Noyes Frederick Avery was associated with the lumber industry through a business known as Robinson-Solomon & Co. He later was manager of the estate. He was a director of various industries and banks, including the Grand Rapids Savings Bank and Perkins, Avery Photo Supplies, and Worden Grocer Co.
On August 18, 1873 he enlisted in Company B, second regiment of the Michigan State Troops under Captain H. W. Calkins, and was honorably discharged on February 10, 1880 after serving six years.
He married Annie Barstow on Oct 18, 1880 at Grand Rapids, MI.
In 1882 Noyes and his step brother Frank Wilder Foster embarked on a round-the-world adventure. The voyage departed New York harbor December 12, 1882 on the 3-masted sailing schooner the "Jacob E. Ridgway", arriving in Yokohama, Japan 162 days later. The ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed on through the Indian Ocean, passing through the Sunda Straight and onwards across the Java Sea then continuing north through the China Sea finally setting anchor in Yokohama harbor at 4pm, May 22, 1883. Two hand written log books of this journey exist and remain through descent in the family and provide detailed daily entries and navigational coordinates of the voyage and subsequent return voyage to San Francisco on the steamer "SS City of Rio de Janeiro", which on a later voyage sank after hitting a shoal near Fort Point at the entry to San Francisco Bay. Tragically 128 of the 210 passengers and crew were lost. The wreck site remains have been preserved within the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary located just outside the Golden Gate.
Of historical note, the daily logs of the ships latitude and longitude reveal that the Jacob E. Ridgway sailed past the volcanic island of Krakatau, or Krakatoa, approximately one month before the initial eruptions that would lead the the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatoa in August of 1883, that would kill tens of thousands and reduce the former island to a small fraction of its original size.
On August 18, 1873 he enlisted in Company B, second regiment of the Michigan State Troops under Captain H. W. Calkins, and was honorably discharged on February 10, 1880 after serving six years.
He married Annie Barstow on Oct 18, 1880 at Grand Rapids, MI.
In 1882 Noyes and his step brother Frank Wilder Foster embarked on a round-the-world adventure. The voyage departed New York harbor December 12, 1882 on the 3-masted sailing schooner the "Jacob E. Ridgway", arriving in Yokohama, Japan 162 days later. The ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed on through the Indian Ocean, passing through the Sunda Straight and onwards across the Java Sea then continuing north through the China Sea finally setting anchor in Yokohama harbor at 4pm, May 22, 1883. Two hand written log books of this journey exist and remain through descent in the family and provide detailed daily entries and navigational coordinates of the voyage and subsequent return voyage to San Francisco on the steamer "SS City of Rio de Janeiro", which on a later voyage sank after hitting a shoal near Fort Point at the entry to San Francisco Bay. Tragically 128 of the 210 passengers and crew were lost. The wreck site remains have been preserved within the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary located just outside the Golden Gate.
Of historical note, the daily logs of the ships latitude and longitude reveal that the Jacob E. Ridgway sailed past the volcanic island of Krakatau, or Krakatoa, approximately one month before the initial eruptions that would lead the the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatoa in August of 1883, that would kill tens of thousands and reduce the former island to a small fraction of its original size.
Noyes Frederick Avery was associated with the lumber industry through a business known as Robinson-Solomon & Co. He later was manager of the estate. He was a director of various industries and banks, including the Grand Rapids Savings Bank and Perkins, Avery Photo Supplies, and Worden Grocer Co.
On August 18, 1873 he enlisted in Company B, second regiment of the Michigan State Troops under Captain H. W. Calkins, and was honorably discharged on February 10, 1880 after serving six years.
He married Annie Barstow on Oct 18, 1880 at Grand Rapids, MI.
In 1882 Noyes and his step brother Frank Wilder Foster embarked on a round-the-world adventure. The voyage departed New York harbor December 12, 1882 on the 3-masted sailing schooner the "Jacob E. Ridgway", arriving in Yokohama, Japan 162 days later. The ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed on through the Indian Ocean, passing through the Sunda Straight and onwards across the Java Sea then continuing north through the China Sea finally setting anchor in Yokohama harbor at 4pm, May 22, 1883. Two hand written log books of this journey exist and remain through descent in the family and provide detailed daily entries and navigational coordinates of the voyage and subsequent return voyage to San Francisco on the steamer "SS City of Rio de Janeiro", which on a later voyage sank after hitting a shoal near Fort Point at the entry to San Francisco Bay. Tragically 128 of the 210 passengers and crew were lost. The wreck site remains have been preserved within the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary located just outside the Golden Gate.
Of historical note, the daily logs of the ships latitude and longitude reveal that the Jacob E. Ridgway sailed past the volcanic island of Krakatau, or Krakatoa, approximately one month before the initial eruptions that would lead the the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatoa in August of 1883, that would kill tens of thousands and reduce the former island to a small fraction of its original size.
On August 18, 1873 he enlisted in Company B, second regiment of the Michigan State Troops under Captain H. W. Calkins, and was honorably discharged on February 10, 1880 after serving six years.
He married Annie Barstow on Oct 18, 1880 at Grand Rapids, MI.
In 1882 Noyes and his step brother Frank Wilder Foster embarked on a round-the-world adventure. The voyage departed New York harbor December 12, 1882 on the 3-masted sailing schooner the "Jacob E. Ridgway", arriving in Yokohama, Japan 162 days later. The ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed on through the Indian Ocean, passing through the Sunda Straight and onwards across the Java Sea then continuing north through the China Sea finally setting anchor in Yokohama harbor at 4pm, May 22, 1883. Two hand written log books of this journey exist and remain through descent in the family and provide detailed daily entries and navigational coordinates of the voyage and subsequent return voyage to San Francisco on the steamer "SS City of Rio de Janeiro", which on a later voyage sank after hitting a shoal near Fort Point at the entry to San Francisco Bay. Tragically 128 of the 210 passengers and crew were lost. The wreck site remains have been preserved within the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary located just outside the Golden Gate.
Of historical note, the daily logs of the ships latitude and longitude reveal that the Jacob E. Ridgway sailed past the volcanic island of Krakatau, or Krakatoa, approximately one month before the initial eruptions that would lead the the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatoa in August of 1883, that would kill tens of thousands and reduce the former island to a small fraction of its original size.
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