Talking about our generations
FHM’s generational scale sets an arbitrary Zero Generation of between 1880 and 1920
Celestia Bradley
Daughter of Patty Smith Bradley Sweat. Wife of Mansel Wicks.
Patty Smith's 1846 letter home found tucked into an Ancestry user's old family album
In 2014, an Ancestry user researching the Wicks family line posted the transcript and an analysis of an 1846 letter found tucked inside an old family album. The user Beth Ann Rivers, a geologist and family historian living in New Zealand, knew all about the Wicks history but the letter was filled with many other names she didn't recognize.
Ralph Lovejoy Meeker
Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant administration.
Josephine Meeker
Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre. She later worked for elected officials in Colorado and Washington, D.C.
Nathan Cook Meeker
Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was married to Harriet Smith Stetson's aunt, Arvilla Delight Smith.
The Meeker Massacre
Social reformer Nathan Meeker was among nine men killed in an uprising of Ute Indians at the White River reservation where he was serving as U.S. agent. His wife and daughter—Smith family descendants—were held hostage for three weeks
The Haskells settled in Chautauqua County in western New York
When we last left Captain George Henry Haskell, he had mustered out of the Massachusetts Militia after the defense of Portland in the War of 1812. He returned to his third wife, Eliza Knapp, in Middlebury, Vermont, right around the time she gave birth to fraternal twins in October 1814. These were his first children with Eliza, joining four older children from Elizabeth Howe.
County histories: Easy digital access transforms an old medium for genealogists
Local history volumes were pre-sold to residents on a subscription basis. Buyers got a mention in the book.