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<div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%">'''Dakota City, Nebraska, 1871-1873; Virginia City and Eureka, Nevada, 1875-1880: Fremont, Nebraska, 1881-1918 '''</div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%"> | <div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%">'''Dakota City, Nebraska, 1871-1873; Virginia City and Eureka, Nevada, 1875-1880: Fremont, Nebraska, 1881-1918 '''</div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%"> | ||
| − | + | '''Charles R. DeLaMatyr''' was born in December 1853 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, to Harriet (''nee'' Stanton) and Rev. John Henry DeLaMatyr, who was a carpenter/joiner and an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister (as were at least two of John's brothers).[[#Notes|[a][b]]] Coudersport was a brief stop on Harriet and John's journeys that also took them to New York State, Wisconsin, Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado.[[#References|[1][2][3][4]]][[#Notes|[a]]] Most of Charles' childhood was spent in Wisconsin before the family moved to Nebraska in 1871, settling near Dakota City, working as a carpenter. He moved to work at an uncle's farm in Dodge County around 1874, then in 1875 went to Nevada, first to Virginia City and then to Eureka, where he was a lumber dealer.[[#References|[1][9][10]]][[#Notes|[c]]] Charles married Emma Remick in Eureka, Nevada in 1880 and they returned to Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska in 1881.[[#References|[1][2][11]]] DeLaMatyr was employed two decades by [[Seeley, Son & Company, Contractors and Architects|'''Seeley, Son & Company''']], architects and elevator builders, serving as the company's secretary.[[#References|[13][14][15]]] His wife Emma died in 1901 and was interred in Ridge Cemetery in Fremont.[[#References|[16]]] After the Seeley elevator company ceased operation around 1909, Charles DeLaMatyr advertised as an architect for a year or two, but his last years were spent in civic matters, serving as a Fremont city councilman in 1910 and as City Clerk beginning in 1911, through his death. He married Mary Etta (''nee'' Shirley) Hutchinson in 1916 and died in Fremont in 1918.[[#References|[17][18][19] | |
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| − | '''Charles R. DeLaMatyr''' was born in December 1853 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, to Harriet (''nee'' Stanton) and Rev. John Henry DeLaMatyr, who was a carpenter/joiner and an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister (as were at least two of John's brothers).[[#Notes|[a][b]]] Coudersport was a brief stop on Harriet and John's journeys that also took them to New York State, Wisconsin, Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado.[[#References|[1][2][3][4]]][[#Notes|[a]]] | + | |
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| − | '''DeLaMatyr''' died in 1918 [[#References|[ | + | |
This page is a contribution to the publication, '''[[Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects]]'''. See the [[Format and contents of Nebraska architect entries|format and contents]] page for more information on the compilation and page organization. | This page is a contribution to the publication, '''[[Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects]]'''. See the [[Format and contents of Nebraska architect entries|format and contents]] page for more information on the compilation and page organization. | ||
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==Educational & Professional Associations== | ==Educational & Professional Associations== | ||
| − | + | 1879-1880: proprietor, C. R. DeLaMatyr & Company, lumber dealers.[[#References|[11]]][[#Notes|[c]]] | |
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| + | 1885-1909: architect and civil engineer, Secretary of [[Seeley, Son & Company, Contractors and Architects|'''Seeley, Son & Company''']], Architects, Fremont, Nebraska.[[#References|[13]]] | ||
1910-1911: architect and civil engineer, Fremont, Nebraska. | 1910-1911: architect and civil engineer, Fremont, Nebraska. | ||
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==Buildings & Projects== | ==Buildings & Projects== | ||
| − | " | + | "for two years was employed on buildings being erected on the Winnebago Indian reservation..." (1871-1873), Thurston County, Nebraska.[[#References|[1][2]]] |
| − | + | "Charles DeLaMatry's new houses" (1887), Fremont, Nebraska.[[#References|[20]]] | |
| − | Superintendent | + | Superintendent of construction, for [[Seeley, Son & Company, Contractors and Architects|'''Seeley, Son & Company''']], Dodge County Courthouse (1889-1890), Fremont, Nebraska.[[#References|[21]]][[#Notes|[d]]] |
| − | + | Superintendent (for [[Seeley, Son & Company, Contractors and Architects|'''Seeley, Son & Company''']]) of construction, U. S. Post Office (1892), Fremont, Nebraska.[[#References|[22]]] | |
| − | " | + | A "large grain elevator" (1893), Indian Territory.[[#References|[23]]] |
| − | Store building (1899), Ames, Nebraska.[[#References|[]]] | + | "100,000 bushel elevator" by "the [[Seeley, Son & Company, Contractors and Architects|'''Seeley company''']]" (1897), Coffeyville, Kansas.[[#References|[24]]] |
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| + | Store building (1899), Ames, Nebraska.[[#References|[25]]] | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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b. Charles' father John Henry DeLaMatyr was first associated with the Western New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, under which he had brief assignments in various western New York and Pennsylvania communities. Rev. John relocated to the Nebraska Methodist conference in 1871, Nevada in 1874, and later Colorado (by 1885).[[#References|[4]]] Charles's uncle Gilbert De La Matyr was also a Methodist Episcopal minister who helped enlist a New York regiment in the Civil War as well as serving as an Army chaplain. Rev. Gilbert eventually settled in Indiana where he served a term in the U. S. House of Representatives (1879-1881).[[#References|[6]]] After that term he returned to the pulpit in Denver. A third brother, Rev. George W. DeLaMatyr (1829-1893), was the father of Fred DeLaMatyr (1853-1923), who was a prominent coal dealer and civic figure in Fremont, Nebraska, during his first cousin Charles' tenure in that community.[[#References|[7][8]]] | b. Charles' father John Henry DeLaMatyr was first associated with the Western New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, under which he had brief assignments in various western New York and Pennsylvania communities. Rev. John relocated to the Nebraska Methodist conference in 1871, Nevada in 1874, and later Colorado (by 1885).[[#References|[4]]] Charles's uncle Gilbert De La Matyr was also a Methodist Episcopal minister who helped enlist a New York regiment in the Civil War as well as serving as an Army chaplain. Rev. Gilbert eventually settled in Indiana where he served a term in the U. S. House of Representatives (1879-1881).[[#References|[6]]] After that term he returned to the pulpit in Denver. A third brother, Rev. George W. DeLaMatyr (1829-1893), was the father of Fred DeLaMatyr (1853-1923), who was a prominent coal dealer and civic figure in Fremont, Nebraska, during his first cousin Charles' tenure in that community.[[#References|[7][8]]] | ||
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| + | c. The ''Eureka (Nevada) Daily Sentinel'' advertised J. H. DeLa Matyr as a lumber dealer with prices "Lower than the Lowest" as early as September, 1878, and continuing frequently through January 28, 1879. In February 1879, J. H.'s advertisements ceased. Instead, '''C. R. DeLa Matyr''' & Co., lumber dealers, began advertising February 2, 1879. All De La Matyr lumber advertisements in Eureka came to a halt in early January, 1880.[[#References|[11]]] | ||
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| + | d. When the Dodge County Courthouse burned in December 1915, a sidebar to the main newspaper story noted "The ruined building was erected in 1889 and 1890 by Seeley, Son & Co., of Fremont" and added "Charles R. DeLaMatyr, who was connected with the company, was in active charge of the construction. Mr. DeLaMatyr is now clerk of Fremont."[[#References|[21]]] The designer of the Dodge County Courthouse of 1889-1890 was '''[[George E. McDonald (1861-1942), Architect|George E. McDonald]]''' of Fremont. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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8. Ancestry.com. ''U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current,'' s.v. "Fred DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. | 8. Ancestry.com. ''U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current,'' s.v. "Fred DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. | ||
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| + | 9. Ancestry.com. ''1860 United States Federal Census,'' s.v. "John L. Dellemater," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. | ||
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| + | 10. Ancestry.com ''1870 United States Federal Census,'' s.v. "John H. Dellamatys," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. | ||
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| + | 11. "C. R. De La Matyr & Co...Lumber," advertisements in ''Eureka (Nevada) Daily Sentinel'' beginning (August 26, 1879), 4; ceasing (January 7, 1880), 2. | ||
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| + | 12. "Married," ''Eureka (Nevada) Daily Sentinel)'' (November 16, 1880), 3. | ||
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| + | 13. Ancestry.com. ''Nebraska, State Census Collection, 1860-1885,'' s.v. "Chas De La Matyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. | ||
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| + | 14. Ancestry.com. ''1900 United States Census,'' s.v. “Charles De La Matyr,” [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. | ||
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| + | 15. ''1910 United States Federal Census,'' s.v. "Charles De La Matyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. | ||
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| + | 16. Ancestry.com. ''U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current,'' s.v. "Emma A Remick DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. SEE https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136898608/emma-a-delamatyr | ||
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| + | 17. "Cupid Invades Ranks of City Officials--City Clerk DeLaMatyr Surprises Friends by Wedding," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (January 20, 1916), 1. | ||
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| + | 18. T. T. Osterman and W. Henry Buss, ''History of Dodge and Washington Counties, Nebraska, and their people.'' Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921; 224. | ||
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| + | 19. "Funeral of C. R. DeLaMatyr," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune'' (March 9, 1918), 5. | ||
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| + | 20. "One of the busy institutions of Fremont...," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Weekly Herald'' (April 21, 1887), 4. | ||
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| + | 21. "Dodge County Court House Burns--Raging Flames Almost Entirely Ruin Fine $75,000 Building," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune'' (December 6, 1915), 1 (illustrated with photo of building ablaze). | ||
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| + | 22. "Superintendent Appointed," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (May 26, 1892), 4. | ||
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| + | 23. "Personals...Charles R. DeLa Martyr returned yesterday from Indian Territory...," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (July 4, 1893), 4. | ||
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| + | 24. "Personals...Charles DeLaMatyr went to Coffeeville [sic], Kan...," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (June 15, 1897), 3. | ||
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| + | 25. "Ames News...Charles DeLaMatyr was in town...Thursday," ''Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (April 25, 1899), 4. | ||
==Page Citation== | ==Page Citation== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:07, 21 December 2023
Charles R. DeLaMatyr was born in December 1853 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, to Harriet (nee Stanton) and Rev. John Henry DeLaMatyr, who was a carpenter/joiner and an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister (as were at least two of John's brothers).[a][b] Coudersport was a brief stop on Harriet and John's journeys that also took them to New York State, Wisconsin, Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado.[1][2][3][4][a] Most of Charles' childhood was spent in Wisconsin before the family moved to Nebraska in 1871, settling near Dakota City, working as a carpenter. He moved to work at an uncle's farm in Dodge County around 1874, then in 1875 went to Nevada, first to Virginia City and then to Eureka, where he was a lumber dealer.[1][9][10][c] Charles married Emma Remick in Eureka, Nevada in 1880 and they returned to Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska in 1881.[1][2][11] DeLaMatyr was employed two decades by Seeley, Son & Company, architects and elevator builders, serving as the company's secretary.[13][14][15] His wife Emma died in 1901 and was interred in Ridge Cemetery in Fremont.[16] After the Seeley elevator company ceased operation around 1909, Charles DeLaMatyr advertised as an architect for a year or two, but his last years were spent in civic matters, serving as a Fremont city councilman in 1910 and as City Clerk beginning in 1911, through his death. He married Mary Etta (nee Shirley) Hutchinson in 1916 and died in Fremont in 1918.[[#References|[17][18][19]
This page is a contribution to the publication, Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. See the format and contents page for more information on the compilation and page organization.
Contents
Compiled Nebraska Directory Listings
Fremont, Nebraska, 1909-1918
Educational & Professional Associations
1879-1880: proprietor, C. R. DeLaMatyr & Company, lumber dealers.[11][c]
1885-1909: architect and civil engineer, Secretary of Seeley, Son & Company, Architects, Fremont, Nebraska.[13]
1910-1911: architect and civil engineer, Fremont, Nebraska.
Other Associations
1910: City Councilman, Fremont, Nebraska.
1912-1918: City Clerk, Fremont, Nebraska.
Buildings & Projects
"for two years was employed on buildings being erected on the Winnebago Indian reservation..." (1871-1873), Thurston County, Nebraska.[1][2]
"Charles DeLaMatry's new houses" (1887), Fremont, Nebraska.[20]
Superintendent of construction, for Seeley, Son & Company, Dodge County Courthouse (1889-1890), Fremont, Nebraska.[21][d]
Superintendent (for Seeley, Son & Company) of construction, U. S. Post Office (1892), Fremont, Nebraska.[22]
A "large grain elevator" (1893), Indian Territory.[23]
"100,000 bushel elevator" by "the Seeley company" (1897), Coffeyville, Kansas.[24]
Store building (1899), Ames, Nebraska.[25]
Notes
a. Charles' surname is formatted in various sources as De La Matyr, DeLa Matyr, and DeLaMatyr, and historic documents include many and frequent misspellings. DeLaMatyr is chosen for this page based on the caption of the portrait above, and the inscriptions on granite tombstones in Fremont, Nebraska's Ridge Cemetery, and on Charles' second wife Mary Etta's gravestone in Marion, Iowa.[3][5] Care has been taken in the References on this page to report as "s.v." ["search value"] the exact spelling and format of the surname by which a given record has been found. [EFZ}
b. Charles' father John Henry DeLaMatyr was first associated with the Western New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, under which he had brief assignments in various western New York and Pennsylvania communities. Rev. John relocated to the Nebraska Methodist conference in 1871, Nevada in 1874, and later Colorado (by 1885).[4] Charles's uncle Gilbert De La Matyr was also a Methodist Episcopal minister who helped enlist a New York regiment in the Civil War as well as serving as an Army chaplain. Rev. Gilbert eventually settled in Indiana where he served a term in the U. S. House of Representatives (1879-1881).[6] After that term he returned to the pulpit in Denver. A third brother, Rev. George W. DeLaMatyr (1829-1893), was the father of Fred DeLaMatyr (1853-1923), who was a prominent coal dealer and civic figure in Fremont, Nebraska, during his first cousin Charles' tenure in that community.[7][8]
c. The Eureka (Nevada) Daily Sentinel advertised J. H. DeLa Matyr as a lumber dealer with prices "Lower than the Lowest" as early as September, 1878, and continuing frequently through January 28, 1879. In February 1879, J. H.'s advertisements ceased. Instead, C. R. DeLa Matyr & Co., lumber dealers, began advertising February 2, 1879. All De La Matyr lumber advertisements in Eureka came to a halt in early January, 1880.[11]
d. When the Dodge County Courthouse burned in December 1915, a sidebar to the main newspaper story noted "The ruined building was erected in 1889 and 1890 by Seeley, Son & Co., of Fremont" and added "Charles R. DeLaMatyr, who was connected with the company, was in active charge of the construction. Mr. DeLaMatyr is now clerk of Fremont."[21] The designer of the Dodge County Courthouse of 1889-1890 was George E. McDonald of Fremont.
References
1. "C. R. De La Matyr, City Clerk, Dead--Well-Known Fremont Resident Answers the Call--To Nebraska in 1871," Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune (March 7, 1918), 3.
2. "Death of C. R. De La Matyr," Fremont (Nebraska) Herald (March 8, 1918), 5.
3. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, s.v. "Charles R. DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. SEE https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136899789/charles-r.-delamatyr
4. Find a Grave, s.v. "Rev John Henry DeLaMatyr," [datebase on-line]. SEE https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147989400/john-henry-delamatyr
5. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, s.v. "Mary Etta Hutchinson-Delamatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
6. Find a Grave, s.v. "Gilbert De La Matyr," [datebase on-line]. SEE https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8474982/gilbert-de_la_matyr
7. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, s.v. "Rev George W. DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
8. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, s.v. "Fred DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
9. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census, s.v. "John L. Dellemater," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
10. Ancestry.com 1870 United States Federal Census, s.v. "John H. Dellamatys," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
11. "C. R. De La Matyr & Co...Lumber," advertisements in Eureka (Nevada) Daily Sentinel beginning (August 26, 1879), 4; ceasing (January 7, 1880), 2.
12. "Married," Eureka (Nevada) Daily Sentinel) (November 16, 1880), 3.
13. Ancestry.com. Nebraska, State Census Collection, 1860-1885, s.v. "Chas De La Matyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.
14. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Census, s.v. “Charles De La Matyr,” [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
15. 1910 United States Federal Census, s.v. "Charles De La Matyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
16. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, s.v. "Emma A Remick DeLaMatyr," [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. SEE https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136898608/emma-a-delamatyr
17. "Cupid Invades Ranks of City Officials--City Clerk DeLaMatyr Surprises Friends by Wedding," Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune (January 20, 1916), 1.
18. T. T. Osterman and W. Henry Buss, History of Dodge and Washington Counties, Nebraska, and their people. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921; 224.
19. "Funeral of C. R. DeLaMatyr," Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune (March 9, 1918), 5.
20. "One of the busy institutions of Fremont...," Fremont (Nebraska) Weekly Herald (April 21, 1887), 4.
21. "Dodge County Court House Burns--Raging Flames Almost Entirely Ruin Fine $75,000 Building," Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune (December 6, 1915), 1 (illustrated with photo of building ablaze).
22. "Superintendent Appointed," Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune (May 26, 1892), 4.
23. "Personals...Charles R. DeLa Martyr returned yesterday from Indian Territory...," Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune (July 4, 1893), 4.
24. "Personals...Charles DeLaMatyr went to Coffeeville [sic], Kan...," Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune (June 15, 1897), 3.
25. "Ames News...Charles DeLaMatyr was in town...Thursday," Fremont (Nebraska) Tri-Weekly Tribune (April 25, 1899), 4.
Page Citation
E. F. Zimmer & D. Murphy, “Charles R. DeLaMatyr (1853-1918), Architect & Civil Engineer,” in David Murphy, Edward F. Zimmer, and Lynn Meyer, comps. Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, December 20, 2023. http://www.e-nebraskahistory.org/index.php?title=Place_Makers_of_Nebraska:_The_Architects Accessed, May 15, 2024.
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