from the HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY, WISC; c.1884; pp.991-992
Prof. Nathan Crook Twining, A. M., was born in Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1834. He is a son of John and Sarah (Hampton) Twining, natives of New Jersey. The former was born Dec. 2, 1784, and the latter Aug. 2, 1807. They were Quakers of the Elias Hicks school, and like the majority of that sect were quiet, industrious and simple hearted, free from guile, their code of morals being embraced in the Golden Rule. Their ancestors, on both sides, came to America with William Penn, the father being of Welsh and the mother of Scotch descent. His father, notwithstanding his Quaker scruples on the subject of "bearing carnal weapons," was a gallant soldier of the War of 1812, and his great-uncle, Nathan Crook, whose name he bears, was a midshipman on board the Lawrence, Commodore Perry's flag ship, and was killed at the battle of Lake Erie about ten minutes before the commodore abandoned the vessel. His mother was a niece of Gen. Wade Hampton, not less famous in the struggle of 1812. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm, and in childhood was an ardent lover of books and music. He never, however, developed a taste for fictitious literature, historic, scientific and linguistic works being liis chosen companions, even in childhood. He moved west with his parents in 1844, and settled in Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wi^. He was educated at Milton College, Milton, Wis , taking the full course of study, comprising mathematics, ancient classics, metapiiysics and the natural sciences. He became one of the best Greek and Latin scholars, as well as the most accomplished mathematician of the day, and was honored by his alma mater with the honorary degree of A. M, After graduating he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in the same institution, which position he retained eight years, discharging his duties with eminent credit to himself and to the utmost satisfaction of all concerned. He resigned his professorship in 1868, and from motives of the highest consideration resolved to devote the remainder of his life to public school teaching, a profession which he has followed to the present date, with the utmost success. He has taught the higher branches in the public schools of Chicago and Batavia, in Illinois, and Boscobel and Waterloo, in Wisconsin. For the past eleven years he has been principal of the High School of Monroe. The success which has attended his labors in this field, and the esteem in which he is held by all who know him, attest his ability as a teacher, and his eminent fitness for the responsible position which he occupies. It is not too much to say that, as an educator, he has few, if any, superiors in the State, or in the west. The schools of Monroe rank with the foremost in Wisconsin. He is a leading member of the State Teacher's Association, and at a meeting of that organization, was appointed by his associates to prepare a curriculum of studies for the public schools, to be submitted to the legislature with a view of being embodied in the school laws of the State. He is, moreover, a gentleman of the highest moral character, an incessant student and an untiring worker. In politics he has always been republican, and, like the sect from which he sprang, was an uncompromising opponent of slavery. During the late war he served one year in the army as captain of company C, of the 40th Wisconsin Infantry. He took part in the second battle of Memphis, in 1854, and various other engagements and skirmishes. He was a leading member of the Union League during the existence of that organization. On arriving at an age of discretion, he embraced the orthodox faith, and united with the Congregational Church, to which he still adheres. He was married Nov. 18, 1861, to Phebe Ann Barber, daughter
of Lillibridge Barber, of Hopkinson, R. I. She died Jan. 16, 1866, leaving three sons — Harry Le Verne, Clarence Walter and Nathan C. June 18, 1873, Mr. Twining was again married to Margaret Rockwell, daughter of James Rockwell, Esq., one of the early settlers of Chicago.
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Nathan C Twining in the Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1873
Marriage Place: Kane, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Margaret E Rockwell
Spouse Gender: Female
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Nathan C Twining in the California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 21 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Rialto
Spouse: Jennie M Carpenter
Prof. Nathan Crook Twining, A. M., was born in Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1834. He is a son of John and Sarah (Hampton) Twining, natives of New Jersey. The former was born Dec. 2, 1784, and the latter Aug. 2, 1807. They were Quakers of the Elias Hicks school, and like the majority of that sect were quiet, industrious and simple hearted, free from guile, their code of morals being embraced in the Golden Rule. Their ancestors, on both sides, came to America with William Penn, the father being of Welsh and the mother of Scotch descent. His father, notwithstanding his Quaker scruples on the subject of "bearing carnal weapons," was a gallant soldier of the War of 1812, and his great-uncle, Nathan Crook, whose name he bears, was a midshipman on board the Lawrence, Commodore Perry's flag ship, and was killed at the battle of Lake Erie about ten minutes before the commodore abandoned the vessel. His mother was a niece of Gen. Wade Hampton, not less famous in the struggle of 1812. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm, and in childhood was an ardent lover of books and music. He never, however, developed a taste for fictitious literature, historic, scientific and linguistic works being liis chosen companions, even in childhood. He moved west with his parents in 1844, and settled in Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wi^. He was educated at Milton College, Milton, Wis , taking the full course of study, comprising mathematics, ancient classics, metapiiysics and the natural sciences. He became one of the best Greek and Latin scholars, as well as the most accomplished mathematician of the day, and was honored by his alma mater with the honorary degree of A. M, After graduating he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in the same institution, which position he retained eight years, discharging his duties with eminent credit to himself and to the utmost satisfaction of all concerned. He resigned his professorship in 1868, and from motives of the highest consideration resolved to devote the remainder of his life to public school teaching, a profession which he has followed to the present date, with the utmost success. He has taught the higher branches in the public schools of Chicago and Batavia, in Illinois, and Boscobel and Waterloo, in Wisconsin. For the past eleven years he has been principal of the High School of Monroe. The success which has attended his labors in this field, and the esteem in which he is held by all who know him, attest his ability as a teacher, and his eminent fitness for the responsible position which he occupies. It is not too much to say that, as an educator, he has few, if any, superiors in the State, or in the west. The schools of Monroe rank with the foremost in Wisconsin. He is a leading member of the State Teacher's Association, and at a meeting of that organization, was appointed by his associates to prepare a curriculum of studies for the public schools, to be submitted to the legislature with a view of being embodied in the school laws of the State. He is, moreover, a gentleman of the highest moral character, an incessant student and an untiring worker. In politics he has always been republican, and, like the sect from which he sprang, was an uncompromising opponent of slavery. During the late war he served one year in the army as captain of company C, of the 40th Wisconsin Infantry. He took part in the second battle of Memphis, in 1854, and various other engagements and skirmishes. He was a leading member of the Union League during the existence of that organization. On arriving at an age of discretion, he embraced the orthodox faith, and united with the Congregational Church, to which he still adheres. He was married Nov. 18, 1861, to Phebe Ann Barber, daughter
of Lillibridge Barber, of Hopkinson, R. I. She died Jan. 16, 1866, leaving three sons — Harry Le Verne, Clarence Walter and Nathan C. June 18, 1873, Mr. Twining was again married to Margaret Rockwell, daughter of James Rockwell, Esq., one of the early settlers of Chicago.
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Nathan C Twining in the Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1873
Marriage Place: Kane, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Margaret E Rockwell
Spouse Gender: Female
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Nathan C Twining in the California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 21 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Rialto
Spouse: Jennie M Carpenter
from the HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY, WISC; c.1884; pp.991-992
Prof. Nathan Crook Twining, A. M., was born in Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1834. He is a son of John and Sarah (Hampton) Twining, natives of New Jersey. The former was born Dec. 2, 1784, and the latter Aug. 2, 1807. They were Quakers of the Elias Hicks school, and like the majority of that sect were quiet, industrious and simple hearted, free from guile, their code of morals being embraced in the Golden Rule. Their ancestors, on both sides, came to America with William Penn, the father being of Welsh and the mother of Scotch descent. His father, notwithstanding his Quaker scruples on the subject of "bearing carnal weapons," was a gallant soldier of the War of 1812, and his great-uncle, Nathan Crook, whose name he bears, was a midshipman on board the Lawrence, Commodore Perry's flag ship, and was killed at the battle of Lake Erie about ten minutes before the commodore abandoned the vessel. His mother was a niece of Gen. Wade Hampton, not less famous in the struggle of 1812. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm, and in childhood was an ardent lover of books and music. He never, however, developed a taste for fictitious literature, historic, scientific and linguistic works being liis chosen companions, even in childhood. He moved west with his parents in 1844, and settled in Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wi^. He was educated at Milton College, Milton, Wis , taking the full course of study, comprising mathematics, ancient classics, metapiiysics and the natural sciences. He became one of the best Greek and Latin scholars, as well as the most accomplished mathematician of the day, and was honored by his alma mater with the honorary degree of A. M, After graduating he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in the same institution, which position he retained eight years, discharging his duties with eminent credit to himself and to the utmost satisfaction of all concerned. He resigned his professorship in 1868, and from motives of the highest consideration resolved to devote the remainder of his life to public school teaching, a profession which he has followed to the present date, with the utmost success. He has taught the higher branches in the public schools of Chicago and Batavia, in Illinois, and Boscobel and Waterloo, in Wisconsin. For the past eleven years he has been principal of the High School of Monroe. The success which has attended his labors in this field, and the esteem in which he is held by all who know him, attest his ability as a teacher, and his eminent fitness for the responsible position which he occupies. It is not too much to say that, as an educator, he has few, if any, superiors in the State, or in the west. The schools of Monroe rank with the foremost in Wisconsin. He is a leading member of the State Teacher's Association, and at a meeting of that organization, was appointed by his associates to prepare a curriculum of studies for the public schools, to be submitted to the legislature with a view of being embodied in the school laws of the State. He is, moreover, a gentleman of the highest moral character, an incessant student and an untiring worker. In politics he has always been republican, and, like the sect from which he sprang, was an uncompromising opponent of slavery. During the late war he served one year in the army as captain of company C, of the 40th Wisconsin Infantry. He took part in the second battle of Memphis, in 1854, and various other engagements and skirmishes. He was a leading member of the Union League during the existence of that organization. On arriving at an age of discretion, he embraced the orthodox faith, and united with the Congregational Church, to which he still adheres. He was married Nov. 18, 1861, to Phebe Ann Barber, daughter
of Lillibridge Barber, of Hopkinson, R. I. She died Jan. 16, 1866, leaving three sons — Harry Le Verne, Clarence Walter and Nathan C. June 18, 1873, Mr. Twining was again married to Margaret Rockwell, daughter of James Rockwell, Esq., one of the early settlers of Chicago.
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Nathan C Twining in the Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1873
Marriage Place: Kane, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Margaret E Rockwell
Spouse Gender: Female
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Nathan C Twining in the California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 21 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Rialto
Spouse: Jennie M Carpenter
Prof. Nathan Crook Twining, A. M., was born in Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1834. He is a son of John and Sarah (Hampton) Twining, natives of New Jersey. The former was born Dec. 2, 1784, and the latter Aug. 2, 1807. They were Quakers of the Elias Hicks school, and like the majority of that sect were quiet, industrious and simple hearted, free from guile, their code of morals being embraced in the Golden Rule. Their ancestors, on both sides, came to America with William Penn, the father being of Welsh and the mother of Scotch descent. His father, notwithstanding his Quaker scruples on the subject of "bearing carnal weapons," was a gallant soldier of the War of 1812, and his great-uncle, Nathan Crook, whose name he bears, was a midshipman on board the Lawrence, Commodore Perry's flag ship, and was killed at the battle of Lake Erie about ten minutes before the commodore abandoned the vessel. His mother was a niece of Gen. Wade Hampton, not less famous in the struggle of 1812. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm, and in childhood was an ardent lover of books and music. He never, however, developed a taste for fictitious literature, historic, scientific and linguistic works being liis chosen companions, even in childhood. He moved west with his parents in 1844, and settled in Waterloo, Jefferson Co., Wi^. He was educated at Milton College, Milton, Wis , taking the full course of study, comprising mathematics, ancient classics, metapiiysics and the natural sciences. He became one of the best Greek and Latin scholars, as well as the most accomplished mathematician of the day, and was honored by his alma mater with the honorary degree of A. M, After graduating he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in the same institution, which position he retained eight years, discharging his duties with eminent credit to himself and to the utmost satisfaction of all concerned. He resigned his professorship in 1868, and from motives of the highest consideration resolved to devote the remainder of his life to public school teaching, a profession which he has followed to the present date, with the utmost success. He has taught the higher branches in the public schools of Chicago and Batavia, in Illinois, and Boscobel and Waterloo, in Wisconsin. For the past eleven years he has been principal of the High School of Monroe. The success which has attended his labors in this field, and the esteem in which he is held by all who know him, attest his ability as a teacher, and his eminent fitness for the responsible position which he occupies. It is not too much to say that, as an educator, he has few, if any, superiors in the State, or in the west. The schools of Monroe rank with the foremost in Wisconsin. He is a leading member of the State Teacher's Association, and at a meeting of that organization, was appointed by his associates to prepare a curriculum of studies for the public schools, to be submitted to the legislature with a view of being embodied in the school laws of the State. He is, moreover, a gentleman of the highest moral character, an incessant student and an untiring worker. In politics he has always been republican, and, like the sect from which he sprang, was an uncompromising opponent of slavery. During the late war he served one year in the army as captain of company C, of the 40th Wisconsin Infantry. He took part in the second battle of Memphis, in 1854, and various other engagements and skirmishes. He was a leading member of the Union League during the existence of that organization. On arriving at an age of discretion, he embraced the orthodox faith, and united with the Congregational Church, to which he still adheres. He was married Nov. 18, 1861, to Phebe Ann Barber, daughter
of Lillibridge Barber, of Hopkinson, R. I. She died Jan. 16, 1866, leaving three sons — Harry Le Verne, Clarence Walter and Nathan C. June 18, 1873, Mr. Twining was again married to Margaret Rockwell, daughter of James Rockwell, Esq., one of the early settlers of Chicago.
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Nathan C Twining in the Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1873
Marriage Place: Kane, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: Margaret E Rockwell
Spouse Gender: Female
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Nathan C Twining in the California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980
Name: Nathan C Twining
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 21 Jul 1891
Marriage Place: Rialto
Spouse: Jennie M Carpenter
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