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Descendants of Joseph Bemis


      3665. Oriana Rovena (or Ann R.)8 Bemis (Elijah7, Elijah6, Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)16255,16256 was born 31 Jul 184716257. She married Peter Gamache16257.

More About Oriana Rovena (or Ann R.) Bemis:
Date born 2: Aug 184516258
     
Children of Oriana Bemis and Peter Gamache are:
  5326 i.   Lillie Augusta9 Gamache16259, born 25 Sep 186916259.
  5327 ii.   Fred Lincoln Gamache16259, born May 187116259.
  5328 iii.   Mary Helen Gamache16259, born Oct 187216259.
  5329 iv.   Jenny Louise Gamache16259, born Dec 187316259.
  5330 v.   Florence Mabel Gamache16259, born Jan 187516259.


      3668. Elwyn Heartly8 Bemis (Elijah7, Elijah6, Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)16259,16260 was born 01 Jun 1851 in Northboro, Worcester, Massachusetts16261,16262. He married (1) Lizzie R. Morse16263 01 Jan 187216263. She died Jul 187716263. He married (2) Martha Arabella Todd16263 26 Nov 187816263, daughter of J. Todd and Lucy Hale.

Notes for Elwyn Heartly Bemis:
[Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol.1, p.318]

ELWYN HARTLEY BEMIS, of Northboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, is from the old Bemis family of this county, the members of which outrank almost, if not quite, those of any other name there. He was born at Northboro, June 1, 1851, son of Elijah and Julia A. (Newton) Bemis...

Elwyn H. Bemis, of this notice, was educated at Northboro, Massachusetts, commenced farm work for others and later began for himself on the old home place. In politics he is a Republican and has been overseer of the poor. He was a charter member of the Grange and is a member of the Baptist Church. He married Martha Arabella Todd, of Rowley, daughter of J. Scott and Lucy (Hale) Todd. Their children are as follows: Edith Justina, born at Northboro, November 16, 1879, married E. C. Blair, 1899, and they have one son, Malcom E., born June 22, 1900. Ralph lives at Worcester and Lucy at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Elmer T., born December 7, 1894.

More About Elwyn Bemis and Lizzie Morse:
Marriage: 01 Jan 187216263

More About Elwyn Bemis and Martha Todd:
Marriage: 26 Nov 187816263
     
Children of Elwyn Bemis and Martha Todd are:
  5331 i.   Edith Justina9 Bemis16263, born 16 Nov 1879 in Northboro, Worcester, Massachusetts16263. She married E. C. Blair16264 189916264.
  More About E. Blair and Edith Bemis:
Marriage: 189916264
  5332 ii.   Ralph Scott Bemis16265, born 07 Mar 188316265.
  5333 iii.   Lucy Mabel Bemis16265, born 07 Mar 188316265.
  5334 iv.   Elmer Todd Bemis16266, born 07 Dec 1894 in Northboro, Worcester, Massachusetts16267,16268,16269.
  More About Elmer Todd Bemis:
Name 2: Elma Todd Bemis16270
Name 3: Elmer T. Bemis16271
  5335 v.   Elwyn Heartly Bemis16272, born 07 Dec 189416272; died 18 May 189516272.


      3669. Justin Waldo8 Bemis (Elijah7, Elijah6, Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)16272 was born 06 Apr 1853 in Northboro, Massachusetts16272. He married (1) Lizzie Gertrude Mirick16273 31 Dec 1877 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts16273, daughter of John Mirick and Kerseah Pierce. She was born 26 Mar 1855 in Princeton, Massachusetts16273, and died 23 Jun 1884 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16273. He married (2) Adelaide Marion Arnold16273 12 Dec 1887 in Marlboro, Massachusetts16273, daughter of Heartwell Arnold and Fannie Fisher. She was born 03 Dec 1849 in Marlboro, Massachusetts16273.

Notes for Justin Waldo Bemis:
[Ashburnham:609] He has resided in Ashburnham since 1878 and at present is one of the road commissioners. Two children, one of whom died in infancy.

[1880 Census - Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts - June 1, 1880 - page 1A - image 1]
J. W. Bemis, 27, a farmer; along with wife, Lizzie G., 25, keeping house; daughter Ida J., 1; and mother-in-law, Kerziah Mirick, 60; all born in Massachusetts (parents in Massachusetts).

More About Lizzie Gertrude Mirick:
Date born 2: 27 Mar 185516274

More About Justin Bemis and Lizzie Mirick:
Marriage: 31 Dec 1877, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts16275

More About Justin Bemis and Adelaide Arnold:
Marriage: 12 Dec 1887, Marlboro, Massachusetts16275
     
Children of Justin Bemis and Lizzie Mirick are:
  5336 i.   Ida Jessamine9 Bemis16275, born 24 Dec 1879 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16275; died 09 Oct 1882 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16275.
  5337 ii.   Stella Allen Bemis16275, born 28 Dec 1880 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16275.
     
Children of Justin Bemis and Adelaide Arnold are:
  5338 i.   Fanny Marrian9 Bemis16275, born 10 Feb 1889 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16275.
  5339 ii.   Mary Elizabeth Bemis16275, born 10 Feb 1892 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16275.
  5340 iii.   Waldo Heartwell Bemis16275, born 18 Sep 1894 in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts16275.


      3670. Grace Helen (or Helen G.)8 Bemis (Elijah7, Elijah6, Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)16276,16277 was born 18 May 1855 in Northboro, Massachusetts16278. She married William J. Codd16278.
     
Children of Grace Bemis and William Codd are:
  5341 i.   Frank William9 Codd16278, born 06 Jul 187416278.
  5342 ii.   Grace Julia Codd16278, born Aug 187516278.
  5343 iii.   Annie Isabel Codd16278, born Jun 187716278.


      3672. Alice Augusta8 Bemis (Elijah7, Elijah6, Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)16278 was born 04 Sep 1863 in Northboro, Massachusetts16278. She married David Alfred Heartwell16278.
     
Child of Alice Bemis and David Heartwell is:
  5344 i.   Clifford Newton9 Heartwell16278, born 10 Jul 1890 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts16278.


      3675. Jennie Olive8 Bemis (Augustine Samuel7, William Peter6, Elisha5, Elisha4, John3, John2, Joseph1)16279. She married Edward Higginson Williams16279 19 Jun 1883 in Roxbury, Massachusetts16279. He was born 30 Sep 1849 in Proctorsville, Vermont16279, and died 02 Nov 1933 in Woodstock, Vermont16279.

Notes for Edward Higginson Williams:
[NEHGR:1934:88:86] "Memoirs"

Edward Higginson Williams, B.A., A.C., E.M., Sc.D., LL.D., of Woodstock, Vt., mining engineer, geologist, elected a resident member 6 February 1904 and made a life member 28 January 1919 was born at Proctorsville, Vt., 30 September 1849, the son of Edward Higginson and Cornelia Bailey (Pratt) Williams, and died at Woodstock 2 November 1933.

He traced his descent from Robert(1) Williams, a native of Norwich, England, an emigrant to New England in the Rose, with his first wife, Elizabeth Stratton, and several children, who settled at Roxbury, Mass., and was admitted a freeman 2 May 1638, through Capt. Isaac(2), born in 1638, whose first wife was Martha Parks, Lieut. Isaac(3), 1661-1739, Capt. William(4) of Mansfield, Conn., who married Experience Williams, Capt. Phinehas(5), 1734-1820, a settler in 1774 at Woodstock, Vt., an officer in the Revolution, who married Mary Field, Hon. Jesse(6), 1761-1842, of Woodstock, an officer in the Revolution, whose wife was Hannah Palmer, Hon. Norman(7), 1791-1868, A.B. (University of Vermont, 1810), register of probate, secretary of state for Vermont, State senator, clerk of the courts of Windsor County for more than twenty-five years, selectman, founder of the Vermont Medical College, in which he was a professor of medical jurisprudence and dean of the faculty, member of the commission to rebuild the State capitol, who married Mary Ann Wentworth Brown, and Edwin Higginson(8), his father, M.D. (Medical College of Woodstock, 1846), physician, civil engineer, superintendent of railroads, a knight of the North Star by creation by the King of Sweden, who was born at Woodstock 1 June 1824 and married there, 15 June 1848, Cornelia Bailey Pratt, who was born at Woodstock 16 January 1827 and died at Rosemont, Pa., 16 July 1889, the daughter of John A. and Sarah (Bailey) Pratt.

He attended the public schools and was graduated at the Woodstock High School in 1865 and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1868. He entered Yale University and received there the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1872. Serious trouble with his eyes forced him to give up for a while all studies, but in 1873 he bagan postgraduate studies at Lehigh University, taking there the degree of Analytical Chemist in 1875 and that of Engineer of Mines in 1876. In 1912 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont and in 1915 that of Doctor of Laws from Lehigh University. While at Lehigh University he founded the Tau Beta Pi Society, a national honorary engineering fraternity.

He bagan work in 1872 as a surveyor with the Pennsylvania Railway engineering corps, but gave up his position and took up his studies at Lehigh University the following year. From 1876 to 1879 he was engaged as an engineer in private mining corporations, and then, for a year, was a superintendent of mines at Danville, Pa., resigning to accept the position of assistant mining engineer of the Canada Steel Company at Johnstown, Pa., in charge of mine examinations outsite the State of Pennsylvania and of exploring work in Canada, Michigan, and Virginia. In 1881 he was appointed professor of mining and geology at Lehigh University, a position which he held until 1902, when he was made lecturer on mining and geology. After his retirement from teaching he moved to Andover, but in 1910 settled at Woodstock.

He contributed many papers on mining and education to scientific magazines and journals, besides publishing articles on history and geology. He published a "Manual of Lithology," 1886, 1896, and a "Vigintennial Record of the Class of 1868, Phillips Academy, Andover," 1888, and edited Atkinson's "Gases met within Coal Mines," second edition, 1886, and "Coal and Metal Miners' Pocket Book," 1890.

He was well-versed in Greek, Latin, French, German, Egyptian, Coptic, Sanskrit, and Hebrew. He learned to read and speak Welsh.

He was a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the Vermont Society of Engineers, and a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Geological Society of America. He belonged also to the Moravian Historical Society, the Wyoming Valley Historical Society, and the Vermont Historical Society. A stamp collector of international reputation, he was a member of the American Philatelic Society.

He has served as a trustee and president of the Norman Williams Public Library Corporation, a director of the Woodstock Aqueduct Company, the Woodstock Electric Company, and the Woodstock Hotel Company, vice president and president of the Lehigh Alumni Association, and a member of the School Committee of Woodstock.

He married at Roxbury (Boston), 19 June 1883, Jennie Olive Bemis, daughter of Augustine Samuel and Ophelia (Leland) Bemis, who, with eight children, Mrs. N. Grier Parke (Olive Bemis Williams), Mrs. Charles Worthington Fowler (Cornelia Williams), Mrs. Seymour Ballard (Elizabeth Williams), Edward Higginson Williams, B.A. (Williams, 1913), C.E. (Lehigh University, 1915), of Woodstock, Norman Williams, B.A. (University of Vermont, 1916), Amory Leland Williams, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1920, as of 1918), M. Arch (ib. 1921), Wentworth Williams, B.A. (Williams, 1920, as of 1919), assistant professor of English at Boston University, and Lawrence Augustine Peter Williams, B.A. (Lehigh University, 1923), survives him.

More About Edward Williams and Jennie Bemis:
Marriage: 19 Jun 1883, Roxbury, Massachusetts16279
     
Children of Jennie Bemis and Edward Williams are:
  5345 i.   Olive Bemis9 Williams16279.
  5346 ii.   Cornelia Williams16279.
  5347 iii.   Elizabeth Williams16279.
  5348 iv.   Edward Higginson Williams16279.
  5349 v.   Norman Williams16279.
  5350 vi.   Amory Leland Williams16279.
  5351 vii.   Wentworth Williams16279.
  5352 viii.   Lawrence Augustine Peter Williams16279.

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