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Note for: Stella, -
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Individual Note: Henry and his wife Stella were not living together in 1920. There was a Stella Buchman living with her parents Samuel and Mary Yoder in Canton, Stark, Ohio. She was 36 and listed as married.
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Note for: James Buchman, 19 DEC 1891 - 12 DEC 1998
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Occupation: Place: Auto Salesman (1930)
Individual Note: Ohio Military Men, 1917-18
Name: James J. Buchman
Serial Number: 1173435
Race: W
Residence: East Sparta, O.
Enlistment Division: National Army
Enlistment Location: Canton, O.
Enlistment Date: 07 Mar 1918
Birth Place: East Sparta, O.
Birth Date / Age: 26 3/12 Years
Assigns Comment: AS Waco Tex to 15 Apr 1918; 112 Aer Squadron to 18 Apr 1918; 110 Aer Squadron to 1 June 1918; 240 Aer Squadron to 13 Nov 1918; 35 Co Central Officers' Training School Cp Gordon Ga to Discharge Private, first class 1 Aug 1918; Private, first class 12 Nov 1918. Honorable discharge 29 Nov 1918.
Volume #: 3
Ohio Deaths, 1958-2002
Name: James J Buchman
Age at Death: 106
Date of Death: 12 Dec 1998
City of Death: Dover
County of Death: Tuscarawas
Volume: 31798
Certificate: 102509
Date of Birth: 19 Dec 1891
County of Birth: Brown
State of Birth: Ohio
Country of Birth: United States
Father's Surname: Buchman
Mother's Maiden Name: Robertson
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Hispanic Origin: Not Hispanic
Years of Schooling: 12
Social Security Number: 280-22-4972
Industry: Motor vehicle dealers
Occupation: Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats
Whether in Armed Forces: Yes
Branch of Service: Army Air Corps
Primary Registration District: 7902
Hospital of Death: Long-Term Care Facilities
Hospital Status: Other/Nursing Home
Time of Death: 2:00 PM
Certifier: Physician
James was 107 years old when he died
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Note for: John Dewey, 20 OCT 1859 - 1 JUN 1952
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Individual Note: On this date [October 20] in 1859, educator and philosopher John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont. He earned his doctorate at John Hopkins University in 1884. After teaching philosophy at the University of Michigan, he joined the University of Chicago as head of a department in philosophy, psychology and education, influenced by Darwin, Freud and a scientific outlook. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1904. Dewey's special concern was reform of education. He promoted learning by doing rather than learning by rote. Dewey conducted international research on education, winning many academic honors worldwide. Of more than 40 books, many of his most influential concerned education, including My Pedagogic Creed (1897), Democracy and Education (1902) and Experience and Education (1938). He was one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism. A humanitarian, he was a trustee of Jane Addams' Hull House, supported labor and racial equality, and was at one time active in campaigning for a third political party. He chaired a commission convened in Mexico City in 1937 inquiring into charges made against Leon Trotsky during the Moscow trials. Raised by an evangelical mother, Dewey had rejected faith by his 30s. Although he disavowed being a "militant" atheist, when his mother complained that he should be sending his children to Sunday school, he replied that he had gone to Sunday School enough to make up for any truancy by his children. As a pragmatist, he judged ideas by the results they produced. As a philosopher, he eschewed an allegiance to fixed and changeless dogma and superstition. He belonged to humanist societies, including the American Humanist Association. D. 1952.
Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation
“Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.”
-- John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, 1909
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Note for: Jedediah Dewey, 15 DEC 1647 - MAY 1718
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Individual Note: JEDEDIAH DEWEY, Ensign, son of Thomas the Settler, was b. Dec. 15, 1647, at Windsor, Conn.; d. May --, 1718, ag. 70, at Westfield, Mass.; m. at Farmington, Conn., and lived there a short time after. The lands at Windsor, belonging to him, were sold in his twenty-first year to John Grant and Lieut. Fyler.
In the same year he is mentioned at Westfield, Mass., which was then being settled under the direction of a committee appointed by the town of Springfield for that purpose, Captain John Pynchon being chairman. On page thirty-six of the Westfield Proprietors' Records we find the following, under date of Aug. 27, 1668: "There was granted by the Committee to Jedediah Dewey, fifteen or sixteen acres of land (viz.), the remainder of Weller's lot and a homelot."
About two years after (1670) he received a grant of "a homelot of six acres on the fort side," and it was probably then that he removed.
He was the only one of the sons of Thomas Dewey the Settler to make a will, which follows:
Jedediah Dewey, of Westfield, being of perfect mind and memory, thanks be God, considering ye mortality of my body and knowing yt it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament and principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto ye hands of God who gave it and my body to be buried with Christian burial at ye discretion of my friends, hoping that at ye resurrection I shall receive ye same again by ye almighty power of God. And concerning such worldly estates as God hath pleased to bless me with in this life, I give, Demiss and dispose of as follows:
Imprimis Item. I give to my son Jedediah ye house and lot where he now lives, there being about twelve or thirteen acres of the land and also my six acre lot at Mun's Meadow and also my four acre lot in ye Neck, bounded by ye land of John Sacket westerly.
Item. I give to my son Thomas ye lot which I bought of Mr. Cornish, being about ten or eleven acres and also my lot south of ye road as we go to Two Mile Brook. I give to Thomas all but five acres, which five acres Joseph is to have, running through ye ten acre lot and yt which I bought of Deacon Noble. Also I give to Thomas my three acre lot by Two Mile Brook near where ye mill was formerly.
Item. I give to my son Joseph my twelve acre lot in ye meadow lying and bounded by ye land of John Sacket easterly and also five acres of my land south of ye road against Daniel Bagg's houselot, also I have given him my black mare which he has already received and also about thirty acres of land lying by ye Squawfield, for which I have received about twenty pounds.
Item. I give to my son Daniel all yt land given to some of my sons by my honored Father Orton, lying in Farmington bounds, south of Hartford Road; my sons having given me right to dispose of it they having ye share at home of my land in Westfield; and also I give to Daniel twenty lbs. of my estate which he has already received.
My daughters which are by ye disposing hand of God deceased, have already had near thirty lbs. apiece of my estate; also give to their children surviving, forty shillings apiece six lbs. to my daughter Sarah's three children and ten lbs. to my daughter Margaret's five children. My daughter Hannah having received something considerable at her marriage as her sisters had, but being taken away by ye providence of God and her children both, I think it will not be expected that I should add anything further upon her account.
Item. I give to my other two daughters Mary and Abigail forty lbs. apiece out of my moveable estate.
Item. I give to my son James my seven acre lot bounded by ye land of David Ashley westerly. Item. I give to my son James my house and homestead where I now live and my two acre lot by ye meeting house and also
my three acre lot in ye neck bounded by Pixley's land easterly; also I give to my son James eight acres of land by ye mountain at ye hinter end of it next to Daniel Bagg's marsh I give to James tools sufficient for his use about his trade and my black gun; the rest of my land in ye field and with out ye field I give to my four sons in Westfield to be equally divided amongst them the rest of my moveable estate I give to all my surviving children to be equally divided amongst them and I do constitute my sons Jedediah and James to be my executors of this my last will and testament, hereby ratifying this my last will and testament.
In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of April, 1715. Signed, sealed and delivered by ye said Jedediah Dewey to be his last will and testament.
Witness:
David Ashley,
Samll Taylor,
Joseph Root.
We the subscribers being legates to ye estate of Our Honored Father Jedediah Dewey of Westfield, deceased, do unanimously agree that the within written will or form shall stand good and we do humbly desire the Judge of Probate to ratify and confirm the same.
Jedediah Dewey, [L. S.]
Joseph Dewey, [L. S.]
James Dewey, [L. S.]
Thomas Dewey, [L. S.]
Joseph Noble, [L. S.]
Daniel Bissell, [L. S.]
Daniel Bissell, Jr., [L. S.]
Margaret Bissell, [L. S.]
Hampshire, ss: --
May 25, 1718. Jedediah Dewey and James Dewey, two of ye persons aforesigning, appd before me, underwritten Judge of ye Probate of Wills, etc., for sd. County, and acknowledges ye aforesaid instrument to be their act and deed which I approve and allow of, provided all persons concerned consent to and acknowledge ye same.
Samuel Partridge.
He m. about 1670, SARAH ORTON, of Farmington, Conn., dau. of Thomas and Margaret (Pell), he was probably son of Thomas, of Charles-town, Mass.; Mrs. Sarah Dewey joined Westfield Church, March 24, 1780; was baptized Aug. 22, 1652, at Windsor, Conn.; d. Nov. 20, 1711, as per old red sandstone slab, facing south, in old burying ground on Mechanic street.
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Note for: Walter Buchman, 24 FEB 1875 - BEF 9 DEC 1959
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Occupation: Place: Machine Man, Harness Factory (1910)
Occupation: Place: Superintendent, Steel Industry (1930)
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Note for: Julius Yeomans Dewey, 22 AUG 1801 - 29 MAY 1877
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Individual Note: "He was fitted for college in the Washington county grammar school, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1824. After his graduation he formed a partnership with Dr. Edward Lamb, of Montpelier, with whom he had previously studied medicine, remaining with him a few years, and building up a large practice. In 1850, in company with Governor Paul Dillingham, Judge Timothy P. Refield, and others, he founde the National Life Insurance Company, and was made its general manager. In 1851, he was elected president of the company, and for a number of years served as medical examiner for the organization."
Source: Carleton, Hiram, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, Vol II. p.57
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Note for: George Dewey, 26 DEC 1837 - 1917
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1837-1917, naval hero. Although George Dewey was taken to the public heart for his martial triumphs, he was inept and ineffective in the tumultuous political arena. His career was marked by the tension between the popular desire to celebrate war heroes and the deep American distrust of power and authority.
Born in Vermont, Dewey went to Annapolis in 1854 and had the good fortune to become a commissioned officer in April 1861, the month of Fort Sumter and the outbreak of the Civil War. He served competently in Adm. David Farragut's successful New Orleans and Vicksburg campaigns, learning lessons of boldness and resoluteness that he put to good use decades later in Manila Bay. His career bogged down in the decades after 1865, along with the rest of his generation of naval officers. Then in the late nineties the gathering confrontation with Spain over Cuba reopened the doors of opportunity. Dewey had good social and political contacts, among them his fellow Vermonter Senator Redfield Proctor and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. They supported him in his successful quest to become commander of the Far Eastern Squadron - the chosen instrument in the American plan to attack the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the event of war.
Although he had spent only four of the past twenty years at sea when appointed in 1897, Dewey expeditiously smashed the much weaker, incompetently handled Spanish warships at Manila in the spring of 1898. His soon-mythic order to his chief gunner - "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" - caught the flavor of his performance. (So, too, did the less than impressive record of his gunners: 142 hits of 5,859 shells fired.)
No ideological imperialist - "Our government is not fitted for colonies.... We have ample room for development at home," he once observed - Dewey nevertheless convinced himself that the Filipinos wanted to come under American sovereignty. He lent his considerable weight to the fateful American decision to replace Spain as the ruler of the Philippines. Nevertheless, here as in the rest of his career he tried to avoid taking a controversial part in public affairs.
The popular response to Dewey's victory reflected the pent-up desire for glamour and glory that had been a major factor in the declaration of war against Spain. He returned home to great popular acclaim, and Congress in 1899 elevated him to the new rank of admiral of the navy. He quickly caught the attention of Democrats seeking an alternative to William Jennings Bryan for the forthcoming 1900 rematch with President William McKinley.
After much hesitation, Dewey announced his candidacy. But he had recently married a social-climbing Catholic widow and made the politically injudicious decision to deed to her the Washington home given to him as a gift of the people. When he then announced that "since studying the subject, I am convinced that the office of President is not such a very difficult one to fill," his candidacy became an object of derision and quickly petered out.
During the remainder of his career he chaired the General Board of the Navy, created in March 1900 to work on potential war strategy. Dewey's stronger qualities again emerged. Although he did not join them, he assured a full and fair hearing to younger officers seeking to modernize the navy. He died in January 1917, a few months before the United States entered the war that put an end to the world in which his career had run its course.
Ronald H. Spector, Admiral of the New Empire: The Life and Career of George Dewey (1984); Richard S. West, Admirals of American Empire: The Combined Story of George Dewey, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Winfield Scott Schley, and William Thomas Sampson (1971).
Morton Keller
[Article from the History Channel website]
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Note for: Thomas Dewey, 29 JUN 1682 - 15 MAR 1758
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Individual Note: THOMAS DEWEY, son of Jedediah, b. June 29, 1682, at Westfield, Mass.; there d. March 15, 1758, ag. 75, where he was a farmer in Little River District; selectman 1717 and 1729; owned nine acres in General Field in 1723; joined the church, Jan. 1, 1727; m. Nov. 7, 1706, at Westfield, his cousin, Mrs. ABIGAIL (DEWEY) ASHLEY, No. 17, widow of Joseph Asbley, and dau. of Thomas (2d) and Constant (Hawes) Dewey, b. Feb. 14, 1681, at Westfield; there d. Dec. 20, 1747, ag. 66; he m. 2d, Dec. 29, 1749, at Suffield, Conn., ELIZABETH HARMON; she joined Westfield Church by letter from Suffield, Nov. 13, 1750.
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Note for: Israel Dewey, 3 MAR 1711/12 - 23 NOV 1773
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Individual Note: ISRAEL DEWEY, son of Thomas, b. March 3, 1713, at Westfield, Mass.; d. Nov. 23, 1773, ag. 60, at Great Barrington, Mass., where he had settled Feb. 7, 1757, with wife and ten children, from Westfield; with his wife he joined Westfield Church, Feb. 28, 1742; dismissed in 1757; bought, Oct. 20, 1756, of Hewit Root, of Blandford, innholder, a mansion house and barn three-fourths of a mile west of the upper meeting-house in Sheffield (Great Barrington); was the real pioneer of the Berkshire Deweys, whose influence in the town he helped to found still remains; a man of independence, originality, and great force of character. He settled primarily on the large farm now owned by Frederick Abbey, a mile above the village of Great Barrington, upon which the government building known as the "Old French Fort" was located; four years later he removed to the village, and built a dwelling house, afterward occupied by Maj. Samuel Rosseter, on the site now occupied by "Housatonic Hall" -- a seminary for young ladies. He also erected lumber and flour mills; held offices in town and church, and took active part in the growing town; he held a written theological discussion with Dr. Samuel Hopkins, pastor of the Congregational Church, which was included in the Life of Dr. Hopkins, by Prof. Edward A. Parks, of Andover Seminary, and in other ways manifested the scholarship and breadth of intellectual views, rare in his day; after his decease his younger sons continued the milling business in his stead for many years, until they removed to farms purchased in the vicinity; m. Sept. 19, 1734, at Westfield, LYDIA MOSELY, dau. of Consider and Elizabeth (Bancroft, see No. 8003), b. Feb. 19, 1716, at Westfield; d. June 19, 1787, ag. 71, at Great Barrington.
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Note for: Joel Allen Dewey, 20 SEP 1840 - 17 JUN 1873
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Individual Note: Joel Allen Dewey was a General in the Union Army.
Pre-War Profession Student.
War Service October 1861 2nd Lt. in 58th Ohio, Capt. in 43rd Ohio, New Madrid, Iuka, Corinth, garrison duty in Tennessee, Lt. Col. of 111th Colored Infantry, railroad guard duty, February 1864 Col., November 1865 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers.
Post War Career Lawyer, district attorney general.
111th Regiment Colored Infantry
This regiment was organized at Pulaski, Prospect, and Lynnville, Tenn., and Sulphur Branch Trestle, Ala., from January 13 to April 5, 1863, as the 3d regiment Alabama volunteers,a.d. [African Descent], to serve three years. Its designation was changed to 111th regiment U.S. colored troops June 25, 1864. It was mustered out of service April 30, 1866.
Note: First Lieutenant Harry H. Workman served with this regiment and resigned after the war on July 18, 1865.
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Note for: Thomas Edmond Dewey, 24 FEB 1902 - 16 MAR 1971
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Individual Note:
THOMAS EDMUND DEWEY (b. March 24, 1902, Owosso, Mich., U.S.--d. March 16, 1971, Bal Harbour, Fla.), vigorous U.S. prosecuting attorney whose successful racket-busting career won him three terms as governor of New York (1943-55). A long-time Republican leader, he was his party's presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948 but lost in both elections.
Dewey graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 and received his law degree from Columbia University in 1925. Admitted to the New York bar in 1926, Dewey launched his government career five years later as chief assistant to the U.S. attorney for the southern district of the state. Between 1935 and 1937 he garnered national attention as special prosecutor in an investigation of organized crime in New York; he obtained 72 convictions out of 73 prosecutions of long-established racketeers. Elected district attorney in 1937, Dewey continued to impress the electorate with his legal acumen and with his personal drive and integrity.
Although unsuccessful in his first bid for governor (1938), Dewey was elected for three successive terms beginning in 1942. In office he earned a reputation for political moderation and administrative efficiency, putting the state on a pay-as-you-go basis for capital building, reorganizing departments, and establishing the first state agency to eliminate discrimination in employment.
As Republican nominee for president in 1944, Dewey was neither expected nor able to overcome the enormous wartime prestige of the incumbent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The pollsters flatly predicted victory for his candidacy in 1948, however, though the political picture was confused by the entrance of two minority extremist factions--the Progressives and the States' Rights (Dixiecrat) Party. Waging a noncommittal campaign purposely designed to avoid offending any segment of the electorate, Dewey was unexpectedly defeated by President Harry S. Truman, who surprisingly retained the loyalty of both farm and labour circles.
As a leader of the eastern Republicans at the 1952 national convention, he played a key role in the nominations of General Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Senator Richard M. Nixon for vice president. At the end of his third term as governor (1955), Dewey returned to a lucrative private law practice. He remained a close adviser to Republican administrations but thought his age precluded acceptance of an offer by President Nixon in 1968 to serve as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Note for: James Bagg, 25 FEB 1745/46 - 20 MAY 1766
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Individual Note: His death was due to a lightning strike.
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Note for: Hattie Fry, 15 APR 1892 - JAN 1981
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Individual Note: Social Security Death Index
Name: Harriet Buchman
SSN: 286-42-0504
Last Residence: 44626 East Sparta, Stark, Ohio, United States of America
Born: 15 Apr 1892
Died: Jan 1981
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (1963 )