Luther Morrill Cody
1941 HANDBOOK—DIRECTORY
The Cody Family Directory compiled by Luther M. Cody, was first published by Hiram S. and Sherwin Cody in 1925 and revised in 1927. Later editions of Luther's compilations were edited and published by Ernest W. and Ella Jean Cody issued in 1936, 1941 and 1952. Lydia S. Cody issued the 1954 Directory , reprinted in 1967. Aldus M. and Evon G. Cody issued one for 1964. The Directory was revised in 1969, 1974, 1979 and 1984. "Philip and Martha their Sons and Daughters" was published as Volume I in 1981 followed by Vol. II in 1982, and reprinted in 1986, as a single book. Also, "Five Generations" was released in 1986. All published by the Association under the direction of Aldus M. Cody, who also maintained the lists.
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APPENDIX B
To Luther Morrill Cody may be attributed the idea of the Cody Family
Directory. It was as he sought to increase the Association membership that
the idea came to him; for, he began then to make a list of the Codys who were
proven to be of our genealogical family. Soon after he started this, a Cody
chart compiled by the late James L. Chapman was sent him by the Chicago
Cody family (5th. gen. Hiram Cody branch), a member of which Phila Mina
Cody (1850-1890) had been helpful to Mr. Chapman in collecting material for
this. With the help of this chart Luther’s list was soon considerably
augmented, and it then seemed to him that this should be in the hands of all
interested to further the work of a complete genealogy of the family. He
accordingly proceeded to prepare the list for publication as a genealogical
directory, which with the financial backing of Hiram Sedgwick Cody, of
Chicago, and Sherwin Cody, of New York, was printed in 1925 and soon
thereafter distributed to the Association membership. This was a slender
little booklet of twelve pages listing a portion of the descendants of sixteen
fifth generation branches. During the more than fifteen years since this
first publication two other editions have been published. The 1927 edition was
more than double the 1925 booklet, listing descendants of twenty-nine fifth
generation branches, and running thirty-two pages. In 1936 another edition
came into being, prepared through the joint efforts of Luther Morrill Cody
and Ernest William Cody, listing descendants of thirty-seven fifth generation
branches and expanding to forty-eight pages. In our 1941 edition has been
listed the descendants of fifty-four fifth generation branches and the
responsibility for the collection and preparation of this material has been that of
our Secretary-Treasurer, Ernest William Cody; in this work he has been
fortunate in having the valuable help of his able wife, Ella Jean Keck CodyThe Cody Family Directory Too much importance cannot be attached to the value of these directories; they have provided the connecting links among our families, and to the originator of the idea sufficient credit cannot be extended. —L. S. C.
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