| Show families wind up meeting of american clan seven hundred invitations were sent out to the wixom family reunion which lasted three days and closed with an outing at saltair saturday evening the newhouse hotel was 1 the headquarters of the organization n the ine invitation told fold er sent to the families throughout the country contained the list of fourteen members ot of the ge general committee of arrangements who represented thirteen different states extending from oregon to new york and from north dakota to texas 4 part of the family festivities were held at the newhouse hotel and others at the miller hall state and thirty t third rd south streets the final event being at saltair Sal tair the most of us are farmers said the family historian justin I 1 H wixom ot of the illinois branch and the various branches of 0 the family include those who spell the name wixom wixon lV ickson and the history of the family in this country started with the landing of robert wixom in massachusetts in lajo 1630 since then the family has scattered tar far and wide and the reunion just closed was a powerful effort on the part ot of one of the branches of the family to bring the scattered clans together the result was fairly successful cess ful we claim no special merit either tor for ou selves or for our ancestors our records tall fail to show that any member ot of our family has ever been in a penitentiary an asylum or in congress we belong to the great mass of 0 common people and most of us still follow the plow tor for a livelihood as our fathers used to do most of the research work in early family history has been done by mrs cornelia mead bagley a wixom descendant seen ant dant living at minneapolis she returned recently from a trip to eng land where she got copies 0 of records or of the family belonging to bygone centuries the historian reports that lie he expects to complete the manuscripts tor for a family history early next year the name of 0 the local organization Is the wixom family genealogical association of 0 which josiah W wixom ot of burley idaho is president and franklin D wixom ot of salt lake secretary tribune |
