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Surnames: Millin, Clearwater, Brown, Miles
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hIJ.2ACIB/155
Message Board Post:
I do not have a connection to the Clearwater genealogy but I am compiling a booklet about former rural and early school teachers once of Elk and several nearby counties. My search for information about IDA MILLIN who was once a rural school teacher in Hallton, Spring Creek Twp., Elk county in 1884 (noted in Beers History) lead me to learn her mother's maiden name was Clearwater the daughter Alfred A. and Helen T (nee ?) Clearwater. I have a copy of the obit. for Alfred A. Clearwater which was published in the Johnsonburg, Pa Press. Unfortuately the date is not noted so I'll have to go search for it. BUT according to the write-up he was born in Ulster co., NY March 21, 1848 son of Richard and Rachel (nee Osterhout) Clearwater of Ulster co., NY...Richard was a millwright by trade and moved to Susquehanna county in 1864...for some years he was a car builder at the Susquehanna shops. A.A. Clearwater began his service in the Civil War as a drummer boy.in a NY Unit....was wounde!
d several times...promoted to Sergeant..he attended Harvard University in Susquehanna county then sent to learn the trade of a tanner with his uncle W. H. Osterhout at Glenwood, Pa.....in 1883 he accepted a position as superintendent of the great tannery in at Wilcox, Elk County..... He was survived by his wife, (found on application for Civil War Pension as Helen I. Clearwater) brother Wellington Clearwater, a sister, Mrs. B. E. Miles of Wilcox, ...following sons and daughters: W.D. Clearwater, Alfred Clearwater, and Mrs. F.R. Brown, of Wilcox and MRS. H.W. MILLIN, of Dubois, Jefferson county.
Perhaps because I have uncovered the connection between IDA MILLIN now a descendant of hers will be found who will share information about her education, and her teaching career, no matter how brief. I would like to find out if she attended normal school and if so the name of the school and the date she graduated. I would like to find out if she continuted to teach or if she married which would have no doubt been the end of a teaching career because that was the policy in the early school systems. I am hopeful a copy of a picture of IDA MILLIN might be found. That would be teriffic! Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.