The sweep of family history across the generations
Isetta Stetson descended from early Massachusetts colonists, going all the way back to the Mayflower on one side. Nine generations later, her midwestern parents still upheld Yankee values
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution
Walter Ruby hustled his way as a traveling silver salesman, with some career side trips into boxing promotion and medicinal alcohol.