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Excerpt from History of Ford County, Illinois, Vol. 2: From Its Earliest Settlement to 1908 Judge Hugh Parish Beach, a lawyer of Piper City and editor and proprie tor of the Pan Handle Advocate, was born in a log cabin in the then wilderness about thirty miles south of Cleveland, in Montville township, Medina county, Ohio, more than sixty-six years ago. On the paternal side he is descended from an old family of New Jersey. His grandfather, David Beach, served in the war of the Revolution, and his grandmother, Mary Tomkins was a near relative of Daniel D. Tomkins, who was prominent in the early history of this country and at one time was governor of New York, and afterward vice president of t...
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This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
"Arent Theunisen Van Hengel, with his wife, Tryntie Reynders, and three children, Reynier, Mary, and Hendrick, came from Hengel in the county of Zutphen (now in Gelderland), Holland, in 1653, and settled on Staten Island [New York]. It is probable that he was killed during the Indian uprising on Staten Island"--Page 27