Aidine Squire

Aidine married Arthur V. White 28 Aug 1901. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Watson Carvosso Squire was manager of the Remington Arms Company from 1866 to 1879, when they moved to Seattle. He was governor of Washington Territory 1884-1887, and afterwards United States Senator from Washington for two terms.
(source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/obits9.html)

Watson married Ida R. Remington 23 Dec 1868. Ida (daughter of Philo Remington and Caroline Augusta Lathrop) was born 20 Nov 1842, Ilion, NY; died 28 Feb 1921; was buried , Armory Hill Cemetery, Ilion, NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

From: "Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting" Vol XX, published by the New York State Historical Association, 1922.

Ida Remington Squire died on February 28, 1921. Mrs. Squire was a daughter of Philo and Caroline Remington. She was born November 20, 1842, in the old Remington house in Ilion. On December 23, 1868, she was married to Watson Carvosso Squire. Her husband was manager of the Remington Arms Company from 1866 to 1879, when they moved to Seattle. He was governor of Washington Territory 1884-1887, and afterwards United States senator from Washington for two terms. The last years of her life she lived in Ilion in the mansion built by her father on Armory Hill, in which she died and from which she was borne to her grave in Armory Hill Cemetery. Her husband, two daughters, and two sons, survive her.

She was one of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of 1812; a member of the Women's Foreign Home Missionary Societies af the Methodist Church and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Her beneficent activities wer not confined to the societies and church in which she held membership. It was in keeping with the practice of a lifetime that she was preparing to attend a social gathering to aid the fatherless children of France when she received the paralytic stroke from which she died.

(source for the above excerpts: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/obits9.html)

Notes:

(If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to Lois Sorensen, Remington family researcher and compiler, and/or to other sources as noted herein.)

Philo resided most of his life in Ilion, NY. He and Caroline are living there in the 1880 Federal Census (Village of Ilion, German Flats, Herkimer County, NY).

He headed the mechanical department at the Remington Arms Company, and perfected breach loading. He is also famous for his typewriter, first produced at the arms company, then at the Remington Typewriter Company in Ilion, NY. The Remington Standard 2 was the archetypal typewriter, first produced in 1878.

For more information and photos, go to the photo gallery at our web site [www.thesorensens.net], click on Remington Places, then click on the following links: Remington Typewriter Museum (follow printed instructions under link) and Remington RootsWeb

Source citation for the following biographical essay: "Philo Remington."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/]

Remington, Philo (Oct. 31, 1816 - Apr. 4, 1889), manufacturer, was born at Litchfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., the eldest son of Eliphalet Remington [q.v.]. His mother is said to have been Abigail, n

Philo married Caroline Augusta Lathrop 28 Dec 1841, Syracuse, NY. Caroline (daughter of John Hatch Lathrop and Susan Furman) was born 8 Feb 1825; died 14 Apr 1906. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Caroline was "of Syracuse, NY."

Notes:

(If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to Lois Sorensen, Remington family researcher and compiler, and/or to other sources as noted herein.)

Eliphalet is the founder of the Remington Arms Company; he made the famous guns at "The Gulph" or "Gulch" until 1830, then in Ilion, where the first "Armory" was built in 1835. For more information and pictures, see: [www.remington.com/aboutus/history.htm]

Also, go to our web site [www.thesorensens.net] photo gallery, click on Remington Places, and then click Remington RootsWeb. In addition, the family tree at our web site has some family pictures of Eliphalet and other family members (click on thumbnail and camera icon by his name).

Source Citation: "Eliphalet Remington."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/]

The following biographical essay is from the above source:

Remington, Eliphalet (Oct. 27, 1793 - Aug. 12, 1861), manufacturer, the eldest son of Eliphalet Remington, a carpenter and mechanic, was born at Suffield, Conn. He was among the descendants of Thomas Remington, a resident of Windsor, Conn., as early as 1672. His mother is said to have been Elizabeth, n

Eliphalet married Abigail Paddock 12 May 1814. Abigail (daughter of William Paddock and Lucy Loveland) was born Abt. 3 Oct 1890, Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT; died 21 Aug 1841; was buried , Armory Hill Cemetery, Ilion, Herkimer Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

One site has her place of birth as Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT.

Abigail was killed by being thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse on 21 August 1841.

John — Susan Furman. Susan died 1850. [Group Sheet]