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Michael Odenwelder

• Father: Philip Odenwelder b. 1721, d. 18 Jul 1795

• Birth*: Michael was born on 1 January 1750.
• He was the son of Philip Odenwelder.
• Death*: Michael died on 11 March 1828 at age 78.

• Last Edited: 20 Apr 2004

Philip Odenwelder

• Birth*: Philip was born in 1721, Europe.
• Death*: Philip died on 18 July 1795, Northampton, Pennsylvania.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

Evelyn Palinkos¹

• Father: Stephen Palinkos¹ b. 1897
• Mother: Bertha S. Holly¹ b. 1 Jan 1898, d. 19 May 1982

• Charts: Descendants of David Holly to 5 Generations

• Birth*: Evelyn was born in 1919, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹
• She was the daughter of Stephen Palinkos and Bertha S. Holly.¹
• Death*: Evelyn died before 1930, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹

• Last Edited: 17 May 2007

Stephen Palinkos¹

• Charts: Descendants of David Holly to 5 Generations

• Birth*: Stephen was born in 1897, Connecticut.¹
• Marriage*: Stephen married Bertha S. Holly, daughter of Frank Holly and Bertha S. Weeks, in 1918, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹
• Census*: Stephen appeared on the census of 23 January 1920 at 21 Winslow Bouton St., Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, as head, renter, age 23, born in CT, hatter, hat factory. With wife Bertha, age 23, and Evelyn, daughter, age 3 months. Living in same household with his father, Stephen Palinkos, owner with mortgage, age 65, born in Hungary, immigrated in 1887, naturalized in [1895?], hatter in hat factory, and his wife Mary, age 50, also immigrated from Hungary in 1887, also naturalized in [1895?], daughter Julia, age 16 born in CT, and Monica ([Bronica?] age 10.¹
• Address*: As of 1925, Stephen lived at 26 Arch, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut According to the 1925 Norwalk City Directory, he was Vice Pres. and Supt. of the Pope Company, Inc. off Belden Ave. Listed as Stephen, Jr., with Bertha.
• Census: Stephen appeared on the census of 6 April 1930 at 26 Stroh St, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, as head, owner, Estate $12,000, age 33, married at age 20, born in CT, parents born Austria, President, Hat Shop. Wife Bertha, age 33, and daughter Bertha, age 8, son Stephen, age 3. Boarder Beard E. [Puttson?]. Street name difficult to read, no street named Stroh in Norwalk in 2007.²
• Divorce*: Stephen and Bertha S. Holly were divorced between 1931 and 1982.³

• Last Edited: 5 Jun 2007

Steven Palinkos Jr.¹

• Father: Stephen Palinkos¹ b. 1897
• Mother: Bertha S. Holly¹ b. 1 Jan 1898, d. 19 May 1982

• Charts: Descendants of David Holly to 5 Generations

• Birth*: Steven was born on 16 April 1926, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.^1,2
• He was the son of Stephen Palinkos and Bertha S. Holly.¹
• Death*: Steven died on 9 January 1976, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, at age 49.

• Last Edited: 17 May 2007

Albert I. Palmer¹

• Father: Alton J. Palmer¹ b. 20 Nov 1813, d. 30 Aug 1891
• Mother: Adaline E. Scofield¹ b. 18 Jan 1829, d. 14 Sep 1896

• Marriage*: Albert married Lottie M. Staples.¹
• Birth*: Albert was born in 1857, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹
• He was the son of Alton J. Palmer and Adaline E. Scofield.¹
• Death*: Albert died in 1926, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹
• Burial*: Albert was buried, Long Ridge Union Cemetery, Erskine Rd. near Long Ridge Rd., Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹

• Last Edited: 3 Jul 2006

Alton J. Palmer¹

• Birth*: Alton was born on 20 November 1813.¹
• Marriage*: Alton married Adaline E. Scofield, daughter of Edward Scofield, circa 1853.¹
• Death*: Alton died on 30 August 1891, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, at age 77.¹
• Burial*: Alton was buried, Long Ridge Union Cemetery, Erskine Rd. near Long Ridge Rd., Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹

• Last Edited: 3 Jul 2006

Arthur Palmer¹

• Father: Alton J. Palmer¹ b. 20 Nov 1813, d. 30 Aug 1891
• Mother: Adaline E. Scofield¹ b. 18 Jan 1829, d. 14 Sep 1896

• Birth*: Arthur was born on 14 July 1854, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹
• He was the son of Alton J. Palmer and Adaline E. Scofield.¹
• Death*: Arthur died on 9 January 1922, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, at age 67.¹
• Burial*: Arthur was buried, Long Ridge Union Cemetery, Erskine Rd. near Long Ridge Rd., Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.¹

• Last Edited: 3 Jul 2006

Jacob Parcell

• Birth*: Jacob was born circa 1713.

• Last Edited: 27 Oct 2005

Nicholas Parcell

• Birth*: Nicholas was born circa 1715.

• Last Edited: 27 Oct 2005

Thomas Parcell

• Birth*: Thomas was born circa 1721.

• Last Edited: 27 Oct 2005

Chauncey Pardee¹

• Father: Nathaniel Pardee¹ b. 13 Jan 1760
• Mother: Mary Holly¹ b. 1 Apr 1763

• Birth*: Chauncey was born circa 1789.¹
• He was the son of Nathaniel Pardee and Mary Holly.¹

• Last Edited: 27 Feb 2006

Jared Pardee¹

• Father: Nathaniel Pardee¹ b. 13 Jan 1760
• Mother: Mary Holly¹ b. 1 Apr 1763

• Birth*: Jared was born circa 1785.¹
• He was the son of Nathaniel Pardee and Mary Holly.¹

• Last Edited: 27 Feb 2006

Nathaniel Pardee¹

• Birth*: Nathaniel was born on 13 January 1760, Salem, Westchester, New York.^1,2
• Marriage*: Nathaniel married Mary Holly, daughter of Abraham Holly and Mary Webb, circa 1784.¹

• Last Edited: 7 Mar 2006

William Pardee¹

• Father: Nathaniel Pardee¹ b. 13 Jan 1760
• Mother: Mary Holly¹ b. 1 Apr 1763

• Birth*: William was born circa 1787.¹
• He was the son of Nathaniel Pardee and Mary Holly.¹

• Last Edited: 27 Feb 2006

Willis Pardee¹

• Father: Nathaniel Pardee¹ b. 13 Jan 1760
• Mother: Mary Holly¹ b. 1 Apr 1763

• Birth*: Willis was born circa 1791.¹
• He was the son of Nathaniel Pardee and Mary Holly.¹

• Last Edited: 27 Feb 2006

Clara Patrick¹

• Birth*: Clara was born in 1815, Connecticut.¹
• Marriage*: Clara married Jesse Hunt Garnsey, son of Ezra Garnsey Jr. and Lannah Bennett, on 22 July 1830, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut.¹
• Married Name: As of 22 July 1830,her married name was Garnsey.
• Death*: Clara died before 1880, Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut.¹

• Last Edited: 19 Jan 2005

Adam Pearsall

• Father: Adam Pearsall b. 1751, d. 26 Mar 1831
• Mother: Elsie Wood b. 1759, d. 13 Jun 1839

• Birth*: Adam was born on 4 July 1793 , chap 33 sec 6.
• He was the son of Adam Pearsall and Elsie Wood.
• Marriage*: Adam married Elizabeth Pearsall, daughter of Henry Pearsall, on 19 December 1819.
• Death*: Adam died on 31 January 1857 at age 63.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

Adam Pearsall

• Marriage*: Adam married Elsie Wood.
• Birth*: Adam was born in 1751 , chap 33 sec 4.
• Death*: Adam died on 26 March 1831.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

Adeline Pearsall

• Father: Lewis Pearsall d. 10 Dec 1898

• She was the daughter of Lewis Pearsall.
• Death*: Adeline died on 21 March 1860.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Adeline A. Pearsall

• Father: Adam Pearsall b. 4 Jul 1793, d. 31 Jan 1857
• Mother: Elizabeth Pearsall

• Birth*: Adeline was born on 8 August 1840.
• She was the daughter of Adam Pearsall and Elizabeth Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Alfred Everson Pearsall¹

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Note*: Chap 42 sec 16 Z 1328     THE PEARSALL FAMILY      142-151
  Alfred Everson Pearsall founded the News Bureau which devoted itself to
  gathering the news of the Wall Street zone of the city of New York. It was the
  ally of all the metropolitan papers and the source from which came the daily report
  of financial and business affairs sent out over the country by the Associated Press.
  
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  It is not possible to write an accurate history of Alfred Everson Pearsall. We are too near the events of his life to give them their exact value, but as to Alfred Everson Pearsall, this can be said, his history is so inseparably connected with the financial growth of this country, that the history of its business for his generation must accord him a large space in its record. It is needless to say that such an organization as he founded is the eyes and ears of the business world. Through it was gained the knowledge and impressions which have moulded and guided the business and financial affairs of the country at large. It is easy to comprehend that such a man must be trustworthy, truthful, reliable, fair and disinterested; that he must be farseeing, yet microscopic in his vision. Any one can tell of the big things already accomplished. It takes the man of discernment and most minute view to discern the germs of movements that will ultimately grow into great enterprises. It takes the judicial mind to sift the false from the true; and to-do it day after day for a lifetime, and yet win the approval of the man in the Street, betokens talents far beyond the ordinary and tells of training such as very few men have. Then the dryest facts must be dressed up so that they are entertainingly presented. It is comparatively easy to write of flowers and fruits but to detail day by day the doings of the Bulls and Bears of finance and to yet -be uncontaminated by the sordid selfishness which controls most of their desires and purposes requires a man with a soul above things mundane. Hence the reader of his story, as related by himself, must keep in mind that behind the expressions .of dire want is really the keen-sighted man of vision, pouring out his irony and covert sarcasm against those who think that the mere possession of wealth is the only badge of true greatness. For he never lost the perspective of things which he saw in the field of the country's money market. Hence he reported about money and bonds and banks and bankers in a way calculated to bring them within the power of the truth, and in such a manner as to aid in the upbuilding of the whole land and all the people. To him the acquisition of bonds and money was not desirable for the power and wealth thereby obtained, but that they never should cease to be instruments for the good and right purpose of making all the people happy. Year after year he spent his holidays in the gypsy wagon which he owned, and in which he wandered all over the country seeking above all other things to regain renewed contact with the common people. Hence the broad and wide vision and the wonderfully accurate discernment which he brought to the dissemination of what otherwise would have been only the sordid news of the money world; which world knows nothing about and cares less for the rest of mankind except in so far as they can be made the means of paying tribute to the comparatively few of the monetary class.
  
  He was also a journalist of commanding position, but he will be better remembered by the part he has taken in the development of the financial and business interests of the country. He was withal a delightful companionable man, as we can well understand after reading the following account he has written of himself. But the reader must take in a Pickwickian sense his references to poverty. He and his were and are men of ample means.
  
  According to the Book my name is Alfred Everson Pearsall, the oldest son of Phineas Carman and Catherine Morgan Pearsall, and by the same token I was
  
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  born in Butler Street, near Court Street, Brooklyn, April 18 1847. My father's father was Peter Roebuck Pearsall, organist of a Moravian Church, I don,t know where-and like most musicians, he was poor. My own father inherited his tendency to be musical and poor-poor as to this world's goods but rich, rich indeed, in the graces and tenderness of a refined, gentle, poetic nature so that when it came his time to die, all kinds of people, rich and poor, alike, even the blacks, surrounded Squire Pearsall's bier-and a very few of them all were worthy to touch the hem of his garment or to loose the latcht of his shoe. Some very good men with a mistaken idea of life sighed: What a failure, not appreciating the
  songs he had sung at their festivals and funerals, the fetching stories he had told
  and the Gospel of Good Cheer his life had always been to the living and dying.
  When I consider the musicalness of my grandfather and of my father and my
  own misfortune in that direction it is not so difficult for me to think that there
  may be some kind of a crest for me which I don't want, anyhow. I say my own
  misfortune because I've been everlastingly bothered with music interruptions
  when I've been saying I won't be musical, I won't learn a note and then I can't
  teach music and wear a shawl and long hair. However, I've never let my hair get
  very short for the matter of that. But while I don't know one note from another
  I've had the nerve to sing in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and make
  money for it. I've sung from Maine to California and from the Canadian border
  to the Mexican border.
  Shall I tell you about the time I sang in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City?
  Well, I'll put my time against yours, since I'm just rambling at best. I was a
  delegate to the Convention of the International League of Press Clubs in San
  Francisco in the winter of 1,893. En route we were royally entertained by every
  big city our long train passed through. Dear Kate Field and Mrs. Frank Leslie
  and Elita Proctor Otis and Belva Lockwood were of the party and so was
  Marshall P. Wilder, there being a train of eight cars of newspaper people.
  At Salt Lake City we were the guests of the city. As a part of our entertain-
  ment a sacred concert was given in the tabernacle, a feature of which was oratorio
  singing by a choral union consisting of 350 gentiles and 350 Mormons. The work
  of these 700 singers was thrilling; for what better acoustics were offered in the
  known world than the acoustics of the old Mormon tabernacle, with its famous
  pin-dropping test.
       Of course, the alleged highbrows from the East had to contribute that evening;     
  and, before I knew what was going on I stood in front of the great pipe organ, at
  one time the world's greatest organ, and was told to sing, facing 12,000 people.
  What, inquired the longhaired organist; as I felt called on to quit or say some-     NMI,
  thing, I managed to say: The Palms. What key? I didn't know for the life of
  me. This key, I said, stepping to the organ and fingering the place I knew by
  heart, but couldn't name. That organist's introduction was an inspiration. I
  stepped aboard at the proper place and we were off. First it was the organ and
  then it was me; and then it was the organ again plumb to the finish. I'd only got
  fairly started when I pulled out my nux vomica; the organist saw me and pulled
  out his aurora borealis; with that I dragged on my eucalyptus tremolo. Not to be
  outdone in politeness the organist brought out his buranto, how-come-you-so. By
  
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  that time the palms were beginning to sprout in every seat and at the conclusion of the first verse the palms came together in a way that told me I had scored and that the cunning thing was for me to retire while the going was good.
  
  The organist wouldn't have it so, nor the audience either, so back I went, grabbed a chest full of various sounds which I organized and liberated into some sort of shape that made out the concluding verse, in the course of which, however, the organ came to a dead pause and left me to sing unaccompanied or to stop. As I finished the phrase the organ came in on the last word with everything wide open and my voice riding the air an octave above a level that I'd ever undertaken. It was a dramatic climax to an eventful musical career.
  
  In a recent letter Leigh M. Pearsall writes --My father travelled many hundreds of miles in his camp wagon and with his team of Texas horses, having in the rear of the wagon a full size bed and also a little organ which he used throughout h is journeys to entertain himself and also the people at whose places he would stop to camp from time to time. He drove up through the New England states into Canada and went as far south as North Carolina. One of his many exciting experiences included being held up by moonshiners in West Virginia. They assumed he was a revenue officer and refused to allow him to camp on the rocky mountain road where he had pulled up and ordered him to leave the mountainsthey hastened him down a precipitous road with rifle balls so placed as to hasten his gallop and yet they, being undoubtedly expert markmen, gave him to understand that so long as he kept moving they would not take his life. His organ broke loose and thrashed around in the wagon, as did his bed, his wheels were dished and were it not for the fact that he had made companions of his horses so they were reasonably easily gotten under control at the foot of the mountain he would undoubtedly have been killed.
  
  He was a most interesting character, a great traveler, a man of exceptional literary talent and was possessed of a most wonderful voice which earned him many thousands of dollars during his young and middle life. As an elocutionist on the platform he was conceded to be a dean of them all. I could cite hundreds of instances, all going to prove him to be a most versatile man. He had enemies but they were of the type which caused Teddy Roosevelt to state, I love him for the enemies he has made. As a newspaper publisher he attacked graft, political chicanery and back room politics without compromise. His close friends were legion. I recall as a young man our leaving his office in Wall Street for the ferry to catch a certain train, having ample time to make the boat, but we were exactly one and a half hours late in arriving at the ferry because of the many stops he was called upon to make by friends he met on the way. He neither smoked nor drank and, while a bitter enemy once his hat was in the ring, he was true blue with all his friends, more particularly those in distress, his motto being that of the Salvation Army, a man may be down but never out. His quiet contributions to improvident friends reached into the thousands of dollars as we have since learned through going over his check books. He never took notes, believing these friends would repay him if ever it came within their power. The last twelve years of his life were spent in the Canadian waterways during the summer and in Melrose, Florida, during the winter. At the latter place he had a most remarkable homewhich he called the Latchstring, where his doors were never locked and his home was headquarters for the whole country side. His death was a great loss to all in Westfield, N. J., his home town, to his hundreds of Wall Street friends and his little Florida town has never been anything like the same since he passed on.²
  
  
  
• Birth*: Alfred was born on 18 April 1847.³
• He was the son of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Death*: Alfred died on 28 April 1919 at age 72.

• Last Edited: 14 Oct 2006

Alice Crane Pearsall¹

Alice Crane Pearsall

• Father: Chester Burdick Pearsall b. 26 Aug 1888, d. 21 Jan 1983
• Mother: Roxana Mabel Pratt b. 18 Jan 1893, d. 19 Jan 1985

• Charts: Descendants of David Holly to 5 Generations

• (Witness) Photo Link: RELATED PHOTO(S): Roxana's Children.
  
• Birth*: Alice was born on 2 November 1924, Rochester, Monroe, New York.
• She was the daughter of Chester Burdick Pearsall and Roxana Mabel Pratt.
• Marriage*: Alice married David Brown Tilley, son of Milton Popple Tilley and Winifred Lulu Holly, on 31 August 1951.
• Married Name: As of 31 August 1951,her married name was Tilley.
• Death*: Alice died on 15 January 2006, Rockport, Maine, at age 81.

• Last Edited: 15 Oct 2007

Anna Sweitser Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Anna was born on 31 October 1842.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Armenia Pearsall

• Father: Lewis Pearsall d. 10 Dec 1898

• Birth*: Armenia was born on 4 January 1859.
• She was the daughter of Lewis Pearsall.
• Marriage*: Armenia married Walter Golder on 21 November 1888.
• Married Name: As of 21 November 1888,her married name was Golder.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Benjamin Pearsall

• Father: Thomas Pearsall d. 12 Dec 1836
• Mother: Charity Denton b. 1763, d. 14 Oct 1805

• Birth*: Benjamin was born on 8 December 1790 , chap 42 sec 5.
• He was the son of Thomas Pearsall and Charity Denton.
• Marriage*: Benjamin married Elizabeth Hawkins on 15 September 1809, Presbyterian Church, Hempstead, New York.
• Death*: Benjamin died on 17 August 1864 at age 73.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

Calvin L. Pearsall

• Father: Adam Pearsall b. 4 Jul 1793, d. 31 Jan 1857
• Mother: Elizabeth Pearsall

• Birth*: Calvin was born on 9 July 1835.
• He was the son of Adam Pearsall and Elizabeth Pearsall.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Caroline Jacobs Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Marriage*: Caroline married James E. White.
• Married Name: Her married name was White.
• Birth*: Caroline was born on 8 July 1843.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Catharine Roebuck Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Catharine was born on 21 April 1837.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Catherine Pearsall

• Father: Adam Pearsall b. 1751, d. 26 Mar 1831
• Mother: Elsie Wood b. 1759, d. 13 Jun 1839

• Birth*: Catherine was born on 3 May 1804.
• She was the daughter of Adam Pearsall and Elsie Wood.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005