Elisha service?

A few links to possile Elisha Reynolds service histories. These are just guesses.

Elisha Reynolds (d. 1829) information

Here's a RootsWeb post that summarizes some sources on an Elisha who was probably John Reynolds's father.

John Reynolds's Will?

Aunt Helen's genealogy lists Wait Reynolds (Wait Reynolds Loveless's grandfather) as having been born in Alburgh, Vt. His father (again from Aunt Helen) was named John Reynolds.

There is a will for a John Reynolds described on the Web here. Could it be the right one? The names are right: wife Lucy, sons Wait and Elisha, for instance. I suppose this merits some further investigation.

Wow! Here is a listing for what may be John's father's (Elisha's) will!

In case these pages go down, here is contact information for David J. Ellis, the page's creator: [dr.ellis@physics.org]. The original information appears in The Books of Record for the Town of Alburg, FHL US/CAN 27771, Book 12, pp. 357-360 (for John's will) and Book 7, pp. 198-201 (for Elisha's will).

"Amazing Minnie" article

I now have a biography of Minnie Josephine Reynolds, later Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino, Wait Reynolds Loveless's aunt on his mother's side. It also mentions Helen Marion Loveless.

Beyond the interest of her career as a journalist and a suffragette, this article offers a few details about her family and upbringing in Norwood, NY. Specifically, the article mentions that she grew up at 29 Prospect Street and that Wait Reynolds, her father, "operated a successful lumber business with his brother, Elisha, was active in community affairs and one of the first village trustees when Norwood was incorporated in 1871" (Plested, 19).

The researcher credited for this information is Potsdam historian Susan C. Lyman, who has written a book on Norwood. It includes more information on Wait Reynolds, and an electronic copy of it is available here. Perhaps I'll write another post on this book later.

Here is the full citation for the biography:

Plested, Dolores. "Amazing Minnie: A Nineteenth Century Woman of Today." Colorado Heritage 1 (1984): 18-27.

Fred Wing Lovless genealogy

I found the following account of the Loveless family's genealogy last night. (It is transcribed from a book published in 1910.) Here's the text:

The Lovelace or Loveless family settled in colonial days in New York. In the revolution there were in the American army from New York Benjamin, Elisha Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Joshua, William and George Loveless or Lovelace. The spelling was used interchangeably by the families. There was a Governor Lovelace in New York.

Six brothers, descendants of Governor Lovelace, resided during the revolution at or near Jessup's Falls, and one of them who lived near the Stiles place in the town of Wilton was in one of the last years of the war and executed at Schuylerville as a spy by order of General Stark, after a drumhead court marshall.

In 1790, according to the first federal census, Angus Lovelace was living at Rensselaerwyck, New York; George, Jeremiah, John, Joseph and Joseph Lovelace, Jr., were heads of families in Pittstown, Albany county. William Lovelace li (I) Daniel Dudley Loveless was born in Saratoga, formerly Albany county, and died at Hadley, 1868-69, aged sixty years. He married Prudence Jenkins.

Children:
Wesley, William D., Marietta, Joel, Fannie Frances, Edward J. and Susan.

(II) William D., son of Daniel Dudley Loveless, was born at Moriah, Essex county, March 17, 1831, died in West Burke, Vermont, 1831. He received a common school education. When a young man he went to Glens Falls and engaged in business in partnership with James Sisson. Later he was in partnership with a Mr. Fonda, to whom he eventually sold his business. In 1861 he removed to Potsdam, New York. He bought a water privilege there and built a mill in which he manufactured lumber. He also did a lumbering business in that section. In 1869 he sold his business there to Henry Watkins and C. W. Leete, and removed to Norwood, N.Y., having a controlling interest in the Racquette River Power Company and the Water Power at Norwood. He was in business at Norwood until 1875, when he removed to Norwich, Connecticut. After four years he went to Springfield, Mass., and embarked in the wholesale lumber business. From there he went to Florida a few years after and carried on an extensive lumber business. In 1893 he went to West Burke, Vermont, having extensive lumber interests in Canada and a sawmill in West Burke. He was actively engaged in the manufacture of lumber to the time of his death. In politics he was a Republican and he served as excise commissioner in the town of Potsdam. He was president of the village of Norwood. He was always greatly interested in education, and he was intrumental in establishing the graded school system in Norwood. He was a member of the Lodge of Free Masons at Glens Falls. In religion he was a Congregationalist.

He married, May 19, 1856, Cornelia A., born May 20, 1831, died in 1878, daughter of James and Gulielma (Wing) Sisson.

Children:

1. Frederick Wing, mentioned below.
2. George S., attorney-at-law at Muskegon, Michigan; married (first) Elizabeth Douglass and had a son William; married (second) Ida Ellison and had a son Frank.
3. William Curtis, born in Glens Falls, N.Y., engaged in the lumber business at Georgetown, South Carolina; children: Roy, Myrtis, Curtis, Irene, James and William.
4. Charles (twin to William Curtis), was burned to death at Potsdam when four years old.
5. James E., born in Potsdam, N.Y.; engaged in the lumber business at Central Falls, Rhode Island; married Florence Vaslette.
6. Helen Blanche, born in Potsdam, N.Y.; married George J. Weston, architect of Pawtucket, Rhode Island; children: Dorcas and Gifford Weston.
7. Daniel Dudley, born Norwood, N.Y.; is with the American Woodworking Company of Rochester, N.Y,; married Helen M. Lower and had Daniel Dudley Jr.
8. Meredith B., born Norwood, N.Y.; cashier of the American Woodworking Company of Rochester; married Minnie Byner.

(III) Frederick Wing, son of William D. Loveless, was born at Glens Falls, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1857. He removed with his parents to St. Lawrence county, and was educated in the public schools of Norwood and at the State Normal school at Potsdam. When a youth and young man he worked in his father's mill at Norwood. He was in Connecticut for two years and a half. In 1879 he went to Muskegon, Michigan, and lived there until 1890. Then he went to Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1896 he returned east and spent a year in Vermont, then in March, 1897, entered the employ of the A. Sherman Lumber Company, remaining unti June, 1903, when he came to Tupper Lake, N.Y., as manager of the business of the A. Sherman Lumber Company in that section. he has held this position since that time [transcriber's note: this material was published in 1910] and has been since boyhood actively connected with the lumber business. In politics he is a Republican; in relgion a Presbyterian.
He married, May 18, 1880, Jessie Reynolds, of Stockholm, New York, daughter of Waite and Sarah E. (Rude) Reynolds.

Children:

1. Waite R., born at Muskegon, Michigan, March 6, 1881; educated at DeMoines high school and at Clarkson Technical Institute at Potsdam; now in Chicago; assistant electrical engineer of the Illinois Steel Company; married Juliette Pike, of Lynn, Mass.; child, Dorothy Grace, born Aug. 17, 1908. 2. Helen M., born at De Moines, Sept. 19, 1894; lives with parents at Tupper Lake.

This is much more than I ever thought I would know about Frederick Wing (who was Jean Amorette [Loveless] Wilson's paternal grandfather). Of course, there may be--there are, in fact--errors in this account. But it's still much more than I had. State Normal school at Potsdam! Lumber! I wonder if he met his wife Jessie while at work in Norwood? That would make sense: Aunt Helen Loveless Henry's pedigree chart indicates that many Reynolds ancestors are buried there.

Here's the link for this text:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
/~hubbard/NNY_index/loveless.html

Or just click here.

Here's the link for the whole book:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html

Or just click here.

JGWD

WFF DVD production, music, title sequence

0:00:00-0:00:15

The WFF DVD is a compilation of 15 rolls of 8-millimeter film I found in my mother's basement. It's the accumulation of her mother's home movie collection, I figure, plus one Dyehouse family film. The rolls are mostly unlabeled, which made assembling the DVD mainly a chance affair. (Help! See my "Welcome" post.) The fellow who did the actual film-to-video transfer, Jesse, did make some attempt to put them in chronological order (perhaps by gauging the apparent age of the film stock).

Some of you have a version of the WFF DVD including music, which Jesse mistakenly included. For those of you without the music, be thankful for what you're missing: the first or second track is an instrumental adaptation of "Chariots of Fire." The original films were soundless.

The WFF DVD's title sequence is also Jesse's invention, although the "Wilson Family Films" title was my idea. Jesse preferred "Wilson Family Memories," the (print) title that appears on the actual DVD disc.

JGWD

Wilson Family Archive Welcome!

Hi family--

Welcome to the Wilson Family Archive blog. Here, I hope we can share information about our common family artifacts, including (and especially) the "Wilson Family Films" DVD.

I'm looking forward to reworking the "WFF" DVD into a disc that will be easier to navigate. To do that, though, I need your ideas, information, and perspectives. Who appears in these movies? Who shot them? How might editing better order the clips? Perhaps we can an edited version of the WFF circulating by next Christmas!

Here are some suggestions for posts on this blog:

1. Title your posts with information about what you're offering. For instance, I'm going to title my next (example) post "'Wilson Family Films' title sequence."

2. Time code your posts with the hour, minute, and second(s) you're referring to on the WFF DVD. In my next post, I'm going to be offering some sample information about the Video Fair guy's title sequence, which appears at the beginning of the DVD. So, I'll time code my post something like 0:00:00-15.

3. Share what you know about the sequence you're describing. Consider also offering multiple posts to describe multiple sequences.

4. Label your posts using the label box on the Blogger interface. For this post, I've provided two labels: "welcome," and "WFF." If this blog grows as long as I hope it will, we can use the labels to help us sort and retrieve information later.

5. Sign your posts (with your initials, at least). I'm going by my full set of intials: JGWD--Jeremiah Gregory Wilson Dyehouse.

Thanks! And have fun!

JGWD