Before My Time is about the ancestry and extended family of my four grandparents: John Samuel Krentz (Indiana/North Dakota), Margreta Tjode Hedwig (Gertie) Buss (North Dakota), Rosmer Pettis Kerr (Pennsylvania/Michigan), and Evelyn Elvina Hauer (Michigan). Archives, Labels (tags), and other links appear at the bottom of the page.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Clarence Who?

Clarence Monroe Burton, that's who. Recognize the name? Detroit researchers should. He was the man whose Historical Collection we love to visit at Detroit Public Library. I happened upon a short biography about him on pages 22-25 in Amy Elliott Bragg's very readable Hidden History of Detroit. Enjoy!



I'm particularly appreciative of the Burton Historical Collection at present. I spent a day at Detroit Public Library a couple weeks ago, looking up my ancestral families in the Catholic churchbooks of Detroit. Records up to 1930 are available on microfilm at the library. I came home with a baker's dozen, pertaining to my Hauer and Wolfschlager lines. A few of them lend support to my suspicion that the various Wolfschlagers and Wolfslayers of Detroit are all related.

If you think you may be related, please check my Hauer and Wolfschlager surname pages for more about these lines. Contact me and let me know how you are related. I'm actively working on these two lines currently, and I have much more information to share.

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Check out Amy Elliott Bragg's blog, The Night Train, for more Detroit history and culture.

Posted by TK at 10:58 AM
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2 comments:

PalmsRV said...

Thanks for the Burton biography. It's been years since I've researched in the Burton Collection, but going back is on my "to do" list. I really enjoy The Night Train blog, too. Cathy @ palmsrv

April 01, 2012 4:47 PM
T.K. said...

I just found The Night Train yesterday, Cathy, after fiddling around in the forums at DetroitYES. Have you ever checked that out? TONS of Detroit history there, great fun to read:
http://www.detroityes.com/mb/forum.php

April 02, 2012 10:46 AM

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Our Family in Books: A Bibliography

  • My Ancestors in Books (a library of resources and notes pertaining to Reverend Samuel Stone, Major General Robert Sedgwick, Elder John Crandall, and other early Americans in the forest where my family tree was grown)
  • The Zahnisers: A History of the Family in America by Kate M. Zahniser and Charles Reed Zahniser (Mercer, Pa. 1906)
  • History of St. James Lutheran Church [full title: A little of this and a little of that in the 141 year (1861-2002) History of St. James Lutheran Church, Reynolds Indiana] by Harold B. Dodge, published at Reynolds, Indiana, 2002; 170 pages.
  • Lisbon, North Dakota 1880-2005 Quasuicentennial, published at Lisbon, North Dakota in 2005; 391 pages.
  • The Paschen and Redd Families of Cass County, Indiana by Alfred Paschen, c. 2005 (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD); 322 pages.
  • Sheldon Community History: Sheldon Centennial 1881-1981, published at Sheldon, North Dakota in 1981; 376 pages.
  • Sheldon, North Dakota 1881-2006 - 125th Anniversary: The Queen of the Prairie, published at Sheldon, North Dakota in 2006; 498 pages.
  • A Standard History of White County, Indiana, written under the supervision of W.H. Hamelle, c. 1915 (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York).
  • The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut by Betty Brook Messier and Janet Sutherland Aronson, c. 1987 (Coventry 275th Anniversary Committee, Coventry, CT); 206 pages.
  • "Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants" by John Cortland Crandall; New Woodstock, New York, 1949; 797 pages.
  • "The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island." Nellie (Willard) Johnson, Pd.B.: H & L Creations, LLC.
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