Loyal Durand was born on 31-Mar-1868 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He was the son of Loyal Root Durand and Maria Elizabeth McVickar. Loyal married Lucia Relf Kemper on 6-Oct-1898 at Saint Sylvanus Chapel, Nashotah, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Loyal was buried in 1937 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He died on 3-Oct-1937 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, at age 69.
      S.R. Durand, on his father, Loyal Durand:
"[My] dad's father Loyal Root Durand died when Dad was only three and a half years old, and his brother Samuel Benjamin Durand only one year old. Dad's mother, Maria Elizabeth (McVickar) Durand, inherited $60,000 in life insurance on her husband's death, and thus was able to build a home for herself and her boys adjacent to that of her widowed father, at what was then 591 Cass Street, just south of Juneau Avenue, in Milwaukee. Her father, Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar, owned an entire city block bounded by Van Buren, Cass, and State Streets, and Juneau Avenue. He was a great horticulturist with extensive gardens and orchards on his property, and employed several gardeners. He died in 1883, when Dad was 15 years old.
My father as a young boy had many hobbies and interests. In 1878, when he was 10 years old, his mother took him and his brother east for the summer to visit relatives, and he had a small autograph book in which many relatives wrote and signed notes for him. This started him on collecting autographs of prominent men, and in the next years he acquired a book full of them, including several presidents, cabinet members, senators and congressmen, explorers, etc. I have a paper my father wrote about a visit to Central Park in New York, a very good description by a 10-year-old of the park and the people who frequented it. For several years as a boy my father also collected postage stamps from all over the world, corresponding and trading stamps with other boys. In 1884, when he was 16, he was editor and publisher of a boys' bi-monthly magazine called The Vignette. This was an amateur publication, one of eight put out by groups of boys in Milwaukee. In July of 1884 the National Amateur Press Association held its convention in Milwaukee, with boys attending from all over the country. In the baseball game between the East and West on July 10, 1884, the West won by a score of 24 to 14, with my father playing center field and later second base on the victorious team. He also wrote an account of the convention. Dad as a young boy attended the Cathedral School, a private boys' school of St. John's Episcopal Cathedral. He went later on to the old Milwaukee High School, from which he graduated in 1886.
He entered the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the fall of that year. In high school he had been captain of a cadet company organized and drilled by General Charles King, a retired veteran of the Civil War. In college, he maintained this interest in military affairs, and during his four years in Madison became captain of the Univeristy Military Corps. He joined the Sigma Chi social fraternity in the days before fraternities had living quarters. Dad was a good athlete, standing 6'4" tall and weighing 180 pounds. During his college years he played first base for a time on the baseball team, and he was captain and number one player of the tennis team. When Dad's brother entered the University of Wisconsin in 1887, his mother gave up her home in Milwaukee and bought a home at the bend on Langdon Street in Madison. This enabled her to economize somewhat in providing college educations for her two sons, as well as providing a home for them during their university years. Her home became a meeting place for the Sigma Chis, and a place where many parties and dances were held.
My father studied law at the University of Wisconsin, and became a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. In his senior year in the law school, he wa svery sick with pneumonia for a long time and was therefore unable to graduate with his "Mighty '90" class in June of 1890. He completed his legal education and received his L.L.D. degree in 1891, but he always considered himself a member of the 1890 class, with whom he reunited periodically over the years. He was admitted to the bar in 1892, and then remained in Madison for a year in the office of Burr W. Jones, a Justice of the State Supreme Court. Upon returning to Milwaukee, Dad joined the law firm of Miller, Noyes, Miller and Wahl, remaining with this firm until 1897. During those recession years of the United States' economy, there was practically no opportunity for a young lawyer to get established. Dad often laughed about some of his early legal experiences, such as trying to collect rents at saloons. These instances sometimes necessitated his using good judgment in making a hasty retreat, with the saloon-keeper and several patrons at his heels.
In 1897 my father borrowed money and purchased the general insurance agency of Alfred James, who disposed of his agency in order to join his father, who was president of the Northwestern National Insurance Company. Soon after entering the general insurance business my father became the representative of about a dozen fire insurance companies, and also became the general agent in Wisconsin for the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., of London. He wrote the first employers' liability insurance policies for this company in the United States. He established agencies in about a dozen cities in Wisconsin, and for about forty years until his death managed this large business. He quickly became a recognized leader among insurance men, and in the early 1900's was a director for twleve years and president for three of the Board of Milwaukee Fire Underwriters. He was a director for six years and president for one of the Wisconsin Association of Insurance Agents. His office for many years was in the old Marine Bank building at Mitchell and North Water Streets. In about 1915 he moved his office to the Wells Building on East Wisconsin Avenue. It included a large part of the second floor. After 1930, his office was on the eighth floor of this building.
When I was very young, I can remember vividly sitting under a large oak tree on our front lawn on late summer afternoons, waiting for my father to come home on his bicycle. We children were always very excited to see him come around the corner from Lafayette Place into Lake Drive and ride the block and a quarter to our home. He had a fine bicycle, a type I've never seen since, for instead of a chain between the pedaling sprocket wheel and the back wheel, it had enclosed gears and a transmission rod. When Dad bought our first automobile in 1910, he abandoned his bicycle, which I at the age of 12 attempted to ride without tires, and badly bruised and scraped my knees and arms as a result.
Several of Dad's friends in the years between 1910 and 1930 walked the couple of miles downtown to their offices. Each morning with good weather Dad would wait at a parlor window after breakfast until he saw the group coming down Lake Drive, when he would leave the house to join them. Usually in the evenings, Mother would drive down to get him; later when my brother and I had learned to drive at high school age, we took turns picking him up at about 6pm at his office. Upon returning from work, my father was always eager for some playing with his children, usually with my brother and me. Mostly we played catch with baseball mitts and a hard baseball, and Dad got a big kick out of throwing the ball as fast as he could at me. As a result, I was a star player on my grade school team, and on a neighborhood team that played in the Milwaukee Journal League (something like the Little League of today). Unfortunately, baseball was not played in high school then, so I turned to tennis and became the state interscholastic champion, with Dad's help and encouragement.
Dad, upon returning to Milwaukee after his university days, had helped to establish the Town Club, which had five tennis courts. The Wisconsin State Tennis Championships were played at this club in August of each year, and this was the prime social event of the summer season. Dad won the state singles championship several times, and also the doubles championship many times, playing with his good friend Robert McMinn. About 1910, upon joining the Fox Point Country Club, he gave up tennis for golf and became a good player at this sport, usually shooting within ten strokes over par. In addition to playing tennis and golf, Dad was a great gardener, and each summer cultivated a large backyard garden of flowers and vegetables. My father loved outdoor activities, but he was noted also as an expert bridge player. He played bridge several times a week, usually after lunching at the University Club or the Milwaukee Athletic Club. Groups of men always gathered behind his chair to watch his skill in playing and bidding bridge hands. Also, many Saturday evenings during the wintertime, he played Skat, a German card game; usually he played with my uncles Charles Lemon and Seldon Sperry, a Mr. Williams, and a Mr. Booth. Frequently, after dinners at home during the week, we played card games or other games as a family, and sometimes Dad and I played chess.
After the First World War, Mother and Dad became even more adventurous. We made several motor trips east to Niagara Falls, and to visit Dad's three aunts, Jane and Louise Durand and Hannah Gould, in Rochester, New York, and several Durand cousins there who were all most hospitable to us. We drove on other trips to Jamestown, Washington, Gettysburg, Valley Forge, and Philadelphia to see many historic places, since Dad's great interest was American history. We visited New York City, where Dad had meetings with the executives of various insurance companies he represented in Wisconsin. We visited many historic places in New England and the old Durand farm homesteads in Berlin and Derby, Connecticut. In Boston, Dad conferred on each trip with the executives of the Employers Liability Insurance Corporation, for which he was the general agent for Wisconsin. These trips were made when long distances had to be traveled over dusty gravel roads, and when we often had to stay in miserable small-town hotels, since it was before the days of concrete highways and modern motels. Mother was a mighty good sport to make these trips of several weeks' duration, for she did not, I am sure, enjoy them nearly as much as Dad did.
Each summer from the time I was about 7 until about 16 years of age, we spent several weeks in the country in cottages rented on one of the lakes west of Milwaukee...my father spent the week in Milwaukee, where his mother with the servants maintained our home, and would arrive in the country early Saturday afternoon. At that time, his large office with many employees worked from 8:30am to 6pm each day, and on Saturdays until 1pm. My father's service in public life was outstanding. He gave generously of his time and talents, at a considerable sacrifice to his health and his business interests, over many years. He entered public life in 1919 by being pesuaded to accept and appointment to the Milwaukee Board of Education. The following year he became president of this board, responsible for the school system of Milwaukee, and he was president again in 1924, 1925, and 1926. He was re-elected and served on the school boardfor fourteen years, until 1933, when he declined to run again. I remember so many, many subzero winter evenings when right after dinner, he left for committee or board meetings, and did not return until after midnight. Dad served, too, as a trustee of the Milwaukee Public Library from 1920 through 1926, and as president of that board in 1924 and 1925. One advantage of this service was that he brought home books for a few days before they were selected for circulation; he enjoyed in particular reading books on international politics, history, and biographies of well-known men.
Another board my father served on in the 1920's was the Milwaukee Auditorium Board. Besides Dad's great interest and service in public life in Milwaukee, he served the University of Wisconsin in several capacities from 1919 until 1933. He was appointed by the Alumni Association in 1919 as their representative on the Board of Visitiors, an advisory board to the board of Regents. In 1924 he was president of this board. He made frequent visits to Madison, where he conferred with the heads of various departments and many other professors on the needs of the University, and presented his recommendations through the Board of Visitors for action by the Regents. In 1922, he became a director of the University Alumni Association; he was its vice-president from 1928 until 1932, when he withdrew, at a time when his health necessitated reducing demands on his energy. During my father's most active business years he became a director of several Milwaukee manufacturing companies. His investments in insurance companies he represented, such as the Continental Corp., the Home Insurance Co. (later part of City Investing Co.), and the Northwestern National Insurance Co. (later the NN Corp.) were all successful. However, he had bad luck during the 1929 to 1933 depression period with investments in two local companies, a farm loan mortgage company, and in some railroad stocks. But at the time of his death in 1937, he left an estate to mother of over $100,000, which enabled her to have a comfortable income for the rest of her life. Dad's prominence in business and education resulted in his biography being included in "Who's Who in the Midwest."
My father's health began to fail about 1935, but he kept up an active social and business life until his death at the age of 69 from heart trouble on October 3, 1937. An account of his life in the Encyclopaedia of American Biography, 1938[?], concludes by quoting an editorial that was printed in the Milwaukee Journal a day after his death as follows:
'Public Education and Library - these were the[four] words that Loyal Durand wrote when asked to provide some data on the many activities of his long career in Milwaukee. They come back to us now, with his passing, as an indication of what he thought was worthwhile. In them, we get an index to his life and the contribution he made to his city and state. Always it was education - forthe children, for the middle-aged, for those who had passed the prime of life but still wanted to improve their knowledge - through the public school system from kindergarten to the university, through such agencies as the public library - always it was education, the spread of knowledge, that counted in the life of Loyal Durand. ...In his quiet, evenly-balanced way, he had a marked influence on each institution with which he came into contact. In the public school system he was looking ahead always to wider service for children. He stood by the university and its young people when the institution was attacked. To him, youth was sound and he refused to see cause for alarm. But he did see cause for apprehension whenever funds were lessened, or an educational institution departed from the path of widest service to all children. And he was quick to say so. Loyal Durand did many other things - good things - in connection with business and civic organizations. That was part of his workday life. But his heart was always with the schools. We have a better public school system, a better university, and a better public library because he lived.'
The funeral service for my father was a very large one, attended by many personal friends of the family, business friends, and public officials. His remains were buried in the Durand family plot in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. Dad was a wonderful father to me, always interested in my success in school work, and always eager to participate in sports and games with me when I was a young boy. He was deeply devoted to Mother and to all his four children, and he had many close personal friends who admired him greatly."

I, for my part, know that Bampo was a proud inheritor of his father's staunchly Republican political affiliations. In a letter from the early 1980's, Bampo related to my father's proudly Republican distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt Wood that his father had indeed met Teddy Roosevelt. In fact, he wrote, Loyal Durand was very near Roosevelt when the candidate was shot by a would-be assassin; Roosevelt escaped unharmed, as the bullet lodged in a thick stack of papers he had folded in his breast pocket. Also, I recall Bampo's relating that his father had certain constants in his breakfast diet, which was served to him by his wife each morning: three eggs, three strips of bacon, and three cups of coffee. From our modern, medically enlightened viewpoint, one must assume that this diet likely contributed to the heart attack that ended Loyal Durand's life at the age of 69.

      Lucia Relf Kemper was born on 28-Dec-1871 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Lucia married Loyal Durand, son of Loyal Root Durand and Maria Elizabeth McVickar, on 6-Oct-1898 at Saint Sylvanus Chapel, Nashotah, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Lucia was buried in 1969 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She died on 19-Jun-1969 at Glendale, Wisconsin, at age 97.
      In 1885 Lucia Relf Kemper at Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Bampo, as my grandfather Samuel Relf Durand was called, wrote the following about his mother in his big book of biographical sketches of his ancestors:

"My mother, Lucia Relf Kemper, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 28, 1871, [the eleventh of her parents' twelve children]. Her girlhood was spent at her parents' home in Milwaukee and at their summer home 'Cedarly' on Upper Nebahbin Lake, about thirty miles west of Milwaukee. This lovely summer home was set in cedar woods overlooking the lake. It was close to Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary and to Bishopstead, where her grandfather Bishop Jackson Kemper lived before his death in 1870. My mother's great love of flowers, birds and the beauties of nature must have been fostered by having lived in the country part of the time when a child. Most years, the family moved in the wintertime [back] to Milwaukee where mother's father, Samuel Relf Kemper, was engaged in the produce commission business. In the summertime, my grandfather commuted by train from Milwaukee to Nashotah station where mother's older brothers would meet him, with horse and carriage, for the drive to their home. My mother's mother and several older sisters taught her at home when she was a young girl. I have some drawings she made of flowers and fruit when she was ten years which are exceptionally well done for a small child.
When about thirteen years of age, she was sent to Kemper Hall in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This Episcopal boarding school for girls was named for her grandfather. She was a fine student and won various prizes for scholarship in literature, French, and mathematics. She maintained a great interest in English and French literature and in poetry all of her life as a result of her fine education.
My mother's mother died of cancer in March [of] 1890 when the family were spending that particular winter in a rented home in Wauwatosa, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Due to my grandmother's precarious health that winter, doctors had recommended not staying in their city home on Prospect Avenue on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. Mother was just eighteen years old at the time. She graduated from Kemper Hall a year later, in June, 1891. After completing her education she worked for a time in a government office in Milwaukee on public health work, which required [her] using a microscope many hours a day.
Mother was a very beautiful young lady, and much admired. Her brother, Poyntell Kemper, was a Sigma Chi fraternity brother of my father's at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Mother and [her] friends had occasionally been invited to fraternity parties in Madison, where my father was living during his college years - his mother having given up her home in Milwaukee to have a home in Madison while her two sons were in college there. Also, my grandmother spent summers with her two sons at Nashotah Lake, renting a home on the Nashotah Seminary grounds. So, my father and mother became devoted to each other in the early years of the 1890s. However, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1891, due to the difficulty my father had in trying to get established at this time in a large law firm in Milwaukee on account of the business depression of 1893-1896, they were engaged to be married for four and one-half years before my father was in a position to support both a wife and a widowed mother. Dad's father had died when he was only three and one-half years old, and his mother's inheritance was about gone at the time Dad and his brother completed college.
My mother and father were married on October 6, 1898 in St. Sylvanus Chapel at Nashotah. Her brother-in-law, Rev. James Slidell, officiated at the marriage service, and her brother, Rev. Poyntell Kemper, performed the betrothal ceremony. The wedding reception took place outdoors on the lawns of my grandfather's Cedarly country home, it being a beautiful warm autumn day. It was a large wedding and reception, for Dad and Mother had many friends and relatives.
They were a handsome couple, mother being about 5'4" tall, with light blond hair and blue eyes. Dad was 6'4" tall, with dark hair and brown eyes. They had a honeymoon trip in the East, where they visited many relatives. On returning to Milwaukee, they set up housekeeping in a rented home on Racine Street. Their house was about one block north of a home rented by Dad's mother, which was in a group of houses called the "Ogden Row," on Ogden Avenue, near Farwell Avenue. Mother and Dad made several trips to the East in the early years of their marriage. In a letter I have dated February 27, 1901 from the Raleigh Hotel in Washington D.C., my mother wrote to her father of visits she and Dad had had with friends and relatives in Washington, Baltimore, and Norfolk, and planned to spend a few days in Philadelphia and New York. She also wrote of having seen portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Daniel Kemper in the Corcoran Art Gallery, and also several portraits of relatives from the Sitgreaves, Morton, and Quincy families.
My brother Loyal Jr.. born July 12, 1902, I born March 12, 1904, and my oldest sister Lucia born March 13, 1906 all came into the world while Mother and Dad lived on Racine Street in Milwaukee. My [paternal] grandmother [Maria Elizabeth McVickar] came to live with us when we moved into the Lake Drive home [in 1906], and Dad became her sole support, since his brother, Samuel Benjamin Durand, had died in 1900. Also, a nurse, Mrs. McGuire ("Guire," as we called her) took care of the children for many years; and there was always a staff of servants, consisting of a cook and two maids, who lived in the house, as well as a laundress and seamstress who came for two days each week.
Mother, besides managing our home, was a very social person who loved to be with her many friends, and her married sisters. In reading some old diaries of hers, I was surprised to find that almost every day she had some sort of social engagement. There were frequent 'sisters meetings' when my Aunt Sally (Mrs. James Slidell), Aunt Mary (Mrs. Charles Lemon), Aunt Sue (Mrs. Selden Sperry) and Aunt Sophy (Mrs. Frederick Best) would meet for afternoon tea and, if at our house, we children had to come in to pay our respects. For many years, Mother was on the Board and President of the Episcopal St. John's Home for the Aged. She was a devout christian, and active in the work of the auxiliaries of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Additionally, she was a member for 69 years of the Women's Club of Wisconsin, where she served on many committees. From 1945 to 1947, after Dad's death, she was President of this large club of several hundred members.
Dad and Mother belonged to a family social club, the Town Club, which had five clay tennis courts, four bowling alleys, and in winter an excellent ice rink on the tennis courts. Dad won many trophies in tennis and bowling tournaments, but Mother mostly enjoyed ice skating and dances at this club. When I was about thirteen she taught me to play tennis, a game that I loved and excelled in for many years.
Dad bought our first automobile in 1910, a Cross-Country Rambler made by the Nash Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin (later the American Motors Company). At that time it was most unusual for a woman to drive a car, and most of Mother's friends who had cars either drove battery-operated 'electrics' at a top speed of about 12 m.p.h.., or had chauffeurs to drive gasoline engine cars. However, Mother was determined that there was no reason why she should not drive our car, and she rather astounded her friends by learning to drive. She drove her own car for more than 50 years, until she was 90 years old. When we were small children, she drove us in bad weather in the early morning to the grade school of the Milwaukee State Teachers College (now the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee), which was more than a mile north of our home.
In good weather in the spring, summer, and fall, Mother and Dad were fond of driving in the the country on Sundays and taking picnics. We stopped often in Delafield, thirty miles west of our home, to see Mother's oldest brother, Jackson Kemper, [who was] an invalid, and his sweet little wife, Aunt Helen. Quite often, too, we stopped in for tea in the afternoons at the summer homes of various friends on the nice small inland lakes, about twenty to thirty miles west of Milwaukee.
During the First World War, from 1914 to 1918, Mother worked very hard in Red Cross activities, preparing bandages and clothing. She was in charge of a large group of volunteer ladies doing this work. She contributed to the care of several French war orphans, and corresponded with soldiers at the front. She was a member of the Alliance Francaise, and enjoyed talking and reading in the French language with several friends. For a short time in early 1918, her health was poor, and she took my two sisters with her to Summersville, North Carolina. They stayed in an inn near to where her sister, Gertrude, and her husband Samuel Hall had a home. In April, Dad took me and my brother to Washington to meet Mother and my sisters on their return trip.
After the First World War, Mother and Dad became even more adventurous. We made several motor trips east to many different landmarks and relatives' houses. These trips were made when long distances had to be traveled over dusty gravel roads, and when we often had to stay in miserable small-town hotels, since it was before the days of concrete highways and modern motels. Mother was a mighty good sport to make these trips of several weeks' duration, for she did not, I am sure, enjoy them nearly as much as Dad did. She had to contend with four children who would get mighty tired out during some days of long, uncomfortable driving, but who nevertheless received a wonderful firsthand education on the history and geography of the eastern and midwestern parts of our country.
Mother and Dad made several trips to the south in the 1920's and early 1930's in the wintertime, sometimes going by train and other times driving. On these trips they visited friends in Florida, and also spent a few days with another brother of Mother's, Lewis Kemper, and his wife in Hendersonville, NC. Each summer from the time I was about 7 until about 16 years of age, we spent several weeks in the country in cottages rented on one of the lakes west of Milwaukee. Mother, in spite of the burden of caring for four children, enjoyed being in the country near to where several of her sisters' families and many friends had country homes. Tea parties in the late afternoons were a daily occurrence. My father spent the week [at work] in Milwaukee...and would arrive in the country early Saturday afternoon.
Mother was always very much interested in literature, and when her children were quite young she enrolled in a correspondence course on short story writing. She worked hard on this course, and purchased several books on the techniques or writing, and many volumes of collections of short stories. She wrote several stories and submitted them to various magazines, and finally was successful in having a number of her stories published. She must have felt satisfied with her accomplishment, for she never wrote any more short stories, in spite of the urging of her family and publishers to continue. She always said that she became too involved in other activities to find time to write for publication.
Starting in 1924, one of her most cherished activities for many, many years was the work of the Colonial Dames of America. To join this society, you had to have geneaological proof of descent from an ancestor who had been an important public servant in one of the thirteen colonies prior to the Revolutionary War. Mother went in on the service record of her ancestor, Captain Sylvester Salisbury, who was commander of Fort Orange at Albany, NY in the mid-1600's, after the English captured New Netherlands from the Dutch. Mother was responsible for many years for the publishing and distributing to schools of historical booklets on Wisconsin. This practice was one of the chief sources of income for maintaining the Old Indian Agency House at Portage, Wisconsin. She had worked very hard in the Wisconsin Society of the Colonial Dames to restore and furnish this historical house in 1932. Mother was president of the Wisconsin Society for several years, and for many years in her old age she was honored with the title of Honorary President. She was also honored by the National Society by election to the Roll of Honor for Distinguished Service.
After my father's death in 1937, Mother maintained her home for thirty more years, even though she had great difficulty at times in getting and keeping a satisfactory cook/housekeeper, and in maintaining such a large home. However, she was always eager to have her home available for he married children and her grandchildren to come to whenever they could, and many happy family reunions took place over the years with Mother in her home. She made many trips to visit her families in New England, Louisville, Knoxville, and Palo Alto, California. She also spent several weeks and month away from home. Plus, she spent many weeks and months in various years away from her home in the wintertime. She went on cruises in the Caribbean, and around South America with a good friend, a Mrs. Williams of New York. She spent many weeks several times with friends in Mexico, and in La Jolla and Pasadena, CA. She also made many visits to Palo Alto, part of the time staying with us, and part of the time staying in a nice boarding home. One year when my brother, on a sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was teaching at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Mother and my sister Glee spent some time visiting there. In 1948, Mother made a trip to England and France with my sister Lucia. In England, they visited Ringwood in Hampshire, where my mother's mother had been born. Several times she went on long tours with us by car to Mexico (as far as Acapulco), to Canada and the East, and to many places in Wisconsin and California.
On the occasion of Mother's 90th birthday, we had a reception of more than 60 friends for her in her home in Milwaukee. Many of her dearest friends of her age had died, but she was loved and admired by many more much younger friends and relatives. She had such a keen intellect, and interest in people and current events that she was regarded as a person about twenty years younger than she actually was. Only at the age of nearly 94, in December of 1965, did she become handicapped, when she suffered a partial injury to one knee that caused her to be hospitalized for a month. Afterward, she went to the Colonial Manor Retirement Home to recuperate. However, due to the impossibility of getting reliable servants and nurses, it became necessary for her to stay most of the time at Colonial Manor, only getting back to her home on occasions when one of her children could spend a short time in Milwaukee with her. She was most courageous, and generally in good spirits during the last three and a half years of her life, although suffering from various handicaps that kept her confined almost entirely to her room. Her keen intellect never left her, which was a great blessing. Even at the age of 96, she started the study of the Spanish language, with lessons on a radio program.
Mother died June 19, 1969 in her 98th year. A memorial service was held in St. Paul's Episcopal church, the church she had loved for more than eighty years. Her life had been one of great devotion and loyalty to her family and friends. She had met all the difficulties and discouragements in her long life with the greatest of courage, and had always maintained a cheerful and optimistic spirit. She had been dearly loved and admired by all who knew her. She was a dear, lovely, precious person."

      Samuel Benjamin Durand was born on 27-Aug-1870. He was the son of Loyal Root Durand and Maria Elizabeth McVickar. Samuel Benjamin Durand died in 1900 at Denver, Denver County, Colorado.

      Cornelia Augusta McVickar was born on 19-Jun-1829 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence.

      Anna McVickar was born on 7-May-1832 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence. Anna married (Unknown) McCarter. Anna McVickar died in 1915 at Eastbourne, England.
     She emigrated before 1914 from Eastbourne, England.

     (Unknown) married Anna McVickar, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence. (Unknown) McCarter died before 1914.

     (Unknown) McCarter was the daughter of (Unknown) McCarter and Anna McVickar. (Unknown) married William Pond.

     William married (Unknown) McCarter, daughter of (Unknown) McCarter and Anna McVickar.

      John Lawrence McVickar was born on 12-Nov-1827 at New York City, New York County, New York. He was the son of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence.

      Isaphene McVickar was born on 27-Sep-1834 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence.

      William Beach Lawrence was born circa 1823 at New York City, New York County, New York. He was the son of Isaac Lawrence and Cornelia Ann Beach.
      Walter Barrett, from "The Old Merchants of New York City," 1863:
"Isaac Lawrence had but one son, William Beach Lawrence. He received all the advantages of an excellent education, and was intended for a public career. He became Secretary of Legation at London, shortly after Mr. John Quincy Adams became president of the United States in 1825. While in London he was extremely popular with all classes. Upon the accession to power of General Jackson, Mr. Lawrence was supplanted by a partisan of that gentleman. Mr. Beach Lawrence moved to Rhode Island some years ago, and was adopted there by the Democrats. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of the State. He would have made an excellent merchant had he entered upon the career. He married a daughter of Archibald Gracie, the great merchant, alluded to so frequently in these pages, and thus became a brother-in-law of James G. and Charles King, who had married [Gracie] sisters, and to the brothers Gracie.
No man was ever placed in a pleasanter position in life than "Beach," as his relations called him. Surrounded by loving sisters, a doting father who left him rich, he has known or felt but few of the thorns of life; and even now is quite a young man, and no one who meets him would suppose that he was only forty years old. He has children. One of them, William Beach Lawrence, Jr., is a young man of uncommon promise and bids fair to keep up the reputation of the race he springs from. There was one very painful matter connected with "Beach," and his father; I allude to the father's indorsement[sic] for the son, and his final ruin in consequence. In 1834 a lot of lots on Murray Hill of Isaac Lawrence were sold to pay Beach's debts for some $50,000, that last year were worth $800,000."

S.R. Durand:
"Some time after this incident in 1834, Dr. Benjamin McVickar went into partnership with his brother-in-law, Beach Lawrence, between about 1838 and 1846. Because of excessive speculations by Beach Lawrence, Dr. McVickar in his turn had to use a large part of his fortune to pay up more debts of his brother-in-law. It was after this, and after a bad yellow fever epidemic in New York that he moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin." William Beach Lawrence held the position of Lt. Governor of Rhode Island between 1851 and 1852.

      Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar was born on 12-Nov-1799 at New York City, New York County, New York. Benjamin married Isaphene Catherine Lawrence, daughter of Isaac Lawrence and Cornelia Ann Beach, on 12-Nov-1825 at New York City, New York County, New York. Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar died on 4-May-1883 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, at age 83.

      Isaphene Catherine Lawrence was born on 5-Oct-1806 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was the daughter of Isaac Lawrence and Cornelia Ann Beach. Isaphene married Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar on 12-Nov-1825 at New York City, New York County, New York. Isaphene Catherine Lawrence died on 18-Sep-1868 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, at age 61.

      Isaac Lawrence was born on 8-Feb-1768 at Newtown, Kings County, New York. He was the son of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff. Isaac married Cornelia Ann Beach, daughter of Rev. Abraham Beach and Antje Van Wicklin, on 30-Dec-1799. Isaac married Cornelia Ann Beach, daughter of Rev. Abraham Beach and Antje Van Wicklin, in Dec-1800. Isaac was buried in 1841 at Newtown, Kings County, New York. He died on 12-Jul-1841 at New York City, New York County, New York, at age 73.

      Loyal Durand Jr. was born on 12-Jul-1902 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He was the son of Loyal Durand and Lucia Relf Kemper. Loyal married Dorothy "Dottie" Lillian Lee. Loyal was buried in 1970 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He died on 14-Oct-1970 at Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, at age 68.
      S.R. Durand:

"One year [probably in the 1950's] when my brother, on a sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was teaching at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Mother and my sister Glee spent some time visiting there."

As a child, Loyal Durand Jr. was nicknamed "Loy" by his family.

     Dorothy married Loyal Durand Jr., son of Loyal Durand and Lucia Relf Kemper.

      Lucia Durand was born on 13-Mar-1906 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Loyal Durand and Lucia Relf Kemper. Lucia married Donald Murray Wright on 11-Feb-1928 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Lucia Durand died on 2-Jan-1977 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 70.

      Donald Murray Wright was born on 22-Jul-1899 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Donald married Lucia Durand, daughter of Loyal Durand and Lucia Relf Kemper, on 11-Feb-1928 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
      In 1917 Donald Murray Wright at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

      Elizabeth McVickar "Glee" Durand was born on 18-Aug-1908 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Loyal Durand and Lucia Relf Kemper. Elizabeth married William Henry Crutcher Jr. on 10-Sep-1932 at Nashotah Church, Delafield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Elizabeth McVickar "Glee" Durand died on 22-Sep-1988 at Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, at age 80.

      William Henry Crutcher Jr. was born on 9-Jun-1905 at Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. William married Elizabeth McVickar "Glee" Durand, daughter of Loyal Durand and Lucia Relf Kemper, on 10-Sep-1932 at Nashotah Church, Delafield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. William Henry Crutcher Jr. died on 24-Feb-1961 at Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, at age 55.

      Loyal Root Durand was born on 7-Sep-1840 at Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut. Loyal married Maria Elizabeth McVickar, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence, on 3-Sep-1866 at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Loyal Root Durand died on 19-Nov-1871 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, at age 31. Loyal was buried on 21-Nov-1871 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
      S.R. Durand:
"I know very little about my grandfather, Loyal Root Durand, who died when he was only 31 years of age. He was born September 4, 1840 on his parents' farm in Berlin, Connecticut. He was one of the youngest of a large family; or, I might say, the second family of his father, Samuel Durand, Jr. The first family consisted of nine children, born between 1814 and 1828. Samuel Durand Jr.'s first wife, Eloisa (Lewis) Durand, died in 1832 and he was remarried in 1834 in Berlin, Connecticut to Rebecca Root, daughter of Asahel and Hannah (Goodrich) Root. Rebecca was born October 21, 1801; so she was 32 years of age at the time she became a second mother to this large family of children.
Like one of his older half-brothers, Henry Smith Durand, Loyal Root Durand went to work at the age of 16 in a store in Hartford, Connecticut. After two years, at the urging and with the help of at an unknown age brother who had been successful in business in Racine, Wisconsin, he went to Milwaukee and became established in the general fire and marine insurance business. During his early years in this business, he became the main supporter of his parents, four sisters, and one younger brother. By that time, his father was in his seventies and was no longer able to make his once-prosperous wheat farm pay [off] due to much lower prices being offered for wheat shipped from the middle west to the east. During this time, Loyal Root Durand paid to have his youngest sister, Hannah, educated at a private girls' finishing school in Massachusetts.
Loyal Root Durand married Maria Elizabeth McVickar on September 3, 1866 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Milwaukee. He as well as his new father-in-law, Dr. Benjamin McVickar, had been among the founders of this church. In writing about my grandmother, I have told what little I know about their short married life. As a young man in his twenties, my grandfather quickly became a highly successful and respected businessman in Milwaukee. In 1865 and 1866 he was president of the Young Men's Association, which maintained the library that had been founded by his father-in-law and six others in 1848. This library was the forerunner of the public library in the city.
After his father's death in 1870, Loyal Root Durand brought his mother, four sisters, and younger brother to Milwaukee and provided for them. He established the younger brother, William Timothy Durand, in the insurance business. My grandfather in 1870 and 1871 was one of the seven directors of the Chamber of Commerce, and also Vice President of the Musical Society. His firm of Helfenstein and Durand was the leading insurance agency in the city. They represented eleven of the largest insurance companies in the country, and wrote up to $200,000 on single risks. Letters I have from my grandfather to his wife indicate that he was often in the east on business.
[In the aftermath of] the great Chicago fire in October of 1871, my grandfather spent many long days in Chicago, helping the insurance companies he represented there settle claims quickly so that people who had lost homes would have funds for their [own] support. After six weeks of day-and-night work, he died as a result of extreme exhaustion and exposure on November 19, 1871. At the time of his death, he had been offered the presidency of the Northwestern National Insurance Company (later the NN Corporation). Had he lived, he undoubtedly would have remained an outstanding leader in his community
for many more years.
A newspaper article of November 22, 1871 describes the funeral of Loyal Root Durand in St. Paul's Church on the previous day. It detailed how the businessmen of Milwaukee walked two by two, preceding the hearse from the church to the cemetery, which at that time was near to where the public library is today. It states that the funeral was one of the largest and most solemn ones ever held in the city. After describing the flower decorations of the church and the service, the account concludes as follows: 'the deceased was an universal favorite with all that knew him, and his acquaintances were very numerous. He was free from all ostentation, generous-hearted, plain in speech, blunt in expression, kind in his disposition, a good citizen, a firm friend, a fond husband and father. He was an example for all young men. He had, as a businessman, a fine career before him, gathering friends steadily and in an honest and upright manner; of no young man in Milwaukee could it be said that he possessed better prospects for an independence, so far as worldly matters are concerned. An all-wise but inscrutable God has seen fit to take him away, and today the yet young man, whom but as yesterday was among us and mingling with us in the apparent fullness of robust strength, sound health, and a prospective long life before him, is now in the grave, hidden from our sight, but not forgotten, his memory deeply cherished as one of Nature's nobleman - an honest man. As one of the many who knew him well and intimately - knew well the sterling qualities of which he was made up, and the generous, manly impulses that governed all his actions - as we saw the body of our friend leave the church, we called to mind the prayer of an ancient funeral form, when an invocation at its close was offered up to the
Creator, that he 'form another citizen as virtuous as this hath been.'
This final sentence of the newspaper account about my grandfather impresses me with [its correlation to] my father Loyal Durand. Only three and one-half years old at the time of his father's death, [he] grew up to have all the virtues and sterling qualities of his father, and to become one of the most honored men in Milwaukee for his many fine services in the public interest. In a letter my great-grandfather, Dr. Benjamin McVickar, wrote to a cousin in the east telling of the death of his daughter's husband, he mentioned that his son-in-law recently had not only purchased a home for his family, but had also provided one for his widowed mother and his sisters. Moreover, he had left his wife well protected with life insurance and other legacies, and had arranged that for a number of years she would receive an income from his insurance business. He left other legacies for his mother and sisters. This was quite remarkable in view of the fact that his whole business career had been for only a dozen years."

      Maria Elizabeth McVickar was born on 3-Nov-1838 at New York City, New York County, New York. She was the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Moore McVickar and Isaphene Catherine Lawrence. Maria married Loyal Root Durand on 3-Sep-1866 at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Maria was buried in 1920 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. She died on 29-Jan-1920 at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, at age 81.

      Anna Brinckerhoff was born on 6-May-1733 at Flushing, Queens County, New York. She was the daughter of Isaac Brinckerhoff and Gerardina Brinckerhoff. Anna married Capt. William Lawrence on 14-May-1752 at Elmhurst, Queens County, New York. Anna Brinckerhoff died on 17-May-1770 at age 37.

      Sarah Brinckerhoff was born on 11-May-1738 at Flushing, Queens County, New York. She was the daughter of Isaac Brinckerhoff and Gerardina Brinckerhoff. Sarah married Thomas Carman on 21-Nov-1758 at Elmhurst, Queens County, New York.

      George Brinckerhoff was born on 18-Oct-1739 at Flushing, Queens County, New York. He was the son of Isaac Brinckerhoff and Gerardina Brinckerhoff. George married Susannah Fish, daughter of Johnathan Fish and Mary (Unknown), on 10-Sep-1771 at Elmhurst, Queens County, New York. George married Sarah Rapalje, daughter of Jacob Rapalje and Catrina Lott, on 22-Sep-1781 at Elmhurst, Queens County, New York. George married Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Charles Palmer and Jane Fish, on 29-May-1794 at Elmhurst, Queens County, New York. George Brinckerhoff died on 17-Apr-1802 at Newtown, Dutchess County, New York, at age 62.

      Capt. William Lawrence was born on 27-Jul-1729. William married Anna Brinckerhoff, daughter of Isaac Brinckerhoff and Gerardina Brinckerhoff, on 14-May-1752 at Elmhurst, Queens County, New York. Capt. William Lawrence died on 13-Jan-1794 at age 64.

     John Lawrence was the son of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff.

     Daniel Lawrence was the son of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff.

     John Lawrence was the son of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff.

     Patience Lawrence was the daughter of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff.

      Catherine Lawrence was born on 26-Apr-1763. She was the daughter of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff. Catherine married Cornelius Luyster, son of Gerrit Luyster and Willemptje Wyckoff, on 28-Aug-1785.

     Richard Lawrence was the son of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff.

     William Lawrence was the son of Capt. William Lawrence and Anna Brinckerhoff.