1.MaryJaneOlmsted1, born February 24, 1837 in New Haven, CT\ (or Rutland, VT); died March 05, 1914 in Decoto, CA\ Masonic Home. She was the daughter of 2. RichardMontgomeryOlmstead and 3. HesterJanetMix. She married (1) CharlesStarrKing June 22, 1856 in New York City, NY. He died Abt. 1867. She married (2) JesseTurnerHanks2 April 15, 1869 in New York City, NY. He was born June 26, 1830 in Mansfield, CT, and died August 01, 1872 in Downieville, CA\ (of pneumonia). He was the son of Captain Edmund Hanks and Achsah Loomis Turner. She married (3) AndrewPalmerStanton3 May 10, 1875 in San Francisco, CA \ (prob.). He was born June 10, 1837 in Stonington, CT. He was the son of Andrew Palmer Stanton and Elizabeth B Chapman.
More About Mary Jane Olmsted:
Burial: California
Comments: Mary and Jesse were married at a church on 47th or 49th St. in NYC, just around Easter Season; her parents & Mr. and Mrs. Shea were witnesses.
Occupation: Mary taught school and tutored children of Horace Greeley at NY home and country place, Chappaqua, NY. She also authored a book entitled "Scientific Physiognomy" that went thru 8 editions, pub. by a Philadelphia house and sold on subscription.
Published: 1881, She wrote a book entitled "Scientific Physiognomy" or "How to Read Faces" (publisher Davis & Argonaut Press), which went through eight editions.
More About Jesse Turner Hanks:
Burial: California
Comment: November 02, 1934, Hanry Hanks a cousin at Willimantic told Edgar Hanks Evans on this day that his father was boss of a gang of longshoremen i NYC and on being threatened by a worker, picked up a stick and drove the man away.
Description: According to Edgar Hanks Evans who was told by Mr. WIlliam Letts Oliver, his father "Barely taller than his son, but much more rugged. He bore no special resemblance to his son.
Occupation: Offered $5000 per year in gold - superintendant of the "Reise Mines"
