Charles W Hall was born in 1883 in PA. He died in 1970. He married Harriett Edna Trask.
1920 Cuyahoga, Ohio Census lists Charles as a hatter, straw and felt.
Harriett Edna Trask [Parents] was born on 17 Jul 1871 in Mexico, ME. She died on 15 Aug 1938 in Mexico, ME. She married Charles W Hall. Harriett resided in 1880 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine, United States. She resided in 1910 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1910 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine.
Other marriages:Hall,
Hall. married Harriett Edna Trask.
Harriett Edna Trask [Parents] was born on 17 Jul 1871 in Mexico, ME. She died on 15 Aug 1938 in Mexico, ME. She married Hall. Harriett resided in 1880 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine, United States. She resided in 1910 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1910 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine.
Other marriages:Hall, Charles W
Dewitt Clinton Chase [Parents] was born on 15 Oct 1836 in Dixfield, Maine. He died on 2 Jun 1872. He married Sarah Ann Delano. Dewitt was born on 15 Oct 1836 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1870 in Wilton, Franklin, Maine. He resided in 1930 in Lagrange, IL.
Other marriages:Hayford, Celia Augusta
Newman, Clara A
Newman, Florentine E
Sarah Ann Delano was born in Dec 1846 in Maine. She married Dewitt Clinton Chase. Sarah resided in 1880 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
They had the following children:
M i Dewitt Clinton Chase , Jr was born on 27 Aug 1889.
Arthur John Milliken was born in 1885 in Portland, Maine. He married Ione M Richardson on 30 Dec 1908.
Ione M Richardson [Parents] was born in 1887 in Dixfield, Maine. She died in 1970. She married Arthur John Milliken on 30 Dec 1908.
George German Richardson was born on 9 Jul 1836 in Rumford Falls, Oxford, ME. He died in Dixfield, Maine. He married Florence Marble. George was born on 9 Jul 1836 in Rumford Falls, Oxford, ME. He died in 1860 in Res Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, USA. He resided in 1860 in Rumford, Oxford, Maine.
History Of Rumford, ME
Title: History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine From its First Settlement in 1779 to the Present Time.
Author: William B. Lapham (1890)
Page: Page 390
Florence Marble [Parents] was born in 1847 in Dixfield, ME. She married George German Richardson.
They had the following children:
F i Ione M Richardson was born in 1887. She died in 1970.
Dr. Albion Keith Parris Barnard [Parents] was born on 5 Nov 1822 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He died on 11 Jan 1912 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN. He married Emily A Marshall. Albion resided in 1850 in Andover, Oxford, Maine. He resided in Minneapolis, MN. He resided in 1880 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. He resided in 1910 in Minneapolis Ward 4, Hennepin, Minnesota. He died in Minneapolis, MN.
Albion Barnard and his father Silas as surveyors in Minnesota. Evidently Albion chose to stay and settle in the area but Silas returned home to Maine.
Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 11, 1908.
BY ADOLPH O. ELIASON, PH. D.Before the days of white settlement in the North west, the territory now embraced within the boundaries of Minnesota was inhabited by Indians. Agriculture, trade and commerce, even in their most rudimentary forms, could scarcely be said to exist. Hunting, trapping and finishing were the chief occupations of the men; and the women prepared the food, made the moccasins and clothing, care for the children, and in general performed the work and drudgery about the camp or village.
The first white men to enter the territory were exploring traders, closely followed by missionaries and by regular traders seeking the furs which the Indians procured with such little effort. Schoolcraft, in the narrative referred to, states that a prime beaver or plus was worth one bear, one otter, or three martens, while a keg of rum was equivalent to thirty plus. A little later the muskrat skin was the unit of trade in this territory.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About three hundred different individuals and firms have done surveying in Minnesota under contracts with the United States surveyor general of lands. Many of these have had a number of contracts at different times, enough to swell the whole number of contracts to double the number of men who have done work. Among them we find the names of William R. Marshall, Thomas Simpson, Fendall G. Winston, T. B. Walker, George B. Wright, Benjamin C. Baldwin, George W. Cooley, and John Goodnow.
Following is a full list of the names of individuals and firms who have acted as United States deputy surveyors of lands in the state of Minnesota, arranged alphabetically, but under each letter in chronologic ordeW. J. Anderson, George E. Adair, Alley and Lord, E. D. Atwater, Moses K. Armstrong,... Judson W. Bishop, A. V. Balach, C. A. Bartlett, Bradley and Davis, Isaac A. Banker, Alex. S. Bradley, Adam Buck, Silas Barnard, Albion Barnard, ............. Martin Watson, Platt B. Walker.
My first experience in government surveying was in 1861, when I assisted J. W. Meyers in running the township lines between the First and Second standard parallels and the Fifth and Sixth guide meridians, in the area that is now Murray and Pipestone counties. There were then only half a dozen families in that check, living around Lake Shetek on the head of the Des Moines river. The Indians killed a part of them and drove the rest out of the country the next summer; but the Indians did not molest us on that survey, though they were around there the most of the summer. They would sit around on the hills and watch us all day, evidently anxious to see what we were doing; and we would sit up nights and watch them, just as anxious to know what they were doing or wanted to do. A small party of them passed through our surveying party one day, between the compassman and the chainman, looking neither to the right nor left. They refused to be interviewed or drawn into conversation in either the English or Sioux language. They would pull up our stakes and throw them away, if they could, but we got onto that trick and drove them into the ground solid.
I was out with the inspector that fall inspecting this same work. We camped one night on the south end of a lake in the western part of Murray county, near a party of Indians on the north end of the lake. Fearing a visit from them in the night, we hauled the wagon close up to the front of the tent and tied the horses fast to the wagon, one on each side of the pole. To make the thing doubly safe, we tied a picket rope to each horse's forefoot and the other end of the rope to the teamster lying in the tent. Within ten minutes of the time when we extinguished the light, one of the horses started and hauled the teamster out of his blankets. Springing up and looking out, he saw the horse standing off the length of the picket rope, with the halter rope untied and hanging loose. He heard the Indian running away through the brush toward the lake. The horse was tied up again,[p.667] with the picket rope tied to the wagon. We found him untied the next morning, but the picket rope saved him.
The next year, 1862, I hired out with George B. Wright and Isaac A. Banker, to go on a survey on Pine river north of where Brainerd now is. The night we camped opposite Clearwater, we heard that the Sioux Indians had killed Jones and Baker at Action in the west part of Meeker county. Between Sauk Rapids and Watab we met the Ojibway Indian Agent, Walker, with his family, leaving the country. He left his wife at St. Cloud, telling her he was going out on business. As he did not return she procured a conveyance at the stage office and went to St. Anthony Falls, which was their home. Mr. Walker had not been heard from there. He was found dead opposite Monticello, with a bullet hole through his head. His saddle horse was found grazing near by, with his saddle on. He had gone onto the ferry boat, cast off the lashings, and ferried himself across the Mississippi river. The ferryman hailed him, and asked him to return, saying that he would set him over; but he refused, saying there were three hundred Indians after him and he was afraid of them. He evidently had become insane and therefore shot himself.
Just as we were going into camp one evening at the "Big Bend" of the Mississippi, five miles below Fort Ripley, we met a man who told us there were three hundred Indians at the Agency on Crow Wing river, seven miles from its mouth; that they had made most of the employees there prisoners, and expected to attack Fort Ripley that night. We thought it safer to go on to the fort, where we arrived at about 9 P. M. Settlers from the surrounding country were coming in all night.
There were but twenty-six soldiers in the fort, raw recruits from the southern part of the state, who had enlisted for the war. They had been chasing Hole-in-the-Day for a week, had shot at him across the river as he landed from a birch canoe on the opposite side, robbed his house of a very fine rifle and other keepsakes that had been given him at Washington, and were so tired that they asked us to help them do duty. No attack was made, but a false alarm about midnight turned out every one in the fort. Men, women, and children, could be seen running from one building to another in their night clothes. Had the Indians made an[p.668] attack, they might have killed the greater part of us, for we could not dare to shoot on account of the danger of killing our own people.
A messenger had gone up to the Agency, who effected an armistice of three days, until the commissioner of Indian affairs, William P. Dole, could arrive, who was then in the state on his way to the Red river to treat for the land in the valley north of Wild Rice river.
We remained at the fort a week, doing garrison duty all the time. We tore down some loghouses and finished the stockade, which previously had been built only a third of the way around the buildings, having been abandoned because the appropriation was exhausted. Two little cannon, which had been used on the parade ground for salutes, we mounted in the two blockhouses at opposite corners of the stockade, so that we could rake all four sides in case of an attack by the Indians. All this time we enjoyed the government rations, including the canteen. Having put this military fort on a war footing, we held a council and decided that it was not safe to go on up to Pine river with our outfit and teams. We were not afraid that the Indians would do us any bodily harm, but a lot of young bucks on the war path, without any commissary, would not respect our rights to property which they needed very much more than we did. So we returned down the river.
Five miles out we met the Indian commissioner going up to meet the Ojibways. John Hay, late Secretary of State, was with him, being then a young man, a clerk or private secretary in Washington, studying diplomacy and practicing on the Indians. As we came down the river, we found every town either fortified or deserted. A complete Indian scare possessed the whole country.In the winter of 1872–3, I was surveying township 57, range 23. On the east line of that township the local attraction was so great that the magnetic needle was of no use. I had to use the solar compass. There were millions of dollars of the best kind of iron ore under my feet, and I did not know it. I thought it was drift that had come down from the Mesabi Range. While we were in camp in that township the last part of December, the thermometer went down to 52° below zero at Brainerd.[p.669]
The last surveying that I did for the government was in 1890, and during the winter of 1890–91. We ran the boundary lines of the diminished Red Lake Indian Reservation and some township and subdivision lines east of the upper and lower parts of Red lake. In running these town lines, I started from an old corner near the Black Duck river on the old east boundary that I had run in 1875. I ran north to the upper lake and then east to close on the old line. Making due allowance for the convergency, I calculated just where I should strike that line. When I had gone the proper distance, I set up the compass and looked for the old line. When found and traced out, it was ascertained that the compass was standing on the line. Every time we closed on the old line, we found it just where we expected to find it, which proved that the lines were all perfectly correct, or that they were all wrong in the same direction.
On that survey I left a lumber camp between the two parts of Red Lake on the 10th day of January, 1891, and did not see anyone but my own party again until the 10th day of March. Eight of us camped that winter under a shed tent made of a wagon cover three by five yards square. We had a big log heap burning in front of the camp every night. Some of those oak logs were so large that it required three men to carry one of them. No one suffered with the cold, and no one lost a day from sickness during that winter. No one even took a cold. My partner ran the boundary from a point five miles north of Thief River Falls due east to Red Lake. He thought he would have a better outfit than I had, and so got a large wall tent,with a sheet iron stove in it. Every man in his crew took cold, and some of them had pneumonia, and I think one of them died from the effects. When he got to Red Lake Agency, his whole outfit was so damp that it had to be dried out before it was safe to pack.
In a timber country having plenty of wood for a camp fire, there is no camp so good as a shed tent with a big fire in front. The shed keeps the wind and snow off, and reflects the heat down onto the bed, which is made of fir boughs shingled over one another a foot deep until a man's weight will not bring them down to the hard ground. The fire furnishes the principal warmth to the men in camp. I have made a camp in this manner in the[p.670] middle of the winter, with two feet of snow on the ground, and, after changing my underclothes, wringing the sweat out of those I took off and hanging them up around the fire to dry, I have lain down on top of the bed of fir boughs, with nothing over me, and slept soundly until morning.
I have seen several lists of goods for an outfit for a surveying party, but I do not remember one that was not loaded down with stuff that would not pay transportation. If you are on the prairie where you can haul your outfit with teams, you can take a great many things that are not absolutely necessary but are luxuries when camping out. But in timber, where everything has to be packed by men, or even by horses, it is necessary to have everything of the least weight consistent with comfort. I have seen no better list of articles constituting an outfit than I had in 1875 on the east line of the Red Lake Reservation; and for the benefit of those who may want to supply a party in a timber country, I give it here.
From the last of September, to the first of November, five weeks, with a crew of six men, equal to one man thirty weeks, I had 300 lbs. flour, 200 lbs. pork, 60 lbs. beans, seven and a half pounds of black tea, 50 lbs. cut loaf sugar, 30 lbs. dried apples, six pounds of baking powder, and salt, pepper, soap, matches, etc.
White rice is poor food for working men, but wild rice is as hearty as beans and is easily cooked. Oat meal is good wholesome food, cooked in short order, and is easily digested, good for supper.On the survey of the east boundary of that reservation in 1875, I had as packer one Jack Bonga, of Red Lake, who was onequarter negro and three-quarters Indian. He would pack two sacks of flour of a hundred pounds each every day, rather than make two trips for the same baggage. Two hundred pounds is a regular pack for a horse in the mountains. Jack was a nephew of George Bonga, who, when he came into the country from Lake Superior packed 700 pounds for a quarter of a mile over the portage at the Dalles of the St. Louis river. He was half negro, the son of a fugitive slave, a giant in strength, over six feet high, over 200 pounds weight, as straight as an Indian, with sinews and cords in his limbs like a horse.
Emily A Marshall was born on 27 Oct 1818 in NH. She died on 30 Dec 1893 in Minneapolis, MN. She married Dr. Albion Keith Parris Barnard. Emily resided in 1850 in Andover, Oxford, Maine.
They had the following children:
F i Emma Marshall Barnard was born on 16 Jun 1851. She died on 8 Aug 1852. M ii Frank Marshall Barnard was born on 27 Oct 1859.
Maj. David Porter Stowell was born on 22 Oct 1816 in South Paris, ME. He died on 26 Jul 1884 in Canton, ME. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Dixfield. He married Sophronia P. Stanley on 1 Jan 1851 in Portsmouth, NH.
Major D.P. Stowell was a member of the Oxford Bar. (Scrapbok 5)
Studied law and on being admitted to the bar, settled in Dixfield and later in Canton. He entered the volunteer service in March 1861 as a major in the First Maine Cavalry, served with the regiment until after the second battle of Bull Run, when he went to Washington. He was discharged for disability in 1863.
Sophronia P. Stanley [Parents] was born on 26 Dec 1832 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. She died on 21 Mar 1924 in Dixfield, ME. She was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Dixfield. She married Maj. David Porter Stowell on 1 Jan 1851 in Portsmouth, NH.
They had the following children:
M i Herbert Porter Stowell was born on 29 Mar 1852. He died on 24 Feb 1891. F ii Mary Annis Stowell was born on 17 Mar 1854. M iii Newton Stanley Stowell was born on 31 Jan 1856. He died on 9 Nov 1945. F iv Susan Edith Stowell was born on 28 Jan 1858. She died on 22 Nov 1900. F v Elizabeth Chisholm Stowell was born on 6 Apr 1862. She died in 1947. F vi Isabel Stowell was born in 1864. She died in 1864.
died at 3 months
Herbert Reginald Ambler was born on 18 Oct 1891 in Middletown, NY. He died in Sep 1964 in Boston, MA. He married Mary Ellen Root on 13 Aug 1926 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. Herbert was born in 1893 in New York. He resided in 1930 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He resided in 1920 in Boston Ward 2, Suffolk, MA.
Herbert Ambler appears in the Boston, MA Director
1921 Painter res 1073 Washington Nv
1961 r35 Chestnut Hill Av, (Br)
next listed is Margt (widow of Herbert) opr NET&T h 94 Forest Hills (JP)1930 Boston Census
Ambler, Herbert R, 37,M, 34 at marriage, NY, England, England, House painter
, Mary E, 33, M, 30 at marriage, MA, MA, MA, Candymaker in Store
Mary Ellen Root [Parents] was born on 21 Sep 1896 in Boston, MA. She died in 1950. She married Herbert Reginald Ambler on 13 Aug 1926 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. Mary resided in 1920 in Boston Ward 22, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She resided in 1930 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
In 1920 Census Mary Ellen is 23 and living with her parents and grandmother Delphine in Boston, Ward 22. She is listed as working as a clerk in an insurance office.
1930 Census lists them at 20 Beacon St, Boston, MA
Herbert is a painter and Mary Ellen is a candy makerFamily Data Collection- Ancestry.com
Name: Mary Ellen Root
Spouse: Herbert R Ambler
Parents: Albert Barnard Root , Ellen Frances Leach
Birth Place: Suffolk, of Boston, MA
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1896
Marriage Date: 1 Aug 1926
Death Date: 1950By KBRG
Mary Ellen has an interesting story. My father told me she died young. When I found records of her as an adult he was confused then recalled there was some scandal and an aunt that was secret. He remembered someone getting whispered about and visited secretly. My second cousin, once removed (Ella Christiansen) told me that Mary Ellen had an affair with their pastor and "he had to be moved to another church". Mary Ellen was banished from the family. I found her marriage records when she was 30. I would love to find the rest of her story.
Barnard Loannmi Marble [Parents] was born on 12 Feb 1824. He died on 16 Jan 1890 in Dixfield, ME. He married Lucy Trask Abbott on 27 Dec 1842 in Mexico, Oxford, ME. Barnard was born in 1821 in Dixfield, ME. He resided on 1 Jun 1840 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine, USA. He resided in 1850 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1870 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States.
Tanner and Currier of Mexico, ME.
Lucy Trask Abbott [Parents] was born on 12 Feb 1824. She died in Dixfield, ME. She married Barnard Loannmi Marble on 27 Dec 1842 in Mexico, Oxford, ME.
Married her double cousin.
They had the following children:
F i Francelia Marble was born on 1 Apr 1843. She died in 1907. M ii Eugene Marble was born in 1844 in Dixfield, ME. M iii Dunorvan Marble was born on 15 Oct 1844 in Dixfield, ME. He died on 17 Aug 1888 in Dixfield, Maine. Dunorvan resided in 1850 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. F iv Florence Marble was born in 1847. M v Henry Marble was born on 5 Sep 1848. He died after 1901. M vi John Baldwin Marble was born in May 1850. He died on 3 Mar 1935.
Henry Marble [Parents] was born on 5 Sep 1848 in Dixfield, ME. He died after 1901. He married Mercy Read Littlefield on 5 Jan 1876 in Auburn, Androscoggin, ME. Henry died in 1901. He resided in 1850 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1900 in Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire.
Mercy Read Littlefield was born in 1852 in Maine. She married Henry Marble on 5 Jan 1876 in Auburn, Androscoggin, ME. Mercy was born in 1852. She was born in 1853 in Maine. She resided in 1880 in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. She resided in 1900 in Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas L Marble was born in 1877. He died on 23 Oct 1952. F ii Laura K Marble was born in 1867. Laura was born in 1881 in New Hampshire. She resided in 1900 in Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire.