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Family History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Augur of New Haven Colony, Page 245
418. Walter Wheaton, was b. Feb. 5, 1858, at Fort Hoskins, Ore.--a military outpost established by his father, Major-General Christopher Columbus Augur--then a captain in the 4th Infantry. Gen. Augur came to Connecticut two or three years before his death, and, with the writer's father, visited the birthplace of his grandfather, Felix Augur, at Turkey Hill, in the town of Haddam.
Walter W. m. July 2, 1884, Nellie Avery; b. April 29, 1860; dau. of Newell and Nancy Clapp (Eddy) of Detroit. He graduated from the literary department of Michigan University
and received the B. A. degree in 1878, and from the law department in 1881, with the degree of LL. B. He went to Chicago after completing the law course at the University, and continued his studies in the law office of Lawrence, Campbell & Lawrence. He was admitted to practise in Illinois in 1881, and became a member of the law firm of Jameson, Marston & Augur of Chicago, and later of the firm of Marston, Augur & Tuttle. At present he is not associated with others, his office being at 131 LaSalle Street. He has been interested in this genealogy as was also his father. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. Of his children, Margaret was born at Evanston, Ill., and the others at Chicago.
*579. Margaret Avery, b. April 18, 1885.
580. Wheaton, b. July 18, 1888.
581. Ellen Adair, b. Dec. 8, 1891.
582. Newell Avery, b. Dec. 2, 1897.
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