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Julian graduated from Harvard College in 1916, where he was a member of the crew and football team. He continued his education at Cambridge University in England. Prior to the American entry into World War I, Julian joined the Friends Service Ambulance Corps, serving at the front in France. Upon U.S. entry into the war, Julian became a Lieutenant in the Artillery, and later with the Air Corps.
Following the war, Julian was a member of the Spinden Harvard Archaelogical Expedition to Yucatan, Mexico. In 1924, Julian helped found the Solesbury School, a boys' preparatory school in New Hope, :A. He was a member of the faculty and head of the History Department until his death. A gentleman and a scholar in every sense of the word, Julian was held in the highest regard by his many students.

Julian Anne Goodell 13 Aug 1930Lansdale, Montgomery Co., PA. Anne (daughter of Edward Goodell) 26 Jan 1902 Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William L. Lathrop, who became an outstanding American landscape painter, began to sketch and paint as a boy, using materials handy on his father's farm. In 1876, William finished his formal schooling, and the same year sold his first picture -- a painting of his neighbor's cows. With the money he earned he decided to try his luck in New York, but after a few weeks returned home unsuccessful. For the next few years, William was a country schoolmaster, worked on his father's farm, and continued to practice and develop his art, making a homemade etching press.
At the age of 21, William again went to New York and for the better part of a decade began illustrating for "Harper's" and "Century" magazines, When funds ran low, William would return to Painesville. In 1884, he built his own canoe and sailed it across Lake Erie to Buffalo, where he worked for a time as an illustrator on the "Buffalo Express." By the late 1880's, William had achieved considerable success with his etchings, selling enough to send himself to Europe for a year in 1888. Travelling and sketching through England and France, William saw a young woman through a train window at Oxford. He got off at the next stop, went back, and two months later married Annie Burt.
William returned with his bride to the United States to find that etching had become commercialized and his marked vanished, resulting in a turn to watercolor. Having a difficult time financially, William and Annie lived for a time at the farm of artist friend J. Alden Weir in Connecticut, and in Greenport, Long Island. Finally returning to Painesville, William tried for several years to farm (unsuccessfully) and paint.
1896 was the turning point of his career. That spring, Henry B. Snell, an artist friend, took six of William's small watercolors to the annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. One of his pictures won the W.T. Evans prize, the highest annual award for watercolor painting in the United States. All five other paints were sold at the show, and suddenly William's work was in demand. Two years later he moved with his family to New Hope, Bucks County, PA. By his character, talents and reputation, William attracted many students and began what was to become the famous New Hope art colony.
At the age of 68, William realized a life-long dream, building with his own hands a twenty-seven foot sailboat. Called "Widge," she was three years in the building and was powered by sail alone. William launched her in October 1930 in the canal at New Hope, and took her down Delaware Bay to the New Jersey coast that fall. From 1930 to 1938, he sailed and cruised, summer and fall, mostly by himself, sketching and painting. September 21, 1938, William, alone on his boat at Montauk Point, Long Island, was lost in the great hurricane of 1938, which hit the end of Long Island with its full fury. William was 79 years old.

William Annie Sarah Burt 14 Nov 1888Oxford, England. Annie (daughter of Joseph Burt and Emma Davis) 17 May 1865 Oxford, England; 28 Sep 1935New Hope, PA; Friends Meeting Graveyard-New Hope, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Shortly after his mother died when he was about 17, Byron went off to Cincinnati College to study medicine. After receiving his M.D. in the spring of 1856, he went west to practice in Iowa and Illinois. Much of his practice was with the men and their families who worked in the lead mines of northwestern Illinois. Probably because of overwork during the Civil War, Byron was threatened with, or contracted, tuberculosis. In the fall of 1864 he gave up the active practice of medicine and returned with his family to Painesville Ohio. On his return, Byron's father deeded him part of his farm lands, and on his father's death in 1883 Byron inherited the main Lathrop farm. Dr. Byron Lathrop was more a poet than a practical farmer. He was a gentle man, widely read in literature and the classics, and possessed an extensive library. Some of his poetry was published. both he and his wife were staunch Republicans.

Byron Isabella Ann Byron Langson 8 Mar 1858Burlington, Des Moines Co., IA. Isabella (daughter of Benjamin Langson and Elizabeth White) 9 Jul 1839 Dublin, Ireland; 27 Jun 1933Painesville, Lake Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph Emma Davis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lorain was named Lucus Lorin Lathrop, but changed his name to Lorain L. Lathrop at a young age. Lorain's father was a poor man, a hunter and trapper, with little use for learning. As a result, Lorain educated himself as best he could, sitting up nights with a tallow candle to read and write. His obituary in the Painesville, Ohio, "Telegraph" of Dec. 27, 1883, comments: "Mr. Lathrop was almost entirely uneducated and yet was a remarkably well-informed man, familiar with ancient history and the English classics, and always keeping track of contemporary affairs. He had great force of character, unwavering integrity and remarkably keen clear judgment, together with unusual physical strength and endurance. He was a good neighbor and citizen, never failing to inspire the respect and confidence of whomever came in contact with him. Mr. Lathrop was a staunch Whig and Republican."

About the year 1818, when he was 16, Lorain left home, setting out on his own for the West. He almost never spoke of his father again, though he had high regard for his mother. He made a two-year trek across New York State, down the Ohio river, westward to Indiana and Illinois, walking most of the way. finally in 1820 he settled in Painesville, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. he acquired land, and became a prosperous farmer with two or three farms near the Grand River.

Having been deprived in his own youth, Lorain saw to it that all of his children were well schooled and educated.

Lorain Mary (Polly) Holbrook. Mary 1805; 1850Painesville, Lake Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin Elizabeth White. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]