The University of Manitoba Press: “Reporting the Resistance Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance, edited and annotated with an introduction by J.M. Bumsted
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Descendants of Johannes WERT and Dorothea HARTMAN of Germany and Mohawk Valley NY
Hargrave Map
Map of general movements of Joseph Hargrave’s descendants
Murray Lighting Company
The E.W. Murray Lighting Company (1916-1929) in the Morgon Block, Spokane, Washington.
… Sept 9th 1917, of gasoline lamps, lanterns, mantles, electric lamps, flashlights, etc. E. W. Murray Lighting Co. 307 Riverside Ave. Spokane, WA, [delivery] to points in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. 1366 lamps and lanterns, 42,000 mantles … electric bulbs, etc. – 7 truck loads – Some lamps, Eh? Is your name written there?
William Hargrave Gravesite
The grave of William Hargrave (1844-1940), Los Angeles National Cemetery,
Section 72, Row 1, Infantry, Upright Section.
William Hargrave was born in Beech Ridge Quebec, south of Montreal in 1844. He moved with his father Andrew and Mother Margaret Lawson to Illinois in 1855. He worked on their farm until the fall of 1864, when he enlisted in the Union Army served in Company F of the 141st Illinois Infantry until discharged in 1865. He was as a coal miner in Kentucky and Illinois and worked in the gold mines of Colorado until cripled by a fall in a mine shaft. He went to New Mexico in 1883, where he was involved in sheep ranching. He retired to San Diego, California in 1889. He later entered the National Military Home at Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California where he lived until his death in 1940.