Wisconsin Ancestry of Evelyn Belden Ralston
Wisconsin Ancestry of Evelyn Belden Ralston

Author: Harold A Ralston

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0359864767

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This second edition contains all the pictures of the first edition with added information for our Wisconsin ancestors plus a short biography written by Evelyn telling of her early life. Also added are letters written by Louis Belden during military service in 1898. The 2013 first edition was published to provide a record of the collection of Belden family pictures and studio portraits with identification where possible. The collection belonged to Mom and eventually ended in my hands. Evelyn was born in Wisconsin where her ancestors had been early settlers of Racine County. However she spent practically all her life near Roscoe, in Winnebago Co., Illinois,

Emerson Manufacturing Co. A Family Connection
Emerson Manufacturing Co. A Family Connection

Author: Harold A Ralston

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0359416098

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This book contains some historical information about the reaper industry in Rockford, Illinois during the second half of the nineteenth century. It contains some biographical information about the innovators and industrialists involved. Several pictures of their patents, 1851-1869, are included. This is the result of some family history research I was doing when I discovered that my grandfather, Louis Andrew Belden, had been employed in Rockford, Illinois at the firm of Emerson Manufacturing Co. in 1905. In 1903-1905, his father in law, Great-Grandpa William J Goff, was also employed there. This firm later became Emerson-Brantingham Co and was purchased in 1928 by J I Case Co. I was employed in Rockford at the product engineering office of the J I Case factory beginning in 1952 and continued at that location until it was closed down in 1970. I remained in the Case Co employment at Bettendorf, IA until 1975 and then in Racine, WI until my retirement in 1989.

Emerson Manufacturing, the Abraham Lincoln connection
Emerson Manufacturing, the Abraham Lincoln connection

Author: Harold A Ralston

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-06-02

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0359631355

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Abraham Lincoln was practicing law in Springfield, Illinois when asked to help in the defense of a reaper patent suit brought by Cyrus Hall McCormick of Chicago. The biography of Ralph Emerson in this book has information about the involvement of Mr Lincoln in defense of the patent suit and contains other details of the many ventures of Ralph. Ralph Emerson was an industrial owner and manager in the Rockford Illinois Water Power area located at the dam on Rock River. From the 1850's until his death in 1914, he was involved in the manufacture of reapers and other farm equipment as well as knitting machines.

A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family
A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family

Author: Samuel Bradlee Doggett

Publisher:

Published: 1894

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13:

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John Doggett (d.1673) immigrated in 1630 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, married twice, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. Includes ancestors in England to the 1200s.