Daughter of John Van Duzer and Margaret Jennings
Mary Jane VanDuzer was born on a farm near Goshen, New York on March 5, 1830. She was descended from one of the first settlers from Holland who helped make Manhattan Island the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in the middle of the 17th Century. Her people were sturdy farmer folk who helped fight their country's battles in their succeeding generations; her father was a captain in the War of 1812; her grandfather was an ensign bearer in the Revolutionary War; and her great-grandfather, Col. Benjamin Tusten, was a pioneer in the then new Orange county and prominent in the French and Indian War. On her mother's side, a Margaret Jennings, she was the namesake and a grandniece of Mary Jennings Seward, mother of the famous New York statesman, William H. Seward.
Educated in the best local schools and a school teacher for a time, she came as a bride to Illinois in 1853 when the prairies were rapidly filling up with permanent settlers. Her married life began in a comfortable frame cottage built before the roads were surveyed in the midst of the NaAuSay prairie, half was between the "Grove" and the "Ridge," and in this small house, somewhat enlarged, she spent her 52 years of married life and five years of widowhood.
Source:
- Little White School Museum Library, Oswego, IL
Mary Jane VanDuzer was born on a farm near Goshen, New York on March 5, 1830. She was descended from one of the first settlers from Holland who helped make Manhattan Island the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in the middle of the 17th Century. Her people were sturdy farmer folk who helped fight their country's battles in their succeeding generations; her father was a captain in the War of 1812; her grandfather was an ensign bearer in the Revolutionary War; and her great-grandfather, Col. Benjamin Tusten, was a pioneer in the then new Orange county and prominent in the French and Indian War. On her mother's side, a Margaret Jennings, she was the namesake and a grandniece of Mary Jennings Seward, mother of the famous New York statesman, William H. Seward.
Educated in the best local schools and a school teacher for a time, she came as a bride to Illinois in 1853 when the prairies were rapidly filling up with permanent settlers. Her married life began in a comfortable frame cottage built before the roads were surveyed in the midst of the NaAuSay prairie, half was between the "Grove" and the "Ridge," and in this small house, somewhat enlarged, she spent her 52 years of married life and five years of widowhood.
Source:
- Little White School Museum Library, Oswego, IL
Daughter of John Van Duzer and Margaret Jennings
Mary Jane VanDuzer was born on a farm near Goshen, New York on March 5, 1830. She was descended from one of the first settlers from Holland who helped make Manhattan Island the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in the middle of the 17th Century. Her people were sturdy farmer folk who helped fight their country's battles in their succeeding generations; her father was a captain in the War of 1812; her grandfather was an ensign bearer in the Revolutionary War; and her great-grandfather, Col. Benjamin Tusten, was a pioneer in the then new Orange county and prominent in the French and Indian War. On her mother's side, a Margaret Jennings, she was the namesake and a grandniece of Mary Jennings Seward, mother of the famous New York statesman, William H. Seward.
Educated in the best local schools and a school teacher for a time, she came as a bride to Illinois in 1853 when the prairies were rapidly filling up with permanent settlers. Her married life began in a comfortable frame cottage built before the roads were surveyed in the midst of the NaAuSay prairie, half was between the "Grove" and the "Ridge," and in this small house, somewhat enlarged, she spent her 52 years of married life and five years of widowhood.
Source:
- Little White School Museum Library, Oswego, IL
Mary Jane VanDuzer was born on a farm near Goshen, New York on March 5, 1830. She was descended from one of the first settlers from Holland who helped make Manhattan Island the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in the middle of the 17th Century. Her people were sturdy farmer folk who helped fight their country's battles in their succeeding generations; her father was a captain in the War of 1812; her grandfather was an ensign bearer in the Revolutionary War; and her great-grandfather, Col. Benjamin Tusten, was a pioneer in the then new Orange county and prominent in the French and Indian War. On her mother's side, a Margaret Jennings, she was the namesake and a grandniece of Mary Jennings Seward, mother of the famous New York statesman, William H. Seward.
Educated in the best local schools and a school teacher for a time, she came as a bride to Illinois in 1853 when the prairies were rapidly filling up with permanent settlers. Her married life began in a comfortable frame cottage built before the roads were surveyed in the midst of the NaAuSay prairie, half was between the "Grove" and the "Ridge," and in this small house, somewhat enlarged, she spent her 52 years of married life and five years of widowhood.
Source:
- Little White School Museum Library, Oswego, IL
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