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Title: 1850 United States Federal Census, New York, Schenectady, Schenectady,

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

Occupation: Entered the ministry in the Associate Reformed Church.

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

Occupation: interested in the work of Hephzibah House in New York City, and in mission work in Sing Sing prison.

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

Event: Author In the following year he was appointed a 2d lieutenant in the 22d United States colored troops. His regiment accompanied General Butler in his advance up James River, and took part in var

After his return home from 4 years in the Union Army, he wrote under the pen-name of Peleg Arkwright, and also under his own name for the "Century" and other Periodicals. He published a volume of poems, "Love Among the Gamins,"1877, "Mask and Domino," a volume of poems, 1888, and "From the Chapparal to Wall Street," a novel, in 1891. He died in 1897.

In 1911 there were living three grandsons and five granddaughters of David Law Proudfit, Jr.

source Compton's Sketch of the Proudfit Family

David Law Proudfit
PROUDFIT, David Law, author, born in New-burg, New York, 27 October, 1842. He was educated in the common schools, and at fifteen years of age went to New York City to engage in business. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 1st New York mounted rifles. In the following year he was appointed a 2d lieutenant in the 22d United States colored troops. His regiment accompanied General Butler in his advance up James River, and took part in various engagements, and at the close of the war he had attained the rank of major. Later he engaged in business, and a few years ago he became interested in pneumatic tubes, and he is now (1888) president of the Meteor dispatch company of New York. His poems have been extensively used in public recitations. He has published in book-form "Love among the Gamins," poems (New York, 1877) and "Mask and Domino" (1888).
Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001

ENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833-1908). An American Anthology, 1787-1900. 1900.

874. The Willis

By David Law Proudfit

THE WILLIS are out to-night,
In the ghostly pale moonlight,
With robes and faces white.

Swiftly they circle round,
And make not any sound, 5
Nor footprint on the ground.

The forest is asleep;
All things that fly or creep
A death-like silence keep.

A fear is over all; 10
From spectral trees and tall
The gathering night-dews fall.

Moveless are leaf and limb,
While through the forest dim
Slow glides a figure slim. 15

A figure slim and fair,
With loosened, streaming hair,
Watching the Willis there!

"These are the ghosts," she said,
"Of hapless ones unwed, 20
Who loved and now are dead."

Her hair was drenched with dew;
The moonlight shimmered through,
And showed its raven hue.

"Each one of these," she cried, 25
"Or ever she was a bride,
For love's sake sinned and died."

"I come," she said, "I too;
Ye are by one too few,"
And joined the phantom crew. 30

Swiftly they circled round,
Nor was there any sound,
Nor footprint on the ground.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

David Law (Peleg Arkwright) Proudfit. (1842–1897)

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A man sat on a rock and sought
Refreshment from his thumb;
A dinotherium wandered by
And scared him some.
His name was Smith. The kind of rock
He sat upon was shale.
One feature quite distinguished him—
He had a tail.
Prehistoric Smith.
2
Nature abhors imperfect work
And on it lays her ban;
And all creation must despise
A tailless man.
Prehistoric Smith.

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Author: New York Times
Title: New York Times (New York City, New York) Death and Marriage Index,

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Address: 4 Holland Terrace / Montclair, N.J. / USA

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

Occupation: Studied medicine with Dr Rush of Philadelphia, Pa

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

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Author: Ancestry.com
Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;

Event: Cause of death (Facts Pg)

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Author: Ancestry.com
Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;

10 November, 1770; died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 23 November, 1843. He was graduated at, Columbia in 1792, studied theology under Dr. John H. Livingston, and was pastor of the Associate Reformed church in Salem, New York, from 1794 till 1835. He became secretary of the New York colonization society in the latter year, and held office till his resignation in 1841. Williams gave him the degree of D. D. in 1812. For a short time during his pastorate he was professor of pastoral theology in the Associate Reformed seminary in Newburg, New York He published numerous sermons and addresses, including "The One Thing Needful" (New York, 1804) ; "Ruin and Recovery of Man" (1806); "Theological Works" (4 vols., 1815); and a work on the "Parables" (1820). See a memoir of him by Reverend John Forsyth (New York, 1844).--
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Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 & edited Stanley L. Klos, 1999 Estoric.com. This was the "most-quoted" biographical source for 19th and early 20th America. Appleton's, due to its age, reflects the bias and prejudice of late 19th Century America. It is also estimated that 100 to 200 of the 35,000 biographies are entirely fictitious. Additionally, the OCR technology used to transfer the text to the web was, at best, only a 99% accurate.

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

Occupation: Merchant in Salem, N.Y.

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

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Author: Margaret Compton
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Publication: Name: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002;

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Author: Ancestry.com
Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;

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Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;

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Author: Charles Allen Andrews
Title: DAR Application Vol 124 mentions Andrew & Mary Lytle Proudfit

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Author: Charles Allen Andrews
Title: DAR Application Vol 124 mentions Andrew & Mary Lytle Proudfit

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Author: Ancestry.com
Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;

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Author: Ancestry.com
Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;

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Author: Ancestry.com
Title: One World Tree (sm)
Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;