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Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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  1. Please also remember in your prayers United States Marine Corps Captain Matthew Patrick Manoukian, killed in action in Afghanistan 10 Aug 2012 while protecting his comrades, liberating Afghans from cruel oppression, and serving his country in the finest tradition of the United States Naval Service.

  2. You may already have this, but I found him in the 1860 census (MA, Middlesex County, Lowell, Ward 2, p. 64 (222)) as Achidore Garrabed. He is a machinist living in a boarding house. The next person listed after him, Simon Mannison (a medical student), born in Turkey, might also be an Armenian, perhaps named Simon Minasian.

    • Hi Mark, Paul Sookiasian alerted me as to your discovery of Simon Mannison boarding with Khatchatour Garabedian in the 1860 Lowell census. You are correct in your assumption that Simeon Minassian, the Civil War Doctor, and Mannison are the same person. Today I went to the Lowell Public Library for the proof. I checked the city directories again. In 1859 there is shown a Simon Manassian, student boarding at 21 Prescott Corporation,the same address as Khatchatour. In 1861 he is listed as Simon G. Minassian, Medical student, boarding at 57 Massachusetts Corporation. Khatchatour boarded at 58 Mass. Corp. Thus the correct spelling and his medical background proves that two Armenian Civil war veterans lived together as room mates, for a time, in Lowell Massachusetts, before they went to war, a source of pride for all Armenians. Thanks, Mark

  3. Excellent find with noticing Simon Mannison! I believe that Simon Minasian was one at least three or more Armenian doctors who also served during the Civil War, what an incredible indication that Garabedian knew at least one of his fellow Civil War Armenians!

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