Dexter Chamberlain BLOOMER
Birth:
4 Jul 1816
Scipio, Cayuga, New York
Death:
24 Feb 1900
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Marriage:
13 Apr 1840
Waterloo, Seneca, New York
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree, Apr 2015
Find a Grave Index
Ordinance Index, version 1.02
Iowa County Death Records 1880-1992
1880 Census Council BLuffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree, Apr 2015
Find a Grave Index
Ordinance Index, version 1.02
Iowa County Death Records 1880-1992
1880 Census Council BLuffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Notes:
NOTE: Adoptive parents of Edward Dexter Phillip Lewis Bloomer
Amelia JENKS
Birth:
27 May 1818
Homer, Cortland, New York
Death:
30 Dec 1894
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Burial:
Fairview Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
Women's Rights in the US. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia, Vol 1, p. 26-27, p. 26
Hear Me Patiently, The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Anne C. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press 1994
Hear Me Patiently, The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Anne C. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press 1994
Notes:
OCCUPATION: Activist, Journalist, Suffragette
Children
Marriage
Notes:
NOTE: adopted by the Bloomer family
2
Birth:
20 Apr 1854
Bristol, Gloucester, England
Death:
18 Mar 1935
Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona
Notes:
NOTE: Edward Dexter Bloomer, originally named Edward Phillip Lewis, was adopted at age 3 by Dexter Chamberlain Bloomer and Amelia Jenks after the death of his biological mother, Eliza Freeman in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His father, Joseph Lewis, left him and his siblings to either be adopted or to live with friends when he left Iowa to travel on to Idaho.
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Dexter Chamberlain Bloomer - Amelia Jenks
Dexter Chamberlain Bloomer
was born at Scipio, Cayuga, New York 4 Jul 1816.
His parents were John B. Bloomer and Tamara Chamberlain.
He married Amelia Jenks 13 Apr 1840 at Waterloo, Seneca, New York . Amelia Jenks was born at Homer, Cortland, New York 27 May 1818 daughter of Ananias Jenks and Lucy Webb .
They were the parents of 2
children:
Mary Ann Bloomer
born 24 May 1845.
Edward Dexter Bloomer
born 20 Apr 1854.
Dexter Chamberlain Bloomer died 24 Feb 1900 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa .
Amelia Jenks died 30 Dec 1894 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa .