Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Florence Marie Cronise, 8 South 50 West
In 1870 Wayne County, New York, "Flora" M. is 9, with John S. Cronise 45 and Maria A> 44. Mary L. Cronise is 13.
Maria A. Miller Cronise 1827-1877 is buried in Wayne County # 176926110.
Her father is likely Joseph A. Miller dying 1879, buried in Wayne County # 40085557.
"Cronise, John S., was born in Arcadia, May 22, 1825, was educated in the Union School and the Academy, and his early life was spent on his father's farm till the age of twenty, when he went to Virginia, and managed a general store for his cousin in Martinsburg, and another in Shepardstown. Returning to his native county he became a clerk for Remsen and Polemus, of Lyons, remaining four years. in 1854 he opened a hardware store at Newark, in company with A. T. Cressy, the firm being Cressy & Cronise, which continued nine years. His wife's father, Joseph A. Miller, bought Mr. Cressy's interest, and the firm became Miller & Cronise. In 1884 the business was sold to Frank Garlock, and he then retired from active business. In 1853 Mr. Cronise married Maria A. Miller. Their children were: Mary L., Florence M., Joseph A., and two who died in infancy. Mrs. Cronise died March 28, 1877, and he married, second. Anna A. Reed, of Newark. "
Florence is still with her father and sister in 1880 Wayne County.
(Mary Cronise Hines 1857-1890 is buried in Indianapolis # 19837719.)
John Cronise 1825-1901 is buried in Wayne County # 176926109.
"Bishop Mills, Superintendent J. R. King, of the Sherbro-Mendi Mission, Superintendent L. A. McGrew and wife, and Miss Florence M. Cronise, of the Bompeh Mission, accompanied by thirty-six black men as porters, interpreters, guides, and cooks, in the month of December, 1896, made a journey through the Mendi country, going beyond Panguma, to Lalakun. Going eastward this party followed the path leading from Freetown through Rotufunk, Kwallu, Taiama, Mongherri, Gobabu, Jagbwima to Panguma. Returning, they parted company at Konduma, Bishop Mills and Mr. King and their men returning through Damballah, Jama, Mano, Jobahun Gbambaiah, Mano Bagru, to Bonthe. The other party returned through Taiama to Rotufunk. The journey was undertaken to learn the proper places for locating new missions.
1894 
1898 
In 1910 Flagler, Colroado, Florence is living alone, single, 49, born in New York, a public school teacher.
"She created a collection consisting
of two large scrapbooks documenting missionary work and travels in Japan from 1913-1920."
"Florence M. Cronise was born in Newark, New York. She was educated in Rochester New York, and at LaSell Seminary, Auburn, Massachusetts. Ms. Cronise was a United Brethren missionary and English teacher who worked in the United States, Sierra Leone, and Japan. Her career as an educator included teaching and/or administrative positions at Earlham College, Otterbein College, Western (Leander Clark) College, and Nagoya College. "
"Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Florence M. Cronise and Henry W. Ward. Cronise was a teacher at a mission school in Sierra Leone."
"This little volume is sent forth with many misgivings. It claims neither literary excellence nor an entrancing theme, but professes fidelity to truth, and a desire to call attention to certain quaint and interesting phases of the inner life of a much misunderstood race.
In the compilation of these folk-lore tales, the one aim has been to make them accessible to English readers, and at the same time to retain as much as possible of their native grace and quaintness.
To accomplish this aim, the stories have been told in the dialect used by the people in their intercourse with the English, and an attempt has been made to embody the tales in a native setting with local atmosphere and colour. In addition it has seemed necessary to make a rather copious use of footnotes and explanations.
Much care has been exercised not to modify the spirit
and real content of the stories. The plots and the clever
little inventions are wholly native. It has seemed advisable
to select only a few of the more readable stories, in the hope
that they may win the sympathy of the general reader, rather than to attempt an extended collection that would discourage all but special students of folk-lore.
The stories themselves possess much intrinsic merit; if they fail to enlist the reader, the fault must be ascribed to the compilers.
The sole credit for discovering and collecting the stories is due to Miss Cronise; the arrangements of the stories here presented, and their setting, have been largely the work of Mr. Ward.
The authors are under many obligations to Mr. Alfred Sumner, a native African now in this country at college, whose intimate acquaintance with the life and customs of his people proved most helpful; also to Rev. D. F. Wilberforce, a native missionary, who has long been interested in the oral literature of his country, and in consequence has been able to give us suggestions of unusual value. To Miss Minnie Eaton of Moyamba Mission, and to other friends, who spared no pains to place desired information within our reach, and especially to the Mission boys and girls in Africa whose sympathetic interest made this collection a possibility, the gratitude of the authors is due.
Florence M. Cronise.
Henry W. Ward."
Leander Clark College, Toledo, Ohio, "under control of the United Brethren Church", 300 students in 1909.
Professors included " Florence M. Cronise, Ph.M., Modern Languages."
1910 
1911 Leander Clark College
"Professor Ward, with only nineteen years of actual teaching in
this College, holds the record so far for length of service
on the faculty, a rather sad commentary on the brevity
of the average duration of service in that body. It may
be noticed, however, as a hopeful sign that those two
longest terms overlap for several years at the middle, and
in the extremes reach over a considerable portion of
the history of the institution; and, furthermore, that
Professor Yothers and Miss Cronise, who jointly have
already reached the next longest terms, date back into that
overlapping period.
Upon the death of Professor McClelland, Professor
Ward was transferred to the Chair of English Literature, and at the same time was elected vice president of the
College.
"
Florence claimed a quarter in section 15, 8S 50W in 1912.
1913 Leander Clark College committees:
Florence registered at the U.S. Consulate in Kobe, Japan in 1918.
Florence is in Flagler in 1930 and 1940.
She's buried in Flagler 1861-1949 # 15792973.
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