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      2995. John Atherton⁸ Barri (Fanny⁷ Howe, Elias⁶, Fanny⁵ Bemis, Joshua⁴, Samuel³, John², Joseph¹)¹¹⁸²¹ was born 27 Feb 1855¹¹⁸²¹. He married Jennie Howe¹¹⁸²¹ 01 Oct 1883¹¹⁸²¹, daughter of William Howe and Azubah Stone. She was born 16 Jul 1848 ¹¹⁸²².

More About John Barri and Jennie Howe:
Marriage: 01 Oct 1883 ¹¹⁸²³

Child is listed above under (2405) Jennie Howe.

      3024. Prof. Edward Webster⁸ Bemis (Daniel Webster⁷, Joshua⁶, Sylvester⁵, Joseph⁴, Joseph³, John², Joseph¹)¹¹⁸²⁴ was born 07 Apr 1860 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts¹¹⁸²⁴. He married Annie Louise Sargent¹¹⁸²⁴ 28 Oct 1889¹¹⁸²⁴, daughter of Rev. George W. Sargent. She was born in Natick, Mass.¹¹⁸²⁴.

Notes for Prof. Edward Webster Bemis:
Prof. Bemis was fitted for college at Springfield, Mass. High School; graduated at Amherst in 1880, taking honors in History and Political Economy. He also graduated at Johns Hopkins College, Baltimore. He was Professor of Sociology at Chicago University until he resigned in 1895; owing to a controversy with the Faculty. [Draper:70]

More About Edward Bemis and Annie Sargent:
Marriage: 28 Oct 1889¹¹⁸²⁴

Child of Edward Bemis and Annie Sargent is:

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Walter Sargent⁹ Bemis¹¹⁸²⁴, born 02 Jan 1893 in Chicago, Illinois (born in Iowa on WWI draft card)^11824,¹¹⁸²⁵.

3030. James Nathan⁸ Edminster (James Arvine⁷, Zebedee⁶, Mary⁵ Bemis, Benjamin⁴, Joseph³, John², Joseph¹)¹¹⁸²⁶ was born 27 Nov 1839 in South Cornish, New Hampshire¹¹⁸²⁶, and died 01 Dec 1878 in Windsor, Vermont¹¹⁸²⁶. He married Helen Gertrude Porter¹¹⁸²⁶ 05 Nov 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts¹¹⁸²⁶, daughter of Lemuel Porter and Wealthy M.//. She was born 1840 in Lowell, Massachusetts¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for James Nathan Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

He graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 1862 and Albany University Law Department in 1864, practiced law in Windsor, Vermont for 13 years and was states attorney three years. He was a soldier in the Civil War (54), serving in Co. E, 9th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted as a Private, 1 August 1862, became a second lieutenant, and resigned 27 October 1862. His unit was part of the 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and fought at South Mountain on September 14th and at Antietam on September 17th (48) (55). His widow later claimed that he had been promoted to Captain and had been Acting Colonel of a colored regiment. When they went into the Battle of Antietam their baggage - tents, blankets, etc - had been left behind and he was taken ill from exposure. The developing arthritis was so bad that he had to resign his commission. He married 5 November 1867, at Boston, Massachusetts, Helen Gertrude Porter, born 1840 at Lowell, Massachusetts, daughter of Lemuel and Wealthy M. Porter. James Nathan died 1 December 1878 at Windsor of T.B. "...brought on by rheumatism contracted in the army, his shoulders being so drawn together that his lungs could not act." (Pension Record, National Archives).

Notes for Helen Gertrude Porter:
[The Edminster Family In America]

Helen Gertrude was granted a widow's pension of $12. per month by a private act of Congress No. 3541 of 30 June 1906.

More About James Edminster and Helen Porter:
Marriage: 05 Nov 1867, Boston, Massachusetts¹¹⁸²⁶

Child of James Edminster and Helen Porter is:

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Lemuel Porter⁹ Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 12 Apr 1869 in Windsor, Vermont¹¹⁸²⁶; died 10 May 1893¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for Lemuel Porter Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

After a few years his health required a drier climate and so his mother moved to Colorado. She remarried 1 December 1889, at Denver, Dr. W. W. Hibbard and divorced him in January 1891 because he had a serious chloral addiction. The high altitude at Denver proved bad for Lemuel Porter's health and they moved to San Francisco where she worked as a writer. She had some verses published, too. The son studied law and practiced in San Francisco for a short time. He was very active in the "Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S." and was elected "Companion of the First Class (No. 953), Commandery of California" on 26 January 1892, Insignia No. 9262. On 10 May 1893 he was taken ill of pneumonia and died the same day. He never married.

3031. Franklin S.⁸ Edminster (James Arvine⁷, Zebedee⁶, Mary⁵ Bemis, Benjamin⁴, Joseph³, John², Joseph¹)¹¹⁸²⁶ was born 14 Feb 1842 in Cornish, New Hampshire¹¹⁸²⁶, and died 22 Sep 1901 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶. He married (1) Mary E. Gay¹¹⁸²⁶ 29 Jun 1864 in Windsor, Vermont¹¹⁸²⁶. He married (2) Minnie Constant¹¹⁸²⁶ 19 Feb 1877¹¹⁸²⁶, daughter of Henry Constant and Hattie//. She was born 08 Dec 1860 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶, and died 02 Mar 1913 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for Franklin S. Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

He was listed among 37 Cornish men who were between 18 and 45 years old when drafted into the Army on 3 September 1863 (48). The reference notes that some were exempted and some other "...purchased a release by the payment of $300., or by furnishing a substitute..." but it did not name them. My father told me that Franklin S., his father, did provide a substitute. Franklin S. married, first, 29 June 1864, at Windsor, Vermont, Mary E. Gay, of Windsor. They had no children and were later divorced. He built houses in Windsor, then moved to Boston and worked in advertising. He worked on commission and earned so much that the company told him he'd have to work on salary. He resigned and started his own business, developing such nationwide accounts as Castoria, Royal Baking Powder and Carter's Little Liver Pills. He moved his business to Brooklyn, New York before 1877. There he married, second, 19 February 1877, Minnie Constant, born 8 December 1860 at Brooklyn, daughter of Henry and Hattie Constant. In addition to the advertising business, he bought the R. H. Mc Donald Drug Co., and sold a popular patent drug, "Vinegar Bitters". Later, he had a stock and bond business, "Edminster & Co.", with office at 6 Wall Street, New York City. He also had banking interests and owned orange groves in California. He became very wealthy but lost his fortune in the bank panic of 1893.

More About Franklin Edminster and Mary Gay:
Marriage: 29 Jun 1864, Windsor, Vermont¹¹⁸²⁶

Notes for Minnie Constant:
[The Edminster Family In America]

I remember visiting Minnie Constant Edminster, my grandmother, at her brownstone home in Brooklyn around 1911 or 1912. She was a striking and imperious sort of woman and I recall the attention she gave me to make sure that I, a boy of 8 or 9, did not soil her parlor furniture. As was the custom there at that time, the "front parlor" was a little used room except for special occasions and at other times had the shades tightly drawn. Also, these Victorian era houses had the kitchen and dining room in the basement. These brownstone homes were row houses and looked much alike in the front. On one visit, after playing in the street for a while, I could not remember the number of grandma's house and got lost. Someone took me to the nearest police station where my parents later claimed me. That was an experience I will never forget.

More About Franklin Edminster and Minnie Constant:
Marriage: 19 Feb 1877¹¹⁸²⁶

Children of Franklin Edminster and Minnie Constant are:

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Frank Custer⁹ Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 13 Jun 1879 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶; died 15 Dec 1932¹¹⁸²⁶. He married Ida Linington¹¹⁸²⁶ 01 Apr 1903 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶; born 03 Mar 1879 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶; died 07 Feb 1938¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for Frank Custer Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

After winning two scholarships at Boys High School in Brooklyn, he attended Cornell University at Ithaca, New York where he resided thereafter. After graduation with an A. B. degree in 1902, he married 1 April 1903, at Brooklyn, New York, Ida Linington, born 3 March 1879 at Brooklyn, daughter of Theodore and Rebecca Ann (Slack) Linington. The Linington family had resided on Long Island, New York since the latter part of the 17th century. Frank Custer taught at Cornell for a couple of years and then established a private tutoring and preparatory school at Ithaca, The Collegiate School, popularly known to many generations of Cornellians as "Eddie's". At various times he also started other businesses: auto tours about 1910 when there were no such; radio servicing about 1920 when radios first became commercial and were very complicated; and a travel agency about 1925. The auto tours and radio enterprises were short-lived. The school business virtually lost its clientele with the great depression of 1930 and was closed after his death 15 December 1932. His wife continued the travel business until her death 7 February 1938. Both are buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca.

Frank and Ida, my parents, were pioneers in automobile touring. Begining about 1908 or 1909, the long summer vacations which the school business afforded were ideal for travelling. In a two-cylinder Maxwell touring car, loaded to the fenders with tent, cots, gasoline cans and the other impediments of camping, we travelled the northeastern states and eastern Canada guided only by U. S. Geological Survey topographic maps. This was continued annually with a succession of cars until about 1917 when such luxuries as hard roads, gas stations and road maps had appeared. In his later years he travelled abroad considerably and was about to take a train from the station at Ithaca for New York and a Caribbean cruise when he died from a heart attack.

More About Frank Custer Edminster:
Burial: Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca, New York¹¹⁸²⁶

More About Ida Linington:
Burial: Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca, New York¹¹⁸²⁶

More About Frank Edminster and Ida Linington:
Marriage: 01 Apr 1903, Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶

	4593	ii.		Dolly Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 13 Apr 1881¹¹⁸²⁶; died 08 May 1881 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶.
	4594	iii.		Arthur Constant Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 13 Jun 1882 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶; died 11 Feb 1914 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for Arthur Constant Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

He never married. He was a soldier in the Spanish-American War and was an expert marksman. He got dysentery while in service. He lived in Brooklyn, led a very dissipated life, and died on a street there, 11 February 1914.

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Jesse Warner Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 05 Feb 1886 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶. He married (1) Jessie May Bristol¹¹⁸²⁶ 22 Jun 1907¹¹⁸²⁶; born 16 Jun 1883¹¹⁸²⁶; died 30 Dec 1917 in Brandon, Vermont¹¹⁸²⁶. He married (2) Rachel Mary Hanson¹¹⁸²⁶ 25 Jun 1919¹¹⁸²⁶; born 17 Mar 1893¹¹⁸²⁶; died 21 Aug 1960 in Belmont, Vermont¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for Jesse Warner Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

He continued his father's drug business for three years after his father's death in 1901 and then, when 18, removed to Vermont where he carried on a business of selling drugs and sundries, first at Brandon, then at Poultney, finally at Belmont.

Jesse Warner lived at Belmont in 1964.

More About Jesse Edminster and Jessie Bristol:
Marriage: 22 Jun 1907¹¹⁸²⁶

More About Jesse Edminster and Rachel Hanson:
Marriage: 25 Jun 1919¹¹⁸²⁶

	4596	v.		Lillie May Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 10 Apr 1889 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶; died in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶. She married Richard Luce¹¹⁸²⁶.
	4597	vi.		Mabel Alma Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 19 Jun 1895 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶; died 22 Sep 1963 in Providence, Rhode Island¹¹⁸²⁶. She married (1) Howard Thompson Funk¹¹⁸²⁶ 31 Oct 1916¹¹⁸²⁶; born 09 Apr 1893¹¹⁸²⁶. She married (2) Paul Meyerfeld¹¹⁸²⁶ 21 Jan 1942¹¹⁸²⁶; born 11 Mar 1895 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶.

More About Mabel Alma Edminster:
Burial: the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶

More About Howard Funk and Mabel Edminster:
Marriage: 31 Oct 1916¹¹⁸²⁶

Marriage Notes for Mabel Edminster and Paul Meyerfeld:
[The Edminster Family In America]

This was his third marriage, the first two ending in divorce.

More About Paul Meyerfeld and Mabel Edminster:
Marriage: 21 Jan 1942¹¹⁸²⁶

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Florence Belle Edminster¹¹⁸²⁶, born 24 Apr 1898 in Brooklyn, New York¹¹⁸²⁶. She married (1) Albert Mark Van Horn¹¹⁸²⁶ 1918¹¹⁸²⁶. She married (2) Edgar G. Van Horn¹¹⁸²⁶ 01 Nov 1920¹¹⁸²⁶; died 25 Jun 1961 in Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York¹¹⁸²⁶.

Notes for Florence Belle Edminster:
[The Edminster Family In America]

She lived in Brooklyn in 1964

More About Albert Van Horn and Florence Edminster:
Divorce: Abt. 1920¹¹⁸²⁶
Marriage: 1918¹¹⁸²⁶

More About Edgar Van Horn and Florence Edminster:
Marriage: 01 Nov 1920¹¹⁸²⁶

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