Person:Mary Rowley (27)

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Mary Jane Rowley
b.14 Sep 1842 Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
d.12 Nov 1919 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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m. Aft 8 Apr 1832
  1. Mary Jane Rowley1842 - 1919
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m. 18 Mar 1867
  1. Adelaide Mary Pierce1868 - 1927
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Facts and Events
Name Mary Jane Rowley
Gender Female
Birth? 14 Sep 1842 Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Census[4] 23 Sep 1850 Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Education[5] Abt 1853 Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesat the Maplewood Institute Secondary date: 1 JUL 1853
Education[6] Abt 1859 Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United Statesat the Emma Willard School (Troy Academy) Secondary date: 1 JUL 1859
Census[7] 19 Sep 1860 Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation[8] 18 Mar 1867 Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesteacher
Marriage 18 Mar 1867 Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesto Harlan Ashley Pierce
Other[9] 10 May 1869 Promontory (historical), Box Elder, Utah, United Statesmay have witnessed the driving of the golden spike that joined the east and west railway Misc
Other? 6 Nov 1870 Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, United Stateswas one of the first women to cast a vote Misc
Other? Abt May 1871 Harlan and their family left Cheyenne, Wyoming Secondary date: 15 MAY 1871 Misc
Other? Bet 1871 and 1873 possibly lived in Salt Lake City Secondary date: 1 JUL 1871 Misc
Residence[10] 1 Apr 1873 Delaware, United States(or at least reported that as Winona's birthplace)
Divorce Abt 1874 Secondary date: 1 JUL 1874
from Harlan Ashley Pierce
Residence[11] 1880 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Stateswith daughters Adelaide Mary 12, Fanny 9, and Winona Maria 7 Secondary date: 1 JUL 1880
Census? 16 Jun 1880 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Residence[12] 1885 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Stateson Grigg St. near Arch St. Secondary date: 1 JUL 1885
Other[13] 19 Jul 1887 Her father's will set up a trust for her and/or her daughters To Get
Residence[14] 1889 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Stateson Warren St. near Myrtle Ave. Secondary date: 1 JUL 1889
Residence[15] 1890 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Stateson Warren St. Secondary date: 1 JUL 1890
Census[16] 6 Jun 1900 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Property? 6 Jun 1900 She owned the house on Warren St free and clear as of the census
Residence[17] 6 Jun 1900 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesat 3 Warren St. with two of her daughters and their families
Other? 1900 had one child who had died (presumably Clara E.) as of the census Secondary date: 1 JUL 1900 Misc
Residence[18] 1907 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesat 23 Warren St Secondary date: 1 JUL 1907
Census? Apr 1910 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United StatesSecondary date: 15 APR 1910
Other[19] Apr 1910 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Stateshad mortgaged their home as of the census Secondary date: 15 APR 1910 Misc
Residence[20] 1915 at 23 Warren St., Delancey is mentioned at the same address, so is someone named Thomas Lane Secondary date: 1 JUL 1915
Other? 1915 is listed in the Stamford Directory as Mary, Widow of Harlan A. Secondary date: 1 JUL 1915 Misc
Death[1] 12 Nov 1919 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United StatesCause: of acute or chronic nephritis (then called Bright's Disease) at 225 McGee Avenue, Stamford, at the home of her grandson Edward Delancey Trefry
Other[21] 13 Nov 1919 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United StatesHer obituary appeared in the Thursday edition of the Stamford Advocate Newspaper
Burial[2] 14 Nov 1919 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United StatesWoodland Cemetery
Other[3] Mary Rowley Pierce, wife of Harlan A., born Sept. 15, 1842, died Nov. 12, 1919, age 77 yrs Gravestone
Physical Description? an accomplished pianist who never played again once Harlan left
Religion? was her church's oldest member at the time of her death
Religion? Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Stateswas active in church and Sunday school at the Maple Avenue Methodist Protestant Church
References
  1. ↑ per obituary in Thursday 11-13-1919 Stamford Advocate
  2. ↑ a funeral service was held at 2:30 pm at the Methodist Protestant Church (from obit)
    Cemetery Records Int. Book #35C Sec. H Lot N1/2 135 Grave 6 Undertaker: Lyman Hoyt's Son & Co.
  3. ↑ Mary's gravestone is also inscribed with the names and dates for her daughters Clara and Winona -- the other side of the stone is inscribed with the name Trefry but there are no first names engraved underneath.
  4. ↑ There was an 18 year old Irish girl living in the house (perhaps a maid or nanny?) by the name of Mary Cornedy? Conelly?
  5. ↑ 1841 – Reverend William [Wellington] Hart Tyler established the Pittsfield Young Ladies Institute, later to become the Maplewood Institute. The school attracted young women of prominence from throughout the nation. Local students, from Pittsfield and surrounding towns, received reduced tuition consideration so that the school and its educational advantages would remain a viable option. The building later became a hotel, then apartments and now luxury condos. The Maplewood 33 Maplewood Avenue Pittsfield, MA 01201
    32pp; engraved frontispiece view of Maplewood, printer's devices at corners of all text blocks. Original glossy covers discolored; contents quite clean. 9" x 5.75" This report lists the trustees, instructors, graduates from 1841 through 1859, pupils in 1860, courses of study, textbooks, comments on physical education, moral and social education, visits and correspondence, expenses, &c. "One of the Gentlemen connected with the Institute will meet young ladies at the Astor House, in New York, on the Tuesday evening preceding the beginning of each Term, to accompany them on Wednesday A.M. to Pittsfield." Maplewood, in the Berkshire Mountains, served as a girls school from 1841 to 1888. Arthur W. Plumb bought it in 1889 and operated it as a hotel until his death in 1931. In 1937, much of it was razed, but one wing was saved and converted into the Maplewood Apartments, which survive today. Bookseller Inventory # 034059
  6. ↑ Toward the close of 1821 she secured $4,000 in funding and relocated to Troy, downstream from Watertown along the Hudson River. The Albany Academy for Boys had been established in March 1813, just downstream from Waterford and Emma Willard’s temporary school; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) opened in 1824. Emma was able to formally found the Troy Female Seminary "for young ladies of means", becoming "the first school in the country to provide girls the same educational opportunities given to boys". The school was immediately successful, and it graduated many great thinkers, including noted social reformer and suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Willard remained the head of the seminary until 1838, when she handed it over to her son. In 1895, the school was renamed The Emma Willard School for Girls. In 1910, a new campus was built for the school on Mount Ida.
  7. ↑ Was on 1860 census as 18 year old in her father's house -- had attended school within the past year. Also living there were 3 male farm laborers, William Hubbard 25, Hosea Wheeler, 40 and Franklin Lathrop, 15
  8. ↑ MAR 1867 Richmond, Mass; teacher; 1st marriage
    wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rlpierce&id=I08109
  9. ↑ In Mary Rowley's obituary it states that she saw it, but the obituary (based no doubt on family stories) could be mistaken since she had given birth to Clara E. just a week before.
  10. ↑ given as daughter Winona's birthplace, though no record found so far
  11. ↑ as Mary Rawley Pierce
  12. ↑ listed as Miss Mary R Rowley - The road still exists, though her house might not.
    1885 Greenwich directory (on microfilm at Greenwich Library)
  13. ↑ Mary R. Greenwich, Conn (Trust Est. (Will of Edward S. Rowley No. 15387)) July 19 1887 probate #15706 / Fanny M., Stamford, Conn (Gdn. m.) Jan 3, 1889 probate 16220 / Winona, Stamford, Conn. (Gdn. m.) Jan. 3, 1889 probate # 16220
    http://www.massmayflower.org/
  14. ↑ (as Mrs. Mary R. Pierce) 1889/90 stamford dir
    NOTE: Was historically the Chauncy Warran house, built in the French Second Empire style about 1872, approximately 24 x 30 ft. (it appears to have had an addition put on the back -- dimensions may reflect that.)
  15. ↑ (per the census) with her three daughters
  16. ↑ Mary R Pierce, Home in 1900: Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Age: 57, Birth Date: Sep 1842, Birthplace: Massachusetts, Race: White, Gender: Female, Relationship to head-of-house: Head, Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts, Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts, Mother: number of living children: 3, Mother: How many children: 4, Marital Status: Widowed, Household Members: Mary R Pierce 57 / Delancey Trefry Jan 1861 Canada Eng White Head
    View Record / Adelaide Trefry Jan 1868 Illinois White Wife / Edward D Trefry Jun 1887 Connecticut White Son / Walter R Trefry Jul 1892 Connecticut White Son William R Trefry Feb 1899 Connecticut White Son / Rupert G Trefry Nov 1866 Canada Eng White Head / Fanny M Trefry 1871 Wyoming White Wife / Fanny L Trefry May 1892 Connecticut White Daughter / Mildred L Trefry Jul 1894 Connecticut White Daughter / Winona A Trefry Dec 1895 Connecticut White Daughter / Alton R Trefry, son,
    NOTE: Mary apparently let the census taker believe or assume she was widowed
  17. ↑ census
  18. ↑ per 1907 Stamford Directory
  19. ↑ NOTE: house noted as owned but mortgaged on census
  20. ↑ 1915 City Information Directory - Ancestry.com
  21. ↑ Mrs. Mary Rowley Pierce, widow of Harlan A. Pierce, died yesterday at the home of her grandson, Edward DeLancey Trefry, 225 McGee Avenue, in her seventy-seventh year. She was the daughter of the late Edward S. and Jane Root Rowley, of Richmond, Mass. She was one of the pupils in the famous Maplewood Institute of Pittsfield and was graduated from the Emma Willar School in Troy, the institution so munificiently endowed by Mrs. Russell Sage, with whom Mrs. Pierce was acquainted. In the days before the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, Mrs. Pierce crossed the plains in a "prairie schooner." She saw the gold spike driven when the East and the West lines of the Union Pacific were connected. When Wyoming declared for woman suffrage in 1869 she was one of the very first to cast her ballot in the cityh of Cheyenne. Mrs. Pierce is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Delancey W. Trefrey and Mrs. Rupert G. Trefry, and by twelve grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. She was the oldest member of Maple Avenue Methodist Protestant Church. For many years she was active in church and Sunday school work and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her. For thirty-two years she had resided in the East, part of the time in Greenwich, but most of the time in Stamford. The funeral service will be held in the Methodist Protestant Church, tomorrow, at 2:30 p.m. and interment will be in Woodland Cemetery.
    NOTE: 32 years must have been wrong since she was in Greenwich for the 1880 census. It seems most likely that the number should have been for 42 years.
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