This is to give a perspective of what our families lives were like, what was happening to them and in the world. This blog covers from the years 1900 to 1909
Family
History by Timeline
From the years 1900 to 1909
Our government:
McKinley is President and assassinated in 1901; Theodore Roosevelt is
President from 1901-1908; William Taft is President starting in 1909; Oklahoma
become a state (1907); FBI established.
Around
the world: Queen Victoria dies in 1901; The Boxer Rebellion is
occurring in China; King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated; Mount Pelee
erupts; Japan’s Prince Ito is assassinated; earthquake in Italy kills 150,000;
Finland is the first European country to give woman the right to vote; “Bloody
Sunday” the Russian revolt of 1905.
Notable
events: Kodak
introduces the $1 Brownie Camera; Mark Plank formulates the Quantum Theory;
Sigmund Freud publishes “Interpretation of Dreams”; the Teddy Bear is
introduced; Wright brothers make their first flight; First World Series (1903);
first Rose Bowl (1902); first silent movie (“The Great Train Robbery”); New
York City subway opens; Einstein proposes his “Theory of Relativity”; Ford
introduces the Model T; Robert Peary becomes the first to reach the North Pole;
plastic is invented; the NAACP is founded; Picasso introduces Cubism; the first
electric washing machine; San Francisco earthquake; Kellogg starts selling
Cornflakes; Panama Canal Zone acquired by US; World Fair in St. Louis; Susan B.
Anthony dies; Marconi sends the first wireless transmission; first safety
razors; first vacuum cleaners; first crayola crayons; the General Slocum burns
in New York’s East River killing 1000 Sunday travelers; the Boy Scouts are
started; New Year Eve Ball in New York drops for the first time (1908).
Family
Overview: During
this time our family is quite spread out.
We lived in six state; New York (city and Caroline), Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, Indiana, New Hampshire and Oklahoma. The mothers/wives did not have their own
occupations during this time but without modern conveniences spend most of
their time keeping home and family.
Fathers/husbands had variety of jobs from farming, book keeping, running
companies and a police officer. Many are
involved in community activities as well as working.
The
Piersons
Samuel (25-34), Yetta (24-33), Millard (2-11), Albert
(1-10) and Jeannett (b. 1905) are living in Brooklyn Ward, King, New York (1653
T??? Place). Samuel is a Policeman with
the NY City Police Department. He is
also the Treasurer for the Shomrim Society.
**need to find out when he went
from cigar making to policeman…also what type of home did they live in? Also,
don’t know where Jacob Segal is in 1900 (assume in Kings, New York).
The
Silsbees
Benjamin (22-31); Lora (21-30); Lyman (b. 1900); Helen
(b. 1902) and Lillian (b. 1904) live in Caroline, New York. In 1900, Benjamin and Lora live with Lora’s
Uncle Lyman Delbert Patch and wife Sallie (Rounseville). He and Uncle Del farm.
David (58-67) and Sarah (58-67) are living together in
Caroline, New York. The 1900 census does
not show any occupation for David but he was a farmer. In 1906, per the newspaper accounts, they
move into one of their daughter Kate family’s houses. The newspaper has many accounts of them
visiting relatives and them being visited.
David also helps out friends when they are ill (per newspaper).
The
Cauchons
Philias (42-51) and Zelia (39-40) and their children
Herve P (11-20), Laura (11-20), Henry (6-15), Bernard (3-12), Joseph (b. 1900)
and Gabrielle (b.1901) are living in Cranston, Providence Rhode Island at 282
Fountain Street. Philias was working as
a book keeper per 1900 census. They have
recently moved from Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts where all the children
born before 1900 were born?? Per Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities, Volume 2,
Philias works as Vice President of
the Cote Piano Manufacturing and was a Director (1912). Could
this have been the connection with Zelia?
The Manufacturing Company was in Fall River, Massachusetts. This is only 20 miles from Cranston Rhode
Island. Did they live in Rhode Island but
have births in Massachusetts?
The Page
In 1900 Lillian (12-21) is living with her mother
Adeline (33-42), brother Victor (15-24) and step-father Joseph Michaud (33-42)
and three half siblings; Stanley (4-13);
Arthur (2-11); and Annie (1-9) in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Joseph is working as a piano dealer and they
are living at 356 Orange. Another half
brother Joseph is born in 1901. By 1908 they move to Providence, Rhode Island,
first living at 393 Prarie and then 52 Wood St, Providence Rhode Island, a
newly constructed home which is still there in 2014. Adeline is the only one in the Rhode Island
phone book so Joseph may have died before 1908 but no records are
available.
In 1900, Adeline’s mother Mathilda Gaudrau Fredett (71-80)
is living with Adeline’s sister Matilda Fredett Lacroix family (husband and
eight children) in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 26 Nye Street. By 1901, she moves to 301 Sawyer, New
Bedford.
The
Hulley’s
Ernest (24-33); Estelle (24-33) and their first son,
Oliver Neal, are living in Allegan Michigan with Estelle’s adopted parents
Andrew and Williamina Oliver (they had no other children). Estelle’s mother, Anna Hoyt Smith, had died in
1884). Her father Ansel G. Smith had
suffered from battle fatigue during the Civil War and is in a veteran’s
hospital in California until his death in 1900 during a visit back to Michigan.
Andrew Oliver co-owns the Oliver
Furniture Manufacturing Company in Allegan.
Ernest is a clerk at a paper mill.
Sadly, Oliver Neal passes away in June, 1900 when he is just 7 months
old. His brother is given his name with
a different middle name; Oliver Sommerville born two years later in 1902. A sister, Katharine Lorraine, is born in 1909. In 1902, the family lives in Benton Harbor
where Ernest works as a cashier. In 1910
they are back in Allegan where Ernest works as a book keeper.
Elkanah (51-60) and Amanda Jean”Jennie” (47-56)
(Ernest’s parents) are living in Marion, Grant Co, Indiana with their son Edwin
(22-31)) and Amanda’s nieces Kate and Amie Neal, children of her brother Dr.
James Clinton (1843-1895) and Emma (1848-1896) Neal. Elkanah is a superintendent at the City
Water Works and City Electric Light Plant as well as the President of Marion
Floral Company. Edwin is an apprentice
dentist. They live at 710 S. Adam which
is around the corner from their son, Lewis (26-35) who is a cashier at the
Marion Bank.
William (Elkanah’s father) dies Sept. 16, 1901 at the
age of 85. He was widowed and living
with his son Charles Squire in Center, Grant Co, Indiana. He is buried with his
wife in Ebenezer Cemetery, Marion, Indiana.
The
Neals
Thomas Jackson (Jennie’s father) dies Jan. 20, 1900 at
the age of 81. Elizabeth (Jennie’s
mother) dies Dec. 5, 1908 at the age of 82.
They were living in Marion, Indiana and are buried in Estates of Serenity
Cemetery, Marion Indiana. Thomas Jackson
was a merchant.
The
Emdees
Edward (26-35) is living with his mother, Pauline
(64-73) and sister, Ida (23-32) in Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1900. He moves to Oklahoma Territory to join his
brother Benjamin Franklin in Kingfisher.
He meets and marries Flora in February 1903. They move to Oklahoma City where he works as
a traveling salesman. Velma is born 1904
and Wilda is born in 1906.
The
Smiths
John (54-63) and Armelda (b. Feb 1841), Flora (22-31),
Henderson (18-27) and Louisa (16-25) are living in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. John works as a farmer in Oklahoma. More
information on Smith family Sooners can be found in previous years. Armelda dies July 18, 1901 and is buried
the Omega Cemetery, Omega, Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
Written Feb. 2014 by Katharine Hulley
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