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EDWIN JAMES SEARLS 1850 OH to 1917 IA
Fathers:GILBERT,DANIEL,JOHN,JOHN,ROBERT,ROBERT
EDWIN JAMES SEARLS 1850 OH to 1917 IA
Fathers:GILBERT,DANIEL,JOHN,JOHN,ROBERT,ROBERT
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Parents and Siblings
- Parent: GILBERT SEARLS, male, born:1811-06-03 Greene county, New York, died:1860-10-09 (45y6m29d) ?Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Anc:1, Dad:DANIEL SEARLS, Mom:PHOEBE FISHER, #M:1, #SrcDocs:9
- Parent: ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, female, born:1811-03-19 New York, died:1907-05-26 (94y9m13d) Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Anc:1, Dad:JAMES I. HALSTEAD, Mom:PHEBE JAMESON, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
- Sibling: Daniel James SEARLS, male, born:1836-04-03 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:1923-02-16 (74y8m29d) Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:10
- Sibling: William Henry SEARLS, male, born:1838-08-25 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:Longmont, Boulder county, Colorado, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:2, #SrcDocs:8
- Sibling: Stephen Irving SEARLS, male, born:1839-09-13 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:2, #SrcDocs:6
- Sibling: Ambrose K. SEARLS, male, born:1841-05-14 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:4
- Sibling: Celia Ann SEARLS, female, born:1843-04-17 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:1924-11-29 (56y6m3d) Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:7
- Sibling: Phoebe Jane SEARLS, female, born:1845-08-27 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:1929-08-29 (84y0m2d) ?Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
- Sibling: Mary Ellen SEARLS, female, born:1847-06-03 Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, died:Elgin, Kane county, Illinois, Dad:GILBERT SEARLS, Mom:ELIZABETH HALSTEAD, #SrcDocs:5
Spouse(s) and Children
- Marriage: 1875-09-19 Vermillion, Clay county, South Dakota
- Spouse: MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, female, born:1858-02-08 Garden Grove, Decatur county, Iowa, died:Saint Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota, Anc:1, Dad:GEORGE LAFFAETTE DOUGLASS, Mom:ELIZABETH ANN METIER, #SrcDocs:7
- ..Child: BURTON ORSON SEARLS, male, born:1876-09-15 White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota, died:Yankton, Yankton county, South Dakota, Anc:1, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:10
- ..Child: Harvey E. SEARLS, male, born:1879-12-29 White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota, died:1923-02-21 (28y0m3d) Westside, Crawford county, Iowa, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:7
- ..Child: Adell SEARLS, female, born:1882-01-01 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:3
- ..Child: George Douglas SEARLS, male, born:1883-12-06 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:Sioux Falls, Minnehaha county, South Dakota, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:5
- ..Child: Ethel S. SEARLS, female, born:1886-03-15 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:De Smet, Kingsbury county, South Dakota, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: Jessie Jeanette SEARLS, female, born:1888-09-28 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1973-03-06 (84y5m6d) Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: Nell SEARLS, female, born:1896-07-18 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1946-1986 (18y5m14d) , Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:6
- ..Child: Dwight Clifford SEARLS, male, born:1900-08-06 Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, died:1960-06-18 (18y4m26d) Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa, Dad:EDWIN JAMES SEARLS, Mom:MARY LOUISE DOUGLASS, #SrcDocs:7
Events
Birth: 1850-03-29y0m0d, Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, family farm near Hinckley
Census: 1850 y9m3d, Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Edwin age 8 months b.OH with parents, ImageID: S__0246
Livedin: 1857-1870, Age:6y9m3d, Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, moved with his parents
Census: 1860 , Age:9y9m3d, Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Role:census federal, Edwin J. age 10 born OH, ImageID: S__0247
Census: 1865 , Age:14y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:census state, Edwin J. age 36 born OH, station Agent, Mary L. age 27, Burton O. age 8 born in the Dakota Territory, Harey E. age 5 born Dakota, George D. age 1, ImageID: S__0250
Livedin: 1870 , Age:19y9m3d, Iowa, to begin his career as an adult
Census: 1870 , Age:19y9m3d, Illinois, Role:census federal, or IA
Livedin: 1871-1879, Age:20y9m3d, South Dakota, including an Indian reservation, in various places
Married: 1875-09-19, Age:25y5m21d, Vermillion, Clay county, South Dakota, Role:groom
Livedin: 1879-1881, Age:28y9m3d, Centerville, Turner county, South Dakota, In 1879 E.J. and Mary and their two sons moved from Indian territory. It was about time for their sons to start their education. So they located in Centerville where Mary's father was operating a grist mill (the base of which may have still been there in 1980). E.J. helped George Douglass by delivering flour for the mill. E.J. and Mary were in Centerville during the "memorable winter of 1880-81". The following spring brought floods which wiped out the town of Centerville. Centerville was later re-built on higher banks of the Vermillion River. It was during that spring while E.J. was delivering flour that he became acquainted with the telegraph agent at Parker (Turner) South Dakota and substituted for him. He moved his family of four to Sioux Falls (Minnehaha) South Dakota to become the agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad there for six months.
Livedin: 1881-1917, Age:30y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, stayed for the rest of his life Then the family of four, with a fifth on the way, moved to Akron (Plymouth) Iowa in November 1881. It was then called Portlandville. E.J. recalls that there were only a few buildings in Akron when he moved there. Plymouth county was formed in 1851 from part of Woodbury county. The family lived above the railroad depot for a while and eventually moved into a house a block and a half south of the new depot. The depot was still standing in 1980 and was being rented by the Akron Lumber Co. to use as storage.
Census: 1900 , Age:49y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:census federal, Edwin J. age 50 born Mar.1850 in OH as were his parents, Mary L. age 42 born Feb.1858 in IA and parents born IL, George age 17 born Dec.1883 in IA, Ethel J. age 14 born Mar.1896 in IA, Jessie age 11 born Apr.1888 in IA, Nellie age 3 born 1896 in IA., ImageID: S__0251
Census: 1910 , Age:59y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:census federal, Edward [sic Edwin[ J. age 60 born OH parents born NY, Mary Louise age 52 born IOwa father born Ohio and mother born Illinois, Nellie age 8 born Iowa, Dwight E age 9 born Iowa., ImageID: S__0253
Death: 1917-01-19, Age:66y9m21d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, degeneration of the heart, Edwin had heart problems starting eleven months prior to his death. On the day of his funeral a severe snowstorm was raging yet many many people attended his funeral. For the benefit of those who could not make it to the funeral, the entire eulogy was printed in the newspaper as well as a large obituary and a picture of E.J. It was said of him in his obituary in the Akron "Register-Tribune" (Ray Smith, editor, a long-time friend of Edwin's) on January 22, 1917:
If there was anything of gruffness about him, it was altogether on the exterior, for he had a heart as tender as a woman's, a generosity and sympathy that practically knew no bounds when approached in sincerity and truth. By nature both a genial and jovial man, Mr. Searls was never happier than when in the midst of a circle of friends recounting the anecdotes of pioneer days and experiences among the Indians in the Dakota Territory in the early 1870's. He lived a clean, upright, useful life, was intensely loyal to his country and his home community.
Govt-court: 1917-01-31, Age:66y10m2d, White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota, An office U.S. Post Office form signed by Edwin makes him the postal agent for the White Swan township post office in what was then in 'The Dakota Territory' since South Dakota had yet to become a state.
Obit: 1917-01, Age:66y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, AKron Register-Tribune, Because a snowstorm occurred on the day of his funeral, for the benefit of those unable to attend, the newspaper printed a very long obituary and tribute to Edwin. It included a photograph of Edwin. See image S__0048, ImageID: S__0048
Job: ?, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, telegrapher, [NOTE: in the following, many towns are stated as being in South Dakota. They were actually a part of what was called "The Dakota Territory" until North and South Dakota became states in 1889.] E.J. started to learn telegraphy (invented 35 years earlier by Samuel F. B. Morse) in 1870 from Mat. [?Matthew] Allard while still living in Pecatonica. In 1872 he went to Marcus (Cherokee) Iowa with a Mr. H. H. Dwight (who was in Sioux City in 1917) to finish learning the trade. In the spring of 1872 he got his first job as a relief agent between Sioux City (Woodbury) Iowa and Fort Dodge (Webster) Iowa with the Illinois Central Railroad. Later he was sent to Springfield (Bon Homme) South Dakota to put in a new office there. He first traveled by stage to Yankton (Yankton) South Dakota, the first capitol of the Dakota Territory, then by horseback the rest of they way since the railroad had not reached this area yet. (The railroad did reach Yankton the following year) . A few months later Edwin was sent to Fort Thompson (Buffalo) South Dakota for the same reason. It took him a week to get there by going up the Missouri River on the steamship "Western". In the fall of 1873 Edwin was sent back down the river to White Swan (Charles Mix) South Dakota which was located just across the river from Fort Randall (Gregory) South Dakota, the fort being established in 1856. General George Custer and his men were camped nearby. It was while here that E.J. came to know both Custer and General Alfred Sully as they came to his telegraph office to send messages to Chicago and Washington, DC. Edwin said that Custer was the "longest winded person he'd ever met" and that "General Sully could say the same thing in half the words". Edwin also thought that Custer was "an arrogant actor who liked to throw his weight around". Edwin did admire General Sully. In fact, one of Edwin's favorite books was "With General Sully in the Sioux Lands". Edwin knew most all of the army personnel mentioned in the book and could tell a story or two about most of the officers. Edwin was somewhat of a practical joker. To help relieve the boredom that came with the telegraph office at times, he put pennies in a basin of water and wired the basin to the telegraph circuit. Then he would have the visiting Indians reach in the basin for the pennies, resulting in an electrical shock immediately upon touching the water. But the facial expressions of the Indians never changed even though they did not understand what had happened. On another occasion, when Edwin was supposed to be collating the various monthly reports that were spread out in stacks on the fifteen foot telegraph table, he attached a wire to the tail of the office cat, connected it to the telegraph switchboard ground, then touched the cat's nose with a wire attached to the switchboard battery. As the cat jumped and scampered, emitting howls as it went from one end of the table to the other, it scattered the reports all over the room. It took Edwin two hours to clean up the mess. In the spring of 1874 Edwin was sent to Vermillion (Clay) South Dakota until the fall of 1875. (It was about this time that gold was discovered in South Dakota's Black Hills). It was while there that he met and married Mary Douglass. The couple was moved to Gayville (Yankton) South Dakota where they stayed for the winter. In the spring of 1876 the couple moved by wagon to Greenwood (Charles Mix) South Dakota, on the Yankton Indian Agency. E.J. was to be the clerk and postmaster there for $125/month at the federal government's Traders Store, post office and Black Hill Stage Company office. They were there for nearly four years before they moved back to the store at White Swan. Larry M. Wilson has a U.S. Post Office form that appointed E.J. as postmaster of White Swan. The document appears to have been signed by E.J. himself (unless the clerk filling out the form wrote E.J.'s name). It was about this time that Alexander Graham Bell was inventing the telephone, the device that would eventually replace E.J.'s telegraphs. According to the LeMars Sentinel issue of 11-29-1904, E.J. celebrated the twenty third anniversary of his employment with the railroad by taking the day off and visited his son, B.O., of Dell Rapids. At the time, E.J. was the senior member of service by several years over all his co-workers. An interesting comment made in the article said: "...recently there has come to him [E.J.] the longing for a change of scene, a yearning for the comforts of perpetual summer...". While in Akron, E.J. became widely known in the area by the railroad personnel and traveling salesmen, as well as the townspeople of Akron, for he was the bearer and sender of news. It was a widespread axiom, especially among the commercial traveling man, that "at no place did you find a more genial and courteous depot agent than Ed Searls of Akron". E.J.'s 35 years with the CM&SP Railroad made him one of the oldest employees in continuous service in the company's Sioux City and Dakota division. He took very few vacations and never retired. He made $40 per month, working 126 hours per week. He had no pension but did have a $300 life insurance policy and owned his $300 home. His small paychecks caused both his son Burton and his grandson Cluett to drop out of school so they could go to work for the same railroad to help make ends meet.
Burial: ?, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Riverside Cemetery, West section 4 row 1, ImageID: S__0245
Birth: 1850-03-29y0m0d, Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, family farm near Hinckley
Census: 1850 y9m3d, Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, Role:census federal, Edwin age 8 months b.OH with parents, ImageID: S__0246
Livedin: 1857-1870, Age:6y9m3d, Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, moved with his parents
Census: 1860 , Age:9y9m3d, Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, Role:census federal, Edwin J. age 10 born OH, ImageID: S__0247
Census: 1865 , Age:14y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:census state, Edwin J. age 36 born OH, station Agent, Mary L. age 27, Burton O. age 8 born in the Dakota Territory, Harey E. age 5 born Dakota, George D. age 1, ImageID: S__0250
Livedin: 1870 , Age:19y9m3d, Iowa, to begin his career as an adult
Census: 1870 , Age:19y9m3d, Illinois, Role:census federal, or IA
Livedin: 1871-1879, Age:20y9m3d, South Dakota, including an Indian reservation, in various places
Married: 1875-09-19, Age:25y5m21d, Vermillion, Clay county, South Dakota, Role:groom
Livedin: 1879-1881, Age:28y9m3d, Centerville, Turner county, South Dakota, In 1879 E.J. and Mary and their two sons moved from Indian territory. It was about time for their sons to start their education. So they located in Centerville where Mary's father was operating a grist mill (the base of which may have still been there in 1980). E.J. helped George Douglass by delivering flour for the mill. E.J. and Mary were in Centerville during the "memorable winter of 1880-81". The following spring brought floods which wiped out the town of Centerville. Centerville was later re-built on higher banks of the Vermillion River. It was during that spring while E.J. was delivering flour that he became acquainted with the telegraph agent at Parker (Turner) South Dakota and substituted for him. He moved his family of four to Sioux Falls (Minnehaha) South Dakota to become the agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad there for six months.
Livedin: 1881-1917, Age:30y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, stayed for the rest of his life Then the family of four, with a fifth on the way, moved to Akron (Plymouth) Iowa in November 1881. It was then called Portlandville. E.J. recalls that there were only a few buildings in Akron when he moved there. Plymouth county was formed in 1851 from part of Woodbury county. The family lived above the railroad depot for a while and eventually moved into a house a block and a half south of the new depot. The depot was still standing in 1980 and was being rented by the Akron Lumber Co. to use as storage.
Census: 1900 , Age:49y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:census federal, Edwin J. age 50 born Mar.1850 in OH as were his parents, Mary L. age 42 born Feb.1858 in IA and parents born IL, George age 17 born Dec.1883 in IA, Ethel J. age 14 born Mar.1896 in IA, Jessie age 11 born Apr.1888 in IA, Nellie age 3 born 1896 in IA., ImageID: S__0251
Census: 1910 , Age:59y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:census federal, Edward [sic Edwin[ J. age 60 born OH parents born NY, Mary Louise age 52 born IOwa father born Ohio and mother born Illinois, Nellie age 8 born Iowa, Dwight E age 9 born Iowa., ImageID: S__0253
Death: 1917-01-19, Age:66y9m21d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, degeneration of the heart, Edwin had heart problems starting eleven months prior to his death. On the day of his funeral a severe snowstorm was raging yet many many people attended his funeral. For the benefit of those who could not make it to the funeral, the entire eulogy was printed in the newspaper as well as a large obituary and a picture of E.J. It was said of him in his obituary in the Akron "Register-Tribune" (Ray Smith, editor, a long-time friend of Edwin's) on January 22, 1917:
If there was anything of gruffness about him, it was altogether on the exterior, for he had a heart as tender as a woman's, a generosity and sympathy that practically knew no bounds when approached in sincerity and truth. By nature both a genial and jovial man, Mr. Searls was never happier than when in the midst of a circle of friends recounting the anecdotes of pioneer days and experiences among the Indians in the Dakota Territory in the early 1870's. He lived a clean, upright, useful life, was intensely loyal to his country and his home community.
Govt-court: 1917-01-31, Age:66y10m2d, White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota, An office U.S. Post Office form signed by Edwin makes him the postal agent for the White Swan township post office in what was then in 'The Dakota Territory' since South Dakota had yet to become a state.
Obit: 1917-01, Age:66y9m3d, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, AKron Register-Tribune, Because a snowstorm occurred on the day of his funeral, for the benefit of those unable to attend, the newspaper printed a very long obituary and tribute to Edwin. It included a photograph of Edwin. See image S__0048, ImageID: S__0048
Job: ?, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, telegrapher, [NOTE: in the following, many towns are stated as being in South Dakota. They were actually a part of what was called "The Dakota Territory" until North and South Dakota became states in 1889.] E.J. started to learn telegraphy (invented 35 years earlier by Samuel F. B. Morse) in 1870 from Mat. [?Matthew] Allard while still living in Pecatonica. In 1872 he went to Marcus (Cherokee) Iowa with a Mr. H. H. Dwight (who was in Sioux City in 1917) to finish learning the trade. In the spring of 1872 he got his first job as a relief agent between Sioux City (Woodbury) Iowa and Fort Dodge (Webster) Iowa with the Illinois Central Railroad. Later he was sent to Springfield (Bon Homme) South Dakota to put in a new office there. He first traveled by stage to Yankton (Yankton) South Dakota, the first capitol of the Dakota Territory, then by horseback the rest of they way since the railroad had not reached this area yet. (The railroad did reach Yankton the following year) . A few months later Edwin was sent to Fort Thompson (Buffalo) South Dakota for the same reason. It took him a week to get there by going up the Missouri River on the steamship "Western". In the fall of 1873 Edwin was sent back down the river to White Swan (Charles Mix) South Dakota which was located just across the river from Fort Randall (Gregory) South Dakota, the fort being established in 1856. General George Custer and his men were camped nearby. It was while here that E.J. came to know both Custer and General Alfred Sully as they came to his telegraph office to send messages to Chicago and Washington, DC. Edwin said that Custer was the "longest winded person he'd ever met" and that "General Sully could say the same thing in half the words". Edwin also thought that Custer was "an arrogant actor who liked to throw his weight around". Edwin did admire General Sully. In fact, one of Edwin's favorite books was "With General Sully in the Sioux Lands". Edwin knew most all of the army personnel mentioned in the book and could tell a story or two about most of the officers. Edwin was somewhat of a practical joker. To help relieve the boredom that came with the telegraph office at times, he put pennies in a basin of water and wired the basin to the telegraph circuit. Then he would have the visiting Indians reach in the basin for the pennies, resulting in an electrical shock immediately upon touching the water. But the facial expressions of the Indians never changed even though they did not understand what had happened. On another occasion, when Edwin was supposed to be collating the various monthly reports that were spread out in stacks on the fifteen foot telegraph table, he attached a wire to the tail of the office cat, connected it to the telegraph switchboard ground, then touched the cat's nose with a wire attached to the switchboard battery. As the cat jumped and scampered, emitting howls as it went from one end of the table to the other, it scattered the reports all over the room. It took Edwin two hours to clean up the mess. In the spring of 1874 Edwin was sent to Vermillion (Clay) South Dakota until the fall of 1875. (It was about this time that gold was discovered in South Dakota's Black Hills). It was while there that he met and married Mary Douglass. The couple was moved to Gayville (Yankton) South Dakota where they stayed for the winter. In the spring of 1876 the couple moved by wagon to Greenwood (Charles Mix) South Dakota, on the Yankton Indian Agency. E.J. was to be the clerk and postmaster there for $125/month at the federal government's Traders Store, post office and Black Hill Stage Company office. They were there for nearly four years before they moved back to the store at White Swan. Larry M. Wilson has a U.S. Post Office form that appointed E.J. as postmaster of White Swan. The document appears to have been signed by E.J. himself (unless the clerk filling out the form wrote E.J.'s name). It was about this time that Alexander Graham Bell was inventing the telephone, the device that would eventually replace E.J.'s telegraphs. According to the LeMars Sentinel issue of 11-29-1904, E.J. celebrated the twenty third anniversary of his employment with the railroad by taking the day off and visited his son, B.O., of Dell Rapids. At the time, E.J. was the senior member of service by several years over all his co-workers. An interesting comment made in the article said: "...recently there has come to him [E.J.] the longing for a change of scene, a yearning for the comforts of perpetual summer...". While in Akron, E.J. became widely known in the area by the railroad personnel and traveling salesmen, as well as the townspeople of Akron, for he was the bearer and sender of news. It was a widespread axiom, especially among the commercial traveling man, that "at no place did you find a more genial and courteous depot agent than Ed Searls of Akron". E.J.'s 35 years with the CM&SP Railroad made him one of the oldest employees in continuous service in the company's Sioux City and Dakota division. He took very few vacations and never retired. He made $40 per month, working 126 hours per week. He had no pension but did have a $300 life insurance policy and owned his $300 home. His small paychecks caused both his son Burton and his grandson Cluett to drop out of school so they could go to work for the same railroad to help make ends meet.
Burial: ?, Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa, Riverside Cemetery, West section 4 row 1, ImageID: S__0245
Places In
Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois
Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio
White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota
Vermillion, Clay county, South Dakota
Centerville, Turner county, South Dakota
Akron, Plymouth county, Iowa
Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois
Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio
White Swan, Charles Mix county, South Dakota
Vermillion, Clay county, South Dakota
Centerville, Turner county, South Dakota
General
While at the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota, E.J. came to know the famous chief Sitting Bull and received several gifts from him, such as belts, necklaces, and vests. E.J. and Mary could speak the Sioux language fluently. The couple's first two children were born on this reservation. Also while they were there, during the year 1876, the famous frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death in the Deadwood saloon north of the Black Hills. During that same year, General Custer and his men were massacred in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. According to Helen (Searls) Dibble, she said that people used to ask E.J. if he had really eaten dog with the Indians. E.J. replied that of course he had because he did not want to insult the Indians.
Image(s) - hover Image IDs to popup full text
S__0044 - Photo of Ethel (Searls) McKibben Wedding Picture
S__0045 - Edwin J. Searls with a Second Young Man about Same Age as Edwin
S__0046 - Job Certificate of Edwin J. Searls for the U.S. Post Office Dept.
S__0047 - Photo of Edwin J. Searls Retirement Picture
S__0048 - Obituary of Edwin J. Searls, original, 5 pages
S__0049 - Photo of Train Depot Work Area of E. J. Searls
S__0050 - Photo of Home of Edwin James and Mary Louise (Douglass) Searls
S__0105 - Photo of Edwin J. and Mary L. (Douglass) Searls and Their Seven Children
S__0117 - Photo of Edwin J. Searls and Mary L. Douglass, Portrait taken in Pecatonica
S__0125 - Photo of Brothers Edwin, William and Daniel Searls
S__0190 - Article in The Railroad Telegrapher vol.34 on Death of Edwin J Searls
S__0245 - Headstone for Edwin J. Searls
S__0246 - 1850 Census for Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio with Gilbert Searls Family
S__0250 - 1885 State Census for Akron, Plymouth county Iowa with Edwin J. Searls Family
S__0251 - 1900 Census for Akron, Plymouth county Iowa with Edwin Searls Family
S__0253 - 1910 Census for Akron, Plymouth county Iowa with Edwin J. Searls Family
S__0261 - Family Information of Edwin James Searls
Z__0025 - Map of Counties of Ohio
Z__0035 - Map of Counties of Illinois
Z__0036 - Map of Counties of Iowa
Z__0051 - Map of Counties of South Dakota
S__0044 - Photo of Ethel (Searls) McKibben Wedding Picture
S__0045 - Edwin J. Searls with a Second Young Man about Same Age as Edwin
S__0046 - Job Certificate of Edwin J. Searls for the U.S. Post Office Dept.
S__0047 - Photo of Edwin J. Searls Retirement Picture
S__0048 - Obituary of Edwin J. Searls, original, 5 pages
S__0049 - Photo of Train Depot Work Area of E. J. Searls
S__0050 - Photo of Home of Edwin James and Mary Louise (Douglass) Searls
S__0105 - Photo of Edwin J. and Mary L. (Douglass) Searls and Their Seven Children
S__0117 - Photo of Edwin J. Searls and Mary L. Douglass, Portrait taken in Pecatonica
S__0125 - Photo of Brothers Edwin, William and Daniel Searls
S__0190 - Article in The Railroad Telegrapher vol.34 on Death of Edwin J Searls
S__0245 - Headstone for Edwin J. Searls
S__0246 - 1850 Census for Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio with Gilbert Searls Family
S__0250 - 1885 State Census for Akron, Plymouth county Iowa with Edwin J. Searls Family
S__0251 - 1900 Census for Akron, Plymouth county Iowa with Edwin Searls Family
S__0253 - 1910 Census for Akron, Plymouth county Iowa with Edwin J. Searls Family
S__0261 - Family Information of Edwin James Searls
Z__0025 - Map of Counties of Ohio
Z__0035 - Map of Counties of Illinois
Z__0036 - Map of Counties of Iowa
Z__0051 - Map of Counties of South Dakota
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Article in The Railroad Telegrapher volume 34 on death of EJ Searls, 1917
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Book Plymouth County Iowa History, 1917
Book The Searles Family, Harry A. Howk, 1962, Lisa Robinson 1996 revision
Cluett Searls article about his retirement, Postville Iowa, 1969
Death records of Plymouth county Iowa, LeMars Iowa
Edwin J. Searls death certificate, Akron Iowa, 1917
Edwin J. Searls Family record
Edwin J. Searls obituary, Akron Iowa, 1917
LeMars Sentinel newspaper, LeMars Iowa
Letters from Cluett Searls, Postville Iowa, 1980
Letters from Harriett Tucker, Akron Iowa, 1980
Letters from Helen Dibble, Redlands California, 1997
Mary Douglass Searls obituary, Akron Iowa, 1945
Notes taken at the Riverside Cemetery in Akron Iowa
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Article in The Railroad Telegrapher volume 34 on death of EJ Searls, 1917
Book [?] Northwestern Iowa, Biography of Edwin Searls, ?1890-1895
Book Plymouth County Iowa History, 1917
Book The Searles Family, Harry A. Howk, 1962, Lisa Robinson 1996 revision
Cluett Searls article about his retirement, Postville Iowa, 1969
Death records of Plymouth county Iowa, LeMars Iowa
Edwin J. Searls death certificate, Akron Iowa, 1917
Edwin J. Searls Family record
Edwin J. Searls obituary, Akron Iowa, 1917
LeMars Sentinel newspaper, LeMars Iowa
Letters from Cluett Searls, Postville Iowa, 1980
Letters from Harriett Tucker, Akron Iowa, 1980
Letters from Helen Dibble, Redlands California, 1997
Mary Douglass Searls obituary, Akron Iowa, 1945
Notes taken at the Riverside Cemetery in Akron Iowa
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1850: Europe - The Little Ice Age ends around this time
1851-1852: South America - The Platine War (also known as the War against Oribe and Rosas) fought between the Argentine Confederation and an alliance consisting of the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, the war was part of a long-running contest between Argentina and Brazil for Influence over Uruguay and Paraguay, and hegemony over the regions bordering the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), the conflict took place in Uruguay, on the Rio de la Plata and in the northeast of Argen
1851-1864: China - The Taiping Rebellion in China is the bloodiest conflict of the century
1851-60s: Australia - Victorian gold rush in Australia
1851: England - The Great Exhibition in London was the first International Expo or Worlds Fair
1853-1856: Ukraine, France, England, Turkey, Russia - Crimean War between France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire and Russia
1854: Japan - The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends policy of Isolation by Japan
1855: England - Henry Bessemer Invents a process that enables steel to be mass produced from molten pig Iron
1856: Romania - First oil refinery in Romania
1857-1858: India - Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as First War of Independence for India, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, the Sepoy Rebellion and the Sepoy Mutiny), It began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys) employed by the British East India Company's army
1859: England - Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species", It is a work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, Its full title is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", It presents a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution and Includes evidence Darwin gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings
1861-1865: United States - American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy
1861-1867: France, Mexico - French Intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire, ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico
1861: Russia - Russia abolishes serfdom
1862-1877: China - Muslim Rebellion in northwest China
1863-1865: Poland, Russia - Polish uprising against the Russian Empire
1863: Iraq - Baha u llah declares His station as "He whom God shall make manifest", this date is celebrated in the Baha I Faith as The Festival of Ridvan
1863: Switzerland - Formation of the International Red Cross is followed by the adoption of the First Geneva Convention in 1864
1864-1866: Peru, Chile, Spain - The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain Its South American colonies in Peru and Cile
1864-1870: Paraguay - The War of the Triple Alliance ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population
1865-1877: United States - Reconstruction in the United States, slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
1865: United States - April 14, 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance at Fords Theater, Washington, D.C., he dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15, 1865
1865: United States - April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War
1866-1868: Finland - Famine in Finland
1866-1869: Japan - After the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization
1866: England, United States - Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858 by Cyrus West Field, the first cable used for telegraph communications laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean crosees from the Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Hearts Content in eastern Newfoundland, messages that took at least ten days to deliver by ship now took only minutes
1866: Germany, Austria - Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy
1867: Canada - Canadian Confederation formed
1867: Serbia, Turkey - The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines Its Independence from the Ottoman Empire, International recognition followed in 1878
1867: United States, Russia - The United States purchased Alaska from Russia
1868: United States - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved
1868: United States - The Expatriation Act is approved by Congress, guaranteeing U.S. citizens the right to expatriate, coupled with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution approved only one day later, the Expatriation Act allows U.S. citizens to renounce federal citizenship in order to regain Constitutional rights ceded by U.S. citizens as defined by the 14th Amendment
1869: Egypt - The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
1869: United States - First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10
1870-1871: France, Germany, Italy - The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy, the collapse of the Second French Empire, the breakdown of Pax Britannica, and the emergence of a New Imperialism
1870s-1890s: Europe, United States - Long Depression in Western Europe and North America
1871-1872: Iran - Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of two million
1871-1914: Europe, United States - Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution in the period from the last half of the 19th century until about the time of World War I
1872: United States - Yellowstone National Park is created
1873: England - James Clerk Maxwell publishes "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism", a set of four partial differential equations describing how the electric and magnetic fields relate to their sources, charge density and current density, and how they develop with time
1874-1875: Spain - First Republic in Spain
1874: France - The Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, and Graveurs, better known today as the Impressionists organize and present their first public group exhibition at the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar
1874: India, England - The British East India Company is dissolved
1875-1900: India - 26 million in India perish due to famine
1876-1879: China - 13 million die of famine in northern China
1876-1914: United States - The massive expansion in population, territory, Industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age
1876: Bulgaria - The Bulgarian revolt against Ottoman rule
1877-1878: Europe - Following the tenth Russo-Turkish War, the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal Independence of the Principality of Serbia, Montenegro and Romania, Bulgaria becomes autonomous
1877: United States - Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the first nationwide labor strike
1878: United States - First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut
1879-1883: Chile, Peru, Bolivia - Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific
1879: South Africa - Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa
1880-1881: England, South Africa - the First Boer War between England and the Dutch-speaking Inhabitants of South Africa
1881-1899: Sudan - The Mahdist War in Sudan
1881: England - First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming, Britain
1882: England, Egypt - The British Invasion and the subsequent occupation of Egypt
1883: Indonesia - Krakatau (often mispelled Krakatoa) volcano explosion in Indonesia (Java and Sumatra)
1884-1885: Africa - The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European "scramble for Africa", attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves
1884-1885: Japan, Korea - The Sino-French War led to the formation of French Indochina
1885: United States - Singer begins production of the "Vibrating Shuttle" which would become the Model T of sewing machines
1886: Russia - Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians, Imam Shamil defeated
1888: Brazil - Slavery banned in Brazil
1888: England - Jack the Ripper is believed to have begun murdering in August and murdered his last victim in November
1889: Brazil - End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic
1889: France - Eiffel tower was Inaugurated in Paris
1889: India - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community
1890: United States - The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars, this event represents the end of the American Old West
1891: United States - James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, Invents basketball
1894-1895: Japan, Korea - After the First Sino-Japanese War, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea
1895-1896: Ethiopia, Italy - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the First Italo-Ethiopian War
1896: Canada - Klondike Gold Rush in Canada
1896: Greece - Olympic Games revived in Athens
1896: Philippines, Spain - Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule
1897: Korea - Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu, proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire lasts until 1910
1898-1900: China - The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance
1898-1902: Colombia - The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the "Liberales" and "Conservadores", culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903
1898: United States, Cuba, Philippines - The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War
1899: England, South Africa - Second Boer War begins, lasting until 1902
1850: Europe - The Little Ice Age ends around this time
1851-1852: South America - The Platine War (also known as the War against Oribe and Rosas) fought between the Argentine Confederation and an alliance consisting of the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes, the war was part of a long-running contest between Argentina and Brazil for Influence over Uruguay and Paraguay, and hegemony over the regions bordering the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), the conflict took place in Uruguay, on the Rio de la Plata and in the northeast of Argen
1851-1864: China - The Taiping Rebellion in China is the bloodiest conflict of the century
1851-60s: Australia - Victorian gold rush in Australia
1851: England - The Great Exhibition in London was the first International Expo or Worlds Fair
1853-1856: Ukraine, France, England, Turkey, Russia - Crimean War between France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire and Russia
1854: Japan - The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends policy of Isolation by Japan
1855: England - Henry Bessemer Invents a process that enables steel to be mass produced from molten pig Iron
1856: Romania - First oil refinery in Romania
1857-1858: India - Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as First War of Independence for India, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, the Sepoy Rebellion and the Sepoy Mutiny), It began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys) employed by the British East India Company's army
1859: England - Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species", It is a work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, Its full title is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", It presents a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution and Includes evidence Darwin gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings
1861-1865: United States - American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy
1861-1867: France, Mexico - French Intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire, ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico
1861: Russia - Russia abolishes serfdom
1862-1877: China - Muslim Rebellion in northwest China
1863-1865: Poland, Russia - Polish uprising against the Russian Empire
1863: Iraq - Baha u llah declares His station as "He whom God shall make manifest", this date is celebrated in the Baha I Faith as The Festival of Ridvan
1863: Switzerland - Formation of the International Red Cross is followed by the adoption of the First Geneva Convention in 1864
1864-1866: Peru, Chile, Spain - The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain Its South American colonies in Peru and Cile
1864-1870: Paraguay - The War of the Triple Alliance ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population
1865-1877: United States - Reconstruction in the United States, slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
1865: United States - April 14, 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance at Fords Theater, Washington, D.C., he dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15, 1865
1865: United States - April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War
1866-1868: Finland - Famine in Finland
1866-1869: Japan - After the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization
1866: England, United States - Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858 by Cyrus West Field, the first cable used for telegraph communications laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean crosees from the Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Hearts Content in eastern Newfoundland, messages that took at least ten days to deliver by ship now took only minutes
1866: Germany, Austria - Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy
1867: Canada - Canadian Confederation formed
1867: Serbia, Turkey - The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines Its Independence from the Ottoman Empire, International recognition followed in 1878
1867: United States, Russia - The United States purchased Alaska from Russia
1868: United States - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved
1868: United States - The Expatriation Act is approved by Congress, guaranteeing U.S. citizens the right to expatriate, coupled with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution approved only one day later, the Expatriation Act allows U.S. citizens to renounce federal citizenship in order to regain Constitutional rights ceded by U.S. citizens as defined by the 14th Amendment
1869: Egypt - The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
1869: United States - First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10
1870-1871: France, Germany, Italy - The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy, the collapse of the Second French Empire, the breakdown of Pax Britannica, and the emergence of a New Imperialism
1870s-1890s: Europe, United States - Long Depression in Western Europe and North America
1871-1872: Iran - Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of two million
1871-1914: Europe, United States - Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution in the period from the last half of the 19th century until about the time of World War I
1872: United States - Yellowstone National Park is created
1873: England - James Clerk Maxwell publishes "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism", a set of four partial differential equations describing how the electric and magnetic fields relate to their sources, charge density and current density, and how they develop with time
1874-1875: Spain - First Republic in Spain
1874: France - The Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, and Graveurs, better known today as the Impressionists organize and present their first public group exhibition at the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar
1874: India, England - The British East India Company is dissolved
1875-1900: India - 26 million in India perish due to famine
1876-1879: China - 13 million die of famine in northern China
1876-1914: United States - The massive expansion in population, territory, Industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age
1876: Bulgaria - The Bulgarian revolt against Ottoman rule
1877-1878: Europe - Following the tenth Russo-Turkish War, the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal Independence of the Principality of Serbia, Montenegro and Romania, Bulgaria becomes autonomous
1877: United States - Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the first nationwide labor strike
1878: United States - First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut
1879-1883: Chile, Peru, Bolivia - Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific
1879: South Africa - Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa
1880-1881: England, South Africa - the First Boer War between England and the Dutch-speaking Inhabitants of South Africa
1881-1899: Sudan - The Mahdist War in Sudan
1881: England - First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming, Britain
1882: England, Egypt - The British Invasion and the subsequent occupation of Egypt
1883: Indonesia - Krakatau (often mispelled Krakatoa) volcano explosion in Indonesia (Java and Sumatra)
1884-1885: Africa - The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European "scramble for Africa", attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves
1884-1885: Japan, Korea - The Sino-French War led to the formation of French Indochina
1885: United States - Singer begins production of the "Vibrating Shuttle" which would become the Model T of sewing machines
1886: Russia - Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians, Imam Shamil defeated
1888: Brazil - Slavery banned in Brazil
1888: England - Jack the Ripper is believed to have begun murdering in August and murdered his last victim in November
1889: Brazil - End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic
1889: France - Eiffel tower was Inaugurated in Paris
1889: India - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community
1890: United States - The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars, this event represents the end of the American Old West
1891: United States - James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, Invents basketball
1894-1895: Japan, Korea - After the First Sino-Japanese War, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea
1895-1896: Ethiopia, Italy - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the First Italo-Ethiopian War
1896: Canada - Klondike Gold Rush in Canada
1896: Greece - Olympic Games revived in Athens
1896: Philippines, Spain - Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule
1897: Korea - Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu, proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire lasts until 1910
1898-1900: China - The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance
1898-1902: Colombia - The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the "Liberales" and "Conservadores", culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903
1898: United States, Cuba, Philippines - The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War
1899: England, South Africa - Second Boer War begins, lasting until 1902