Mark your calendar for the next meeting of the Caroline History Association: February 4, 2023, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. All are welcome! Location TBA.
Beatrice Bell Raponi
Interview with Bea Raponi, conducted by Mary DeLong, June 4, 1990.
Unedited Transcription
Man Half Starved Found in Woods
Ithaca Daily Journal, August 20, 1904, p. 6
SLATERVILLE RESORTERS MISTAKE HIM FOR A SAVAGE.
Claims to be A Now Arrival from Gormany Who Had Lost His Way While Walking from the Sea To Villace In Pennsylvania.
The finding of a half starved foreigner in the wood near Slaterville Springs, who had lost his way and because be could not speak English had been unable to make people understand that he needed food, caused quite a sensation among the fashionable summer people in that village yesterday,
The Shape of Caroline
Although New York established the town of Caroline in 1811, its boundaries did not take their current form until 1887. ...continue reading "The Shape of Caroline"
Fatal Runaway Accident
Susan Elizabeth Linn Sage (1819–1885) was the wife of Henry W. Sage. Her genealogy and a few biographical facts have has been laid out in a previous post about the Linn family. She was first cousin to Frances Peters, wife of James Richard Speed of Slaterville, who was the son of Dr. Joseph Speed, an early settler of the town.
...continue reading "Fatal Runaway Accident"
The Linns
I have been spent many an hour recently swimming in the great sea of genealogy at Ancestry. For much of that time I was exploring the roots and branches of the descendants of Dr. Joseph Speed, a prominent early settler of Caroline. Henry Linn Speed was the son of James Richard Speed (1815–1864) of Slaterville and Frances Peters of Philadelphia (1818–1901). (James was the son of Dr. Speed.) When I read in his obituary that he was the great nephew of Mrs. Simeon De Witt, I decided to find the details of this connection.
January Meeting
Our next meeting will occur on Saturday, January 2, at 10:00 AM, in the South Room of the Old Brooktondale Fire Hall.
The Goodloe Harpers of Slaterville
Back in June I read an article in the New York Review of Books about the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The article mentioned Robert Goodloe Harper, who supported the act on the grounds that “freedom of the press did not allow ‘sedition and licentiousness’”.
This name tripped a switch in my memory. Before going into that, I’d like to report a bit about Harper, who was prominent in his day, but has now been almost totally forgotten, as is the fate of most prominent people.
...continue reading "The Goodloe Harpers of Slaterville"
December Meeting
Our next meeting will occur on Saturday, December 5, at 10:30 AM, in the South Room of the Old Brooktondale Fire Hall.
