A Houck Family History


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Martin Hauck, son of Martin Hauck and Barbara Sonnenberger, was born 10 February 1683 in Wessingen, Hohenzollern. He married Anna Maria Kunz, daughter of Georg Kunz and Eva Scherer, in 1712. They had eight children. Many of their descendants immigrated to America.




THE WOOLVERTON FAMILY: 1693 – 1850 and Beyond, Volume II


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Charles Woolverton was in Burlington County, New Jersey, by 1693, and appears in records there and in Hunterdon County until 1727. David Macdonald and Nancy McAdams have traced Charles' descendants to the seventh generation, by which time they had spread out to many parts of the country ... This is a beautifully crafted genealogy. The format is easy to follow, and the documentation is impressive. The compilers have carefully explained their handling of problem areas, including the need to refute longstanding family lore about the immigrant ... This is an exemplary work, which descendants will certainly value and other genealogists would be well advised to study. -- Excerpts from a review published in the April 2003 issue of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record and reprinted with permission of the author, Harry Macy, Jr. and The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.




The Cherrington Family History & Genealogy


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The Cherrington family immigrated from England to Philadelphia in 1728.




A Missouri Railroad Pioneer


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Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and the nation. Rhodes presents a more complete picture of Houck than has ever been available: reviewing his life from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. He especially tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through the wilderness of wetlands known as “Swampeast Missouri”—and how these “Houck Roads” provided a boost for population, agriculture, lumbering, and commerce that transformed Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. Rhodes discusses how Houck fits into the era of economic individualism—a time when men with little formal training shaped modern industry—and also gives voice to Houck’s critics and shows that he was not always an easy man to work with. In telling the story of his railroading enterprise, Rhodes chronicles Houck’s battle with the Jay Gould railroad empire and offers key insight into the development of America’s railway system, from the cutthroat practices of ruthless entrepreneurs to the often-comic ineptness of start-up rail lines. More than simply a biography of a business entrepreneur, the book tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri’s territorial period. A Missouri Railroad Pioneer chronicles a multifaceted career that transformed a region. Solidly researched, this lively narrative also offers an entertaining read for anyone interested in Missouri history.




Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986


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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.




My Longwell Family History


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The immigrant ancestor, John Longwell (ca. 1716-1749), was probably born in Cornwall. He married Susannah Clason (1716-aft. 1771), daughter of Stephen and Abigail Green Clason of Stamford, Ct., in 1735 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Ct. Family settled in Stonington, Connecticut. Descendants in this book are through their oldest son, David L. Longwell, Sr. (1737/38-1815), who married Mary Sarah Tyler (1753- aft. 1815), daughter of Jehiel & Jemima Tyler of Westchester Co., New York. She was born in Sharon, Litchfield Co., Ct. They had nine children. In 1781 family moved to Duchess Co., N.Y. and about 1807 to Vernon Sussex Co., New Jersey. Descendants live in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.