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The Descendants of John Rand and Betsy Babcock

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Samuel Gates3 Frye
American Civil War Soldiers: Enlisted as a Private on 22 September 1862 at the age of 27.  Enlisted in Company C, 43rd Infantry Regiment, Massachusetts, on 24 September 1862.  Mustered out Company C, 43rd Infantry Regiment, Massachusetts, on 30 July 1863 in Readville, MA

National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: 43rd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Militia)
Organized at Camp Meigs, Readville, September 12 to October 23, 1862.  Left State for Newberne, N. C., October 24.  Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to December, 1862.  Amory's Brigade, Dept. North Carolina, to January, 1863.  1st Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina, to June, 1863.  1st Brigade, Maryland Heights, Division West Virginia, to July, 1863.

Service: Duty at Newberne, N. C., till December 10, 1862.  (Co. "C" detached at Beaufort, N. C., November 30, 1862, to March 4, 1863.)  Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 11-20, 1862.  Kinston December 14.  Whitehall December 16.  Goldsboro December 17.  At Newberne till January 17, 1863.

Companies "A," "D" and "E" detached on outpost duty at Batchelor's Creek December 31, 1862, to January 11, 1863.  Company "I" detached on picket duty at Evans' Mills January 11 to March 2.  Expedition toward Trenton January 17-22.  At Newberne till March 14.  Expedition to Rocky Run March 14-16.  At Newberne till April 7.  March to relief of Little Washington April 7-10.  Blount's Creek April 9.

Moved to Little Washington April 17-18, and duty there till April 24.  Moved to Newberne April 24-25. Expedition to Core Creek April 27-May 1.  At Newberne till June 24.  Moved to Fort Monroe, thence to White House, Pamunkey River, June 24-28.  Moved to Baltimore, Md., June 29-July 3.  Moved to Sandy Hook, Md., July 7-9, and duty there till July 18.  Moved to Boston, Mass., July 18-21.  Mustered out July 30, 1863.

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John Allen Lewis
Necrology, Register 40:221: S.B. Phinney, ... formerly publisher of the Barnstable Patriot, says: "Mr. Lewis entered my office in Barnstable at the early age of 11 years, and learned the setting of type under my own instruction" ... When the California gold fever was at its height, ... he had still his fondness for printing, and took with him to San Francisco a small printing establishement, and while detained some weeks in crossing the Isthmus of Panama, edited and printed a small daily newspaper, to the edification of the large number who were detained with him en route.

He remained some years in California and was employed upon the alta California, and afterward, in company with his relative, William H. Rand, Esq., established a paper in Los Angeles which was issued half in English and half in Spanish.

Soon after returning from California, he married.  They made their home for a time in Chicago, and Mr. Lewis was employed by the Illinois Central Railroad, in what might be called the literary department of the road, a range of miscellaneous writing made necessary in every large enterprise of this kind.

As it was thought the health of their child suffered in Chicago, they returned to Boston.  But the child died at the age of five years.  Mr. Lewis still continued in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad for such writing as could be done in Boston.

In his later years his eye-sight was seriously impaired, but he continued to use his pen in various ways as long as he was able, being for years a contributor to The Nation, in such matters as were to him specialities.  This labor he performed by request of the managers of the paper, but would take no pay for it.

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Franklin2 Rand
Rand Genealogy p.108: A portion of an editorial which appeared in Zion's Herald, Boston, Mass., 9 Jan 1895.
Upon the first day of the new year Franklin Rand was translated.  For several days he had suffered from a severe cold, which culminated in apoplexy.  He was present at the recent annual meeting of the Wesleyan Association, when he seemed in better health than usual and was characteristically genial and helpful.  Though feeble for many years, yet it had not occurred to us that it was possible he would soon be called away from earth.

As often, on an average, as twice a week it was his custom to come into the Wesleyan Building for a pleasant word of greeting, inquiry and felloship.  We had never realized how much he would be missed when his footsteps should no longer be heard.

Franklin Rand was in many respects a remarkable man.  It is doubtful if New England methodism owes as much to any other.

The Wesleyan Association makes most grateful acknowledgment, in this hour of its bereavement, for his long and successful services - from October, 1838, to August, 1868 - as publishing agent of Zion's Herald. ... The excellent manual of the Association was prepared by him. ...

Franklin Rand, in the days of his vigor, was magnificently useful because he was always diligently at work and wholly absorbed in the business given to him to do. ... By frugality, and by constant and unremitting labor, he so successfully managed the paper that a fund of $40,000 was accumulated, which gave the members of the Association the confidence and courage to purchase the site upon which the Wesleyan Building now stands. ... It was delightful to listen to him as he related his experiences of those olden times, when to be publisher meant that he was clerk, foreman, proof-reader, compositer and office boy.

Boston Daily Globe, 10 Jan 1895: one of the pioneers of New England Methodism ... He was one of the most influential men in the Methodist church in Massachusetts, and up to recently attended regularly the Monday morning gatherings of the Methodist ministers at the Bromfield st. church. ...

When 15 years of age he learned the printer's trade with Beals & Homer, publishers of the Daily Commercial Gazette. He was next employed on the Daily Free Press, an anti-Masonic paper, and subsequently was employed on the Morning Post as foreman when only 21 years old.

He was an original member of the Boston branch of the Y.M.C.A., acting as director and vice president for a number of years.

City Directories -
Boston 1861:
Rand, Franklin, agent Zion's Herald, 36 Wash. h. at Roxbury
Boston Wesleyan Association, 36 Washington Street, ... Franklin Rand, Treas.

Roxbury 1866:
Rand, Franklin, publisher "Zion's Herald" (11 Cornhill, B.), house 79 Warren

Medford 1872-73:
Rand, Franklin, house Salem, corner Park
Methodist Episcopal Church, Franklin Rand, Steward

Quincy 1894:
Rand, Franklin, bds. Bryant avenue, W.Q. next E. Milton line
Methodist Episcopal Church, W.Q. Franklin Rand, Trustee

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John Clark3 Rand
National cyclopaedia of American biography 28:26 - [He] received his preparatory education at the Boston English school and the Roxbury Latin school and was graduated A.B. at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., in 1863 (A.M. 1866).

He entered the employ of George C. Rand & Avery, printers and publishers, of Boston ... When the firm became Rand, Avery & Co. in 1871 John C. Rand became a partner.  During 1887-89 he was president of the company and then for two years he was president of the First National Publishing Co. of Boston.

In 1891 he went to Chicago as resident manager and vice-president of the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, which position he held until 1898.  In 1898-99 he was with the publishing firm of Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago.  Thereafter until his death he was associated with the Bradstreet Commercial Agency in Boston.

A Republican in politics, he took an active part in public and civic work.  He was chairman of the Republican town committee of Medford, Mass., during 1879-81.  During the same period he represented Medford in the Massachusetts legislature and was a member of the commission appointed to revise the general statutes of the state.

In 1890 he edited "One of a Thousand" biographical sketches of 1000 representative men of Massachusetts.  From 1871 to 1879 he was a trustee of Wesleyan University.  Rand was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  In religion he was an Episcopalian.  Personally he was a man of high intelligence, sanguine temperament and scholarly tastes.

City Directories -
Roxbury 1866:
Rand, John C. clerk (3 Cornhill, B.), boards 79 Warren

Medford 1872-73:
Rand, John C., printer (Rand, Avery & Co., 3 Cornhill, B.), boards F. Rand's, Salem [street]
Methodist Episcopal Church, John C. Rand, Steward

Boston 1878/1882/1883/1884:
Rand, John C. (Rand, Avery & Co.), 117 Franklin, house at Medford
Rand, Avery & Co. (Samuel Johnson, John C. Rand, and Avery L. Rand), printers, 117 Franklin

Medford 1886:
Rand, John C., printer (117 Franklin, B.), house Water, between Oakland and Ashland
First Methodist Episcopal Church, John C. Rand, Trustee, Clerk of Trustees
Justices of the Peace - John C. Rand

Boston 1892-93:
Rand, John C. printer, bds. 46 Chandler

Boston 1904:
Rand, John C. printer, 55 Franklin bds 692 Tremont

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Frederick Sumner Mead
National cyclopaedia of American biography 28:26-27: He prepared for college at the Hopkinson school in Boston and was graduated at Harvard university with an A.B. degree cum laude in 1887.  During the winter of 1887-88 he studied at the University of Berlin.  On his return to Boston he joined the stock brokerage house of Irving A. Evans & Co., and in 1891 purchased a seat on the Boston stock exchange and established the brokerage firm of F.S. Mead & Co.

Because of ill health he retired from business in 1901 and was inactive thereafter until 1916 when he accepted appointment as editor of the Harvard university directory.  In that capacity he devised and put into effect an efficient system of locating and maintaining contact with all living Harvard alumni.  In 1919 the ttle of his office was changed to Harvard alumni director and during the ensuing two years he compiled "Harvard's Military Record in the World War," a painstaking and laborious task in which he took the greatest interest (1921).  Before completing this work he was appointed (in 1920) comptroller of Harvard university, a position which he filled with great distinction until he resigned in 1926.

During these years he consolidated all business offices of the university in one building, Lehman hall, which he planned and the construction of which he supervised, and he devised and put into execution an effective but simple budget system which made it possible for each department to know what its income and expenditures would be during the ensuing year and gave the authorities of the university a complete financial picture of the next fiscal year.

To that system has been attributed in large part the stability of Harvard's financial structure during the business depression which began after he left office. His services as chief financial officer of Harvard drew from President A. Lawrence Lowell, in conferring an honorary A.M. degree upon him in 1926, the tribute that "by bringing order into Harvard's expenditures he has rendered a great and lasting service to the university.

Mead was a member of the Harvard and Union clubs of Boston, Harvard Club of New York city and Faculty Club of Cambridge.  His religious affiliation was with St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, Boston.  For fifteen years he spent his summers in the north of Scotland where he leased an estate with a deer forest and indulged his fondness for shooting.

Among the personal attributes which distinguised Mead were his high sense of honor, his keen intellect and unbounded enthusiasm.  He was a straight thinker with clear vision and never traded with the truth.  To whatever task he set his hand he gave his whole-hearted attention and perfected every detail.

Naturally conservative, he acted promptly and resolutely as soon as he reached a decision as to the proper course to pursue.  He demanded strict obedience from his subordinates but always supported them and consulted them and made them feel as if they were partners in a common task.  His devotion to Harvard university knew no bounds.  He was a warm-hearted, devoted friend, had a great affection for children and was a lover of nature and outdoor life.  Trees, shrubs and birds were a constant delight an his garden a source of great enjoyment.

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George Curtis3 Rand
society news, New York Times, 7 Jun 1903: The Rockaway Hunt ... President of the club is George Curtis Rand, who has lived at Cedarhurst for some years, and who is identified with both Summer and Winter life there.

obituary, New York Times, 14 May 1907: ... for many years a prominent merchant in this city and a member of the firm of Hard & Rand in the coffee trade.  As a merchant Mr. Rand was farseeing, enterprising, and successful.

For the last twenty-five years Mr. Rand had resided at Lawrence, L.I.  There he became identified with the varied interests of that community, contributing liberally to the support of the church which he attended, and aiding in the establishment and maintenance of an excellent school.

For many years he had been the President of the Rockaway Hunt Club.  He was at the fore in all efforts for the improvement of the village, and for the promotion of the comfort and welfare of his neighbors.

obituary, New York Evening Post: ... His marked success as a merchant was the natural result of his ability, enterprise, and foresight, and of the scrupulous integrity and high standard of honor he always maintained in all his business relations.

... He was ever ready, not only to contribute of his means, but also to give his time and personal efforts in the service of the public.

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Zillah Oakes
HistoryLink.org The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
File #5448 by Paula Becker Contributing Editor for Infrastructure and Social History:


Zillah Oakes, for whom the town of Zillah, Washington, was named, ca. 1895
courtesy Zillah Municipal Government

In early April 1892, a party of Northern Pacific Railway and Yakima Irrigation Company officials visit the recently chosen but as yet unnamed townsite on the north bank of the Yakima River.  The party includes Walter Granger (General Superintendent of the Sunnyside Canal), Paul Schultze (a Portland businessman and board member of the Oregon and Transcontinental Company), Thomas F. Oakes (1843-1919), president of the Northern Pacific Railway, his wife Abby (1842-1916), and their 19-year-old daughter Zillah (c.1872-1953).  The party debates what to name the new town, and they agree to call it Zillah. ... [read the full article at HistoryLink]

Obituary, New York Times, 9 Jul 1953: During the period her father was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the town of Zillah, Wash., was founded and named after her.  In later years she was an active member of the Women's Republican Club of New York and a member of the Colonial Dames of America.

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Charles Kenneth Clinton
Obituary, New York Times, 8 Feb 1976: Mr. Clinton was a past president of the State Society of the Cincinnati and the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies.

He graduated from Harvard in 1912 and studied at the beaux Arts Institute in Paris.  He served as a lieutenant with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.  In World War II he interpreted French naval specifications at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

He had been a partner in Russell & Clinton, designing private residences in the 1920's and 30's.  More recently, he worked on the restoration of Mount Guilan, a Dutch colonial homestead in Beacon, N.Y.

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Charles Miller Billings
New York Times, 17 May 1934: He was graduated from Yale University in 1896 and joined the Standard Trust Company when it was organized in 1898.  He remained there until it was merged with the Guaranty Trust Company in 1912 and served as assistant treasurer and manager before becoming a vice president in 1915.  Mr. Billings is a member of the Racquet and Tennis, Yale, New York Yacht Club and Down Town Club and belongs also to the Society of Colonial Wars.

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George Valentine Smith
New York Times, 25 Jun 1943: Mr. Smith, attended Episcopal Academy and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1904.  He began his career with the General Accident Assurance Corporation, resighing in 1906 to become a partner in the firm of Haughton and Smith, which was reorganized in 1928, with Mr. Smith as president.

During the first World War he was a captain in the air service.  He had been a member of the Philadelphia City Troop from 1904 to 1913.

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Marian Doane4 Rand
New York Times, 18 Oct 1898: The second large country wedding of the Autumn season - that of Mr. Albert Francks and Miss Marion Rand - will be celebrated today at Lawrence, L.I., and a number of New Yorkers will go down for the affair, as Mr. Francke has a wide circle of friends, particularly in the hunting set, and Miss Rand is one of the prettiest of recent debutantes. ...

The reception will be at Mr. Rand's fine country house at Lawrence, and will be a crowded and gay affair, for the Cedarhurst colony, as it is known, thoroughly understands how to enjoy itself when it has so good an excuse as a wedding of two such popular young people as Mr. Francke and Miss Rand.

New York Times, 19 Oct 1898: The bride wore a heavy white satin gown trimmed with point lace.  Her veil of tulle was caught to her hair with orange blossoms.  She carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley.  The maid of honor was gowned in white chiffon, as were the bridesmaids.  Her hair was ornamented with white ribbon.  The bridesmaids wore instead hats of white chiffon, turned back from their faces and finished with white tips.  The only touch of color in their costumes was a crushed belt of soft green silk, knotted at the side.

The decorations of the house were all furnished from Mr. Rand's conservatories.  Ferns, palms, chrysanthemums, and cosmos were banked in every conceivable nook.  The scheme of color in the drawing room, where the ceremony occurred, was white and green.  Pink was the prevailing tint in the breakfast room.  A Hungarian band furnished music during the afternoon, and dancing was indulged in by the guests.  Mr. and Mrs. Francke left on the late afternoon train for a short honeymoon trip.

New York Times, 15 Nov 1898: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Francke, who were married some weeks ago at Cedarhurst, L.I., have taken an apartment for the season at Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street.  Next summer they will go to Cedarhurst, where Mrs. Francke's father, Mr. George C. Rand, President of the Rockaway Hunt Club, intends building a home for them.

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Albert Francke
New York Times, 16 Mar 1945: ... a member of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Carlisle & Jacquelin, at 120 Broadway, and a former Exchange governor

He was graduated in 1891 from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, where he joined Delta Psi Fraternity.

Mr. Francke was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1902 to 1927, and a member of its board of governors from 1910 to 1913.  With his brother, now dead, he formerly was a member of the New York Stock Exchange firm of L.J. & Albert Francke.  He was also a former member of Francke, Thompson & Robb and Harries, Winthrop & Co. Stock Exchange Houses.

Mr. Francke formerly was a member of the polo team of the Rockaway Hunting Club, of which his father-in-law, the late George Curtis Rand, was president for fifteen years.  He was also a member of the Rockaway Steeplechase Association.  He had been a member of the old University Athletic Club and the Racquet and Tennis and University Clubs, all of New York.

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Albert5 Francke
New York Times, 22 Aug 1967: ... an executive with Ernst & Ernst, certified public accountants.

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Kate Stanton Richardson
New York Times, 13 Dec 1902: Mrs. Hilborne L. Roosevelt gave a "coming-out reception" yesterday afternoon for her daughter, Miss Dorothy Quincy Roosevelt.  The debutants ... and Mrs. Roosevelt ... were assisted in receiving by Misses Christine Kean Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, cousins of the debutante, and by Misses ... Kate Richardson ...
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William Blanchard4 Rand
New York Times, 7 May 1911: Mr. Rand has purchased Butterly Farm, and will there establish a training stable, keeping a string of 100 horses.

New York Times, 13 May 1926: The Lenox Horse Show ... The judges were William Blanchard Rand of Salisbury, Conn.

New York Times, 29 Aug 1931: The first annual horse show of the Pittsfield Riding and Polo Club ... Among the exhibitors ... William Blanchard Rand.
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Ellen Emmet
New York Times, 19 Jan 1908: The flag of Bohemia was hoisted last night atop the studio of Miss Ellen W. Emmet in 62 Washingto Square South, where a costume carnival was held.  More than 150 guests in costume took part. ...

Washington Square has not been so stirred in a long time as when the costumed guests rolled up to the house in motor cars and broughams.  The whole old-fashioned house was given over to the revelers, and, on the top floor, the spacious studio, lighted with wax candles, was the Mecca of the gay throng. ...

For once society threw aside its reserve, and many professional entertainers helped along the Bohemian atmosphere of the occasion.  An improvised vaudeville programme was enacted while the guests sat in Indian fashion in a circle.

Miss Emmet appeard in the costume of a lady of modern Greece, with a Zouave jacket picked out in gold and a necklace of jade and coral. ...

A supper followed the general merrymaking, and, as the party began at midnight, the Sunday newspapers were being distributed before the last of the guests left the studio.

New York Times, 19 Dec 1941: She began the study of art in 1890 with Dennis Bunker in Boston.  She later studied for two years under William M. Chase and then attended the Art Students League of New York, where she received snstruction from Robert Reid and others.  During 1896-1900 she worked in the studio of Frederick MacMonnies in Paris.

... She opened a studio in this city in 1900, and created much favorable comment with a "one-man" show of her work in New York in 1902 and another, four years later, of more than ninety portraits in Boston.

Her portrait of Augustus Saint-Gaudens is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Her painting of the President [FDR], which attracted considerable comment because it depicts him without a smile, was formally approved by the President's late mother and by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...

She was the winner of many honors and medals, ...

National cyclopaedia of American biography 40:261-62 - She received her early education from tutors and in 1892 began to study drawing with Dennis Bunker in Boston.  Later she attended the Art Student's League of New York where she received instruction from Robert Reid and others.  During 1896-1900 she was a pupil of Frederick MacMonnies in Paris and began to paint portraits of eminent persons in England.

On her return to New York city in 1900, she opened a studio which she maintained throughout her life; for some years she had a summer studio in Salisbury, Conn.  In 1902 she put on a one-woman show in New York city, the first in this country.  Four years later she had a similar show of ninety portraits in Boston, the only one-man shows there before that time having been of the works of Whistler, Sargent, and Monet. ...

Her portraits of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Benjamin Altman were purchased for the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city.  Mrs. Rand's commissions included the official White House portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt completed in 1934. ...

Her religious affiliation was with the Episcopal church.  Horseback riding was her chief recreation.
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Alice Leavitt Kobbe
New York Times, 13 Oct 1907: She is a skilled amateur tennis player, and spends much of the Summer season at Southampton.
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George Curtis5 Rand
New York Times, 14 Sep 1956: graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., and attended Harvard College.  During World War II he served as a commander in the Navy.  He is a member of the Racquet and Tennis Club.  Well known in amateur racing car circles both here and abroad, Mr. Rand is general manager of the Sports Car Club of America, Westport, Conn.
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Eleanor Close
New York Times, 27 May 1934: introduced to society in New York in 1927 and the next year was presented at court in Buckingham Palace, London.

New York Times, 24 Apr 1942: attended the Spence School, NYC, and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. ... She resided with her mother in the embassy in Moscow and Brussels and during the years immediately preceding the war she made her home in Paris.
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Lilla Fisk
New York Times, 1 Apr 1935: attended Miss Hewitt's School and also studied at Heatfield, Ascot, England, and with Mme. Pagot in Paris.

New York Times, 14 Sep 1956: She made her debut in 1932 at the Junior Assemblies.

Boston Book Review Fisk Fiction Prize The Boston Book Review Literary Awards were established in 1995 to recognize the finest of the year's literary offerings. ... The Fisk Fiction Prize, whose honorees and novels are tabled below, is given in memory of Lilla Fisk Rand.
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Alice Kobbe5 Rand
She and John Durant were co-authors of Pictorial history of American ships on the high seas and inland waters, The Presidents of the United States: a history of the Presidents of the United States; Pictorial History of American Presidents (1958-1965).  She was the photographer for the books.

She attended Miss Hewitt's School in Manhattan and The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT.
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Avery Lewis3 Rand


Avery Lewis Rand home in Newton Centre MA -
on block where original George C. Rand house was built


From Left: Leslie Rand, Stuart Rand, Helen Richardson, Sarah Jeannette (Wood) Rand, Charlotte Richardson, Robert Rand
In Front: Douglas Richardson
Children of Avery Lewis Rand and Sarah Jeannette Wood: Leslie 1883-; Robert 1885-; Stuart 1888
Children of Charles Augustus Richardson and Emma Curtis Rand: Helen 1883-; Charlotte 1885-; Douglas 1895-


The Avery Rand Family c. 1904
Top Row: Margaret Rand, Stuart Craig Rand, Leslie Rand, Robert Rand, Winifred Rand
Bottom Row: Avery Lewis Rand, Jr., Sarah J. Rand, Avery Lewis Rand, Sr., Rachel Rand

National cyclopaedia of American biography 39:371-72 - He was educated at the public schools of Newton, Mass., and in 1871 joined the printing firm of Rand, Avery & Co., a company cofounded by his father in 1842 as Reid & Rand.  He became a junior partner in 1873 and treasurer in 1878.  In 1882 the firm was incorporated as the Rand, Avery Supply Co., and he was a director until 1893.

He formed a printing business under his own name in 1892, which was organized as the Avery L. Rand Co. about 1900, and he served as its president until 1909, whien it was liquidated.  The firm specialized in large editions and printed millions of patent medicine pamphlets.  From 1914 to 1918 he was treasurer of the Stack Heater Co. of Boston.

For fifteen years he was secretary of the Boston Wesleyan Association, publishers of Zion's Herald.  He was secretary of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in 1891.  He served at various times as a member of the Newton school committee and the Newton Center Improvement Association.  He was a member of the Neighbors, Newton, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, and the Exchange Club of Boston.

Rand belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newton Center, and served twenty-five years on the church board.  He also served in 1902 as president of the Boston Methodist Social Union.  His political affiliation was with the Republican party.

City Directories -
Newton
1871: Massachusetts Volunteer Militia - Avery L. Rand, member
1871-72: Rand Avery L., clerk (3 Cornhill, Boston), bds. at G.C. Rand's, N.C.
1873: Rand Avery Lewis, (3 Cornhill, Boston), boards at G.C. Rand's, N.Cen.

Boston 1878:
Rand Avery L. (Rand, Avery & Co.), 117 Franklin, house at Longwood
Rand, Avery & Co. (Samuel Johnson, John C. Rand, and Avery L. Rand), printers, 117 Franklin

Boston 1882/1883/1884:
Rand Avery L. (Rand, Avery & Co.), 117 Franklin, house at Newton Centre
Rand, Avery & Co. (Samuel Johnson, John C. Rand, and Avery L. Rand), printers, 117 Franklin

Newton 1885:
Rand Avery L. printer (117 Franklin, Boston), house Centre corner Homer
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church - A.L. Rand, Trustee; Avery L. Rand, Mrs. A.L. Rand, Stewards; Avery L. Rand, Sunday School Superintendent

Boston 1892-93:
Rand Avery L. sec. Chamber of Commerce, h. at Newton Centre

Newton 1897:
Rand Avery L. printer (196 Summer, Boston), house 1073 Centre corner Commonwealth avenue
Notaries public, Newtown Centre - Avery L. Rand
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church, Avery L. Rand, Trustee, Steward

Newton 1899/1901:
Rand Avery L. printer (r. 208 Summer, Boston), house 1073 Centre N.C.
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church - Avery L. Rand, Trustee, Steward
Public Schools, School Committee - Avery L. Rand, Ward 6, [term expires] 1902
(1901) Rebecca Pomroy Newton Home for Orphan Girls - Avery L. Rand, Newton Centre, Auditor
(1901) The Neighbors, Newton Centre - Avery L. Rand, Sec. and Treas.

Newton 1903:
Rand Avery L. printer (15 Binford, B.), house 1073 Centre N.C.
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church, Avery L. Rand, Trustee, Steward
The Neighbors, Newton Centre - Avery L. Rand, Sec. and Treas.

Boston 1904:
Rand, Avery L printer 18 Binford h at Newton Centre

Newton 1905:
Rand Avery L. printer (18 Binford, B.), house 1073 Centre N.C.

Newton 1907:
Rand Avery L. printer (r. 208 Summer, B.), house 1073 Centre N.C.
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church, Avery L. Rand, Trustee
The Neighbors, Newton Centre - Avery L. Rand, Sec. and Treas.

Newton 1909:
Rand Avery L. printer (18 Binford, B.), h 50 Grafton N.C.
The Neighbors, Newton Centre - Avery L. Rand, Sec. and Treas.

Newton 1911:
Rand Avery L. removed to Marshfield
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church, Avery L. Rand, Trustee
The Neighbors, Newton Centre - Avery L. Rand, Sec. and Treas.

Cambridge 1913:
Rand Avery L. h 1039 Mass av

Newton 1913/1915:
Newton Centre Methodist Episcopal Church, Avery L. Rand, Trustee
The Neighbors, Newton Centre - Avery L. Rand, Sec. and Treas.

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Ben Edwin Lindsly
Washington Post, 6 Mar 1962: ... earned a mining engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1905 and then worked for various mining firms in the western United States.

He entered Government service in 1924 and served for 10 years as senior petroleum engineer and assistant superintendent of the Bureau of Mines' petroleum experimental station in Bartlesville, Okla.

From 1934 to 1936, Mr. Lindsly was with the Petroleum Administrative Board here and served as senior petroleum engineer for the SEC until 1943.  He was then named chief of the oil and gas unit of the SEC, a post he held until his retirement 10 years later.
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Stuart Craig4 Rand
Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield MA), 5 Dec 1950: Twenty-one Boston business leaders - known as the Dover group - suggested the withdrawal [from Korea] to President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson. ... Signers included ... Stuart Rand of the State Street law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.

Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield MA), 8 Oct 1956: Rand had practiced law in Boston for 44 years with the firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart and had been a partner since 1920.

He was a trustee of Boston City Hospital, member of various bar associations, a representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1943 to 1946, and was active in the affairs of the Episcopal Church.

A graduate of Yale University in 1909 and the Harvard Law School in 1912, Rand was general chairman of the Greater Boston Community Fund's 1939 campaign and served for three years as chairman of the Greater Boston Committee of British War Relief Society.;

City Directories -
Newton 1909:
Rand, Stuart C student (at Yale) bds 50 Grafton

Newton 1911:
Rand Stuart C removed to Marshfield

Plymouth 1921:
Rand, Stuart C (Louise H) lawyer (B) sum res Hornblower Cottage, Warren av

Belmont 1922:
Rand, Stuart C (Louise H), lawyer, h 179 Clifton

Boston 1924:
Rand, Stuart Craig (Choate, Hall & Stewart), lawyer 30 State rm 900 h at Belmont
Choate, Hall & Stewart (Charles F Choate jr, John L Hall, Ralph A Stewart, Frederick H Nash, Frank W Knowlton, Joseph Wentworth, Stuart Craig Rand, Charles O Pengra, John W Worthington, James Garfield, Charles F Choate 3d) lawyers 30 State 9th floor

Belmont 1929:
Rand, Stuart C (Louise H), lawyer, res 179 Clifton (1205-W)

Boston 1947/1949:
Rand, Stuart C (Louise H) (Choate, Hall & Stewart) lawyer and chairmn Board of Trustees Wheelock College

Boston 1949:
[City] Hospital Dpeartment - Stuart C Rand, Trustee
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Peirce Fuller
Harvard Magazine, 2001, Obituaries: PEIRCE FULLER '35 died January 17 in Weymouth, Mass.  A retired insurance executive, he worked in the family business, the Old Corner Book Store in Boston, until it was sold, in 1951.  Later he joined Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. as an estate-planning agent and stayed there for more than 30 years.  He was an avid outdoorsman who loved to cut firewood and take his kayak out on the estuary that ran past his house in Norwell.
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Charlotte4 Richardson
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):
23 Jun 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Ely, with their granddaughter, Margaret Shackel, went to Chicago Thursday, to be present at the marriage of Joseph Bolles Ely to Miss Charlotte Richardson, which occurred in the home of the bride's parents in Oak Park, Friday, June 17.  The groom, who was born and reared in Pewaukee, has many close friends here and Miss Richardson, who was a frequent visitor at the Ely home, has made his friends her own, and many good wishes go out for the best of prosperity and happiness in their new life.

18 Aug 1910 Mrs. Ely made a recent visit to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ely who recently occupied their new home at Oak Park.

18 Aug 1910 Mrs. Joseph Ely is spending a fortnight with her parents at Oak Park, Ill.

17 Apr 1930 Mrs. J. B. Ely and daughter, Miss Sally, drove to Oak Park, Ill., April 5, and visited Mrs. Ely's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Richardson, until Wednesday, the 9th.  Mrs. Ely visited the Illinois Garden club's exhibit in Chicago stadium on Monday.

7 Aug 1935 Mrs. J. B. Ely and three daughters, Barbara, Sue and Sally, are spending some weeks at Lakewood in the northern part of our state.

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Joseph Bolles5 Ely Jr.
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):
22 Dec 1932 Joseph Ely, who came home from Dartmouth Sunday, brought a friend, William Winchester of Massachusetts, with him to spend the entire vacation here as his guest.

2 Oct 1930 Joseph Ely, Jr., has gone to Dartmouth, Hanover, N. H., for his second year; his sister, Barbara Ely, is attending Mount Mary college in Milwaukee.

22 Oct 1931 Barbara Ely, who attended Mount Mary's college last year, is a sophomore at Beloit; ... Joseph Elys [sic], Junior, is a junior at Dartmouth.

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Katherine Tisdale
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):
9 Sep 1936 Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ely and daughters, the Misses Sue and Sally, left Tuesday for two weeks' vacation and trip to Medford, Mass., where they will spend a few days and attend the wedding of their son, Joseph Ely, to Miss Katherine Tisdale, on Sept. 12.

23 Mar 1938 Mrs. Joseph Ely, Jr., and her seven weeks old daughter, who have been visiting with Mrs. J. B. Ely for some time, left Friday for Susanville, Calif., to join Mr. Ely.  They will make their home at Susanville.

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Barbara5 Ely
Waukesha (WI) Freeman:
22 May 1930 Last January the University of Wisconsin sent out "aptitude tests" to seniors in all high schools of the state.  The report of the results obtained from the 17 who took the tests in the local high school is gratifying.  Two of our students, Barbara Ely and Lester Leverance, students, who by the way, were permitted, because of their high rank in intelligence tests to skip the eight [sic] grade, stand on par with the best students in the state ...

2 Oct 1930 Joseph Ely, Jr., has gone to Dartmouth, Hanover, N. H., for his second year; his sister, Barbara Ely, is attending Mount Mary college in Milwaukee.

22 Oct 1931 Barbara Ely, who attended Mount Mary's college last year, is a sophomore at Beloit; ... Joseph Elys [sic], Junior, is a junior at Dartmouth.

15 Jun 1933 Mr. and Mrs. C. Richardson and their two children, accompanied by the Misses Barbara, Sue and Sally Ely, drove to Oak Park, Ill., Saturday, to remain two nights in the home of Mr. Richardson's parents, who are the grandparents of the Ely girls.  On Sunday the entire group visited the World's fair.

20 Sep 1933 Miss Barbara Ely is attending the State University for her third year of college work.

7 Aug 1935 Mrs. J. B. Ely and three daughters, Barbara, Sue and Sally, are spending some weeks at Lakewood in the northern part of our state.

18 Sep 1935 Miss Barbara Ely, who graduated from the state university last June, is a student in Miss Brown's Business college in Milwaukee.

11 Mar 1936 Pewaukee Girl in Madison Office Miss Barbara Ely, daughter of J. B. Ely, Pewaukee, who finished her course as an economics major at the University of Wisconsin last June, has recently accepted a position as office assistant with the Nathional Guardian Life insurance company, Madison.

24 Jun 1936 Miss Barbara Ely, Madison, has been spending a few days at her home.

15 Dec 1937 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Ely have announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to Arthur C. Sanborn of Madison.  The wedding has been set for the holiday season.  They will be married December 24 in the St. Francis Episcopal chapel in Madison.

26 Nov 1954 Mrs. Annalee Stewart, legislative secretary for the Wilmen's International League for Peace and Freedom ... will speak at a tea ... sponsored by the Pewaukee Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service and the Waukesha county Unitarian women ... Mrs. Arthur Sanborn is the Unitarian representative.

22 Feb 1955 Unit 3, the Pewaukee unit of the Oconomowoc League of WOmen Voters ... 12 charter members ... MMes. ... Arthur Sanborn ... Mrs. Sanborn, the unit chairman ...

22 Sep 1955 The following drivers forfeited $14 each for speeding in the city. They were picked up by radar: ... Barbara E. Sanborn, 41, Pewaukee ...

15 Dec 1955 ... Andre Trocme, traveling secretary for a pacifist group called the International Fellowship of Reconciliation ... spoke before about 60 persons at a meeting held in the St. Matthias church hall. ... [photo accompanying article: From left (seated) Mrs. Arthur Sanborn, Pewaukee, and Mr. Trocme. ...]

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Arthur Craig Sanborn
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):
15 Dec 1937 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Ely have announced the engagement of their daughter, Barbara, to Arthur C. Sanborn of Madison.  The wedding has been set for the holiday season.  They will be married December 24 in the St. Francis Episcopal chapel in Madison.

19 Aug 1955 Pewaukee PTA Names Officers ... for the year 1955-56 ... Art Sanborn, treasurer; Sally Hackbarth, program chairman; ... Art Sanborn, finance chairman; ...

21 Dec 1955 The [auto damage] claims arise out of an accident Nov. 19 on Pewaukee road just inside the city limits.  The claimants and the amounts they seek are: Arthur C. Sanborn and his wife, Barbara, of 721 Park ave., Pewaukee, $588.52 for car damage, plus storage of their car at 50 cents per day from the accident date, plus $10 towing charges plus medical bills. ... The story of the accident, as stated in the claims, is this:

Sanborn was driving north on Pewaukee road when his car struck a sunken excavation which was "unmarked and unbarricaded," he claims.  He lost control of the car, and it swerved into the lane of oncoming cars striking the Teuteberg car.  O'Gorman's car, meanwhile, struck Sanborn's car. Mrs. Sanborn was a passenger in her husband's car, and Jeannette Teuteberg and Rosemary Soberg were passengers in the Teuteberg car.

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Susanna5 Ely
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):
22 Dec 1932 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," an old fairy tale presented by school children in the school auditorium Monday night was a brilliant success. ... Sue Ely as Queen Brangomar was a stately and beautiful figure in her royal robe ...

15 Jun 1933 Mr. and Mrs. C. Richardson and their two children, accompanied by the Misses Barbara, Sue and Sally Ely, drove to Oak Park, Ill., Saturday, to remain two nights in the home of Mr. Richardson's parents, who are the grandparents of the Ely girls.  On Sunday the entire group visited the World's fair.

19 Sep 1934 The following young people from this community are going to Carroll College which opened Monday, the 17th ... Sue Ely ... freshmen.

7 Aug 1935 Mrs. J. B. Ely and three daughters, Barbara, Sue and Sally, are spending some weeks at Lakewood in the northern part of our state.

18 Sep 1935 Miss Sue Ely is going to Madison the latter part of the week to take her second year studies at the university.  She took the first year at Carroll, and will major in home economics.

9 Sep 1936 Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ely and daughters, the Misses Sue and Sally, left Tuesday for two weeks' vacation and trip to Medford, Mass., where they will spend a few days and attend the wedding of their son, Joseph Ely, to Miss Katherine Tisdale, on Sept. 12.

22 Jun 1938 Nine Waukesha people were among those receiving degrees at the 65th annual commencement exercises of the University of Wisconsin, Monday morning. ... Among those from Waukesha county ... Sue Ely, B.S. Home Economics and Education ...

6 Jul 1938 Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ely spent the week-end in Madison attending the commencement at the state university and its incidental functions in honor of the graduation of their daughter, Sue Ely, who won her bachelor degree from the School of Home Economics and Education.  Miss Ely returned here with her parents Monday.

31 Aug 1938 Mrs. J. B. Ely and daughter Sue are spending the week at Brule, Wis.

28 Jun 1939 Miss Sue Ely is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Sanborn, in Madison.  5 Jul 1939 Miss Sue Ely has returned to the home of her parents on High st. after spending a week with her sister at Madison.

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Sarah Curtis "Sally" 12 Ely
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):

17 Apr 1930 Mrs. J. B. Ely and daughter, Miss Sally, drove to Oak Park, Ill., April 5, and visited Mrs. Ely's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Richardson, until Wednesday, the 9th.  Mrs. Ely visited the Illinois Garden club's exhibit in Chicago stadium on Monday.

1 Dec 1932 The Pewaukee Girl Scouts presented a very pleasing program ... Sally Ely presented an original paper entitled "Scout Principles as Compared with Pilgrim Ideals." ...

15 Jun 1933 Mr. and Mrs. C. Richardson and their two children, accompanied by the Misses Barbara, Sue and Sally Ely, drove to Oak Park, Ill., Saturday, to remain two nights in the home of Mr. Richardson's parents, who are the grandparents of the Ely girls.  On Sunday the entire group visited the World's fair.

7 Aug 1935 Mrs. J. B. Ely and three daughters, Barbara, Sue and Sally, are spending some weeks at Lakewood in the northern part of our state.

9 Sep 1936 Mr. and Jrs. J. B. Ely and daughters, the Misses Sue and Sally, left Tuesday for two weeks' vacation and trip to Medford, Mass., where they will spend a few days and attend the wedding of their son, Joseph Ely, to Miss Katherine Tisdale, on Sept. 12.

17 Nov 1937 Three one-act plays ... were presented by high school students in the Pewaukee High school gym last Friday evening ... "The Valiant" was a play which captivated the crowd.  The parts of the prisoner, taken by John Cavey ... and Sally Ely, the prisoner's sister, were especially well portrayed. ...

31 Aug 1938 Miss Mary Ann Parker of Oak Park is visiting Sally Ely.

14 Sep 1938 Sally Ely plans to attend the University of Wisconsin.

8 Feb 1939 Sally Ely, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will spend the week-end at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ely.

3 Jun 1942 Students from Waukesha county who were granded degrees include: ... Sarah C. Ely, bachelor of science, home economics and education, of Pewaukee.

19 Aug 1955 Pewaukee PTA Names Officers ... for the year 1955-56 ... Art Sanborn, treasurer; Sally Hackbarth, program chairman; ... Art Sanborn, finance chairman; ...

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Curtis Rand4 Richardson
His sister Peggy (Margaret) used to tell about skipping school to go downtown in Chicago to watch the parade when his unit came back from overseas.

1992 letter from his son John Richardson to Shirley Anderson: My Dad had ribbons from several of the major battles in Europe as a field artillery person.  Anne just gave me a mug he had taken from a German.

A letter from the front


Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee):
4 Dec 1925 Miss Gertrude Blotz of Dodgeville, member of the faculty of the Oconomowoc schools, was married to Curtis R. Richardson of that city, at Savanna, Ill., November 6, the marriage having just been announced.  The bride will continue her work in the Oconomowoc school.

22 Sep 1927 Curtis Richardson, a brother of Mrs. J.B. Ely, has rented the house formerly owned by John Melsel on High St.  Mr. and Mrs. Richardson are moving here from Burlington.

4 Sep 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Curtice Richardson and little daughter have moved into the home of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clark, which they bought of the latter's father, Mr. Lentzner, who fell heir to the property upon his daughter's death, over a year ago.

15 Jun 1933 Mr. and Mrs. C. Richardson and their two children, accompanied by the Misses Barbara, Sue and Sally Ely, drove to Oak Park, Ill., Saturday, to remain two nights in the home of Mr. Richardson's parents, who are the grandparents of the Ely girls.  On Sunday the entire group visited the World's fair.

24 Jun 1936 C. R. Richardson was elected president of the Waukesha County Bankers' association, at an annual meeting Tuesday in the Avalon hotel.

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Douglas Hyde4 Richardson
Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Sussex): 28 Feb 1934 Douglas Richardson, who is employed in the northern part of the state, spend a short time over the week-end with his family here.

Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Sussex): 14 Mar 1934 Mrs. Douglas Richardson and children have moved to Summit Lake where they will make their home for the present.  They are doing this to be nearer to Mr. Richardson who is employed in CCC work near Long Lake.  On Thursday evening, Mrs. Richardson was tendered a farewell party by her bridge club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Marx.  The members of the club presented Mrs. Richardson with a gift.

Mary Jane Richardson was honored with a little party by the pupils and teacher, Miss Christeson, of her room in school.  Each child received a candy bar.
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Margaret4 Richardson
Before her marriage, Peggy was a children's librarian at the Milwaukee (WI) Public Library, where she was known as "The Story Hour Lady."  During the illness of the Secretary (company officer) of her husband's company, Peggy filled that post.  After her husband died, she became a housemother for the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at Wisconsin State University, River Falls WI.

Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee), 16 Dec 1926: The M.E. Sunday school ... the annual Christmas program by the Sunday school will be held in the church Thursday evening at 7:30.  Miss Margaret Richardson, assistant librarian of the children's department of the public library in Milwaukee, will tell some Christmas stories for children.

Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee), 8 Sep 1927: Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Ely and children went to Oak Park, Ill., Saturday, to attend the wedding of Mrs. Ely's sister, Miss Margaret Richardson, who was married Saturday afternoon to Wilford D. York, of this village.

The ceremony and reception was held in the church parlors of the First Congregational church in Oak Park and was a pretty and informal event.  Miss Barbara Ely served in the wedding party as maid of honor.

The bride has been employed in the children's department of the public library in Milwaukee and Mr. York who has been living in F.B. Bartletts' home this summer, is engaged in the advertising business in Milwaukee.

Mr. and Mrs. York will live here in Schmutzler's house, which was formerly the home of the late Mrs. Donahauer.

Waukesha (WI) Freeman (Pewaukee): 29 Sep 1927 Mr. and Mrs. Wilford York arrived here last week from their wedding trip to California, where they visited relatives and places of interest.  They were gone three weeks and are now located in Schmutzler's house, which used to be the Bolles' home.  Mrs. York is a sister of Mrs. J.B. Ely.
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