Paul Herbert Wesley b. 4 Apr 1869 Port Chester, Westchester County, New York, USA d. 22 Dec 1937 Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA: Our Family History

1869 - 1937 (68 years)

Name	Paul Herbert Wesley
Nickname	Herb
Born	4 Apr 1869	Port Chester, Westchester County, New York, USA [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
Census	20 Jan 1870	18th district and 18th ward (107 Lexington Avenue), New York, New York, USA [4]
	1. Wesley, Edward, 45, male, broker, Massachusetts 2. _____, Elizabeth, 40, female, Massachusetts 3. _____, Ida, 14, female, New York 4. Brown, Edward, 30, male, broker, New York 5. _____, Joanna, 26, female, New York 6. _____, Edward, 7, male, New York 7. _____, Herbert, 1, male, New York 8. Fleming, Catharine, 25, female, domestic, Ireland 9. Duffy, Eliza, 38, female, domestic, Ireland 10. Duff, Mary, 27, female, domestic, Ireland
Census	26 Jun 1880	Port Chester village, town of Rye, Westchester County, New York, USA, [5]
	1. Westley [Wesley], Edward B., white, male, 69, married, Massachusetts, Scotland, Massachusetts 2. _____, Elizabeth, white, female, 60, wife, married, keeping house, New York, New York, New York 3. Brown, Johannah, white, female, 35, daughter, New York, Massachusetts, New York 4. _____, Edward W., white, male, 16, son in law, at school, attending school, New York, Switzerland, New York 5. _____, Paul H., white, male, 11, son in law, at school, attending school, New York, Switzerland, New York 6. _____, Gertrude, white, female, 9, grand daughter, attending school, New York, Switzerland, New York
Note	Abt 1883 [6]
	When fourteen years old, Paul H. Wesley ran away from his grandfather's "palatial home" in Port Chester. " 'Herb' Wesley, he mused today, did not get along well with his wealthy father, whose great red brick mansion on North Regent Street was the most massive structure of its kind in this section and looked out, from its eminence, upon hundreds of acres of cultivated land, meadows, sheep, and cattle pastures. The boy, each day, was driven to Peck's Institute in Greenwich by one of the several Wesley coachmen--a light carriage and spirited pair of horses making the trip possible with what was great speed in those days. "But a motherless home and a sternly disciplined school stirred the high spirited well-developed lad to rebellion. One day he disappeared. Several years passed--no word came from him to a father who was anxious though unbending in his resentment of the boy's conduct.--Then, as suddenly as he had gone, 'Herb' Wesley came back--to recover from a rifle wound he had suffered while adventuring in strife-ridden Mexico. "Physically, mentally and in experience, the boy by then had become a man. As his injury healed and his strength returned, the lure of the open road again gripped him. Off he went--never again to return until yesterday. More than four decades of varied experiences filled that interlude. There were fourteen years of roaming up and down and back and forth across the country as a 'tramp printer'--his father had been a printer, his grandfather had been a printer, his brother was a printer, and he found himself possessed of a natural aptitude for the trade. "Finally, somehow, 'Herb' Wesley found himself settled at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina--on the verge of a vast wilderness and in a little town founded by pirates who infested the South Atlantic seaboard during the years preceding the Revolutionary War. He had come there to work and fish and hunt, but had been captivated by the flashing black eyes of a girl--and he has been there ever since. "From printing he turned to sign painting, and from sign painting he went to farming. The forests were literally infested with game and the streams abounding in fish. Gradually the section about Murrells Inlet became a favorite haunt for wealthy Northerners who came to shoot and fish. Many of them knew or had heard of 'Herb' Wesley's father, for years a powerful figure in the financial district of New York, and these men became both fast friends of the younger Wesley and frequent visitors to his picturesque home. They retained him as their guide and companion on sporting expeditions. "Yes, 'Herb' Wesley prospered--in more ways than one. He ha married happily and was the father of several sturdy youngsters. With growing responsibility and contentment he lost his wanderlust. Murrells Inlet, between the sea and the forest, never will lose him. There he resides in utter happiness with his wife and their children--a son who is a full-grown man, and five daughters. . . . "One of Wesley's achievements has been the writing of a song, Moonbeams on the Strand, which has brought him a handsome competence in royalties. That song reveals, perhaps, the reason why 'Herb' Wesley never left Murrells Inlet, for in part it sings, 'Golden sand, I'm lonesome; swirling tides, I'm blue--when the day is o'er I'm yearning, for a sight of you'. . . "Paul H. Wesley's father, the late Edward B. Wesley, founded the New York Tiimes in 1851, in company with Harry J. Raymond and George Jones. Wesley was the business man of the combine and subsequently, in addition to his success with the Times, he helped found the Union Trust Company, the Park Bank and the Nassau Bank in New York."
Census	12 Jun 1900	Berkeley township, Ocean County, New Jersey, USA [1]
	1. Wesley, Paul H., head, white, male, born April 1869, 31, married 5 years, New York, New York, New York, "days labour," can read and write, renting house 2. _____, Hannah, wife, white, female, December 1876, 23, married 5 years, 2 children 1 living, England, England, England, can read and write 3. _____, Anna M., daughter, white, female, March 1897, 3, New York, New York, England 4. _____, Edward W., brother, white, male, August 1864, 35, single, New York, New York, New York, printer (paper room), can read and write
Census	25 Apr 1910	Conway township, Horry County, South Carolina, USA [7]
	1. Wesley, Paul H., head, male, white, 41, second marriage, married 14 years, New York, New York, New York, farmer, truck farm, employee, can read and write, owns farm, mortgaged 2. _____, Hannah M., wife, female, white, 33, first marriage, married 14 years, England, England, England, farm labor, home farm, can read and write 3. _____, Hannah M., daughter, female, white, 13, New York, New York, England, can read and write, attending school 4. _____, Howard H., son, male, white, 7, Virginia, New York, England, attending school 5. _____, Helen R., daughter, female, white, 3, South Carolina, New York, England 6. Green, John H., boarder, male, white, 53, single, Delaware, Ireland, United States, farm laborer, working out, can read and write
Census	12 Jan 1920	Township 7 (Murrells Inlet), Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA [8]
	1. Wesley, Paul H., head, owns, mortgaged, male, white, 51, married, can read and write, New York, New York, New York, farmer, general, own account, farm schedule 1 2 _____, Hannah M., wife, female, white, 43, married, year of immigration unknown, naturalized, can read and write, England, England, England, no occupation 3. _____, Howard F., son, male, white, 17, single, can read and write, Virginia, New York, England, no occupation 4. _____, Helen R., daughter, female, white, 12, attending school, can read and write, South Carolina, New York, England 5. _____, Kathleen J., daughter, female, white, attending school, South Carolina, New York, England 6. _____, Alice O., daughter female, white, attending school, South Carolina, New York, England
Census	7 Apr 1930	Township 7 (Murrells Inlet and Waverly Mills), Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA [9]
	1. Wesley, Paul H., head, owns, [value illegible], owns radio set, lives on farm, male, white, 60, married, first married age 25, can read and write, New York, New York, New York, taxidermist, at home, not a veteran, farm schedule 26 2. _____, Hannah, wife, female, white, 53, first married age 18, can read and write, England, England, England, [year of immigration unknown], naturalized 3. _____, H. Ruth, daughter, female, white, 22, single, South Carolina, New York, England, can read and write, teacher, public school 4. _____, [K.?] Irene, daughter, female, white, 19, single, attending school, can read and write, South Carolina, New York, England 5. _____, Alice O., daughter, female, white, 17, single, attending school, can read and write, South Carolina, New York, England 6. _____, June M., daughter, female, white, 9, attending school, can read and write, South Carolina, New York, England
Note	Author of a book of poems and sketches. Paul Herbert Wesley, Bits of Driftwood (Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1936).
Died	22 Dec 1937	Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA [2, 3]
Buried	Belin Cemetery, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA [2]
Person ID	I11	Morse-Watkins
Last Modified	28 Jun 2011

Father	Edward Sandstrom Brown, b. 26 Oct 1838, New York City, New York, USA , d. 3 Aug 1923, Togus, Kennebeck County, Maine, USA (Age 84 years)
Mother	Johanna Caroline Wesley, b. Abt 1844, New York, USA
Married	28 Oct 1862	Westchester County, New York, USA [10]
Divorced	Between 1870-1880 [5]
Family ID	F16	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Hannah Matthews, b. Dec 1876, Boulton, England , d. 26 Nov 1950 (Age ~ 73 years)

Married Abt 1895 [1]

Children

+	1. May Wesley, b. 6 Mar 1897, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA , d. 24 Jan 1975 (Age 77 years)
	2. Howard F. Wesley, b. Abt 1903, Virginia, USA
	3. H. Ruth Wesley, b. Abt 1908, South Carolina, USA
	4. Irene Wesley, b. Abt 1911, South Carolina, USA
	5. Alice O. Wesley, b. Abt 1913, South Carolina, USA
	6. June M. Wesley, b. Abt 1921, South Carolina, USA

Last Modified 13 Jun 2011

Family ID F6 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents » Slide Show		Paul H. Wesley, death certificate, 1950, Georgetown County, South Carolina "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1943," database and digital images, Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 June 2011), entry for Paul H. Wesley, death certificate no. 18955, Georgetown County (1950); citing South Carolina, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Columbia.
		Edward B. Wesley, census 1870, New York, New York (Lexington Avenue) 1870 U.S. Census, New York, New York County, population schedule, 18th district and 18th ward, p. 92 (penned), p. 547 (stamped, recto), 107 Lexington Avenue [no dwelling/family numbes], Edward Wesley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1041.
		Edward B. Wesley, article in the New York Times, 1906 “Dean of Speculators, Edward B. Wesley, Dies,” New York Times, 4 October 1906, [p. and col. not stated]; digital image, New York Times Archive, 1851-1980 ( http://www.nytimes.com : accessed 17 Jun 2011).
		Edward B. Wesley, 1880 Westchester County, New York, census 1880 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, population schedule, Village of Port Chester, town of Rye, enumeration district (ED) 124, p. 65 (penned), p. 279 (stamped), dwelling 569, family 673, Edward B. Westley [Wesley] household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication…
		Interview, New York Times, Paul H. Wesley, 1936 Greenfield, George, "Wood, Field and Stream," New York Times, 26 October 1936, p. 25, col. 1-2; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) full page view; premium database, Seattle Public Library (www.spl.org : downloaded 27 December 2014).

Notes

Mother, Johanna Caroline (Wesley) Brown, daughter of Edward Barton Wesley (founder of the NY Times) and wife Elizabeth Kelley.

Johanna married Edward Sandstrom Brown in 1861. She apparently separated, moved back to her father's home and her son, Paul, took the name Wesley? Was he legally adopted by his grandfather?

Sources

[S3] 1900 U.S. census, Ocean County, New Jersey, population schedule, Berkeley township, enumeration district (ED) 152, sheet 6B, p. 23 (stamped, verso), dwelling 140, family 142, Paul H. Wesley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 989.
[S1] Morse photograph album, created by Judy (Morse) Rhodes, June 2011, at the birth of James Rutherford Watkins; containing many family names and dates; in the possession of Russell and Jordan (Gilmore) Watkins (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina).
[S1457] "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1943," database and digital images, Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 16 June 2011), entry for Paul H. Wesley, death certificate no. 18955, Georgetown County (1950); citing South Carolina, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Columbia. .
[S1461] 1870 U.S. Census, New York, New York County, population schedule, 18th district and 18th ward, p. 92 (penned), p. 547 (stamped, recto), 107 Lexington Avenue [no dwelling/family numbes], Edward Wesley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1041.
[S1464] 1880 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, population schedule, Village of Port Chester, town of Rye, enumeration district (ED) 124, p. 65 (penned), p. 279 (stamped), dwelling 569, family 673, Edward B. Westley [Wesley] household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 947.
[S1475] Paul H. Wesley, Bits of Driftwood (Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., 1936); from the “Publisher’s Foreward,” offering a reprinted article from the Port Chester (New York) Daily Item. The foreward does not offer the article’s date of publication, other than “a few years ago.” Internal evidence places the date of publication at around 1928.
[S1476] 1910 U.S. census, Horry County, South Carolina, population schedule, Conway township, enumeration district (ED) 47, sheet 29B, p. 84 (stamped, verso), dwelling 211, family 211, Paul H. Wesley household; digital image, Heritage Quest Online ( http://persi.heritagequestonline.com.ezproxy.spl.org:2048/hqoweb/library/do/census/search/basic : accessed 28 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1463.
[S1432] 1920 U.S. census, population schedule, township 7 (Murrells Inlet), enumeration district (ED) 76, sheet 1A, p. 205 (stamped, recto), dwelling 1, family 1, Paul H. Wesley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1696. .
[S1430] 1930 U.S. census, population schedule, township 7 (Murrells Inlet and Waverly Mills), enumeration district (ED) 12, sheet 4A, p. 271 (stamped, recto), dwelling 70, family 70, Paul H. Wesley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 June 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2197.
[S56] "Married,"New York Times, 31 October 1862, p. 5, col. 3, notice of marriage Edward S. Brown-Joanna Caroline Wesley; digital image, Newspaper.com (http://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 29 December 2014).