Reader Brothers, Samuel, Thomas & Mark
Let me tell you all a little story concerning three Reader Brothers.Possibly this might help me break thru my brick Wall.There were three brother, possibly other siblings but I am unaware of them at this time.Two of the brothers immigrated to the U.S. ending up in Oregon.Thomas came over pior to 1866 based on the following:
The Flour Millcontained somewhat rude machinery.It would only grind five bushels per hour, passed in to the hands of THOMAS READER, who by attention to business and the wants of the community, succeeded in improving it.Up to 1866 he had expended eight thousand dollars in extending the builldings and supplying new machinery, resulting in the production of forty-five bushels per hour, the grain & flour being cleaned by the newest and most approved appliances.Modern elevators and new suction fan were introduced, and Monroe Flour at once took a prominent position amoung the other brands of the state.The Corvallis Gazette, dated April 25, 1868, says: The flour mill of thomas Reader is supplied with a granary capable of holding 15 thousand bushels of grain, which is taken from the wagons by machinery, from which time there is no trouble to the miller.The wheat is ingeniously conveyed to the top of the mill and put throught an improved suction fan and cleaner, and by the time it arrives at the hopper it is free from every impurity.There are three run of splendid burrs, which are capable of turning out two hundred and forty bushels of the best flour in twenty four hours.In April of 1882, the mill passed into the hands of Samuel Reader, nephew of Thomas Reader.This transition was due to the death of Thomas Reader.
Samuel Reader, nephew of Thomas, is the son of Samuel Sr. Bn. 1815 who I believed followed his brother to America.Sam Sr along with his wife Rebecca brought with them Sam Jr., Fannie (not sure what given name was) and Harriett or Hattie, their daughters.Sam Sr. died Sept 1880 in Lane Co., Oregon.
Sam Jr. spent the rest of his life in the Benton Co., Oregon Area.Hattie married Samuel James Brown and died in 1891 in childbirth of their second son Harry.Last know sighting of Fannie was the 1880 Oregon Census, where she was living with her mother & sister in Lane Co., Oregon.Rebecca married a Thomas Smith in Dec 1887 in Linn Co., Oregon and this is where I have lost her trail.
If any of these names,dates of facts sound familiar, please contact me.I have quite a lot of info on Sam Jr.as at first I thought this was my direct ancestor