Category Archives: Darling-Huber
Faces from the Past — Darling, Howell, Huber, & McAllister
Five photographs from my wife’s family collection — spanning 1909 to the 1960s — document the Howell, Darling, Huber, and McAllister-Lane lines, from a great-grandfather’s photo to a Bridgton, Maine, home. Continue reading
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Tagged Bridgton Maine, Clarence Pete Howell, Elizabeth McAllister Lane, Faces from the Past, Florence Wilma Huber Darling, Lane Family, McAllister Family, Photo Identification, Rufus Harry Darling, Shirley Darling Howell, Syracuse New York
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Rufus Harry Darling Revisited: New Discoveries in 2026
A decade after first researching my wife’s great-grandfather, new records reveal a 1902 divorce, a Kansas City probate filing naming a previously unknown wife, and a 1913 marriage record suggesting Rufus fathered a son years before he married Ida Ready.
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Tagged brick wall research, Ida Ready, Darling line, Rufus H. Darling, Arthur H. Darling, Anna Ritter, Ethel M. Darling, Michigan Central Railroad, Kansas City Missouri, Hannah McAllister Darling, Rufus Harry Darling, divorce records, Kalamazoo Michigan, probate records
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James Walter and a Look Back: Ten Patriots Across Four Family Lines
Sergeant, Forage Master, Captain — James Walter closes out this series, and on the Fourth of July, I step back and count all ten patriots the Find a Grave anniversary email sent me looking for. Continue reading
Ancestor Sketch – Johann Jakob Huber (1850–1926)
For eleven years, Johann Jakob Huber stood behind an impenetrable brick wall. A single page from the Bürger-Familienregister der Kirchgemeinde Stadel has shattered it. Now we know he was born 5 February 1850 in Pfündlauf, Zürich — a farmer, a father of seven, and the man who kept all but one child from leaving Switzerland. Continue reading
Ancestor Sketch – Anna Maria Dürst (1770–1858)
Anna Maria Dürst was born in 1770 in Diesbach, Glarus, Switzerland — a mountain canton that would shape her world for nearly nine decades. She married Bernhard Trümpi in 1806 and raised a family in Ennetbühls. If Patrick Wild’s research holds, her ancestry may trace all the way back to Charlemagne. Continue reading