Margaret Leddy's Uncle John Charleson

We have long heard of Uncle John Charleson, my grandmother's father's brother, and how he converted the Eddie daughters to Catholicism.  He had an estate in Kirkconnel. I thnk I found him here.

Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation (1915)

Author: Scott, Hew, 1791-1872; Macdonald, D. F. (Donald Farquhar), 1906-
Keywords: Church of Scotland; Church of Scotland; Scotland -- Biography
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd
Year: 1915

JOHN CHARLESON, born Inverness,189Q 7th Sept. 1862, son of Kenneth C. 
and Margaret Forbes, and brother of Charles Forbes C., min. of Kirkconnel ; 
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1884), B.D. (1888); licen. by Presb. of 
Paisley ; ord. 5th Sept. 1890 ; adm. first min. of the parish 8th March 1892. 
Joined the Church of Rome, when the Presb. declared him to hold "no longer 
the office of the holy ministry, and that he is disqualified and discharged from 
exercising the functions of the same or any part thereof," 30th Oct. 1901. He 
was ord. priest at Kirkintilloch in 1904 ; afterwards at Croy and Rome. Publica-
tion Why I left the Church of Scotland (1901.) 

This book is pretty rare, although one could possibly find it in the British Museum.  However he also wrote an article "Why I Left the Church of Scotland" published in the Glasgow Herald on Nov. 5, 1901, and that is available, at least currently, here.

This article is said to be the opening of his book (or, rather, pamphlet}

There were a couple replies to the book. 

Google lists  one by a Jacob Primmer,"Citizen" Office, 1901  47 pages.

Mr Charleson's "Why I left the Church of Scotland", or, The secret Romanising "Scottish Church Society" exposed

Another was 

Peter and the keys : an examination of the Rev. John M.M. Charleson's book "Why I left the Church of Scotland" by Charles Hall (Paisley : Alexander Gardner, 1901).

 See also here

 

See also 

Liturgical Space (Liturgy, Worship & Society in Western Europe 1500-2000) by Nigel Yates (Ashgate, 2008)  "complaints were made against the ministry from 1890, John Charleson, that he had introduced a service book with congregational responses, encaustic tiles and stained glass in the chancel and the erection of a communion table with a tabernacle." 129

Chronology

Born 7 Sep 1862  Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland.

Edinburgh University; Master of Arts, 1884; Bachelor of Divinity, 1888.
 Licensed by Presbytery of Paisley.
  Licensed by Presbytery of Linlithgow, 1889.
Minister of Thornliebank, 1890; ordained, 1890.
  Admitted first minister of the parish, 1892. 

"Why I Left the Church of Scotland" published in the Glasgow Herald on Nov. 5, 1901, 

  Presbytery declared him to no longer hold the office of the holy ministry, and was disqualified and discharged from his office, 1901.
  Joined the Church of Rome.
  Ordained a priest of Kirkintilloch, 1904.
  Afterwards at Croy and Rome.

 

The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Rōrahi XXXV, Putanga 38, 19 Mahuru 1907, Page 31

See article Scotland: The Shadow and The Substance here for more details about his life as a Catholic.

 

 Died 30 Jun 1942  Dunranion Billericay, Essex, England

 

 

William Crowe Kellogg and Jack and Jane Wedding

Note from Jack around 2011

Re:  Bill Kellogg

"We spent our wedding night - Sept. 11 [1948] at the Kellogg Mansion.  Turned out that our "Best Man" at our wedding in Carmel gave us the gift of a night at Kellogg residence in Altadena...."

The mansion is described in an LA Times article The House Scripps Built : A Family and a Community Struggle to Preserve Their Heritage March 02, 1986 Mark Arax |.  "The mansion [Scripps Hall mansion], located at 209 E. Mariposa St., is understated despite being built on a road once known as "Millionaires' Row" because of the wealthy and famous men such as author Zane Grey and hotel builder, Col. G. G. Green who moved there at the turn of the century. Like the community's pioneers, the home is more practical than elegant, with its Oriental influences, leaded glass windows and sweeping staircase. Although empty for the past several years since the elder Kelloggs moved permanently to La Jolla, it remains in good condition."  At that time the mansion was an "old people's home" and was under threat of destruction.  "My father made this quick, rather hasty decision and then he began to reflect upon it," said William Crowe Kellogg. "I think he felt he made a mistake and feared the home would be torn down and the property developed."  Later however it was renovated and is now a school:  this from Wikipedia:  "In 1979, threatened with demolition, the Altadena Heritage Association coordinated the historic home's sale to the Pasadena Waldorf School, one of many Waldorf Schools around the world. Scripps Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 for its significance as a 'settlement site'" 

Also from the LA Times  http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-20/news/ga-37_1_altadena-home-tour "In 1987, the Waldorf School of Pasadena purchased the remaining 3.5-acre estate, including the 6,000-square-foot Craftsman-style Scripps Hall mansion, on the condition that the estate be preserved. Scripps' great-grandson, William Kellogg, had led a community battle to save the mansion from destruction by developers, and Altadena Heritage emerged from the effort to become a preservation group.
The forest-green stucco, brick and wood Craftsman-style house has jutting beams, balconies, dormer windows and elaborate beveled glass windows around the front door. A balustraded stairway, wood-paneled walls and ceilings, and wood-and-tile fireplaces are inside." 

Chronology of James B. Eddie

Janet Groat started this chronology of James B. Eddie. I have revised it somewhat based on family stories.

born Elgin Scotland 1860 Mary Margaret Leddy said his family ran a coach service between Elgin and Edinburgh.

University of Edinburgh.  [S.F. Chronicle says he was a Baptist before he became a Congregational minister.}

He heard Livingston speak and very much admired him which led him to go to Africa. [Livingston died in 1873, so this might not be true].

1884 Serving at Equator Station in Congo under the auspices of the Livingstone Inland Mission founded by H. Grattan Guinness

He left Africa after contracting malaria and went to Italy (Florence) for a year to recover before returning to Scotland, marrying Margaret Charleson (from Inverness) and immigrating to the U.S.

1887 Published vocabulary in Edinburgh [see my post on this...the book is still available]

1888 or 1890 First came to U.S.: census data is contradictory. (Pre-dates Ellis Island records, so no help there.)

The San Francisco Chronicle [see my entry on Raised in the Priesthood] says he was raised a Baptist but became Congregational and served s minister in Oakland and Richmond before he became an episcopalian and then served in Hayward for one year fefor becoming ordained in 1896.

Entered the Episcopalian seminary in San Francisco and became a minister there.


1891 Travels on Anchoria to Scotland from New York arrives Aug. 4

1892 Hamish born in California

1893 Married Margaret Charleson [did he marry her after Hamish was born?]

1895-6  episcopal diaconate in charge of mission in Haywards [sic probably Hayward]  

1896, Feb. 29  Ordained at St. Paul's Church, Episcopalian

1896 Margaret Eddie born in San Francisco

1896 In Carson City as Pastor Episcopal Church

1899 Marie born

1900-1906? Salt Lake City as Dean of St, Narks Cathedral Salt Lake City "St. Mark's Cathedral, in Salt Lake City, was built by Bishop Tuttle in 1870.
The Very Rev. James B. Eddie has been dean since Easter, 1900." The Mountain Empire Utah 1904. He was also Vice-Rector and Chaplain of Rowland Hall, a college preparatory school attached to the Cathedral. This taken from Utah As It Is.

1902 Trip of Eddie family without James B. from New York to Glasgow

Truth. (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, May 27, 1905, Page 3, Image 3
Image provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library
Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058310/1905-05-27/ed-1/seq-3/

1906 case brought against him

Jan. 8, 1908 Unfrocked Salt Lake Tribune

1910 Pasadena CA real estate agent

1920 Los Angeles CA with second wife: Emma Crist

John W. Barnes and Other Genealogical Info.

I found this typed document in Jack Leddy's papers.  I think it was written by Anna Grimshaw Breen since she did a lot of the genealogical work for the family. 

"John W. Barnes at the time of his decease, was Senior Adjutant of the National Guard of Penna.  He joined Infantry Corp. National Guards Nov. 6, 1855, was commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Co. E. Dec. 1st. 1860.  He served 3 mos. in 19th Penna. Volunteers and was commissioned Capt. of Co. E, 90th Penna Volunteers Sept. 3rd., 1861, served three years and in Veteran Reserve Corps of U.S. Army until his honorable discharge on Dec. 22nd, 1866.  On April 22, 1869, he assumed the duties of Adjutant of the Regiment, remaining in commission until his death in 1882.

This is taken from an appreciation sent to the members of the regiment at the time of his death and inviting them to come to the funeral.

I am sorry but  I can't give you any more information about Elizabeth Solonius, etc.  I know the Rector of Old Swedes and I am writing to him to see if they have any other records.

By word of mouth Sarah Johnson was supposed to be Elizabeth Solonius' daughter, but Sarah Johnson must have been married twice for I know definitely that Susanna Williams was her daughter.  However, her sampler which I have, bears the name of Susanna Williams 1818. Phila. Union School.
Susanna Williams married John Ford Barnes, born 1-14-1808, died 1846 in New Orleans, where they lived, and is buried there in Notre Dame Cemetery Chapel Lula St. which I could not find when I was there.  Their first child was John Wall Barnes, born 7-17-1830, died 6-12-1882.  He married twice.  I think his daughter Clara was by his first wife.  She married and had two daughters who, in turn, married and had two daughters, who in turn married and this family is still going on.
The second child was Sarah Johnson Barnes, born 1-16-1828, died 3-4-1012, and who married George Grimshaw, born 10-15-24, and died 4-9-51.  Their daughters were Susannah Barnes Grimshaw, born 1-21-48, died 4-29-42, and Elizabeth Hyer Grimshaw, born 4-29-50.  She married James Breen, who was born 9-9-1849 and died 11-21-1905.  Elizabeth dies 8-5-1926.

Anna Grimshaw Breen was born 11-29-1888
John Stanley Breen was born 7-7-1894 and married Elizabeth Oliver, no children."

More information about John W. Barnes may be found at Ancestry.com  This is consistent with the information I have above.

"These are some extracts from Samuel Bates histories of Pennsylvania in the war. In both regiments, you'll find John Barnes in the Color Company, Company E.

If you look at the rosters of the 19th Regiment, which served only three months on Mr. Lincoln's first call for volunteers, you'll also find John's brother Albert as a corporal in A Company, and Jacob D Regementer as a private in J W Barnes E Company. Neither of these two volunteered for further service after that initial three months."

John Barnes Leddy 1922-2012 Obituary

John Barnes (Jack) Leddy passed away in his apartment at Atria Senior Living, San Jose, California on Friday, January 20, only two days before his 90th birthday.  The cause of death was multiple myeloma.  He is survived by his loving wife, Jane, his four children Tom, Bill, Robin and John, his four grandchildren, Anna, Andrew, Giancarlo and Harrison, his brother Don, Don’s wife Nives, and nine nieces and nephews. Jack was born in Pasadena to Harold and Margaret Leddy on Jan. 22, 1922.  In addition to Don, he had two other brothers, Albert and Jim, who predeceased him.  Some of his earliest memories were of tough times in the Great Depression, people selling apples on the street. Since Jack showed an early interest in science his father would take him to science lectures at CalTech.  He remembered seeing Albert Einstein and Guglielmo Marconi give talks there.  His family moved to Bakersfield where he attended high school and junior college.  He received an A.A. in Physics from Bakersfield Junior College.

Jack was an avid radio fan from a very young age.  He had a ham radio license, W6PLJ, and fixed radios as a hobby. In 1938, he and Tom Nelson, along with several other high school friends, organized a high school radio club with the call letters W6EM.  In 1940 Jack was accepted to UC Berkeley and was elected President of Bowles Hall.  In 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked he relayed messages to the War Department from Hawaii by way of a station at the top of Bakersfield High School.  Shortly after, he became an ensign (a junior-grade lieutenant) in the Navy and was flown to Boston where we took classes in advanced electronics at both Harvard and MIT.  He was then relocated to Chicago where he worked on installing radar and sonar on submarines and other ships in both the U.S. and British Navies.  Some of the work he did was highly classified. After the war, Jack continued his education at Berkeley.  However, for various reasons, including a serious illness in his senior year, he was unable to finish his B.A.  Nonetheless, he was always proud of studying under several Nobel prize-winners at UC Berkeley. 

In 1948 Jack met and married Jane Winter in Bakersfield and began a career in the electronics field.  They lived first in Oakland, and then in Fresno near the Zoo, but then moved to Darby Village in Clovis, which is just outside Fresno.  There they built their own house following designs from Sunset magazine and with the help of Jim and Albert.  In 1955 the family (including now Tom, Bill and Robin) moved to Eleanor Drive in San Mateo.  John was born while they lived there.  Sometime around 1964 Jack and Jane purchased a cabin at Fly-In-Acres near Arnold, California.  The cabin is now maintained and shared by the four children and their families.  In 1967 the family moved to Parrott Drive also in San Mateo. 

From 1958-1962 Jack was a district manager for General Instrument Corp., from 1962-63 he worked for Jack Logan and Associates, from 1963-64 he was national sales manager for Griffith Plastic Products in Burlingame, and from 1964-68 he was regional manager Western USA for Sperry-Rand Corp, Semiconductor Division. In 1968 Jack founded his own manufacturer’s representative company, Leddy Associates Inc., which was located for the longest period in Burlingame.  In 1990 he sold the business and retired.  However, he continued to work as an independent consultant with an ongoing interest in electronics as well as clean water and clean energy technologies.  In 2000 he founded a new company with his son John, J. Leddy, Inc.  His longest professional association was with RAF Electronic Hardware for over 30 years.  

During this period Jack’s main interests were world travel with Jane (they went to Greece, Mexico, Egypt, Japan, Belize, Chile, England, Alaska, and many other locales), his radio ham contests with the Northern California Contest Club and his work with the American Red Cross in emergency preparedness.  He changed his call letters to N6EM in honor of the Bakersfield radio club (W6EM was no longer available).  Jack had an Honorary Life Membership in the Electronics Representative Association.  He also served as President of the Water Board for Fly-In-Acres. In 2009, Jack and Jane sold their San Mateo house and moved to Atria Senior Living in San Jose. 

Jack and Jane shared many friends in their book club, hiking groups, artist friends of Jane’s, ham radio friends, friends they made while travelling, and friends from their years on Eleanor Drive.

Jack and Jane’s children have distinguished careers and families of their own:   Tom is a Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University and is married to Karen Haas. Bill is a partner in the architectural firm Leddy Maytum Stacy, is married to Marsha Maytum and has two children, Anna and Andrew.  Robin is an artist in the Sacramento area and is married to Dr. Tom Giustina.  She has one son Giancarlo, married to Rachel Siegel.  John is President of JLeddy Inc. and Co-Founder, along with Jack, of the nonprofit corporation U.S. Water and Power.  He has one son Harrison, and is engaged to marry Ms. Christy Lambertson in June, 2012.

Also significant in Jack’s life were the children of his brothers.  Don’s children are Mary Margaret Leddy, Annette Leddy, Don Leddy and John Leddy.  Albert’s children are Claire Hackett and Richard Leddy (who worked with Jack as an associate).  Jim’s children are Lisa Ray-Leddy, Anthony Leddy, and Valerie Leddy.  

We will all remember Jack for his enthusiasm for life, his love of his family, and his many tall tales.

There will be no funeral.  A memorial event will be held for family members only. If you would like to make a memorial contribution, please contact:  American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter  www.redcrossbayarea.org  

If you would like to share memories about Jack’s life, feel free to comment below or send messages to Tom Leddy at tle403@aol.com

More on Jack's Naval Service Including Security Work

A letter I found in Jack's papers indicates that on March 20, 1945 he successfully completed a correspondence course on Communications with a mark of 3.83. (Germany surrendered on April 29. Japan did not surrender until Aug. 15, 1945).  However what is interesting about the letter is that at that time he was an officer in the Naval Reserve.  The letter was sent to Lt. John B. Leddy, S(E3) T, USNR, Naval Reserve Educational Center, Great Lakes, Illinois.  So, although it was a correspondence course, he took it at the center or at least received his mail at the center.  S(E3) is a USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Engineering Duties, equivalent to EDO (Engineering Duty Only) Electrical.

I was wondering why Jack would be in the Naval Reserve and not in the regular Navy... he never mentioned this.  However, in recent years he had claimed that he had done secret work for the Navy.  It turns out that the Naval Reserve was very important in cryptographic work.   I recently found an interesting document online: "Silent Warriors: The Naval Security Group 1945-2005,"  According to this work, "of the more than 10,000 codebreakers who served in the U.S. Navy between 1941 and 1945, well over 90 percent were reservists. They played key roles in every aspect of what was then termed radio intelligence — interception, decryption, translation, and analysis — at sites around the world."  It is also mentioned that many of these reservists were not allowed to talk about their work and received no official recognition.  Jack insisted he was not allowed to talk about his work.  The document also says that these same reservists were kept on in this secret work during the period after WWII, i.e. during the Cold War.  My hypothesis is that Jack was in The Naval Security Group as a reservist doing security work from 1945 to sometime during the Cold War.  He could do this while maintaining a normal civilian life.  The document also states that:  "What operational work existed [during the period immediately after WWII]  was modest, and some was downright casual. Lacking proper drill sites and equipment, units organized “ham” radio efforts, monitoring frequencies (sometimes on Navy-supplied radios residing in reservists’ homes) and copying signals on frequencies assigned by CSA. For want of other options, the USNR allowed select members to conduct this classified work from home and send the results to Washington, DC, via registered mail.".

Jack's old friend Tom Nelson writes  "I am quite sure that after MIT he was sent on classified work to a Navy base in England and bases in various parts of the USA."  This looks like it was before the end of the war.

Jack's Patent 3,313,057

Jack patented some color code caps for knobs for electronic gear on April 11, 1967.  The application was made on Oct. 26, 1964.  I remember the knobs well.  We often played with these electronic knobs that were always around Jack's workroom.  The machines that were used to produce the knobs would extrude globs of plastic that we all thought really cool-looking and collected in the family garden for a while.  You can see the patent by clicking on this link:  3,313,057

Bowles Hall, University of California Berkeley

Jack was always proud of his membership in Bowles Hall.  He was listed as a senior there in the Blue and Gold Yearbook, class of 1946.  Jack said that he was elected president of Bowles Hall, and I remember once seeing a plaque there with his name on it to that effect.  His brother Don also went to Bowles Hall.  Jack had a picture of Bowles Hall hanging in his office.  He never graduated due, he says, to a bad case of dysentery, plus not being able to get credit from Berkeley for his studies at Harvard and MIT during the war.  Jack went on without BA in hand to have a satisfying career as an electronics manufacturer's representative, which makes him not much different from many contemporary computer CEOs.  Sometime in the 1980s he was invited back to Berkeley to give a talk about his career.  He saw that as a kind of vindication.  . 

Henry Longfellow School

Longfellow Elementary School, Pasadena,

 
Jack and Don attended Henry Longfellow School.   Check the link below for a picture from that time.

Henry Longfellow School, East Washington, Pasadena. 1926.
DATE: 10/22/1926
NOTES: Street view of Henry Longfellow School on East Washington. The school is a large, multistory building with a flagpole and trees on the lawn.
SOURCE: Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives
REPOSITORY: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Leddy Ranch

Fire Sweeps Leddy Ranch.  [probably appeared in an L.A. paper sometime in the 1930s...clipping has no date or publication]

500 Acres of Timber Fall Before Flames, House Saved by Fighters

More than 500 acres of big timber, a saw mill and blacksmith shop of the Calaveras County ranch of Harold D. Leddy, Pasadena attorney were in smouldering ruins today in the wake of a forest fire.

At a loss estimated at more than $5,000, the fire swept over the ranch Sunday, eating through a stand of 3,000,000 feet of timber, Leddy learned today.  Back-firing saved the six-room ranch house and 50 acres of scrub land.

Leddy, who lives at 1175 Woodbury Road, said the ranch had been a hunting paradise.  It is near Railroad Flat, 10 miles from Calaveras Big Trees.


Jack always remembered time spent on the Leddy ranch with fondness as days in which he was a cowboy.  The family story is that Harold received the ranch in lieu of payment of attorney's fees.

Barnes and Murray Family Tombstone

Anthony Parone has also provided us with pictures of a Barnes and Murray family tombstone.  The second picture is of Anthony and his.Aunt Pat in the Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia.

What did his son (John Ford Barnes) do in New Orleans in the period before his death in 1846?

In a letter in a previous post Jack Leddy asked this question:  "What did his son (John Ford Barnes [son of Captain John Barnes]) do in New Orleans in the period before his death in 1846?"  We now know that answer to that.  He opened another hotel, and then another.  Anthony Parone, a fourth cousin also descended from John Ford Barnes, did the research on this. Here are two notices, one of the new Commercial Hotel in 1844, and one of the sale of another hotel, Notre Dame Hotel, upon the death of John Ford Barnes.  Anthony also provided a copy of his death certificate.   

"Mr. John F. Barnes has taken the “Commercial Hotel,” corner of Girod and New Levee streets which he opened last evening as a house of entertainment.  Mr Barnes knows how to do the thing in the handsome way, and he intends to make his terms reasonable.”  11/1/1844 Times-Picayune, New Orleans

":To Hotel and Tavern Keepers.  For Sale - A Bargain - The lease of the well known Notre Dame Hotel with the commodious Bar Room Fixtures and Household and Kitchen Furniture, with or without four House Servants.  For particulars apply on the premises, corner of Notre Dame and Tchoupatoulus Streets my 28 St."  May 30, 1847  Times Picayune

John Ford Barnes death certificate

Incidentally, two years later the Commercial Hotel was a stopping point for Californians heading to the gold rush.  “They are all stopping, previous to their departure, at the Commercial Hotel, corner of Girod and New Levee streets.”  This taken from "California Bound" S. F. Genealogy  New York Herald, New York, New York, Feb. 22, 1849.