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| 53601 | [Summers.FTW] Was married and had two sons. No other info. Peter's birth date is an approximate date. | LAWLESS, Peter (I13331)
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| 53602 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I33830)
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| 53603 | [Summerside Journal - 3 July 1907, page 5, col. 1] "The body of the late William F. Cannon, formerly of St. Eleanors, who died some months ago in Boston, will arrive this Tuesday evening by the Empress for interment in the Peoples’ Cemetery Summerside." A tombstone has yet to be found. | CANNON, William Frederick (I8819)
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| 53604 | [The Narragansett Historical Register, Page 145-146]: Graduated from Brown University September 2, 1829, age 18. Partner in his father's firm of Elisha Dyer & Company, Apr. 1, 1830 Appointed Adjutant General May 4, 1842; honorably discharged May 1847. Governor of Rhode Island May 1857 to May 1859. Captain Company B, Tenth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, 1862.[CR] [Representative Men of Old R.I./Families, J.H. Beers, 1908 Chicago, IL,] ['Huguenot Ancestry' by Elisha Dyer, found at Antiquarian Society,Worcester, Mass.] 22nd Governor of Rhode Island, 1857-59. [Abridged Compendium, Frederick Virkus (CD 113)] Elder James Wilson's Marriages, pg. 425-426.[CR] Some 'Bios' taken from CD Rom by Ancestry 'American Biographical Dictionary. [e-mail from Aurie Morrison] Biographical Dictionary of Dyer, Elisha Notable Americans, Vol. 3, p.363 ELISHA DYER Dyer, Elisha, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Providence, R.I.,July 20, 1811; son of Elisha and Frances (Jones) Dyer, and a linealdescendant of William Dyre, an immigrant from England to Boston in 1635,and of Mary Dyre, his wife, who was hanged on Boston common because ofher Quaker principles. Elisha was graduated from Brown university in 1829, and became clerk in the counting-house of Elisha Dyer & Company, commission merchants of Providence, of which firm his father was the head, and to which he was admitted a partner in 1831. In 1835 he was made agent for the Dyerville manufacturing company, established at that time by his father, and at his father's death in 1854, he became owner of the property. This he kept until 1867 when illness forced him to dispose of it. He was a delegate to various political conventions, and on May 3, 1840, was chairman of the Young men's Whig national convention at Baltimore. He was elected adjutant-general of Rhode Island in June, 1840, to which office he was re-elected for five successive years. He was active in this capacity during the Dorr war under Gov. Samuel W. King. He was elected governor o fRhode Island in 1857, and was re-elected in 1853, declining a third nomination in 1859. He volunteered for service in the Civil War, in place of his son who was disabled, and served for three months as captain of Company B, 10th regiment of Rhode Island volunteers. He was a member of the Rhode Island art association and its second vice-president in 1853; a member of the United States agricultural society and its vice-president in 1857; member of the American academy ofarts and sciences; a trustee of the Butler hospital association; president of the Young men's Christian association, 1857-58; president of the first National musical congress, Boston, 1869; honorary member of the Franklin lyceum; of the Providence association of mechanics and manufacturers and of the National board of popular education. He was a delegate to the international agricultural exhibition at Hamburg, in 1863; commissioner at the international exhibition in London, 1871, and honorary commissioner at the Vienna exposition in 1873. He was married in 1838 to Anna Jones, daughter of Thomas C. Hoppin. He published A Summer's Travel to Find a German Home (1864). He died in Providence, R.I., May 17, 1890. | DYER, Elisha Jr., Gov. (I74472)
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| 53605 | [WFT Vol. 5, #1242] WAD notes that they had 18 children, none are named in the manuscript. WAD notes that this information came from Mrs. G.E. (Frances W.)Anderson, then of 1117 North I Street, Aberdeen, Washington. NDp.93 Little Compton Families pg 254: They probably lived on the John Dyer Roadfor according to the witnesses of her will they lived in the= part of thetown. The census of 1774 shows her to be living next to the Stoddards onDyer Road. Her will, recorded in LC Probate, book 2, page 399, made 5 Jan 1775 andproved 4 Aug 1778: 'To sons James. Joseph, Benjamin and Preserved Dyerone shilling each, to four daughters, Mary Burdick, Welthy Trafford,Phebe Dyer and Lois Russell one shilling each, to daughter Welthy theprivilege of living in my house, to granddaughter Eunice Trafford, onebed, to son Zachary Dyer all my other estste= real and personal..' | DYER, Charles (I74395)
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| 53606 | [World Family Tree #3, Pedigree #3702] | BATES, Susanna (I74461)
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| 53607 | [W] was enumerated on the census | JUBAU, Henriette (I101905)
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| 53608 | _____ Bacon. m. Carolyn Burpee. Living in Burlington, Ont. in 1990 | BACON, Bacon (I59707)
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| 53609 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I59726)
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| 53610 | _____ Brooks. m. Milissa? Coy. b. 1858. Their child: Elizah Brooks. b. 1878. | BROOKS, Duncan (I59660)
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| 53611 | _____ Carter. m. Audrey Burpee. Living in Toronto, Ont. in 1990. | CARTER, Carter (I59709)
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| 53612 | _____ Ellis. m. Annette Coy. Living in Sussex, N.B. in 1991. | ELLIS, Ervin (I54591)
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| 53613 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I59724)
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| 53614 | _____ Hawley m. Rita Coy. | HAWLEY, Hawley (I59679)
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| 53615 | _____ Hinchey. m. Joyce Coy. Living in Fredericton, York Co., N.B. in1991. | HINCHEY, Francis E. (I59728)
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| 53616 | _____ Kelly. m. Lily May Estabrooks. b. Aug. 3, 1870 at Burton, SunburyCo., N.B. No children. | KELLY, Kelly (I55760)
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| 53617 | _____ Palmer. m. Viola Colwell. b. ca. 1893 at Jemseg, Queens Co., N.B.Lived in Gardiner, Kennebec Co., ME in 1936. | PALMER, Mr. Palmer (I59434)
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| 53618 | ______ had wife Penelope (Gardner of Ephraim & Penelope) and childrenHannah, Charles, Christopher & Samuel ment will Penelope Dyre dtd Nov1785 pvd NK 12 Dec 1785 NK 12:26, 35-36 | DYER, Charles (I74433)
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| 53619 | “At the recruiting meeting held at Springfield Monday night under the auspices of the Prince County Patriotic Recruiting Society the following patriotic young men volunteered to fight for the flag: Dan G. McKinnon, Alfred Haywood, Sanford Waite, Wesley Strong, Roland Cousins.” | COUSINS, Roland Emerson (I104179)
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