8. Hon. George Edgar Stanton [scrapbook] "Edgar" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born on 9 Dec 1844 in Ossining, Westchester, New York, U.S.A.. He died on 23 Oct 1910 in Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois, U.S.A.. He was buried on 27 Oct 1910 in Ossining - Dale Cemetery, Westchester, New York, U.S.A.. He married Helene Ernst on 25 Jul 1870 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. [Parents]
GEORGE EDGAR7 STANTON (George Edgar6, George Henry5, Henry4, George3, Henry2, George1), son of George Edgar and Augusta Maria (Arthur) Stanton, preferred to be called "Edgar." He was educated at Chicago's West Side High School with supplementary study in France and Germany.
From 1864 to 1866, he was employed as a clerk with Fuller, Finch & Fuller, wholesale druggists located at 24 and 26 Market Street, Chicago. He lived at 136 Rush Street from 1865 to 1866.
In September 1869, he was at Bridgeton, New Jersey, visiting his aunt Harriet Stanton Nichols, and possibly working at her husband's nail factory or bank.
He married July 25, 1870, at Frankfurt am Main, Germany, HELENE ERNST, born January 7, 1850, at Frankfurt am Main, daughter of Georg Julius Ludwig and Sophie (Hartmann) Ernst, Old Frankfurt Burghers.He was appointed United States Consul at Bristol, England, in 1870. He became U.S. Consul at Barmen, Germany, in 1875, and in 1881 was made Consul General at St. Petersburg, Russia. While in Russia he had a visit from young Marshal Field of Chicago. During their discussion about the future of business in Chicago, Maeshall joked "Edgar, I'll take south of Randolph and you take north."
Upon the death of his brother-in-law at Chicago in March 1885, he resigned from the consular corps after fifteen years of service to take charge of the family grocery business, formerly Stanton & Company established by his father in 1859. He became president of the company which then was located at 54 and 56 Madison Avenue. From 1899, Stanton & Company was located at 69 Washington Street, Chicago.
Upon their return to the United States, the Stantons lived at Chicago, first at 281 Ontario Street (1886) and later at 404 North State Street (1889-1892) and 402 North State Street (1892-1894). About 1895, they moved to Highland Park, but moved back to the city in 1896 and lived at 307 North Clark Street. In June 1898, Helene bought land at Lake Forest, Illinois, where they moved in 1899 to a home on Spruce Avenue.
His political affiliation was Republican and his religion was Episcopalian. He was a member of Onwentsia Club at Lake Forest. His favorite sport was fly fishing.
9. Helene Ernst [scrapbook] was born on 7 Jan 1850 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was christened on 17 Feb 1850 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She died on 1 Jan 1914 in Mentone, France. She was buried in 1914 in Ossining - Dale Cemetery, Westchester, New York, U.S.A.. [Parents]
In November 1912, Helene sold the Lake Forest property. Edgar and Helene are buried at Dale Cemetery, Ossining, New York.
10. Francis Edward Rew [scrapbook] 1, 2 was born on 14 Apr 1841 in Rochester, Monroe, New York, U.S.A.. He died on 8 Nov 1896 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, U.S.A.. He was buried in Nov 1896 in Chicago Graceland Cemetery, Cook, Illinois, U.S.A.. He married Harriet Brady Campbell on 24 Dec 1867 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, U.S.A.. [Parents]
FRANCIS EDWARD REW grew up at Rochester, New York. While preparing for college at Meridian, New Hampshire, he responded to President Lincoln's first call for troops in April 1861, by leaving school and going to Montpelier, Vermont, and enlisting as a private in the Third Regiment of the First (Vermont) Brigade, 2nd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac. He served three years, rising to the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and passed through many of the hardest campaigns of the war. His letters to his mother and father during the war have been saved and tell a personal story of the life of a soldier. He was Vice President of the Calumet Baking Powder Company which had offices at 40 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. They lived at 926 Monroe Street (1890) and at 4536 Lake Avenue, Chicago (1896). He died of typhoid pneumonia at Chicago, Illinois.
11. Harriet Brady Campbell [scrapbook] was born on 19 Nov 1840 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, U.S.A.. She died on 2 Apr 1926 in Coronado, San Diego, California, U.S.A.. She was buried in Apr 1926 in Chicago Graceland Cemetery, Cook, Illinois, U.S.A.. [Parents]
HARRIET BRADY4 CAMPBELL (George Whitaker3, William2, Whitaker1) was called "Hattie." She died, age 85. They are buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
12. William Cheney Parsons [scrapbook] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born on 19 Feb 1841 in Brimfield, Portage, Ohio, U.S.A.. He died on 6 Feb 1925 in New Hartford, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.. He was buried in Feb 1925 in New Hartford - Town Hill Cemetery, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.. He married Sarah Day Seymour on 31 Dec 1868 in Hudson, Summit, Ohio, U.S.A.. [Parents]
WILLIAM CHENEY PARSONS worked as a boy on his father's farm and attended the district school. He entered Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, in 1859. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. While in college, he taught school a year. In 1862, under Professor Young as Captain and Professor Cutler as First Lieutenant, with some thirty-five to forty other students, he enlisted in Company B, 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served four months. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Western Reserve College in 1863. After graduation, he taught at the Institute on Brooklyn Heights at Cleveland, Ohio.
In September 1864 he enlisted in Battery A, First Ohio Light Artillery, but was later assigned to Battery E. He was in the battle of Nashville in December 1864, serving as No. 6 at the gun and holding the position of 12th Corporal. Soon after the battle, the battery was mounted as Flying Artillery and sent to Chattanooga, remaining there until June 1865 when it returned to Ohio, and the troops were mustered out of service at Camp Dennison.
After the war, he was a tutor in the Western Reserve College for two years from 1865 to 1867. On August 12, 1867 he accepted a position in the office of Altman, Miller & Co., manufacturers of the Buckeye Mower and Reaper, at Akron, Ohio.
He and his wife lived at 205 Fir Street, Akron, Ohio. They spent the summers of 1873, 1874, and 1875 in Germany in the interest of the company. In 1887, he became Secretary and Treasurer of the Selle Gear Company. At Akron, Sarah founded clubs, introduced good pictures into the public schools, and was President of the Women's Council of Akron.
In the summer of 1905, they moved to Temple House at Rutland, Vermont, and in 1907 to New Hartford, Connecticut, to a home called "Hillcroft." William died of pneumonia, age 84.
13. Sarah Day Seymour [scrapbook] 1, 2 was born on 30 Nov 1845 in Hudson, Summit, Ohio, U.S.A.. She died on 15 Aug 1934 in New Hartford, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.. She was buried in Aug 1934 in New Hartford - Town Hill Cemetery, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.. [Parents]
SARAH DAY SEYMOUR was "a woman of remarkable intellectual endowment." She learned to play works of Haydn and Beethoven on the piano at an early age. "She relished problems, whether in mathematics or chess, and to the inherited love of the great in music and literature she added an intense interest in painting. In the hustling manufacturing city of Akron, Ohio, she was a moving spirit in a rousing desire for beauty and knowledge. She founded clubs, introduced good pictures into the public schools, and was president of the Woman's Council of the city. She left a lasting imprint as an influence for the finest things of life." Sarah died, age 89. They are buried in Town Hill Cemetery at New Hartford.
14. Albert Franklin Matthews [scrapbook] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 was born on 14 May 1857 in St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan, U.S.A.. He died on 29 Nov 1917 in New York City, New York, New York, U.S.A.. He was buried in 1917 in Orange - Rosedale Cemetery, Essex, New Jersey, U.S.A.. He married Mary Elizabeth Crosby. [Parents]
ALBERT FRANKLIN6 MATTHEWS (Joseph Hobart5, Albert4, Joseph3, William2, Daniel1) grew up at St. Joseph, Michigan. His father was killed in the Civil War shortly after his sixth birthday. His family moved to the home of his grandmother at Orange, New Jersey. There he attended elementary school and graduated from the local high school.
He graduated with a BA Degree from Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, in 1883, followed by one year of post graduate work. He was awarded a scholarship and worked his own way through the University by ringing the chimes. From 1883 to 1886, he was a lecture agent for Major J.B. Pond's lecture bureau, travelling with Henry Ward Beecher, Mark Twain, Carl Schurz, Clara Louise Kellogg, and others.
He married, in 1886 probably at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, MARY ELIZABETH CROSBY. She was a cousin of Clara Louise Kellogg, the opera singer, who he had met on the lecture circuit.
In 1886, he met Dr. Talcott Williams, managing editor of the Philadelphia Press. Dr. Williams engaged him as a reporter and an editor of The Press with which publication he remained until 1890. He next became an editor and reporter for the New York Sun (1890-1909). He was a correspondent for the Sun on the U. S. Atlantic Fleet's cruse around the World from December 1907 to February 1909. In 1912 he became Assistant Sunday Editor of the New York Times and in 1913 he was the Night City Editor of the Times.
He authored "What Philadelphia Is," printed for private circulation among the Pan-Am delegates in 1890; Our Navy in Time of War, 1899; The New Born Cuba, 1899; With the Battle Fleet, 1908; Back to Hampton Roads, 1909. In 1905 he was the compiler of "Casual Essays of the Sun." Between 1891 and 1906, he wrote numerous articles published in the periodicals of the time including Harper's Weekly, World's Work, Scientific American, Outing, and others.
Mary Matthews died of cancer September 21, 1901 at Brooklyn, New York.
In 1911, he was strongly opposed to the hasty marriage of his daughter to a man twice her age.
He was an Associate in Journalism at Columbia University at New York City from 1912 to 1914. From 1914 to his death in 1917, he was Associate Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. In 1913 he became a Trustee of Cornell University and was President of the Cornellian Council. He lived at 427 Manor Avenue, Woodhaven, Long Island, New York.
Franklin Matthews died of apoplexy while passing through Penn Station, New York on his way to work. Following his death, his students created a Matthews Memorial Fund for needy students at the Columbia School of Journalism.
15. Mary Elizabeth Crosby was born on 24 Sep 1857 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.. She died on 21 Sep 1901 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, U.S.A.. She was buried in Sep 1901 in Orange - Rosedale Cemetery, Essex, New Jersey, U.S.A.. [Parents]
MARY ELIZABETH3 CROSBY (Chauncey Orrin2, Orrin1) was born July 23, 1857 (Birth Record) or September 24, 1857 (gravestone) at New Haven, Connecticut. Mary died of cancer. They were buried in Rosedale Cemetery at Orange, New Jersey.