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"I wish to acknowledge, to the fullest extent, my "obligation to Mr. D. Williams Patterson, of Newark "Valley, New York, who has been my assistant since 1873. . "Not only has he acted as my amanuensis in preparing for the "printer the vast mass of crude material gathered by my- "self since 1867, but he has added largely to the bulk and
"value of the book by his own researchęs,
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"acting at all times with intelligence, rare conscientious- "ness and indefatigable industry. Much of such merit "as the work may be adjudged to possess should justly be
"ascribed to the labors of this accomplished genealogist."
Following is a list of the works which Dr. Patterson published and those which he left in manuscript :
"A Letter of Directions to His Father's Birthplace, by John Holmes, with Notes and a Genealogy by D. Williams Patterson," 1865, Svo, pp. 76. "John Watson of Hartford, Connecticut, and His Descendants," com- piled for Thomas Watson, 1865, Svo, pp. 47.
These two works were respectively Nos. I and 3 of the issues of a private club of three members (D. Williams Patterson, then of West Win- sted, Connecticut ; Francis S. Hoffman, Esq., of New York ; and Dr. Henry S. Stiles, of New York) styling itself the "U. Q. Club"-a name humorously suggested by Dr. Patterson with reference to the "unknown quantity" which so often, in genealogy, as in mathematics, puzzles the student-as well as to the non-identification of the membership of the club, given to the public for the first time in the obituary notice of Dr. Patterson in the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," April, 1893.
"Memorables of the Montgomeries, New York, Printed for the King of Clubs," 1866 (edition forty copies in 4to, and sixty in 8vo), Bradstreet Press. This, which included a Montgomery Pedigree, was prepared for and privately printed by Thomas H. Montgomery, Esq., of Philadelphia ; the de- vice used on its title, a "King of Clubs," was a suggestion of Dr. Patterson's. "Slosson Genealogy," 1872, 8vo, pp. 20.
"John Stoddard, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and his Descendants, 1642-1872," 8vo, pp. 96; 1873.
"The Isbell and Kingman Families," compiled for Leroy W. Kingman ; 4to, pp. 30: Owego, 1889.
"Brockway Family," compiled for Francis E. Brockway; 4to, pp. 167; Owego, 1890.
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"The Grant Genealogy-Descendants of Matthew of Windsor, Connec- ticut." (Reprinted from "Stiles' Revised History and Genealogy of Wind- sor, Connecticut ;" edition one hundred copies ; 8vo, pp. 42 ; 1893.)
"The Whitney Family of Connecticut," mentioned above.
To Mr. John Boyd's "Annals of Winchester, Connecticut," Dr. Pat- terson contributed a large amount of genealogical matter and labor, which received due acknowledgment.
"Susquehannah Association-Historical Notes;" Svo, pp. 8; Boston, 1874.
In manuscript form he left many valuable works, among the principal ones being :
"The Holy Ones of Lisle, or Fifteen-score and One who Sought to Serve the Lord." Compiled from authentic records. (A History of the First Church of Lisle, New York).
"Folk-lore of East Haddam, Connecticut," eight large 4to volumes.
"Robert Lane and His Descendants."
"Sergeant John Matthias, of Norwalk, Connecticut, and some. of his Descendants, 1669-1884."
"Spencer Genealogy-Jared and Hannah ; married 1665."
"Cone Genealogy-Daniel of Haddam, Connecticut, 1626.
"Rockwells, of Stamford, Connecticut."
"Smith Family, of Milford, Connecticut ; 1671."
"Isaac Willey and Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts, 1640."
"Some Records of Thomas Lee, of Lyme, Connecticut."
"Hungerford Family, of East Haddam, Connecticut, Thomas, 1639." "Genealogies of the Christopher, Crocker, and Marean Families."
"Mersereau Genealogy-Jean Mersereau, of France : 1685-1888."
"Proprietors of Haddam, Connecticut."
"Willard Family-Richard, of Kent, England ; will dated 1616."
"Seymours of New Canaan, Connecticut, from Andrew, 1734; also Greenwich, Connecticut, and Newburgh, New York, Seymours."
'Study of the Moores of Simsbury, Connecticut, 1755.'
"Alvord Records."
"Fragments of Lyme, Connecticut, Genealogies."
"Patterson Family."
"Holmes Genealogy." A very large manuscript compiled for Rufus E. Holmes, of West Winsted, Connecticut, and unfinished at the time of Dr. Patterson's death. His last work was done upon this.
"Descendants of Robert Coe, 1634."
"Genealogies of Norwalk and Ridgefield, Connecticut."
"Ralph Keeler and Descendants, 1613."
"Miscellaneous Genealogies," fifteen large volumes, A to L ; some fam- ilies very fully written up.
"History of the Families of the Boston Purchase :" a very large manu- script, a few sketches from which, relative to the families of Berkshire, Newark Valley, and Richford, were published in Gay's Historical Gazetteer of Tioga county, New York," 1881.
"Some Records of the Widow Ford, 1621-1880."
"Records of the Willey Family, of East Haddam, Connecticut."
"Whitney Records :" three large manuscripts, apparently ready for pub- lication, viz. : (a) "Joshua Whitney and his Descendants :" compiled 1884- 1888; (b) "Whitney Family of Massachusetts-from John and Elinor, of
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Watertown," parents of Joshua, above referred to; (c) "Massachusetts Whitneys, Cortland County, and Tioga County, New York, branch; De- scandants of Jonathan."
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II. NANCY ANN PATTERSON®, born in Union, 21 June, 1826; died Newark Valley, 15 October, 1841, of scarlet fever.
III. MARY LUCINDA PATTERSONG, born in Union, 19 August, 1828; married in Newark Valley, 19 May, 1852, Seymour E. Walworth, of Newark Valley, a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church. They resided at Little Meadows, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, in 1854; in Campville, Tioga county, New York, in 1855. She died at the house of her father in Newark Valley, 26 October, 1855.
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IV. CHESTER RANSOM PATTERSON, born in Union, 21 July, 1833; married in South Owego, New York, 3 November, 1855, Sarah An- geline Bancroft, born in Plymouth, Chenango, county, New York, 11 June, 1832, daughter of Osee and Rachel (Pixley) Bancroft. He died in Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18 July, 1897, and was buried 21 July, on the anniversary of his birth, in Hope Cemetery, Newark Valley, New York. She died in Brooklyn, New York, 8 September, 1903, buried in Hope Cemetery, Newark Valley, New York, 10 September, 1903.
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V. JOSEPH EMMETT PATTERSON®, born in Union, 22 August, 1838; married in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 20 November, 1867, Julia Frances Burnet, born in Coxsackie, New York, 30 October, 1841, daughter of Theron and Harriet (Parker) Burnet. He lives ( 1906) at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Joseph E. Patterson (88) was reared on a farm in Newark Valley, New York, and received his preliminary education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he assumed the duties of life on his own account, rented and operated one farm and later added others, until at the age of twenty-two he had nine farms under his supervision, in addition to a lumber business of considerable proportion. It now became apparent to him that he must have a better education in order to conduct the business satisfactorily to himself, and for two years he was under private instructions to fit him for entering college. In order that his mind should not be distracted in any way by bus- iness cares, he closed out all his interests and entered the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, and so industriously did he apply him- self to his studies, that in eight weeks he obtained his diploma.
Upon leaving college he went to Pittston, Pennsylvania, and accepted a position with the late John Loveland, an extensive lumber dealer in Pittston. Before he had been with him three months, greatly to Mr. Patterson's sur- prise, he was asked to become a partner of Mr. Loveland in the business of manufacturing lumber, but declined on the ground that he had not sufficient capital. Mr. Loveland was, however, so favorably impressed with the methods, business ability and perseverance displayed by the young man, that he formed a partnership with him under the firm name of J. E. Patterson & Company, and loaned to him the amount of money that he lacked of hav- ing enough to pay for one-third interest in the business. This arrangement continued for some time and then they opened a lumber yard in Wilkes-
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Barre, Mr. Patterson having from that time on a half interest in that, and the manufacturing business. Later they moved their saw mill to the Redout Common, on North River street, where the court house now stands, and man- ufactured lumber there for a number of years ; the logs being brought down the river and canal. Soon after this Mr. Loveland's health failed, and he requested Mr. Patterson to take a half interest in his Pittston lumber yard and to conduct the entire business under the firm name of J. E. Patterson & Co. About this time the firm built a large planing mill and factory in Pittston. At Mr. Loveland's death his will stipulated that his executors should continue the business, which they did for seventeen years, when Mr. Patterson purchased the interest of Mr. Loveland's estate, which had grown much larger, and is now probably the largest and most extensive in this line of any firm in the Wyoming Valley.
Mr. Patterson is largely interested in the wholesale grocery business, the firm now being known as the Crocker Grocery Company. They have a large and constantly increasing trade, which having outgrown their former quarters, they have erected and are now conducting their business in the most substantial and the most finely equipped six-story wholesale grocery store in Pennsylvania. In addition to these enterprises Mr. Patterson was one of the organizers of the Easton Lime Company of Easton, Pennsylvania, one of the large concerns of that city engaged in quarrying and kalsomining lime. He was also one of the organizers of and is a partner in the Mason's Supply Company of Easton, Pennsylvania, which deals extensively in all kinds of supplies used by masons, the two firms employing a large number of men.
Mr. Patterson was the founder of the beautiful summer resort on the top of Nescopec Mountain known as Glen Summit Springs. The pure spring water and dry, pure air, together with the vision of what it might be made, led him to decide on this location. He also discovered the Glen Summit Spring, and introduced the pure Glen Summit spring water which has become so popular.
Perhaps the enterprise which gives promise of being the most extensive of any in which Mr. Patterson has yet become engaged, is known as the Col- orado Yule Marble Company, which is developing enormous quarries at Marble, Colorado, whereby great quantities of a very fine quality of white marble have been discovered. This company is capitalized at $3,000,000, and he is one of its directors. He also has some interest in coal. He is just en- gaging in business with his son-in-law, R. H. Cabell in New York City.
Mr. Patterson has strong convictions regarding his duty as an Ameri- can citizen, and believes that the present generation has inherited from their forefathers a rich legacy in the present republican form of government that guarantees to every true citizen the perfect freedom for which in the days of the revolutionary period so many brave men gave up their lives. He is a member of the Employers' Association, who recognize no Union which is not conducted on legal lines, but employs men purely on their merit. Living, as he does, in a section of country infested by labor leaders with only selfish purposes in view, it has cost Mr. Patterson many thousands of dollars to conduct his large transactions, in which he employs scores of men, on a purely independent basis. So strong and defiant did the attitude of the Unions become in their attempt to enforce unjust claims against their em- ployers, that Mr. Patterson at length took a decided stand against them. After exhausting every other means he finally took recourse in law, and a 1
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bitter fight was begun which cost thousands of dollars, but he finally won a great victory, and succeeded in having some of the leaders of that form of oppression convicted and fined, and in teaching a salutary lesson to all who may follow. No brief sketch can convey an accurate or adequate idea of this man. He is selfmade in all that the word implies, and has clearly dem- onstrated what it is possible to accomplish by careful, conservative, upright business methods. In all his business transactions he strives to follow the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and thereby has reached a place where he is admired for all the best qualities which go to make a true American citizen, and his career affords a con- spicuous example of a noble character, selfmade and well worthy of emu- lation.
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VI. ANN AMELIA PATTERSON6, born in the Patterson home- stead, Newark Valley, 26 June, 1840; married in Newark Valley, 8 August, 1864, Edward Gaynor Nowlan, born 14 October, 1842, son of Thomas and Sophia (Ender) Nowlan. They live (1906) at Newark Valley.
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Children of Lyman3 and Mehitabel (Seymour) Patterson :
I. AMOS PATTERSON6, born 30 July, 1818; was educated for the legal profession, and admitted to the bar at Binghamton, New York ; married 19 December, 1844, Hester Hyatt, of Nichols, New York. He lived apart from his wife after 1846, he in Maryland, and his wife and daughter in the family of Judge Clark Hyatt, of Nichols, New York. He died 187 -. Mrs. Patterson was the adopted daughter of Judge Hyatt. Her own name was Hester Caroline Ransom, born in Tioga, New York, daughter of Ira and Sarah (Forman) Ransom.
II. SEYMOUR PATTERSON®, born 16 September, 1820; died 16 June, 1821. Buried in the family ground at Union, New York.
III. ANNE PATTERSON6, born 28 February, 1822; married 19 March, 1842, Isaac Watts Overhiser, a stove and tinware dealer of Bing- hamton, born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, New York, 24 July, 1809, son of Caspar and Elizabeth (Hoffman) Overhiser. She died in Bingham- ton, 19 February, 1851. She was one of the most perfect of characters, her whole aim being to make others happy. Mr. Overhiser married (second) 28 December, 1854, Caroline Hagemon of Poughkeepsie.
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IV. JANE PATTERSON6, born 30 July, 1823; died in Binghamton, 4 September, 1832.
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Children of Joseph" and Eliza (Seymour) Patterson :
I. SARAH ANN PATTERSON6, born in Union, 6 June, 1823 ; mar- ried, 17 February, 1847, Dr. Edson J. Whitcomb, of Ontario, New York; died in Ontario, 30 May, 1849 ; was buried in the family burial ground on her father's farm in that place.
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II. NANCY SEYMOUR PATTERSON6, born in Ontario, New York, 18 August, 1826; married in Ontario, 26 June, 1845, Dr. Samuel Brown, born I May, 1819, in Ireland, son of Henry and Martha (-
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Brown : graduated from Geneva Medical College in January, 1845. They settled at Meridian, New York, where he practiced his profession. He died in Meridian, 3 October, 1901 ; she is living with her daughter Sarah, at Omaha, Nebraska (1906).
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IV. ELIZA PATTERSON6, born in Ontario, 24 May, 1833; married in Ontario, 24 October, 1855, Palmer Levi Cone, born in Lenox, Madison county, New York, 20 August, 1828, son of Deacon Walter and Caroline (Curtis) Cone, of Ontario; he was at the time of his marriage a merchant of Oswego, New York. In April, 1857, they removed to Davenport, Iowa. About 1874 they removed to Chicago, Illinois, where she died 8 April, 1896, and he died 24 November, 1898.
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V. SOPHIA PATTERSON6, born in Ontario, 16 December, 1834; died 18 December, 1834.
VI. MARTHA SOPHIA PATTERSON, twin with Sophia; born in Ontario, 16 December, 1834. She was first called Martha, and on the death of her sister the name Sophia was added. She married, 8 October, 1856, Francis Abner Hill, born in Ontario, 13 August, 1834, son of Ira and Elvira (Gilbert) Hill, of Ontario. He had a farm and grist mill in Ontario, and lived on the ridge road in the west part of the town ; she died 23 June, 1890. He died 7 March, 1903.
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VII. CHARLES PHILANDER PATTERSON6, born in Ontario, 17 August, 1836; he went in 1857 to Emporia, Kansas Territory, with his father. After the death of his father he returned to Ontario. He married, 26 April, 1860, Mary M. Potter, born 13 September, 1834. He has lived for several years in California.
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VIII. FRANCES AURELIA PATTERSON, born in Ontario, 30 October, 1841 ; died in Ontario, 13 February, 1844, of scarlet fever.
IX. A daughter, born in Ontario, 25 August, 1849; died 26 August, I849.
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X. ELLA PATTERSON6, born in Ontario, 8 May, 1851 ; married, 4 June, 1873, Albert Hill Middleton, born 10 May, 1852. They are living at Ontario in 1906.
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Children of David Williams6 and Helen (Lincoln) Patterson : I. ANNA PATTERSON, born in West Winsted, Connecticut, 24 April, 1854. Living in 1906 on the old homestead in Newark Valley, New York.
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III. JOSEPH SEYMOUR PATTERSON®, born in Ontario, 25 Oc- tober, 1827 ; married, 7 April, 1853, Anna Elizabeth Squire, born in Lisle, New York, 23 October, 1832, daughter of Harvey and Abigail (Manning) Squire, of Lisle, New York. He was a merchant of Whitney's Point, New York. She died 3 November, 1875. He married (second), 8 November, 1876, Diantha L. Stanley. He died 8 November, 1903.
Children of Joseph3 and Hannah Maria (Fuller) Patterson :
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II. LINCOLN ELLIOTT PATTERSON, born in West Winsted, Connecticut, 13 December, 1855; married in Ithaca, New York, 21 August, 1890; Clara Atwater, born in Ithaca, 29 November, 1856, daughter of Ben- jamin and Sally ( Phillips) Atwater, of Ithaca. He is an insurance agent, liv- ing at Ithaca in 1906.
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III. STIRLING WOODFORD PATTERSON, born in Newark Valley, New York, 6 October, 1870. Telegraph editor of the New York Evening Sun.
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IV. RALPH THACHER PATTERSON, born in Newark Valley, New York, 30 January, 1871. Farmer, living, in 1906, on the old homestead, in Newark Valley, New York.
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Child of Chester Ransom6 and Sarah (Bancroft) Patterson : I. EDMOND BROWN PATTERSON7, born in Plymouth, Pennsyl- vania, 21 January, 1868; married, 30 January, 1895, Nella May Moon, daughter of Philander and Sarah (Benjamin) Moon ; she was born in Pitts- ton, Pennsylvania, 29 December, 1867 ; he died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 7 October, 1902; buried in Hope Cemetery, Newark Valley, New York.
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I. HELEN HARRIET PATTERSON™, born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, 6 September, 1869; married 30 August, 1904, Benjamin Franklin Myers, born in Sylvis, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, 26 April, 1863, son of John Henry and Jane ( Westover) Myers.
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II. EVA MARY PATTERSON, born in Wilkes-Barre, 9 March, 1872; married in Wilkes-Barre, 12 October, 1897, Robert Herbert Cabell, Jr., born I December, 1866, in Brunswick, Missouri, son of Dr. Robert Her- bert Cabell and Alice (Oliver) Cabell. They are living in New York city in 1906.
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III. BRUCE LOVELAND PATTERSON?, born in Wilkes-Barre, 13 January, 1875 ; died 30 April, 1881.
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Children of Edward Gaynor and Amelia (Patterson6) Nowlan : I. FRANK EMMETT NOWLAN, born in Newark Valley, II June, 1865 ; married in Whitney's Point, 17 July, 1895, Evalina Stone, born 30 April, 1874, in Whitney's Point, daughter of S. N. and Elizabeth (New- man) Stone. He died 5 March, 1904, in Whitney's Point, New York; buried at Newark Valley, New York.
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II. MARY PATTERSON NOWLAN, born in Newark Valley, I September, 1867; married, 14 July, 1897, in Newark Valley, Edward Jacob Wittwer, of Adelphi, Ohio, born in Adelphi, Ohio, II January, 1868, son of John and Marie (Loertscher) Wittwer.
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III. HARRY THACHER NOWLAN?, born in Newark Valley, 19 February, 1870; married in Newark Valley, 25 May, 1892, Edith Alberta Pinney, born 21 February, 1875, in Virgil, Cortland county, New York, daughter of Egbert B. and Diantha (Hover) Pinney.
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Children of Joseph Emmett6 and Julia (Burnet) Patterson :
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IV. JOSEPH EDWARD NOWLANT, born in Newark Valley, 6 July, 1872 ; married 23 December, 1897, Margaret Graham, born in Newark Val- ley, 13 April, 1873, daughter of A. J. and Charity (Russell) Graham.
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V. EDITH GRACE NOWLAN?, born in Newark Valley, 26 March, 1876; died 30 March, 1897.
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VI. BERTHA JULIA NOWLAN?, born in Newark Valley, 30 March, 1879.
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I. ANNA HYATT PATTERSON, born in Vestal, New York, 18 January, 1846; died in Owego, New York, 14 June, 1856.
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Children of Joseph Seymour® and Anna E. (Squire) Patterson : I. ELIZA ABIGAIL PATTERSON, born in Whitney's Point, New York, 25 March, 1855; married Rev. Benjamin F. Sargent, 16 May, 1878; he was born 21 March, 1853.
II. JOHN SQUIRE PATTERSON?, born in Whitney's Point, 23 No- vember, 1866; married 7 February, 1887, Myrtie Pease.
Children of Robert H. and Eva ( Patterson™) Cabell :
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I. HELEN PATTERSON CABELL8, born in Chicago, Illinois, 19 February, 1899.
II. JOSEPH PATTERSON CABELLS, born in Evanston, Illinois, 8 May, 1901.
Children of Harry T.7 and Edith (Pinney) Nowlan : I. HANFORD THACHER NOWLANS, born in Newark Valley, New York, 9 February, 1893.
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II. MARJORIE AMELIA NOWLANS, born in Newark Valley, 3 May, 1899.
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Child of Edward J. and Mary (Nowlan7) Wittwer :
I. GRACE MARIE WITTWERS, born in Adelphi, Ohio, 28 July, 1898.
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