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George and Jemima were proprietors of the "Schaffer House" hotel of Grand Gorge, NY. (See note for Jemima.)
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Jemima and George had only the one child, their daughter Myra. Jemima died in Grand Gorge [originally called Moresville, finally becoming part of Roxbury, Delaware Co., NY] where she probably lived with, or near, her daughter Myra who continued to operate, and live in, the Schaffer House Hotel owned by her parents. Following Myra's marriage to Seymour Murphy the hotel was renamed to Murphy House. Myra & Seymour never had any children so the line ended with her.
Jemima was the original owner of the 1893 Gallup Genealogy now in the posession of Lynn W. Gallup. She had handed it down to Myra who gave it to Florence (Gallup) Falconbury. Florence gave the book to Lynn a few years before she died.
A newspaper clipping found in the genealogy gives 1926 for the year of Jemima's death; her gravestone, however, gives 1925 so, since gravestones trump newspapers, 1925 is correct.
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A "Certified Transcript from the Register of Deaths" (Register No. 344) from the town of Jefferson, NY, records Eli's date of death and both his parents.
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"Active in all good works" - Eugene Bouton. About 1930, Edith was residing on Moxley Street, Jefferson, NY.
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The wedding announcement of Charles and Elizabeth tells us that the parents of Charles lived in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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[Melodie Myhre, daughter of Carl and Betty-Lu (Eidsvold) Myhre, wrote the following biographical note on her mother in April of 2003.]
Betty-Lu Karen (Myhre) Eidsvold was born 12 February 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At 10 years old, her mother and father divorced and she and her mother then moved to Brainard, Minnesota. After graduating from high school, she went to school to become an X-ray technician. There she graduated and began to work at the Veteran's hospital where she later met and married Carl W. Myhre on June 26, 1946. Carl was in the U.S. Air Corp later to become the U.S. Air Force. He was on his way home on leave when he was at a gas station and was sitting up against a building with his legs stretched out when a truck ran over one of them. He was taken to the VA Hospital in Minneapolis where Betty-Lu was the x-ray tech. They got to know each other and she went home one day and told her mother, "I've met the man I'm going to marry" and they had only just met. With Carl being in the Air Force she did a lot of traveling. One of the many interesting places they were stationed was Yakota AB in Tachikawa, Japan. They were stationed there for 3 years where she learned flower arranging and toured all over Japan. They returned to the United States in 1959 where Carl was stationed at Lowry AFB, Denver, Colorado. Then they moved to Brighton, Colorado in 1963. Betty-Lu went to school For Medical and Dental assistants. After graduation, she worked for a doctor part-time in Brighton. She has taken up many hobbies and done many things through her life, but the hobby that has endured is toll painting which she has done for about 10 years give or take. Even at the age of 77 she still takes toll painting lessons to learn different styles and has also given lessons to many people around the area. She is a very well versed and well-rounded individual and has accomplished a lot in her lifetime. She also has a beautiful alto voice and sang for an Air Force radio station in Sherman, Texas and made four or five records. "Singing was her passion and taught us all the beauty of music", Melodie says. She took piano, cello and voice lessons. She also taught herself to play the hammered dulcimer and played bells. She still to this day stays very busy.I (LWG) recall that, Betty-Lu was always referred to by my parents as "Betty-Lu Browning" with no mention of her real father, but we know now that her stepfather, Frank Browning, never legally adopted her. Betty-Lu was something of an idol to me in my youth. Besides being my first cousin, she was seven years older than me, a beautiful, statuesque young woman, and an accomplished swimmer. During visits to Minneapolis, one of my most pleasurable experiences was when Betty-Lu would take me swimming to Lake Harriet or Lake Calhoun. I remember I spent the days preceding one particular visit to the Browning home resolving that this was the year I was going to have the courage to dive off the thirty-five foot diving tower at Lake Calhoun. I remember Betty-Lu taking me there for this big test, and I remember climbing all those steps up the tower, and I remember looking that ungodly distance down to the water, and I remember pacing back and forth on the diving platform keeping an eye on Betty-Lu who kept patiently waving encouragement to me from the beach far below. Finally, out of embarassment more than courage, I put my toes over the edge of platform, bent my knees and jumped, not dove, from the tower. Utterly crushed and humiliated at this despite Betty-Lu's praise, I resolved that on my next visit I would dive off that damned tower for sure - There was to be no next time; the city tore down the tower for fear someone would get hurt, and I have had to live with this unresolved issue all my life.
Prof. Wilford Stanton Miller Sr.
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W.S. Miller, the name under which he wrote, was principal of the U of MN High School at some point in the 1910s and was a professor in the Educational Psychology department at the University of Minnesota from 1916 to 1948. He was involved with developing standarized psychological tests and is listed in Who's Who in America as the developer of the Miller Analogies Test used to ascertain a personality index. It is still in use today. He was also Acting Dean of the Graduate School during 1937-1940 and again in 1943. He retired from University 4 Jun 1948.
The University offers an Eva O. Miller fellowship, named after his widow, funded by royalties from his Miller Analogies Test