Roe, Katherine Bissell Bogert, 1852-1921
Person
Biography
Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe (1852-1921) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of John Banta Bogert, a resident of New York and later of Montana, who was a wholesale hardware merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Caroline Bissell, born in Litchfield, Conn. Elizabeth Bissell's mother was a daughter of John Bissell and Katherine Marsh Bissell of Litchfield, Conn. In 1874, Katherine Bissell Bogert married Charles Francis Roe (1848-1922) in Bozeman, Montana. They had three children.
Citation:
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 53(2), Apr 1922.Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Katharine Bissell Bogert Roe memoir
00-1960-23-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1960-23-0
Scope and Contents
Ten-page memoir in which Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe recounts Litchfield in the 1860s when she was a teenager. She recalls visiting her Aunt Mary Bissell, other members of the Bissell and Welch families, and friends; details about the interiors and exteriors of houses; watching baseball; going to dances and the circus; riding down North Street imitating a circus performer on Dr. Gates's buggy; activities during the Civil War; giving Henry Ward Beecher an arbutus from Litchfield; and other...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1960
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society