Sunday, December 13, 2020

Eugene Quackenbush - The Erie Railroad

Eugene Quackenbush, an employee of the Traffic department of the Erie Railroad at Chicago, died on Sept. 5 (1927). He was 80 years old. He had been employed by the Erie Railroad in various capacities for about forty-five years and was noted for the conscientious performance of his duty. His associates in the Traffic department have adopted suitable resolutions deploring the loss they have sustained.

Louisa Maria Quackenbush Davis

LOUISA MARIA QUACKENBUSH DAVIS, daughter of John Van Pelt Quackenbush; born June 24. 1848; married March 31, 1875 to Lieutenant Commander C. H. Davis.Children: Elizabeth and two other children.

CHARLES H. DAVIS was born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 28, 1845. He entered the Naval Academy in 1862 and graduated in 1865. He went immediately after graduating on his first cruise, which was to the Mediterranean, in the "Colorado," the flagship of Admiral Goldborough. In 1867 he went on his second cruise to South America, where he was ordered to the Guerriere, the flagship of his father. Admiral Davis. On the return of the "Guerriere " in 1869 he was transferred to the Portsmouth " and remained another year on the South Atlantic squadron. During this cruise he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He returned to South America in 1870, and was attached to the receiving ship New Hampshire at the Norfolk navy yard. In 1872 he went in the "Omaha" to the Pacific squadron and returned in 1875. He was at the torpedo station in the summer of 1875, and on duty at the Naval Observatory, Washington, until 1877. In the autumn of 1877 he, now Lieutenant Commander, was ordered on scientific duty; afler a year's absence he was home for six months, and then again ordered on scientific duty in 1879; then on duty at the Hydrographic office, Washington, until the spring of 1881, when he was ordered on the same duty to Japan and China. (From Talcott's "New York and New England Families.").

Monday, November 16, 2020

Chuck Quackenbush Update: Trouble In Lee County

Lee deputy under investigation submits letter of resignation

Published: September 7, 2016 3:14 PM EDT, Updated: September 8, 2016 6:21 PM EDT

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputy under investigation for Facebook posts that may have violated sheriff’s office policy has submitted a letter of resignation, a law enforcement source told WINK News on Thursday.

The sheriff’s office launched an internal affairs investigation this week into since-deleted posts from the account of deputy Chuck Quackenbush, who serves as the vice chair of the Lee County Republican Executive Committee. It’s the latest brush with controversy for Quackenbush, who resigned as California’s insurance commissioner in 2000 under threat of impeachment amid questions about his handling of funds.

Henry Feltus Quackenbos: Dr. Quackenbos Got Around

Henry Feltus Quackenbos, son of Nicholas; born on Greenwich street, New York City on September 29, 1819; married 1st Mary Pride and had no children. He married 2nd, on June 1868, Margaret Rogers Rose Jack. Together they had one child, Henry Forrest born in 1870.

Henry Feltus Quackenbos graduated from Columbia College with the degree of A. M., and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1841 with the degree of M. D. After graduating from the Medical College he studied in London, Edinburgh and Paris.


Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Harmon Quackenbush - The Old Quackenbush Homestead At Schaghticoke NY

HARMON QUACKENBUSH, son of Sybrant, born. December 5, 1738 and married Judith Mowall. Together they birthed: Alida, born December 22, 1759; Elizabeth born August 28, 1761; Sybrant born September 11. I 763; Daniel born August 27, 1765;John born June 18, 1767. Nellie born August 19, 1769; Jacob born Novembern 15. 1771; Catherine born January 15, 1774.


Jerry Joe Quackenbush: Police Work Was In His Blood

Jerry J. Quackenbush (my father) was born September 6, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana to James Dixon and Nellie L. (Glidewell) Quackenbush. His mother died in 1958 of cancer, and his father in 1960 of a heart attack on his wedding night to second wife, G. Wilma (Evans) Quackenbush. He had one sister, Barbara Jean born abt. 1927, brother William "Will" and James D. Jr. born 2/11/38, all born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, James D., was the son of Herschel Garfield Quackenbush and Maud (Kern) Quackenbush, a machinist at a mill, in Spice Valley, Lawrence County, Indiana. James Dixon Quackenbush's heritage can be traced back to Jan Quackenbosch born in 1590 through Johannes Quackenbosch.