IVES--Dr. Franklin B. Ives, at Long Beach, Cal. Services at Oakwoods chapel, Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. Chicago Tribune, Nov. 7, 1909, page 14.
According to a family tree at Ancestry.com, he was born on April 30, 1823, in Ellery, Chautauqua, New York, the son of Almon Ives (1788-1864) and Nancy Tomblin Ives (1795-1862). Dr. Ives was married three times, to Frances M. Luce (1827-1880) in 1847, Rusha Woodruff (1838-1899) in 1886, and Jennie H. Moorhead (b. 1848) in 1904. With Frances he had four children: Frank (1851-1880), Alice E. Ives Breed (b. 1853), Sara E. Ives (1855-1939) and Mary F. Ives (b. 1865).
His marriage to Frances was announced in Chicago's abolitionist newspaper, Western Citizen, suggesting that one or both of them was an abolitionist: "In Long Grove, Kendall county, on the 20th inst., by the Rev. S. P. Ives, Mr. Franklin B. Ives, and Miss Frances M. Luce, all of the above place." Western Citizen (Chicago), November 2, 1847, page 3.
IVES--Dr. Franklin B. Ives, at Long Beach, Cal. Services at Oakwoods chapel, Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. Chicago Tribune, Nov. 7, 1909, page 14.
According to a family tree at Ancestry.com, he was born on April 30, 1823, in Ellery, Chautauqua, New York, the son of Almon Ives (1788-1864) and Nancy Tomblin Ives (1795-1862). Dr. Ives was married three times, to Frances M. Luce (1827-1880) in 1847, Rusha Woodruff (1838-1899) in 1886, and Jennie H. Moorhead (b. 1848) in 1904. With Frances he had four children: Frank (1851-1880), Alice E. Ives Breed (b. 1853), Sara E. Ives (1855-1939) and Mary F. Ives (b. 1865).
His marriage to Frances was announced in Chicago's abolitionist newspaper, Western Citizen, suggesting that one or both of them was an abolitionist: "In Long Grove, Kendall county, on the 20th inst., by the Rev. S. P. Ives, Mr. Franklin B. Ives, and Miss Frances M. Luce, all of the above place." Western Citizen (Chicago), November 2, 1847, page 3.
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