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John Trumbull painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Public Domain |
The Wyeth and Wythe Families of America
Information on book #1 of the Seven Generations of the Descendants of Nicholas Wyeth who came to America circa 1644.
Monday, June 23, 2025
The Wyeth Brothers were not Sunshine Soldiers
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Gertrude May Wyeth a Self-made Woman
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Gertrude May Wyeth photos are courtesy of her niece Marian Gertrude Wyeth |
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Gertrude on a binder in the Saskatchewan fields |
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Wyeth and Wythe Book is in the LOC and several Libraries across the USA
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Christina Wyeth Baker in the Cambridge Room |
The Library of Congress (LOC) and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library in Washington DC both hold The Wyeth and Wythe Families of America book. For all their help during the nine years it took me to write the book, I gifted the 558-page Wyeth/Wythe history to two libraries in Massachusetts... The New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston and the Cambridge Public Library.
It is most appropriate for the Cambridge Room to hold this history on their shelves since the Wyeth and Wythe families of America started in Cambridge shortly after Nicholas Wyeth purchased a house across from Cambridge Common in 1645. The donated volume honors Nicholas Wyeth's 9th great granddaughter, Jennifer Lena Wyeth (1988-2020), of Malden, Massachusetts.
Other libraries who have purchased the Wyeth/Wythe book show at the bottom right. If you would like to own this book for your personal library, please contact me at the email address shown above.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Navy Lt. j.g. Sidney Wyeth Brinker's Craft First to Land on Omaha Beach
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LCT-30 commanded by Sidney Wyeth Brinker (insert) on the sands of Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944 |
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Joshua Wyeth Honored with Medallion Grave Marker
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Engraved Boston Tea Party Participant Marker installed at Joshua Wyeth's Cenotaph in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio |
Along with a musket salute, contributions included were from the individuals pictured. Michael Gunn represented CCSAR. Christina Wyeth Baker spoke about her 4th great grand uncle's actual grave below Washington Park in downtown Cincinnati and the effort to obtain his memorial tombstone from the VA. Kristin Harris and Evan O'Brien, of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, presented Joshua's personal history. Heather Amos, Spring Grove Cemetery Docent, talked about the History of Spring Grove and Cincinnati’s connection to the Revolutionary War. Cathryn Philippe, portraying Phillis Wheatley, installed Joshua Wyeth's commemorative plaque. Here is a link to a video about the event.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Pat King Harms Responded to Nation's Call in Rosie Legacy Fashion
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Pat "Rosie" King at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Foundry |
Pat's life intertwined with much of the history of the 20th century. Her grandfather, Louis Wyeth, developed the famous Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur hair tonic that was advertised in newspapers coast to coast. After his business failed, Louis settled on homestead land in Nebraska. Pat's parents John and Dorothy Wyeth King homesteaded, rented and developed land into a 10,000-acre cattle ranch. Since Pat was born during Prohibition, the doctor who delivered her asked to be paid in bootleg whiskey. Those merry times were followed by banks’ failing, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and loss of the King family ranch. Pat moved west to work in her sister's apple orchard. In 1942, after deciding business school wasn't for her, Pat signed up to sell war bonds and make metal castings at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard foundry. At age 18, she worked alongside much older men. The young men, like her boyfriend, Vince Harms, were away fighting deadly battles overseas.
When the war ended in 1945, young servicemen returned to jobs the women had been doing. For Pat it was fine. She married Vince, took up volunteer work for the blood bank and Cancer Society and started her family. Born with underdeveloped lungs, tragically, Pat lost her only son at 13 months. With strong resolve, Pat poured devotion and love into caring for Vince and raising their three daughters. In 2011, Pat proudly accepted the honor of recognition on the Washington Women in Trades “Rosie Legacy” calendar for her nontraditional role as a laborer to support the war effort of the 1940s.
Photo of Pat King Harms (1924-2016) courtesy of her daughter Judi Harms Edwards; Sources: Rae Hight, Pat Harms "A Brief Memoir" (prepared 6 Sep 2005), 4-5; Christina Wyeth Baker, The Wyeth and Wythe Families of America (Berwyn Heights, MD: Heritage Books, 2019), 93, 395-396; Keeley Smith, "Calendar honors Port Orchard resident's wartime shipyard work," The Kitsap Sun (Bremerton, WA), 18 Jan 2011.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
35 Wyeth and Wythe Men Fought to put down the “Slaveholders' Rebellion"
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Private John Jasper Wyeth, 44th Mass. Infantry |
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Washington took Command of the Army a Stone's Throw from the Wyeth Farm
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Cambridge Common, 3 Jul 1775, Currier and Ives Engraving |
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Not all Wyeths and Wythes Across the Globe are Descended from Nicholas Wyeth
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V. J. Wythe died in World War II |
Monday, April 19, 2021
Risking Everything for an Abstract Ideal called Democracy
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Battle of Lexington by William Barnes Wollen, 1910 |