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1. Abram C. DONEY b. 1829 near New Athens, Ohio (Harrison ), USA m. 1854 Emily Brock d. J/F 1900 Columbus, Ohio
b) Hugh Holt Doney
c) John Marvin Doney
2) Hugh Holt Doney b. 3 June 1903 m Ruth Marie Costenbader in chapel at Dickinson College
ii) Carl Dewitt Doney
iii) Deborah Diane Doney
c. Emma Doney (1869)
d. S.D. (Samuel Darlington) Doney (earlier)
e. Jesse B.Doney (earlier)
f. Mary (earlier) Doney d. 1879
Narration: Grandpa (Carl G Doney) states that Abram C. Doney was born near
New Athens, Ohio (p.15 _Cheerful Yesterdays and Confident Tomorrows_, 1942),
however, Uncle Hugh (Hugh Abram Doney) states in a letter (Dec. 30 1982)
that his grandfather came from Pennsylvania. I trust Carl's statement, but
maybe it means Abram C. Doney's father's family came from Pennsylvania. I
find in the census of 1930 PG#144 two Doneys listed from Athens Twp,
Harrison County, Ohio-- Samuel and Mary. It seems likely that they were
related to Abram c. Doney, maybe his parents? (cousin Roger's letter April
8, 1990 states Samuel was Abram Doney's father, died when Abram was about 20
and came from Pennsylvania).
Abram C. Doney went to Franklin College, near his home, for two
years. Orphaned and being the only child, he returned to farming and
married Emily Brock in 1854. Four children were born by 1865 (Mary, Dewitt,
Jess & S.D.). He sold his farm in 1865 and moved to a farm 5 miles east of
Columbus, Ohio, near Whitehall today (part of Columbus). He had 600 acres
and lived in a house called "White Hall" built in 1832 as an hostelry along
the National Pike.
Abram C. Doney became a justice of the peace soon after the
purchase of White Hall and continued until his death in 1990 and was
"Squire" to those who knew him.
Emily Brock was born in New Salem, Ohio in 1837 and was the eldest
daughter of Meredith Brock, a village physician, who, ten years before his
death, attended the birth of his thirty-six-hundredth baby. Emily attended
the Worthington Female seminary for two years. At eighteen she married
Abram C. Doney. Meredith Brock practiced medicine in Reynoldsburg and later
Columbus, Ohio.
A reason to suspect that Samuel Doney was the father to Abram is the
fact that one of the boys born to Abram and Emily was named Samuel
Darlington (although he went by S.D. or Darl most of his life.) Another son
Dewitt Clinton named his son Samuel. It appears that Samuel is
in the family.
Narration: Father (Abram) was Scotch-Irish and English, mother (Emily) was
English, Dutch, and French. Lived and worked on the family 600 acre farm,
Methodist and Republican family. 1876 entire family of eight went to the
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, thence to New York and Washington
D.C. Attended school starting in 1873 in a one-room (McGuffy's First
Reader). Jess and Darl went to college for two years, Mary attended the
Worthington Female Seminary as her mother had done. Clint later went to
four colleges for special work and became an excellent chemist. Carl and
Dennie (Jennie Evans) enrolled in Ohio State. Graduated in 1891. A year of
graduate work at Harvard was followed by entering the University Law School
at Ohio State and having a desk in the law offices of Booth and Keating, one
of the best firms in Ohio. Graduated with a law degree, passed the state
examinations, ranking second, and was admitted to the Ohio bar. Married
Jennie Evans 6 Sept. 1893 in the Evans family home. Her mother had died in
July of that year. She had two brothers and a sister. Her father Hugh
Evans was born in Wales, near Machynlleth and came to the U.S.A. when he was
six. First settled in New York State then to Ohio. Jennie was born on a
farm in Licking County, two miles north of Granville, Ohio, on November 24,
1865. In 1873 the Evans family moved to a farm three miles east of Columbus
on Broad Street. Wedding trip to the Worlds Fair in Chicago and relatives
in Wisconsin. Decided on the ministry and was appointed to the Methodist
Church in Bainbridge, Ohio (1893). After several years they went to
Granville and three years later to St. Paul's Church in Delaware, Ohio.
Carl became a graduate student at Ohio Wesleyan University and also traveled
twice weekly to Ohio State where he enrolled. In 1900 Paul Herbert was
born. Carl moved to King Avenue Church in Columbus. He completed his work
in his doctorate and Hugh Abram was born in 1902. In 1905 appointed pastor
to Hamline church in Washington, D.C. He was made a member of Phi beta
Kappa at Ohio State. In 1907 on the battlefield at Gettysburg he was asked
to become president of West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. (In
1890 West Virginia Wesleyan College was opened by the Methodists as an
academy. In 1903 it was chartered as a college that could grant degrees)
In 1913 Jennie, Carl, Paul, and Hugh went to Europe for ten months. Stops
in England, Scotland, and the Continent slowly, and a month in Palestine and
Egypt and four winter months in Paris (boys attended a French school and
Jennie painted at the Louvre {the Gleaners} they were in Frankfurt, Germany
when Archduke Ferdinand was killed at Sarajevo (excitement followed along
with war buildup). they returned to London when war was declared and then
back to America on an overcrowded ship. Carl becomes president of
Willamette University in 1915. The family visited the exposition at San
Franciso on the way to Salem. Willamette was founded by missionaries in
1842, the third oldest west of the Mississippi (one in Louisiana and one in
Missouri were older). Carl went to France with the YMCA from January to
July 1918 to give addresses to the soldiers. In 1934 Carl retired after
nineteen years as president. He and Jennie returned to Columbus, Ohio and
lived at 194 W. Royal Forest Blvd. in a section known at Beechwold. Jennie
born in Columbus, Ohio. Moved to West Virginia Wesleyan in
Buckhannon (1907-1915). Europe for 10 months in 1913-1914, England, France,
Italy, Germany, Palestine and Egypt, etc. Salem, Oregon in 1915- father
President of Willamette University. Willamette University 1916-1920,
graduated, one year editor of the college newspaper, met Lucy Holt (who
later went to the University of Washington where she graduated); U.S. Army
1918 the Presidio in San Francisco and Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas; 1921 Old
Wesleyan in Connecticut became a Beta and elected to Phi Beta Kappa;
enrolled in Boston University school of Theology and Harvard University.
Pastor of Congregational Church in Topsfield, Mass. March 1924 (free for
college work 6 days a week). Married Lucy Minerva Holt 5 July 1924 in San
Francisco. Cross-country trip by model T with camping to parsonage in
Topsfield. Five days a week he travelled to Cambridge and Boston to attend
classes, January 1925 ordained, June graduated from School of Theology,
Master's degree 1926 from Harvard, (from _The Broken Circle_ by Carl G.
Doney, 1943, p. 61). "Meanwhile, opportunities in Topsfield increased. He
formed another club for young men, was leader of Boy Scouts, was going
afield to speak before high school and various associations. He joined the
American Legion and Patrons of Husbandry because he was told they needed his
help. He preached twice a Sunday and held a mid-week service. He visited
most of the townspeople and knew everybody; he laughed, sang, played tennis,
grew flowers, hiked with young folks, and went to ball games.
" Jean Marie Doney born November 1926 in Salem, Mass. Resigned pastorate and moved to
Shaler Lane in Cambridge to finish doctorate in English Literature. his
dissertation: _The Life of Richard Flecknoe_ an author of the seventeenth
century required a trip of London for research, doctorate 1928. "He was six
feet tall and weighed almost two hundred pounds; his hair was turning grey,
an ancestral trait; he was chuckling and good looking, his cloths on
somehow, a voice like organ notes,." p. 79. p. 105 "Paul had a genius for
disorder. Trained otherwise by a meticulous mother, he somewhere achieved
the gift of loving an -omnium gatherum_. Fervently he asked Lucy to let him
be caretaker of the study lest his precious things be disarranged! And thus
is he endeared to other men.
His second genius was for keeping things: every letter, bill,
cancelled check, clipping and pamphlets, notes on scratch paper, student
themes by the ream, maps, travel guides, hotel stickers, time tables. They
filled boxes, were in window sills, mantelpieces, crowded his desk drawers.
This proclivity was matched, however, by an uncanny memory that enabled him
to put his finger on the thing which might be wanted." golf clubs fishing
poles in the closet. Paul goes to England for two months in 1931 to trace
leads on Flecknoe. In 1936 Paul and Lucy spent the summer in Europe. Died
of a coronary thrombosis at Fenwick Island near Ocean City, Maryland 9
August 1941.
For details on this line contact Carl
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