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WHEELWRIGHT, SAMUEL, Shapleigh, Alfred Lee.
WHIPPLE, JOHN, Cadle, Cornelius.
WHIPPLE, JOHN, SR., Jackson, George Edwards. Jackson, Edward Fisher. WHITCOMB. JOSIAH, White. John Barber. Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WHITCOMB, JOHN, Wilder, Edward Bliss. WHITE, JONATHAN, White, John Barber. WHITE, JOSIAH, JR., White, John Barber. WHITING, WILLIAM, Shepard, Edward Martin. Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WHITMAN, VALENTINE, Cadle, Cornelius. WHITNEY, JONATHAN, Cadle, Charles Francis. Cadle, Cornelius.
WICKHAM, THOMAS, Parker, George Turner.
WICKENDEN, WILLIAM, Cadle, Cornelius.
WILDER, JAMES, White, John Barber.
WILDER, JOHN, Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WILDER, JOHN, Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WILDER, JOHN, Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WILDER, NATHANIEL, Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WILDER, THOMAS, White, John Barber.
WILKINSON, LAWRENCE, Cadle, Cornelius.
WILLIAMS, DANIEL, Homer, William Bradford.
WILLIAMS, ISAAC, Cadle, Cornelius. WILLIAMS, RICHARD, Deane, Gardiner Andrus Arm- strong.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT. Cadle, Cornelius. Parker, George Turner.
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WILSON, JOHN,
Spencer, Horatio Nelson. Spencer, Selden Palmer. Spencer, Selden.
WILSON, JOHN,
Spencer, Horatio Nelson. Spencer, Selden Palmer. Spencer, Selden.
WING, JOHN, Parker, George Turner.
WINTHROP, JOHN, Smith, Hamilton. Smith, Ralph Lancaster.
WISNER, JOHN, Eastman, Lauren Chase. WISWALL, EDWARD, Parker, George Turner.
WISWALL, NOAH, Ist, Cadle, Charles Francis. Cadle, Cornelius.
WITHERS, THOMAS, Shapleigh, Alfred Lee.
WOLCOTT, HENRY,
Douglas, Walter Bond.
WOLCOTT, HENRY, SR., Adams, Frederick Cossette. Douglas, Walter Bond. Homer, William Bradford. Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WOLCOTT, SAMUEL, Douglas, Walter Bond.
WOLCOTT, SIMON, Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WOOD, WILLIAM, McCord, James Hamilton. McCord, Samuel Steele. McCord, George Lawrence. McCord, Robert Hamden.
WOODBRIDGE, JOHN, Treat, James Wilber.
WOODBRIDGE, TIMOTHY, Treat, James Wilber.
WOODHOUSE, HENRY, Partridge, Arthur Samuel. WOODS, JOHN, Parker, George Turner.
WOODS, JOHN, Parker, George Turner.
WOODS, JOHN, Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WOODWARD, GEORGE, Parker, George Turner.
WOOLSON, THOMAS, Douglas, Walter Bond.
WRIGHT, EDMUND, Parker, George Turner.
WRIGHT, JOHN, Parker, George Turner.
WRIGHT, JOHN, Parker, George Turner.
WRIGHT, SAMUEL, Sands, James Thomas. Wilder, Edward Bliss.
WRIGHT, THOMAS, Parker, George Turner.
WYLLYS, GEORGE, Treat, James Wilber.
WYLLYS, SAMUEL, Treat, James Wilber.
' WYMAN, JOHN, Ludington, Francis Henry. Ludington, Elliot Kingman.
WYMAN, NEHEMIAH, Wyman, Henry Purkitt.
WYMAN, SETH, Ludington, Francis Henry. Ludington, Elliot Kingman.
WYMAN, SETH, SR., Ludington, Francis Henry. Ludington, Elliot Kingman. WYMAN, SETH, JR, Ludington, Francis Henry. Ludington, Elliot Kingman.
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George Amos newcomb.
BORN FEBRUARY 14, 1841. DIED DECEMBER 12, 1906.
George Amos Newcomb, born in Boston, February 14, 1841, was the son of Norton and Lydia (Christy) Newcomb. He married in Medford, Massachusetts, February 3, 1869, Julia Augusta Floyd, and to them the following children were born: Norton, Charles Lawrence, George Amos, Jr., Chester (died in infancy), Harold Barnes, Floyd Turner, Dorothy Christy.
Mr. Newcomb was educated in the Boston public schools, the Medford, Massachusetts, High School, 1854-57. Gradu- ated from the Wilbraham, Massachusetts, Academy, 1859, and from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1863. Taught school at Billerica, Massachusetts, 1862-63. He entered the U S. Navy, January, 1864, as admiral's clerk of the North Atlantic Squadron, serving on the U. S. S. Minne- sota and the U. S. S. Malvern. Resigned from the navy in the autumn of 1864 and went to St. Louis, entering the employ of his brother, Norton Newcomb, wholesale and retail dealer in wall papers. Became a partner, under the style of "New- comb Brothers," September, 1866. On the death of his brother, in 1882, the business was incorporated as "Newcomb Brothers
GEORGE AMOS NEWCOMB.
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Wall Paper Company," of which he remained as president until his death.
The Newcomb family dates in America from 1639, and his ancestors have been represented in nearly all the wars of this country, commencing with Captain Richard Brackett, a mem- ber of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos- ton, in 1636, and Isaac Newcomb, a private of Massachusetts troops, in 1747.
Mr. Newcomb was vice-president of the Missouri Society, Sons of the Revolution, Deputy Governor of the Missouri Society of Colonial Wars, President of the New England Society of St. Louis, Past Commander of Ransom Post, G. A. R., member of Tuscan Lodge of Masons, member of the Royal Arcanum, Legion of Honor, Electric (Phi Ne Theta) Fraternity of Wesleyan University, and member of the Country Club. He was foreman of the Grand Jury of April, 1904, which returned so many indictments in the celebrated boodle cases. Was awarded a commemorative diploma and medal for services pertaining to the wall paper exhibits of this and for- eign countries at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
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Ben. Lewis Baldwin Parsons.
BORN APRIL 5, 1818. DIED MARCH 16, 1907.
Lewis Baldwin Parsons was born in Genesee County, New York, April 5, 1818. He entered Yale College from Gouverneur, New York, in 1836, graduating in 1840; and, after two years spent in teaching a classical school in Mississippi, entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1844. He at once went West, locating at Alton, Illinois, where he acquired a large law practice, and was for several years city attorney. In 1854 he removed to St. Louis, became attorney for Page & Bacon, who were then engaged in building the Ohio & Missis- sippi Railroad, and was connected with that road for many years thereafter, being at various times director, treasurer and president.
In 1861, he determined, as he wrote, "To give all aid in my power for the preservation of the Government, as my grand- father had given seven years of his life during the Revolu- tionary War," and, arranging his affairs so that they could be left, he went to Washington and offered his services to Gen- eral McClellan, whom he had known as vice-president of the
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Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. He entered the army on Mc- Clellan's staff with the rank of captain, but was soon sent West at his own urgent request, reporting to General Allen, Chief Quartermaster at St. Louis, who, knowing of his previous rail- road experience, ordered him to take charge of railroad trans- portation in the West and reform the great abuses then existing in that department. His immediate and marked success in · introducing system where had been chaos caused General Allen to appoint him chief of rail and river transportation for the West, with headquarters at St. Louis. The tremendous responsibility of this position can only be properly estimated by recalling the immense distances to be covered, the great armies operating in this region, the enormous quantities of supplies necessary and the great battles fought there, while ample testi- mony was borne by the generals in the field, as also by Sec- retary Stanton and President Lincoln to Colonel Parsons' remarkable success in so organizing and managing this depart- ment, "that no military movement ever failed or faltered for lack of transportation."
He greatly desired active service in the field, but his oft- repeated request for a transfer to the line was not granted, and his only experience in field service was at Corinth, where he
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was on General Halleck's staff, at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou and at the Capture of Arkansas Post, where he received special mention for bravery. Colonel Parsons remained in the West until 1864, when he was given charge of all rail and river transportation of the armies of the United States, and was ordered to Washington, where he was stationed during the remainder of the war. In 1865 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General on the autographic order of President Lincoln, and, on finally retiring from service in May, 1866, Secretary Stanton conferred on him the rank of Brevet Major- General.
After two years of travel abroad, General Parsons returned to St. Louis and, in 1875, removed to his large farm near Flora, Illinois, where he spent the remaining years of his life in comparative quiet, yet taking an active interest, to the last, in the affairs of home, State and nation. He passed away, after a brief illness, on March 16, 1907.
General Parsons' right to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars was through the service of his ancestor, Cornet Joseph Parsons (1618-1683), Springfield, Mass. Cornet in Captain John Pynchon's Hampshire County Troop, 1672-78, and through the service of fifteen other Colonial ancestors.
RICHARD AYLETT BARRET.
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Richard Aplett Barret.
BORN JUNE 21, 1834. DIED APRIL 6, 1908.
Richard Aylett Barret was the son of Dr. Richard Ferral Barret and Maria Louisa Barret. He was related both on his paternal and maternal sides to some of the most illustrious families of the Old Dominion. On his father's side to the Lees, Fitzhughs, Winstons, Paynes, Overtons and others. On his mother's side to the Buckners, Madisons, Ayletts, Thorn- tons, Taylors and others. He was born in Greensburg, Ken- tucky, at "Cliffland," the seat of his grandfather, Judge Rich- ard A. Buckner. At the age of six Mr. Barret came to St. Louis with his parents from Springfield, Illinois. He attended the school of Judge Samuel Treat and Edward Wyman, also the St. Louis University. He was tutored by General Chester Harding, afterwards entered Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., where he prepared for Harvard College, which he entered in 1852, but left before he completed the course. He returned to St. Louis and studied medicine, receiving his degree of M. D. from the Missouri Medical College. In 1854, he went to Europe and continued his studies at the Universities of Bonn, Munich and Heidelberg, and obtained the additional degree of Ph.D. For a short time he acted as Secretary of Legation at Paris, under John G. Mason, Minister to the Court of Napo- leon III. Returning to the United States, he studied law, and in 1859 was admitted to the bar. During the Civil War was the attorney for the Government in the offices, respectively, of General B. G. Farrar, Colonel James O. Broadhead, City Pro-
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vost-Marshal, and General C. B. Alexander, United States Army Provost-Marshal-General for Missouri. He also acted as Chief Clerk and Private Secretary to the latter until 1866. He then went to Burlington, Iowa, and there purchased and edited the Gazette and Argus, the oldest newspaper in the State. Returning to his old home, St. Louis, at a later date, he was for a time editor-in-chief of the Evening Dispatch, and still later editor and part owner of the St. Louis Times. He served as private secretary to his brother, Arthur Buckner Barret, during his short term as Mayor, and continued with James H. Britton. He then retired from active business.
Mr. Barret married, February 27, 1862, Mary Finney, daugh- ter of the late William Finney, an early settler and prominent citizen and merchant of St. Louis. One daughter, Mary Lee, who died at the age of seven years, blessed the union.
Mr. Barret's illness was prolonged, but borne with remark- able fortitude. Death was met bravely and peacefully on the morning of April 6, 1908.
Mr. Barret had a brilliant mind, a phenomenal memory, a facile pen. He was a student of history and his greatest pleas- ure was in his books. He was a man of innate refinement, of courtly manners. Had a high sense of honor, was sincere and brave, and modest and unassuming. One prominent trait of his character was his deference to those whose lot in life was less favorable than his own. He was a true friend and a devoted husband.
Mr. Barret's membership in the Society of Colonial Wars was by right of his great-grandfather, William Winston (1737-1799), a Lieutenant in the Virginia Troops in French and Indian Wars, and through the service of twenty-four Colonial ancestors.
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Jacob Craig Van Blarcom.
BORN JUNE 1, 1849. DIED AUGUST 24, 1908.
It is with regret that we record the death of Jacob Craig Van Blarcom, late President of the National Bank of Com- merce in St. Louis. He was born June I, 1849, in Bergen County, New Jersey, and passed his earlier life attending pri- vate and public schools. He graduated from the Paterson, New Jersey, High School, from which he went to a preparatory school in Jersey City, and later attended Rutger College at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Leaving college in his sopho- more year, at the age of seventeen, he came to St. Louis in 1866, and was in the employ of Peterson, Hawthorne & Company, a wholesale saddlery hardware and leather house, as a travel- ing man. In those early days the facilities for travel were not such as they are now, and Mr. Van Blarcom's traveling was chiefly on horseback. He thus traveled over a large section of this Western country, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Corpus Christi, Texas, and over the State of Iowa and a large part of the State of Missouri. He became an accountant in the Bank of Commerce, in this city, in July, 1870. In February, 1877, he was elected Vice-President, which position he retained until the death of the President, William H. Thompson, when Mr. Van Blarcom was elected President of the National Bank of Commerce, then one of the largest banks in the West, and continued as such until his death, on the 24th day of August, 1908. In 1871, on January 19th, he was married in Chicago, Illinois, to Mary Fairfax Gamble. He has two children, Leslie
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Craig, born January 12, 1873, and Frederick, born June 26, 1885. His wife and one son, Frederick, survive him. The father of J. C. Van Blarcom was Jacob Van Riper Van Blar- com, and his mother was Euphemia Dixon. His father was a member of the Legislature of New Jersey, and his grand- father, Brant Van Blarcom, was at one time Mayor of Pater- son, New Jersey, and his great-grandfather, Hendrick Van Blarcom, was a Captain in the War of the Revolution, and commanded a company of New Jersey troops at Valley Forge.
Mr. Van Blarcom was an unusually clear-headed and suc- cessful business man ; he was emphatically an executive man, and managed the great interests submitted to his care with singular fidelity and discrimination. He was President of the Missouri branch of the American Red Cross during the great San Francisco earthquake disaster, and through his devotion and ability, large sums were collected and sent through the American Red Cross. He was a public-spirited man, and took an active interest in all movements for the betterment of his home city, and was ever in the forefront of those who were battling for the development of the resources of the West, and the building up of St. Louis as a great commercial center. In his social relations he was kind, genial and ever ready to assist his fellow-men. In his home life he was an affectionate father and a loving, attentive husband, ever ready to sacrifice him- self for the good of others. His social great-heartedness and bonhomme made him one of the beloved members of the Society of Colonial Wars, of which he was a member in right of the service of his ancestor, Nicasius De Sille (1612-1683). Coun- cil, 1653-1660. Schout Fiscal, New Netherlands, 1658-1660.
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JOHN FREDERIC RANDALL.
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Bobn frederic Randall.
BORN APRIL 13, 1839. DIED APRIL 10, 1909.
John Frederic Randall was born in Mystic, Connecticut, April 13, 1839. He was prepared for college at the Connecti- cut Literary Institute at Suffield, and was a member of the Class of '64, Yale, until his junior year, when he enlisted in the United States Army as First Lieutenant, 21st Connecticut Vol- unteers. He came to St. Louis in 1864 and continued in the insurance business there for over forty years, being dis- tinguished for his absolute integrity. For nearly thirty years he lived in Alton, Illinois, and died there on the 10th day of April, 1909. He was married in 1870 and leaves a wife and two daughters.
Mr. Randall was a many-sided man, and his keen interest in things lasted as long as his life. He was a member of the Missouri and Illinois Historical Societies, the Mayflower and Colonial War Societies, the Sons of the Revolution, the Mili-
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tary Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Ransom Post, G. A. R. He was interested in the municipal affairs of his home town, and served long on the Alton School Board, and as a trustee of Shurtleff College, finding opportunities to help many young people who were starting out in life. He had an appreciative understanding of choral music, and was for twenty years chorister of his church. He loved all out-of-door things, and hunted and fished every year in the Ozark country, and along the Mississippi. The ills of the last ten years of his life did not diminish his enthusiasm for all philanthropic and Chris- tian work, nor cloud his rare and quaint sense of humor and his hopeful views of life.
Mr, Randall's right to membership in the Society of Colo- nial Wars was through a long line of distinguished ancestors, including Captain George Denison, Captain James Avery, Thomas ' Stanton, Walter " Palmer, Thomas Miner, Captain George Denison, Captain John' Gallup, Elder William Brewster and twenty-seven other ancestors who performed Colonial service.
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bugh Campbell Card.
BORN MARCH 10, 1863. DIED AUGUST 15, 1909.
Hugh Campbell Ward died in New York City August 15, 1909. Mr. Ward was born in Westport, Jackson County, Mis- souri, March 10, 1863. Westport is now a part of Kansas City, and it is here that Mr. Ward made his home throughout his lifetime. His father, Seth E Ward, a Virginian of Colonial antecedents, came West as a pioneer and engaged in the trad- ing business across the plains. His mother was the daughter of John Harris, also a pioneer settler. Hugh Ward spent seven years at William Jewell College at Liberty, Missouri, and later attended Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1886. He took his legal training at the St. Louis Law School, completing the course in 1888. Mr. Ward en- tered upon the practice of his profession in Kansas City. He had a mind especially equipped for the law, and he entered upon his career with eagerness and determination. He had opportunities at the start which not every young lawyer pos- sesses, but these did not diminish his desire for work-his am- bition to earn success. He took an active interest in the pro- motion of public and semi-public enterprises, and entered poli- tics. He was elected to the Missouri Legislature in 1893, and served creditably to himself and with satisfaction to his con- stituents. Here Mr. Ward was a member of important com- mittees, and became noted as a close and hard-working legis-
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lator. From 1897 to 1901 he was Police Commissioner of Kan- sas City and filled the office acceptably. His wealth and social position placed him beyond the temptation of office, nor could politics affect his clear judgment. No rumor of scandal breathed upon his name in office or out, and the critics of municipal affairs regretted his retirement to private life.
Mr. Ward's specialty in his profession was corporation law, and he was counsel for the Commerce Trust Company, the National Bank of Commerce, the Kansas City Home Telephone Company, and the Kansas City Long Distance Telephone Company; also counsel and director of the Kansas City Railway and Light Company, the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, and a director of the National Bank of Com- merce. Last January he resigned from most of the above posi- tions in order to devote more of his time to private affairs. A farm of five hundred acres, formerly owned by his father, had lately been taken into the city, and Mr. Ward was having this tract of land developed into a high-class residence section.
Mr. Ward was a generous contributor to charitable and philanthropic enterprises. His life was cut short at the time of his greatest activity and widest usefulness.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward had four children-Hugh Campbell, Jr., James. Crawford, Frances and John Harris Ward, all of whom are living.
Mr. Ward's right to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars was through the service of his ancestor, Seth Ward, from whom he was fifth in descent, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1768.
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