Category Archives: Genealogy

Berlin New Hampshire Tupperware Inventor: Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983)

Posted on 25 May, 2007 by Janice Brown

American manufacturer Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, was born in New Hampshire.

 

He graduated from Fitchburg [MA] High school … Continue reading →

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24th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy: "Mothers!"

Posted on 18 May, 2007 by Janice Brown

The 24th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is now posted at the Creative Gene.  The topic is Mothers!

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Concord NH World War I Heroes, Twin Brothers: Ernest Potter Runnells and Ellsworth Potter Runnells (1894-?)

Posted on 9 May, 2007 by Janice Brown

Twin brothers from New Hampshire

were simultaneously decorated with French and American crosses on December 17, 1918, in the only … Continue reading →

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Newport New Hampshire Milliner, Author, Poet, Editor and "Mother of Thanksgiving": Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale (1788-1879)

Posted on 1 May, 2007 by Janice Brown

Born Sarah Josepha Buell, on a farm in the small town of Newport New Hampshire, she had a limited … Continue reading →

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Portsmouth New Hampshire Soldier, Executive Clerk, Poet: Samuel Adams Wiggin (1832-1899)

Posted on 25 April, 2007 by Janice Brown

Samuel Adams Wiggin, son of Samuel P. & Eliza (Wendell) Wiggin was born at Portsmouth, N.H., May 27, 1832. His … Continue reading →

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