Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 2. P1 (33) 6/27/51 OTIS AUGUSTUS POOLE. Was born at Beloit, Wisconsin, December 20/1848, and died at Cloyne Court, Berkeley, California, April 1/1929, aged 80 years, of a heart attack after an illness of ten days. His body was cremated and his ashes brought to Yokohama by Mr. E.W. Frazar, and buried in the grave of his wife in the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery. Otis was the eldest child of Augustus and Maria Bishop (Manchester) Poole of Beloit, see subject 4. He married at Chicago, on February 17/1876, Eleanor Isabella Armstrong, born at Leitrim, Ireland, August 14/1841, died at 89 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, June 4/1918, of cancer, daughter of John and Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong, see subject 6. Eleanor had married, 1st, at Arcola, Ill., on November 7/1871, Colonel John Washington Young: they were divorced in 1872 and had no children, see subject 5. Otis wrote the following account of his life:. I was born at Beloit: that nature's alchemy should have precipitated me into this world on the shortest day of the year, must have been for the sake of consistency, for I am short in stature. My father died when I was four years old and my recollections of him are limited to a few instances only. He took me with him one late afternoon when he went a couple of hundred yards from the house into Beloit College grounds, while he shot some wild pigeons which were flying low. Millions of these wild pigeons migrated daily from the rookeries in Michigan to feeding grounds within a radius of three hundred miles and return by sundown. It was no uncommon sight for a hundred flocks to cross the sky in successive waves more than a mile wide from flank to flank. When it was windy, they flew low, and then the shooting was too easy to be good sport except to supply the table. From countless millions that were a menace to the farmer's crops, they dwindled rapidly, and for more than thirty years, several public societies have maintained standing offers of $1000 for a single pair of those birds, without the reward ever being claimed. The early impressions of my father were from what I heard people say of him, and from a couple of daguerrotypes, and from things around the house and garden which he had planned and made. He had a creative and mechanical bent, and was looking forward to giving me the advantages and education to fit me for a civil engineer, which had been an unrealised ambition for himself. At the time of my father's death, my mother was thirty and my grandfather Otis Manchester was fifty eight. My grandfather's home and chief business were then in Utica, N.Y., but he had investments and business interests in Beloit and made frequent visits to Beloit. When my father died, grandfather took charge of the estate for mother, and three years later, cleared out his Utica business and moved to Beloit, moved into the same house with mother, and thus became my titular father as well as grandfather. Insofar as he was thrifty and wise, he was a conscientious deputy father, but he and his family brought with them the emotional sterility of New England Puritanism, and as he was 53 years older than I, there was not much that he could see from a small boy's point of view with any mutual sympathy, and I suffered much from its lack, and my mother suffered vicariously for us three children for the same reason. There was too much Manchester in the combination altogether. Grandfather took me to Utica in 1854-5 to the house on Genessee St. I remember picking cherries from a ladder, and shaking sweet plums from the trees in the garden, and picking up fine yellow pears that had dropped on our side of the fence from Mr. Cooper's garden, and his trying to take them away from ma, and grandfather not letting him do it. I remember gathering beech nuts way out beyond the end of Geneesee St., to eat in church and of sliding down the incline from Subject 2. (34) John Street Bridge on Christmas morning and tripping up an old Irish woman on her way to Mass, so I must have been there more than a year. I was in Beloit again soon after, for I was there when the first new nickel one cent pieces came out in 1857. Not long after that, I had my first job earning a little money, outside the usual family chores for which I was paid small sums to encourage the sense of my own money. This was during the winter vacation, and my job was in the Bank of Beloit, counting silver coins and wrapping them up in rolls of post of office paper. Next, I was picked off the gate post by a big college student and taken to his room where I was paid ten cents an hour to read "Marcus Aurelius" to half a dozen students, cramming for examination. Our neighbor opposite, was Judge John M. Kemp, with four children about our ages, and a wife who had once been pretty but that was about all, and a large house with beautiful and extensive ground. He was a famous judge and a man of fine literary talents, but in 1859 was slowly dying of consumption. He found my mother's intellectual companionship one of his chief solaces, and many an evening I was taken over there to sit in the library with then, while mother other read aloud to him. I heard Victor Hugo's Les Miserables read and discussed without being conscious of paying any attention to it, but 20 years later, when I read it, as I supposed for the first time, I found it all coming back to me and there were no unexpected surprises. He was fond of holding up his hand to check the reading, and discussing with my mother, some thought suggested by the subject in hand. I remember on one of these occasions hearing him say:- "Well, Maria, a good many types of men have come under my scrutiny in my career as a judge, but I've never yet seen the man wearing a ring who didn't have a soft spot in his head somewhere". I was not yet twelve, but that remark, coming from a distinguished judge, made such a lasting impression on me that it was after my fiftieth year that I wore a ring on my ringer. It was the Judge's passionate desire to see Lincoln elected, and that was the basis of the will power that kept him alive. He had the best of care and tried any thing that anyone suggested. He was "lord bountiful" to me, as he paid me for gathering mullein leaves which he had been recommended to smoke, and a dollar a dozen for frog legs. Sometimes I had great luck and captured more than his daily requirement and then mother cooked them up for me. Never did Delmonico's later, ever serve frog's legs at $1.50 per portion, that were as good as those Beloit frogs cooked at home. Then, Lincoln was elected and Fort Sumpter fired upon, and the Civil war broke out in the year I was twelve, and before that was over, I had got far enough in school to feel the difference between my clothes and those of other boys. I realised that the money I could earn between school hours, was not enough to keep me in pocket money and clothes, to say nothing of something towards my board. So when I came home at the end of the winter term of 1863, and found an offer of a clerkship in the book store of Wright & Newcomb at $12.50 per month for six months, I dropped my books, and dashed out to tell Paul, my best chum, who, strange to tell, had a similar offer to go into the drug store next door to the bookstore: we both had to sleep in the stores. Of course neither of our mothers liked that feature of it - mothers are built that way: perhaps there was a certain in concealed exhilaration to a full blooded boy of fourteen at the feel of the loosening of apron strings, but the mothers knew it would have to come sometime anyway. I intended to go back to school again after I had earned some money, but that good intention has been part of the pavement of Hades for nearly sixty years, though I matriculated for, and took a long course in the University of Hard Knocks. These were exciting war times, and our Subject 2. P3 (35) book store was the center of distribution for the Chicago morning and evening newspapers, that reached us at 1 and 9 P.M. People were mad for news on the eve of great battles and events of the war, and the second election of Lincoln, and his assassination in 1865, and the first trans- Atlantic under sea cable message in the summer of 1866. This was the stirring period of American history with which I was in close touch in my first independent four years out of school, The prospect of going back to school grew more remote. My free hours were between 1 P.M. and 8 A.M. For hunting, fishing or any other out door sports and games, there was not time enough in the free hours to encourage them, and the social amenities of a small town after curfew, did not contain much easement for a young cub, bashful and painfully self conscious, and without money to spend and keep up his end - so I took it out in reading. Books of all kinds were on the shelves and I had only to reach for them. I began on the most utter trash, "Beadles Dime Novels", &c, but Mr. Wright mercifully diverted me from them to Marryat's and Cooper's exciting tales, and other books of literary type: I read whole shelves of them. Five years later, I was to learn that this same Mr. Wright had asked my mother to marry him: he was a widower with four daughters. He had held out as an additional inducement, that he would give me a college education that would fit me for a civil engineer, which was my father's ambition for me. Mr. Wright was much older than my mother and needed her in his family of girls: mother was a refined, intellectual, and very pretty woman, but couldn't love him and wouldn't marry him. But it was on her conscience that by not marrying him, she had deprived me of a great advantage. I am thankful her own aversion and her mother's instinct so surely guided her to refuse him: as a step father he would have driven me to the dogs in no time. In April 1867, in my 19th year, I left Beloit for Chicago, where an uncle had found me a position in the supply department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, at 40 South Clark St., at $40 per month. Seeing that nobody got on here but those who had influence higher up, I left this position the following year and began as a book keeper for Sherman, Hall & Lybrand, on South Water St. at $40 per month. I was boarding in Mr. Sherman Hall's house on West Washington St. at that time. That boarding place was the beginning of my existence in hall bedrooms with all my worldly possessions in one trunk, and I never knew anything more capacious until I was married on February 17/1876. With the exception of a year and a half, following the great Chicago fire of October 9/1871, I was with Mr. Hall until he hopelessly failed in 1875. My mother died at Beloit in 1873. During the time I was with Mr. Hall, I was a horse for work: my hours were long but I was a good book keeper and confidential office man, and earned and got $2500 a year. His failure was a catastrophe, a very personal catastrophe for me, for I was getting ready to be married, and did not want to put it off. Business hadn't recovered from the panic of 1873, and $2500 a year bookeeperships were not plenty, and besides, they had to be grown into by many years of service. The only thing I could find was $75 a month position as book keeper and general utility man with a small tea merchant, Mr Henry Sayres, of Sayres & Thompson: I took it and promptly got married on that and a small savings bank balance, and the sanguine hope of a subsequent advance in salary. But the old skinflint didn't loosen up or come through with an annual advance in salary, in keeping with the service he got. He had everything his way in the deal but he entirely overlooked how much better a tea man I was becoming than a book keeper: a day came in March 1879, when he refused to advance me by $150 per year, from $l200 to $1350, and Subject 2. P4 (36) he let my engagement runout and over run a month without settling for the coming year, and meantime, out of the blue sky, came an offer of $1800 as tea buyer for a very big concern, Reid, Murdock & Fisher, which I was free to accept, and did. Four fruitful years with this concern as a tea buyer, qualified me for another transition in the tea game, and rounded out my nineteen years of service in Chicago. Meantime, my 1876 hall bedroom and one trunk full of bachelor belongings, had expanded into a house and lot at 3731 Forest Avenue, an appalling accumulation of house-hold goods, and a wife and three children - some problem in view of the turn in my business affairs. E.A. Schoyer, the importer for whom I had been a salesman on the street for two years, suddenly wanted me to go to China for him, and on less than a month's notice, I sailed from San Francisco on May 2/1886, per "Belgic" for Shanghai, and every summer since, for forty one years, has been passed in the Orient, namely, 2 years in Shanghai and Amoy, 22 years in Yokohama, and 17 years in Shidzucka. On my return from my second year in China, I found the firm had been speculating in coffee, and they failed in 1888. The next day I had three offers to go to the Orient, and closed with the one that wanted me to go to Japan, Smith Baker & Co. Knowing my future was thenceforth to be in the Orient, I sold the Forest Avenue house where all the children had been borne, and disposed of the immovables not likely to be needed in Japan. With the rest, including my wife's square grand Steinway piano, which had survived a trip from the center of the great Chicago fire of 1871 with the loss of one leg, we all said a long goodbye to Chicago friends, and sailed from San Francisco for Yokohama on April 8/1888, par "Oceanic". This is just a bare outline of my life before going to the Orient: to fill in the intermediate spaces would make a big book and run to personalities and rake up memories, violate privacies, and reveal tragedies of wasted opportunities and errors of judgement that would cast a shadow over the myriad joys of a long life". (end of Otis A. Poole's account). Otis Augustus Poole was a fine man in every respect, a good husband and father, of gentle disposition, artistic, and with the highest degree of honor and rectitude. He was not self assertive, nor fond of public office, and had educated himself by reading to an extraordinary extent. He was more like a brother to his children then an unapproachable father, and took part in all their interests. He brought to Yokohama in 1889, two thoroughbred fox terriers, and for the next fifty years, had generations of them. Since Otis came to Yokohama in 1888 for Smith Baker Co., he remained with them until 1909, and when that firm was disbanded, he carried on the tea business under the name of Otis A. Poole & Co., until he retired in 1926, moving his office to Shidzucka, 75 miles south west of Yokohama, the center of the tea garden, and living in a Japanese house, for six months in the year. His widely recognized reputation as an exceptional tea expert, made him one of the very few tea buyers in China and Japan who were given "open" orders, that is, importers in the U.S.A. would authorize him to buy any teas he considered good at whatever price he set: his clients were always greatly satisfied. He would walk down a tea counter with over 100 cups of tea, taste them, grade them, and price than as close as five sen per picul (133 1/3rd lbs). The Japanese loved and trusted him, and at his death, the Government conferred on him a high honor for his share in developing the sale of Japan teas to the U.S.A. In 1892, Otis became interested in photography, and for years, took many pictures of life and scenes in Japan, which he used in lantern slides for the many lectures he gave in the U.S.A. It was he who started Burton Holmes, the Travelogue lecturer, on his career, at the request of Burton's grandmother, who was anxious to start the young rich Burton on some career. Subject 2. P5 (37) Since he became resident in Yokohama in 1888, his annual trips to the U.S.A. prevented him being with his family at Christmas, but his return in April made a second Christmas for his children. He was very abstemious in his habits and not fond of sports. Though unable to play himself, he was musical, and never missed the opera season in New York. He never learned to speak Japanese and knew no other language. The tea business was not a money fortune maker. He never rode a bicycle, nor drove a motor car, nor ever went up in an aeroplane. He was of a creative and inventive mind, and skilful in the use of tools. His dark room was a mine of interest to his sons, whom he taught the intricacies of of taking, developing and printing photographs: he was happiest in working around the house: he had no interest in gardening. He was an inimitable raconteur, doubtless increased by contacts with many people during his travels. He was a fine swimmer and famous for his long dives, for which he made many records. He always walked to and from his office, generally taking the dogs with him. He was fussy about his diet, but never ill. He was always resourceful: one winter in the 1890s, a day before his departure for San Francisco, an earthquake the previous night, had twisted the brick chimney of our house, a quarter way around just where it came through the roof, so that when the fire was started in the morning, sparks set fire inside the roof, to which there was no access from the inside of the house. He chopped through the wall of a small closet above the front door, and put the fire out with buckets of water which he carried up. This ruined his new suit of clothes, so he had to postpone his sailing for a week. He was never afraid of the frequent earthquakes, and used to sit undisturbed, much to the annoyance of his family who always rushed out doors, day or night. The big earthquake of 1923 proved how dangerous his plan was, for most of the houses fell, and it was those who habitually rushed outdoors who were the majority of those saved. On arrival at Yokohama in May 1888, after a few weeks at the Grand Hotel, Otis took up his residence at 89 Bluff, a bungalow of six rooms, where the family lived until his wife's death in 1915. There were neither water, gas or electricity on the bluff in those days. Our house was entirely destroyed in the great earthquake of September 1/1923. Otis A, Poole had the distinction of having crossed the Pacific Ocean between the Orient and the U.S.A., eighty two times also covering many of the cities in the U.S.A. between San Francisco and New York, without accident - a remarkable record of the safety of travel. Beyond a few regular steamer captains, he holds the record for the number of crossings. His many voyages add up, at 18 days per trip, to over three years and ten months at sea, quite a record for a non seafaring man. The steamers he travelled on, were as follows:- Westward. Eastward. May 2 1887. Belgic. Dec22 1886, City of Peking Apr 2 1887. Belgic. Dec 12 1887. Oceanic. Apr 6 1888. Oceanic. Dec 8 1888. Belgic. Apr 6 1889. Arabic. Jan 7 1890. Oceanic. Apr15 1890. Oceanic, Dec 19 1890. Belgic. Apr 2 1891. Oceanic. Dec 17 1891. Oceanic, Mar26 1892. Oceanic. Dec 10 1891. Oceanic, Mar14 1893. Oceanic, Dec 17 1893. Gaelic. Apr 3 1894. Empress of India. Oct 24 1894. Belgic. Mar26 1895. China. Oct 27 1895, Coptic, Mar21 1896. Belgic. Nov 7 1896, City of Peking, Apr 1 1897. Coptic. Nov 10 1897. Gaelic, Subject 2. P6 (38) Apr 2 1898. Belgic, Nov 5 1898. City of Peking. Mar 25 1899. China, Oct 21 1899. Doric. Mar 31 1900. Kong Kong Maru. Dec 22 1900. Gaelic, Mar 30 1901. Gaelic. Nov 9 1901. Doric. Mar 29 1902. City of Peking, Oct 15 1902. Doric. Mar 27 1903. America Maru. Oct 31 1903. Gaelic. Apr 9 1904. Coptic. Oct 26 1904. Coptic, Mar 28 1905. China. Nov 11 1905. Doric. Mar 31 1906. Coptic. Nov 1 1906. Empress of China, Apr 2 1907. Coptic. Oct 22 1907. Persia, Mar 31 1908. Nippon Maru. Nov 5 1908. Mongolia. Mar 26 1909. Siberia, Oct 27 1909. Machuria, Mar 22 1910. Korea. Nov 2 1910. Siberia. Mar 29 1911. America Maru. Oct 24 1911. Tenyo Maru. Mar 27 1912. Chiyo Maru. Nov 3 1912. Mongolia, Mar 29 1913. Siberia, Oct 28 1913. Chiyo Maru. Apr 4 1914. Korea. Oct 24 1914. Siberia, Apr 3 1915. Shinyo Maru. Oct 25 1915. Shinyo Maru. Apr 3 1916. Tenyo Maru. Nov 10 1916. Empress of Russia, Apr 15 1917. Empress of Asia. Dec 14 1917. Ecuador. Apr 6 1918. Ecuador. Nov 15 1918. Ecuador. Apr 5 1919. Columbia. Nov 8 1919. Empress of Russia, Apr 3 1920. Venezuela. Nov 12 1920. Venezuela, Apr 2 1921. Ecuador. Dec 19 1921. Golden State. Mar 25 1922. Golden State. Oct 14 1922. President Jackson, Apr 5 1923. President Lincoln. Nov 15 1923. President Pierce. Apr 1 1924. President Cleveland. Oct 2 1924. President Cleveland. Apr 4 1925. President Pierce. Dec 1 1925. President Cleveland, Mar 30 1926. Siberia Maru. Dec 16 1926. Siberia Maru., Issue:- 1. Herbert Armstrong Poole. Born at 3731 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill., October 15/1877. See subject 1 for issue and further particulars. 2. Eleanor Isabella Poole, Born at 3731 Forest Ave., Chicago, Ill., December 16/1878. She attended Cottage Grove Ave., School, Chicago until coming out to Yokohama in 1888, and there attended a school conducted by a Miss Abersole, and after that by a school kept by a Mrs. Cahusac at 43 Bluff. Her mother taught her the piano, and she had finishing lessons by Dr. Von Koeber, at Tokyo: she became a fine pianist. In March 1903, she sailed par "America Maru" with her father for a five month trip to the United States, and had a wonderful time in all the cities visited by her father on his business tour. Eleanor took part in the Amateur Dramatic plays given in Yokohama: she also performed at many concerts on one occasion playing the piano part of the Schubert Trio in B flat, Professor Junker playing the violin and Rodolphe Schmid the cello parts. In 1902 she met Nathaniel George Maitland, an Englishman, who had come out to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China: he had a fine baritone voice, sang exceptionally well, and took many solo parts in the Amateur Dramatic operas. They were married at Christ Church, Yokohama, on September 14/1904, and lived first at 84 Bluff. N.G. Maitland was born at London, England, on November 9/l875, and died at West Byfleet, Surrey, England, on February 14/1951, of cancer, fifth child and fourth son of Francis and Annie Jane (Chapman) Maitland of London. Neither of his parents ever left England, but all his brothers came out to China, where his uncle, J.A. Maitland, amassed Subject 2. P7 (39) a large fortune in the import trade of English piece goods, and whose name is held in great respect by all old China hands. The eldest Maitland son never amounted to much and up to 1914 lived in England, supported by his brothers: he had been married and divorced, and had one son, Frank Maitland, who went out to Shanghai and for some time worked for N.G. Maitland. The second Maitland son Frank Maitland, lived in Hong Kong, where he was head of Linstead & Davies: he married in 1905, Alice Stepani, born in Hong Kong, of Italian descent; they had no children. The third son Edward W. Maitland, for many years manager in Japan of The China Traders Insurance Co., married in 1900 at Shanghai, Ethel Wilcoxen, born in Shanghai of English parents: her father was head of the silk department of Arnold Karberg & Co., Shanghai. They came to live is Yokohama after their marriage and after retiring, lived some years in Switzerland, and then settled West Byfleet, Surrey, England, where he died June 27/1943 of cancer. They had three daughters, 1st, Daisy, who married in Yokohama, Eddy Adams, employed by one of the American Banks which sprung up in the Orient during the first World: they have since lived in Hartford, Conn., and have two children - three more died young. 2nd, Alice, who married a Mr Daubeny of the Rising Sun Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of the Shell Oil Co., of London: they are now retired and live at West Byfleet. 3rd Jean, born in 1918 at Yokohama, who married on December 31/1938, at West Byfleet, Donald Foster: they have a son, Anthony Edward Foster, born April 1940. The fourth child of Francis and Annie (Chapman) Maitland, was Daisy Maitland, who married in London in 1903, Tom Morrison, first violin of the London Symphony Orchestra. She died of cancer on March 31/1938 and had no children: Tom then became the manger of some hotel in the Midlands. Nathaniel George Maitland, after a short service in the Discount Bank in London, joined the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China and in 1902 came out to Yokohama for them. In 1903, he joined the International Banking Corp., of New York, a subsidiary of the National City Bank, New York, at their Yokohama branch, and was soon transferred to their Shanghai branch, where Eleanor joined him after the birth of their first child in Yokohama. They lived their until he retired in 1926 to return to live at West Byfleet, England. After serving some years with the International Banking Corp, he accomplished his long cherished desire to set himself up as a Bill and Bullion Exchange Broker in Shanghai: he bought a partnership with a Mr Edminston, who died a year later and he carried on this business with great success until he retired with a fortune. He built a fine house at No 5, Route Ghisi in the French Settlement of Shanghai, later selling it to the Standard Oil Co. after which they lived in rented houses on Weihaiwei Road and Ferry Road. In 1919 they took their sons, to England, left them in school, and returned for seven more years in Shanghai. At west Byfleet he bought the estate of "Oakhurst" and lived there ten years, then bought "Frandon" near by, naming it from the first syllables of their eldest and youngest sons' names. West Byfleet is about 20 miles south of London on the road to Southampton. Issue:- 2/1. Francis George Maitland, born at 84 Bluff, Yokohama, September 3/1905 died at Norwich, England, April 23/1938, of spinal menengitis, after only a few days of illness, a great tragedy as he had only been married seven months before. He was educated first at Shanghai schools, then graduated from the University of Hastings, Sussex, and later from Clare College, Cambridge University, as a Medical Doctor. Subject 2. 8. After the usual long interneship at St. Thomas Hospital, London, he was duly qualified as a doctor and surgeon, and entered practice at Norwich. He married there, on October 2/1937, Ella Joyce Master born there June 4/1910, daughter of Dr. Humphrey Claude and Violet Maude Master. Ella married, 2nd, in 1945, as his second wife, Angus Campbell Walker of Norfolk, a widower, born 1892, with two children, Ian, born 1929, and Dorothy, born 1935. In 1950 they lived at Horning on the Norfolk Broads. Walker was for many years in Government service in the Sudan, Africa. Issue:- 3/1. Frances Rosella Maitland, born at Norwich, December 3/1938, seven months after her father's death. 2/2. John Armstrong Maitland born at Shanghai, November 9/1906. He first attended schools in Shanghai, and in 1919 entered the University of Hastings, Sussex, England: then graduated from Clair College of Cambridge University, with the degree of B.A. in engineering. He joined the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co., of London, a Shell subsidiary and was sent out to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was stationed also at Sao Paulo, Recife, and other branches: in 1948 he returned to their head office in London, as manager. He married at Sao Paulo, on April 22/1933, Jean Marjorie Macpherson, born at Sao Paulo, Brazil March 11/1911, daughter of John Gibb and Isabel Bowman (MacCreath) MacPherson, both of Glasgow, Scotland, who went out to Brazil for the River Plate Bank, and later entered commerce, and who lived at Nichteroy, Rio de Janeiro, Jean was educated at St. Paul's school, Sao Paulo, and at Skerry's College, Glasgow, Sootland. She was then appointed secretary to the Department of Commerce at Sao Paulo from 1930 to 1932. Jean and her children have dual nationality, both British and Portuguese: all of them speak Portuguese fluently. Issue: 3/1. Alistaire John Maitland, born at Rio de Janeiro, August l2/1935. 3/2. Ian Maitland, Born at Sao Paulo in 1939. 2/3. Otis Edward Maitland, born in London, England, August 10/1909. He was educated at Shanghai schools, and graduated from the University of Hastings, but did not go to college. He joined the Anglo-Grecian firm of Conte Michelos, and was sent to Egypt where he worked at their Alexandria office, and later to their branch at Khartoum, Egyptian Sudan - their business was in long staple cotton. He lived there several years and learned to speak Arabic fluently. On the outbreak of the second World War, he was drafted into the Intelligence Division of the British Army, on account of his knowledge of Arabic, and was stationed throughout the war in Egypt and Syria as aide to the Commander in Chief, General Maitland. During the war his family lived with his wife's parents in Byfleet. After being demobilized, he joined several of his fellow army officers and started farming in the south of England, where they lived in 1951. He married at West Byfleet, on October 29/1932, Joan Margaret Haslehurst, born July 17/1909, died at West Byfleet October 15/1955, of cerebral thrombosis, daughter of Guy Bartlett and Janet (Hicks) Haslehust, one of the the partners in Otis' firm, Conte Micholos, Issue:- 3/1. Otis Ragan Haslehurst Maitland, born at West Byfleet, August 17/1937. 3/2. Colin Neil Maitland, born at West Byfleet, July 17/1940. 3/3. Frances Ann Maitland, born August 13/1948. Subject 3. P.9 (41) 2/4. Donald Sydney Maitland, born at Shanghai, August 28/1918. Educated first at Shanghai schools, then at Charterhouse, England, and graduated from Cambridge University with an engineering degree, after which he joined an aeroplane factory. In 1942 he He married on November 8/1941, Rosemary Joyce Lister Parkes, born at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire June 14 /1919, daughter of Arthur Josiah and Ethel Anne (Lister) Parkes of Manor House, Oaken Wolverhampton. Arthur was born in December 1890, and Ethel Anne September 1/1888. In 1951 Donald is a partner in his father-in- law's firm and they live at High Elms, Mill Lane, Codsall, Staffordshire, England.- Issue:- 3/1. Antony Arthur Armstrong Maitland born at Cairo, Egypt, October 16/1945. (He transferred this History into Electronic format) 3/2. Eleanor Lindley Maitland, born in Oaken February 5/1949. (as written, but in fact 6 February at High Elms). 3. Otis Manchester Poole. Born at 3731 Forest Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, September 6/1880. A twin sister died at birth. His childhood years were shared with his brother Bertie and sister Eleanor in Chicago, with occasional visits to His Grandfather Armstrong's farm at Arcola. Like them, he started his schooling at the age of six at Cottage Grove School. On the family's way out to Japan in May, 1888, he came down with scarlet fever at San Francisco, where he and his mother were compelled to stay behind in quarantine at the Palace Hotel following the rest of the family a month later in the O.& O. S.S. "Gaelic" and arriving in Yokohama in June, 1888. He was educated in the Victoria Public School in Yokohama, concluding with a year's private tuition in French, Japanese, shorthand and type- writing. In 1895, at the age of 15, joined the English firm of Dodwell Carlill & Co. in Yokohama, an Import, Export and Shipping concern with Head Offices in London and HongKong and branches at Shanghai, Foochow, Kobe, Yokohama, Victoria and Tacoma. Four years later the firm became Dodwell & Co.Ltd. and additional branches were established in Ceylon, Antwerp, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and New York. Chester rose steadily in the firm and was stationed at various tines in the Hongkong, London and Kobe offices though he remained most constantly in Yokohama. On the death of the Yokohama Manager, George Syme Thomson, in December 1915, Chester was appointed his successor, and three years later became General Manager for the Company's four branches in Japan. Following the Great Earthquake of September 1st, 1923, Chester was transferred to the New York Office and made a Director of the Company, establishing his home in Summit, New Jersey. In 1945 he celebrated 50 years' service with Dodwell & Co. and in 1949 retired to a country estate, "Missing Acres", near Charlottesville, Virginia. Chester was a great walker and mountain-climber and scaled many peaks in the Japanese Alps. He was a notable golfer and considerable artist, painting many beautiful water-colors, and was also a expert photographer. He travelled three times around the world, - in 1902, 1909 and 1922 as well as a trip from Japan to London and back In 1915. On his second world circuit, he and his companion Orville Bonnet, travelled all through Malaya, India, Egypt, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Scotland. Their experiences were interesting and often exciting; one of their Subject 2 P10 (42) amusing exploits was driving golf balls off the top of the Great Pyramid Cheops in Egypt. Except for three bachelor years in Kobe from 1910 to 1913, Chester's life in Japan was spent in Yokohama, where he held many honorary posts in the community. He married at Yokohama, June 21/1916, Dorothy May Campbell, born at Yokohama, June 21/l895, daughter of William Wallace and Clara Edwina (Rice) Campbell, (called Cala). William Wallace Campbell was born in Quebec August 22/1860 of Scottish forebears who had first settled in Virginia and them moved to Canada after the War of Independence in which they had remained loyalists. He came to Japan in 1889 for the Pacific Mail S.S.Co. and represented them in Yokohama, Kobe and Hongkong for nearly forty years. He was a keen yachtsman and Commodore of the Sailing Clubs in all these ports. He died in Summit, New Jersey, September 21/1938, while on a last visit to his daughter and Chester. Dorothy's mother "Calla" Rice was of New England ancestry, her father George Edwin Rice having been born in Hallowell, Maine in 1843, educated in Roxbury (Boston) and spent his younger days in San Francisco where he married in 1868 Clara Amelia Cummings of Canaan, New Hampshire. George's father, Colonel Elisha Esty Rice, (born 1820 in Union, Maine), was the first American Consul accredited to Japan after the Treaty negotiated by Townsend Harris with the Shogun opened Japan to foreign intercourse and trade. Col. Rice was appointed to the Northernmost Treaty Port of Hakodate and served there for nearly twenty years. He was a very tall man of commanding presence, a brother of Richard Drury Rice, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine and Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railway. George E. Rice joined his father's Consular staff in Hakodate in 1868; and there twin daughters Mabel and Lillie, were born December 22/1868, followed by Calla on September 21//1871. About 1877 Colonel Elisha Rice's term of office expired and he returned to Washington, George bringing his family down to Yokohama where he became a Vice Consul and where they all lived for many years. Calla had a pure, high soprano voice and sang beautifully. Though quite small, she was bright and vigorous and and exceptionally fine tennis player, playing on the Interport Teams for fifty years! She married in Yokohama November 30/1892, and Dorothy was born there May 18/1895, followed by a brother Archibald Kenneth Campbell on October 2/1896. After living in various Far Eastern ports with their parents, Dorothy and Archie were sent home to school in 1907 to Ladies College and Elizabeth College in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Archie eventually entering the ministry and residing in Scotland. in Scotland. After five years in Ladies' College, Dorothy went on to a finishing school in Dresden, Germany: and in April, 1913, returned to Japan via the Siberian Railway to become a Yokohama debutante of just under 18. When Chester and Dorothy were married in June, 1916, they lived at No. 66 Bluff, only a stone's throw from the Poole bungalow at No.89 where his mother was still living, his father being mostly in Shidzucka, the Tea District. In this pleasant house, with its enclosed garden, their three sons, Anthony, Richard and David were born in 1917, 1919 and 1920. (See below). In 1922 they all had a year's leave in England, spent mostly in the New Forest and Devon; and in 1923 went through the Great Earthquake and Fire of Sept.1st having some terrible experiences but escaping uninjured. Like Subject 2 P.11 (43) everyone else, they lost all their possessions and were evacuated from the destroyed city to Kobe by ship. Over 150,000 people perished in Yokohama and Tokyo, including one-eighth of the foreign population of Yokohama, among them many lifelong friends. Dorothy's parents were with them throughout the day of peril and her Aunt Mabell, though surrounded by fire near the railway station, escaped by a miracle. Chester's mother had died in 1918 and his father in Shidzucka was beyond the disaster area, as was his sister Eleanor summering in Karuizawe. (Chester has written a graphic account of the terrible event.) After two years in Kobe following the earthquake, Chester and his family went on four months' leave to Victoria, B.C. during which time he was asked to take over the Company's New York Office. He was also made a Director of the firm and he and his family spent the next 23 years in Summit, New Jersey, until his retirement to Virginia in 1949 at the age of 68. His and Dorothy's three sons thus grew up in their own country, and their brief histories now follow:- 2/1. Anthony Campbell Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama, March 29/1917, died at Lima, Peru April 18/1944, and buried there. After attending Lance School, Summit, N.J., he graduated from Haverford College and joined W.R.Grace & Co. Tony was a natural artist and studied water- colors under Eliot O'Hara at Goose Rocks Beach, Maine, and anatomy under Bridgman in New York. He also played the piano quite well. He was fair and good looking but his chief characteristic was a blithe spirit that won him many friends. Following a couple of voyages as assistant purser in Grace's passenger ships plying from New York down the West Coast of South America Tony was stationed at their Cristobal branch where he presently took charge of their Airline service (Pan-American-Grace Airways). Thence he was transferred to La Pas, Bolivia as Manager of Panagra. From this lofty center, he flew all around Bolivia and surrounding countries inspecting and establishing Agencies. He spoke Spanish fluently He married at La Pas December 19/l943, Luba Gustus, born at Khabarovsk, Siberia, March 30/1916, daughter of Sergei and Marya (Gramovska) Arlyustin. During the first World War, her father was killed in the confused fighting in Siberia between the White Russians and Bolsheviks, and her mother then married Arthur Gustus, a soldier in the American Expeditionary Forces, whose name Luba took. At the end of the war, her parents settled in San Francisco, where Luba was brought up as a American citizen. When she met Tony she was a Secretary at the America Embassy in La Pas. Immediately after their marriage, they were transferred to Guayquil, Ecuador, and a few weeks later Tony contracted typhoid fever while on an up-country trip; and though flown to Lima by the Company for treatment, died there April 18/1944, a great tragedy. Luba returned at once to Washington and was sent out by the State Department, at her own request, to the other side of the world, - the American Embassy at Ankara, Turkey. There, by strange fate, she met a young Englishman who might almost have been Tony's brother, - Clive Parry, born July 13/1918, who had served two years in the British Army and with the British Council in the near East, spoke five languages and was at the time subject 2. P12 (43-A) teaching law at the Ankara University. A year later they were married, on May 20/1945, and arc now living at Cambridge, England, where he is Dean of Downing College and an L.L.D. Through the years, they have visited America frequently, the first time in 1948 when Clive was Legal Adviser to the British Delegation at United Nations on Long Island. Later, he came on other missions and lectured at leading Universities. Chester and Dorothy still regard them as part of their family. They have two children: 1. Katherine Parry, born at Cambridge, England, March 13/1946. 2. Anthony Parry, born in New York, N.Y., January 18/1949. 2/2. Richard Armstrong Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama April 29, 1919, had the same education as his brother Anthony. On graduating from Haverford College with high honors he took the State Department Foreign Service examinations at Washington and passed well. His first appointment was as Vice Consul at Montreal 1941-2, and in `43 he was transferred to Barcelona, Spain. Already speaking French fluently, he soon mastered Spanish and had some intriguing experiences in those war years. In 1944, he was finally permitted to join the U.S. Navy, was sworn in at Casablanca or Madrid, returned to U.S.A. for training at Princeton and Monterey, Cal., and in October, 1945, was shipped by transport to Japan with a contingent of the occupation forces a few weeks after Japan's surrender. There, as a Lieutenant, J.G., he served in Military Government under General Douglas MacArthur in S.C.A.P. Headquarters in Tokyo. A year later, he was released by the Navy and reverted on the spot to the Foreign Service, remaining a further 2 years in Tokyo. During this time he revisited the scenes of childhood, climbed Fujiama and enjoyed jaunts up country. While in the Navy he took part in a inspection trip to the little-known Hachijo Islands, a chain out in the Pacific. From 1949-51 Dick was stationed in Kuala-Lumpur, Malaya, becoming Full Consul. Thence he was posted to the Embassy at Djakarta Java, visiting Thailand, Cambodia & Angkor Wat en route. After only a month, he was transferred back to Washington to the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for a 3-year spell. Though having his own apartment in Georgetown, he spent many weekends with his parents at "Missing Acres" in Virginia, usually bringing friends. Dick, like his brothers was just on 6 ft. tall and, having gone in for wrestling in college, broad-shouldered and powerful. He enjoyed tennis, had taken up polo in Malaya, and was the cheery, out-door type. He made many friends in Washington, among them a delightful English girl whom he later married Jillian Hanbury. At the end of 1954, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy at Bogota, Colombia, as Chief of the Political Section where he spent three active years. Returning to Washington in midsuumer 1957, on short leave, he and Jillian became engaged and were married Nov. 2/1957 in St. Paul's Church, Ivy, Virginia close by "Missing Acres". Jillian was born in London August 11/1930, daughter of Anthony Henry Robert Culling Hanbury, Esquire, and Una Rawnsley Hanbury, of "Derbyfields", North Warnborough, Hampshire, England. The Hanbury ancestry goes back to Roger and Guy de Hanbury, who flourished in Worcestershire in the 12th century and whose line contains many distinguished persons and beautiful estates. The Rawnsleys too, have interesting forbears, including the famous Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley of Carlisle, one of the founders of the National Trust. Intriguing though they may be, it is impossible to Subject 2 P13. (43-B) incorporate these histories herein beyond mentioning that one of Jillian's Quaker ancestors, John Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex, and Tower Street, London, was from 1730 to his death in 1758, the greatest Virginia Tobacco merchant of his day and played an important part in the affairs of that Colony. Two of his ships were commandeered to bring over General Braddock's army in 1755 to oust the French from the Ohio Valley, a campaign in which Major George Washington with 700 Colonial troops, accompanied him. Their attack was overwhelmingly defeated by the French and Indian allies, on the Monongahela River. At the age of ten, Jillian accompanied her mother and elder sister Diana to Bermuda, where they dwelt through most of the War, coming on to Washington in 1944. Having been to English and Bermuda schools, she was sent in America to the Cambridge School and Westhill Junior College in Boston, after which she entered Washington University, graduating in 1952. She made two extended trips to Europe, in 1951 and l955, and became a American citizen in 1954. Her sister Diana was educated in Canadian schools and London University and in 1952 married James Cecil King in Washington. They had two children Christopher Hanbury King born June 26/1954, and Sheila Ann King, born February 19/1956. Diana, now divorced, lives with her children in Washington. (Jillian's father, Anthony Hanbury, a member of the London Stock Exchange, became a Captain in the Royal Artillery in World War II, and the wartime separation from her mother in Bermuda resulted in divorce. Both have since remarried and he is living in Ladysmith, Natal. She, Mrs. John Alan Coatsworth, lives in Washington with two charming step- daughters, Anna born August 7, 1944 in Gerrards Cross, Middlesex, England; and Josephine Charlotte, born October 25/1949, in Istanbul, Turkey. A few days after Dick and Jillian were married, he went back to Bogota, she following a month later, and they lived there for the next two years. Returning to Washington in 1959, Dick assumed the post of Officer in Charge of Peruvian Affairs in the Department of State, his present assignment. They bought a rambler type house in the woods at McLean, - 3947 Mackall Abenue, Langley Forest, - and have one son, - 3/1. Anthony Hanbury Poole, born February 6/1961 in Washington, and christened June 3/1961 in the National Cathedral by Dean Sayre and Canon Arterton. 3/2. Colin Rawnsley Poole, born January 14/1964, in Washington, DC. and christened April 18 /1964, in the National Cathedral. 2/3. David Manchester Poole, born at 68 Bluff, Yokohama, July 4/1920. He was five years old when brought to America from Japan and spent his boyhood in Summit, New Jersey. His education was the same as his brothers Dick and Tony, and graduated from Haverford College in 1942 with a B.Sc. in Engineering. He also learned to fly during his senior year under the C.A.A. program. He then joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. at Hartford Conn., and had four of his inventions patented and adopted. Early in 1943, he joined the U.S.Army Air Force, got his wings and commission Subject 2 P.14. (43-C) as a Lieutenant in February 1944, and was picked out to be a fighter flying and gunnery instructor and spent the rest of the war at various fields in Florida and the South, never getting overseas. When the war ended, he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and took his Masters Degree in Engineering, (M.S.M.E.) specialising in aircraft power plants. Immediately thereafter, he joined the N.E.P.A. Division of Fairchilds, (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft, operating at the Atomic Center at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the Army. When the Army transferred their contract to General Electric in 1951, David stayed with Fairchild, joining their "Stratos" Division in Bay Shore, Long Island and living at Marahopa Lane, Centerport, near Huntington. In 1956 he resigned to join the Nuclear Development Corp. of America, at White Plains, N.Y. as project Engineer, living at Rye on the North Shore of Long Island Sound. David married at Woonsocket Rhode Island, on June 23/1950 Sally Cooper Jarret, born at Providence R.I. June 15/1927, daughter of Hugo Aram and Isabel (White) Jarret, of 268 Woodland Rd. Woonsocket. Hugo was the owner of a large woollen mill in Woonsocket and came of French Canadian ancestors, being descended from Andre Jarret de Beauregard who arrived in Canada in 1664 as an officer in the Regiment de Carignon Salieres, and whose Seigneurie of Beauregard lay on the St. Lawrence below Montreal, close by that of his elder half-brother Francois de Vercheres. Francois' daughter, Madeleine de Vercheres became one of Canada's beloved heroines by her courageous defence, at the age of 14, of the Seignearie's fort against the Iroquois Indians during the absence of her father who had gone with all his able-bodied men to the defence of Quebec, leaving only a half dozen aged servants with Madeleine in his own domain. Her ruses completely deceived the Iroquois until relief finally came. It is a brave story. Hugo Jarret's maternal grandfather was Aram Joseph Pothior, three times Governor of Rhode Island. Sally's mother, Isabel Rolfe White was of a New Jersey family and a lineal descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, the eldest daughter in each generation bearing the name of Rolfe. Isabel died Oct.12/1958 followed by Hugo on June 6/1959, both in Woonsocket. Besides Sally, they had two older children:- 1. Hugo Aram Jarret, born Woonsocket January 25/1920, married in 1946 Alba Gadoury. Issue: Kristen White Jarret, b.1947. 2. Susanne Rolfe Jarret born in Providence, R.I. Dec.26/1923, married in December 1943 Edwin Pratt Arnolt. born 1922. Issue: Peter Jarret Arnolt, born 1945 June Rolfe Anrolt, " 1947 Janice Pratt Arnolt " 1950 Elizabeth White Arnolt " 1955. David M. Poole like his two brothers, is only quarter of an inch under 6 ft. tall, and in his college years was a fine runner, twice breaking the Haverford mile record and reducing it from 4.34 to 4.26 1/2. He also plays tennis and enjoys water-color painting. Like his grandfather Campbell and Uncle "Bert" Poole, he is above all a keen yachtsman an enthusiasm shared by Sally. During their five years on Long Island, they derived great pleasure from sailing in and around Northport Bay, and brought Subject 2 P15. (43-D) their yacht "Sayonara" with them to Rye, where they sometimes go off on 3 or 4 day cruises around Long Island Sound. David and Sally have two children:~ 3/1. Jeffrey Campbell Poole, born June 11/1952, in Huntington, L.I. 3/2. Cbristopher Jarret Poole, born November 11/1954, in Huntington.