31102. Charles Gregory Hascall
Charles ran a lumber business in St. Louis.
Marriage Notes for Charles Gregory Hascall and Keren Happuch Snyder
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A letter from Mrs Ralph Clare Carnes was in the files of the Le Roy Histor
ical Society. The letter was dated December 21, 1962. She appears to have done some extensive research on the family. 1962 living at 113 Walnut Street, Jenkington Penn 19046.Graduated from Northwestern University at Evanston Illinois in 1916.
Taught at High schools and Junior College at Chicago during World War.
Supervisor of Patriotic Service League for Girls in Chicago.
Worked for US Treasury Dept.
Assisted in supply department of Naval Aviation.
1964 delegate to DAR in Washington.
Member of National Society of Mayflowers Descendants.
Member of National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.
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Attended University of Chicago.
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Chicago Daily Tribune
March 2, 1924
Announcement has been recieved from Mr. and Mrs. David C. Powell of the ma
rriage of their daughter, Helen Meria to Ralph Clare Carnes which took place on Feb. 9.
Los Angeles Times
September 8, 1945
Died
Hascall, Edith Phillips, beloved wife of Greg Hascall,
Ruth was Regent of DAR chapter at East Chicago, Indiana.
Deerfield Review (IL)
January 30, 1997Charles Gregory Gilman, 90, of Highland Park, died Jan. 20, 1997 at Highland Park Hospital. Mr. Gilman was born Jan. 31, 1906 in East Chicago, Ind. He had been a resident of Highland Park for two years and Pompano Beach, Fla. for 20 years. Mr. Gilman was a former resident of Glenview, Wilmette and Riverwoods. He was a retired accountant and the former treasurer of the Northfield Township School District. He was a 32nd Degree Mason, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the President of the Pompano Beach Bridge Club.
Survivors include his daughter, Gale E. Peters of Riverwoods; his grandchildren, Marjorie E. Peters of Deerfield and Charles Gregory Peters of Deerfield; and his great-grandson, Alexander Gregory Peters.
Columbus Dispatch, The (OH)
July 19, 1997OHIO DEATHS
GRANVILLE - Thomas Hendry, 72, July 15.
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New York Times
February 16, 1960NEW MILFORD, Conn., Feb. 15 - Mrs. Ellis Abbott Lardner, widow of Ring Lardner, sports writer and author of short stories and plays, died this morning at her home here of a cerebral thrombosis. She was 72 years old. Mrs. Lardner moved to New Milford after the death of her husband in 1933.
Her father Frank Abbott, was a prominent lumber dealer in Goshen and East Chicago. She graduated from Smith College in 1909. For two years before her marriage in 1911, she had been a teacher at the Culver Military Academy in Indiana.The Lardners had four sons, two of whom survive. They are John, a writer for Newsweek and the New Yorker magazines and Ring Jr., a freelance writer and playwright, both of New York.
James Lardner was killed in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the Lincoln Brigade. David Lardner, a war bcorrespondent for the New Yorker, was killed in Germany in 1944 when his jeep ran into a minefield.Mrs. Lardner alsp leaves two brothers, three sisters and eight grandchildren.
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Ring Lardner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRinggold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.
Born in Niles, Michigan, from adolescence Lardner's ambition was to become a sports reporter, an ambition he fulfilled in 1907 by getting a position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He was editor of The Sporting News in St. Louis in 1910 and 1911; he contributed columns to the Boston American, Chicago American and others until 1919 when he joined a syndicate.
Lardner was married to Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana in 1911.
In 1916 Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al (sic), which was written in the form of letters written by a bush league baseball player to a friend back home. It had initially been published as six separate, but inter-related short stories in The Saturday Evening Post, leading some to classify the book as a collection of short stories, while others have classified it as a novel. Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employed satire to show the stupidity and cupidity of a certain type of athlete. "Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.
Lardner went on to write such well-known stories as Haircut, Some Like Them Cold, The Golden Honeymoon, Alibi Ike, and A Day in the Life of Conrad Green. He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al, with the hero of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life. Private Keefe's World War I letters home to his friend Al were collected in Treat 'Em Rough.
Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, though his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman. He did write a series of brief nonsense plays which poked fun at the conventions of the theatre using zany, offbeat humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as "The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week".Lardner was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Jazz Age, and was published by Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Perkins. He was in some respects the model for the tragic character Abe North in Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender Is the Night. Lardner never wrote a novel, but is considered by many to be one of America's best writers of the short story.
He died at age 48 in East Hampton, New York, of complications from tuberculosis.
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Trivia
* One of Lardner's sons, Ring Lardner, Jr., won two Academy Awards as a screenwriter and was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten.
* Ring Lardner's grandson, Louis is part-owner of a large chain of McDonald's restaurants in upstate New York.
* Lardner appears as a character in the movie Eight Men Out, played by the movie's director, John Sayles, who bears a physical resemblance to him.
* Lardner's name came from a cousin with the exact same name. The cousin, in turn had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family. Ring Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, yet he "lost the battle" when his son, Ring Lardner Jr. was named after him.Dunkirk Observer
September 26, 1933
East Hampton, N.Y., Sept 26 - (UP) Ring Lardner, humorist, author and playwright, died in his sleep at his home last night. He was 48 years old. A heart ailment from which he suffered three years, complicated by other diseases caused death. Early in the afternoon, he became unconscious and never awoke. Mrs. Lardner and two of their sons were at the bedside.
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Southern Illinoisan
March 27, 1960
New York, March 25 (A/P)John Lardner, 47, noted columnist and author and son of the late Ring Lardner, died Thursday night in his Manhattan home. Death was attributed to heart failure. He had been hospitalized recently because of a heart attac
John was one of four sons of Ring Lardner, all of whom followed their father's footsteps in becoming newsmen, sportswriters, columnists or authors.
John, early in his career was a newspaperman and sports writer. He had been writing a weekly sports column for Newsweek since 1939.
About a year and a half ago he began writing a column on television and radio for the New Yorker magazine. For a time, he also served as the New Yorker's drama critic.
Among John's books were "It Beats Working," "White Hopes and Other Tigers," and "Strong Cigars and Lovely Women."
John's urbanity and wit in his writings were reminiscent of the prose style of his father, Chicago newspaperman who went on to literary fame. Ring Lardner died in 1933.
John started his career as a reporter for the New York Herald from 1931-33. He became a sports columnist for the North American Newspaper Alliance, for which he worked until 1948.
During World War II, Lardner served as a war correspondent with the U.S. army, covering operations in every major theater.Born in Chicago, he studied at Phillips Academy and Harvard University.
John's death leaves Ring Lardner Jr. as the sole surviving son of Ring Sr. Ring Jr. was one of the "Hollywood Ten," prominent screen writers who were convicted of contempt for refusing to say if they had Communist connections
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New York Times
April 5, 1962Mrs. Hazel Cannan Lardner, the widow of John Lardner, author and columnist for Newsweek and the New Yorker magazine died yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital. He age was 59.
Mrs. Lardner, who lived at 59 West Twelfth Street, graduated from Rice Institute. She had worked on the staffs of the New York Herald Tribune and the Daily Mirror as well as the New Yorker
She is survived by two daughters, Susan, and Mrs. Donald Ward, and a son John Nicholas Lardner.
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San Antonio Light
July 29, 1938
BARCELONA, July 29. (A/P) - James P. Gardner, 24 year old son of the late Ring Lardner, was reported today as one of the wounded on the Ebro river front. He was in the Gandessa area fighting for government forces. He gave up newspaper work in April to enlist.
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San Antonio Light
September 7, 1938
BARCELONA, Sept. 7 - (A/P) - James P. Lardner, son of the late Ring Lardner, had returned to the Spanish government's front lines again today, recovered from shrapnel wounds. The 24 year old American may join a machine gun company on the Ebro front in southern Catalonia where insurgents are on the offensive againts a government salient.Lardner who quit a war correspondent job to fight, was wounded July 27 in government's Ebro river drive. It was his first action.
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San Antonio Light
October 10, 1938ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, Oct. 10 - (A/P) - Fears for the safety of James P. Lardner, son of the late Ring Lardner, American humorist, increased today as efforts to locate him continued fruitless, more than two weeks after he disappeared while fighting in Eastern Spain.
United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers said he was exhausting all resources to learn of the fate of Lardner, a volunteer of the international brigade fighting for government Spanish forces.
Lardner disappeared September 22.The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
of the Spanish Civil War
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See this Spanish Civil War site. Eugene W. Plawiuk's extraordinarily well-linked site about the Spanish Civil War.
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During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), 2,800 American volunteers took up arms to defend the Spanish Republic against a military rebellion led by General Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. To the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which fought from 1937 through 1938, the defense of the Republic represented the last hope of stopping the spread of international fascism. (For a general overview of the Spanish revolution, click here.) The Lincolns fought alongside approximately 35,000 anti-fascists from fifty-two countries who, like themselves, were organized under the aegis of the Comintern, and who also sought to "make Madrid the tomb of fascism." In keeping with Popular Front culture, the Americans named their units the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the George Washington Battalion, and the John Brown Battery. Together with the British, Irish, Canadian, and other nationals they formed the Fifteenth In- ternational Brigade. ("Lincoln Brigade" is a misnomer originating with an American support organization, Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.) One hundred twenty-five American men and women also served with the American Medical Bureau as nurses, doctors, technicians, and ambulance drivers.The conviction that made volunteering for a war against fascism possible was born from the economic calamity and political turmoil of the 1930s. Like many during the Great Depression, the young volunteers had an experience of deprivation and injustice that led them to join the burgeoning student, unemployed, union, and cultural movements that were influenced by the Communist Party (CP) and other Left organizations. Involvement in these groups exposed them to a Marxist and internationalist perspective and, with their successes in galvanizing people to conscious, political action, gave rise to a revolutionary elan.
American radicalism was spurred by the appearance of profascist groups like the Liberty League, and the expansion of fascism abroad. With Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, Hitler's ascendance in 1933, and Italy's assault on Ethiopia in 1934--all accomplished without hindrance from the governments of the West--the CP responded with the coalition-building strategy of the Popular Front, attracting thousands of aroused citizens directly into its ranks or into "front" organiza- tions. When four right-wing Spanish generals, with German and Italian support, attacked the legally elected government on July 19, 1936, a desire to confront fascism in Spain swept through the progressive communities in Europe and the Americas. Within weeks, militant German, French, and Italian anti-fascists were fighting in Madrid. By January 1937, despite a State Department prohibition against travel to Spain, Americans were crossing the Pyrenees.
The Lincolns came from all walks of life, all regions of the country, and included seamen, students, the unemployed, miners, fur workers, lumberjacks, teachers, salesmen, athletes, dancers, and artists. They established the first racially integrated military unit in U.S. history and were the first to be led by a black commander. At least 60 percent were members of the Young Communist League or CP. "Wobblies" (members of the Industrial Workers of the World or "IWW"), socialists, and the unaffiliated also joined. The Socialists formed their own [Eugene] Debs Column for Spain, but open recruitment brought on government suppression.
The reaction of Western governments to the war was ambivalent and duplicitous. They agreed to a nonintervention pact and the United States embargoed aid to the Spanish belligerents, policies intended to de-escalate the war but whose selective enforcement undermined the Republic. While Germany and Italy supplied Franco with troops, tanks, submarines, and a modernized air force (the first to bomb open cities, most notably Guernica), the nonintervention policy only prevented arms from reaching the Republic. General Motors, Texaco, and other American corporations further assisted Franco with trucks and fuel. The Soviet Union and Mexico were the only governments to sell armaments to the Republic, although much of them were impounded at the French border. Throughout the war, a vociferous political and cultural movement in America rallied to the Republic by raising money for medical aid and demanding an end to the embargo. Such participants as Albert Einstein, Dorothy Parker, Gene Kelly, Paul Robeson, Helen Keller, A. Philip Randolph, and Gypsy Rose Lee reflected the wide base of support for the Republican cause.
Self-motivated and ideological, the Lincolns attempted to create an egalitarian "people's army"; officers were distinguished only by small bars on their berets and in some cases rank-and-file soldiers elected their own officers. Traditional military protocol was shunned, although not always successfully. A political commissar explained the politics of the war to the volunteers and tended to their needs and morale. The Lincoln Brigade helped ease the pressure on Madrid, giving the Republic time to train and organize its own popular army. The subject of respectful news reports by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Herbert Matthews, Martha Gellhorn, and Lillian Hellman, the brigade helped strengthen anti-fascist opinion in the United States. Yet the Lincolns and the Republican military, fighting with inadequate weaponry, could not withstand the forces allied against them. By the end, the Lincolns had lost nearly 750 men and sustained a casualty rate higher than that suffered by Americans in World War II. Few escaped injury. In November 1938, as a last attempt to pressure Hitler and Mussolini into repatriating their troops, Spanish prime minister Juan Negrin ordered the withdrawal of the International Brigades. The Axis coalition refused to follow suit and Madrid fell in March 1939.
The Lincolns returned home as heroes of the anti-fascist cause but enjoyed no official recognition of their deed. Many Lincolns soon aroused bitterness within sectors of the Left when, with the signing of the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact in 1939, they supported the CP's call for the United States to stay out of WWII. Once the United States and the Soviet Union entered the war, however, many of the veterans enlisted in the armed forces or served with the merchant marine. In a foreshadowing of the McCarthy period, the armed forces designated the Lincolns "premature antifascists" and confined them to their bases. Many successfully protested and were allowed to see action. Among the core agents of the Office of Strategic Services were Lincoln veterans whose contacts with the European partisans, forged in Spain, were key to OSS missions.
In the 1950s most veterans, whether Communist or not, were harassed or forced out of their jobs by the FBI. Communist Lincolns in particular were hit hard by the repressive Subversive Activities Control Board, the Smith Act, and state sedition laws, although over time all but a few convictions were overturned. In the 1950s and 1960s the majority of Lincoln veterans quit the CP but continued to be active on the Left. Notwithstanding its exclusion from American textbooks, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade commands attention as a unique example of prescient, radical, and selfless action in the cause of international freedom.
--written by Sam Sills
53882. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
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The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio)
November 2, 2000Ring Lardner Jr., the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, has died at 85. Lardner, whose father was the humorist and baseball writer, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in New York City.
Lardner's satirical screenplays earned him two Academy Awards, but he was best known for his refusal to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee if he had ever been a communist. Lardner was a communist but held that his political views were none of the government's business.
"I could answer the question exactly the way you want," he said under questioning in 1947 from Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, a Republican from New Jersey. "But if I did, I would hate myself in the morning."
Lardner, with Michael Kanin, won an Oscar for best original screenplay in 1942 for "Woman of the Year," starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In 1970, he won an Oscar for best screenplay based on another medium for the movie "M*A*S*H," which was based on a Richard Hooker novel.
From 1947 to the 1960s, Lardner had a hard time finding work because he was blacklisted. Other members of the Hollywood Ten were Alvert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, John Howard Lawson, Herbert Biberman, Robert Adrian Scott, Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie and Edward Dmytryk. Of the 10, only Dmytryk finally named names.
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Dateline: NEW YORKRing Lardner Jr., the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, has died at 85. Lardner, whose father was the humorist and baseball writer, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in New York City. Lardner's satirical screenplays earned him two Academy Awards, but he was best known for his refusal to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee if he ever had been a communist.
Lardner was a communist but he maintained that his political views were none of the government's business. ''I could answer the question exactly the way you want,'' he said under questioning in 1947 from Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, a Republican from New Jersey, ''but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning.''
In 1947, 20th Century-Fox, which had been paying Lardner $2,000 a week, announced that ''his employment with the company has been terminated.'' Two weeks later, Lardner and the nine others who had refused to answer were indicted and subsequently convicted of contempt of Congres
From 1947 to the 1960s, Lardner had a hard time finding work because he was blacklisted along with the other members of the Hollywood Ten, who included Alvert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, John Howard Lawson, Herbert Biberman, Robert Adrian Scott, Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie and Edward Dmytryk.
Of the 10, only Dmytryk, after serving his jail term, eventually named names. Dmytryk, deciding he was making a martyr of himself for an ideology in which he no longer believed, went on to cooperate with the committee, salvaging his directing career.
Lardner was sentenced to a year in the federal prison at Danbury, Conn. As the time approached when he had to turn himself in, he put his house in Santa Monica, Calif., up for sale and attracted buyers with an advertisement that said, ''Owner Going to Jail.''
Lardner then worked in Mexico, New York and London writing TV series. He used various pen names to conceal his identity.
Lardner, with Michael Kanin, won an Oscar for best original screenplay in 1942 for Woman of the Year, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In 1970, he won a second Oscar for best screenplay based on another medium for the movie M*A*S*H, which was based on a Richard Hooker novel.
In August, the Writers Guild of America corrected the credits of eight blacklisted writers on 14 films of the 1950s and '60s films, crediting Lardner and Hugo Butler for The Big Night, a 1951 film noir starring John Drew Barrymore.
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. was born in Chicago on Aug. 15, 1915, one of four sons born to Ring Lardner and the former Ellis Abbott. The other three sons, James, David and John, also became writers but died relatively young.
Ring Lardner grew up in Greenwich, Conn., and Great Neck, N.Y. He graduated from Andover and went to Princeton, where he was a member of the Socialist Club.
After his sophomore year, he sailed to Hamburg, Germany, where he caught a train to the Soviet Union and enrolled at the Anglo-American Institute of the University of Moscow, a center established to encourage young Americans to support the Soviet system. He returned to New York, and in 1935 got a job working for Stanley Walker, then editor of The New York Daily Mirror. He did not remain there long.
His roommate at Princeton had been Herbert Bayard Swope Jr., whose influential father, a former executive editor of the New York World, introduced him to David O. Selznick, who was starting his own movie company. Lardner became a Hollywood writer and was recruited by the Communist Party.
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Lardnermania: An appreciation of Ring W. Lardner by Lardner Family
Life
1915 (AUG 19): Is born, the third of four sons, to Ring and Ellis Lardner. His birth and early life are remarked upon often by Ring Sr. in his newspaper column. The example below marks his birth:
I love you, New Arrival;
I love you, No. 3
That's why I won't allow them
To name you after me.
Of course, Ring Sr. loses the naming battle, and his third son became Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.; Ring Sr. preferred "Bill."
1920: Gets his first book credit for The Young Immigrunts (see excerpt). Ring Sr. writes the book using his four-year-old son as narrator. This still confuses some book dealers.
1928-1932: Attends Phillips Academy (Andover).
1932-1934: Attends and leaves Princeton.
1933: Has first national writing credit in the premier issue of Esquire; he is 18.
1934: Makes trip to Soviet Union and Germany.
1935: Writes for the New York Daily Mirror (January-November); begins working for David O. Selznick in the publicity department.
1936: Becomes a member of the Communist Party. During the Depression years many Americans were looking for alternatives to capitalism, a system which had obviously failed. Communism, for many, seemed to be a humane and rational way of governing. As such, it attracted the attention of many of our nation's intellectuals.
Today, he says he doesn't regret having been a Communist, given the circumstances. About the ultimate failure of the Communist system he says:
"Communism is like Christianity. It turned out to be a very beautiful theory that has never been put into practice. Given human nature, I'm not sure it can be." ("Leftists in the Wilderness" U.S. News & World Report, 19 March 1990)
That same year, Selznick asks Lardner and a story department reader, Budd Schulberg, to come up with a satisfactory ending for A Star is Born. They do (along with some other scenes). Ring is now a screenwriter.
1937-1938: Marries Silvia Schulman, Selznick's secretary (February 1937); leaves Selznick for Warner Brothers.
1943: Wins Academy Award for Woman of the Year (Best Original Screenplay for 1942 with Michael Kanin); he cannot accept the award in person because he is working as a civilian at Ft. Lee, Virginia, on an Army picture called Rations in the Combat Zone (obviously another movie with Oscar potential).
1945: Divorces Silvia.
1946: Marries Frances, widow of his brother David.
1947: He is called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The "unfriendly" witnesses called to testify (later referred to as the Hollywood Ten) decide to challenge the committee's authority for questioning them about their politics and the political affiliations of others, and to refuse to answer the committee's questions. Some in the group want to proudly proclaim their membership in the Communist Party, but it is decided that such action could lead to trouble for others who wish to keep their politics private. The idea of invoking the Fifth Amendment is considered, but it is decided that doing so would be tantamount to admitting that being a Communist is a crime. They settle on the First Amendment defense.
The questioners ask "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
When Ring testifies, he upsets J. Parnell Thomas, the committee chairman, (later an inmate at the same prison as Ring) by responding,
"I could answer the way you want, Mr. Chairman, but I'd hate myself in the morning."
The crowd erupts in laughter, and the committee members erupt in anger. He is escorted from the room.
On the strategy of not answering the questions and challenging the committee Lardner now says:
"[it] turned out to be a bad idea and just made us seem to be more evasive than we were, and it didn't accomplish anything in the end."
1950-1951: Spends ten months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, for contempt of Congress; writes his first novel, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.
1954: Publishes The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.
1948-1965: Blacklisted. He continued to write either uncredited, abroad, or under a pseudonym.
Some of his work during this time includes the movie Virgin Island, and The Adventures of Robin Hood, Sir Lancelot, and The Buccaneers for British TV.
1965: His name appears in film for the first time since the blacklisting began (Cincinnati Kid).
1971: Wins Academy Award for M*A*S*H (Best Adapted Screenplay for 1970, sole credit)
Receiving the Academy Award, Lardner said:
"At long last, a pattern has been established in my life. At the end of every 28 years, I win one of these. So I will see you all again in 1999."
Also wins the Golden Globe award for M*A*S*H.
On the occasion of the silver-anniversary tribute to M*A*S*H hosted by the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, Lardner said that the movie "may be the work I'm proudest of in life." (Entertainment Weekly 28 FEB 1996)
After the success of M*A*S*H, he was offered the opportunity to write for the TV series but declined. According to Lardner,
"Frankly, I couldn't see how you would sustain a TV series based on a war that had just a few months of action. Shows you what I know. I also didn't think Selznick should buy Gone With the Wind." (Entertainment Weekly 28 FEB 96)
1976: Publishes The Lardners: My Family Remembered.
1985: Publishes his second novel, All for Love.
1992 (10 APR): Lardner reads Woman of the Year's original, more feminist, ending at a meeting of the New York City literary group, the Writer's Voice. In the version we all see, it ends with Katharine Hepburn cooking her husband's breakfast; in the original which Louis B. Mayer objected to, Spencer Tracy's character tells Hepburn to "just be yourself."("Yesteryear's Woman" Maclean's 13 APR 92)
Late 1990s: He is interviewed and featured numerous times during the fiftieth anniversary of the HUAC hearings and completes a screenplay based on the book, The Boys of Summer. More details about that movie can be found in the archived version of "Spooldrippings."
2000: Publishes the memoir I'd Hate Myself in the Morning.
(31 OCT): Dies.
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Marriage Notes for Ringgold Wilmer Lardner and Silvia Schulman
MARRIAGE:
Piqua Daily Call (Ohio)
August 28, 1945
Hollywood, Aug 28. (UP) - Mrs. Silvia Schulman Lardner today was legally f
ree of her husband, screen writer Ring Lardner, Jr. after winning a default divorce.
Los Angeles Times
December 15, 2004Frances Chaney, 89; actress blacklisted with her husband
By Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times | December 15, 2004LOS ANGELES -- Frances Chaney, a radio and stage actress whose career was curtailed after she was ostracized as pro-Communist along with her late blacklisted husband, Ring Lardner Jr., has died. She was 89.Ms. Chaney died Nov. 23 in New York City of Alzheimer's disease.
The actress, although certain that the post-World War II anti-Communist witch hunt cost her job after job and stunted her career, disavowed any purported guilt by association. ''Everybody assumed, poor Frances, she never would have been blacklisted if it hadn't been that she married Ring. Not true," Ms. Chaney said during a ''Remembering the Blacklist" symposium in 1994 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Ring Lardner Jr., who died in 2000, was the last survivor of the Hollywood 10, who were imprisoned for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 on whether they were or had ever been Communists. Lardner was held in contempt of Congress after he told the committee chairman, J. Parnell Thomas, ''I could answer that question the way you want, Mr. Chairman, but if I did I'd hate myself in the morning."
After losing appeals, in 1950 Lardner served 10 months in the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn. Not only were the 10 convicted, but they also were fired by studio heads and barred from working until they cleared themselves of any Communist taint -- the beginning of a so-called blacklist that would prevent hundreds of actors, writers, directors, and others from working for more than a decade and ruin many careers.
Born July 23, 1915, in Odessa, Ukraine, Ms. Chaney came to the United States at a young age and, after studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, immediately found work on Broadway and in radio. Her career flourished. She voiced the character Burma in the radio juvenile adventure ''Terry and the Pirates," which ran from 1937 to 1939 and was renewed with a war theme in 1943. She also played Marion Kerby, the friendly female ghost, in the radio version of ''The Adventures of Topper," beginning in 1945. Ms. Chaney appeared on such popular radio series of the late 1930s and early 1940s as ''Mr. District Attorney" and ''Gang Busters," a realistic FBI-oriented series.
She married David Lardner, Ring's younger brother, and with him pursued leftist causes and started a family. In 1944, he was killed by a land mine in Germany while covering World War II for the New Yorker magazine.
Ms. Chaney moved her children to Hollywood and started working in the film industry as the war ended. She married Ring Lardner Jr. in 1946 and soon became caught up in his House committee hearings and litigation. After his release from prison, the family moved to Mexico and then back to Connecticut.
Jobs were scarce, but Ms. Chaney became hopeful in 1954 when she got a role in dramatist Paddy Chayefsky's ''Holiday Song," a play for ''The Philco Television Playhouse." Impressed, Chayefsky wrote another television show with Ms. Chaney in mind -- but after many frustrating calls with the producers, she was told the part had already been cast. The play was ''Marty," which evolved into a 1955 movie for which Ernest Borgnine won an Oscar. When ''Holiday Song" was repeated soon after the ''Marty" fiasco, with another actress in her role, Ms. Chaney realized she was losing jobs because of the blacklist. ''That was clear-cut; I knew where I was," she said in ''Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition" by Griffin Fariello. ''So I did everything I could to work in theater."
She understudied actresses Maureen Stapleton and Claudette Colbert on Broadway and became known for playing ''Jewish mother" roles in ''Golda," starring Anne Bancroft; James Lapine's off-Broadway ''Table Settings"; and three productions of Clifford Odets's ''Awake and Sing."
On television, she landed a recurring role that lasted 10 years on the soap opera ''The Edge of Night." As the blacklist's power began to fade, she appeared on a 1963 episode of ''The Defenders" starring E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son lawyers. The show tackled controversial subjects, including the blacklist.More recently, Ms. Chaney appeared on ''Law & Order" and had bit parts in a handful of movies, including one as a long-married wife in the documentary portion of ''When Harry Met Sally" in 1989.
Ms. Chaney is survived by her son and daughter from her first marriage, Joseph and Katharine, and her son from her second marriage, James; two step-children, Peter and Ann; seven grandchildren; and eight great-granddaughters.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Queen Mary from Cherbourg, France, arrived New York August 22, 1938
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World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
Name: David Lardner
Inducted From: New York
Rank: not Recorded
Combat Organization: American War Correspondent
Death Date: 19 Oct 1944
Monument: Henri-Chapelle, Belgium
Last Known Status: Buried
U.S. Awards: Purple Heart Medal
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The Zanesville Signal
October 23, 1944WITH THE U.S. FIRST ARMY NEAR AACHEN, Oct. 1 - (Delayed (A/P) - David Lardner, son of the late homorist Ring Lardner and correspondent for the New Yorker magazine, was fatally injured today when the jeep in which he was riding struck a mine near Aachen. Russell Hill, correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, suffered a broken rib, cuts and bruises. The jeep driver was killed.
Los Angeles Times
December 15, 2004Frances Chaney, 89; actress blacklisted with her husband
By Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times | December 15, 2004LOS ANGELES -- Frances Chaney, a radio and stage actress whose career was curtailed after she was ostracized as pro-Communist along with her late blacklisted husband, Ring Lardner Jr., has died. She was 89.Ms. Chaney died Nov. 23 in New York City of Alzheimer's disease.
The actress, although certain that the post-World War II anti-Communist witch hunt cost her job after job and stunted her career, disavowed any purported guilt by association. ''Everybody assumed, poor Frances, she never would have been blacklisted if it hadn't been that she married Ring. Not true," Ms. Chaney said during a ''Remembering the Blacklist" symposium in 1994 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Ring Lardner Jr., who died in 2000, was the last survivor of the Hollywood 10, who were imprisoned for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 on whether they were or had ever been Communists. Lardner was held in contempt of Congress after he told the committee chairman, J. Parnell Thomas, ''I could answer that question the way you want, Mr. Chairman, but if I did I'd hate myself in the morning."
After losing appeals, in 1950 Lardner served 10 months in the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn. Not only were the 10 convicted, but they also were fired by studio heads and barred from working until they cleared themselves of any Communist taint -- the beginning of a so-called blacklist that would prevent hundreds of actors, writers, directors, and others from working for more than a decade and ruin many careers.
Born July 23, 1915, in Odessa, Ukraine, Ms. Chaney came to the United States at a young age and, after studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, immediately found work on Broadway and in radio. Her career flourished. She voiced the character Burma in the radio juvenile adventure ''Terry and the Pirates," which ran from 1937 to 1939 and was renewed with a war theme in 1943. She also played Marion Kerby, the friendly female ghost, in the radio version of ''The Adventures of Topper," beginning in 1945. Ms. Chaney appeared on such popular radio series of the late 1930s and early 1940s as ''Mr. District Attorney" and ''Gang Busters," a realistic FBI-oriented series.
She married David Lardner, Ring's younger brother, and with him pursued leftist causes and started a family. In 1944, he was killed by a land mine in Germany while covering World War II for the New Yorker magazine.
Ms. Chaney moved her children to Hollywood and started working in the film industry as the war ended. She married Ring Lardner Jr. in 1946 and soon became caught up in his House committee hearings and litigation. After his release from prison, the family moved to Mexico and then back to Connecticut.
Jobs were scarce, but Ms. Chaney became hopeful in 1954 when she got a role in dramatist Paddy Chayefsky's ''Holiday Song," a play for ''The Philco Television Playhouse." Impressed, Chayefsky wrote another television show with Ms. Chaney in mind -- but after many frustrating calls with the producers, she was told the part had already been cast. The play was ''Marty," which evolved into a 1955 movie for which Ernest Borgnine won an Oscar. When ''Holiday Song" was repeated soon after the ''Marty" fiasco, with another actress in her role, Ms. Chaney realized she was losing jobs because of the blacklist. ''That was clear-cut; I knew where I was," she said in ''Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition" by Griffin Fariello. ''So I did everything I could to work in theater."
She understudied actresses Maureen Stapleton and Claudette Colbert on Broadway and became known for playing ''Jewish mother" roles in ''Golda," starring Anne Bancroft; James Lapine's off-Broadway ''Table Settings"; and three productions of Clifford Odets's ''Awake and Sing."
On television, she landed a recurring role that lasted 10 years on the soap opera ''The Edge of Night." As the blacklist's power began to fade, she appeared on a 1963 episode of ''The Defenders" starring E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son lawyers. The show tackled controversial subjects, including the blacklist.More recently, Ms. Chaney appeared on ''Law & Order" and had bit parts in a handful of movies, including one as a long-married wife in the documentary portion of ''When Harry Met Sally" in 1989.
Ms. Chaney is survived by her son and daughter from her first marriage, Joseph and Katharine, and her son from her second marriage, James; two step-children, Peter and Ann; seven grandchildren; and eight great-granddaughters.
Chicago Tribune
January 28, 1965Memorial services for George P. Torrence, 77, retired president of the Link-Belt company, will be held today in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he died Monday. The funeral will be held Saturday in Cincinnati.
Mr. Torrence, formerly of Evanston, joined Link-Belt in 1911 as a draftsman. He retired as president in 1952 but remained a Link-Belt director for five more years while teaching at Emory university in Atlanta, Ga.
53884. George Paull Torrence V
Register Star, (Rockford, IL)
August 25, 1984George Paull Torrence V, 71, 1307 National Ave., died Friday, Aug. 24, 1984, in Rockford after a short illness.
Born May 10, 1913, in Indianapolis, Ind., son of George Paull Torrence IV and Florence Abbott. Lived 47 years in Rockford, coming from Chicago. Married Ruth "Bonnie" Bonnell in Rockford, June 19, 1948. Employed as a consulting executive in engineering at Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. and Ingersoll Engineers Inc. for 36 years; previously as an engineer for two years at Link Belt Co., Chicago.
Vestry member Emmanuel Episcopal Church, president of Community Chest, president of Goldie Floberg Home and board member 30 years, president and charter member Rockford Chapter of American Society of Manufacturing and Tool Engineers. Board member Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, Thoreau, N.M., counselor of Rockford College, docent for the industrial museum an Rockford Museum Center, treasurer of Churchill's Grove, president of University Club, board member Rockford Country Club. Received B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1935; member Psi Upsilon fraternity, Sphinx Head Society, Tau Beta Gamma, honorary Engineering.
Survivors include his wife, Bonnie; two sons, George Paull VI, Corpus Christie, Texas, and John Bonnell, Rockford; two daughters, Robin Torrence-Cherry, Sheffield, England, and Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Warren, Tucson, Ariz.; three grandchildren, Shannon and Gregory Torrence, Corpus Christi, and Ceridwen Cherry, Shefffield; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Predeceased by his parents, a brother, Haskell and s sister, Dorothy.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Saturnia from Naples, Italy, arived New York Aug 26, 1937
New Orleans Passenger Lists
Ship Minnekahda from London, arrived New York June 24, 1929
New Orleans Passenger Lists
Ship Minnekahda from London, arrived New York June 24, 1929
53887. Francis Robert Kitchell
The Seattle Times (WA)
February 8, 2015Frank R. Kitchell July 11, 1918 ~ January 25, 2015 Frank was born in Battle Creek, MI, to Francis Robert Kitchell and Jeanette Abbott. Frank and his three younger brothers (Peter,
Samuel & Webster) were raised in Newburyport, MA. He attended Amherst College (1939), served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Pacific Fleet during World War II (1941-45) and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1948. Shortly thereafter, Frank and two classmates (Bill Wesselhoeft & Lou Johnson) headed west. Arriving in Seattle, they found work, married and raised families that remain close friends two generations later.
Frank married Virginia Price, a Seattle native, in 1949.
He practiced law for many years, as a partner in the Seattle-based law firm of Graham & Dunn, and remained active in the USNR, serving in the Korean War. His years with the Navy may explain Frank's strong interest and involvement in the Seattle waterfront. He took great satisfaction in serving for 13 years on the Seattle Port Commission (1961-74; Pres. '64 & '69-70), promoting the growth of the Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport. Frank served as a Director of the National Bank of Commerce and Rainier Bancorporation and was a Trustee at The Helen Bush School, The Pilchuck Glass School (1972-92; Pres. '76) and The Seattle Artificial Kidney Center. Frank and Virginia were active campers, canoeists and skiers, and especially loved spending time on Bainbridge Island, with their close community of friends.
Frank is predeceased by his three brothers and his daughter Sally (1982).
He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Virginia, his three sons, Wiley (Marianne), Robert (Carolyn) and James (Carole) all of Seattle, and his 10 grandchildren.
53889. Samuel Farrand Kitchell
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
September 16, 2006Samuel Farrand Kitchell, loving husband, father, grandfather, friend, mentor, community leader and builder, died peacefully at home, surrounded by family on the evening of September 11, 2006. Born on November 6, 1921, in Hingham, Massachusetts, Sam was the third of four sons of Jeannette Abbott and Francis Robert Kitchell. In 1943 he graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in history and economics and married his college sweetheart, Betty Heimark. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II and commanded SC 724, a sub-chaser, in the Pacific.
Betty and Sam settled in Phoenix in 1948, where Sam pursued his lifelong passion for building, by founding Kitchell Contractors in 1950. The employee-owned Kitchell Corporation is now one of the country's largest builders and the seventh largest privately held company in Arizona. In 1969 he founded Doubletree Inns.
Sam's philanthropic and civic activities benefited The Heard Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, St. Luke's Hospital, Phoenix Thunderbirds, Desert Botanical Garden, Paradise Valley Country Club and Phoenix Country Club. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Arthur Young/Inc. Magazine, and was president of the Arizona Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, Arizona Town Hall, and the Scottsdale School Board. He was honored by the Arizona Chapter of the Newcomen Society, was co-founder of the Arizona Kidney Foundation, and was a recipient of the Construction Industry Pioneer Award. In 1992 Sam was inducted into the Arizona Business Hall of Fame. He served six years as a trustee of Amherst College, where he received an honorary Doctor of Law degree.
A man of tremendous energy and kindness, Sam was passionate about tennis, bridge, cribbage, boating and his family. He was an art lover and collector, an insatiable reader, a philanthropist and a world traveler. With his piercing blue eyes and his rare ability to merge integrity with humility and success, he was an elegant man.
He is survived by Betty, his wife of 63 years; his five children, Kaaren Kitchell (Richard Beban), Jane Kitchell, Jon Kitchell (Leatrice), Ann Denk (Greg), and Suki Edwards (Fred); his nine grandchildren, Bayu and Rachel LaPrade, Kari Denk MacDonald (Kevin), Clayton Denk, Sally and Jonathan Edwards, Towner Kitchell, and Lisanne and Ryan Murray; and his brothers, Frank (Ginny) Kitchell and Webster Kitchell.
53891. Webster Lardner Kitchell
Santa Fe New Mexican
February 19, 2009Webster Lardner Kitchell Age 77, died February 9 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was minister emeritus of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe.
Mr. Kitchell was born May 21, 1931, in Newburyport, Mass., and was the son of Francis Robert Kitchell and Jeannette Abbott Kitchell. He was the youngest of four brothers, following Frank, Sam, and Peter.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1955 and Harvard Divinity School in 1957. He received his doctorate from Eden Theological Seminary in 1972. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War and was honorably discharged in 1951. His first position in the ministry was as assistant minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City, from 1957 to 1960. Mr. Kitchell then moved to Eliot Chapel in Kirkwood, Mo., for 13 years. From 1973 to 1981 he served as minister at First Unitarian Church in Houston. He continued his trek west by becoming minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, where he served until 1998. He was known for his sonorous voice and the humor in his sermons. His "Coyote" sermons became a tradition at the church in Santa Fe. Coyote, the "trickster" symbol in Native American mythology, was his fictitious partner whom he met at doughnut shops to discuss current events, matters of theology, and the wonders of life. He wrote three books based on these sermons, including God's Dog: Conversations with Coyote, Get a God!: More Conversations with Coyote, and Coyote Says: More Conversations with God's Dog.
He loved cars from his first, a '34 Ford convertible which he got when he was 19, to his last, a convertible Mustang. The list of 26 vehicles he owned included such wonders as a yellow VW Thing, decorated with bumper stickers espousing various liberal causes, and a '41 Plymouth coupe, which was among his favorites. He owned many model cars and set up revolving displays of them. He was also an accomplished amateur photographer who loved to record his family, his parishioners, and the landscape of the American West. Throughout his life he enjoyed camping, backpacking, canoeing, and long road trips.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 23 years, Nancy Gay Mottweiler Kitchell. Two previous marriages ended in divorce.
He is survived by his children Catherine Kitchell of Chevy Chase, Md., David Kitchell of Seattle, and Benjamin Kitchell of Tigard, Ore. His three stepchildren are John Warner of San Diego, Dana Mottweiler of Oakland, Cal., and Kurt Mottweiler of Portland, Ore. There are three grandchildren and one step-grandchild. He is survived by his companion of the last few years, Nancy Driesbach and his eldest brother, Frank, who resides in Seattle.
Santa Fe New Mexican
May 21, 2002Deceased Name: NANCY MOTTWEILER KITCHELL
Died May 18, 2002. Beloved wife of the Rev. Dr. Webster Kitchell.She is survived by Dr. Kitchell and her children: Dana Mottweiler, and Kurt Mottweiler; and their respective partners: Charles Stelle, and Lisa Cenotto. She is also survived by her four stepchildren: Catherine Kitchell, David Kitchell, Ben Kitchell, John Warner; their spouses; and four grandchildren.
Nancy Kitchell was a retired teacher at the College of Santa Fe and a staff member at the Santa Fe Community College. She was a Counselor at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. She was an active member of the League of Women Voters. She was an active member of the ACLU in San Antonio and Houston. Nancy was President of the Board of Trustees of the San Antonio Unitarian Universalist Congregation and of the First Unitarian Church of Houston. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and a masters degree in criminology at the University of Houston, Texas. She was raised in Dallas and married Richard Mottweiler in 1946. She married Dr. Kitchell in 1981 and moved to Santa Fe. She was active in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe and in the De Vargas Middle School Project of The UU Congregation of Santa Fe.
Chicago Tribune
October 15, 1964Services for Mrs. Dorothy A. Kitchell, 68, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., an Evanston resident for 40 years before she moved to Fort Lauderdalre 12 years ago, will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the Walker chapel of the First Presbyterian church of Evanston, 1427 Chicago av., Evanston.
Mrs. Kitchell died Saturday in a Fort Lauderdale hospital. Her husband, Howell, retired first vice president of Continental National Bank and Trust company, died last October.
Surviving are a son, F. Abbott Kitchell, two daughters, Mrs. Harry A. Bliss and Mrs. Fredericc T. Brandt; seven grandchildren, two sisters and a brother.
The Journal-Standard (Freeport, IL)
July 2, 2010Dorothy K. "Dory" Brandt, 90, of Freeport died Thursday, July 1, 2010, at Wesley Willows in Rockford.
Rockford Register Star (IL)
December 11, 1999FREEPORT - Frederic T. Brandt Jr., 79, died Friday at his residence in Freeport.
Interment in Oakland Cemetery
Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
October 16, 2011HARPSWELL -- Ellis Bliss passed away on Sept. 24, 2011, at her home in Harpswell.
Daughter of Howell and Dorothy Kitchell, Ellis was born in Evanston, Ill., in 1925, and had three siblings, Howell, Dory and Abbott.In 1948, she married Harry Bliss of Buffalo, N.Y., and they enjoyed 56 years together before Harry's death in 2004.
Ellis was very much loved by her children, Lisa Bliss Eaves of Opelika, Ala., Jane Bliss of Portland, Emily Bliss Lesser of Concord, Mass., and Bill Bliss of Bath; and her grandchildren, Tyson, Tracy and Jackson Eaves, Peter, Ben and Allie Lesser and Lincoln and Raymond Bliss.
Ellis and Harry moved from Evanston to Portland in 1967, where Ellis devoted many years as a champion for the mentally ill. She founded the Maine chapter of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and was a tireless advocate for legislation and programs to support people with chronic mental illness. Ellis was an active member of State Street Church, UCC in Portland.
Ellis took great joy in her children, and in singing, playing the piano, crosswords, and jigsaw puzzles. A lover of language, she leapt for her dictionary any time an unknown or nuanced word came up in conversation. Her children fondly remember being told how to conjugate verbs in many languages, and being advised that 'quit is an intransitive verb that means to leave, not to leave off.'She was also a prolific knitter and quilter. Her sweaters have kept her family warm for many years, and her friends and family have been happy recipients of the well over a hundred quilts that she designed, pieced together and quilted. Ellis's quilts won the blue ribbon in nearly all the events where her quilts were entered and judged.
Ellis loved nature and spending time at her summer home in New Hampshire. She had near encyclopedic knowledge of birds and their songs, and of plants, trees and flowers native to the area. She was known by her family and friends for her ready laugh and her ability to find in any moment a of sense of joy and a song to sing.
Portland Press Herald (ME)
September 16, 2004BLISS, HARRY A. - 84, South Portland, in South Portland, Sept. 12.
53900. William Thompson Pulling
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: William T Pulling
Birth Year: 1925
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Dist of Columbia
State: Indiana
County or City: Elkhart
Enlistment Date: 1 Oct 1945
Enlistment State: Georgia
Enlistment City: Fort McPherson Atlanta
Branch: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
Source: Enlisted Man, Regular Army, within 3 months of Discharge or former WAAC Auxiliary
Education: 1 year of college
Civil Occupation: Student Codes 0x, 2x, 4x and 6x as pertain to students will be converted, for machine records purposes, to the code number 992.
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 70
Weight: 150
_____Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
July 4, 2003PULLING, William T., 77, of Beaver, died July 1. J.T.
31117. John Ebenezer Chamberlain
Kokomo Tribune
February 8, 1951John E. (Jack) Chamberlain, 78, Rochester's first chief of police and father of Jerome Chamberlain of this city, died Tuesday at his home in Rochester.
Survivors include the widow; three sons, Jerome, Robert, Battle Creek, Mich.; and Howards, Cincinnati; and five grandchildren.
The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, September 2, 1910The death angel has called two more Fulton county residents in the persons of Mrs. John CHAMBERLAIN, this city, and David GATTON, for the past number of years of Rolette, North Dakota.
Miss Elsie BARKDOLL, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel BARKDOLL, was born in this city July 5, 1874, and resided in the house where she was born, on South Main street, until she attained womanhood.
On May 8, 1897, she was united in marriage with John CHAMBERLAIN, to which union was born six children, four of whom survive. They are Clarence [CHAMBERLAIN], Jerome [CHAMBERLAIN], Robert [CHAMBERLAIN] and Howard [CHAMBERLAIN].
The first year of their married life was spent in Denver, Colorado, and since then they have resided with Mrs. Chamberlain's father at the Barkdoll home. Mrs. Chamberlain has suffered from tuberculosis and became noticeably worse in the last year. About three months ago her condition rapidly changed, and death came at 4:25 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Chamberlain was a member of St. John's class of the Methodist church and a noble woman, always looking on the brighter side. Besides the surviving husband and children, she leaves a father and number of relatives who join the many friends in deepest mouring.
The Rochester Sentinel
Thursday, May 19, 1904Mildred [CHAMBERLAIN], the youngest child of Mr. & Mrs. John E. HAMBERLAI
N, died this morning at about 6 o�clock at the age of two years and four months. For several weeks she has been sick at times with an affliction resembling meningitis.
The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
December 14, 2003CLARA CHAMBERLAIN, 95, of Huntington, formerly of Battle Creek, Mich., died Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003.
Surviving are daughter, Joanne Holman of Woodburn; sister, Dorothy Ecker of Fort Wayne; brother, Alfred Stoffel of Huntington; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Chamberlain.
Entombment at Memorial Park Cemetery, Battle Creek.
The Rochester Sentinel
Thursday, June 2, 1910The infant child of Mr. & Mrs. John E. CHAMBERLAIN died Wednesday evening at their home on South Madison street.