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| 401 | From Wikipedia he: was the Duke of Lorraine from 910 until his death. He stands at the head of the clan of Reginarids, an important Lotharingian noble family. He succeeded his father in the Maasgau and was the lay abbot of Echternach between 897 and 915, of Maastricht from before May 898, and of Stablo and Malmedy between 900 and 902. He was the Count of Mons when in 870 he and Franco, Bishop of Liège, led an army against the Vikings in Walacria. He, as Duke of Hesbaye and Hainault, and Radbold led a Frisian army with against the forces of Rollo a little later, but were forced back to his fortresses. In an 877 capitulary from Quierzy, he appears alongside his father as one of the regents of the kingdom during Charles the Bald's absence on campaign in Italy. A Reginar appears at the Siege of Paris in 886, but this may be an uncle or nephew. The name "Reginar" or "Reginhar" (French: Régnier or Rainier) was commonplace in his family. | -, Reginar I Longneck Duke of Lorraine (I3110)
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| 402 | From Wikipedia, "Defeated a Viking fleet and army at Sandwich in 851 and died by 855. Did not rule." | -, Æthelstan (I2861)
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| 403 | From Wikipedia, "Married 858, Judith of Flanders, his father's widow and teenage stepmother; deemed incestuous by the church, the marriage was annulled in 860, with no issue. Ruled 856–860." | -, Æthelbald King of Wessex (I2864)
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| 404 | From Wikipedia, "Oslac, King Æthelwulf's pincerna (butler), an important figure in the royal court and household. Oslac is described as a descendant of King Cerdic's Jutish nephews, Stuf and Wihtgar, who conquered the Isle of Wight." According to "Ancestrial Roots", he was the royal cup-bearer. | -, Oslac (I2859)
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| 405 | From Wikipedia, "She is best known for Asser's story (Asser was a 9th Century monk) about a book of Saxon songs which she showed to Alfred and his brothers, offering to give the book to whoever could first memorize it, a challenge which Alfred took up and won. This exhibits the interest of high status ninth-century women in books, and their role in educating their children." | -, Osburga (Osburh) (I2858)
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| 406 | From Wikipedia, he was: one of the first Babenbergs, was the most important East Frankish general during the reign of Charles the Fat. He was variously titled Count or Margrave of Saxony and Duke of Franconia. Henry was the ancestral lord of a castle, Babenberg, on the River Main, around which the later city of Bamberg was built. He enjoyed the favour of Charles the Fat and was his right-hand man in Germany during his reign. He led a surprise strike on a force of Vikings prior to the Siege of Asselt, but it was unsuccessful. When, in 885, Charles summoned Hugh, Duke of Alsace, and Godfrey, Duke of Frisia, to a court at Lobith, it was Henry who arrested them and had Godfrey executed and Hugh imprisoned on Charles' orders. In 884, when Charles succeeded to the throne of West Francia, he sent Henry there to hold the March of Neustria against the Vikings. In 886, he was sent to aid the besieged of Paris. He did not stay long but returned later that year with Charles. However, he died in a skirmish with the Vikings while en route. | -, Henry of Franconia (I3209)
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| 407 | From Wikipedia, He: was a vassal of Charles the Bald. He was count of Maasgau on the lower Meuse. Gilbert's background is not known. The similarity of his son's name to the name "Ragnar" has been used as an argument to suggest a Viking connection.[1] Another possibility is that he was related to a man named Reginar, son of Meginhere (a nobleman from the court of Charlemagne). Gilbert had served King Lothair I, but defected to Lothair's half-brother Charles the Bald during the civil war of 840-843. Gilbert's lands eventually came under the rule of Lothair and his rights as count were revoked. In 846 Gilbert abducted an unnamed daughter of Lothair and his wife Ermengarde of Tours. He took her to Aquitaine and married her in an attempt to force Lothair to reinstate him.[2] Rösch suggests that Gilbert's wife was named Ermengarde, but there is no conclusive evidence that this is correct. | -, Gilbert Count of the Maasgau (I3114)
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| 408 | From Wikipedia, he: was the Frankish Duke of Friuli from 846. He was an important political, military, and cultural figure in the Carolingian Empire during his lifetime. He kept a large library, commissioned works of Latin literature from Lupus Servatus and Sedulius Scottus, and maintained a correspondence with the noted theologians and church leaders Gottschalk, Rabanus Maurus, and Hincmar. He inherited the title of Duke of Friuli from his father Unruoch II. His mother was Engeltrude, possibly a daughter of Beggo of Paris and Alpais. | -, Saint Eberhard Duke of Friuli (I3147)
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| 409 | From Wikipedia: Edward Albert Pollard (1828–1872), American journalist, was born in Nelson County, Virginia, on 27 February 1828. He graduated at the University of Virginia in 1849, studied law at the College of William and Mary, and in Baltimore (where he was admitted to the bar), and was engaged in newspaper work in California until 1855. During 1857 to 1861 he was clerk of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives. By 1859 he had become an outspoken secessionist, and during the Civil War he was one of the principal editors of the Richmond Examiner, which supported the Confederacy but was hostile to President Jefferson Davis. In 1864 Pollard sailed for England, but the vessel on which he sailed was captured as a blockade runner, and he was confined in Fort Warren in Boston Harbor from 29 May until 12 August, when he was paroled. In December he was placed in close confinement at Fort Monroe by order of the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, but was soon again paroled by General B. F. Butler, and in January proceeded to Richmond, Virginia to be exchanged there for Albert D. Richardson (1833–1869), a well-known correspondent of the New York Tribune, who, however, had escaped before Pollard arrived. During 1867 to 1869 Pollard edited a weekly paper at Richmond, and he conducted the Political Pamphlet there during the presidential campaign of 1868. | Pollard, Edward Albert (I1046)
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| 410 | From Wikipedia: At the death of Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, in 936, Hugh was in possession of nearly all the region between the Loire and the Seine, corresponding to the ancient Neustria, with the exception of the territory ceded to the Normans in 911. He took a very active part in bringing Louis IV (d'Outremer) from the Kingdom of England in 936, but in the same year Hugh married Hedwige of Saxony, a daughter of Henry the Fowler of Germany and Matilda of Ringelheim, and soon quarrelled with Louis. Hugh even paid homage to the Emperor Otto the Great, and supported him in his struggle against Louis. When Louis fell into the hands of the Normans in 945, he was handed over to Hugh, who released him in 946 only on condition that he should surrender the fortress of Laon. At the council of Ingelheim (948) Hugh was condemned, under pain of excommunication, to make reparation to Louis. It was not, however, until 950 that the powerful vassal became reconciled with his suzerain and restored Laon. But new difficulties arose, and peace was not finally concluded until 953. | -, Hugh Magnus Count of Paris (I3182)
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| 411 | From Wikipedia: Crínán of Dunkeld was the lay abbot of the diocese of Dunkeld, and perhaps the Mormaer of Atholl. Crínán was progenitor of the House of Dunkeld, the dynasty which would rule Scotland until the later 13th century. Crinán was married to Bethoc, daughter of King Malcolm II of Scotland (reigned 1005–1034). As Malcolm II had no son, the strongest hereditary claim to the Scottish throne descended through Bethóc, and Crinán's eldest son Donnchad I (reigned 1034–1040), became King of Scots. Some sources indicate that Malcolm II designated Duncan as his successor under the rules of tanistry because there were other possible claimants to the throne. Crinán's second son, Maldred of Allerdale, held the title of Lord of Cumbria. It is said that from him, the Earls of Dunbar, for example Patrick Dunbar, 9th Earl of Dunbar, descend in unbroken male line. Crinán was killed in battle in 1045 at Dunkeld. Sir Iain Moncreiffe argued he belonged to a Scottish sept of the Irish Cenél Conaill royal dynasty. The monastery of Saint Columba was founded on the north bank of the River Tay in the 6th century or early 7th century following the expedition of Columba into the land of the Picts. Probably originally constructed as a simple group of wattle huts, the monastery - or at least its church - was rebuilt in the 9th century by Kenneth I of Scotland (reigned 843–858). Caustantín of the Picts brought Scotland's share of the relics of Columba from Iona to Dunkeld at the same time others were taken to Kells in Ireland, to protect them from Viking raids. Dunkeld became the prime bishopric in eastern Scotland until supplanted in importance by St Andrews since the 10th century. While the title of Hereditary Lay Abbot was a feudal position that was often exercised in name only, Crinán does seem to have acted as Abbot in charge of the monastery in his time. He was thus a man of high position in both clerical and secular society. | -, Crínán of Dunkeld (I2676)
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| 412 | From Wikipedia: Freawine, Frowin or Frowinus figures as a governor of Schleswig in Gesta Danorum and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an ancestor of the kings of Wessex, but the latter source only tells that he was the son of Frithugar and the father of Wig. In the Gesta Danorum, Frowin was the father-in-law of Offa of Angel (presented as a prince and later king of Denmark), whose father king Wermund liked both Frowin and his sons Ket and Wig. Frowin was challenged to combat by the Swedish king Athisl, and killed. He would later be avenged by his two sons Ket and Wig. However, the two sons fought against Athisl two against one, a national disgrace that was redeemed by their brother-in-law Offa, when he killed two Saxons at the same time, in "single combat". This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Myrgings. | -, Freawine (I2983)
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| 413 | From Wikipedia: Gisela was renowned her piety and virtue, much like her namesake (Gisela), the beloved sister of Charlemagne, who had chosen the religious life from girlhood. Her dowry consisted of many rich domains including the fisc of Cysoing; located at the center of the country of Pèvele, Cysoing was one of the most beautiful fiscs in the region and became one of her and Evrard's regular residences. They founded a monastery there, which was not completed until after their deaths. The nunnery San Salvatore was given to her after Ermengarde, wife of Lothair I. For a time she served as both abbess and rectrix. Also, she presented to the Church the mosaics which still exist in the cathedral at Aquileia. They contain (what is most remarkable for that time) a Crucifixion, the Virgin, St. George, the portrait of Gisela, and various allegorical figures. She dedicated herself to the education of her and Evrard's many children. | -, Gisela (I3146)
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| 414 | From Wikipedia: He was born in Brabant as the son of Reginar II, Count of Hainaut. Together with his brother Rodolphe, he took part in the rebellion of his uncle Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. When Gilbert was killed in 939, Regnier had to pledge fealty to King Otto the Great. He then allied himself with King Louis IV of France, but King Otto sent duke Hermann of Swabia to quell the rebels in 944. Otto appointed Conrad the Red as duke of Lotharingia, who tried to diminish the power of Reginar. However, when Conrad rose against Otto, Reginar supported him. In an anarchic situation, Reginar appropriated the dowry of Queen Gerberge, Otto's sister and mother of the French king, and also church property. In 953, Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne, who had also been appointed duke of Lotharingia, restored order and defeated Reginar. As Reginar refused to submit, he was exiled to Bohemia, where he died. | -, Reginar III, Count of Hainaut (I3086)
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| 415 | From Wikipedia: Her father used her as security for a truce with Hugh Capet, whom she married in 970. In 987, after the death of Louis V, the last Carolingian king of France, Hugh was elected the new king with Adelaide as queen. They were proclaimed at Noyon and blessed at Reims. They were the founders of the Capetian dynasty of France. | -, Adelaide of Aquitaine Queen consort of France (I3117)
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| 416 | From Wikipedia: His father was Count of Hainaut until 958, but fell in disgrace with Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and lost his County to Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine. He received the County of Mons in 973 but was replaced with Godfrey I, Count of Verdun in 974. He replaced Godfrey as Count of Mons in 998. | -, Regnier IV, Count of Hainaut (I3080)
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| 417 | From Wikipedia: John Howland (c. 1591 – February 23, 1672/3) was a passenger on the Mayflower. He was an indentured servant and in later years, the executive assistant and personal secretary to Governor John Carver and accompanied the Separatists and other passengers when they left England to settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He signed the Mayflower Compact and helped found Plymouth Colony. He signed the Mayflower Compact which is considered the first written constitution for a representative government 'of the people, by the people, for the people'. After the passengers came ashore John Howland became assistant to the governor over the new independent state created under the compact. The act of Governor Carver in making a treaty with the great Indian Sachem Massosoit was an exercise of sovereign power and John Howland was the assistant." John Carver, the first governor of the Plymouth Colony, died in April 1621. In 1626, Howland was a freeman and one of eight settlers who agreed to assume the colony's debt to its investors in England in exchange for a monopoly of the fur trade. He was elected deputy to the General Court in consecutive years from 1641–1655 and again in 1658. English Origins John Howland was born in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England 1602. He was the son of Margaret and Henry Howland, and the brother of Henry and Arthur Howland, who emigrated later from England to Marshfield, Massachusetts. Although Henry and Arthur Howland were Quakers, John himself held to the original faith of the Puritans. Speedwell and Mayflower William Bradford, who was the governor of Plymouth Colony for many years, wrote in Of Plymouth Plantation, that Howland was a man-servant of John Carver. Carver was the deacon of the Separatists church while the group resided in Leiden, Netherlands. At the time the Leiden congregation left the Netherlands, on the Speedwell, Carver was in England securing investments, gathering other potential passengers, and chartering the Mayflower for the journey to North America. John Howland may have accompanied Carver's household from Leiden when the Speedwell left Delfshaven for Southampton, England, July, 1620. Ansel Ames in Mayflower and Her Log, said that Howland was probably kin of Carver's and that he was more likely a steward or a secretary than a servant. The Separatists planned to travel to the New World, on the Speedwell and the Mayflower. The Speedwell proved to be unseaworthy and thus most of the passengers crowded onto the Mayflower. In order to finance the voyage to the New World, the Separatists had investors in England. They also had accepted non-separatists to join them on the journey. These passengers, whom the Separatists referred to as "strangers", made up half of those on the Mayflower.[citation needed] The Voyage The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter. During the voyage there was a turbulent storm during which John Howland fell overboard. He managed to grab a topsail halyard that was trailing in the water and was hauled back aboard safely. There is a painting depicting this called "Howland Overboard" by maritime artist Mike Hayward. On November 9/19, 1620, after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. And after several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower Compact was signed. John Howland was the thirteenth of the 41 "principal" men to sign. In Plymouth Colony The first winter in North America proved deadly for the Pilgrims as half their number perished. The Carver family with whom John lived, survived the winter of 1620-21. However, the following spring, on an unusually hot day in April, Governor Carver, according to William Bradford, came out of his cornfield feeling ill. He passed into a coma and "never spake more". His wife, Kathrine, died soon after her husband. The Carvers' only children died while they lived in Leiden and it is possible that Howland inherited their estate. In 1621, after Carver's death, Howland became a freeman. In 1624 he was considered the head of what was once the Carver household when he was granted an acre for each member of the household including himself, Elizabeth Tilley, Desire Minter, and a boy named William Latham. In the several years after becoming a freeman, he served at various times as selectman, assistant and deputy governor, surveyor of highways, and as member of the fur committee. In 1626, he was asked to participate in assuming the colony's debt to its investors to enable the colony to pursue its own goals without the pressure to remit profits back to England. The "undertakers" paid the investors £1,800 to relinquish their claims on the land, and £2,400 for other debt. In return the group acquired a monopoly on the colony's fur trade for six years. Howland accompanied Edward Winslow in the exploration of Kennebec River (in current day Maine), looking for possible fur trading sites and natural resources that the colony could exploit. He also led a team of men that built and operated a fur trading post there. While Howland was in charge of the colony's northerly trading post, an incident occurred there that Bradford described as "one of the saddest things that befell them." A group of traders from Piscataqua (present day Portsmouth, New Hampshire) led by a man named John Hocking, encroached on the trading ground granted to Plymouth by a patent, by sailing their bark up the river beyond their post. Howland warned Hocking to depart, but Hocking, brandishing a pistol and using foul language, refused. Howland ordered his men to approach the bark in a canoe and cut its cables setting it adrift. The Plymouth men managed to cut one cable when Hocking put his pistol to the head of Moses Talbot, one of Howland's men, and shot and killed him. Another of the Howland group shot Hocking to death in response. In Plymouth the Howlands lived on the north side of Leyden Street. They lived for a short time in Duxbury and then moved to Kingston where they had a farm on a piece of land referred to as Rocky Nook. The farm burned down in 1675 during King Philip's War. By that time, John had died and Elizabeth moved in with her son, Jabez. Before moving to Rhode Island, Jabez Howland owned a home in Plymouth at 33 Sandwich Street. The house was built by Jacob Mitchell about 1667 and was sold to Jabez Howland. John and Elizabeth had wintered in the house, and Elizabeth lived there from 1675, when the Rocky Nook farm was burned down, until Jabez sold it in 1680. It is the only house standing in Plymouth in which Mayflower passengers lived. John Howland died February 23, 1672/3 at the age of 80, having outlived all other male Mayflower passengers except John Cooke, son of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke (John Cooke died in 1695). He is presumed to be buried on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. | Howland, John (I3884)
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| 418 | From Wikipedia: Joseph Irwin France (October 11, 1873 – January 26, 1939) was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1917-1923. Early life France was born in Cameron, Missouri and attended the common schools in the area and the Canandaigua Academy in Canandaigua, New York. In 1895, he graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he was a brother of Theta Delta Chi. He also attended the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany and finally, in 1897, graduated from the medical department of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. France began to teach natural science at the Jacob Tome Institute of Port Deposit, Maryland in 1897, but resigned later to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland. He commenced the practice of medicine in Baltimore after graduation in 1903. Career France was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1906, serving until 1908. He left the Senate in 1908 to engage in the field of finance. He served as the secretary to the medical and surgical faculty of Maryland from 1916-1917. After a short time out of politics, France re-entered the political arena in 1916 and was elected to the United States Senate. During the 65th Congress, he served in the Senate as the chairman of the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine. France attempted to introduce an amendment to the Sedition Act of 1918 that would have ensured limited free speech protections, but the amendment was defeated, and France would remark that the legislation was criminal, repressive, and characteristic of the Dark Ages. France warned in March 1920 that "Republican liberals" would split off the Republican Party to form the "Anti-Prohibition Party". France introduced a joint resolution in the same month asking that dissenters imprisoned during World War I be pardoned. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1922, losing his seat to Democratic rival William Cabell Bruce. Following his defeat, France became President of the Republic International Corporation and also resumed the practice of medicine in Port Deposit. France also joined the Freemasons during this time. France opposed Herbert Hoover in Republican primaries during the Presidential campaign of 1932. He was giving a speech at the Republican Convention in Chicago when the microphone malfunctioned, leaving France continuing his speech while the sound system was repaired. Although he won some contests, few delegates were selected in the primaries and France was heavily defeated at the convention. When Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough announced his retirement from the Senate in 1934, France attempted to win his seat. He was unsuccessful in the election of 1934, losing to Democratic rival George L. P. Radcliffe. He died in Port Deposit five years later, and is buried in Hopewell Cemetery, near the city. Relations with Russia France was the first U.S. Senator to visit Russia after the Russian Revolution, and consistently advocated cordial relations with the Soviet Union. In 1921 after having been sent to Russia to study economic conditions there, he met with Russian officials, including Lenin, to assist in the release of Marguerite Harrison, an American journalist and convicted spy. Lenin wrote in a letter to Georgy Chicherin: I have just finished a conference with Senator France....He told me how he came out for Soviet Russia at large public meetings together with Comrade Martens [an unofficial Soviet representative in the United States]. He is what they call a "liberal", for an alliance of the United States plus Russia, plus Germany, in order to save the world from Japan, England, and so on, and so on. The letter went on to relate that Marguerite Harrison was the sister-in-law of the Governor of Maryland and that Senator France's re-election was put in jeopardy by her incarceration. France attracted controversy in the United States by accusing Colonel Edward W. Ryan of the American Red Cross of fomenting the Kronstadt rebellion. Civil rights France spoke at a 1920 meeting of the NAACP to support the enactment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. France fought against voter disenfranchisement, and proposed an amendment to a railroad bill so that black train passengers paying a first-class fare could get first-class accommodations. | France, Joseph Irwin (I1715)
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| 419 | From Wikipedia: Ket and Wig appear in the Gesta Danorum as the sons of Frowin, the governor of Schleswig. Wig also appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the son of Freawine (Frowin) and father of Gewis, eponymous ancestor of the kingdom of Wessex and their kings, but this is thought to be a late manipulation, inserting these heroes into a pedigree borrowed from a rival royal house, in which the Bernician eponym Bernic was replaced by the Wessex Gewis. Their father Frowin/Freawine was challenged to combat by the Swedish king Athisl, and killed. King Wermund, who liked their father, subsequently raised Ket and Wig as his own. They later avenged their father, but they fought against Athisl two against one, a national disgrace that was redeemed by their brother-in-law, King Wermund's son Offa, when he killed two Saxons at the same time, in "single combat". This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Myrgings. | -, Wig (I2982)
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| 420 | From Wikipedia: Richard the Justiciar (died 921) was Count of Autun from 880 and the first Margrave and Duke of Burgundy. He eventually attained suzerainty over all the counties of Burgundy save Mâcon and by 890 he was referred to as dux (duke) and by 900 as marchio (margrave). By 918 he was being called dux Burgundionem or dux Burgundiae, which probably signified less the existence of a unified Burgundian dukedom than feudal suzerainty over a multiplicity of counties in a specific region. | -, Richard the Justiciar Duke of Burgundy (I3093)
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| 421 | From Wikipedia: She was married to Charlemagne, king of the Franks, in 770, probably to form a bond between the otherwise enemy states of Francia and Lombardy. The marriage was annulled in 771 and this hurt relations with Lombardy, presaging the war of 774. She had no children and her ultimate fate is unknown. | -, Desiderata of the Lombards (I3157)
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| 422 | From Wikipedia: was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800. This temporarily made him a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. He is numbered as Charles I in the regnal lists of Germany (where he is known as Karl der Große), the Holy Roman Empire, and France. The son of King Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, a Frankish queen, he succeeded his father in 768 and co-ruled with his brother Carloman I. The latter got on badly with Charlemagne, but war was prevented by the sudden death of Carloman in 771. Charlemagne continued the policy of his father towards the papacy and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in Italy, and leading an incursion into Muslim Spain, to which he was invited by the Muslim governor of Barcelona. Charlemagne was promised several Iberian cities in return for giving military aid to the governor; however, the deal was withdrawn. Subsequently, Charlemagne's retreating army experienced its worst defeat at the hands of the Basques, at the Battle of Roncesvalles (778) (memorialised, although heavily fictionalised, in the Song of Roland). He also campaigned against the peoples to his east, especially the Saxons, and after a protracted war subjected them to his rule. By forcibly Christianizing the Saxons and banning on penalty of death their native Germanic paganism, he integrated them into his realm and thus paved the way for the later Ottonian dynasty. Today he is regarded not only as the founding father of both French and German monarchies, but also as a Pater Europae (father of Europe): his empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Romans, and the Carolingian renaissance encouraged the formation of a common European identity. | -, Charlemagne King of the Franks, Emperor of the Romans (I3153)
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| 423 | From Wikipedia: "In 783, Fastrada, along with other Saxon women, entered barebreasted into battle against Charlemagne's forces." | -, Fastrada (I3166)
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| 424 | From Wilipedia: John Tilley (c.1571- winter of 1620/21) and his family were passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact, and died with his wife in the first Pilgrim winter in the New World. Both he and his brother Edward signed the Mayflower Compact. John Tilley was baptized on December 19, 1571 at Henlow, co. Bedford, England. He was the eldest child of Robert Tilley and his wife Elizabeth. John had a younger brother, Edward, who also came on the Mayflower with his wife. Both John Tilley, his brother Edward and their wives all perished that first winter in the New World. There are few records of John Tilley’s life in England. His name appears in the will of George Clarke of Henlow, dated September 22, 1607 which notes that Thomas Kirke, then residing with Tilley, owed money to him. There is a record of a John Tilley, yeoman, residing at Wooton, Bedfordshire, who made a disposition on April 7, 1613 with his age stated as 40 years, which would probably make him the Mayflower passenger of that name. There is little information about the lives of John Tilley and his wife Joan. John Tilley was documented as a member of the Leiden Separatist congregation as well as his brother Edward. Edward’s ward Henry Samson may also have been a member. On the Mayflower and in the New World Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899 Per William Bradford’s later recollection of this family on the Mayflower: “John Tillie, and his wife; and Elizabeth, their daughter.” The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship‘s timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter. On November 9/19, 1620, after about 3 months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day. John Tilley was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact. In the New World Both John Tilley and his brother Edward were involved in the early exploring expeditions of the Cape Cod area in November and December 1620, with both suffering the effects of being ill-clad and wet in freezing temperatures. Edward, and it may be that John also died from the effects of the exploration weather. One such extensive exploration in which the John and Edward Tilley are named as having taken part began on Wednesday, December 6, 1620 in freezing weather using the ship’s shallop – a light, shallow-water boat with oars and sails navigated by two pilots and crewed by a master gunner and two sailors. The Pilgrims on board for this expedition, in addition to John Tilley and his brother Edward, were John Howland, Stephen Hopkins and his servant Edward Doty. Senior members on the expedition included John Carver, William Bradford, militia captain Myles Standish and Edward Winslow. The number of persons on this exploration was less than half of a prior expedition due to many having been felled by illness, the English facing freezing weather wearing unsuitable clothing due to not planning for the severity of the New England winter. As recorded – “..very cold and hard weather..in which time two were sick.. the gunner also sick unto death..” This exploration would not turn out well for the English in their first encounter with Indians as they found that slow-firing muskets were no match for rapid-fire arrows. This Indian challenge to the Pilgrims was later known as the First Encounter. John Tilley and his wife Joan both died the first winter as did his brother Edward Tilley and wife Ann. The only Tilley surviving from the Mayflower was John’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. Death, burial and memorial of John Tilley and wife Joan This family in the later recollection of William Bradford: “John Tillie and his wife both dyed a little after they came ashore; and their daughter Elizabeth married with John Howland, and had issue as is before noted.” John Tilley and his wife Joan died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621, possibly after coming ashore, per Bradford, to the new Plymouth settlement. They were buried in Coles Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth, most likely in unmarked graves as with so many who died in that first winter. Their names, along with many others who died that winter, are memorialized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb on Coles Hill as “John Tilley and his wife.” | Tilley, John (I3910)
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| 425 | From Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Obituary: CAPT. JOSEPH SCHOLTZ died suddenly at Hamilton, Bermuda, on February 21st, aged 71. He was born at Curaçao, and was one of the oldest members of the Hamilton C.C. | Scholtz, Joseph (I1577)
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| 426 | Fron Wikipedia: Ine was King of Wessex from 688 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had brought much of southern England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory substantially. By the end of Ine's reign the kingdoms of Kent, Sussex and Essex were no longer under West Saxon domination; however, Ine maintained control of what is now Hampshire, and consolidated and extended Wessex's territory in the western peninsula. | -, Ine of Wessex King of Wessex (I2877)
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| 427 | Funeral cards for Ana Coleta Garcia and Jose Rosario Garcia. In Spanish the plural for brothers and sisters is just brothers. It is the same for all words referring to relatives so, below if the word uncles is used it could refer to both uncles and aunts. However, since the feminine is never used here and all mourners are men words like sons and brothers probably refer to just that, sons and brothers. Also the list of mourners in the text appear to line up fairly well with the names listed below. Therefore, many relatives and their relationships can be inferred from these cards. From the obituary of Angela Lucia Williams we know that her father was Vicente Benito Garcia, her mother was Anna (different spelling) Coleta Garcia, and that she had a brother still living in Cuba named German Garcia. Another clue is that children are sometimes listed with the names of both their parents. This is sometimes done with a "y" (the Spanish word for and) or a hyphen in between the names. Normally the name of the father is used just as in most other European countries but both names can be used in formal occasions. From all these clues we find that Ana Coleta's maiden name was Garcia just like her married name (her sons were Garcia-Garcia). She had at least three sons (Vicente Francisco, Mateo Manuel, German A., and Jose Rosario) and at least four daughters (there husbands were Juan B. Oliver, Luis Lopez, Gaspar Arteaga, and Ramon O. Williams). She had brothers named Jose Julian and German M. Garcia, a grandson named Luis Lopez-Garcia, a nephew named Federico Garcia and either a grandson or nephew (probably nephew) named Manuel Prado-Garcia. The translated text is listed below. All notes by myself are in brackets []. Da ANA COLETA GARCIA, Widow of Garcia Has died: And ready for her burial at eight in the morning of the 14th day of the current month, her sons, sons-in-law, brothers, grandsons and nephews, request at your presence to assemble at the funeral home, 26 Campanerio St, to accompany the corpse to the Colon Cemetery; please to be thankful. -- Habana, December 13, 1878. Vicente, Mateo and German Garcia-Garcia. [sons] Juan B. Oliver. [son-in-law] Luis Lopez. [son-in-law] Gaspar Arteaga. [son-in-law] Ramon O. WIlliams. [son-in-law] Jose Julian Garcia. [brother] Luis Lopez-Garcia. [grandson] Manuel Prado-Garcia. [grandson or nephew] Federico Garcia. [nephew] The sorrow will be let go in the Cemetery. El Sr. D. JOSE ROSARIO GARCIA, Has died: And read for his burial tomorrow at eight on that day, the undersigned, brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles, uncles-in-law, nephews, cousins and his friends, request your presence assemble at the funeral home at 90 Aguila St, from there accompany the corpse to Espada Cemetery; please to be thankful. -- Habana, May 3, 1874. Vicente Francisco, Mateo Manuel and German A. Garcia. [brothers] Juan B. Oliver. [brother-in-law] Luis G. Lopez. [brother-in-law] Ramon O. Williams. [brother-in-law] Gaspar Arteaga. [brother-in-law] Vicente and Domingo Gonzalez. [uncles-in-law] Jose Julian and German M. Garcia. [uncles] Ldo. Jose Maria Nunez. Miguel Gonzalez. [cousin?] Luis Maria Lopez. [cousin] Bruno and Justo Garcia-Peraza. [friend?] Ldo. Francisco N. Gutierrez. [friend?] The sorrow will be let go in the Cemetery. Her maiden name was probably García just like her husband. The evidence for this is that her funeral card lists her as Ana Coleta Garcia, widow of Garcia and there are three brothers mourning her named Vicente, Mateo, and German Garcia-Garcia. Her husband's name was Vicente and she had a son named German so they were probably her children. The 1900 census for Angela says that she is of French descent and the 1910 census says that she is of Spanish descent. This may be because it is thought that her family is from Barcelona which is near the border of France. | García, Ana Coleta (I557)
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| 428 | Gospatric II inherited the lands in Dunbar from his father and received more from King Máel Coluim III of Scotland. Relations between the Normans and the English improved under Henry I and Gospatric even received lands in England. According to the Scottish Annals, Gospatric was described as "the chief leader of the men of Lothan". Gospatric died in the Battle of the Standard in 1138. It was a battle between the invading king of Scotland and the English. I assume Gospatric was fighting for the English. Again, according to the Scottish Annals, Gospatric was "struck by an arrow, he fell". | -, Gospatric II, Earl of Dunbar, Baron of Beanley (I2672)
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| 429 | Granddaughter, 35 Cambridge Place. | Williams, Angela Lucia (I14)
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| 430 | Granddaughter, 35 Cambrige Place. | Williams, Jane Ayer (I368)
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| 431 | Granddaughter. | Ingraham, Lucy (I3303)
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| 432 | Grandson, 35 Cambrige Place. | Williams, Ramon Oscar (I365)
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| 433 | Gravestone: Here lyse bured ye Body of Mrs Mary Browne, Relict of Mr Jonathan Browne Who Departed this Life Octobter ye 23d A. D. 1732, in ye 89th year of her age. Pious in life: Resigned in Death. It is likely that her birthdate is correct and her gravestone should read 88th year of her age. | Shattuck, Mary (I2133)
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| 434 | Hannah and Henry had no children as of the 1940 census. | Nesbitt, Hannah E (I4100)
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| 435 | Havana, Cuba | Repository (R7)
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| 436 | He accidentally drowned in the St. Jo river. | Dart, Henry Ward (I3471)
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| 437 | He and his family lived in Caracas. He was Consul in La Guaira, Venezuela for Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and others because he was fluent in several languages. Today, La Guaira is just a few minute ride down the hill from Caracas, however, before the turn of the century it was a long trip. So, Johan used to live during the week in La Guaira and go home to Caracas when he could. Johan had a sister named Mimi. This we know from a circa 1860 picture with the caption "Tia Mimi hermana mia querada de Papa LH" and a picture of Carlos with the caption "Para mis queridos tia Mimi, Mamachi + Papachi, de su sobrino Carlos, Julio 16/1894" | Scholtz, Johan Cristafel (I289)
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| 438 | He ascended to the throne after his father's death around 609 because all his older brothers had died in battle. He may also have been called King of the Picts. | -, Eochaid Buide King of Dál Riata (I3019)
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| 439 | He became a freeman on October 11, 1682 and was constable (tax collector), 1685. At the time of his death his assets were worth £212. | Flagg, John (I2231)
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| 440 | He bought a farm in Haverhill about 1796 on the Merrimac River. In about 1811 he sold the farm and moved his family in a covered wagon to Erie County, NY and built a log cabin on a 430 acre farm outside of Buffalo. His gravestone still exists and reads: In Memory of James Ayer, formerly of Haverhill Massachusetts, who died March 13, AD. 1839, aged 73 years 1 month & 13 days Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord | Ayer, James (I426)
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| 441 | He bought a Venezuelan plantation called Siberie and one that had belonged to Jan Bastiaan Schotborgli St. Matthias' son. He lived at a place called Carthagena, which he later sold. But, his life's work was in printing. He was a printer for the government and he worked for and later bought Curaçao's first newspaper, De Curaçaosche Couran. Below is a translation of his obituary from his former paper from Friday September 12, 1884:On Tuesday September 9th the island suffered a painful loss with the death of[BOLD:]August Lebrecht Statius Muller.[:BOLD]Born in 1797, in his 87 years he lived a really useful life, useful not only for himself, but also for the community. Not many inhabitants of Curaçao have been called to serve in so many positions and in such an outstanding manner as Mr. Muller. More than 43 years he served this newspaper, starting in September 1833 when he bought the printing company together with our father, Mr. J.F. Neumann, from the widow William Lee, and at the same time served the government as printers of this newspaper and became officially appointed as government printers. After the death of our deeply missed father, on November 20, 1868, mister Muller became our partner and we continued in the same pleasurable and friendly cooperation until January 1876, when he was honorably retired as government printer with a pension - as such having giving half of his life to this newspaper. We regretted his retirement sincerely, because even in advanced age he was full of life and clear of mind.His concern with the newspaper was not his only service to the community, he was valuable also as chairman of the bank, of the school commission, as member of the former colonial council and afterwards from 1869 until 1876 as member of the ruling council, major commander of the militia, certified translator and interpreter, ….Justly, Reverend Hamelberg referred to him in his speech as an example as a father and a citizen.Many people attended mister Mullers burial and honored him by accompanying him to his last resting place. We are submitting our deepest sympathy with the passing away of this unforgettable friend of our father and of us to his family." | Statius Muller, August Leberegt (I605)
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| 442 | He came in the Planter in 1635 when his approximate age was listed as age 21. Where and when the Planter arrived is not know but 1636 he was living in Ipswich. He may have been the son of John who came to Plymouth in or before 1636. John's will names a son ("Item I give and bequeath unto ffrancis Paybody my second son one shilling"). There is no record of any other Francis Peabody living at the time in New England. In 1640 he was listed as a proprietor of Hampton (I do not know where Hampton was but it was near Ipswich and may be what is now Hamilton). In 1642 he became a freeman there and received a share of common lands in 1645. Not much is known of his first wife except that her name was Lydia. This comes from a court record dated Nov. 4, 1645 that says "Eunice Cole is to sit in the stocks in Hampton and to make acknowledgement of her slanderous speeches concerning Susan Parkings & lidia pebodye and to pay the witnes Isaac Perkings 7d and the feas of the court." Francis was a known to be a widower and at some time married Mary Foster. Savage lists his marriage to her as being 18 May 1642. This is not possible because he was still married to Lydia at the time. In Mary Foster's will she lists Mary Peabody as being her daughter so Mary Foster must have married Francis before 1656. The first three children were Lydia's, the last seven were Mary's and the four in between can not be positively identified as children of one or the other. The marriage to Francis was probably Mary's second. There is evidence that she was married to a Daniel Wood before she married Francis. In 1649 he became one of the commissioners to try cases involving small amounts of money. In 1650 he moved back to the part of Ipswich that he had originally lived in and now was part of the town of Toppesfield. There he remained until he died in 1698. Offices he held there included select man, lieutenant of the local military company, and an honored member of the church and community. | Peabody, Lt. Francis (I872)
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| 443 | He came to America on the "Angel Gabriel" which was wrecked off of Pemaquid, ME (near Boothbay Harbor) in 1635. He lost a considerable amount of property. After the wreck he lived on shore in a tent until he was taken away in a boat commanded by Captain Gallerys. He moved to Ipswich where he received a grant for 300 acres (an unusually large amount) in an area called Chebasco in October of 1636. At the time there were only two families in the parish. He became wealthy. Outside the Lighthouse at Pemaquid Point in New Harbor, Maine, there is a plague honouring John Cogswell. The plague reads: Near this site on August 14, 1635 John Cogswell and family from Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England, first set foot in America. They arrived on the ship Angel Gabriel which was wrecked here on the following day in a violent storm. The family settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Dedicated on September 28, 1991 at Pemaquid point, Maine by the Cogswell Family Association. Below is a deposition given 1676 about John Cogswell. I do not know why or where the deposition was given, but a photo copy of the original is in the museum in the lighthouse at Pemaquid Point. [ The Deposition of William Furber Senr. aged 60 years or there abouts: This Deponent testefyeth and saith, that in the year of our lord 1635 I the said Deponent did come over in the ship (called the Angell Gabriel) along with Mr. John Cogswell Senr. from Old England, and we were cast ashore at Penmayquid; and I doe remember that there was saved several Casks both of Dry Goods and Provisions which were marked with Mr. Cogswell Senr. Marks and that there saved a tent of Mr Cogswell Senr. which he had set up at Penmayquid; and Lived in it (with the goods that were saved in the wracke) and afterwards Mr. Cogswell Removed to Ipswich; And in november after that ship was cast away I the said Deponent doe well remember that there were several feather beds and I together with Deacon Haines as servants lay upon one of them, and there were several dozen of pewter platters, and that there were severall brass pans besides other pieces of pewter and other household goods as Iron worke and others necessary as for house Repairing and have in the house then. I the said Deponent doe further testify that there were two maires and two cowes brought over in another ship which were landed safe ashore and were kept at misticke till Mr Cogswell had ym. I doe furhter testify that my master, John Cogswell Senr. had three sons which came over along with as in the ship (called Angell Gabriell) the Eldest sones name were William, and he were about fourteen years of age, and the second sonne were called John and he was about twelve years of age then, and the third was about six years of age at that time, and further saith not. William Farber Senr. came and made oath to all the above written this first of October. 1676. Before me Richard Martyn, Comisr. From Jameson: JOHN COGSWELL. John Cogswell, son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, was born, 1592, in Westbury, Leigh, County of Wilts. He married, Sept. 10, 1615, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of the Rev. William and Phillis Thompson. Vid. John Cogswell. The Rev. William Thompson. Rev. William Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's father, was the Vicar of Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, for twenty years, from 1603 to his death in 1623. His wife, Mrs. Phillis Thompson, died in 1608. The Westbury Register records her burial thus: “Phillis, uxor of Mr. William Thompson., Vicar., Sepult. 19 July, 1608.” Of this marriage were Elizabeth, who married John Cogswell, Maria, who was baptized in 1604, and other children, as mention is made in his will of five daughters. After the death of Mrs. Cogswell's mother, her father married 2Elizabeth _____, who survived him. Of the second marriage were two sons: William, who was baptized April 23, 1615, and Samuel, whose baptism is thus recorded in the Westbury Register: “1616, Samuell, filius Willmi. Thompsonn., Vicarie de Westburie., baptizat Novemb. 30." Samuel Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's youngest brother, became the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D. D., of London. His son, William Thompson, lived with his uncle, John Cogswell, for many years in Ipswich, Mass. Vid. p. 12. In the Public Record Office, London, appears the following conveyance : II Charles First, Trinity Term., 1635. Anthony Selfe and Henry Allyn, Plaintiff, and John Cogswell and Elizabeth., his wife. Defendants, whereby Anthony and Henry give to John and Elizabeth £4o sterling for one messuage, two Cottages, one barn, two gardens, two orchards, 4 ½ acres of land, one of meadow and four of Pasture, with the appurtenances in Westbury and Westbury Leigh, Co. Wilts. This was undoubtedly the sale of John Cogswell's homestead just on the eve of his departure for New England. THE COGSWELLS ON THE OCEAN. May 23 TO August 15, 1635. The Angel Gabriel was the ship on board of which John Cogswell and FAMILY crossed the Atlantic. This vessel, it appears from the Letters of John Aubreys the celebrated antiquary of Wiltshire, was built by Sir Charles Snell for Sir Walter Raleigh, “for the designe for Guiana, which cost him the manor of Yatton Regnell, the farm of Easton Piers, Thornhill, and the Church-lease of Bp. Cannings, which ship upon Sir Walter Raleigh's attainder was forfeited." Vid. Aubrey's Letters, Vol. 2, p. 514, Mss. Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng. Sir Walter Raleigh, who was executed Oct. 29, 1618, doubtless made his second and last voyage, A. D. 1617-18, to Guiana, S. A., in the same ship in which the Cogswells came to America in 1635, and which became a wreck off Pemaquid, as Mather says : “was burst in pieces and cast away.” John Cogswell, with his wife Elizabeth and eight children, embarked May 23, 1635, at Bristol, England, on the Angel Gabriel, for New England. Mr. Cogswell had with him his three sons, William, John, and Edward, and five of his six daughters. One daughter was left in England, who afterward married and resided in London. Mr. Cogswell took with him several farm and household servants, an amount of valuable furniture, farming implements, housekeeping utensils, and a considerable sum of money. They were detained many days after going on board the Angel Gabriel for lack of wind, so that not until June 4 did they actually set sail from Bristol. On the same day another vessel, The James, sailed, having on board emigrants for America, among whom was Rev. Richard Mather, fleeing religious intolerance in England to find the home of religious freedom in the New World. He became the minister of Dorchester in the Colony of Massachusetts. Rev. Richard Mather was the father of Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., President of Harvard College, and the grandfather of Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, minister of Boston, and the distinguished author of the Magnalia Christi Americana. Richard Mather's tombstone was thus inscribed : “Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son greater than is father, And a grandson greater than either.” The Angel Gabriel was commanded by Capt. Andrews, who had on board with him two nephews, John and Thomas Burnham, sons of Robert and Mary (Andrews) Burnham, and ancestors of the Burnhams in America. There were on board also Samuel Haines, ancestor of Hon. Andrew Mack Haines, of Galena, Ill., William Furber, and others seeking homes in New England.Both ships touched at Milford Haven, Pembroke Co., South Wales, and June 22, they put to sea again and proceeded on their way, and many on board saw the English coast fade from view, never to be seen by them again with mortal eyes. The vessels kept company for about two weeks, when they became separated, but arrived about the same time on the coast of New England. The James lay at anchor off the Isles of Shoals, and the Angel Gabriel off Pemaquid, Me., where the great storm and gale of Aug. 15 of that year struck them. The James was torn from her anchors, and obliged to put to sea, but after two days of terrible battling with storm and wave, she reached Boston Harbor with " her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they had been rotten ragges." The passengers of the James landed in Boston, Aug. 17, having been twelve weeks and two days on the passage. The Angel Gabriel fared still worse. "The storm was frightful at Pemaquid, the wind blowing from the northeast, the tide rising to a very unusual height, in some places more than twenty feet right up and down ; this was succeeded by another and unaccountable tidal wave still higher." The Angel Gabriel became a total wreck, passengers, cattle, and goods were all cast upon the angry waves. Among those who reached the shore with their lives were Mr. Cogswell and his family. Three or four passengers and one seaman perished, and there was the loss of cattle and much property. Thus ended the passage of The Cogswells on the Ocean, and thus became a fact : The Cogswells In America. Journal of Rev. Richard Mather. Rev. Richard Mather, already mentioned as a passenger on the James, kept a journal in which are found frequent references to the ship Angel Gabriel, and to the events of the voyage, so interesting and quaint that the author cannot forbear to quote somewhat at length from this old and curious record. Rev. Richard Mather in his reflections, says : “ ‘And let everything that hath breath praise the name of the 'Lord for ever and ever.’ Who gave unto us his poore servants such a safe and comfortable voyage to New England" "The particular passages whereof were as followeth : The ship James was commanded by Captayne Taylor. They fell in with the ship Angel Gabriel, also bound for New England, before leaving Bristol Harbor, England." May 27, 1635, while at anchor, Capt. Taylor, of the James, accompanied by Mr. Maud, Nathaniel Wales, Barnabas Fower, Thomas Armitage, and Richard Mather, went on board the Angel Gabriel. Mr. Mather says : “When we came there wee found divers passengers, and among them some loving & godly Christians that were glad to see us there." The next day, May 28, 1635, being still detained, "the master of the Angel Gabriel & some of their passengers came aboard our ship, and desired to have our company, etc. June 4. Thursday morning, the wind serving us, wee set sayle and began our sea voyage with glad hearts, y' God had loosed us from our long stay wherein we had been holden, and with hope & trust that Hee would graciously guide us to the end of our journey. We were yt set sayle together yt morning five shippes, three bound for Newfoundland, viz. : the Diligence, a ship of 150 tunne, the Mary, a small ship of 80 tunne, and the Bess (or Elizabeth), and two bound for New England, viz. : The Angel Gabriel, of 240 tunne, the James, of 220 tunne." " And even at our setting out we yt were in the James had experience of God's gracious providence over us, in yt the Angel Gabriel haling home one of her ancres, had like, being carried by the force of the tide, to have fallen foule upon ye forep't of our ship, w'ch made all the mariners as well as passengers greatly afraid, yet by the guidance of God and his care over us, she passed by without touching so much as a cable or a cord, and so we escaped yt danger." They were detained at Lundy by adverse sea and winds from June 5 to June 9. On the 9th of June the five ships made for Milford Haven, Pembroke Co , Wales, where they anchored, with rough sea and seasick passengers. June 14. Sabbath. Still lying at Milford Haven. "Mr. Maud, Mathew Michel of the James, and many of the passengers of the Angel Gabriel went to church on shoare called Nangle, where they heard two comfortable sermons, made by an ancient, grave minister, living at Pembroke, whose name is Mr. Jessop. His text was Ps. xci 11 : ‘ For He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.'' And his coming was purposed for the comfort and encouragement of us yt went to New England." " I was exercised on shipboard both endes of the day, remayning there for helpe of ye weaker & infirm sort that could not go on shoare." On the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, "there came to the Angel Gabriel and to our ship, Mr. Jessop, to see the Christians bound for New England. He was a grave and godly old man, one y' had lost a good living because of his nonconformity, and wished us all well, and we were much refreshed with his godly company & conference." Still at Milford Haven Mr. Mather speaks of being " exercised both ends of the day," "besides," he says, "the day was more comfortable to us all in regard to ye company of many godly Christians from ye Angel Gabriel, and from other vessels lying in the haven with us, who, wanting means and home, were glad to come to us, and we were also glad of their company, and had all of us a very comfortable day, and were much refreshed in the Lord." By lack of wind having been delayed at Milford Haven for 12 days, they sailed on June 22, Monday. On the evening of the Tuesday, June 23, they "lost sight of the 3 ships bound for Newfoundland, but the master of the James thought it best to stay for the Angel Gabriel, being bound for New England as wee were, rather than to leave her & go with the other three. The Angel Gabriel is a strong ship & well furnished with fourteene or sixteene pieces of ordnance, and therefore our seamen rather desired her company ; but yet she is slow in sailing, and therefore wee went sometimes with three sayles less than wee might have done, yt so we might not overgoe her." On Wednesday, June 24, "We saw abundance of porpuyses leaping & playing about our ship." "And wee spent some time that day in pursuing with the Angel Gabriel what wee supposed was a Turkish pirate, but could not overtake her." Mr. Mather speaks of the Sabbath, June 28, 1635, and says, "I was exercised in the forenoon, and Mr. Maude in the afternoon." "This eve'g wee saw porpuyses about ye ship, and some would fayne been striking, but others dissuaded, because of the Sabbath, and so it was let alone." The next day by seven o'clock the sailors had a great porpoise on deck. Mr. Mather says: "The seeing him haled into the ship like a swyne from ye stye to the tressle, and opened upon ye decke in viewe of all our company, was wonderful to us all, and marvellous merry sport and delightful to our women & children. So good was our God unto us in affording us the day before, spiritual refreshing to our soules, and ye day morning also delightful recreation to our bodyes, at ye taking and opening of ye huge and strange fish." In the afternoon, June 29, " Captayne Taylor went on board ye Angel, and took Mathew Michel & mee along with him." They found that there had been much seasickness on the Angel Gabriel, and two cases of "small pockes well recovered again." "Wee were intreated to stay supp, there with their Master, &c., and had good cheese, mutton boyled & rosted, rested turkey, good sacke, &:c." Saturday, July 4, 1635. "This day ye sea was very rough, and we saw ye truth of yt Scripture, Ps. cvii. Some were very seasicke, but none could stand or go upon ye decke because of the tossing & tumbling of the ship." "This day (July 4) we lost sight of the Angel sayling slowly behind us, and we never saw her again any more." Mr. Mather speaks of Sabbath, Aug. 2. "And ye wind blew with a coole & comfortable gale at south all day, which carried us away with great speed towards or journeyes end, so good was or loving God unto us as always so also this day. Mr. Maud was exercised in ye forenoone & I in the afternoone" Aug 3. "But lest wee should grow secure and neglect ye Lord through abundance of prosperity, or wise & loving God was pleased on Monday morning about three of ye clock, when wee were upon the coast of land, to exercise us with a sore storme & tempest of wind & rain, so ye many of us passengers with wind & rain were raised out of our beds, and our seamen were forced to let down all ye sayles, and ye ship was so tossed with fearfull mountayns and valleyes of water, as if wee should have beene overwhelmed & swallowed up. But ye lasted not long, for at or poore prayers, ye Lord was pleased to magnify his mercy in assuaging ye winds & seas againe about sun rising." He then speaks of "taking abundance of cod & hollibut, wherewith oe bodyes were abundantly refreshed after they had beene tossed with ye storme." . "Aug. 14. While ancored at the Ile of Shoales, when wee had slept sweetly ye night till breake of day," Mr. Mather adds : "But yet ye Lord had not done with us, nor yet had let us see all his power & goodnesse which he would have us take knowledge of, and therefore on Saturday morning (Aug. 15), at about breake of day, ye Lord sent forth a most terrible storme of raine & easterly wind, whereby wee were in as much danger as I thinke ever people were. For we lost in ye morning, three great ancres & cables, of wich cables, one having cost £50, never had been in any water before, two were broken by ye violence of ye waves, and ye third was cut by ye seamen in extremity & distress to save ye ship & or lives. And ye Angel Gabriel being yn at ancer at Pemmaquid, was burst in pieces & cast away in ye storme & most of the cattell & other goodes, with one seaman & 3 or 4 passengers did also perish therein, besides two of ye passengers yt died by ye way, ye rest having ye lives given ym for a prey. But ye James & wee yt were therein, with our cattell & goods, were all preserved alive, viz. : 100 passengers, 23 seamen, 23 cowes & heyfers, 3 sucking calves & mares." “ The Lord's name be blessed forever.” A touching incident is narrated of one of the passengers of the Angel Gabriel, more amusing to the reader than it could have been to the parties concerned. The name of this passenger was Bailey. He was a young man and lately married. He embarked, leaving his young bride in England, wishing to acquaint himself somewhat with the new country, and make arrangements for a home in America, and then return for his wife. But alas ! the frightful disaster from which he had narrowly escaped so wrought upon his mind that he was too timid ever again to risk himself upon the ocean, and the doleful account which he wrote home so intimidated his young bride that she could never be persuaded to undertake the voyage. And so it came to pass, that between this loving couple the broad Atlantic continued to roll, and this married twain, poor souls, remained separated from each other all the rest of their mortal lives. Rev. Dr. Increase Mather states as a historical fact that : "The Angel Gabriel was the only vessel which miscarried with passengers from old England to New, so signally did the Lord in his providence watch over the plantation of New England." John Cogswell and family having crossed the ocean and disembarked at Pemaquid, in the unceremonious fashion narrated, were at last in America. They were the first of the name to reach these shores. The elapse of two hundred and fifty years has given to them a numerous posterity, some of whom in each generation have lived in eventful periods, have risen to eminence, and fulfilled distinguished service in the history of the country. John Cogswell, the ancestor of the Cogswells in America, as already narrated, was the son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, of Westbury Leigh, in the County of Wilts, England. At the age of twenty-three years he married the daughter of the parish vicar, succeeded to his father's business, and settled down in the old homestead. His parents died soon after his marriage, and he received by inheritance "The Mylls called Ripond, situate within the Parish of Frome Selwood," together with the home place and certain personal property. Like his father, he was a manufacturer of woollen fabrics, largely broadcloths and kerseymeres. The superior quality of these manufactures gave to his "mylls" a favorable reputation, which appears to have been retained to the present day. There are factories occupying much the same locations and still owned by Cogswells, which continue to put upon the market woollen cloths that in Vienna and elsewhere have commanded the first premiums in the world exhibitions of our times. John Cogswell doubtless found in London a market for his manufactures. He may have had a commission house in that city, which would account for his being called, as he sometimes has been, a London merchant. Mrs. Cogswell's father was the Rev. William Thompson, vicar of Westbury from 1603 to his death, in 1623. Her younger brother was the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D. D, of London. About twenty years after their marriage, with a family of nine children about them, and having the accumulations of a prosperous business, Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell determined to emigrate to America. The particular reasons which led them to leave England may have been much the same that influenced others in their times. It appears that early in 1635 Mr. Cogswell made sale of his "mylls" and other real estate, and soon after, with his wife, eight children, and all their personal effects, embarked at Bristol, May 23, 1635, for New England. Their passage was long and disastrous. Vid. "The Cogswells on the Ocean." Their arrival in America was after a most unexpected fashion. Having reached the shores of New England, they were landed very unceremoniously at a place called Pemaquid, in Maine, being washed ashore from the broken decks of their ship "Angel Gabriel," which went to pieces in the frightful gale of Aug. 15, 1635, when such a "sudden, dismal storm of wind and rain came as had never been known before by white man or Indian." Traces of this storm remained for years. It was on that terrible 15th of August, 1635, that Parson Avery perished, with these words upon his lips: "Lord, I cannot challenge a preservation of life; but according to thy covenant, I challenge heaven." "Which words," says Hubbard, "as soon as he had ever expressed, the next wave gave him a present dismission into his eternal rest." The easy verse of Whittier has made the story of that August storm familiar : "There was wailing in the shallop; woman's wail and man's despair; A crash of breaking timbers on the rocks so sharp and bare ; And through it all the murmur of Father Avery's prayer. The ear of God was open to his servant's last request. As the strong wave swept him downward the sweet hymn upward pressed, And the soul of Father Avery went singing to its rest." Mr. Cogswell and his family escaped with their lives, but well drenched by the sea and despoiled of valuables to the amount of five thousand pounds sterling. They were more fortunate than some who sailed with them, whom the angry waves gathered to a watery grave. On leaving England Mr. Cogswell had taken along with him a large tent, which now came into good service. This they pitched, and into it they gathered themselves and such stores as they could rescue from the waves. The darkness of that first night of the Cogswells in America found them housed beneath a tent on the beach. The next day they picked up what more of their goods they could, which had come ashore during the night or lay floating about upon the water. As soon as possible Mr. Cogswell, leaving his family, took passage for Boston. He there made a contract with a certain Capt. Gallup, who commanded a small barque, to sail for Pemaquid and transport his family to Ipswich, Mass. This was a newly settled town to the eastward from Boston, and was called by the Indians "Aggawam." Two years earlier, March, 1633, Mr John VVinthrop, son of Gov. John Winthrop, with ten others, had commenced a settlement in Aggawam. An act of incorporation was secured Aug. 4, 1634, under the name of Ipswich. The name Ipswich is Saxon, in honor of the Saxon queen Eba, called " Eba's wych," i. e., Eba's house; hence Yppyswich or Ipswich. Some derive it from Gippewich, meaning "little city." In the early records are found the following enactments of the General Court : ''April 1st, 1633. It is ordered that noe pson wtsover shall goe to plant or inhabitt att Aggawam, withoutt leave from the Court, except those already gone, vz : Mr. John Winthrop, Jun'r, Mr. Clerke, Robte Coles, Thomas Howlett, John Biggs. John Gage, Thomas Hardy, Willm Perkins, M. Thornedicke, Willm Srieant." " June 11, 1633. There is leave graunted to Tho: Sellen to plant att Aggawam. 5 August, 1634. It is ordered that Aggawam shal be called Ipswitch." "At Ipsidge a plantation made upe this yeare. Mr. Ward P _____, Mr. Parker T _____, James Cudworth, 1634." It was probably near the last of August, 1635, when Capt. Gallup sailed up the Agawam River, having on board Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell, their three sons and five daughters, and whatever of household goods his barque would carry, the rest of their effects being taken by another ship. The settlers of Ipswich at once manifested an appreciation of these new-comers. They made John Cogswell liberal grants of land, as appears from the following municipal records : ''1636. Granted to Mr. John Coggswell Three Hundred acres of land at the further Chebokoe, having the River on the South east, the land of Willm White on the North west and A Creeke romminge out of the River towards William White's farme on the North east. Bounded also on the West with a Creek and a little (creeke)." "Also there was granted to him a parsell of ground containinge eight acres, upon part whereof ye sd John Coggswell hath built an house, it being the corner lot in Bridge street and hath Goodman Bradstreet's house-Lott on the South East." This was doubtless Humphrey Bradstreet, son of Gov. Simon and Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet. Ann Dudley was daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. " There was granted to him five acres of ground," which is thus described : "Mr. John Spencer's buttinge upon the River on the south, having a lott of Edmond Gardiner's on the South East, and a lott of Edmond Sayward's on the south west; with six acres of ground, the sd John Cogswell hath sold to John Perkins, the younger, his heirs and assigns." The grant of " three hundred acres of land at the further Chebokoe” was some five miles to the eastward, in a part of Ipswich that was constituted, May 5, 1679. Chebacco Parish; and Feb. 5, 1819, incorporated the town of Essex. A settlement had been commenced in the Indian Chebokoe, in 1635, by William White and Goodman Bradstreet. This grant to John Cogswell embraced a swell of land, the western boundary of which is the main road which runs from Ipswich to Gloucester. On the south flows the Chebacco River ; on the north is a brook, which marks the boundary of a farm lately owned by Col. John P. Choate ; and to the eastward is an arm of the sea. The grant of " a parsell of ground containinge eight acres, upon part whereof ye sd John Coggswell hath built an house," embraced land located near the present site of the court-house. This house, which Mr. Cogswell built soon after his arrival, stood on the site occupied by the residence of the late Hon. Charles Kimball, where Edward L. Kimball, Esq., now, 1884, resides. Mr. Cogswell, some time in 1636, put up a log-house and removed to "further Chebokoe," where he spent the rest of his days. His descendants for eight generations, through a period of two hundred and fifty years, have continued to cultivate these ancestral acres. A few rods from where stood the log-house of the first settler now stands an ancient dwelling-house, which is the third in succession built on or near the same spot to domicile Cogswells in America. This house was erected by William Cogswell in 1732, and is still occupied by Cogswells, the lineal descendants of John Cogswell, of Westbury, England. For more than one hundred and fifty years " The Cogswell House " has withstood time and change. Within its walls have dwelt six generations of the name. In it are carefully treasured many relics and articles of household use, which were brought over in 1635, and survived the wreck of the "Angel Gabriel." These have been handed down from father to son as having belonged to their great ancestor, and are enshrined in various and quaint traditions. This ancient dwelling-house, which is well preserved, is represented by an engraving on the following page. This engraving is the work of Miss Charlotte Broome Cogswell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who for some years has been a teacher in drawing and engraving in that city and in New York. She is a lineal descendant of John Cogswell in the eighth generation. Miss Cogswell visited Essex, Mass., in 1882, made a sketch of the Cogswell homestead, and on her return completed the engraving with her own hands. It appears that John Cogswell was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich which is now Essex, Mass. His comparative wealth, intelligence, and piety gave him an acknowledged prominence in the town and church. On the records of Ipswich his name often appears. It is uniformly distinguished by the appellation of Mr., which in those days was an honorary title given to but few, who were gentlemen of some distinction. There were only about thirty of the three hundred and thirty-five original settlers of Ipswich who received this honor. Very soon after his arrival, March 3, 1636, by an act of the Court, John Cogswell was admitted freeman, to which privileges none were admitted prior to 1664 except respectable members of some Christian church. To freemen alone were the civil rights to vote for rulers and to hold public office. For several years Mr. Cogswell and family lived in the log-house with its thatched roof, while many of their goods remained stored in boxes, awaiting some better accommodations. It is said there were pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table linen, much silver plate ; and that there was a Turkey carpet is well attested. As soon as practicable Mr. Cogswell put up a framed house. This stood a little back from the highway, and was approached by walks through grounds of shrubbery and flowers. There is an English shrub still, 1884, enjoying a thrifty life, which stands not far from the site of the old Cogswell manor. This shrub, tradition says, John Cogswell brought with him from England in 1635. Among other relics of their ancestor still treasured by his descendants are articles of personal attire and ornament. A quaint mirror and many other curious things are in the possession of Messrs. Albert and Jonathan Cogswell, brothers, who occupy the ancient Cogswell house in Essex. Mrs. Mary (Cogswell) Choate had the old clock which struck off the time for John and Elizabeth Cogswell two centuries and a half ago. Not long since, Mrs. Aaron Cogswell, of Ipswich, had in her possession, it is said, the famous coat of arms which has been widely copied in the family. This is described as “ wrought most exquisitely with silk on heave satin.” A few years ago a stranger borrowed the curious relic of this too obliging lady, and, like the jewels of the Egyptians, borrowed by Israelites, it was never returned. As a matter of family interest, although purely traditional and not found anywhere recorded, a fac-simile of the Cogswell escutcheon is here inserted. For some years after the completion of their new dwelling house Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell lived to enjoy their pleasant home, surrounded by their children, well settled, some of them on farms near by, made of lands deeded to them by their now aged parents. There is found this record : “ Nov. 1651, John Cogswell and Elizbeth, his wife, gave to William Cogswell, their son, a deed of land on the south side of the Chebacco River.” At the same date was given a dwelling-house at Chebacco Falls to his son-in-law, Cornelius Waldo. By these and other similar gifts Mr. Cogswell distributed much of his property among his children, while living. The time came at length, after a life of change, adventure, and hardship, yet of piety, respectability, and divine blessing, and Mr. Cogswell died Nov. 29, 1669, at the age of seventy-seven years. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hubbard, then pastor in Ipswich, and since known as “ The historian fo New England.” The funeral procession traversed a distance of five miles to the place of burial. They move under an escort of armed men, as a protection against the possible attack of Indians. He was buried in the Old North graveyard of the First Church, but the exact spot is unknown. Mrs. Cogswell survived her husband but a few years. She died June 2, 1876. The record that remains of her is : “ She was a woman of sterling qualities and dearly beloved by all who knew her.” Side by side in the old churchyard in Ipswich have slept for more than 200 years the mortal remains of this godly pair, whose childhood was passed near the banks of the river Avon ; who, leaving behind the tender associations of the Old World, came with their children to aid in rearing on these shores a pure Christian state. They did a greater work than they knew, and died in the faith of the Gospel ; and while their grave are unmarked by monument of stone, their souls are save forever in Heaven, their memory blessed, and their names honored by a posterity in numbers hardly second to that of Abraham. | Cogswell, John (I1014)
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| 444 | He came to the United States (probably with his family) from England on 28 June 1893 by way of Philadelphia. He was naturalized on 11 July 1906. He was a tailor. In 1906 he was living in 148 E. 97th Street, E. 106th Street in 1910, W. 112th Street in 1920 and 180th Street in 1930. | Rosch, Elias (I3325)
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| 445 | He came, it is said, in 1638 and settled in Ipswich where he received land on 6 April 1641. He may have married Judith, who died in 1664 and who had Judith (1660), Mary (1662), and John (1664). Judeth died in October of 1664. He may also have then married Sarah Martin, widow of John Martin of Ipswich, 3 September 1665 and had Ruth (1671 - died in one month), Ellen (1673), Hannah (1675), and Nathanial (1678). The last two marriages were disputed because he probably was about 80 years old at the time of the birth of the last child. | Foster, Reginald (I870)
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| 446 | He died at home. | Williams, George Washington Aurelio (I363)
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| 447 | He died during the Battle of Quebec in 1690. His daughter's 1737 petition "shewing that her later father, Captain Lamb, was master of a transport in the expedition to Canada in the year 1690, and praying that she be admitted as a grantee in the township lately granted to the heirs of Capt. Gardner and his company." The grants were for relative of those killed in the expedition. | Lamb, Caleb (I2511)
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| 448 | He died during World War I. | Turney, Captain Leonard William (I1728)
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| 449 | He died during World War II. | White Thomson, Walter N (I4128)
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| 450 | He died in an auto accident. | Knox, David (I274)
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