Volume 18 , Issue 19

NW Okie's Journey

We went to some garage sales this last Saturday and found a pictorial history book, "Adventures In America," with text by John A. Kouwenhoven, published in 1938. That got me back researching my Kouwenhoven family connections on my mother's (Vada Paris) side of the family. We believe the "A" in John A. Kouwenhoven stands for "Atlee." J. A. Kouwenhoven Obituary, died at age 80.

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Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie

This weeks OkieLegacy Ezine/Tabloid is donated to our maternal family lineage of KOUWENHOVEN because NW Okie is searching for connections of John A. Kouwenhoven, who published a history and pictorial book, "Adventures In America" in 1938.


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Adventures In America (1938) by John Atlee Kouwenhoven

It was in the Freeport Journal-Standard, Freeport, Illinois, dated 23 November 1938, page 10, that we found this mention of John A. Kouwenhoven's book, "Adventures In America," a pictorial history book of America with text by John A. Kouwenhoven.

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1930 - Stories of Old Brooklyn

"Kouwenhoven Got Land From Indians," was the headlines we found in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, dated 17 April 1930, Thursday, page 23. The photo with the news article showed a photograph of the "Old Kouwenhoven Mansion" on Kings Highway. The plot on which family mansion stood was part of the tract bought soon after ancestor came here in 1630.

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1928 - William Williamson Kouwenhoven (1846-1928)

It was in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, dated 25 June 1928, Monday, page 10, we found the funeral service for W. W. Kouwenhoven, who died Thursday, 24 June 1928, after an illness of a week at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Addison B. Hall, 495 8th Ave., and his funeral held the next day afternoon at the home of his niece, Mrs. Mary K. Ditmas of 2220 Ditmas Ave.

I have found where William Williamson Kouwenhoven's father was Cornelius B. Kouwenhoven, and William and his wife had a son named Cornelius B. Kouwenhoven.

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Kouwenhoven Farm On Sale 1911

In The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, dated 4 February 1911, Saturday, page 23, we found this headline: "Kouwenhoven Farm On Sale." A big piece of property in thirty-second ward to go on sale February 27, 1911.

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1911 - An Old Subscriber, Garrett Kouwenhoven

If you search back through The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, dated 26 October 1911, Thursday, page 32, you will find this mention: "An Old Subscriber."

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