In discussing the plight of a current organization in New Jersey that helps immigrants, a writer with the journal Nonprofit Quarterly has provided some key details on the immigration experience in earlier times. The institute is located in Jersey City, the second largest city in the state. . . . Jersey City . . . in fact, all of Hudson [...]
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Here’s an interesting tidbit on my Darling ancestors. Is this the place where Ezra Darwin Darling was born in 1830? Jabez DARLING settled the Peter C. SWARTS farm. At the expiration of a year, Reuben HUFF bought him out.” The land is located near the town of Canadice in Ontario County, New York. The information [...]
Before the campaign to preserve buildings on Ellis Island made any serious headway, photographs of the incredible condition of the place, in a pathetic state of disrepair and damage, were shot and filed away. Obviously neglected for many years, the effort caught the public’s attention and the place was saved for posterity. ajh
A German at Castle Garden in 1887
Posted: March 5, 2012 in FROMKE, Germany, LENTZ, New York, United StatesOne of my automated alerts sent this to my inbox just now. Although whatever it is was uploaded today, the document has been deleted, which is frustrating because I’d like to read and see it in its entirety. My great grandparents were German, arriving on a ship and processed through the Castle Garden immigration depot in 1887. [...]
Someone filed an entry for Ezra Darling at FindaGrave.com today. Ezra was the son of David Darling and probably a cousin of my great-great-great grandfather Ezra Darwin Darling. He is buried in the West Lodi Cemetery in Seneca County, New York. ajh
A distant cousin, Laura Crockett, posted a comment on the Darling pedigree I wrote about in May. She had a few questions, which prompted me to delve once again into the Darling family tree, which I have neglected for quite some time. Aaron – Wow! Jabez Darling has been a brick wall forever. Where did [...]
The interior of the theater (or theatre) at Camp Mills certainly looked impressive. I doubt my great grand uncle saw any performances there. He shipped out from Camp Mills in November of 1917, when the camp was still very primitive. Camp Mills was located near Garden City, Long Island and about ten miles from New [...]
“Almost seventy years ago, photographer Charles Weever Cushman set out Manhattan to take pictures with his expensive Kodachrome camera. What’s most impressive now is how little the city looks to have changed.” ajh
“Ann Curry means crap to me!“ I couldn’t have said it better myself. Ann Curry‘s work at NBC through the years, mostly on the Today show, has been crap. Although the context of the quote was much different, Curry’s type of corporate “journalism” has never impressed me. I just don’t think much of her. She [...]
Memories, Camp Mills, and Postcards
Posted: August 3, 2011 in 168th Infantry, 42nd 'Rainbow' Division, New York, World War ITags: 168th, 42d, Camp Mills, Iowa, New York, Rainbow, WWI
A visitor to the blog, Ann Keen, has written about her great grandfather and his brothers in response to a post about Camp Mills on Long Island. I’d discovered a postcard of men dancing with some ladies. She thinks one of the men may be her great grandfather. My great-grandfather and great-uncles were at Camp [...]
