Notes

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Ref: T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy page 466

Author, graduated from English High School, Boston, MA., USA in 1872

Went into a corporation office on leaving school;
then into a business counting-room.
Gave up business in 1888 and visited Europe;
Has since given entire attention to literature, writing stories for St. Nicholas, Harper's Young People, Youth's Companion, Outing, New York Evening Post, etc.
Author of "The City of Stories," 1897, E. 2;
"The Apprentice Boy," 1897, E.2;
"The Bicycle Highwayman," 1900, E. 3;
"The Double Prince," 1901, E. 3;
"Amy Dora's Amusing Day," 1904, A. 9;
"Blitzen the Conjuror," 1906, A. 9

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She was a student living with her parents in Rowe, Franklin, MA in the 1880 census.

[NI1528] [newport.FTW]

In the 1850 Massachusetts census James W. Bicknell was living with his parents in Boston an d listed his occupation as clerk.

[NI1535] From MA Military Company History, Vol 4 pages 18 & 19 Year 1867 via Ralph Webb

Name: Walter F. Bicknell
Walter F. Bicknell(1867), merchant, of Boston, son of Thomas R. and Lavoy (Favor) Bicknell, was born in Dexter, Me., Dec. 28, 1837. He married (1) in Boston, Jan. 17, 1864, Mary S. Prentiss, who died in 1878; and, (2) Aug. 3, 1883, he married in Portland, Me., Mrs. Sarah Augusta Chase.

Name:
Mr. Bicknell (1867), at the age of five years, moved to Boston with his father, and attended school, first, the Adams, then the Mason Street, and, for two years after, the Boston Latin School. At the age of fifteen years, he entered the employ of Holmes, Amidown & Co., a wholesale dry goods firm, and, in 1859, entered the wholesale grocery trade. At the beginning of the war, having been for several years a member of the Boston Light Infantry, he went with that corps to Fort Warren, expecting to go to the front, but while there, by an accident, was incapacitated from military service. For one year subsequently he could not step.

Name:
In 1868 he went to New York and remained one year, thence to Panama for three years, when he returned to Boston and engaged in the wholesale liquor business, in which he is now employed at No. 110 State Street, Boston.

Name:
Mr. Bicknell (1867) is a member of Columbian Lodge, A. F. and A. M., St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, Boston Commandery, Knights Templars, and Tremont Lodge of Odd Fellows. He resides at No. 5 Whiting Street, Roxbury.

[NI1550] [newport.FTW]
Elijah Wyman represented Newport, ME in the Legislature.

[NI1562] [newport.FTW]

The 1840 census lists Ira Shepardson living in Newport, Penobscot, Maine. The 1870 Census lis ts Ira Shepardson living in Newport, Penobscot, Maine.

[NI1566] Mary T Bicknell, age 1, is listed in the 1860 MA census living with her parents, William F Bicknell and Abby R Bicknell. The 1870 census lists her living with her mother Abby and brother William in Sandwich, MA. Mary Thaoline Bicknell resided at Sandwich, MA in 1880.

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The 1900 U. S. Census Yakima County Washington page 53 lists Henry J. Bicknell as a farmer. H e was divorced and 66 years old.

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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 100 and 101

Zimrhoda came from Chenango County, New York, to Athens,
Ohio, in October, 1815, with her mother and Brother,
Nehemiah, moving in on wagons. They were forty days on the
road. A number of families were in the party and two girls of
her own age. These three girls started walking ahead of the
teams, waiting at the cross roads lest they would get lost, resting
when tired, finding many new and interesting things, not thinking
that they were walking nearly all the way. She told this to her
children in later days as a great joke. She married Harley Car-
ter in 1818. They moved to their farm in Dover Township and
went to housekeeping in a little log cabin, which had been built,
before the land had been surveyed, by some person, who lost his
labor when the line was run. Only one-half acre was cleared,
the rest was covered with heavy timber. They worked, he clear-
ing and raising crops, she spinning, weaving and making cloth-
ing - woolen for winter and linen for summer wear. After a
few years they built two larger cabins near the center of their
farm, one to live in, the other for a store room, "loom shop" and
general work house. Later a brick house was built, with a large
cellar, in which every fall was stored a goodly supply of farm
products for winter. Out of great abundance Zimrhoda Carter
gave freely to all; warm clothing to those who needed it, food
to the hungry, simple home remedies to the sick, and found time
to help nurse them. Charitable, kind and hospitable, she had
many friends, and among her descendants the name of Bicknell
has never run out. In the ninth generation we have Harley
Bicknell Watts, Harriet Zinirhoda Watts Logan and Zimrhoda
Bicknell Robinson.

[NI1584] Jesse learned the wheelwright's trade at Hammond's Mills now known as Gilbert Stuart's birthplace, the distinguished protrait painter, then owned by Peter Burlingame. (TW Bicknell 1913 pp 97)

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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 98

Howland was born in North Kingstown, and remained at home until the death
of his mother and his father's second marriage, to Julia Carpenter.
His life was diversified and eventful. Brought up an
a farm, his knowledge of the three Rs was from the district
school and schoolmaster - enough of education at that day to
permit him to teach in a district school. He then studied and
practiced medicine, with an M.D. appended to his name. As a
physician, he is best known as the compounder and originator of
Bicknell's Soothing Syrup, a remedy for diarrhoea, dysentery and
other stomach troubles. Its great value as a children's remedy
is in the fact that it is free from opium, and while it does not
act as quickly as other compounds with opiates, is a safer cura-
tive, and in the end quite as efficient. As a cholera remedy the
Bicknell Syrup was remarkably valuable, as was tested by the
doctor himself on a steamboat trip from New Orleans in 1842.
A gentleman passenger was attacked with cholera, and on inquiry
for a physician, Dr. Bicknell was found, who administered to his
patient his newly-discovered remedy, the Soothing Syrup. The
malady was arrested and the man soon became convalescent, and
Dr. Bicknell was amply rewarded for his medical success.

Dr. Bicknell was a great traveler, visiting all parts of the
United States and Canada. He went to California in 1849, and
roughed it among the gold miners in search of "a nugget large
enough to make him independent." His gold-mining company
breaking up, he set up an assay office, operated in mining claims,
erected buildings, made fortunes and lost them, made a trip to
Callao, Peru, on a medical call, was in Rbode Island in 1853, and
had settled in Dutch Flats, Cal., in 1858, where he had a doctor's
office, and where he died about 1859. His mother was a Quaker,
but Howland joined the Baptist Church early in life, and was an
active and efficient member of that denomination wherever he
cast his lot. He never married.
Dr. Bicknell's cousin , Mrs Emeline L Bicknell, of Pomeroy, Ohio,
was the source of the important facts as to Howland's life.

Bicknell's Soothing Syrup was still being manufactured and
sold by George L Claflin & Co. Providence, Rhode Island, 1913.

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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 Book page 105

George and Deborah removed from Buckfield to Ohio about 1832

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From T.W Bicknell's 1913 book page 365

Simeon, a fatherless boy, went to Canton, Maine,
to live with his Uncle, George De Coster, who, for many years,
carried a large carriage factory and was one of the early
settlers of the town.
Here he learned carriage making and spent the larger part
of his life in that business.
At one time he manufactured on a large scale farming tools
for Boston and other markets.
He continued active work at Caton till the close of his life.

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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 book page 366

William was a boot and shoe cutter and lived in South Boston, MA., USA

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