Today I watched a documentary presentation on the C-Span 3 network entitled “Influenza Pandemic and World War I..” The presenter was Nancy Bristow, professor of history, University of Puget Sound. The presentation was originally broadcast live on Nov. 1, 2019, from the National WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO. Prof. Bristow made the
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Huskonen Family Oral History by Mary Jane Dingman Huskonen 1970
This oral family history was recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder in 1969 or 1970 at the home of Wallace and Mary Jane Huskonen, 6644 Hawthorne Dr, Brecksville, Ohio. Speaking was Mary Jane Huskonen (born Dingman, known simply as Mary) with comments by her son, Walfrid. Mary made the recording for her granddaughter Karen who
Read on »More on Grandpa Wallace Dingman
Earlier, I posted about my maternal Grandfather Wallace Betts Dingman and how he worked “for the railroad.” Click here for that post. I have done some more research which I would like to report on now. First, here is a photograph of Grandpa Wallace taken in 1918 when he reportedly was working as a switchman
Read on »Wallace Dingman–My First Relative To Be a Railroader
My maternal grandfather, Wallace Betts Dingman, b 1881 – d 1920, was the first of several relatives to “escape” from life on the farm to working on the railroad. He grew up with his twin brother, Walter, on the farm of Andrew and Mary (Betts) Dingman in Williamsfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio. The family is
Read on »Timeline for Grandma Grace, My Maternal Grandmother
Today, I was using Copernic to search my desktop computer for timeline files. I was really looking for any medical timelines that I had created for my wife and myself. Copernic turned up a timeline that I had created for my maternal grandmother, Grace Darling [born Bertha) Green (adopted Morley] Dingman/Tripp/Stafford. I had forgotten that
Read on »Grandpa Huskonen Becomes a U.S. Citizen
My paternal grandfather, Evert Huuskonen, immigrated to America in 1902. He arrived in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on the SS Tunisian, and entered the U.S. at Buffalo, New York on 29 Oct 1902. He left behind in Finland his wife, Ida Maria, and four children: Edith, Emil, Wilma, and Mary. They would join him the
Read on »52 Ancestors–#10: Alonzo Green, Cheese-making Entrepreneur
This report is another in my 2014 series of postings about ancestors and relatives (see end for details). Alonzo was my great grand uncle. In the 1870s, Alonzo was a major owner of an important cheese factory in Amboy, a populated place in Conneaut Township in Ashtabula County, Ohio. He obviously prospered as a farmer
Read on »52 Ancestors – #7: Jared Green, Civil War Veteran from Conneaut, Ohio
Jared R. Green was the youngest of eleven children of Joab and Rebecca (Johnson) Green. When Jared was born in 1832 in Conneaut Twp, Ashtabula County, Ohio, his father was 47 and his mother was 43. Jared married Mary L. Drake and they had three children together between 1856 and 1863. He then married Mary
Read on »52 Ancestors – #6: Joab Green, Early Settler in Conneaut Twp, Ohio
Joab Green was born on 15 Nov 1782 in Vermont, one of eleven children of Josiah and Sarah Green. He had seven sons and four daughters with Rebecca (Johnson) between 1808 and 1832. He died on 11 Jun 1849, in Conneaut Twp, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Joab was an early settler in the northeastern corner of
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