Welcome to Boomer Bill's Web
page!
Toot, Toot! Choo, Choo! And Chug, Chug! Goes the train
down the railroad track. At some time in the distant past, railroad workers
were known as boomers. I have been chasing trains since I was three years old
when my father had to do a flying tackle to keep me from self-destructing under
the wheels of a steam switcher on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad
tracks in Houston.
money,
finance, stocks, stockmarket Segar family, Kessler family, Black family, Quinn
family, Hopping family, Weyer family, Slaughter family, Hazard family, Babcock
family, investment clubs, Palatines, Sheffer family, snyder family, Bissell family,
Bush family, Bogardus family
Copyright 1997 by Wm. E.
Wright.
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market, genealogy, family history, Wright family, Cornell Family, Perry family,
Greene family, Fees family, Palatines, Bible, St. James, epistle of James, Kenyon
family, Lewis family,
What Else?
Besides trains, you will find other assorted interesting sidetracks
on the web page: Genealogy, and a commentary on the Epistle of
James from the Bible.
A question for all of ya'll out there. You might have guessed that my favorite way to travel is by train. What is our dog's favorite way to travel?
A Primer on Practical
Christianity
Studies in the Epistle of James
I have been a serious
student of the Bible for over 40 years, almost from the time when I first
placed my trust in Jesus Christ as my Savior. Several times over the years, I
have heard the book of James taught. A few years ago, I decided to put down on
paper my understanding of the book as I had learned it from several Bible
teachers and from my own study. The result is this verse by verse commentary.
Scriptel Ministries published the book. Scriptel shares my concern that correct
teaching of the Bible as the word of God be made available to as many people as
are interested. As a result, the book is available for free. Scriptel
Ministries is a tax-exempt charitable Bible ministry and has qualified as a
501(c)3 charity under the rules of the Internal Revenue Service. Donations to
cover the $2 cost of mailing to addresses in the United States are appreciated.
You can also pick up a copy at my office in Houston, Texas. If you would like
the address, please e-mail a request. The titles of some of the chapters give a idea of some
of the subjects I covered in the book.
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Trials
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Prayer
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Perseverance
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The Source of Testing
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Doers of the Word
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True Religion
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Discrimination
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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Demons Who Believe
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The Sinner and the
Prostitute
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Wisdom, Envy, and
Selfish Ambition
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Criticism
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Patience
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Healing the Weak
Boomer Bill's Model Railroad
Page!
My railroad is named the
Green Bay Southern. I model the locomotives and cars of the Green Bay and Western
Railroad. I also like the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad.
In
May 1998 I began construction on the new Green Bay Southern
Railroad.
Model Railroad
Organizations
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National Model Railroad Association
Here are some photos of
some real trains. Union Pacific Challenger 3985 races from Houston to College Station.
The National Railroad
Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has Green
Bay and Western #315, an Alco Century
430 Diesel locomotive. Another prototype railroad photograph.
Genealogy According to Boomer Bill
. I am
researching the following family surnames. Where do I come
from? Where do you come from? That's the driving question that impels the
genealogist and family historian.
Well,
do you know the answer?
My father and
grandmother said we were related to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and General
Nathanael Greene. These are a couple of famous names that lived around the turn
of the century (Nineteenth century, that is). I thought, "It ought to be
snap to find out how we are related." Don't bet on it! After more than
twenty years of searching, I published a 778 page book with the results of my
research. The relationship I found was no where near as close as family
tradition thought it was. The common link between all of us is the immigrant,
Edward Perry, who settled in the early 1600s in the Sandwich colony in what is
now Massachusetts.
My
book, Ancestors and Descendants of William Browning Greene and Mary
Hoxsie Lewis with Allied Families, includes 42 chapters. Each chapter
is devoted to an immigrant and some of his descendants. The families all lived
in Rhode Island and inter-married at one time or another. Rhode Island was also
the home of General Nathanael Greene and Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The
book contains an extensive genealogy of the PERRYs and a large number of
descendants of the CROSS, GREENE, KENYON, LEWIS, and SEGAR
families. Other families in the book include BABCOCK, BROWNING, HAZARD, HOXSIE, and RATHBUN. There is even
a chapter devoted to the family of Matthew BOOMER.
All copies of the
book have been sold. The text of the book is available on CD-ROM for $19.50.
The CD-ROM includes several formats including HTML, Microsoft Word, PDF, and
WordPerfect. For information, send me an
e-mail.
The following pages give
more information about this book:
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A list of the 42 families that make up
chapters in the book.
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The family of John
Greene of Quidnesset from the book.
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A list of libraries throughout the
United States that have a copy.
Information for Greene
family researchers:
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Summary of information
from many sources about John Greene of Quidnesset.
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The family
of John Greene of Quidnesset from my
book.
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Identifying John Greene, Jr., son of John Greene of Quidnesset.
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Advertising circular for Lora LaMance's The Greene Family and Its Branches.
These two pages describe
my genealogical interests:
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An ahnentafel of my ancestry.
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I am researching these surnames.
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I descend from William Wright, 1707-1776, of Augusta Co., VA.
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Photos from
Mt. Etna, IA, birthplace of my grandmother and gravestones of John
and Anna Fees
I have also written a commentary on the Epistle of James found in the Bible. Copies of this 250 page book are
available free.
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