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- Matthew Robinson. Much work has been done to reconstruct Hannah's family. As of October
2008, there is quite a bit of evidence that Hannah's father was
Matthew Robinson of South Kingston, Rhode Island. Matthew died
when Hannah was still quite young (either in 1821 or 1825), so Hannah left no direct memories of her
father, except the name of her first child "Edmund Matthew Landis".
Personal information for Matthew is more fully discussed in
an earlier tree. See email
- Mary Seager Potter. Much work has been done to reconstruct Hannah's family. As of October 2008, there
is quite a bit of evidence that Hannah's mother was Mary Seager Potter of
Rhode Island. Among the three items of historical value which Hannah passed to her descendents is
a book of poems written by friends and relatives, and within this book are
poems signed by Joseph S. Potter, also Lucy S. Potter,
and Abby. Published genealogies of the Robinson
and Potter families reveal these three people to be children of Christy Potter; Christy was a
brother of Mary Seager Potter. Mary died in 1828, at which point Hannah may have been taken in by
Christy's big family until adulthood. These poems are the major link between Hannah's two families:
the family in Rhode Island before marriage, and the family in Illinois after marriage.
Also a Mrs. John Potter attended the funeral of Emiline's brother-in-law Valentine Mott
Vermilye in 1906, and a Kate Potter (same as "Mrs. John Potter") is mentioned in the
will of Henry Davids (an uncle of Alice Cox). John Potter
and Hannah's mother (Mary Seager Potter) are related through their distant ancestor,
Nathaniel Potter, born 1644 in Emgland.
- E.W. Robinson, brother of Hannah, donator of Hannah's book of poems.
Hannah may have had other siblings
- Dr. Edmund Landis (middle name unknown),
born 19 Dec 1816, listed in 1850 Baltimore, Maryland census as follows:
(Pg 384 ward 3) age 33, wife Hannah age 29, son Edmund R. age 4, son Roland age 2, Edmund (Sr) born in Penn, Hannah born in Rh. I.
Apparently, John William is yet to come in 1850. The 1850 US census for Maryland lists no middle initial for this father,
and lists a 4-year-old son as "Edm R.", but 2 obituaries of the younger Edmund, as well as that of Hannah (below) name the
younger Edmund as "Edmund M." ("M" = Matthew) To confound things further, in 1887, Edmund M. named a son "Edmund R."
and a picture of this son exists exists, identified on the back as "Edmund Robinson Landis".
The 1885 Chicago city directory (microfilm P75-1459) contains 3 Landis listings :
[1] Landis, Edmund M. physician 91 Fullerton Av house 175 Howe
[2] Landis, John W., clk 2542 Cologne, house Hinsdale
[3] Landis, Roland R. lawyer, 603 Opera House Bldg house Hinsdale
The 1880 Chicago city directory (microfilm P72-1291) contains 3 Landis listings :
[1] Landis, Edmund M. physician 80 Webster Av house 178 Howe
[2] Landis, Hannah, wid. Edmund, house 167 Howe
[3] Landis, Roland R. (Rickaby & Landis), 122 LaSalle house 167 Howe
The 1878-79 Chicago directory (microfilm P72-1289) contains 2 Landis listings :
[1] Landis, Edmund physician 260 S. Halsted house 167 Howe
[2] Landis, Roland R. (Rickaby & Landis) 31 (age), 122 LaSalle house 167 Howe
The 1875 Chicago city directory (microfilm P72-1286) contains 3 Landis listings :
[1] Landis, Edmund M. physician 675 Larabee r. 167 Howe
[2] Landis, John W., clk r. 167 Howe
[3] Landis, Roland R. r. 167 Howe
The 1870 Chicago directory (microfilm P72-1282) contains 3 Landis listings :
[1] Landis, Edmund (E.M. Landis & Co.) and physician 126 N. Clark r. 768 Sedgwick
[2] Landis, E.M. & Co. (Edmund M. and Edmund Landis) druggists, Clark se cor. Asylum Pl
[3] Landis, Roland R. law student Hutchison & Luff r. 768 Sedgwick
The 1865 Chicago directory (microfilm P72-1280) contains 2 Landis listings :
[1] Landis, Edmund physician office 193 Clark r. 193 Hurlbut
[2] Landis, Edmund M. ; clk 124 Clark bds same
Edmund Sr. buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago ; his son John, notes that Edmund Sr. died 7 May 1881. In 1964, Nell Landis
wrote to Adele Landis stating "Dr Landis (our grandfather) was from Lancaster, Penn".
The obituary of Edmund Sr is available, and in March 2002,
David Schmucker, historian and genealogist for the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
located records tracing the family of Edmund Landis family to 1717 Swiss immigrants.
- Hannah Potter Robinson was born
16 June 1820 in Kingston, Rhode Island. Also see 1850
census for Edmund above. Died of pneumonia 4 January 1901, in
Chicago; Hannah's Cook County death certificate was obtained, but it does not
reveal information on her parents. The 1900 census lists her as living with her second
son Roland. Dates come from notes by her third son John.
Three generations before this Hannah Robinson, email from a Vermont historian
notes that there was a famous and beautiful "Hannah Robinson", daughter of a colonial Deputy
Governor Wm. Robinson of Rhode Island, and in October of 2008, it appears certain that Hannah
Potter Robinson was a great-grand-daughter of this Wm. Robinson. Hannah left
to her descendents three items casting light on her life before marriage:
[1] a high-quality photo album [2] a book of poems,
and [3] a record of her birth in Kingston, Rhode Island
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[2] Carroll Flood, great-great-granddaughter of Hannah, owns a
writing book dedicated "To Hannah P. Robinson
presented by her brother E.W. Robinson". This book contains 36
handwritten poems dated 1842 and 1843, and a story attributed to "Will"
which was been added about 1893. This writer (Tom L. McFarland in
December 2003) suggests that the book was begun as Hannah prepared to
move to Baltimore with her new husband, Edmund Landis, but includes
memorials to Hannah's sister Sarah who died
about 1843. |
- John William Landis, born June 1854 in Maryland [1], married to Alice E. Cox on 4 Jan 1877,
died 21 Feb 1921 "at the age of 67 yrs 1 month 7
days", buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. This death date conflicts slightly
with a death notice. Late in life, lived on 3rd Avenue in Hinsdale, Illinois [2]
Family from Baltimore, owned lumber yard on Troup St. :
the 1895 Chicago city directory lists "Landis, John W. lumber 22nd nw cor S.
Morgan h. Hinsdale". The 1900 census lists him living with wife Alice (born June 1860 in Illinois),
daughter Louise (born 1881 in Illinois), and son William ( born Oct 1887 in Illinois) with Swedish servant.
Member of Handcock Post of GAR in Illinois. John William Landis was a member of the Christian Science Church.
- Alice Louise Cox (mother), born 1857 in
Sandwich, Illinois (DeKalb County). Married to John Wm. Landis on 4 Jan 1877.
Dorathy (Landis) McFarland (in 2000)
recalls driving in Alice's electric car in Chicago when she was 5 years old, and claims
Alice was a hat designer at Marshall Fields, and lived a somewhat high-society life,
vibrant and healthy in 1918, but developing a foot problem which led to an early death.
Alice's marriage to John William Landis gave rise to most families in this genealogy.
Adele Landis (in 1964) thought that Alice might have first married a Mr. Adams, but the
Illinois marriage records
(recently put on line) show no such Cox-Adams marriage. The
obituary of Ella (Cox) Landis claims that she was a
sister to "Alice Landis Adams", which implies that Alice married Mr. Adams after
her marriage to John W. Landis. Also, the Delavan cemetery lists her name as "Alice L.
Adams", dying on 27 March 1924. Alice's sister Maria married Walter G. Adams
in 1869, and the couple had 3 children, Lydia, Vinnie,
and Albert.
In February 2000, Jeanne (Landis) Illian somewhat contradicted this account, claiming that
the Marshall Field's hat designer was Nell Landis, not Alice Cox; both apparently
lived in Chicago. Jeanne also claims that a principal cause of Alice's divorce was an
affair she had with one of her husband's brothers. The question is "which brother".
- Ella Cox, born 2 Apr 1856, married Roland R. Landis,
brother to her sister Alice's first husband (!), one child Nell but no grandchildren. Buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
- Edmund M. Landis was born 4 Oct 1846 in Maryland (also see [2]), died 14 Dec 1902.
His middle name (Matthew) is probably in honor of his maternal grandfather. His
death notice mentions a "widow and 2 daughters". He was
a prominent Chicago doctor (see Chicago city directory listings with his father, above)
residing [2] at 1115 N. Clark with wife Alma (born 1855 in Ohio [2]), a daughter Ida
(born Oct 1885 in Illinois [2]), son Edmund Robinson (born Sept 1887 in Illinois [2]),
and 2 European-born servants. On 20 Feb 1981, Wm Kona (an archivist with Rush Medical College)
writes "...the graduation date of Dr. Edmund Matthew Landis. It is 1875." Edmund M. Landis is buried
in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. Also see wife Alma below.
- Alma (Moore) Landis, [maiden name via Mormon website] listed in 1880 Illinois census
(reel T9-0197, page 107D) as age 27 years, wife of Edmund M. Landis, born in Ohio. No
children listed in 1880 [1] ; in 1900, Alma and husband Edmund M. listed as living
with daughter Ida (born Oct 1885 in Illinois) and son Edmund R. (born Sept 1887 in
Illinois), and two 26-year-old european-born people (servants?). Husband Edmund died in
1902, and in the 1910 US census, Alma is listed as having given birth to 5 children, of whom two
survive in 1910, and she is listed as living with 22-year-old son Edmund R. (but not Ida)
at 939 Evanston Avenue (possibly rented) ; the son Edmund R. listed his trade as
"advertising", and business as "newspapers". This raises doubts about the claim of 2
surviving daughters in Edmund M. Landis' obituary. Alma's
parents both came from Ohio [2]. Roland and Hannah could not be located in the 1880
Illinois census. Alma's obituary gives her death date as 15 Oct 1926,
and mentions her late husband and son, but not her daughter Ida ; the easiest
interpretation is that Ida died between her record in the 1910 census and Alma's death
in 1926, but other interpretations are possible. Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago lists Alma
as buried in Sect. 118, lot 51, sublot 5, grave 1
- William Walter Landis, born 22 Oct 1888, married 20 Nov 1911 to
Adele Mary Nenno, died 18 Sept 1952 in Milwaukee. Wife died
3 Oct 1980 in Illinois. Two daughters, (Dorathy and Jeanne)
- Mr. Adams: Adele Landis (in 1964) believed that Alice Cox married a Mr. Adams
before she married John Wm Landis, with no children before their divorce.
However, no earlier (or later) marriage is on file, as noted above.
Alice Cox married John Landis in 1877 at age 20, and was still
called "Alice Landis" in 1904 at her father's funeral,
but at her sister Ella's death in 1912 she was called "Alice
Landis Adams". Alice's sister Maria married a Walter G.
Adams in 1869 and bore three children; Alice
is not mentioned in Walter's obituary, and it is
thus likely that Alice assumed the name of one of Walter Adams' 6 brothers.
- Louise, born 1884, married to Joseph Allyn, buried as
"Louise L. Allyn" on 19 Feb 1964 in the Allyn plot Delavan, Wis.
Louise had a daughter Josephine, born 1910, who married
Samuel Young Ramage and moved to Oil City, Penn, where she had 3 children named
Diane, Ruth, and Sandra. Josephine divorced, and may have
re-married, but apparently had no more children. Dororthy (Landis) McFarland
says (in 2000) that she lived at the Allyn house in Delevan
about 1928, and says Josephine and her mother Louise liked parties.
- Roland Landis was born 26 Oct 1850 in Baltimore, Maryland; married his sister-in-law Ella Cox,
became a lawyer with the firm Rickaby & Landis at 122 LaSalle in Chicago.
Chicago city directories of 1890 and 1895 list him living in Hinsdale. Died 5 Sept 1903
in Chicago ; buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago.
- Nell, born March 1882 from 1900 census ; unmarried, lived
in L.A., died 19 Apr 1968, buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills,
Mausoleum (=Niche) G61090 (Columbarium of Remembrance)
under the label "Nelle, age 85"; provided input to this genealogy through
correspondence with Adele Landis. Nell left no children
Information about the most distant Landis' comes from Nell Landis and
Adele M. Landis, written down by Tom McFarland about 1964. Nell was a
daughter of Roland Landis, granddaughter of Edmund Landis (Sr.). Nell and
Adele kept in touch. The name "Landis" has a long history.
[1] 1880 US census ; [2] 1900 US census ; [3] 1910 US census
Birth and death dates from Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago
