| 4445 | i. | Sidney9 Latlin11621, born 18 Oct 1858 in Smyrna, NY11621; died 22 Sep 185911621. | ||
| 4446 | ii. | Claire L. Latlin11621, born 20 Jan 1860 in DeKalb, Illinois11621. |
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Notes for Claire L. Latlin: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 60, page 246 Miss Claire L. Lattin. DAR ID Number: 59720 Born in De Kalb, Ill. Descendant of Zaccheus Bemis and of Corp. Abraham Farwell, of Massachusetts. Daughter of Nathan Lattin and Mary H. Bemis, his wife. Granddaughter of Stephen Bemis, Jr., and Miriam T. Farwell, his wife. Gr-granddaughter of Stephen Bemis and Achsah Pollard, his wife; Simeon Farwell and Hepzibah (Farwell), his wife. Gr-gr-granddaughter of Zaccheus Bemis and Elizabeth Lyon, his wife; Abraham Farwell and Priscilla Thurston, his wife (parents of Hepzibah). [p.246] Zaccheus Bemis (1736-1811) was a private in Capt. Noah Miles' Company, which marched on the Lexington Alarm from Westminster, Mass., where he died. Abraham Farwell (1743-1829) served as corporal on the Lexington Alarm and as private upon the alarm at Bennington, 1777. He was born in Groton, Mass.; died in Fitchburg. |
| 4447 | iii. | Judson Moss Latlin11621, born 27 Feb 186311621. He married Fanny Thomas11621 15 Aug 1887 in Kickapoo, Ill.11621. |
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More About Judson Latlin and Fanny Thomas: Marriage: 15 Aug 1887, Kickapoo, Ill.11621 |
| 4448 | iv. | Alma Crawford Latlin11621, born 22 May 1864; died 07 Apr 1865. |
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More About Alma Crawford Latlin: Elected: b. May 22, 1884. d. Apr. 7, 1865 (error)11621 |
| 4449 | v. | Fred Latlin, born 12 Mar 1866. |
| 4450 | i. | Judson Cogswell9 Bemis11625, born 08 Dec 1867 in St. Louis, Mo.11625; died 10 May 1885 in St. Louis, Mo.11625. | ||
| 4451 | ii. | Albert Farwell Bemis11625, born 11 Nov 1870 in Boston, Mass.11625; died 11 Apr 1936 in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona11626,11627. He married Faith Gregg11628 30 Dec 189911628. |
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Notes for Albert Farwell Bemis: [NEHGR:1936:90:283] "Memoirs" Albert Farwell Bemis, S. B., of Chestnut Hill, Newton, Mass., elected a resident member 3 May 1916 and made a life member the same year, was born in Boston 11 November 1870, the son of Judson Moss Bemis and Alice (Cogswell) Bemis, and died at Phoenix, Ariz., 11 April 1936. He was a descendant of Joseph Bemis(1), a native of England, who was a resident as early as 1640 of Watertown, Mass., where he was a blacksmith, served as selectman, and died 7 August 1684, through Joseph(2), 1651-1684, a soldier in King Phillip's War, a settler at Narragansett No. 2 (later Westminster), Mass., Phillip(3) of Westminster, who married Elizabeth Lawrence, Zaccheus(4), 1736-1805, of Westminster, a soldier in the Revolution, whose wife was Elizabeth Lyon, Stephen(5), 1768-1841, of Westminster and Ashburnham, Mass., who married Achsah Pollard of Ashburnham, Stephen(6), 1804-1889, a founder in 1831 of the First Baptist Church of Fitchburg, Mass., a wheat raiser in the Rock River region of Illinois, whose wife was Miriam Thurston Farwell of Fitchburg, and Judson Moss(7), his father, of Chicago, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., and Boston, Mass., manufacturer of flour sacks, who was born at Fitchburg 18 May 1833, married at Cambridge, Mass., 21 November 1866, Alice Cogswell (born at Ipswich, Mass., 5 January 1845, daughter of Daniel and Mercy Davis (Randall) Cogswell), and died in Wellesley, Mass., 6 April 1921. He attended public and private schools in Newton, 1876-82, Cutler Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo., 1882-87, Colorado College, 1887-89, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1889 to 1893, when he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. At once he began work in the employ of Bemis Brother Bag Company of Boston, a firm established by his father and his uncle. He was secretary 1897-1909, president, 1909-25, and chairman of the board of directors from 1925 until his retirement in 1934. He was also president and director of Bemis Industries, Inc. He was a director of the Boott Mills of Lowell, Mass., (1905-34), Atlantic Gypsum Products Company, the Angus Jute Company, Limited of Calcutta, India, the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (president 1916), the Second National Bank of Boston (1916-26), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1928-32), and the Boston Chamber of Commerce (1914-16), a member of the executive committee of the National Industrial Conference Board, and a trustee of Colorado College, (1912-13), of the Cambridge School of Domestic Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and of the Newton Young Men's Christian Association. He was also a member of the Commission on Industrial Information of the National Civic Federation, which was sent to Europe in March 1919 to investigate the industrial conditions in Europe and France. Twice he made business trips to India, visiting China and Japan each time. During the World War he served as a member of the National Council of American Cotton Manufacturers of the War Service Commission, and of the War Service Auxiliary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A private (1897-99) in the First Corps Cadets of Boston, he was a veteran member of that organization at the time of his death. He was an authority on the subject of housing projects, and at the close of the World War was an organizer of The Housing Company, of which he was president. In 1934 he completed a survey of governmental housing projects in the United States and Europe and he denounced the participation of the Federal Government in undertaking these projects. The results of this survey were published under the title "The Economics of Shelter." He had just completed "The Evolving House," a book published in three volumes. He also wrote "The Labor Situation in Great Britain and France," "A Journey to India," and "A Report on Tech Dormitories, 1912-13," and he was also the author of several reports on "Standard Specifications for Staple Gray Goods (Cotton)." To his alma mater he gave much of his time and interest, serving as a life member of the Corporation, a member of the Finance Committee, and president of the Alumni Association. Interested in public affairs, he served as an alderman of Newton from 1911 to 1914. In 1932 he gave $65,000 to the fund for restoring Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England, and he was present at the Thanksgiving services when the work of restoration was completed. He was a member of the Bostonian Society, the Ipswich Historical Society, the Royal Economic Society, the Royal Society of Arts, the American Oriental Society, the Academy of Political Science, the National Association for Constitutional Government, and the English-Speaking Union of London. Among his clubs were the Exchange, the Boston City, the Engineers', the Commercial, the Union, the University, the Technology, the Longwood Cricket, the Brookline Country, the Cohasset Golf, the Manchester Yacht, the Republican and the Congregationalist Clubs. He married 30 December 1899 Faith Gregg of Colorado Springs, daughter of James Bartlett and Mary (Needham) Gregg, who, with seven children. Farwell Gregg Bemis, A. B. (Harvard, 1922), M. B. A. (ib, 1925), of Brookline, Mass., Mrs. John G. Meem (Faith Bemis) of Santa Fe, N. Mex., Alan Cogswell Bemis, A. B. (Harvard, 1928), of Wayland, Mass., Mrs. Charles Goodrich Thompson (Alice Bemis) of New York City, and Judson Bemis, John Richardson Bemis and Marjorie D. Bemis, of Newton, survives him. --------------------------------------------------------- [Received from Curtis Bemis, Jr.] Albert Farwell Bemis-Death Certificate Albert Farwell Bemis, DOD-April 11, 1936, Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Residence-Boston, Massachusetts; wife Faith G. Bemis; age 65 years, 5 months, 0 days; DOB Nov. 11, 1870; Occupation-Manufacturer and Engineer, Father-Judson K. Bemis, b. NY, Mother-Maiden name Cogswell, b. MA; Informant-F. Gregg Bemis, Phoenix, Arizona; Cause of Death- Cerebral Hemorrhage from accidental fall thru auto window in Grand Canyon on April 5, 1936. Disposition-Cremation |
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More About Albert Farwell Bemis: Age at Death (Facts Pg): 11 Apr 1936, 65 years, 5 months, 0 days11629 Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorrhage from accidental fall thru auto window in Grand Canyon11629 Cremation: Abt. 11 Apr 1936, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona11629 Occupation: Manufacturer and Engineer11629 |
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More About Albert Bemis and Faith Gregg: Marriage: 30 Dec 189911630 |
| 4452 | iii. | Lucy Gardner Bemis11631, born 14 Oct 1872 in Newton, Mass.11631; died 26 Jan 1877 in Newton, Mass.11631. | ||
| 4453 | iv. | Maude Bemis11631, born 30 Jun 1874 in Newton, Mass.11631. She married Reginald Hascall Parsons11632 31 Jan 190111632; born 03 Oct 1873 in Flushing, Long Island, New York11632; died 09 Jun 1955 in Seattle, King, Washington11632. |
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Notes for Reginald Hascall Parsons: [NEHGS:1956:110:142] "Memoirs" Reginald Hascall Parsons, who was elected a Pilgrim Tercentenary member 7 April 1920, died in Seattle, Wash., 9 June 1955. He was born in Flushing, Long Island, N.Y., 3 Oct. 1873, a son of George Howland Parsons, born in New Bedford, Mass., 17 March 1849, died in Flushing 12 April 1898, and of his wife Lorraine Fiske Hascall, born in Waukesha, Wis., 4 Dec. 1853, died in Medford, Oreg., 8 Sept. 1925, a daughter of William Sterne Hascall and Myra Peters Fiske. He was prepared for college at the Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I., and studied in Colorado College and the University of California. He married, 31 Jan. 1901, Maude Bemis of Colorado Springs, Colo. The children were: (a) Alice Lorraine, born 6 March 1902, deceased; (b) Ann Parsons, born 3 Jan. 1904, married Frederic Delmart Toutell; (c) Reginald Bemis, born 6 Jan. 1906; (d) George Howland, born 13 July 1910; and (e) Mary Bowne, born 19 Nov. 1913. Mr. Parsons was auditor of the Colorado Springs Co., 1896-1898; with the brokerage firm of W. P. Bonbright Co., of the Colorado Springs Mining Exchange, 1898-1900; Manager of the Bemis Brothers Bag Co., Seattle, Wash., 1904-1909, and was active in the management of many other business corporations in Seattle, as well as in many civic and cultural activities in that city. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi, his college fraternity, and of the Sons of the Revolution. He was a member of the Seattle Golf Club, the Seattle Yacht Club, and the University Club of San Francisco. He was an Episcopalian. Mr. Parson's grandfather was Samuel Bowne Parsons, of Flushing, and his great-grandfather was Samuel Parsons, of Flushing. His grandmother was Susan Howland, of New Bedford, and his great-grandfather was, George Howland, of New Bedford. |
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More About Reginald Parsons and Maude Bemis: Marriage: 31 Jan 190111632 |
| 4454 | v. | Alice Bemis11633, born 15 Oct 1877 in Newton, Mass.11633; died 23 Jun 1942. She married Frederick M. P. Taylor11634 1903; born 12 Jun 1877 in Plainfield, New Jersey11634; died 28 Jan 1927 in Winchester, Massachusetts11635. |
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Notes for Alice Bemis: What's in a Name Reflections on the legacy of Alice Bemis Taylor By NORMAN SPEARS '57 Many of us have the desire to carry on private kindnesses of small scale. Few of us have the resources and abilities to make the grand gesture and to accomplish projects benefitting the public under a veil of privacy. Alice Bemis Taylor was able to do all this. Any CC student or graduate recognizes the names Bemis and Taylor because of campus buildings bearing the names of these donors. Judson Moss Bemis was a brilliant businessman who, at the age of 25, founded a bag manufacturing company that became the world's largest manufacturer of textile and paper bags. He was a trustee of Colorado College from 1912-1919 and gave several buildings to CC, including Bemis Hall. The Bemis family moved to Colorado Springs in 1881, and moved into a home newly built for them in 1885. That home later became the Hearthstone Inn, where photographs of Bemis family members still adorn the walls. Mr. and Mrs. Bemis had three children, including Alice, who was one of the founders of the Colorado Springs Day Nursery in 1897. Alice Bemis Taylor's personal life remained private until she died in 1942. (Much of the information presented here has been taken from a paper presented by Julia Ryan Wills to the Woman's Literacy Club of Colorado Springs in April 1995.) Alice Bemis was 26 when she married Frederick Morgan Taylor in 1903. "There must be three things which helped to shape the major philanthropies of Alice Bemis Taylor's life: an inner compulsion to share what she had; the Bemis Building Bug, as Mrs. Taylor herself described it, with its fascination for architecture; and a fervent desire to bring beauty to the lives of those who had little or none." Mrs. Taylor donated the funds to build the Colorado Springs Day Nursery, at the corner of Rio Grande and Tejon, in memory of her mother in 1923. Mrs. Taylor's concept of a Fine Arts Center began in 1930, when she approached the Broadmoor Art Academy to purchase a portion of their property on Cascade Avenue. Mrs. Wills stated, "by the summer of 1932, a revolutionary concept of a single-building arts center had been formed - to be built on the site of the Broadmoor Art Academy, and to house all of the arts - drama, music, art school and galleries, a library for Mrs. Taylor's 6,000 volumes of Americana and the Taylor Museum for Southwest Studies, as her collection would be called. Mrs. Taylor donated $600,000 to build the Arts Center in 1934 in the depth of the Depression. It was Mrs. Taylor's concern that jobs be made available to the unemployed." Mrs. Taylor initiated architectural plans for an addition to Coburn Library in 1931. When the contractor's estimate came in too high, a second set of plans was drawn for an independent building. A cargo of peachblow sandstone arrived on campus in 1932. Mrs. Taylor's interest and the $400,000 set aside for the library would be redirected to the Fine Arts Center. Mrs. Taylor died on June 23, 1942. The major portion of her fortune was left to sustain the Fine Arts Center, the Day Nursery, and Colorado College. To Colorado College she left a bequest of $400,000. The remainder of her estate went to the Bemis-Taylor Foundation, which she established in 1927 as a vehicle for her philanthropies. The foundation was dissolved in 1974 with a portion of the funds going to Colorado College. Judson Bemis was the major donor in building Bemis Hall in 1908. The earliest alteration to Bemis was the addition of a small enclosed porch extending off the south of the dining room. The porch was built in 1943 of similar stone as the main hall to provide a separate entrance to the Cogswell Theater, a small theater completed in 1910 to which the only entrance had been through the residence. This stone may have been the shipment intended for Coburn Library. In 1956 with the influx of students on the G.I. Bill, an addition, Taylor dining hall, was constructed off of the east wing of Bemis Hall. It was named after Alice Bemis Taylor. Unusual for the era in which campus buildings were constructed either of brick or concrete, the Taylor dining hall extension is notable for the attempt of the builders to match the stone to the original building. It is perhaps an indication of the importance of Bemis Hall to the college that its architectural integrity was respected to a degree unusual in the post-war era. Mrs. Taylor was the first woman trustee of Colorado College, and her many large gifts to its endowment fund sustained it during times of financial stress. Mrs. Wills stated, "But she also addressed the specific needs of the students and college: scholarships, a bus for the use of the students in the geology department, a sunroom for the use of girls living in Montgomery Hall." The scholarship Mrs. Taylor provided was designated to benefit "the outstanding entering freshman and was aptly called the Alice Bemis Taylor Scholarship." This procedure was usually implemented, but funds were used to aid other students or were given to an alternate when the original recipient withdrew from the college prior to graduation. The scholarship carried a very real responsibility. In the early 1950s, the annual grant was $1,000 for four years. At that time, tuition was $625 annually, so that books and some living expenses were covered. Almost all recipients found part-time work to help with finances since the scholarship committee followed Mrs. Taylor's wishes to help students who needed financial aid. The scholarship was awarded from 1947 through 1993 according to college records. (If recipients for years not recorded happen to read this, the college would like to update its information.) Mrs. Taylor touched the lives of students who could not afford to attend Colorado College. The collection of replies that Alice Bemis Taylor scholars have made to request autobiographies makes a heartwarming compilation of achievement and humanistic efforts. The Bemis message was translated into scholarships, and the recipients have expressed their gratitude in lifelong effort. Bemis money built wonderful additions to the city of Colorado Springs and Colorado College. The Bemis spirit is carried on by the fortunate Alice Bemis Taylor scholars. "Because of my family situation, it would have been very difficult for me to attend CC without the scholarship, and CC was very responsive and understanding. I am grateful." - Karla White Tesch '68 now works with Harvest, an organization that fosters partnerships between churches in the U.S. and Third World countries. "I am exceedingly grateful for the Taylor Scholarship that allowed me to attend CC, and I received a fine education there." - Lynne Cheney '63 is a nationally known author, host of CNN's "Crossfire Sunday," and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. "In 1947, the male student body was composed of those on the G.I. Bill or those from affluent families. I was neither, and the scholarship enabled me to enjoy four years at Colorado College on an equal footing." - Pat Killen '51 has had a distinguished career writing for United Press International and currently lives in Tokyo. "As far as CC and the Alice Bemis Taylor Scholarship are concerned, they are the two best things that ever happened to me. My four years at CC were really enjoyable and prepared me well for the communications/public affairs work I have been doing for the past 25 years." - Joel Kennedy '67 has served as vice president of corporate communications for the Queen's Health System in Honolulu, Hawaii, since July 1993. "Without the assistance of the Alice Bemis Taylor residence hall (workplace) and scholarship legacy, my life would never have been as fulfilling and enjoyable as it has unfolded over the years." - Wiley Lucero '60 was director of the Harborview Art Center and coordinator of a visual arts program of staff training and children's art workshops for 102 community centers of the New York City Housing Authority. |
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Notes for Frederick M. P. Taylor: [NEHGR:1936:90:283] "Memoirs" Frederick M. P. Taylor, of Colorado Springs, Colo., elected a life member 17 August 1926, was born at Plainfield, N. J., 12 June 1877, the son of Morgan S. and Mary S. (Pike) Taylor, and died at Winchester, Mass., 28 January 1927. He was a descendant of Edward(1) Taylor, who came from London, England, in 1692, and settled at Garret's Hill, Middletown, N. J., where he died in 1710., through Edward(2), who died at Shrewsbury, N. J., Hon. John(3), who settled at Charlton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., in 1774, where he was a judge of the County Court from 1809 to 1818, Richard(4), a merchant at Delphi, N. Y., Rev. Elisha E. L.(5), and Morgan S.(6), his father, who was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., married Mary S. Pike, a native of Calais, Me., and died at Plainfield, N. J., in 1894. For ten years before his death Mr. Taylor was engaged in the bond business at Colorado Springs. He was exceedingly interested in the Boy Scouts, the Salvation Army, the Nutrition Camp of Colorado Springs, and the American Red Cross. His recreations were of the out-of-door character, such as golf, hunting, and fishing. His clubs included the El Paso, the Cooking, the Broadmoor Golf, and the Cheyenne Mountain Country Clubs, as well as the Rocky Mountain Club of New York City; and he was also a life member of the Audobon Society and the Museum of Natural History and a member of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks. He married 21 April 1903 Alice Bemis, daughter of Judson Moss and Alice (Cogswell) Bemis, who survives him, together with their only child, Alice Doree Taylor. |
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More About Frederick Taylor and Alice Bemis: Marriage: 1903 |