07-14-2020, 03:38 PM
Chevy Chase, MD was founded by my ancestor with a land grant from the Baron of Baltimore. His grandfather arrived in the New World as an indentured slave in 1632.
I have the linked ancestor's autobiography somewhere. My aunt has his battle sword from the civil war. His troops loved him because he was careful and didn't get them slaughtered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_D._Keyes
My dad is well known in the field of Flood prediction for his seminal work on the Missouri river flood in 1972 (I helped him with some of his field work and analyses), and his scientific proofs that the current (and still) flood control methods make floods worse. His 1973 paper gets cited all over the place.
Dad's brother's work on fossil organisms is cited in a variety of studies that helped prove plate tectonics. He did a lot of work in Canada and the Outer Hebrides. Entirely coincidentally he had more red hair than his brothers, his wife is a red head, and all four of his daughters are red heads. They were often mistaken for locals in the islands. My cousins had quite the scottish burr when they came back after a couple of years.
And my grandfather is famous in a small part of Long Island for saving the Shinnecock Indian territory from a rapacious developer who tried to steal it from them in the 60's. He rallied the locals and got the whole corrupt scheme involving local government officials overturned. The tribe made him an honorary chieftain for it, and he would attend their annual ceremonies in his full outfit. Which went back to the tribe upon his death.
And finally there was a poorly known outlaw in the Oklahoma territory who was probably related, who robbed a few stages and then worked as a school teacher. And was known for shooting the clock in the schoolhouse because it annoyed him. I can relate to him when the alarm goes off in the morning.
I have the linked ancestor's autobiography somewhere. My aunt has his battle sword from the civil war. His troops loved him because he was careful and didn't get them slaughtered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_D._Keyes
My dad is well known in the field of Flood prediction for his seminal work on the Missouri river flood in 1972 (I helped him with some of his field work and analyses), and his scientific proofs that the current (and still) flood control methods make floods worse. His 1973 paper gets cited all over the place.
Dad's brother's work on fossil organisms is cited in a variety of studies that helped prove plate tectonics. He did a lot of work in Canada and the Outer Hebrides. Entirely coincidentally he had more red hair than his brothers, his wife is a red head, and all four of his daughters are red heads. They were often mistaken for locals in the islands. My cousins had quite the scottish burr when they came back after a couple of years.
And my grandfather is famous in a small part of Long Island for saving the Shinnecock Indian territory from a rapacious developer who tried to steal it from them in the 60's. He rallied the locals and got the whole corrupt scheme involving local government officials overturned. The tribe made him an honorary chieftain for it, and he would attend their annual ceremonies in his full outfit. Which went back to the tribe upon his death.
And finally there was a poorly known outlaw in the Oklahoma territory who was probably related, who robbed a few stages and then worked as a school teacher. And was known for shooting the clock in the schoolhouse because it annoyed him. I can relate to him when the alarm goes off in the morning.