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Harriet Noyes Rogers Winch Champion Reinswoman with Sturdy Pedigree

Harriet "Hattie" Noyes Rogers (1910) daughter of Samuel Rogers (1834-1871) and Mary Francis Hills (1834-1890) was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts. Photo from Girad Daily Press"Vermont's Champion...

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Edward MacConnell and Mary Hale

Photo of EdwardHaleMacConnell (1861-1955) son of Robert MacConnell and Lillian "Lydia" Brown and his wife Mary Lucretia Gove Hale (1866-1944) daughter of Isaac Hale and Mary Gove. The couple married...

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Mayor Alderman and City Clerk Newburyport 1906

Boston Globe Article 1906 Bribery Investigation 86,800 Embezzled and these men where making a thorough investigation. Please request full PDF  © copyright 2012 – All rights reserved Your Blog

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Phillip Welch 1842-1931 and Mary Dunn 1847-1936

February 5 1916 Boston Globe © copyright 2012 – All rights reserved Your Blog

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The OBrien family of East Shannah Hill Co Kerry Ireland

Tim O'Brien took this photo when he went back to Ireland in 1933. Tom Palmer Cormack O'Brien 1890-1959 standing far right of Shanahill East, his wife Julia Foley O'Brien 1900-1953 standing far left and...

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Ball for Lady Dunmore Virginia

The students of Washington Allston School in Cambridge, Massachusetts put on quite a performance in "Lay Dunmore's Ball," in 1906. The ball was given in her honor by the House of Burgesses on the 27th...

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Family Photos Nathaniel Gould and Rachel Peabody

Ruthie Stearns shared some photos and working on the genealogy Hope to connect with families who have these lines or branches close! Thanks Mary Ann Potter Gould (1804-1900) daughter of Benjamin Potter...

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Honoring Isaac S Mullen

Wednesday, July 25, 1888 – Worcester SpyIsaac S. Mullen of Boston, the first colored man ever appointed to the Massachusetts District Police Force, was duly qualified on Tuesday. He served in the navy...

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Joseph Hoag A Remarkable Prophecy 1803

Joseph Hoag (1762-1846) son of Elijah Hoag and Phebe Hoag. He married Huldah Case (1762-1850) daughter of Nathan Case and Elizabeth Mussey. The couple had 10 children.see Joseph Hoag Family Papers,...

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Remembering Solomon Bertram West

Solomon Bertram West (1878-1911) son of William West (1853-1907) and Ella Leavitt (1855-1895) born in New Hampshire. 1st Lieutenant Solomon B. West, 16th U. S. infantry, who perished in a blizzard near...

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Benjamin Coates Welch and Mary Ann Holm

Benjamin Coates Welch (1835-1931) son of Richard Welch and Harriet Johnson with wife Mary Ann Holm (1835-1930) daughter of George Holm and Ann Davis The couple is listed as living on 40 Middle Street,...

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Sanborn Seminary Kingston NH Class of 1935 Now and Then

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Powder Horn of Captain Ebenezer Webster

In 1909 The Boston Globe and several other newspapers across the country featured Colonel Edward Knight Webster (1848-1927) son of Dr. Eliphalet Knight Webster and Emily Webster. The colonel was gifted...

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The Spanish Gold Mystery

This article is transcribed from Boston Globe article written by Willard Francis De Lue (1890-1989) historical writer and editor. Photo with story published December 1951Salisbury Point----Most of the...

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Hot Tidbit: The Sting Operation of Pierce, Colby, Sargent, & Fitts that Ended...

Newburyport had an infamous arsonist whose flair for fire blazing brought pyromania to a whole new level.  The incendiary, Leonard Choate, aka “Firebug Choate” burned over 150 homes, barns, and...

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Charles Owen Rogers and Alice Maud Pettingell

1940 Photo Charles Owen Rogers (1864-1941) son of Charles Proctor Rogers (1838-1926) and Cynthia Cheney (1844-1933) and his wife Alice Maud Pettingell (1872) daughter of Henry Rogers Pentingell and...

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DAR 1929 New York Meeting of Officers

Top Picture L to R Mrs Herbert T Hoskings (Nancy Keffer), Mrs D. Roger Englar (Ethel Miller), Mrs George S Montfort (Mar J ? ) Mrs Thomas Mills (Cora Bowman), Mrs Charles Bell (Lucy Winton) From the...

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A Haunted Heritage Strange Sightings and Sounds at Ancestral Home

The Barnett family made headlines at Dent’s Palace in Dentsville, Maryland. Reports of nebulous sightings and strange tapping sounds were coming from a Continental Army officer, a young woman, a...

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Samuel Merritt A Harpswell Man of Distinction and Success

This article is excerpted from the paper “From Sea to Shining Sea Harpswell, Maine to Oakland, California – Chronology of the Life of Samuel Merritt (1822-1890) of Harpswell, Maine and Oakland,...

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Margaret Isabel Gleason Webster

Margaret Isabel Gleason (1882-1960) daughter of William Cloyes Gleason (1835-1893) and Cynthia Agnes Warden (1846-1888). She married Harrison Briggs Webster (1884-1918) son of Andrew Gerrish Webster...

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