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Georges Carpentier
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Photograph shows boxer Georges Carpentier (1894-1975). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)
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Late 19th century stereoview images of the much-derided 1841 statue of George Washington by Horatio Greenough. In 1843, the statue was moved out of the Capitol to East Capitol Plaza, where it remained until 1908. It's now in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Read the Washington Post article about the statue in today's paper: www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/01/22/george-washingt...
French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 792.
Georges Colin (1880-1945) was a French actor, who appeared in nearly 40 silent and sound films between 1909 and 1945.
Georges Colin was born in 1880 in Paris, France. He made his film debut in the silent short Moines et guerriers (Julien Clément, 1909) with Polaire. Ten years later he appeared in the British-French war film The Kiddies in the Ruins (George Pearson, 1918). It was released two days after the Armistice that halted fighting in the First World War and depicts the lives of children living in war-devastated France. That year, he also appeared opposite Musidora in La geôle (Gaston Ravel, 1918), and with René Navarre in Ce bon La Fontaine (Gaston Ravel, 1918). Three years later, he appeared in Gigolette (Henri Pouctal, 1921) with Charles de Rochefort, and Quand les feuilles tomberont (Fernand Rivers, Marcel Simon, 1921). During the 1920s, he also appeared with Gina Palerme in La clé de voûte (Roger Lion, 1925), with Dolly Davis in Les fiançailles rouges (Roger Lion, 1927) and with Gil Clary in Amour de louve (Roger Lion, 1929). During the early 1930s, Georges Colin played in many films. The drama Le procureur Hallers/The Prosecutor Hallers (Robert Wiene, 1930) starring Jean Max, was the French-language version of the German film Der Andere/The Other (1930) based on the play Der Andere by Paul Lindau. The two films were made at the same studio in Berlin, with Wiene beginning work on the French version immediately after finishing the German film. Colin also played in the comedy Marius à Paris (Roger Lion, 1930) with Colette Darfeuil, and the Science Fiction epic La fin du monde/End of the World (Abel Gance, 1931). It was director Abel Gance's first sound film. The original film was to be over three hours long, but the backing production took the film from Gance, and cut it to be 105 minutes. It was again cut on its release in the United States under the title of Paris after Dark. Neither abridged version of the film was well received by audiences or critics.
During the 1930s, Georges Colin was also known for such films as the historical drama L'aiglon/The Eaglet (Viktor Tourjansky, 1931) with Jean Weber as Napoleon II, the Moliere adaptation Le malade imaginaire/The Imaginary Invalid (Lucien Jaquelux, Marc Mérenda, 1934) with Dranem, and the Spy film Mademoiselle Docteur/Street of Shadows (G. W. Pabst, 1937) starring Pierre Blanchar and Dita Parlo. He also appeared in the comedy Claudine à l'école/Claudine at School (Serge de Poligny, 1937) starring Max Dearly, Pierre Brasseur and Suzet Maïs. It is an adaptation of the 1900 novel of the same title by Colette. In his later films, Colin only played supporting roles. These included the French-Italian Alexandre Dumas adaptation Le comte de Monte Cristo, 1ère époque: Edmond Dantès/The Count of Monte Cristo (Robert Vernay1, 1943) starring Pierre Richard Willm, Le chant de l'exilé (André Hugon, 1943) starring Tino Rossi, Les anges du péché/Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson, 1943) - the first feature film by Bresson, and the Balzac adaptation Vautrin/Vautrin the Thief (Pierre Billon, 1943), featuring Michel Simon. Georges Colin died in 1945 in Paris. He was 64. His final film, the drama Le dernier sou/The Last Penny (André Cayatte, 1946) starring Gilbert Gil, was released after his death.
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George Henry Knott, died 11th July 1921
George Henry Knott was my great-great grandfather. He was born in Gillingham, Kent on 31st March 1843.
George's father William Knott, my great-great-great-grandfather, had been away from home for the night of the 1841 census, but he makes an appearance on the 1851 census when he, Caroline and three of their children including George, as well as their granddaughter Rebecca, were living at 8 Church Street, Gillingham. William gave his occupation as an agricultural labourer, and he had been described as a labourer in the Northfleet and Gillingham parish records on the occasion of the baptism of several of his children. But little more is known about him, because by the time of the 1861 census he was dead, and Caroline was a widow.
Ten years later, in 1861, William's youngest son George, my great-great-grandfather, was eighteen years old, and had moved with his mother Caroline to Hillington Square, Gillingham. The Church Street house was now occupied by George's oldest brother William and his wife Mary and their children. George was an agricultural labourer, probably working on the same farm as his mother. A mile or so off in Pleasant Row, Chatham, a seventeen year old servant girl was living in the household of her uncle. Her name was Mary Ann Bowles, and she would be my great-great-grandmother. Mary Ann had a rather extraordinary background. She is one of the most colourful of my ancestors. Her mother Caroline Thompson had been born at Stoke Damerel in Devon, the parish which includes Devonport, a busy area of the city of Plymouth. Caroline married one William Bowles, a mariner, and at the time of the 1841 census, she was living under her married name Bowles in the Devonport workhouse. A few months after this, when she was pregnant with Mary Ann, Caroline walked the 300 miles from the Devonport workhouse to Faversham in Kent, apparently to reach her estranged husband's family. She was accompanied by Mary Ann's older sisters, who were both under five years old.
By 1851, Caroline was in the Faversham workhouse in Kent with four children, including the eight year old Mary Ann, my great-great-grandmother. Mary Ann's father was almost certainly Thomas Bowles, the brother of Caroline's estranged husband, William Bowles.
Mary Ann Bowles was born in the Mall, Preston-next-Faversham, Kent on 1st November 1843, and she seems to have spent many of her childhood years in the Faversham workhouse. By the time of the 1861 census she was living as a servant in Gillingham. She was 17 years old. It is quite likely that by 1861 she already knew George Knott, but on the 17th August 1862 she married Henry Welch at Faversham parish church. Mary Ann was pregnant, and their son Charles Henry Welch was born in early 1863.
It is unclear what happened next, but by March 1866 George Knott and Mary Ann Welch were living as man and wife at High Street, Gillingham, and Mary Ann had given birth to George Knott's son, who was called George Bowles Knott, with no mention of Mary Ann's married name on the birth certificate. But George and Mary Ann were not married. Henry Welch appears to have taken his son Charles off to live with his recently widowed mother at New Brompton, a few miles away.
George and Mary Ann moved to Upchurch, just outside of the Medway Towns, where a second son was born in 1868, and then on the 3rd December 1869 at Upchurch was born their third son, my great-grandfather William Knott. The 1871 census shows George and Mary Ann living in Upchurch with their three sons, George being recorded as a labourer.
And then, a few months later, Mary Ann's legal husband Henry Welch died of smallpox.
At last, George and Mary Ann were free. They married at All Saints, Frindsbury, Kent on 17th March 1872. The witnesses were George's sister Jane and her husband, Joseph Cox. There would be five more children, but three of George and Mary Ann's children would be dead by the time of the 1911 census. Several of the Knott boys were professional soldiers. One of them spent most of twenty years in India before fighting in Iraq in the First World War, which he survived. Another brother headed off to Ireland, and we find him in 1901 in Portsmouth as an infantry instructor. He died young, as did his sister Caroline and his brother Albert. However, my great-grandfather William Knott stayed close to home.
William had been born in Upchurch, but when he was about three years old the Knott family moved to the neighbouring village of Halstow for the birth of Albert and Caroline, both of whom would die in childhood. After this, there is a curious gap of eight years in the birth of children. We know that by 1881 the family were back in the Medway Towns at Gillingham, where George was working as a labourer in a brickfield. It seems likely that the Knott family were not very well off at this time, for in 1883 George's mother Caroline died in the Chatham Workhouse at the age of 84. By 1886, however, George and Mary Ann had moved further up the Medway to Strood, on the opposite bank to Rochester. Their son, my great-grandfather William, married Mary Ann Waters at St Mary's church, Strood in December 1892. William and Mary lived on Cuxton Road and then on London Road, both in Strood, and their first four children were all born in Strood.
In about 1907, my great-grandparents William and Mary Knott moved away from his parents George and Mary Ann some fifteen miles to Dartford, where my grandfather Joe Knott was born, but by 1914 they were back on the Medway again at 96 Temple Street, Strood. Joe 's family lived at the Temple Street house throughout his childhood and early adult years. Joe's grandparents George and Mary Ann Knott were close at hand, and, while George was still working as a labourer, they opened a small sweetshop and general store at 58 Grange Road, their terraced house. The shop was in business at the time of both the 1901 and 1911 censuses. In 1913, Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey and Sussex listed the following under shopkeepers: Knott George 58, Grange Road, Frindsbury, Rochester. It was probably the most stable and successful that either side of the family had been for generations.
On 27th November 1916, during the darkest period of the First World War, Mary Ann died at the Grange Road house of liver cancer. She was 73. On 11th July 1921, her husband George died at the Temple Street house. He was 78.
Temple Street was badly bombed during World War II, and finally demolished in the 1960s. Today, it is the site of Strood Tesco. But 58 Grange Road still survives - today, it is a terraced house.
George was a resident at the SS during this period as an Instructor.. a very popular guy. He got me past the falling over stage and later introduced me to many of the Brighton Tigers Hockey Team. I became an ardent member of the Tigers Supporters Club ( flic.kr/p/jbdPu6 ) and later went on to play ice hockey with an airline team as a scratch player. That airline was eventually absorbed by what is now BA.
Extracted from NISA (National Ice Skating Association of GB and NI... report....
George Miller unfortunately passed away on 21 June 2012 after a short illness, aged 86.
George Miller was born 15th October 1925 in Brighton - his splendid career in ice skating and show business covered over sixty years and lasted well past his 80th birthday.
His early brush with show business started when he applied for a job as call boy for the famous comedian Max Miller (no relation) at the Hippodrome in Brighton at the age of fifteen. He also appeared in various sketches with Max Miller where he acquired his first taste for entertainment.
With some of his savings of 14 shillings and six pence he bought his first pair of second hand ice skating boots. It turned out he had a natural talent for this beautiful sport and at the age of 17 he appeared as principal skater in the Blackpool shows. He later went on to become an instructor at the Brighton rink.
George’s talents were recognized by the famous impresario Tom Arnold OBE who signed George up for his first professional production of ‘Hot Ice’ in 1945. From this day George’s career blossomed and he appeared in most of the ice spectaculars in Brighton and around the UK, mainly Wembley Arena and also overseas over the next three decades.
He also produced and choreographed various pantomimes at the Queens Ice Club whilst also doing a lot for charity including one performance in particular at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool in 1961 where the whole cast performed to support three charities in the presence of her Majesty the Queen.
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Brighton Sports Stadium in West Street, Home to the Tom Arnold spectacular Ice Shows.
My mother worked here part time as a dresser to the skating stars performing in these shows and many of the regulars became family friends.
This is a set of photos signed by the artists to my mother. Although I was a pre-teen at this period I still fondly remember many of them.
George 3 weeks old
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A bottle of Smokey George from Brauerei Rittmayer Hallerndorf in Hallerndorf, Bavaria, at Hütt'n in Nürnberg.
Rittmayer Smokey George is a 5% abv smoked beer, but instead of German smoked malts the brewers traveled to Scotland where they got their hands on some peat-smoked malt intended for Scottish whisky - making this a unique German-Scottish rauchbier!
The beer poured a clear, reddish amber color with a bubbly beige head. It sported a wonderful smoked aroma, with notes of bacon and bonfire. And mild caramel. Very nice! Mouthfeel was medium heavy with a soft texture. Flavor started out with that bonfire smoked character, balanced by a good malt sweetness and some ripe fruit notes. The smoke lingered in the long aftertaste.
Now, this is what I call a smoked beer! Very tasty and reasonably balanced. I like it very much.
When George's Grandmamma was told
That George had been as good as gold,
She promised in the afternoon
To buy him an Immense BALLOON.
And so she did; but when it came,
It got into the candle flame,
And being of a dangerous sort
Exploded with a loud report!
The lights went out! The windows broke!
The room was filled with reeking smoke.
And in the darkness shrieks and yells
Were mingled with electric bells,
And falling masonry and groans,
And crunching, as of broken bones,
And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all,
The house itself began to fall!
It tottered, shuddering to and fro,
Then crashed into the street below-
Which happened to be Savile Row.
When help arrived, among the dead
Were Cousin Mary, Little Fred,
The Footmen (both of them), the Groom,
The man that cleaned the Billiard-Room,
The Chaplain, and the Still-Room Maid.
And I am dreadfully afraid
That Monsieur Champignon, the Chef,
Will now be permanently deaf-
And both his aides are much the same;
While George, who was in part to blame,
Received, you will regret to hear,
A nasty lump behind the ear.
The moral is that little boys
Should not be given dangerous toys.
BERTHON, GEORGE THEODORE, painter; b. 3 May 1806 in Vienna, son of René-Théodore Berthon and Frances-Desirée Maugenet; m. first 1840, probably in France, Marie-Zélie Boisseau (d. 18 July 1847 in Toronto), and they had one daughter; m. secondly 14 Aug. 1850 Clare Elizabeth de La Haye in Toronto, and they had six sons and five daughters; d. there 18 Jan. 1892.
George Theodore Berthon was born at the “royal palace” in Vienna, where his father, René, court painter to Napoleon and a former student of Jacques-Louis David’s, was executing a commission for the emperor. The Berthon family returned to Paris that year, René resuming his activity as peintre ordinaire at the French court.
The younger Berthon is thought to have received his formal art training from his father. As a resident of Paris, he also had the opportunity to study the work of the old masters and the best contemporary French artists. At age 21 he immigrated to England, possibly to study medicine. He is believed to have lived initially in the home of the Tory politician and art collector Robert Peel, where he taught Peel’s elder daughter drawing and French in exchange for English lessons. Although his supposed medical studies remain only conjecture, it is known that Berthon was active as a painter, exhibiting portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts (1835–37) and the British Institution (1837–38). During this period he would also have been exposed to the work of the foremost exponents of the British portrait tradition, such as Romney, Lawrence, and Reynolds.
The last record of Berthon in England is his participation in the 1838 exhibition of the British Institution. Details of his subsequent whereabouts are sketchy until he advertised his services as a portraitist “from London” in Toronto’s British Colonist on 1 Jan. 1845 and later in other local newspapers, notices that indicate he had settled there. (Secondary accounts which date his arrival as early as 1840 or state that he had painted “in Canada” from 1837 to 1841 before returning to England and then settling in Toronto cannot be verified.) Berthon’s move might have been suggested by Peel or perhaps by the German-British painter Hoppner Francis Meyer, who had been active in Toronto and Quebec at various times throughout the 1830s and early 1840s and who was later based in London. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his decision, Berthon was evidently ready to accept the challenge of a new environment. According to tradition, he promoted himself and gained access to Toronto’s tory-dominated social circles on the basis of letters of introduction from Peel. Indeed, by April his wife was conducting a salon for young ladies in the couple’s William (Simcoe) Street home. This enterprise was patronized by the wives of several prominent members of the “family compact,” including Eliza Boulton, wife of Henry John*, and Emma Robinson, wife of John Beverley*.
Berthon’s sophisticated European training quickly attracted the attention of local art patrons, most of them with tory affiliations, and important portrait commissions were soon acquired. His earliest pictures included likenesses painted in 1845 of such noted Torontonians as Bishop John Strachan* and Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson. He also executed a variety of productions for the Boulton and Robinson families, the best known being two works now in the Art Gallery of Ontario: the full-length portrait done in 1846 of William Henry Boulton* and the elegant and stylish Three Robinson sisters (Augusta Anne, Louisa Matilda, and Emily Mary). The latter painting, a gift to Emma Robinson, their mother, was commissioned in secret by Augusta’s husband, James McGill Strachan*, and by George William Allan and John Henry Lefroy*, who were soon to marry Louisa and Emily. It was presented on 16 April 1846 after Mrs Robinson’s return home from the wedding. The Boulton portrait, one of the foremost examples of the grand manner tradition in Canadian portraiture, is characterized, as are Berthon’s smaller bust and half-length likenesses, by tight brushwork, crisp delineation of forms, and fresh, clear colour – hallmarks of French neo-classicism exemplified in the work of such artists as David, with whose style Berthon would certainly have been familiar.
In 1847 Berthon submitted three portraits to the first exhibition of the Toronto Society of Arts [see John George Howard*], the second attempt on the part of local artists and architects to promote the visual arts by means of annual exhibitions. A series of lengthy commentaries on the event appeared in the British Colonist; its critic, however, made no mention of Berthon’s contributions, preferring instead to tout the merits of such “native Canadians” as Peter March and Paul Kane*. Berthon’s nationality caused a similar problem in 1848 when a controversy arose over a prospective commission to paint the “official” portrait of the former speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Sir Allan Napier MacNab*. While George Anthony Barber*, editor of the Toronto Herald, came out in support of Berthon, describing him as a “most accomplished artist,” the British Colonist, a reform paper owned by Hugh Scobie*, took a firm nationalist stance, stating that the commission, highly coveted, should go to the Canadian-born March. The portrait was eventually painted by the French Canadian artist Théophile Hamel*. Despite these initial obstacles Berthon continued to be patronized steadily by the local élite, who were by now even more aware of his evident professionalism. In 1848, for example, he completed a group portrait of the chief justices of Upper Canada for the Legislative Council. He received this commission on the basis of a recommendation from Robinson, who stated that he did not “suppose that a person could be found in Canada so likely to give satisfaction.” Berthon did not, however, participate in the second, and final, exhibition of the Toronto Society of Arts, held in 1848, possibly because of the MacNab controversy and because Berthon’s rival, Peter March, was the society’s secretary for that year.
Berthon is known to have visited the United States in 1852. Returning to Toronto the same year, he resumed his portrait work. During this decade, and for the remainder of his career, Berthon’s clientele expanded beyond the confines of the tory establishment to include all groups in the community, most notably the growing numbers of prosperous merchants and bankers. In 1856 the Law Society of Upper Canada commissioned a portrait of one of its chief justices, marking the beginning of what would develop into a lengthy term of patronage on the part of this group. Later subjects painted for the society included William Henry Draper* and John Douglas Armour.
Throughout his career Berthon’s participation in public exhibitions was minimal, the writer of his obituary being moved to note that his was “a name well known to artists, although to the public he was little known.” Indeed, his official, academy-inspired art would have seemed incongruous at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition, a venue better suited to the smaller landscapes and genre pieces by such artists as Paul Kane, Daniel Fowler, and Robert Whale*. He might also have been discouraged by the lukewarm reception of the paintings he had put on display in 1847. Perhaps the most likely reason for his absence from the public arena was the fact that he had a regular clientele and thus never felt the need to promote his work too vigorously.
Berthon did contribute portraits to the annual exhibitions of the Ontario Society of Artists [see John Arthur Fraser] in 1875 and 1877 and he was made a life member in 1891; however, in competition as he was against the prevailing taste for landscape, he continued to encounter critical disparagement of his pictures for both their size and their formal nature. Recognition on an international level occurred in 1876, when Berthon’s An early visitor received a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, obviously a more challenging forum for a French-trained artist. (The painting’s current location is unknown.)
Although Berthon’s renown was such that he was named a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts [see John Douglas Sutherland Campbell*] in 1880, his failure ultimately to submit the required diploma picture, perhaps because his creative energies were then being diverted in another, more lucrative direction, caused his nomination to expire. That year he had been invited by John Beverley Robinson to execute a series of portraits of former lieutenant governors to hang in the recently completed Government House. Working from sources such as engravings, photographs, miniatures, oils, and water-colours, Berthon produced over twenty posthumous portraits of noted figures in Canadian history, including Sir Francis Bond Head*, Sir Isaac Brock*, and Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson. The entire project, rooted in the tradition of “halls of fame” and “portrait galleries,” was later extended to include portraits by Berthon of the governors general of the Province of Canada.
Berthon continued to paint until just a few days before his death, from a bronchial infection, at his Toronto home. On 30 March 1892 his private collection of paintings, which included a portrait of Napoleon by his father, an original Watteau, and various copies after old masters, was offered for sale.
Berthon is known to have painted the occasional landscape and genre subject, usually at the request of a client, and appears to have supplemented his income by teaching privately now and again. He is also thought to have designed the iron gates in the fence at Osgoode Hall, intended to prevent cattle from straying onto the property. His reputation, however, rests solely on his work as a portraitist. For most of his career his style was based on such neo-classical precepts as strong draftsmanship, controlled brushwork, and clarity of local colour, combined with an evident commitment to realism. Towards the end of his life, like most Canadian artists who had become acquainted with pleinairisme and Impressionism, he adopted a looser, more fluid brushstroke and a softer palette. By this time there were other artists active in the field of establishment portraiture in Toronto, including Robert Harris*, John Wycliffe Lowes Forster*, and Edmund Wyly Grier*.
As Toronto’s foremost exponent of the portrait tradition during the Victorian era, Berthon produced a body of work that serves as an important historical record and as a prime example of the grand-manner style in Canadian portraiture. His long and prolific career reflects the continuing growth and prosperity of Ontario, the rise of Toronto as an influential urban centre – politically, economically, and culturally – and the significance of public and private patronage in the promotion of the visual arts.
Geroge Knelson gets bucked off at the Harrow Rock'N Horse Fest Ram Rodeo at Harrow, Ontario, Canada, on Aug. 19, 2012. . This image is Copyright of Rob Skeoch, any publication, uploads or usage requires a writen release from Rob Skeoch at 905-335-6031.
This is one of my favorite houses in Seattle. I think the best designs are found on difficult lots. This one is in Leschi not too far from Lake Washington. One day, I'm going to find out who the architect is.
Co. C, 21st N. Y. Infantry
South Kansas Tribune, Wednesday, April 17, 1895:
Death of Col. Remington
In the death of George L. Remington at the age of 67 years, which occurred April 12th, our city loses one of her very best citizens. A gentleman of high christian character, who was always cheerful and helpful, and it was always his pleasure to do duty whatever that was. He served his country faithfully in the great civil war, enlisting early in 1861, he was elected Captain of the Twenty-first New York volunteers and served at the front until in 1864 when ill health compelled his resignation. The following year he was married to his now bereaved wife. He engaged in the wholesale tobacco business in Buffalo, New York, and subsequently was elected register of deeds in that county. Later with his family he removed to Saginaw, Mich., where he was in the lumber trade until 1882, when he located in this city. For a time he was engaged in the cattle business, but in 1885 connected himself with the First National Bank of this place, and has served a bookkeeper, vice-president, and for five years has been its cashier. As a business man he was honest, prompt, and always reliable, and his associates always found him a man of excellent judgment and of unswerying fidelity. He has served the city as Member of the Board of Education and for years he has been its president, and none have proved more faithful, or to have a more unflagging interest in the educational affairs of the city. In religion he was of the Presbyterian faith, and he honored the professions he made, by a life void of offense. He was superintendent of its Sabbath school, a leading official member, and often when the pastor would be absence Col. Remington was called on to officiate, and to read a sermon, and in the last general assembly of the church he was selected to represent the Neosho Presbytery as its lay delegate. He was gifted in oratory and has often been called on as a public speaker, and always did credit to himself and his subject. In his fraternal relations he was a member of McPherson Post No. 4, G. A. R.; of the Modern Woodmen, and of the several Masonic fraternities, having passed the chairs with honor. The funeral on Sunday, was at his home; and was in charge of the Knights of Templar, attended by the Master Masons and the Modern Woodmen. Sermon by his pastor, the Rev. G. W. Bean, assisted by Chaplain Rev. J. W. Wright.
From History of Montgomery County, Kansas, By Its Own People, published by L. Wallace Duncan, Iola, Kansas, 1903, pgs. 682-684:
GEORGE L. REMINGTON. During the comparatively brief period of twelve years that he was permitted to mingle with and be one of the citizens of Montgomery county, the late subject of this record, George L. Remington, lived a life conspicuous for its relation to men and affairs, for its usefulness to be civil and social institutions and conspicuous for its purity and dignity as exemplified in his daily walk. Few men exhibit such strong and genuine elements of character and win the unbounded confidence of a community in so few years, as did he, and his death, April 11th, 1895, was mourned as a public loss.
Born in Lancaster, near Buffalo, New York, Mary 24, 1832, he was a son of Rev. James Remington, a noted Presbyterian minister of western New York, and for eighteen years pastor of the congregation of Lancaster. Though he had given up regular work very late in life Rev. Remington died in 1889 at over ninety years of age, still in the harness, as it were, and doing the work of the Master. He married Caroline Evans, who died in the seventies, being the mother of three sons and two daughters, namely: Rev. Charles, of Buffalo, New York, the only survivor of the family; George L., of this memoir; James, who died about 1880 and passed his life chiefly in the milling business; Mary, who died unmarried about 1875, and Jennie, who was for many years a deputy in the office of the Clerk of Erie county, New York, and died in 1891.
The education of George L. Remington was acquired in what we now term the common schools and in Gambler College, Ohio. On leaving college he entered the Union army as a private, joining company “C”, 21st New York Vol. Inf. He rose by successive promotions, viz: to First Sergeant, and August 7, 1861, was commissioned 1st Lieut., and Capt., Dec. 12, 1861. He succeeded Capt. Washburn who was killed at Second Bull Run in August, 1862. His regiment formed a part of the Army of the Potomac and he participated in all the engagements of that famous and splendid army and was discharged in 1864, resigning and leaving the service on account of failing health. September 14, 1865, he married Alice Pomeroy, a daughter of Robert Pomeroy, a banker and one of the old settlers of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Pomeroy married Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of a Baptist clergyman, and died in 1856 at sixty years old. He resided in Buffalo when the British burned that city during the war of 1812 and he and his mother were the last to leave the destroyed city. Mrs. Remington is the fourth of nine children in her parents’ family, five of whom are yet living.
Mr. Remington was in the service of the government in the commissary department of the army at Nashville, Tennessee, for near one year, immediately succeeding the end of the war, and on returning north engaged in the wholesale tobacco business in Buffalo. Subsequently he was elected Register of Deeds for Erie county, New York, and some time after the close of his official career he moved his family out to Saginaw, Michigan, where he embarked in the lumber and salt business and conducted the same successfully till some time in the year 1882, when he disposed of his Michigan interests and became a resident of Independence, Kansas. As a citizen of Saginaw he ingratiated himself into the love and esteem of his compeers and was favored with public trusts. He was a member of the Board of Education, where he rendered valuable service, and was an active and faithful worker in his religious denomination.
For about two years after coming to Montgomery county, Capt. Remington was engaged in the cattle business. In 1885, he was invited to become cashier of the First National Bank of Independence. He filed the position ‘till his death and in it demonstrated a peculiar fitness and adaptation to the place. He was always courteous, sincere and reliable, prompt in fulfilling his obligations and faithful in serving the constituents of the bank.
As a citizen of Independence, Capt. Remington took a prominent part in all its affairs. His ability and integrity were at once recognized and he accepted the public trusts that were imposed on him with an eye single to the public good. He demonstrated his unflagging interest in public education by long and faithful service on the school board. He was President of that body for some years and many were the ideas he advanced for the improvement of the facilities and methods of education. He was a leading member of the Presbyterian church and, in the absence of the pastor, was frequently designated to read a sermon and to comment on the character, good works and teachings of the Sabbath School and the beneficent works of a good man were felt in this field, also. In his capacity as a teacher and leader his work was most effective. He was a ready and pleasing talker, and was a storehouse of information on popular subjects and, in 1894, was chosen by the Presbytery of Neosho to be a delegate to the General Assembly at Saratoga, New York. He was a member of McPherson Post G. A. R., was a Modern Woodman and a Knight Templar Mason, by whose direction and under whose auspices his funeral was held. In politics he was a Republican
Capt. And Mrs. Remington’s family comprised three children, namely: Jennie P., wife of Will P. Lyon, of Independence; Allen A., who married Lizzie B. Marshall and is a merchant of Bristow, Ind. Ty., and George F., who died Sept. 18, 1899, at twenty-three years of age.
Contributed by Mrs. Maryann Johnson a Civil war researcher and a volunteer in the Kansas Room of the Independence Public Library, Independence, Kansas.
Company G, 2nd Nebraska Infantry, Company M, 16th Kansas Cavalry
Annals of Brown County, Kansas : from the earliest records to January 1, 1900 (1903)
Geo. VV. Seaman. George W. Seaman, the deputy sheriff and jailer of Brown county, Is one of the earliest pioneers In the history of the county. He is the son of Squire I. N. Seaman and Julia A. Hayes and was born at Port Clinton, Ohio on January 20, 1846. The family came to Brown county In 1856 and located In the southern part of Lochnane township in the territory now belonging to Jackson county. Their first home was a log cabin with a dirt floor and a blanket for a door.
It was on Mr. Seaman's land that John Brown's Battle of the Spurs was fought in February 1859. Brown was headed for the North with eleven runaway slaves and Marshal Woods was out with a posse looking for him. Woods and his posse reached the Seaman farm ahead of Brown. In a, little time Brown's wagons could be seen coming from the direction of Topeka. Wood became excited and beean to hand out buckshot by the handful to Squire Seaman Mr. Seaman asked what he was to do with them, he having no gun, and was told to protect himself. As Brown's party came nearer Woods fright increased and he exclaimed My God there is 500 of them and yelling to the men to conceal themselves he jumped on his horse and started for Atchison as fast as he could ride Long before Brown reached the Seaman farm the last of Woods posse had disappeared in hot fight. Woods was last seen going through Museotah thirteen miles away bareheaded and still on the run. The subject of this sketch is probably the only living witness of the battle which John A. Martin dubbed the Battle of the Spurs.
The Seaman farm was also a station on the underground railway and is the place to which Nigger Bill Jones sent Col. Ege's nigger as described on page 28 of these annals.
In 1862 George W. Seaman then a lad of sixteen ran away from home and enlisted in Company G of the Second Nebraska. This regiment saw fourteen months service under Gen. Sully against the Sioux Indians and was then mustered out Mayor Steve Hunter and County Surveyor T. J. Marion were comrades of Mr. Seaman in this period of his army service. Mr. Seaman next enlisted in the Fourth Kansas Battery with his father and youngest brother and later was transferred to Company M of the 16th Kansas Calvary regiment. He was with the party that helped chase Quantrell out of Lawrence and assisted in repelling the Price raid. He was mustered out May 15, 1865 and then attended St. Benedict's College at Atchison for one year. In 1866 he went to Montana and spent two years in mining and contracting. In 1880 he moved to Colorado where he lived for twelve years. Here he was engaged in mining, merchandising and publishing a paper. He also served one terra as postmaster . In 1893 he returned to Brown county locating on his farm
near Claytonville where he lived until last year when he came to Hiawatha to serve as deputy sheriff. He is a mason, a member of the G. A. R. and belongs to the Royal League and the Knights and Ladles of Security. He was married in 1871 to Miss Anna E. Smouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smouse of Hiawatha. They have six children: Samuel, now a resident of Colorado, Julia B., wife of U. G. Hauber, of Mission Township, Ella May, wife of G. V. Koch, a prominent business man of St. Joe and one of the Board of Alderman of that city, Pearl B., Frederick H. and Alfaretta. Both Mr. and Mrs. Seaman are members of the United Brethren church.
French postcard by J.R.P.R., Paris, no. 429. Photo: Studio Lorelle.
French actor Georges Charlia (1894-1984) played in 22 silent and sound films. He worked with such famous directors of the French avant-garde cinema as Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein, and Alberto Cavalcanti.
Georges Charlia was born as Georges Charliat in Paris, France in 1894. He made his film debut in Germaine Dulac’s silent film Gossette (1923) with Régine Bouet. Then followed a part in another classic of the silent cinema, La belle Nivernaise/The Beauty from Nivernais (1924, Jean Epstein) with Blanche Montel. He played the lead in Epstein’s La goutte de sang/The drop of blood (1924). The film was started by Jean Epstein, but Maurice Mariaud took it over and modified the project. In the Guy de Maupassant adaptation Pierre et Jean/Pierre and Jean (1924, Donatien), he appeared with Lucienne Legrand. Le train sans yeux/Train Without Eyes (1927, Alberto Cavalcanti) was a Louis Delluc adaptation in which he co-starred with Hans Mierendorf, Gina Manès, and Hanni Weisse. He also appeared in Cavalcanti’s drama En rade/Sea Fever (1928, Alberto Cavalcanti). At Rovi, Hal Erickson reviews: “Catherine Hessling, better known to film enthusiasts for her work in the early Jean Renoir silents, stars as a seaport barmaid who falls in love with sweet-natured sailor Georges Charlia. When Charlia unaccountably disappears one day, Hessling is plunged into the depths of melancholia. Her sad story is counterpointed with the bizarre behavior of the local laundress' lazy, near-moronic son (Philippe Heriat), who dreams of a life at sea. Although well photographed on genuine locations, Sea Fever proved confusing to many non-French filmgoers.” Charlia starred in a few German films, including Ritter der nacht/Knights of the Night (1928, Max Reichmann) co-starring La Jana. In that same year, he also played in the drama L'équipage/Last Flight (1928, Maurice Tourneur) starring Charles Vanel. One of his last silent films was Prix de beauté/Beauty Prize (1930, Augusto Genina) in which he was the lover and murderer of Louise Brooks.
George Charlia made the transition to sound film with Vacances (1931, Robert Boudrioz) with Florelle and Lucien Gallas. He reunited with Gina Manès to co-star in L'ensorcellement de Séville/The Charm of Seville (1931, Benito Perojo), Pax (1932, Francisco Elías) and L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes/The love which is necessary to women (1933, Adolf Trotz). In Germany, Charlia played a supporting part in the classic anti-war drama Kameradschaft/Comradeship (1931, Georg Wilhelm Pabst). Hal Erickson at Rovi: “Kameradschaft is set in a mining community on the French/German frontier, where several French miners are trapped in a cave-in. Their only hope for rescue lies in a long-abandoned underground tunnel, buried since the First World War. Ignoring the ethnic and political differences that have long separated the two countries, a group of German miners pick their way through the old tunnel to save the entombed Frenchmen. (…) Ironically, the German public, whose decency and humanity is celebrated in Kameradschaft, tended to avoid the film.” His last films were the Belgian-Dutch coproduction Jeunes filles en liberté/Young Girls in Freedom (1933, Fritz Kramp), and L'enfant de ma soeur/The Child of my Sister (1933, Henry Wulschleger). Why his film career stopped then after only ten years is not clear. Wasn’t his voice soundproof? Did he lose his interest in the cinema after the silent avant-garde cinema had dwindled away? We only know that Georges Charlia died in 1984, in his hometown Paris.
Sources: James Travers (Films de France), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
George Washington was the 1st President of the United States. He was also a member of the Continental Congress that would sign the Association and later the United State Constitution. His rise to glory started as a General during the French and Indian War and would go on as Commanding General during the Revolutionary War, although he would always introduce himself as just a farmer.
In 1753, the French Army sided with all Indian tribes to force British out of the country. Their first act was to occupy the Ohio Valley. This was controlled by the British and considered split land between Pennsylvania and Virginia. The British sent Washington to the valley to deliver a message to the French asking them to vacate the area. The French refused and this starting the French and Indian War.
Washington was put as an aid to British General Edward Braddock. In 1755, Braddock would be killed in battle and George Washington would take charge to lead the army. The troops were forced to retreat but Washington was promoted to General for his heroism for taking charge and his composure on the battlefield. Washington was given General of Virginia Regiment and is considered the first Regiment or army controlled by colonies. All other parts of army was British ruled or just militia. Washington would take his army and march west where he would lead a charge against Fort Duquesne in present day Pittsburgh forcing the French to retreat and open up the Ohio Valley.
Soon after this major victory, Washington would retire from the British Army. He would return back to his home, Mount Vernon, in Virginia, where he would continue his job as a farmer. It was as a farmer that Washington would take pride, and when introduced, he would always be referred to as George Washington, the farmer, not President or general. He would soon meet and marry widower Martha Dainbridge Custis. She would have 2 children who George would raise as his own because he would never have children with Martha.
With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War coming, all colonies called what they referred to as a Constitutional Convention. Washington would attend Virginia's and be elected as a delegate to join the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In 1774, as a member of the 1st Continental Congress, Washington would help right and sign the Articles of Association. These articles were sent to the Queen of England and highlighted the cruelties of the throne and British control over the colonies. The Association would later serve as a rough draft for the Declaration of Independence. The Articles of Association were ignored by the Queen and the Colonies were forced to declare their independence from England.
In 1775, when the 2nd Continental Congress was decided, Washington would again serve as delegate from Virginia. He would arrive in Philadelphia in his war suit ready for war. So instead of serving in the Congress, John Adams of Massachusetts nominated Washington as General and Commander of all Continental forces. Washington thought he wasn't capable of this honor but accepted. Washington, however, served in the British Army where he was a General and learned how to lead a British Army and fight with a British Army. It made him an easy candidate.
Washington would take over the army with different goals. He would train the Army, since most men were common men and never served in the Army. He would also lead this army he trained and put together against the Crown without surrendering until the war was over. And that he did.
Throughout this war, Washington would lead this army with his head held high and ready to take down any obstacle in their way. He would however be defeated in over half the battles he led. But he never surrendered. He would almost be captured at the Battle of Long Island but was able to escape and flee New York. In 1777, he had his men camped out at Valley Forge for the winter. Over the next 6 months, thousands of his men died at Valley Forge from disease. Congress did not have the money to send supplies like clothes or food. The army almost decided to over throw Washington but Washington would help raise the morale of the soldiers. He would have all local farmers donate food and would bring in Generals Marque de Lafayette and Frederick Von Steuben. They would train the soldiers in gorilla warfare and how to beat the British Army. The next few years, the Army started defeating the British one battle at a time. It would all come to an end in 1781 when Washington would lead his men to Yorktown and surround British Major General Lord Cornwallis bringing an end to the war.
After the war, Washington would give his farewell speech to his troops at Fraunces Tavern in New York and then retire to his home Mount Vernon. He would again be sent to Philadelphia in 1787 to help rewrite a new Constitution because the Articles of Confederation were to vague and causing problems in the newly formed states. Washington would preside over the congress and help write the new Constitution. He would then be one of the signers to sign the United States Constitution. One thing in the Constitution was that a new government would be formed with one man presiding it. Washington would be voted and sworn in as the 1st President of the United States.
Washington serves as 1st President with no idea on how to run a whole government. But he considered himself a man of the people and it was his duty to serve the people. Washington helped set up a nation built on laws and government. He set up a good Judicial System to preside over cases instead of having one man decide the outcome. Washington also set up a treasury to control government spending and helped set up a banking system. Washington spent 2 terms as President of the United States but spent all his time setting up a nation for the future. He retired after 2 terms because he felt that he would always be elected if he ran, and if only one man serves as President, he would be no different then a king, which is why we declared our independence from England in the first place.
George Washington is entombed at his home estate, Mt Vernon, in Mt Vernon, Va. Also buried next to George is his wife, 1st Lady Martha Washington. George is on the right and Martha on the left.
Co. B, 7th IA. Cavalry
Wilson County Citizen, Friday, April 24, 1903
Vol. XXXIII, No. 17
Sudden Death of G. E. Butin.
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After an affliction for about a year of paralysis, which steadily increased. In extent and effect from the start G. E. Butin, died very suddenly from a stroke of the disease last Saturday forenoon, April 18, at his home in Fredonia, in the presence of two physicians who were seeking to help his condition. While his family were aware that there was little or no prospect for his restoration to his former health, they were not prepared for the shock which his almost instantaneous death produced.
George Ervin Butin was born in Chillicothe, Wapello co., Iowa, October 9, 1845, and at his death was aged 57 years, 6 months and 9 days. He received such schooling as the common schools of his native county afforded. On January 7, 1863, when but little past seventeen years of age he enlisted in the Seventh Iowa Cavalry regiment, serving three years and four months, and was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant. The regiment saw service on the Western frontier in Indian fighting. While in the army Mr. Butin sustained an injury in the leg which crippled him, and April 10, 1888, the limb was amputated above the knee. In 1872 he moved from Iowa to Fredonia, engaging in the drug business with his elder brother, C. J. Butin, and they have since been continuously associated in that trade, being the oldest business firm in the city.
In November, 1873, G. E. Butin was elected county clerk of Wilson co. and in 1875 was reelected, filling the office and personally discharging its duties for four years.
May 12, 1875, Mr. Butin was married to Miss Josephine Hull at Chillicothe, Iowa, and she, with three sons and three daughters, survives him. In his death the bereaved family have lost a husband and father whose devotion, love and kindness for and interest in their welfare never relaxed. The city has lost one of its earliest settlers and an upright business man; a citizen whose fidelity to law and justice, to the town’s best interests, to the rights and well-being of neighbors and friends, have been steadfast, every day and with every breath, as he has consistently and practically exemplified in thirty-one years of active, open, honest, sincere and virtuous life before and in contact with all men in this community. Frank, straightforward, incapable of dishonesty, deceit or dissembling, G. E. Butin’s honored name for integrity, truth and principle was such that his immediate family and relatives should cherish it as a priceless legacy and realize from consolation in the hour of their sorrow.
The funeral was held Monday afternoon from the family residence and was attended by a large gathering of old soldiers, friends and neighbors. Brief services were held at the home by Rev. Chaffee, after which the casket was taken in charge by Phil Harvey Post, G. A. R., of which the deceased was a member, and burial was made according to the ritual thereof in the city cemetery.
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The relatives from abroad who were present at the funeral were John S. Butin of Enid, Ok., a brother; Mrs. H. A. Jenner of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Vina Butin of Chillicothe, Iowa, sisters; Frank Butin, of Russell, Kan., a son, and Eugene Park, from Emporia, a nephew. Chas. Butin, the eldest son, had arrived from Lawrence, Kan., two days previous to his father’s death. The other son and the three daughters of Mr. Butin were at home when he passed away.
History of Neosho and Wilson Counties Kansas, Published by L. Wallace Duncan, Monitor Printing Co., 1902. Pages 723-724
GEORGE E.BUTIN--The subject of this article is the well known optician and jeweler of Fredonia, Wilson county, and a member of the firm of C. J. Butin and Brother. He was born in Wappelo county, Iowa, October 9, 1845, and is a son of A. H. and Maria (Crooks) Butin, mentioned in the sketch of C. J. Butin in this volume.
Reared in the city and educated liberally our subject engaged in teaching school when quite young. He left the school room to enlist in Company B, 7th Iowa cavalry, Col. W. S. Summers. His regiment was assigned to the army of the west and served against the Indians on the plains. The battle of Horse creek in Wyoming was the most serious of the encounters with the Red Men and in this the command was escorting a band of five hundred of what professed to be friendly indians, but at daylight in June 1865, the warriors attacked their escort of two hundred soldiers and were badly beaten before the scrimmage ended. Prior to the regiment's Indian experience the 7th Iowa served against the rebels in the south. Col. Summers commanded it at first but afterward H. H. Heath was the commanding officer. Mr. Butin enlisted as a private but was promoted to company commissary, quartermaster and then orderly sergeant. While commissary and engaged in packing parcels from a position on top of a wagon he slipped off and in falling stuck his knee cap on the hub, making a painful inquiry and the only one he received during his service. He was discharged from the army after serving three years and seven months as second lieutenant of his company.
Mr. Butin engaged in business with his brother in Chillicothe, Iowa, in 1868 and has been identified with him since the establishment of their business in Fredonia. He has been separated from the store only when serving the public of his county and is one of the landmarks of Fredonia. In 1873 he was nominated by the opposition to the Republican party for county clerk and was elected. He was re-elected in 1875, and served two full terms.
May 12, 1875, Mr. Butin married Josephine Hull, a Virginia lady and a daughter of James and Lucretia Hull, both deceased. The children of this marriage are: Lelia, Charles E., Frank, Flora, Josie and James A.
The Hull children of whom Mrs. Butin was one numbered seven, as follows: Edwin, who died at __years; Josephine, wife of our subject; Flora, widow of Zenith Park, of Fredonia; Almira, widow of A. Wadell, of Chillicothe, Iowa; Emma, now Mrs. Lewis Blackman, of Garden Grove, Iowa; William deceased, and Jennie, Mrs. O. J. Garriott of Ottumwa, Iowa.
Mr. Butin is a Mason and in politics an ardent Republican..
George Davis, one of my acquaintences from Le Roy's counter, gave Ross Berteig & I each a bottle of his latest creation: homebrewed oatmeal brown ale.
Shown here poured into a chilled glass, it had a nice head and a rich oatmeal flavor. I really like this beer, ranking up there with any of my favorites on tap from commercial breweries. A fine companion to a hearty meal.
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