Author: WELLS, STUART WILDER
Title: THE WELLSES [WELLESES] [Wells/Welles Family Genealogy]
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Self-Published, 1956. 1956. Hardcover . Hardback, thin 8vo, gilt on gray cloth, 64 pages, VG to VG+/no dj. Just a little darkening to the spine. Interior very nice. Photos. The author created a bookmark for this book which is laid-in. Very well-organized and highly readable. Includes vignettes of personal experiences such as the Windsor Hotel Fire, San Francisco Earthquake, selling cars in Texas (the first car in Texas?), Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Minneapolis, The Dakotas, Washington DC, etc. Includes four pages of descendant charts dating to the 1840's (Edward Payson Wells born Troy, Wisc. and Nellie March Johnson, born Farmington, Maine). The text begins with the mention of Thomas Welles born England, 1598, fleeing to America in 1636 to escape persecutions of the Church of England. Very Good.

Keywords: Family Geneaology American History