>Would anyone interested in the Eldred family mentioned below or who >is doing research on Magie please correspond directly with John >Magie at JQMagie@aol.com, please. I do not have information on the >families he researches, but, knowing of his interest in the Eldred >family, forwarded the recent messages to him. Please read his response below which mentions some ELDRED names. Happy New Year, Ashley >______________________________________________________ > ><< Subj: Fwd: RE: Williamsport Academy/Charles D. Eldred >Date: 12/28/01 11:27:43 PM Central Standard Time >From: grubisic@netwurx.net (Ashley Tiwara) >To: JQMagie@aol.com (John) > >John, is this ELDRED one of yours?....... > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ewa728@aol.com [mailto:Ewa728@aol.com] >>Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:16 PM >>To: PALYCOMI-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Williamsport Academy/Charles D. Eldred >> >> Kevin....... Would your "History of Lycoming College" >>book mention Charles Dodson ELDRED? He was a trustee >>when the grounds were purchased on which Dickinson >>Seminary is located, and the first part of that structure was >>erected during his term of trusteeship. >> I am not able to verify that through the college, although >>I have it from a couple of sources. Charles D. ELDRED was >>very influential in the history of Williamsport and the >>surrounding area. By a close vote, Eldred Township was >>named in his honor. >> Eldred >______________________________________________________ > > Glueckliches Neues Jahr!! > Ashley-- thanks for copying me on the ELDRED stuff above, and please >forward my present note to the PALYCOMI list. I became curious about this >and checked what the LDS Ancestral File offered on possible links between >Charles Eldred above and my own Eldred ancestors. > The LDS AF <http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchaf.asp> says that >Charles Dodson ELDRED (AFN:GHN3-NF) was born on 12 Sep 1816 at Lycoming Co., >PA-- son of Edward Jarvis ELDRED, who was born 1763 at Norwood, Middlesex, >England. Edward appears to have immigrated to the USA around 1800, and died >in 1847 at Elkland, Lycoming, PA. > Meanwhile, my g-g-grandfather Elisha ELDRED, Jr. (AFN:G8QF-64), >1796-1860, was born just after (or shortly before) his parents moved in 1796 >from Warren, Litchfield, CT, to Cooperstown, Otsego, NY. In 1842 he moved to >Milwaukee, WI, where he became a prosperous landowner and railroad developer. > Elisha was in turn a g-g-g-grandson of William ELDRED (AFN:1ZNS-RC), who was >born in 1627 at Norfolk Co., England, settled ca. 1643 on Cape Cod, MA, and >died 1676 at Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA. > Thus Elisha can be, at best, only be very distantly related to Charles >Eldred of Lycoming Co., PA. However, there seems to have been several other >Eldred families in Wisconsin that may be second or third cousins of Elisha. > But, speaking of Lycoming Co., PA, maybe some PALYCOMI lister can >expand on the following sketchy info. My only known connection there is with >my recently found cousin Hazel MAGIE, b. 01 26 1887, d. 01 00 1980, SS# >194-36-2608. SSDI says Hazel (probably never married) was issued an SS >number in 1963 in PA, and it lists her last address as Picture Rocks, >Lycoming, PA-- which conforms to info of Prof. Ralph Anspach at San Francisco >State University and his research on the Monopoly game. > Hazel's formerly obscure aunt Lizzie J. MAGIE (AFN:12KM-18C), >1865-1948, has recently been much celebrated as the true creator of Monopoly, >the world's most popular board game. Dr. Anspach says that Lizzie died in >Arlington, VA, and that Hazel is mentioned in Lizzie's will. But I have very >little on Hazel's probable father, Edward Ritchie MAGIE, 1856-1927? Edward >was born in New Jersey just before moving to central Illinois with his >parents. Edward appears to have returned permanently to the NY-NJ-PA area by >the late 1880s-- and possibly he, his wife (Eliza Elefson?), and Hazel all >later lived and died at Picture Rocks, Lycoming, PA. > Edward's (and Lizzie's) father, James Kingsley MAGIE (1827-1893), was >a central Illinois newspapers editor and publisher and also an attorney. >James was also a Republican activist and had close links to Abe Lincoln, >especially during the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, when Lincoln >ran unsuccessfully for an Illinois seat in the US Senate. Lincoln's >political fortunes later improved when he defeated US Sen. Stephen A. Douglas >(D-IL) in the US Presidential race of 1860. .......John (in Chicago) --