Apparently there's a package from Scott Sandidge back at my hotel hopefully
there will be more information about my great-grandfather's later life I'm
actually curious to know when he married my grandma Jesse's mother Elizabeth is
this right perfect thank you my pleasure
dear Jesse as promised I am following up with further research on your
great-grandfather our team was able to push ahead and dig up further
information on Jesse uppercu after his return from the 1898
expedition in Alaska upper Q Jesse house following his return from his Alaskan
Klondike expedition Jessie shows up in the 1900 census living in Brooklyn New
York with his wife Sadie and daughter Muriel that's someone new I haven't
heard of and then they were divorced seven years after that so there's
there's now two ex-wives and four children
that he's fathered
that we don't know too much about beginning in 1970 featured as a speaker
for the republican party in new york city's municipal politics Wow
at one point he has even scheduled to speak at a welcoming parade organized to
celebrate the soon-to-be Vice President Teddy Roosevelt it's interesting here
that ich was very well revered in the publican party it was
someone who was probably a very good speaker and very charismatic this is
arguably the most publicly spirited of his many endeavors and it speaks as well
of him as anything they've turned up it almost is like he Heath turned over a
new leaf after leaving Alaska in July 1914 Jesse uppercu and Elizabeth quick
now there's my great grandmother Elizabeth Quig I'm married in Suffern
New York jesse is listed as 64 years old and Elizabeth is 27 years old and listed
as a widow married once before Elizabeth is so much younger than him
the same year of their marriage jesse legally adopt Elizabeth's children Grace
and Dorothy oh wow so then they had my grandma Jesse Jesse uppercu and
Elizabeth quicker divorced in November 1925 Jesse uppercu shows up again in a
1930s United States Census living in Rockland County New York he is the head
of the household with his daughter grace 21 a teacher Dorothy 18 Jesse my grandma
14 Elizabeth 11 there is no mention of a wife living with him I don't know where
Elizabeth Quig went but when they divorce that the girls went with him he
didn't turn his back on these girls he he continued to take care of them as as
his own and this is kind of the first time he stepped up I'm actually kind of
I'm proud of him
there's still a lot of unanswered questions I still in my heart of hearts
feel like he got away with a lot but being able to get a blueprint of where
you came from definitely starts to color in some questions about yourself
it's but most of the good stuff that employing from his Drive and his
creativity and the fact that he was strong-willed it may be a very good
actor in a lot of ways we maybe that's something that I learned from him
and whether or not he was guilty of any of these things he was accused of I do
appreciate that he became an honorable man and seems to have made roots for the
family my grandmother was one of the greatest people I've ever known I am
very grateful that he was around and able to raise her
I guess I just wish that I knew a lot of this stuff earlier when my grandma was
still alive so I could talk to her about it and ask her questions about it it
just makes me sad
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