The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

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and commission business until within a few years, wlien, owing to ill health, he
was obliged to seek a residence in El Paso, Texas. Children (bom in Muscatine, la.):
3645. i. Elizabeth Cora," b. :6 June, 1859; married 21 Oct., 1S80, Frederick Julius Mark,
b. 6 June, 1855. He is a native of and merchant in Muscatine, Iowa (1S85). Chihi
(I) Ellen Humphrey '» (Mark), b. 19 Jan., 1882.
3646. ii. Luther Clark,' b. 5 Nov., 1861 ; d. 26 Jan., 1S63.
3647. iii. Sarah Emeroy,' b. 18 July, 1863; unmarried. Res. (1885) Muscatine, Iowa.
3648. iv. Laura Electa," b. 3 Dec, 1S65. Res. (1885) Muscatine, Iowa.
3649. V. Josephine Ehza,' b. 8 Aug., 1874.
3650. IV. Imogene Elizabeth,^ b. 11 July, 1S39; d. in Canton, Ct., 19 July, 1840, a^. i year.
3651. V. Eliza Jane,* b. 8 Nov., 1841; is unmarried. Res. (1885) Bergen Point, N. J.
3652. VI. Josephine Emory,* b. 17 Feb., 1844; married at Trinity Church, in Bergen Point,
N. J., 29 Oct., 1876, Henry Baker (son of Elias Baker and Sarah ^Margaret
-Shang) McClellan, b. lo Oct., 1850, Talladega, Ala. His parents resided (1885)
in Greensburgh, Pa. He is General Eastern Passenger Agent of the Wabash, St.
Louis and Pacific Railway. P. O. address (18S5) Bergen Point, N. J. Children:
3653. i. Ellen Humphreys,' b. II July, 1882.
3654. ii. Josephine Alice,' b. 20 Jan., 1884.
(Bv 2d marriage)
3655. VII. George Sereno,* b. 27 Dec, 1S50, Gowanda, N. Y. ; died at i\Iuscatine, Iowa, 20
Oct., 1 8 78, a^. 27 years.
3656. VIII. Mary Gertrude,^ b. 9 Feb., 1S56, Gowanda, N. Y. ; died at Muscatine, Iowa, 5
Nov., 1856, le. 9 months.
3657. IX. Charles De Forest,^ b. 16 Oct., 1857, Muscatine, Iowa; married 6 Nov., 1SS4,
Joella (dau. of George and P^Iizabeth) Parks, of Muscatine. He is a farmer.
Res. (1885) on the old homestead farm, jMuscatine, Iowa.
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3658. Solon' Humphreys, [igi-t] (Col. Bedus,^ CoL George,^ Capt. Esekiel,'' Ensign
Sa7nuel,i Lieut. Samuel," Michael') was born 27 Oct., 1821, in Canton, Ct. He married in St.
Louis, Mo., 16 Nov., 1847, IMary Ellen (dau. of Edward* and Mary Tucker) Walsh, of St.
Louis, ]Mo., born 3 Aug., 1824.
Solon Humphreys attended the district and high school in Canton, and was instructed also
in part by his brother David, who was a graduate of Union College. Afterwards he attended
Wright's Acadeiuy, East Hartford, two years, and was in' St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland,
* Edward W.ilsli, of St. Louis, died 22 March, 1868, aged 68. He came from Tiperary County, Ireland, in 1818, resided in St.
Genevieve County, Mo., four or five years, then commenced business in 1825, in St. Louis, with his brother John, under the firm name
of J. & E. Walsh, which for upward of forty years was one of the most prominent and respected firms in that city. No man ever lived
in St. Louis who was more universally esteemed, or who possessed more mfluence in the community. He w.as a man of great firmness
of character and whose integrity was never questioned ; a man of great kindness of heart, charitable in the largest degree. He was the
friend and counsellor of Col. Thomas H. Benton : was a democrat, and of large mfluence in the political affairs of Missouri. It was said
of him; "Mr. Walsh's business capacities are second to none in St. Louis; he has a judgment that never errs in its calculations, and an
industrj- that is untiring in its pursuit of business." (Edward's History of the Great West, i860.)
Mary Tucker, bom 7 Dec, 1804, wife of Edward Walsh, was the grand-daughter of Joseph and Ellen Eimms Tucker, whose parents
moved from Maryland to Kentucky in 1785 ; they were married in Kentucky in 1800; they moved to Perry County, Miss., to a place
called Tucker Settlement; had seven children, Charles, Peter, Elizabeth, Mary, Appolinarius, Joseph and Matilda. Both of her grandfiihcrs
were in the War of the Revolution, and in 1812 her grand-father, Joseph Tucker, was Captain of a Cavalry Company. Edward
W.ilsh and Mary Tucker were married in Perryville, in 1822, by Bishop Rosctta, who was then the Roman Catholic Priest of that
District, and who was subsequently made Bishop, and afterwards a Cardinal in Rome.
Mrs. Walsh died 10 Sept , 1826, leaving only Mary Ellen surviving. Mr, Walsh was again married in St. Louis, Feb. 11. .840, to
Isabella DcMun, daughter of Julius De Mun. She died in 1879, leaving five surviving children, Julius Sylvester, John Amedie, Marie,
Edward and Daniel.
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