New York Passenger Lists
Ship St. Paul, from Southampton, England, arrived 26 Oct 1895
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New York Times
June 27, 1918RAND - at Los Angeles, Cal., of pneumonia, George Curtis, son of the late George Curtis Rand and Eugenia Blanchard.
New York Times
Jul 9, 1953Mrs. Zillah Oakes Jacquelin, widow of Herbert T. B. Jacquelin, a stockbroker, died yesterday in her apartment in the Westbury hotel at the age of 82.
Mrs. Jacquelin was born in Kansas City, MO., the daughter of Thomas Fletcher and Abigail Haskell Oakes.
During the period her father was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the town of Zillah, Wash., was founded and named after her. In later years she was an active member of the Women's Republican Club of New York and a member of the Colonial Dames of America.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Billings; a brother, Prescott Oakes of Seattle; a sister, Mrs. Lawrence Greer of Wilton, Conn.; two grand children, and two great grandchildren.
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HistoryLink.org Essay 5448In early April 1892, a party of Northern Pacific Railway and Yakima Irrigation Company officials visit the recently chosen but as yet unnamed townsite on the north bank of the Yakima River. The party includes Walter Granger (General Superintendent of the Sunnyside Canal), Paul Schulze (a Portland businessman and board member of the Oregon and Transcontinental Company), Thomas F. Oakes (1843-1919), president of the Northern Pacific Railway, his wife Abby (1842-1916), and their 19-year-old daughter Zillah (c.1872-1953). The party debates what to name the new town, and they agree to call it Zillah.
Either Paul Schulze or Walter Granger suggested the name Zillah. Both men had ample motivation to flatter Thomas Oakes, as both owed their employment to his favor. Walter Granger became president of the Zillah Townsite Company. The trustees were Thomas F. Oakes, Paul Schulze, William Hamilton Hall, and C. A. Spofford (acting for railroad tycoon Henry Villard [1835-1900]). Seventy acres of railroad land grant and state-owned land were platted for the town.
Outings to scout future town sites were a common activity in 1892. The previous month The New York Times had carried coverage of a similar outing that had gone awry:
"North Yakima, Washington, March 14 -- President Oakes of the Northern Pacific Railroad and party stopped here Saturday to inspect the company's property. The party left the train and took a drive around the country in a wagon. The party was made up of W. S. Wellen, General Manager of the Northern Pacific; E. V. Smalley, editor of the Northwest Magazine; Walter Oakes and P. A. O'Farrel. The wagon, drawn by four horses, was overturned by the current in a stream which the party attempted to ford. O'Farrel and Oakes reached a shallow part, and Wellen swam ashore, but Smalley was carried into deep water by the current and went under twice before a small boat reached him. He was taken to the train and soon recovered" (The New York Times, March 15, 1892)
Daughter of a Railroad Man
Zillah Oakes was born in Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1872. During her childhood her father Thomas Fletcher Oakes rose through the ranks of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Thomas F. Oakes came west with his family (wife Abby, son Walter, and daughters Grace, Zillah, and Georgiana) in May 1880. At the request of Henry Villard he settled in Portland, where he assumed direction of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. On October 25, 1880, the birth of another son, Prescott, completed the family.
In June 1881, Thomas Oakes became vice-president (under Henry Villard) of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He was charged with closing the 1,000-mile gap in track between Dickinson, Dakota, and Sprague, Washington. In August and September 1881, Oakes surveyed this gap on horseback while his young family waited in Portland.
The Golden Spike
On September 8, 1883, the Golden Spike celebrating the completion of this 1,000 miles of track was driven in Gold Creek, Montana. Train cars of dignitaries arrived from the East and one car arrived from Portland bearing Northern Pacific Railroad family members. It is very likely that Zillah Oakes, then about 10 years old, would have been among the 8,000-10,000 people who gathered to listen to United States General and former President Ulysses S. Grant speak and watch the ceremonial spike be driven.
Once the Northern Pacific had become a transcontinental line it was able to claim the massive land grant guaranteed to it under Congressional charter in mid-1864. This land was then developed (in the Yakima Valley, via the construction of irrigation canals), town sites selected, platted, and sold to settlers.
Zillah's Life and Times
During the mid-1880s the Oakes family made St. Paul, Minnesota, their home. Their large house at 432 Summit Avenue placed them among St. Paul's elite. Great Northern Railroad owner James J. Hill (who would assume control of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1896) was a neighbor. Thomas Oakes crisscrossed the country executing his duties. In 1888 he assumed the Presidency of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the family moved to a mansion ("Vergemere") in Mamaroneck, New York (Westchester County), overlooking the Hudson River.In 1893, within about a year of the naming of the town of Zillah, Zillah Oakes married George C. Rand Jr., a coffee merchant whose family home was in Lawrence/Far Rockaway, Long Island. They moved to London, where their daughters Margery (b. 1896) and Eugenie (b. 1898) were born. The family returned to Long Island about 1903, and in 1907 moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. Zillah and George Rand Jr. separated shortly thereafter, and Zillah, Margery and Eugenie moved to Manhattan. Zillah and Rand subsequently divorced.
Zillah Oakes Rand worked briefly as an interior decorator before marrying New York stockbroker Herbert Ten Broeck Jacquelin on June 3, 1913.
Zillah's daughters Margery and Eugenie made their debut into New York society on November 28, 1914. Margery married Charles K. Clinton of New York and Tuxedo Park on February 26, 1916, and after their divorce married banker Charles M. Billings in 1934. Eugenie married George Valentine Smith of Ardmore, Pennsylvania in 1918, and after their divorce married Robert T. Oliphant.
Herbert Jacquelin died on November 11, 1931, leaving Zillah his entire estate. She lived on in New York City, dying on July 8, 1953, at age 82.
Zillah Oakes' father exemplified the powerful elite that built the empire of the American West and through their efforts made the desert bloom. The town of Zillah, and Zillah Oakes' brief public moment on the stage of history, form a small but enduring link in the chain of the Western Empire her father Thomas built.
The town, which was incorporated in 1911, is small enough that every public institution (middle school, high school, library, cemetery) bears Zillah's name.The Oakes in the Northwest
Zillah Oakes probably never revisited the town that was named for her. Her parents made Seattle their home for the final years of their life, however, and her brothers Walter (1864-1911) and Prescott (1880-1967) were prominent Seattle businessmen. All of these, and other Oakes descendants as well, are buried in Seattle's Lake View Cemetery.
It is most likely that Zillah visited Seattle through the years, riding the Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited passenger train across the rails her father built. If this was so, she would have passed close to but not through the town of Zillah. The town gained a railroad station in 1907, to serve a new branch line from Sunnyside Junction near Toppenish. The line carried fruit from Zillah's rich fields 20 miles to Sunnyside, where it was shipped worldwide. The depot was demolished in September 1975.
For Zillah Oakes, however, the memory of that April afternoon 61 years before when a town was named for her in deference to her beauty and family connections endured: her New York Times obituary stated: "During the period her father was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the town of Zillah, Wash. was founded and named after her" (The New York Times July 9, 1953).
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New York Passenger Lists
Ship St. Paul, from Southampton, England, arrived 26 Oct 1895
Ship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, from Southampton, England, arrived 22 Sep 1912
Ship Paris, from Le Havre, France, arrived 14, Oct 1925
Marriage Notes for George Curtis Rand and Zillah Oakes
MARRIAGE: Aberdeen Daily News
May 22, 1893New York, May 20 - A message has been recieved at the Waldorf announcing the marriage Wednesday afternoon of Miss Zilla Oakes, daughter of Thomas F. Oakes, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad to George Curtis Rand Jr., of Lawrence R. I. (siv L.I.)
New York Passenger List
Ship Celtic, from Liverpool, England, arrived 25 Jul 1908
Ship New York, from Liverpool, England, arrived 24 Sep 1914
Ship Olympic, from Cherbourg, France, arrived 4 Oct 1932
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New York Times
September 12, 1962Francke - Marian Rand, Sept. 10, in her 89th year, widow of Albert Francke, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George C. Rand; survived by a brother, Erving H. Rand; a son, Albert Francke Jr.; two grandchildren, Mrs. Frederick G. Cammann and Alfred Francke 3d, and twogreat grandchildren.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Celtic, from Liverpool, England, arrived 25 Jul 1908
Ship Olympic, from Cherbourg, France, arrived 4 Oct 1932
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New York Times
March 15, 1945Francke - Albert. at his home, Lawrence, L. I., after a long illness, husband of Marian Rand Francke, father of Albert Francke Jr. and brother of Rosalie Francke.
Marriage Notes for Marian Doane Rand and Albert Francke
MARRIAGE: New York Times
18 Oct 1898The second large country wedding of the Autumn season - that of Mr. Albert Francks and Miss Marion Rand - will be celebrated today at Lawrence, L.I., and a number of New Yorkers will go down for the affair, as Mr. Francke has a wide circle of friends, particularly in the hunting set, and Miss Rand is one of the prettiest of recent debutantes. The best man will be Mr. Fred W. Jones, and the ushers, Messrs. J. W. Doane, Jr., L. B. Rand, S. H. Pearce, O. S. Campbell, Charles H. Mapes, and W. H. Judson. The bridesmaids will be Miss Francke, Miss Clara Moss, Miss Mary Harper, Miss Anita Nelson, and Miss Lila Laughlin. Miss Dorothy Rand will be maid of honor.
The reception will be at Mr. Rand's fine country house at Lawrence, and will be a crowded and gay affair, for the Cedarhurst colony, as it is known, thoroughly understands how to enjoy itself when it has so good an excuse as a wedding of two such popular young people as Mr. Francke and Miss Rand.
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New York Times
19 Oct 1898Mr. Albert Francke and Miss Marian Rand were married yesterdayoon, at Far Rockaway, L. I.. Miss Dorothy Rand was maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Miss Francke, Miss Clara Moss, Miss Mary Harper, Miss Anita Nelson, and Miss Lila Laughlin.Mr. Fred W. Jones was best man and the ushers were Messrs. J. W. Doane, Jr., L. B. Rand, S. H. Pearce, O. S. Campbell, Charles H. Mapes, and W. H. Judson. The Rev. S. W. Sayre performed the ceremony.
The bride wore a heavy white satin gown trimmed with point lace. Her veil of tulle was caught to her hair with orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley. The maid of honor was gowned in white chiffon, as were the bridesmaids. Her hair was ornamented with white ribbon. The bridesmaids wore instead hats of white chiffon, turned back from their faces and finished with white tips. The only touch of color in their costumes was a crushed belt of soft green silk, knotted at the side.
The decorations of the house were all furnished from Mr. Rand's conservatories. Ferns, palms, chrysanthemums, and cosmos were banked in every conceivable nook. The scheme of color in the drawing room, where the ceremony occurred, was white and green. Pink was the prevailing tint in the breakfast room. A Hungarian band furnished music during the afternoon, and dancing was indulged in by the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Francke left on the late afternoon train for a short honeymoon trip.
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New York Times
15 Nov 1898
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Francke, who were married some weeks ago at Cedarhurst, L.I., have taken an apartment for the season at Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. Next summer they will go to Cedarhurst, where Mrs. Francke's father, Mr. George C. Rand, President of the Rockaway Hunt Club, intends building a home for them.
New York Passenger List
Ship New York, from Liverpool, England, arrived 24 Sep 1914
Ship Caronia, from Liverpool Engand, arrived 15 Aug 1920
Ship Majestic, from Southampton, England, arrived 28 Jul 1931
Ship Normandie, from Southampton, England, arrived 12 Oct 1936
Ship Caronia, from Southampton Engand, arrived 15 Sep 1951
Ship S. S. United States, from Le Havre, France, arrived 2 Sep 1952
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New York Times
April 29, 1985Francke - Albert Jr., 82, at home in Bridgehampton, NY. Husband of the late Eleanor F. Francke.
Devoted father of Nora F. Cammann and Albert Francke III. Father in law of Frederick G. Cammann and loving grandfather of Peter F. and Philip B. Cammann, Caitlan B. and Tapp F. Francke, and Andrew C. MacKenzie.
New York Passenger List
Ship Majestic, from Southampton, England, arrived 28 Jul 1931
Ship Normandie, from Southampton, England, arrived 12 Oct 1936
Ship Caronia, from Southampton Engand, arrived 15 Sep 1951
Ship S. S. United State, from Le Havre, France, arrived 2 Sep 1952
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New York Times
December 30, 1983Francke - Eleanor F. of Ocean Road, Bridgehampton and New York on Dec. 30, 1983 at Southampton Hospital. Beloved wife of Albert Francke Jr.; devoted mother of Nora F. Cammann and Albert Francke, III; also survived by five grandchildren.
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New York Times
January 3, 1984Francke - Eleanor FitzGerald on December 30, 1983 of Bridgehampton and New York. Beloved wife of Albert Francke Jr.; mother of Nora F. Cammann and Albert Francke, III; grandmother of Peter F. Cammann, Caitlan B. Francke, Tapp F. Francke and Andrew C. Mackenzie.
Marriage Notes for Albert Francke and Eleanor Fitzgerald
MARRIAGE: New York Times
May 22, 1931Miss Eleanor Fitzgerald, daughter of Harold Fitzgerald of 127 East Fifty-sixth Street, will be
married to Alber Francke Jr.., son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Francke of Lawrence, L. I., on the afternoon of June 16. Their marriage will take place in St. Bartholomew's Church and following the ceremony, there will be a reception following.
31279. Laurance Blanchard Rand
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Baltic arrived New York from Liverpool, 30 Aug 1907
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New York Times
February 5, 1914Laurance Blanchard Rand, a real estate dealer of 481 Fifth Avenue, husband of Kate Stanton Richardson and son of the late George Curtis Rand and Eugenia Blanchard, died yesterday at his home in Cedarhurst, L.I. He had been ill for nine months, Mr. Rand was 32 years old and is survived by his widow and son.
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Yale University obituaryLaurance Blanchard Rand, son of George Curtis and Eugenia Isabel (Blanchard) Rand was born February 13, 1881, in New York City. He was prepared for college at the Pomfret School, Pomfret, Conn.
After graduation he spent the summer abroad, and on his return in September, went into the banking business with Baring, Magoun & Co. in New York City. . Three years later he became associated in the real estate and banking business with his classmate and brother-in-law, Payson Mcl. Merrill, and continued in this connection until ill health compelled him to give up active work.
After an illness of nine months from a complication of diseases, Mr. Rand died at his home in Cedarhurst, Long Island, N.Y., February 4, 1914, in the 33rd year of his age. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He married in New York City July 2, 1907, Kate Stanton Richardson, daughter of Samuel William Richardson, who survives him with a son. He also leaves three brothers, two of whom graduated from College in 1911 and 1912 respectively, and the other was a non-graduate member of the Class of 1909.
NewYork Passenger Lists
Ship Baltic, from Liverpool, England, arrived 30 Aug 1907
Ship Laconia, from Liverpool, England, arrived 10 Aug 1925
Ship Reliance, from New York, arrived 2 Jan 1928
Ship Berengaria, from Southampton, England, arrived 2 Sep 1932
Ship Berengaria, from Southampton, England, arrived 21 Sep 1934
Ship Queen Mary, from Southampton, England, arrived 21 Sep 1936
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New York Times
September 9, 1968Rand - Kate Stanton Richardson, on September 7, 1968, widow of Laurance B. Rand, mother of Laurance B. Rand Jr., grandmother of Leigh Rand Jenkins and Laurance B. Rand III, in her 85th year.
Marriage Notes for Laurance Blanchard Rand and Kate Stanton Richardson
MARRIAGE: New York Times
July 3, 1907Rand - Richardson - On Tuesday, July 2, by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. Kate Stanton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Richardson, to Laurance Blanchard Rand.
54102. Laurence Blanchard Rand
NewYork Passenger Lists
Ship Laconia, from Liverpool, England, arrived 10 Aug 1925
Ship Reliance, from New York, arrived 2 Jan 1928
Ship Berengaria, from Southampton, England, arrived 2 Sep 1932
Ship Berengaria, from Southampton, England, arrived 21 Sep 1934
Ship Queen Mary, from Southampton, England, arrived 21 Sep 1936
Ship Chiriqui, from Kingston, Jamaica, arrived 30 Nov. 1939
Ship Liberte, from Southampton, England, arrived 28 May 1951
Pan American World Airways, from Hamilton, Bermuda, arrived Idelewild, 19 Apr 1953
Pan American World Airways, from London, England, arrived Idelewild, 31 Jul 1955
British Overseas Airways Co., from Nassau, Bahamas, arrived 22 Feb 1956
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Chiriqui, from Kingston, Jamaica, arrived 30 Nov. 1939
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New York Times
August 1, 1988Kellam - Margaret (Rives). Of East Chatham, July 29, 1988. Wife of Robert C. Kellam; mother of Mrs. David (Leigh) Jenkins of New York City; Lawrence B. Rand III, of Sharon, Conn. and Bayard Kellam of Sheffield, Mass. Daughter of Mrs. Helen (Hunt) Rives and the late F. Bayard Rives. Sister of George L. Rives, of Saint Simons, Ga. Also survived by seven grandchildren.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Liberte, from Southampton, England, arrived 28 May 1951
Pan American World Airways, from Hamilton, Bermuda, arrived Idelewild, 19 Apr 1953
British Overseas Airways Co., from Nassau, Bahamas, arrived 22 Feb 1956
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New York Times
November 17, 1974Rand - Audrey Joan, on May (sic) 15, 1974, beloved eife of Laurance B. Rand, daughter of Blanche D. Ratner and devoted stepmother of Leigh R. Jenkins and Laurance Rand Third.
New York Times
October 3, 1975Rand - Elizabeth Ballard Doubleday, of Southport, Conn, on Sept. 30, 1975, In London, wife of Laurancr B. Rand, mother of James M. Doubleday Jr. and George Doubleday 2d, sister of Mrs. Raimond Cerf, survived by four grandchildren.
New York Passenger lists
Ship Celtic, from Liverpool, arrived 29 May 1905
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New York Times
March 31, 1920Merrill - On Tuesday, March 30, at the residence of her father-in-law, Charles E. Merrill, 130 East 67th St., New York City, Dorothy Rand Merrill, wife of Payson McLane Merrill and daughter of Eugenie B. and the late George Curtis Rand.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Aquitania, from Southampton, arrived New York 22 May 1931
Ship Queen of Bermuda, from Hamilton, Bermuda, arrived 18 Mar 1935
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New York Times
March 27, 1966MERRILL - Payson McL., of Locust Valley, on March 24, 1966, husband of Cornelia Lee Ladd, father of Mrs. Samuel Ferguson Jr. and the late Peter Merrill
Marriage Notes for Eugenia Dorothy Rand and Payson Mclane Merrill
MARRIAGE: New York Times
June 5, 1910One of the most important of the out-of-town weddings last Wednesday was that of Miss Dorothy Rand, a daughter pf Mrs. George Curtis Rand, and Payson McLane Merrill of New York City, which took place at St. John's Episcopal Church, Far Rockaway.
The bride wore a trained white satin gown trimmed with rose point, and the tulle vail had a wide border of rose point. She carried lillies of the valley and white orchids.
Miss Margery Oakes Rand and Miss Eugenie Oakes Rand, the flower girls, and her only attendants, were in white lace-trimmed lingere frocks topped by white lingere hats trimmed with blue ribbon and pink roses. They carried nosegays of forget-me-nots, moss roses, and marguerites set in gauze frills.
John de Koven Alsop was Mr. Merril's best man, and the ushers were Laurance Blanchard Rand, William Blanchard Rand, Charles E. Merrill Jr., a brother of the bridegroom; Alfred F. Ferguson, Ellis Adams, Franklin B. Lord, Grenville Parker, and George Page Ely. The reception was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Francke, son-in-lawa and daughter of Mrs. Rand, at Lawrence, L.I.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Aquitania, from Southampton, arrived New York 22 May 1931
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The Weston Town Crier (MA)
December 13, 2007ESSEX, Conn. - Marian Merrill Ferguson of Essex, Conn., died peacefully at the age of 94 on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007. She was the daughter of the late Dorothy Rand and Payson McLean Merrill of Locust Valley, N.Y., and the widow of Samuel Ferguson of Hartford and Bloomfield, Conn.
Affectionately known as Groggy, she is survived by her three daughters, Jane Gardiner Ferguson of West Barnstable, Dorothy Merrill Corbiere of Weston, and Marian Rand Ferguson and her husband Richard Hawkins of Barnstable, as well as eight grandchildren, two great-grand children, and her goddaughter Ellen Emmet Rand.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Toloa, from Cristobal, Panama Zone, Panama, arrived 10 Mar 1924
Ship Vestris, from Bridgetown, Barbados, arrived 12 Mar 1926
Ship Georgic, from Nassau, Bahamas, arrived 1 April 1935
Ship Carinthia, from Nassau, Bahamas, arrived 20 Mar 1936
Ship Empress of Australia, from Nassau, Bahamas, arrived 14 Apr 1938
Ship Evangeline, from Nassau, Bahamas, arrived 15 Jul 1948
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New York Times
July 11, 1956William Blanchard Rand, who formerly owned a large farm in Salisbury, Conn., died Monday in Nassaau, the Bahamas, after a long illness. His age was 70. He had lived in the Bahamas for the last ten years.
Mr. Rand's wife, Mrs. Ellen Emmett Rand, who died in December 1941, was a portrait painter. She and Mr. Rand were the parents of Christopher Temple Emmett Rand, author and newspaper man; William Blanchard Rand Jr., general freight traffic manager of the United States Lines., and John Alsop Rand.
Also surviving are a brother, Irving H. Rand, and a sister, Mrs. Albert Francke.
New York Times
December 19, 1941Mrs. Ellen Emmett Rand, portait painter, who painted the official portait of President Roosevelt in 1933-34, which was selected for the White House, died here yesterday at the age of 65. She lived in Salisbury, Conn. and had studios at 320 East Fifty-seventh Street.
Mrs. Rand, the wife of William Blanchard Rand, was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Christopher Temple Emmett and Ellen Temple Emmett. She was the grand-daughter of Robert Temple Emmett and a great-granddaughter of Thomas Addis Emmett, brother of Thomas Addis Emmett, the Irish Patriot, and one time New York State Attorney General.
She began the study of art in 1890 with Dennis Bunker in Boston. She later studied for two years under William M. Chase and then attended the Art Students League of New York, where she recieved instruction from Robert Reid and others. During 1896-1890 she worked in the studio of Frederick MacMonnies in Paris.
In the latter period Mrs, Rand attained success as a portrait painter and made portraits of several eminent persons in England. She opened a studio in this city in 1900, and created much favorable comment with a "one-man" show of her work in New York in 1902 and another four years later, of another ninety portraits in Boston.
Her portrait of Augustus Saint-ardens is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her painting of the President, which attracted considerable comment because it depicts him without a smile, was formally approved by the President's late mother and by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"The President was a very good subject, and a very willing sitter," Mrs. Rand said after she finished the work. "All told, we had about eight sittings, both in Washington and Hyde Park. Sometimes he recieved callers and conferred during the sittings, but I liked that. It made for a more natural expression. He was really very patient about It."
Mrs. Rand, whose oil portrait of the late William Travers Jerome was presented to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in 1937 for hanging in the association's building at 42 West Forty-fourth Street, had many other notable commissions.
Among the latter were portraits of Bishops William Lawrence, Henry C. Potter, David H. Greer and Ernest M. Stires; William James Elihu Root, and Henry L. Stimson for the State Department; The rev. Endicott Peabody, Alfred L. Ripley, United States Senator Frederic C. Walcott, George W. Wickersham, Peter B. Olney, John H. Trumbull, Daniel Willard, Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt (now Mrs. Paul Fitz Simmons), Miss Charlotte Noland and Miss Maria B. Chapin.
She was the winner of many honors and medals, among them a bronze medal at the Buenos Aries Expoisition in 1910 for "Portrait of Frederick MacMonnies"; a silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1914 for "Portrait of Susan Mtecalf"; a gold medal at the Panima Pacific Exposition in 1915 for "In the Studio"; the Beck Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1922 for "Portait of Judge Donald T. Warner," and the Gould Prize of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculpters in 1927 for "Portait of Sophie Borie."
Besides her husband, to whom she was married on May 6, 1911, she leaves three sons, Christopher Temple Emmett Rand, William Blanchard Rand, and John Alsop Rand.
54105. Christopher Temple Emmett Rand
18 January 2002
Boston University
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Father-son papers dramatize 20th-century China turmoil
By Hope GreenChristopher Rand never was one to be fenced in. Raised in Salisbury, Conn., he was the son of two independent-minded souls: William Blanchard Rand, a handsome, hard-drinking, polo-playing gentleman farmer who lost most of his inheritance in the Depression, and Ellen Emmet Rand, one of the nation's foremost portrait artists of her time. His mother was able to support the family by painting prominent Yankees, commuting to her studio in New York City.
Christopher spent much of his childhood exploring the hilly countryside of Connecticut's rural Litchfield County, and listening agape as hunters and fishermen regaled him with adventure stories.
"Always a loner" is how his son Peter Rand, a College of Communication preceptor, describes his father in the preface to his 1995 book China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution. The book is based partly on research materials that are now stored in BU's Department of Special Collections, where, BU archivists say, the father and son have provided a trove of research fodder for novelists and historians.
In China Hands, Rand tells how his father was a misfit in boarding school and at Yale, and wanderlust prevented him from settling comfortably into suburban life. In 1943, he eagerly left his reporting job at the San Francisco Chronicle to become a China correspondent for the U.S. Office of War Information. By then he had a wife and four children, including Peter, who was born in 1942.
"It was as though my father once and for all wanted to burst out of his own history," writes Rand, "in order to expand into a much greater life." After the war, his father became a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, reporting on the Chinese civil war and the 1949 Communist revolution, led by Mao Tse-tung. Subsequently he spent two decades as a roving foreign correspondent for the New Yorker, often traveling on foot to document indigenous peoples on several continents, and at one point living with lepers in the Belgian Congo.
The New Yorker published some of his articles about far-flung places and peoples as a series; these later were compiled into book form. In one book, he also made a cultural study of Cambridge, Mass., examining the connections that were formed during the early 1960s between academia and the blossoming Route 128 computer industry. He donated many artifacts from this phase of his career to Special Collections a few years before committing suicide in 1968.
Absent from the sizable assortment of book manuscripts the noted journalist gave BU were any accounts of his experiences in China. Years later, Rand contributed the materials that filled in the gaps of his father's story.
New Yorker correspondent Christopher Rand took these snapshots in Kazakhstan during the 1950s or 1960s: (clockwise from top left) two men at a meal; a man and two boys inside a tent filled with chests, saddles, quilts, and rugs; a woman weaving; and a Kazakh family. Photos courtesy of Special Collections
Another adventurer
Like his father, Rand also spent time traveling solo in remote places. Beginning at age 20, he lived in East Africa and Ethiopia for three years. "I knew my father had been a great traveler and had grown enormously as a result," he says, "so I was not afraid to do that myself. It was one of the great experiences of my life."
When Rand returned home to New York, he used much of the material from his travels as inspiration for his first novel, Firestorm, published a year after his father's death. In a letter to Rand, novelist Paul Bowles called it "one of the best first novels I've read." But taking his father's advice, Rand also wrote freelance articles while roaming through Africa, and although he kept writing novels, he also developed an interest in nonfiction.
He set out to write China Hands, he says, as part of an inquiry into what had first lured his father so far from their California home. His project was to chronicle the careers of journalists who lived and worked in China during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Many of these correspondents, among them such luminaries as Edgar Snow, Theodore White, and Harold Isaacs, became passionately devoted to the plight of the Chinese people. Christopher Rand was fairly apolitical, Peter Rand says, but like his fellow scribes was restless, romantic, and generally obsessed with China.
In the course of his research, the younger Rand found in a storage warehouse a stash of letters, clippings of his father's newspaper articles, diaries, and papers and reports relating to his work for the war office -- many of which now reside in the BU archives.
"I got very deeply drawn into a subject my father cared very much about," Rand says, "but interestingly enough had not written about for publication in the New Yorker, and none of it came out in his books, just in occasional pieces."
Christopher Rand chose to entrust his personal papers to BU partly because his daughter Mary attended the school as an undergraduate in the early 1960s, although she did not complete her education here. Howard Gotlieb, director of Special Collections, encouraged Peter Rand to start donating his papers when he was only 27 years old. Although extremely flattered, Rand declined at first. But by 1991, when he and his wife moved to Belmont, Mass., from New York City, he was in the midst of working on China Hands and decided he had enough material of substance to contribute, including drafts, novels, and fictional stories. By then he had taught writing for 15 years at Columbia University, where he also researched modern Chinese history as an associate at the East Asian Institute.
He has edited two books by Chinese writers and is working on a third, The Prison Memory of Dai Quing, about a woman dissident and outspoken journalist. The book recalls the student movement that ended in the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 and Dai Quing's subsequent imprisonment. He's also putting together another work of nonfiction, the story of a young American man who was arrested and tried by the British at the beginning of World War II while working in the American Embassy in London. In BU's archives he is finding a good deal of material for this book.
"History, journalism, and fiction all intersect at Special Collections," Rand says. "Howard Gotlieb has been very astute at getting the works of journalists and fiction writers all under the same roof."
The Department of Special Collections at Boston University, located in the Mugar Memorial Library, is one of the largest repositories of documents, memorabilia, and books chronicling the lives and careers of important writers, artists, performers, and public figures of the past century. The collection, which was started in 1963, includes archival material and rare books dating back to the 16th century. Contemporary archives now contain private papers and artifacts of 1,700 notable 20th-century figures.
These vast holdings offer a rich portrait of our time -- a living history as revealed through the accomplishments and passions of the century's great thinkers, politicians, and personalities -- as well as provide a rich source of research material for future articles, dissertations, and books of history and scholarship. Individual collections include manuscripts and typescripts in all states and drafts, galleys, notes, notebooks, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, reviews, photographs, and personal and professional correspondence, as well as various editions of published works.
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New York Times
September 30, 1968Rand - Christopher, beloved father of Christopher, Jr., Richard A., Mary, Peter, and Diana, loving grandfather of Leila, dear brother of William B. and John A. Service to be held Tuesday, Oct. 1, 3 PM, St. John's Episcopal Church, Salisbury, Conn. Please omit flowers,
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New York Times
September 27, 1968Christopher Rand, a foreign correspondent and restless reporter of the domestic scene, who found his subjects everywhere and his home nowhere, fell or jumped to his death yesterday from the window of his hotel room in Mexico City's Hotel Geneve. He was 56 years old.
He had been suffering from depression, and earlier attempted suicide, in Lima, Peru, by slashing his wrists.
Mr. Rand, a staff member of The New Yorker magazine since 1951, was equally adept at reporting on places and on people - famaliar and strange. Less concerned with big pictures than with details, he closely inspected Asian personalities, the Puerto Rican community in New York, Greek monks, Christmas in Jerusalem, science in Massachusetts and moral integrity in Connecticut.
Christopher Temple Emmett Rand's roots were in New England, though he was born in New York - where his family lived only briefly. His father was a gentleman farmer in Salisbury, Conn., and his mother was a prosperous portrait painter.
During the last 16 years Mr. Rand had returned from his foreign travels to Salisbury for brief periods and even wrote a series of essays recording the incursions there of what he called the Welfare State. The essays were collected as "The Changing Landscape: Salisbury, Connecticut" and published last March.
U.S. Aide in China
The work was a far cry from his first journalistic experience as a copy boy at Time Inc. in New York. He then helped found a San Francisco magazine called The Coast and when that foundered he went to work for the San Francisco Chronicle. From 1943 to the end of World War II he was with the Office of War Information in China.
After the war he went to Japan, and on to Korea to cover the war there. He shared a George Polk award for foreign reporting during 1949 for a series in the Herald Tribune entitled "Asia's Red Riddle."
Like many reporters, Mr. Rand had his problems with officers on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who commanded allied forces during the Korean War.
In 1951 Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, who had served as General MacArthur's chief of intelligence, accused Mr. Rand, six other war correspondents and three news magazines of having created "an atmosphere of tension, uneasiness and distrust between Tokyo and Washington" through "biased, prejudiced and inaccurate" coverage of the war.
The others were Homer Bigart, Hanson W. Baldwin, Hal Boyle, Drew Pearson, and Joseph Alsop - and they vigorously countered the general's contentions. Falling out with the Herald over other issues, Mr. Rand began writing on a regular basis for The New Yorker, for which he had written his first article in 1947 - and for which he was to write 64 more.
William Shawn, editor of the magazine, recalled him as "a serious man, whose working method was to absorb information slowly but deeply, and to write slowly and meticulously and thoughtfully."
"He took into himself the spirit of whatever place or people he chose to write about," he added. "Facts were important, but only to convey the essence and the aura and some fragment of the interior truth of what he was observing."
Mr. Rand, not one to relish experience at second hand, smoked opium in Hong Kong, befriended guerillas in Afghanistan and lived with lepers in the Belgian Congo. In China he was once held at gunpoint by five youths, but it was all a mistake: the students thought he was Russian.
He did not look particularly Russian, with round face, close cropped blond hair, mustache (off and on) and a slow, steady stride that rarely faltered. He once tramped 100 miles through Sinkiang Province to escape from pursuing Communist Chinese troops. Through the trials of war reporting and the hazards of primitive living, Mr. Rand sought a faith and a God. Having given up on Christianity, he became a Buddhist, while he was in Korea.
He was fascinated with the forms of nature (he could recognize birds by their songs), and he believed in reincarnation. Observing a series of taboos, in his Buddhist period he refrained from eating meat or eggs. During the Korean war he flew in unheated aircraft wearing light clothing because he would not touch leather or wear a leather jacket. His communion with the underprivileged was a matter of conscious decision: in India he kept candy in his pockets so that he would turn no beggar away empty handed.
During the last eight months he had been doing research on Mexico and its preperations for the forthcoming Olympics.
For all his foriegn experience - he reported from every continent except Australia - Mr. Rand never spoke any language except English.
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On Graduation from Yale in 1934, Mr. Rand married Margaret Aldrich. They were divorced in 1952. He married Miriam Ervin in 1961. They were divorced a year later.Mr. Rand is survived by five children of his first marriage, Christopher Temple Emmett Rand Jr.; Richard Aldrich Rand; and Miss Mary Rand, twins : Payson Merrill Rand and Miss Diana Rand, and two brothers, William Blanchard Rand and John Alsop Rand.
The body is being flown home and burial will take place early next week in Salisbury.
Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Bremen, from Southsmpton, England, arrived 23 Aug 1934
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New York Times
April 28, 2011DeMOTT--Margaret Aldrich, on April 24, at the age of 100, in Montecito, California.
Maddie was the daughter of Richard Aldrich, the eminent New York Times music critic, and Margaret Chanler Aldrich, and sister of the late Richard Chanler Aldrich.
Survivors include her sons Christopher Rand, Richard Rand, Peter Rand, her daughter Diana Rand Fairclough, eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
She is predeceased by her daughter Mary Rand Johnson.
Maddie spent her childhood on West 74th Street in New York City, and at Rokeby, the family farm on the Hudson in Dutchess County. A graduate of Vassar College, pianist and Francophile, she was also an accomplished equestrienne who rode to hounds with the Chatham Hunt, where she met her first husband, Christopher Rand, a Yale undergraduate at the time, who later earned renown as a journalist and New Yorker correspondent.
Maddie DeMott was a woman who attracted a great many loving friends and admirers all through her life wherever she made her home, on the West Coast, in San Francisco and Santa Barbara, and abroad, in Paris and Nairobi, Kenya. Maddie was an avid tennis player.
For over a decade she was happily married to Byron DeMott, a beloved Santa Barbara tennis pro, with whom Maddie played an active role in the Southern California tennis world of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was a self-styled adventurer.
In the years following Byron's premature death in 1963, Maddie traveled to Africa, where she lived and worked for twenty years as the founder of the Flying Doctor's Society, a fundraising arm of the African Medical Research Foundation. She was a woman of sparkling wit and modesty who took delight in the name bestowed upon her by a British television documentary titled "The Angel of Africa." Maddie will be missed by her extended family and all those who knew and worked with her, including the staff of the Casa Dorinda, where she spent the last years of her eventful, adventurous life.
Marriage Notes for Christopher Temple Emmett Rand and Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich
MARRIAGE: New York Times
June 10, 1934Kingston, N. Y., June 9. - Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Richard Aldrich, of Barrytown and New York City, and Christopher Temple Emmett Rand of Salisbury, Conn., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Blanchard Rand were married today at Christ Church, Red Hook, by the Rev. Paul Huntington, rector.
A reception was held at Rokeby, the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich at Barryton. Leila Delano, daughter od Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Delano, was maid of honor, and Rosilla Hornblower, Marian Merrill and Elizabeth Meyer were bridesmaids. Mr. Rand had his brother, William B. Rand Jr., as best man. Ushers were John A. Rand, also a brother; Winthrop Emmett, a cousin; Richard Chandler Aldrich, a brother of the bride; Donald Ryan, S. E. R. Whitman, Peter Merrill and John Jenkins.
The bride, a descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, studied at Sorbonne in Paris and was graduated from Vassar College in the class of '33. She is well known as a horsewoman and is a member of the Rumbout Riding and Hunt Club of Dutchess County. Mr. Rand, a descendant of Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot, was graduated from Groton School and is a senior at Yale.
Star-Gazette
June 23, 1975Glen Cpve (AP) - A memorial service is planned here Tuesday for William B. Rand, former president of United State Lines who died Friday in Community Hospital. He was 62.
Rand joined the company in 1946 and worked himself up to president by 1961. He retired in 1966. Under his direction, the line put 16 new freighters into its trans-Atlantic and other routes. He helped prepare the entry into service of the giant liner United States, which in 1952 broke speed records for Atlantic crossings in both directions.
New York Times
December 8, 1984John Alsop Rand, a lawyer and former member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, died Thursday at Sharon (Conn.) Hospital. He was 70 years old and lived in Salisbury, Conn.
Mr. Rand was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1955 and had practiced law since then. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1959 and 1961 and continued to be active in Republican politics.
He was born in New York City, the son of William Blanchard Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand, a portraitist. Mr. Rand graduated from Yale College in 1936, the Cornell Agricultural College in 1938 and the University of Connecticut Law School in 1955. He served in the 613th Field Artillery Batallion in World War II. During the war, he helped escort 900 mules from Burma to China. He was a captain at the war's end and was awarded a bronze star. For 11 years, he was general manager of Salisbury Farms Inc.
Surviving are his wife, the former Charlotte Hubbard Young; three children, Curtis, Ellen Emmet Garcia and Rosina Warner, and six grandchildren
New York Times
December 28, 1953Rand, Curtis Gordon, on Dec. 26, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, at his home in Pamplin, Va., husband of Pearl Baldwin, son of the late George Curtis Rand and Eugenie Blanchard, father of Alice Durant and George Curtis Rand.
New York Times
May 21, 1977Rand - Alice Kobbe, on May 18, aged 88 years, in Fort Meyers, Fla., devoted mother of George C. Rand of Owls Head, Me. and Alice Rand Durant, of Maples, Fla.; also survived by three grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Service and interment private.
Marriage Notes for George Curtis Rand and Eleanor Post Close
MARRIAGE: New York Times
May 27, 1934Roslyn, L. I., May 26 - Mrs. Eleanor Hutton Sturgis Gautier was married to George Curtis Rand this afternoon at Hillwood, the country home of her stfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Hutton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Stockman, pastor of Christ Church, New York, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Saxon, also of that church. Only members of the family and a few friends were present.
The bride dispensed with attendants. Laurance B. Rand was best man. The couple will pass the Summer traveling in Europe and on their return will make their home in New York.
Mrs. Gautier is the daughter of Mrs. Hutton and of Edward B. Close of Paris. She is the granddaughter of the late C. W. Post and sister of Mrs. Thomas wells Durant. This is her third marriage. She was first married to Preston Sturges, playwright, and subsequently they were divorced. She was married to Etienne Marie Robert Gautier of Paris in April 1933, in France. They were divorced recently. The bride was introduced to society in New York in 1927 and the next year was presented at court in Buckingham Palace, London.Mr. Rand is the son of Mrs, Kobbe Rand and brother of Mrs. Paul Morton Smith. He is a grandson of the late George C. Rand and is nephew of Mr. and Mrs. William Fellows Morgan. He is a member of the Harvard Club, Fly Club, and the Aviation Country Club.
Marriage Notes for Alice Kobbe Rand and Paul Morton Smith
MARRIAGE: New York Times
May 7, 1932Miss Alice Kobbe Rand, daughter of Mrs. Alice K. Rand of 108 East Eighty-second Street, was married yesterday afternoon to Paul Morton Smith, son of Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of 1 Sutton Place South.
The marriage comes as a surprise to their many friends in this city, as no announcement had been made, and Mr. Smith's former wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Shevlin Smith, but recently obtained a divorce in Reno.
The Rev. Lon Ray Call, associate pastor of the Community Church, officiated at the ceremony, which was held at 3 o'clock in Mrs. Sabins home in the presence of members of the families.
The bride is a granddaughter of Mrs. George C. Kobbe and of the late Mr. Kobbe, who was for many years a member of the law firm of Roosevelt and Kobbe of this city.
She is a niece of George L. Kobbe, Mrs. Peter E. Farnum and Miss Martha L. Kobbe, all of this city. She is the daughter of Curtis G. Rand and a sister of George C. Rand and was educated at Miss Chapin's and the Ethel Walker schools.
Mr. Smith and his former wife were married in 1928 while he was a Yale student. Their engagement had been announced four days before. He is a grandson of the late Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy under President Roosevelt.
Marriage Notes for Alice Kobbe Rand and John Durant
MARRIAGE: New York Times
August 4, 1942Mrs. Kobbe Rand of 28East Sixty-third Street has announced the engagement and approaching marriage of he daughter, Mrs. Alice Rand Smith to John Durant, son of Harry Durant of Guilford, Conn., and Mrs. Durant of Beverly Hills, Calif. The marriage will take place soon.
Mrs. Smith is a granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George C. Kobbe and of the late Mr. and Mrs. George C. Rand.
Mr. Durant, who is the brother of Thomas W. Durant, is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and belongs to the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York. He was graduated from Yale in 1925.
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Colon, from Cristobal, Canal Zone, Panama, arrived 1 Apr 1912
Marriage Notes for Erving Hascall Rand and Sarah Helen Verser
MARRIAGE: New York Times
August 26, 1916The marriage is announced in these columns today of Sarah Helen Verser and Erving H. Rand, which took place on Tuesday in Jennings, Va.
Mr. Rand is a son of Mrs. George C. Rand of Lawrence, L.I., and a graduate of Yale clase of '11. His father who died in 1907, was a prominent merchant of this city and for many years President of the Rockaway Hunt Club.
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
January 29, 2011CREWE - Foote, Mrs. Sarah Blanchard Rand, 93, a retired teacher in the Nottoway County school system, widow of James Leonard Foote.
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Memorial
Hamner-McMillan Funeral HomeSarah Blanchard Rand Foote, age 93, of Crewe, the widow of James Leonard Foote, died Thurs January 27 2011,
Predeceased also by her parents, Erving H. and Helen Verser Rand; brother, Erving H. Rand and sister-in-law, Norma S. Rand.
She is survived by four sons, James L., Jr. and wife, Rosie of Sebring, FL; William Henry Foote of Richmond; Erving W. and wife, Lynne of Midlothian; Allan F. and wife, Sandra of Chester; nine grandchildren, Kim and husband, Mark Garrison of Cody, Wyoming; Troy and wife, Kelli of Spotsylvania; Jeffrey Foote of Pompano Beach, FL; Wendy and husband, Eric Tate of Virginia Beach; Shannon Foote of Chester; William H. and wife, Lauren of Alexandria; Elaine and husband, Alexander Hendrick of Charlottesville; Erin Foote of Blacksburg; and Wesley Foote of Chester.
Also surviving are ten great-grandchildren, Katherine and Courtney Garrison, Dallas Foote and Chris Gazalaski, Donovan and Brandon Tate, Eliza and Olivia Hendrick; Anna and William Henry IV; and her brother, William V. Rand of Crewe and sister-in-law, Barbara Rand of NC.
A member of Crewe Baptist Church since childhood, Mrs. Foote taught for 25 years with the Nottoway County Schools.
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
March 17, 1993Crewe -- James Leonard Foote, 79, a retired railroad conductor, husband of Mrs. Blanchard Rand Foote.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Erving H Rand Jr
Birth Year: 1919
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Virginia
State: Virginia
County or City: Nottoway
Enlistment Date: 14 Jul 1941
Enlistment State: Virginia
Enlistment City: Richmond
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Photographer, News
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 75
Weight: 203
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The Topsail Voice (Hampstead, NC)
September 15, 2010Erving "Sally" H. Rand, Jr., 91, of Hampstead, passed away Sept. 10, 2010, at his residence.
Sally was born Feb. 18, 1919, in Crewe, VA, to the late Erving H. and Helen Verser Rand.
In 1940, he graduated from Fork Union Military Academy. He served in the U.S. Army from 1940 to 1945 in New Guinea and the Philippines. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1950 where he played football and baseball and for 32 years he worked for Sperry Rand Corp, in the New Holland Division, retiring as Director of Retail Operations NA.
Sally had a particular interest in the Alabama Boys Ranch, which he helped develop. He was an avid golfer, quail hunter and enjoyed playing cards with many steady friends.
He had been a member of the Presbyterian Church for more than fifty years and was an active member of the Topsail Presbyterian Church in Hampstead.He dearly loved his family, and was especially close to his grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara; children, Sarah Neal Thomas and husband Warren, Bill Rand and wife Diane and Barbara Bowers and husband Rick; grandchildren, Betsy and Rand Thomas, Will and Kathryn Rand and Sarah and Rodes Bowers; brother, William V. Rand and sister, Blanchard Rand Foote.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: William V Rand
Birth Year: 1921
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Virginia
State: Hawaii
Enlistment Date: 7 Aug 1942
Enlistment State: Virginia
Enlistment City: Richmond
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
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: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Actor (Motion picture actor. ) or Director, Motion Picture (Motion picture director.) or Entertainer
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 69
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Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
July 3, 2013RAND, William Verser "Button," age 91, of Crewe, passed away Monday, July 1, 2013.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Noma Strawser Rand;parents, Helen Verser and Erving H. Rand Sr.;sister, Blanchard Rand Foote;and brother, Erving H. "Sally" Rand Jr.
He is survived by his daughter, Kay and husband, Daniel Dickerson, of Millersville, Md.;four grandchildren, Jonathan Rand Dickerson, Katherine Leah Dickerson, Kelly and husband, Danny Stauffer, Michael and wife, Tamuna Dickerson;and four great-grandchildren.
Mr. Rand was a WWII U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, who flew 34 missions over Germany as an Engineer Gunner on a B24 Liberator. He was awarded the Air Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service.
He was a member of Crewe VFW Post #7819 and the Burkeville Ruritan Club. He retired from Southside Electric Cooperative after a long career and was a member of Wards Chapel United Methodist Church.
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
September 1, 2008RAND, Noma Strawser, 83, of Crewe, passed away Saturday, August 30, 2008. She was the daughter of Herbert and Leah Strawser of Amboy, W.Va.
She is survived by her husband of 62 years, William Verser "Button" Rand; her daughter, Kay and husband, Daniel Dickerson of Millersville, Md.; four grandchildren, Jonathan Rand Dickerson, Katherine Leah Dickerson, Kelly Stauffer and husband, Danny, and Michael Dickerson and wife, Tamuna.
Mrs. Rand was preceded in death by a brother, Norman, and is survived by her three brothers and their wives, Don and Shirley Strawser of Crewe, Bill and Margie Strawser, and Bob and Lois Strawser, all fo Amboy, W.Va.
Noma was an amazing mother and devoted wife. She was a very active member of Ward's Chapel United Methodist Church.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
August 27, 1997GRANBURY - Glen Boyd Jr., 71, a retired sporting goods executive, died Monday, Aug. 25, 1997, at home.
Burial: 4 p.m. in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth.
Glen Boyd Jr. was born Oct. 3, 1925, in Rockport, Ill. He married Doris Craft on Oct. 22, 1950. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War I
Survivors: Wife, Doris Boyd of Granbury; son, Kevin Boyd of Arlington; daughters and son-in-law, Candace Boyd of Dallas and son-in-law, Diane and Kenneth Fontenot of Houston; sister, Betty Dunlop of Springfield, Mo.; and grandchildren, Shane Davis of Houston and Mattie Tai Li Boyd of Dallas.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
March 6, 2002DALLAS - Doris Jean Boyd, 74, passed away Monday, March 4, 2002, in Dallas.
Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth.
Doris was born Oct. 21, 1927, in Fort Worth. She was involved in many occupations during her life, including airline stewardess, secretary and real estate. Her true passion was gardening, where she was certified as a master gardener, and her life commitment was the protection and love of her family. Her loving husband, Glen, preceded her in death.
Doris truly loved her family, friends and pets, and will be sincerely missed by all that enjoyed her terrific smile, her wonderful laugh, and her inner and outer beauty.
We love you, Mom.
Survivors: Daughters, Diane Fontenot and Candace Boyd; son, David Kevin; grandson, Shane Davis; granddaughter, Mattie Boyd; sister, Lois Landis; and son-in-law, Kenneth Fontenot.
The Bulletin, Bend Oregon
October 24, 1988A funeral service for William Henry Hascall, 99 (sic), will be held at the Healey Funeral Home in Salinas Calif. at 2 p.m. Thursday. He died at home on Saturday.
Interment will follow in the Garden of Memories in Salinas.
He was born in Saverton, Mo., on May 15, 1889 to William P. and Lottie (Woods) Hascall. Most of his working life was spent as a heavy equipment operator for the Spreckles Sugar Corporation. He had lived in Salinas for many years, moving to Bend in 1966.
Survivors include five children, Richard Hascall and Shirley Bradley of Salinas, Maxine Gates of Auburn, Calif., Kenneth Hascall of Los Altos, Calif., numerous grandchildren including Paula Casey of Bend, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, and one sister, Helen Harris of Hannibal Mo. Preceding him in death was his wife Odessa in 1979.
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Salinas Californian
October 24, 1988William Henry Hascall of Bend, Ore., died Saturday at his residence following a lengthy illness. He was 99[sic]. A native of Saverton, Mo., Mr. Hascall had been a resident of the Salinas and Spreckels areas before he moved to Bend 22 years ago. He was a retired heavy equipment operator at the Spreckels Sugar Co.
Mr. Hascall is survived by two daughters, Shirley Bradley of Salinas and Maxine Gates of Auburn; three sons, James Hascall of Bend, Ore., Richard Hascall of Salinas and Kenneth Hascall of Los Altos; one sister, Helen Harris of Hannibal Mo.; and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great gandchildren.
The Bulletin, Bend OregonOdessa G. Hascall, 81, of 3105 O.B. Riley Road, died Wednsday at St Charles Medical Center, Bend.
Burial will be in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas.
Mrs. Hascall was born to James and Mary Montgomery MacLaen on August 23, 1897. She married William Hascall in Hannibal, Mo., in 1917 and the couple moved from Salinas Calif., in 1966. She attended the Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, William of Bend, three sons James W. of Bend, Richard of Salinas Calif. and Kenneth of Sunnyvale Calif., two daughters, Maxine Gates and Shirley Bradley both of Salinas Calif.; 19 grandchildren, including Paula Casey of Bend, seven great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
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Salinas Californian
August 4, 1979Odessa Georgia Hascall died Wednesday at the St. Charles Memorial Hospital in Bend, Ore. following a lengthy illness. She was 81. Mrs. Hascall lived in Spreckels for 25 years prior to moving to Bend, Ore. in 1966. She was a native of Shelbina, Mo.
She is survived by her husband, William H. Hascall of the family home in Bend, Ore., two daughters, Shirley Bradley and Maxine Gates, both of Salinas, three sons, Richard Hascall of Salinas, Jay Hascall of Bend and Kenneth Hascall of Sunnyvale, 19 grand children, seven great-grandchildren and a great grandchild.
The Bulletin, Bend Oregon
May 21 1996James "Jay" Hascall, a Bend resident for over 25 years, died of cancer May 20 at St. Charles Medical Center. He was 77.
He was born Aug. 31, 1918, in Hannibal, Mo., to William Henry and Odessa Georgia (McLain) Hascall. He worked for a time as a bartender and later was a union represantative for the bartenders union. After several years he began working in construction until an injury forced him into a new career. He trained in the electronics field and began a business installing and repairing electric garage door openers.
Survivors include a daughter, Paula Casey of Bend; one grandchild; one great grandchild; two brothers, Richard of Salinas, Calif., and Kenneth of Sunriver; and two sisters, Maxine Gates of Auburn Calif., and Shirley Bradley of Salinas.
54122. Elizabeth Maxine Hascall
The Californian
October 9, 2006Maxine Gates, 83, of Salinas, died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006. She was born Aug. 2, 1923, in a log cabin in Hascall Holler, near Hannibal, Mo. Maxine moved with her family to Salinas in the mid-1930s. There, she met Merle Gates at the annual Salinas Rodeo Big Week Celebration. The rest of Big Week was spent dancing together in the streets. They were married in January 1940, and soon had a family of two sons and a daughter. Maxine was extremely proud of her family, who looked forward to sharing her cooking and holiday gatherings. She helped build their own home shortly after her marriage, and she worked for 25 years in the produce packing sheds during the long Salinas harvests. In 1980, Maxine and Merle moved to Lake of the Pines in Auburn, where they lived for 24 years. In 2004, they moved to Oroville, to be near their daughter.
David, her oldest son, preceded her in death in 1996.
Survivors: Husband, Merle Gates; daughter, Jan (Ray) Johnson; son, Ron (Laine) Gates; brothers, Richard Hascall and Kenneth Hascall and their families; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Services: 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, in the chapel at the Garden of Memories Cemetery, 768 Abbott St., Salinas.
Chico Enterprise-Record
September 15, 2008GATES � Merle Gates, 86, of Oroville, died Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, in Oroville.
Dignity Memorial
Annie Lee Collie Hascall passed away peacefully on the night of December 28, 2021. She was born September 1, 1933, in Choudrant, Louisiana, to Evelyn Bernice Hogan Collie and Daniel Duelon Collie.
Ann had an older sister, Nellie Bernice Collie Vaupel, and younger brother Sam Piffero. Ann enjoyed her country lifestyle as a young person, running after the tractor driven by her uncle feeling the freshly tilled soil under her feet. She loved climbing trees and sitting on a limb with a good book. The family moved to Salinas, California while Ann was in middle school. She attended Salinas High School, played stand-up bass in the school orchestra, and was on the girls' basketball team. Being one of the taller girls at school had its disadvantages too, she said, because it was awkward to attend the school dances and have a shorter guy ask her to dance.
Ann married Kenneth Lee Hascall in Salinas, on May 29, 1953. They were married for 68 years.
They raised four children: Steven Lee (Tina), Debra Lynn (Joseph), Michael Ray (Bonnie), and Daniel Wayne (Stephanie).
Ann was active in the schools, was the President of the PTA, a musician, an artist, knitter, and a wonderful friend to so many. Ann and Ken moved to Sunriver, Oregon where they resided for over twenty years. They enjoyed downhill skiing, bike riding, and entertaining family and friends.
Ann is survived by her husband Ken; brother Sam, her four children and their spouses; grandchildren Nathan, Chloe, Leland, Rhea, Andrew, Sarah Ann, Haley, Isaac, Ella, and Ashton; and great-grandchildren Noah, Valerie, Katelynn, Essec, Ezmae, and Derek.
Ann loved to be creative, bake, prepare delicious meals for her family, and especially go on walks. She will forever be loved and missed.
54125. Shirley Lucille Hascall
Monterey County Herald
November 9, 1997Shirley Bradley, 62, of Salinas, a housewife and mother, died Thursday at Nativad Medical Center after a lengthy illness. Born April 1, 1935, in Hannibal Mo., she had lived in Salinas for 60 years.
She is survived by her husband, Jack Bradley; six daughters, Candace Perryman, Connie Parkison, Denise Charfauros, Lynnette Kelley, Darlene Perez, all of Salinas, and Kimberly Collier of Auburn; her son, Paul Bradley; her sister, Maxine Gates of Auburn; her two brothers, Kenneth and Richard Hascall, both of Oregon; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Belleville News-Democrat
November 9, 2014Kathryn Elizabeth Hascall was born on Nov. 8, 1917, and passed away on Nov. 8, 2014.
Kathryn was born in Monroe, Neb., and lived most of her life in Millstadt, Ill. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Her last years were spent at The Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. She was a member of Zion Evangelical Church in Millstadt, Ill.
She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Katherine Bitter; her husband, James E.; her daughter, Linda Lang; six brothers, Bob, Reynold, William, Carl, John, Herman; and her sister, Elsie Hoth.
Surviving are two sons, James G. (Jeannine) of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Gary (Mary Lou) of New Port Richey, Fla.; four grandchildren, Jennifer (Kevin) St. Cin, Matthew Lang, Steven Hascall and Mary Beth Hascall; two great-grandchildren, Mitchell and Jacqueline St. Cin; and her sister, Marion Bruhn.
Belleville News-Democrat
January 22, 2014Linda H. Lang, nee Hascall, 67, of Belleville, Ill., born Dec. 16, 1946, in Belleville, Ill., died Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.
She was a former teacher and principal of Cahokia District 187, an officer of the Cahokia District 187 Teachers Union and midwest region training director for the Illinois State Police D.A.R.E. Program.
Linda was preceded in death by her father, James Everett Hascall.
Surviving are her mother, Kathryn Elizabeth, nee Bitter, Hascall of Belleville, Ill.; son, Matthew Lang of Ina, Ill.; two brothers, James (Jeannine) Hascall of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Gary (Mary Lou) Hascall of New Port Richey, Fla.; niece, Jennifer St. Cin of St. Petersburg, Fla., niece, Mary Beth Hascall of St. Louis, Mo.; and nephew, Steven Hascall of New Port Richey, Fla.
Primex 1999 Report to SEC 3/21/2000
James G. Hascall, 61.... Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Hascall has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since January 1997. From January 1, 1996 through December 1996, Mr. Hascall served as Executive Vice President of Olin Corporation, having operating responsibility for Olin's Brass, Winchester, Ordnance and Aerospace Divisions. From 1985 through 1995, Mr. Hascall served as President of Olin's Brass Division. He was an Olin Corporate Vice President from 1985 to 1990 and an Olin Senior Vice President from 1990 to December 1995.Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives
Hascall, James George (b. 1938 Hannibal MO - Washington University 1960)
Chrm & Chief Exec Officer, Primex Technologies Inc., 10101 9th St., N., St. St. Petersburg, Fl. 33716
Bus. E-mail jghascall@stp.primextech.com
Olin Corp.
CLASS III
NOMINEES FOR THREE-YEAR TERMS EXPIRING IN 2006
JAMES G. HASCALL, 64, was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Primex Technologies, Inc. (an ordnance and aerospace contractor), a position he assumed in 1997 when Primex was spun off from Olin Corporation, until his retirement in January of 2001 when Primex merged into General Dynamics. From January 1996 through December 1996, Mr. Hascall served as Executive Vice President of Olin, having operating responsibility for Olin's Brass (currently the Metals Group), Winchester, Ordnance and Aerospace Divisions. From 1985 through 1995, Mr. Hascall served as President of Olin's Brass Division (currently the Metals Group). He was an Olin Corporate Vice President from 1985 to 1990 and a Senior Vice President from 1990 to December 1995. Mr. Hascall earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1966. Olin Director since 2003.
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The Belleville News-Democrat (IL)
September 4, 2016James G. Hascall, 77, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died Aug. 28, 2016, at Bayfront Medical Center after a long struggle with cardiac illness and complications from a fall. Jim was born in Hannibal, Mo.
He attended high school in Belleville, Ill., then graduated with an engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1960, where he starred on their varsity basketball team. Following graduation, he served in the United States Army as an officer in a tank battalion, posted to Nellingen, Germany. Following his military service, he joined Olin Corporation where he rose to the post of executive vice-president. In 1996, he became chairman and CEO of publicly-traded Primex Technologies, Inc., an ordnance and aerospace company with headquarters in St. Petersburg and employing 2,800 employees in 18 states. Primex Technologies was merged with General Dynamics in 2001 at which time Jim Hascall retired.
Jim was well known for his dry sense of humor, his passion for automobiles, his love of animals, and his strong and untiring devotion to his wife, daughter, grandchildren, and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and sister, Linda Lang.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jeannine; his daughter, Jennifer Hascall St. Cin and her husband, Kevin; his two grandchildren, Mitchell James and Jacqueline Jeannine St. Cin; his brother, Gary Hascall and sister-in-law, Mary Lou, and their children.
He will also be missed by Sandra and David Muskopf and their son, and by his many friends in St. Petersburg and throughout the country.