Adeline & Julia: Growing Up in Michigan and on the Kansas Frontier: Diaries from 19th-Century America

Appendix 1: Who Addie Knew

Appendix 1 Who Addie Knew Census records and genealogical histories abound with information regarding the people Addie mentions in passing in her diaries. For the reader's convenience, such information is listed below, and the name is marked in the text with an asterisk (*). Ages given are from the 1880 census . Names are in alphabetical order by the name as it first appears in the text (in quotation marks below). If only a surname was in the text, it is used to determine the order in which the name appears. "Allie Bradley" (also"AI"), at age seventeen was Fanny's older sister, Alice. "Eddie Aymar" was the nine-year-old son of restaurant proprietor Albert· Aymar. "Clifford Benson" was the eighteen-year-old son of Jack and Kathie Benson and a student in Berrien Springs. "Bert" was Bertha Tudor, age ten. "Jen Boon," Eugenia E. Boon, was a twenty-three-year-old schoolteacher from Berrien Springs. "Jim Boon" was son of the town blacksmith, Jacob. "Page Boon" refers to H. Page Boon, a twenty-six-year-old Berrien Springs farmer. "Jule Brown" was Julius C. Brown (1863-1902), son of Abigail and Ethan Allen Brown, a former state representative. Jule moved to ·Benton Harbor and worked as a fruit buyer in the thriving fruit market of lower Michigan. "Victoria Vibla Brown" of Buchanan, Michigan, was fifteen years old in 1882. "Bunny" was probably Blanche Tudor, six-year-old sister of Bertha and May. 215 216 APPENDIX 1 "Nal Colvin" was eighteen-year-old Rinaldo I. Colvin, son of Austin and Ellen Colvin, a Berrien Springs student. "Tom Dispennet" was the fourteen-year-old son of Andrew Dispennet and a student in Berrien Springs. "Mr. Roscoe Dix" was the partner of Thomas Lee Wilkinson, Jr. in his abstract and title firm; his son Roscoe was ten; his son "Win"(for Winifred) was eight. "Mrs. Dixe" was Virginia Dix, wife of Thomas Lee Wilkinson's partner, Roscoe D. Dix, and a seamstress in Berrien Springs. "Fred Dougherty" was Frederick A. of Louisville, Kentucky, formerly of Berrien Springs, and twenty-six years old in 1882. "Gus Dudly" was Augustus M. Dudley of Berrien Springs, a twenty-oneyear -old printer. "Mate Dunn" referred to Mary E. Dunn, eighteen-year-old daughter of Edward and Mary Dunn, who would marry Addie's brother Harry in 1890. "Clara Elliot" was the fourteen-year-old daughter of Thomas and Mary Elliot. "Carrie Eply" was a twenty-five-year-old schoolteacher boarding with the Platt family. "Mr. Essick" was probably fifty-six-year-old David Essick, a Berrien Springs butcher. "Mrs. Euson" was probably Martha W. Euson, a forty-year-old housewife. "Howard Ewalt" was a nineteen-year-old printer from Berrien Springs. "Mrs. Ewalt" was probably Elvira Ewalt, a Berrien Springs widow and mother of Kit. "Fanny" Bradley, age fifteen, was daughter of divorcee Emogene Bradley and sister of Allie. "Fletcher Farley" was a twenty-seven-year-old Oronoko Township resident. "Mr. Ford" was Thomas Ford who died at age thirty-eight on August 12, 1880. "Fox'es" presumably referred to George W. and Louise M. Fox of Buchanan. WHO ADDIE KNEW 217 "Herm. Gaugler," born in 1867, was a son of Daniel G. W. and Elizabeth Gaugler. "Rena Gaugler," born in 1877, was a daughter of Daniel G. W. and Elizabeth Gaugler. "Elmer Gorham" was the fifteen-year-old son of Ira and Clara Gorham of Berrien Springs and a student. "Mary Gould" was probably Mary S. Gould of Niles. "Abby Gray" was fifteen-year-old Abbie, daughter of Amos and Sarah Gray of Berrien Springs. "Mrs. Hall" was forty-eight-year-old widow Elizabeth. "Nellie Hall" was the eleven-year-old daughter of Mrs. Hall, above. "Mary Himes" was a thirteen-year-old daughter of Walter and Emmeline Himes of Buchanan. "Gene Howe" was fourteen-year-old Eugene, son of Hezekiah and Lucretia Howe of Berrien Springs. "Lillie B. Howe" was a twenty-one-year-old schoolteacher in Oronoko Township. "Lora Howe" was the twelve-year-old daughter of Charles E. Howe of Buchanan. "Mrs. Howe," the Sunday school teacher (February 28, 1881 entry), was Gene's mother. "John Jacobs" was a forty-three-year-old laborer from Oronoko Township. "Frank Kephart" was the seventeen-year-old son of Philip and Susan Kephart of Berrien Springs. "Fannie Kessler" was the eighteen-year-old daughter of widower L. John Kessler of Berrien Township. "Kit...