Le Montage de Famille

1890-1899

The decade beginning 1890 finds the Westurlunds living in Europe. However, by decade’s end Andrew Westurlund—now Andrew West—had immigrated to the USA.

In USA:

Castner: The Edward and Franky Castner family was living in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan.

Edward Potter Castner’s future second wife Catherine E. Yates, her parents Richard and Anne Maria (Hurst) Yates of Ireland and Canada, and her siblings emigrated from Canada early this decade.

Bliss: Calvin Bliss died at Farmville. His surviving daughters by Louisa returned to New York, where they would live together at Wolcott, Wayne County. His son Calvin H., Jr. remained in Virginia and remarried. Sidney and Helen Bliss’s family remained in Albion, still keeping the farm three miles south of town. Near the end of the decade’s last year their daughter Nellie Mae Bliss married William Hood Barnes, son of David and Mary (Hood) Barnes of Horton, Jackson County, Michigan. Will and Nellie were married in Albion by Rev. W(illiam). F. Kendrick, Nellie's sister Etta Marie’s husband. [Additional material about Nellie and William Barnes may be found below under Barnes. The Bliss surname will now cease to be included as a separate subtitle in this narrative.]
Shaw: The James Watts and Carrie May (Dow) Shaw family was living in Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin, and had two more children during this decade. All three of their son Vernon’s future wives would be born during this decade. Pearl (Van)Dyke in Illinois, daughter of William and Martha (Owens) VanDyke; Anita in Wisconsin; and Laura “Grace” Rice in Michigan, daughter of Silas B. and Ella A. (Carpenter) Rice.
Rice: Benjamin and Mary (Knight) Rice moved to Sterling, Arenac County, Michigan, where Benjamin died during this decade. His wife Mary would follow a decade later. Silas B. and Ella A. (Carpenter) Rice lived in Oakland and Huron counties, Michigan, during the decade but were living at Birch Run Township, Saginaw County, Michigan, by its end. They had two more children including Laura “Grace” Rice, future wife of Vernon Henry Shaw. She was born late this decade at Dwight, Huron County.
Barnes: David and Mary (Hood) Barnes were living in their retirement home at 130 Baldwin Street in Horton, Jackson County, Michigan, when David died mid-decade. Mary would live another decade and a half. Their children continued to occupy and work the family farm, different sons moving their respective families into the homestead at different times. (Though the farm would not remain in a single family’s ownership, its parts would continue to be owned by David and Mary’s descendants for more than a century.)

William Hood Barnes followed his eldest brother and sister-in-law Martin and Birdella (Johnson) Barnes to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, soon after David’s death. Near the end of the decade’s/century’s last year William married Nellie Mae Bliss, daughter of Sidney E. and Helen M. (Hubbard) Bliss of Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan. Will and Nellie were married in Albion by Rev. W(illiam). F. Kendrick, husband of Nellie's sister Etta Marie. William Barnes was said to be a [railroad] signal man from Chicago. Witnesses were Will’s brother Thomas Barnes of Horton and Hattie Pugsley of Albion. It was to Chicago that William took his new bride, where they rented an apartment at 4348 State Street in Ward 29, Lake Township.

(Martin A. Barnes lost his wife during this decade and in the first year of the next decade he married Susan Ella Bliss, another of Nellie’s sisters. Martin and Susan were also married in Albion by W. F. Kendrick. Witnesses were Wm H. Barnes of Chicago and Mrs. W. F. Kendrick of Ganges, Allegan County, Michigan. The new Barnes family initially settled in Chicago but would go on to other cities and states, perhaps required by Martin’s job as railroad foreman—such towns as: Sumner, Bremer Co., IA; Byron, Ogle Co., IL; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN; Duluth, St. Louis Co., MN. After Martin died at Duluth, Susan returned to Albion with her and Martin’s son, where she lived the remainder of her life.)

Tuttle: The Tuttle family may have been living in Dexter Township, Washtenaw County, and/or Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan, during this decade.
Page: Sarah M. (Keys) Page married Harvey Olmstead Cline during the decade’s first year. They were united in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, by N. J. Cogshall, Clergyman. Witnesses were Rev. C. C. McCabe of New York City and Rev. J. C. Floyd of Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan. Harvey's occupation was listed as “clerk” at time of marriage, and he was a resident of LaGrange County, Indiana. He was a son of Samuel and Mary A. (Olmstead) Cline of Indiana and was often just called “H.O.” The new Cline family, including Sarah’s young son Charles Orlando Page and H.O.’s two sons by his first wife Fanny (Aldrich), settled at Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, where they lived during most or all of the decade. Sarah operated a successful millinery shop. The Clines would later settle in Ingham County, Michigan, where H.O. would be twice elected as sheriff of the county as well as being involved in store keeping, farming, and real estate.

Now without wife or son, Riley Preston Page returned to Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan—part of the area where he had spent more than a decade earlier in life. His brother William Henry Page, Jr. and family were still living there. His niece Chloe B. Page was living with her parents and was involved in the profession of shoe stitching. It appears she taught Riley her trade. Mid-decade Riley returned to Webster, Monroe County, New York, where he purchased the house on West Main Street belonging to his half sister Chloe Ann (Robinson) Smith, widow of Henry Smith. A local newspaper blurb announced, “R. P. Page of Coldwater, Mich., formerly of this place, will soon open a boot and shoe store in Robert Corey's harness shop. He will make his home with his sister, Mrs. Chloe Smith.” He set up a shoe repair shop, also on West Main Street, and placed the following newspaper ad: “R. P. PAGE Repairs Harnesses of all kinds and Boots and Shoes on short notice, in first-class shape. Women's and Children's a specialty. Also deals in all kinds of Harnesses. Prices as cheap as the cheapest. Hotel Block, Webster, N.Y.”

Garrett: Hugh, Jr. and Mary Cordelia (Chamberlain) Barnes Garrett were living in Ingersoll Township, Midland County, Michigan, where they would reside for the remainder of their married lives. (Mary would remove to Ogemaw County, Michigan, after Hugh, Jr.’s death.)

Hugh and Mary (Thurlow) Garrett’s son Hugh III married Mary F. Tilden at Freeland, Saginaw County, Michigan, near the middle of the decade. She was a daughter of John Blangle and Margaret Jane (Ireland) Tilden of Richland, Saginaw County. They settled in Ingersoll Township and had the first of their children.

[Here are a few interesting marriage facts about some of Hugh and Mary Elizabeth (Thurlow) Garrett’s other children. Margaret Garrett married William Gibberd Gould, son of Cruth and Eliza Ann (Hawes) Gould of Canada and Michigan. Margaret’s youngest sister Cora married Charles Goold, brother of William. {The surname was variously spelled Gold, Gould, and Goold.} Samuel Garrett married Annie Thurlow, daughter of Hugh Knatchbull and Ann (Christlow) Thurlow— Hugh’s first wife. Samuel’s younger brother George married Janet B. Thurlow, daughter of Hugh Knatchbull and Jane (McInness) Thurlow—Hugh’s second wife. Hugh Knatchbull Thurlow was Mary Elizabeth (Thurlow) Garrett’s brother, making Annie and Janet nieces and daughters-in-law of Mary and first cousins of their husbands.]

West: Andrew “Andy” West immigrated to America in 1893. According to family tradition, “This branch of Wests was from Sweden (Pulmo?). Andrew came through Ellis Island as a young man of 17. His father was a magistrate in Finland, and he (Andy) didn’t want to be conscripted into the Russian army. Their name was Westurlund (meaning Western Land).” Andrew claimed that the language spoken at home before he came to America was Swedish.

Andrew took up iron mining and settled in Ironwood, Gogebic County, Michigan, where he initially boarded in the house of Finnish immigrants Andrew and Lydia Hegglund. Andrew Hegglund was also an iron miner. Andrew West’s mother’s maiden name was Maria Anderson, and his father’s given names, difficult to read from the source at hand, were Chris Rico or Chris Russo or Chris Russell or Chas….

Lindstrom: Charles Albert Lindstrom was living in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, and working as a fireman when he married Rose Edna Hill at Au Gres, Arenac County, Michigan. The couple settled in Au Gres, and by decade’s end Charles was a salesman. They were united by Rev. Burch, and witnesses were Herbert Sperude and Ida R. Hill. Rose and Ida were daughters of William Alexander and Sarah A. Hill. William and Sarah had been married at Innisfil, Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada. In 1877 the family had immigrated to America, probably from Allentown, Ontario, Canada, when Rose was about two years old and Ida had just been born. The new Lindstrom family had the first of their children this decade.

Last updated: Tuesday April 21, 2009

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