George
Ambrosier moved around a lot. He tried farming, but spent a good share of his life working on ranches in Montana. He also broke horses. He died as the result of being dragged by a team of colts he was breaking. At least once they traveled by team and buggy from Montana to Mountain Home, Idaho.
Father: Jacob AMBROSIER
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Father: John CODNERIt is not certain that John and Christopher were brothers.
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Father: Hugh HARROPObituary Dated July 21, 1932
GEORGE HARROP DEAD AT AGE 67
Was Contractor; Active in Lodges, Funeral Friday.
George A Harrop, age 67, South Bend contractor and a leading supporter of civic enterprises for social betterment, died at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening in his home, 626 Park Avenue, where he ad been ill about three weeks.
Mr. Harrop was head of the national Construction Company, which he organized here in 1901, and which has been under his management since 1914. The company was organized for the designing and construction of water works properties through the middlewest.
Mr. Harrop had been among the most active in that field in the country and through his efforts hundreds of small towns b\have been able to acquire public water supply systems. In later years he had broadened his field to include other types of construction. He was owner of water plants in a large number of Ohio and Indiana cities.
Mr. Harrop was born Sept. 3, 1864 in Crestline, O., he received his elementary and high school education there, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware O.
Began as Editor
From College he went to Bucyrus O., where he established the Daily Critic. He continued its editorship for one year, when he became manager of the Central Union Telephone company at Bucyrus. Later he was transferred to Rock Island, IL in the same capacity. In 1893 he came to South Bend as manager of the Central Union properties in South Bend, Mishawaka and a large portion of northern Indiana, representing the company during the period when independent organizations were being created. He was successful in holding together the company's properties, forming the nucleus of what is now the Indiana Bell telephone company.
In 1901, he resigned his position with the telephone company to organize the national construction company.
Mr. Harrop was married May 16 1889 in Peru, IL to Miss Mary Bell Cole of that city, who survives. He also leaves one son, Dr. George A Harrop, associate professor of medicine at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. and one sister, Mrs. RU Miller of this city and two grandchildren, two brothers, James E Harrop of Bucyrus and Frank H Harrop of Mansfield O., preceded him in death.
Funeral On Friday
Mr Harrop was a member of South Bend lodge No. 294 and of the Scottish Rite 32nd grade, South Bend loge No. 285 BPOE Crusade lodge No 14, Knights of Pythias, Rotary Club, South Bend Country Club, First Methodist Episcopal church, Indiana University Club and the Phi Kappa (unreadable) Fraternity.
He was active in the support of the YMCA, of hospitals and social agencies, was identified with war relief boards and with liberty load drives. He was one of the original organizers of the American Trust and Union Trust companies and at the time of his death was a member of the advisory board of the American Trust company.
The body was taken to AM Russell mortuary. Funeral services will take place from the residence at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon.
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Father: Edmund LITTLEFIELDHe was often called Francis the Elder or Francis Senior to distinguish him from his younger brother of the same name. He is first mentioned in New England in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1639. He received a small land grant of four acres and twenty pole in Exeter in 1640. He left Exeter, probably with his father and the followers of Reverend John Wheelwright, but did not remain there. He removed to Woburn, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor, taxed in 1646 and where his wife, Jane, died on December 20, 1646. Mary, his daughter, was six days old. By 1648, he was living in Dover, New Hampshire and then moved to Wells, Maine before July 5, 1653, when he took the Oath of Allegiance to Massachusetts. He received a grant of 200 acres in Wells, Maine in 1658. He served as a deputy to the Massachusetts General Court from 1665 to 1679. He and his brother of the same name were part of a petition to the Court of Massachusetts on April 30, 1668. Massachusetts had revoked the charter of the town of Wells, as most of the Episcopalian inhabitants of the town opposed the Massachusetts government, remaining loyal to the Church of England. However, they soon realized that they needed a governing body closer to home and petitioned the Court to reinstate the charter. The will of Francis Littlefield was executed on 5 February 1675 and he died in 1712.
There is a traditional story about Francis Littlefield that he removed to America long before the rest of his family. Having no word from him, his family assumed him dead. This story was probably started to explain the existence of two sons by the same name. However, the practice of naming more than one child the same name was not uncommon in England at that time. The goal was to perpetuate a given name, usually the name of a grandfather, by raising the chances that at least one person of that name would live to produce heirs. This story is probably a fabrication and it is likely that he came to Boston with his father prior to 1637.
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