NAME INDEX

Amons, Edward   •    Amons, Hazel M. (Schroeder, Overwick)   •    Amons, Nellie E.   •    Baldwin, Bailey T.    •    Baldwin, Lucy   •    Baldwin, Margaret (Bleau, dit Rossignal)   •    Baldwin, Mary (McClure McRay)   •    Baldwin, William   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Aiken   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine I   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine II   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine III   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Charlotte   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Felix   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Marguerite  (Margaret Rushenall Baldwin)   •    Bleau dit Rossignal, Aiken (Ekan Blue)   •    Bleau, Marguerite (Blu, Blue; Margaret Machequayzaince, or "Clear Sky")   •    Blowe, Louis   •    Blowe, Louise   •    Blowe, Nellie (Ellen, Ella, Nellie, Nettie Kinsman Lang Blow Church)   •    Bottineau Baldwin, Marie Louise   •    Bottineau, Basile / Bazill   •    Bottineau, Charles   •    Bottineau, Jean Baptiste (John B.)   •    Bottineau, Pierre   •    Bourdon, Margaret   •    Church, Charley   •    Church, Dorothy   •    Church, Henry   •    Church, Mary (Maime Sullivan)   •    Church, Robert   •    Conway, Eileen (Dolly)   •    Conway, Bernard   •    Delehanty, Anastasia   •    Delehanty, Betty Jane (Schroeder;  Liz Tedmon)   •    Delehanty, Bridget (Waters)   •    Delehanty, Daniel   •    Delehanty, Elizabeth   •    Delehanty, James Andrew   •    Delehanty, James H.   •    Delehanty, John   •    Delehanty, John   •    Delehanty, Lester   •    Delehanty, Margaret   •    Delehanty, Mary (McCormick)   •  Delehanty, Mary Harney   •    Delehanty, Mathias    •    Delehanty, Mathias   •    Delehanty, Patrick   •    Delehanty, Patrick Henry   •    Delehanty, Patrick J.   •    Delehanty, Philip William   •    Dolly (Eileen Conway)   •    Downs, Patrick H.   •    Eaton, Mary (Kinsman)   •    Eichendorf, Henriette   •    Eichendorf, Rudolph   •    Harney, Mary (Delehanty)   •    holbrecht, Louisa (Kaddatz)   •    Kaddatz, Augusta (Schacht)   •    Kaddatz, Bertha Augusta Wilhelmina (Schroeder)   •    Kaddatz, Carl   •    Kaddatz, Charles W.  (Karl)   •    Kaddatz, Louisa (Holbrecht)   •    Kaddatz, Louise (Zeige)   •    Kaddatz, Minnie   •    Kaddatz, Tillie   •   Kinsman, Asa   •    Kinsman, Ella (Ellen, Nellie, Nettie; Lang Sullivan Blowe [Bleau, Blow] Church)   •    Kinsman, George   •    Kinsman, Mary Eaton   •    Kinsman, Selma   •    Kinsman, Sheldon   •    Lang, Frank (Franz Lange)   •    Lang, Frank, Jr.   •    Lang, Jennie (Sullivan)   •    Lang, Nellie (Atkins)   •    McClure, Josephine   •    McClure, Theodore   •    McDonough, Bridget   •    McGrath, Margaret   •    McRay, Mary (Baldwin)   •    Morris, Clara   •    Perry, Anthony   •    Pollard, Martha A. (Van Arman)   •    Pollard, Matilde   •    Pollard, sarah   •    Reilly, Raymond   •    Reiser, Richard   •    Rossignal / Rushenall / Rossinal / Rashnold:  see Bleau dit Rossignal   •    Schroeder, Bertha Wilhelmina Kaddatz   •    Schroeder, Betty Jane Delehanty (liz tedmon)   •    Schroeder, Betty Jean (Tedmon)   •    Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Jr.   •    Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Sr.   •    Schroeder, Hazel (AMONS, Overwick)   •    Schroeder, Karl   •    Schroeder, Raymond George (R.G.)   •    Schroeder, William   •    Sullivan, Cornelius   •    Sullivan, Edward James   •    Sullivan, Ella (Conway)   •    Sullivan, Genevieve Agnes (Delehanty)   •    Sullivan, Grace Ann   •    Sullivan, Jennie (Lang)   •    Sullivan, Mary (Maime Church)   •    Sullivan, Neal C. (Uncle Neal)   •    Sullivan, Mary H.   •    Sullivan, Timothy   •    Sullivan, Timothy   •    Tedmon, Clifford   •    Tedmon, Liz;  Betty Jane Delehanty (Schroeder)   •    Tiner, Millie   •    Thibodeau, Adelaide   •  Thibodeau, Edward   •    Thibodeau, Lillian   •    Tuthill, Eliza   •    Van Arman, George  (also Vannarman, Vanaarman, Vanarmon, etc.)   •    Van Arman, John V.   •    Van Arman, Mabel (Amons)   •    Van Arman, Phylinda   •    Van Arman, Sidney W.   •    Waters, Barbara   •    Waters, Bridget (Delehanty)      

  Amons, Edward

b. ca. 1871, Germany, d. aft. 1920, Wisconsin?

Father of our paternal grandmother Hazel Amons.  German immigrant, came to the US, probably Wisconsin, around 1882, when he was 11.  On adulthood became a naturalized citizen.  Married Mabel Van Arman in Douglas Co WI, on June 30, 1900, had nine or ten children with her from 1901 to 1921.  Mabel filed for divorce in 1922, claiming willful desertion, but never followed through on the paperwork.  Fate unknown; never heard of him till Sept 2006 when research revealed that Hazel's birth surname was Amons.

Our paternal great-grandfather.

links   •    hazel's divorce & ancestry

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  Amons, Hazel M.  (Schroeder, Overwick)

b. Sept 18, 1903, Superior, WI, d. May 26, 1996, Minneapolis, MN

Wife of Harold F. Schroeder, Sr., mother of Harold F. Jr. and Betty Jean Schroeder.  Married Harold on 23 Jan 1923 in Duluth MN.  Listed in 1930 census as wife and mother of two, living at 1411 Randolph St., St. Paul MN.  On 24 April 1939 the courts agreed that she had abandoned her husband and two children in April 1937 and granted Harold Sr. a divorce.  He received custody of the children, the house, and all the property.  She received a "wash machine, one tea set, one breakfast set, one end table, one bridge lamp, one telephone stand, and [her] personal dishes."

Daughter of Edward Amons and Mabel Van Arman Amons.  Born in rural Douglas Co WI two years after her sister and eldest sibling Nellie E. Amons.  Raised on a farm in the SW¼ of the NW¼ of Section 36, Twp 47, Range 13 of Douglas Co.  Cannot be found in 1910 census; not listed with her mother Mabel, who's living with her parents and siblings.  In 1920 Hazel living with grandparents and uncles in Superior WI but neither parent, while her parents are in the same county with a houseful of her siblings.  Childhood appears marked by instability and sporadic paternal desertion.  Mother Mabel filed for divorce in December 1922, charging willful desertion, but never followed through on the paperwork.

Second child of nine siblings:  Nellie (b. 1901), Hazel (1903), Edward (1906), Harry (1912), Francis (1914), Lloyd (1915), Grace (1917), Robert (1919), Carol (1921).  Sister Nell and Uncle Robert Van Arman witnessed her Jan 1923 marriage to Harold Schroeder in Duluth.  Evidently ¼ Dutch, ¼ English, and ½ German (father German, mother half Dutch and half English).  Mother Mabel's Dutch paternal line in upstate New York traced to 1790; it may go back to the original Dutch settlements in the mid-1600s.

Bore her third child, a son, on June 26, 1938, 10 months before her divorce from Harold was finalized:  Donald Edward Overwick, fathered by Elmer Julius "Al" Overwick (1914-1985; mother's maiden name Lee).  Married Al Overwick soon after, with whom she lived for many years, having one more child with him, daughter Mary Lee.  Died on May 26, 1996 in Anoka County MN.

Our paternal grandmother.

links   •    hazel's divorce & ancestry

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   Amons, Nellie E.

b. Oct 5, 1901, Superior, WI, d. aft 1920

Sister and eldest sibling of Hazel M. Amons.  At age 18 living with sister and grandparents Sidney W. and Martha Van Arman in Superior, WI.  Cannot be found in 1910 census.  Witness to sister Hazel's wedding in Duluth MN in Jan 1923.

Our great-aunt.

links   •    hazel's divorce & ancestry

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   Baldwin, Bailey T.  (1820-1904)  

b. 12 Feb 1820, Madison City, Alabama, d. 19 Dec 1904 Minneapolis, MN

A fascinating, colorful, and enigmatic character who from the 1870s in NE Minneapolis became an intimate part of the family of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe and her small daughters Jennie Lang and Nellie Lang when Nellie married his wife's brother Louis Bleau.  Generous of spirit, kind of heart, intrepid in his youth, and, for the last 40 years of his life, blind and suffering chronic and severe ill-health that he claimed stemmed from his service in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Born in the Alabama-Tennessee piedmont during a period of rapid white population growth and mounting conflicts among whites, Indians, and slaves.  Early history is a complete blank.  Arrived in Minnesota around spring 1845, age 25, "among those who came from the South to the new trading post at St. Paul," according to an 1899 Minneapolis Tribune news article.  "He had lived in Alabama, brought up among the Southerners of the Southland, and he was eager to try his luck in the north, even though his fortunes should lie among the much dreaded Indians."

Lived in St Croix Falls WI in 1847, where he very probably met William R. Marshall, lifelong friend and future governor of Minnesota (1866-1870).  For some six years (1845-51) he traded with the Ojibwe and Métis of the Red River Valley, repeatedly making the long journey to and from St. Paul, and integrating himself into diverse and conflicting cultures.  Described by several examining physicians as having "dark" complexion, he may well have had Indian ancestry, though was portrayed in the 1899 article and elsewhere as a "white man."

In Feb 1851 in St. Paul he married the "half-breed" Marguerite Bleau dit Rosignal Bottineau, widow of Basile Bottineau (d. 1850), the brother of Pierre Bottineau, famous in Minnesota history as an Indian scout and guide.  Adopted and helped raise Margaret's small son Charles Bottineau (b. 1838).  Married to Margaret for just shy of 50 years when she died on 31 March 1900.  Raised three of his own children with her:  Lucy (1852), William (1856), and Mary Baldwin (1862).

In 1857 he and one George Worts acquired 83 acres from the U.S. General Land Office near Stillwater, MN.  Census of 1860 shows him living with wife, children, and wife's brothers Aiken and Felix among French Canadians in Centreville, Anoka County, MN.  Moved to NE Minneapolis after the Civil War, living at or near 716 Lincoln St. until his death.  Occupations listed as farmer and "real estate" -- evidently speculative trading in land.  His children lived near him all his life, and he kept his friends from his arrival in Minnesota in the mid-1850s until his death early 1900s.

In winter 1862 at Fort Snelling in St Paul MN he enlisted with Company D of the Fifth Regiment of the Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, probably for a bounty of several hundred dollars.  In March or April 1862 Company D was assigned to Fort Abercrombie on Dakota-Minnesota frontier.  Pregnant wife Margaret and children came to join him in June 1862.  As ferryman, suffered a severe inguinal hernia in a ferry mishap on June 1, 1862, impairing his health until his death.  Great Sioux Uprising began late August 1862.  Fort Abercrombie besieged from Sept 3; daughter Mary born at the fort, during the siege, on Sept 28.

Convalescing at the fort he began losing his vision, probably from degenerative eye disease.  By January 1863, having gone almost completely blind, he was discharged for disability.  Treated for blindness, hernia, and other ailments at Fort Snelling Hospital from 1863 on.  Suffered severe rheumatism, piles (rectal tumors), enlarged prostate, and obesity, all of which grew worse with age.  By 1890s often barely able to get out of bed.  Semi-literate throughout his life.

Around 1873-74, wife Margaret's brother Louis Bleau, in his early 20s, married divorcee Nellie Kinsman Lang (age 26) -- the event that brought Nellie's family into the orbit of the Bleau-Baldwin families.  On 26 September 1874 Louis was murdered.  Technically the Lang girls' uncle and aunt, Bailey and Marguerite became more their grandparents, helping to feed, clothe, shelter, and raise them through the very hard years of the 1870s and early 1880s.  We're not exactly sure what the relationship was; what we know is their families were deeply entwined.

Owned various shooting galleries in NE Minneapolis in 1880s and 1890s to supplement his meager income.  Died at age 84, leaving his entire estate -- all $643 -- to his grandson Charles B. Baldwin and daughter Lucy Doyle Baldwin.  Both had remained close, physically and, we suspect, emotionally.  The gesture reinforces the view that to Bailey T. Baldwin, what really made a family a family was less blood than love.

Overall impression is of a big-hearted, compassionate, poor, working class, transplanted Southerner, a man of rectitude and integrity, obese and in ill-health from 1863 until his death, who along with wife Margaret did what he could to help his destitute daughter-in-law Nellie Blowe and his granddaughters Jennie and Nellie in rapidly industrializing and poverty-infested Northeast Minneapolis.  Buried in Hillside Cemetery, next to his wife Margaret and near his daughter Lucy.

Our great-great-great grandfather-in-law.

links   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file   •   bailey t. baldwin probate file and related items on  documents home, especially "modern leatherstocking tale"  and remember the red river valley, as well as hillside blues   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927  (Photo of Bailey T. Baldwin from Minneapolis Tribune, 2 July 1899; date of photo unknown)

back to  top   •   ancestry charts   •  nellie blowe in minneapolis   •   william schroeder pension file

   Baldwin, Lucy (McClure Doyle, 1852-1910)

b. April 4, 1852, d. 24 July 1910, Hennepin Co.

Eldest child and daughter of Bailey Baldwin and Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Baldwin.  Married Theodore McClure by 1880, and James E. Doyle (b. 1861 PA) by 1900.  Lived near her father in NE Minneapolis for most of his life.  In depositions of 1894, neighbors say Bailey's "son-in-law" is helping Bailey out financially.  Could be either Theodore or James.   Devoted much of her life to caring for her ailing father.  Minneapolis Tribune article says that Bailey and Margaret lived with her for "many years," presumably at their home at 716 Lincoln Ave NE.  Evidently had no children.  Bailey bequeathed most of his modest estate to her after his death in 1904.

Our great-great-great aunt-in-law.

links   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file   •   bailey t. baldwin probate file and related items on documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •   bleau-baldwin families, 1790-1930

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   Baldwin, Mary (McRay, 1862-1934)

b. 28 Sept 1862, Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, d. St Peter Hospital, Minneapolis, 10 Feb 1934

Youngest child of Bailey Baldwin and Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Baldwin.  Born during the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 at besieged Fort Abercrombie, where her father was stationed.  In 1880, living with husband Samuel and daughter Laura (age 1) six doors down from her father, mother, sister, and other extended family.  In 1898, Bailey recorded her as one of his three living children.  Bailey (d. 1904) excluded her from his will, instead granting the whole of his estate -- all $643.00 -- to grandson Charles and daughter Lucy.  Mary filed an objection to probating the will, but to no avail. 

Continued living in NE Minneapolis with husband Samuel and married daughter Laura in 1900 and 1910, sharing dwellings with many other working adults, very close to Bailey and Margaret's house.  The 1900 census shows her and her husband being evicted from one residence -- the entry is partial, and crossed out, accompanied by the word "evicted" -- and also residing in a nearby dwelling.  The same year's special Indian census records her as three-eighths Indian (father white, b. Alabama, mother Chippewa, three-quarters Indian).

Our guess is that over time she grew estranged from her father and sister, and perhaps her mother as well.  Census data hint that she lived among the poorest and most marginalized segment of NE Minneapolis's working class population.  A real story in here somewhere.

Died of bronchial pneumonia at 71 years of age in St Peter's Hospital, Minneapolis.  Widowed.  Buried in Minneapolis.

Our great-great-great aunt-in-law.

links   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file   •   bailey t. baldwin probate file   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •   bleau-baldwin families, 1790-1930

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   Baldwin, William C. (1856-1940)

b. 22 Sept. 1858, Minneapolis, d. 19 Nov 1940, Minneapolis

Middle child of Bailey T. Baldwin and Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Baldwin.  Thanks to Jeane Morneau DeCoursey, his great-great-granddaughter, we know that he married Elizabeth Perry around 1880-81, when he was in his early 20s, with whom he had five children over the next 15 or so years:  Charles B. (b. July 1882), William B. (June 1884), Frank J. (Feb 1887), Olive Agnes (1 Aug 1891, married Peter A. Perry), and Lillian (b. 31 May 1896, d. May 1987).

Wife Elizabeth died 23 Nov 1899 of ovarian cancer.  Youngest girls Olive Agnes (8) and Lillian (3) sent to live with the late Elizabeth's parents, by whom they were both raised.  Father Bailey T. Baldwin lists him in his response to an 1898 Pension Bureau circular, along with his other two children, Lucy and Mary.  William also listed in Bailey's 1905 probate file, though misidentified as William B. rather than William C., his actual name.  Bailey also excluded him from his will -- though Bailey did give $200 (about a third of his estate) to William's son and eldest child Charles B. Baldwin.

In 1920 census, living as a boarder, with no family members, in Pelican, Otter Tail Co MN.  In 1930 census living in Big Lake, Sherburne Co MN, with wife Catherine (19 years younger), son William B., his wife, and others.

Buried in Sunset Memorial Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great-great-great uncle-in-law.

links   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file   •   bailey t. baldwin probate file   •    felix blue pension file   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •   gravestone

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   Bleau, Aiken (Ekan Blow, 1846-1903)

b. 1846 Minnesota Territory, d. 1903, White Earth MN  

Younger brother of Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Baldwin (b. 1824), elder brother of Louis Bleau, Nellie's second husband.   Son of Antoine Bleau dit Rossignal (b. 1790), and Marguerite Bourdon (b. 1805).  For quite some time we thought he was Nellie's second husband.  In the process of proving ourselves wrong we learned a great deal about him.

Siblings Marguerite (b. 1824), Antoine (b. 1827), Joseph (b. 1837), Felicite/Felix (1848), Delacrois (b. 1843), and Louis, all born in Minnesota Territory.

Listed three times in federal censuses, spelled differently each time:  1850 Aiken Bleau, 1860 Ekan Blowe, 1870 Ekin Blu.  Living with and caring for his aging mother in the Indian community of Watab outside Sauk Rapids MN in 1870.

Identified in various documents by as many as 13 different names:  Aiken Bleau dit Rossignal, Aiken Bleau, Ekan Blow, Ekin  Blu, Ecan Blue, Etienne Rasignole, Etienne Blue, Stephen Rossignal, Stephen Blue, Ecan Ressenblue,  Ecan Rescenlibue, "Captain" Blue, and "Cap" Blue.  This list is probably not comprehensive.

Appears as Ecan Rescenlibue in the Ancestry.com military service database -- enlisted as a private in the Union Army on 15 Aug 1862, age 19, mustered into Company H, 8th Infantry Regiment, MN, 30 Oct 1862, and mustered out of the same company at Ft Snelling on 11 July 1865, with commendation for Distinguished Service.  Looks like he served an amazing three years, part of it on the Punitive Sioux Expedition into the Dakotas and Montana.

Could neither read nor write, according to 1870 census, though his Civil War pension file shows that he could write his name.  In January 1870 in Anoka he married Angeline Blaire by a Catholic priest, and over the next 30 years he and Angeline raised a houseful of children in at least three different places:  on a farm near Centerville in Anoka County; in the city of Minneapolis; and from around 1888 until his death at age 57, near Richwood on White Earth Reservation, in the same neighborhood as his brother Felix, his nephew Charles Bottineau, and their extended kin.    Children included Maggie (b. Feb 11, 1873), Jennie (b. Aug 11, 1876), Annie (b. May 13, 1881), Sarah (b. Sept 22, 1883), Frank Louis (b. Dec 20, 1885), and Ida Louisa (b. March 17, 1896).  Buried at White Earth Indian Reservation, Minnesota.

Our great-great-great uncle-in-law.

links   •    solving the mystery of ekan blow   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bleau, Louis  (1852-1874)

b. ca. 1852, St Paul MN, d. 26 December 1874, Centerville, Anoka County, MN

Nellie's second husband, whom she met and married after divorcing Frank Lang in January 1871 -- most likely in 1873 or early 1874.  Like his siblings, displaced Ojibway-Métis from the Red River Valley.  Younger brother of Felix and Aiken Bleau and their eldest sister Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Baldwin.

Like a ghost in the documents, as the homepage says.  We've been trying to track down Louis Bleau for a good spell now.

Appears in no censuses.  We don't know why.  Born right after 1850 census, somehow missed (or name corrupted) in 1860 and 1870.  Does appear in the Half-Breed Scrip investigation of 1871 (where they denied his scrip application of 1869), and as a scrip recipient in 1873 under the terms of the Pembina Treaty of 1863-64, along with his siblings.  In March 1873 the federal government issued him scrip for 160 acres near St. Cloud. 

Thanks to EagleEye Bill DeCoursey, we've just learned that Louis Bleau met a violent and tragic end — stabbed to death at a holiday dance in Centerville, Anoka County, on the day after Christmas, 26 December 1874.  Nellie was pregnant with his child (Louise) at the time.   She may even have witnessed the event.  A stunning revelation.  Watch this space for updates.

Our great-great-grandfather-in-law.

links   •    half-breed scrip   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •   bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •   the murder of louis bleau

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    Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine  (1790-aft. 1850)

b. ca. 1790, Red River Valley, Manitoba, d. aft. 1850, St Paul MN?

The "first Antoine."  Patriarch of the Bleau dit Rossignal family.  Married to Margaret Bourdon (b. 1805), with whom he had children Marguerite (b. 1824), Antoine (b. 1827), Joseph (b. 1837), Aiken (1846), Felicite/Felix (1848), Delacrois (b. 1843), and Louis (b. 1850) all born in Minnesota Territory.  Last appearance in census is 1850, three years after his daughter Marguerite walked 600 miles from St Paul to Pembina and back to fetch her family and bring them back to St Paul.  1850 census shows him living in St Paul with wife and children -- all except son Antoine, who decided to stay up in the Red River Valley region.

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930

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   Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine (1827-?)

b. 1827, Red River Valley, d. aft. 1870, Red River Valley area

The "second Antoine."  Eldest son of Antoine Bleau dit Rossignal (b. 1790) and Margaret Bourdon (b. 1805).  Brother of Aiken, Felix, Margaret, Louis, and other Bleau dit Rossignal siblings.  Evidently lived up near the Red River Valley his whole life.

Married Catherine (Mohzo?) around 1847.  When his sister Margaret Bleau dit Rossignal walked 600 miles from St Paul to Pembina and back in fall 1847 to fetch her family and bring them to St Paul, evidently everyone came with her except Antoine, who decided to stay up in the Red River Valley.  With wife Catherine had children Antoine (b. 1848), Charlotte (b. 1849), Mary/Bastake (b. 1852), Eustace/Clemence (b. 1854), Solomon (b. 1857), Joseph (b. 1860), François/Frank (1862), Isabelle, and Andre (b. 1866).

Census listings:  1850:  Antoine Rashold, Pembina Co MN.  1860:  Antoine Belair, Red River Junction, Polk Co MN.  1870:  Antoine Blow, Hawk River, Renville Co MN.

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine (1848-?)

The "third Antoine."  Son of Antoine Bleau dit Rossignal (b. 1827) and wife Catherine.  Brother of Charlotte.  Cousin of Louis Bleau and his siblings.

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bleau dit Rossignal, Charlotte  (1848-?)

Daughter of Antoine Bleau dit Rossignal (Antoine II) and wife Catherine (Mohzo?).  Siblings Antoine Bleau dit Rossignal (Antoine III), Mary, Eustace, Delia, Solomon, Joseph, Andre, Margaret, Clemence, as best as we can tell. 

Married Jerome Davis, known as Mung-ge-Sheegan; Jerome's father William known as Kug-Kay-Dway; Jerome's grandfather Charles Henault.  Charlotte's daughter Eliza Davis Gouin married Joseph Gouin whose mother was Suzanne Piche.  "The Piches are an interesting bunch," according to Jane Bucknall who kindly sent us this information; "most of them are buried at Saint Francis Xavier outside of Winnipeg."

Cousin of Louis Bleau, and thus our . . . something-in-law.

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930

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   Bleau, Felix  (1848-1926)

b. 18 Dec 1848 MN Territory, d. 20 May 1926, Becker Co MN

"Half-breed" Ojibwe-Métis brother of Aiken Bleau and Louis Bleau.  Son of Marguerite Bourdon and Antoine Bleau.  Brother-in-law of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blow.  Census has him living with brother Aiken (Ekan) and Bailey T. and Margaret Baldwin in 1860 and married with children in 1870 and after.  Married Josephine McClure, the sister of Lucy Baldwin's first husband Theodore McClure, suggesting the density of the familial relationships between the Bleau's and McClure's.

Fought in the Civil War as a private in the same company as his brother Aiken (Company H, 8th Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry; mustered in 2 Feb 1864, mustered out 11 July 1865).  Civil War pension file contains tons of information about his life and is examined at length and in detail on two separate pages on this website.  Buried in Calvary Cemetery, White Earth, MN  56591.

Our great-great-great-great uncle-in-law.

links   •    felix blue pension file documents and felix blue pension file interpretations   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •   bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •  

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Bleau dit Rossignal, Marguerite (Margaret Rushenall, Bottineau, Baldwin, 1824-1900)

b. 1824, Red River Valley, Manitoba, British America, d. 31 March 1900, Minneapolis MN

A fascinating character, profiled in the Minneapolis Tribune in July 1899 as "a half-breed Chippewa Indian" and "the widow of Pierre Bottineau's brother."  Married to Bailey T. Baldwin from February 1851 until her death half a century later.  Her younger brother Louis Bleau married Nellie Kinsman Lang in the early 1870s, which is what brought Nellie and her small girls into the orbit of the Bleau-Baldwin extended kinship network.

Eldest child of Antoine Bleau dit Rosignal and Marguerite Bourdon.  Grew up in the rural districts of the Red River Valley.  In autumn 1847 made an epic 600 foot journey from St Paul to Pembina, Manitoba, and back again in order to fetch her family and bring them to St Paul, as described in the "Modern Leather-Stocking Tale" (link below).

In 1848 at age 24 married Basile Bottineau, brother of the famous Pierre Bottineau.  Bore him one child, Charles, on 7 March 1838.  In late 1840s, husband Basile drowned working for the Hudson Bay Company on an expedition out West.

Soon after, in Feb 1851 married Alabaman Bailey T. Baldwin, who adopted young Charles and fathered three of her children:  Lucy (1852), William (1858), Mary Baldwin (1862).  Fascinating tales of her life in Tribune story -- not only the 600 mile trek in fall 1847, but also giving birth to her youngest child at Fort Abercrombie during the height of Great Sioux Uprising of 1862, and much else of interest.  Ironically, the Tribune ignored her death, only eight months after profiling her life in a lengthy story, devoting but a single line on a single day for her death announcement.

From 1863 until her death, living in NE Minneapolis with a blind and ailing husband and an extensive network of friends and kin.   A fascinating match:  a "half-breed" woman from British Manitoba and a poor white (part Indian?) southerner from Alabama.  What is their story?

Evidence seems strong that her influence was crucial in Jennie and Nellie's upbringing.   Itching to learn more about her.  And her relationship to Nellie and the girls.  There's got to be more.

Our great-great-great grandmother-in-law.

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on documents home   •   "modern leatherstocking tale"    •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •   on pierre bottineau and the bottineau family see offsite:  http://users.ap.net/~chenae/bottineau.html   (photo: tintype of Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Bottineau Baldwin, ca. 1862, courtesy Jeane Morneau DeCoursey)

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Marguerite Machequayzaince Son-gabo-ki-che-ta, or "Clear Sky Woman", 1775-1864

Ojibway mother of Pierre and Basile Bottineau.

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930

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   Blowe, Louise  (1875-aft. 1916)

b. 1875, Minneapolis MN,  d. aft. 1916

Daughter of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe and Louis Bleau.  Never knew her father, as he was murdered before she was born.   In 1880, at age 5, she's living in the house of Lucy Baldwin McClure (daughter of Bailey T. Baldwin and Marguerite Bleau dit Rossignal Baldwin) on Sinclair St. in Minneapolis, right around the corner from Bailey and Marguerite on Bachman St.  Five years later, in 1885 at age 10, she's living with the Le Perdo (Thibodeau) family, not far from Bailey and Marguerite.  Doubtless a French-Canadian connection with Bailey's wife Marguerite. 

No trace of her after 1885, though Nellie's wedding article from August 1916 said Nellie had three daughters, so she must have still been alive.   (Jennie, b. 1866; Nellie, b. 1868; Louise, b. 1875).  The nine grandchildren mentioned in the article also suggest that Louise had at least one child.  (Jennie had seven children, all Sullivans; Nellie had none or perhaps one; so Louise must have had one or two).  Didn't attend Nellie's 1916 wedding.  Her life remains largely a mystery. 

Our great-great aunt.

links   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bottineau Baldwin, Marie Louise

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links   •   bleau (blue, blow), rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930

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   Bottineau, Basile / Bazill  (1820?-1850)

Métis guide and trapper, brother of famed Pierre Bottineau.  First husband of Margaret Bleau dit Rossignal, with whom he had one child, son Charles, b. 1838.  The story is that after marrying Margaret "he left to go with the Hudson Bay Company to the Rocky Mountains.  He was drowned shortly after," in the late 1840s.  Exact chronology unclear.  After his death, his fourteen year-old son Charles was adopted and raised by Bailey T. Baldwin when Bailey married the widow Margaret.

links   •   bleau (blue, blow), rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bottineau, Charles Mijigisi  (1838-1921)

b. 7 March 1838, Pembina, British Canada,  d. 5 May 1921, White Earth MN

Only son of Basil Bottineau and Margaret Bleau dit Rossignal Bottineau.  Born 7 March 1838 one mile south of Fort Garry MN.  Met Bailey T. Baldwin in 1851 at age 13.  A year later Baldwin married his widowed mother and adopted him.  Fought in Company F, Fifth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War (the same regiment as Bailey, who was in Co. D).  Was in active service for 3½ years -- mustered in on 14 Jan 1862 at Fort Snelling, age 24, and mustered out on 23 March 1865; he was one of the few in his company neither wounded, killed, or transferred to the Invalid Corps  (Minnesota in the Civil & Indian Wars, St Paul Pioneer Press Co., 1890, p. 292).  In the same company was Peter (Pierre) Bottineau, age 22, probably his cousin and son of the famed Pierre Bottineau.

His Civil War pension offers many details about his life and family and community in White Earth.  First wife "Josephine Cobb died at Minneapolis Minn in 1867 . . . in childbirth the child also died."  Married Mary Bottineau Ducette in 1912 at White Earth by father Alouysis, Catholic priest, though by his own account the couple had "lived together for some time previous" -- probably from the early 1880s.  Wife Mary Ducette had been married previously to Jean Baptiste Bellacourt, who died in White Earth MN in 1862 or 1866 "as near as I can tell."  She died Jan 7, 1920.   The couple lived in poverty and he remained illiterate.  At age 74 described as 5' 11", dark complexion, dark grey eyes, black hair, occupation laborer.  Children with Mary Bottineau named Mary Bottineau, b. April 11, 1881 and Charles Bottineau, b. July 26, 1882. 

Died Saturday night, March 5, 1921, according to The Tomahawk, "a weekly publication published at White Earth, Minn."  (Civil War pension file)

Jennie Lang's uncle-in-law.  

links   •   bleau (blue, blow), rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bottineau, Jean Baptiste (John B.), 1837-1911

b. 3 May 1837, St Paul MN, d. 1 Dec 1911, Washington D.C.

Son of Pierre Bottineau and his first wife Genevieve "Jennie" Larence.  Married Marguerite Renville on 17 Nov 1862 in Pembina Co, Dakota Territory, notably just after the onset of the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota.  Had daughter Marie Louise Bottineau, later Baldwin, 14 Dec 1863, Pembina Co, followed by daughters Lilian Ann Bottineau (21 June 1865 in St Joseph, Stearns Co MN) and Alvina Clemente Bottineau (April 1867 in Minneapolis MN).

These children may well have been childhood playmates of Jennie and Nellie Lang, as all were age-mates and lived in the same neighborhood.

Became a prominent Minneapolis attorney.  In May 1879 he served as witness to Bailey T. Baldwin's application for arrears for his Civil War Pension.  Cousin to Marguerite Baldwin's firstborn child, Charles Bottineau Mijigisi.  Daughter Marie Louise went on to become the first woman of color to graduate from Washington Law School in Washington D.C.   Googling his name leads to a contemporary-era attorney of the same name, working with Native peoples in the Pembina area.  His and his daughter's lives seem to cry out for a biographer.

links   •   jean baptiste bottineau, marie louise bottineau baldwin, and bailey t. & margaret baldwin   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930

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   Bottineau, Pierre  (1817-1895)

Famous Métis scout, guide, trapper, trader, explorer, renowned in Minnesota and North Dakota history.  A county in North Dakota named after him, along with parks, streets, libraries, and other public spaces across the upper Midwest.  One could do worse than to cite the 1955 Columbia Encyclopedia entry on his life:

"American frontier guide, b. Red River (of the north) valley.  He was the son of a French Canadian fur trader and an Ojibwa woman.  An agent of the American Fur Company, he settled on a claim now in the business section of St Paul, Minn., and later was a guide in the Red River Valley, in the Montana gold mines, and in British Columbia.  He was the guide to the party of Isaac I. Stevens and other railroad surveying groups and was a scout in the Sioux wars."

Father was Charles Bottineau (French-Canadian fur trader), and Ojibwe mother Marguerite Machequayzaince Son-gabo-ki-che-ta, or "Clear Sky Woman," 1775-1864.  Googling his name yields thousands of links. 

His brother Basil was the first husband of Margaret Bleau dit Rossignal.  After Basil died in the late 1840s, Margaret married Bailey T. Baldwin; by the 1870s Bailey & Margaret Baldwin were helping to raise and care for the Lang girls, Jennie and Nellie.  (photo from www.hennbios.tripod.com)

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Bourdon, Margaret  (ca 1805-1873?)

Wife of Antoine Bleau dit Rossignal (b. 1790), mother of Margaret Bleau dit Rossignal Bottineau Baldwin, as well as Aiken Bleau, Felix Bleau, Antoine Bleau (b. 1827), and the other Bleau siblings.

Her son Aiken living with her in Watab, Sauk Center, MN, in 1870, according to to 1870 census (misidentified as "Margaret Blee" in Ancestry.com database).

links   •   bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota, 1790-1930   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Church, Charley  (1863-?)

Third husband of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe.  Father of Nellie's granddaughter Mary Sullivan Church.  (Yes, Nellie married the father of her granddaughter's husband - that's why the story made the wire services as an oddball human interest story.)

Our great-great-grandfather-in-law

links   •    bailey t. baldwin pension file and related items on  documents home   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   Church, Dorothy  (1913-1970s)

b. 1913, Minneapolis MN, d. ca. 1970s, Minneapolis

Daughter of Maime Sullivan Church.  Had daughter Joan Ebert by a man named Ray Ebert.  Ray later killed in a train accident.  Later married a much older man, name unknown, with whom she had one son, Bernard. 

Our cousin Dorothy.

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   Church, Henry  (1884-1949)

b. 1884, MN, d. 5 Feb 1949, MN

Husband of Mary Sullivan Church (Aunt Maime, Grandma's eldest sister).  His father Charley Church became the third husband of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe.  Born in MN, father b. VT, mother b. WI.  Had two children, Dorothy and Robert.  Working as an engineer at the heating plant in downtown Minneapolis in 1920.

Our great uncle-in-law.

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   Church, Robert  (1914-1960s)

b. 1914, Minneapolis MN, d. ca. 1970, Minneapolis MN

Son of Maime Sullivan Church.  Worked for a time on the Al-Can highway and in Alaska.  Bartender.  Weighed at least 400 pounds at his death; authorities had to dismantle an exterior wall to get his body out of the house.

Our cousin Bob.

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   Conway, Eileen (Dolly, ca. 1920- ca. 1945)

b. 1920, Minneapolis MN, d. ca. 1945

Daughter of Grandma's sister Nell Sullivan Conway (Aunt Nell), brother of Bernard Conway.  When Aunt Nell died in 1930, Grandma took in both Dolly and Bernard.  Left her Aunt Gen and brother Bernard in late 1930s and was never heard from again.  "Dolly went through life with many imaginary illnesses and she died young," according to Aunt Grace's son Richard Reiser.  Her sudden departure and refusal to stay in touch, combined with Bernard's tragic death in a car accident in 1938, broke Grandma's heart.

Our aunt.

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   Conway, Bernard  (1923-1938)

Son of Grandma's sister Nell Sullivan Conway (Aunt Nell).  After his father and mother died, he was taken in by his Aunt Genevieve (Grandma) in 1930, along with his sister Eileen (Dolly).  A weak and sickly boy, he died in a car crash in 1938, a tragedy his Aunt Gen never got over.

Our uncle.

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   Delehanty, Anastasia

b. 1847, Co Tipperary, Ireland, d. aft. 1903, Rutland Co VT

Daughter of Patrick and Mary Harney Delehanty, one of the six Delehanty children who arrived in America in 1853.  Married Patrick Wallace, bore five of his children (Margaret, Alice, Mary, John, Patrick).  Story that she and husband Patrick accompanied her brother John out West in 1870s seeking gold, but turned back after running into "Indian trouble."   Our grandfather John Delehanty's aunt.

Our great-great aunt.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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Delehanty, Betty Jane (Schroeder; Liz Tedmon, 1928-1988)

b. 22 June 1928, Minneapolis MN, d. 11 Feb 1988, Carmichael CA

One of the two most wonderful people ever to inhabit planet Earth (the other was her mother, Genevieve Sullivan Delehanty).  Her father John Delehanty died when she was seven months old.  Grew up in NE Minneapolis, raised by her mother.  Lived with her cousins Dolly and Bernard and her Uncle Ed.  Married Harold F. Schroeder, Jr. in 1949, and bore him five children:  Sue (b. 1954), Paul (b. 1956), Michael (b. 1958), Thomas (b. 1960), and Mark (b. 1961).  In early 1980s divorced Harry, married Clifford Tedmon, and moved to California, where she lived five glorious years until her premature death at age 59.  Died with dirt under her fingernails.  A woman of extraordinary humor, love, compassion, and practical wisdom.  Most of her ashes are buried on Paul's land in Isanti MN.

Our mom.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Daniel (1880-aft 1903)

b. July 1880, Granville NY, d. aft. 1903, Spokane WA?

Eldest brother of our grandfather John Delehanty, first-born son of Mathias and Bridget Waters Delehanty.  Spent most of his childhood in West Castleton VT.  In 1900 listed as a "laborer slate mill."  Migrated to Spokane WA sometime between summer 1900 and spring 1903, according to the obituary of his sister Margaret.  No trace of him after that.

Our great-uncle.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Elizabeth (1884-1900)

b. Nov 1884, Granville, NY, d. 24 Sept 1900, Fair Haven VT

Sister of John Delehanty, middle daughter of Mathias and Bridget Waters Delehanty.  "A bright and winsome girl, one beloved by all" died of consumption (tuberculosis) at age 16.  "Her death was deeply regretted by all in the community. . . . Most of her life had been passed with her parents in West Castleton. . . . the fourth death in the family in less than two years" in a spate of deaths by consumption in John's family in the early 1900s.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-aunt.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, James Andrew  (1878-1960)

b. Aug 3, 1878, Hydeville VT, d. April 26, 1960, New York City

Seventh child of James H. Delehanty and Mary Hatch Delehanty, cousin to our grandfather John Delehanty.  Educated at New York Law school, and became a big-shot New York City lawyer, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life, mostly in the county district attorney's office.  Jailed bad guys.  His New York Times obituary paints a pretty compelling portrait -- "an austere-looking man with silvery hair, he was regarded by colleagues as a person of absolute probity.  He invariably wore a stiff white collar and pince-nez and meted out stern but equitable justice."  Obituary further tells of his life prosecuting crooked cops and street thugs, and fighting valiantly against the political machine of Tammany Hall.  A true Progressive reformer.  A thorough search of the Times archives likely to reveal hundreds of stories in which he's at least mentioned.

If James Delehanty left behind any papers -- diaries, notes, photographs -- he probably left them with James Andrew.  We therefore solicit contact with any of the living descendents of James Andrew and his wife Elizabeth J. Shaefer Delehanty and their three daughters -- Isabel Delehanty Lyons (m. Jeremiah Lyons, d. 6 May 1994), Alice Delehanty Weaver (among other things Head Librarian of Rare Books and the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine from 1953 until her retirement in 1979, d. 23 June 1993); and Elizabeth Delehanty O'Connor -- all three sisters Delehanty of New York City and Spring Lake, New Jersey.

Our great uncle.

links   •    obituary of james andrew delehanty & related documents   •   mike's west castleton journal  •   ancestry chart 8  (Photo from New York Times obituary, 27 April 1960)

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   Delehanty, James H. (1844-1917)

b. 24 Nov 1844, County Tipperary, Ireland, d. 1917, Rutland Co VT.

Uncle of our grandfather John Delehanty, younger brother of John's father Mathias.  Came to the United States with the rest of his family in 1853.  Worked in the slate quarries from age 15, according to his published biography, and through his own hard work and frugality saved enough to buy property and build a house in Hydeville on the southern tip of Lake Bomoseen, and to start Downs & Delehanty Slate Works in 1873. 

Married Mary Hatch (b. MA) on 5 October 1865 and with her raised his 11 children in Hydeville:  Mary E. (Sister Magdalene, b. 1866), Alice D. (1867), Patrick H. (1869), Catherine (1871), Nicolas J. (1873), Anna A. (Sister Immaculata, 1876), James Andrew (1878), Helen F. (1880), Francis J. (1882), Isabel (Sister Colette, 1884), and Ambrose (1887).  Wife Mary ran the "Hatch House" in Hydeville, a property bequeathed to daughters Mary E. and Catherine H. upon his death.  Became a prominent citizen of Rutland County, a selectman for six years in the 1890s, and elected to the VT state legislature in 1898.  Three of his daughters, nuns, helped to found Trinity College in Bennington VT in the early 1900s, while his son James Andrew became a big-shot New York City lawyer. 

In March 1902, at 15 years of age, nephew John Delehanty (our grandfather) chose his Uncle James as his legal guardian after the deaths of his parents in 1899-1901. 

Owned a lot of stocks in mining companies, including several out West, where his nephew John migrated around 1906-07.  Left his estate to his children exclusively.

Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-great uncle.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal  •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, John  (1849-abt 1916)

b. 1849, County Tipperary, Ireland, d. 1916, Rutland Co, VT.

Uncle of our grandfather John Delehanty, younger brother of John's father Mathias.  Stories that he went West in 1870s to pan for gold, probably to the Black Hills.  1880 census shows "John Delehante" of right age and birthplace working as a miner in Lead City, Lawrence Co, Dakota Territory along with his brother-in-law Patrick Wallace.  Superintendent of Lake Bomoseen Slate Company in 1880s and 90s.  Tons of land records, liens, and other documents relating to his life in the Fair Haven and Castleton town offices.  In 1898, relatively late in life, Married Hannah McHenry, 17 years his junior, who bore seven of his children.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-uncle.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, John  (1886-1929)

b. 31 Oct 1886, West Castleton VT, d. 21 Jan 1929, St. Paul MN.

Still very much of a mystery, even though the outlines of his life are clear.  Born in the Delehanty Boarding House on in the shadows of Cedar Mountain on the shores of Lake Bomoseen on Halloween 1886 (three days after the official dedication of the Statue of Liberty, in the year of 'labor's great upheaval').  Second boy and fourth child of six siblings.  Grew up among the slate quarrymen and women of West Castleton & Hydeville.  Got a good education at the West Castleton Schoolhouse, a relatively privileged early life.  Didn't work in the quarries, as far as we can tell.  As a teenager, ages 13-17, survived a spate of deaths in his family from tuberculosis and other respiratory ailments (1898-1903), including his mother Bridget, father Mathias, sisters Elizabeth and Margaret, and brother Mathias.  Selected his Uncle James as his legal guardian in March 1902, a year or so before he left Vermont for good.

Migrated West ca. 1903-1906.  Married Bridget McDonough in Minnesota ca. 1906-07, distantly related to the Castleton VT McDonoughs.  No record of the marriage in Ramsey County (St Paul), so they probably eloped.  Migrated further West with Bridget.  Had son Lester in Montana in 1908.  Working as a miner for Hecla Mining Co. in Black Bear, Idaho, and living with wife and child, in June 1917.  Moved back to St. Paul by June 1920, living with parents-in-law, wife Bridget, and son Lester.

Early 1920s, tried to find his professional feet in St. Paul, working in successively as a laborer, painter, driver, salesman, and truck farmer.  Wife Bridget probably died in 1922.   Circa 1927 he married Genevieve Sullivan.  Had daughter Elizabeth Jane in June 1928, seven months before succumbing to chronic heart disease at age 42.

Understanding his life the inspiration for Mike's West Castleton Journal.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minneapolis MN.

Our grandfather. 

links   •    mike's west castleton journal •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Lester  (1908-1929?)

b. 1908, Montana, d. aft. 1928

Largely a mystery.  Only child of John Delehanty and Bridget McDonough Delehanty, born in Montana in 1908, according to the 1920 census, though the State of Montana has no record of his birth.  Evidently spent his early childhood out West in mining country with his parents, then moved with them to St. Paul, MN by 1920.  From age 12 lived in St. Paul with his mother's parents and then his father.  Begins appearing in St. Paul City Directory in 1925.  Worked at St. Paul Hoist & Derrick as a laborer.  Evidently alive when John Delehanty married Genevieve Sullivan, and when their daughter Elizabeth Jane Delehanty (mom) was born.  Where and when he died unknown.

We never thought of our mom having a sibling.  Evidently she did:  her step-brother, Lester.

Our uncle.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal  •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Margaret  (1882-1903)

b. July 1882, Granville NY, d. 1 April 1903, Hydeville VT

Sister of John Delehanty.  Died of consumption at age 21, the last in a spate of deaths that shattered John's family from 1899-1903 and prompted John's migration West.  Survived by sister Teresa of Granville NY, brothers Daniel and John.  Buried in St. Mary's cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-aunt.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Mary  (McCormick, 1870-aft. 1903)

b. April 1870, Granville NY, d. aft. 1903

Second child and only daughter of Mathias Delehanty and Margaret McGrath, born in Granville NY.  Only sister of Patrick J. and Philip William.  Mother died when she was seven.  Moved to West Castleton after 1885 with father and step-mother Bridget, then back to Granville.  Married Joseph McCormick, no children as far as we know.  Mentioned several times in Mathias & Bridget's probate papers.  Took in her niece Ellen Teresa Delehanty after Mathias & Bridget's deaths.  Unknown when or where she died.

Our grandfather's half-sister.

links   •   mike's west castleton journal

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   Delehanty, Mathias  (Matthew, 1842-1899)

b. 12 May 1842, Co Tipperary, Ireland, d. 10 July 1899, Rutland Co VT

Father of John Delehanty.  Husband of Bridget Waters Delehanty.  Eldest son of Patrick and Mary (Harney) Delehanty.  Came to the United States in 1853 with parents and siblings James, Anastasia, John, Mary, and Patrick Henry.  Moved with family to Hydeville VT and worked as a quarryman from early teens.  In the late 1860s married Margaret McGrath, with whom he had 3 children in Granville NY:   Patrick (b. 1868), Mary (b. 1869), and Philip (b. 1872).  Wife Margaret died in May 1877, leaving him a widowed father of three.

Married Bridget Waters within a year or two of Margaret's death.  In mid-1880s he and Bridget opened the Delehanty Boarding House in West Castleton VT, adjunct to Lake Bomoseen Slate Company, owned by his brothers James and John and Patrick H. Downs.  There he and Bridget raised their six children, until his death in July 1899 from tuberculosis.   His brother James's 1899 biography describes him as "a respected citizen of West Castleton."  Few other clues about who he was as a human being.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-grandfather.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Mathias  (1892-1901)

b. April 1892, West Castleton VT, d. 23 Feb 1901, Fair Haven VT

Youngest son of Mathias and Bridget Waters Delehanty, brother of John Delehanty.  Died of a lung abscess at eight years old, two years after his father, five months after his sister Elizabeth, and eight months before his mother.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-great uncle.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Patrick  (1809-1888)

b. 1809, Co Tipperary, Ireland, d. 1888, Rutland Co VT

Family patriarch who, with his family of seven (wife Mary Harney Delehanty and children Mathias, James, Anastasia, John, Mary, and Patrick Henry) migrated to the slate districts of Vermont from famine-ravaged Co Tipperary, Ireland in 1853.  A quarryman all his life; still listed as a quarryman in the 1880 census (at 71 years of age). 

Enlisted for nine months in Company F of the 14th Regiment of the Vermont Volunteers in the Civil War; evidently the only member of his family to serve in the Union Army.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Our great-great-grandfather.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8   •   off-site reference on his civil war service:  www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/rutlandcastelton.html

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   Delehanty, Patrick Henry  (1852-1888)

b. 1852, Co Tipperary Ireland, d. 6 May 1888, Cambridge NY

Youngest child of Patrick and Mary Harney Delehanty.  Instead of entering the slate quarries like his brothers, he entered the Catholic priesthood.  "Father Delehanty," as he came to be known, was educated in Montreal Canada and appointed parish priest in Cambridge, New York, where he died at the age of 36.  A large gravestone with a bass-relief likeness graces the Cemetery of St. Mary's in Fair Haven VT, where he was buried.

Our great-great-uncle.

links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Delehanty, Patrick J.  (1869-1899)

b. 1869, Granville NY, d. 7 May 1899, West Castleton VT

First-born child of Mathias and Margaret (McGrath) Delehanty.  Mother died when he was eight.   Obituary describes him as "well known in this vicinity."  Married Mary E. Mahar, with whom he had two children:  Clyde Michael (b. 1892) and Alice (b. 1893).  Died in West Castleton "after a lingering illness with consumption" a year after his younger brother Philip William, probably at the Delehanty Boarding House.  Funeral in West Castleton, buried in Poultney.  The second in the spate of deaths that shattered John Delehanty's nuclear family in the late 1890s and early 1900s. 

Our grandfather John Delehanty's half-brother.

links   •   mike's west castleton journal

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   Delehanty, Philip William  (1872-1898)

b. 22 May 1872, Castleton, d. 21 April 1898, Castleton

Third and youngest child of Mathias Delehanty and Margaret McGrath.  Siblings Patrick J. and Mary.  Mother Margaret died when he was five.   After 1885 living with father Mathias and step-mother Bridget Waters in their boarding house a mile east of West Castleton.  In 1890s opened up a grocery and dry goods store in Hydeville with business partner P. J. Kelley -- "Kelley & Delehanty" -- a later incarnation of which was bought out by his Uncle James.  Implicated in a forgery scheme in Fair Haven in Sept 1894, for which his partner Kelley was sentenced to 15 months hard labor, according to a story in the Rutland Herald.

Also worked as a stonecutter.    Died of lung disease (pleuritis pulmonosis), according to death certificate.  The first in a spate of deaths that shattered John Delehanty's nuclear family, 1898-1903.

Our grandfather's half-brother.

links   •   mike's west castleton journal

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   Downs, Patrick H.  (1847-1902)

b. Feb 1847, Ireland, d. bef. Sept 1902, Castleton, Rutland Co VT

Business partner of James & John Delehanty, and co-owner of Lake Bomoseen Slate Company a mile east of West Castleton on the shore of Lake Bomoseen.  Lifelong friend of the Delehantys.  Married Kate Hatch in 1870, the sister of James Delehanty's wife Mary Hatch -- thus making him James's brother-in-law.  A year later, in January 1871, wife Kate and unborn child died in childbirth.  Married Bridget Penders and had a houseful of kids.  1900 census shows him married to Bridget with five children and one "charity child."  Probate records show he accumulated more than $20,000 in assets prior to his death.  Son Thomas, age 13, was pall bearer at funeral of Elizabeth Delehanty in Sept 1900.

An extensive biography of him in the Rutland County Book of Biographies.  Lots of land records, newspaper stories, town reports, and other documentary evidence on his life.  A very prominent resident of Hydeville by the time of his death.

Our great-great uncle.

links   •    biography of patrick h. downs   •   biography of james delehanty   •   mike's west castleton journal   •   ancestry chart 8

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   Eaton, Mary Ormell (Kinsman, 1796-1891)

b. 2 Nov 1796 Arlington, Bennington Co VT, d. 21 Jan 1891, East Smithfield PA

Pioneer farming matriarch who lived an exceptionally long, rich, and productive life.  Mother of Sheldon Kinsman, grandmother of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe Church.   Daughter of Kimball Eaton (whose ancestry is traced back to 1558) and Mary Paige.  Born and raised on a farm on the north side of Spruce Peak in Vermont's Green Mountains.  As a girl of 15 or 16 she heard the distant sounds of cannon fire on Lake Champlain during War of 1812, as she recalled many years later.  Married George Kinsman sometime in 1810s and began raising a family.

Migrated out of Vermont down Susquehanna Valley to Southport, Chemung Co NY in late 1810s, where she lived the rest of her life.  Had twelve children, Sheldon the eldest.  Cared for and helped to raise Sheldon's daughter Ellen after Sheldon's first wife Eliza Tuthill died in 1848-49.  Reportedly experienced the phenomenon of "second eyesight" in her 96th year, a few months before her death. 

"A small, dark-haired woman with small features.  Her hair had very little gray in it when she died," according to William C. Kinsman II's The Kinsman Family.  Died during a blizzard in the home of her son Hiram.  Buried in the Kinsman lot on the east side of the Union Cemetery in East Smithfield, PA.  Her long and productive life cries out for further investigation.

Our great-great-great-great grandmother.

Links   •   ancestry chart 7   •   Saga, books i and iii   •   biography of sheldon kinsman

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   Eichendorf, Henriette  (1855-aft. 1920)

b. 20 May 1855, Alkischau, Germany, d. aft. 1920, Southside Twp, Wright Co MN

Frank Lang's fourth and last wife.  Migrated to the United States in late 1880s with husband Julius and five children - Herman, Augusta, Fred, Rudolph, and Laura -  settling in Minneapolis.  Husband Julius died a year after they arrived.  Met Frank Lang in Minneapolis in Jan 1892, while he was married to Clara Morris Lang, and began seeing him.  Married Frank on 17 June 1892 in Minneapolis, six weeks after his divorce from Clara on 5 May.  Lived with Frank in Minneapolis for the next five or so years, then moved with husband Frank and son Rudolph to a farm in South Haven, Wright Co, MN, where she lived for the rest of her life.  Married to Frank for 12 years (1892-1904).

Began seeking Frank's pension money soon after his death in 1904, and was still wrangling with the Pension Bureau in 1918.  In 1918 the Pension Bureau's special examiner accused her of holding fealty to the Kaiser and recommended seizing her farm.  She still had the farm in 1920, but unknown whether she kept it thereafter.  Also unknown whether she ever saw a nickel of Frank's pension money.  Depositions and other documents portray a simple, decent immigrant woman being stymied and then threatened by the federal bureaucracy.

Our great-grandmother in law.

Links   •   frank lang civil war pension file

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   Eichendorf, Rudolph  (1885-aft. 1920)

b. 1 Dec 1885, Alkischau, Germany, d. MN aft. 1920

Son of Henriette Eichendorf Lang, stepson of Frank Lang.  Interviewed by the Pension Bureau in April 1918 in consequence of his mother's efforts to get Frank's Civil War pension money.  Living with and caring for his aging widowed mother.  Subsequently harassed and threatened by Pension Bureau Special Examiner E. W. Young, who insisted he provide proof of naturalization.  Mother's farm almost seized.   Deposition leaves the impression of a decent chap who knew Frank Lang fairly well.  File shows Eichendorf family victimized by the federal government's anti-German, anti-immigrant Dept of Justice.

Our great-uncle-in-law.

Links   •   frank lang civil war pension file

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   Harney, Mary (Delehanty, 1814-1864)

b. 1814, Co Tipperary, Ireland, d. Jan 1864, Rutland Co VT

Irish immigrant matriarch.  Wife of Patrick Delehanty, mother of Mathias, James, Anastasia, John, Mary, and Patrick Henry Delehanty.  Married Patrick in 1836 in Carrick on Suir, Co Tipperary, Ireland, and migrated to United States with husband and six children in 1853.  Died while husband Patrick was serving in Vermont Volunteers in the Civil War.  Few clues about who she was as a human being.

Our great-great grandmother.

Links   •   mike's west castleton journal

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   HOLBRECHT, Louisa (Kaddatz, 1826-1868)

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   Kaddatz, Augusta (Schacht, 1854-1944)

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Kaddatz, Bertha Augusta Wilhelmina (Schroeder, 1851-1922)

b. 1851, Grabow, Germany, d. 2 June 1922, St. Paul MN

"Pioneer Woman Dies" reads the June 1922 obituary of our paternal great-grandmother, wife to William Schroeder, and grandmother to Harry Schroeder Jr.   It goes on to say that she came to St. Paul MN in 1861 at 10 years of age from birthplace in Grabow, Germany.  According to information written down by R.G., dated 1/21/57, the Kaddatz family came to St. Paul in 1867.  Since R.G.'s record-keeping is vastly more trustworthy, she was more likely around 17 when she immigrated. 

Eldest of six siblings - five girls and a baby boy, immigrants all:  Bertha, Tillie (b. 1853), Augusta (1854), Minnie (1859), Louise (1862), and Karl or Charlie (1864).

Lived in St. Paul from 1867 and raised seven children:  Anna (b. 1869), Tillie (1872), Louisa (1874), William (1877), Carl (1882), Raymond (1889), and Harold (1894).

Described as "a devout consistent, regular member of the Faith church, . . . her delight was in the law of the Lord."  Active in the Ladies' Aid Society.  Survived by four sisters and one brother.

Our great-grandmother.

links   •    saga, book ii

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   Kaddatz, Carl  (1819-1875)

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   Kaddatz, Charles W.  (Karl, 1864-1957)

b. 9 July 1864, Grabow, Mecklenburg (Germany), d. 22 Sept 1957, Fergus Falls MN

Favorite (and only) uncle of R.G., baby brother of Bertha Kaddatz Schroeder.  A fascinating character and master salesman who became "the richest man in Fergus Falls, Minnesota," owner of the Hotel Kaddatz and Kaddatz House, and whose exploits take up a good many pages in a 1916 history of Otter Tail County, MN, reproduced in full in the Documents pages (and from whence this photo was taken).  Helped Bertha and William financially from the early 1900s.  Indeed, Charles Kaddatz may well have kept William Schroeder's family solvent and off the poor farm.  A pretty amazing Horatio Alger-like story that cries out for more research.

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links   •   charles w. kaddatz on kaddatz family documents page

   Kaddatz, Louise (Zeige, 1862-1934)

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   Kaddatz, Minnie  (1859-1924)

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   Kaddatz, Tillie  (1853-1924)

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   Kinsman, Asa E.  (1819-1899)

b. 30 May 1819, Shaftsbury, Bennington Co VT, d. 15 Sept 1899, Burr Oak, St. Joseph Co MI

Brother of Sheldon Kinsman, son of George and Mary Eaton Kinsman, uncle of Nellie Kinsman.  Married Sarah Rogers, who bore his six children, five in NY and one in MI.  With brother Sheldon, wife Sarah, and their children, including Nellie, migrated West from Chemung Co NY in late 1850s, first to Ohio, then Indiana, then settling in St. Joseph Co MI. 

Tried to become something of a local political player in Burr Oak MI in early 1860s, with mixed success:  in April 1861 received one vote for town supervisor, from a total of 299 votes.  In 1864 elected one of the town's four constables, with 194 votes of 1,119.  Apparently a propertyless farmer and laborer all his life.

Our great-great uncle.

Links   •    Saga, books i and iii

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Kinsman, Ella (Ellen, Nellie, Nettie; Lang Sullivan Blowe [Blow] Church, 1848-1927)

b. 8 March 1848, Southport, Chemung Co NY, d. 29 March 1927, Minneapolis MN

A fascinating character who led a remarkable life, and one of the main characters in this family history project.  Mother of Jennie Lang, grandmother of Genevieve Sullivan.  The eldest child of Sheldon Kinsman, and first grandchild of George and Mary Eaton Kinsman. 

Mother Eliza Tuthill died when she was an infant.  Raised by her grandmother Mary Eaton Kinsman, and perhaps her aunt Selma Kinsman, until age 7 or 8 when she left New York with her father Sheldon and his brother Asa in their migration through Ohio and Indiana to St. Joseph Co, MI, ca. 1855-1857.

Never attended school regularly as a child.  Probably worked constantly.  Remained illiterate.  Perhaps let out as a domestic servant to a blacksmith family in Burr Oak from age 11 or 12 (1859-1860).

Suspect that she met Frank Lang in Burr Oak when Frank enlisted in the Union Army in Aug 1861.  Secretly married him in White Pigeon, MI on 11 Jan 1865, at age 16.  Made her marriage public 13 months later, on 7 Feb 1866, age 17.  Had daughter Jennie Lang on 10 Nov 1866, almost exactly nine months after filing her marriage license.  The next month, Dec 1866, migrated with Frank and baby Jennie to Hastings, MN.  Had daughter Nellie Lang in Hastings in 1868.   Verbally and physically abused by husband Frank, abandoned for months at a time, left destitute.  Had a mysterious uncle in Hastings who helped her survive her abandonment; perhaps fictive kin.  Unknown. 

Divorced Frank Lang in Jan 1871 and moved to Minneapolis.  Married Louis Bleau in early 1870s, probably 1873-74 and became pregnant with his child.  Husband Louis stabbed to death on December 26, 1874 at a holiday dance in Centerville, Anoka Co MN.  The perpetrator served time in Stillwater State Prison.  [ we've just learned this and are still early in the investigation -- watch this space for updates ]

Bore third and last child, daughter Louise Blowe, in 1875.  In 1880 working as a live-in domestic servant in Richfield MN, adjacent to Fort Snelling V. A. Hospital, while her three daughters lived with Bailey T. and Marguerite Baldwin and their extended family in NE Minneapolis. 

For the next quarter-century, 1885-1912, shared a house with daughter Jennie Lang Sullivan and son-in-law Cornelius Sullivan in NE Minneapolis.  Helped to raise all seven Sullivan grandchildren.  After 1912, moved to a small house in SW Minneapolis, which she shared with granddaughter Mary Sullivan Church (Aunt Maime), Maime's husband Henry, and their two children.  Married Henry's father Charley Church in 1916, until her death on 29 March 1927 at age 79.  Buried in the pauper's section of Hillside Cemetery in Minneapolis.

Illiterate all her life.  Worked as domestic servant and cook.  No photos or physical artifacts from her survive, save her statements in the divorce papers of January 1871.

Piecing together her life from the fragments she left behind has been and remains one hell of a project.

Our great-great grandmother.

Links   •    Saga, books i and  iii   •   nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •   nellie divorce papers   •   bailey t. baldwin civil war pension file   •   seeking ella in burr oak mi, 1860   •    biography of sheldon kinsman   •   ancestry chart of mary eaton kinsman   •    nellie's grave  (Illustration:  one of two physical artifacts she left behind:  her second "signature" on her 1871 divorce papers)

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   Kinsman, George  (1792-1878)

b. 19 June 1792, Shaftsbury, Bennington Co VT, d. 15 Sept 1878, Southport, Chemung Co, NY

Father of Sheldon Kinsman.  Grandfather of Nellie Kinsman.  Son of Thomas Kinsman, farmer, stone-cutter, and soldier in the Revolutionary War, and Susanna Jones.  Grew up in the shadow of Spruce Peak in the Green Mountains of Vermont.  After War of 1812 became a farmer and millwright.  Married Mary Eaton in Shaftsbury VT sometime in 1810s and began raising a family.  Ancestry traced back to 1605 in William C. Kinsman's two-volume The Kinsman Family.

Migrated out of Vermont and down the Susquehanna Valley sometime in 1820s, settling in Southport, Chemung Co NY, where he, wife Mary, and children carved a farm out of the wilds.  Deeds in his and wife Mary's names date to 1835.  Owned 363 acres on South Creek, 200 acres in Pennsylvania, and 196 acres in Indiana.  Built a house between Fassetts and Elmira, Chemung Co NY, that reportedly still stood in the 1970s (according to W. C. Kinsman, The Kinsman Family, 2 vols.), no trace of which remains today.   "The Pennsylvania Railroad ran through his property and was the cause of "laming" for years before the Pennsy paid his claim against them."  (Wm C. Kinsman II, The Kinsman Family, v. II.)  The ancient remnants of the Pennsy rail bed can still be seen on the hill next to his old farmstead. 

Raised 12 children and several grandchildren.  A long, rich, and productive life the cries out for further research.  Buried at Fassetts Cemetery beside his daughter Amanda Marcella.

Our great-great-great-great grandfather.

Links   •   saga, books i and iii   •   photos of kinsman land records in chemung co ny and site of old farmstead in southport (now ashland) ny, 2007  (Illustration:  Signature of George Kinsman, October 26, 1876, Chemung Co. Deeds, Book 74, p. 549; photo no. 477, on WCJ Photo Page 17).

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   Kinsman, Selma  (Wilcox, 1828-1926)

b. 1828, Pennsylvania, d. 1926

Younger sister of Sheldon Kinsman.  Aunt of Nellie Kinsman.  Included here because she probably helped to care for Nellie when Nellie was a baby girl.  Listed in 1850 census as 22 years old, living with her mother Mary Eaton Kinsman, her father George Kinsman, and two year-old Nellie ("Ellen Cinsman"), making her the right age to spend a lot of time with baby and toddler Nellie.  Married Nathan Wilcox, listed in 1850 census as living next-door with her older brother (and Nellie's father) Sheldon.  Migrated to Detroit and then to Flint MI and had a whole houseful of kids.

Our great-great-great-great aunt.

Links   •   saga, books i and iii

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   Kinsman, Sheldon  (1818-1904)

b. 26 Nov 1818, Shaftsbury, Bennington Co VT, d. 28 July 1904, Coldwater, Branch Co MI

Eldest of the twelve children of George and Mary (Eaton) Kinsman, and father of Ella Kinsman Lang Blowe Church.  A farmer and woodworker all his life.  Lived in Vermont, New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.  His youngest brother, Hiram Kinsman, born 1841, became a prominent physician and has a well-documented genealogy.  His mother Mary Eaton's family is traced back 10 generations, to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640s, and earlier, to England in 1550s.  His father George Kinsman's family is traced back to England to 1604. 

As a boy age 9-10 migrated with parents from Shaftsbury VT to Southport, Chemung Co NY.  Around 1847 married Eliza (Louisa) Tuthill, who bore him one daughter, Ellen, before her death.  Married second wife Mary E. Burr on Oct 15, 1854.

In late 1850s, he and his brother Asa E. Kinsman and their wives and children migrated West, separately or together or both, stopping for periods of time in Napoleon and Wauseon, Ohio and northern Indiana, finally settling in St. Joseph County, MI, probably in 1857.  Became a farmer and raised his seven children:  Ellen,  Sarah, Sheldon, Mary, Jackson, George, and Theodore.  Very probably estranged from eldest child Ellen.

Divorced wife Mary on Oct 2, 1880 in Waseon, Ohio.  Married third wife Margaret Snyder Boyer in 1881.  Took ill in early 1904 and died in July.  Buried in Trayer Cemetery, Bronson, Branch Co MI.

Our great-great-great grandfather.

Links   •    saga, books i and iii   •   biography of sheldon kinsman   •   ancestors of mary eaton kinsman  (photo of Sheldon Kinsman ca. 1891 courtesy of Margaret Bourdette)

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   Lang, Frank (Franz Lange, 1842-1904)

b. ca. 1842, Prussia, d. 19 March 1904, South Haven, Wright Co MN

First husband of Nellie Kinsman and father of Jennie Lang.  "Came from Germany to the United States when he was a little fellow, with his two older brothers," according to his fourth wife Henriette Eichendorf Lang.  First documented evidence has him working as a farm laborer in Lagrange Co IN in summer 1860 - about 10 miles from Burr Oak MI.  A year later he enlisted in the Union Army in Burr Oak, where he very probably met 13½ year-old Nellie. 

Served in the Civil War as a private and nurse in Company K of the 7th Regiment of Michigan Infantry from Aug 1861 until his discharge in July 1865.  His unit saw a very high level of action over four years of war, and he very probably suffered a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder in consequence of all the intimate violence he saw and experienced as a field nurse. 

Described as 5' 7" tall and 150 pounds, with grey eyes, auburn hair, and a dark complexion.  Returned on furlough to secretly marry 16 year-old Ellen Kinsman in January 1865.  Made the marriage public a year later, in Feb 1866.  Daughter Jennie Lang born nine months later, in Burr Oak, 10 Nov 1866.  Moved to Hastings MN with wife and infant daughter in Dec 1866.  Had second daughter Nellie Lang in Hastings in 1868.  Two years later, in Dec 1870 and still in Hastings, wife Nellie initiated divorce proceedings against him in consequence of his verbal and physical abuse, neglect, and abandonment of his family.  Left his wife and daughters destitute before and after Jan 1871 divorce.  Did not recognize and never saw his daughters again.

Married three more times:  to 19 year-old Irish immigrant Millie Tiner (Oct 1871 until her death from tuberculosis in Oct 1879);  Clara Morris (Nov 1879 to May 1892) whom he divorced and who in Sept 1883 bore him his only other child, Frank Lang Jr.; and German immigrant Henriette Eichendorf (June 1892 until his death in 1904). 

Worked as a cooper and farm laborer all his life.   Died by a blow to the head head falling off a hay wagon on Henriette's farm in South Haven.

Our great-grandfather.

Links   •   saga, books i & iii   •   nellie lang divorce papers   •   frank's civil war pension file   •   frank's civil war service record   •   clara morris divorce papers    (Illustration:  sketch of an Ohio Union soldier during the Civil War, from the Library of Congress; our symbol for Frank Lang)

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   Lang, Frank, Jr.  (1883-aft. 1918)

b. 10 Aug 1883, Wadena MN, d. aft. 1918

Third and last child of Frank Lang, and his only son.  Son of Clara Morris Lang, Frank's third wife.  Grew up on the farm in Wadena seeing his parents argue and divorced by the time he was nine.  Estranged from both his mother and father - not even aware of the year of his mother's death - moved out of state as a young man.  Moved to Milwaukee WI and worked as a traveling salesman selling automobile accessories.  Seems a decent enough chap in the interview he gave to the Pension Bureau authorities in July 1918.

Our great uncle.

Links   •   saga, books i & iii   •   nellie divorce papers   •   frank's civil war pension file   •   frank's civil war service record   •   clara morris divorce papers

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  Lang, Jennie  (Sullivan, 1866-1944)

b. 10 Nov 1866, Burr Oak MI, d. 27 June 1944, Minneapolis MN

First daughter of Nellie Kinsman Lang, born almost exactly nine months after Nellie and Frank Lang made their marriage public in White Pigeon, MI.  Brought to Hastings MN as a one-month old in Dec 1866.  As a small child, witnessed the verbal and physical abuse, neglect, and abandonment of her mother by her father.  Moved to NE Minneapolis when she was five or six (ca. 1871-72), lived partly with her mother and partly with her grandparents-in-law (parents of her her mom's second husband Aiken Bleau), Bailey T. and Marguerite Bleau did Rossignal Baldwin and their extended family and friends.

Met and married Cornelius Sullivan in early 1880s, eventually bearing him seven children from 1886 to 1895.  Mother Nellie lived with her, Cornelius, and children in NE Minneapolis until Nellie moved out around 1910.  No photographs, no family lore, no physical artifacts from her life.  Probably a devoted mother and subordinate wife.  Impression from Richard Reiser's letters that Cornelius ruled the roost, and Jennie acquiesced to his Irish ethnic identity and superior power within the family.  Lived for many years in the same house at 342 13th Ave NE.  Broke her hip in mid-April 1944 at age 77 and died a few months later.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great-grandmother.

Links   •   saga, books i and ii

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   Lang, Nellie (Atkins, 1868-1955)

b. 1868, Hastings, Dakota Co MN, d. 2 Oct 1955, Crystal Lake MN

Second daughter of Nellie Kinsman Lang, and younger sister of Jennie Lang.  Probably too young to remember her father Frank Lang's verbal and physical abuse, since her parents were divorced by the time she turned three.  Raised partly by her mother, and partly by the extended family and friends of Bailey T. and Marguerite Baldwin in NE Minneapolis.  Married "Ace" Atkins before 1900.  Evidently estranged from her mother, judging from her absence from her mother's 1916 wedding to Charley Church.  Perhaps married before Ace Atkins, and probably had at least one child.  Buried Rosedale Cemetery, Rosedale MN.

Our great-great aunt.

Links   •    saga, book i   •     nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927.

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   McClure, Josephine  (1851-aft. 1880)

b. 1851, MN, d. ?

Wife of Felix Bleau in 1870.  Sister of Theodore McClure, that is, Lucy Baldwin McClure's husband.  Intimately involved with the lives of Bailey T. and Marguerite Baldwin, and thus probably with Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe and her daughters Jennie and Nellie in the 1870s and 1880s, though exactly how is not known.

Our great-great-great-great aunt-in-law.

Links   •    nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927

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   McClure, Theodore  (1853-bef. 1900)

b. 1853 MN, d. btwn. 1880-1900

Ojibway-Métis displaced from the Red River Valley, the son of an Ojibway woman and an Irish man.  First husband of Lucy Baldwin McClure, married by 1880.  Brother of Josephine McClure, wife of Felix Bleau, and of Peter (Pierre) McClure.  The McClure family became enmeshed in the extended Bleau-Baldwin family, probably after Felix Bleau married Josephine in the late 1860s.  Hunting, fishing & trapping partner of Louis Bleau and witness at the trial of his killer.  Suggestion in Bailey T. Baldwin's pension file that Theodore helped Bailey and Marguerite financially and in other ways during the difficult years of the 1880s and 1890s, as Bailey's health declined.  Census data indicate that he divorced or deserted Lucy and migrated West, ending up in Washington with another wife and another life by 1900 and until at least 1910.

Our great-great-great-great uncle-in-law.

links   •    nellie in minnesota, 1866-1927   •    bailey t. baldwin civil war pension file   •    bleau-baldwin families, 1790-1930

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   McDonough, Bridget (Delehanty, 1885-1922)

b. 4 July 1885, St Paul MN, d. 26 August 1922, St. Paul MN

First wife of John Delehanty.  Born July 4, 1885 in St Paul MN, daughter of Irish immigrants John McDonough and Bridget Curral, she must have met John in 1904-07 when he stopped in Minnesota on his way West, fell in love and married, and gone with him to the mining districts of Montana and Idaho.

Distantly related to the Castleton McDonoughs.  Not exactly sure how, but McDonoughs are thick on the ground in Castleton at the time, and next-door neighbors and business partners of Delehantys and their kin; also one of the St Paul McDonoughs (Anna in 1900) had roots in Vermont.  This Castleton-St Paul connection is why John Delehanty ended up marrying a Minnesota girl and, years later, making Minnesota his home.

No record of her marriage to John Delehanty in Ramsey County MN (searched 1901-1911), suggesting that they eloped.  Bore son Lester Delehanty in 1908 in Montana.  Cannot be found in 1910 census, though probably in Silver Bow County, Montana.  Living with husband John and son Lester in Black Bear, Shoshone Co, Idaho in June 1917.  Family of three returned to Minnesota before 1920.  Census of 1920 shows her living with husband, son, siblings Bartley and John, and parents John D. and Bridget McDonough at 628 Conway St, St. Paul.

Died on 26 August 1922, "at her home, 987 Conway St."  Informant John Delehanty lists his address as 289 Maria Ave; her address listed as East 2nd Street, Mendota Ave.  Cause of death anemia, primary, progressive pernicious.  Buried at Calvary Cemetery, St Paul on Aug 28.  After her death, widower John Delehanty helped raise their son Lester, and in 1927 married Genevieve Sullivan.

Our step-grandmother.

Links   •    1900 census on census page in mike's west castleton journal   •    death certificate 

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   McGrath, Margaret (Delehanty, 1844-1877)

b. 1844, Ireland, d. May 1877, Granville, Washington Co NY

First wife of Mathias Delehanty, married ca. 1866-67.  Bore three of his children:  Patrick J., Mary (McCormick), and Philip William (1872-1898).  Died May 1877, leaving Mathias a widower with three children.  Soon after her death Mathias married Bridget Waters.  Buried in Granville NY.

links   •   mike's west castleton journal

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   Morris, Clara (Lang, 1860-aft. 1892)

b. 1860, MN, d. aft. 1892

Frank Lang's third wife, to whom he was married for 13 years (18 Nov 1879 to 5 May 1892).  Married in Red Wing, MN.  Lived with Frank in Minneapolis and Wadena, MN.  Bore daughter Jennie Morris, father unknown, a year or two before meeting Frank.  Bore Frank one child:  Frank Jr., b. Sept 1883. 

Documents on her life do not paint a pretty picture.  Sister Ida Morris Rose described her as "kind of hard to get along with."  Frank was the one to initiate divorce proceedings against her, after she started having numerous affairs with neighboring men.  Court found her guilty of deserting her husband and committing "adultery with divers persons," denied her request for alimony, and awarded custody of Frank Jr. to his father.  Her daughter Jennie raised by Frank when in her teens, eventually marrying one Walter Thornhill. 

Remarried one George Grindell in Minneapolis, and died in mid-1890s.

links   •    frank lang civil war pension file   •    divorce papers of clara morris lang.

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   Perry, Anthony

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   POLLARD, MARTHA A.  (VAN ARMAN)

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   POLLARD, MATILDE

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   POLLARD, SARAH

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   Reilly, Raymond J.  (ca. 1890-1920)

b. 1890 MN, d. ca. 1920 Minneapolis

First husband of Genevieve Sullivan.  Died around age 30 in V.A. hospital, perhaps Fort Snelling, from wounds received in WWI, according to Richard Reiser.  No record of his death in the MN Historical Society Death Index.  Father b. WI, mother b. NY/NH, according to Jan 1920 census, which also lists him living with wife Genevieve at 505 Eighth Ave NE, Minneapolis, and working as an engineer at the filtration plant.  Perhaps wishful thinking on Genevieve's part, if Richard's account is accurate. 

Our grandfather-in-law.

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   Reiser, Richard  (1923-abt. 1995)

b. 1923, Minneapolis MN, d. abt. 1995, Sacramento CA

Only son of Grace Sullivan Reiser (Aunt Grace) and Simon Reiser.   In 1930 at age 7 living with his divorced mother, grandparents Cornelius and Jennie, and Uncle Neal.  Grace working as a telephone operator.  Became a kind of older brother for Betty Delehanty.  Served in Europe in WWII, met and married British woman Iris Williams - his "war bride."  Grace and Iris fought like cats & dogs.  Had four children:  Linda, Steven, Kenneth, and Carole.  Moved to California late in life.  A kind and decent man whose letters and recollections offer fascinating glimpses into family life among the Sullivan's from the 1920s to the 1940s. 

Our cousin.

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   Schroeder, Betty Jean (Tedmon)

b. 1924, St. Paul MN, d. early 1980s, Carmichael CA

Eldest child and daughter of Harold F. Schroeder, Sr. and Hazel Schroeder.  Only sister and sibling of Harold Jr.  Grew up at 1411 Randolph St. in St. Paul.  In April 1937, when she was 13, her mother deserted the family.  Her father secured a divorce two years later, on 24 April 1939.  After WWII she met and married Clifford Tedmon, moved to California, and raised three children:  Scott, Kathy, and Lisa.  Contracted breast cancer in late 1970s, and died in early 1980s.  A kind, warm, and loving woman.  (Photo of Aug 1969; click on image for larger view)

Our aunt.

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   Schroeder, Carl  (1837-1902)

b. 1837, Arnswalde, Germany, d. 1902, St Paul MN

Probably William Schroeder's younger brother, as he's buried next to William and the rest of the clan.  Nothing known about him, other than that he probably accompanied Wilhelm when they migrated to the United States.

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   Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Jr.

b. 18 April 1926, St. Paul MN, d. 25 June 2002, Minneapolis MN

Youngest child and only son of Harold F. Schroeder Sr. and Hazel Schroeder.  Younger brother and only sibling of Betty Jean Schroeder.  Grew up in Highland Park neighborhood in St. Paul, living at 1411 Randolph St. from at least 1930-39.  Caddied at Highland Park Golf Course in late 1930s, where he acquired his love for golf and became acquainted with Charles M. Schulz.  The boy from whom Schulz got the name "Schroeder" for his Peanuts cartoon.

Mother Hazel deserted him and his sister Betty Jean on 23 April 1937, five days after his 11th birthday.  His father Harold Sr. received a divorce from Hazel on 24 April 1939, six days after Harry Jr.'s 13th birthday.  Enlisted in the Navy late in WWII, probably 1944.  Served as a flagman on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.  Unconfirmed stories that he was featherweight boxing champion of the entire Pacific Fleet.  Exceptionally athletic.  Met and married Betty Delehanty after WWII, with whom he had five children from 1954 to 1961. 

Went to School of Architecture at University of MN on GI Bill, and worked as an architect all his life.  A skilled carpenter, spent a lot of time working on his residences in Fridley and Highland.  Divorced Betty in early 1980s and married his secretary Colleen.  Played a lot of handball and a lot of golf.  Had several coronary bypass surgeries late in life.  Survived colon cancer and treatments for several years.   Lived and worked as a self-employed architect in Shoreview until his death.

Our father.

links   •    saga, books ii and iv,   •    clipping from st. paul pioneer press on the "Peanuts" connection   •   divorce papers of harold & hazel schroeder

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   Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Sr.

b. 28 April 1894, St. Paul MN, d. 1964, St. Paul MN

Youngest son of Wilhelm and Bertha Kaddatz Schroeder.  Married Hazel Mae Amons on 23 Jan 1923, with whom he had two children:  Betty Jean (b. 1924) and Harold Jr. (b. 1926).  Lived at 1411 Randolph St. in St. Paul, working as a clerk in the post office.  Filed for and received divorce from Hazel in April 1939, two years after she deserted the family.   Youngest child Harry joined the Navy in 1944, after which he moved in with his brother Raymond George at 1515 Highland Parkway in St. Paul.  Married Margaret, whom he lived with until his death from cancer in 1964. 

Our grandfather.

links   •    saga, book ii   •   divorce papers of harold & hazel schroeder

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   Schroeder, Karl  (1882-1931)

b. 1882, St. Paul MN, d. 1931, St Paul MN

One of the seven Schroeder siblings, son of Bertha and William Schroeder and  R.G.'s elder brother.  Nothing else known about him.

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   Schroeder, Raymond George (R.G.)

b. 20 July 1889, St. Paul MN, d. 1986, St. Paul MN

Second youngest of the seven Schroeder siblings, son of William and Bertha Kaddatz Schroeder.  Elder brother of our grandfather Harold F. Schroeder Sr.  Worked most of his life as a clerk for the Northern Pacific Railroad and a lifelong bachelor.  Lived at 1515 Highland Parkway, St. Paul MN from the time the house was built in 1940 until a few years before his death, when he went into a nursing home.  We shared his house from June 1968 until mid-1980s, so we have LOTS of R.G. stories.  Generally miserly and selfish but not malicious or mean.  Took five year-old Mike on a wonderful trip by Greyhound Bus to a chicken & egg farm in Brownton MN.  Took Matt for walks.

Our great uncle.

Links   •    saga, book ii and iv   •    photos   •   gravestone

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   Schroeder, William / Wilhelm (1832-1916)

b. 2 April 1832, Arnswalde, Prussia (Poland), d. 1916 St. Paul MN

Husband to Bertha Wilhelmina Kaddatz Schroeder, father to seven children, including our great-uncle Raymond George (R.G.) and our grandfather Harold F. Schroeder, Sr. 

A tailor by trade, 5'2" tall with blue eyes, light-colored hair, and a light complexion.  Immigrated to St. Paul before the Civil War.  Enrolled in Union Army on 5 March 1862 as a private in Company D of 5th Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, accepting a bounty of several hundred dollars to take another man's place.  Hit on the head by a falling rafter at the barracks on 3 Sept 1862 at Fort Abercrombie (the same fort to which Bailey T. Baldwin was assigned), which he later claimed made him dizzy in the head and mostly deaf.   Suffered severe rheumatism later in life, which he claimed stemmed from his Civil War service, along with dizziness in the head and partial deafness.  Multiple disabilities made his work as a tailor very difficult.  Probably helped out financially by his millionaire brother-in-law Charles W. Kaddatz.

Survived by wife Bertha and seven children.

Our great-grandfather.

Links   •    Saga, book ii   •    kaddatz family  (Illustration:  Not Wm Schroeder but our symbol for him)

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   Sullivan, Cornelius (1859-1937)

b.  8 July 1859, Bangor ME, d. 15 April 1937, Minneapolis MN

Patriarch of the Sullivan family in NE Minneapolis, a rough and tough character.  Husband to Jennie Lang Sullivan.  Youngest child of seven siblings born in Maine, son of Irish immigrants Timothy and Mary H. Sullivan.  Worked as a "river driver" as a young man in Bangor, before migrating alone to Minneapolis in his early 20s.  Married Jennie sometime in early 1880s, and by 1885 was living with Jennie and mother-in-law Nellie Kinsman Lang Blowe.

Worked for City of Minneapolis Engineering Department as a custodian and laborer for 22 years, from early 1900s until around 1929 when he retired.  Lived for many years at 342 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, with wife Jennie, seven children, and mother-in-law Nellie.  Exerted a strong ethnic Irish identity and exercised a powerful patriarchal influence on the Sullivan household and family.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great-grandfather.

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   Sullivan, Edward James  (Uncle Ed, 1894-1972)

b. 8 Aug 1894, Minneapolis MN, d. 5 Feb 1972, Minneapolis MN

Grandma's brother.  Fought in the infantry as a private in World War I in Europe in 1918, severely injuring his right hand in hand-to-hand combat, as we were told.  Decorated.  A laborer and bachelor all his life.  Drunkard, lush, and womanizer when he lived with grandma and mom during the hard years of the 1930s.  Lived in a cheap hotel in downtown Minneapolis from WWII until his death.  Used to bring us jarfuls of pennies and other gifts.  A wonderfully warm and generous soul.  Buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, St. Paul MN.

Our great uncle.

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   Sullivan, Ella  (Conway; Aunt Nell, 1888-1930)

b. July 1888, Minneapolis MN, d. 6 Jan 1930, Minneapolis

Grandma's sister.  Married one Conway, widowed in mid to late 1920s.  Died soon after at age 41, leaving two children, Dolly and Bernard, for grandma to raise through the Depression.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great aunt.

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Sullivan, Genevieve Agnes (Reilly; Grandma, 1891-1974)

b. 8 June 1891, Minneapolis MN, d. 29 April 1974, St. Paul MN

The most wonderful human being to ever inhabit the planet.  Daughter of Jennie Lang Sullivan and Cornelius Sullivan.  Married Raymond Reilly in 1910s, who died in the VA hospital around 1920.  Married John Delehanty in 1927, with whom she had her only child, daughter Betty Jane Delehanty, in June 1928. Husband John died seven months later.  Sister Ellen died soon after, leaving her two children Dolly and Bernard for Genevieve to raise along with her own daughter Betty.  After Bernard died in a car accident, Dolly left and never returned.  Precarious health through 1930s.  Worked as a cleaning woman through the mid-1950s.

Lived with her daughter Betty her whole life, and with us kids for most of our childhoods, until 1970 when arteriosclerosis forced her mother to have her live in a nursing home.  A great fan of wrestling matches and amazed by electricity.  A kind and humble woman whose life defines the meaning of love.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our grandmother.

Links   •    saga, books i and iv   •    Photos   mike's west castleton journal

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   Sullivan, Grace Ann (Reiser, Gorczyca; Aunt Grace, 1896-1982)

b. 7 Feb 1896, Minneapolis, d. 8 Dec 1982, Anoka Co MN

Younger sister of our grandma Genevieve.  A wonderful person and a lunatic.  Married Reiser, with whom she had son Richard in early 1920s.  Divorced and married Gorczyca until his death in 1950s or 60s.  Worked as a telephone operator for much of her life.  She and Gen were great friends later in life, going downtown for milkshakes and to the wrestling matches.  Spoke an inimitable Nordeast patois in a raspy voice like sandpaper on concrete.  Mom devoted to her.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great aunt.

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   Sullivan, Mary (Church; Aunt Maime, 1886-1964)

b. 12 Oct 1886, Minneapolis MN, d. 25 March 1964, Minneapolis

Sister of our grandmother Genevieve, wife of Henry Church, mother of Dorothy and Robert Church.  Sue remembers her best.  Born 19 days before her sister's future husband John Delehanty.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great aunt.

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   Sullivan, Mary H.  (1820-1881/1900)

b. 1820, Ireland, d. 1880-1900, Bangor, ME

Wife of Timothy Sullivan, mother of Cornelius Sullivan.  Immigrated to the United States and settled in Bangor sometime before 1860, the first year she and husband Timothy appear in the census.  Bore and raised at least seven children in Bangor.

Our great-great grandmother.

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   Sullivan, Neal C.  (Uncle Neal, 1892-1946)

b. 1892 Minneapolis MN, d. 1946 Minneapolis

Fifth in line among the seven Sullivan siblings.  Remained at home well into adulthood, living with his mother and father and holding a good job with the city public works department.  "Married late in life to Rose Shore.  They had two sons, John, now dead, and James, who is married.  No children that I know about - had none."  (Richard Reiser, 1989 letter).  Never heard much about Uncle Neal except his name.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great-uncle.

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   Sullivan, Timothy  (1816-1901)

b. Feb 1816, Ireland, d. 7 Jan 1901, Bangor ME

First generation Irish immigrant patriarch.  Father of Cornelius Sullivan and his six Maine-born siblings.  Husband of Mary Sullivan.  Came to the United States around 1838, according to his 1900 census data.  Likelihood that he and Mary married in Ireland arrived and lived in New Brunswick before coming to Bangor, Maine sometime before 1860, where he lived from 1860 until his death four decades later.  Lived on Emerson St. near Kendusgeag Stream.  A laborer all his life.

Our great-great grandfather.

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   Sullivan, Timothy J. (1889-1960)

b. 27 Oct 1899, Minneapolis MN, d. 1960, Walla Walla WA

"Uncle Tim the Jail Bird."  Grandma's brother and the eldest Sullivan boy, was incarcerated in the state prison in Stillwater MN sometime between 1910 and 1917, and later in the federal penitentiary in Walla Walla WA - a "three-time loser" for check forgery, as we were told.  On 1917 WWI draft card described as tall and stout, with gray eyes and brown hair.  Woodworker in prison.  Grandma and Mom both very fond of him.  Buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis.

Our great uncle.

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   Tedmon, Clifford (ca. 1928 - )

Married Harry Schroeder Jr.'s only sibling Betty Jean Schroeder, who moved with him to Carmichael, CA, became Betty Jean Tedmon, and raised a family of three (Scott, Kathy, and Lisa).  Wife Betty Jean died in early 1980s, and soon after he and Betty Jane Delehanty Schroeder (mom) fell in love, married, and spent five years together.  Betty Schroeder changed her name to Liz Tedmon.  Worked as a precision machinist for an aerospace firm for 25-30 years after WWII before becoming a defense attorney.  A wonderful man.

First our uncle by marriage, then our step-father.

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   Tiner, Millie (Lang)

b. ca. 1852, Ireland, d. 7 Oct 1879, Wadena MN

Second wife of Frank Lang.  First-generation Irish immigrant.  Married Frank when she was 19 years old on 2 Oct 1871, ten months after Frank's divorce from Nellie Kinsman Lang.  Became ill with tuberculosis in fall 1878, nursed for a year by her Irish immigrant parents on their farm in Wadena MN before her death.  Bore no children.

Our great-great grandmother-in-law.

Links   •    frank lang civil war pension file   •   saga, book i

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   Thibodeau, Edward (1853-1919)

b. 15 Feb 1853, Mitchell, New France (Québec), Canada, d. 13 Nov 1919, Anoka MN

French-Canadian photographer who, along with his wife Adelaide, took in little Louise Blow in the mid-1880s -- the daughter of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blow and Louis Bleau, the latter murdered in Centerville, Anoka County in late 1874.  Outlines of his life sketched in some detail on the page referenced below, which includes his obituary from the Anoka Union newspaper.  Exactly why Louise Blow was living with him and wife Adelaide remains something of a mystery, though we've made some educated guesses — most having to do with the couple's capacious hearts, Nellie's lack of viable options, and the intolerance of Nellie's father-in-law, the Irish-centric Cornelius Sullivan, toward French Canadians during this period of growing tension between these two Catholic ethnic groups in NE Minneapolis.  Evidently had no biological children of his own.

Fictive father of our great-great-grandmother's daughter.

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   Thibodeau, Lillian  (ca. 1886-1968)

b. ca. 1886, Minneapolis MN, d. 29 Nov 1968, Anoka MN

Adoptive daughter of Edward and Adelaide Thibodeau, and perhaps a friend or fictive cousin or sister to Louise Blow, daughter of Nellie Kinsman Lang Blow and Louis Bleau.  And evidently a highly accomplished photographer in her own right.  Never married and had no children as far as we know.

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   Tuthill, Eliza  (Louisa, abt. 1820-1848)

b. ca. 1820, d. ca 1848, Chemung Co NY

Biological mother of Ellen Kinsman Lang Blowe Church and first wife of Sheldon Kinsman.  Bore Ellen in March 1848 and died soon thereafter.  Ancestry unknown, though probably related to other Tuthill's in tri-county area of NY-PA.

Our great-great-great grandmother.

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   VAN ARMAN, GEORGE (VANNARMEN)

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   Van Arman, John V.

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   VAN ARMAN, MABEL (AMONS)

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   VAN ARMAN, PHYLINDA

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   VAN ARMAN, SIDNEY W.

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   Waters, Barbara

b. ca. 1826, Galway, Ireland, d. bef. 1860

The 24 year-old woman who, in 1851, carried 10-month old Bridget Waters in her arms on the Barque Celeste from Ireland.  Very probably Bridget's mother.  Fate unknown.  A thorough search in the census data for 1860 and after fails to reveal her presence anywhere in the U.S. Northeast.  Probably died and left daughter Bridget with kin.  Unknown.

Our great-great-great grandmother.

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   Waters, Bridget (Delehanty)

b. 10 Aug 1850, Co Galway Ireland, d. 9 Oct 1901, Rutland Co VT

Mother of John Delehanty, second wife of Mathias Delehanty.  Came to New York from Co Galway, Ireland on 15 May 1851 at ten months of age, carried in the arms of Barbara Waters.  No evidence of her whereabouts for the next 19 years.  Very probably raised by an aunt or uncle in the slate districts of Rutland Co VT or Washington Co NY.

In 1870 lived near Main St. in Rutland Town as a head of household with 11 year-old Mary Waters (probably her niece) and working as a washerwoman.  Next door neighbor of the African-American Taylor family, making her the only immigrant female head of household in Rutland County (pop. 10,395) living next door to a family of black people.  Arrested in Aug 1874 for public drunkenness and failure to disclose the source of her liquor.  The snippet in the Rutland Herald reporting the event paints her as saucy, sassy, and defiant of authority.

Married Mathias Delehanty ca. 1878, becoming step-mother to his three children by his late wife Margaret McGrath Delehanty.  Bore six children from 1880 to 1891:  Daniel, Margaret, Elizabeth, John, Ellen Teresa, and Mathias Jr.  Lived in Granville NY until 1885, then moved to West Castleton VT where she and husband Mathias ran a boarding house for slate workers employed by James & John Delehanty's firm, the Lake Bomoseen Slate Company.

Widowed in July 1899, and succumbed to tuberculosis in fall 1901 at age 51.  Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Fair Haven VT.

Itching to learn more; for such a colorful local character, there's got to be more.

Our great grandmother.

Links   •    mike's west castleton journal   •    the well known bridget waters who got her whiskey out of a cucumber   •   tracking john delehanty

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