The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

entertaining him at his house, in Connecticut, during the Kansas struggles, and he thanks God
that he was "permitted to help those noble men who made it a free State."
During the war JNIr. Rust endeavored to do his duty in caring for the wounded as sur-
geon's assistant, principally at Antietam and before Petersburg.
Later he removed to Chicago, where he conducted the Central Warehouse for nine years,
living at Glencoe, 111., twenty miles north of Chicago. While warehousing he was interested in
the northward movement of the ex-slaves, known as "The Exodus." At the request of Gov. St.
John, of Kansas, he solicited, through the Press and by circulars, contributions of money and
supplies for their relief, and was influential in organizing, Feb. 8, 1880, in Chicago, an associa-
tion, the "Southern Refugee Relief Association," of which he was secretary and member of its
executive committee. He received from the Eastern and Northwestern States large quantities of
supplies, and re-shipped them in car-loads to Topeka, Kan., where they were . distributed by
direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock and Mrs. Laura Haviland—two noble women.
Much of his leisure time, from a boy, has been speni studying American antiquities, and
the customs of the Indian. When a boy there were few helps in such studies; later, being a
member of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and of the Chicago Academy
of Sciences, he has enjoyed such helps. He has visited most of the States and Territories, Canada
and Mexico, in this interest. While in Mexico City he was elected a member of the Mexican
Historical Societ3\ He has made large collections of pre-historic implements, opening the mounds
and ancient graves in the Middle and Western States; has gathered both ancient and modern
implements from the wild Tribes of Dakota, New Mexico and Arizona, including the cliff and
cave dwellings of Arizona; has explored the Pyramids and the ancient grave and antiquities of Old
Mexico, securing a large collection of Aztec implements and idols.
In 18S2 he removed, with his entire family, to Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Cal., where
he is now busy making a new home and planting an orange grove in that most beautiful country.
Children:
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i. Frank Nelson' (Rust) [3366], born at South Decrfield, Mass.; married at Princeton, N. J., 17
Nov., 1880, Clarissa Butler (dau. of Dr. James V. Z. and Clarissa Butler) Blaney, born at
Evanston, 111., 24 May, 1859. Child: (a.) Edward Butler •» (Rust), b. 8 May, "1883.
ii. Frederick Harmon' (Rust) [3367], b. in Collinsvitle, Ct.; d. at Easthampton, Mass.
iii. Ellen Fidelia' (Rust) [336S], b. at Easthampton, Mass.; married 25 Oct., 1SS3, Ernest Herbert
(son of Samuel T.) Lockwood of Chicago, 111.
iv. Edward Humphrey' (Rust), b. at Springfield, Mass.
V. Elizabeth Emily' (Rust), b. at Easthampton, Mass.
(P. 614.) Thomas Hastings North [Fam. 252 (3402), S.^] was born at Singapore, India,
22 Jan., 1843. He was the son of missionary parents, of New England origin. His mother,
Minerva (Bryan) North, died of cholera at Singapore, India, and himself, a brother and two sisters
were sent to relatives in New York State. His father. Rev. Alfred North, returned in two or
three years after, and served as pastor of Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in Trenton,
Middlefield, Pittsford, Utica and Le Roy, N. Y. ; and died while serving as a home missionary in
Wisconsin. He married (2) his first wife's sister, by whom he had two children. Thomas H.
North served a short apprenticeship at printing, in Marietta, Ohio; enlisted at President Lincoln's
first call for three-months troops, in 18th Ohio Vol. Inf ; re-enlisted in 36th Ohio Vol.; re-enlisted,
as veteran, in 36th Ohio Vol. Veterans. After the close of the war he resided in Kansas for fifteen
years, then removed to Oregon. Laura Minerva 9 (3405) should be Minerva Laura; Myron Alfred'
(3405) should be Alfred Myron; between Alfred Myron? and Thomas Ely 9 should be recorded
the birth of William Melvin,9 b. 12 May, 1875; d- 16 Sept., 1875; and Anna Theresa, b. at Mil-
ford, Kan., 2 Aug., 1876; d. 23 Apr., 1877.