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1875 -- John Edward Rothwell, Hubert Leigh Rothwell, & Charles Garnett Rothwell

AJosifek — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:24:38 -0500

Charles Garnett Rothwell, youngest son of Hugh C. Rothwell & Zellica Sarah (Batt) Rothwell, was born 16 Jan 1870 in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. He married Winifred Bessie Burns on 20 Jan 1902 at St. Jude's Church in Brooklyn, New York. They had 2 children together [Charles Easton Rothwell & Winifred Alice (Rothwell) Krichesky]. She died soon after Alice's birth. On 3 Jan 1906 Charles Garnett remarried to Martha Huntingdon (Robson) Rothwell in Frontenac, Ontario. Together they had 2 children [Helen Zellica (Rothwell) Wilderman & Frances N. (Rothwell) Vail].

He graduated from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario with a degree in Mining Engineering. At the time that his son Charles Easton was born (1902), Charles G. Rothwell was a mining engineer for the Rocky Mountain Coal Company in Denver, Colorado. In about 1912, Charles G. and his brother John Edward were invited to Butte, Montana to build a mill for ore reduction.

In the 1920s he retired and moved first to Newberg, then finally to Eugene, Lane, Oregon, where he died in Jun 1933. He is buried at West Lawn Memorial Park & Funeral Home.

The following excerpt was extracted from a 1980s interview with Charles Garnett's son, C. Easton Rothwell:

"I don't remember very much about my life in Denver. I do remember that there was a beautiful park close to us called Washington Park. Very often, on a Sunday, my father would get a boat and take us rowing on the lake in the park. My dad had had a lot of experience with water, since he lived so long on the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston, just where the Saint Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario. He was a great sailor. He even loved to sail ice boats, which are very risky things to handle. He ultimately taught me how to handle a canoe and how to do a lot of other things that were useful to me." -C. Easton Rothwell, 'From Mines to Minds'

Many thanks to my distant cousin for sharing this and other family photos with me.

Eugene, OR High School 1913 Football Lettermen

old-yearbooks.com — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:54:25 -0500

The lettermen (wearers of the "E") were (in no particular order): Clubb - captain, Ed Gray, George Phinney, Clarence Baldwin, Roy West, Callison, Harry Titus, Hoffer, Harold Wigmore, Moses Terrill, Good, Roy Baldwin, and Charles Lowry - manager.

Photo from the 1914 E. H. S. Annual of Eugene High School

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Wade Bros. Clothes Shop, Eugene, Oregon 1915

old-yearbooks.com — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:08:58 -0600

Wade's Clothes Shop, Eugene's New Store for Men and Boys, 1915.

Photo from the 1915 Yearbook of Eugene High School.

Eugene, OR High School 1914 Football Team

old-yearbooks.com — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:12:28 -0600

On the team (and probably in the photograph): William Morrison - manager, George Phinney - captain, Bert Clubb, Ronald Hempy, Nicholas Stansell, Joe McLean, Lloyd Terrill, Basil Williams, Ot Alexander, Harold Wigmore, Newman, Christenson, Wigmore, Smith

Coach C. N. Johnston, Asst Coach C. L. Mudge, Asst Coach Lloyd Barzee coached the team.

Photo from the 1915 Purple and White Yearbook of Eugene High School

Eugene, Oregon High School Freshmen Boys 1911

old-yearbooks.com — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:36:21 -0600

The Class of 1914 when they were freshmen in 1911

The Class of 1914: Noble Bond, Cecil Ball, Kenneth C. Barclay, Frank Bounds, Truman Chase, Donald Calvert, Errett Callison, Robert Crenshaw, Jesse Casteel, Paul Dimm, Deo Edwards, Byron Foster, Percy Guy, Chester Good, Lester Hyland, Thomas Johnson, Wesley L. Lindley, Clarence Lombard, Leonard Larwood, Charles Lowry, Howard S. Merriam, Arthur Moses, Fred Moxley, True Morris, Richard Nelson, William Ramage, John Ruth, Harold Rugh, Kuykendall Stryker, Clinton Thienes, Harry Titus, Marian Tuttle, Sophus K. Winther.

Herbert Hills, Bert Clubb, and Frank Schaife, were members of the class as freshmen, but not listed with the graduating class of 1914.

Photo from the 1914 E. H. S. Annual of Eugene High School

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Eugene, Oregon High School Freshmen Girls 1911

old-yearbooks.com — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:06:25 -0600

The girls in the Class of 1914 photographed when they were freshmen in 1911.

The Class of 1914: Rosebud Andrew, Grace Archer, Nanna Axtell, Grace Bingham, Beatrice Buoy, June Beebe, Drusilla Casteel, Carrie Casperson, Dorothy Collier, Dora Belle Francis, Grace Frederick, Edel Fraasch, Ethel Gibson, Lois Green, Doris Hubbell, Dorothy Harriet Hartung, Madge Pearl Humbert, Berenice Ingalls, Vivien Kellems, Jeanette Kletzing, Elma Ludford, Grace Leathers, Dove McGee, Nellie McClure, Bertha McGuire, Mary Moore, Agnes Miller, Evelyn Milliorn, Helen Porter, Alta R. Sisam, Ethel Smith, Florence Sherman, Frances Schenck, Winifred Starbuck, Emma Stephenson, Caroline H. Taylor, Lida May Tucker, Helen Wells, Juanita Wilkins, Gladys Goltra Wilkins, Helen Wetzel

Miriam Tinker, Helen Delano, and Louise Allen were members of the class as freshmen, but not listed with the graduating class of 1914.

Evelyn Foster, Helen M. Dresser, Myrtle Gilpin, Hazel Gilpin, Frances Garrett, Madalene Harrison, Bernice Lillian Holmes, Hazel E. Herley, Lillian Opal Holverson, Josie Lorene Huntsberry, Helen Irwin, Edna Sylvester, Aileen Stark, Dorothy Wilkinson, all transferred from other schools, and while members of the graduating class of 1914, may not have been with the class as freshmen.

The names of the rest of the students are unknown.

Photo from the 1914 E. H. S. Annual of Eugene High School

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Eugene, Oregon High School Faculty 1915

old-yearbooks.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:54:20 -0600

In the photograph: Lloyd Barzee, Frances Young, Bertha Comings, Alfred Skei, Ray D. Fisher, Mrs. Ella Fisher, Pauline Albright, Grace Hobbs, Anne McMicken, Carrie Pimm, C. L. Mudge, Mrs. Fletcher, C. N. Johnson, D. O. Robinson, A. E. Cash, Mae Kinsey, Pauline Walton, Imogene McKown, Edna Logan, Rosalynde Barbour, Miss Emma Chase, Gertrude Dierlein, Mary DeBar, Mildred E. Bagley, George W. Hug, Nell Sullivan, Miss E. Chase.

Photo from the 1915 Purple and White Yearbook of Eugene High School

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Leon Ayotte

Pat Darling — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:43:29 -0500

Leon Ayotte was born in 1866 in Wells, Vermont, to Alex and Caroline Ayotte.

He went to Montana with his father in 1881, and left the area around 1892.

He married in 1899 to Myrtle Back in Idaho, then moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1930, where he farmed. He died there in 1957.