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Alverson birthplace
[edit]A number of reliable sources give Andrew H. Alverson birthplace as Connecticut:
1850 Census, WI, Marquette County / Kingston, 93-B-25 (mother’s name incorrect, shows father’s deceased first wife’s name instead);
1860 Census, WI, Green Lake County / Kingston 957-32
1870 Census CT, New Haven County / New Haven/w. 4, 358-A-4
1900 Census CA, San Bernardino County 225-6-34 (San Bernardino)
1910 Census CA, San Bernardino County 118-2-65 (San Bernardino)
Great Registers of Voters, San Bernardino County, CA, 1886-1898
Death notice, San Bernardino Sun, 28 April 1916, page 4, Column 6
Death Certificate, San Bernardino County, CA
Sources placing his parentsand/or half siblings in New Haven, CT in the 1840’s:
(Luther A.) Ingersoll's Century Annals of San Bernardino County, 1904, pp. 719-720 (in short bio of his older ½-brother, ½ 1st cousin, David B. Alverson) “The family removed to New Haven in 1836 and David B. attended school there until 1846, when his father moved to Buffalo, New York and from thence, to Milwaukee, Wis.”)
Emma Willard and her pupils; or, Fifty years of Troy female seminary, 1822-1872, Mrs. Abel W. (Mary Mason) Fairbanks: pp. 264-265 (in short bio of his older ½-sister, ½ 1st cousin, Harriet Alverson Alling, “Her home alternated between New Haven and Troy until she was twelve years old [1839/40],when New Haven became her permanent place of residence.”
1840 Peter Alverson or Olverson household. Census CT, New Haven County / New Haven volume 4. Page 1 line 26
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930. American antiquarian Society.
New Haven Columbian Register, marriages. 1836-1843. Page 337.
Newspaper “date October 26, 1838.” … “Peter Alverson of New Haven. [married] at New York
Harriet Brockway ---- “ Nomen ambiguum (talk) 16:13, 25 November 2023 (UTC)