The Historical Journal of the MORE FAMILY
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
The Historical Journal OF THE MORE FAMILY Founded April, 1892 RnvVmrv N Y Nr>vpml»pr IQ'^7 Volume 3 Number 7 By David Fellows More KOXOUry, 1>I. I ., rNovemfcer, LV6 i Whole Number 46 JOHN MORE ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED 1890 FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER, 1937 TO SEPTEMBER, 1938 JOHN MOKE ASSOCIATION Reunions in Roxbury, New York, J890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935 JOHN MORE ASSOCIATION JEAN LINE Organized 1H90 Arthur Frisbee Bouton .. Roxbury, N. Y. Clement Sweatman Keator Forty-eighth Year of the Association Philadelphia, Pa. September, 1937, to September, 1938 Grace Stevens Preston . Roxbury, N. Y. President JAMES LINE TAYLOR MOKE Stoddard More Stevens, Jr. 2 Rector St., New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. Adelaide D. Hunt Scranton, Pa. 1st Vice President Jesse More Greenman, Jr. MRS. HELEN GOULD SHEPARD Hartford, Conn. 579 Fifth Avc., New York, N. Y. DAVID LINE 2nd Vice President John Grant More Walton, N. Y. CARROL T. MORE Betty Taylor More .... Wellesley, Mass. 5770 de Giverville Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Rev. R. Hawley Fitch Proctor, Vt. Historian and Secretary EDWARD L. LINE EDWARD FITCH James Bolard More Madrid, Spain Clinton, N. Y. Perkins Coville Washington, D. C. Associate Secretary Stanley Coville New Lisbon, N. J. CHARLES CHURCH MORE The officers of the J. M. A. ex officio. 4545 Fifth Ave., N. E. Seattle, Wash. COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION Assistant Secretary Taylor More, Chairman . New York, N. Y. MRS. MARGARET MORE WHITE Arthur Frisbee Bouton . Roxbury, N. Y. Walton, N. Y. The Secretary of the J. M. A. .. ex officio Treasurer COMMITTEE ON MEMORABILIA Miss ANNA PAI.KN Miss Grace S. Preston, Chairman, Roxbury, N. Y. Roxbury, N. Y. Mrs. Charles H. More, Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Herbi-rt R. More, Grand Gorge, N. Y. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON ANCESTRY Clement Sweatman Keator, Chairman Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Lu-/.erne Coville, Chairman, Arlington, Va. .lohn K. Northrop, Vice Chairman Dr. David Hubbell More, Los Angeles, Cal. New York, N. V. Stoddard Mont Stevens, Jr., New York, N. Y. JOHN T. LINE The Secretary of the J. M. A. ex officio .Mrs. Cornelia More Belden . Aurora, 111. Mrs. Eleanor More Rich . Hobart, N. Y. EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE Sanbourn H. Smith . San Francisco, Cal. Prof. Jesse More Greenman, Chairman, ROBERT LINE St. Louis, Mo. Miss Katherine More Cochran, William Chauncey Keator, Jr. Hartford, Conn. Fairfield, Conn. Adelaide D. Hunt Scranton, Pa. Otis Malcolm Alexander, Bergenfield, N. J. George Decker Marvin, Charlotteville, Va. ALEXANDER LINE Dr. Charles H. Snow . New York, N. Y. Finley Johmon Shepard, New York, N. Y. The Secretary of the J. M. A. ex officio John Burr Northrop .. New York, N. Y. COMMITTEE ON LEGENDS Gilbert M. Palen Woodbury, N. J. Miss Grace Van Dyke More, Chairman, JONAS LINE Greensboro, N. C. Charles Herbert More . Los Angeles, Cal. Miss Anna Palcn Roxbury, N. Y. George L. More .... Canandaigua, N. Y. James Bolard More Madrid, Spain Caroline E. More Roxbury, N. Y. The Secretary of the J. M. A. ex officio The Historical Journal OF THE MORE FAMILY Founded 1892 by David Fellows More Issued by the John More Association BOARD OF EDITORS EDWARD FITCH, Editor-in-Chief TAYLOR MORE CAROLINE E. MORE CHARLES CHURCH MORE Vol. 3, No. 7 NOVEMBER, 1937 Whole No. 46 EDITORIAL Our Goal. Cousin Howard K. Van Alen of Cham- pion, Mich., has in charge the work on In the Journal of last November, there the Edward L. line. was printed a revised genealogy of the Cousin Clark More of Aurora, 111., has David line of the More family, which con- promised, with the assistance of his sis- sisted of the material as it was published ter, Cornelia More Belden, and cousin Ma- in the History in 1893, together with all rion M. More of Tiskilwa, 111., to bring the births, marriages, and deaths in that the John T. line up to date. line from 1893 to 1936. Attention was called to the need of doing the same work Cousin Charles Church More, Associate for the other seven lines of the family. It Secretary of the Association, and the was also said that the completion of this keeper of the Permanent Record, will work for the eight lines would constitute write up the Robert line. an answer to the question often asked: Requests have been made of two cous- When will there be a new edition of the ins to take responsibility for the two re- More History? It would then be possible maining lines, the Alexander T. and the to get out a new edition of the History, Jean lines. At the present writing, no the most important part of which—and definite arrangement can be announced. the most difficult to get—would be the re- It is not possible in the present issue of vised genealogies. the Journal to publish any revised gene- We have, then, a goal, to be reached in alogy. Next year, however, something in 1940, when the first fifty years of the life final form may be expected. of the Association will have been passed. That goal is the completion of the gene- The Journal. alogies of the eight lines, up to 1940. It is now possible to reach that goal if the Perhaps the reader of this paragraph members of the family will co-operate. knows where there are duplicate numbers Progress has been made since the previous of the Mare Journal, or numbers which Journal appeared. the owner does not care to keep. These numbers have great value, provided they Cousin Carrie E. More of Roxbury is can be assembled and made available. The preparing the revised genealogy of the most important use for them is to fill in Jonas line. While her work is not ready the gaps, where some one who has most for publication, it is well advanced. That of the numbers of a given volume wishes which slows up the advance is the tardi- to make the volume complete so that it ness of members of the family in answer- can be bound. ing letters of inquiry. Do your part, gen- tle reader, if you are a member of the One of the members of our family, for Jonas line—or of any line. instance, has a set of volume one, com- plete, and all of volume two except num- Cousin Ethel Hunt Talman is making ber 7. A special request is here made good progress with the records of the for this particular number. This incom- James line. plete set that lacks but one number be- 170 THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL Vol. 3, No. 7 longs to one of our cousins who has vol- Gary, 514,111, and Louissa Adaline Gray, unteered to complete the genealogical rec- 616,12, wife of Marvin H. Davis, Benson, ord for his line, and who needs to have Arizona. The former address is still de- every number in hand for his work. m-ea; also the addresses of these, whose Copies of the Journal which are not names were printed last year; the latest needed by the owner will be gladly re- aciaress is given in each case, so far as ceived if sent to Miss Carrie E. More, known: Roxbury, N. Y., or to Edward Fitch, Clin- Carleton More, 113,13, son of the late ton, N. Y. Edwin More; Tulsa, Okla. John More Foster, a son of Charles Our Mailing List. Bennett I1 oster, 132,3; Silver Springs, Md. Under the above heading, the previous tugene More Brewster, Jr., 3(13)1,1; Joiintut, page 129, carried a list of mem- Denver, Colo. bers of the More family whose names Frank Augustus Bidwell and George have long been on our mailing list, but Smith Bidwell, sons of 514,2, the late \\hose addresses are not known. Of the John W. Bidwell. twelve names there listed, one has been Wallace Bruce Smith and Robert Amasa found to be no longer living, Jason Skel- Smith, sons of the late Amasa J. Smith, lie; correct addresses have been found for 552. They were born in Delhi, N. Y. two, Philip H. More and Mrs. Mary More Glen Greenman, son of James W. Green- Guy; two who could not then be identified man, 614,2. can now be assigned to a place in the Douglas Earl Seacord, 854,11, son of the family record: Mrs. Marion Louise Bidwell late James Milton Seacord. EVENTS OF THE YEAR The John More Association, Incorporated. terest had been shown by the family. The importance of a proper place in the farm The second annual meeting of the mem- house for valuable papers and memora- bers and directors of the John More Asso- bilia was discussed, and the matter was ciation, Incorporated, was held in Rox- left with the executive committee of the bury, N. Y., September 11, l'J37. Ten of directors. the sixteen members were present: Taylor The vacancy in the membership of the More and Fred More, Mrs. Helen Gould corporation, in the Edward L. line, was Shepard, Carrie E. More and Samuel filled by the election of Howard K. Van More, Arthur F. Bouton and Andrew F. Alen. The corresponding vacancy in the Lutz, Alired T. Hunt, John G. More and Board of Directors was filled by the elec- Edward Fitch. tion of Stanley Coville. President Taylor More reported that a After the adjournment of the meeting garage and hen house had been built on of the members, the directors were called the farm property, and that the founda- in session, and the following were found tion of a tenant house had been com- to be present: Taylor More, Samuel More, pleted; that the architect and contractor Andrew F.