. Crandall writes: “Dr. Hull was in every proper sense a self-made man -the architect of his own fortunes and position. He possessed a remarkably retentive memory,
great perseverance and energy. What he did ‘he did with his whole might.’ His industry was
untiring, his faith unswerving, his integrity unyielding.”32
Children:33
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Lucia Hull, b. 29 Dec 1804; d. 1 Jul 1836; m. Rev. John Berrien Fish
Delia Hull, b. 27 Jul 1807; d. 30 Apr 1882; m. Milton Johnston
Henry Laurens Hull, b. 1 Apr 1809; d. 17 Apr 1813; bur. Fairview Cem.,
Bridgewater, NY34
Julia Hull, b. 25 Jun 1811; d. 13 Nov 1879; m. James Benham
Laurens Hull Jr., b. 11 May 1813; d. 6 Apr 1842
Charles Andrew Hull, b. 9 Apr 1815; d. 16 Aug 1824; bur. Fairview Cem.,
Bridgewater, NY35
Azel Backus Hull, b. 16 Jul 1817 d. 4 Mar 1889; m. Ruth Ann Newcomb
Marcus Ambler Hull, b. 26 Dec 1819; d. 10 Jan 1891; m. Susan C. Ackerman
Henry Davis Hull, b. 29 Apr 1823; d. 19 Apr 1896; m. Isabella Ann Renwick
25
Cothren, Ancient Woodbury, p. 443.
DAR, NY Cemetery, Church and Town Records, Vol. 8, (1928), p. 116; in DAR Library.
27
Crandall, Transactions.
28
Ibid.
29
The Angelica Cemetery is also known as “Until the Day Dawns.” Dates of death for Laurens and Dorcas Hull
found in typewritten “Hull Family Record,” handed down through the family. The date for Laurens agrees with
other sources (C. M. Crandall, Weygant). His wife's death date is given as May 1858 by C. M. Crandall, and is not
mentioned in other sources. Also, findagrave.com: Dr. Laurens Hull and findagrave.com: Dorcas Hull
30
Family paper passed down to Mrs. Lois Richardson. The funeral service was given by Mr. Boing.
31
Stillwell, Angelica Collectanea, Section 6, p. 24.
32
Cookinham, History of Oneida County, NY, p. 396.
33
Crandall, Transactions.
34
findagrave.com: Henry Laurens Hull , also Fairview cemetery records (online) - date of birth calculated from age
on gravestone (4 yrs. & 16 days)
35
Fairview cemetery records (online) - date of birth calculated from age on gravestone (9 yrs. 4 mos. 7 days)
26
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Second Generation
(1)
LUCIA HULL (Laurens Hull) was born 29 Nov 1804 in Bridgewater, NY.36 She was
admitted to the First Congregational Church in Bridgewater, 9 May 1819. She was dismissed
from this church 27 Sep 1829, having left for Sidney, NY.37
On 9 Aug 1826, she married Rev. John Berrien Fish, in Bridgewater, NY. He was born
23 Jul 1794, in Connecticut Farms, NJ, the son of Rev. Peter Fish and Hannah Hankinson. In
June 1835 she became ill with “some disease of the liver that afterwards affected her lungs.”38
She was not in her right mind during much of her illness. An account of her last illness was
written by her husband. She died 1 Jul 1836,39 at age 31, and is buried in the Robinson
cemetery, on the main road, west of Hartwick, NY.40
Her gravestone has the following inscription, written by her husband:
And is this death, ‘Tis victory to die,
I mount on wings, I soar above the sky,
On the full glory of the Godhead gaze,
With saints and angels kindling in his rays.
Despite her mental instability in the last year of her life, Rev. Fish wrote to his children,
“Your mother was a woman of good common sense, of constant piety, of warm heart in the
friendships of life; and she bore her long protracted illness with a meek and quiet spirit.”
Rev. Fish married a second time, to Nancy Stevens, and had three more children. He
died 23 Dec 1869, in Catskill, NY, and is buried in the Catskill Village Cemetery.41
Children:
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Emily Brace Fish, b. 4 Sep 1827; d. 19 May 1906; unm.
Rev. Edward Fowler Fish, b. 23 Sep 1828; d. 20 Jan 1906; m. Anna Johnson Hinsdale
Charles Hull Fish, b. 3 Aug 1830; d. 6 Mar 1914; m. (1st) Kate Beaumont,; m. (2nd)
Martha Ann Warner
Thomas Fletcher Fish, b. 17 May 1832; d. 7 Jul 1908; m. (1st) Hester Johnston; m.
(2nd) Rhoda (Button) Gere
Luther Hasley Fish, b. 12 (15) Mar 1834; d. 10 Sep 1834
Lucia Hull (“Lute”) Fish, b. 9 (25) Jun 1835; d. Nov 1913; unm.
36
Date and place of birth from the diary kept by her husband, Rev. John B. Fish. The date also agrees with other
sources.
37
DAR, NY Cemetery, Church and Town Records, Vol. 8, (1928), p. 120.
38
Diary of Rev. John B. Fish.
39
Ibid, also gravestone.
40
findagrave.com: Lucia Fish
41
findagrave.com: John B. Fish
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(2) DELIA HULL (Laurens Hull) was born 27 Jul 1807, probably in Bridgewater, NY. She
married Milton Johnston. He was born 18 Sep 1800, and was the son of Col. Witter Johnston
and Jane C. Campbell.42 They lived in Sidney Plains, NY. In 1846, he is listed as a Postmaster
in Sidney Plains.43 Delia died 30 Apr 1882;44 and Milton died 8 Apr 1890. They are buried in
the Pioneer Cemetery, Sidney, NY. 45
Children:
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
Mary Jane Johnston, b. 19 Mar 1833, Sidney Plains, NY; d. 27 Apr 1909, Sidney
Plains, NY; m. John Aldrich
Laurens Hull Johnston, b. 17 Dec 1834; d. 24 Sep 1910; m. Lettice H. (Willis)
Chappell
Witter Henry Johnston, b. 24 Jul 1837; d. 6 Jun 1911; m. (1st) Malvina McBride;
m. (2nd) Margaretta McBride
Susan E. Johnston, b. 1840; d. 18 Jun 1865; bur. Pioneer Cem., Sidney, NY46
Dorcas Hull Johnston, b. 30 Apr 1847; d. 6 Feb 1927; m. Arunah Metcalf Turner
Milton Campbell Johnston, b. 18 Mar 1850; d. 9 Feb 1923, Sidney, NY; m. Carrie
E. Foster, 27 Oct 1885; he was a graduate of Cornell Univ., and lived on land
inherited from his great-grandfather (?) in Sidney, NY; cattle breeder; No
children.
(4) JULIA HULL (Laurens Hull) was born 25 Jun 1811, in Bridgewater, NY.47 She married James
Benham, 20 Mar 1833, in Bridgewater, NY. They lived in Angelica, NY. James was born 31 Dec
1806 in Bridgewater, NY. He was the son of James Benham and Sarah Sedgewick. According
to his obituary, he was a resident of Angelica for 30 years, having come from Rushford in the
spring of 1853, and remaining until November 1881. “Altho' never prominent in business or
political circles, yet his influence was felt, and he was universally respected as a man of the
strictest integrity, fidelity and high moral principle…. He was the kindest of neighbors, the most
affectionate of parents, the most thoughtful of husbands.” He was an active member of the
Presbyterian Church, serving as a deacon, an elder, and a member of the choir.
Julia died at her home, in Angelica, NY, on 13 Nov 1879;48 of pneumonia,49 and is buried
in Angelica, NY.50
42
findagrave.com: Milton Johnston
Table of post offices in the United States on the First day of October, 1846 .(Google books), p. 200.
44
Dates of birth and death from Weygant, Hull Family in America, pp. 515, 545-546, unless noted otherwise.
45
findagrave.com: Delia Johnston
46
findagrave.com: Susan Johnston
47
Various sources, including Hull Family record, and obit written by E.F. Fish.
48
Gravestone.
49
Death notice in Allegany Republican, Nov. 14, 1879, p. 3.
50
findagrave.com: Julia Benham
43
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From an unknown newspaper:
…Mrs. Benham was converted about the age of eighteen, and united with the
Presbyterian Church of Bridgewater. For the last twenty-five years she has been a
resident of Angelica. Although in feeble health, she was active in the service of Christ,
and was at the time of her death President of the Ladies' Missionary Society of this
church. Her final illness lasted only eight days. From the first she felt that the end was
near, and rejoiced in its approach. To her niece who asked “Do you want to leave us?
Don't you love us any more?” she replied “I am going to more than I am leaving,” and
added that it was strange to her that we should wish her to stay. To a friend who was
bidding her farewell, she said “This is the happiest day of my life; I am going home.” Her
disease was pneumonia. At times she was distressed for breath, but in the intervals of
ease she talked much. When friends called she would not have them sent away. “I am
beyond the reach of help or harm,” she said; “let them come in.” She gave directions for
the disposition of her effects, for her funeral, and for her family, after she should be
gone; and all so calmly that it did not seem like a death-scene. There was neither
trepidation nor ecstasy. Her preparation for this event had been made long before. She
had often expressed the wish that her death might be like her mother's. This wish was
granted. Having left farewell messages to absent ones, and taken leave of those who
stood about her, she closed her eyes and gently “fell on sleep.” Besides her husband,
she leaves two sons; Mr. A.M. Benham of San Francisco, and Mr. H.L. Benham of
Cincinnati. E. F. FISH Angelica, Nov. 21, 1879.
After Julia’s death, James went to live with his son Azel, in Oakland, CA, in November 1881.
James died 21 Jul 1883 in Oakland.
Children:
22.
23.
24.
James Marcus Benham, b. Sep 1837; d. 31 Mar 1839, Benton, NY
Azel Morse Benham, b. 21 Mar 1839; d. 1 Apr 1912.; m. Mary Croft
Henry Laurens Benham, b. 24 Oct 1843; d. 28 Aug 1890; m. Mary Huldah Sibley
(5)
LAURENS HULL JR. (Laurens Hull) was born 11 May 1813,51 and died 1 Mar 1842, in
Nashville, TN.52 He graduated from Union College, in 1836.53 His death is noted in the Albany
Argus, 18 Mar 1842: “At the residence of H. J. Anderson, near Nashville, on the 1st inst., of
consumption, Laurens Hull, Jr. attorney at law, late of the city of New York, and son of the Hon.
Laurens Hull, of Allegany County, N. York.” He is buried in the Nashville City Cemetery.54
51
Hull Family Record.
Information from Lois Richardson.
53
A Record of the Members of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity (1892), p. 32
54
findagrave.com: Laurens Hull Jr.
52
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(6)
AZEL BACKUS HULL55 (Laurens Hull) was born 16 Jul 1817 and died 4 Mar 1889, in
Oakland, CA. He married Ruth Ann Newcomb. She was born 1 May 1819, in Surrey, NH,56 and
they were married 30 Jun 1840, in Rome, NY.57 It is stated in Mason’s Hull genealogy that
there were no children.
In 1850, Azel and Ruth lived with Laurens and Dorcas Hull, in Angelica, NY. Ruth was
born in about 1818 in New York, according to the census.
In 1860, Azel lived in Angelica, NY,58 with his parents, Laurens and Dorcas Hull.
They had no biological children, but adopted a child, Bertha C. Hull, who became the
wife of George Pratt. Newspaper articles in 1891 document Bertha’s divorce from Mr. Pratt,
and state that she was an adopted child. An article in the New York Times states that George
Pratt shot a man named Louis L. Bromwell, badly wounding him, due to suspected
improprieties with his wife, which she later denied.59
In 1883 he was vice-president of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company – the
president being his nephew Charles H. Fish.60
A death notice stated: “Azel B. Hull, a well-known mining man of San Francisco, died
(on the?) 5th in Oakland. He was a native of New York and about 70 years of age. He came to
this (Coast?) in 1876 and has since then been officially connected with the Comstock mining
companies of (?) Bay.” – Salt Lake City Tribune, 14 Mar 1889. In another obituary it states
that he was once Mayor of Cedar Rapids.61
(7)
MARCUS AMBLER HULL62 (Laurens Hull) was born 26 Dec 1819, in Bridgewater, NY. He
married Susan C. Ackerman, 5 Sep 1848.63 She is said to have been from Allen, NY,64 and was
born 8 Jan 1824. He settled in Pike, NY, in 1856 “and for several years had a woolen mill
there.”65 He later moved to Arcade, NY,66 where he was a well-known manufacturer. “He was
elected to the Legislature in 1869, and re-elected in 1870. In 1873 he was appointed inspector
55
Hull Family Record (birth and death). He was apparently named for Dr. Azel Backus, 1765-1816, who was the
first president of Hamilton College, and having carried on a school in Bethlehem, Conn., he was probably
personally known to the family.
56
A Rootsweb database created by newcombs@rosemarywest.com. This rootsweb page says that they had an
infant who died young.
57
I think Weygant only has 1840. This may be from the same rootsweb page, above.
58
1870 census, p. 70, family 54.
59
Pratt Shoots Bromwell, New York Times, Jan. 25 1890.
60
Annual report, 1883, Google books.
61
Obituary in Oakland Tribune, Mar. 6, 1889.
62
Hull Family Record. He was known to Lucia (Fish) Neely as “Uncle Mark.”
63
F. W. Beers, History of Wyoming Co., New York (1880).
64
Ibid. Allen is in Allegany county. Although I have no proof, I suspect she was the daughter of Ralph Ackerman
and Mary Boyce.
65
F. W. Beers, History of Wyoming Co., New York (1880).
66
Arcade is southeast of Buffalo, NY
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of customs for the district of Niagara, port of Suspension Bridge .”67 He is listed on the 1880
census,68 in Arcade, NY, with occupation “Dept. Coll. Customs,” and lived with his wife Susan,
son Laurens, and daughter Mary D. Elliot.
The following is taken from: Life sketches of executive officers and members of the
legislature, Volume 3:
“Mr. Hull who represents the county of Wyoming is one of the quiet but efficient
workers of the Assembly.… He was engaged in the successful prosecution of the
business of manufacturing woolen goods for twenty five years in Pike where he now
resides and then withdrew establishing himself as a dealer and engaging in the
occupation of farming. He cast his first vote for Henry Clay and remained a Whig until
the organization of the Republican party. Through the justifiable favor of his fellow
citizens he is now serving his sixth term in the Board of Supervisors rendering important
service to his constituents. He was a member of Assembly in 1869 serving on the
committees on Insurance and Trade and Manufactures. He is this session a member of
the Committee on Cities.”
Susan died 12 Jun 1885. Marcus Ambler Hull died 10 Jan 1891, in Chicago, at the
residence of his daughter Mary Shaw.69 Marcus and Susan are both buried in the Arcade Rural
Cemetery, Arcade, NY.70
Children:
25. Charles Henry Hull, b. 1850; d. 1922; m. Anna B. Locke
26. Mary Dorcas Hull, b. 20 Jan 1852; d. 12 Dec 1910; m. (1st) Frank Elliot; m. (2nd)
Gilbert Bradley Shaw
27. Laurens Hull, b. 9 Apr 1861, Pike, NY; d. 23 Dec 1935; m. Ann Howe
(8) HENRY DAVIS HULL71 (Laurens Hull) was born 29 Apr 182372 in Bridgewater, NY. He
married Isabella Ann Renwick,73 15 Nov 1855, in Angelica, NY.74 She was probably the
67
F. W. Beers, History of Wyoming Co., New York (1880).
Page 5B.
69
Death notice in a Chicago paper.
70
findagrave.com: Marcus A. Hull and findagrave.com: Susan Hull
71
Mason says “Henry David” but a correction in a footnote says “Davis.” Weygant, and the Hull Family Record,
also give “Davis” as his middle name.
72
Hull Family Record.
73
Her marriage record and some census records say “Isabella” but her gravestone says “Isabelle” – probably she
was born as “Isabella” but people called her “Isabelle.”
74
Marriage record found at Allegany County NY Genweb site.
68
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daughter of Thomas and Martha Renwick.75 Although early records show her as “Isabella,” in
later life she was known as “Isabel.”
Henry and Isabel lived in Belvidere, NY (1865). In 1870, he is listed on the census as a
farmer. The family moved to Cedar Rapids, IA, by 1873.76 The family is listed there in 1880, at
which time his occupation is listed as “packing house employee.” Henry died 19 Apr 1896, and
is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, IA.77 In 1900 Isabel (listed on the census as
Mrs. H. D. Hull) was living with William and Julia Ross, and Margery Hannegan, 12. She died 9
Aug 1905, in Cedar Rapids, and is also buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.
Children:
28. William Ambler Hull, b. Sep 1856; d. 18 Jun 1914; m. Ida Mae Burucker
29. Julia Hull, b. 31 Aug 1858; d. 5 Jun 1933; m. William Barlow Ross
30. Frances Colwell Hull, b. 1862; d. 11 Jun 1888; m. James Edmund Hannegan
31. Harry Edward Hull, b. 12 Mar 1864; d. 16 Jan 1938; m. (1st) Mary Louise Harris;
m. (2nd) Ann Elizabeth Gittins
75
1850 census, Angelica NY, lists her as 20 years old.
Need to document the source, possibly from probate papers of Dr. Laurens Hull.
77
findagrave.com: Henry D. Hull
76
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Third Generation
(10) EMILY BRACE FISH (Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 4 Sep 1827,78 in Canterbury, NY.79
Although she was only nine years old when her mother died, she “mothered” the younger
children for several years. Edward Fowler Fish often spoke of his gratitude to her for her selfdenying care in his childhood.80 She lived in Angelica, NY, for many years where she was a
pianist and music teacher. In January 1861 she sailed for Central America, stopping in Panama
for a week before spending more than a year in La Union, El Salvador. She was a music and
language tutor there, and stayed in the home of Dr. Livingston, the American Consul.81
In 1864 she taught music in Bordentown, NJ.82 Emily was an amateur artist as well; an
1877 diary entry describes her as having painted a picture by the “new photo-alto-relico
process.”83 According to Henry Brown, she spent her last years in New York state.84 She is
listed on the 1900 census, as a boarder, living in Rochester, NY. She died 19 May 1906,85 and is
buried in the Carpinteria Cemetery.86
(11) REV. EDWARD FOWLER FISH (Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born in Monticello,87 Sullivan County, NY, 23 Sep 1828.88 In an
account of his life he wrote: “My preparation for college began
under the Rev. Ely Burchard, who lived on his farm a mile from
Waterville, Oneida Co., NY. My home was at Sangerfield, a mile
south of the village. Afterward I was at the Waterville Academy
and still later at Oxford Academy, in Chenango Co.” In 1845 he
entered Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, where he reports his
78
Fish Family Record, typescript list of births and deaths in possession of the author.
John Berrien Fish, account of Lucia’s last illness.
80
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely, ca. 1950. “For some years Emily, though so young, mothered the younger
children and my father has often spoke of his love and gratitude to her for her self-denying care in his childhood.”
81
Diary of John Berrien Fish, compiled by Henry Brown, 1975. Entry of Jan. 11, 1861: “Emily sailed at 12 o’clock
on the Northern Light. She will be in Aspinwall, Panama for one week, then sail with Capt. Ludwig for La Union, El
Salvador to tarry one year at the home of Dr. Livingston, American Consul.”
82
Ibid., entry of Sept. 19, 1864: “Emily left for Bordentown, NJ, to teach music at 275 a year.”
83
Diary of Edward Fowler Fish. Entry of Jan. 1, 1877: “Emily is . . . painting a picture of her friend Mrs. Lincoln of
Santa Barbara, by the new photo-alto-relico-process.”
84
Henry Brown, 1975. Comments on diary of John Berrien Fish.
85
Date of death from chart by Isabel Morton Fish.
86
findagrave.com: Emily Brace Fish
87
Augustus T. Norton, History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Illinois (1879), p. 663. Also: Edward
Fowler Fish, Autobiographical Notes. One page typescript manuscript.
88
Edward Fish diary, July 23, 1880: “In looking at the family record I discovered today this coincidence. My
Grandfather, my Father & myself were born on the 23rd day of the month. Peter Fish Nov. 23, 1757, John Berrien
F. July 23, 1794, I on the 23rd Sept. 1828.” Also History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Ill., p. 663.
79
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conversion as having occurred in his junior year.89 He graduated in 1848.90
“After leaving college, I spent four years in teaching and traveling. Entered Lane
Theological Seminary in Sept. 1852 and spent three years in the regular course. In 1855 I
visited Boston and was accepted as a foreign missionary by the A.B.C.F.M. but went back to
Lane to spend a year as instructor in Hebrew. During the winter vacation I met with an
accident, the breaking of a ligament in my left ankle, which resulted in a severe sickness that
unfitted me for going abroad. So I entered the Home Missionary service.”91
Edward Fowler Fish married Anna Johnson Hinsdale at Iowa City, IA, 6 Sep 1856. The
officiating minister was a friend, Rev. Peter S. Van Nest.92 She was born 21 Aug 1830,93 in a
farmhouse near Le Roy, Genesee County, NY.94 She was the daughter of Elizur Hinsdale and
Hannah Johnson.95 She attended the Le Roy Female Seminary and graduated about 1850.96 In
1857 the school became Ingham University, the first women's university in the United States.97
It is apparent from letters that she was a cheerful and warm-hearted woman.
Having been licensed by the Scioto Presbytery in 1854 at Chillicothe, OH, and ordained
at Mount Vernon, IA, in February 1857, Rev. Fish began his work as a home missionary. This
was soon interrupted by poor health, however. In Nov 1858, “though still feeble in health,
[he] took charge of the church of Panama, NY.”98 In March 1860, while at Panama, he was
exposed, on horseback, to a damp snowstorm, which resulted in bronchitis and a persistent
cough.99
Later he spent a year and a half as superintendent of public schools in Lancaster, OH,
where he had 14 teachers and 800 pupils under his charge.100 Starting in about August 1862,101
he spent two years in teaching at Marietta College. His daughter Lucia later wrote that “after
his dreams of life as a foreign missionary, father could not be satisfied with a life so
comfortable as that in Marietta (which suited my mother exactly) and so resigned and went as
a Home Missionary to the wilds of northern Wisconsin in the Green Bay region.”102 In
September 1864, he went to Stevens Point, WI.103 He “preached two years to the New School
89
Edward Fowler Fish, Autobiographical Notes.
History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Illinois, p. 663.
91
Edward Fowler Fish, Autobiographical Notes.
92
Ibid.
93
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely (undated manuscript); also Herbert C. Andrews, Hinsdale Genealogy, p. 118.
94
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely.
95
Hinsdale Genealogy, p. 118.
96
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely.
97
“A Memorial to Ingham University, Le Roy, NY,” Oct. 23, 1965, published by the Le Roy Historical Society.
98
History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Illinois, p. 664.
99
Edward Fowler Fish, Autobiographical Notes.
100
Ibid.
101
His diary indicates he moved to Marietta on Aug. 12, 1862. The fact that he remained there for two years is
from his Autobiographical Notes.
102
Memories of childhood, Lucia (Fish) Neely, written late in her life (circa 1950).
103
Anna Hinsdale recalled years later: “I remember well the long, dreary ride that September day in the stage
coach. I had never been in a stage before, and an all day's ride, with three little children, and the coach full as I
thought, even before we got in, was quite distressing, rather than enjoyable. We arrived in Stevens Point at
midnight, went to a hotel. After boarding one week there, we went to board with Mrs. Prentice, Sabbath day,
September 11, 1864.” Stevens Point Journal, Feb. 2, 1895.
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church of Stevens Point, and the Old School church of Plover.”104 He was the first pastor at
Stevens Point.105
Being the wife of a minister, Anna was undoubtedly very involved in church and in
supporting the work of her husband. In a letter written to the Stevens Point Journal in 1895,
she recalled her experiences, 30 years earlier, of helping to fix and paint the church, which had
been in disrepair.106
Rev. Fish also preached at Columbus, WI,107 and then Carbondale, IL, before moving to
Du Quoin, IL, in 1871. He began as the stated supply at the Presbyterian church in Du Quoin
on 26 Nov 1871, and was installed there as pastor, 15 Dec 1872.108 The family lived in Du
Quoin for seven years. In December 1877, Edward was thrown from his buggy and again had
to resign from preaching. In February 1878, he left Du Quoin, “for Denver, Colorado Springs,
and possibly California.”109 From 1879 to 1881, he was at a spa in Clifton Springs, NY,
undergoing various treatments. His brother Charles gave him financial support during these
years and at other times of need.110
By April 1881 he was well enough to resume preaching at Franklinville, NY. There his
sermons included a memorial service for assassinated President Garfield. After about a year
he resigned, due to divisions in the church. “The year of suspense and homelessness that
followed was one of the most trying of my life,” he wrote.111
He went to California in Dec 1882.112 There he preached at Gilroy,113 San Pablo,114 and
Carpinteria (1887-1890).115 They had apparently had returned to Evanston, IL, to be near their
daughter Lucia. Anna Hinsdale Fish died at ten o'clock in the morning, 13 Dec 1898,116 in
104
Augustus T. Norton, History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Illinois (1879), p. 663.
Article in the Stevens Point Journal, Jan. 23, 1965: “The first pastor was the Rev. Edward F. Fish, and the roll
showed exactly eight members.”
106
Stevens Point Journal, Feb. 2, 1895. “One of the ways we tried and with quite success was to make cake and
ice cream every week and sell it to passers by. Mrs. Rood made the cake one week and I the next and together
we made the cream and sold it.”
107
He wrote, “Columbus threw me out because I saw there was rottenness in the church and refused to stay.”
Diary entry of Oct. 13, 1885.
108
Edward F. Fish, “History of Presbyterian Church of DuQuoin, Illinois,” a pamphlet published by the Du Quoin
Historical Society, and taken from the Du Quoin Tribune July 13, 1876.
109
DuQuoin Tribune, Feb. 21, 1878: “Rev. Mr. Fish of our city, departed on Wednesday evening for Denver,
Colorado Springs, and possibly California, whither he goes for the benefit of his health. For some time past, Mr.
Fish has been failing in health, and it finally became necessary for him to abandon his labors in the ministry and
devote his whole time to the rebuilding of his health.”
110
Edward F. Fish's diary, which covers the years 1862-1886.
111
Edward F. Fish, diary entry, Oct. 13, 1885.
112
Edward Fowler Fish, Autobiographical Notes.
113
He wrote a letter to Charles G. Neely from Gilroy on Sept. 19, 1884. In his diary entry of Oct. 13, 1885 he
states that “Gilroy threw me out simply because I was loyal to Christ. The Lord is my witness. And now since the
end of May I have been homeless, a cypher among my brethren, waiting for work and finding nothing to do....”
114
Edward F. Fish's diary, entry of June 21, 1866: “Have just returned from San Pablo. At the meeting yesterday
the question of supplying the pulpit was left in the hands of the Trustees & they at once invited me to supply their
pulpit for ten months. This with a view to a more permanent arrangement, should the way open.”
115
Dates of preaching in Carpinteria from a letter from Carpinteria Valley Historical Society, dated 8 Dec. 1993;
their information obtained from the Santa Barbara Presbytery. Edward F. Fish was succeeded by Rev. J. B.
Andrews.
116
Diary of Lucia (Fish) Neely, entry dated 13 Dec. 1898.
105
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Evanston, IL. She probably had cancer.117 Her funeral was conducted December 14 at the
home of Charles and Lucia Neely, in Evanston.118 She is buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in
Chicago.119
On the 1900 census, he is listed as a clergyman, living with his son Edward H. Fish, in
Brooklyn Township, Alameda County, CA.120 Rev. Edward Fowler Fish died 20 Jan 1906, in
Evanston121, and is buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.122
He wrote: “I have been hampered all my life by disease. Yet the Lord has made no
mistake. Goodness and mercy have followed me all my days. I can truly say that these last
days of infirmity and suffering have been the best days of my life. For every trial there is
compensation and there is no one with whom I would exchange places.”123
Rev. Edward Fowler Fish was a strong advocate of temperance, and spoke out against
such things as Sabbath-breaking and dancing. According to his daughter Lucia, “Father was
very strict, but never, as I realize later, narrow. And his strictness was so tempered with loving
kindness, and his gentle, unfailing love, that it was accepted willingly, without question or
resentment.”124 “One of my dearest pictures of my father,” Lucia wrote, “is as I have seen him
so often Sabbath mornings, his white linen and vest without a spot or wrinkle . . . his eyes
looking so blue, his hair so brown and wavy, sitting in the sunlight, reading the Bible.”125
Children:
32.
33.
34
Cara D. Fish, b. 13 Aug 1857; d. 10 Dec 1940; m. (1st) John T. Beem; m. (2nd)
Samuel Shotwell Hutchins
Lucia Hull Fish, b. 14 Apr 1859; d. 30 Oct 1952; m. Charles Gracchus Neely
Edward Hinsdale Fish, b. 10 Mar 1863; d. 14 Feb 1943; m. Ada Anna Albert
(12) CHARLES HULL FISH (Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born August 3, 1830,126 in Sidney, NY.127
He first came to California in 1852 by ship, crossing the Isthmus of Panama by mule. He
arrived in Placerville, an important mining center. His first day of work was as a hod-carrier.
117
Ibid., entry of 17 Oct 1898: “Dr. Ludlam told me privately that he feels sure Mother has a tumor.”
Chicago Daily Tribune, Dec. 15, 1898. Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, conducted the
services.
119
Records of cemetery. Buried in north half of Lot 31, Section 108. findagrave.com: Anna H. Fish
120
1900 census, enumerated June 9, 190, sheet 10.
121
Death certificate: he died at 1509 Chicago Ave., which is in Evanston. The cause of death is given as
pneumonia, with secondary causes of paralysis and senility.
122
Death record from Rosehill Cemetery. Buried in north half of Lot 31, Section 108, along with wife Anna, and
Lucia's father-in-law Isaac M. Neely; and Lucia's children Lucia Helen Neely and Phillip M. Neely. I visited the
graves in July 2007. findagrave.com: Edward F. Fish
123
Edward Fowler Fish, Autobiographical Notes.
124
Memories of childhood, Lucia (Fish) Neely.
125
Letter from Lucia Fish to Charles Neely, dated January 25, 1880.
126
Fish Family Record, and Isabel Morton Fish’s chart.
127
Diary of John Berrien Fish, reprinted elsewhere in this book.
118
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Later that day a prospector asked if someone could write a description of his mining claim.
Charles volunteered and his ability to write soon led to a job in the Recorder's office. He
returned east in 1855.
Early in 1857 he came to California via the overland route. He traveled with a man
named Steven Olmstead, whom he had known when he was first in California. Their horses
died after drinking the alkali water of the Humboldt Sink, and the men had to continue on foot
across the desert. Charles became deranged, but Olmstead led him west to the Truckee River.
They arrived in Reno after walking 100 miles.
Charles conducted a successful Mercantile business in Placerville from 1857 until 1862.
In the fall of 1862 he resigned and took the Wells Fargo stage to Omaha, where he caught a
train. His destination was Cairo, NY, for a family reunion.128
His next move was to Virginia City, Nev., where he became the Recorder. Mark Twain
arrived in Virginia City at about the same time. Charles rode in the lead carriage with the
mayor to the auction of the famous sack of flour (mentioned in Mark Twain's Roughing It).129
Charles became a member of the Virginia City Quartet.130 His niece Lucia Neely wrote: “He was
much beloved for his genial disposition and was a sweet singer…. He was one of a band of
singers in those rough days and was, I am sure, a civilizing and genializing influence.”131
He and his brother Thomas acquired land in Carpinteria in the mid 1860s. He also
owned an orange ranch in San Bernardino. He married Kate Beaumont, 28 Sep 1864,132 in San
Francisco. She died 12 Sep 1865, probably as the result of complications of childbirth.133 His
second wife was Martha Ann Warner, whom he married 25 Jul 1867, in Sacramento.134 She
was born in September 1845 in Illinois,135 and was the daughter of Louis Warner and Eliza
Paige.136
Charles traveled to Nicaragua in 1866, with a friend, Joseph McGuire. In 1869, he rode
out of Reno by train, to Promontory Point, Utah, for the driving of the golden spike.
In the early 1870s he was offered the job of secretary of the Consolidated Virginia
Mining Company. By 1875 the firm was grossing $1.5 million a month -- the greatest silver
strike in American history. The next year the offices were moved to San Francisco, and Charles
became president of the company. The mine dividends dropped off rapidly to about $1 million
per year by 1900, but there were lumber, water and real estate interests. Charles never
acquired a sizable estate. His money went to his family, the San Anselmo Academy, to the San
Rafael Chinese Y.M.C.A., and to the foreign missions in Korea, where his only child, Alice,
eventually became a missionary.
128
Henry Brown, “Charles Fish,” July 5, 1974, typescript manuscript. See also “The Fish Family,” Carpinteria Herald,
Oct. 13, 1960.
129
Henry Brown, “Charles Fish.”
130
Ibid. See also: Georgia Stockton, La Carpinteria (1960), p. 98.
131
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely, ca. 1950.
132
Henry Brown, 1975.
133
Diary of John Berrien Fish, compiled by Henry Brown, 1975. Entry of Oct. 5, 1865: “Came Charles letter dated
Sept. 12, the day his Kate Beaumont died. His son, born 27 July, died Aug. 1.” See also findagrave.com.
134
California County Marriages 1850-1952, on familysearch.org.
135
1900 U.S. census, Vol. 17, E.D. 58, Sheet 4. They lived in San Rafael, with a maid and a cook.
136
See Findagrave.com; also marriage record of Louis Warner and Eliza Paige in Ware, Mass., on familysearch.org,
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The mine owners were aware of Charles' situation. John Mackay suggested an increase
in Charles' salary, but James Fair, a hard-fisted miner said, “it's no use, he would just give it to
some damned mission.” On behalf of the company, Charles acquired a collection of pure
crystalline silver from the California mine that was considered to be the world's most
elaborate display. It was lost, together with the Nevada building, in the 1906 earthquake. He
continued to work until at least 1912, when he was 82 years of age. He died 6 Mar 1914, in
San Rafael, CA, and is buried in the Sacramento City Cemetery.137 Martha died after Charles,
but the date of her death is not given on her gravestone.
Children:
35. Willie Fish, b. 27 Jul 1865; d. 1 Aug 1865;138 bur. Sacramento City Cem.
36. Mary Alice Fish, b. 8 Apr 1870; d. 12 Jul 1912, m. Dr. Samuel Austin Moffett
(13) THOMAS FLETCHER FISH (Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 17 May 1832,139 in Chester,
NY.140 He was married to Hester Ann Johnston by Mar 1854.141 She was born 11 May 1833,142
in Chester, NY. According to Henry Brown, “Thomas joined Charles as his assistant in the San
Francisco office. In 1875 he brought his family back to Carpinteria.”143 Later he moved back to
the Bay area. Earlier he had a store and a mill in Cedar Rapids, IA. He was in Wisconsin in
1851,144 and in Iowa by 1857.145
Lucia Neely wrote, “Uncle Tom was less prosperous than Uncle Charlie and less genial
(to children) but he told funny stories and always made us laugh. He lived in Iowa, and
afterwards in California, so we seldom saw him.”146 Hester died 19 Nov 1884, and is buried in
the Carpinteria Cemetery.147 His second wife was Rhoda (Button) Gere,148 whom he married 1
Jun 1886, in Manhattan, NY.149 She was from Batavia, NY, and was born in about 1836,
137
findagrave.com: Charles H. Fish
Diary of John Berrien Fish, compiled by Henry Brown, 1975. Entry of Oct. 5, 1865 (see footnote above,)
139
Fish Family Record.
140
Diary of John Berrien Fish, reprinted elsewhere in this book.
141
Diary of John Berrien Fish, compiled by Henry Brown, 1975. Entry of March 1854: “Thomas and Hester came
to Hunter, returned 31st to Unadilla.”
142
Chart by Isabel Morton Fish.
143
Henry Brown, comments on John Berrien Fish’s diary, 1975.
144
Ibid., p. 11.
145
Ibid., p. 13. John B. Fish writes in diary entry July 23, 1857: “I have two sons in Iowa…”
146
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely, ca. 1950.
147
findagrave.com: Hester Fish (death date visible on gravestone)
148
She had a daughter, Lucia B. Gere, by her first marriage, who died November 21, 1945, in Los Angeles. Lucia B.
Gere was born Mar. 20, 1863, in Iowa.
149
“New York, Marriages, 1686-1980,” on familysearch.org. However, the original image is not available, and it
seems there must be a mistake in the date of marriage, possibly due to a poor transcription.
138
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possibly in Connecticut, the daughter of Levi and Lucy (Bement) Button, and the widow of
Lucian B. Gere.150 Thomas died 7 Jul 1908, and is buried in the Carpinteria Cemetery.151
Children:
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
Theodore Johnston Fish, b. 7 Jun 1856; d. 10 Dec 1927; m. Carrie Judson Sears
Charles Fish, b. 1857; d. 7 Mar 1863152
John Berrien Fish, b. 1861; d. Sep 1861153
Margaret Fish, b. 1863; d. 1863, at age of three months154
Rev. Azel Hull Fish, b. 20 Mar 1865; d. 31 Mar 1949, m. Alice Graham
Tommy Fish, b. about 1871; d. 8 Mar 1877;155 bur. Carpinteria Cem.156
Lucia Hester Fish, b. 23 Dec 1877; d. 17 Mar 1962, m. Samuel Austin Moffett
(15) LUCIA HULL FISH (“Lute”) (Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 9 (or 25?) Jun 1835, in
Canterbury, NY.157 She was the daughter of Rev. John Berrien Fish and Lucia Hull. Only one
year old when her mother died, she was raised by her Aunt Julia (Hull) Benham, who lived in
Angelica, NY. She had “admirers many of whom aspired to be lovers,” but she did not marry.158
She lived in Oakland, CA,159 and died in Nov 1913. She is buried in the Mountain View
Cemetery, in Oakland.160
(16) MARY JANE JOHNSTON (Delia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 19 Mar 1833, in Sidney
Plains, NY. She married John Aldrich 30 May 1855, in Sidney, NY. He was born 23 Feb 1828, in
NY, and was the son of Asa and Mercy (Smith) Aldrich.161 They lived in Nebraska from 18551866, then Cedar Rapids, before moving to Missouri in 1894. According to a Who’s Who entry,
150
Lucian died June 2, 1868, at Cedar Rapids, IA, and is buried in the Alexander Village Cemetery, in Genessee
Co., NY Find A Grave Memorial# 22438403 and http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/genesee/cemeteries/alexand.txt
151
findagrave.com: Thomas F. Fish says he died in Carpinteria; however Batavia Daily News, Sept. 5, 1908, states
that he died in Oakland.
152
Diary of Edward Fowler Fish, entry dated Wed. Mar. 18, 1863: “Have been writing today to brother Thomas.
His little Charlie died a week ago Saturday night.”
153
Chart by Isabel Morton Fish.
154
Ibid.
155
Diary of Edward Fowler Fish, entry of Mar. 20, 1877: “This morning a letter from Sister Mary to Emily brought
the mournful tidings that ‘Tommy,’ brother Thomas’ youngest child, died of diphtheria on Thursday the 8th.”
Chart by Isabel Morton Fish gives the same date, and says he was 6 years old.
156
findagrave.com: Tommy Fish
157
Place of birth from diary of John Berrien Fish, in which he lists the birthplaces of his children.
158
Recollections of Lucia (Fish) Neely, ca. 1950.
159
Henry Brown, 1975, comments on diary of John Berrien Fish, p. 20. “Lucia lived two doors from Thomas in
Oakland.”
160
Records of Mt. View Cemetery. She is buried with the Benham family in Lot 20, Plot 15.
161
According to: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wesgedcom&id=I00600
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she began temperance work with the Crusade movement and became National vice president
and State president of the W.C.T.U. She joined the non-partisan W.C.T.U. in 1890, becoming
secretary of it evangelical work.162 Another source says, “Mrs. Aldrich signed the temperance
pledge in early childhood during the period of John B. Gough’s career and the Washingtonian
societies. Her active temperance work began during the Temperance Crusade of 1873-74.”163
In 1900, they lived in Columbia Township, near Springfield, MO, with daughter Luta.
John is listed as a farmer.
Mary Jane died 27 Apr 1909, in Sidney Plains, NY. John died 30 Dec 1909, in Unadilla,
NY. She and her husband are both buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, in Sidney, NY.
Children:
Carl Milton Aldrich, b. 26 Aug 1860; d. 16 Apr 1936.; m. Corrine May Tackett
Lucette (“Luta”) Aldrich, b. 4 Dec 1861, Nebraska City, NE; living 1920, in Sidney,
NY
46. John Aldrich, b. 11 Mar 1872; d. 25 Jun 1937; m. Ethel May Atkinson
44.
45.
(17) LAURENS HULL JOHNSTON (Delia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 17 Dec 1834, in NY. He
was in the Civil War, in the 2nd Volunteer Colorado Cavalry.164
He married Lettice H. (Willis) Chappell, 17 Sep 1890, in Custer County, ID.165 She was
born 4 May 1851, in West Parishville, NY, and was the widow of a Mr. Chappell.166 She was the
daughter of Charles B. and Lettice Willis.167
They are listed on the 1900 census in “Bay Horse,” Challis, Idaho. The census lists her as
the mother of one child, still living.168 The census lists his occupation as attorney at law.
Lettice was treasurer of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Idaho, in 1900.169
He died 24 Sep 1910; and is buried in Challis, Idaho.170 Lettice had died 18 Jan 1910, and
is also buried in the cemetery at Challis.171
162
Who’s Who In America, 1901-02, p. 12.
Who’s Who in New York City and State, 1904, p. 8.
164
Gravestone. Also see Three years and a half in the Army, or, History of the Second Colorados
165
The marriage record calls him L.H. Johnson, and her L.H. Chappell:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/custer/vitals/marriages/18791915.txt
166
Mason says he married “Mrs. L.Chappell.” Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey
states that George H. Chappell married Lettice Willis, but that she died in 1888, after having on son, George H.
Chappell, Jr. It appears that this is the same Lettice, except that the book is incorrect in stating she died. George
must have instead been divorced or separated.
167
See http://idahogravestones.org/view.php?id=3806 – her parents’ names are given on her gravestone.
168
Apparently this was George H. Chappell, Jr.
169
The American Missionary, Jan. 1900.
170
findagrave.com: Laurens Johnston .
171
findagrave.com: Lettice Johnston .
163
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(18) WITTER HENRY JOHNSTON (Delia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 24 Jul 1837. He married,
first, Malvina (“Mallie”) McBride, 29 Jun 1877.172 She was born 30 Oct 1850.173 She died in
1886.174 He married, second, her sister, Margaretta (“Maggie”) McBride, 2 Aug 1887, in Ft.
Dodge, IA.175 She was the daughter of John McBride and Elizabeth McIvans. She was born in
1857, in Philadelphia, Penn. She died in 1900.176
He was in the Civil War, enlisting on 14 Aug 1862, as a 2nd Lieutenant, in Sidney, NY. He
served in Co. I, New York 144th infantry, and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant 21 Feb 1863, and
to Captain on 18 Nov 1864. He mustered out on 15 May 1865.177
He is listed on the 1885 Iowa state census, in Ft. Dodge, with wife Mollie, son Witter,
and two unrelated people, Agnes H. Mooney, 36, and John C. Mooney, 13.
In 1900, he is listed with son Witter L. Johnson, daughter Mallie W. Johnson, sister Dora
Turner, and servant Phoebe Cheney, 34. He was widowed and his occupation is given as
farmer.178 In 1910, he is listed in Ft. Dodge with daughter Mattie, 21, and sister, Dora H. Turner,
62.
He was president of the Ft. Dodge Library Board, and a member of the Iowa Library
Commission. In an article about the library, it is said:
“In this age when it is said that all worship money and that without money no one can
be respected or accomplish great things; in the mad rush for money and the things
money can buy, the life of Capt. W. H. Johnston is a complete refutation of all this.
Disabled in early life by a rebel bullet, while fighting for his country and his flag he
started into professional life handicapped by this sacrifice for the nation. He has always
been a book lover but he is also a lover of humanity, especially of the young, and this
double love prompted him to establish with the help of a few faithful women who are
always on hand to hold up the hands of a man who would do something for his fellows,
a Circulating Library….
…A mainstay of the church, respected and beloved by all, what a success is his life,
compared to some of the richest men of our town whom nobody cares for, who have
never done a thing for their brothers or for the future…. A portrait of him was painted
by W. A. Reaser and was to be hung in the library.”179
He died 6 Jun 1911, and is buried in the Oakland Cemetery, Ft. Dodge, IA.180
Children, by his first wife:
172
Mason, Weygant, p. 564, says June 29, 1877.
Mason.
174
findagrave.com: Malvina Johnston . She probably died in childbirth.
175
Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992, Ancestry.com.
176
findagrave.com: Margaretta Johnston .
177
See http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=793174
178
1900 census, ED 186, Wahkonsa Twp, Ft. Dodge.
179
Bulletin of the Iowa Library Commission, Vol. 1-4, 1901-1904, pp. 69-70.
180
findagrave.com: W. H. Johnston
173
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47.
48.
Witter Laurens Johnston, b. 22 Dec 1881; d. 9 Jul 1910, unm.
(Unnamed female), b. 11 Jan 1886, Ft. Dodge, IA, apparently died in infancy
Child, by his second wife:
49.
Malvina McBride Johnston, b. 25 Aug 1888; d. 15 Nov 1971; m. Elmer Preston
Bradshaw
(20) DORCAS HULL JOHNSTON (Delia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 30 Apr 1847,181 in NY. She
married Arunah Metcalf Turner,182 7 Mar 1871.183 He was the son of Sumner Turner, of Otsego
Co., NY.
According to Mason, they lived in West Superior, WI. Unless I am incorrect about the
identity of her husband, they were divorced or separated, as she is listed on the 1900 and
1910 census living with her brother Witter Henry Johnston, in Ft. Dodge, Iowa. On the 1880
census, she is listed as “widowed” (living with her parents in Sidney, NY), but this seems
unlikely, since A. Metcalf Turner died in 1914.184 She died 6 Feb 1927, and is buried in the
Oakland Cemetery, Ft. Dodge, Iowa.185
Dorcas is listed as a non-graduate in a catalogue of officers and students of Mt. Holyoke
College. Her listing says “m. A. M. Turner 71. Address Mrs. Dora H. J. Turner, Fort Dodge, IA;
Sidney Plains, NY; 65, student Chicago Free Kindergarten Assoc. 91-93, kindergartener West
Superior Wis. 93-97.”
(23) AZEL MORSE BENHAM (Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 21 Mar 1839, in Postdam, NY.
He married Mary Croft, 6 Dec 1865, at La Porte, IN. In 1869 he is listed in an Indianapolis, IN,
city directory under the firm Soehner & Benham, who sold “pianos, organs and melodeons,
stools and covers.” By 1879, he was living in Alameda County, CA.186 On the 1880 census, he is
listed living in Oakland, CA, as a music dealer. According to an advertisement in the Oakland
Tribune, he had a shop at 647 Market St. in San Francisco, where he sold pianos. He died 1
Apr, 1912, in Los Angeles., CA. His ashes were initially held at the Mountain View Cemetery in
Altadena, CA, and were transferred to the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, CA, Lot 20,
181
Mason,
Mason and Weygant just say “A. Metcalf Turner,” however, it seems very plausible that he was Arunah Metcalf
Turner, since his age and location (he lived in Otsego Co., NY) seem correct.
183
Mason…
184
findagrave.com: A. Metcalf Turner
185
findagrave.com: Dorcas Turner
186
“California, Great Registers, 1866-1910,” familysearch.org.
182
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Plot 15.187 Mary was born in 1840 in Ohio, and died 3 Jun 1925, in Humboldt Co., CA.188 Her
ashes are also in the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Lot 20, Plot 15.189
Child:
50.
James William Benham, b. 3 Oct 1866; d. 27 Jul 1914; m. Alice Douglas Bradford
(24) HENRY LAURENS BENHAM (Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 24 Oct 1843, in
Hammondsport, NY. He married Mary Huldah Sibley, 12 Oct 1869, in Cincinnati, OH.. He died
28 Aug 1890, in Cincinnati, OH, and is buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.190
From an unknown newspaper: “Death of a Well Known Citizen. Mr. H.L. Benham,
widely known in the piano trade and in musical circles of this city, died this afternoon at 2
o'clock, of brain fever, at his residence, No. 3 Eden Park Terrace. He was seized with the fatal
illness about three weeks ago, and during most of this period was in an unconscious condition.
Mr. Benham for many years was a leading music dealer and publisher of Indianapolis. In this
city he was been with several piano firms, more recently with the Levassor Piano Company, of
which he was secretary and treasurer. A man of kindly and genial disposition, his loss will be
deeply felt by his many friends and acquaintances. The bereaved family consists of a widow
and four children. Mrs. Benham is the daughter of Mr. J.W. Sibley, of Grandin road.”
Children:
51.
Mary Hull Benham, b. 1 Oct 1870; d. 27 Aug 1932; m. Edward Coleman Page
52.
Ethel Sibley Benham, b. 5 Oct 1873; d. 28 Nov 1953; m. Rollo Stewart Bassett
53.
Julia Hastings Benham, b. 11 Jan 1877; d. 12 Feb 1948, Cincinnati, Oh, bur.
Spring Grove Cem.
54.
Henry Laurens Benham Jr., b. 2 Jan 1879; d. 22 Oct 1973; m. Katherine Carthage
Cunningham
(25) CHARLES HENRY HULL (Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born in 1850191 in NY.
According to Mason’s Hull genealogy, he lived in Yelm, WA. He married Anna B. Locke, in
about 1888. She was born in Canada in 1865. On the 1900 census, he is listed as a teamster,
and lived in Tacoma, WA. He died in 1922. She died 11 Dec 1955, in King Co., WA. They are
buried in Roy Cemetery, Pierce Co. WA.192
187
findagrave.com: Azel Morse Benham
Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1905-1939
189
findagrave.com: Mary Croft Benham
190
findagrave.com: Henry L. Benham
191
Listed in both Mason and Weygant.
192
findagrave.com: Charles H Hull and findagrave.com: Anna B. Hull
188
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Children:
55.
56.
57.
58.
Laurens Ambler Hull, b. 25 Mar 1891; d. 11 Jan 1952; m. Marian Anna Wieland
? Gilbert Hull, b. Mar 1891193
Rachel D. Hull, b. 14 Mar 1893; d. 26 Apr 1971; m. Godfrey Oscar Kinberg
Gladys Roberta Hull, b. 24 Dec 1894; d. 8 Mar 1986, Contra Costa Co., CA;
m. Marshall Henry Swanson, who was b. 25 May 1899, and d. 16 Mar 1973
(26) MARY DORCAS HULL (Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 20 Jan 1852. She
married, first, Frank Elliot, in 1875. He died in 1876.194 She married, second, Gilbert Bradley
Shaw, 3 May 1885, in Chicago. He was born 12 Aug 1837, in Canandaigua, NY. He graduated
from Genesee College, Lima, NY, in 1860. In 1865 he was engaged in logging and
manufacturing in Wood Co., WI, and came to Chicago in 1869. In 1870 he opened a retail
lumber yard in Kankakee, and later opened other lumber yards. He was at one time president
of the American Trust and Savings Bank, in Chicago.195 In a 1907 newspaper article, he is called
a multi-millionaire.196
Mary died 12 Dec 1910, in Chicago,197 and Gilbert died 13 Apr 1912. Mary and Gilbert
are buried in the Oak Woods cemetery in Chicago.198
Children:
59.
60.
61.
Margaret Shaw, b. 30 Aug, 1886; d. 17 Apr 1979; m. Wilbur Leroy Lafean
Helen Shaw, b. 16 Sep 1888; d. Dec 1975; m. Robert Weems Tansill, Jr.
Doris Shaw, b. 2 Apr 1893; d. 21 Jun 1984; m. Robert Harvey Smith
(27) LAURENS HULL (Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 9 Apr 1861, in Pike, NY.199
He married Ann (“Annie”) Howe, in 1891.200 She was born in Jan 1862, in Illinois, and was the
daughter of Jubal Washburn Howe and Maryette Perry. After 1901, Laurens and Annie lived in
Lima, OH, where he was vice-president and general manager of the Laurens Hull Lumber
193
1900 census. He may have either been a twin of Laurens A. Hull, or, more likely, he changed his name to
Laurens A. Hull. The reason for this guess is that the two of them are never listed together on the census. The
1892 WA State census, and the 1900 federal census only list Gilbert, and the 1910 census only lists Laurens.
194
According to Mason.
195
History of the City of Chicago: Its Men and Institutions. (1900), p. 165
196
Freeport Journal-Standard, 3 Jan 1907, available via newspapers.com
197
“Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922,” on familysearch.org.
198
findagrave.com: Gilbert B. Shaw and findagrave.com: Mary Shaw
199
Date and place of birth and death from his death record, online at familysearch.org.
200
Mason, p. 50, and Weygant, p. 546, gives the year of marriage as 1891.
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Company. He is listed on the 1910 census in Lima. He had previously lived in Aurora, IL. He
and Annie are listed in the 1920 and the 1930 census in Oswego, IL. He died 23 Dec 1935,
Oswego, IL,201 and is buried in the Pearce Cemetery.202 Annie died in 1942 and is also buried in
the Pearce Cemetery.203
(28) WILLIAM AMBLER HULL (Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born September 1856, in
NY. He married Ida Mae Burucker in 1886. She was born 13 Sep 1857, in Frederick, MD. She
was the daughter of John S. and Sophia Burucker.204 He died in 18 Jun 1914, and was buried in
Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, IA.205 Ida Mae died 26 Jun 1934, in Bloomington, IL. She is
also buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.206
Children:
62.
63.
64.
Walter Burucker Hull, b. 16 Jul 1887; d. 22 Oct 1963; m. (1st) Laura V. Russell;
m. (2nd) Muriel (Arthur) Trewin
Isabel Louise Hull, b. 21 Feb 1891; d. 3 Jun 1973; m. Charles Darius Guy
Henry Marcus Hull, b. 28 Jun 1897; d. Jan 1985; m. Mary Faulkner
(29) JULIA HULL (Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 31 Aug 1858 in New York. She
married William Barlow Ross, 17 Jan 1899, in Cedar Rapids, IA.207 He was born in about 1866,
in Belfast, Ireland, and was the son of Hugh Ross and Elizabeth Dean.208 He was apparently an
amateur singer, as a newspaper account states that he sang “the elaborate tenor obbligato
and solo with superb effect.”209
On the 1910 census, they are listed in Chicago, living with their niece Margery
Hannegan. Julia died 5 Jun 1933, and is buried Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, IA. 210 William
died 2 Feb 1936, in Chicago.211
201
“Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947,” on familySearch.org
findagrave.com: Laurens Hull
203
findagrave.com: Annie Hull
204
Maryland, Births and Christenings, 1650-1995,” from familysearch.org.
205
findagrave.com: William A. Hull
206
findagrave.com: Ida M. Hull
207
“Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934,” – familysearch.org.
208
Ibid.
209
Rockford Morning Star, May 8, 1910. He is called “of Chicago.”
210
findagrave.com: Julia Ross
211
“Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947,” familysearch.org. His parents and his wife’s names are listed on
the death record, but no cemetery is given. (Although familysearch does not show the original image).
202
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(30) FRANCES COLWELL HULL (Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born in 1862, in New
York. She married James Edmund Hannegan,212 28 Oct 1886, in Cedar Rapids, IA. He was born
11 May 1863, in Lafayette, IN,213 and was the son of James E. Hannegan and Alice McEnary. He
was a railroad passenger agent, “railroad tariff expert and former chairman of the
Southwestern Passenger Association.” 214 Frances died 11 Jun 1888 and is buried in the Oak
Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, IA.215 After her death, he remarried Laura -----, and lived in St.
Louis, MO, where he is listed on the 1930 census. He died 14 Nov 1935, in St. Louis, and is
buried in Kankakee, IL.216
Child:
65.
Margaret (“Margery”) Frances Hannegan, b. 27 May 1888; m. Leroy Kramer
(31) HARRY EDWARD HULL (Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 12 Mar 1864, near
Belvedere, NY. He may have been born as “Henry” and changed the name later. He married
Mary Louise Harris, 3 Jun 1891, in Williamsburg, IA. She was born in March 1871, in Iowa.
He was a U.S. Congressman, elected to represent Iowa's 2nd District in the United
States House of Representatives, serving from 1915 to 1925.
“(He) was a five-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional
district, and Commissioner General of Immigration in the Coolidge and Hoover
administrations…. (He) moved with his parents to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1873…. He was
employed as a clerk and bookkeeper for a grain company. He moved to Palo, Iowa, in
1883, and to Williamsburg, Iowa, in 1884 and engaged in the grain business. He also
engaged in the manufacture of brick and tile. He was president of the Williamsburg
Telephone Co. He served as one of Williamsburg's aldermen from 1887 to 1889, as its
mayor from 1889 to 1901, and as its postmaster from 1901 to 1914. He also served as
president of the Williamsburg Fair Association from 1900 to 1915.
In 1914, Hull was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional
district in the U.S. House, defeating Democrat W.J. McDonald. He served in the Sixtyfourth Congress and in the four succeeding Congresses. He was one of only fifty
representatives who voted against the resolution authorizing the United States' entry
into World War I, and one of the few of those fifty to stave off challengers in the
wartime primary and general elections in 1918….
When seeking renomination in 1924, he was defeated in the Republican primary
by Judge F. Dickinson Letts. In all, he served from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1925. On
212
Often known as “J. E.”, his full name was found on his marriage record, familysearch.org.
Albert N. Marquis, , 1912, p. 261.
214
Traffic World, Vol. 56, p. 920.
215
findagrave.com: Frances Hannegan
216
Death certificate online: http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1935/1935_00038589.PDF
213
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May 15, 1925, he was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge as Commissioner General
of Immigration and served in that position until 1933, when he retired.”217
His first wife Mary died 21 May 1917, in Washington, DC, “after taking poison tablets which
she thought were headache pills.”218 She is buried in Williamsburg, IA.
Harry married Ann Elizabeth Gittins, 21 Jun 1921. She was born 16 Mar 1883, in
Williamsburg, IA, the daughter of Thomas Edgar Gittens and Mary Ann Pugh.
Harry died 16 Jan 1938, in Washington, DC. His widow Ann died 5 Jun 1955, in
Washington, DC. They are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, IA.219
Child, by his first wife:
66.
Harris Benjamin Hull, b. 23 May 1909, d. 29 Jan 1993; m. (1st) Bernice Stephens,
m. (2nd) Jeanne Glennon,
217
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_E._Hull
“Representative Hull’s Wife Dead”, Portland Oregonian, May 23, 1917, retrieved via geealogybank.com. See
also Washington Evening Star, May 22, 1917, for a more detailed account.
219
findagrave.com: Harry E. Hull
218
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Fourth Generation
(32) CARA D. FISH (Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 13 Aug 1857, in Mt.
Vernon, Iowa. She attended Ingham University, in Le Roy, NY. She married John T. Beem 6
Sep 1879, in Danvers, IL. He was born 23 Aug 1840, in Pittsburgh, PA, the son of Andrew Beem
and Vine McGown. He was the owner and editor of the Du Quoin Tribune. According to the
History of Perry County (1988) Beem was a “picturesque, forceful writer” who “fought battles
on the issues of the day, wielding the printed word like a sharp sword.”220 He had two children,
Della and Loren, by a previous marriage. Cara's marriage to John Beem ended in divorce. He
died 12 Jul 1930, in Du Quoin, and is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery there.221
She married Samuel Shotwell Hutchins in November 1892. He was born in Canada222 in
about 1848,223 and is said to have been raised by a couple named Pryor (but not adopted).224
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1869 and was naturalized in 1875.225 They lived in Southern
California, at one time in Riverside.226 He had four sons by a previous marriage, Austin, Charles
Foster, Arthur, and William E. Samuel was a rancher and a carpenter. According to his death
certificate, he was also a real estate agent.227 In 1920 the family lived in Eden Township,
Hayward, CA. Census records indicate that his father was born in Wales and his mother in
Canada.228 He died 10 May 1925, in Hayward.229 In 1930, she lived with daughter Lucia, in San
Francisco.230 Cara died 10 Dec 1940,231 in Bell Gardens Sanatorium.232
220
History of Perry County, Ill. (1988), p. 12.
findagrave.com: John T. Beem
222
According to the 1920 census; and also his death certificate. Information on Ancestry.com posted by a
descendant says that he was born in 1848 in Sparta, Elgin Co., Ontario, Canada.
223
According to cremation record, he was 77 years and 27 days old at the time of his death, which would put his
birthdate in April 1848. A user on a genealogy message board gave his birth as April 13, 1848 and said he was the
son of Charles (?) Hutchins and Sadie or Sarah Atherton.
224
Information from Shirley (Hutchins) Masvik. In a letter dated 13 Jan. 1995, she wrote: “as his mother died at
his birth, he was raised by a couple named Pryor who were Canadian, but where they lived at that time is not
known.”
225
1920 census, enumeration district 153, sheet 13, Alameda Co., CA. His death certificate, however, states that
he was in the U.S. for 42 years and a resident of California for 37 years at the time of his death.
226
Information from Shirley (Hutchins) Masvik.
227
Copy of death certificate, with occupation listed as “retired real estate agent.”
228
1920 census, enumeration district 153, sheet 13, Alameda Co., CA. Samuel and Cara lived on Maple Court, with
daughters Ayleen, 21, and Shirley, 17.
229
Information from Alma Beasley, including photocopy of cremation register, Oakland cremation association.
“He was cremated and interred in Piedmont, at Chapel of the Chimes.” According to his death certificate, the
cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage.
230
1930 census. Lucia is listed as a chair cainer.
231
Death date according to Shirley (Hutchins) Masvik, who has a copy of her death certificate. However, California
Death Index, 1940-1997, has her death as December 9, 1940.
232
In a letter written in 1946 to Shirley Wright, Lucia Neely wrote: “She had entirely lost her mind, would not stay
with Lila or with Eloise, kept wandering away. She was finally placed in a Rest Home at Bell, CA, called Bell
Gardens Sanatorium. She died quite suddenly and without any illness at the last. Eloise, a very dear niece of
mine, had died but all her children from the Bay region, even blind Ayleen, came down to the funeral.” It seems
possible that Cara was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
221
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Children:
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.
Cara Eloise Beem, b. 30 Aug 1881; d. 24 Sep 1940; m. Walter Stephen Waring
Wirt Fowler Beem, b. 7 Feb 1884; d. 2 Dec 1973; m. Gladys Myfanwy Hughes
Lila W. Beem, b. 16 Dec 1885; d. 21 Jan 1949; m. (Frank) Chase DeSellem
Ralph Harmon Hutchins, b. 9 Nov 1893; d. 22 Nov 1975; m. (1st) Evelyn Salome
Kriess; m. (2nd) Mary Huntley; m. (3rd) Moselle (Hanson) Kole
Lucia Ayleen Hutchins, b. 26 Oct 1898; d. 15 Jan 1968, San Mateo Co., CA;
unmarried. Ayleen was blind since the age of 8, and, as an adult, was adopted
by a Christian Science couple who lived in San Francisco. She also had a serious
speech defect. Despite her handicaps, she managed to travel all over the city,
teaching crafts and Braille at the S. F. School for the Blind.
Elizabeth Shirley Hutchins, b. 3 Jan 1902; d. 2 May 2001; m. Henry Jesper Masvik
(33) LUCIA HULL FISH (Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 14 Apr 1859, in
Panama, NY. In 1875 she entered the Western Female Seminary in Oxford, OH. In 1876 she
enrolled in Ingham University in Le Roy, NY, graduating in June 1879. She taught for a year in
the Du Quoin public schools and also gave piano lessons. On 9 Sep 1880, she married Charles
Gracchus Neely in St. Louis, MO. He was born 11 Jun 1855, in Benton, IL, the son of Dr. Isaac
Montgomery Neely and Mary Catherine Elstun. The family moved to Evanston, IL, in 1884.
Charles G. Neely served for one term in the Illinois state legislature, was a lawyer, and later a
circuit court judge. After moving to California in 1910 he taught constitutional history and law
at Pomona College. He died 16 Oct 1930, in Selma, CA, after an automobile accident.
Lucia Neely was a devoted wife and a hard-working homemaker and mother. Diaries
written when her children were young show her as an energetic, busy woman, and a
prodigious seamstress. After her husband died in 1930, she rented rooms to college students including conductor Robert Shaw. She was vitally interested in the events of the day and was
an avid reader. At age 70, she began reading 100 “great books” suggested in an article by Will
Durant. It took her four years. Lucia died 30 Oct 1952, at age 93, in Claremont, CA. She is
buried in the Oak Park Cemetery in Claremont.233 In a letter written to her daughter Charlotte,
a friend said: “She had the kind of personality that makes her vivid and stimulating even
now…for she was lovely to look at, charming to know, intelligent and humorous.”
Children:
73. John Hinsdale Neely, b. 18 Dec 1881; d. 11 Apr 1917; unm.
74. Mary Ruth Neely, b. 10 Sep 1884; d. 21 Jan 1968; m. Allan John Carter
233
findagrave.com: Lucia Fish Neely
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75. Clara Grace Neely, b. 14 Aug 1886; d. 21 Jan 1972; m. Claude Wyman Payne
76 Lucia Helen Neely, b. 15 Sep 1888; d. 23 Oct 1889, of pneumonia; bur. Rosehill
Cem., Chicago
77. Philip Montgomery Neely, b. 17 Apr 1891; d. 28 Jan 1902, bur. Rosehill Cem.,
Chicago234
78 Anna Charlotte Neely, b. 28 Feb 1893; d. 31 Dec 1980; unm.
79. Dorothy Louise Neely, b. 28 Feb 1895; d. 22 May 1974, m. Lowell Clark Pratt
(34) EDWARD HINSDALE FISH (Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 10 Mar
1863, in Marietta, OH. After living in Wisconsin, the family moved to Du Quoin, IL, in 1871. In
1880 he worked briefly in Du Quoin as a printer with his brother-in-law, John Beem.
On 19 Jul 1898, he married Ada Anna Albert, who was born 11 Sep 1872, in Brownsville,
CA. Ada's mother, Jane Beever, was a native of California and is buried in Coquille, OR. Her
father, Daniel Wesley Albert, was a miner who was born in Ohio. According to Lois Johnston
Fish, Ada was “a great lady who had a heart as big as all outdoors. She thought of everyone
before she ever thought of herself.”
In 1900 Edward H. Fish and his family lived with his father in Brooklyn Township,
Alameda County, CA. He moved to Oregon in 1906. He was a bookkeeper, mainly for lumber
companies. He worked for the Prosper Lumber Co., the A.B. Daly Co. in Marshfield, and the
Vaughn Co. in Coquille, OR.
His daughter, Shirley Wright, wrote: “while we were never rich we never felt poor and
were always proud. My Dad was always very special in my estimation. He had a great love of
music and passed that appreciation to his children.” His wife died 7 Jul 1940. He died of
pneumonia, 14 Feb 1943, at the Knights of Pythias lodge home in Tacoma, WA, and is buried
alongside his wife in the Masonic cemetery in Coquille, OR.235
Children:
80.
81.
82.
83.
Helen Albert Fish, b. 30 May 1899; d. 2 Sep 1981; m. Edward Joseph McCann
Edward Hinsdale Fish Jr., b. 1 Aug 1900; d. 14 Nov 1981, m. Lois Thelma Johnston
Shirley Jane Fish, b. 30 Oct 1906, d. 2 Mar 2013; m. Guy Samuel Wright
Daniel Wesley Fish, b. 6 Jun 1911; d. 25 Apr 1971; m. Dorothy Lucille Bunch
(36) MARY ALICE FISH (Charles Hull Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 8 Apr 1870, in
Virginia City, Nevada. She married Dr. Samuel Austin Moffett, 1 Jun 1899, in Seoul, Korea. He
was born 25 Jan 1864, in Madison, IN. Mary Alice was a Medical missionary. Dr. Samuel
Austin Moffett came to Korea in 1889. Mary died 12 Jul 1912, in Korea, of dysentery. In 1915,
234
235
findagrave.com: Philip M. Neely
findagrave.com: Edward H. Fish Sr.
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Dr. Moffett married her cousin, Lucia Hester Fish.236 He died 24 Oct 1939, in Monrovia, CA.
“Samuel A. Moffett was originally buried in Carpinteria, California but in 2006, in honor of his
contribution and at the request of the Korean Presbyterian Church his remains were moved to
the campus of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, which he had founded in Pyongyang in
1901, now located in Seoul, Korea.237
Children:
84.
85.
86.
Rev. James McKee Moffett, b. 28 Feb 1905; d. 23 Dec 1986; m. Eleanor Elizabeth
Prosser
Rev. Charles Hull Moffett, b. 12 Jun 1908; d. 28 Dec 1976; m. Marian Emma
Hutton
Margaret Lee Moffett, b. Jul 1912, Korea; d. Jul 1912, Korea
(37) THEODORE JOHNSTON FISH (Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 7
Jun 1856, in Sidney Plains, NY.238 He married Carrie Judson Sears. She was born 5 Nov 1856, in
New York City, the daughter of Herman Barnum Sears and Almira Raymond. The family lived
in Oakland, CA, in 1900,239 and moved to Phoenix, OR, by 1910, where he is listed as a farmer.
Carrie died 1 Apr 1924, in Phoenix, Oregon.240 Theodore is said to have been an invalid for
many years. He died 10 Dec 1927, in Phoenix, and is buried in the Phoenix Pioneer
Cemetery.241
Children:
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
Florence Fish, b. 15 Jul 1884, Oakland, CA; d. 29 Jan 1885; bur. Carpinteria Cem.
Fletcher Thomas Fish, b. 13 Nov 1886; d. 13 Jun 1963; m. (1st) Edith Archibald;
m. (2nd) Jean Garman
Edith Mersereau Fish, b. 4 Nov 1889; d. 30 Aug 1983; m. William A. Thompson
Carol Sears Fish, b. 18 Feb 1892; d. 5 Jun 1983; m. Charles Brittain Drake
Sibyl Valentine Fish, b. 5 Jul 1893; d. 21 Dec 1979; m. Burdette Lynde Dodge Jr.
Theodore Johnston Fish Jr., b. 18 Jun 1895; d. 28 Aug 1967, m. Margaret Clara
Brown
Raymond Sears Fish, b. 10 Oct 1897, Oakland, CA; d. 20 Mar 1976, Medford, OR;
m. Florence Van Dyke; no children
236
Who’s Who In America (date unknown), entry for Samuel Austin Moffett.
findagrave.com: Samuel Austin Moffett
238
Various census records say he was born in NY state. Cemetery record says Sidney Plains.
239
His occupation is difficult to read. Carrie’s father Herman Sears lived with them.
240
findagrave.com: Carrie Fish
241
findagrave.com: Theodore J. Fish
237
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(41) REV. AZEL HULL FISH (Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 20 Mar
1865, in Cedar Rapids, IA. He married Alice Graham. She was born about 1866, in California.
Azel graduated from Union Theological Seminary. In 1904 he wrote a 15-page pamphlet, “Dr.
Carter, Rationalistic Unitarianism and the Vital Doctrines of Evangelical Christianity.”242 He
spoke out in support of S. T. Carter, his friend, who had been accused of certain unorthodox
views.243 Azel was appointed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Nyack, NY, in 1911. He
was also a college professor.244 In 1920 he lived in Monroe, NY.245 By 1930 he had moved to
New Jersey, where he is listed on the census as headmaster of a school. He died 31 Mar 1949,
in Ridgewood, NJ.
Child:
94.
Laurens Hull Fish, b. 25 Oct 1903; d. 18 Dec 2000; m. Marion Edith Monks
(43) LUCIA HESTER FISH (Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 23 Dec 1877,
in Carpinteria, CA. Lucia received a B.S. degree from the University of California in 1900 and a
Master's degree from Columbia University in 1903. She went to Korea in 1913 to teach
missionaries' children at the Foreign School in Pyongyang. There she met Samuel Austin
Moffett, whose first wife was Lucia's cousin Mary Alice Fish. They were married 30 Jun 1915.
Moffett was president of Union Christian College in Korea from 1918 to 1928. According to
her obituary “The Moffetts were in sympathy with the Korean independence movement but
took no part in actions against the Japanese government. Nevertheless, the Japanese
threatened in 1936 to kill Dr. Moffett.”246 He escaped and Lucia followed a few months later.
He died 24 Oct 1939, in Monrovia, CA.247 Lucia died 17 Mar 1962, in Oyster Bay, NY.
Children:
95.
96.
97.
Living
Dr. Howard Fergus Moffett, b. 16 Aug 1917; d. 2 Jun 2013; m. Margaret Delphia
Mackenzie
Living
242
Listed in Google books.
See New York Times, Oct. 17, 1904.
244
Obituary in New York Times, Apr. 1, 1949.
245
1920 US Census. Also, for 1922: US Passport Applications, 1795-1925, Ancestry.com.
246
Obituary in New York Times, Mar. 17, 1962.
247
Obituary in New York Times, Oct. 25, 1939. See also Who’s Who in America.
243
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(44) CARL MILTON ALDRICH (Mary Jane Johnston, Delia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 26 Aug
1860,248 in Nebraska City, NE. He married Corrine May Tackett, 22 Dec 1885, in Shelbyville, IL.
She was the daughter of William J. and Mary J. (-----) Tackett, and was born 23 May 1867, in
Shelbyville.249 They were living in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1905.250 In 1910 he lived in Nebraska
City.
“Mr. Aldrich received his education in the grade and high school at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
During his school days he was interested in rowing and was a member of the Cedar Rapids
Boat Club. He has lived in Nebraska for thirty years. Since 1876, when he became an office
boy, he has been engaged in the packing house business, and today he is vice president and
manager of the Morton Gregson Company at Nebraska City…. In the World War, Mr. Aldrich
was a member of the Nebraska City Home Guards, and was active in Red Cross work.”251
He died 16 Apr 1936, in Nebraska City, NE. He and his wife are buried in the Wyuka
Cemetery, Nebraska City, NE.252
Children:
98.
99.
100.
101.
Glen Tackett Aldrich, b. 2 Dec 1883; d. 23 May 1940; m. (1st) Kathleen Pryor;
m. (2nd) Lillian Dombrow; m. (3rd) Esther Charlotte Carlson
Carl Milton Aldrich Jr., b. 30 Apr 1889; d. 30 Aug 1962; m. Floy Agnes Graves
Ralf Johnston Aldrich, b. 1 Feb 1891; d. 26 Jun 1951, m. Amy Elinor Lumby
Frances Enfield Aldrich, b. 23 Mar 1900; d. 26 Jan 1984; bur. Wyuka Cem.,
Nebraska City, NE;253 m. Clyde Louis Parsley, who d. 22 Feb 1982
(46) JOHN ALDRICH (Mary Jane Johnston, Delia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 11 Mar 1872, in
Cedar Rapids, IA. He married Ethel May Atkinson, 22 Jul 1897, in Springfield, IL. She was the
daughter of John S. Atkinson and Marie M. -----, and was born 26 Jul 1877, in what is now
Oklahoma. John and Ethel lived in Kansas City, in 1905.254 According to census records, they
lived in Jackson County, MO, 1910, 1920, and 1930. He died 25 Jun 1937, in Pittsburg, PA.255
He is buried in the Mt. Washington Cemetery, Independence, MO.256 Ethel died 15 Sep 1974.257
248
Both Mason and Weygant give his birthday. Weygant says his middle name was Milton. Mason says he had a
twin sister who died the day she was born.
249
L. Bertrand Smith, Jesse Smith, His Ancestors and Descendants (1909), p. 73.
250
Ibid.
251
Sara M. Baldwin and Robert M. Baldwin, Nebraskana
(1932) .http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Nebraskana/pages/nbka0004.htm See also
Illustrated History of Nebraska vol. 2, (1913).
252
findagrave.com: Carl Milton Aldrich
253
findagrave.com: Frances Parsley
254
L. Bertrand Smith, Jesse Smith, His Ancestors and Descendants (1909), p. 73
255
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pontiusbranch/Thomas%20Campbell%20and%20Jane%2
0Davidson%20and%20their%20Descendents%20from%20Londonderry,%20N.H.-o/index.htm?ssmain=p18.htm;
256
findagrave.com: John Aldrich
257
findagrave.com: Ethel Aldrich gives the year, Social Security Death Index for month and day.
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Children:
102.
103.
Edmund Theodore Aldrich, b. 20 Nov 1899,258 MO;259 d. 3 Jul 1986, Pinellas Co.,
FL;260 m. Dorothy ----Katherine Marie Aldrich, b. 20 Apr 1903
(47) WITTER LAURENS JOHNSTON (Witter Henry Johnston, Delia
Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 22 Dec 1881, in Ft. Dodge, IA. He did
not marry. He was a graduate of Yale Univ.
“He was with us only during our Senior year, but at the end
of that year he had made friends who felt that they were only
beginning to appreciate his worth. To a few of us was accorded
the privilege of continuing this acquaintance, of knowing him as
men who work together know each other. From Fort Dodge, Iowa,
his home; from Coe College, his first Alma Mater, from Chicago,
where he spent two years with one of the large railroad systems;
from Pittsburg, PA, where for a year he was in the home office of
the Carnegie Steel Company; and last of all from the Carnegie men
in Newark, NJ, where Johnston spent the last year of his life as
credit manager for the Company’s warehouse propositions, there
comes the same heartfelt sensibility of the loss of a personal friend.”
This sketch goes on to say that he “Graduated from Coe College in 1904, joining the
Class of 1906 of Yale College, in the Senior year. During the year 1904-1905 he acted as
secretary to President McCormick of Coe College. In the main he worked his way both at Coe
and at Yale. His death from heart disease occurred at Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, NJ, 29
Jul 1910.” 261 He is buried in the Oakland Cemetery, Ft. Dodge, IA.262
(48) MALVINA MCBRIDE JOHNSTON (“Mallie”) (Witter Henry Johnston, Delia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 25 Aug 1888, in Ft. Dodge, IA. She married Elmer Preston Bradshaw in Sidney,
NY. He was born 11 Jul 1888, in Fort Dodge, IA, the son of Henry Rubin Bradshaw and Grace
Killam. He was a manager for a brick and tile company.263 In 1930, the family lived in Lyford,
TX, and in 1940, in Mayhill, NM.
258
World War I draft registration card, available on familysearch.org
Born in Missouri according to 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940 census records.
260
Florida Death Index, familysearch.org
261
History of the Class of 1906, Yale College, p. 433-435.
262
findagrave.com: Witter Laurens Johnston
263
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/i/l/Howard-D-Killam-KS/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0625.html
259
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Mallie died 15 Nov 1971, in Ashland, OR.264 Elmer died 25 Jan 1980. They are buried in
the Mountain View Cemetery, Ashland, OR.
Children:
104.
105.
106.
Dr. John Witter Bradshaw, b. 20 Feb 1920, d. 2 Aug 1994; m. Hattie Vollink
Living
----- Bradshaw, b. 9 Dec 1925, Ft. Dodge, IA and d. the same day
(50) JAMES WILLIAM BENHAM (Azel Morse Benham, Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 3 Oct
1866, in Minneapolis, Minn. He married Alice Douglas Bradford, 24 Oct 1903.
James is listed on the 1910 census in Chicago but his wife is not listed with him. He was
the founder of the Benham Indian Trading Company. A web page about Los Angeles states,
“Across the street was the building housing the Benham Indian Trading Company, a firm which
was active from about 1903 to 1914, in which latter year it was acquired by the Burns Indian
Trading Company, which then promptly went bankrupt. The company not only sold Indian
souvenirs but also published postcards which had a unique sketchy quality, making them
instantly recognizable.”265
He was the secretary of the Naugle Pole and Tie Company of Chicago. He and his wife
both died 27 Jul 1914, near Lake Forest, IL, “when the automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a fast passenger train on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad.”266 They were on
their way to an operatic performance at Ravinia Park. According to another article, “The car
was struck at a grade crossing on the county line road.” James and Alice are both buried in
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA.267
Child:
107.
Mary Douglas Benham, b. 11 Jan 1907; d. 10 Dec 1988; m.(1st) Francis Andrews
Galligan; m. (2nd) Claren Emmett Duke
(51) MARY HULL BENHAM (Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 1 Oct
1870, in Indianapolis, IN. She married Edward Coleman Page, 17 Dec 1891, in Cincinnati, OH.
He was born 27 Jan 1868, in Cincinnati, OH, and died 15 Oct 1925, in Chicago, IL.268 He was the
son of Henry J. Page and Kate Lane.269
264
findagrave.com: Mallie Johnston Bradshaw
http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal8a.html see also, http://www.one-name.org/profiles/benham.html
266
Daily Illinois State Register, (newspaper), July 28, 1914.
267
findagrave.com: James William Benham . His ashes are buried in Lot 20, Plot 15.
268
“Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947,” familysearch.org. His occupation is given as “District Manager.”
269
Ibid. (The death record gives his parents’ names).
265
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Mary died 27 Aug 1932, in Columbus, OH.270 She and Edward are both buried in
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, OH.271
Children, born in Chicago, IL:
108.
109.
110.
Mary Katherine Page, b. 27 Sep 1892; d. 17 Dec 1985; m. Frederick Holman
Waring
Henry John Page, b. 1 May 1897; d. 19 Nov 1970; m. Mary Collord
Laurens Benham Page, b. 23 Nov 1903; d. 16 Aug 1974; m. Imogene Letitia
Edwards
(52) ETHEL SIBLEY BENHAM (Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 5 Oct
1873, in Indianapolis, IN. She married Rollo Stewart Bassett, 13 Sep 1893, in Hamilton Co.,
OH.272 He was born in 9 Mar 1872 in Cincinnati, OH, and was the son of Charles F. Bassett and
Bertha Stewart. He died 10 Apr 1941, in Chicago.273 He was district manager for the Alexander
Lumber Company, having moved to Champaign, IL, in 1908.274 Ethel died 28 Nov 1953, in Joliet,
IL. They are both buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH.275
Children:
111.
112.
Stewart Sibley Bassett, b. 2 Nov 1894; d. 30 Apr 1971; m. (1st) Frances Marie
Heater; m. (2nd) Betty Jane Ellerman
Margaret Benham Basset, b. 22 Aug 1902; d. 12 May 1979; m. Paul Howard
Leach
(54) HENRY LAURENS BENHAM JR., (Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born 2 Jan 1879, in Indianapolis, IN. He married Katherine Carthage Cunningham, 26 Oct 1909,
in Gallup, NM. She was born 9 Jul 1882, in Carthage, NM, the daughter of Alexander
Cunningham and Margaret Robinson Bowie.276 She died 26 Jun 1964, in Williams, AZ.
270
“Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953,” familysearch.org. Her death record gives her date and place of death, date and
place of birth, and her parents and spouse’s name.
271
findagrave.com: Mary Benham Page . Lot 20, Plot 15.
272
“Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994,” familysearch.org.
273
“Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947,” familysearch.org.
274
J. R. Stewart, A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, 1918.
275
findagrave.com: Ethel Benham Bassett
276
See http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/a/v/David-W-Ravie/GENE15-0008.html
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Henry died 22 Oct 1973, in Prescott, AZ, at age 94. According to his obituary in the
Williams News,277 he was a “well known and respected rancher, railroader, and forest ranger.”
Mr. Benham died Oct. 22 at Yavapai Community Hospital in Prescott where he had been
a patient since June. He was a native of Indiana, but spent his childhood and early youth in
Cincinnati. He headed west in 1900, settling first in New Mexico where he worked as a cowboy
for Will C. Barnes. Barnes later authored the book “Arizona Place Names,” and Benham
assisted Barnes in identifying many area landmarks. In 1907 Mr. Benham went to work for the
Forest Service. He helped with prairie dog control programs in Colorado and was sent to
Arizona in 1909. It was also in 1909 that he married Katherine C. Cunningham, whom he had
met previously in New Mexico. Their first home was at Camp Clover ranger station west of
Williams, where they lived in a log cabin. Benham's ranger district at this time covered 14
townships, and he worked with a partner Willard Sevier. They rode horseback and packed into
every part of their district, mapping and recording canyons, mountains, creeks and springs. The
pay was $75 a month and the men had to feed their own horses. In 1912 Benham
homesteaded a place about four miles south of Williams. In 1918 he went to work for Santa Fe
Railroad. “Just to help out through the winter,” he remarked once. His “helping out” stretched
to 30 years, and he retired from Santa Fe in 1948 after serving as everything “from call boy to
relief agent.” Mr. Benham's wife taught school here for several years. The Benhams were active
in fraternal and church affairs, and for many years the annual St. John's Episcopal Church July 4
barbecue was held at Benham ranch. The family constructed a picnic and recreation area, and
many organizations and families held outings there during the summer months. The Benhams
were active in IOOF and Rebekah lodge, and several years ago Mr. Benham received a 50 year
membership pin from the IOOF lodge. Even in advanced age, Mr. Benham had a young outlook,
and kept active -- going deer hunting with his grandsons when he was well past the age when
most men are taking things easy. He always had a garden, worked many hours gathering and
cutting firewood, and in general retained the life-long habits of a pioneer….
Children:
113.
114.
115.
Anna Margaret Benham, b. 9 Nov 1910, Gallup, NM; d. 20 Feb 1925, Gallup,
NM; bur. Mt. View Cem., Williams, AZ
Henry Laurens Benham III, b. 25 Dec 1911; d. 5 Sep 2003; m. (1st) Mary Virginia
Strawn; m. (2nd) Montyne Vialee (Kemp) Schnell
James Edward Benham, b. 15 Apr 1915; d. 17 Sep 1971; m. Ethel Maxine McCoy
(55) LAURENS AMBLER HULL (Charles Henry Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born 25 Mar 1891, in Tacoma, WA.278 He married Mariana Anna Wieland, who was born 20
277277
278
Williams News, Oct. 25, 1973, p. 1.
His middle name and date and place of birth from his WWII Draft Registration card, available on Fold.com.
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Aug 1892, in Bay City, MI, the daughter of Christ Weiland and Catherine Weber.279 Laurens
lived in Tacoma, WA,280 and worked at the Tacoma Transit Company.281 He died 11 Jan 1952,
in Tacoma, WA.282 Anna died December 1967. 283
Child:
116.
Leslie Bill Hull,284 b. 25 Jan 1915, Washington285
(57) RACHEL D. HULL (Charles Henry Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 14
Mar 1893, in Washington. She married Godfrey Oscar286 Kinberg, 19 Apr 1915, in Pierce
County, WA.287 Godfrey was born 27 Jan 1886,288 in Norway, and was the son of John Olaf and
Metta Kinberg.289 He worked for Seattle-Tacoma Shipyards.290 He died 8 Feb 1954, in Tacoma,
WA.291 Rachel died 26 Apr 1971, in Contra Costa Co., CA. Apparently there were no children.
(59) MARGARET SHAW (Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 30 Aug
1886.292 She married Wilbur Leroy Lafean, 30 Nov 1909, in Chicago.293 He was born 22 Sep
1883, in York, PA. He was the son of Albert Lafean and Ellen Nieman. He died 15 Nov 1935, in
Escanaba, MI.294 Margaret died 17 Apr 1979, in Natick, MA,295 and is buried, along with her
husband, in the West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA.296
279
Michigan Births and Christenings Index, 1867-1911, Ancestry.com
1910, 1930 and 1940 census records.
281
According to his WWII draft registration card.
282
Washington State Death Record, online at Laurens A Hull Death Record His parents’ names are given as
Charles H. Hull and Anna B. Locke, and his wife as Marian Hull. His age was 60. No image is available online, and
the death record does not give a cause of death or cemetery location.
283
Social Security Death Index.
284
It’s possible that he was Laurens Bill Hull, or Laurens William Hull. There was a Laurens B. Hull born in about
1913 in Washington State.
285
Ancestry.com. Washington Births, 1907-1919
286
His middle name from his WWII draft registration card, available via Fold.com.
287
Washington Marriage Records, online at Washington State Archives Rachel Hull - Godfrey Kinberg marriage
288
WW II draft registration card.
289
His death record gives his parents names, although his father is listed as “John Oluf Kinberg”.
290
WWII draft registration card.
291
Death records, online at Washington State Archives: Death record of Godfrey O Kinberg
292
Mason, p. 71.
293
“Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920,” familysearch.org
294
“Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952,” familysearch.org. His death record gives date and place of both
birth and death, along with the names of his parents.
295
“Massachusetts, Death Index, 1970-2003,” familysearch.org. The record does not give her birthdate or parents’
names.
296
findagrave.com: Margaret Lafean
280
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Upon the death of James W. Benham in 1914, Wilbur took control of the Naugle Pole
and Tie Company of Chicago.
Children:
117.
118.
119.
120.
121.
122.
123.
Wilbur L. Lafean, b. 24 Feb 1911; d. 19 Feb 2005297
James William Lafean, b. 1 Jan 1914; d. 14 Nov 2001298
John Shaw Lafean, b. 20 Dec 1915; d. 11 Apr 1996, Wells, MI;299 m. Evelina
Fuguet, 8 Oct 1938
Margaret Jane Lafean, b. 10 Jul 1918, Chicago; d. 18 Dec 1997, Tampa. Fl.;
m. (1st) Dennis Newton Parker Batty, 23 Jun 1938; he died in England in 1977;
m. (2nd) ----- Wessel; before living in Tampa she lived in Atlanta, Ga.; “she was a
secretary at the university”300
Patricia Lafean, b. 1922; d. 23 Dec 1922, Escanaba, MI
Charles Henry Lafean, b. 18 Apr 1924; d. 20 Jun 2003; m. Elizabeth A. Webster
Living
(60) HELEN SHAW (Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 16 Sep
1888. She married Robert Weems Tansill Jr., 3 Jun 1909 in Chicago.301 He was born 24 Feb
1886, in Chicago, and was the son of Robert Weems Tansill Sr., a well-known cigar
manufacturer, and Mary Motter. In 1920, he is listed on the census as a salesman, and in 1930
as an insurance broker. Robert died 23 Feb 1965, in Chicago.302 Helen died in December 1975.
Children:
124.
125.
126.
Mary Jane Tansill (“Jan”), b. abt. 1914; d. before 2007; m. Thomas M. Green;
res. NY
Robert Weems Tansill III, b. 23 Feb 1918; d. 7 May 2007; m. Margielou Meinig
Living
(61) DORIS SHAW (Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 2 Apr 1893,
in Illinois. She married Robert Harvey Smith, who was born 25 Feb 1892, in California, and
died 9 Mar 1977,303 in Orange Co., CA.304 He was the son of William C. and Evelyn Smith.305
297
Social Security Death Index
Social Security Death Index
299
Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records. Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996 (ancestry.com)
300
http://www.genlookups.com/fl/webbbs_config.pl/read/145
301
“Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920,” familysearch.org
302
http://history.wilmettelibrary.info/1710986/data?n=1
303
findagrave.com: Robert H. Smith
298
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Robert is listed as a manager, on the 1930 census. Doris died 21 Jun 1984, and is buried in El
Toro Memorial Park.306
Children:
127.
128.
Robert Harvey Smith Jr., b. 1 Aug 1918; d. 4 Jul 2004; m. Phyllis Victoria Roberts
Dorcas Shaw Smith, b. 16 Apr 1922; d. 10 Sep 2010; m. Rev. Dan Ambler Norton
Bacot
(62) WALTER BURUCKER HULL307 (William Ambler Hull, Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born 16 Jul 1887, in Cedar Rapids, IA. He married, first, Laura V. Russell, 3 Jun 1913, in Des
Moines, IA.308 She was born 12 Jan 1891 and died 11 Oct 1937.309 He married, second, Muriel
(Arthur) Trewin,310 in 1945, in Cedar Rapids. She was the widow of Harold R. Trewin. There
were no children. Walter lived in Chicago and was a custom tailor, until his retirement. He
died 22 Oct 1963, in Aurora, IL. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.311 His
widow Muriel died in 1973.312
(63) ISABEL LOUISE HULL (William Ambler Hull, Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 21
Feb 1891, in Cedar Rapids, IA. She married Charles Darius Guy, 24 Jun 1913, in Cedar
Rapids.313 He was born in 1889,314 in Cedar Rapids, IA. He was a tailor.315 At one time he had
lived in Spokane, WA, but moved to Sedalia, Missouri316 and later to Illinois after his marriage.
He died in 1955.317 She died 3 Jun 1973, and is buried in the Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington,
IL.318
Child:
304
California, Death Index, 1940-1997, familysearch.org.
He is listed with them on the 1900 census, in Pasadena.
306
findagrave.com: Doris Smith
307
Middle name from WWII draft registration, online at familysearch.org. In 1942, he lived in Aurora.
308
“Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934,” – familysearch.org.
309
“Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947,” familysearch.org
310
She was born in about 1891 in NY, and was the widow of Harold Trewin, who died in 1942.
311
findagrave.co: Walter B. Hull
312
findagrave.com: Muriel Trewin Hull
313
“Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934,” – familysearch.org.
314
Gravestone; also census records. Old Man’s Draft Registration, Fold3.com, gives his place of birth. However
the birth date on that record is incorrect (May 18, 1893).
315
Old Man’s Draft Registration, Fold3.com. However his gravestone says he was born in 1889.
316
Spokane Daily Chronicle, June 30, 1913.
317
findagrave.com: Charles D. Guy
318
findagrave.com: Isabelle Guy
305
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129.
Thomas Hull Guy, b. 28 Sep 1914; d. 3 Oct 1988, Bloomington, IL; bur. Funks
Grove Cem., McLean, IL319 He was a Sgt. in World War II
(64) HENRY MARCUS HULL (William Ambler Hull, Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 28
Jun 1897, in Cedar Rapids, IA.320 He married Ann Mary Faulkner, in 1926. She was born in
June 1894 in Indiana. She was the daughter of Edward Emmet Faulkner and Beatrice Shook.
On the 1930 census, he is listed, in Indianapolis, as an auditor for a telephone company. Henry
died in January 1985, and is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN.321
Children:
130.
131.
Mary Isabel Hull, b. 4 Aug 1927; d. 25 Oct 2002; bur. Crown Hill Cem.,
Indianapolis; unm.
Julia Hull Faulkner b. 16 Aug 1929; d. 29 Jun 2012; m. (1st) Conrad Cassler;
m. (2nd) Richard Eschenbach
(65) MARGARET FRANCES HANNEGAN (Frances Colwell Hull, Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 27 May 1888. She married Leroy Kramer, 17 Feb 1912, in Chicago.322 He was born
19 Aug 1875, in Wichita, KS. He died 10 Apr 1954, in Cook County, IL. He was the son of Henry
Theodore Kramer and America Baynum. He had been married previously to Ethel Davis Gray,
who died in 1910.323 He was assistant vice president of the Rock Island Railroad, then vice
president of the Pullman Company, and in 1924, began work at the General American
Transportation Corporation, where he retired as president.
Children, born in Chicago:
132.
133.
134.
Julia Hull Kramer, b. 5 Jun 1913; d. 31 Jul 1964; m. Richard Morey Lamport
Leroy Kramer, b. 13 Jan 1915; d. 2 Jun 2004; m. Elizabeth Gillespie
Henry Theodore Kramer, b. 8 Apr 1917; d. 15 Nov 2004; m. (Living)
319
findagrave.com: Thomas Hull Guy
Iowa Births and Christenings, 1857-1947, Ancestry.com
321
findagrave.com: Henry M. Hull
322
“Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920,” familysearch.org
323
findagrave.com: Leroy Kramer (but grave location is unknown).
320
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(66) HARRIS BENJAMIN HULL (Harry Edward Hull, Henry Davis Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 23
May 1909, in Williamsburg, IA.324 He married, first, Bernice Stephens, 22 May 1936, in
Washington, D.C.325 This marriage ended in divorce. He married, second, Jeanne Lejeune
Glennon, who died in 1992. Harris B. Hull was a brigadier general in the US Air Force. He
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business of Economics with
a bachelor of science degree in 1930.
After receiving a commission through the ROTC program, and being in the Army
Reserve, in 1938 he was called to active duty at Langley Field, Va. He helped publicize the
capabilities of the new B-17 Flying Fortress. During World War II, he was both a journalist and
a combat intelligence officer. He continued to work with the Army and Air Force in a similar
capacity after the war. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1960. In 1963, he worked for
a time at NASA, retiring in August 1964. He had also written numerous articles on military
matters, many of them published in the Washington Post.326 He died 29 Jan 1993, at Sibley
Hospital,327 and is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.328
Children:
135.
136.
137.
138.
Living
Living
Living
Living
324
“Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935,” familysearch.org
“District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950,” familysearch.org
326
Wikipedia: Harris B. Hull
327
Obituary in NY Times, Feb. 2, 1993
328
findagrave.com: Harris B. Hull
325
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Fifth Generation
(67) CARA ELOISE BEEM (Cara Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born
30 Aug 1881, Du Quoin, IL. She died 24 Sep 1940, in Ventura County, CA.329
Eloise married Walter Stephen Waring, 24 Nov 1908. He was born 14 Sep 1873, in
California, and died 31 Aug 1958, in Ventura Co., CA.330 He was born on Buckhorn Ranch,
Ventura Co., CA, and was the son of Benjamin Franklin Waring and Missouri Docas Easley.331
Walter owned an orange grove in Piru, and Eloise was a school teacher.
Child:
139. Stephen Dudley Waring, b. 17 Jul 1910; d. 15 Sep 1987; m. Lois Elizabeth Peck
(68) WIRT FOWLER BEEM (Cara Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born
7 Feb 1884, in Du Quoin, IL. He died 2 Dec 1973, in San Leandro, CA.332 He married Gladys
Myfanwy Hughes, in August 1917. He was a lawyer, and lived in San Leandro, CA. Later he
lived in Hayward, and was a circuit court judge.333 Gladys was born 18 Mar 1884, in Oakland,
CA, the daughter of Humphrey Hughes and Ada Mills.334 She died 22 Jul 1982, in Contra Costa
County, CA.335
Children:
140.
141.
Stafford Everett Beem, b. 11 Oct 1915, Oakland, CA; d. 21 Jul1927, San Leandro,
CA
Dorothy Joan Beem, b. 26 May 1918, Oakland, CA; d. 8 May 2010; m. (1st)
Robert Elmer Crawford; m. (2nd) George Howard Pence, 23 Apr 1948. She was a
graduate of the Univ. of California in 1938, with a B.A. degree in English. She
lived in Lafayette, CA336
329
“California, Death Index, 1940-1997,” familysearch.org. Note, she is listed under Eloise, not Cara.
“California, Death Index, 1940-1997,” familysearch.org.
331
According to a family tree on ancestry.com.
332
“California, Death Index, 1940-1997,” familysearch.org.
333
Information from Alma Beasley.
334
"California, Births and Christenings, 1812-1988," index, FamilySearch
335
"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch
336
Obituary in Contra Costa Times on May 26, 2010, available from Legacy.Com
330
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(69) LILA W. BEEM (Cara Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 16 Dec
1885,337 in Du Quoin, IL. She died 21 Jan 1949, in Los Angeles Co., CA.338 She married Frank
Chase DeSellem, 2 Feb 1920, in California. Chase was born 6 Mar 1884, in Pleasant Valley, IA.
He was the son of George Brown DeSellem and Mary Ann Gaunt. Lila was a nurse and lived in
Los Angeles. Chase was a railroad conductor, with the Southern Pacific Railroad.339 He died 20
Sep 1961,340 in Los Angeles, CA.
Child:
142.
Living.
(70) RALPH HARMON HUTCHINS (Cara Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 9 Nov 1893, 341 in Escondido, CA. He died 22 Nov 1975.342 He married first, Evelyn
Salome Kriess, in September 1919. She was born 12 Mar 1901, and died 10 Dec 1951,343 in
Oakland, CA. Ralph married, second, Mary Huntley. This marriage ended in divorce after
about two years. He married, third, Ettamae Moselle (Hanson) Kole. Ettamae was born 23
Sep 1902, in Utah. She died 31 Dec 1979, in Sutter Co., CA.344
Ralph was a painting contractor and paperhanger for over 35 years. He had been a
master sergeant in World War I. In 1930 and 1940 he lived in Oakland. In 1966, Ralph
Hutchins lived in Yuba City, CA.
Children, by his first wife Evelyn:
143.
144.
145.
146.
147.
148.
(unnamed?), b. and d. abt. 1934
(unnamed?), b. and d. abt. 1937
Donald Hutchins, b. Jul 1920; d. Jul 1920, Oakland, CA
Living
Living
Living
337
From family members, but needs further proof. California Death Index (cited above) gives a birthdate of
December 10, 1885.
338
California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch
339
Information from Alma Beasley.
340
"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch
341
"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch
342
Ibid.
343
"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch
344
"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch
44
(72) ELIZABETH SHIRLEY HUTCHINS (Cara Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 3 Jan 1902.345 She died 2 May 2001, in CA.346 In May 1923, Shirley married Henry
Jesper Masvik, who was born 17 Jul 1900,347 and died 29 May 1996, in California. They lived in
Oakland during the 1960s, and later in Redding, CA. Shirley had a business education and did
office work. Henry was a mechanic who worked for Hills Bros. Coffee Co. in San Francisco.
Child:
149.
Cara Hazel Masvik, b. 15 Nov 1924; d. 3 Aug 1994; m. (1st) Gordon Harper;
m. (2nd) Robert Lee Hargrove
(73) JOHN HINSDALE NEELY (Lucia Hull Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 18 Dec 1881. He died 11 Apr 1917, of tuberculosis; and is buried in the Oak Park
Cemetery, Claremont, CA.348
John H. Neely graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in June 1905. He had
a strong interest in biology and botany, but decided to study law after his graduation. In 1910
he moved with the family to Pomona, CA. There he opened a law office and was city attorney
of Claremont. Later he practiced law in Pasadena. In April 1913 he was stricken with typhoid
fever, and tuberculosis followed. His mother Lucia Neely wrote, “to a young man in the very
beginning of his career, with all doors apparently opening before him, and full of the joy of life,
such a blow can hardly be estimated.” According to his obituary in the Pomona Progress, “No
one ever came in close contact with John Neely that did not come to like him. He
was…generous, loyal, happy, honorable to the last degree, and richly equipped in mind.”
(74) MARY RUTH NEELY (Lucia Hull Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born 10 Sep 1884, in Du Quoin, IL. She died Jan 1968, in Claremont, CA, and is buried in Oak
Park Cemetery.349
Ruth married Allan John Carter 29 Jan 1916, in Claremont, CA. He was born 11 Sep
1885, in Morris, IL, and was the son of Orrin Carter and Janet Steven.
Ruth entered Wellesley College in 1903 and graduated in 1907. She also attended
Northwestern University. She taught for three years in Albion and Aurora, IL. Later she
studied one semester at the University of California at Berkeley, where she obtained a high
school teacher's credential. In 1911 she began teaching grammar, English, and medieval and
modern history at Claremont High School.
345
Social Security Death Index
Ibid.
347
Social Security Death Index.
348
findagrave.com: John Hinsdale Neely
349
findagrave.com: Ruth Neely Carter
346
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Allan was an attorney, practicing in Evanston, IL, and Pomona, CA. He was a graduate
of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University law school. He was a one-term
member of the Illinois state legislature and served as a delegate to the 1948 Democratic
Convention; the family lived in Evanston until 1935 when they moved to California. Ruth was
treasurer of the Claremont Intercultural Council and president of the League of Women Voters.
Children:
150.
151.
152.
Janet Neely Carter, b. 24 Feb 1917, Evanston, IL; d. 26 Jan 2005, San Francisco,
CA; m. Carl William Carsten. Janet graduated from Stanford University with a
degree in social work.
James Edward Carter (adopted), b. 13 Aug 1923; d. 31 May 1985; m. (1st)
Barbara Tillman; m. (2nd) Ann ----Living
(75) CLARA GRACE NEELY (Lucia Hull Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born 14 Aug 1886, in Evanston, IL. She died 21 Jan 1972, and is buried in Oak Park Cemetery,
Claremont, CA.350 She married Claude Wyman Payne, 21 Jun 1917, in Claremont, CA. He was
born 12 Jun 1886, in Diagonal, Iowa,351 the son of Alva A. Payne and Emma M. Brown. Claude's
first wife, Lucile Pier, had died after a year or two of marriage.
Claude did office work for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He became ill, with
encephalitis, and later developed Parkinson's disease and was unable to work for many years.
He died 7 Jul 1949, in San Bernardino Co., CA.
Clara attended Wellesley College and graduated from Northwestern University. She
and her family moved to California about 1925. She received a master's degree from
Claremont College. She taught at a junior high school in Fontana for about 15 years and later
at Chaffey High School and Chaffey College, in Ontario, CA. Among her students were all three
of her children. She retired from Chaffey College in about 1957 and after that time taught
briefly at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga.
Children:
153.
154.
350
351
John Montgomery Payne, b. 29 Jul 1918; d. 23 Oct 1982; m. Janet Benton; no
children. John was vice president of development of Claremont McKenna
College for 25 years, primarily involved in fund raising
Mary Lucile Payne, b. 30 May 1921; d. 11 Oct 1997, Santa Barbara, CA;
m. Donald Franklin Williams, 19 Jul 1942. They lived in Santa Barbara, where
Don owned a paper box factory
findagrave.com Clara Neely Payne
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch
46
155.
Charles Hull Payne, b. 27 May 1923; d. 18 Apr 2000, Bozeman, Mt.; unmarried.
He graduated in 1950 from Oberlin College, with a degree in music, and was a
piano teacher.
(78)
ANNA CHARLOTTE NEELY (Lucia Hull Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 28 Feb 1893. She died 31 Dec 1980, and is buried in the Oak Park Cemetery.
Charlotte graduated from Pomona College in 1915. She was a YWCA secretary at San Jose
State Normal College and later spent nine years in China in a similar capacity. When she
returned she studied law, graduating from the University of California in 1932. She was
associated with a law firm for a short time, then became supervisor of child welfare and
attendance for the Pomona Schools until her retirement in 1958. She served on the Claremont
city council in the late 1940s. She also taught classes at Claremont Graduate School on laws
relating to children.
(79) DOROTHY LOUISE NEELY (Lucia Hull Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 28 Feb 1895, in Evanston, IL. She died 22 May 1974, in Silver Spring, MD; and is
buried in Oak Park Cemetery.352 She married Lowell Clark Pratt, 21 May 1918, in Claremont,
CA.
Lowell Pratt was born 31 Dec 1894, in Pomona, CA, the son of Harry Stillman Pratt and
Alice Maud Clark. He received a degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1920. He
was editor and part-owner of the Selma, CA, Enterprise from 1926 to 1947. During World War
II, he spoke out for the rights of Japanese-Americans who had been sent to internment camps.
He wrote a book, A Weekly Miracle, which describes his experiences as editor of the Enterprise.
In 1947 he became the first director of public relations at San Jose State University and taught
journalism there.
She moved with her parents to California in 1910 and graduated from Pomona College
in 1917. She was a member of the War Price and Rationing Board during World War II. She
was a member of the Elementary School Board of Trustees for 14 years. Dorothy and Lowell
Pratt moved to Wheaton, MD, in 1968, to be with their daughter.
Child:
156.
352
353
Lucia Alice Pratt, b. 5 Apr 1922, Pomona, CA; d. 7 Feb 2008, Sterling, VA; bur.
Parklawn Cem., Rockville, MD;353 m. Kenneth Gordon Gilbertson. Lucia
graduated in 1943 from the Univ. of California at Berkeley, with a degree in
journalism. Besides raising her four children, she worked for a time as a
findagrave.com: Dorothy Neely Pratt
findagrave.com: Lucia Pratt Gilbertson
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reporter for a local newspaper, and later, in the Public Relations office at
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
(80) HELEN ALBERT FISH (Edward Hinsdale Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 30 May 1899,354 in Fruitvale, CA.355 She died 2 Sep 1981, in Lewiston, ID, and is buried
in the Normal Hill Cemetery.356 She married Edward Joseph McCann, 12 Dec 1935, in
Honolulu, Hawaii. He was born 27 Nov 1902, in Ashland, WI, the son of Joseph Patrick McCann
and Clara Beck. He died 13 Apr 1986. Helen graduated from Pomona College, in California.
She taught for several years in Oregon and for seven years in Hawaii. On the 1940 census,
Edward is listed as a farmer, living in Lewiston, ID.
Children:
157.
158.
Living
Patrick Hinsdale McCann, b. 20 Jun 1943, Lewiston, ID; d. 26 Apr 1998; bur.
Normal Hill Cem.357
(81) EDWARD HINSDALE FISH JR. (Edward Hinsdale Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 1 Aug 1900, in California. He died 14 Nov 1981, and is buried in the
Mountain View Cemetery, Oregon City, OR.358 He married Lois Thelma Johnston in 1933. She
was the daughter of Jacob Johnston and Clara Ann Davis.
Edward moved to Oregon with his parents in 1906. He attended Oregon State College
and was a Pacific Coast champion wrestler for three years. Lois Johnston Fish received a B.S.
degree from Oregon State in 1929. Bud worked in a paper mill. Lois worked with the Post
Office for 30 years after her husband became ill.
Children:
159 . Edward Jacob Fish, b. 7 Oct 1934; d. 23 Dec 1991; bur. Mt. View Cem.359
160 . Clara Ann Fish, b. 8 Feb 1936; d. 26 Mar 1936
161 . Living
354
Gravestone.
Place of birth: Ancestry.com. California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957.
356
findagrave.com: Helen McCann
357
findagrave.com: Patrick Hinsdale McCann
358
findagrave.com: Edward H. Fish Jr.
359
findagrave.com: Edward Jacob Fish
355
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(82) SHIRLEY JANE FISH (Edward Hinsdale Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 30 Oct 1906, in Prosper, OR. She died 2 Mar 2013, Springfield, OR, at age of 106, and
is buried in the Rest Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, OR.360. She married Guy Samuel Wright,
who was born 3 Apr 1899, in Binbrook, Ontario, Canada, the son of Samuel Wright and Emma
Jane Martindale. He died 13 Jan 1982.
Guy graduated from high school in Victoria, BC, and attended the University of
Washington for four years. He moved to Springfield, OR, in 1923, with his parents and three
brothers, where they founded Wrights' Hardware and Furniture store, on Main Street in
Springfield. They owned the store from 1931 to 1964.
Shirley attended the University of Oregon, and graduated from the Eugene Business
School; she worked as a secretary at the University of Oregon until 1939.
Children:
162. Living
163. Living
(83) DANIEL WESLEY FISH (Edward Hinsdale Fish, Edward Fowler Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull)
was born 6 Jun 1911, in Bandon, OR. He died 25 Apr 1971; and is buried in Norway Cemetery,
Norway, OR.361 He married Dorothy Lucille Bunch. She was born 27 Jun 1911, in Coquille, OR,
the daughter of Levi Logan Bunch and Laura Lois Hermann. She died 8 Nov 1988.
Daniel was a farmer and businessman in Coquille. He was at one time a manager with
Union Oil Company. Later he owned a dairy and his wife operated a restaurant, Fish's Dairy
Bar, which featured ice-cream.
Children:
164.
165.
166.
167.
Living
Living
Daniel Bunch Fish, b. 20 Nov 1944; d. 6 Aug 1972; bur. Norway Cem. 362
Living
(84) REV. JAMES MCKEE MOFFETT (Mary Alice Fish, Charles Hull Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 28 Feb 1905, Pyongyang, in what is now North Korea. He died 23 Dec 1986, in
Penny Farms, FL. He married Eleanor Elizabeth Prosser, 12 Jun 1936. Eleanor was born 6 Sep
1905, in Ohio, the daughter of Thomas Dixon Prosser and Eleanor Pearl Holtz. She died 5 Nov
1993, in Penny Farms, FL.
360
findagrave.com: Shirley Wright
findagrave.com: Daniel Fish
362
findagrave.com: Daniel Bunch Fish
361
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James and Eleanor lived in Newark, NJ, in 1940. He was pastor of the Old First
Presbyterian Church there, in 1942.
Children:
168.
169.
170.
171.
Living
Living
Living
Living
(85) REV. CHARLES HULL MOFFETT (Mary Alice Fish, Charles Hull Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 12 Jun 1908, in Korea. He died 28 Dec 1976, in Youngstown, OH.363 He married
Marian Emma Hutton, 11 Apr 1936. She was born 22 Feb 1909, in Southington, CT, and was
the daughter of Peter Hutton and Etta Ellrich. She died 7 Dec 2000, in Canfield, OH.364
Charles graduated from Wheaton College. He and his wife were missionaries from
1938 to 1952, in Punjab, India. He was also a physician. From 1964 to 1969 he was pastor of
the Lexington Presbyterian Church, in Indiana.
Children:
172.
173.
174.
175.
176.
Living
Living
Living
Living
Living
(88) FLETCHER THOMAS FISH (Theodore Johnston Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish,, Lucia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 13 Nov 1886, in San Francisco, CA. He died 13 Jun 1963, in Jackson Co.,
OR, and is buried in the Siskiyou Memorial Park.365 He married, first, Edith Archibald. She was
born 21 Dec 1886, and died 13 Oct 1937. He married, second, Jean Garman, 11 Nov 1939, in
Eugene, OR.366 She was born 16 Sep 1911, in Portland, OR, and died 13 Mar 2008, in Medford,
OR.
A 1938 newspaper article calls Fletcher a “district federal fruit inspector.”
Child, by his second wife Jean:
363
Ohio Deaths 1908-1932, 1938-2007, Ancestry.com
http://youngstown-genealogy-website.tripod.com/fullobits.htm
365
findagrave.com: Fletcher T. Fish
366
Portland Oregonian, Nov. 12, 1939, retrieved via genealogybank.com. She is called the daughter of Mr.s I. N.
Garman.
364
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177.
Fletcher David Fish, b. 23 Sep 1944; d. 12 Oct 2001, Portland, OR; bur. Siskiyou
Mem. Park.
(89) EDITH MERSEREAU FISH (Theodore Johnston Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish,, Lucia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 4 Nov 1889, in Oakland, CA. She died 30 Aug 1983, in Jackson Co., OR,
and is buried in the Phoenix Pioneer Cemetery.367 She married William A. Thompson, 23 Aug
1914, in Phoenix, OR. He was born 23 Aug 1866, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died 15 Jun
1928, in Central Point, OR.
Children, born in Central Point, OR:
178.
179.
367
368
Mary Jarvie Thompson, b. May 1917; d. 3 Jun 2007; m. Robert A, Naumes.
From her obituary: “In 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, at the age
of 14, Mary Jarvie traveled alone to Pyongyang, now the capital of North
Korea, to live with her uncle and aunt, Dr. Samuel A. and Lucia Fish Moffett
and attended the Pyongyang Foreign School. In 1933, she returned to the
Rogue Valley and, skipping her junior year, graduated from Phoenix High
School in 1934. In 1937, at the age of 20, she graduated from Southern
Oregon Normal School (now Southern Oregon University) and was hired to
teach third grade at the Riverside School in Grants Pass…In the 1950's and
60's, Jarvie was involved in Sacred Heart Parish where she served as President
of St. Anne's Altar Society and as a Cub Scout den mother for her sons. For
thirty-five years she served on the Sacred Heart Hospital (later Providence)
Hospital Community Advisory Board and she was a member of the Petunias.
Mrs. Naumes was a very creative person who enjoyed painting, knitting,
antiques, and architecture, but her greatest pleasure, aside from world-wide
travel, was playing bridge, an activity she continued up to her 90th birthday…”
Patricia Thompson, b. 17 Mar 1919; d. 20 Oct 2004; m. Frank Robertson Alley Jr.,
28 Apr 1947; Frank died 21 Jun 2000, in Medford, OR. He was co-owner of the
Alley Bros. Lumber Co. Patricia “was employed in the Jackson County Clerk's
office and was head teller at the Medford branch of U.S. Bank.. During the
Second World War she was a regular volunteer at the Wing Inn Canteen at the
Medford airport… She was a long-time member of the Rogue Valley Country
Club, the Colony Club, and was a founding member of the Gold Diggers of the
Southern Oregon Historical Society.”368
findagrave.com: Edith Fish Thompson
Obituaries in Mail Tribune
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(90) CAROL SEARS FISH (Theodore Johnston Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 18 Feb 1892, in Oakland, CA. She died 5 Jun 1983. She married Charles Brittain
Drake, 21 Apr 1913, in Rockland, NY. He was born 31 Jul 1889, in Warrensburg, MO.369 The
family moved to Norfolk, VA, by 1919.
Children:
180.
181.
182.
Charles Brittain Drake Jr. b. 6 May 1919, Norfolk, VA; d. 28 May 2009; m. Jeanne
Godwin; he served in the Merchant Marines during World War II,lived on a boat
for 26 years and was president of CB Drake & Son General Contractors370
Living
Living
(91) SIBYL VALENTINE FISH (Theodore Johnston Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 5 Jul 1893, in Oakland, CA. She died 21 Dec 1979, in Medford, OR, and
is buried in Siskiyou Memorial Park, in Medford.371 She married Burdette Lynde Dodge Jr. He
was born 14 Apr 1887, in Akron, OH, the son of Burdette Lynde and Nellie Dodge. He died 18
Feb 1964, probably in Medford, OR.
Children:
183.
184.
Carol Raymond Dodge, b. 10 Jun 1915; d. 18 Jul 2002; bur. Memory Gardens
Memorial Park, Medford, OR; m. Wilton Albert White
Living
(92) THEODORE JOHNSTON FISH JR. (Theodore Johnston Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia
Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 18 Jun 1895, in Oakland, CA. He died 28 Aug 1967, in Jackson Co.,
OR, and is buried in the Siskiyou Memorial Park.372 He married Margaret Clara Brown, 1 Mar
1924. She was born 16 Apr 1902, in Iowa, the daughter of Elmer John Brown and Etta Mae
Stone. She died 22 Jun 1983, in Multinomah Co., OR.
Children:
185.
186.
187.
Living
Living
Living
369
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Obituary in PilotOnline.com
371
findagrave.com: Sibyl Dodge
372
findagrave.com: Theodore J. Fish Jr.
370
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(94) LAURENS HULL FISH (Azel Hull Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull, Laurens Hull) was
born 25 Oct 1903 in New York. He died 18 Dec 2000, probably in Ridgewood, NJ.373 He
married Marion Edith Monks, 18 Jul 1936, in New Haven, CT. She was born 20 Aug 1903, in
Connecticut, and died 24 Sep 2001.374 She was the daughter of Leon and Ida Monks.375
Laurens graduated from Duke University in 1933, and was an industrial economist in New York
City.376 Marion was a graduate of Elmira College.377
Child:
188.
Living
(96) DR. HOWARD FERGUS MOFFETT (Lucia Hester Fish, Thomas Fletcher Fish, Lucia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 16 Aug 1917, in Pyongyang, in what is now North Korea. He died 2 Jun
2013, in Santa Barbara, CA. He married Margaret Delphia (“Delle”) Mackenzie. She was the
daughter of Harold B. Mackenzie Sr. and Rachel Geraldine Blanchard. She died 20 Jan 2010, in
Santa Barbara, CA.
Howard was a graduate of Wheaton College in 1939, and later from Northwestern
University Medical School. They moved to New Orleans in 1943, and during World War II he
was a medical officer for a flotilla of ships in the South Pacific. Following the war, he was a
missionary briefly in China and then in Korea, where he was superintendent of Dongsan
Hospital in Taegu. After moving to Illinois and taking a residency at Hines V.A. Hospital, he and
Delle returned to Korea in 1956, where he remained working at the hospital in Taegu until
1993. Upon retirement they moved to Carpinteria, CA. Howard engaged in competitive senior
tennis and won a number of championships.378
Delle graduated from Wheaton College in 1938. She assisted her husband, helping
raise funds for the hospital.
Children:
189.
190.
191.
Living
Living
Living
373
Social Security Death Index
Social Security Death Index for birth and death dates. 1940 census for birth place.
375
1910 Census.
376
Duke Alumni Registry, 1937, p. 138. His graduate thesis was entitled, “International Adjutications Involving
Bond Claims 1918-1930.
377
Westboro Gazette, Aug. 13, 1936.
378
See “Patio News,” newsletter of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara, July/Aug 2013, for a more
complete biography.
374
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192.
Living
(98) GLEN TACKETT ALDRICH (Carl Milton Aldrich, Mary Jane Johnston, Delia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 2 Dec 1883,379 in Galva, IL.380 He died 23 May 1940, in San Mateo, CA, and is
buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery.381 In 1900, he lived with his parents in St. Louis,
MO. In1905, he was a clerk, living in Ramsey, MN. He married (1st) Kathleen Pryor, separated
in 1914; (2nd) Lillian Dombrow, 28 Aug 1920, in Oak Park, IL, after a courtship of less than a
week (see below). He married (3rd) Esther Charlotte Carlson, 7 Sep 1920, in Great Falls, MT.
In 1910 he was stationed on the USS Bainbridge in the Philippines He was first an
Ensign and then a Lieutenant in World War I. He later settled in Chicago, where he married
two women within 10 days.382 He had posed as a wealthy retired Lt. Commander, and wrote
bad checks totally $4,000383 384 He stated to reporters that he had “no recollection” of his
marriage to Lillian Dombrow, and that he had been drunk. He was charged with bigamy, but
the charges were subsequently dropped. In 1920, Lillian divorced him, receiving $800 in
alimony, despite having been together for only 3 days. He stated, “The liquor got me. It made
me plumb drunk all the time I was in Chicago. Don’t remember any weddings.”385 In 1930, he
is listed on the census living in Flint, MI, and was divorced. His occupation was listed as
salesman.
(99) CARL MILTON ALDRICH JR. (Carl Milton Aldrich, Mary Jane Johnston, Delia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 30 Apr 1889, in Shelbyville, IL. He died 30 Aug 1962, in San Diego, CA,
and is buried in the Ft. Rosencrans National Cemetery, San Diego. He married Floy Agnes
Graves in about 1914. She was born 15 Aug 1897 (or 1898) in Clearmont, MO, the daughter of
John Thomas Graves and Martha Emeline King. She died 29 Oct 1971. Carl was a Corporal in
the US Army in World War I.
Children:
193.
194.
Living
Living
379
California Death Index.
NY Abstracts of World War I Military Service.
381
findagrave.com: Glen Tackett Aldrich
382
Rockford Republic, Oct. 16, 1920
383
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/alt.genealogy/1XsGFvQNA60/ClwJWZxquyUJ
384
“Ensign Had Three Wives”, Rockford Daily Register Gazette, Oct. 9, 1920, also, “Aldrich Says Two Wives May
Be His,” Portland Oregonian, Oct. 11, 1920.
385
“Wife Divorces ‘Hero’”, Portland Oregonian, Apr. 25, 1921. See also Anaconda (MT) Star, Nov. 17, 1920. Both
are available via genealogybank.com
380
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(100) RALF JOHNSTON ALDRICH (Carl Milton Aldrich, Mary Jane Johnston, Delia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 1 Feb 1891, in Peoria, IL. He died 26 Jun 1951, in Flint, MI, and is buried in the
Mountain View Cemetery, Thunder Bay, Ontario.386 He married Amy Elinor Lumby, 8 Sep
1921, in Thunder Bay. She was born 25 Jun 1921, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and died there 17
Jul 1983. She was the Daughter of John Rawson Lumby and Elizabeth Grace "Lizzie" Stacpoole.
Ralf studied law at the University of Nebraska and the University of Michigan.
Children:
195.
196.
197.
198.
Barbara Jane Aldrich, b. 27 Aug 1922, Ft. William, Ontario; d. 4 Apr 2003,
Kelowna, British Columbia; m. Arnold Reid. She was a school teacher.
John (“Jack”) Hugh Aldrich, b. 10 Mar 1924; d. before 2003
Mary Elinor Aldrich, 27 Jan 1929; d. 29 Oct 1994, New Port Richey, FL;
m. Richard Creighton
Living
(104) DR. JOHN WITTER BRADSHAW (Malvina Johnston, Witter Henry Johnston, Delia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 20 Feb 1920, in Ft. Dodge, IA,. He died 2 Aug 1994, and is buried in the.
Etna Cemetery, Etna, CA. He married Hattie Vollink, 23 Jun 1945. He was a Major in the U. S.
Army, in World War II.
(107) MARY DOUGLAS BENHAM (James William Benham, Azel Morse Benham, Julia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 11 Jan 1907, in Illinois. She died 10 Dec 1988, in San Francisco, CA; and
is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA.387
Her parents having died in 1914, Mary was adopted and raised by Paul and Julia
(Newby) Brizard of Arcata, CA.388
She married, first, Francis Andrews Galligan, 9 Nov 1929, in Eureka, CA. He was born in
about 1900, and was the son of Bernard J. Galligan and Theresa Barron. He died 1 Sep 1941, in
Hagerstown, MD. He is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland, CA.389
She married, second, Claren Emmett Duke, in about April 1945. He was born 2 Jun
1904, in Fredericktown, OH,390 and died 2 Mar 1991, in San Francisco. He was the son of
Luther J. Duke and Mary Silliman.
386
findagrave.com: Ralf J. Aldrich
findagrave.com: Mary Benham Duke (no marker)
388
http://usspennsylvania.org/NewsLetters/keystone5_2001.htm
389
findagrave.com: Francis A. Galligan (there is no marker)
390
Ancestry.com. Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1962
387
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Francis Galligan was vice president/general manager of Fairchild Aircraft’s plant in
Hagerstown MD. In 1930 they lived in San Francisco, moving to Hagerstown in about 1936.
During World War I he was a flying cadet.
Claren E. Duke graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1927. During World War II, he
commanded the submarine, USS Grouper. He had also been Executive Officer of the USS
Pennsylvania BB-38, from January to October 1945. He was promoted to Rear Admiral. He
was previously married to Levinia Kennedy. This marriage ended in divorce, and there were
no children.
Children:
199. Shelagh Galligan, b. 18 Oct 1930; d. 1 Feb 1948, San Francisco, CA; died of
leukemia; bur. Mountain View Cem., Oakland, CA, Lot 20, Plot 15
200. Terrance Galligan, b. 2 Jan 1934; d. 16 Oct 1940, Hagerstown, MD; bur. Mountain
View Cem., Oakland, CA, Lot 20, Plot 15
(108)
MARY KATHERINE PAGE (Mary Hull Benham, Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 27 Sep 1892, in Chicago, IL. Katherine died 17 Dec 1985, in Columbus,
OH. She married Frederick Holman Waring, 21 Jun 1916, in East Orange, NJ. He was born 5
Oct 1890, in Saratoga Springs, NY, and died 25 Dec 1983, in Columbus, OH.
Children:
201.
202.
203.
Edward Holman Waring, b. 23 Aug 1918, Columbus, OH; d. 7 Jan 2011; m. Sue
Pickens, May 12, 1951. “He attended Ohio State University and graduated in
1940 with a Civil Engineering degree. Pursing his love for the railroad, Ed was
hired by the New York Central Railroad in Toledo, Ohio where he worked until
he joined the Army in July of 1944. While in the Army he discovered his love for
the Denver area after teaching at Lawry Air Force Base and moved permanently
to Denver after his separation from the Army in June of 1946. Shortly thereafter
he was hired by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad where he spent the next 35
years until he retired as Chief Engineer in 1983.”
Living
Gerald (“Jerry”) Page Waring, b. 5 Nov 1923, Columbus, OH; d. 22 May 2013,
Yuma, AZ; m. Elsie May Ream. He was a baseball executive
(109) HENRY JOHN PAGE (Mary Hull Benham, Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 1 May 1897 in Chicago, IL. He died 19 Nov 1970, in Cleveland, OH. He married
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Mary Collord, 24 Jul 1918. She was born 23 Feb 1899 in Argentina, and arrived in the U.S. in
about 1911. She died 1 Aug 1985, in Avon, OH.391
Children:
204. Mary Louella Page, b. 23 Feb 1920; d. 1950; m. Michael Rockas
205. Henry John Page Jr., b. 10 Aug 1921, Cuyahoga Co., OH; d. 17 Jan 1982,
Lakewood, OH
(110) LAURENS BENHAM PAGE (Mary Hull Benham, Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 23 Nov 1903. He died 16 Aug 1974, in Pinellas Co., FL. He
married Imogene Letitia Edwards, in Maplewood, NJ. She was born 24 Oct 1902, in South
Orange, NJ and died 19 Jun 1986, in St. Petersburg, FL.
(111) STEWART SIBLEY BASSETT (Ethel Sibley Benham, Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 2 Nov 1894, in Cincinnati, OH. He died 30 Apr 1971, in Oak Park, IL. He
married, first, Frances Marie Heater. She was born 4 Sep 1898, in West Virginia, the daughter
of Charles Robert Heater and Columbia Crislip. They were divorced, and Frances remarried
Logan E. Tuthill. She died 13 Jan 1967, in Chicakming, MI.392
Stewart married, second, Betty Jane Ellerman, 2 Aug 1952. She was born 7 Aug 1915,
and died 20 Nov 1976.
Child:
206.
Stewart Sibley Bassett, Jr., b. 23 Oct 1922; d. 14 Sep 1951, Coconino Co., AZ;
bur. Mtn. View Cem., Williams, AZ;393 m. Isabelle Colleen Curtis Peterson. He
died in a plane crash near Ash Fork, AZ.
(112) MARGARET BENHAM BASSET (Ethel Sibley Benham, Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 22 Aug 1902, in Chicago, IL. She died 12 May 1979, and is buried in
Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, IL.394 She married Paul Howard Leach, 22 Dec 1926. He was born
19 Jul 1901, in Chicago, IL, the son of Howard Emmet Leach and Ann Lenore Riley. He died 27
391
Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health. Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-2007
Ancestry.com. Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index, 1867-1995 She is said to have been buried in Oakwood
Cemetery in Chicago. There is an Oakwood Cem., Du Page Co., in the Chicago suburbs, and also an Oak Woods
Cem., Chicago.
393
findagrave.com: Stewart Bassett Jr.
394
findagrave.com: Margaret Leach
392
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Jun 1961, in Joliet, IL, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Paul’s occupation is listed as
manager, on the 1940 census.
Children:
207.
208.
David Laurens Leach, b. 21 May 1929; d. 13 Jun 1969; bur. Oakwoods Cem.395
Living
(114) HENRY LAURENS BENHAM III (“Hank”) (Henry Laurens Benham, Henry Laurens
Benham, Julia Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 25 Dec 1911, in Williams, AZ. He died 5 Sep 2003,
in Flagstaff, AZ, and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Williams, AZ.396 He married,
first, Mary Virginia Strawn, 3 Jul 1934. She was born 26 Jul 1911, in Price, UT, the daughter of
W. B. Strawn and Fannie Pearl Penney.397 She died 3 Nov 1939, in Williams, AZ. She is buried
in the Mountain View Cemetery.398 She was the daughter of W. B. Strawn.
He married, second, Montyne (“Teen”) Vialee (Kemp) Schnell, 29 Jan 1942. She was
born 12 Feb 1916, in Memphis, TX, the daughter of Stella Leeora and Leslie Kemp. She was
previously married to Dan Schnell, who died in 1941. She had two children by her first
marriage. She died 24 Apr 2005, in Williams, AZ, and is buried in the Mountain View
Cemetery, in Williams.399
Henry earned a degree in Industrial Arts from Oregon State University. After his second
marriage he moved to Colorado, where he leased and operated a gold mine. In 1946 he
returned to Arizona, and worked for the railroad, as well as engaging in the carpentry business
with a friend. “He worked on rebuilding the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City. He also
worked on the remodeling of the El Tovar Lodge at the Grand Canyon. After he retired in
1980, he continued to work with wood.”400
Child, by his first wife Mary:
209.
Mary Frances Benham, b. 8 Jan 1938, Williams, AZ; d. 2 Oct 1958, Missoula, MT;
bur. Mtn. View Cem., Williams, AZ;401 she had had entered the Montana State
school about a week before her death; she died in a train accident.
Children, by his second wife, Montyne:
395
findagrave.com: David Laurens Leach
findagrave.com: Henry Laurens Benham III
397
Pearl was the niece of J. P. Penney.
398
findagrave.com: Mary (Strawn) Benham
399
findagrave.com: Montyne Benham
400
Obituary from The Williams-Grand Canyon News, 10 September 2003
401
findagrave.com: Mary Frances Benham
396
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210.
211.
212.
213.
Living
Living
Living
Living
(115) JAMES EDWARD BENHAM (Henry Laurens Benham, Henry Laurens Benham, Julia Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 15 Apr 1915, in Williams, AZ. He died 17 Sep 1971, in Granada Hills,
CA; and is buried in the Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, CA.402 He married Ethel Maxine
McCoy, 14 Aug 1937, in Flagstaff, AZ. She was born 19 May 1916, in Prairie City, IA, the
daughter of Charles Brewin McCoy and Rose Evelyn Gilbert. She died 13 Jan 2013. She is
buried in the Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, CA.403
Children:
214.
215.
216.
Living
Living
Living
(122) CHARLES HENRY LAFEAN (Margaret Shaw, Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 18 Apr 1924, in Chicago, IL. He died 20 Jun 2003, in Lewiston, ME. He
married Elizabeth A. Webster, 6 Oct 1945, in Cape Elizabeth, ME.404 She was born in Portland,
ME, 21 Jun 1925, the daughter of Russell Webster and Rachael Bean. She died 19 Apr 2003, in
Penobscot Bay Medical Center.405
Charles served in the Navy in World War II and graduated from Princeton University in
1952. He worked at Pitney Bowes, and later owned and operated Lafean Automated Mailing
Systems. He was also an avid outdoorsman, woodworker, and singer.406
Children:
217.
218.
Living
Living
402
findagrave.com: James E. Benham
findagrave.com: Ethel McCoy Benham
404
http://www.mainegenealogy.net/individual_marriage_record.asp?id=147864
\405 Obituary. It is possible that they were divorced, as her obituary calls her Elizabeth A. Webster, not Lafean.
406
http://paw.princeton.edu/memorials/15/5/index.xml ; also http://www.sunjournal.com/node/327526
403
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(125) ROBERT WEEMS (“TREB”) TANSILL III (Helen Shaw, Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler
Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 23 Feb 1918, in Chicago, IL. He died 7 May 2007, in Ft. Worth, TX.
He married Margielou Meinig, 5 May 1945. According to his obituary, “After spending 18
years in Chicago he developed a hunt club and condominium project in Alden, IL, for 12 years.
He was a bird hunter for many years with his father. The next 27 years were spent in Ojai
where some of his wife’s family lived. ….While in Ojai, the Tansills owned Hickory Valley
Originals, a feather hatband and accessory, dried flower and giftware business for many years.
In 2002, the final move was to Fort Worth, TX….”407
Children:
219.
220.
Living
Living
(127) ROBERT HARVEY SMITH JR. (Doris Shaw, Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 1 Aug 1918, in San Francisco Co., CA.408 He died 4 Jul 2004, in Del Mar,
CA.409 He married Phyllis Victoria Roberts, in Dec 1942. He graduated from Occidental
College, where he was All-American in football; and served in Navy during World War II. He
was a manager with Pacific Telephone Co.410
Children:
221.
222.
Living
Living
(128) DORCAS SHAW SMITH (Doris Shaw, Mary Dorcas Hull, Marcus Ambler Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 16 Apr 1922, in Los Angeles, CA. She died 10 Sep 2010. She married Rev. Dan
Ambler Norton Bacot. He was born 28 Apr 1916, and died 24 Mar 2006. He was a graduate of
the Church Divinity School of the Pacific,411 and was an Episcopalian minister. He was minister
of the All Saint’s Church, Oxnard, CA, in 1950.412 Dorcas also graduated from the Church
Divinity School of the Pacific, in 1944.
Children:
407
Ojai Valley News, May 23, 2007 -- http://www.ojaivalleynews.com/archives/2007/OVN5-23.pdf
California Birth Index, 1905-1995, Ancestry.com. Mother’s maiden name given as Shaw.
409
Social Security Death Index
410
Obituary, San Diego Union-Tribune, July 13, 2004, retrieved via genealogybank.com
411
http://cdsp.edu/sites/default/files/faculty-staff/Spring06.pdf
412
http://l.b5z.net/i/u/6060359/i/History/HistoryOfAllSaints_Thru20091024WithPhotos.pdf
408
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223.
224.
Living
Living
(131) JULIA FAULKNER HULL (Henry Marcus Hull, William Ambler Hull, Henry Davis Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 16 Aug 1929, in Indianapolis, IN. She died 29 Jun 2012. She married,
first, Conrad C. Casler, in 1951, and second, Dr. Richard Eschenbach, in 1966. She obtained a
nursing degree from Indiana School of Nursing. She worked at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis,
and at Spahn Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX, returning to Indianapolis in 1960. 413
Children:
225.
226.
227.
Cathyrn Casler, b. 9 May 1953, Indianapolis, IN; d. 5 Jul 2011, Butte Co., CA; m.
Living
Living
Living
(132) JULIA HULL KRAMER (Margaret Hannegan, Frances Colwell Hull, Henry Davis Hull,
Laurens Hull) was born 5 Jun 1913, in Chicago, IL. She died 31 Jul 1964, in Lake Forest, IL. She
married Richard Morey Lamport, 8 Jul 1933. He was born 11 Jan 1910, in Indiana, and died 29
Nov 1973, probably in Libertyville, IL.
In 1936 Julia’s name was used in a newspaper ad for Camay.414
Child:
228.
Living
(133) LEROY KRAMER (Margaret Hannegan, Frances Colwell Hull, Henry Davis Hull, Laurens
Hull) was born 13 Jan 1915, in Chicago, IL. He died 2 Jun 2004, in Harbor Springs, IL. He
married Elizabeth Gillespie, in 1942. “Mr. Kramer was a student at the Boys Latin School of
Chicago, the Lawrenceville School, Princeton University and Purdue University. He served in
the United States Naval Reserve during World War II and retired as a Lt. Commander…. Mr.
Kramer was a member of the Great Lake Cruising Club, the Society of Small Craft Designers and
had received the honor of being named an “Old Goat” by the Society of Island Goats, having
413
Obituary: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120702/ARTICLES/120709936
See for example, Omaha World Herald, Apr. 11, 1936, where she is called Julia Lamport (Mrs. Richard M.
Lamport) of Chicago.
414
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sailed in more than 25 Chicago to Mackinac races. He was an employee of General
Transportation Corp. (now GATX) in Chicago.”415
(134) HENRY THEODORE KRAMER (Margaret Hannegan, Frances Colwell Hull, Henry Davis
Hull, Laurens Hull) was born 8 Apr 1917, in Chicago, IL. He died 15 Nov 2004, probably in New
Jersey. He married ----- (Living)
Henry lived in Branchburg, NJ. “He was a former president of North American
Reinsurance and SwissRe Management Corporations, and a founding member and past
chairman of the Reinsurance Association of America. … (He was) educated at Lawrenceville
and Yale University and (was) a Navy veteran.”416
Children:
229. Jean Hull Kramer, b. 30 Oct 1951, Marblehead, MA; d. 18 May 2010, Branchburg,
NJ;417 m. Living
230. Living
415
Obituary: http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2004-06-08/union-league-club_24032276`
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E2DD103FF93BA25752C1A9629C8B63
417
http://www.tributes.com/show/Jean-K.-Lubas-88562927
416
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Obituary of Dr. Laurens Hull
(This obituary is found in Transactions of NY State Medical Society, 1867, and was written by C.
M. Crandall, M.D. It is available at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD)
Inasmuch as no fitting tribute to the memory of one whose life ever exhibited the highest
virtues that should adorn the medical profession, has as yet appeared in the published
Transactions of the Medical Society, I have prepared the brief and imperfect sketch which I
trust will be received by the family and numerous friends of the deceased in the spirit in which
it is offered --not as being what it should be, but as the best I can accomplish under the
circumstances.
Laurens Hull, M.D., was born in Woodbury, Conn., June 6, 1779. His father was Dr. Titus Hull
of that town. The attention of young Laurens was directed early to medical subjects, from the
fact that from his minority, his health was extremely delicate, and even so late as his 32nd year,
he had frequent attacks of haemoptysis.418 It was on this account that he determined to make
the science of medicine his study and his occupation. His early education was limited, but he
made the best possible use of the ordinary advantages of a common school, to which was
added some 21 days under a private tutor, which completed his preparatory instruction. At
the age of 19, he entered the office of Dr. David Hull419 of Fairfield, Conn., remaining there
about 2 years. He received his diploma as a Doctor of Medicine in 1802, and soon after
removed to Augusta, Oneida County, NY, where he entered the office of Dr. Amos G. Hull,420
and continued his medical studies.
In 1803, he was married to Dorcas Ambler of Bethlem, Conn., by Rev. Azel Backus. In
September, 1804, he removed to Bridgewater, Oneida County, and commenced the practice of
medicine on his own account. In 1806, he took part in the organization of the Oneida Co.
Medical Society. Of the members present at that organization, Dr. Hull was the only survivor
in 1864. In 1817, he was a delegate from Oneida County to the State Medical Society. In 1824,
he was elected a permanent member of this Society. In 1826, he was elected Fellow of the
University, and in 1827, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Regents.
During the same year, and also the year following, he was Vice President of the State Medical
Society.
Dr. Hull was President of the State Medical Society in the years 1839 and 1840. His annual
address in the former year was on the subject of "Quackery," and it may be boldly asserted
that there are few papers in the published Transactions of the Society showing a more logical
418
Coughing up blood.
Dr. David Hull (1764-1834) was a graduate of Yale.
420
Dr. Amos Gift Hull (1775-1835).
419
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mind and a clearer view of the subject treated of. Those members of the Society who have the
volume of the Transactions for 1839, will find themselves well repaid by perusing it. His
subject the following year was "Improvement in Medicine," an eminently sensible, practical
and ably written paper proving clearly that Dr. Hull was no anti-progressive clog upon the
wheels of advancing science, but who believed fully in the doctrine of progress.
Although the subject of this memoir achieved much in the noble profession to which he
devoted the best part of his active life, accomplishing enough to satisfy a moderate ambition,
he also won triumphs in civil and practical life. In 1813, and again in 1825, he was elected a
member of the Assembly from Oneida County, filling the position with credit to himself, and to
the satisfaction of his constituents. In 1816, he was a delegate to the first State convention
held in this state to nominate a governor and lieutenant governor. In the year 1836, he
removed to Angelica, Allegany County, and became interested in manufacturing pursuits,
pretty much abandoning the practice of medicine. In 1837, he was elected State Senator from
the Sixth district, then comprising nine counties. This position he filled with great credit.
Those who were associated with him in senatorial duties and in the court for the correction of
errors, of which Senators were then, ex officio, members, bear testimony to the zeal and
fidelity with which he discharged every public duty, carrying with him in the responsible
position he had been called to fill, the same steady virtue and unbending integrity that had
ever characterized his private life.
About 1856-57, Dr. Hull retired from active business, hoping to spend the remainder of his
days in the quiet walks of domestic life. In May, 1858, he was greatly afflicted by the death of
his estimable wife after a union of nearly 55 years. In August, 1862, he met with a severe
accident, by which he fractured the neck of the femur within the capsuler ligament, thus
rendering him permanently disabled, and sadly interfering with his previously active habits,
and dooming him to the use of crutches. Though a severe trial to one of his disposition and
activity, he bore his affliction with a patience and fortitude alike remarkable and
commendable.
During the years 1864-65, the Doctor's health began to decline more rapidly, and he was
finally confined to his room. With the failure of his physical energies, his mental faculties
gradually grew weak, his mind frequently wandering, dwelling much upon friends and scenes
in the long past. On his 86th birthday, however, he conversed rationally and clearly for some
hours with his family and friends, listened attentively to the reading of a letter from Dr. Mccall,
of Utica,421 an old and valued friend, and soon after sank into delirium which continued till an
hour or two previous to his death, which occurred June 27, 1865.
Dr. Hull was a firm believer in the truths of Christianity, and was ever able to give "a reason for
the hope that was in him." He united with the Congregational Church soon after his marriage,
and at the time of his death, and for several years previous, he was president of the Allegany
421
Dr. John McCall (1878-1867). Dr. McCall was at one time President of the NY State Medical Society. See
History of Oneida County, NY, p. 399.
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County Bible Society. He was always a friend and contributor to the various benevolent
operations of the time. Politically, he was first a Federalist, then a Whig, and lastly, a
Republican. He was gratified in the often expressed and cherished desire of his heart, to live
long enough to see the great rebellion crushed, and the Federal Union preserved. The interest
he took in the State Medical Society is known to all the older members, who will bear
testimony to the fidelity and zeal with which he labored in the Society and in the Senate to
promote its interests.
Dr. Hull was in every proper sense a self-made man -- the architect of his own fortunes and
position. He possessed a remarkably retentive memory, great perseverance and energy.
What he did, he "did with his whole might." His industry was untiring, his faith unswerving, his
integrity unyielding. As a physician, he performed every duty his position imposed, as a
politician in public life, he was animated by the same high purposes; in private life, his virtues
shone conspicuous; as a Christian, he was devoted and faithful, dying with all its hopes of a
blessed immortality. Few men, starting out upon a journey of life with the same limited
advantages, have filled so many positions of honor and trust, and finished up so perfect a life.
May we all, while honoring his virtues, emulate his example.
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