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Of all the daughters of L.D. Miles, Ruth was the most unconventional and the most adventurous, and, as with all the Miles sisters, was very good looking.According to her sister Mable, Ruth hated school and was the only daughter to quit before high school graduation. Having had a succession of boyfriends, and hating farm life too, her sisters believed that Ruth would leave for city life at the first opportunity. As if to defy predictability, her first marriage was to a local farmer, Irving Lambert, at the age of 21. But Ruth's adventuresome nature was not to be suppressed, for one day in August of 1920, L.D. and Carrie decided to travel to see the Minnesota State Fair. As they were walking amongst the throng of people at the Fair, Carrie turned to L.D. and, pointing at the back of a woman standing alongside a man at a carnival booth, she exclamed "Look, there is a woman wearing a coat exactly like Lena's (one of Ruth's sisters)!". As L.D. looked, the woman turned around and it was none other than Ruth on the arm of the baseball player Harry Smith, who was known to them. Ruth had always liked Lena's coat and had apparently taken this opportunity to "borrow" it for a little clandestined trip to the Big City. It was all unbeknownst to her husband, of course, and Lena later professed to have had nothing to do with Ruth's adventure. Anyway, L.D. was simply furious, Mable said. He grabbed Ruth by the arm and told her that she was returning immediately home to Conde on the train with himself and her mother. (That this order was being given to a thirty year old woman, already married nine years, tells us something about the parental control L.D. exercised.) During the train ride back, her father made it abundantly clear to Ruth that she could not have it both ways, either she would divorce Irving to marry Harry or she was never to see Harry again. She chose the baseball player over the farmer. Irving was so shocked and thoroughly angered by the whole thing that he would not participate in any of the divorce proceedings. He asked L.D. to act on his behalf so that he would not have to go to the court house or appear in any public hearings. It is so recorded in the Redfield Court House documents that L.D. obtained the signature of Irving on the official papers and attended the hearings as Irving's proxy. Ruth became divorced on January 6th, 1921. She died of cardiac arrythmia.
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Harry played on the Portland farm team of the Chicago Cubs. Following his marriage to Ruth, he became a grain dealer in Minburn and Rippey, Iowa. He died of a coronary occlusion and is buried along with Ruth and his father in the Spencer Smith family plot in a Waukee, IA, Cemetery. Harry was a Purple Heart veteran of World War I.
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Of all the daughters of L.D. Miles, Ruth was the most unconventional and the most adventurous, and, as with all the Miles sisters, was very good looking.According to her sister Mable, Ruth hated school and was the only daughter to quit before high school graduation. Having had a succession of boyfriends, and hating farm life too, her sisters believed that Ruth would leave for city life at the first opportunity. As if to defy predictability, her first marriage was to a local farmer, Irving Lambert, at the age of 21. But Ruth's adventuresome nature was not to be suppressed, for one day in August of 1920, L.D. and Carrie decided to travel to see the Minnesota State Fair. As they were walking amongst the throng of people at the Fair, Carrie turned to L.D. and, pointing at the back of a woman standing alongside a man at a carnival booth, she exclamed "Look, there is a woman wearing a coat exactly like Lena's (one of Ruth's sisters)!". As L.D. looked, the woman turned around and it was none other than Ruth on the arm of the baseball player Harry Smith, who was known to them. Ruth had always liked Lena's coat and had apparently taken this opportunity to "borrow" it for a little clandestined trip to the Big City. It was all unbeknownst to her husband, of course, and Lena later professed to have had nothing to do with Ruth's adventure. Anyway, L.D. was simply furious, Mable said. He grabbed Ruth by the arm and told her that she was returning immediately home to Conde on the train with himself and her mother. (That this order was being given to a thirty year old woman, already married nine years, tells us something about the parental control L.D. exercised.) During the train ride back, her father made it abundantly clear to Ruth that she could not have it both ways, either she would divorce Irving to marry Harry or she was never to see Harry again. She chose the baseball player over the farmer. Irving was so shocked and thoroughly angered by the whole thing that he would not participate in any of the divorce proceedings. He asked L.D. to act on his behalf so that he would not have to go to the court house or appear in any public hearings. It is so recorded in the Redfield Court House documents that L.D. obtained the signature of Irving on the official papers and attended the hearings as Irving's proxy. Ruth became divorced on January 6th, 1921. She died of cardiac arrythmia.
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[ The following biographical memoir was provided by Warren Allen Smith for inclusion in this genealogy. (Others of you are certainly invited to do the same.) Warren is listed in "Who's Who in America, " in "Who's Who in the World, " and in "Contemporary Authors". He has been a resident of New York on Manhatten Island his entire adult life. - LWG]"I remember my grandparents with fondness. Grandpa Miles was somewhat stern and foreboding, particularly when he found this pre-teenager alone in his private den with the roll-down desktop on one of the few times Mother took me to South Dakota. Grandma Miles was so kind, so affectionate, and I have memories of the sweet aromas emanating from her kitchen. Together they built a memorably large house on their imposing land filled with farm buildings, somehow putting up with what I found distasteful artesian water. Mother, who was born two years after South Dakota became a state, once told me a story about being scolded by her father for waving lovingly to a handsome Native American as he rode on his horse by the family home. She also told of coyotes howling at night and of her pride in a palomino with its white mane and tail."
"My Uncle Bert, who never married, was soft-spoken and paid little attention to me. I heard that during a storm his car had overturned on the road to the farmhouse, resulting in much concern for his and any occupants' safety. I also heard he took a vacation in Cuba, but I was never told any stories about his adventures there."
"I didn't know my aunts very well, for it took a long time to drive from Iowa to the farm. Aunt Hazel was my mom's size, and they loved exchanging clothes while listening to their husbands talk baseball. Aunt Lena, whom I called Slim, was a favorite because her son Allen and I got along so well and her husband had a Stutz, something that probably influenced my later buying two MGTD roadsters. Aunt Mabel lived just across from the big house, and I considered her daughter Carol my cutest cousin; in later years, Mabel allegedly did not approve of my interest in Unitarians and non-theists. Aunt Florence I seemed to know the least, for she was not on the farm when I visited; but when I did meet her she struck me as being particularly beautiful and one who shared my interest in liberal religion."
"My Uncle Lee I scarcely knew until I visited him in Michigan years later, saw the farm on which he lived, and talked to him about working as a caretaker at a school despite having painful arthritis, a condition my mother also had from the time when I was born. Uncle Lincoln, whom I never called Bud, was the youngest of the siblings and the easiest for me to pal with. Once during some kind of reunion all the bedrooms were filled, so he and I got to sleep up in the attic, a really great experience until he calmly informed me to watch out for the mice. After he retired, I visited him in Texas and found him still the jovial joker, who bragged about my having gone 'from Minburn, population 328, to the Big Apple where like Sinatra you did it your way.' When I told him I'd found a mouse in his trailer house's bedroom, he claimed he didn't remember the joke he'd pulled on me up in that attic."
"My education was interrupted when, a college sophomore, I was drafted into the Army, where after being a company clerk at Fort Knox I was shipped to England and directly to Normandy where I was in the largest battle of World War II (Omaha Beach), after which I became Chief Clerk of the Adjutant General's Office in The Little Red School, Reims, France, where the surrender eventually was signed. I received my B.A. (English, music) from the University of Northern Iowa in 1948 and my M.A. from Columbia University in 1949 (My American Literature advisor was Lionel Trilling.).
"In New York City, I became a practitioner of progressive education (at Bentley School in Manhattan, two of my students were survivors of Buchenwald, and one of was actor Celeste Holm's son, Ted Nelson, who later coined the computer term 'http'). I was an activist on behalf of humanistic naturalism (John Dewey gave me a $1 check for dues in a Humanist Club I founded at Columbia). From 1954 to 1986 I was chairman of the English Department at New Canaan (Connecticut) High School (my classes being visited by progressive educator A. S. Neill, sociologist Vance Packard, and 'To Sir With Love' author Edward Braithwaite). My students included the grandchildren of Admiral Chester Nimitz Sr., the daughters of editor Norman Cousins (and adopted daughter Shigeko Sasamori, one of the Hiroshima Maidens Mr. Cousins brought here for needed surgery), and children of the exclusive area's corporation officials. "
"Upon arriving at Columbia University in 1948, I met Fernando Vargas of Costa Rica, and we remained companions for 40 years. We founded Variety Recording Studio, which became the major independent studio in Times Square (our clients included David Amram, Jerry Bock, Irving Caesar, Sammy Cahn, Paddy Chayevsky, Chubby Checker, Bobby Darin, Bob Fosse, Earl Garner, Marvin Hamlisch, Lionel Hampton, Barry Manilow, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Arthur Miller, Liza Minnelli, Joseph Papp, Elvis Presley Music, Gilbert Price, Harold Prince, Tito Puente, Doc Severinsen, Paul Simon, Sun Ra, Tiny Tim, Sarah Vaughan, Gwen Verdon, Robert Whitehead, etc.). "
"Upon Fernando's death from AIDS in 1989, I returned my companion's ashes to Costa Rica, established an ethical humanist association there in his honor, and produced a CD that he had made of his country's leading opera singer, Manuel Salazar. I then sold the studio and moved from our Hell's Kitchen apartment near Times Square to Greenwich Village, where I have lived while writting my two books. "
"Who's Who in Hell' (Barricade Books, 2000) is a compilation of over 10,000 short biographies of individuals who from the time of Ancient Greece to the present have been non-believers or freethinkers. It has been described as the most extensive listing of philosophic non-theists since Pierre Sylvain Mar?al's 'Dictionnaire des Ath?'(1798), it made the front page of 'The New York Observer,' and it resulted in many interviews including one by Jeannie Moos of CNN television. Harvard's Houghton Library asked that correspondence received in the writing of the book be donated, letters from Thomas Mann, George Santayana, Albert Schweitzer, John Steinbeck, Gore Vidal, and others. 'Celebrities in Hell' (Barricade Books, 2002) lists several hundred who in my words think that 'Hell is a silly theological invention,' people such as Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov, Marlon Brando, Marlene Dietrich, Jodie Foster, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, Frank Zappa, etc."
"In addition to teaching half the year and heading the recording studio, in the 1970s I had a syndicated column, 'Manhattan Scene,' in every English-speaking island of the West Indies. Since 1998, I have been spokesperson and editor for the physician, Taslima Nasrin, a leading feminist and writer against Monotheism and patriarchy. She was forced to leave her native Bangladesh and flee to Sweden because of a Muslim fatwa placed upon her head."
Warren is a "nominal Unitarian" and an active member of the New York City Society for Ethical Culture. Upon his death, he says, he will be cremated (with some of his companion Fernando's ashes mixed in) and buried next to his parents in Waukee, Iowa.
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George Arter, born 16 Aug., 1766 was one of the sons of Michael and Catherine Dillen/Dillon Arter. He married Elizabeth Baker of Oak Orchard, Carroll Co., MD. Sometime after their marriage they moved to Allegheny Co., MD. About 1816 George again ventured westward and settled in Richland Co., OH about 3 miles east of Crestline and 7 miles south of Selby. He purchased a tract of 1400 acres for the price of $1.25 per acre, built a cabin for his family and then returned to bring them to their new home. The land deed is still intact, signed by James Madison, fourth President of the US, dated Aug. 16, 1816.
It is believed that not all of George's family came with him in 1816; at least one son and two daughters had married in Maryland and did not come till later. The land was divided among the seven children; each son received 200 acres and the daughters 150 acres. The cabin George built remained standing until a modern dwelling was built on the site in 1907. George was a tanner as well as a farmer. It is said George was a staunch Whig.
Early in the 1840's George and his wife moved into the village of Shelby and made their home with their daughter, Susie Curran, wife of Joseph Curran. She and her husband kept a tavern known as Curran's Tavern. George died there and was buried in the 'old cemetery' in Shelby. The cemetery was later moved to make room for the high school, the head stone has been destroyed so his grave is unmarked. Elizabeth went to Upper Sandusky to live with her son, Henry. She died there and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Upper Sandusky, OH.
It is said that George brought to OH with him the daughter of a slave girl which his father, Michael, had purchased in order to give her her freedom from slavery. She was known by the name of "Black Rachel" and is remembered by the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of George. George Arter died 24 June 1849.
"When gt-grandfather divided the land each child received land with a portion of the river running through it so the stock would have water. Most of the families food was raised on the farm and at one time George had 300 bee hives"-Nellie Curran Valentine, granddaughter of Susan.
(From "The Arter/Arthur Family of Fountain Valley")
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Elizabeth married George Arter probably at Oak Orchard, Carroll Co., MD, where she lived. She died at the home of her eldest son, Henry on 8 Oct., 1863 in Upper Sandusky, OH. She is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery there.
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Henry's will was dated 7 May 1813 and was probated 12 Feb 1816 - Frederick County Wills HS-1-172.
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William's first wife was Catherine. She was murdered by her slaves, Peter and Kitty, a crime for which they were hung on March 2nd 1821at the Old Magazine on Harpers Ferry Road.
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The following was received by mail from a source which was regretably not recorded. It was a photocopied page from "The Great Migration Begins", a scholarly publication from a project of the New England Genealogical and Historic Society of Boston.JOHN GALLOP
ORIGIN: Bridport, Dorsetshire
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston
OCCUPATION: Fisherman. Mariner. "John Gallop hath written to some of your neighbors for twelve doz. of cod lines, if he provide them and bring them to you I pray deliver him this bill," 4 July 1632 [WP 3:87]
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "John Gallop fisherman" admitted to Boston church 5 January 1633/4 [BChR 17].
FREEMAN: 1 April 1634 (as third in a group of six Dorchester men) [MBCR 1:368].
EDUCATION: Son Nathaniel could write most imaginatively [WP 6:65], but John made his mark to his will.
ESTATE: On 8 September 1636 there are "twelve acres of land granted to John Gallop, upon Nixes Island, to enjoy to him and his heirs forever, if the island be so much" [MBCR 1: 179]. John Gallop was granted forty-nine acres in the allotment at Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point in 1637
[BTR 1:27].
In his will, dated 20 December 1649 and proved 9 February 1649[/50], "John Gallop of Boston" made "my wife whole executor" and directed her to distribute the following bequests: to "my son John Gallop my now shallop"; to "my daughter Joane" my heifer; "my two youngest sons shall employ my bark the first year after my decease wholly for their mother & after one year to have two thirds for themselves and one third for their mother; "my wife" to have the use of livestock and after her death equally divided among "my two youngest sons Samuell Gollop & Nathaniel Gollop, if they are obedient children, but if they are rebellious, then my wife to have liberty to dispose of all as she shall think good; if one son die before their mother, all to remain to the other; to "John joy my daughter's son" £5 at age twenty-one and if he die then to "his brother Joseph"; 40s. to the building of the new meetinghouse [SPR Case #88].
The inventory of "John Gallupe" was taken 26 February 1649[/50] and totalled £311 10s. 8d., including real estate valued at £120: "one house and ground lying in Boston," £100; "Gallupe's Island containing about sixteen acres," £12; and "four acres of meadow," £8 [SPR Case #88]. In her will, dated 24 July 1655 and proved 31 October 1655, "Christovell Gallop, being in perfect memory though weak in body," bequeathed to "my son John Gallop half my money which is about £15" with some moveables, including "a great Bible"; "half my wearing clothes I do give Hannah my son John Gallop's wife"; to "my daughter Joane Joy" the other half of the money, the other half of the wearing clothes, and other moveables; and to "my son Sam[ue]II Gallop & my son Nathaniell Gallop" the residue to be equally divided between them [SPR 1: 136]. The inventory of the goods of "Christobell Gallop deceased" was taken about December 1655 (undated) and totalled £36 14s. including no real estate [SPR 3:35].
BIRTH: By about 1593 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: Boston January 1649/50 [BVR 29]. "Goodman Gallop is dead of a great griping in his bowels" (letter of Adam Winthrop to John Winthrop Jr. from Boston, 10 February 1649/50 [WP 6:17]).
MARRIAGE: Bridport, Dorsetshire, 19 January 1617[/8] Christabell Brushett. "Christovell Gallopp the wife of our brother John Gallopp" was admitted to Boston church 22 June 1634 [BChR 18]. She died at Boston 27 September 1655 [BVR 52].
CHILDREN:
i JOAN, bp. Bridport 20 September 1618; m. by 1637 Thomas Joy [TAG 68:13].
ii JOHN, bp. Bridport 25 January 1620[/1 ]; m. by 1644 Hannah Lake, dau. of John & Margaret (Reade) Lake
[TAG 68:13; Bethia Harris Anc 55; NEHGR 84:316].
iii WILLIAM, bp. Bridport 4 August 1622; predeceased his father, evidently unmarried.
iv FRANCIS, bp. Bridport 27 July 1625; bur. there 18 November 1625. His children:Page 725, the page preceding the entry for John Gallop, is headed "Humphrey Gallop". Preceding that, a missing page 724 apparently had some text on Humphrey, brother of John.
In "New England Families. Vol.III Genealogies and Memorials", Page 1088, 1089, is found this reference:m Plymouth,llowing"
The National Park Service has this to say about Gallop's Island in Boston harbor:
"Gallops Island is named for Captain John Gallop, a Boston Harbor Pilot. The island was farmed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the 1830's it was a popular summer resort with an inn and restaurant, perhaps because of its legendary association with pirate lore. One pirate, "Long Ben" Avery, is said to have buried a treasure of diamonds on the island, although nothing has ever been found. During the Civil War, soldiers were quartered on the island, including the Mass 54th Colored Regiment, later made famous in the movie "Glory". Following the Civil War it became a quarantine station, then during World War II, a U. S. Maritime Training School occupied Gallop's Island. Today their foundations are still standing."
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Name Origins by Julie Helen Otto
CHRISTABEL (f). In colonial New England, use of this name may suggest descent from, or associations with, the Gallup family of Boston. Christabel (Brushett) Gallup, wife of immigrant John Gallup, d. Boston 27th day, 7th mo.[old style = September] 1655; they m. at Bridport, Dorset 19 Jan. 1617/8. This Christabel was at first reluctant to cross to New England. On 4 July 1632 John Winthrop wrote that "I have much difficulty to keep John Galloppe here by reason his wife will not come. I marvel at the woman's weakness that she will live miserably with her children there, when she might live comfortably here with her husband. I pray persuade and further her coming by all means: if she will come let her have the remainder of his wages, if not, let it be bestowed to bring over his children, for so he desires: it would be above £40 loss for him to come for her." That she did come is evident from her death at Boston, and the taking of her inventory about Dec. 1655. Post-colonial Christabels may also have been named from the poem of that name by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.(From the May 7, 2008 Newsletter of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116)
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William returned to England with George Denison and died there fighting for Cromwell.
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Mosterne Parish is conjoined with the town of Mosterton, Dorsetshire, England. Mosterton is about five miles south of Crewkerne on the road to the seacoast city of Bridport.
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The birth place of Mary Crabbe is not recorded. She was christened 14 Sep 1565 at Netherbury, Dorset, England. She reportedly lived at Castlewich, Cornwall, England
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This first John Gollop is a 12th great grandfather of Winfield Dyer Gallup. There is no known birthplace for this man. The official "visitation of Dorset" states simply that he "came out of the North" during the "fifth year of the reign of Edward IV" (1465). This "out of the North" expression has no specific meaning but it had use in those times to mean a stranger or foreigner from the north of England. The 2009 Gallup Genealogy quotes J. Hutchins, author of a history of Dorset, "certainly there was a coat of arms borne by a family named Gollop in Berwick-upon-Tweed which is in north Britain".
The name of Gollop is first mentioned genealogically by the Heralds with John Gollop of North Bowood and Temple Court, Dorset who was living there in 1533.
In view of the fact that he came to Netherbury, Dorset in 1465 a "not later than" birth year around 1440 is a reasonable estimate. In those ancient times people were simply not recorded at all unless they had some taxable accumulation of wealth or property, or were a member of an established family of some note. He is not recorded as being a member of a noted family so being about age twenty-five in 1456 is about as young as we might expect this "soldier of fortune" (Hutchins) to have become established and worthy of being recorded.
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The Gallup Genealogy gives the birth year of Alice as about 1469, the date used herein, but another source places it about 1444 at Broadwinsor, Dorset.
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John (2) resided at North Bowood and Temple, Dorsetshire. As given in the Gallup Genealogy, he died "during the 25th year of the reign of Henry VIII", i.e. 1533. The 1893, 1966 and 1979 editions of the Gallup Genealogy gave the son of John Gollop (2) as being Thomas Gollop (1). The 1987 edition, however, showed a new John Gollop as the son of John (2) and coming before Thomas (1).
The 1987 edition has no source reference for the contention but this is not surprising as that edition is generally devoid of source documentation. At any rate, this new "John Gollop of Bowood and Strode, Netherbury, Dorsetshire" who married an Elizabeth is not substantiated.
With the arrival of the new 2009 Gallup Genealogy this problem has been resolved - John Gollop of Bowood and Strode, Netherbury, Dorsetshire has been eliminated!
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The Gallup Genealogy has no birth date for Joan Collins but two different years, 1479 & 1515, are cited elsewhere.
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Richard had seven children.