ENDNOTES FOR HARRIET E. PALMER

1. Harriet E. Palmer, parents’ names and husband’s name in Dolliver, Lineage Book, vol. 23, 259–60. Charles Edward Dewey’s parents’ names, birthdate and place, marriage date, wife’s name, birthdate and place and parents names (mother Amanda Clark [!] Harding) in Adelbert M. Dewey, Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History (Westfield, MA: Dewey Publishing Co., 1898), 1052–4. Harriet E. Palmer’s marriage record “Illinois, County Marriage Records, 1800–1940,” Ancestry.  Charles E. Dewey’s birth record (no parents but alongside other records related to Alonzo Dewey) in “Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–11850,” database with images, AmericanAncestors, Palmer, vol. 1, 28. Charles E. Dewey’s death record (age 63) in “Massachusetts Death Records,” database with images, Ancestry > 1899 > image 795, citing “Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911,” NEHGS, Boston. Cemetery (no image), “Charles E. Dewey,” Findagrave, #126293174.

2. George Henry Palmer, letter to Julia Estelle Hoban, 6 Jan. 1868.

3. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1870 > IL > Warren > Monmouth > image 118, lines 35–40; 1880 > MA > Hampden > Palmer > 293 > image 46, lines 14–19, entries for Chas. E. Dewey.

4. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1910 > NY > New York > Manhattan Ward 12 > district 710 > image 30, lines 52–54, entry for Harriet E. Dewey. James Herman Dewey, 12 Sept. 1918, mother Harriet E. living in Summit, N.J. “World War I Selective System Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918,” > Vermont, Windsor County > Draft Card D > image 193. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1920  > MA > Middlesex > Hudson > district 167 > image 63, lines 29–31, entry for William H. Whiting.

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