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WILLARD MEMORIAL
WILLIAM FIENNES
LORD BROOKE
GEORGE FENWICK
JOHN WINTHROP, JR.
EDWARD GIBBONS
SIMON WILLARD
Print made from a glass plate negative. Image by Hingham photographer William B. Luce of Susan Barker Willard and some of her pupils.
In the John P. Richardson Collection. Courtesy of the Hingham Historical Commission and the Hingham Historical Society [2012.30.2048].
WAR MEMORIAL
****WW2****
ERNEST E. ALDERMAN
LEONARD R. ALDERMAN
JOSEPH W. BACKES, 3rd
ALVIN H. BATTISTONI
JOHN W. BENDZA
JOHN H. BENSON
ADOLPH J. BIERUT
EDWARD J. BIERUT
LIGOURIE J. BLANCHETTE
FELIX A. BRYCK
ROBERT L. BUNN
ELAINE DOUYARD BURNINGHAM
LIONEL A. CAYER
MAURICE L. CAYER
DAVID M. CEDER
FRED CHARETTE
JOSEPH F. CHARETTE - KIA
LOUIS CHARETTE
ALBERT E. CLIFFORD, JR.
WILLIAM B. CLIFFORD
STEPHEN CSWERCKO
JOHN N. DAROSZ - KIA
JOSEPH A. DLUBAC
PAUL DLUBAC
ARTHUR DOUYARD
ROBERT H. DREWBEAR
RICHARD O. DURHAM
FRANK W. FEYK
ALEXANDER FIALKIEWICZ
JOHN G. FOSTER - KIA
ALEXANDER W. GASTKA
WALTER A. GASTKA
RALPH L. GEZELMAN
RALPH L. GEZELMAN, JR.
ROGER B. GEZELMAN
CARL E. GOLARZ
JOHN M. GOLARZ
WILBUR G. GOODWIN
MICHAEL F. GOTASKY
JOHN A. GOTASKY
ADAM J. GROWCZWICZ
HENRY GRUNDWALSKI
JAMES GRUNDALSKI
RUDOLPH GRUNDWALSKI
JOSEPH A. GUERIN - KIA
RICHARD E. GUERIN
CARL T. HARTIGAN
WILLIAM R. HARTIGAN
JOSEPH A. HATALA
JOHN D. HINMAN
FRANK E. HORTON - KIA
HERBERT A. HUFFIELD
DAVID M. HUTCHINSON
JONATHAN HUTCHINSON
WILLIAM A. JABS
ARTHUR E. JOHNSON
WILLIAM R. JOHNSON
MICHAEL KAMINSKY, JR.
EDWARD A. KAWECKI
JOHN F. KILDUFF, JR.
MILLARD W. KINSKI
PAUL J. KOBZA
WALDEMARD KONOPAS
CHARLES KONOPKA
FLORENCE J. KONOPKA
JOHN KONOPKA
JOHN A. KOSTRISAK
CHARLES J. KOZLAK
JOSEPH F. KOZLAK, JR.
EMORY KRISH
JOSEPH F. KRULIK
ADAM A. KUCIA
JOSEPH A. KUCIA
MITCHELL KUCIA
WALTER J. KUCIA
HENRY J. KUHARSKI
FRANCES T. LYON
DONALD McCALLUM
JOHN MALASKIEWICZ
ALEXANDER H. MERRIMAN
ROBERT S. MERRIMAN
GERARD J. MICHEL
WALTER J. MIKOSZ
ALFRED W. MORIN
RICHARD J. MORIN
CARL N. MOYERS
CLYDE J. MOYERS
THEODORE J. NICKSA
WALTER C. NICKSA
ANTON J. NUZENSKI
WALTER E. PARYLAK
FRANK E. PETROSKI
LEONARD R. POMASKI
HENRY PRZYBYSZ
STANLEY T. PRZYBYSZ
ARTHUR J. REEVE, JR.
HENRY F. REEVE, JR.
JOHN A. REEVE
EDWARD F. REUBER
CARLTON REYNOLDS
RAYMOND E. REYNOLDS
WILLARD R. REYNOLDS
WILLIAM R. ROBINSON, JR.
CARL J. ROMANIEC
JOHN ROYKO, JR.
LOUIS ROYKO
ALLEN D. RUSSELL
JOSEPH T. RZONCA
LOUIS SAWYER
ANTHONY J. SCHEIDEL
HAROLD W. SCHEIDEL
RICHARD F. SCHEIDEL
ROBERT L. SCHEIDEL
HENRY E. SCHWARZMANN
JOHN F. SCHWARZMANN
LUTHER M. SHATTUCK
STEPHEN F. SIKORSKY, JR.
LOUISE H. SIENNICKI
ANTHONY SKOWRONSKI
LOUIS J. STETZ
TEDEUSZ B. SZYDLO
STANISLAW M. SZYDLO
JOHN L. TIBBETTS
LEONARD TRICARICO
CARROLL R. TURNER, JR.
DAVID J. TWINING
JULIUS VERNESONI
ARCHIBALD E. WATERS
GEORGE C. WATT
STANLEY F. WITHE, JR.
FRANCIS W. YARZAB
EDWARD ZIONCE
JOHN ZIONCE
STANLEY ZIONCE - KIA
WALTER ZIONCE
****KOREAN WAR****
DONALD J. ADAMS
NORMAN E. ADAMS
DUANE ALLYN
MAURICE R. AMELOTTE
JOSEPH W. BIGWOOD
REINHARDT E. BODAMER
RUDOLPH BODAMER
FREDERICK E. BROOKS
BERNARD CAYER
GEORGE CAYER
FREDERICK J. CHARD, JR.
WALTER J. DEMISHACK
RAYMOND S. DLUGOKINSKI
LAWRENCE E. DOUYARD
RALPH L. GEZELMAN
RALPH L. GEZELMAN, JR.
ROGER B. GEZELMAN
DAVID W. GILCHRIST, JR.
ROWLAND E. GUERIN
CARL T. HARTIGAN
JOHN P. KAMINSKY
RICHARD P. KING
THOMAS A. KING, JR
BERNARD F. KOST
JAMES E. KOST
AUGUST P. KOZLAK
ALEX KUCIA
BENJAMIN J. KUCIA
FRANK T. KUCIA
GEORGE LAMOUREAUX
EDWARD S. LEGOWSKI
JOSEPH P. LOMNICKY, JR.
KENNETH H. MATHEWSON
ERWIN D. MURDOCK
JAMES L. MURDOCK
JOHN I. PERRY, JR.
HOWARD REEVE
DONALD E. REYNOLDS
CARL ROYKO
WALTER O. RULF
ROBERT I. VINCENT
FREDERICK K. WOLLMANN
WALTER H. ZIMA
Day 3 of work with Joe in the cemetery, 2018
Dave single-handedly takes out the bush that has pushed Captain Willard's base over.
The larger than life statue of William Donald Schaefer, designed by sculptor Rodney Carroll, was unveiled and dedicated in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on November 2, 2009 as part of an 88th birthday celebration for Schaefer. The 7'2, 1100-pound bronze likeness sits inside a landscaped garden setting designed by Carol Macht near the Light Street Pavilion. Both the land for the garden and the funds for the statue were donated by construction magnate Willard Hackerman.
William Donald Schaefer, locally known as "Willie Don", served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. The Democrat was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995, and the Comptroller of Maryland from 1999 to 2007. Schaefer oversaw the transformation of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, the construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium, the reform of the state's higher education system, and construction of a light rail line through Baltimore.
The larger than life statue of William Donald Schaefer, designed by sculptor Rodney Carroll, was unveiled and dedicated in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on November 2, 2009 as part of an 88th birthday celebration for Schaefer. The 7'2, 1100-pound bronze likeness sits inside a landscaped garden setting designed by Carol Macht near the Light Street Pavilion. Both the land for the garden and the funds for the statue were donated by construction magnate Willard Hackerman.
William Donald Schaefer, locally known as "Willie Don", served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. The Democrat was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995, and the Comptroller of Maryland from 1999 to 2007. Schaefer oversaw the transformation of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, the construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium, the reform of the state's higher education system, and construction of a light rail line through Baltimore.
Photo from the Willard Smith Collection.
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Photo from the Willard Smith Collection.
There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. All future uses of this photo should include the courtesy line, "Photo courtesy Orange County Archives."
WILLIAM HENRY WHITE, born Aug. 27, 1841; died Feb. 11, 1923, age 82; Married Mary Ann Dennis in 1866 in Dover. Mary Ann died June 1, 1890 (soon after birth of thirteenth child). William was a farmer and a soldier in the Civil War. He fought at Gettysburg.
Children:
all born in Dutchess County, Dover, NY, more specifically in the mountains of Chestnut Ridge or East Mountain.
WALTER A. WHITE, born Oct. 27, 1866, died Feb. 11, 1923; m. (1) Minnie Monfort; m. (2) Viola Hewlet
EMMA F. WHITE, born Dec. 25, 1867, died 1921; married Joshua Bates
DANIEL W. WHITE, born Dec. 7, 1869; married Lillian Wigg
REUBEN J. WHITE, born April 11, 1872, died 1954; married Katherine Denny
DAISY WHITE, born April 1, 1874; died young
JOSIE A. WHITE, born March 16, 1877; married William Ryan
WILLARD H. WHITE, born Feb. 14, 1879, died July 7, 1958; married Daisy Caruthers
WILLIAM T. WHITE, born Feb. 14, 1879, died April 29, 1954; married Ida Christmas
MARTHA H. WHITE, born May 9, 1880; married Nelson Morey on Aug. 7, 1901, Wingdale NY
LIDA M. WHITE, born May 7, 1883, died 1964; married Albert Wheeler
NELLIE H. WHITE, born Sept. 3, 1885, d. Apr. 27, 1964
HARRY G. WHITE, born Nov. 7, 1887, died May 11, 1966; married Bertha Sherman, June 1, 1911
FLORENCE C. WHITE, born March 16, 1890, died July 9, 1959; married Pierce (Nathaniel) Slocum
Both incoming and outgoing Supervisors appear in this photo. From left to right: George Jeffrey, S.H. Finley, C.H. Chapman, Willard Smith, County Clerk Joe Backs, and William Schumacher. Photo taken inside the meeting room for the Orange County Board of Supervisors in the Orange County Courthouse. Photo from the Willard Smith Collection.
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Carte de visite by unidentified photographer. Capt. William Willard Hydorn Jr. (1837-1874), Company G, Ninety-seventh Regiment, Tenth Brigade, Third Division, New York National Guard. His rank dates to Dec. 24, 1864. His residence is Grafton. This information from the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York (1866, Vol. 1). Commanded by Col. Schuyler Greenman, the 500-man regiment served the state from late 1864 until it disbanded in 1868. The unit never mustered for federal service.
Hydorn's name is also spelled Heydorn.
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Seward and his family owned a home in Auburn, New York which is now a museum; it was built in 1816 by Seward's father-in-law, Judge Elijah Miller. Seward married the Judge's daughter, Frances, in 1824 on the condition that they would live with Miller in his Auburn home. Seward made many changes to the home, adding an addition in the late 1840s and another one in 1866. When he died, Seward left the home to his son, William Seward, Jr.; it passed on to his grandson, William Henry Seward III, in 1920.
HOWLAND, WILLIAM HOLMES, businessman, social reformer, philanthropist, and politician; b. 11 June 1844 in Lambton Mills (Etobicoke), Upper Canada, elder son of William Pearce Howland* and Mary Ann Blyth, widow of David Webb; m. 18 Oct. 1872 in Saint John, N.B., Laura Edith Chipman, sister-in-law of Samuel Leonard Tilley, and they had six children; d. 12 Dec. 1893 in Toronto.
Educated at Upper Canada College and the Model Grammar School in Toronto, William Holmes Howland stopped his formal education at age 16, after his father had become active in provincial politics; William Pearce was returned as Reform mla for York West in the election of 1857–58, became a father of confederation, and in 1868 was made lieutenant governor of Ontario. William Holmes took over his father’s grain and milling business and quickly rose to prominence in the commercial world. While still a relatively young man, he was president, vice-president, or a director of more than a dozen companies in the fields of insurance and finance, electrical services, and paint manufacturing. When he became president of the Queen City Fire Insurance Company in 1871, he was the youngest insurance company president in Canada. The number of executive positions he held shows the remarkable trust his fellow businessmen placed in him.
By 1870 Howland had become a strong advocate of commercial and industrial protection, a course he propounded as president of three influential organizations: Toronto’s Board of Trade (1874–75), the Dominion Board of Trade (1874), and the Manufacturers’ Association of Ontario (1877–78). His attitude to the tariff question led him to break with the federal Liberal party in 1877 despite his father’s long connection with it and his own loyalty to Edward Blake*. He claimed then to be an independent who supported Sir John A. Macdonald and the Conservatives in Ottawa, but he continued to back the Liberal government of Oliver Mowat* provincially. A nationalist as well as a protectionist, in 1874 Howland was chosen chairman of the newly founded Canadian National Association of the Canada First movement [see William Alexander Foster*] and financed its weekly, the Nation, which took a protectionist editorial position. No doubt an important emotional component of the movement’s appeal to Howland was its anti-American attitude. His leadership was harmed because of an inaugural speech in which he also decried all forms of “toadying” to Britain. The resulting charge of disloyalty opened the door for the take-over of the movement by Goldwin Smith* and others.
An outgoing, enthusiastic individual, Howland was in the 1870s a man of increasing religious and social fervour. Born a Presbyterian, he had become not only a conventionally devout Anglican but an active member of the Anglican evangelical movement in Toronto; he was a founder in early 1877 of the low-Anglican counterpart to the ritualistic Trinity College, the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School (later Wycliffe College) [see James Paterson Sheraton*], which opened later that year. In February and March the Reverend William Stephen Rainsford, an Irish-born evangelist who lived in New York City, had come to Toronto to hold meetings at St James’ Cathedral, and he later returned to become an assistant clergyman there. It was under his ministry, which stressed the practical application of Christ’s teachings, that Howland became an ardent evangelical Christian. In 1877, when prohibitionists attempted to secure local option in Toronto, he became a total abstainer and vigorously threw himself into the temperance movement.
In the years that followed, Howland made evangelical philanthropy his main work in life, so much so, in fact, that his business interests suffered considerably. He was the founder and first president of the Toronto Willard Tract Depository (an evangelical publishing company) in 1877 and of the International Christian Workers Association; a founder of the Prisoners’ Aid Association (an advocacy and penal reform group); superintendent of the Central Prison Mission School; chairman of the Ontario branch of the Dominion Alliance (a temperance association); and a worker in the Prison Gate Mission and Haven (a home for unwed mothers), in the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for women, in the Hillcrest Convalescent Hospital, and in the Toronto branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association. He was a noted Sunday-school teacher and frequent church speaker. His weekends and many evenings were devoted to bringing religious and temporal relief to the poor of St John’s Ward, for years the heart of poverty and vice in Toronto. Emphasizing prevention, he was the founding chairman of a training-school for delinquent boys, the Mimico Boys’ Industrial School (established in 1887 and later named Victoria Industrial School).
Howland’s vocal evangelicalism soon ran foul of others in the Church of England. In 1882–83 he was at the centre of an acrimonious struggle over ritualism at Grace Church, which he and others had had built to minister to the poor in St John’s Ward and where he was a warden. Howland and his primary supporter, the well-known lawyer Samuel Hume Blake*, argued vociferously with the rector, the Reverend John Pitt Lewis, regarding the church’s apparent inability to fulfil its purpose. Howland and Blake were convinced that Lewis’s high-church liturgical style was an important reason why the slum dwellers were not being reached.
After considerable controversy, in April 1883 Howland was voted out as warden. He distanced himself more and more from the Church of England and, with Blake, Henry O’Brien, Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, and other like-minded evangelicals, founded in 1884 the Toronto Mission Union. This nondenominational inner-city mission was designed to reach the poor through programs of social assistance, medical services, relief aid, and mission work. The successful effort grew and became a church in its own right, at which point Howland combined forces with the Congregational minister John Salmon and a Canadian-born Presbyterian, the Reverend Albert Benjamin Simpson of New York City, to form the first Canadian chapter of the Christian Alliance. Howland was the founding president in 1889 of the chapter. The alliance subsequently became a major evangelical church in Canada and changed its name to the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
In the midst of his evangelical and philanthropic work, Howland turned his considerable energies to municipal politics. Although he had not held office, he was no neophyte. Because of his family background, his business contacts, and his advocacy of protectionism and nationalism, he was well versed in the politics of Toronto and Ontario. Howland stood as the candidate of the reform group in the 1886 mayoralty election. His opponent, Alexander Henderson Manning*, the Conservative candidate, lost out when Howland was able to rouse the moral fervour of voters against Manning’s wealthy but ethically compromised politics and to win the endorsement of the newly organized labour movement in Toronto [see Daniel John O’Donoghue*]. This election was the first time that women – some 2,000 widows and spinsters who met the property qualifications – were allowed to vote in the city. Significantly, Howland had based his campaign on a specific platform, to reform the social and moral life of Toronto’s working class, but his first term was marked by controversy and little decisive action to implement his electoral plan. In February 1886 the Knights of Labor initiated a strike against the Massey Manufacturing Company in Toronto. Howland, who had been elected with the support of Hart Almerrin Massey and other manufacturing interests, as well as with the endorsement of the Knights, was forced to try to bring about a settlement that would alienate neither party. In the end, Massey capitulated, both sides appeared to be satisfied, and Howland retained Massey’s support. Later in 1886 there was a second skirmish involving organized labour, probably the most bitter labour dispute in Toronto in the 19th century. It centred on Tory senator Frank Smith*, the owner of the Toronto Street Railway Company. An arrogant, chartered monopoly known for its mistreatment of workers, this firm attempted to prevent their unionization by instituting a general lock-out. Howland again came out in favour of the workers, releasing a public letter which condemned the anti-union stance of the company and laid the responsibility for the accompanying mob violence on its shoulders. Unfortunately, in Howland’s first term only a minority on council supported his attempts at municipal reform. The major achievement of the year was the appointment in May of a new inspector in the police department, David Archibald, who brought a social dimension to Toronto’s police force through his attempts to clean up prostitution and saloons.
Howland’s second year as mayor, 1887, came with an increased plurality and the election of a sufficient number of aldermen who supported his reform program. In spite of the united opposition of the old guard during the electoral campaign, Toronto workers, mindful of Howland’s assistance in the Massey and street railway strikes, and the backers of the reform-temperance coalition had given him their overwhelming support. Combining his zeal for temperance, his ardent evangelical religious beliefs, and a passionate desire for civic reform, Howland moved quickly to try to end civic corruption, to close houses of gambling and prostitution, to control liquor interests, to improve sanitary conditions, and to implement campaigns to stop desecration of the Sabbath. Nevertheless, the term was not as successful as he and his supporters had hoped. It was full of frustrations. A by-law sponsored by Robert John Fleming*, Howland’s most important supporter, to cut tavern and shop licences by almost one half, barely passed after an acrimonious debate. Howland had great difficulty keeping the reform aldermen united through this debate and, in fact, once the by-law was passed there were few issues which could unify them and provide Howland with a base of support. Other problems included a badly flawed municipal reform bill which was presented to and then withdrawn from the provincial legislature because of the intrigues against Howland by the city’s solicitor, William G. McWilliams. Serious Orange-Catholic riots resulted from the injection of Irish nationalist politics into public debate during a visit of the fiery Irish editor William O’Brien. A report by judge Joseph Easton MacDougall documented a widespread conspiracy of fraud and theft within the administration of the city’s waterworks. Perhaps, in all of this, Howland’s greatest difficulty lay in his lack of political skills to bring his reform colleagues and followers into a coalition that could move forward in the work of reforming Toronto. Still, the nickname Toronto the Good was testimony to the reform programs first introduced into the city’s politics by Howland.
In 1888 Howland decided not to run for a third term of office. His chosen successor was alderman Elias Rogers, a strong supporter, a Quaker, an evangelical, and a well-known coal merchant. The dramatic eleventh-hour revelation of his central role in a monopoly to fix the price of coal was enough, however, to cause the reform group to lose a campaign that had been based on moral purification, and Edward Frederick Clarke became mayor.
Howland had retired from political office to help his ailing father with business, but he continued to give most of his wealth to charity as he pursued a multitude of worthy causes connected with poverty, temperance, and the dissemination of the Gospel. Among his most noteworthy achievements were his success, with S. H. Blake and others, in persuading the Ontario government in 1890 to appoint a royal commission on the prison and reformatory system, and his role in the formation of the Children’s Aid Society the following year [see John Joseph Kelso*]. Though he had acquired prominence, when he died of pneumonia in 1893 at 49 years of age, he left only a modest estate, valued at $42,298. Like many of his contemporaries, he had viewed his world from within a strongly held Christian framework. Yet there was something special about his blend of religion, politics, and business. His critics in the Anglican church recognized this distinctiveness in an obituary in the Canadian Churchman: “His nature was a curious study, as most people would probably agree – exhibiting an abnormal kindness of heart, leading the man to apparent or real extravagancies of action. . . . So excessive in the element of generosity as to be a rarity, his character was both example and warning.”
As mayor, Howland had broken the tradition of plutocracy and gentility which had characterized Toronto’s civic politicians. He was genuinely concerned for the common people and for the quality of life at all levels of society. Within this context it is understandable why this businessman, mayor, Christian philanthropist, and mission worker had such a tremendous impact on the life of one of Canada’s major cities.
HOWLAND, WILLIAM HOLMES, businessman, social reformer, philanthropist, and politician; b. 11 June 1844 in Lambton Mills (Etobicoke), Upper Canada, elder son of William Pearce Howland* and Mary Ann Blyth, widow of David Webb; m. 18 Oct. 1872 in Saint John, N.B., Laura Edith Chipman, sister-in-law of Samuel Leonard Tilley, and they had six children; d. 12 Dec. 1893 in Toronto.
Educated at Upper Canada College and the Model Grammar School in Toronto, William Holmes Howland stopped his formal education at age 16, after his father had become active in provincial politics; William Pearce was returned as Reform mla for York West in the election of 1857–58, became a father of confederation, and in 1868 was made lieutenant governor of Ontario. William Holmes took over his father’s grain and milling business and quickly rose to prominence in the commercial world. While still a relatively young man, he was president, vice-president, or a director of more than a dozen companies in the fields of insurance and finance, electrical services, and paint manufacturing. When he became president of the Queen City Fire Insurance Company in 1871, he was the youngest insurance company president in Canada. The number of executive positions he held shows the remarkable trust his fellow businessmen placed in him.
By 1870 Howland had become a strong advocate of commercial and industrial protection, a course he propounded as president of three influential organizations: Toronto’s Board of Trade (1874–75), the Dominion Board of Trade (1874), and the Manufacturers’ Association of Ontario (1877–78). His attitude to the tariff question led him to break with the federal Liberal party in 1877 despite his father’s long connection with it and his own loyalty to Edward Blake*. He claimed then to be an independent who supported Sir John A. Macdonald and the Conservatives in Ottawa, but he continued to back the Liberal government of Oliver Mowat* provincially. A nationalist as well as a protectionist, in 1874 Howland was chosen chairman of the newly founded Canadian National Association of the Canada First movement [see William Alexander Foster*] and financed its weekly, the Nation, which took a protectionist editorial position. No doubt an important emotional component of the movement’s appeal to Howland was its anti-American attitude. His leadership was harmed because of an inaugural speech in which he also decried all forms of “toadying” to Britain. The resulting charge of disloyalty opened the door for the take-over of the movement by Goldwin Smith* and others.
An outgoing, enthusiastic individual, Howland was in the 1870s a man of increasing religious and social fervour. Born a Presbyterian, he had become not only a conventionally devout Anglican but an active member of the Anglican evangelical movement in Toronto; he was a founder in early 1877 of the low-Anglican counterpart to the ritualistic Trinity College, the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School (later Wycliffe College) [see James Paterson Sheraton*], which opened later that year. In February and March the Reverend William Stephen Rainsford, an Irish-born evangelist who lived in New York City, had come to Toronto to hold meetings at St James’ Cathedral, and he later returned to become an assistant clergyman there. It was under his ministry, which stressed the practical application of Christ’s teachings, that Howland became an ardent evangelical Christian. In 1877, when prohibitionists attempted to secure local option in Toronto, he became a total abstainer and vigorously threw himself into the temperance movement.
In the years that followed, Howland made evangelical philanthropy his main work in life, so much so, in fact, that his business interests suffered considerably. He was the founder and first president of the Toronto Willard Tract Depository (an evangelical publishing company) in 1877 and of the International Christian Workers Association; a founder of the Prisoners’ Aid Association (an advocacy and penal reform group); superintendent of the Central Prison Mission School; chairman of the Ontario branch of the Dominion Alliance (a temperance association); and a worker in the Prison Gate Mission and Haven (a home for unwed mothers), in the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for women, in the Hillcrest Convalescent Hospital, and in the Toronto branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association. He was a noted Sunday-school teacher and frequent church speaker. His weekends and many evenings were devoted to bringing religious and temporal relief to the poor of St John’s Ward, for years the heart of poverty and vice in Toronto. Emphasizing prevention, he was the founding chairman of a training-school for delinquent boys, the Mimico Boys’ Industrial School (established in 1887 and later named Victoria Industrial School).
Howland’s vocal evangelicalism soon ran foul of others in the Church of England. In 1882–83 he was at the centre of an acrimonious struggle over ritualism at Grace Church, which he and others had had built to minister to the poor in St John’s Ward and where he was a warden. Howland and his primary supporter, the well-known lawyer Samuel Hume Blake*, argued vociferously with the rector, the Reverend John Pitt Lewis, regarding the church’s apparent inability to fulfil its purpose. Howland and Blake were convinced that Lewis’s high-church liturgical style was an important reason why the slum dwellers were not being reached.
After considerable controversy, in April 1883 Howland was voted out as warden. He distanced himself more and more from the Church of England and, with Blake, Henry O’Brien, Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski, and other like-minded evangelicals, founded in 1884 the Toronto Mission Union. This nondenominational inner-city mission was designed to reach the poor through programs of social assistance, medical services, relief aid, and mission work. The successful effort grew and became a church in its own right, at which point Howland combined forces with the Congregational minister John Salmon and a Canadian-born Presbyterian, the Reverend Albert Benjamin Simpson of New York City, to form the first Canadian chapter of the Christian Alliance. Howland was the founding president in 1889 of the chapter. The alliance subsequently became a major evangelical church in Canada and changed its name to the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
In the midst of his evangelical and philanthropic work, Howland turned his considerable energies to municipal politics. Although he had not held office, he was no neophyte. Because of his family background, his business contacts, and his advocacy of protectionism and nationalism, he was well versed in the politics of Toronto and Ontario. Howland stood as the candidate of the reform group in the 1886 mayoralty election. His opponent, Alexander Henderson Manning*, the Conservative candidate, lost out when Howland was able to rouse the moral fervour of voters against Manning’s wealthy but ethically compromised politics and to win the endorsement of the newly organized labour movement in Toronto [see Daniel John O’Donoghue*]. This election was the first time that women – some 2,000 widows and spinsters who met the property qualifications – were allowed to vote in the city. Significantly, Howland had based his campaign on a specific platform, to reform the social and moral life of Toronto’s working class, but his first term was marked by controversy and little decisive action to implement his electoral plan. In February 1886 the Knights of Labor initiated a strike against the Massey Manufacturing Company in Toronto. Howland, who had been elected with the support of Hart Almerrin Massey and other manufacturing interests, as well as with the endorsement of the Knights, was forced to try to bring about a settlement that would alienate neither party. In the end, Massey capitulated, both sides appeared to be satisfied, and Howland retained Massey’s support. Later in 1886 there was a second skirmish involving organized labour, probably the most bitter labour dispute in Toronto in the 19th century. It centred on Tory senator Frank Smith*, the owner of the Toronto Street Railway Company. An arrogant, chartered monopoly known for its mistreatment of workers, this firm attempted to prevent their unionization by instituting a general lock-out. Howland again came out in favour of the workers, releasing a public letter which condemned the anti-union stance of the company and laid the responsibility for the accompanying mob violence on its shoulders. Unfortunately, in Howland’s first term only a minority on council supported his attempts at municipal reform. The major achievement of the year was the appointment in May of a new inspector in the police department, David Archibald, who brought a social dimension to Toronto’s police force through his attempts to clean up prostitution and saloons.
Howland’s second year as mayor, 1887, came with an increased plurality and the election of a sufficient number of aldermen who supported his reform program. In spite of the united opposition of the old guard during the electoral campaign, Toronto workers, mindful of Howland’s assistance in the Massey and street railway strikes, and the backers of the reform-temperance coalition had given him their overwhelming support. Combining his zeal for temperance, his ardent evangelical religious beliefs, and a passionate desire for civic reform, Howland moved quickly to try to end civic corruption, to close houses of gambling and prostitution, to control liquor interests, to improve sanitary conditions, and to implement campaigns to stop desecration of the Sabbath. Nevertheless, the term was not as successful as he and his supporters had hoped. It was full of frustrations. A by-law sponsored by Robert John Fleming*, Howland’s most important supporter, to cut tavern and shop licences by almost one half, barely passed after an acrimonious debate. Howland had great difficulty keeping the reform aldermen united through this debate and, in fact, once the by-law was passed there were few issues which could unify them and provide Howland with a base of support. Other problems included a badly flawed municipal reform bill which was presented to and then withdrawn from the provincial legislature because of the intrigues against Howland by the city’s solicitor, William G. McWilliams. Serious Orange-Catholic riots resulted from the injection of Irish nationalist politics into public debate during a visit of the fiery Irish editor William O’Brien. A report by judge Joseph Easton MacDougall documented a widespread conspiracy of fraud and theft within the administration of the city’s waterworks. Perhaps, in all of this, Howland’s greatest difficulty lay in his lack of political skills to bring his reform colleagues and followers into a coalition that could move forward in the work of reforming Toronto. Still, the nickname Toronto the Good was testimony to the reform programs first introduced into the city’s politics by Howland.
In 1888 Howland decided not to run for a third term of office. His chosen successor was alderman Elias Rogers, a strong supporter, a Quaker, an evangelical, and a well-known coal merchant. The dramatic eleventh-hour revelation of his central role in a monopoly to fix the price of coal was enough, however, to cause the reform group to lose a campaign that had been based on moral purification, and Edward Frederick Clarke became mayor.
Howland had retired from political office to help his ailing father with business, but he continued to give most of his wealth to charity as he pursued a multitude of worthy causes connected with poverty, temperance, and the dissemination of the Gospel. Among his most noteworthy achievements were his success, with S. H. Blake and others, in persuading the Ontario government in 1890 to appoint a royal commission on the prison and reformatory system, and his role in the formation of the Children’s Aid Society the following year [see John Joseph Kelso*]. Though he had acquired prominence, when he died of pneumonia in 1893 at 49 years of age, he left only a modest estate, valued at $42,298. Like many of his contemporaries, he had viewed his world from within a strongly held Christian framework. Yet there was something special about his blend of religion, politics, and business. His critics in the Anglican church recognized this distinctiveness in an obituary in the Canadian Churchman: “His nature was a curious study, as most people would probably agree – exhibiting an abnormal kindness of heart, leading the man to apparent or real extravagancies of action. . . . So excessive in the element of generosity as to be a rarity, his character was both example and warning.”
As mayor, Howland had broken the tradition of plutocracy and gentility which had characterized Toronto’s civic politicians. He was genuinely concerned for the common people and for the quality of life at all levels of society. Within this context it is understandable why this businessman, mayor, Christian philanthropist, and mission worker had such a tremendous impact on the life of one of Canada’s major cities.
Portrait of William Wesley Willard - alderman of the city of Cumberland. Print mounted. W. Willard was elected the 1st. city council in 1898. Date: 1890s. Names: William Wesley Willard
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Played at a tempo of 75 instead of the suggested 60 that was on the roll. I thought that at a tempo of 60, it sounded like the Lone Ranger's horse was somewhat weary.
This roll was in very bad shape. Because I particularly like the finale, I put in the time and effort to repair the roll.
I was called out for this being too fast and the piano being out of tune. I tested the piano speed and found it to be fast. That plus my intentional speed increase made it very fast. I rerecorded it at the correct speed but Flickr won't allow it to upload because the file is too large. The correct speed recording is 9 min 19 sec long as opposed to the 7 minutes here.
Correct speed on YouTube:
William Madison Munds (the name on his tombstone is incorrect) was born 26 Sep 1835 in Clay County, Kentucky and moved to the Arizona Territory in 1878 and is the head of the founding family of Munds Park, Arizona 20 miles south of Flagstaff. He was married twice, first to Sarah Jane Cox, and secondly to Ann Cordelia LaTourette whom he married on 25 Mar 1889 in Phoenix, Arizona Territory. His occupation was cattleman / real estate / mining and at one time he owned 3 large cattle ranches. He moved to Jerome, Arizona in 1892 and became the first Mayor of Jerome. He died in Sedona, AZ Territory on 11 June 1903 and is buried in Cottonwood Cemetery, Cottonwood, AZ. He died 9 years before Arizona became a state.
I recently located his obituary:
From the Weekly Arizona Journal-Miner, June 24, 1903:
The Passing of a Pioneer
Eventful life brought to a close.
Brief biographical sketch of the late William Munds of Jerome.
The death of William Madison Munds, which occurred last Thursday at Henry Schuerman’s ranch at Oak Creek, marked the passing of a pioneer and one of the most respected and representative citizens of this section of the country.
He was born in Clay County, Kentucky, September 26, 1835; he was the direct descendant of a noble family of French Hugenots, who came to this country from France to escape religious persecution and settled in Virginia during the latter part of the seventeenth century.
He numbered among his ancestors a great many of those brave and fearless men who blazed the way for civilization and have been characters in the early history of the country to which they belonged.
In 1849 when but 14 years old he went to California and spent a number of years amid the wild scenes that characterized the period of gold excitement in those days; he afterward went north into Oregon, and there he married Sara Cox, a daughter of John Cox, a pioneer citizen; five children were born of this union, two of whom survive him, these are his eldest, Mrs. M. A. Carrier of Jerome and his youngest, John L. Munds of Prescott. In 1876 he left Oregon and came with his family to Williamson Valley, Arizona. The following year he moved to the Verde Valley and he became interested with the Willard Bros. in the cattle business and their stock ranged in the Verde Valley in the winter and in the Mogollon mountains in the summer. The Munds ranch near Flagstaff is one of the landmarks in the maps of this territory. While living on the Mogollon mountains one of his sons, Cornelius William was killed by a broncho horse falling with him, and a few years later his son James T. was also killed by the accidental discharge of a firearm.
In March 1889 he married Cornelia LaTourette, daughter of the oldest settler of Phenix (sic). The death of his two sons greatly saddened his life and soon after his son James death, he sold out his cattle interests and devoted his attention exclusively to the butcher business in Jerome which he had purchased in 1893. He followed this business with good success for several years until failing health warned him that he should lead a less active life. He was the first mayor of Jerome, serving in that capacity for two years and helped to pilot the little town through many a troublesome time. His rapidly failing health made it necessary for him to retire entirely from active life, so he resigned his position as mayor and sold his business and with his wife traveled some months in California. Although this trip somewhat restored him he never entirely regained his health and from time to time was forced to leave Jerome where he had taken up his residence and seek some other place. He and Mrs. Munds lived for some months on upper Oak Creek at the Indian Gardens where it was thought the waters had a beneficial effect upon the disease which had fastened itself upon him. About two months ago he was again prostrated with a severe attack and from that time on it was plain to all that the end was not far distant, but he clung to life with a tenacity that was possible only for a man of iron nerve. He begged to be taken back to Oak Creek and as soon as he could stand the trip he was taken to Henry Schuerman’s place but all the care which loving hands could bestow upon him could not stay the Grim Reaper, and about the first of June his wife and daughter who had been with him since the beginning of his illness gave up hope and telegraphed for his son, John L. Munds who came with all possible haste, his wife and children following a couple of days later. All that was possible was done to ease his last moments and surrounded by his family he passed peacefully away the morning of June 11, 1903.
He was buried the next day in the upper Verde cemetery. He was a life long Mason, joining at the age of 22 and so he was laid to rest with the beautiful and impressive Masonic ceremony.
The funeral was attended by a large number of Masons and friends from Jerome and the valley and the floral offerings were beautiful, the bereaved wife and family have the deepest sympathy of the entire community and a great many people throughout the country for Wm. Munds was well known in this territory and was universally liked and respected.
Turner, Victor Willard, Private, 70638, 2nd Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment
Born Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire
Enlisted Bakewell, Derbyshire
Resided Ashford in the Water
Died of wounds 12th May 1917 aged 22
Son of William and Mary Jane Turner, of Court Lane, Ashford, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Buried in Noeux les Mines Communal Cemetery, I, R, 21
1911 Census
A farm cowboy
Son of William, a stonemason, and Mary Jane Turner, of Court Lane, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire
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Written on the verso: 1861. Willie Freeman. 1862.
Willard Knowles Freeman was born 30 June 1846 in Orleans, Massachusetts, the son of ship captain William Freeman (1820-1911) and Phebe Harding Hurd (1822-1886). In 1861, Willard was a stuent at the Allen School in West Newton, Massachusetts. Willard initially worked as a shipping merchant and commission merchant in Flushing, Queens, New York. He was married on 31 August 1875 to Maria L. Shackford. When he was married again on 8 June 1880 to Mary Louise Paine (1846-1914), the marriage register indicated it was his third marriage. Willard worked as merchant and then clerk in Brooklyn, NY until at least 1904. By the time of the 1910 census, Willard and Mary were living in Philadelphia, where he worked as a clerk for a steamship company. Willard Knowles Freeman passed away on 15 September 1910.
"Art Stories Book Three" by William G. Whitford, Edna B. Liek and William S. Gray. Curriculum Foundation Series. 1935 Scott, Foresman and Co.
Photograph from the Derbyshire Times, 26th May 1917
Turner, Victor Willard, Private, 70638, 2nd Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment
Born Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire
Enlisted Bakewell, Derbyshire
Resided Ashford in the Water
Died of wounds 12th May 1917 aged 22
Son of William and Mary Jane Turner, of Court Lane, Ashford, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Buried in Noeux les Mines Communal Cemetery, I, R, 21
1911 Census
A farm cowboy
Son of William, a stonemason, and Mary Jane Turner, of Court Lane, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire
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Ambassador Carla A. Hills presents the 2017 William E. Simon Lecture in Public Affairs “Why Trade Matters” at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum on July 13, 2017. She was appointed to President Ford's Cabinet as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
In the later 1880s, Willard "Willy" Metcalf visited and summered four times at Giverny, northwest of Paris. Giverny had been home to the famous impressionist Claude Monet since 1883. Although Metcalf knew the older French painter, it was the rustic village itself that drew the young American to the area. The calm structure of Giverny's plowed fields, stone-walled roads, and tile-roofed farmhouses fascinated many painters. Here, several building eaves and crop lines point toward the shimmering orb of a full moon rising through rosy clouds over the eastern horizon...Sunset imparts a yellow warmth to the stuccoed walls, while the complementary color of violet marks the lengthening shadows of late afternoon. The deep blue-greens of the foreground bushes similarly balance and contrast with the red-oranges of the terracotta roofs...Metcalf traveled incessantly, painting Italian villages in the Tuscan hills, Arab markets in Tunisia, and Zuni pueblos in New Mexico. Despite his restlessness, he kept returning to his native Massachusetts. His New England woodland and coastal scenes captured every season of the year and eventually earned his fame. Ironically, for an artist who could so beautifully convey the earth's placid serenity, Metcalf led a bohemian life obsessed with women, alcohol, and occult spiritualism.
Seward and his family owned a home in Auburn, New York which is now a museum; it was built in 1816 by Seward's father-in-law, Judge Elijah Miller. Seward married the Judge's daughter, Frances, in 1824 on the condition that they would live with Miller in his Auburn home. Seward made many changes to the home, adding an addition in the late 1840s and another one in 1866. When he died, Seward left the home to his son, William Seward, Jr.; it passed on to his grandson, William Henry Seward III, in 1920. At his death in 1951, it became a museum that opened to the public in 1955. Four generations of the family's artifacts are contained within the museum, located at 33 South Street in Auburn. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Built:1816–1817
Governing body:Private
NRHP Reference#:6600050