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Starting Profiles

  1. Blanche Ethel (Farrington) Smith
  2. Harris Poorvu
  3. Mary Lovering
  4. Annie Thwing
  5. Anne Augusta Holbrook
  6. Emma Lewis Coleman
  7. Lois Carter (Kimball) Rosenberry
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  • * New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943: "New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943"
    Circuit Court, Southern District > Vol 007-008 17 May 1901-23 Dec 1901 (V 007 Is P 714-End)
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 15 March 2024)
    Harris Posner. Lamberson-312 08:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

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Blanche Ethel (Farrington) Smith

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An Aunt, Louise Clough Jackson (Clough-3205) has conflicting information between Findagrave and her death certificate. The Undertaker states that she is to be "incinerated" in Salem Mass and buried at Harmony Grove Mass. There is an inscription on the mausoleum of her brother, in New Hampshire, stating her name and vital statistics. Is she buried there? Did she choose to go to Salem for some (currently) unknown reason? Was she a practicing witch? Would be an interesting rabbit trail Fachner-1 03:45, 15 March 2024 (UTC) Alfred Hawes-3016 was a famous explorer/naturalist. He traveled with both Livingston and the father of Winston Churchill and his taxidermy/collections were exhibited at most major ivy league colleges.Fachner-1 03:16, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Mary Oliveann Wheelock Hunt-31196 was a female physician in the mid 1800's. There were a lot of physicians in this family. I didn't have the wherewithall to double check all this but

Findagrave states "Mary AO Hunt, MD youngest daughter of Oliver and Ann Gilman Hunt, and sister to JTP Hunt.

A physician and suffragist, never married, graduated from New England Female Medical College in 1867 and had an active practice in Manchester, New Hampshire. She was a member of the Manchester Medical Association and New Hampshire Medical Society. In 1908 she was the oldest living doctor having a license to practice medicine in NH. Her personal/doctor papers were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection of Smith College in Northhampton, MA

( Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63919033/mary_o_a-hunt: accessed March 17, 2024), memorial page for Dr Mary O. A. Hunt (1819–25 Mar 1908), Find A Grave: Memorial #63919033, citing Valley Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by Pat Van Den Berghe (contributor 47310624) Fachner-1 01:01, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Agnes Hunt-31225 was another strong intelligent woman in this family. She had a Phd from Yale and taught at Smith College. She neither married nor had children.Fachner-1 01:01, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Found this too late for the "Interesting Finds" survey, but I think it deserves attention:

Blanche Ethel Farrington's first-cousin-once-removed Martha Emma Morton (1877-) married John Albert Krohn. In 1908-1909 John Albert Krohn (styling himself "Colonial Jack") undertook a 9,000-mile walk around the perimeter of the United States, seeking to complete the trek in less than 400 days in order to win a $1000 bet. His trek (on which he pushed a wheelbarrow to prove his mileage) was widely publicized in the popular press. His wife Martha sold souvenir tokens along the first leg of the route (from Portland, Maine to Idaho). He finished in 357 days (not including Sundays, when he didn't walk). Martha is 4 degrees from Blanche Ethel and John Albert Krohn is 5 degrees. -- Smith-62120 15:55, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

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Harris Poorvu

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  • Mark W. Oppenheim was a merchant in Missouri. He was murdered by a man named Henry Hudson who was mad when Oppenheim asked for payment for goods Hudson had purchased. (Thiel-559)
  • Abraham Brightman (1846-1920 and his wife Lena (Chasfin) Brightman (1852-1919 were the founders of the first synagogue in Canton, Massachusetts. (Thiel-559)
  • Robin Baker found this news article. Harris' son Sumner and his wife May (formerly Miss Cohn of Pittsburgh) honeymooned aboard the RMS Mauretania on a cruise to the West Indies and Havana. This was in December 1933, less than a year before the Cunard and White Star Lines merged and retired the Mauretania with other aging ocean liners. The Poorvus married in the Jansen suite (photo) of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and lived in Brookline near Coolidge Corner. Karen Lowe 17:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

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Mary Lovering

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Lee-29092 21:50, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

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  • Rear Admiral Frank Riley Dodge (Mary's son-in-law). Awarded the Silver Star as commanding officer of the USS Brooklyn. Was also acting commander of the entire Cruiser division Eight in the Mediterranean during the landings in Sicily, Anzio and Southern France in 1944. Southgate-301 02:37, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Annie Thwing

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  • George Putnam, whose son Henry married Annie's sister Florence was the Unitarian Minister in Roxbury, MA, and a founder member of the Transcendental Club along with Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), Ralph Waldo Emerson (abt.1879-) and George Ripley (1802-1880).Southgate-301 17:23, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Annie Grand Nephew Henry Ware Putnam married into the Pulitzer family by marrying Kate Davis Pulitzer. Her Grandfather was Joseph Pulitzer. Jenkinson-562 05:35, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Laura Richards CC5 from the starting profile lived to be 101 . Jenkinson-562 18:20, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
  • John Gregory Wiggins CC6 from the starting profile made his living as a Woodcarver, (He turned his hobby into an occupation) he was pretty well known in art circles and decorated mainly churches.
  • Reverent Doctor William Henry Furness , CC4 from the starting profile, was an ardent abolitionist whose attacks on the Fugitive Slave Act led to a discussion at a cabinet meeting of President James Buchanan about the possibility of indicting him for treason. He hosted Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner at his Philadelphia home after he was brutally beaten by South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks, and personally protected abolitionist Frederick Douglass from an angry mob in New York City. Albasini-30 14:55, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Horace Howard Furness, CC5 from the starting profile, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1858, but his growing deafness interfered with the practice of law. He was ranked as one of the most important Shakespeare scholars of the U.S. because of the New Variorum edition that he began in 1871, and which was continued (1908–28) by his son. The term variorum alludes to the Latin phrase editio cum notis variorum, that is, “an edition with the notes of the various" editors and commentators, a phrase indicating the chief purpose of a variorum edition: namely, to collect what has been written by various commentators, critics, and editors. Furness called his edition "New" because there had already been seven earlier variorum editions of Shakespeare, the earliest in 1773, and the latest, before his own, in 1821. By the time he died in 1912, Furness had edited fifteen plays in variorum format, including the major tragedies, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Anthonie and Cleopatra. Albasini-30 15:49, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
  • William Henry Furness III (1866-1920), CC6 from the starting profile, was a physician, ethnographer and author. Over the course of five trips in seven years, Furness with Harrison, and Hiller made their way twice around the world and visited at least 20 countries, mainly in East Asia, including India, Japan, China, Burma, Thailand, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Russia. They made ethnographic studies of the Dayaks in Borneo, the Nagas in Assam, India, and the Ainu of Japan. Furness made multiple trips to the South Pacific, and was among the first to study and photograph the Kayan people of Borneo and the Wa'ab people on the island of Yap. In 1903 he spent two months among the Wa'ab people on the island of Uap (Yap). Utilizing a phonograph, he recorded Wa'ab speech and native songs, and published the first Uapese-to-English/English-to-Uapese dictionary. During a long trip to Japan, he had been heavily tattooed and an 1894 article in The Oregonian described Howard Henry Furness as "the most artistically tattooed man in the world." At home in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, he raised chimpanzees and orangutans, and experimented with teaching them rudimentary human speech. Albasini-30 16:39, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Caroline (Furness) Jayne (1873-1909) was an ethnologist and published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands. The book provided instructions on how to create 129 string figures that were identified by anthropologists studying traditional societies such as those in Congo-Kasai and the Caroline Islands. She personally recorded string figures from several native groups that were in attendance at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. After Caroline's early death, aged 35, her friend the poet Florence Earle Coates, wrote a poem in her memory. Albasini-30 20:35, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
  • John Coffin Jones was the the first United States Consular Agent to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His Grandaughter married Anna's Nephew Eliot Putnam Jenkinson-562 20:45, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Laura Howe another American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony" CC6 from the starting profile.
  • Samuel Gridley Howe was part of the civil rights movement Advocate for individuals who are oppressed, who opposed slavery, and he worked with the Freedmen's Bureau to assist the formerly enslaved individuals CC7 from the starting profile Jenkinson-562
  • Frank Heyling Furness (1839-1912), CC5 from the starting profile, was a prominent American architect born , in Philadelphia. He is celebrated for his forceful originality and the diverse, muscular, and often inordinately scaled buildings he designed. With over 600 buildings to his credit, most of which are in the Philadelphia area, Furness left a significant mark on the architectural landscape of the Victorian era.

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  • Frank Heyling Furness (1839-1912) served in the Union Army during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1864, where he demonstrated bravery and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry at the Battle of Trevilian Station: Captain Furness voluntarily carried a box of ammunition across an open space swept by the enemy's fire to the relief of an outpost whose ammunition had become almost exhausted, but which was thus enabled to hold its important position'.

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Anne Augusta Holbrook

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Emma Lewis Coleman

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  • Emma's niece, Margaret Hall Was a leader in the sufferage movement in America. She aslo served overseas during WWI with the Red Cross. Jaeger-962 21:46, 16 March 2024 (UTC)Tabatha Jaeger
  • Emma's 4X great-grandfather, James Draper was referred to as "The Puritan" in [Draper] family papers. He immigrated about 1648.Baker-49492 23:05, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

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  • Emma Coleman's great-grandfather, Ebenezer Farrington, served as a private in Captain John Gay's Company in the Revolutionary War.Baker-49492 18:56, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Emma's 2X great-grandfather, Jonathan Colburn served as a Lieutenant & 1st Lieutenant under Capts Nathan Ellis & David Fairbanks, Cols McIntosh & Heath. He also is cited as serving patriotic service as the Constable for Dedham in 1783.Baker-49492 21:16, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

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  • Emma Coleman's first cousin, Howard Burlingame, served in Co. K of the 42nd Reg, Mass. Infantry during the Civil War.Baker-49492 23:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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Lois Carter (Kimball) Rosenberry

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Lois Carter (Kimball) Rosenberry (1873-1958)

  • Lois has outstanding acheivements for a women of this era. Great read on all her accomplishments. The Newpapers.com articles requires a membership to read.

Love that I found this during Women's History month!


  • Her maternal uncle Albert G. Laird enlisted for service in the Civil War at age 14 years old(!), serving as a bugler in the cavalry of the Northern Army (sources in profile) Kanalley-2 19:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Her half-sister, Mary Irene Kimball, was the daughter of Irene Snow Hatch. Irene's marriage to Aaron Kimball was actually her second marriage (several duplicate profiles on FamilySearch made this confusing to sort out!). Irene's first husband, Alexander Kelley, was the captain of the John Rutledge when the ship sank in a horrific disaster in 1856. According to an article shared by the New England Historical Society, "The only apparent concession to the risks at hand was Kelley’s appeal to his wife, the former Irene Snow of Falmouth. Mass., to remain behind in Liverpool. The plan was for the Rutledge to return in May, and they could sail back to New York together in more pleasant weather. More than a month later, on Feb. 19, the John Rutledge entered heavy fog in the treacherous area where the Gulf Stream bushes against the colder Labrador currents. The ice was thick and menacing – just as described in the early report that reached Liverpool before the John Rutledge set sail. The next day, sometime around 9 a.m., an iceberg – as sharp and gleaming as enamel – gouged a huge hole in the bow just under the waterline. Within hours, it was clear the ship was doomed." See: The John Rutledge Shipwreck. Lilly-3406 14:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Her paternal uncle Francis Kimball (1845-1916) was killed when he was struck by a train in Spencer, Iowa.Schweger-2 18:41, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Her second Husband, Marvin Bristol Rosenberry (1868-1958), was the long3st serving chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
  • The nephew of Lois' cousin, Jesse Carrol Bisbee (1889-1955), owned a travelling show called Bisbee Comedians. He had been show business for decades including travelling with the Old Cotton Blossom Showboat along the Mississippi River. He was "Mahala the Magician".Schweger-2 01:43, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Her maternal uncle, Herman Bruce Laird, died in Kansas City of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head [1]. According to news reports, he lived for at least three days after being shot, and was under a doctor's care for at least two days before the physician discovered that Bruce had been shot. He walked around town for at least one day and even visited a barbershop for a bath and a shave, although he told the barber not to comb his hair "as his head was sore," and he showed the barber the bullet hole. At the time, surgeons said it was "an unprecedented thing...that a man lived so long and walked around and was conscious so long with a bullet in his brain." At the time of his death, officials ruled the death a suicide, but his friends speculated that he was actually murdered [2] Lilly-3406 10:42, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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Cathy (Lee) Brandstetter
How does one claim a brick wall bounty?
posted by Cathy (Lee) Brandstetter
Lamberson-312 Greg Lamberson
Usually there is some explanation about the significance of these profiles or a reason why they were chosen.

Can anyone tell me something about these profiles? Thanks!

posted by Greg Lamberson
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
I know that Lovering and Thwing made important contributions to New England genealogy (and NEHGS).

And I can't help but notice that 6 of the 7 are women.

posted by Ellen Smith
Fachner-1 Victoria Fachner
Could it be that this is Women's History Month in the US and these are all independent women?
posted by Victoria Fachner
Lamberson-312 Greg Lamberson
Harris Poorve would probably disagree.
posted by Greg Lamberson
Lamberson-312 Greg Lamberson
Actually they all contributed in their own way to the information available to us genealogists, but I think it's nice when some comment on why they were chosen is contributed by someone (usually form the partnering organization).

Anyway these are good answers, and I've enjoyed doing a bit of research on each one of them.

posted by Greg Lamberson
Doherty-2064 Melanie (Doherty) McComb
This was what I sent to Eowyn on the profiles. They all have ties to our collections at American Ancestors and the field of genealogy at large for many of them!

Ethel Farrington Smith (1910-2005) Author of Colonial American Doctresses: A Genealogical and Biographical Account of Women who Practiced Medicine and Chirurgery in Colonial America, Early Families of Hull, Massachusetts

Harris Poorvu (1875-1961) Former president and treasurer of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Boston

Mary Lovering Holman (1868-1947) Noted professional genealogist, former co-editor of The American Genealogist, fellow of the American Society of Genealogists

Annie Haven Thwing (1851-1940) Creator of the Thwing Collection on Boston Inhabitants (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/530/boston-ma-inhabitants-and-estates-of-the-town-of-boston-1630-1822-thwing-collection)

Anna Glover (1834-1914) Author of Glover Memorials and Genealogies https://archive.org/details/glovermemorialsg00glov


Emma Lewis Coleman (1853-1942) Author of New England Captives Carried to Canada https://deerfield-ma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Guide-to-the-Emma-Lewis-Coleman-Papers-1-1.pdf

Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry Author of The Expansion of New England: The Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865

posted by Melanie (Doherty) McComb

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