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This page offers
brief biographies of the most prominent characters figuring in
the Delehanty-Sullivan-Kinsman-Schroeder saga.
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All
caps represent our direct ancestors.
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Females
listed by birth surnames ("maiden names") in Brief
Biographies, but indexed
by both birth and married surnames.
NAME INDEX
Amons, Edward
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Amons, Hazel M. (Schroeder, Overwick)
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Amons, Nellie E.
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Baldwin, Bailey T.
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Baldwin, Lucy
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Baldwin, Margaret (Bleau,
dit Rossignal)
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Baldwin, Mary (McClure McRay)
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Baldwin, William
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Bleau dit
Rossignal, Aiken
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Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine
I
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Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine
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Bleau dit Rossignal, Antoine
III
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Bleau dit
Rossignal, Charlotte
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Bleau dit Rossignal, Felix
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Bleau dit Rossignal,
Marguerite (Margaret Rushenall Baldwin)
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Bleau dit
Rossignal, Aiken (Ekan Blue)
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Bleau, Marguerite (Blu, Blue; Margaret Machequayzaince, or "Clear Sky")
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Blowe, Louis
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Blowe, Louise
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Blowe, Nellie (Ellen,
Ella, Nellie, Nettie Kinsman Lang Blow
Church)
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Bottineau Baldwin, Marie
Louise
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Bottineau, Basile / Bazill
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Bottineau, Charles
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Bottineau, Jean Baptiste
(John B.)
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Bottineau, Pierre
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Bourdon, Margaret
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Church, Charley
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Church, Dorothy
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Church, Henry
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Church, Mary (Maime Sullivan)
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Church, Robert
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Conway, Eileen (Dolly)
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Conway, Bernard
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Delehanty, Anastasia
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Delehanty, Betty Jane
(Schroeder; Liz Tedmon)
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Delehanty, Bridget (Waters)
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Delehanty, Daniel
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Delehanty, Elizabeth
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Delehanty, James
Andrew
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Delehanty, James H.
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Delehanty, John
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Delehanty, John
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Delehanty, Lester
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Delehanty, Margaret
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Delehanty,
Mary (McCormick)
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Delehanty, Mary Harney
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Delehanty, Mathias
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Delehanty, Mathias
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Delehanty, Patrick
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Delehanty, Patrick Henry
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Delehanty,
Patrick J.
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Delehanty,
Philip William
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Dolly (Eileen Conway)
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Downs, Patrick H.
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Eaton, Mary
(Kinsman)
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Eichendorf, Henriette
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Eichendorf, Rudolph
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Harney, Mary (Delehanty)
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holbrecht,
Louisa
(Kaddatz)
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Kaddatz, Augusta (Schacht)
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Kaddatz,
Bertha Augusta Wilhelmina (Schroeder)
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Kaddatz,
Carl
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Kaddatz, Charles W.
(Karl)
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Kaddatz, Louisa (Holbrecht)
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Kaddatz, Louise (Zeige)
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Kaddatz, Minnie
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Kaddatz, Tillie
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Kinsman, Ella (Ellen, Nellie, Nettie; Lang Sullivan Blowe [Bleau, Blow] Church)
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Kinsman, George
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Kinsman, Mary Eaton
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Kinsman, Selma
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Kinsman, Sheldon
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Lang, Frank (Franz Lange)
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Lang, Frank, Jr.
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Lang, Jennie (Sullivan)
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Lang, Nellie (Atkins)
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McClure, Josephine
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McClure, Theodore
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McDonough, Bridget
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McGrath, Margaret
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McRay, Mary (Baldwin)
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Morris, Clara
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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
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Reiser, Richard
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Rossignal / Rushenall / Rossinal / Rashnold: see Bleau dit Rossignal
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Schroeder,
Bertha Wilhelmina Kaddatz
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Schroeder, Betty Jane
Delehanty (liz tedmon)
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Schroeder, Betty Jean
(Tedmon)
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Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Jr.
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Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Sr.
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Schroeder,
Hazel (AMONS, Overwick)
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Schroeder, Karl
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Schroeder, Raymond
George (R.G.)
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Schroeder, William
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Sullivan, Cornelius
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Sullivan, Edward James
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Sullivan, Ella (Conway)
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Sullivan, Genevieve Agnes
(Delehanty)
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Sullivan, Grace Ann
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Sullivan, Jennie (Lang)
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Sullivan, Mary (Maime Church)
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Sullivan, Neal C. (Uncle
Neal)
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Sullivan, Mary H.
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Sullivan, Timothy
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Sullivan, Timothy
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Tedmon, Clifford
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Tedmon, Liz; Betty Jane
Delehanty (Schroeder)
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Tiner, Millie
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Thibodeau, Adelaide
• Thibodeau, Edward
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Thibodeau, Lillian
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Tuthill,
Eliza
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Van Arman, George
(also Vannarman, Vanaarman, Vanarmon,
etc.)
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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
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Waters, Bridget (Delehanty)
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES
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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.
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hazel's
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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.
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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.
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Baldwin, Bailey T. (1820-1904)
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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
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bailey t. baldwin pension file
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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)
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nellie
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william schroeder pension file
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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
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bailey
t. baldwin pension file
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bailey t. baldwin
probate file and related items on documents home
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nellie in
minnesota, 1866-1927
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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.
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bailey
t. baldwin pension file
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bailey t. baldwin
probate file
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nellie in
minnesota, 1866-1927
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bleau-baldwin families, 1790-1930
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Baldwin,
William C. (1856-1940).jpg)
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.
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bailey
t. baldwin pension file
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bailey t. baldwin
probate file
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felix blue
pension file •
nellie in
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gravestone
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(Photo of William C. Baldwin, ca. 1890, courtesy of Jeane Morneau
DeCoursey)
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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
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solving
the mystery of ekan blow
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bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota,
1790-1930
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bailey
t. baldwin pension file and related items on
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nellie in
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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
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half-breed
scrip
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bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota,
1790-1930
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bailey
t. baldwin pension file and related items on
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nellie in
minnesota, 1866-1927
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the murder of louis
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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.
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bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in minnesota,
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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.
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bleau, rossignal, bottineau & baldwin families in
minnesota, 1790-1930
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bailey
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nellie in
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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.
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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.
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Bleau dit Rossignal, Marguerite
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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).
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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,
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Delehanty, James Andrew
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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mike's
west castleton journal
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ancestry
chart 8
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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.
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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.
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mike's west
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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.
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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.
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biography
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biography of james delehanty
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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
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ancestry
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Saga,
books i and
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biography of
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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.
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frank
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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.
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frank
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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.
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Kaddatz, Bertha
Augusta Wilhelmina (Schroeder,
1851-1922)
b. 1851, Grabow, Germany, d. 2 June 1922, St. Paul MN.jpg)
"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.
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Kaddatz, Charles W. (Karl,
1864-1957).jpg)
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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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.
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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.
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Saga,
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nellie
in minnesota,
1866-1927
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nellie
divorce papers
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bailey
t. baldwin civil war pension file
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seeking
ella in
burr oak mi, 1860
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biography of
sheldon kinsman
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ancestry
chart of mary eaton kinsman
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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.
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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.
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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.
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biography of
sheldon kinsman
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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.
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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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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bailey
t. baldwin
civil war pension file
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bleau-baldwin
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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_small.jpg)
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;
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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.jpg)
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.
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Schroeder, Harold Frederick, Sr.
b. 28 April 1894, St. Paul MN, d. 1964, St. Paul MN_small.jpg)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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_small.jpg)
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.jpg)
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.
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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, 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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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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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.jpg)
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.
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