The home of my great great grandfather Alva Levi Fitch in 1903 (Photo by Solomon D. Butcher). Alva and his second wife (my step gg grandmother) Alice are on the left. The two in the middle are probably their children and the two on the right, children from Alva’s first marriage (research ongoing). Alva Levi …
Author Archives: Kermit Murray
Horace Titus Brown Obituary
Saturday Morning, June 21 1900 Horace T. Brown Is Dead Veteran Newspaper Man Has. Passed Away Died at His Home In This City Last Evening — He Started the Butte Miner and Has Been Connected Northwestern Newspapers for Nearly a Quarter of a Century. H. T. Brown the veteran newspaper man died at 11:25 p. …
W. T. Fitch
William Tecumseh Fitch was born in Trumbull County Ohio in 1866 and died in Oakland, California in 1932. His sister Jennie was my great grandmother and his father was Alva Levi Fitch (my great great grandfather) a Civil War veteran who served in the 14th Ohio Battery of light artillery in the Army of the …
Henry Cornelius Hopper Ancestors
Michiel Jansen Vreeland is in the white outer band at the 11 o’clock position.
Michiel Jansen Vreeland
The founder of the Vreeland family in the vicinity of Paterson was Michiel Jansen (Michiel, son of John) Van Broeckhuysen, who sailed from Holland, Oct. 1, 1636, on the same vessel as Jacob Van Hoorn and Simon Van de Bilt. He was accompanied by his wife and two children. Michiel came to America as a …
History of St. Lawrence County, New York
Our County and its people: a memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York (1894) p. 256 Hargrave, John and Richard, twin brothers, Waddington, were born September 15, 1848. Their father was Ruther, son of Ruther Hargrave, who was born in Scotland and came to Canada in 1818, where he lived until his death in …