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I had talked to Barr about mental powers. He laughed at me for years about that. I was so dam [sic] mad about the whole thing [eviction from his Second Street house] I said to Barr – I hope lightning strikes the Star-Gazette – They have been against me all thru this thing – I – made it stronger than hope. I – practically demanded it. It did – Lightning struck the Star Gazett [sic] in that storm- Smashed a power transformer in the basement and filled the building full of smoke.- Every body ran out of the building in to [sic] the rain it was pouring – Barr – was amazed – Said Dan I’m convinced you have something I don’t. For weeks and weeks I’ve been clinching my left fist and saying to my self – I want terrible power from where ever. I look to the sky – smashing of city hall and the Star – Gazett [sic]. And the quicker the better. The authorities would send me to Binghamton [to the state psychiatric facility] if they knew . . . 74 Certainly the closeness of the Hungerford brothers is remarkable. They lived together for almost twenty years after sharing their house with their mother for a decade and a half before. Marvin claimed that if a client requested a repair from Daniel, “and Floyd happened in while Dan was out he’d know instinctively what to do and then do it, or vice versa.” Marvin said a “clairvoyant understanding between the two brothers, which astounded many and frightened others, manifested itself in everything that concerned them.” Marvin said that letters signed after Floyd’s death “Daniel D. and Floyd S. Hungerford by D.D.H.”, were aware that his brother is dead, but [he] maintains that through some sort of extrasensory perception, Floyd lives on in him.” 75 Two months after Floyd’s death, Daniel Hungerford wrote in a small notebook: This was Floyd’s book. . . . About midnight Feb.15- 16-1964 awake – in a bad state of mind – and indigestion – hot flashes & chills – then three (3) knocks – in close succession come – like on the kitchen door – waited no more knocks 2-16-64 about a week ago I dreamed Floyd –Bill H. were sitting on a bench somewhere – I came and sat down between them my first dream of Floyd, since he passed away. ENDNOTES 54 Undated newspaper clip reports she began work at the county clerk’s office on January 18, 1916. She was deputy county clerk from 1937. 55 October 5, 1919. 56 The image and a caption were given to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum by researcher David Smith, who did not indicate a source for the photo or the data. 57 A “geocities.com/smithistory” website notes that the Wilhelmina Private Maternity Hospital operated from 1919 to 1947 at 1259 Lyell Avenue in Rochester. A ViaHealth website states that the hospital provided “private maternity” and adoption services. 58 His wife was Grace Little, according to William’s granddaughter Joan Hungerford Schatz. 59 The index to New York State vital statistics records Shirley L. Hungerford’s birthday as May 21, 1923 in Rochester. Keith Marvin in a 1974 taped reading of a draft of his first history of the Hungerford brothers and their rocket car claimed Shirley was Daniel’s adopted daughter. Perhaps this explains the Rochester birthplace. Marvin in a September 20, 1992 letter to Geoffrey Stein wrote, “Actually, she was Dan Hungerford’s adopted daughter….” Shirley Hyde in correspondence with this author always identified herself as Daniel’s daughter with no qualifiers before the noun. Marvin’s data likely came from conversations with Daniel Hungerford in 1964. 60 Shirley H. Hyde to Geoffrey Stein, September 9, 1992. 61 David Smith to Geoffrey Stein via telephone, September 13, 1992. 62 Schuyler Lathers to Geoffrey Stein in conversation, August 9, 1979. 63 Peg Gallagher (“Moonstruck”, New York Alive, March/April 1986, p. 52) noted that Lathers lived in Elmira Heights from 1935 to 1940. 64 George Mapes to Geoffrey Stein via telephone, November 9, 2009. Gertrude Mape’s sister was Emma D. Dickson, who lived on First Street next to the Hungerford house on Second Street. 65 Shirley H. Hyde to Geoffrey Stein, September 9, 1992. 66 Jon Elan Steen to Geoffrey Stein, July 30, 1992. 67 Keith Marvin to Geoffrey N. Stein, “Easter Day, 1979”. On February 22, 1992, Marvin wrote to Kevin R. Hungerford, a distant relative of Daniel, “He was one of the only two actual clairvoyants I ever met and the fact that he did have supernatural power in this line cannot be refuted to anyone who knew him and my own personal experience changed a good deal of my beliefs on the existence of this sixth sense. His late brother, Floyd, was similarly endowed, but he had passed on before I went to Elmira to visit Dan.” 18 Daniel and Floyd Hungerford: Rocket Power, Interstellar Travel and Eternal Life, by Geofrey N. Stein
68 Keith Marvin to Geoffrey N. Stein, July 3, 1979. 69 April 4, 1995. 70 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, May 26, 1964. Marvin on May 28, 1964 wrote in reply that he “didn’t know very much about” automatic writing. W. B. Basil King, (1859–1928), was a Canadian-born, Episcopal priest who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Abolishing of Death (New York City: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1919) deals with communication by deceased individuals who guide pencils held by living persons serving as passive messengers. King suggested that from the earth, people move to another plane of existence. Furthermore, with appropriate understanding and approach, the living can communicate with those who have left their mortal lives. 71 Daniel D. Hungerford to Henry G. Budd, September 28, 1966. 72 A copy of the handwritten statement was made available to the author by Linda Hungerford Lathrop. 73 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, July 15, 1964. The crash of the triple engine Fokker C-2 occurred at Royalton, Pennsylvania on January 11, 1929. See unidentified newspaper clip at www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hrangell.htm 74 Daniel D. Hungerford to “Ed & Helen”, August 26, 1966. 75 “Wizards of West Second Street”, p. 195. Chapter Three: Family 19
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