Record image · 8 May 1503
Will of Roger Holbroke of Chew, 1503 Chew Magna, Somerset, England
The short Latin will in the middle of the page, with the margin title “Test[amentum] Rogeri
Holbroke”: “Ego Rogerus Holbroke de Chewe,” 8 May 1503. He is to be buried at St Andrew’s, Chew,
and his executors are his wife Agnes, John Storowe and “Thome Holbroke filio meo,” his son Thomas.
Roger is the earliest Holbroke of the Chew valley found. Whether Thomas Holbrooke of Norton
Malreward was this Thomas, or a grandson, is open.
Credit The National Archives, PROB 11/13/574 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury, register copy)
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Record image · 1 Oct 1536
Will of John Horsington of Corston, 1536 Corston, Somerset, England
The register copy of the will of “John Horssyngton of the parishe of Coston,” 1 Oct 1536, with the
margin title “Test[amentum] John Horssyngton.” It names his wife Agnes, his sons Richard, Giles,
Thomas and William, and his brother Walter, and leaves silver to “every one of myn owne children.”
No daughter is named. Edith Holbrooke of Compton Dando called a William Horsington her “cousin and
godson,” so she may have been born a Horsington, but this will can’t show it. Above it is the end
of the will of Nicholas Prowse of Taunton.
Credit The National Archives, PROB 11/25/610 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury, register copy)
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Record image · 22 Jul 1546 · 2 pages
Will of Nicholas Derell of Marksbury, 1546 (first copy) Marksbury, Somerset, England
The will begins at the foot of the first page, beside the margin title “Test[amentu]m
Nich[ola]s Derell”: “I Nycholas Derell of Marksbury,” 22 July 1546, in the 38th year of
Henry VIII.
The rest of the will is on the second page. Ten pounds “in the handes of Thomas Holbroke of
Norton Malerward”; a yearling “which is with Thomas Holbroke”; 6s. 8d. each “to John Holbroke
and Johane Holbroke”; and “Thomas Holbroke of Norton and John Richman of Stanton” are the
overseers. These are the earliest records of Thomas Holbrooke of Norton Malreward and of his two
eldest children.
The will was entered in the register twice. The second copy
(PROB 11/35/101) is fuller: its extra legacies name Thomas Holbroke as a witness and as a trustee.
Credit The National Archives, PROB 11/35/42 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury, register copy)
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Record image · 22 Jul 1546
Will of Nicholas Derell of Marksbury, 1546 (second copy) Marksbury, Somerset, England
A second, fuller register copy of the same will, with the margin note “T. Nich[olas] Derell. See
another Will folio 3.” Its extra legacies end with twenty pounds to Robert Derell, the goods to
stay “in the handes of Thomas Darnbody, parson of ffarnborowe, and Thomas Holbroke of Norton,”
who are also its witnesses.
Credit The National Archives, PROB 11/35/101 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury, register copy)
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Record image · 9 Mar 1551/2
Will of Alice Derell of Marksbury, widow, 1551/2 Marksbury, Somerset, England
The register copy of Alice Derell’s will, in the middle of the page with the margin title
“T[estamentum] Alice Derell.” She leaves “to John Holbroke and to Johan Holbroke, the children of
my sonne in lawe Thomas Holbroke, to every of them a cowe,” and makes Thomas Holbroke one of her
overseers. Thomas is Thomas Holbrooke of Norton Malreward (d. 1571/2), probably the father of
William Holbrooke of Glastonbury. “Son-in-law” could then also mean stepson, so how Thomas was
related to the Derells is open. Her own daughter was Agnes Saunders.
Credit The National Archives, PROB 11/35/315 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury, register copy)
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Record image · Mar 1616/17 · 2 pages
Will of Robert Holbrooke of Queen Charlton, 1616/17 Queen Charlton, Somerset, England
The will begins at the foot of the first page, with the margin title “T[estamentum] Robert
Holbrooke”: “the ffifteent[h] [?] day of Marche Anno Domini 1616, I Roberte Holbrooke of Quinte
Charlton in the Countie of Somersett, yeoman.” He leaves money to his daughters Jone, Katherine
and Milliard and his son Robert, and a ewe and a lamb to “William Holbroke the sonne of John
Holbrooke my brother deceased.” Robert was the son of Thomas and Edith Holbrooke, baptized at
Norton Malreward in 1557/8, and very probably the brother of William Holbrooke of Glastonbury.
The second page has the end of the will: the overseers, the vicar of Compton Dando and the
minister of Queen Charlton, and the probate at London on 3 July 1617 to “Elnore Holbrooke,” his
widow.
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Record image · 1655-1670
Essex County register: Ralph Ellinwood's marriage to Ellen Lyn, 1655, and their children Salem, Massachusetts
The E page of the county register of returns from the towns. Near the top: “14 March 55 Ralph
Elinwood maryed to Ellen Lyn: their son Ralph born 18 March 57. son John born 2d July 59.
Joseph bo: 12:3:62”. Further down: “Ralph Elinwood his daughter Mary bo: by Ellen his wife
3:2d:64, daughter Elizabeth born 27 June 66, David born 6 July 70, Benjamin born 1:2mo:68.”
The dates are in the old style, with March the first month.
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Record image · 17 May 1668
Benjamin Ellinwood's baptism, Beverly, 17 May 1668 Beverly, Massachusetts
The Beverly register of baptisms for 1667-1668, in the town’s book: each child is entered as
“child of” its parents, with the date. Benjamin is there on 17 May 1668: “Benj[amin] … Ralph &
Ellen Ellinwood.” His birth, 1 April 1668, is in the county register. The left-hand page of the
opening is blank.
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Portrait · c. 1670-1675
Rev. Richard Mather, John Foster's woodcut, c. 1670 Boston or Dorchester, Massachusetts
Richard Mather in his skullcap and broad collar, his beard spread over his gown, a pair of spectacles
in his right hand and an open book under his left; on this copy someone has written “Richardus Mather”
across the top and “Johannes Foster sculpsit” at the foot. It is the earliest portrait print known to
have been made in the English colonies, cut by John Foster, son of Capt. Hopestill Foster of
Dorchester, soon after Mather died in 1669; Hopestill Foster had witnessed Mather’s will and sworn to it
in 1669. Five impressions survive, at Harvard, the University of Virginia, the American Antiquarian
Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and Princeton. Houghton dates its copy about 1675, as a
frontispiece added to a reissue of Increase Mather’s life of his father; the Virginia copy is dated
1670. A few years later Foster cut the map of New England for Hubbard’s history of King Philip’s War.
Credit John Foster, woodcut, c. 1670-1675; the copy added as frontispiece to Increase Mather, *The Life and Death of That Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather* (Cambridge, 1670). Houghton Library, Harvard University, *AC6.Ad198.Zz683t no.5, via Wikimedia Commons; public domain (the 1920-pixel copy of the 2375-pixel original)
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Document · 1676
Increase Mather's Brief History of the Warr with the Indians, title page, 1676 Boston, Massachusetts
“A Brief History of the VVarr with the Indians in Nevv-England, (From June 24, 1675. when the first
English-man was murdered by the Indians, to August 12. 1676. when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal
Author and Beginner of the Warr, was slain.)” Increase Mather, teacher of the Second Church in Boston
and son of Rev. Richard Mather of Dorchester, wrote it as the war ended, and it was “Printed and Sold
by John Foster over against the Sign of the Dove. 1676,” the first history of the war printed in New
England. Foster, a son of Capt. Hopestill Foster of Dorchester, had set up Boston’s first printing press
the year before. On page 15 of this same copy is Foster’s woodcut of the colony’s seal, kept in the
Gallery as a picture of its own. A London edition, printed for Richard Chiswell, followed the same year.
Credit Increase Mather, *A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England* (Boston: John Foster, 1676), title page. John Carter Brown Library, D Math I.16B, via the Internet Archive (briefhistoryofvv00math_1); public domain
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Document · 1676
The seal of the Massachusetts Bay colony, in Mather's Brief History, 1676 Boston, Massachusetts
The colony’s seal heads the order of the Governor and Council “At a Council Held at Boston, Sept. 17.
1675,” which Mather printed in his history: an Indian with a bow in one hand and an arrow, point down,
in the other, standing between two small trees, a scroll from his mouth reading “Come over and help
us,” and round the rim SIGILLVM GVB ET SOCIET DE MATTACHVSETS BAY IN NOVA ANGLIA. The order, three months
into the war, appointed a day of public humiliation, the troubles being sent “for our sins whereby he
hath been provoked”; Mather reprinted it because copies were “in but few hands.”
The cut was used at Foster’s press, and Blake’s Annals of Dorchester says of John Foster,
son of Capt. Hopestill Foster, that he “made the Seals or Arms of the Colony, viz an Indian with a bow
and arrow.”
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Map · 1677
A Map of New-England, John Foster's woodcut, 1677 New England; cut and printed at Boston
“A Map of New-England, Being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best Pattern that
could be had”: the first map cut and printed in the English colonies, made for Hubbard’s history of
King Philip’s War. West is at the top, so the Connecticut River runs across the head of the sheet and
the coast along its foot. Its cartouche explains that “the figures that are joyned with the Names of
Places are to distinguish such as have been assaulted by the Indians from others”: Springfield is 12,
Lancaster 21, Sudbury 32, with Mount Hope, Seaconk and Providence at the lower left, and Weymouth,
Hingham, “Scituat” and Plymouth along the bay.
This is the John Carter Brown Library’s copy, folded into its Boston edition, and it is the Boston
state of the map, with “The White Hills” at the right; the London edition of the same year has
“Wine Hills”. The cutter, by general agreement, was John Foster, Boston’s first printer, son of Capt. Hopestill Foster of
Dorchester and brother of Ensign Hopestill Foster.
Credit John Foster, woodcut, folding map in William Hubbard, *A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England* (Boston: John Foster, 1677). John Carter Brown Library, D677 H876nl, via the Internet Archive (narrativeoftroub00hubb); public domain
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Record image · 1677-1735
Beverly compiled register: Benjamin and Mary, and Ralph and Martha Ellingwood Beverly, Massachusetts
Two pages before the family of Ralph and Sarah. On the left, “Benjamin & Mary Ellingwood”
(“Benjamin the father died March 28 1731 aged about 64, Sabbath day”) and “Ralph and Martha
Ellingwood”, with their children’s births and baptisms. On the right, the marriages: “1682.
Marriage of Ralph Ellinwood and Catharine ___ declared null for his incompetence”; Ralph and
“Martha Robison” (interlined “Rowlandson of Beverly”), married in August 1691 by Samuel Cheever
of Marblehead; John Ellingwood and Elizabeth Rowlinson, 1685; and at the foot, “1 mo: 1677. Ralf
Ellenwood, a childe of ye covenant, publickly rebuked and admonished, for stealing meal at mill.”
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Document · 1677
Hubbard's Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians, title page, 1677 Boston, Massachusetts
The title page of the Ipswich minister William Hubbard’s history of King Philip’s War, “A Narrative of
the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607. to this
present year 1677. But chiefly of the late Troubles in the two last years, 1675. and 1676,” with a
discourse on the Pequot War added. “Published by Authority” and licensed by Simon Bradstreet, Daniel
Denison and Joseph Dudley on 29 March 1677, it was “Printed by John Foster, in the year 1677,” with
Foster’s woodcut map of New England folded into it. Hubbard’s account of the fights of 1676, Pierce’s
among them, is one of the two histories written while the war was fresh; the other, Increase Mather’s,
came from the same press the year before. John Foster was a son of Capt. Hopestill Foster of
Dorchester. This is a black-and-white microfilm of a copy of the Boston edition.
Credit William Hubbard, *A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England* (Boston: John Foster, 1677), title page. Microfilm, *Early English Books, 1641-1700* (Wing H3211), via the Internet Archive; public domain
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Photograph · 1681
John Foster's gravestone, Dorchester North Burying Ground Dorchester North Burying Ground, Upham's Corner, Dorchester, Massachusetts
“The ingenious mathematician and printer, Mr. John Foster, aged 33 years, dyed Septr 9th 1681,” as the
Boston Public Library’s catalogue reads the stone. Above the inscription a skeleton, Death, reaches up to snuff a candle standing on a globe, while winged Father
Time, with his hourglass and scythe, grasps his arm to hold him back, all under a smiling sun. It is
one of the finest carved stones of seventeenth-century New England, and fitting for the man who cut
the first map made in the colonies and the earliest portrait print known from them. John Foster, son of Capt. Hopestill
Foster of Dorchester and brother of Ensign Hopestill Foster, died at Dorchester four years after his
woodcut map of New England appeared; Rev. Richard Mather, whose portrait he had cut, lies in the same
ground.
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Document · 1682
Mary Rowlandson's Soveraignty & Goodness of God, title page, 1682 Cambridge, Massachusetts
“The Soveraignty & Goodness of God, Together, With the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a
Narrative Of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” printed at Cambridge by Samuel
Green in 1682, inside a mourning border. Mary Rowlandson, wife of the minister of Lancaster, was taken
when the town was attacked on 10 February 1675/6 and was held for eleven weeks before she was ransomed;
her account became the first American captivity narrative and one of the most read books of its time.
This copy belonged to Thomas Prince’s New-England Library, now in the Boston Public Library; the first
edition is lost but for a few leaves. Thomas Rowlandson, son of Thomas Rowlandson of Salisbury and
brother of Martha (Rowlandson) Ellinwood, was killed in the same attack on Lancaster, and Mary
Rowlandson was very probably Martha’s aunt by marriage.
Credit Mary Rowlandson, *The Soveraignty & Goodness of God* (Cambridge: Samuel Green, 1682), title page, "The second Addition Corrected and amended." Boston Public Library, Thomas Prince collection, via the Internet Archive (soveraigntygoodn00rowl); public domain
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Record image · 1688-1711
Beverly births: the children of Benjamin and Mary Elingwood, 1688-1711 Beverly, Massachusetts
A page of the town’s register of births: the children of “Benjamin Elingwood by Mary his Wife,”
from Ellinor (7 July 1688) and Benjamin (27 Jan 1689/90) to Andrew (22 Oct 1706), Jonathan
(1708) and Eunice [1711?], and James, son of John Elingwood by Sarah, 22 Sept 1706. Benjamin was
the brother of Ralph Ellinwood II.
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Record image · 6 Sep 1692
John Hale's testimony against Dorcas Hoar, September 1692 Salem, Massachusetts
The minister of Beverly’s own deposition, in his hand, “John Hale aged 56 years Testifieth
6.7.1692.” He gives the court Dorcas Hoar’s fortune-telling, her book of palmistry, and the
thefts from his house fourteen years before, “conveying goods out of my house” to the Hoars’.
Ellen (Lynn) Ellinwood, by then Mrs. William Bath, had testified in that theft case in 1678. The
Ellinwoods sat under Hale at Beverly, and none of them appears in the trial papers.
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Record image · 18 Apr 1694
Birth of Ralph Ellenwood, son of Ralph and Martha, April 1694 Beverly, Massachusetts
A page of the county register of births returned from the towns, 1689-1695. Near the foot of
the right-hand page: “Ralph Ellenwood Son of Ralph Ellenwood & Martha his wife was borne 18
April 169[4?].” The last figure of the year is worn away; the Beverly records give 1694. The
next entry, Benjamin Walcot, was “Born at Salem 23 April 1695.” This full page replaces an
earlier clipping of the same entry.
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Record image · 5 Sep 1697
Beverly baptisms, 1696-1699: Ebenezer, child of Ralph Ellingwood Beverly, Massachusetts
An opening of the baptisms, October 1696 to 1699, the binding tight. On 5 Sept [1697],
“Ebenezer … Ralph … Ellingwood”, a week after his birth. Benjamin and Mary Ellingwood’s
Priscilla (March 1697) and David (December 1698) are on the same opening.
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Record image · 29 Aug 1697
Beverly births, 1696-1698: Ebenezer, son of Ralph and Martha Elenwood Beverly, Massachusetts
Two pages of the town’s register of births, each entry with its year in the margin. On the
right: “Ebenezer Elenwood Sonn of Ralph Elenwood by Martha his Wife was Borne on ye Nine &
Twentieth day of August in ye year of our Lord God 1697.” On the left, “Priscilla Elenwood ye
daughter of Benjamin Elenwood by Mary his wife,” born 3 March 1696/7.
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Record image · 1700-1705
Beverly baptisms, 1700-1705: Martha, child of Ralph Ellingwood Beverly, Massachusetts
An opening of the baptisms, 1700 to 1705. On 25 Feb [1700/1], “Marth[a] … Ralph …
Ellingwood”. Benjamin and Mary Ellingwood’s Samuel (7 Dec 1701) and Robert (30 Dec 1704) are
also here.
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Record image · 1712-1743
Beverly compiled register: the family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood Beverly, Massachusetts
Entries 1 Sarah, 5 Oct 1712 b. 1712 All 2 → 2 Israel, 29 Sept 1714 1714–1785 All 3 → 3 Ralph, 18 Aug 1716 1716–1754 4 Ephraim, 11 May 1718 b. 1718 5 Icabod, 6 Nov 1720 b. 1720 6 Esther, 29 Jan 1721/2 b. 1721 7 Daniel, 28 July 1724 1724–1747 8 Abiel, 12 Aug 1726 b. 1726 9 Martha, 7 Feb 1700, of Ralph and Martha b. 1700 All 2 → 10 Ebenezer, 29 Aug 1697 b. 1697 All 3 → 11 Margin, 6 Dec 1743: "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster" 1714–1785 All 3 → A family page of the town’s later compiled register: “The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood,”
their eight children with births, marriages and deaths, and “Ralph Ellenwood married to Sarah
Woodberry of Salem 1712.” In the margin, the division of Ralph’s estate in 1743, “Israel 2
shares,” and “Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster,” guardian of his brother Daniel. Below are
Martha and Ebenezer of Ralph and Martha, and other Ellingwood families of Beverly.
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Record image · 1713-1715
Beverly baptisms, 1713-1715: Sarah and Israel, children of Ralph Ellingwood Jr. Beverly, Massachusetts
An opening of the town’s copy of the church baptisms, with the father’s given name and the
mother’s or family’s surname for each child. In June 1713, “Sarah … Ralph j[r] … Sarah
Ellingwood”; on 3 Oct 1714, “Israel … Ralph j[r] … Ellingwood”, the entry that joins the
Beverly Ellinwoods to the Boston Ellingwoods. The “j” marks other fathers on the page too, so it
reads as junior . This FamilySearch image replaces an earlier screenshot of the same page.
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Record image · 13 Apr 1761
John Brown's survey plat on the Flat River, 1761 Orange County, North Carolina
John Brown’s 698 acres on the Flat River, surveyed by William Churton the same day as Thomas
Collins’s tract, “Beginn[in]g at a hicory, on Jas. Watson’s line” and running along Thomas
Gibson’s line by the river. The sworn chain carriers were Moses Riddle and Charles Gibson.
Brown’s warrant was laid over the community’s improvements on the Flat River. From Molata ,
chapter two.
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Record image · 13 Apr 1761
Thomas Collins's survey plat, Dial's Creek, 1761 Orange County, North Carolina
“This plan represents a tract of Land, Survey’d for Thomas Collins on Dial’s Creek …
Containing Seven hundred Acres. Survey’d the 13th Day of April 1761. W. Churton.” The sworn
chain carriers were George Gibson and Paul Collins. The plat shows the square tract with Dial’s
Creek running through it, beside the seal. The caption below gives the grant of 13
Oct 1761: SSLG 87-H, Patent Book 14, p. 358.
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Map · 1770
Orange County, North Carolina, on Collet's map of 1770 Orange County, North Carolina
Hillsborough is the red block in the middle. The dashed circle marks the Flat River country,
where William Churton surveyed 700 acres on Dial’s Creek for Thomas Collins in April 1761.
Collet doesn’t name Dial’s Creek, so the circle shows the area, not the tract. The inset shows
the whole map. From Molata , chapter two.
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Portrait · 1772
Col. Benjamin Church, engraved by Paul Revere, 1772 Boston, Massachusetts; published at Newport, Rhode Island
The frontispiece of the second edition of Thomas Church’s account of his father’s war, “Col. BENJAMIN
CHURCH,” in an oval frame and signed “P. Revere sc.” The book first appeared at Boston in 1716 as
Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War , written from the old colonel’s own notes; this Newport
reprint of 1772 added Revere’s two plates, this and Philip. Revere had no portrait of Church to work
from, and he took his face from a print of the English poet Charles Churchill, hanging a powder horn
round his neck. Benjamin Church, who led the Plymouth company that ran Philip down at Mount Hope in
August 1676, was a grandson of Richard Warren through his daughter Elizabeth, and so a first cousin
of Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow, wife of Sgt. William Harlow. Lt. Isaac Howland of Middleborough served
under him in 1676, and Paul Revere was a first cousin of Robert Hitchborne, husband of Susanna
(Ellingwood) Hitchborne. The scan is of the John Carter Brown Library’s copy, with the title page showing
through the leaf.
Credit Paul Revere, *Col. Benjamin Church*, engraved frontispiece to Thomas Church, *The Entertaining History of King Philip's War* (Newport: Solomon Southwick, 1772). John Carter Brown Library, via the Internet Archive (entertaininghist00chur_0); public domain
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Portrait · 1772
Philip, King of Mount Hope, engraved by Paul Revere, 1772 Boston, Massachusetts; published at Newport, Rhode Island
“PHILIP. KING of Mount Hope,” signed “P. Revere sc.” at the lower right: Metacom, the Wampanoag sachem
the English called Philip, standing with a musket, a belt of wampum and a long mantle, a band of his men
in the background. Revere engraved it in Boston for the Newport reprint of Thomas Church’s book on his
father’s campaigns, nearly a century after the war. No likeness of Philip was ever drawn from life:
Revere borrowed the figure from a mezzotint by John Simon after John Verelst’s 1710 portraits of the
“Four Indian Kings” who visited Queen Anne. Philip’s home was at Mount Hope, now Bristol, Rhode Island,
where he was killed by Church’s company on 12 August 1676. In 1672 he had written to Capt. Hopestill
Foster of Dorchester asking for serge to make a coat.
Credit Paul Revere, *Philip King of Mount Hope*, engraving, 1772, for Thomas Church, *The Entertaining History of King Philip's War* (Newport: Solomon Southwick, 1772). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.90.640, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924; public domain (Open Access)
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Document · 1773
Mary Rowlandson at her door, the woodcut of the Boston edition, 1773 Boston, Massachusetts
The title page of John Boyle’s Boston edition, “A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes,
of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Who was taken Prisoner by the Indians with several others,” printed “next
door to the Three Doves in Marlborough-Street” in 1773. Its woodcut shows a woman in a cap at the door
of a clapboard house, levelling a musket at four men coming on with hatchets and guns. It is the
printer’s picture, not hers: in her own account the house was set on fire over them, and she was
wounded and taken as she came out with her children. Printed three times at Boston in the early 1770s,
the book made her story one of the best known in New England. Mary Rowlandson was very probably the aunt by marriage
of Martha (Rowlandson) Ellinwood, whose brother Thomas was killed in the same attack on Lancaster on 10
February 1675/6. A strip along the foot of the image carries the library’s credit line.
Credit Mary Rowlandson, *A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson* (Boston: John Boyle, 1773), title page with woodcut. John Carter Brown Library, Archive of Early American Images (04264-010; also on Wikimedia Commons); public domain
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Photograph · 1785
Capt. Israel Ellingwood's gravestone, Granary Burying Ground, Boston Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts
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Record image · 24 Dec 1787
Orrington marriage return, 1787-1790: Richard Ellinwood and Hope Holdershaw Orrington, Maine
The town clerk’s return of Orrington marriages to the Lincoln County Court of General Sessions,
“A True Return Orrington May 15th 1790.” Among them: “Richard Ellinwood and Hope Holdershaw
Married Decemr 24th 1787.” The clerk apologizes for sending only part of the fee, “as Money is
Scarce.” On the facing page are returns from Woolwich and Vassalborough.
Credit FamilySearch, "Lincoln, Maine, United States records", image 59 of 1200, image group 007733640; Lincoln County Court of General Sessions
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Record image · 2 Aug 1790
1790 census, Frankfort, Maine: Richard Ellingwood and the Holdershaws Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine
Pages 77 and 78 of the first census. At the foot of page 77, “Richard Ellingwood 2 1 1”: two men
of 16 and over, a boy, and a woman, that is, Richard, his infant son Richard, Hope, and perhaps
his brother Ralph. On page 78, “John Haldershaw” and “John Haldershaw jun”, Hope’s father and
brother.
Credit FamilySearch, "Maine, United States records", image 57 of 230, image group 005157135; National Archives
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Map · 1798
Puget Sound and Penn's Cove on Vancouver's chart, 1798 Puget Sound, Washington
The Strait of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet and the islands, from the survey of 1792. “Port
Gardner,” “Penns Cove” and “Possession Sound” are at the upper right, where Whidbey Island and
Coupeville, the Holbrooks’ home, would be. Molata uses a clean scan of the same chart instead.
Credit George Vancouver, *A Chart Shewing Part of the Coast of N.W. America* (London, 1798), public domain; photographed through the glass of a framed copy
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Record image · 1799
Russell County, Virginia, Upper District tax list, 1799 Russell County, Virginia
The C pages of the Upper District list. Near the foot of the right-hand page is “Collins
Meredith,” with 2 [?] white tithables, no slaves, and no horses entered [?]. It is his first year
on the Russell County rolls, where he stays until 1809.
Credit Russell County personal property tax list; image courtesy of FamilySearch (filed behind the archivist's card "Smeared Ink")
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Record image · 1800
1800 census, Frankfort, Maine: Rich'd Ellingwood Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine
Page 119 of George Halliburton’s division. “Rich’d Ellingwood”: two boys under 10, one 10 to
16, a man 26 to 45; two girls under 10, one 10 to 16, and two women 26 to 45. In the column
“From whence emigrated” his line carries a ditto under “Cape Cod”. John Haldershaw is four lines
above.
Credit FamilySearch, "Kennebec, Maine, United States records", image 67 of 262, image group 004956023; National Archives
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Record image · 1803
Inventory of Richard Ellingwood, Frankfort, 1803: the docket Hancock County, Maine
The back of the folded inventory of Richard Ellingwood’s estate, as filed. The writing
runs down the right-hand panel: “Inventory / Richard Ellinwood,” then a clerk’s note, “not
sworn to having been dd [delivered?] into ye Office by Judge Gordon [?],” and the file number
“#2056” twice. The inventory itself, of 24 May 1803, lists his store goods, the dwelling house
and barn, 72 acres of homestead land and three-quarters of the schooner Hope . Hope Ellenwood,
his widow and executrix, swore to it at Castine in November 1803. The faint columns of figures
showing through are the inventory on the other side.
Credit Hancock County, Maine, probate estate files, docket 2056 (FamilySearch film 004142074)
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Record image · 1807-1840
Clay County general index to marriages, the C entries, 1807-1840 (both pages) Clay County, Kentucky
The full opening of the General Index to Marriages, Clay County Court. Jesse Collins and Mary
Reed are the last entry in the left column, with the later note “of James” beside her name: the
clerk’s cross-reference to her father’s consent. Across the gutter are Hiram Collins’s two
licenses to Elizabeth Reed and Bradley Collins’s three marriages. The right-hand page alone is
also in the Gallery, as “Clay County Court marriage register, the C entries.”
Credit Clay County Clerk; image courtesy of FamilySearch (image group 007728051)
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Map · 1807
Southwest Virginia on Madison's map of 1807 Russell County, Virginia
The red dot marks Russell County, where Meredith Collins is on the tax rolls from 1799 to 1809.
Where in the county he lived isn’t known. The arrow follows the Louisa (Levisa) Fork north
toward Shelby Creek, Kentucky, where he owned land by 1816. It shows where the family ended up,
not a known route. The inset shows the whole map. From Molata , chapter five.
Credit Bishop James Madison, *A Map of Virginia Formed from Actual Surveys* (Richmond, 1807), detail, with markings added for *Molata*. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection, New York Public Library; public domain
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Map · 1809
Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky, 1809 Eastern Kentucky
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Record image · 1820
1820 census, Floyd County, Kentucky: Bradley and Meredith Collins Floyd County, Kentucky
The whole sheet, both sides, with the two Collins households circled. On Bradley Collins’s line
the free white columns were filled in and then zeroed. Both households were entered in the
columns for free colored persons, with Meredith Collins on the line beneath. Molata prints
the two sides separately.
Credit 1820 U.S. Census, National Archives; image courtesy of FamilySearch (image group 005156977, image 49; indexed as Franklin County); the two households circled
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Record image · 1820
1820 census, Manchester Township, Dearborn County, Indiana: Richard Ellingwood Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
Page 29 of Manchester Township, Dearborn County, in the 1820 census, opening with Robert
McCracken, one of the township’s founders. “Richard Ellingwood”: a man of 26 to 45, a woman of
26 to 45, a boy under 10 and three girls under 10, six in all. That is Richard, Hannah, the
infant Elijah and the three daughters then living. FamilySearch files the film under Jefferson
County, but the same film at the Internet Archive shows the Manchester Township heading two
pages before.
Credit FamilySearch, "Jefferson, Indiana, United States records", image 128 of 404, image group 005157036; National Archives
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Record image · 25 Nov 1827
James Read's note to the clerk, 25 November 1827 Clay County, Kentucky
“November the 25 1827. Mr Abner Baker Sir ples to grant Jesse Collens lisens to marrey Mary
Reed and oblige them. James Read.” Witnessed “Stephen Read” and “Hiram Collins.” It is in James
Read’s own hand, and it is the only record that names Mary as his daughter. From Molata ,
chapter six.
Credit Clay County, Kentucky, loose marriage papers; image courtesy of FamilySearch
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Record image · Nov 1827
Marriage bond of Jesse Collins, with Stephen Reed as surety, 1827 Clay County, Kentucky
Jesse Collins and Stephen Reed bound themselves to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in £50 for “a
marriage intended between the said Jesse and Mary Reed,” both signing with their marks. It goes with
James Read’s consent note of 25 November 1827.
Credit Clay County, Kentucky, marriage bond, Nov 1827; the image shared on Ancestry by maureenandglen, 2023, cropped
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Record image · 1828-1840
Clay County Court marriage register, the C entries, 1828-1840 Clay County, Kentucky
A page of the Clay County Court register of marriages, men’s names A to C in order of
license: names, the date of the license, the date of the marriage where the certificate
came back, and the file box of the loose papers. The Collinses of Jesse’s generation are
here: Hiram’s two licenses to Elizabeth Reed (the first never returned, the second married
8 December 1829), Abraham’s to Christina Poulston, Bradley’s three marriages, William’s to
Sytha Powell, Andrew’s and James’s. Jesse and Mary’s own marriage of 1827 is on the page
before.
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Record image · Dec 1829
Clay County Register of Marriages, 1829: Hiram Collins and Elizabeth Read Clay County, Kentucky
A water-damaged opening of the register, with each marriage’s minister. The last entry of 1829,
in December, is “Hiram Collins & Elizabeth Read,” by J. Ambrose [?], who also married Jesse
Collins and Mary Reed in 1827.
Credit Clay County, Kentucky, register of marriages, pp. 20-21; image courtesy of FamilySearch
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Record image · Mar 1829
Pike County order book, March term 1829 Pike County, Kentucky
Among the families summoned in March 1829 are “George Collans & Patsy Kirk, Martin Collans &
Mary Collans, Moredy Collans and Milly Johnson,” called “To appear at Our next May term to shew
Cause if any they can Why, Their Children Shall not be bound out.” The facing page has the
commissioners’ plan for a brick clerk’s office for the county.
Credit Pike County, Kentucky, court order book, pp. 211-212; image courtesy of FamilySearch
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Record image · 1830
1830 census, Daviess County, Indiana: Henry Bruner Daviess County, Indiana
Entries 1 Henry Bruner: 11 in the household, the only man 40-50 “Henry Bruner,” with eleven in the household: six boys and four girls under twenty, a woman of
30 to 40 and a man of 40 to 50. Henry Hickman Bruner, born in 1806, would have been in the 20-30
column, which is empty. So the head may be an older Henry, and whose household this was is open.
The FamilySearch tree attaches it to Henry Hickman Bruner.
Credit 1830 U.S. Census, National Archives; image courtesy of FamilySearch (image 734 of 782), cropped
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Document · 1841
"The Attack," from Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, 1841 at sea
Whaleboats closing on a sperm whale in a heavy sea, the ship standing off in the distance: the chase
as a young passenger on the whaler North America drew it in 1839-40, the year before Richard Holbrook
shipped in the Hydaspe. Each boat carried six men, the mate or officer at the steering oar and the
boatsteerer at the bow with the harpoon.
Credit Drawn by F. A. Olmsted, lithographed by Endicott, New York, in Francis Allyn Olmsted, *Incidents of a Whaling Voyage* (New York: D. Appleton, 1841). Via the Internet Archive (incidentsofwhali00olmsrich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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Record image · 1841-1845 · 3 pages
Abstract log of the whaler Hydaspe, Francis Post master, 1841-1845 New Bedford, Massachusetts
Three pages of the abstract of the Hydaspe’s log made for Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury’s
charts of winds and currents, the voyage Richard B. Holbrook sailed on. The first is the volume’s
index, which lays out her whole route: from 30° south in the Atlantic to Geographe Bay, Western
Australia (sailed 24 Sept 1841, arrived 26 Nov); to Ascension, now Pohnpei, in the Carolines (7 May
1842); to “Mowee” (Maui, 21 Oct 1842); to “Otaheita” (Tahiti, 24 June 1843); back to Ascension (24
Nov 1843); to “Opolo, Navigators” (Upolu, Samoa, 31 Mar 1844); from 36° north in the Pacific to
Lahaina (22 Oct 1844); and from Lahaina round Cape Horn to 30° south in the Atlantic (22 Feb 1845):
“Whole No. 1088 days.” The second page opens the daily log, on the passage to Geographe Bay in 1841;
the third is its last, the passage home from Lahaina in 1845.
Credit Abstract Log of the Ship Hydaspe, vol. 37 pp. 1-37, Records of the Hydrographic Office (Maury abstract logs), National Archives, RG 27, microfilm M1160, catalog 454786670, images 772, 774 and 809; cropped and reduced
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Dennis Wood's abstract of the Hydaspe's voyages, 1837-1845 New Bedford, Massachusetts
The page for the ship Hydaspe of New Bedford, 313 tons, in the abstracts of whaling voyages kept by
Dennis Wood of New Bedford from the news of each ship as it came in. The lower entry is the voyage
Richard B. Holbrook sailed on: “Post Master Sailed April 23. 1841 for the Pacific Ocean,” at Fayal in
August, at the Swan River in December “in pursuit of a Boats crew which deserted her off the coast
four hundred miles from land,” at Maui and Lahaina in November 1842, at Tahiti in June 1843, off New
Zealand in February 1844, on the Northwest Coast that summer, at Lahaina on 24 October, and home on
14 Apr 1845 “with 850 Bbls. Sperm & 850 Bbls. Whale Oil in 47 Months 21 days.” Above it are her two
voyages before, under Capt. Price (1837-1839) and Capt. Hathaway (1839-1840).
Credit Dennis Wood, Abstracts of Whaling Voyages, vol. 1 p. 224, New Bedford Free Public Library, via the Internet Archive
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Document · 1846
"A Picture for Philanthropists": men seized up in the rigging, 1846 aboard a whaler
A flogging on a whaler’s deck: a man “seized up,” his wrists lashed to the ratlines of the rigging,
while an officer swings the rope’s end and the crew look on. Browne’s title is an appeal to the
reformers of his day; flogging was abolished on American merchant ships on 28 Sept 1850. Being seized
up without the lash, as “the Cooper, Antonio, and R. Holbrooks” were at Lahaina in January 1850, was a
punishment in itself: in Hohman’s words, “the wrists were tied together and lashed to a ratline with
the hands and arms extended full length above the head at such a height that the feet barely touched
the deck.”
Credit A. A. Von Schmidt and J. Halpin, steel engraving in J. Ross Browne, *Etchings of a Whaling Cruise* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846), between pp. 222-223. University of California Libraries, via the Internet Archive (whalingcruise00browrich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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"Am ship Globe, Daggett, New Bedford, 13 months": the Port of Lahaina, October 1846 Lahaina, Hawaii
The whalers come in to Lahaina from the northern grounds in the autumn of 1846, day by day, each with her
captain, her home port, her months out and her oil: from Sag Harbor, New Bedford, Newport, New London,
Nantucket, Hamburg and Havre. At the foot, on the 25th: “Am ship Globe, Daggett, New Bedford, 13 months, 50
sperm, 1300 whale, 1300 whale this season,” her first season north, with Richard Holbrook in her crew.
Credit The Polynesian (Honolulu), 31 Oct 1846, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped
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Document · 1846
"Life in the Forecastle," from Browne's Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, 1846 aboard a whaler
The forecastle of a whaler of the 1840s: the crew’s quarters in the bows, two tiers of bunks, sea
chests for seats, a ladder up to the deck, and a scuffle on the planking. J. Ross Browne, who shipped
as a green hand at New Bedford in 1842, called it “black and slimy with filth, very small, and as hot
as an oven,” filled with “foul air, smoke, sea-chests, soap-kegs, greasy pans, tainted meat” (p. 24).
This is how the men before the mast of the Hydaspe and the Globe lived.
Credit A. A. Von Schmidt and J. Halpin, steel engraving in J. Ross Browne, *Etchings of a Whaling Cruise* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846), between pp. 214-215. University of California Libraries, via the Internet Archive (whalingcruise00browrich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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Map · 1847
Atwood's map of the United States, 1847 United States
A hand-coloured map of the United States and the West in 1847, with Oregon, “Upper or New
California” and Texas, an inset of Mexico, and a shield with the population of the states.
Molata uses Harper’s map of the same year instead.
Credit Drawn and engraved by J. M. Atwood, New York, 1847 (public domain; where the scan came from is still to be recorded)
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Map · 1847
Harper's Map of the United States and Canada, 1847 United States
The country in 1847, with its canals, railroads and stage routes, insets of Oregon and the
cities, and the counties’ populations from the census of 1840. Iowa had become a state only the
December before, and the Collinses and Bruners were gathering in Appanoose County on its Missouri
line. From Molata , chapter eight.
Credit Samuel Breese, *Harper's Cereographic Map of the United States and Canada: Showing the Canals, Rail Roads, and Principal Stage Routes* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division; public domain
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Record image · 28 Aug 1850
"Ar at New Bedford, 22d, ship Globe": the Globe comes home, August 1850 New Bedford, Massachusetts
“WHALERS. Ar at New Bedford, 22d, ship Globe, Daggett, North Pacific, 4800 bbls wh 100 do sp oil, 17,000 lbs
bone on board, (sent home and sold 30,000 lbs bone).” Five years after she sailed, the Globe was home.
Credit Republican Herald (Providence), 28 Aug 1850, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped
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Record image · 18 Jan 1850
"The Cooper, Antonio, and R. Holbrooks": the Globe's journal at Lahaina, 18 Jan 1850 Lahaina, Hawaii
The first page of the journal of the Globe’s passage home, shown on its own; the whole journal is
here . “Journal kept on board Ship Globe, on her passage from the
Sandwich Islands, to the United States. Jan. 18, 1850. Ship lying at Lahaina anchorage; about 2 o’clock the
captain came on board and gave the order to heave short.” At the order to loose the topsails “the crew went
aft and requested to see the Consul in regard to men we having but 8 men before the mast.” John Tripp
answered, “I wish to see the Consul first Sir, and then I will,” and “he was tied up to the rigging together
with the Cooper, Antonio, and R. Holbrooks for giving the same answer.”
Credit Journal kept on board the ship Globe of New Bedford, 1850, p. 1, New Bedford Whaling Museum (ODHS 892), via the Internet Archive; reduced
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Record image · 3 Dec 1850
1850 census, Wells Township, Appanoose County: Mary Collins's household Wells Township, Appanoose County, Iowa
Dwelling and family 29: “Mary Collins,” 46, female, M, with Matilda 20, Reuben 16, Loyd 14,
Calaska 12 and Spencer 10. Every line has an M in the colour column. The only mark in the
occupation column is the ditto beside Reuben, carrying down “Farmer” from higher up the page.
From Molata , chapter seven.
Credit 1850 U.S. Census, National Archives; image courtesy of FamilySearch (cropped to the family)
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Record image · 24 Oct 1850
Elijah Ellingwood's household in the 1850 census, Manchester, Indiana Manchester Township, Dearborn County, Indiana
Lines 1-4 of the page, dwelling and family 54: Elijah Ellingwood, 31, carpenter, real estate
00, born Indiana; Mary A., 28, born Maine; Adaline, 8; and Jane, an infant. Finley
Ellingwood’s parents and sisters, two years before he was born, in the township where he was
born. This FamilySearch image replaces an earlier screenshot of the same page.
Credit FamilySearch, "Dearborn, Indiana, United States records", image 277 of 511, image group 004193373; National Archives
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Portrait · c. 1850s-1860s
John Fairchild An oval head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly man with a lined face, side-whiskers and a black
stock, copied from an early photograph. He died in 1867.
Credit Ancestry (a photograph shared by dennis11853, 2015, captioned "1d John Fairchild"), cropped
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Record image · 18 Jan - 21 Aug 1850 · 71 pages
Journal of the whaler Globe, homeward from Lahaina to New York, 1850 Lahaina, Hawaii
The whole of a crewman’s journal of the Globe’s passage home from the Sandwich Islands, the last
months of her five-year whaling voyage to the North Pacific: every page with writing on it, in order,
from the leaf inscribed “Ship Globe.” It opens at Lahaina on 18 Jan 1850, when
the crew, with “but 8 men before the mast,” asked to see the consul before they would loose the
topsails, and “the Cooper, Antonio, and R. Holbrooks” were tied up in the rigging “for giving the
same answer” (page 2). On 6 Feb “the ship is so deep and her bottom so bad that we get along very
slow,” and “Mr Johnson and Holbrooks were standing by the pumps talking when the old man came along”
(page 13). It follows the ship by Rarotonga, round Cape Horn in the gales of late April, and up the
Atlantic by Trindade, through short rations, sickness and the captain’s tempers, to a pilot boat off
New York on 21 August. Upside down at the back is “Account of Clothing and Money Received by John
Pierce from Ship Globe,” with money received at Guam, Hong Kong and Maui in 1849 and 1850, and a leaf
of sums headed “Samuel’s Calculation leaf.” The writer doesn’t give his name.
Credit Journal kept on board the ship Globe of New Bedford, 1850, New Bedford Whaling Museum (ODHS 892), via the Internet Archive; the title leaf, the journal (pp. 1-70) and the leaves of accounts and sums at the back
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Document · 3 June - 12 Aug 1852 (printed 1916) · 2 pages
"Mr Howe and Holbrooks called in": the Ebeys' diary, June and August 1852 Whidbey Island, Washington
Two days from the diary kept at the Ebey house on the prairie by the west shore of Whidbey Island, in the
summer Richard took up his claim at the head of Penn Cove. On 3 June 1852, with the onions being weeded and a
schooner anchoring at Port Townsend, “Mr Howe and Holbrooks called in.” On 12 August, with Isaac Ebey away,
“Samuel Crockett, Mr. Smith Mr. Howe and Mr. Holbrook were all here in the forenoon. All very anxious to hear
the news from Mr. Ebey.”
Credit Victor J. Farrar, ed., "Diary of Colonel and Mrs. I. N. Ebey," Washington Historical Quarterly 7 (1916), pp. 245, 320; University of Washington Libraries; cropped
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Document · 1853
"Mt Baker & Cascade Range, from Whitby's Island," John Mix Stanley, 1853 Whidbey Island, Washington Territory
Whidbey Island as the artist of Governor Stevens’s railroad survey saw it in 1853, the year after Richard
Holbrook settled on Penn Cove: a settler’s cabins on a cleared point, forest and shore, and Mount Baker and
the Cascades across the water. Where on the island Stanley drew it the plate doesn’t say.
Credit After John Mix Stanley, lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, Plate LXX in *Reports of Explorations and Surveys ... for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean*, vol. 12 (Washington, 1860). Missouri Botanical Garden, via the Internet Archive (mobot31753002023411); public domain
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Document · 1853
"Puget Sound & Mt Rainier from Whitby's Island," John Mix Stanley, 1853 Whidbey Island, Washington Territory
Puget Sound from Whidbey Island in 1853, with Mount Rainier beyond: a canoe on the water, a few figures on
the shore and a settler’s buildings at the edge of the trees, drawn by the artist of the railroad survey
when Governor Stevens came through the Sound.
Credit After John Mix Stanley, lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, Plate LXVII in *Reports of Explorations and Surveys ... for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean*, vol. 12 (Washington, 1860); copy from the University of Washington archives via the U.S. Geological Survey; public domain
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Document · c. 1853
Lahaina, Maui, the whalers' anchorage, about 1853 Lahaina, Hawaii
Lahaina from the roads, with the mountains of West Maui behind the town and whale ships at anchor:
the royal town of Kamehameha III until 1845 and the great port of the American whaling fleet in the
Pacific. The Hydaspe put in here in 1842 and 1844, and the Globe between her northern seasons; it was
here, on 18 Jan 1850, that the Globe’s crew asked to see the consul. Jones, who came in about 1853,
“found about seventy sail at anchor, about sixty-five of them American whalemen.”
Credit Woodcut in J. D. Jones ("A Roving Printer"), *Life and Adventure in the South Pacific* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861). Via the Internet Archive (lifeadventureins00jonerich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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Document · 26 Jan 1854 (printed 1938) · 2 pages
"Dear Mother": E. Holbrook's letter from Penn's Cove, 26 Jan 1854 Penn Cove, Whidbey Island, Washington
A letter from Richard’s younger brother to their mother at Manomet, written in Richard’s log house at the head
of Penn Cove in his second winter there, as the Washington Pioneer Project printed it in 1938 (“A Pioneer
Writes to His Mother”). The original is at the Huntington Library. “I am stopping yet with Richard on this
cove. That we are all well and have a plenty to eat and drink and have a good comfortable log house to live
in.” Governor Stevens had come by the week before; “Richard has a good farm, all good soil, nearly all
cleared land, and one side of it is on the cove, which is a large and beautiful harbor.”
Credit Told by the Pioneers: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Washington, vol. 2 (Olympia, 1938), pp. 153-154; Washington State Library
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Record image · 1854 (printed 1885) · 7 pages
The claim of Richard B. Holbrook for the robbery of his store on Lummi Island, 1854 Lummi Island, Washington
His claim as the Secretary of the Interior sent it to Congress in February 1885, printed in the Serial Set,
from the Commissioner’s report (the Secretary’s covering letter is at the foot of p. 14) to the Indian
agent’s of 1881. Page 1 has the Commissioner’s list of everything taken, $1,378.20 in all; page 2, his
letter of 1 June 1854 to the acting governor (“my house was broken open and robbed, by a party of Indians,
of my goods, tools, provisions, and clothing”); page 3, his own list, with the Whatcom County justice’s
certificate and the start of his sworn statement of 1881, which ends on page 4, followed by the affidavits
of A. M. Poe and Henry Roeder; page 5, Samuel D. Howe’s and the start of Eli Hatheway’s, his neighbour on
the island, which runs on to page 6 (“I have always regarded Mr. Holbrook as an honorable gentleman”),
followed there by Lafayette Balch’s; page 7 is the Indian agent R. H. Milroy’s report.
Credit Indian Depredation Claims, House Executive Document 197, 48th Cong., 2d Sess. (Serial 2303), pp. 15-21; University of Oklahoma Libraries (SHAREOK)
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Photograph · 1855
Gravestone of Alexander Pattullo, Jane Watson and Thomas Pattullo, Melville White Church, Caledon Melville White Church Cemetery, Caledon, Peel County, Upper Canada
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Document · 20 Oct 1856
The deposition on Abraham Collins's blood and parentage, 1856 (a transcript) Morgan County, Indiana
The first page of a transcript of a deposition taken before a Morgan County justice of the peace on
20 October 1856 “to establish blood & parentage of Abraham Collins,” aged 63. The witness traces his
father’s line to a great-grandfather of part African blood, proven in a Virginia court, and says
his mother “was a Reed and of Portugees extraction” and a sister of John and James Reed, late of
Morgan County. The foot of the page is cut off in the screenshot.
Credit A handwritten transcript of the Morgan County record, shared on Ancestry by joellenreed, 2013, cropped
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Record image · 21 Aug 1857 · 4 pages
"Letter from Marshal Corliss" on the killing of Isaac Ebey, 1857 Whidbey Island, Washington Territory
The account of the U.S. marshal George W. Corliss, a guest in the Ebeys’ house on the night of 11 Aug
1857, written at Olympia a week later: “We were entirely defenseless, there being no fire-arms of any
description in the house,” and Isaac Ebey “was seen by his wife with one hand to his head. She cried out
to him to jump into the house through the window, but he did not seem to hear or notice her.”
Credit Pioneer and Democrat (Olympia), 21 Aug 1857, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped, in four parts
Files 4 pages, newspaper-pioneer-and-democrat-1857-08-21-corliss/ Its own page → Open the original ↗
Record image · 27 Dec 1860
"Married": Mr. R. B. Holbrook to Miss Harriet P. Low, Steilacoom, 24 Dec 1860 Steilacoom, Washington Territory
The marriage notices of the Steilacoom paper three days after Christmas 1860: “In Steilacoom, same time
[Monday evening, Dec. 24th], by same [A. B. Rabbeson, Esq., J. P.], at the residence of Mr. G. Ford, Mr.
R. B. Holbrook, of Whidby’s Island, to Miss Harriet P. Low, formerly of Maine.”
Credit Puget Sound Herald (Steilacoom), 27 Dec 1860, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped
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Portrait · c. 1860s
Eli Woodruff Bruner Blacksmith, husband of Polly Collins. The photograph, in an ornate case-style frame, is
reproduced from a printed family history and captioned “Eli Woodruff Bruner”. The caption is in
the same typewriter face as Polly’s in the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book
(page ), so the history is probably that book.
The photograph uncropped is here .
Credit Family collection; a page from a printed family history, its title still to be recorded
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Portrait · c. 1860s
Eli Woodruff Bruner, the uncropped portrait The same photograph as the oval portrait in the family’s printed history, here uncropped: a
bearded man in a broad-brimmed hat, a bow tie and a long coat with a row of buttons, seated, his
hands in his lap.
Credit Ancestry (a photograph shared by Robert Strange, 2011), cropped
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Record image · 25 Jun 1860
Elijah Ellingwood's household in the 1860 census, Momence, Illinois Momence, Kankakee County, Illinois
Page 139, dwelling 1101, family 1043: Elijah Ellingwood, 40, master carpenter, born Indiana;
Mary A., 38, born Maine; Adaline, 18; Jane, 10; Nancy, 8; and Finley, 4 (he was 7).
Credit FamilySearch, "Kankakee, Illinois, United States records", image 143 of 404, image group 005165763; National Archives
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Portrait · c. 1860s-1880s
Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Collins Polly Collins Bruner (1827-1887), wife of Eli Woodruff Bruner. Molata is her story: the
photograph shows the darker complexion the family remembered, and the DNA of her
descendants bears out the “Molata” of the colonial records. The same photograph as printed in
the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book, with its caption, is here .
Credit Family collection
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Portrait · c. 1860s-1880s
Polly Collins Bruner, as printed in the Bruner picnic book, 1997 The same photograph of Mary Elizabeth “Polly” Collins as the family’s copy, here as printed, in an
embossed frame with the typed caption “Mary Elizabeth ‘Polly’ Collins Bruner.” The book is a 1997
family history made for a Brunner/Bruner picnic. The portrait of her husband Eli in the family’s
printed copy is captioned in the same typewriter face, so is probably from the same book. The foot
of the page is cut off in the screenshot.
Credit From the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book "by Dorthy Danial Bair and Rebecca Binion," as described where it was shared on Ancestry (AJ1129, 2010), cropped
File mary-collins-portrait-bruner-picnic-1997.png, 1064 × 1429 Its own page → Open the original ↗
Document · 1861
"Homeward Bound": a whaler under full sail, 1861 at sea
A whale ship under all sail, bound for home at the end of a voyage of three or four years. The
Globe’s journal of 1850 records the same moment’s longing: “O: when will this voyage have an end.”
Credit Woodcut in J. D. Jones ("A Roving Printer"), *Life and Adventure in the South Pacific* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861). Via the Internet Archive (lifeadventureins00jonerich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
File jones-1861-homeward-bound.jpg, 1899 × 1272 Its own page → Open the original ↗
Document · 1861
"New Bedford from a Whaleman's Point of View," 1861 New Bedford, Massachusetts
The wharf at New Bedford, the whaling capital, crowded with casks of oil under seaweed, a coopers’ gang
at work and a whale ship lying off. Richard Holbrook signed on here for the Hydaspe in April 1841 and
for the Globe in September 1845, and came home here in April 1845 and August 1850.
Credit Woodcut in J. D. Jones ("A Roving Printer"), *Life and Adventure in the South Pacific* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861). Via the Internet Archive (lifeadventureins00jonerich); public domain; cropped and turned upright
File jones-1861-new-bedford.jpg, 2304 × 1429 Its own page → Open the original ↗
Record image · Jan 1862
"R. B. Holbrook, Chairman": the House Journal of Washington Territory, January 1862 Olympia, Washington
A day near the end of his session in the House: the memorial “relative to carrying U. S. mails to Coveland,
Island county, W. T.” passes, and Holbrook, chairman of the committee on Roads and Highways, reports the next
of the road, ferry and bridge bills that went through his hands, signing “R. B. Holbrook, Chairman.”
Credit House Journal of the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory, 1861-62 (Olympia, 1862), p. 184; Internet Archive; cropped
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Record image · 22 Mar 1862
"The Union Resolutions Rejected by the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory," 1862 Olympia, Washington
The resolutions brought into the House at the end of January 1862, as the Republican paper at Olympia printed
them with the vote: the Union “so incorporated with the institutions of our country, that its dissolution
would endanger their permanence,” and Washington Territory “not found wanting in devotion to the Union, in
fidelity to the Laws and Constitution, or in due respect for, and support of Mr. Lincoln’s administration.”
Eight members voted for them and sixteen against, Holbrook among them.
Credit Washington Standard (Olympia), 22 Mar 1862, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped
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Record image · 6 Nov 1862 · 2 pages
Whidby Island's subscription for the wounded soldiers, 1862 Whidbey Island, Washington Territory
“The following persons, citizens of Whidby Island, have paid the sums opposite their names, and requested
me to send the same to Amory Holbrook, Esq., for the benefit of our wounded soldiers,” wrote B. C.
Lippincott; Amory Holbrook of Portland collected for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. On the list, with his
neighbours Capt. Coupe, S. Libby and the Crocketts: “R B Holbrook, 5 00.”
Credit Puget Sound Herald (Steilacoom), 6 Nov 1862, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped, in two parts
Files 2 pages, newspaper-puget-sound-herald-1862-11-06-wounded-soldiers/ Its own page → Open the original ↗
Record image · 1864
Spencer Collins's muster card, 46th Missouri Infantry “46 Regt. Inf. Vols. Co. H. Collins Spencer, Pvt., Age 44 [read as a slip for 24]. Captain
Alsup. Enlisted Aug. 17, 64, Spfld Mo. Mustered in Sept. 9, 64, Spfld Mo. Remarks: Killed in
action Nov. 3, 64, at Vera Cruz Mo.” From Molata , chapter nine.
Credit Muster card, Office of the Adjutant General (Missouri); public record
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Document · 1865
Somerset Lodge No. 206, Grand Lodge of Missouri, 1865 Somerset, Mercer County, Missouri
The lodge’s return: 42 members, with Albert Bruce as Worshipful Master and Eli Bruner as Senior
Warden, and H. Bruner among the members. The Bruner names are highlighted as they were posted.
Credit Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Missouri, 1865, pp. 194-195 (public domain; Issuu); the page shared on Ancestry by kathj1012, 2019, cropped
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Photograph · c. 1867-1872
"South Farallon Island: Gathering the Eggs of the Murr," Eadweard Muybridge, c. 1870 South Farallon Island, California
Two egg pickers climbing the rocks of South Farallon Island, thirty miles out from the Golden Gate, in one
of Muybridge’s stereographs of the Pacific coast. From the gold rush on, the eggs of the murres and gulls
that nested on the islands were gathered by the boatload for the markets of San Francisco, where hens’ eggs
were scarce and dear. Richard Holbrook gathered them from his sloop in 1851.
Credit Eadweard Muybridge, stereograph no. 1017, "The Pacific Coast" series; New York Public Library, digital ID G89F316_008F. Public domain
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Record image · 4 Dec 1870; filed 17 May 1930 · 2 pages
Delayed certificate of birth of Mollie Frances Holbrook, with her brother Horace's affidavit, 1930 Coveland, Whidbey Island, Washington
Two pages. Page 1, the State Board of Health form, filled in sixty years after her birth and filed
at Island County on 17 May 1930 as certificate no. 1: Mollie Frances Holbrook, born 4 Dec 1870 at
“Penn’s Cove, or Coveland, (San de Fuca),” to Richard Blackmer Holbrook of Plymouth, Massachusetts,
farmer, and Harriet Phillips Low of Deer Isle, Maine. Page 2, the affidavit of Horace Holbrook of
Coupeville, born 3 Jan 1863, who swears that he is her brother and that the facts are within his own
knowledge; sworn before a notary at Coupeville the same day.
Credit Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (Island County Auditor, Birth Records)
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Record image · 21 Jun 1870
Elijah Ellingwood's household in the 1870 census, Kankakee, Illinois Kankakee, Illinois
Page 57, lines 18-22: Elijah, 49, carpenter, born Indiana; Mary, 48, keeping house, born Maine;
Jennie, 20, teacher; Mary, 14; and Ellsworth, 7. Finley, then 17, is not in the household. Two
years later Elijah was dead.
Credit FamilySearch, "Kankakee, Illinois, United States records", image 207 of 632, image group 004263014; National Archives
File census-1870-kankakee-ellingwood.jpg, 3189 × 4342 Its own page → Open the original ↗
Record image · Apr 1871
1871 territorial census, Island County: the R. B. Holbrook household Island County, Washington Territory
Page 5 of Eli Hathaway’s enumeration: R. B. Holbrook, 49, of Massachusetts; Horace G., 8; Harriett,
36, of Maine; and “Mollie H.”, three months old, born within the year in January.
Credit Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (Territorial census, Island County, 1871)
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Document · 1874
"A Northern Whaling Scene," Scammon's Marine Mammals, 1874 the North Pacific
Whale ships and their boats among the right whales and bowheads of the far North Pacific, drawn by a
whaling captain who knew the grounds. The Globe hunted these waters from 1846 to 1849, the “N.W.
Coast” of the whalemen, which by then reached from the Gulf of Alaska to Kamchatka. Scammon wrote of
“dismal fogs” and “standing mast-heads in the biting cold.”
Credit C. M. Scammon, del., lithographed by Britton & Rey, Plate XXVI in Charles M. Scammon, *The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America* (San Francisco: John H. Carmany, 1874). Smithsonian Libraries, via the Internet Archive (marinemammalsofn00scam); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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Document · 1874
"Trying Out": boiling down the blubber on a whaler's deck, 1874 aboard a whaler
The try-works amidships, two great iron pots over a brick furnace, with the smoke streaming aft, the
men feeding the fires with scraps of the blubber itself and bailing the oil into casks. Browne likened
trying out at night to “Dante’s pictures of the infernal regions.” On 16 Aug 1850, a week from home,
the Globe’s crew “began on the old try-works and hove them overboard.”
Credit Wood engraving in William M. Davis, *Nimrod of the Sea; or, The American Whaleman* (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874). Library of Congress copy, via the Internet Archive (nimrodofseaorame00davi); public domain; cropped
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Document · 13 Mar 1875
A letter to Prof. O. C. Marsh from Crow Butte, 1875 Crow Butte, near Red Cloud Agency, Nebraska
The first page of a letter to the Yale palaeontologist Othniel C. Marsh, written “eight miles East of
Red Cloud agency” after a winter snowed in on the Niobrara with “my Brother and Shelly [?] and two
hired men.” Posted on Ancestry as Henry Clay Clifford’s, and described there as the letter in which
he reports finding a Brontotherium; the signature is on a later page.
Credit Yale University archives; the first page shared on Ancestry by Ted Grove, 2026, cropped
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Photograph · 1876
The "Old Fort", John Pynchon's brick house at Springfield Main Street, near Fort Street, Springfield, Massachusetts
The brick house John Pynchon built at Springfield about 1660, the only brick building in the town in
that century, with its steep gables and arched door. It was “sometimes called ‘the old fort,’ from its
having been a fortified house and place of refuge.” When the town was attacked on 5 October 1675 the
people fled in the night to the town’s three fortified houses, Major Pynchon’s the first of them, and held out
while thirty-two of the forty-five dwellings and Pynchon’s corn mill and saw mill were burned. The house
stayed in the family until it was pulled down in 1831. Henry Morris, giving the town’s address on the
two-hundredth anniversary of the burning, owned a photograph of a sketch Rev. Dr. Peabody drew from
memory the year after it came down, and this plate in his printed address seems to be taken from it.
John Pynchon, magistrate and commander of the forces on the river that autumn, was probably the father of Mary
(Pynchon) Whiting; Deacon Samuel Chapin, who had governed the town with him, died there on 11 November
1675, five weeks after the burning.
Credit Engraving, probably after a sketch drawn from memory by Rev. William B. O. Peabody in 1832; plate facing p. 17 of Henry Morris, *1636-1675. Early History of Springfield: An Address Delivered October 16, 1875, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Burning of the Town by the Indians* (Springfield: F. W. Morris, 1876). UMass Amherst Libraries, via the Internet Archive (earlyhis163675morr); public domain
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Record image · 28 Sept 1878
"Chance for Somebody": R. B. Holbrook's farm for sale, 1878 Coveland, Whidbey Island, Washington
“Mr. R. B. Holbrook, of Coveland, Island county, has offered for sale his valuable farm near that place. The
farm contains 160 acres of prairie land, besides a forty acre timber or wood lot. It is situated on the east
side of Penn’s Cove. The place has a water frontage of half a mile, and a good house, two barns, a well and
spring, and the title is United States patent.” He did not sell; he farmed there another eleven years.
Credit Daily Intelligencer (Seattle), 28 Sept 1878, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America; cropped
File newspaper-seattle-daily-intelligencer-1878-09-28-farm.jpg, 820 × 610 Its own page → Open the original ↗
Document · 29 Jul 1879
Colorado Springs Gazette, 29 July 1879: Eli Bruner's burial Colorado Springs, Colorado
“The body of Eli Bruner, who died at Colorado City, on the 27th inst., was buried yesterday with
Masonic honors by the fraternity of this city.” From Molata , chapter nine.
Credit *Colorado Springs Gazette*, 29 July 1879; public domain
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Record image · 1879
Marriage of James Pattullo, Brampton, 1879 Brampton, Peel County, Ontario
Peel County marriage registrations, Brampton division, page 150. The middle column, no. 11: James
Pattullo, 71, a widowed farmer of Garafraxa, born in Scotland, son of Alexander Pattullo and Mary [?]
Watson, married Emeline Trueman [?], 65, a widow born in Vermont, at Brampton on 2 April 1879. He was
Halkett Pattullo’s elder brother.
Credit FamilySearch, "Ontario, Canada records", image 683 of 1449, image group 004529126; Archives of Ontario
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Record image · 1879
Marriage of John G. Short and Mary Pattullo, Woodstock, 1879 Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County marriage registrations, Woodstock division, page 2: the middle column is John G. Short,
31, merchant, born at Newcastle, Ontario, son of John Short and Mary Jeffrey, and Mary Pattullo, 27,
born in Ontario, daughter of Halket Pattullo and Jane Robson; married at Woodstock on 5 November
1879 by Rev. W. T. McMullen, Andrew Pattullo a witness.
Credit FamilySearch, "Ontario, Canada records", image 763 of 1559, image group 004529129; Archives of Ontario
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Record image · 3 June 1880
1880 census, Whidby and Camano Islands: the R. B. Holebrook household Island County, Washington Territory
Page 6 of Thomas Cranney’s enumeration, dwelling 73: R. B. Holebrook, 58, farmer; Harriet, 44;
Horace, 17; Molly F., 9, at school; and Rich’d B., 7. The Swift family, with Hattie, is two
dwellings on.
Credit FamilySearch, "United States, Census, 1880", image 3:1:33SQ-GYBC-GTT; National Archives
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Record image · 1880
Birth of Jeffrey Robson Short, Woodstock, 1880 Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1880, pages 56-57. The first entry, no. 19, is
Jeffrey Robson, born 18 August 1880 to John G. Short, hardware merchant, and Mary Pattullo.
Credit FamilySearch, "Ontario, Canada records", image 125 of 805, image group 004529972; Archives of Ontario
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Portrait · c. 1880s-1890s [?]
Eli Hickman "Heck" Bruner A studio portrait of a man with a moustache, in a broad-brimmed hat, a check coat and a
neckerchief, seated with a revolver in his hand. Captioned “Eli Heck Bruner”: Eli Hickman Bruner,
son of Eli Woodruff Bruner and Polly Collins. He drowned crossing the Grand River in Indian
Territory in 1899.
Credit FamilySearch (the record it is attached to is still to be recorded)
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Record image · 17 Jun 1880
Finley and Ellsworth Ellingwood in the 1880 census, Manteno, Illinois Manteno, Kankakee County, Illinois
Page 14, lines 45-46: Finley Ellingwood, 27, single, physician, and his brother Ellsworth, 17,
printer, keeping house together at Manteno, three months before Finley’s marriage.
Credit FamilySearch, "Illinois, United States records", image 77 of 856, image group 005157438; National Archives
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Portrait · 24 Aug 1880 · 2 pages
Jennie and Finley Ellingwood, 1880 Chicago, Illinois
A cabinet card of a young woman, seated, with a basket of flowers in her lap, and a bearded man beside
her, before a painted backdrop hung with ivy (page 1). The back (page 2) is printed for Smith’s Studio
of Photography, 206 N. Clark St., Chicago, and written in pencil, “8/24/1880 Jennie & Finley
Ellingwood (Dr).” They married on 1 Sept 1880, eight days later.
Credit Family collection
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Photograph · 1880s
Martha and Cornelius Dwyer with a baby Minnesota
A studio portrait of a young couple, she standing in a dark bustled dress with a row of buttons, he
seated with a baby in white on his knee. The poster dates it to the early 1880s, in Minnesota, and
leaves the baby unnamed; a commenter thought it Henry Valentine Dwyer (born 1889). They married
about 1882, and their eldest known child, Mary, was born in February 1885.
Credit Ancestry (a photograph shared by mneuman354, 2017, captioned "Martha and Cornelius Dwyer 1880s"), cropped
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Record image · 1884
Birth of Jeannie Beatrice Short, Woodstock, 1884 Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1884, pages 12-13. The first entry, no. 67, is
Jeannie Beatrice, born 22 May 1884 to John G. Short, hardware merchant, and Mary Pattullo.
Credit FamilySearch, "Ontario, Canada records", image 674 of 800, image group 004529993; Archives of Ontario
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Record image · 7 Apr 1885
1885 Washington Territory census, Island County: the Holbrook household Island County, Washington Territory
Page 15 of Jos. C. Power’s enumeration, lines 17 to 21: the Holbrooks, with no ages given, followed
by the Swifts.
Credit Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (Territorial census, Island County, 1885)
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Record image · 19 Jan 1885
Marriage of Ellsworth V. Ellingwood and Ella L. Nichols, Geneva, Illinois, 1885 Geneva, Kane County, Illinois
License no. 3444 and the return of the marriage: Ellsworth V. Ellingwood of Chicago, job printer,
born Kankakee, son of Elijah Ellingwood and Mary A. Rice, and Ella Lee Nichols of Gentry County,
Missouri, born Gallatin, Missouri, daughter of B. F. Nichols. Married at Geneva on 19 Jan 1885
by Chas. H. Abbott, Congregational minister; his brother Finley was a witness.
Credit FamilySearch, "Kane, Illinois, United States records", image 1106 of 1631, image group 004708102; Kane County Court
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Photograph · 1885
Zell, South Dakota, in 1885 Zell, Faulk County, Dakota Territory
A street at Zell in 1885: a wheelwright’s shop with wheels in the loft window, a frame house,
wagons, and about twenty-five people standing for the camera, from bearded men to small
children. Someone in the family has lettered them A to Y and named those they could:
C possibly George Panian Sr, E/H possibly Christoph (wheelwright), F William Banwarth,
J possibly Theresia Panian, K possibly Mary Panian, L Juliana Haberkorn Banwarth, N Pete
Banwarth, O Anna Haberkorn Panian, P Rose Panian, Q Chlemhart (?), R George Panian Jr,
S “Otto” Adolph Banwarth, T Frank (last name unknown), and V Ed (last name unknown). A, B, D,
E, G, H, I, M, U, V, W, X, Y are all unknown.
J would be Theresa Panian, aged seven, later Theresa Kuchenmeister: mother of
Margaret (Kuchenmeister) Hatten. The Panians had come to Zell from Royalton, Minnesota, about
1882, and left for Almena, Wisconsin, in 1896. The Banwarths were kin through the Haberkorn
sisters, Anna (Mrs. Panian) and Juliana (Mrs. Banwarth).
Credit Family collection; a family copy, lettered and captioned by a relative
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Record image · 1886
Birth of Arthur Wendell Short, Woodstock, 1886 Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1886, pages 282-283. On the right-hand page,
lower row, middle column: no. 52, Arthur Wendell, born 1 April 1886 to John G. Short, hardware
merchant, and Mary Pattullo. He died the next year.
Credit FamilySearch, "Ontario, Canada records", image 225 of 820, image group 004656697; Archives of Ontario
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Record image · 1886
The Pålsson household, Malmö, 1886 (unrelated) Malmö, Sweden
Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Document · 4 Jun 1887
Death notice of Wm. H. Bell, Cloverdale, 1887 Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California
“Died. At his late residence, on Saturday, May 28th, Wm. H. Bell, age 57 years”: an asthmatic who
had come to Cloverdale for relief four years before, he relapsed after going to Santa Cruz for the
death of his daughter, Mrs. G. W. Frost, and was buried by the Masons at the Riverside Cemetery.
Credit A Cloverdale newspaper, 4 Jun 1887 (public domain); the clipping shared on Ancestry by Susan2054cg, 2021, cropped
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Photograph · 1887
Mary Elizabeth Bruner's gravestone, Siloam Springs Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas
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Record image · 1888
Kjersti Pålsson and her children, Malmö, 1888-1889 (unrelated) Malmö, Sweden
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Document · 1888
Somerset, from the History of Harrison and Mercer Counties, 1888 Somerset, Mercer County, Missouri
The village of Somerset, laid out in 1856: “Within the next five or six years … Hickman Bruner, a
wagon shop, and Eli Bruner, a blacksmith’s shop.”
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Photograph · 1888
St John the Baptist's church, Great Amwell, 1888 Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England
The parish church of St John the Baptist at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, seen from across the New
River in a photogravure by Peter Henry Emerson, published in London in 1888. Richard Warren married
Elizabeth Walker in this parish on 14 April 1610, the earliest record of the Mayflower passenger
himself. Her father, Augustine Walker, was a yeoman of Great Amwell and was buried there in 1614.
Credit Peter Henry Emerson, *Amwell Church*, photogravure, 1888. J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XB.1372.1.3 (Open Content; also on Wikimedia Commons); public domain
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Photograph · c. 1890-1900
St John's Church, Glastonbury, c. 1890-1900 Glastonbury, Somerset, England
The parish church of St John the Baptist on Glastonbury’s High Street, in a coloured photochrom
of the 1890s. Thomas Holbrook, the immigrant of 1635, married Jane Powyes here on 12 September
1616, and his son John was baptised here in 1618; his father, William Holbrooke “the elder,” was
of St John’s parish when he gave his deposition of 1617.
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Document · 25 May 1890
The Emple-Cranney wedding at Coupeville, 1890: Miss Mollie Holbrook among the guests Coupeville, Island County, Washington
The page with the report of Alinda Cranney’s wedding to Frank E. Emple. Among the gifts, “Mollie
Holbrook and Hattie Swift, knife”; among the guests, “Miss Mollie Holbrook.” Her earliest mention
found in a newspaper.
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Record image · 15-19 Sep 1892
Heck Bruner's account as a deputy U.S. marshal, September 1892 Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Chelsea, Indian Territory
His sworn account of fees and expenses for arresting A. C. [or G.?] Wooten for larceny south [?] of
Chelsea in the Indian Territory on 17 September 1892 and bringing him 163 miles to Fort Smith:
$68.68 in all, signed “E. H. Bruner, Deputy United States Marshal.” The foot of the form is cut off
in the screenshot.
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Photograph · Nov 1892
The posse that took Ned Christie, with Heck Bruner, 1892 Indian Territory
Eight armed men in broad hats before a frame building, numbered 1 to 8 on cards above or beside
them: the deputies of the posse that killed Ned Christie in November 1892. Heck Bruner is no. 8,
standing at the right with a rifle across his body. The other men are not named here.
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Record image · 1893
Birth of Ruth Ethelwyn Short, Woodstock, 1893 Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1893, pages 572-573. On the left-hand page,
lower row, first column: no. 22, Ruth Ethelwyn, born 13 January 1893 to John G. Short, manufacturer,
and Mary Pattullo, registered 10 February 1893.
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Record image · 16 Aug 1893
Emma Davis marries John Dunlap, Delta, Colorado, 1893 Delta, Delta County, Colorado
The minister’s certificate of the marriage of John [H.?] Dunlap and Mrs. [?] Emma Davis at Delta on
16 August 1893, witnessed by her daughter Jessie Clifford and by Mrs. J. H. Gill, the minister’s
wife. The image is dark; the transcription is with the source.
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Photograph · 1894; printed June 1897
"Paul Jones, in his paper-suit" Emil as “Paul Jones,” in the suit of paper he made after his naked start from Boston in February
1894. “From a Photo. by Elmer Chickering, Boston,” as printed in the Strand Magazine.
Credit Public domain (The Strand Magazine, June 1897; posted to Find a Grave)
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Document · 18 Nov 1894
"Richard B. Holbrook died in Coupeville," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 18 November 1894 His entry in the pioneers’ necrology: died at Coupeville in May 1894; born at Plymouth, Massachusetts,
7 August 1821; in California 4 March 1851; on Puget Sound in April 1852, “soon thereafter locating on
Whidby island.”
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Document · 13 Feb 1894
"Started Naked": the Boston Globe on Paul Jones, 13 Feb 1894 Boston, Massachusetts
“Paul Jones Now Clothed in Brown Paper. Left to Go Round World. Must Return in a Year With $5000.”
The scheme, the Globe says, began in the rooms of the Boston Athletic Association.
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Record image · 28 Sept 1894
Passport application of Emil Charles Pfeiffer, 1894 Jackson County, Missouri
Sworn in Jackson County, Missouri, during his “Paul Jones” walk: born at Portsmouth, 2 May 1865; a
journalist of Cambridge; to return about 1 Feb 1895. Aged 29, six feet two and a quarter, with dark
brown eyes, dark chestnut hair and a complexion “sallow + tanned.” Vouched for at New York by Arthur
F. Pfeiffer, of Tiffany & Co.
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Document · 1895
Emerson College of Oratory catalogue, 1895-96, cover Boston, Massachusetts
The cover of the college’s catalogue for 1895-96, the year Mollie (Frances) Holbrook entered as a
freshman from Whidbey Island: the entrance at the corner of Tremont and Berkeley Streets, Boston,
with students on the steps, under gilt lettering. Its class list is
the page beside it .
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Document · 1895-96
Emerson College of Oratory catalogue, 1895-96: Holbrook, Frances Boston, Massachusetts
The freshman class list, with “Holbrook, Frances … Whidley Island, Wash.”
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Portrait · c. 1895-1900 [?]
Jessie Lorene Clifford A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman with her hair piled up, in a dress with full white
sleeves, reproduced in halftone. Captioned “Jessie Lorene Clifford” on Ancestry. Undated; by the
dress, about the time of her marriage to Richard Blackmer Holbrook at Seattle in 1900.
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Portrait · c. 1895-1899
Theresa Panian Theresa Panian (1878-1966), later Mrs. Joseph Kuchenmeister of Almena, Wisconsin: mother of
Margaret (Kuchenmeister) Hatten. A cabinet portrait of a young woman in a dark, ruffled dress with
leg-of-mutton sleeves, a brooch at the collar and a watch on a long chain; the dress puts it in
the later 1890s, around the time of her marriage in 1899. The same photograph is on the family
history page about her (see A page on Theresa Panian ).
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Document · 12 Mar 1896
Death notice of John Kuchenmeister, Delano Eagle, 1896 Delano, Wright County, Minnesota
“This week Tuesday Mr. John Kuchenmeister another of our old pioneers died”: in his 79th year, born
at Würzburg and married there, in Minnesota about 38 years on the farm he pre-empted, buried from St.
Peter’s church.
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Record image · 12 Feb 1896
William Flynn and Anna Paulson's marriage affidavit, 1896 Otoe County, Nebraska
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Document · Jan 1897 · 2 pages
"The Press of the Storm," by M. Frances Holbrook, 1897 Her short story, on two pages: a lighthouse keeper’s wife who cannot sleep on stormy nights since
her only son, fifteen, took the lighthouse boat out on the straits and was drowned.
Credit Public domain (Emerson College Magazine, Jan 1897, pp. 72-73; Internet Archive)
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Document · Dec 1897
"Wendell Phillips the Orator," by M. Frances Holbrook, 1897 Her essay on the abolitionist orator, signed “M. Frances Holbrook, ’98.”
Credit Public domain (Emerson College Magazine, Dec 1897, p. 46; Internet Archive)
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Record image · 15 June 1898
Boston marriage register, 1898: Emil C. Pfeiffer and Mollie F. Holbrook Boston, Massachusetts
Page 136, no. 2446, of the Boston register, where the marriage took place: the same couple, parents
and minister as the Cambridge entry, recorded 18 June 1898.
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Record image · 15 June 1898
Cambridge marriage register, 1898: Emil Charles Pfeiffer and Mollie Frances Holbrook Boston, Massachusetts
Page 112, entry 383, of the marriages registered at Cambridge, the groom’s city: married 15 June at
Boston by Charles R. Tenney, minister, of 28 Glenarm [Street]. He was 33, a publisher, of 57 Wendell
Street; she was 27, a teacher, of Coupeville, Washington.
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Document · May 1898
Class Song of 1898, words by M. Frances Holbrook “We go from our alma mater / Out into the world to-day.” Words by M. Frances Holbrook, music by Ruth
Jean Vose, for the class of ’98.
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Document · 1898
The class poem of Harvard '89, 1898: E. C. Pfeiffer, "Paul Jones" The page of the class poem with the stanza on “our pride, E. C. Pfeiffer, ‘Paul Jones’,” who started
round the world “Posing at first as the nude in art.”
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Document · 10 Dec 1899
"Coupeville Society," 1899: Mrs. Mollie Holbrook Pfeiffer, late of Emerson college Coupeville, Island County, Washington
The page with the Coupeville column: “Mrs. Mollie Holbrook Pfeiffer, late of Emerson college,
Boston, together with her husband, Prof. Pfeiffer, will give an entertainment this week at W. C. T.
U. hall.”
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Document · Nov 1899
"The Daughter of '98": the birth of Alice Pfeiffer “Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pfeiffer, née Frances Holbrook, a twelve-pound daughter,” quoted from
“a far western paper dated Aug. 25, 1899.” Signed “L. P.”
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Record image · 25 Aug 1899
Tacoma register of births, p. 119: the birth of Alice Pfeiffer, 1899 Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
The city’s register across two pages. The entry for 25 Aug 1899 names the parents, Emil C. and
Frances H. Pfeiffer (their birthplaces swapped), and on the right-hand page, a line higher, gives
the place, 104 Tacoma Avenue, a girl, and the physician J. R. Yocum [?].
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Record image · 2 June 1900
1900 census, Seattle Ward 3: the E. C. Pfeiffer household Seattle, King County, Washington
Enumeration district 92: E. C. Pfeiffer, born May 1865 in New Hampshire, newspaper man; M. F., his
wife, born Dec 1870, teacher, mother of one child; A. P., daughter, born Aug 1899; and H. P.
Holbrook, mother-in-law. The house was rented.
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Record image · 6 Jun 1900
Finley Ellingwood's household in the 1900 census, Evanston, Illinois 2209 Central Street, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
Entries 1 Finley, head, Sept 1852, physician 1852–1920 All 10 → 2 Jennie S., wife 1857–1929 All 5 → 3 Elma J., May 1881 b. 1881 4 Laura A., Jan 1883 1883–1918 All 2 → 5 Elliott L., Feb 1884 1884–1942 All 2 → 6 Finley F., Nov 1890 1890–1975 All 3 → 7 R. Everett, Feb 1895 1895–1985 All 8 → 8 Lloyd, Oct 1896 1896–1975 All 3 → Sheet 6, lines 25-32: Finley, physician, born Sept 1852; Jennie S.; and their six children,
Elma J., Laura A., Elliott L., Finley F., R. Everett (“Cudge”, 5) and Lloyd. Jennie had borne
seven children, six living.
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Record image · 28 Sep 1900
Marriage return of Richard B. Holbrook and Jessie Clifford, Seattle, 1900 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Document · Dec 1900
Mrs. Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer and the Washington State Equal Suffrage Association, 1900 The alumni note: she read a paper at a meeting of the Washington State Equal Suffrage Association
and was elected its first vice-president for the coming year.
Credit Public domain (Emerson College Magazine, Dec 1900, p. 66; Internet Archive)
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Record image · 1900
The Short family in the 1900 census, Chicago Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hyde Park Township, ward 34 of Chicago, enumeration district 1086, sheet 18, taken 8 June 1900.
Lines 27-32: John G. Short, 52, born in Canada in December 1847, who came over in 1896; his wife
Mary P., 47; and their children “Geoffrey” R. (Jeffrey), 19, Mary I., 18, Jennie B. (Jeannie
Beatrice), 16, and Ruth E., 7, who came in 1897.
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Document · 20 Sept 1901
E. C. Pfeiffer's testimonial in The Wonders of Thought Force, 1901 The page with his sworn statement, as circulation manager of the Buffalo Express, that his wife had
been “almost completely prostrated” from about 1898 to 1900 and had recovered under Mrs. Wilmans
Post’s Mental Science.
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Document · 17 Jan 1902
Eli W. Clifford marries at Aztec, New Mexico, 1902 Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico
Justice Tinker of Aztec married “Eli W. Clifford and Mrs. Mary E. Cavey [?], of Lake City,” a couple
“from far distant Hinsdale county, Colorado,” about the beginning of January 1902.
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Document · 1904
"Funeral of Richard J. Short," South Haven, Michigan, 1904 South Haven, Michigan
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Document · Apr 1904 · 4 pages
"Some Illogical Conclusions," by Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer, 1904 Her essay on the New Thought in the monthly Mind , on four pages. It ends on her college days:
“When I was in college I selected my room with great care, as if it were to be my abiding place
forever.”
Credit Public domain (Mind, New York, Apr 1904, pp. 396-399; Internet Archive)
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Map · 1904
Topographical Map of Appanoose County, Iowa, 1904 Appanoose County, Iowa
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Document · 5 Apr 1905
"Neptune Goes on Alaska Run," Seattle Daily Times, 5 April 1905 Seattle, King County, Washington
The little steamer Neptune, owned by Capt. E. A. Swift, leaves Seattle for the run between Seldovia
and Sunrise City in Cook Inlet, with more than 100 tons of explosives and machinery for the Rainbow
Mining Company: “Capt. Ira Meyers will have charge of the vessel in the North. She sails under command
of Capt. B. Dennison.” Kept for Capt. Ira Meyers, who in the family’s belief was the Mr. Myers whom
Elizabeth Jane Davis married; that is not yet confirmed by a record.
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Photograph · c. 1905-1912 · 21 pages
Mary Short's album a lake resort, perhaps in Michigan or Ontario; Chicago
Pages of a “Ward’s Album for Unmounted Photographs” (no. 912/39), its printed label altered in ink to
“Mary Short’s Album,” with “Mary I. Short” written in white on the endpaper (page 1). Mary Isabella
Short, sister of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, kept it; family knowledge has the pictures taken at the
Short family’s summer place on a lake, perhaps in Michigan or Ontario. They show dunes and pines, a
long plank dock with lake steamers, a boathouse and a canoe, porches crowded with young men and women
in white and straw boaters, and a party on a hilltop above the water.
Page 15 is labelled in blue ink, with arrows that cross: Beatrice Short at the left, Mary Short in the
middle, and Ruth Short Ellingwood at the right, her arms raised over her head, standing on a plank in
the shallows by a dock. Ruth looks fifteen to eighteen, which puts the picture about 1908-1911. Page 18
is captioned “Betty Ashcraft [?] at 13 [or 15] months, Lakeside”; Lakeside may name the place. Pages 19
and 20 are two real photo postcards of a spotted horse, “Kitty Bellairs,” addressed to “Miss Edith,”
with ink on the page around them beginning “In memory of a famous …” Page 21 is a brick apartment
building lettered “6636-38 Kimbark Ave.,” a street on Chicago’s South Side, captioned “May 1st - 1909 -
April 24th - 1912”; whose home it was is not known.
Pages 2 to 12 were photographed in the same sitting, on the same grey pages, and are taken to be from
the same album. The pages are in the order they were photographed in (Sept 2026), with the inside
cover first, which may not be the album’s own order.
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Photograph · c. 1905-1910
The four Tisdell sisters and their husbands Four men standing behind four women in white shirtwaists, each sister seated before her husband. As
captioned, left to right: Nell Tisdell and William Victor Wicks; Mary Tisdell and Alexander Dey; Sarah
Tisdell and Jack Tracy; Martha Tisdell and Cornelius Dwyer. Dated by the dress to about 1905-1910.
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Photograph · 1906
Site of the block house on the North River, Scituate, 1906 North River, South Scituate (now Norwell), Massachusetts
A rail fence and a bar-way into a tangle of trees by the river, where Scituate’s block house stood. The
plate is printed sideways on the page, as in the book. On 20 May 1676 a war party came into Scituate
from the north, burned Cornet Stetson’s mill on the Third Herring Brook, and followed the North River
down into the south part of the town; “they attacked the blockhouse located on the bank of the river,
but were repulsed,” and went on to the garrison at Charles Stockbridge’s by the mill at Greenbush,
“where a large force of the townsmen were assembled, and after a desperate fight, were driven off and
no more seen in the town” (Ellis and Morris, pp. 222-223). Lt. Isaac Buck mustered the men of the lower
town that day. The Stockbridge garrison was the house John Stockbridge had built by his grist mill, and
Scituate’s own captain, Michael Pierce, had been killed with most of his company two months before.
Credit "Site of the Block-House, Scituate, Massachusetts," photograph, plate facing p. 222 in George W. Ellis and John E. Morris, *King Philip's War* (New York: Grafton Press, 1906). Duke University Libraries, via the Internet Archive (kingphilipswar01elli); public domain
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Record image · 1906
The Holbrooks in the Seattle city directory, 1906 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Photograph · 1906
The place of Philip's death, Mount Hope, 1906 Mount Hope, Bristol, Rhode Island
A clearing on the edge of the swamp below Mount Hope, with a low stone marker among the brush. The
book’s caption: “The monument is placed on the firm land bordering the swamp, but a few rods distant
from the spot where he fell.” The plate is printed sideways on the page, as in the book. Before dawn
on 12 August 1676 Benjamin Church’s company, English and Native, surrounded the swamp where Philip had
taken refuge, and he was shot as he ran by Alderman, one of Church’s Native soldiers. His death ended
the war in southern New England. Lt. Isaac Howland of Middleborough served under Church that summer;
it was from Mount Hope that Philip had written to Capt. Hopestill Foster of Dorchester in 1672,
asking for cloth for a coat.
Credit "The Place of Philip's Death," photograph, plate facing p. 274 in George W. Ellis and John E. Morris, *King Philip's War* (New York: Grafton Press, 1906). Duke University Libraries, via the Internet Archive (kingphilipswar01elli); public domain
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Document · 19 June 1908
A desk set for Mrs. F. H. Pfeiffer, Gardnerville, 1908 Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada
The front page with the item on the high-school girls’ gift of a sterling-silver desk set to Mrs. F.
H. Pfeiffer, for her work on the graduation speaking and the play.
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Document · 15 Jan 1908
Ellingwood's Therapeutist, January 1908 Chicago, Illinois
The cover of the monthly journal Finley Ellingwood founded, printed in a mauve ink: “Finley
Ellingwood MD, Editor and Publisher, 100 State St., Chicago,” vol. 2 no. 1, with “Single Truths from
Many Doctors and Many Truths for Each Doctor” and “A Journal of Specific Medicine” down the left side.
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Record image · 2 Dec 1908
Marriage of Elliott Lee Ellingwood and Jennie Henrietta Kendall, Pasadena, 1908 Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California
The license of 30 Nov 1908 and the certificate of marriage: Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Seattle,
24, mechanical engineer, son of Finley Ellingwood and Jennie S. Elliott, and Jennie Henrietta
Kendall of Pasadena, 21, daughter of Bela O. Kendall and Jennie Willard, married at Pasadena on
2 Dec 1908 by S. G. Dunham.
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Document · 15 Jan 1909 · 2 pages
Ellingwood's Therapeutist, January 1909 Chicago, Illinois
The cover of vol. 3 no. 1 of Finley Ellingwood’s journal, “The World in Medicine is Our Field” (page
1), and its second page, an advertisement for Bovinine above the table of contents (page 2).
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Document · 6 May 1909
Nevada special teaching certificates, 1909: Pfeiffer, Mrs. Frances H. Nevada
The table of special certificates, with “Pfeiffer, Mrs. Frances H.” for English, history and
oratory, dated May 6, 1909.
Credit Public domain (Nevada, Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1909-1910, p. 86; Internet Archive)
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Document · 1909
Oberlin General Catalogue, 1909: Frances Holbrook (Mrs. Charles E. Pfeiffer) The page with “Holbrook, … Frances (Mrs. Charles E. Pfeiffer),” enrolled 1893-95. A possible match
only: the husband’s name is given as Charles E.
Credit Public domain (General Catalogue of Oberlin College, 1833-1908, p. 467; Internet Archive)
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Record image · 1910
1910 census, Aurora town, Erie County, New York: Frances H. and Alice P. Pfeiffer East Aurora, Erie County, New York
Sheet 25B of enumeration district 246, the lodging house of Millard V. Curtis: Frances H. Pfeiffer,
39, married eleven years, a correspondent in a printing house, and Alice P., 10. Emil is not in the
household.
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AMA Deceased Physicians File: Finley Ellingwood's biographical card The handwritten card of the AMA directory, stamped October 1910 and later “DEAD June 29, 1920”:
born at Manchester, Indiana, 12 Sept 1852; schooled at Kankakee; licensed in Illinois, 1878;
2209 Central Street, Evanston; editor of the Chicago Medical Times and author of Ellingwood’s
Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; an honorary member of the eclectic societies of seven states.
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Finley Ellingwood's household in the 1910 census, Evanston, Illinois 2209 Central Street, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
Sheet 10B, lines 56-60: Finley, 57, physician, editor of a medical journal; Jennie S., 52; and
the three youngest sons, Finley F., Richard E. and Lloyd.
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Record image · 12 Aug 1910
Marriage certificate of John R. Morilon and Maude E. Noel, Seattle, 1910 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Marriage return of John R. Morilon and Maude E. Noel, Seattle, 1910 Seattle, King County, Washington
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The Holbrooks in the Seattle city directory, 1910 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Birth certificate of John Noel Morilon, Seattle, 1911 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Cudge Ellingwood at about sixteen A young man in a suit and bow tie standing by a gate (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Cudge about
1911-12 age 16 Richard E. Ellingwood born Feb. 14, 1895.” The family was then at Evanston, Illinois.
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Document · 9 Sep 1911
Hubert Flynn bitten by a rat, St. Joseph, 1911 St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
“Hubert Flynn, eleven-year-old grandson of Justice of the Peace Flynn,” out of danger after two
operations at St. Joseph’s Hospital and four months’ treatment for blood poisoning from a rat bite
on the finger the May before.
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Document · 15 Feb 1911
James M. Flynn appointed justice of the peace, St. Joseph, 1911 St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
“Justice Shea Resigns on Account of Ill Health and Brother Democrat Is Named”: the county court
appointed James M. Flynn, “formerly engineer at Central police station and an old Indian scout,” to
take Daniel Shea’s place.
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John R. Morilan [Morilon] in the Seattle city directory, 1911 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Map · 1911
Pike County, Kentucky, on Rand McNally's map of 1911 Pike County, Kentucky
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Samuel H. Noel in the Seattle city directory, 1911 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Map · 1912
Pike County, Kentucky, on Rand McNally's map of 1912 Pike County, Kentucky
Eastern Kentucky from Morgan and Magoffin to Pike, with Floyd, Johnson, Knott and Letcher.
“Shelby or Shelbiana P.O.” marks the mouth of Shelby Creek on the Levisa Fork, just south of
Pikeville. Pike was cut from Floyd County in 1821, which moved Meredith Collins to a new county
without his taking a step. From Molata , chapter five.
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Document · Dec 1914
Ellingwood's Therapeutist, December 1914 Chicago, Illinois
The cover of vol. 8 no. 12 of Finley Ellingwood’s journal, from “32 N. State St. Chicago,” with an
advertisement for Fellows’ Syrup and the start of the table of contents.
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Document · c. 1915
"Family of 13 Raised on Mail Carrier's Salary Here" St. Joseph, Missouri
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Document · Jan 1915
Ellingwood's Therapeutist, January 1915 Chicago, Illinois
The cover of vol. 9 no. 2 of Finley Ellingwood’s journal, “the Lobelia number,” with the start of the
table of contents.
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Birth certificate of Douglas Noel [Morilon], Helena, Montana, 1916 Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana
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Document · 22 Apr 1916
Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1916: Cinema lyceum, by Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer The page with her four-page pamphlet, “Cinema lyceum,” copyrighted at Los Angeles on 22 Apr 1916.
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Death certificate of John G. Short, Spokane, 1916 Spokane, Washington
John G. Short died at his home, E 715 25th Avenue, Spokane, on 20 October 1916, retired, born in
Ontario on 22 December 1845, son of John Short, born in England, and Mary Jeffrey, born in Scotland.
His daughter Beatrice gave the particulars. He was buried at Greenwood on the 22nd.
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Document · 16 June 1916
Frances H. Pfeiffer to W. E. B. Du Bois, 16 June 1916 Los Angeles, California
Her letter on the letterhead of The Cinema Lyceum, 714-715 Story Building, Los Angeles, proposing an
educational film with Booker T. Washington’s life as its basis, and recalling that her husband had
been with Du Bois at Harvard.
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Record image · 1917
The Holbrooks in the Seattle city directory, 1917 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Record image · 9 Jan 1918
Death certificate of Matilda (Collins) Davis, Kirksville, 1918 Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri
Matilda Davis died at 1315 South Wabash Street, Kirksville, on 9 January 1918, aged 86, married, a
housewife born in Indiana on 10 May 1831. Her father is given as Jesse Collins and her mother’s
maiden name as Mary Reed.
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Photograph · 1 Sep 1918 · 2 pages
Finley and Jennie Ellingwood [?] at home, 1918 An older man with a white moustache, in a three-piece suit, and a woman in a long white dress, under
trees (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Sept-1-1918 - Home” and “12.” Probably Finley and Jennie
Ellingwood: the man is very like Finley in the print of April 1920 ,
and 1 September was their wedding day, so this would be their thirty-eighth anniversary.
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Record image · 12 Sep 1918
John Randolph Morilon's draft card, Seattle, 12 September 1918 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Record image · 21 Nov 1918
Lucy A. Cother's (Laura Ellingwood's) death certificate, Chicago, 1918 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Illinois certificate of death of “Lucy A. Cother,” married, housewife, who died at the Robert
Burns Hospital, Chicago, on 21 Nov 1918, of peritonitis after an operation; born January 1883 in
Illinois, daughter of Finley Ellingwood, M.D., and Jennie S. “Ellis” [Elliott]; informant her
father. A poor photocopy.
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Record image · 12 Sep 1918
Richard Blackmer Holbrook's draft card, Seattle, 12 September 1918 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Richard Holbrook's entry into Canada at Seattle, March 1918 [?] Seattle, Washington
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The Holbrooks in the Seattle city directory, 1919 Seattle, King County, Washington
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1920 census, Los Angeles: Frances H. and Alice P. Pfeiffer, lodgers Los Angeles, California
Frances H. Pfeiffer, 49, married, lodger, in advertising for a newspaper, and her daughter Alice P.,
20, a bookkeeper. Emil is indexed separately in the same census as a boarder.
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Record image · 29 Jun 1920
AMA Deceased Physicians File: Finley Ellingwood's death card, 1920 The typed card of the American Medical Association’s file of deceased physicians, with the
notice printed in its Journal : Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, 1878;
professor of chemistry 1884-1900, and of materia medica and therapeutics 1900-1907; editor of the
Chicago Medical Times 1884-1906; “died at Pasadena, Calif., June 29 [sic, 26], from chronic
interstitial nephritis.”
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Portrait · Apr 1920 · 2 pages
Finley Ellingwood, April 1920 An older man with white hair and a white moustache, in a long dark coat, standing on a sidewalk before
a frame house (page 1); on the back (page 2), “April 1920 Grandpa Ellingwood” and, in another hand,
“DR. FINDLEY ELLINGWOOD.” He died that June.
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Finley Ellingwood's death certificate, Pasadena, 1920 Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California
California standard certificate of death: Finley Ellingwood, physician, of 614 South Lake
Avenue, Pasadena, died 26 June 1920 of chronic interstitial nephritis; born 12 Sept 1852 at
Manchester, Indiana, son of Elijah Ellingwood and Mary Rice; informant his son Elliott; cremated
at Mountain View on 28 June. A second filed copy of the certificate (image 1711) is the same.
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Finley Ellingwood's household in the 1920 census, Evanston, Illinois 2209 Central Street, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
Sheet 2B, lines 89-93: Finley, 67, publisher; Jennie S., 62; Everett R. (“Cudge”), 24, in
business efficiency; Lloyd, 23, a student; and their granddaughter Jennie Harriet Cother, 10,
daughter of the late Laura (Ellingwood) Cother. Finley died that June.
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Record image · 5 May 1920
Marriage license of John R. Morilon and Elizabeth M. Paulson, Helena, 1920 Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana
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The Holbrooks in the Seattle city directory, 1920 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Portrait · 1920s
Veronica Dwyer in the 1920s A sepia portrait of a young woman with her hair waved and gathered low, looking over her shoulder,
with a long string of beads: Martha Veronica Dwyer, daughter of Cornelius and Martha.
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Record image · 19 Aug 1921
Marriage license and certificate: Robert H. Carter and Alice Phillips Pfeiffer, 1921 Los Angeles, California
Alice Phillips Pfeiffer, 21, bookkeeper, of Los Angeles, daughter of Emil Chas. Pfeiffer and Frances
Holbrook, married Robert H. Carter, 21, contractor, of Sierra Madre. Her father, E. C. Pfeiffer,
signed as witness.
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Marriage of Richard Everett Ellingwood and Ruth Ethelwyn Short, Spokane, 1921 Spokane, Washington
Certificate of marriage, license no. A 30209, filed 19 Aug 1921: Richard Everett Ellingwood
(“Cudge”) of Evanston, 26, auditor, son of Finley Ellingwood and Jennie S. Elliott, and Ruth
Ethelwyn Short of 901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, 28, stenographer, born Ontario, daughter of John
Gerald Short (deceased) and Mary Pattullo. Her mother, Mrs. J. G. Short, was a witness. The date
of the ceremony is left blank; the family dates it 26 July 1921.
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Document · 29 Nov 1922
"Holbrook's mother ... remained at his bedside," Seattle Star, 29 November 1922 Seattle, King County, Washington
Jessie at 560 Mercer Street, at her son’s bedside the night after he was shot.
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Document · 28 Nov 1922
"Mother of Wounded Boy Felt Sure He Was Safe at School," Seattle Daily Times, 28 November 1922 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Document · 28 Nov 1922
"Not Justified," Seattle Star, 28 November 1922 Seattle, Washington
Front-page editorial with Dick Holbrook’s photograph: a patrolman surprised four University
of Washington students in “an innocent lark”, and Dick, then twenty, was shot through the
body. The paper asks why the policeman drew his revolver at all.
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Document · 28 Nov 1922
"Student at University Is Wounded by Officer," Seattle Daily Times, 28 November 1922 Seattle, King County, Washington
The Times ’s report of the morning Dick Holbrook was shot by Patrolman J. H. Karlberg, with
photographs of the patrolman and, at the right, of Dick (“upper”) and his fraternity brother C. A.
Schneider (“lower”).
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Record image · 1922
The Holbrooks in the Seattle city directory, 1922 Seattle, King County, Washington
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Document · 24 Sep 1923
"Death Claims Pollock Man," Bismarck Tribune, 24 September 1923 Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
“Richard Holbrook of Pollock, S. D. age 51, died at a local hospital Saturday evening at 7
o’clock … He is survived by his wife, and two sons, Douglas, age 7, and Donald, age 5.” The notice
begins in the middle column and ends at the top of the next.
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Richard B. Holbrook Jr.'s death certificate, Bismarck, 22 September 1923 Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
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Document · 22 Sep 1923
Richard Holbrook of Pollock enters the Bismarck hospital, Bismarck Tribune, 22 September 1923 Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
“Richard Holbrook, Pollock, S. D.” among those who “have entered the Bismarck hospital,” in the
paper of the day he died.
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Document · 20 Sept 1924
"The Passing of a Princess," by Francis Holbrook Pfeiffer, 1924 Her memoir of “Old Mary,” consort of Tom Squiqui, nominal chief of the Skagits, who nursed the
Holbrook children, and of the day her mother said goodbye to her on the shore.
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Portrait · 1925
John Randolph Morilon, 1925 Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Record image · 23 Sep 1929
Jennie S. Ellingwood's death certificate, Evanston, 1929 2209 Central Street, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
Illinois standard certificate of death: Jennie S. Ellingwood, widow of Finley, died at home,
2209 Central Street, on 23 Sept 1929; born 25 Oct 1857 at Saratoga Springs, New York; her mother
Susan Maria [?] Adams; informant her son Lloyd.
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Photograph · 24 September 1929
The Harlow Old Fort House, Plymouth, 1929 119 Sandwich Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts
The gambrel-roofed house on Sandwich Street, shingled and two storeys high, seen from the corner under
a great tree. The sign on the tree reads “Built by William Harlow in 1677 of timber from the old fort,”
and the photographer’s caption on the negative says the same. After
King Philip’s War the town granted Sgt. William Harlow the timbers of the palisaded fort it had built
on Fort Hill (Burial Hill) in 1675, and by Plymouth tradition he used them to frame this house; an
architectural survey of 1996 dated the present building to 1700 or later. The Plymouth Antiquarian
Society opened it to the public in 1921.
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Document · 1930s
"My father, Richard Blackmer Holbrook": the first page of Mollie's memoir of her father Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Record image · 16 Apr 1930
1930 census, Los Angeles (Palms): Emil and Frances Pfeiffer Los Angeles, California
Enumeration district 19-144: Emil, 65, head, renting at $24 a month, no occupation, married at 33;
Frances, 59, his wife, married at 27.
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Photograph · 1930 [?] · 2 pages
Dick and his mother, Ruth (Short) Ellingwood Madison, Wisconsin
A woman in glasses sitting on a porch step with a small fair-haired child on her knee (page 1), and the
back (page 2): “4/31 [?] / Dick & mom, Ruth Short 1930?” with the stamp of the University Photo Shop,
Madison. Dick was born in November 1929; if “4/31” means April 1931, he was about seventeen months old.
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Photograph · c. 1930-1932
Emma Dunlap and her family probably western Washington
Emma (Bruner) Clifford Dunlap with her children, grandchildren and their families, about
1930-32, dated from Baby Dorothy Lee’s age and Emma’s death in December 1933. Among them
her son Ora, her daughter Jessie (then Jessie Absolom) with her second husband Thomas, her
son Eli, and Jessie’s son Phil Holbrook. The names are the printed caption’s; they are
placed on the faces in the caption’s order, left to right along each row, so a few may be
off by one in the crowded middle.
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Photograph · late 1930s
Frances Holbrook and her grandmother Jessie Clifford in the mountains Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Photograph · 1930s (the blockhouse, 1855-56)
The Alexander blockhouse, Coupeville, built 1855-56 Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington
One of the log blockhouses the settlers of Penn Cove built in the war of 1855-56, when families slept
inside their stockades for months, photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey in the 1930s.
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Photograph · 1930s
The Capt. Eli Hathaway house, San de Fuca San de Fuca, Whidbey Island, Washington
The house of Capt. Eli Hathaway at San de Fuca, photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey
in the 1930s. Hathaway sailed with Richard Holbrook into Penn Cove in 1852, went with him into the salmon
and trading business on Lummi Island in 1854, and was robbed the same night; in 1871 he took the census
that counted the Holbrooks, and in 1881 he swore to his old partner’s claim that “I have always regarded
Mr. Holbrook as an honorable gentleman.”
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Photograph · 1930s (the building, 1855) · 2 pages
The first Island County courthouse at Coveland, built 1855 Coveland, Whidbey Island, Washington Territory
The two-storey frame building at Coveland, at the head of Penn Cove, that served as Island County’s
first courthouse from 1855, photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey in the 1930s; the
water of the cove shows behind it in the first picture. Coveland was the county seat beside Richard
Holbrook’s claim, and the townsite where his children were born.
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Photograph · c. 1931-1933 · 2 pages
Dick feeding the squirrel, Madison 1744 Jefferson Street, Madison, Wisconsin
Two prints of a small fair-haired boy on his hands and knees, feeding a squirrel by a back stair (page
1), and one of them with the back of the other (page 2): “Dick feeding the squirrell by the back steps
at 1744 Jefferson St, Madison,” with the stamp of the University Photo Shop, Madison, Wis. Dick
Ellingwood was born at Madison in November 1929 and looks two or three here. The family lived on
Jefferson Street before it left Madison for Spokane in 1937 (his father’s memoir,
scan 113 ).
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Document · Apr 1931
Whidby Island wheat, a photograph supplied by Mrs. Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer, 1931 Whidbey Island, Washington
The page with the wheat-harvest photograph taken by Adele Kaehler of Whidby Island and supplied by
Mrs. Pfeiffer, who added that Whidby wheat took prizes at the Chicago contest of 1919.
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Photograph · c. 1932-1937 · 2 pages
A sporting goods window, Madison Madison, Wisconsin
A shop window dressed for “National Baseball Week,” with “Play Ball!” and signs for “Equipment” and
“Trophies, Cups, Medals” (page 1). On the back (page 2): “Cudge’s store? Cudge Ellingwood was capt. of
Northwestern’s baseball team. Craig Belmondo has his uniform,” with the stamp of the University Photo
Shop, Madison. In the Depression Cudge bought the Wisconsin Sporting Goods Company of Madison at a
receiver’s sale and ran it with Dutch Midland, who had managed his baseball team (his memoir,
scan 115 ).
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Record image · 25 Nov 1934
Certificate of death of Emil Charles Pfeiffer, Los Angeles, 1934 Los Angeles, California
Died at home, 3715 Keystone Avenue, Palms, aged 69. Advertising manager in a newspaper office until
1918 [?]. The informant signed “Frances H. Pfeiffer.” Cause, after a coroner’s autopsy: hemorrhage
from a chronic duodenal ulcer. Cremated at the Los Angeles Crematory.
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Document · 1935
Obituary of Emil Charles Pfeiffer, Harvard Class of 1889 bulletin, 1935 The class’s notice of his death, his career from Boston schoolteacher to the University of Nevada
and Los Angeles, his last years as an invalid, and his wife Frances Holbrook, daughter Alice and
grandson.
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Photograph · June 1935
On-to-Ottawa trekkers on a freight train at Kamloops, June 1935 Kamloops, British Columbia
Men crowd the roofs and ladders of Canadian Pacific boxcars, bound east. Library and Archives Canada
describes it as “Strikers from unemployment relief camps en route to Eastern Canada during ‘March on Ottawa’
in June 1935 in Kamloops, B.C.” These were the men of the British Columbia relief camps who struck in April
1935, held Vancouver for two months and rode the freights east under Arthur “Slim” Evans until they were
stopped at Regina; Duff Pattullo’s government had told them the camps were Ottawa’s business. Three years
later men of the same generation, led by one of Evans’s pupils, sat down in the Vancouver post office.
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Photograph · c. 1936
Duff Pattullo as premier, c. 1936 Duff Pattullo, premier of British Columbia 1933-1941 and first cousin of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, in a
dark jacket and pale trousers, his hat and cane in one hand, shakes hands with a small boy in braces on a
playing field, with children and a pram behind them. The City of Vancouver Archives’ print is dated about
1936; the occasion is not recorded. It shows the premier of the Bloody Sunday years, then in his sixties,
the man of whom his thesis biographer wrote, “Pattullo not only governed, he ruled.”
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Photograph · 7 Nov 1937 · 2 pages
Cudge and Goz at Winnetka, 1937 Winnetka, Illinois
Two men in suits sitting on a low stone wall before a brick house (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Nov.
7, 1937 / Winnetka / Cudge [?] + Goz just before we came West.” The family moved from Madison to
Spokane that month. Ruth’s brother Jeffrey Short and his wife Nancy had a home at Winnetka (Cudge’s
memoir, scan 82 ); who Goz was is not known, nor which of the two is Cudge.
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Photograph · 19 June 1938
Police clearing the post office, Vancouver, 19 June 1938 Main post office, Granville and Hastings streets, Vancouver, British Columbia
Men stumble out along the stone wall of the post office with their hands over their faces against the
gas, while a man in a dark coat and hat raises his arm above them and a policeman in a peaked cap stands
at the left. The Vancouver Public Library’s caption for the Province ’s negative reads: “Post office and Art
Gallery sit-down strike, May and June 1938. Policemen and R.C.M.P. evicting demonstrators from Post Office
with tear gas,” which places it on the morning of Sunday 19 June. This is the eviction that Duff Pattullo,
premier of British Columbia and first cousin of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, told the press the next day he had
been “the prime mover” in securing.
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Photograph · 19 June 1938
Stones thrown at the post office, Vancouver, 19 June 1938 Vancouver, British Columbia
Two young men hurl stones in mid-stride, one in a jacket and white trousers, the other in shirtsleeves,
with a crowd in hats behind them. The BC Archives catalogues it as “Demonstrators throwing rocks and bricks
at the post office after marching up Granville Street; the post office riot; Vancouver,” dated 19 June 1938.
It is the anger of the morning after the gas and the clubs, when the men streamed through downtown breaking
windows; the premier, Duff Pattullo, first cousin of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, flew in the next day “to find
the city quiet.”
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Photograph · June 1938
The sit-down men marching in Vancouver, June 1938 Vancouver, British Columbia
A long file of young men in caps and work clothes walks the sidewalk of a downtown street, one with a coat
over his arm, past a Coca-Cola sign and a “25¢ Taxi Drive” sign. The Vancouver Public Library catalogues the
Province ‘s negative as “Marching demonstrators from the Post Office and Art Gallery sit in,” June 1938; the
copy on Wikimedia Commons was first described, from the library’s database, as the men marching back to the
Relief Project Workers’ Union’s headquarters after the post office riot. These were the single unemployed men
of the relief-camp generation, most of them young, whose month-long occupation ended on Bloody Sunday.
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Photograph · 12 Nov 1939 · 2 pages
Two men and a boy at Spokane, 1939 Spokane, Washington
Two men in suits and a boy of about ten in a striped jersey, in a garden (page 1); on the back (page
2), “11/12/39 at Spokane,” stamped “C19.” It was kept with the family’s prints of Cudge and Dick
Ellingwood. Dick turned ten three days later, and the boy may be him, but the print does not say.
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Record image · 9 Apr 1940
1940 census, Coupeville: Francis Pfeiffer Coupeville, Island County, Washington
Sheet 4A of enumeration district 15-5, line 31: Francis Pfeiffer, 69, widowed, owner of her house
(worth $400), three years of college, living in the same house in 1935.
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Photograph · 1940 · 2 pages
Cudge Ellingwood at Spokane, 1940 Spokane, Washington
A man in a three-piece suit standing by a building with “Soft Water” lettered on its window (page 1);
on the back (page 2), “1940 Spokane Cudge,” stamped “R75.” Cudge founded the Culligan Soft Water
Service at Spokane on 15 February 1940.
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Record image · 16 Oct 1940
Donald John Morilon's draft card, Portland, 16 October 1940 Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
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Photograph · c. 1940-1941
Frances Holbrook in a grass skirt, Hawaii Hawaii
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Record image · 4 June 1946
Marriage record: Harold Franklin Forrester and Alice Phillips Carter, 1946 North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Alice Phillips Carter, 46, of North Hollywood, in her second marriage, to Harold Franklin Forrester,
41, of Van Nuys. Her mother is named “Molly Frances Holbrook.”
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Portrait · 1946
Ruth Ellingwood, 1946 A yearbook portrait of a young woman with her hair rolled back, smiling. Shared on Ancestry as Ruth
Ellingwood’s, from a 1946 school yearbook; she was then at Washington State College, Pullman, where
she had gone in 1943, and married Don Dorman that September. The yearbook is not named.
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Document · 14 May 1947
Death notice of Martha (Tisdell) Dwyer, 1947 Santa Clara, California
“DWYER. In Santa Clara, May 13, 1947, Martha A., beloved wife of the late Cornelius S. Dwyer,”
with her eight living children, a Requiem High Mass at St. Clare’s Church and burial at Holy Cross
Cemetery.
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Record image · 31 May 1947
Eli W. Clifford's death certificate, Bothell, 1947 Bothell, Snohomish County, Washington
Eli W. Clifford, of Route 1, Bothell, a widower (wife Gertrude), born 25 Mar 1875 in Iowa, a
retired farmer and cattle raiser, died 31 May 1947 of coronary occlusion, aged 72. His father was
John Clifford, born in Nebraska [sic], and his mother “Emma Bruner,” born in Missouri. The
informant was Mrs. Arthur Bailey of Bothell. He was cremated at Washelli.
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Photograph · Jul 1948 · 2 pages
Cudge driving a stake at Camp Cowles, 1948 Camp Cowles, Diamond Lake [?], Washington
A man swinging a sledge at a stake while another holds it and a third looks on (page 1); on the back
(page 2): “Ellingwood. Cudge driving a stake for ‘horseshoe’ game at Camp Cowles - Diamond [?] Lake on a
Rotary trip in July 1948. Van der Loeff [?] holding the stake,” stamped “076.” Camp Cowles is the Scout
camp on Diamond Lake, north of Spokane. Cudge had joined the Rotary Club in 1941 (his memoir,
scan 147 ).
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Portrait · c. 1951-1953 · 2 pages
Dick Ellingwood in the army A young soldier in fatigues and cap, holding a carbine, by a tent and a wooden hut (page 1); on the
back (page 2), “Dick Ellingwood,” stamped “225.” He was drafted in 1951 and served as a radio
specialist until 1953.
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Document · 27 Jan 1952
Obituary of William C. Flynn, Sunday Oregonian, 27 January 1952 Portland, Oregon
William Clifford Flynn, retired real estate broker of Portland, born at Fairfield, Nebraska, on 7
January 1872, with his photograph: a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus, survived by eleven sons and
daughters, among them “Mrs. Winifred I. Dwyer, Seattle.”
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Document · 29 Dec 1953 · 2 pages
"A Letter from College of Arms, London, Dec. 29, 1953" London
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Record image · 24 Feb 1954
Certificate of death of Frances M. Pfeiffer, Mount Vernon, 1954 Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington
State file no. 5201. She died at Resthaven Nursing Home, Mount Vernon, after two years there; her
home was Coupeville. Born, by this certificate, 4 Dec 1861 [sic], on Whidbey Island; father Richard
Holbrook; mother “Harriet ??”. The informant was Mrs. Harold Forrester of Hollywood, her daughter.
Cremated at Washelli Crematory, Seattle.
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Document · 3 Dec 1955
"Former Navy Officer At Shumaker Dies," Arkansas Gazette, 3 December 1955 Hot Springs, Arkansas
Capt. Richard Clifford Holbrook, USNR (ret.), who had commanded the 130th Seabee Battalion in the
Pacific, died at Hot Springs; survived by his wife, his daughters Frances and Harriet, and his
brother Phillip, with burial at Tacoma.
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Photograph · 22 Nov 1956 · 2 pages
Thanksgiving Day 1956 at LaCrosse LaCrosse, Whitman County, Washington
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Photograph · Jul 1957 · 2 pages
The Hay home at Woodstock, 1957 Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
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Record image · 10 Dec 1960
Elizabeth Jane Myers's death certificate, Kirkland, 1960 Kirkland, King County, Washington
Elizabeth Jane Myers, a widowed housewife of 1433 10th Street West, Kirkland, born 1 Feb 1883
[as written, “2/1/1883”] in Arkansas, died 10 Dec 1960. Her father was Louis Davis, and her
mother’s maiden name was “Emma Brunner.” The informant was her son Louis Myers of Kirkland.
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Photograph · c. 1963-1964
Dick and Frances Ellingwood and their children at Priest Lake Priest Lake, Idaho
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Photograph · c. 1965
The Haberkorn house, Sherrill's Mound, Iowa, about 1965 Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowa
The large house of two storeys and an attic, painted pale yellow, with a pillared porch, that Adam
Haberkorn and his sons, George among them, built at Sherrill’s Mound, now on the National Register,
with two women going in at the side door. “G. HABERKORN. 1870.” is cut over its door.
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Record image · 6 Aug 1975
Finley F. Ellingwood's death certificate, Arlington, Vermont, 1975 Arlington, Bennington County, Vermont
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Photograph · 1983
The Capt. R. B. Holbrook house, San de Fuca, Whidbey Island, 1983 683 N. Power Road, San de Fuca, Whidbey Island, Washington
A frame house of a storey and a half with a front porch, photographed in 1983. The inventory that
goes with it says that Capt. R. B. Holbrook came to central Whidbey Island in 1852 and settled on 160
acres in the centre of San de Fuca, living in a tent through the summer and building a small log
cabin in the fall, and that he built this house in 1874. It stood a little west of its present site
until it was moved about 1930, and was altered about 1940 and 1950.
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Document · 21 Apr 1998
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Photograph · 8 June 2013
The Bloody Brook monument, South Deerfield North Main Street, South Deerfield, Massachusetts
The marble obelisk on a green at South Deerfield, finished in 1838 over the place where Capt. Thomas
Lathrop’s company was ambushed. Its inscription begins: “On this Ground Capt. Thomas Lathrop and eighty
four men under his command, including eighteen teamsters from Deerfield, conveying stores from that town
to Hadley, were ambuscaded by about 700 Indians, and the Captain and seventy six men slain, September
18th 1675 (old style),” and calls the dead, after Hubbard, “a choice Company of young men, the very
flower of the County of Essex.” Among them were Peter Woodbury of Beverly, son of Deacon Humphrey
Woodbury and Elizabeth (Hunter) Woodbury and brother of Thomas Woodbury, and Josiah Dodge, brother of
Thomas’s wife Hannah (Dodge) Woodbury. Fourteen years later Elizabeth Woodbury’s will left ten
shillings each to two grandsons “because they beare ye name of my son Peter that was killed in ye war
with Capt. Lartheope by the Indians.”
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Photograph · 14 July 2018
The Great Swamp Fight monument, South Kingstown, Rhode Island Great Swamp Management Area, West Kingston, South Kingstown, Rhode Island
A tall rough granite shaft on a low rise in the woods, with smaller stones set round it, at the end of
a half-mile path off Great Swamp Monument Road. The Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars placed it in
1906 on what is taken to be the site of the Narragansetts’ palisaded fort, on an island of upland in
the swamp. On Sunday 19 December 1675 the armies of Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut, about
a thousand men, marched through the snow, stormed the fort and burned it with the wigwams inside, and
hundreds of Narragansett men, women and children died; the English lost some seventy killed and
many more wounded. Ralph Ellinwood of Beverly, eighteen, was in Capt. Joseph Gardner’s company of
Salem with his brother John; Gardner was killed in the assault.
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Map · 2026
From the Tidewater to the Mountains The eastern half of the family’s road, 1694-1827: the Collins line from Orange and Louisa counties and the Flat River, the Reeds from Surry County and the Rowan settlements, through the New River country to Clay County, Kentucky, where Jesse Collins and Mary Reed married in 1827. From Molata .
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Photograph · 10 August 2026
Nine Men's Misery, Cumberland, Rhode Island Nine Men's Misery, Cumberland, Rhode Island
The long cairn of fieldstones in the woods of Cumberland, with the bronze plaque the State of Rhode
Island set beside it in 1928: “Nine Men’s Misery. On this spot where they were slain by the Indians were
buried the nine soldiers captured in Pierce’s fight March 26, 1676” (partly read through the leaf
shadows). Capt. Michael Pierce of Scituate was killed that day with most of his company of Plymouth
men and Native allies, cut off near Pawtucket Falls on the Blackstone River; nine of the soldiers taken
alive were killed here, and the men who found them buried them where they lay and heaped the stones
over the grave. It is thought to be the oldest war memorial in the United States. Pierce’s daughter
Abigail married John Holbrook of Scituate, son of Capt. John Holbrook of Weymouth, in 1671.
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Map · 2026
The Road West The whole road, 1694-1887: from Tidewater Virginia through Clay County to Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas, with Bradley Collins’s flatboat of 1839, and an inset of the last legs to Colorado and Puget Sound. From Molata .
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Photograph
"Ora" with wife Lela Clifford Orlando Hines Clifford and his wife Lela, whose maiden name is not yet known. Captioned
as printed.
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A dinner party in Japan, with Frances Holbrook Japan [?]
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A page on Theresa Panian, from a family history A typed page with her portrait, numbered 21 in a family compilation, headed “Theresa Panian”
by hand:
Theresa Panian was born on February 25, 1878, to George Panian and Mary Habercorn in
Westphalia, Iowa. She was the second of nine children. In 1881 they moved to Royalton,
Minnesota and one year later to Zell, South Dakota. In 1896, when she was eighteen, the
family moved to Almena, Wisconsin, where she met Joseph Kuchenmeister. The two were married
on October 24, 1899, in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a small wooden mission church, which
would later become the parish school. Theresa was active in the church Alter Society and in
the Catholic Aid Society. Her husband served as postmaster, and she managed the post office
for some time while he worked in another position. Joseph preceded her in death by fourteen
years. After the death of her husband, the family home was sold, and she moved in with her
daughter’s family, Laura and Dominic Ritchie, in Barron, Wisconsin. She fell and broke her
hip and spent the last year or so of her life in a small nursing home in Rice Lake,
Wisconsin. She died on February 7, her husband’s birthday, in 1966 at the age of 84. She is
buried with her husband in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Almena.
The Ancestry tree has her mother as Anna Maria Haberkorn (the Zell photograph’s caption
also has “Anna Haberkorn Panian”) and her death on 8 May 1966 at Rice Lake, where this page has
“Mary Habercorn” and 7 February 1966. Both are on her page until a record settles them.
Credit Family collection; page 21 of a family compilation
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Photograph · 2 pages
A Short and Jeffrey family group In the picture 1 1 Mary Jeffrey Short b 1807 2 2 (no name on the back) 3 3 (no name on the back) 4 4 William Jeffrey 5 5 Aunt Mary (John's sister?) 6 6 Mrs Short (John's mother) 7 7 John Short Seven people, most of them elderly, in dark clothes before a pale wall, numbered 1 to 7 in ink along
the foot of the print (page 1). The back (page 2) names five of them: “1 Mary Jeffrey Short b 1807 / 2
/ 3 / 4 William Jeffrey / 5 Aunt Mary (John’s sister?) / 6 Mrs Short (John’s mother) / 7 John Short.”
In pencil down the side, “Copy of old picture taken shortly before Wm Jeffrey’s [?] death,” and at the
foot, “Please I have another copy Keep this!”
The names do not all fit. The clothes look of about 1890-1910, after the deaths of Mary (Jeffrey)
Short (1883), her husband John Short (1858) and both William Jeffreys in the archive (1852 and 1879),
and nos. 1 and 6 would both be John’s mother if John were John Gerald Short. If the picture is as late
as it looks, no. 7 might be John Gerald Short (born 1845) and no. 5 his sister Mary (1844-1928) of
Woodstock. In the family’s reading (October 2026) the names are mistaken, and one of the women the
back calls John’s aunt or mother is his wife, Mary (Pattullo) Short. Who is who is not settled; the
back’s names are placed on the faces by the numbers along the foot.
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Beverly town records, births, marriages and deaths, 1665-1725: the volume Beverly, Massachusetts
The cloth-bound volume, its spine lettered “Town Records, Births, Marriages & Deaths, 1665-1725,
Town of Beverly.” The births of Ralph and Martha Ellinwood’s and Benjamin and Mary Ellinwood’s
children are entered in it.
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Portrait
Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook An oval portrait of a man with swept-back hair and a full beard, in a dark coat and bow tie, captioned
“capt richard holbrook 1821-1894.” The museum’s name is printed across the copy.
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Captioned "Hickman Bruner and Sarah Bridges" An elderly white-haired man seated and a tall older woman standing with her hand on his shoulder, from
a poor copy. Posted as Hickman Bruner and Sarah Bridges. The woman’s dress, with full sleeves puffed
at the shoulder, is of the 1890s, while the dates in the archive for their deaths are 1873-74 (neither
sourced), so either the dates or the names are in question.
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Clay County, Kentucky Clay County, Kentucky
Clay County, Kentucky, shaded, in the mountain counties, with Laurel, Knox, Leslie and Owsley
around it. The Collins and Reed families were there in the 1820s, and Jesse Collins and Mary
Reed married there in 1827. From Molata , chapter six.
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Cornelius Dwyer [?] A head-and-shoulders portrait of a man with dark wavy hair and a heavy moustache, in a dark coat,
cut from a larger picture (another sitter’s head shows at the right edge). Believed in the family to
be Cornelius S. Dwyer; not yet confirmed.
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Portrait
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Elizabeth Ellen Bruner A full-length studio portrait of a young woman in a dark dress with a checked and buttoned bodice and a
ribbon at the throat, a hat in her hand on a table, captioned in the picnic book’s typewriter face
“Elizabeth Ellen Bruner.”
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Emil C. Pfeiffer A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man with a moustache, posted to his Find a Grave memorial
with the caption that it comes from the Harvard class of 1889’s twenty-fifth anniversary report. The
date of the photograph is not known.
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Frances (Holbrook) Brewer and family at Rockwood, Spokane Rockwood, Spokane, Washington
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Frank and Margaret (Borrell) Kuchenmeister The couple seated side by side, he with a chin beard, she in a dark buttoned dress. Written on the
copy: “Frank & Margaret Kuchenmeister (Borell) / Jake’s father & Stepmother.”
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Frank and Margaret Kuchenmeister with Jake and his brothers Frank and Margaret seated, with young men standing and seated around them and a small boy at the
right. The copy was posted upside down, with a note in ink, here at the foot and upside down: “Frank
& Margaret Kuchenmeister / Jake in back between them, others are his brothers. / Margaret was a
sister to Clara’s grandpa Borrell / and was Jake’s stepmother.” Jake (Jacob, born 1866) was Frank’s son
by his first wife, Barbara Blatz; which of the others are Margaret’s own sons, Joseph among them, is
not marked. The top of the photograph is cut off in the screenshot.
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Frank Kuchenmeister A sepia head-and-shoulders portrait, probably a crayon enlargement, of a man with dark hair, a chin
beard and a black bow tie: Franz “Frank” Kuchenmeister as a younger man.
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George Pattullo, the writer, at a window Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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George Robson Pattullo Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Georgia Ann Bruner with two children A woman in a dark dress between a small girl in white and a boy in a sailor suit, captioned in the
picnic book’s typewriter face “Georgia Ann Bruner.” The children are not named; the tree that posted
it has her married name as Bayless. She died at Seattle in 1901.
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Gothic, Colorado Gothic, Gunnison County, Colorado
The mining camp of Gothic in the Elk Mountains: a two-storey hotel with a long porch, cabins and
a rail fence, under a scree slope. It is undated, probably 1880s [?]. Emma (Bruner) Clifford’s
household was counted at Gothic in 1880. Molata left this photograph out.
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Gravestone of Francis H. Pfeiffer, Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Washington
A flat red granite marker: “FRANCIS H. PFEIFFER / 1870 DAUGHTER 1952.” She died in 1954. Lot 59,
space A, beside Emil.
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Gravestone of Hon. Andrew Jeffrey and Janet Hall, Cobourg Cobourg Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario
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Gravestone of Jane Robson, widow of Halket Pattullo, Woodstock Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery, Woodstock, Ontario
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Gravestone of John Short, Mary (Jeffrey) Short and their daughter Jane Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Gravestone of Thomas R. Pattullo, British Columbia Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Gravestone of Thomas Robson and Jean Clark Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Gravestone of Thomas Robson and Jean Clark, natives of Roxburghshire: the inscription Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Gravestone of William Jeffrey and Mary Wilkie, St. Paul's Presbyterian Cemetery, Linton St. Paul's Presbyterian Cemetery, Linton, King Township, Ontario
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Harriet (Low) Holbrook A cabinet portrait of an older woman in round spectacles and a dark dress with a lace collar, from the
Holbrook family’s photograph album at the Island County Historical Society. Written on the album page
beneath: “Mrs. Richard B. Holbrook.”
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Heck Bruner as a young man A small head-and-shoulders picture of a young man with thick dark hair, captioned “Heck Bruner.” It
survives only at this size.
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Map · 17th century
Insula Hvaena, sive Venusia: the island of Ven, by Blaeu Ven, Øresund, Sweden
The island of Ven (Hven) in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden, hand-coloured, from a Blaeu
atlas. The cartouche reads Insula Hvaena, sive Venusia, à Guiljelmo Blaeu, cum sub Tychone
astronomo operam daret, delineata : drawn by Willem Blaeu while he worked under the astronomer
Tycho Brahe, whose observatories stood on the island. The fields, villages and fishponds are
lettered in the key at the right.
The Ancestry tree has Sylvia (Anna) Pauline Paulson, mother of Winifred (Flynn) Dwyer, born on Ven on 27 December 1871 (“Landskrona, Isle of Ven”). No record seen names Ven, so it
stays possible; her Swedish parish is an open question (see her page).
See her page.
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James F. Flynn appointed a mail carrier, "like his brother, W. C. Flynn" St. Joseph, Missouri
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James Finlay Bruner A seated man with a heavy moustache, in a three-piece suit and patterned tie, two children’s hands on
his shoulders where the picture has been cut from a group. The page is headed “James Finley Bruner &
Descendants”; it comes from the book made for the 1997 Bruner picnic of the descendants of Eli
Woodruff Bruner.
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John Gerald Short's grave marker, Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Washington
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John Short's gravestone, Lawrence Cemetery, Orono Lawrence Cemetery, Orono, Durham County, Canada West
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Mary Lyall's monument, Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Ontario
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Mary Lyall's monument, Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough: the inscription Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough, Ontario
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Maud (Noel) with a man in a hat and a small child Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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Memorial stone of Emil C. Pfeiffer, Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Washington
A flat red granite marker: “IN MEMORIAM / EMIL C. PFEIFFER / 1865-1935.” He died at Los Angeles in
November 1934. Lot 59, space B.
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Ora and Lela Clifford in later life Orlando Hines “Ora” Clifford and his wife Lela, white-haired, standing in a parlour with a bouquet
on the table before them, perhaps for an anniversary. The Ancestry caption gives her maiden name as
Lela Belle Tatum; it is not yet confirmed by a record.
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Orlando Hines Clifford “Ora” Clifford (born 1873), the eldest child of John and Emma Clifford and brother of
Jessie Clifford Holbrook.
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Orlando Hines Clifford and a woman, perhaps Lela Ora Clifford standing with a woman before a vine-covered clapboard house. She is not
named; she looks like the Lela of the other photographs, but that is not certain.
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Ralph and Ellen's children, with a sketch map of Beverly Beverly, Massachusetts
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Richard Clifford Holbrook in his diving dress, a second print Dick Holbrook seated on a barge or dock in his canvas diving dress, without the helmet, in a cap,
the air hose coiled beside him; men at work on the shore behind. The family remembers it as taken at
a dam he was building as an engineer, perhaps on an inspection dive. A sepia print, its corner torn.
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Richard Clifford Holbrook in his diving suit “Dick” Holbrook, builder and diver, seated on a barge in his canvas diving dress with a
cigarette, his helmet beside him and air hose coiled around. Behind, a river or harbour
works with a crane and rock fill. Undated; he dived for the Navy at Pearl Harbor and on
dam works across the country.
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Salem records index: the Ellinwoods Salem, Massachusetts
An index page of the Salem copy of the town records, with each entry’s year, book and page. The
right-hand column, under “Ellinwood,” lists the children of Ralph and Ellen: Raulph 1657, John
1659, Joseph 1662, Mary 1664, Elizabeth 1666, Benjamin 1668 and David 1670, all at book 1, page
17, and Ralph 1694 at page 165. The left-hand column has two Ralphs, one of 1655 (probably
Ralph and Ellen’s marriage [?]), and later Ellinwoods from 1712 to 1775.
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Sarah Lucy Tisdell A small head-and-shoulders picture of a woman with dark wavy hair and a high dark collar, captioned
“Sarah Lucy Tisdell.” She is also in the photograph of the four sisters.
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The Bruner house in Arkansas, as captioned Arkansas
A log house with a deep porch overgrown with vines, an older woman in a white apron seated on the
steps and a man in a dark suit standing beside her. Captioned on Ancestry “Eli Woodruff Bruner &
Polly’s House in Arkansas.” Polly was living in Benton County, Arkansas, in 1880, a widow; Eli had
died in Colorado in 1879. The couple on the porch are not named, and when it was taken is not known.
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The Holbrook House, 805 NW Alexander Street, Coupeville Coupeville, Island County, Washington
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The Holbrook marker, Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Island County, Washington
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The lots on the Sunset Highway, Spokane Sunset Highway, Spokane, Washington
Two prints of the Sunset Highway at Spokane, with a roadside house and a billboard on the rise beside it
(page 1), and their backs (page 2), each numbered 5: “Party on lots on Sunset Highway. This part sold
to a Texan” and “our lots on Sunset Highway (#10) by state weighing station.”
Cudge Ellingwood took the lots in trade for the old truck of his move west. In 1944 he bought the
rest of the block at a sale for the heirs of its owners and sold the part a sergeant from Texas wanted
for a motel; a few years later the state highway department, which had put a weighing station beside
them, bought the rest (his memoir, scans 136-137 ).
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The seal of Beverly, Massachusetts Beverly, Massachusetts
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The Short home at Woodstock, Ontario Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
A mounted photograph of a two-storey brick house behind a curving garden path (page 1), and the back
of the mount (page 2), written in ink: “Dick / Old J. G. Short Home on Light St [?] / Woodstock, Ont, /
House where my mother’s children were all born.” A strip of black tape covers the lower part of the
back. J. G. Short is John Gerald Short, organ manufacturer at Woodstock, whose children, Ruth (Short)
Ellingwood among them, were born there between 1880 and 1893, before the family moved to Chicago in
1896-97. The note is addressed to Dick, Ruth’s son. When the photograph was taken is not known.
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Theresa Kuchenmeister's childhood home and her father's store, Zell Zell, South Dakota
A calendar picture, a painting of a white frame house joined to “Miesen’s Store”, with a post
office sign by the door and two gasoline pumps in front, under a big prairie sky. Written on
the calendar’s mount by a family hand: “Do not destroy this”, and “Grandmother Kuchenmeister[’s]
childhood home & her father’s store in Zell So Dak”, with “Theresa” above.
Her father was George Panian, at Zell from about 1882 to 1896. The store evidently passed to the
Miesens later; the calendar is of the mid-twentieth century.
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Thomas Dufferin "Duff" Pattullo Premier of British Columbia, 1933-1941, and by Cudge’s memoir a cousin of Ruth Short
(through her mother, a Pattullo): the son of her uncle George Robson Pattullo.
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Thomas Robson Pattullo Kept for the family Unlock with the family password → Private
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William C. Flynn's mail truck hit by a train St. Joseph, Missouri
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