INDEX TO
BIOGRAPHIES
JOSEPH HARRINGTON TREGO
| Among the cultured men of the early days in Mound City was Joseph Harrington Trego, a son of the eldest sister of Thomas Elwood Smith who married John Howard Trego back in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, hence belonging to that famous family line descended from the William Penn family of the court of Charles the First, one of whom was knighted by Charles the Second after the Restoration. Our Joseph Harrington was graduated from the Phildelphia Medical School and practiced here all his life. He married Alice Mannington, born in Oneida county, New York, of English descent. To Joseph and Alice were born seven daughters who married as follows: Kate to Courtland L. Long and Eleanor to William B. Helm, both these couples making their homes down in the Seminole Nation before Oklahoma became a state; Helen married Robert K. Fleming the noted cattleman; Rebecca married Joseph Norris and made their home at Spokane, Washington; Sophia married Rodney W. Riggs and now lives at Fresno, California; Louise married William B. Helm of Wellington, Kansas; Sara married John O. Morse, the lawyer at Mound City; Octavia married Irving Smith and made their home at Kansas City; and Martha married William W. Thayer and makes her home at San Francisco.
(History of Linnn County, by William Ansel Mitchell, 1928, Pages 358-359) |