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THE ANNALS OF A HUMBLE RACE

Honour thy father and thy mother
 * Vic Apperly
 * Fran Ball
 * Ted Ball
 * Lorraine Hedman




 * MISSION
   
   The ability to write a good family history belongs to only a favoured few; it
   is not given to every man to select with keen and true judgment the fittest
   facts, and then construct with them a terse yet interesting record, not of a
   nation, or province, or even of a parish, but of a single family.
   
   I cannot lay claim to this gift, but I am not convinced that I am at any
   special disadvantage in having to write the annals of a humble race.
   
   Arthur W. Cornelius Hallen, "An Account of the Family of Hallen or Holland"
   (Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1885)
   
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 * MISFORTUNE
   
   On Friday evening, September 6, 1861, Marshall Clark was walking with a
   friend, James Shelton, when they encountered two men of Irish descent. An
   argument ensued and escalated into a fight, in the course of which one
   Irishman suffered a stab wound to his abdomen and another received a slash on
   his shoulder. Clark and Shelton fled, stabbing a bystander in the process but
   were soon captured and thrown in jail. Confined in a large room at the rear
   of the jail, Clark and Shelton heard the mob approaching. Shelton was able to
   hide as the crowd burst in, but Clark was dragged from the jail and beaten
   until, as one history puts it, he was “more dead than alive.” He was taken to
   a fire station and subjected to a mock trial. Clark was then dragged through
   the streets and hanged from a pile driver.
   
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THOMAS STEVENS (1854-1935)




Thomas Stevens was born in one of the old cottages in Castle Street,
Berkhamsted, in 1854, the eldest son of William Stevens, a labourer. On leaving
the Bourne Charity School, he was apprenticed to a Berkhamsted grocer and became
the main breadwinner when his father emigrated to Missouri in 1868. Before he
could arrange for his family to follow him, William's wife became ill and he
returned to Berkhamsted.

By 1871, Tom had saved enough money to go out to America himself and two years
later his parents and brothers followed him. Tom moved to Denver and then to San
Francisco, where he learned to ride a ‘Pennyfarthing’ cycle and he soon embarked
on the first successful bike ride coast-to-coast across America. Setting off
from San Francisco in April 1884, he pedalled, pushed and carried the heavy
machine over the Rocky Mountains, through deserts and forests and across new
farmlands. The 4,000-mile journey ended at Boston 104 days later.

A world tour followed, sponsored by Colonel Pope, a cycle manufacturer. The ride
across Europe and Asia began at Liverpool and after nearly three years of
excitement and hardship, the Berkhamsted adventurer reached Yokohama in 1887. He
was a good lecturer and wrote a number of books, including Around the World on a
Bicycle, Scouting for Stanley in East Africa (he hoped to meet Stanley, as he
was by then a correspondent for the New York World), and Through Russia on a
Mustang. In around 1895 he returned to live in England and married a widow, Mrs
Frances Barnes, and so became stepfather to the celebrated actresses, Irene and
Violet Vanbrugh. (They both came from Devon and rose to be acclaimed stars in
their profession. Irene was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1941 and was
well-known for her expressive interpretation of heroines in plays by Barrie and
Pinero).

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