#1925 Census

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Tues. May 30, 2023: Climbing The Mountain That is This Week

image courtesy of James Wheeler via pixabay.com Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Waxing Moon Pluto Retrograde Sunny and pleasant How was your holiday weekend (if you live somewhere that had one)? Ready for our catch-up? Today’s serial episode is Legerdemain: Episode 89: Gloria’s Opening Night Shelley refuses to be distracted by a mysterious man’s attention on her sister-in-law’s opening…

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I'm sure you have a million and one asks, but the US census records for hospital beds in 1925!

Wow! Thank you!! (This would indicate there were almost as many sanatarium beds for TB patients in 1923 (~650,000) as there were hospital beds available for ALL OTHER CAUSES COMBINED. That's how big a deal TB was 100 years ago in the U.S.)

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Tell us more about your North Dakota research

Happily!!!

So the research is centered around my great grandma (Grandma Vi) and trying to find her parents.

The story that we have from my mom and grandma (grandma being Vi’s daughter in law) is that she was born in ND in 1910, her mother died of TB when she was four, and her dad left her with “her mother’s people) right after. Supposedly he was Irish/English we’re not sure. She was left with some cousins, the Petersons.

We’ve all done DNA tests, and we know (and I know through the extensive research I’ve done tracing most branches of my family to at least the 1600s) that we’re Norwegian. Grandma Vi is the only source of that, and so either we’re biologically related to the Petersons OR her mother came from the Norwegian/Swedish community settling in ND. I’m really hoping it’s a cousin because having a link like that would be easier to find but I’m looking for church records. But these people were pig farmers who were homesteading—the records aren’t easy to find. I’ve had to find historic maps to locate the townships and then also find where they are—Garborg Township, where the Petersons are in the 1900 census, no longer really exists as far as I can tell, but the cemetery does so I was able to pin it that way. Same with Sandoun Township in 1920 which is the first time Grandma Vi pops up.

I’ve confirmed I have the right Petersons (1910 census, 1920 census that includes a Viola Peterson) because she’s listed in her adoptive mother’s obituary living in San Diego (with her husband’s name so she’s Mrs. J. E. Brennan—helpful.)

Speaking of grandpa Joe, who I unfortunately never met, he met her while he was traveling with a circus. He played the saxophone (my mom still has it) and they ran away together. She converted to Catholicism to marry him and she never had another partner after he passed in the 60s. They moved to San Diego and opened a restaurant together. They got married in 1928 in Wilkin Minnesota

And as I’m going back and forth between my notes I realized I MISSED that he lived in ND from at least 1917-1925 and I’m going to dig into that

Thanks for asking! This is such a work of love for me ❤️

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My most recent custom project for a new customer!

The project was to find a connection between their family and that of a fiction writer who lived in the early 1900s: Clark Ashton Smith.

Smith’s mother’s maiden name was Gaylord, a prominent surname in colonial America. This customer was interested in knowing if there was any familial relation between their Gaylord family and that of Smith’s Gaylord family. After researching each Gaylord line, through generations of records such as baptisms and census records, the answer was found. Indeed there was a connection between Clark Ashton Smith and my customer, although their most recent common ancestor was born approx. 1585 in England.

Clark Ashton Smith was known as a well reviewed published poet from 1912–1925. From 1926 to 1935 he published about 100 weird fiction short stories in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. He's best remembered for these stories today. He was a friend and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft.

[lboogie1906]

Margaret Murray Washington (March 9, 1865 - June 4, 1925) was an educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which became Tuskegee University. She was the third wife of Booker T. Washington. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1972. She was born in Macon, Mississippi. Her tombstone says she was born in 1865, the 1870 census lists her birth year as 1861. She was hired as Lady Principal of Tuskegee Institute. She was responsible for supervising women students and supporting women on the faculty. She established the women's division curriculum for the lower and post-graduate divisions in sewing, laundering, millinery, soap-making, table-setting, cooking, and broom-making. She created the Tuskegee Woman's Club. She and other southern social reformers in Tuskegee sought to rehabilitate this community through the strengthening of family structures. Implementing Tuskegee's "Bath, Broom, and Bible" program, she centered her social-uplift theory around improving motherhood and wifehood. The Tuskegee Woman's Club merged local organizations with women's clubs to help improve the values and liberation of womanhood in African-American women of the Jim Crow south. She gave an influential speech titled "Individual Work for Moral Elevation" at the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America and was elected President of the newly-established National Federation of Afro-American Women. She is credited with co-founding the National Association of Colored Women. She founded country schools, taught women how to live and attend to their homes, worked for the improvement of prisons, started the Mt. Meigs School for boys and an industrial school for girls, and worked for the betterment of the poor and neglected. She became the fifth president of the NACW. She worked to improve the educational system for African Americans. She became involved in interracial cooperation and participated in the path-breaking Memphis Women's Inter-Racial Conference. She appears as a character in Self Made. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta #womenhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CpkRH4trQzs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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U.S. Daily Snowfall Records Tied/Broken 12/13/22

Unincorporated Copper River Census Area, Alaska: 7.01" (previous record 5.98" 1980)

Unincorporated Cochise County, Arizona: 6.5" (previous record 0.51" 2015)

Unincorporated Crowley County, Colorado: 6.69" (previous record 4.61" 1937)

Unincorporated Grand County, Colorado: 7.01" (previous record 4.49" 2019)

Unincorporated Sedgwick County, Colorado: 2.99" (previous record 0.98" 1984)

Unincorporated Carter County, Montana: 4.02" (also 4.02" 1964)

Ekalaka, Montana: 4.49" (previous record 4.02" 1935)

Hardin, Montana: 4.02" (previous record 1.61" 2019)

Unincorporated Powder River County, Montana: 2.01" (also 2.01" 1975)

Red Lodge, Montana: 5.98" (also 5.98" 1951)

Unincorporated Dawes County, Nebraska: 3.58" (previous record 2.4" 1922)

Unincorporated Garden County, Nebraska: 2.52" (previous record 2.01" 1984)

Unincorporated Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska: 10" (previous record 5.98" 1925)

Unincorporated Sioux County, Nebraska: 7.01" (previous record 5.98" 1925)

Valentine, Nebraska: 10.31" (previous record 5.98" 1951)

Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada: 7.99" (previous record 4.49" 1982)

Unincorporated Grant County, New Mexico: 0.79" (previous record 0" 2021)

Bismarck, North Dakota: 10.39" (previous record 5.91" 2008)

Aberdeen, South Dakota: 4.49" (previous record 2.99" 1955)

Unincorporated Beadle County, South Dakota: 2.99" (previous record 2.52" 2015)

Bowdle, South Dakota: 5" (previous record 2.99" 1968)

Dupree, South Dakota: 5.98" (previous record 2.01" 1992)

Faulkton, South Dakota: 4.02" (previous record 2.99" 1968)

Unincorporated Haakon County, South Dakota: 7.99" (previous record 5.98" 1951)

Highmore, South Dakota: 7.99" (previous record 4.02" 1937)

Huron, South Dakota: 2.01" (previous record 1.61" 1951)

Ipswich, South Dakota: 2.99" (previous record 2.01" 1968)

Unincorporated Jackson County, South Dakota: 5.98" (previous record 4.02" 1951)

Kennebec, South Dakota: 10.98" (previous record 4.02" 2015)

Lemmon, South Dakota: 5.91" (previous record 2.99" 1992)

Unincorporated Meade County, South Dakota: 3.5" (previous record 2.01" 2008)

Murdo, South Dakota: 5.98" (previous record 2.01" 1983)

Pierre, South Dakota: 6.1" (previous record 5.31" 1951)

Sisseton, South Dakota: 7.99" (previous record 2.99" 1968)

Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota: 3.7" (previous record 2.01" 1992)

Timber Lake, South Dakota: 5.39" (previous record 2.99" 1951)

Wasta, South Dakota: 4.02" (also 4.02" 1975)

Kanab, Utah: 3.5" (also 3.5" 1965)

La Verkin, Utah: 1.42" (previous record 0" 2021)

Zion National Park, Utah: 2.99" (also 2.99" 1994)

Boysen State Park, Wyoming: 0.98" (previous record 0" 2021)

Buffalo, Wyoming: 5.98" (also 5.98" 1989)

Cody, Wyoming: 4.02" (previous record 2.01" 2004)

Dayton, Wyoming: 5" (previous record 4.02" 1991)

Green River, Wyoming: 2.01" (also 2.01" 1999)

Unincorporated Hot Springs County, Wyoming: 5.51" (previous record 2.01" 2005)

Unincorporated Natrona County, Wyoming: 9.21" (previous record 5.12" 1975)

Unincorporated Park County, Wyoming: 1.5" (previous record 0" 2021)

Riverton, Wyoming: 9.61" (previous record 2.99" 1935)

Shoshoni, Wyoming: 2.99" (previous record 1.5" 1940)

Unincorporated Sublette County, Wyoming: 2.01" (also 2.01" 1996)

Unincorporated Sweetwater County, Wyoming: 7.01" (previous record 4.02" 1975)

Thermopolis, Wyoming: 5.98" (previous record 4.02" 2005)

Wamsutter, Wyoming: 10" (previous record 2.01" 1974)

Worland, Wyoming: 2.01" (also 2.01" 1937)

[awheckery]

I found her

I have an active Ancestry.com account, so I made a guess at her birth year and hit paydirt basically immediately

Ms. Blanche Appleton was born Blanche Harriet Schnitzer, October 22, 1903, in Manhattan, New York City, the only child of affluent immigrant parents who were apparently very invested in her education. I found records of at least two international trips with her parents before she turned twenty. Here's her passport photo from her original application in 1922, to compare against the above photo:

(cut for record dumps and original documents ahoy)

When I said her parents were invested in her education, I meant it. She earned a bachelor's degree from Wellesley in 1924...

...and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1925.

Blanche followed that up by pursuing a doctorate (what.) in Political Economy from Columbia U in 1926

buuuuuut her academic career was put on indefinite hold when she apparently eloped with one Charles Applebaum in December of that year.

Ten years later, they were both apparently going by the surname of Appleton, both on their international travel records and on the following census.

I couldn't find when they divorced, but by the middle of 1947 Blanche's permanent address was in Washington D.C., and she was working full time for the UNRRA, bouncing around various posts from China to California.

I can also definitively place her living in Tokyo, Japan in 1954. She apparently remarried at some point, to a Dr. Melville Day Dickinson, also of GHQ-SCAP, because she's his surviving widow on his American Foreign Service death certificate, seen here. (Note his last American address matched hers on her earlier travel papers.)

Blanche Dickinson (formerly Appleton, formerly Applebaum, nee Schnitzer) died September 9th, 1974, and according to the Ancestry research page put together by one of her relatives (which I think you need to be logged into Ancestry to see), her obituary was published in the Washington Post on September 17th, 1974 and featured a comprehensive overview of her long career in US foreign service, including her time as a "food analyst" at SCAP under Gen. MacArthur.

I can't access that obit, I can't find access to any archive for it online, but apparently the obit's title was "Blanche S. Dickinson, 70, AID Economic Adviser," so I'll pass that mission off to somebody else.

tl;dr, Blanch Appleton WAS a real person, and apparently she was something of a badass, but the jury's out on whether she was involved with the yakuza at all

(btw @inneskeeper if you want, I can and will download any and all documentation you want off Ancestry so you can have the primary source documents for your own reference)

I cannot fucking believe how much I'm losing my mind right now over soy sauce history. I'll tell all of you about it after I finish this essay because I need to un-distract myself enough to finish it but what the fuck? What the fuck is going on? I'm losing my fucking mind.

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The Tragedies of Levi Oscar Smith and His Wives

TRIGGER WARNING TRIGGER WARNING TRIGGER WARNING This work discusses severe injury, burns, different types of death, manners of death, symptoms of death, causes of death, and possibly other unpleasant topics that may be triggering or upsetting. Please carefully consider whether you're in a good space and/or mature enough to read further. TRIGGER WARNING TRIGGER WARNING TRIGGER WARNING

Who is Levi O. Smith?

Levi is one of my spouse's great-grandfathers. He was born in Indian Territory (McAlester, Pittsburg County), Oklahoma, USA in 1898. At 20 years old, he married his first wife, Opal Alsus Jackson, 17 years old, on 1 Jun 1918 in Holtville, Imperial County, California, USA. They had their first child, a son named Eugene Ellis Smith, in October of 1919. Eugene was followed by the birth of Louis M. Smith in 1921, then Raymond Leroy Smith in February of 1924. Sometime around the beginning of 1925, Opal became pregnant with Vivian Louise Smith.

Opal Alsus Jackson

Opal was born in 1901 in Oklahoma, USA. In 1910, she and her birth family were listed on two census records—one under General Population and one under Indian Population. On the General Population record, she, her mother, and her siblings were listed as white while her father was listed as Indian. On the Indian Population record, her father was listed as Indian, her mother was listed as white, and she and her siblings were listed as half-Indian, half-white.

According to events detailed by The Bulletin (Pomona, Los Angeles County, California, USA) and Riverside Daily Press (Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA) newspapers, respectively, indicate that the tragedy of Opal Alsus Jackson began on 17 Oct 1925.

While starting a fire at her mother's home in Corona, Riverside County, California, USA, Opal sent her 3 or 4-year-old son Louis to fetch her kerosene. Instead, Louis mistakenly brought back a jar of gasoline. This resulted in an explosion that set the house, and her clothes, aflame.

Despite her condition, the pregnant and burning Opal managed to get all three of her children out of the house before she "fell into the flames". Eugene and Raymond's conditions were never noted and Levi wasn't mentioned at all, but devastatingly, Louis succumbed to his injuries a few hours later. "At almost the hour of his death", Opal gave birth to Vivian, who seemed healthy and suffered no ill effects from the traumatic situation that resulted in her birth. Louis was laid to rest four days later.

Opal was admitted to Cothe Rona Hospital (which I cannot locate) where her chances of recovery were described optimistically due to her having "such remarkable recuperative power". It was stated that 80% (or, alternatively, 4/5ths) of the surface of her body was severely burned. She stayed in the gray zone between life and death for just over a month before "unfavorable symptoms developed". She succumbed to her injuries on the morning of 21 Nov 1925 at just 24 years old. She was laid to rest with Louis the next day, and they now share a gravemarker.

Her baby daughter, Vivian, lived to be 89 years old with a husband, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. According to her obituary, she served as a civilian staff car driver at an Ontario, CA military base during WWII, and she worked for 40+ years "for General Electric, both the Iron Plant downtown Ontario and the Aircraft at the Ontario Airport". It appears she lived a full, healthy, and happy life. She was preceded in death by Eugene, Raymond, and her half-brother, Jay, as well as her husband and her son.

Raymonde Victorine Louise Aubry

Raymonde was born in 1912 in France, Europe. She immigrated in late 1986 from Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe at 13 years old aboard the S.S. Niagara with her parents and little sister. Their destination was Ontario, CA, but they made port in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas, USA on 4 Oct 1926, and must have navigated northwest to California afterward.

Next, she appears as "Ramon" in a 1930 census in Ontario, CA as the 17-year-old new bride of 31-year-old Levi Smith, with Eugene, Raymond, and Vivian in their household and listed their children. It was recorded that she could read and write, spoke English, and also spoke French at home before she immigrated. Over the following years, she and Levi birthed their children: a daughter, Lela Faye Smith, and two sons, Jay Loren and Jimmy Dale Smith.

I've gathered from articles in The Los Angeles Times, The Pomona Progress Bulletin, and The San Bernardino County Sun that Raymonde's tragedy started when Levi picked her up from Sunday church on the evening of 30 Jul 1939.

He told Deputy Coroner W. J. Weller that shortly after the service, Raymonde allegedly began to accuse Levi of adultery while she was attending church. He insisted that after he dropped her off at 7:15 p.m. he visited a beer parlor until it was time to retrieve her at 9:15 p.m.

Later that night, Raymonde joined Levi in the bedroom and he heard her whisper "goodbye" to her 3-year-old son (and youngest child), Jimmy. He then asked her where she was going, to which she replied, "I've done it. I've taken poison."

Levi immediately took her to the hospital where she was declared dead on arrival at just 26 years old. It was later reported by Coroner R. E. Williams that she'd ingested strychnine—the poison, which Deputy Coroner Weller alleged she'd taken in three previous death attempts, was referred to by one article as a "fatal potion". Levi claimed the poison was used to exterminate gophers and that Raymonde knew where it was kept. He also admitted that she'd threatened to ingest the poison when they were arguing, but he hadn't believed her until she told Jimmy goodbye.

Williams stated an inquest into her death would likely be unnecessary, and her death was ruled as death by suicide via poisoning. She was laid to rest five days later.

What happened to Levi?

After being a farmer since 1918, Levi became an irrigator at a tree nursery by 1940 before becoming a truck driver of farm produce by 1941.

On 21 Feb 1941, 42-year-old Levi was fatally injured in an accident while falling from a truck. His death certificate states he died of shock due to a brain aneurysm created by a brain hemorrhage three miles east of Perryville, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. A newspaper article named Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA as his place of death, which is approximately 3 miles east of Perryville.

Levi was buried in the same cemetery as his second wife, Raymonde. While they didn't end up in the same section, their sections butt up against each other.

34 years later, his 40-year-old son Jay, a truck driver for Midwest Growers Association, would die in a trucking accident "25 miles east of Lordsburg" in Grant County, New Mexico, USA. I believe he died on I-70 in Wilna, Grant County, New Mexico, USA.

That's all, for now!

If you made it this far, thanks for sticking with me and learning about some of my spouse's departed family. Make sure to follow me so you don't miss my future posts about genealogy and family history, or random historical finds I think are interesting!

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15c shop on ship street, oxford por Karen White Por Flickr: The look of this 15c building on the corner of Ship Street and Cornmarket Street (it's actually 28 Cornmarket Street) appealed to me. I found a little of its history online: In 1772 a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771. According to H. E. Salter, 28 Cornmarket was then in the occupation of Mr Constable, and had a frontage of 4 yards, 1 ft. and 9 in. In about 1813 Joseph Andrews had an auction business here, which on his death in 1830 was taken over briefly by his son Charles Wood Andrews. In 1835 the shop was taken over by Hughes & Company. At the time of the 1841 census Henry Hatch (22), a draper, lived here with his wife Sarah and their son Henry, plus a milliner and a servant. On 20 January 1844 Henry Hatch announced in Jackson’s Oxford Journal that he was moving to this shop at 28 Cornmarket Street from his former shop at 71 High Street. By 1849 No. 28 was occupied by another draper, Sweetman Brothers at a rental of £70 per annum. Lewis Solomon had a tobacco shop here from 1862. Harvey Brother, tea & coffee dealers, were here from at least 1880 to 1914. The photographers Penrose & Palmer were here from 1925 to 1932, with Ye Olde North Gate Tea Rooms upstairs. Thomas Rayson extensively restored this shop in 1951, saving the building from destruction.. From then until the present day it has been occupied by a number of different businesses; Speedwell Cleaning, Rhodes Opticians, Mobile Phones Direct, Chequepoint, and its current occupiers Laird Hatters. Source Oxford History The building is Grade II listed"

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General Fiction. Mostly sorted.

Key: strikethrough means duplicate to be deleted ; bold means recommended ; I have not listened to everything.

Bowles, Paul - Baptism of solitude

Burroughs, Wiiliam S (see own file) - Lectures - Musical Collaborations - Novels - oddities - Single Tracks - Spoken Word

Camus, Albert - The Plague

Deighton, Len - Horse Under Water (1963) [Lailey, 2014, Harper] Deighton, Len - Funeral in Berlin (1964) [Lailey, 2014, Harper] Deighton, Len - Billion-Dollar Brain (1966) [Lailey, 2014, Harper]

de Sade - The Marquis De Sade Reader (ed M Crosland)

Hammett, Dashiell - The Glass Key Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon (Unabridged) Hammett, Dashiell - The Thin Man

Hemingway, Ernest - The old man and the sea

Holm, Anne - I am David

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World Huxley, Aldous - Ultimate Revolution

Kafka-Metamorphosis-1912 Kafka-The_Castle-1926 Kafka-The_Trial- 1925

Mievillie, China - Looking for Jake and Other Stories Mievillie, China - Un Lun Dun Mievillie, China - The Last Days of New Paris Mievillie, China - Embassytown Mievillie, China - Perdido Street Station (2000) Mievillie, China - The City & The City (2009) Mievillie, China - This Census-Taker (2016) Mievillie, China - Three Moments of an Explosion Stories by China Mieville Audiobook.mp3

Miller, Henry -Tropic of Cancer (1934)

Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita (note: read by Jeremy Irons)

Anais Nin - A Spy in the House of Love (Audible) Anaïs Nin - House of Incest

Orwell, George - 1916_kitchener_George Orwell.mp3 [note: I don't know what this is either.] Orwell, George - 1984 Orwell, George - A Clergyman's Daughter Orwell, George - Animal Farm Orwell, George - Down and Out In Paris and London Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia

Proust - Remembrance of Things Past Captive, The (RoTP 5) Fugitive, The (RoTP 6) Sodom & Gomorrah (RoTP 4) Swann's Way [Naxos] The Guermantes Way - Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 3 Time Regained (RoTP 7) Within a Budding Grove

Sterne, Laurence - Tristram Shandy

Vonnegut, Kurt - Cold_turkey.mp3 Vonnegut, Kurt - Breakfast of champions Vonnegut, Kurt - A man without a country Vonnegut, Kurt - The Sirens of Titan

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Events 12.3 (before 1940)

915 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date). 1775 – American Revolutionary War: USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones. 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch. 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden: French General Jean Victor Marie Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war. 1800 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that result in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. 1834 – The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany. 1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. 1859 – Nigeria's first newspaper, missionary Henry Townsend's Iwe Irohin, was published. 1881 – The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published. 1898 – The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeats an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football. 1901 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) 1919 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded. 1925 – Final agreement is signed between the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom formalizing the Partition of Ireland. 1929 – President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech. 1938 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.

[geneajournals]

The Travels of Mack Senar, Jr.

“Go West, young man…” is a phrase widely attributed to Horace Greeley in 1865.  I wonder if  Mack Senar, Jr., heard the phrase and decided to act on the advice. 

Mack Senar, Jr., son of Mack Senar, Sr. and Elizabeth Bowers,  was born on 17 November 1879 in Mobile, Alabama.  Mack served in the Spanish American War as a volunteer with the 3rd Alabama Volunteer Infantry from 1898 to March 1899.[1] In April 1899 Mack Senar enlisted in the U. S. Army and was assigned to the 9th Cavalry at Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. [2] Due to a clerical error, Mack Senar became Mack Senor in official records for the remainder of his life.

During the 1900 U.S. Census, Mack Senor was enumerated at Fort Grant.[3] In 1901 Mack’s 9th Cavalry unit deployed to the Philippine Islands and fought in the Philippine-American War. Their duty stations in the Philippine Islands, included Minalabac, Menalabag, Iloilo and Nueva Caceres.[4]

In 1903 Mack Senor returned to the United States. The 9th Cavalry Unit Returns document him at Fort Walla Walla, Washington in September 1903. By October 1903 Mack and his 9th Calvary unit were in California for an encampment at the Presidio.[5]

On 15 May 1905 Mack Senor re-enlisted in the army at Kansas City, Kansas.[6] He was assigned to a 10th Cavalry detachment, company B. In March 1908 Mack did another tour of duty at Camp Wallace, Philippine Islands with the 10th Calvary. After returning to the United States Mack Senar was discharged at Fort McDowell, Angel Island, California on 14 May 1908.[7]

Mack re-enlisted on 29 May 1908 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He returned to the 9th Calvary and was stationed in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. On 9 November 1909 Mack was at Fort Russell in Wyoming where he was discharged.[8] He re-enlisted on 24 November 1909 at Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas.

From July 1911 to July 1912 Mack was assigned to the Mounted Services School Detachment, at Fort Riley.[9] On 29 July 1913 Private Mack Senor received Special Orders transferring him to the Army Service Schools Detachment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for duty. The orders also stated:

“The expenses of the transfer will be borne by the soldier and transportation will not be furnished to him.”

Special Order, No. 175, 2062027 A. G. O. (United States, War Department, 1913). Internet Archive.

Mack Senor’s World War I service card indicates that he remained with the 10th Calvary at Fort Leavenworth until about 1919.[10]

Mack Senor, Alabama World War I Service Record

A news article in the El Paso (Texas) Herald, dated 3 January 1921, notes that Pvt. Mack Senor, 10th Cavalry, on special duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, has been reassigned to Fort Huachuca, Arizona.[11]

The El Paso (Texas) Herald, 3 January 1921

The 1925 Kansas State Census enumerated Mack Senor as a soldier in the U.S. Army at Fort Riley, Kansas.[12]

Mack Senor retired from active service on 12 June 1926 at the rank of Sergeant, Headquarters and Service Troop, 9th Cavalry.[13] During his twenty-seven career with the U.S. Army, Mack Senar/Senor did a great deal of traveling in the service of his country.

Sources

"U.S., Spanish American War Volunteers Index to Compiled Military Service Records, 1898," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2400/images/32803_261708-00335 : accessed 29 Nov 2013) > Sel-Sha > images 332-333 of 1955, entry for Mack Senar, Co. G, 3 Alabama Infantry (Colored.) (Spanish War.), Private; citing "General Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the War with Spain. Microfilm publication M871...NAID: 654543. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917, Record Group 94. The National Archives in Washington, D.C."

Mack Senar, 1899; Register of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914; Record Group 94, M233; digital images, "U.S., Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914," Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 Nov 2013) 1899 > L-Z > Image 396 of 592.

1900 U.S. census, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, population schedule (Military and Naval Population), Fort Grant, enumeration district (ED) 88, sheet 1A, line 87, Mack Senor; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6P9S-69W : accessed 11 July 2023) 4113685 > image 7 of 16; citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 47.  

“U.S., Buffalo Soldiers, Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1866-1916,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 January 2021) > United States Ninth Cavalry ,entries for Mack Senor, 1901-1904; citing “Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1833-1916; NARA microfilm publication M744, 16 rolls; NAID: 300381; Records of U.S. Regular Army Mobile Units, 1821-1942, Record Group Number 391; The National Archives at Washington, D.C.”

Ibid.

“U.S., Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914”  database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 November 2013), entries for Mack Senor; citing “Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls; NAID: 1184717, 575272 and 1223563; Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; The National Archives in Washington, D.C.”

“U.S., Buffalo Soldiers, Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1866-1916,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 January 2021) > Ninth Cavalry, entries for Mack Senor, 1905-1909; citing “Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1833-1916; NARA microfilm publication M744, 16 rolls; NAID: 300381; Records of U.S. Regular Army Mobile Units, 1821-1942, Record Group Number 391; The National Archives at Washington, D.C.”

Ibid.

“U.S., Returns from Military Posts, 1806-1916,” database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 January 2021) > Kansas > Riley, Ft. Mounted Service School, entries for Mack Senor 1909-1917; citing “Returns From U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916; Microfilm Publication M617, 1550 rolls; NAID: 561324; Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984, Record Group 94; The National Archives in Washington, D.C.”

"Alabama World War I Service Records," database with images, Alabama Department of Archives and History (http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17217coll3 : accessed 22 May 2020), entry for Mack Senor, service no 1008.161; citing Military Service, Ft Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas. 

“Enlisted Men Returned To Their Old Organizations,” El Paso (Texas) Herald, 3 January 1921, p. 8 , col. 3; digital image from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspaper site (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1921-01-03/ed-1/seq-8/ : accessed 10 September 2022).

1925 State Census, Geary County, Kansas, population schedule, Fort Riley, p. 3, line 2, Mack Senor; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS7R-QSHT-G : accessed 29 Nov 2013) 102009868 > image 292 of 621.

"U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963," digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2375/images/40050_2421402106_0395-01153 : accessed 19 Feb 2017); > 1941-1949 > Seiberlich, Joseph J-Sharpe, Herbert W > images1154-1155, Mack Senor: citing “Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941. Microfilm publication M1916, 134 rolls. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92. National Archives at Washington, D.C.”

[stillthelaw]

Counties Must Have An Orphan Farm

 Shortly after World War One, the state legislature saw the need for each county to develop a comprehensive plan to respond to the crisis of orphaned & neglected children.

  This was in  a time when social welfare was seen as a county issue, rather than a state matter.

§10-131.  Powers of county commissioners - Commitment of children to other institutions, associations or corporations.

  The county commissioners of any county of this state having a population of not less than seventy-five thousand (75,000) persons, according to the last Decennial Federal Census, or any Decennial Federal Census hereafter taken, are hereby authorized and empowered, if they deem it necessary or expedient, to purchase a farm and to construct, establish, equip and maintain thereon, at the expense of the county, county supervised schools and homes for neglected and dependent boys and girls of such county, under the age of sixteen (16) years, who may be appointed to such schools by the district court of such county, and to make enlargements and additions thereto from time to time.  Such commissioners shall also have power to purchase farm equipment to be used in connection with such schools, to purchase materials, supplies and equipment for manual, vocational or other training or education, and to erect, enlarge, remodel, and repair such building, dormitories, residences, administration and school buildings, and barns and outbuildings as they may from time to time deem necessary or expedient.

  Provided, that such county commissioners may rent a suitable site and buildings for such purpose, and purchase the necessary equipment and supplies therefor.  Provided, further, that said county commissioners shall make no expenditures or contract for expenditures hereunder until a tax levy for such purposes shall have been made as hereinafter provided; and provided, further, that the district court of such county, may, in his discretion, commit dependent and neglected children to such other institutions as may be now or hereafter provided by law for such purposes, or to the care of some association or corporation willing to receive them, which said corporation or association embraces in its objects the purpose of caring for and obtaining homes for such neglected and dependent children. Laws 1919, c. 297, p. 433, § 1; Laws 1925, c. 161, p. 257, § 1; Laws 1967, c. 367, § 1, emerg. eff. May 22, 1967.

[lboogie1906]

Margaret Murray Washington (March 9, 1865 - June 4, 1925) was an educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which became Tuskegee University. She was the third wife of Booker T. Washington. She was inducted into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame in 1972.

She was born in Macon, Mississippi. Her tombstone says she was born in 1865, the 1870 census lists her birth year as 1861.

She was hired as Lady Principal of Tuskegee Institute. She was responsible for supervising women students and supporting women on the faculty. She established the women’s division curriculum for the lower and post-graduate divisions in sewing, laundering, millinery, soap-making, table-setting, cooking, and broom-making.

She created the Tuskegee Woman’s Club. She and other southern social reformers in Tuskegee sought to rehabilitate this community through the strengthening of family structures. Implementing Tuskegee’s “Bath, Broom, and Bible” program, she centered her social-uplift theory around improving motherhood and wifehood.

The Tuskegee Woman’s Club merged local organizations with women’s clubs to help improve the values and liberation of womanhood in African-American women of the Jim Crow South. She gave an influential speech titled “Individual Work for Moral Elevation” at the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America and was elected President of the newly established National Federation of Afro-American Women. She is credited with co-founding the National Association of Colored Women. She founded country schools, taught women how to live and attend to their homes, worked for the improvement of prisons, started the Mt. Meigs School for boys and an industrial school for girls, and worked for the betterment of the poor and neglected. She became the fifth president of the NACW.

She worked to improve the educational system for African Americans.

She became involved in interracial cooperation and participated in the path-breaking Memphis Women’s Inter-Racial Conference. She appears as a character in Self-Made. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta #womenhistorymonth

[jmtorres]

from wikipedia

By the mid-1880s, other electric companies were establishing central power stations and distributing electricity, including Crompton & Co. and the Swan Electric Light Company in the UK, Thomson-Houston Electric Company and Westinghouse in the US and Siemens in Germany. By 1890 there were 1000 central stations in operation.[10] The 1902 census listed 3,620 central stations. By 1925 half of power was provided by central stations.[21]

perhaps you were thinking of the 1810s

[fashinistagirlblogs3]

WHY NEW YORK CITY?

I want to use the cultural side of New York City as there is over 1,000 cultural organisations recent studies say. The largest ethnic groups as of 2023 census estimates are: Dominicans African Americans, African or Caribbean, Puerto Ricans, Italians, West Indians, Dominicans, Chinese, Irish, Russian and Germany. I want to include different aspects of each of these as I want to be diverse and show off the amazing cultures etc.

I want to use the Architectural side of NYC too as this is something that amazed me when I recently went in February 2023. I walked around lots of famous architecture such as the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Flat iron Building, Woolworth building, radio city music hall and many more. I can do a lot with this and I feel like this will be such an experimental process and I think that I will be using a lot of this.

I want to use the show stopping side of NYC such as broadway shows, Music itself, big events and movies that were filmed here. I think this is definitely something that is going to make my final FMP idea really stand out as I want it to be very out there and interesting to look at. I want to definitely look into the great gatsby, which is a 1925 novel by American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the jazz age on Long Island near New York City. I feel like this is something that would work really well as it has that vintage aspect and I know that I can do a lot with it. The are many more movies also set here which will be really good when it comes to designing my final garment.