The Standard Union (Brooklyn, NY)
January 29, 1924French - Herbert C., husband of Alice Eis French.
58691. Charlotte Gertrude French
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
October 3, 2001Mrs Charlotte French Duff, 89, of Kensington and formerly of Yarmouthport, died unexpectedly in her sleep Monday.
She was the wife of A. Murray Duff, who died in 1964.
Born in Quincy, she was a former Newton resident and then lived in Yarmouthport for 22 years before moving to Kensington last year.
Mrs. Duff retired from the American Mutual Insurance Co. in Boston in 1973. She was a member of St. David's Episcopal Church in South Yarmouth.
She is survived by a daughter, Alexandra "Sandy" Dempsey of Kensington, Conn.; a brother, Alan French of East Greenwich, R.I.; two sisters, Frances Pollard of St. Augustine, Fla., and Virginia Brooks of Heathrow, Fla.; and three grandchildren.
58694. Henry Willis French Jr.
The Boston Globe
February 18, 1982FRENCH - Of Needham, February 15, Henry W., husband of Jane (Ward) French, father of Susan Linse of South Hamilton, and Heidi Fisher of Needham, brother of Alan French of Wickford, R.I., Ruth Roberts of Quincy, Charlotte Duff and Dorothy Fryar both of Yarmouthport, Virginia Brooks and Frances Pollard, both of Florida, grandfather of Julie Fisher of Needham.
The Boston Globe
August 6, 2003French, Jane E. (Ward) - 75, of Needham, Aug. 4, 2003.
Beloved wife of the late Henry W. French.
Loving mother of Susan Linse of Montvale, NJ and Heidi Terry of Medfield. Sister of Barbara Scotton of Cape Elizabeth, ME, Henry Ward of Nashua, NH and Ruth F. Skitt of Needham. Grandmother of Jilie Fisher, Bradford Terry, Kathyrn and Laura Linse
The Standard-Times (North Kingston, RI)
December 13, 2018Joan P. (Harris) French, 96, of Wickford, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. She was the wife of the late Alan H. "Frenchie" French. Born in Manitoba, Canada, she was a daughter of the late Eric T. Harris & Marjorie (Vokes) Harris.
Mrs. French was employed as a budget analyst at CBC Davisille for 20 years until her retirement in 1988. She was a Communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wickford where she served on the altar guild. She was a member of the North Kingstown Senior Center and the South County Chapter 998 of National Active & Retired Federal Employees where she served as state federation treasurer.
She leaves her four sons: James A. French of Cochranville, PA, William F. French of Clinton, CT, David H. French of North Kingstown, and Robert A. French of Cutler, ME. She was the mother of the late Sandra L. French and Barbara E. Pfremmer. Cherished grandmother of 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, & 2 great-great-grandchildren. Loving sister of Patricia Harris of Boulder, CO and the late Elizabeth A. Krokus.
DRAFT_REGISTRATION: Name: Chauncey Daggett
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 22 Dec 1879
Birth Place: Snyder County, Kansas, USA
[Smith County Kansas USA]
Residence Place: Seattle, Washington, USA
Military Draft Date: 1942
Next of Kin: Mrs Maud A. Cole
Lincoln County Leader
February 6, 1958Funeral services for George E. Windham, resident of Newport for the past five years, were held at the Miswonger-Winslow Funeral home in Bend Wednesday under the direction of Parker Funeral home of Newport. Burial was in Newport cemetery.
He was born in Barada, Neb., July 28, 1886 and died Saturday in Newport.
Survivors include his wife, Mary of Newport; three brothers, James of Smith River, Owen and Jess, both of Prineville; two sisters, Mrs. Helen Croat of Seaside and Mrs. Amanda Mendenhall of Tacoma, Wash.; three daughters, Mrs Sibyl Lyke of Conway, Wash., Mrs. Elizabeth McMillen of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Frances Mahoney of Portland; and three sons, John of Portland, Robert of Springfield and Charles of Klamath, Calif. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
GEORGE MELVIN MILLER.To George Melvin Miller more than to any other individual is due the development of Florence, the seaport of Lane county. His labors have directly and indirectly benefited this part of the state and the consensus of public opinion places him with the leading citizens of Eugene. He was born in Lane county, Oregon, May 22, 1857, and is a son of Hulings and Margaret B. (Witt) Miller. His paternal grandfather. Hulings Miller. Sr., laid down his life on the altar of his country while serving as a soldier in the War of 1812 under command of General William Henry Harrison. His son and namesake was born in Ohio, whence he removed to Liberty, Indiana. He was a well educated man for his day and engaged in teaching school in Indiana, in which state he married and there four of the older children were born. After living for a time on the Indian Reserve in western Indiana, where he also engaged in teaching, he emigrated to Oregon in 1852, with his family, settling at Coburg in the foothills, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1884. Unto him and his wife were born five children: John D., who was a dentist and practiced in Philadelphia but lost his health through his service in the Civil war; James, living at Creswell, Oregon; Joaquin, who is far famed as the poet, of the Sierras ; Ella, who became the wife of John Luckey but is deceased; and George Melvin.
The last named attended the public schools and afterward took up the profession of teaching. Desirous of advancing his own education, he later entered Monmouth (Oregon) College and also attended the University of Oregon in the year in which it was opened. He began reading law with Judge Walton and following his admission to the bar practiced at Eugene and at Independence but has given most of his time to real-estate dealings, in which connection he has become very widely known. On the 26th of May, 1887, he purchased the original town site of Florence, becoming owner of ninety acres, for which he paid ten dollars an acre. He had first visited this site in 1883, driving a wagon to a point twenty-five miles from Eugene and then walking the remainder of the distance, carrying his blankets. He was accompanied by D. P. Thompson, S. W. Condon and Professor Lee, who was superintendent of schools of Eugene. At Mapleton they found an Indian, who had a boat and took them down to what is now the site of Florence. At that time there was only a board house there and one white family'97about a half dozen inhabitants in all. There was a small store in a shanty conducted by A. J. Moody. On that trip of two days Mr. Miller saw the possibilities for the building of an attractive seaport town there. Mr. Moody had obtained title to his holdings of ninety acres and when this was put on sale after his death nobody bid for it and the sale was continued until the following year. In the meantime a wagon road had been opened between Eugene and Mapleton and settlers began to move in and take up government land. Biggar Herman was attorney for the administrator for the Moody estate and through him Mr. Miller learned that the property could be bought but only through public sale at auction. Mr. Herman also said that the land would not be put up for sale again without a guarantee of at least one bid and Mr. Miller guaranteed the bid. He proved to be the only bidder and secured the title to the property. Later he secured a homestead claim adjoining the site and subsequently purchased a half interest in the Chicago addition and one hundred and fifty acres in another tract. He has since been selling lots and buying acreage, and has dealt extensively in that district. His sound judgment and keen prescience were manifest in his purchase of the land at Florence, for he recognized its possibilities and wisely used the opportunity that came to him. Operating extensively in real estate there through the intervening years, he has derived therefrom a handsome and well earned fortune.
He was the pioneer in cutting up the large donation claims into small tracts for higher tillage, beginning in 1887 with the Solomon Zumalt donation claim near Eugene. Mr. Miller spent the greater part of four years, from 1898 to 1902, in southeastern Alaska, following various occupations from practicing law to stampeding for mining claims in close proximity to the disputed boundary line between Alaska and Canada, and naturally, as an American citizen, took a deep interest in the settlement of the question pending between the British and American governments. He happened to be in Skagway on a morning in June, 1901, when the Canadian customs officials raised the British flag over their improvised customs house in that town. Mr. Miller, seeing the flag floating over what he knew to be American soil, promptly cut the halyards and lowering the British colors, carefully folded them and laid them aside. Asked by what authority he did this, he replied, "By the authority of an American citizen," and added that the British flag could not be raised again in Skagway unless the flag of the United States floated above it. The incident very nearly led to international complications. The government sustained Mr. Miller in his action and the British government repudiated the act of its officials in Skagway. President Roosevelt sent out a body of soldiers and established a post at Haines Mission on the Chilcat peninsula. A commission was appointed and a boundary line established substantially as claimed by Mr. Miller, and Skagway remained in American territory.
Mr. Miller was one of the organizers of the Presbyterian church in Florence, and was for a time one of its elders.
In 1885 he married Lischen Coggswell, a daughter of John Coggswell, of Eugene.
The Centennial History of Oregon by Gaston Vol 4 p259-60]
Eugene City Herald
January 8, 1892The many friends of Mr. and Mrs, Joel McCornack, who reside near Florence will be pained to hear of the sad affliction that overtook them Christmas morning, by which their infant son lost his life. A correspondent has favored us with the facts in the case as follows:
Editor Gaurd: A fatal accident occured at Clover Lawn, the home of Mr. and Mrs, Joel Mccornack, early on Christmas morning. The children, happy in their christmas gifts, were by themselves for a brief time, the youngest sitting in his high chair by the stove. The mother, busy with household cares in another room was soon startles by the agonizing cries, "Ma, the baby's clothes are on fire." It was too true, and everything which love could do was done to relieve the cruel pain. But all was to no avail, for the next day the eyes of the precious and beautiful boy were closed to all earthly scenes.
Find-a-Grave notesAndrew Collier graduated from the University of Oregon in 1913 and his first job was with the First National Bank in Klamath Falls, where he soon became Vice President and later served as director. As a future membor the city School Board he helped select a young school teacher from Iowa, Georgia Porter, to teach at Mills school for two years.
Georgia Porter and Andrew Collier were married in 1916 and were the parents of three daughters, Marie (Ragland); Carolyn (Larson) and Phyllis (Kerns).
In 1915 Andy was serving as secretary of the Lakeside Land Company which reclamed land around Tule lake and brought in settlers from Bohemia and the midwest to establsih farms. He became prsident of the bank's Merrill branch in 1919, becoming at age 29, Oregon's youngest bank manager. During a severe depression in 1921 the Merrill Bank Directors, with his initiative, guaranteed the savings of depositors in Malin's bank, which had failed. He servedon the County Relief Committee, the Salvation Army Board, was a member of the city planning and recreation commisssin, was awarded the Boy Scouts Silver Beaver for service, promoted projects for employment, and was chairman of the City School Board.
Andrew Collier Nov. 5, 1890 - June 30, 1981. Owner of Klamath Ice and Cold Storage, leader in civic activities. Served three terms in House of Representatives. With his brother, "Cap" Collier, donated land to form Collier State Park
Find-a-Grave notesAlfred Douglas Collier, member of a pioneer Oregon family, and graduate of the University of Oregon in Civil Engineering, Class of 1914, came to Klamath County to live in 1919, upon his honorable discharge from the US Army after serving with the First Enginers in France during World War I. He was commissioned as fist lieutenant on entering the service, commanded Compnay F through many campaigns. He was promoted to Captain and was acting major at the time of the Armistice.
On July 17, 1919 he was married in Eugene to Ethel Foster, three children Eleanor M., Richard McCornack, and Dorothy Vigrinia. Richard died in 1929 at the age of six years.
In 1923 he moved his business interests into Klamath Falls where he founded Swan Lake Moulding Company, a moulding plant and lumber yard on 6th street.
He served on the Klamath County Budget Committee and for the then County Court Park Board. A member of BPOE, he assisted as a member of the Board of Directors. He was a member of Klamath Falls Rotary Club.
He was the first person to be chosen for the Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Businessman of the year award in 1971, the time at which the Cahamber inaugurated the award banquet.
Alfred "Cap" Collier Dec. 14, 1892 - Sept. 6, 1985. Founded Collier State Park and Logging Museum. Promoted improvement of highway system in Klamath County and major streets in Klamath Falls.
unknown newspaperMiss [Dorothy] Collier, 83, of 610 E. 14th Ave, died April 11.
Born in Eugene on May 17, 1896, Miss Collier was the grandaaughter of Eugene pioneers George Haskell collier, a professor at the University of Oregon, and Andrew Mccornack, Collier and McCornack served in the Oregon Legislature.
Miss Collier received a bachelor's degree from thr University of Oregon in 1918, a master's degree from Wellsley College in 1923 and a doctorate from New York University in 1926. She was an active suffragette and demonstrated for women's right to vote.
She was a lifetime member of the Central Presbyertian Church and belonged to the Fortnightly Club, P.E.O., the Lane County Historical Society and Gamma Phi Beta, She was employed the Presbyterian Board of Missions, the YMCA and the California Federated Women's Clubs. She served as a volunteer psychological counseler on an informal basis almost all her adult life,
Miss collier is survived by three older brothers, Andre and Alfred of Kllamath falls and Charles of Santa Barbara, Calif.; by nine nieces and nephews,
Livingston Republican
March 5, 1959)Claude A. Collier died late Wednesday in his home on Coe Road, Perry.
Mr. Collier was a member of the Scottish Pipers of the Geneseo Bagpipe Band.
He is survived by his wife, Marion Collier of Perry; two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Smith, Perry and Mrs. Richard Schleidt of Ft. Madison, Iowa; two sons, George of Cuyhoga Falls, Ohio and David of Kent, Ohio. he also leaves nine grandchildren.