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Note for: Fred Shawley, ABT 1897 - Index

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Fred was a veteran of World War I.

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Note for: Samuel Hathaway, 28 AUG 1922 - FEB 1966 Index

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Social Security Death Index
SAMUEL HATHAWAY 28 Aug 1922 Feb 1969 MO (Before 1951 ) 486-20-7635

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Note for: Arthur Tappan Averill, 14 SEP 1843 - 14 FEB 1910 Index

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Arthur is listed in the 1880 census, 2nd Ward, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa as president of the gas works. In 1900, he was still living in Cedar Rapids with his wife and daughter. Occupation - banker.

In the passing of Arthur Tappan Averill, Cedar Rapids suffered the loss of one of its most prominent and representative citizens -- a man whose work was of vital significance in the commercial and financial history of the city. While his business enterprise carried him into other fields beyond the boundaries of the state, his interest always centered in this city and Cedar Rapids ever benefitted by the prosperity which he attained elsewhere.

He was born at Highgate Springs, Franklin county, Vermont, September 14, 1843, and possessed many of the sterling characteristics attributed to the New England people. He traced his ancestry back to Captain John Averill who was commissioned under the crown of Great Britain and settled first in Northfield, Massachusetts, but in 1752 removed to township number 1, Vermont. The next in descent was John Averill, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, whose son, John Averill, was born in Westminster, Vermont, in 1777, and removed to Highgate Springs, that state, in 1812. He was a member of the Society of Friends and took a very active and prominent part in public affairs, being elected three times to the state legislature. The latter's son, Mark R. Averill, was the father of our subject. He was born in Highgate Springs, Vermont, in 1811.

Theodore Roosevelt has said: "A man of eastern birth, reared and trained in western environment becomes the strongest factor in American citizenship." Such was the record of Arthur Tappan Averill, who when a youth of nine years, accompanied his parents as they left their New England home and journeyed westward to become residents of Lee county, Illinois. In 1854 they removed to Whiteside county of the same state and there Arthur T. Averill was reared to manhood, attending school at Geneseo with John T. Hamilton, with whom he afterward engaged in business. He arrived in Cedar Rapids in March, 1865, -- a young man of twenty-one years -- and here became assistant to the local agent of C. H. & L. J. McCormick. Later he became agent for the McCormick interests at this point and further promotion brought him to the position of superintendent of agents for the firm in 1869, in which connection he had entire supervision of the Iowa business. While thus engaged he induced his former schoolmate, John T. Hamilton, to come to Cedar Rapids as his associate in business and in 1869 the firm of Averill & Hamilton was organized for the purpose of dealing in agricultural implements, seeds, coal and kindred lines. The new enterprise prospered from the beginning and the partnership was profitably maintained for five years. The firm then became Averill & Amidon and so continued for two years, when Mr.
Amidon disposed of his interests, Mr. Averill remaining as sole proprietor through the succeeding two years.

Energetic and enterprising, he extended his efforts into other fields, purchasing a controlling interest in the Cedar Rapids Gas Light Company in 1875, in which year he was chosen president and so continued to the time of his demise. Mr. Averill took a personal pride and interest in the gas plant and though he had many opportunities to dispose of it, refused all offers. Moreover, he figured prominently in financial circles, serving for twenty years as the president of the Cedar Rapids National Bank, in which connection he instituted a progressive system that was, however, tempered by a safe conservatism, making the bank one of the strongest financial concerns of the state. The years brought him wealth and the extension of his activities into other fields made him well known as an investor in business and real-estate interests of Cedar Rapids and also as an investor in business projects in Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Kentucky. He was likewise the proprietor of the Vincennes hotel, one of the leading family hotels of Chicago, financed the building of the Montrose hotel of Cedar Rapids and also the Welch-Cook building. It was a notable instance of his public spirit that his prosperity gained elsewhere was largely used for the benefit of his home town.

On the 22d of October, 1867, Mr. Averill was united in marriage to Miss Allie R. Doolittle, of this city, and unto them were born three children, Glenn M., Jessie and Arthur, but the last named died in infancy. The death of Mr. Averill occurred February 14, 1910, and, while he was a prominent figure in business circles and in public affairs, his loss was nowhere more keenly and poignantly felt than at his own fireside, for he was a devoted husband and father whose first consideration was ever his family. His activity in business circles was ever of the utmost benefit to Cedar Rapids and no man took a keener interest in such projects as were a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. He never sought public office but wielded an influence that was all the more potent from the fact that it was moral rather than political. His opinions came to be recognized as so sound and his views so correct as to make his support of any measure an influencing factor that drew to it the further support of his fellow townsmen. Throughout the long period of his residence in Cedar Rapids he enjoyed in the fullest measure the confidence and high regard of his colleagues and contemporaries.

History of Linn County Iowa from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Volume II.
Biographical

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Note for: Glenn M. Averill, 15 JUL 1868 - 1940 Index

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In 1910, this family was in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. Glenn was the vice president of a gas company. The family had two live-in servants, one acting as chauffeur.

Florida Death Index 1877-1998

Name: Glenn Mark Averill
Place: Tampa
Gender: M
Race: W
Volume: 897
Certificate: 10376
Death Date: 1940

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Note for: Jessie M. Averill, 9 DEC 1876 - Index

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Jessie seems not to have married. In 1910 and 1920 she occupied her own home. The earlier year had her living with one servant; in the later one she lived with a cousin and two servants. Both were in Cedar Rapids.

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Note for: Arthur Tappin Averill, 11 OCT 1893 - DEC 1968 Index

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Arthur and Charlotte were living in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa in 1920. Arthur was the manager of a factory. By 1930, they were living in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida. Arthur was a dealer for a lumber company. They had a nursemaid for the children living with them.

Social Security Death Index
ARTHUR AVERILL 11 Oct 1893 Dec 1968 Tampa, Hillsborough, FL FL (1963 ) 265-80-5716

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Note for: Worth Averill, ABT 1896 - Index

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This family was living in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa in 1930. Worth listed his occupation as business secretary for an industrial corporation. Living with them was a maid and a laundress.

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Note for: Glenn M. Averill, 21 SEP 1920 - 21 APR 2002 Index

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Social Security Death Index:
GLENN M AVERILL 21 Sep 1920 21 Apr 2002 Tampa, Hillsborough, FL FL (Before 1951 ) 263-22-1234

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Note for: Dudley Averill, 29 JUL 1924 - 27 APR 2001 Index

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Social Security Death Index
DUDLEY S AVERILL 29 Jul 1924 27 Apr 2001 Oxnard, Ventura, CA IA (Before 1951 ) 481-28-9684

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Note for: Robert Logan, MAY 1878 - Index

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In 1920, Robert was still single. He was living with sister Bessie and her husband in Sacramento and was working as switchman for the railroad.

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Note for: Edward Erhardt, ABT 1885 - Index

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This family was living in Sacramento, California in 1920. Edward was a brakeman for the railroad. In 1930, he was a conductor with the railroad.

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Note for: Charles Edwin Cort, 1 MAR 1841 - 3 AUG 1903 Index

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     The family moved from PA to Illinois, where Charles enlisted in the 92nd IL Vols, Company H in August, 1862. He survived the war unscathed and settled in Dakota Territory, where he was a member of the convention that framed its constitution. He organized schools and churches, and he was called the father of the first Presbyterian Church in St. Lawrence, South Dakota.

    Bryant Family History: Ancestry and Descendants of David Bryant (1756) of Springfield, N.J., Washington County, PA., Knox Co., Ohio, and Wolf Lake, Noble Co., IN. Published in 1913.

Edward C. Coart

Residence Lane Station IL;
Enlisted on 8/11/1862 as a Corporal.

On 9/4/1862 he mustered into "H" Co. IL 92nd Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 6/21/1865 at Greensboro, NC

Promotions:
* 1st Sergt

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

    - Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men

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Note for: Edwin Gallatin Cort, 2 SEP 1885 - Index

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Edwin graduated in 1911 from the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa. He was a professor in a college at Browns Valley, Minnesota.

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Note for: Joseph Turney Cort, ABT 1838 - Index

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Message board posting, 2003

I am seeking information regarding Joseph T. Cort and his family. He was born in Monongahelah, Washington Co in 1839, son of Jacob and Mary Jane [Carson]. Joseph was lived in Lee and Ogle Co IL from 1855 until about 1889 when he moved to Greensburg PA.

Joseph married Martha Shaw [b: 1845], and had 2 sons (John S. [b: 1877] and Charles [b: 1879] while the family was living in IL. John S. Cort was an attorney in Pittsburgh in 1933; at that time he wrote a letter to his cousin who was my grandmother. Joseph was the brother of her father, Arthur B. Cort [b.1852 in Monongahelah PA).

I have other information regarding Joseph's siblings: Charles Edwin, Margaret Jane, William Carson, Arthur Buchanan, and Thomas G. I believe he had 2 older sisters (as listed in the1840 Federal Census as "2 females under the age of 5). These two sisters did not accompany the family when it moved to IL.