Sarah Clark and Robert V. Clark lived in Rising Sun, Indiana with six children. Robert left for California shortly before his son, Charles Francis Clark was born on February 14, 1852. Sarah Clark and her children eventually moved West, and the...
James De Barth Shorb (1842-1896) was born in Frederick County, Maryland, a son of Dr. James Aloysius Shorb (1798-1867) and Margaret McMeal Shorb. He came to California in 1863 looking for oil in Ventura County, and married Maria de Jesus "Sue"...
Gustavus Ferdinand Jochnick (he later modified his name to Gustavus F. Jocknick - in some Civil War records he is referred to as the further Americanized name George F. Jocknick) was born in 1817, probably in Göteborg, Sweden. He enlisted in the...
Edward Frederick Smyth Pigott (1824-1895), was a member of the Pigott family, long settled in north Somerset. He was a fellow student, with Wilkie Collins, at Lincoln's Inn, then a journalist with The Daily News and The Leader; in 1874, Pigott was...
Image of an eye-level interior view of the auditorium of Tammany Hall in New York City, decorated for the 1868 Democratic National Convention with the domed chamber decked with patriotic bunting and state pennants atop the seats.
Lucy Smith Crittenden Thornton, sister of Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden, was married to Harry Innes Thornton, Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The couple had four children: Harry Innes Thornton, Jr., Bessie Thornton, Margaret Thornton...
Ellen Devereux (Sewall) Osgood was born on March 10, 1822 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Edmund Quincy and Caroline (Ward) Sewall. Between 1839-1840, Ellen was close friends with John, Henry David, and Sophia Thoreau. She received marriage...