Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3117

Pages handwritten (by Leonora Lawrence?) and heavily annotated by Heath

No date but probably early 1930s

 

Hill Family Tree — Payne Branch

Generation VII

Children of William and Lavinia (Frost) Payne

     Selinda Amelia

1. Date of birth – Jan 7, 1847
2. Where born – Farmington, NY
3. Date of marriage – May 14, 1874
4. Where married – Idlewild Farm near Vienna, Fairfax Co., VA
5. Date of Death – Jan 3, 1931
6. Where – Oakton, VA

 

Spencer Anson Heath

1. Date of birth – _____, 1848
2. Where born – Lockport, NY
3. Date of death – _____, 1875
4. Where – Fairfax, VA
5. His father’s full name – Horace Heath
6. His mother’s full maiden name – Unknown. Divorced and then married a Dr. Perkins. Died at Kansas City about 1890 leaving considerable real estate. Some years a traveling platform lecturer on Spiritualism and Liberalism

Generation VIII

Children of Spencer Anson Heath and Selinda Amelia Payne

     William (not used since childhood) Spencer Heath

1. Date of birth – January 3, 1876
2. Where born – Idlewild Farm, near Vienna, VA
3. Date of first marriage – May 2, 1899
4. Where married – Grand Rapids, Mich. By Rev. Anna Howard Shaw

 

Johanna Marie Holm

 

1. Date of Birth – May 26, 1870
2. Where born – Chicago, Illinois
3. Date of divorce – 1918
4. Where – Baltimore, MD
5. Father’s full name –
6. Mother’s full name – Annette Fredrica Lysholm,

Born Malmo, near Stockholm, Sweden. An early religious liberal, Joined Unitarian Church, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1870

     Second marriage – Ada Lee (no middle initial)

1. Date of birth – April 15, 1880 or 1882
2. Where born – Birmingham, England
3. Date of marriage – November, 1920
4. Where married –
5. Father’s full name – James Lee
6. Mother’s full maiden name – Farrar

 

William Spencer Heath did not serve in any war. Active mechanical and automotive engineer. Also LLM National University Law School, Washington DC; Member of Bar of Supreme Court of District of Columbia. Member of Aero Club of America and Society of Automotive Engineers. Extensive manufacturer and developer of airplane propellers and other mechanical devices. With factories in Baltimore, MD from 1912 to 1929. Chief American supplier of propellers to U.S. and Allies during Great War. In 1929 sold all business interests including numerous U.S. and foreign patents to Bendix Aviation Corporation.

Other interests (hobbies): History and development of jurisprudence – Political economy. Active in Chicago Single Tax Club 1900-1901 and continuous supporter of S.T. movement to date. Member of Manhattan S.T. Club (founded by Henry George) and United Committee for Taxation of Land Values, Great Britain. Pedagogy and Education – life-long amateur interest. General Science and Literature – Wide range of reading interest. Horticulture -Active amateur interest. Music – intensely appreciative but almost illiterate. National Politics – Democratic and always a Free Trader.

 

/Data from Miss Leonora Lawrence, 141 Lawrence Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey (c/o George A. Herrmann, Hasbrouck Heights), given to Spencer Heath and copied in his hand August 23, 1941:/

 

Irving W. Payne /see below/, son of Andrew. grandson of George Payne. George, son of Gideon Payne and Phoebe Hill Payne.  Brother of William Payne—my grandfather. He was born in Farmington, New York, March 24, 1807.

Selinda Amelia (Payne) Heath, born Farmington, New York, January 7, 1847, died January 3, 1931, Oakton, Virginia.

Gideon Payne and his wife, Phoebe Hill, were Quakers. Buried in Quaker cemetery Farmington, New York.

Lavinia Maria (Frost) Payne — Pension. Go to Room 390, Veterans’ Bureau, Mr. Murdock. Get certificate number. Go to Archives Building for records.

Photo of Phoebe Hill by C. 0. Buckingham Company, 810 13th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., for Leonora Lawrence. Irving W. Payne, 4017 Leland Street, Chevy Chase, Mary­land, has the original daguerrotype.  She is my (Spencer Heath’s) grandfather William Payne’s mother.  Born January 12, 1771, Swansea, Massachusetts. Died April 2, 1854.

Married Gideon Payne at Adams, Massachusetts.  Buckingham has negatives.

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