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where in Vinton, Iowa, did Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne and his wife Virginia live in the 1910s and 1920s when my grandfather Alexander Chadbourne Brown as a boy was adopted by them ? And an incredible Gemini AI reply -
Dear Ma, Sandy, Annie, Alden, All,
Wow, am here in Vinton Iowa where I've heard that my grandfather Sandy Brown (mother's father) lived from possibly 1908 or 09 and into the 1910s, when he was adopted by his relative, and physician too I think, Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, and his wife Virginia, ... and after his mother died in childbirth with Martha Briscoe, Alden's mother ... in Boulder, Colorado ... (Grandpa Sandy and Granny Brown, and Martha Briscoe all were born in Boulder Colorado ... and Aunt Marf was adopted by a different family than my Grandfather and their middle sister too I think) ...
And I asked Gemini AI
Where in Vinton Iowa did Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne and his wife Virginia live in the 1910s and 1920s when my grandfather Alexander Chadbourne Brown as a boy was adopted by them ?
And got this incredible reply -
During the 1910s and 1920s, Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne and his wife Virginia lived at 111 East 9th Street in Vinton, Iowa.
Residence Details
- Location: 111 East 9th Street, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa.
- Timeline: Census records from 1910 and 1920 place the family at this specific address.
- Family Context: Theodore worked as a Physician (General Practice) during this period. Your grandfather, Alexander Chadbourne Brown, is listed in household records as their adopted son.
Would you like more information on Theodore Chadbourne's medical career or other family members from the Vinton census records?
I'm in the neighborhood on a snowy 22 F dusk evening ... but can't find the actual house where my grandfather lived ... eg to take a picture of it ...
Just share this in these regards with Sandy, Annie and my mother in text messaging -
Hi Sandy - Just heading to Vinton Iowa, on the way back to Canyon 94516, and see - "Hi Ma, Heading north to Vinton, Iowa, from hwy Interstate 70 past I 80 and it's gone from about 72F to 28 F with a cold wind. Seeking to learn more about Grandpa, and here's his Wikitree entry -
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-92991 - who may have moved from Boulder, Colorado, where he was born in 1903, to Vinton, around 1908 or '09, where he was adopted by some relatives, I think, Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne (a descendant of Major General Benjamin Lincoln who accepted the sword of surrender from the British in the Revolutionary War?? ... may be able to see this in WikiTree too ... ) and his wife Virginia, and then went to Phillips Academy Exeter in NH in 10th grade ... Where did Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne and his wife Virginia live in Vinton, Iowa, and thus where did Grandpa Sandy Brown live there? -
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chadbourne-291 ... Wish I and WUaS could create further for today a Realistic Virtual Earth for History and as I head into Vinton asking these questions ... There are 3 history organizations there, and a public library but the former are only open pretty much if one calls about a tour ... for another trip perhaps ... More later, love, Scott (
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524 and
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history) Explore logging into your Wikitree account Ma ... or opening a new one?
" ... Thoughts, Sandy? Love, Scott
Thoughts, recollections, further information ... and all for possibly adding to our WikiTree genealogy pages ?
Warm regards, happy new year, fondly,
Scott
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Dear Ma, Annie, Sandy, Alden, All,
Thanks, Annie and Ma, all, for your comments about this -
Sunday · 8:25 PM
Let me know what you find out. Stay safe and warm. Hugs to Janie and other MacLeods if you see them - from Annie
In Vinton, Iowa, at dusk yesterday evening, and following up on the incredible Google AI reply -
https://g.co/gemini/share/4d78a6d439d9 - to where Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, and my Grandpa Sandy Alexander Chadbourne Brown (born April 1903 in Boulder CO) lived in Vinton around 1908 or '09?? to going to Exeter in NH in 10 th grade, I found the possible location of the house at 111 East 9th Street, Vinton IA (if the numbering is still the same as in 1910) and think it may no longer exist. I also learned anew from the Google AI reply that Theodore Chadborne was a physician.
My mother Janie says she has a picture of the house. How best to scan and add this photo to a realistic virtual earth for history (in Google Earth Pro?) and possibly also in Google Street View with a time slider, say here -
and possibly on the corner with the "Road Closed Ahead" sign ...?
Also I will add something further here to this Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne entry
Have any of you sent in some genetic material, like saliva, to a genealogy IT platform ? If so, which one do you use? And might you have added any biographical information to it too?
I've sent in saliva to Ancestry .com, and then added the results to my WikiTree profile here -
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524#Ancestors ... I appreciate that WikiTree is free and wiki-open and a great resource to add subsequent research, and to share it, to generate a conversation too ... and for the very long term. (Sandy's and my first cousin, Mark MacLeod, also living in Portland Maine, is a fascinating genetic genealogist regarding MacLeods ... and might be of help in interpreting results you have in sending in your saliva genetic information to a genealogy platform; whereas I enjoy finding out who came before).
Envisioning-wise, I'd also like to further develop a realistic virtual earth for genealogy (think Google Street View with time slider) and genetic genealogy too ... AND even be able from a photo of Grandpa Sandy Brown for example in the future, and with AI and ML to animate it, make it come alive, possibly in the Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne house in around 1910 and to converse with Sandy Brown then ... More with time about this
Greetings from the Pine Bluffs' Wyoming rest area, just over the Nebraska state line, on Interstate 80, van-camping in 30 F weather in an INCREDIBLE 2025 Toyota Sienna Woodland Edition minivan ... as I drive west from Pittsburgh PA for Xmas to potentially a newly safe, vacant, with deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 ...
And also how might extreme longevity and aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerging, FDA approved, extend this family genealogy conversation?
Fond regards,
Scotty
Scott GK MacLeod
and will add some of this further here -
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii): How best @WorldUnivAndSch to "#RevolutionizingEducation with #MachineLearningAndAI" #WorldUniversityINSchool & see - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - @ https://ocw.mit.edu/ & w https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & from home with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForScientificInquiry in all 200 countries?
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PS
From my Grandpa Sandy Brown's Wikitree page for your info -
Memories of Alexander Brown: 2
Enter a personal reminiscence or story. These are only visible to the Trusted List.
Ma (Janie Kirkbride Brown MacLeod),
Memory 2 which I plan to add to WikiTree for Grandpa (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-92991), and having edited this a bit -
My grandpa Sandy Brown (ACB) - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-92991 - of Cincinnati, Ohio, for most of his life, went to Boarding School in 10th grade probably, at Phillips Academy Exeter in New Hampshire, from around 1917 or '18 until ~1920, having gone to elementary school (probably 1st-8th or 9th grades?) in Vinton, Iowa. Born on 18 Apr 1903 in Boulder Colorado, and after graduating from Exeter, and getting into MIT, he spent a kind of 'gap year' (because he wasn't ready for MIT, I learned from my mother Janie Kirkbride Brown MacLeod on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2023), in Berlin, Germany - 1920-1921? - studying classical piano, German, and possibly other subjects, possibly studying at a Technische Hochschule, I have a vague recollection, (in the part of Berlin, Germany, which became East Germany after WWII, in 1949, I gleaned from my mother on 5/28/23 too). He was an excellent classical pianist. He (Alexander Chadbourne Brown - aka Sandy Brown) returned to begin studying for an undergraduate degree at MIT in Cambridge, MA, in around 1921, and possibly majoring in chemical engineering, or similar, and also went to MIT after his Bachelor of Science degree?, for a second degree for a year, which was like a Master's degree but wasn't called this.
My grandmother, Rachel Gilbert Brown (b. 12 Mar 1905) - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gilbert-11800 - was also born in Boulder Colorado, where she was raised, and as a Baptist (I learned again on May 28 2023), and went to the University of Colorado, Boulder, for her undergraduate degree, then headed west to Pomona College in California, where she may have studied classical piano (and she was also a gifted pianist I have heard), possibly for a Master's degree, and then went to Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, for (another?) Master's degree in social work. (My mother Janet KB MacLeod also got a Master's degree in Social Work in Pittsburgh, PA). I think my grandmother and grandfather knew each other from Boulder, Colorado, although my grandfather, Sandy Brown, was adopted when he was around 6 years old by Theodore Lincoln and his wife Virginia of Vinton, Iowa, after his ACB's mother died after giving birth to his youngest sister, Martha Holway "Aunt Marf" Briscoe formerly Brown aka Higley, so my Grandpa Sandy Brown would have left Boulder at a fairly young age. (Just found this resource about my grandmother Granny Brown, ACB's wife from 1932-1985? or 1987, when he died, in the Boulder Historical Society - https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A57110). Grandpa Sandy Brown called my grandmother Ray, I recall.
My grandfather, Sandy Brown, may have spent some months doing research or studying in Pittsburgh in the late 1920s (?) at Carnegie Tech or the Carnegie Institute, after his studies at MIT. (I have a recollection of visiting the Carnegie Institute building near where he may have been an academic researcher, with my grandfather (ACB), grandmother (RGB), and my father (GKM MD) and mother (JKBM), possibly in the first half of the 1980s (or late 1970s), near the corner of Fifth Avenue and S Bellefield Ave, in Pittsburgh, PA now 15213, after many buildings there had changed and much had been built since around the mid-late 1920s - and recall that Grandpa Sandy Brown didn't recognize the 1970s' or 1980s' Carnegie buildings regarding his time there many decades before).
My grandfather I think took a chemical engineering position in Cincinnati, Ohio, before becoming a chemical engineer at Emory Industries there, where he spent much of his career. In the 2nd half of the 1920s, he would visit my grandmother in Cleveland, Ohio, and she would visit him in Cincinnati, before they got married near Cincinnati Ohio on 13 Feb 1932 in Augusta, Kentucky, by a Justice of the Peace (my mother said on Monday, May 28, 2023). Ted Brown (Theodore Chadbourne Brown), their first child, was born in 1933, and my mother, Janie MacLeod, was born in 1935. A birthright Unitarian, Sandy Brown, my grandfather (ACB) and grandmother (RGB) were very involved in the Unitarian Church community in Cincinnati Ohio for much of their married life, after my grandmother had explored becoming part of the Episcopal church in Cincinnati. My mother, Janie MacLeod, said too on 5/28/23 that they would have become involved in the Unitarian Church in Cincinnati when she was around 12 or 13, and born in 1935, grandpa Sandy Brown's family could have become active in this church around 1947 or so. Alexander Chadbourne Brown's roots in Unitarianism date from his Chadbourne and Holway ancestors, and when his ancestors were in Machias, Maine.
What have I left out from what we talked about? What would you add?
Thoughts, questions, suggestions, new memories in these regards?
Love, Scott
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I knew my grandfather Sandy Brown (Alexander Chadbourne Brown) from just after I was born on 31 December 1960 until he died in ~1987 (1985?). My mother, Janie MacLeod, brother, Sandy MacLeod (b. 5 Oct 1964), and I would visit Granny and Grandpa in Cincinnati, Ohio, from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s many years in the spring, flying there, first I think from Boston, Massachusetts (Lexington, MA, then from Cambridge, MA, then Boston), until around 1966, then from New Haven, Connecticut (Hamden, CT), until about 1971, then from Washington DC (Bethesda, MD) until about 1974, then from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until the second half of the 1970s. My grandfather, Sandy Brown, was a chemical engineer at Emory Industries in Cincinnati, OH, for much of his career, with around 9 patents to his name, in 'fatty acids.' He was born in Boulder, Colorado, spent some of his elementary school years in Vinton, Iowa, after his mother died in Boulder, Colorado, after childbirth in having my great "Aunt Marf," Martha Brown Briscoe, his youngest sister, when Sandy Brown was around 6 years old. Grandpa Sandy Brown went to Phillips Academy Exeter in New Hampshire for at least high school, then to MIT for 2 degrees, spending some time studying in Germany, and then studied I think at Carnegie Tech or the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, PA (having some Scottish ancestry, I think - and possibly significantly). He played classical piano beautifully. He and my Granny Brown were members of the Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, for around 40s years. I recall visiting Grandpa and Granny in their house on Belmont avenue, in Cincinnati, OH, and then in their house on Fairview avenue also in Cincinnati. Both houses had a piano, oriental rugs, and were comfortable and lovely and homey in many ways. My grandfather was an engineer, a chemical engineer, and very knowledgeable about chemistry, geology, and many other sciences (which he had studied at MIT and Exeter, I think), and classical music. He also raised bees, was a gardener, and the Browns had a goat named Nancy Clancy on Belmont avenue. He was a quiet and thoughtful man, and particularly in relation to my talkative grandmother, his wife, whom I have called an 'oral historian' because of her nonstop talking. My grandfather, Sandy Brown, visited the MacLeods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a number of times, after the 4 of us (the MacLeod family) moved to Pittsburgh in 1974, from the Washington DC area (from Bethesda, Maryland, on West Parkhill Drive near the National Institute of Health - NIH), and my father, GKM MD, became a professor of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as taught 'Grand Rounds' in Pitt's medical school. Grandpa Sandy was very forbearing (politely or patiently restrained in an impulse to do something), possibly regarding my grandmother's loquaciousness. Both Granny and Grandpa were born in originally from Boulder, Colorado, so in a sense they were US westerners, before my grandfather spent time growing up in NE Iowa, probably from around 1905 to the mid-1910s, before he went to New England, and first to Boarding School at Phillips Academy Exeter in NH in the 1910s, and then to Cambridge, MA, at MIT around 1920, and studied there in the early 1920s. With my grandfather's tweed jackets, and his gray pants, and white shirts, with a slide ruler in his pocket (which I inherited) - chemical engineering clothes - (and my father's GKM MD's tweed jackets, and suit coats), both my grandfather ACB and father GKM MD wore kind of New England academic and intellectual clothes. I recall going out in the early early morning or similar to see eclipses with my grandfather and family, cutting a hole in a box to see the image of the eclipse in the back of the box, so as not to look at the sun, in order to not hurt the eyes. I recall also going to the 'half dome' architectural feature in the Pittsburgh train station and exploring its interesting acoustic and sound transmitting and focalizing properties. I recall going to see state parks with Indian mounds in Ohio and similar, and to learn about their Indian cultures archaeologically. I recall going on many many museum visits in Cincinnati, and to the Museum of Natural History and Art museums there with my grandfather (and grandmother). My grandfather was a scientific knowledge-oriented thinker, a MIT engineer, and knew the 'hard sciences' - and chemistry and 'fatty acids' for example - from a 1920s' MIT perspective, and developed this knowledge in his career as, I think, the main engineer at Emory Industries in Cincinnati, OH, for much of his adult life. (Brainstorming-wise, in what ways will we be able to bring back Grandpa Sandy Brown as a virtual avatar bot with artificial intelligence and machine learning and to be able to talk with him in the future, and for genealogical questions and conversation (e.g. with artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP) too? Am exploring related questions further in my blog -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history and
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/avatar%20agency) - Scott GK MacLeod (W, May 24, 2023 -
http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm -
http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm)
PPS
Already on this
Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne entry
Biography
Lincoln (1870-1951) was the older brother of Martha Holway Chadbourne (1871-1909), who with his wife, Ginny (Virginia Knox) raised Alexander "Sandy" Chadbourne Brown, Mary Chadbourne Brown, and Martha Holway Brown (when they were young), because their mother (1871-1909) passed away giving birth to Martha Holway Brown. Their father, Alden Hugh Brown, a mining engineer, died in Colombia when these children were fairly young too.
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And it's possible in WikiTree to click through the links (eg from
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524#Ancestors ) of relatives to see how the Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) who accepted the sword of surrender from the British in the American Revolutionary War in 1781 relates to all of us -
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