Brinkerhoff, Robert Bentley (b. 19 APR 1854, d. 9 MAY 1907)

Note: No issue of this marriage.

Reference: 3353

Reference: 3354

Reference: 3355

Reference: 3356

Reference: 3357

Note: She did not marry.

Reference: 3358

Note: She did not marry. In 1920, she lived with her sister Sarah in Plymouth Township, Richland County, Ohio. She owned her home free of mortgag

Reference: 3359

Note: He did not marry. In 1900 and 1910, he lived in Plymouth Township with three of his sisters, Mary, Martha, and Sarah.

Reference: 3360

Note: She did not marry.

Reference: 3361

Note: They lived in Richland County, Plymouth Twp., Ohio in 1900-1920. He was a farmer. He was heavily involved in Republican politics for many years in the area.

Reference: 3362

Note: He was a farmer and stockman. Worked the farm summers and taught school during the winter. He was school board chairman in Tiro, Ohio in 1928. Lived in Auburn Twp., Crawford Cty., Ohio in 1900, 1910, 1920. His nickname was Rule. Rachel Wilson's tombstone indicates she was born in 1859. Tombstone name is Mary J. (aka Jennie)

Reference: 3363

Reference: 3364

Reference: 3365

Note: Sometimes her given name was spelled Isabelle. She was the first woman to establish Home Economics classes in the USA. During World War I she was commissioned, along with Herbert Hoover, to tour Europe and set up food distribution centers for needy people. Degrees earned: Ph. B. in 1885, Ph. M. in 1888 from the University of Wooster, Ohio. Her career started as Principal of the high school in Shelby, Ohio. Her many college teaching positions included Case School of Applied Science, Harvard, M.I.T., Pennsylvania College for Women, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lake Erie College. In 1898, she was a member of the Jury of Awards at the Chicago Exposition. From 1900-1921 she was Professor of Household Science and Director of Courses at the University of Illinois. She founded the Department of Home Economics at that university. She was named Professor Emeritus at that university in 1930 and an oil painting (portrait above) of her hangs in Urbana, Illinois in Bevier Hall. She received two honorary D. Sc. Degrees from Iowa State U. and Wooster College. Her many offices in the field of Home Economics and her publications are detailed in Who's Who in America 1928-1929. A building, "Bevier Hall," on the campus of U. of Illinois is named for her. She spent a lifetime pioneering the field of Home Economics. Among her contributions were the development of the use of the thermometer in cooking meat, the formulation of sound principles for making jelly, outstanding work in food conservation during WW I, and pioneer leadership in the formation and growth of the U. of Illinois Home Economics Department. She authored various books, articles, and bulletins concerning her subject of home economics. Isabel Bevier was a pioneer in the women's movement which did not really gain momentum until long after her death.

Source: (Death)
Titel: Illinois State Archives Death Index

Reference: 3366

Reference: 3367

Note: The Ohio marriage index indicates the marriage took place in Wayne County, Ohio and her surname was spelled Coudon!

Reference: 3368

Reference: 3370

Reference: 3371

Note: Kate and Tulley Barnes divorced.

Reference: 3372

Reference: 3373