Shepard-Hamilton Diary Research - Nov 1857

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Shepard-Hamilton transcription research

November 1857

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

Mr. Charles ♢ William Charles (1820- 1891) Born in England, William operated a blacksmith shop at the corner of Shepard Road and Ellicott Street Road (today known as Johnny’s). He married Elizabeth Laramy in 1843 and they lived there with their seven children.
Elder Fister ♢ Rev. Isaac Fister born in 1803 in Philadelphia, was married to Sophia Van Buren about 1855 and they had a son Clarence in 1855 when they lived in Ohio. Isaac was first married to Lovina about 1831 and they had two children: Mary P in 1832, and Charles W in 1838. She died in 1853 and is buried in in Union Cemetery, Brooklyn.
cistern ♢ A cistern was a holding tank of run-off water for household uses. Osgood (1819-?) was a son of Peter Jr. and Prudence Johnson Putnam. He married Malvina E. Bryan, (1829-1878 ) daughter of George and Mary Bryan. Osgood and Malvina lived at the south end of Putnam Settlement Road in Bethany and had their third child, Julia, in 1857. Their other children were Bennett L. Putnam (1849-1877) and Lyman Seymour Putnam (1851-?). Osgood was named after his paternal grandmother, Susannah Osgood (1766-1822) who married his grandfather Peter Putnam (1758-1821) in 1781.
children ♢ Out of Hiram Hamilton‘s eleven children, those still alive in 1857 were: William L. (1821-1890), Harriet (Knowlton) (1823-1891), Adeline (Stewart) (1827-1903), Helen M. (1830-1914), John C. (1832-1894), Lizzie M. (1835-1915), Benjamin Frank (1837-1923), and James M. (1839-1916).

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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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