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tall, strong and active. He served in the war of 1812, being stationed at Fort Constitution. He married Sally Webster, born May 19, 1780. (lied June 11, 1838. Children : Hannah, born 1804: Asenath, 1800: George Washington. mentioned below : Daniel: Sally : Nathaniel, September 1, 1816; Webster, died young : Webster ( 2d ) ; child, died young :
(VII) George Washington, son of Jere- miah (2) Eastman, was born in Deerfield. New Hampshire, February 12, 1812. and died in Berkshire. Tioga county, New York, June 9, 1866. He was a tanner, farmer and currier. and lived in Berkshire. He served in the civil war, enlisting in the One Ilundred and Thirty- seventh New York Infantry. He married, in llomer, New York, January 17, 1835. Nancy Walter Atwater, born in Homer, March 17. 1813. died in Berkshire. December 10, 1893. daughter of Ira and Philanda ( Stone) At- water, and a descendant of David Atwater. one of the original planters of New Haven. Connecticut. Children, three of whom served in the civil war: 1. James Archibald, born in Berkshire. New York. August 17, 1837. 2. Charles Watson, born December 24. 1838. died July 1, 1839. 3. George Dwight, February 14. 1841 : served in civil war in First New York Mounted Rifles, and died on board floating hospital, October 20, 1862. 4. Charles Robert, born in Cortland, New York, March 19, 1843: enlisted in Third New York Infantry, reen- Ested in Fifth New York Cavalry: served throughout the war : sergeant. 5. Sarah Jane. October 8, 1844, died June 9, 1874. 6. John Du Fay, February 8, 1846, died July 2, 1874: served in civil war in One Hundred and Thirty- seventh New York Infantry. 7. Ralph De Witt. mentioned below. 8. Leonard Du Fay. born in Berkshire, September 10, 1854. died April 7. 1855. 9. Leonard Odell, July 7. 1857. died September 15, 1897 : school commissioner of Tioga county, seven years; graduated in medicine from Buffalo University in 1889. practiced in Union, New York, at time of death: married. December 17, 1884. Mary A. Atchison : children : Florence, born March 9. 1880: Katherine, November 11, 1805.
( \'111) Dr. Ralph De Witt Eastman, son of George Washington Eastman, was born in Cortland, New York, August 31. 1848. He received his early education in the public schools of Berkshire and Owego, New York, and for nine years taught school and for five
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years was employed by the state board of regents as an instructor. He studied medicine at the University of Buffalo and was graduated in 1878. In the same year he located in Berk- shire, and has been in general practice there since that time. He has been United States pension examiner for Tioga county since 1890, and has been president of the Tioga County Medical Society, of which he is at present the secretary. He is a member of the New York State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and of various college fraternities. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Congregational church.
He married (first), June 19, 1878, Helen Stark, of Penn Yan, New York, born at Penn Yan, died June, 19, 1879, daughter of Oliver and Sabra Stark. He married (second), Feb- ruary 12, 1884, Catherine S. Van Duzer, of Horseheads, born June 27, 1850, died March 19, 1906, daughter of William Henry and Susan Rachel (Sayre) Van Duzer. Mr. East- man has no children.
The surname Beebe is of very
BEEBE ancient origin. Ancient family papers said to be in the archives of Aston Hall, Warwickshire, England, show that this family descended from two Norman knights. Richard and William de Boebe, who were of the royal guard of William the Con- queror, and went to England at the time of the conquest. They were granted land in War- wickshire, where the family afterwards lived. The name has many variations of spelling, as Beebe, Beby, Beeby, Beeboe, etc. The coat-of- arms borne by the Dilley Court family of Eng- land is: Azure a chevron or, three bees of the second. Crest : A beehive or. Motto: Se de- fendendo. During the parliamentary wars, John Beebe of Dudleston Hall, county War- wick, with two sons, having ardently stood by the popular cause against the Stuarts, fighting under Essex and Hampden, and all through Cromwell's campaign, were, at the restoration of the monarchy, exposed to persecution by the court officials. They were summoned to take the oath of allegiance before the king's governor at Warwick, but refused to recognize the right of that court. They, with others, at once emigrated to the province of York, and settled on estate within the royal demesne. Soon afterwards another branch of the family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts and hell correspondence with Lord Stanley and Henry
Fairfax of Durham. These letters were pre- served by William Watt, Esq., lord of the manor of Aston, Warwickshire. The immi- grant, mentioned below, is undoubtedly con- nected with this family.
(1) John Beebe, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Broughton, county Northampton, England, and sailed for New England in April or May, 1650. He was accompanied by five children. His will was written on shipboard, and indicates that he died the same day, as he writes : "Being by Gods good hand brought on a voyage towards New Engl'd to sea and there smitten by the good hand of God, so as that my expectation is for my chaynge." The will is dated May 18, 1650. He married Rebecca -, who died in England. Children, bap- tismal dates given: John, August 11, 1630; Thomas, June 23, 1633, twin ; Samuel, twin of Thomas, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, Janu- ary 23, 1635; Mary, March 18, 1637 ; Hannalı, June 23, 1640, probably died in England ; John, about 1641.
( II) Samuel, son of John Beebe, was bap- tized at Broughton, England, June 23, 1633. He came to New England and settled at New London, Connecticut, where land was granted him, December 2, 1651, and afterwards. He married (first) Agnes, daughter of William Keeney. He married (second) Mary Keeney, born 1642, sister of his first wife. She lived, a widow, in Colchester, and on May 8, 1716, conveyed to Sammel Fox, of London, land granted originally to William Keeney, her father. Samuel Beebe probably moved to Plum Island and died there early in 1712, as admin- istration was granted on his estate April 6. 1712, to his widow Mary and son Samuel of Southold, Long Island. Children : Samuel. born about 1660; Susannah, about 1663 ; Will- iam, about 1665: Agnes, about 1667: Nathan- iel, about 1668; Ann, about 1672: Jonathan, mentioned below; Mary, about 1678; Thomas. about 1682.
(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel Beebe, was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1674. He settled at Millington, Connecticut, near the northeast corner of Long Pond, in East Had- dam, coming from New London as early as 1704. He was a man of consequence in the town. He owned land in Colchester. He died at East Haddam, October 12, 1761, aged eighty-seven. He married (first) Bridget, born at Lyme, January 9, 1671-72, died April 5. 1756, daughter of Wolstan and Hannah
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(Briggs) Brockway; (second), October 4, 1759, Elizabeth Staples, widow, of Millington, "each aged about eighty years," at the time of their marriage. Children : Jonathan, mention- ed below ; William, about 1700; Joshua, about 1713 ; Caleb, before 1717.
(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (I) Beebe, was born about 1693-95, and died in East Haddam, Connecticut. He married (first) Hannah Coley, (second) Lydia Spencer, (third) Remember Nye. Children, born at East Haddam: Jonathan, about 1720; David, 1724; Samuel, mentioned below ; Daniel, 1728; Ebenezer, 1732; Hanna, 1726; Rachel, April 4, 1731; Joshua, September 16, 1733; Eliza- beth, July II, 1736.
(V) Samuel (2), son of Jonathan (2) Beebe, was born at East Haddam in 1725, died October 1, 1786. He married Jemima Beebe, born at New London, Connecticut, January 25. 1732, daughter of Ezekiel and Hannah (Rogers) Beebe. He was a private in the French and Indian war. Children, born at East Haddam: Stewart, mentioned below ; Samuel, born in 1761, died in 1784.
(VI) Stewart, son of Samuel (2) Beebe, was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1759. He married (first) Hannah Butler, (second) Huldah Beebe, (third) Dorothy Col- ton. He lived in Massachusetts. He received a commission as captain from Governor John Hancock. He was one of the founders of Wil- braham, Massachusetts. Children: Stewart, mentioned below; Samuel, Rhoda, married Shotwell.
(VII) Stewart (2), son of Stewart (I) Beebe, married Sophia Gilbert. Children : Lu- cius, Junius, Marcus, Decius, Cyrus, mentioned below.
(VIII) Cyrus, son of Stewart (2) Beebe, was born in Connecticut, and settled in North Brookfield, Madison county, New York, where he died about 1890, at the age of ninety years. He was a carpenter and builder and also fol- lowed farming. He married (first) Rhody, (second) Phebe, both daughters of Harris and Martha Chesebro (see Chesebro). Children : Judson I., mentioned below ; Cyrus.
(IX) Judson L., son of Cyrus Beebe, was born in Sangerfield, Oneida county, New York, in 1823, died in North Brookfield, New York, in 1893. He was a contractor and builder at Sangerfield and North Brookfield. He married Susan Blanding, of Brookfield, New York. Children: Hiram J., mentioned 30-C
below ; Alice, married Frank Barber, of Wash- ington, D. C. ; Lucina, died in infancy.
(X) Iliram J., son of Judson L. Beebe, was born in Brookfield, Madison county, in 1848, died in Candor, New York, January 21, 1906. He was a carpenter by trade and was in busi- ness in Brookfield until 1899 when he removed to Candor, where he became engaged in the printing business. In politics he was a Dem- ocrat ; he was tax collector, and held other offices of trust and honor in the town of Brookfield. In religion he was an Episco- palian.
He married, Amelia, born in Brookfield, April 19, 1849, daughter of James and Chloe (Clark) Hills. Children: I. William Lyman, mentioned below. 2. Winifred L., married George L. Smith, of Union llill, New York; children, Louise and Raymond. 3. James H., resides at Carthage, New York.
(XI) William Lyman, son of Hiram J. Beebe, was born May 9, 1869, in South Byron, Genesee county, New York, and was educated in the public schools of that town and Brook- field, and the Brookfield Free Academy. He learned the printer's trade in the office of a cousin at Brookfield. Afterward he started a printing office at Earlville and conducted it until 1899, when he came to Candor, Tioga county, and established a weekly newspaper, the Candor Courier, which he has conducted ever since. This newspaper is of large circu- lation and influence. In politics Mr. Beebe is an Independent. He has been town clerk for five years. He is a member of Oneka Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Bap- tist church.
He married, December 18, 1890, May A., born April 14, 1870, daughter of Truman and Olive (Damon) Payne, of Madison county, New York. Children: I. Susan T., born August 18, 1894. 2. C. Arthur, horn May 5, 1899.
(The Chesebro Line).
(I) William Chesebrough, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1594, prob- ably in or near Boston, Lincolnshire, where he is known to have lived some eleven or twelve years before he came to America. He came on the ship "Arabella" with his wife Anna and three children ; the ship was the Admiral of the fleet of fourteen which carried the passengers who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and it set sail from Cowes, Isle of Wight, Tuesday. March 30, 1630. Sarah Chesebrough, whose
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name stands No. 78 on the roll of the First Church of Boston, Massachusetts, was doubt- less a passenger on the ship, and is thought to have been William's mother. They settled first at Charlestown, July 30, 1630, but in three months moved to Boston, where the names of William and his wife are on the roll of the First Church. He was made a freeman in May, 1631, and was chosen one of the two deputies from the town; he was also constable and assessor of rates; he served on a com- mittee to allot to "able bodied men and youth" grounds for planting. In 1637 or 1638 he moved to Mount Wollaston, later Braintree, where he was representative and commissioner or local judge for certain cases. Later he moved to Seekonk, near Plymouth Colony, where he was a prominent man. He was op- posed to renaming the town Rehoboth, and be- cause of a prejudice which arose against him from this he went to Pequot, where he was urged to settle, but he finally settled in Weque- tequock Cove, in Pawcatuck, and was assisted in his moving by Roger Williams. Soon after this a false charge was made against him by jealous neighbors, declaring that he intended to carry on trade with the Indians in fire- arms, and the federal court of Connecticut issued a warrant requiring him to answer this, and though at first he refused, he finally an- swered and cleared himself. Both Massachu- setts and Connecticut claimed the land at Pe- quot, and Connecticut tried to gain it by found- ing a new town on Chesebrough's side of the river. Thomas Stanton, the famous Indian interpreter, joined him, with Palmer and Miner. in settling Stonington, which at first was called Southington, then Mystic, then Stoning- ton. For the last three years of his life he was selectman of the town, until June 9, 1667. when he died. He married Anne, daughter of Peter Stevenson, by license, December 15. 1620, in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lin- colnshire, England. His wife died August 24, 1775. Children, baptismal dates given : Marie, May 2, 1622, died in infancy ; Martha, Sep- tember 18, 1623, died in infancy ; David, died in infancy ; Jonathan, September 9, 1624, twin of David ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Androni- cus and Junius, twins, February 6, 1629; Na- thaniel, January 25, 1630; John, September 2, 1632 ; Jabez, May 3, 1635, died young ; Elisha, June 4, 1637 ; Joseph, born July 18, 1640, died young.
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(II) Samuel, son of William Chesebrough,
was baptized April 1, 1627, at Boston, England, buried July 31, 1673, in Stonington, Connecti- cut. He was made freeman in 1657 and signed the Pawcatuck Articles of Association in 1658. He served as constable, selectman in 1660, dep- uty to the general court in 1665-66-67-70-71- 72-73. He lived in Boston, Braintree and Re- hoboth, Massachusetts. He married, Novem- ber 30, 1655, Abigail who married ( second), June 15, 1675, Joshua Holmes, of Westerly, Rhode Island, and (third), July 4, 1698, Captain James Avery, of New Lon- don, Connecticut, who died April 18, 1700, leaving her again a widow. Children : Abigail, born September 30, 1656; Marie, February 28, 1658; Samuel, November 20, 1660; William, April 8, 1662; Sarah, December 24, 1663; Elisha, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, January 6, 1669.
( III) Elisha, son of Samuel Chesebrough, was born April 4, 1667, and died September I, 1727. He married (first), January 27, 1692, Marie, daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Avery) Miner, born October 6, 1671, at Stonington, died November 29. 1704, buried at Togwonk. He was received into the Stonington church February 5. 1705. His will was proved No- vember 14. 1727. He married (second) Re- becca Mason, February 6, 1707, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Hobart) Mason, born February 10, 1682, died January 15, 1742. Chil- dred by first wife: Mary, born December 15, 1692; Elihu and Elisha, twins, September 15, 1694; John, October 25. 1696: James, men- tioned below: Jabez. January 10, 1701 ; Zebu- lon, July 6, died November 24, 1704. Children by second wife : Rebecca, November 16, 1707; Jedediah, October 12, 1710; Zebulon, June 13. 1712: Prudence, July 12, 1716, died young ; Abigail, September 28, 1717; Lucy, July 2, 1722; Nathaniel, September 6. 1724, died March 1, 1725.
(IV) James, son of Elisha Chesebrough, was born May 20, 1699, at Stonington. He married. November 24. 1718, Prudence Har- ris, of Middletown, Connecticut, born January I, 1700-I, daughter of William and Martha (Collins) Harris. She married (second), August 21, 1746, in North Stonington, Captain Daniel Brown. Children : Prudence, born Oc- tober 16, 1719: Jabez, July 21, 1721, died young ; Elisha, baptized April 28. 1723 : Rebecca. Feb- ruary 6. 1726: Sybil, August 24. 1729; Jabez, February 13, 1732 ; James, June 27, 1736, men- tioned below.
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(V) James (2), son of James (I) Chese- brough, was born June 27, 1736. He married, December 10, 1758, Lucy, daughter of Josep.1 and Sarah ( Worden) Pendleton, "of Lottery village fame". She was baptized May 5, 1742. Children: Paul: James, died March 25, 1848, aged 86; Harris, mentioned below ; William, born January 22, 1764; Joseph Leroy ; Ben- jamin ; Isaac, March 1, 1774.
(VI) Harris Chesebro, son of James (2) Chesebrough, married Martha He was a sailor. Children, born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island: Patty, September 19, 1790; Harris, Jr., July 13, 1791; Lydia, July 24, 1794; Samuel Champlin, April 13, 1796; Na- than, married Lydia Downing; Rhody and Phebe, both married Cyrus Beebe (see Beebe) ; Jared, married Sarah Brown; Eli, married Eliza Blanding ; Phebe, married Ly- man Palmer.
The Stiles name is of Anglo-
STILES Saxon origin, and is derived from the dwelling-place. The
names Styleman, Styel and Styell are also de- rived from style. The family is very ancient in England.
(I) John Stiles, the immigrant ancestor, was baptized in St. Michael's Church, Milbroke, Bedfordshire, England, December 25, 1595. He married Rachel -- , in England. She was the first person to step ashore at Connecti- cut when the Plantation was begun in 1636. John Stiles was forty years of age when he came to Windsor, Connecticut, where he had a home lot next to his brother Francis. In 1663 his son Henry had this lot and lived on it until 1673, when he exchanged with John Gaylord. In 1660 he gave his son John a lot twelve acres wide near Henry's lot, which he sold in 1653 to Nathaniel Bissell. In 1659-60 he paid for a seat in the meeting-house at Windsor, the price being six shillings for man and wife. He died at Windsor, June 4, 1662-3, aged sixty- seven, and his wife died September 3, 1674. His will was dated May 30, 1662. Children, born in England : Henry, about 1629. and John. about 1633; Isaac, mentioned below ; Sarah, born in Windsor, Connecticut.
(II) Isaac, son of John Stiles, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and died at Stratford, Connecticut, January 5, 1714-5. On January 27, 1710, there is a record of his baptism in a journal kept by Rev. Mr. Sharp, an Episco- palian clergyman in New York, during Lord
Cornbury's administration, stating that he was "the first male child born in the Colony of Connecticut, a man of 80 years of age." He probably baptized him during a trip through Connecticut with the governor. Savage says that if he were the first child born in Connecti- cut he must have been about seventy-six years of age instead of eighty. He married Hannah -- , and settled in Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, about 1665. After 1671 he moved to Stratford, Connecticut, where he lived the rest of his life. The only deed found given by him was to his son Jonathan, a deed of twenty-four acres of division lands, dated June 26, 1705. recorded July 20, 1706; this was on condition that he take care of his father for the rest of his life, and also pay three pounds each to his sisters Hannah, Sarah and Deborah. Isaac was one of the petitioners to the Bishop of London in April, 1707. for the establishment of Christ Church, at Stratford. Children : Isaac, mentioned below; John, who according to President Stiles died before 1710, and whom, like John, Cothren does not find on the records ; born at Stratford, Connecticut ; Sarah, November 18, 1677; Deborah, January 18, 1682: Jonathan, March 10. 1688-9, founder of large New Jersey family : Hannah, November 3. 1694.
(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) Stiles, was born in 1663, married Hannah, daughter of Robert Rose, of Stratford, Connecticut. Her father came from Ipswich, England, in 1634, in the ship "Francis." aged fifteen, with his father, Robert Rose Sr., and settled in 1648 in Stratford ; married Hannah --- , and had eight children, of whom the youngest was Hannah. Isaac Stiles died in 1690, and the inventory of his estate i. dated December 15, 1691. The widow Hannah and Isaac Bennit were appointed administrators; she married (second) Samuel Hargar, of Derby, Connecti- cut, May 9, 1693. . Children of Isaac and Han- nah Stiles : Deborah, married Samuel Shethar ; Isaac, mentioned below.
(IV) Isaac (3), son of Isaac (2) Stiles, was born April 5, 169-, and settled first at Stratford, then at Woodbury, Connecticut, where he died April 6. 1787, aged ninety-seven years. Ile married (first ), February 25, 1718- 9. Abigail Adams, of Milford, Connecticut, born September 25. 1696; (second) Sarah -, who died December 19, 1771. Cothren, in his "History of Woodbury," says that Abi- gail, the first wife, "seems to have died before
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1724, for in that year his wife Sarah was dis- missed to the Ripton church from Stratford". Children, born at Stratford, except the young- est : William, January 23, 1718-20; Sarah, De- cember 19, 1721 ; Abigail, April 6, 1723; Han- nah, July 12, 1726, died November 4, 1726; Isaac, mentioned below ; Mabel, April II, 1730; Betty, July 2, 1732; Mary, September 21, 1734; Samuel, June 1, 1736; John, August 21, 1738; David, born at Woodbury, June 18, 1741.
(V) Isaac (4), son of Isaac (3) Stiles, was born at Stratford, Connecticut, April 17, 1728. He married Elizabeth Chil- dren: Eunice, baptized July 14, 1751, died 1776, unmarried; Annis, baptized July 1, 1753, married Nathaniel Bristol, November 10, 1777 ; Gideon, baptized May 15, 1757; Na- than, married Betsey Wagner; Truman, born at Southbury, Connecticut, 1761, married La- vinia Leavenworth and Anne Jarrett; Lewis, mentioned below; Simeon, died April 1, 1777, aged eleven years.
(VI) Lewis, son of Isaac (4) Stiles, was born about 1764, at Southbury, Connecticut, or Minisink, New York. The records of Southbury show that Lewis Stiles married at Bethlehem, Connecticut, September 15, 1793, Sarah Wray; according to the family tradi- tion his wife's maiden name was Wood. He lived and died in Minisink, Orange county, New York. His home was near Greenville. He was a captain in the war of 1812. He lived to the great age of eighty-four years. By occupation he was a farmer. Children : Lemon Nathaniel, mentioned below; Lewis, Artey, married -- - Overton ; Phebe, mar- ried - Hoyt; one other child.
(VII) Lemon Nathaniel, son of Lewis Stiles, was born at Mount Hope, Orange county, New York, March 24, 1807, and died at Binghamton, New York, May 7, 1890. He was educated in the district schools, and in his younger days was a school teacher. Afterward he was a dealer in clocks, tinware and Yankee notions, and had stores and peddler's carts from which he sold his wares, after the custom of the trade in those days. In later years he was a hotel proprietor. He owned a hotel at Otis- ville and another at Mount Hope, New York. He spent his last years in retirement from ac- tive business, making his home with his daugh- ter in Binghamton, where he died. He mar- ried Cynthia Green, born at Mount Hope, in 1812, died December 6, 1891, daughter of
Charles and Polly (Woodward) Green. Chil- dren: I. Charles Lewis, mentioned below. 2. Ambrose Woodward, born October 27, 1838, died in Florida; married Margarett Claflin ; son Charles, born 1864, died 1907. 3. Mary Frances, born October 1, 1840 ; married Joseph Gillespie, of Binghamton.
(VIII) Dr. Charles Lewis Stiles, son of Lemon Nathaniel Stiles, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, October 24, 1834. He re- ceived his early education in the district schools of Mount Hope and Otisville, New York. Un- der the instruction of Dr. S. M. Hand, of Nor- wich, New York, he began the study of medi- cine and continued with him four years, after- ward taking the course at the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1865. For five years he was in general practice at Gibson, Susquehanna county, Penn- sylvania. In 1870 he removed to Owego, New York, and he has continued in practice to the present time and enjoyed a large measure of success and a high reputation for skill and learning. He is a member of the Tioga County Medical Society, Broome County Medical So- ciety, Steuben County Medical Society, Che- mung County Medical Society, Susquehanna County Medical Society, Lake Cayuga Medical and Surgical Association, Binghamton Acad- emy of Medicine, Elmira Academy of Medi- cine. Sixth District of the New York State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. In religion he is a Congregation- alist and has been deacon and trustee of the Congregational church of Owego. He is also a member of the Minisink Valley Historical Society of Port Jervis, New York. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married, May 18, 1864, Marietta Archi- bald, born in Owego, 1840, daughter of Al- mond W. and Abbie ( Bates) Archibald, and granddaughter of James Archibald, who came from Scotland and settled in New York state. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Stiles: 1. Archi- bald Wilson, born September 27, 1872; grad- uated in medicine from Baltimore Medical College, and passed medical examinations in New York, Tennessee and Virginia ; now en- gaged in insurance business in Indianapolis, Indiana; married Kathleen Barnett, of Vir- ginia ; has daughter Kathleen Barnett Stiles; his wife is deceased. 2. Jennie Frank, born March 7, 1876, died in infancy. 3. Lora Belle. horn March 12, 1878; married Harry W.
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