Robert Cleavland Flanders1

M, #46051, b. 1974

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Birth19741
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Mary Alma Park1

F, #46052

Family: Daniel Houghton Flanders b. 22 May 1944

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Susan Emily Flanders1

F, #46053, b. 1976

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Birth19761
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Daniel Houghton Flanders1

M, #46054, b. 1979

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John McGuire1

M, #46055

Family: Sheila Joan Jordon b. 1951

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John Paul McGuire1

M, #46056, b. 1973

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Birth19731
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Danny Jordon McGuire1

?, #46057, b. 1976

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Richard Welter1

M, #46058

Family: Jane Mary Jordon b. 1953

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Jason Ricard Welter1

M, #46059, b. 1971

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Birth19711
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Nicole Jane Welter1

F, #46060, b. 1974

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Elmira Wight1

F, #46061

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Daniel Wight1

M, #46062

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Joseph Wight1

M, #46063

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Franklin Wight1

M, #46064

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Asa Peabody1

M, #46065, b. 2 December 1806, d. 3 July 1878

Family: Rebecca Hayward Wight b. 22 Dec 1812, d. 24 Feb 1885

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BirthDec 2, 1806Gilead, ME, USA1
OccupationGilead, ME, USA, a farmer1
MarriageDec 7, 1833Bethel?, Windsor Co., ME, USA1
DeathJul 3, 1878Gilead, ME, USA1
ParentsSThomas Peabody and Mary Reed Reed who were among the original settlers of Gilead in the 1790s. Son Asa Franklin Peabody was a seventh generation descendant of Francis Peabody, who emigrated from St. Albans, England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.1,2

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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Sep 8, 2007.

Asa Franklin Peabody1

M, #46066, b. 3 January 1835, d. 17 May 1908

Family: Sarah Marie Garcelon b. 15 May 1836, d. 11 Feb 1918

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BirthJan 3, 1835Gilead, ME, USA1
MarriageOct 1, 1861Troy, ME, USA1
DeathMay 17, 1908Lewiston, ME, USA1
BiographyJack Swift: "In early adult life he was a farmer in Gilead, Maine. During the 1860's he moved between Troy, Maine, where he was Postmaster for a while, and Gilead. On his marriage certificate, issued in Troy in 1861, he is described as a "farmer & teacher". By the early 1870's he had moved to Lewiston, Maine, where he was a merchant and salesman in the nursery business. [The places and dates of his marriage and of his daughters' births are the basis of this chronology: he married Sarah in Troy in 1861, Daisy was born in Gilead in 1863, Agnes was born in Troy in 1867, and Ada was born in Lewiston in 1872. W.W. Wight -- writing in 1890 -- says of Asa Franklin Peabody that "he is in the insurance business in Troy", but Wight's information may have been outdated by 1890]. Asa Franklin spent his final years at the home of his daughter Agnes, at 9 Riverside Place, Lewiston. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Masonic Order.
Sources: Peabody Genealogy, S.H. Peabody, 1909
Notebooks of Josiah Otis Swift, in possession of Katharine Swift Gravino, 1989
The Wights, William Ward Wight, 1890"1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

William Reed Peabody1

M, #46067

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Eli Tenney Peabody1

M, #46068

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Charles Henry Peabody1

M, #46069

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Lydia Wight Peabody1

F, #46070

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Esther Sewall Peabody1

F, #46071

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Sarah Marie Garcelon1

F, #46072, b. 15 May 1836, d. 11 February 1918

Family: Asa Franklin Peabody b. 3 Jan 1835, d. 17 May 1908

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BirthMay 15, 1836St. Albans, ME, USA1
Origin1861Troy, ME, USA1
MarriageOct 1, 1861Troy, ME, USA1
Residence1872Lewiston, ME, USA1
DeathFeb 11, 1918Lewiston, ME, USA1
BiographyShe was a daughter of Moses Harris Garcelon and Louisa Bennett of Troy, Maine, granddaughter of William Garcelon and Maria Harris of Lewiston, Maine, and greatgranddaughter of James Garcelon and Deliverance Annis who were early settlers of Lewiston in 1776. James emigrated in 1753 from Guernsey in the Channel Islands to Cape Ann, Massachusetts, where he met and married Deliverance.

Born at St. Albans, Somerset County, Maine, she lived at Troy, Maine (in Waldo County, west of Penobscot Bay) until her marriage to Asa Franklin Peabody. She then moved to Gilead, Maine, the Peabody homestead, where her oldest child, Daisy Isabelle, was born. She returned briefly to Troy for the birth of Agnes, and then lived in Lewiston from 1872 onward. She is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Lewiston.

She lived in Troy until her marriage to Asa Franklin Peabody a teacher who had previously farmed in Gilead. The family moved briefly to the Peabody homestead at Gilead where her eldest child was born and then back to Troy by 1867. From 1872 onward she lived in Lewiston, Maine,
where her husband was a merchant and a salesman in the nursery business. A family tradition says that for summer holidays he took his wife and children on visits to the Maine coast near Bath.


Sources:
Genealogical Files of the Church of Latter Day Saints, Branch
Library, at Farmingdale, Maine.
Marriage Certificate, Sara Marie Garcelon & Asa Franklin Peabody, 1861
in possession of Katharine Garcelon Swift Gravino, 1989
Commmunication from Norman Guernsey Swift, 1988
Peabody Genealogy, S.H. Peabody, 1909"2
ParentsDMoses Harris Garcelon and Louisa Bennett of Troy, ME, granddaughter of William Garcelon and Maria harris of Lewiston, ME, and great-granddaughter of James Garcelon and Deliverance Annis who were early settlers of Lewiston, ME, in 1776. James emigrated in 1753 from Guernsey in the Channel Islands to Cape Ann, MA, where he met and married Deliverance.1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.
  2. [S415] E-mail from John Longworth Swift, Mar. 20, 2007.

Daisy Isabelle Peabody1

F, #46073, b. 13 September 1863, d. 30 October 1950

Family: Josiah Otis Swift b. 1 Mar 1871, d. 14 May 1948

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BirthSep 13, 1863Gilead, ME, USA1
Residencebefore 1893Lewiston, ME, USA1
MarriageJun 14, 1893Lewiston, ME, USA1
DeathOct 30, 1950Brooksville, ME, USA1
BiographySwift: "She moved with her father as a child to Lewiston, Maine, where she graduated from High School with high honors. As a girl she changed her name to Daisy Belle Swift (by which name she was always known thereafter) in order to avoid the initials DIP which spelled "dip", a pickpocket. She became a proofreader and worked for a while in Boston as a proofreader of Greek and Latin texts for Ginn & Company. She was married at her home, 9 Riverside Place, Lewiston. In 1900 she moved to New York City with her husband, living in the Bronx. About 1910 the family moved to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where she lived at "Treetops", 81 Summit Drive, until after the death of J. Otis Swift in 1948. About 1928 she and her husband purchased a small lot at Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine, where they built a summer cottage at which she spent all her summers until about 1940; J.Otis joined her there for his brief vacations from his newspaper work. After his death she spent her last years in Brooksville, Maine.

She came to Lewiston as a young child and graduated from high school there with high honors. Working as a proofreader of Latin and Greek texts for the Boston firm of Ginn & Company, she and her sister Agnes helped their father build a house at 9 Riverside Place, Lewiston. After her marriage to J. Otis Swift, a newspaper man, she and her husband lived nearby at 5 Cottage Street, Lewiston, where her first child was born. In 1899 the family moved to New York City where her husband had taken a job as a reporter for the New York World. They lived in the Bronx for some years and in 1910 moved to HastingsonHudson, New York where she lived until 1949 when she moved to Brooksville, Maine. In 1928 she and her husband built a summer cottage, the Lookout, at Bay Point in Georgetown, Maine where she spent every summer for many years, being joined by her husband during his vacations.

Sources: Notebooks of Josiah Otis Swift, in possession of Katharine Swift Gravino, 1989.
Swift Family Records"1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Agnes Louise Peabody1

F, #46074, b. 14 August 1867, d. circa 1948

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BirthAug 14, 1867Troy, ME, USA1
Deathcirca 1948Lewiston, ME, USA1
BiographySwift: "She did not marry. She lived her adult life in Lewiston, in the family house at 9 Riverside Place. She was a teacher."1
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Ada Charlotte Peabody1

F, #46075, b. 21 December 1872, d. 9 September 1873

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BirthDec 21, 1872Lewiston, ME, USA1
DeathSep 9, 1873Lewiston, ME, USA, in infancy1
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Josiah Otis Swift1

M, #46076, b. 1 March 1871, d. 14 May 1948

Family: Daisy Isabelle Peabody b. 13 Sep 1863, d. 30 Oct 1950

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BirthMar 1, 1871Farmington, ME, USA1
MarriageJun 14, 1893Lewiston, ME, USA1
DeathMay 14, 1948Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA1
Biography"Josiah Otis Swift was born in Farmington Falls, Maine, in "a little brick farmhouse on the Falls Road about a mile north of the Falls" (quoting his autobiographical sketch in the Notebooks cited below). With his parents he moved to Wilton, Maine in 1882, to Paris, Maine briefly in 1884, and by the end of 1885 he had moved to Lewiston, Maine. There he went to work as a reporter for the Lewiston Journal, becoming City Editor by 1898. He and Daisy Isabelle Peabody
were married in 1893 at the house of her parents, 9 Riverside Place, Lewiston. They moved to New York City in 1899 where he had taken a job on the New York World as a reporter. As J. Otis Swift he became Nature Editor for the New York World (and its successor newspapers until his death in 1948), writing a daily column "News Outside the Door" and leading a large walking club, the Yosians, with thousands of members in metropolitan New York. He lived in the Bronx, New York, from 1899 to 1910, moving then to 81 Summit Drive, Hastings-on Hudson, New York. About 1928 he and Daisy built a summer cottage at Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine, where Daisy spent her summers until about 1940, joined there briefly each summer by J. Otis during his vacations from the newspaper.

Sources: Notebooks of Josiah Otis Swift [in possession of Katharine Swift Gravino, 1988]
Swift Family Records [in possession of John Longworth Swift]"
ParentsSElkanah Sprague Swift and Emma Louise Butler1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Otis Peabody Swift1

M, #46077, b. 30 May 1896, d. 27 June 1971

Family 1: Ethel Constance Longworth b. 25 Nov 1890, d. 9 Sep 1963

Family 2: Marguerite Hoare Valler b. 19 Feb 1905, d. c 28 Oct 1998

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BirthMay 30, 1896Lewiston, ME, USA1
MarriageJul 31, 1921Paris, France1
Divorcecirca 19401
Marriagecirca 1941Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
DeathJun 27, 1971Georgetown, ME, USA1
BiographySwift: "Otis Peabody Swift was born at No. 5 Cottage Street, Lewiston, Maine. He moved with his parents to New York City about 1899, living in the Bronx until 1910 when the family moved to 81 Summit Drive, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He attended Columbia School of Journalism in New York City, served in the U.S. Navy in World War I (discharged with the rank of Ensign), was a newspaper correspondent in Europe circa 1920-1923 (initially with the New York Tribune in London in November, 1920), a newspaper reporter with the Chicago Tribune and United Press in Chicago and New York in the 1920's, later a free-lance writer and publicist. He worked with Time Inc., United Nations Relief & Rehabilition Agency (UNRRA), United China Relief, Radio Free Europe and other clients. He met and married Ethel Constance Longworth (Ted), a correspondent for the Montreal Star, in Europe. Their son John (Jack) was born in London. Their daughter Barbara (Kate) was born after they had recrossed the Atlantic to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York in 1923. They lived over the next 15 years in New York City, Evanston, Illinois, Hastings again, Lake Placid, N.Y., Washington, D.C., and Madison, Connecticut, inter alia. They were divorced about 1940. He married again about 1941, his second wife being Marguerite Hoare, with whom he had a daughter, Marguerite Milne Swift, born in 1943. He and his wife Marguerite (Tom) lived in East Lyme, Connecticut; Dobbs Ferry, New York; and Washington, D.C. --and for a period in Munich, Germany in the 1950's -- before moving to Plainsboro, New Jersey around 1960, and later to Ponte Vedra, Florida (winters) and Bay Point, Georgetown, Maine (summers).1 "
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Norman Guernsey Swift1

M, #46078, b. 8 November 1905, d. 21 January 1997

Family: Ruth Mary Palmer b. 3 Aug 1911

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BirthNov 8, 1905New York, New York Co., NY, USA1
MarriageJun 9, 1933Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA1
DeathJan 21, 1997Seattle, King Co., WA, USA1
BiographySwift: "Born in New York City, he grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.S. in 1927 and received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1941. He worked for 8 years in Wall Street, first with Brown Brothers Harriman, private bankers, and later with several bond trading firms. During World War II he was a Foreign Service Officer with the American Legation in Stockholm, Sweden. After the war he was Regional Economist in the N.Y.C. office of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Later he was a committee executive with the National Association of Manufacturers. He was appointed an Intelligence Officer in the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and retired in 1969. He and his wife lived in the Washington, D.C. area from the 1950s to the 1970s, and then in Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia until early 1995 when they moved to Mercer Island, Washington. They maintained a summer home in Georgetown, Maine from the early 1950s until Norman's death. His widow Ruth still spends several summer weeks there each year until her death in 2002."1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Ethel Constance Longworth1

F, #46079, b. 25 November 1890, d. 9 September 1963

Family: Otis Peabody Swift b. 30 May 1896, d. 27 Jun 1971

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BirthNov 25, 1890Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada1
MarriageJul 31, 1921Paris, France1
Divorcecirca 19401
DeathSep 9, 1963Hartford, CT, USA1
BiographySwift: " She grew up at "Bonnahinley", the Longworth family home in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada. She graduated from McGill University, Montreal, in 1912 and taught school in rural Quebec before becoming a foreign correspondent in Europe for the Montreal Star. She met and married Otis Peabody Swift in Europe, going to the United States with him in 1923. They lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: and at times in Evanston, Illinois; New York City; Lake Placid, New York;Washington, D.C; and Madison, Connecticut before divorcing around 1940. She was a newspaper reporter and editor from the 1940's until her death, writing for newspapers in Daytona Beach, Florida; Guilford, Connecticut; and Deep River, Connecticut. Her principal home from 1936 to 1963 was "Blue Arrow", Madison, Connecticut."1
ParentsDJohn Augustus Longworth and Louise Caroline Palmer1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.

Marguerite Hoare Valler1

F, #46080, b. 19 February 1905, d. circa 28 October 1998

Family: Otis Peabody Swift b. 30 May 1896, d. 27 Jun 1971

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BirthFeb 19, 1905Radlett, Herts, England1
Marriagecirca 1941Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
Deathcirca Oct 28, 1998Bath, Sagadahoc Co., ME, USA1
ParentsDAlgernon John Hoare and Grace Milne Tollner1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jack Swift, Jan. 16, 2000.