Hello Everyone, Those of us who live in the US, are celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend. With it being harder than ever to get everyone together, there will be special family gatherings from this evening (Wed) all the way through Sunday. If you can find a little time, please tell us which of your ancestors (pertaining to this list's interest) you'd like to be able to visit with during your celebration. Let us know what things you'd like to discuss with this ancestor and why. It would be wise to change the subject line before sending your information. Leslie

The Adair County connected guests I would invite to Thanksgiving dinner are my great-grandparents, Enoch Beery Seitz (1846-1883) and Anna Elizabeth Kerlin Seitz (1854-1918) I would ask Enoch two things. First is about his mathematical education. By all accounts he was a self-taught mathematician who was professor of mathematics at the state Normal School in Kirksville at the time of his death. He was the fith American admitted to the London Mathematical Society. His specialty was probability. I'd like to know how he taught himself so much math. Second is a related question concerning his one year of college at Ohio Wesleyan. Most accounts say he attended to study math; however, his older brother wrote a letter many years after Enoch's death that said Enoch went to college to study subjects other than math. Is the brother correct? As for his widow, Anna, I'd like to know all about her second time in Kirksville from about 1893 to 1901. She came to teach at the Normal School and was supposedly in charge of its demonstration school. But she also became a doctor of osteopathy during that period. In addition, her three surviving sons attended the normal school during this time period. I want to know exactly what she was doing when. -- Karl Seitz >Hello Everyone, > >Those of us who live in the US, are celebrating Thanksgiving this >weekend. With it being harder than ever to get everyone together, >there will be special family >gatherings from this evening (Wed) all the way through Sunday. > >If you can find a little time, please tell us which of your >ancestors (pertaining to this list's interest) you'd like to be able >to visit with during your celebration. Let us know what things >you'd like to discuss with this ancestor and why. > >It would be wise to change the subject line before sending your information. > >Leslie