Congratulations /u/ljm7991! A German (or Dutch?)-American entry - and recent enough that there should be something to dig up! To the others who posted, feel free to re-enter your people in the Week 6 thread this Thursday.
From /u/ljm7991 :
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Peter Williamson (might be Williams)
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Birth
- Holland/Germany (Year unknown. Potential dates based on his son's birth would be 1830 - 1845)
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Marriage
- Married to Mary Smith presumably in New York, USA before 1866
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Death
- I believe he died before or around 1870
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Children
- John H. Williams (1865 - 1917)
- Death certificate says he was born in Pennsylvania, but I don't think that's right
- His death certificate and obituary (only information I have on him)
- Peter Francis Williamson (1867 - 1934) born in New York, USA
- His death certificate, marriage record, census records from 1900 - 1930, and obituary
- I have not found his birth record from New York in any kind of church record book
- John H. Williams (1865 - 1917)
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Summary/Notes
- Unfortunately, most of the information I have on Peter comes from his son, Peter Francis Williamson
- I believe Peter Williamson died when his sons were very young. My theory for this is as follows:
- Peter's son, Peter F., was born in New York. However, I know that at some point in time the family moved to western Pennsylvania as Peter F. was married in Western PA and lived there for a number of years before moving to Eastern PA. Similarly, the other son, John H.'s obituary says for Ashland, PA newspapers to copy it. Because Peter was born in the USA in 1867 and John in 1865, they should appear on the US Census starting with the year 1870. Despite this, I have not found any census record for them until 1900, when he lived in PA. There are two census records, from 1870 and 1880, in Western PA, close to where the sons lived that could show my Brick wall's widow and other children. I believe these records have a medium chance of belonging to them because Peter F. is listed as being born in New York in ~1867 on the 1870 census, but John would've been born in 1857. On the 1880 census their father's birthplace as Holland while Peter's estimated birth year is still ~1867 and John's is now 1861. Holland is listed as Peter F.'s father's plac
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From anyone else I would not care about this mistake, but from our ~literary princess/2021 Mary Karr it truly kills me.
don't come at me cuz Nabokov lived in the us for a while !!!!
Peter Unger recently shared some new remarks on Timothy Williamson's review of Empty Ideas.
As you may recall, the main point of Emtpy Ideas "is that analytic philosophy has offered next to nothing about the character of concrete reality, even nothing badly false in that regard, and that all of my distinctions and discussions are in service of that pretty obvious thought, and they may all be tossed aside, once the obvious is fully realized."
Not a fan of the view, Timothy Williamson replied here.
Peter Unger has written remarks that respond to Williamson's suggestion that emptiness is the same as necessity and sort out being concretely informative from being concretely substantial. Enjoy.
I am reading A Promised Land and I am always struck by the detail in which memoirists seem to remember minute details of specific days and events which took place years, even decades ago.
These are not like a handful of important moments we all have ingrained in our minds but also trivial details like an old acquaintance’s backstory, enough of them to fill a book to two.
Is this likely a product of keeping a regular journal like most of us do or is it common to start documenting key moments upon attaining the position of power which might lead to your life being of interest to other people?
I can imagine once anyone is elected senator (keeping with Obama’s example), they probably advised to start informally preparing for a book or two which is will likely be popular should their life take a certain direction.
I run a show that is a dramatized memoir in the style of first-person narrative (think This American Life + soundscapes of RadioLab). I’m looking to find other podcasters who fall into a similar category so that we can all share struggles, tips, and learnings with one another.
I get lost in the trends of interview-style casts or horror and sci-fi dramas and have had very little luck finding posts or people that do shows in the above style. Looking to learn from others and find ways to help each other out!
Hi everyone,
Absolutely bursting with emotion right now and I hope it’s okay to share this here, I’ve just had my first ever personal essay published by a lovely e-zine called Memoirist. It’s about growing up with dogs and how they’ve made me a better person and (hopefully) a better writer.
Would love to know what you guys think! You can read the article here
https://www.memoirist.org/post/for-the-love-of-dogs-by-samuel-dodson?fbclid=IwAR2Dn0Tlv0LouD97fGOT7V1wYT1OQtDpInGSppwvX2rY26Zkz4ay2doibOYFor the love of dogs
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