Blanche Ames was a suffragist, an early advocate of birth control, and late in life Blanche wrote a biography of her father, Adalbert Ames.

Since the gearing was almost direct, only a slight turn of the wheel was needed to send the car veering wildly.In 1880, Nathaniel Howard Talbot had moved to Weld, Colorado, where he was postmaster and a photographer. Leaving Jackson, the regiment marched with scarcely a halt to near Champion Hill where they arrived about 2 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, and after a rest of two or three hours marched north to a position on extreme right of Grants line and at night crossed Black River at Bridgeport. They remained permanently damp, whatever the weather and the whereabouts of two of them are unknown. A large wagon load of crated duck would be shipped each morning from the Easton Center railroad station to destinations throughout the United States. At nightfall the regiment was withdrawn to the outer works of the enemy, where they remained through the night.

Exploring new opportunities in the Ames tradition, Blanche enrolled in Smith College, when few women attended college and gave the commencement address at her 1899 graduation exercises. The fire equipment for the South Easton and Eastondale Fire and Water District was housed in a barn on the southeast corner of Depot and Washington Streets. In 1900, Oakes and Blanche Ames began their marriage by living at his childhood home at 35 Oliver Street in North Easton with his widowed mother, Anna Coffin Ames, his two sisters, Evelyn C. At the age of fifteen, Oakes took an interest in orchids while studying in Easton on the origin of plant life in different regions or times.

I told Adelaide a bit about myself and how I came to be interested in my photography project following retirement. George Plimpton, co-founder of the Paris Review, was known for his efforts in sports with the Detroit LIons in - Paper Lions, - Boston Bruins in - Open Net, - Willie Mays in - Out of My League, - pro golf in - Bogey Man, - and fought Archie Moore and Sugar Ray Robinson for articles in the Sports Illustrated. Braking was accomplished by a hand lever to the driver’s right; a clutch brake helped to hold the car on a hill.

Maps of the district were drawn locating the water connections, identification of the resident's properties. LILLIAS DRUMMOND were found carved into the stone sill outside their bedroom window, in letters three inches high and upside down, the window being over 50 feet above ground level. But in the interests of science, I though I would spend some time now trying to find out whether that's true!

At the breaking out of the rebellion he recruited the 12th Iowa infantry, of which he was made colonel. Louis where they arrived November 15th, his brigade having marched within the last thirty days five hundred and forty three miles--within the last sixty days eight hundred and seventy-nine miles, and since June 16th, one thousand four hundred and nine miles.

Colonel Woods of the Twelfth Iowa particularly distinguished himself, was twice wounded and when the enemy was driven back on Monday he was captured. In 1853, Nathaniel and Almira Belcher Talbot owned three buildings and ninety-five and one-half acres. The same kind of services were provided by Cyrus Alger, who had meats and vegetables at his place on Turnpike Street.He was born in Brown County, Ohio, January 11, 1823, is a son of Samuel and Allia Richey Woods, the father a native of Washington County, Pa.