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Note for: John Lewis Lewis Goldstone, 1 May 1909 - 24 Mar 1992 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Union Fields Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, NY

Individual Note:
      John Lewis Goldstone attended Phillips Academy, Andover; Yale College P.H.B. 1930; Columbia L.L.B. 1935; served as attorney in U. S. Dept. of Justice (Southern District of New York); author of articles on taxation and foreign light spectacle at Independence Hall.
        Among John's ancestors who played a notable part in the commercial, civic, and social life of New York City for over two and half centuries were: Abraham de Lucena, a contributor of 100 gilders to a fund raised in 1655 for repairing and strengthening the outer walls of the city (now New York) against attacks by the Indians; The Rev. Mr. A. de Lucena, son of Abraham, who subscribed in 1711 for the building of the steeple of Trinity Church; Harmon Hendricks who gave $42,000 to the government for the War of 1812 (one of the largest subscribers), built the first copper rolling mill in America, and also connected in business with Paul Revere; Amelia Bernard Lazarus who founded the Prix de Rome - her name is inscribed on a bronze plaque near entrance to Metropolitan Museum among those "Benefactors of the Museum during the first half century of struggle and growth"; Emma Lazarus who wrote poem on the Statue of Liberty - and now on Receiving Building at Idlewild (now Kennedy) Airport; Lafayette Anthony Goldstone (1876-1956) who was a distinguished a successful architect in New York. John's mother, Aline Lewis Goldstone, is a poet writing under the name of “May Lewis".

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Note for: Jeanette Kilham, 7 May 1897 - 11 May 1992 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Jamaica, Queens, NY (Union Fields Cemetery)

Individual Note:
      Jeannette was a graduate of Winsor School, Boston, and School Museum Fine Arts, Boston; studied briefly in later years at Academie Ranson, Paris, and with Fernand Leger and Hans Hoffman in New York; three one-man shows in New York. She is also past president of the Yonta Club of New York, an international organization of business and professional women.

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Note for: Lafayette Anthony Goldstone, 21 Jun 1876 - 1956 Index

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Lafayette was born at 34 Conklin St., Poughkeepsie, NY.

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Note for: Aline May Lewis, 12 Nov 1878 - 3 May 1976 Index

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NY Times (Society Home and Abroad) Sunday 24 May 1908: Miss Aline May Lewis has set her wedding day for Wednesday, June 10. She will be married on that day to Lafayette Anthony Goldstone in the Hotel Savoy. Miss Lewis is a daughter of Mrs. Hyman Philip Lewis of 38 West Eighty-seventh Street. The wedding will be a small one, witnessed by relatives only.
Aline May Goldstone wrote a collection of poetry: "Red Drumming in the Sun," Publisher: New York: A. A. Knopf, 1931. She also wrote: "Lafayette A. Goldstone: a Career in Architecture," 200 copies published in New York in 1964.

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Note for: Walter Harrington Kilham, 30 Aug 1868 - Sep 1948 Index

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Walter Sr. graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1893-95 he traveled in Europe on a Rotch Traveling Scholarship; was a most successful architect and important citizen of Boston. Among his several books are “Boston After Bulfinch - Architecture from 1800 to 1900” and “Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period.” For information on his many accomplishments see his memoirs in two volumes in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Note for: Jane Houston, 22 Feb 1871 - 19 Feb 1930 Index

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      Jane was the daughter of William J. Houston (1841-1890) who came to America at age two years from Scotland. He rode to California on horseback in 1859 and settled near San Francisco. Jane's grandmother's family were the Tabers, descended from early arrivals in America on the Mayflower, from Essex, England, where they were shipbuilders.
        Jane's mother was Martha Pratt Miller who lived in Augusta, Maine, from where at the age of 16 with her mother she crossed the Isthmus in 1859 (see family manuscript magazine The Clearing owned by her children) on the way to join her eldest brother, William P. Miller, well established in Stockton, California, where he owned a large carriage factory. Before her marriage to William Houston, Martha taught school near Stockton, California.
        Martha and William Houston's children were Frederick King, Andrew Whittier, Jane (Mrs. Walter Kilham), Mabel (Mrs. Jesse W. Lazear - whose husband was a Johns Hopkins doctor of yellow fever fame), Helen (Sister Helen Laurine of "All Saints", an order of the Episcopal Church located in Catonsville, Maryland) who died Aug. 11, 1964, aged 85.
        Jane Houston, a Titian-haired art student met Walter Kilham in Paris where he was traveling on the Rotch Traveling Scholarship. They were married in California. Both had high principles of art and stood for it in their own lines. She founded the Society of Independent Artists in Boston to assist unknown artists. Jane continued to paint, and also worked hard to make the summer home - an abandoned farm known as "The Clearing" at Tamworth, N. H. - a thing of beauty.