[NI4813]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 341
Mumford was an overseer in cotton mills in the Pawtxet Valley.
[NI4816]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 412
Howard was a clerk in the Elmwood Dept. of Providence Postoffice;
was financial secretary of the James Wood Lodge I.O.O.F.
His pastime was the search for Indian relics in Naragansett County,
of which he had a large collection.
[NI4834]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 414
Charles 0. Holt was born in Peru, Maine., and is a brother of
Dr. E. E. Halt, of Portland, Me. He learned the trade of car-
penter and carriage maker at Canton. At the breaking out of the
Civil War he enlisted in Fifth Regiment Maine I. V. as a pri-
vate; he re-enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment, and again in
the Twenty-ninth Regiment. At the close of the war he married
Harriet A. Bicknell and made his home in Canton, Maine., worked
at his trade several years, went into mercantile business and later
was appointed postmaster by President Harrison. In 1897 he
moved to Portland, Maine., and is employed as superintendent of
buildings of the Ear and Eye Infirmary, and Mrs. Holt is matron
of the institution of which Dr. E. E. Halt was chief promoter
and executive officer.
[NI4852]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 313
Anson was an attorney-at-law at Humboldt, Iowa.
He held many offices in that state, among which he was
Superintendant of schools at Humboldt, 1872 and '73,
and a Representative to the Iowa Legislature for the
term 1880 and 1881.
[NI4855]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 402 and 403
Clara was a remarkable child, a beautiful
youth, an excellent and beautiful type of womanhood. Her life,
brief in years, was long in high ideals and in noble service spring-
ing from them. Her ancestry on both sides belonged to the
orthodox Pilgrim faith and for seven generations had held fast
to its teachings. In the eighth generation, the separation had
come to a more liberal and reasonable spiritual thought, and the
daughter had known none of the struggle, but was born into
the dawn of a sweeter and holier faith and life, so well fitted
to the aspirations of her own nature. Nature and life were her
teachers. She drew her inspiration from all that was true, beau-
tiful and good in the world around and above her. Her school
education was obtained at Humboldt, Iowa, and Chicago Uni-
versity, and at Des Moines she took training as a kindergarten
teacher. She chose teaching - no, teaching chose her - for she
so loved children that necessity was laid upon her to be a teacher
of youth, and at Humboldt she spent eight beautiful years in
leading children to higher levels of life as well as thought.
On November 12, 1901, she was married to Rev. Edwin Stanton
Hodgin, whose first pastorate was at Humboldt, and second
at Helena, Montana. Here Mrs. Hodgin taught as a minister's
wife for two years, passing out and up on Jan. 14, 1905..
Work and worship were one to her, and from her birth, to her dying
hour, her life seems to have been an epistle of love and loving
service. Clara's body was cremated, and on April 9, 1905, the
ashes were committed to the swift current of the Des Moines
River, as her brother Charles' ashes had been consigned to the
bosom of the Father of Waters five years before.
"What is excellent, as God lives is permanent."
[NI4857]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 313
Charles Mills Bicknell was a young man of unusual intellectual
strength and high ideals. His life was that of a student,
entering Iowa State College at Ames from the public schools of
Humboldt, Iowa. Leaving college in the Junior year, he taught
several terms of county schools, and, on completing a course in
stenography, obtained a position as stenographer for the State
Board of Control. Ambitious to complete his college studies,
Charles entered the University of Chicago in the autumn of
1898. At the close of the year he found himself ill with nervous
prostration, due to overstudy, and returned to the quiet of his
home to rest and restoration. The task of recovery proved too
great for his overworked body and brain, and on an acute attack
of typhoid fever, accompanied by bronchial pneumonia, his death
ensued, Aug. 5, 1900.
Following his desires, his body was incinerated at Davenport,
Iowa, and the ashes were taken by Rev. Elmer E. Gordon and
Rev. Marion Murdock, his lifelong friends, and cast on the
waters of the Mississippi from the great bridge at Davenport.
The following description of the beautiful and significant service
is made by Rev. Miss Gordon:
"The majesty of the summer evening sky was above us, the
lights of the city were on either side, the deep, onward-flowing
current of the Mississippi was beneath. Upon this mighty cur-
rent we were to cast the handful of ashes. How slight the act,
and yet how great its significance !
"Great are the symbols of being,
But that which is symboled is greater."
"Who may determine the onward-flowing influence of a single
human life that was devoted to noble thinking and pure living?
Who will dare to limit the power of that life to adjust itself
to new conditions and in some other home to win the good
dreamed of here?
"I once saw a trained musician try to play upon an old piano.
The soul of music was there, the skilled fingers, the strong desire
for self-expression, but the tool through which this soul must
express itself was ill-adjusted, broken down, worn out, and the
effort was all in vain. So it was with Charley Bicknell. His
was the soul of music, seeking ever to express itself in the divine
harmonies of a beautiful life, but the organ on which his soul
must needs play was ill-adjusted, too weak for its message, too
frail to bear the strain upon it, and only too soon yielded and
broke under the burden of his intense life.
"All too soon, we say, but, measured by spiritual standards, a
richer harvest was gathered by this boy's soul than by many a
one who has lived to work for four score years; for-
" 'We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on the dial,
We should count time by heart throbs; he most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.' "
A beautiful memorial volume of testimonials to his life was
published after his death.
[NI4890]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 341
James Leonard Bicknell received his early education in Prov-
idence, at the age of 10 going to a small town in Indiana, where
he learned the printer's trade, and for many years was engaged
as a compositor on the old Providence Press, later working in
the same capacity on the Providence Journal, Telegram and
News.
He gave four years of his life to the service of the Govern-
ment, having enlisted in the Fifth Rhode Island Volunteers at the
beginning of the Civil War.
This veteran of the Civil War had the distinction of being one
of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State, joining Roger Williams
Lodge, No. 3, of that organization some 40 years ago. Although
this was the only society he belonged to of recent years, he was
up to a few years ago a member of Prescott Post, No. 1, G. A. R;
Independent Order of Good Templars, of Rhode Island; Union
Council, American Mechanics, and the Sons of Temperance.
[NI4898]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 342
Alfred served in the Civil War as a private in Battery F,
First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery.
He was enrolled April 3, 1862; mustered in April 3, 1862;
discharged at Richmond, Vermont, April 4, 1865;
[NI4925]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 343
Harry was the Recording Secretary of the Bicknell Family
Association in 1911
[NI4929] Norman qualified for the Olympic in Amsterdam, Holland in 1928, but grandfather, Raymond Smart Bicknell, did not let him go. He said Vernum was too young--it probably had to do with Grandmother's suicide in 1927.
[NI4947]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 204
George was a private in Company A, Second Regiment
Rhode Island, Cavalry, Westerly, Rhode Island;
enrolled Oct 29, 1862; mustered in Nov 21, 1862.
[NI4948]
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From Phyllis Bicknell Carroll's 1981 book page 11
I think it quite possible that Albert Vernum is listed in T. W Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book on page 205 as (994) Varnum A Bicknell
Born 8 Jun 1845 of Westerly, RI., USA
[NI5017]
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Henry started as a conductor on the bangor city railcars. He was fired during a labor strik e and became a barber in his father's shop in Hamden, ME. Died at the age of 59 years 9 month s and 18 days.
[NI5019]
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He was a self employed refrigeration engineer and invented a rotating refrigerated display c ase in the mid 1930's, a photograph of which is attached. He also was city electrician for Ba nger and installed the original lights on the Thomas Hill Standpipe, a picture of which is at tached. He then worked for Keyes Fiber Co. as a refrigeration engineer until his retirement i n the early 1960's.
[NI5058]
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 438
Arnasa F. Bicknell, of Woonsocket, R. I., was interested
in fraternal orders from young manhood. He was a charter mem-
ber of Roger Williams Council of Woonsocket and held the
chief offices in the council and also in the State organization.
He has also been national councillor of Jr. O. U. A. M. He was
also a member of the Junior Mechanics, was a Past Master Work-
man of Ames Lodge, A. O. U. W., and was one of the founders
and an officer in the State organization of New England Wood-
men. He was also a member of Rhody Camp, Modern Woodmen
of Woonsocket