Newspapers at the LoC

I went to the Library of Congress (Madison Building, Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, LM-133) Thursday night, thinking I could access microfilm of the Akron Beacon Journal, but I had misread the Library's on-line catalogue and they didn't have any of the issues I was looking for. (Their collection begins in 1973.) So instead I looked through some issues of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and found death notices for Emma Beck (d 3 May 1910), wife of Thomas Henderson, and Annie Elizabeth Henderson (d 2 May 1942), wife of Daniel Charles Harris.
I looked very thoroughly for a notice of Thomas Henderson's death on 8 Jul 1888, but I could not find it. It makes me think this date might be wrong. The Plain Dealer at that time carried death notices in the same spot every week, and on some days it also had a list of deaths provided by the Board of Health. The Board of Health list appears in the Sunday, 8 Jul 1888, issue, but not in the Monday, 9 Jul 1888, issue, the issue in which one would expect to find the notice. The paper also carried obituaries at that time, but not in the same place every day.

The Reading Room did have WPA-produced bound indexes to the Akron Beacon Journal for 1929-1938 (AI21.A4) and the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 1933-1938 (AI21.C53), which I scanned briefly.

Looking at the Rawlings Line

Looking at the Rawlings line this week.

Found the death notice for Zeda Emma Rawlings (1854-1897), daughter of Eber Brightwell Rawlings (1826-1908), on page 4 of the Provo City Enquirer for 12 Jan 1897.

Also found a lot of information from the U.S. census for the families of William Senior Rawlings (1863-1930), son of Eber Brightwell Rawlings; Thomas William Mullineaux (1840-1909), husband of Matura Brightwell Rawlings; and Peter Canute Peterson, son-in-law of William Senior Rawlings (1840-1909).

Explored the "America's Obituaries and Death Notices" database for Rawlings, Petersons, and Ottosens, with great success. Some death notices give the names of all the siblings and the names of their spouses, which can fill out a FGR in a hurry.

Was pleased to find data on the descendants of Thomas Mullineaux (1840-1909) and Matura Brightwell Rollins (1828-?) posted on Judy Buckner's Genealogy Homepage. I plan to contacting Judy Buckner soon, just to say "hello."

Find A Grave

While scanning the web for information on William Arenz, the husband of Emma Rebecca Cooksley (1865-1895), the links brought me to the Find A Grave website, which allows users to post information on persons buried in various cemeteries around the world. According to the site, they have 13 million burials listed. I greatly appreciated seeing the grave stone for William Arenz, and made a note of his date of death for future death notice checking in the Bee or Union. I became a registered user, and made entries for Anna Schnar (1840-1901); her son, John D. Hagerty (1862-1891); this blog's namesake, Doctor Henry James Cooksley; his daughter-in-law Nellie Elizabeth Hagerty; and a number of others.

Peter Paul Huberty (1845-1920)

Lately I have been exploring online newspaper archives. This weekend I discovered the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, and found a large number of articles mentioning Peter Paul Huberty (1845-1920). Huberty (pronounced "Hue-berty" according to family lore) was born 3 Jan 1845, in Hosten, now in the municipality of Speicher, district of Bitburg-Prüm, in the Bundesländ (state) of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He immigrated in 1867, and became a naturalized citizen. He was a teacher in Germany, and continued that occupation in the U.S. By the mid-1890's, had become a lawyer and was employed as the chief clerk of the Brooklyn Police Department. He weighed almost 300 pounds and spoke with an accent. He belonged to German social organizations, such as the Bushwick Democratic Club and the Arion Singing Society. He ran for Justice of the Peace in 1895, but was defeated. In 1899, he ran for County Clerk, and this time he won the election. The picture shown here is from the Eagle's 22 Oct 1899 review of candiates. He served the full two-year term. He died in 1919 or 1920.

His son, Ulrich J. Huberty (1876-1910), was an architect who designed a number of Brooklyn landmarks, such as the Grand Prospect Hall and the Boathouse at Prospect Park.

I also found obituaries for the Huberty's inlaws, Ulrich and Teresa Maurer, who died on 23 July 1882 and 28 August 1900 respectively. Their daughter, Rosa, married Huberty in 1870/1871.