tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27897948269403312292024-03-17T20:33:11.901-07:00Several Times RemovedHistories and mysteries of the families of Eric Shanower and David Maxine.ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-62463030218369785732017-12-31T18:40:00.000-08:002018-01-01T17:45:35.441-08:00Benjamin and His Brothers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4KB4QvgsUPGWzU4qGZNuYysL7F7RfLJWQYMa6gVyo3JLn75R1XVaPamDzfFyxIAH4EViDzpFDVU0GvQCy8P79T66h1rL8fIsJUhQbQyX62rBX0M3uFTpYu5OhDP4nHClNt6-4C2kuEIN/s1600/Back_NathanielShanower_BenjaminShanower_JohnSmith_Front_JohnShanower_ReubenShanower_WilliamShanower_LeviCecil_probably_photoshopped_lores.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1200" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4KB4QvgsUPGWzU4qGZNuYysL7F7RfLJWQYMa6gVyo3JLn75R1XVaPamDzfFyxIAH4EViDzpFDVU0GvQCy8P79T66h1rL8fIsJUhQbQyX62rBX0M3uFTpYu5OhDP4nHClNt6-4C2kuEIN/s400/Back_NathanielShanower_BenjaminShanower_JohnSmith_Front_JohnShanower_ReubenShanower_WilliamShanower_LeviCecil_probably_photoshopped_lores.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
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I first came across this photo <i>(above)</i> a couple years ago among the Shanower family material my cousin Burleigh J. "B.J." Shanower (1889-1985) donated to the Shanower library at the Pioneer Village in Burton, Geauga County, Ohio. Right away I recognized my great-great-grandfather Benjamin Franklin Shanower (1845-1928) standing at the center. I'd seen him only in one other photo without a beard <i>(below left)</i>. In most photos he wears a beard. But there's no mistaking him in this photo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benjamin Franklin Shanower, with beard, circa 1880.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benjamin Franklin Shanower, without beard, 1870.</td></tr>
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I was pretty sure the figure standing on the left is Ben's brother
Nathaniel E. Shanower (1853-1936), the father of B.J. Shanower, whom this photo had once belonged to.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nathaniel E. Shanower, circa 1900.</td></tr>
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But I wasn't sure who the other men could be. The photo
has no identifications. Were the others friends? Brothers? Since Ben and Nathaniel were brothers, I thought it likely that the other men were, too. I approached my attempt to identify them with that assumption.<br />
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There were five sons in this generational unit of the Shanower family:<br />
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1. Benjamin Franklin Shanower, born August 27, 1845<br />
2. Reuben Shanower born August 10, 1847<br />
3. John A. Shanower born March 9, 1851<br />
4. Nathaniel E. Shanower born April 22, 1853<br />
5. William Zachary Shanower born August 23, 1855<br />
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But seven men appear in the photo, so they can't all be brothers. If five of them are brothers, then two of them are not. Who are those two? None of them can be their father John Abraham Shanower since he died in 1859 when Ben, the eldest brother, was fourteen years old. Ben is clearly older than fourteen here.<br />
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The two extra men are associated closely enough with the Shanower brothers to sit for a formal photograph with them. Could they be brothers-in-law? All five of the Shanower sisters were married:<br />
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1. Mary Ann Shanower married Levi Thomas Cecil on May 15, 1870<br />
2. Lydia Shanower married Jacob M. Ebersole on September 12, 1880<br />
3. Elemina "Ellen" Shanower married John E. Smith on January 29, 1871<br />
4. Margaret "Molly" Shanower married Calvin A. Wise on October 26, 1890<br />
5. Clarana "Clara" Shanower married Lester L. Butler on December 25, 1877<br />
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That's quite a spread--twenty years--for the Shanower girls' wedding days. Mary Ann and Ellen were both married by early 1871. Clara, the next sister married, was wed in 1877. So if the two extra men are brothers-in-law, the photo was likely shot between January 1871 and December 1877. Ben's lack of a beard indicates a date in the early 1870s. My best guess is that the photo was taken about 1873, give or take a year or two.<br />
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If the two extra men are the brothers-in-law of Ben, their names were Levi Cecil and John Smith. But which of the five unidentified figures might they be?<br />
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The figure seated on the right doesn't resemble the others. I doubt he was a blood relation. Could he be Levi or John?<br />
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I have an album of photos from the mid- to late nineteenth century. The album once belonged to my great-great-grandparents Benjamin Franklin Shanower and his second wife Lucy Leifer Shanower. Most of the photos are unidentified. I recognize Ben's brother Nathaniel and his family in one. I'm sure some of the photos show other siblings of Ben. <br />
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Two of them--clearly a paired set, one a portrait of a man, the other a portrait of a woman--are marked "Cecil" in pencil on their backs. Could the man be Levi Cecil? Unfortunately he doesn't resemble anyone in the photo of Ben and six other men. <br />
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But are these paired photos really of anyone named Cecil? There are notes on other photos from the mostly unidentified album that are incorrect identifications--one Leifer photo has the name "Shanower" written on it <i>(below)</i>. So I strongly question the written "Cecil" identification.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo from the mostly unidentified album has a note that reads "Shanower." But it's actually Frederick Leifer, Jr.</td></tr>
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In the pair of photos marked "Cecil" <i>(below)</i> the woman seems rather elderly to be Mary Ann Shanower Cecil when the styles of her dress and of the photo are taken into account. She looks suspiciously like Ben's aunt, Rebecca Shanower Kroehle. (<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/11/who.html" target="_blank">C</a><a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/11/who.html" target="_blank">ompare her with the 1909 Shanower reunion photo here.</a>) I believe this pair of photos actually depicts Rebecca Shanower Kroehle and her husband Philip Oscar Kroehle, and that whoever wrote "Cecil" on the photos was wrong.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noted as "Cecil," but it's Rebecca Shanower Kroehle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noted as "Cecil," but I think it's Philip Kroehle.</td></tr>
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So I had no luck in securely identifying anyone in the original photo as Levi Cecil.<br />
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Could I identify the other brother-in-law in 1873, John Smith?<br />
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In the album of mostly unidentified photos, there's one <i>(below)</i> that shows a man that looks a lot like the standing figure on the right in the photo of Ben and six other men. In the upper left corner of the album photo are some remnants of writing which could easily be reconstructed as "Smith." The writing seems to be an original identification, not a later guess, since the missing portions were cut off before the photo was mounted to its backing by the photography studio. I believe the writing confirms that the album photo shows John Smith with his wife Ellen Shanower Smith and eldest child Minnie. And his resemblance in the two photos confirms that the photo of Ben and six other men shows John Smith standing on the right.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellen Shanower Smith, Clara Minerva "Minnie" Smith O'Donnel Engel Williams, and John E. Smith, circa 1874. Note the remnants of lettering in the upper left corner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Probably John E. Smith in 1909.</td></tr>
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There's a third photo that might show John Smith--the Shanower family reunion photo from 1909--which I wrote about in <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/11/who.html" target="_blank">this previous post</a> <i>(detail on right)</i>. Figure 44 looks to me to be the same man as the two other photos. His presence at the Shanower reunion confirms him as a Shanower family member in some respect. I feel pretty secure in identifying him in all three photos as John E. Smith.<br />
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If that's John Smith in the photo of Ben and six others, then I'm pretty sure that the photo shows the five Shanower brothers and their two brothers-in-law. I have no way to prove or disprove that the seated man on the right is brother-in-law Levi Cecil. It seems reasonable for the two brothers-in-law to be arranged in the photo on the right side together. So I'm going with the assumption that the seated right-hand figure is Levi Cecil.<br />
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Three remaining men are still unidentified. I believe they're the three remaining Shanower brothers. In 1873 they were:<br />
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1. Reuben Shanower, age 26<br />
2. John A. Shanower, age 22<br />
3. William Zachary Shanower, age 18<br />
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But which is which? Is there any clue in their arrangement in the photo?<br />
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Ben, standing center, was the eldest brother. Nathaniel, standing on the left, beside Ben, was the fourth brother. So they don't seem to be arranged by age. I can't think of any other information communicated by their seating order.<br />
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Can I find any of them in another photo?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure 31 is Nathaniel E. Shanower in 1909. Who is figure 13?</td></tr>
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In the 1909 Shanower family reunion photo are two figures that I believe are Ben Shanower's brothers, figures 13 and 31. I believe figure 31 is Nathaniel Shanower, who's already identified in the photo of Ben and his brothers. Since brother William Shanower died in 1903, figure 13 has to be either Reuben or John, but I don't know which. I think figure 13 most closely resembles the figure seated second from left in the photo of Ben and six others. But I can't be sure.<br />
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I have another photo <i>(below)</i> that I strongly suspect shows one of these Shanower brothers. The photo, from about 1920, shows Lloyd E. Shanower seated at the upper right and his two young sons, Delmer Lloyd Shanower Fentress standing on the bottom step and Wilbur J. "Mickey" Shanower Fentress sitting just below his father Lloyd.<br />
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This photo shows two other people, a woman and a man, both elderly. When I first saw this photo, I thought they must be Reuben Shanower and his wife Lydia A. Karrer Shanower, Lloyd's parents and the grandparents of the two young boys. But Reuben Shanower died in 1912, so this photo can't include him. I assume by extension that the woman isn't Reuben's wife Lydia, though she was alive in 1920.<br />
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So who are they?<br />
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Lydia Karrer Shanower's sister Elizabeth E. Karrer married John A. Shanower as his second wife. That made Elizabeth the great aunt of the two young boys, Del and Mickey, in two ways--both by marriage and by blood. John Shanower was the boys' great uncle and their father Lloyd's uncle. These relationships made it perfectly reasonable for these people to appear together in a photo. So I think the old couple in this 1920 photo is wife and husband Elizabeth E. Karrer Shanower and John A. Shanower.<br />
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Figure 13 in the 1909 Shanower reunion photo is either Reuben or John Shanower. I think figure 13 is <i>not</i> the same as the old man in the 1920 photo of Lloyd Shanower and his two young sons. If my conclusion is correct, figure 13 is not John Shanower. That means figure 13 in the reunion photo is most likely Reuben Shanower and figure 14 is likely Lydia Karrer Shanower. I don't see much resemblance between figure 14 and the woman in the 1920 photo, who I think is Elizabeth Karrer Shanower.<br />
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I believe the figure I've identified as John Shanower in the 1920 photo most closely resembles the figure seated on the left in the photo of Ben and his brothers. That leaves Reuben and William as the two remaining brothers.<br />
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Can I identify one or the other, thus giving me the identities of both? I'm not sure.<br />
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The album of unidentified photos contains a photo <i>(below)</i> with a man that resembles the figure seated second from left.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGhWCIl7HJ7iI4iGZptKk9Xzk-X7M7DyY4tl5UAfC3MD9Q5y9cKlqdQVBxKOsX2T308sGytPNsztgKEyUI2LNBZN4jtUjmWW4FkW4BDnLs563NiHp7zarhep0dnrMvWB-sIN6cVyCyHin/s1600/PollockPhotoAlbum_p20_WilliamZShanower_MelissaGerberShanower_maybe_photoshopped_lores.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGhWCIl7HJ7iI4iGZptKk9Xzk-X7M7DyY4tl5UAfC3MD9Q5y9cKlqdQVBxKOsX2T308sGytPNsztgKEyUI2LNBZN4jtUjmWW4FkW4BDnLs563NiHp7zarhep0dnrMvWB-sIN6cVyCyHin/s640/PollockPhotoAlbum_p20_WilliamZShanower_MelissaGerberShanower_maybe_photoshopped_lores.jpg" width="449" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this a Shanower brother and his wife?</td></tr>
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There is also a woman in that photo. I assume they're husband and wife and that the photo dates from the time of their marriage, since there are no children included. That woman could be one of two wives:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4-y2x23q_GExD25jlsK0QZb1Bqo5253GEYLjVbN6iegr71cTntwMjzmrGEp65DZeEo1NWY1ltA5Alik_lshOME4QOeJYG9aQ9pbsUBnF_TCuhA3TucpcYYuvkd_UFcbJ6BW5xXbT7EmPy/s1600/Figure14_1909ShanowerReunion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="323" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4-y2x23q_GExD25jlsK0QZb1Bqo5253GEYLjVbN6iegr71cTntwMjzmrGEp65DZeEo1NWY1ltA5Alik_lshOME4QOeJYG9aQ9pbsUBnF_TCuhA3TucpcYYuvkd_UFcbJ6BW5xXbT7EmPy/s200/Figure14_1909ShanowerReunion.jpg" width="105" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who is this?</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLk_yQ1bknksCTrMSGL0nvZGrKfLaDJR8B-5lYpkkGfr5FHYi1iOe2mTIV68xq47rsU8_Eyl6I1ocpv6zdnKmLlx2__EHN6ZoAG8hgM_FO9mGmbWzxfTEonckIk55EEWz41Otu8tqSR8X2/s1600/LydiaKarrerShanower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="323" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLk_yQ1bknksCTrMSGL0nvZGrKfLaDJR8B-5lYpkkGfr5FHYi1iOe2mTIV68xq47rsU8_Eyl6I1ocpv6zdnKmLlx2__EHN6ZoAG8hgM_FO9mGmbWzxfTEonckIk55EEWz41Otu8tqSR8X2/s200/LydiaKarrerShanower.jpg" width="175" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lydia Karrer Shanower?</td></tr>
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1. Lydia A. Karrer married Reuben Shanower on February 15, 1880<br />
2. Melissa A. Gerber married William Z. Shanower on February 11, 1883<br />
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I have one photo identified as Lydia Karrer Shanower <i>(right)</i>, but in it she's elderly and the photo's extremely blurry. I'm also not confident that she's Lydia. She might be Lydia's daughter-in-law, Ethel Sheehan Shanower Fentress. In any case, she doesn't look much like the woman in the unidentified album photo.<br />
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Figure 14 in the 1909 Shanower family reunion photo might be Lydia Karrer Shanower, especially if figure 13 is Reuben Shanower. I think figure 14 looks a little like the woman in the unidentified album photo.<br />
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I have several securely identified photos of Melissa A. Gerber<i> </i>Shanower <i>(below)</i>. Melissa had a pretty strong jawline. If I had to guess, I'd say the woman in the unidentified album photo doesn't look much like Melissa. If that guess is correct, then chances are that the man in the album photo is Reuben Shanower.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyMqZUyXU3pA02idXQDdBDw15wpwYWkIckFy9vOqnWRNSg5FuhB6WQwk4tcmVAJDTNRJIUKn3gckivRvlzRYYkckMKgiKR64QKK176ph-TDoRQBk8xPyHFY7k8bVhZnWP5rgmMGdCKfmYW/s1600/MelissaGerberShanower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyMqZUyXU3pA02idXQDdBDw15wpwYWkIckFy9vOqnWRNSg5FuhB6WQwk4tcmVAJDTNRJIUKn3gckivRvlzRYYkckMKgiKR64QKK176ph-TDoRQBk8xPyHFY7k8bVhZnWP5rgmMGdCKfmYW/s1600/MelissaGerberShanower.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three views of Melissa Gerber Shanower--circa 1887, circa 1900, and in 1909.</td></tr>
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And I think that man most closely resembles the figure seated second from left in the photo of Ben and brothers. That leaves the figure seated second from right as the only remaining brother, William.<br />
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But I'm not sure. I keep changing my guesses.<br />
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In any case, my final identifications (for the present) of the men in the photo are:<br />
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Standing, left to right: Nathaniel E. Shanower, Benjamin Franklin Shanower, John E. Smith<br />
Seated, left to right: John A. Shanower, Reuben Shanower, William Zachary Shanower, Levi Cecilericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-88186907141282170112017-12-27T13:07:00.002-08:002017-12-27T13:14:05.547-08:00Shanower Archive Surfaces<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJxBjormsd31gfRgKTMWCLlYbyrF6-fmlP5QGM561ykmq2R8pTu_xJn8SJrx-vO7vSfo8wvLhqfQ-CzgkJ-B7C7gFfAyGYwbvmyJwFzhxtT05fH58MJBwWwQoixOfbwL8N9NlWpEIjJOx/s1600/TimothyEdwardShanower_1948-1968.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="465" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJxBjormsd31gfRgKTMWCLlYbyrF6-fmlP5QGM561ykmq2R8pTu_xJn8SJrx-vO7vSfo8wvLhqfQ-CzgkJ-B7C7gFfAyGYwbvmyJwFzhxtT05fH58MJBwWwQoixOfbwL8N9NlWpEIjJOx/s320/TimothyEdwardShanower_1948-1968.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Timothy Edward Shanower (1948-1968).</td></tr>
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Timothy Edward Shanower (1948-1968) was my second cousin once removed. Our common ancestors were my great-great-grandparents Benjamin Franklin Shanower (1845-1928) and Lucy Leifer Shanower (1856-1916). Timothy was killed in action in Da Nang, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.<br />
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Last year in a thrift store near Bradenton, Florida, someone unrelated to the family found an archive of photos and letters from Timothy Shanower. That person was kind enough to post the material online. Here's the link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F263441-pfc-timothy-shanower-35th-marines-kia-3-sep-1968%2F"><span class="bodysmall">http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F263441-pfc-timothy-shanower-35th-marines-kia-3-sep-1968%2F</span></a><br />
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<span class="bodysmall">It's kind of awful to realize Timothy Shanower was only twenty years old when he died. </span>ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-71318219943026037682017-12-18T18:48:00.001-08:002017-12-19T13:07:33.038-08:00The Kelseys of KillingworthSome time ago <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-mayflower-ancestors.html" target="_blank">I posted here</a> about my Fuller line and how it seems to lead back to Edward Fuller (abt 1575-1621) of the <i>Mayflower.</i> That line has a couple weak links, namely Loring Fuller (1797-1863) and his father, Jethro Fuller (bef 1770-1821).<br />
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More recently a distant cousin wrote to me because of that post. The cousin also believes our line goes back to the Fullers of the <i>Mayflower</i> and would like to prove that once and for all in order to join the Mayflower Society. I would be delighted with proof.<br />
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The cousin gave me a few pieces of information I didn't have before. I knew that Jethro Fuller's wife was named Siba Kelsey, but I had no other information about her. The cousin provided a photograph of <a href="https://da.billiongraves.com/grave/Siba-Kelsy-Fuller/15552282" target="_blank">her gravestone, here,</a> in the Smith-Dunbar Pioneer Cemetery in Parma, Monroe County, New York.<br />
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This prompted a correction to some information I wrote about in the earlier post linked above. My research had Siba's son Loring Fuller and his family located in Nichols, Tioga County, New York, according to the 1830 US Federal Census. But there's also a Loring Fuller and family in Greece, Monroe, New York, in the 1830 census, information I hadn't found before. Greece is next to Parma, where Siba Kelsey Fuller's buried, so the Fullers in Greece, not the ones in Nichols, are clearly the ones in my direct family line.<br />
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Siba's maiden name on her gravestone is spelled Kelsy, rather than Kelsey, which is why I hadn't found her grave before. Most compelling to me was that the stone also gives her death date, April 14, 1838. And her age, 63. Simple math provides a birth date between April 14, 1774, and April 14, 1775.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicB44XRmRXPGYjqm96u0TNqeltaZpkSoVJguK45MVP8f2WqvslfySig0_PAeekTkO-yuBk7bK2yRzGBVO2UnxO43gW2BRBh1fPkrLrkr4T64pWm297mlo6VMlXDYghdXR9hzJs4JTS7V0U/s1600/SibaKelsey_birthrecord.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="922" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicB44XRmRXPGYjqm96u0TNqeltaZpkSoVJguK45MVP8f2WqvslfySig0_PAeekTkO-yuBk7bK2yRzGBVO2UnxO43gW2BRBh1fPkrLrkr4T64pWm297mlo6VMlXDYghdXR9hzJs4JTS7V0U/s640/SibaKelsey_birthrecord.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records.</td></tr>
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Using those dates I found Sibe Kelsey, born August 16, 1774, in Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut, daughter of Ambrose Kelsey (1747-bef 1749) and Jemima Griswold (1747-unk). I don't have conclusive proof that this is the Siba Kelsey who married Jethro Fuller, but despite the variant spelling of her name, I'm sure she's the same person. Sibe Kelsey of Killingworth, Connecticut, is the only Siba Kelsey of the right age and geographical area who fits.<br />
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The Kelsey family of Killingworth, Connecticut, is extensive and well documented for many generations. Siba's great-great-grandfather was William Kelsey (1600-1680), who helped found Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1632; helped found Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636; and helped found Kenilworth, later Killingworth, Connecticut, in 1663.<br />
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Siba's ancestry includes Griswold, Parmele, and Hull lines. One line leads back to Robert White (abt 1558-abt 1617) and Bridget Allgar (abt 1562-aft 1605), whom I trace descent from in several additional ways. Other descendants of Robert White and Bridget Allgar include Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903), Lucille Ball (1911-1989), Joseph Smith (1771-1840), Donny Osmond (b. 1957), Marie Osmond (b. 1959), Shirley Temple (1928-2014), Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), Orville Wright (1871-1948), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Jodie Foster (b. 1962), David Hyde Pierce (b. 1959), Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), John Brown (1800-1859), <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2012/12/famous-relatives-richard-gere.html" target="_blank">Richard Gere</a> (b. 1949), Gerald Ford (1913-2006), Samuel Colt (1814-1862), J. P. Morgan (1837-1914), and Ellen DeGeneres (b. 1958), to name a few. They're all my cousins. So you see I have plenty of subjects for my series of blog posts on "My Famous Relatives," several for my series on "My Gay Relatives," and a couple for my series on "My Musical Relatives." Let's see how many I actually cover.ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-12809731526055334852017-12-09T20:34:00.001-08:002017-12-11T15:55:14.802-08:00Arnold Stuuri's WritingsI recently finished a long task. I scanned at high resolution an archive of letters, postcards, newspaper clippings, small booklets, and other ephemera from the family of my mother's mother. The items dated from about 1912 through 1971, with the greatest concentration of them being from 1942-44, during World War II. This ended up being about 1800 scans.<br />
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The majority of the items concerned my great uncle Arnold Wilhelm Mattias Stuuri (1913-1944). I think they were originally collected and saved by his mother Wilhelmina Elizabeth "Minnie" Hirvi Stuuri (1890-1946), since a few of the items are from her childhood and a few of the letters are from her brothers during World War I.<br />
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As I understand it, these letters and items were for a long time stored in the attic of the Stuuri family home at 503 Independence Street, Fairport Harbor, Ohio. My great aunt, Adela Mirjam Stuuri Bixler (1918-2003), sister of Arnold, raised her family in that house. At one point she cleaned out the attic and planned to throw this collection away. Her youngest sister, my great aunt Alberta Elizabeth "Abbie" Stuuri Peterson (1928-1995), rescued the collection. Now it resides with Aunt Abbie's husband, Jerry Mervyn Peterson.<br />
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The material gives insight into the lives of every member of this family, especially during the early 1940s. It also brings to life the small working-class town of Fairport during those years. The personalities of all the letter-writers stand revealed more or less.<br />
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My Uncle Arnold's death was for many years clouded in obscurity. Here's the newspaper report of his funeral from the January 5, 1945, issue of <i>The Fairport Beacon:</i><br />
<blockquote>
Attending one of the most beautiful and reverent services conducted in
Fairport were hundreds of people who came to pay tribute to Arnold
Stuuri, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Stuuri of 503 Independence St., who
died at the Brooklyn Naval hospital last Thursday morning. Torpedoman
Stuuri had served in the US Navy for three years and had been wounded at
Casablanca in January, 1943.</blockquote>
Note that final sentence about Arnold's being wounded. It's both incorrect and misleading. While scanning the letters exchanged between Arnold and his family, I tried to understand what exactly had happened to him--how he'd been wounded and what had led to his death. But I couldn't. The letters make the chronology clear, but are shy on details. My great uncle Jerry Peterson finally had the answer. He was already courting Arnold's sister Abbie when Arnold was in the US Navy during the war, and he went to visit Arnold in the hospital shortly before Arnold's death.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKAFc0NRqLf8BhhtOzpP9A8F_pEugRMgAY7Dzau4mW218A9uihcCtAYL2WigPNT__iZ5dMG_W5VVYBEHHsVjxSDGRAeSu6wdf05FWLlIAxHIR4cjGN5YVo5iMtfCqMPLCAQIh5mXG_Yei/s1600/ArnoldStuuri_USNavy_IDcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1265" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKAFc0NRqLf8BhhtOzpP9A8F_pEugRMgAY7Dzau4mW218A9uihcCtAYL2WigPNT__iZ5dMG_W5VVYBEHHsVjxSDGRAeSu6wdf05FWLlIAxHIR4cjGN5YVo5iMtfCqMPLCAQIh5mXG_Yei/s400/ArnoldStuuri_USNavy_IDcard.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arnold Wilhelm Mattias Stuuri US Naval idenfication card.</td></tr>
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Arnold joined the US Navy in January 1942, shortly after the United States of America entered World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Arnold served as a torpedoman on two Navy ships during the war. The first ship was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Davis_(DD-395)" target="_blank"><i>USS Davis</i>,</a> which primarily patrolled the Caribbean and the east coast of South America. In Montevideo, Uruguay, on March 2, 1943, a depth charge fell on Arnold's foot and injured it. That was the wound that the above newspaper article references. The wound was not received in Casablanca, nor was it in January.<br />
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It took Arnold quite a while to recover from that wound, primarily it seems because the doctor aboard the <i>Davis</i> didn't take it seriously enough. It wasn't until months later and a new doctor was assigned to the <i>Davis</i> that Arnold's wound was tended to properly in Bethesda Naval Hospital.<br />
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In May 1944 Arnold was assigned to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tillman_(DD-641)" target="_blank"><i>USS Tillman,</i></a> a destroyer that took him to Casablanca and Sicily. If he was wounded at Casablanca, it wasn't a wound of much consequence and it would have been in 1944, not 1943 as the newspaper article states. I doubt he was wounded at Casablanca.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLMtZNPGwrphE0cBu0L5iAC5tRfyFIBXlSLVqtXfhz0730GYwlLIgdhLmIWRVo84y2eF27_d8fdZ2zN8VOz_JQwiTaIeyxu8ruQIamk9Ol62PZHvm9XSWZoEcoEGudH-QSYEpDP6J8W__/s1600/stuuri_revised_loresforweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1440" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLMtZNPGwrphE0cBu0L5iAC5tRfyFIBXlSLVqtXfhz0730GYwlLIgdhLmIWRVo84y2eF27_d8fdZ2zN8VOz_JQwiTaIeyxu8ruQIamk9Ol62PZHvm9XSWZoEcoEGudH-QSYEpDP6J8W__/s400/stuuri_revised_loresforweb.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stuuri family portrait, probably Oct. 1944. Arnold is third from right.</td></tr>
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In October 1944 Arnold had leave and went home to Fairport. It's during that time that the photograph [right] of the family seems to have been taken. But when Arnold left Fairport on the train, he grew sick. He had a condition that had bothered him all his life, it seems, an intestinal condition that caused obstructions.<br />
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The story as I've heard it is that people on the train assumed he was drunk. He was actually in pain and needed help. He made it to Grand Central Terminal in New York City and collapsed. He was taken to Brooklyn Naval Hospital.<br />
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He was in the hospital for a couple months and died there just after Christmas 1944.<br />
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The story I'd heard from family since I was small was that Arnold's seaman's bag disappeared in Grand Central. In that bag was supposed to be the manuscript of a book he was writing. My Aunt Abbie seemed to believe that Arnold's manuscript somehow ended up in the hands of author C. S. Forester, who passed off some or all of it as his own work. The elements in Forester's work that made her suspect this were the mention of a dog and the numbers of an automobile license plate that had been tacked up in the Stuuri garage at 503 Independence Street.<br />
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I don't know why Arnold's seaman's bag disappeared. His parents had a receipt for his seaman's bag and his wallet. His sister Alice Lillian Stuuri Sinko (1915-2002) makes explicit reference to that receipt in one of her letters in the collection. Maybe whoever was storing the seaman's bag lost it before the receipt could be turned in. Or maybe his parents lost the receipt. Or maybe there was a deadline to redeem the seaman's bag with the receipt and that deadline wasn't met. I don't think anyone knows at this point.<br />
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In the letters there are no references to Arnold writing a manuscript. He appreciated good literature. He was a good public speaker, winning debate competitions in high school. So maybe he was writing a book, too. I don't know how anyone could confirm that at this point.<br />
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<br />ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-16636021392607306192017-09-07T13:54:00.000-07:002017-12-10T14:03:49.999-08:00Welsh Rare BitsFor a long time my Evans line was a dead end. My paternal grandmother, Lucille Evans Shanower (1916-2015), was not particularly interested in her father's family. Her parents, Joseph Edward Evans (1884-1943) and Adella Cecil Grandy (1888-1974), had divorced when she was four years old. Communication between father Joseph and daughter Lucille was nearly non-existent after that. This left a bad taste in my grandmother's mouth.<br />
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Grandma had only scant Evans family history to share (although she managed not to mention some Evans history for much of her life--<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/01/dropping-bombs.html" target="_blank">click here</a> for a couple doozies). As a result, I didn't have much information about my Evans line.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evans relatives, left to right, Dorothy Louise Olivit Uloz Normand, William R. Uloz, Evelyn Virginia Barker, Howard S. Olivit, Grace Mae Olivit Krueger, Elmer William Krueger, Elaine Grace Krueger Campbell Ricchiuto, Sarah Jane Hopton Evans (my great-great-grandmother), Jonathan Rapier Evans, Jr. (my great-great-grandfather), Lillian Evans Olivit (my great-great-aunt), and Howard Gabrielle Olivit, circa 1940.</td></tr>
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For a long while I knew that Joseph Evans's parents were Jonathan Evans (1860-1944) and Sarah Jane Hopton (1860-1948). They'd both immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, from Wales in the late nineteenth century. But finding their forebears seemed an impossible task to me. The number of men from Wales named Jonathan Evans was overwhelming. How was I to tell which one was my great-great-grandfather?<br />
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I found mentions of what seemed to be two Jonathan Evans in Cleveland newspapers of the late 1800s. Could they be father and son? It seemed possible. They seemed to be quite involved in the Welsh ethnic community.<br />
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In the US Census I found listings of an Evans family in Cleveland that included both a father and son named Jonathan. This seemed promising, but I had no proof yet.<br />
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What confirmed the probability that these were my Evans was finding family trees of other researchers that included these Evans. On those trees both Jonathans, father and son, had the middle name Rapier. Also on those trees the younger Jonathan was married to Sarah Jane Hopton. Once I made sure the research on these other trees checked out, those clues were the keys.<br />
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The elder Jonathan Rapier Evans (1824-1907) was married to Sarah Bullock (abt 1831-1903). They and many of their children, including Jonathan, Jr., had come to the USA in the 1870s. From there it wasn't too difficult to consult the Wales census. I was able to push back not only my Evans line for a couple generations, but also my Hopton line, my Bullock line, my Cutter line, and my Welsh Williams line.<br />
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A few interesting items emerged.<br />
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Charles Albert Evans (1888-1946), brother of my great-grandfather Joseph Edward Evans, married Louise Emma Tedd (1882-1918) in Ohio in 1916. They were third cousins, both descended from Phillip Williams (1771-1857) and Elizabeth Roberts (1775-1872), who lived back in Monmouthshire, Wales. Did Charley and Louise know they were related? I have no idea. <br />
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Elizabeth Evans (1845-1925) married her first cousin Peter Bullock (1845-1926). They were both grandchildren of John Bullock (1796-1873) and Elizabeth Williams (1802-1843) and first cousins four times removed to me. They must have known they were first cousins to each other.<br />
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Elizabeth's parents were John Evans (1821-1892) and Mary Bullock (1821-1910), another instance of the Evans and Bullock lines combining.<br />
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Two of my first cousins four times removed in the Hopton line, sisters Alice Bennett McGee (1863-1928) and Eliza Ann Bennett Freeman (1859-1905), emigrated to Queensland, Australia, from the UK. They both had lots of children, which means I have quite a few Australian cousins.<br />
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I'm sure I also have a lot of distant cousins still in Wales.ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-43499793498675030332016-03-13T20:01:00.001-07:002016-03-14T14:05:00.407-07:00My Musical Cousins: Roger "Doc Bellows" McNaughtonWho doesn't like music? Not many. But musical tastes vary widely, and the musicians of my extended family are no exception. My family has so many musicians that I thought they deserved a series of their own. Ergo "My Musical Cousins."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Malcolm McNaughton (1850-1914).</td></tr>
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First up is my second cousin once removed Roger Jon McNaughton (born 1952). Roger's and my common ancestors are my great-great-grandparents William Malcolm McNaughton (1850-1914) and Mary Elizabeth Grant McNaughton (1856-1946). William and Mary were Roger's great-grandparents. I've never met Roger--the closest I've come is meeting his brother Al, who's also into family genealogy.<br />
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Roger's stage and recording name is Doc Bellows. He plays accordion in the band Pioneer Pepper and the Sunset Pioneers, whose specialty is preserving the songs of the singing cowboys of motion picture and radio fame--Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and the Sons of the Pioneers. Pioneer Pepper and the Sunset Pioneers perform tunes such as "Happy Trails," "Back in the Saddle," and "Streets of Laredo." <a href="http://www.sunsetpioneers.com/">Here's their website.</a><br />
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Two compact discs of their recordings are available. I've had both for several years now. Cowboy tunes aren't my top type of music to listen to, but I pull these out every once in a while for a change of pace. The songs are varied and tuneful, the voices and musicianship are graceful and smooth, and the production is excellent. I prefer the songs that were already old when the singing cowboys were current, songs such as "Home on the Range" and "Red River Valley," but the Sunset Pioneers' performances of more recent compositions such as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "Vaya Con Dios" are just as enjoyable. I wouldn't mind if the closing tracks on each cd, contemporary pieces written in singing cowboy style by lead singer Pioneer Pepper, had been left off--the performances are good, but the material just doesn't measure up to the authentic stuff that fills the rest of these cds. If you're into this sort of music, don't miss these recordings. If you're curious, these are a safe bet for sampling. <a href="http://www.sunsetpioneers.com/shop/">Both cds are available to order in the store</a> on the Sunset Pioneers website.<br />
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The accordion playing of Doc Bellows--aka Roger McNaughton--is easily distinguished on the Sunset Pioneer recordings and his talent and versatility are obvious. <a href="http://www.sunsetpioneers.com/about/doc-bellows/">As his online biography</a> makes clear, he can play a wide variety of instruments and is also a talented vocalist and a former voice teacher in his native Ohio.<br />
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Pioneer Pepper and the Sunset Pioneers are based in the Mesa, Arizona, area. They've performed internationally, but they mainly play in the south-central area of Arizona around Phoenix. Their schedule<a href="http://www.sunsetpioneers.com/schedule/">--click here--</a>shows them performing pretty often, so if you're in the area, check them out and say hi to my cousin Doc Bellows.<br />
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Watch this YouTube video of Pioneer Pepper and the Sunset Pioneers performing "Ghost Riders in the Sky" live at an outdoor venue a few years ago. Cousin Roger is wearing black with a red bandana around his neck, playing the accordion and seen mostly on the left side of the screen. (It's not a professional video, so please forgive the swaying camera and people talking in the background.)<br />
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In 1988 I spent my first Christmas away from my family, having been invited to spend the holidays with my new boyfriend and his family in northern California. I was very nervous but it was a very fun Christmas, I felt very accepted, and it ended with a spectacular hot-air balloon ride on the morning after Christmas.<br />
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But one aspect of that holiday visit has really stuck with me and that was my love for the Finnish holiday bread Nisu. I have made it every year since. Eric's mom is of Finnish descent and this recipe came from her mom as I understand it.<br />
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The bread has a lovely texture, quite unique in fact. Its both dense and light at the same time and has a lot of cardamom in it. It's wonderful as is, but also makes great toast that is extremely crispy on the outside, yet pull-apart tender inside. As far as that goes, if you have any leftovers it makes superb French Toast, too!<br />
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How do you make the stuff, you ask? Like so!<br />
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<b>Nisu - Unkastukke</b> <i>(makes three nice-sized loaves)</i><br />
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2 packages of active dry yeast<br />
2 cups of milk<br />
1 cup of sugar<br />
1 tablespoon of salt<br />
1 teaspoon of freshly ground cardamom<br />
7 to 9 cups of all-purpose flour<br />
3 to 4 eggs (I usually use 4 unless they are jumbo)<br />
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In a large bowl dissolve the yeast in milk. The original recipe asks that the milk be scalded, a process no longer required given our pasteurized milk. However I usually do heat the milk to tepid to give the yeast a head start. Just make sure it's only warm and not hot. You don't want to kill the yeast!<br />
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Add and mix in the sugar, salt, cardamom, and four cups of the flour. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Quickly knead in the remaining flour, enough to make an easy-to-handle dough that isn't sticking to the board or your fingers.<br />
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Now while you finish kneading the dough, work in the softened butter a little at a time. Cover and set dough in a warm place to rise until doubled in size.<br />
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Punch down the risen dough. Divide the dough into three equal parts. Working with <i>one</i> of those parts, divide <i>it </i>into three equal parts, too, and form each into long lengths to be braided together to form one loaf. Repeat process with other two large masses of dough until you have three braided loaves.<br />
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Place on one or two large baking sheets (depending on lengths of loaves) and let rise again until doubled in size.<br />
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake loaves for 25 to 30 minutes until a lovely brown. You can bake in two batches if needed. An extra 25 minutes of rise won't hurt the second batch while batch one is baking.<br />
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Once the loaves are cool, drizzle with Confectioner's Icing: One tablespoon of milk and a 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract mixed with a cup of powdered sugar should do the trick. This year I split the icing in thirds and made red, green, and white icings to drizzle on the loaves.<br />
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Now, there is another part of this holiday tradition. For Christmas morning, Eric's mom would always make a Nisu Paappa each for Eric and his sister (and one for me, too, when I joined the family). Pappaa means grandfather in Finnish and it is pronounced "Boppa." A Paappa is formed by making a large ball (perhaps the size of a small apple) and adding arms, legs, and a head, a bit smaller than ping-pong balls.<br />
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Use a wet finger to help cement the pieces together or gently pinch dough on the bottom edge for a little extra security. These little fellow will bake faster than full loaves, perhaps twenty minutes, so watch them.<br />
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When cool, you can decorate them - using raisins for buttons and eyes, a red-hot for a nose, a frosting belt, etc. Just have fun!<br />
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IMHO, they are best eaten around the Christmas Tree while opening gifts on Christmas morning! With some hot chocolate and fresh orange juice.<br />
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<i>Merry Christmas!</i>hungrytigerboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13297257102628779700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-35905512486792894232015-12-06T23:59:00.000-08:002015-12-14T17:00:34.804-08:00Life of LucilleMy grandmother Verna Lucille Evans Shanower Cote died a week ago at the age of 99 1/2. She hated the name Verna and was always known as Lucille. Her laugh was wonderful. <br />
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She was born May 31, 1916, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille with her father Joseph Edward Evans.</td></tr>
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Her father was Joseph Edward Evans, son of Welsh immigrants to the USA.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille with her mother Adella Cecil Grandy Evans Hundhammer.</td></tr>
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Her mother was Adella Cecil Grandy, whose early English immigrant ancestors included Mayflower passengers.<br />
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Lucille’s parents divorced when she was four years old. Her father mostly vanished from her life. Lucille was raised primarily by her maternal grandmother, Bertha May Flora Grandy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna Belle Stratton, Bertha May Flora Grandy, Dell Grandy Evans Hundhammer, Elma Helene Grandy, Bruce Grandy, Jessica Stratton Grandy, Lucille Evans.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille Evans and Stanley Shanower.</td></tr>
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Her mother remarried and the family moved to Mentor, Lake County, Ohio. In school Lucille met Stanley Raymond Shanower.<br />
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After graduating high school Lucille attended modeling school.<br />
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Her modeling career stopped when she married Stanley Shanower on April 17, 1938.<br />
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Lucille subsequently worked at the nursery Wayside Gardens in Mentor. She was her husband Stanley’s partner in all of his business ventures, including the Shanower Overnight Farm, a motor hotel; Shanower Electric which serviced refrigeration and air conditioning; and McGarvey’s Beachcomber, a restaurant in Grand River, Ohio. She raised their three sons.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Shanower Overnight Farm, Mentor, Ohio.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A son's wedding, 1967.</td></tr>
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In the 1960s Lucille went back to school and became a librarian. She took a job at Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library in Willoughby, Ohio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille and Stanley Shanower.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm flanked by my grandparents Lucille and Stanley, Winter Haven, Florida, spring 1983.</td></tr>
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She and Stanley retired and moved to Winter Haven, Florida.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">March 1984.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille and Stanley with their sons, sons' wives, and grandchildren, December 1986.</td></tr>
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Stanley died in 1987. Lucille married her second husband Rene Cote in 1990. Rene died in 2002. Lucille spent her winters in Florida and her summers in Ohio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille at her 90th birthday party, August 2006.</td></tr>
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In 2009 she moved into the Residence of Chardon, an assisted living
facility in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, near one of her sons and
his family. The Residence of Chardon was built on land once owned by
the Grant relatives of her first husband Stanley.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Residence of Chardon, Grandma's final home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I interview Grandma about family matters in August 2012.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandma and I discuss a photo of her great-grandmother Elma Conkey Grandy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucille at one of her favorite restaurants, Red Lobster, March 2014.</td></tr>
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The week before Thanksgiving of 2015 she came down with bronchitis. It developed into pneumonia. She died at 12:35 AM on Sunday, November 29, 2015. She had been surrounded by family members all day. Her mind was unimpaired to the end.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandma and me in December 2013.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-herald/obituary.aspx?n=v-lucille-shanower-evans&pid=176741251&fhid=2649">Click here</a> for her obituary.<br />
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<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/01/dropping-bombs.html">Click here</a> for an earlier post about the secret marriages of Grandma's parents. ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-37535901433927447382015-11-17T15:58:00.001-08:002015-11-17T23:41:13.843-08:00Finn FindingsIt’s difficult to find Finnish relatives with the results of the Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test—at least, that’s what I claimed in <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/09/frustrating-finnish-dna.html">an earlier post here.</a> A cousin of mine read that post about my frustration with the roadblocks and arduous searches required. I don’t think cousin Bob—who’s done amazing work to extend our Hietanen family tree back several centuries—thought it could be quite as grim a situation as I made it out to be.<br />
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He e-mailed me to suggest a few strategies. I e-mailed him back with information from my Ancestry.com DNA match list. Bob worked on a couple names. He found the DNA match list cumbersome enough that he looked for online search tools to make it easier to find connections. He even began to develop some search tools of his own. Bob does computer programming, so that’s the sort of thing he can do.<br />
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Yet it wasn’t long before he came to a screeching halt. The Ancestry.com model of trying to find connections among DNA matches is so unwieldy as to be discouraging.<br />
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But by that time Bob and I both had our blood up to do some serious research.<br />
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Previously Bob had sent me links to online Finnish Church Records. These are the official records of births, marriages, deaths, and so on of the Finnish populace for several centuries. Because Finland had no civic entity assigned to gather the information for these records, the church recorded these life landmarks for the Finnish people.<br />
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I’d long been intimidated by the idea of Finnish Church Records. I can’t read Finnish. I know about half a dozen Finnish words—things such as <i>sauna</i> (and, yes, I pronounce it correctly—so that it sounds more like <i>sow</i>-na than <i>saw</i>-na). But throw <i>kuulutettujen</i> and <i>muuttaneiden</i> at me and I’m lost. Other family researchers have dug into the depths of the Finnish Church records. I’ve been content to leave the heavy lifting to them and grateful for what they share.<br />
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But Bob’s shared a lot of his research with me over the years. I didn’t want him to think I was just slacking off to let others take care of all the hard stuff.<br />
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So I looked at one of my DNA matches that had caught Bob’s attention. I’ll call that DNA match “Mitch.” “Mitch’s” family tree was clearly of Finnish descent on his mother’s side. Months ago I’d found the name Luoma on “Mitch’s” tree. I have Luomas on my tree. I’d made a note that Luoma might be the connection between me and “Mitch.” Now I started with the Luoma on “Mitch’s” tree and worked backward. I quickly came across the surname Stoor. Mitch’s Stoor ancestors lived in Kortesjärvi, Finland.<br />
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I knew I had one Stor ancestor from Kortesjärvi, Finland—Antti Stor, my great-great-great-grandfather.<br />
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I didn’t think the difference in the spelling of the last name—Stoor versus Stor—probably made any difference. In the end, it didn't; they're cognate spellings, along with Storr, and are interchangeable. There’s a lot of variation in the spelling of Finnish names from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. I felt pretty confident that Stoor/Stor from Kortesjärvi was the key to my connection with “Mitch.”<br />
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I mentioned this to Bob, then dove headfirst into the Finnish Church Records online at the <a href="http://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/index_eng.htm">Finnish Family History Association</a> (FFHA).<br />
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Navigating the records wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. On the FFHA site, they’re divided geographically. So I looked up Kortesjärvi and was confronted with a list of Finnish words I couldn’t even pronounce, much less understand.<br />
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But Google translate exists for a reason.<br />
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I started blindly with the Church Communion records, simply because there were more of them than anything else. This turned out to be a fortuitous accident. The communion records list whole families—the first name and patronymic of father, mother, and children—along with the birth date of each family member. The families are grouped by surname/farm name. Until the twentieth century a Finnish farm name generally equaled a surname, especially in rural communities. So the communion records provided the exact type of information I needed in order to work my way back a generation at a time.<br />
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I began with the surname/farm name of Stoor/Stor in Kortesjärvi and soon found my great-great-great-grandfather Antti Stor, born December 10, 1835.<br />
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Of course, Antti’s name wasn’t recorded with that spelling. Sweden ruled Finland for a long time. Swedish became the official language of Finnish records. Finnish first names have Swedish versions. Finnish patronymics, based on first names, also have Swedish versions. Instead of Antti Matinpoika Stor, I found Anders Mattsson Stoor. His parents and siblings were listed with him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the several Finnish communion records showing Anders (Antti) Stoor (fifth name, preceded by the word "Son"), born December 10, 1835. His father Matthias Gustafsson Stoor (first name) was born July 10, 1802, in—as noted in the third column—Palojärvi.</td></tr>
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From there it wasn’t too difficult to go back another generation. But what was this? In an earlier communion record, Antti’s father, Matthias Gustafsson, born 1802, had the word Palojärvi following his birth date. He’d been born on the Palojärvi farm, not the Stor farm. I pushed back another generation, but the name Stor had completely disappeared from this line of descent. Dead end.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Communion record for Gustav Johanisson Palojärvi (bottom name), born October 12, 1760, father of Matthias Gustafsson, with his parents, Johan Johanisson Winikainen Palojärvi (first name), born December 26, 1730, and Maria Matthiasdotter (second name), born May 12, 1729, and other family members. No sign of Stoor/Stor here.</td></tr>
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So I went back to Matthias Gustafsson, born 1802. I figured that his wife, Maria Andersdotter, born 1801, must have been the Stor.<br />
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At the same time I was combing the communion records on the FFHA site, cousin Bob had been delving into the Finnish Church Records at the online <a href="http://hiski.genealogia.fi/historia/indexe.htm">HisKi project of the Genealogical Society of Finland.</a> Bob was also trying to find the connection between me and “Mitch.” The HisKi project has fewer online Finnish Church Records than FFHA. But HisKi has some different records and best of all, the HisKi project has a search function in English.<br />
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Bob found that Matthias Gustafsson’s wife Maria Andersdotter, who hadn’t been a Stoor/Stor before marriage, had been a Försti. I dug around and pushed back a couple generations up the Försti tree. No Stoor/Stor appeared there. Another dead end.<br />
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I subsequently hit a few more dead ends looking for a Stoor/Stor connection between “Mitch’s” family tree and mine. Despite the Stoor/Stor dead ends, all this research Bob and I were doing was nevertheless productive. It filled in previously unknown branches of my family tree. All these people were my relatives, even though most of them weren't Stoor/Stors. And I was successfully navigating the Finnish Church Records. <br />
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I went back down the line to my great-great-grandfather, Matti Nikolai Stuuri (1861-1922), son of Antti Stor, who had immigrated to the USA from Finland in 1889. He’s the one who changed his surname Stor to Stuuri in his new country. The reason for the change is not apparent. The story I’ve received is that Stor was an unfamiliar last name and Stuuri was more comprehensible to the inhabitants of Fairport Harbor, Lake County, Ohio, because there was another Finnish immigrant family there named Tuuri. That seems like nonsense to me—Stor seems much simpler than Stuuri—but I wasn’t around at the time. Maybe it made sense then.<br />
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Anyway, Matti Nikolai Stuuri’s wife was Wilhelmina “Walpori” Erkkilä (1860-1925). Could she have brought the Stor name into the family? I pushed back through the Finnish Communion archives for two generations, tracing the Erkkilä/Erkilä name. No luck finding any reference to Stoor/Stor.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Communion record for Wilhelmina "Walpori" Johansdotter Erkilä (fourth name), born March 13, 1860, in Kauhava, with her parents and siblings.</td></tr>
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Finally, the only branch I hadn’t explored was that of Antti Stor’s wife, Caisa Lena, whose last name before marriage was unknown to me. But I had her birth year, 1842. A HisKi search gave me her birth record, which had her parents’ names, which led me to their marriage and communion records. (Surprisingly, Caisa Lena’s surname before marriage had been Tuuri. Maybe this was part of the inspiration for her son’s change of name from Stor to Stuuri.)<br />
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Caisa Lena’s parents had lived on the Stor farm at one point. A lead! I couldn’t push her father’s line back any further. Her mother Elisabeth had been born on the Back farm, and Elisabeth’s father was also a Back. The only opening remaining for the Stoor/Stor name to come down was Elisabeth’s mother, Caisa Nilsdotter Storr, born 1783. Was Caisa Nilsdotter’s father a Stoor/Stor? According to her patronymic his name would have been Nils. But I couldn’t find a Nils Stoor/Stor in the Finnish Church Records.<br />
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Meanwhile, cousin Bob had been working on the Stoor names on my DNA match “Mitch’s” family tree. Bob had gotten back to Hans Mattsson Stoor (1707-1776). It seems Hans Mattsson had twenty-three children by two wives, leading Bob to dub him “the Stud.” I looked at Bob’s list of the Stud’s children. In general they were of the generation when Caisa Nilsdotter’s father would likely have been born. But no Nils appeared among the Stud’s children. Another dead end? It seemed so at first.<br />
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But among the Stud’s children appeared a Niclaus. By this time I was quite used to the varying spellings and cognates of Finnish first names. I hadn’t run across Nils and Niclaus as cognates, but a quick check of HisKi told me that they were.<br />
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That was the key.<br />
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I searched the Finnish Church Records for Niclaus Hansson Stoor/Stor and quickly found birth, marriage, and communion records clearly confirming that Niclaus “Nils” Hansson Stoor/Stor (born 1750) and Margeta Davidsdotter (last name unknown) were the parents of Catarina “Caisa” Nilsdotter Stor (born 1783). All the birth dates matched.<br />
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Bingo! Hans Mattsson “the Stud” Stoor is the common ancestor of both “Mitch” and me. He’s my seven times great-grandfather through his second wife, Maria Mattsdotter (last name unknown), born 1728. He’s also “Mitch’s” seven times great-grandfather, but through his first wife, Anna Carlsdotter (last name unknown).<br />
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Immediately I e-mailed Bob with the news and included screen caps of the relevant records. You can see three of those records below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Communion record of 1756 for "the Stud," Hans Mattsson Stoor (first name), born May 19, 1707, with his second wife Maria Mattsdotter (second name), eldest son Eric Hansson (third name), daughter-in-law Walborg Mattsdotter (fourth name), and others of his twenty-three children, including his son Niclaus (here written Nicls) Hansson (seventh name), born April 20, 1750.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Communion record for Nils (Niclaus) Hansson Stoor (first name), born April 20, 1750, and his wife Margeta Davidsdotter (second name), no birth date.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birth and christening record for Kaisa Nilsdotter Stoor, born September 4, 1783, daughter of Nils Hansson Stoor and Margeta Davidsdotter. This is a HisKi search result.</td></tr>
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Although I’d finally put all the pieces together, I couldn’t have done it without Bob’s research and help. It took us over a week. I don’t know how many hours Bob spent on it, but I stayed up into the wee hours on more than one night deciphering digitized versions of centuries old script and following where they led me. <br />
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We achieved our goal. I found a lot of good info along the way and conquered my fear of the Finnish Church Records. But I’m not going to be tackling any similar intensive, time-sapping genealogical tasks again any time soon. That’s my intention, anyway.<br />
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Bob says the same thing.<br />
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But he’s already been gently nudging me to try a new search tool he’s devised.ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-90157747798343721082015-11-01T18:34:00.000-08:002018-01-01T18:05:54.337-08:00Who's Who in the Shanower Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This photo was taken at a Shanower Family Reunion at the home of my great-great-grandparents Benjamin Franklin Shanower (1845-1928) and Louisa "Lucy" Leifer Shanower (1856-1916). The photo was labeled Shanower Family Reunion, without date or individual identifications. Before I scanned this copy of the photo, another family researcher had sent me a photocopy of it labeled 1899. So I had a date for it.<br />
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But could I identify the people? I figured I wouldn't recognize too many of them. I thought I might find Benjamin Shanower and his immediate family, since I have other photos of them. Recognizing the hosts, Benjamin and Lucy Shanower, wasn't hard. And I picked most of Benjamin's children out of the crowd. But the appearances of a couple of those children raised red flags about the date of this photo.<br />
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Charles Chalmers Shanower Hinman (1877-1965), son of Benjamin
Shanower and Benjamin's first wife Sophia King Shanower (1841-1877),
appears in this photo, fifth from the left in the second row (the first
row of adults). But as I detailed in <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/03/little-boy-lost.html">an earlier post here,</a> Charles was
given up for adoption as a child and wasn't rediscovered by his birth
family until late in 1900. Or so newspaper stories reported. Was it possible that those stories were inaccurate? Had Charles
been rediscovered earlier, so that he could appear in an 1899 family photo? Complicating this question
was the appearance of Charles's wife, Nellie Maude Salsbury Hinman
(1873-1955). In the photo, she's sitting next to him, fourth from the left in the second
row. I supposed it was possible that they'd attended the Shanower reunion together in 1899, before their marriage on December 12, 1900. But it seemed odd.<br />
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I also noticed Ralph Leo Shanower, the youngest of Benjamin and Lucy Shanower's children, who was born April 12, 1895. If this photo was from 1899, then Ralph would be four years old. But Ralph, who's standing on the right end in the back row, is obviously years older than four.<br />
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Ralph's apparent age answered the question about Charles and Nellie Hinman's presence. The year was certainly post-1900, the year Charles was rediscovered by his birth family and he married Nellie. This photo could not be from 1899.<br />
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So when is the photo from?<br />
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That question was easy to answer. I had a record of another Shanower Family Reunion at Benjamin and Lucy Shanower's home—on August 26, 1909. This location and date fit. Benjamin and Lucy are at center in the second row, the logical position for the hosts of the reunion. Ralph Shanower would be fourteen years old in 1909, and he looks about that age in the photo. And Charles and Nellie Hinman had been married for nearly nine years, so their attendance together at the reunion is perfectly reasonable.<br />
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<b>The Published Report </b><br />
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Further confirmation of a 1909 date was provided by a published account of the 1909 Shanower Family Reunion, as follows:<br />
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SHANOWER FAMILY REUNION</div>
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The eleventh annual reunion of the Shanower family was held at the pleasant home of B. F. Shanower and wife of Claridon, Ohio, on the 26th day of August, 1909. At quite an early hour the friends began to arrive and before noon about 105 relatives were present, representing seven different states: Washington, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Alabama.<br />
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The one surprising feature of the occasion was that for the first time in thirty years the eleven sons and daughters of B. F. Shanower and wife were together.<br />
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The forenoon was spent in visiting and making new acquaintances. At noon the dinner was served on long tables under a large tent and consisted of every thing good that heart could wish. Immediately after dinner the guests gathered on the lawn in front of the house and a picture of the group was taken by Photographer Strong of Chardon. The assembly was then called to order by Pres. Simon Kandel, and the audience joined in singing “America” after which the Sec., Miss Nettie Shanower, gave a report of the previous reunion. The Historian, Mrs. Lucy Shanower, gave a very carefully prepared report. A very amusing reading was rendered by Miss Jennie Shanower, a quartette sang an appropriate song. Rev. Cooper gave an interesting address which was enjoyed by all present.<br />
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The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Pres., B. F. Shanower, Burton; Vice Pres., Amos Shanower, Wolcottville, Ind.; Sec., Miss Nettie Shanower, Burton; Treas., N. E. Shanower, Burton; Historian, Mrs. Lucy Shanower, Tontogany, O.<br />
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It was decided to hold the next reunion at the home of A. B. Shanower and wife, Tontogany, O., the last Thursday in August. Before the crowd dispersed all joined in singing, “God Be With You till We Meet Again,” and then the pleasant occasion was one to look back upon instead of forward to. <br />
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The weather-man was kind, Mr. and Mrs. Shanower did all in their power to make the day enjoyable, and one and all agreed that the day was well spent.</blockquote>
<b>Ben's Kids</b><br />
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Confirmation that this photo is specifically from the 1909 reunion is the reference to the eleven children of Benjamin Shanower being together for the first time in thirty years. All except one of them, the eldest, William Benton Shanower, are in the reunion photo. Not all the "about 105" people at the reunion made it into the photo, which has 89 people.<br />
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Although William doesn't appear, I firmly believe he was present that day. Not only does the published account say all eleven of B. F. Shanower's children were there, but I have another photograph of all those children—including William—with Benjamin and Lucy. And most everyone in that other photo is wearing clothing that looks exactly the same as what they're wearing in the big reunion photo. Among the clothing differences are: a couple of the women wearing dark skirts in the reunion photo are wearing white skirts in the other, son Frank has donned a coat for the other photo, and Benjamin Shanower seems to have put on a dark tie in the other photo. But I believe both photos were taken about the same time, possibly the same day.<br />
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Here's the "other" photo: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Benjamin Franklin Shanower family. Seated from left to right: Charles C. Shanower Hinman, Mary E. Shanower Hostetler, Benjamin F. Shanower, Lucy Leifer Shanower, Ralph L. Shanower, Bertha A. Shanower Pollock; standing from left to right: Jennie M. Shanower, David E. Shanower, Katherine O. Shanower Phillips, William B. Shanower, Ella M. Shanower Bower, George E. Shanower, and Benjamin F. Shanower, Jr.</td></tr>
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Why isn't William in the reunion photo? I don't know. Maybe he arrived at the reunion too late to be in it.<br />
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The report mentions several other reunion attendees that I can't identify in the big reunion photo. <br />
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John Amos "Amos" Shanower (1855-1934) of Wolcottville, LaGrange County, Indiana, and Nathaniel E. Shanower (1853-1936) of Burton, Geauga County, Ohio, brother of Benjamin Shanower, and Nathaniel's daughter, Nettie Oleva Shanower (1881-1977), are referenced in the report, but I can't confidently identify them in the reunion photo, although I've made guesses about Nathaniel and Nettie.<br />
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The Lucy Shanower, Historian, of Tontogany, Ohio, referenced several times in the reunion report, isn't Lucy Shanower, wife of Benjamin, but instead Lucy Anne Whiteleather Shanower (1860-1942), wife of Ananias Benton Shanower (1857-1920). It's their home where the next Shanower Reunion, in 1910, was to be held. Their identities in the photo are firmly established, thanks to their granddaughter Velma Shanower Kirchner.<br />
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I don't think the Reverend Cooper mentioned in the report was a member of the family. <br />
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<b>Locations Mentioned</b><br />
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Seven states of the USA are supposed to be represented by the people in the reunion photo: Washington, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Alabama.<br />
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Naturally, many of the attendees were from Ohio, where the photo was taken.<br />
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A number of people at the reunion were from Indiana, among them Jennie M. Shanower (1875-1942) from Elkhart, daughter of Benjamin and first wife Sophia Shanower, and Amos Shanower from Wolcottville, mentioned in the report.<br />
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Mary Elizabeth Shanower Hostetler (1873-1951), daughter of Benjamin and first wife Sophia Shanower attended the reunion from her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She had three daughters by 1909, but I don't think they're in the photo. I think Mary's husband, Christian K. Hostetler (1865-1935), didn't attend the reunion either.<br />
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Charles and Nellie Hinman were the attendees from Saint Paul, Minnesota.<br />
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William Benton Shanower, eldest child of Benjamin and first wife Sophia Shanower, was the foreman of a stave mill on War Creek in Kentucky in 1913. He might have lived in Kentucky as early as 1909 and thus was the reunion attendee from Kentucky. A trip from Kentucky might have made him late to the reunion and that could be why he's not in the reunion photo. I can't find any other candidate to represent Kentucky. <br />
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I don't know who came from Michigan—maybe members of the Tyler branch descended from Zacharias T. Shanower, although I can't identify any of them in the photo. There are probably other candidates from Michigan.<br />
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I have no idea who came from Washington.<br />
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<b>So Who's in the Reunion Photo? </b><br />
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Below, I've numbered the 89 people in the photo and divided them into five sections. A numbered list for each section of photo follows that section. I've assigned names to as many faces as I can. The names without question marks are firm identifications. The names with question marks are guesses. Numbers without names are unidentified.<br />
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2. Jane M. “Jennie” Shanower<br />
3. Mary Elizabeth Shanower Hostetler<br />
4. Nellie Maude Salsbury Hinman<br />
5. Charles Chalmers Shanower Hinman<br />
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20.<br />
21.<br />
22.<br />
23.<br />
24.<br />
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39.<br />
40. Harvey Allen Shanower?<br />
41. Lester Butler?<br />
42.<br />
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59.<br />
60. <br />
61. Karl William Shanower?<br />
62. Ruth Alma Shanower Wallace?<br />
62.<br />
63.<br />
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81.<br />
82.<br />
83.<br />
84.<br />
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6. Melissa Agnes Gerber Shanower<br />
7. Ananias Benton Shanower (identified by Vel Shanower Kirchner)<br />
8. Lucy Whiteleather Shanower (identified by Vel Shanower Kirchner)<br />
9. Rebecca “Peggy” Shanower Kroehle (identified by Linda Davis Kress)<br />
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25. Mary Daisy Cecil Rueckert?<br />
26. Simon Kandel (identified by Linda Davis Kress)<br />
27. Amelia Kroehle Kandel (identified by Linda Davis Kress)<br />
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43. Ellen Shanower Smith?<br />
44. John E. Smith?<br />
45.<br />
46. <br />
47. Mary Ann Shanower Cecil? or Clara Shanower Butler?<br />
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64. George Edward Shanower<br />
65. Lulu Hensinger Shanower?<br />
66.<br />
67. Bertha Shanower Pollock<br />
68. <br />
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85.<br />
86.<br />
87.<br />
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10. Benjamin Franklin Shanower<br />
11. William Henry Phillips?<br />
12. Lucy Leifer Shanower<br />
13. Reuben Shanower?<br />
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28. Floyd Allen Phillips, Sr.?<br />
29. Katherine Olephia “Katie” Shanower Phillips<br />
30. Ruth Shanower Simpson?<br />
31. Nathaniel E. Shanower<br />
32. Anamary “Mary” Dahlem Shanower<br />
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48. Wilmer Curtis "Curt" Shanower?<br />
49. David Elmer Shanower<br />
50.<br />
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69. <br />
70. Nettie Mae Dutton Shanower?<br />
71. Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Shanower, Jr.<br />
72. Burleigh J. "B.J." Shanower?<br />
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88.<br />
89.<br />
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14. Lydia Karrer Shanower?<br />
15. Nettie Oleva Shanower?<br />
16.<br />
17.<br />
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33.<br />
34.<br />
35.<br />
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51.<br />
52.<br />
53.<br />
54.<br />
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73. Ella M. Shanower Bower<br />
74. Harry Edward "Ed" Shanower?<br />
75.<br />
76.<br />
77. Lena May Shanower Town<br />
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18.<br />
19.<br />
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36.<br />
37.<br />
38.<br />
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55.<br />
56.<br />
57.<br />
58. Clarence David Shanower, Sr. (identified by Brian D. Shanower)<br />
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78.<br />
79.<br />
80. Ralph Leo Shanower<br />
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I believe the eldest person in the photo is #9, Rebecca "Peggy" Shanower Kroehle (1826-1912). She's the aunt of Benjamin F. Shanower and is seated next to him. In August 1909 great-great-great-great-Aunt Peggy was eighty-three years old and the only remaining member of the Shanower family from her generation. Thank you, cousin Linda Kress, for confirming her identity. <br />
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<b>Insecure Identifications</b><br />
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I recognized Melissa A. Gerber Shanower, #6. Her great-grandson Brian Shanower recognized Melissa's son, his grandfather, Clarence D. Shanower, Sr., #58. So I assumed that Melissa's three other children also were in attendance. I assigned her eldest son, Harvey A. Shanower, as #40. You can read about Harvey's post-1909 adventures and compare a bad newspaper photo in <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-thanksgiving-strangler.html">a previous post here.</a> Melissa's two youngest children, Karl and Ruth, I assigned as #61 and #62. Those are merely guesses.<br />
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I recognized Lena M. Shanower Town (1891-1996), #77. The written report mentions her father Nathaniel E. Shanower, as well as her sister Nettie Oleva Shanower twice. So I figured the rest of Lena's immediate family ought to be in the photo, too. Standing beside Lena, #76 looked like her brother Burleigh J. "B.J." Shanower (1889-1985) to me, except for those widespread ears. More recent photos of B.J. show ears flat against his head. So I guessed that #76 was a different brother of Lena, Harry Edward Shanower (1883-1969). On Lena's other side are two young men who look as though they could be twins. I figured they're Lena's remaining brothers Wilmer Curtis Shanower (1886-1977) and B.J. Identifying Lena's parents Nathaniel and Anna M. Dahlem Shanower (1857-1929) and sister Nettie is much more precarious. But I'm proposing tentatively that they're #13, #14, and #15. I could easily be wrong about all of Lena's immediate family. [UPDATE December 14, 2015: Except for Lena (whose identity I'm sure of) and Nettie, I've changed the identifications on these family members. Nathaniel and Anamary are now securely identified.]<br />
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Benjamin Franklin Shanower has a child on his lap, #11. I assume without foundation that it's a grandchild. His only grandchild about that age in 1909 was William Henry Phillips (1909-1929), so that's my tentative identification.<br />
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William Henry Phillips's mother, Katherine O. "Katie" Shanower Phillips (1886-1957), #29, is seated behind her father Benjamin. Beside her is #28, a man I've guessed to be her husband, Floyd A. Phillips, Sr. (1885-1960). There's a child, #30, on Katie's lap, but my guess that it's her niece Ruth Shanower Simpson (1905-1980), daughter of Benjamin F. "Frank" Shanower, Jr. (1881-1943), #71, and Nettie Mae Dutton Shanower (1883-1960), is tentative. So is my assignment of #70, the woman standing next to Frank, as Nettie Mae.<br />
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George Edward Shanower (1879-1955), #64, wasn't married yet in 1909 to Louise B. "Lulu" Hensinger Shanower (1888-1980), but I've guessed that #65, beside him, might be Lulu. There's a photo of a much older Lulu in <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/10/ice-is-nice.html">this recent blog post,</a> so compare for yourself.<br />
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As for assigning the name David C. Shanower (1852-1926) to #41, that's sort of a wild guess. David was a brother of Ananias B. Shanower, who's firmly identified. I thought maybe Ananias's siblings attended the reunion, too. But I can't be certain #41 is brother David.<br />
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<b>All Help Appreciated </b><br />
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Several current family members identified people in the photo, as noted. I thank
them for their help.<br />
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If anyone reading this can identify
anyone else in the photo, please either leave a comment below or contact
me. Sorry for the dirt on the image, but that's the condition the photo was in when I scanned it and I'm no
professional photo-cleaner.<br />
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[UPDATE December 14, 2015: I've changed some identifications and added a few others.]<br />
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[UPDATE March 16, 2017: I've changed some identifications and added a couple.]<br />
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[UPDATE January 1, 2018: I've changed identifications of figures 13 and 14.] ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-87537253682488352822015-10-30T17:59:00.000-07:002015-10-30T20:17:57.443-07:00Cousins in Common: The RathbunsAre there even more cousins that David and I are both related to? Yep. I don’t find this surprising anymore. Interesting, you bet. Even fascinating. But not surprising. I wouldn’t be surprised to find coincidences like this and line-crossings in the family trees of many couples.<br />
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So which cousins in common am I talking about today?<br />
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Norton Galard Rathbun (1838-1919) was my first cousin five times removed. Norton's parents were Saxton Squire Rathbun (1813-1895) and Barbara Elizabeth Huss Rathbun (1816-1894). You can see their gravestone in Bakertown Cemetery, Clyde, Ohio, just below. Norton’s maternal grandparents were Noah Jacob Huss (1790-1843) and Mary Burkholder Huss (1789-1849). You can see Noah and Mary's gravestones in the same cemetery about three-quarters of the way through <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/01/like-cheese.html">this previous post</a>. Noah and Mary were my five times great-grandparents through my paternal grandmother’s line.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gravestone of Saxton Rathbun and Barbara Huss Rathbun.</td></tr>
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On Christmas Day of 1865 in Sandusky County, Ohio, cousin Norton married Elizabeth E. Hufford (1842-1926). Elizabeth was David Maxine’s second cousin five times removed. Her great-grandparents were Christian Hoffart (1716-1788) and his second wife Anna Catherine Vogel Hoffart (1715-abt 1807). Christian and his first wife, Elizabeth Keim (1723-abt 1763), were the six times great grandparents of David through his paternal grandmother’s line.<br />
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The marriage of Norton Galard Rathbun and Elizabeth E. Hufford Rathbun means that all their descendants are cousins to both David and me. Not that they had a great number of descendants. Norton and Elizabeth had three sons, Edward Carlyle Rathbun (1867-1942), Arthur F. Rathbun (1869-1965), and Herman W. Rathbun (b 1867). Edward had two sons, Irvin Noah Rathbun (1899-1988) and Alan Edward Rathbun (1906-1993). Irvin and Alan had seven children between them, seven great-grandchildren of Norton and Elizabeth Rathbun. One, maybe two, of those didn’t make it to adulthood. None of the remaining five has had any children that I can find so far. All of those offspring are cousins David and I have in common.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorothy M. Sherrard Rathbun, 1936.</td></tr>
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At one point I thought I might find another family connection though one of these common cousins. Alan Edward Rathbun (1906-1993), grandson of Norton Galard Rathbun, married Dorothy Marguerite Sherrard (1910-1994) in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, in 1936. Since my father has had relatives in Stark County, Ohio, for nearly two hundred years, I wondered whether Dorothy Sherrard was connected to me through another line. But I can’t find that she is.<br />
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But there is another family connection among these Rathbuns, David, and me. That connection turns these family lines into one big circle.<br />
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A while back <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/03/cousins-in-common-vikki-young-and-becki.html">I posted here</a> about David's and my cousins in common the Colgrove sisters—Victoria Marie “Vikki” Colgrove Young and Rebecca Louise “Becki” Colgrove Siler. They're related to David through the ancestor they share with him: David F. Sellers (1845-1927). So, like David, they're related to Elizabeth E. Hufford Rathbun through David F. Sellers's maternal line.<br />
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I’m related to Vikki and Becki through our common great-great-grandfather Matti Juhonpoika Uhmusberg Hietanen (1857-1915), a line going through my mother. But it's through my father that I’m related to Norton Galard Rathbun, so Vikki and Becki aren’t related to Norton, too, just to Norton's wife, Elizabeth.<br />
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But just as David and I are related to all Norton and Elizabeth Rathbun’s descendants, so are Vikki and Becki.<br />
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Is that too confusing?<br />
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It’s easier to visualize, so I’ve created a chart. The names in red are cousins in common. I didn’t want to make the chart any more complicated than it is, so I didn’t put in the children of brothers Irvin and Alan Rathbun--although those children are also cousins in common with both David and me. If you trace the main course of the lines and ignore the offshoots to the red names, you can see that it’s actually a closed loop.<br />
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ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-18012250827637274552015-10-25T22:51:00.001-07:002015-10-26T15:32:34.077-07:00Ice is NiceSeveral weeks ago I posted <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/09/shanower-nuts.html">(click here)</a> a recipe for nut bread that was sent in to an unidentified newspaper by my great-great-aunt Claribelle “Belle” Snyder Shanower. I mentioned that I don’t remember ever meeting Belle and her husband Ralph Leo Shanower. However, my mother remembers visiting Ralph and Belle once at their summer home in Florida. But Mom isn’t sure whether I was born yet, so the jury’s still out whether I met them or not.<br />
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I also mentioned that I didn’t think I had a photo of Belle. But while looking at family photos recently I found one that I think includes her. It’s reproduced below. I’d tentatively identified Aunt Belle as someone else. But now I’m pretty sure it’s her, because she’s seated beside Uncle Ralph. The photo is dated March 1953. The location must be Florida, as evidenced by the palms in the background.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claribelle "Belle" Snyder Shanower, third from left, Florida, March 1953. Click for larger view.</td></tr>
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I’ve identified the people in the photograph, from left to right, as:<br />
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George Edward Shanower (1879-1955)<br />
Louise B. “Lulu” Hensinger Shanower (1888-1980)<br />
Claribelle “Belle” Snyder Shanower (1895-1981)<br />
Ralph Leo Shanower (1895-1979)<br />
Malcolm David Shanower (1913-1997)<br />
David Elmer Shanower (1885-1967)<br />
Edna Marietta McNaughton Shanower (1891-1964)<br />
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The two people on the right, David E. Shanower and Edna M. Shanower, were my great-grandparents. A couple weeks ago I posted a baby photo of Edna with her twin sister Edith—<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-abundance-of-babies.html">click here.</a><br />
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The three older men, David, George, and Ralph, were brothers.<br />
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I’m speculating that the standing woman is Lulu, George’s wife. Although I have other photos of Lulu, I’m not 100% positive that’s her, so this identification is currently tentative. But I’m pretty sure it’s her.<br />
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My best guess is that the standing younger man is Malcolm Shanower, son of David and Edna. Identification is complicated by the shadow cast over his face by his hat. But the chin, nose, and dimple look like Uncle Malcolm to me. (I suggest his presence means that his wife, Ann Gertrude Shive Shanower, took the photo.)<br />
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In addition to the nut bread recipe I posted several weeks ago, great-great-aunt Belle also had another item published in the newspaper. Although it involves food and she won $1 for the contribution, I hesitate to call it a recipe. It’s more of a tip. Here it is from the Cleveland<i> Plain Dealer</i>, August 1, 1929:<br />
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<i><b>Ice Cubes De Luxe.</b></i><br />(This contribution takes $1 prize)<br />
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A few drops of red or green vegetable coloring added to the water in the ice trays of your mechanical refrigerator, result in dainty colored ice cubes which give a very novel and pleasing touch to iced drinks.</blockquote>
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MRS. RALPH SHANOWER.</blockquote>
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Chesterland.</blockquote>
ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-13143700302156653222015-10-18T23:46:00.000-07:002015-10-19T15:36:44.691-07:00A Shot in the Arm<div style="text-align: right;">
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Blazing bullets, daring daylight robberies, and police car chases were the last things my cousin William H. Cavnah expected on a normal workday in Canton, Ohio, as the roaring twenties were coming to a close. <br />
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William H. Cavnah (1869-1931) was a prominent businessman in Canton, Ohio, at the tail end of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. He lived in Congress Lake, an upscale area of Hartville, Stark County, Ohio, not far from Canton. For many years he was the secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Canton Foundry & Machine Company of Canton, as well as secretary and treasurer of the Embro Manufacturing Company. He was also on the board of a Colorado gold mine headed by his uncle Louis Cavnah. His father Henry Cavnah had been a prominent businessman in Canton, too. His wife Sue M. Zerbe Cavnah was known for her prize-winning flowers grown in the beautiful gardens of the Cavnah Congress Lake home. And members of his immediate family were part of Canton society.<br />
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He was also my second cousin three times removed. His parents were Henry Aloysius Cavnah (1843-1904) and Mary M. Niesz Cavnah (abt 1845-abt 1872). Mary Niesz's parents were William Niesz (1822-1913) and Delilah Roush Niesz (1822-1854). Delilah Roush's parents were Frederick Roush (1789-1844) and Anna Maria Haflich Roush (1791-1869), the great grandparents of William H. Cavnah and my great-great-great-great-grandparents.<br />
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In the 1920s many companies paid their workers in payroll checks. But payroll checks weren’t as convenient as cash. Not all workers had bank accounts. Some banks placed holds on checks drawn on other banks. Banking hours weren’t always convenient for men who had full-time jobs.<br />
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On Saturday, August 31, 1929, any worker receiving a payroll check would have to wait longer than usual to cash it. Monday, September 2, was a holiday—Labor Day. The banks would be closed. Unless there was still cash on hand from a previous paycheck, any purchases would have to be delayed until after the holiday was over.<br />
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William H. Cavnah understood his workers’ needs. Every Saturday since 1892, cash for the payroll had been brought to the plant of the Canton Foundry and Machine Company to pay the workers. Just before noon on that fateful Saturday Cavnah and John R. Bucher, vice-president of the firm, were returning to the foundry office from the George D. Harter bank. Cavnah carried $1,117 of payroll cash in a front pocket of his coat.<br />
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As Cavnah and Bucher stepped out of the car onto the curb in front of 300 3rd Street SE, two men with hats pulled low to shade their faces approached with drawn guns and ordered Cavnah and Bucher to raise their hands. Face-to-face with a bandit, Cavnah felt his ire rising. As he reported later, “I just got angry clear through and felt like I’d like to take a good solid punch or kick at him.”<br />
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A punch is exactly what Cavnah took. He clamped one hand over the pocket that held the money and with the other hand struck out at the bandit, who fired his gun, a .38 caliber revolver. Cavnah staggered back with a bullet wound in his right shoulder. The bandit tore the cash from Cavnah’s pocket and jumped with his partner into a Ford coupe parked close by. The Ford raced away. An alarm was raised and the police gave chase.<br />
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Cavnah was rushed to a doctor’s office where Dr. Morris Reno examined him. The bullet had passed through Cavnah’s shoulder and the wound it left wasn’t life-threatening.<br />
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Meanwhile, the bullet had struck a window at 320 3rd Street SE, the home of Mrs. Thelma Gonzales. Shattered window glass spattered her face and a piece flew into her eye. Her wounds were seen to by City Physician William Klomm.<br />
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On the Mahoning Road on the other side of Canton Saturday morning business was slow in the store of 41-year-old Anton Blazekovich. But Blazekovich expected to be busy later in the day. His cash register was stuffed full of money intended for cashing the payroll checks of workers at the nearby Canton Malleable Iron Company.<br />
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Just ten minutes before William Cavnah was shot, a young man walked into Blazekovich’s store and asked to see a hat. Blazekovich showed him one. He asked to see a second.<br />
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Blazekovich’s 15-year-old daughter Mary was helping her father in the store that day. She described what happened: “As father turned around to get another hat, I saw the man draw the gun and at the same time the second man appeared at the door of the store and leveled a pistol at father.”<br />
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The first gunman ordered Anton Blazekovich to open the cash register. When Blazekovish refused, the man tried to open it himself, but failed.<br />
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Mary continues: “As father turned around, the man he had been showing the hats to pressed a gun against his stomach and father grabbed for it and the man pulled the trigger.” The .32 caliber shot hit Blazekovich on his right side, entering below the eighth rib, puncturing his lung, and leaving at the eleventh rib. “Father crumpled to the floor and both men ran,” explained Mary. As they fled, the two men warned her to keep quiet, but she didn’t. “I screamed for help and a lot of people came running.” Mary hurried across the street to her home to tell her mother, Theresa. Anton Blazekovich was rushed to Mercy Hospital in a passing auto, but soon died.<br />
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A. A. Thoma, the owner of a confectionery store on the opposite corner, saw the bandits flee in their Chrysler De Soto and gave chase in his own car. He lost the bandits, but told the police the license number and described a red and black striped trunk on the rear.<br />
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Minutes after the incident, police cordoned the northeast section of Canton. Police cars armed with machine guns manned by officers with riot guns and sawed-off shotguns guarded every road leading out of the city. Every town within 100 miles of Canton was alerted to be on the lookout for both teams of bandits, thought by police to be working in tandem. <br />
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Canton Coroner T. C. McQuate and police Patrolman Haley were hurrying to the Blazekovich store when they recognized the Chrysler De Soto from Thoma’s description. The car was abandoned at the side of the road. The plates were found to have belonged to a Chevrolet registered in Cleveland, leading police to conclude that the car was stolen. A hat dropped by one of the bandits as they fled also bore the label of a Cleveland merchant. These clues prompted Canton police to concentrate the search for Blazekovich’s slayers on Cleveland.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A front page newspaper headline in Canton screams the latest about the incidents of August 31, 1929.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, a witness to the Cavnah holdup, L. M. Nixon, had gotten the Ford coupe’s license number as the car sped away. A short time afterward this car, like the one used by Blazekovich’s killers, was found abandoned. But this one hadn’t been stolen. The bandits had actually rented it early Saturday morning from the Canton You Drive Company. You Drive manager J. A. Riley identified 28-year-old Joseph Romeo as the renter. Several hours after the holdup Romeo telephoned Riley to report falsely that the rented car had been stolen from a parking space.<br />
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The police theorized that the attempted Blazekovich robbery was intended by the bandits as a distraction to draw police away from the area where the Cavnah holdup was taking place. But by Saturday night Canton Chief of Police Earl Hexamer abandoned the theory that the crimes were connected. <br />
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Sunday morning, September 1, Canton Police Detective Norman Van Alman went to Cleveland to work with police there in tracing Blazekovich’s killers. But no progress seems to have been made. By the end of the week, Van Alman had returned to Canton.<br />
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The funeral of Anton Blazekovich was held Tuesday, September 3, the day after Labor Day.<br />
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That following Saturday, September 7, was a busy one for the Cavnah family. While William’s wife Sue M. Zerbe Cavnah (1870-1956) and their seven-year-old son William Henry "Billy" Cavnah, Jr. (1922-1977) were winning prizes for flowers at the Congress Lake Flower Show,
William Cavnah traveled to Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, along with
John Bucher and Canton police Detectives Albert Bush and Norman Van
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Word had come from the police in Youngstown of a possible suspect
in the Cavnah holdup. There Cavnah identified 23-year-old Mike Lewis as
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There was one catch, however. The Youngstown police didn’t want to turn Lewis over to the Canton police. Only hours before Cavnah identified Lewis, employees of Youngstown’s Wehle Bakery had identified Lewis as one of a gang who’d robbed the bakery of $1300 the previous April 26. Youngstown authorities wanted to try Lewis for the bakery robbery and several other crimes committed in Youngstown.<br />
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On Tuesday, September 10, Canton Captain of Detectives Swope traveled to Youngstown and filed affidavits of highway robbery and shooting with intent to kill against Mike Lewis. But Swope returned to Canton the next day empty-handed. Youngstown authorities had decided to prosecute Lewis there first. Only after all Youngstown charges against Lewis had been dealt with would Lewis be allowed to face the music in Canton.<br />
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By November 17 Mike Lewis had not yet been tried for the Cavnah holdup. But that day Canton police took custody of Joseph Romeo (alias Lotie Earig, alias Lari Carlechi), who’d rented the Ford coupe in the Cavnah holdup. Romeo had been captured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Canton police charged him with highway robbery.<br />
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Unfortunately, that’s where the certain path of this story ends. Those affected by the murder and robbery went on with their lives. Anton Blazekovich’s wife Theresa married again. Mary Blazekovich became a teacher at the J. J. Burns Elementary School in Canton and in 1941 married A. Lynn Altenbernd. William Cavnah returned to his desk at the Canton Foundry and Machine Company and switched from paying the employees in cash to paying with checks. On March 20, 1931, almost a year and a half after being shot, William Cavnah died at Canton’s Mercy Hospital after a three-week illness.<br />
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I find no report that Anton Blazekovich’s killers were ever caught. I’ve found no further trace of Joseph Romeo. But I might have discovered what happened to Mike Lewis.<br />
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On April 21, 1930, a disastrous fire broke out at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. A group of convicts set the fire as part of an escape attempt, but their plans went awry. The fire quickly grew out of control. Guards unlocked as many cells as they could, but before the fire was put out, more than three hundred convicts had died. In the days that followed newspaper headlines screamed the tragedy. Lists of dead filled news pages. Among them was the name Mike Lewis, place of origin unknown. Was this the same Mike Lewis who shot William Cavnah? Was Mike Lewis sent to the Ohio Pen for his crimes, whether committed in Youngstown or Canton, only to perish there in the fire a few months later? I don’t know for sure, but I think it’s likely.<br />
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ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-17893545231157403632015-10-13T16:44:00.001-07:002015-10-13T16:44:33.534-07:00An Abundance of BabiesEvery once in a while family artifacts turn up unexpectedly. I recently purchased a photo of my great-grandmother Edna Marietta McNaughton Shanower (1891-1964) and her twin sister Edith Emeretta McNaughton Wilkens (1891-1952) as infants. The photo, more than 120 years old, was offered by a vendor with no connection to my family tree, but who evidently knew something about the original photographer, E. D. King, and that the photography studio was located on the Randall Block in Chardon, Ohio, between 1885 and 1895.<br /><br />The photo wasn’t cheap. I hesitated to make the purchase, since I actually had computer scans of two other copies of the same photograph owned by family members. But in the end I purchased the third copy. And I’m glad I did. When it arrived in the mail I was surprised and delighted by its excellent condition. I compared it to the other two examples and decided the price for a third copy was money well spent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scan of the photograph from family collection.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scan of another copy from family collection.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scan of the copy I recently purchased. Edith on left, Edna on right (I think).</td></tr>
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<br />ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-29979940505541971792015-09-29T01:22:00.001-07:002015-09-29T01:29:55.845-07:00Shanower NutsClaribelle Snyder (1895-1981) married Ralph Leo Shanower (1895-1979), my great-great uncle, on September 1, 1923, thus becoming my great-great aunt. She had been born in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, on January 16, 1895. The US Social Security Death Index gives an alternate birth date of January 15, one day earlier.<br />
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Claribelle and Ralph Shanower lived in Chesterland, Geauga County, Ohio, where he ran a service station for more than forty years. On September 18, 1925, the following Nut Bread recipe of hers was published in an unidentified newspaper. I suspect the newspaper was from the area around Chesterland, maybe a Geauga County paper; maybe the <i>Painesville Telegraph</i> in Lake County, Ohio; or maybe even the <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i> in Cuyahoga County.<br />
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Take 1 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 egg well beaten, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 cups milk, 4 cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup chopped walnut meats. Cream butter and sugar, add egg. Sift flour and salt twice and add milk and flour alternately. Add baking powder in last half cup of flour, last add nut meats. Put in well greased bread pan, let rise one-half hour and bake one hour in moderate oven.
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Claribelle Snyder Shanower died March 7, 1981, nearly two years after the death of her husband Ralph. I don’t remember ever meeting either of them, although I certainly could have. I don’t have any photos of Claribelle that I know of, but here’s one of Ralph, probably from the 1930s. I hope he enjoyed his wife’s nut bread.<br />
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ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-62459471502988629702015-09-22T04:59:00.001-07:002015-09-22T05:02:21.333-07:00Design by Leifer<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Larry Leifer is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in California. He's also my third cousin once removed. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhzrxPgDHbY">Click here</a> for a YouTube video in which he discusses Design Thinking. The video is nearly 23 minutes long.<br />
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A second YouTube video—<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N38_XgoL28k">click here</a>—features a lecture that Larry Leifer gave in 2011 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. This lecture, titled "Dancing with Ambiguity," is also about Design Thinking. It's almost an hour and ten minutes long.<br />
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During the first video Larry talks a little bit about his life and I think it's neat that he met his wife in Switzerland, which is where our ancestors Frederick Leifer (1813-1865) and Catherine Easley Leifer (1818-1892) were born and married before they came to the USA.<br />
<br />ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-52523363399917823892015-09-20T23:00:00.000-07:002015-09-21T15:54:21.100-07:00Glass Half Fuller DNA<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A few months ago I wrote about my possible descent from <i>Mayflower</i> passengers Edward Fuller (abt 1575-1621), his unnamed wife, and their son Samuel Fuller (abt 1608-1683). <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-mayflower-ancestors.html">Click here to read that post.</a> I traced a line of descent down to a Lorin Fuller (born 1798). Then I traced a line of ascent through my paternal grandmother’s line up to a Loring Fuller (1798-1863) and looked at the possibility that Lorin Fuller and Loring Fuller were the same person.<br />
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I reached the conclusion that they were the same and that I’m a direct descendant of three <i>Mayflower</i> passengers. But that conclusion was based on probabilities. The evidence is not rock solid. <br />
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Can DNA shed any light?<br />
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I took a DNA test through the website Ancestry.com. With the results of my test, Ancestry.com provided me with a long list of people whose DNA has portions matching my DNA.<br />
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I searched through all the DNA matches for Fuller relatives and came up with some results:<br />
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— One DNA match claims to be descended from <i>Mayflower</i> passengers Edward Fuller and his wife (name unknown) through their <i>Mayflower</i> passenger son Samuel Fuller.<br />
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— Seven DNA matches claim to be descended from <i>Mayflower</i> passengers Edward Fuller and his wife through their son Matthew Fuller (abt 1603-1678), who was not a <i>Mayflower</i> passenger, but arrived in North America a few years after the <i>Mayflower</i> landing.<br />
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— Two DNA matches claim to be descended from <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Samuel Fuller (bef 1580-1633), the brother of <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Fuller.<br />
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— Two DNA matches claim to be descended from Robert Fuller (abt 1548-bef 1614) and Sarah Dunckhorne Fuller (1558-bef 1584), the parents of <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Fuller, through their other son Thomas Fuller (1573-1659), who seems not to have left England.<br />
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— One DNA match claims to be descended from Loring Fuller (1798-1863), my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, but this matching person believes that this Loring is a descendant of Matthew Fuller, son of <i>Mayflower</i> passengers Edward Fuller and his wife. I believe this line of descent from Matthew Fuller to Loring of Ohio to be an error, as I discussed in my previous post on the Fullers.<br />
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In total those are thirteen DNA matches to people claiming to be descended in one way or another from the family of <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Fuller. There may be others in the list provided to me by Ancestry.com. But so far I haven’t found them. Thirteen seems like a nice pool of evidence to support my line of descent from Edward Fuller.<br />
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But that pool of evidence might not be as large as it seems.<br />
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The final match in the list claims descent from Loring Fuller. But Loring Fuller is the weak link in the chain between <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Fuller and me. This is the link I’m hoping this DNA information will strengthen. So I can’t count this DNA match in the pool of evidence. <br />
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That leaves twelve DNA matches claiming Fuller descent. <br />
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The results of DNA testing say these people and I are related. But the results don’t tell me <i>how</i>.<br />
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To figure out how, I have to find our common ancestors. My primary technique so far has been to search their family trees for names that are also on my tree. That technique is subject to error.<br />
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I haven’t verified that the family trees of these DNA matches are correct. Any of them could have done sloppy research. Any of them could have invalid information. <br />
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Two of the matches in the list claim descent from Thomas Fuller, brother of <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Fuller. I’ve seen documentation that Edward had a brother Thomas. But Thomas remained in England, and I’ve seen no documentation on Thomas’s descendants. Which of them sailed to North America? I’m not saying that none did, but I haven’t seen evidence. Is this a case of incorrect information on the part of these DNA matches?<br />
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Actually all of these DNA matches could have incorrect information in their family trees. And I could have incorrect information in my own family tree. I’m judicious in adding names to it, but I don’t have rock solid documentation for every one. So if lots of information is wrong, none of us might be related to the <i>Mayflower</i> Fullers.<br />
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If I’m not connected to these DNA matches through the Fullers, however, that doesn’t mean we’re not related. It only means we’re connected along other lines. Other lines of connection show up for some of these DNA matches.<br />
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The first DNA match above, initials W.G., who claims direct descent from Edward Fuller and his wife, also claims descent from John Porter (1594-1648) and Anna White Porter (1600-1647). The Porters are in my family tree, too, as my ten times great-grandparents. So that means my connection to W.G. might be only through the Porters and not through the Fullers.<br />
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Of the seven DNA matches through Matthew Fuller, two of them have other ancestors in common with me. One, like the W.G. I just discussed, also claims descent from John Porter and Anna White Porter. The other claims descent through Samuel Rider (abt 1601-1679) and Anne Gamlett Rider (abt 1605-1695), my nine times great-grandparents, as well as through my nine times great-grandparents Thomas Pratt (abt 1636-1692) and Susannah Gleason Pratt (b. 1636). This DNA match and I might only be connected through the Riders or the Pratts, or both, rather than the Fullers.<br />
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Of course, all the connections—the Fullers AND the Porters AND the Riders AND the Pratts—could be valid. Right now, I just don’t know. <br />
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To further complicate matters, there are chances for false positives and coincidences in DNA testing. Maybe there are false positives and coincidences among these twelve DNA matches, but if there are, I highly doubt all twelve fall into those categories.<br />
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The DNA test results don’t prove how I’m related to these people. But in the end I lean toward the idea that twelve DNA matches are enough, even if some are wrong, to support my relationship to the <i>Mayflower</i> Fullers. I still don't have rock solid evidence, by any means. But somehow I’m related to those matches. At this point the Fuller way seems as valid as any other way.<br />
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<i>Postscript:</i> I was surprised to find that one of the DNA matches in the list who claims descent from Matthew Fuller is also connected to me by marriage in another line. Judith (last name unrevealed for privacy reasons), the ten times great-granddaughter of <i>Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Fuller, who is also my tenth cousin once removed on my father’s side, was the niece of the wife of Ninja John Herttua (1897-1935), my first cousin three times removed on my mother’s side.ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-84069296925318782172015-09-13T23:00:00.000-07:002015-11-17T20:57:59.104-08:00Frustrating Finnish DNAAs I mentioned <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/09/adventures-in-dna.html">in a previous post,</a> I took an autosomal DNA test recently and was curious and excited to find out where the results would lead me. Since I took the test, several genealogical websites have provided me lists of DNA matches to other people.<br />
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The first three names on the list of matches that Ancestry.com gave me were all names of cousins I already had on my family tree, all three on my mother’s side. One of these cousins I’ve never met, but the other two I’ve met in person and enjoyed spending time with.<br />
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But that was nearly where the navigable connections stopped on my mother’s side. I’ve been able to laboriously sift through my DNA matches and add a number of previously unrecorded relatives to my father's side of the family tree. But discovering new connections to my mother’s side through DNA matches is nearly impossible.<br />
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My mother is of Finnish descent. Three of her grandparents—<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/09/from-finland-to-fairport-part-4.html">Matti Hietanen, Jr. (1883-1921), Edla Sussana Salo Hietanen (1884-1961)</a> and <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/09/from-finland-to-fairport-part-2.html">Mattias Vihtori Stuuri (1888-1981)</a>—were born in Finland and immigrated to the USA as children. Her fourth grandparent, Wilhelmina Elizabeth “Minnie” Hirvi Stuuri (1890-1946), had parents who were both born in Finland and immigrated to the USA as young adults—<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/09/from-finland-to-fairport.html">Wilhelm Heikkinpoika “William” Hirvi (1865-1949) and Wilhenmina “Minnie” Oberg (1865-1945)</a>.<br />
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Thanks to extensive international research by other family members, especially my cousin Bob Hietanen, the ancestry of my great-grandfather Matti Hietanen, Jr., is known to a great extent. Other cousins, particularly Jaakko Heinimäki, have provided a lot of ancestral research on my great-great-grandfather Wilhelm Hirvi. (These are my sources for the information that I’m a direct descendant in two lines from sixteenth-century Finnish freedom-fighter <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-famous-relatives-jaakko-ilkka.html">Jaakko Ilkka.</a>) But for the rest of my Finnish lines I only know a few generations earlier than my great-great-grandparents at best.<br />
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I’d hoped that my DNA test would help reveal more of my Finnish relatives and forebears. But there turns out to be an obstacle I didn’t expect. Up through the nineteenth century the Finns had an unusual custom. The surname of a Finnish family was the same as the name of the family’s farm. When a family moved from one farm to another, the family changed its surname to match the new location. This makes genealogical research based on surnames maddening.<br />
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This custom is evident in my family tree. For instance my nine times great-grandfather Heikki was born with the last name Punkari in about 1606. At some point he moved, evidently to the Reini farm, and gained the last name Reini. His son Yrjänä, my eight times great-grandfather, was born with the surname Reini about 1660. Evidently he moved about 1685 to the Karhu farm and took that name. His son Esaias, my seven times great-grandfather, was born there about 1704 and evidently remained living there, since he retained the surname Karhu.<br />
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In Finland during those days, if a man married a woman and moved to her home, the man took his wife’s last name, since that was the name of the place where he now lived. That’s what happened when my five times great-grandfather Elias Matinpoika Karhu (1760-1809), who was born with the surname Kujala, married my five times great-grandmother Margareta Andersintytär Uhmusberg (1765-1846). For a few generations after that, this line of the family kept the surname Uhmusberg (pronounced Oomsperry), until my great-great-grandfather Matti Juhonpoika Uhmusberg (1857-1915) ended up with the surname Hietanen.<br />
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What prompted that name change? No one’s completely sure. But other family researchers have proposed what seems a likely reason. In 1881 Matti Uhmusberg’s elder sister Maria Uhmusberg (1856-1935) married Jaakko Hermanninpoika Aittanen and moved to the Renko farm where there was a cottage named Hietanen. It’s possible that Matti at one point lived in the cottage on his sister’s farm and took the surname Hietanen from the cottage before he emigrated to the USA in 1887.<br />
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Comparing family trees to find common last names among ancestors is the main way to figure out how I’m related to other people who match my DNA. I’ve found a couple family trees of DNA matches that have names and dates corresponding to names and dates on my mom's side of my family tree. If I can trust their research, I believe that I’ve found our exact lines of connection. But finding the line of connection for a DNA match on my mom's side is rare. The custom of changing last names among the Finns makes it anywhere from difficult to impossible to figure out my connections to DNA matches who have Finnish last names or Finnish backgrounds.<br />
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Complicating the last name problem is the fact that a Finn whose last name appears in my family tree might have no connection to my family. That person—or an ancestor—might simply have once lived on the same farm as my ancestor. Juuso Hietanen, the Finnish ice hockey star in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, has the same last name my mother grew up with, but he's probably no relation to me.<br />
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All my Finn lines come through the Finnish towns of Ylistaro, Kortesjärvi, and Isokyrö, and my maternal grandparents and great-grandparents were all from Fairport Harbor, Ohio. When I find a DNA match who lists an ancestor who was born, married, or died in any of those places, I feel as if we’re oh-so-close to connecting. Is that name a sister, a brother, a cousin, or some sort of blood relation of one of my Finnish ancestors? I long to make the connection, but the name of a town isn’t enough. Without more information, there’s no way to do it. Like Tantalus reaching to pick a luscious fruit in Hades, I can’t reach far enough. The branch is always just beyond my grasp.<br />
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It’s not as though my DNA results haven’t listed many people of Finnish descent who are related to me. There are plenty of them—with ancestors named Myllykoski and Walkkila, Niemi and Luoma, Sillanpaa and Rintamaki, and more. But they’re like puzzle pieces that don’t quite fit together. These puzzle pieces are lying in plain sight, and I’m sure they’re pieces from the same puzzle I’m working on. But the pieces that connect them are missing.<br />
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Maybe one day DNA research will be able to pinpoint connections among relatives with much more accuracy. But until that day, I'll just have to live with the frustration. ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-11204076499440439572015-09-09T13:47:00.001-07:002015-09-09T14:35:00.830-07:00My Cousin the Congressman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having grown up in a politically conscious family with a deep interest in history and books, I was very excited to discover a hitherto unknown branch of my Kirkpatrick family tree several years ago. This branch has proved to be extraordinarily rich in detail about our earliest years in America (our Kirkpatricks arrived in Newcastle, Delaware, in 1736). By the time we get to the first and second generations born on this side of the pond there are many surviving letters, journals, portraits, and even a good number of books (collected sermons, family histories, and a handful of novels!). Clearly there is a lot to blog about. But as I don't have a lot of time today to introduce the entire Kirkpatrick family, I will instead introduce you to my cousin, the Congressman.<br />
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Littleton Kirkpatrick (1797-1859) was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives from the state of New Jersey in 1843. He is my second cousin, six times removed. He was a Democrat. While he only served one term in Congress he continued to be very involved in New Jersey politics. He was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayors_of_New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="Mayors of New Brunswick, New Jersey">Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey,</a> from 1841 to 1842, and served as a trustee of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University">Rutgers College</a> from 1841 until his death in 1859.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831)</td></tr>
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Littleton was born October 19, 1797, to Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831) and Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick (1772-1851). This Andrew is my first cousin, seven times removed. At the time Littleton was born, Andrew himself was a member of the New Jersey State Assembly - and three months after Littleton was born, Andrew was appointed a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Six years later Andrew became Chief Justice, a position he held for the next twenty-one years. His portrait can be seen at right.<br />
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Littleton's mother, Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick (1772-1851), had come from an important Washington, DC, family, and was a well-educated woman. She kept a journal (big chunks of which survive) for much of her life. And after her death a selection of her writings was published which included a novella, <i>The Light of Other Days</i> (1856).<br />
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Alas, while I have found a portrait of Littleton's father I have not found any paintings or photographs of Littleton. One would think such must exist. But I did recently acquire a letter signed by him, which I will share below.<br />
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Dear Sir,<br />
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We the undersigned beg leave to introduce to your notice Hanson Newton, one of the Judges of the court of common pleas, in and for the county of Middlesex and state of New Jersey, who is desirous of obtaining an appointment in the Custom House in New York. In recommending Judge Newton as a candidate for such appointment, we are performing an act of Justice to a well known, tried and consistent Democrat, who has laboured for many years in the cause of Democracy. We most cheerfully recommend him, as an upright business man, who we believe, will perform his duties faithfully, in any office you may think proper to bestow upon him.<br />
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Respectfully,<br />
your obt. servts<br />
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Littleton Kirkpatrick [and others] <br />
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Woodbridge<br />
20th May 1853</blockquote>
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I've tracked down a few of the other signers: A. A. Edgar was a member of the Board of Health, and member of the New Jersey State Senate. Frank W. Brinley was the "Collector of Customs." Other unidentified names are: John M. Tufts, Thos. M. Holcombe, Jaquis H. Gordon, William Thomas, and a Mr. Haines (first name indecipherable) who boldly signed above Littleton's name.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Paterson (1817-1898)</td></tr>
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But the most interesting other signature belongs to William Paterson (1817-1898), who signed directly below Littleton. His grandfather, William Paterson (1745-1806), was a signer of the U. S. Constitution as well as New Jersey's first
U.S. Senator, second governor of New Jersey, and a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court (appointed by George Washington in 1793). And Paterson, New Jersey, is named after him.<br />
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The Connections between the Paterson family and Kirkpatrick family began early. Littleton's father, Andrew, had studied law in the office of the elder Paterson. The two families seem to have remained good friends.<br />
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And, in turn, the William Paterson grandson (who signed the above letter) studied law in the offices of Littleton Kirkpatrick. He was admitted to the New Jersey
bar in 1838. He was elected to the state Assembly in 1842 and 1843. In
1847 he became Deputy Director of the Internal Revenue, and again in
1857. In 1882 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals
of New Jersey, a position he held for seven years. From 1846 to 1875 he
served as Mayor of Perth Amboy.<br />
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While I have found no family connection to the Paterson family, it is this rich tapestry of historical connections that makes me so fond of this branch of the family. So much more to explore!<br />
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For my Kirkpatrick cousins who are reading this blog and are unaware of how we connect to this branch of the family, here it is in a nutshell: Alexander Kirkpatrick (1685-1758) immigrated to America in 1736. He is my seven times great grandfather. He brought his three young sons with him: Andrew (1720-1790), David (1724-1814), and Alexander (n.d.). Son Andrew (1720-1790) leads to my branch; Son David (1724-1814) leads to Littleton's branch - indeed Littleton was David's grandson. Littleton's and my common ancestor is Alexander Kirkpatrick (1685-1758) making Littleton my second cousin, six times removed.<br />
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<br />hungrytigerboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13297257102628779700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-80060758599777053802015-09-06T22:07:00.001-07:002015-09-09T15:28:04.777-07:00Adventures in DNA<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Betsey Elizabeth Marshall Patterson Grant (1818-1912), circa 1904.</td></tr>
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I recently had my DNA tested in order to help with genealogical research.<br />
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The impetus for this decision started when I was contacted through this blog—<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2012/10/gathered-grants.html">click to read the specific post</a>—by a woman possibly related to my Marshall line. She has the text of a will made by her earlier relative Seth F. Marshall. Mentioned in the will are the names George Marshall, Nathan Marshall, Silas Marshall, and Betsey Grant.<br />
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I got excited. Betsey Elizabeth Marshall Patterson Grant (1818-1912) was my great-great-great-grandmother. George, Nathan (1823-after 1900), and Silas (1828-1907) were her brothers. I had never heard of Seth F. Marshall (1823-1856) before, but if he mentioned my Marshall relatives in his will, there was a good chance of his being my relative, too.<br />
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The relative who contacted me wondered if I could provide any assistance in learning who the parents of Seth F. Marshall were.<br />
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Unfortunately, I couldn’t help. I have plenty of information on Betsey Marshall Grant’s mother, Polly Rider Marshall (1793-1870), and her ancestors. But information on Betsey Marshall Grant’s father, William Obadiah Marshall (1784-1854), is scarce. What little there is remains difficult to verify.<br />
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But the probable connection between Seth F. Marshall and my Marshall line was too tantalizing to let rest. The contacting relative and I proposed the possibility that Seth was a first cousin to Betsey and her brothers, that Betsey’s father William was a brother to Seth’s father (name uncertain but possibly John or Charles). But we had no proof of this and no way to test the hypothesis. The contacting relative and I each had pieces of the puzzle. How could we fit the pieces together?<br />
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One possibility was DNA testing. The contacting relative has DNA information from a 92-year-old cousin. If someone descended in my Marshall line turned out to be a DNA match to that cousin in her Marshall line, then that would support the family connection implied by Seth F. Marshall’s will. And who knew how many other questions might be answered by DNA?<br />
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I’d previously considered having my DNA tested, but since I didn’t have much concept of what the results might be and because none of the tests are particularly cheap, I hadn’t bothered. But now here was a solid reason to take the test. I realized the results might not answer our questions about our Marshall relatives. But even if they didn’t, the results might give me answers to other family research questions beyond the Marshalls.<br />
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So I took the test. The one I chose was the autosomal DNA test offered by Ancestry.com since the contacting relative’s DNA info was all through Ancestry.com and she would be able to view my results there.<br />
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The test isn’t difficult. I ordered the simple kit from Ancestry.com. When the kit arrived I spit into the tube, mailed it back, and waited about six weeks for results.<br />
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The results were not everything the contacting relative and I hoped they would be. Ancestry.com reported hundreds of matches between my DNA and the DNA of others. Ancestry.com gives a very general range of relationship, but figuring out my exact lines of connection to those others is up to me. It’s time consuming, sometimes frustrating, and often fruitless. I have to search family trees of the reported DNA matches to find names that might also be in my family tree. Many times there are no matches—either because our areas of research are different or because the genealogical information gathered by either side is wrong. Yet I’ve found enough connections to DNA matches that I think the autosomal DNA test was worth doing. <br />
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But what about the Marshall connection? Well, the DNA test did not find a match to the DNA of the 92-year-old cousin of the contacting relative. But the DNA results of another Marshall cousin of hers showed up as a match to me. I don’t know why my results didn’t match her 92-year-old relative, but the one successful match was exciting news.<br />
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So great! We have some scientific supporting evidence that she and I are related through the Marshalls. I just don’t know where to go now with that information. We still don’t know who Seth F. Marshall’s parents were or exactly how Seth was related to Betsey and her brothers.<br />
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<br />ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-83058586766958975062015-03-05T23:45:00.001-08:002015-03-05T23:47:49.875-08:00Light the Candles!<div style="text-align: center;">
Happy one hundredth birthday to my great-aunt Ann Gertrude Shive Shanower!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ann Shive Shanower with her husband, my uncle, Malcolm David Shanower (1913-1997), probably around 1940.</td></tr>
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ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-67774383957454348202015-03-05T05:05:00.015-08:002021-04-29T00:26:24.914-07:00My Gay Relatives: Jon Lormer<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon (John) Austin Lormer, 1906-1986.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
never met my distant cousin Jon Lormer, now deceased. The funny thing is, I’d
seen him and heard him in action several times. So I had at least some
awareness of his existence. But until about a year ago, I had no idea we were
related.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">John
Austin Lormer was born in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, on May 7, 1906. His father
was Robert Austin “Bud” Lormer (1880-1958), the son and grandson of English immigrants
to the USA. Bud was born in Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. After a stint in the
Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War, Bud worked at Dueber
Hampden Watch Works in Canton where he met Bird Smith, a jewel setter. They
married in 1905.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">John’s
mother, Lydia Birdella “Bird” Smith Lormer (1878-1966), was also born in Massillon,
Stark County, Ohio, the daughter of John E. Smith (1851-1929) and Elemina
“Ellen” Shanower Smith (1849-1938). [UPDATE: In another post on this blog I discuss a photo I believe pictures Jon Lormer's maternal grandparents, John and Ellen Smith—<a href="https://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2017/12/benjamin-and-his-brothers.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.] Ellen’s parents were John Abraham Shanower
(1814-1859) and Mary “Polly” Roush Shanower (1820-1896), my
great-great-great-grandparents. So John
Lormer and I are second cousins twice removed.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In
1924 John Lormer graduated from <a href="http://mckinley.ccsdistrict.org/pages/Mckinley_High_School">McKinley High School in Canton.</a> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A
school yearbook from the period when his younger brother Donald attended
McKinley High School suggests that John was involved in school plays, a hint of
things to come.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">By
1925 John was living in Cleveland, Ohio, and working as first teller in the
Lakewood branch of the Cleveland Trust Bank. At the same time he studied
stagecraft at the Bradley School of Dramatic Art in Cleveland. Evidently he had
a back-up plan in mind in case acting didn’t work out, because he also attended
the Case School of Applied Science, now the Case School of Engineering at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">His
apprenticeship on stage began at the Cleveland Play House. Though <a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/">the Cleveland Play House</a> was just over a
decade old at the time, today it's the longest-running
professional regional theater in the USA and it celebrates its 100<sup>th</sup>
anniversary this year.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer, about 1930.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">One
of John Lormer’s first parts was the lead in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elmer
Gantry</i> at the Little Theater in Cleveland. He later managed that theater
and worked at the Ohio Theatre with Bob McLaughlin’s stock company, as well as
at the Colonial, Hanna, Metropolitan, and Alhambra stock companies in
Cleveland.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">He
changed the spelling of his first name from John to Jon for professional
reasons. I don’t know the details of what prompted the change. Perhaps there
was another actor with a similar name. Perhaps he thought the spelling of Jon
was more distinctive.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">During
the late 1920s he traveled east to New York City where he directed and assisted
with stage productions there. Plays he appeared in include <i>Gods of the Lightning</i> by Maxwell Anderson and
Harold Hickerson, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wild Birds </i>by Dan
Totheroh. He appeared with such well-known
actors of the day as Jacob Ben-Ami, Fritzi Leiber, Georgette Cohan, Charles
Gilpin, and Patricia Collinge. He’s reported to have been in the 1929 motion
picture <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glorifying the American Girl,</i>
an early sound and Technicolor movie produced by Florenz Ziegfeld to show off
his Ziegfeld Follies performers.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">By
1929 Jon had moved to Bayonne, New Jersey, where he was leading man with the
Bayonne Art Players, Inc. He starred in the plays <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Two Girls Wanted</i> by Gladys B. Unger, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abie’s Irish Rose</i> by Anne Nichols, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crime</i>. In February 1929 he sang to the music of Vincent Youmans in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hit the Deck</i>.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
don’t know how Jon Lormer formed a partnership with the young dancer Waldo de
Castro. They most likely met in New York City where Waldo had appeared in
recitals at the Forrest and Hampden Theaters. Waldo’s earlier career included
performing at the Folies Bergere in Paris, France, and the Teatro Reale in
Madrid, Spain, where he was a principal dancer. In New York he appeared in the 1924
Sigmund Romberg musical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Artists and
Models</i> on Broadway and in musical revues such as Broadway’s 1927 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Night in Spain</i> in which he played the
female dancer.</span></span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6NE2VCKpOpkXzPSToXQ_xCECDMneufLLqnKKwnJuaAFMVcd9hFUzDUvqfQmj8ChFnfTQIij8VVaIcO1OVgO7vJqR-Cd8cPyzy8cVPSfG5OrZKYe2hHY16132epnt0pFI_JOqD_EQxRbuk/s1600/WaldoDeCastro_1930.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6NE2VCKpOpkXzPSToXQ_xCECDMneufLLqnKKwnJuaAFMVcd9hFUzDUvqfQmj8ChFnfTQIij8VVaIcO1OVgO7vJqR-Cd8cPyzy8cVPSfG5OrZKYe2hHY16132epnt0pFI_JOqD_EQxRbuk/s1600/WaldoDeCastro_1930.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waldo de Castro, about 1930.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">By
1930 Jon Lormer and Waldo de Castro were touring together in a joint recital. Jon
presented half of the recital, performing a series of character sketches in the
form of monologues he’d written himself. In the recital’s other half Waldo de
Castro performed dances from his native Spain and other European countries,
while clad in colorful costumes appropriate to each dance. This might seem like an unlikely pairing of
performance types to an audience of today, but back in 1930 when vaudeville was
not yet dead, such a presentation would probably not have seemed quite so unusual.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jon
and Waldo presented their recital in Jon’s hometown of Canton, Ohio, on May 5,
1930. Waldo’s performance included
typical Spanish numbers and humorous imitations of well-known dances, including
the Garrotin Flamenco from Seville, a dance from Manuel de Falla’s ballet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El Amor Brujo</i>, the “Alegrias Toreadas”
by Spanish composer </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Joaquín
Valverde Durán,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Jarabe Tapatio
(Mexican Hat Dance)” by F. A. Partichela, and the “Dance of Fate” from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carmen</i> by Georges Bizet. The next day in
its review of the recital, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canton
Repository</i> singled out as “most unusual” Waldo’s performance of “Cadiz” by
Isaac Albeniz, in which he portrayed La Argentina (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Antonia Mercé y Luque</span>), a world-renowned Spanish dancer known for
her rendition of “Cadiz.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jon’s
second act consisted of character sketches. He used no make-up, costumes, or
props in his monologues, only his voice and gestures to communicate his
characters to the audience. His performance included his original pieces “Old
Man’s Folly,” “One That Was Hanged,” “The Rehearsal,” “A Chip,” “Trapped,” and
a sketch suggested by de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” titled
“Reward.” He also performed a characterization of the female character “Tosca,”
which the newspaper review called “extremely well done.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">By
the time I learned about Jon and Waldo appearing on stage in performances that
included female roles, my gaydar was going off bigtime. Were Jon Lormer and
Waldo de Castro simply just stage partners, touring the USA with their two-part
recital? Or could they have been lovers? I don’t have an answer about their
relationship behind the scenes. But I do have more evidence that suggests they
were both gay.</span></span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 4, 1930, <i>Canton Daily News</i> ad for the recital with Lormer and de Castro.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In
August 1930 Jon and Waldo announced that they were accepting registrations from
both adults and children for the fall term of the school of dance and drama that
they were opening in Canton, Ohio. There Jon taught classes in elocution and
the dramatic arts. Waldo taught classical ballet, ballroom dancing, Spanish dancing,
and dances of other nations.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">That
fall of 1930 was busy for Jon Lormer. In September he accepted directorship of
the Rainbow Players Club, a Canton organization that performed plays, often in
conjunction with Parent-Teachers associations and Boy Scout troops. Then a
recital by the dance and drama students of Jon and Waldo’s school took place
October 13, 1930, at Lehman High School auditorium. All the costumes used in
the recital were made under Jon’s direction at the school. And on November 8,
Jon performed two of his monologues, “Reward” and “Ticklish,” at a morning
musicale of the Canton Women’s Club.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Then
came the weekend of November 15-16. Jon and Waldo, both 23 years old, were
arrested in Canton by probation officer Frank Schumacher, along with Earl Leon
Crubaugh, a 39-year-old music teacher. The three were charged with
“contributing to the delinquency of boys of juvenile age.” By Monday, November
17, both Jon Lormer and Earl Crubaugh were out of jail on bond.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jon’s
uncle, Ira Manderbaugh—husband of Lillian Smith Manderbaugh, the sister of Jon
Lormer’s mother—was a captain of police in Canton at this time. From 1928 through
1932 Ira Manderbaugh battled with Canton Chief of Police Earl W. Hexamer in a
departmental feud that sometimes made newspaper headlines. Chief Hexamer
believed Manderbaugh routinely neglected his duty and specifically charged that
Manderbaugh failed to properly handle vice conditions in giving orders to vice
squads. I don’t know whether Captain Manderbaugh played any part during his
nephew’s arrest or influenced his release, but Manderbaugh was in a position
where he might have.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
also don’t know what specific actions led to Jon and Waldo’s arrests. I don’t
know the ages of the “boys of juvenile age” whose delinquency they contributed
to—I prefer to think they were about 17 years old rather than, say, 13. I don’t know if
anything sexual occurred among the adults and the “boys of juvenile age.” I
don’t know how active Jon and Waldo were in getting themselves into this
situation. I prefer to think that the much older Earl Crubaugh was the leader.
Earl never married. He seems to have lived with his mother in Alliance, Stark
County, Ohio, for the rest of her life and then remained alone until his death
on December 3, 1963.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Or
were Jon and Waldo set up? Were they accustomed to a more relaxed atmosphere in the
New York theater world and not discreet enough for the gatekeepers of Canton,
Ohio?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">After
the arrest why wasn’t Waldo released on bond with the other two? Was Waldo
considered a flight risk and denied bond because he was a foreign national? Did
Jon’s parents or other relations pay Jon’s bond and refuse to pay Waldo’s? Was
this incident the end of Jon and Waldo’s relationship, whatever that
relationship was?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">It
seems to have ended their dance and drama studio. I find no more reference to
the studio, and I don’t suppose any parent in Canton, Ohio, was willing to
enroll a son or daughter in a school run by anyone publicly exposed for such a
crime.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Waldo
continued to perform Spanish and other European and character dances around
North America at least through 1939. I don’t know what happened to him after
that.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">After
I learned of the arrest of Jon Lormer and Waldo de Castro, I wondered whether
Jon’s acting career had completely collapsed and he had faded into obscurity. The
only later information I had about Jon said that he was living in California in
the 1970s. I didn’t see anything special about this, since I knew his birth
family had moved in the late 1940s to the San Francisco area, where his parents,
Bud and Bird Lormer, are buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But
I began to find references to a Jon Lormer—sometimes spelled Lorimer, other
times spelled Lormier—who had been a television actor throughout the 1960s and
’70s. A check of this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lormer">Jon Lormer’s Wikipedia entry</a>
showed a birthdate that matched the birthdate of my cousin Jon. The television
actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521070/">Jon Lormer’s Internet Movie Database</a> entry revealed his birthplace as Canton,
Ohio. After that I easily found an obituary that clearly established that this
Jon Lormer and my cousin were one and the same.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">No
online source gives a thorough picture of Jon Lormer’s career. IMDB lists many
of his credits, but the list is incomplete. Fortunately I’ve found other
sources that together give a fuller picture of his career after he left Canton.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jon
seems to have remained in Canton through at least 1932. By 1935, he was back in
New York with his acting career in full swing. In the first half of 1936 he had
parts in three Broadway shows: he played Joe Lash in <i>American Holiday</i> by Edwin L. Barker and Albert
Wineman Barker, he played the Third Knight in T. S. Eliot’s <i>Murder in the Cathedral,</i> and he played
the Policeman in <i>Class of ’29</i> by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings, all
produced by the Popular Price
Theatre of The Federal Theatre Project of the WPA.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">After
the USA entered World War II, Jon Lormer was shipped off to Europe on June 15,
1942. He spent the war in the Army Signal Corps, stationed in England and
France. On June 3, 1946, following the war’s end, he departed Le Havre, France,
on the ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tufts Victory</i>, and
returned to New York City.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There
he joined the American Theatre Wing Professional Training Program. He served as
the head of the Theatre Training Division until 1956. Meanwhile, his stage
career continued. He branched out into television beginning in 1948 and
appeared on many early live television shows, including Studio One, Ford
Theatre, and Playhouse 90.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
early 1950s found him in Hollywood. From then until his death in 1986 he
appeared in television shows and feature films, only occasionally returning to
the legitimate stage.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer as the Scientist in "The Legacy" episode of the live television series <i>Planet of the Apes</i>, 1974.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">It
was Jon Lormer’s television appearances that really struck me. I’d seen shows
he’d been in. If you watched television during the 1960s and 1970s, you very
likely saw him on one show or another. I’d seen him in an episode of tv’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Planet of the Apes,</i> I’d seen him in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek,</i> I’d seen him in the tv movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Legend of Lizzie Borden</i> starring
Elizabeth Montgomery. I’d even seen him in the 1982 motion picture <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creepshow</i> where he played Nathan
Grantham in the “Father’s Day” segment. I went to that movie with my cousin
Carol Shanower-Strazinsky when it was released. Neither of us knew that we were
watching our second cousin twice removed.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Although
I’d seen Jon Lormer perform many times, I’d never remembered him in particular.
He was what I’d guess they call a character actor. He had speaking parts in nearly
all of his projects, but he was never a lead on television. His looks seem to
have made him fit to play judges, doctors, and preachers, roles he was cast in
again and again. In a number of shows he had recurring roles, most notably on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peyton Place</i> where he played Judge Irwin
A. Chester in eighteen episodes. But he was usually cast in small parts, there
for just one or two scenes.</span></span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer on the set of the television series<i> Peyton Place,</i> 1966.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless,
his resume remains impressive in both length and breadth. He played all sorts
of parts throughout his career, usually sporting his white comb-over. He was in movies that are still worth watching,
such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pollyanna</i> (1960) with Hayley
Mills and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Want to Live!</i> (1958) with
Susan Hayward. He was also in clunkers, such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Fine Madness</i> (1966) with Sean Connery and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctors’ Wives</i> (1971) with Dyan Cannon. When he was sixty-nine
years old he played the father to sixty-eight-year-old Katharine Hepburn in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rooster Cogburn</i> (1975). Name a
television Western either well-known or obscure—Jon Lormer was probably cast in
it—and likely more than once. He’s unique in having been on an episode of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Twilight Zone</i> as a different
character in each of its four seasons on television.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">While
Jon Lormer’s professional career from the late 1950s onward is pretty well
documented, his private life in those decades is virtually unknown, at least to
me. He didn’t marry. I wonder what sort of relationships he had and whether he
found a partner to share his life.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jon
had two younger brothers, Donald Marshall Lormer (1908-1986) and Robert Wilmer
Lormer (1916-1972). Donald had seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood.
Four of those are still alive. One niece of Jon Lormer stayed in touch with her
uncle while he was alive. When Jon Lormer died of cancer in Burbank, California, March 1986, that
niece attended his funeral. I’d love to speak with her, my third cousin once
removed, about her uncle Jon, but I haven’t been able to contact her.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In
any case, I’m proud to be a cousin of Jon Lormer. I’ve assembled a list of his
credits from a variety of sources. A number of the early dates I’ve had to be a
bit vague on and the list of early plays is certainly not complete. But as far
as I know, what follows is the most comprehensive resume of his acting career:<br />
<br />
<i><b>Gods
of the Lightning</b></i> (play) by Maxwell Anderson and Harold
Hickerson (circa 1920s)</span></span></div><p>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Elmer
Gantry</i></b>
(play) by Patrick Kearney (circa 1920s) role: Elmer Gantry; Little Theater,
Cleveland, Ohio</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Wild
Birds</i></b>
(play) by <span class="author">Dan
Totheroh </span>(circa
1920s)</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span>
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Crime</i></b><b> </b>(play, circa late 1920s) Bayonne Art
Players, Bayonne, New Jersey</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Two
Girls Wanted</i></b>
(play) by Gladys B. Unger (circa late 1920s) leading
role; Bayonne Art Players, Bayonne, New Jersey</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Hit
the Deck</i></b>
(musical play) music by Vincent
Youmans, lyrics by Clifford Grey and Leo Robin, book by Herbert Fields (circa
late 1920s) leading role; Bayonne Art Players, Bayonne, New Jersey</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Abie’s Irish Rose</i></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (play) by Anne Nichols (circa late 1920s) leading role; Bayonne Art
Players, Bayonne, New Jersey</span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Stepping
Heels</i></b>
(movie, circa late 1920s)</span></span></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Nothing
but the Truth</i></b>
(play) by James Montgomery (April 20, 1928) leading role; benefit performance for the Firestone Park Presbyterian Church, Akron, Ohio</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i>Glorifying
the American Girl</i></b>
(movie) produced by Florenz Ziegfeld (1929)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i>Cradle
Snatchers</i></b>
(play) by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell (circa late 1920s-1930s)
vaudeville Keith Circuit with Bertha Belmore</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i>The
Mother Heart</i></b>
(play, circa 1930s) vaudeville circuit tour with Ida Kramer</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i>Treasure
Island</i></b>
(play) by Jules Eckert Goodman (opened May 14, 1938) role: Long John Silver; Hippodrome, New York City</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">American Holiday</span></i></b> (play) Edwin L. Barker and Albert
Wineman Barker (Feb 21,
1936 - Mar 1936) role: Joe Lash; Manhattan Theatre, Broadway, New York City</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Murder in the Cathedral</span></i></b> (play) by T. S. Eliot (Mar 20, 1936 - Apr 1936) role: Third
Knight; Manhattan Theatre, Broadway, New York City</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><i><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">Class of ’29</span></i></b> (play) by Orrie Lashin and Milo
Hastings (May 15, 1936 - Jun 1936) role:
Policeman; Manhattan Theatre, Broadway, New York City</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Young
Loves</i></b><i> </i>(play, circa
1930s-1940s) New York City</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>The
Sun and I</i></b>
(play) by Barrie and Leona Stavis (February 26, 1937 – May 22, 1937) roles: Ishmaelite Slave Merchant & Shilah; Adelphi Theatre, Broadway, New York
City</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>Hippolytos
</i></b>(play,
circa 1930s-1940s) New York City</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>The
First Year</i></b>
(play, circa 1930s-1940s) on tour</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><i>The
Thirteenth Chair</i></b>
(play) <span class="st">by Bayard Veiller (</span>circa 1930s-1940s) on tour</span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Stage recitals of monologues, including “Ticklish,” “Tosca,” “One Man’s Folly,”
“One That Was Hanged,” “The Rehearsal,” “A Chip,” “Trapped,” and “Reward,”
written by Jon Lormer (1930s-1940s) New York City and on tour, including at the
Hotel Northern in Canton, Ohio, on May 5, 1930, and at the Canton [Ohio] Women’s
Club on November 8, 1930</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Fireworks
on the James</i></b>
(play) by John Cournos and Elizabeth McCormick, based on Chekhov’s <i>Platonov</i> (May 14, 1940) Provincetown
Playhouse, Provincetown, Massachusetts; planned two-week run cut short after
one week</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The
Classic Comics</i></b>
(play) “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” segment (March 3, 1948) role: Starveling,
Equity Library Theater, New York City</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIX1nXRWJq2ADMV3VKub9H_-yYYsNFUSpuQu7VIACIGALcotEumYaIA_dR0fDlniRQQjz6il5NEzV171JmrMLAZdKuiVnu8DWax474Nq1ccfng75GrfqD3cX5cbtys2Z6-E9h6oY4Xxdb8/s1600/1948Mar20_BillboardMagazine_JonLormer_asStarveling_inTheClassicComics.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIX1nXRWJq2ADMV3VKub9H_-yYYsNFUSpuQu7VIACIGALcotEumYaIA_dR0fDlniRQQjz6il5NEzV171JmrMLAZdKuiVnu8DWax474Nq1ccfng75GrfqD3cX5cbtys2Z6-E9h6oY4Xxdb8/s1600/1948Mar20_BillboardMagazine_JonLormer_asStarveling_inTheClassicComics.jpg" width="123" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Classic Comics</i> review,<i> Billboard,</i> March 20. 1948.</td></tr>
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</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Big
Knife</i></b>
(play) by Clifford Odets (after 1949) New York City</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Ford
Theatre Hour</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Subway Express”</span>
(1950)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Nash Airflyte
Theatre</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Boor</span>”
(1950)</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Philco Television Playhouse</i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa early 1950s)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Big Story</i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1950s)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sure As Fate</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Macbeth</span>”
(1951) role: King Duncan</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Martinsville,
U.S.A.</span></i></b> (TV series) <br />
Unknown (1951)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Studio One in
Hollywood</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Bolt of
Lightning</span>” (1951) role: Mr. Huntington</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Miss Susan</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(1951)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Goldbergs</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Dreams</span>”
(1955) role: Henry Carey</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Jury</span>”
(1955) role: Juror (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Crime Syndicate</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1950s)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Lamp Unto My Feet</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1950s)</span></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Goldbergs </i></b>(TV series)</span><br />
</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">unknown episode</span>”
(circa 1955) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">unnamed juror</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">unknown episode</span>”
(circa 1955) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Mr. Carey</span>
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">unknown episode</span>”
(circa 1955) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Mr. Carey</span></span></span> <br /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Finian's Rainbow</b></i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> (muscal play) by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy (July 9, 1956, through rest of week) Brandywine Music Box, Wilmington, Delaware; role: Mr. Shears</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Playhouse 90</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1956-60)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Search for Tomorrow</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1950s)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Cheyenne</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Town of Fear</span>”
(1957) role: Dan Slater</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Girls on the
Loose</span></i></b> (movie, 1958) role: Doctor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Millionaire</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Tony
Drummond Story</span>” (April 9, 1958) role: Job Foreman</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Zane Grey
Theater</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Handful of
Ashes</span>” (May 2, 1958) role: Doc</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Have Gun -
Will Travel</span></i></b> (TV
series) <br />
“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Three Sons</span>”
(May 10, 1958) role: Judge Cates</span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">From Hell to
Texas</span></i></b> aka <b><i>Hell Bent Kid</i></b> (movie,
1958) role: Grizzled Man (uncredited)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Matchmaker</span></i></b> (movie,
1958) role: Mr. Duckworth, Jeweler (uncredited)</span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Californians</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Overland Mail</span>”
(1958)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lawman</span></i></b><b> </b>(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Prisoner”
(October 12, 1958) </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">role: </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry Tate</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Joker</span>”
(October 19, 1958) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry Tate</span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Jury</span>”
(November 9, 1958) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry Tate</span>
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Bloodline</span>”
(November 30, 1958) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry Tate</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Outsider</span>”
(January 4, 1959) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry Tate</span>
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Big Hat</span>”
(February 22, 1959) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry Tate</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Matinee Theatre</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1955-58)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Wanted: Dead
or Alive</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Giveaway
Gun</span>” (October 11, 1958) role: Jack the Stableman (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Railroaded</span>”
(March 14, 1959) role: Mark Crow (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Walter
Winchell File</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Hot Night in
Manhattan</span>” (1958) role: Store Owner</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Death Comes
in a Small Package: File #37</span>” (1959) role: Watchman</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">I Want to
Live!</span></i></b> (movie, 1958) role: San Quentin
Doctor (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rescue 8</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Find That
Bomb!</span>” (1958) role: Motel Manager</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sugarfoot</span></i></b><i> </i>(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Deadlock</span>”
(February 4, 1958) role: Mike Feeny</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Wizard</span>”
(October 14, 1958) role: Sam McClain</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Outlaw Island</span>”
(November 24, 1959) role: Doc Basher</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The <span style="text-decoration: none;">Shadow
Catcher</span>” (September 26, 1960) role: Paul Loring</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rally 'Round
the Flag, Boys!</span></i></b>
(movie, 1958) role: George Melvin (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Maverick</span></i></b><i> </i>(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Day of
Reckoning</span>” (February 2, 1958) role: Somers</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Lonesome
Reunion</span>” (September 28, 1958) role: Newspaperman </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Brasada Spur</span>”
(February 22, 1959) role: Belle Morgan's Personal Waiter (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Town That
Wasn't There</span>” (October 2, 1960) role: Sam Bradford </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Loretta
Young Show</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Woman
Between</span>” (November 23, 1958) role: Dr. Gibbs</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Best
Season</span>” (April 17, 1960) role: Doctor (credited as John Lormer) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Switchblade</span>”
(1960) role: Corey Bellman Sr.</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lassie</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Teacher</span>”
(September 21, 1958) role: School Board Member (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Contest</span>”
(September 20, 1959) role: Silas Huff </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Grasshopper and the Ant</span>” (January 24, 1960) role: Silas Huff </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Odyssey:
Part 1</span>” (February 18, 1962) role: Henry DeShaw </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Guide Dog</span>”
(April 5, 1964) role: Jim Stanton </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Eighth
Life of Henry IV</span>” (1967) role: George Ramsey</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lassie: Joyous
Sound</span></i></b> (TV movie, 1973) role: Man With
Yorkshire Terrier (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Joyous
Sound: Part 2</span>” (1973) role: Man in the Park</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Gunsmoke</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Young Love</span>”
(January 3, 1959) role: Jesse Wheat</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Jailbait
Janet</span>” (February 27, 1960) role: Clerk</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">He Who Steals</span>”
(1965) role: Mr. Hoyt (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">McCabe</span>”
(November 30, 1970) role: Judge Clairborne</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">New Doctor in
Town</span>” (October 11, 1971) role: Cody Sims </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Trafton</span>”
(October 25, 1971) role: Storekeeper (uncredited)</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Alias Festus
Haggin</span>” (March 6, 1972) role: Judge Clayborne </span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">77 Sunset
Strip</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Secret of
Adam Cain</span>” (January 16, 1959) role: Hotel Clerk #1 (uncredited)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Real
McCoys</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Son of the
Mystic Nile</span><span style="text-decoration: none;">” (January 25, 1959) role: Sam Watkins </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Big Skeet
Shoot</span>” (June 4, 1959) role: Announcer </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Politician</span>” (1959) role: Sam Watkins </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Perfume
Salesman</span>” (1959) role: Sam Watkins </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Television Set</span>” (1959) role: Sam Watkins </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Weekend in
Los Angeles</span>” (1960) role: Sam </span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Watkins </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Delegates</span>”
(1960) role: Sam Watkins </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Berry
Crisis</span>” (1961) role: Farmer</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Peter Gunn</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Pecos Pete</span>”
(February 9, 1959) role: Coroner</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">See No Evil</span>”
(February 1, 1960) role: Judge (credited as John Lormer) </span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86FBE7I_-MYLgcUo0Q9X-iOU_2Lw3NUDZ2lYGNag2Dlet8Bw7NKIRGe-CTH811vQ7JERfhtQSvl_s3YEzHW3DqmyXDvOVrjYvdd2lqjJsgdFKsHUFUmwJiMSTuAlqGVrMJuuTWPIh_ol3/s1600/JonLormer_asDrOberon_PerryMason_CaseoftheGlamorousGhost.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86FBE7I_-MYLgcUo0Q9X-iOU_2Lw3NUDZ2lYGNag2Dlet8Bw7NKIRGe-CTH811vQ7JERfhtQSvl_s3YEzHW3DqmyXDvOVrjYvdd2lqjJsgdFKsHUFUmwJiMSTuAlqGVrMJuuTWPIh_ol3/s1600/JonLormer_asDrOberon_PerryMason_CaseoftheGlamorousGhost.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer on the<i> Perry Mason</i> episode "The Case of the Glamorous Ghost," 1962.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Perry Mason</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Jaded Joker</span>” (February 21, 1959) role: Coroner</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Stuttering Bishop</span>” (March 14, 1959) role: Doctor </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Calendar Girl</span>” (April 18, 1959) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span> (scenes deleted) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Frantic Flyer</span>” (January 9, 1960) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Clumsy Clown</span>” (November 5, 1960) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Provocative Protege</span>” (November 12, 1960) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Renegade Refugee</span>” (December 9, 1961) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Glamorous Ghost</span>” (February 3, 1962) role: Dr. Oberon </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Melancholy Marksman</span>” (March 24, 1962) role: Medical Examiner </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Hateful Hero</span>” (October 25, 1962) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Elusive Element</span>” (April 11, 1963) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Autopsy
Surgeon</span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Case of
the Devious Delinquent</span>” (December 5, 1963) role: Medical Examiner</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://www.tv.com/shows/northwest-passage/the-counterfeiters-212865/"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Northwest
Passage</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
</a><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.tv.com/shows/northwest-passage/the-counterfeiters-212865/">“The Counterfeiters” (1959)</a> role: Jonathan Henderson (uncredited)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(click link to watch)</span></span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Richard
Diamond, Private Detective</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Pack Rat</span>”
(February 22, 1959) role: Gerald Wilkerson</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></i></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Alcoa
Presents: One Step Beyond</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Captain's
Guests</span>” (May 26, 1959) role: Realtor Caleb Leach</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">"Who Are You?</span>”
(1960) role: Joe Fisher</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“Legacy of Love” (December 20, 1960)
role: Resident</span></span></span></span></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The David Niven Show</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">"The Vengeance”
(June 30, 1959) role: Jake</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></i></b></span></span></span></span> </span></span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Riverboat</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">About Roger
Mowbray</span>” (September 27, 1959) role: Dr. Landers</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Career</span></i></b> (movie, 1959) role: Process Server (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Gazebo</span></i></b> (movie, 1959) role: Dr. Weiner, Police Surgeon (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Shotgun Slade</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Mesa of
Missing Men</span>” (1959) role: Bascomb</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Misplaced
Genius</span>” (1961) </span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://free-classic-tv-shows.com/Unsold-Pilots/1959-Destination-Space/index.php"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Destination Space</span></i></b></a> (TV movie, 1959) role: Professor Logan</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(click link to watch) </span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Trackdown</span></i></b><i> </i>(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Trick</span>”
(1959) role: Will - The Blacksmith (uncredited)</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTlxHGSc2yNWG4UeOpWd4RiKsenOG0MaWe0V4szBW8-P-I7GC4hk2_PdPAWgHt_jqlQz-WNbXxC0WnUBs6OzH-5aT-r_k1hpMiM_j2XRAcAE8bQRBUjqsOkoaGgxS4Esa37J4pIvV1L8A/s1600/JonLormer_asGeorgeCollings_Bonanza_TheScapegoat.jpg" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer in<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i><b> </b></i></span></span>"The Scapegoat" episode of<i> Bonanza,</i> 1964.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Bonanza</span></i></b><i> </i>(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The Newcomers” (September
26, 1959) role: Doc Riley (credited as John
Lormer)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Scapegoat</span>”
(October 25, 1964) role: Collings </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Thirteenth Man</span>” (January 21, 1968) role: Lamar Forbes (credited as
John Lormer) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Bottle
Fighter</span>” (May 12, 1968) role: Winter </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Real
People of Muddy Creek</span>” (October 6, 1968) role: Jody </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Is There Any
Man Here?</span>” (February 8, 1970) role: Preacher</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Laramie</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Duel at Alta
Mesa</span>” (1960) role: Wally</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Pollyanna</span></i></b> (movie, 1960) role: Mr. Geary (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Bourbon
Street Beat</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Interrupted
Wedding</span>” (June 20, 1960) role: Organist</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Tate</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Return of
Jessica Jackson</span>” (September 14, 1960) role: Indian Chief</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Thriller</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Mark of
the Hand</span>” (October 4, 1960) role: Dr. Emil Berland (replaced by Marc
Lawrence) (scenes deleted)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Jim
Backus Show</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Mike O'Toole,
Angler</span>” (1960) role: Goodman</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dan Raven</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Night Is
Numbered</span>” (1960) role: Kallen</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rawhide</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Incident of
the Last Chance</span>” (June 10, 1960) role: Harry Gillespie</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Lost Herd</span>”
(1964) role: Clayton (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Rebel</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Night on a
Rainbow</span>” (May 29, 1960) role: Doctor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Legacy</span>”
(November 13, 1960) role: Judge Adam Ricker (credited as John Lormer)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Where the
Boys Are</span></i></b> (movie,
1960) role: Motel Manager (uncredited)</span></span></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Death Valley Days</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Extra Guns</span>” (November 24, 1960)</span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Route 66</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Fury Slinging
Flame</span>” (December 30, 1960) role:
Mr. White</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">In the
Closing of a Trunk</span>” (March 8, 1963) role: Man #2 </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Twilight Zone</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Execution</span>”
(April 1, 1960) role: Minister</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Dust</span>”
(January 6, 1961) role: First Townsman (credited as John Lormer)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“T<span style="text-decoration: none;">he Last Rites
of Jeff Myrtlebank</span>” (February 23, 1962) role: Mr. Strauss </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Jess-Belle</span>”
(February14, 1963) role: Minister </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Outlaws</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Beat the Drum
Slowly</span>” (1960) role: Pop Morton</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Sisters</span>”
(1962) role: Judge </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Two Faces
West</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Accused</span>”
(1961)</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Naked City</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">New York to
L.A.</span>” (April 19, 1961) role: Minister</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Stagecoach
West</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Dead
Don't Cry</span>” (1961) role: Liveryman</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ada</span></i></b> (movie, 1961) role: James Ordman - Committee Man
(uncredited)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPXgx_dF4rk8fqZXX1ty4kyqP2_at-jJ_AEIvQnD_y0GqWUNhUM_p6U-MY9kJjPZwhCGX84jfFbhzuTL6NyprYWgNx3YohusYZLOTXUgheJvYRMe029dg_z4hK1YvlqvpJvyd5LZCJmv2/s1600/JonLormer_asElderlyManonRiverboat_TheComancheros_1961.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPXgx_dF4rk8fqZXX1ty4kyqP2_at-jJ_AEIvQnD_y0GqWUNhUM_p6U-MY9kJjPZwhCGX84jfFbhzuTL6NyprYWgNx3YohusYZLOTXUgheJvYRMe029dg_z4hK1YvlqvpJvyd5LZCJmv2/s1600/JonLormer_asElderlyManonRiverboat_TheComancheros_1961.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer as the man on the riverboat in the movie <i>The Comancheros,</i> 1961.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Comancheros</span></i></b> (movie,
1961) role: White-Haired Man on Riverboat (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Tales of
Wells Fargo</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Dodger</span>”
(October 7, 1961) role: the Clerk</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">End of a
Minor God</span>” (April 7, 1962) role: Bert Hensley</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Untouchables</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Death for
Sale</span>” (April 27, 1961) role: Clary</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Fall Guy</span>”
(January 11, 1962) role: Finley Connors </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Pressure</span>”
(June 14, 1962) role: Lawton Hollis, School Superintendent</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dennis the
Menace</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Dennis and
the Good Example</span>” (March 26, 1961) role: Mr. Bergstrom</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Wilson's
Little White Lie</span>” (1963) role: Mr. Nelson (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Bronco</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Destinies
West</span>” (February 26, 1962) role: Doc Emory</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></i></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Tall Man</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Phoebe</span>”
(May 26, 1962) role: Medford (credited as John Lormer)</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Wonderful
World of the Brothers Grimm</span></i></b>
(movie, 1962) role: The Doctor (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Andy
Griffith Show</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Bailey's Bad
Boy</span>” (January 15, 1962) role: Fletch Dilbeck</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Cow Thief</span>”
(October 29, 1962) role: Tate Fletcher </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Opie's
Fortune</span>” (November 16, 1964) role: Parnell Rigsby </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Saints and
Sinners</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Slug It, Miss
Joyous</span>” (1963) role: Templar</span></span></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">General Electric True</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The Black-Robed Ghost” (March 10, 1963)</span></span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Empire</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Nobody Dies
on Saturday</span>” (April 16, 1963) role: Sam Richmond</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Third Man</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Meeting of
the Board</span>” (1963)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Temple
Houston</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Billy Hart</span>”
(November 28, 1963) role: Matt Turner</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ben Casey</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Hang No Hats
on Dreams</span>” (May 13, 1963) role: Sam Carstairs</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Journeys End
in Lovers Meeting</span>” (April 19, 1965) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Dr. Martinson</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Virginian</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Vengeance Is
the Spur</span>” (February 27, 1963) role: Tom the Blacksmith</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Series retitled <b><i>The Men from Shiloh</i></b> for
final 1971 season</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Nan Allen</span>”
(February 6, 1971) role: Dr. Walker </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Angus
Killer</span>” (1971) role: Doctor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Arrest and Trial</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Somewhat
Lower Than the Angels</span>” (1964) role: Vicar</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dead Ringer</span></i></b> (movie, 1964) role: Alonzo (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">One Man's Way</span></i></b> (movie, 1964) role: John Hellman</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>A Tiger Walks</i></b> (movie, 1964) role: Mr. Wilson, Butcher (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dr. Kildare</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Day to
Remember</span>” (April 2, 1964) role: Mr. Teale</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Kisses for My
President</span></i></b> (movie,
1964) role: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Youngblood
Hawke</span></i></b> (movie, 1964) role: Dr. Eversill
(uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Fugitive</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Tug of War</span>”
(October 27, 1964) role: Pastor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">End of the
Line</span>” (December 21, 1965) role: Conductor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Young Marrieds</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1964-66)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>General Hospital</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1960s?)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Two on a
Guillotine</span></i></b> (movie,
1965) role: Minister at Funeral (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Wendy and Me</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Jeff Takes a
Turn for the Nurse</span>” (February 22, 1965) role: Doctor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Zebra in the
Kitchen</span></i></b> (movie,
1965) role: Judge</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Branded</span></i></b><i> </i>(TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Mission:
Part 1</span>” (March 14, 1965) role: Col. Harry S. Snow </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Mission:
Part</span> 2” (March 21, 1965) role: Col. Harry S. Snow</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The Mission: Part 3” (March 28,
1965) role: Col. Harry S. Snow</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Now Join the
Human Race</span>” (September 19, 1965) role: Judge Markham</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Walt Disney's
Wonderful World of Color</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Further
Adventures of Gallegher: A Case of Murder</span>” (1965) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Pete</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Further
Adventures of Gallegher: The Big Swindle</span>” (1965) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Pete</span>
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Further
Adventures of Gallegher: The Daily Press vs. City Hall</span>” (1965) role:
<span style="text-decoration: none;">Pete</span>
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Hank</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Candidate</span>”
(October 15, 1965) role: Professor Grimley</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer as Dr. Theodore Haskins in the <i>Star Trek</i> pilot episode "The Cage," 1964.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Star Trek</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Cage</span>”
(filmed in 1964, this pilot for the series wasn’t broadcast until 1986) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Dr. Theodore
Haskins</span> (uncredited); filmed his scenes on Monday, December 7, 1964, and Tuesday, December 8, 1964, at Desilu Culver
Stage 16 </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The Menagerie, Part 1” (November
17, 1966; incorporated scenes from the pilot episode “The Cage”) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Dr. Theodore
Haskins</span> (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Return of
the Archons</span>” (February 9, 1967) role: Tamar; filmed his
scenes on Monday, December
12, 1966,
at Desilu
Stage 10</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">For the World
Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky</span>” (November 8, 1968) role: Old
Man</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dawn of
Victory</span></i></b> (short,
1966) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Nicodemus</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Laredo</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Meanwhile
Back at the Reservation</span>” (February 10, 1966) role: Banker</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Singing
Nun</span></i></b> (movie, 1966) role: The Bishop
(uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">A Fine
Madness</span></i></b> (movie,
1966) role: Dr. Huddleson</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dimension 5</span></i></b> (movie, 1966) role: Professor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Sand
Pebbles</span></i></b> (movie,
1966) role: Hamilton (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Peyton Place</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode
#2.146</span>” (August 22, 1966) role: Judge Chester (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.5</span>”
(September 26, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.6</span>”
(September 28, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.7</span>”
(October 3, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.11</span>”
(October 17, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.12</span>”
(October 19, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.16</span>”
(November 2, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.21</span>”
(November 21, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.22</span>”
(November 23, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.26</span>”
(December 7, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.27</span>”
(December 12, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.31</span>”
(December 26, 1966) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.74</span>”
(May 30, 1967) role: Judge Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #3.75</span>”
(June 5, 1967) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #4.15</span>”
(October 30, 1967) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #4.28</span>”
(December 21, 1967) role: Judge Irwin A. Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #4.92</span>”
(September 11, 1968) role: Judge Chester </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Episode #5.3</span>”
(September 23, 1968) role: Judge Chester </span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Daniel Boone</span></i></b> (TV series)</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">When a King
Is a Pawn</span>” (1966) role: Doctor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Renegade</span>”
(September 28, 1967) role: Eli Jimson </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Flaming
Rocks</span>” (February 1, 1968) role: Yellow Knife</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Wild Wild
West</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Night of
the Infernal Machine</span>” (December 23, 1966) role: Judge Vickerman</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Night of
the Spanish Curse</span>” (January 3, 1969) role: 2nd Elder </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Night of
the Bleak Island</span>” (March 14, 1969) role: Boatman</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>A Man Called Shenandoah</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The Impostor” (April 4, 1966) role:
guest star</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The F.B.I.</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Satellite</span>”
(April 2, 1967) role: Earl Page</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Doctor,
You've Got to Be Kidding!</span></i></b>
(movie, 1967) role: Emergency Room Doctor (uncredited)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Don’t
Go Gentle</i></b>
(play) by William Inge (1967) UCLA Theater, Los Angeles, California</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Invaders</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Valley of the
Shadow</span>” (1967) role: Minister</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Voyage to the
Bottom of the Sea</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Fatal Cargo</span>”
(November 5, 1967) role: Dr. Pierre Blanchard</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Batman</span></i></b><i> </i>(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">How to Hatch
a Dinosaur</span>” (November 9, 1967) role: Professor Dactyl</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Judd for the
Defense</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Citizen
Ritter</span>” (1967) role: Judge</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Big
Valley</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The Stallion” (January
30, 1967) role: Wilson</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“The <span style="text-decoration: none;">Time After
Midnight</span>” (October 2, 1967) role: Dr. Russell </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Days of Wrath</span>”
(January 8, 1968) role: Doc Saxton </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">They Called
Her Delilah</span>” (September 30, 1968) role: Dr. Thomas J. Merar </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Run of the
Cat</span>” (October 21, 1968) role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Dr. Merar</span>
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Stranger
Everywhere</span>” (December 9, 1968) role: Senator Roberts</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Run for Your
Life</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">One Bad Turn</span>”
(January 10, 1968) role: Judge Wallace Barnes</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lancer</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Blood Rock</span>”
(October 1, 1968) role: Preacher</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">If He
Hollers, Let Him Go!</span></i></b>
(movie, 1968) role: Chaplain</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZ48LaHF1G9ivjfAC05xAYSRoWyuCVFKSNpFJ-zqBCpyGEDrxzJ3PDLppjiWrkq2wil2Ui7I_tPm9hRIDZ1vHbJotGGv9wIv3Knw03TSb9vFdWNepYpc67yODPDGVkU-EriphiepbAYNa/s1600/JonLormer_asCharlesGant_MissionImpossible_TheCounterfeiter.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZ48LaHF1G9ivjfAC05xAYSRoWyuCVFKSNpFJ-zqBCpyGEDrxzJ3PDLppjiWrkq2wil2Ui7I_tPm9hRIDZ1vHbJotGGv9wIv3Knw03TSb9vFdWNepYpc67yODPDGVkU-EriphiepbAYNa/s1600/JonLormer_asCharlesGant_MissionImpossible_TheCounterfeiter.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer as Charles Gant in "The Counterfeiter" episode of <i>Mission: Impossible,</i> 1968.<span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><p>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mission:
Impossible</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Counterfeiter</span>” (February 4, 1968) role: Charles Gant</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Nicole</span>”
(March 30, 1969) role: Minister</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ironside</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Officer Bobby</span>”
(March 14, 1968) role: Tommy</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Gentle Oaks</span>”
(November 25, 1971) role: Walter Cook </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Outcasts</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">They Shall
Rise Up</span>” (1969) role: Creasy</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Guns of
Will Sonnett</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Trial</span>”
(February 28, 1969) role: Judge</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Learning
Tree</span></i></b> (movie, 1969) role: McCormack</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mannix</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Death in a
Minor Key</span>” (February 8, 1969) role: Boylan</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">War of Nerves</span>”
(March 14, 1970) role: Hotel Clerk</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“A Step in Time” (September 29,
1971) role: Dr. Kenbrook</span></span></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mr. Deeds Goes to Town </span></i></b>(TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Once Again a Star</span>”
(October 31, 1969) role: Manager</span><br /> </span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Young
Lawyers</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Pilot</span>”
(1969) (credited as John Lorimer)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Down at the
House of Truth, Visiting</span>” (1971) role: Dean Stewart</span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Love, American Style</i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">(circa 1969-74)</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Cliff</span></i></b> (TV movie, 1970)</span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Medical
Center</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The V.D.
Story</span>” (March 25, 1970) role:
Dr. Riedmont</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Getting
Straight</span></i></b> (movie,
1970) role: Vandenburg</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Bold
Ones: The Senator</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Power Play</span>”
(November 1, 1970) role: Holden Stowe</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Bold
Ones: The Lawyers</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The People
Against Doctor Chapman</span>” (1970) role:
Judge</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Family Affair</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Wish You Were
Here</span>” (December 10, 1970) role: Mr. Bradley</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">My Three Sons</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Dodie's
Dilemma</span>” (1970) role: Judge Markham</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">TV Triplets</span>”
(1972) role: Blake Willerson</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Winesburg,
Ohio</i></b>
(play) by Christopher Sergel, based on the book by Sherwood Anderson (1971)
Performing Arts Center at Santa Barbara High School, Santa Barbara, California</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Adam-12</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Log 175: The
Con Artists</span>” (1971) role: George Sawyer</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Doctors'
Wives</span></i></b> (movie, 1971) role: Elderly Doctor</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">This Is the
Life</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">A Will to
Live</span>” (1971) role: Bradford</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Smith
Family</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Weekend</span>”
(1971)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiAeJ0grfYDaKZsyadH_RolpaNo_cbIlrpihYFvKuc1T82BQzTHtNIW7lW4QPBztMHWOaAJ0Q00aPi8M4W9I6LGzk4kv_KLY-xMy60CVWnkMjgfOoMjv04xy4tA361-EdgoKfjkm9iN3-F/s1600/JonLormer_asHearingOfficer_Columbo_LadyinWaiting.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiAeJ0grfYDaKZsyadH_RolpaNo_cbIlrpihYFvKuc1T82BQzTHtNIW7lW4QPBztMHWOaAJ0Q00aPi8M4W9I6LGzk4kv_KLY-xMy60CVWnkMjgfOoMjv04xy4tA361-EdgoKfjkm9iN3-F/s1600/JonLormer_asHearingOfficer_Columbo_LadyinWaiting.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer in the "Lady in Waiting" episode of <i>Columbo,</i> 1971.<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></b></i></td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Columbo</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Lady in
Waiting</span>” (December 15, 1971) role: Hearing Officer</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Alias Smith
and Jones</span></i></b> (TV
series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Wrong Train
to Brimstone</span>” (February 4, 1971) role: Farmer</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Return to
Devil's Hole</span>” (February 25, 1971) role: 2nd Desk Clerk </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Jailbreak at
Junction City</span>” (September 30, 1971) role: Telegrapher (uncredited) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Biggest
Game in the West</span>” (February 3, 1972) role: Parsons </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Long
Chase</span>” (September 16, 1972) role: Proprietor</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Rookies</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Good Die
Young</span>” (1972) role: Mr. Baxter</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Summer
and Smoke</i></b>
(play) by Tennessee Williams (January 23 - October 21, 1973) role: Reverend Winemiller, Peachtree Playhouse, Atlanta, Georgia (January 23-28); New Locust
Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March 30 - April 1); Palm Beach, Florida; Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; Westport, Connecticut; Music Hall for the Performing Arts, Detroit, Michigan (through September 9, 1973); and the Hartford Theater, Los Angeles, California (three weeks beginning October 1)</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The
Man</i></b>
(movie, 1972)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Delphi
Bureau</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Face That
Never Was Project</span>” (1973) role: Senator Hicks</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Wide
World of Mystery</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Frankenstein:
Part </span>1” (January 16, 1973) role: Charles DeLacey </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Frankenstein:
Part </span>2” (January 17, 1973) role: Charles DeLacey </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Owen
Marshall, Counselor at Law</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Seed of Doubt</span>”
(1973) role: Dr. Edwards</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Gun and
the Pulpit</span></i></b> (TV movie,
1974) role: Luther</span></span></span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dirty Sally</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Horse of a
Different Color</span>” (</span></span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">June 21, 1974</span></span></span>) role: Miller </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lincoln</span></i></b> (TV mini- series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Mrs.
Lincoln's Husband</span>” (</span></span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">September 6, 1974</span></span></span>) role: Senator Sutton </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Harry O</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Gertrude</span>”
(September 12, 1974) role: Mr. Olsher</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Victim</span>”
(March 4, 1976) role: Old Man </span></span></span> </span>
</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Paper Moon</i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“Second Prize” (September 19, 1974)
role: Farmer</span></span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></i></b></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Planet of the
Apes</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Legacy</span>”
(October 11, 1974) role: Scientist</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Legend of
Lizzie Borden</span></i></b>
(TV movie, 1975) role: Bailiff</span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcl2OythNTRWAJe-0-ScXV5t9M0IZrL-xFCd9ATzL2uA4qqedEC_CzePXa2jVbu7NrfJfLoE2R6Svhkreegw_6xHk57NmltXG4qGft7glaPYLFVbdpQW1Tqov5j1FI5P_WznYGANJYfh6N/s1600/KatharineHepburn_JonLormer_movieRoosterCogburn_1975_cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcl2OythNTRWAJe-0-ScXV5t9M0IZrL-xFCd9ATzL2uA4qqedEC_CzePXa2jVbu7NrfJfLoE2R6Svhkreegw_6xHk57NmltXG4qGft7glaPYLFVbdpQW1Tqov5j1FI5P_WznYGANJYfh6N/s1600/KatharineHepburn_JonLormer_movieRoosterCogburn_1975_cropped.jpg" width="457" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katharine Hepburn and Jon Lormer on the set of the movie <i>Rooster Cogburn,</i> 1975.</td></tr>
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</span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rooster
Cogburn</span></i></b> (movie,
1975) role: Rev. Goodnight</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Waltons</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Nurse</span>”
(December 11, 1975) role: Lafe Basham</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Conspiracy of
Terror</span></i></b> (TV movie, 1975) role: Mr. Slate </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Blue
Knight</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Odds Against
Tomorrow</span>” (1975) role: Louis</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Barney Miller</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Werewolf</span>”
(October 28, 1976) role: Mr. Fuller </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Phyllis</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Phyllis and
the Jumper</span>” (1976) role: Rumsey</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Arthur
Hailey's the Moneychangers</span></i></b>
(TV mini-series, 1976) role: Depositor</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mary Tyler
Moore</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Mary and the
Sexagenarian</span>” (1977) role: Ronny Williams</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">James at 16</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Mrs. Carson</span>”
(1977) role: Minister</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Loose Change</span></i></b> (TV mini-series, 1978) role: Mike</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rhoda</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Two's Company</span>”
(March 5, 1978) role: Mr. Steiner </span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">With This
Ring</span></i></b> (TV movie, 1978) role: Reverend</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Greatest
Heroes of the Bible</span></i></b>
(TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Joshua and
the Battle of Jericho</span>” (November 1978)</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Incredible Hulk</span></i></b>
(TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Haunted</span>”
(February 7, 1979) role: Dr. Rawlins </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Golden
Gate Murders</span></i></b> (TV movie,
1979) role: Archbishop</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Little House
on the Prairie</span></i></b>
(TV series)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Preacher
Takes a Wife</span>” (October 22, 1979) role: Jeremy Tyler</span></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Marvin's
Garden</span>” (January 3, 1983) role: Mr. Jedediah Thoms</span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Dukes of
Hazzard</span></i></b> (TV
series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">People's
Choice</span>” (November 30, 1979) role: the Preacher</span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Life and Times of Eddie Roberts</b></i> (TV
series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">People's
Choice</span>” (January 7, 1980)</span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Nero Wolfe</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">The Golden
Spiders</span>” (1981) role: the Butler </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Quincy M.E.</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“S<span style="text-decoration: none;">eldom Silent,
Never Heard</span>” (March 4, 1981) role: William Anders </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Boogens</span></i></b> (movie, 1981) role: Greenwalt, the old man</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lou Grant</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Double-Cross</span>”
(December 7, 1981) role: Max Matheson</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Magnum, P.I.</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Ghost Writer</span>”
(December 24, 1981) role: Barker, the Butler</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Harper Valley
P.T.A.</span></i></b> (TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Firechief
Follies</span>” (1982) role: Colonel</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWJ9JsOWL5kCotP_ef9fdAsEdNO4eQskJ0lH64v8b5jJ6GoYqv3_aHrKGUGpuwA38-yqQNAbsAA6BnBKBtzvzskDzyG5FYPWcu0A9-U9E5SqHYFaLf5RPzc09oeORpGGyKDPaakDrVuOf/s1600/JonLormer_asNathanGrantham_Creepshow_1982.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWJ9JsOWL5kCotP_ef9fdAsEdNO4eQskJ0lH64v8b5jJ6GoYqv3_aHrKGUGpuwA38-yqQNAbsAA6BnBKBtzvzskDzyG5FYPWcu0A9-U9E5SqHYFaLf5RPzc09oeORpGGyKDPaakDrVuOf/s1600/JonLormer_asNathanGrantham_Creepshow_1982.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jon Lormer as Nathan Grantham in the "Father's Day" segment of the movie <i>Creepshow,</i> 1982.</td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Creepshow</span></i></b><i> </i>(movie, 1982) segment: “Father’s Day,” role: <span style="text-decoration: none;">Nathan
Grantham</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Father Murphy</span>
</i></b>(TV series) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Outrageous
Fortune</span>” (1982) role: Station Agent</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The Healing</span></i></b> (Video, 1983) role: Jamie</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Highway to
Heaven</span></i></b> (TV series)</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">“<span style="text-decoration: none;">Help Wanted:
Angel</span>” (November 21, 1984) role: Martin Lamm</span><br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Beyond the
Next Mountain</span></i></b>
(movie, 1987, released posthumously) role: Watkin Roberts</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Additions
and corrections are welcome.</span>
</span>ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-6309831603087091822015-02-17T17:50:00.000-08:002017-12-20T01:12:17.164-08:00My Mayflower Ancestors<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <i>Mayflower</i> in Plymouth H<span style="font-family: inherit;">arbor, William H<span style="font-family: inherit;">alsall, 1882.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Crossing
the Pond</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve
mentioned in previous posts several distant family connections to passengers aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower,</i> the ship famous for one parti<span style="font-family: inherit;">cu</span>lar crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. It carried along with its crew a group consisting of religious Separatists,
who disagreed with the Church of England, and English merchants with their
families and servants. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
sailed from Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620<span style="font-family: inherit;">. In mid-November of that year it</span> came within sight of
Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Before
venturing ashore, most of the male members of the group signed an agreement
known as the Mayflower Compact, by which they would govern themselves in the
colony they founded at the spot England’s King James I had named New Plymouth.
The first winter was hard on the colonists. Death from disease and hardship
claimed more than half of the <span style="font-family: inherit;">one hundred and two</span> passengers. In the spring of 1621 the
survivors stepped onto Plymouth Rock<span style="font-family: inherit;">. S</span>hortly afterward the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower,</i> its crew diminished by
disease, b<span style="font-family: inherit;">ade</span> farewell to the coloni<span style="font-family: inherit;">sts and </span>returned to England.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Plymouth Colony struggled for survival, but with the cooperation of the
Wampanoags and other native Americans, they were able to celebrate their first
anniversary in the New World. That celebration is still commemorated in the USA
on the final Thursday of each November, the holiday known as Thanksgiving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Mayflower</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
by Marriage</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">While
researching my genealogy I’ve discovered quite a few connections by marriage to
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers. Here are those
I’ve found.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catharine Rathbun Huss (1818-1894).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Catharine
Rathbun (1818-1894), five-times-great granddaughter of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passenger George Soule (1597-1680), married Christian
Huss (1815-1864), my five-times-great uncle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Samuel
Rider (abt 1601-1679) and Anne Gamlett Rider (abt 1605-1695), my
eleven-times-great grandparents, arrived at Plymouth Colony between 1636 and
1638 and settled there. A number of their descendants married descendants of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers<span style="font-family: inherit;">, as follow:</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah
Harlow (1720-1792), great-great granddaughter of Samuel and Anne Rider, married
Ebenezer Sampson (1716-1808), a direct descendant of no less than four <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers: Myles Standish
(1584-1656), Priscilla Mullins (1602-1685), John Alden (1598-1687)—all three
immortalized by Longfellow’s poem <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Courtship of Miles Standish—</i>and Henry Samson (1604-1684).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah
Rider, great-great granddaughter of Samuel and Anne Rider, married Josiah
Bradford (1724-1777), great-grandson of William Bradford (1589-1657), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passenger and second governor
of Plymouth, Massachusetts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">William
Bradford’s seven-times-great granddaughter, Rena Ann Newcomb (1883-1938),
married my great-great uncle Charles Thomas Shanower (1882-1952), not a Rider
descendant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Samuel
and Anne Rider’s son Samuel Rider (abt 1632-1715), my 11-times-great-uncle, married
Sarah Bartlett, granddaughter of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
passenger Richard Warren. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roy Robert Grant and Hilda Lucille Stafford Grant.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Other
descendants of Richard Warren, sisters Hilda Lucille Stafford (1898-1973) and
Helene Thelma Stafford (1902-1985), married Roy Robert Grant (1897-1988) and
Charles Elwood Grant (1900-1945) respectively, first cousins to each other and
second cousins twice removed of mine. These Grants were both seven-times-great
grandsons of Samuel and Anne Rider. I discussed the Grants and Staffords <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2012/12/famous-relatives-richard-gere.html">in a previous blog post here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Richard
Warren’s five-times-great granddaughter Mary “Polly” Knowles (1806-1879)
married Silas Rider (1803-1871), three-times-great grandson of Samuel and Anne
Rider. The same Silas Rider, my third cousin six times removed, was also the
four-times-great grandson of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
passengers Stephen Hopkins (abt 1580-1644) and Elizabeth Fisher Hopkins (abt
1595-abt 1643). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Stephen
and Elizabeth Hopkins have other Rider connections by marriage. Their
great-great granddaughter Desire Godfrey married Nathaniel Ryder (1705-?),
Samuel and Anne Rider’s great-grandson. Stephen Hopkins’s great-great-great
granddaughter Mehitable Snow (1731-1813) married Reuben Ryder (abt 1717-?),
great-great grandson of Samuel and Anne Rider. And Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins’s
great granddaughter Elizabeth Pierce (1737-?) married Gershom Rider, great
grandson of Samuel and Anne Rider.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
just-mentioned Elizabeth Pierce was also the great-great granddaughter of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passenger Edward Doty (abt
1599-1655), a servant of Stephen Hopkins.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
also have non-Rider connections to Edward Doty. His great-great-great grandson
Aaron Doty (1807-1843), married my five-times-great aunt Polly Grandy (abt
1805-1838).</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celia Hietanen Woodland as a schoolgirl.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ellis
Doty (1861-1895), Edward Doty’s six-times-great grandson, was the first husband
of Alta Lucinda Flowers (1870-1929). After Ellis Doty died, Alta and her second
husband had a son Homer Floyd Woodland (1898-1959). Homer married two
great-great aunts of mine, Ida Justiina Salo (1894-1967) and Celia Hietanen
(1902-1925). You can read about Homer and his wives <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-four-wives-of-homer-woodland.html">in this previous blog post.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Homer
Woodland is also reputed to be an eight-times-great grandson, through his mother’s
mother, Maza Rowley Flowers (1835-1910), of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
passengers Edward Fuller (1575-1621) and his wife, whose name is unknown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There
may well be other marriages that I’m not aware of between my blood relatives
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> descendants. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Fuller
and Sons</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Over
the years, I’ve wanted to find more than simple marriage connections to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers. I’ve been hoping
to stumble across a direct <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
ancestor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
may have done that. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
passengers I mentioned just above—Edward Fuller and his wife—seem likely to be
my eleven-times-great grandparents. <span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm not absolutely certain of that</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">because there's</span> a weak link the in the chain
of descent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
first few generations descending from Edward Fuller and his wife have been
established by decades of research by others into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passenger genealogy. Edward Fuller and his wife were part
of the Separatists who moved from England to Leiden in the Netherlands in order
to practice their form of Christianity. After several years in Leiden, members
of the Separatist community formed the plan to move to the New World where they
wouldn’t have to worry about their children being absorbed into the Dutch
community of the Netherlands. Edward Fuller with his wife and younger son
Samuel (abt 1608-1683) decided to go along. Edward Fuller’s brother, also named
Samuel Fuller (abt 1580-1633), joined them on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> as physician. Brothers Edward and Samuel Fuller both signed the Mayflower Compact. Edward Fuller’s elder son Matthew, stayed
behind, probably in England, and arrived with his wife and family in the
Plymouth Colony on a later ship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Both
Edward Fuller and his wife were among the many <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers who died during the first winter in
Massachusetts. Their son, Samuel Fuller, survived and lived with his uncle
Samuel’s family in the Plymouth Colony.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Samuel,
son of Edward Fuller, married Jane Lathrop (bef 1614-bef 1683). One of their
children was John Fuller (abt 1655-1726), who married Mehitabel Rowley (1660/61-abt 1732), and
lived in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Mehitabel was a <span style="font-family: inherit;">granddaughter</span>
of Matthew Fuller, the elder son of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
passengers Edward Fuller and his wife, and so a <span style="font-family: inherit;">first</span> cousin once removed to her h<span style="font-family: inherit;">usband John Fuller</span>. Church records from East Haddam provide
information that one of John and Mehitabel Fuller’s children was Shubael Fuller
(abt 1684-1748), who married Hannah Crocker. One of Shubael and Hannah Fuller’s
children was Shubael Fuller, Junior, (1721-abt 1800), who married as his second
wife Sarah Chapman.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Uh-oh,
Jethro</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Up
to this point the line of descent from Edward Fuller and his wife is firm,
proven primarily by wills and church records. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond</span> this, the evidence
for further descent grows scant<span style="font-family: inherit;">y</span>. The book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower</i> by
William Hyslop Fuller, published in 1908 (hereafter referred to as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Descendants of Edward Fuller),</i> claims
that Shubael Fuller, Jr., had a son Jethro Fuller (1770-1821).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This
Jethro Fuller was Shubael, Jr.’s second son named Jethro. The first Jethro is
attested in church records from East Haddam, Connecticut. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Descendants of Edward Fuller </i>claims the first Jethro died young.
The idea of naming a child the same name as a previously deceased sibling might
seem dubious. But this naming custom was common in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. I’ve run across so many instances of it that I don’t find
it unusual anymore. So there’s no reason there couldn’t have been a second
Jethro Fuller, son of Shubael Fuller, Jr.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve
found apparent geographical links between Jethro and other Fullers who seem to
be his family. The 1810 US Federal Census records a Jethro Fuller and household
of eight others living in Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Descendants of Edward Fuller </i>says that Jethro
died in Lenox, Massachusetts. Lenox was also the dwelling place of Jonathan
Fuller, clearly a son of Shubael Fuller, Jr., as attested in East Haddam, Connecticut,
church records. Both Jethro and Jonathan were also from Dawes Grant, a tract of
land in Hawley, Massachusetts, where Jethro married Siba Kelsey in 1795. Other
sons of Shubael Fuller, Jr., <span style="font-family: inherit;">linked by</span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Descendants
of Edward Fuller</i> to Lenox and Savoy, Massachusetts, were Jedediah and
another Shubael. Eliezer Fuller had property exchanges in Massachusetts with Jonathan
Fuller and Shubael Fuller. The idea that these Fullers were all brothers of
Jethro, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Descendants of Edward Fuller </i>claims,
is well within the realm of possibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Town
records of Savoy, Massachusetts, give two sons of Jethro and Siba Fuller:
Japheth, born December 29, 1790, and Lorin, born February 8, 1798. That’s where
the more-or-less documented chain of descent ends for this line descended from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers Edward Fuller and
his wife.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jethro Fuller and Siba Kelsey Fuller's children listed in <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower</i> by
William Hyslop Fuller, 1908.</span></span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Loring vs. Lorin</span></b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elma Louisa Conkey Grandy, June 1, 1930.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But
can I connect that line to my known ancestors? Let's see.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">My great-great-great grandmother
was Elma Louisa Conkey Grandy (1835-1934), grandmother of Adella Cecil “Dell” Grandy
McElroy Evans Hundhammer (1888-1974)—who I wrote about <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2015/01/dropping-bombs.html">in this blog post</a>—and
mother of Millard Curtis Grandy (1867-1941). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Elma’s
maternal grandfather was named Loring Fuller (1798-1863). Census records, other
written sources, gravestones, and the fact they and many of their immediate
family members lived in Chatham, Medina County, Ohio, support this.<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=62071443&PIpi=71839006"></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What are the chances that Elma’s grandfather Loring
Fuller and the Lorin Fuller reported to be the four-times-great grandson of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers Edward Fuller and
his wife are one and the same? This is the weak link I mentioned above.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s
examine the evidence for these two Fullers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Spelling
of names:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">One
is spelled with a “g”—Loring. The other isn’t—Lorin. Yes, they’re different,
but only slightly. In a time when many Americans were illiterate and the
spellings of words hadn’t been standardized, I’m not sure that the difference
in these Fuller first names is significant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Place
of birth:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the 1850 and 1860 US Federal Censuses, my <span style="font-family: inherit;">certain relative </span>Loring Fuller, who lived in Chatham,
Medina County, Ohio, was recorded to have been born in Massachusetts. An entry
for Loring’s son-in-law George Melton in the 1889 book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas</i> lists Loring as being
from Massachusetts.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">That i<span style="font-family: inherit;">nformation <span style="font-family: inherit;">is in general agreement with</span> information about </span></span></span>Lorin Fuller, the son of Jethro Fuller<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">, who</span> </span>was recorded to have
been born in Savoy, Massachusetts. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1860 US Federal Census listing for Loring Fuller and family in Chatham, Medina County, Ohio. Remember you can click on any image to see it larger.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Date
of birth:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
gravestone of Elma’s grandfather Loring Fuller stands in the Chatham Township
Cemetery in Chatham, Medina County, Ohio. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=62071443&PIpi=71839006">Here’s a photo of <span style="font-family: inherit;">that</span> gravestone.</a> </span></span>It gives <span style="font-family: inherit;">Loring'</span>s death date as March 17,
1863, and his age at death as sixty-five years, one month, and eight days. That
would make Loring Fuller’s birth date February 9, 1798. That date doesn’t match
the birth date of Lorin Fuller, son of Jethro Fuller<span style="font-family: inherit;">, which is </span>February 8, 1798. But notice that the
difference between them is a single day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Other
possible evidence <span style="font-family: inherit;">for Loring <span style="font-family: inherit;">Fuller, grandfa<span style="font-family: inherit;">ther of E<span style="font-family: inherit;">lma</span></span></span></span>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
1840 US Federal Census lists a Loren Fuller living in Sullivan, Lorain County,
Ohio. “Loren” is another spelling, but is this individual the same as either
Loring or Lorin? There’s no sure means to tell. This Loren is between forty and
fifty years of age, <span style="font-family: inherit;">and</span> any Loring born in 1798 would be about <span style="font-family: inherit;">for</span>ty-two. So
that matches. There’s a white female between thirty and forty
years of age. This agrees with Loring Fuller’s wife who was born in 1801 and
would be about thirty-nine in this 1840 census. Her name is variously spelled
Orpha, Orphila, and Orphilia. Her maiden name is unknown. <span style="font-family: inherit;">H<span style="font-family: inherit;">owever, t</span></span>he age ranges listed for <span style="font-family: inherit;">the other</span> people in this 1840 census mostly match the records I have of Loring
and Orphila Fuller’s children, but not exactly. There are also discrepancies in the number of them and their genders.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonas Chilson Conkey and Mary Loretta Fuller Conkey.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
1830 US Federal Census lists a Loring Fuller living in Nichols, Tioga County,
New York. Here the children exactly match <span style="font-family: inherit;">the number, genders, and age ranges <span style="font-family: inherit;">in</span></span> my records for
Loring and Orphila Fuller’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>children.
Also, Loring and Orphila’s first three children, including my four-times great
grandmother Mary Loretta Fuller Conkey (1824-1877), were all born in the state
of New York, where <span style="font-family: inherit;">this Loring Fuller and his <span style="font-family: inherit;">household <span style="font-family: inherit;">were living</span></span></span>. But this 1830 census lists both the adult male and adult female in
the household as being between forty and fifty years of age. This doesn’t match
with my relative Loring, who’d have been about thirty-two, nor with his wife Orphila, who’d have
been about twenty-nine.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">These <span style="font-family: inherit;">two censuses, 1830 and 1840, might be the right Lorin<span style="font-family: inherit;">g if the census-taker <span style="font-family: inherit;">recorded inaccura<span style="font-family: inherit;">cies</span></span>. <span style="font-family: inherit;">The<span style="font-family: inherit;"> censuses</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">might record the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> ne<span style="font-family: inherit;">cessary </span></span>path of Loring and his family from Massachusetts t<span style="font-family: inherit;">hrough New York to Ohio. But <span style="font-family: inherit;">they might not.</span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Too <span style="font-family: inherit;">Many Lorings</span></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There
was another Loring Fuller, a son of Zephaniah Fuller, who was born in Kingston,
Massachusetts, in 1789. He was a descendant of Samuel Fuller, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> physician brother of Edward
Fuller, and a distant cousin to Lorin Fuller, son of Jethro. For a while I
suspected that my five-times-great grandfather Loring Fuller might be the same
as this Loring Fuller of Kingston. But I’ve come to discount that possibility
because the birth dates of the two don’t match at all. There are still sites on
the internet that conflate them, however.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But I don't want to conflate my Loring with <span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorin, Jethro's son, if they were not the same person. If they weren't, are there any <span style="font-family: inherit;">traces of Lorin, Jethro's son<span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="font-family: inherit;">that would <span style="font-family: inherit;">disprove <span style="font-family: inherit;">it</span>? </span></span></span></span></span>Other
Loring Fullers, who were alive at about the right time, include:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Loring Fuller was born 1800 in New York, as recorded in <i>American
Genealogical-Biographical Index,</i> <span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">volume 59, page 349; and a</span><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></i>Loren Fuller
was born 1800 in New York, as recorded in <i>American
Genealogical-Biographical Index, </i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">volume 59, page 349. I suspect these two are the
same person<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span>He<span style="font-family: inherit;">'<span style="font-family: inherit;">s possibly identical with</span></span> Lorin Fuller, son of Jethro Fuller, although there’s a
discrepancy between this Loring/Loren Fuller’s New York place of birth and
Lorin Fuller’s evident birth in Massachusetts. <span style="font-family: inherit;">And he's also possibly identical with Loring Fuller, grandfather of Elma<span style="font-family: inherit;">, e<span style="font-family: inherit;">xcept for the same birth place discrepan<span style="font-family: inherit;">cy. The birth year is slightly off, too.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Loring Fuller and wife Betsey had son Philo S. Fuller in 1827. Philo Fuller died
in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1876, so it’s quite possible that his father
Loring was the son of Jethro Fuller born in 1798 in Massachusetts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Loring Fuller and wife Laura had daughter Caroline A., born in Berkshire,
Massachusetts, about 1827. It’s possible that this Loring was the son of Jethro
Fuller, especially since Savoy, Massachusetts, where Jethro’s son Lorin was
born is in Berkshire County, the same county where this daughter Caroline died.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have</span> no record that my five-times<span style="font-family: inherit;">-great grandfather Loring F<span style="font-family: inherit;">uller had <span style="font-family: inherit;">any child named either Philo <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">or</span> C<span style="font-family: inherit;">aroline. Ther<span style="font-family: inherit;">e <span style="font-family: inherit;">ar<span style="font-family: inherit;">e no records <span style="font-family: inherit;">that he w<span style="font-family: inherit;">as married to either a <span style="font-family: inherit;">Betsey or a <span style="font-family: inherit;">Laura. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>So if either of these two pre<span style="font-family: inherit;">vious Lorings is identical with Lorin, son of Jethro<span style="font-family: inherit;">, then the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> chain of descent doesn't connect.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>But I<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'ve found <span style="font-family: inherit;">nothing to suggest<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> that</span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">either</span> of these other <span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorings w<span style="font-family: inherit;">as</span>, in fact, </span></span></span></span></span>a son of <span style="font-family: inherit;">Jethro Fuller. So this evidence is inconclusive.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There
are many other Loring/Lorin/Loren Fullers recorded at various times and places
in North America, but they all have birth years so distant from 1798 that I have
discounted them from consideration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Conclusive
or Not?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">So
after sifting the available evidence, what is the chance that my
five-times-great grandfather was the son of Jethro Fuller? They had a similar
name<span style="font-family: inherit;">. They had the</span> same general birthplace<span style="font-family: inherit;">.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>They had</span> a similar birth date. In <span style="font-family: inherit;">the end</span>, it's that birth date, with a
discrepancy of a single day, that I believe means <span style="font-family: inherit;">they were <span style="font-family: inherit;">almost certain to have been the s<span style="font-family: inherit;">ame person</span></span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A
cousin of mine who has done years of research on this family line doesn’t
accept that our ancestor Loring Fuller is the same as Lorin, son of Jethro
Fuller, because there is no proof. I agree there isn’t proof. But the evidence
weighs so heavily in favor of them being the same person that I accept the idea
as true.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Of
course, there’s a bit of wishful thinking in my acceptance—because if it’s
true, then I’m a direct descendant of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i>
passengers Edward Fuller, his unnamed wife, and their son Samuel.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">That
means I’m also related by blood to Edward’s brother Samuel Fuller, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> physician. That opens up a
whole new slew of marriage connections to other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers, including Francis Eaton and his wife Sarah,
their son Samuel Eaton, John Billington (the first murderer in the Plymouth
Colony) and his wife Elinor, their son Francis Billington, and John Howland (who
fell off the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> in a storm and
was rescued).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">It
also means I’m related by blood on my father’s side to Homer Floyd Woodland,
who married two of my great aunts on my mother’s side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">So <span style="font-family: inherit;">I conclude that I'm</span> related by blood to four <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayflower</i> passengers and have connections by marriage to fifteen
more. I’ll take it.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBI3ZeQNe12aiO0vMbeDw3O2USD-R8V9Y1zL6UKDMX5xniKNK-cR65hxsJlUk2T1IYYSb1Rnv21Cn6yS-L1oTJcjgLWd4wgtF-ZbRzBHPYobibn6ApFyvT2zDlIhseIm7yRUhKXpk9xQjL/s1600/TheFirstThanksgiving_JeanLeonGeromeFerris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBI3ZeQNe12aiO0vMbeDw3O2USD-R8V9Y1zL6UKDMX5xniKNK-cR65hxsJlUk2T1IYYSb1Rnv21Cn6yS-L1oTJcjgLWd4wgtF-ZbRzBHPYobibn6ApFyvT2zDlIhseIm7yRUhKXpk9xQjL/s1600/TheFirstThanksgiving_JeanLeonGeromeFerris.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Idealized painting of the first Thanksgiving by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.</td></tr>
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ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-91593217299290952242015-02-02T01:33:00.000-08:002015-02-02T17:46:03.873-08:00A Rider from Revolution to Rest<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjap3ZBtd3JpAmub7NlCBTl1BVqDqSbz-nqBv4RkZYUBV-oNDHPtt0fzh95-7nLfJE-RFhy-KfPOq1-DiHZuZDe7jpnpNw1qf5bz55kA8VziUrMELRe7yZdstWhay7kbIS1rrRx3aYnMPnn/s1600/BenjaminRider&SarahPrattRider_ChardonOhio_1852.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjap3ZBtd3JpAmub7NlCBTl1BVqDqSbz-nqBv4RkZYUBV-oNDHPtt0fzh95-7nLfJE-RFhy-KfPOq1-DiHZuZDe7jpnpNw1qf5bz55kA8VziUrMELRe7yZdstWhay7kbIS1rrRx3aYnMPnn/s1600/BenjaminRider&SarahPrattRider_ChardonOhio_1852.jpg" height="263" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Deacon Benjamin Rider and Sally Pratt Rider, about 1852.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">My
great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Rider (1761-185<span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>), was born
in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on December 1, 1761, the second of at least six
children. His father, also named Benjamin Rider (1725-1811), was at sea much of
the time, so to ease the burden on his mother, Achsah Crosbe Rider (abt 1737-1780<span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span>,
young Benjamin was placed with another family to bring up.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Benjamin
grew to dislike the way his foster family treated him. So when he was about fourteen,
he ran away. He joined the Massachusetts Colonial Navy, which had recently been
founded by the Massachusetts legislature on December 29, 1775, in response to
the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The legislature authorized the
construction of ten ships. One of these, the <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">sloop</span></span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedom</i> set sail in September 1776. <span style="font-family: inherit;">The <i>Free</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>dom</i> was later converted to a br<span style="font-family: inherit;">igantine</span></span></span> under the command of Captain John Clouston<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span> Benjamin Rider serv<span style="font-family: inherit;">ed</span> on
board as a Boy, then as a Seaman, from August 29<span style="font-family: inherit;">, 1777<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Ben<span style="font-family: inherit;">jamin <span style="font-family: inherit;">had been on the ship for sixteen days, t</span></span></span>he British <span style="font-family: inherit;">Navy captured the <i>Freedom</i> in mid-September 1777<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ben<span style="font-family: inherit;">ja<span style="font-family: inherit;">min<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">was</span></span> among th<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">e crew</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> t<span style="font-family: inherit;">aken to the prison ships in Wallabout Bay<span style="font-family: inherit;">, Long Island.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He seems not to have <span style="font-family: inherit;">been released from <span style="font-family: inherit;">captivity</span> until <span style="font-family: inherit;">1780 or 1781</span></span></span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">On
June 13, 1781, at nineteen years old, Benjamin enlisted as a private in the
Continental Army and served with the 1<sup>st</sup> Massachusetts regiment
under Colonel Joseph Vose. Benjamin served for over two years before the
Revolution ended.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Family tradition records a charming story. Near
the end of the war the army roll call was being read.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> A</span>n older captain of the 4<sup>th</sup> Plymouth Company approached
Benjamin. The captain introduced himself as Benjamin’s father. He had heard
Benjamin’s name during roll call and sought him out. It was the first reunion
of father and son in many years.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">With
the war over, Benjamin’s regiment was disbanded at West Point, New York, on
November 3, 1783. He was twenty-six years old</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span>when he married twenty-three year
old Sarah “Sally” Pratt (1764-1860) </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">on April 10, 1788, in Massachusetts</span></span></span></span></span></span>. Sally was the daughter of Rufus Pratt (1738-1777), <span style="font-family: inherit;">w<span style="font-family: inherit;">ho <span style="font-family: inherit;">had fought in the Revoluti<span style="font-family: inherit;">onary <span style="font-family: inherit;">War and died from wounds sustained at the Battle of <span style="font-family: inherit;">Bennington.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEjpg_qsWuIFSnrFhJtNHwlQQcX7G5yRlN41qwNedp4ZXLyDIHD-jg3k22Mn6qS1SQ8JPxozRi4qVL1k_I1V_A2I6W5yjSZBBgIpCRdOXUPMHYpPtJX_41vRu_NC7BfnELpf0Mz4KO_RN/s1600/HannahRider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEjpg_qsWuIFSnrFhJtNHwlQQcX7G5yRlN41qwNedp4ZXLyDIHD-jg3k22Mn6qS1SQ8JPxozRi4qVL1k_I1V_A2I6W5yjSZBBgIpCRdOXUPMHYpPtJX_41vRu_NC7BfnELpf0Mz4KO_RN/s1600/HannahRider.jpg" height="288" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Be<span style="font-family: inherit;">njamin's daughter Hannah Rider Gorman, circa 1870s.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin and <span style="font-family: inherit;">Sally</span></span> settled in
Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, where their eldest child, Crosby
Rider (1789-1845), was born on March 19, 1789. Eight more children followed—Benjamin
(1791-1878), my great-great-great-great-grandmother Polly Rider Marshall (1793-1870), Rufus
(1795-1870), Nancy (1797-1817), Isaiah (1799-1886), Samuel (1801-unk), Hannah
Rider Gorman (1804-1879), and Lucy (1809-1892).</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">In
1816 Benjamin and his eldest son Crosby became pioneers. They set out westward and
ended up in Chardon, a town in Geauga County in northeastern Ohio. Benjamin bought
an 800-acre tract of land for $4 per acre. There he and Crosby cleared timber,
built a log house, and planted wheat. Benjamin returned to Massachusetts to get
the rest of the family. In June 1817 they all arrived in Chardon to take up
permanent residence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHHYOpM2yaFnNy79XPGtAS-314hEazKsXJ2HtpapQY_Ua40s-aidmn9ULjF799WhmXUgv_nbF-dpid5qevRf4aH1Ij5LKg9g46NZu-DuS9xKbNynGRd7IBVe9xVX0aAgRr8woIbkOe1Wcq/s1600/Dea.+Benj.+Rider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHHYOpM2yaFnNy79XPGtAS-314hEazKsXJ2HtpapQY_Ua40s-aidmn9ULjF799WhmXUgv_nbF-dpid5qevRf4aH1Ij5LKg9g46NZu-DuS9xKbNynGRd7IBVe9xVX0aAgRr8woIbkOe1Wcq/s1600/Dea.+Benj.+Rider.jpg" height="400" width="288" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gravestone of Deac<span style="font-family: inherit;">on <span style="font-family: inherit;">Benja<span style="font-family: inherit;">min Rider.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">As
a devout leader in the church, Benjamin became known as “Deacon” Rider. In his
later years, he and his wife Sally moved to nearby Painesville, Lake County,
Ohio, and into the home of their son Reverend Isaiah Rider, the founding
minister of the Baptist church in Chardon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Benjamin
died at his son Isaiah’s home on March 20, 1854, at the age of ninety-one. He
was buried in Chardon’s Rider Cemetery on land that was part of his original
tract. His gravestone can still be seen in that small cemetery on North Street,
not far from Chardon’s town square. His wife, Sally, who died in 1860, lies
beside him where they are surrounded by the graves of many of their children
and grandchildren.</span></span></div>
ericshanowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789794826940331229.post-5114703488481699182015-01-19T02:23:00.001-08:002016-03-14T00:04:11.104-07:00My Famous Relatives: Jaakko Ilkka<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrE75fK1FgIgvCPP-jo5ooIab6qgz-OjPW2dnE328TTIJyp5Qgu8isd1eXhZJjgvG2ADyqBGhMphAxSYdvB4_EvpTs143aB7q8Jw3nZiWHwEJoiMcvRJAFC06XaHcSAdpnzVSOw2P2mAK/s1600/Jaakko_Ilkka_opera_1978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrE75fK1FgIgvCPP-jo5ooIab6qgz-OjPW2dnE328TTIJyp5Qgu8isd1eXhZJjgvG2ADyqBGhMphAxSYdvB4_EvpTs143aB7q8Jw3nZiWHwEJoiMcvRJAFC06XaHcSAdpnzVSOw2P2mAK/s1600/Jaakko_Ilkka_opera_1978.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1978 premiere of the opera <i>Jaakko Ilkka</i> by Jorma Panula, with Tuomo Häkkilä, <span class="notranslate">center, in the title role</span></td></tr>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Most
people in the USA won’t recognize the name Jaakko Illka. But in Finland he’s a
well-known folk hero, the leader of the Cudgel War of 1596.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I know the name Jaakko
Ilkka because he’s my eleven-times-great grandfather, at least according to
research by a Finnish cousin of mine. Finnish church records, which have been
the legal repositories of birth and marriage announcements, are all that researchers
have to rely on. Those records seem to confirm two lines of descent from Jaakko
Ilkka to proven ancestors of mine on my mother's side.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One line of descent comes
down through my great-grandfather Wilhelm Hirvi, who I’ve written about on this
blog before. <a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-hirvi-homes-of-finn-hollow.html">You can hear a recording of him singing here.</a> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The other line of descent
comes down through my great-great-grandfather Matti Uhmusberg Hietanen, who I’ve
<a href="http://severaltimesremoved.blogspot.com/2013/03/cousins-in-common-vikki-young-and-becki.html">written about on this blog here</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In
the late 16<sup>th</sup> century Finland was a part of Sweden under King
Sigismund III. Sigismund lived in
Poland, which he also ruled, so to oversee Finland he appointed a governor,
Klaus Eriksson Fleming. At the same time Sweden was overseen by Sigismund’s
uncle Kaarle. Governor Fleming of Finland and Duke Kaarle of Sweden did not get along. They vied for
power, often at the expense of the poorest of the Finnish peasants.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
people of the Ostrobothnia region of central Finland resented the
feudal military tax imposed to help pay for Sweden’s war with Russia. The
Ostrobothnians had been legally exempted from this tax during the reign of Sigismund’s
father, in return for their defense of Ostrobothnia against the Russians. But when
Sigismund took the throne, the exemption was ignored. Crushing taxation—collected,
often brutally, by Governor Fleming’s military—only added to the Finnish peasants’ woes,
which already included the loss of men drafted to defend the border and poor
harvests of the little ice age. In some
places the peasants faced starvation. Small rebellions broke out from time to
time, but the taxation continued.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In
1585 Jaakko Ilkka (1545-1597), a farmer, lived with his wife and son in Ilmajoki in
Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland. He bred cattle on his farm and became a
merchant, shipping his cattle to Sweden. From 1586 through1588 he served as the
second sheriff of Ilmajoki. This position increased his prestige and his income.
He flourished and became the seventh richest merchant in Southern Ostrobothnia,
managing shipping to Sweden, Estonia, and elsewhere.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">His
first wife died about 1588. He re-married and eventually had three more sons.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In
1591 Jaakko Ilkka joined the army. As a member of the military he was tax-exempt
and collected feudal taxes. He participated in three expeditions in Sweden’s
war with Russia. By 1593 his military activity stopped. He collected no more
taxes from his peasant neighbors. In 1592 Governor Fleming declared a trade
embargo in the Gulf of Bothnia. Merchant shipping in the Gulf of Bothnia
virtually ceased. Ilkka concentrated on cattle farming.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">By
late fall of 1594 Sweden and Russia began negotiations to end their war. To
support the negotiations Governor Fleming had Swedish troops transported to
Finland. The Finnish people, already crushed by military taxes, refused to pay
the Swedish forces’ costs. Fleming ordered the military to force collection.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On
May 18, 1595, the Treaty of Teusina ended the twenty-five-year Russo-Swedish
War. Despite the war’s end, Fleming’s militia continued to collect the feudal
tax. Fleming wanted the revenue in order to combat Duke Kaarle’s efforts to
take the Swedish crown. But this meant little to the Finnish peasants who lived
in fear of being robbed, tortured, and having their homes burned if they could
not pay.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">By
late 1595 Duke Kaarle of Sweden was denouncing the oppression of the peasants
by Fleming and his military. Encouraged by this, the entire population of
Finland’s Ostrobothnia region refused to pay their butter tax. A small force of Finnish peasants approached Jaakko
Ilkka with the idea to take back the grain that had been collected as tax since
the end of the war. He agreed to lead them.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On
December 24, 1595, while the military was preoccupied with Christmas
celebrations, the rebels attacked the Swedish cavalry in Isokyro and
Rautalampi. They recovered their grain and drove the soldiers out of the
region. But by mid-January 1596, the Swedish military had suppressed the
rebellion and arrested Ilkka. He was imprisoned in Turku Castle in Turku,
Finland.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ten
months later he escaped. One story says that a draft in his cell led him to a
sewer duct that he crawled through to freedom. But the actual duct at Turku
Castle is too small for a man to fit inside. Another story says he used a
concealed knife to pick mortar from between the stones of his cell wall. He
used the holes to climb the wall, then let himself down the other side with a rope
made from his coat. A more plausible explanation is that friends, sympathizers,
or possibly his second wife’s relatives used their influence to free him.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Unrest
among the Finns grew. On November 15, 1596, St. Catherine’s Day, Duke Kaarle
sent an emissary to a gathering at the church in Isokyro, Finland, urging the
people to fight for their rights. He also sent a shipment of distilled spirits.
The men at the church decided to stop paying the feudal tax and to defend
themselves with arms. They gathered a small resistance army from all over
Finland and named Ilkka their leader. In mid-December three groups of these fighters
set out marching south by different routes toward Turku. Jaakko Ilkka and Yrjo
Kontsas led the main group of about eight hundred, looting and burning soldiers’
farms and crown-owned properties and gathering adherents along the way.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
spiked cudgels carried by many of the peasants were effective weapons in
piercing soldiers’ armor. These instruments gave their name to the rebellion,
the Cudgel War—or as it’s known in Finland, Nuijasota.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On
December 26, Ilkka and his men, now about 2500 strong, defeated a party of two
hundred cavalry soldiers and set up camp in Nokia. On December 31, Governor
Fleming attacked the rebels with his army of over 3000 professional soldiers
and several cannons. The rebel army defended themselves successfully.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">During
the night Fleming, having failed to defeat the rebels and realizing that other
groups of rebel reinforcements were coming, sent emissaries into Nokia to treat
with the rebel leaders. The emissaries offered an end to the feudal tax and
safe passage home for the rebels. In exchange they demanded the rebel leaders,
particularly Jakko Ilkka. Fearing betrayal, Ilkka and several others fled on
horseback into the night.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Now
unable to fulfill Fleming’s demands, the rebel army broke up and began to flee.
Fleming’s cavalry attacked the fleeing peasants and a massacre was on. Other
groups of rebels were also defeated by the military. Peasants were slaughtered
until one local governor pointed out that dead peasants could not pay taxes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jaakko
Ilkka returned to Ilmajoki where he was captured by his neighbors. He was
turned over to local governor Abraham Melkiorinpoika, who had orders to
transport Ilkka to face Fleming in Turku. However, Melkiorinpoika feared that
rebels would succeed in freeing Ilkka during the long trip to Turku. He staged
a quick court martial in neighboring Isokyro. Ilkka and five other rebel
leaders were sentenced to death.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jaakko
Ilkka’s exact method of execution on January 27, 1597, is unknown. The standard
method of the day was to have the hands and feet crushed, the right arm cut
off, and then the head severed from the body. Ilkka’s parts were publicly displayed in
Ilmajoki before the rebel army buried him honorably in the local cemetery.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
rebellion continued. The climactic Battle of Santavuori on February 27, 1597, was
a disaster for the peasants. Many were brutally slain. The Cudgel War, one of
the largest European peasant rebellions, ended in failure for the oppressed.
Governor Fleming died a couple months later. Duke Kaarle, who had given lip service to the rebels’ cause but provided little
in actual support, eventually became King Charles IX. But little changed in the
lives of the peasants.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duke Kaarle insults the body of Klaus Fleming in 1597, painting by Albert Edelfelt, 1878.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jaakko
Ilkka, the first Finnish freedom fighter, was hailed as a hero. His example of a common man rising up to lead
the fight against injustice has continued to inspire Finland as a nation.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jaakko Ilkka monument in Ilmajoki, Finland.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Among the memorials to Jaakko Ilkka is a large
monument raised in his home town of Ilmajoki in 1924. In 1978 <a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaakko_Ilkka_%28ooppera%29"><i>Jaakko Ilkka,</i> an opera by Jorma Panula</a>
with a libretto by Aarni Krohn, was first performed at the Ilmajoki Music
Festival. A recording of the opera was released in 1979. A Finnish <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1897944/">television production of the opera</a>
was broadcast in 1982. The legacy of the Cudgel War has continued in literature,
art, and academic studies. Each year since 2003 <a href="http://www.cudgelwar.org/english.php?pid=frontpage">The Cudgel War has been reenacted</a>
at a camp in Kavalahti, Inkoo, Finland. In 2004, viewers of the Finnish
television show<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suuret_suomalaiset"> Great Finns (</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suuret_suomalaiset">Suuret suomalaiset)</a> voted Jaakko Ilkka number 75 of the 100 greatest
Finns of all time.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I have no means to
double-check the genealogical research that says Jaakko Ilkka is my forebear
since I don’t speak or read Finnish and don’t have easy access to the records.
But I’m happy to accept my descent from Jaakko Ilkka as true.</span></span></span> </span></span></span>
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