{"id":49279,"date":"2019-04-10T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=49279"},"modified":"2020-01-30T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:25:07","slug":"what-about-great-uncle-walter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/what-about-great-uncle-walter.html","title":{"rendered":"What about Great-Uncle Walter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew that my 2nd great-grandfather, Warren D. Huse (1836-1910<\/a>), started a machine shop in Laconia, New Hampshire, in the 1870s.<\/p>\n

Here he is with his wife Irene (Goodwin) Huse<\/a> and children Leon<\/a> and Walter<\/a>. That\u2019s Walter Leonard Huse on the right.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: the Huse family. Image source: Thomas Jay Kemp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here they are in the 1870 census<\/a>, living in Laconia, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

\"Source:<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, \u201cUnited States Census, 1870,\u201d database with images, GenealogyBank (https:\/\/genealogybank.com\/#), Warren D Huse, New Hampshire, United States. (Original index: United States Census, 1870, FamilySearch, 2014)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yes, according to the census he was a machinist. His company manufactured knitting machines and related equipment as well as gas and steam pipe fittings.<\/p>\n

I knew a lot about him and his son, Leon Huse (my great-grandfather), but I really did not know much about his brother Walter Leonard Huse (1863-1933)<\/a> except that he worked in the family business.<\/p>\n

Turning to GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I quickly found these two articles that told me more about Walter.<\/p>\n

This article tells me that in 1907 he and a group of investors started the Laconia Needle Company.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 22 July 1907, page 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s interesting: I always thought that the W.D. Huse & Sons Machine Shop and the Laconia Needle Company were one company. I didn\u2019t realize that they were two separate entities.<\/p>\n

This is also interesting: in 1922 he was sworn in as a city councilman, representing Ward 5 in Laconia.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 29 March 1922, page 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to GenealogyBank\u2019s diverse collection of over 9,000 newspapers<\/a> and the U.S. census<\/a>, I can find information and the stories about all of my relatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches old newspapers and census records to find information about the Huse family on his family tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[6976,12,2020],"class_list":["post-49279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-census-records","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/photo-0410-2019-featured-graphic-laconia-new-hampshire.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}