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Note for: George Goldthwaite Taylor, BET 1867 AND 1893 - BET 1918 AND 1980 Index

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George was a research Chemist

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Note for: Jonathan Wainwright, 28 JUL 1826 - 13 JUN 1900 Index

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     From the Wainwright Genealogy dated 1903:

      Jonathan was educated at Middlebury Academy, Bishop Hopkins, and Dartmouth. He wa inducted into the study of Latin at a very early age. At the age of 14, with the consent of his father, he shipped aboard the whalership, Brighton, Captain Cox commanding, as the guest of the captain. The voyage consumed four years, and took him around the world. He brought back a fine collection of curios from the many strange countries visited during the voyage. Because of his generous nature, he gave away everything he collected.
      On the death of his father, he came into possession of a large sum of money. Since his college training was in engineering, he pursued this work in constructing the Hoosac Tunnel, the Great Northwestern Railroad in Canada, and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway of Illinois, and the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad.
      While he was track superintendent of the Chicago and North Western, he met a lovely lady who later became his wife. She resided at Michigan City, Indiana. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Detroit, Michigan.
      In 1860 he moved to Owosso, Michigan where he engaged in buying and selling farm products, prospering sufficiently to enable him to buy a fine dwelling on November 24, 1863. On December 16, 1864 he moved to Saganaw, Michigan. Here their son, Johathan Gilbert, was baptized in the Espiscopal Church on June 11, 1865, by Reverend William Paret.
      In 1869 they moved to Waukegan, IL where they spent their remaining days. He was engaged in the manufacturing of chemical goods used in the harness trade.
      Mary Amelia Gilbert was the daughter of Bethuel Potter Gilbert and Marie Sheldon Fowler. Marie had traced her ancesty to William Fowler who settled in America in 1637, as one of the founders of the New Haven Colony.

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Note for: Theodore Wainwright, 31 DEC 1834 - 1850 Index

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Theodore drowned while sailing on Lake Champlain in 1850

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Note for: Mary Amelia Gilbert, 20 JUL 1837 - 4 JAN 1924 Index

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From the Wainwright Genealogy dated 1903:

Mary Amelia Gilbert Wainwright was the daughter of Bethuel Potter Gilbert and marie Sheldon Fowler. Marie had traced her ancestry to William Fowler who settled in America in 1637, as one of the founders of the New Haven Colony. He was the first man of classic education to settle in this country.

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Note for: Chauncey Lathrop, 20 SEP 1827 - BET 1863 AND 1918 Index

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Chauncey Lathrop was engaged in the lake shipping business

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Note for: Azel B. Spaulding, 29 MAY 1837 - 1888 Index

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He wa a LT in the Regular army during the Civil War. After leaving the army he was elected a Senator in the Kansas legislature while his father was a member of the house....(from John J. Spaulding) In Vermont he held the office of States Attorney and Judge of Probate. In Atchison KS he was a police Judge.

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Note for: Alice Wainwright, 1863 - BET 1864 AND 1957 Index

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Alice lived in Germany with her mother after the divorce

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Note for: Leonard Oliver Wainwright, 16 NOV 1873 - 25 APR 1915 Index

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Leonard was in partnership with his father and brother in the manufacturing of harness goods. Later, he was successful in the real estate business

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Note for: Nora Smith, BET 1858 AND 1886 - BET 1908 AND 1974 Index

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     Taken from a newspaper account of the wedding:

      "Jonathan Wainwright of Waukegan, IL and Miss Nora Smith of Murphysboro, IL, were married in this city on Saturday afternoon, by the Reverend W.P.Hoskins, at the home of the bride's father of Fifteenth and Elm Streets.
      Miss Smith has for a number of years been a teacher in the Public Schools of Murphysboro, and recently secured a prize for having the second best decorated room in the United States. She is recognized as one of the leading primary teachers in Jackson County. Thus she will be greatly missed from the class room. She is the only daughter of B.S. Smith, partner with R.W. Watson in the real estate business.

      They lived in Murphysboro, IL for many years then they were divorced. No children

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Note for: Rowena Wainwright Lawson, 21 MAY 1892 - BET 1920 AND 1986 Index

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divorced LeRoy Hutchin Gates on 8/17/1934
in Chicago, IL
As of 1947, Rowena Gates lived in Pasadena, CA

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Note for: Harriette Eliza Hoe, BET 1814 AND 1848 - BET 1870 AND 1936 Index

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Harriet Eliza Hoe, a sister of Richard Hoe who revolutionized the printing press

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Note for: Harriette Sophia Wainwright, 22 SEP 1853 - 28 FEB 1939 Index

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     From the Wainwright Genealogy dated 1903:

In the Trinity Cemetery at Davenport, Iowa, a tombstone bears this inscription:

Harriette H. Wainwright, wife of Dr. J.A. Wainwright, born August 21, 1828, died September 24, 1853

The life of Harriette Sophia Hayden Wainwright as told by Katherine Hayden Wainwright Mackey:

      At the age of 25 years, this young mother had forfeited her life for a three pound baby, born two days earlier, and given the name of her mother.

      Some weeks later, on a pillow, tiny Harriette, who hardly filled a quart cup, started by ferry, coach, and slow moving train, back to her mother's New England home. There were no pullman coaches, dining cars or refrigerators in those days. So, the conductor obligingly stopped the train and milked a cow for Harriette's benefit.

      Eight years late, Harriette, in hoops, flaring bonnet, and holding tightly to her beloved doll, is seen climbing into a closed carriage at Wilmington, Delaware where her father, Dr. J.A. Wainwright, has been Rector of St. John's Church for many years. Now, harriette has a new mamma....the sister of her own mother.

      The fatal shot had been fired at Fort Sumter, the Mason and Dixie Line had become a reality, bristling with musket and cannon. The world around the trio was ablaze. Locking the door on all their possessions, which they will not see again, they fled with one canvas trunk, one doll and their clothing, to the nearest exit, trough the Kentucky Line.

      When they were ready to cross over, suspicions arouse about proper credentials and about what might be inside the doll's head. The contents of the trunk was scattered on the platform, the doll's head was smashed. Harriette knew her first sorrow which sank deeper when she saw her father led away to prison. With the child clinging to her skirts, the new mother shamed the guard for arresting a Minister of the Gospel who had never carried a gun, whose only part in the conflict would be to comfort the dying and bury the dead, whether they wore the Blue or the Grey.

      Two years later, in the New England Berkshires, Harriette ran to welcome her father home. He was Chaplain of the Nineteenth Connecticut Heavy Artillery. He reached down and lifted her to the saddle of his spirited "Dandy."

      In the fall of 1871 a slender girl of 18 years stood on the upper balcony which surrounded the inner court of the Overton Hotel at Palmyra, Missouri. She wa looking down at the late summer flowers which filled the formal beds below, and in the navy blue eyes nostalgia was evident. Harriette was following the fortunes of her father, who with the new mother and small sister, had just arrived to act as President of St. Paul's College, and as Rector of the local church at Palmyra, Missouri.

      At high noon on October 26, 1882, Harriette knelt at the sancturary steps of the newly built St. Paul's Church, and took the marriage vows with the Reverend John Evans, a former teacher at the college. He was ordaned to the Diaconate at the last service in the old stone church chapel.

      Now, Harriette began the varied and strenuous life of a clergyman's wife. In later years, at the urgent call of Vestry, Dr. Evans returned to the church as Rector of the parish. His last charge was the work as Assistant Minister at the Gethsemene Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After a highly effective clerical career, very materially assisted by his wife who gave and drew to herself a wealth of affection, Dr. Evans retired. Dr. and Mrs. Evans had created friends of affection among all sorts and conditions of people.

      The outstanding fulfillment of the life of Harriette lies in her two children, Wainwright Evans of New York City, and who fights with his pen for tolerance and sane living, and Mrs. Gertrude Evans Cook who stans solidly back of her husband in leading thousnads of boys and girls to nobility of character at the Edison High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Last, but not least, are Harriette's grandchildren.....

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Note for: Caroline Hayden Wainwright, 21 MAY 1864 - BET 1901 AND 1959 Index

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     Type:   A.k.a.
     Place:   Katharine

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Note for: Gamaliel Parker, 6 JUN 1718 - 18 SEP 1770 Index

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Gamaliel Parker: (1718-99) served in the Revolution from Wallingford,CT,as a private, where he was born and died (P.283) Mrs. Harriet Scott Palmer. DAR ID Number: 63849)