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to Barre, 1763 : m. Feb. 21, 1788, Nathan, b. in Barre, Nov.
I, 1763, son and eldest child of Jonathan and Hannah (Smith)
Allen of Barre. They were among the very earliest settlers
of "Rutland District,"' preceding Andrew Parker. He and
brother Nehemiah Allen came from Lexington, and they may
have caused Mr. Parker to locate with them. Jonathan Allen's
wife was a native of Sudbury, where he m. her, took her to
Lexington, and then proceeded to Barre with 40 apple trees and
his young wife on the back of his horse I They made their
way through the "District" by means of marked trees, and
it is traditioned that until settlers became numerous they heard
the howling of the wolves at night close to their very doors.
Wrote Edwin Woods : "Jonathan Allen's memory shall live
as long as there is an apple tree left in Barre." Mrs. Elizabeth
Carter, Jonathan Allen's granddaughter, shortly before her
death, remarked that she had often ate of the apples from
these original trees. He lived at the north of the centre, on
the same place with the same wife 60 years. He died aged
92, wife at 87, and had six children, whose average age at
death was just 80 years. His brother Nehemiah Allen had ten
children, four sons and six daughters, who reached at death
the ages of respectivel3^ 96, 96, 95^, 92J, 92, 84, 82, 80, 80,
78, making an average of 87 !
Nathan and Abigail lived two miles northwest of the centre
on the same place and in the same house lately occupied by
their dau., Mrs. Carter. Moses and Josiah Allen lived in
Barre and were brothers of Nathan Allen. Moses's son was
the lafe distinguished Dr. Nathan Allen of Lowell. Nathan
Allen, who m. Abigal Parker, was a farmer and was one of
the most prominent men of Barre for a great many years.
He was honored with all the offices in the gift of the town.
He d. Aug. 16, 1831, aged 68 : she d. Oct. 14, 1838, aged 77.
Their children were :
1. A child, unnamed, b. and d. April 11, 1789.
2. MARy Allen, b. in Barre, Feb. 17, 1790. She was unable to
talk plain. She lived in Barre with her sister until her death.
She d. unm. Jan. 26, 1865, aged 75 years.
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Abigail Allen, b. in Barre, Feb. 4, 1793; m. Jan. 3, 1833,
Alexander D., b. Sept. 23, 17S5, son of Charles and Mary
(Slocum) Dickinson, of Rhode Island. He was early in life
a sea captain and later a farmer. Their children were :
L Nathan Sumner Dickinson, b. in Barre, Aug. 31,
1836 ; m. Judith Holmes Prouty of Spencer. She
was dau. of Pliny Prouty and Malissa Holmes. He
enlisted in Co. C, 25th Mass. Reg., aged 27; was
wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., June 3,
1864, and d. in the Harwood Hospital, Washington,
D. C, Aug. 7, 1864. Buried in North Brookfield.
1. George Sumner Dickinson, b. in Spencer; resides at North
Brookfield.
2. Charles Levi Dickinson, b. in Spencer; resides at North
II. Mary Abigail Dickinson, b. in Barre, Nov. 20, 1834;
resides at Worcester.
Elizabeth Allen, b. in Barre, Aug. 31, 1795; m. April 23,
1834, at age of 34, Benjamin Goodnow Carter, b. in Peters-
ham, Sept. 12, 1806, son of John and Ruth Carter of Peters-
ham. He d. in Barre, Feb. 13, 1867, aged 60, and was
buried in Petersham. They had no issue. She d. Sept. 19,
1890, at the age of 95. Her life was a very exceptional one,
more than a repetition of that which our ancestors led two
centuries ago. The old Nathan Allen place, which her father
settled on in 1788, was located two miles northwest of Barre,
not far from the Dea. Parker place. The old road which
divided the farm was once populous with houses, but is now
remote and forsaken. It was here she preferred to live, and
did live, for 95 years, in the house built by her father, which
still stands unchanged in appearance. She also preserved the
old furniture as it was in her childhood.
She was never outside of her native town except on two
occasions, once she went to Princeton and once to Gill. She
travelled each time by private conveyance. Consequently it
may be said that Mrs. Carter never saw a railroad train or a
steamboat, and never even rode on a stage coach. When
once questioned if she would not like to have seen something
of the world, she replied, "No, some people like to ride on
railroads, but home, sweet home is the place for me. Here
my father and mother lived for 60 years of married life ; in
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this house I was born ; here I have lived for 95 years, and
here I am to-day. There are but few now living who can say
as much."
Her own home furnished a world of happiness to her and
she never longed for foreign things. Her life was a most
heroic example of contentment and Christian feeling. She
clung dearly to the memories of her childhood days ; spoke
often of her honored and long-lived parents, and of her grand-
father, Dea. Andrew Parker, "who made spinning wheels,
and who wouldn't pay the minister for that kind of preaching
in which he did not believe."
Until a few years before her decease she retained her full mental
ability, and some years since she materially assisted, by means
of her good memory, Edwin Woods in his popular Memorial
of Barre. For the cheerful lesson which she teaches, for her
generosity to all and devotion to home duty, she will long be
remembered in Barre. Doubtless her long life was much pro-
longed by the watchful attention of her guardian and neigh-
bor, Webster Washburn of Barre. The old home is a relic of
antiquity in every way. She had no issue.
5. Nathan Allen, b. in Barre, Jan. 10, 1797 ; d. April 29, 1797.
6. Sumner Allen, b. in Barre, Jan. 31, 1798 ; d. April 27, 1822,
aged 24, unm. He died of consumption caused by exposure
while working in his sap orchard. Unlike his sister Mary, he
lacked the free use of his limbs, but possessed good powers of
speech.
7. Louisa Allen, b. in Barre, Dec. 4, 1801 ; m. Zebediah Allen,
son of Samuel Allen. Samuel Allen was cousin to Nathan
Allen. They lived on the Nathan Allen place after marriage.
They had one son, but the parents both died and the child
soon followed, having lived to the age of but a few weeks.
37. Sally Parker (Andrew,'^ Andrew,'' John,^ Hana-
niah,^ Thomas'), dau. of Dea. Andrew and Abigail (Jennison)
Parker, b. in Barre, March 17, 1765 ; m. Jonathan Mayhew
of Phillipston. They lived in Phillipston and had a family of
children, but who have already become extinct. She m. (2)
Robbins, who is remembered by the old residents of
Phillipston as the one who played the big bass-viol in church.
She d. in Phillipston.
The children, among whom were Nabby and Lyman May-
hew, never married. They settled in Phillipston for life and
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lived together for many years. He was a most constant attend-
ant of the Church, a most strict adherer to his religion.
Nabby and Lyman Mayhew are both buried in Phillipston.
38. Bettey (or Betsey) Parker (Andrew,'^ Andrew,'^
yohn,i Hananiah^^ Thomas^), dau. of Dea. Andrew and
Abigail (Jennison) Parker, b. in Barre, Jan. 13, 1766; m.
Feb. 20, 1788, Paul Tobey, b. in Berkley, Sept. 6, 1761,
son of Rev. Samuel and Bathsheba (Crocker) Tobey, and
twin brother of Silas Tobey. He was one of a family of 12
children.* They removed to Chester, Vt. They lived first
in a cabin ; he cleared the land and built the house wherein
they later lived. Mrs. Betsey (Parker) Tobey is remembered
by her only surviving dau. as a smart, capable woman. She
d. Dec. 30, 1808, and he m. (2) Feb. 4, 1813, Phebe Briggs.
All the children, however, were by Betsey. He d. in Chester,
Vt., Aug. 4, 183 1. His death was very sudden. Standing
in his grain field with a handful of grain, he received a shock
and lived only a few hours.
* (The story of Parson Tobey's courtship has already been preserved in
print in a paper called The Christian.) After Samuel Tobey was ordained
pastor of the Church in Berkley, Mass., Nov. 23, 1737, being convinced of the
truth of the scriptural doctrine, that it is not good for man to be alone, he
very naturally looked about him to find a remedy for his isolation, and in this
search he of course had the help and best wishes of his fair parishioners in
general. Under the circumstances he became a frequent visitor at Mr.
Crocker's, whose house was graced dy the presence of fine blooming daughters.
Three of these daughters were usually in the room dressed in their best and
ready to receive the young parson when he came, and to make his visits as
agreeable to him as they were acceptable to them. The fourth daughter,
Bathsheba, he seldom saw. Whether cumbered with much serving or shy of
company, or what not, she managed to keep out of sight most of the time,
though he would occasionally get a glimpse of her dress as she disappeared
through the door on his arrival.
His curiosity was awakened by her shyness, and he thought, as he expressed
it, that he would " like to see more of this coy bird," he therefore sought an
interview with her, the result of which was that the three sisters who sat in
the parlor with him had the honor of having the parson for a brother-in-law;
while the parish register, still extant, bears the following record in parson
Tobey's own handwriting: "Sept. 6, 1739, I was married to Bathsheba
Crocker." They lived long together and she became the mother of 12 children,
among whom some rose to high honor; and her grandchildren, who are still
living, are among the merchant princes of Boston, of all of which we may say,
as the parson said of his marriage, "I do not know as this would have taken
place had she not been so shy."
1. Silas Tobey, b. June 10, 17S9; d. May 29, 1795.
2. Betsey Torey, b. Nov. 10, 1790; m. at age of 22, Otis Cook.
They had ten children, seven living to maturity. They resided
in Chester, Vt., and all the children were born there:
I. James Spencer Cook, b. Dec. 3, 1S15 ; m. May 12,
1844, Philena Martin of Springfield, Vt. They had
four children. He d. Aug. 31, 1887.
II. Harriett Cook, b. Feb. 24, 1818 ; m. Barnard Carlton
of Ludlow, Vt. No issue.
III. Salmon Cook, b. May 4, 1S20; m. Jan., 1847, Mary
Bemis. They have one child,
IV. Elizabeth Cook, b. Sept. 23, 1823; m. Feb., 1844,
Fernando Baldwin of Andover, Vt. One child.
V. Martha Cook, b. Oct. 4, 1825; m. July i, 1843,
Leonard Redfield of Springfield, Vt. They have had
seven children.
VI. Thomas Cook, b. June 25, 1827 ; d. about 1850, unm.
VII. Abigail Tobey Cook, b. April 22, 1829; d. Jan., 1837.
3. Abigail Tobey, b. Oct. 31, 1792; m. in Chester, Vt., Jan. 10,
181 1, Timothy, b. July 28, 1788, d. Dec. 15, 1865, son of
Benoni and Sarah (Williams) Lockwood. He was a farmer,
worked a shingle mill and resided at Springfield, Vt. She d.
Aug. 26, 1828. Their children were :
1. A SON, b. Nov. 24, i8ii ; d. Dec. 10, 181 1.
II. A SON, b. Dec. 26, 1812 ; d. Jan. 3, 1813.
III. Hiram L. Lockwood, b. March 3, 1814.
IV. Nelson H. Lockwood, b. Aug. 25, 1816; d. Jan. 23,
V. Alvin T. Lockw^ood, b. Oct. 23, 1818.
VI. Timothy P. Lockwood, b. Jan. 11, 1821.
VII. Achsah a. Lockwood, b. Aug. 30, 1823 ; m. at Spring-
field, Vt., Jan. I, 1843, Sylvester, b. in Chester, Vt.,
Sept. 5, 1815, son of William and Rachel (Redfield)
Ellison. He is a farmer at Springfield, Vt. They
have two children :
1. Achsah A. Ellison, b. Feb. 13, 1844.
2. Azro D. Ellison, b. Jan. 29, 1853.
VIII. Bathsheba B. Lockwood, b. Oct. 26, 1825.
IX. A son, b. Aug. 8, and d. Aug. 12, 1S27.
X. Silas Lockwood, b. July 28, 1828.
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4. Paul Tobey, b. Nov. 21, 1794; d. April 33, 1815.
5. Bathsheha Crocker Tobey, b. March 30, 1797; d. May 7,
1829, unm.
6. Samuel Tobey, b. May 6, 1800; d. May 13, 1S84, unm.
7. A daughter, b. March 2, and d. May 12, 1S02,
8. Andrew Parker Tobey, b. Feb. 4, 1804; m. Jan. 28, 1840,
Martha E. Boynton, b. in Weathcrsfield, Vt., July 17, 1820.
He d. Jan. 17, 1877. Their children were:
I. Mary E. Tobey, b. Jan. 2, 1842.
II. Myron S. Tobey, b. Nov. 20, 1843 ; d. July 5, 1886.
in. Emma E. Tobey, b. June 16, 1847; I'esides at Chester,
IV. Paulina L. Tobey, b. July i, 1850; m. July 2, 1S73,
Hiland Chandler of Chester, Vt., and who d. Dec. 8,
1877. She resides at North Springfield, Vt.
9. .Sarah Tobey, b. Sept. 9, 1S08 ; m. Jan. 2, 1837, Lincoln, b.
in Springfield, Vt., Jan. 14, 1809, son of Peres Whitcomb of
Cohasset, and wife Priscilla Litchfield of Scituate. He was
a shoemaker and later a farmer. He resided in Springfield,
Vt., where he d. Sept. 12, 1881, aged 72^ years. His widow
(1890) still survives him in good health at 82 years of age. She
was the last born and is the only surviving child of Paul and
Betsey (Parker) Tobey. Their children were :
I. Ellen E. Whitcomb, b. in Qiiechee, Vt., Sept. 9, 1S39 ;
m. George R. Hall. She d. Oct. 10, 1865, aged 36,
without issue.
II. Julia M. Whitcomb, b. in Qiiechee, Vt., Sept. 30,
1842 ; m. Henry F, Howe. She d. Oct. 13, 1S62,
aged 20. Their children were :
1. Luman L. Howe.
2. Lula M. Howe.
HI. Georgianna Whitcomb, b. in Springfield, Vt., June
20, 1845; m. Jan. i, 1867, Charles E. Chandler.
Harry E. Chandler, b. July 12, 1869.
Edward A. Chandler, b. Sept. 6, 1872; d. Oct., 1872.
3. Nora G. Chandler, b. Dec. 12, 1875.
4. Hcllen W. Chandler, b. Aug. 26, 1S77.
Grace M. Chandler, b. June 25, 1880.
IV. Andrew L. Whitcomb, b. Jan. S, 1853 ; d. Jul) ^o,
1S63.
39. Artemas Parker (Andrew,^ Andrew, "^ yohn,^
Hananiah,^ Thomas^), son of Dea. Andrew Parker and
Mary, his 2nd wife, b. in Barre, Aug. 5, 1786; m.
Spaulding. It is known that he lived in New Hampshire for
a time, and from there removed to Chelmsford, Mass. But it
is said he removed to Vermont, and that the descendants from
his large family are still living in that State. It is known that
the old Barre contingent were intimate with Parkers in Ver-
mont, their relatives. At one time, Aunt Carter, as she was
familiarly called, sent two family relics to her Parker relatives.
One was Dea. Parker's large Continental hat with red and
black plumes, and the other was an old cane. It is hoped
that further research may finally reveal the history of this
branch of the Parker family. It is known that one son was
named Rodolphus Parker.
40. Mary Parker (yosiah,^ yosiak,"^ yohn,^ Hananmh,^
ThoDuis^), dau. of Josiah and Mary (Monroe) Parker, b. in
Woburn, Dec. 25, 1749; ™- Sept. 29, 1774, John Gilmore.
She was the first Parker of Lexington descent born in Woburn.
They had two children born in Woburn, after which they
removed from town.
John Gilmore, b. Feb. 4, 1775.
Marv Gilmore, b. May 27, 1779.
41. Josiah Parker, Jr. (yosiah,^ yosiah,'^ yohn,^ Hana-
niak,^ Thomas^), b. in Woburn, Nov. 25, 1751 ; m. July 21,
1774, Hannah Gardner of Charlestown. He lived on or near
his father's large estate on the west side of the town. He was
very active in the stirring times of British oppression and did
his best to secure the independence of the united colonies,
as in many hard fought battles and several years of hard-
ships and sufferings he risked both life and health in the
cause. He belonged to the Woburn company of Minute-
Men who marched to Lexington and Concord on the morn-
ing of the first outbreak of the war, and who intercepted the
enemy at various points. He was with Capt. Wyman at the
battle of Bunker Hill. He was several years in the service,
was under Lt. Jos. Johnson at Cambridge in 1777, and with
Capt. Wyman endured the hardships and privations of 1778.
He was a well beloved man and possessed a constitution of
strength and health. His characteristics are plainly preserved
by the epitaph upon his gravestone :
" In Memory of
Mr. JosiAH Parker,
who d. Jan. 20, 1830, a. 78.
" The man of charity extends
To all his helping hands
His Kindred, Neighbours, Foes and Friends,
His pity may command."
Mrs. Hannah (Gardner) Parker d. in Woburn at the age
of 84, Jan. 14, 1838. The mother, Hannah,* was dau. of
Henry, Jr., and Sarah (Noyes) Gardner of Charlestown,
where she was b. Feb. 3, 1754. Henry, Jr., was grandson
of Richard Gardner, the emigrant ancestor, who was in
Charlestown at 1662. Her epitaph is also worth inserting:
" Look here my friend as you pass by
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me."
109. JosiAH Parker, b. Nov. 6, 1774; m. Abigail Carter of
Woburn.
110. Henry Parker, b. July 3, 1777 ; m. Abigail Hutchinson of
West Cambridge.
111. Hannah Parker, b. March 19, 1779; m. Abel Richardson
of Woburn.
112. Polly Parker, b. March 10, 1781 ; m, Caleb Richardson
Betsey Parker, b. 1785 ; " d. of canker rash, Feb. 26, 1795, aged
10 y." Woburn's Record of Deaths.
Frederick Parker, b. 17S6; " d. of canker rash, Feb. 28, 1795,
aged 9 y." Woburn's Record of Deaths.
♦She was b. in Charlestown, Feb. 3, 1754, dau. of Henry and second wife
Lucy (Fowle) Gardner, being tenth in her father's family of twelve children.
Lucy Fowlc was dau. of Capt. John Fowie of Woburn, who was son of James.
Henry Gardner was son of Henry and Elizabeth (Lane) Gardner, he (Henry)
being son of Richard and Anna (Blanchard) Gardner of Woburn and Charles-
113. Electa Pakkek, b. May 4, 1794; m. Samuel C. Buckman
114. Betsey Parker, b. March i, 1796; m. Jonathan Baldwin.
115. Frederick Parker, b. July 3, 1798; m. Ndbby Thompson
42. Lydia Parker CJosiah^^ yosiah,^ yohn,iHana7iiah,^
Thomas'), b. in Woburn, Dec. 10, 1753 ; m. Aug. 24, 1772
(supposed), Jesse Wright, then of Woburn. They lived in
Woburn a few years, where two children are recorded. Jesse
Wright was with Capt. Wyman at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Lydia Wright, b. Jan. 6, 1774.
Jesse Wright, b. May 30, 1779.
43. Benj amin Parker ( Josiah ,s Josiah ,4 John ,3 Hana-
niah,- Tho7nas'), b. in Woburn, Jan. 30, 1756; m. May 12,
1779, Mehetable Tidd of Woburn, b. Dec. 13, 1759, ^^^- °^
Samuel and Phebe Tidd. He lived on the "West Side" in
Woburn, near his father's homestead. The following list
of children is transcribed from the original and excellently
penned sheets of family records, now in possession of Mrs.
Benjamin Wyer :
116. Benjamin Parker, Jr., b. Aug. 26, 17S0; m. Sally Allen.
117. Joseph Parker, b. June 8, 1782; m. Betsey Richardson of
118. Samuel Parker, b. Dec. 23, 1784; m. Lydia Thurston
Allen.
119. Mehetable Parker, b. Oct. 23, 17S6; m. Maj. Francis
Johnson of Woburn.
Patty Parker, b. June 11, 1789; d. Nov. 14, 181 1, aged 22.
120. Almira Parker, b Sept. 20, 1790; m. Nathan Johnson of
121. Anna Parker, b. Sept. 9, 1791 ; m. Joshua Swan Robbins
of West Cambridge.
Lucy Parker, b. Feb. 18, 1794; never married.
122. Lydia Parker, b, Aug. 15, 1796; m. Benjamin Wyer of
123. Charlotte Parker, b. May 3, 1801 ; m. (i) Royal Cald-
well ; (2) Nathaniel Buck.
124. Fanny Parker, b. July 22, 1803; m. George Butters.
■44. Kdmund Parker (yosiah,^ yosiah,'^ yohn,^ Hana-
7itah,^ Thomas^), b. in Woburn, March 17, 1762 ; m. (i) April
5, 1790, Lydia Johnson of Woburn; she d. Feb. 3, 1801, and
he m. (2) July 7, 1805, Mrs. Elizabeth Reed of Woburn. She
d. in Feb., 1825, aged 62.
Like his Parker relatives he possessed a sound constitution
and strong physique, which carried him through many hard-
ships of service while fighting for his country. He served
early with Capt. Green's R. I. regiment, and also a term in
1780. He lived among his kindred on the "West Side,"
dying June 28, 1840, aged 78.
"Like a shock of grain ripe and seared,
Removed from friends long endeared."
Edmund Parker, Jr., m. March 21, 1816, Hannah Wyman of
Woburn. They lived upon the "West Side" in the neighborhood
of his relatives. They d. without issue.
Thaddeus Parker, m. Feb. 6, 1821, Lydia Thompson of Woburn.
He was b. on the "West Side" of Woburn ; was a very strong man,
possessing a remarkable constitution and great physical energy.
He d. without issue aged about 90 years.
[Woburn Records show that an infant child of Edmund Parker d.
Feb. 20, 1801.J
125. David Johnson Parker, m. Rebecca Carter of Wilmington.
Mary Parker, m. in Woburn, Dec. 23, 1819, Dana Fay; they
lived in Winchester and had no children.
45. Nathan Parker (yosiah,^ yosiah,^ yohn,^ Hana-
jiia/i,^ Thomas'), b. in Woburn, Feb. 21, 1769: m. Nov. 10,
1793, Polly Richardson, b. Oct. i, 1775, dau. of Reuben and
Jerusha Richardson of Woburn. He was a dutiful son and
became a highly respected citizen ; but in his prime of life he
was fatally injured by the fall of the Clapp house, which is best
described in the records of the town, which read:
" From this accident, thirty or forty individuals, the strong men
of our town, were wounded in an inconceivable number of ways."
This worthy inscription is upon his grave-stone :
Mr. Nathan Parker,
who d. July 19, 1807, ^t. 38.
" By a wound which he received by a fall of
a frame of an House, he has left a widow and
five children to lament the loss of one of the
best of Husbands and Fathers ; as a provider
he was very remarkable for his attention to
his Family, a very industrious & ingenious
Tradesman, a real good neighbour, social and
confident friend, very regular & Just in all his
dealings & to conclude all his moral Virtues
an Honest Man."
" O Death, thou Victor of the human frame
The soul's poor fabric trembles at thy name.
How long shall man be urged to dread thy sway
For those whom thou untimely take away?"
His widow m. Aug. 31, 1820, Seth Crosby of Billerica,
and removed there.
136. Polly Parker, b. March 23, 1794 ; m. Joshua Reed, Jr., of
Child, unnamed, d. 1796.
Caroline Parker, b. 1805 ; d. in Woburn, May 31, 1826, aged 21.
Clarissa Parker, d. unmarried.
137. Maria Parker, m. Simon Adams of Lowell.
128. Susanna Parker, m. Marshall Wyman of Woburn.
46. Anna Parker (yohn,^ 'Josiah^'' yohn,^ Hananiah^^
Thomas^), dau. of Capt. John and Lydia (Moore) Parker, b.
in Lexington, Jan. 11, 1859; "^- in Waltham, March 16, 1781,
Ephraim Pierce, Jr., of Waltham. They lived in Waltham.
There is in possession of her descendants a family tree
wrought on canvas by the youngest daughter of the family,
the crrowth of which is thereby represented. Within the two
hearts at the base are inscribed the names of the father and
mother, viz. :
" Epraim Pierce, b. Sept. 29, 1747 — Anna Pierce, b. Jan. 11, 1749.
Married March 18, 1780."
From these united hearts springs the trunk of the tree, from
whose branches are suspended five large apples, each con-
taining a name and date, as follows :
" Lydia, born July 29, 1780.
Ephraim, born Oct. i, 1782.
Nancy, born Nov. 22, 1784.
John, born Aug. 13, 1787-
Sibbyl, born Jan. 11, 1790."
1. Lydia Pierce, b. July 29, 1780; d. unin.
2. Ephraim Pierce, b. Oct. i, 1782 ; was drowned when a boy.
3. Nancy Pierce, b. Nov. 22, 1784; m. Leonard Smith of
Waltham, son of David. He was innkeeper in Waltham.
I. Ann Augusta Smith, d. 1829.
II. Jane Isabella Smith, b. Nov. 16, iSio ; m. in Waltham,
Dec. 25, 1834, Frederick Lawrence, b. Sept. 16, 1809 ;
d. Feb. 13, 1876. He was a farmer in Waltham.
Ann Isabella Lawrence.
Leonard Frederick Lawrence.
Ellen Sophia Lawrence.
Henderson Greene Lawrence.
Nancy Jane Lawrence.
III. Leonard Smith, b. Sept. 23, 1813; d. March 15, 1814.
IV. Elvira Sophia Smith, b. April i, 1815 ; m. Horace
Hammond, b. April 10, 1812 ; d. Jan. 2, 1880. She d.
Feb. 10, 1872. He was owner and manager of Hoise
Car Railroad Works, Waltham, and Captain of the
Waltham Artillery Co. Their children were :
1. Child, unnamed, b. and d.
2, Edward Horace Hammond, b. in Waltham, April 19, 1842;
m. at Grand Rapids, Mich., May 18, 1887, Ada H., b. at
Grand Rapids, Oct. 3, 1865, dau. of John and Helen M.
(Lewis) Crissman. He is a practitioner of Christian
Science Mind Healing. Residence, Grand Rapids, Mich.
V. Leonard Pierce Smith, b. Aug. 6, 1818; m. in Wal-
tham, Jan. 12, 1855, Mary Jane Hale, b. March 26,
1827, dau. of John and Nancy. He was hotel keeper
at Waltham. He d. 1866. Their children were:
1. Leonard Smith, b. Dec. 17, 1855; d. Jan. 10, 18SS.
2. Jennie Mafia Smith, b. June 23, 1857.
VI. Ei.LEN Rebekah Smith, b. Aug. 30, 1821 ; m. in
Waltham, Dec. 4, 1845, Edward Lawrence Bond, b.
in Wilmington, Sept. 10, 1S17, son of Joseph and Lucy
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Faszination eines Trugbildes (The Fascination of an Illusion) by Tarmo Kunnas is an unusual book in several respects. It sets out to examine what in the subtitle to the book is described as "the European intellectual and the fascist temptation, 1919-1945.""Here," Kunnas explains, "the tragedy of fascism is seen through the opera glasses of the person it has captivated, and my book for its part is intended to complete a picture of the fascist movements." (p. 9) In his Foreword, Kunnas tells us that his book deals with the relationship of more than seventy European intellectuals from fifteen nations who were "tempted" by fascism.
The writer is Finnish, and this lengthy work of over seven hundred pages was first published in Finnish as Fasismin Lumous (The Enchantment of Fascism) in 2013, translated into German, and published by Brienna Verlag, a small, Right-wing German language publishing house, in 2017. Two works on Friedrich Nietzsche by Kunnas have previously been published by the same imprint. Indeed, Kunnas has had several of his works published in French and German, and yet there has been nothing to date in English. Is the potential interest in the subject reckoned to be so low among the potentially much larger Anglophone readership?
The translation under review was subsidized by a body called the Finnish Literature Exchange, a non-profit organization which helps Finnish writers by bearing some of the costs of translating, printing, and publishing their works in other languages. It is interesting that this book has so far found no English-language publishing house willing to take on the commercial risk of issuing such a wide-ranging study of fascist thinkers.
The German title of Kunnas' book raises a question. The word Trugbild has a mainly negative connotation in German. A more obvious translation, assuming the online dictionary translations of lumous are correct and correspond to the Latin root, might be "illusion," or Täuschung in German; lumous can apparently also mean something like "chimera," "illusionary dream," or "delusion"; likewise "charm," "spell," or "dream." There is a considerable difference between the fascination of a charm and the fascination of an illusion. This is not quibbling, for while Kunnas is well-focussed when he examines and quotes the political statements of the many writers he considers here, he is (deliberately?) ambiguous when it comes to his own approbation or otherwise of "fascist temptation." Calling this work Trugbild tilts it in the direction of a negative interpretation.
In this book, Kunnas seeks to provide a wide-ranging overview of the writings of creative writers and philosophers in the inter-war years who felt attracted in at least some respects to fascism. They include Gottfried Benn, Robert Brasillach, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hanns Johst, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Alphonse de Chateaubriant, Emil Cioran, Wyndham Lewis, Filippo Marinetti, Örnulf Tigerstedt, Knut Hamsun, Martin Heidegger, and many more. There are, perhaps inevitably, omissions likely to surprise: D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, and Evelyn Waugh receive hardly a mention. While Scandinavian countries are well-covered, as is to be expected, with the exception of Romania, Central European writers hardly feature at all. This is probably owing to Kunnas' personal familiarity with Scandinavian writers and his ignorance of Central European languages, but it creates doubt as to whether this work constitutes a balanced assessment. Did Hungary and Bulgaria have no intellectuals of note to merit inclusion?
In his Foreword, Kunnas says his objective is to examine "why fascism in the inter-war years held such attraction for the European intelligentsia and on the people of the time." In fact, this study does not look at the attraction fascism held for people in general; it focuses exclusively on writers. The organization of the book is unusual. Instead of covering his ground with chapters devoted to specific writers or nations, Kunnas works through chapters which revolve around given themes, and then scrutinizes in each an array of writers in relation to its theme. Here are the titles of a few of the many chapters: "Exactness is not Truth," "Mistrust of the Good in People," "Social Darwinism," "Puritanism," "The Weakness of Parliamentarianism," and "Against Faith in Progress." For each of these, Kunnas provides the reader with an abundance of examples of how, within the perspective of the given theme, many intellectuals inclined towards fascism and a fascist solution, or towards an interpretation of the theme. This unusual approach has the advantage that it shifts focus from a biographical account to a philosophical and theoretical one so that the reader is compelled to think about the matter at hand firstly, and about the writers and thinkers drawn to it secondly; that is to say, he looks at the subject in respect of the theme itself and how fascist thinkers and fascist thought approached and evaluated each given theme. This is an original alternative to the standard presentation in critical assessments of the relation of writers to certain themes, as in potted biographies and the organization of such books into the intellectual, political, and literary career of one writer per chapter.
Jünger's thought was free from the race-mysticism of the National Socialists, and even as a nationalist, he was open to outside influences. In this respect, he was closer to young Italian Fascists than to his National Socialist compatriots. It is a historical paradox that those very young Italians had lifted their battle cry against Jünger's fatherland. There was no question of inter-fascist solidarity then.
The last remark in this example is provided with a reference to Hans Grimm's work. This brings me to another unusual feature of this book, one in which I see no advantage. Instead of reference numbers taking the reader to the name of the work and page number cited as is customary, the reader is taken to a name and date – in this case not Grimm, but someone called Gümbel, and from there to another number, which is the page number from which the quotation is taken in Gümbel's work, listed under another index of writers. Finally, the patient reader will discover that the quotation is from page 115 of a work by Annette Gümbel that was published in Darmstadt in 2003 by the Hesse Historical Commission. Every reference in the book involves a "redirection" of this kind from page reference to source.
Faszination eines Trugbildes lies uneasily between an academic study and a handbook, but fails to convince as either. There are too many references and abrupt changes of theme and writer for this long essay to remain cogent, yet there is too much lengthy philosophical discourse for it to serve as a handy, practical reference work. It is nevertheless a mine of new information about different writers, especially Scandinavian writers, who suffer from that obscurity which is liable to be the fate of those whose mother tongue is not known by many people. Not only does Kunnas write at length on Knut Hamsun, but also on much less-known writers from the North such as Sven Hedin, Loavi Paavolainen, Örnulf Tigerstedt, and Maila Talvio. The philosophical discourses in this book, as for example on Martin Heidegger, are intelligent and informative and largely free of retrospective value judgements.
Nevertheless, the book fails to clearly define who qualifies for inclusion in the work and who does not. It seems that any reasonably well-known European author or philosopher whose most famous writing (practitioners of other arts, such as architecture or music, are not covered) appeared between 1918 and 1945, and who was in at least one respect sympathetic to either Italian Fascism or German National Socialism, qualifies. This ambitious study thus centers on the relationship between fascism, philosophy, and literature, and the attraction the fascist movements held for intellectuals, in the inter-war years. Its assessment of literature falls short, however, when compared to its assessment of political theory. Kunnas seems much more comfortable in the role of political commentator than literary critic. While he ably describes the manner in which particularly irrational or anti-rational thought easily morphs into fascism (and there are times when Leftists would approve of his analysis), he is not very convincing in showing the extent to which this is reflected in literature.
Kunnas collects information like a magpie, and he offers a vast collection of quotations which he liberally scatters throughout the book. But while his assertions concerning views expressed didactically by writers in his study are supported by quotations from original texts, Kunnas much more rarely quotes from poetry or fictional works. He quotes at length from political statements by such writers as Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Luigi Pirandello, and Henry de Montherlant, but hardly ventures into the world of their plays, poems, or novels. But isn't it their creative work and not their political theses for which these writers are justly revered and remembered? Most of the writers studied here were firstly creative writers, although from reading this book one might be forgiven for supposing that they were mainly political theorists who used creative writing only as a welcome vehicle for their political ideas.
The novelists and poets covered by Kunnas overlap with many writers who are frequently mentioned – typically with brief approval – in the publications of the European New Right. The European New Right is more inclined to praise writers for their political engagement than for their merits as writers. Indeed, their publications tend to highlight creative writers who happen to be broadly in the same political orbit without feeling it incumbent upon them to argue for their literary merits. But why should a Right-winger presume that D. H. Lawrence, for instance, is a "better" or less "decadent" writer than E. M. Forster only because Lawrence's ideas are more in accord with his own? This is merely the usual Leftist bias in reverse. It is no different from the obtuseness of the novelist Patrick O'Brian, who once told this reviewer that he did not consider Drieu La Rochelle a serious writer because he had been a fascist, and that "nobody with anti-humanist views is capable of writing a good novel." This attitude prevails in schools and university literature courses. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are standard syllabus fare for French literature courses; Robert Brasillach and Drieu La Rochelle are not. Thus, the objective assessment of literary merit is sacrificed on the altar of political bias.
Anyone looking in Faszination eines Trugbildes for praise or even a defense of the writers studied in it, either as exponents of a specific political point of view or as highly talented creative writers, will be disappointed. What Kunnas does is to go primarily to neglected writers and examine the specifically "fascist" aspects of their writing while ignoring the rest – not with a view toward condemning or praising them, but to examine the correspondence between their own beliefs and the tenets of fascism. It can even be argued that by doing so, Kunnas is providing supportive evidence to those who wish to keep the likes of Brasillach and Drieu La Rochelle off the academic syllabi. Some of the quotations provided make the intellectuals cited sound very extravagant. Their words have not been taken out of context in an obvious sense, but the quotations mainly come from writings penned with a sense of urgency spurred by the approaching war, in which intellectuals felt compelled to take sides. But most of the writers presented are remembered primarily for their literary achievements, not for their political statements of faith. If Kunnas wrote a comparable study of intellectuals and the "Communist temptation," would he comment at length on J. B. Priestley's statements in praise of Stalin while ignoring Time and the Conways? Would he raise his critical eyebrows at George Bernard Shaw's suggestion that certain criminals be put to sleep in their beds at a time of the state's choosing, in a study in which he hardly mentioned St. Joan or Pygmalion?
What is common in the "fascist temptation" which links the many European intellectuals and writers studied in this book? In a chapter entitled "Compensating for the Versailles Treaty of Disgrace," Kunnas refers (pp. 73-74) to Armin Mohler's well-known Die Konservative Revolution in Deutschland, which Mohler himself described as a "handbook of German conservatism between 1918 and 1933," a work which may have given Kunnas the idea for writing Faszination eines Trugbildes. Mohler identified five groups or tendencies in German conservatism, which embraced lovers of nature and futurists, Christians and pagans, staunch conservatives and "National Bolsheviks" in their entirety. Mohler identified characteristics common to what were in many respects contradictory and rival currents: a positive notion of homeland, a dismissal (or at the very least distrust) of parliamentarianism, and a rejection of the rule of lucre; and he might have added what I would take to be a key element for any writer remotely sympathetic to fascism: a denunciation of decadence. These (including a sense that society is in decline or has become decadent) are the points of departure in Kunnas' work, and to these may be added many subjects treated chapter by chapter, among which the tendencies which Kunnas views as being the most important for disposing an intellectual toward fascism are puritanism, aesthetics, and a willingness to sacrifice oneself for a higher end beyond oneself.
Kunnas is good at highlighting contradictions and paradoxes which abound in fascist theory. How does an avowed Roman Catholic like Giovanni Papini, for example, reconcile his religious faith with the evident amoralism and ruthlessness of the militaristic foreign policy enacted by the Fascist government which he so ardently supported? By way of answer, according to Kunnas (p. 358), Papini's early work Il tragico quotidiano (The Daily Tragic) accepts the notion that evil is a necessary part of God's creation, and that without sin, there could be no poets, artists, or philosophers; indeed, no leaders of a people and no heroes. Vice may be the necessary condition of virtue, and evil may need to exist in order for good to do so likewise. Kunnas does not go far down the thorny and well-trodden theological path of speculation which he opens here. However, he is well aware of this and other conundra and contradictions within fascist thought, including in the writings of those intellectuals who were attracted by fascism, especially the notion that the warring poles of good and evil, war and peace, and pain and pleasure constitute the very fabric of life.
Kunnas quotes many passages from these writers in which they proclaim their distrust or even outright rejection of rationalism. The lodestar here is Nietzsche, whose rejection of God and declaration of an ethic "beyond good and evil" provides the fertile ground out of which various projections of anti-rational faith have sprung. Another glaring contradiction here is between the anti-rationalist justification of emotions such as patriotism and the positivism which is at the heart of the case for racial differences, which humanist thought all over the world dismisses out of the deeply irrational rejection of the possibility that races are fundamentally different.
On the whole, however, Kunnas does not spend much time or effort on differences within fascist thought, and this is a major weakness of his study. He hardly examines at all the gulf which separates those who believe in God from those who seek a return to the pagan gods, as well as those who believe in no gods at all but who hold that life is absurd, or else that force is proof of worthiness. All these aspects are examined in this work, but they are not positioned against one another. Kunnas does not seem interested in doing more than noting the wide-ranging views on such subjects among those he studies. For example, there is no discussion or contrasting of intellectuals who were drawn to fascism for conservative or Christian rationales such as Alphonse de Chateaubriant, who welcomed Fascism as the means to restore the old order, and those like Marinetti, who were sympathetic to Fascism for the exact opposite reason: Fascism as the means to destroy the old order. In scarcely one of the scores of examples and citations Kunnas provides would I take specific issue with what is stated, but I do wonder if Kunnas can see the ideological wood for all the thematic trees he painstakingly examines.
Sporadically, another Céline appears to the hard and amoral one, a Céline mellow and humane, even when he conceals this behind caricature, exaggeration, and mask. Drieu did not have any such compensatory personality, but he did have aristocratic magnanimity and pride, which can also be found in another form in Henry de Montherlant.
This study casts its net too wide. It seeks to be a reference work, a collection of essays on fascist writers providing a broad outline of the relation of fascism to certain strands of artistic and intellectual thought. It partially succeeds in all these aims, but wholly succeeds in none of them.
This implicitly critical assessment of Johst's position on race (a position which can hardly be characterized as exclusively National Socialist) strongly suggests that Kunnas himself does not believe in the existence of biologically distinct human races. Who can say? Since his work is conceived as an objective academic examination of a trend, Kunnas is able to evade the responsibility of taking a position on the subject himself. But at least we can be grateful that this work is no hatchet job. Any writer undertaking this task who works for a living in the halls of academia, or who enjoys power and prestige in the West, would have been obliged to issue intermittent anathema throughout the book upon these naïve victims of the fascist Comus in order to ensure readers and publishers that he was not for a moment seduced by the subjects of his study. Had Faszination eines Trugbildes been published by a mainstream or academic publisher, it would have required drastic "revising" in order to slant the entire work to read as a cautionary exercise. Fortunately, it is free of sermonizing.
By noting many contradictions and differences among his writers, Kunnas implicitly accepts that the term "fascist" defies adequate definition. Although most fascist thinkers share most points of view on a given array of topics, no fascists share the same point of view on any one topic. Most fascists accept the necessity of struggle, and by extension, that war is an inherent facet of life, and on this basis they will accuse pacifists of "naïvety," but even here there is not unanimity: Henry Williamson was undoubtedly a pacifist, as Sir Oswald Mosley professed to be on the basis of his experiences in the trenches; and Céline's Journey to the End of the Night famously ridicules war.
There is a paradox, if not hypocrisy, here: While fascist writers criticize war when carried out by democracies or in the name of democracy, most of them praise what they see as the sacrifice and creative nobility of war. Dulce et decorum est pro patriae mori? Wilfried Owen did not think so, and Ezra Pound echoed anti-war sentiments in his own poetry, although Pound, unlike Owen, had never risked his life in combat.
All the failings of this book notwithstanding, it would be ungracious not to acknowledge the huge amount of work which Kunnas has put into this sweeping account of the views of scores of writers. I know of no other single work which comes near to capturing and quoting so many fascist or fascist-inclined writers. However, I was nevertheless dissatisfied. I found myself all the time wanting to return to primary sources as opposed to being presented with "bleeding chunks" of essays, novels, and poems. Besides, I find the creative writing of a Drieu La Rochelle or Henry de Montherlant more interesting than their political essays, and as I have mentioned, this book is weighted heavily in favor of theoretical over fictional writing, particularly so far as quotations are concerned. Of course, it is considerably easier to measure theoretical or even philosophical writings against fascist preoccupations than it is to measure creative works against them. In the case of fiction or poetry, it is easy to overlook that what may have been fascist preoccupations were common themes and preoccupations of the time as a whole. For example, the ideal of Blut und Boden (blood and soil), which is so strongly associated with National Socialism, was in fact coined in Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West as an ideological rallying cry in opposition to Blut und Eisen (blood and iron). It was a strong theme in much European fiction, and not necessarily of writers "tempted by fascism" at all.
Yes, the Mother of God, the Mother of God who made Man. God who created, who suffered in his creation, who dies and is reborn. I shall always be heretical. The gods who die and are reborn: Dionysus, Christ. Nothing is created but through blood. There must be ceaseless dying for ceaseless rebirth. The Christ of the cathedrals, the great god white and virile. A king son of a king.
He found a rifle, went to the loophole, and began to shoot, with application.
Kunnas' work will hopefully serve as an inspiration to his readers to find or return to the primary sources and read them, or reread them, better equipped with the knowledge of the extent of the writer's dallying or commitment to those movements whose shattering defeat in 1945 continues to cast a shadow over the politics of the entire world.


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Cannes 1995: Day 8: May 24
Ulysses' Gaze, Greece, dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Fewer films than usual on offer today: Critics' Week had ended, and many of the Quinzaine and Un Certain Regard titles proved elusive. But what remains is a full meal. Some might even say over-full. I imagine critics arrive to every Cannes with certain days in the schedule circled in boldfaced marker, and this would have been one of them. Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, which finds the legendary Greek auteur pondering the evisceration of the Balkans and the evanescence of film, and Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad, with its visually and narratively operatic story of gangsterism and bitter redemption, had figured instantly on everyone's list of likely plays for the Palme d'or. By "everyone," I include the filmmakers. Neither was renowned for hiding his light under a bushel, but even by those standards, they pull out all the technical and rhetorical stops in these projects. I don't doubt their sincere commitment to their visions, but I also sense they can smell the velvet in the trophy case. Neither of these statement-pieces went home empty-handed, even if Angelopoulos' famous hissy-fit upon winning the runner-up prize suggested otherwise, but nor did they unite critical opinion or endear themselves uniformly to audiences. I found plenty to chew on in both, but oscillated like so many others between awe and skepticism. If anything, I was more galvanized by a one-hour Malaysian adaptation of William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" that slipped into Un Certain Regard to less acclaim than it deserved. You could watch it three times in the span it takes to screen Ulysses' Gaze, though that's not an automatic point for or against either of them. Good things come in big and small packages.
Ulysses' Gaze
(Main Competition: Greece, dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
My Response: "Labored devices, awkward clashes of idiom, but admirably earnest. Heaven is made of Angelopoulos camera movements ..." Grade: B
Ivan Albertson's Review: "I hesitate to call this pretentious self-parody, but only because we're supposed to know that's philistine code for not understanding it. In this case, however, it feels apropos, for despite Angelopoulos' [...] unmistakable bids for profundity over its three tortured hours, his efforts are strained at every moment." Rating: ★½
Tim Brayton's Review: "... Individually, it's made up of almost nothing but striking images and meaningfully slow moments, but long before the movie was even thinking about ending, I was cowed into submission more than transfixed by the gravity of every moment ... " Rating: 6/10
Amir Soltani's Review: "The film is deeply and intimately rooted in its milieu, but maybe three-hour lectures on Balkan history are not everyone's idea of a rewarding university course film experience ... " Grade: B–
Shanghai Triad
(Main Competition: China, dir. Zhang Yimou)
My Response: "Full potential isn't reached; boy's perspective unilluminating. Voluptuous exercise, though, with a Warner Bros end ..." Grade: B
Ivan Albertson's Review: "It's a relief when it settles down in the country in the second half. While the gradual thaw of Gong's character is hardly surprising, it is effective, and the ending is impressively uncompromising ... " Rating: ★★½
Tim Brayton's Review: "Filtering its tale of gangland warfare through the perspective of petulant nightclub singer and gangster's moll (she's played, terrifically, by Gong Li), and then filtering her through the eyes of a teenage boy from the country (Wang Xiaoxiao) who can barely articulate his impressions through all of it, the film has a point-of-view problem ... " Rating: 7/10
Amir Soltani's Review: "The gorgeous cinematography is the highlight of the show. The film's intricacy only hits in the last couple of scenes, but when the loose ends of the story are finally tied up, the intense finale overshadows much of the slowness in the preceding buildup. ... " Grade: B+
The Arsonist (Kaki bakar)
(Un Certain Regard: Malaysia, dir. U-Wei Haji Saari)
My Response: "Faulkner thrives in Malaysia! Land as mindspace, race as turf war, class as tribunal: all there. Brute, vivid object ... " Grade: B+
Tim Brayton's Review: " ... The aesthetic is casually naturalistic but with a poetic attention to darkness and color; the social insights are smart as they are quiet." Rating: 9/10
Coming tomorrow: As we enter the final third of the Competition slate, everyone's in motion: mooning about Paris, racing to catch a cuckoo king, and skulking through woods and ruins, one step behind or ahead of the devil ...
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|footnotes        = }}AWA Technology Services, name based on former name Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, is an Australian provider for technology related services. Throughout most of the 20th century AWA was Australia's largest and most prominent electronics organisation, undertaking development, manufacture and distribution of radio, telecommunications, television and audio equipment as well as broadcasting services.

After the sell-off of most of its assets and operating divisions, AWA is now primarily an information and communications technology (ICT) services company.

History

Pre-World War II

The company commenced operations in 1909 as Australasian Wireless Limited (AWL), a Telefunken wireless agent. The first chairman was Hugh Denison. Ernest Fisk, a foundation director, was general and technical manager. In 1916 he became managing director and in 1932 chairman.

The Marconi Company sued the Australian government in 1912, for infringing their patent (and AWL issued writs against firms using Marconi equipment), the government decided in future to use circuits designed by John Balsillie.  Eventually the two firms settled their differences and, on 11 July 1913, formed a new company, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, with exclusive rights throughout Australasia to the patents, 'present and future', of both Marconi and Telefunken. Later that year the new entity established the Marconi Telefunken College of Telegraphy, (later renamed the Marconi School of Wireless.

The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia was received in 1918 by AWA with then Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes, praising the troops he has just inspected on the western front. In 1930, AWA transmitted the first newsreel pictures from Sydney to London.

The Australian Government, requiring a direct radio service with the UK - in lieu of submarine cables - commissioned AWA to create a service in 1922. The government boosted the new company's capital and became its majority shareholder. In 1926, the company established two large beam wireless stations on 180 hectare sites; a receiver site in Victoria at Rockbank near Melbourne and a transmitter site at Ballan near Ballarat which eventually become known as Fiskville.  A shortwave beam radiotelegraph service between Australia and Britain, undercutting the cable companies, was inaugurated on 8 April 1927 and terminated on 31 May 1969. In 1928, it established a similar service between Australia and Canada. In April 1930 the Empire radiotelephone service commenced.

The Australian Government in 1922 granted AWA exclusive rights to operate the Coastal Radio Service (CRS), a network of maritime radio stations that eventually included stations in New Guinea which had been hurriedly installed when Japan entered World War II. The Overseas Telecommunications Act 1946 resulted in the creation of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and ownership of the CRS was transferred to this new organisation on 1 October 1946. In effect, all overseas telecommunications was nationalised. Australia was adopting a Commonwealth-wide policy that had been adopted the Commonwealth conference in 1945. The main goal was to end the artificial routing of traffic to cable or wireless depending on private financial profits.

With its commencement in the 1930s, AWA Aviation Department (later Aviation Division) operated the major avionics servicing organisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea through a number of service depots located at major and secondary airports, with a large workshop located in Airport West, Victoria.

World War II years
During World War II, the Marconi School trained an extensive number of military personnel in signals and communications. Additionally, the Department of Defence appropriated and operated the Ballan facility for military radio operations, eventually returning it to civilian operations with the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC). OTC joined with Telecom Australia in 1992 to form the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, later to become Telstra.

AWA continued in maritime operations supplying marine radio operators to Australian registered vessels. The AWA Marine Division with its headquarters in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt continued to wholesale marine communications and radar equipment to the Australian maritime and leisure-boating market into the mid-1980s.

The AWA Building at 45-47 York Street, Sydney was completed in 1939 becoming an instant landmark with its art-deco style and large white radio tower on top (in the shape of the Eiffel Tower) and was the tallest building in Australia until 1958. It remained the AWA head office until the 1990s and is now listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.

Post-World War II

Immediately after World War II through to the 1980s, AWA was extensively involved in the design, development and manufacture of advanced aeronautical communications, navigation and surveillance systems. These systems included the VHF Aural Range (VAR), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) for airborne use and ground beacons, VHF Omni Range (VOR), Air Traffic Control systems (known as AWANET) and a Microwave Landing System (MLS) called Interscan. Many of these developments were undertaken jointly with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. Some of these products are now produced and supported by Interscan Navigation Systems, which for some years was a privately held stand-alone company, but is now a fully owned subsidiary of Indra Sistemas, a Spanish defence and ICT contractor.

AWA engineers were also working with Marconi in England on television systems from 1948, and in 1954 AWA provided the first experimental TV broadcast in Australia during Queen Elizabeth II's Australian Royal Tour. From 1948 to 1991, under its Aviation Division, AWA held the contract to install and maintain the avionics of the Australian domestic airlines (Ansett-ANA, later Ansett Australia and Trans Australia Airlines, later Australian Airlines. The Aviation Division was sold to British Aerospace in 1996, before being sold again to Rockwell Collins to be absorbed within its Australian avionics maintenance operations.

AWA continued to have major involvement in the Australian defence electronics industry.  It worked closely with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in developing the electronics in the Ikara anti-submarine weapon, Nulka EW rocket drone, AN/SSQ-801A Barra sonobuoy (with Plessey as Sonobuoys Australia Pty Ltd), Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), Agile Gliding Bomb and ALR-2002 Radar Warning Receiver, as well as providing support to the initial Jindalee Over The Horizon Radar trials. AWA Defence Industries (AWADI) was formed in October 1988 by the merger of the defence electronics business of AWA with those of Thorn EMI Electronics Australia and Fairey Australasia. AWADI was sold to British Aerospace Australia (now BAE Systems Australia) in April 1996.

With Radio Corporation of America (RCA), AWA established a joint venture (Amalgamated Wireless Valve Co. Pty Ltd) to manufacture radio valves (vacuum tubes) at the Ashfield works under the AWV, RCA and Radiola brands. During World War II AWV produced a range of defence electronics materiel, including klystrons and magnetrons for radar equipment. In 1958 AWV commercialised research work by the AWA Research Laboratories to set up a plant to manufacture transistors and AWA Semiconductors was born. AWA continued to distribute products from RCA Semiconductor into the mid-1980s.

1970s
AWA was a major manufacturer of television receivers under the AWA Radiola Deep Image brand from the mid-1950s until the relaxation of import tariffs under the Whitlam Government in the early 1970s. With the increased competition in the marketplace, AWA joined forces with Thorn Electrical Industries UK in 1973 to create AWA-Thorn Consumer Products Limited, to produce colour televisions in Australia. Thorn colour television receivers modified for Australia were marketed as AWA or Thorn models, with local improvements being made to these over the ensuing years. This division of AWA (later known as the Ashfield Division) was also the Australian distributor for many audio equipment manufacturers, including Tannoy, Revox, and AKG Acoustics.

AWA-Rediffusion, a company jointly owned by Rediffusion International and AWA Limited, was formed in 1971. The business was a platform to enter the Australian market with Rediffusion systems similar to those offered in the UK by RIS/RBE and included products and services such as Reditune Background Music, CCTV, Hotel Audio Distribution and Specialist Information Display Systems. In 1974 AWA-Rediffusion branched into the television sales and rental market setting up a chain of retail shops under their Redihire name. Colour television arrived in Australia in March 1975, around ten years after the UK. and Redihire had been preparing for the event for over a year with six shops opening in and around the Sydney area with the company's headquarters in Roseville, New South Wales. Television rental accounted for around twenty percent of the initial market and Redihire adopted a 'rent or buy' marketing approach from the onset majoring on existing models that were being made for AWA-Thorn by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan.

In 1975, AWA brought the first Pick minicomputer system to Australia, and set up a computer services arm.

In 1977 AWA MicroElectronics was formed to design and manufacture integrated circuits and established a fully operational wafer foundry, integrated circuit fabrication facility and design centre. The group was a joint venture between AWA Ltd (64%), British Aerospace (25%) and the NSW Government (11%). This group was sold off to Quality Semiconductor Australia (now Silanna Semiconductor) in 1996.

In 1979 the Marconi School of Wireless moved to Launceston, Tasmania to become part of the Australian Maritime College. Later that year, the last Australian-made AWA appliances were produced at the company's Sydney manufacturing plant in Ashfield. From the late 1970s, appliances such as TVs were being made for AWA-Thorn by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan. This division of AWA was also the Australian distributor for many audio equipment manufacturers, including Tannoy, Revox, AKG Acoustics and Clarion (car audio). In 1984, Mitsubishi Electric purchased AWA-Thorn, (renaming it Mitsubishi Electric AWA), marketing their VCRs, stereos and TVs in Australia while retaining 'AWA' in the brand name.

1980s

AWA moved into TV broadcasting again in 1980, purchasing the Nine Network TV station QTQ-9 in Brisbane, Queensland. In 1985, it was sold to Alan Bond, as Bond began to assemble his ownership of the Nine Network.

Through research done at the AWA Research Laboratories, AWA was an early entrant into the design and development of optical fibre technology in Australia. In 1984, AWA, in partnership with Corning of the US and Metal Manufactures Limited, established Optical Waveguides Australia Pty Ltd (OWA). AWA later sold its interest in OWA, which was eventually purchased fully by Corning to become Corning Noble Park, but closed in 2003. Also in 1984 AWA acquired Electrical Equipment Ltd, a major manufacturer of power transmission equipment. The AWA group had a combined staff of over 10,000.

In 1987, AWA reported A$49 million in foreign exchange losses due to unauthorised trading in 1986 and 1987. Over the next decade, in what developed into a landmark case in Australia, there were legal proceedings against auditors for failing to identify the trading, as well as cross claims against the company's directors, the foreign exchange trader and the banks involved.

As a result, later that year AWA radio stations 2GN Goulburn, 3BO Bendigo, 3MP Melbourne, 4CA Cairns, 4TO Townsville and 6KY Perth were purchased by Wesgo Communications for A$40 million.

In 1988, the company was renamed "AWA Limited", and in August sold its telephone manufacturing and related businesses to Exicom. A year later, AWA Computer Support Services''' was established as an independent business unit. In the early 1990s, unable to compete with cheaper imported appliances, AWA exited the field of domestic appliances and consumer electronics, and focused on industrial technology.

In the late 1980s, AWA established AWASCo Pty Ltd, a joint venture with Serco of the UK. The company provided facilities management services to federal and state agencies, and eventually Serco purchased AWA's share to form Serco Australia.

1990s
In the early 1990s, unable to compete with cheaper imported appliances, AWA exited the field of domestic appliances and consumer electronics, instead to focus on industrial technology.

In 1991, AWA purchased Melbourne radio station 3XY, relaunching it in 1992 as 3EE The Breeze. The station attracted good weekend audience ratings due to broadcasts of Australian Football League matches, but its Monday to Friday audience share was less than forecast estimates, and in 1993 the station was sold to Wesgo Communications. AWA exited the industry in 1994, with the sale of Sydney station 2CH to John Singleton.

2000s
In 2001, AWA was acquired by Jupiters. Shortly after Jupiters merged with Tabcorp, in 2004 the company was spun off, once again becoming an independent company.

In 2006, AWA acquired Telefix Sales, which has been servicing home entertainment products since the early 1960s.

In May 2010, the employee at the centre of 1987's foreign exchange losses, Andrew Koval, was extradited from the United States to face criminal charges. He had previously defended a civil suit in relation to the matter.

2010s
In February 2014 AWA Limited voluntarily appointed administrators because it may have been insolvent. In May 2014 the company was purchased by Mount Waverley based Cabrini Health Limited, a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare provider.

Summary of company names
 Australasian Wireless Limited (AWL) - 1909
 Australasian Wireless Company, Limited (AWCL) - 1910
 Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd (AWA) - 1913
 AWA Defence Industries (AWADI) - 1988
 sold to British Aerospace Australia in April 1996
 Amalgamated Wireless Valve Co. Pty Ltd (AWV)
 AWA MicroElectronics Pty Ltd - 1987
 AWA Plessey
 AWA-Thorn Consumer Products Limited - 1973
 In 1984, Mitsubishi Electric purchased AWA-Thorn, renaming it "Mitsubishi Electric AWA Pty Ltd"
 Optical Waveguides Australia Pty Ltd (OWA) - 1984
 AWA-Rediffusion (Pty) Ltd. 1971 - 1986.
 In 1988, the company was renamed "AWA Limited"
 AWASCo Pty Ltd
 AWA Computer Support Services established as an independent business unit - 1989
 In 2001 AWA was acquired by Jupiters, which was soon acquired by Tabcorp.
 In 2004, the company was spun off as AWA Limited, and is once again an independent company.

Current
AWA has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Newcastle and a national network of more than 700 service agents.

References

External links

Electronics companies of Australia
Manufacturing companies based in Sydney
Manufacturing companies established in 1909
Telecommunications companies of Australia
1909 establishments in Australia

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Where is Karzai when you need him??? Not a peep out of the Pushtuns (bet this fellow was one as the Arabs never have cared for us much). If some PAO in the USMC, USA or ISAF working on countering the "Taliban" night letters across the Durand line via IO had some b---s and authority to do so: He/she would take this video and make video copies to disseminate in the FATA, SWAT, RC South region etc (Pukhtunkhwa) and also make images (to blow up to 14 x 16s posters) showing this desert Arab "sheikh" hurting an Afghan.
Have these posters widely disseminated/pasted in villages, cities and also come up with leaflets in Pushtu, Dari and Urdu in the 1000s with all the gory scenes. And then sit and wait. Just another opportunity amongst many to break the back of the local Pushtun "support" for such "Muslim brothers."


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However, Shaunak Sen made it to the final five in the best documentary segment with "All That Breathes".The documentary is nominated in the segment, along with "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", "Fire of Love", "Moonage Daydream" and "Navalny"
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I have known Dan O'Sullivan for some time and knew that this book has been in gestation for several years.
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Many books have been written about Cook and most rehearse the same well-worn scenarios. This book does not follow the usual formula and I found it to be a most educational and enlightening read.
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Hybrid vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, and why shouldn't they? Toyota vehicles like the Prius, the Camry Hybrid and the RAV4 Hybrid offer superior fuel economy to their gas-only counterparts, and they also give you a smooth drive with less noise. In addition to the savings you get on gas, you also reduce the harmful emissions your car can give off and help conserve the environment. It's totally a win-win for everyone involved.
Something you need to consider when you own or are thinking about purchasing a hybrid is it has two powertrains - not just the gas engine but the electric battery-powered motor it is paired with. Of course, at dealerships like ours in Novato CA and elsewhere in the San Francisco area and beyond, we have techs who can service or replace your hybrid vehicle battery pack. But besides the expertise we bring to the table, we and all Toyota-trained service techs will recycle any used battery pack. It's the Toyota way, and we hope you share the confidence we have in the Toyota brand, knowing that we're always going to take the eco-friendly route, and not simply the easiest one.
Enjoy the benefit of available top-notch Toyota parts. You didn't settle for second-best when you bought your car, so why should you when repairs are needed?
At Novato Toyota, we offer service coupons for a variety of repair and maintenance needs, like brake work, tire sales and multi-point inspections.
At Novato Toyota, we have techs who can perform any service you need to keep your vehicle up and running, such as vehicle inspection, filter replacement and oil change, as well as hybrid-specific battery maintenance and replacement.
At Novato Toyota, we have a wide selection of hybrid vehicles on the lot, including the Toyota Prius compact, Toyota Camry Hybrid sedan and Toyota Highlander crossover hybrid. Novato Toyota is located at 115 Vintage Way in Novato, CA, which is about 30 miles from San Francisco, and we serve the area that includes San Rafael and Petaluma, as well as the greater San Francisco and Oakland areas. Please contact us at (415) 897-3191 or visit us to see why you will enjoy maximum style and value with a Toyota Hybrid.