Julia Lecour Bowe’s Preface to The Generations (1959)
Preface to The Generations (1959) by Julia Lecour Bowe What kind of a country was it that Paulin Pallissard came to in 1855? It was prairie land at the foot of Lake Michigan in a country along the Kankakee [...]
2001-05-27 Anna Victoria Skura Family Index and Parish-Skura Album and Genealogy
2001-05-27 Anna Victoria Skura Family Index and Parish-Skura Album and GenealogyEditor's Note: During high school, Anna Victoria Skura, a Parish family descendant, completed her assignment. To create her family index she researched:all known locations in the United States they have [...]
1984-03-15 The Parish Family and the Momence, Illinois Sesquicentennial (Momence Progress-Reporter Newspaper Article)
Editor's Note: At 19, William Parish, Sr. travelled from Naples, New York by way of the "Strap Railroad," the Erie Canal, a lake steamer to Chicago and overland. When he arrived in Momence, Illinois 18 days later in 1842, [...]
Have Your Heard? Ova Parish is Flying to Meet the Queen!
Yes, You Heard it Right: Ova Parish is Flying to The Netherlands to Meet Queen Beatrix on an All Expenses Trip Paid for by the Dutch Government 1982-10-03 Have You Heard Ova Parish is Flying to Meet the [...]
William John Bowe, Sr. and Mary Gwinn Bowe Family Tree
Editor’s Note: These Bowe Family Trees are drawn from the family history book of my mother, Mary Gwinn Bowe, The Families, and the genealogy volume Descendants of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes. These works were compiled over many years by [...]
Vanselow Family Trees
Wilhelm Vanselow married Bertha Dammer. Bertha Dammer was born in 1862.They had seven children: Mary, Otto, Albert, Paul, Arthur, Franziska and Clara. Mary Vanselow was born in 1880, Otto Paul Friedrich Vanselow was born in [...]
Tack Family Tree
Elizabeth Josephine Tack was the daughter of Theodore Edward Tack and Mary Agnes Cosgrave. She was a sibling of painter Augustus Vincent Tack and other children of Theodore and Mary Tack. In 1907 she married Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Jr. [...]
De Rosa Family
Richard Gwinn Bowe was the son of William John Bowe, Sr. and Mary Gwinn Bowe. In 1963 in Chicago he married Ann Fauble of Toledo, Ohio. Richard Bowe and Ann Fauble were subsequently divorced. Ann Fauble later married Judd [...]
Skura and Grubert Family Trees
William Wallace Parish and Ova Frantz Parish's daughter Catherine Ann Parish married John Joseph Skura. John was born January 10, 1943. They have four children: Michael, Eugene, Carrie and Anna. Michael Jon Skura was born on [...]