1921

When I read Teri Allbright's excellent article about Douglas Storer, I wrote, to Doug asking if he had something new on the drawing boards for his "Amazing But True" series especially for Storer Cable.

A letter from Doug reminded me that in 1929 he started two small radio stations in Detroit and Toledo together with his cousin George Storer. They are now in the cable business and Doug is producing shorts which they can sell.

He has been doing guest appearances for Vision Cable, the Tampa radio, and Tampa outlets for NBC. He also did a CBS radio network program.

"They hook my phone to their New Jersey equipment and make a tape. They can then use it as often as they wish," wrote Doug. Simon and Schuster has published Doug's Amazing But True Stories About Presidents. Carter and Reagan will be added when this hook is published again next year. This series will also be good for serializing in newspapers and on radio and television.

After reading Doug's letter, I am convinced that Doug is no older than 50 what unbounded enthusiasm and energy.

A few issues back, this column asked if any of you have any ancestors responsible for settling towns or villages such as the Rt. Rev. Charles Packard Gilson's "Packard" ancestor who performed that feat for Brockton, Mass.

None other than Russ Bailey's good wife Esther has just written a letter to tell us how close the Bayley family came to convincing Eleazar Wheelock to settle at Haverhill, N.H., and not in Hanover. Her letter will be run in two installments, the first of which follows:

"In reference to your long-ago suggestion concerning ancestors of any '21ers who founded towns, here is some information about Russell's.

"His great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Bayley was born July 19, 1720, in Newbury, Mass. (Three generations later, Russell's grandfather John changed the spelling to Bailey.) Jacob had moved to Hampstead, N.H., where in 1756 he became a lieutenant in the militia. He served actively in the French and Indian and the Revolutionary wars. He was appointed commissary general of the northern department by Washington in 1777 and as a brigadier general commanded troops from western New Hampshire and eastern Vermont.

"Following the surrender of Montreal by the French in September 1760, he spent a few days along the Connecticut River and decided he had found a good place for a new settlement. Subsequently, he obtained a charter for land on the west side of the river. There now stands on the village green of Newbury, Vt., a monument honoring General Jacob Bayley as the town's founder."

Look for the remainder of Esther's letter in our next issue.

Unaware that Ell Fisher's wife had passed away last year, I wrote to Marion asking about news of the Fisher family. A response came from their daughter Corinne (Mrs. Charles L. Smythe Jr.) informing me of Marion's death.

The letter goes on to say what a special place Dartmouth has in the hearts of all the Fisher family. Their son Ellwood is Dartmouth '60, and Corinne records all the good times they had when visiting at Hanover. She sends her best wishes to all of us in 1921.

Many thanks to you, Corinne, for your warm letter.

Here is this month's bit of closing philos- ophy:

"O Liberty! Liberty! How many crimes are committed in thy name."

Madame Roland (1754-1793)

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