Sidney Chester McIntire
1871 to unknown
10 October 1871 • Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
purported death 31 August 1944 • Kanoehe, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States
suspected death WestGate, Japan
maternal grandfather
no extant grave or remains
Marcia & Mac
born to my maternal paternal line which, including spouses, is
Margaret Anne Evans
12 March 1833 • Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
15 January 1902 • Biddeford, York, Maine, United States
great-grandmother
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John J. McIntire
21 February 1829 • Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States
09 October 1891 • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
great-grandfather
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Maria N. Tucker
~1796 • Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States
April 1860 • Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States
2nd great-grandmother
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Phineas McIntire Jr.
14 January 1790 • Biddeford, York, Maine, United States
27 December 1870 • Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States
2nd great-grandfather
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Lucy Stover
25 March 1750 • York County, Maine, United States
21 July 1836 • Biddeford, York, Maine, United States
3rd great-grandmother
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Phineas McIntire Sr.
1750 York County, Maine, United States
before 23 December 1826 Biddeford, York, Maine, United States
3rd great-grandfather
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Abigail Webber
31 January 1718 • York, York, Maine, United States
03 April 1776 • York, York, Maine, United States
4th great-grandmother
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John McIntire Jr.
25 February 1711 • York, York, Maine, United States
19 February 1785 • York, York, Maine, United States
4th great-grandfather
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Susanna Matthews Young
1678 • York, York, Maine, United States
04 May 1748 • York, York, Maine, United States
5th great-grandmother
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John McIntire
1677 • York, York, Maine, United States
02 December 1771 • York, York, Maine, United States
5th great-grandfather
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Dorothy Pearce
1653 • York, York, Maine, United States
17 April 1700 • York, York, Maine, United States
6th great-grandmother
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Micum McIntire Sr
1635 • Glencoe, Antrim, Scotland, United Kingdom
02 October 1705 • York, York, Maine, United States
6th great-grandfather
Six generations of McIntires born in York County.
McIntire family tree
Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States
The base is Micum McIntire. Marcia leaf marked with a pink arrow.
Mac, aka Sid McIntire was the first to be born outside of York. The masses were closing in.
To the best of my knowledge, I never met my maternal grandfather. As in the case of our paternal ancestors, the Allens, where Connecticut left the Allens, Massachusetts left the McIntires, not vice versa.
At his birth in 1871, his mother was 38 and his father was 42. Two elder sisters and two elder brothers, he was the youngest, 11 years separating the kids.
Warren Forrest McIntire
1860–1904
Carolyn Grey McIntire
1862–1937
Alonzo Evans McIntire
1864–1917
Irene Stoddard McIntire
1867–1937
Sidney Chester McIntire
1871–1944
This is one reason I wanted five offspring.
As a child, they lived at 95 Almont Street, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, a street number which no longer exists because a cross street was built at the end of Almont.
In the late 1880s, this would have been the approximate location of 95 Almont Street.
Mac was attending school and could read and write at nine years old. In 1885 he finished one year of high school. In 1891, his da passed away at 62 in Boston.
In 1894 grandpa Mac owned a "manufacture of ventilating apparatus and hardware specialites, full time..." with his brother. In 1984, I went to work for an HVAC company, Trane. On 21 or 23 October 1896, at the age of 26, he married Grace May Bampton, who was 21. The first marriage for both, George H. Perkins, a resident of Boston, presided. In 1900, their home was in Boston, Ward 21, 53 Norfolk Street.
When he was 31, and she was 68, his mother passed in Biddeford, Maine.
Margaret Anne Evans
12 March 1833 • Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
15 January 1902 • Biddeford, York, Maine, United States
maternal great-grandmother
burial Woodlawn Cemetery Biddeford, York, Maine, USA
John J. McIntire
21 February 1829 • Kennebunkport, York, Maine, United States
09 October 1891 • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
maternal great-grandfather
burial Woodlawn Cemetery Biddeford, York County, Maine, USA
Last year I visited their graves.
Biddeford, York, Maine, USA
I was intending to set-up my cot and spend the night with them. I have slept the night in other cemeteries. The police, who are wise to my wonts, nipped that plan in the bud.
At 32, his eldest sibling, Warren, died in Hyde Park, Mass.
Warren Forrest McIntire
10 April 1860 • Biddeford, York, Maine, United States
27 January 1904 • Hyde Park, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
maternal granduncle
burial Fairview Cemetery Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
At about this point in their lives, he and Grace briefly lived in Boston, Ward 17.
On 11 January 1912 Mac was a member of the Freemasons's Washington Lodge in Roxbury. Three years later he started at Northeastern College School of Law. His brother Alonzo died when Sid was 45.
Alonzo Evans McIntire
19 September 1864 • Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States
04 February 1917 • Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States
maternal granduncle
burial Oak Grove Cemetery Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
In 1917, Mac took a year of education equivalent to one year of high school, no diploma. After three years of law school, starting in February 1918, he interned at the Law Office of L Newton, Esq. at 60 State Street in Boston. He owned the mortgaged home in which he lived with Grace at 30 Moreland Street, Boston Ward 12, her final home. I've yet to find her final resting place.
He continued to work half time at the heating & ventilation hardware business until 07 December 1918. The next year he was admitted to the Bar Association of the City of Boston and practiced law continuously in Boston for a decade, until at least 14 September 1928. His Boston law office was in Ward 12 in 1920.
When I was studying for the Virginia Bar, which I failed, I regularly studied in the Cheasapeake Law Library. While studying there, an attorney told me 'It takes ten years before you know what sort of law you want to practice.' Gramps did his decade.
In 1927 his spouse of 30 years died.
Grace May Bampton
03 November 1875 • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
15 December 1927 • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
first maternal step grandmother
burial unknown
no known photograph, if you have one, please let me know!
She was 52, he was 56. According to The McIntire Family - Descendants of Micum Mecantire, there were no offspring. I found one government document which might have suggested they had a child born about the same year as my second step-grandmother, but found no corroborating datum. Government work. Perhaps the point the Feds were trying to make is my second step-grandmother could have been his daughter.
She died in December. In those days, before refrigeration, deaths were soon followed by funerals. Within two months he was on the Pacific Coast. I suspect he traveled to San Francisco by train.
On 15 February 1928, he sailed from San Francisco on the S.S. Matsonia,
arriving in Honolulu on 21 February. He sailed to San Pedro, Los Angeles, arriving on 30 March on the S.S. City of Honolulu.
Both passenger manifests list his residence as Boston, unmarried. Before and after his name on the outbound manifest are women, one 61 and the other 27, whose names have no similarity to the other nearby names on the manifest. I don't have information whether either of those had any connection to him.
In the age of horse and buggy, people didn't generally retire at 56. If you had something to contribute, you worked. 'It's not like it used to be. Then again, it never was.'
That wisdom I heard from my Tokyo law school roommate, Sid, who shares my grandfather's given name. Sid and I used to trade messages on anti-social media. Sid, and many, perhaps most of the people I used to know, don't wish to associate in person. If you'd known me all these years to find out what I am, I doubt you would either. Particularly if you are familiar with my disregard for collateral damage. Sorry.
On 05 September 1928, on application by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Granpa Mac applied for admission to the Bar of Honolulu. His residence was still indicated as 40 Moreland Street, a childless house haunted by his spouse of more than three decades.
Mac started driving west from Beantown.
In Western New York, he happened upon a likely lass, my second step grandmother, Dot, as she preferred to be called in her later years.
Doris Currey Martin
14 September 1900 • Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
13 June 2003 • Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States
second maternal step grandmother
burial Forest Lawn Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Sid had a niece named Dorothy who had died young. Dorothy is a name that Dot used on occasion as a nickname. His niece died in 1901. This niece might have been mistakenly recorded as Grace's and his child, which might explain the Census datum discrepancy. The familial appeal of the name might have been one reason for his attraction to my second step grandmother.
Dot had been a nurse who married an Upstate New York medical doctor who had died of a blood infection within a few months of their marriage.
George Theodore Hagenbucher
18 January 1900 • Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States
04 April 1926 • Johnson City, Broome, New York, United States
maternal step grandfather
Doctors performing surgery in that era had very little protection from blood pathogens. He died of a blood disease.
At least one of Mac's brothers had moved to New York, so Mac might have been accustomed to the New York attitude which Dot, or Nana, as we called her, had in spades. She was a trained nurse who continued working after their marriage. A woman with a career was not a rarity, as temporal bias might suggest.
Dot was the third of six, 25 years seperating the eldest from the youngest. She did not know her eldest sibling well. Her surviving sister lived in Tennessee when Dot was pushing triple digits. They had not met in years, and, despite my inquiry, she had no desire to meet her again.
Ord H Martin
1897–
Ira H. Martin
1897–1997
Doris Currey Martin aka Dot, Nana
1900-2003
Julia Ellen Martin
1908–1908
Daisy Marie Martin
1912–2004
Ray Allen Martin
1918–2010
Her youngest sibling, Ray, infected me with the genealogy bug by giving me a number of handwritten family trees in the late 1990s, some of which were a century old.
Ira H. Martin, Doris Currey Martin & Ray Allen Martin
Uncle Allen had been a Sergeant in the Second War
(there was nothing worldly about it)
Ray Allen Martin
22 February 1918 • Kenmore, Erie, New York, United States
25 April 2010 • Alpharetta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States
maternal step granduncle
burial Georgia National Cemetery Canton, Cherokee County, Georgia, USA
Ray and I became fairly close. We used to call him Uncle Allen. His nuclear family called him Ray. He told me that my family might have started calling him by his middle name because of my dad, who had the same name, Allen, as a family name.
Ray Allen Martin was named after a pastor uncle of his with the family name Allen. Perhaps my father thought the use of the paternal name for a maternal relation might further alert us to the familial similarities. Notably, I had Allen pastors on both sides of my family tree. What is called 'dangerously inbred' in Appalachia is called good breeding in New York.
About the turn of the century, I conducted a genealogical interview with Uncle Allen at his home at 113 Armstrong Road, Rochester, New York. According to Uncle Allen, in 1928 Granpa Mac had a big flashy car with huge fenders, a white coupe or sedan, one of those Great Gatsby types
Dot's father was a Buffalo steel worker. In a genealogical interview, Dot told me her father regularly severely beat her mother and her two elder brothers. She didn't recall him ever being beaten by him.
Bessie May Currey
21 July 1874 • Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
28 October 1940 • Dunkirk, Chautauqua, New York, United States
maternal step great-grandmother
burial Forest Lawn Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Nana would often speak fondly of her mother, particularly when viewing this photograph.
Henry Albert Martin
15 February 1870 • Alden, Erie, New York, United States
07 October 1936 • Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
maternal step great-grandfather
burial Forest Lawn Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
no photograph yet discovered
Their home in Erie County was a walk up to a dining area and kitchen on the second floor, with bedrooms in the attic. One day, during a particularly severe beating, he knocked my step great grandmother down the stairs. Nana claimed her mother was never right again.
Dot and Mac married on 13 or 15 October 1928 in Kenmore, New York. He was 56, widowed less than a year. She was 28. My dad remarried less than a year after he thought he'd been widowed.
.nMac briefly lived with Uncle Allen at 87 Argonne Street, Erie County when Mac first arrived in Western New York. Uncle Al was uncertain if he lived with them before or after the marriage, or both.
.nMac started driving. Mac had had enough of America. First they went south, all the way to Key West, and ferried the car to Havana, a big gambling mecca in those days. Dot probably deferred to Mac's estimate that Honolulu might be better.
Returning to KW, they drove out to the Grand Canyon, and walked to the bottom. In her nineties, Dot recalled to me in a genealogical interview that she was dolled up, including heeled shoes.
Continuing on to California, she worked as a nurse at a hospital in Los Angeles. One of her patients at the hospital was Orville Wright, one of the Wright brothers of aeronautics fame. Just because her mother was never right again, doesn't mean america can't be.
On 17 November 1928, they sailed from Wilmington, Los Angeles on the S.S. Honolulu, arriving Honolulu on the 23rd. The manifest indicates married, with her residence as Kenmore and his as Boston.
In 1929, Mac practiced at 110 South King Street. They lived with his sister and her husband at 2156 Lanihuli Drive in Honolulu.
Irene Stoddard McIntire
22 June 1867 • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
27 June 1937 • Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, United States
grandaunt
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Thomas "Tom" J. Wilson Ellis
14 August 1871 • Laugeen Township, Bruce City, Ontario, Canada
11 March 1955 • Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
husband of grandaunt
Aunt Irene wrote a book for their son.
She was Mac's next eldest sibling, the younger of his two sisters.
In 1930 Dot and Mac lived down the street to 2066 of the Hawaii Territory.
inscription
front "Doris + Mac's house, Honolulu"
back "showing our bedrooms with bay windows"
Marcia, my mother, was born on 19 August 1930.
Marcia Leilani McIntire
19 August 1930 • Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, United States
purported death 05 November 1979, Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States
suspected death London, England, Great Britain
mother
newborn
4 months old
six weeks old with Aunt Blanche
Blanche G. McLean
23 November 1871 • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
death unknown
widow of granduncle Alonzo
These facts are the best available to me at the approximate date of this blog post. If you have an alternative theory, alternate facts or just a well considered question, please let me know. Thanks.
