13521. Phebe Hutchinson Griggs
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A daughter of Judge Algernon S. & Phoebe Hutchinson Griggs;she was a graduate of the Seminary of St. Mary's of the Woods ,at Terre Haute,Indiana.
She was married on 16 January 1880 in Baltimore,Maryland to William O. Smith,whom at that time,worked in the Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. They moved to Punxsutawney about 1885,where her husband would later became the Editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit newspaper.
For a short time,she & her husband resided in Bradford,Pennsylvania,where their youngest child was born.
Phebe had been suffering from a weak heart and had had a stroke in early January,she seemed to be recovering when Hypostatic Pneumonia set in;she passed away surrounded by her devoted family.
She was survived by her husband and four children,namely:
~ Pierre L. Smith;
~ Sydney S. Smith;
~ Imogene,the wife of O.D. Carlson,all of Punxsutawney;
~ Edward G. Smith ,of Sykesville.
Their child,Raymond,died at less than a year of age.
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US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 27th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1903 to 1907. He also served as a Member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1889 to 1898. Also a successful newspaperman, Smith was the editor and publisher of several Pennsylvania area newspapers including the Punxsutawney Spirit, the Bradford Daily Era, and the Punxsutawney Tribune. He died in Cleveland, Ohio.
Robert Haskell died by drowning.
27494. Nathaniel Holt Endicott Haskell
Son of Thomas & Nancy Haskell of Surry, Maine, "believed to have come to his death by savage treatment received on board of Sch'r Mary of Beverly," aged 14 yrs., 8 months.
"Vital Records of Beverly, MA"
U.S., Naval Enlistment Rendezvous
Name: Edward Sinclair
Enlistment Date: Jan 1865
Enlistment Place: New York
Age: 32
Birth Year: 1833
Birth Place: Maine
Complexion: Florid
Volume: 41B
Page: 47
NARA Publication Title: Weekly return of enlistments at Naval Rendezvous ("Enlistment Rendezvous"), Jan. 6, 1855-Aug. 8, 1891