Joshua BRACKETT

[862]

19 JUL 1666 - 19 JUN 1749

Father: Thomas BRACKETT
Mother: Mary MITTON

Family 1 : Mary Haines WEEKS
  1.  John BRACKETT
  2.  Joshua BRACKETT
  3. +Samuel BRACKETT
  4. +Anthony BRACKETT
  5. +Eleanor BRACKETT
  6. +Mary BRACKETT
  7.  Keziah BRACKETT

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                                             _Anthony BRACKETT _______|
                                            | (1586 - ....)           |
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                       _Anthony BRACKETT ___|
                      | (1613 - 1691)       |
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 _Thomas BRACKETT ____|
| (1635 - 1676) m 1664|
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|--Joshua BRACKETT 
|  (1666 - 1749)
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|                      _Michael MITTON _____|
|                     | (1617 - ....) m 1637|
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|_Mary MITTON ________|
  (.... - 1676) m 1664|
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                      |                                                _John CLEEVES _____________|_____________________
                      |                                               |                                                 
                      |                      _George CLEEVE __________|
                      |                     | (.... - 1667) m 1618    |
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                      |                     |                         |_Anna CARY ________________|_____________________
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                      |_Elizabeth CLEEVE ___|
                        (1619 - 1682) m 1637|
                                            |                                                      _John PRICE _________
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                                            |                          _John PRICE _______________|_____________________
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                                            |_Joan (or Joanna) PRICE _|
                                              (1584 - 1663) m 1618    |
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                                                                      |_Jane, wife of John PRICE _|_____________________
                                                                        (.... - 1617)                                   

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[862] Captured by American Indians 11 August 1676 with his mother and siblings, redeemed by his grandfather (Anthony Brackett, with whom he resided for several years), an orphan with no property or prospects, Joshua became one of the richest men of the Province of Maine in his time. His grandparents were staunch Episcopalians and reared him to be a cultured and literate man. He served four weeks as a soldier at Oyster River (Durham), New Hampshire in 1697 and again off and on in the wars of 1701-1715 (and was Lt. of the local militia). He owned coastal vessels, a saw mill and farms (stretching for miles along the southern shore of the Great Bay). {-"Brackett Genealogy," Herbert I. Brackett (Washington, D.C., 1907), Chapter VII; "One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families".} NEHGR 39:235 states he and Mary "had in 1712 eight children baptized in Greenland: John, Joshua, Thomas, Samuel, Anthony, Mary, Abigail, Elinor." James W. ("Jim") Wheaton (tradrjim@gte.net) stated via email 9 May 2000 that he descends from Joshua and Mary through a son, James ("The Peacemaker," b. 1715) - thence through Lt. Joseph (b. 14 July 1740), James (b. 31 March 1782 in Greenland, NH), Charles (b. 1825 in Cherry Valley, NY) Rose Anna (m. W. J. Williams), Fred C. Williams, Rosanna Brackett Williams (m. James S. Wheaton; Jim's parents). See "Brackett Genealogy, Descendants of Anthony Brackett of Portsmouth and Captain Richard Brackett of Braintree. With Biographies of the Immigrant Fathers, Their Sons, and Others of Their Posterity," Herbert Ierson Brackett (1907), Chapter VII.

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Wilmer Ira BRIDGES

[53543]

23 JAN 1866 - 24 MAY 1939

Father: Daniel E. BRIDGES
Mother: Clarisa E. STANLEY

Family 1 : Elsie A. STANLEY
  1. +Gardner Wilmer BRIDGES

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 _Daniel E. BRIDGES __|
|  m 1842             |
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|--Wilmer Ira BRIDGES 
|  (1866 - 1939)
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|                                                                   _John STANDLEY _________________|__
|                                                                  | (1735 - 1783) m 1756              
|                                            _John STANLEY ________|
|                                           | (1765 - 1847) m 1785 |
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|                                           |                      |_Marguerite Milly dit La CROIX _|__
|                                           |                        (1733 - ....) m 1756              
|                      _William STANLEY ____|
|                     | (1789 - 1851) m 1813|
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|                     |                     |_Phebe RICH __________|
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|_Clarisa E. STANLEY _|
  (1821 - 1901) m 1842|
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                      |                      _Peter GOTT __________|
                      |                     | (1745 - 1839) m 1776 |
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                      |_Ruth GOTT __________|
                        (1795 - 1852) m 1813|
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                                            |_Charity Carter CAIN _|
                                              (1745 - 1821) m 1776 |
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[53543] Name also seen Ira Wilmer Bridges.

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Colin CAMPBELL

[14728]

1400 - 24 SEP 1480

Father: Duncan CAMPBELL
Mother: Marjory STEWART

Family 1 :
  1. +Duncan CAMPBELL

                                                                                                     _Neil CAMPBELL ___________________________+
                                                                                                    | (.... - 1315)                            
                                                                        _Colin Oig CAMPBELL ________|_Lady Mary BRUCE _________________________
                                                                       | (.... - 1343)                                                         
                                             _Archibald Mohr CAMPBELL _|
                                            | (.... - 1394)            |
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                                            |                          |_Helena MOR ________________|__________________________________________
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                       _Colin CAMPBELL _____|
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                      |                     |_Isabell Mary LAMONT _____|
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 _Duncan CAMPBELL ____|
| (1370 - 1453)       |
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|                     |_Margaret CAMPBELL __|
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|--Colin CAMPBELL 
|  (1400 - 1480)
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|                                                                       _James STEWART _____________|__________________________________________
|                                                                      | (.... - 1309)                                                         
|                                            _Walter STEWART __________|
|                                           | (1292 - 1327) m 1315     |
|                                           |                          |                             _Patrick ("Black Beard"), Earl of DUNBAR _+
|                                           |                          |                            | (1242 - 1308) m 1282                     
|                                           |                          |_Cecelia DE DUNBAR _________|__________________________________________
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|                      _Robert STEWART _____|
|                     | (.... - 1420) m 1361|
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|                     |                     |_Margorie BRUCE __________|
|                     |                       (.... - 1316) m 1315     |
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|_Marjory STEWART ____|
  (1375 - 1421)       |
                      |                                                                              _Nicholas DE GRAHAM ______________________+
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                      |                                                 _John GRAHAM _______________|__________________________________________
                      |                                                | (1277 - 1337)                                                         
                      |                      _John GRAHAM _____________|
                      |                     | (1302 - 1347) m 1334     |
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                      |_Margaret GRAHAM ____|
                        (1334 - 1380) m 1361|
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                                            |                           _Alan II, Earl of MENTEITH _|__________________________________________
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                                            |_Mary MENTEITH ___________|
                                               m 1334                  |
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http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/families/cambells_breadalbane.htm offers:

"The Campbells of Breadalbane are the most powerful branch of the house of Argyll; indeed, in the extent and value of their estates they surpass the parent stock. They are descended from Sir Colin Campbell, third son of Duncan, first Lord Campbell of Lochaw, by Marjory Stewart, daughter of Robert, Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland. In the ‘Black Book of Taymouth,’ printed by the Bannatyne Club, from an old manuscript preserved in Taymouth Castle, it is stated that ‘Duncan Campbell, commonly called Duncan in Aa, Knight of Lochaw (lineallie descendit of a valiant man surnamit Campbell quha cam to Scotland in King Malcolm Kandmore his time, about the year of God 1067, of quhom came the house of Lochaw) flourished in King David Bruce his dayes. The foresaid Duncan begat twa sons, the elder callit Archibald, the other namit Colin, wha was first laird of Glenurchay.’ That estate was bestowed on him by his father. It was the original seat of the M’Gregors, who were settled there as early as the reign of Malcolm Canmore. It was gradually wrested from them by the Campbells in pursuance of the hereditary policy of their family, and in the reign of David II. they managed to procure a legal title to the lands of Glenorchy, but the M’Gregors continued for a long time to retain possession of their ancient inheritance by the strong hand. Sir C0LIN CAMPBELL, the founder of the Glenorchy or Breadalbane branch of the clan, Douglas says, ‘was a man of high renown for military prowess and for the virtues of social and domestic life. He was a stream of many tides against the foes of the people, but like the gale that moves the heath to those who sought his aid.’ He was born about A.D. 1400, and, says the ‘Black Book,’ ‘throch his valiant actis and manheid maid knicht in the Isle of Rhodes, quhilk standeth in the Carpathian Sea near to Caria and countrie of Asia the Less, and he was three sundrie tymes in Rome.’ After the murder of James I., in 1437, Sir Colin took prompt and active measures to bring the assassins to justice, and succeeded in capturing two of them, named Chalmers and Colquhoun. For this service James II. afterwards conferred upon him the barony of Lawers. In 1440 Sir Colin erected the Castle of Kilchurn (properly Coalchuirn) on a rocky promontory at the east end of Loch Awe, under the shadow of the majestic Ben Cruachan, at no great distance from the Pass of Brander, where the M’Dougalls of Lorne were defeated by Robert Bruce. This ‘child of loud-throated war,’ as the castle is termed by Wordsworth, is now a picturesque ruin, which has been repeatedly sketched by eminent painters. [‘From the top of the hill,’ says Miss Wordsworth in her Journal, ‘a most impressive scene opened upon our view—a ruined castle on an island (for an island the flood had made it) at some distance from the shore, backed by a cove of the mountain Cruachan, down which came a foaming stream. The castle occupied every foot of the island that was visible, thus appearing to rise out of the water. Mists rested upon the mountain-side, with spots of sunshine; there was a wild desolation in the low grounds, a solemn grandeur in the mountains, and the castle was wild yet stately—not dismantled of turrets nor the walls broken down, though obviously a ruin.’—See ‘Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe,’ Wordsworth’s Poetical Works, pp. 117—125.]

"According to tradition, Kilchurn Castle was built by Sir Colin’s lady during his absence in the Holy Land on a crusade, and the greater part of the rents of his lands during seven years is said to have been expended on its erection. An old legend ascribes to Sir Colin an incident which has been frequently told of other barons who have chosen to remain long absent from home, and is embodied in Sir Walter Scott’s ballad of the ‘Noble Moringer,’ translated from the German. It is said that during his long absence Sir Colin had a remarkable dream, which a monk to whom he related it told him was intended to warn him of an impending domestic calamity that could only be averted by his presence in his own castle. He immediately hastened to Scotland with all possible speed, and arrived at a place called Succoth, where an old woman dwelt who had been his nurse. In the disguise of a beggar he solicited from her food and shelter for the night, which was readily granted. She recognised him by a scar on his arm, and informed him that as a report had been spread that he had fallen in battle in the Holy Land, and as no tidings had been received of him during his long absence, his wife believed that he was dead, and was about to marry another husband on the following day. It turned out that the messengers whom Sir Colin had repeatedly sent with intelligence to his wife of his welfare had been intercepted and murdered by a neighbouring chief, named M’Corquodale, who had at length succeeded in persuading the lady that she was a widow, and had obtained the promise of her hand. Early next morning Sir Colin, still disguised as a beggar, set out for his castle of Kilchurn, and readily obtained entrance into the courtyard, which on this festive occasion stood open to all comers. On being accosted by one of the servants, he asked that his hunger might be satisfied and his thirst quenched. Food and liquor were immediately placed before him. He partook of the former but refused the latter, unless it was given him by the lady herself. On being informed of the poor man’s wish, she approached and handed him a cup of wine. Sir Colin drank her health, and dropping a ring into the empty cup returned it to her. On examining the ring she at once recognised it as one she had given to her husband on his departure, and threw herself into his arms. M’Corquodale was permitted to depart unmolested, but he was subsequently punished for his treachery by Sir Colin’s son, who attacked him and expelled him from his castle and lands.

"The legend turns on an incident which, as Sir Walter Scott remarks, was not unlikely to happen in more instances than one when crusaders abode long in the Holy Land, and their disconsolate dames received no tidings of their fate. A story very similar in circumstances is told of one of the Braidshaighs, the ancient lords of Haigh Hall, in Lancashire, now possessed by the Earl of Crawford, their descendant in the female line. The particulars are represented in a stained-glass window in that old manor-house, and are narrated at length in the family genealogy. Sir Walter mentions that he adopted the idea of the tale of ’The Betrothed’ from the Haigh Hall tradition.
Sir Colin was four times married. His second wife was one of three daughters and co-heiresses of the Lord of Lorne, with whom he received a third of the estates of that ancient and powerful clan, still possessed by his descendants, and thenceforward quartered the galley of Lorne with his paternal coat of arms. His nephew, the first Earl of Argyll, to whom he was guardian, married another of these heiresses. By his fourth wife, a daughter of Stirling of Keir, Sir Colin had a son named John, who was the ancestor of the Earls of Loudoun."

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Paul Raymond KINNEY

[56925]

17 MAY 1933 - 19 AUG 2012

Father: Frank John KINNEY
Mother: Elva Maude ROSS

Family 1 :
  1.  Cathy Lee KINNEY

                                                                                                       _Israel KENNEY ______+
                                                                                                      | (1739 - 1791) m 1763
                                                                      _Asa KINNEY ____________________|_Susannah HOOD ______
                                                                     | (1785 - 1856)                    (1745 - ....)       
                                                _Austin KINNEY ______|
                                               | (1823 - 1921) m 1852|
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                                               |                     |_Elizabeth ("Betsey") TOMPKINS _|_____________________
                                               |                       (1791 - 1842)                                        
                       _George Gilbert KINNEY _|
                      | (1866 - 1938) m 1889   |
                      |                        |                                                       _James DYER _________+
                      |                        |                                                      |  m 1797             
                      |                        |                      _George Fields DYER ____________|_Margaret FIELD _____
                      |                        |                     | (1799 - 1882) m 1822                                 
                      |                        |_Temperance M. DYER _|
                      |                          (1834 - 1902) m 1852|
                      |                                              |                                 _____________________
                      |                                              |                                |                     
                      |                                              |_Mary Ann DIXON ________________|_____________________
                      |                                                (1805 - 1877) m 1822                                 
 _Frank John KINNEY __|
| (1903 - 1966) m 1931|
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|                     |_Lydia Mae HARTLEY _____|
|                       (1867 - 1936) m 1889   |
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|
|--Paul Raymond KINNEY 
|  (1933 - 2012)
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|_Elva Maude ROSS ____|
  (1913 - 1985) m 1931|
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[56925] The unverified file GNGV-V45 in familysearch.org offers: "When Paul Raymond Kinney was born on 17 May 1933, in Bridgewater, Aroostook, Maine, United States, his father, Frank John Kinney, was 29 and his mother, Elva Maude Ross, was 19. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Haynesville, Aroostook, Maine, United States for about 1 years and Presque Isle, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States in 2012. He died on 29 August 2012, in Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Smith Cemetery, Bridgewater, Aroostook, Maine, United States."

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Forrest Donald MYERS

[100]

14 MAY 1906 - 15 JUL 1993

Father: Albert MYERS
Mother: Martha Amelia BRINER

Family 1 : Marian Helen CONNER
  1. +Albert Edwin MYERS
  2. +Vivian Martha MYERS
  3. +Howard Wald MYERS

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                                                _Jacob D. MOYER ______________|
                                               | (1776 - 1834)                |
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                         _Sam MYERS ___________|
                        | (1805 - 1883) m 1869 |
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                        |                      |                               _Andrew HAFFER ___________________________|__________________________
                        |                      |                              | (1737 - 1791)                                                       
                        |                      |_Maria Anna Catharine HAFFER _|
                        |                        (1778 - ....)                |
                        |                                                     |                                           _Peter DRUCKENMILLER _____
                        |                                                     |                                          | (.... - 1790)            
                        |                                                     |_Elizabeth DRUCKENMILLER _________________|__________________________
                        |                                                       (.... - 1809)                                                       
 _Albert MYERS _________|
| (1870 - 1952) m 1894  |
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|                       |                       _Daniel HORNER _______________|
|                       |                      | (.... - 1842) m 1812         |
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|                       |_Lydia HORNER ________|
|                         (1833 - 1907) m 1869 |
|                                              |                                                                          _Peter BRILLHART _________+
|                                              |                                                                         | (1726 - 1782) m 1745     
|                                              |                               _Christian B. BRILLHART __________________|_Mary MEYER ______________
|                                              |                              | (1762 - 1811)                              (.... - 1804)            
|                                              |_Barbara BRILLHART ___________|
|                                                (1788 - 1873) m 1812         |
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|                                                                             |_Anna (Wever?) WEBER _____________________|__________________________
|                                                                               (1764 - 1828)                                                       
|
|--Forrest Donald MYERS 
|  (1906 - 1993)
|                                                                                                                         __________________________
|                                                                                                                        |                          
|                                                                              _George Michael BREINER __________________|__________________________
|                                                                             | (.... - 1782)                                                       
|                                               _Johann Jacob BREINER ________|
|                                              | (1767 - 1842) m 1806         |
|                                              |                              |                                           _Mathias (Lei, Ley?) LOY _
|                                              |                              |                                          | (1706 - 1783)            
|                                              |                              |_Catharina Magdalena (Ley or) LOY ________|_Anna Maria DAY __________
|                                              |                                (1742 - 1806)                              (1711 - 1786)            
|                        _Jacob J. BRINER _____|
|                       | (1817 - 1903) m 1860 |
|                       |                      |                                                                          _Georg (Hammer) HAMER ____
|                       |                      |                                                                         |                          
|                       |                      |                               _Johann Georg (Hamer or) HAMMER __________|__________________________
|                       |                      |                              | (1755 - 1812)                                                       
|                       |                      |_Magdalena HAMMER ____________|
|                       |                        (1788 - 1827) m 1806         |
|                       |                                                     |                                           __________________________
|                       |                                                     |                                          |                          
|                       |                                                     |_Anna Maria, wife of Johann Georg HAMMER _|__________________________
|                       |                                                       (1743 - 1830)                                                       
|_Martha Amelia BRINER _|
  (1872 - 1954) m 1894  |
                        |                                                                                                 _Peter RITZMAN ___________+
                        |                                                                                                | (1735 - 1796) m 1757     
                        |                                                      _John RITZMAN ____________________________|_Christina STUPP _________
                        |                                                     | (1772 - 1827) m 1796                                                
                        |                       _Samuel RITZMAN ______________|
                        |                      | (1806 - 1888)                |
                        |                      |                              |                                           _John Jacob STRAUSS ______+
                        |                      |                              |                                          | (1737 - 1780) m 1759     
                        |                      |                              |_Catherine STRAUSS _______________________|_Elizabeth BRECHT ________
                        |                      |                                (1778 - 1857) m 1796                       (1738 - 1795)            
                        |_Mary Amelia RITZMAN _|
                          (1837 - 1926) m 1860 |
                                               |                                                                          _George Peter MOTZ _______+
                                               |                                                                         | (1743 - 1806)            
                                               |                               _John MOTZ _______________________________|_Anna Mary HAINES ________
                                               |                              | (1783 - 1847)                              (1755 - 1816)            
                                               |_Mary MOTZ ___________________|
                                                 (1810 - 1877)                |
                                                                              |                                           _Philip MEYER ____________+
                                                                              |                                          | (1755 - 1831) m 1780     
                                                                              |_Barbara MEYER ___________________________|_Anna Margaret MORR ______
                                                                                (1782 - 1847)                              (1759 - 1829)            

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Forrest graduated in 1927 from The University of Akron (serving as President of its alumni at least one term), and entered the real estate business with his father, concentrating on appraisal.
He was active in politics (Democratic Party convention delegate Clarence Motz of Akron was pledged to him as party nominee for President one year), was President of the Young Men's Democratic Club in Summit County, Secretary of the Summit County Democratic Party, and often mentioned as a candidate for Mayor by younger party men. He was elected Delegate to the 1944 Ohio State Convention of the Democratic Party. He managed Democrat Dean May's successful campaign for Probate Judge; May served multiple terms and Forrest regularly testified on real estate valuations in his court. He was highly regarded for his probity.
He served many years as intermediate department superintendent of Trinity Lutheran Church (http://trinity.lutheran-church.org/about/history.html) and as a member of the Church Council. He was Potentate of Tadmor Temple, helped organize and served in the housing authority (a member of the initial Municipal Housing Authority board in 1939), and made many other civic contributions to Akron. As a long-time member of the metropolitan park board, he worked hard to expand the park system. He was an avid sportsman (fisherman and hunter of deer, moose, and water fowl). He was youngest president of the Akron Area Board of Realtors (1938) and one of five founding members of (and President of) the Akron Chapter of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers. He was a Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers, Western District Commissioner of Boy Scouts of America's Fir Hill Council, Trustee of Akron Community Trusts, Trustee (and from 1992 resident) of Sumner Home for the Aged, Director and Chief Appraiser of Evans Savings Ass'n, Director of Centran Bank, founder and board member of the Akron Municipal Housing Authority, founder of Young Men's Democratic Club (Summit County), multi-term President of the Alumni Association of The University of Akron, founder of Penobscot (ME) Historical Society, Director of Castine (ME) Scientific Society, Life Member of The Perry Historians (Newport, PA), member 73196 of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution [Lafayette Chapter, Ohio Society]), member of The Ohio Genealogical Society, member of Akron City Club, Castine Country Club, Castine Men's Club and for 36 years of Congress Lake Club (Hartville, OH), Izaak Walton League of America, Lutheran Laity Movement for Stewardship, and active in various Masonic organizations.
See his obituary in The Akron Beacon Journal, 18 July 1993; also editorial in same newspaper, 20 July 1993, which says in part, "Forrest Myers was well-known by many, but thousands more who never knew him can long appreciate his foresight in working to provide this region with a fine park system." His life was celebrated by his family and friends in his church at 10 a.m. on 19 July 1993. He is interred with his wife near his parents and brothers at Uniontown, Ohio.
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