Discovery Notebook
George King Later in Chicago
I have found no records of George Later’s travels in the far west, but there is a gap in his…
Mary Agnes Later and Hollis Thompson
From his later census records, we see that her husband Hollis Thompson’s occupation is given as…
Odd news clipping
My understanding of the Later family’s movements between Quebec and the United States began with…
Laters in Quebec
Most of what we know about the Later family in Quebec comes from church records of the Anglican…
Rebellion of 1837
The Later brothers arrived in the British colony of Lower Canada at a time of great political…
Irish immigrants in Canada
Almost 450,000 Irish migrated to the British North American colonies in the decades prior to the…
The Rehms of Montclair
The three Rehm children were born while the family lived on Harrison Ave in Hasbrouck Heights.…
Winthrop Jacobs’ design patents
Who could have imagined that Winthrop Jacobsʼ carpet design would be a matter for the U.S.…
Notable Jacobses
It may have been at that point that the two women began their careers as serial novelists,…
Jacobs family
The Jacobs family into which Edward married traces back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but not…
Cooper Union
Edward Lawrence Rehm, born in 1884, the youngest of the Rehm children, was by all evidence an…
Later years
The changing neighborhood in the garment district came to Matthew Rehm’s door when the building…
Family life in New York
This was the neighborhood where the Rehm family grew up in the 1870s and 80s, not in Little…
Roots of the garment industry
Matthew the apprentice German tailor arrived into a chaotically growing New York garment…
Passage to America
I have identified the ship manifest documenting Mathew’s arrival in New York aboard the SS…
Rehm legacy in Lottstetten
The Rehm family continues to own and manage REHM Kies- & Betonwerk (Gravel and Concrete…
Family in Lottstetten
The known line of descent of the Rehm family in Lottstetten goes back at least as far as the…
Historical roots
Beginning on a geological time scale, receding glaciers from the last ice age—the Würmian,…