Shepard-Hamilton Diary Research - Dec 1857

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Shepard-Hamilton transcription research

December 1857

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Following is the set of footnotes associated with research of the transcription of the December 1857 diary entries by Lorette Shepard & John Hamilton. These footnotes are also interspersed and embedded within the transcription.

Warren Putnams ♢ Warren Putnam (1811-1901) Second oldest son of Peter Putnam and Prudence Johnson, Warren and Sarah Quance had four children who all lived to see the 1900’s: Monroe 18, twins Eveline and Emeline 16, and Emerette 13. They lived on East Road next to Sarah’s mother, Mehitable Powers Quance (1793-1878).
Berkshire ♢ A Berkshire pig is a breed of pig that originated in the county of Berkshire, England. Its meat today is distributed world wide.
Gilbert Smith ♢ Gilbert Smith (1813-1866) Son of Elisha Sanford Smith (1786-1866) and Elizabeth Birdsall (1784-1855), Gilbert and Polly Loomis were married in1832 in Alexander. By 1857, they had four children: Egesta, Theodore, Rozilla, and Sanford. The family remained in Genesee County all their lives.
Wethersfield ♢ Lorette's uncles Martin and Marvin Shepard lived in Weathersfield.
Showerman’s sister & daughter ♢ Lorette’s grandfather, John Showerman had seven siblings. One of them was Eve Showerman Sale, wife of Peter Sale of Victor, Ontario County, NY. They had a daughter, Eliza Jane Sale, born in 1831
Christmas tree ♢ The Christmas tree tradition is said to have started in America around 1830 when the Pennsylvania Germans introduced it.
David Knowlton's ♢ David and John's sister Harriet Hamilton Knowlton, had two daughters, Mary 11 and Ella 6.
Horehound leaves ♢ Horehound is an herb used for making candy and tea. It is used to ease the effects of coughs and colds.

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1857 Diary Summary

John 25 and Lorette 21 settle into their second year of marriage. They live with her parents who are remodeling their house on Shepard Road, Batavia, NY. Baby brother, Charles is 3 and Lorette helps with his care. Daily they see their relatives and friends marry and have children. Lorette gives music lessons to neighbors and attends singing school and weekly sees her best friend and half-aunt Elizabeth Showerman Quance who lives around the corner on East Road with her husband Israel. John attends a debate club, reads a book on spiritualism, moves his barn, goes fishing, raises sheep, makes maple syrup, and plays baseball. Life is filled with dinners, picnics, attending various churches, deaths and marriages, and a lot of visiting.

1857 Surnames Mentioned

Andrews, Ashley, Benedict, Benton, Bostwick, Brainard, Brown, Bryan, Buell, Burt, Calkins, Chaddock, Charles, Cole, Cornwell, Cortez, Covell/Coville, Cummings, Davis, Denton, Dorman, Emmons, Farnham, Fillmore, Fister, Green, Hamilton, Hart, Hathaway, Hawley, Holden, Holter/Holton, Houghton, Huggins, Huntington, Jackman, Johnson, Judd, Judson, Keaton, Knowlton, Lamkin, Lane, Lathrop, Lawrence, Leonard, Levings, Lincoln, Loomis, Lord, Lovelace, Lyman, Lyons, Madden, Marsh, Marshall, McMillen, Moore, Newton, Northrup, Norton, Nott, Olin, Parmer, Patterson, Perry, Phelps, Plato, Powers, Putnam, Quance, Read, Reamer, Rogers, Rolland, Sale, Shaw, Shepard, Showerman, Skinner, Smith, Sprague, Stevens, Stewart, Strong, Sweetland, Thayer, Thompson, Town, Waite, Walker, Wales, Ware, Watts, Webster, Weed, West, Wilkenson, Woodward, Wortendyke

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World Events of 1857

An earthquake hit Tokyo and about 107,000 died
Frederick Laggenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse
H. Sichel & Sohne, the producers of the popular Blue Nun white wine, was founded in Germany
The SS Central America sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, cargo includes 43 bars of gold

National Events of 1857

In Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court rules that a slave is not a citizen
James Gibbs of Virginia patented a chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
The California gold rush town of Columbia burned down in a fire that was blamed on a Chinese cook; the miners soon evicted all Chinese from the town
Mormon leader Brigham Young called out the Nauvoo Legion to fight the U.S. Troops if they enter Utah Territory
Lithographers Nathaniel Currier and Charles Ives become partners
Count Agoston Haraszthy founded the Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, California
Paul Broca discovered that particular regions of the brain are specialized for particular functions
The first US coin to be called a nickel was the copper and nickel one-cent piece

New York State Events in 1857

The first passenger elevator is installed in a New York City store
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead and architect Calvert Vaux won the competition to develop New York City's Central Park
New York City's Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company branch fails, precipitating a financial panic; 4,932 U. S. firms fail
John Alsop King takes office as the first Republican governor
The American Chess Association organized. The first major US chess tournament was held in NYC

Local Events in 1857

Treaty with the Seneca Tonawanda Band was signed restoring about 8,000 acres of land to the Seneca Nation
The Genesee River floods carrying away buildings on Rochester's Main Street Bridge
Susan B. Anthony and William Lloyd Garrison speak at an Abolition meeting in Corinthian Hall, Rochester
Le Roy's Ingham Collegiate Institute is chartered as Ingham University
Belva Lockwood graduates from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, NY; she later runs for U.S. President in 1884 and 1888
Polly Hoag Frisch's second husband, Otto Frisch, deserts her in the same year that two more of her children die in the Town of Alabama. Relatives, neighbors, and friends are suspicious

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