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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #45 on: Monday 24 September 12 21:08 BST (UK) »
Both Richard Dudley Sears and Herbert Moon Sears were sons of Frederick Richard Sears
born 20 Apr 1824 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts and his second wife Albertina H Shelton 1834 - 1915

Herbert Maron Sears  Birth Date: 12 Nov 1867   Boston and died 1942
Father Name: Frederick R Shelton - Mother  Albertina Shelton

http://www.searsr.com/richard1/pafg170.htm


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1870 Boston Ward 6, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Frederick Sears 46  and Albertina Sears 35
Marion Sears 17  Frederic Sears 15  Lina Sears 11
Richard Sears 8  Philip Sears 2  Herbert Sears 2

The marriage 2 June 1891  gives his middle name as Mason (Herbert Mason Sears) Caroline was born Sep 1870 in ,Massachusetts. She died 17 Jan 1908 in Regis Hotel, New York.


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1900 Census - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9Y8-KVL

Reference Phyllis Sears (daughter of Herbert and Caroline) on the 1900 Census - Phylllis Sears to Wed -  Boston $2,000,000 Heiress Engaged to Bayard Tuckerman, Jr. (Miss Sears is a daughter of Herbert Mason Sears and a granddaughter of ... She is an expert tennis player, all excellent skater, and is well known for her riding.

There is an obituary for the daughter of Phyllis Sears Tuckerman - Phyllis  (Tilly) T. Cutler
It sounds as if she had a passion for tennis and golf.

http://www.salemnews.com/obituaries/x712198101/Phyllis-T-Cutler/print


Under Segis in 1920 - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MF9Z-V4G

Harvard Univ directory 1910 graduate with twin brother

Richard Dudley Sears - 16 Oct 1861 - 8 April 1943

Graduate Harvard Univ [c1879-83 ] 1910 directory-232 Beacon St, Boston
US National Tennis Champion 1881-7



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sears_(tennis)

Younger brother Phillip Sears was consistently in the top ten ranking for five years; and his cousin, Eleo Sears, was inducted to the Tennis Hall of Fame.

http://www.sportspundit.com/tennis/players/6392-richard-sears



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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #46 on: Monday 24 September 12 21:46 BST (UK) »
Arthur Emlen Newbold - Birth abt 1859 in Pennsylvania. Son of  John Smith Newbold - Birth 1831 in Pennsylvania and Anna Penrose Buckley Birth Jan 1834 in Pennsylvania. According to U.S. and International Marriage Records they married in 1856. Died 10 June 1920. (In his office of a cerebral hemorrhage. Obituary Evening Post New York Friday June 11 th 1920 (Fulton Site)

http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/fam/fam42371.html

1880 Census shows Arthur with parents and siblings - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWNK-ZLS

1910 Census - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MG4B-ZKP

1920 Census - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXMQ-L5J

Educated West Penn Square and the Episcopal Academies, of Philadelphia, and in the University of Pennsylvania to the sophomore year in the class of 1879.
Arthur married Harriet Dallas Dixon in 1886, Harriet daughter of Fitz Eugene Dixon. Arthur was engaged in the stock brokerage business in 1878 and  a banker and broker in Philadelphia, in the firm of Drexel & Company. Arthur was a member of the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, Racquet, Country, Philadelphia Cricket and Huntingdon Valley Clubs. While in college he became a member of the Philomathean Society and the Zeta Psi fraternity. Address: Laverock, Montgomery County, Pa.

http://montgomery.pa-roots.com/Biographies/ArthurEmlenNewbold.html

Arthur E. Newbold, was the son of John S. Newbold,  member of the firm of W. H. Newbold's Son & Company. Arthur was also a director of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, the Commercial Trust Company, and the Insurance Company of North America. Arthur purchased property at Laveroch Station, on the Cresheim Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and named his place "Farleigh." Arthur married Miss Harriet Dixon, granddaughter of Hon. George M. Dallas, once vice-president of the United States.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/roberts/roberts219.html

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brucen&id=I13781

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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #47 on: Monday 24 September 12 22:27 BST (UK) »
The Richard Field Conover looks likely to be the one b orn in New Jersey 20 November 1858 with parents Frank S Conover and Helen Field

Francis Stevens Conover was born on Nov 24, 1822 New York City, New York County, New York. He was the son of Commodore Thomas Anderson Conover and Elizabeth Juliana Stevens. Francis married Helen Stockton Field, daughter of Richard Stockton Field and Mary Ritchie, on May 15, 1856. Francis Stevens Conover died in 1901.
 In 1840 Francis Stevens Conover and graduated in the first class of the United States Naval Acedemy at United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He sailed with Comodore Perry on his expedition to Japan in 1852. He resided at at South Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, before 1862. He resided at at Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, in 1862; He resided in the old Bainbridge house on Bayard's Lane which his father had purchase. He commanded the "Issac Smith'" and was taken prisoner at Stony Inlet, kept a prisoner for three months and then exchanged. circa 1863.



Richard (retired lawyer) died 5 th June 1930 Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N9J7-XJT

Here he is with the family in 1860 - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MFH5-6D7

1880 Census - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MN8F-1RW

Married by 1900 (to Cornelia Granger Fitzhugh) according to the census Groveland, Livingston, New York.
Cornelia Granger Fitzhugh was born on Feb 24, 1865  New York. She was the daughter of Richard Dana Fitzhugh and Anne Elizabeth Carroll. Cornelia married Richard Field Conover, son of Francis Stevens Conover and Helen Stockton Field, on Sep 11, 1895.
Cornelia Granger Fitzhugh was also known as Cornelia F. Fitzhugh.


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1920 - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNYY-RQ8

1930 - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/SY1M-KPZ

Richard Fields Conover - Biopgraphy

http://bay-journal.com/bay/1he/writings/conover-richard-f.html

http://www.conovergenealogy.com/connet/connet-o/p1291.htm#i129007
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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #48 on: Tuesday 25 September 12 13:49 BST (UK) »
^^^^ Wow, Sandra, thanks very much for all of that information! It really is a big help.

Mark
History of lawn tennis; players, tournaments, etc.

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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #49 on: Wednesday 26 September 12 10:08 BST (UK) »
Pleased to have helped.  ;)

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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #50 on: Wednesday 26 September 12 20:20 BST (UK) »
I'll add a few more names here, if no one objects (most of these players were probably born in the years 1880-95:

A. Leonard Beekman
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Carlton R. Gardner
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Frederick C. Colston
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Trowbridge W. Hendrick
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Frederick C. Inman
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John R. Strachan
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S. Howard Voshell
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Edward  H. Whitney
George F. Whitney

These two players appear to have been brothers.
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Irving C. Wright
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Any help would be appreciated.

Mark
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Re: Some early male American lawn tennis players
« Reply #51 on: Wednesday 26 September 12 20:33 BST (UK) »
Trowbridge Wesley Hendrick - Birth 14 Sep 1883 in Susanville. California
and died 26 Dec 1948 in Los Angeles, California. Married 24 April 1912 Chicago. Illinois to  Mary Banning Hollister - Born 30 Apr 1887 in Chorro Ranch, San Luis Obispo, California, 
and died  23 Nov 1966.

Trowbridge Wesley Hendrick  - Birth Date: 14 Sep 1883 California
Died  26 Dec 1948  Los Angeles
Mother's Maiden Name: Ward and Father Hendrick.

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« Reply #52 on: Wednesday 26 September 12 20:40 BST (UK) »
Carlton R Gardner - Birth Feb 1885 in Missouri and died 6 Jan 1936 in Alameda, Alameda, California.

http://newspaperarchive.com/oakland-tribune/1936-01-07/page-11/

Son of William A. Gardner - Birth abt 1847 in Michigan - Married to Mary L Springer 13 th June 1886 Oregon, Holt, Missouri. Mary L. Springer - Birth About 1842 in Indiana
and died 8 Jun 1927 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.

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« Reply #53 on: Wednesday 26 September 12 20:47 BST (UK) »
Leonard Beekman - Leonard Beekman, Princeton graduate of the class of 1918, jumped to his death from the 11th floor of the Hotel Rockefeller today at 7 A.M. He had been ill for months following a nervous breakdown. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Beekman, well known socially both in New York and Philadelphia, their home.

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1900 with father and mother - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSKP-PJ2

1905 with father and mother  -  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/SPFJ-XWS

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