Lincoln's Consoling Letter Re-examined Five Bixby Sons
Rev. William Barton in the Boston Herald refutes Schouler’s War Department roster asserting only two of Lydia Bixby’s five claimed sons died in the Civil War. The piece traces genealogies from Puritan Bixbys and details each son’s fate including name changes and returns alive.
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Abs. Bixby
William Schouler
Massachusetts
War Department
Washington
Lydia Bixby
Boston
Abraham Lincoln
Bixby
Lincoln
William K. Barton
Boston Herald
Adjutant General of
Republic
A. Lincoln
Family of 66 RS BIxBY details and descendants
This excerpt notes that John Bixby died in Boston in February 1922 while Lydia Bixby had another son Andrew Parker Bixby born about 1849 and living in Boston in 1878, plus three married daughters. George Way Bixby, born Hopkinton August 22 1836, enlisted at Chelsea March 16 1864 claiming New York City as birthplace and age twenty four though he was twenty eight, a cabinet maker and single.
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Barton
Bixby
Joseph
Sarah
Ipswich
Boxford
Thomas
Alice
Hopkinton
Lois ‘Joel
Polly
Cromwell Bixby
Lydia
Andrew
Lydia Parker
Lydia Parker Bixby
Agnes Surringe
Charles Henry Frankland
Boston
Winnisimmet
Salem
North Shore
Marblehead
Agnes
Frankland
Schouler
War Department
Washington
Lincoln
Adjutant General of
Massachusetts
Xuarles NI
Harrison Avenue
Edward
Camp Massasoit
Lydia Bixby
Charles
Oliver C. Bixby
Brookline
Mass
Waite A. Randlett
Everett E
William A
Sylvia E
Waltham
Watie
Wolfboro
N. H
Bixbys
Readville
Petersburg
Massachusetts Volunteers
Henry Cromwell Bixby
Newton
Gettysburg
Richmond
Belle Isle
Milford
Somerville
Fifty-sixth
Massachusetts Regiment
New York
Salisbury
N. C
John T. Welsh
George
George Way
Gardiner Tufts
Annapolis
Geo. W. Way
56Th Mass
Geo. W. Bixby
Dover St. Place
J. B. Davis
Gloucester
Jacobs
56Th Regiment
George . W. Bixby
South
George W. Bixby
Adjutant General
Edward Bixby
Folly Island
Twenty-second Massachusetts
Arthur
Edward Bigsby
Arthur E. Bixby
Camp Kalorama
Fourteenth
Massachusetts Infantry
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
Chicago
Peter M. Hofmann
Waldheim
Des Plaines
New England
West Madison Street
RS Bixby
John Bixby
Andrew Parker Bixby
George Way Bixby
New York City
Chelsea
Life of Abraham Lincoln's Father One of Hardship
Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln, was born in Rockingham County Virginia to emigrant parents. He married Nancy Hanks in 1806 and faced early tragedy when his own father was killed by Indians. He lived as a farmer and forest laborer from Elizabethtown Kentucky, later at Nolin Creek where Abraham was born, and moved to Indiana in 1817. Nancy died in 1818, and in 1819 he remarried widow Sarah Johnson bringing three more children.
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Thomas Lincoln
Abraham
Rockingham County
Virginia
Nancy Hanks
Richard Berry
Indiana
Lincoln
Sarah Johnson
Improvised Cleaning Cream For Guitars And Violins
Instructions suggest mixing equal parts linseed oil turpentine and water to form an emulsion. Apply with a cloth dampened in the cream, wipe dry, then polish using a woolen cloth, chamois or velveteen for instruments.
Tribute Service for Cats in Osaka Patience of Geisha Music
Buddhist ceremony held in Osaka to console the spirits of thousands of cats killed for their skins used to make samisen instruments favored by geisha. The service reflects cultural pain and traditional craft demands.
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Osaka
Japan
Handicapped Dialogue Sparks Family Debate on Politics
A fragment shows a child asking why not enter politics and a father replying that speaking requires saying something. The brief exchange hints at caution about public life and communication.
How to Solve a Crossword Puzzle Card
Instructions explain filling white spaces with dictionary words. Numbers mark first letters for horizontal and vertical entries. Words start at the first white square after a black square or edge and end before the next black square. No letters in black spaces.
Worth Trying Anyhow
Watson troubled by his wife as age deepens. He meets old friend Martin and asks if his wife is easily soothed. Martin replies that a new hat sometimes does the trick.
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Watson
Martin
Oldest known strike among ancient Egyptian stonemasons
A 3500 year old strike at the Thebes temple in Egypt involved about a hundred masons who halted work when food ran short. They were fed, the supplies ran out again, and a second strike ended after further rations were provided.
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Thebes Temple
Egypt
Denver plans parks aiming for Yellowstone scale
Denver officials envision a vast system of parks totaling 470000 acres from the foothills to Clear Creek and the Platte river. The tract spans 3 miles by 25 miles including mountains, game preserves, lakes and highways with potential federal aid. Wild animals and fish hatcheries would be part of the proposal.
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Denver
Col
Yellowstone National Park
Continental Divide
Platte River
Clear Creek
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Charles N. Bixby
Henry C. Bixby
Georgi Way Bixby
By DE Witt
J. Mason
Switzerland
Great Britain
Greece
Fai
Toorong R
Boschee’s Syrup
Ana
Meles
Yul
Loring Park Clinic
Harmon Place
Minneapolis
Minn
Yellowstone
Paley
South Omaha
Nebr
Azure
Chesebrough Meg. CO
Lencoln
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