Alelaide E. Rochester

Alelaide E. Rochester

Female Abt 1914 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Alelaide E. Rochester  [1
    Birth Abt 1914  NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I12354  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2023 

    Father John Comyn Rochester, ^,   b. 13 Dec 1883, Brooklyn, Kings, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1970, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Metta Miller,   b. 24 Oct 1888, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1973, Tarrytown, Greenburgh, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 22 Mar 1911  New York, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Divorce Aft 1920 
    Family ID F5474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family [h.\ Adelaide] Smith,   b. Abt 1914   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F5479  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2025 

  • Sources 
    1. [S109] 1920 Census (Ancestry.com, and HeritageQuest.com Enumerated January 1920.), Census Place: Dobbs Ferry, Westchester, New York; Roll T625_1276; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 38; Image: 169.

    2. [S24] article, New York Times, New York, NY, 23 Mar 1911. p. 9.
      Miss Metta Miller Weds.
      Gen. Miller's Daughter married to J. C. Rochester, Revolutionary Figure.

      The wedding of Miss Metta S. Miller, daughter of Gen. Charles Miller of Franklin, Penn., and John C. Rochester of Yonkers took place at noon yesterday in the state apartment at the Waldorf-Astoria. The ceremony, which was witnessed only by members of the two families, was performed by the Rev. Dr. Arthur H. Judge, rector of St. Matthew's Church in West Eighty-fourth Street.

      A wedding breakfast was given afterward by Gen. and Mrs. Miller in their apartments at the hotel.

      The bride was an honor graduate at Ogontz College, near Philadelphia two years ago, and is a lover of outdoor sports, particularly sailing. It was during a sailing trip that she first met Mr. Rochester, who, although only 27 years old, has made two trips around the world in a sailing vessel, and about eight years ago, as Captain and part owner of the schooners Fortuna and Intrepid, which traded through the West Indies and along the Spanish main, he figured in some of the revolutionary troubles of South and Central America.

      Recently he was in command of the ship on which Gen. [Rafael] Reyes of Columbia set out to capture Bluefields [1909], but which attempt was abandoned after the party sent ashore had been made prisoners. For this young Rochester incurred the enmity of President [José Santos] Zelaya of Nicaragua, and he was afterward attacked by Selaya's soldiers who clubbed him with their bayonets and put him in prison, but he escaped.

      Last May he gave up the sea and is now one of the Superintendents of the Federal Sugar Refinery at Yonkers. He is the son of the late Dr. Thomas Moore Rochester of Brooklyn, who was a lineal descendant of Col. Nathaniel Rochester, for whom the City of Rochester, N.Y. was named.