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DeSteuben was a Southerner, born in April 1840 in Virginia. His father immigrated from Germany and his mother was a native Virginian.
He would be a West Point graduate and serve as a Confederate officer with rank of colonel during the American Civil War. After 1865 and the end of the war, DeSteuben would soon have a career as a lawyer.
He first came to Florida in the 1870s, a single, unmarried gentleman and lived in Gainesville, but during the winter of 1880-'81, traveled south on the Indian River, lodging with Captain Thomas E. Richards and family in Eden.
DeSteuben returned in the winter of 1882 and during the visit had occasion to be better acquainted with some of the residents, including Dr. William H. Baker, first medical doctor in Eden and Waveland.
By 1883, DeSteuben, about 43 years old, boldly decided to settle permanently in that essentially wilderness section of Florida that would eventually be the Rio-Jensen area; he would be the first practicing attorney in that region.
Thomas' office was wherever he happened to be at the time as he carried all the necessary paperwork and supplies to assist settlers with various legal situations.
Interestingly, while on the sailing sloop Tourist, exploring the St. Lucie's South Fork in 1882-83, DeSteuben noticed a boat along a shoreline where men were unloading building supplies. Brothers Hubert and Willis Bessey, also bachelors, were preparing to build a house as the first permanent settlers in Stuart on what would be known as Bessey Point.
In 1883, DeSteuben was employed by the United States Department of the Interior in connection with the distribution of homesteads.
Many of the early settlers needed assistance in completing and submitting the proper application for an official governmental land patent or what could be called a deed.
DeSteuben, as an eligible but aging bachelor, had met young Mary Jane Stypmann, a teenager, in the late 1880s. The couple soon considered marriage.
Mary was in a dilemma, having to decide if she preferred to travel with parents Albert and Jane to live in St. Augustine in 1888, or remain to marry Thomas, 32 years older than she.
The decision was made and the two married in February 1888, moving into Mary's parents' house on a sizable homestead, which extended from Haney Creek south to the northern shore of the St. Lucie.
The union would produce eight children, two dying in infancy. One child, Frederick W.L. DeSteuben, born March 20, 1900, only lived to January 19, 1901, and was buried on the family homestead. Their last child, Emma, also died as an infant before 1910.
To supplement income, DeSteuben planted pineapples, as did many of the early settlers.
He and in-law Otto Stypmann, also a pineapple grower, had agreed a few years earlier, about 1886, that there were enough settlers in that section for a post office, an application being submitted by DeSteuben.
With approval granted in March 1892 for the community, then called Potsdam, by August '94, the post office was actually located in Otto's home on the south shore of the St. Lucie.
Thomas DeSteuben would be involved in many legal matters and situations through the years.
He had been the attorney for Otto and Albert's brother, Ernest Stypmann, a relative through marriage, who in 1893 was in a predicament with Henry Flagler regarding the rail baron's Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Indian River Railroad.
Ernest had agreed to offer a right-of-way for construction of the railroad to proceed through Stuart, but Ernest wanted to be compensated by Flagler for two years of lost income from that property.
During this dispute, Stypmann erected a fence across the path designated for the rails, with nephew, Curd (Curt) Schroeder armed with a shotgun to prevent workmen from continuing past that point.
Flagler's lawyer convinced Stypmann and attorney DeSteuben to make a compromise, which was agreed by all; construction of the railroad proceeded.
Mary Jane DeSteuben served as 'postmistress' for the Goslingville Post Office, north of the St. Lucie River, from 1898 to 1905, as Thomas continued to practice law with a few other endeavors in the ensuing years.
By 1906, he was a fire-life and accident insurance agent; 1909, a real estate and investment broker in Jensen and in May 1910, a candidate for the Florida Legislature in Tallahassee, representing St. Lucie County, but lost the election to Fred Fee.
Unfortunately, the couple would experience a devastating loss in 1917, with the death of their son, Thomas Jefferson Jr.
He was the DeSteuben's first child, born May 4, 1890.
As a 27-year-old tall, slender young man, with light brown hair and blue eyes, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, Florida, Wagoner 124th Infantry, 31st Division, in September 1917, to serve during the Great War.
Tragically, he died in Europe only a few months later from pneumonia, Dec. 3, 1917, the body returned to Jensen to be buried at All Saints Cemetery.
Brother Albert DeSteuben also served during the Great War in France with the 168th Transportation Corps but survived and returned home August 1919.
Mary Jane (Stypmann) DeSteuben died Jan. 3, 1926 and Thomas in May 1927, having a long, successful career as an attorney, both buried at All Saints Cemetery. Five children; Irene born 1892, Albert 1896, Sidney in 1904, Ida Inez about 1905, and Randolph 'Wynn' born in 1908, survived as of that date, three living in Jensen.
Halpatiokee DAR was involved in a project of transcribing burial headstone inscriptions throughout the county. Of particular intrigue was a lone, 2-foot high marker, obscured in the brush on a knoll near the shore of the St. Lucie River, at the eastern limits of North Stuart where the DeSteubens once lived.
Four small, sunken concrete posts designated the square perimeter of the burial site of a little boy whose weather worn gravestone was inscribed in German and English, barely discernible as: Frederick W.L. DeSteuben, Born March 20, 1900, Died Jan. 19, 1901.
Furthermore, in reference to information in an article published in The Stuart News, Aug. 26, 1954, it is stated that the DeSteubens are related to famed Colonel Baron Frederich Von Steuben of Germany, drillmaster for George Washington's Army who aided the Colonies in the Revolutionary War, Thomas supposedly being a grandson.
Research, however, indicates that the colonel never married nor had children, thus eliminating the possibility of direct lineage to the DeSteubens of Waveland and Stuart. Inadvertent inaccuracies in genealogy can be misleading and family legends or stories are often erroneous.
Nevertheless, Thomas DeSteuben was a respected, notable lawyer in the community all those years ago.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Broadcast journalist Katie Couric and comedian Larry the Cable Guy are to fill in as guest co-hosts on "Live! with Regis and Kelly" in New York, ABC said.
The celebrities will be part of the "exciting and varied lineup of guest co-hosts" who will join Emmy Award-winning host Kelly Ripa this October on "Live!" filling in for Regis Philbin on the morning talk show, the network said in a news release Thursday.
Philbin, 80, recently announced he plans to retire from "Live!" next month.
"Dancing with the Stars" contestant Carson Kressley will help out Friday, while Larry the Cable Guy will be the guest co-host Monday.
Couric is up Tuesday, former New York Giants player and "Fox NFL Sunday" broadcaster Michael Strahan will be in Wednesday, and actor Jerry O'Connell will pitch in Oct. 13.
Actor Mark Feuerstein will sit in for the Oct. 14 show, singer Josh Groban will be the guest co-host Oct. 21, and singer and TV personality Nick Lachey will join Ripa Oct. 31, ABC said.
This study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional granularity and responses to daily negative affective experiences. Emotional granularity is the ability to put feelings into words with a high degree of specificity and precision. Low negative emotional granularity has been associated with stronger reactivity to negative affect and higher vulnerability to poor mental health. However, little is known about how negative emotional granularity impacts individual response to negative affective experiences in everyday life. To investigate this, we had participants complete an experience sampling study where they received prompts on a smartphone asking them to report on what they were doing and what they were feeling multiple times per day for 14 days. Participants also completed a survey at the end of each experience sampling day where they provided additional information about each prompt they had completed. For example, participants rated how strongly they felt a variety of positive and negative emotions and how well they felt they could cope with whatever was going on at the time of each prompt. From these surveys, we were able to create a measure of negative emotional granularity and observe participants’ subjective experiences and perceived coping ability during emotionally evocative events. Based on past research, we hypothesized that low negative emotional granularity would be associated with maladaptive coping skills during negative affective experiences in everyday life. Our findings have potential implications for the development of novel psychological interventions involving emotional granularity training as a means of promoting healthier emotion-regulation strategies and behaviors.
As an icy southerly gale tore across the northern end of the Domain, a small crowd gathered on the Tarpeian Lawn yesterday to hear about plans for a massive new public artwork celebrating Australia's First Peoples.
As most of those present – dignitaries, arts figures, politicians and a scattering of confused tourists – regretted not bringing along an extra coat or scarf, compere Hetti Perkins pronounced herself more than happy with the Arctic conditions.
"I attended a big event up where I come from in Central Australia and it was blowing a gale like today," she said.
"I said to people, 'What's happening?' and they said it was just the ancestors. When they are happy on big occasions they pound their digging sticks into the earth. It's their way of showing their appreciation through nature.
An artist's impression of the artwork bara that will be installed in the Domain.
"This wind is full of ancestral presence. It's a way for them to show their support and blessing. It's very auspicious."
The work that had excited the attention of those ancestors will be called bara: two towering, crescent-shaped pieces modelled on shapes of the bone fish hooks manufactured for thousands of years by Gadigal women.
Made of stone, the six-metre sculpture will have a pearlescent finish so as to resemble the hooks that can still be found around the harbour. Work is expected to be completed by mid-2020.
Bara is the work of distinguished Queensland Indigenous artist Judy Watson, who represented Australia in 1997's Venice Biennale.
"The idea came from the history of this place. I wanted to do something which was emblematic of the Eora journey, something that would be very iconic," she said.
"I was looking at a number of different motifs and this is the one that really spoke to me. They have a very luminous quality to them and the design and the fabrication of them is a beautiful example of Indigenous technology."
Viewed from the Domain, bara, commissioned by the City of Sydney, will be book ended by the Opera House and East Circular Quay's "Toaster", with the Harbour Bridge as a backdrop.
Emerging sentinel-like from Gadigal country, it will also be visible from all over the harbour.
"The curve of the shell I feel will be an embrace to everyone who sees it," said Watson. "I think it is very emblematic of the shape of the harbour bridge, of the sails of the opera house and of the crescent moon.
"It's a beautiful form and I think it will speak of strengthened resilience and the indelible history of Aboriginal culture in this place.
"It's talking about two lores, two cultures and the fact we are all gathered on the same ground."
And with that the crowd gratefully followed Governor-General David Hurley back to Government House for a cup of tea as the Indigenous ancestors continued to signal their chilly approval.
In the tradition of such beloved writers of serialized fiction as Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harriet Beecher Stowe, we now bring our readers a five-part Christmas “tall tale” by Community Editor David Templeton. The story began last week, and will run through Dec. 20, with a new part appearing each week. Each installment will be posted online at Petaluma360.com.
The noisy intruder of a boy — who was named Henry Hay but was commonly known as “Lucky” — was, the hermits soon learned, not lucky enough to have avoided pulling the short straw back in November, just before the annual evacuation, when the children of Frozen Corners held a secret meeting to decide which one of them would stay behind.
It was part of a plan the young ones had been hatching for months.
To discover once and for all what went on in their town when all the people were gone, the children drew straws, and Lucky was duly elected to do the job. The boy had no parents, having lost them to a mudslide when he was four, and he’d been raised up, more or less, by a long and weary succession of Frozen Corner residents. Though a hard enough worker, and reasonably quick at learning, Lucky was a handful, bossy as an English Lord, and not one to ever shut up. From sun-up to lights out, Lucky talked, and talked, and talked, quieting down only while chewing his food or sleeping, and then only occasionally.
Then there was that voice.
It was a voice like metal being shredded into ribbons, a voice that was part scream and part avalanche. No one could stand to be around it for longer than a little while; therefore, ever since the wooshing away of his parents, Lucky had been shuffled from house to house on a nightly basis. Because he never slept in the same home twice in a row, it was highly possible that down in Butcher’s Foot, only the children were aware that Lucky was no longer among them. After pulling the straw, the boy hid himself in the hotel’s pot pantry, until the townsfolk were all gone. He had been camping there out in Frozen Corners, alone, bundled up in the hotel kitchen, for over 40 days, waiting for Christmas and the answer to the mystery.
It took Lucky two minutes to explain all this and it was the longest two-minutes in any of the hermits’ long and arduous lives.
None of them doubted for a minute that the boy’s short straw had been rigged.
It was the wrong thing to say.
To punctuate his steadfastness, Lucky leaped on Spitless Jeff, biting him in the leg a little before the other hermits were able to pull the boy away.
Under normal conditions, such behavior would have been enough for them to send the young noisemaker packing, but the fact that it was growing dangerously cold outside, and that Butcher’s Foot was a four-day journey down the mountain, forced the hermits into a difficult position. They had to let the boy stay. It’d been decades since any of the hermits had given a thought to the needs of children, or to the particular rituals of Christmas, and now it seemed they were faced with both.
It did not take Lucky long to grasp the situation, once it was explained, though his youth and defensive disposition did tend to color certain details.
Here’s what he now knew for sure. One. The people who’d invaded his town were squatters, of sorts. Two. A man was dead, and the dead man wanted a Christmas party. Three and Four — Christmas was two days away. And Santa Claus, presumably, would be arriving at any moment.
What the hermits now knew was even simpler to understand.
One. They had a Christmas party to plan and a boy to watch out for. Two. The boy, being a child, was the closest thing they had to an expert on Christmas. Three. Since the hermits needed Lucky’s expertise in regards to the holiday, and since he ended up biting anyone who told him what to do, he should be immediately invited to take over the whole Christmas project as its leader, designer and all around boss.
There seemed to be the following elements to Ugly Joe’s request: a Christmas dinner, a Christmas tree, Christmas presents, and Christmas carols.
Ugly Joe, after all, had accidentally provided his own dinner: a fine, fat, frozen goose. Scandalous Sam, who did most of the cooking anyway, volunteered to roast the bird and pull together enough cans of beans and things to round out the feast.
As for the Christmas tree, the botanical showpiece itself would not be difficult to acquire, since appropriate specimens surrounded Frozen Corners.
The decorations, however, would be somewhat tricky. Two-Eyed Tom and Sacrilegious Jim were appointed to dig pine cones out of the snow, while Malodorous Mike and Inconsiderate Sue were sent off to make stars and angels and flowers and assorted “foo-fa-raw” out of old cans and paper.
Of all Ugly Joe’s requests, the most challenging turned out to be the singing.
Lucky, who’d spent a bit of time lurking in the corners of the saloons, knew the words and melodies of a whole mess of songs, including some half-a-dozen Christmas carols. But when the boy was persuaded to start up a tune, his singing voice proved a far more agonizing affront to the ears than even his speaking voice did, and no one assembled could stand to listen.
Nameless Bob, it turned out, could reasonably recall the tune and lyrics to Deck the Halls, but when the hermits learned the words, “Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly, Fa-la-la-la-la La- la-la-la,” another impasse was reached.
No hermit worth his salt will willingly sing the words “Fa-la-la-la-la” in public, even as a final favor to a fallen brother.
As for the question of presents, the hermits decided that all of Joe’s things, which Ethical Fred had thoughtfully brought down from the cave, would be individually wrapped in whatever paper or fabric scrap they could find. On Christmas Day, each hermit would be randomly given one of the “gifts,” and anything left undistributed after that could simply be fought over.
As regarding a present for Lucky, the very notion chaffed the ever-more-exasperated hermits.
Lucky, for his part, held fast to the notion that nothing the hermits could offer would be up to his standards, or his particular expectations this particular Christmas. Clearly, he had something special in mind, and he was determined to see his dream come true.
What are the Flyers' playoff chances? How do they fit into new NHL playoff system?
The Flyers have four big games left to determine their postseason fate.
It’s come down to the final five days of the regular season for the Flyers, Red Wings and Bruins. Two teams will qualify for the playoffs, which begin next week, while the third is left home.
Before getting into the nitty-gritty of which team will and will not make the playoffs, though, let’s quickly review the new NHL playoff format. The top three teams in each division automatically qualify for the playoffs. Then, the next two teams with the most points from the conference get in via the wild card.
The Islanders and Rangers, separated by two points in the Metropolitan Division, will battle it out over the final four games to determine who gets third place – and faces the white-hot Penguins in the first round – as the odd-team out likely lands the first wild card. The Panthers and Lightning are in a dogfight for first and second in the Atlantic Division, while the Capitals already clinched the Metro Division title.
That leaves the Flyers, Red Wings and Bruins to fight for the last two postseason berths – third place in the Atlantic Division and the final wild card slot.
Let’s breakdown each team’s chances of extending their season beyond Sunday (records are through Monday).
Remaining schedule: Wednesday at Detroit; Thursday vs. Toronto; Saturday vs. Pittsburgh; Sunday at New York Islanders.
The popular pick and hottest team of the trio, the Flyers have gone 6-3-1 in their last 10 games to slide into the final wild card spot. The key to whether they finish strong and return to the playoffs after missing last year is the stamina of goalie Steve Mason, who has made nine straight starts. They at least control their own destiny and probably need four points to secure the wild card spot.
Remaining schedule: Wednesday vs. Philadelphia; Thursday at Boston; Saturday at New York Rangers.
Despite winning three of their last four games, the Red Wings likely need to win two of their final three games, especially the enormous one on Thursday against the Bruins, to seal third place and extend its 24-season postseason appearance streak.
Remaining schedule: Tuesday vs. Carolina; Thursday vs. Detroit; Saturday vs. Ottawa.
Boston is headed in the wrong direction at the worst time. After looking like a lock to make the playoffs last month, the Bruins have lost seven of their last nine games. The Bruins play their final three games at home, where they’ve gone a disappointing 16-17-5.
Dr. Gauri Trivedi is Non-Official Independent Director of the Company. She is M.A. (Political Science) from JNU, Delhi, M. Phil (Soviet Studies), JNU, Delhi, Doctorate in Philosophy from Institute of Social & Economic Change, Bangalore and Institute of Development Studies, Mysore and PGPPM from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. During her illustrious career, she had held a number of administrative posts in Karnataka including Assistant Commissioner, Joint Director (Commerce and Industry), Chief Executive Officer/Director (Rural Development and Panchayati Raj), Deputy Commissioner (Excise), Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies. She had also been General Manager (Handloom & Handicrafts Export Corporation), Director of Tea Promotion (WANA), Managing Director (HESCOM), a power distribution company, Managing Director (Karnataka State Food & Civil Supplies Corporation), Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Govt. of Karnataka and Secretary to the Governor of Karnataka. In August 2007, Dr. Gauri Trivedi took Voluntary Retirement from the Government of India due to her personal reasons. After VRS, she was Vice President RRL and Director SIRD, Gujarat. She had been guest faculty in a number of reputed institutes teaching governance, public policy, rural planning and management. She is currently guest faculty at IIM, Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration, CEPT, Ahmedabad and Consultant AIILSG. She teaches government officers, Civil Servant aspirants, young students and NGOs public policy, rural planning and management, current affairs and governance.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made headlines earlier this week when he revealed a "national secret" to Miss Universe Japan Momoko Abe: His career-low golf score. Although a 79 is pretty impressive (Mr. Abe still didn't share his score when he played with President Donald Trump and fell into a sand trap), the real news to emerge from this meeting is how good of a golfer Abe (no relation) is. Her best round? A 68!
"That is astonishing," Mr. Abe said in response. That was our first thought as well, but after doing some important investigating into her background, it makes sense.