Husband of Nellie Weide.
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
NOTE: His earliest ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of New York with his grandfather, George Esterly (1809NY-1893SD) an inventor and creator of Esterly Reaper Works 1844-1892 Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, then Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota (1892-1896).
HE PAID HIS WAY AS CAR INSPECTOR
B. H. Esterly, Columbia Vis-
itor, Tells of Student Days
at Wisconsin U.
NOW CARTHAGE ATTORNEY
Those Pies Looked Good But
He Was Able to Resist
- - the Temptation.
Inspecting street cars, does this
appeal to you as a means of working your way through college?
Do you think you could engrave your way
through?
This is the way B. H.
Esterly, an attorney of Carthage.
Mo., paid for his college education.
Mr. Esterly is in Columbia today on
business.
While Mr. Esterly was a student at the University of Wisconsin his father failed in business [largely due to the national panic of 1893-'96 which affected the farm economy, two years of drought, and a $2 million lawsuit brought by competitor W.A. Wood (over patent rights to the Appleby knotter) forced closure of the plant in August 1893. Google farmcollector.com/equipment/the-esterly-reaper, and he was thrown upon his own resources. Inspecting street cars began at 5 o'clock in the morning and the work was not finished until the last theater car turned in for the night. The pay he received as inspector was supplemented by engraving for a Madison printing house.
One dollar and thirty cents a, week for board and room seems like a pittance. But that is the amount he spent. A bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, a dish of beans and a cup of
coffee for dinner and a fifteen-cent supper were what he ate. "The rows of pies were particularly tempting," said Mr. Esterly, "but I knew that if I fell that day I would continue on my reckless course, and the nickels which pie cost meant an education to me.
"The lads who are having an easy time at college," he said, "cannot appreciate their advantages as fully as the ones do who know every dollar was earned. Parents make a mistake when they provide large allowances." After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Mr. Esterly went to Columbia University, New York City, from which school he received a master's degree and graduated in law.
Source: Reported story on the internet.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 6, Number 2 (Nov. 1904), p 80.
Burton H. Esterly, '97, who took his M. S. in '99 and LL. B. in '00, at the Columbian University, is practicing law in Carthage, Mo. He was married August 25th to Miss Nellie Weide of Washington, D. C.
City Directory: 1904 clerked in Washington D C working for U S Government before removing to Carthage, Missouri.
City Directory: 1905 Law office reported as #6 Regan Building, first brick building built in Carthage following Civil War, west side of square, Carthage, Missouri, residing at 611 south Garrison avenue, future (1946) location of Colonial Apartments, to become the Jefferson Highway (U S #71) around 1920.
City Directory: 1906, same as above except residing 812 south McGregor street, next door to Fred Knight's family.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 7 (1906), p 313.
Burton H Esterly, B. S. '97, lawyer, 810 south McGregor street, Carthage, Missouri
City Directory: 1909, same as 1906 except at 810 south McGregor street.
Census: 1910, age 41 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 810 south McGregor street, an attorney.
City Directory: 1912, same as 1909 except office at #6 Luke building, formerly Regan building.
Census: 1920, age 47 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife, his mother & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Census: 1930, age 60 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Credited with the words and music to: 'Take Me Home To Mother' 16 JAN 1932. (possibly (?) at his mother's 1926 passing)
City Directory: 1937 law office, 227 south Main street in #5-7, Caffee Building with son Robert, both residing at 1012 south McGregor street.
Census: 1940, age 69 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney, same location as in 1935.
Burton was a coin collector, collecting from circulation, had complete set of Indian Head cents shown me by his son Bob, who had inherited them. It included the rare 1909-San Francisco and the 1877 issues.
Death: at Missouri state hospital #3, Vernon county, Missouri,
informant son Robert.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Father: George W Esterly b: 25 APR 1842 in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
Mother: Catherine "Katie" M Haines b: 20 OCT 1845 in Maine.
Burton had an older brother, George Max Esterly, a well known mining engineer in Josephine county, Oregon who died in 1931, and at that time a younger brother, Frank Curtis Esterly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, younger sister Blanche (Esterly) Sorlie in Burton, North Dakota, wife of Oscar J Sorlie, as well as the baby sister Helen.
Marriage: Nellie Weide b: 19 MAR 1877 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Married: 25 AUG 1904 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Known children
George Burton Esterly b: 16 OCT 1906 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became a dentist)
Albert Cassius Esterly b: 05 JAN 1911 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an architect)
Robert A Esterly b: 28 OCT 1912 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an attorney)
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
NOTE: His earliest ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of New York with his grandfather, George Esterly (1809NY-1893SD) an inventor and creator of Esterly Reaper Works 1844-1892 Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, then Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota (1892-1896).
HE PAID HIS WAY AS CAR INSPECTOR
B. H. Esterly, Columbia Vis-
itor, Tells of Student Days
at Wisconsin U.
NOW CARTHAGE ATTORNEY
Those Pies Looked Good But
He Was Able to Resist
- - the Temptation.
Inspecting street cars, does this
appeal to you as a means of working your way through college?
Do you think you could engrave your way
through?
This is the way B. H.
Esterly, an attorney of Carthage.
Mo., paid for his college education.
Mr. Esterly is in Columbia today on
business.
While Mr. Esterly was a student at the University of Wisconsin his father failed in business [largely due to the national panic of 1893-'96 which affected the farm economy, two years of drought, and a $2 million lawsuit brought by competitor W.A. Wood (over patent rights to the Appleby knotter) forced closure of the plant in August 1893. Google farmcollector.com/equipment/the-esterly-reaper, and he was thrown upon his own resources. Inspecting street cars began at 5 o'clock in the morning and the work was not finished until the last theater car turned in for the night. The pay he received as inspector was supplemented by engraving for a Madison printing house.
One dollar and thirty cents a, week for board and room seems like a pittance. But that is the amount he spent. A bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, a dish of beans and a cup of
coffee for dinner and a fifteen-cent supper were what he ate. "The rows of pies were particularly tempting," said Mr. Esterly, "but I knew that if I fell that day I would continue on my reckless course, and the nickels which pie cost meant an education to me.
"The lads who are having an easy time at college," he said, "cannot appreciate their advantages as fully as the ones do who know every dollar was earned. Parents make a mistake when they provide large allowances." After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Mr. Esterly went to Columbia University, New York City, from which school he received a master's degree and graduated in law.
Source: Reported story on the internet.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 6, Number 2 (Nov. 1904), p 80.
Burton H. Esterly, '97, who took his M. S. in '99 and LL. B. in '00, at the Columbian University, is practicing law in Carthage, Mo. He was married August 25th to Miss Nellie Weide of Washington, D. C.
City Directory: 1904 clerked in Washington D C working for U S Government before removing to Carthage, Missouri.
City Directory: 1905 Law office reported as #6 Regan Building, first brick building built in Carthage following Civil War, west side of square, Carthage, Missouri, residing at 611 south Garrison avenue, future (1946) location of Colonial Apartments, to become the Jefferson Highway (U S #71) around 1920.
City Directory: 1906, same as above except residing 812 south McGregor street, next door to Fred Knight's family.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 7 (1906), p 313.
Burton H Esterly, B. S. '97, lawyer, 810 south McGregor street, Carthage, Missouri
City Directory: 1909, same as 1906 except at 810 south McGregor street.
Census: 1910, age 41 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 810 south McGregor street, an attorney.
City Directory: 1912, same as 1909 except office at #6 Luke building, formerly Regan building.
Census: 1920, age 47 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife, his mother & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Census: 1930, age 60 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Credited with the words and music to: 'Take Me Home To Mother' 16 JAN 1932. (possibly (?) at his mother's 1926 passing)
City Directory: 1937 law office, 227 south Main street in #5-7, Caffee Building with son Robert, both residing at 1012 south McGregor street.
Census: 1940, age 69 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney, same location as in 1935.
Burton was a coin collector, collecting from circulation, had complete set of Indian Head cents shown me by his son Bob, who had inherited them. It included the rare 1909-San Francisco and the 1877 issues.
Death: at Missouri state hospital #3, Vernon county, Missouri,
informant son Robert.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Father: George W Esterly b: 25 APR 1842 in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
Mother: Catherine "Katie" M Haines b: 20 OCT 1845 in Maine.
Burton had an older brother, George Max Esterly, a well known mining engineer in Josephine county, Oregon who died in 1931, and at that time a younger brother, Frank Curtis Esterly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, younger sister Blanche (Esterly) Sorlie in Burton, North Dakota, wife of Oscar J Sorlie, as well as the baby sister Helen.
Marriage: Nellie Weide b: 19 MAR 1877 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Married: 25 AUG 1904 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Known children
George Burton Esterly b: 16 OCT 1906 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became a dentist)
Albert Cassius Esterly b: 05 JAN 1911 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an architect)
Robert A Esterly b: 28 OCT 1912 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an attorney)
Husband of Nellie Weide.
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
NOTE: His earliest ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of New York with his grandfather, George Esterly (1809NY-1893SD) an inventor and creator of Esterly Reaper Works 1844-1892 Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, then Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota (1892-1896).
HE PAID HIS WAY AS CAR INSPECTOR
B. H. Esterly, Columbia Vis-
itor, Tells of Student Days
at Wisconsin U.
NOW CARTHAGE ATTORNEY
Those Pies Looked Good But
He Was Able to Resist
- - the Temptation.
Inspecting street cars, does this
appeal to you as a means of working your way through college?
Do you think you could engrave your way
through?
This is the way B. H.
Esterly, an attorney of Carthage.
Mo., paid for his college education.
Mr. Esterly is in Columbia today on
business.
While Mr. Esterly was a student at the University of Wisconsin his father failed in business [largely due to the national panic of 1893-'96 which affected the farm economy, two years of drought, and a $2 million lawsuit brought by competitor W.A. Wood (over patent rights to the Appleby knotter) forced closure of the plant in August 1893. Google farmcollector.com/equipment/the-esterly-reaper, and he was thrown upon his own resources. Inspecting street cars began at 5 o'clock in the morning and the work was not finished until the last theater car turned in for the night. The pay he received as inspector was supplemented by engraving for a Madison printing house.
One dollar and thirty cents a, week for board and room seems like a pittance. But that is the amount he spent. A bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, a dish of beans and a cup of
coffee for dinner and a fifteen-cent supper were what he ate. "The rows of pies were particularly tempting," said Mr. Esterly, "but I knew that if I fell that day I would continue on my reckless course, and the nickels which pie cost meant an education to me.
"The lads who are having an easy time at college," he said, "cannot appreciate their advantages as fully as the ones do who know every dollar was earned. Parents make a mistake when they provide large allowances." After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Mr. Esterly went to Columbia University, New York City, from which school he received a master's degree and graduated in law.
Source: Reported story on the internet.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 6, Number 2 (Nov. 1904), p 80.
Burton H. Esterly, '97, who took his M. S. in '99 and LL. B. in '00, at the Columbian University, is practicing law in Carthage, Mo. He was married August 25th to Miss Nellie Weide of Washington, D. C.
City Directory: 1904 clerked in Washington D C working for U S Government before removing to Carthage, Missouri.
City Directory: 1905 Law office reported as #6 Regan Building, first brick building built in Carthage following Civil War, west side of square, Carthage, Missouri, residing at 611 south Garrison avenue, future (1946) location of Colonial Apartments, to become the Jefferson Highway (U S #71) around 1920.
City Directory: 1906, same as above except residing 812 south McGregor street, next door to Fred Knight's family.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 7 (1906), p 313.
Burton H Esterly, B. S. '97, lawyer, 810 south McGregor street, Carthage, Missouri
City Directory: 1909, same as 1906 except at 810 south McGregor street.
Census: 1910, age 41 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 810 south McGregor street, an attorney.
City Directory: 1912, same as 1909 except office at #6 Luke building, formerly Regan building.
Census: 1920, age 47 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife, his mother & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Census: 1930, age 60 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Credited with the words and music to: 'Take Me Home To Mother' 16 JAN 1932. (possibly (?) at his mother's 1926 passing)
City Directory: 1937 law office, 227 south Main street in #5-7, Caffee Building with son Robert, both residing at 1012 south McGregor street.
Census: 1940, age 69 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney, same location as in 1935.
Burton was a coin collector, collecting from circulation, had complete set of Indian Head cents shown me by his son Bob, who had inherited them. It included the rare 1909-San Francisco and the 1877 issues.
Death: at Missouri state hospital #3, Vernon county, Missouri,
informant son Robert.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Father: George W Esterly b: 25 APR 1842 in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
Mother: Catherine "Katie" M Haines b: 20 OCT 1845 in Maine.
Burton had an older brother, George Max Esterly, a well known mining engineer in Josephine county, Oregon who died in 1931, and at that time a younger brother, Frank Curtis Esterly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, younger sister Blanche (Esterly) Sorlie in Burton, North Dakota, wife of Oscar J Sorlie, as well as the baby sister Helen.
Marriage: Nellie Weide b: 19 MAR 1877 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Married: 25 AUG 1904 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Known children
George Burton Esterly b: 16 OCT 1906 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became a dentist)
Albert Cassius Esterly b: 05 JAN 1911 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an architect)
Robert A Esterly b: 28 OCT 1912 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an attorney)
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
NOTE: His earliest ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of New York with his grandfather, George Esterly (1809NY-1893SD) an inventor and creator of Esterly Reaper Works 1844-1892 Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, then Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota (1892-1896).
HE PAID HIS WAY AS CAR INSPECTOR
B. H. Esterly, Columbia Vis-
itor, Tells of Student Days
at Wisconsin U.
NOW CARTHAGE ATTORNEY
Those Pies Looked Good But
He Was Able to Resist
- - the Temptation.
Inspecting street cars, does this
appeal to you as a means of working your way through college?
Do you think you could engrave your way
through?
This is the way B. H.
Esterly, an attorney of Carthage.
Mo., paid for his college education.
Mr. Esterly is in Columbia today on
business.
While Mr. Esterly was a student at the University of Wisconsin his father failed in business [largely due to the national panic of 1893-'96 which affected the farm economy, two years of drought, and a $2 million lawsuit brought by competitor W.A. Wood (over patent rights to the Appleby knotter) forced closure of the plant in August 1893. Google farmcollector.com/equipment/the-esterly-reaper, and he was thrown upon his own resources. Inspecting street cars began at 5 o'clock in the morning and the work was not finished until the last theater car turned in for the night. The pay he received as inspector was supplemented by engraving for a Madison printing house.
One dollar and thirty cents a, week for board and room seems like a pittance. But that is the amount he spent. A bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, a dish of beans and a cup of
coffee for dinner and a fifteen-cent supper were what he ate. "The rows of pies were particularly tempting," said Mr. Esterly, "but I knew that if I fell that day I would continue on my reckless course, and the nickels which pie cost meant an education to me.
"The lads who are having an easy time at college," he said, "cannot appreciate their advantages as fully as the ones do who know every dollar was earned. Parents make a mistake when they provide large allowances." After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Mr. Esterly went to Columbia University, New York City, from which school he received a master's degree and graduated in law.
Source: Reported story on the internet.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 6, Number 2 (Nov. 1904), p 80.
Burton H. Esterly, '97, who took his M. S. in '99 and LL. B. in '00, at the Columbian University, is practicing law in Carthage, Mo. He was married August 25th to Miss Nellie Weide of Washington, D. C.
City Directory: 1904 clerked in Washington D C working for U S Government before removing to Carthage, Missouri.
City Directory: 1905 Law office reported as #6 Regan Building, first brick building built in Carthage following Civil War, west side of square, Carthage, Missouri, residing at 611 south Garrison avenue, future (1946) location of Colonial Apartments, to become the Jefferson Highway (U S #71) around 1920.
City Directory: 1906, same as above except residing 812 south McGregor street, next door to Fred Knight's family.
The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 7 (1906), p 313.
Burton H Esterly, B. S. '97, lawyer, 810 south McGregor street, Carthage, Missouri
City Directory: 1909, same as 1906 except at 810 south McGregor street.
Census: 1910, age 41 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 810 south McGregor street, an attorney.
City Directory: 1912, same as 1909 except office at #6 Luke building, formerly Regan building.
Census: 1920, age 47 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife, his mother & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Census: 1930, age 60 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney.
Credited with the words and music to: 'Take Me Home To Mother' 16 JAN 1932. (possibly (?) at his mother's 1926 passing)
City Directory: 1937 law office, 227 south Main street in #5-7, Caffee Building with son Robert, both residing at 1012 south McGregor street.
Census: 1940, age 69 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & one child at 1012 south McGregor street, an attorney, same location as in 1935.
Burton was a coin collector, collecting from circulation, had complete set of Indian Head cents shown me by his son Bob, who had inherited them. It included the rare 1909-San Francisco and the 1877 issues.
Death: at Missouri state hospital #3, Vernon county, Missouri,
informant son Robert.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Father: George W Esterly b: 25 APR 1842 in Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin.
Mother: Catherine "Katie" M Haines b: 20 OCT 1845 in Maine.
Burton had an older brother, George Max Esterly, a well known mining engineer in Josephine county, Oregon who died in 1931, and at that time a younger brother, Frank Curtis Esterly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, younger sister Blanche (Esterly) Sorlie in Burton, North Dakota, wife of Oscar J Sorlie, as well as the baby sister Helen.
Marriage: Nellie Weide b: 19 MAR 1877 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Married: 25 AUG 1904 Washington city, District of Columbia.
Known children
George Burton Esterly b: 16 OCT 1906 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became a dentist)
Albert Cassius Esterly b: 05 JAN 1911 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an architect)
Robert A Esterly b: 28 OCT 1912 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri. (became an attorney)
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