MARS FAMILY HISTORY
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RELATED INFORMATION ON ORANGE COUNTY NEW YORK
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GENEALOGY
CHILDREN OF STEPHEN MARS AND ANNA MARY DEGRAW MARS
JESSE DURLAND MARS
Jesse Durland Mars was born September 7, 1880 in Bellvale, Orange County, New York. He married Estelle Otis on December 10, 1907 in Florida, New York. Estelle Otis was born on December 22, 1878 in Chester, Orange County, New York. Estelle Otis is the daughter of Josiah Otis and Elizabeth Wickham Bertolf Otis of Orange County, New York.
Jesse Durland Mars attended the S.S. Seward Institute and the medical school of the University of Michigan. He established a very successful medical practice in Florida, New York. He did not have children. Jesse Durland Mars died on June 9, 1951 and is interned in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, New York. Estelle Mars died on December 29, 1962.
This prescription form was found in the bible of Mildred Amelia Hane Mars.
[Bible is in the possession of Jan E. Mars Dalrymple]
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JESSE DURLAND MARS
Headley,Russel. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY NEW YORK. Van Deusen and Elms, Middletown, New York, 1908. Page 895...."JESSE DURLAND MARS, a successful medical practitioner, and one of the youngest in this profession in the county, was born September 7, 1880, at Bellvale, Orange County, N.Y. His parents, when the boy was still at an early age, removed to Florida, N.Y., where they reside at the present time. He first attended school at the Florida Academy, later entering the S.S. Seward Institute, from which he graduated in 1898. The two years immediately following were spent in teaching in order to prepare himself financially for college. In the fall of 1900 the young man entered the medical department of the University of Michigan. He always maintained a high average in his medical course and at his graduation in June, 1904, stood among the first in a class of one hundred. He successfully competed for an interneship in the University Hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich., and spent the year 1904-1905 in that capacity. In order to further round out his medical knowledge and experience a six-months' course in the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City was entered upon. Later on he was resident physician in the Jamaica hospital, at Jamaica, Long Island.
At the beginning of the year 1906 Dr. Mars returned to Florida, where he had spent his youth, and began the practice of his chosen profession. He soon identified himself with the Orange County Medical Society, the New York Medical Society, and the American Medical Association , in all of which he is actively interested.
His father, Stephen Mars, was born in Germany in 1843. When twenty-two years of age he came to America, located in Orange County, and engaged in farming. In 1872 he married Annie Mary DeGraw, a native of Orange County. Eight children were born to this couple, Jesse D., the subject of this sketch, being the fifth.
On December 10, 1907, Dr. Mars married Estelle Otis, the second youngest daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth W. Otis. The Otis family is among the earliest residents of Orange County, the ancestors of Mrs. Mars having come over in the Mayflower. Dr. and Mrs. Mars now occupy the property of the late James A. Boyd."
BIOGRAPHY OF JESSE DURLAND MARS
HISTORY OF THE VALLEY OF THE HUDSON, RIVER OF DESTINY, 1609-1930.
Volume IV, The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., Chicago, 1931. Page 283...."JESSE
D. MARS, M.D. Dr. Jesse D. Mars, who has been engaged in the general practice
of medicine at Florida, Orange County, since 1905, has built up a large and
important practice and has earned a wide reputation for his ability in his
profession. He was born on September 7, 1880, in Bellvale, Orange County,
New York, and is a son of Stephen and Anna (DeGraw) Mars. His father was born
in Germany and came to the United States in young manhood, and in 1867 came
to the town of Warwick and devoted his life to farming pursuits, and his death
occurred here in Florida in 1928. The mother was born in Greenwood Lake, New
York, and her death occurred in 1926. To these parents were born eight children,
of whom five are deceased, the survivors being, Stephen, who resides in Washingtonville,
New York; Mary, who is the wife of Joseph L. Jacoby and lives in Michigan,
and Jesse D., of this review. Jesse D. received his education in the public
schools and in Seward Institute, and then matriculated in the medical school
of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated, with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine, in 1904. He served one year as interne in the University
of Michigan hospital and six months in the Manhattan and Jamaica hospitals,
of New York city. He then located in Florida, where he has ministered to the
physical ills of the people with very gratifying results. Dr. Mars was united
in marriage to Miss Estelle Otis, a daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Bertholf)
Otis, an old pioneer family of Orange county. Otisville is named in honor
of this family. In his political views Dr. Mars is a republican and his religious
connection is with the Presbyterian Church, of which he is a trustee. He is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a trustee of Warwick Lodge, No.
544, F. & A.M., of which he was master in 1925 and of the Tall Cedars
of Lebanon; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Middletown, and
the Rotary Club of Warwick He is a director of the Florida National Bank.
He maintains professional affiliation with the Orange County Medical Society
and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the staff of Elizabeth
A. Horton Hospital at Middletown and the Goshen Emergency Hospital. He is
a man of genial and kindly manner and during the years of his residence in
this community he has to a marked degree commanded the confidence and respect
of the people."
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR JESSE DURLAND MARS
"Mr. and Mrs. George S. Vail announce the marriage of their sister Estelle Otis to Jesse Durland Mars, M.D. on Tuesday, December the tenth nineteen hundred and seven, Florida, New York"
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STEPHEN HENRY MARS & BERTHA JANE BALLARD MARS FAMILY PHOTOS
OBITUARY - STEPHEN HENRY MARS -b. 1877; d. 1952
OBITUARY- BERTHA JANE BALLARD MARS - b. 1876; d. 1957
OBITUARY- ANNA MARY DEGRAW MARS
STEPHEN MARS - b. July 15, 1842; d. January 7, 1929