Company A
11th Regiment
Maine Infantry
Facts from the Life of William Henry Harrison Frye*
Among the life details listed below are William H. H. Frye's four marriages:
1. Georgia Day in 1866; divorced 1877. (It is presently unknown if they had children.)
2. Jennie Jones in 1879; no further records found for death or divorce.
3. Martha "Mattie" Albro (my great grandmother) in 1884; divorced about 1898, no record found. They had two children, Mona, 1886, and Harrison, 1888.
4. Hattie B. Smith in 1899, according to her obituary; marriage record not found. She survived WHHF and had two daughters with him: Joyce, 1900, and Mildred, 1905.
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Birth: 24 June 1840 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA
Residence: 1850 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 10
Residence: 1860 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 20
Military: 7 November 1861 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 21. Enlisted as Corporal in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Promoted to Sergeant soon after enlistment. During his entire service, WHHF was assigned to Companies A, B, C, and D of the 11th Regiment.
Battle of Seven Pines: 31 May 1862 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 21. According to an online record for William H. H. Frye of the Union Army, the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment fought in five named battle engagements.
Military: 3 October 1862, Age 22. Promoted to Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 18 December 1862, Age 22. Discharged from service for disability.
Residence: 1 July 1863 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA, Age 23. Marital Status: Unmarried. (Military record)
Military: 17 November 1863 • Maine, Age 23. Re-enlisted as Private in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 4 March 1864, Promotion to First Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment, Age 23
Battle of Proctor's Creek: 12 May 1864 • Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA, Age 23
Battle of Deep Bottom II: 13 August 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 24
Wounded and Commissioned on the Same Day: 16 August 1864 • Deep Run, Virginia, Age 24. William H. H. Frye was wounded severely in the leg during the Battle of Deep Run. He was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Company B of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment on the same day.
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights: 29 September 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, Age 24
Promotion to First Lieutenant in Company C: 13 December 1864 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. WHHF promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Battle of Petersburg III: 2 April 1865 • Petersburg County, Virginia, Age 24
Surrender at Appomattox Court House: 9 April 1865 • Appomattox County, Virginia, Age 24. The 11th Maine Infantry Regiment was instrumental in pursuing General Lee's army during the spring 1865 campaign that resulted in Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Promotion to Captain, Company D, by President Johnson: 23 June 1865 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. During the spring campaign of 1865, Lieutenant Frye "did gallant and meritorious service in the pursuit of Lee's army from Petersburg to Appomattox, for which he was promoted Brevet Captain of U. S. Volunteers by the President." TSoOR, p. 376.
Military: 13 February 1866 • Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, USA, Age 25. Discharged from 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Final rank, Captain, and last assignment: Provost Marshal and Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen in the Sub-District of Essex.
Marriage to Georgia A. Day (1846–1923): 3 October 1866 • Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA, Age 26
Military: 1866 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 26. This record relates to Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow" of William H. H. Frye, filed in 1890.
Death of Mother, Eunice Farrington Knight (1797–1867): 10 February 1867 • Maine, USA, Age 26
Death of Brother, Stephen Farrington Frye (1824–1867): 1867, Age 27
Invention Patent / Hay-Spreader: 1870 • North Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, Age 30. No. 103441. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1870, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1872.
Residence: 1870 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, United States, Census, Age 30
Death of Father Joseph Frye (1791–1874): 20 January 1874 • Maine, USA, Age 33
Death of Brother Richard Frye (1834–1875): 10 May 1875, Age 34
Divorce: December 1877 • Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 37
Frye, Georgia A. Frye, William H. H. Dec/1877 539 Oxford SJC 17/359: Oxford County Genealogy Trails, Pre 1892 Divorces. Georgia A. Day (1846–1923)
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. Vol. XIII (Jan. 1 - June 25 Inclusive) 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879.
Marriage to Jennie Jones: 19 February 1879 • Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 38. No further records for Jennie Jones have been found.
Invention Patent / Machine For Barbing Fence Palings: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264684. W. H. H. Frye. Machine For Barbing Fence Palings. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Invention Patent / Machine for Manufacturing Fences: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264683. W. H. H. Frye. Machine for Manufacturing Fences. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Marriage to Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951): 23 July 1884 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Missouri, Marriages, Age 44
"Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V287-DHW : 6 December 2014), Wm. H. H. Frye and H[M]attie M. Albro, 23 Jul 1884; citing Carroll,Missouri; FHL microfilm 955,961.
Invention Patent / Cloth Measuring Device: 28 April 1885 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 44. No. 316887. Cloth Measuring Device. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Birth of Daughter Mona Alene Frye (1886–1918): 10 April 1886 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Age 45
Founded Rosemont Reflektor Newspaper: 23 October 1887 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 47. Rosemont, Kansas History: http://www.kansastowns.us/rosemont.html. Rosemont, Kansas is now a ghost town.
Birth of Son Harrison Morton Frye (1888–1949): 5 March 1888 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 47
Residence: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage, Kansas, USA, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887.
Appointment as Postmaster: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887. [Custom entry made before I found the file source for the same event which logs it as residence.]
Residence: June 1890 • Oxford, Maine, United States, Age 50
Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow of William H H Frye," is the person in Maine who is recorded on this document. See Georgia A. Day, 1866, 1877. (It is unclear to what this record refers since WHHF was alive at the time of this claim.)
Death of Sister Hannah Frye (1829–1895): 1895, Age 55
Divorce: About 1898 • Kansas or Missouri, Age 58. Divorce from Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951). A divorce record has not yet been found for WHHF and Martha Albro Frye, but both were remarried by 1899.
Death of Sister Aphia Farrington Frye (1821–1898): 1898, Age 58
Marriage to Harriette Beecher Smith (1868–1959): 1899 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 59. Hattie B. Frye and two daughters are linked to WHHF through his Army pension record at Fort Dodge, Kansas. (Harriette Beecher Frye's obituary indicates they married in 1899 in Kansas City.)
Birth of Daughter Joyce Murrell Frye (1900–1979): 29 June 1900 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 60
Residence: 1900 • Kansas City Ward 9, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Census, Age 60. Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head (Note: This census record does not agree with WHHF’s reported marriage date to Hattie Smith Frye in 1899.)
Occupation: 1904 • Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Frye, Wm. H. H., notions, 1720 East 18th Street; in R. L. Polk & Company's Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1904, Vol. 10, p. 608.
Birth of Daughter Mildred May Frye (1905–1928): 6 April 1905 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Death: 21 July 1909 • Fort Dodge, Ford, Kansas, USA, Age 69
Burial: Fort Dodge, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, USA
Barbed Wire Patent / Book Citation: 1970 • Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA
William H. H. Frye's barbed wire patent cited in this history of barbed wire: Clifton, Robert T. Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
*Note: These facts from the life of William Henry Harrison Frye are taken from his page in the Family Tree maintained by his great grandson James Hart at Ancestry.com. James is a descendant of WHHF and Mattie Albro Frye, through their daughter Mona Alene Frye Wagaman, and her daughter Alene Wagaman Hart. July 2, 2017
11th Regiment
Maine Infantry
Facts from the Life of William Henry Harrison Frye*
Among the life details listed below are William H. H. Frye's four marriages:
1. Georgia Day in 1866; divorced 1877. (It is presently unknown if they had children.)
2. Jennie Jones in 1879; no further records found for death or divorce.
3. Martha "Mattie" Albro (my great grandmother) in 1884; divorced about 1898, no record found. They had two children, Mona, 1886, and Harrison, 1888.
4. Hattie B. Smith in 1899, according to her obituary; marriage record not found. She survived WHHF and had two daughters with him: Joyce, 1900, and Mildred, 1905.
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Birth: 24 June 1840 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA
Residence: 1850 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 10
Residence: 1860 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 20
Military: 7 November 1861 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 21. Enlisted as Corporal in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Promoted to Sergeant soon after enlistment. During his entire service, WHHF was assigned to Companies A, B, C, and D of the 11th Regiment.
Battle of Seven Pines: 31 May 1862 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 21. According to an online record for William H. H. Frye of the Union Army, the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment fought in five named battle engagements.
Military: 3 October 1862, Age 22. Promoted to Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 18 December 1862, Age 22. Discharged from service for disability.
Residence: 1 July 1863 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA, Age 23. Marital Status: Unmarried. (Military record)
Military: 17 November 1863 • Maine, Age 23. Re-enlisted as Private in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 4 March 1864, Promotion to First Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment, Age 23
Battle of Proctor's Creek: 12 May 1864 • Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA, Age 23
Battle of Deep Bottom II: 13 August 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 24
Wounded and Commissioned on the Same Day: 16 August 1864 • Deep Run, Virginia, Age 24. William H. H. Frye was wounded severely in the leg during the Battle of Deep Run. He was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Company B of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment on the same day.
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights: 29 September 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, Age 24
Promotion to First Lieutenant in Company C: 13 December 1864 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. WHHF promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Battle of Petersburg III: 2 April 1865 • Petersburg County, Virginia, Age 24
Surrender at Appomattox Court House: 9 April 1865 • Appomattox County, Virginia, Age 24. The 11th Maine Infantry Regiment was instrumental in pursuing General Lee's army during the spring 1865 campaign that resulted in Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Promotion to Captain, Company D, by President Johnson: 23 June 1865 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. During the spring campaign of 1865, Lieutenant Frye "did gallant and meritorious service in the pursuit of Lee's army from Petersburg to Appomattox, for which he was promoted Brevet Captain of U. S. Volunteers by the President." TSoOR, p. 376.
Military: 13 February 1866 • Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, USA, Age 25. Discharged from 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Final rank, Captain, and last assignment: Provost Marshal and Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen in the Sub-District of Essex.
Marriage to Georgia A. Day (1846–1923): 3 October 1866 • Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA, Age 26
Military: 1866 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 26. This record relates to Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow" of William H. H. Frye, filed in 1890.
Death of Mother, Eunice Farrington Knight (1797–1867): 10 February 1867 • Maine, USA, Age 26
Death of Brother, Stephen Farrington Frye (1824–1867): 1867, Age 27
Invention Patent / Hay-Spreader: 1870 • North Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, Age 30. No. 103441. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1870, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1872.
Residence: 1870 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, United States, Census, Age 30
Death of Father Joseph Frye (1791–1874): 20 January 1874 • Maine, USA, Age 33
Death of Brother Richard Frye (1834–1875): 10 May 1875, Age 34
Divorce: December 1877 • Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 37
Frye, Georgia A. Frye, William H. H. Dec/1877 539 Oxford SJC 17/359: Oxford County Genealogy Trails, Pre 1892 Divorces. Georgia A. Day (1846–1923)
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. Vol. XIII (Jan. 1 - June 25 Inclusive) 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879.
Marriage to Jennie Jones: 19 February 1879 • Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 38. No further records for Jennie Jones have been found.
Invention Patent / Machine For Barbing Fence Palings: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264684. W. H. H. Frye. Machine For Barbing Fence Palings. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Invention Patent / Machine for Manufacturing Fences: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264683. W. H. H. Frye. Machine for Manufacturing Fences. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Marriage to Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951): 23 July 1884 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Missouri, Marriages, Age 44
"Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V287-DHW : 6 December 2014), Wm. H. H. Frye and H[M]attie M. Albro, 23 Jul 1884; citing Carroll,Missouri; FHL microfilm 955,961.
Invention Patent / Cloth Measuring Device: 28 April 1885 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 44. No. 316887. Cloth Measuring Device. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Birth of Daughter Mona Alene Frye (1886–1918): 10 April 1886 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Age 45
Founded Rosemont Reflektor Newspaper: 23 October 1887 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 47. Rosemont, Kansas History: http://www.kansastowns.us/rosemont.html. Rosemont, Kansas is now a ghost town.
Birth of Son Harrison Morton Frye (1888–1949): 5 March 1888 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 47
Residence: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage, Kansas, USA, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887.
Appointment as Postmaster: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887. [Custom entry made before I found the file source for the same event which logs it as residence.]
Residence: June 1890 • Oxford, Maine, United States, Age 50
Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow of William H H Frye," is the person in Maine who is recorded on this document. See Georgia A. Day, 1866, 1877. (It is unclear to what this record refers since WHHF was alive at the time of this claim.)
Death of Sister Hannah Frye (1829–1895): 1895, Age 55
Divorce: About 1898 • Kansas or Missouri, Age 58. Divorce from Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951). A divorce record has not yet been found for WHHF and Martha Albro Frye, but both were remarried by 1899.
Death of Sister Aphia Farrington Frye (1821–1898): 1898, Age 58
Marriage to Harriette Beecher Smith (1868–1959): 1899 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 59. Hattie B. Frye and two daughters are linked to WHHF through his Army pension record at Fort Dodge, Kansas. (Harriette Beecher Frye's obituary indicates they married in 1899 in Kansas City.)
Birth of Daughter Joyce Murrell Frye (1900–1979): 29 June 1900 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 60
Residence: 1900 • Kansas City Ward 9, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Census, Age 60. Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head (Note: This census record does not agree with WHHF’s reported marriage date to Hattie Smith Frye in 1899.)
Occupation: 1904 • Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Frye, Wm. H. H., notions, 1720 East 18th Street; in R. L. Polk & Company's Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1904, Vol. 10, p. 608.
Birth of Daughter Mildred May Frye (1905–1928): 6 April 1905 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Death: 21 July 1909 • Fort Dodge, Ford, Kansas, USA, Age 69
Burial: Fort Dodge, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, USA
Barbed Wire Patent / Book Citation: 1970 • Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA
William H. H. Frye's barbed wire patent cited in this history of barbed wire: Clifton, Robert T. Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
*Note: These facts from the life of William Henry Harrison Frye are taken from his page in the Family Tree maintained by his great grandson James Hart at Ancestry.com. James is a descendant of WHHF and Mattie Albro Frye, through their daughter Mona Alene Frye Wagaman, and her daughter Alene Wagaman Hart. July 2, 2017
Company A
11th Regiment
Maine Infantry
Facts from the Life of William Henry Harrison Frye*
Among the life details listed below are William H. H. Frye's four marriages:
1. Georgia Day in 1866; divorced 1877. (It is presently unknown if they had children.)
2. Jennie Jones in 1879; no further records found for death or divorce.
3. Martha "Mattie" Albro (my great grandmother) in 1884; divorced about 1898, no record found. They had two children, Mona, 1886, and Harrison, 1888.
4. Hattie B. Smith in 1899, according to her obituary; marriage record not found. She survived WHHF and had two daughters with him: Joyce, 1900, and Mildred, 1905.
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Birth: 24 June 1840 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA
Residence: 1850 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 10
Residence: 1860 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 20
Military: 7 November 1861 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 21. Enlisted as Corporal in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Promoted to Sergeant soon after enlistment. During his entire service, WHHF was assigned to Companies A, B, C, and D of the 11th Regiment.
Battle of Seven Pines: 31 May 1862 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 21. According to an online record for William H. H. Frye of the Union Army, the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment fought in five named battle engagements.
Military: 3 October 1862, Age 22. Promoted to Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 18 December 1862, Age 22. Discharged from service for disability.
Residence: 1 July 1863 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA, Age 23. Marital Status: Unmarried. (Military record)
Military: 17 November 1863 • Maine, Age 23. Re-enlisted as Private in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 4 March 1864, Promotion to First Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment, Age 23
Battle of Proctor's Creek: 12 May 1864 • Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA, Age 23
Battle of Deep Bottom II: 13 August 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 24
Wounded and Commissioned on the Same Day: 16 August 1864 • Deep Run, Virginia, Age 24. William H. H. Frye was wounded severely in the leg during the Battle of Deep Run. He was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Company B of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment on the same day.
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights: 29 September 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, Age 24
Promotion to First Lieutenant in Company C: 13 December 1864 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. WHHF promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Battle of Petersburg III: 2 April 1865 • Petersburg County, Virginia, Age 24
Surrender at Appomattox Court House: 9 April 1865 • Appomattox County, Virginia, Age 24. The 11th Maine Infantry Regiment was instrumental in pursuing General Lee's army during the spring 1865 campaign that resulted in Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Promotion to Captain, Company D, by President Johnson: 23 June 1865 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. During the spring campaign of 1865, Lieutenant Frye "did gallant and meritorious service in the pursuit of Lee's army from Petersburg to Appomattox, for which he was promoted Brevet Captain of U. S. Volunteers by the President." TSoOR, p. 376.
Military: 13 February 1866 • Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, USA, Age 25. Discharged from 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Final rank, Captain, and last assignment: Provost Marshal and Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen in the Sub-District of Essex.
Marriage to Georgia A. Day (1846–1923): 3 October 1866 • Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA, Age 26
Military: 1866 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 26. This record relates to Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow" of William H. H. Frye, filed in 1890.
Death of Mother, Eunice Farrington Knight (1797–1867): 10 February 1867 • Maine, USA, Age 26
Death of Brother, Stephen Farrington Frye (1824–1867): 1867, Age 27
Invention Patent / Hay-Spreader: 1870 • North Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, Age 30. No. 103441. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1870, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1872.
Residence: 1870 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, United States, Census, Age 30
Death of Father Joseph Frye (1791–1874): 20 January 1874 • Maine, USA, Age 33
Death of Brother Richard Frye (1834–1875): 10 May 1875, Age 34
Divorce: December 1877 • Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 37
Frye, Georgia A. Frye, William H. H. Dec/1877 539 Oxford SJC 17/359: Oxford County Genealogy Trails, Pre 1892 Divorces. Georgia A. Day (1846–1923)
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. Vol. XIII (Jan. 1 - June 25 Inclusive) 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879.
Marriage to Jennie Jones: 19 February 1879 • Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 38. No further records for Jennie Jones have been found.
Invention Patent / Machine For Barbing Fence Palings: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264684. W. H. H. Frye. Machine For Barbing Fence Palings. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Invention Patent / Machine for Manufacturing Fences: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264683. W. H. H. Frye. Machine for Manufacturing Fences. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Marriage to Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951): 23 July 1884 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Missouri, Marriages, Age 44
"Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V287-DHW : 6 December 2014), Wm. H. H. Frye and H[M]attie M. Albro, 23 Jul 1884; citing Carroll,Missouri; FHL microfilm 955,961.
Invention Patent / Cloth Measuring Device: 28 April 1885 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 44. No. 316887. Cloth Measuring Device. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Birth of Daughter Mona Alene Frye (1886–1918): 10 April 1886 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Age 45
Founded Rosemont Reflektor Newspaper: 23 October 1887 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 47. Rosemont, Kansas History: http://www.kansastowns.us/rosemont.html. Rosemont, Kansas is now a ghost town.
Birth of Son Harrison Morton Frye (1888–1949): 5 March 1888 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 47
Residence: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage, Kansas, USA, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887.
Appointment as Postmaster: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887. [Custom entry made before I found the file source for the same event which logs it as residence.]
Residence: June 1890 • Oxford, Maine, United States, Age 50
Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow of William H H Frye," is the person in Maine who is recorded on this document. See Georgia A. Day, 1866, 1877. (It is unclear to what this record refers since WHHF was alive at the time of this claim.)
Death of Sister Hannah Frye (1829–1895): 1895, Age 55
Divorce: About 1898 • Kansas or Missouri, Age 58. Divorce from Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951). A divorce record has not yet been found for WHHF and Martha Albro Frye, but both were remarried by 1899.
Death of Sister Aphia Farrington Frye (1821–1898): 1898, Age 58
Marriage to Harriette Beecher Smith (1868–1959): 1899 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 59. Hattie B. Frye and two daughters are linked to WHHF through his Army pension record at Fort Dodge, Kansas. (Harriette Beecher Frye's obituary indicates they married in 1899 in Kansas City.)
Birth of Daughter Joyce Murrell Frye (1900–1979): 29 June 1900 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 60
Residence: 1900 • Kansas City Ward 9, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Census, Age 60. Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head (Note: This census record does not agree with WHHF’s reported marriage date to Hattie Smith Frye in 1899.)
Occupation: 1904 • Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Frye, Wm. H. H., notions, 1720 East 18th Street; in R. L. Polk & Company's Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1904, Vol. 10, p. 608.
Birth of Daughter Mildred May Frye (1905–1928): 6 April 1905 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Death: 21 July 1909 • Fort Dodge, Ford, Kansas, USA, Age 69
Burial: Fort Dodge, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, USA
Barbed Wire Patent / Book Citation: 1970 • Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA
William H. H. Frye's barbed wire patent cited in this history of barbed wire: Clifton, Robert T. Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
*Note: These facts from the life of William Henry Harrison Frye are taken from his page in the Family Tree maintained by his great grandson James Hart at Ancestry.com. James is a descendant of WHHF and Mattie Albro Frye, through their daughter Mona Alene Frye Wagaman, and her daughter Alene Wagaman Hart. July 2, 2017
11th Regiment
Maine Infantry
Facts from the Life of William Henry Harrison Frye*
Among the life details listed below are William H. H. Frye's four marriages:
1. Georgia Day in 1866; divorced 1877. (It is presently unknown if they had children.)
2. Jennie Jones in 1879; no further records found for death or divorce.
3. Martha "Mattie" Albro (my great grandmother) in 1884; divorced about 1898, no record found. They had two children, Mona, 1886, and Harrison, 1888.
4. Hattie B. Smith in 1899, according to her obituary; marriage record not found. She survived WHHF and had two daughters with him: Joyce, 1900, and Mildred, 1905.
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Birth: 24 June 1840 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA
Residence: 1850 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 10
Residence: 1860 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, Census, Age 20
Military: 7 November 1861 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 21. Enlisted as Corporal in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Promoted to Sergeant soon after enlistment. During his entire service, WHHF was assigned to Companies A, B, C, and D of the 11th Regiment.
Battle of Seven Pines: 31 May 1862 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 21. According to an online record for William H. H. Frye of the Union Army, the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment fought in five named battle engagements.
Military: 3 October 1862, Age 22. Promoted to Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 18 December 1862, Age 22. Discharged from service for disability.
Residence: 1 July 1863 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, USA, Age 23. Marital Status: Unmarried. (Military record)
Military: 17 November 1863 • Maine, Age 23. Re-enlisted as Private in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Military: 4 March 1864, Promotion to First Sergeant in Company A of 11th Maine Infantry Regiment, Age 23
Battle of Proctor's Creek: 12 May 1864 • Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA, Age 23
Battle of Deep Bottom II: 13 August 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, USA, Age 24
Wounded and Commissioned on the Same Day: 16 August 1864 • Deep Run, Virginia, Age 24. William H. H. Frye was wounded severely in the leg during the Battle of Deep Run. He was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Company B of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment on the same day.
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights: 29 September 1864 • Henrico County, Virginia, Age 24
Promotion to First Lieutenant in Company C: 13 December 1864 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. WHHF promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment.
Battle of Petersburg III: 2 April 1865 • Petersburg County, Virginia, Age 24
Surrender at Appomattox Court House: 9 April 1865 • Appomattox County, Virginia, Age 24. The 11th Maine Infantry Regiment was instrumental in pursuing General Lee's army during the spring 1865 campaign that resulted in Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Promotion to Captain, Company D, by President Johnson: 23 June 1865 • Virginia, USA, Age 24. During the spring campaign of 1865, Lieutenant Frye "did gallant and meritorious service in the pursuit of Lee's army from Petersburg to Appomattox, for which he was promoted Brevet Captain of U. S. Volunteers by the President." TSoOR, p. 376.
Military: 13 February 1866 • Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, USA, Age 25. Discharged from 11th Maine Infantry Regiment. Final rank, Captain, and last assignment: Provost Marshal and Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen in the Sub-District of Essex.
Marriage to Georgia A. Day (1846–1923): 3 October 1866 • Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA, Age 26
Military: 1866 • Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 26. This record relates to Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow" of William H. H. Frye, filed in 1890.
Death of Mother, Eunice Farrington Knight (1797–1867): 10 February 1867 • Maine, USA, Age 26
Death of Brother, Stephen Farrington Frye (1824–1867): 1867, Age 27
Invention Patent / Hay-Spreader: 1870 • North Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, Age 30. No. 103441. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1870, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1872.
Residence: 1870 • Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, United States, Census, Age 30
Death of Father Joseph Frye (1791–1874): 20 January 1874 • Maine, USA, Age 33
Death of Brother Richard Frye (1834–1875): 10 May 1875, Age 34
Divorce: December 1877 • Oxford County, Maine, USA, Age 37
Frye, Georgia A. Frye, William H. H. Dec/1877 539 Oxford SJC 17/359: Oxford County Genealogy Trails, Pre 1892 Divorces. Georgia A. Day (1846–1923)
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. Vol. XIII (Jan. 1 - June 25 Inclusive) 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.
Invention Patent / Wire Fence: 28 May 1878 • Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, USA, Age 37. No. 204312. William H. H. Frye. Source: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879.
Marriage to Jennie Jones: 19 February 1879 • Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 38. No further records for Jennie Jones have been found.
Invention Patent / Machine For Barbing Fence Palings: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264684. W. H. H. Frye. Machine For Barbing Fence Palings. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Invention Patent / Machine for Manufacturing Fences: 19 September 1882 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 42. No. 264683. W. H. H. Frye. Machine for Manufacturing Fences. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Marriage to Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951): 23 July 1884 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Missouri, Marriages, Age 44
"Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V287-DHW : 6 December 2014), Wm. H. H. Frye and H[M]attie M. Albro, 23 Jul 1884; citing Carroll,Missouri; FHL microfilm 955,961.
Invention Patent / Cloth Measuring Device: 28 April 1885 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 44. No. 316887. Cloth Measuring Device. Patent Application, United States Patent Office.
Birth of Daughter Mona Alene Frye (1886–1918): 10 April 1886 • Carroll County, Missouri, USA, Age 45
Founded Rosemont Reflektor Newspaper: 23 October 1887 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 47. Rosemont, Kansas History: http://www.kansastowns.us/rosemont.html. Rosemont, Kansas is now a ghost town.
Birth of Son Harrison Morton Frye (1888–1949): 5 March 1888 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 47
Residence: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage, Kansas, USA, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887.
Appointment as Postmaster: 12 July 1889 • Rosemont, Osage County, Kansas, Age 49. William H. H. Frye appointed Postmaster of Rosemont, Kansas, the town he founded in 1887. [Custom entry made before I found the file source for the same event which logs it as residence.]
Residence: June 1890 • Oxford, Maine, United States, Age 50
Georgia A. Bradley, "Widow of William H H Frye," is the person in Maine who is recorded on this document. See Georgia A. Day, 1866, 1877. (It is unclear to what this record refers since WHHF was alive at the time of this claim.)
Death of Sister Hannah Frye (1829–1895): 1895, Age 55
Divorce: About 1898 • Kansas or Missouri, Age 58. Divorce from Martha A. "Mattie" Albro (1868–1951). A divorce record has not yet been found for WHHF and Martha Albro Frye, but both were remarried by 1899.
Death of Sister Aphia Farrington Frye (1821–1898): 1898, Age 58
Marriage to Harriette Beecher Smith (1868–1959): 1899 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 59. Hattie B. Frye and two daughters are linked to WHHF through his Army pension record at Fort Dodge, Kansas. (Harriette Beecher Frye's obituary indicates they married in 1899 in Kansas City.)
Birth of Daughter Joyce Murrell Frye (1900–1979): 29 June 1900 • Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Age 60
Residence: 1900 • Kansas City Ward 9, Jackson, Missouri, USA, Census, Age 60. Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head (Note: This census record does not agree with WHHF’s reported marriage date to Hattie Smith Frye in 1899.)
Occupation: 1904 • Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Frye, Wm. H. H., notions, 1720 East 18th Street; in R. L. Polk & Company's Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1904, Vol. 10, p. 608.
Birth of Daughter Mildred May Frye (1905–1928): 6 April 1905 • Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA, Age 64
Death: 21 July 1909 • Fort Dodge, Ford, Kansas, USA, Age 69
Burial: Fort Dodge, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, USA
Barbed Wire Patent / Book Citation: 1970 • Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA
William H. H. Frye's barbed wire patent cited in this history of barbed wire: Clifton, Robert T. Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, and Stickers: A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
*Note: These facts from the life of William Henry Harrison Frye are taken from his page in the Family Tree maintained by his great grandson James Hart at Ancestry.com. James is a descendant of WHHF and Mattie Albro Frye, through their daughter Mona Alene Frye Wagaman, and her daughter Alene Wagaman Hart. July 2, 2017
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