George Churchill Obituary
New Ipswich Selectman
March 11, 1936
NEW IPSWICH
Death of George Churchill
George Churchill died Wednesday, March 11, of pneumonia. He is survived by his wife, a son, George, and daughter, Mary Louise; his mother, Mrs. Annie Churchill; three sisters, Mrs. Harriet Wright, Mrs. Helen Sargent, and Mrs. Edith Burwell, and two brothers, Edward and Raymond.
Mr. Churchill was born in Charlestown, Mass., Nov. 8, 1889. His early life was spent in Mason. N. H. In 1923 he came from the West to settle in New Ipswich. In 1928 he married Miss Dena Mason of Keene, N. H., then a teacher in Appleton academy. From 1930 to 1933 he was a selectmen.
Funeral services were held in the Congregational church. Rev. Edward Clapp officiated. The bearers were Robert Walker, Robert O'Brien, Otto Weisman, Joseph Burton, Edward Wheeler, and Albro Balch. Burial will take place later in the Central cemetery. 1936
Charles A. Plumer collection
Unmounted pictures, some tinted, taken by Mr. Charles A. Plumer. Presented to the Historical Society by Mrs. Melinda R. Kendrew, James Anderson House, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1961. Mrs. Plumer was Sally Rockwood Plumer, Great-Aunt of Mrs. Kendrew.
Typed information was found on the back of the pictures in Mr. Plumer's handwriting. Pictures mounted in two books to preserve them by Hazel E. Balch.
James Roger diary entry
16th June 1913
Fair and warm; wind west. Hamish went by first train this morning to Buffalo. David and the horses at Barretts’ teaming rocks. I cut the Murphy lot and brought tub of potatoes from field. No callers today except Lonie. Got letters from John Cummings and Mrs. Hooper. Alice got one from some friend in Bayshore.
Is the Preston elm in the photo located at the foot of what used to be the Preston homestead property, opposite what used to be the white (Baptist, then Apostolic Lutheran) church? I remember a tree there in the 50s and 60s. It was enormous and beautiful and graceful; we as children played under it when visiting. We also had an elm in our back yard on Temple Road. These were magnificent trees and we took them for granted.
And James Roger hauling potatoes out of the field in June. Would potatoes have grown that fast, being planted in spring, or perhaps having been wintered over in the ground?
Current approaches for data analysis of whole human genome sequencing data can take weeks to complete, resulting in bioinformatics overheads that exceed sequencing costs. Churchill's nephew went on to become a biologist and devised a computational approach that allowed fully automating the analytical process required to take raw DNA sequencing data through the complex and computationally intensive processes and revolutionized gene sequencing.