is also a member of University Masonic Lodge No. 141. Mr. Sylvester married for his second wife Goldie Lind Lovett, daughter of Reginald and Ella (Lyon) Lovett, of Seattle. They have four childrehn: Elinor Grace, born July 31, 1914. Mrs. Josephine E. Wing, mother of Dr. Emma Wing-Thompson, lives in Bremerton, Wash. She will be eighty years old in February, yet so bright is her outlook on life, and so youthful her spirit, that she does not appear to be over sixty-five. Her birthdays are gala occasions, when her children-those near enough-make it a point to spend the day with her. Her daughters, of whom there are four now living, are within a few hours' journey, but the one son resides near Boise, Idaho. One daughter, Mrs. Thomas C. Golden (Jessie Wing), of Auburn, Wash., died in 1912. A picture of Mrs. Wing with her five daughters is shown at page 1213. Harold Thompson, another grandson, whose marriage was reported in the Sept. number, has established quite a reputation as an entertainer. During the war his work was in the hospitals of France, but when his unit was demobilized he was sent out officially to entertain the soldiers in the hospitals. After his return from France he studied in Middletown, Conn., in Chicago and in Seattle. He has been much in demand throughout the state of Washington, having given his original act before lodges, clubs, churches, high schools, and many other organizations. He was a member of the University Glee Club, and of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. For a time he travelled on Keith Circuit, with headquarters in New York Citybut now he is aiming at at a business career, and making his home in Schenectady, N. Y. Dr. Emma Wing-Thompson, Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon in Seattle, Washington, as in Schenectady, New York, is interested in all lines of work for public improvement. She is a member of the Washington Legislative Council; on a committee of women to be present in court during the trials of girls and women; first vice president of the Woman's State Association of Osteopathic Physicians, and interested in the Good-Will Industries. She is active in Methodist Sunday School work, and found time during the past year to take the Standard Training School Course for Intermediates and Seniors. has been inserting quotations taken from With her ad. in the city paper she various sources. This one, "Indigestion levels all ranks" is from "The Pinerc Calendar", quotations from the works of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, purchased in London some time ago. One week, the quotation having been omitted, she was called up by a patient and asked not to let it fail again as she found the insertions helpful. Recently Dr. Thompson's name was mentioned in a local news item as having attended a reception given in honor of Mrs. Scott C. Bone, wife of Governor Bone of Juneau, Alaska. A collection of "Antiques" which Dr. Thompson brought from the East was exhibited this year at the at the Western Washington Fair, where it took ten premiums. Her sister, Mrs. Josie Wing Miller, of Auburn, took prizes at the same Fair for her cakes and pies. Mrs. Cora Wing Naubert, (Charles A. E.) resides at 3212 North 21st., Tacoma, Wash. She is the daughter of Cornelius Wing, of the line of Stephen; is greatly interested in civics, church and club work; Regent of Mary Ball Chapter of D. A. R., the oldest Chapter in the state; a member of the Tacoma Day Nursery Board, having served as vice president and recording secretary for four years; active in the First Congregational Church; a member of the Tacoma Writer's Club; interested in the decoration of china and the cultivation of flowers. During the war, when many of the young enlisted sons were stationed at the Puget Sound forts, the women organized the Coast Artillery Mothers, in order to assist the boys in every possible way until they went over seas. Of this organization Mrs. Naubert has been the treasurer since 1919. Since the war the Mothers aid the boys in Cushman Hospital and the Veterans Hospital at American Lake. With all of these activities, she is a devoted wife and mother. Mr. Naubert has been with the New York Life Insurance Company for twenty-five years. They have four children. Frank C. is of the firm of Naubert and Manning, Billiards. Harry W. has been time-keeper for the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company since the war. picture and a sketch occur at page 1912, under our "Roll of Honor". His Amy-Mrs. John W. Bush-is the organizing regent of a D. A. R. Chapter in Kent, Wash., where she resides. Ethel Mrs. Ethel Hamilton-has a studio and teaches china decorating. She is vice president of the Northwest Keramic Society, which meets once a month in Seattle. Her work in Keramics ranks very high. There are eight splendid grandchildren in the Naubert family. Mrs. Naubert's mother lived with her until her death, which is recorded on another page. Mrs. Naubert has had The Owl since 1905, and hopes it will continue to be published. Her line of ancestry is closely allied to the line of the late Alice Wing of Greenfield, N. Y., who will be remembered as having entertained a large party of Wings at her fine old home, at the time of the Glens Falls reunion of 1906. Mrs. Dora Wing Roop (Mrs. J. D.), 1730 Evergreen St. Seattle, will be remembered at the Chicago reunion of 1912, Chicago, at that time, being her home. In the picture taken at the banquet, which appeared in the Sept. 1912 Owl, Mr. and Mrs. Roop, been graduated from Wellesley College in 1918 and married to Mr. J. T. Tenneson of Seattle. Mr. Roop and Mr. Tenneson are engaged in the Salmon and Herring Fisheries business at Tenakee and Point Warde, Wrangel, Alaska, with offices in Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Roop's delight is in their two and one-half year old grandson, J. T., Jr., or "Jack", as he is called. A year since, Mr. Tenneson purchased a beautiful home in one of the best locations in the city, and had it newly decorated and corated and furnished. They were awakened one night to find the house in flames, from which they had a narrow escape. Little Jack was unconscious for several hours. Since then the house has been rebuilt, more beautiful than before. Mrs. Tenneson is a member of the Woman's University Club, the Wednesday Club, and was one of the hostesses at the recent luncheon given the Oxford debaters and their opponents of the University of Washington. In addition to home-duties and social demands she finds time during the college year to take some course at the University. At present she is studying French, and teaching it to her small son, who already speaks it quite well. The two families spend the summers in Alaska, where Indians are employed in their Fisheries. The Thlinket tribe (pronounce Klinket) have adopted Jack, giving him the name of a deceased Indian chief Strenialschuck, thereby signifying that, since Jack is now their brother, they will help him if ever he is in trouble. After the ceremony of adoption the tribe presented gifts tc Mrs. Tenneson, since, in spite of her youth, they regard her as their mother, and always call upon her if any of their number are ill. The Tennesons go to California during the Holidays and for the month of January. Mrs. Roop returned recently from Chicago, where she has been visiting for two months, stopping on her way home in South Dakota, where they have some farms. Mrs. Roop says, "Tell all the readers of The Owl that Seattle is only Seattle is the Garden Spot of the World." with their with their daughter, Mary Gladys, may be seen in the front row. Mr. and Mrs. Roop moved to Seattle in 1921, their only child, this same Mary Gladys, having The Wing crest is familiar to most of us on stationery, but the distinction of having it cut in stone belongs to Mrs. Charles Willard Stimson, Seattle, Wash., daughter of Frederick A. Wing, of the same city. In the new home of Mrs. Stimson at the Highlands, north of the city, which is in English cottage style, up in one of the gables is carved the Wing coat-of-arms. (A sketch of Frederick A. Wing, of Seattle, with picture, occurs at page 299, also in the History (6540) at page 2370). Miss Jane Stimson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Willard Stimson, is at Miss Wickham's school in New York City, 338 Lexington Ave., having, as she enthusiastically writes, a most wonderful year. Miss Jane, notwithstanding own. Though they count Seattle their home, they spend their summers farther north on an island, going from Seattle by boat. * * Mrs. C. K. Wing, Sr., formerly of Carrington, North Dakota, now makes her home with her son, Major Charles Kleber Wing, at Fort Miley, San Francisco, and writes: "We love California, and hope we never will have to live anywhere else." She also writes of her twoyear-old grandson, the son of Charles Kleber, whom she designates as "C. K. Wing, III." The picture of Charles Kleber, apears at page 1706, under "Our Roll of Honor." the allurements of a first year in New Some Wings of Dartmouth York City, finds time to be interested in family history. * * * Four brothers, Guy, James Milton, Fred and Ralph are the owners of Wing's Cafeteria, 1409 First Avenue, Seattle. It was the first of its kind in Seattle in 1906, and the first save one on the Pacific coast. It is one of the oldest in the United States. This Cafeteria is famous in the Northwest, it feeds two thousand people daily, and one meets tourists from all over the country at its tables. A picture of it appears in The Owl at page 1328. These brothers are the sons of Elijah N. Wing, of Toledo, Iowa, a descendant of Bachelor Wing, of Hanover, Mass., of the line of Daniel. Mr. Wing hopes to visit his sons this summer. A picture of Ralph Wing is shown at page 1786, under our "Roll of Honor". Clarke, son of Fred, is a student in the University. Mrs. Carrie Wing Easterbrook, Vashon Heights, Seattle, is known in Seattle as "The Story-Teller Lady", though she is so modest that she will allow no one to think that she has special talent. Both Mr. and Mrs. Easterbrook greatly interested in young people, and having no children of their own, they have taken into their home a number of young people and reared them as their and Their Homes By William A. Wing Reprinted from Sept. 1906 Owl "In ye town of Dartmouth on ye 25th day of ye 2d month (called April), 1704, a meeting was appointed on purpose at ye house of Matthew Wing." So reads the worn marriage certificate signed by Matthew Wing and others-for the "purpose" was the marriage of his stepdaughter, Rebecca Ricketson, to John Russell "there being no thing to hinder and their intentions being duly published." The "house of Matthew Wing", built about ten years after King King Philip's war-when, as Increase Mather wrote, "Dartmouth did they burn with fire and barbarously murder both men and women"-stands on the east side of "Acoxet", or Westport river. It is "Now fallen to decay, With weather stains upon the wall Facing south on the uplands, it commands a fine sweep of river, bay and good old New England country. The sunset softens the time-worn shingles and the crumbling stone of the massive chimney, with its crude pilasters. Within, in spite of its pathetic desolation, the brave old beams and fine woodwork bespeak an early New England crafts man at his best. with attractive great The wedding room, corner buffet and fireplace, in the simplicity of its appointments was in accord with the assembled Friends, and if the sun streamed thro' the many-paned windows on that spring day-200 years ago-it must have been a rare, quaint picture. Up winding stairs, in the great chamber above, was a chimney-piece (now in the rooms of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society at New at New Bedford, Bedford, Mass.), called by experts the finest of its time extant in Massachusetts. Clambering up to the loft to watch the last rays of the setting sun upon the hills, the river and the far-off islands, you feel your ancestor, William Ricketson builded well. Elizabeth Mott Ricketson, his widow, came from Portsmouth, R. I., where her parents were well-known Friends. Her grandparents, firstcem. ers of the Motts, had been members in Roxbury of the church of Rev. John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. In 1694, Mistress Elizabeth Ricketson was one of the two women named in the confirmatory deed to the proprietors of Dartmouth. Not long after that date Not long after that date she was married to Matthew Wing of Sandwich, whose home was the so-called "old fort house", built about 1645, now owned by Alvin P. Wing. Matthew's parents, Stephen and Sarah (Briggs) Wing were members of the first Society of Friends in America. In 1700, in his will, Stephen Wing asked to be laid in "our Friends Burying place at Spring Hill," but a short distance from his doorstep. His son Matthew Wing received his first mention in the Dartmouth town meeting records in 1700, when chosen one of two grand jury men for the superior court at Bristol, then Dartmouth's county seat. It is interesting to find that he held several quaint offices, such as "receiver of blackbirds" (those who killed them to receive a penny apiece), and also "fence viewer". Probably, when the eldest Ricketson son married, a few years after his sister, Rebecca, Matthew Wing bought the house and 100 acres at "Shinsuet", just north of the Ricketson homestead. This house was a great two-storied double one, of the lean-to type, rare in Dartmouth, and faced south-as well behaved colonial houses should. Family tradition says that it was begun by one Landers of Sandwich, and left unfinished. When Matthew Wing bought it the floor timbers had sprouted and small trees were growing up toward the second story. In the stone wall, near the front of the house, is a large flat stone serving as a stile. In it is a deeply cut "B. W. —1771", none other than young Benjamin Wing, who with Joseph were his only two sons. It is in this house which Benjamin Crane, the old Dartmouth surveyor, means, when in his quaint journal, about 1720, he writes, "stayed one night at Matthew Wing's". Like most in old Dartmouth, with its many Friends, Matthew Wing seems to have lived a life that "glided on like the rivers that watered the woodland." The Indian troubles were now fireside tales. The greatest excitements were those of town meetings, when the Friends and their affiliates made determined and repeated opposition against war-slavery and "hireling ministers." A slight glimpse within this old house may be seen by selections from it's master's inventory in 1724. "My bible, 19 chairs, a round table and another table, one grate table and 17 napkins, 12 pewter plates, 10 platters, 4 porringers, one tankard, 13 silver spoons, knives and forks, a case of drawers, five feather beds with furniture well compleated, 7 pairs of good new linen sheats, 12 pairs of other sheats, a cradle and a spinning wheel." This old house was torn down some years ago. Just in the rear is the old family burying ground, where, as from the house, are beautiful views. Here, when the near-by orchard is in full bloom, the wind from the river below sometimes scatters the petals over the graves of Elizabeth and Matthew Wing. Joseph Wing, their eldest son, in his father's will (probated about 1724) was given the house and land where he dwelt. dwelt. This was upon the hill across the road from the great lean-to house of Matthew Wing, and its site is now occupied by the Major Allen house. No picture exists of this house, but an aged descendant remembers its great stone chimney, and its being the "only house she ever saw with diamond paned windows." Joseph's wife was Catherine-but who I do not know. Some facts point to her being from Sandwich; so perhaps Joseph went back to the home of his father for a wife. In 1773 he was awarded £10 for his "extraordinary service of collecting the Province, County and Town taxes." If Joseph Wing made £10 in town affairs, one John Wing did not, for in 1748 he promised to serve as selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor without any charge. He was chosen moderator and was also tithingman, one of whose duties is said to have been to use his rod of office during divine service to chuck the chin of any sleeping fair maid and to rap the head of any such offending lad. Snorers were punched in the ribs. John Wing, the son of Joseph and Catherine ( ) Wing, died when a young man. His widow, who was Jemima Shepherd of Dartmouth, was a daughter of Dorcas Wing, a daughter of Daniel Wing, Jr., of Sandwich, whose home still stands by the ponds ,and remains in possession of the Wings. Evidently this John Wing had no desire to fly from Wings. This same Jemima, daughter, wife and widow. of Wings, proved her winsomeness three times, and moved out near Wing's station, "up York state", where many of the kindred dwelt. Her eldest son, John, remained in Dartmouth, with his grandparents, Catherine and Joseph Wing, at their homestead farm that was bequeathed him by his grandfather about 1778, in a wordy will, where he styles himself, Joseph Wing, gentleman. Young John Wing began his manhood with unusualy bright prospects for those days. His marriage to Mercy Almy, a woman of beloved memory, was a fine union. Her house at Quanset, the old Almy estate, was some miles down the road from his home, at the mouth of Buzzards Bay, a place of glorious sea views. The first settler of the Almy name at Quanset, nearly 200 years ago, was her grandfather, Job Almy, who inherited the place from his father, William Almy of Pemkatest, near Tiverton, R. I., son of Governor Christopher Almy of Portsmouth, R. I., who served his colony well during the troublesome Andros times. As Job Almy's wordly wealth increased he "built him more stately mansions," three in all, each a "house with a gambrel roof," not unlike the birthplace of Holmes, in Cambridge, who explains "gambrel" thus: "Gambrel? Gambrel? Let me beg You'd look at a horse's hinder leg First angle above the hoof That's the gambrel-hence gambrel roof." Finally, upon Job Almy's wife Lydia's inheritance from her wealthy father, Joseph Tillinghast of Newport, he quite outdid himself by building the finest gambrel roof house in all Dartmouth, which remains today in the possession of the Almy family. Even this grandeur was poor compensation for his wife's magnificient home in Newport, still standing opposite the Old Stone Mill, which was not built by the Norsemen, but for her great-uncle, Governor Benedict Arnold. Mercy Almy, the granddaughter of Job and Lydia exchanged by marriage. her gambrel-roofed home for one as fine the Dutch Cap, so called from the shape of its roof; and so we are following the memories of these old-time Wings of Dartmouth through a varied architectural ramble. From the fine old Ricketson house of the Rhode Island type, to Matthew Wing's great lean-to house, to the hill-top house with its diamond-paned windows, on to the Almy gambrels, and then to the square Dutch Cap. This house "Built in the old Colonial day, When men lived in a grander way, With ampler hospitality," stands at the top of a high hill overlooking Buzzards bay, the Hope of Gosnold, across to Cuttyhunk, once called Slocum's Isle, where Slocum's Isle, where sojourned that intrepid adventurer, Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602. Indeed the loftly elm of eight feet girth, in front of this old Dutch Cap, can be seen from there— Cuttyhunk (Slocum's Isle), 16 |