The Tedder P. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange

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I don’t know if you’ve been following the story of the fundamentalist mormon polygamous sect. It’s obvious they have lots of underage females being married to older men, sometimes as second and third wives. Ick. It’s rape, sexual abuse, slavery, illegal etc. But what about the innocent little kids they’ve taken away from their parents? I don’t understand why there isn’t more of an outcry, it just seems wrong and stupid to cause such horrible emotional trauma like this by separating them.

While CPS said Monday that all children are accounted for, one FLDS mother said she has been unable to learn where her 2-year-old son has been placed. He does not show up by name or birth date on CPS’ placement list, she said. He was born the same month, though a year earlier, than another toddler with the same first name - Mahonri.

Her son “has brown eyes and blond hair,” said the woman, who asked that her name not be used. “The other has blue eyes and sandy, thin hair. . . . My concern is they don’t have him listed as the right person or haven’t listed him at all.

“CPS told me they had my [son] at Baptist Children’s center,” she said. “The other mother got the same news, so that doesn’t really tell us what we need to know.”

Some lawyers representing children and mothers are brainstorming ways to speed up hearings for their clients or to challenge the children’s removal from their parents. Others are working to set up visits between mothers and children.

from Salt Lake City Tribune

In the 1846 ILN, I’ve been reading the week-by-week incredible saga of the late Jonathan Balls.  You’ve never heard anything like it.  I’m not even going to tell you who he was or what he did.

Here is a post that nobody will care about, but I thought it might be interesting to see the type of research that I’m currently doing.  So I copied-and-pasted one of many recent posts from the “Policy Exchange” equivalent for my chess research group.  There are only seven members in the group, but the mantra is ‘quality’ not ‘quantity’.  The group is eclectic, much like the Fantastic Four comic characters, each member with a different “power”. 

It’d be neat to see what other Tedder people are working on, so that we can catch glimpses of each other’s interests.

Anyway, here is one of my two discoveries from today.  (The burial records were on microfiche; not a problem because I bought a used/cheap microfiche reader!)  Anyway, here’s one of my posts on Kaissa Research from this morning.

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Recently I obtained microfiche burial records for the City of London from 1813 through 1853.  (Geographically challenged Americans don’t actually know the difference between “London” and “City of London” until it’s too late, but that’s a different issue.)

Anyway, I did find one entry in the burial records that applies to our research.

This entry is almost certainly the burial record for “our” Thomas Lund.  Thomas Lund was listed at 56 & 57 Cornhill from 1807 through 1841, then disappearing.  The burial entry is for St. Peters Cornhill, on the corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch, which happens to be adjacent to 56-57 Cornhill.  Current satellite image from the Google map:

(Gracechurch is the yellow road on the right.)

His age would also be correct.  Since Thomas Lund was 67 years old at his death in 1845, then he would have been 29 or 30 years old in 1807 when he first appeared in the Directory (and it was the Holden’s Triennial Directory for 1805-1807, so Lund’s first listing occurred when he was 27 to 30 years old.)  As far as I can tell, this age is consistent with the ‘typical’ date range of a businessperson’s first appearance in the Directories.

So if these assumptions are correct, then Thomas Lund is buried only steps away from his workshop.

I’ll also note that there are four other Lund burials — two infants, one adolescent and one young man.  Assuming these people are members of Lund’s family, probably his children, then there was much grieving in the Lund household from 1821 onwards. 

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For Tedder P. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange aficionados, I need to explain that Thomas Lund was one of the top London chess set manufacturers of the 19th century.  Here’s another post and “photo essay” so that you can see the type of set that he produced.

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In Memoriam - Thomas Lund

Here is a Picasa link to a photo essay of my Thomas Lund set.

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For the grand finale, here is an extensive piece of research that I’ve been working on over the past several months. It’s in .PDF format.

I’ve been getting emails with a heading like” Jane wants to connect with you” and then in the body it says something like “Hi, I looked for you but you weren’t there… blah blah.” I have a feeling the people who “looked” for me don’t know that reunion.com sends these emails. But I don’t know them well enough to send an email to ask them, because if they were doing it it seems embarrasing to point it out. So just now I went to reunion.com and searched for me and it said there were two members with my name. Ha! I know there are not two other Jenny Crumillers out there.

Is anybody else getting these?

This is going to be a big mess, the delegates, the adversarial atmosphere, ugh, where’s Tedder when we need him?

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The Nation Mourns

“The expression of grief is, I dare assert, the most universal, most sincere, most impressive ever witnessed.” (more…)

Initial Reporting:  April 29, 1865

First mention of Lincoln’s assassination is found in the August 29 issue of the ILN.  Steamer ships took 11-14 days to make the voyage across, and the transatlantic cable did not make its appearance until 1867 (except for several attempts in 1857 and 1858 that failed after several days or weeks.)  By no means was the assassination front-page news; that honor was bestowed on the Review of the Volunteer Troops at Brighton Railway Station.  Relegated to the inner pages were several articles about Lincoln’s assassination.  Here is the primary article. (more…)

A few introductory comments, then our coverage commences with the events preceding President Lincoln’s assassination.

Introductory Comments 

The Illustrated London News was founded in 1842 by Herbert Ingram and Mark Lemon, the latter already having some notoriety as the editor of the magazine Punch.  ILN was published weekly, and typically each issue had 15-20 pages or so of news, illustrations, commentary, advertisements, etc.  It continued as a weekly paper until 1971, then as a monthly (and then quarterly) until the 1990’s. (more…)

Hard to believe, but today is Evan’s 21st birthday.  Happy Birthday Ev.

It’s true!

I didn’t realize that this was the 10th.  It is Linda’s 21st birthday.  Happy birthday Linda.