History of Polk County, Iowa
Publication: Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co. 1880.
Note: Des Moines BiographiesMAHANA, J. O. - One of the most sagacious and successful business men of Des Moines, was born in Waynesburg, Greens County, Pennsylvania July 15, 1829. His father was Captain Bradley Mahana, who came to this State in 1855, and settled at Iowa City, and was commissioned captain of the first company which enlisted from Iowa during the late war. He with three brothers were in the service of their country, the family giving sixteen years of active service in the suppression of the rebellion. His mother was a daughter of William Seals, Esq., a native of England, who came to this country and settled in Waynesburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania, and became one of the most prominent merchants of the State.
The subject of this sketch early commenced his mercantile career, which he has since followed with signal success. After three or four years experience in his native State, while yet a young man, he became impressed with the advantages offered to men of industry and integrity in the West, and in 1854 emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was for five years in the employ of Ringwalt & Avery, carpet dealers. From this place he went to St. Louis, and entered the employ of A. McDouree & Co., the most prominent carpet house of that city. September 12, 1862, he received a lieutenant's commission from Governor Gamble, and was engaged for some time in organizing and drilling men for the service.
In 1864 he came to Des Moines and bought a stock of goods on wagons, opened a store on Second street under the firm name of Luce & Mahana. The first year their business increased to such an extent they were compelled to build more commodious room on Court Avenue, and their business here kept apace with their accommodation. In 1870 Mr. Mahana removed to his present location, No. 303 Walnut street, and has since continued the business alone. In 1876, in connection with his retail trade, he opened an auction and wholesale house, corner of Third and Walnut streets, and in this department is conducting a successful business. He has built up his business upon the sure foundation of fair dealing with all men, and as a prominent, influential and thoroughgoing business man, he has done his full share in contributing to Des Moines, commercial supremacy.
He was married in 1865 to Miss Sarah, daughter of William Shaw, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They have a family of four children: Kittie G., George S., Cornelia (who took the first premium at the exposition fair in 1877), and Jessie O. They have lost one daughter Mary Seals.
Chicago Daily Tribune
February 21, 1918SHAW - George Clancy Shaw, aged 47 years, son of Mrs. S. J. Holden, brother of Mark, Fred, and James Shaw and Mrs. J. W. Burdsal.
Pvt., 10th RI Inf., Co. B.
Capt., 14th R.I.H.A., Co. H.
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Joshua Addeman was born in 1840 at Bay of Islands, New Zealand to Australian parents Thomas and Maria Fligg Addeman. They made a six-months voyage on a whaling vessel and arrived in Providence, Rhode Island in 1843.Joshua attended Providence public schools and was an 1862 graduate of Brown University. At the end of his senior year he enlisted as a private in the 10th Rhode Island Infantry, Co. B., for three months service in Maryland and Virginia. He was then made a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Rhode Island Infantry, but that unit never formed, so he was made a 2nd Lieutenant in Co. L. of the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, the state's only regiment for African-American soldiers. He was later promoted to the rank of Captain and transferred to Co. H. In 1880, he was the author of "Reminiscences of Two Years with the Colored Troops" about his experiences with the 14th during the War.
After the war he took up the profession of law. He was also involved in government as a clerk in the Rhode Island House of Representatives and as Rhode Island's Secretary of State from 1872 - 1887. He was treasurer of the Industrial Trust Company, and later its Vice-President. He was Clerk of the Common Council of Rhode Island, treasurer and then Vice-President of the Rhode Island Electric Protective Company, President of the Franklin Lyceum, President of the Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society of Rhode Island, Vice-President of the Home for Aged Men in Providence and President of the Tenth Rhode Island Veterans Association. He was a member of Prescott Post #1 G.A.R. and a Mason, and was an honorary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.
His wife, Louise Waterman Winsor, whom he married in 1872, survived him, dying in 1936. They were the parents of three daughters, Grace Fentress, Marie Elliott and Julia Jenckes.
Most bio info taken from
The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union 1861-1865
by William H. Chenery
Snow & Farnham Printers, Providence, 1898
Chicago Daily Tribune
June 2, 1916HOLDEN - Laura Dolph Holden, Tuesday morning, wife of Edward J. Holden, mother of Edward Cherrie and Margaret Ruth Holden.
New York Times
May 14, 1907George Curtis Rand, who died at Watkins Glen on Sunday morning, had been for many years a prominent merchant in this city and a member of the firm of Hard and Rand in the coffee trade. As a merchant Mr. Rand was farseeing, enterprising and successful.
For the last twenty five years Mr. Rand had resided at Lawrence, L.I. There he became identified with the varied interests of that community, contributing liberally to the establishment and maintenance of an excellant school.
For many years he had been president of the Rockaway Hunt Club. He was at the fore in all efforts for the improvement of the village, and for the promotion of the comfort and welfare of his neighbors.
Eugenia Isabelle Elizabeth Blanchard
New York Passenger lists, Ship Celtic, from Liverpool, arrived 29 May 1905
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New York Times
May 12, 1922RAND - On May 10, Eugenia Blanchard, at Lawrence, L. I., widow of the late George Curtis Rand.
Obituary, New York Times
September 28, 1945Rand - Ethel, on Sept. 26, daughter of the late George Curtis and Eugenie Blanchard. Funeral private at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Albert Francke, Lawrence, L.I.
New York Times
February 15, 1918Rand - On Feb. 6, in France, 1st Lieutenant Gordon Loring Rand, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, son of Eugenie Blanchard and the late George Curtis Rand, in the 27th year of his age.
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Enlisted, Feb. 15, 1915, in Troop C, Squadron A Cavalry, in New York City. Served with Troop C, Squadron A Cavalry, on the Mexican border, June - December 1916. Enlisted in 1917, in the American Ambulance Corps, serving in France, he received the Croix de Guerre, for gallant. Wounded in the chest and side from artillery.Commissioned, 1st Lieutenant, US Army, Sept. 28, 1917, Air Service Signal Corp. Because of ill heath, from his wounds he was discharged, in France, Jan. 18, 1918.
Yale, Class of 1912
The family erected a cenotaph for him at, Trinity Cemetery, Hewlett, NY ( FAG # 27205082 ).
Chicago Tribune
April 7, 1977Mrs. Olivia Doane Holabird, 76, wife of William Holabird, retired partner in the architectural firm of Holabird & Root, died Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Holabird lived at 73 E. Elm Av. Her husband is the grandson of one of the founders of the architechural firm. Holabird & Root has designed some of Chicago's most famous skyscrapers, including the Board of Trade building, The Playboy [formerly Palmolive] building and the Time-Life building.
Chicago Sun-Times
February 10, 1992William Holabird, a retired partner in the 112-year-old architectural firm of Holabird and Root, died Friday at his Chicago home after a long illness. He was 87.
Mr. Holabird, grandson of the firm's founder, William, was born in Evanston in 1904 and graduated from Yale University in 1927, where he was a varsity football halfback. He was a fastball pitcher for Yale, playing alongside catcher George Herbert Walker, President Bush's uncle. Mr. Holabird began as a field superintendent at the firm in 1927 and became a partner in 1948, a position he held for 30 years. During his time there, the firm designed hundreds of buildings, laboratories and additions for clients such as Illinois Bell, Northwestern University, McCormick Seminary, University of Notre Dame, Standard Oil and Intercontinental Hotels in Venezuela, Colombia and Austria. His firm designed union headquarters for the Teamsters, carpenters, operating engineers and bakers, as well as medical facilities for at least five major hospitals.
He was a member of the Chicago, University, Glen View, Tavern and Coleman Lake clubs. A lifelong athlete, he pitched on weekends for 10 years for Chicago semiprofessional teams such as the Logan Squares and the Mills. When an automobile accident injured his arm, he turned to golf.
His wife, Olivia Holabird, died 11 years ago.
15345. William Prosper Hascall
Lived in Saverton, Ralls, Missouri. (Township 56N Range 4W Section 24 T100a)