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Descendants of Joseph Bemis


      2155. Joseph Craig7 Bemis (William6, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10186 was born 22 Oct 182110186, and died 27 Jan 189410186. He married Lucia Ann Wood 12 Dec 184810186. She was born 30 Dec 182310186, and died 29 Jan 188210186.

Notes for Joseph Craig Bemis:
[Tower:V1:175] JOSEPH CRAIG BEMIS served through the Civil War in a Massachusetts regiment.

More About Joseph Craig Bemis:
Died 2: 27 Jun 189410186

More About Lucia Ann Wood:
Comment 1: "of Woodstock, Vt."10186

More About Joseph Bemis and Lucia Wood:
Marriage: 12 Dec 184810186
     
Children of Joseph Bemis and Lucia Wood are:
+ 3806 i.   William E.8 Bemis, born 22 Oct 1849.
  3807 ii.   Alice C. Bemis10186, born 14 Jul 185310186. She married George A. Sturtevant10186 14 Dec 188610186; born 05 Mar 186010186.
  More About George Sturtevant and Alice Bemis:
Marriage: 14 Dec 188610186
+ 3808 iii.   A. Edith Bemis, born 27 Sep 1862.


      2156. Mary Lucy7 Bemis (William6, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10186 was born 06 Feb 182610186, and died 17 Aug 189610186. She married Leander Bartlett10187 06 Jul 185210187. He was born 182210187, and died 02 Nov 185610187.

More About Leander Bartlett and Mary Bemis:
Marriage: 06 Jul 185210187
     
Child of Mary Bemis and Leander Bartlett is:
+ 3809 i.   William Leander8 Bartlett, born 28 Mar 1853.


      2157. Daniel Webster7 Bemis (William6, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10188 was born 19 Oct 182810188. He married Mary Hughs10189 05 Aug 1853 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts10189. She was born 12 Oct 183310189.

Notes for Daniel Webster Bemis:
[Tower:V1:175] DANIEL W. BEMIS was a civil engineer, and was employed in the location and construction of railroads in different states, also in Mexico. About 1875 he surveyed for John Gilman and others a railroad project to go through the Wire Villages in Spencer. He served in a Massachusetts regiment in the Civil War.

More About Daniel Bemis and Mary Hughs:
Marriage: 05 Aug 1853, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts10189
     
Children of Daniel Bemis and Mary Hughs are:
  3810 i.   Maud8 Bemis10189, born 06 Jan 1855 in Illinois10189; died 16 Aug 185510189.
  3811 ii.   Walter Herbert Bemis10189, born 03 Aug 1857 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts10189; died 18 Feb 186110189.
  3812 iii.   Mary Elsa Bemis10189, born 18 Sep 1860 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts10189.
  3813 iv.   Richard Percival Bemis10189, born 11 Sep 186210189. He married Anna Stuart Welsh10189 20 Jun 189410189.
  More About Richard Bemis and Anna Welsh:
Marriage: 20 Jun 189410189
  3814 v.   Ralph Emery Bemis10189, born 26 Apr 187210189.


      2159. Susan7 Wilson (Susan6 Bemis, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10190 died Apr 185610190. She married Thomas Foley10191.

More About Thomas Foley:
Comment 1: "of Northfield, Vt."10191
     
Children of Susan Wilson and Thomas Foley are:
  3815 i.   Thomas8 Foley10191.
  3816 ii.   James Foley10191.


      2162. Winthrop7 Wilson (Susan6 Bemis, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10192 was born 25 Aug 181610192, and died 28 Jan 188710192. He married Cornelia Lamb Wheelock10193 13 Sep 184110193. She was born 03 May 181810193.

More About Cornelia Lamb Wheelock:
Comment 1: "of Charlton, Mass."10193

More About Winthrop Wilson and Cornelia Wheelock:
Marriage: 13 Sep 184110193
     
Children of Winthrop Wilson and Cornelia Wheelock are:
  3817 i.   Marion D.8 Wilson10193, born 14 Jun 184610193; died 25 Sep 184910193.
  3818 ii.   Ansella D. Wilson10193, born 24 Dec 184910193.
+ 3819 iii.   Luella M. Wilson, born 15 Aug 1852.
  3820 iv.   Edgar M. Wilson10193, born 06 May 185510193.
  3821 v.   Adella M. Wilson10193, born 13 Sep 185810193.


      2163. Joel7 Wilson, Jr. (Susan6 Bemis, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10194 was born 21 May 182010194, and died 09 Nov 184910194.
     
Child of Joel Wilson, Jr. is:
+ 3822 i.   George8 Wilson.


      2165. Mary Ann7 Wilson (Susan6 Bemis, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10194 was born 27 May 182810194, and died Jun 187210194. She married Sewell Wheeler10195.
     
Children of Mary Wilson and Sewell Wheeler are:
  3823 i.   Frank8 Wheeler10195.
  3824 ii.   Mary Wheeler10195.
  3825 iii.   Susan Wheeler10195.
  3826 iv.   Ella Wheeler10195.
  3827 v.   Anna Wheeler10195.


      2167. Hon. George Washington7 Bemis (Eleazer6, Joseph5, Edmund4, Samuel3, John2, Joseph1)10196 was born 13 Oct 1826 in Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts10196,10197. He married Narcissa T. Roszella10198 11 Apr 1855 in Alabama, Genesee, New York10198, daughter of Elijah Roszella and Hannah Netheway. She was born 08 May 1829 in Alabama, Genesee, New York10198, and died 09 Aug 189910199.

Notes for Hon. George Washington Bemis:
[Draper:142-4] [reprinted in Tower:V1:160-2] George Washington Bemis was born October 13, 1826, at Spencer, Mass., where he remained until 1837, when his father removed to Alabama, Genesee county, New York. This change of residence was an event of now small moment, and involved a journey of many days fraught with more adventures and possible dangers than are now incident to an ocean passage or trans-continental tour. The section of New York into which he was thus brought was then a part of the ever-advancing frontier, and he gave a sturdy lad's assistance in the arduous labor of subduing the rugged face of nature to the needs of civilization. This task performed, his summers were spent in working on the farm which he had helped to wrest from the surrounding wilderness, and his winters were devoted to making the best use of such advantages as were offered by the primitive country school.

A course at the Cary Collegiate Seminary at Oakfield supplemented this instruction, and that he profited by every educational opportunity is shown by his early election to the office of superintendent of the township schools. His interest in political matters date from the presidential campaign of 1840, and in 1848 he disgusted his father--an ardent Whig--by casting one of the eleven anti-slavery ballots "which leavened the lump" of four hundred polled in that district for the opposing candidate. He remained an enthusiastic and uncompromising Abolitionist throughout the struggle which terminated in emancipation. He has always, too, been a zealous advocate of woman suffrage. He taught school for two years in Wisconsin and in April, 1854, came west to visit an acquaintance. So enamoured did he become of the broad and fertile prairies of Iowa during his stay that he determined to adopt Independence as a place of residence, and went into the land business.

Mr. Bemis was elected a member of the Eighth General Assembly in 1859, and served in the lower house during the regular session, in 1860. It may be of some interest to mention, as an illustration of the changes wrought in a few decades, that four days and three nights were consumed in going from Independence to Des Moines, and that the capital had neither a railroad nor a telegraph line at that time. The session lasted nearly three months, and the legislators had to deal with business of great importance, including a revision of the Code, and an attempt to mitigate the "hard times", then existing, by remodeling the revenue laws. Mr. Bemis introduced an important bill in relation to the duties of county surveyor and was largely instrumental in substituting the present supervisor system for the then existing county judge rule. The extra or "war session" which followed in June 1861, was one that demanded action in affairs of much moment, and in all the deliberations he took a prominent part, his sagacious influence being very apparent. As one of a special committee of five, he was sent to investigate the construction of the insane asylum at Mr. Pleasant, out of which some ugly scandals had arisen, and he performed other and important duties.

[Tower:V1 adds: Upon the expiration of his term, he was made a postal clerk on the Illinois Central Railroad between Dubuque and Sioux City, a position which he held for seven years.] In the fall of 1869 he was appointed by Governor Merrill, one of the Commissioners of the Hospital for the Insane at Independence, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Albert Clarke, and he acted as Secretary and Treasurer of the Board until his resignation in December, 1871. He was reappointed by Governor Carpentor in April, 1872, and served in the same capacity until July, 1892, during which time he received and disbursed more than a million dollars. He was elected from Buchanan county to the State Senate in 1871, and was justly regarded as one of the most efficient members of that body. He served as chairman of the committee on the State University and was one of the committee on appropriations. He also secured for the hospital at Independence, without a dissenting voice in the Senate, an appropriation of $200,000, the largest ever granted. He was chosen Treasurer of State in 1876 and re-elected in 1878, conducting the affairs of that extremely responsible office in such a manner as to win expressions of general approval.

He was a member of the first board of supervisors of Buchanan county and, apropos of his candidacy for that office, he told an amusing and characteristic anecdote. On the day of the election he returned from an eastern trip to learn, with surprise, of his nomination. The struggle was an intensely hot one, party feeling ran high and the result of the battle was in great doubt. He started for the polls with the modest intention, as in previous instances, of voting for his opponent, but it occurred to him on the way that he was no more justified in "scratching" than any other voter, and he deposited a straight ticket in the box. "I received a majority of exactly one", he concluded, "and so became the choice of the people."

[Tower:V1 adds on 164:] Mr. Bemis is a rather more than medium stature and somewhat full habit. His physiognomy and the general contour of his head recall portraits of Charles Darwin, and in many respects he is not unlike that imminent iconoclast. A long public career has left him with an unblemished reputation. He has held great pecuniary trusts within integrity that has never known the shadow of suspicion, and in every situation he has been the champion of temperance and sound morality. It is fitting that, with good health, a keen relish for all intellectual and wholesome recreation, surrounded in his pleasant home by the friends and neighbors of a half a century, he should be able to say with Adam, in "As You Like It"
--
"Therefore my age is a lusty winter.
Frosty, but kindly."

This sketch was written by Stephen Tabor.

More About Hon. George Washington Bemis:
Name 2: George W. Bemis10200

More About Narcissa T. Roszella:
Name 2: Narcissa Rogelle10201
Name 3: Narcissa T. Roszelle10202

More About George Bemis and Narcissa Roszella:
Marriage: 11 Apr 1855, Alabama, Genesee, New York10203
     
Children of George Bemis and Narcissa Roszella are:
  3828 i.   Mary B.8 Bemis10204, born 28 Jun 185710204; died 08 Jun 188310204. She married W. D. Lee10205 in Des Moines, Iowa10206.
  More About Mary B. Bemis:
Name 2: May B. Bemis10206
Date born 2: 27 Jun 185710206

  More About W. D. Lee:
Name 2: William D. Lee10206

  More About W. Lee and Mary Bemis:
Marriage: Des Moines, Iowa10206
+ 3829 ii.   William Seward Bemis, born 27 Sep 1859 in Independence, Iowa; died 05 Dec 1939 in Spencer, Clay, Iowa.
+ 3830 iii.   Arthur Roszelle Bemis, born 06 Dec 1862.

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