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We bring you a slice of the 2010 Edition of our Annual Newsletter by its editor, Lanaii Kline. Enjoy!

OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER -- THE SHANNON STOCK COMPANY. The Shannon Stock Company, also known as Shannon's Famous Players, was a traveling theater company based in Wapakeneta from 1913 until the Great Depression. Founded by Harry Shannon, the group included his wife Adelaide, their children, Harry Jr. and Hazel, and a company of twenty people or more. The company performed in theaters in southern states during the winter and in a tent in Ohio, Indiana, and other Midwest states during the summer. When not performing, the Shannon's prepared for the next tour while at home here in Wapakoneta. (Continued on other side) WAPAKONETA 175TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE -- THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 6-6-2008

Interesting Tidbits

Printed August 15, 2010
STFA Annual Newsletter
by Lanaii Kline

Shannon Historical Marker

I came across an obituary for Harry Shannon, Jr. in the Lima News from February 25, 1970. He was born in Helena, Montana in 1891. At the time of his death, he was a race track photo finish operator at state and county fairs in Ohio. His parents, Harry Shannon and Adelaide Stoutenburg, operated the Shannon Stock Company and the Shannon Players. He was assigned to the Infantry Band Service in WWI. Clearly raised in show business, Harry Jr. directed the Harry Shannon and His Pennsylvanians Orchestra during the 1930s.

On November 8, 2008, the State of Ohio dedicated an historic marker at 308 West Auglaize Street, Wapakoneta. This was the site of the Shannon Stock Company and is the 6th historic site dedicated in Auglaize County. (To view a larger image and the text on the backside of the marker, visit the marker site.)

US VP Schulyer Colfax

Schuyler Colfax Statue (Colfax, California)

In May I took a train trip from San Francisco to Reno. We stopped in Colfax, CA and right at the station is a large statue of Schuyler Colfax.

In the 2007 Newsletter, I included an article about Schuyler Colfax, Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant and a descendant of Margaret Teller’s aunt, Jannetje Teller.

According to the Colfax Historical Society, Colfax was originally named Camp 20 and was a camp that housed the men who helped build the railroad over the Sierra Nevada. On a visit from then Speaker of the House Colfax, the camp was very taken by his oratory ability. At the completion of the railroad from Truckee at Camp 20, the emerging town was named in his honor.

Donald Fay, War Hero

On May 7, 1951, the San Mateo Times printed on page 2 an article, "Boy Wounded In Korean War." That boy was PFC Donald Fay who was in Korea only 20 days before being wounded.

Don was near Hwachon, Korea when he was struck by shrapnel from a rocket explosion. Although Don was wounded in the wrist, the back of the neck, and the small of his back, he managed to walk for help. He was hospitalized in Taegu, Japan.

The article indicated that Don and his wife Cay were engaged to be married. I don’t know if he returned to the field after discharge from the hospital, but I do know he returned to California to marry Cay.

More on Joseph Burr Tiffany

In the 2007 newsletter, I wrote an article about Joseph Burr Tiffany, son of Amanda Cuyler Stoutenburgh in connection with Wilderstein. I came across an interesting blog entry entitled "A Tale of Two Tiffanys." The article was posted in three parts, December 9, 10 and 13, 2009. Parts two and three focused on Joseph Tiffany. The third blog entry at the end states that the article is to be continued. However, December 13, 2009 is the last entry posted on this blog.

In Memory of JACOBUS STOUTENBURGH Born 1696 Died 1772 who in 1742 became the first white resident of record on the Flatts, south of Crum Elbow Creek, where subsequently the village of Hyde Park was built and who owned many acres of land in Dutchess County under the Patent of the Great Nine Partners. He married May 25th, 1717 MARGARET TELLER of Teller's Point, Westchester Co. Born 1696 Died 1789

As another year’s annual newsletter is on its way to our members, look to your mailboxes for your issue.

Thanks once again to my lifelong friend Lynnea Jones for chauffeuring me to the FDR Library and Museum last October 2008. Among other items, the library houses files pertaining to Maud Stoutenburgh Eliot, a founding member of our Association, and a priceless collection of Hudson River Valley maps and antique documents bearing red wax seals, handwritten in India ink.

I also photographed many items from the collection at the William Stoutenburgh house.

The Dutch Reformed Church in Hyde Park still houses the memorial plaque, dedicated to Jacobus by FDR, preserved on the wall behind plexiglass. The Post Office mural collection funded by FDR shows in vibrant detail the artist’s concept of Jacobus’ people clearing the land.

At town hall a magnificent mosaic heads the conference room and the clerks there were very helpful gathering information from their records.

This year our contacts have increased at our growing website inviting praise and criticism. The internet is infinite in its potential to inform and misinform. We are wise to be cautious and continue to research and verify sources as we collect items of historical interest.

Please provide alternate means to reach you by mail and telephone as well as e-mail when you contact us. When contacting us through the website, please check your e-mail junk (also known as spam and bulk) folders for replies which you may be missing.

Thank you for the honor of the title of Family Historian.

Ila Malloy

Young Lady With A Rose (Attributed to Peter Van Der Lyn)

There are claims that Peter Van Der Lyn (possibly Pieter Vanderlyn) is the same artist/painter who created the portraits of Jacobus Stoutenburgh and Margaret Teller, duplicates of which hang in the William Stoutenburgh House in Hyde Park, New York. The original pair are in the The Museum of the City of New York. We seek any and all information regarding this alleged connection.