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17101	Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President (1869-1873) Schuyler Colfax The Vice Presidency is an elegant office whose occupant must find it his principal business to try to discover what is the use of there being such an office at all. —Indianapolis Journal, March 7, 1871 As amiable a man who ever served in Congress, good-natured, kindly, cordial, and always diplomatic, Indiana's Schuyler Colfax won the nickname "Smiler" Colfax. Through two of the most tumultuous decades in American public life, Colfax glided smoothly from the Whig to Know-Nothing to Republican parties, mingling easily with both conservatives and radicals. He rose to become Speaker of the House and vice president and seemed poised to achieve his goal of the presidency. Along the way, there were those who doubted the sincerity behind the smile and suspected that for all his political dexterity, Colfax stood for nothing save his own advancement. Those close to President Abraham Lincoln later revealed that he considered Speaker Colfax an untrustworthy intriguer, and President Ulysses S. Grant seemed relieved when the Republican convention dumped Vice President Colfax from the ticket in 1872. Even the press, which counted the Indiana editor as a colleague and pumped him up to national prominence, eventually turned on Colfax and shredded his once admirable reputation until he disappeared into the forgotten recesses of American history. Early Years Schuyler Colfax was born into a family of distinguished heritage but depleted circumstances. His grandfather, who had fought in the American Revolution and served closely with George Washington, married Hester Schuyler, a cousin of General Philip Schuyler, and named one of his sons for Washington and another for Schuyler. Schuyler Colfax, Sr., became a teller in a bank on New York City's Wall Street. In 1820 he married Hannah Stryker, the daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper. He died of tuberculosis two years later, as his wife was expecting her first child. Four months after his father's death, Schuyler, Jr. was born in New York City on March 23, 1823. As a boy, Colfax attended public schools until he was ten, when he was obliged to work as a clerk in a retail store to help support himself, his mother, and his grandmother. Three years later, his mother married George W. Matthews, and the family moved to New Carlisle, Indiana. Young Colfax worked in his stepfather's store, which served also as the village post office. Townspeople later recalled that Colfax would sit on barrels reading newspapers as they arrived by post. He borrowed whatever books he could get to provide himself with an education. In 1841, the family moved to South Bend, where Matthews was elected as the Whig candidate for county auditor and hired Schuyler as his deputy. Enjoying politics, the boy became active in a "moot legislature," where he gained his first experience in debate and parliamentary procedure. Politics and the Press At sixteen, Colfax wrote to Horace Greeley, editor of the influential Whig newspaper, the New-York Tribune, offering to send occasional articles. Always open to new talent, Greeley agreed and published the boy's writings on Indiana politics, beginning a correspondence and friendship that lasted for the rest of their lives. Colfax also reported on the Indiana legislature for the Indiana State Journal, and when he was nineteen local Whigs engaged him to edit the South Bend Free Press. The young editor described himself as an "uncompromising Whig." He idolized Henry Clay and embraced all of the Whig reforms, taking a pledge of abstinence from alcoholic spirits (but not from the cigars he loved). In 1844 he married a childhood sweetheart, Evelyn Clark, and by the next year was able to purchase the Free Press, renaming it the St. Joseph Valley Register. The writer Harriet Beecher Stowe later proclaimed it "a morally pure paper." Advancing from the editorial page into politics, Colfax served as a delegate to the Whig convention of 1848 and to the convention that drafted a new constitution for Indiana in 1849. He led the opposition to a provision in the constitution that barred African Americans from settling in Indiana or those already in the state from purchasing land. Despite his efforts, this racial barrier stood until ruled unconstitutional as a consequence of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. In 1851, the Whigs chose Colfax to run for Congress. At that time, Indiana was a Democratic state and Colfax narrowly lost to the incumbent Democrat. He declined to run again in 1852. Dismayed over the disintegration of the Whig party and offended by Senator Stephen A. Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act that repealed the Missouri Compromise, Colfax again ran for Congress in 1854 as an Anti-Nebraska candidate. His friend and fellow editor Horace Greeley, who had served a brief term in 1849, encouraged him: "I thought it would be a nuisance and a sacrifice for me to go to Congress," he advised Colfax, "but I was mistaken; it did me lasting good. I never was brought so palpably and tryingly into collision with the embodied scroundrelism of the nation as while in Congress." Building a New Party Antislavery Whigs like Colfax sought to build a new party that combined the antislavery elements among the Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soilers, a coalition that eventually emerged as the Republican party. For a brief time, however, it seemed likely that a nativist organization, the Know-Nothings, might become the new majority party. The first Know-Nothing lodge in Indiana opened in early 1854 and by election time the party had grown, in the words of one Methodist minister, "as thick as the Locusts in Egypt." The Know-Nothings opposed slavery and alcohol but turned their greatest passions against Catholics and immigrants. Although Colfax shared these nativist prejudices (arguing that "Protestant foreigners, who are thoroughly Americanized" should be admitted into the party), he made it clear that he would remain only if the Know-Nothings kept a firm antislavery plank in their platform. When the new congressman arrived in the House of Representatives in 1855, it was unclear which members belonged to what party. The New-York Tribune Almanac estimated that there were 118 Anti-Nebraska representatives, a number that included Republicans, anti-Nebraska Democrats, and antislavery Know-Nothings, comprising a slight majority of the House. By the following year, the Know-Nothings had already peaked and declined, and Colfax announced that he would run for reelection as a Republican. The House of Representatives proved an ideal arena for Colfax's talents. Short and stocky, fair-haired, with a ready smile, he got along well with his colleagues in private but never hesitated to do battle with the opposition on the House floor. When Republicans held the majority, he served energetically as chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, handling the kind of patronage that built political organizations. Never having been a lawyer, he could put complex issues of the day into layman's terms. In 1856, his speech attacking laws passed by the proslavery legislature in Kansas became the most widely requested Republican campaign document. His speech raised warnings that it was a short step between enslaving blacks and suppressing the civil liberties of whites. Watching Colfax battle southern representatives over the slavery issue, James Dabney McCabe recorded that "Mr. Colfax took an active part in the debate, giving and receiving hard blows with all the skill of an old gladiator." Colfax traveled widely, spoke frequently, and helped fuse the various Republican and antislavery groups into a unified party for the 1860 election. When the southern Democrats seceded and put House Republicans in the majority, he considered running for Speaker, but after testing the waters declined to be a candidate. He resumed his chairmanship of the Post Office Committee. Colfax took a moderate position on emancipation and other issues of the day, maintaining close ties with both wings of his party. He enjoyed direct access to President Lincoln and often served as a conduit of information and opinion from Horace Greeley and other Republican editors. He worked tirelessly on behalf of the Union, recruiting regiments and raising public spirits. Yet antiwar sentiments ran strong in Indiana and many other northern states, and in 1862 Colfax faced a tough campaign for reelection against David A. Turpie. Winning a narrow victory further elevated Colfax within the party at a time when many other Republicans, including House Speaker Galusha Grow, were defeated. When the Thirty-eighth Congress convened in December 1863, House Republicans—with their numbers considerably thinned—elected Schuyler Colfax Speaker, despite President Lincoln's preference for a Speaker less tied to the Radical faction of his party. Speaker of the House As Speaker of the House, Schuyler Colfax presided, in the words of the journalist Ben: Perley Poore, "in rather a slap-dash-knock-'em-down-auctioneer style, greatly in variance with the decorous dignity of his predecessors." He had studied and mastered the rules of the House, and both sides considered his rulings fair. Credited as being the most popular Speaker since Henry Clay, Colfax aspired to be as powerful as Clay. Certainly, he shared Clay's sense of the dramatic, once stepping down from the presiding officer's chair to urge the House to expel an Ohio Democrat who had advocated recognizing the independence of the Confederacy. Another time the Speaker broke precedent by requesting that his vote be recorded in favor of the Thirteenth Amendment. Yet with the exception of the power to appoint members to committees, the Speaker of the House was still mostly a figurehead. Observers declared the real power in the House to be the tough-minded Pennsylvanian Thaddeus Stevens, chairman of the Appropriations Committee and de facto Republican floor leader. Washington newspaper correspondents celebrated the election of one of their own as Speaker and threw a dinner in his honor. "We journalists and men of the newspaper press do love you, and claim you as bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," said correspondent Sam Wilkeson. "Fill your glasses, all, in an invocation to the gods for long life, greater success, and ever-increasing happiness to our editorial brother in the Speaker's Chair." In reply Colfax thanked the press for sustaining him through all his elections. Trained in journalism, Speaker Colfax applied the lessons of his craft to his political career, making himself available for interviews, planting stories, sending flattering notes to editors, suggesting editorials, and spreading patronage. A widower (his wife died in 1863) with no children, Colfax was free to socialize nightly with his friends on Washington's "Newspaper Row." He hoped to parlay his popularity with the press into a national following that would make him the first journalist to occupy the White House. The press lavished more attention on Speaker Colfax than they had on Galusha Grow or any of his immediate predecessors. They praised the regular Friday night receptions that the Speaker and his mother held and commended him for the "courtesy, dignity, and equitability which he exhibited in the discharge of the important duties of the chair." It was harder for the press to detect whether Speaker Colfax actually had any influence on specific legislation. He gave the radical firebrands wide latitude, while speaking with moderation himself. At one point, when Radical Republicans were prepared to introduce a resolution in the party conference that defended the Republican record and called for the use of black soldiers in the Union army, Colfax outflanked them with a motion that substituted patriotic flag waving for partisanship, calling instead for all loyal men to stand by the Union. His action was taken as an effort to give the Republican party a less vindictive image that would build a broader base for congressional elections. On April 14, 1865, Colfax called at the White House to talk over Reconstruction and other matters with President Lincoln before Colfax left on a long tour of the western states and territories. With the war won, Lincoln was in an ebullient mood and held a long and pleasant conversation with the Speaker (whom Lincoln privately regarded as "a little intriguer—plausible, aspiring beyond his capacity, and not trustworthy"). The president invited the Speaker to join his party at Ford's Theater that night, but Colfax declined. Later that evening, he was awakened with news that the president had been shot and rushed to spend the night in the room where Lincoln died. Reconstructing the South During the summer of 1865, Colfax toured the mining regions between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific. Newspaper correspondent Albert Richardson, who accompanied him, recorded that the trip proved to be "one continuous ovation" for Colfax, with brass bands, banquets, and public receptions, during which the Speaker made seventy speeches. He returned to a capital still uncertain over how the new President Andrew Johnson would handle the reconstruction of the southern states. Radicals in Congress trusted that Johnson would use federal troops to support tough policies toward the former Confederacy, but there were signs that Johnson favored a speedier, more lenient readmission of the states. That November, at a serenade to mark his return to Washington, Speaker Colfax made some remarks that seemed impromptu but that may have been prearranged. He endorsed Johnson's attempts to begin Reconstruction prior to congressional legislation and set as a minimum for the return of the southern states a guarantee that freedmen would be treated equally under the law. He made no mention of the radical demand that the freedmen also have the right to vote. The speech won widespread praise in the North, where it was perceived as the firm foundation of Republican policy on which both the president and Congress could stand. Colfax's efforts at party harmony and a moderate course of Reconstruction were short lived. Johnson resented Colfax's preempting his own statement of policy on the subject. The president's plans to reconstruct the South showed little regard for the rights of the freedmen, and he vetoed such relatively moderate congressional efforts as the Freedmen's Bureau bill. His action drove moderate and radical Republicans into an alliance that brought about congressional Reconstruction of the South. Finally, Johnson's dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act convinced even moderates like Colfax that the president must be impeached. Through all of these dramatic events, Colfax's most astonishing success was his ability to retain the support of all sides in his party and to hold House Republicans together. The party defections that saved Johnson took place in the Senate rather than the House. From Speaker to Vice President As the 1868 presidential election approached, Speaker Colfax believed the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant to be "resistless." As for himself, he declined to run either for the Senate or for governor of Indiana, leaving the door open for the vice-presidential nomination. Colfax insisted that presiding over the House as Speaker was "the more important office" than presiding over the Senate as vice president. But the vice-presidency was the more direct avenue to the presidency. At the convention, his chief rivals for the second spot were Senate President pro tempore Ben Wade and Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson. Colfax polled fourth on the first ballot and gained steadily with each subsequent ballot. The temperance forces were delighted that Colfax's headquarters distributed no liquor, in contrast to Senator Wade, who handed out spirits freely among the delegates. Among Republicans there was a collective sense that the abstinent Colfax would balance a ticket with Grant, who had been known to drink heavily. Colfax stayed in Washington while the Republican convention met in Chicago. His good friend, William Orton, head of the Western Union Telegraph Company, arranged for Colfax to receive dispatches from the convention every ten minutes. On May 21 Colfax was in the Speaker's Lobby when he received Orton's telegram announcing his nomination. Cheers broke out, and the room quickly filled with congressmen wishing to offer congratulations. As he left the lobby, Colfax was greeted by House staff members, who "gathered around him in the most affectionate manner and tendered him their regards." Citizens hailed him as he walked across the Capitol grounds. On the Senate side, Bluff Ben Wade received the news that he had been beaten and said, "Well, I guess it will be all right; he deserves it, and he will be a good presiding officer." The news was received with seemingly universal applause. "His friends love him devotedly," wrote one admirer, "and his political adversaries . . . respect him thoroughly." For years, Colfax had addressed Sunday schools and temperance revival meetings, quoting from the Bible and urging his listeners to a life of virtue. He won support from the religious magazines as a "Christian Statesman." One campaign biography praised his "spotless integrity" and declared, "So pure is his personal character, that the venom of political enmity has never attempted to fix a stain upon it." Democrats, however, lambasted Colfax as a bigot for the anti-Catholicism of his Know-Nothing past. Republicans dismissed these charges as mudslinging and organized Irish and German Grant and Colfax Clubs to court the Catholic and foreign-born vote. (Although it was not known at the time, U.S. Grant had also once joined the Know-Nothings and apparently shared their anti-Catholic prejudices.) In November 1868, Grant and Colfax were narrowly elected over the Democratic ticket headed by New York Governor Horatio Seymour. Days after the election, the vice president-elect married Ellen Wade, niece of the Ohio senator he had defeated for the vice-presidential nomination. The groom was forty-five and the bride "about thirty," an attractive and charming woman. By April 1870 their son Schuyler III was born. This domestic bliss would in fact contribute to Colfax's political undoing. As a married man, he found less time to socialize with his old friends in the press, and invitations to the lavish receptions at his new home became harder for reporters to receive, causing considerable resentment among his old friends on Newspaper Row, who thought he was putting on airs. Not a wealthy man, the new vice president could never say no to a gift. He grew indiscreet in his acceptance of everything from sterling silver to free railroad passes. In 1868 Colfax also accepted some railroad stocks from his friend Representative Oakes Ames, who promised handsome dividends. Neither suspected the political price that the stock would ultimately exact. Plans to Retire The first Speaker of the House ever elected vice president (a previous former Speaker, James K. Polk, had won the presidency in 1844), Colfax moved easily to the Senate chamber as a man long familiar with the ways of Capitol Hill. The Senate proved an easier body to preside over, leaving him with time on his hands to travel, lecture, and write for the press. The Indianapolis Journal observed that "the Vice Presidency is an elegant office whose occupant must find it his principal business to try to discover what is the use of there being such an office at all." Colfax consulted periodically with President Grant, but, as one Democratic paper sneered, the vice president carried "more wind than weight." His distance from the president proved not to be a disadvantage when various scandals began to tarnish Grant and his administration. Speculation soon arose that Colfax would replace Grant in the next election. There was much surprise, therefore, when in September 1870, at age forty-seven, Colfax announced that he intended to retire at the end of his term. "I will then have had eighteen years of continuous service at Washington, mostly on a stormy sea—long enough for any one; and my ambition is all gratified and satisfied." This was an old tactic for Colfax, who periodically before had announced his retirement and then changed his mind. Some believed he intended the announcement to further separate himself from the Grant administration and open the way for the presidential nomination in 1872. But the national press and Senator Henry Wilson took the announcement at face value, and before long the movement to replace him went further than Colfax had anticipated. Colfax predictably changed his mind early in 1872 and acceded to the wishes of his friends that he stand for reelection on "the old ticket." President Grant may have questioned Colfax's intentions. In 1871 the president had sent his vice president an extraordinary letter, informing him that Secretary of State Hamilton Fish wished to retire and asking him "in plain English" to give up the vice-presidency for the State Department. Grant appeared to be removing Colfax as a potential rival. "In all my heart I hope you will say yes," he wrote, "though I confess the sacrifice you will be making." Colfax declined, and a year later when Senator Wilson challenged Colfax for renomination, the president chose to remain neutral in the contest. For a man who had assiduously courted the press for so long, Colfax found himself abandoned by the Washington correspondents, who overwhelmingly supported Henry Wilson. Colfax's slide in the opinion of the Washington press corps had its roots in a dinner at the beginning of his term as vice president, when he had lectured them on the need to exercise their responsibilities prudently, since in their hands lay the making and unmaking of great men. The reporters had noted archly that Colfax, like other politicians, had never complained about the "making" of their reputations, just the "unmaking." Mary Clemmer Ames, a popular newspaper writer in Washington, attributed Colfax's downfall to envy within the press corps. He did not invite them to his dinners and receptions, so they decided to "write him down." The naturally cynical and skeptical reporters, apparently considering the vice president's sanctimoniousness contradictory to his newfound riches and opulent lifestyle, sought to take him down a few pegs. One correspondent likened Colfax to "a penny dip burning high on the altar among the legitimate tapers of State." By contrast, the reporters liked Senator Wilson, who leaked so freely that they dubbed him "the official reporter of the [secret] executive sessions of the Senate." Colfax bitterly charged that Wilson had invited newspapermen in "nearly every evening, asking them to telegraph that he was gaining steadily, that I did not care for it." When he lost the nomination, the vice president magnanimously shook Senator Wilson's hand, but one observer noticed that his famous smile had become "a whitened skeleton of its former self." At least Colfax's defeat spared him having to run against his old mentor, Horace Greeley, presidential candidate that year on a fusion ticket of Democrats and Liberal Republicans. The Crédit Mobilier Scandal As a man still in his forties, Colfax might well have continued his political career after the vice-presidency, except for his connection to the worst scandal in nineteenth-century U.S. political history. In September 1872, as the presidential campaign was getting underway, the New York Sun broke the four-year-old story about the Crédit Mobilier, a finance company created to underwrite construction of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad. Since the railroad depended on federal subsidies, the company had recruited Massachusetts Representative Oakes Ames to distribute stock among the key members of Congress who could help them the most. Some members had paid for the stock at a low value, others had put no money down at all but simply let the generous dividends pay for the stock. On Oakes Ames' list were the names of both Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, along with such other Washington luminaries as Representatives James Garfield and James G. Blaine. In South Bend, Indiana, Vice President Colfax made a public statement that completely dissociated himself from Crédit Mobilier, assuring his listeners that he never owned a dollar of stock that he had not paid for. On January 7, 1873, the House committee investigating the Crédit Mobilier scandal called the vice president to testify. Ames claimed that, since Colfax had lacked the money to buy the stock, the stock had been paid for by its own inflated dividends. Ames' notes indicated that Colfax had received an additional $1,200 in dividends. On the stand, Colfax swore flatly that he had never received a dividend check from Ames, but his testimony was contradicted by evidence from the files of the House sergeant at arms. Without missing a beat, Colfax insisted that Ames himself must have signed and cashed the check. Then the committee produced evidence from Colfax's Washington bank that two days after the payment had been made, he had deposited $1,200 in cash—and the deposit slip was in Colfax's own handwriting. Taking two weeks to explain, Colfax claimed that he had received $200 from his stepfather (who worked as a clerk in the House of Representatives) and another $1,000 from George Nesbitt, a campaign contributor by then deceased. This story seemed so patently self-serving and far-fetched that even his strongest supporters dismissed it. Making matters worse, the committee disclosed evidence suggesting that Nesbitt, who manufactured stationery, had bribed Colfax as chairman of the House Post Office Committee in order to receive government contracts for envelopes. A resolution to impeach Colfax failed to pass by a mostly party-line vote, in part because just a few weeks remained in his term. The pious statesman had been exposed, and the public was unforgiving. Colfax left the vice-presidency in disgrace, becoming a symbol of the sordidness of Gilded Age politics. Later in 1873, when the failure of the transcontinental railroads to make their bond payments triggered a disastrous financial collapse on Wall Street, plunging the nation into a depression that lasted for the rest of the decade, one ruined investor muttered that it was "all Schuyler Colfax's fault, damn him." Later Years Others implicated in Crédit Mobilier survived politically. Henry Wilson was elected vice president. James Garfield became president in 1880, and James G. Blaine won the Republican presidential nomination, but not the election, in 1884. Colfax, however, returned to private life in South Bend, Indiana. Briefly, there was talk that his friend William Orton would put up the funds to enable him to purchase the prestigious New-York Tribune after Horace Greeley's death in 1872, but the deal fell through. Then a new opportunity developed. Called upon to deliver a short speech at the unveiling of a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, Colfax discovered that the public had an insatiable appetite for information about their martyred president. He commenced a lucrative career as a public lecturer (up to $2,500 per speech) on his wartime relationship with Lincoln. From time to time, Colfax's name surfaced as a candidate for the House or the Senate, or for the presidential nomination, but he declined to become a candidate. "You can't imagine the repugnance with which I now view the service of the many headed public," he wrote, "with all its toils, its innumerable exactions of all kinds, the never ending work and worry, the explanations about everything which the public think they have a right to, the lack of independence as to your goings and comings, the misunderstandings, the envyings, backbitings, etc., etc., etc." On January 13, 1885, on his way to a speaking engagement in Iowa, Colfax was stricken by a heart attack and died while waiting at a railroad station in Mankato, Minnesota, where the temperature dipped to thirty below zero. Unrecognized by those around him, the former Speaker and vice president was identified only by papers in his pocket. Doggerel from a critical newspaper perhaps served as the epitaph for Schuyler Colfax's rise to national prominence and precipitous fall from grace: A beautiful smiler came in our midst, Too lively and fair to remain; They stretched him on racks till the soul of Colfax Flapped up into Heaven again, May the fate of poor Schuyler warn men of a smiler, Who dividends gets on the brain! http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Schuyler_Colfax.htm	Colfax, Schuyler (I1473)
17102	Schuyler, Mary, d. 1 Oct 1834 age 43y (Huron County, Ohio - Jones Cemetery List)	Heacock, Mary (I1099)
17103	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I1749)
17104	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):"Minnie was born at Saratoga Springs, NY. At the age of five the family moved to Indiana and stayed a year. They returned to NY (from an old deed which I have in the county of Laport for 40 acres of land.) From New York they moved to Will Co., Illinois, about 35 miles from Chicago. From there they later moved to Iowa. She lived there until married. After marriage, John and Minnie went to Jamaica, Iowa, and ran a butcher shop and grocery store with Dennis Smith. The next move was to McCook, Nebraska, where John ran a hardware store with Emerson Coleman. Later they moved back to Perry and another move much later to Palisade, Colo. They stayed there a year and returned to Perry, Iowa, where they remained." Memories of Minnie Smith Coleman as told to her daughter, Helen West Niffenegger 1870 census - Lincoln Twp, Dallas, IA - age 9 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - D002 1880 census - Lincoln Twp, Dallas, IA - age 18 - dau of D.B.Smith - b NY - parents b NY - D004 1895 census - Spring Valley Twp, Dallas, IA - age 33 - b NY - religion ME - in hh of John Coleman - D001 1900 census - Spring Valley Twp, Dallas, IA - age 39 - wife of John Coleman - b Feb 1861 - md 19y, - 5 children, 5 living - b NY - parents b NY - D007 1910 census - Palisade, Mesa, CO - age 49 - wife of John Coleman - md 1x, md 30y - 5 children, 5 living - b IA - parents b NY - "Minnie 1920 census - Spring Valley, Dallas, IA - age 57 - wife of John R. Coleman - b NY - parents b NY - D978 1930 census - Spring Valley, Dallas, IA - age 68 - wid - b NY - parents b NY	Smith, Marianne Alpha (I100)
17105	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1850 census - Dallas Co., IA p226 - age 28 - farmer - b OH Also in hh: Mary Handley - age 10 - b Ireland 1854 Iowa State Census - Union, Dallas, IA - 4 males/2 females; voter; militia 1856 census - Union, Dallas, IA - age 35 - 9y in IA - b OH - farmer Also in hh: Thomas Jackson - age 23 - in IA 1y - b OH - farmer 1860 census - Union, Dallas, IA - age 45 - farmer - b OH 1880 Census - Union, Dallas, IA - age 62 - md - farmer - suffering paralysis - b OH - parents b VA Original entries of land - Union Twp, Dallas, IA: Uriah Stotts 200 acres 1853-54 section 8 Came from Guernsey Co., Ohio, in 1845 Newspaper article from Dexter Sentinel, Dexter, Iowa Probate Calendar - Dallas Co. IA - #258 book B p180: Estate of Uriah Stotts d 20 Apr 1881 Adm. bond file 11 May 1881 - recorded Book BA (or BB) #2 p80 Pet. for Adm filed 7 May 1881 - recorded Book PR #10 p47 Inventory - filed 13 May 1881 - recorded Book PR #10 p48 App. Bill filed 21 May 1881 - recorded Book PR #10 p63 Sale Bill filed 30 March 1882 - recorded Book PR #10 p353 Proof of Pub. - notice of Final Settlement - filed 28 Jan 1884 - recorded Book PR #11 p388 Final Report of Administrator filed 28 Jan 1884 - recorded Book PR #11 p388 Administrator Thos. L. Scott appointed 12 May 1881 Attorneys for the estate North F. Barr	Stotts, Uriah Brock (I173)
17106	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1850 census - Lansingburgh, Rensselaer, NY - age 36 - b NY - in hh of Stephen Dubridge - D285 1855 census - Lansingburgh, Rensselaer, NY - age 42 - wife of Stephen Dubridge - md - b Rens Co - 42y in Lansingburgh - D284 & D286 1860 census - Will, Will, IL - age 48 - b NY - in hh of Stephen Dubridge - D816 1870 census - Will, Will, IL - age 57 - keeping house - b NY - in hh of Stephen Dubridge - D287 1880 census - Will, Will, IL - age64 - wid - b NY - father b NY, mother b MA Find-A-Grave - memorial # 89375609 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=DUB&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=16&GScntry=4&GSsr=761&GRid=89375609&	Smith, Mary (I205)
17107	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1850 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 20 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - D003 1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 25 - wife of Dennis Smith - b Rensselaer Co - md - in S.Springs 8y - D006 1870 census - Lincoln Twp., Dallas, IA - age 40 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - D002 1880 Census - Lincoln Twp, Dallas, IA - age 49 - wife of D.B.Smith - b NY - parents b NY - D004 1895 census - Spring Valley Twp, Dallas, IA - age 64 - b NY - Religion ME - D001 1900 census - Spring Valley Twp, Dallas, IA - age 69 - b Nov 1830 - mother of 4, 3 living - b NY - parents b NY - md 50y - wife of Dennis B. Smith - D005 Autobiography of Ella H. Smith Family records of Florence Anderson Personal knowledge of Ruby Lansing Will and Administration papers of Dennis B. Smith Pension File of Dennis B. Smith - D608 Family Bible of Dennis B. Smith Civil War diary of Dennis B. Smith	Dowen, Elizabeth Ann (I118)
17108	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1850 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 28 - b NY - in hh of James Thompson - D159 1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 44 - wife of James Thompson - b Rensselaer Co - md - in SSprings 16y - D160 1860 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 47 - b NY - in hh of James Thompson - D161 1865 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 54 - wife of James Thompson - b Wash Co - mother of 3 - md 1x, now md - tayloress - D162 1870 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 58 - b NY - keeping house - in hh of James Thompson - D163 Funeral book of E. Holmes: Catharine Thompson died 31 Jan 1881 aged 69 years	Smith, Catherine (I203)
17109	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1850 census - Union, Monroe, OH - age 2 - b OH - in hh of Joshua P. Anderson Died in Black Hills	Anderson, Wesley Baxter (I81)
17110	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 3 - child of Dennis Smith - b Saratoga Co. - lived S. Springs 3y - D006 1860 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 10 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - "Elida E." 1870 census - Spring Valley Twp., Dallas, Iowa - age 20 - school teacher - b NY - D002 1880 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 29 - wife of M. H.l Cole - md - keeps house - b NY - parents bplace not recorded 1900 census - Coleman, Red Willow, NB - age 48 - b Dec 1851 - wife of Milton H. Cole - md 24y - mother of 3, 3 living - b NY - parents b NY 1910 census - Spokane, Spokane, WA - age 58 - mother-in-law of Charles H. Bixler - b NY - parents b NY - no occ 1920 census - Meeker, King, WA - age 68 - wife of Milton H. Cole - b NY - parents b NY - no occ Family information provided by her granddaughter, Grace White - in Smith file Death certificate - WA State Death Records: Elidah Elizabeth Cole - f - w - md - d 7 Mar 1923 at Miner Hospital, King County, WA - age 72y 2m 28d - spouse Milton Cole - occ housewife - b 9 Dec 1851 at Saratoga Springs, NY - father Dennis Smith b Saratoga Springs, NY - mother Elizabeth Downing b Saratoga Springs, NY - res RFD Kent, WA - informant Milton Cole, Kent WA - bur Mar 1923 at Spokane, WA -cause of death carcinoma in vaginal wall; chronic nephritis and Cystitis	Smith, Alida Elizabeth (I119)
17111	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1860 Census - Flagg, Ogle, IL - age 25 - b NH - in hh of S. J. Kelso Ohio, Franklin Co., 1870 Census 1880 Census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - age 45 - wife of S. J. Kelso - keeps house - b NH - parents b NH 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 60 - b. NH - keeping house - religion ME - in hh of Squire J. Kelso 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 65 - b Oct 1834 - wife of Squire J. Kelso - md 45y - 9 children, 7 living - b NH - parents b NH Ella Kelso Smith's records Grace Lamp Burget's records; Elizabeth Kelso's Bible records Elizabeth Kelso's diary Squire Kelso's diaryHistory of Ogle Co., Ill., 1885 Mary Atwood Thayer's diary; Records of Ruth Cotton McCoy Records of Blanche Cotton Todd History of Acworth, NH, by Merrill - 1869 - p. 272 - D1566 Guthrie Co - Yale Cemetery - p8 - see sources	Thayer, Elizabeth Ann (I153)
17112	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1860 Census - Flagg, Ogle, IL - age 32 - farmer - b OH 1870 census - Ohio, Franklin Co., 1870 Census; 1880 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - age 51 - md - farmer - b OH - parents b NJ 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 65 - b. OH - farmer - religion M.E. 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 71 - b Jan 1829 - md 45y - b OH - father b Kentucky, mother b NJ - landlord Ella Kelso Smith's records; Grace Lamp Burget's records; Elizabeth Kelso's Bible records; Diary of Elizabeth Thayer Kelso Diary of Squire Jesse Kelso History of Ogle Co., Ill., 1885 Mary Atwood Thayer's diary Records of Ruth Cotton McCoy Records of Blanche Cotton Todd. Probate papers of Squire Jesse Kelso - D667 History of Acworth, NH, by Merrill - 1869 - p 272 - D1566 Guthrie Co - Yale Cemetery - Cass Twp - p8 - see sources	Kelso, Squire Jesse (I152)
17113	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1860 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 2 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - "Alla" Died young - her grave is in cemetery south of Dawson, Iowa next to Permelia Banks Coleman.	Smith, Alice A. (I120)
17114	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1870 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 2 - b MO - in hh of E. Anderson 1880 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 12 - son of Nicholas Andersen - attending school - b MO - father b OH, mother b IN 1885 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 17 - b MO - in hh of Ezekiel Anderson - "Chester H." 1900 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 33 - b Aug 1866 - md 8y - 2 children, 2 living - b MO - parents b IN - farmer - "C. Anderson" 1910 census - Antelope, Logan, OK - age 42 - md 1x, md 18y - b MO - father b OH, mother b IN - farmer, general farm - "C.H." 1920 census - Guthrie, Logan, OK - age 52 - md - b MO - father b OH, mother b IN - no occ - "Chester H." 1930 census - Guthrie, Logan, OK - age 62 - md - 24y at 1st marr - b MO - father b OH, mother b IN - no occ, general farm - "Chester H."	Anderson, Chester Hamilton (I69)
17115	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1880 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 5/12 (b Jan) - son of Nicholas Andersen - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - "Orlo" 1885 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 5 - b Guthrie Co., IA - in hh of Ezekiel Anderson - "Orlo C." Buried in Arlington Heights, Memory Gardens Cemetery - apparently in Ilinois	Anderson, Orlando Cleon (I73)
17116	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1880 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 7 - son of Nicholas Andersen - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - attended school within yr - "Otis K." 1885 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 12 - b Guthrie Co, IA - in hh of Ezekiel Anderson - "Otis C." 1900 census - Spring Valley, Dallas, IA - age 27 - b Aug 1872 - single - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - RR conductor - lodger in hh of Henry H. Davis 1910 census - Fort Worth, Tarrant, TX - age 37 - md 1x, md 9y - b IA - parents bplace unknown - conductor, RR 1920 census - El Reno, Canadian, OK - age 46 - md - b IA - father b IA, mother b US - conductor, steam RR? 1930 census - El Reno, Canadian, OK - age 57 - md - 27y at 1st marr - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - conductor, RR Family records state he died in El Reno, Oklahoma - came to El Reno from Waurika in 1912	Anderson, Otis Clyde (I71)
17117	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1880 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 9 - son of Nicholas Andersen - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - attended school within year 1885 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 14 - b Guthrie, IA - in hh of Ezekiel Anderson - "John B." 1900 census - Cass, Guthrie, IA - age 52 - b Sep 1847 - md 28y - b OH - parents b OH - farmer - D672	Anderson, John Bunyan (I70)
17118	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1880 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - age 16 - dau of S. J. Kelso - single - b IL - father b OH, mother b NH 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 31 - b IL - in hh of Andrew R. Cotton 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, Iowa - age 36 - b Sep 1863 - md 19y - mother of 6, 4 living - wife of Andrew Cotton - b IL - father b OH, mother b NH - D1371 1910 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 45 - wife of A. R. Cotton - md 1x, md 29y - 6 children, 4 living - b IL - father b OH, mother b NH - no occ - "Jennie A." 1920 census - Palacios, Matagorda, TX - age 57 - wife of Andrew R. Cotton - b IL, father b, mother b NH - "Jennie A."	Kelso, Amelia Jane (I156)
17119	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1910 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 2 - dau of Kile Anderson - b IA - parents b IA - "Mildred V." 1920 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 11 - dau of O.K. Anderson - b IA - parents b IA	Anderson, Mildred Virginia (I27)
17120	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):1md. #2 Robert H. DAVIDSON 12 Jan 1864 (Cousin of Ezekiel Anderson - his father md Mary Jane Keller's sister) Family records Census records 1850 Delaware Co., Indiana 1860 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 19 - b OH - md within year - in hh of William P. Kunkle 1870 census - Penn, Guthrie, IA - age 28 - b IN - in hh of Robt Davidson 1880 census - Douglas, Audubon, IA - age 40 - wife of Robert Davidson - md - keeping house - b IN - parents b OH 1900 soundex - not found in IA 1920 census - Stuart, Adair, IA - age 78 - wid - b IN - father b VA, mother b OH - no occ Pension file of William Kunkle - gives her birth date - gives birthplace as Grant Co., IN - gives both marriage dates and places - death date - D1687	Reasoner, Lacey Ellen (I93)
17121	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Agreement between Thomas and his brother Dennis B. - D613 1850 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 30 - b NY - Teamster - in hh of Moses Trim. His wife Jane's sister Elizabeth md. George S. Trim. Aunt Marie says, "From old photos we have of these four, I would say that Elizabeth is younger. Thomas and George look much alike in the face. I wonder if Moses' wife could have been a Smith? Cousins marrying sisters? It seems more likely that Thomas would live in an aunt's house than in his wife's sister's in-law's house. Only a thought - no proof." - D017 1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 37 - b Renss Co - lived in Saratoga Springs 22y - farmer - D018 1860 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 40 - teamster - b NY - D019 1865 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 45 - b Rensselaer Co - clerk - md 1x, now md - D020 1870 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 50 - printer - b NY - D021 1875 census - age 55 - b Renss Co - now md - painter Also in hh: Sarah Carter, servant. - D022 1880 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 60 - md. - printer - b NY - parents b NY - D023 Obituary in Daily Saratogian, 4 May 1889: "Thos. I. Smith, an esteemed resident of this village, died this morning at his residence, No. 4 Kearney block, Caroline Street. Death was the result of a complication of diseases. The deceased was aged about 70 years. When a man he learned the printer's trade in the Davison office, at which he worked for a number of years and at intervals during the later years of his life. Mr. Smith was an industrious and upright citizen, and was greatly respected as a consistent, Christian man. He was a member of the Regent street Baptist church. He was on of the oldest printers in town. Latterly, until his last illness, he was employed in Grippen's grocery store on Caroline street." - D025 Letter sent by Sarah Haight to Dennis B. Smith, 23 June 1889 - mentions several family matters, including Thomas' death - D518 Gravestone inscription gives birth and death date DEATH: NY State VR: Thos Ira Smith d 3 May 1889 at Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 69y 1m 17d - m - w - md - b Brunswick, Rennsealer Co, NY - father Michael Smith - mother Catherine Overacker - bir Greenridge Cem - D616 Obituary, sent to Dennis B. Smith on the occasion of his brother's death. "In Memoriam. The death of Thomas I. Smith, which occurred about 11:30 o'clock on the night of May 3, 1889, is deserving of more than a passing notice. Mr. Smith was born in Brunswick, Rensselaer county, on March 16, 1820, and was therefore, a little more than 69 years of age. When but 5 years old, his parents moved to Saratoga, and he has been a resident of this village ever since. At the early age of nine years he entered the Davison printing office on Division street, and in a few years, by faithful and painstaking labor, he there learned 'the art preservative of all arts.' In the month of March, 1840, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane A. Ellsworth, the Rev. Joshua Fletcher, then pastor of the church, performing the ceremony. When the Second Baptist church was organized in 1876, Mr. Smith and his family took letters from the First church and united with the new organization. He was elected to the deaconship of the latter church and so long as his health permitted him to work, he was a power for good in advancing the spiritual interests of the church. For many years Mr. Smith had been in failing health, suffering from a complication of diseases. During his last illness two surgical operations were endured by him, but they failed to give him the hoped for relief...The funeral services were conducted by his pastor, the Rev. Richard F. McMichael, and although the funeral was intended to be at least partially private, so many came that all were not able to gain admittance to the rooms. The services were held on the evening of May 6th and on the morning of the 7th the remains were laid tenderly to rest by loving hands in Greenridge cemetery. The immediate surviving relatives of the deceased are his widow, Jane A., his daughter, Miss Alpha E. Smith and his grandson, Thomas Dowd.... - D617 Death notice - Ballston Journal - Sat., 11 May 1889: "DIED - At Saratoga Springs, May 4, 1889, Thomas I. Smith, aged 69 years."	Smith, Thomas Ira (I215)
17122	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Check Birth date - 1875/76?	Orgill, Nephi Ball (I275)
17123	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Check Birth date - 23 pr or 3 April Check burial - Paradise or Mccammon, Bannock, Idaho	Orgill, William (I260)
17124	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Check Marriage date - 26 Oct or 16 Oct	Orgill, Samuel Ball (I282)
17125	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Check marriage place - Wellsville?	Orgill, Sarah (I271)
17126	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Dates recorded by daughter Florence May Anderson BIRTH: ------Smith b 25 Nov 1848 to Dennis B. and Elizabeth Smith (see sources) Personal knowledge of daughter Ruby Lansing Will and administration papers of Dennis B. Smith Obituary 1850 census - Saratoga Springs,Saratoga, NY - age 1 6/12 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - D003 1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 5 - child of Dennis Smith - b Saratoga Co - in Saratoga Springs 5y - D006 1870 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - age 21 - b NY - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - D002 1880 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - age 31 - farmer - b NY - parents b NY - D004 1885 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - address: SE of sec 11 - age 36 - md - farmer - b NY Also in hh: Minnie Bingham - add: SE of sec 11 - age 14 - b Dallas Co 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 45 - b NY - hardware & furniture store - no religion 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 50 - b Nov 1849 - md 24y - b NY - parents b NY - salesman (hardware) - D1199 1910 census - Clifton, Mesa, CO - age 60 - md 1x, md 34y - b NY - parents b not given - farmer, fruit farm 1920 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 70 - f-in-law of Rodney Ewart - b NY - parents b NY - no occ 1930 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 80 - md - 26y at 1st marr - b NY - parents b NY - retired BURIED: Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID	Smith, Dennis Schuyler (I107)
17127	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Dates recorded by Florence May Anderson (daughter) Personal knowledge of Ruby Lansing (daughter) Autobiography of Ella H. Smith 1860 census - Flagg, Ogle, IL - age 4 - b OH - in hh of S. J. Kelso 1880 Census - Lincoln Twp, Dallas, Iowa - age 24 - wife of D.S. Smith - b OH - father b OH, mother b NH - D004 1885 census - Lincoln, Dalls, IA - address: SE of sec 11 - age 29 - md - housekeeper - b OH - in hh of Dennis Smith 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 38 - b OH - religion M.E. - keeping house 1900 Census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 45 - b Nov 1855 - wife of Dennis Smith - md 24y - mother of 5, 5 living - b Oh - father b OH, mother b NJ - D1199 1910 census - Clifton, Mesa, CO - age 54 - wife of Dennis S. Smith - md 1x, md 34y - b OH - father b OH, mother b NH - no occ 1920 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 64 - m-in-law of Rodney Ewart - md - b OH - parents b US 1930 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 74 - wife of Dennis S. Smith - md - 20y at 1st marr - b OH - father b OH, mother b IL - no occupation BURIAL: Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID	Kelso, Ella Hutokah (I108)
17128	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Death Certificate of Ellen Jerusha Dowen Cotton, in poss of Marilyn Meyers - D453 Family records in poss of Marilyn Meyers 1850 census - not found in Saratoga Co - not found in Fulton Co 1855 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 22 - wife of Hiram Cotton - lived in Stillwater 1y - D336 1860 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 26 - in hh of Hiram Cotton - D337A 1865 - not in 1865 census of Stillwater, although Hiram is listed as married and having 5 children 1870 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 38 - keeping house - b NY - in hh of Hiram Cotton - D342 1875 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 43 - wife of Hiram Cotton - b Saratoga Co - D343 1880 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 48 - wife of Hiram Cotton - b NY - parents b NY - D344 1892 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 61 - b U.S. - D345 1900 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 66 - b Mar 1834 - wid - b NY - parents b NY - s - mother of W.Burton Cotton (?) - mother of 6 children - 6 children living - D346 1905 census - Stillwater, Saratoga, NY - age 71 - wid - b US - in hh of Nathan Cotton - D347 Tombstone inscription - D352 No obituary in Saratogian No obituary in Troy Record No obituary in Troy Daily Press Death certificate of dau Catherine Osberg - gives birthplace as Hope, NY - D1225	Dowen, Ellen Jerusha (I189)
17129	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Death Certificate of Jeremiah Dowen Certificate states that he died in the Binghamton Asylum for the Ch. Insane of chronic mental disease and dysentery. He had been there over two years. Undertaker: Mr. Ayers; Residence - Ballston Spa, NY; Buried Ballston Spa, NY Occupation: Blacksmith - D382 No marriage notice in Lansingburgh Gazette 1850 census - not found in Saratoga Co. - not found in Fulton Co. 1855 census - Troy 10th ward, Rensselaer, NY - age 32 - g.son of John Barrows (actually g.son-in-law) - b Saratoga Co - lived in Troy 2y - blacksmith - owner of land - D373 1860 census - Troy 10th ward, Rensselaer, NY - age 40 - blacksmith - b NY - D375 1865 census - Troy 10th ward, Rensselaer, NY - age 44 - b Saratoga Co - md 1x, now md - blacksmith - D704 1870 census - Milton, Saratoga, NY - age 47 - blacksmith - b NY - D376 1875 census - Milton, Saratoga, NY - age 52 - b VT - blacksmith - D377 1880 census - Milton, Saratoga, NY - age 56 - md - blacksmith - b NY - father b NY, mother b VT - D332 1882-83 Ballston Spa directory - "John Dowen, blacksmith, h Union n Saratoga" Obituary in Daily Saratogian 7 Aug 1888: "Jerry Dowen, for many years a resident of this village, died at the Binghamton insane asylum yesterday. The remains will be brought here today for interment in the village cemetery." - D384 Obituary - Ballston Journal - Sat., 11 Aug 1888: "DIED - At Binghamton asylum, August 6, 1888, Jerry, or C. D. Dowen, aged about 64 years." Land records: 1 July 1842 - Jeremiah Dowen purchased land in Saratoga Springs from Philo R. Waterbury and Mehitabel C. Waterbury - Book SS, p 203 1844 - Jeremiah Dowen to Jason Andrews, Saratoga Co Book SS, p 205 30 Jan 1857 - Jeremiah Dowen and Clara B. Dowen sold land to Releva Childs in Rensselaer Co, NY - Book 100, p424 30 Jan 1857 - Jeremiah Dowen sold land to Theodore Childs in Rensselaer Co, NY - Book 100, p425 18 Apr 1863 - Jeremiah Dowen and Clarissa B. Dowen to Samuel E. Templeton; Deed mentions payment of mortgage to Christiana Childs, dated 1 July 1854, book no. [73] p241[1c]? Also mentions mortgage help by David Russell and Alida Russell dated 6 Jan 1859 - found in book no. 86 p. 448 [1c]? - Rensselaer, NY 23 May 1863 - Jeremiah Dowen and Clarissa B. Dowen sold to Samuel E. Templeton in Rensselaer Co., NY - Book 120, p391 4 Jan 1867 - Jeremiah Dowen and Clarissa B. Dowen sold land to William John Edmiston in Troy, 10th ward, Lot 67, W.S. 9th St., Rensselaer Co., NY - Book 134, p464	Dowen, Jeremiah (I188)
17130	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Death date from "The Burial Ground of Lansingburgh, Rensselaer Co., NY" 974.741 V22b - age 50 years - D1601 1850 census - Lansingburgh, Rensselaer, NY - age 38 - teamster - b NY - D013 1855 NY census, Lansingburgh, Rensselaer, NY - age 44 - lived 44y in Lansingburgh - owned land - D014 1860 census - Lansingburgh, Rensselaer, NY - age 50 - Express Man, b NY - D015 Rensselaer Co. Index to wills lists two Michael Smiths - D016 Obituary in Lansingburgh Gazette, 4 September 1860: "DIED - In this village, this morning, Sept. 4th, 1860, Mr. Michael Smith, aged 50 years. The funeral will be attended from his late residence on State street, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The friends of the family are invited to attend." Obituary in Lansingburgh Democrat, 8 Sep 1860: "DEATHS - In this village, Tuesday morning, Sept. 4th, 1860, Mr. Michael Smith, aged 50 years." Will dated 3 Sep 1860, proved 2 Oct 1860 - D794	Smith, Michael (I204)
17131	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):DEATH RECORD: Clark O Bickmore d 6 Feb 1953 at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT - res Hyrum, Cache, UT - m - w - md - b 11 May 1922 - age 24 - occ utility man, feed mill - b Paradise, UT - father Ellery Bickmore, Paradise, UT - mother Leah Orgill, Paradice, UT - wife Gwen Bennett Bickmore - informant Wallas Bickmore, Kamas, UT - cause uremia - 3 wks - chorinic Gl.... nephritis - 3 mo - bur Paradise Cemetery,, Paradise, UT	Bickmore, Clark Orgill (I15)
17132	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):DEATH: Utah Death Certificate: Elary Bickmore d 14 Feb 1908 in Paradise, Cache, UT age 1 mo 1day - m - w - b 13 Jan 1908 in UT - parents Elary Bickmore b Paradise, UT, and Leah Orgill b Paradise, UT - bur 16 Feb 1908 at Paradise - cert. #46	Bickmore, Ellery Orgill (I7)
17133	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):DEATH: Guthrie Co VR card index: Henry D. Anderson - m - w - md - farmer - b OH - d 8 June 1885 at Menlo, IA - age 33y 9m - bur 9 Jun 1885 at Menlo, IA - cause tuberculosis of bowels	Anderson, Henry Daldridge (I82)
17134	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Died in Civil War - Pneumonia with measles 1850 Census Delaware Co., Indiana 1860 Census - Jackeson, Guthrie, IA - age 20 - b IN - in hh of Matilda Reasoner Buried in Grave 714	Reasoner, Hiram D. (I92)
17135	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Divorced 4 May 1887 Death Certificate - D655 Tax Records, Dallas Co., Iowa - D670 1860 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 16 - b IN - iin hh of Matilda Reasoner 1870 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 26 - b IN - in hh of E. Anderson - "Harriett" 1880 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 35 - wife of Nicholas Andersen - md - keeping house - b IN - parents b OH 1885 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 40 - md - keeping house - b IN - keeping house - in hh of Ezekiel Anderson - "Hattie R." 1900 Census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 55 - b May 1844 - md 35y - 6 children, 5 living -b IN - parents b OH - farmer - "Hattie R." 1910 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 65 - mother of Kile Anderson - wid - 6 children, 5 living - b IN - parents b OH 1920 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 75 - wid - mother of O.K.Anderson - b IN - father b DE, mother b MD Family Records in possession of Marilyn Meyers	Reasoner, Harriet Rebecca (I68)
17136	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family records 1860 Census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 7 - b IN - in hh of Matilda Reasoner 1870 Census - Monegaw, St. Clair Co., MO - age 19 - at home b IN - in hh of Noah Reasoner	Reasoner, Mary Emma (I97)
17137	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family Records 1870 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 8 - b IA - in hh of Noah Reasoner 1880 Census St. Clair Co., Missouri	Reasoner, Della Matilda (I99)
17138	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family Records Tombstone 1860 Census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 10 - b IN - in hh of Matilda Reasoner 1870 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 19 - works on farm - b OH - next door to parents - "Geo. W." 1880 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 29 - md - farmer - b IN - parents bplace not given 1900 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 49 - b Apr 1851 - md 28y - b IN - parents b OH - farmer	Reasoner, Joseph William (I96)
17139	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family Records of all children Obituary Tombstone Vital Statistics 1850 census - Delaware Co., Indiana 1860 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 39 - b OH - listed as 1st member of hh 1870 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 48 - keeping house - b OH - iin hh of Noah Reasoner 1880 census - ,St. Clair Co., MO 1900 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 79 - mother of Joseph W. Reasoner - b Apr 1821 - wid - 10 children, 6 living - b OH - parents b MD	Stotts, Matilda R. (I91)
17140	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family Records of all Noah Reasoner's children Tombstones Old Letters Vital Statistics 1850 census - Delaware Co., Ind. 1860 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 40 - b OH - saw mill - listed at end of hh 1870 census - Monegaw, St. Clair, MO - age 50 - farmer - b OH 1880 census - St. Clair Co., MO Military Records Pension Records Church Affiliation - Presbyterian 1839 Married Matilda Stotts in Wheeling, Indiana. Wheeling is NW corner of Delaware Co. They resided there only a few months. 1840 Moved to Cumberland, Marion Co., Indiana. Stayed about 15 years. Was 12 miles East of Indianapolis . 1855 Moved to Morrisburg, Guthrie Co., Iowa, where Noah had a farm and sawmill. They made their home there for the next 11 years. 1866 They moved to Appleton City, St. Clair Co., MO. They resided there until Noah's death.	Reasoner, Noah (I90)
17141	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family records of Florence May Anderson Personal knowledge of Ruby Lansing Family bible of Dennis B. Smith - D613 1885 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - address: SE of sec 11 - age 3 - b Dallas Co - in hh of Dennis Smith - "Archie" 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 13 - b. Dallas Co., IA - in hh of Dennis S. Smith 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 19 - b May 1881 - son of Dennis Smith - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - day laborer - D1199 1910 census - Clifton, Mesa, CO - age 29 - son of Dennis S. Smith - single - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - laborer, home farm - "Arch A." 1920 census - not yet found 1930 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 49 - md - 36y at 1st marr - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - proprietor, oil station	Smith, Archibald Arthur (I109)
17142	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family records of Florence May Anderson Personal knowledge of Ruby Lansing Family bible of Dennis B. Smith - D613 1885 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - address: SE of sec 11 - age 4m (extracted as 2m?) - b Dallas Co - in hh of Dennis Smith - "Ethel" 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 10 - b Dallas Co., IA - in hh of Dennis S. Smith 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 15 - b Jan 1885 - dau of Dennis Smith - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - at school - D1199 1910 census - Clifton, Mesa, CO - age 25 - dau of Dennis S. Smith - single - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - teacher, school - "Ida E." 1920 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 34 - wife of Rodney Ewart - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH 1930 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 44 - md - age 31 at 1st marr - b MO - parents b OH - no occ	Smith, Ida Elizabeth (I110)
17143	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family records of Florence May Anderson Personal knowledge of Ruby Lansing Family bible of Dennis B. Smith - D613 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 5 - b Guthrie Co., IA - in hh of f Dennis S. Smith 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 10 - b Jan 1890 - son of Dennis Smith - b Iowa - father b NY, mother b Ohio - at school - D1199 1910 census - Clifton, Mesa, CO - age 20 - son of Dennis S. Smith - single - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - laborer, home farm - "Walter S." 1920 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 29 - md - b IA - father b NY, mother b IA - clerk at __________store 1930 census - Jocko, Lake, MT - age 40 - 27y at 1st marr - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - laborer, fruit farm	Smith, Walter Scott (I111)
17144	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Family records of Florence May Anderson Personal knowledge of Ruby Lansing Family bible of Dennis B. Smith - D613 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 5 - b Aug 1895 - dau of Dennis Smith - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - D1199 1910 census - Clifton, Mesa, CO - age 14 - dau of Dennis S. Smith - single - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - no occ - "Ruby D." 1920 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 25 - sis-in-law of Rodney Ewart - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - stenographer, public 1930 census - Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID - age 34 - dau of Dennis S. Smith - single - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - stenographer, seed co.	Smith, Ruby Bernice (I112)
17145	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Find-A-Grave: gives birth, death dates. On stone with Evart Jensen and Ruth Kjar	Bickmore, Rebecca Orgill (I12)
17146	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Marriage certificate - D657 Death certificate - D658 Obituary - D659 1880 census - Jackson, Guthrie, IA - age 5 - son of Nicholas Andersen - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - attended school within yr - "Oris K." 1885 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 9 - b Guthrie Co., IA - in hh of Ezekiel Anderson - "Orin K." 1900 census - Dallas, Dallas, IA - age 24 - b Jan 1875 - son of Hattie R. Anderson - single - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - telegraph operator 1910 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 34 - md 1x, md 5y - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - operator, railroad - "Kile" (extracted "Kill") 1920 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 43 - md - b IA - father b OH, mother b IN - RR telegraph operator - ED71 sh4 L1 1930 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 54 - md - age 29 at 1st marr - b IA - parents b IN - operator RR telegraph - K Oren	Anderson, Oren Kile (I25)
17147	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Marriage certificate - D657 Death certificate - D659 Obituary - D659 1880 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - age 2 - dau of D. S. Smith - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - "F. N." 1885 census - Lincoln, Dallas, IA - address: SE of sec 11 - age 6 - b Dallas Co. - in hh of Dennis Smith 1895 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 15 - b Dallas Co., IA - in hh of Dennis S. Smith 1900 census - Richland, Guthrie, IA - age 22 - b May 1878 - single - b Iowa - dau of Dennis Smith - milliner - father b NY - mother b Ohio - D1199 1910 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 31 - wife of Kile Anderson - md 1x, md 5y - 3 children, 1 living (???) - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - no occ - "Flora M." 1920 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 40 - wife of O.K.Anderson - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH 1930 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 52 - wife of K Oren Anderson - md - 26y at 1st marr - b IA - father b NY, mother b OH - no occ	Smith, Florence Mae (I26)
17148	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Marriage certificate - D660 Death certificate - D661 Birth certificate - D662 Certificate of name change - D664 1910 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 3 - dau of Kile Anderson - b IA - parents b IA - "Marian G." 1920 census - Green River, Emery, UT - age 13 - b. IA - parents b. IA - dau of O. K. Anderson 1930 - census - 1940	Anderson, Marian Gertrude (I3)
17149	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Marriage notice - Saratoga Sentinel (collected by Durkee) - film #0017954: 29 Sep 1829. Kimpton, Alexdr., to Ann Smith, both of Sar. Spgs. 9 Sep 1829 Named on death certificate of dau Susan - mother Ann Smith b NY - D1753 1850 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 42 - b NY - in hh of Alexander Kimpton - D167 1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 47 - wife of Alexander Kimpton - b Renssealer co - md - lived in SSprings 11y - D168 1860 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 51 - b NY - in hh of Alexander Kimpton - D169 1865 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 56 - wife of Alexander Kimpton - b Rensselaer Co - mother of 9 - md 1x, now md - D170	Smith, Anna (I202)
17150	Seal to Parents: @I224@ (Research):Mentioned in will of brother Thomas Ira No children Records of Greenridge Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY 1850 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 28 - in hh of Dennis B. Smith - D003 1855 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 29 - living with brother William Smith - b Renss Co - lived in Saratoga Springs 23y - D264 1860 census - Constantia, Oswego, NY - a Sally A. Haight - age 45 - in hh of John S. Haight - age 49 Also in hh: Amanda Haight, age 21 Joshua Haight, age 18 - D259 1860 census - searched all of Monroe County - not found 1865 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 42 - b Renss Co - parent of one child - md 1x, now md - tailoress - in hh of James Thompson - D162 1870 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 48 - b NY - keeping house - in hh of James Thompson - D163 1880 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 57 - wid - b NY - parents b NY Also in hh: Carrie Thompson - 68 - wid - sister Sarah F. Thompson - 35 - niece - single - D 1892 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 68 - b US 1900 census - Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 77 - b Sep 1822 - wid - 1 child, 0 living - b NY - parents b NY - sister of Elida Luther - D215 Marriage date and place from divorce papers - D1715 Divorce notice - Daily Saratogian - 7 Dec 1870 - "At a special term of the Supreme Court held in Saratoga Springs today, Judge Bockes made a decree dissolving the marriage relations heretofore existing between Sarah A. Haight and John Haight. The action was brought by the wife, to whom the decree of divorce was granted. The plaintiff's attorney in the above case was P.F. Allen, of this place." Will dated 20 September 1885 leaves estate to brothers William Smith and Thomas I. Smith, sister Elida Luther and niece Sarah F. Thompson - D263 Will probated 26 January 1910 appoints administrators Louesie M. Dubridge and Frank M. Hewitt, as the heirs named in her will had all predeceased her. Louisa Dubridge of Saratoga Springs (or Goodenough, IL), Daisy Vandenburgh of Saratoga Springs, Sarah A. Gridley of Chicago, IL, Dennis B. Dubridge of Perry, Iowa, Isaac L. Dubridge of Peotone, IL, Chauncey S. Dubridge of Grand Park, IL, and Stephen M. Dubridge of Kiowa, KS, were named as living nieces and nephews in distribution papers; also many grand-nieces and nephews - D263 In letters to D.B.Smith, she mentions that her marriage and William's were hard ones. John Haight was described as a bounder from Rochester. They had no children. She did not like sister-in-law Julie or their children. (William's family) She refers to his marriage as a "hard lot" and tells how they all try so hard to do things for him and help him. - D618 DEATH: Saratoga Springs Town Clerk: Sarah a Haight d 28 Sep 1909 at Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY - age 85y - wid - no occ - b Brunswick, NY - lived in SSprings 84y - father Michael Smith - mother Catherine Overacker - bur Greenridge Cem - D261 Obituary, in Daily Saratogian, Tuesday, 28 Sep 1909 "1ST BAPTIST'S OLDEST MEMBER DIED TODAY Mrs. Sarah A. Haight, who in point of continuous membership, was the oldest member of the First Baptist Church, died this morning at her residence, No. 51 Excelsior Avenue. She had attained her eighty-eighth birthday on Saturday. She is survived by her two nieces, Mrs. Louise Dubridge and Mrs. William Vandenburgh." - D262	Smith, Sarah Ann (I208)