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GENEALOGICAL

AND

FAMILY HISTORY

OF

CENTRAL NEW YORK

A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING
OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE BUILDING
OF A NATION

COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.
corresponding secretary and historian of new england historic-genealogical
society; librarian emeritus of woburn public library; author
of "Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," etc., etc.

VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED

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LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1912

Copyright 1912
BY
Lewis Historical Publishing Company.

NEW YORK

The immigrant ancestor of the
HATCH Hatch family of Buffalo, New
York, herein recorded, was a son
of Sir Walter Hatch, of England.
(i) William Hatch, the first of his name
in America, and one of the earliest settlers of
Scituate, Massachusetts, was born in Sand
wich, Kent county, England, from which place
he emigrated to America before 1633. In the
course of a year or two he went back to Eng
land for his family, and returned in March,
1635, in the ship "Hercules," with his wife
Jane, five children and six servants. He set
tled in Scituate in Kent street in 1634, prior
to his return to England, and on arriving the
second time, with his family, resumed his resi
dence there. He kept a store and was rated
a merchant of ability. He was a very active
and useful man in town and church, being
lieutenant of militia and the first ruling elder
of the Second Church of Scituate, which was
founded in 1644. He died November 6, 1651.
Thomas Hatch, supposed to have been an
elder brother of William, lived first in Dor
chester, but moved to Scituate, where he died
in 1646, leaving five children : Jonathan, Wil
liam, Thomas, Alice and Hannah. Children of
William and Jane Hatch, all born in England :
Jane, married John Lovell; Annie, married,
1648, Lieutenant James Torrey; Walter, of
further mention; Hannah, married, 1648,
Samuel Utley; William, died in Virginia,
about 1646, married Abigail Hewes, and had
Phoebe; Jeremiah, died in 1713, married, in
1657, Mary Hewes, and had fourteen children.
(II) Walter, eldest son of Elder William
and Jane Hatch, was born in England, in
1623 ; died in Scituate, Massachusetts, March,
1701. He is on the list of those capable of
bearing arms in 1643. He settled on a point
of land in Scituate, southeast of the Second
Society's meeting house, and spent his life in
farming. He married (first) May 6, 1650,
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Jane Hol-
brook of Weymouth, who was mother of all
his children. He married (second) Mary
 of Marshfield, August 5, 1674. Chil
dren all born in Scituate: Hannah, born

March 13, 1651; Samuel, December 22, 1653,
farmer and shipwright; Jane, March 7, 1656;
Antipas, October 26, 1658, died unmarried,
December 7, 1705; Bethia, March 31, 1661,
married, 1683, Michael Ford; John, July 8,
1664, died August, 1737; Israel, of further
mention; Joseph, December 9, 1669.
(Ill) Israel, son of Walter and Elizabeth
(Holbrook) Hatch, was born in Scituate,
Massachusetts, March 25, 1667, died October,
1740. He married, July 27, 1699, Elizabeth
Hatch, a kinswoman. Children : Lydia, born
October 16, 1699; Israel (2), May 5, 1701,
married Mary Hatch, had Bethial Thomas,
born October 27, 1725 ; Elizabeth, January 22,
1704, married Samuel Oakman, of Marshfield,
January 6, 1725; David, of further mention;
Jonathan, October 28, 1709.
(IV) David, son of Israel and Elizabeth
Hatch, was born April 9, 1707. He married,
March 7, 1731, Elizabeth Chittenden. Chil
dren : Zephaniah, of further mention ; David,
born May 2, 1735 ; Desire, January 24, 1740;
Thomas, May 20, 1743 ; Lucy, March 29, 1746;
Rachel, October 12, 1748.
(V) Zephaniah, eldest son of David and
Elizabeth (Chittenden) Hatch, was born in
Scituate, Massachusetts, March 18, 1732, and
died in Pembroke, Massachusetts, November
19, 1815. He married there (second) May 7,
1 77 1, Mary Vinal. (Published intentions of
marriage add a "Mrs." to her name.) This
is no doubt a second wife. The vital records
of Scituate do not contain his death nor the
birth of any of his children, these being re
corded at Pembroke, Massachusetts. Three of
his name, Zephaniah, served in the revolution,
from Pembroke, Massachusetts, the first two
in Captain Thomas Turner's company, in 1775,
three days, and again in 1777, one month and
three days. This is undoubtedly Zephaniah Sr.
in both cases. He enlisted again in 1778, in
Captain Ichabod Bonney's company, serving
two months and eleven days. (Massachusetts
Records). The third name is undoubtedly
Zephaniah {2), son of Zephaniah (1). He
also served from Pembroke, as sergeant of
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1775, and served under several enlistments un
til 1780. Children of first wife, name not
known : Josiah, of further mention ; Deborah,
baptized May 3, 1761 ; Ruth, September 9,
1764; Sarah, October 12, 1766. Child of
second wife: Lucinda, baptized November 8,
1772. (VI) Josiah, son of Zephaniah (1) and
Mary (Vinal) Hatch, was born 1754, in Pem
broke, Massachusetts, and baptized September
18, 1759. He served in the revolution from
Pembroke, as a private in Captain Freedom
Chamberlain's company ; marched March 5,
1776, served five days with the company when
it marched on the alarm of March 5, 1776, at
the time of taking Dorchester Heights ; also
in Captain John Turner's company, Colonel
Theophilus Cotton's regiment, marched Sep
tember 28, 1777, service one month three days.
Family authorities say that he served as sur
geon. He married, in Duxbury, Massachu
setts, November 7, 1779, Elizabeth Weston,
and settled in Granville, Massachusetts.
(VII) Junius Hopkins, son of Josiah and
Elizabeth (Weston) Hatch, was born in Gran
ville, Massachusetts, about 1795, died in Buf
falo, New York, April 20, 1869. He obtained
a good education, and for several years taught
school. During these years he prepared for
the profession of law under the perceptorship
of Judge William Van Ness and Ogden Ed
wards. He was admitted to the bar, and in
1839 settled in Buffalo, New York, where he
engaged in the practice of his profession and
dealt in real estate, dealing extensively in
Michigan lands. He not only was instru
mental in sending many settlers to that state,
but with his wife became pioneer settlers. They
settled near what is now St. Joseph, Michigan,
where he cleared a farm and founded a set
tlement. While he was so engaged his wife,
who was an earnest missionary worker, opened
a mission school, the first in the state. After
enduring the perils and hardships of the pion
eer and helping to create a state, he returned
to Buffalo, which he had always considered
his home, and passed his last days in that city
in the enjoyment of the wealth his pioneer
enterprise had brought him. He was a man
of great learning and energy. He took a
leader's part wherever he was, and always
commanded the respect of his fellows. He
was elected to the New York state assembly
and served with credit. He married, in 1835,
Sarah Catherine Mitchell, of New York City,

born 1815, died 1847. Children who grew to
maturity: 1. Junius Hopkins (2), born in
Monroe, Michigan, April 5, 1837 ; now a resi
dent of Lansing, Michigan; married Anna
Robinson, and has Lottie, Elsie and Roger
Conant. 2. Edward N., born in New York
City, February 8, 1841 ; married, February 24,
1873, Mary Thayer. Children : William, Al
bert, Rose and Conant. 3. Albert Gallatin, of
further mention. 4. William B., born Septem
ber 2, 1845, died October 19, 1868; unmarried.
5. Grace B., born October 27, 1849; un
married. (VIII) Albert Gallatin, son of Junius Hop
kins and Sarah Catherine (Mitchell) Hatch,
was born in Buffalo, New York, February 21,
1842. His early education was obtained in
old public school No. 18. He finished his edu
cation at Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating
from the high school. After leaving school
his father put him and his brother Edward N.
on the farm near St. Joseph, Michigan, think
ing to give them a good start in life. He sent
them a large number of peach trees with which
to start their orchards, but the boys were hav
ing a good time fishing and hunting, and left
the tree planting for another time. When a
year later their father visited the farm, instead"
of a thriving orchard he found the trees in
the original bundles, lying on the ground. He
decided the boys were not intended for farmers
and all returned to Buffalo. Here Albert G.
secured a position in the Manufacturers and
Traders' Bank, which he filled for one year,
then became clerk in a leather and wool house,
where he remained for some time, and after
becoming thorough master of the business en
gaged in the same line on his own account.
He formed a partnership with Hartwell
Bowen, and as Bowen & Hatch did a very
successful business for several years. The
death of Mr. Bowen dissolved the firm, Mr.
Hatch disposing of his interest. He then be
gan dealing in real estate, and for many years
has been one of Buffalo's energetic and suc
cessful operators. His greatest interest is per
haps in the pursuit of the study of archaeology,
and in the gathering of what is said to be the
finest private collection in existence. He is
an authority on this most valuable science that
supplies the material which neither history nor
present information can furnish, concerning
the relics of man and his industries, and the
classification and treatment of ancient remains
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tone of ancient places and customs. He has
devoted a great deal of time and money to
gathering his collection, which, as stated, is
considered by experts as one of the finest in
existence. In politics he is a Republican. He
married (first), 1866, Charlotte Spicer, who
died, leaving two children: Katherine, mar
ried Baron Alexander Van Schroeder, of Ger
many; and Anna. He married (second), Jan
uary 25, 1889, Kate M. Smith, of Orange,
New Jersey. (The Holbrook Line).
Elizabeth Holbrook, wife of Walter Hatch
(see Hatch), was of English descent, perhaps
birth. Her father, Thomas Holbrook, born in
Brantry, England, came to America in 1635,
with his wife Jane and four children, two
more being born in America. He settled in
Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he became
a man of wealth and prominence. He was
one of the original grantees of Rehoboth, Mas
sachusetts, but for not removing to his lands
there they were forfeited in 1645. He owned
lands in Scituate, Massachusetts, where his
sons, Captain William and Thomas (2) re
moved in 1660. Captain William purchased
land in Conihassett and made permanent set
tlement. Thomas, however, only remained un
til, after his marriage in. Scituate to Deborah
Daman, then shortly after returned to Wey-.
mouth. Thomas was selectman of Weymouth,'
1645-46-51-54. He was elected representative
to the general court, 1649, and was one °f tne
committee to lay out the highway between
Weymouth and Dorchester. Thomas and Jane
Holbrook had three sons and three daughters,
as named in his will, which was probated
April 24, 1677, although made December 31,
1668, with codicil, five years later. His wife
Jane survived him. The will recites: "To
wife Jane all my estate during her life," (re
questing sons John, William and Thomas to
be helpful to her) "as she is ancient and weak
of body." His property was afterward to be
divided between the three sons and "my three
daughters, Ann Reynolds, Elizabeth Hatch
and Jane Drake." Elizabeth married Walter
Hatch, who was of the second generation in
America, and progenitor of Albert Gallatin
Hatch, of the eighth generation.
On paternal lines this branch
STRINGER of the Stringer family de
scends in comparatively re
cent years from English forbears, while the

maternal line traces back to the earliest settle
ment in New England and the early Pilgrims,
John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of the
"Mayflower." George Alfred Stringer of Buf
falo is a paternal grandson of John Stringer,
who was born, lived and died in Dartford,
county of Kent, England. He had six sons
that came to the United States : William, the
eldest, who went out to California in '49 in his
own vessel, settled in 'San Francisco, and died
there many years later; Charles, a merchant
of Elmira, New York, whose family now re
sides in New Jersey; Frederick, who settled
in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the clothing
business, married Miss Howell, a cousin of
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the President
of the Southern Confederacy; Thomas, of St.
Louis, Missouri, later of Brooklyn, New York,
where he died; James, who located in New
York City, where in company with the Town-
sends formed the bookselling and publishing
house of Stringer & Townsend, one of the first
bookstores in the city, and later published one
of the first editions of Cooper's Novels.
(II) George, son of John Stringer, was
born in Dartford, England, in 1809. He came
to the United States about 1830 and located
at Hartford, Connecticut, where he shortly
afterwards engaged in the mercantile business.
About 1859 he removed to Buffalo and en
gaged in the manufacture of wrapping paper
and twine, being one of the pioneers- in that
business in Buffalo. He took an active part
in the business life of Buffalo, and was well
known in church and town. For several years
he was vestryman of St. John's Episcopal
Church, and aided in the establishment and
operation of other institutions of his city. He
married Clarissa Alden Ellsworth of East
Windsor, Connecticut, a descendant of John
Alden, of the "Mayflower," Sergeant Joseph
Alden, a revolutionary soldier of Connecticut,
and, of Lieutenant Solomon Ellsworth, also a
Connecticut revolutionary soldier. Children:
1. George A., of further mention. 2. Clara
Alden, deceased. 3. Emma Ellsworth, mar
ried Nirum A. Lamphear, now of Los An
geles, California. 4. John Edwards, married
a cousin, Clara Stringer, both deceased.
(Ill) George Alfred, son of George and
Clarissa Alden (Ellsworth) Stringer, was born
in Hartford, Connecticut, October 23, 1845.
About 1859 his parents removed to Buffalo,
New York, which has since been his home.
He prepared for college under private teach-

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ers, but financial reasons turned him to a busi
ness career. After a clerkship in an insurance
office, he became a member of the insurance
firm of Rounds, Hall & Company. Afterward
for about twenty-five years he was engaged
in the same business as senior partner of
Stringer & Cady. Since the dissolution of
that firm he has carried • on an independent
business in loans, insurance and brokerage.
Since 1896 Mr. Stringer has been closely con
nected with the work of the Buffalo Historical
Society, of which he is a trustee, serving six
year? on the board, and nine years as vice-
president. He is also a corresponding member
of the Rochester Historical Society, Rochester,
New York; Niagara Frontier Landmarks As
sociation, for marking historical sites (execu
tive committee and chairman financial commit
tee) ; president, 1889-1902, 1904-1911, Society
of Colonial Wars; now president of the Buf
falo Chapter of that Society; ex-president
Buffalo Chapter, Sons of the Revolution; ex-
president Buffalo Chapter, Mayflower Society ;
for twenty years a member of the Grolier Club
of New York (now resigned) ; Bibliophile
Society of Boston, and was one of fifteen
members selected to contribute to Volume V
of the superb edition of "Horace" issued in
1891 (Ode V, "To Augustus," with introduc
tion) ; president Browning Society of Buffalo ;
delegate to the "One Hundred Years Peace
Society" from the Society of Colonial Wars;
Hakluyt Society of London; for past fifteen
years financial secretary Buffalo Society of
Artists, and member of University Club of
Buffalo. Mr. Stringer has published "Shakes
peare's Draughts From the Living Water,"
(privately printed 1883) > "Leisure Moments
in Gough Square" (1888); and "The King
and the Cross" (1901). In 1904 Hobart Col
lege conferred upon him the honorary degree
Master of Arts. For thirteen consecutive
years he was a vestryman of St. Paul's Epis
copal Church of Buffalo. He married, in
Buffalo, April, 1869, Eliza Coe, daughter of
Hon. Jesse and Ann Eldridge Walker of Buf
falo. Child: Geraldine May Alden.
Judge Jesse Walker, graduated from Mid-
dlebury College (Vermont) and after pur
suing a course of legal study at Rochester,
New York, settled in Buffalo in 1835, where
he resided until his death, September, 1852.
For many years he gave almost undivided at
tention to the duties of the office, master in
chancery, but at times was engaged in the ac

tive practice of his profession. He was a man
of fine literary tastes, and acquired local
celebrity as a cultured, finished scholar. In
185 1 he was elected judge of Erie county,
being the second to hold that office. During
his term of service on the bench, so soon cut
short by death, he discharged the duties with
great satisfaction to the bar.
(The Ellsworth Line).
(I) Clarissa Alden Ellsworth Stringer was
a daughter of Stoddard and Clarrisa Alden
Ellsworth, and a lineal descendant of Josias
Ellsworth, of Windsor, Connecticut, son of
John, said to have been a descendant of Sir
John Ellsworth, of the time of Edward III.,
who resided in Cambridgeshire, England.
Josias Ellsworth was born in 1629. . Hinnan
says he was in Connecticut in 1646. His name
first appears on Windsor, Connecticut, town
records, in connection with his marriage, No
vember 16, 1654, to Elizabeth Holcomb. The
same year he bought a house and lot. In 1655
he bought the property later known as the
Chief Justice Ellsworth place. In 1664 he
was a juror; was made freeman, May 21,
1657 ; in 1676 he was a contributor to the Con
necticut relief fund for the poor of other
colonies. He died August 20, 1689, aged sixty
years. His estate was valued at ^655. His
widow, Elizabeth, died September 18, 1712.
She is mentioned as a member of the Windsor
church in 1666. Children: Josias (2), Eliza
beth, Mary, Martha, Thomas, Jonathan, John,
of further mention; Job and Benjamin.
(II) Lieutenant John, son of Josias and
Elizabeth (Holcomb) Ellsworth, was baptized
October 15, 1671, and was killed by the fall
of a tree, October 26, 1720. He was the first
settler in the town of Ellington, where he
lived on the west side of Town street, nearly
opposite the old Ellsworth place on the west
side of the Connecticut river. He married,
December 9, 1696, Esther, daughter of Daniel
White, of Hartford. She died September 7,
1766, aged ninety-five years. Children: John
(2), of further mention; Daniel, Esther, Anne,
Martha and Ann.
(Ill) Captain John (2), son, of Lieutenant
John (1) and Esther (White) Ellsworth, was
born November 7, 1697, died January 4, 1784.
He was a captain of militia, and served in the
Indian wars. He married, November 8, 1734,
Ann Edwards, born April 28, 1699, died April
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one years daughter of Rev. Timothy Edwards,
ot East Windsor, Connecticut. Children: 1.
Captain John (3) ; from a journal kept by
him it appears he was on an expedition for
the governor on the Mississippi river in 1774-5
and for his services was granted a tract of
land where the city of Natchez now stands.
2. Solomon, of further mention. 3. Frederick.
4. Ann, married Colonel Lemuel Stoughton.
(IV) Lieutenant Solomon, son of Captain
John (2) and Ann (Edwards) Ellsworth, was
born April 30, 1737. He served in the revo
lutionary war as a lieutenant of Captain
Lemuel Stoughton's company, of East Wind
sor, Connecticut, militia, who marched on the
Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775. He died
October 19, 1822, aged eighty-five years. He
married, December 27, 1758, Mary Moseley,
born December 8, 1737, died February 16,
1823, aged eighty-six years. Children: Mary,
Ann, Solomon, Elizabeth, Stoddard, of fur
ther mention; Abigail, Abner Moseley, John,
Marilda, Timothy, Timothy (2), Joseph and
Ann. (V) Stoddard, son of Lieutenant Solomon
and Mary (Moseley) Ellsworth, was born
April 14, 1767, died October 31, 1845, a£Ted
seventy-eight years. He married (first) May
13, 1793, Anna, daughter of Colonel Lemuel
and Ann (Ellsworth) Stoughton. She was
born November 7, 1776, died May 24, 1806,
"a female infant buried in the same grave."
He married (second), May 21, 1807, Clarissa,
daughter of Captain Joseph and Lydia (Hyde)
Alden, "a lineal descendant of John Alden, of
Mayflower fame." She was born at Stratford,
Connecticut, August 12, 1785, died at New
Britain, Connecticut, March 7, 1881, aged
ninety-six years. Children of first marriage:
Ann, died in infancy; Stoddard (2), married
Aurelia Mather; Ann, died aged forty-one
years; Mary, died aged ten years; Selene (or
Selma) , unmarried ; Edwards, died in infancy ;
Edwards (2), died unmarried. Children of
second marriage: Clarissa Alden, of further
mention; Lydia, married Dr. M. P. Orton;
Sarah, married John W. Stoughton; Cather
ine, married Eli Horton ; Hannibal, died aged
eighteen years; Mary E., married John W.
Stoughton ; child, died at twenty months.
(VI) Clarissa Alden, daughter of Stoddard
and his second wife, Clarissa (Alden) Ells
worth, was born April 1, 1808, died July 4,
1888 aged eighty years. She married, 1833,
George Stringer, of Buffalo (see Stringer).

(VII) George Alfred Stringer.
(The Alden Line).
(I) Clarissa Alden Ellsworth Stringer was a
granddaughter of Sergeant Joseph and Lydia
(Hyde) Alden, and a descendant on paternal
lines of John Alden, of the "Mayflower"; on
maternal lines, of William Hyde, of Norwich,
Connecticut. John Alden, believed to be of
English descent, was not a member of the
Puritan colony at Leyden, and does not seem
to have come with the "Mayflower" for re
ligious reasons, for Governor Bradford says:
"John Alden was hired for a cooper at South
Hampton, where the ship victualed, and being
a hopeful yonge man was much desired, but
left to his own liking to go or stay when he
came here, but he stayed and married here."
Notwithstanding the prominence he attained in
Plymouth in his deeds of gift or sale, he in
variably describes himself as "cooper," occa
sionally as "yeoman," and once as "gentle
man." He was educated above the average,
and tradition says he was "the tallest man
in the community." He was the youngest
signer of the "Compact," and was "the last
male survivor." He was born in 1599, died
September 12, 1687. He married, in the spring
of 1621 or 1622, Priscilla Molines (Mullins),
daughter of William. She is said to have been
about eighteen at the time of her marriage,
which was the second or third performed in
the colony. She does not again appear in the
records save as the mother of his eleven chil
dren, until 1680. At the funeral of Governor
Josiah Winslow were present "the Venerable
John Alden, with Priscilla on his arm." He
held offices of the highest trust. No impor1
tant measure was proposed or any responsible
agency ordered in which he did not have a
part. He was deputy assistant, and from
1666 to 1687, first on the board of assistants,
and styled deputy governor. "On him devolved
the duty of presiding in the absence of the
governor, and on these occasions he ruled with
dignity and perseverance." He was often one
of the council of war, many times an arbitra
tor, a surveyor of lands for the government,
and on several important occasions was au
thorized to act as agent or attorney for the
colony. He was chosen treasurer in 1656,
holding that office three years. In those days
the salary of public officials was very small,
and refusal to serve was met with the penalty
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service so "reduced his estate" that the court
took notice of it, and, valuing him so highly,
felt they could not afford to lose him, and
took action, as is shown in the following rec
ord : "In regard that Mr. Alden is low in his
estate and occationed to spend time at the
court on the countreys occations, and soe hath
done these many years, the court have allowed
him a small gratuity, the sum of ten pounds
to be payed him by the treasurer." He divided
his estate among his children before his death,
and spent his last days with his son Jonathan.
He left no will. "The writers who mention
him all agree as to his industry, integrity and
exemplary piety, and he has been represented
as a worthy, useful man of great humility, and
eminent for the sanctity of his life. He was
decided, ardent, resolute and persevering, in
different to danger, a bold and hardy man, of
incorruptible integrity, an iron-nerved Puritan
who could hew down forests and live on
crumbs. He was always a firm supporter of
the. clergy and the church, and everything of
an innovating nature met his determined op
position." Children : Elizabeth, the first white
woman born in New England; John, Joseph,
Sarah, Jonathan, Ruth, Rebecca, Priscilla,
Zachariah, Mary, David.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Priscilla
(Mullins) Alden, was born in Plymouth, 1627,
after May 22. He was freeman in Duxbury,
Massachusetts, 1657. He served repeatedly on
the "grand inquest" until 1685, and was one
of the surveyors of highways. He had his
father's share of land in Bridgewater, and is
third on the lists of grants of lands on the
north side of the town.
Joseph Alden married, 1657, Mary Sim
mons, daughter of Moses, who came in the
ship "Fortune." Children: Isaac; Joseph,
Sarah, Mercy, Elizabeth (these three prob
ably), John, and perhaps Mary.
(Ill) Deacon Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1)
and Mary (Simmons) Alden, was born about
1667, died 1747. He lived in South Bridge-
water; married, 1690, Hannah, daughter of
Daniel Dunham, of Plymouth. Children:
Daniel ; Joseph, died young ; Eleazer, Hannah,
Mary, Joseph, Jonathan, Samuel, Mehitabel,
Seth. (IV) Daniel, son of Deacon Joseph (2) and
Hannah (Dunham) Alden, was born 1690, re
moved to Stratford, Connecticut, where he
died 1770; married, 1717, Abigail, daughter
of Joseph Shaw. Children: Joseph, Daniel,

Abigail,. Zephaniah, Hannah, Hannah
Mehitabel, Barnabas, Ebenezer, Mary.
(V) Joseph (3), son of Daniel and Abigail
(Shaw) Alden, was born 1718; married, 1742,
Susanna, daughter of Solomon Packard. Chil
dren: Zenas, Martha, Rev. Abishai, Joseph,
and perhaps others.
(VI) Sergeant Joseph (4), son of Joseph
(3) and Susannah (Packard) Alden, was born
May 9, 1753, died January 1, 1832. He served
in the revolution as sergeant of Captain Amos
Wallbridge's company, Stafford, Connecticut,
militia, Lexington Alarm. He married, Feb
ruary 28, 1782, Lydia Hyde, born at Stratford,
Connecticut, January 6, 1761, died February 7,
1839. He was a farmer, and with his wife
Lydia is buried in the new cemetery on the
hill in Stafford. Children. Joseph, died in
infancy ; Joseph, Horatio, Hannibal, Zephinah,
Levi Harvey, Martha, Clarissa, of further
mention; Lydia, Almeda.
(VII) Clarissa, daughter of Sergeant
Joseph (4) and Lydia (Hyde) Alden, was
born at Stafford, Connecticut; married Stod
dard Ellsworth, son of Solomon and Mary
(Moseley) Ellsworth. (See Ellsworth.)
(VIII) Clarissa Alden, daughter of Stod
dard and Clarissa (Alden) Ellsworth, married
George Stringer. (See Stringer.)
(IX) George Alfred, son of George and
Clarissa Alden (Ellsworth) Stringer. (See
Stringer.) (X) Geraldine, daughter of George Alfred
and Eliza Coe (Walker) Stringer, born
March, 1879. (The Hyde Line).
(I) Lydia Hyde Alden, grandmother of
Clarissa Alden (Ellsworth) Stringer, was a
lineal descendant of William Hyde, of Nor
wich, Connecticut, who came from England,
it is supposed, with Rev. Thomas Hooker, the
first minister of Hartford; sojourned a short
time at Newton, Massachusetts, and removed
with him to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636.
He later removed to Saybrook, thence to Nor
wich, Connecticut. He was a man of consid
erable importance among the settlers of Nor
wich, and was frequently elected selectman.
He died at Norwich, January 6, 1681. No
record has been found concerning his wife,
and there is record of but two children, Sam
uel ; and Hester, who married John Post.
(II) Samuel, son of William Hyde, the
emigrant, was born about 1637, at Hartford,
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W1Ci \ Connecticut, in 1660. He was a farmer,
and had lines assigned him at Norwich West
tarms, where he died in 1677, at the age of
forty years. He married, in June, 1659, Jane
Lee, of East Saybrook, now Lvme, Connecti
cut, daughter of Thomas Lee, Who came from
England m 1641 with wife and three children.
He died on the passage, his wife and children
settling later at Saybrook. Children: Samuel,
John, William, Thomas, Jabez, Elizabeth,
Phebe, Sarah.
(Ill) Thomas, son of Samuel and Jane
(Lee) Hyde, was born at Norwich, Connecti
cut, July, 1672. He was a farmer of Nor
wich West Farms (now Franklin), where he
died April 9, 1755. He married, December,
1697, Mary Backers, born November, 1672, at
Norwich, died March 27, 1752, daughter of
Stephen and Sarah (Gardner) Backers, of
Norwich. Children: Thomas, Jacob, Abner,
Mary, Phebe, Jane.
(IV) Captain Jacob, son of Thomas and
Mary (Backers) Hyde, was born at Norwich
West Farms, Connecticut, January 20, 1703,
died there January 22, 1782. He was a farmer.
He married, October 11, 1727, Hannah Kings
bury, born March 13, 1709, at Haverhill, Mas
sachusetts, died at Bennington, Vermont,
while on a visit there, March 16, 1770. Chil
dren : Jacob, Ephraim, Joseph, Jonathan,
Mary, Hannah, Ruth, Silence, Rebecca, Phebe.
(V) Ephraim, son of Captain Jacob and
Hannah (Kingsbury) Hyde, was born at Nor
wich West Farms, April 23, 1734. He set
tled at Stafford, Connecticut, where he and
his wife died. He married Martha Giddings,
of Norwich. Children: Nathaniel, Ephraim,
Jacob, Jasepr, Eli, Hannah, Lydia, Martha,
Eunice. (VI) Lydia, daughter of Ephraim and
Martha (Giddings) Hyde, was born at Staf
ford, Connecticut, where she died February 7,
1839. She married, February 28, 1782, Ser
geant Joseph Alden. (See Alden).
(VII) Clarissa, daughter of Sergeant Jo
seph and Lydia (Hyde) Alden, married Stod
dard Ellsworth. (See Ellsworth).
(VIII) Clarissa Alden, daughter of Stod
dard and Clarissa (Alden) Ellsworth, married
George Stringer. (See Stringer).
(IX) George- Alfred, son of George and
Clarissa Alden (Ellsworth) Stringer. (See
Stringer). •
(X) Geraldine, daughter of George Alfred
and Eliza Coe (Walker) Stringer.

The name Bryant can be traced
BRYANT to Sir Guy De Bryant, who
lived in the time of Edward
III., and whose descendants had their seat in
the Castle of Hereford, Wales. In 1640 there
were four familes by the name of Bryant liv
ing in Plymouth Colony: John Briant, of
Taunton, John Briant Sr., of Scituate ; Stephen
Briant, of Plymouth ; and Lieutenant John, of
Plympton. It does not appear that they were
related, although tradition has it that John of
Scituate and Stephen of Plymouth were
brothers. (I) The first mention made of Abraham
Bryant, progenitor of Warren W. Bryant, of
Buffalo, is in Reading, Massachusetts, at a
date sufficiently later for him to have been
a son of one of the above, but it does not so
appear on the records. Abraham Bryant was
a blacksmith, and lived on Elm street, Reading,
Massachusetts. He was selectman in 1696
and 1701. He married (first) in 1664, Mary
Kendall, born 1647, died 1688, daughter of
Deacon Thomas Kendall, an original settler of
Reading, removed there from Lynn. He was
deacon and selectman, and died in 1681. His
wife Rebecca died in 1703. He had no son
who lived to adult age, but his eight daughters
married and transmitted his blood through
many different families. Abraham Bryant
married (second) Ruth, widow of Samuel
Frothingham. She died in 1693. Children by
first wife: Mary, born 1668, married, 1684,
John Weston; Rebecca, born 1668, died 1670;
Abraham, born 1671 ; Thomas, 1674; Anna,
1676; William, of further mention; Kendall,
1680; Abigail, 1683, died 1694; Tabitha, 16S5.
(II) Kendall, son of Abraham and Mary
(Kendall) Bryant, was born in Reading, Mas
sachusetts, 1680. He settled in the town of
his birth, where he lived his entire life. He
engaged in farming. He married there, in
1704, Elizabeth, daughter of Major Jeremiah
and Mary (Smith) Swaine. Children, born in
Reading: Elizabeth, 1705; Kendall, 1709;
Anna, twin of Kendall ; Jeremiah, 1714 ; Mary,
17 17; -James, 17 19; Hepsibah, 1722; Abigail,
1724. (Ill) Kendall (2), son of Kendall (1) and
Elizabeth (Swaine) Bryant, was born in Read
ing, Massachusetts, in 1709, died at the home
of his son, John or Thomas, at Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, November 30, 1797. The "His
tory of Jaffrey". states that he came from Mas
sachusetts to Jaffrey, and lived on lot fourteen,

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range four, of that town. His homestead re
mained in the family until the death of Colonel
George Bryant, in 1865. Kendall Bryant, his
wife and son John, were charter members of
the First Church of Jaffrey. He married Mary
Martin, who died at Jaffrey, March 17, 1794,
aged eighty-four years. Children, born in
Reading and Peperell, Massachusetts :
Thomas ; John, 1750, died March 14, 1800,
married Lucy Lawrence.
(IV) Thomas, eldest son of Kendall (2)
and Mary (Martin) Bryant, was born between
1730 and 1740. He was living at Concord,
Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1769, and doubt
less for a number of years thereafter, for his
son, Captain Chandler Bryant, served in the
revolution from Concord, New Hampshire, as
late as 1779-80. Thomas settled later in Jaf
frey, New Hampshire, with his father and
younger brother John. He probably also lived
in other Massachusetts towns before remov
ing to New Hampshire, as he was fence viewer
and taxpayer in Peperell as late as 1794. His
widow died in Templeton, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 16, 1815, aged eighty-five years. She
was then living with her son Nathan. Chil
dren, born at Concord, Massachusetts : Na
than, January 11, 1762, died at Templeton,
Massachusetts, July 13, 1828; Elizabeth, born
July 5, 1763 ; Chandler, November 18, 1764,
served in the revolution as captain, married
(first) Elizabeth  , (second) Susanna
Byam ; Daniel ; Samuel, of further mention ;
Reuben, born March 11, 1769, lived at Con
cord. (V) Samuel, son of Thomas Bryant, was
born at Concord, Massachusetts, May 1, 1767.
He removed to Woburn, Massachusetts, where
he married, November 10, 1805, Esther
Wright, born August 12, 1781, daughter of
Jonathan and Ruth Wright. Later he removed
to New Ipswich, New Hampshire, from there
going to Utica, New York, where he con
ducted a general store. Children recorded in
Woburn: Charles Austin, born August 17,
1806; Warren; George H., married Sarah
Sweeney; Samuel.
(VI) Warren, son of Samuel and Esther
(Wright) Bryant, was born in Woburn, Mas
sachusetts, March 24, 181 1, died in Buffalo,
New York, 1893. He came to Buffalo first in
1827, when but a lad of sixteen years, making
his first trip by boat and stage. He did not
remain in Buffalo, but returned to Woburn,
where he continued until 1831, when he came

again to Western New York, bringing with
him some cash capital which he invested in a
general store at Geneva. He did not like his
location, but soon came to Buffalo and started
business opposite the First Church. In 1847
he bought the building north of the corner of
Main and Exchange, which block has ever
since remained in the family. In 1848 he
changed his store from a grocery to a toy
and novelty store, which prospered exceed
ingly. He made several trips to Germany,
buying his goods and importing them direct.
For several years his brother, George H.
Bryant, was associated in business with him.
George H. was captain of the vessel "St.
Joseph," trading on the lakes between Buffalo
and Chicago. He was the organizer of the
Western Transportation Company, of which
he was vice-president. As his wealth in
creased, Mr. Bryant engaged in outside opera
tions. He was largely interested in the West
ern Transportation Company. In 1859-60-61
he was collector of the port of Buffalo. In
1 86 1, with several others, he purchased the
old Niagara Street railroad, made needed re
pairs and improvements, later selling the line
to the Buffalo Street Railway Company. In
1864 he was elected president of the Buffalo
Savings Bank, an office he held until his death
in 1893, over a quarter of a century. He was
a wise and conservative banker, closely safe
guarding the depositors' interests, yet extend
ing all needed financial aid to men and enter
prises that were deserving and substantial.
He was a member of the Unitarian church,
and was instrumental in having a congrega
tion started in Buffalo, the first in the city.
He afterward left the congregation, not liking
the minister in charge. He was active in the
Volunteer Fire Department, and for sbme
years was superintendent. He was a Demo
crat in politics, but never sought or held elec
tive office. He married Amelia Stebbins of
Clinton, New York, who died September 9,
1890. They had ten children, three of whom
lived to mature years : 1. Warren Wright, of
further mention. 2. Joseph, married Sarah
Taft, of Whitingsville, Massachusetts ; chil
dren: Warren Taft and Kendall S. 3. Mary
S., died in 1907, unmarried ; she resided in
Buffalo with her brothers until her death ; she
was a most lovable woman, and one deeply
mourned by her surviving brother and friend's.
(VII) Warren Wright, son of Warren and
Amelia (Stebbins) Bryant, was born in Buf-

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falo, New' York, in 1844. He received his
early education in the public schools, finishing
at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He
was delicate when sent to the latter place, but
before leaving had regained his health. In
1865 he entered the employ of the Buffalo
Savings Bank as clerk, and worked his way
up through successive grades until he became
receiving teller. Later he resigned that posi
tion and has since lived retired from business
life. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr.
Bryant is unmarried.

The surname Buck is ancient both
BUCK in England and Germany, and
seems to have been of German
origin. The spelling varies greatly ; following
are some of the forms: Boc, Bock, Boch,
Bocke, Bok, Book, Bouke, Buc, Buch, Busq,
Buke, and many others.
William Buck, emigrant ancestor, came to
New England in the ship "Increase," sailing
in April, 1635, from England, and landing a
month later at Boston, Massachusetts. He
gave his age as fifty years, and accordingly
was born about 1585. His son Roger was
with him, and his age was given as eighteen.
He settled at Cambridge, and in 1652 had a
grant of land twenty acres, lot No. 91, in Cam
bridge Survey, so-called. Here he built a new
home for his family, in what was called the
west field, northeast from Garden street, on
what is now Raymond street. He was a
ploughwright by trade. He died intestate
January 24, 1658, and was buried in the old
cemetery at Cambridge. His son Roger was
administrator of his estate.
(I) The English habitation of Emanuel
Buck, emigrant ancestor of this branch of the
Buck family in America cannot be definitely
stated, but strong proof leads to the conclusion
he was from the county of Norfolk. Neither
is the date, ship or place of landing known.
It is supposed that Emanuel Buck was a rela
tive, and many suppose a son of William Buck,
who came in the "Increase," although there
is no record. He first appears in the records
as of Wethersfield, Connecticut. There is con
clusive proof that Emanuel and Enoch Buck
of that place were one and the same. It is
said that the Puritans objected to his name, its
meaning, "God with us," being too sacred.
To please them he took the name of Enoch.
However, his baptismal name Emanuel will
here be used. He settled in Wethersfield in

1647, accompanied by his brother Henry. They
were respectively twenty-three and twenty-one
years of age. Emanuel was a miller, Henry
a blacksmith, and each plied his trade in con
nection with farming during the remainder of
their days. Henry married Elizabeth Churchill,
and died July 7, 1712. Emanuel was admitted
a freeman May 21, 1659; was juror, 1661-62-
75; grand juror, 1675; elected constable in
1668 ; selectman, 1669, and several re-elections.
He is of frequent mention in Wethersfield rec
ords, made many land transfers, and seems
to have been a good citizen. He died intestate
in 1700. Nothing is known concerning his
first wife's name further than that it was
Sarah. Mary Kirby, his second wife, was a
daughter of John Kirby, who came from Row-
ington, near Kenilworth, Warwickshire, Eng
land, in the "Hopewell," 1635, aged twelve
years. He was of Hartford, Middletown and
Wethersfield, Connecticut. A deed on Middle-
town records gives several parcels of land to
"my daughter, Mary Buck." He left a wife,
Mary, and eight children. Children, three by
first wife: Ezekiel, born June 15, 1650; John,
November, 1652 ; Jonathan, April, 1653 ; Mary,
January, 1659; David, of whom further;
Sarah, born April, 1669; Hannah, April 12,
1 671; Elizabeth, June 4, 1676; Thomas, June
10, 1678; Abigail, August 1, 1682. Mary sur
vived her husband, and her death occurred
January 12, 17 12.
(II) David, son of Emanuel and Mary
(Kirby) Buck, was born at Wethersfield, Con
necticut, April, 1667. He continued a lifelong
resident of that town, and was engaged in
farming until his death, September 20, 1728.
He married, June 14, 1690, Elizabeth Hub-
bert, or Hubbard, born 1666, died March 25,
1735, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Jor
dan) Hubbard. Daniel was son of George
and Mary (Bishop) Hubbard. Tradition says
George Hubbard came to Watertown, Massa
chusetts, in 1633. He is recorded in Wethers
field October 15, 1635, where he lived three
years, then removing to Milford, where he
joined the church January 15, 1644. He
bought land in Guilford, September 22, 1648.
He married Mary, daughter of John and Anna
Bishop, of Guilford. Children of David and
Elizabeth Buck: Elizabeth, born February 16,
1690; Ann, April 25, 1693; Daniel, September
13, 1695; David, November 13, 1698; Mary,
September 9, 1700; Josiah, of whom further;
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1707; Eunice, December 19, 1709; Mabel,
June 5, 17 12.
(Ill) Josiah, son of David and Elizabeth
(Hubbert) Buck, was born in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, January 16, 1703, died February
8, 1793. He married, May 28, 173 1, Ann,
born 171 1, died November 9, 1772, daughter
of Charles Deming, of Boston. Children : Ann,
born February 25, 1732; Mary, October 31,
1733 ; Elizabeth, April 7, 1735 ; Prudence, De
cember 15, 1737; Josiah, April 23, 1742;
Daniel, of whom further; Mabel, March 12,
1748. (IV) Daniel, son of Josiah and Ann (Dem
ing) Buck, was born June 13, 1744, died Jan
uary 6, 1808. He married, December 3, 1775,
Sarah, daughter of General Gurdon Salton-
stall, of Boston, and descendant of Thomas
de Saltonstall, 1358. The first of the name
known in America, Richard Saltonstall, son
of Sir Richard,, was closely identified with
Connecticut colonial history. He married
Muriel, daughter of Brampton Gurdon, of
Suffolk county, England. Their son, Colonel
Nathaniel Saltonstall, was of Haverhill, Mas
sachusetts, was assistant member of the gov
ernor's council and judge; he married Eliza
beth Ward. Their son Gurdon was born 1666,
graduate of Harvard College, 1684, and was
ordained minister at New London, Connecti
cut, in 1 69 1. On the death of Governor John
Winthrop in 1707 he was chosen his successor,
and became governor of Connecticut in 1708,
remaining in office until "1724. He married
(first) Jerusha Richards; (second) Elizabeth
Rosewell; (third) Mary Clark. General Gur
don, ninth child of Governor Gurdon Salton
stall, was colonel and brigadier-general in the
revolutionary army prior to 1776; was first
collector of the port of New London, 1784;
married, March 15, 1732, Rebecca, daughter
of Henry John Winthrop, of New London;
they had fourteen children. Their daughter
Sarah, youngest child, born June 17, 1754, died
November 19, 1828, married Daniel Buck.
Children of Daniel Buck: Ann, born Novem
ber 28, 1776, died young; Gurdon, born De
cember 3, 1777, died August 4, 1852, married,
April 20, 1805, Susan Manwaring, of New
York; Daniel, born October 27, 1779, married
(first) Julia Mitchell, (second) Elizabeth
Selden, who died March, 1887, aged one hun
dred years one month, twenty-four days ;
Charles, born November 21, 1782, married
Sophronia Smith ; Winthrop, of whom fur

ther ; Ann, died young ; Dudley, born June 25,
1789, married Hetty G. Hempsted, (second)
Martha Adams.
(V) Winthrop, son of Daniel and Sarah
(Saltonstall) Buck, was born in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, December 9, 1784, died August
19, 1862. He was a farmer of Wethersfield
all his life. His home was one of the two
houses built by Josiah Buck for his sons, Josiah
and Daniel. The first was built for Josiah in
1774 on the east side of the street, and Daniel's
in 1775 on the west side at the corner of
Jordan Lane, directly on the site of the old
home of his father, which was torn down to
make way for the new. Both of these houses
still stand in excellent condition. Winthrop's
is still occupied by his youngest son Henry,
whose son will in time inherit it, making five
generations to own the farm and four to oc
cupy the homestead. Daniel's house is occu
pied by Edward, grandson of Winthrop Buck,
making four generations which have occupied
it, and Edward has a son, who will continue
the occupancy. Winthrop Buck married (first)
January 29, 1812, Eunice Parsons, died
August 5, 1812, aged twenty-four years,
daughter of Gideon Parsons, of Amherst,
Massachusetts. He married (second), Decem
ber 28, 1814, Eunice, daughter of Dr. Abner
Moseley, of Wethersfield, a descendant of
John Moseley, or Maudsley, born in Lanca
shire, England, came to America with his wife,
one account says, in the ship "Mary and John,"
Captain Soueb, which sailed from Plymouth,
England, March 30, 1629, and landed at Dor
chester, Massachusetts, in 1630. Another ac
count says they came in the ship "James," in
1635, and settled at Matapan, near Dorchester.
John was made freeman March 14, 1639, and
was granted land in 1656. His wife was Cor
nelia or Elizabeth  — , or perhaps he was
twice married. His son, Captain John, born
in Dorchester or Boston, Massachusetts, 1638,
removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he
lived until 1677, when he removed to West-
field. He returned to Windsor some time be
fore his death, August 18, 1690. He married,
December 14, 1664, Mary Newberry, daughter
of. Benjamin. They had ten children. Their
son Joseph, third child, was born December
21, 1670, removed to Glastonbury, Connecti
cut, after I7i5,and died there in I7i9;he mar
ried, in 1696, Abigail Root; there are eight
children named in his will. Abigail was
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John Roote (i), who came from England in
1640. Abner, eldest son of Joseph and Abigail
(Root) Moseley, was born in Westfield, 1699,
died February 11, 1766; married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Lyman, of Northampton,
June 5, 1722. Their son, Joseph Moseley (2),
born- August 13, 1735, died October 25, 1806;
married Hopy Robbins, December 10, 1761.
Their son, Dr. Abner Moseley, born April 13,
1766, married, November 14, 1792, Eunice,
daughter of William and Jerusha Welles.
Their daughter, Eunice, born October 8, 1793,
died August 24, 1862, married, December 28,
18 14, Winthrop Buck. Children of Winthrop
and Eunice Buck: 1. Martha, born November
26, 1815, died August 12, 1900. 2. Winthrop
(2), born December 16, 1816, died July 28,
1900; married Charlotte Woodhouse. 3.
Eunice, born December 21, 1819, died March
12, 1897. 4. Maria, born January 30, 1821,
died December 8, 1894. 5. Robert, born March
8, 1823, died August 16, 1881 ; married (first)
at Hastings, Minnesota, Lucina M. Emerson;
(second) Helen Frances Jones. 6. Roswell
Riley, of whom further. 7. Kate Moseley,
born February 1, 1833, died December 31,
1907; married John Buckingham, of Brook
lyn, New York. 8. Henry, born December 6,
1834; married, November 30, 1875, Theresa,
daughter of George Robinson ; he occupies the
old homestead at Wethersfield, built by Josiah
Buck in 1775 ; children : Henry Robinson,
John Saltonstall, and Charles Howe.
(VI) Roswell Riley, sixth child and third
son of Winthrop and Eunice (Moseley) Buck,
was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Octo
ber 21, 1826, died in Buffalo, New York, Sep
tember 10, 1904. When about nine years of
age he became an invalid from complicated
hip trouble, and until the age of sixteen years
he was an intense sufferer. Having a naturally
sensitive disposition and an acquisitive mind,
he read and studied extensively while confined
to his bed. After reaching manhood and be
coming so far recovered as to engage in busi
ness, he found with satisfaction that he was
fully able to hold his own intellectually with
those with whom he came in contact. His
first business experience was with Fales &
Gray, car builders, of Hartford, to whom he
went on crutches. He remained five years
with this firm. In 1854 he went to Chicago,
where he became associated with the firm of
Sturges (Solomon) and Buckingham (John).
George Sturges, an intimate friend of Mr.

Buck, finally took his father's place in the
firm. Solomon Sturges was the pioneer in
building elevators in Chicago for the storing
of wheat. The growth of his business forced
the building of elevators at Buffalo, and in
1864 Mr. Buck was sent there to superintend
the building of the Sturges elevator. When
completed he was retained in Buffalo as man
ager of the Sturges interests. The elevator
burned October 27, 1897. In 1874 he returned
to Chicago and remained two years, then was
appointed again to Buffalo, where he was in
charge of the Sturges & Fulton elevators, con
trolled by the Sturges Elevator Company, of
which he was secretary and general manager.
In 1888 this company was absorbed by the
Buffalo Elevating Company, and Mr. Buck
retired from active business life.
During his active years Mr. Buck was inti
mately connected with important Buffalo in
terests. During the years 1871-72-73 he was
a trustee of the Board of Trade, and chairman
of the reference committee of the Merchants'
Exchange from 1886-89, and in 1890 was
elected treasurer. The reference committee
settled all disputes that arose between mem
bers of the Exchange. Here the judicial quality
of his mind was of the greatest value. His
rulings were undisputed and gave evidence of
having been carefully arrived at. His office
was at No. 16, Board of Trade, until toward
the close of life, when he had a desk in the
office of his son, George S. He was generous
in his dealings with men and liberal in his
benefactions. He was active in the Charity
Organization Society, founded December 11,
1877, and served on its various committees
during its earlier years. He was a devoted
member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Buffalo, which he served as trustee. In poli
tics he was a Republican.
He married, November 8, 1866, at Buffalo,
Maria Catherine, died May 5, 1905, daughter
of Dr. Josiah and Delia (Marsh) Barnes. She
was a most attractive and scholarly woman,
a graduate of the Buffalo Female Academy,
class of 1855, holding two medals won in her
junior year for excellence in mathematics and
composition, prizes that were supposed to be
won by seniors only. The family residence
was at 182 East Swan street until May, 1883,
when the residence at 513 Franklin street was
purchased, which is now the home of Miss
Harriet M. Buck, their only daughter. Chil
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born August 16, 1867. She graduated from
Buffalo Seminary, and except for tours of
travel at home and in Europe has spent her
life in Buffalo. She is an active member of
the Graduates' Association, one of the leading
women's clubs of Buffalo, and served one term
as president. Since childhood she has been a
member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Buffalo, and active in the benevolent work of
the church. She is president of the Woman's
Circle of that church, a member of the Twen
tieth Century Club and of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, Buffalo Chapter, by
right of the patriotic services of her ancestors,
General Gurdon Saltonstall and Major Moses
Seymour, of Litchfield, Connecticut. She re
sides at the old Buck homestead, 513 Franklin
street. 2. Winthrop Seymour, born May 13,
1870, died May 24, 1878. 3. George Sturges,
of whom further.
A nephew of Winthrop and Eunice (Mose
ley) Buck was the famous organist and musi
cal composer, Dudley Buck, son of Dudley and
Martha (Adam) Buck. He was born in Hart
ford, Connecticut, March 10, 1839, and died
October 6, 1909. He early evinced a genius
for music. At the age of sixteen he was
organist of St. John's Episcopal Church, and
in 1858 left Trinity College (junior year) for
a thorough musical education in Europe. He
studied at the Leipsic Conservatory under
Moritz Hauptman and Ernst Friedrich Rich-
ter for harmony and composition, with Julius
Rietz for orchestration, with Moschelles and
Plaidy on the piano, with Schneider at Dres
den on the organ. After three years spent in
Germany he studied another year in Paris.
Returning to the United States in 1862, he
was at once appointed organist of the North
Congregational Church at Hartford, where he
remained until 1869. He made a national
reputation in the years 1864-1879 by a memor
able series of organ concert tours in the course
of which he played in every city of importance
and in many of the smaller towns. In 1869
he removed to Chicago, where he became or
ganist of St. James Episcopal Church. In the
great fire of October, 1871, his home was
destroyed, with the loss of a valuable library
and many manuscripts, including several un
published compositions. He at once removed
to Boston, where he was appointed organist
at St. Paul's Church and at the Music Hall.
In 1875 Theodore Thomas invited him to New
York as assistant conductor of his orchestral

concerts at Central Park Garden. Prior to
this he had been with Mr. Thomas as organist
during the May Festival at Cincinnati. In
1876 he became organist and choirmaster of
Holy Trinity Church at Brooklyn, and con
ductor of the Apollo Qub. In 1876 he was
appointed by the Centennial Commission com
poser of the music for the Festival Ode, "The
Centennial Meditation of Columbia," the work
being rendered under Theodore Thomas' di
rection by a chorus of one thousand voices, and
an orchestra of two hundred. Another suc
cessful composition was his setting of portions
of Longfellow's "Golden Legend," which car
ried off the prize of one thousand dollars
offered by the Cincinnati Musical Festival
Association. Among his large works are the
"Legend of Don Munio," "The Voyage of
Columbus," "The Light of Asia," and many
other lighter compositions. Among the most
effective of his compositions for the church
are the series of four short cantatas "The
Coming of the King," "The Story of the
Cross," "Christ the Victor," "The Triumph
of David." In the field of male voice music
he achieved both fame and success. Mr. Buck
was among the first, if not the first, leading
American composer, and time but adds to the
appreciation in which he is held.
(VII) George Sturges, youngest son of
Roswell Riley and Maria Catherine (Barnes)
Buck, was born in Buffalo, February 10, 1875.
On account of his eyes he was not allowed
to attend school until he was nine years of
age. After four years in private school he
entered the high school, covering the usual ten
years primary and intermediate work in four.
During his high school years, he started the
High School Calendar, a school paper that is
still continued. He was graduated in 1892.
He then entered Yale University, whence he
was graduated A. B., class. of 1896. In his
junior year he was a junior exhibition man
(oratorical contest), and years later found
among his father's effects a set of books that
had been won by his grandfather, Josiah
Barnes, in the same contest at Yale. George
S. was also a senior exhibition man.
Deciding upon the profession of law, he en
tered the Law School of the University of
Buffalo, being graduated LL.B., class of 1898.
Pie at once began the practice of his profes
sion in Buffalo with Clinton & Clark, remain
ing with them until 1899. He then made a
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law office, September 7, 1899, in Ellicott
Square, Buffalo, and later in association with
Almeron H. Cole, as Buck & Cole. Now he
is in practice alone (1911), with offices in the
Erie County Savings Bank Building. While
his practice is general, he specializes in the
care and management of estates. He stands
high in his profession, and is an especially
safe counselor. He is a lecturer on "Negli
gence" at the Buffalo Law School, and special
lecturer in the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation Accountancy Course. Mr. Buck is a
progressive Republican and a vital force in
city politics. In the fall of 1903 he was elected
a member of the board of supervisors of Erie
county, re-elected 1905-07-09. In 1907 he was
a candidate on both tickets, and in all his cam
paigns has had the endorsement of the Muni
cipal League. Since 1908 he has been chair
man of the finance committee, which implies
leadership in the board. He has also served
on the charitable institutions, and laws and
legislation committees, but his principal work
has been done in the finance committee. As
a member of the board of supervisors he has
been instrumental in securing many needed
reforms, in the letting of contracts, changing
compensation from fees to salaries, and in
giving the widest publicity to all measures
brought before the board, particularly in the
matter of appropriations and in the passage
of the new tax law, and in the establishing of
the Erie County Lodging House. He is a
member of the executive committee of the
Government Association of Buffalo; was one
of the organizers of the Hughes Workers, and
in 19 10 was a delegate from Erie county to
the Republican state convention held in Sara
toga. Mr. Buck is equally active and useful
as a church worker, belonging to the First
Presbyterian Church, which he served as
deacon for two years, and since 1908 as elder.
For three years he was Sunday school super
intendent of the Welcome Hall Settlement, a
mission maintained by the First Presbyterian
Church. In 1908-09 he was secretary of the
Presbyterian Union, and is now its president.
He is also much interested in the work of the
Young Men's Christian Association, and is
.vice-president of the Equality Club, a depart
ment of the Association work. His college
fraternities are Beta Theta Pi (Yale) and
Phi Delta Phi (Legal). He is a member of
the Erie County Bar Association, and since
1907 a trustee; in 1909 he was appointed by

the trustees of the Bar Association chairman
of the committee to draft a bill to present to
the legislature to reorganize the inferior courts
and conduct them in the main upon the system
adopted by the city of Chicago. This has
proved of great benefit, and is perhaps the
most important and far reaching- service Mr.
Buck has rendered his city. He is a member
of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce and
the Manufacturers' Club, two important or
ganizations of the business men of Buffalo.
November 7, 191 1, he was elected auditor of
Erie county ; this official is in fact, though not
in name, a comptroller as well as an auditor.
His social club is the University, which he
served four years as a member of the gov
erning committee, four years on the member
ship committee, and one year as chairman. He
is also a member of the Buffalo Canoe Qub.
He is a member of Ancient Landmarks Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, and Zuleka Grotto.
He married, October 6, 1903, at Buffalo,
Ellen Louise, daughter of Elisha P. Hussey,
M.D. Children: 1. Roswell Seymour, born
August 22, 1904. 2. Ruth, born May 29, 1906.
3. Oliver, born April 11, 1908. Mr. Buck re
sides at 60 Irving Place, Buffalo.
(The Barnes Line).
Stephen Barnes, of Branford, Connecticut,
settled in that town, coming from Long
Island, where there is record of the family
at East Hampton. Stephen and wife Mary
had: Benjamin, born December 13, 1702, mar
ried Hannah Abbott; Stephen, of whom fur
ther; Sarah, born May 17, 1708, married
Ezekiel Rogers ; Experience, born December 4,
1710. (II) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1) and
Mary Barnes, was born January 2, 1705, died
March 27, 1777. He removed with his wife
Mary (or Martha) to Southington, but the
births of his seven children are recorded in
the Branford town records: 1. Mary, born
October 22, 1726, married Jacob Carter. 2.
Stephen, born December 3, 1728, married
Sarah Barnes. 3. Jonathan, of whom further.
4. Martha, born August 22, 1734. 5. William,
November 10, 1738; married Martha Upson.
6. Nathan, born August 25, 1742 ; married
Sarah Byington. 7. Asa, born August 24,
1745 ; married Pheb.e Atkins.
(Ill) Jonathan, son of Stephen (2) and
Mary (or Martha) Barnes, was born Feb
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of Southington, Connecticut. He married,
August 4, 1757, Elizabeth, daughter of Heze-
kiah Woodruff. Children: 1. Jonathan, of
whom further. 2. Elizabeth, born October 21,
1764. 3. Mary, March 4, 1767, died July 6,
1772. 4. Stephen, born February 12, 1769,
married Sally Andrews. 5. Sylvia, born
August 7, 1771; married Roswell Hart. 6.
Lois, born 1772; married Gideon Smith.
7. Levi, born June 28, 1777; married Kezia
Woodruff. 8. Joel, born 1779; married Re
becca Stephens. 9. Truman, born 1783 ; mar
ried Loly Barrett.
(IV) Jonathan (2), eldest son of Jonathan
(1) and Elizabeth (Woodruff) Barnes, was
born in Southington, Connecticut, March 13,
1763. In 1784 he graduated from Yale Col
lege (academic department), studied law and
settled in Tolland, Connecticut. He became
county judge and a member of the Connecticut
legislature. He was a skillful lawyer, pos
sessed of a keen sense of humor which often
enabled him to attain the object sought. He
married, February 17, 1787, Rachel, daughter
of Josiah and Elizabeth (Colton) Steele.
Josiah was a grandson of Mercy, daughter of
Major Bradford, chief military officer of
Plymouth Colony, and son of the famous Gov
ernor Bradford, of the "Mayflower." Chil
dren: 1. Jonathan, born November 21, 1789;
graduated from Yale College, academic, 1810;
studied law; settled at Middletown, Connecti
cut, where he died, December 24, 1861. "Jona
than Barnes undoubtedly stood at the head
of the bar of Connecticut as a counselor at
law." He studied music from a scientific point
of view, and said that his best commentary on
the Bible was that he had read and translated
it in seven different languages. 2. Julius
Steele, born February 23, 1792, died November
11, 1879, at Southington, Connecticut. He
graduated from Yale Academic School, stud
ied medicine, and settled in Southington,
where he had an extensive practice. 3. Edwin,
born July 13, 1794, died August 6, 1795.
4. Randolph, born June 29, 1796, died in Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1819.
5. Eliza Woodruff, born September 20, 1799 ;
married Dr. Alanson Abbe. 6. William, born
February 8, 1802, died December 22, 1872, at
Warehouse Point, Connecticut, where he had
passed his life in successful law practice.
7. Josiah, of whom further.
(V) Dr. Josiah Barnes, youngest child of
Jonathan and Rachel (Steele) Barnes, was

born in Tolland, Connecticut, March 26, 1804.
He graduated from Yale Academic School in
1825, with high honors. He taught school for
a time in Tolland county and at Concord, Mas
sachusetts, then, as now, a literary centre. He
studied medicine, and was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, March 21, 1829,
A. M. and M. D. He located at Litchfield,
Connecticut, beginning practice with Dr.
Alanson Abbe, his brother-in-law. He re
mained there in practice until after his mar
riage, when he removed to Buffalo, New York.
This was in 1832. In that year Asiatic cholera
swept over the United States and had its vic
tims in Buffalo as elsewhere. The news of
the pest to which her son was exposed caused
his ever watchful mother to write, "My dear
son, you find yourself confronted by a dreadful
pestilence, but you must do your duty, and if
in its discharge you should be taken away,
such is the will of God ; but under no circum
stances must you think of coming home." His
tory proves that Dr. Barnes performed his
duties not only in this emergency but ever
afterward. On May 13, 1834, he purchased
the frame house on the north side of Crow
(Exchange) street. About 1845 ne moved
over on the east side of Washington street.
About 1850, having become prosperous, he
built a substantial home on East Swan street,
the Delaware avenue of that period. He was
secretary in 1840 of the Erie Medical Asso
ciation, and in 1848-49 its treasurer, and one
of its censors. In 1849-50 he was one of the
four members of the Buffalo Board of Health.
He was a director of the Clinton and White
Banks. He was an attendant of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church upon coming to Buffalo, but
when St. John's Church was started he -was
one of the many original contributors toward
the building fund, and with his family con
nected with the latter congregation. Toward
the close of life, Dr. Barnes suffered several
years of invalidism, during which time he still
made a few visits to the families among his
patients who had become endeared to him by
many ties. He was possessed of wonderful
psychic force, and was an adept in the power
of suggestion, as is proved by the skill he dis
played in diagnosis and in bringing patients .
out of the depths of disease and dread. His
presence in a sick room radiated hope and
was a compelling force of cheer and encour
agement. His prescriptions became family aids
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descendants of his early patrons, all of whom
revere his memory. He died June 1, 1871.
He married, May 22, 1831, Delia, daughter
of Rev. Truman and Clarissa (Seymour)
Marsh. Rev. Truman Marsh was a graduate
of Yale College, class of 1785. After his
ordination he was for many years rector of St.
Michael's, in Litchfield, a town founded by
his ancestor, Lieutenant John Marsh, of Hart
ford, Connecticut. Clarissa (Seymour) Mars'h
was the daughter of Major Moses Marsh, who
served thoroughout the revolutionary war. His
figure may be noted in Trumbull's famous
painting, "The Surrender of Burgoyne." Her
direct ancestor, Richard Seymour, came to
America in 1636. She died in Buffalo, Decem
ber 16, 1875. Children: 1. Maria Catherine,
married Roswell Riley Buck; (see Buck).
2. Dr. Edwin Randolph, born in Buffalo, Sep
tember 2, 1838; he was educated in private
schools in Buffalo, entered Yale College, grad
uating in the class of i860, in the academic
course. He first took up the study of land
scape gardening and rural architecture, but
the breaking out of the civil war changed his
plans and he began the study of medicine.
About July 1st, 1862, he shipped as ward
master on the hospital transport "Daniel Web
ster," reporting to General McQellan at Har
rison's Landing, on the James river. In 1863
he was acting assistant surgeon, Eighth Regi
ment National Guard, State of New York, at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1864 ne was
acting assistant surgeon, United States Army,
at Chattanooga, remaining about eight months
as surgeon in charge of the post dispensary.
He then returned to Buffalo. In June, 1865,
he was graduated M. D. at the Long Island
College Hospital, where he had attended lec
tures as well as at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. During the cholera epidemic
of 1866 he served in the Brooklyn Cholera
Hospital on night duty. In the fall of 1866
he returned to Buffalo and became associated
with his father in practice. In the early seven
ties he was director and surgeon in the Buffalo
Free Medical and Surgical Dispensary. From
1872-78 inclusive he was attending surgeon
on the. staff of the Buffalo General Hospital,
after which he was in private practice for sev
eral years. He married, June 6, 1905, Mrs.
Theresa (Mitchell) Osborne, and now resides
at 513 Franklin street. 3. William Josiah, born
1846, and died November, 1875. 4. Laura Sey
mour, born February 14, 1849 ; married, Octo

ber 11, 1876, Frank M. Fisher, of Buffalo.
Children: Charles Edwin, Marion F., Laura
Barnes, Beverly Boyd, George Roswell, Elsie
Seymour and Frank M. (2).
Elias Child, in a genealogical
CHILDS work published in 188 1 regard
ing the Child, Childs and Childe
family from 1630 to 1881, says of the family
in general : "They possess enough of the im
pulsive element to defy dangers and to grapple
with difficulties to obtain a manly independ
ence, the determination and perseverance with
which many have met and overcome difficul
ties, and the boldness and daring in adventure
displayed by others will thrill the reader and
awaken his admiration. We often find the
love of knowledge drawing them away from
the bustle and ambition of life into the quiet
seclusions of the study, where they find their
sweetest companionship with some history, ro
mance or philosophical treatise. A manly in
dependence has ever been more to the race
than fame, wealth or position, while none of
these would be despised or rejected if they
were the legitimate rewards of industry and
virtue. As benefactors of their race they are
usually sympathetic and active."
There are three men of this name who were
prominent in English history : Sir John Child,
of Surat, E. J., was well known as a civic and
military leader; Sir Josiah Child, of London,
was a merchant, political economist and philan
thropist; and Sir Francis Childs, of London,
was a banker, goldsmith and sociologist. Judge
Salmon Child, of Saratoga county, New York,
was the first of the family to bear that title;
he was also member of assembly from that
county in 1820. Orville W. Childs was one
of the foremost practical civil engineers in the
United States ; the Hon. Calvin Child was a
graduate of Yale College, and held the office
of United States district attorney of Connecti
cut, receiving his first appointment from Presi
dent Grant; Professor Samuel F. Morse, the
inventor of the telegraph, was the grandson
of Sarah Child; Mayor Jonathan Child was
first mayor of Rochester, New York, in 1834.
The coat-of-arms generally used by the
Childs families is as follows : Gules, a chevron
engrailed ermine, between three eagles close
argent. Crest: An eagle, wings expanded or
elevated argent, enveloped with a snake proper.
Motto : "Imitari qimm invideri."
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settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where
he was made freeman in 1634. He is thought
to have been a brother of Ephraim Child, who
left parts of his estate to his nephews, sons
of William Child. William Child doubtless
came over with Ephraim, or else before him.
He married in England, and his son Joseph
was probably born there, as his birth record
is not found in the Watertown records. He
seems to have died early, not being accus
tomed to the severe climate. His widow is
mentioned in the will of Mrs. Elizabeth
Palmer Child, who left her some of her ward
robe. Children: Joseph, born about 1629;
Richard, mentioned below ; John, born in
Watertown, 1636.
(II) Richard, son of William Child, was
born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1631.
He shared with his brothers in the legacies of
fheir uncle, Ephraim Quid. He took the oath
of fidelity when he became of age. He died
November 11, 1694. He married (first) at
-Waltham, Massachusetts, March 30, 1662,
Mehitable, daughter of Thomas Dimmick of
Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died August
1, 1676, and he married (second) January 16,
1678, Hannah, daughter of John Traine. Chil
dren, by first wife, born in Watertown: Rich
ard, March 30, 1663 ; Ephraim, October 9,
1664, died February, 1665 ; Shubael, born De
cember 19, 1665; Mehitable, 1666; Experience,
February 26, 1669; Abigail, January 16, 1672;
Ebenezer, twin, November 10, 1674, died 1675 ;
Hannah, twin of Ebenezer. Children by sec
ond wife, born in Watertown : Elizabeth, July
4, 1681 ; Joshua, mentioned below ; Margaret,
twin, May 16, 1687; John, twin of Margaret;
Rebecca, February 4, 1693.
(Ill) Joshua, son of Richard Child, was
born in Watertown, Massachusetts, December
30, 1682. He married, about 1720, Sarah
 , and they lived in Worcester, Massa
chusetts. Children: Sarah, born February 2,
'1721 ; Joshua, mentioned below; Thomas, Sep
tember 26, 1726; Hannah, October 10, 1727;
Josiah, twin, December 20, 1728 ; Mary, twin
of Josiah; Abraham, April 26, 1732.
(IV) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (1) Child,
was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 26, 1725. He married in Worcester,
June 2, 1748, Mary Hinds, born in Shrews
bury, Massachusetts, August 18, 1726, died in
Northboro, Massachusetts, April 11, 1766,
daughter of Jacob and Grace (Morse) Hinds.
After their marriage they moved to North

boro, where the children were born, except
Aaron, who doubtless was born in Wor
cester. Children : Aaron, died in Northboro
June 16, 1823; Artemas, mentioned below;
Abner, born in Northboro, July 29, 1764. /
(V) Artemas Childs, son of Joshua (2)
Child, was born in Northboro, August 16,
1762, and died in Ballston Spa, New York,
November 9, 1839. He added the "s" to the
name, making it Childs. He married, in North
boro, about 1793, Lucy, daughter of Simon
Keyes, of Wilton, New Hampshire. They
lived in Dublin, New Hampshire, and in
Ballston Spa, New York. Children : Mary,
born April 11, 1794; Lucy, February 13, 1796;
Sally, October 27, 1797; Harriet, August 31,
1799 ; Jane R., March 26, 1801 ; Artemas,
August 12, 1802; John L., January 20, 1804;
Levi Lincoln, mentioned below ; Emeline, Sep
tember 6, 1807; Leander, October 17, 1812;
died October 9, 1826; Horace A., July 17,
1814. (VI) Levi Lincoln, son of Artemas Childs,
was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, Febru
ary 23, 1806, and died in Gaines, Orleans
county, New York, where they lived, May 16,
1857. He married, about 1832, Ann M.,
daughter of Asahel and Polly Wright ; Asahel
and Polly Wright came from Vermont to Mid-
dlebury, Wyoming county, New York, where
they lived many years, removing finally to
Gaines, Orleans county, where they both died
in i860, both of them being eighty-three years
of age. Children: Louisa F., born Septem
ber 30, 1833, married, July 4, 1853, Calvin P.
Hazard; Henry A., mentioned below; Mary
E., born June 17, 1839, married Edwin WiU
son, died July 19, 1865 ; Helen A., born July
18, 1842, died August 17, 1851 ; Albert D.,
born November 22, 1844, died January 3, 1847.
(VII) Hon. Henry Augustine Childs, son
of Levi Lincoln Childs, was born in Carlton,
Orleans county, New York, July 17, 1836, in
a cottage on the shores of Lake Ontario, just
east of what is known as Point Breeze. When
he was about ten years of age his father moved
to Fair Haven, Orleans county, New York,
where they lived a short time, moving later to
Gaines, where Levi lived until his death, May
16, 1857, just forty-nine years even to the
same day of the month before the time his son
Henry died. Levi Childs was a blacksmith
by trade, and was known as an excellent me
chanic, with a wide reputation. He was a
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educational advantages. His son Henry also
had his mechanical ability, as was often shown
in the trial of cases involving mechanical prin
ciples ; he was often consulted about practical
application of mechanical principles, and his
knowledge of them was a great help in his
profession as well as a source of pleasure to
him. Hon. Henry A. Qiilds received his first in
struction in the stone school house now stand
ing at Gaines. Some of his schoolmates of
those days tell of how they would sit around
the forge fire watching his father make by
hand the horseshoes for the following day's
work, and tell stories until the time for wield
ing the sledge. One of his boyhood iriends,
Harmon Knickerbocker, says : "Henry never
went out with the boys stealing early fruit,
but remained at home to read some new book
which chance had placed in his hands, or talk
the politics of that day and age." Another
instance of the trust in him as a boy was the
fact that, unknown to the other inhabitants
of the village, Dr. Gribley, a cripple, and a
prosperous merchant at Gaines in those days,
often gave Henry large sums of money to
bank at Albion, New York. When he was
seventeen years of age he was employed as
clerk in a bookstore owned by his brother-in-
law, Calvin P. Hazard, who married Louisa
Francis Childs, and who came from Canada
to Albion, where he owned the -bookstore and
a lumber yard and planing mill on Bank
street. His work here for about a year gave
him opportunity to become acquainted with
all the books he wished for, and he made the
best of his chances for reading and study. It
is related that one day a servant girl came
into the store and asked for a book entitled
"Perry Go Werry Go Way"; after some
thought he gave her "Pencillings by the Way
by N P. Willis, and this proved to be the book
she wanted. This shows how well versed he
must have been in the literature of the day.
It is said that he could memorize so much
of a book by reading it that he astonished his
hearers. When the bookstore was sold he ob
tained work as office clerk and all-round hand
in the lumber yard of Calvin Hazard. George
Curran who worked with him as hostler and
driver tells how together they drew some of
the Sgest loads of lumber ever drawn in the
county After working here for about five
vean he continued his education at Albion
Acadtir>y> and the fact that he had read so

much and studied so much was of great help
in his school work. In 1857, when twenty-one
years of age, he entered Macedon Academy,
at Macedon Centre, New York. This school
was founded for the purpose of giving a prep
aration for college, after leaving the district
schools. He writes of it in 1891, on the occa
sion of the fiftieth anniversary of the institu
tion: "In recording the events of the past of
old Macedon Academy I am sure none other
than pleasant memories will be found in the
events of her old students, and that such a
record can contain little not to the credit of
the institution, and very much tending. to place
it upon the highest plane occupied by those
of its class." In 1858 he received a teacher's
certificate, in which he was qualified as a
teacher of the second grade, and was licensed
to teach the common schools, but no record
has been found showing that he took advan
tage of the certificate. In 1858 he returned
to Albion, where he began his law studies in
the office of Judge B. L. Besack, an office at
that time noted for having the best law library
in Orleans county, and there were many who
wished to get the apprenticeship there. The
late Hon. Irving M. Thompson at this time
was practicing at Albion, and he had a case
for trial at Waterport, New York ; Henry A.
Childs asked him for the privilege of taking
the minutes of the case. The request was
granted, and he took the minutes in long hand
with such success that Mr. Thompson recom
mended him, at his request, for a position in
the office of Sickels & Graves at Medina, New
York. In this office, his salary consisted of
the amounts he obtained from the service of
legal papers. In i860 he was appointed deputy
sheriff of Orleans county through the influence
of John W. Graves, and at the time the
Medina Tribune said : "Mr. Childs is a young
man of great energy of character, of undoubted
business capacity, and well fitted for the place.
He will make a first rate officer." One of the
Albion papers said : "He is a deserving young
man, as we know from having while he was
yet in his boyhood initiated him into the mys
teries of business." One of the first instances
of his zeal in his profession and of his work
for advancement is the following from the
Medina Tribune in i860: "Sent to the Work
House: Taber Bentley was brought before
Justice Bullock on Friday last, charged with
assault and battery upon a Mrs. Fry. He was
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100 days. Mr. Henry Childs, a young man
who had just commenced the study of law,
conducted the prosecution and by his manage
ment won much credit." Although- he was
busy in the study of law and in his office as
deputy sheriff, he still found time to interest
himself in politics. He was always a great
admirer of Abraham Lincoln, and never ceased
his search for books on this famous man, fill
ing his library with nearly every volume writ
ten about him. On May 7, 1862, his applica
tion to practice as an attorney and counselor
was granted. At that time the Medina Tribune
said of him: "Mr. Childs has been a student
in the law office of Sickels & Graves of this
place for the last three years, and by close
application to his studies and business has won
for himself a host of friends and become well
qualified for the practice of law. The class
was one of the best admitted in a number of
years, and we are informed that Mr. Childs
was conceded by all to stand at the head, and
by his promptness in answering and readiness
to give his reasons, exhibited a knowledge of
the law entitling him to a diploma to practice
in all the courts of the state. We wish him
all success in his profession." A Buffalo paper
printed the following story, told by Justice
Henry A. Childs to Justice Lambert and a
representative of the Courier :
Well, every lawyer's first case is interesting to
himself, and for that reason I will tell you about
mine, with the distinct understanding that I am not
talking for publication.
There were two other aspirants for admission to
the bar studying in the same office with me just
before I was admitted to practice, and I well re
member how eager we were for the trial, when an
old man who had been arrested for some crime
came into the office and asked us to defend him be
fore the magistrate. I worked on that case with all
my might, and developed a theory for the defense
which pleased my colleagues so much that they
thought they could win the case without me, and
virtually kicked me out of it. Naturally I was in
dignant at such treatment. I knew pretty well the
justice before whom the case was to come, and I
went to him and told him how I had been treated.
I asked him if he would appoint me to appear and
try the case on behalf of the people. I left him
in a more contented frame of mind.
On the day of the trial the other fellows appeared
with their client, and I was a humble spectator in
the crowd. When the- case was called the justice
looked around, and spying me, asked me if I would
take the case for the people. Of course I did, and
if ever I tried a case for all it was worth, that was
defense, and had prepared myself to defeat it.
the case. You see I knew already the theory of the
Well, to make a long story short, I won the case.

The old man was convicted, and when he heard the
verdict he muttered : 'If I had had that young feller
for my lawyer, I'd a got off all right !' That pleased
me immensely.
His first case before the court of appeals
was September 28, 1863, and from that time
on he was engaged in various forms of litiga
tion before that court, in all of which he was
universally successful. In the judicial conven
tion in Buffalo, New York, October 4, 1883,
he was put in nomination for one of the su
preme justices in the Western District of
New York, and in the November election he
won by a very handsome majority. The
Buffalo Express, October 5, 1883, said of
Judge Childs : "The nominee for supreme
court justice is tall, well built, and of pleasing
appearance. He wears a neatly trimmed light
brown beard, and his upper lip is clean shaved.
In speaking he is deliberate. He is an affable
gentleman, who makes friends with all." He
was a Republican in politics, and held the
office of district attorney in 1865 for three
terms, with a care and success which prepared
him for his higher position. In 1874 he formed
a copartnership with Senator Pitts, and the
firm was very successful. When he won the
election for justice, many papers wrote con
gratulations, even those which were not Re
publican papers, and praise of him was wide
spread. One instance of what was written
of him is the following from the Medina
Register: "Although we are not of the same
political affiliation as Mr. Childs, we are
heartily glad of his election as justice of the
supreme court in this district. From the time
of his nomination there has been no doubt of
his election, and he made a most flattering
run. It is seldom that any candidate has been
up for office who has had so much said in his
favor and so little against him as has Mr.
Childs ; and the reason was plainly, that his
political opponents had no cause to say aught
derogatory to him as a man or a lawyer. Mr.
Childs' career as a lawyer has been an honor
able one, and no one doubts that his career
as a Judge will be the same."
When he was employed in the office of John
W. Graves, he became acquainted with his
niece, Julia Billard Freeman, and after a
short courtship they were married, November
16, 1859. She was a daughter of Orin and
Permelia (Billard) Freeman, who lived in
Onondaga county, New York. He died May
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1861, in Medina;, married, October 7, 1885,
William L. Marcy, and had Henry C, Esther
, and William L. Jr. ; Mary, born December 25,
1863; J°hn Edward, February 27, 1865, died
April 19, 1867 ; Milford W., mentioned below ;
Anna, September 23, 1875, died May 10, 1882;
Henry, November 19, 1879, died July 26, 1880;
Julia, November 15, 1881, in Medina, married,
October 7, 1908, Charles T. Brimson, and has
William G.
(VIII) Milford W., son of Hon. Henry A.
Childs, was born in Medina, September 28,
1869. He received his education at Hawley's
private school in Buffalo, New York, and then
took a four years' course at Williams College,
from which he was graduated in 1893. Two
years later he received the degree of LL.B.
from the Buffalo Law School, and was
awarded the Daniels scholarship prize for an
essay on "Constitutional Law." He worked
for a year after his admission to the bar as
managing clerk for Marcy & Close. In Sep
tember, 1896, he formed a partnership with
Wesley C. Dudley, and began practice in Buf
falo. In 1898 the partnership was dissolved,
and he became a member of the firm of S. A.
Cook & Co., manufacturers. The firm was in
corporated in 1908, and he was made secre
tary. He still holds that position, and is vice-
president of the Buffalo, Lockport and
Rochester Transit Co. From August, 1909,
until February, 191 1, he was receiver of the
Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Electric Rail
road Company, and at present is receiver of
the Medina Gas Company. He is a Methodist
in religion, and in politics a Republican. For
three years he -was a member of the Medina
Board of Education. He is a member of the
Buffalo University and Buffalo Auto clubs of
Buffalo; member and director of the Alert
Qub of Medina ; member of the Medina Lodge
of Elks ; of the Medina Lodge of Free Masons,
of which he is past master; of Royal Arch
Qiapter, No. 281, in which he is high priest;
of Alpha and Omega Council, Royal and Se
lect Masters; of Ceneseo Commandery, No.
10, Knights Templar, of Lockport, New York,
of which he is past commander; member of
the Buffalo Consistory, A. A. S. R., and of
Ismailia Temple, Mystic Shrine.
He married, June 1, 1898, Pearl Cook, who
was born in Medina, daughter of Seeley A.
Cook. Children : Adelaide, born April 5, 1900;
Carrie, June 19, 1906; Milford W. Jr., Janu
ary 18, 1909.

This name, spelled both How and
HOW Howe, is found at an early date in
Massachusetts. The branch herein
traced seems in all generations to have avoided
the final "e," and from John, of Marlboro,
down have given the family name the form
of How.
(II) John (2) How was one of the peti
tioners in 1657 for the grant which constituted
the town of Marlboro, Massachusetts. He was
the son of John (1) Howe, supposed to be
the John Howe, Esq., who came from War
wickshire, in England, and was a descendant
of John Howe, son of John Howe, of Hodin-
hull, and connected with the family of Sir
Charles Howe, of Lancaster, in the reign of
Charlesl. John How (2) resided first in
WaterES^*- and in 1639 in Sudbury; died in
Marlboro, 1687. He was selectman in Sud
bury, and in 1655 was appointed by the pastor
and selectmen "to see to the restraining of
youth on the Lord's day." He is said to have
been the first white inhabitant to settle on
the new grant (Marlboro). He came there in
1657 and built a log cabin in close proximity
to the Indian plantation. He was always good
friends with the Indians and often settled their
disputes among themselves. In one case a
pumpkin vine sprang up on the premises of
one Indian and the fruit ripened on the prem
ises of another. The question of ownership
was referred to John How, who, with the
wisdom of a Solomon, called, for a knife,
severed the fruit, giving each a half, a judg
ment said to have been perfectly satisfactory
to both parties. His will mentions wife Mary,
and children : John, killed by Indians ; Samuel ;
Sarah, Mary, died young; Isaac; Josiah, of
further mention; Mary; Thomas; Daniel;
Alexander ; Eleazer.
(Ill) Josiah, son of John How, was in
Marlboro, Massachusetts, in 1675, and served
in King Philip's war. His estate was settled
in 171 1. He married, March 18, 1672, Mary
Haynes, of Sudbury, who survived him 'and
married (second) John Prescott. Qiildren:
Mary, died young ; Mary, died young ; Josiah,
of whom further; Daniel, born May 5, 1681 ;
Ruth, January 6, 1684.
(IV) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (1) How,
was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, 1678,
died September 20, 1766. He married (first),
at Marlboro, December 14, 1706, Sarah Biglo
(Bigelow) ; (second) November 22, 1713,
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of whom further; Rachel; Sarah; Mary;
Josiah; Jacob.
(V) Abraham, son of Josiah (2) How, was
born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, April 6,
1709; settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts,
where he died May 12, 1790. He married
Martha Potter, born in Marlboro, 1711, died
in Brookfield, December 20, 1791. Children,
born in Brookfield: Ephraim, born November
23, 1733 ; Abraham, born January, 1735, died
January 20, 1756; Abner, of whom further;
Sarah, October 24, 1738; Rachel, March 19,
1741 ; Martha, May 15, 1744; Persis, July 23,
1749; Eli, March 18, 1752; Abraham, March
4, I758-
(VI) Abner, son of Abraham How, was
born in Brookfield, June 28, 1736, died there
December 20, 1779 ; married, September 29,
1757, Sarah Lane, who survived him ; was dis
missed from the Brookfield church to the
church in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, September
24, 1780. Qiildren, born in North Brook
field: Adonijah, born July 24, 1758; Persis,
September 3, 1760; Abner, January 11, 1763;
Sarah, February 13, 1765 ; Rebecca, June 21,
1767; Job Lane, September 18, 1769; Eunice,
November 16, 1771 ; James, of whom further;
Thankful, March 14, 1777.
(VII) James, son of Abner How, was born
in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, March 16,
1774. He married and had a son James, of
whom further.
(VIII) James (2), son of James (1) How,
was born about 1810, died in Brooklyn, New
York, and is buried in Greenwood cemetery.
He was a prominent manufacturer and busi
ness man of Brooklyn for many years. He was
president of the Atlantic White Lead Manu
facturing Company ; director of the Brooklyn
City Railway Company ; director of the Brook
lyn Gas Company ; director of the Brooklyn
Academy of Music; trustee of the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute, and of the Packer Insti
tute (a seminary for young ladies). He mar
ried Celestine Wells of a prominent southern
family on the paternal side. Her mother was
of a Massachusetts family, her father of south
ern birth. Theirs was a runaway marriage,
the bride's mother not being willing her daugh
ter should marry a slaveowner. Children of
James and Celestine How: 1. James. 2. Celes
tine Wells. 3. Mary Elizabeth. 4. Richard
Wells, married Mary Brownson; children:
Richard Wells, Josephine Wells, Celestine
Wells, John Brownson, and Kenneth Gyose.

5. John Laidlaw, of whom further. 6. Susan.
7. Anne Kent. 8. Sara Kent. 9. Charles.
10. Child, died in infancy.
(IX John Laidlaw, son of James (2) How,
was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1848.
He married, June 9, 1869, Sarah Louise
Brownson, sister of his brother Richard's wife,
and daughter of John and Caroline (Steele)
Brownson. Caroline Steele was of Huguenot
ancestry and daughter of a captain in the revo
lutionary army. Children: 1. Sarah Louise,
born June 24, 1870, died May, 1892. 2. Celes
tine Wells, died in infancy. 3. John Laidlaw,
died in infancy. 4. James, of whom further.
(X) James, son of John Laidlaw How, was
born in Brooklyn, New York, September 21,
1874. He was educated at the Polytechnic In
stitute, Brooklyn, and left school to enter busi
ness in 1890. He was employed first with the
firm of Qarkson & Ford, New York City,
but severed his connection with them in 1896
to accept a position with the Hartford Rubber
Company, in their New York establishment,
and in 1899 was advanced to the manage
ment of their branch house at Buffalo, New
York. In 1906 he resigned his position with
the Hartford Rubber Company to take the
management of the firm of S. O. Barnum &
Son Company, of Buffalo, of which firm he is
now (1911) a member. Mr. How is a mem
ber of the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
and belongs to the Saturn Club, the Country
Club, and the Westminster Club. He married,
April 28, 1903, in Grace Church chantry, New
York City, Fanny Elizabeth, daughter of
Theodore D. Barnum (see Barnum IV).
(The Barnum Line).
(I) Ezra Barnum was a resident of Dan-
bury; Connecticut ; married Jerusha 
and had issue.
(II) Ezra Smith, son of Ezra and Jerusha
Barnum, was born June 21, 1792, in Danbury,
Connecticut, died in 1877. He settled in Utica,
New York, in 1809, and established an im
porting business known as Barnum's Bazaar,
out of which grew the S. O. Barnum business
of Buffalo. He was a man of importance in
Utica. When Lafayette made his triumphal
tour through the United States Mr. Barnum
was one of the prominent citizens of Utica
appointed to meet him at Whiteboro and escort
him into the city of Utica. He was prominent
in the Masonic Order ; was grand king of the
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New York state, and grand captain general
of the Grand Commandery of Knights Tem
plar of the United States. He was made a
Mason in 1817. He married, in 1815, Mary,
only daughter of John and Jane Ostrum. Chil
dren: Stephen Ostrum, of whom further;
Richard ; George ; Sarah ; Jane, married David
Golden; Samuel; Mary; Ezra; Eliza, married
J. C. Mcintosh.
(Ill) Stephen Ostrum, son of Ezra Smith
Barnum, was born in Utica, January, 1815,
died in Buffalo, October, 1899, and is buried
in Forest Lawn cemetery. In 1845 he founded
in Buffalo the wholesale and retail novelty
business of Barnum Brothers, at 265 Main
street, following the same lines that his father
so successfully followed in Utica. He was
very prosperous and left a business firmly es
tablished. He was a director of White's Bank
of Buffalo, and a man of influence in the
Democratic party. He was offered the nom
ination for mayor of Buffalo, but would not
consent to run for office. He married, in
Utica, in 1841, Elizabeth Chatfield. Children:
1. Theodore Downs, of whom further.
2. Henry, died unmarried. 3. Frederick, de
ceased; was an active member of the Buffalo
Volunteer Fire Department, belonging to Hose
Company No. 11. 4. Frank, died at the age
of sixteen years. 5. Fanny, died at the age
of thirteen years.
(IV) Theodore Downs, son of Stephen
Ostrum Barnum, was born in Utica, New
York, April 23, 1842, died in Buffalo, 1901.
He was educated in the Buffalo schools and
Canandaigua Military Academy. He served
in the civil war as captain of Company C, 74th
Regiment. Later he became associated with
his father in business and on the death of
'the latter succeeded him, but only continued
same one year after the latter's death. He
was a Republican and an elder of Westmin
ster Presbyterian Church. He was a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of
the Buffalo Club. He married, June 21, 1864,
in Cleveland, Sarah Whitney, born 1843,
daughter of Rev. John Thomas and Sarah
Avis (Whitney) Avery. Rev. John T. Avery
was born in New Lebanon, in 1807, died in
1896; married Sarah Whitney, born 1816, died
1893, daughter of Harry and Sarah (Canfield)
Whitney, the latter born 1793, died 1868.
Rev. John T. Avery was a son of Wil
liam Thomas, and Phoebe Throop Avery. Wil
liam Thomas was a son of Nathan Avery, a

soldier of the revolution. Children of Theo
dore D. Barnum: 1. Fanny Elizabeth, mar
ried (first) April 8, 1891, Langford Spencer
Keating, born in Buffalo, June 2, 1868, died
May 31, 1899; child: Theodore Barnum, born
January 5, 1894; married (second), April 28,
I9°3; James How, of Buffalo. (See How X).
2. Evelyn Avery, born July 16, 1880, died
November, 1899. 3. Stephena Ostrum, mar
ried Ralph H. Sidway. (See Sidway).

The name Spalding appears
SPAULDING as a patronymic quite early
in English history. It was
derived from the town of Spalding, in Lincoln
shire, England, but how the name originated
is a matter of conjecture, possibly from the
tribal name Spaldas, which may have been
left by the Romans when they abandoned the
country in 600 A. D. The name Spalding
was very early introduced and extensively
used in England and Scotland, but whether
the families descended from a common an
cestor cannot be stated. The spelling of the
name is uniformly the same, Spalding, and
the given names, with the exception of one
or two in the Maryland branch, are common
to all the families both in this country and in
Great Britain. The family in England bore
arms, the prevailing colors being -the same,
which would suggest a common origin. The
letter "u" in the name, making it ^Spaulding,
was first introduced in America in the wills
of some of the children of the emigrant an
cestor. Nothing can be told of his English
history, although the tradition is that he came
from Lincolnshire.
The first known authentic record of the
Spalding family in America appears in a Vir
ginia state document (Senate Report) entitled
"Virginia Colonial Records," published in
1874, and includes an account of the Virginia
colony. In 1607 the first emigrants to success
fully form a permanent colony landed in Vir
ginia. For twelve years after its settlement
the colony was ruled by laws written in blood,
the colonists suffering an extremity of distress
too horrible to be described. Of the thousands
who had been sent to Virginia at great cost,
not one in twenty was alive April, 1619, when
Sir George Yeardley arrived. The prosperity
of Virginia began from this time, when it re
ceived as a commonwealth the freedom to
make laws for itself. The first meeting was
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the "Mayflower" with the Pilgrims left the
harbor of Southampton. Conclusive evidence
proves that Edward Spalding came over from
England with Sir George Yeardley in 1619,
or about that time. Documentary evidence
proved that he was fully established with his
family in the Virginia colony in 1623, as his
name appears in "Virginia Colonial Records"
previously alluded to, in the "lists of the Liv
ing and Dead in Virginia, February 10, 1623,"
under the caption of "Attorney James Citie
and within the corporation thereof" is to be
found in "List of the Living," "Edward
Spalding, uxor Spalding, puer Spalding,
puella Spalding" ; and again in the same list,
under the caption "more at Elizabeth Cittie,"
"Edmund Spalden."
(I) The supposition is that Edward and
Edmund Spalding came from England
together about 1619; that some years later
Edward went to the Massachusetts colony,
while Edmund joined the Maryland colony
and was the progenitor of the Maryland
branch. This record deals with Edward
Spalding, and the branch settled in Buffalo,
New York. Prior to settling in Massachu
setts, Edward may have lived some years in
the Bermudas, then called the Summer Islands.
By what means he reached Massachusetts is
not positively known, but it may be supposed
that he was jointly interested in the owner
ship of a trading vessel, as Captain Hartt, a
master mariner, was a member of his house
hold. It is also believed that he arrived at
Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1634, as the first
permanent records of that town show births
and deaths in his family from 1640 to 1641.
He was made a freeman of Braintree, May 13,
1640, which proves him a. member of the Es
tablished Church. He next appears as a set
tler in Chelmsford, and when Newfield was
settled he was one of the proprietors. He
was selectman three years, surveyor of high
ways, and in 1664 special mention is made of
his fine orchards. He died February 26, 1670.
Two of his sons and seven grandsons emi
grated to Plainfield, Connecticut; others set
tled in Vermont, and wherever new towns
were settled there was a Spalding, until today
descendants of Edward Spalding may be found
in every state or territory north, west or east.
His first wife, Margaret, died in Braintree,
in 1640. Children: John, Edward, Grace
(buried in Braintree, May, 1641). By second
wife, Rachel (mentioned in his will), he had:

Benjamin, born April 7, 1643; Joseph, Octo
ber 25, 1646; Dinah, March 14, 1649; Andrew,
November 19, 1652.
(II) Lieutenant Edward (2) Spaulding, son
of Edward (1) and his first wife, Margaret
Spalding, was born about 1635, died January
1, 1708. Pie was made a freeman March 11,
1690; representative to the general court in
1 691 ; he is buried in the Chelmsford burying
ground, where the epitaph reads : "Here lyes
the body of Lieut. Edward Spolden, aged 72
years, who deceased on Janry ye 10, 1707-8."
He married (first), July 6, 1663, Priscilla Un
derwood, Governor Endicott performing the
ceremony; married (second), November 22,
1681, Margaret Barrett, who died May 25,
1748. Children : Dorothy, born April 3, 1664 ;
Deborah, September 12, 1667; Edward, Au
gust 18, 1674; Ebenezer, of further mention;
Esther, February 11, 1700; Sarah and Mar
garet. (Ill) Ebenezer, youngest son of Lieutenant
Edward (2) and his second wife, Margaret
(Barrett) Spaulding, was born January 13,
1683 ; he was a cooper, and removed from
Chelmsford to what is now Hudson, New
Hampshire; also owned land in Nottingham,
same state, which he conveyed February 3,
1743. He married Anna ¦  ; children:
Edward, of further mention; Bridget, born
December 25, 1709 ; Experience, March 22,
1711 ; Esther, February 22, 1712; Reuben, died
young; Stephen, born May 28, 1717; Sarah,
November 27, 1719; Mary, May 4, 1724;
Reuben, July 26, 1728; Anna, November 30,
(IV) Edward (3), son of Ebenezer and
Anna Spaulding, was born in Chelmsford,
Massachusetts, March 8, 1708. He resided in
Nottingham, New Hampshire, where he
deeded land with his wife Elizabeth in 1766.
Children : Levi, of further mention ; Elizabeth,
born November 26, 1741 ; Lucy, June 27,
1744; Esther, August 11, 1747; Sarah, April
6, 1754-
(V) Captain Levi Spaulding, son of Ed
ward (3) and Elizabeth Spaulding, was born
in Nottingham West (now Hudson) New
Hampshire, October 23, 1737; died at Plain-
field, Otsego county, New York, March 1,
1825. After leaving the home farm he set
tled at Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, continu
ing his New Hampshire residence until about
1800, when he removed to Plainfield, New
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He was a prominent man in his town, serving
as selectman in 1768 and 1774; moderator of
town meetings, 1781-82-85-86-91 ; representa
tive to general court at Concord, 1784, being
the second man to be selected for that office
from his town. He served in the revolution
ary war as captain, Third Regiment ¦ Volun
teers. This regiment was engaged at the battle
of Bunker Hill, where Captain Levi Spaulding
was in command of his company, and history
relates that the New Hampshire troops ren
dered gallant and efficient service. He was at
the battle of Trenton, and at Valley Forge
during that terrible winter of 1777-78. He
was afterwards transferred and came under
the immediate command of General Washing
ton, serving throughout the war, and wit
nessed the final surrender at Yorktown. He
received an honorable discharge and was in
receipt of a captain's pension until his death.
He married (first) Anna. Burns, (second)
Lois Goodrich, December 30, 1778; of his
eleven children, eight were by his first wife.
Children: 1. Betsey, born November 18, 1759;
married  Holt. 2. Olive, April 8, 1762 ;
married Lovell Lewis, and removed to Lewis-
ton, New York. 3. Edward, of further men
tion. 4. George, born September 14, 1766;
came to his death by drowning, while yet a
young man. 5. Martha, born April 6, 1768;
married, (first) Joseph Knight, of New Ips
wich, New Hampshire; (second) April 11,
J793>  Emerson. 6. Esther, born July 7,
1770. 7. Levi (2), born January 25, 1772;
killed by being thrown from a sleigh, Feb
ruary 26, 1824; married Clara Godard, and
left issue: Ruth, David, Levi, Dana, Nancy,
Levi Burns, Qarissa and Sylvester. 8. John,
born about 1774; married  ¦ — Putnam;
they both lived to the great age of ninety-eight
years, dying the same year, in Marlow, New
Hampshire; children: John, Putnam and
Nehemiah. 9. Benjamin Goodrich, born Sep
tember 9, 1779. 10. Sewall, born March 1,
1782; settled in Plainfield, New York, where
he died August 1, 1825 ; married, January 3,
181 1, Nancy, daughter of Amos and Phoebe
(Covey) Burdick; children: Louisa, Amos
Burdick, Salome and Melissa. 11. Lois Good
rich, born February 16, 1784; married Stephen
Abbott ; settled at Nashville, New York, where
he died about 1864; she after 1870.
(VI) Edward (4), son of Captain Levi and
his first wife Anna (Burns) Spaulding, was
born in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, No

vember 18, 1764; died in Alexander, New
York, September 14, 1845. He was a farmer,
and an early settler at Plainfield, Otsego
county, New York; later removed to Summer
Hill, Cayuga county, and thence to Alexander,
Genesee county, New York, where both he
and wife died. He married, October 30, 1788,
Mehitable, born September 25, 1770, died July
31, 1838, daughter of Rev. Sewall Goodrich,
of Lyndeboro, New Hampshire. Children:
1. Anna Burns, born September 15, 1789, mar
ried (first) George Gray, died 1814; of Sum
mer Hill, New York, April 25, 1808; married
(second) August 20, 1817, Loren Hodges;
died October 1, 1846. 2. Phebe Putnam, born
September 1, 1791 ; died November 26, 1821 ;
married, April 28, 1808, Sheffield Burdick,
died November 26, 1821. 3. Mehitable, born
November 16, 1793; married Samuel Crosby.
4. Nathaniel, born August 28, 1795; soldier
of war of 1812, enlisting from Summer Hill;
received a pension for his services, which con
tinued until his death; was a manufacturer
of joiners' tools ; married (first) Susan Stage,
of Groton, New York; (second) Julia Bradley
Milliken; (third) Esther Jane Johnson; re
sided in Ithaca and died in Newfield, New
York, December 13, 1871 ; by his three wives
had eleven children. 5. George, born Novem
ber 1, 1797; married, February 13, 1828,
Olive Selover, born November 21, 1802; died
November 18, 1862. 6. Elbridge Gerry, born
1802, died young. 7. Lucy, born May 20, 1804 ;
married, January 16, 1823, Clark Hammond.
8. Warren, born November 10, 1806; married
(first) May 8, 1827, Caroline Stillson, of
Auburn, New York; (second) November 20,
1859, Lavinia Chesley, at Burlington, Calhoun
county, Michigan; ten children, all by first
wife. 9. Elbridge Gerry (2), of further men
tion. (VII) Elbridge Gerry, son of Edward and
Mehitable (Goodrich) Spaulding, was born
February 24, 1809, at Summer Hill, Cayuga
county, New York ; died May 5, 1897. When
about twenty years of age he commenced the
study of law in the offices of Fitch & Dibble,
Batavia county, New York, also teaching
school and acting as recording clerk in the
county clerk's office during the first two years
in order to meet his necessary expenses. In
1832 he entered the law office of Hon. Harvey
Putnam, of Attica, where he continued his
law studies until his admission to the Genesee
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New York, where he continued the study and
practice of law, being connected with the law
firm of Potter & Babcock. At the May term
of the supreme court in 1836 he was admitted
to practice in the supreme court of New
York state as an attorney and solicitor in
chancery. In 1836 he formed a law partner
ship with George R. Babcock, and later with
Heman B. Potter, continuing until 1844, and
later was associated with Hon. John Ganson,
with whom he continued until 1844. During
his legal career he enjoyed an extensive and
lucrative practice, but he is best known for his
public life and services. In 1836 he was ap
pointed city clerk of Buffalo, and in 1841 was
elected alderman, serving as chairman of the
executive committee. In 1847 he was elected
mayor of Buffalo. Among the important meas
ures inaugurated during his administration
was the adoption by the state of the Erie and
Ohio canal basins for enlarging harbor and
docking facilities at Buffalo, the organization
of the Buffalo Gas Light Company, for light
ing the city, and the adoption of an extensive
system of sewerage. In 1848 he was elected
to the house of assembly, serving as chair
man of the committee on canals. In Novem
ber, 1848, he was elected a member of the
thirty-first congress, which met December,
1849. He supported on every ballot Robert C.
Winthrop for speaker; served on the commit
tee on foreign relations; opposed the exten
sion of slavery on all occasions ; supported the
policy of President Taylor in admitting Cali
fornia as a free state ; and opposed the Fugi
tive Slave law and the compromise measures
adopted in 1850, which received the approba
tion of President Fillmore, who succeeded
after the death of President Taylor. In 1853
he was elected treasurer of New York state,
and ex officio a member of the canal board,
serving two years from January 1, 1854. As
a member of the canal board he approved the
plans and let contracts for enlarging the Erie
and Oswego canals. He opposed the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise in 1854; took an
active part in organizing the Republican party ;
was for several years a member of the state
central committee, and in i860 was an active
member of the congressional executive com
mittee in conducting the campaign which re
sulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln to
the presidency. In 1858 he was elected to the
thirty-sixth congress; re-elected in i860,
serving four years on the ways and means

committee. As chairman of the sub-commit
tee of ways and means he drafted the national
currency bank bill, and originated the legal
tender act for the issue of treasury fundable
notes, to circulate as money, which he intro
duced in the house of representatives, De
cember 30, 1861. He advocated it as a war
measure, and opened the debate upon the bill
in an exhaustive speech, showing the impera
tive necessity of the measure to sustain the
army and navy. While severely criticised, the
arguments he presented have never been suc
cessfully controverted, and had great influence
in carrying the bill through congress. Nearly
all the most important loan laws for carrying
on the war originated with the sub-committee
of ways and means, of which Mr. Spaulding
was chairman. In 1869 he issued a financial
history of the war entitled "History of the
Legal Tender Paper Money Issued during
the Great Rebellion." In a letter to him dated
August 3, 1869, Hon. Charles Sumner, of
Massachusetts, said, in reference to this his
tory, "In all our early financial trials, while
the war was most menacing, you held a posi
tion of great trust, giving you opportunity and
knowledge. The first you used at the time
most patriotically, and the second, you now
use for the instruction of the country." After
the close of the civil war, Mr. Spaulding re
tired from public life, devoting his time to his
banking and business interest until his final
retirement. He had been engaged in banking
since 1852. In 1864 he organized the Farmers
and Mechanics National Bank of Buffalo,
owned a large majority of the stock, and was
its president until his death.
Proud of his revolutionary ancestry, Mr.
Spaulding erected in 1875 a monument in
Buffalo dedicated to the honor of the Spauld-
ings who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill,
of whom there were seven, as shown on one
side of the monument :
LEVI SPALDIN
Joseph Thomas
Jonas Uriah
Eben John
William Ebenezer
I77S 1875
June 17
100 years of progress.
Mr. Spaulding spent his last years in quiet
retirement at Buffalo, enjoying his beautiful
home, with surroundings in accord with his
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church and of many of the city's leading civil,
charitable and philanthropic organizations. He
married (first) September 5, 1837, Jane An-
toinnette Rich, who died August 6, 1841. He
married (second) September 5, 1842, Nancy
Selden Strong, who died May 4, 1852; mar
ried (third) May 2, 1854, Delia Strong, widow
of Clark Robinson. Children, all by second
marriage: 1. Charlotte, born July 17, 1843;
married, February 27, 1866, Franklin Sidway ;
residence, Buffalo, New York. 2. Edward
Rich (see forward). 3. Samuel Strong, born
in Buffalo, New York, June 26, 1849; mar
ried, October 15, 1875, in Buffalo, Annie Mar
garet Watson, born September 30, 1852 (see
Watson) ; children: i. Marion, born November
24, 1876; married, May 23, 1899, William G.
Meadows, born November 1, 1870; child: Wil
liam G. (2), born March 4, 1901 ; Samuel
Strong (2), born October 30, 1902; Rufus
Watson, born July 28, 1908; Ann, born No
vember 28, 1909. ii. Charlotte, born November
11, 1879; married, May 5, 1908, Langdon All-
bright, born December 15, 1880; children:
Charlotte, born January 15, 1910; Harriet,
twin of Charlotte, iii. Elbridge Gerry, born
August 2, 1881 ; educated at St. Mark's Pre
paratory School, Southboro, Massachusetts ;
Yale University, Sheffield Scientific School,
graduating class of 1905 ; now of firm of
Spaulding & Spaulding, wholesale dealers in
coal and coke; member of Saturn, Country,
and Auto clubs of Buffalo, and Yale Club of
New York City ; married, November 3, 1909,
Marion, only child of W. Caryl and Grace
(Keeller) Ely. iv. Stephen Van Rensselaer,
born February 24, 1884; educated at St.
Mark's, Southboro, Massachusetts; now of
firm of Spaulding & Spaulding; member of
Saturn, Country, and Auto clubs of Buffalo;
married, December 29, 1906, Marion, born
August 27, 1884, daughter of Thomas C. and
Lizzie (Atwater) Perkins.
(VIII) Edward Rich, son of Elbridge Gerry
Spaulding, was born in Buffalo, New York,
November 7, 1845. He was educated in the
city schools, and Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts. At about the age of eighteen
he entered the Farmers & Mechanics Bank,
founded by his father, became cashier, and
rose to the presidency. He also became presi
dent of the Buffalo Gas Light Company and
held this office until its consolidation into the
present company in 1897. This year practi
cally marked his retirement from active busi

ness. He retained his Buffalo residence, but
occupied it only about two months a year,
passing most of his time in Santa Barbara,
California, where he built a handsome home.
On Saturday, April 4, 1908, he was injured
in a runaway accident in Santa Barbara, Cali
fornia, and died April 8th. Later the remains
were conveyed to Buffalo and entered in the
family lot at Forest Lawn cemetery. He mar
ried, January 6, 1875, Mary Tenney, daughter
of Amos A. Blanchard, of Buffalo, and grand
daughter of Major William Tenney, of Hano
ver, New Hampshire. Children : Bertha, born
November 27, 1875 ; Edward Blanchard, born
October 31, 1879, died March 4, 1880; Harry
Blanchard, of whom further; Samuel Strong,
born January 1, 1884; Albert Tenney, July 25,
1886; Ruth Tenney, September 15, 1887; Ed
ward Selden, March 7, 1891.
(IX) Harry Blanchard, son of Edward Rich
and Mary Tenney (Blanchard) Spaulding,
was born in Buffalo, New York, October 19,
1881. He was prepared at the Thatcher School,
Ojai Valley, California, then entered Yale Uni
versity, where he was graduated, class of 1905.
His business life began with the Bell Tele
phone Company, with whom he spent one year,
connected with the purchasing department. He
was then elected treasurer of the John R.
Keim Mills Company, of Buffalo, remaining
in that connection until February, 1910, when
the company sold their mills and business. In
the same month and year Mr. Spaulding was
elected treasurer of the Long Grate Bar Com
pany, engaged in the manufacture of revolving
and rocking boiler grates. He is an Inde
pendent in politics, and a member of the Pres
byterian church. His clubs are the Saturn,
Auto, Country of Buffalo, Yale of New York
City, and the Elihu of New Haven. He mar
ried, October 3, 1908, Mary Louise, born Jan
uary 27, 1887, daughter of Harry T. Randall,
cashier of the Manufacturers and Traders
Bank of Buffalo. (The Watson Line).
John Watson died in 1728 ; he was of North
Kingston, Rhode Island. May 14, 1683, he
took John Straight for an apprentice "to serve
sixteen years from the first of March last to
learn his master's trade of tailoring." In 1687
he was constable; 1688, grand juror; 1690,
conservator of the peace ; 1690, deputy. He
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Rebecca Gardiner, supposed to have been
sister of his first wife; six children.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John (1) and
Dorcas Gardiner, was born July 22, 1676 ; died
November 18, 1772. He was of South Kings
ton, Rhode Island; was deputy, 1718-21-22-23-
24-25-26; married, April 8, 1703, Hannah
Champlin; died October 31, 1720; seven chil
dren. (Ill) John (3), son of John (2) and Han
nah (Champlin) Watson, was born March 13,
1 7 10; married  ¦.
(IV) John (4), son of John (3), was born
May 23, 1737; married, October 17, 1764,
Desire Wheeler, born November 27, 1748.
(V) Rufus, son of John (4) and Desire
(Wheeler) Watson, was born 1774; died 1856;
married Mercy Stanton, born May 22, 1784 ;
died March 16, 1835.
(VI) Stephen Van Rensselaer, son of Rufus
and Mercy (Stanton) Watson, was born June
13, 1817; died January 15, 1880; married, Jan
uary 7, 1847, Charlotte Amelia Sherman.
(VII) Annie M., daughter of Stephen Van
Rensselaer Watson; married Samuel Strong
Spaulding.

The first person bearing the
STOCKTON Stockton name to come to
this country was Rev. Jonas
Stockton, M. A., who with his son Timothy,
then aged fourteen years, came to Virginia
in the ship "Bona Nova," in 1620. He was
for many years incumbent of the parishes of
Elizabeth Qty and Bermuda Hundred, and be
came the founder of a numerous family of de
scendants, many of whom have become dis
tinguished. His cousin Prudence, daughter of
Rev. John Stockton, rector of Alchester and
Kingholt, married, June 18, 1612, Edward
Holyoke, of Tamworth, later of Lynn, Massa
chusetts, and became the foundress of the
Holyoke family in America. The next Stock
tons to emigrate was, according to Hotten's
"Lists," Thomas Stockton, "aged twenty-one,"
who sailed from London to Boston in the ship
"True Love," September 16, 1635. Of him
nothing more is known. Finally, Richard
Stockton, the founder of the family at present
under consideration.
(I) Richard Stockton was found in Charles
ton, Massachusetts, as early as 1639, where he
is witness to a deed. The next reference to
him is among the original patentees named in
the charter of the town of Flushing, Long

Island, where he appears to have been a prom
inent man, being rated among the rather well-
to-do citizens of the place, taking a prominent
part in the controversies between the town'
and Governor Peter Stuyvesant on religious
matters, holding the lieutenancy of the Horse
Guard of Flushing, and declining, with the
consent of Governor Niccolls, an election to
the same position in the Foot Guard. Between
1670 and 1680 he became converted to the
tenets of the Society of Friends, and selling
his Long Island property he removed to
Springfield township, Burlington county, New
Jersey, where he purchased twelve hundred
acres of land from George Hutchinson, where
he lived until his death, between January 25,
1705-06, and October 10, 1707, the dates of
the executing and filing of his will. He mar
ried Abigail  , who survived him, being
alive April 14, 1714, and who, there is some
reason to suppose, may have been his second
wife. Children,, all probably born in New
England or Long Island : Richard, John, Job,
Abigail, Mary, Sarah, Hannah and Elizabeth.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1)
Stockton, was born about 1650 or 1660, died
in Piscataway, Middlesex county, New Jersey,
between June 25 and August 15, 1709. His
father took him with him to Springfield town
ship, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he
remained until after his marriage, when he re
moved to Piscataway. Later he bought from
William Penn the famous fifty-five hundred
acres on which the town and university of
Princeton now stand, making his residence on
a part of it. In 1705 he was commissioned
by Lord Cornbury, ensign of the militia com
pany of Springfield and Northampton town
ships, under Captain Richard Ellison, and in
June, 1709, he became one of the trustees of
the Stony Brook Friends' meeting house. He
married, at Chesterfield monthly meeting, No
vember 8, 1 69 1, Susanna (Witham) Robinson,
born in Whitby, November 29, 1668, died April
3°. J749> daughter of Robert and Ann Witham,
of Whitby, Yorkshire, England, and widow of
Thomas Robinson, of Crosswicks. After her
second husband's death she married (third)
Judge Thomas Leonard, of Princeton. Chil
dren, all born in Piscataway: 1. Richard,
April 2, 1693, died March, 1760; married
Hester Smith, of Jamaica, Long Island; chil
dren : John and Ruth. 2. Samuel (of whom
further). 3. Joseph, May 5, 1697, died 1770;
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(Whitehead) Doughty; children: Daniel,
Joseph, Doughty, Samuel, John, Amy, Eliza
beth, Mary, Sarah, married Richard, son of
Joseph and Mary (Farnsworth) Stockton.
4. Robert, April 3, 1699, died in 1744-45 ; mar
ried (first)  ¦  ; (second) Rebecca
Phillips, of Maidenhead; children: Robert,
Thomas, Job, Susanna, Eunice, Elizabeth,
Sarah. 5. John, father of Richard Stockton,
signer of the Declaration of Independence ; he
married, February 21, 1729, Abigail, daughter
of Philip and Rebecca (Stockton) Phillips, of
Maidenhead, who was born October 9, 1708.
6. Thomas, born 1703.
(Ill) Samuel, son of Richard (2) and
Susanna (Witham) (Robinson) Stockton,
was born February 12, 1694-95, died 1739.
He inherited five hundred acres of his father's
estate and lived the life of a country gentle
man. He married (first) Amy, daughter of
Jacob and Amy (Whitehead) Doughty; (sec
ond) Rachel, daughter of Colonel Joseph and
Ruth (Horner) Stout. Children by first mar
riage, Samuel and Amy ; by second marriage :
Joseph, who remained loyal to the King dur
ing the revolution; went to the Bermuda
Islands, where he founded the Bermuda branch
of the family; Richard Witham (of whom
further) ; Jacob ; Rachel ; Ann, married Rev.
Andrew Hunter, father of the famous revo
lutionary chaplain.
(IV) Richard Witham, second son of Sam
uel and Rachel (Stout) Stockton, was major
of the Sixth Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers
(Loyalists). He was surprised with sixty-three
privates of his command and taken prisoner,
February 18, 1777, by Colonel John Neilson,
and was sent in irons to Philadelphia by order
of General Putnam. To this course General
Washington protested, he considering Major
Stockton should be treated as a prisoner-of-
war, not as a felon. He was tried and later
accompanied the Tory refugees to New Bruns
wick, taking with him four of his sons and
a daughter. Richard Stockton, of Somerset
county, New Jersey, was advertised August
28, 1779, as "a fugitive now with the enemy,"
probably the same person. He married Mary
Hatfield, daughter of Joseph Hatfield, of Eliz
abeth, New Jersey. He became one of the
original patentees of Parrtown, later St. John,
New Brunswick, where he died. He had twelve
or thirteen children, and the eldest son was
Charles Witham (of whom further).
(V) Charles Witham-son of Major Richard

Witham and Mary (Hatfield) Stockton, was
born at Princeton, New Jersey, July 16, 1756,
died at Walton, New York, December 1, 1822.
He married (first) January 14, 1779, at New
ton, New Jersey, Elizabeth North, born Jan
uary 13, 1764, died July 18, 1805. He married
(second) Elizabeth Coleman, born February
4, 1777, died April 14, 1848. He had thirteen
children by his first wife, six by his second.
(VI) Dr. Charles Lewis Stockton, second
child of Charles Witham and his second wife,
Elizabeth (Coleman) Stockton, was born in
Walton, New York, January 15, 1815, died in
Capeville, Virginia, May 23, 1874. He was
reared in the family of Erastus Root, who was
the husband of his eldest sister. Erastus Root
was born in Hebron, Connecticut, March 16,
1773, died suddenly in New York City, while
en route for Washington, D. C, December 24,
1846. He was a member of the state assembly,
1 798- 1802, and many terms subsequently; a
Democratic representative in the eighth,
eleventh, fourteenth and twenty-second con
gresses, 1803-05-09-11-15-17-31-33; state sena
tor, 1818-22-30; lieutenant-governor of the
state, 1823-25, and again state senator, 1841-
45. He was the author of "Addresses to the
People" (1824).
Dr. Stockton was educated in the public
schools and Delhi Academy, Walton, Delaware
county, New York, after which he matriculated
at Fairfield Medical College, Herkimer, from
which he was graduated at the age of nineteen
years. For four years he was engaged in mer
cantile business with his kinsmen, the St.
Johns, in New York. He then renounced
business life and took up the study of medicine
with his brothers, William Severyn and Rich
ard Witham Stockton, the latter a surgeon in
the war of 1812, received his degree of M.D.,
and practiced his profession in Chautauqua
county, New York, and in the states of Ohio
and Indiana. On horseback, with saddle bags
filled with drugs and medicine, he traveled
through the states of Kentucky, Mjssouri,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, treating such
cases as he met with on his journeyings. After
a few years spent in this migratory fashion he
returned to New York, settling at Ripley,
where he married. He again took up his rov
ing life; he spent six years in the state of
Indiana, going from there to Ohio, thence to
Virginia, where he remained until his -death.
He was a man of decided talent and brilliant
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and adventure that he was not content to settle
and work upward to the high positions he was
qualified to fill. He was a strong Abolitionist,
his southern life having enabled him to see
slavery as it existed in the cotton states in its
worst form. He supported the Republican
party for many years, but subsequently, dur
ing the reconstruction period, was affiliated
with the Democracy. He married, January 16,
1837, Sarah Shaeffer, of Oneida county, New
York, born May 23, 1820, died at Buffalo,
New York, October 11, 1900. Children: Caro
line Elizabeth, born January 11, 1838, died in
March, 1841 ; Henry Eugene, born August 9,
1839, died on the same day as his sister, Caro
line E. ; Mary Gertrude, born January 5, 1846;
Emma Adalaide, March 15, 1848; Charles
Gleason (of whom further).
(VII) Dr. Charles Gleason Stockton, only
son of Dr. Charles Lewis and Sarah
(Shaeffer) Stockton, was born in Ohio,
August 27, 1853. His early education was
under private tutors in Virginia and Ohio,
after which he prepared for college at West-
field Academy, New York. He decided on the
profession of medicine, entered the medical
department of the University of Buffalo,
whence he was graduated M.D., class of 1878.
For ten years he was engaged in general prac
tice in the city of Buffalo. Since 1888 he has
been Professor of Medicines in the University
of Buffalo ; was surgeon of the Seventy- fourth
Regiment, New York National Guard, with
the rank of major; past president of the Medi
cal Society, State of New York, and Buffalo
Academy of Medicine; for ten years state
medical examiner for the Royal Arcanum ; for
three years physician at the Penitentiary ;
house physician at the Buffalo General Hospi
tal ; attending physician since 1888 ; consulting
physician at the Erie County Hospital, Ernest
Wende Hospital, Sisters' Hospital, and at the
New York State Hospital for Crippled Chil
dren, at Tarrytown, New York. Dr. Stockton
is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and
of the Saturn and Park clubs of Buffalo.
He married, November 23, 1875, Mary L.
Taylor, daughter of D. H. Taylor, and grand
daughter of Hon. Thomas B. Campbell. Chil
dren: 1. Harriet Sarah, born August 30, 1877;
married, September 19, 1901, Maulsby Kim
ball ; children : Charles Stockton Kimball, born
August 17, 1902; Maulsby Kimball (2), May
20, 1904; Emily Nelson Kimball, February 2,
1909. 2. Mary Louise, born December 16,

1883, died April 28, 1905. 3. Lucy Witham,
born April 19, 1888. 4. Dorothy Taylor, May
18, 1891.

This name is found among
HORNING those of the inhabitants of
Mechlenburg, Germany, where
for many years prior to the emigration to the
United States the family had lived. They were
industrious, hardworking people, possessed of
those German elements of character that al
ways make for success in life wherever they
settle. This record begins with John Horning,
of Mechlenburg, who owned a small farm on
which he lived and reared a family of eight
children, six of whom emigrated to the United
States, namely : John H. (of whom further) ;
Joseph, William, Sophia, Duretta, Fred.
(II) John H., son of John Horning, was
born in Mechlenburg, Germany, 1836, died in
Otto, Cattaraugus county, New York, January
10, 1889. He was educated in Germany, where
he married and worked at farming until 1871,
when he came to the United States, finally
settling in Little Valley, New York. He
worked for the farmers of the town until his
savings enabled him to purchase a farm of
fifty acres, which he successfully operated as
a dairy farm. He prospered and was a highly-
respected citizen of the town. He was of quite,
unassuming manner, but full of energy and
force. He was a member of the Lutheran
church in Germany, but as there was no church
of that denomination in Little Valley at that
time he worshiped with his family in the
Methodist church. In politics he was a Re
publican, but never took active part in public
affairs. He married Maria Peters, who was
born in Mechlenburg, Germany, 1833, died in
Otto, New York, 1884. Children: 1. Eliza,
born May 3, 1857; married Richard L.
Wearne. 2. Henreca, born February 12, 1862;
married Fred B. Herrick; children: Vevah,.
married Harry Abbey ; Arthur. 3. Mary, born
May 6, 1864 ', married Fred Schmail ; children :
Beulah and Otis. 4. John David (of whom
further) .
(Ill) John David, youngest child of John
H. Horning, was born in Mechlenburg, Ger
many, May 7, 1866. When he was five years
of age his parents came to this country, set
tling in Little Valley, New York. He attended
the public schools of that place until the re
moval of his parents to Otto, and in the schools
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turned his attention to the occupation of cheese
making, which line of work he followed in
various parts of the country from 1885 to
1903, a period of eighteen years. In the latter
named year he formed a partnership with C.
J. Qair under the firm name of C. J. Clair &
Company, cheese manufacturers, in which en
terprise they were highly successful, and this
connection continued until 19 10, when . Mr.
Horning disposed of his interest, retiring from
the cheese manufacturing business. He then
devoted his attention to the cutlery business,
in which he is engaged at the present time
(1912) and of which he is making a success.
He is a member and steward of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Mr. Horning is a Republican in politics,
and for eight years held the office of as
sessor in Little Valley, New York. He is a
member of Little Valley Lodge, No. 812, Free
and Accepted Masons. He married Alice
Elizabeth Briggs, born October 13, 1865,
daughter of Lewis C. Briggs (see Briggs
VIII). Child: Cecil LeRoy, born December
8, 1890. (The Briggs Line).
(I) John Briggs, the first member of the
line here under consideration of whom we
have definite information, was in Newport,
Rhode Island, where he was admitted a free
man in October, 1638. He was possessed of
some fortune, as would appear from his nu
merous land purchases in Rhode Island and
Massachusetts. He moved to Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, in 1639, was a member of the
general court and commissioner for the four
towns of Providence Plantations. He is of
frequent mention in colonial records, both as
an official and in laud transfers. His will,
dated April 19, 1690, was probated September
17, 1690. He does not mention his wife, as
she had preceded him to the grave. He men
tions sons: John, Thomas, Enoch, John;
daughter, Susanna.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Briggs,
was a resident of Portsmouth and Little
Compton, Rhode Island. He inherited land
from his father and purchased another tract
at Tiverton. He also received land from his
father-in-law. He married Hannah, daughter
of Edward Fisher, of Portsmouth. Sons : Ed
ward and John, and possibly Job and William.
There is no record of daughters.
(Ill) Edward, son of John (2) Briggs, was
a wheelwright, and at various times made land

purchases in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
His wife Sarah survived him and made sev
eral land transfers after the death of her hus
band, about 1718. Both the wills of Edward
and his wife are found in Taunton records.
, Children: Deborah, born March 11, 1693;
Hannah, December 19, 1698; Walter, Febru
ary 19, 1701 ; Josiah, March 4, 1703 ; Charles,
February 20, 171 1. Walter, the eldest son,
settled in West Chester, New York, and is
the ancestor of a numerous progeny.
(IV) Josiah, second son of Edward Briggs,
was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, March 4,
1703. He married Lillie  ¦ — . Children:
Sarah, born February 21, 1752; Ephraim (of
whom further).
(V) Ephraim, son of Josiah Briggs, was
born June 29, 1756, and lived in Massachu
setts. He married and has sons, including
Ephraim (of whom further).
(VI) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (1)
Briggs, was born in Massachusetts, October 5,
1785, and at an early date he settled on Black
Creek, Allegany county, New York. He mar
ried Elizabeth Cheesman, born November 11,
1793. Children: Elias, born July 6, 1810;
Ephraim (3), March 9, 1811; Calvin, Septem
ber 27, 18 12; Calvin, December 6, 18 14;
Maria; Lucinda; John, born April 12, 1822;
Elizabeth, September 13, 1824; James H., May
25, 1827; Lewis C. (of whom further).
(VII) Lewis C, son of Ephraim (2)
Briggs, was born May 19, 1829. He is at
the present time (1912) a farmer of the town
of Cuba, Allegany county, New York, and al
though in his eighty-third year actively man
ages his own farm. He married Elizabeth.
Ann Ingalls, born 1832, died April 21, 1910,
daughter of John W. and Elizabeth (Mar
shall) Ingalls. Children: 1. Wallace G., mar
ried Ida Pratt ; children : Arthur E., married
Georgia Rowland and has a son Raymond ;
Earl, died at the age of ten; Myrtie, married
John Lyman and has a daughter Lela ; Maud,
married Amos Peterson and has Dorothy and
Arthur; Bertha, married Bertie Roat and has
Edith and Glenn; Gladys, married Truman
Gleason and has Conley Wallace ; Ethel, mar
ried Wells Cornell ; Hazel ; Grace. 2. Arthur,
married Mary Jane Greer; children: Lee,
married Edna  ; one child, Russell;
Cressie; Wilmah. 3. Alice Elizabeth, married
John David Horning (see Horning III).
4. Addis, married Alice Jenks ; children : Mor
ris, Lawrence, Bessie.

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The genealogy of the Jewett
JEWETT family has been traced to Henri
de Juatt, a knight of the First
Crusade, 1096-1099. In ancient records the
name appears as Juett, Juit, Jewit, and in other
varied forms, but in all cases the spelling pre- ,
serv.es the pronunciation. The record of the
Jewett family in America begins with the set
tlement of Rowley, Massachusetts. In 1638
about sixty families, led by Rev. Ezekiel
Rogers, came from Yorkshire, England, and
began the settlement of Rowley early the fol
lowing season. Among these pioneers were
the brothers, Maximilian and Joseph Jewett,
men of substance from Bradford, Yorkshire,
England. It is from Joseph that the Jewetts
of Buffalo descend.
(I) Edward Jewett, of Bradford, York
shire, England, died 1615 ; married, 1604,
Mary Taylor. Children : William, Maximilian,
Joseph and Sarah.
(II) Joseph, son of Edward Jewett, was
born in Bradford, England, December 31,
1609, died February 26, 1660. He came to
America, landing in Boston, Massachusetts,
December 1, 1638, accompanied by his brother
Maximilian. He married Ann Allen, and had
a son Joseph.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Jew
ett, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, Feb
ruary 1, 1656. He married Ruth Wood, and
had a son Joseph.
(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Jewett,
married Mary Hibbard, and had a son Nathan.
(V) Captain Nathan Jewett, son of Joseph
(3) Jewett, married Deborah Lord; settled in
Lyme, Connecticut, and had a son Joseph.
(VI) Captain Joseph (4) Jewett, eldest son
of Captain Nathan Jewett, was born in Lyme,
December 13, 1732. He was a captain in the
revolutionary army, serving in Colonel Hunt
ington's regiment. He was in the battle of
Flatbush, Long Island, and, being taken
prisoner, surrendered his sword to a British
officer, who instantly plunged it through his
body. He died August 31, 1776. He married,
May 18, 1758, hi's second cousin, Lucretia
Rogers, born May 4, 1740, daughter of Dr.
Theophilus Rogers and Elizabeth Hyde, of
Norwich, Connecticut. Ten children.
(VII) Josiah, fourth son of Captain Joseph
Jewett, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, De
cember 29, 1773, died at Moravia, New York,
February 26, i860. He moved to Moravia,
Cayuga county, New York, in 1814, where he

engaged in farming. He was a deacon of the
church, and a man of good standing in his
town. He married (first) November 29, 1798,
Elizabeth M. Smith, born November 16, 1777,
at Durham, Connecticut, died in Moravia, New
York, October 2, 1816. Nine children. He
married (second) January 16, 1817, Sophia
Skinner, born December 17, 1796, daughter of
Colton and Prudence (Prendegrass) Skinner,
of Moravia. Six children, all born in Mo
ravia: 1. Sherman S., born January 17, 1818;
became a leading manufacturer and financier
of Buffalo, New York ; organized the foundry
firm of Jewett & Root in 1843, which contin
ued thirty years ; also the house of Sherman
S. Jewett & Company; was president of the
Bank of Buffalo from its organization until
1890 ; director of the Manufacturers' and
Traders' Bank, thirty years ; of the Marine
Bank, twenty years ; of the Columbia National
Bank from its foundation until his death, also
director of the Bank of Niagara Falls. He
was heavily interested in railroads, insurance
companies, city improvement, and one of the
founders of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy,
which he endowed with a permanent fund
known as the Jewett fund. He was one of
the original members of the Republican party ;
served in Buffalo common council, and several
times as mayor pro tern. In 1880 he was pres
idential elector. He was one of the founders
of the Buffalo Club, and president of the Park
Commission. He married, August 14, 1839,
Deborah Dusenbury, of Buffalo. He died Feb
ruary 28, 1897. 2. John Cotton, of whom fur
ther. 3. Joseph, died in infancy. 4. Dr. Charles
Carroll, born June 28, 1827 ; married, January
17, 1856, Ellen R. Burroughs, of Buffalo.
5. James Harvey, born October 11, 1830;
farmer ; married, June 3, 1854, Mary F. Coly-
com, of Sardinia, New York. 6. Matilda
Caroline, born December 8, 1824; died May
17, 1849; unmarried.
(VIII) John Cotton, second son of Deacon
Josiah and his second wife, Sophia (Skinner)
Jewett, was born in Moravia, Cayuga county,
New York, February 2, 1820, died at Los
Angeles, California, February 18, 1904. He
was educated in the public schools and until
seventeen years of age led the life of a typical
farmer boy. About 1837 he joined his half-
brother, Samuel Parson Jewett, who was a
merchant of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He at
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him a partner. Later John C. retired from
the firm and established a general store at Al
bion, Michigan. In 1849 he returned to New
York state, locating at Buffalo, where he be
gan in a small way the manufacturing of re
frigerators. This business grew step by step
until to-day the John C. Jewett Manufacturing
Company sends its products all over the world.
In the building up and conducting this great
business he was ably seconded by his sons,
Edgar B. and Frederick A. Jewett. Edgar B.
was admitted and the firm became John C.
Jewett & Son. With the extension of their
business The John C. Jewett Manufacturing
Company was incorporated. Mr. Jewett re
tained an active interest in the company for
forty years, and was the father of one of the
great industries of Buffalo and New York
state, and must always be regarded as one of
the important pioneers of industrial Buffalo.
He was identified with the Republican party,
and the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, February 2, 1843, Priscilla
Boardman, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, then in
her seventeenth year. She was a woman of
strong mental powers and every Christian,
womanly virtue. Children: 1. Edgar Board-
man, of whom further. 2. Carrie Amelia, born
October 3, 1847; married Hugh McKibbin.
3. Matilda Caroline, born August 11, 1849;
married Risley Tucker. 4. Ella, born April 7,
1855, in Buffalo; married Willis H. Howes.
5. Frederick Arthur, born in Buffalo, Novem
ber 10, 1859, died April 3, 1906; educated in
public schools and De Veaux College, Niagara
Falls. Early in 1878 he joined his father and
brother as clerk in the office of John C. Jewett
& Son, and three years later was elected treas
urer of the John C. Jewett Manufacturing
Company, an office he held until death. He
spent a great deal of time after his first years
of close application to business, in foreign
travel. He married, June 30, 1891, Anna
Louise, daughter of Robert W. James, of
Lockport, New York; children: Robert and
Katherine. 6. Mabel, born in Buffalo, June
22, 1864, died January 26, 1866.
(IX) Edgar Boardman, eldest son of John
Cotton Jewett, was born in Ann Arbor, Michi
gan, December 14, 1843. He was a lad of
six years when his father came to Buffalo,
where Edgar B. was educated in the public
schools. On leaving school he at once joined
his father in business, and in 1865 was ad
mitted to a partnership as John C. Jewett &

Son. The business of manufacturing refrig
erators grew to such immense proportions that
a corporation became a necessity, and in 1885
the John C. Jewett Manufacturing Company
was incorporated. December 7, 1885, he was
elected president and general manager of that
company, a position he yet holds (1911) in
addition to other important official duties. He
is president of the Jewett Refrigerator Com
pany and vice-president of the Cary Safe Com
pany, all Buffalo activities. He was also pres
ident of Columbia National Bank of Buffalo,
and has other interests of a minor nature.
Mr. Jewett has never been so absorbed in
business as to overlook his duties as a citizen.
He gave twenty-four years service to his state
in the National Guard, and wore the blue dur
ing the civil war. To his own city he has
given honorable service as chief executive,
and his influence always for the public good.
He enlisted as a private in Company C,
Seventy- fourth Regiment, New York National
Guard, in 1861. In 1863 that regiment was
called out, and he was on duty at New York
City in the service of the United States during
the great draft riots, and was instrumental in
restoring peace and order to that city after a
week of riot and bloodshed. Shortly after
ward similar conditions existing in Buffalo, the
Seventy-fourth was again called into action,
their service in the two cities and elsewhere
covering a period of three months. In May,
1863, he was elected sergeant, and held that
rank from June to August of that year, the
period covering the draft riots, Lee's invasion
of Pennsylvania, and the campaign imme
diately following, in which Sergeant Jewett
participated with credit. June 29, 1865, he
was commissioned first lieutenant; April 3,
1866, captain ; October 9, 1870, inspector of
the Fourteenth Brigade; April 11, 1877, major
and also inspector of rifle practice of the
Eighth Brigade ; October 25, 1880, he was ap
pointed chief of staff of the Fourteenth
Brigade ; March 29, 1884, he was elected brig
adier-general of the Eighth Brigade, serving
until December 7, 1885, when he resigned on
account of his increased business respon
sibilities. Always a Republican, General Jewett has
been much in the public eye. March 1, 1894,
he was appointed by Mayor Bishop, a police
commissioner of Buffalo. His record in this
office brought him the nomination for mayor,
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by the largest majority then ever given a can
didate for that office. His administration was
marked by much needed reform; twelve new
school buildings, among them the new Masten
Park High School, were erected; street clean
ing contracts were let to the lowest bidder, and
much money saved the city by this rout of the
hitherto favored bidders. The plan of utilizing
vacant city lots by allowing them to be culti
vated, whereby five hundred and seventy-eight
families were greatly benefited, was a plan in
troduced by Mayor Jewett. He also extended
the civil service to include the entire city gov
ernment, and widely extended the merit sys
tem. He managed the business of his office
with the same care and efficiency shown in
his private business, and gave Buffalo a prac
tical demonstration of clean administrative
methods. He is a member of the Church of
the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) and is prom
inent in the Masonic Order, holding all de
grees up to and including the Thirty-second
degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
His club is the Otowega of Buffalo.
General Jewett has always been interested
in the preservation of the history of his family,
and on July 7, 19 10, was elected the first presi
dent of The Jewett Family of America, an as
sociation of the descendants of Edward Jew
ett, incorporated under the laws of the State
of Massachusetts for the "Collection and pres
ervation of books, pamphlets, documents,
manuscripts and other historical and antiquar
ian matter ; the publication of historical articles
from time to time ; the protection of records
and monuments of the forefathers ; and erec
tion of suitable memorials and the holding of
re-unions of the family for promoting ac
quaintance and good fellowship."
He married (first) October 3, 1865, at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, Elizabeth Foster Danforth,
born in Ann Arbor, October 26, 1845, died in
Buffalo, August 9, 1905, daughter of George
and Mary (Foster) Danforth. He married
(second) January 6, 1909, Augusta Elizabeth
Fisher, born at Tionesta, Pennsylvania, May
9, 1870, daughter of James J. and Nancy A.
Fisher. Children of first marriage: 1. Maude,
born January 8, 1868, died June 5, 1868.
2. George Danforth, born May 21, 1869, died
August 21, 1869. 3. John Edgar, born Sep
tember 2, 1 87 1 ; educated in Buffalo schools ;
associated in business with his father, and is
vice-president and manager of the Jewett Re
frigerator Company of Buffalo. -He married,

April 24, 1893, in Buffalo, Marian Lucille
Comstock; children: i. Edgar Boardman (2),
born February 11, 1895. ii. Richmond, May
27, 1896. iii. John Edgar (2), November 24,
1898. iv. Jesse Armstrong, November 23, 1907.
4. Mabel, educated in Buffalo schools ; married,
in Buffalo, June 1, 1899, Charles A. White,
born in Elmira, New York, August 4, 1869;
children: Jewett, born May 12, 1904; Priscilla,
June 2, 1907. The first of the Covell family
COVELL in this country was Ezra Covell,
who came to Plymouth in July,
1635, at the age of fifteen years. His name
was on the list of those able to bear arms in
1643. The names Coveil and Cowell were
used sometimes interchangeably. There was
a John Covell, of Marbiehead, in 1668, but
nothing further is known of him. Philip
Covell or Cowell lived at Maiden, Massachu
setts ; married there, November 26, 1687, Eliz
abeth, daughter of Philip Atwood, and had a
daughter Sarah, born April 13, 1689. Joseph
Covell or Cowell, of Woburn, married, Feb
ruary 27, 1685, Alice Palmer and had sons:
Philip, born February 12, 1692, died young,
and Joseph, born December 9, 1694. Edward
Covell or Cowell was in Boston in 1645, died
there September 12, 1691 and by wife Mar
garet had John, Joseph, Elizabeth, William,
born June 28, 1655.
(II) Nathaniel Covell is reported of Chat
ham, Massachusetts, son-in-law of William
Nickerson in 1667, but nothing further is
found. If this record is correct, he must have
been a son of Ezra Covell, mentioned above.
William Nickerson was the real founder of
Monomoy (Chatham) . During the first twenty-
five years it was little more than a Nickerson
neighborhood. There was no settlement of
his estate, but he died in 1689-90. Several
years before he arranged his affairs so that
the management passed to his daughter, Sarah
Covell, and son, William Nickerson, Jr. He
conveyed as early as February, 1685-86, to
Mrs. Covell all his property, but December 2,
1687, he and his daughter joined in a deed
of a tract of land called Monamesett Neck and
a half-interest in his other property except the
homestead to William Jr. Sarah was widow
of Nathaniel Covell, who was deputy constable
of Monomoy in 1674. Ephraim and Joseph
Covell, doubtless their sons, conveyed land
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committee to range and renew the bounds be
tween Harwich and Monomoy, May 28, 1703.
Nathaniel Covell Sr. was with Robert Eldred
and T ristram Hedges, all sons-in-law of Wil
liam Nickerson, sued in October, 1666, by a
rival claimant to their lands'. Nathaniel Covell
died soon afterward.
(Ill) Joseph Covell, of Monomoy, son of
Nathaniel Covell, married (second) March 1,
1703-04, Hannah Bassett at Eastham. By his
first wife Lydia he had Lydia, born July 12,
1701 ; married May 16, 1716, Thomas Nicker
son, at Chatham.
(IV) John, son of Joseph Covell, lived at
Harwich and in that part of the county ceded
to Chatham about 1723, when he was school
master in Qiatham for thirty pounds a quar
ter. He married, O. tober 12, 1721, Thankful
Bangs and had Elizabeth, born July 9, 1722,
at Chatham; John (mentioned below).
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Joseph Covell, mar
ried, at Chatham, May 16, 1727. He appears
to have had a second wife Mary, and a third
wife Jerusha, who was living in 1758. Chil
dren of Nathaniel and Mary Covell, born at
Chatham : Joseph, b.prn July 3, 1741 ; Nathan
iel ; Obadiah, January 28, 1744; Dorcas, June
1, 1747; Isaac, April 6, 1749; Judah, March
25> I75I! Ebenezer, > December 6, 1752; Dor
cas, April 4, 1755. ,
(IV) James, son of Joseph Covell, married
(first) Mehitable, who died November 26,
1761, aged fifty-two^ at Chatham. He mar
ried (second) Ruth  . His records are
given in order to complete all that is found
of the family practically in this section at an
early date. For many years he was town clerk
of Chatham. Children of James and Mehitable
Covell: Mehitable, born February 15, 1727-
28; Ruth, March 13, 1729-30, married Prince
Nickerson ; Drusilla, April 23, 1732 ; Hannah,
November 13, 1734, died young; Joseph, Sep
tember 26, 1736, died young ; Joseph, January
10, 1737-38 ; Hannah, January - 30, 1739 ;
James, June 28, 1742; Constant, March 3,
1744; Samuel, May 22, 1748. Children of
James and Ruth Covell : Ruth, born Septem
ber 13, 1764; Joshua, October 13, 1766;
Nathan, September 6, 1768.
(V) John (2), son of John (1) Covell, was
born about 1733 in Chatham or Harwich, Mas
sachusetts. He or a son of the same name
was a soldier in the revolution. The name is
not given with a "Jr.", however, and the pre
sumption is in favor of the theory that this

service belongs to this man. He was a private
in Captain Samuel King's company, Colonel
Josiah Whitney's regiment, August to Decem
ber, 1776; also in Captain Abijah Bangs' com
pany, Colonel Nathaniel Freeman's regiment,
in the secret expedition to Rhode Island in
1777. John Covell moved from Massachusetts
about 1786 to Pittstown, New York, and died
there in 1806, aged seventy-three years. He
had a son Benjamin (mentioned below). Ac
cording to the census of 1790 he was living
at Pittstown, Albany county, New York, and
had in his family four males over sixteen, four
under that age and five females. At that time
sixteen heads of Covell families were reported
in New York state. All were doubtless of
this family and had moved after the revolution
in most instances.
(VI) Benjamin, son of John (2) Covell,
was born in Harwich or Chatham in 1761. He
entered the American army very young, as a
private in Captain George Webb's company,
and served at Providence, 1777 ; also in the
same company, Colonel Holbrook's regiment,
1777-81. He enlisted in 1777 for the war (vol.
iv. "Mass. Soldiers and Saiiors," p. 24).
Edward Covell, of Harwich, Ephraim Covell
of Harwich and Wellfleet, Henry and Thomas
Covell of Harwich, Joseph Covell of Ware-
ham, Peter Covell, of Brattleborough, Ver
mont, Richard, Samuel, Solomon and William
Covell were Massachusetts soldiers in the
revolution. The Covells went to Connecticut
early, especially to Windham and Hartford
counties, and in 1790 fifteen Covell families
were reported in that state. According to the
Chautauqua county history Benjamin was at
the taking of Burgoyne, at Sullivan's defeat
and at the battle of Monmouth.
He married, in 1784, Sibyl Durkee in Wash
ington, Connecticut. None of this name lived
in Washington in 1790. He came to New
York state in 1786, and in 1810 removed with
a large family to the present town of Carroll
where he spent the remainder of his life. He
died November 27, 1822, aged sixty-one. At
that time all of his sons and daughters, his
brother Seth and nephew Simeon, were living
in the neighborhood and the settlement was
called Coveltown. In a sketch of Benjamin
Covell and his family it has been said they
"were active in getting the first bridge built
across the Connewango at Coveltown, by Capt.
Charles Taylor." From this it is naturally
inferred that they resided near the Conne-

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wango ; whereas it appears from the land com
pany's books that Benjamin Covell took up,
in December, 1810, lot 2, tp. i., r. 11 on which
Alexander T. Prendergast and Seth Cheney
now reside in Kiantone. Benjamin CoveH's
wife died in Covington, Genesee county, New
York, in 183 1, aged sixty-nine years.
(VII) Thomas, son or nephew of Benjamin
Covell, was born January 14, 1794. He was
a shoemaker and farmer, and for several years
was a lock tender in the Genesee canal. He
served in the war of 1812 and was in -the
battle of Cold Harbor. He was a devoted
member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and of strong Christian character. His wife
Laura was born October 18, 1796, died in
1875. Among their children was Edmund R.
(mentioned below) ; and John Wallace.
(VIII) Edmund R., son of Thomas Covell,
was born June 13, 1818, and was killed Octo
ber 2, 1889. He was educated in the public
schools, and learned the shoemaker's trade
with his father. He also worked on his
father's farm during his boyhood. He enlisted
in Company I, Fourteenth Regiment, Pennsyl
vania Cavalry, October 15, 1862, and served
throughout the war, receiving an honorable
discharge, June 16, 1865. The Fourteenth
was one of Sheridan's hard-fighting regiments
and under that famous commander did valiant
service in the Army of the Potomac. Mr.
Covell was a corporal and at the Beverly fight
he had his horse shot from under him and
was himself injured. After the war he re
turned to his home and engaged in lumbering,
purchasing standing timber, cutting it and get
ting it to water market. He also engaged in
farming. He married, July 4, 1840, Fanny Morrison,
born December 29, 1825, died November 19,
1882, daughter of Abel and Lucinda (Rich
ards) Morrison, and granddaughter of James
Morrison, who fought in the revolution. Chil
dren: Thomas J. (mentioned below); Abel
M. (mentioned below).
(IX) Thomas J., son of Edmund R. Covell,
was born July 8, 1844, in Kinzua, Pennsyl
vania. He enlisted in an independent company
in 1862 which served as Company C, attached
to the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Infantry, as scouts and sharp
shooters. He was also with Battery B, United
States Light Artillery. At the close of the
war he was honorably discharged. He re
turned to his home and learned the trade of

carpenter, which he followed for many years.
In 1900 he located in Salamanca, New York,
where he has lived since. In religion he is a
Methodist; in politics a Republican.
He married (first) December 25, 1869,
Mary Tomes, born in 1838, died in 1884. He
married (second) March 13, 1892, Bertha
Huntsman, born March 11, 1874. Children
by first wife: 1. Edmund R., born November
22, 1870, died 1886. 2. Philip T., born Sep
tember 2, 1872 ; married Catherine  .
3. Guy, born July 10, 1878; was a soldier in
the Spanish-American war, enlisting in Com
pany I, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, be
ing located in Porto Rico; married Bertha
Johnson. 4. Fred H., born October 24, 1882,
died April 7, 1883.
(IX) Abel M., son of Edmund R. Covell,
and brother of Thomas J. Covell, was born
at Rushford, New York. He received his
early education in the public schools, and dur
ing his boyhood worked on his father's farm.
Afterward he worked in a factory manufac
turing spokes and handles until 1890, when he
went to Kent, Ohio, where two years later he
established a laundry business. Subsequently
he was in the same line of business in Cleve
land, Ohio, continuing until October 2, 1899,
when he located at Salamanca, New York.
Since that time he has had a large and flour
ishing laundry business in that town. He is
president of the Engine Iron Company, and
deals extensively in real estate. He is a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, its
treasurer and member of the board of trustees.
He is also a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of Salamanca. In politics he
is a Republican.
He married, October 3, 1880, Josephine
Wright, born November 11, 1861, daughter
of Calvin and Nancy (Flagg) Wright, grand
daughter of Landrus and Rosanna Wright.
Her father was born March 12, 1841, died
August 14, 1905 ; her mother was born in
1840, died March 14, 1868. Children of Cal
vin and Nancy Wright: Josephine, married
Abel M. Covell, mentioned above; Orin, mar
ried Ida Elson and had a son Robert; Lan
drus married Emma Perkins; Howard, born
August 21, 1867, married, October 17, 1900,
Mae Covell, born May 30, 1878, daughter of
John_ Wallace Covell, son of Thomas Covell,
mentioned in generation VII. Children:
Qaude Bernard, born May 29, 1904, and
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of Abel M. and Josephine Covell: Fannie
Lucinda, born May 24, 1883 ; received her edu
cation in the Salamanca high school, from
which she graduated in 1902, and the Fredonia
State Normal School, from which she grad
uated in 1905 ; she married, November 24,
1909, Earl D. Smith. 2. Cassie Muriel, born
June 29, 1888; received her early education in
the Salamanca high school, graduated from
Salamanca Training School, and specialized in
music at the Thomas Normal Training School,
Detroit, Michigan, 1909. 3. Arthur Maynard,
born October 12, 1895 ; received his early edu
cation in Salamanca schools, also at Chamber
lain Military School, Randolph, New York.
This family traces its genealogy
GORHAM to the de Gorrams of La Tan-
niere, near Gorram, Maine, on
the borders of Brittainy, where William, son
of Ralph de Gorham, built a castle in 1128.
During the reign of William the Conqueror
several of the name removed to England,
where many of them. became men of learning,
wealth and influence. In America the name
is ancient and honorable. Although Ralph,
who first came to America, did not. come with
the Pilgrims in the "Mayflower," the parents
and grandparents of his son's wife were pas
sengers in that famous vessel, so that de
scendants of this line have the blood of four
"Mayflower" passengers as an inheritance.
(I) James Gorham, of Benefield, Northamp
tonshire, England, was born in 1550, died
1576. In 1572 he married Agnes. Bernington.
(II) Ralph, son (perhaps only child) of
¦ James and Agnes (Bernington) Gorham, was
born in 1575, at Benefield, England, died about
1643, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He mar
ried in England, and came with his family to
America in the ship "Philip," about 1635. Of
this family little is known, the only recorded
child being John, of further mention. It is
probable he had a brother Ralph, born in Eng
land, as the records of Plymouth colony in
dicate that there were two persons of that
name in Plymouth in 1639. At the time of
Ralph Gorham's death in 1643 he left no
widow, and an only son John, who inherited
his estate. No other Gorhams are known to
have been in the colony during the seventeenth'
century after the death of Ralph, excepting
Captain John and his descendants.
(Ill) Captain Jdhn, son of Ralph Gorham,
was baptized in Benefield, Northamptonshire,

England, January 28, 1621, died at Swansea,
Massachusetts, while in command of his com
pany, February 5, 1676. He had a good com
mon school education, and was brought up in
the Puritan faith. He came to America with
his father in the ship "Philip," probably then
a lad of fifteen years. He learned the trade
of tanner and currier, which occupied his win
ters, his summers being spent in agriculture.
In 1646 he removed from Plymouth to Marsh
field, Massachusetts. On June 4, 1650, he was
admitted a freeman of the town, having pre
viously been chosen constable. In 165 1 he
was a member of the grand inquest of the
colony. In 1652 he removed to Yarmouth,
Massachusetts, purchasing a house lot adjoin
ing the Barnstable line. He added to his es
tate from time to time until he became a large
land owner and proprietor of a grist mill,
also operating a tannery. He was deputy from
Yarmouth to the general court of Plymouth
at the special session of April 6, 1653, and
the following year was surveyor of highways ;
1673-4 he was a selectman of Yarmouth, and
during the former year was appointed lieuten
ant of the Plymouth forces in the Dutch war.
During King Philip's war and in June the
following year- his men attacked the village of
Swansea. On June 24, a day that was ob
served as one of fasting and prayer, Captain
John Gorham and twenty-nine mounted men
from Yarmouth took their first march for
Mount Hope. In August the war was trans
ferred to the banks of the Connecticut, and
Captain Gorham and company marched into
Massachusetts. The results were very dis
couraging, and in a letter to the governor,
still preserved in the office of the secretary
of state at Boston, Captain Gorham says his
men are much worn, "having been in the field
the fourteen weeks and little hopes of finding
the enemy, but as for my .own part I shall be
ready to serve God and the country in this
war so long as I have life and health." Octo
ber 4, 1675, he was appointed by the court
"captain of the Second Company of the
Plymouth forces in King Philip's war." Cap
tain Gorham and his company were in the
bloody fight at the Swamp Fort in the Narra-
gansett country, fought December 19, 1675,
which crushed the power of King Philip and
his allies. There was great suffering and ex
posure, besides loss of life. The troops of
the colonies had to remain all night in the open
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moist fleece of snow." On the dawn of the
19th they started on their march, and at one
o'clock reached the fort, which was built on
an island containing five or six acres set in
the midst of a swamp. Entrance could only
be effected in two places, by means of fallen
trees, to cross which meant almost certain
death from the Indian sharpshooters. After
three or four hours of hard fighting the Eng
lish succeeded in taking the fort, sustaining
a loss of eighty men, besides the wounded.
Hubbard estimates no less than seven hundred
Indians Were killed. Captain Gorham com
manded his men during the fight, but never
recovered from the cold and fatigue to which
he was exposed during this expedition. He
was seized with a fever and died at Swansea,
where he was buried the following February
5th. In 1677, on account of the good services
of Captain Gorham in the war that cost him
his life, the court confirmed to his heirs and
successors the four hundred acres of land at
Papasquash Neck in Swansea, which he had
selected in his lifetime.
The present town of Gorham in Maine (then
a part of Massachusetts) was also granted to
Captain Gorham and his company for military
service and named after him.
In 1643 he married Desire Howland, daugh
ter of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland,
and granddaughter of John and Bridget (Van
De Velde) Tilley, all of whom came over in
the "Mayflower." Desire Howland was born
at Plymouth, 1623, died at Barnstable, Octo
ber 13, 1683. Children: 1. Desire, born April
2, 1644; married John Hawes. 2. Temper
ance, born at Marshfield, May 5, 1646; married
(first) Edward Sturgis, (second) Thomas
Baxter. 3. Elizabeth, born April 2, 1648 ; mar
ried Joseph Hallett. 4. James, born April 28,
'1650; married Hannah fiucekins. 5. John, of
further mention. 6. Joseph, born at Yar
mouth, February 16, 1653 ; married Sarah
Sturgis. 7. Jabez, born at Barnstable, August
3, 1656; married Hannah (Sturgis) Gray.
8. Mercy, born January 20, 1658; married
George Denison. 9. Lydia, November 16,
1661 ; married John Thacher. 10. Hannah,
November 28, 1663 ; married Joseph Wheel
ing. 11. Shubael, October 21, 1667; married
Puella Hussey. <
(IV) John (2), son of Captain John (1)
and Desire (Howland) Gorham, was born at
Marshfield, Massachusetts, February 20, 165 1,
died November 11, 171 5. He was known as

Lieutenant Colonel John Gorham. He mar
ried Mary, daughter of John Otis, the progeni
tor of the American family of Otis, of Massa
chusetts. She died April 1, 1732, and was
buried at Barnstable, where their tombstones
may yet be seen. Children, born at Barn
stable: John, born 1675, died in infancy;
Temperance, born 1678; Mary, 1680; Stephen,
of further mention; Shubael, 1686; John,
1688; Thankful, 1690; Job, 1692; Mercy,
i695- (V) Stephen, second son of John (2) and
Mary (Otis) Gorham, was born in Barnstable,
Massachusetts, June 23, 1683. He married
Elizabeth Gardner, of Nantucket, December
25> I7°3- He died in Nantucket, in 1743.
They had eleven children, all born in Barn
stable. (VI) Nathaniel, eldest son of Stephen arid
Elizabeth (Gardner) Gorham, was born May
3, 1709; married, January 6, 1736, Mary,
daughter of John and Dorcas (Coffin) Soley,
of Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he went
to live, and died there December 24, 1761. He
was known as Captain Nathaniel Gorham.
Children: Nathaniel, of further mention;
Mary, John, Elizabeth, Stephen.
(VII) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
and Mary (Soley) Gorham, was born May 27,
1738, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, died
there June 11, 1796. He served an appren
ticeship with Nathaniel Coffin at New London,
Connecticut, and later moved back to Charles
town, Massachusetts, where he engaged in
mercantile life and became one of the most
eminent public men of his day. He was rep
resentative to the general court of Massachu
setts, and speaker of the house; delegate to
Provincial Congress in 1774-75 ; member of
board of war, 1778-81 ; delegate to state con
stitutional convention, 1779; state senator;
member of governor's council ; judge of court
of common pleas; member of Continental
Congress, 1782-83, and again 1785-87, and
president of that Congress from June 6, 1786,
to the expiration of his term. He was ap
pointed by the governor of Massachusetts a
delegate to the convention which framed the
constitution of the United States, took his
seat May 28, 1787, and performed a very im
portant part in the work of the convention.
During the second day's proceedings of the
convention he was called to the chair, then
was elected chairman of the committee of the
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tion during the greater part of its delibera
tions. The minutes of the convention show
that he served on many of the sub-committees,
and that he expressed his views with vigor
during the many debates. He was contem
porary with Adams, Hancock, Washington,
Jay, Qinton, and other great men of his day,
and the fact that he held so many important
public offices at a time when no politics pre
vailed, indicates that he was a man of high
character, strict integrity and strong mental
characteristics. He retired from public life
after the adoption of the constitution and in
1788, in connection with Oliver Phelps, of
Suffield, Massachusetts, and others, purchased
from the state of Massachusetts the preemp
tion right of that state in and to all that part
of. Western New York lying between Seneca
Lake on the east, Genesee river on the west,
Pennsylvania on the south and Lake Ontario
on the north, estimated to contain about two
million two hundred thousand acres. This was
known as the "Phelps and Gorham purchase,"
to which such frequent allusion is made in the
early history of the counties later erected in
that section. He died at Charlestown, Massa
chusetts, where a eulogy was delivered in his
memory by Dr. Thomas Welch, June 29, 1796.
He married, in 1763, Rebecca Call. Chil
dren: 1. Nathaniel (3), of further mention.
2. Rebecca, married Warham Parks. 3. Mary,
married George Bartlett. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Ann,
married Peter C. Brooks ; their daughter mar
ried Charles Francis Adams. 6. John. 7. Ben
jamin, an eminent lawyer of Boston, and
member of congress from that city. 8. Stephen.
9. Lydia, married John Phillips, and was
grandmother of Bishop Phillips Brooks, of
honored memory.
(VIII) Nathaniel (3), son of Hon. Nathan
iel (2) and Rebecca (Call) Gorham, was born
October 25, 1763, at Charlestown, Massachu
setts, died October 22, 1826. He acted for
his father as agent of the Phelps and Gorham
purchase, which he frequently visited, al
though his father never saw the purchase. His
residence in Charlestown was on Bunker Hill,
where two of his children were born. In 1800
he removed with his family to Canandaigua,
Ontario county, New York, where he built a
mansion on the site of the present court house.
He occupied a prominent position in Ontario
county, was judge of the court of common
pleas and president of the Ontario Bank. He
was an exceedingly portly man, and wore the

smallclothes and kneebreeches in the style of
the gentlemen of his period. There is no pic
ture of him, but in the court house at Canan
daigua there is a copy of a portrait of Hon.
Nathaniel Gorham, the Continental, the orig
inal of which is in the possession of Nathaniel
Gorham, of Buffalo. He married, February
11, 1794, Ruthy Wood. Children: 1. Margaret,
born November 2, 1796, died in 1806. 2.
Nathaniel (4), of further mention. 3. David
Wood, born February 1, 1800. 4. Rebecca,
born May 20, 1802, never married, died in
1857. 5. William Wood, born August 22,
1804. 6. Margaret (2nd), born August 11,
1807, died in 1826. 7. Mary, born October
30, 1808, married A. G. Bristol. 8. Sarah
Stone, born October 11, 181 1, died in 1815.
(IX) Nathaniel (4), eldest son of Nathan
iel (3) and Ruthy (Wood) Gorham, was born
in Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
August 14, 1798, died May 19, 1875. He was
a merchant of Canandaigua, New York, where
he maintained a store at the corner of Main
and Bristol streets for half a century. His
residence until 1855 was in the north half of
the double brick house yet standing at the
corner of Main and Gorham streets. In his
later years he built a residence further up
Main street, in which he lived until his death.
He married, January 16, 1827, Mary Parsons,
of Hadley, Massachusetts. Children: 1.
Nathaniel (5), born August 7, 1830, died in
Detroit, Michigan, unmarried, December 14,
1853. 2, George Clarke, born September 26,
1832, died in 1836. 3. George, of further
mention. (X) George, son of Nathaniel (4) and
Mary (Parsons) Gorham, was born in Canan
daigua, New York, May 25, 1837; died at
Buffalo, June 2, 1906. He prepared at Phillips
Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and en
tered Harvard University, from whence he
was graduated, class of 1857. After finishing
his studies he returned to Canandaigua, where
he began the study of law in the office of
Smith & Lapham. He was admitted to the
bar in 1858, and in 1861 removed to Buffalo,
New York. He was clerk of the United States
District Court in Buffalo until 1867, when he
resigned and began private practice, making
at first a speciality of bankruptcy law and
practice in the United States courts. Later
he devoted himself more closely to the law of
real estate and the management of estates and
other confidential trusts. He was a member

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of the law firm of Bass & Gorham, 1867-1870;
then of Sprague & Gorham, and Sprague,
Gorham & Bacon until 1879; then practiced
alone until 1898, in which year he entered into
a partnership with his son, Nathaniel Gor
ham (6). In 1900 this firm dissolved, Mr.
Gorham Sr. practicing alone until his death
in 1906. Among the many tributes to his
memory is the following from the Erie County
Bar Association: George Gorham, "a gentle
man by birth and ' character, an incisive and
logical thinker, a trained lawyer, a sound and
safe counselor, an honest and earnest man."
For many years Mr. Gorham was vice-chan
cellor of the University of Buffalo; was a
warden of Trinity Episcopal Church; at one
time president of the Buffalo Club, of the City
Club and Harvard Club of Buffalo, and a
member of the University Club of Buffalo.
In politics he was a Democrat.
He married, October 23, i860, Emily A.,
daughter of Judge N. K. Hall. She died
May 29, 1863. He married (second) June 14,
1866, Ellen Augusta, daughter of Edward E.
Marvine, of Auburn, New York. She died
January 1, 1887. Child of first wife: 1. Emily
Grace, born August 23, 1861 ; married, Janu
ary 22, 1891, Charles Qifton, of Buffalo, New
York, treasurer of Pierce-Arrow Motor Car
Company. Children: Katherine Gould, born
August 14, 1892, died January 30, 1902 ; Gor
ham, born November 29, 1893 ; Alice Dor-
sheimer, May 26, 1903. Children of second
wife: 2. Frances Perry, born March 16,
1867; married, September 22, 1892, Dr. John
Parmenter, formerly of Buffalo, now a resi
dent of Geneva, New York ; child : Richard,
born November 16, 1894. 3. Nathaniel (6),
of further mention. 4. Marvine, born Novem
ber 1, 1870; attended public schools of Buf
falo, graduated from the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, Boston, 1893 ; was con
nected with Yale & Town Manufacturing
Company at Hartford, the Buffalo Bolt Com
pany, and later removed to Detroit, Michigan,
where he was with the C. C. Wormer Com
pany for a number of years, and is now sec
retary and treasurer of the Schweppe & Wilt
Manufacturing Company of Detroit. He is
a member of the University Club of Detroit.
He married, June 30, 1909, Sarah Given
White, of Abingdon, Virginia; child: Eliza
beth Gibson, born December 3, 1910. 5. Mary
Parsons, born June 21, 1875, died October 12,
1884. 6. Margaret Robertson, born May 29,

1877; married, October 10, 1899, Earnest Har
old Cluett, of Troy, New York, treasurer of
Quett, Peabody & Company; children: John
Parmenter, born September 8, 1900; William
Gorham, July 16, 1903; Gorham, November
12, 1907; Margaret Fisher, February 28, 1910.
(XI) Nathaniel (6), son of George and his
second wife, Ellen Augusta (Marvine) Gor
ham, was born in Buffalo, New York, January
6, 1869. He was educated in the public and
private schools of Buffalo, and entered Wil
liams College, from whence he was graduated,
class of 1890. After leaving college he was
with the Niagara Falls Power Company at
Niagara Falls, 1890- 1895. In the latter year
he returned to Buffalo, and began the study
of law in the office of Moot, Sprague, Brown-
ell & Marcy, and entered Buffalo Law School,
being graduated in 1897, and was admitted
to the bar in September of the same year. He
was in legal partnership with his father,
George Gorham, until 1900, since which time
he has practiced alone. He is a member of
the Lawyers', Saturn and Country Clubs of
Buffalo. He married, April 16, 1907, Vivette Eliza
beth Herschede, of Jamaica Plain, Boston,
Massachusetts, daughter of Frank Herschede,
late. of Denver, Colorado. Children: Nathaniel
(7), born May 12, 1908; George, born Decem
ber 14, 1910.

The progenitors of Dr. William
GROVE V. Grove originally settled near
Reading, Pennsylvania. His
family was from Germany, and probably were
known there as Graff, the name becoming
Grove in translation.
(I) John Grove is believed to have been a
resident of Reading, Pennsylvania, for many
years, dying at Williamsville, New York, in
1842. He was a hat manufacturer, making
the olden style "beaver" hats. He was a Bap
tist in religion, and a Democrat. He married
Betsey Carr. Children: David, Peter, John,
Eliza, Ann, Lucy and Charles Carr.
(II) Qiarles Carr, son of John and Betsey
(Carr) Grove, was born in Williamsville, Erie
county, New York, September 28, 1828, in a
house that stood on the site of the present
SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. He
was educated in the public schools, and grew
to manhood in his home village ; in fact, with
the exception of a few years, Williamsville
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his death, July 18, 1887. At the age of seven
teen years he began teaching school in the
Getzville district, where the brick schoolhouse
now stands, continuing three years, 1845-48.
In the latter year he went to the Island of
Mackinac, where for six years he was engaged
in the fish commission business, and in part
nership with a Mr. Cautler operated a general
store. His old partner is now of the firm of
Cautler & Sons, bankers, of Detroit, Michigan.
In the winter of 1853 he formed a partnership
with his brother, Peter Grove, for the trans
action of a quick lime business. They oper
ated in Williamsville for several years, then
located in Chicago, Illinois, where they built
up a prosperous business, Peter managing the
western interests and Charles C. the home
business. They later sold their Chicago estab
lishment to a brother-in-law, W. H. Hutchin
son. About the year 1864 Qiarles C. formed
a partnership with N. Uebelhoer, and bought
large stone quarries at Bertie, Ontario, Can
ada. From these they furnished the rock for
building a large portion of the International
Bridge at Black Rock, and lime stone (used
as flux) for the Union Iron Works at Buffalo,
and Pratt's Iron Works at Tonawanda. After
six years of successful business he sold his
interest in the quarries to his partner. From
1870 to 1880 he was largely interested in quick
lime manufacturing in Williamsville and Buf
falo, operating with others as the Williamsville
Quick Lime Company. In 1881-82 he was
heavily engaged in oil production in the Boli
var and Richburg districts, with Joshua Smith,
of Buffalo. About 1872 he erected the brick
block at the corner of Main and Virginia
streets, Buffalo, which he owned at the time
of his death. In 1883 he built a brick roller
flouring mill at Tonawanda, which he man
aged for a year with his son, Lafayette L.
Grove, then sold. He was an energetic, ca
pable man of business, prudently and success
fully managing his various enterprises. He
was held in high esteem by his business as
sociates and by the public at large in his town
and city. He was elected supervisor of the
town of Amherst in 1859 and re-elected suc
cessively until 1864. He was chairman of
the board in 1862 and in 1863 was unani
mously rechosen chairman on the first ballot.
His speech of acceptance on taking the chair
was so well chosen that it was embodied in.
the minutes of the meeting of the board. On
November 3, 1863, he was elected superin

tendent of the poor for Erie county, but never
afterward accepted public office. He was a
member of the Christian church (Disciples of
Christ) and interested in all good works.
He married, January 5, 1853, Harriet N.,
daughter of Jonathan Driesbach, of Williams
ville, and his wife, Susan (Hershey) Dries-
bach, of German parentage. Children : 1 . Wil
liam V. (of whom further). 2. Lafayette L.,
born in Williamsville, April 9, 1859. ^n J892
he became interested in railroading, became
manager and is now a director and vice-presi
dent of the Buffalo & Williamsville Electric
Railroad. He married, August 6, 1886, Har
riet A., daughter of Peter C. Frederick ; chil
dren: Bettie Mildred, Charles Carr (de
ceased), and Nelson. 3. Edward Brown.
(Ill) Dr. William V. Grove, eldest son of
Charles Carr and Harriet N. (Driesbach)
Grove, was born at Williamsville, New York,
August 1, 1855. His early education was ob
tained in the common and high schools, fol
lowing which he entered Michigan University,
graduating in 1878 with the degree of Civil
Engineer. He prepared for the profession
of dentistry at Ohio College of Dental Sur
gery, being graduated D. D. S. in 1881. He
opened an office at Williamsville, where he
practiced in 1881-82, and in Chicago from
1882 to 1885. In 1885 he established a prac
tice in Buffalo, where he is now located. He
acted as Demonstrator of Prosthetic Dentistry
in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery,
1883-85, and served in the same capacity in the
dental department of the University of Buf
falo, 1895-96. He is a member of the Buffalo
Dental Association, of the Eighth District
Dental Society of New York State. He is a ?
member of the Buffalo Automobile Club, and
a Democrat in politics.
He married, June 25, 1885, at Buffalo, Clara
Woodbury Thorndike, born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, daughter of Eckford A. Thorndike,
born October 13, 1828; married Amanda
Woodbury. Children of Dr. William V. and
Clara W. Grove: Amy Walker, born 1886,
died July 14, 1894; Margaret Thorndike, grad
uate of Buffalo high school; William Lowell,
born September 1, 1891, now located in Cali
fornia.

Essex county, England, is the
KELLOGG earliest home of the Kelloggs
so far as traced. The origin
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controversy. It has been spelled in various
and many ways, Keylogg, a locksmith, and
Great Britain as the original home of the
family seems the most probable. Braintree, in
Essex, about forty miles northeast of London,
was the earliest home of the Kelloggs whose
line we trace. The parish register (i860)
spells the name Kallogg, Kelhogg, Kellog,
Celog, Callog and Kellock. There being no
universal orthography, each clerk spelled the
name as he thought proper.
Phillippe Kellogg, possibly a son of Thomas
and grandson of Nicholas Kellogg, of Debden,
is the first of the name in England from whom
the Kelloggs of America can with certainty
trace their descent. He first appears in Bock-
ing Essex, a parish adjoining Braintree, Sep
tember 15, 1583. His son Martin was bap
tized in Great Leighs, Essex county, England,
November 23, 1595. He married Prudence
Bird. Of their children, John, Nathaniel,
Sarah and Martin, lived and died in England.
Joseph, American progenitor, and Daniel and
Samuel came to America. The first Kellogg
whose name appears on New England records
is Nathaniel, son of Phillippe, of Great Leighs,
Essex county, England. His name, "Natha
Calaug," is the ninth name in a list of such
"Inhabitants as were granted lotts to have
onely at The Townes Countesie with liberty
to fetch wood & keep swine or cowes By pro
portion in the Common. 14 Jan 1639." Hart
ford, Connecticut. He was an uncle of Lieu
tenant Joseph Kellogg, whom we name the
immigrant ancestor of the line under consid
eration. ( I ) Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg, son of Mar-
*tin and Prudence (Bird) Kellogg, was bap
tized in Great Leighs, England, April 1, 1626,
died in Hadley, Massachusetts, between June
27, 1707, the date of his will, and February 4,
1708, when it was proved. [ It is not known
in what year he came to America. He was
in Farmington, Connecticut, 1651, where he
was an early settler and several times select
man. He and his wife were "joined" to the
church, October 9, 1653. His home lot in
Boston, Massachusetts, consisted of four
acres; a part of it is now covered by the
Advertiser building on Washington street, and
is one of the most valuable parcels of land
in Boston. He removed from Boston to Had
ley and was one of the proprietors. In 1661
the town made an agreement with him to keep
the ferry between Hadley and Northampton.

The agreement is a very curious document,
stipulating rates on dark nights, stormy
weather, late hours, etc. This ferry was in
the control of the family nearly a century.
He was selectman in Hadley, 1665-74-77-78-
79-85-92, school committeeman in 1686. The
general court of Massachusetts appointed him,
May 9, 1678, ensign in the foot company in
Hadley, and October 7, same year, lieutenant
in the same company. He served in that
office until 1707, making his military service
cover a period of twenty-nine years. Captain
Aaron Cook, who was appointed captain when
Joseph was appointed ensign, served thirty-
five years, until 1713. This explains why
Joseph got no higher rank than lieutenant.
He was in command of the Hadley troops
at the famous "Turners Falls" fight, which
broke the power of the river tribes. When
he settled in Hadley, in 1661, his estate was
assessed at one hundred pounds ; at the time
of his death his personal estate alone was in
ventoried at four hundred pounds. He was
the father of twenty children, fourteen of
whom arrived at maturity. He seems to have
been an energetic, strong, sturdy character,
an affectionate, just husband and father. He
distributed his estate fairly and there was no
dissension. He married (first), in England, Joanna
 ¦; she died in Hadley, Massachusetts,
September 14, 1666. He married (second)
Abigail Terry, born in Windsor, Connecticut,
September 21, 1646, daughter of Stephen
Terry, born in Wiltshire, England. Her will
was proved October 31, 1726. Abigail was
before the court in 1673 charged as one who
"wore silk contrary to law." She was ac
quitted. Children by first wife: Elizabeth;
Joseph, who was fined ten shillings for "hav
ing travelled till midnight in the night before
the Sabbath;" Nathaniel ; John (see forward) ;
Martin, Edward, Samuel, Joanna, Sarah. By
his second wife, born in Hadley: Stephen,
Nathaniel, Abigail, Elizabeth, Prudence,
Ebenezer, Jonathan, Daniel, Joseph (on his
gravestone in Hadley he is called "A worthy
gentleman"), Daniel, Ephraim.
(II) John, son of Lieutenant Joseph and
Joanna Kellogg, was baptized in Farmington,
Connecticut, December 29, 1656, died in Had
ley, Massachusetts, between 1723 and 1728.
He resided in Farmington and Hadley. He
succeeded to the ferry in Hadley, founded by
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owning the largest estates in Hadley in 1720.
At one time he resided in the Hopkins School-
house in Hadley. He married (first) in Had
ley, December 23, 1680, Sarah, daughter of
Samuel and Sarah (Deming) Moody. She
died in Farmington, September 10, 1689. He
married (second) Ruth  : — . Children by
first wife, all born in Hadley: Sarah, John,
Joseph (see forward) ; Samuel, and an un
named son. Children by second wife: Ruth,
Joanna, Esther, Abigail, John, James.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of John and Sarah
(Moody) Kellogg, was born in Hadley, Mas
sachusetts, November 6, 1685. He was a
weaver and resided in South Hadley. In
1788, several years after his death, his son
John was appointed administrator of this es
tate. He married, March 15, 171 1, Abigail,
born October 10, 1692, daughter of Ebenezer
and Abigail (Broughton) Smith. Their chil
dren, all born in South Hadley, were :» Abigail,
Sarah, Ebenezer (see forward) ; Ruth, Martha,
Esther, Joseph (3), John, Rachel, Jabez,
Eunice. (IV) Ebenezer, eldest son of Joseph (2)
and Abigail (Smith) Kellogg, was born in
South Hadley, Massachusetts, December 26,
1715. He resided in South Hadley. His
name appears in the muster roll of Colonel
Dwight's regiment on the western frontier,
August 11 and 21, 1748. He married, De
cember 15, 1748, Mrs. Sarah Snow, widow
of Josiah Snow, of Norwich, Connecticut,
and South Hadley. Their children were:
Amos, Lois, Sarah, Josiah, Ebenezer, Seth
(see forward) ; Ruth, Sallie and Rufus.
(V) Seth, sixth child and fourth son of
Ebenezer and Sarah (Snow) Kellogg, was
born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 5, 1767, died in West Galway, New
York, January 7, 1847. He moved to West
Galway, New York, about 1792. He was a
carpenter. He is said to have been about five
feet eight inches in height, with dark hair,
broad forehead, black eyes, nose slightly
Roman. He married, May 3, 1787, Naomi
Parsons, born August 21, 1768. After her
husband's death she resided with her son
Joseph in Springwater. One of their sons,
James Madison, was a noted lecturer in phren
ology and for fifteen years travelled constantly,
lecturing on that subject. The children, two
of whom were born in South Hadley, the
others in West Galway, New York, were:
Nancy, Supplina (see forward) ; Russell,

Naomi, Joseph, Silence, Benjamin, Franklin,
John, James Madison.
(VI) Supplina, eldest son of Seth and
Naomi (Parsons) Kellogg, was born in South
Hadley, Massachusetts, November 27, 1789,
died in West Galway, February 8, 1845.
Shortly after his birth it is probable his father
removed to New York state, as his brother
Russell, the next eldest child, was born in
West Galway, January 16, 1794. He was a
wool carder and cloth dresser. In 1824 he
began the manufacture of linseed oil in West
Galway, New York. He began modestly with
a small hand mill, having a capacity of two
barrels daily. He increased this output to six
barrels. This was the foundation on which
was to be built the present large linseed oil and
by-products business of his son, John Kellogg,
of Amsterdam, New York, and of Spencer
Kellogg & Sons, Buffalo, New York, the lat
ter business founded by a grandson, Spencer
Kellogg, son of Lauren. Supplina Kellogg
was an important man in Galway. If anything
unusual was needed "Deacon" Kellogg was
called on, as he was able to make almost any
thing needed in those days. He acted as a
judge or "peacemaker" for his neighbors, set
tling many disputes out of court, thus prevent
ing litigation with resultant bitter enmities.
He was a deacon of the Presbyterian church
of West Galway, and an upright, christian
man. He married, about 18 12, Susan A. Aldrich,
born in Kingston, Rhode Island, July 31, 1792,
died in West Galway, New York, 1870, daugh
ter of Dr. John Aldrich, born in Hopkinton,
Rhode Island, of the famous Aldrich family
of that state. Dr. Aldrich was a pioneer physi
cian of Kingston and of high standing. He
served in the war of 1812, was taken prisoner
and sent to England, where he was confined
on a prison ship. His wife was Elizabeth
(Thurston) Aldrich, who died in Kingston,
May 23, 1837. Children of Supplina Kellogg,
all born in West Galway, New York: 1.
Emily, born September 18, 1813, died at Me
dina, New York, January 30, 1836. 2. Lauren,
died aged six years. 3. Lauren (2) (of whom
further). 4. John, born December 17, 1826;
is now the only surviving cluld ( 191 1 ) ; he
succeeded with his brother Lauren to the lin
seed oil business established by Supplina Kel
logg, and until succeeded by his sons was head
of Kellogg & Miller, linseed oil manufacturers,
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leading citizen. He married Olive Davis.
Children : Anna, George, Lauren. The two
sons are successors of Kellogg & Miller and
in control of a very large plant and business.
5. Harriet, born October 13, 1828; married
Bernard K. Lee. 6. Jane, born November 1,
1830 ; married John Furman Mann.
(VII) Lauren, eldest son of Supplina and
Susan A. (Aldrich) Kellogg, was born in
West Galway, Fulton county, New York, Jan
uary 21, 1824, died in Amsterdam, New
York, in 1853. He graduated from Union
College ; was a brilliant student, being awarded
the Phi Beta Kappa key for his high standing
in college. A man of sweet and temperate
character. After the death of his father he
continued linseed oil manufacturing with his
brother John as partner, the firm being L. and
J. Kellogg, conducted under his leadership.
The business was removed to Amsterdam, New
York, in 1852, enlarged, and was in successful
operation when death removed him in 1853.
Mr. Kellogg was a most excellent man of
business, and had not early death interfered
would have risen to high rank in the commer
cial world.
He married Elizabeth Miller, born in Scot
land, June 30, 1823, daughter of Robert Miller,
born in Scotland, near Glasgow, December 9,
1774. He was chief officer of the civil govern
ment of Glasgow and a man of wealth, which
was entirely lost by misfortune. He came to
the United States in 1830, settled in West
Galway, New York, where he made a brave
effort to retrieve his fortunes. He failed in
his efforts, and in 1834 died literally of dis
appointment and a broken heart. He married
Jane Anderson, of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, who
died April 24, 1856. Of their eleven children
Elizabeth was the eighth. Robert Miller was
a son of James (2) Miller, son of James (1)
Miller, son of William and Marian (Craig)
Miller. William had two sons, James ( 1 ) and
Andrew ; the latter embraced the cause of the
Stuarts, and for his loyalty to "Prince Charlie"
had his property confiscated, and became an
exile in France. Children of Lauren Kellogg:
1. Marian, married Middletoh Warnick; chil
dren: Lauren Kellogg, Spencer Kellogg,
Catherine and Elizabeth. 2. Spencer (of whom
further). (VIII) Spencer, only son of Lauren and
Elizabeth (Miller) Kellogg, was born in West
Galway, Fulton county, New York (Galway
lies in both Fulton and Saratoga counties)

June 16, 185 1. He was educated in private
schools and at Gloversville Seminary, where
he prepared for college but entered business
instead. After the death of Lauren Kellogg
his place in the firm was taken by his wife's
brother, James A. Miller, and the firm name
changed to Kellogg & Miller. Spencer Kel
logg, at the age of seventeen, began working
for the firm and displayed so much business
ability that four years later, in 1872, on his
coming of legal age, was admitted to the firm,
as was George Kellogg, son of John, the senior
partner. In 1877 Spencer Kellogg withdrew
and went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he es
tablished a private bank. In 1879 he sold
his bank property and returned to New York
state, locating in Buffalo. His intimate knowl
edge of linseed oil manufacturing ^induced him
to establish again in that business. He formed
a partnership with Sidney McDougal. They
began manufacturing under the firm name of
Kellogg and McDougal. They continued a
most successful business until Mr. McDougal
retired. The business was continued by Mr.
Kellogg under his own name until 1909, when
the firm became Spencer Kellogg & Sons. They
are the largest manufacturers of linseed oil in
the world, consuming about one-third of the
entire flaxseed crop of the United States in
their operations each year. The oil extracted
from seven million bushels of seed is all sold
in the United States, while the oil cake is ex
ported to Belgium and Holland. The firm
has a mill in the latter country for preparing
the cake to be used as food for cattle, while
their selling agencies are distributed over both
countries. Their plant is an immense one, in
cluding a separate office building located on
McKinley square at the foot of Delaware ave
nue. Their manufacturing plants are located
at Buffalo, New York, and Minneapolis, Min
nesota. In addition to the linseed business
Spencer Kellogg & Sons own and operate a
concrete grain elevator at Buffalo, and are also
engaged in the production of castor oil, core
oil and rape seed oil.
Mr. Kellogg was intimately connected with
the banking institutions of Buffalo for several
years, but the press of private business com
pelled his resignation from the vice-presidency
of the Commonwealth Trust Company and
from the board of directors of the Marine
Bank. He retains his seat as a director of
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He is a member of Westminster Presbyterian
Church, of which he has been an elder since
1898. He is a Republican in politics, and a
member of the Buffalo, Country, Park and
Westminster clubs. The best comment upon
his great executive and business ability is his
successful management of his vast business.
Such concerns are not the growth of a day
nor the result of a lucky speculation, but are
built on the wisest business acumen of their
founders, followed each day by careful, con
servative management, a wide knowledge of
the special line manufactured, and a thorough,
systematic plan of organization in making, sell
ing and recording departments. In organiza
tion Mr. Kellogg excels, yet in no needed
qualification is he lacking.
He married, April 10, 1875, in Amsterdam,
New York, Jane Morris, daughter of Abraham
B. and Jane (Vedder) Morris, and grand
daughter of Isaac Morris. Children of Spen
cer Kellogg: 1. Spencer (2), born in Am
sterdam, New York, April 10, 1876. He was
educated in private schools, the Heathcote
School of Buffalo ( 1888-94) , followed by a spe
cial course in electrical engineering (1894-96)
at Lawrence Scientific School. In 1896 he be
came associated with his father in business
and is now a member of Spencer Kellogg &
Sons, in special charge of the sales department.
He is a Republican in politics, and a member
of Westminster Presbyterian Church. He is
active in settlement work, especially in the
large settlement at Adams and Monroe streets,
that is under the Westminster Club of his
church. In 19 10 he was elected vice-president
of the club. He is also a member of the Buf
falo and Automobile clubs. He married, May
30, 1899, at Leavenworth, Kansas, Lida Desh-
ler Willson, daughter of Edmund Payson
Willson, a stove manufacturer, born 1827, died
August, 1910, at Leavenworth. He married
Olive Links, who survived him, a resident of
Leavenworth. Child : Lois Dorothy. 2. Eliz
abeth, married Stewart R. Mann, of Buffalo,
now in business at Derby, New York. 3. How
ard, born in Buffalo, March 26, 188 1. He
was educated in private schools, prepared for
college at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter,
. New Hampshire ; entered Harvard College,
whence he was graduated in three and one-
half years with honor, together with special
honor in mathematics; received degree of
A. B., class of 1903. He was associated with
his father in business and in 1909 became a

member of Spencer Kellogg & Sons. He is
a Republican, and a member of Westminster
Presbyterian Church. His clubs are the Uni
versity and the Wanakah Golf. He married,
March 27, 1906, at Buffalo, Cyrena Allen,
daughter of Whitney G. and Martha (Allen)
Case, of Buffalo. She is a graduate of St.
Margaret's School of Buffalo and class of 1907,
Smith College. Children : Martha, born Jan
uary 17, 1907; Howard (2), born October 21,
1908. 4. Gertrude Montgomery, married
Charles Sprague Clark; children: Morris
Sprague, born October 7, 1906; Andrew Kel
logg, born February 16, 1909. 5. Ruth, spe
cially educated in music, finishing at Berlin,
Germany. 6. Doris. 7. Donald, born January
27, 1894.

The Kingstons of Buffalo,
KINGSTON herein recorded, are of di
rect English ancestry. Will
iam Kingston (I) was an official of the Eng
lish government and resided there near Liver
pool. Among his children was William (2),
supposedly his eldest son, and the American
progenitor, who settled in Nova Scotia, where
he lived to the unusual age of one hundred
and three years.
(II) William Kingston (2) was born in
- England, which was his residence until he was
about forty years of age. He then emigrated
to Nova Scotia, settling in the city of Halifax.
He owned farm lands, followed agriculture
and dealt in cattle. He later removed to Dart
mouth, Nova Scotia, where he died and is
buried. His gravestone records his age at one
hundred and three years, but the family claims
a birth record in England shows him to have
reached the age of one hundred and fourteen
years. He married Mary Leary. Children:
Paul, lived and died at Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia; John, of further mention; William,
settled in New York City, where he died, as
did his two younger brothers, George and
Thomas; Mary, the only daughter, married
Jerry. Donovan, of Dartmouth, where both
died. (Ill) John, second son of William and
Mary (Leary) Kingston, was born in Eng
land, 1804-5. He married and moved to Ice
land, where he lived for a time, and then went
to Nova Scotia with his family and resided
there for a period. He was a mason by trade,
and later came to the United States, locating
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the building of the Croton Aqueduct for sup
plying New York City with water. He was
thus engaged for six or seven years, then re
moved to Herkimer county, New York, pur
chasing a farm in the town of Ohio. After
three years spent in farming he sold and
moved to Rome, New York. He lived in sev
eral New York towns and in Canada, finally
returning to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where
he died. He was a member of the Established
Church of England, as his family had been
for generations. He married, October 6, 1831,
Julia Murphy, who died in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, in 187 1. She was the daughter of
Thomas Murphy, of Halifax. Children: 1.
Paul, died in Buffalo, leaving Thomas and
Elizabeth. 2. Mary, married John Mills, and
moved to Toronto, Canada; three children.
3. William, a paper manufacturer, married
Mary Perry; died at Little Falls, Herkimer
county, New York, and left four children, now
residents of Little Falls. 4. John Clay, of fur
ther mention. 5. George, died unmarried at the
age of forty; was a veteran of the civil war.
6. Thomas, a hotel keeper, of Delhi, New
York, unmarried. 7. Edward, a manufacturer,
of Little Falls, New York ; married Cora Pin-
nard and has a son Alfred; now engaged in
the plumbing business at Little Falls. 8. Anna.
9. Jenny. 10. Catherine. The three latter are
residents of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New
York. (IV) John Clay, third son of John and Julia
(Murphy) Kingston, was born in the town of
Ohio, Herkimer county, New York, 1842. He
settled in Buffalo in 1857, where he was en
gaged as a manufacturer of shoelasts until
1906, when he retired from active business
life. During the civil war Mr. Kingston was
four years in government employ, commissary
department, in Kentucky and Tennessee. He
is a Republican in politics, and was for many
years a member of the Buffalo Chamber of
Commerce. He is a member of the Episcopal
church. Mr. Clay married, January 7, 1867,
at Indianapolis, Indiana, Alice, daughter of
James Murphy. Children: 1. Lucretia Eliza
beth, married in 1893, John Robert Ash, who
died in Buffalo, January, 1902, son of James
Ash, born in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
December 20, 1836, died in Buffalo, April 5,
1908. He came to Buffalo with his parents
when a child of six years; was educated in
the public schools and began business life with
Charles E. Evans, coal dealer; later, and for

fifteen years, was manager of the shipping de
partment of Pratt & Letchworth. In 1866 he
began business for himself. He prospered and
became a large vessel owner. He was presi
dent of the Hand & Johnson tug line, and for
twenty years manager in Buffalo for the Lake
Carriers' Association. For forty years he was
in the coal business at Niagara street and For
est avenue, continuing until his death, and
after he had retired from all other business.
He enlisted in Company B, Seventy- fourth
Regiment, New York Infantry, near the close
of the civil war, but peace was declared before
he saw actual service. He served for one year
in the New York state legislature ; was a mem
ber of the Buffalo park commission, 1882-3;
alderman from the old Ninth Ward, in 1893,
serving continuously for twelve years, then de
clined re-election; in 1895 he was president of
the city council. He married, in 1854, Mary
Finn, daughter of William Finn, a lumber
dealer of Buffalo. James was a son of Robert
Ash, a descendant of Colonel Ash, a revolu
tionary soldier. John Robert Ash, third son
of James and Mary (Finn) Ash, was engaged
with his father in the coal business until his
death in 1902. He was a member of Holy
Angels' (Roman Catholic) Church, and in
politics was a Republican. Children of John
Robert and Lucretia Elizabeth (Kingston)
Ash: i. Robert William, born October 1,
1894; now (1911) a student in high school;
two other children, died in infancy. 2. Frank,
now a bookkeeper in Buffalo. 3. Alice, mar
ried George A. Chase and lives in Westfield,
New York ; child : Mary Louise. 4. Emma, a
resident of Buffalo. 5. Florence Monica, mar
ried Ralph Waldo Pierce, (see Pierce IX).
6. Arthur, born, 1889; senior in the University
of Michigan, electrical and mechanical engin
eering course. 7. Frederick, died in infancy.

The Welch family of Westfield,
WELCH New York, is descended from a
long line of Welsh ancestors.
The emigrant to America, Abraham Welch,
settled with his wife and family in Watertown,
New York, 183 1. Here he opened a dry goods
and millinery store. From 1856 to 1861 and
again after the death of his wife, Mary (Fus-
sel) Welch, an Englishwoman, he lived in
Winona, Minnesota, where he died about 1864,
aged sixty-six years. They had twelve chil
dren, all but the last three being born in Eng
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Robert; Mrs. Sarah Banister; Alfred; Mrs.
Susan F. Peck; Thomas B. (of further men
tion) ; Elizabeth; Abraham; Jemima; Kesia;
Mrs. Hannah P. Sheldon.; Mrs. Adelaide
Hoxie. (II) Thomas B., son of Abraham and Mary
(Fussel) Welch, was born in England, De
cember 31, 1825, died in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, December 29, 1903. He was early
educated for the Methodist Episcopal ministry,
and after his ordination preached for several
years. He was compelled to retire from the
ministry because of the loss of his voice. He
then devoted himself to the study of medicine,
which he later practiced, but not finding this
to his liking, took up the study of dentistry,
the practice of which he commenced in Winona,
Minnesota. He later settled in Vineland, New
Jersey, where he engaged in the manufacture
of dental instruments. He continued this busi
ness in Philadelphia for several years, during
which time he established a dentists' trade
journal, Items of Interest. This was printed
for ten years, with Dr. Welch as editor, and
was an authority upon all matters pertaining
to dentistry. He retired from active business
and spent the last of his seventy-eight years
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Welch
originated unfermented wine or grape juice in
1869. He married Lucy M., born July 20,
1825, died April 30, 1894, daughter of Peter
Hutt. Children: 1. George B., born in New
York state; married Flora M. Barker, of
Washington, D. C. ; now practicing dentistry
in Washington, D..C. 2. Frederick W., born
in New York state, died July 20, 1898 ; he
was a soldier in the civil war; married
Louvinia Yerkes; two children: Ray W.,
Freda L. Kronenberg. 3. Charles E. (of fur
ther mention). 4. Mrs. Emma E. Slade ; three
children : Dr. A. R. Slade, Mrs. Edna Batton,
Mrs. Lucy Halloway. 5. Mrs. Clara M. Gould.
6. Mrs. Villa Murray; two children: Elsa,
Nona. 7. Mrs. May L. Thomas.
(Ill) Charles E., son of Dr. Thomas B.
and Lucy M. (Hutt) Welch, was born at
Watertown, New York, March 2, 1852. His
parents removed to Winona, Minnesota, where
he received his early education. At the age
of seventeen they moved to Vineland, New
Jersey, where his education was completed.
He studied dentistry in Vineland and practiced
in Washington, D. C, from 1872 to 1877. In
1877 he returned to Vineland and was asso

ciated with his father in the practice of den
tistry until 1 88 1. In that year he and his
father moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and engaged in the manufacture of dental in
struments, also publishing Items of Interest,
before mentioned. In 1869 he began the manu
facture of his now famous grape juice at Vine-
land, New Jersey. He began in a very small
way, but as the demand for his product grew,
the size of the plant was increased by addi
tions which were made from time to time. In
1886 he gave up his other business interests,
including his dental work, and devoted his
time entirely to the making of grape juice. In
1897, because grapes in the Vineland vineyards
were inadequate to meet the increased demand,
he moved to Westfield, New York, where he
erected a larger and better plant. Recently
he has found it necessary to increase the size
of this building, and in 191 1 the company pur
chased a large factory in North East, Penn
sylvania. In 1903 the business was incor
porated under the name of the Welch Grape
Juice Company, with Charles E. Welch as
president and general manager, and his sons,
Paul Ross Welch and Edgar Thomas Welch,
vice-president and secretary and treasurer. It
is now one of the important industries of the
county, employing two hundred hands during
the busy season. In 1906 he organized and
established the Welch Gas Company, of which
he is president. They were among the first
to attempt the exploration of natural gas, and
have a system which is of great benefit to the
people of Westfield. They formed an inde
pendent system, digging their own wells and
laying their own pipe lines. He is a member
and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church,
superintendent of the Sunday school, and an
active worker. He is an Independent in poli
tics, and is now (1911) serving his third term
as president of the village.
He njarried (first) Jennie, daughter of
Recompence Ross, born in Burlington, New
Jersey, died March, 1884. He married (sec
ond) Julia, daughter of John and Annie
(Culin) Frailey, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. Children of first wife: 1. Edgar
Thomas, born in Vineland, New Jersey, Janu
ary 22, 1881 ; married Grace Harris ; one child :
Charles Edgar, born in Westfield, New York,
August 8, 1903. 2. Paul Ross, born in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1882. Chil
dren of second wife, all born in Vineland, New
Jersey: 3. John F., October 26, 1886. 4. Jen-

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nie R., April 17, 1888. 5. William Taylor,
March 21, 1890.

The Rengel family are of
RENGEL French ancestry, the grand
father, Alexander Rengel, hav
ing been a native of Alsace Lorraine when it
was French territory.
(II) Joseph, son of Alexander Rengel, was
born in Alsace, near Strasburg, February 6,
1837, died at Lancaster, Erie county, New
York, January 1, 1890. He was educated at
the "Petit Seminaire" in Strasburg, specializ
ing in music, becoming an accomplished organ
ist. At the age of seventeen years he came
to the United States and located first in Wil
liamsville, Erie county, New York, where he
was church organist and school teacher until
1863, when he moved to Sheldon, Wyoming
county. Five years later he became organist
at Lancaster, Erie county, and taught school
there up to the day of his death. He was a
devout member of the Roman Catholic church,
and gave his entire time to church music and
teaching. He married, January 22, 1861, at Williams
ville, Victorine Le Brun, born September 27,
1840, daughter of Jean Baptist Le Brun, born
April 3, 1803, in Paris, France, died Septem
ber 11, 1866, at Eggertsville, New York. He
was a wealthy wine maker of Nancy, France,
and came to the United States in 1844.
In Erie county, upon the old Williams
ville road about a mile beyond the Country
Club, stands a little old stone building which
is what is left of an American home of the
Lebruns. The house sets backs from the road
surrounded by tangled weeds and wild flowers,
while the driveway now grown over with
grass is lined with golden-rod and elder
bushes. In this house lived and died Jean
Batiste Lebrun, nephew of Charles Francois
Lebrun, third consul and archtreasurer under
Napoleon and governor of Holland, who came
to America in 1844.
The Lebruns were a powerful family in
France, a family of genius in the sixteen
hundreds, but in the days of Louis XVI and
Napoleon Bonaparte they reached their
greatest political power. Charles Fran
cois Lebrun, uncle of the Jean mentioned, was
third consul when Napoleon was first, and was
made duke of Piacenza under the empire,
Jean Batiste Lebrun, brother of Charles and
husband of Mme. Lebrun, the painter, was an

art critic and a painter of no small ability.
The third brother, Pierre, father of Jean, was
a military man. A peculiarity of these three
brothers was their being honored by the Bour
bon king, the republic and the empire and
holding the esteem of all.
At the downfall and exile of Napoleon they
left Paris and lived at Nancy, one of the most
beautiful sections of France, where purple-
laden vineyards stretch for miles across the
country, dotted here and there with pictur
esque villages, ruins of old feudal castles and
more modern chateaus. After living at Nancy
some years a sea voyage was prescribed for
Jean Batiste, son of Pierre Lebrun, and he
started to America with his wife and little
daughter, accompanied by his sister and her
family, who were bound for the state of Ohio.
It was before the days of the ocean liner,
and the Lebruns spent several weeks on a sail
ing vessel in crossing the Atlantic. Mr. Le
brun, being greatly benefited by the voyage,
decided to shorten his journey by making the
trip west as far as Buffalo by way of the
new railroad (the Erie) ; while his sister, de
siring to continue the journey by water, trav
eled across the state by the Erie canal, which
at that time was a strong rival of the railroad
in the passenger business.
While waiting at Buffalo for his sister to
arrive by boat, Jean Batiste Lebrun became
acquainted with the French residents, many
of whom were people or descendants of peo
ple of worth and prominence in the old coun
try; and during that week of waiting he be
came so favorably impressed with Buffalo and
the fine surrounding country that he bought
the home on the Williamsville road and im
mediately made it his residence. It was an
old-established homestead for those days, hav
ing been built long before the War of 1812.
The land around it was rolling level country,
intercrossed by the picturesque ledge of
quarry stone formation that runs for miles
through this part of New York.
The old house has sheltered many noted
people of both continents. If its walls could
speak what tales could they relate of talks by
the old fireside? Stories of the rise and fall
of the empire — of great minds which used to
congregate in the Lebrun salon in Paris — of
exiles in many strange lands — of new peace
and comfort. It now stands empty and silent,
while occasionally voices of Eggertsville chil
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which have grown up and become old leaning
trees around the grounds ; and childish faces
peep in over the old stone steps. It is merely
an old ruin to them and only that to us.*
Jean Baptist Le Brun married Marie
Noirel, born at Nancy, February 25, 1803,
died December 19, 1872, in Buffalo, New
York. Children: 1. Victorine, married Joseph
Rengel, whom she survives ; Nicholas, born in
Eggertsville, December 27, 1846.
Qiildren of Joseph and Victorine Rengel:
1. Nettie M., born February 23, 1864; married,
June 26, 1890, William J. Gordon; resides in
New York Qty. 2. Henry J., born November
5, 1865; married, October 19, 1886, Mary F.
Fitzpatrick, and has daughter Eugenie, born
May 15, 1890; resides in Buffalo. 3." Edward
J., of further mention.
(Ill) Rev. Edward Joseph, youngest son of
Joseph and Victorine (Le Brun) Rengel, was
born in Lancaster, Erie county, New York,
August 8, 1869. His early education was re
ceived in the parochial school taught by the
Sisters of Miss Nardin's Academy and his
own father. In 1883 he entered St. Joseph's
College, Buffalo, and graduated with the de
gree of A.B., June 29, 1888, from Manhattan
College, New York City, both institutions be
ing taught by the Christian Brothers. After
graduation he began his studies for the priest
hood at the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels
(Niagara University), Suspension Bridge,
New York, remaining with the Priests of the
Congregation of the Mission for five years,
going from there to the Catholic University
at Washington, D. C, where he received the
degree of S.T.B., in June, 1894, and ori June
29, 1894, was ordained a priest by the late Rt.
Rev. Stephen Vincent Ryan, at the Bishop's
Chapel, Delaware avenue, Buffalo. His first
appointment was as temporary pastor of St.
Nicholas' Church, Buffalo, during the absence
of the Rev. Christopher O'Byrne. In Janu
ary, 1895, he returned to the Catholic Univer
sity at Washington, specializing in psychology
with the Rev. Edward A. Pace, D.D., Ph.D.
In June, 1895, he was made permanent pastor
of the church at East Aurora, New York, and
remained in charge of that parish and the
missions of Springbrook, Holland and Marilla
until 1900, when he was transferred to the
parish of East Pembroke, with the missions
*The foregoing narrative is from an illustrated
article by Miss Jeannette E. Sherman, in the Illus
trated Buffalo Express.

of Crittenden, Corfu and Wheatville. The
following year he was assigned to Andover,
Allegany county, New York, from which place
he came to Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county,
New York, July 14, 1904. Three years later
the silver jubilee of the church was celebrated
after being freed from a debt of a quarter cen
tury, and entirely redecorated. On Easter
Tuesday, April 13, 1909, the church and rec
tory were burned to the ground. While the
fire was destroying the house, the old Harlin
estate, adjoining the public square, which had
been under consideration, was purchased, and
on May 26th the new site was blessed and
ground was broken for a new church. The
work of excavating began June 7th, and on
July 28, 1909, the cornerstone of the new Holy
Name of Mary Church was laid by the Rt.
Rev. Charles H. Colton, D.D., Bishop of Buf
falo, who had donated the site to the parish
to encourage the people in the work of re
building. The plans of the church and rectory,
which are connected by a cloister, were drawn
by the architect, A. A. Post, of Buffalo, and
erected by the contractor, William Stokes, of
Ellicottville, at a cost of $35,000, the heating,
plumbing and electric work adding $5,000 to
the cost of building. Over $10,000 was spent
in furnishings and decorating, the altar being
American marble and the furniture quartered
oak. The fire had destroyed a copy of the
original painting of the Crucifixion by Guido
Reni, in the Church of San Lorenzo, Rome,
given by Mrs. Devereaux fifty years before, but
Mr. Kessel, who had restored the picture for
the silver jubilee, painted a copy which com
pares very favorably with the original and
is a most realistic altar piece. The windows
are the crowning beauty of the church, and
help confirm the assertion that it is the "pret
tiest, neatest and most complete church" that
can be found. In the tower is a clock costing
six hundred dollars, given principally by the
non-Catholics of Ellicottville. It strikes the
hours on the church bell, which was donated
in memory of his father, Michael O'Day, by
the late Hon. Daniel O'Day, whose boyhood
days were spent in Ellicottville. The church
itself is patterned after the church at Deal
Beach, New Jersey, where Mr. O'Day built his
magnificent summer home, which he named
Kildysart after his birthplace in County Clare,
Ireland. Although the buildings were com
pleted a year and a half ago, at a cost of more
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$13,000, half of which is on the church and
covered by subscriptions payable within three
years, the entire cost of the church having
been subscribed by the parishioners without
solicitation, each coming to make his or her
offering to the priest. The parish numbers
about 650 individuals, being mostly of the
farming class. A fund has been started for a
parochial school, towards which the pastor do
nates half of the marriage and baptismal fees.
Father Rengel made a cruise of the West
Indies in 1903, went to California by way of
the Isthmus of Panama in 1906, made a Pil
grimage to Rome and through Europe in 1907,
and again in 1910, including the Passion Play,
and has had several audiences with the Holy
Father.

The Fargo family of Buffalo, so
FARGO intimately connected with the
great American and Wells-Fargo
Express Companies, descends from Moses
Fargo (or Firgo, as it was often written),
who emigrated from England to Connecticut
about 1670, and settled at New London, where
a house lot was granted him in 1680. In 1690
he was in Norwich, and in 1694 was granted
land "on the hill above the rock where his
house stands." He was one of the proprietors
of Norwich who came later and were added
to the original settlers. In 1722 he appears
among the inhabitants of the North Parish of
New London, now Montville. His wife was
named Sarah. He died in 1726. Children :
Sarah, born June 19, 1680; Mary, June 6,
1681 ; Ann, March 2, 1684; Patience, May 9,
1688 ; Moses, April 9, 1691 ; Ralph, August
18, 1693 ; Robert, September 30, 1696 ;
Thomas, November 9, 1699 ; Aaron, December
9, 1702.
(II) One of the sons of Moses Fargo.
(Ill) William, grandson of Moses Fargo,
the emigrant, was born in Connecticut, died
about 1800. He enlisted in the Continental
army when seventeen years of age, and served
during the whole war. He became a successful
trader and shipper of horses and cattle to the
West Indies, but the loss of two ships during
a stormy voyage brought financial disaster
from which he never recovered. He left a
widow and several children.
(IV) William C, son of William Fargo,
was born at New London, Connecticut, March
20, 1 79 1. He was early thrown on his own
resources, and started in life working in a

distillery, where he learned the trade. January
23, 1807, he left home with his uncle John
Ames and came to New York state, settling
at Plymouth, Chenango county, later going to
Jamesville, Onondaga county. He worked in
different towns, always going westward until
he reached Buffalo in September, 1809. Here
he was employed until May, 1812, when he en
listed in the Third Regiment Heavy Artillery,
under Colonel (later General) Alexander
Macomb. He 'was in the battle of Queens-
town, October 13, 1812, and received a wound
in the right thigh; in the same battle the
British General Brock was killed. Mr. Fargo
recovered and served throughout the war. In
1815, after peace was established, he continued
in the army service until May 7, 1817, rank
ing as sergeant-major. He was discharged
at Mackinaw, and on foot returned to Pompey,
Onondaga county, New York. Here he mar
ried, and engaged in farming and distilling.
He later removed to Cicero Corners, later to
Manlius, where he lived fifteen years, then to
Syracuse, where he built a substantial home
and lived the remainder of his life. He mar
ried, August 10, 1817, Tacy Strong, born in
Hebron, Connecticut, September 14, 1799, died
November 9, 1870, and is buried in Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, with her husband,
where their resting place is marked by a beau
tiful monument marked "Father and Mother,"
in the lot of their son, William G. Fargo.
Children :
1. William George, born May 20, 1818, in
Pompey, New York; was clerk, freight agent
and express messenger, and Buffalo agent for
Pomeroy Express. In 1844, with Henry Wells
and Daniel Dunning, he organized the Wells
Express Company, to operate between Buffalo
and Detroit, gradually extending the business
to St. Louis. Mr. Dunning withdrew after a
year, and Mr. Wells sold his interest to Wil
liam A. Livingston, the firm becoming Liv
ingston & Fargo. In 1850 the American Ex
press Company was organized, consolidating
the several express companies, with William
G. Fargo as the first secretary. In 1868 the
American absorbed the Merchants' Union Ex
press Company, and Mr. Fargo was elected
president of the American Express Company,
retaining that position until his death. In 185 1
he and associates organized the Wells-Fargo
Express Company, to operate between New
York and San Francisco, by way of the
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With the completion of the Union and Cen
tral Pacific railroads the water route was aban
doned for rail, and the management of the
company transferred to San Francisco. Mr.
Fargo was vice-president and director of the
company. He was a director and vice-presi
dent of the New York Central Railroad and
other companies ; mayor of Buffalo, 1862-
1866; died August 3, 1881. He married, 1840,
Anna H. Williams. 2. Jerome Freeman, of
whom further. 3. Rufus, born December 26,
1 821, died aged two years. 4. Chancellor L.,
born January 12, 1824; entered Express serv
ice and was director of the American Express
Company and superintendent of the Western
Division. 5. Sarah Ann, born March 24, 1826;
married Harvey S. Reed. 6. Maryette, born
December 18, 1827; married Samuel P.
Wormley. 7. James C, born May 5, 1829 ;
held many responsible positions with the
American Express Company, general superin
tendent and manager ; president of Merchants'
Dispatch Transportation Company, and was a
thorough master of the business ; married
Fannie Stuart. 8. Charles, born April 15,
1831 ; also an important character in the Ex
press business; held responsible positions and
succeeded his brother, William G., as president
of the American Express Company, in 1881 ;
he married Mary Jane Bradford. 9. Thomas
B., born May 7, 1833; married Lou Winfield.
10. Emmeline, born May 17, 1836; married
Frederick Deese. 11. Willett H., born Febru
ary 15, 1840; married Emmeline Caldwell.
12. Mortimer H., born September 27, 1843;
agent of American Express Company at Green
Bay, Wisconsin, and held other offices in the
Company; married Mary Drake.
(V) Jerome Freeman, second son of Wil
liam C. and Tacy (Strong) Fargo, was born
at Jamesville, Onondaga county, New York,
February 20, 1820. He worked on the farm
in summer and attended school winters until
he was fourteen, then hired to a farmer, in
tending to remain until he was twenty-one.
Farm life, however, did not agree with his
health, and in 1835 he began clerking in the
Curtis store on Pompey Hill. In 1836 he was
in Syracuse clerking, but soon apprenticed
himself to learn the baker's trade. In 1838
he removed to Weedsport, where he worked
at his trade a year, then was clerk for a year,
then engaged in mercantile business with his
brother, William C. In 1841 he removed to
Auburn, New York, in the employ of the

Auburn & Syracuse Railroad Company. For
two years he was local freight conductor, and
ran the first through freight train from
Rochester to Albany without transfer, in the
winter of 1846. In 1847 he was promoted
passenger conductor, and removed to Syracuse
in 1849. He ran a train from Syracuse to
Auburn, continuing until the organization of
the New York Central, remaining with them
until June, 1856, when he removed to Buffalo.
Here he was junior partner of Williams &
Fargo, owning and operating the Corn Dock
Elevator, which he built and managed success
fully until its destruction by fire in 1865. He
then leased, with his partner, the City Eleva
tor, which he operated until 1872. In July,
1873, he was appointed superintendent of the
real estate and personal property of the Amer
ican Express Company, a position he held
until his death.
Mr. Fargo was a Democrat in polities',
and a devout, active member of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church. He was one of the
early members of the Church of the Ascen
sion, Buffalo, one of the largest contributors
to its building fund, and in 1867 was chosen
warden. He was president of the Buffalo
Homoeopathic Hospital; life member of the
Young Men's Association ; member of Ancient
Landmarks Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
and other organizations. He was a man of
high character and died deeply regretted. He
married, July, 1839, Hannah Watson of
Weedsport, New York. Of their seven chil
dren, two reached maturity — George W., of
whom further; and Bessie, married Stephen
Sears, and has Jerome, Winthrop, and
Stephen. (VI) George W., son of Jerome F. and
Hannah (Watson) Fargo, was born in
Auburn, New York, December 23, 1848. He
married, June 29, 1870, Alice M. Diller, a
resident of the old Diller homestead, 464
Franklin street, built by her father, John
Diller, in 1850, one of the first residences on
Franklin street. Children: 1. Fanny Alice,
resident of Buffalo. 2. Hannah Watson, mar
ried, October 14, 1896, William L. Popple;
child : Marion Fargo Popple. 3. Emmeline
Diller, married, July 14, 1908, William John
Jacob, of Buffalo. 4 Jerome Freeman, born
June -14, 1884, educated in grammar and high
schools of Buffalo ; was engaged in the Ex
press business in Buffalo until 1908, when he
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(The Diller Line).
The Dillers of Buffalo descend from Fran
cis Diller, a Swiss immigrant about whom lit
tle is known further than the information con
tained in his passport, dated April 10, 1754.
He was born in Biglen, a village in northwest
ern Switzerland.. The earlier years of his
life up to 1743 were spent in the canton of
Bern. He was a Mennonite, a sect which, on
account of their hostility to a union of church
and state, their refusal to bear arms, take the
oath or hold office, suffered great persecution.
The persecutions were most intense and long
continued in Bern, and it seems most probable
that he was among those exiled from his na
tive land, for during the last eleven years
of his stay in Europe he was resident at La
Chaux-de-Fonds under the authority of the
King of Prussia, who had invited the exiled
Bernese to settle in his own kingdom. His
passport shows that he leased a considerable
estate at Chaux-de-Fonds, where he resided
continuously for eleven years,, that he was a
man of good character, and had a family. As
his eldest son was born about 1743, possibly
as early as 1731, he was most likely married
in Biglen, and that his other three children
were born at Chaux-de-Fonds. The passport
was obtained April 10, 1754, and it seems more
likely that he began his journey down the
Rhine at once and made no stops of long
duration in Holland or elsewhere before sail
ing for America. There is no record of the
voyage, but tradition has it that his household
goods were lost at sea, and that the family
arrived destitute. This is improbable, as in
a few years after his arrival Francis Diller
bought a farm, paying over $2000 cash, and
assuming a mortgage on the property. This
farm, which he purchased April 10, 1760, con
tained one hundred and forty acres, situated
on a branch of Muddy Creek, in now Breck
nock township, Lancaster county, Pennsyl
vania. During his early residence there he built
the first distillery in Lancaster county, and
operated it during the revolutionary war. He
made his will November 12, 1782, and named
his son Peter as executor. He died soon after
his will was made, and is supposed to have
been buried at Mennonite meeting house, in
Bowmansville, about one and three-quarters
miles from his farm. No trace of his grave
has been found. His wife Anna, maiden name
unknown, was born June, 1707, and died be
tween 1809 and 181 1. A stone to the memory

of Francis Diller has been erected in the grave
yard of the Diller church in Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, with inscription: "Fran
cis and Anna Diller of Biglen, Switzerland,
emigrated in 1754 from La Chaux-de-Fonds,
to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where
Francis died in 1783, and was buried near
Bowmansville. Anna died about 1810, lies
here with her three sons Francis, Peter and
Abraham." Elizabeth, the only daughter, mar
ried David Eshelman, and lived in Berks
county, Pennsylvania. Three of her six chil
dren lived in Niagara county, New York. The
sons are all the founders of families found all
over the United States.
Francis (2), son of Francis (1) and Anna
Diller, is the ancestor of the Buffalo branch,
and grandfather of John Diller, father of
Alice M. Diller, wife of George W. Fargo.
John Diller, of Plainfield, Pennsylvania, was
born January 26, 1818, removed to Buffalo
about 1847. He was one of the organizers of
the Hollister Elevator Company, and later was
connected with the City Elevator Company.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church,
prominent in the Masonic order, and a Demo
crat. He married, April 22, 1847, at Plain-
field, Pennsylvania, Emmeline Carothers, born
October 2, 1826, died June 14, 1906, in Buf
falo, daughter of William Carothers, born in
England, in 1787, died October 27, 1838; he
married, October 26, 1809, Elizabeth Showers,
born at Plainfield, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1792,
died December 5, 1874; they had ten children.
John and Emmeline Diller were the parents
of two children: 1. Albert John, born Sep
tember 5, 1852, died October 28, 1903, at Buf
falo ; he was a railroad contractor, and prom
inent in the Masonic order. 2. Alice M., mar
ried George W. Fargo.
Emmeline Carothers Diller, mother of Mrs.
Fargo, was a member of the Central Presby
terian Church, and a woman of great energy
and force of character. After the death of
her husband, Mrs. Fargo returned to the old
Diller home on Franklin street, where she
cared for her aged mother until the death of
the latter in 1906.

The Wilkeson family is of
WILKESON sturdy Scotch Covenanter
stock. The name first ap
pears in history at the time when the laws of
King Charles II made it a treasonable act to
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troops in Western Scotland were ordered to
disperse all such meetings at the point of the
sword. The people took arms in defense of
their religion, and were defeated by the Duke
of Monmouth at Bothwell Bridge, January 22,
1679. Some four hundred Covenanters were
killed in this battle, among them several
Wilkesons. As a result of this defeat the
Wilkeson family, with others, was exiled to
the North of Ireland. Ten years later these
Ulster Protestants defended Londonderry
from an attack by the forces of King James II.
This event, commonly known as the "Siege of
Derry," was among the most memorable in
the annals of the British Isles. Six Wilkesons
were among those killed during the terrible
one hundred and five days before the place
was relieved. The soldier survivors received
allotments of land in the Pale.
(I) John Wilkeson, with his wife Mary
Robinson, emigrated from the North of Ire
land in 1760. He settled in Delaware, where
he was living when the revolution began. He
-immediately enlisted, receiving a commission
as lieutenant, and fought until the close of
the war. After the army was disbanded he
went to Washington county, Pennsylvania,
where under a soldier's warrant he cleared a
farm, and in this home remained until his
death. He had three sons and two daughters.
(II) Samuel, son of John Wilkeson, was
born in 1781, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where
his father's regiment was encamped. His
youth was spent on his father's farm in the
Pennsylvania wilderness, afnong all the hard
ships of the frontier. His schooling began
in the nearest log schoolhouse, and ended in
just two weeks. The education which later
enabled him to perform the duties of an en
gineer, a judge, an editor, a senator and a
mayor, besides becoming a successful merchant
and manufacturer, was gained. in the rough
school of experience, supplemented by personal
study. Soon after his father's death he mar
ried Jean (Jane) Oram, daughter of Captain
Samuel Oram, who had emigrated to America
with his father, and was John Wilkeson's
comrade throughout the revolution. Follow
ing the pioneer instinct, Samuel removed with
his wife to Southeastern Ohio, where he began
to clear for himself another farm. His enter
prising spirit, however, soon led him to seek
an occupation which promised more rapid re
turns for his toil. He began to build keelboats,
and carried on trade between Pittsburgh and

Buffalo, by way of the Allegheny and Cone-
wango rivers, Chautauqua Lake, Lake Erie
and the Niagara river. He transported iron,
glass, etc., from Pittsburgh to Buffalo and
Black Rock, where he received return cargoes
of salt, brought down from Syracuse. He
built his first vessels himself, with no other
tools than axe, saw, wedge, auger and ham
mer. No iron spikes or nails were used in
their construction. Occasionally he made voy
ages to points up Lake Erie, thus becoming
one of the first of the lake forwarders.
He was thus engaged when the war' of 18 12
began. His most notable service in this war
was the building of the transports with which
General William Henry Harrison crossed the
lake to fight the battle of the Thames. Gen
eral Harrison was encamped on the Maumee
in the summer of 1813, and the contractor
whom he had engaged to supply him with
boats disappointed him. He promptly sent
for Mr. Wilkeson, whose experience as a keel-
boatman in the Pittsburgh-Buffalo trade rec
ommended him as the man for the emergency.
Wilkeson hurried to the Grand river, in
Northern Ohio, with a force of axemen and
carpenters-, where in a very short time he put
together the necessary craft, mostly from
green timber. Returning to Portland, Chau
tauqua county, where his family was then liv
ing, he hurried on to Buffalo, probably as a
member of the regiment of Chautauqua county
militia under Lieutenant Colonel McMahon,
which arrived December 29, 1813, the day be
fore the British forces crossed the river and
captured and burned the town. The militia
was dispersed, and Mr. Wilkeson walked back
to Portland. A few days later, however, he
returned with one companion, by boat, to learn
the situation. An early narrative says they
saw between Pratt's ferry and Cold Spring
no living thing except a solitary cat wander
ing among the blackened ruins.
The following year Mr. Wilkeson embarked
¦his family and household goods on a lake
boat and removed to Buffalo, where the hardy
settlers were rapidly rebuilding their homes.
He built a store at the corner of Main and
Niagara streets, and a house on the west side
of Main street, south of Genesee street. In
the spring of 18 15 his fellow townsmen per
suaded him to accept the office of justice of
the peace, The town was filled with reckless
characters, discharged soldiers and other drift
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able trouble, and a strong hand was needed
to enforce law and order. Judge Wilkeson
was the man for the time. His discharge of
his duties as criminal magistrate is one of the
living traditions of Buffalo. His methods
may sometimes have been extra-judicial, for
he knew little of the law, but he was a terror
to evildoers. Punishment for misdeeds was
swift and sure, and in a short time he had
made Buffalo again a law-abiding community.
But Judge Wilkeson's greatest service for
Buffalo was the building of the first harbor.
A law of 1 8 19 had authorized the state to
loan the village $12,000 for this purpose on
the security of a bond of double the amount.
The Citizens' Association having charge of the
matter failed to meet the conditions, and
toward the close of the year it appeared likely
that the loan would be forfeited. In this crisis
Charles Townsend, Oliver Forward and Sam
uel Wilkeson offered their personal bonds for
$25,000 to secure the loan. The work was
begun the following spring under a superin
tendent who proved unsatisfactory, and Mr.
Wilkeson's associates insisted that he take
charge of it. At that time all of the region
from the present Mansion House south and
east to the lake was a swamp which Main
street crossed as a corduroy road. Trees
fringed the lake and both banks of the creek,
which was so shallow at its mouth that Judge
Wilkeson was accustomed to wade it. In fact,
it was only waistdeep for this six-foot man.
Much of his time as superintendent was spent
in the water. He knew nothing of engineer
ing according to books, but he had the fron
tiersman's common sense, a powerful voice,
and the faculty of directing men and getting
work out of them, and in two hundred and
twenty-one days this first harbor was com
pleted. On a panel of his monument, facing
the harbor, are these well-merited words:
Urbem condidit.
He built the city by building its harbor.
This harbor made Buffalo the terminus of
the Erie canal. At that time Black Rock
was a separate and rival village, and a sharp
contest between the two towns arose. When
the canal commissioners came to Buffalo in
the summer of 1822 to decide the question,
Mr. Wilkeson made the argument for his
town; General Porter spoke for Black Rock.
Buffalo won. On the completion of the canal
in 1825, Mr. Wilkeson was chairman of the

citizens' committee which made the voyage to
New York on board the "Seneca Chief" in
celebration of the great event.
On November 10, 1820, Mr. Wilkeson was
appointed judge of the court of common pleas
for Niagara county, and retained the office
for Erie county after the division in 1821.
This court was the predecessor of the present
county court, and, remembering that Mr. Wil
keson was not a lawyer, his successful ad
ministration of the office is a notable distinc
tion. In 1824 he was elected a member of
the assembly, and in November, 1825, he was
elected to the state senate, where he served
until the close of 1829. The senate at that
time, with the chancellor and the judges of the
supreme court, constituted the court for trial
of impeachments and the correction of errors.
It heard appeals from the court of chancery,
the supreme court, the court of probate and
the admiralty court, so that Mr. Wilkeson's
duties in this office were again largely judicial.
In 1836 he was mayor of the city. His busi
ness activities included those of a merchant,
forwarder, canal contractor, warehouse man
and vessel owner. He built the first iron
foundry in Buffalo, and started here the manu
facture of steam engines, stoves and hollow
ware. He had a charcoal blast furnace in
Lake county, Ohio, and another in Mahoning
county, Pennsylvania, where he was the first
furnace man to use raw bituminuous without
coking. In his later years Judge Wilkeson became
much interested in the slavery problem. He
was opposed to radical abolition, but favored
gradual and compensated emancipation and
the removal of the free negroes from this
country. These ideas naturally led him into
the National Colonization Society of America,
which founded Liberia, and his energy and
business experience soon put him at the' head
of that organization. He removed to Wash
ington, where in 1840 he was in full charge
of the society's work. He edited its organ,
the African Repository, directed the govern
ment of the colony, and built up a consider
able trade with it from Philadelphia and Bal
timore. The nation has had terrible reason
to regret that his f arseeing plans in this matter
were not fully realized.
He died in July, 1848, in the sixty-seventh
year of his age, at a tavern in the mountains
of Tennessee, where he was traveling to visit
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Volume V of the Buffalo Historical Society's
Proceedings. By his first wife, Jean Oram,
he had seven children : Jane, died in infancy ;
Elizabeth, John, Eli Reed, William, Louise,
Samuel. He married (second) Sarah St.
John, of Buffalo, and (third) Mary Peters, of
New Haven, Connecticut.
(Ill) John, eldest son of Samuel Wilkeson,
was born at Poland, Ohio, October 28, 1806.
He was eight years old when the family re
moved to Buffalo. In some reminiscences pub
lished by the Buffalo Historical Society he
has left an interesting picture of the Buffalo
of that day. The region round the Terrace
and south and west of Court street was a
swamp into which the family cow used to
stray, and John xhas amusingly described his
youthful terrors in searching for her along
the treacherous winding pathways, among
snakes and frogs. He was educated in the
Buffalo public schools, and at a boarding
school in Danbury, Connecticut, He entered a
mercantile house in New York and for a time
thereafter was in commercial business in
Tabasco, Mexico. In 1840 he was secretary to
his father, in charge of the National Coloni
zation Society at Washington. President
Tyler appointed him consul to Turk's Island.
The post then covered most of the West Indies
and was nearly as important as a ministerial
position. On the voyage thither he was ship
wrecked and had a narrow escape. He was
picked up at sea and landed at Newport,
Rhode Island. He engaged in manufacturing
in Buffalo, becoming the first manufacturer of
stoves and furnaces, invented and patented
several important devices, and also became in
terested in timber and oil lands in Pennsyl
vania. As the lake trade grew in proportions,
he became very active in it, and built the Wil
keson elevator, one of the first in this port.
He continued to be an active elevator man
all his life, serving as chairman of the execu
tive committee of the Western Elevating Com
pany. He lived in the present Wilkeson man
sion, built by his father in 1824, the finest
house in that part of the country at that time,
and still one of the historic homes of Buffalo.
Many distinguished guests have been enter
tained there, particularly in early canal days,
when Governor DeWitt Clinton was a fre
quent visitor. Mr. Wilkeson was a warm per
sonal friend of President Millard Fillmore,
and in 1856, accompanied Mr. Fillmore on a
tour of Europe.

He married, at Portsmouth, England, in
1832, Mary Louise Wilkes. They had three
children : John Wilkes, Samuel H., and Maria
Louise. The death of the father occurred
April 4, 1894. Of the remaining children of
Judge Samuel Wilkeson:
1. Elizabeth, married Dr. Henry A. Stagg,
a distinguished Buffalo physician,. who received
a silver vase from the city in recognition of
his services in the cholera epidemic. Their
son, Henry R. Stagg, served in the Seventy-
eighth New York Regiment during the civil
war. 2. Eli Reed, became much interested in the
old volunteer fire department, equipping one
entire company at his own expense. He died
in 1850. One son, Allen, died in early man
hood, and a second son, William, served in
the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the
civil war. After the war he removed to
Youngstown,'New York.
3. William, lived in Buffalo all his life. He
conducted an iron foundry on Court street,
and had other large business interests. He
died in 1881.
4. Louise, married Mortimer Johnson,
nephew to Ebenezer Johnson, Buffalo's first
mayor. Their daughter married W. H. Beard,
the well known artist. Their son Hugh en
tered the regular army and fought through
the civil war. Their second son, Tellice, was
a well known business man in Buffalo, long
connected with the Bell Telephone Company.
5. Samuel, was born in 1817, educated at
Williams and Union Colleges, and entered the
newspaper profession, working for twelve
years on the New York Tribune under Hor
ace Greeley. He was the Tribune's war cor
respondent with the Army of the Potomac.
He became owner and editor of the Buffalo
Democracy, afterward consolidated with the
Express. In 1865 he bought the Albany
Evening Journal from Thurlow Weed, and
edited that newspaper for several years. In
March, 1869, he became secretary of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He
married Catherine Cady, daughter of Judge
E. R. Cady of Johnstown, New York. His
son, Bayard, born in 1844, enlisted at the age
of seventeen as second lieutenant in the Fourth
United States Artillery, and was killed at
Gettysburg as captain in command of his bat
tery, aged nineteen years. A second son,
Frank, served as a private in the civil war, and
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on the New York Times for a while and then
engaged in stock farming in Kansas. A third
son, Samuel, went west in early manhood and
has been prominent in building up Tacoma,
Washington. (IV) John Wilkes, son of John Wilkeson,
was born August 28, 1.834. He was gradu
ated from Union College and entered the
Union army as first lieutenant of Company K,
One Hundredth New York Volunteers. He
was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks in May,
1862. Bidwell-Wilkeson Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, is named in part for him.
(IV) Samuel H., second son of John Wil
keson, was born June 28, 1836. He was edu
cated in private schools in Buffalo, the An-
dover-Phillips Academy, Yale College, and
Union College. For two years he engaged
in ranching in Texas. Returning to New
York, he was employed in the government
office as assistant assayer. He enlisted as
first lieutenant in the Twenty-first New York
Volunteers, in April, 1861. These were the
first troops raised in Buffalo. He was sta
tioned at Fort Runyon, and later transferred
to Wadsworth's brigade. After about eight
months he was mustered out by order of the
War Department, and on February 22, 1862,
was commissioned captain of Company C,
Eleventh New York -Cavalry, and was pro
moted to major June 24, 1862, and to lieu
tenant colonel December 24, 1862. He did a
great deal of outpost duty around Washing
ton. Later he was ordered south and was in
active field operations in Mississippi, Louis
iana and West Tennessee for about eighteen
months. He acted as inspector general in
the Davidson raid in Louisiana and Mississippi.
He took part in the Mobile expedition in
August, 1864, on the staff of General Gordon
Granger, participating in the capture of Fort
Gaines. On March 27, 1865, Governor Fenton
commissioned him colonel, but the early close
of the war made it unnecessary to muster. He
was at Memphis, Tennessee, when peace came.
Returning to Buffalo, he lived on a farm near
the city for fourteen years. Later he took
charge of his father's elevator, which he man
aged until 1908, when the property was sold.
He has since lived in retirement in the family
home on Niagara Square. He is a member
of the Buffalo Historical Society and Bidwell-
Wilkeson Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
Colonel Wilkeson married, in 1868, Matilda
Gertrude Franks, born on Mackinac Island,

in 1848. Her father, Edward A. Franks, kept
the Mission House at Mackinac for many
years. He had six children: Mary, married
Russell Bishop; Matilda Gertrude, married
Colonel Wilkeson; Grace, married Edward
Kane ; Minnie ; Edward, who resides at Macki
nac; Salem, died February, 1910. Mrs.
Wilkeson was an active worker in the Church
of St. Mary's on the Hill, and a member of
the managing board of the Church Charities
Foundation. She died in Buffalo, February 24,
1903. Children of Colonel and Mrs. Wilke
son: 1. John, born September 11, 1869; edu
cated at Wheeler's School, DeVoe College and
Hobart College; went west and engaged in
copper mining in New Mexico ; married Rose
Canavan of Toronto ; one child, John. 2. Ed
ward S., born 1871 ; educated in private
schools, studied medicine in Philadelphia; is
now engaged in forestry. 3. Mary Juana,
born in 1873. 4. Elizabeth Wilkes, born
1875 ; married John Knox Freeman, of Buf
falo. 5. William, born 1885 ; educated in pub
lic and private schools ; now a commercial trav
eler for a special packing box in the western
trade. 6. Margaret.
(IV) Maria Louise, daughter of John
Wilkeson, was born in 1838, and died in Buf
falo, March 24, 1903. She held a brilliant social
position among the cultured people of Buffalo,
and was a liberal patron of the fine arts, hav
ing a notable collection of paintings and bric-
a-brac. She was an honorary member of Bid
well-Wilkeson Post, Grand Army of the Re
public, which paid her the exceptional honor
of attending her funeral in a body. She left
generous endowments to the Children's Hospi
tal and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
The surname of Parker is de-
PARKER rived from the Latin "par-
carus," a park keeper or shep
herd. Danes, Saxons and Normans all seem
to have had the name at an early date. Par-
cum and De Parco are found in Domesday
Book. As early as 900-925, in the reign of
Edward I, a Geoffrey Parker is mentioned,
even before the common use of surnames in
England. The family bore arms ; that of the
Brownsholme family of Parker, the pedigree
of which is traced to William C. Parker, of
Witzwestle, Lancastershire, before 1400, is:
Vert a chevron between three stags' heads ca-
bossed or; Crest: A leopard's head affrontee
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pre ande (dare to be just). This coat-of-arms
descended through the Park Hall and Stafford
shire lines, and is that used by Sir Thomas
Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, England. This
branch of the Parkers in America springs
from William Parker.
(I) William Parker came from England
in the autumn of 1633, in the ship "James."
He was an original proprietor of Hartford,
Connecticut, 1636. About 1649 he removed to
Saybrook, Connecticut, where he was a large
land owner, also holding a large tract in Heb
ron. He probably served in the Pequot war.
He filled several town offices, served on num
erous committees, and was deputy to the gen
eral court at the special session of 1652, also
served 1678-79-80. About 1636 he married
(first) Margery  , who died Decem
ber 6, 1680. He married (second) Elizabeth
Pratt, widow of Lieutenant William Pratt. He
died at Saybrook, December 28, 1686. He had
ten children, of whom Joseph (1), Jonathan
and Deborah died early. They were: Sarah,
Joseph (1), John, Ruth, William, Joseph (2),
Margaret, Nathan, David, Deborah, Sarah,
Ruth and Margaret, married.
(IT) John, son of William and Margery
Parker, was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
February 1, 1641-2, died at Saybrook, same
state, 1706. He was regarded as a proprietor
of Saybrook, and given one hundred pounds
accommodation. He was active and influential
in town affairs. He was deputy to the general
court, 1686-88-99-1700. He was a large land
owner at Saybrook and Hebron. He was ap
pointed gunner and master of artillery at Fort
Saybrook, November 30, 1683, and was in
charge of the fort under Governor Andros,
with rank of lieutenant. He married, Decem
ber 24, 1666, Mary, daughter of Thomas Buck
ingham, a settler of Milford, Connecticut, and
sister of Rev. Thomas S. Buckingham, pastor
of the Saybrook church in 1670. Children:
John, Deborah, Ebenezer, Samuel.
(Ill) John (2), son of Lieutenant John (1)
and Mary (Buckingham) Parker, was born
October 6, 1667, died at Norwich, Connecti
cut, December 24, 1709. He served as con
stable in 1694, and was one of the first to act
as attorney-at-law under the act of 1708. He
married, December 11, 1690, Mary, daughter
of Lieutenant Samuel and Mary (Bushnell)
Jones. They had seven children.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary
(Jones) Parker, was born March 11, 1696.

He was prominent in the Ecclesiastical So
ciety ; sergeant of the train band, 173 1 ; ensign
in Cape Breton expedition, and died at Louis-
burg, May 15, 1746. He married (first) May
8, 1723, Mary Chapman; (second) Elizabeth
Dunk ; seven children.
(V) John (4), son of John (3), Parker,
and his second wife, Elizabeth Dunk, was born
in Connecticut, about 1745. He early settled in
Vermont, where he married and had issue.
(VI) David Day, son of John (4) Parker,
was born in West Pomfret, Vermont, 1792. He
removed to the town of Perrysburg, Cattarau
gus county, New York, in 1822, his brother,
John Parker (5), having settled in the same
town in 1821. David D. took up land (lot
49) and resided there for many years. He
later in life moved to Versailles, New York,
where he died, December 9, 1875. He mar
ried Olive Remington, and had several sons.
(VII) Myron Marcus, son of David Day and
Olive (Remington) Parker, was born in
Perrysburg, Cattaraugus county, New York,
May 24, 1824, and at the time of his death,
May 12, 1905, was the oldest native born son
of that town. He was a farmer, and an active
man in public affairs, holding many of the
town offices. He was an active Democrat, but
joined the Republican party at its organiza
tion. He was a zealous member of the Uni-
versalist church, and aman held in the highest
esteem. Mr. Parker married, December 16, 1855,
Lydia Maria, daughter of Abiathar Knapp, who
died at the age of ninety-seven years, in 1870,
and is burie.d at Pilot Knob, Missouri, where
he died while on a visit. He was a member of
the Presbyterian church. He married, in Ver
mont, Annie Hall. Children of Myron Mar
cus Parker: 1. Allen Clark, born March 11,
1858 ; now living in Versailles, Cattaraugus
county, New York ; married Euretta Chapman.
2. Spencer Blodgett, of whom further. 3.
Capitola Olive, graduate of New England Con
servatory of Music, Boston; married Bert H.
Bowen, and resides at Niagara Falls, New
York, where she is engaged in musical work,
teaching both vocal and instrumental conven
tions and carnival management. 4. Salem Eu
gene, born October 27, 1864; resides at Ver
sailles; he is also a musician, and engaged
with his sister in musical work; he married
(first) Maud Nichols, of Jamestown, who died
one year after her marriage leaving a daugh
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Beach, of Buffalo, daughter of John Hoyt, and
widow of Louis Beach.
(VIII) Spencer Blodgett, son of Myron
Marcus and Lydia M. (Knapp) Parker, was
born in Versailles, Cattaraugus county, New
York, July 21, 1859. He was educated at
Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New York,
then began the study of law at Albany Law
School, from whence he was graduated LL. B.,
1885. He continued his legal studies one year
after graduation, and in 1888 began practice
in the town of North Collins, New York. In
1892 he located at Niagara Falls, New York.
In 1910 he formed a law partnership with Al
len T. Stewart, and as Parker & Stewart con
ducted a general law practice. He served as
police magistrate in 1896, and is one of the
wellknown influential lawyers of his city. He
is a Republican in politics. He .married, June
14, 1887, Emma Campbell Owen (see Camp
bell). Children: 1. Alan Vreeland, born
April 17, 1888; now a junior at Cornell Uni
versity; member of Phi Delta Phi. 2. Owen
Spencer, born November 20, 1889, died No
vember 10, 1895. 3. Helen Louise. 4. Capitola
Josephine. (Campbell-Owen Line).
Emma Campbell Owen Parker is a daughter
of Lemuel and Josephine (Campbell) Owen,
and a granddaughter of Allen Campbell, son
of John Campbell, of Scotland. Many Camp
bells fought in the revolutionary war, and John
Campbell was a soldier of the war of 1812.
He married, 1825, Susan Maria Blood. Chil
dren: Mary Ruth, Caroline Matilda, Harvey
Welcome, James Warren, William' Henry Har
rison, Josephine (of whom further), John
Deming, Lucy, George Lorenzo and Arpha.
All are deceased except Josephine, George L.
and Arpha.
(Ill) Josephine, sixth child of Allen and
Susan M. (Blood) Campbell, married, June
16,11856, Lemuel Owen, born in Monroe county
New York, June 26, 1830, died September
1, 1871, son of Robert C. Owen, born in Eng
land, and came to the United States when a
boy. Lemuel's brother, Robert C. Owen, was
a member of the New York senate, said
to have been the youngest man ever elected to
that body. Lemuel C. Owen was a graduate
of Oberlin College, where he took a degree.
He prepared for the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal church, but a faulty heredity com
pelled him for physical reasons to change his

profession to that of civil engineer, surveyor
and farmer. Pie had a farm in Conewango,
Cattaraugus county, New York, on which he
lived until 1868, when he settled in Randolph,
same county. He taught school several years
and held principalships in various schools. He
enlisted in Company Thirteen, Sixty-fourth
Regiment, New York Infantry, and served
three years and one month with the Army of
the P'otomac during the civil war. He was
honorably discharged with the rank of ser
geant. He was a man of fine mental equip
ment, well educated and capable. Children: 1.
Ina Mary, died aged twelve years. 2. Flora
Josephine, born November 17, 1861, died Feb
ruary, 1891 ; married, July, 1888, Henry C.
Pease; children: Charles Owen and Robert
Campbell, both deceased. 3. Bessie Benton, de
ceased. 4. Emma Campbell, married Spencer
B. Parker (see Parker VIII). 5. Mabel
Louise, died 1890.

Mrs. Mary E. (King-Enos)
DANIELS Daniels, of Buffalo, New York,
is a descendant of John King,
who came from England to the American
colonies in 1645, died 1703, aged seventy-four
years. He settled at Hartford, Connecticut,
later at Northampton. He was deputy, 1679-
89, and captain of militia. He married (first)
Sarah Holton, who died May 8, 1683; (sec
ond) Mrs. Sarah (Whiting) Mygatt. Twelve
children by first wife.
(II) Thomas, son of John King, was born
July 14, 1662, died December 26, 1731. He
was of Hatfield and Hartford, Connecticut. He
married (first) Abigail Strong; (second) in
1690, Mary, daughter of Robert Webster.
Children by both marriages.
(Ill) Timothy, son of Thomas King and
his second wife, Mary Webster, died in 1812.
He married and had issue.
(IV) George, son of Timothy King, was
born 1754, died November 31, 1833. He was
of Windsor and Sharon, Connecticut. In 1784
he was connected with the commissary depart
ment of the Connecticut revolutionary army
and after the war established a mercantile
business at Sharon. He was a successful mer
chant and accumulated a large fortune. He
married and had issue.
(V) Zadoc, son of George King, was born
in 1780. He settled in Water ford, New York,
and became prominent in business. Both he
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odist Episcopal church. He married Thankful
Mitchell, of Waterford. Children: Roxana;
Villers; Experience; David Brainard; Daniel
Bromley ; Foster ; John Fuller ; Joseph Mitch
ell, of whom further.
(VI) Joseph Mitchell, son of Zadoc King,
was born in Waterford, Saratoga county, New
York, died there 1871. He was a banker and
an iron manufacturer. He established the J.
M. King Iron Works at Waterford, one of the
large industries of Waterford. He was de
voted to his business and very successful. He
married Jane Palmer. Qiildren: Mary E., of
whom further; Catherine, died in infancy.
(VII) Mary E., daughter of Joseph Mitch
ell King, was born at Waterford, New York,
now (1911) a resident of Buffalo, New York.
She married (first) December 6, 1854, Lau
rens Enos, third son of Joseph B. and Hannah
Enos, of Birdsall, New York. Laurens Enos
was a successful business man of Buffalo ; died
January, 1871. Children: 1. Grace, married
Harry Hamlin, April 24, 1878; he died June
3, 1907, leaving an only son, Chauncey Jerome
Hamlin, a lawyer of Buffalo, (see Hamlin).
2. Laurens, died in infancy. 3. George, died
in infancy. 4. Walter M., born January 1,
1871 ; killed while hunting, at the age of four
teen years.
Mrs. Mary E. Enos married (second) June
1878, Judge Charles Daniels, of Buffalo, who
for many years occupied a conspicuous posi
tion at the New York bar and on the bench.
He was the son of Welsh parents and was
born in New York City, March 24, 1825. He
died suddenly in his office at Buffalo, New
York, December 20, 1897. His father was a
shoemaker and of him the son learned that
trade. The family subsequently removed to
Toledo, Ohio, and there both parents died. At
the age of seventeen years, with limited edu
cation, the boy was forced to depend upon his
own efforts for a livelihood and advancement
in life. While working as a journeyman shoe
maker he stopped in Canandaigua, New York,
and in the court house there he one day lis
tened to a speech by the eloquent Mark H.
Sibley, which made such a forcible impression
upon him that he at once formed the de
termination to be a lawyer. Great as was the
task he thus set before himself he attacked it
with all the zeal of his ambitious nature. By
reducing his expenses to the least possible
amount he saved money with which to buy
books and began study, working over his

studies late at night and keeping an open book
on his bench before him through the day. By
such persistent and unceasing study he ac
quired such a knowledge of the classics while
in Canandaigua that he was permitted to fin
ish his course of law study in five years instead
of seven, as was then required. As he ad
vanced in legal learning he entered the law
office of Qinton & Nichols and also studied
under Eli Cook, one of the former mayors of
Buffalo. He was admitted to the bar at the
age of twenty-two years and was at once taken
into partnership by Mr. Cook, with whom he
remained until 1850. Ever after he continued
in practice alone. From the beginning his
legal career was brilliant and honorable. In
1863 he was appointed by Governor Seymour
to fill the vacancy on the supreme court bench
occasioned by the death of Judge James G.
Hoyt. In November, 1863, he was elected to
fill the unexpired term which ended in 1869.
He was then re-elected for a full term of eight
years, at the expiration of which he was again
re-elected for the term of fourteen years. This
long term of service expired in 1891. The
amount of arduous labor performed by Judge
Daniels as supreme court justice was enor
mous, sometimes involving the decision of five
hundred cases in a year. Yet his judicial abil
ity was so great and his knowledge of law so
profound that his decisions were rarely re
versed. He was appointed associate justice of
the general term, first department, in 1873, hy
Governor Dix, and appointed to the same posi
tion in 1880 by Governor Cornell. By this
time, through his settling on the trial of the
canal frauds under appointment of Governor
Tilden, and his decisions in the famous case
against Tweed, Genet and others of the no
torious New York City ring, Judge Daniels
had acquired a national reputation. In 1892
he was elected to congress to represent the
Thirty-third district and was re-elected in
1894. In that body he added to his already
high reputation. He was the leading spirit
in founding the Buffalo Law School, in 1887,
which later became the law department of the
University of Buffalo. He was elected dean
of the school and professor of constitutional
law, both of which positions he held until his
death. In private life he was held in equally
high esteem, being a gentleman of entertain
ing qualities and rare charm of manner. He
was a Republican in politics and a member of
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longed to numerous professional societies and
delivered many addresses on other subjects
than pertained to the law. His wife survives
him, a resident of Buffalo, where she is well
known among the earlier families and held in
warmest regard.

Bennett as a surname, as a
BENNETT rule, derives from Benedictus
(the blessed), and is found in
all European countries. There were several
distinct families in England, where the family
herein traced are originally found, later set
tling in Scotland, coming from thence to Am
erica and settling in the Mohawk Valley, in
the state of New York. Several coats-of-arms
were granted to the English families, but the
Bennetts of Buffalo make no claim to their
right to use armorial bearings. This particu
lar line is traced in detail in the United States,
Scotland and England, to the year 1432, to the
borough of Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
(I) John Benet appears in 1432 among
the list of bailiffs of the city of Leicester, Eng
land. In 1446 he was. mayor of that city.
(II) Edward Bennett, son of John Benet,
of Leicester, married, about 1499, Margaret,
daughter of Richard Swan.
(Ill) Richard, son of Edward Bennett, was
born about 1500; married, May 8, 1529, Eliza
beth, daughter of Thomas Stevens. Children :
Edward, Elizabeth, Thomas, of further men
tion; Francis, died before November 7, 1567.
(IV) Thomas, son of Richard Bennett, was
born 1532 or 1533; married, August 3, 1568,
Abigail, daughter of John Emot. Children:
Robert : Henry, of further mention ; and Mar
garet, born April 9, 1570, who was the only
one of the family who remained in Leicester
shire, Robert going to Derbyshire, and Henry
to Northumberland.
(V) Henry, son of Thomas Bennett, was
born April 9, 1570; married, June 7, 1599,
Sarah, daughter of Thomas Short, of Berwick-
on- Tweed. He lived in Northumberland, Eng
land, where he died August 25, 1624. Chil
dren: Thomas, of further mention; Richard
and Albert.
(VI) Thomas (2), eldest son of Henry Ben
nett, was born in 1600; moved to Swinton,
Berwickshire, across the Scottish border,
where he married, March 5, 1623, Katherine,
daughter of Cromwell Whitehead. Children :
Cromwell, married Christine Robisone ; Gil

bert, died 1688; Katherine, married Malcolm
Shaw ; Andrew, died 1687 ; Robert, of further
mention. (VII) Robert, son of Thomas (2), Ben
nett, was born in Swinton, Berwickshire, Scot
land, May 7, and baptized May 9, 1630, died
1665 ; married, June 6, 1646, Jonet, daughter
of James Burne.
(VIII) Captain James, only son of Robert
Bennett, was born August 3, 1648; married,
June 18, 1670, Isabella, daughter of Alex Cook,
of Petteweim, Fifeshire, Scotland. Children:
James (2), of further mention; Alexander,
born June 18, 1676, died in 1695, when James,
the eldest son, was declared his heir; he mar
ried Elizabeth Stewarde.
(IX) James (2), son of Captain James (1)
Bennett, was born May 3, 1673, in Grange,
Fifeshire, Scotland, fie married, June 20,
1697, Alisone, daughter of Ebenezer Buchanan
of the parish of Down, Fifeshire. Children:
1. Cromwell, born April 9, 1698; married
Agnes, daughter of Charles Smeallie, and had
four sons who emigrated to the United States,
all settling in New York state, two of" them,
William and John, serving in the revolutionary
army. 2. Ebenezer, of further mention.
(X) Ebenezer, son of James (2) Bennett,
was born in Grange, Fifeshire, Scotland, Oc
tober 3, 1700. He married, June 17, 1738,
Elizabeth, born June 14, 1706, in Edinburgh,
Scotland, daughter of Amos Smeallie, and sis
ter of Ebenezer Smeallie, whose son, John
Smeallie, emigrated to the American colonies,
settled first in East Hoosick, now Adams,
Massachusetts, later moved to Scotch Bush,
Montgomery county, New York, where he
died August 8, 1822, aged seventy years. Chil
dren ; 1. Amos, of further mention. 2. Francis,
born February 22, 1740; settled in Montgomery
county, New York ; married Margaret Parker.
3. Albert, born June 19, 1741. 4. Ebenezer,
born September 5, 1743; was of Burlington,
Otsego county; Scipio, Cayuga county; and
Locke, New York ; held public office in the two
latter. 5. Thomas, born November 18, 1744;
married Tabitha Wilson. 6. Henry, born May
14, 1746, a soldier of the revolution. 7. James,
born October 18, 1747 ; was declared legal heir
to his father, Ebenezer Bennett, the elder
brothers having emigrated to foreign countries.
With the sons of Ebenezer Bennett the family
appears in New York state.
(XI) Amos, son of Ebenezer Bennett, is
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He was born in Grange, Fifeshire, Scotland,
March 26, 1739, died about 1832. He emi
grated to America shortly before 1774, as his
name appears in Montgomery session rolls of
March 8, 1774, and February 14, 1782. He
settled first at Williamstown, then called W,est
Hoosick, now Hoosick, Rensselaer county,
New York, removing later to Locke, then
Montgomery, now Cayuga county, New York,
where he and his wife both died. He served
in the revolution, in the Fourteenth Regiment
Albany county militia, and receipted for his
pay at Hoosick, Rensselaer county, New York,
January 17, 1788. He first appears in the rec
ords of Locke, April 7, 181 2, when he was
named as overseer of highways. He married,
in Scotland, September 6, 1760, Jane, daugh
ter of Justice (died 1871) and Jane (Scott)
Shaw. She died in 1871. Children: 1. Jere
miah, born June 10, 1761 ; came to America
with his parents. 2. Nathan, born April 3,
1762; he settled in Locke; married Lois
 . .3. Jedediah, born March 6, 1763 ;
came with his father to Rensselaer county,
-New York, where he continued to reside all
his life ; he married Lucy  . 4. Joseph,
born February 16, 1764, came with his father
to Locke, New York ; he was a farmer, and
owned a saw mill ; he married Nabby  .
5. Ira, twin with Joseph ; died in infancy. 6.
Elizabeth, born June 2, 1765; died May 5,
1774. 7. Joshua, born April 12, 1766; came to
Locke before 1808, when he was pathmaster
and overseer of highways; in 1811-13 he was
constable. 8. Jonathan, born January 23,
1767 ; commissioner of highways and school
lots in Locke, 1808; overseer of poor, 1807;
justice of the peace, 1809. 9. Daniel, born
March 2, 1769; married, and had issue. 10.
Amos, of further mention. 11. John, born
April 17, 1771.
(XII) Amos (2), son of Amos (1) Ben
nett, was born June 21, 1770, died August 8,
1840, in Duanesburgh, Schenectady county,
New York. He was a farmer of Braman's
Corners, Duanesburgh ; a rigid member of the
Scotch Presbyterian Church, and a strong
Democrat. He was captain of the militia com
pany, and served at Sacketts Harbor during
the war of 1812. The sword he carried is
preserved in the family at Omaha, Nebraska.
He married Jennett Sterling, born in Scotland,
May 29, 1771, died April 26, 1862, in her
ninety-first year. She came to this country
when a child with her parents, who settled in

the Mohawk Valley. Children: 1. James, born
October 16, 1791, died October 15, 1875. 2.
Amos (3), born February 4, 1793, died Au
gust 27, 1872. 3. William, of further men
tion. 4. Polly, born June 6, 1796, died Jan
uary 12, 1878. 5. John, born March 12, 1798^
died November 11, 1832. 6. Isabel, born No
vember 6, 1799, died January 24, 1875 ; mar
ried Henry Ellis. 7. Ira, October 1,
1801, died May 1, 1879 ; married An
gelica Templar. 8. Sally (Sarah), July
12, 1803, died November, 1884; married
a Mr. Morey. 9. Nancy, March 29, 1805,
died June 19, 1880; married a Mr. Morey. 10.
Joseph, February 13, 1807, died January 8,
1874; married Margaret Ann —  . 11.
Joshua, February 24, 1809, died June 13, 1894.
12. Daniel D., October 21, 181 1, died Septem
ber 23 1852. All these children grew to ma
ture 'years, married and reared families.
(XIII) William, third son of Amos (2)
Bennett, was born in Duanesburgh, New York,
May 26, 1794, died October 12, 1873. He
grew to manhood on the home farm, and after
his marriage settled on a farm in the same
town. This he later disposed of and moved
to a farm in the town of Glen, Montgomery
county, later selling this and purchasing a
smaller farm in the town of Mohawk, same
county, where he died. His father, having no
martial music for his military company, im
pressed his boys into the service, bought thefn
drums and a fife, had them take lessons from
Nicholas Harry Hill, old revolutionary music
ian of the neighborhood, and with two brothers
Amos and William, as drummers, and Ira,
another, as fifer, all took part in the company
on training days, playing- snare drums and fife.
He was a Universalist in religious faith, and
in earlier "life a Democrat, as were also his
brothers. In later life he became a Republi
can. He married, January 15, 1831, Elma
Strong, born in Schenectady county, Septem
ber 3, 1809, died April 30, 1900, daughter of
Solomon Strong. Children: 1. Isabella, born
March 17, 1832; married Jacob Van Epps; re
sides in Montgomery county, New York. 2.
Lewis J., of further mention. 3. Louise
Janette, January 14, 1836; married Alonzo
Devenbergh, of Montgomery county. 4. Sarah
Ann, May 9, 1838 ; married John H. Vorhees ;
resides in Queens, Long Island, New York. 5.
Lydia Ann, February 27, 1840, died May 14,
1856. 6. Francis Marion, July 27, 1842, mar
ried  Suits, resides in Montgomery

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county. 7. Jane Elizabeth, June 18, 1845 ; mar
ried John fiand; resides in Amsterdam, New
York. 8. Amos (4), April 29, 1848, died
September 17, 1848. 9. Amos F. (5), Feb
ruary 17, 1850; married Elizabeth Vrooman;
resides in Buffalo. 10. William James, Feb
ruary 3, 1852 ; married Hannah Moore ; resides
in Johnstown, New York. 11. Martha E.,
April 22, 1854, died May 28, 1900; married
John Dockstader. 12. Maria L., April 13,
1856; married J. Vedder Morris; resides in
Amsterdam, New York.
(XIV) Lewis Jackson, eldest son of Will
iam Bennett, was born on the farm in Duanes
burgh, Schenectady county, New York, July
7, 1833. He attended the public schools, and
being a delicate boy was not considered strong
enough for farm labor. He began business
life August 27, 1849, as clerk in a grocery
store at Fultonville, New York, kept by Chap
man & Smith, where he remained until January
1, 1 85 1. From the latter date until the follow
ing April he attended the high school at Fort
Plain, New York. He then returned to Ful
tonville and clerked for Starin & Freeman un
til October 1, then worked for Blood & Conyne
one month in a dry goods store. November
1, 185 1, he became a partner of his old employ
er, Chapman, in the firm of Chapman, Peak &
Company. In the spring of 1853, he, with Mr.
Chapman, purchased Mr. Peak's interest, the
firm then operating until April 1, 1856 as
Chapman & Bennett. Poor health then com
pelled his retirement, his interest in the firm
being disposed pf to William W. Kline. He
then took a western trip, leaving New York on
June 5, 1856, going to California, returning
in October. On November 1, 1856, he re-en
tered his old firm, which was reorganized as
L. J. Bennett & Company. This firm con
tinued in operation until April 1, 1866, when
Mr. Bennett sold out to his partners. On
May 8, 1866, he located in Buffalo, taking
charge of contracts held with the state for re
pairs on the Erie canal, which work was fin
ished January 1, 1868. He then, as a member
of the firm Spalding & Bennett, engaged in
contracting harbor work and iron bridge
building. The firm built many iron bridges for
the towns of Erie county, being the pioneers
in iron bridge building in the country towns.
Mr. Bennett next became, in 1874, treasurer
of the Buffalo Hydraulic Cement Company, of
Buffalo, continuing until 1876, when he began
business in the same line for himself. He pur

chased land, erected buildings, and in March,
1877, organized the Buffalo Cement Company,
of which he was the first and only president
(191 1). This company were successful ce
ment manufacturers for thirty years, then dis
continued manufacturing and confined their
operations to real estate investment and in
the development of suburban Buffalo. The
Bennett-Pierce addition to Buffalo, known as
Central Park, was purchased from a score of
owners, laid out in streets and placed upon
the market. This is now one of the city's most
exclusive residential districts. Mr. Bennett
has many other important business interests,
both in and outside Buffalo. He is actively en
gaged at his office each day, and as energetic
in prosecuting his plans as though he were a
score of years younger. From boyhood he has
always been deeply interested in the public
school system. In i860, while a school trus
tee of Fultonville, he led the fight that resulted
in a change from the "rate bill system" to an
absolutely free public school supported by tax
ation. This was probably the first district to
adopt such a system. In 1861 he was ap
pointed by the state canal board collector of
canal tolls at Fultonville for one year and in
1862 was reappointed. In February, 1865, he
was elected supervisor, defeating Andrew J.
Yates, a well known and popular Democrat.
During his term of office the covered wood
bridge connecting Fultonville with Fonda was
carried away, March 17, 1865, and replaced
with the present iron structure. During the
same term the county poor farm, located in the
town of Glen, was sold and a new system of
caring for the county poor adopted.
Mr. Bennett is a Universalist in religious
belief, and although a member of no church is
a generous supporter of all. Politically, as
may have been inferred, he is a Republican.
He is a charter member and was the first
treasurer of Fultonville Lodge No. 531, Free
and Accepted Masons ; a companion of Chap
ter No. 71, Royal Arch Masons, Johnstown,
New York, and a Sir Knight of Apollo Com-
mandery No. 15, Knights Templar, Troy, New
York. He is a life member of the Buffalo So
ciety of Natural Sciences and of Buffalo His
torical Society, formerly holding official posi
tion in both ; also a member of the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolu
tion. He presented the former society with
a most valuable collection of fossils that is ex
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complete collection in the world. He is also
a member of the Buffalo Chamber of Com
merce, and one of the two hundred and fifty
honorary trustees of the Lincoln Farm Asso
ciation, organized to preserve the birthplace of ¦
President Abraham Lincoln.
He married, in Johnstown, New York, Octo
ber 6, 1857, Mary F. Spalding, born June 1,
1840, daughter of Andrew and Emeline (Ham
ilton) Spalding, of Johnstown, New York.
Children (XV) generation: 1. Leslie, born
May 25, i860, at Fultonville, New York ; edu
cated in Buffalo common and high schools,
and is a graduate of the State Normal Col
lege; he is now vice-president, secretary and
assistant treasurer of Buffalo Cement Com
pany. 2. Louisa A., born May 16, 1868 ; mar
ried James P. Wood, of Buffalo, November
16, 1887; children, (XVI) generation: Helen
B., Frances L., Harriet A., Mildred V., and
James B.

But little can be told of the
HUNTLEY American ancestor of the
Huntleys of Buffalo. Mrs.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the gifted poetess
and author, in her "Letters of Life," says : "He
was a native of Scotland; emigrated to this
country in early life and married Miss Mary
Wallbridge, a woman of consistent, domestic
loveliness and piety. From the comforts of
his home he went forth as a colonial soldier
in the war waged by our motherland with the
French and Indians. Returning from the com
paratively successful campaign of 1760, he be
came a victim of the small-pox on the way, and
never more saw the home of his affections.
His widow, my grandmother, is among the
gentle, yet strong, images of my infancy, seat
ed by the fireside of her son (Ezekiel), in
quietness and honor."
(I) Ezekiel Huntley, father of Mrs. Sig
ourney, was born in Franklin, near Norwich,
Connecticut, April 12, 1752. The probabilities
all point to him as a brother of James Hunt
ley, the founder of the Buffalo family. After
the death of the father the home seems to have
been broken up, Ezekiel entering the home of
Dr. Daniel Lathrop. James finally settled in
New York state. A tradition of the family is
that the ancestor was for a time a resident of
New Bedford, Massachusetts, going from
there to Connecticut.
(II) James (1), son of the emigrant Hunt
ley and Mary Wallbridge, was born near Nor

wich, Connecticut, about 1750. Little can be
told of his early life. He is next heard from
in the town of Exeter, Otsego county, New
York, where he made his will, February 7,
1809, declaring himself to be "advanced in
years, but of sound and perfect mind and mem
ory." He seems to have been a man of con
siderable property which he divided among his
children prior to his death, as each is given a
nominal sum "which with what he (or she)
has heretofore received is in full of his (or
her) portion." He names in his will "my be
loved wife Lucretia," to whom he gave "all
my personal estate and the use of my real es
tate during her life." He names children:
Phineas, Reynold, Reny, wife of William
Moor; Iva (a son), Harvin, Anna Lewis,
James, Elknah, Silas and Lucretia Bebe.
(Ill) James (2), son of James (1), and
Lucretia Huntley, was born about 1772. He
was a former of West Exeter, Otsego county,
New York, where he died, and is buried with
his father in the Huntley burying ground. He
was a deacon of the Baptist church, and was
generally known as Deacon Huntley. He held
several of the local offices and was a man of
prominence in his town. He married Lydia
Calkins. Children : James Calkins, of further
mention; Elisha, Charles, Porter Lester, Ann,
and several daughters who married. As a .
family the Huntleys were remarkable for, long
evity and their large stature. One of the
daughters, Ann Huntley Eldred, died at West
Winfield, Herkimer county, New York, with
in a few weeks of her one hundredth year.
The sons married and reared families, as did
the daughters.
(IV) James Calkins, eldest son of James
(2) and Lydia (Calkins) Huntley, was born
in West Exeter, New York, 1796, died at West
Winfield, Herkimer county, in 1879. He was
buried in the Huntley burying ground in Exe
ter, but later was removed to West Winfield
by his grandson, Charles Russell Huntley, of
Buffalo. He was a prominent farmer, major
of a militia regiment, a Baptist in religious
faith, and strongly opposed to human slavery.
At the birth of the Republican party he con
nected with that party and strongly espoused
the cause of abolition. He married Laura
Wood. Children: 1. Russell, of further men
tion. 2. Alonzo, died in California, leaving is
sue. 3. George, died in Madison, Wisconsin.
4. Porter, died in Hartford, Oneida county,
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California. 6. James Floras, M. D., graduate
of Albany Medical College ; died at Oneida,
Madison county, New York. 7. Olive, died at
West Exeter, New York ; married Calvin
Huntley. 8. Lydia, died at Sweetwater, Mich
igan ; married James Tanner. 9. Julia, died in
Newark, New Jersey ; married E. O. Hovey,
superintendent of public schools of that city.
10. Laura, died in Otsego county, New York;
married PL H. Babcock.
(V) Russell, eldest son of James Calkins
Huntley, was born in Exeter, Otsego county,
New York, January 5, 1818, died in Ilion,
New York, December 28, 1900. He was a
successful merchant of Ilion for many years,
and of West Winfield, Herkimer county, New
York, where he was also postmaster. He was
a prominent member of the Democratic party,
and of the Methodist Episcopal church. He
married, 185 1, at Manlius, New York, Qorin-
da, daughter of John and Almira (Adams)
Talbot. (VI) Charles Russell, only son of Russell
Huntley, was born in West Winfield, Herki
mer county, New York, October 12, 1853. He
was educated in the public schools of Utica,
New York, and began business life as a clerk
in his father's general store in Ilion. In 1873
he entered the employ of E. Remington and
Sons, manufacturers of fire arms, typewriters,
etc., remaining until 1875. In 1877 he entered
the employ of the Standard Oil Company, at
Bradford, Pennsylvania, as bookkeeper, con
tinuing until 1882. In the latter year he be
came an oil broker, operating on the Bradford
Oil Exchange until 1888, part of this time be
ing agent of the Standard Oil at Bradford.
In 1888 he located in Buffalo as general mana
ger of the Brush Electric Light Company.
Since that time Mr. Huntley has been contin
uously active and prominent in the corpora
tions specializing in electric and gas properties.
In 1893 he was appointed general manager of
the Buffalo General Electric Company, a mer
ger of all the lighting plants of the city, was
also director and vice-president, and in 1907,
was chosen president, continuing, however, his
position as general manager. He is vice-presi
dent of the Cataract Power and Conduit Com
pany, and general manager of the same ; treas
urer of the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric
Light and Power Company ; vice-president
of the People's Bank of Buffalo ; director
and member of the executive committee
of the German American Bank of Buf

falo; director of the United States and
Mexican Trust Company of New York
City ; director of Kansas City, ' Mexico
& Orient Railroad Company ; director of J. G.
White Company, limited, (a construction com
pany) ; director of Western New York Water
Company ; director of Georgia Urban Milling
Company; director of International Graphite
Company, International Railway Company, and
has other important interests in Buffalo and
abroad. He is a Republican in politics, and
while resident in Bradford was a member of
the select council and president of the school
board. In Buffalo he served as a member of
the park commission, and has represented New
York as commissioner at the great expositions
of recent years, notably the Portland Exposi
tion, commemorating the Lewis and Qarke
expedition ; and the Pan-American Exposition,
at Buffalo, serving on the executive com
mittee of the latter. He was president of
the National Electric Light Association,
1890-91 ; president of the Empire State Gas
and Electric Association, 1910; now vice-presi
dent of the Association of Edison Companies.
In religious faith he is an Episcopalian, be
longing to the Church of the Ascension, Buf
falo. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Ac
cepted Scottish Rite, and a member of all
bodies of the York Rite. This includes all the
Masonic bodies of Buffalo. His clubs : Buf
falo, Country and Automobile of Buffalo;
Railroad and Automobile of New York City.
He married, June 12, 1878, Ida, daughter of
William Richardson, of Buffalo. (See Rich
ardson.) She was a graduate of Buffalo High
School, class of 1876. Children, born in Buf
falo: 1. William Russell, born May 6, 1879;
educated at Cornell, now assistant general man
ager of the Buffalo General Electric Company ;
vice-president Robertson-Cataract Company,
director Buffalo General Electric Company,
Buffalo & Niagara Falls Electric Light and
Power Company; member (Cornell) Theta
Delta Chi; Buffalo, Saturn, Country and
Automobile clubs ; married February 20,
1907, Janie Spear, of Atlanta, Georgia;
child: Charles Russell (2), born Decem
ber 12. 1909. 2. Walter Wood, born Au
gust 26, 1881; graduate of Phillips An
dover Academy ; now president Public Service
Contracting Company of Buffalo, mem
ber of Buffalo and Automobile clubs. 3. Mary,
graduate of Pelham Manor, Young Ladies'
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ert Wheeler Chapin, of Buffalo ; resides in Chi
cago, Illinois. 4. Robert, born January 28,
1890; educated in University of Pennsylvania;
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
John Spring was born in Eng-
SPRING land, 1588, and died in Water-
town, Massachusetts, in 1650.
He came to America in the ship "Elizabeth,"
embarking at Ipswich, England, April 10,
1634, and became one of the original pro
prietors of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1636 or
1637. His wife, Elinor, died prior to March
21, 1657. Children: Mary, Henry, John and
William. • (II) Henry, eldest son of John Spring, the
emigrant, was born in 1628, in England, and
came to this country with his parents at the
age of six years. He was made a freeman of
Watertown, May 30, 1660, and from 1680 to
1695 was town "prizer," the duties of his of
fice being to settle the value of various com
modities used as exchange among the towns
people. He also took inventories and settled
estates. He "married (first), January 7, 1658,
Mehitable, born July 15, 1640, daughter of
Thomas and Hannah Bartlett. She died in
1690. He married (second) Susan, widow of
Gregory Cook, and was her third husband.
Children by first wife : Elizabeth, Henry, Ann,
Mehitable, Thomas, and Abiah.
.. (Ill) Henry (2), eldest son of Henry (1)
Spring, was made a freeman of Watertown,
Massachusetts, April 18, 1690, and there his
life was passed engaged in agriculture. He
married (first) 1662 (name unknown) ; (sec
ond) 1685, Lydia Cutting, born September 1,
1666; admitted to full communion in the
Watertown church, April 7, 1700. Children:
Lydia, Anna, Henry (3), Elizabeth, Mehita
ble and Susan.
(IV) Henry (3), eldest son of Henry (2)
Spring, was born July 19, 1692, in Watertown,
his lifelong home. He married Keziah, daugh
ter of Captain Josiah and Ruth Converse, of
Woburn. Children: Josiah, Henry (4), Ke
ziah, Samuel, Jedediah, John, Converse, Sarah,
Alpheus and Marshal.
(V) Alpheus, seventh son of Henry (3)
Spring, was born May 10, 1739, in Water-
town, Massachusetts. He was educated in the
college of New Jersey (now Princeton Uni
versity), graduating in 1766. Dartmouth con-
ferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts
1785. He was a minister of the gospel, and

was in charge of the church in Kittery (now
Elliott), Maine. He died very suddenly June
14, 1791, aged fifty-two years. He married,
May 18, 1769, Sarah, eldest daughter of Simon
and Mary Sewell Frost, of York, Maine. She
was born March 21, 1751. They had a large
family, including Mary and Samuel.
(VI) Samuel, son of Rev. Alpheus Spring,
was born about 1790, and became a farmer of
Vermont. He married Eunice Stowell, and
had issue.
(VII) Samuel Stowell, youngest child of
Samuel Spring, was born in Grafton, Vermont,
December 25, 1823, died at Duluth, Minne
sota, July 18, 1875. Prior to his fourteenth
year his education was that of the average
farmer boy of that period. At fourteen he be
gan study under the tuition of his brother
Levi, who was a graduate of Amherst College
and a man of deep learning. He remained
with him until 1842, then attended the academy
at Arcade, Wyoming county, New York, one
year, then entered the office of his brother
Leverett and began the study of law. In 1845
he came to Springville, Erie county. New
York, and continued legal study with Wells
Brooks of that village. After a few months
he returned to Arcade and spent two years
more in study with his brother. In the spring
of 1848 he became a student in the office of
General Linus W. Thayer, of Warsaw, New-
York, and in the fall of that year was admitted
to the bar. He at once began practice at
Franklinville, New York, where after a year
or two of hard work he became well establish
ed. In the fall of 1859 he was elected district
attorney of Cattaraugas county and in 1862
was re-elected, serving six years. In 1870,
with a unanimity scarcely paralleled in the his
tory of political contests, he was elected coun
ty judge, an office he held until his death in
1875. He was a wise, impartial judge, and
held the unfailing respect and confidence of the
entire bar of his court and of all brought in
contact with him. His knowledge of the law
was deep and profound, and with him law
meant justice. He was liberal and public-
spirited, fond of the soil, and from 1857 until
death always owned a farm on which he lived.
He would go to the hay field for recreation,
and loved to be around and help in the lighter
forms of farm work. But his profession was
his great love, and he was a lawyer in the best
sense of the word. He was a tireless worker,
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to his duties. He was active in the incorpora
tion of Franklinville as a village and the first
president. Pie married, May 9, 1850, Ellen, daughter of
William Hogg, of Franklinville. She was
born in Dalkeith, Scotland, 1827, died 1898,
the youngest of a family of twelve. Children
of Judge S. S. Spring: 1. Alfred, of whom
further. 2. Levi, born June 28, 1855, died
1889; married Myra Lyon; child: Blanche.
3. George E., of whom further. 4. Samuel A.,
born July 4, 1863, died 1909; married Nettie
Walker ; children : Fred W., married Ida Mc-
Intyre ; Raymond ; Isadore ; Herbert ; Walter.
5. Ellen, born 1869; married Qayton Stone, of
Colorado ; children : Leslie, Allen and Eleanor.
6. Katherine, born June 28, 1872 ; married
William A. Murray, of Jerseyshore, Pennsyl
vania. '(VIII) Judge Alfred Spring, LL. D, son
of Judge Samuel S. Spring, was born in
Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, New York,
February 19, 185 1. He was educated in the
public schools and Ten Broeck Academy, being
graduated from the latter in June, 1870. He
spent two years at Michigan University, and
read law with his father until the death of the
latter in July, 1875. The following October
he was admitted to the bar and began prac
tice in Franklinville. In 1876 he was elected
•supervisor, and in 1879 surrogate of Cattarau
gus county and re-elected in 1885, serving in
that important judicial position twelve years.
During his term many important and compli
cated cases were tried involving large amounts
of property and presenting intricate and novel
points of law. He was a partner with his
brother, George E., in the practice of law at
Franklinville for several years, but the busi
ness of the surrogate's court increased so much
during his term that it required all his time.
In January, 1895, he was appointed by Gov
ernor Morton, a judge of the supreme court
of the state of New York to fill out an unex
pired term. At the ensuing November election
he was elected to the same office for a full
term of fourteen years. In 1899 he was trans
ferred to the appellate division of the supreme
court by Governor Roosevelt, and continued
by subsequent reappointments by Governors
Odell and Hughes. In 1909 Judge Spring was
re-elected supreme court judge for the ensuing
fourteen years. Too much cannot be said of his
fidelity to the duties of his high office. He is
learned in the law as a lawyer, skillful in its

application, and as a jurist is just and im
partial. He is held in the highest esteem in
the profession, while his wisdom and impartial,
unfailing courtesy and justice are acknowl
edged by all. He is a Republican in politics,
and a trustee of the Presbyterian church of
Franklinville. He is a member of many state
and national associations of his profession,
and is also connected with other organizations,
literary, scientific and social. His clubs are
the University and Saturn of Buffalo, and the
Genesee and University clubs of Rochester, his
winter home. He spends his summers at the
old home village, Franklinville, where his boy
hood and so much of his life was passed. In
1 90 1 Michigan University conferred upon
Judge Spring the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws.
He married, May 9, 1877, Anna A., daugh
ter of Dana O. and Maria (Wilder) Tarbell, of
Farmersville, New York, granddaughter of
James Tarbell. Mrs. Spring is a member of
Buffalo Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, through right of her patriotic an
cestors, Gideon Walker and Leonard Proctor.
Gideon Walker (1737-1800), who had
fought in the earlier wars, served in a com
pany of matrosses in Colonel James Converse's
regiment of Massachusetts militia in 1776. He
was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and
died in Vermont ; he married Hannah Billings.
Leonard Proctor (1734-1827) served on the
committee of public correspondence of West-
field in the Massachusetts militia. He was
born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and died
in Proctorsville, Vermont, a town he founded.
Billings, son of Gideon Walker, married Han
nah, born 1778, daughter of Leonard Proctor
and Mary Keep, his second wife. Hannah
Billings, daughter of Billings and Hannah
(Proctor), Walker, married James Tarbell.
Dana O., son of James Tarbell, married
Frances Marie Wilder. Anna, daughter of
Dana O. Tarbell, married Judge Alfred
Spring. Children of Judge Alfred Spring: 1. Dana
L., born August 11, 1878; married, July 22,
1901, Shirley Tilden; he is a graduate of Will
iams College, A. B., 1899; Buffalo Law
School, LL. B., 1912 ; now practicing law at
Buffalo; a member of the firm of Norton,
Penny, Spring & Moore. 2 Ellen, born
March 27, 1881 ; graduate of Smith College,
class of 1903. 3. Mildred, born May 31, 1890;
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(VIII) George E., son of Judge Samuel S.
Spring, was born in Franklinville, Cattarau
gus county, New York, October 27, 1859. He
was educated in the public schools and Ten
Broeck Academy, being graduated from the
latter, class of 1880. He studied law with
his brother Alfred, and was admitted to the
bar at Rochester, New York, in October, 1884.
He at once began the practice of his profession,
locating at Franklinville, where he formed a
partnership with his brother and preceptor un
der the firm name of Spring & Spring. He
served as clerk of the surrogate's court of Cat
taraugus county for six years, then returned
to the practice of his profession at Franklin
ville, where he yet continues, engaged in gen
eral practice. He was a New York State Com
missioner to Paris at the Universal Exposi
tion at Paris. He has numerous business in
terests outside his profession; is president of
the Empire Electric Company, vice-president
of the Empire Manufacturing Company, and
director of the Franklinville Canning Com
pany. He is a Republican in politics, and a
member of the Presbyterian church. He is also
president of the Library Association of his
village, and interested in all that pertains to
the common good. He stands high among his
brethren of the profession, and has a well es
tablished legal business.
He married, February 10, 1884, Rena Allen,
born January 21, i860, daughter of Andrew
L. Allen of Machias, at one time member of
assembly. Child: Harold, born November
15, 1890, now in Williams College.

This family is of Welsh descent.
BOWEN There are the pedigrees of the
Bowens of Wales extant, one
deposited in the College of Arms, London, be
gins with Beli Mawr, king of Britain, fifty-five
years, B: C, and ends with Griffith Bowen,
of Barryhead, Wales. The American ancestor
of this family is believed to be Griffith Bowen,
who came to America with his wife Mar
garet, in 1638. The first trace of him in
America is that on the "The 6th of ye same
1 2th month (1638) Griff yn Bowen and his
wife Margaret" were "taken in for members
of ye congregation of the church in Boston."
He is styled in the records "Gentleman." The
last record of him is "9th of the 2nd month,
1649, Mr. Bowen and Peter Oliver is chosen
for perambulation at Mudye River." Shortly
after this he sailed for England with his wife

and some of his children. He died 1675. His
New England estate was not divided among
his heirs until 1683. He had ten children.
(II) Henry, third son of Griffith Bowen,
was born in Wales, 1633. He married, De
cember 20, 1658, Elizabeth, daughter of Cap
tain Isaac and Elizabeth (Porter) Johnson,
of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Captain Isaac
Johnson was the "brave and intrepid" Captain
Johnson who was killed in the last battle of
King Philip's war. Henry Bowen lived in
Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Woonsocket,
Connecticut, dying in the latter place "in the
90th year of his age."
(Ill) Isaac, son of Henry Bowen, was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, April 20,
1676; he resided for a time in Framingham,
Massachusetts, where he helped to organize
the First Congregational Church. He mar
ried, 1698, Hannah Winchester, of Brookline,
Massachusetts. (IV) Henry (2) son of Isaac Bowen, was
born June 30, 1700, died January 1, 1758. He
married, May 10, 1721, Margaret Davis.
(V) Silas, son of Henry (2) Bowen, was
born April 7, 1722, died February 16, 1790.
He lived in Woodstock, Connecticut, and
North Brookfield, Massachusetts. He married,
April 17, 1746, Dorothy Lyon.
(VI) Moses, son of Silas Bowen, was born
in Massachusetts, 1752, died in Otsego county,
New York, June, 1830. He was a cooper by
trade. He served in the revolutionary army
from Massachusetts, as follows: Private of
Captain Jonathan Danforth's company, Colo
nel David Brewster's regiment, muster roll
dated August 1, 1775 ; enlisted May 18, 1775 ;
service two months nineteen days ; also com
pany return dated October 7, 1775 ; also Cap-
¦ tain Danforth's company, Colonel Rufus Put
nam's Ninth Regiment. After the war he re
moved to Otsego county, New York, where
he followed his trade and farming. He mar
ried, in Spencer, Massachusetts, November 21,
1771, Martha Ball, died 1824. In the marriage
record his residence is given as Sturbridge.
As he was only nineteen and the records say
"intentions not recorded" it is likely that the
couple went there to be married quietly, with
out the knowledge of parents.
. (VII) Moses (2), son of Moses (1) Bowen,
was born in Massachusetts, February g, 1796.
He was a resident of Otsego county until 1830,
when he settled in the town of Mansfield, Cat
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1882. He married Betsey Hopkins, born May
21, 1797, died 1862. Children: George W.
G. (of further mention) ; Emily M., born
March 20, 1825; Sarah A., May 20, 1827;
Hopkins, September, 1829; Bird, 1832; Cyrus
H., April, 1834; Frank M., 1842; Moses (3),
1844; living in Mansfield, 1879.
(VIII) George W. G., eldest child of Moses
(2) Bowen, was born in Otsego county, New
York, May 27, 1823. He came to Cattaraugus
county with his father, learned the trade of
carpenter and settled in the village of Eddy-
ville, where he was justice of the peace over
thirty years, postmaster more than ten years,
and a resident over sixty years. He married
(first) Lucinda Meacham, who died December
8, 1863. Children: George H. (of further
mention) ; Sarah M., born February 6, 1853 ;
John M., October 25, 1858; Betsey, October
3, 1862. He married (second) Mrs. Lydia
L. Harvey, daughter of William H. and Sally
Eddy. Children: Fanny B., born October 21,
1865 ; Emily A., June 6, 1867 ; Hattie L., July
2, 1869; Mabel G., August 10, 1871 ; William
PL, August 25, 1873; Ida V., March 16, 1876;
Eddy L., June 29, 1879; Bessie L., July 1,
1883. (IX) George Hamilton, eldest son of
George W. G. Bowen and his first wife, was
born in Eddyville, town of Mansfield, Cat
taraugus county, New York, October 4, 1849.
He attended the public schools, and until he
became of age worked for his father in the
saw mill and on the farm. Later he was ad
mitted to a partnership with him and for many
years they did a very successful business. They
were among the first to manufacture cheese
boxes in the town and reaped an abundant
harvest. Mr. Bowen was a Republican and
served for many years as town clerk and
supervisor. He married, in Little Valley, Mary
Jeanette Reynolds. Children : Walter H. (of
further mention); Freddie, died in infancy;
Floyd Leroy, born July 2, 1886, died at the
age of seven years.
(X) Walter Hamilton, son of George Ham
ilton and Mary J. (Reynolds) Bowen, was
born in Mansfield, Cattaraugus county, New
York, August 3, 1876. Pie was educated in
the schools of Little Valley and after com
pleting his studies began learning the trade
of tailor with George G. Mitchell. After work
ing with him for several years he traveled
around for some time, working in different
shops, learning different methods of cutting

and fitting. In September, 1896, he opened
a custom tailoring shop in Little Valley, where
he is now (1911) in successful business. He
has built up a large trade and employs several
workmen the entire year. He is an accom
plished musician and prominent in musical
circles. He is a member of Lodge No. 812
and Chapter No. 266 of the Masonic Order,
and of the Methodist Episcopal church. Po
litically he is a Republican. He married, No
vember, 1898, Katherine, born January 29,
1877, daughter of Charles and Sophia (Sweet-
land) Ansell, of Little Valley. The father of
Charles Ansell came to Little Valley from
England, a skilled gardener and farmer. Chil
dren: 1. Merton L., born April 23, 1875, now
cashier of the First National Bank of Sala
manca. He married, January 1, 1895, Ella,
born 1873, daughter of Marcus Merrill. Chil
dren: Florence Josephine, born April 23,
1897; Harold Fenton, March 4, 1899.
2. Katherine. Children of Walter Hamilton
and Katherine (Ansell) Bowen: Lola, born
December 4, 1899; George W. G., April 20,
1903 ; Charles Hamilton, April 19, 1907.

The earliest records of this family
CASE state that in the year 1200 certain
of its members moved from York
to Aylsham, England, where they are now rep
resented by wealthy tanners and farmers who
own so much land around Aylsham that it is
said to be "Cased in." These lands surround
those which were once the property of Anne
Boleyn, one of the wives of Henry VIII. The
Case and Boleyn families were closely con
nected by intermarriage. The records are also
said to show the names of several Cases who
were locally prominent associates and sup
porters of Oliver Cromwell, under whose pa
tronage they accumulated much property by
furnishing leather to the English army.
(I) Richard Case, ancestor of the American
family, a native of England, was an inhabitant
of Hartford, Connecticut. The date of his
settlement is not certain, but he bought ninety
acres of land on the east side of the Connecti
cut river, June 31, 1669, of William Edwards
and Agnes his wife, and bounded as follows:
"North by William Pitkin ; south on John Bid-
well's ; east on the wilderness ; the rear on
the swamp." He became a freeman at Hart
ford in 1671, and died March 30, 1694. His
will, made September 8, 1690, was witnessed
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executors were "my wife" and "my kinsman,
Mr. Thomas Olcot." Richard Case married
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Joan Pur
chase. This Mr. Purchase (or Purkas) was
in Hartford before 1639. Children of Rich
ard and Elizabeth Case: Richard, John and
Mary. (II) Richard (2), eldest child of Richard
(1) and Elizabeth (Purchase) Case, died in
East Hartford, February 22, 1724. The Hart
ford land records show that the estate of Rich
ard Case was settled among his heirs by deed
dated November 6, 1729. He married, before
1703, Sarah  . Children: Sarah, Joseph
and Elizabeth.
(Ill) Joseph, son of Richard (2) and Sarah
Case, was born in East Hartford, December
27, 1705, died there May 26, 1791 ; was buried
in the East Hartford Center cemetery. Like
his father he was a farmer. He married, 1731,
Esther, daughter of Ebenezer Hills, of East
Hartford. Children : Joseph, David, Richard,
Abigail, Thomas, Sarah and Hannah.
(IV) David, second son of Joseph and
Esther (Hills) Case, was born in East Hart
ford. Record, volume 25, page 269, contains
record of grant of administration on estate
of David Case, late of East Hartford, to
George Griswold. Distribution of the estate
was made (no date given) to widow not
named, sons Uriah, William and David, and
daughters Tryphena and Assenath Keeney. He
owned land in Glastonbury. He married Abi
gail  ¦ — . Among their children were, in
addition to those above named: Abigail, died
January 26, 1774, aged three; Abigail, died
November 20, 1789, aged sixteen.
(V) Joseph (2), son of David and Abigail
Case, was a farmer of the Mohawk Valley,
near Schenectady, New York. He married a
Miss Whitney, of Prescott, Ontario, Canada.
Children : Levi James ; Whitney A. (of whom
further) ; Lucy, married Robert Bailey ; Chloe,
married James Lewis, the engineer who ran
the first steam engine, "John Bull" ; when the
railroad company exhibited the old engine on
the rails at the Chicago Exposition, Mr. Lewis
was invited to go to Chicago and ride in his
old engine; Cynthia, married John Barnum;
Mary, married Stephen P.- Porter.
(VI) Whitney Asa, son of Joseph (2) and
 • (Whitney) Case, was born at Ogdens-
burg, New York, 1825, died at Carlsbad, Ger
many, July 12, 1892. He was educated in the
public schools, and after completing his studies

learned the trade of coppersmith at Schenec
tady. In 1850 he located in Buffalo, where
for three years he was foreman for Dudley
Brothers. In 1853 he started in business for
himself at the corner of Washington and Ohio
streets. He made a specialty of heavy copper
smithing for steamboats and locomotives. He
soon established a good reputation for the ex
cellence of his work and at one time did all
the work in his line for the New York Cen
tral Railroad. In 1881 he admitted his son,
Edward A., to partnership, later his son, Whit
ney G., under the firm name W. A. Case &
Sons, and to his original lines added engineers'
supplies, wholesale and retail, and later added
plumbers' supplies. The firm has always been
a prosperous one,, and is now (1911) known
as the W. A. Case & Son Manufacturing
Company. In 1892 Mr. Case was ordered to
take a foreign trip by his physicians, his health
having broken down. He died at Carlsbad,
where he had gone for the benefit of the baths
and treatment. He was a man of good busi
ness ability, generous to a fault and highly re
garded by his associates. He was a member
of the Masonic order, the Methodist Episcopal
church, and a Republican. He married (first)
Freda Felthausen. He married (second) Mary
Emigh. Children : Whitney Gaylord (of whom
further) ; Mary, married William H. Collins ;
Edward A., died at the age of twenty-eight
years ; Lilla, married R. W. McCready ; child,
Florence, deceased.
(VII) Whitney Gaylord, eldest son of Whit
ney Asa and his second wife, Mary (Emigh)
Case, was born April 21, 1856. He was edu
cated in the Buffalo schools and after gradu
ating from the high school entered his father's
shop and learned copper smithing. He was
a hard worker, often spending from fifteen
to seventeen hours out of the twenty-four in
the shop. From the shop he went to the office
of the firm, then on the road as salesman.
When he was twenty-five years of age his
father admitted him to partnership, but this
did not mean easier times for the young man.
His father's health was on the decline and
the extra burden fell on the younger man, who
bravely shouldered it. After the death of his
father, Whitney G. continued the business,
which was growing very fast, and in 1903
formed it into a corporation, W. A. Case &
Son Manufacturing Company, with Whitney
G. Case president, J. P. Fell vice-president.
The business has grown from a total of sixty

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thousand dollars in 1892 to that of two mil
lion dollars in 1910, and is the largest store
in the United States devoted exclusively to
their line of goods. Since 1906 Mr. Case
has relaxed his strenuous business somewhat
and now takes needed recreation. He has the
satisfaction of knowing that he has borne his
full share of burden, and to his own energy,
industry and perseverance he owes the success
that is his. He is a trustee of the Erie County
Savings Bank, director of the Commonwealth
Trust Company, director of the Buffalo Club,
ex-treasurer of the Ellicott Club, ex-president
of the Park Club, director of the Buffalo
Yacht Club and member of the Wanakah
Golf Club. In the Masonic order he is affil
iated with Queen City Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons ; Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons; Buffalo Council, Royal and Select
Masters; Hugh De Payen Commandery,
Knights Templar ; Buffalo Consistory, Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite, a thirty-second degree.
He is a member and trustee of Westminster
Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Re
publican. He married, October 26, 1881, Martha Fran
ces Allen, born January 17, i860, daughter of
Wesley D. Allen. Children: 1. Cyrena, born
June 6, 1884; married, March 27, 1906, How
ard Kellogg ; children : Martha, born January
17, 1907; Howard, born November 4, 1908.
2. Edward Whitney (of whom further).
(VIII) Edward Whitney, only son of Whit
ney Gaylord and Mary Frances (Allen) Case,
was born in Buffalo, New York, June 17, 1888.
He graduated at Heathcote school, 1905, pre
pared for college at Lawrenceville, New Jer
sey, entered Cornell University, academic
course, class of 1910, but before graduating
accepted a position with the Buffalo Radiator
Company, in the foundry and machine shop.
He is a member of the Buffalo Canoe and
Auto clubs, Zeta Psi fraternity of Cornell,
Westminster Presbyterian Church, and is a
Republican in politics. He married, April 19,
191 1, Geraldine Armstrong Thompson, daugh
ter of Augustus A. Thompson.

Charles Stuart Abbott, of
ABBOTT Jamestown, New York, whose
death occurred March 1, 1905,
was a descendant in the ninth generation from
George Abbott, of Rowley, Massachusetts,
from whom have descended some of the most
eminent of their day in the arts and sciences,

including scholars, divines, jurists, statesmen,
soldiers, educators, authors, philanthropists,
business men, diplomats, politicians and trusted
leaders and representative persons in almost
every useful occupation in life.
(I) George Abbott was probably born in
England and died in 1647, m Rowley, Essex
county, Massachusetts, where he had lived
about five years after coming from England
with his family about 1642, being one of the
first settlers. The early records of Rowley
are missing and not much is known of him.
The inventory of his effects amounted to £95
2s. 8d. He had three children born in Eng
land: Thomas, died at Rowley, Massachu
setts, September 5, 1659; George (see for
ward) ; Nehemiah.
(II) George (2), son of George (1) Ab:
bott, was born in England, about 1631, and
came to New England with his father's fam
ily, probably about 1642. He lived in Rowley,
Essex county, Massachusetts, about fourteen
years, and in 1655 he settled in that part of
Andover afterwards North Andover, but now
Andover Center. He was a husbandman and
tailor, very thrifty and industrious, and for
that day was financially well-off, being, ac
cording to the tax list, one of the five wealth
iest men in Andover. He was a member of
Sergeant James Osgood's militia company,
1658-59. He was made a freeman, May 19,
1669, and was elected constable, June 3, 1680.
He was much respected, and for many years
had charge of North Meeting House, Andover.
He was married, in Ipswich, Essex county,
Massachusetts, by "Mr. Bradstreet," April 26,
1658, to Sarah Farnum, who was probably
born in Massachusetts about 1638, youngest
of five children of Ralph and Alice Farnum,
of Andover. George Abbott and wife had ten
children, born in Andover, Essex county, Mas
sachusetts. George, January 28, 1659 '> Sarah,
September 6, 1660; John, August 26, 1662;
Mary, March 20, 1664-65 ; Nehemiah, July 20,
1667; Hannah, September 22, 1668 ; Mehitable,
February 17, 1671 ; Lydia, March 31, 1675;
Samuel (see forward) ; Mehitable, April 4,
1680. (Ill) Samuel, son of George (2) and Sarah
(Farnum) Abbott, was born in Andover, Es
sex county, Massachusetts, May 30, 1678, died
at Sudbury, May 17, 1739. He was eighteen
years old when his brother John settled in East
Sudbury, now Wayland, Massachusetts, in
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that time to live. • He was constable for the
east side of Sudbury river, 1717-18; selectman,
1727-29-30-31-32-33-35-36; highway surveyor,
1707-22; town treasurer, 1720; fence viewer,
1724; and assessor, 1730. He was well-to-do,
highly respected and influential. He married,
in Sudbury, June 26, 1705, Joyce, born there,
August 3, 1681, daughter of Deacon Edward
and Joyce (Russell) Rice. Samuel Abbott
and wife had five children, born in Sudbury,
Middlesex county, Massachusetts: Joyce,
August 13, 1706; Martha, March 10, 1712;
Samuel, February 25, 1713-14; Samuel (see
forward) ; George, died in infancy.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and
Joyce (Rice) Abbott, was born May 24, 1716,
in East Sudbury, now Wayland, Middlesex
eounty, Massachusetts. He virtually inherited
the homestead farm in East Sudbury, and
lived in the house built by his father, on the
left side of the road from Wayland Center
to Concord, Massachusetts. Owing to his pre
mature death, but little is known of him. The
Massachusetts archives credit him with the
following colonial war service : According to
vol. XCV, p. 310, his name appears in a list
dated April 25, 1757, pertaining to Captain
Moses Maynard's first Sudbury foot company.
He was also in Captain Samuel Dakin's com
pany of Sudbury, 1758, in General Abercrom-
bie's expedition against Fort Ticonderoga, and
as far as known, is numbered among the un
known dead, probably in the disastrous and
unwise assault of July 8, 1758, by Abercrom-
bie, with about fifteen thousand men, on that
stronghold, which was garrisoned by about
•three thousand French troops under Montcalm.
He was about forty-two years old.
His marriage was published in Weston,
Massachusetts, in 1737, to Abigail Myrick,
born April 10, 1719, daughter of John and
Abigail (Herrington) Myrick, of Weston.
They had ten children, born in East Sudbury,
Wayland, Massachusetts; John (see for
ward) ; Ephraim, May 27, 1740; Jason, Octo
ber 6, 1742; Samuel, September 27, 1743;
Sarah, February 27, 1745 ; Rebecca, March 11,
1748-49; Abigail, May 7, 1751 ; Abraham,
January 11, 1754; Abijah, July 11, 1756;
Amos, 1759-60.
(V) Lieutenant John Abbott, son of Samuel
(2) and Abigail (Myrick) Abbott, was born
in East Sudbury, now Wayland, Middlesex
county, Massachusetts, June 5, 1738. Lieu
tenant Abbott is mentioned in old records as

blacksmith, yeoman, lieutenant, and latterly
for many years as "gent." He started in life
as a blacksmith, living in Sudbury until
twenty-three years of age. He probably moved
to Holden, Worcester county, Massachusetts,
about 1761, as on April 15th of that year
he bought of Joseph Davis, in Holden, for
£17 6s. 8d., about nine acres near the church,
south of the county road, on which in 1763
he built the celebrated and now historic old
"Abbott Tavern," which although one hundred
and thirty- four years old (1906) is still in a
good state of preservation. It was at this old
tavern, and with Lieutenant John Abbott, that
the covenant entered into by the loyal citizens
of Holden to sustain the committee chosen by
them to watch for the public safety, etc., was
left for a month, during the early days of the
revolution, for the inhabitants of Holden to
sign, Lieutenant Abbott being one of the six
forming the committee of safety. It is stated
upon good authority that Lieutenant John Ab
bott helped to throw the package of tea over
board into the waters of Boston Harbor on
that memorable and historic occasion on the
eve of the revolutionary war, • December 16,
1773- According to Massachusetts archives,
vol. XXVIII, p. 52, John Abbott was com
missioned during the revolutionary war as sec
ond lieutenant, March 5, 1779, in Captain Sam
uel Hubbell's (Third) company of the First
Worcester County Regiment, commanded by
Colonel Samuel Denny. His resignation was
accepted by the council, March 13, 1780. The
records. of Holden show that he held the fol
lowing local public offices: Highway sur
veyor, 1769-74-82-83-84-85-86-91-92-93-94-96 ;
fence viewer, 1770-72-73 ; warden, 1771 ;
juror, 1770-74; field-driver, 1775; constable,
1777; and sealer of weights and measures,
1777-81-87-88-89. His will, dated October 22,
1796, was probated November 5, 1799. Lieu
tenant John Abbott died May 23, 1799. His
widow died in Holden, August 9, 1814.
He married, September 25, 1760, by Eben
ezer Roby, Mary, born in Weston, Middlesex
county, Massachusetts, October 25, 1734,
daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Glesson)
Allen. Their children were all born in Holden
except Sarah, who was born in Sudbury. Chil
dren: Sarah, December 16, 1761 ; John, 1762;
Lemuel, November 3, 1763; Cyrus, January
16, 1765 ; Isaac, October 2, 1766 ; Mary, April
9, 1768; Elisha (see forward); Jason; June

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28, 1772; Abijah, October 3, 1773; Samuel,
July 25, 1776; Betsey, September 7, 1778.
(VI) Elisha, son of Lieutenant John and Mary
(Allen) Abbott, was bornin Holden, Massachu
setts, June 6, 1770. He was a blacksmith, and
lived in Weybridge, Addison county, Vermont,
where he died May 30, 1822, aged fifty-one
years. His widow married (second) 
Dixon, and is said to have died at an advanced
age in Western New York.- The records at
the county seat have been destroyed by fire,
and but little is known of Mr. Abbott's history.
He married Mehitable Parmelee, who was
born in 1773. They had three children : Zenas,
born 1798, died in Weybridge, Vermont, Feb
ruary 7, 1879; Ezra (see forward); Aretas,
born November 24, 1806.
(VII) Ezra, son of Elisha and Mehitable
(Parmelee) Abbott, was born in Claremont,
New York, January 28, 1801. In 1827 he re
moved to Onondaga county, New York, and
in 1829 to Chautauqua county, where he died
January 23, 1892, at the venerable age of
ninety-one years. He was a farmer, and a
man of great nobility of character. In early
manhood he united with the First Baptist
Church of Troy, and on his removal to Chau
tauqua county became connected with the Bap
tist church in Panama, in which he was for
many years a deacon, and to the end of his
life one of its most consistent, useful and
honored members. He married, April 29,
1824, in Fair Haven, Emeline Stewart. Their
children were: Edwin Elisha (see forward) ;
Samuel H., Elvira E., Sarah M., and Mary
Eliza, the latter of whom married George W.
Windsor, and resided in Jamestown, New
York. (VIII) Edwin Elisha, son of Ezra and
Emeline (Stewart) Abbott,' was born in Am
ber, Onondaga county, New York, September
27, 1827, and died in Jamestown, New York,
August 31, 1881. When he was two years
old his parents removed to a farm near Pan
ama. He attended the common schools, and
was a student for two years in Westfield Aca
demy. He entered upon his active career when
twenty years old, and at that early age gave
striking evidence of the qualities which char
acterized him during his whole life. He began
as clerk in charge of a branch store of Joseph
Hoyt, at Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, showing
the confidence even then reposed in him. He
was afterwards clerk in the stores of John
Stewart and John Pray, in Panama, until 1850,

when he became a partner with Mr. Hoyt, his
first employer, in the firm of Hoyt & Abbott.
In 1852, when in New York purchasing goods
for his house, he was solicited to relinquish
his country business and take a situation in
that city, which he did, but falling a victim
to malaria, he was obliged to abandon his po
sition, after a long and severe illness. He was
in business with Stephen W. Steward, at
Clymer, for two years, and then became asso
ciated with Gilbert Smith, at Panama. In
1859 he entered a large silk house in New
York, doing an almost exclusive southern
trade, which failed at the outbreak of the civil
war. He then went to Jamestown, where he
engaged with the firm of Kent & Preston. In
1865 he returned to New York City, and
formed the hat and fur house of Kingsbury,
Abbott & Company, which, through deaths
and retirements, became successively Kings
bury, Abbott, Gay & Company, and Kingsbury,
Abbott & Hulett. The house was very suc
cessful until the financial panic of 1873, which
it was unable to withstand, largely owing to
the physical prostration of Mr. Abbott, who
was the guiding spirit in the firm. The books
of th.e house on examination by a committee
of the creditors were pronounced clear and
honest, and its failure was accepted as un
avoidable. So great was the confidence in
which Mr. Abbott was held, that the creditors,
with former partners in the firm, and several
bankers, tendered sufficient capital for resump
tion of business, but this generous offer was
declined by Mr. Abbott. At the time of the
failure, Mr. Abbott held considerable sums
left with him for investment; these also were
lost in the failure, but he made repayment as
he could, the final payment, in one case, being
made only a short time before his death. In
1877 he had finally closed up the affairs of
his defunct firm, and he took charge of the
sales department of the Jamestown Alpaca
Mills, and which he conducted successfully un
til overtaken by his final illness. His death
was widely and deeply deplored, and fervent
tributes to his memory were uttered by both
pulpit and press. Mr. Abbott married Mary
Sanderson, who survived him.
(IX) Charles Stuart, only child of Edwin
Elisha and Mary (Sanderson) Abbott, was
born in Panama, New York, December 11,
1858. In his infancy his parents removed to
New York City, where he was educated in
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(Long Island) Institute. He was preparing
to enter Columbia University when his father's
financial reverses obliged him to abandon his
plans and enter upon his life's career. From
the first he gave evidence of the paternal traits
— untiring industry, indomitable perseverance
and unwavering integrity — and he commanded
the confidence of all with whom he became
associated. In his youth he engaged in va
rious employments, among them being that
of captain of the "Waukegan," a favorite
steamer on Lake Chautauqua, and he became
so enamored with that beautiful region that
he procured renewal of his license from year
to year until the end of his life. At one time
he studied law at Warren, Pennsylvania, and
was later business manager of The Country
side, a weekly educational and agricultural
journal. He subsequently returned to New
York City, and for a time was associated
with Allen Brothers in an advertising agency
which was afterward removed to Jamestown.
Mr. Abbott's independent business career,
however, dated from 1889, when he engaged
with Hon. Porter Sheldon in the manufacture
of photographic paper. They later formed
the American Aristotype Company, with Mr.
Sheldon as president and Mr. Abbott as sec
retary and treasurer. This business they
rapidly developed, making it one of the leading
houses in its line in the country, and one of
the principal industries of Jamestown. In
1899 the General Aristo Company was formed,
embracing a number of other similar concerns,
and which were afterward consolidated as the
Eastman Kodak Company, of which Mr. Ab
bott was vice-president, and to whose interests
he devoted himself in Europe for two years,
and with phenomenal success. He was also
president of the Seed Dry Plate Company of
St. Louis, Missouri, and a director of the
Chautauqua County Trust Company. In all
his business relations he was eminently suc
cessful, and he was held in high estimation
for abilities of a high order, and unflinching
integrity, and was recognized as a prime leader
among those whose energy and enterprise gave
Jamestown its nation-wide fame as an indus
trial city.
While pre-eminently a man of business, Mr.
Abbott was also favorably known for his fine
personal traits — kindliness, sympathy and gen
erosity — and his home was a center of social
life. He was a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Jamestown Lodge

of Elks; the Jamestown Club, of which he
was for several years president ; and he was
for several years commodore of the Chadakoin
Boat Club.
Mr. Abbott married, February 4, 1880,
Pauline Allen, of Jamestown. Of this mar
riage were born a daughter, Marguerite, and
a son, Charles Stuart Abbott Jr. Mr. Abbott
fell into a decline early in January, 1905, and
went to North Carolina, and while his family
were solaced with hopes of improvement, he
suddenly succumbed and died March 1, 1905,
in his forty-seventh year. The remains of the
honored dead were brought home for inter
ment, and the funeral services were attended
by a great concourse of mourning friends, and
signal honors were paid to his memory by the
officiating clergymen, and subsequently by the
press and the various business, fraternal and
social bodies with which the deceased had been
identified.

The name Thompson is an
THOMPSON ancient one in England,
Scotland and Ireland. In
England the name was Tomson; in Ireland it
was Thompson; and in the south of Scotland
Thomson. The American ancestor of the fam
ily was born in the north of Wales near the
border of Scotland and is considered a Scotch
man, although the signature to his will has
the English spelling Tomson. The letter "p"
was not introduced into the name by any of
his descendants until a century and a half
later. The fourth generation in America
added an "h," making it Thomson, although
many adhered to the original form. In the
fifth generation Thompson began to be used
and is now the almost universal form, and
will be used in this record as though that had
been the original form.
(I) Lieutenant John Thompson was born in
Wales in 1616. Tradition says his father
died soon after his birth and that his mother
married again. He was but a lad when he
was brought to America, not being more than
seven years of age, probably coming in the
ship, "Little James and Anne," which arrived
at Plymouth in August, 1623, with sixty pas
sengers. Nothing is known of his youth, but
after reaching manhood his career can be
traced in full from Plymouth records. From
his will it is learned he was a carpenter, and
besides building for others he built a house for
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and one each for his sons John and Jacob. In
association with Richard Church, he built the
first framed meeting house in Plymouth in
1637. As compensation, the town gave a deed
for a piece of land, now called Spring Hill.
March 3, 1645, he purchased of Samuel Eddy
a house and lot in Plymouth near Spring Hill
and in December of that year was married.
After removing to Sandwich he abandoned
his trade and became a farmer. He purchased
land in Nobscusset, where he lived several
years, then removed thirteen miles west of
Plymouth, where he made large purchases of
land from Welispaquin, the Neponset Sachem.
He built a log house on this purchase (Mid-
dleborough), twenty rods west of the Ply
mouth line, where he lived until it was burned
by the Indians. During King Philip's war
he was appointed lieutenant commandant of
a small company of men and rendered valu
able service. He was equipped with a gun,
brass pistol, sword, and halberd, now to be
seen in Plymouth at Pilgrim Hall. The whole
length of the gun was seven feet four and
one-half inches, using balls weighing twelve
to the pound ; weight twenty pounds. The
sword was three feet five and one-half inches.
After the war was over John Thompson and
the other families who had been driven from
their homes returned. In 1677 he replaced the
log house burned by the Indians with a frame
dwelling thirty-eight feet front and thirty feet
deep with loop holes and lined with brick.
Here he lived the remainder of his life. This
house was the residence of his descendants
unto the fifth generation. It was taken down
in 1838 after having been inhabited for one
hundred and sixty years. John Thompson was
constantly engaged in the public service. He
was selectman many terms ; deputy to the gen
eral court from Middleborough term after
term; served on juries, committees, and per
formed many public duties. In the church he
was a faithful, zealous worker, bringing his
children up according to the strictest interpre
tation of the Scriptures. He died June 16,
1696, aged nearly eighty years, and is buried
in the first burying ground in Middleborough,
where a stone marks his grave, bearing this
inscription : "In Memory of Lieutenant John
Thompson, who died June 16th ye 1696 in
ye 80 years of his age.
"This is a debt to nature due
Which I have paid and so must vou."

He married, December 26, 1645, Mary, born
1626, died March 21, 1714, in her eighty-
eighth year (she is buried in the same burying
ground as her husband), daughter of Francis
Cooke, a Pilgrim Father, who came in the
"Mayflower," in 1620. Her mother was Han
nah  , whom Francis Cooke married in
Holland. She followed her husband to Amer
ica in the ship "Ann," 1623. Francis Cooke
was a very old man in 1650, "Saw his chil
dren's children have children." He died April
7, 1663. Children of Lieutenant John and
Mary (Cooke) Thompson: 1. Adam, died
young. 2. John, born 1648, a carpenter by
trade; married Mary, daughter of Benjamin
Tinkham, the emigrant. He died November
25, 1725; his wife in 1731. 3. Mary, born
1650, married a Mr. Taber and settled near
New Bedford. 4. Esther, born July 28, 1652,
married Jonathan Reed. 5. Elizabeth, born
January 28, 1654, married Thomas Swift and
settled at Nobscusset. 6. Sarah, born April 7,
1657, died unmarried. 7. Lydia, born October
5, 1659, married James Soule. 8. Jacob, born
April 24, 1662, a justice of the peace for many
years ; married Abigail Wadsworth. 9.
Thomas, born October 19, 1664, a farmer and
glazier and the wealthiest man in Middlebor
ough; married Mary Morton when he was
fifty years old and she twenty-five. 10. Peter,
of further mention. 11. Mercy, born 1671,
died April 19, 1756.
(II) Peter, son of Lieutenant John and
Mary (Cooke) Thompson, was born in Mid
dleborough, Massachusetts. Married Rebecca
Sturtevant. Children: 1. Peter (2), born
1700, died November 2, 1791 ; married (first)
Hannah Bolton, (second) Lydia Cowin. 2.
Joseph, of further mention. 3 James, died
November 23, 1737, drowned in Grossman's
pond in Kingston. 4. Hannah, married
Nehemiah Bosworth.
(Ill) Joseph, son of Peter and Rebecca
(Sturtevant) Thompson, died July 1, 1778. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ruth
(Plooper) Bolton. Children: 1. Betty, mar
ried, 1762, Nicholas Wade and lived in Hali
fax. 2. Joseph, died August, 1778, of small
pox, at Cambridge, while serving in the revo
lutionary army. 3. John, of further mention.
4. Sarah, born April 17, 1744, married, 1767,
Luther Keith, of Bridgewater, son of Ebenezer
Keith. 5. Hannah, died in childhood.
(IV) John (2), son of Joseph and Eliza
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14, 1737, died January 19, 1776. He resided
for a time at Halifax, Massachusetts, then re
moved to Springfield, Vermont, thence to the
town of Kingsboro, Fulton county, New York.
He married Elizabeth Bisbee, born September
20, 1741, daughter of John and Abiah (Bon-
ney) Bisbee, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, a
lineal descendant of Thomas Bisbee, who came
to Scituate, Massachusetts, as early as 1634.
Children: 1. John Bisbee, died in Vermont
after the removal of his parents to New York
state. 2. Peter, died unmarried ; a member of
the Society of Friends. 3. Cynthia, died un
married. 4. James, died in middle age, unmar
ried. 5. William, of whom further. 6. Bar-
zillai, went west. 7. Calvin, settled in Western
New York. 8. Joseph. 9. Sarah, married
Elijah Foster, and settled in Sherburne, New
York. 10. Elizabeth, married Peletiah Shep-
ard, of Kingsboro, Fulton county, New York.
11. Lucinda, married Jacob Mead and settled
in Palatine, New York. 12. Chloe, married
Richard Horth, removed to Cattaraugus
county, New York, after the death of her
husband. (V) William, son of John (2) and Eliza
beth (Bisbee) Thompson, removed with his
father to Kingsboro, Fulton county, New
York, where he died. He married Belinda
Reeve, a relative of Topping Reeve, of Litch
field, Connecticut, chief justice of the supreme
court of Connecticut. Children: 1. Sarah,
married a Mr. Rowe and removed to the Black
River country in Northern New York, where
,she died soon after. 2. William, removed to
the far west. 3. John, of whom further. 4.
Abner, died in the town of Florida, Mont
gomery county, New York. 5. Belinda, mar
ried Abner Smith. 6. Mary, removed to Ohio.
7. Eliza, married Josiah Houghton and settled
in Ohio. 8. David, removed to Ohio.
(VI) Rev. John (3) Thompson, son of Wil
liam and Belinda (Reeve) Thompson, was
born in Kingsboro, Fulton county, New York,
where he was educated in the public schools
and prepared for college under the tutorship
of Rev. Elijah Yale, D.D., his pastor. In
1826 he was graduated from Middlebury Col
lege (Vermont). Having chosen the holy call
ing of a minister, he spent two years in prep
aration at Princeton (New Jersey) Theologi
cal Seminary. He was ordained a minister
of the Gospel in September, 1828, and chose
as his field of labor the missionary field. He
was engaged in home missionary work and

spent several years in Georgia among the In
dians of that state. Quitting the missionary
field, he was engaged during his latter years
in regular pastoral work, spending the last
six years of his life as pastor of the Congre
gational Church at Winchester, New Hamp
shire, where he died April 3, 1846. He was
a faithful servant of God and did much good
for the cause he loved. He married, at Shore-
ham, Vermont, November 28, 1828, Ruth
Bateman Fosdick, born 1805, died August 3,
1854, daughter of Mary (Bateman) Fosdick,
and step-daughter of William Johnson,
whose name she took. Children: 1. Mary
Eliza, born December 1, 1829, married, Sep
tember 1, 1852, Solomon Burt Saxton, of
Troy, New York, born January 31, 1827, in
Willbraham, Massachusetts, son of Gordon
Bliss and Philena Fletcher (Severance) Sax-
ton, a lineal descendant of George Saxton, of
Windsor and Westfield, Massachusetts, 1690.
Children: Mary Lena and John Gordon.
2. William Johnson, born October 7, 183 1, in
Georgia, died in infancy. 3. Edwin J., born
October 7, 1833, in Middlebury, Ohio. He
was highly educated; was for a number of
years professor in the University of Minne
sota; became a home missionary in Dakota;
removed to Salem, Oregon, and in 1887 was
settled pastor of a church near Albany, Ore
gon ; married, December 29, 1857, Ella Phelps
Armstrong, of Shoreham, Vermont. Children:
George Burt, Clara Ella, John, Mary Saxton,
Anson Wingate, Annetta, Nellie and Edith.
4. George Bates, of further mention.
(VII) George Bates, youngest child of Rev.
John (3) and Ruth Bateman (Fosdick)
(Johnson) Thompson, was born in Middle
Granville, Washington county, New York,
January 12, 1839. He was educated in the
public schools, and began business life as book
keeper for the firm of Hamlin & Saxton, flour
merchants, of Troy, New York, and pro
prietors of the Mt. Vernon Flour Mills. In
a few years he purchased an interest in the
company from Mr. Hamlin, the new firm be
ing Saxton & Thompson. The firm prospered
and in 1867 purchased the Douglas Mills at
Lockport, New York, Mr. Thompson settling
in that city as manager of the firm's business
and mills. He remained there until the death
of his senior partner, Mr. Gordon B. Saxton,
when he returned to Troy and continued the
business until 1890, in association with his
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the firm name of Saxton & Thompson. On
December 8, 1889, their mills were destroyed
by fire. They did not rebuild but Mr. Thomp
son returned to Lockport where in February,
1890, he organized The Thompson Milling
Company with mills at Lockport. He was
elected the first president of the corporation
and has continued at the head of this very
successful company until the present time
(1911). His natural business capacity, de
veloped by long years of experience, render
him a most valuable head and while the en
thusiasm of youth has departed, in its stead
is the matured mind and ripened judgment.
His life has not been devoted solely to busi
ness, but a large share of it has been given to
the cause of church and Christianity. He has
always been an active worker in Sunday school
and in all forms of church, educational and
benevolent work. His membership is with the
First Presbyterian Congregation of Lockport.
In politics he is an Independent Republican. All
forms of civic progress have been aided by him
and a share of Lockport's progress may be
credited to his efforts.
He married (first) April 23, 1863, Mary
Elizabeth, born August 14, 1842, in Troy, New
York, died September 17, 1892, daughter of
Lyman Avery, of Troy. He married ( second )
September 21, 1893, Helen Frances, daughter
of Edwin C. and Mary Catherine (Gooding)
Williamson. Children by first marriage: 1.
George Lyman, born in Troy, December 9,
1864, died June 23, 1866. 2. Mary Ruth,
born June 16, 1867, in Troy, married Andrew
L. Draper, of Troy, where they reside. 3. Ger
trude Elizabeth, born in Troy, August 10,
1869, married Howard M. Whitbeck. 4. Grace
Elizabeth, born November 11, 1871, in Troy,
died March 8, 1872. 5. Annie Sophia, born
in Lansingburgh, August 21, 1873, married
Arthur T. Poole. 6. Christine, born Decem
ber 25, 1874, in Lansingburgh, married Will
iam B. Smith. The married daughters all re
side in Lockport except Mary Ruth. Child of
second marriage : 7. Helen Catherine, born
August 19, 1903. •
(The Williamson Line).
There are two separate lines of descent
to the Williamsons of to-day, one Eng
lish, the other Dutch. Of the Dutch line
Willem Willemsen, the American ances
tor, was born in Amsterdam, Holland,
about the year 1637. He came to New Am

sterdam in 1657; settled at Gravesend, Long
Island. He married Mayke Peterse Wychoff,
of Gravesend, daughter of Pieter Qaas
Wychoff, who came in 1636. In the third
generation this name became Williamson. A
distinguished member of the fifth generation
was Douw Ditmars Williamson, a militiaman
during the war of 1812, as his father Nicholas
had been a minute man during the revolution.
Douw Ditmars Williamson was comptroller of
New York City under several administrations ;
for many years was president of the Farmers'
Loan & Trust Company of New York and
was an elder in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch
Church. The English family descends from
Timothy of Marshfield, Massachusetts, died in
1676, soldier of King Philip's war, and is sup
posed to have been killed in either the Bridge-
water or "Swamp Fight", July 31 or August
1, 1676. Paul Williamson was of Ipswich,
1635 ; Michael, of Ipswich, came in the
"Planter," 1635 ; William came in the "De
fence" in 1635, but their records are not to
be found. Timothy was made a freeman of
Plymouth Colony in 1647, but when he came
is not recorded. He married, in Plymouth,
June 6, 1653, Mary, daughter of the first Ar
thur Howland. Children: Mary, born 1654;
Timothy, born 1655, died at age of twenty-
seven years ; Joanna, born 1657 ; Experience,
Martha, Abigail, George, Nathan. Timothy
Williamson died in Plymouth and- was buried
August 6, 1676. His wife survived him and
married (second) January 22, 1680, Robert
Stanford. (II) George, son of Timothy and Mary
(Howland) Williamson, was born at Marsh
field, Masachusefts, about 1675, died at Mid-
dleboro, Massachusetts, 1744; married Mary
Crisp. (Ill) Caleb, son of George and Mary
(Crisp) Williamson, was born at Harwich,
Massachusetts, 1715, died at Canterbury, Con
necticut, August 9, 1795 ; married, 1737, Sarah
Ransom. (IV) George (2), son of Caleb and Sarah
(Ransom) Williamson, was born January 15,
1754, died October 10, 1882; farmer; soldier
of the revolution; married, July 9, 1778, Mary
Foster, born November 17, 1758, daughter of
William and Hannah (Durkee) Foster. Her
great-great-grandfather came from Exeter,
England, to Ipswich, Massachusetts.
(V) George (3), son of George (2), and
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terbury, Connecticut, 1780, settled in New
York state. He married  and had issue.
(VI) James N., son of George (3) Will
iamson, was born in Stafford, Genesee county,
New York. He first settled in Lockport, New
York, from thence going to Paris, a town near
Brantford, Province of Ontario, Canada,
where he owned and operated a tannery. After
several years in Canada, he returned to the
states, locating in Chicago where he engaged
in business, a wholesale fruit commission mer
chant. He remained in Chicago until after the
death of his wife when he returned to Brant
ford, Canada, where he died about 1880. He
married Sarah Walker, born in Vermont, died
in Chicago, Illinois. Children who grew to
years of maturity: 1. Edwin C, of further
mention; Frank, of Chicago; Helen, married
Frank C. Mather, of Chicago; Frances, mar
ried Julius Waltrous, of Brantford.
(VII) Edwin C, son of James N. and
Sarah (Walker) Williamson, was born at Can
ning, Oxford county, Canada, August 15,
1838, died in New York, October 23, 1897.
He was educated in Lockport, New York,
where he also studied pharmacy under Lock-
port's most prominent pharmacist, Dr. Green.
He later joined his father in Chicago and as
sociated with him in the wholesale. fruit busi
ness. Later he became a traveling salesman ;
retired from aqtive business in 1887 ; died 1897.
He married September 16, 1863, Mary
Catherine Gooding, born in Lockport, August
4, 1843, died April 29, 1895, in Buffalo, New
York. 'VIII) Helen Frances, daughter of Edwin
C. and Mary Catherine ( Gooding) Williamson,
was born December 7, 1869, in Chicago, Illi
nois. She. married, September 21, 1893,
George B. Thompson. Child, Helen Cather
ine, born August 19, 1903, at Lockport, New
York. •

There are few names more
THOMPSON common among the early
settlers of New England
than that of Thompson, most of whom came
from London and Herefordshire, England, al
though others were of Scotch and Irish birth.
The English Thompsons were probably re
lated. The principal early families were head
ed by David Thompson, who settled in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, in 1622, and in 1623
removed to an island in Boston Harbor that
yet bears his name. Others of the name were :

James Thompson, one of the first settlers of
Woburn, Massachusetts, 1634; Major Robert
Thompson, who resided in Boston in 1639, a
man of great wealth and respectability; Mau
rice Thompson, a merchant of London, gov
ernor of the East India Company, who es
tablished fisheries at Cape Ann, in 1639 ; Rev.
William Thompson, who settled in Maine in
1637; and Anthony Thompson, of New Haven,
Connecticut, believed to be the ancestor of the
Buffalo branch herein recorded.
Anthony Thompson, with his wife, two chil
dren and two brothers, John and William, em
barked at London, on board the ship "Hector,"
in company with Theophilus Eaton, Rev. Mr.
Davenport, and others, from Coventry, Eng
land. They arrived in Boston, June 26, 1637.
They were Dissenters from the Church of
England, and left home to enjoy quietly here
the principles of their faith, as well as to avoid
the constant persecutions, taxes and exactions
which were so frequent during the reign of
Charles I. The Davenport colony finally set
tled in Quinnipiac (New Haven). Anthony
signed the colony constitution June 4, 1639.
The Thompson brothers each secured grants
of land. John lived in East Haven, where he
died December 11, 1674. William and Anthony
resided in New Haven all their lives, and died
there. Anthony died March 23, 1647,, at
which time he made a nuncupative will in pres
ence of Rev. John Davenport and Robert New
man, who afterward committed his instructions
to writing and appeared before the proper
officer to prove it, May 27, 1650. fie be
queathed the lands which were set off to him
originally, and the house he had built there
on, to his second son, John, other lands to his
son Anthony (2), a certain sum to Bridget,
daughter of his first wife, provided she mar
ried in accordance with the wishes of the dea
cons of the church, and the remainder of the
estate to his second wife, Catherine, and to
his three daughters by her, her share to con
tinue during her widowhood only, but as she
married Nicholas Camp, July 14, 1652, the
property reverted to the estate. John, son of
Anthony, seems to have been a sea captain.
He had a son Samuel who married, November
14, 1695, Rebecca, daughter of Lieutenant-
Governor Bishop. They lived at Beaver Ponds,
now Westville, about two miles from New
Haven. He was captain of the military in
New Haven, and a healthy, active man when
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dren, all of whom lived to an advanced age
except one who died in childhood. Some of
them settled in Amenia, Dutchess county, New
York, some in Goshen, and others in Derby,
Connecticut. The sons of Samuel and Eliza
beth Bishop were Samuel (2), James, Amos,
Gideon, Judah (died young), Judah (2), and
Enos. Their daughter was Rebecca. One of
these sons was the father of Captain and
Major Jabez Thompson, of further mention.
(V) Jabez, grandson of Samuel and Eliza
beth (Bishop) Thompson, was born in Con
necticut, settled in the town of Derby, and
became a man of prominence. He was an offi
cer in the French war of 1655-63, serving with
the colonial troops from Connecticut. He was
selectman of Derby 1763-64, 1774-75. At a
town meeting held at Derby, November 29,
1774, after the "Boston Tea Party," to con
sider the proceedings of the Continental Con
gress held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774,
the plan of association recommended by that
congress was approved and a committee of
fourteen was appointed to see the same car
ried into execution. On this list the name of
Major Jabez Thompson stands third. He was
in command of the first troops sent from
Derby immediately after the battle of Lexing
ton, and this company no doubt was engaged
at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. His commis
sion, dated May 1, 1775, "in the fifteenth year
of the reign of his Majesty King George the
Third," from Jonathan Trumbull, captain gen
eral, etc., appointed him : "First major of the
First Regiment of the Inhabitants inlisted and
assembled for the special Defense and Safety
of His Majesty's said Colony." He served on
the "committee of inspection" of Derby, ap
pointed December 11, 1775 ; his name again ap
pears third in the list, but this time with the
rank of colonel. Tradition says that he was kill
ed while in command of his troops on Long Isl
and, on the retreat of Washington's army, and
that his body was buried with honor by the
English officers who had been his companions
in arms during the French war. Captain Ja
bez married, October 25, 1748, Sarah Gunn,
of Waterbury, Connecticut. Children of rec
ord in Derby: Lois, born December 29, 1749;
Anne, March 5, 1753; Sarah, February 21,
1756; Jabez, of further mention; Eunice, Jan
uary 5, 1762. His grandson, Sheldon, wrote
during his lifetime, "My grandfather Jabez
Thompson, had two sons, Jabez and Abel, and
six daughters."

(VI) Jabez (2) son of Major Jabez (1),
and Sarah (Gunn) Thompson, was born in
Derby, Connecticut, January 7, 1759. He early
began a seafaring life, which he continued un
til 1794, when he was lost at sea, with his
eldest son. He was also a ship owner, and
sailed his last voyage in command of his own
vessel. He was engaged in the West Indies
trade, and after sailing on his last trip neither
he nor his vessel were ever heard of again.
He was a man of high character, and held in
universal esteem, as is attested by an oration
delivered December 23, 1794, on his life and
service, delivered before King Hiram Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, at Derby, of which
he was a member. He married  Cur-
tiss, daughter of Oliver and Hannah (Qark)
Curtiss. Hannah was a daughter of William
and Hannah Clark, who came to Derby about
1735, from Lyme, Connecticut. Hannah, wife
of William Clark, died September, 180 1, aged
ninety-one years. Her lineal descendants, at
the time of her death, were three hundred and
thirty-three, viz. : ten children, sixty-two grand
children, two hundred and forty-two great
grandchildren and nineteen great-great-grand
children. Children of Jabez Thompson (2) :
Jabez, lost at sea; William; Sheldon, of fur
ther mention; Curtiss, Polly, Sally, Betsey,
Harry. (VII) Sheldon, son of Jabez (2) Thomp
son, was born at Derby, Connecticut, July 2,
1785. By the sudden death of his father his
mother was left with a large family of chil
dren, most of them small. The greater part
of the property was lost by the sinking of the
ship and cargo, only a small farm being left.
The eldest surviving son was a sailor, and it
became necessary for the boys to shift for
themselves, leaving the farm for the mother
and daughters. Hence Sheldon, at the age of
ten years, went" to sea as a cabin boy under the
charge of his brother William, then master of
a vessel. In 1798, during our difficulties with
France, he was in the West Indies, where he
was taken prisoner, conveyed to Guadaloupe,
and confined for several months. He rose
rapidly from a sailor, before the mast to the
command of a fine ship, the "Keziah," in the
West Indies trade, at the age of twenty-four
years. In 18 10 he abandoned the sea and
came to Lewiston, New York, with Jacob
Townsend and Alvin Bronson. The British
orders in council, with Bonaparte's Berlin and
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merchantmen, neutral rights not being re
spected by either England or France. These
three men, all sea captains, decided to abandon
.the sea and take to the Great Lakes. Co
partnership articles were drawn up, providing
that the firm should be Townsend, Bronson
& Company; that it should continue four
years ; that each should contribute all his capi
tal and his whole time, and that the purpose
of the copartnership should be transacting busi
ness in the state of New York and elsewhere
of a mercantile nature, in the various branches
of vending goods, shipbuilding and coasting
on Lakes Erie and Ontario, and any other
business in which the partners collectively
might judge best to engage. In March, 1810,
Bronson cut the frame for a schooner of one
hundred tons, and had the vessel built at Os
wego Falls. She was called the "Charles and
Ann," and in the fall of 1810 was running un
der command of John Hull. Mr. Thomp
son took the carpenters, as soon as the first
vessel was finished, to the Niagara River,
above the Falls, built the schooner "Catherine,"
at Cayuga creek, the same spot where La
Salle had built the "Griffin," the first vessel
that ever navigated Lake Erie, one hundred
and thirty-two years before. The "Catherine"
was completed and in commission in June,
1811. Both vessels figured as United States
gunboats during the war of 18 12. In addition
to the coasting trade of the Lakes, the firm
established two stores, one at Lewiston, con
ducted by Townsend & Thompson, and one at
Oswego, conducted by Bronson. Their princi
pal trade for two years preceeding the war was
the transportation of Onondaga salt for the
lake and Pittsburgh markets. In addition to
this they transported stores for the military
posts, the Indian annuities, the American Fur
Company's goods and peltries, and provisions
for the frontier settlements. In this day of
rapid transit the route these goods took is
full of interest. They came by sloops up the
Hudson to Albany, thence by portage to
Schenectady, then shipped on the Mohawk
river boats to Rome, thence by canal into
Wood Creek, through Oneida Lake and down
Oswego river to the Falls of the Oswego,
where there was a portage of one mile, and fin
ally taking a smaller class of boats to Oswego.
Here goods destined for the upper coun
try took schooners for Lewiston, where they
were transported by teams to Schlosser, where
they again took flatboats to Black Rock, there

took vessel, and aided by what Mr. Thompson
called a "horn breeze" (a team of several yoke
of oxen) stemmed the current of the Niagara
river to Lake Erie.
Sheldon Thompson married, April 6, 181 1,
a daughter of Benjamin Barton, of Lewiston.
Barton was born in Sussex county, New Jer
sey, in 1 77 1, went to Geneva, New York, in
1788, was married at Canandaigua, New York,
in 1729, and removed to Lewiston in 1807. He
was a surveyor by profession, and surveyed
much of the "mile" frontier. In 1805 he at
tended the sale of the "Mile Strip" on the
Niagara river, held in the surveyor general's
office at Albany. Here he met Judge and Gen
eral Porter on the same errand, and continued
with them in the purchase of several farm lots,
including the property around the Falls, and
bid off at public auction the landing places at
Lewiston and Schlosser, for which they re
ceived a lease for twelve or thirteen years. In
1806, under the firm name of Porter, Bar
ton & Company, they commenced the carry
ing trade around Niagara Falls, and formed
the first regular line of forwarders that ever
did business from tidewater to Lake Erie.
Benjamin Barton died at Lewiston in 1842,
aged seventy-two years. The two firms be
ing now connected by marriage, formed a more
or less intimate connection in business. They
co-operated in their undertakings, harmonized
in the main, and conducted almost the entire
commerce of the lakes. Townsend, Bronson
& Company did the carrying trade to Lewis-
ton; Porter, Barton & Company received the
profits for the portage from Lewiston to
Schlosser, and both firms were interested in
the development of the business beyond that
point. The war of 1812 now came on, spread
ing desolation and ruin along the northern
frontier. The letters of Sheldon Thompson to
his partners give a graphic picture of the
anxieties and perplexities of the times. It was
necessary to again and again remove goods
to places of safety, sickness was prevalent,
deaths were frequent, there was dissension
among our own troops, and no one felt safe.
The culminating point was in December, 1813,
when the British advanced on Fort Niagara,
destroyed Lewiston, and devastated the border
as far as Buffalo, which was burnt. Two let
ters announce these events :
Lewiston, December 17, 1813.
Mr. Townsend :
Dear Sir : I have but one moment to inform you

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that Fort George is evacuated and Newark burned.
We have but about three hundred troops on this
frontier. We momentarily expect an attack, but
where we cannot say, but it is generally believed on
Fort Niagara. I am now moving out our goods,
eight or ten miles. Harry has gone West. I am
very anxious for you to return.
Yours in haste, S. Thompson.
The second letter was posted in Geneva,
January 6:
Mr. Townsend :
Dear Sir : I am happy to have it in my power to
inform you that our lives have all been spared. They
have burnt everything belonging to us, except about
one-third of our dry goods. I hope you will make
all possible speed to get to me at this place, as I
am about beat out. . Our goods are scattered from
this, to John Jones. I am getting them on this far
as fast as possible. I got nothing of any amount
from my house. Had I been ten minutes later I
should have fallen into the hands of the Indians,
together with my family. You will have the good
ness to inform my friends that we are all well.
Yours in haste,
S. Thompson.
N. B. — Our buildings on the farm were all burnt.
After the war closed and shattered homes
and fortunes were being rebuilt, the two carry
ing firms formed in 1816 or 1817 a branch
firm at Black Rock, Porter, Barton & Com
pany furnishing Nathaniel Sill, Townsend,
Barton & Company, Sheldon Thompson, as
managers, under the firm name of Sill, Thomp
son & Company. Mr. Thompson then changed
his residence from Lewiston to Black Rock.
The original firm continued in business until
1821, Sill, Thompson & Company until 1824.
S. C. Townsend wrote of the former firm:
Having had access to the correspondence of the
partners of the firm of Townsend, Bronson- and
Company, during the eleven years of its existence,
and having been four years in their employ, it is a
source of pride and pleasure to be able to say, I
have never found a word savoring of a desire, by
fraud or trickery, to obtain an advantage of any
party. When the question whether Black Rock or
Buffalo should be the western terminus of the
Erie canal, Mr. Thompson was active in his
efforts to have the canal stop at Black Rock.
He was in charge of the construction of the
harbor and pier at that place, hoping that the
work would decide the question. When it was
finally settled at a meeting of the canal com
missioners at the Eagle Tavern in Buffalo, in
the summer of 1822, that the canal should con
tinue to Buffalo, he at once saw that the com

mercial supremacy of Buffalo was assured.
The same night of the decision he sent his
younger brother Harry on horseback to
Batavia. There early the next morning, as
soon as the office of the Holland Land Com
pany was opened, Harry purchased and en
tered for his brother the land where the Reed
Elevator now stands. About this time the
firm of Sheldon Thompson & Company was
formed, with principal office in Buffalo, con-
tining the freight forwarding business of its
predecessors. Mr. Thompson was a great
friend of the canal, and went east on the first
boat, to assist in mingling the waters of Lake
Erie with the waters of the Atlantic. His firm
owned a small line of canal boats in 1825, be
ing one of the first organized lines. This line
was called at first the Troy and. Black Rock
Line, having its terminus at Black Rock. In
1826 the terminus was changed to Buffalo, and
the name changed to the Troy and Erie Line.
This line grew to be one of the most im
portant on the canal. Their boats were built
with large cabins, carrying from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty pas
sengers, mostly western bound emigrants,
and two hundred and fifty barrels of
flour ; and constituted regular lines of pas
senger packets and of freight boats. The firm
was also largely instrumental in the early de
velopment of steam navigation on the lakes.
The first two steamboats, "The Walk-in-the-
Water" and the "Superior," were built by Al
bany parties. The "Pioneer" the third steam
boat on the lakes, was built by Sheldon Thomp
son & Company in 1823, and was a great suc
cess. The "Sheldon Thompson" was built at
Huron, in Ohio, by the same firm, in 1828,
and was long one of the prominent boats on
the lakes. Mr. Thompson removed his resi
dence to Buffalo in 1830. His firm and that
of Townsend & Coit were for some years the
principal forwarders. In 1836 the two were
consolidated under the name Coit, Kimberly
& Company, the two senior partners, Sheldon
Thompson and Judge Townsend, retiring into
the background.
Mr. Thompson was prominent in most of
the early enterprises of Buffalo. He was one
of a copartnership that bought, laid out and
developed Ohio City, now a portion of the
city of Cleveland, and also did the same with
Manhattan, on the Maumee river, an early
rival of Toledo. He was one of a large land
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Wisconsin, embracing Milwaukee, Green Bay,
Sheboygan, the mining regions in Iowa county,
and other portions of the state. He was one
of the men of Buffalo who bought out the as
sets of the branch United States Bank, one of
the largest individual investments, of the day,
but which did not result very successfully. He
finally retired from active business about 1845
and occupied himself with the management of
his estate, then of goodly proportions as the
result of long years of industry and care.
While he was an active, public-spirited and
patriotic citizen he was never a politician. Buf
falo was created a city in 1832, and for eight
years the mayor was elected by the common
council. In the spring of 1840 the first elec
tion was held under the law of 1840, by which
mayors of cities were elected by the people.
The Whigs nominated Sheldon Thompson, the
Democrats George P. Barker, one of the most
popular and brilliant men who ever graced a
city. The biographer of Mr. Barker, in speak
ing of the difficulties of his canvass, says :
"Added to this, the opposition put in nomina
tion their strongest man, one whose residence
was coeval with the first settlement of the
country, whose acquaintances and connections
were extensive, and whose wealth and weight
of character added great strength." He fur
ther says : "It was without doubt the most se
vere contest ever known at our charter elec
tions. The friends of each candidate exerted
themselves to the utmost. Few general elec
tions have ever been so warmly contested. The
eyes of the city, indeed of Western New York,
were centered upon the issue." The result
was: Sheldon Thompson, 1135; George P.
Barker, 1125. Sheldon Thompson therefore
was accordingly the first mayor of Buffalo
elected by the people. He filled the position
with credit, and never again was a candidate
for office. (It is a coincidence that his old
partner, Alvin Bronson, was the first mayor
of Oswego, New York.)
Mr. Thompson was reared an Episcopalian,
and never wavered in his allegiance to that
faith. When the first movement was made for
the foundation of a parish in Buffalo, he was
one of those most active and interested, al
though at the time a resident of Black Rock.
February 10, 1817, a meeting was held at the
house of Elias Ransom, northeast corner of
Main and Huron streets, in Buffalo, at which
St. Paul's parish was organized. Mr. Thomp
son was chosen a member of the first vestry.

He continued in this service for many years,
until he voluntarily retired in favor of younger
men. His bust in marble on the walls of the
present St. Paul's Church commemorates the
fact that he was "One of the founders of the
parish and a member of the first vestry." He
died at Buffalo, Thursday, March 13, 1851.
His decease was followed by many warm ex
pressions of regret and admiration. The com
mon council of Buffalo, the vestry of St.
Paul's, and many other bodies, passed appro
priate resolutions. All emphasized his sturdy
honesty and uprightness. From the most
widely copied and approved eulogy the follow
ing is taken:
He possessed many noble traits of character,
which will be long treasured up in the memory of
those who knew him. His intercourse with the
younger portion of the community was of the kind
est and most agreeable character, and by them he
was looked up to with affectionate regard. He was
quick to discern merit, , and prompt to extend to it
a generous aid. We give expression to a fact
known to so many of our readers when we say
that he aided in the establishing of more young
men in business in Buffalo than any other individual
in the city. During the brief illness that preceded
his death, he exhibited the same equanimity and
cheerfulness of temper that were prominent traits
in his character. He retained perfect consciousness
to the last, and surrounded by his children and
relatives, died without a struggle. He was indus
trious, temperate and cheerful, capable of great en
durance, and quick of resource. While not witty,
he was full of humor, ready and apt in reply. He
bore reverses with equanimity, and carried himself
with steady courage, loyalty and honesty. From a
humble beginning he achieved for himself a career
of usefulness and prominence; through a long and
eventful life he bore his name without a stain; he
did his duty to himself, his family and the com
munity; and he died loved and mourned.
Sheldon Thompson married, April 6, 181 1,
Catherine Barton; born August 31, 1793, died
at Buffalo, May 8, 1832, daughter of Benja
min Barton of Lewiston, New York. Chil
dren: 1. Sally Ann, died at Buffalo, April 15,
1839; married Henry K. Smith, a prominent
lawyer. 2. Agens Latta, married Edward S.
Warren, a lawyer now deceased. (See War
ren.) 3. Laititia Porter, married Henry K.
Viele, a lawyer now deceased. 4. Augustus
Porter, of further mention.
(VIII) Augustus Porter, son of Sheldon
and Catherine (Barton) Thompson, was born
¦ at Black Rock, Erie county, New York, Feb
ruary 14, 1825, when that settlement was still
a strong rival of Buffalo, and died in Decem
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in Buffalo and the academies at Lewiston and
Canandaigua, New York. After completing
his studies he began his business career as
clerk in his father's establishment, spending
several years and acquiring a thorough knowl
edge of business principles and methods. On
arriving at legal age he was admitted a partner
in the firm of Thompson & Company, manu
facturers of white lead, continuing with that
firm until i860, when he associated himself
with Edward S. Warren and DeGarmo Jones,
and built a large anthracite blast furnace, the
second of its kind in Buffalo. Later these two
furnaces were united under the name of the
Buffalo Union Iron Works. Later a third
furnace was built and one of the largest roll
ing mills ever erected up to that time. In
1866 Mr. Thompson retired from the company
and returned to his former business. He pur
chased an interest in the lead works of S.
G. Cornell & Son, which later was incorpo
rated as the Cornell Lead Company. Mr.
Thompson was vice-president and later presi
dent of the company, holding the latter office
until 1887, when the business was absorbed
by the National Lead Company. From that
time until his death he was manager of the
works known as the Buffalo branch. He
capably administered the duties of his posi
tion, as his long tenure of office testified. He
also had other and numerous outside business
interests. He was for some years cashier
of the Buffalo City Bank and a member of
the board of directors. He was a member of
the board of directors of the company that
built the railway on Niagara street in i860.
In the line of public spirit and education he
was always active, and bore well his part. He
was a member of the Buffalo Historical So
ciety, life member of the Buffalo Library
and Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and
Buffalo College of Science. He was a warden
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which his
father was a founder, and a trustee of St.
Margaret's School, Buffalo. Politically he
was a life-long Republican.
He married, June 9, 1853, Matilda Cass
Jones, born May 24, 1833, died May, 1895,
daughter of Colonel DeGarmo and Catherine
Anna (Cass) Jones, of Detroit. Children : 1.
Sheldon, born May 26,. 1854; married, January
11, 1888, Fanny Moulton ; child: Sheldon (2),
born January 3, 1890. 2. DeGarmo, born Au
gust 28, 1856; died April 14, 1857. 3. Cath
erine, born March 5, 1858; married, January

5, 1882, W. T. Miller, born May 31, 1851;
children; Katherine T., born October 15, 1882;
Alice T., May 14, 1884. 4. Alice, born July
31, i860. 5. Agnes, born January 24, 1863;
married, June 8, 1893, Frank Talcott; chil
dren: Porter T., born March 11, 1894; Frank
Squire, November 24, 1897; Esther Belden
March 1, 1901 ; Ruth, April 15, 1904. 6. Au
gustus Annin, born July 18, 1865 ; married,
February 25, 1888, Marian Armstrong; child:
Geraldine, born July 22, 1891. 7. Laititia, born
September 21, 1867; married, June 8,' 1893,
Grosvenor A. Gowans ; children : Gladys, born
February 28, 1894 ; John, September 28, 1899.
8. Edward Warren, December 5, 1869, died
December, 1905. 9. Clara Barton, July 15,
1872, died January 9, 1901. 10. Albert Steele,
born October 13, 1874; married November 19,
1901, Louise Foster; children: Augustus Por
ter (2), born November 23, 1902, died Feb
ruary 18, 1904; Eliot Pierrepont, born De
cember 13, 1904; Albert Porter, December 1,
1906. 11. Matilda Jones, born June 1, 1876;
married, September 20, 1905, Augustus Mc-
Nair, born November 18, 1886.

Edward Jackson, immigrant
JACKSON ancestor, was born in London,
England, about 1602, accord
ing to his gravestone. He was the son of
Christopher Jackson, and was baptized Feb
ruary 3, 1604. He lived at Whitechapel, where
he followed the trade of nailmaker. His first
wife's name was Frances, by whom he had
four sons and four daughters. There is a
tradition in the family that their youngest son,
Sebas, was born on the passage to this coun
try, and if so the wife Frances died on the
passage or soon after their arrival here. He
married (second) March, 1649, Elizabeth,
daughter of John Newgate, and widow of Rev.
John Oliver, Harvard College, 1645, the first
minister of Rumney Marsh, Chelsea. He had
four daughters and one son by the second
wife. He purchased land in Cambridge village of
Samuel Holley in 1643, and in 1645 took the
freeman's oath. In 1646 he purchased a farm
in the same place of five hundred acres, long
known as the Mayhew farm. This farm had
belonged originally to Thomas Mayhew, of
Watertown, and had been bought from him by
Governor Bradstreet, who in turn sold it to
Edward Jackson. It commenced near what
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Brighton, and extended westward, including
what is now Newtonville. The original house
was built before 1638 and stood until 1708.
Edward Jackson was a deputy to the general
court in 1647 and was elected annually to that
office for seventeen years ; chairman of a com
mittee to lay out highways in 1653 ; selectman
of Cambridge in 1665 ; commissioner to end
small causes for several years. He was con
stantly associated with Rev. John Eliot in his
work with the Indians. He was one of the
proprietors and in the division of common
lands in 1662 he had four acres; in 1664 thirty
acres. He was also a large proprietor in the
Billerica lands, and in the division of 1652 he
had four hundred acres which by his will he
gave to Harvard College. In 1678 he was
the author and first signer of a petition to the
general court, asking that Cambridge village
might be set off from Cambridge and made an
independent town. In "Captain Edward John
son's History of New England" he is classed
among the leading men of the time. He died
June 17, 1681. His inventory contained over
sixteen hundred acres of land and amounted to
£2,477, I9S- 6d. It also included two men
servants, valued at five pounds each. He was
probably the first slaveholder in Newton. His
wife survived him for twenty-eight years, and
died September 30, 1709. Children of first
wife, born in London : Israel, baptized March
9, 1 63 1, died young; Margaret, baptized Jan
uary 1, 1633; Hannah, baptized May 1, 1634;
Rebecca, baptized October 12, 1636; Caleb,
baptized October 10, 1638; Joseph, baptized
September 13, 1639; Frances, died in Cam
bridge, 1648 ; Jonathan ; Sebas (mentioned be
low). Children of second wife: Sarah, born
July 11, 1650; Edward, December 15, 1652;
Lydia, 1656; Elizabeth, April 28, 1658; Ruth,
January 15, 1664.
(II) Sebas son of Edward Jackson, is
thought to have been born on the passage to
this country, as his name is sometimes spelled
Seaborn, fie married Sarah, daughter of
Thomas Baker, of Roxbury, April 9, 1671.
He received from his father by will the house
in which his father lived with one hundred and
fifty acres adjoining his own homestead. The
old house was eighteen feet by twenty-two,
built about 1670 and torn down in i8o9. He
died December 6, 1690. His wife Sarah died
March 25, 1728, aged eighty-four. He left
a will giving all his estate to his wife for her
maintenance and the well bringing up of his

children, and assigning portions to his chil
dren in case of her marriage or death. Chil
dren: Edward (mentioned below), Sebas,
March 12, 1673, died young; John, March 1,
1675; Sarah, November 8, 1680; Elizabeth,
March 2, 1683 ; John, March 15, 1685 ; Jona
than, September 10, 1686; Mary, December
27, 1687; Joseph, March 6, 1690.
(Ill) Edward (2), son of Sebas Jackson,
was born at Newton, September 12, 1672.' He
gave half his homestead in Newton, sixty
acres that he had from his father, to his son
Edward in 1734, and the other half that he
had from his father to his son Michael, the
house and seven acres. He died intestate,
March 27, 1748; his wife in 1753, aged eighty-
eight years. He married Mary  ¦ — ¦. Chil
dren: Experience, born August 9, 1696; Ed
ward (mentioned below) ; Isaac, February 2,
1 70 1 ; Sarah, October 8, 1703 ; Sebas, April 20,
1706; Michael, February 28, 1709; Jonathan,
June 25, 1713 ; Anna, August, 1714.
(IV) Edward (3), son of Edward (2)
Jackson, was born October 1, 1698, and died
July . 1, 1738. His widow and Isaac Jack
son were administrators of his estate and the
inventory amounted to £560. His son Abraham
took the land on the south side of the high
way and paid his brothers and sisters and heirs
of his brother Jonathan, deceased. He mar
ried Abigail Gale, who married (second)
Joseph Morse. Children : Abraham (men
tioned below); Jonas, born March 12, 1723;
Edward, October 28, 1724; Joshua, April 26,
1726; Jonathan, April 29, 1727; Ephraim, Oc
tober 12, 1729; Mary, October "25, 1731 ;
Sarah, January 5, 1734; Samuel, April 16,
1737 ; Jonathan, September 29, 1740.
(V) Abraham, son of Edward (3) Jack
son, was born December 4, 1722. fie was a
blacksmith by trade. He and his family moved
to Brookline and were warned out there. He
married (first) November, 1744, Mary Hyde,
who died in 1768. He married (second)
1769, Widow Margaret Marean. He married
(third) Widow Hannah Woodward, of Brook-
line. Children by first wife: Abraham (men
tioned below) ; Esther, born December 3,
1748; Sarah, August 5, 1750; Thaddeus, 1752;
Jesse, April 13, 1754; Nathan, February 19,
1758; Asa, November 21, 1761 ; Ezra; Mary;
Molly. Quid by second wife: Royal, 1773.
(VI) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1)
Jackson, was born at Newton, March 1, 1746.
He was a ship builder. He settled in New-

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buryport about 1773. He married Mary
 . Children, born at Newburyport:
Samuel, baptized October 10, 1773 ; Nathaniel
(mentioned below) ; Anne, baptized July 4,
1777; Polly, baptized December 28, 1779,
fienry, baptized October 1, 1783; Charlotte,
baptized October 31, 1787.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of Abraham (2)
Jackson, was born at Newburyport, October
I3» x775- He married Joanna Todd, at Got-
tenberg, Sweden, of Scottish extraction. He
was a mariner. Children, born at Newbury
port : Mary Jane, born August 29, 1810;
Thomas ; Joanna Henrietta, baptized Novem
ber 27, 1825; living at Newburyport (1911) ;
Nathaniel James (mentioned below) ; Corne
lius. (VIII) General Nathaniel James Jackson,
son of Nathaniel Jackson, was born at New
buryport, July 18, 1818. He was educated in -
the public schools. He was active during the
civil war, supporting the government. In 1861
he was living at Lewiston, Maine, and was
colonel of the First Maine Regiment, which
enlisted for three months. After this period
of service he was commissioned colonel of the
Fifth Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry,
and continued in the service. He was wound
ed in the right arm by a shell at Gaines Mill,
May 31, 1861, and in the right knee by a
musket ball at the battle at Campton Pass.
He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-
general, September 24, 1862, and placed in
command of the Second Brigade, Second Di
vision, Twelfth Army Corps, October 10,
1862. He accidentally broke his leg while on
the way to headquarters with a despatch, and
during his convalescence was placed in com
mand of the department rendezvous at Hart's
Island, August 14, 1863. He took command
of the First Division, Twentieth Army Corps,
at Atlanta, Georgia, November 11, 1864, and
took part in Sherman's "March to the Sea,"
being at the siege of Bentonville, North Caro
lina, March 21, 1865, at the last battle of the
war. He was commissioned major-general,
March 23, 1865, and mustered out in June,
1865, after the war was ended. He died at
Jamestown, New York, April 21, 1872.
He married, about 1845, Julia Ann, daugh
ter of Timothy H. and Mary (Polly) (Bond)
Longley (see Longley Bond, VII). Her
father's brother was a soldier in the revolu
tion. Children : James Henry, born February
9, 1847; hotel proprietor at Jamestown and a

successful business man; Charles Edward,
February 8, 1849; George Augustus (men
tioned below).
(IX) George Augustus, son of General Na
thaniel James Jackson, was born September 8,
185 1. fie attended the public schools and the
Waverly Academy at Waverly, New York,
from which he was graduated in 1867. He be
came clerk of the Sherman House at James
town, New York, when a young man, in 1887,
and held this responsible position for ten years
under the proprietorship of Murphy & Wade.
Thence he went to.Ridgway, Pennsylvania, as
manager of the Hyde House. At the end of
ten years he retired from active business. In
politics he is a Republican, but he has never
held public office or sought public distinction.
He is a member of Jamestown Lodge, Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal
church of Jamestown. He is unmarried.
(The Bond Line).
In the time of Edward the Confessor several
Bond families held estates in England in the
counties of Cornwall, Essex, Kent, Hants,
Berks, Bedford, Suffolk, Gloucester, North
ampton and York. The common tradition is
that three brothers of the Bond family came
to New England, Thomas, of Virginia or
Maryland, John of Newbury, Massachusetts,
Ohio and Michigan, and William, of Water-
town, Massachusetts, the progenitor of most
of the New England families of the name of
Bond. (I) Jonas Bond, .of Bury St. Edmunds,
County Suffolk, England, married Rose  .
He probably moved to Bury St. Edmunds
after the birth of his second child from Haw-
ley or Woolpit, where he owned houses ac
cording to his will. His wife's name was per
haps Wood. He was buried August 5, 1601.
Children : Oliver, the "eldest son ;" John, "the
elder;" John "the younger," baptized Decem
ber 26, 1 59 1 ; Bartholomew; William, bap
tized December 28, 1595; Thomas (mentioned
below) ; Elizabeth, baptized March 12, 1599;
Margaret, baptized December 10, 1600.
(II) Thomas, son of Jonas Bond, was bap
tized September 8, 1597. His father left him
in his will the house at Woolpit. He was a
maltster at Bury St. Edmunds. His will was
dated November 5, 1658, and proved March
10, 1659, at the prerogative court of Canter
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Children and dates of baptism : Thomas, Sep
tember 22, 1622 ; John, February 5, 1624 ; Will
iam (mentioned below) ; Henry, April 5, 1628 ;
Elizabeth, March 12, 1630; Francis, May 31,
1632; Mary, January 31, 1636; Jonas, August
5, 1638.
(Ill) William, son of Thomas Bond, was
the immigrant ancestor. He was baptized at
Bury St. Edmunds, September 3, 1625, and
died December 14, 1695, intestate, his widow
surviving him about twenty-five years. It is
probable that he came to New England when
very young, in 1630, with Deacon Ephraim
Child, who is thought to have married his fa
ther's sister Elizabeth. The first record of
him is his marriage in 1649-50, but in a de
position that he made when aged fifty-five he
declared that he had lived in Watertown "fifty
years agoe" and knew the land well. On
March 15, 1654-55. Mr. Knowles deeded his
estate in Watertown for £200 to him, and the
descendants of William Bond held the land
for more than one hundred and seventy years.
He held many public positions and often was
employed to take inventories, write wills and
deeds, and settle estates. He served as select
man, town clerk, captain, justice of the peace,
and as a member of the council of safety in
1689; he often represented Watertown; he
was elected speaker of the general court in
1691-92-93-95, the first one under the new
royal charter uniting Plymouth and Massa
chusetts Bay. He was made freeman, Octo
ber 11, 1682, and was admitted to the church
in full communion, March 27, 1687. He was
on a committee to rebuild Lancaster which the
Indians had destroyed, October 7, 1679. He
was on a committee to order and regulate all
matters concerning the settlement of Worces
ter, June 10, 1686.
He married (first) February 7, 1649-50,
Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Biscoe, "the
rich tanner" of Watertown, and she died in
February, 1692-93, ("lay dead 15th"). He
married (second) in the spring of 1695, Mrs.
Elizabeth Nevinson, widow of John Nevinson,
of Watertown. Children by first wife: Will
iam, born December 1, 1650; John, December,
1652; Thomas, December 23, 1654; Elizabeth,
November 30, 1656; Nathaniel, January 19,
1658-59; Nathaniel, January 9, 1659-60;
Sarah, July 27, 1661 ; Jonas (mentioned be
low) ; Mary.
(IV) Colonel Jonas (2) Bond, son of Will
iam Bond, was born July 13, 1664. For more

than twenty-four years he was a justice of the
peace, and because of the large number of wed
dings he officiated at he was called sometimes
the "marrying Squire." He served many times
as representative to the general court. He
went with the military force under Sir Will
iam Phipps to Canada in 1690. He was on the
committee appointed by the governor as "com
missioners of sewers," June 19, 1721. He was
a lieutenant-colonel of the militia. On his
gravestone is a long inscription, part of which
says : "who was a kind husband, a tender
father, a steady friend, and a hearty lover of
good men." fie died, according to the grave
stone, April 21, 1727. He was married (first)
by his father, January 29, 1688-89, to Grace
Coolidge, who was admitted to the church in
full communion, April 12, 1690, and died
April 11, 1699, aged thirty-five years. He
married (second) Elizabeth, born April 28,
1658, died January 25, 1740-41, widow of
John Prentice, son of Captain Thomas Pren
tice, and daughter of Edward Jackson, of
Newton. Children by first wife: Sarah, born
May 30, 1690; Jonas, December 10, 1691 ;
Henry, about 1694; Josiah (mentioned be
low). (V) Josiah, son of Colonel Jonas (2) Bond,
was born January 20, 1695-96. He married,
January 31, 1719-20, Elizabeth, daughter of
Captain Joseph and Lydia (Jackson) Fuller,
of Newton. He lived in Newton and Weston
for some time and finally settled in Sutton,
Massachusetts. Children: Elizabeth, born in
Newton, March 6, 1720-21 ; Jonas, born in
Newton, March 6, died June 18, 1722-23;
Josiah in Newton, June 21, 1724; Jonas (men
tioned below) ; Lydia, in Weston, June 28,
1730; Anna, in Weston, November 9, 1732;
Esther in Weston, July 6, 1735, died young;
Henry, in Sutton, February 4, 1741.
(VI) Jonas (3) son of Josiah Bond, was
born in Newton, September 7, 1725. He mar
ried, October 30, 1755, Hannah Hicks, and
lived in Sutton. Children: Hannah, born
March 13, 1759; Esther, October 21, 1761 ;
Lydia, May 4, 1765 ; Jonas (mentioned below).
(VII) Jonas (4), son of Jonas (3) Bond,
was born March 29, 1767. He married, Au
gust 6, 1798, Polly Waite. Children : Nancy,
born March 20, 1799; Amasa, July 6,, 1800;
Mary (Polly), May 17, 1802, married Timothy
H. Longley and their daughter Julia Ann
married General Nathaniel J. Jackson (see
Jackson VIII).

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(The Longley Line).
Lieutenant Timothy H. Longley, son of
John and Elizabeth Longley, lived at Mill-
bury, Worcester county, Massachusetts, where
he died March 27, 1849, aged fifty-two years,
five months and eight days. He married, No
vember 12, 1820, Mary (Polly), daughter of
Jonas Bond (see Bond VII). Dr. Phinehas
Longley and Nypmphas Longley also lived in
Millbury. Children of Timothy H. and Mary
(Polly) Longley, born at Millbury: Jonas
Bond, born December 1, 1821 ; married Eliza
Simmons in 1845. 2. Mary Luthera, July 28,
1823 ; married, June 28, 1842, Ebenezer W.
Fornes. 3. Elvira Elizabeth, July 2, 1826;
married, April 28, 1844, Sabin A. Daniels. 4.
Sibyl Moriah, August 26, 1828; married, Sep
tember 21, 1847, James F. Colburn. 5. Julia
Ann, August 15, 183 1 ; married, at Sutton,
General Nathaniel J. Jackson (see Jackson
VIII). 6. William L. 7. Elijah Augusta, De
cember 23, 1833. 8. Frances Isabel, June 20,
1841.

Coenradt Ten Eyck, the found-
DE NIKE er of this family, emigrated to
New Netherland from Am
sterdam, Holland, about 1650. The name Ten
Eyck, which means "from the oak," is sup
posed by some to have been originally Van
Eyck. In the early American records the name
is variously spelled, Ten Eyck, Te Nyck, De
Nyck, and by one branch of the family Denike.
Coenradt Ten Eyck settled in New . Amster
dam, purchasing a plot of land situated on the
west side of what is now known as Broad
street. In 1674 he was estimated as worth
five thousand dollars, which in those days was
quite a fortune. After his death in 1687, his
sons, Dirck, Tobias and Coenradt, succeeded
him in his tannery business in New York,
while his son Jacob removed to Albany where
his descendants have been prominent for over
two centuries. Another son, Mathys, settled
in Hurley, near Kingston, Ulster county, New
York, and became the ancestor of the family in
that region, and his two remaining sons, Hen-
drick and Andries, are believed to be the an
cestors of the New Jersey branches of the
family. Coenradt Ten Eyck married (first) in
Holland, Maria Bode or Boele, and (second)
in New York, April 15, 1682, Annetje Daniels,
widow of Herman Smeeman. Children, all by
first marriage, and the first two born in Am
sterdam, Holland: 1. Jacob, died in Albany;

married Gertrude Coeymans. 2. Dirck, died
in 171 1 ; married, March 14, 1675, Aefje
Boelen. 3. Marytje, baptized August 20, 165 1 ;
married, December 17, 1670, Wessel Wessel-
gen Ten Broeck. 4. Tobias (referred to be
low). 5. Coenradt, baptized November 23,
1654; married, May 19, 1675, Belitje Hercks.
6. Hendrick, baptized April 30, 1656; married,
March 21, 1676, Petronella DeWitt. 7. Mathys,
baptized March 20, 1658, died between 1734
and 1742 ; married, October 14, 1679, Jannetje
Roosa. 8. Margreta, baptized October 26,
1659. 9. Andries, baptized January 15, 1662.
10. Metje, baptized April 11, 1664.
(II) Tobias, son of Coenradt and Maria
(Bode or Boele) Ten Eyck, was baptized in
New Amsterdam, January 26, 1653, and died
in New York, between November 29, 1699,
and December 20, 1700, the dates of the writ
ing and proving of his will. He signed his
own name Tobias Ten Eyck, but many of the
records of his children use the spelling De
Nyck, and Denike, and this form of the name
(De Nike) is not employed so far as is known
by any other branch of the family. Tobias
Ten Eyck lived in New York on the north
side of Pearl street, about thirty feet east of
Coenties Lane. He married (first) January
30, 1677, Aeltje Duycking, and (second)
April 12, 1684, Elizabeth Hegeman, who sur
vived him. Children; three by first wife: 1.
Coenradt, baptized January 20, 1678, died
young. 2. Maria, baptized April 30, 1680;
married (first) January 15, 1704, Jan Dene-
macker, and (second) May 12, 1705, Wessel
Wesselgen. 3. Hendrikje, baptized July 1,
1682. 4. Johannes, baptized May 10, 1685,
died young. 5. Coenradt, baptized March 4,
1687, died December 28, 1744; married Sarah
Van Vorst. 6. Adriaen, baptized January 30,
1690. 7. Catharina, baptized May 4, 1692.
8. Aeltje, baptized in Brooklyn, April 20, 1694.
9. Jacob, baptized July 1, 1696.
(Ill) Adriaem and Jacob, sons of Tobias
and Elizabeth (Hegeman) Ten Eyck, settled
in Flushing, Long Island, while Coenradt, the
eldest surviving son, succeeded to his fa
ther's business in New York. Coenradt's only
son that reached maturity, namely Tobias, died
November 14, 1747, unmarried. Consequently
the ancestry of John De Nike, of Flushing,
Long Island, and Peekskill, New York, must
be among the descendants of either Andriaen
or Jacob. The records at present available are
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son of Tobias is the ancestor, but there is no
doubt that John De Nike was the grandson of
one of them.
(V) John De Nike, grandson of Adriaen
or Jacob, and great-grandson of Tobias and
Elizabeth (Hegeman) Ten Eyck, was born in
Flushing, Long Island, September 26, 1756,
and died in Peekskill, Westchester county,
New York, December 15, 1829. He married,
September 17, 1783, Sarah Lowere (name now
generally spelled Lowry) born August 4, 1769,
and died July 31, 1858. Children: 1. Hannah,
born September 19, 1785 ; married John C.
Roe. 2. Mary, born August 26, 1788. 3.
Henry, born June 20, 1792, died February 9,
1827. 4. Thomas, born April 25, 1796, died
November 29, 1858. 5. Caroline, born June
25> J799- 6. Elizabeth, born September 19,
1800. 7. John (referred to below). 8. Isaac,
born November 16, 1808, died 1881. 9. Jacob
twin of Isaac, died September 22, 1887.
(VI) John (2), son of John (1) and Sarah
(Lowere\) De Nike, was born July 21, 1803,
died March 3, i860. He settled in the town
of Gerry, New York. He was a farmer, a
man of considerable means and of good stand
ing in his community. He married, June 9,
1824, Jane Tompkins, born February 25, 1803,
died January 19, 1871. Children: Tompkins
Lowere (referred to below) and two others
died in infancy.
(VII) Tompkins Lowere, only son of John
(2) and Jane (Tompkins) De Nike, was born
in the town of Gerry, Chautauqua county, New
York, February 1, 1840, died December 10,
1907. He was educated in the public schools
of Gerry and at Fredonia, New York. He
decided upon the profession of medicine and
began a course at Michigan University at Ann
Arbor, after which he entered the medical de
partment of Buffalo University, receiving his
degree of M. D., class of 1865. He at once
began practice, locating at Frewsburg, Chau
tauqua county, New York. After practicing
for a time he removed to Cattaraugus, Cat
taraugus county, in 1866, where he established
a drug, book and stationery store, which he
conducted for thirteen years. He sold his busi
ness in 1879 and spent the ensuing three years
in the west, finally locating in Springfield, Mis
souri. In 1882 he located in Salamanca, New
York, purchasing the drug business of A. G.
Vreeland & Company, Main street, next door
to the Salamanca Trust Company, and now
occupied by the Palace Restaurant. In 1884

Dr. De Nike erected a building on the south
side of the river at the corner of Broad and
Main streets, and that same year sold his store
on the north side of the river and moved his
business to the south side, occupying his own
building. In the same year he bought and
improved his beautiful home on the south side.
In 1902 he built a brick block on Main street
and later three houses. He was among the
first to improve and build on the south side of
the river, and did much to make that section
popular. He was a man of enterprise and
worth ; stood high in his community, and al
ways could be depended upon when any issue
of morals or good government was at stake.
While living in Cattaraugus he was elected
supervisor from the town of New Albion,
Cattaraugus county, being one of the few
Democrats ever elected to the board of super
visors from that Republican stronghold. He
served on the Salamanca board of education,
and aided in all public improvements. He was
a Democrat in politics.
He married, October 2, 1866, Emily Griffith,
born November 16, 1845, died February 24,
1907, daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Pardee)
Griffith of Ellington, Chautauqua county, New
York. Children: 1. Carrie A., born February
27, 1872. 2. John G., born March 13, 1878, died
July 29, 1878. 3. Jane E., borri May 28, 1881,
died June 10, 1881. 4. Samuel G., born April
27, 1885.

Prior to the American
HARDENBURG revolution a Harden-
burg emigrated from
Holland and settled in Ulster county, New
York. He had a son James.
(II) James Hardenburg, son of the emi
grant, was born September 23, 1774, died
December 16, 1839, in Chautauqua county,
New York, fiis early life was spent in Ulster
county, New York, later he purchased a farm
in Onetda county, to which he removed, and
for a time cultivated. Not being satisfied with
his environment he sold it and purchased a
farm in Tompkins county. This he cultivated
four years, then sold it and removed to Chau
tauqua county, settling in the town of Chau
tauqua. Here he bought an excellent farm
which in 1835 he sold to his son Volkert. This
farm was located about four miles from May-
ville and was later owned by Nelson Crandall.
James Hardenburg married Jane Vedder,
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ried Jacob Mowers; Betsey, married Israel
Denman ; Yolkert (of whom further ) ; John ;
Judith, married Adam Hoffman; Cornelius;
James. (Ill) Volkert, eldest son and third child of
James and Jane (Vedder) Hardenburg, was
born in Oneida county, New York, January 25,
1799. He followed the fortunes of his father
in his several removals, and until 1833 was a
resident of central and eastern New York. In
the latter year he came to Chautauqua county,
settling first on a farm lying three miles east
of Mayville, which he purchased. He then es
tablished and operated the first dairy in Chau
tauqua county, making butter which he con
veyed by wagon to Buffalo and there marketed.
He later sold his farm and bought a farm of
about three hundred acres in the town of
Stockton. He later moved to the town of
Portland, where he died March 15, 1892, aged
ninety-three years, one month and twenty days,
He was a man of great energy and industry,
possessed marked business ability and retained
his faculties long past the allotted years of
man. He was a member of the Presbyterian
church, and a Republican in politics.
He married (first) October 4, 1817,
Susannah Miller, born May 3, 1796, died Sep
tember 1, 1868, daughter of John Miller, who
was born, lived and died in Oneida county,
New York. Children: 1. Jane Ann, born in
Lee, Oneida county, August 9, 1821, died Oc
tober 27, 1900; married George W. Munger,
of Ithaca, New York. Their daughter, Jane
Catherine, married Newell Philo Hopson. 2.
John M., born in Oneida county, October 4,
1823 ; married Julia A. Denton, September 12,
1848, daughter of Fowler and Sophia (Cald
well) Denton, of Stockton, New York. 3.
Jacob (of whom further). 4. Catherine, born
June 13, 1828, deceased; married Thomas
Ralph, of Stockton. 5. Cornelia, born June 5,
1830, deceased; married Stephen Reinhart, of
Stockton. 6. Henry, born April 10, 1835 ; mar
ried Diana Paine. He married (second) Mrs.
Mary Wilbur; no issue.
(IV) Jacob, son of Volkert and Susannah
(Miller) Hardenburg, was born in Charles
town, Montgomery county, New York, Sep
tember 8, 1825. He was seven years of age
when his parents moved from Oneida to Chau
tauqua county. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and early became accustomed to
holding the plow and working in the fields.
When he came of age he continued the life

of a farmer, continuing until 1909, when he
retired to a comfortable home in the village
of Westfield. His home farm of one hundred
and thirty-two acres lies one mile east of the
village and another of two hundred and sixty-
five acres, two miles south. This latter farm
was his home for many years, until his retire
ment. He has devoted most of his land to
grape culture, his vineyards being noted- for
their well-kept condition and abundant yield.
He also dealt extensively in cattle, both for
breeding and marketing purposes. His life
has been an active and successful one, his va
rious business ventures having been marked
with rare judgment and consummate skill. Al
though well past the allotted period of life,
he is active, cheerful and keenly interested in
current events. He is a member of the An
cient Order of United Workmen, the Knights
of Honor, and in politics is a Republican.
He married, December 30, 185 1, Antoinette
R. Hassett, born in Attica, New York, No
vember 24, 183 1, daughter of John Hassett,
born January 25, 1786; married (first) Sep
tember, 1808; married (second) January 13,
1824, Eliza Kidney, who bore him five chil
dren : Susan, William, John E., Antoinette R.
and Quincy; married (third) 1843, Fanny
Belden. John Hassett was a son of James
Hassett, born April, 1758, died 1817; married,
1785, Jane Harper, born April, 1766, died
April 2 1828. They had eight children : John,
Jane, James, Lucinda, Mary, Diana, William
and Laban. Children of Jacob and Antoinette
R. (Hassett) Hardenburg, all born in Chau
tauqua county: 1. Earl, born June 18, 1854,
died October 8, 1907; unmarried. 2. Henry,
born April 14, 1858; married Agnes Barton;
children: Daisy, Norma, Vera, Enid, Wildy,
Carl and Harold. 3. Susan, born February 5,
1862, died unmarried in 1885. 4. Elva born
June 13, 1866, died 1908; married Delbert
Arnold; children: Antoinette and Howard.
5. Florence, born September 16, 1874; un
married.

The Michael (Michel) family
MICHAEL came to America from Han
over, Germany, and settled in
Columbia county, New York. (II) Simon
Michael, son of the emigrant, was born 1751,
died April 24, 1833. He lived at Livingston
Manor, Columbia county, and afterward re
moved to West Davenport, Otsego county,
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August 19, 1834. Children: Anna, married
Jacob Hyser; Betsey, married Peter Frieze;
John, of further mention; Simeon (2), mar
ried Phoebe Brewer ; Margaret, married Peter
Shufeldt; Catherine, married William Deder-
ick; William, married Hannah Wolfe.
(Ill) John, son of Simeon and Anna
(Fritts) Michael, married Hannah Snyder.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and. Han
nah (Snyder) Michael, died at Oneonta, Ot
sego county, New York, 1863. He married
Almira Fairchild, of an old Otsego county-
family. Children: Thaddeus; Sarah, mar
ried a Mr. Slade, of Oneonta; Chauncey, a
lawyer ; Lucy, married Hamilton Slade ; Aaron
Ford, see forward.
(V) Aaron Ford, youngest child of John
(2) and Almira (Fairchild) Michael, was born
at Oneonta, New York, November 2, 1848,
died at Lockport, New York, August 25, 1910.
He was educated in the public schools of
Oneonta and at Fairfield Academy, in Herki
mer county. In 1866 he located in Lockport,
where he became a clerk in the City Bank, re
maining there until the retirement of W. T.
Rogers,, the cashier. During these years he
acquired a large controlling interest in the
Thornton-Chester Flouring Mills, which later
he -disposed of at great advantage to Buffalo
capital. He then purchased the old Hitchings
farm, near Lockport, and here was the first
to introduce registered Holstein cattle for
breeding and dairy purposes. He conducted
his farm successfully as a stock and dairy
proposition until, finding a willing purchaser,
he sold out both farm and business. For the
next fourteen years he was connected with the
Standard Oil Company of Buffalo, after which
he engaged in mining enterprises of various
kinds, closing his active business life in Lock-
port associated with the Corson Manufactur
ing Company, of that city. While interested
in public matters, he would not accept office.
He was related to Governor Clinton, of New
York, and to Governor Washington Hunt. He
was held in high esteem among his business
associates as one whose advice and counsel
was worthy of being followed. For twenty-
five years he was a member of the Episcopal
church, then became a believer in Christian
Science, and was most active in establishing
the Church of Christ (Scientist), in Lockport.
He was a Democrat in politics, and although
often offered desirable nomination never would
consent to allowing his name used for any

office. He married, June 27, 1872, at Lock-
port, Annie Rogers, daughter of William
Thayer and Julia Jackson (Warner) Rogers,
of Lockport (see Rogers, forward). Chil-
dren: 1. Warren Rogers, born September 4,
1814, died in infancy. 2. William Rogers, born
March 3, 1878 ; graduated from Lockport high
school, took up the study of law, but relin
quished it to accept an appointment from Pres
ident Roosevelt as paymaster's clerk with the
South Atlantic squadron of the United States
navy. 3. Julia Warner, born February 5,
1882. 4. Julius Alden, born March 28, 1889 ;
engaged in business in Buffalo, New York.
(The Rogers Line).
(I) John Rogers, of Rhode Island, was a
mechanic of great skill and ingenuity. Before
the outbreak of the revolution he removed to
Nova Scotia, where he died. His children re
turned to Rhode Island. He married, and had
two sons, Samuel and John. Samuel was a
sea captain, and served in the revolutionary
war. (II) Lieutenant Colonel John (2), son of
John ( 1 ) Rogers, lived in Cumberland, Rhode
Island, where he married, afterward removing
to Holden, Worcester county, Massachusetts.
He was a land surveyor, and left at his death
many valuable papers and manuscripts. He
enlisted as a private in the revolutionary war,
and was promoted orderly, then lieutenant, of
Captain Stephen Olney's company, of North
Providence, Rhode Island ; was later promoted
to be lieutenant-colonel in a Rhode Island regi
ment and a member of Washington's body
guard. An epaulet given him by General
Washington is yet preserved by his Lockport
descendants. He was at the crossing of the
Delaware, and in the following battle, seeing
hard service. In one engagement his horse
was killed under him. He passed safely
through 'the war and returned to Massachu
setts. He was in receipt of a revolutionary
pension of five hundred dollars annually as
long as he lived. He was one of the original
members of the Society of the Cincinnati, an
organization composed of officers of the revo
lutionary war exclusively. He joined that so
ciety from the state of Rhode Island. He died
at Unadilla, New York, where he settled with
his family, driving from Holden with his wife
and some of the children. Both he and his
wife are buried at Unadilla. He married Sarah
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sons were among the early settlers of Lock-
port, New York, where they became wealthy,
influential men of high repute and standing.
Children: i. Abigail, born April 25, 1795;
married Samuel Chappin. 2. Nathan Ballou,
born February 3, 1797; married Lydia Larned.
3. John A., born February 16, 1799, died July
18, 1803. 4. George W., born March 27, 1801 ;
married (first) Amy Comstock; (second)
Maria Faxon. 5. Eliza B., born March 22,
1803 ; married Francis Hall. 6. Eunice C,
twin of Eliza; married Thomas J. Davies, of
Unadilla. 7. James B., born 1705. 8. Maria
Ballou. 9. John Wilkinson, married Eliza
Faxon. 10. William Thayer.
(Ill) William Thayer, youngest child of
Lieutenant Colonel John and Sarah (Ballou)
Rogers, was born in Holden, Massachusetts,
March 11, 1817, died in Lockport, New York.
He was educated in the Holden schools and at
Franklin Academy. Two of his brothers,
Nathan and George, having settled at Lock-
port, New York, he followed them about 1837.
He went as far as Albany by rail, by river
and stage to Rochester, thence by stage over
the Ridge road, from there to Lockport, that
conveyance starting from the spot where now
the Powers Hotel stands. He became a clerk
for Rogers & Brown, his brother George being
senior partner of that firm (dry goods) ; later
he joined his parents at Unadilla, New York,
where he remained two years clerking for his
brother, John W., who was a merchant of that
village. He then returned to Lockport, where
he became bookkeeper and teller of the Niag
ara and Suspension Bridge Bank, then under
the management of his brother, George W.
Rogers, and here he found his true vocation.
More than any other one man he may be
called the father of the banking business in
Lockport. His next position was as teller of
the Canal Bank, resigning that position and
forming a connection with the Lockport City
Banking Office as cashier. While in this posi
tion his coolness, courage and resourcefulness
saved his bank from ruin. This was about
1846, following a run upon the Canal Bank
that resulted in a run upon his own bank, the
Lockport City Banking Office. The president
and vice-president were soon prostrated by
the strain, but Mr. Rogers was equal to the
situation. Every night after banking hours
he drove to Buffalo and obtained kegs of silver
coin sufficient for the next day's business. As
the clamoring crowds demanded the settle

ment of their accounts, he met them with a
smile, leisurely balanced their books, and paid
them off in silver, of which there was a plen
tiful supply in full sight. Every man who
applied got his money in silver, and in a week
the run was over. In 1852-53 he was vice-
president of the Exchange Bank of Lockport,
having served a previous term in that bank as
bookkeeper. For a time he was cashier of the
Niagara and Suspension Bridge Bank, of Ton
awanda, New York, having previously started,
in connection with Williard J. Daniels, the
Niagara County National Bank. The Tona
wanda bank was later removed to Buffalo,
and Mr. Rogers was elected president, and
until 185 1 he resided in Buffalo. While living
there he was a member of the Board of Trade,
and both he and his brother George were
members of the produce commission firm of
Bates, Griffin, Livermore & Company, with
offices in New York City, Troy, and other
places. After returning from Buffalo he or
ganized the Western Bank, in connection with
Charles A. Morse, with Mr. Rogers as presi
dent. Mr. Rogers retained an official connec
tion with his banking institution until 1875,
when he withdrew from active business life,
retiring to his sightly home on East avenue,
which he built in 1853. An additional business
enterprise with which he was connected was
his partnership with Governor Washington
Hunt in the manufacture of knit goods, they
being among the first to establish knitting
mills. Among their first customers was Alex
ander T. Stewart, of New York, the then mer
chant prince.
The Rogers family had many important
branches, one of which was the Garfields, from
whom President James A. Garfield descended,
Mr. Rogers (William Thayer) being a second
cousin of the martyred president. Mr. Rogers
was a man of great energy and public spirit,
courteous and kind to all, was most charitable,
and dispensed from his home a royal hospi
tality. For thirty years he was a member
and vestryman of Grace Episcopal church. He
married, August 21, 1848, Julia Jackson War
ner, of Vermont, daughter of the noted
Warner family, of that state, a great-grand
daughter of Major Little, who was one of the
pallbearers at the funeral of President George
Washington. (IV) Annie, daughter of William Thayer
and Julia Jackson (Warner) Rogers, was born
in Lockport, New York, October 26, 1853.

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She married, June 27, 1872, Aaron Ford
Michael.

The extract given below is
SHEPARD from the memoirs of Enoch
Shepard, who was born Octo
ber 23, 1742, son of Deacon John Shepard.
The facts were given him by his parents, and
were compiled in 1810, when he was sixty-
eight years old. Except as to the date 1660,
which was stated as "about" 1660, the facts
appear to be correct, though no record of the
death of William Shepard has been found.
This memoir has been for a long time in the
hands of the descendants of Enoch Shepard,
and is now in the possession of Juliana J.
Shepard, of the family described in this sketch.
(I) William Shepard, the immigrant an
cestor, was born in England. "My great
grandfather," says Enoch, "with two of his
brothers, came from Old England to Boston
in Massachusetts, about the year 1660 (prob
ably about 1675). The brothers settled on the
Connecticut river, and had families. He was
shortly after overset in a boat in Boston Har
bor, and while swimming by the side of a cer
tain William Lee, had his thigh bitten in two
by a shark, and was pulled under the water.
fie arose and said he was a dead man, for a
shark had bitten off his thigh. Lee heard
the shark give one more snap and saw him
no more. My great-grandfather at the time
of his decease had a wife and two infant sons
in Boston, one of which was sent to Bruns
wick, in the state of New Jersey, where he
afterward reared a family. The other son,
John Shepard, my grandfather, was sent to
Westfield, in Massachusetts, about One hun
dred miles westerly of Boston, where he ar
rived at manhood. He married a Miss Wood
ruff, etc." The memoirs correspond with the
public records from this point (p. 364, New
England Hist. Register, 1881 ; p. 333, Register
for 1878). It may be added that Walter Lee
was an early settler of Westfield, and may be
related to the companion of William Shepard,
when he was killed.
(II) Deacon John Shepard, the immigrant
ancestor, was born at Wetheringset, county
Suffolk, England, in 1671, a descendant of
John Shepard, of Mendlesham, county Suf
folk, who was living in 1580. Shepard mar
ried Elizabeth Woodruff, of Westfield, Massa
chusetts, 1703, and settled in that town. He
was selectman, 1723- 1739, and died there

August 10, 1756. Children: Jonathan, born
about 1704, married, 1730, Rachel Lankton,
of Westfield ; John, mentioned below ; Ezekiel,
born November 23, 1709 ; Elizabeth, February
14, 1713; Sarah, April, 1715; David, 1719;
Mary, 1725.
(Ill) Deacon John (2) Shepard, son of
John ( 1 ) Shepard, was born in Westfield, No
vember 18, 1707, and died there August 8,
1783, aged seventy-six years. He was a
farmer, and deacon of the church there. He
married, May 20, 1731, at Westfield, Elizabeth
Noble, born at Westfield, January 3, 1706, died
there November 12, 1793, aged eighty-seven,
daughter of Deacon Thomas Noble. (See
Noble). At the time of her death she had
180 descendants, 153 of whom survived her.
Children, born in Westfield: 1. Elizabeth,
April 24, 1732; married May 2, 1751, Colonel
Azariah Root of Sheffield, who died in the
service July 3, 1777. 2. John, born November
8, 1733 ; married, March 6, 1752, Elizabeth
Sacket, and removed to Hebron, New York.
3. Experience, January 20,. 1736; married,
August 8,- 1754, Abner Rice, who removed to
the Black River country. 4. William, No
vember 20, 1737, was a general in the revolu
tion, on Washington's staff, and put down
Shay's rebellion ; married Sarah Dewey. 5.
Silas, October 29, 1739, died young. 6. Enoch,
July 31, 1741, died in infancy, 7. Enoch, Oc
tober 23, 1742, died in Marietta, Ohio, Sep
tember, 1821. 8. David, October 23, 1744, a
physician in Chester, Massachusetts, and Am
sterdam, New York, where he died in 1819.
9. Gideon, mentioned below.
(IV) Deacon Gideon Shepard, son of
Deacon John (2) Shepard, was born at West-
field, Massachusetts, January 6, 1747; married
November 13, 1766, Silence Noble, daughter
of Samuel and Catharine (Fowler) Noble.
(See Noble). He died at Westfield, Decem
ber 28, 1790, aged forty-three years. In that
year, according to the federal census, he had
in his family at Westfield, three males over
sixteen, one under that age, and five females.
He was an officer in the American army in
the Revolution (p. 113, vol. XIV, Mass. Sol
diers and Sailors in the Revolution), a sergeant
in Captain David Moseley's company, Colonel
John Moseley's regiment, in 1777; second lieu
tenant in Third Company, Colonel John Mose
ley's regiment, Third Hampshire County ; also
second lieutenant in Captain John Kellbgg's
company, Third Hampshire County Regiment.

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He was deacon of the Baptist church at West-
field. His early death was caused by consump
tion. Children: i. Silence, born June 2, 1767;
married, July, 1805, Moses Phelps, of West-
field, and died March 1, 1827. 2. Gideon, born
May 15, 1769, mentioned below. 3. Child,
born March 27, 1771, died March 29, 1771.
4. Winthrop, June 20, 1772; captain in war of
1812; married, August 16, 1793, Achsah
Loomis, and removed to Turin, New York.
5. Peletiah, born December 15, 1774, died Oc
tober 10, 1777. 6. Eli, born April 7, 1777,
died August 31, 1777. 7. Sophia, born Janu
ary 26, 1779; married, January 23, 1799,
Nehemiah Carter, of Westfield. 8. Roxena,
born February 4, 1781 ; married, January 24,
1799, Horace Holcomb, and died December 30,
1839. (V) Gideon (2), son of Gideon (1) Shep
ard, was born at Westfield, May 15, 1769, and
died at Turin, New York, December 15, 1852,
aged eighty-one years. He was major in war
of 1812. fie married, October 28, 1791, Eun
ice Lampson.
(VI) Rev. Gideon (3) Shepard, son of
Gideon (2) Shepard, was born between 1795
and 1800, probably at Turin, New York, fie
became a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal
church, and when he was a young man located
in Canada, where he preached for many years.
His last years were spent at his home in For-
estville, New York, and he died there in No
vember, 1876. He married Elmina Allen, of
Turin, New York, 1826.
(VII) Hiram Pliny, son of Rev. Gideon
(3) Shepard, was born at Turin, New York,
December 28, 1828, and died at Forestville,
New York, April 1, 1905. He graduated at
Wesleyan College in the class of 1858, and
became professor of ancient languages at
Belleville Seminary, and Methodist Female
College, Belleville, Canada, in 1859. In 1865-
66 he was a member of the Bay of Quinte
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1867 he went abroad and spent the year in
travel. In 1868 he became professor of Greek
and mathematics in Baldwin City, Kansas; in
1870 he was stationed at Leavenworth, Kan
sas. On account of ill health he gave up his
profession and settled at Forestville, Qiau-
tauqua county, New York, where he became
a prosperous merchant. He often filled the
pulpit in various churches in the vicinity as
a substitute preacher, and his interest in the
church was maintained to the end of life. In

politics he was a Prohibitionist. He married
(first) December 30, 1858, Juliana, born 1828,
died December 20, 1863, daughter of Rev.
Julius Minerva (Kellogg) Field. Her father
was a member of the New York East Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and was a cousin of Cyrus Field. He
married (second) December 24, 1867, S. Mar
garet, daughter of Phineas M. French, of
Plainfield, New Jersey, granddaughter of
David and Margaret (Noe) French. Her
great-grandfather, David French, and her
grandmother's father in the Noe line were
soldiers in the revolution. Children of first
wife: 1. Pliny Taft, born February 29,
i860, died January 8, 1863. 2. Julia Field,
born August 28, 1861, died November 27,
1861. 3. Juliana Judd, born October 20,
1863 ; a teacher of manual training and
drawing at State Normal School, Fre
donia, New York. Children by second wife:
4. Gertrude, born July 23, 1870; married
Elton D. Warner, a prominent lawyer of Dun
kirk, New York ; children : Alan and Marion.
5. Allene, born December 2, 1873, died August
13, 1876. 6. Marguerite, born October 21,
1879 ; secretary of Young Women's Christian
Association at Westfield, New York. 7. Es-
telle, born December 5, 1881 ; teacher of
science in Qarion Normal School, Qarion,
Pennsylvania. (The Noble Line).
The surname Noble is of great antiquity in
England. It appears as early as 1199 in the
reign of Richard I, and it has been common
among English speaking people ever since.
The name is found in Scotland, and several
distinguished merchants of the name lived in
Edinburgh. Branches of the family in Eng- ^
land, Ireland and Scotland bear coats-of-arms.
The principal seats of the family were at Corn
wall, Belson and Bishop's Tentor, Devonshire,
and Marming, near Maidstone, county Kent.
(I) Thomas Noble, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England, as early as 1632, and
died in Westfield, Massachusetts, January 20,
x704, aged at least seventy-two years. He
was an early settler of Springfield, coming
from Boston, where he was an inhabitant Jan
uary 5, 1653. He had an account at the store
of John Pynchon in Springfield, and this ac
count book proves that he visited England
soon after removing from Boston. In 1664
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saw mill on the brook below Ensign Cooper's
farm, over the Agawam river. He was an ap
praiser of the town; had lands granted him
in Westfield, July, 1666, on condition that he
settled there, and this grant was renewed Jan
uary 9, 1668. He was located in Westfield as
early as January 21, 1669, and served on a
committee to decide the boundary lines. His
homestead was about two miles and a half
from the present center of the town. He
served as constable, and took the oath of al
legiance January 23, 1678. He joined the
Westfield church, February 20, 1681, and was
admitted a freeman October 12, 1681. He was
fined five shillings on one occasion for travel
ing on a fast day. His home was exposed to
Indian attacks during King Philip's war. He
was elected county surveyor March 2, 1696.
He was a tailor by trade. His will was dated
May 11, 1697, and proved September 5, 1704.
He married, November 1, 1680, Hannah War-
riner, born at Springfield, August 17, 1643,
only daughter of William and Joanna (Scant)
Warriner; she joined the Westfield church
November 11, 1680. She married (second)
January 24, 1705, Deacon Medad Pomeroy, of
Northampton. Children: John, born March
6, 1662 ; Hannah, February 24, 1664 ; Thomas,
mentioned below ; Matthew ; Mark ; Elizabeth,
born February 9, 1673 ; Luke, mentioned be
low.; James, October 1, 1677; Mary, June 29,
1680 ; Rebecca, January 4, 1683.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Noble, was born in Springfield, January 14,
1666, and died in Westfield, July 29, 1750. He
was ordained deacon of the Westfield church,
May 25, 1712. He was selectman in 1716,
1720 and 1722, moderator of most of the town
meetings from 1717 to 1726, and served on
many important town committees. He was a
farmer. His place was about two miles and
a half from the present center of the town,
and was occupied afterward by his son
, Thomas and grandson Stephen, recently by
Rev. Ambrose Day. Thomas Noble married,
December 19, 1695, Elizabeth Dewey, born in
Westfield, January 10, 1677, daughter of
Thomas and Constant (Hawes) Dewey. She
died at Westfield, October 2, 1757, aged eighty.
Children, born at Westfield: Thomas, Sep
tember 10, 1696 ; Job, January 28, 1699 5 Jona
than, May 1, 1700; Seth, October 30, 1702;
Israel, September 20, 1703 ; Elizabeth, January
3, 1706; married John Shepard (see Shepard) ;
Lois, July 4, 1708; Ebenezer, October 11,

171 1 ; Thankful, May 31, 1714; Anna, October
30, 1716; Jonathan, May 23, 1721.
(II) Luke, brother of Thomas (2) Noble,
was born in Westfield, July 15, 1675, and died
there March 21, 1744. fie was a farmer in
his native town. His will was proved April
16, 1744. He was a sergeant in the military
company. He married (first) February 1,
1700, Hannah Stebbins, born December 22,
1680, daughter of Thomas and Abigail
(Munn) Stebbins. She died June 26, 1705,
aged twenty-four, and he married (second)
May 5, 1708, Ruth Wright, born April 26,
1687, daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Sheldon)
Wright, of Northampton. He married (third)
Mrs. Sarah Dewey, born about 1682, died
August 3, 1756. Children by first wife, born
at Westfield: Luke, October 23, 1700; Sam
uel, January 31, 1703. Children by second
wife: Ruth, January 6, 1709; Moses, April
1, 1710; Aaron, November 10, 171 1 : Asa, Jan
uary 16, 1715; Naomi, March 8, 1717; Sam
uel, mentioned below ; Jacob, March 5, 1725 ;
Ruth, February, 1726; Ephraim, June 25,
1729. (Ill) Samuel, son of Luke Noble, was born
at Westfield, August 5, 1722, and died Novem
ber 4, 1773. He was admitted to the West-
field church November 5, 1749, and was select
man in 1760-61. He married, November 24,
1743, Catharine Fowler, probably daughter of
Jonathan and Catharine (Marshall) Fowler,
and born July 1, 1723. She died October 19,
1806, aged eighty-four years. Children, born
at Westfield: Catharine, May 1, 1744; Jo
hanna, November 8, 1745 ; Silence, born July
28, 1747, married Gideon Shepard (see Shep
ard) ; Lydia, May n, 1750; Zerviah, Novem
ber 25, 1751 ; Samuel, August 27, 1753 ; Grace,
August 9, 1755; Solbmon, January 18, 1758;
Solomon, May 17, 1760; Jared, November 17,
1762, killed at battle of Stone Arabia, New
York, 1780, while in the American army;
Lydia, August 11, 1768.

The G o k e y s of Qiautauqua
GOKEY county, New York, are descend
ants of French ancestors. The
emigrant from France, Joseph Gokey, settled
first in Canada, where he was active in com
munity affairs.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Gokey,
was born near Montreal, Canada. Later he
came to the United States, locating in St.
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Rosa Barney, who was brought to Canada
from France when eleven months old, of
French parentage. Among their children was
Joseph (see forward).
(Ill) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and
Rosa (Barney) Gokey, was born in Montreal,
Canada, 1797, died in Cornwall, New York,
1843. He was a shoemaker and ship carpen
ter, working principally at the latter occupa
tion. He settled, after the birth of his .chil
dren, in Oswego, New York, removing there
from St. Lawrence county. He married, in
Cornwall, New York, 1819, Rosetta Derosia,
born in Pomtatown, nine miles below Mon
treal, Canada, 1799, daughter of Louis and
Rosetta Derosia, of French descent. Qiildren :
1. Louis, born 1820, deceased; married Free-
love Wallem. 2. Eliza, born 1822, deceased;
married Modesty Bushey. 3. Charles, born
1823, died 1825. 4. Joseph, born 1825, died
1880; married Anna J. McCarroll, born 1828,
died 1874. 5. Margaret, born 1827, died 1895 '>
married James Edwards, born 1817, died 1893.
6. Gershom, born 1829, died 1897 ; married
Nancy Quain. 7. Adeline, born 1831 ; married
Thomas Bartrim, born 183 1, died 1882. 8.
Noah W. (see forward). 9. William, born
1835, died 1895 ; married Anna Kelly, born
1837. 16. Frank, born 1837; married Adelia
Kelly, born 1835, died 1899.
(IV) Noah W, son of Joseph (3) and
Rosetta (Derosia) Gokey, was born in the
town of Massena, St. Lawrence county, New
York, March 10, 1833, died at Jamestown,
New York, June 16, 1897. When he was
five years of age his parents removed to Os
wego, New York, where he was educated in
the public schools. On. attaining the age of
sixteen years he became an apprentice in the
shoe shops of Horace Stone & Company, of Os
wego, where he remained one year. He then
worked another year in the shops of Paine &
Sullivan, of the same city. He then removed
to Rathboneville, Steuben county, New York,
where for the following fourteen years he con
ducted a custom shoe shop on his own account.
In 1865 he removed to Addison, Steuben
county, where he purchased the retail boot and
shoe establishment of Thomas Paxton, con
ducting business under his own name until
1867. He then formed a partnership with
James Curtis, and under the firm name, Curtis
& Gokey, successfully carried on a general
harness, boot and shoe store. After two and
one-half years he sold his interest to Mr. Cur

tis and for a year remained in the employ of
the latter as foreman. In 1872 he associated
with George W. Farnham and for five years
they engaged in the wholesale manufacture
of boots and shoes at Addison. In July, 1877,
Mr. Gokey purchased his partner's interest and
removed his entire establishment (including
employees) to Jamestown, New York. He
then admitted his son, William N. Gokey, and
under the firm name, N. W. Gokey & Son,
carried on an extensive and successful shoe
manufacturing business until his death. The
firm erected a large plant and extended their
business until it was the largest shoe manu
facturing plant in Western New York. They
not only supplied a large local trade but also
transacted a large business in Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan. He erected the six-story brick
building at Third and Cherry streets, known
as the Gokey block, used as a store and office
building. He built a large and beautiful man
sion on Lake View avenue, which he occupied
until his death. Mr. Gokey was deeply in
terested in the welfare of the Methodist Epis
copal church, of Jamestown, of which he was
an attendant and liberal supporter. He was
a Whig in politics and later affiliated with the
Republican party. He was appointed postmas
ter of Rathboneville under President Lincoln
and served four years. In Jamestown he
served on the common council, and always
evinced an intense interest in the welfare of
the city.
Mr. Gokey's successful career is rendered
the more striking and wonderful when it is
known that he was a lifelong cripple, having
been deprived of the use of his limbs when
but three years of age, the result, it is sup
posed, of the injudicious use of calomel. He
was compelled to use crutches all his life. He
often recalled a remark of his mother, who,
pointing at her crippled boy, said: "There
is Noah, who will always be dependent on
me." He was truly a "self-made man," and .
accomplished results little short of marvelous.
He possessed tireless energy and undaunted
courage. The latter quality was strikingly il
lustrated at Rathboneville when everything he
possessed was swept away by fire ; home, busi
ness and all vanished in an hour. He at once
began to rebuild, and with a credit that had
always been maintained inviolate, he retrieved
his fortune and went forward to greater
achievement. He was a man of great business
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He was not only strictly temperate in all his
habits, but never tasted strong drink nor to
bacco, an example followed to the letter by
his sons, William N. and George F.
Mr. Gokey died suddenly at his home on
Lake View avenue, on Thursday, June 16,
1897, having taken a drive of thirty-five miles
in the country the Sunday previous. His death
was deeply lamented, for he possessed a wide
acquaintance and won many friends. The im
mense business he founded and developed was
continued by his sons until the destruction of
the plant by fire; since that time by William
N. Gokey alone.
Mr. Gokey married, June 9, 1853, Anna L.,
daughter of Nehemiah and Almira Monroe, of
Rathboneville, New York. Nehemiah Monroe
was born July 4, 1809; married Almira Tubbs,
born September 2, 1814, daughter of Benjamin
and Lurana Tubbs, the former named born
May 14, 1772, and the latter born December
10, 1776. Children of Nehemiah and Almira
Monroe: William M., born April 6, 1830;
John S., February 23, 1832 ; Anna L., March
7, 1834, above mentioned as the wife of Noah
W. Gokey; Huldah C, February 28, 1836;
Lucina S., March 23, 1838; Elijah P., Feb
ruary 15, 1840; Harriet L., July 27, 1842;
Diana Adeline, February 1, 1844; Chauncey
L., November 17, 1845 ; Benjamin E., No
vember 22, 1847 ; Levi Leroy, April 20, 1849 ;
J. Henry, July 1, 1850; Walter M., October
10, 1852; Margaret L., March 28, 1855. Mrs.
Anna L. (Monroe) Gokey was an active
member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church; vice-president of the Ladies' Aid So
ciety ; a devoted member of Harmony Circle
of the "King's Daughters," and one of the
foremost members of the Home and Foreign
Missionary societies. She was a woman of
strong personality, leading an active, useful
life, devoted to her church and family, but
generous and helpful to all. Her mental
equipment was superior, and her character
deepened and broadened by her work for hu
manity. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Gokey:
1. Charles R., died at the age of thirteen years.
2. William N. (see forward). 3. Clara R.,
married Charles Stanley Kochersperger, whom
she survives, a resident of Jamestown (see
Kochersperger). 4. George F. (see forward).
(V) William N., son of Noah W. and Anna
L. (Monroe) Gokey, was born in Rathbone
ville, Steuben county, New York, October 6,
1855. He was educated in the public schools

and c'ompleted his education in Cornell Uni
versity, leaving before graduation to join his
father in business. He was a partner of N.-
W. Gokey & Son, shoe manufacturers, and
after the death of his father continued the
business with his brother until the destruction
of their plant by fire. The brothers then dis
solved partnership, William N. continuing the
business in a new plant erected on East Sixth
street. His entire business life has been spent
in the shoe manufacturing business, and he
ranks as one of the most capable and success
ful men in that line. He is a Republican in
politics. He is a member of the Masonic fra
ternity of Jamestown, also a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Gokey married, January 15, 1880, Har
riet A., daughter of David R. and Elizabeth
(Cone) Marvin. Children: 1. Mabel Eliza
beth, born July 3, 1881 ; married Nelson W.
Merritt. 2. William N. Jr., born February 4,
1884; married Floss G. Duffee. 3. Marvin
Cone, born September 26, 1890. 4. Clara
Ruth, born May 31, 1894. 5. Helen Royce,
born January 29, 1903.
(V) George F., youngest son of Noah W.
and Anna L. (Monroe) Gokey, was born at
Addison, Steuben county, New York, April
11, 1 87 1. He was educated in the public
schools of Jamestown and at Eastman's Busi
ness College, Poughkeepsie. He entered the
employ of N. W. Gokey & Son and later was
admitted to the firm. He continued the shoe
manufacturing business with his brother until
the fire of March 12, 1910, which destroyed
their plant. The brothers then dissolved part
nership, William N. continuing the shoe manu
facturing business, George F. retiring and de
voting himself to the development of his real
estate interests. He rebuilt the Gokey block
at the corner of West Third and Cherry streets,
a modern store and office building. He is an
attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and in politics a Republican.
Mr. Gokey married, April 26, 1893, Louisa
C. Morse, born in Jamestown, April 27, 1870,
daughter of Benedict and Rosina Morse. Bene
dict Morse was born in Germany, March 20,
1830, died in Jamestown, November 2, 1904.
He came to the United States in 1850, lived for
some years in Brooklyn, New York, where he
married, July 3, 1853, Rosina Meyer, born in
Germany, August 3, 1833, who survives him.
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years, working almost up to the time of his
death at his trade of cabinetmaker, at which
¦he was very expert. In 1902 they celebrated
their golden wedding. He was an active and
devoted member of the First Methodist Episco
pal church, and a man much loved and re
spected. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Morse:
1. Mary R., born in New York City, April
8, 1854; married T. J. Buchanan, two chil
dren, fiarry J. and Foster M. ; this family re
sides in Bradford, Pennsylvania. 2. Carrie A.,
born in New York City, June 20, 1859 ; mar
ried F. H. Appleby and lives in Jamestown,
New York; no issue. 3. Katharine Parr, born
July 6, 1862, in Poughkeepsie, New York;
married George V. Blackstone and had one
child, William Morse Blackstone. 4. Emma
Helen, born in 1864, died in 1898, unmarried.
5. Benjamin F., born in Jamestown, New
York, March 20, 1867 ; married Elizabeth Lau-
derbach; children: Jennette E. and William
S. ; they reside in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. 6.
Louisa C, born in Jamestown, New York,
April 27, 1870; married George F. Gokey, as
stated above. 7. Alice E., born in Jamestown,
May 8, 1874; married Harry Sidney Stewart,
no issue ; they reside in New York City. Chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Gokey: 1. Noah
Webster, born in Jamestown, May 26, 1895.
2. George F. Jr., born in Jamestown, Septem
ber 16, 1897.

The founder of this
KOCHERSPERGER family in America
was Jacob Kocher
sperger, born in Germany, came to the United
States and settled at Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. (II) Charles, son of Jacob Kochersperger,
lived in or near Philadelphia, where he is
buried. The descendants of Jacob Kochersper
ger, the emigrant, are numerous in Philadel
phia and other parts of Pennsylvania, and in
the western states. Charles Kochersperger
married and had three sons and a daughter.
Two sons and the daughter died in childhood,
Charles, the other son, is mentioned below.
(Ill) Lieutenant-Colonel Charles (2) Koch
ersperger, eldest child of Charles ( 1 ) Kocher
sperger, was a resident of Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. He was born there, February 8,
1826, died December 26, 1867. He served in
the civil war with distinction, attaining the
rank of lieutenant-colonel, serving in that ca
pacity in the Seventy-first Regiment, Pennsyl

vania Volunteers. He was wounded in one of
the battles of the Wilderness. He married
Sarah, daughter of Colonel William and Lydia
(Hess) Bozorth, Colonel William Bozorth
was born on the day Bunker Hill battle was
fought, and served as a colonel in the war 0?
1812. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Kochersper
ger: 1. Laura, born February 8, 1851, died
March 5, 1872. 2. Irene, born August 6, 1853,
died October 1, 1907; married, December 27,
1880, Edwin fiadley, of Springfield. 3. Ella
Lillian, born July 29, 1855, died September 17,
1868. 4. Charles Stanley (mentioned below).
Mrs. Kochersperger is living at the present
time (191 1 ), and resides in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. (IV) Charles Stanley, son of Lieutenant-
Colonel Charles (2) and Sarah (Bozorth)
Kochersperger, was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, March 21, 1857. He was edu
cated at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New
York, where he resided for several years with
hJis widowed mother. His early life was
spent on the farm of his aunt, Mrs. Horace
Young, of Dewittville. He began business life
as a merchant, having a store at Randolph,
which he operated for four years. He then
disposed of his business and removed to
Jamestown, New York, where he was employ
ed in the office of N. W. Gokey & sons. After
several years spent in the office he went on
the road for the same house, as salesman. He
continued traveling until his death, at Cres-
ton, Iowa, in 1896, a period of ten years as
salesman and of twenty-four years in the serv
ice of the firm. He was suddenly stricken
with appendicitis, never recovering from the
surgical operation. He is buried in Lakeview
cemetery, Jamestown. The Masonic Order
performed their solemn burial service at his
grave. He belonged to Mt. Moriah Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Rising Sun Chap
ter, Royal Arch Masons; Jamestown Com-
mandery, Knights Templar. He was an at
tendant of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and a man of most excellent character. He
was one of the organizers and charter mem
bers of the Jamestown Sons of Veterans, in
which he took a deep interest. While at Cham
berlain Institute in 1879 a society was formed
called the "Brotherhood 6f Ten." He was the
first of the "Ten" to answer the roll call of
death. He was a man of many friends, and
the expressions of regret at his sudden death
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He married, December 28, 1882, Clara R.
Gokey, born September 23, 1857, daughter of
Noah W. and Anna L. (Monroe) Gokey, of
Jamestown (see Gokey IV). She survives
him, a resident of Jamestown. She is also a
graduate of Chamberlain Institute, a mem
ber of the class of 1880. Children: 1. Anna
L., born November 23, 1884, died June 21,
1887. 2. Josette, born September 28, 1890;
graduate of Jamestown high school, class of
19 10, now a student at the University of Pitts
burg, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

The Mintons of Westfield, New
MINTON York, are descendants of Ste
phen Minton, born about 1750
in New Jersey. He married and had a son
James. (II) James, son of Stephen Minton, was
born in 1783, died 1826. He learned the trade
of stone mason and became noted as a skilled
workman. He worked in different places and
was employed in the construction of the old
State Penitentiary, at Auburn, New York. He
died .in middle life, leaving a widow and five
children, He married Theodosia Reeves, born
in Connecticut, died in Brocton, New York,
in 1856, aged sixty-six years, daughter of
Israel Reeves, a soldier of the revolution cap
tured by the British and held a prisoner for
several months. After the war he settled in
New York state and was appointed first jailer,
or warden, of Auburn prison. Children of
James and Theodosia Minton: 1. Emily C,
born in Auburn, New York, August 14, 1808;
married there, September 4, 1825, Lewis Pull
man ; three of their sons have attained unusual
distinction ; the eldest, George M. Pullman, in
ventor of the Pullman sleeping and palace cars,
James Minton and Royal fienry Pullman, both
distinguished ministers of the Universalist
church. 2. Hannah Maria, married Richard
De Lee. 3. James H. (of whom further).
4. John H., born in Auburn, New York,
September 2, 1817, died at Westfield, Chau
tauqua county, New York, November 18,
1867; married, December 17, 1843, Harriet
L. Coney. 5. William L., married Amelia
Hull. (Ill) James H., eldest son of James Min
ton, was born in Auburn, New York, 1815,
died in Westfield, New York, in 1893, aged
seventy-eight years. He was fourteen years
of age when his widowed mother came to
Chautauqua county, New York, settling with

her family in the village of Brocton, town of
Portland. He attended the village school, cut
cord wood and did all kinds of work to assist
his mother in maintaining and keeping her
family together. At the age of eighteen years
he began learning the trade of carpenter with
his brother-in-law, Lewis Pullman. He be
came a good carpenter and joiner, following
his trade for ten years. He then erected a
hotel and store building in Brocton, where for
twenty years he was proprietor of the hotel
and for fourteen years of that time engaged
in mercantile business with his brother, Will
iam L. Minton, who for seven years was post
master of the village. During the years 1861-
65 he was assessor of internal revenue and
deputy marshal of the town of Westfield. For
fifteen years he was coroner of Chautauqua
county. In 1884 he was appointed under sher
iff of the county. He spent his latter years
in retirement in Westfield. He was a man of
energy and enterprise and could always be de
pended on. He was a Republican in politics
and until his latter years was an .active party
worker. He married, in 1836, in Brocton, New York,
Sarah W. Lake, born in Auburn, died in West-
field, New York, June 5, 1910, aged ninety-
one years and sixteen days, daughter of Nich
olas and Eunice (Houghton) Lake, of Erie
county, New York, and granddaughter of Sid
ney Lake, a revolutionary soldier. Seven of
their children were born in Brocton, the eighth
in Westfield, New York; 1. Emily C, mar
ried James Haight. 2. Frances A., married
(first) Joseph Josslyn; (second) Daniel P.
fiavens. 3. Maria, married H. W. Gibbs. 4.
William L., born July 19, 1847; married
Louise Baldwin; children: fiarry S., Irene *F.
and Florence. 5. John C, married Emma Nel
son. 6. James Valentine (of whom further).
7. Waldo L., married Ella Reed. 8. George,
died young.
(IV) James Valentine, sixth child of James
H. Minton, was born in Brocton, Chautauqua
county, New York, February 14, 1854. He
was educated in the public schools and West-
field Academy, beginning business life as a
clerk in the drug store of John H. Towle, in
Westfield, where he remained eight years. For
three of these years he was manager in charge
of one of the two stores operated by Mr. Towle.
He then entered the employ of Alfred Wright,
of Rochester, the well-known manufacturer of
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salesman and for several years covered western
territory. After his marriage he retired from
the road and located in Westfield, where he
establish a drug business on the corner of
East Main and North Portage streets, which
he conducted for three years. He then became
interested in grape culture and at the present
time (1911) has a fine vineyard. He soon
after returned to the employ of Alfred Wright.
as traveling salesman, covering New York
state territory. Later he represented the
Stevens Perfume Company of Toledo, Ohio,
with whom he remained four years. He is
now in a live stock insurance company and
engaged in grape culture. He resides in West-
field, which has been his home since 1886. In
1878 he was commissioned by Governor Cor
nell, for bravery and merit during the great
railroad strike of that year, first lieutenant of
the Eleventh Separate Company, Thirty-first
brigade, New York National Guard. He was
on duty at Buffalo creek with his company,
where his bravery won him his commission.
He is a Republican in politics, and for three
years served as trustee of the village of West-
field. He and his family are attendants of
the Presbyterian church.
He married, January 7, 1886, in Granville,
Ohio, Mary Lucy Case, born March 2, 1859,
in Granville, daughter of Lucius and Mary
(Rose) Case (see Case VIII). Children, both
born in Westfield, New York : 1 . George Pull
man, born October 27, 1886 ; married Kathryn
Hiller; child: Betty Mary, born in Westfield,
October 7, 1910. 2. Marjorie Rose, born Au
gust 18, 1891. (The Case Line).
John Case, the American ancestor, married
(first) Sarah, daughter of William Spencer
of Hartford, Connecticut, about 1657. fie re
sided in Windsor, Connecticut, until the spring
of 1669, then moved to Massacoe (now Sims-
bury). His wife died November 3, 1691, aged
fifty-five years. He married (second) Eliza
beth, widow of Nathaniel Loomis, and daugh
ter of John Moore, of Windsor. John Case
was appointed constable for Massacoe by the
general court, October 14, 1669, being the first
person to hold office in that place. He repre
sented his town in the general court in 1670
and several times thereafter. He died in Sims-
bury, Connecticut, February 21, 1703-04. His
wife survived him until July 23, 1728, being
then aged ninety years. Children of first wife :

1. Elizabeth, born about 1658; married (first)
Joseph Lewis; (second) John Tuller. 2. Mary,
born June 22, 1660; married (first) William
Alderman; (second) Joseph Hillyer. 3. John
(of whom further). 4. William, born June 5,
1665 ; married Elizabeth Holcomb. 5. Sam
uel, born June 1, 1667, married (first) Mary
Westover; (second) Elizabeth Thrall. 6. Rich
ard, horn August 27, 1669 ; married Amy Reed.
7. Bartholomew, born October, 1670; married
Mary Humphrey. 8. Joseph, born April 6,
1674; married Anna Eno. 9. Sarah, born Au
gust 14, 1676; married Joseph Phelps Jr. 10.
Abigail, born May 4, 1682 ; married John
Westover. (II) John (2), son of John (1) Case, was
born November 5, 1662, died May 22, 1733.
He settled in Simsbury, Connecticut. He mar
ried (first) September 12, 1684, Mary Olcott,
who died 1685, daughter of Thomas Olcott,
of Hartford, Connecticut. Their one child
died in infancy, He married (second) 1693,
Sarah Holcomb. Children : John (of whom
further) ; Daniel, born March 7, 1696; Mary,
1698; married Josiah Alf ord ; Jonathan, April
15, 1701 ; Sarah, 1703, married John Alder
man; Plannah, 1709, married Captain Noah
Humphrey. (Ill) John (3), son of John (2) Case, was
born August 22, 1694, died December 2, 1752.
He lived in Simsbury, Connecticut. He mar
ried, January 24, 1716-17, Abigail, daughter
of Lieutenant Samuel Humphrey. Children:
John (4), born February 19, 1718-19; Noah,
October 4, 1720; Charles, July 1, 1723; Abi
gail, September 14, 1725 ; Mary, December
29, 1727; Lucy, October 17, 1732, married
William Wilcox; Martha, July 31, 1735, mar
ried Thomas Barber; Job (of whom further) ;
Lydia, September 1, 1741, married Jonathan
Painey. (IV) Job, youngest son and eighth child
of John (3) Case, was born June 3, 1737,
died October 6, 1798. He lived at Ferry's
Plain, Connecticut. He married Johanna, born
1740, died December 9, 1812, daughter of
Amos Wilcox. Children: 1. Job, born July 27,
:758- 2. Joanna, August 9, 1760; married
Israel Case. 3. Violet, October 19, 1762. 4.
Ariel, June 28, 1765. 5. Lucy, February 14,
1767. 6. Asenath, June 12, 1770. 7. Luke,
July 1, 1772; settled in Winchester, died 1805.
8. Betsey, December 23, 1775; married Mat
thew Adams ; both died in Granville. 9. Fred
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both died in Granville. 10. Grove (of whom
further), n. Friend, November 10, 1781, died
June 22, 1840.
(V) Grove, tenth child of Job Case, was
born June 29, 1779, died at Granville, Ohio,
where he settled with others of the family. He
married Cinderella Adams. Qiildren: Grove
(of whom further) . Norton, born August 23,
1802, died March 23, 1879; Jarvis; Lucinda.
(VI) Grove (2), eldest son of Grove (1),
Case, was born January 20, 1800, at Sims
bury, Connecticut, died February 19, 1885, at
Granville, Ohio. He was seven years old when
his' parents moved to Ohio where his after
life was spent.
Grove Case married Laura Carpenter,
born in Chenango county, New York, October
10, 1797, died April 2, 1885, daughter of Cap
tain Nathan Carpenter, an officer of the rev
olution, born April 12, 1757, died September
19, 18 14; married Irene Reed, born January
31, 1758, died August 7, 1804. Children of
Grove (2) and Laura Case: Lucius (of whom
further) ; Laura Lucinda, born September 18,'
1823, died August 17, 1824; Laura Jane, No
vember 11, 1826, died March 5, 1844; Edwin,
November 12, 1828, died August 5, 1829;
Celia Charlotte, April 2, 1833, died August 14,
1857; Lucy C, November 1, 1837, died Au
gust 14, 1857.
(VII) Lucius, eldest child of Grove (2)
Case, was born in Granville, Ohio, February
26, 1822, died July 3, 1866. He married, No
vember 14, 1843, Mary Rose, born in Gran
ville, November 24, 1822, died June 19, 1905,
daughter of Captain Levi and Polly (Stowe)
Rose. Captain Rose and wife came from Gran
ville, Massachusetts, and were among the first
settlers of Granville, Ohio, in 1805, naming
the Ohio settlement in remembrance of their
former home. Captain Levi Rose served in
the war of 1812. Mary (Rose) Case survived
her husband and married (second) Lewis
Williams. The children of Lucius and Mary Case:
Gilbert Grove, born January 6, 1845, died
January 9, 1868; Celia Jane, March 1, 1847,
died July 3, 1871 ; Helen Rose, February 8,
1849; Burton, July 27, 1851 ; Mary Lucy (of
whom further).
(VIII) Mary Lucy, youngest child of Lu
cius Case, was born in Granville, Ohio, March
j,, 1859; married, January 7, 1886, in Gran
ville, James Valentine Minton (see Minton
IV).

This name appears in the
BLACKSTONE early records of Boston
and Rehoboth, Massachu
setts, and of Rhode Island. Rev. William
Blackstone took his degree at Emanuel Col
lege, Cambridge, England, 1621, and was or
dained to the ministry of the Established
Church of England. He did not like the Lord
Bishop and in 1623 is found in Weymouth and
in 1625 in Boston, Massachusetts, where he
located on land now within the city limits. In
1634 he moved to Rehoboth, locating on the
banks of the Blackstone river (now in the
town of Cumberland, Rhode Island) called by
him "Study Hill." He is of frequent mention
in the records until May 28, 1675, when he
was buried. His wife, Sarah (Stephenson)
Blackstone, died June, 1673. He left a son
John, who married Catherine  and had
a son, John (2), who died January 3, 1785,
at Branford, Connecticut, leaving two sons
from one of whom the Pennsylvania family,
herein traced descends.
(I) William Jones Blackstone, a descend
ant of Rev. William Blackstone; of Rhode Isl
and,- was born about 1800 and was a resident
of Sharon, Pennsylvania. He married Emily,
daughter of Timothy and Phoebe (Mather)
Andrews, a descendant of John Andrews, the
emigrant, and Samuel Andrews, the revolu
tionary soldier (see Andrews VIII).
(II) William Andrews, son of William
Jones Blackstone, was born in Sharon,' Penn
sylvania, January 7, 1837, died in Jamestown,
New York, 1903. He resided in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, later in Bluffton, Indiana, com
ing from there in 1875 to Jamestown, New
York, where he was interested with the Van-
dergrift Washing Machine Company. He mar
ried Rachel, daughter of William K. and
Sophia (Carver) Vandergrift, and grand
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hart) Van
dergrift (see Hart VI).
(Ill) George Vandergrift, son of William
Andrews Blackstone, was born in Oil City,
Pennsylvania, November 1, i860, died in James
town, New York, June 22, 19 10. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Bluffton, Indi
ana, and at the age of about fifteen came with
his parents to Jamestown. His father was
connected with the Vandergrift Washing Ma
chine Company, and George V. began his
business life as a workman in the plant of that
company. He worked there for ten years,
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machine manufacture, and at the end of that
period secured an interest in the business. For
fifteen years he was in charge of the big plant
at East Jamestown, the last ten years owning
a controlling interest purchased from the Van
dergrift estate and other holders of stock, and
was elected president. He was successful in
business to a high degree and won a command
ing position among Jamestown business men.
While his chief business interest was in the
Blackstone Manufacturing Company (chang
ing the name after he secured control of the
Vandergrift Company) he had other important
interests. For eight years preceding his death
he was a director of the Union Trust Com
pany and in 1908 elected second vice-president.
He was also director and vice-president of
the Citizens' Trust Company of Fredonia,
serving from its organization until his death.
He was instrumental in organizing the James
town Manufacturers' Association and was
chosen its first president. He was a Republi
can in politics and gave much time to the pub
lic service. He represented the fifth ward
in the city council, serving for several years,
a portion of the time being chairman of the
finance committee. In 1903 he was appointed
a member of the board of water commission
ers, serving through successive appointments
until his death. He served during his earlier
life as a member of the volunteer fire depart
ment of Jamestown. He was a member of
the board of education, and in all these posi
tions served his city with fidelity and gave
the same careful attention to public business
that he gave to his own personal affairs. He
was a member of the First Presbyterian
Church, and a governor of the Jamestown
Qub. He was held in the highest esteem by
his business associates, while his relations with
his employees were always most pleasant. He
was most modest and democratic in his daily
intercourse with men, yet of firm, decided
and fearless action in matters of principle. He
left behind him a good name and a record of
a life well spent.
He married, October 13, 1886, Katharine
Parr Morse, born at Poughkeepsie, New York,
July 6, 1862, daughter of Benedict and Rosina
(Mayer) Morse. Mrs. Blackstone survives
her husband, and continues her residence in
Jamestown. Child, William Morse.
(IV) William Morse, only son of George
Vandergrift and Katharine Parr (Morse)
Blackstone, was born in Jamestown, New

York, February 16, 1888. He was educated
in the Jamestown high school, and afterward
The Dr. Holbrook School, Ossinning-on-the-
Hudson, and finished his studies in New York
City. He succeeded his father as president of
the Blackstone Manufacturing Company and
has developed unusual business qualities for so
young a man. He is a director of the Union
Trust Company of Jamestown and of the Citi
zens' Bank of Fredonia. He is a member of
the First Presbyterian Church, and of the
Jamestown Qub. (The Andrews Line).
John Andrews in 1672 was one of the pro
prietors of the ancient town of Tunxis, after
ward named "Ffarmingtowne," now Farm
ington, Connecticut. He married Mary  .
(II) Daniel, son of John and Mary An
drews, died April 16, 1731, aged eighty-two
years. He married and had issue.
(Ill) Joseph, son of Daniel Andrews, mar
ried Susannah Haugh.
(IV) Timothy, son of Joseph and Susannah
(Haugh) Andrews, was born February 23,
1718, died at Farmington, May 30, 1765. He
served in the French war of 1755; was dis
abled and drew a pension of twenty pounds in
1763. He married Thankful Hunn.
(V) Samuel, son of Timothy and Thankful
(Hunn) Andrews, was born at Newington,
Connecticut, April 27, 1741, died at Burling
ton, Connecticut, March, 1808. He was a sol
dier in the French war at the age of fifteen
years and served in the Third Connecticut
Regiment continental line during the revolu
tion. He married Mary Johnson:
(VI) Samuel Johnson, son of Samuel and
Mary (Johnson) Andrews, married Nancy
Taylor. (VII) Timothy (2), son of Samuel Johnson
and Nancy (Taylor) Andrews, married
Phcebe Mather.
(VIII) Emily, daughter of Timothy (2)
and Phcebe (Mather) Andrews, married Wil
liam Jones Blackstone (see Blackstone I).
(IX) William Andrews Blackstone, son of
William Jones and Emily (Andrews) Black
stone, married Rachel Vandergrift.
(X) George Vandergrift, son of William
Andrews and Rachel (Vandergrift) Black
stone, married Katharine Parr Morse.
(XI) William Morse, son of George Van
dergrift and Katharine Parr (Morse) Black
stone, resides in Jamestown (1911).

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(The Hart Line).
(II) John Hart, "the signer," was a son of
Edward Hart, of Stonington, Connecticut,
from whence he came to Pennington, New
Jersey, and was baptized at the Presbyterian
church at Lawrence. Edward Hart was no
doubt a descendant of Deacon Stephen Hart,
founder of the Hart family of Connecticut,
who was born in Braintree, Essex, England,
about 1605 (see Hart family in this work).
John Hart was a man of education and prop
erty, and in 1761 was chosen to represent his
district in the colonial legislature of New Jer
sey, to which he was annually elected until
1772. He took a leading part in the delibera
tions of that body; opposed the stamp act;
taxation without representation; and voted in
favor of the bill refusing to grant further sup
plies to the king's troops quartered in New
• Jersey, which last act caused the dissolution
of the legislature by the angry royal governor.
In 1774 he was chosen a delegate from Hun
terdon county to the Provincial Congress,
and served on its most important committees
until its dissolution in 1776. This congress
framed the state constitution of New Jersey
under which John Hart was chosen a member
of the first legislature and without a dissenting
vote was elected speaker of the house, and sent
as a delegate from New Jersey to the con
tinental congress of 1774-75, and in 1776 he
was one of the five members chosen from New
Jersey: Richard Stockton, Dr. John Wither-
spoon (president of Princeton College), Judge
Francis Hopkinson, Abraham Clark and John
Hart, the immortal five representing New Jer
sey, whose names were affixed to the Declara
tion of Independence at Independence Hall,
Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. When the army
of Washington was driven from New Jersey
the legislature, of which John Hart was
speaker, was obliged to disperse and seek
safety in flight, but after the victory at Tren
ton they were convened at Trenton on the
summons of the speaker in January, 1777. He
was again chosen speaker, an office he held
until failing health compelled his resignation.
The prominence of his position and his well-
known fidelity to the cause of liberty exposed
him to the vengeance of the British, who rav
aged his estates, burned his mills and improve
ments, reducing him to a condition of hopeless
poverty. His life was in danger and he could
only visit his sick wife by stealth. He did not
live to see the triumph of the cause for which

he gave his all, but died in 1780, at the age
of seventy-two years, honored and beloved.
The state of New Jersey erected a monument
to his memory in the burying ground of old
Hopewell church (where his remains were
transferred), which was dedicated July 4,
1865, Governor Joel Parker delivering the
oration. He married Deborah Scudder, who died Oc
tober 26, 1776, youngest daughter of Richard
Scudder. Children: Sarah, Jesse, Martha,
Nathaniel, John, Susannah, Mary, Abigail,
Edward Scudder and Daniel.
(Ill) John (2), son of John (1) Hart, "the
signer," was born October 29, 1748. About
the year 1770 he emigrated to Point Coupee,
Louisiana, where he became wealthy in slaves
and property, but was stripped of all by the
Spanish authorities and confined eight months
in prison with many others. He went to Cuba
after his release, again became wealthy and
again met reverses. He then returned to Hope
well, New Jersey, where he again amassed a
good estate. But no son of John Hart, "the
patriot," could be allowed to live in peaceful
plenty. The British burned his buildings, de
stroyed his property and compelled him to re
move. He sold all his large possessions, tak
ing continental money in payment. This so
depreciated in value that in his declining years
he was left in poverty. He married Catherine
Knowles, of Tacony, Pennsylvania. Children :
Mary (of further mention) ; Susannah, mar
ried Joseph Hall, of Philadelphia; Elizabeth,
married James Bowyer; Sarah, married Wil
liam Reed, of Philadelphia; John, married
Mary Shreeves, of Philadelphia.
(IV) Mary, eldest child of John (2) and
Catherine (Knowles) Hart, married Jacob
Vandergrift. (V) William K. Vandergrift, son of Jacob
and Mary (Hart) Vandergrift, married
Sophia Carver.
(VI) Rachel, daughter of William K. and
Sophia (Carver) Vandergrift, married Wil
liam Andrews Blackstone (see BlackstoneTl).

There are several families
BATCHELLER of this name in America
not allied as far as any
record now attainable would indicate. The
family of which this article treats is known
as the "Massachusetts Batchellers." The spell
ing found in early records has been changed
by most of the present descendants. This'

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family has heen noted for men of large stature
and much physical and mental vigor. While
the early generation were necessarily engaged
in agriculture, as that was the chief industry
of their time, later representatives of the fam
ily have found distinction in professional life
and the various activities of modern times.
(I) The first of whom any record is now
found was Daniel Batcheller, who lived and
died near Canterbury, England. He had four
sons: Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John. The
first two and last of these settled in America.
(II) Joseph, eldest son of Daniel Batcheller,
was born in Canterbury, and died in March,
1647, m Wenham, Massachusetts. He came
to America in 1636 with his wife Elizabeth,
one child and three servants, being also accom
panied by his brothers, Henry and John Batch
eller. fie was a tailor, and settled first in
Salem, whence he removed shortly to Wen-
ham. He was made a freeman of the Massa
chusetts Bay Colony in 1637, and was deputy
to the general court from Wenham in 1644,
being the first from that town. The inventory
of his estate, made March 3, 1657, stated that
he had been dead ten years. His estate was
settled by his son Mark. He was one of the
original members of the Wenham church, or
ganized October 8, 1644, and his wife was
admitted to the same church on the seventh
of the following month. In a record regard
ing a matter of church discipline in Wenham
appears the following: "In ye mesne space
it pleased God to> take to himself brother
Batchel, a man wise, moderate and very able
to be helpful in such cases." His children
were Mark, John, Elizabeth and Hannah.
(Ill) John, junior son of Joseph and Eliz
abeth Batcheller, was baptized January 20,
1638, in the First Church of Salem, and died
December 17, 1698, in Wenham. His will
was made the day preceding his death, and the
inventory of his estate made March 20, 1699,
showing a valuation of £519 5s. John Batch
eller was a juror in the lamentable witchcraft
trials of Salem, and in 1692 signed a state
ment asking forgiveness for his participation
therein. He married (first) July 12, 1661,
Mary Dennis, who died June 26, 1665, and
he married (second) May 4, 1666, Sarah,
daughter of Robert Goodale, of Salem. She
died March 22, 1729. There were two chil
dren of the first wife, John and Joseph. Those
of the second were: Mark, Elizabeth, Eben
ezer, Hannah, Mary, Sarah and David.

(IV) David, youngest child of John and
Sarah (Goodale) Batcheller, was born 1673,
in Wenham, where he died January 29, 1766.
He was the first to adopt the spelling of the
name now. used by his descendants. He was
prominent in both church and town affairs of
Wenham, being town clerk from 1744 to
1748. From his father he inherited a farm
of eighteen acres, and he was probably en
gaged in agriculture. He married (intentions
published May 7, 1709), Susannah Whipple,
of Ipswich, who died June 13, 1764. Chil
dren: David, Susannah (died young),
Joseph, Amos, Nehemiah, Abraham, Mary,
Susanna. (V) Abraham, youngest son of David and
Susannah (Whipple) Batcheller, was born
June 5, 1722, in Wenham, and died January
31, 1813, in Sutton, Massachusetts, fie lived
for a time in Westboro, and purchased one .
thousand acres of land in Sutton at one shill
ing per acre. He was a cooper by trade, a
man of strong will and eccentric character.
His children were allowed one cup of tea a
week, on Sunday morning. When desiring
to reach any point in his large domain he
hitched up three yoke of oxen and crashed
his way in a bee line through the underbrush
without making any previous clearing; In
1763 he was a selectman of Sutton, at which
time he was called captain. The next year
the record of his election as selectman calls
him ensign, and also in the two succeeding
years. In 1773 and 1782 he was selectman
and then was called lieutenant. He married,
May 17, 175 1, Sarah Newton, born July 19,
1732, in Westboro, daughter of Abner and
Vashti (Eager) Newton. Children: Abraham,
Abigail, Vashti, Joseph, Benjamin, Ezra,
Sarah and Amos.
(VI) Abraham (2), eldest child of
Abraham (1) and Sarah (Newton) Batch
eller, was born March 26, 1752, in Sutton, and
died August 14, 1832, in Stockton, New York.
He received from his father a farm in Sutton,
on which he lived thirty years. He was a
revolutionary soldier, serving as a corporal
in Captain Andrew Elliott's company of Colo
nel Ebenezer Larned's regiment. He was fre
quently an officer of Sutton, serving as select
man in 1 781. In 1792 he removed to Paris
Hill, Oneida county, New York, which was
then a wilderness, the present city of- Utica
containing at the time only three log houses.
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county, New York, where he engaged in farm
ing until his death. He was an active member
of the Baptist church, and received the title
of lieutenant through service in the state mil
itia. He married, December 28, 1774, Rebecca
Dwight, born May 19, 1754, died April 5,
1842, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Bulk-
ley) Dwight. Children: Paul, Elizabeth,
Joseph, Dwight, Rebecca, Abraham, Silence,
Levina, Electa, Qiarles, Sally and Nancy.
(VII) Captain Joseph Batcheller, first sur
viving son of. Lieutenant Abraham (2) and
Rebecca (Dwight) Batcheller, was born June
3, 1778, in Sutton, and died July 13, 1871, in
Pomfret, New York. In the autumn of 181 1
he went to Chautauqua county and located
eleven miles south of Dunkirk, where he built
a log house and barn, and then returned to
Oneida county for his family. In February,
1 812, he removed to his new location with
a yoke of oxen and sled, spending two weeks
on the trip. There he engaged in farming the
rest of his life. His military title was de
rived from service in the militia. He married,
in Smithfield, New York, January 18, 1810,
Dorothy Needham, born April 22, 1789, died
February 20, 1865, in Pomfret. Qiildren:
1. Julia Ann, married (first) Milo Barley;
(second) Otis Temple. 2. Elizabeth, wife of
Joseph Wilson. 3. Varman Needham, • a
farmer, residing in Stockton. 4. Joseph E.,
died young. 5. George S., died young. 6.
Joseph E., mentioned below. 7. George S., a
farmer of Stockton.
(VIII) Joseph Elliott, fourth son of Cap
tain Joseph and Dorothy (Needham) Batch
eller, was born December 26, 1822, in Pom
fret, and resided in Stockton, where he was
a farmer, and died September 22, 1888. He
married, in Pomfret, in April, 1848, Achsah
Munger, born February 12, 1824. Children;
r. Tower, was a farmer in Stockton. 2. Naomi
Adele, was wife of Joseph M. Kelly, a farmer,
of Stockton. 3. Delmer E., mentioned below.
(IX) Delmer Elliott, junior son of Joseph
E. and Achsah (Munger) Batcheller, was
born February 27, 1862, in Pomfret, and re
sided on the paternal farm until fifteen years
of age. He attended the various schools of
Stockton, and the State Normal School at
Fredonia, New York, afterwards taking a
post-graduate course at the Illinois Wesleyan
University, which institution has conferred
upon him the degree of Bachelor of

Philosophy. In the winter of 1881-82 he be
gan teaching at Gerry, Chautauqua county,
and was afterwards employed in the same
manner at Perrysburg, Stockton and Ripley,
in his native county. From 1884 to 1886 he
was principal of the Union School and Aca
demy at Mayville, New York. On the organi
zation of School No. 39, in the city of Buffalo,
he was appointed principal and thus continued
three years. In 1889 he was appointed prin
cipal of School No. 45, which included over
thirteen hundred pupils and twenty-seven
teachers, and continued at the head of this
school for thirteen, years. Mr. Batcheller is
a man of large frame, with strong mentality
as well as physical vigor. He was popular
with both teachers and pupils in Buffalo, where
he was so long in active educational work.
In July, 1902, he was appointed superintend
ent of the schools of Olean, New York, in
which position he continued until February 1,
1908, with success and manifest benefit to the
educational system of the city. After resign
ing the superintendency in Olean, Mr. Batch
eller again returned to Buffalo, having asso
ciated himself with Mr. C. F. Warner, under
the firm name of Warner & Batcheller, and
engaged in the business of real estate and in
surance. After one and one-half years of suc
cess in this business he was unanimously in
vited to accept the position of superintendent
of schools in Dunkirk, New York. Feeling
that his calling was to the educational field,
which was more congenial than that of busi
ness, he accepted and has continued in that
position to the present time. For many years
he was a member of the Principals' Associa
tion of Buffalo, of whose executive committee
he was a member and refused its presidency;
he is a member of the New York State
Teachers' Association, and an active member
of the National Educational Association. He
is an active member of the Masonic brother
hood, holding membership in Queen City
Lodge, No. 338, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Buffalo; and Keystone Chapter, No. 163,
Royal Arch Masons. For many years he was
treasurer of the board of trustees of the
Richmond Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church of Buffalo.
He married, in Ripley, July 16, 1884, Sa-
ville PI. Rickenbrode, born March 4, 1859,
who was several years a teacher. Children:
Pauline Naomi, died in her second year ; Del
mer Elliott, born May 18, 1891 ; Margaret

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Elizabeth, September 19, 1892 ; Carl Arthur,
June 19, 1896.

(VII) Deacon Charles
BATCHELLER Batcheller, son of Lieu
tenant Abraham (2) (q.
v.) and Rebecca (Dwight) Batcheller, was
born in Paris Hill, Oneida county, New
York, April 23, 1802, died in Colorado,
Texas, December 25, 1882, and was buried
in Victor, Iowa. When he was four
teen years old his. parents removed to
Chautauqua county, New York, following
a trail of marked trees, which was the only
road. Here Charles Batcheller settled later
on a high hill in Stockton, which commanded
a magnificent view of the chain of Cassadaga
lakes, and lakes Erie and Chautauqua. He
became a wealthy farmer. In 1849 he removed
to Fredonia, New York, where he conducted
a retail dry goods business until 1857, when
he bought a large tract of land in Iowa county,
Iowa, whither he removed and resumed farm
ing. In 1859 he disposed of these interests
and invested in Texas lands, and while on a
visit to them he was taken sick and died. "For
over forty years he was an honored member
of the Baptist Church, and was most highly
gifted in prayer." He was a radical in poli
tics, an ardent admirer of Wendell Phillips,
Gerrit Smith and Garrison, and he was most
active in assisting runaway slaves to Canada,
via the so-called underground railway. He
married, May 24, 1826, Eliza Ann, born Sep
tember 26, 1809, died June 28, 1859, daughter
of David Johnson. Children, all born in
Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York: 1.
Lodoski, born September 5, 1827, died March
8, 1886; married, June 5, i860, William
Henkle. 2. Salathiel (referred to below.)
3. Eliza Ann, born February 19, 183 1, died
March 9, 1852. 4. Mattie Rebecca, born March
26, 1833, died December 4, 1886; married,
June 2, 1864, James Yard Elmendorf. 5. Me
lissa, born August 8, 1836; lived in Denver,
Colorado; married, October 15, 1857, Frank
Jerome, deceased. 6. Eva Ellen, born April
24, 1846; living in Denver, Colorado; married
Frank Jerome, 1904, who died May 15, 1907.
(VIII) Salathiel, son of Deacon Charles and
Eliza Ann (Johnson) Batcheller, was born at
Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York,
March 26, 1829, and died at Victor, Iowa,
August 14, 1875. He received his education
in Fredonia, New York, and then entered on

a mercantile career in that place. Later he
removed to Iowa City, Iowa, where he studied
law and also entered the political arena, a
strong Republican, serving as county clerk
for many years. At the outbreak of the civil
war he entered the Union army, but being of
a frail constitution he was made first assistant
quartermaster-general of the Department of
. the Cumberland, where he remained until the
close of the war, when he returned home,
broken in health. He married, December 2,
185 1, Marietta P., daughter of the Hon. Sam- *
uel Augustus and Prudence Olivia (Cotes)
Brown, of Jamestown, Chautauqua county,
New York. Her grandfather, Colonel Daniel
Brown, was born in Windham, Connecticut,
January 13, 1747, and during the revolution
ary war was a deputy commissioner under
General Jonathan Trumbull. He was a de
scendant of the Peter Brown who came over
to America in the "Mayflower." He married
Anna Phelps. The Hon. Samuel Augustus
Brown, son of Colonel Daniel and Anna
(Phelps) Brown, was Dorn in the parish of
Gilead, Hebron, Connecticut, February 20,
1795, and died in Jamestown, New York, Jan
uary 7, 1863. In 1813 he began the study of
law at Springfield, New York, and three years
later removed to Jamestown. In 1817 he be
came a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Jamestown, and in
1823 was elected treasurer of the lodge. He
held many offices of public trust, and was
commissioner and inspector of common
schools and assessor of the town of Ellicott.
In 182 1 he was elected a trustee of the James
town Congregational Church. March 28, 1825,
he was appointed master in chancery and also
brigade judge advocate of militia. In 1826 he
was a member of the New York state as
sembly, and in 1827 was admitted to the bar
as counselor in chancery. In 1828 he was dis
trict attorney, in 1831 a director of the Chau
tauqua County Bank, and in 1858 special sur
rogate of the county. He was also superin
tendent of the poor, and after 1840 a member
of the Chautauqua Bible Society. He was a
Presbyterian in religion and became an elder
in 1849. He married, March 7, 1819, Prud
ence Olivia, daughter of Captain John Cotes,
of Springfield, New York, who was born there
January 18, 1799, and died August 31, 1862.
They had eleven children, five of whom died
in infancy. Children of Salathiel and Marietta
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24, 1855, died July 13, 1855. 2. Mary, born
February 8, 1858, died in May, 1859. 3. Eva
Brown, born December 22, i860; living in
Jamestown, and for the past ten years a
teacher in the public schools there. 4. Levant
Bishop (referred to below).
(IX) Levant Bishop, son of Salathiel and
Marietta P. (Brown) Batcheller, was born at
Victor, Iowa, December 3, 1869, and is now
living at Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New
York, fie graduated from the high school
of Victor, Iowa, in 1885, and then took the
course in pharmacy in the University of Buf
falo, from which he graduated in 1897. March
1, 1898, he commenced business with John M.
Winnberg at 113 Main street, Jamestown, and
has been there ever since, the firm building
up a large and prosperous business. He is a
Republican in politics. He is a member of
Burd Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Jamestown, a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight
Templar, a member of the Knights of Pythias
and of the Moose and the Elks. He is a Pres
byterian in religion. He married, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, February 5, 1902, Alice, daughter
of William Edward and Emeline (Perkins)
Hughes. Her father was a blacksmith. His
children are : Alice, referred to above ; Charles
and Cordelia. Children of Levant Bishop
and Alice (Hughes) Batcheller: 1. Alice Cor
delia, born January 20, 1904. 2. Edward
Jerome, born April 20, 1907.
The Herron family of West-
HERRON field, New York, descend from
John Herron, a well-to-do
farmer and land owner, born in the parish
of Raffery, county Down, Ireland. His fam
ily had long been seated in Ireland, where
they held a good position. John Herron mar
ried Elizabeth Watson, of Newton Arde,
county Down. Both John and his wife died
in Ireland in the county in which their lives
had been spent. Children: 1. William (of
whom further). 2. Jane, born in Raffery,
county Down, Ireland, January 31, 1828; mar
ried, in Ireland, William Johnson. They came
to the United States in 1850, settled. in West-
field, New York, where she yet resides (1911),
aged eighty-four years. 3. Arabella, died in
Ireland, unmarried. 4. James, born in Raf
fery Ireland, where he died in 1862. He
came to the United States in i860, but did
not long remain, returning to Ireland and his
native parish, where he died.

(II) William, eldest son of John and Eliza
beth (Watson) Herron, was born in the parish
of Raffery, county Down, Ireland, August 13,
1821, died in Westfield, New York, May 23,
1896. He married in Ireland and in 1850,
with wife and three children, sister Jane and
husband, came to the United States. The
Johnsons settled in Westfield, New York,
while William and his family chose Baltimore,
Maryland, for their location. In 1852 his wife
died and William joined his sister in West-
field, leaving his children with friends in Bal
timore. He purchased a farm in Westfield
and soon afterward brought his children to
his Chautauqua county home. He was a very
successful farmer, and a man held in high es
teem. He married (first) in Ireland, about
1842, Jane Wallace, born in county Down,
Ireland, about 1824, died in Baltimore, Mary
land, 1852. She was a daughter of Robert
and Margaret Wallace, of Ireland, and a de
scendant of the famous Wallace family of
Scotland. William Herron married (second)
Cynthia Green, of Westfield, New York. Chil
dren of first wife, all but the youngest born
in Raffery, Ireland: John (of whom fur
ther) ; Robert, born September 25, 1845, died
February 21, 1846; Robert Wallace, born
January 24, 1847, married Chloe- Winter ;
1 nomas, September 16, 1848, married Mar
garet Foskie ; James, born in Baltimore, Mary
land, September 27, 1851, died 1852. Children
of second marriage, all born in Westfield, New
York : Elizabeth, married William Donngann ;
William, married Lillian Bloomer; Jennie,
died young; Frank, died young; Fred, mar
ried Amy Bloomer and resides on the home
stead farm.
(Ill) John, eldest son of William and Jane
(Wallace) Herron, was born in the parish
of Raffery, county Down, Ireland, January
21, 1844. He was brought to the United
States by his parents in 1850 and joined his
father in Westfield, New York, in 1853, being
then nine years of age. He was educated in
the Westfield schools. He was reared on a
farm and later purchased a farm of sixty-four
acres on the Munson road, where he resides
(1911). He maintains a dairy and has al
ways been a large dealer in live stock of all
kinds. A portion of his farm is devoted to
fruit culture, including a grape vineyard. He
has been successful in business and holds a
good position in his town as an enterprising,
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quartermaster sergeant of the Eleventh Sep
arate Company, Thirty-first Brigade, New
York National Guard, and served with his
company in. suppressing the great railroad
strike of 1877, in Buffalo. He is a Repub
lican in politics, but has never aspired to pub
lic office, although he is deeply interested in
all that concerns the welfare of nation, state
and county, being well-read and informed on
the vital issues of the day. He is one of the
oldest Free Masons of Summit Lodge, of
Westfield, where he was made a Mason in
1870. He is an honored past master of that
lodge and a companion of Westfield Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons.
He married, in Westfield, New York, Oc
tober 12, 1872, Rosabelle Wood, born in Rip
ley, New York, July 2, 1847, daughter of
Hiram Wood, born in West Winfield, Herki
mer county, New York, August 12, 1808, died
189 1. He married Almeda Winter, born 1822,
died 1904. Hiram Wood was a son of David
Wood, an early settler and prominent citizen
of Herkimer county. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Herron: 1. Jesse K., born August 27,
1879. 2. Wallace Wood, born March 25, 1881 ;
married Ethel Burch, June 20, 1907 ; child,
Leslie Robert, born in Westfield, New York,
May 17, 1908. 3. Nellie Leverna, born June
4, 1883 ; married, June 26, 1907, Gerald Gil-
man Gibbs. 4. Anna Almeda, born August 26,
if

The name of Stuart and
STEWART Stewart has long been asso
ciated with Scotland, and
tales of romantic interest have been built
around the Highland devotion to the Stuart
cause and unfortunate "Prince Charlie." The
lineage of the Stewarts of Silver Creek, New
York, herein recorded, is traced to the time
of Cromwell, "The Protector." They were
one of the many Scotch familes who sought
refuge in the- North of Ireland, from whence
their descendants came to America, founding
that race here known as "Scotch-Irish" that
played so important a part in the settlement
of Western Pennsylvania, and of whom it is
proudly boasted "never produced a Tory."
The founder of this branch in the United
States, Adam Stewart, was born in London
derry, Ireland, of Scotch parents, in 1756.
At the age of twenty he came to America,
settling in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He
married in Berks county. Later he removed

to Sadsbury township, Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, where he died at the unusual
age of ninety-four years. He was a man large
of stature and known far and near as Squire
Stewart from having been justice of the peace
for many years. For over fifty years he was
an elder of the Presbyterian church, that office
in those days having a life tenure. He was
held in deepest respect during his active years
and with utmost veneration as his years passed
man's allotted period and neared the century
mark. He retained his faculties to the last,
retaining his interest in the church and in cur
rent events until the very last moment of life.
He was a great reader and fell from his chair
with a newspaper in his hand. On being raised
from the floor he was found to be lifeless.
He married (first) Jane Feister, who died
about 181 1, the mother of eight children. He
married (second) Lydia Schuylmacher, the
mother of five.
(II) Aaron, son of Adam Stewart, was
born in Sadsbury township, Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, October 11, 1801, died there
October 5, 1871. He was a merchant in the
town of Evansburg, Crawford county, but in
his later years retired to a farm, continuing
there until his death. He was a Democrat in
politics. He married Margaret McMichael (a
native of the same town), born June 19, 1802,
died there March 21, 1847. Children, all born
in Crawford county, Pennsylvania: 1. Mary
Crawford, born February 24, 1823, died Feb
ruary 21, 1847; married Hiram Stoddard. 2.
George S., July 3, 1825, died August 23, 1898;
married Damaris Rooker. 3. Adam, Novem
ber 23, 1827, died August 25, 1908; married
Ellen R. Stevens ; children : Frederick Shat>
tuck, Franklin Pierce, Altamont Stratton,
Belle, Margaret and Sadie. 4. Rosanna, Au
gust 16, 1831, died September 22, 1905; mar
ried David J. Hood. 5. Eliza, September 8,
1833 ; married, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, July
21, 1870, Stephen Boyd, born in Ontario, Can
ada, near Oxford Mills ; came to the United
States in 1865, going to Denver, Colorado,
later to Laramie, Wyoming. Children: i.
Bertha, born April 11, 1872. ii. Minnie, Feb
ruary 13, 1874, died March 15, 1874. iii. Lil
lian, October 28, 1876; married, October 12,
1899, Elwyn W. Condit ; has a son Elwyn
Boyd, born April 16, 1901. Mrs. Boyd, now
seventy-eight years of age, resides in Laramie,
Wyoming ; was one of the first jury composed
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own handwriting she furnished important data
for this record. 6. Amelia, May 17, 1836;
married Peter Conver; died May 14, 1883.
7. Anna, October 28, 1838; married Hamilton
Armour Adams. 8. James F., March 21,
1841 ; married Mary McElhenny ; children :
William W., George S. and Blanche. 9. Theo
dore (of further mention) .
(Ill) Theodore, son of Aaron Stewart, was
born in Evansburg, Crawford county, Penn
sylvania, October 28, 1844. He was educated
at Evansburg and at Meadville Academy,
Meadville, Pennsylvania; also at Poughkeep-
sie, New York, Business College. At the age
of eighteen he went to Franklin, Pennsylvania,
where he entered a banking office which after
ward became the Venango National Bank of
Franklin, Pennsylvania, remaining there until
it failed in 1866. In that year he came to
Silver Creek, Chautauqua county, New York,
to take a similar position with the Bank of
Silver Creek, continuing until 1876, when that
institution discontinued business, fie engaged
in mercantile life in Silver Creek as senior
member of Stewart & Company, which firm
conducted a successful business until 1899,
when he again entered the financial field. In
May, 1899, he organized, with others, the
State Bank of Silver Creek. He was chosen
cashier and is now vice-president. He has
other important business interests, one being
the Columbian Postal Supply Company, manu
facturers of cancelling machines, used in the
postofiices for the cancellation of stamps. He
also holds official position in the Silver Creek
Sand Company, Silver Creek Gas and Im
provement Company, and the People's Electric
Light and Power Company. He is an Inde
pendent in politics, considering the man more
than his party. For several years he has been
treasurer of the village corporation of Silver
Creek. He has always been active in the Pres
byterian church and for some time has filled
the office of elder.
He married, November 29, 1882, Antoinette
More, born at Silver Creek, New York, Sep
tember 28, 1864, daughter of Henry D. and
Elizabeth More (see More V). Children:
1. Vernon Theodore, born November 13, 1883 ;
educated in Silver Creek schools ; graduate of
high school, 1900; graduate of Syracuse Uni
versity, class of 1905, and soon after entered
the National City Bank of New York City.
In 1910 he became cashier of the State Bank
of Silver Creek, of which he has been a di

rector since 1905. He is a member of Beta
Theta Pi (college fraternity), and April 14,
1895, became a member of the Presbyterian
church of Silver Creek. He married, Septem
ber 8, 1908, Helen L., daughter of Ralph J.
and Corinne (Howes) Quale, of Buffalo, New
York ; child : Richard More, born March 29,
1910. 2. Ethel, born July 10, 1885, at Silver
Creek, New York; united with the Presby
terian church of Silver Creek, January 2,
1898; graduate of the high school, 1904, and
president of her class ; graduate of Elmira Col
lege, 1908; was president of her class during
her freshman year; graduate of Fredonia
State Normal School, 1910, and since 1910 a
teacher in the Silver Creek high school.
(The More Line).
(II) John (2) More, of Roxbury, Delaware
county, New York, was the son of John (1)
and Isabel (Buncan) More. He was born in
Forres, Elginshire, Scotland, February 24,1745,
died in Roxbury, New York, January 1, 1840.
In 1772 he came to America, settling in Dela
ware county, New York, where he cleared
ground, built a log cabin and passed through
all the bitter experiences of the pioneer. He
was driven from his home by Indians and
spent some years in Catskill, New York, later
returning to Delaware county. He served in
the revolutionary war when necessary for
home defense, fie was the first postmaster at
Moresville, Delaware county; was appointed
magistrate by the governor, and for a long
time was the only man in his district author
ized to perform the marriage ceremony. He
married, in Elgin, Scotland, June 9, 1770,
Betty Taylor, born in Elgin, 1738, died in
Roxbury, New York, October 13, 1823. Chil
dren, first two, John and Robert, born in Scot
land ; Alexander Taylor, in Delaware county,
New York; Jonas, Jean, James and David in
Catskill, Greene county, New York; Edward
Livingston, in Moresville, Delaware county,
New York.
(Ill) Robert, son of John (2) More, the
immigrant, was born in Rothiemurchus, Inver
ness, Scotland, July 8, 1772, died February
19, 1849, in Prattsville, New York. He mar
ried (first) Susanna Fellows, born January
30, 1776, in Old Canaan, Connecticut, died
August 18, 1824, in Roxbury, New York,
daughter of David and Lois (Stevens) Fel
lows. He married (second) Polly Moffatt,
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Children by first wife : David Fellows, Eliza
beth and Lois (twins), Alexander, Edward
A., William, Henry Fellows, James and Lois
Ann. (IV) William, son of Robert More, was
born in Roxbury, Delaware county, New-
York, September 4, 1804, died at Avon
Springs, New York, September 23, 1848. He
was successively clerk at Leeds, New York ;
merchant at Holly, New York ; cashier in a
bank at Geneva, New York ; cashier at Water
loo ; cashier at Conneaut, Ohio ; cashier in a
bank at Buffalo, New York; banker and
broker at Albany, New York ; wholesale fruit
merchant, New York City, and bookkeeper.
He married Catherine Hasbrouck, born Octo
ber 9, 1803, in Kingston, New York ; died
there March 10, 1884. Children : James Has
brouck, Henry Dwight, Susan Frances and
William Linus.
(V) Henry Dwight, son of William More,
was born in Geneva, Ontario county, New
York, September 18, 183 1, died in Brooklyn,
New York, May 2, 1889. He married, June
19, 1856, Elizabeth Cockburn, born August 9,
1835, in Kingston, Ulster county, New York,
died December 4, 1880, at Silver Creek, Chau
tauqua county, New York, daughter of Lucas
Keersted and Maria (Shaw) Cockburn. Chil
dren: 1. William, born in Brooklyn, New
York, June 14, 1861 ; married, October 11,
1883, Mary E. Winters ; children : Jessie and
Grace. 2. Antoinette, born in Silver Creek,
New York, September 28, 1864; married, No
vember 29, 1882, Theodore Stewart (see
Stewart III). 3. Edwin W., born in Brook
lyn, New York, May 20, 1870; married, Janu
ary 22, 1906, Isabelle Hildagarde Sheehan, at
Atlanta, Georgia.

Among the early proprietors of
NELSON Brimfield, Massachusetts, were
John, William and Moses Nell-
son, or Nilson, as written in the early records,
later their descendants appear in the same
town records as Nelson. The Buffalo family
herein recorded descend from William Nelson,
a supposed descendant of Thomas Nelson,
who came with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers from
Rowley, England, in December, 1638, settling
at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he held many
positions of trust. He was called to England
on business, was taken sick there, and died
in 1648. His wife was Joan Dummer.
(I) William Nelson, of whom the first rec

ord appears in America, was one of the first
proprietors of Brimfield, Massachusetts, with
wife Elinore. Their parentage is unknown.
He died at Brimfield, in October, 1750; she
died there, October 16, 1757.
(II) John, third son of William Nelson, a
resident of Brimfield, died in 1783, at Whit-
ingham, Vermont, fie married Abigail. Chil
dren: 1. John, born October, 1749; settled
in Whitingham, Vermont, where he died;
married (first) Mary Fenton, (second) Eliza
beth  :. 2. Andrew, born April 14, 1757.
3. Benjamin, born April 23, 1758, died in At
tica, New York, October 10, 1842; married,
February 26, 1779, Anne Fenton. 4. William.
5. George, of whom further. 6. Edward, born
February 22, 1765, died at Bernardston, Mas
sachusetts, December 10, 1862; married, 1790,
Hannah Ranger.
(Ill) George, son of John Nelson, was born
in Brimfield, Massachusetts, May 13, 1762, .
died there October 14, 1842. He was a farmer
all his active life, fie moved to Attica, New
York, where his elder brother Benjamin had
settled, but after a few years returned to Mas
sachusetts. He married, June 1, 1789, Susan,
daughter of David Fenton. Children: 1. Eu
nice, born February 1, 1790, died June, 1841 ;
married Willard Thompson. 2. Andrew, born
February 2, 1793, died September 11, 1794.
3. Willard, born May 9, 1795, died in Massa
chusetts, about i860; married Orilla, daughter
of Daniel and Abigail Moulton (see Moul-
ton). 4. John, of whom further. 5. Adin,
born March 5, 1799, died at Wales, Massachu
setts, August 14, 1867 ; married Sally  .
6. Andrew, born May 26, 1801, died at Hen
derson, Illinois, August 26, 1868. 7. Ruea,
born September 11, 1804, died July, 1893, and
is buried at Wales, Massachusetts. 8. Free
man, born October 5, 1805, died at Stevens
Point, Wisconsin, April 15, 1883. 9. Louisa,
born December 14, 1812, died at Wales, Mas
sachusetts, in 1892.
(IV) John (2), third son of George Nel
son, was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts,
August 28, 1796, died September 6, 1868, at
Attica, New York. In the year 1818 he re
moved with his wife, one son and what few
belongings they had, in an ox cart, to Attica,
New York, then practically a wilderness, and
settled upon a piece of heavily timbered land,
clearing off thirty acres of solid timber with
an ax, fencing same in with a six-rail fence,
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building his own cabin on this place. During
the early part of his residence here, which
was before the days of railroads or even the
Erie canal, he walked back to his old home in
Massachusetts four times, a distance of eight
hundred miles on each round trip, which dis
tance he covered in sixteen days actual walk
ing time. He was a farmer during his active
years, and in politics a Whig, later a Repub
lican. He married, September 13, 1816,
Fidilla Moulton, born May 12, 1796, at Mon-
son, Massachusetts, died at Attica, New York,
May 31, 1874, daughter of Daniel and Abigail
(Blodgett) Moulton (see Moulton). Chil
dren: 1. James Lawrence, born February 27,
1817, in Massachusetts, died in Attica, New
York, August 15, 1896; married, October 13,
1856, Emily Lindsay. 2. Adin, born at At
tica, New York, May 5, 1819, died there De
cember 8, 1906; married, January 13, 1848,
Eliza Gardner, born September 5, 1828. 3.
Fenton, born January 24, 1821, at Attica, died
in Wisconsin, June 14, 1893 ; married Irene
Phillips. 4. Abigail, born in Attica, June 11,
1823, died there unmarried, November 25,
1846. 5. George, born in Attica, November
12, 1825, died there May 12, 1905 ; married,
October 22, 185 1, Ann Banta Nelson, who
died June 6, 1866. 6. Olive, born December
19, 1827, at Bennington, New York, died
March 30, 1904, at Varysburg, New York;
married Sylvester Hauver, March 15, 1855.
7. Luvan, born December 19, 1829, at Ben
nington, died at Batavia, New York, February
7, 1869; married Penrose Garrett. 8. Francis
Bolivar, born June 27, 1832, at Attica, New
York; married, October 31, 1861, Melissa
Gorton. 9. John Seaward, of whom further.
10. Mary, born June 11, 1838, at Attica, died
there February 21, 1872; married Lathrop
Blodgett. (V) John Seaward, son of John (2) Nel
son, was born in Attica, New York, October
17, 1835, died there January 1, 1903. He was
educated in the public schools, and spent his
business life engaged in agriculture. He was
a Republican in politics. He married, March
2, 1859, Emmeline Locke, born at Bennington,
New York, June 5, 1836, died at Attica, Sep
tember 28, 1901.' Children: John Moulton,
of whom further; Addie L., born December
10, 1867, married, January 1, 1893, Edwin P.
Burr. (VI) John Moulton, only son of John Sea
ward Nelson, was born in Attica, New York,

October 31, 1861. He was educated in the
public school, finishing his studies at Attica
high school. He began business life as a book
keeper for John Belden at his coal and lum
ber office, remaining three years. In 1884 he
embarked in the same business in Attica for
his own account, continuing until 1889. He
then became a salesman for the Whitney Kem-
merer Coal Company of New York City. In
1895 he came to Buffalo as resident manager
of the Buffalo branch of the Rochester-Pitts
burgh Coal and Iron Company, and so con
tinues (1912). He is an independent Repub
lican, and with his family is an attendant of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He mar
ried, at Attica, New York, February 7, 1883,
Ella, daughter of Qiauncy G. and Marcia
(Gregory) Rykerd. They have no children.
(The Moulton Line).
This name figures prominently in English
history from the year 1066, when Sir Thomas
De Moulton fought with his King, William
the Conqueror, at the battle of Hastings. In
1 100 the town of Moulton was founded in
England. The family was noble and bore
arms of generally the same design. In 1571
was granted the arms borne by ancestors of
the American family : Argent three bars gules
between eight escalop shells sable: three, two,
two and one ; crest, on a pellet a falcon rising
argent. In 1664 a Robert Moulton was an
admiral in the British navy. The American
ancestor and emigrant is Robert Moulton, son
of Rev. Robert Moulton, of the Established
Church. He was a son of Sir Thomas Moul
ton. (I) Robert Moulton landed from England
in 1629, accompanied by his brother James,
and a son Robert, a clergyman of the Church
of England. He was made a freeman May
18, 1631, and from a letter to Governor Endi-
cott it is learned that Robert Moulton was
entrusted with all the shipwright tools and
supplies sent to the colonies, the letter stipu
lating that Robert Moulton was to have
"cheife charge." He was probably the first
well-equipped shipbuilder that ever landed in
New England, fie built the first vessels in
Salem and Medford. He was a member of
the colonial legislature, representing the town
of Salem. He lived in Charlestown 1630- 1635,
where the navy yard now stands, and had
a home there. The place was called Moulton's
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when they crossed from Boston to fight the
Americans at Bunker Hill. He afterward
moved to Salem, where he built a house which
is yet in good condition and was continuously
in the Moulton name until 1904, the last male
owner also being Robert Moulton, who willed
it to a daughter. On her death in 1904, her
husband sold the property out of the family
name. He died in 1655. The name of his
wife is not known. Children: Robert, and
Dorothv, married Rev. Gasman Edwards.
(II) 'Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Moul
ton, was born in England, and came to Amer
ica with his father in 1629. He was a min
ister of the Church of England, and attempted
to establish that church in Salem, but was
opposed by Governor Endicott and others in
authority as not in accord with the ideas of
the colonists. He was rector of the Salem
church in 1640. He died in the autumn of
1665, leaving a will. He married, 1640, Abi
gail Goode, niece of Emmanuel Downing, who
married Lucy, a sister of Governor Winthrop.
Children: Abigail, born December 25, 1642,
married Benjamin Bellflower; Robert, of
whom further; John, born April 25, 1654,
married Elizabeth Corey; Samuel, died 1667;
Joseph, born January 3, 1656; Menani, born
January, 1659, married Joseph Bachelor;
Mary, born June 15, 1661, married William
Lord (2) ; Hannah, married Thomas Flint.
(Ill) Robert (3), eldest son and second
child of Rev. Robert (2) Moulton, was bap
tized in Salem, July 17, 1672, died at Brim
field, Massachusetts, between 1725 and 1731.
He married Mary Cook, in Salem, July 17,
1672, daughter of Henry and Judith Birdsall
Cook. Children : Mary, born January 2, 1673,
married Thomas Mackintire ; Robert, of whom
further; Ebenezer, April 23, 1678; Abigail,
December 28, 1681, married Zechariah Marsh;
Samuel, married Sarah Green; Martha, mar
ried Thomas Green; Hannah, unmarried.
(IV) Robert (4), eldest son and second
child of Robert (3) Moulton, was born in
Salem, July 3, 1675, died August 25, 1756,
leaving a will. He lived in Salem, Windham,
Connecticut, and Brimfield, Massachusetts. He
married, in Beverly, April 11, 1698, Hannah
Groves. Children: 1. Hannah, born August
1, 1699; married Stephen Fuller. 2. Robert,
December 18, 1700; married Elizabeth Baker.
3. Mary, September 30, 1702; married An
thony Needham. 4. Abigail, married Abel
Bingham. 5. Lois, married  Dunkee.

6. Lydia, born January 13, 1708; married
(first) Thomas King, (second)  Mer
rick. These six children were born in Salem,
those following in Windham, Connecticut:
7. Ebenezer, December 25, 1709; married Eu
nice Hall. 8. Mehitable, March 24, 1712;
married John Perry. 9. Samuel, June 15, 1714;
married Mary Haynes. 10. Susan, June 15,
1714. 11. Joseph, August 24, 1716, died Sep
tember 13, 1735. 12. Freeborn, of whom fur
ther. 13. John, February 1, 1720-1721 ; mar
ried Ruth Bound.
(V) Freeborn, twelfth child of Robert (4)
Moulton, was born in Windham, Connecticut,
in 1817. He settled in the town of Monson,
Massachusetts, where he purchased a tract of
land four miles square. Near the centre of
his tract he built in 1763 the famous mansion
"Moulton Hill," which stood until 1895, when
it was sold out of the family and torn down.
He lived there until a very old man, bequeath
ing the homestead to his son Daniel. Although
then an old man and exempt from military
duty, he shouldered his musket and responded
to the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. He
married Rebecca Walker. Children: Joseph,
born January 15, 1738 ; Rebecca, November
29, 1740, died young; Rebecca (2), born Sep
tember 30, 1742; Hannah, November 29,
1743; Freeborn, April 9, 1746; Abner, June
27, 1749; Phineas, May 15, 175 1 ; Elijah, Au
gust 10, 1753; Calvin, 1758; Daniel, of whom
further; Luther, 1763. Abner, Elijah and
Calvin were soldiers in the revolutionary war.
(VI) Daniel, tenth child of Freeborn Moul
ton, was born in Monson, Massachusetts,
March 12, 1762, died there March, 1849, aged
eighty-seven years. He inherited the paternal
mansion on Moulton Hill and the homestead
farm. He was a man of education, strong
character and sound judgment. He taught
school for forty years and held many of the
town offices of Monson. At the age of seven
teen years he enlisted, July 12, 1779, in Cap
tain Joshua Shaw's company (Sixth Hampden
County Regiment), and served at New Lon
don. He married Abigail Blodgett, born in
Stafford, Connecticut, daughter of Joshua
Blodgett, also a revolutionary soldier, and
granddaughter of Daniel Alden, a direct de
scendant of John and Priscilla Alden of the
"Mayflower." Daniel Alden served in the
revolution, from Bridgewater, joining Wash
ington's army at Valley Forge. Children of
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rison, October 20, 1782 ; married Polly Riddle ;
children: Elbridge G., William H.,*John W.,
Susan and Mary. 2. Daniel, July 7, 1784;
studied divinity and became a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church, located in Chi
cago ; married and had : James Madison, Levi,
Daniel and Levant. 3. Violata, February 20,
1786; married John Gardner, of Brimfield,
who died in 1827; they lived in De Ruyter
and Cazenovia, New York ; children : Alfred
and Daniel. 4. Lucinda, born December 12,
1787. 5. Levi, October 28, 1789. 6. Oril,
April 21, 1792. 7. Olive, twin of Oril. 8. Asa,
bora March 26, 1794. 9. Orilla, May 12,
1796; married Willard, son of George and
Susan (Fenton) Nelson (see Nelson (III) ;
children : i. Susan, born 1820, married Cal
vin Skinner, and had Nelson, James, Adelaide
and Fred ; ii. Maud, born 1824, married Tyler
Smith, died November, 1865, had Fred, born
1 861, married May Field, and Nora, born
1865, married Charles Chamberlain; iii. Orilla,
born August 21, 1825, married Warner Ben
nett, child Cornelius, born August 1, 185 1 ;
iv. Augusta, born 1829, married (first) Albert
Dunbar, and had Charles and Adelaide; she
married (second) Roswell Moulton; v.
Samantha, born 1832, died September, 1886,
married George Shaw, and had William; vi.
Cornelius, born 1834, died 1880, married
Lauriston Moulton, and had : Mabel, married
Dr. Webber, and Samuel; vii. Willard, born
1840, served three years in the civil war, child,
Willard. 10. Fidilla, of whom further. 11.
Tamar, born May 18, 1798, died August 2,
1849; married 1792, died September 6, 1847.
12. Electa, born October 23, 1800. 13. Maria,
November 22, 1802.
(VII) Fidilla, twin of Orilla, and tenth
child of Daniel and Abigail (Blodgett) Moul
ton, was born in Monson, Massachusetts, May
12, 1796, died May 31, 1874, at Attica, New
York. She married, September 12, 1816, John,
son of George and Susan (Fenton) Nelson
(see Nelson (III). The Nelson family of Dunkirk,
NELSON New York, is of Scotch-Irish
and English ancestry, descend
ing in the paternal line from Joseph Nelson,
of Ireland, and in the maternal line from Wil
liam Bartholomew. The family was originally
Scotch, and in religion Covenanters. At the
restoration of the monarchy under Charles II,
this sect was made the object of bitter perse

cution, and thousands took refuge in the north
of Ireland. Forming a distinct people, they
came to be known as Scotch-Irish, a people
of strong character and peculiarly devoted to
their religion. Among them was numbered
the Nelson family.
Descended from the stock above mentioned
was Joseph Ndson, whose mother was a di
rect descendant of John Knox, the famous
Scotch divine and reformer. Joseph Nelson's
native place was Dromore, county Down,
whence he removed to Banbridge, Ireland,
where he died. He was a manufacturing
jeweler and a noted clockmaker. One of his
specialties was the making of the old tall
clocks known as "grandfather's clock," many
of which he exported to the United States.
He married Mary Jane Gilbert, whose father,
Rev. Adam Gilbert D. D., was a Scotchman
and Covenanter, who became a Presbyterian
when the two churches merged, and was sent
to Ireland as a missionary by the Scotch Pres
byterian church. Children of Joseph and
Mary Jane (Gilbert) Nelson: Robert, Ann,
and Joseph.
Joseph Nelson, youngest child of Joseph
and Mary Jane (Gilbert) Nelson, was born in
Dromore, county Down, Ireland, August 7,
1832. He was well educated, and at the age
of eighteen years came to the United States
with his elder brother Robert, aged twenty-
two years, and their sister Ann, after the
death of their mother and their father's sec
ond marriage. They arrived at Dunkirk on
May 4, 1850. The brothers had a perfect
practical knowledge of the jeweler's business,
gained with their father in Ireland, and de
cided to establish in that line in Dunkirk,
which they did most successfully. After a
partnership for several years in the retail busi
ness, they finally decided to abandon it and
confine themselves entirely to wholesale
jewelry business, and having dissolved part
nership, Robert went to Toledo, Ohio, where
he successfully established himself. Joseph
remained in Dunkirk, continuing in the whole
sale jewelry business and with much success,
until his retirement. The business which he
founded was conducted under the firm name
of Joseph Nelson & Company, wholesale
jewelry and silverware dealers, and is notable
as the oldest in its particular line of all firms
in the United States operating continuously
under the same firm name, and will live after
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his life, he made for himself a name and a
reputation for the strictest integrity, lofty
character, public spirit and well planned phil
anthropy. Pie had been a member of his mother's
church (the Presbyterian) in his early years,
but for the last fifty-four years of his life
he was a devoted member of the Dunkirk Bap
tist church. He was most liberal in his sup
port of his own church and of all Christian
organizations and benevolences of whatever
denomination. He was intensely public-
spirited and gave loyal support to every enter
prise for the advancement of Dunkirk's ma
terial and moral interests. He was the soul
of business integrity, and held in universal
esteem in his city. He had no club or secret
order affiliation, being a man of quiet domestic
tastes, devoted to home and family. His only
sister Ann was an inmate of his home until
her death, unmarried. He married, in Sheri
dan, New York, June 29, 1858, Julia Ann Bar
tholomew, born in Sheridan, December 12,
1840, daughter of Henry (see Bartholomew).
Children, all born in Dunkirk: 1. Isabelle,
married Frank Gilbert. 2. Leah, married
Henry Van der Voert ; children, born in Dun
kirk: Hildegarde, married Daniel W.
Lathrop; Joseph Nelson, and Henry Ferdi
nand. 3. Julia, married James Lyman Van
Buren, who died February 26, 1910; children,
born in Dunkirk : Josephine Nelson, Nellie
Caroline, James Henry, Joseph Nelson (twin
of James Henry), James Lyman, and Robert
Nelson, died aged two years. 4. Josephine,
died in infancy.
Mr. Nelson died at his home in Central Ave
nue, Dunkirk, June 28, 1909. His death was
sincerely deplored by the entire community,
and during the funeral hour all places of busi
ness in the city stood closed.
(The Bartholomew Line).
This surname was derived from the ancient
Hebrew or Syriac personal name Bartholmai,
modified in Greek and Roman spelling. Like
the other names of Christ's Apostles, Bar
tholomew came into use as a baptismal name
in every Christian country, even before the
use of surnames.
The Bartholomew family in England ap
pears to date back to the origin of the use of
surnames. The ancient coat-of-arms : Argent
a chevron engrailed between three lions
rampant sable. One branch of the ¦ family

bears this : Or three goats' heads erased
sable. Crest : A demi-goat argent gorged
with a chaplet of laurel vert.
John, Robert and Richard Bartholomew
were living about 1550, in Warborough, Ox
fordshire, England. Robert and Richard
were brothers, and from the fact that John's
son was an overseer of Richard's will it is in
ferred that John was a brother also. They
were landowners, church wardens and men
of consequence in the community. They fre
quently used the term, "alias Martyn," after
Bartholomew, presumably having adopted the
name of a maternal ancestor, as was frequently
the case, to secure an inheritance. Oliver
Cromwell's name is given in early records
alias Williams, his paternal ancestors being of
the Williams family.
(I) John Bartholomew lived in Warbor
ough, England. He married there, November
22, 1 55 1, Alice Scutter, who was probably
his second wife.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Bartholo
mew, married, in Warborough, November 6,
1552, Margaret Joyes. He was made overseer
of his uncle Richard's estate in 1577. His
four sons apparently all settled in the neigh
boring towns of Oxford and Burford. Chil
dren : John, baptized June 19, 1556, married
Ales Vicarage; Rowland, baptized December
5, 1561, (twin), died 1587; Richard (twin),
baptized December 5, 1561, buried in Burford,
April 29, 1632 ; William, of whom further.
(Ill) William, son of John (2) Bartholo
mew, was baptized in Warborough, February
7, 1567, and buried May 6, 1634. He settled
in Burford, where he was a mercer, a dealer
in silks and woolens. His will was dated
April 25, 1634. He married Friswide, daugh
ter of William Metcalfe, mayor of New
Woodstock, a neighboring town. She was
buried in Fulbrooke, December 10, 1647. Chil
dren : Mary, married, June 28, 1620, Richard
Tidmarsh; John, inherited father's estate and
business, and died November 15, 1639; Wil
liam, born 1602-3, of whom further; Henry,
born 1606-7, died November 22, 11692, in
Salem, Massachusetts; Richard, supposed to
have died in London, or on a return trip from
London to Massachusetts; Francis, baptized
in Burford, February 13, 1613-14; Thomas,
baptized June 30, 1616; Abraham, died in Bur
ford, March 22, 1646-47; Sarah, baptized
April 14, 1623.
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Bartholomew, was born in Burford, England,
1602-3. He received a good education. He
went to London, and married Anne, sister of
Robert Lord, afterward his next neighbor in
Ipswich, Massachusetts. Before September,
1634, he had entertained the famous Mrs.
Anne Hutchinson at his London home. On
September 18, 1634, he arrived in Boston,
Massachusetts, in the ship "Griffin," in the
same company with Anne Hutchinson, Rev.
John Lothrop and others. He was admitted
a freeman March 4, 1634-5, and at the same
time was given permission to trade with ves
sels at Ipswich, where he settled. He received
several grants of land there in 1635, and was
deputy to the general court the same year,
serving again in 1636-37-41-47-50. He was
often on the jury; was commissioner, town
clerk, assessor, selectman, treasurer of the
county, and often on important committees.
He removed to Boston about 1660, and in
1662 was overseer of the mill of William
Brown, of Boston. He is called a merchant,
of Boston. He died in Charlestown, at the
home of Jacob Green, January 18, 1680-81.
His grave is in the Phipps street cemetery,
Charlestown, near that of John Harvard. His
wife Anne died in Charlestown, January 29,
1682-3, and her gravestone is still standing.
Children: Mary, married (first) in Glouces
ter, December 24, 1652, Matthew Whipple,
(second) Jacob Greene; Joseph, born about
1638, resided in London, England, in 1693;
William, of further mention.
(V) Lieutenant William (3), son of Wil
liam (2) Bartholomew, was born at Ipswich,
1640-1,'and died in the spring of 1697. He
learned the trade of carpenter, and settled first
in Roxbury. He sold his Roxbury land in
1676-7, and removed to Deerfield, Massachu
setts, where he bought the home lot of Peter
Woodward. At the time of the raid of the
Indians on Hatfield, September 19, 1677, he
was there with his family. His daughter Abi
gail, aged four, was among the captives taken
to Canada and was ransomed eight months
later. In 1679 he removed to Branford, Con
necticut, where he was granted twenty acres
of land, built a saw mill and kept an ordinary
or inn. He was elected surveyor and fence
viewer. In 1687 the town of Woodstock re
quested him to build a mill in their town and
offered him a grant of land. He was com
missioned ensign of the New Roxbury com
pany, as Woodstock was then called (July 13,

1689), and in 1691 became lieutenant. In 1692
he was the first deputy to the general court
from Woodstock. He died in Woodstock, in
1697. He married, in Roxbury, December 17,
1663, Mary Johnson, born April 24, 1642,
daughter of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth (Por
ter) Johnson, granddaughter of John Johnson,
who held the title of "Surveyor of all ye
King's armies in America." fier father was
killed in the Narragansett fight, December
19, 1675, as he was leading his men over the
bridge (a fallen tree) into the enemy's fort.
Children: Isaac, born November 1, 1664, died
October 25, 1727; William, October 16, 1666;
Mary, October 26, 1668; Andrew, December
11, 1670, of whom further; Abigail, December
8, 1672, married (first) January 11, 1691-2,
Joseph Frizzel, (second) 1709, Samuel Paine,
died 1732 ; Elizabeth, March 15, 1674-5, mar
ried November 21, 1699, Edmund Chamber
lain; Benjamin, born about 1677; John, about
1679; Joseph, about 1682.
(VI) Andrew, son of William (3) Bar
tholomew, was baptized December 11, 1670,
in Roxbury. He managed his father's mills
in Branford after the latter's removal to
Woodstock, and after his father's death owned
and operated them in company with his brother
Benjamin. On January 11, 171 1-2, the prop
erty was divided and Andrew bought large
quantities of land in Branford, Wallingford,
and adjoining towns. He removed to Wall
ingford before 1729,. and continued there the
remainder of his life. He was a leading citi
zen, and often held positions of trust. He was
admitted to the church there in 170.1. He
married Hannah Frisbie, died February 2,
1 741, daughter of Samuel Frisbie, of Bran
ford. Children: 1. William, born February
2, 1699. 2. Susannah, February 4, 1701-2. 3.
Hannah, August 17, 1704; married. Novem
ber 19, 1724, Joseph Barker. 4. Samuel, Sep
tember 12, 1706; died 1795. 5. Daniel, Octo
ber 16, 1708; died October 25, 1777 6. Re
becca, March 28, 1712 ; married, October 19,
1732, Peter Hall; died October 3, 1791. 7.
Rev. Andrew, November 7, 1714; graduated
at Yale College, 1731, was settled minister at
Harwinton, Connecticut, October 4, 1738, and
continued as pastor thirty-five years. 8. Tim
othy, February 28, 1716-7; died April 27,
1749. 9. Joseph, of further mention. 10. John,
February 8, 1723-4. 11. Martha.
(VII) Lieutenant Joseph, son of Andrew
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in Branford, Connecticut, May 6, 1721, died in
Wallingford, Connecticut, October 27, 1781.
He marched on the Lexington alarm of April
19, 1775, and served eight days. His com
mission of lieutenant from the general court
placed him in command of all the men in town
subject to military duty. He married, Janu
ary 13, 1741, Mary Sexton. Children: Han
nah, Andrew, Joseph, died young ; Jonathan,
and Joseph (2).
(VIII) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Mary (Sexton) Bartholomew, was born at
Wallingford, Connecticut, 1748, died April,
1821. His farm was on what was called
"Whirlwind Hill," now known as East Farms,
in Wallingford, a large part being yet owned
in the family. He married (first) Martha
Morse, who died about 1781 ; (second) about
1784, Damarius Hall, who died November 6,
1819. Children, first three by first wife : Isaac
(2), married Lydia Curtiss; Levi Moss, mar
ried (first) Lucy Ives, (second) Pamelia Pot
ter ; Joseph, of whom further ; Samuel, mar
ried (first) Sylvia Hood, (second) Hannah,
widow of Stoddard Neal ; Ira (2), married
Eunice Hall ; Orrin, married his second
cousin Emmeline Bartholomew.
(IX) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Bar
tholomew, was born in Wallingford, Connecti
cut, settled in New York state, first at Sheri
dan, where he was an early settler. The tract
of land he purchased was virgin wilderness,
but he erected a log cabin, cleared a farm,
and prospered. He lived and labored there
the remainder of his life. He married, March
18, 1804, Julia Howd. Children: 1. Eliza,
married W. PI. Parker. 2. William, died aged
nineteen years. 3. Polly, married Harry Hall.
4. Sylvia Ann, married Ives Andrews. 5.
Stephen Decatur, died young. 6. Almon, died
aged nine years. 7. Henry, of whom further.
8. Joseph, a prominent dry goods merchant of
Dunkirk; married (first) Cornelia Herten,
(second) Elizabeth Pearson. 9. Nelson, asso
ciated with his brother in the dry goods busi
ness ; he built and managed the Dunkirk Opera
House, which after his death came under the
management of Joseph Nelson ; died unmar
ried. 10. William A., died unmarried. 11.
Stephen Decatur (2), married Julia E. Allen.
(X) Henry, eldest son and seventh child of
Joseph (3) and Julia (Howd) Bartholomew,
was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, June 7,
1818, died in Dunkirk, New York, November,
1871. He came to Sheridan, New York, with

his father, and for several years followed
farming. He then removed to Dtinkirk, where
he was a successful manufacturer of boxes of
various kinds. In his later years he retired
from business and returned to Sheridan, re
siding on a farm of about three hundred acres,
where his last years were spent, dying in Dun
kirk. He married Isabella Paterson, born in
Oneida county, New York, July 7, 1819, died
1854; children, a son dying in infancy and
three daughters : 1. Julia Ann, married Joseph
Nelson (q. v.). 2. Mary, married (first) Wil
liam A. Post, a captain in the civil war, and
killed while employed on Erie railroad as en
gineer; child: William (2) Post. She mar
ried (second) Charles Van Wagner. 3. Helen
Isabella, married William L. Slater, of Dun
kirk, now a resident of Jamestown (see
Slater VI).
Mrs. Julia A. Bartholomew Nelson survives
her husband, and resides at Dunkirk, where
she is held in the highest esteem.

This branch of the Gilbert
GILBERT family in the United States is
of English ancestry. Its Eng
lish progenitors were of the working class
who, as one descendant writes, "lived peace
ful, honest lives." Samuel Gilbert was an
English working man, who, with wife Susan
nah, belonged to the Episcopal church. They
had children: John, Arthur, Henry and
Susan. The family home was in Cornwall.
John, born 181 1, was the first of the family
to come to the United States. He married,
in England, 1833, Mary  , born 1814,
and in 1840 he left England for the United
States. In 1843 his wife, with four children
and her brother-in-law, Henry Gilbert, fol
lowed, making the journey from England to
Ravenna, Ohio, in thirteen weeks.
(II) Henry, son of Samuel and Susannah
Gilbert, was born in Cornwall, England, about
18 1 5. He learned the cabinetmaker's trade,
and in 1843 came to the United States with
his brother Henry's family. He first settled
at Ravenna, Ohio, later in Londonville, Ash
land county, Ohio. He was a Baptist in re
ligion, and a Republican, holding the offices
of councilman and member of the school board
at Londonville. He married, about 1850, Eliz
abeth Sprague, born in Londonville, Ohio,
daughter of William Jasper Sprague, born on
a farm near Fly Creek, Chautauqua county,
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life lived in Dunkirk, New York. He married
Rebecca Jones, of Londonville, Ohio. Chil
dren: Ann, Margaret, Louisa, James and
Elizabeth, who married Henry Gilbert. Their
children : Henry Washington, born February
22, 1852; John. Franklin, of further mention;
William Jasper, born August 26, 1856; Clem
ent Girard, October 8, 1858 ; Thomas Burton ;
Lou Harriet; George; Benjamin; Joseph
Nelson. (Ill) John Franklin, son of Henry and
Elizabeth E. (Sprague) Gilbert, was born in
Londonville, Ashland county, Ohio, June 30,
1854. He was educated in the public schools.
He came to Dunkirk and became employed
with Joseph Nelson, where he learned the
jewelry business, continued in his employ, and
in June, 1898, was made a member of the
firm, continuing in partnership with him up
to the death of Mr. Nelson, June 28, 1909.
Since that time he has continued in business
alone. The firm has been very successful, and
is well known to the trade,. Mr. Gilbert has
given close attention to business and • ranks
high in commercial circles. He is a stock
holder in the Citizens' Savings Bank of his
native town, Londonville, Ohio, and has other
business interests. He has been a member of
the Masonic order for many years, and an
active worker in his lodge. He was formerly
a member of clubs and societies in his city,
but for many years has held no club member
ships. He married, at Dunkirk, New York,
October 15, 1896, Isabelle Bartholomew Nel
son, born in Dunkirk, July 3, 1859, daughter
of Joseph and Julia Ann (Bartholomew) Nel
son, of Dunkirk (see Nelson and Bartholo
mew). Mrs. Gilbert is a leading member of
the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert have no children.

This family is of Welsh ances-
SLATER try, the name originally being
Slaughfter, also Slafter and
later Slater. The first settlement in America
was about 1680, when John Slaughfter settled
in Lynn, Massachusetts, removing to Mans
field, Connecticut, as early as 1716, and was
an original settler in 1721 of Wellington, Con
necticut, where he was the first grand juror
for that town. He died there before 1754.
He married and had a son Samuel.
(II) Samuel, son of John Slater (as the
name is now spelled), of Mansfield and Wel
lington, Connecticut, was born August, 1696,

died at Mansfield, July 31, 1770; married,
January 24, 1721-22, Dorothy Fenton, and had
a son John.
(Ill) John (2), son of Samuel and Dorothy
(Fenton) Slater, was born at Mansfield, Con
necticut, May 26, 1739, died at Norwich, Ver
mont, October 8, 1819. He, with two com
panions, made the first settlement at Norwich.
He married (first) March 26, 1767, Elizabeth
Hovey; (second) October 5, 1815, Priscilla
Hovey. Among the children of first marriage
was a son Elihu.
(IV) Elihu, believed to be a son of John
(2) and Elizabeth (Hovey) Slater, was born
at Norwich, Vermont, between 1777 and 1779.
He married Sarah Beach, and had children:
Orin, Eben, Susan, Mary, Hugh, William, a
veteran of the civil war; Aremus (of whom
further). (V) Aremus, son of Elihu and Sarah
(Beach) Slater, was born at Cairo, Greene
county, New York, July 25, 1820, died March
30, 1873, at Dunkirk, New York. He received
a good education, and early in life entered the
railroad employ. He finally became a locomo
tive engineer and for thirty years was in ac
tive service, principally with the Erie Railroad
Company, fie lived at Hornell, New York;
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Dunkirk,
New York, the latter being his home for many
years. He was a member, and trustee of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Dunkirk, and
a man of high standing. His manly, upright
character made him many friends who sin
cerely mourned his death. In political life he
took little part, but was a supporter of the
Republican party always. He was a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in
his younger years and quite active in the or
der. He married, Mary Jane Feroe, born
April 29, 1830, at Buffalo, New York ; died
February 17, 1880, and is buried beside her
husband in the cemetery at Fredonia, New
York. She grew up in Cairo, New York,
where she was educated. Children: 1. Mary
Melissa, born February 12, 1847; married
(first) Henry Tyler; child, Mary L. ; married
(second) Melvin G. Hill; residence, Addison,
New York. 2. William Lewis (of whom fur
ther). 3. Delia Ann, born April 20, 1850,
died 1906; married Frank Bliss. 4. Adelbert,
born October 10, 1853, died November 19,
1875. 5. Edward Scott, residence, Los An
geles, California; married and had one son,
deceased ; and two daughters.

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(VI) William Lewis, son of Aremus and
Mary Jane (Feroe) Slater, was born in Cairo,
Greene county, New York, April 25, 1848.
He was educated in the public schools of the
towns in which his father resided: Hornell,
Williamsport and Dunkirk. At the age _ of
eighteen years he began business life for him
self as proprietor of a book, news and sta
tionery store, which he continued for six years.
He then entered the employ of the Erie rail
road, remaining two years. He then estab
lished in the grocery business, which he con
tinued for four years, when he sold out and
went to Arizona. After two years spent in
mining he returned to New York state and
located in Buffalo. Here he remained for
twenty-three years engaged in contracting and
building. He then removed to Adams, New
York, as superintendent of a planing mill.
Later he removed to Jamestown, New York,
where he is now connected with the Warren,
Ross Lumber Company, and resides on Fair-
mount avenue. He was made a member of
Parish Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Buffalo, later demitting to Mt. Moriah
Lodge, No. 145, of Jamestown. He also is a
member of Buffalo Chapter, No. 71, Royal
Arch Masons. He is a member of the Church
of Christ, Scientist, and in politics is a Re
publican. He married, November 11, 1869, at
Sheridan, New York, Helen Isabelle Bartholo
mew, born at Dunkirk, January 24, 1850, (see
Bartholomew X). Children: 1. Henry Lewis,
born October 6, 1870, died August 22, 1905 ;
he was a traveling salesman for Joseph Nelson
& Company, of Dunkirk, a young man of good
business ability and reputation. He belonged
to the Masonic order at Dunkirk, and was a
Republican in politics. 2. Joseph Nelson, born
at Dunkirk, July 11, 1878 ; received a technical
education, graduating from Cornell with the
class of 1903, and is a civil engineer by pro
fession, and connected with the good roads'
work in the state of New York. He is a
member of the Masonic order, belonging to
Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine. He
married Elizabeth Cornue. Children: Eliza
beth Helen and Alice Gray. 3. Leah Helen,
born in Dunkirk, September 19, 1882 ; mar
ried, September 12, 1910, Howard Raymond
Black, born at Oakland, Genesee county, New
York, November 14, 1881, son of John C. and
Ethel A. (Morsman) Black. He is secretary
of the Warren, Ross Lumber Company, of
Jamestown. One child, Howard Black. 4.

William Adelbert, born at Buffalo, New York,
June 13, 1891.

This is an ancient name in
HARVEY England, where it was brought
with William the Conqueror
by Hervens de Bourges (anglicized Hervey of
Bourges). He is shown in Domesday Book,
and in 1086 held a great barony in Suffolk.
In 1485 Turner Harvey was born, who be
came a noted archer and warrior. His arms
were : Sable on a chevron between three long
bows argent, as many pheons of the field.
Crest : A leopard or, langued gules, noling in
paw, three arrows proper. Motto : "Faites ce
que le honnewr exige." William Harvey, 1554-
67, was high in roval favor, and there is con
stant mention of the family in English records.
(I) Thomas Harvey died in Somersetshire,
England, prior to 1647. About the time of
the birth of Thomas Harvey's first child, King
James' declaration that he would make all men
conform to the Established Church or drive
them out of England, was having its due
effect, and in due time the pilgrims in the
"Mayflower" landed in New England. Thomas
Harvey's sons, William and Henry, joined the
emigration in 1636, and his daughter married
Anthony Slocum, and with him came to Amer
ica, settling in Taunton. The name of Thomas
Harvey's wife is not known, but he had an
other son James, besides the two mentioned.
(II) William, son of Thomas Harvey, was
born in Somersetshire, England, about 1614.
In company with his brother Thomas he came
to America in 1636 and settled at Dorchester.
In 1637 he was one of the company of forty-
six "first and ancient purchasers," so called,
who, "feeling much straitened for want of
room," purchased from Massasoit, Sachem of
-the Wampanoag tribe of Indians, whose seat
was at Mount Hope, the Indian title to Cohan-
net, lying thirty-two miles south of Boston, in
the colony of New Plymouth. In the summer
of 1638 the proprietors removed to their pur
chase, to which they gave the name of Taun
ton, the English home of many of them. Mr.
Harvey was the owner of eight shares in
the new purchase. His is the second recorded
marriage in the town, and is thus shown upon
the court records : "At a court of Assistants,
William Harvey and Joane Hucker of Cohan-
net were maryed the 2nd of Aprill, 1639." In
late 1639 or early in 1640 he removed with
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1646, during which period four children were
born to them. He then returned to Taunton.
In 1659 he shared in the general distribution
of land, receiving a home lot on what is now
Cohannet street. In 1661 he was appointed
excise commissioner. In 1664 he was repre
sentative to the general court, and again in
1677. For many years he was selectman, and
his name is of frequent mention in connection
with important affairs of the town. He died
in the summer of 1691, leaving a will. His
children: 1. Abigail, born April 25, 1640;
died August 20, 1691. 2. Thomas, of further
mention. 3. Experience, born March, 1644;
married her cousin, Thomas Harvey. 4. Jo
seph, born December 8, 1645 '> died 1691 ; mar
ried Esther —  . 5. Jonathan, born 1647;
died 1691 ; unmarried.
(Ill) Thomas (2), son of William and
Joane (Hucker) Harvey, was born in Boston,
December 18, 1641. In 1646 he settled with
his parents in Taunton, and in 1667 became
the owner of a right of land thereby pur
chased from Richard Stacey. In 1678 he was
described as a "husbandman," and was the
owner of land in the "South Purchase." His
name appears on the list of "the four squa
drons ordered to bring their arms to meeting
on the Lordsday" in 1682. In 1689 he was
one of the grantees named in the Bradford
deed. In 1700 he was a member of the "First
Military Company or Train band" of Taunton.
In 1708-9 he was selectman of the town, and
held that office for several years. He is of
frequent mention in the records until his death
in Taunton in 1728, in the eighty-seventh year
of his age. He married, December 10, 1679,
Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon John and Eliza
beth (Hodgkins) Willis. Deacon John came
from England to America, and was an original
proprietor and one of the first settlers of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Children: 1.
William, born January 2, 1681 ; died 1733. 2.
Thomas, of further mention. 3. John, born
February 4, 1684. 4. Jonathan, born April 30,
1685. 5. Joseph, born January 14, 1688. 6.
Hannah, born 1690; unmarried in 171 6. 7.
Elizabeth, born 1692 ; Unmarried in 1716.
8. Abigail, born 1694; married, 1739, James
Latham, of Bridgewater.
(IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and
Elizabeth (Willis) Harvey, was born in Taun
ton, Massachusetts, September 17, 1682. He
lived at Norton, where his children were born.
About 1724 or 1725 he removed with his fam

ily to Nine Partners, Dutchess county, New
York. He married, in 1706, Sarah  .
Children, born in Norton, Massachusetts: 1.
Thomas, February 18, 1707. 2. Elijah, Octo
ber 20, 1708. 3. Zechariah, May 21, 171 1.
4. Joel, of further mention. 5. Sarah, born
July 2, 1716. 6. Zebulon, May 20, 1719. 7.
Obed, March 10, 1722.
(V) Joel, son of Thomas (3) and Sarah
Harvey, was born at Norton, Bristol county,
Massachusetts, in April, 1712, and in 1724 or
1725 removed with his parents to Nine Part
ners, Dutchess county, New York. Later he
lived at New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut,
and in 1742 removed to Sharon, where he set
tled in what was called "the valley." He built
there a grist mill that stood for more than
sixty years, and a substantial stone house
which stood for a longer period. He was also
a large land owner. He died December 26,
1776. He married Sarah  . Children,
born in Sharon: 1. Sarah, July 31,-1744. 2.
Joel, of further mention. 3. Cynthia, June 8,
1749. 4. Zilphina, November. 4, 1750. 5.
James, February 23, 1753. 6. Esther, March
5. 1755- 7- William, May 23, 1757. There
were probably others born in other towns.
(VI) Joel (2), son of Joel (1) and Sarah
Harvey, was born February 11, 1746, at
Sharon, Connecticut. He removed to Wash
ington count)', New York, where he settled
in the town of Fort Ann. A relative, Medad
Harvey, had settled there prior to 1784, who
was one of the first supervisors of the town,
justice of the peace, and a farmer. Joel Har
vey married, and had a son Medad.
(VII) Medad, son of Joel (2) Harvey,
was born in the town of Fort Ann, Washing
ton county, New York, March 22, 17 — . He
served in the war of 1812, and later removed
to Onondaga county, New York, where he
engaged in farming, later, in 1823, removing
to Herkimer county. He married Mary Fos
ter, and had issue : William F., of whom fur
ther; and Oliver H.
(VIII) William F., son of Medad Harvey,
was born in Onondaga county, New York,
April 5, 1822; died February 15, 1901. In
1823 his parents removed to fierkimer county,
where he was educated in the public schools
and at Fairfield Academy. He remained there
until 1845, becoming a farmer and lumberman.
In 1879 he settled in Lockport, New York,
where he became a contractor and builder, also
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the lines of activity until his death. He was
an attendant of the Reformed Church and
member of the Masonic order. He married
(first) Sarah Brown and had three daughters,
Jane, Ellen, and Isabel. He married (second)
in fierkimer, New York, 1874, Elisabeth
(Jones) Spinner, widow of Charles Spinner,
of Herkimer, New York.
(The Spinner Line).
(II) Rev. John P. Spinner, son of John
Peter Spinner, was born in Baden, Germany,
and died in Herkimer county, New York. He
was educated in the Gymnasium of Bishopeim
and the University of Mentz. In 1789 he was
consecrated to the Roman Catholic Church.
He married Mary Magdale Fedelis Brumante,
a native of Loire; and in 1801, accompanied
by his wife, emigrated to the United States,
having renounced his priestly vows. He landed
in New York City, and in 1802 was called to
the pastorate of the Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church of German Flats (town of Mo
hawk), Herkimer county, New York. Here
he ministered to the spiritual welfare of his
people for forty-six years, broken only by a
short period of teaching. Nor were his serv
ices confined to this particular congregation,
for he preached to the people at Columbia,
Warren, Indian Castle, Manheim, Schuyler,
and in some of the towns of adjoining coun
ties, and at the church in Herkimer village.
He was thoroughly educated, and his sermons
are said to have been eloquent and masterly.
He died at his residence in Herkimer, May
27, 1848, aged eighty years. Children: Fran
cis E., John D., Peter B., Catherine L., Jacob
W., Charles, Amelia, Christian F., Mary A.
(Ill) Francis E., son of Rev. John P. Spin
ner, was born at German Flats, Herkimer
county ; was educated mostly under his father's
instruction; was for twenty years executive
officer of the Mohawk Valley Bank; held all
commissions from the governors of New York,
from lieutenant to major-general of the state
artillery; was sheriff of Herkimer county;
commissioner for building the State Lunatic
Asylum from 1845 to 1849; was auditor in the
naval office at New York City in 1854; was
elected representative from New York to the
thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congress, serving
as a member of the committee on accounts ; re
elected to the thirty-sixth congress; serving
as chairman of the committee on accounts.
In 1861 he was appointed treasurer of the

United States by President Lincoln, continu
ing in that position until 1875, when Tie re
signed. His signature was better known than
any other in this country, as it was borne upon
every bank note issued by the government be
tween the years 1861 and 1875.
(Ill) Charles, son of Rev. John P. Spinner,
was born at German Flats (where the town
of Mohawk now stands), Herkimer county,
New York, December, 1810, died October 27,
1872, and, like his brother Francis E., received
most of his instruction from his father, who
was a highly educated German minister. He
was engaged in the real estate business and
was a leading business man, and a leader in
the Democratic party. He married, May 17,
i860, Elisabeth Jones, of Herkimer, New
York. Children: 1. Charles C, born June 26,
1861, now a resident of Herkimer, New York;
married Harriet Ames, of Herkimer, August
19, 1881, and has three children : Charles F.,
Willis A. and Elizabeth. 2. Ernest F., born
March 27, 1867, died in New Mexico, Decem
ber 11, 1903; he went to Largo, New Mexico,
in 1887, engaged in the merchandise and cattle
business; married Lena Rosenburg, of Lock-
port, New York, September 2-5, 1889; they
had two sons : Carl R. and Harvey.
(The Jones Line).
Elisabeth (Jones) Spinner is a granddaugh
ter of John Jones, born in Wales, came to the
United States, where he settled in Greene
county, New York, and founded a family.
Lewis, son of John Jones, was born May
15, 1811, died January 11, 1883; married
Sarah Kelsey, born February 12, 1812, died
at Lockport, 1905. Sarah Kelsey was a daugh
ter of Robert Kelsey, born April 12, 1784, died
September 30, 1866. Elisabeth, daughter of
Lewis and Sarah (Kelsey) Jones, was born
in Greene county, New York. She married
(first) Charles Spinner; (second) William F.
Harvey (see Harvey VIII). She survives her
second husband also and resides in Lockport,
New York.

Jan Dobs or Dopse, immigrant
DOBBS ancestor of the Dobbs family of
New York, was living in Tarry-
town, Westchester county, New York, as early
as 1698 "en zyn huys vrous Abigail", and
both were members of the Dutch church at
Sleepy Hollow. He had sons, William and
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Jan Dobs, or Dopse, was born in Philadel
phia, according to various accounts, and he is
presumed to have been of Swedish ancestry,
from the New Jersey colony, but his father
was Dutch, according to very positive evidence
(see Bolton, vol. I, Records of the Dutch
Church of Tarrytown). Jan and Abigail Dobs
were sponsors at the baptism of a child of
William and Leah Dobs in 1730. William
and Leah Dobs were sponsors at various bap
tisms of children of relati-wes at Sleepy Hol
low, Tarrytown. Jan and Abigail Dobs were
sponsors in 1706-10-30. William Dobbs lived
at Tarrytown and married there, according to
the records of the Dutch church, Leah Van
Waert, of Philadelphia. Among their children
were: Abram, baptized April 11, 1730, at
Tarrytown, and Jeremiah (mentioned below).
Jeremiah, son of William Dobbs, married
Jane Le Vines and had two daughters, a son
Peter, whose descendants lived at Greenburg,
near Tarrytown, and Jeremiah Jr. Jeremiah
Dobbs Sr. was a fisherman and settled near
the southern part of what is now Dobbs Ferry
in the town of Greenburg. He "added to his
meagre income by ferriage of occasional
travelers across the Hudson. He used a style
of boat known at that day as a periauger, a
canoe hollowed out of a solid log." The canoe
was propelled by a single long oar by sculling
at the stern. From this primitive ferry the
village took its name.
In 1790 the first federal census of New
York state gave as the heads of families of
this surname, Jarvis, Jeremiah, Abraham,
Peter, John and Daniel, several of whom have
been mentioned. Daniel Dobbs was living at
Kinderhook, then Columbia county, and had
four sons under sixteen and two females in
his family. Abraham, son of William Dobbs,
was living at Greenburg and had four males
over sixteen, one under that age and three
females in his family. Jeremiah Dobbs was
of. New York City, as was also Peter, men
tioned above. John Dobbs lived in fiaver-
straw, Orange county.
We find also in New York City in early
days William Dobbs, a member of the old
Dutch church. He was born in 1718, died in
New York City, September 6, 1781, and is
buried in Trinity churchyard, Broadway. He
married Catherine Van Size, who was born
in New York City, January 25, 1710, died May
4, 1799. Children: Ann, Polly, Catherine-,
William and eight others. It is thought that

this William was a son of William, mentioned
above, and grandson of Jan. William Dobbs,
of New York, has descendants at Danbury,
Connecticut. (I) Zachariah Dobbs, a member of the fam
ily here under consideration, lived in Dutchess
county, New York. He married Loretta Cox.
They had children: Zachariah, Jordan, Mar
tin (mentioned below).
(II) Martin, son of Zachariah Dobbs, was
born in Dutchess county, New York, March
23, 1801, died April 24, 1872, at Somerset,
New York. He was educated in the district
schools. About 1834 he moved to Monroe
county, New York, where he carried on a
farm on shares for three years. In 1837 he
settled in Niagara county, in the town of Som
erset, and bought a farm of sixty acres on
the Lake road and afterward he bought an
other farm of one hundred acres on the same
road and conducted both places, raising grain
and conducting general farming for many
years. In politics he was a Republican. He
married, November 3, 1824, Ann Albertson,
born in June, 1801, in Dutchess county, New
York, died at Somerset, April 19, 1873. Chil
dren: 1. Lydia A., born November 13, 1825.
2. Harriet A., July 13, 1829; married James
Thorn. 3. Susan Mary, August 28, 1830;
married (first) John Wilson, and (second)
George V. Meseroll. 4. Edward, December 5,
1834, died young. 5. Albert N., January 31,
1837; married Addie Pettit. 6. S. Theron
(mentioned below). 7. Homer J., July 3,
1845, died young.
(Ill) S. Theron, son of Martin Dobbs, was
born October 17, 1840, in Somerset. He at
tended the public schools of his native town
and the Lockport union school. During his
boyhood he assisted his father on the farm,
and in 1865 took over the management of one
of his father's farms on shares, and in 1872
bought a farm of eighty-nine acres known as
the old Bangham farm on the Lake road. In
addition to general farming, he has made a
specialty of fruit and has an apple orchard of
sixteen acres besides other small fruits. In
politics he is a Prohibitionist, and in religion
a Methodist. He married, January 18, 1865, Hannah M.
Pease, born February 10, 1839, daughter of
Adam and Margaret (Patten) Pease. The
Pease and Patten families were early settlers
in Somerset and prominent among the found
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I. Walter T., died in infancy. 2. Lillian A.,
born February 28, 1873 ; married Glenn F.
Hood, November 9, 1910. 3. Josephine M.,
March 8, 1875 ; married Wilfrid Frost, March
17, 1897, and had Clifford E. Frost, born
December 28, 1899; Lillian A. Frost, born
May 28, 1902, and Elizabeth H. Frost, born
May 25, 1905. While this family has been in
RUSZAJ the United States and Buffalo
but two generations, they have
taken a leading position in the business and
professional life of the Polish Colony. Martin
Ruszaj, born in Germany, Province of Poland,
November 12, 1851, came to the United States
in 1872 to avoid military duty in the German
army. He is the son of John and Mary S.
(Majchrzycki) Ruszaj, of Poland, a farmer.
fie settled in Buffalo, where in 1885 he estab
lished a book and stationery store, specializing
in church supplies used by those of the Catholic
faith. His store on Peckham street was the
first of the kind kept by a Polish Catholic, and
has always been a successful one. He still
continues the business. He is a Democrat in
politics, and a member of Saint Stanislaus
Roman Catholic Church and Society. He
married, September 18, 1875, Anna, daughter
of Adelbert Fronczak, of Poland, and only
sister of Dr. Francis E. Fronczak, the well-
known physician and health commissioner of
the city of Buffalo. Children: 1. Joseph, born
February 9, 1878; resident of Buffalo; mar
ried Anastasia Kaleta ; they had four children :
Leon, Mary, Alexander, Cecelia. 2. Mary,
married Frederick Grobelski ; they had two
children : Leon and Sophie. 3. Katherine,
married Stanislaus Wawrzyniak; they had
three children: Celia, Lucy, Florence. 4.
Stanley Eustace (of whom further). 5. Agnes,
married Anthony Tabolski ; child, Flora. 6.
Walter. 7. Jennie. 8. Helen.
(II) Stanley Eustace, son of Martin and
Anna (Fronczak) Ruszaj, was born in Buf
falo, New York, February 24, 1884. He was
educated at Saint Stanislaus parochial school,
the public school of the ninth ward of Buf
falo, and the Masten Park high school, from
which he was graduated, class of 1904. He
chose the profession of dentistry, entered the
University of Buffalo, was graduated D.D.S.,
1907, and licensed to practice by the state of
New York the same year, and at once began
practice at No. 1012 Broadway, Buffalo, and

so continues. He is a Republican in politics,
and a member of the Church of the Trans
figuration (Roman Catholic), and of the
Eighth Dental District of the State of New
York. He married, August 5, 1908, Angeline
L., daughter of Marcelli and Mary (Pronobis)
Smeia. Child: Eugene, born November 11,
1910.

This is an ancient and hon-
RATCLIFFE orable family of England.
The family herein recorded
was long seated in Yorkshire, where they
were land owners. In America the name is
found among the early pilgrims. Robert Rat-
cliffe was living in Plymouth, Massachusetts,
in 1623, while Rev. Robert Ratcliffe was the
first rector of King's Chapel, Boston, 1686.
King's Chapel was fifth in the order of Boston
churches. In 1686 the first Episcopal service
was held in Boston in the "old Town House."
Rev. Robert Ratcliffe came over May 14, 1686,
in the frigate "Rose," and held the first Epis
copal service. King's Chapel was originally
a small wooden structure, but was soon re
placed by a more pretentious one of stone.
(I) John Ratcliffe, the progenitor of the
Medina Ratcliffes, lived and died at Hains-
worth, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England.
He was a cattle drover and farmer. His busi
ness in cattle called him to different parts of
England and frequently to Ireland. He was a
man of substance and good standing in his
town, well known, energetic and thrifty. He
married Mary Rhodes, of the same shire. Chil
dren : William, Thomas, Abram, John, of fur
ther mention; Susanna, and Betty, who mar
ried a Mr. Hartley.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Ratcliffe,
was born December, 1820, near Halifax,
Yorkshire, England, fie was well educated in
the county schools, and learned the butcher's
trade in the town of Preston, in Yorkshire.
In 1850, with his wife, he sailed for the United
States, landing in New York City after a
seven weeks' voyage. He came to Batavia,
Genesee county, New York, by rail, and from
there overland by team to Medina, Orleans
county, where he settled. In a short time he
began business for himself, opening a com
bined meat market and grocery store, which
he successfully and profitably conducted until
his death, June 15, 1861. fie was a man of
good business ability, upright and honorable
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politics, and a member of the Protestant Epis
copal church. He married, in Yorkshire, in
1848, Hannah Bland, born June 20, 1820,
christened at the old Bradford Episcopal
Church, Yorkshire, died at Medina, New
York, September 19, 1910, daughter of Wil
liam and Mercy (Spencer) Bland, of»Brad-
ford, in Yorkshire. William Bland was one
of the founders of the Wesleyan church of
Kingsbury, in Yorkshire, a church that has
since benefited by the generosity of his de
scendants in Medina. Children: 1. Thomas,
born June 1, 1849 (the only English-born
child of his parents), died March 12, 1850.
2. John T., born in Medina, March 28, 1851,
died August 23, i860. 3. Mary Hannah, of
further mention. 4. Rhodes Edward, born
February 25, 1857, in Medina, died there Feb
ruary 11, 190 1. fie was educated in the pub
lic schools, learned the trade of harness
maker, and maintained a place of business on
East Center street. He was a member of the
First Baptist Church of Medina, of which
he was trustee and treasurer for many years.
He was a Republican in politics.
(Ill) Mary Hannah, only daughter of John
and Hannah (Bland) Ratcliffe, was born in
Medina, New York, February 28, 1854. She
was educated in the public schools and at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michi
gan, where she matriculated in 1887, pursued
the medical course, and was graduated M. D.
in 1891. Although fully equipped for her pro
fession, Miss Ratcliffe has never practiced.
She is a member of the First Baptist Church
of Medina, and active in the work of that
church, especially in the Social Union and the
missionary societies. After the death of her
mother, she visited England and the old Wes
leyan church at Kingsbury, in Yorkshire, of
which her Grandfather Bland was a founder,
and to which she made a generous donation
as a memorial. Miss Ratcliffe resides in Me
dina, New York, where she is well known
for her good works. The Moshers of Westfield,
MOSHER New York, are of English an
cestry, descendants of Hugh
Mosher, who came from England in 1632,
landing at Boston from the ship "Jane," and
was of Newport and Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, and Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
(II) Hugh (2^, son of Hugh (1) Mosher,
was born in 1633, died 1713. In 1660 he was

one of six men who bought certain lands at
Westerly, Rhode Island, of the Indian Sachem,
Socho. In 1684 he was ordained pastor of
the First Baptist Church, of Dartmouth, Mas
sachusetts. He married (first) Rebecca Harn-
del. His second wife was named Sarah. He
had eight children, all by first wife.
(Ill) Nicholas, eldest son of Hugh (2)
Mosher, was born 1666, died August 14, 1747.
He was of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and
Tiverton, Rhode Island. His wife Elizabeth
died in .1747. They had ten children.
(IV) Nicholas (2), sixth child of Nicholas
(1) Mosher, was born January 17, 1703. He
was left five pounds in his father's will, and
when married and settled in life was of
Tyringham, Connecticut. He married Eliza
beth Crandall and had fourteen children.
(V) Francis, son of Nicholas (2) Mosher,
was born in Connecticut, about 1750. He
moved to New York state, settling in the
town of Pittstown, Rensselaer county. He
married and had three children: Frances (of
whom further) ; George, of Lockport, New
York; a daughter, who married Robert Mc
Kay and settled in Fulton county, New York.
(VI) Francis (2), son of Francis (1)
Mosher, was born in 1786. He married and
had six children: 1. Daniel, married and had
children : Lydia, Emma and Jay ; all lived
in Fulton county. 2. Abram (of whom fur
ther). 3. Phila, married Madison Hall, of
Red Creek, Wayne county, New York. 4.
Abbie, married Benjamin Hunt, of Wayne
county. 5. George, married Lydia Ann San-
ford. 6. Lydia.
(VII) Abram, son of Francis (2) Mosher,
was born in Rensselaer county, New York,
1816, died in Westfield, Chautauqua county,
January 4, 1858. He came to Chautauqua
county about 1840, settling in the western
part of the county near the Pennsylvania state
line. Here he followed agriculture for sev
eral years, spending his last years in West-
field. He married Amirilla Welch, born in
Wayne county, New York, died in Westfield,
New York, September 26, 1887, aged eighty-
four years. Children: 1. Francis Reed (of
whom further). 2. Horatio M., born in Rip
ley, Chautauqua county, August 30, 1846. fie
was educated in the public schools of Penn
sylvania, and has for the past twenty-five years
been employed by his brother in his lumber
business at Westfield. He is a member of the
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ried, November 9, 1870, in Westfield, Mary
Elizabeth Timson, born there 185 1, died
March 24, 1910, daughter of Isaac and Mar
garet (Snowden) Timson, and granddaughter
of Charles and Irene (Whipple) Timson.
Irene Whipple was a descendant of Matthew
Whipple, of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Francis Reed, eldest son of Abram
Mosher, was born in Ripley, Chautauqua
county, New York, February 26, 1843. He
received a good education in the public schools
and in 1862 settled in Westfield, New York.
He was energetic and industrious and worked
at any honest labor that presented itself, hus
banding his earnings with the purpose ever
in view of engaging in business on his own
account. In 1878 he felt that he had sufficient
capital to engage in the lumber business in a
small way. He purchased a modest stock and
established his yard on the west side of Chau
tauqua creek. He prospered and gained not
only a foothold in the business world but a
sure place in the regard of the business men
of his section. Four years after, in 1882, he
purchased the coal business of R. L. Adams,
on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad. This business also prospered under
Mr. Mosher's able management, who later
merged his two lines, coal and lumber, into
one concern, The Westfield Coal and Lumber
Company, which still transacts a large and
profitable business. Mr. Mosher began his
business career on the sure foundation of
fair dealing with every one and has all his
life maintained the high ideals with which
he started. No man stands higher in the
esteem of his circle of acquaintance. He was
elected village trustee and gave efficient serv
ice for four terms. He was then chosen a
member of the board of water commissioners,
having in charge the gathering and distribu
tion of Westfield's water supply. In 1901 he
was elected president of the village corpora
tion of Westfield and to this office, as he did
to the others, he gave the same careful atten
tion and devotion that characterizes his con
duct of his private business. He is now serv
ing as assessor of the village. He is a mem
ber of the Presbyterian church, past master of
Summit Lodge, No. 219, Free and Accepted
Masons, member of Westfield Chapter, No.
239, Royal Arch Masons, and of Dunkirk
Gommandery, No. 40, Knights Templar. Po
litically he is a Republican.
He married, in Westfield, December 11,

1872, Grace Harper, born in county Down,
Ireland, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
Harper. Her father came from Ireland to
the United States with wife and child, settling
in Chautauqua county, New York. He was
a shoemaker in Ireland, but on coming to
Chautauqua county engaged in farming. Chil
dren: James, married Jane Strain; Nancy,
married Samuel Thompson; Sarah, married
Archibald McDougal ; Grace, married Francis
R. Mosher; Thomas, a veteran of the civil
war ; John. Children of Francis R. and Grace
Mosher: Rilla, deceased; Agnes; Thomas
W., married Marica Tones, and has one child,
Walter.

The name of Morton, Moreton
MORTON and Montaigne is earliest
found in old Dauphine, and is
still existent in France. In family annals
there is a repeated statement that one of the
family emigrated from Dauphine, first to Brit
tany, then to Normandy, where he joined Wil
liam the Conqueror. The family in England
was noble and held exalted position in both
church and state. Prominent among the Eng
lish Mortons who came to America were
Thomas Morton, Esq., Rev. Charles Morton,
Landgrave Joseph Morton, proprietary gover
nor of South Carolina, and George Morton,
ancestor of the Albany family of Warner
Groom Morton. In America the family has
achieved prominence in every department of
life, public and private. Perhaps the best
known of the name is Levi Parsons Morton,
former member of congress, former foreign
diplomat, former governor of New York and
former vice-president of the United States.
A branch of the family early settled in Scot
land, from whom the Mortons of Great Val
ley, New York, descend.
(I) The first of this branch to come to the
United States was John Morton, of Edin
burgh, Scotland, who came to Cattaraugus
county, New York, at an early day, with one
son. (II) John (2), son of John (1) Morton,
was born in Scotland, where he married. He
followed his father to Cattaraugus county,
New York, where he purchased land of the
Holland Land Company, located in Great Val
ley. He owned a tract of one hundred and
thirty-seven acres, which he cleared and
brought under cultivation. He married and
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ther) ; Alexander, married and had a daughter
Elizabeth, who married Milton Fobes.
(Ill) William, eldest son of John (2) Mor
ton, was born in Scotland, in 1816, died in
Great Valley, New York, in 1899. He came
to Cattaraugus county with his father in 1854
and was also a farmer. He married Margaret
Scott, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Children:
Mary, married Joseph Green ; William S. (of
whom further) ; Robert, married Lana Ste
vens; children: Gilbert, Lester and Charles.
(IV) William S., eldest son of William
Morton, was born in Great Valley, Cattarau
gus county, New York, June 19, 1858. He
was educated in the public schools, and was
his father's farm assistant in his earlier years.
He began mercantile life as a clerk in the Elli
cottville store of Havenor Brothers, where he
remained one year. He then went to Bordell,
Pennsylvania, where he remained for a year,
from thence went to East Bradford, Pennsyl
vania, where he remained for another year. His
clerkships in these different places gave him
a practical experience in mercantile methods
and decided him to become a merchant him
self. He formed a partnership with Joseph
Green (his brother-in-law) and in 1882 es
tablished a grocery business in Salamanca.
They continued in successful operation for
two years, then sold out and dissolved part
nership. In 1884 he located in Great Valley,
where in company with his brother, Robert
Morton, he purchased the store of J. E. Chase,
and until 1901 conducted a -successful general
merchandising business. In 1901 they sold
their interest to Arthur Bonstell, but two
years later William S. Morton repurchased the
entire business, which he has since con
ducted alone. Mr. Morton is and has been
for many years prominent in public life. He
has been supervisor of Great Valley for fifteen
years ; clerk of the town five years ; member
of the board of education. He is a leader in
town, county and state politics, and, although
quiet and unassuming, is a man of great force
of character, and usually carries his political
plans to a successful issue. He is -a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows;
Ellicottville Lodge, No. 307, Free and Ac
cepted Masons; Salamanca Chapter, No. 266,
Royal Arch Masons ; Salamanca Commandery,
No. 62, Knights Templar. He married, Octo
ber 24, 1883, Etta Weeger, and has a son,
Howard, born June 4, 1886.

The Fitzgeralds of Sala-
FITZGERALD manca descend from a
famous Irish family that
has long been seated in that land of famous
families. They date back to the days of clans
and tribes who ruled by might of valor and
strength. The name is of frequent occurrence
in Ireland and has been borne by distinguished
men in every generation. The founder of the
family in the United States, Edward, is a
son of Michael and Ellen Fitzgerald, both of
county Limerick.
(II) Edward, son of Michael and Ellen
Fitzgerald, was born in county Limerick, Ire
land. He came to the United States after his
marriage, settling in New York state, at Ad
rian, where he lived until the birth of one
child. He was in the employ of the Erie rail
road for a time, but later removed to Sala
manca, where he conducted a store. Pie mar
ried Bridget, daughter of Thomas and Bridget
(Connors) Broderick, all of county Limerick,
Ireland. Children: 1. Nellie, born in Adrian,
New York, November 23, 1864; married,
April 21, 1885, Fred Sander; children: Eddie,
born January 10, 1886, died August 31, 1886;
Eva, July 10, 1888; George W., July 12, 1890;
Mary Frances, July 23, 1892, died November
5, 1900;- Hazel A., April 22, 1894. 2. Deliar
born February 22, 1866, died June 16, 1885.
3. Mary Catherine, born October 1, 1867. 4.
Thomas J., born June 30, 1869. 5. Edward B.
(mentioned below).
(Ill) Edward B., youngest child and second
son of Edward and Bridget (Broderick) Fitz
gerald, was born in Salamanca, New York,
June 3, 1870. He attended the public school,
and in early life began working in the store
of W. T. Fish, commencing in 1887, con
tinuing until 1897. He was of such value to
his employer that he received several promo
tions ; he resigned at the end of ten years' serv
ice. In 1897 he formed a partnership with
his brother, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, and started
in business in a small way at No. 22 Main
street. The brothers, both capable business
men, prospered and were compelled to seek en
larged quarters. They are now located in
a three-story brick and stone structure on
the corner of Main and Maple streets, where
they conduct a modern dry goods and house
furnishing department store, excluding, how
ever, furniture and groceries, the building be
ing known as the Fitzgerald Block. Edward
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Company and the First National Bank. He
is a Democrat in politics, and served one term
as village trustee. He is a charter member of
the Salamanca Lodge, Knights of Columbus,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and
of the Country Qub. 'His religious faith is
Roman Catholic.
He married, October 4, 1892, Nettie May
Kenengar, born May 27, 1874, eldest daughter
of Andrew and Nettie (Wyman) Kenengar.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Kenengar: John
K. ; Nettie May, married Edward B. Fitz
gerald; Jennie, married John Maher.
Children of Edward B. and Nettie May (Ken
engar) Fitzgerald: Eugene Raymond, born
November 29, 1893 ; Leo Bernard, Decem
ber 1, 1895; George Edward, September 3,
1897 ; Thomas Frederick, April 27, 1901 ; Mary
Frances, April 1, 1907; Charles Richard, No
vember 5, 191 1.

The Emerlings of Buffalo,
EMERLING New York, descend from a
German family long seated
in Altenburg, Germany, where it is numer
ously represented. The name is not a familiar
one in the United States, in which it has few
representatives except this.
(I) William Emerling, grandfather of Daniel
W. Emerling, was born in Altenburg, where
he lived and died. He married and had five
children, all of whom died in Germany except
Henry John, the third child.
(II) Henry John, son of William Emerling,
was born in Altenburg, Germany, August 9,
1824, died in Buffalo, New York, December
17, 1910. He received a good education in the
schools of his native province, where he re
mained until 1855, when he came to the United
States. He settled in Buffalo, New York, with
his wife and two children. He was engaged
in various enterprises in Buffalo, finally en
gaging in the produce commission business,
later in business in the Washington street mar
ket, wholesale and retail. He retired from
active business about 1895. He was success
ful in his various enterprises and bore an ex
cellent character in the city. He was a de
voted church worker, and was one of the
founders and charter members of St. Luke's
Evangelical Church, corner of Richmond ave
nue and Utica street. He was trustee at
various time's and in earlier years deacon and
elder. He was a Republican in politics.
He married, in Altenburg, Germany, about

185 1, Rosina Bechtel, born August 2, 1831, in
Altenburg (or near there), died in Buffalo,
October 18, 1897. Her mother Augusta mar
ried a second husband, a Mr. Ehrlich. Chil
dren: 1. Amelia, married John Small, now in
business at PHlicott and Tupper streets, Buf
falo; three children. 2. Herman Frederick,
superintendent for W. A. Case, Perry and Mis
sissippi streets, Buffalo ; married and has
one child. 3. Pauline, married George Frank,
deceased, whom she survives, a resident of
Buffalo ; four children. 4. Charles, died in in
fancy. 5. George, died in infancy. 6. Eliza
beth, died in infancy. 7. Henry, with the Will
iam Hengerer Company ; married and has two
children. 8. Daniel W., married and has no
children. (Ill) Daniel W., youngest child of Henry
John Emerling, was born in Buffalo, New
York, December 25, 1871. He was educated
in Buffalo schools, graduating from public
school No. 16, and, in 1887, from Bryant &
Stratton's Business College. He took up the
study of law with Fred Greiner, of Buffalo,
continuing four years. He never followed that
profession but entered the employ of the Third
National Bank of Buffalo as draft clerk, work
ing up to head individual bookkeeper. In 1900
he resigned and took a position with Marshall,
Clinton & Rebadow, attorneys and counselors,
as private secretary to Charles D. Marshall.
Mr. Marshall died April 22, 1908, and Mr.
Emerling was appointed secretary of the Mar
shall estate. In April, 19 10, he established a
general real estate and insurance business,
which he still continues. He is a most capable,
energetic man of business and has ably ad
ministered the trusts committed to his care.
He is a Republican in politics, was formerly
district committeeman for the twenty-second
ward of Buffalo, but of later years has not
taken an active part in political affairs. He
is a member of St. Luke's Evangelical Church,
of which his father was a founder ; member of
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce; member of
Manufacturers', Automobile, Acacia and Mo
tor Boat clubs of Buffalo and of the Masonic
order. In the latter fraternity he belongs to
and is past master of Highland Lodge, Com
panion of Keystone Chapter, a Sir Knight of
Lake Erie Commandery and a Noble of Is-
mailia Temple.
He was married in St. Luke's Church, Oc
tober 18, 1898, to Maud Lewis King, daughter
of Henry L. King, of Buffalo, New York.

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The Christey s are of English
CHRISTEY descent, the family having
long been seated in that
country. They were people of standing and
wealth, among their holdings being St. Cath
erine's Docks, Liverpool, an entailed property
that was held in the family three hundred
years. The Christeys of Buffalo, herein traced,
descend from Joseph Christey, born in Eng
land, died in Buffalo, where a monument in
Forest Lawn marks his resting place. He was
a banker and broker in England, and an officer
in the Home Guard. He came to America
in 1832, settling in Toronto, Canada. He did
not long remain there, but with his family
eame to the United States, living in New
York City and at Albany, New York, where
his youngest child, Arthur, was born. He
intended to return to" Toronto with his family,
but changed his plans and came to Buffalo,
where he lived a retired life, dying in 1856 at
the age of seventy-five years. He was reared
in the Church of England, and in Buffalo was
connected with St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church. He married, in England, Ann Chiper-
field, daughter of Everard John and Ann Ol-
landsby, who bore. him eleven children, born
in England, one in the United States, and
she died in Toronto in 1834, aged thirty-seven.
(II) Arthur, youngest son of Joseph and
Ann (Chiperfield) Christey, was born in Al
bany, New York, July 12, 1833. He attended
the public school, and at an early age was ap
prenticed to the printer's trade. From that
time until his retirement from business he was
identified with the printing and publishing
business. Until he was twenty-two years of
age he was connected with Thomas &
Lathrop's printing house, . but the failure of
the concern threw him out of employment.
While with this company he became acquaint
ed, through business dealings, with the L. L.
Brown Paper Company, of Adams, Massachu
setts, who, after the failure referred to,
brought him in contact with E. D. Jenks, of
Adams. They formed a partnership and es
tablished in Buffalo a wholesale paper house.
The firm of Christey & Jenks became well
known in Western New York as the largest
concern of its kind in the state. They con
tinued in successful business until about 1861,
when Mr. Christey bought his partner's in
terest and continued business under the firm
name of Arthur Christey. Mr. Christey was
also heavily interested in the printing and

publishing business of Buffalo. He published
the Live Stock Journal, and was connected
with the firm of Haus, Kelly & Company,
later Haus, Kelly & Christey, later fiaus,
Nauert & Klein, who founded the paper that
has since developed into the Buffalo Times.
He was a principal owner in the Christey
Stationery Company, and invented many de
vices in the way of clasps, filing devices, and
a perpetual calendar, fie printed and copy
righted a great many pamphlets on various
subjects, fie retired from business in 1891,
and still (1911) continues his residence in
Buffalo, fie led an active business life and
accomplished an immense amount of work.
Tie was highly regarded in business circles,
and is known as one of Buffalo's pioneer busi
ness men in the paper, printing and publish
ing business. He was a Democrat until i860,
when he voted for Abraham Lincoln, and has
ever since acted with the Republican party.
He was for many years a member of St. Paul's
Church, and was married there by the Rev.
Dr. Shelton, but in later years connected with
the Church of the Ascension, of which he was
a vestryman. He married, December 19, 1854, Fanny
Lance Bryant, who, like himself, was the
youngest of a family of twelve. She was born
in Toronto, Canada, July 28, 1835, youngest
child of Joseph and Elizabeth Lance Bryant,
and died in Buffalo, June 22, 1904. Joseph
Bryant and his family came from England in
1832. Mr. Bryant was a banker and broker
in England, but did not engage in any busi
ness after coming to the United States. He
is buried in Forest Lawn, as is his daughter,
Mrs. Christey. Qiildren of Arthur and Fanny
L. Christey : 1. Elizabeth Anstey, married Wil
lard Way Hodge; children: Elizabeth and
Shurly Christey Hodge. 2. Fanny Augusta,
died in infancy. 3. Ella Gertrude. 4. Arthur
Bryant. (IV) Captain Arthur Bryant Christey, only
son of Arthur and Fanny Lance (Bryant)
Christey, was born in Buffalo, August 6, 1868.
He was educated in the public schools, and
the Buffalo Classical School, kept by Professor
Horace Briggs. He was for a time in his fa
ther's employ, and in 189 1 was cashier and
bookkeeper for the R. W. Bell Manufacturing
Company, of Buffalo. In 1892 he entered the
employ of the Empire State Savings Bank, as
general bookkeeper. In 1898 he served in the
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ploy of the Empire Bank. From 1899-1901
he was in the Philippines (see forward). In
1903 he was appointed deputy comptroller of
the city of Buffalo, holding the same until the
close of 1905. Owing to a change in the city
administration he was not reappointed, but
served as chief bookkeeper in the comptroller's
office continuously, 1906-09 inclusive. In 1910
he was again appointed deputy comptroller,
which office he now holds (1911).
Mr. Christey enlisted in the New York Na
tional Guard in Company F, Sixty-fifth Regi
ment, December 1, 1885. On March 19, 1888,
he was commissioned first lieutenant ; May 24,
1893, adjutant of the regiment. He resigned
from the Guard, June 11, 1896, re-entering the
Guard on March 4, 1897, as captain of com
pany G, Sixty-fifth Regiment. May 17, 1898,
he was commissioned captain of Company G,
Sixty-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer
Infantry, for service in the war with Spain.
The regiment was mustered out from the serv
ice of the United States, November 19, 1898,
and Captain Christey resigned his commission
in the New York National Guard on July 12,
1899, after having been commissioned by every
governor from Governor Hill to Governor
Roosevelt. He entered the United States Vol
unteer service August 1, 1899, and was com
missioned by President McKinley first lieuten
ant of the Forty-first Regiment, United States
Volunteers. He served in the Philippines with
the Forty-first, and was mustered out of the
service with his regiment in San Francisco,
July 3, 1901. Captain Christey is a Republi
can in politics, and a member of the Episcopal
church.

Members of the Pren-
PRENDERGAST dergast family were
prominent in the early
history of Chautauqua county. The American
ancestor, William Prendergast, was born in
Ireland, and after coming to the United States
he with others explored many sections of
northern New York and states lying south
and west, finally settling along the shores of
Lake Chautauqua. The story of their wan
derings in search of a favorable location, their
adventures with the wild things of the forest,
their hardships and privations would make a
wonderful story of adventure. One of the
family, James Prendergast, became the founder
of Jamestown, New York, where numerous
memorials to his memory are found.

(II) William, son of Thomas and Mary
Prendergast, was born in Waterford, Ire
land, February 2, 1727, died in the town of
Chautauqua, Chautauqua county, New York,
February 14, 181 1. He had uncles, James,
Robert and Jeffrey Prendergast, all of whom
lived in Ireland. On coming to America he
settled in Pawling, Dutchess county, New
York, where he followed farming and lived
for many years. Late in life he moved to
Rensselaer county, New York, some of his
sons living there and in Washington county.
When he was seventy-eight years of age he be
came a settler of Chautauqua county. This
was in 1806, the family holdings in the town
of Chautauqua aggregating about thirty-five
hundred acres, lying along the shores of Lake
Chautauqua, near the present grounds of the
world famous Chautauqua Assembly. Chau
tauqua county was not the intended destination
of the old pioneer when he left Rensselaer
county in 1805, but the state of Tennessee was
his objective point. The party included four
sons of William Prendergast, five daughters,
sons-in-law, grandchildren, and a slave, Tom,
led by this wonderful man of seventy-eight
years. They numbered twenty-nine persons
and traveled in canvas wagons, some requiring
four horses to draw. They took a course
across New York and Pennsylvania to Wheel
ing, West Virginia, where they .took flat boats
and descended the Ohio to Louisville, from
there went overland to a point near Nashville,
Tennessee, their intended destination. After
their long journey it was a great disappoint
ment to find conditions so unfavorable that '
the thought of remaining was not for a mo
ment considered. They took their course
through Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania to
Erie, which they reached in the late fall of
1805. In 1806 they settled in the town of
Chautauqua, although William Prendergast
artd several of the family had passed the pre
vious winter in Canada. The sons each took
separate tracts of land, much of it heavily-
timbered, but all adjoining.
William Prendergast married Mehitable
Wing, born March 20, 1738, died September
4, 1812, daughter of Jedediah and Elizabeth
Wing, of Beekman, New York. Children, all
born in Dutchess county, New York, but prob
ably not in order of birth: 1. Matthew (of
whom further). 2. Thomas, born September
:5- T758, died June 3, 1842. 3. Mary, married
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New York. 4. Elizabeth, died unmarried, Au
gust 20, 1824. 5. James, founder of James
town, New York. 6. Dr. Jedediah, born May
13, 1766; married Penelope Chase. 7. Martin,
born April 22, 1769; married Martha Hunt.
8. John Jeffrey. 9. Susanna, married Oliver
Whiteside. 10. Eleanor, died aged thirteen
years. 11. Martha, died unmarried, Decem
ber 9, 1849, aged seventy-four years. 12. Will
iam, a major in the war of 1812. 13. Minerva,
married Elisha Marvin.
(Ill) Matthew, eldest son and child of Will
iam and Mehitable (Wing) Prendergast, was
born in the town of Pawling, Dutchess county,
New York, August 5, 1756, died in the town
of Chautauqua, ' Chautauqua county, New
York, February 24, 1838. He grew up in
Dutchess county, later lived for many years
in Washington county, New York, and in
Pittstown, Rensselaer county, leaving the lat
ter town when well advanced in years. He
did not accompany the family in their southern
journeyings, but came to Chautauqua county
in 1807 with his brother James and settled
on the west side of Lake Chautauqua, six
miles from Mayville. He was the first super
visor of the town of Chautauqua after the
county was fully organized in 181 1, Pomfret
having been taken from Chautauqua in 1808.
He was appointed justice of the peace in 1808,
served in that office for many years and was
also associate judge of the county. He died
at his pioneer home on Lake Chautauqua, aged
eighty-three years. He married (first) in
eastern New York, -Abigail Akin; (second)
Anna Hunt. Children by first wife: Lillian,
married Jared Irwin; Dr. William (of whom
further). Children by second wife: James
and Arthur.
(IV) Dr. William Prendergast, only son of
Judge Matthew and Abigail (Akin) Pren
dergast, was born in Pawling, Dutchess
county, New York, February 28, 1791, died
in Chautauqua, New York, March 11, 1857.
He grew up in Washington county, New
York, and in 1807, being then sixteen years of
age, came "with his father to Chautauqua
county. He studied medicine and when only
a stripling served as a surgeon during the war
of 1812-14. He- practiced his profession in
Mayville, New York, for many years and was
a well-known practitioner and highly respected
citizen. His uncle, Jedediah Prendergast, set
tled in Mayville in 181 1, and Dr. William
was his successor. He retired from practice

and spent his latter years on his farm in the
town of Chautauqua. He owned at the time
of his death- about one thousand acres of
farm land. He was a Whig in politics, and
a member of the Episcopal church. He mar
ried, in 18 1 5, Elizabeth, born June 24, 1797,
died September 15, 1881, daughter of Martin
Prendergast. Child, Martin (of whom fur
ther). (V) Martin, only child of Dr. William
and Elizabeth (Prendergast) Prendergast,
was born in Mayville, Chautauqua county,
New York. He was a clerk for many years.
Inheriting the old homestead, he spent the
remainder of his life in farming. He was
well-known in his town, and for fifteen years
served as supervisor. He was a Republican
in politics, and a man of high character. He
married Phcebe Holmes, born March 3, 1823,
died January 23, 1899, daughter of Seth W.
Holmes, of Oneida county, New York, who
emigrated to Erie county, New York, settling
near Buffalo; later came to Mayville where
most of his after life was spent. He was
sheriff of Chautauqua county prior to 1849,
and was for some years a successful specula
tor in the state of California, later returning
to Mayville. His wife was Sarah Stone.
Children of Martin and Phcebe (Holmes)
Prendergast, all born in Chautauqua county:
1. Martha, born August 26, 1842; married,
January 20, 1869, William M. Whallon, who
died January 3, 1899; child, Martin Prender
gast, born January 17, 1870; married May
Herrick, and has a son, William Prendergast,
borri January 8, 1897. 2. John H. (of whom
further). 3. William, born May 13, 1848,
died April 21, 1852. 4. Helen, born June 4,
1850, died unmarried, May 2, 191 1. 5. Dr.
William, born March 20, 1854; graduated, M.
D., from Jefferson Medical College, Phila
delphia, 1883 ; located at Mayville, where he
is the third Dr. Prendergast and the second
Dr. William to successfully practice medicine.
He is unmarried.
(VI) John H., eldest son of Martin and
Phcebe (Holmes) Prendergast, was born in
the town of Qiautauqua, New York, Novem
ber 5, 1844. He received his education in the
Mayville schools, and has always followed
agriculture as a business. He owns a farm
in Chautauqua on which he now resides
(1911). He is a Republican in politics. He
married, February 23, 1876, Antoinette Hunt,
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Rhoda Ann (Hewes) Hunt; child, James
Hunt. (VII) James Hunt, only child of John H.
and Antoinette (Hunt) Prendergast, was
born in the town of Chautauqua, New York,
January 2, 1878. He attended the Mayville
union school whence he was graduated with
honor in June, 1896. In the fall of that year
he entered the Hawley Preparatory School at
Buffalo, being graduated June 18, 1898. He
decided upon the profession of law and entered
Cornell University, being graduated from the
law school, LL. B., class of 1902. He was
admitted to the bar in June, 1902, and on
July 24 of that year took up his residence in
Westfield, New 'York, and at once began the
practice of his profession. He formed a law
partnership with Gerald G. Gibbs, of Sherman,
New York, which was dissolved in 1904. Since
the dissolution of Prendergast & Gibbs, Mr.
Prendergast practiced alone for a while and
then formed a partnership with James Robin
son Douglas, law and insurance. In 1905 he
was elected justice of the peace, an office in
which he still continues. For some years he
has been member of the Republican county
committee. He also served as overseer of the
poor for two years. Politically he is a Re
publican, and a member of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, in which he filled
the position of chaplain for a time. He is
highly regarded in his town and commands a
good law practice.
He married, June 17, 1908, in Westfield,
Clara S. Fay, born in that village, daughter of
John R. and Emma J. (Niell) Fay.
The Lautz family is one that long
LAUTZ existed in the kingdom of Ba
varia, now part of the great Ger
man empire. The immediate progenitor of
the Buffalo family, Martin Lautz, was a man
of wealth and position, but through a series
of circumstances and the chicanery of those
whom he trusted, his fortune was lost and
the family scattered, four of his eleven chil
dren coming to the United States, one of these,
William Lautz, coming to Buffalo.
(II) William, son of Martin Lautz, was
born in Bavaria, Germany, May 1, 1815, died
in Buffalo, New York, 1868. fie came to the
United States in 1853, landing in New York
City after a voyage of ninety-two days, with
a cash capital of five dollars, and subsequently
settled in Buffalo. He first began the manu

facture of candles, which business later grew
into the great soap manufacturing business of
Lautz Brothers & Company still a highly suc
cessful, well-known manufacturing firm of
that city. He married Elizabeth Hienenz.
Children: 1. William, born in Bavaria, Ger
many, April 20, 1838; engaged with his
brothers in soap manufacturing for a time,
and in 1872 started the marble and stone busi
ness in Buffalo, which still exists as The
Lautz Company, of which he is the active
head (1911)- He married (first) Maria Lie-
ben; sons: William J., of Buffalo; Fritz J.,
vice-president of The Lautz Company, Arthur.
He married (second) Amelia Bank, who died
May 1, 191 1, leaving a daughter, Amelia. 2.
John Adam, born in Dieburg, Germany, May
14, 1840, died in Buffalo, August 16, 1894.
He came to the United States in 1853 with
his parents, later coming to Buffalo, fie en
listed in June, 1861, in the Twentieth Regi
ment, New York Volunteer Infantry, serving
two years, nine months. After the war he re
turned to Buffalo, where with his brothers he
engaged in soap manufacturing as Lautz
Brothers & Company. He married, November
16, 1865, Catherine Bardol, who survives him.
She is the daughter of Joseph Bardol, of Buf
falo. Children : i. Carl A. ; ii. Katherine L.,
married John A. Rose ; children : John A. and
Dorothy ; iii. Otto John ; iv. Amelia Frederica,
married, September 26, 1894, John Lorenz
Chittenden; v. Martin, died in infancy; vi.
Hortense, married Clifford DeWitt Coyle. 3.
Charles, deceased. 4. Elizabeth, married Will
iam Schweigert (deceased). 5. Frederick C.
M. (of whom further). 6. Anna (deceased),
married Joseph Chretien. 7. Margaret, mar
ried George Munschauer (deceased). 8. Kate,
married Julius Georger. 9. Martin, died July
1, 1893; married Ella Bank, who survives
him; children: Martin and John.
(Ill) Frederick Christopher Martin,
fourth son and fifth child of William Lautz,
was born in Germany, March 5, 1845, died in
Buffalo, December 22, 1905. He came to the
United States with his parents and was edu
cated in the public schools. He engaged with
his father in candle manufacturing and later
with his brothers in soap manufacturing, be
ing a member of Lautz Brothers & Company.
He had other extensive business interests ; was
interested in The Lautz Company (marble and
stone), and in the Machine and Tool Works.
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Company, and of other corporations of Buf
falo. He was a successful man of business
and held high position in the city. He was
under twenty years of age when in February,
1865, he enlisted in Company E, Eighty-first
Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. He
served with his regiment through the closing
campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, fac
ing both victory and defeat in many of the
hard-fought battles of the war. He was hon
orably discharged and mustered out of the
service, August 31, 1865, at Fort Monroe,
Virginia: fie was a member of the Church
of the Blessed Sacrament (Roman Catholic).
He was an accomplished musician, and organ
ized the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra, which
he maintained for twelve years, and which,
while entirely successful along artistic lines,
proved a most costly venture for Mr. Lautz,
who expended upon it the large sum of $100,-
000. fie possessed a beautiful voice, finely
trained, and he was for fifteen years and until
nearly the close of his life principal solo singer
in St. Paul's Cathedral and the Church of
the Blessed Sacrament. He was a member of
the Buffalo Club and the Country Club. He
was a Republican in politics.
He married, April 22, 1874, Amelia Kath
erine, born May 23, 1854, in New York City,
daughter of John Trageser, who was born
in Bavaria, Germany, July 25, 1822, died in
New York City, October 23, 1891 ; he came
to the United States where he became a suc
cessful copper ' manufacturer. He married,
April 12, 1841, Augustine Kramer, born Jan
uary 28, 1826, died June 20, 1907. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. Trageser: 1. John, born
March 11, 1845, died September 5, 1902, at
Sacramento, California. ' 2. Adelaide, married
Edward E. Welcke; children: Edward, Will
iam R., Adelaide and Lester. 3. Lester (de
ceased) . 4. Augusta, married Joseph J. Wer-
rick, whom she survives without children at
Mt. Vernon, New York. 5. Amelia Katherine,
married Frederick C. M. Lautz. 6. William
Celestin, born May 19, 1857; a resident of
New York City, 328 West 87th street ; he
married Marie Williams, of Buffalo ; two chil
dren: Thecla M., Emma M. 7.. Albert Ferdi
nand, born March 16, i860; married Bertha
Heidt ; resides at 305 105th street, New York
City ; three children : Grace, Gertrude and Al
bert. 8. Emma Marie, married Samuel J.
Taylor, resides at Mt. Vernon, New York;
three children: Augusta, Samuel J. and Mat

thew. Children of Frederick C. M. and Amelia
Katherine Lautz: 1. Amelia, died in infancy.
2. Augusta Joan, married George A. Austin;
children : Frederick C. M. Lautz and Spencer
Trageser Austin. 3. Emma Matilda, born April
16, 1878, died September 6, 1902. 4. Eliza
beth Caroline. Mrs. Frederick C. M. Lautz
survives her husband and continues her resi
dence in Buffalo.

The name Barr is evidently of
BARR Hebraic origin, in which Bar means
"son," and Baar "was famous." In
Arabic the word Barr means "wheat," in
Persian means "fruit," and the Irish word
Bar means "excellence." The name as well
as the bearers thereof evidently has come
through Celtic or Gallic and Teutonic families,
as the spelling of the name would indicate.
In the Gallic the name is spelled Barre; Teu
tonic, Barry or Barrh, and when anglicized it
is Barr. In religion the Barrs have always
been Protestants. As Huguenots or Re
formers they fled from persecution in France
to Scotland and England, in 1572-1681 they
were refugees in the north of Ireland from
Scotland. The American ancestor settled in
Connecticut, a branch of the family later set
tling in Vermont, from whom the Buffalo
family descends.
(I) William Barr was born in Rutland, Ver
mont, about 1781, died in Orleans county, New
York, in 1835. He was the son of a farmer,
and his early life was spent on the farm ; in
1 814 he was hired by a representative of the
United States government to go to Troy, New
York, there load his teams with provisions and
carry them to the soldiers at Fort Porter, Buf
falo. While. on this trip he was deeply im
pressed with the advantages western New
York offered to settlers, and on his return to
Rutland, sold his farm and emigrated to west
ern New York. He made this trip with his
wife and five children in covered wagons,
carrying a complete camping outfit and mak
ing the journey very comfortably, breaking
his own road part of the way and keeping
his course by means of blazed trees marked on
his former journey, and by others who had
passed that way. He settled near Albion,
Orleans county, where he purchased a tract
of land which he cleared and there erected a
home in the then wilderness. He found the
soil fertile, and by hard labor he maintained
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on the Albion farm until his death. He mar
ried, in Rutland, Malinda, daughter of John
Gordon, who survived him and made her home
with her son, John C, in Erie, Pennsylvania,
where she died about 1858, aged seventy-six
years. Of their ten children, five were born in
Rutland and five in Orleans county: 1. Ma
linda, married Hugh McCendy, of Albion,
New York; moved to Wisconsin, where she
died, aged sixty-eight years. 2. William, died
in Chicago, Illinois, aged eighty years ; mar
ried Hannah Parmalee, of Orleans county,
died in Chicago, aged seventy years. 3. John
Gordon, married Mary Ann Rathbun, born in
New London, New York, died in Buffalo,
May 6, 1892, daughter of Acors Rathbun, a
pioneer farmer of central New York, who died
1855, aged eighty-four years ; children : i. Cor
nelia, married Francis Wilder, of Buffalo, and
had Charles Dudley and Frank L. ii. George
Dudley, born March 30, 1846, married April
20, 1871, Sarah Susan Jones, born in Buffalo,
New York, February 22, 1848, daughter of
Nathaniel Jones (2), born in Burlington, Ver
mont, January 2, 181 1, died May 24, 1880,
married Emily Harris, born in Buffalo, Janu
ary 29, 18 19, died February 15, 1887, daughter
of Asa and Mary Harris; Asa was born in
Hartford, Connecticut, April 15, 1795, died
June 28, 1874; Nathaniel Jones (1) was born
October 28, 1779, married Susan  , born
August 14, 1785. iii. William H. D., of Erie,
Pennsylvania. 4. Kate, died unmarried. 5.
Lucy, married William PL Watson. 6. Cather
ine, died aged seventeen years. 7. Alfred,
died in Wisconsin. 8. Dewitt, an early Cali
fornia pioneer, died unmarried. 9. Robert W.,
of further mention. 10. Ann, married a
Thompson. (II) Robert W., ninth child of William and
Malinda (Gordon) Barr, was born in Orleans
county, New York, near Albion, August 29,
1829. He was educated in the public school
and worked on the farm until he arrived at a
suitable age to learn a trade. He worked for
four years learning the harness maker's trade,
then began working as trainman on the Buf
falo & Rochester railroad, continuing until
1862. He began as trainman, but was rapidly
promoted until he became a passenger conduc
tor. In 1862 he resigned his position with the
railroad company and entered upon a long and
successful career as a hotel proprietor. His
first house was "The Barre," of Buffalo, fol
lowed by "The National," of the same city.

He sold the latter property and purchased the
"Judson House," at Lockport, New York, and
afterward was proprietor of the "Reed
House," at Erie, Pennsylvania, and "Stanwix
Hall," at Rome, New York. After disposing
of the latter he returned to Buffalo, where he
conducted the "Tucker House." He was en
gaged in the hotel business for thirty years
and was a well. known and popular landlord.
Later for twelve years he was salesman for
H. Messersmith, of Buffalo, and for the past
five years (1906-11) has been actively engaged
in the development of Buffalo city and subur
ban real estate. In politics he is a Democrat,.
and he attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, February 1, 1849, Eunice Ade
laide, born in Oneida county, New York, De
cember 15, 1829, daughter of Lyman and Bet
sey (Mower) Littlefield. Children: Eugene
Leslie, born February 21, 1850, died May 9,
1857, at Buffalo ; George Washington, born
March 24, 1852, died in Buffalo, January 28,
1^

This is an old German family that
HESS for many generations was seated in
the duchy of Baden, Germany. The
first of this branch to settle in the United
States was Francis (or Francis Joseph) Hess,
born in Baden, died in Buffalo, New York,
July, 1882. He was a carpenter and builder
and was well known to the trade in Buffalo.
He was an active member of the Evangelical
Society and prominent in the work of the mis
sion conducted by his church. He was a Re
publican in politics, but took little active part
in public affairs, fie was an upright, christian
citizen,- much respected by his friends and by
those with whom he held business relations.
He married Fanny Echardt, born in Switzer
land, August ig, 1826, died December 23,
1901. Children: 1. Frank Benjamin (of
whom further). 2. Lydia, married Charles
Heist and resides in Buffalo. 3. Clara Matilda,
a missionary, now residing in Washington;
married John M. Foster, now in China. 4.
Anna Martha, married G. W. John. 5. Daniel
Adam Andrew, now living in Buffalo ; married
Helen G. Geltz. 6. George Whitfield, died in
infancy. (II) Frank Benjamin, eldest son and child
of Francis and Fanny (Echardt) Hess, was
born in Buffalo, May 5, 1853, died April 28,
191 1. He passed through the city public
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school, class of 1871. He began business life
as a bookkeeper for a lumber firm, then en
tered the employ of the Erie Railroad Com
pany as clerk, fie worked his way up through
successive promotions to be chief clerk in the
Buffalo shops, and about 1890 was made divi
sion clerk and assistant superintendent. While
Mr. Hess was the practical man of business
and a trusted official, he was a great lover of
music and made more than a local reputation
as a composer. He was an accomplished per
former on the pipe organ and was organist
for a church of the Evangelical Society and
for thirty years organist of the Zibn Reformed
Church on the east side, and also choirmaster.
He was a voluminous composer and published
a book of church music that is extensively
used. His ability as an organist as well as a
composer was fully recognized in musical cir
cles, where he was held in highest appreciation.
A more perfect illustration of the practical,
trained business man and the cultivated, tal
ented man of music and art was rarely found.
For a short time Mr. Hess was a private of
the Sixty-fifth Regiment, New York National
Guard. He was a member of Zion Reformed
Church, and a Republican. He belonged to
the Masonic order, but his greatest interest
was in his music.
He married, March 6, 1873, • Emily C,
daughter of Adam Reinhard, a piano maker,
born in Baden, Germany, died in Buffalo, New
York, aged eighty-one years ; he married
Henrietta Geid, also a native of Germany.
Frank B. and Emily C. Hess were the parents
of the following children :
1. Frank William, connected with the pur
chasing department of the Erie railroad, at
New York- City, as chief clerk ; resides at Clif
ton, New Jersey.; married Mary Schroeder;
children : Frank Joseph, Robert Lewis, Ada
Emily and Alfred Benjamin, two dying in
infancy. 2. Clara Amelia, married Frank
Muller; resides in Montana; child: Robert
M. 3. Ruth Charlotte, married Theodore W.
Mayer ; resides in Buffalo ; children : Emily
Charlotte and Theodore William. 4. Henri
etta, married Dr. Robert C. Maynard. 5.
Olive, died in infancy. 6. Lucy Ada, died
aged eleven years. 7. Benjamin Robert, re
sides in Buffalo; married Irene Regina Roth;
children : Lyndon Hess and Lorenzo Charles.
8. John Carl, resides in Buffalo. Mrs. Hess
survives her husband and continues her resi
dence in Buffalo.

Though of comparatively re-
SPEIDEL cent settlement, the,Speidels of
Buffalo have earned a substan
tial position in the business circles of that
city. The family is of German lineage, trac
ing many generations of worthy ancestors in
the "fatherland." '
(I) George Speidel, born 1820, died 1902,
grandfather of Charles G. Speidel, was a mil
ler of Wiirtemberg, Germany. He married
Barbara Metzger and had seven children: 1.
Mary, married Rev. Berner, of Buffalo. 2.
Coenrad, died aged eighteen years. 3. Bal-
thasar (of whom further). 4. Rosa, died De
cember, 1890. 5. Rev. Peter, a minister of the
Lutheran church. 6. Jacob, married Rose
Klink ; six children. 7. Katherine, born i860,
died 1910; married Charles Matter. When
forty-two years of age, George Speidel spent
one year in the United States, visiting his
children. (II) Balthasar, son of George Speidel, was
born in Wiirtemberg, Germany, October 24,
1847. He learned the trade of baker, master
ing it in all its varied details. In 1872 he
came to the United States, settling at once in
Buffalo, New York. He worked at his trade
and after studying trade conditions determined
to establish in the baking business for him
self. On July 18, 1872, he opened Speidel's
Bakery, at 639 Michigan street. He prospered
and enlarged his business, and in January,
1904, the Speidel Vienna Bakery Company
was incorporated by Mr. Speidel and his sons,
of which he is vice-president. He married, in
Germany, June 11, 1872, Annie Blockenger,
and embarked for the United States for their
wedding tour. Children: 1. Charles, died in
infancy. 2. Rosa, married George P. Riter;
has child, Dorothy. 3. Charles Godfrey (of
whom further). 4. Fred William, president
of the Speidel Vienna Bakery Company ; mar
ried Mamie L. Stokes. 5. Wilhelm Bernhardt,
died in infancy. 6. Emma, married John Fritz ;
has child, Helena. 7. William, married Ellen
Kruce; has child, Frederick William, born
January 27, 1906.
(Ill) Charles Godfrey, third child of Bal
thasar and Annie (Blockenger) Speidel, was
born in Buffalo, New York, April 21, 1875.
He was educated in the public schools, and
was taken into the bakery business with his
father, who thoroughly prepared him for the
important positions he now holds, secretary,
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Bakery Company, one of the large baking
companies of the city. He is a member of
St. Paul's German Lutheran Church and takes
active interest in its prosperity. In politics
he is a Republican, fie married, September
23, 1897, Edith Gifford.

Dr. Moore, of Westfield, New
MOORE York, descends, through both
paternal and maternal lines,
from Irish ancestry of good position. His
father, Edward J. Moore, although born in
England, was the son of William J. Moore, a
barrister, of Dublin, Ireland.
(II) Edward J. Moore came to the United
States from England, in 1850, and settled in
Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York. He
continued there until after his marriage, then
moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he engaged
in the drug business. At the outbreak of the
civil war Mr. Moore sold his drug store and
going abroad remained until peace was de
clared, then returned to Westfield, where he
engaged in agriculture until the death of his
father-in-law, then removed to the McQurg
homestead in the village of Westfield, where
he died about 1888. He married, in Westfield,
in 1 85 1, Catherine McQurg, and had one son,
William J. (of whom further).
Catherine (McQurg) Moore was the daugh
ter of James McQurg, born in Londonderry,
Ireland, 1785, died in Westfield, New York,
May 26, 1872. He came to America with his
father in 1798, being then in his thirteenth
year. His father had been engaged in the
Irish rebellion which culminated in disaster
in 1798. Being on the losing side Mr. Mc
Qurg Sr. came to the United States, settling
first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Father
and son later removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, where they engaged in the iron busi
ness, having foundry and furnaces. About
1807 James McQurg came to Westfield, New
York, remaining until the war with England
in 1812. He then returned to Pittsburgh,
where he utilized his knowledge of the iron
business and the McQurg furnaces in the
casting of cannon for the United States gov
ernment. This is said to have been the be
ginning of cannon making in this country.
After the war James McQurg returned to
Westfield, where he remained until his death
in 1872. He opened a small store in West-
field during his first residence and is noted in
the histories of Chautauqua county as the first

merchant in Westfield and a financier of great
ability. On his return in 18 14 he again opened
a store in the village and for many years
thereafter was a leading merchant. His store
was in a building that stood at the corner,
now the Common, and is said to have been the
first frame building erected in the village. In
1818 he built the first brick house ever erected
between Buffalo, New York, and Erie, Penn
sylvania. It was built so substantially that
now, nearly a century later, it is occupied by
his grandson, Dr. William J. Moore. In as
sociation with Judge Campbell and George
Hall, Mr. McClurg built the Westfield mill, in
the village, on the site of an old mill. He
built the "Westfield House" and the McClurg
brick block that stands on South Portage
street. He also dealt heavily and profitably in
village and town real estate. He purchased
what was known as the Eason farm, divided
it into village lots, and added what is. now an
important part of Westfield. He contributed
liberally of this land for village improvement,
donating the "Common" on the corner of
South Portage and Main streets, also the land
on which the South Portage street Presby
terian church is built. During his merchandis
ing days he had a large trade with the Indians,
exchanging his store goods for their furs, etc.
For thirty years he was a prominent, public-
spirited and useful citizen of Westfield. Busi
ness was his ruling ambition and he was ever
alert for any remunerative undertaking. He
took a lively interest in public men and af
fairs and contributed his full share to the up
building of Westfield. He was a member of
the Presbyterian church, and very strict in
his observance of the Sabbath day. In his
business dealings he was most methodical and
upright. During the latter years of his life he
lived retired from business cares, having am
ply provided for the future of himself and
family. Mr. McClurg married Martha Eason, a
niece of John Eason, an early settler, and
daughter of David Eason, the first sheriff of
Chautauqua county and state senator in 1823-
24. Children, all born in the McClurg home
stead in Westfield: 1. Alexander, married
Mrs. Maria Lambert, widow of a United
States naval officer. 2. James, died unmarried,
at the age of forty-two. 3. Julia Ann, married
Dr. Davidson, of Chicago, Illinois. 4. Cather
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ninth year; she married, in 185 1, Edward J.
Moore, of previous mention.
(Ill) Dr. William J. Moore, only child of
Edward J. and Catherine (McClurg) Moore,
was born in Detroit, Michigan, April 26, 1852.
The family later settled in Westfield, where
the lad was educated in the public schools. He
attended Cornell University, then deciding
upon the profession of medicine entered Jef
ferson College, whence he was graduated,
M. D., class of 1874. He went abroad after
graduation and continued his studies in the
hospitals of London, England. On his return
from abroad he located in Cleveland, Ohio,
where lor ten years he was in active practice.
After his father's death, in 1888, Dr. Moore
closed up his business in Cleveland and retir
ing from practice went to Westfield, where he
took up his residence in the old McClurg
homestead. He settled the affairs of the estate
and has since lived a retired life devoted to
the management of his private affairs. He is
an Independent in politics.
He married Helen, daughter of John Sut
ton, a prominent citizen of Indiana, Pennsyl
vania. Dr. Moore has no children.

Among the very oldest fami-
OTTAWAY lies of the town of Mina,
Chautauqua county, New
York, is the Ottaway, their settlement being
but seven years later than that of Alex Find-
ley, the first settler in that part of the town
of Clymer, afterward Mina. The Ottaway
family were for many generations native to
the county of Kent, England, where James,
the American ancestor, was born. He was a
miller by trade and operated a mill in his na
tive county. He was of an adventurous dis
position, and the reports from the United
States, and Western New York especially,
which he received, determined him to emi
grate. Accompanied by his wife, children and
brother, Horatio, he sailed in 1823, arriving
at New York City six weeks later. His des
tination seems to have been decided on before
leaving England, for he at once proceeded up
the Hudson river to Newburg, where he pur
chased a team and wagon. Soon afterward,
with such supplies as were needed, he began
the long, lonely and often dangerous journey
to Western New York. He finally reached
Buffalo, where he left his family and began
his search for suitable land in that vicinity.
Not finding a location to his liking, he again

took up his journey, going to Chautauqua
county over the Buffalo & Erie road to West-
field, thence to Maryville, and from there over
the Waterford road to Mina. Although this
was then virgin forest, he found signs of fer
tility in the soil, and, purchasing a part of lot
thirteen, built a log cabin and began a clearing.
His was the first deed given for land in the
western part of Mina, and he was the first
of the many English families that settled in
that section, his house being the rendezvous
for those following. He was very hospitable
and his latchstring was always out for his
countrymen until their own log houses could
be built. He finally cleared and brought under
cultivation a good farm, upon which his chil
dren were born, and which is still owned by
his son.
He was three times married. His children
were : James, William, Horace, Ann, Charles,
Edmund, Joseph, Henry, John E. (of further
mention ) ; Susan, Horatio.
(II) John E., son of James Ottaway, the
emigrant, was born on the homestead farm
in Mina, Chautauqua county, New York, June
20, 1827. He was educated in the district
schools, and has always resided upon the home
farm in Mina. He aided in its development
and later in life became its owner by purchase
from his father. There he celebrated his gold
en wedding, October 17, 1899, and still con
tinues his residence, fie has followed agri
culture throughout his active years, and be
came one of the most influential and trusted
men of his town. He was named as executor
of many estates and became guardian of many
trust funds. For many years he represented
Mina on the board of supervisors, and was
for a great many years a director of the State
Bank of Sherman. He grew in mentality
and in the rugged virtues of honesty and up
rightness , as the years progressed until he
ranked with the best of his day. Modest, yet
unafraid, he has passed through the rugged
scenes of a pioneer's life holding his integrity
above reproach, and now looking back over
his eighty-three years sees nothing but hon
est achievement and a life well spent. He has
kept pace with modern development and is
keen in his enjoyment of the daily paper, tele
phone and other modern inventions that have
come into daily use during his lifetime. He is
a staunch Republican in politics.
He married, October 17, 1849, Sarah Boor-
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New York, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah
(Hosmer) Boorman, of England, who were
among the early settlers of the town of Sher
man, coming there in 1825. She has been a
worthy helpmeet and contributed her full share
to her husband's success in life and to mould
ing the character of her children. Children:
Osmer J., of Sherman, New York; Arthur B.
(of further mention) ; G. Fred, of Mina, New
York ; Susan A., married Lester Jones, of
Mina; Cora E-., of Westfield, New York.
(Ill) Arthur B., son of John E. and Sarah
(Boorman) Ottaway, was born on the home
stead in Mina, Chautauqua county, New York,
May 8, 1854. His early education was ob
tained in the public school and Sherman Aca
demy. In 1873 he came to Westfield, where
he entered the academy, graduating at the
age of twenty-one years. He prepared for col
lege, but circumstances interfered and the col
lege course was abandoned. In the intervals of
school life he assisted on the farm, but his
first employment after leaving school was
teaching, fie taught for a number of terms,
in the meantime devoting himself to reading
law, having determined to fit himself for that
profession. He prepared under the preceptor-
ship of William Russell, of Westfield, and af
ter the required time spent in the latter's office
was admitted to the bar in 1879. He at once
began practice as junior of the law firm of
Russell, Deckerman & Ottaway, and after its
dissolution practiced alone. Later he became
senior of the legal firm of Ottaway & Mun-
son. Mr. Ottaway was elected district attor
ney of Chautauqua county in 1884. He held
this office three years, winning the commenda
tion of both bench and bar. He then retired
to private practice, which has always been
large and important. He was for several years
attorney for the board of supervisors and was
retained in many cases of importance. On
January 1, 1906, he was appointed county
judge of Chautauqua county by Governor
Higgins, . and elected to the same position at
the ensuing election, which high position he
most worthily fills at the present time (1911).
Judge Ottaway is learned in the law and as
a practitioner most skillful in its application.
As a judge he is fair and impartial, giving to
each attorney his legal rights, and to each de
cision most careful study. He is a Republican
in politics. He is public-spirited and progres
sive, aiding in every way to further the inter

ests of Westfield and to advance the cause of
the public good. He is unmarried.
This name, written Rumsey
RUMSEY and Rumsie, first appears in
New England with Robert
Rumsey, who was of Fairfield, Connecticut,
where his name appears on town records, Jan
uary 23, 1664. He married Rachel  .
Children: Benjamin, Isaac, Robert (of fur
ther mention) ; Rachel, Abigail, Elizabeth and
Daniel. (II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Rum
sey, was a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut.
He married and had issue: Joseph, John (of
further mention) ; William and Nathan.
(Ill) John, son of Robert (2) Rumsey,
was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1726, died
at Hubbardton, Vermont, December 28, 1790.
He lived at Redding, Connecticut, removing
from there to Hubbardton, in 1784, after a
residence in Redding of seven years. He mar
ried, in Fairfield, March 19, 1752, Esther
Jones, born 1732, at Elizabethtown, New
York, died at fiubbardton, July, 1808. Chil
dren: Abigail, born January 12, 1753, died
at Warsaw, New York, 1826 ; Rachel, January
22, 1754; Nathan, June 15, 1756; David (of
further mention) ; Mary, 1761 ; Esther, 1764;
Ebenezer, 1768; Polly; Ellen.
(IV) David, son of John Rumsey, was born
at Redding, Connecticut, November 21, 1758,
died at Westfield, Chautauqua county, New
York, January 2, 1849. He served in the war
of the revolution, enlisting March 1, 1778, to
serve ten months, and received a revolutionary
pension for his services. He moved from
Connecticut to Hubbardton, Vermont, in Feb
ruary, 1792, and from there to Westfield, New
York, in 183 1. He married, at Roxbury, Con
necticut, May 9, 1781, Hannah Bronson, bbrn
October 2, 1760, at Woodbury, Connecticut,
died at Westfield, February 14, 1841. Chil
dren, first five born in Roxbury, Connecticut,
last five at Hubbardton, Vermont: Philo,
June 9, 1783, died at Westfield, April 23,
1840; Esther, born March 4, 1784, died at
Troy, New York; Stephen (of further men
tion) ; Zalmon, March 3, 1789, died at Hub
bardton, Vermont, January 13, 1813; Mary,
January 24, 1791, died in Westfield, New
York; Catrina, February 24, 1793, died at
Randolph, New York, March 9, 1854 ; Laura,
March 7, 1795 ; Aaron, May 6, 1797, died at
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ruary 28, 1799, died at Tonawanda, New
York, September 7, 1861 ; Anna, January 8,
1801, died at Hubbardton, February 23, 1823.
(V) Stephen, son of David Rumsey, was
born in Roxbury, Connecticut, June 1, 1785,
died at Westfield, New York, July 31, 1873.
He lived at Hubbardton, Vermont, and in
1827 removed to Washington county, New
York; thence in 183 1 to Westfield, Chautau
qua county, New York. He was a captain in
the war of 1812. He was a merchant in
earlier life, and after settling in Westfield was
engaged in merchandising for many years and
was also engaged in the manufacture of
leather, owning a tannery which he operated in
partnership with his brother Aaron. Later,
in 1849, he purchased a farm of one hundred
and thirty acres from his nephew, Fayette
Rumsey, whose father, Calvin Rumsey, pur
chased it from the Holland Land Company.
Here he lived the remainder of his days. The
farm passed to his son, Argyle Z. Rumsey,
and is now (1911) the property of his grand
son, Argyle W. Rumsey. He joined the Bap
tist church when fifteen years of age and was
always an active church worker, especially de
voted to work in the Sunday school. In the
summer of 1833 he was superintendent of four
Sunday schools in the hill country and in 1834
added a fifth. In 1834 he changed his mem
bership to the Presbyterian church, where he
was equally active. He married, in Hubbard
ton, February 11, 1813, Rachel Norton, born
February 27, 1790, at Ballston, Saratoga
county, New York, died in Westfield, April 1,
1868. Children, first four born in Hubbard
ton, Vermont, the fifth at Hebron, New York :
Return Norton, born May 20, 1814, died at
Westfield, July 2, 1841 ;Ann Matilda, Septem
ber 2, 1816, died at Westfield, August 19,
1839; Carlisle T., August 24, 18 18, died at
Westfield, July 9, 1839; Argyle Zalmon (of
further mention) ; Marietta Marvin, August
18, 1829.
(VI) Argyle Zalmon, son of Stephen Rum
sey, was born in Hubbardton, Vermont, May
25, 1820, died at San Antonio, Texas, July 9,
1862. He was educated in the public schools,
and until 1857 lived on the home farm. He
bought the tannery of his father, which he
operated for some time. On account of poor
health he was obliged to seek another climate.
He removed to Texas, where he was engaged
in the sale of agricultural implements, being
the first dealer to have such goods shipped into

that state. He continued in business until his
death at San Antonio, in 1862.
He married, in Westfield, Mabelia Bliss,
born in that town, November 9, 1827, daugh
ter of Elam C. and Mary (fiarmon) Bliss.
She survives her husband and resides (1911)
in Westfield, New York. Children: 1. Walter
Bliss, born in Westfield, June 28, 1853, died
there February 23, 1894. He married (first)
January 24, 1878, in Albany, New York, Nel
lie Nicholas, born June 5, 1855, at Ripley, New
York, died at Westfield, January 5, 1885. He
married (second) May 28, 1890, in Emporia,
Kansas, Mary Cowan. Children of first wife :
i. Mabel C, born June 2, 1879, at Albert Lea,
Minnesota, ii. Edith B., born April 5, 1881,
married Fred Bull; two children, born in
Provo, Utah; Walter B. and Paul. Children
of second wife : iii. Walter, born in Emporia,
Kansas, iv. Florence P., born in Westfield,
New York. 2. Argyle W. (of further men
tion) .
(VII) Argyle Warren, son of Argyle
Zalmon Rumsey, was born at Waxahachie,
Texas, August 8, 1861. In 1862 his father
died, and, the country being then in the midst
of the great civil war,, his mother experienced
great difficulty in getting through the confed
erate lines to her friends in the north. She
had many influential friends, however, who
assisted her, and finally, after two years' effort,
she reached Westfield with her two sons and
her husband's remains, which were finally laid
to rest in Westfield cemetery.
Argyle W. was educated in the Westfield
schools and grew to manhood on the farm
of his maternal grandfather, Elam C. Bliss,
who was a noted farmer of Chautauqua
county. Mr. Bliss was a successful exhibitor
at fairs and exhibitions and often took Argyle
W. with him on his trips. After the death of
Mr. Bliss, in 1882, Argyle and his brother,
Walter B., continued the stock raising busi
ness for twelve years as partners, and during
that time they continued the exhibitions of
their stock upon a much more elaborate plan,
making large exhibitions at state fairs
throughout the United States, from Maine to
Texas and from Minnesota to South Caro
lina. Their stock became widely known and
they were given credit for having the finest
herd of Devon cattle in the United States. In
1880 Mr. Bliss had set out his first vineyard
and to this Mr. Rumsey has added until now
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bearing vineyards. The stock farm and busi
ness were sold and in 1905 he purchased his
present fine residence in Westfield. He was
one of the principal movers in the organization
of the Citizens' Bank, of Westfield, in 1908,
of which he is a director and one of the largest
stockholders. He is prominent in the Masonic
order, belonging to Summit Lodge, of West-
field, of which he is past master; Mayville
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Dunkirk
Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also
a member of the Knights of Pythias of West-
field, and is past commander and past deputy
commander of the district.
He married, in Ripley, New York, March 4,
1891, Almira M. Rose, born in Sherman, New
York, March 4, 1866.

This is an Irish family which
ALLEN has been closely connected with
railroads in Ireland. Henry
Allen, born in county Down, Ireland, after
spending his life in the railroad service, dur
ing which time he attained the high office of
inspector, died in the United States while on a
visit to his children. He married Rachel
Lowry, born near Belfast, Ireland. She died
in Ireland. They were the parents of eight
children, the following three coming to
America : Henry (of whom further) ; Mar
garet; Elizabeth.
(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and
Rachel (Lowry) Allen, was born in Belfast,
Ireland, February 28, 1849. He was educated
in the Royal Academic Institute of Belfast.
In 1863 he was employed by the Great North
ern Railroad of Ireland. Subsequently he be
came agent for the northern part of Ireland
for the London & Northwestern Railroad of
England. He received an appointment in
England as the agent of the Great Western of
Canada Railroad, and for two years was lo
cated at Strathbury and Hamilton, Ontario.
He filled this position so satisfactorily that he
was made inspector of the railroad and for
six years was in the office at Hamilton, On
tario. His next position was with the Nickel
Plate Railroad, and for twenty-six years he
was at Cleveland, Ohio, in the capacity of
traveling freight agent. He had always been
of a frugal turn of mind and had always in
vested his salary in good, sound ventures, and
consequently he was able to retire at the age
of fifty-five. He came to Westfield, New
York, in 1897, where he has lived ever since,

making grape growing his chief occupation.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church,
and is held in high esteem by the citizens of
Westfield. He married (first) in Strathbury, Ontario,
1879, Anna, daughter of Joseph and Mary
Buttery, born in Strathbury, Ontario. He
married (second), 1893, Charlotte Buttery, a
sister of his first wife. Children of first wife :
Harry, Paul B., Joseph Ernest, died young.
Children of second wife: Charlotte, born in
Cleveland, Ohio; Marion, born in Cleveland,
Ohio; Catherine, born in Westfield, New
York ;  , died in infancy ; a boy (not yet
named).

The progenitor of this branch of
MASON the Mason family and the first to
settle in New York state was
Thaddeus Mason, a pioneer settler of Clinton
county. He was born in New England, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, whom available records
do not disclose. Thaddeus Mason served in
the war of 1812, and after settling in Clinton
county was extensively engaged in lumbering.
He owned and operated saw mills, converting
his heavily-timbered lands into lumber. He
was twice married, descent being traced
through a son of his second wife, who had a
daughter Priscilla, who died at the age of
eighteen years, and sons Luther M. and Silas.
(II) Luther M., eldest son of Thaddeus
Mason, was born in Plattsburg, Clinton
county, New York, September 27, 1802, died
in Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York,
March 17, 1886. He learned the trade of mill
wright, and for several years was extensively
engaged in Clinton county in lumbering and
the erection of saw and grist mills. About
1832 he moved to the town of Ellery, Chau
tauqua county, where he owned a farm and
worked at his trade. He erected several flour
ing mills in Chautauqua county and established
the first ferry (under license) to operate
across Lake Chautauqua at what is now
Bemus Point or the Narrows. He operated
this ferry for several years. He was well
known in the county and bore a high reputa
tion. He was a strong Democrat in politics.
He married, 1823, at Fort Ann, Washington
county, New York, Ann Haskins, born Octo
ber 14, 1805, daughter of Ira Haskins, born
in New York state, of English parentage.
Children, first five born in Clinton, the others
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Ellery): 1. Charles, born October 26, 1825,
died in California, unmarried. 2. Ira, born
October 21, 1827, died in Harmony, New
York, unmarried. 3. Luther (2), born No
vember 29, 1829, died in Harmony, New York,
January 16, 1907; married Emily Gould. 4.
James, June 14, 1832, died unmarried. 5. Gil-
son, May 13, 1834 (deceased) ; married Eliza
beth Benthy. 6. Melchert D., December 5,
1836. 7. William, August 6, 1839, died at
Glade, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1901 ; married
(first) Maria Clark; married (second) Viola
Smith. 8. Silas W. (of whom further). 9.
Emmett,. November 20, 1843 > married Carrie
Caromy. 10. Emma Ann, twin of Emmett,
died at Bemus, March, 1867; married Alfred
Field. 11. Maria C, July 9, 1847; married
DeWitt Atherly.
(Ill) Silas W., eighth child of Luther M.
Mason, was born in Ellery, Chautauqua
county, New York, November 21, 1840. He
was reared on the Ellery homestead and at
tended the public school. He spent one year
at Westfield Academy, then taught' in the pub
lic school for one term, returning to the acad
emy, whence he was graduated in 1859, at the
age of nineteen years. After being variously
employed for two years he entered Bryant &
Stratton's Business College, at Cleveland,
Ohio, graduating in 1861. In 1862 he went
to Venango county, Pennsylvania, where for
the ensuing six years he was engaged in the
real estate business very extensively. In 1870
he moved to Chautauqua county, New York.
He was then thirty years of age. He began
the study of law with Austin Smith, of West-
field, and two years later entered the Albany
Law School, from whence he was graduated
in 1872 and admitted to the bar. He at once
began practice, locating in Westfield, where he
yet continues. He has proved a capable, suc
cessful lawyer and has also large business in
terests outside his profession, fie is interested
quite heavily in coffee and rubber plantations
in Mexico, and in other enterprises nearer
home. Mr. Mason is one of the leading Pro
hibitionists of his state. In 1887 he was the
Prohibition candidate for the assembly from
Chautauqua county; in 1889 candidate of the
same party for judge of the supreme court
of New York, and the next year their candi
date for judge of the court of appeals, and
has also been their choice for lieutenant-gov
ernor of the state. Although his party is in

such a hopeless minority, he has always polled
their full strength, and at each succeeding elec
tion shown an increased vote. He has served
two terms as president of the village of West-
field, been president of the board of education
several years, and is now village trustee, an
office he has long held. He is a member of
the Presbyterian church, which he has served
for several years as trustee, and also a mem
ber of the Masonic order.
He married, March 5, 1862, Amanda F.
Persons, born in Westfield, daughter of Paul
and Susan (McGill) Persons. Children:
George P., born 1863 ; Louie, died in infancy ;
Clara, married Harry L. Sears, of New York
City ; children : Mason O. and George.
John Sheldon, an inhabitant
SHELDON of Providence, Rhode Island,
was born in England in 1630,
died in 1708. He settled at Providence, where
he was a tanner. He was deputy in 1702. He
deeded his homestead, March 20, 1708, to his
son Nehemiah on condition that he would
maintain his father the remainder of his life.
He married, in 1660, Joan Vincent, who died
in 1708. Children: 1. Timothy, born March
29, 1661, died 1744; married Sarah, daughter
of Alexander and Jane (Holbrook) Balcom;
children: Martha, born May 5, 1687: Tim
othy, March 1, 1689; Samuel, January. 29,
1691 ; Mary, August 1, 1693. 2. John (of
whom further). 3. Mary, died April 28, 1735;
married, January 12, 1688, Stephen, son' of
Stephen and Sarah (Smith) Arnold; children:
Stephen ; Philip, born February 12, 1693 ; Ed
ward ; Phoebe, born March 5, 1695; Sarah;
Penelope, born 1701 ; Savana, born 1703. 4.
Nicholas, died November 23, 1747; married
Abbie Tillinghast, born March, 1674, daughter
of Purden and Lydia (Taber) Tillinghast;
children: Mary, Nicholas, Joseph, Abigail,
Lydia. 5. Nehemiah, born 1672, died 1754;
married Rachel Mann, born April 15, 1679,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wheaton)
Mann; children: Abraham; Philip; Mary,
married, December 18, 1721, William Rhodes;
Rachel, born 1705, married, March 6. 1728,
Pearnot Packer ; Wealtherm, married, June 6,
173 1, John Williams.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Joan
(Vincent) Sheldon, was born in Rhode Island,
died at Pawtucket, that colony, August 16,
1741. He was a tanner and cordwainer. He
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i. Roger, married Mercy

2. John (3).

3. William (of whom further). 4. Edward.
5. Patience, married  — Thornton. 6. De
liverance. 7. Ezekiel, married Joanna  .
8. Sarah.
(Ill) William, son of John (2) Sheldon,
was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, about
1710. He married Rebecca Rhodes, 1737.
Children: 1. Deliverance, born 1740; married
Nathan Jillson. 2. Robert, born 1741 ; mar
ried  Hill. 3. Roger, born 1745 ; was
of Cumberland, Rhode Island. 4. William (of
whom further). 5. Benjamin, born 1750; set
tled at Unadilla, New York. 6. John, born
1752; settled in the northern part of Adams,
Berkshire county, Massachusetts. 7. Rebecca,
born 1754; married John Philips. 8. Susanna,
married Nathan Jillson. 9. Anna, married
 Potter, of Cranston, Rhode Island. 10.
Mercy, married  Randall. 11. Daugh
ter, married Ezra Day.
(IV) William (2), son of William (1) and
Rebecca (Rhodes) Sheldon, was born in Paw
tucket, Rhode Island, 1747. He lived in Cum
berland, Rhode Island, and in Stephentown,
Rensselaer county, New York. He married
Abigail  . Children : Diana, married
Charles A. Calkins ; Benjamin (of whom fur
ther) ; William; James.
(V) Benjamin, eldest son of William (2)
and Abigail Sheldon, was born in Stephen-
town, New York, January 5, 1785, died May
3, 1854. He was a blacksmith, and became
one of the pioneer settlers of Monroe county,
New York, settling in the town of Sweden,
about seventeen miles from Rochester. He
worked at his trade and also owned farming
land. He married, January 24, 1805, Anna C.
James, born July 3, 1784, at Stephentown, died
at Sweden, New York, October 1, 1873. Chil
dren, first two born in Stephentown, the others
in Sweden: Benjamin Lee, December 24,
1805; Arthur Anna, November 6, 1806; May
Julia, November 29, 1808 ; James Alson, Feb
ruary 2, 181 1 ; Phcebe Eliza, February 13,
1813; Electa Calista, May 14, 1815; Harriet
Adeline, November 26, 1817 ; Abigail Elvira,
January 12, 1820; Eleanor M., May 1, 1822;
DeWitt Clinton (of whom further).
(VI) DeWitt Clinton, youngest child and
fourth son of Benjamin and Anna C. (James)
Sheldon, was born in Sweden, Monroe county,
New York, October 14, 1825, died at Holly,
Orleans county, New York, June 11, 1896.
He was educated in the public schools, fie

was reared a farmer and inherited the home
stead farm in Sweden, which he cultivated
until his retirement. He was a capable man
and held in high esteem. He was a member
of the Baptist church, and in politics a Demo
crat. He married, January 1, 1846, in Holly,
New York, Elvira Pennell, born in that town,
1827,' died there March, 1903, daughter of
Epaphras and Sarah (Bradley) Pennell. Chil
dren, all born in Sweden : Helen M., married
George Pennell ; Adelaide, died aged eighteen
years; Charles B. (of whom further) ; fiarriet
P., married Walter Beadle; Ada M., married
John M. Brown.
(VII) Charles B., eldest son and third child
of DeWitt Clinton and Elvira (Pennell) Shel
don, was born in Sweden, Monroe county,
New York, June 9, 1856. He was educated
in the public schools, finishing his studies at
Brockport State Normal. He was reared on
the farm and followed agriculture as a busi
ness for some time, later becoming a traveling
salesman, continuing on the road several
years. He" then located in Buffalo, where he
established a successful wholesale commission
business under the firm name of Charles B.
Sheldon. He continued this until he was suc
ceeded by his son, Leland L. Sheldon, by
whom it is yet conducted. Mr. Sheldon
(senior) then located in Westfield, Chautau
qua county, New York, where on April I,
1906, he purchased an established hardware
business, which he has since very successfully
conducted. He is a member and trustee of
the Baptist church, and a Republican in poli
tics, fiis career has been a successful one
and he has established an enviable reputation
for upright dealing.
He married, December 15, 1881, Frances
Louise Beadle, born in Sweden, New York,
August 4, 1857, daughter of Almond D.
Beadle, born in Sweden, May 4, 1830, died
February, 1909. He married Abigail Avery,
born August 6, 1832, died May 2, 1885.
Almond D. was a son of Rev. John Beadle,
a Methodist minister, who was born in New
Hampshire, and married Abigail Bentley, of
Rhode Island. Children of Charles B. and
Frances Louise Sheldon, first two born in
Sweden, New York: 1. Leland Locke, born
May 22, 1883 ; wholesale commission merchant
of Buffalo. He married, August 15, 1908,
Virginia, daughter of John E. and Ella
(Barker) Taylor. 2. Edith Gertrude, born
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Brockport, New York, July 27, 1892. 4. Mar
garet Elizabeth, born in Erie, Pennsylvania,
May 14, 1896, died there April 19, 1897.
The first Cowen of record in
COWEN New England is John Cowen
"from Scotland," who was of
Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1656. He pur
chased lands and built a house. An entry in
the colony records, 1670, shows his Scotch
spirit: John Cowen appeared in court to
answer for his contemptible words against
royal authority, to wit: That he scorned to
be in subjection to an Englishman, and that
there never was any king in England that
was an Englishman save one, crooked-backed
Richard, a crooked rogue just like such a one
(naming a well-known hunchback). Cleared.
fie spelled his name Cowen, as did the New
York family for three generations. Some
branches spell it Cowan.
He married Rebecca, widow of Richard
Man, 1656. Qiildren: Joseph, born 1657;
was killed in the Rehoboth battle, 1676; Mary,
born 1659; John, 1662; Israel, 1664, married
anl left a family; Rebecca, 1666.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Cowen,
was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, 1662.
He married, 1687, Deborah Litchfield. Chil
dren: Sarah, born 1688; Joseph, 1690; John,
1692; Joshua, 1694; Caleb, 1696; Israel, 1701 ;
Mary, 1705.
(Ill) John (3), son of John (2) Cowen,
settled in Rhode Island, where he married and
had issue, including a son John (4).
(IV) The pioneer Cowen in Cattaraugus
county, New York, was John (4) Cowen, born
in Rhode Island, served in the revolutionary
war and came to Cattaraugus county in 1833,
settling in the town of Conewango, where he
died at the age of ninety-one years. He mar
ried Olive Smith. Children: Eddie, John,
Arthur F., Sally, Esther and Waity.
(V) Eddie, son of John (4) and Olive
(Srnith) Cowen, was born in Rhode Island,
settled in Tolland county, Connecticut, where
he died. He married  Griggs. Chil
dren, not in order of birth: Jane, Theodore,
John Madison (of further mention) ; Olive,
Norman E. G„ born in Connecticut, 1833;
married Hattie A. Metcalf ; he resided on the
homestead of his grandfather ; Sarah.
(VI) John Madison, son of Eddie Cowen,
was born December 12, 1826, and when six
years old came to Conewango with his grand

father, John Cowen. He grew up to farm
labor, and on arriving at man's estate cleared
a farm, which he cultivated all his active life.
He yet resides in Conewango (1911), aged
eighty-five years. He married, August 3, 1847,
Rachel A.'Seager. Children: 1. Adeline, de
ceased. 2. Josephine W., married George J.
Mason, son of Charles and Ann Mason;
Charles was of English descent and a veteran
of the civil war. 3. Sally A., married David
(3) Loop, son of David (2), son of David
(1), born and died in Columbia county, New
York. David (2) came to Conewango in 1840
and for many years operated the Holdridge
Mills at East Randolph, and owned three
farms. He married Mary Winter. David (3)
and Sally A. Loop have three children : Claude
A., Josephine and Mary R. 4. John Norman
(of further mention). 5. Esther, married
(first) Charles Carr; (second) David Whit-
ford; child, Emily, married Stanley Aldrich.
6. Jane M. (Jennie), married Willard Bab
cock. 7. Orastus S., deceased. 8. William S.,
deceased. (VII) John Norman, fourth child of John
Madison Cowen, was born in Conewango, Cat
taraugus county, New York, December 23,
1854. His early education was obtained in the
public school, after which he pursued a course
at Chamberlain Institute. He then attended
the State Normal School at Ypsilante, Michi
gan, then entered the University of Michigan,
at Ann Arbor, pursuing a four years' course
in the dental department. He was graduated,
D. D. S., class of 1878, and at once began
the practice of his profession at East Ran
dolph, continuing until 1884, when he located
in the village of Randolph, where he is yet
in successful practice, and an influential, highly
regarded citizen. He has served as village
trustee and is a trustee of Chamberlain Insti
tute. He was a director of the Bank of Ran
dolph and since 1894 has been president of
that most excellent institution, succeeding
President Crowley. He is past master of
Randolph Lodge, No. 359, Free and Accepted
Masons, and a Republican in politics.
Whether considered as a professional man,
financier or public official Dr. Cowen meas
ures up to the full standard expected and
rarely are all the qualities necessary to a suc
cessful career in all three so abundantly found.
He is public-spirited and liberal-minded and
has many friends.
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(Fenton) Crowley, daughter of John Fenton
and a descendant of Governor Reuben Fen
ton. She died July 2, 1886.

John Douglass was kidnapped
DOUGLAS in London, England, and
brought in a ship to Boston,
Massachusetts. He became a settler of Mid-
dleboro, Massachusetts, where he married
about 1719. He purchased a small farm,
where he died at an advanced age. He mar
ried Eunice Rattleaf (or Ratliffe). Children:
Elijah, of further mention; John, born 1722,
married Mary Braley; George, born 1725,
married Prudence Caswell.
(II) Elijah, eldest son of John and Eunice
(Rattleaf) Douglass, was born in Middleboro,
Massachusetts, about 1720, died 1807. He set
tled in Maine, where he became a large land
owner and well-to-do citizen. He was totally
blind fourteen years before his death. He
married (first) Phebe Taylor; (second) Eliz
abeth Estes. Children : Martin, Daniel, Cor
nelius. Children of second wife : Joseph, Job,
Israel, Sarah, Patience, Mary, Elijah, John.
(Ill) Daniel, second son of Elijah and his
first wife, Phebe (Taylor) Douglass, was born
in Middleboro, Massachusetts, 1747. He was
a farmer of Maine. He married, June 9, 1779,
Sabry Russell. Children: Daniel, of further
mention; Cornelius, Nabby, Sylvania, Annie,
Phebe. (IV) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) and
Sabry (Russell) Douglass, was born in Maine
in 1780, died in Saratoga county, New York.
He resided for a time in Connecticut, then
came to New York state, settling in Saratoga
county, where he was an extensive dealer in
lumber, owning and operating a saw mill. In
1836 he came to Niagara county. He married
(first) Sarah Bailey; married (second) Lydia
 . Children : Milton, of further men
tion : John, born 1816, died 1889, was a civil
engineer, surveyor and school teacher ; he
was county surveyor of Dane county, Wis
consin, where he was an extensive land owner,
and resided at Token Creek, Wisconsin; he
married Amy Aldrich, of Olcott, New York;
Martin. (V) Milton Douglas, eldest son of Daniel
(2) and Lydia Douglass, was bprn in Sara
toga county, New York, October 19, 1808,
died in Niagara county, 1887. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Saratoga county
and worked with his father there until 1836,

when Daniel and his two sons came to Niag
ara county, settling in the town of Somerset,
where Milton followed farming for four years.
About 1843 he bought a farm of eighty-five
acres in Newfane on the Coomer Road. This
tract was then covered with timber. He began
a clearing, which continued until sixty-five
acres were under cultivation. Here he resided
until his death. He was a hard working man
of good standing in his community. He was
a Presbyterian in religion, and a Republican
in politics. He married (first) Caroline Smith,
in Saratoga county, 183 1 ; married (second)
Caroline Bennett Austin, 1842, born in Ticon-
deroga, New York, 1818, died 1898. Chil
dren: 1. William A., born 1843, in Somerset,
New York, died, 1887, in Newfane; he was
a veteran of the civil war; married (first)
Olivia Stratton, (second) Jennie C. Palmatier,
(third) Alice Bixler. 2. Martin Van Ness,
of further mention. 3. Mary, born 1850, mar
ried J. F. Smith, of Lansing, Michigan; child,
Mabel, married W. Swick.
(VI) Martin Van Ness, youngest son of
Miiton and Caroline Bennett (Austin) Doug
las, was born July 20, 1846, on his father's
farm, Coomer Road, Newfane, Niagara
county, New York. He received his educa
tion in the public school, Lockport Union
School and Eastman's Business College,
Poughkeepsie, New York, finishing his studies
in 1866. For a year he was with his uncle
in Wisconsin farming. In the fall of 1867
he came to Lockport, where he engaged as a
teacher of bookkeeping and penmanship in the
public schools. He remained in this position
for thirteen years, establishing a reputation as
an instructor. In 1880 he resigned and until
1885 was engaged in the insurance business.
In 1885 he entered the employ of the Lock
City Brewing Company as accountant. He
is now (1911) secretary of the company and
general manager. He is past master of Niag
ara Lodge, No. 375, Free and Accepted
Masons, of which he was secretary from 1888
to 1898; past high priest of Ames Chapter,
No. 88, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was
secretary from 1872 to 1898 ; member of Bruce
Council, No. 15, Royal and Select Masters,
of which he was recorder from 1874 to 1898 ;
past eminent commander of Genesee Com-
mandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, of which
he was recorder from 1885 to 1898; member
of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks;
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Lodge, No. 69, and treasurer since 1890. He
married (first), October 16, 1867, Mary
Morse, of Wisconsin, who died at Lockport,
1872. He married (second), December 1,
1873, Almeda Armstrong, born 1846, at Lock-
port, died there 1888; before marriage a
teacher in the public schools; child, Camille
D., born June 29, 1876.
This family descends from
DOUGLAS Thompson Douglas, a well-
to-do farmer of county Down,
Ireland, where he died in 1889. He never
came to the United States, but lived and died
on his homestead in Ireland. His wife, Anna
(Shaw) Douglas, survived him and spent her
last years on the home farm. Thompson
Douglas had fifteen children : Agnes, married
a Mr. Brown and resides in Ireland; John,
died in California; Margaret, married a Mr.
Whiteside, deceased; James; William R. (of
whom further) ; Hugh, lives in Ireland ; Davis,
died in California; Sarah Mary, married a
Mr. Brown, deceased; Thomas; Thompson;
Brown; Grace, died unmarried; three others
supposed to have died in infancy.
(II) William R., son of Thompson Doug
las, was born in county Down, Ireland, Janu
ary 30, 1847, died in Westfield, Chautauqua
county, New York, January 6, 19 10. His boy
hood days were spent on the farm and in at
tendance at the government schools. At the
age of sixteen years he came to the United
States, settling in the village of Westfield in
December, 1863. He learned the trade of
marble cutter, but at the end of his years of
apprenticeship was compelled to abandon it
on account of ill health caused by inhaling the
dust raised in chiseling the marble. He then
learned the trade of moulder, which he fol
lowed until the shut down of the Lock foun
dry in 1870. In that year he began working
as a clerk in the grocery store of his uncle,
Robert Shaw, continuing in that capacity until
1874, when he was admitted to a partnership,
forming, with his uncle and J. R. S. Cosgrove,
the grocery firm of R. Shaw & Company. Dur
ing the next eight years there were several
changes in the personnel of the firm, but Mr.
Douglas remained during that entire period.
In 1882 he purchased the interests of all his
partners, becoming sole owner and proprietor.
He continued in most successful and lucrative
operation of the same business until his death
in 1910. He was a most capable, courteous,

upright and generous man of business. His
integrity was proverbial, all agreeing that his
word indeed was "as good as his bond." He
was warm-hearted and generous, giving freely
to the relief of those in distress. He was
truly mourned by a host of friends. On be
coming a voter Mr. Douglas at once affiliated
with the Republican party, and, while never
seeking office, took the liveliest interest in
the success of his party and in the public
welfare of his village. He was elected a mem
ber of the board of education in 1888 and
was annually re-elected (often without oppo
sition) until his death. His services to the
cause of education were invaluable and fully
appreciated by his townsmen. He was a mem
ber of the Presbyterian church, which he
served for many years in an official capacity.
He was a member of Summit Lodge, No. 219,
Free and Accepted Masons, and of Westfield
Council, No. 81, Royal Arcanum.
He married, November 19, 1873, Mary
Winsor, of Westfield, who survives him.
Children: John Robert (of whom further);
Harry Winsor, born June 2, 1877; married
Myrtle Sutherland; William Minford, born
November 14, 1880 ; Elizabeth A., born March
26, 1883, died 1886; James Robinson, born
January 5, 1886, married Clara Mary Kent ;
Alice Ruth, born February 22, 1889; Grace,
April 1, 1891 ; Margaret, March 28, 1895.
(Ill) John Robert, eldest son of William
R. Douglas, was born in Westfield, New York,
July 27, 1875. He was educated in the public
schools, and began business life as a clerk in
his father's store. He was interested in pub
lic men and affairs and for nine years was
private secretary to S. Frederick Nixon,
speaker of the New York house of assembly,
and a noted Republican leader. During the
intervals when the legislature was not in ses
sion he returned to his old position in the
store at Westfield. After the death of Mr.
Nixon, Mr. Douglas received the appointment
of assistant librarian at Albany, a position he
held until January 1, 191 1, when he resigned
to accept the postmastership of Westfield, as
suming control of that office the same day.
He has always been an active party worker,
served for eight years on the Republican
county committee and was for six years its
secretary, resigning that office in 191 1, on be
coming postmaster. He served two terms
of three years each as trustee of the village
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shown a deep interest in the welfare of the
village and town. On the death of his father,
in 1910, he was appointed administrator of
and continued the mercantile business for the
estate, assisted by his brothers, one of whom,
James R., is also assistant postmaster. Mr.
Douglas is unmarried.
Anna (Shaw) Douglas, wife of Thompson
Douglas, arid grandmother of John R. Doug
las, was a daughter of James Shaw, a large
linen manufacturer of Ireland. He owned a
farm of one hundred and sixty-seven acres
in county Down, on which his linen mills were
built, fie gave employment to from four
to six hundred hands, also operating a general
store for their convenience. He was well
known for his energy and enterprise and was
a leading man in his section. He died No
vember 9, 1849, aged fifty-seven years. He
married Margaret Robinson, who died in 1837.
His father, William Shaw, was a lifelong resi
dent of county Down, where he died, aged
eighty-seven years.
Mary (Winsor) Douglas, wife of William
R. and mother of John R. Douglas, was born
in Westfield, New York, November 17, 1854,
daughter of David Winsor, born 'in the county
of Kent, England, in 1814, died in Westfield,
1863. He came from England to the United
States in 185 1 with wife and three children.
On the passage his daughter Anna, aged two
and one-half years, died and was buried at
sea. He settled in Chautauqua county, New
York, where he continued his English occupa
tion, farming. His farm was in Westfield.
After several years he abandoned farming and
secured employment in the Lock foundry. His
wife, Serenia (Hollands) Winsor, born De
cember 16, 1 82 1, died in 1904. She was a
daughter of John and Elizabeth (James) Hol
lands. Children of David and Serenia Win
sor : Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, deceased ; John,
lives in Corry, Pennsylvania; Anna, died at
sea; Mary, married William R. Douglas.

The first record found of this
SEAGER family in Connecticut is at
Simsbury, as follows: "Richard
Segar and Abigail Griffin were joyned to
gether in marriage March the twentieth one
thousand six hundred eighty-two." This is
followed by : "Richard Segar dyed March 19,
1697-8, and his wife Abigail dyed March 31,
1697-8." The next entry is: "John Segar,
Richard Segar's son, was born March 1687-8.

Joseph Segar, Richard Segar's son, was born
in the year 1692." The Cattaraugus county
family descends from Joseph (1) Seager, who
was a brother of Richard and uncle of the
Joseph born 1692. There is no record of him
found further than that of the birth of his
son Joseph (2). His wife was Mehitable,
daughter of John Parsons. She was born
1682, died November 27, 1725.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Mehitable (Parsons) Seager, was born in
Simsbury, Connecticut, December 30, 1704.
He married, March 26, 1730, Dorothy Alford.
Children: Joseph (3), born March 23, 1731;
Dorothy, January 27, 1734; Mica (Micah)
(of further mention). (Perhaps others.)
(Ill) Micah, son of Joseph (2) and Dor
othy (Alford) Seager, was born in Simsbury,
Connecticut, April 22, 1736. He married and
had a son Micah (2) (of further mention).
(IV) Micah (2), son of Micah (1) Seager,
was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, about
1765. He married (first) Lois Graham ; (sec
ond) Susan  . fie settled in Phelps,
Ontario county, New York, about 1812, with
his family, fiis sons became land owners of
that town and his descendants yet possess the
lands they cleared. Orestes, Hector and An
son Seager later settled in Cattaraugus county.
Children, order of birth not known: 1.
Aurora. 2. Anson, born 1805 ; settled in 1833
in Conewango, Cattaraugus county, New
York, where he was a land owner and justice
of the peace ; married Aurora Harmon ; chil
dren: Caroline, Charlotte, Delia, William H.
and Micah (3). 3. Schuyler. 4. Hector. 5.
Orestes, married Lucinda Ashley ; children :
Rachel A., Schuyler, Adeline and Edward.
6. Maria. 7. Michael. 8. Levi, married
Sophia Streeter. 9. Philomena.
(V) Hector, son of Micah (2) Seager, was
born March 14, 1793, in Simsbury, Connecti
cut, died in Conewango, Cattaraugus county,
New York, 1859. He came with his father
to Phelps, New York, where he remained un
til 183 1, then in company with his brother
Orestes, came to Cattaraugus county, settling
in the Conewango valley. Hector owned a
farm of two hundred acres and became an in
fluential man of his day. He was a warm
friend of the cause of education, taught school,
did conveyancing and served in a high official
position in the county school board of educa
tion, and as supervisor. He was a Democrat
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Episcopal church, serving as class leader for
many years. He married, November 14, 181 1,
Sarah, daughter of Captain Woodward. Six
of their children were born in Phelps, two
in Conewango. 1. David, born 1815, died
1832. 2. Fidelia, married Jason Gould; two
children: i. Frank, married Lewis Carr; his
son Jason married Olive Mason, ii. George
Green, married Aurilla Saunders. 3. Julia
Ann, married Edwin Pinney ; one child, Eliza,
died aged seventeen years. 4. William Nor
ton, married (first) Sophia Eldred; three chil
dren: i. George, married Elizabeth Gage;
four children : Grover Cleveland, Earl, Alida
and Mabel, ii. Foster V. iii. Elizabeth. He
married (second) Caroline Crum; three chil
dren: iv. Lida. v. Harriet, vi. Cora. 5. Lois.
6. Alvina, married Daniel Bowen; one child,
Hector M., married Etta Woodworth, and has
Hester. 7. George E. (of further mention).
8. Charlotte, married Darwin Carl; one child,
Nettie C, married Edwin Payne, and has
Florence and Darwin.
(VI) George E., son of Hector and Sarah
(Woodward) Seager, was born in Cone
wango, Cattaraugus county, New York, Feb
ruary 6, 1833. He was educated in the public
schools and during the winter terms of 1850-
51 attended Chamberlain Institute. He worked
on the homestead farm until he became of
legal age, then purchased a farm for himself.
After the death of his father he, purchased the
interest of the other heirs and became owner
of the old homestead. This property he still
owns and has cultivated for him on the share
plan. In 1870 he became a manufacturer and
purchaser of cheese and butter, a business that
developed to immense proportions. Although
now seventy-eight years of age, Mr. Seager
is in daily management of a business upwards
of $200,000 yearly, and in earlier days it ex
ceeded $300,000. He is a thorough man of
business and gives little evidence that years
are upon him. In 1874 he located his resi
dence in the village of Randolph, where he
now lives (1911). He was made a Mason
in 1871 and is a past master of Elk Creek
Lodge, No. 359, Free and Accepted Masons.
He has taken the degrees of Capitular
Masonry, but the charter of his chapter being
surrendered he never affiliated with any other.
He organized the fire department of Randolph
and was chief for many years. He was presi
dent of the village corporation five years and
a member of the school board nine years. He

was chiefly instrumental in organizing, finan
cing and building the water works system of
Randolph, and in every way furthers the in
terests of his town, fie is also a director of
the State Bank of Randolph. In politics he
is a Democrat, and in religion a Congrega-
tionalist. For business activity and intense
public spirit Mr. Seager may well be styled
Randolph's "grand old man."
He married (first) Ruth Myers, born 1836,
died 1859. He married (second) Nettie Bige-
low, born September 17, 1839, daughter of
John (2) and Caroline (Wells) Bigelow, and
granddaughter of John (1) and Temperance
(Spencer) Bigelow. Caroline Wells was a
daughter of Asa and Betsey Wells. Children
of first wife: 1. Minnie L., born March 16,
1868; graduate of Allegheny College, of
Meadville, Pennsylvania ; married Leland Van
Rensselaer. 2. Frank L., born in Conewango,
New York, March 23, 1876; was educated in
the public schools and Chamberlain Institute.
He began business life as a clerk, then entered
the State Bank of Randolph, as messenger
and clerk, and is now assistant cashier and a
director. He has served as president and trus
tee and treasurer of the village corporation,
trustee of the fire department and treasurer
of the school board. He is a member of the
Congregational church, and of Elk Creek
Lodge, No. 359, Free and Accepted Masons.
He is a public-spirited citizen, a "worthy son
of a worthy sire." He married Elizabeth
Crowley. Child, Kate Crowley, born August
31, 1907.

The Keep family of Lockport,
KEEP New York, are lineal descendants
of John Keep, of Longmeadow and
Springfield, Massachusetts. John Keep is first
mentioned in the records of Springfield as a
resident there in 1660. In 1663 he was elected
selectman, and seems to have been a man of
a good deal of importance in Springfield at
that time, serving on many committees and
juries. In 1667 he was hay ward of Long-
meadow, and in 1668 was surveyor of high
ways in Springfield town. He appears fre
quently in the records until 1676, when he
met his tragic death. On Sunday, March 26,
he was on his way to church in Springfield
with several others, and was attended by sev
eral troopers of the colony. Notwithstanding
their protection, they were attacked by In
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Keep, his wife, and son Jabez. This is known
in history as the "Longmeadow Massacre."
John Keep married, December 31, 1663, Sarah
Leonard, born in Springfield, Massachusetts,
December 13, 1645, daughter of John and
Sarah Leonard, of an important colonial fam
ily. Children : Sarah, born December 5, 1666 ;
Elizabeth, November 15, 1668; Samuel, of
further mention ; Hammond, born June 28,
1673; Jabez, born December 11, 1675, mur
dered by Indians.
(II) Ensign Samuel, eldest son of John and
Sarah (Leonard) Keep, was born August 22,
1670, at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died
August 23, 1755. After the loss of both father
and mother, when he was but six years old,
he was taken by his grandmother Leonard,
who lived in Springfield, and afterward was
reared on the farm of an uncle. He became
himself a farmer, and served in the militia
with rank of ensign. He married, February
27, 1695, Sarah Holton of Longmeadow, born
September 25, 1678, died June 20, 1754. Chil
dren : John, of further mention ; Samuel, born
November 12, 1700; Sarah, August 23, 1703;
Jabez, March 10, 1706; Elizabeth, May 22,
1709; Jemima, July 17, 1711; Josiah, Novem
ber 30, 1713; Abiah, December 11, 1715;
Stephen, October 26, 1717; Eunice, March 3,
1720. (Ill) John (2) eldest son of Ensign Sam
uel and Sarah (fiolton) Keep, was born June
22, 1698, died July 28, 1757. He settled at
Brimfield (now Monson), Massachusetts,
where he was one of the first settlers. At the
first town meeting held there he was chosen
fence viewer, later was assessor, and was se
lectman in 1749-54. He died and is buried at
Brimfield. He married Abigail Munn, born
October 17, 1700, died October 5, 1787, daugh
ter of James and Mary Moody Munn. Chil
dren: John (2), born March 15, 1725; Eliz
abeth, August 6, 1726; Jabez, March 2, 1728;
Abigail, March 28, 1730; Sarah, September
27, 1732; Eunice, September 9, 1734; Eunice
(2), January 3, 1736; Simeon, February 15,
1737; Mary, January 28, 1739; Caleb, of fur
ther mention; Seth.
(IV) Captain Caleb Keep, tenth child and
fourth son of John and Abigail (Munn) Keep,
was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, De
cember 10, 1741, died at Homer, Cortland
county, New York. He was a farmer, and when
the revolutionary war began at once took an
active part with the colonies. He marched as

sergeant with Captain Freeborn Moulton's
company, Colonel Danielson's regiment, on the
Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, from Mon
son to Cambridge, and took part in the stir
ring events of that day. He appears as lieu
tenant of Captain Joseph Thompson's com
pany, Colonel Danielson's regiment, August
1, 1775. He continued in the service and be
came captain of the Ninth Company, First
Regiment, Hampshire county, Massachusetts
militia. After returning from the army he set
tled at Monson and resumed his occupation
of farmer. He had as distinguished a civil
career as he had military. In 1794 he was
elected selectman and served several terms.
In 1793-94-97 he was elected to the general
court of Massachusetts from Monson, and
held other positions of trust. Late in life he
removed to Homer, Cortland county, New
York, where he died. He married  .
Children : Mercy, born March 17, 1771 ;
Clarissa, October 6, 1772; Martin, December
20, 1774; Rhoda, March 19, 1779; Chauncey,
of further mention.
(V) Chauncey, youngest child and second
son of Captain Caleb Keep, was born Novem
ber 5, 1784, died in Homer, New York, Octo
ber 12, 1853. He settled in Cortland county,
where he became a man of prominence and in
fluence. He was a Whig in politics, and in
1830 was elected a member of the New York
house of assembly, serving with distinction
until 1836. He was one of the first board of
trustees of Cortland Academy in 1819, and
always maintained his interest in that institu
tion. He was connected with various business
enterprises of his section, and aided in the de
velopment of Cortland county. He married
Prudence Wolcott, born May, 1789, died No
vember 28, 1869, at Homer, New York,
daughter of Parmenis and Mary Wolcott, and
a direct descendant of Roger Wolcott, one of
the early colonial governors of Connecticut.
Children: 1. William, born May 11, 1812, died
at Lockport, New York, July 29, 1865 ; he
was a banker, presidential elector in 1857;
married Frances Rhodes of Syracuse, New
York. 2. Sophia, born 1813, died 1854. 3.
Mary Wolcott, born 1817, died May 29, 1884.
4. Chauncey (2), born June 29, 1819, died No
vember 10, 1874, at Lockport, New York. 5.
Henry, born October 20, 1820, died May 4,
1897, at Chicago, Illinois. 6. Charles, born
April 4, 1823, died August 30, 1893. 7. Al
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August 29, 1829, died August 22, 1906. 9.
George R. (of further mention).
(VI) George R., youngest child and seventh
son of Chauncey and Prudence (Wolcott)
Keep, was born at Homer, New York, April
3, 1832, died at Lockport, New York, August
23, 1903. He was educated at Cortland Acad
emy,- Homer, and in 1849 joined his brothers
in Lockport, New York, and with them was
engaged in merchandising, conducting a gen
eral and clothing store. He remained in mer
cantile life in Lockport until 1877, when he
disposed of his interests and removed to Chi
cago, Illinois, where he established in the
manufacturing of boots and shoes. He con
tinued in active successful business life until
1893, when he retired. He was a man of great
executive ability, and handled successfully the
various enterprises with which he was con
nected. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and a Republican. He mar
ried, June 7, 1865, Jennie M. Roberts, who
died June 3, 1899. Children: Ralph S., of
further mention; Augustus Wolcott, born
February 16, 1880, died March 5, 1881.
(VII) Ralph Spencer, eldest son of George
R. and Jennie M. (Roberts) Keep, was born
in Lockport, New York, March 20, 1874. He
was educated in private and public schools of
Chicago, prepared at St. Paul's School, Con
cord, New fiampshire, and entered Williams
College in 1893. After completing his college
studies he entered the employ of the National
Exchange Bank of Lockport, New York, re
maining three years. He then became con
fidential secretary to his uncle, Augustus Keep,
continuing with him until his death in 1906.
Mr. Keep is a director of the National Ex
change Bank, and since 1906 has not been en
gaged actively in any business. He is a ves
tryman of Grace Episcopal Church, Lockport.
His clubs are: The Buffalo, Buffalo Country,
Lockport Country and Tuscarora. His col
lege fraternity is Zeta Psi, Zeta Chapter, of
which he is trustee.
He married, June 15, 1904, at Lockport,
Gertrude Ingersoll Van Epps, born June 5,
1880, daughter of Robert T. and Belle (Inger
soll) Van Epps. Child: Wolcott Keep, born
December 5, 1906. This family settled in the
SHAFER American colonies prior to the
revolution, coming from
Sweden, where the family had been seated for

many generations. The emigrant ancestor, John
Shafer, was born in Sweden, came to Amer
ica and settled in Fredericksburg, Maryland.
He served as a private in the revolution, and
in 1804, with his family, removed to the town
of Rush, Genesee county, New York, where
he purchased a farm and conducted it with the
aid of his sons. He lived to be an old man
and reared a large family. He married Eliza
beth Steele, born 1760, died 1864, at the great
and unusual age of one hundred and four
years. She was well known in the neighbor
hood, and retained unusual vigor until well
along toward the century mark.
(II) Peter, son of John and Elizabeth
(Steele) Shafer, was born in Fredericksburg,
Maryland, 1799, died in Niagara county, New
York, March, 1885. He was taken to Rush,
Genesee county, New York, with his father
in 1804, He grew up to farm labor, an occu
pation he always followed. He settled in the
town of Yates, Orleans .county, and in 1849
moved to the town of Olcott, Niagara county,
New York. He married Eleanor Fenton, of
Orleans county, New York. Children: Sid
ney, died at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907;
Ira, died young, in Olcott, New York ; Electa,
born 1824, now (1911) living in Olcott;
Sophronia, died in 1862, at Olcott; Belinda,
now living in Olcott, aged eighty years ; James,
a farmer, now aged seventy-eight years ; Hor
ace, died 1856; Homer, a farmer of Olcott,
now aged seventy-four years ; Esther, now liv
ing at Ransomville, New York, aged seventy-
two years; Franklin, born April 24, 1841, in
Orleans county, now living in Olcott ; Eugene,
of further mention.
(Ill) Eugene, eleventh child and seventh
son of Peter and Eleanor (Fenton) Shafer,
was born in the town of Yates, Orleans county,
New York, August 19, 1843. He was six
years of age when his parents removed to Ol
cott, Niagara county, where he remained on
his father's farm until his marriage. He was
educated in the district schools, and has de
voted his life to fruit farming. The homestead
farm in Olcott, where he worked with his
father, was the place of the first experiment
in grafting apple trees, and was a point of
a good deal of interest at that time. Having
retired from the farm, he is now living in Ol
cott, making a specialty of fruit culture, mostly
different varieties of the apple, for which the
farm is famous. He is an ardent Republican
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He married, October i, 1867, Lydia S.
Meseroll, born April 23, 1843, daughter of
Philip H. and Hannah (Stratton) Meseroll.
Children: Philip, born December 14, 1871,
died January 2, 1882 ; Minnie, born May 9,
1869, now residing with her parents in Olcott.
An interesting feature of this family is their
great longevity. While none have reached
the great age of Elizabeth, of the first genera
tion, there are several of the second that have
passed eighty, and are advancing closely to
the age of ninety years.

This surname comes
VAN WAGONER from the habit among
the early Dutch set
tlers of affixing to their own names that of
the place in Holland from which they came.
Aert Jacobsen, the emigrant ancestor of the
line herein traced, came from Wageningen.
Jacob, his son, wrote his name Jacob Aertsen
Van Wageningen, meaning Jacob, son of Aert,
from Wageningen. This being difficult to
pronounce soon became Wagenen, the "Van"
meaning from was, however, retained. From
this have come the various spellings : Wag
enen, Wagnen, Wagoner and Wagner, all be
ing descendants of the Dutch immigrant, Aert
Jacobsen, from Wageningen, Holland. For
convenience the name will be written in its
present form, Van Wagoner, although the
earlier generations wrote it Van Wagenen, as
many branches still do.
(I) Aert Jacobsen probably came from
Wageningen, a town near the Rhine ten miles
west of Arnheim in Gelderland. This is sur
mised, as his grandchildren adopted the name
of that town as a surname, prefixing Van
(from). He was probably a son of Jacob
Aertse Wagenaar, who came to Albany, New
York, in 1642, with Evart Pels and others.
The Kingston church records show that Aert
Jacobsen died before 1668. His wife's name
was Annetje Gerrits. The earliest documen
tary evidence of him is in 1653, when he with
several others took the oath of allegiance to
the Patroon at Albany. In 1660 he purchased
a piece of land in Esopus, New York. He
left his property to his five children by a will
that was probably never recorded, as there are
on record at Kingston five quitclaim deeds
executed by his children to each other, all
dated November 6, 1710. Children: 1.
Neeltje Aertsen, married, June 6, 1667, Cor
nells Aertsen Tynhont. 2. Grietje Aertsen,

married Jacobus Coenradt Elmdorf, February
28, 1668, "with the consent of her mother."
(Both of these marriages are recorded in
Kingston church records). 3. Elizabeth, mar
ried Cornells Masten. 4. Jacob Aertsen, of
further mention. 5. Gerrit Aertsen, married
Clara, daughter of Evart Pels.
(II) Jacob Aertsen Van Wagoner, son of
Aert Jacobsen, was born February 14, 1652.
(O. S.) He married, February 25, 1677,
Sara, daughter of Evert Pels. She was born
July 3, 1659 (Bible record). They lived at
Wagendale, now Creek Locks, Ulster county,
New York. His will, written in Dutch, dated
October 5, 171 5, is recorded at Kingston. Chil
dren, all baptized at Kingston except Jacob:
Annatje, married Jan Hermans ; Aert, married
Marytje Blansham; Evert, of further men
tion ; Gerrit, died young ; Rebecka, married
Jan Freer; Geertje, married Jacob Gerritse
Decker; Jannetje, died young; Jannetje (2),
married Johannis Turk; Gerrit (2), died aged
eighteen years ; Symon, married Sara Dubois ;
Jacob Aertse, baptized at Albany, February
20, 1695 ; Benjamin, married Elizabeth Ven
den Berg; Abraham, married Hillegond Cris-
pell; Sara, married Solomon Deyo; Isaac,
married Catrina Freer.
(Ill) Evert, third child of Jacob Aertsen
and Sara (Pels) Van Wagoner, was born
April 12, 1684. He married, 1709, Hillegond,
baptized in New York, November 14, 1686,
daughter of Claes Jansen and Janneken (Kier-
sen) Van Heyningen. They removed to
Dutchess county at an early date and settled
near Poughkeepsie. Children: Jacob, mar
ried Helena Van de Bogaard; Nicholas, of
further mention; Sara, married Tennis Van
Vliet; Gerrit, married Sara De Graff; Jan
neken, born February 12, 1719; Maretjen,
married Abraham De Graff.
(IV) Nicholas, son of Evert and Hillegond
(Van Heyningen) Van Wagoner, was bap
tized in New York, April 5, 1713. He mar
ried, at Poughkeepsie, September 6, 1735,
Hester, baptized at Kingston, October 12,
1710, daughter of Jan and Maria (Peacock)
De Graff. His will, dated November 6, 1769,
proved at Fort George, New York, December
11, 1772, is recorded in New York, liber 28
of wills, page 337. In it his residence is given
as Charlotte precinct, Dutchess county, New
York ; his wife Hester is named ; sons, Evert,
John and Nicholas; daughters, Hellegontie,
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seph Hagaman, Sarah, wife of Johannis Van
Enden, and Janneke. Also grandchildren,
John, Hester and Elizabeth Alden, children
of his deceased daughter, Maria.
(V) Nicholas (2), youngest son and child
of Nicholas (1) and Hester (De Graff) Van
Wagoner, was born in Dutchess county, New
York, May 15, 1748, died at Rhinebeck, New
York, January 7, 181 1. He married, at Rhine-
beck, November 25, 1770, Elsie Ostrander,
born October 20, 1743, died April 26, 1832,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Van Ben-
schoten) Ostrander. Nicholas and wife are
both buried at Pleasant Valley, Dutchess
county, New York.
(VI) Captain Evert (2) Van Wagoner, son
of Nicholas (2) and Elsie (Ostrander) Van
Wagoner, was born in Dutchess county. New
York, February 2, 1776. He enlisted a com
pany of men, was chosen their captain and
commanded them at the battle of Plattsburg
fought during the war of 1812. He married
Sarah Albertson.
(VII) Solomon, son of Captain Evert (2)
and Sarah (Albertson) Van Wagoner, was
born in Dutchess county, February 16, 1802,
died in Lockport, Niagara county, New York,
July .31, 1881. Early in life he came by way
of the Erie canal to Rochester, where he en
gaged in teaming and distilling. He contracted
fever and ague there, which compelled him to
seek another location. He bought a farm in
Wyoming county, near Attica, which he oper
ated as a dairy and live stock farm. He was
in successful business there until 1840, when
he sold out and removed to Niagara county.
He purchased a farm of one hundred and
fifteen acres in the town of Somerset on the
Lake road. There he remained engaged in
general farming and live stock dealing until
1871. In that year he sold all his farm in
terests and retired to Lockport, where he pur
chased a comfortable home and lived until
his death. He was originally a Whig in poli
tics, joined the Republican party on its forma
tion, but later . became a Democrat. He was
an energetic, industrious man and a good citi
zen. He married Catherine Buckbee, born
April 18, 1802, died April 24, 1850. Children :
Nancy E., died in infancy; Gilbert M., born
February 27, 1828, died December 12, 1864;
Henry J., of further mention ; Jane Eliza, born
June 14, 1834, died August 30, 1841 ; Almon,
born April 10, 1841, now a resident of Spring
field, Massachusetts.

(VIII) Henry J., son of Solomon and
Catherine (Buckbee) Van Wagoner, was born
in Rochester, New York, July 26, 1830. He
was educated in the public schools of Wyom
ing and Niagara counties, with one term at
Yates Academy, Yates, New York. He was
reared a farmer and until 1858 was his father's
chief assistant. In the latter year he went to
Michigan, where he purchased and cleared a
farm of eighty acres. After three years spent
in Michigan he returned to Niagara county.
In 1864 he purchased a farm of eighty-six
acres from his father, in the town of Newfane,
which has been his home for half a century.
The farm is well planted with fruit trees and
makes a most desirable residence. Mr. Van
Wagoner is a Republican in politics and an
attendant of the tjniversalist church, of Ol
cott. He is highly respected in his town, his
long years of residence having proved his
good qualities as a friend and neighbor.
He married, May 28, 1863, Sarah Jane
Shedd, born September 12, 1840, daughter of
Charles Shedd, a veteran of the civil war, and
his wife, Dorothy (Folts) Shedd, of Newfane,
New York. Child, Harry Alonzo, born Au
gust 13, 1872 ; educated in the district school,
Yates Academy and Lockport high school. He
now manages and cultivates the home farm.

Few men have been held in higher
RICE esteem or died more deeply mourned
than Dr. Alvin B. Rice, of James
town, New York, son of Stephen and Louisa
P. (Lewis) Rice, of Panama, Chautauqua
county, New York. ,
Dr. Rice was born near Panama, October
22, 1841, died in Jamestown, New York, May
7, 1903. His early education was obtained
in the public schools, after which he entered
Amherst College, from whence he was grad
uated. He chose medicine as his profession
and began study under Dr. H. H. Glidden, of
Panama. He attended a course of lectures
at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, afterward
entering Bellevue Medical College, at New
York, from whence he was graduated, M. D.
He returned to Panama, where he practiced
for a time according to the teachings of the
allopathic school of medicine. Later he be
came impressed with the virtues of the
homoeopathic system and after a course of
study and lectures in New York began the
practice of homoeopathy, which he ever con
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then located in Jamestown, New York, where
he ever afterward lived and practiced, winning
wide and honorable fame for his medical skill
and for his devotion to his profession.
He was vice-president of the New York
State Homoeopathic Medical Society, and was
highly regarded among his professional
brethren. He was an exceedingly modest man
and never sought preferment, but in various
capacities his sterling worth and ability were
recognized by his associates and he was chosen
to positions of honor and trust. He was prom
inent as a citizen, as a physician, as a church
man and in his fraternity. His rare skill and
sympathetic nature gave him strong hold upon
the confidence and affection of his patients,
who looked upon him not only as a healer
but as a friend.
From early life he was a devoted member
of the Baptist church. For many years he
was superintendent of the Sunday school at
Panama, and after coming to Jamestown was
one of the most active, earnest members of
the First Baptist Church. At the time of his
death he was corresponding secretary of the
Chautauqua County Baptist Association. Pie
was always a strong advocate of the cause of
temperance, not only advocating but practicing
it. He was a political Prohibitionist and was
several times the nominee of his party for pub
lic office. His devotion to the cause of Free
Masonry was well known. He belonged to
Mt. Moriah Lodge, Western Sun Chapter and
Jamestown Commandery, but it was to the
latter that he was particularly devoted. He
was for man}- years prelate and at the time
of his death was eminent commander. It was
only the evening of the night he died that a
meeting of Sir Knights was held in his office
to arrange plans for the funeral of Sir Knight
Phillips, a departed member. But a few clays
later and his brethren of the order were per
forming their beautiful burial rites beside the
grave of their honored commander. Dr. Rice
accomplished so much good in his community
that his name will be honored as long as mem
ory remains to those who knew his great and
unselfish nature.
He married, February 23, 1868, Helen M.
Davis, born at York Mills, now known as
Yorkville, daughter of Nathan and Mary Ann
(Ford) Davis. Children : Lottie J., married
Charles E. Treat ; Vincent M., Charles R.
Mrs. Charles E. Treat has two children : C.
Vincent and Helen Doris Treat.

The Pratt family is of Norman
PRATT stock, the name appearing in
anglicized form in France early
in the Middle Ages. It is derived from the
Latin "Pratum," a meadow; Spanish, Prade;
French, Pre, Preaux, Prairie. The barony
of Pratella existed near Rouen, on the Seine
below Paris, early in the eleventh century. Its
lord, Le Sire de Preaux, followed William
the Conqueror to England in 1066, his name
being found on the Roll of Battle Abbey as
having been present at the battle of Hastings.
Thirty years later, in 1096, a Sire de Preaux
followed Duke Robert of Normandy, the eld
est son of William the Conqueror, on the
First Crusade. Two of his kinsmen, William
and John, accompanied him. John de Pratelles
was a favorite minister of King Richard the
First (Cceur de Lion). Two brothers, Wil
liam and Peter de Pratelles, followed Richard
on the Third Crusade in 1 189-91. William
saved the king from capture in a skirmish
with the Saracens by allowing himself to be
captured, pretending that he was the king.
He was later exchanged for ten emirs, and
was knighted for his valor. Documents con
nect him with Rouen, where the barony of
Pratella was located. A Seigneur de Preaux
was killed at the head of his household in
the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
The anglicized form of the name, Pratt,
begins to appear frequently in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries. There are nine ar
morial bearings extant among different fami
lies of this name. Its frequent occurrence on
Norman rolls proves the Norman origin of
the family. While it is found in nearly every
county in England, it is particularly identified
with Herts and Norfolk.
(I) The first of the name from whom the
American Pratts can trace direct descent was
Thomas Pratt, who lived at Baldock, county
of Herts, England, about thirty-four miles
from London, in the early part of the sixteenth
century. His will is dated February 5, 1538-
39. His wife's name was Joan, and he had
three sons : Thomas, James, Andrew, and one
daughter, Agnes.
(II) Andrew, son of Thomas Pratt, had
three children: Allen, baptized 1561 ; William,
October, 1562; Richard, June 27, 1567.
(Ill) Rev. William Pratt, son of Andrew
Pratt, was rector at Stevenage, Hertfordshire,
for thirty years, and died in 1629, aged sixty-
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Children : Mary, February 6, 1605 ; Elizabeth,
April 2, 1613 ; Richard, baptized February 16,
1618; John, November 9, 1620; William;
Sarah. (IV) John Pratt and his brother William,
sons of Rev. William Pratt, were the founders
of the Pratt family in America. John appears
in the records of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
as owner of a home lot, and as one of the orig
inal members of the Rev. Thomas Hooker's
church. This would fix the date of his immi
gration as prior to 1636, when Hooker and
Samuel Stone led their flock through the
wilderness to found Newton, or, as it soon
became, Hartford, Connecticut. The fact that
these two sons of a clergyman of the Church
of England were at this time living in a Puri
tan colony and were members of a Puritan
church may explain the omission of their
names from their father's will. John and
Lieutenant William Pratt appear among the
original proprietors of Hartford. They drew
home lots in the first division of land in Feb
ruary, 1639, and their names occur frequently
in the records of the colony. John married
Elizabeth —  , and died July 15, 1655, and
had two sons, John and Daniel.
(V) John (2), son of John (1) and Eliza
beth Pratt, married (first) Hannah Boosey ;
(second) Hepsibah Wyatt. He died Novem
ber 23, 1687. Children: Hannah, born 1658;
John, 1661 ; Elizabeth, 1664; Ruth, 1667
Sarah, 1668; Joseph, 1671 ; Susannah, 1680;
Jonathan. (VI) Jonathan, son of John (2) Pratt, born
November 23, 1687, married Mary Benton,
and died in 1755. They lived at East Hart
ford. Children: Elizabeth, Jerusha, Daniel,
Moses, Jonathan, Eliab, Aaron, Mary, Hep
sibah. (VII) Aaron, son of Jonathan and Mary
(Benton) Pratt, was born about 1725-26. He
married Mary Clark, of East Hartford, in
1756, and removed to Westminster, Vermont.
In 1805 he came to his son's home in Buffalo,
where he died February 9, 1806. His widow
died in Buffalo, November 20, 1809. Both
were buried in the village cemetery, where is
now Franklin square, fie was a member of
the Congregational church. Children : Eliza
beth, Aaron, Mary, Samuel, William, died in
infancy; William.
(VIII) Aaron (2) and William (2) Pratt
were sons of Aaron (1) Pratt, of Westmin
ster, Vermont.

(IX) Samuel (in some records given as
Lemuel), grandson of Aaron (1) Pratt, came
to Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, New
York, from Tinmouth, Vermont, in 1838. He
had been preceded by his son, Lyman S., who
had secured for his father seventy acres of
land by contract from Nicholas Devereux.
Samuel Pratt spent nearly a year in clearing
fifteen or twenty acres, erecting a log house
and a frame barn. In September, 1839, he
was joined by his family. Prior to coming
to New York state he had lived in Hubbard
ton and Tinmouth, Vermont. He married and
had issue.
(X) Lyman S., son of Samuel Pratt, was
born in fiubbardton, Vermont, December 17,
1813. In 1841 he married and settled in Little
Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York, and
built a house and opened a wagon shop in
part of it. Upon the death. of his father he
purchased the homestead, which he cultivated,
also carrying on his carriage and wagon build
ing. In 1864 he sold the homestead and
moved to Randolph, where for five years he
engaged in the same business, purchasing and
operating a wagon shop. In the spring of
1877 he returned to Little Valley, where he
died April 26, 1895. He married Martha
Smith. Children: Mortimer N. (of further
mention) ; Jerome I. ; Alice, married Stephen
A. Markham; children: Winfield and Lina.
This family resides in Ellington, Chautauqua
county, New York.
(XI) Mortimer N., eldest child of Lyman
S. and Martha (Smith) Pratt, was born in
Little Valley, New York, January 28, 1845,
died November 28, 1902. His early education
was obtained in the public school, after which
he studied and was graduated at Randolph
Academy. At the age of seventeen he began
teaching in the public schools, continuing for
thirteen consecutive winters. He gave much
of his time to the public service. In Febru
ary, 1867, he was elected justice of the peace,
and held that office sixteen years. He also
served three terms as assessor of the town
of Little Valley, and one year as justice of
sessions. January 1, 1883, he was appointed
deputy sheriff by John Little, and January 1,
1886, was reappointed by Mr. Little's succes
sor, A. E. Darrow. In November, 1888, he
was elected sheriff of Cattaraugus county,
serving a full term of three years. He was
the owner of a farm of one hundred and
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on which his father, Lyman S., first settled
and had his carriage shop. Besides his farm
ing and public interests, Mr. Pratt was presi
dent of the Kellogg Manufacturing Company,
makers of all kinds of washing machinery.
He was a loyal, steadfast Republican, influen
tial in the party and a willing worker for
party success. He held office continuously
from the time he was twenty-two years of
age. He married, November 28, 1866, Har
riet Huntley, born 1844, who survived him.
Children : Rollin H., Arthur J., and Howard
S. (see forward).
(XII) Rollin Huntley, oldest son of Morti
mer N. and Harriet (Huntley) Pratt, was
born in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county,
New York, March 28, 1868. He was edu
cated in the public schools, finishing at the
Fredonia State Normal School. After leav
ing school he was appointed deputy sheriff
of Cattaraugus county, serving under his
father, and continued in the sheriff's office
until 1892. He then entered the employ of
the Kellogg Manufacturing Company as book
keeper, remaining four years. In 1897 he ac
cepted a position in the office of the county
clerk of Cattaraugus county, where he still
continues as assistant (or deputy) county
clerk. He has been justice of the peace since
1895, and since 1900 clerk of the village cor
poration. He is a most careful, experienced
man of business, and a valued public official.
He is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal
church, a Republican in politics, and a mem
ber of the Royal Arcanum. He married, De
cember 5, 1893, Georgianna M., daughter of
John A. and Ellen Seekins.
(XII) Arthur Jerome, second son of Mor
timer N. and Harriet (Huntley) Pratt, was
born in Little Valley, New York, August 4,
1871. He was educated in the public schools,
and at Bryant and Stratton Business College,
Buffalo, New York. He has been connected
with the wholesale and retail hardware busi
ness all of his business life, being with Weed
& Company, of Buffalo, New York, five years.
In May, 1905, he purchased the general hard
ware business of Mr. Parsons, at Little Val
ley, and conducted the same for five years.
He is now a travelling salesman for Dwelle-
Kysor Hardware Company, Buffalo, New
York. He married Addie Sweetland.
(XII) Howard Smith, youngest son of
Mortimer N. and Harriet (Huntley) Pratt,
was born in Little Valley, New York, January

24, 1888. He was educated in the public
schools, and graduated from the Jamestown
Business College in 1909. He was for a time
bookkeeper for the Merrell-Soule Powdered
Milk Company, at Little Valley, New York,
and is at present instructor in general business
methods and banking in the Jamestown Busi
ness College. He is unmarried.

This family settled in
SWEETLAND New England but a few
years later than the Pil
grims at Plymouth Rock. While not a numer
ous family, they are found in Massachusetts
and other New England states at early dates.
A branch of the early family settled in Ver
mont, where Asa Sweetland was born in 1784.
He married Tabitha Houghton, born Septem
ber 2, 1788, and in 18 16 moved to New York
state with wife and four children, settling in
Elba, Genesee county. In 1828 he moved to
Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, and in 1821
his children were also living near him. He
was a leading member of the Methodist Epis
copal church, which he served as class leader
until old age compelled him to forego church
work. He died March 8, 1867. Children:
1. Lewis (of further mention). 2. Asa, born
in Vermont, June 6, 1812, died December 18,
1887; married, March 8, 1832, Matilda, daugh
ter of William Fisher, a pioneer of Napoli.
Asa was a devoted member of the Methodist
Episcopal church over sixty years, twenty-five
of which he was class leader. His wife died
December 18, 1887, leaving a daughter Al-
theda, married Horace Hart and died March
8, 191 1 ; had a son Henry M. 3. Laban. 4.
Prusia. (II) Rev. Lewis Sweetland, son of Asa and
Tabitha (Houghton) Sweetland, was born in
Vermont, January 2, 1810. He settled in Gen
esee county, New York, with his parents, and
in 1830 came to Little Valley, Cattaraugus
county, where he erected a homestead in the
western part of the town, consisting of one
hundred acres of timber land, which he cleared
and improved.
Mr. Sweetland was for several years a
local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal
church, later was ordained and became an itin
erant preacher, dying while actively engaged
in the ministry, September 17, 1873. He mar
ried Drusilla Palmer. Children:" John Wes
ley (of further mention) ; Laura J., born 1832 ;
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phia, 1847; Maria, twin of Sophia; four other
children, died young.
(Ill) John Wesley, eldest son of Rev.
Lewis and Drusilla (Palmer) Sweetland, was
born in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county,
New York, April 9, 1831, died September 7,
1884. He was well educated in the public
schools of Little Valley, and for several win
ters taught in the town schools, spending his
summers on the farm.- In September, 1862,
he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and
Fifty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers.
He was stricken with fever at Arlington
Heights and sent to the hospital. On becom
ing convalescent he was retained at the hospi
tal as assistant, continuing until the expiration
of his term of service. He returned to Little
Valley, where he engaged in farming until
1876, when he moved to the village of Little
Valley and took a clerkship in the office of the
county clerk, also continuing to operate his
farm. In the spring of 1879 he formed a part
nership with W. C. Parker, and engaged in
the hardware trade as Sweetland & Parker.
After about two years he bought Mr. Parker's
interest, continuing business alone until the
spring of 1884, when he admitted his son,
Seneca L., as partner, under the firm name of
J. W. Sweetland & Son. He was assessor of
Little Valley for many years, and a deacon of
the Congregational church. He stood high
in his community and was a man of good
business ability. He married, January 4, 1854,
Melvina F. Short, born in Richmond, Ontario
county, New York, November 4, 1833, died
March 6, 191 1, daughter of Rev. Seneca M.
and Mary (Gregg) Short, whose children
were: Melvina F., Laura J., Mary M. and
Rosalie R. Children of John Wesley Sweet
land: 1. Seneca Lewis (of further mention).
2. Frank A., born May 12, 1857, died March
19, 1859. 3- Mary Ida, born July 2, i860, died
July 3, i860. 4. Morton L., born July 17,
1866, died October 3, 1866.
(IV) Seneca Lewis, eldest son of John Wes
ley and Melvina F. (Short) Sweetland, was
born in Batavia, Genesee county, New. York,
September 8, 1855. When two years of age
his parents moved to Little Valley, Cattarau
gus county, which has ever since been his
home. He was educated in the public schools,
finishing with a two years' course at Chamber
lain Institute, then conducted by Professor
Edwards. After leaving school he entered the
employ of the Cattaraugus Republican, where

he learned the trade of printer, remaining five
years. He then spent a year on the Bradford
Era. In 1883 his father's health failed and
the son gave up his own business, returned
to Little Valley and became an assistant in
the hardware store. In 1884 he was admitted
a partner in J. W. Sweetland & Son. The
firm bought the Dinsmore block, extended
their lines and conducted a most successful
business. On the death of John Wesley
Sweetland, in 1884, the firm was reorganized
as S. L. Sweetland & Company, his mother
being the company, continuing until 1907,
when the firm was dissolved. In May, 1909,
Mr. Sweetland established a store for the" sale
of tobacco, school supplies, etc., which he still
continues. He is a Republican in politics and
was town clerk of Little Valley, 1884-89, and
is now again holding that office. He served
as school trustee two years, and was a
member of the board of commissioners that
established the Water and Electric Light Plant
in Little Valley. He is a member of the Con
gregational church, and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, January 4, 1879, Ella R. Bailey,
born March 10, 1856, daughter of Gamaliel
and Marietta (Evarts) Bailey, whose children
were: Austin, married Frances Henderson;
Oel, married a Miss Milks ; Ella R., Norman,
Grant, Cortes, Cora and Claude. Children of
Seneca L. Sweetland: 1. Lee Wesley, born
June 9, 1882 ; graduate of Little Valley high
school; was for a time bookkeeper in the Lit
tle Valley Bank, now cashier in the main office
of the Oliver Typewriter Company, at San
Francisco, California. He is a member of the
Masonic order and a young man of good busi
ness ability. 2. Seneca. Lewis Jr., born De
cember 28, 1883 ; graduate of Little Valley
high school; member of the Masonic order,
and a farmer.

Edwin, son of Otis Hitch-
HITCHCOCK cock, was born in 1831,
died 1910. He came to
the town of Randolph, Cattaraugus county,
New York, when a boy, and, after attending
the public school, worked at farming. He was
thrifty and in due course of time became a
land owner. He owned a farm of one hundred
and sixty-six acres on which he established a
dairy, fie prospered in business and became
one of the substantial men of his town. He
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Mutual Insurance Company, a member of the
school board and a most influential, public-
spirited citizen. He was an Independent in
politics, and while a liberal supporter of all
churches gave particular allegiance to none.
He married Ellen, daughter of Peter Ben
son, who survives him, a resident of Randolph.
Children: 1. Luella J., married George
Ropps ; children : Ruth, Louis and Lee. 2.
Clarence, married Lizzie McGinity ; children :
Genevieve and Gertrude. 3. Charles. 4. Alvin
E. (of further mention). 5. Otis, married
Vail Anderson ; children : Harold ; Edward,
married Ella Parsons and their children are
Helen, Leo and Arthur ; Paul ; Glenn, married
Addie Cool and their children are Louise, Rob
ert, Marian and Maud; Rebecca, married Guy
Porter and their children are Lyman, Elva and
Laura. (Ill) Alvin E., fourth child and third son
of Edwin and Ellen (Benson) Hitchcock, was
born on the Hitchcock homestead farm in
Randolph, January 25, 1868. He was edu
cated in the public schools, and worked on the
farm after completing his studies. He saved
his earnings and invested in a machine for
baling hay and began business for himself.
He prospered and soon began buying loose
hay, pressing it and shipping to market. As
his business became more profitable he ex
tended his operations to the buying and sell
ing of livestock of all kinds. He was a good
buyer and by close attention developed a prof
itable business. He later took in a partner,
established a livery and bought a hotel prop
erty, operating both for several years. The firm
then dissolved, his partner taking the livery
and Mr. Hitchcock the hotel business. He
has large farming interests that he oversees,
and is also the popular host of the Farmers'
Hotel in Randolph, a resort much frequented
by automobilists and the traveling public.
The hotel is well kept and caters to a liberal
patronage. Mr. fiitchcock is well known in the county
and has a host of warm friends. He is liberal
in his benefactions, public-spirited and pro
gressive, aiding in all that is for the benefit of
his town. He is a member of the Congrega
tional church, and of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Repub
lican ; served three years as trustee of the vil
lage corporation and three years as deputy
sheriff. He married, May 5, 1897, Ida Anderson,

born November 17, 1879, daughter of Augus
tus and Christina Caroline (Carlson) Ander
son, and granddaughter of August Anderson,
from Sweden. Children : Raymond Walter,
born June 4, 1898; Herbert A., May 5, 1902.
The earliest traces of the Mead
MEAD family are to be found in a history
of "The Norman People and Their
Existing Descendants in the British Domin
ions and the United States of America," pub
lished in London, England, 1874. From that
volume, it appears that the name Mead is the
English form of the Norman "de Poato,"
which, translated into the English, is Mead,
Meade, Mede and Meads. In 1635 there ar
rived in Massachusetts many ships from Eng
land, and among those arrivals is found the
name of "Goodman" Mead (called Gabriel
Mead). He is the ancestor of the Massachu
setts branch. The most recent discoveries
strongly indicate that he -was accompanied by
his brother, William Mead, ancestor of the
Greenwich (Connecticut), Meads, from whom
the family in Troy descends. William and
"Goodman" Mead sailed from Lydd, county
Kent, England, in the ship "Elizabeth" in
April, 1635. The Mead coat-of-arms, to which
it is believed they were entitled, is thus de
scribed : Sable, a chevron between three peli
cans, or vuln, gules, crest : an eagle displayed ;
motto, Semper paratus (always ready).
Goodman Mead remained in Massachusetts.
William, however, followed the tide of emi
gration, which at that time was toward the
Connecticut valley. The first English settle
ment was made at Windsor in 1633, and an
other settlement was made about the same
time at Wethersfield, where William Mead set
tled first, and in 164 1 he removed to Stamford
with others from Wethersfield. December 7,
1641, "William Mayd (Mead) received from
the town of Stamford a homelot and five acres
of land."
This William is the ancestor of the
Fairfield county, Connecticut, family, although
family tradition declares that John Mead was
also one of those of eastern New York, west
ern Vermont and Meadville, Pennsylvania.
He was born about 1600. He married, in 1625,
and died in Stamford, Connecticut, about
1663. There is no record of his wife, but
there is of his three children. 1. Joseph (see
forward). 2. Martha, born 1632; married
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about 1634; married Hannah Potter; died
February 5, 1699.
(II) Joseph, son of William Mead, was
born 1630, died May 3, 1690. He married
Mary Brown, of Stamford; children: 1. Zach-
arias, died in 1703, unmarried. 2. Joseph
(see forward). 3. Daniel, born 1659; married
fiannah  . 4. Elisha, born about 1661,
died 1727; married, in 1683, and had issue.
5. Richard, born 1664. 6. Mary.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Mary (Brown) Mead, was born about 1657,
died in 1714. He married Sarah Reynolds;
children: 1. Sarah, born November 3, 1695;
married, August 14, 1718, Benjamin Stebbins;
eight children. 2. Joseph, born May 3, 1698.
3. Theophilus, born July 3, 1700, died 1760;
married Abigail Westcott, and settled in Nor-
walk, Connecticut ; eight children. 4. Jeremiah,
born August 6, 1702, died 1742; married,
1725, Hannah St. John; his oldest son, Cap
tain Thaddeus, was killed in the French and
Indian war. 5. Zachariah, born March ii,
1704, died 1 761 ; married, but left no issue.
6. Nehemiah (see forward). 7. Israel, born
March 14, 1708; married and left issue.
(IV) Nehemiah, son of Joseph (2) and
Sarah (Reynolds) Mead, was born January
20, 1706, died 1784. He married Mehitable
 , and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Children: Joseph, David (see forward),
Zachariah, Nehemiah, Deborah, Mary, Lydia
and Abijah.
(V) David, son of Nehemiah and Mehitable
Mead, was born 1714; married Isabella Knapp
and settled in Westchester county, New York.
Sons: David (2), Michael (see forward), and
others. (VI) Michael, son of David and Isabella
(Knapp) Mead, was born in 1740. He settled
in Vermont, where he followed farming. He
married Tryphena "Burton. Children : Isaac,
born December 20, 1760; Silas, born May 6,
1762; Lydia, May 20, 1763; Rufus, October
15, 1764; Ezra, August 9, 1766; Tryphena,
October 10, 1767; Solomon, January 30, 1769;
Michael (of further mention) ; Lydia, Janu
ary 12, 1772; Mary, October 13, 1773; Sophia,
April 13, 1775; Dorcas, December 16, 1777;
Peter, March 27, 1779; Cynthia, September 4,
1780. (VII) Michael (2), son of Michael (1) and
Tryphena (Burton) Mead, was born in Ver
mont, died March 7, 1834, at Ovid, Seneca
county, New York. He owned several large

farms, most of which he cleared from the vir
gin timber. He married Abigail, daughter of
Moses and Mary (Seeley) Cole, born 1783,
died April 28, 1853, at Somerset, New York.
Children: Ezra C. (of further mention) ; Be
linda, born December 18, 1803; Lewis, No
vember 14, 1805 ; Fannie, March 2, 1808 ;
Henry, May 28, 181 1; Stephen (of further
mention). (VIII) Ezra C, son of Michael (2) and
Abigail (Cole) Mead, was born March 11,
1802, at Ovid, Seneca county, New York. He
received his education at the country schools,
and worked on his father's farm until a young
man. After his marriage he and his wife
journeyed from Seneca county to West Som
erset, Niagara county, behind a yoke of oxen.
Here he purchased a farm of one hundred
and eight acres, which he devoted to general
farming. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and was one of its strongest
financial supporters. In politics he was a
Democrat. He married, October 11, 1820,
Jane, daughter of James and Hannah Nelson,
born June 11, 1803, died August 8, 1887.
They had eleven children, eight of whom ar
rived at maturity. Children : Lydia, born
February 22, 1822 ; Hannah, March 7, 1825 ;
Philina, July 22, 1824; Abigail, April 15, 1827;
Michael, June 11, 1829, married Mary E. Mil
ler; George W., April 6, 1831, married Julia
Clark ; Henry, August 29, 1833 ; Ezra Jr.,
June 16, 1835, married Lodena Rising; Jane
R., May 30, 1837, married Josiah D. Webster;
Anna E., May 3, 1839, married Andrew
Stickles; M. Mandana, August 9, 1844, mar
ried Dudley H. Mead (see Mead).
(VIII) Stephen, son of Michael (2) and
Abigail (Cole) Mead, was born February 28,
1819, at Ovid, New York, died January 18,
1898, at Somerset, New York. He was edu
cated in the district schools of Ovid, and be
fore attaining his majority settled in Somer
set, after purchasing a farm of seventy-five
acres. Here for a time he tried general farm
ing and afterward devoted his time to raising
live stock and fruit farming. Finally he sold
the farm, purchased another, and in time be
came a large land owner. During war times
he dealt with considerable profit in wool. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and a Democrat. He married Phcebe
Prime, of Allegany county, in 1840. Chil
dren: 1. Homer D., born 1842, died June 30,
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ley H. (of further mention). 3. Augusta,
born 1846, died December 14, 1872. 4. Ele-
nora, died at the age of eight years. 5. Helen,
married S. Delos Davis.
(IX) Dudley Henry, son of Stephen and
Phcebe (Prime) Mead, was born at Somerset,
New York, October 20, 1843. He was edu
cated in the district schools of his native town
and was also at Albion high school. At this
time he was living at home, and at the age
of eighteen became a dealer in live stock, which
business he still continues. In 1878 he pur
chased the old Mead homestead of one hun
dred and eighteen' acres, which had been oc
cupied and cultivated by his father for fifty
years. He has fifty acres of his farm in fruit,
the remaining sixty-eight acres he devotes to
general farming. He is also the owner of an
other sixty-acre farm. He is a trustee and
strong supporter of the Somerset Methodist
Episcopal Church, a member of Somerset
Lodge, No. 639, Free and Accepted Masons,
and a Democrat. He married, April 21, 1886,
at Somerset, New York, M. Mandana Mead,
seventh daughter of Ezra C. and Jane (Nel
son) Mead, of Somerset.

The Corson family settled in
CORSON York county, Maine, and east
ern New Hampshire, in the
middle of the eighteenth century, at the time
the Scotch-Irish were coming in large num
bers to this section. The name was often
spelled Courson and Coursen, perhaps because
of the Scotch way of pronouncing the word.
Ichabod Corson, who settled at Rochester,
New Hampshire, was a soldier from that town
in the French and Indian war in 1759; was
an assessor in 1767 and on the committee to
recruit volunteers for the continental army in
1779, though in 1775 he had refused to sign
the association test. Joshua Corson, of the
same family, was a sergeant, and Ebenezer
Corson was a private from Rochester in the
revolution. In 1790 Ichabod Corson, with
two males over sixteen, two under sixteen,
and one female, was living at Rochester, and
David Corson was also head of a young family
in that town. In 1790 no less than eleven
families, presumably of the same stock, were
reported in the census, viz: Nathaniel, John,
John, Ichabod, Aaron, Daniel, Isaac, John,
Lemuel, Samuel and Samuel. There were
none of the name at Hallowell, now Augusta,
and none in Lincoln county, in which Augusta

is situated. Ebenezer and Samuel Corson,
both of Maine, served in the revolution. (See
"Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution," p. 19,
vol. IV.) Aaron Corson came to Lebanon,
Maine, from Rochester, New Hampshire,
about 1769; his brother Samuel came about
1760 and died in 1785. Aaron Corson was a
corporal in Captain Jedediah Goodwin's com
pany of Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's regi
ment, in 1776. He was an original settler of
the farm lately owned by William A. Corson.
He had sons, John and Enoch, and a daugh
ter, Dorcas. John Corson and Moses Corson,
of Lebanon, near relatives of Aaron and Sam
uel, were also soldiers in the revolution. (See
pp. 13-14, "Lebanon in the Revolution.")
(I) Dexter Foster Corson, a descendant of
the Maine pioneers of this family, settled in
Augusta, Maine. He was born in Maine in
1812, died in 1888 at Monroe, Wisconsin. He
was an extensive dealer in lumber at Augusta,
and was engaged in the harness and saddlery
business at Monroe. In politics he was a Re
publican; in religion, a Methodist. He was a
highly respected citizen. He married (first)
Deborah Norton. The name of his second
wife is not known.
(II) Frederick Wallace, sixth child of Dex
ter Foster Corson, was born September 17,
1847, at Augusta, Maine, died October 2, 1907,
at Lockport, New York. He was taken by his
parents to Monroe, Wisconsin, when three
years of age and attended the public and high
schools of Monroe. When he was twenty-one
he went west with a party of thirty, which
settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he
is counted among the founders of that town.
After three years he engaged in the printing
business and became manager of the Elk Point
Leader, of Elk Point. In 1871 he purchased
the Mound City Patriot, which he conducted
for two years. He then sold out and returned
east. He was for a time on the staff of the
Citizen, of Rome, New York, then was man
ager of the Republican, of Johnstown, New
York, and afterward of the Ogdensburg Ad
vance. In 1883 he purchased the Wappinger
Falls Chronicle, which he edited and published
for seven years. In 1890 he sold it and in the
same year bought the Courant, of Newcastle,
Pennsylvania. He later disposed of that paper
and came to Lockport, New York, where, in
association with Obadiah C. Cutler, he pur
chased an interest in the Union-Sun. After a
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Cutler's interest and those of the other owners.
thus becoming sole owner of the Union-Sun.
He remained proprietor' and editor of this,
one of the most influential newspapers of-
Niagara county, until his death. While jour
nalism was his chosen profession and the
greatest interest in his life, Mr. Corson was
also an influential, most capable man of busi
ness. He founded the Corson Manufacturing
Company, incorporated in 1906. This com
pany was organized to do a general printing
business and for the manufacture of folding
boxes of all kinds. This enterprise, one of
the largest of its kind in western New York,
has been a very successful one, and is now
managed by Egbert Corson, son of the
founder. Mr. Corson was also at the time of his death
a director of the H-O Company, of Buffalo.
His life was a useful, busy one, and he won
success by timely, well-directed effort. He
was a Democrat in politics and in the com
munities mentioned exerted a wide, deep and
lasting influence in behalf of his party and for
the good of all the people. He held various
public offices of trust and responsibility in his
different places of residence, and, always de
serving, always secured public confidence and
respect. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal church and a liberal supporter of all
public charities. He was a prominent mem
ber of the Masonic Order, belonging to Lodge,
Chapter and Genesee Commandery of Knights
Templar. His club was the Ellicott, of Buf
falo. ¦
He married, September 9, 1873, Alice H.
Carr, daughter of Egbert Eugene and Cor
nelia Alice (Loomis) Carr, of Rome, New
York. Children : 1. Egbert, born November
30, 1884; educated in the public schools, Lock-
port high school and the University of Penn
sylvania. Upon the death of his father he
left college and assumed the management of
the Union-Sun and of the Corson Manufactur
ing Company. Under his management both
have been very successful and grown to
greater proportions. He is a member of the
Masonic Order and of the Benevolent Protec
tive Order of Elks, and of the Town and
Country Club and Tuscarora Club, of Lock-
port. 2. Marjorie, born February 13, 1890,
at Marlboro-on-the-Hudson; educated in the
Lockport high school, at the Castle, Tarry
town, New York, and Buffalo Female Semi
nary.

Mrs. Alice H. (Carr) Corson, since the
death of her husband, has been president of
the Corson Manufacturing Company and pub
lisher of the Lockport Union-Sun. She is an
editorial writer of ability and versatility, her
political leaders being widely quoted by other
editors throughout the country. Her ideals
are high and her purpose, the public good.
She is a member and an ex-president of the
New Century Qub; member of the Study
Club and of the City Federation of Lockport.
The family home is at 261 Genesee street,
Lockport.

Eleven centuries ago a sol-
DICKINSON dier of fortune named Ivar
made his appearance at the
court of Halfdan Huilhein, king of Norway.
He had been a shepherd boy, captured one day
by a band of Northmen and carried away by
sea. He drifted into a life of adventure and
became a great favorite at the Norwegian
court. The king made him general of his
army and in 725 gave him his daughter Euri-
thea in marriage, with the title Prince of the
Uplands. When the king died the son of Ivar
became heir to the throne and during his
minority Ivar was regent. This son, Eystein,
reigned until 755 and was succeeded by his
son, Harold Harfager. Rollo, a prince of this
line, overran Norway in 910. His sixth and
youngest son, Walter, received the castle and
town of Caen, as an inheritance. His great-
grandson, Walter de Caen, accompanied Will
iam the Conqueror to England at the time of
the conquest. From this nobleman the Dickin
sons, of Ely, in Cambridge, England, de
scended, thirteen generations of direct descent
later. The name passed through many
changes, Dykonson, Dykinson, Dykensonne,
Dickerson and Dickinson being the more com
mon forms. William Dickinson, of the four
teenth generation, settled in. Ely, Cambridge
shire, England, and married, 1594, Sarah
Stacey. Their son, Nathaniel, is the Ameri
can ancestor of this branch of the Dickinson
family. (I) Nathaniel, son of William Dickinson,
was born in Ely, England, 1600. He married,
in 1630, at East Bergolat, Suffolk county,
England, Anna, widow of William Gull. They
emigrated to America and in 1636 or 1637
settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Nathan
iel was one of the leaders in that colony,
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Massachusetts, where he was deacon of the
church and first recorder of the town : also
selectman, assessor, town magistrate and a
member of the first board of trustees of Hop
kins Academy. He died at Hadley, June 16,
1676. He married a second wife, Anne  .
By first marriage he had ten children.
(II) Joseph, son of Nathaniel Dickinson,
the emigrant, was born 1632 and was slain in
King Philip's war, September 4, 1675. He
married Phoebe Bracy. Five children.
(Ill) Deacon Nathaniel (2) Dickinson,
son of Joseph Dickinson, was borri May 20,
1670. fie married Hannah White. Nine chil
dren. (IV) Jonathan, son of Deacon Nathaniel
(2) Dickinson, was born in Hatfield, Massa
chusetts, November 7, 1699. He married,
April 2, 1724, Mary Smith. Five children.
(V) Noah, son of Jonathan Dickinson, was
born about 1729, died March 28, 1815. He
served in the revolutionary war with the rank
of lieutenant. He married (first), April 28,
1757, a kinswoman, Mary Dickinson, who
died June 1, 1791. He married (second) Su
san Ward. Children by both wives.
(VI) Philemon, son of Noah Dickinson,
was born August 20, 1761, in Dutchess
county, New York. On February 2, 1800, he
with his brothers, John and Samuel, moved
to the town of Bolton, Warren county, New
York. He married Martha Trumble, . born
September 1, 1774; children of Philemon and
Martha were: Lyman, born October 11, 1793;
Debora, August 28, 1795 ; Sarah, February 26,
1796; Silas, December 30, 1800; Electa, Au
gust 20, 1802; Hosea, February 9, 1803;
Rachel, October 3, 1805 ; James, November t6,
1807; Eliza, January 11, 181 1; Emma, April
13, 1813; Barber, September 4, 1815. (An
other son of Noah ' Dickinson, a brother of
Philemon, moved to Cherry Valley, New
York, about 1798; no trace of him after that
time. (VII) Hosea, son of Philemon Dickinson,
was born in Bolton, Warren county, New
York, February 9, 1803. Moved to town of
Yates, Orleans county, New York, about 1825 ;
about 1836 he moved to Newfane, Niagara
county, New York, where he died December
2, 1848; he owned a small farm on the Bate
man road, just south of the Ridge road. He
married (first), January 21, 1828, Sophronia
R. Stockwell, born 1805, died January 18,
1836. The children of Hosea and Sophronia

R. were: 1. Daniel, born December 1, 1828,
died March, 1903, at Qiarlotte, Eaton count),
Michigan. He married Hannah Levings, at
Albion, New York ; their children were : Mar
vin, Deone, widow of Frank Mikesel, and
Luron D., all now residing at Charlotte, Eaton
county, Michigan. 2. Emarilla, born July 21,
1830, died at Charlotte, Michigan, May, 1888.
Joseph, born June 24, 1832, at Lyndonville,
Orleans county, New York, moved to Cali
fornia about 1856, employed on the Leland
Stanford estate, at Mayfield, California; he is
married and has four daughters : Maude, Jose
phine, Emma and Lillian, now living with
their parents. 3. Sophronia, born December 4,
1835, at Lyndonville, New York, where she
now resides; in March, 1859, she married Dr.
Nathan P. Johnson, who died January 9, 1888.
In 1837, Hosea Dickinson married (second)
Joanna Lindsey, of Newfane, New York, who
was born December 25, 1813, died March 27,
1888, in Newfane, New York; their children
were : 4. George, born May 23, 1838, died as
the result of an accident while working in a
factory at Chicago, and was buried in New
fane, New York. 5. James, mentioned below.
6. Adelaide, twin of James, born August 13,
1843, at Newfane, New York, married Ste
phen S. Wilson, in December, 1863, who died
in 1902; she now resides in Newfane, New
York ; their children are : Allen, Emma and
Burt, all married and live with their families
in Newfane, New York.
(VIII) James, son of Hosea Dickinson,
born August 13, 1843, died in the town of
Somerset, New York, January 16, 1907;
buried in Wright's Corners Cemetery, New
fane, New York. He married, August 4, 1864,
Harriet J. Branch, youngest daughter of Jef
ferson Liberty and Sarah (Meader) Branch,
who was born in Warren county, New York,
June 11, 1846, and now lives in the city of
Lockport, New York. James Dickinson re
ceived a good education, and after reaching
manhood taught school during the winters
and boated on the Erie canal during the sum
mer. He began to accumulate and judiciously
invested his savings in Niagara county farms,
of several of which he became the owner. On
one of these, the P.hilip Hoag farm of ninety-
six acres, lying in the town of Somerset, he
made his home and cultivated general crops.
This farm is now owned by his son, Jay L.
He was a thrifty, industrious man of high
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(IX) Jay L., only child of James and Har
riet J. (Branch) Dickinson, was born in New
fane, Niagara county, New York, August 24,
1867. He was educated in the public schools
of Newfane and at Lockport high school.
After completing his studies he became his
father's assistant on the Somerset farm, con
tinuing until 1893, when the father retired.
Mr. Dickinson has made many improvements
and has made the property a very desirable
one. He makes a specialty of fruit culture,
having twenty-eight acres of apple trees, twen
ty-five acres of peaches and eight acres in
other small fruits. Beside his home farm he
owns an interest in another three miles distant
from Lockport. He is modern in his methods
and is a man of success. He is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church and chairman
of the board of trustees. He is interested in
the work of the Patrons of Husbandry and a
member of the New York State Grange. His
fraternal orders are the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, Barker Lodge, No. 877, and the
Masonic, Somerset Lodge, No. 639, both of
Barker, New York.
He married, March 4, 1890, Mary J. Frost,
born March 22, 1870, daughter of Albert E.
and Elizabeth (Atwater) Frost. Children :
1. Bertha C, born December 4, 1890; educated
at Lockport high school and Grand Prairie
Seminary, Onarga, Illinois. 2. Raymond A.,
August 13, 1892. 3. Dorothy E., October 27,
1895.

"A Phillips crossed the water
PHILLIPS with John Winthrop, and
from him descended a long
line of ministers, judges, governors and coun
cillors. A sterling race, temperate, just and
high minded." (A writer in fiarpers). Fami
lies and individuals of this name began to
emigrate from the old world to America as
early as 1630 and some a little earlier. The
name is of ancient and classical origin, being
derived from the Greek Philos-trippos, or
horse lover. In Wales and Great Britain its
use as a surname has continued for a long
period, evidently for five centuries and per
haps much longer. It is said that Phillipse is
Welsh and that Phillips is from Worcester
shire, England. Authorities state that the
Watertown family (from whom the Phillips
of Mercer county, New Jersey, descend) were
of the "Philips" of Worcestershire. Some au
thorities are positive that all of the English

families of this name had their- origin in
Wales and subsequently spread over Great
Britain. Several different ways are employed
in spelling, as Phillips, Philips, Phillipse,
Philipps, and others, some of them so peculiar
as hardly to be recognized as having a com
mon origin.
The patriarch of the Phillips family of
Lawrence township, Mercer county, New Jer
sey, was Philip Phillips, born December 27,
1678. He was a son or grandson of Rev.
George Phillips, of county Norfolk, England,
graduate A. B., from Gonville and Caius Col
lege, Cambridge, 161 3, and received the de
gree of M.A., 1617. Suffering from the storm
of persecution then threatening the very exist
ence of the non-conformists of England, he
determined to leave the mother country and
cast his lot with the Puritans. He embarked
for America, April 12, 1630, in the "Arabella"
with his wife and two children, fellow passen
gers with Governor Winthrop and Sir Richard
Saltonstall, arriving at Salem, June 12. Here
his wife soon died and was buried by the side
of Lady Arabella Johnson, both evidently be
ing unable to endure the hardships and ex
posure. Before the final embarkation from
England, which had been considerably de
layed, Governor Winthrop wrote to his son
John : "From aboard the Arabella, riding be
fore Yarmouth, April 5, 1630: Yesterday we
kept a fast aboard our ship and in the Talbot,
Mr. Phillips exercised with us the whole day,
and gave very good content to all the com
pany, as he doth in all his exercises, so we have
much cause to bless God for him." His piety,
talent and learning, especially in theology,
marked him for the ministry and he was soon
settled over the church at Watertown, which
was called together in July, 1630. His salary
was settled by the court of assistants, August
23, when it was "ordered, that Mr. Phillips
shall have allowed him 3 hogsheads of meale,
1 hogshead of malte, 4 bushells of Indian corn,
1 bushell of oat meale, halfe an hundred of
salte fish." Another statement from the same
source says : "Mr. Phillips hath 30 acres of
land graunted him opp. Charles River on the
South side." His first residence was burned
before the close of the year. There is a tradi
tion in the family that his later residence is
still standing "opposite the ancient burial
ground back from the road." The history of
Middlesex county, Massachusetts, says: "This
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have been brought from England by Sir R.
Saltonstall, has a projecting second story
partly concealed by a modern piazza, and
stands well back from the street. Externally
there is nothing to indicate great age, but its
interior retains many marks of antiquity." He
continued pastor over the Watertown church,
greatly respected and beloved, till his death,
fourteen years after his arrival, dying at the
age of fifty-one years. "He was the earliest
advocate of the Congregational Order and dis
cipline." His views were for a time regarded
as novel, suspicious and extreme, and he with
his ruling elder, Richard Brown, stood almost
unaided and alone, until the arrival of John
Cotton, maintaining what was and still is the
Congregationalism of New England. It is
not now easy to estimate the extent and im
portance of the influence of Rev. Phillips in
giving form and character to the civil and
ecclesiastical institutions of New England. His
estate inventoried five hundred and fifty
pounds. His library was valued at seventy-
one pounds. This would indicate that he had
other property and sources of revenue other
than his salary of "malte and salte fish." By
his two wives he had ten children.
Theophilus Phillips, either a son or grand
son, was one of the grantees of Newtown,
Long Island, under the new charter granted
in 1686 by Governor Dongan, of New York.
His name also appears in the records of New
town in 1676. He was thrice married, his
first wife being Ann, daughter of Ralph Hunt,
of Newtown, one of the company of English
men who came to Long Island, New York, in
1652, and planted the settlement of Newtown.
One of Theophilus Phillips' sons was Philip
(see forward).
Philip Phillips was born December 27, 1678,
and with his elder brother, Theophilus, re
moved to Lawrence township, New Jersey, as
early as 1698, as their names are among the
grantees of a tract of land for a church. Philip
Phillips married Elizabeth Hunt and they had
twelve children, six of whom, with his wife
Elizabeth, survived him and are named in his
will dated August 22, 1740.
Joseph Phillips, a descendant of Philip Phil
lips, was the historical Colonel Joseph Phillips
mentioned by Stryker in "New Jersey in the
Revolution" as Major Joseph Phillips of the
New Jersey Battalion. This was the first mili
tary organization of New Jersey and was com
manded at the battle of Long Island by

Colonel Philip Johnson, who was killed in that
battle. Major Joseph Phillips was then pro
moted to be lieutenant-colonel and afterward
colonel of the regiment. Later he was colonel
of the First Regiment of Hunterdon county
and participated with his regiment in the bat
tles of Trenton, Assanpink, Princeton, Ger-
mantown, Springfield and Monmouth. Colonel.
Joseph Phillips died in the stone house in
Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The remains of
the old patriot rest in an unmarked grave
(1883), although he has a numerous posterity.
Many others of the name of Phillips served
in the revolution, from Lawrenceville and vi
cinity. Many noted physicians have gone
forth on their errands of healing from the
Lawrenceville branch, namely: Dr. Joseph
Phillips, Dr. Theophilus Phillips (perhaps one
of the most eminent of the family), Dr. Wil
liam W. L. Phillips, of Trenton, Dr. John H,
Phillips, of Pennington and Beverly, New Jer
sey, medical director of the United States
hospitals at Nashville and Chattanooga during
the civil war, and many others. The family
were also large land owners and held many
fine estates in the township of Lawrence and
county of Mercer.
Abraham Phillips, of the seventh genera
tion in America, was born April 5, 1796, died
April 10, 1866. He settled in Niagara county,
New York, in the town of Newfane, on what
is yet known as the "Phillips" road. He
owned a large amount of real estate in the
town including his home farm of four hundred
acres and several other farms in the neighbor
hood. At the time of his death he was rated
the wealthiest man in that section of the state.
He served in the war of 1812, although then
but a young man of sixteen or eighteen years
of age. He married (first) Betsey Wisner;
(second) Sarah  — ; (third) Elizabeth
Barrow. Children of first wife: David (of
further mention), Daniel, Jerome, Chase,
Frank and Lucinda.
(VIII) David, son of Abraham Phillips and
his first wife, Betsey (Wisner) Phillips, was
born on the old Phillips homestead in New
fane, New York, October 22, 1817, died March
17, 1874. He was educated in the public
schools of Newfane and institutions of learn
ing elsewhere. He began, business life as a
clerk in a Niagara county store, but early
became a land owner and a farmer. He pur
chased one hundred acres of the Pease farm,
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until death. He served in the civil war, en
listing in the Twelfth Independent Battery at
Lockport, New York, January 14, 1862, serv
ing with honor until discharged at the close
of the war, June 14, 1865. He was engaged
in many of the severest battles of the war,
among them the Wilderness, Spottsylvania
Court House, Cold Harbor, the battles before
Petersburg, Welden Railroad and the fall of
Petersburg. He was a Democrat and a mem
ber of the Baptist church. He was a brave
soldier and a citizen whose character was
above reproach. He married, March 16, 1842,
Catherine M. Smith, born December 22, 1825,
died January 22, 1881, daughter of Jonas and
Clarissa Smith, of Oswego, New York. Chil
dren: Emily, born October 26, 1844, died
October 20, 1862; Amanda, born February 6,
1845, died March 11, 1848; Mariette, born
September 11, 1846, died April 17, 1847;
Frank W. (of further mention) ; Fred, twin
of Frank W.
(IX) Frank W., son of David and Cath
erine M. (Smith) Phillips, was born on the
old Phillips homestead in the town of New
fane, Niagara county, New York, February
19, 1865. He attended the public schools in
his earlier youth, but the death of his father
when Frank W. was but nine years of age,
brought his school years to a close. He did
a boy's work about the farm for the next few
years, then until he was twenty took a man's
part, becoming well versed in agriculture and
fruit growing. The home farm was left to
his brother and himself jointly, but Frank W.
soon purchased his brother's interest and has
since conducted it alone. He has one of the
model fruit farms of Niagara county and is
a thoroughly well-informed, modern farmer.
He is a member of New York State Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and interested in all
that pertains to the welfare of his town. He
is a member of the Methodist' Episcopal
church, Red Jacket Lodge, No. 646, Free and
Accepted Masons, and a Democrat in political
faith. He married (first) August 25, 1886,
Jessie M. Ferguson, born 1865, died December
4, 1889, daughter of William and Emily Fer
guson, of Lockport, New York. He married
(second) April 18, 1892, Sabra Farley, born
May 15, 1870, daughter of Elmer and Eliza
beth (Harrington) Farley. Child of first
wife: Harry, born July 29, 1887. Children of
second wife: Willis, born January 2, 1893;
Elton, June 24, 1894;. Dayton, June 9, 1907.

The Meserolls of Niagara
MESEROLL county, New York, descend
on the paternal side from
Charles Meseroll, of New Jersey, a soldier
of the revolutionary war. On the maternal
side from Baron Walden, one of the early
grantees of the Island of Manhattan, a branch
of which settled in New Jersey at an early
date. Charles H. Meseroll was born in New
Jersey prior to 1760, died there in 1842. He
was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was with the army of Washington at Valley
Forge, and also with him in many of his sub
sequent battles. He married and had issue.
(II) Cornelius,- son of Charles H. Meseroll,
was born in New Jersey in 1795, died June 23,
1828, in Niagara county, New York. He
served in the war of 1812 and was engaged
in the battle at Lundy's Lane, Queenstown,
where Brock was killed, and at the siege of
Fort Erie. After the war he returned to New
Jersey, where he engaged in farming until
1827. In that year he removed with his fam
ily to Niagara county, New York, settling in
the town of Newfane, where he died the fol
lowing year, aged thirty-three years. He mar
ried Lydia Phillips, born in Salina, New York,
in 1800.
(Ill) Philip H., son of Cornelius and Lydia
(Phillips) Meseroll, was born in Seneca
county, New York, October 4, 1820, died at
Olcott, Niagara county, New York, March 23,
1899. He received a good common school
education, and after his removal to Niagara
county, purchased a farm of two hundred
acres, fie was a veteran and an officer of
the civil war, enlisting August 27, 1862, in
Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-first
Regiment, -New York Volunteer Infantry, at
tached to the Army of the Potomac. He be
gan his military career as sergeant, and June
3, 1864, was promoted on the field of battle
to the rank of first lieutenant. He was com
missioned as officer, July 1, 1864, and honor
ably discharged and mustered out June 26,
1865. With his regiment he served in the
following battles: Wopping Heights, Mc-
Lain's Ford, Kelly's Ford, Locust Grove, the
Battle of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, fian-
overtown, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, explosion
of the Mine, Monaccy, Charlestown, Smith-
field, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek
and Appomattox. After the war he continued
his military career in the New York National
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Regiment, Thirty-second Brigade, Eighth
Division. From the close of the war until
his death Mr. Meseroll was largely engaged
in farming and fruit growing. He was a
strong Republican and one of the organizers
of that party in Niagara county in 1856. He
was popular in his neighborhood and held
many of the town offices. He was an attend
ant of the Universalist church, and a liberal
contributor to church and charitable societies.
He was an active member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and attended as a delegate
many of their national conventions held in
different parts of the country. He married,
October 20, 1842, Hannah E. Stratton, born
December 15, 1825, died May 19, 1908, daugh
ter of Levi and Hannah Stratton, of an old
New England family. Children: 1. Lydia,
born July 31, 1843, married Eugene Shafer,
of Olcott, New York. 2. Hannah Jane, born
January 16, 1846, a resident of Olcott. 3.
Emmeline M., born November 20, 1848, mar
ried George Lombard, of Olcott, New York.
4. Mary C, born November 28, 1850, married
Solomon Eshbaugh, of Olcott, New York.

The family of Arnold is of
ARNOLD great antiquity, having its ori
gin among the ancient princes
of Wales. According to a pedigree recorded
in the College of Arms, they trace from Ynir
of Gwentland, who flourished about the mid
dle of the twelfth century and who was pa
ternally descended from Ynir, second son of
Cadwalader, King of the Britons, which Cad-
walader built Abergavenny, in the county of
Monmouth, and its castle which was rebuilt
by Hamlet, ap (son) Hamlet, ap Sir Druce of
Balladon, in France. From this Ynir, King
of Gwentland, the line is traced through ten
generations of nobles in Wales to Arnholt ap
Gwillim, of Meirie, Esquire. In the twelfth
generation, Roger, grandson of Arnholdt (3)
and 'son of Arnholdt (2), adopted Arnold
as a surname. Pie is called Roger Arnold, of
Llanthony, in Monmouthshire, Esq. This
brings the family to England. Roger Arnold
married Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas
Gamagn Knight, Lord of Coytey. Their son
Thomas succeeded to the family estates in
Monmouthshire ; married Agnes, daughter of
Sir Richard Warnestead, Knight. Their son
Richard removed to Somersetshire, in the par
ish of Street; married Emmote. daughter of
Pearce Young, of Wiltshire. Their son Rich

ard removed to Dorsetshire, where he was
Lord of the Manor of Bagbere and possessed
many estates. He was twice married and
had four sons. Of these Thomas Arnold set
tled in Cheselbourne, England, and is the an
cestor of the Arnolds herein recorded. Wil
liam, son of Thomas, came to America and
settled at Providence, Rhode Island, where he
became associated with Roger Williams, and
filled many offices of trust. His son Benedict
served ten years as governor of the colony
of Rhode Island between 1663 and 1678.
(I) Thomas (2), youngest son of Thomas
(1) Arnold of Cheselbourne^ England, came
to America in the ship "Plain Joan," and set
tled in Watertown, Massachusetts, May, 1635 J
made a freeman May 13, 1640. He seems to
have been very remiss in attending church
worship, as he was fined on three separate
occasions, once fined twenty shillings for "of
fence against the law concerning baptism";
fined five pounds for "neglecting public wor
ship twenty days" ; and ten pounds for
"neglecting same for forty days." He after
ward removed to Providence, Rhode Island,
where he became prominent. He was admitted
a freeman of the Rhode Island Colony, May
18, 1658. In 1666-67-70-71-72 he was deputy
to the general assembly. In 1672 he was
member of the town council ; died September,
1674, aged seventy-five years. The name of
his first wife is not known ; he married (sec
ond) Phoebe, died 1688, daughter of George
and Susanna Parkhurst. Children by first
wife: 1. Thomas, died young. 2. Nicholas,
died young. 3. Susanna, married, 1654, John
Farnum. Children by second wife: 1. Icha
bod, died young. 2. Richard, married Mary
Angell ; he was deputy thirteen terms be
tween 1671 and 1708, assistant to the gover
nor nine years, speaker of the house 1707-08;
resided in Providence. 3. Thomas, member
of town council, and deputy five terms, 1667-
1685. 4. John, of further mention. 5. Eleazer,
married Eleanor Smith ; was deputy eight
terms between 1686 and 17 15. 6. Elizabeth,
married Samuel Comstock.
(II) John, son of Thomas and Phoebe
(Parkhurst) Arnold, was born February 19,
1648 ; died in Providence, Rhode Island, June
5, 1723 ; was deputy to the general assembly
of Rhode Island, 1716; married Hannah  .
(Ill) Jonathan, son of John and Hannah
Arnold, was born in Providence, Rhode
Island; died in 1770. He resided in Provi-

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dence and Johnston, Rhode Island ; married,
1727, Elizabeth Matthewson (Matthews).
Children : John ; David, married Mary West-
cott; William; James; Alice, married Ames
Mann, and removed to Greenfield, New York ;
Jonathan; Thomas, married Austis Thornton,
and had eleven children.
(IV) William, son of Jonathan and Eliza
beth (Matthews) Arnold, was born in Provi
dence, Rhode Island. He removed to the
Black River country, New York, after resid
ing in New Hampshire, where he married
and had issue.
(V) Abraham (Abram), son of William
Arnold, was a resident of New Hampshire,
his native state. He later removed to New
York, settling in West Bloomfield, Ontario
county. He was twice married, and reared a
family of seven sons and five daughters. He
died May 24, 1825. His second wife, Sarah,
died September, 1859.
(VI) William (2), son of Abraham Arnold
by his first wife, was born in the town of
Keene, New Hampshire, March 28, 1774; died
at West Bloomfield, Ontario county, New
York, February 28, 1853. He settled in New
York, where he followed the business of a
tanner and currier. He married (first) No
vember 6, 1800, Elizabeth Cobb, born March,
1780, died May 9, 1815. Children: 1. Eliza
beth, born July 6, 1802 ; married Colonel
Ezekiel Jewett, of the United States regular
army, and commandant at Fort Niagara dur
ing the exciting anti-Masonic period called the
"Morgan Exposure." 2. William, of further
mention. 3. Mary, born April 20, 1806; mar
ried Bailey Ayres, of West Bloomfield, New
York. 4. Emmeline, born March 10, 1809.
He married (second), January 2, 1817, Mar
garet Sargent. He had another son, Joseph,
who died in Washington, D. C.
(VII) William (3), son of William (2)
and Elizabeth (Cobb) Arnold, was born in
Westmoreland, New fiampshire, July 3, 1804;
died July 3, 1876, at Lima, Livingston county,
New York, fie was educated in the district
school of West Bloomfield, New York, where
lie settled while he was a boy. He grew up
in his father's business and was associated
with him for many years. Later he removed
to Lima, New York, where he established
a factory for the manufacture of boots and
shoes, and conducted a retail store in connec
tion. He was a prosperous merchant and
manufacturer of Lima for- nearly half a cen

tury, and was actively engaged in business
until his death. He was active and prominent
in public affairs as well as in business ; was
justice of the peace- a quarter of a century,
and captain of Ontario county militia at one
time. Politically, he was a Whig, and he at
tended the Presbyterian church. He married
'first) September 1, 1831, Emily Eliza Peek,
lied February 13, 1845 ; one child only grew
to mature years, Maria Emily, born June 3,
1832, died October 5, 1900; married, Decem
ber 13, 1851, Charles H. Warner of Lima,
New York. He married (second) December
31, 1845, Eliza Bishop, born August 13, 1809,
at Montville, Connecticut, died at Lima, New
York, March 2, 1896, daughter of Thomas
Bishop, who settled in Western New York
prior to 1823. Child, John B., of further
mention. (VIII) John Bishop, son of William (3)
and Eliza (Bishop) Arnold; was born at Lima,
New York, May 11, 1848. He was educated
in the public schools, Genesee Wesleyan Sem
inary, and Genesee College at Lima, the latter
institution later being consolidated with Syra
cuse University. He early became interested
in milling, and in 1864 located in Lockport,
New York, where he erected mills and en
gaged in the manufacture of flour, continu
ing in successful business until 1888, when
he retired from active life. He has given a
good portion of his time to the public service,
having served two terms as a member of the
board of education and two terms as police
commissioner of the city. In 1884 he was
elected treasurer of Niagara cdunty, serving
in 1885-86-87. In 1908 he became a director of
the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank
of Lockport, and still serves. Politically, he
is a Democrat ; in church fellowship a Pres
byterian. He has borne an honorable part
in all his public and private business affairs
and ranks with the solid, substantial men of
his city.
He married, October 17, 1878, Eugenia
Flagler, daughter of Cornelius W. and Jennie
Thorn (Flagler) Adriance of Lockport, Niag
ara county, New York.

The Niskayuna family of Ved-
VEDDER der herein recorded descends
from Harmen Albertse Vedder,
the first settler of the name in the Mohawk
Valley. He was a trader in Beverwyck before
the year 1657. In 1660 he returned to Hoi-

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land. In 1661, as agent for Dirk De Wolfe,
merchant of Amsterdam, he erected a salt ket
tle on Coney Island, New York, which being
claimed by the people of Gravesend he brought
suit before the governor and council to make
good his claim, and being beaten abandoned
the enterprise. In 1663 he leased his
"bouwery" at Schenectady to Simon Groot
for six years. In 1668, being in Holland with
other merchants from the province of New
York, he purchased goods and chartered the
ship "King Charles," and obtained permission
from the King of England to send the ship
and goods to New York. In 1667 he lived
in Albany. In 1672 he bought land in Schen
ectady. In 1673 he was one of three magis
trates for Schenectady. He purchased the
village lot of the heirs of Reiner, son of
Dominie Schaets, of Albany, after his massa
cre by the Indians in 1690. The following
children of Harmen Vedder were living in
1715: Harmanus, Arent, Albert, Johannes,
Corset, Angenietje, wife of Jan Danielse Van
Antwerpen. (II) Albert, son of Harmen Albertse Ved
der, was born May 10, 167 1. He was carried
away by the French and Indians to Canada,
February 9, 1690, but returned to the Mohawk
Valley, where he died prior to 1715. He mar
ried Maria, daughter of Johannes Sanderse
Glen. Children : Anna, Johannes (of further
mention), Harmanus, Catherina, Alexander,
Arnout and Arent.
(Ill) Johannes, son of Albert Vedder, was
born August' 20, 1702. He married, February
1, 1 73 1, Maria, daughter of Pieter Lymouse
Vedder. She was born November 29, 1706,
and died March 27, 1731. Child: Albert (of
further mention).
(IV) Albert (2), son of Johannes Vedder,
was born July 27, 1732. He married, October
30, 1756, Hester, daughter of Frans Van Der
Bogart. He died November 18, 1805. She
died May 12, 1813, in her eightieth year. Chil
dren: Johannes, Maud, died young; Maria,
Hester, Frans Van Der Bogart (of further
mention), Barber, Neeltje, Engeltje. Class,
Annatje. (V) Frans Van Der Bogart, son of Albert
(2) Vedder, was born January 1, 1764, died
April 3, 181 1. He married, December 15,
1788, Lena, daughter of Thomas Bronwer,
born May 5, 1769, died April 7, 1834. Chil
dren: Annatia, Albert, Jacob (of further

mention), Johannes, Esther, Margarieta,
Nicholas, Elizabeth C.
(VI) Jacob, son of Frans Van Der Bogart
Vedder, was born April 30, 1796, died Janu
ary 17, 1855. He married Margaret Gouver-
neur and settled in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus
county, New York, where he died. Among
his children was a son, Commodore Perry (of
whom further).
(VII) Commodore Perry Vedder, son of
Jacob and Margaret (Gouverneur) Vedder,
was born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county,
New York, February 23, 1838, died there De
cember, 1910. His career was a most re
markable one. Born in a log house on a newly
settled farm, he obtained such education as the
district afforded and worked at home until
he was thirteen years of age. At that age
he became a driver boy on the Erie canal and
a year later was raftsman on Jhe Alleghany
river, going to Pittsburg and down the Ohio
to Cincinnati. From the latter city he made
his way to Cleveland, Ohio, where he shipped
before the mast on the brig "Alert," bound
for Chicago. He followed the life of a sailor
on the lakes for three years, becoming first
mate, and in 1858 and 1859 commanded a ves
sel, being yet under legal age. He saved his
money and, returning to New York, entered
Springville Academy to complete his prepara
tory education, intending later to enter college.
During the winters of 1859-60-61-62 he taught
school, and in 1861 began the study of law
with Judge David H. Bolles. The civil war
changed all his plans, and leaving all his pros
pects behind he went to the defense of his
country's flag. He enlisted in August, 1862,
as a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-
fourth Regiment, New York Infantry, and
for gallant conduct was promoted first lieu
tenant and later captain. At the battle of
Lookout Mountain he was brevetted major by
President Lincoln in the regular United States
army "for gallant and meritorious conduct,"
and also received four other commissions for
bravery. At the battle of Rocky Face Ridge
he was wounded, but declined to accept a fur
lough after leaving the hospital. Not being
able yet for field duty, he was appointed by
President Lincoln to examine applicants for
commissions in colored regiments, with head
quarters at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Again
taking the field with his regiment, he was in
the bloody battle of Chancellorsville, where he
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confined in Libby prison at Richmond. He was
paroled and while under parole was detailed
by the secretary of war to take charge of the
camp of paroled prisoners near Alexandria,
Virginia. In the fall of 1863 he was trans
ferred with the Army of the Cumberland.
He participated in the battles: Chancellors-
ville, Wauhatchie, Lookout Valley, Lookout
Mountain, Mission Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge,
siege of Savannah, and was with Sherman on
his celebrated march from Chattanooga to
Knoxville, Tennessee, to relieve General Burn-
side. He was also with Sherman from "At
lanta to the Sea." He was promoted as before
stated, and for "bravery in battle" in the cam
paign from Chattanooga to Atlanta was com
missioned lieutenant-colonel. He was honor
ably discharged at the close of the war and
returned to more peaceful pursuits.
He resumed the study of law and during
the winter of 1865-66 attended Albany Law
School, and on May 7, 1866, was admitted to
the New York bar at Buffalo. His success
in civil life as a lawyer and a legislator and a
business man was as complete and conspicuous
as his record in the army was honorable and
brilliant. In May, 1867, he was admitted in
the district court of the United States for
the northern district of New York. In the
same year he was appointed register in bank
ruptcy, resigning that appointment in 1875 to
enter the state senate. From 1872 to 1875,
inclusive, he was a member of the assembly.
In 1869 he had been appointed United States
assessor of internal revenue, holding that office
for two years. In 1872, as a member of the
judiciary committee of the house, he assisted
in investigating the charges against the unjust
judges of New York City, Cardozo, McCunn
and Barnard. He was chairman of the com
mittee to draft articles of impeachment against
Judge Barnard and was appointed one of the
managers on the trial of that official before
the high court of impeachment for maladmin
istration in office. In 1875 he was elected
state senator, serving during the sessions of
1876-77, holding the chairmanship of the com
mittees on Indian affairs and internal affairs.
In 1880 he was appointed state assessor by
Governor Cornell, holding office three years.
It is asserted that no man ever did more to
lighten the burdens of taxation upon those
least able to bear them. In 1884 he was
again elected to the senate, holding under
three consecutive re-elections. During his last

eight years in the senate he was chairman of
the committee on taxation and retrenchment.
At all times he took a leading part in the de
bates and deliberations of the senate. Hold
ing membership on several important commit
tees, he influenced much legislation besides the
bills that bore his name. He introduced the
bill to tax gifts, legacies and collateral inheri
tance that became a law in 1885. Also the
bill amending the collateral inheritance act,
which amended act became a law in 1891,
under which the succession by death of per
sonal property of $10,000 or more is taxed
one per cent. He drafted and introduced a
bill taxing corporations for the privilege of
organizing, which became a law in 1866. As
a result of these acts millions of dollars have
been paid into the treasury of the state and
a permanent source of revenue provided. In
1894 he was chosen a delegate-at-large to the
constitutional convention held at Albany, of
which Joseph Choate was president, and after,
by his solicitation, Senator Vedder was presi
dent pro tern.; he served on several important
committees. Of the thirty-three amendments
proposed by the convention and adopted by
the people, he drafted and introduced four.
Too much cannot be said of the sagacity, zeal
and untiring devotion to the public interest
displayed by Mr. Vedder in every position of
public trust and responsibility to which.- he
has been called. The constitution and laws of
his state alike attest his wisdom and his worth.
Another bill which does not bear his name but
which was a modification of a bill he had
ready to introduce is the liquor law, known as
the "Raines Law." Many conferences were
held at Ellicottville .between Senators Vedder
and Raines, the result being the bill introduced
by the latter.
In the business world Colonel Vedder was
an important factor. He was president of
fourteen corporations and maintained a busi
ness office in New York City. For twenty
years he was president of the Bank of
Ellicottville, and for twenty-four years
president - of the Bank of Norwood in
St. Lawrence county, New York; also
president of the New York and New Jersey
Ice Lines, of New York, and of Elko Milling,
Mining and Manufacturing Company, of Ran
dolph. He was professionally associated as
partner with William Manley, of Ellicottville,
for several years ; with Judge Rensselaer
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1871 ; with George M. Rider from 1876 until
1884 as Vedder & Rider, and with James O.
Clark, of Ellicottville. Having accumulated a
large fortune, his latter years were spent in
comparative retirement, surrounded by all that
makes life pleasant. He held membership in
many societies, clubs and institutions of va
rious kinds and was everywhere treated with
distinguished consideration. He held member
ship in the Grand Army of the Republic and
was ever the friend of the old soldier. He
was devoted to the interests of his native town,
which he furthered in every possible way. His
useful, honored life closed with about the
allotted scriptural period "three score years
and ten."
He married (first) in 1862, Betty E. Squires,
of Springville, who bore a son, who died in
1882. She died 1884. He married (second),
1892, Mrs. Genevieve A. (Hill) Wheeler,
daughter of Thomas A. and Hannah (War
ren) Hill, of Chicago, and granddaughter of
Arthur Hill, of Baltimore. Her maternal
grandparents are Cotton Mather and Annie
(Fairfield) Warren. Mrs. Genevieve A. Ved
der survives her husband and resides in New
York City.

This name dates to a remote period,
FAY even to the days of mythology.
Fays or fairies would seem to
have always existed if ancient writings
can be trusted. As a surname it is frequently
found in France, also in Ireland, Germany,
Spain, Italy, Switzerland, although less fre
quently in the latter countries. The family is
believed to be of French origin. They are
said to have been Huguenots, who to escape
persecution fled to England and Wales, from
there settling in Ireland and New England.
The name as a patronymic first appears in
English records in 1173, has existed in Ireland
for an indefinite period, and is occasionally
met with in Scotland. The Fays, like many
other ancient families, possess special char
acteristics, prominent among them being men
tal and physical strength, untiring energy and
remarkable executive ability.
The New England Fays descend from John
Fay, who arrived in Boston in the "Speedwell"
from Gravesend, England, June 27, 1656.
Savage says he was eight years old, but other
authorities state he was probably eighteen. He
was born in England and is thought by some
writers to have been a son of David Fay, then

a resident of Sudbury, Massachusetts, and
that he came from England to join his father.
This cannot be established and John Fay must
be considered the emigrant ancestor. He went
to Sudbury and afterward to the new town of
Marlboro, where he was admitted a free
man in 1669. At that time he was married
and had one child. His name first appears in
the town records of Marlborough in 1671 as
a petitioner for a grant of land. In 1675 he
was one of the proprietors of Worcester,
Massachusetts, and had a lot assigned him in
the eastern squadron, lying next to the county
road to Boston. He, however, continued his
residence in Marlborough until its dangerous
situation during King Philip's war compelled
the settlers to seek safety in larger, better de
fended towns. John Fay retired to Water-
town, where his first wife died and he again
married. While living there he was made a
trustee of the estate of Reynold Bush, of Cam
bridge, who was about to marry Susanna
Lowell, of Beverly, Wiltshire, England. He
was one of those who in 1678 attempted to
settle Worcester, but did not remain, returning
to his old home in Marlboro, where he died in
that part of the town now Southboro, Decem
ber 5, 1690. He appears to have been a man
of character and standing in the community,
where he held positions of public trust. His
widow, Susanna, administered an inventory
with the statement that her late husband, John
Fay, had by will disposed of the rest of his
property in providing for his children. This
will is not on record and may have been
verbal. As he gave to each of his sons large
tracts of land, he must have been for his day
quite a large land owner.
He married (first) Mary, born in Water-
town, 1638-39, died there 1676, daughter of
Thomas Brigham, the American ancestor of
the New England family. He was born in
England, 1603, came to America, 1635, in the
ship "Susan and Ellen," settled in Watertown,
where he held several town offices. He mar
ried Mercy Hurd, born in England. Mary
was the first child born to her parents in
America; her marriage to John Fay was the
first of a series of nearly thirty marriages
between the Fays and Brighams. He married
(second) July 15, 1678, Susanna (Shattuck)
Morse, daughter of William Shattuck, the
pioneer of Watertown, Massachusetts, where
she was born in 1643. She survived her
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1695, Thomas Brigham (2), a brother of
John Fay's first wife. She had seven chil
dren by her first husband and four by her
second. Children of John Fay and his first
wife, Mary Brigham, all born in Marlboro:
1. John, born November 3, 1669; married
Elizabeth Wellington ; eleven children. 2. Da
vid, died young. 3. Samuel (of further men
tion). 4. Mary, born February 10, 1675 > mar
ried Jonathan Brigham; ten children. 5.
David (2), born April 23, 1679; married
Sarah . Larkin ; twelve children. 6. Gershom,
born October 19, 1681 ; married Mary Brig
ham ; seven children. 7. Ruth, born July 15,
1684; married Increase Ward, seven children.
8. Deliverance, born October 7, 1686; married
Benjamin Shattuck; two children.
(II) Samuel, third son of John Fay and
his first wife, Mary (Brigham) Fay, was born
in Marlboro, Massachusetts, October 11, 1673,
died November 10, 1732. He settled in that
part of the town now Westboro, being one of
the first residents there when it was set off
from Marlboro in 1717. He and his wife
offered themselves for baptism in the Marl
boro church in 1701. He was chosen surveyor
of highways in 1718, served to 1720, and in
1721 was tythingman. He succeeded his broth
er John as town clerk and in 1728-29-30 was
sealer of leather. He owned land in South
boro and a large tract in Brookfield. He left
a will that was not probated, the estate being
settled by agreement of the heirs. He married
May 16, 1699, Tabitha, born May 16, 1675,
daughter of Increase and Record Ward. Their
first six children were born in Marlboro, the
seventh in Westboro., Children: 1. Rebecca,
born February 19, 1700; married William
Nurse, of Shrewsbury. 2. Tabitha,. born Au
gust 14, 1702; married William Maurey, of
Brookfield. 3. Samuel (2), (of further men
tion). 4. Jeduthan, born June 7, 1707; mar
ried Sarah Shattuck, of Watertown. 5. Abi
gail, born January 19, 1709; married Thomas
Converse, of Connecticut. 6. Ebenezer, born
April 12, 1713 ; married (first) Abigail 
¦; (second) Thankful Hyde ; (third)Mary

Mason, who .survived him ; eighteen children.
7. Mary, born March 28, 1720, died unmar
ried. (Ill) Samuel (2), eldest son and third child
of Samuel (1) Fay, was baptized in Marl
boro, Massachusetts, May 6, 1705, died 1788.
He ceased to be of record in Marlboro after
1775, and then settled at or near Reading,

Vermont. He married (first) December 15,
1726, his cousin, Deliverance, born December
22, 1707, died 1754, daughter of Benjamin and
Deliverance (Fay) Shattuck, of Watertown.
Morse says : "His first wife died after deliver
ing to him fourteen children in twenty years."
He married (second), 1756, Mrs. Elizabeth
(Hastings) Cutler, of Cambridge. She died
at Reading, Vermont, 1796; eleven children.
He was over seventy years of age when his
twenty-fifth child was born. Children, all born
in Southboro: 1. Deliverance, born Novem
ber 15, 1727. 2. Ruth, February 4, 1729. 3.
Persis, May 18, 1730. 4. Abigail, August 26,
1 73 1, died in infancy. 5. Sarah, November 3,
1732, died in infancy. 6. Solomon, February
17, 1734; married Mary Pratt; eleven chil
dren. 7. Samuel, August 29, 1735 ; was a sol
dier in the French war in the Crown Point
expedition, as was his brother Solomon. He
married (first) Betsy Carroll; (second) Mary
Kimball; twelve children. 8. Susannah, born
February 18, 1737, died 1755. 9. Levinah,
January 21, 1738, died young. 10. Benjamin
August, 1740, died in infancy. 11. Joseph (of
further mention). 12. Hannah, born Septem
ber 2, 1743, died young. 13. Ebenezer, April
17, 1745. 14. Nehemiah, July 4, 1747. 15.
Seth, May 14, 1757, died 1779; a lieutenant
in the revolutionary army. 16. Sherebiah,
born June 29, 1758; was an early settler of
Watertown and served three years in the
revolutionary war; he married Eleanor Stan
ley. 17. Hepsibah, born October 1, 1760;
married (first)  Whitney; (second)
Samuel Hale. 18. Annie, born August 5,
1761, died 1813, unmarried. 19. Ezra, July
1, 1765 ; married Sarah Newton ; fourteen chil
dren. 20. Moses, born May 27, 1767; mar
ried Polly Goddard. 21. Abigail, December
31, 1768, died 1845, unmarried. 22. Noadiah,
born November 25, 1770; married Catherine
Walker. 23. Hananiah, born August 25, 1772;
married Rebecca Mansfield; seven children.
24. Sarah, born February 12, 1775 ; married
Joshua Hyde. 25. An infant, died unnamed.
(IV) Joseph, eleventh child of Samuel (2)
Fay and his first wife, Deliverance (Shattuck)
Fay, was born December 22, 1741, died Janu
ary 2, 1824.
He settled at Athol, Massachusetts;
served as a private in Captain Dexter's
company of minute men, Colonel Doolittle's
regiment, which marched in response to the
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Lord's company, Colonel Sparhawk's regiment,
1777, on the Bennington alarm.
fie married, at Athol, in 1762, Abigail
Twitchell. Children born in Athol: 1. Josiah,
born March 16, 1774, died on his birthday,
1834 ; married Molly Ward. 2. Nehemiah (of
further mention). 3. Dorothy, died 1833;
married Daniel Ellenwood. 4. Matilda, died
1856; married Seneca Ellenwood. 5. Benja
min, born September 14, 1783 ; settled in Con
cord, Erie county, New York, in 1817; he was
a soldier of the war of 1812 and after that
war was elected colonel of militia; was active
in town affairs and always held office; un
married. 6. Abigail, died 1810, unmarried.
7. Sally, born July 17, 1788; married (first)
John Ewers ; (second) Joseph Yaw, of Spring
field, New York, and Niles, Michigan. 8.
Seth, married Lucy Adams. 9. Hannah, died
1826; married George Mason. 10. Lucinda,
died 1856, at Athol, Massachusetts, a teacher.
(V) Nehemiah, second son of Joseph and
Abigail (Twitchell) Fay, was born in Athol,
Massachusetts, December 10, 1776, died at
Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York,
May 23, 1856. He was educated in the district
school, and in his youthful manhood spent
several years traveling about the country,
threshing, etc. He was a natural musician
with a good voice and a great fund of anec
dote. This made him a welcome visitor every
where. He was a member of the militia and
served during the war of 1812 at Boston,
when that city was believed to be in danger of
attack. In 1803 he married, and in 1815, in com
pany with his brother Benjamin, he removed
to Boston Corners, near Springville, Erie
county, New York, where they cleared a farm,
where Nehemiah resided until 1837. The jour
ney was made with ox teams, and family tradi
tion says the journey consumed but little over
a month's time. He worked at shingle mak
ing, continuing this work until almost the day
of his death. In his later years he became
almost blind. As an old man he retained his
love of song, anecdote and jest, and was a
great favorite among the children and young
people. He sold his interest in the farm at
Boston Corners to his brother, in 1837, and
removed to Little Valley, Cattaraugus county,
and in a few years to Great Valley, in the"
same county. He always maintained that
when he should lose his voice he would be
ready to die. During his last illness he awoke
one. morning to find his voice almost gone.

Turning to his daughter-in-law he said,
"Lecta, I can't live long, I can't sing any
more." Before night he breathed his last.
He was an industrious, kind-hearted man, with
hosts of friends and no enemies. In 1849 he
went to Illinois, but did not long remain, re
turning to Little Valley.
He married, in 1803, Achsah Stratton, of
New Salem, Massachusetts, born 1772, died
in Great Valley, New York, June, 1870, hav
ing survived her husband fourteen years.
Children: 1. Abigail, born in Athol, Massa-»
chusetts; married Obadiah Russell; nine chil
dren. 2. Fanny, born in Athol, died in Great
Valley, New York; married Ashael Field;
eight children. 3. James S., died in 1810, at
Salamanca, New York; married Mary Ferry;
six children. 4. Alcander (of further men
tion). (VI) Alcander, youngest child of Nehemiah
and Achsah (Stratton) Fay, was born at Con
cord, Erie county, New York, September 29,
1816. He was educated in the public schools
of Springville and Great Valley, coming with
his parents to Cattaraugus county, in 1837.
He was a farmer and cooper, and in 1856
purchased a large farm at Elkdale. He was
a great lover of the chase, being one of the
hunters of western New York. During the
civil war he enlisted in the Ninety-fourth
Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, but
owing to illness saw little actual service. He
was a member of the Baptist church, the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and a Re
publican in politics. Excepting two years spent
in the west, his whole life after 1837 was
spent in Cattaraugus county.
He married (first) May 14, 1839, Electa
Clement, born 18 14, died in Great Valley, New
York, April 1, 1886. He married (second)
April 27, 1892; Mary Chase. Children, all
by first marriage: 1. Adrian, born in Little
Valley, New York, May 19, 1840; served four
years during the civil war, in the One Hun
dred and Eighth Regiment, New York Volun
teers; was captured and confined in the Ander-
sonville prison pen for nine months; married,
April 12, 1865, Sarah Flint. 2. Mary, mar
ried Clark Wilder; one child. 3. Marcus
Montrose (of further mention). 4. Charles
Willis, born August 16, 1848 ; married, Janu
ary 1, 1873, Betsey E. Childs; two children.
5. Asa Clement, born in De Kalb, Illinois,
December 18, 1850; married, July 4, 1877,
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Clement, born in Little Valley, New York,
April 15, 1854; married, June 8, 1874, Fred
Eugene Longee; three children. 7. Henry
Franklin, born August 17, 1857 ; married,
March 24, 1884, Mary Church; one child.
(VII) Marcus Montrose, second son and
third child of Alcander and Electa (Clement)
Fay, was born on the Elkdale farm, Cattarau
gus county, New York, June 6, 1844. The
house in which he was born is still standing
on the old farm. He was educated in the
public schools, and until he was seventeen
worked on the home farm. He enlisted (Jan
uary 16, 1864) as a bugler of Company F,
Ninth Regiment, New York Cavalry, serving
under General Sheridan until the close of
the war, being honorably discharged June 17,
1865. fie saw a great deal of active service
but escaped unhurt. On his return from the
war he brought with him a fine horse, a most
intelligent animal, which he kept for twenty
years. Mr. Fay bought a farm on Fish Hill,
which he cultivated for some time, then went
to Des Moines, Iowa, where he worked at
carpentering for three years. On his return
in 1872 he settled in Mansfield, thence re
moved to Otto, remaining until 1892, when he
removed to Salamanca, his present home. He
is a most interesting, lovable man, and like his
grandfather, Nehemiah Fay, full of fun and
greatly beloved.
He is a member of the Masonic Order, and
an Independent in politics. He married, Feb
ruary 2j, 1868, Kate Elizabeth Johnston, born
in New York, May 29, 1846, daughter of
Henry and Jane (Barnet) Johnston, born in
Dalkieth, Scotland, and moved to Dungannon,
Ireland, with their parents, when small chil
dren. Children: 1. Jane E., born in Adell,
Iowa, October 28, 1869, died there February
17, 1870. 2. Frank Irving (of further men
tion). 3. Mary Ethel, born in Mansfield, New
York, April 28, 1876; married George Wil
son. 4. Laura Euphemia, born in Mansfield,
New York, May 29, 1878; married J. Harold
Morton; children: Katherine, Addalissia and
Laura. 5. Gustave Burleigh, born in Otto,
New York, October 20, 1887.
(VIII) Frank Irving, eldest son and second
child of Marcus Montrose and Kate Elizabeth
(Johnston) Fay, was born in Great Valley,
.New York, October 1, 1873. He attended the
public schools, and after completing his studies
there entered the drug store of B. L. Maltbie,
at Otto, New York, where he remained two

years, 1889-90. On September 16, 1891, he
came to Salamanca, where for five years he
was in the employ of T. L. Denike ; the next
four years were spent with John C.
Krieger, after which he went to Bolivar, where
he spent a year in the employ of Louis Sei-
bert. He then returned to Salamanca, New
York, entered the employ of Krieger Drug
Company, remaining until 1908, when he pur
chased the drug business of his old employer,
T. L. Denike, and has since that date been
successfully engaged in conducting the drug
business under his own name. He is a most
energetic, capable man of affairs, and is very
popular in his village. He has fairly earned
prosperity, and in the conduct of his business
displays the characteristics of his seven gen
erations of American ancestors, "mental
strength, untiring energy and remarkable exe
cutive ability." He is a Republiean in politics.
He married, June 12, 1902, Katherine As-
enethe Williams, born December 6, 1876,
daughter of Charles W. and Polly (Scott)
Williams, of Bolivar, Allegany county, New
York. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Williams:
1. Fred, married (first) Carrie Watrous;
(second) Anna Wood; child, Glenn W. 2.
Erastus Goodrich, married Amanda Osborn;
children : Maud, Maier and Dana. 3. Walter,
married Lena Elliot ; children : Harold, Leon,
Milly, Rupert and Genevieve. 4. Herbert,
married Addie Jackson; children :Trena, Wini
fred and Victor. 5. May, married Clayton C.
Mead ; child, Cleo E. 6. Katherine A. , mar
ried Frank I. Fay. 7. Burl Nicholas, married
Jessie Fay; child, Fay Williams. Child of
Frank I. and Katherine A. Fay: Vera Jane,
born June 12, 1904.

The Merows of Cattaraugus
MEROW county, New York, herein men
tioned, descend paternally from
a well-to-do German family who lived near
Hamburg. On maternal line they descend
from Robert Daye, who came from England
to America in 1634. Carson Merow, scion of
an old German family, was born, lived and
died in Klein Serker, near Hamburg, Ger
many. He was a farmer in good circum
stances, married and had a family of thirteen
children. (II) John H., son of Carson Merow, was
born in 1823, on the Merow homestead, near
Hamburg, Germany. He worked at farming
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of two children. Then gathering his savings
together, in 1858, he secured passage for the
United States for self, wife and two children.
The vessel being a slow sailer, twelve weeks
were consumed in making the passage. He
found his way to Cattaraugus county, New
York, settling in the town of Little Valley,
where he purchased land in the west part of
the town, and prospered. He later added to
his original purchase until he had two hundred
and twenty-five acres nearly all under cultiva
tion. He was a hard working man and a
good citizen. He had hosts of friends and
seemed to be one man for whom everybody
had a good word. He met his death, May 6,
1890, crushed by a heavy log which acciden
tally rolled over, while assisting in building
a log fence. He married  . Children :
1. John C. (of further mention). 2. Sophia,
born 1852; married Spencer Holdridge; chil
dren : i. Cora, married George Osterstrick and
has Velona and Wesley, ii. Homer, married
Edith Taylor, iii. William, iv. Jennie, mar
ried Louis Yates, and has Florence, Marian
and Olive. 3. William, born February 8,
1859; married, March 14, 1883, Mosella
Whipple, born December 27, 1857; children:
i. Bert M., born May 15, 1885, married
Blanche Guile, ii. Hazel Sareppa, born June
2, 1890; married, October 28, 1907, William
Carr. 4. Mary E., born April 21, 1861 ; mar
ried, March 28, 1883, Henry A. Marsh, born
December 2, 1855. Children: i. Minnie, born
September 4, 1884, married, December 25,
1907, Albert Woulff, and has Marshall, born
April 25, 1909. ii. Mabel, born March 25,
1889. iii. Mamie, November 6, 1894.
(Ill) John C, son of John fi. Merow, was
born in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county,
New York, 1850, died there May 15, 1908.
He obtained his education in the public schools,
at Chamberlain Institute and at a German
school in Otto, New York. After leaving
school he worked first at farming, finally go
ing to Olean, New York, where he was em
ployed in Butler's dry goods store. In 1883
he came to Little Valley, where he first clerked
in the store of E. N. Lee for about seven years,
when he purchased the Rock City Hotel. He
rebuilt and enlarged the building, and at the
time of his death the Rock City was known
as the best kept family hotel in the county.
He was a Republican in politics and served
on the board of education. He was a mem

ber of the Lutheran church, and of the Ma
sonic order.
He married, December 11, 1878, Estella
Day, born September 17, 1857, daughter of
Orrin and Brooksanna (Jones) Day, of New
Albion (see Day VII). Children: Clarence,
born September 12, 1879, died 1880; Eva M.,
born June 28, 1889; married, October 1, 1907,
John R. Hout, and has Frances M., born De
cember 15, 1909.
Mrs. Estella (Day) Merow survives her
husband, a resident of Little Valley.
(The Day Line).
Estella (Day) Merow is a descendant of
Robert Daye, born in England, August, 1604,
died in Hartford, Connecticut, 1648. He came
from England in 1634 with wife Mary, in
the ship "Elizabeth," and owned a house on
the west side of Garden street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in 1635. He soon after moved
to Hartford, Connecticut, where his name ap
pears on a monument erected in that city to
the memory of the first settlers there. He
left a goodly estate for his wife and several
children. He was the ancestor of all the Days
claiming early Connecticut ancestry. The
mother of his children was his second wife,
Editha, sister of Deacon Edward Stebbins.
She is named in his will, May 20, 1648. Chil
dren: Thomas, Sarah, married (first) Na
thaniel Gunn, (second) Samuel Kellogg;
Mary, married (first) Samuel Ely, (second)
Thomas Stebbins, (third) John Coleman;
John. Mrs. Editha Day married (second)
John Maynard, of Hartford.
(II) John, son of Robert Day, married
Sarah Raynard (or Butler?), of Hartford. His
will was dated, November 16, 1725, when he
was "advanced in years," and proved May
5, 1730. He owned a share in a grist or saw
mill, which he bequeathed to his son William.
Children: 1. Joseph, died 1726. 2. John (of
further mention). 3. Thomas. 4. Mary,
married, November 14, 1699, William Clark.
5. Maynard, married, 1714, Elizabeth Marsh.
6. Sarah, baptized September 19, 1686; mar
ried, June 10, 1708,  Spencer. 7. Wil
liam, baptized April 24, 1692. 8. Joseph, bap
tized June 14, 1699.
(Ill) John (2), son of John (1) Day, was
born in 1677, died November 4, 1752. He,
moved to Colchester, Connecticut, about 1701.
He married (first) January 21, 1696, Grace
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in Colchester. He married (second) Mary
 , who died November 2, 1749, aged
seventy-four. Children, all of his first wife,
the first three born in fiartford, Connecticut:
1. Lydia, born April 11, 1698; married Joseph
Fuller. 2. Mary, born August 14, 1699;
married, December 20, 1722, Jonathan North-
am. 3. John, born in Colchester, June 6,
1 70 1. 4. Joseph, born September 27, 1702.
5. Benjamin, February 7, 1704. 6. Editha,
born September 10, 1705; married, December
11, 1729, David Bigelow. 7. Daniel, born
March 9, 1709, died 1712. 8. David, July 18,
1710. 9. Abraham, March 17, 1712. 10.
Isaac, May 17, 1713. 11. Daniel, died 1746.
(IV) A son of John (2) Day, name not
known, married and among his children was
Noah (of further mention).
(V) Noah Day, grandson of John (2) Day,
married Ann Loomis, and had a son Erastus
(of further mention).
(VI) Erastus, son of Noah and Ann
(Loomis) Day, was born March 4, 1787. He
was an early settler in the town of New Al
bion, Cattaraugus county, . New York, and a
farmer of that town, fie married, in 1812,
Marion Lee. Children: Asahel, born June 4,
1813; Eli, May 10, 1815; Hudson, August
28, 1816; Wealthy, July 11, 1818; Orrin (of
further mention) ; Elias, born July 18, 1827.
(VII) Orrin, son of Erastus and Marion
(Lee) Day, was born January 10, 1821, died
1868. He was a farmer of New Albion, cul
tivating the homestead farm, and a man of
high character. He married, 1845, Brook
sanna Jones, of Cattaraugus, who was born in
Milford, New York, December 16, 1825, still
living in October, 191 1, at eighty-five years of
age, daughter of Moses J. Jones, of Otsego
county, prior to settlement in New Albion.
Children: Alvin C, born April 18, 1848, died
aged fourteen. 2. Frances E., August 3,
185 1 ; married Cornelius Spore; children:
Ernest, Luella, Frank and Jessie. 3. Estella,
born September 17, 1857; married John C.
Merow. 4. Rosella, twin of Estella, died
January 8, 1878. 5. George B., born August
20, 1862.

Eminent authority, in contrib-
WILLIAMS uting to the name of Williams,
states that the family is one
of the most noted of the early New England
settlers for intellectual ability and the social
and public standing of its members. They

antedated the Christian era, flourished, and
came down through the mediaeval reigns.
Burke's "Book of Peerage and Baronetage"
says of the house of Williams, of Penrhyn,
the most ancient family of the northern prin
cipality of Wales, that it deduces its pedigree
with singular perspicuity from Brutus, son
of Sylvius, posthumous son of Acencus, son
of Acucus, which Brutus was first King of
Britain, and began to reign about eleven hun
dred years before the birth of Christ. Other
authorities trace them back to several years
before the Norman Conquest (1066) from a
Welsh chief. From Marchudel of Cyam,
Lord of Abergelin, in Denbighshire, one of
the fifteen tribes of Northern Wales, is de
scended Endyfid Vycham, Lord of Brynffenigl
in Denbighland, a powerful noble of his time,
and from whom the royal house of Tudor
is claimed to have descended. ' The eminent
family, in common with the royal house of
Tudor, Lloyds of Plymog, Lord Moslyn, and
other distinguished lines, derive from Mar-
chudd ap Cynam, Lord of Carnarvon, founder
of the eight noble tribes of North Wales and
Powys, contemporary with Rhodri Mawr
(Roderic the Great), King of Wales, who
succeeded to the throne in 843 and died in
877 A. D.
The first to adopt the name of Williams as
a surname was Roger Williams, of Llangibby
Castle and the Priory at Uske, county Mon
mouth, England. He was said to be a direct
descendant of Brychan Bricheininish, prince
and lord of Brecknock, who lived about the
year 490. The pedigree also shows the name
of „ Roger Williams, of Flint, Wales, from
whom descended John Williams, receiver of
Flintshire in the reign of Edward IV., which
extended from the year 1461 to 1483, who
married for his first wife the daughter and
heir of Edward Matthews, of Yorkshire. Their
son George assumed the name of Matthew,
which has continued to be a family name ever
since. The Welsh coat-of-arms has the in
scription : "He beareth sable," showing royalty,
and is as follows: Arms, lion rampant argent,
armed and langued, gules. Crest: A moor
cock or partridge. Motto : Cognosce occa
sioned ("Watches his opportunity"). The
Welsh motto: "Y fyno Dwy Y. fidd" ("What
God willeth will be.'.').
(I) Matthew Williams, progenitor of the
Essex county, New Jersey, families, born about
1605, was according to the best authority the

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eldest son of Richard Williams, who descend
ed from .the Williams family of Glamorgan
shire, Wales. Authority further states that
Richard was a kinsman of Oliver Cromwell,
a traditional claim of Richard Williams as
well, and, moreover, which is not common to
other' pioneer Williams families of New Eng
land. It is claimed that Oliver Cromwell was
a Williams by birth. Coyle states that Crom
well descended from General Williams, of
Berkshire, or from Morgan Williams, of
Glamorganshire, and called him Cromwell, alias
Williams, he having assumed the name from
his maternal uncle, Thomas Cromwell, secre
tary of state to Henry VIII. , on account of
estates to him. Matthew Williams for a time
seems to have been at Watertown, Massa
chusetts, from whence, like many other settlers
there, allured by the attractive reports of Old
ham and Hall, the pioneer traders and ex
plorers of the Connecticut valleys, came to
Pyquaug, the old Indian name of Wethers
field, in 1642. He was doubtless a brother of
Thomas, who later settled at Rocky Hill (Old
Wethersfield) and a cousin of Richard Wil
liams, of Taunton, born January 28, 1606, son
of William Williams, who descended from a
family of that name in Glamorganshire, Wales.
William Williams was of Synwell, a hamlet
in Wotten-under-Edge. According to his will,
he speaks of his brother, Mr. Richard Wil
liams. Matthew Williams, of Wethersfield, was a
brickmaker by trade, and a yeoman, which
is proved by the earmarks of his cattle, which
were recorded in the records. After 1655 he
was for a time at Long Island, and eventually
at the Barbadoes, though still a householder
at the Wethersfield colony, where his family
were still living. January 14, 1678, according
to Hutton's emigration records, he was grant
ed a ticket-of-leave back to the colony with
his servant, a slave. His death probably oc
curred the following year (1679), for in 1680
his widow, Susanna Williams, asked the court
at Wethersfield to appraise the estate and di
vide between the sons, and this step on her part
probably fixes a conclusive date for the depart
ure of the widow and her three sons, as fol
lows : Amos, now thirty-five years of age' with
his wife and three children ; Matthew, twenty-
nine years of age ; Samuel, twenty-seven, all
coming to Essex county, New Jersey, in the
second Branford emigration. Samuel settled
at Elizabethtown, and Amos nearby; Samuel

died in 1706. Matthew Williams Sr., 'mar
ried, about 1644, Susanna Cole, of English
birth, probably a sister of James Cole, an
early settler there, and in 1639 an original
settler and planter of Hartford, Connecticut.
Children : Amos, born March 14, 1645 > Mat
thew, October 27, 1647, died an infant; Mat
thew, born May 14, 1651 ; Samuel, January
4, 1653-4, died at Elizabethtown, 1706.
(Ill) John, grandson of Matthew Williams,
and son of Amos or Samuel Williams, died
February 22, 17 19. He married, and had a
son George.
(IV) George, son of John Williams, was
born about 1685. He married and had issue:
Obadiah, of whom further; Hezekiah, born
1713, died 1715; George,, born 1714, died
1750; Hezekiah, 1716, died about 1806; John,
1719, died 1788 ; Experience, 1721 ; Elihu,
1726; Hannah, 1743.
(V) Obadiah, son of George Williams, was
born 1710, died 1748. He married Catherine,
daughter of Humphrey Wady, of Long Plain,
Massachusetts. Children: John, of whom
further ; Sarah, born at Shrewsbury, New Jer
sey, November 10, 1745 ; married Nicholas
Davis (2) ; Ann, born October 26, 1747, died
in infancy.
(VI) John, son of Obadiah and Catherine *
(Wady) Williams, was born in Shrewsbury,
New Jersey, July 26, 1743, died at Troy, New
York, September 18, 1818. He lived for a
time in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He
married (first) Mary Davis; six children. He
married (second) Martha Peabody, daughter
of John Russell, no issue. He married (third)
Jane Allen, who died in 1812; nine children.
Children by first wife: Obadiah (2), of whom
further mention; David, born 1769, died 1825;
Jonathan, twin of David, died 1799; Cather
ine, born 1771; Nicholas, 1773, died 1837;
John Wady, 1775, died 1776. Children of
third wife: John, born 1783, died 1855; E1ihu,
1785, died in infancy; Hezekiah, twin of Eli
hu, died 1849; Mary, 1787, living in 1857;
Elizabeth, 1788, living in 1857; Elihu, (2),
living in 1857; Ruth, 1790, died in infancy;
Ruth (2), died in infancy; Thomas, 1793,
living in 1857.
(VII) Obadiah (2), son of John and his
first wife, Mary (Davis) Williams, was born
February 10, 1767, in New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, died 1848. He lived for a time at
least in the state of Rhode Island, where at
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removed to Tompkins county, New York;
where he died. He married Dorcas Earl, who
died June 24, 1805; (second) Ruth Hadwin,
who died March 20, 1855. Children of first
wife: Samuel, born February '22, 1791, died
March 26, 1875 ; James, of whom further ;
John Earl, born August 18, 1794, no living
descendants; Sarah, October 8, 1796, no living
descendants; Eliza, July 3, 1799, died April
22, 1890, married John Mott, and had chil
dren ; no descendants ; Henry, August 5, 1801 ;
Ann, September 21, 1803, no living descend
ants. Children of second wife: Dorcas, June
7, 1805, married John Purdy, and had chil
dren; Catherine, January 10, 1810, married
Thomas Carman, died July 8, 1890, no living
descendants; Francis, September 16, 181 1,
married and had children; Margaret, 1817,
died February 26, 1875, married" also Thomas
Carman, and had children.
(VIII) James, second son of Obadiah (2)
and his first wife, Dorcas (Earl) Williams,
was born in Newport, Rhode Island, Septem
ber 20, 1792, died September 9, 1872, at Sin-
clairville, Chautauqua county, New York,
where he is buried with his wife in Ever
green Cemetery. He resided in Tompkins
county, New York, later in the city of
Ithaca, New York, removing to Chautauqau
county, New York, 1834, settling on a farm
in the southwestern corner of the town of
Charlotte, where he was a well known and
greatly respected citizen. He married, at
Ithaca, April 17, 1817, Esther, daughter
of John and Esther (Pride) Tracy.
Children: . 1. Frederick Tracy, born at
Ithaca, New York, February 3. 1818,
died at Ellery, New York, April 3,
1853; married, at Ellery, October 24, 1841,
Ann H. Aldrich, born at Ithaca, November 5,
1817, died at Ellery, March 15, 1882, daughter
of Tillson Aldrich; children: Sarah M., mar
ried Gustavus A. Bentley, and Frederick Till
son married Mary Rogers. 2. Susan, born
at Ithaca, New York, June 9, 1819, died at
Bayonne, New Jersey, January 3, 1879; mar
ried Willard Tracy Eddy, her cousin ; chil
dren: i. Harriet Emily, died at Washington,
D. C, October 22, 1901, unmarried; ii. Su
san Maria, married William J. Savoye; iii.
Willard Tracy, married Harriet Louise Sa
voye; iv. Alice, married Robert A. Smith. 3.
Emily, born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
August 25, 1821, died at Lind, Wisconsin,
July 11, 1886; married, at Charlotte, New

York, August 25, 1840, Josiah Fisher, who
died November 30, 1881 ; children : i. Mary,
died unmarried, ii. Henry H., married Mary
L. Randall, iii. Esther Ella, married George
R. Lollin. iv. Jennie M., married George F.
Pope. v. George W., married Thirza Mill-
man. 4. Henry, born August 12, 1823, died
in infancy. 5. Maria, born April 29, 1826,
died in infancy. 6. Henry Hudson, born in
Hudson, New York, September 26, 1828, died
in San Diego, California, in March, 1906;
married, in Osawatomie, Kansas, February
23, 1859, Mary A. Carr, born in Perry, New
York, August 9, 1841 ; children : i. John Carr,
born and died in Kansas, aged sixteen years.
ii. George Henry, died in childhood, iii. Min
nie Esther, married George William Walrod,
and died May 21, 1902. iv. James Walter,
married Josie D. Burroughs, v. Charles Lin
coln, married Pearl Ray. vi. Fannie Sarah,
married Charles L. Burns, vii. Mary Henry.
7. Maria, born in Ithaca, New York, Decem
ber 31, 1830,. died in Sinclairville, New York,
February 16, 1879; married, in Charlotte, New
York, May 21, 1855, Lorenzo Sornberger, died
at Osawatomie, Kansas, January 26, 1861.
8. George Tyler, born in Ithaca, New York,
July 28, 1833 ; married, Freeport, Illinois, Au
gust 24, 1865, Sarah A. Clark; he was a prom
inent telegraph operator, becoming district su
perintendent, with offices at St. Louis, Mis
souri, and Cleveland, Ohio ; children : i.
George Hicks, married Eva Mills, ii. Clara
Esther, married Charles Shackleton. iii. Ed
ward Hall, married Mary Jane Nichol. iv.
Grace Joy. v. Tracy Clark, married Harriet
M. Richards, vi. Sanborn Edgell, died in in
fancy. 9. Edwin, of further mention.
(IX) Edwin, ninth and youngest child of
James and Esther (Tracy) Williams, was born
on the old Williams homestead in the extreme
southwestern corner of the town of Charlotte,
Chautauqua county, New York, September 19,
1837. He was educated in the public schools
and Fredonia Academy. His early life was
spent on the farm, which was his home until
he reached manhood. He was for a time em
ployed in the neighboring town of Sinclair
ville (two miles east of the Williams farm).
Later he removed to Michigan, where others
of his wife's family had settled. He pur
chased a farm at Armada, remaining thereon
for five years, when he sold out and returned
to New York state. For the next- seven years
Mr. Williams was engaged in merchandising

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in Sinclairville, Chautauqua county, New
York, having as partner R. E. Sheldon. The
firm was successful, and transacted a large
volume of business along the lines of a general
country store. At the end of seven years they
dissolved, and two years later Mr. Williams
resumed business in the same village. For
twelve years he continued in general merchan
dising, conducting business under the name of
Edwin Williams. He then sold out, and two
years later removed to Jamestown, and made
his home at 214 Clinton street, where he has
since lived a retired life. Mr. Williams has
spent an active, busy life, and has won a repu
tation for good business ability, uprightness
and square dealing. He has a large circle of
warm friends with whom his declining years
are spent. He is a member of the Congregational
church, having joined the Sinclairville church
in early life, fie was elected trustee of that
church when but eighteen years of age, and
when living in Michigan served the Armada
church as deacon, fie has been a lifelong
advocate of temperance, belonging in former
years to the Good Templars, and supports the
Prohibition party with vote and influence.
While living in Sinclairville he served as vil
lage trustee, and took an active part in village
public life. At the age of seventy-three
(1911) he is active and vigorous, keeping in
touch with matters of public importance and
retaining his interest in church, city and daily
neighborhood happenings. He married, Jan
uary 1, 1862, Calista T. Dorsett, born in East-
ford, Connecticut, September 8, 1843, daugh
ter of Daniel B. and fiarriet F. Dorsett. They
have no children. (The Tracy Line).
(I) Ecgberht, first King of England,
reigned 800-838, he married Lady Redburga,
and had: Aethelwulf, Aethelstan, and Eadith
(St. Edith).
(II) Aethelwulf, son of Ecgberht and Lady
Redburga, married (first) Osburga, daughter
of Oslac, and had: Aethelstan, Aethelbald,
Aethelbert, Aethelbald (2), Aelfred (the
Great), and Aethelswitha. He married (sec
ond) Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald,
Emperor and King of France, and great-grand
daughter of Emperor Charlemagne. Judith
married (second) Baldwin, first count of
Flanders, and became the ancestress of Ma
tilda, wife of William the Conqueror.
(Ill) Aelfred (the Great), son of Aethel

wulf and Osburga, married Ealswitha, daugh
ter of the Earl of Lincolnshire, and had : Ead
mund, Eadward (see forward), Aethelwald,
Aetnelfleda, Aethelgida and Aelfthryth.
(IV) Eadward (the Elder), married (first)
Ecguina, and had three children; (second)
Ealfleda, and had eight children; (third) Ead-
gina, daughter of Earl Sigeline, and had:
Eadmund (see forward), Eadred, Eadburga
and Eadgina.
(V) Eadmund (1) married Aelfgifu, and
had: Eadwig, Eadgar.
(VI) Eadgar, son of Eadmund (1) and
Aelfgifu, married (first) Aethelflaeda (the
Fair), daughter of Earl Ordmar, and had:
Eadward. He married (second) Aelfthryth,
daughter of Ordgar, Duke of Devonshire, and
widow of Earl Aethelwold. Children: Ead
mund and Aethelred (see forward).
(VII) Aethelred II. (the Unready), mar
ried (first) Ealfleda, daughter of Earldorman
Thored. Children: Edmund (Ironsides) and
eight others. He married (second) Emma, of
Normandy. Children : Aelfred, Eadward (the
Confessor), Goda (see forward).
(VIII) Princess Goda, daughter of Aethel
red II. and Emma, of Normandy, married
(first) Dreux, Count of Vexin, in France,
called by English historians Count of Mantes,
and said to be a descendant of Charlemagne.
Children : Gauthier, sometimes called Walter ;
Rudolf (see forward) ; Foulgues, Poutoise.
(IX) Rudolf, son of the Count of Mantes
and Princess Goda, also called Rudolph or
Ralph de Mantes, was lord of the manor of
Sudeley and Toddington, and was created
Earl of Hereford by his uncle, Edward
the Confessor, and deprived of his earldom
in the reign of William the Conqueror. He_
married Gethe, and had one son, Harold.
(X) Harold, only son of Rudolf and Gethe
de Mantes, married Matilda, daughter of
Hugh-Lupus, first Earl of Chester and nephew
of William the Conqueror. Children: John
de Sudeley and Robert de Ewyas.
(XI) John de Sudeley, son of the preced
ing, married Grace, daughter and heiress of
Henri de Traci, feudal Lord of Barnstable, in
Devonshire. Qiildren : Ralph, who became the
heir of his father, and William de Traci, con
cerning whom see forward.
(XII) William de Traci inherited the lands
of his mother and assumed her family name,
becoming, as a knight of Gloucestershire, Sir
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brother by one knight's fee. He married
Hawise de Born, and left one son and two
daughters. (XIII) Sir Henry de Tracy, of Todding-
ton, died about 1246, leaving : Margery, Henry
and Thomas.
(XIV) Sir Henry de Tracy, of Toddington,
had children: William and Eve.
(XV) Sir William Tracy (the "de" being
omitted in this generation), of Toddington,
had command in the Scottish war in the reign
of Edward I.
(XVI) Sir William Tracy, of Toddington,
held high offices. Children: Margery and
William. (XVII) William Tracy, Esq., was of Todd
ington. (XVIII) Sir John Tracy, of Toddington,
was sheriff of the county five years in succes
sion, and died in 1363. He left children:
John, Margaret and Dorothy.
(XIX) Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, was
a member of parliament and sheriff. Chil
dren: William and Margaret.
(XX) William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington,
was high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1395,
and died in 1399.
(XXI) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding
ton, was called to the privy council of Henry
IV., and was high sheriff during the reign of
Henry V. He married Alice, daughter of Sir
Guy de la Spine, and widow of William Gil
ford. Children: William, John and Alice.
(XXII) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding
ton, was sheriff of Gloucestershire during the
reign of Henry VI. He married Margery,
daughter of Sir John Pauncefort Knight.
Children : Henry, Richard and Margery.
(XXIII) Henry Tracy, Esq., of Todding
ton, died about 1506. He married Alice,
daughter of Thomas Baldington, Esq., of Al-
derley, county of Oxford. Children : William,
Richard, Ralph, Anne, Elizabeth.
(XXIV) Sir William Tracy, of Todding
ton, was sheriff of Gloucestershire during the
reign of Henry VIII. He married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of
Cross Court, Gloucestershire. Children: Wil
liam, Robert, Richard and Alice.
(XXV) Richard Tracy, Esq., of Todding
ton, was the sheriff of Gloucestershire during
the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He married
Barbara, .daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of
Charlecote, Warwickshire. Children: Hester,
Nathaniel, Susan, Judith, Paul and Samuel.

(XXVI) Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewkesbury,
received lands at that place from his father.
(XXVII) Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, son
of Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewkesbury, was born
at Tewkesbury, about 1610, died at Norwich,
Connecticut, November 7, 1685. He came to
Salem, Massachusetts, in April, 1636, removed
to Wethersfield, and was one of the original
proprietors of Norwich in 1660. He married
(first) at Wethersfield, 1641, Mary, widow of
Edward Mason; (second) at Norwich, prior
to 1679, Martha, daughter of Thomas Bourne,
of Marshfield, and widow of John, son of
Governor Bradford; (third) at Norwich,
Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
(Demming) Foote, of Wethersfield, and
widow of (first) John Stoddard, (second)
John Goodrich. Children, all by first mar
riage: 1. John (see forward). 2. Thomas,
married and had : Nathaniel, Jeremiah, Daniel,
Thomas, Jedediah, Sarah, Deborah and Jeru
sha. 3. Jonathan, married (first) Mary,
daughter of Lieutenant Francis Griswold, and
had : Jonathan, Christopher, David, Francis,
Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Mariam and Sarah.
He married (second) Mary Richards, who
married (second) Eleazer Jewett. 4. Dr.
Solomon, married (first) Sarah, daughter of
Deacon Simon Huntington, the first, and had :
Simon, Solomon and Lydia; married (second)
Sarah Bliss, widow of Thomas Soluman, and
had one son. 5. Daniel, married, (first) Abi--
gail, daughter of Deacon  and Mary
(Bushnell) Adgate, and had: Daniel and Abi
gail; he married (second) Widow Hannah
(Backus) Bingham, and had: Samuel and
Elizabeth. 6. Samuel, died without issue. 7.
Miriam, married Lieutenant Thomas, son of
Robert and Elizabeth (Bourn) Waterman, of
Marshfield. (XXVIII) Captain John Tracy, son of
Lieutenant Thomas and Mary (Mason) Tracy,
was born at Wethersfield, in 1642, died at Nor
wich, August 16, 1702. He was one of the
original proprietors of Norwich, justice of the
peace, represented his town in the legislature
at six sessions, and was prominent in* all pub
lic affairs, fie married, August 17, 1670,
Mary, born 1646, died July 21, 1721, daughter
of Josiah and Margaret (Bourne) Winslow,
and niece of Governor Winslow of the "May
flower." Children: 1. Josiah, died young. 2.
John (see forward). 3. Joseph, married Mar
garet Abel; children: Joseph, Dr. Elisha,
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Jerusha and Elizabeth. 4. Winslow, married
Rachel, daughter of Joshua and Hannah
(Bradford) Ripley, and had: Joshua, Perez,
Josiah, Eliphalet, Nehemiah, Samuel, Solo
mon. 5. Elizabeth, married Nathaniel, son of
William and Elizabeth (Pratt) Backus.
(XXIX)) John (2), son of Captain John
(1) and Mary (Winslow) Tracy, was born
about 1675. He married Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Leffingwell. Children: John (3),
of further mention ; Hezekiah, died without is
sue ; Joshua, no record, perhaps died young ;
Isaac, married  Bushnell; Ann (or
Anne) married Richard, second son of Will
iam Hyde (2), of Norwich; Ruth, married
Elijah, third son of Samuel Hyde (2) ; Eliza
beth, no record.
(XXX) John (3), son of John (2) and
Elizabeth (Leffingwell) Tracy, was born June
27, 1700, died at West Farms, now Franklin,
August 20, 1786. He married, January 21,
1724, Margaret, daughter of John Hyde (1),
of Norwich. Children: John (4), of whom
further; Eleazer, Josiah, Hezekiah, Daniel,
Theophilus, Joshua, Elizabeth, married Zebe-
diah Edgerton, Margaret, married 
Bentley, and Rachel, married Ezekiel Hyde.
(XXXI) John (4), eldest son of John (3)
and Margaret (Hyde) Tracy, was born at
Norwich, Connecticut, February 11, 1725, died
at Franklin, March 28, 1810. fie married, Oc
tober 13, 1747, his third cousin, Margaret
Huntington. Children: John (5), of whom
further ; Oliver, married Lydia Rudd ; Erastus,
married Sally Prentice; Lydia, married An
drew Hyde ; Margaret, married Benjamin
Storrs ; Mary, died unmarried.
(XXXII) John (5), eldest son of John (4)
and Margaret (Huntington) Tracy, was born
December 21, 1755. He settled in Columbus,
New York, where he died January 14, 182 1.
He married, May 24, 1780, Esther Pride, died
June, 1838. Children: 1. Rachel, born at
Norwich, Connecticut, August 22, 1781, died
in Wisconsin, October 29, 1852 ; married An
drew Palmer, of Mansfield. Connecticut. 2.
John (6); born at Norwich, October 25, 1783;
settled at Oxford, New York, and became a
very prominent and influential citizen ; he was
a member of New York legislature, lieutenant-
governor of the state, and president of the
constitutional convention of 1846; married a
distant kinswoman, Susannah Hyde ; both died
in Oxford. 3. Zedediah, born in Franklin,
Connecticut, October 8, 1786; settled at Dur-

hamville, New York, where he died. Married
(first) Dorothy Robinson; (second) Frances
Hubbard. 4. Ulysses, born August 13, 1790,
died in infancy. 5. Harriet, born at Franklin,
May 16, 1792, died at Ithaca, New York; mar
ried Otis Eddy. 6. Bela, born at Franklin,
April 19, 1794, died at Titusville, Pennsyl
vania ; married Calista Spurr. 7. Esther, of
whom further. 8. Emily, born at Franklin,
November 10, 1798, died at Jamestown, New
York, September 30, 1838; married Dr. Wil
liam Hedges, a physician, of Jamestown. 9.
Ulysses (2), born at Franklin, January 4, 1803,
died at Sinclairville, New York, August 19,
1840; married, October, 1835, Jane L. Bunker.
(XXXIII) Esther, seventh child and second
daughter of John (5) and Esther (Pride)
Tracy, was born at Franklin, Connecticut, No
vember 8, 1796, died at Sinclairville, New
York; she married, at Ithaca, New York,
April 17, 1817, James Williams, and is buried
with him in Evergreen Cemetery, at Sinclair
ville. (See Williams). (The Dorsett Line).
(I) Mrs. Calista T. (Dorsett) Williams is
a descendant, on the paternal side, of 
Dorsett, residents of Acadia, Nova Scotia,
from whence they were exiled with other resi
dents in 1754-55, being placed in the town of
Union, Connecticut. They were the parents
of a large family, among whom was Joseph
(see forward).
(II) Joseph Dorsett, grandfather of Mrs.
Williams, was born June 1, 1775, died May
29, 1855. He married Abigail Hanks, born
February 23, 1780, died April 16, 1820, daugh
ter of Benjamin Hanks. They were the par
ents of eight children, the youngest of whom
was Daniel Brewster (see forward).
(Ill) Daniel Brewster Dorsett, father of
Mrs. Williams, was born June 12, 1816, died
August 15, 1892. He married, at Eastford,
Connecticut, November 16,1841, Harriet Fox
Preston. In 1849 they moved to Sinclairville,
Chautauqua county, New York, and there re
sided until 1890, when they removed to James
town, New York. Their children were: I.
Calista T., born in Eastford, Connecticut, Sep
tember 8, 1843 ; married, January 1, 1862, Ed
win Williams (see Williams, IX). 2. Daniel
H., born in Eastford, Connecticut, July 6,
1845, died in Salt Lake City, Utah, November.
12, 1907. He married (first) Ellen R. Shep
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two children : Rae Shepard, now a physician
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Leonard
P., who is engaged in business in Washington,
D. C. He married (second) Marie Anderson,
who bore him five children. 3. Charles W.,
born in Sinclairville, New York, September 28,
1850; married, June 29, 1876, Martha Angle,
of Randolph, New York; they have two
daughters married and living in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and three adopted children. - 4.
Hattie Preston, born in Sinclairville, New
York, October 15, 1857, died January 24, 1863.
5. Minnie F., born in Sinclairville, New York,
April 22, 1865 ; married, May 14, 1885, at Sin
clairville, Dr. George F. Smith; children:
Charles, born July 15, 1887, died August 31,
1908; D. Burt, born May 1, 1891.
Mrs. Harriet Fox (Preston) Dorsett was
a granddaughter of Esek Preston, who was a
resident of Eastford, Connecticut. He mar
ried Sally, born October 20, 1769, daughter of
Major Earl Clapp, of Rochester, Massachu
setts. They were the parents of ten children,
the eldest of whom was Earl Clapp (see for
ward). Earl Clapp Preston, son of Esek and Sally
(Clapp) Preston, and father of Mrs. Dorsett,
was born November 25, 1796, died in Sin
clairville, Chautauqua county, New York, May
5, 1890, having almost attained the century
mark. He married, March 29, 1821, Harriet
Fox, daughter of William and Mary Fox, of
Woodstock, Connecticut. She died in Sinclair
ville, New York, February 5, 1875. They
were the parents of four children, among
whom was Harriet Fox, the second child, born
April 27, 1824, died November 11, 1904, afore
mentioned as the wife of Daniel Brewster Dor
sett and mother of Mrs. Williams.

This family is of great
WILLIAMS antiquity in England and
Wales, and the name is de
rived from the ancient personal name William.
Like many other possessive names, it arose
from the Welsh custom of adding to a man's
name the name of his father in the possessive
form, as William John's, from which quickly
came Jones, David Richard's, Thomas David's
(Davie's Davis), and kindred forms. Sir
Robert Williams, ninth baronet of the house
of Williams of Penrhyn, was a lineal descend
ant of Marchudes of Cyan, Lord of Aberglen,
in Denbighshire, of one of the fifteen tribes
of North Wales that lived in the time of Rod

erick the Great, King of the Britons, about
A. D. 849. The seat of the family was in
Flint, Wales, and in Lincolnshire, England.
Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, was a Wil
liams by right of descent, and was related
to Richard Williams, who settled in Taunton,
Massachusets. Alden de Cromwell lived in the
time of William the Conqueror, and from him
descended in succession ten Ralph de Crom-
wells, the last dying without issue. The
seventh Ralph de Cromwell married Amicia,
daughter of Robert Berer, member of par
liament. Robert Cromwell was a Lancastrian
killed in the wars of 1461. His son William
(2) left a daughter Margaret, who was an
cestor of both Cromwell and Williams. John
Cromwell (3) married Joan Smith, and had
son Walter (4), who married a Glossop.
Katherine (5), daughter of Walter Cromwell,
married Morgan Williams, fifth from Howell
Williams, mentioned below. Sir Richard (6),
son of Morgan and Katherine, born about
1495, married Frances Murfyn. After reach
ing mature years he took the name of Crom
well, under the patronage of his mother's
brother, Thomas Cromwell, and lived in
Glamorganshire, Wales. Sir Henry (7), son
of Sir Richard Cromwell, alias Williams, was
called the "Golden Knight" of Hinchenbrook,
Huntington, and married Joan Warren. Rob
ert (8) Cromwell, alias Williams, was of
Huntington, a brewer, and married Elizabeth
Stewart. Their first child was Oliver the
Great Protector, who used the alias in his
youth, his name appearing on deeds as Oliver
Williams, alias Cromwell. (I) Howell Wil
liams, Lord of Ribour, was progenitor of the
Williams family of Wales. (2) Morgan, son
of Howell Williams, married Joan Batten. (3)
Thomas, son of Morgan and Joan Williams,
was of Lancashire, and died in London. (4)
John, son of Thomas Williams, married Mar
garet Smith and died at Mortlake, 1502.
(5) John, son of John and Margaret Williams,
born 1485, married Joan, daughter of Henry
Wykis, of Bolley's Park, Certney, and sister
of Elizabeth Wykis, who married Thomas
Cromwell (brother of Katherine, mentioned
above), secretary to Henry VIII, Lord Crom
well of Oakham, Earl of Essex. (6) Richard,
son of John and Joan Williams, born 1487, at
Rochampton, settled at Monmouth and Dexter,
and died 1559. (7) John, son of Richard Wil
liams, was of Huntingdonshire, near Wotton-
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liams, son of John, was also of Huntingdon
and married (first) November 15, 1585, Jane
Shepherd; (second) December 4, 1603, Jane
Woodward. His first child by the second mar
riage was Richard Williams, who settled at
Taunton. The Williams families of America
descend from more than a score of different
ancestors. That several of them were related
to Richard of Taunton seems certain, but the
degree has not been traced in various instances.
(I) Stephen and Mary (Cook) Williams re
sided in England, whence their son came to
America, and among the descendants was the
founder of Williams College.
(II) Robert, son of Stephen and Mary
(Cook) Williams, was born 1598, and baptized
at Great Yarmouth, England, fie came from
Norwich to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where
he was made a freeman in 1638. He sailed
from Great Yarmouth in 1635, in the ship
"Rose," and died at Roxbury, September 1,
1693. He was a member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston in
1644. He married (first), December 11, 1628,
in England, Elizabeth Stahlman, who died
July 28, 1674; (second) Martha Strong, who
died December 22, 1704. Children : Elizabeth,
Deborah, John, Samuel, Isaac, Stephen and
Thomas. (Ill) Samuel (1), second son of Robert
and Elizabeth (Stahlman) Williams, was born
in England, 1632, died September 28, 1698;
married, March 2, 1654, Theoda, daughter of
Deacon William and Martha (Holgrave)
Parke, of Roxbury, who married (second)
Stephen Peck. Children: Elizabeth; Samuel
(2) ; Martha; Elizabeth (2) ; Theoda; John;
Deborah, married Joseph Warren, grandfather
of General Joseph Warren, who was killed at
Bunker Hill ; Martha, Abigail and Park. One
of his sons, Rev. John, was a graduate of
Harvard College, 1683, and the first minister
of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The story of his
captivity among the Indians is a familiar one.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and
Theoda (Parke) Williams, was born in Rox
bury, Massachusetts, April 15, 1655, died in
Brooklyn, Connecticut, August 8, 1735 ; mar
ried (first) Sarah May, February 24, 1679.
She died December 29, 1712. fie married
(second), April 28, 1720, Dorothy (Weld)
Denison. Children: Samuel (3); Theoda,
married Samuel Scarborough ; John ; Sarah,
married John Polly; Ebenezer; Elizabeth,
married Rev. Samuel Ruggles ; Eleazer ; Wil

liam, of whom further; Martha, married
Thomas Colton. Descendants of first and sec
ond Samuel have been noted in the Christian
ministry. (V) William, son of Samuel (2) and Sarah
(May) Williams, was born in Brooklyn,- Con
necticut, April 24, 1698, died June 21, 1766;
married, 1720, Sarah Stevens, of Roxbury,
and removed to Pomfret the same year. He
was a deacon of the Roxbury church, and
was also connected with the church at Pom
fret. His wife died June 6, 1786, aged eighty
years. Children: Samuel, of whom further;
William, married Martha Williams; Thomas,
graduate of Yale College; Nathan, died aged
twenty-nine years; Timothy and Eliakim,
drowned in a mill pond in 1796, aged fifteen
and sixteen years ; Joseph.
(VI) Samuel (3), son of William and Sarah
(Stevens) Williams, was born in Pomfret,
Connecticut, 1721, died February 4, 1805, aged
eighty-four years. He was a prosperous farm
er. He had three wives, and seven children,
who grew to adult age, four by first wife,
three by second.
(VII) John, son of Samuel (3) Williams,
was born March 28, 1768, died March 5, 1832.
He resided in Brooklyn, Connecticut, and at
the time of the controversy between his church,
the Congregational, and the Unitarians, he
espoused the cause of the latter. The contro
versy split the Brooklyn church, and since
that time the family have been Unitarians.
He married, December 25, 1793, Susan Far-
rington, of Boston, born about 1778; eight
children, one of whom, Daniel, after going
to Michigan settled in Buffalo.
(VIII) John R, third child of John and
Susan (Farrington) Williams, was born at
Brooklyn, Connecticut, Julv 20, 1800, died at
Buffalo, New York, August 12, 1849. He
followed farming in Connecticut until 1838,
when he emigrated to Buffalo, where he was
engaged in the grocery business and in the
lumber trade. He was an ardent Abolitionist,
and followed cloSely that movement through
the columns of The Liberator, to which he
was a subscriber, and an intimate friend of
the Whig and Abolition leader, Samuel J.
May. He was a devoted Unitarian and a
strict temperance man. At the time of his
death he held an office under the city govern
ment. He married Louisa Upham, born in
Leicester, Massachusetts, July 12, 1804, died
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nard and Betsey (Hubbard) Upham, and
granddaughter of Captain Daniel Hubbard,
who fought at Bunker Hill, and, tradition
says, carried from the field an American offi
cer of high rank.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Office of Secretary.
Boston, Mass., March 7, 1894.
Revolutionary service of Daniel Hubbard : Daniel
Hubbard appears with rank of private on Lexing
ton Alarm Roll of Captain Seth Washburn's com
pany, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment. Marched
in the Alarm of April 19, 1775, from Leicester.
Served seven days. Appears with the rank of cor
poral on Muster Roll of Captain Seth Washburn's
company, Colonel Ward's - regiment, August 1, 1775.
Enlisted April 26, 1775, served three months, twelve
days. Also appears with rank of corporal on com
pany return of Captain Washburn, Colonel Ward's
regiment, dated October 8, 1775. He appears on
Leicester Rolls, credited with eight months service.
William M. Olin, Secretary.
(See "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution.") Children of John R. Williams : 1 . Frank
lin, of whom further. 2. Robert L., born De
cember 20, 1829; married Levina Steel, of
Buffalo, September 15, 1854; four children.
3. Elizabeth Hubbard, born July 18, 1831, died
June 25, 1908; married E. Carlton Sprague.
4. Barnard, born May 9, 1833, died March 13,
1869. 5. Daniel R., born March 29, 1835,
married Mary W. Moulton. 6. Lucy B., born
May 12, 1836, died July 25, 1852. 7. Amelia
L., born September 15, 1839; resides in Buf
falo. (IX) Franklin, eldest son of John R. and
Louisa (Upham) Williams, was born in
Brooklyn, Connecticut, August 7, 1827, died
in Buffalo, New York, August 13, 1884, He
was educated in the public schools and at Buf
falo Academy. He was about ten years of
age when his father located in Buffalo, and
that city was ever afterward his home. He
became a surveyor and civil engineer, and
laid out the old Attica & Buffalo railroad,
now a part of the Erie system. About 1866
he became interested in transportation business
on the great lakes. Later he engaged in coal
mining at Oak Ridge, Pennsylvania, where the
firm of Frank Williams & Company were
known as extensive and successful operators.
This business is yet continued by his sons, as
is the wholesale and retail coal business he
established in Buffalo. Mr. Williams was an
energetic, admirable man of business, yet
keenlv alive to his duties to church and state.

He served as engineer in the Seventy-fourth
Regiment during the civil war, and from 1880-
82 as alderman of the Ninth Ward of Buffalo.
He was one of the incorporators of the Charity
Organization Society, the first society of its
kind organized in the United States. He was
an active, independent Republican, and a warm
friend of Grover Cleveland, whose early poli
tical career was greatly influenced by Mr. Wil
liams and others of the opposite party. He
was a member and trustee of the First Uni
tarian Church of Buffalo, to whose service he
gave freely of his time and means.
He married, December 2, 1852, Olive
French, of Plainfield, Connecticut, born there
May 16, 1828, died in Buffalo, December 11,
1908, daughter of Hezekiah French, born in
Voluntown, Connecticut, a school teacher and
farmer; served in the war of 1812, and re
ceived a land grant for his services; married
Olive, daughter of John Hall, a soldier of the
revolution, who marched from Connecticut on
the Alarm at Lexington, and later served with
Connecticut troops on Long Island. Hezekiah
was a son of Nathaniel French. Children of
Frank and Olive Williams:
1. John Ruggles, born in Buffalo, August
7, 1853 ; a coal merchant of Buffalo, member
of Frank Williams & Company. Is an active
Republican, member of the First Unitarian
Church, Buffalo, Chamber of Commerce,
Saturn and Ellicott clubs.
2. Frank French, born in Buffalo, Novem
ber 20, 1855; graduate, A. B., University of
Michigan, 1877; studied law with E. Carlton
Sprague, of Buffalo, and was admitted to the
bar, 1880. He began the practice of law in
Buffalo immediately after his admission, and
there continues in successful general practice.
He is a member of the First Unitarian Church ;
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce; Erie County
Bar Association; New York State Bar Asso
ciation; Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; and in
politics is a Republican. He married Ruth,
daughter of Joseph Churchyard, of Buffalo;
children : Olive and Roger Churchyard.
3. Robert Hall, died December 13, 1906.
He was a member of the coal firm, Frank Wil
liams & Company, and a thorough man of
business, who stood high in the commercial
world. He was equally prominent in Pitts
burgh business circles. He was a leading
member of the First Unitarian Church, and an
independent Republican. His clubs were the
Saturn and Ellicott. He married Elizabeth,

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daughter of George and Emily (Marshall)
Wadsworth.
4. Grace, now a resident of Buffalo.
5. Arthur Henry, graduate, A. B., Univer
sity of Michigan, 1885. Studied law and was
graduated, LL.B., Law Department, Univer
sity of Buffalo, 1894. He is now in general
practice in Buffalo. He is a member of the
First Unitarian Church, Buffalo Chamber of
Commerce, Erie County Bar Association,
Lawyers' and Saturn clubs, Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity, and an independent Republican. He
is associated with the reform element in city
politics, and is secretary of the Good Govern
ment Club.
6. Herbert Upham, educated in the Uni
versity of Michigan and University of Buffalo,
being graduated from the latter, M. D., 1891 ;
also graduated, M. D., from University of
Pennsylvania. He is a skillful and learned
physician, and since 1895 professor of pathol
ogy and bacteriology, University of Buffalo.
He is a member of the leading medical and
scientific societies, and holds high rank in his
profession. He married, June, 1909, Mary
Carver, daughter of William P. Stoddard, of
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
7. Elizabeth Sprague, graduate of Smith
College, M. A., 1891 ; now a well known phil
anthropic worker and head of a college settle
ment in New York City.

Robert Williams, son of
WILLIAMS Stephen and Margaret
(Cook) Williams, was born
1598, baptized December 11, 1608, in Great
Yarmouth, England. He came to America in
the ship "Rose," from Great Yarmouth, land
ing in the year 1635. He died at Roxbury,
Massachusetts, September 1, 1693. He was a
member of the Ancient and Honorable Artil
lery Company of Boston, 1644. He married
(first) Elizabeth Stahlman, of Great Yar
mouth, died July 28, 1674, aged eighty years.
Children: 1. Elizabeth, born in England;
married Richard Cutter. 2. Deborah, born in
England ; married John Turner. 3. John, born
in England, died unmarried. 4. Samuel, born
1632, see forward. 5. Isaac, born 1638; mar
ried Martha Park. 6. Stephen, born 1640 ; mar
ried Sarah Wise. 7. Thomas, died young. He
married (second), it is supposed, Martha
Strong. (II) Deacon Samuel, son of Robert and
Elizabeth Stahlman Williams, was born 1632,

in England, died September 28, 1698. He
was a deacon of the church at Roxbury, Mas
sachusetts, and a farmer. He married Theoda,
daughter of Deacon William and Martha
(Holgrave) Park, of Roxbury. Children:
Elizabeth, born February 1, 1654, died young;
Samuel, born April 15, 1655, see forward;
Martha, born April 29, 1657, died young ; Eliz
abeth, born February 11, 1659, married
Stephen Paine ; Theoda, born July 27, 1662,
died at age of seventeen years ; . John, born
December 10, 1664, first minister of Deerfield,
Massachusetts; Ebenezer, born December 6,
1666; Deborah, born November 10, 1668,
grandmother of General Joseph Warren;
Martha, born May 19, 1671, married Jonathan
Hunt ; Abigail, July 12, 1674, married Exper
ience Porter.
(Ill) Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Theoda
(Park) Williams, was born December 6, 1666,
died February 15, 1746. He removed to Ston-
ington, Connecticut, about 1685, and settled on
lands he purchased of the Winthrops, just
north of what is now "Old Mystic." fie mar
ried, January 24, 1687, Mary Wheeler, died
November 3, 1709, daughter of Isaac and
Martha (Park) Wheeler. Children: Theoda,
born October 29, 1687, died young; unnamed
child, born September 17, 1691 ; Mary, born
January 7, 1694, died aged twenty years ; Sam
uel, born February 3, 1696, twice married;
Theoda, born January 3, 1701, unmarried;
Selina, born December 18, 1703, married Alvin
Grant; Ebenezer, born October 21, 1705, twice
married ; Elizabeth, twin of Ebenezer, married
Jonathan Smith; Martha, born April 3, 1708,
married Jeremiah Price. He married (sec
ond), July 12, 171 1, Sarah, daughter of
Nathaniel and Mary (French) Hammond.
Children : Unnamed child ; unnamed child ;
Nathaniel, born July 24, 17 15 (see forward) ;
Elisha, born January 12, 1718, had four wives.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Ebenezer and his
second wife, Sarah (Hammond) Williams,
born July 24, 1715, died December 19, 1773.
He lived all his life a farmer of Stonington,
and is buried with both wives in the burying
ground on the farm of Elias Brown at "Old
Mystic." He married (first), July 1, 1739,
Amy Hewitt, died March 16, 1756; (second)
at Stonington, Connecticut, September 19,
1756, Abigail Eldridge, died July 13, 1818.
Children: 1. A daughter, died day of birth.
2. Sarah, born October 4, 1742, died October
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ried Colonel William Ledyard, who was killed
at Fort Griswold, September 6, 1781. 4. Amie,
born January 14, 1746; married John Sell;
(second) Job Stanton. 5. Israel, born August
4, 1749. Children of Nathaniel Williams and
his second wife, Abigail (Eldridge) : 6.
Nathaniel, born August 3, 1757. 7. Abigail,
born August 25, 1758, married Christopher
Cheesebrough. 8. Ebenezer, born December
24, 1759. 9. Sarah, born June 3, 1761 ; mar
ried Andrew Denison. 10. Thomas, married
Abigail Hempsted. 11. Elijah, married
Mehitable Rossiter. 12. Peleg (see forward).
(V) Peleg, son of Nathaniel and Abigail
(Eldridge) Williams, was born December 17,
1767, at Stonington, Connecticut, died August
29, I849. He married Dorothy Denison, of
Stonington, died February 27, 1836. Children:
Mary Ann, married John Harris; Eliakim,
married Sarah Ann Wrightman ; Erastus, mar
ried Mary Wrightman; Dudley Denison (see
forward) ; Charles D., married Aurelia Gore;
Jane D., married Barton Sanders; Betsey,
married Captain Thomas Eldridge; Nancy,
married Nathan Saunders ; Clark, unmarried ;
Fanny. (VI) Dudley Denison, son of Peleg and
Dorothy (Denison) Williams, was born Feb
ruary 19, 1800, in Stonington, died in Buffalo,
New York, March 3, 1875. He removed to
Preston, Connecticut, later to Royalton, New
York ; he was a farmer in New York, and in
Connecticut he is believed to have been a hat
manufacturer. He married, January 19, 1829,
Lydia Lathrop, daughter of Dr. Benjamin and
Sarah (Baldwin) Harris. She was born Sep
tember 30, 1800, died July 1, 1889. (Dr. Ben
jamin Harris, son of Benjamin, son of Lieu
tenant Gibson, son of Samuel, son of Gabriel,
son of Walter Harris, the emigrant, 1632).
Sarah Baldwin was daughter of Oliver, son of
Ebenezer, son of Thomas, son of John Bald
win, the emigrant, 1653. Lieutenant Gibson
Harris married Phebe Denison, daughter of
George and Mary (Wetherall) Denison, Mary
Wetherall was daughter of Daniel and Grace
(Brewster) Wetherall. Grace was daughter
of Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William
Brewster, of the "Mayflower." Children of
Dudley Denison and Lydia (Harris) Wil
liams: Benjamin Harris, born September 30,
1830; Anna S., born February 12, 1832, ~died
November, 1889; Josephine E., born January
30, 1844; Jane.
(VII) Benjamin Harris, son of Dudley D.

and Lydia Lathrop (Harris) Williams, was
born in Preston, Connecticut, September 30,
1830, died in Buffalo, New York, December 8,
1896. He was educated in the public schools,
and after preparatory courses entered Union
College, Schenectady, New York, from which
he was graduated, class of 1854. The follow
ing year he came to Buffalo and began the
study of law with Solomon G. Haven. After
satisfactory examinations he was admitted to
the bar and began the practice of his profession
in Buffalo, becoming a well-known lawyer and
public official. In 1870 and 1871 he was city
attorney of Buffalo, and, 1872-73-74, district
attorney of Erie county. In November, 1879,
he was elected state senator from the thirty-
first district, defeating Delevan F Clark, his
Democrat opponent. In 1890 he was the Re
publican candidate for congress from the
thirty-second congressional district, but was
defeated by Daniel N. Lockwood. He mar
ried, January 3, 1872, Charlotte A. Stonenian,
born May 22, 1844, died in Buffalo, June 27,
1903. (See Stoneman forward). Children:
1. fiarris Stoneman, of whom further. 2.
Katherine S., born May, 1875 ; married Henry
R. Ford, an electrical engineer, of Buffalo;
children: Elizabeth and Henry R. 3. Alice
C, born May, 1877. 4. Lucia R., born De
cember 31, 1881 ; married William A. Faxon,
of Buffalo.
(VIII) Harris Stoneman, only son of Ben
jamin Harris and Charlotte A. (Stoneman)
Williams, was born at Buffalo, New York,
February 17, 1873. He was educated at pri
vate schools, graduating from the Central
High School, 189 1 ; graduated from Cornell
University, 1895, w'th the degree of Ph. B. ;
Buffalo Law School, 1896, LL.B. He prac
ticed in Buffalo for two years, then was ap
pointed clerk of the United States circuit court,
western district of New York. He is a mem
ber of the Lawyers' Club ; Buffalo Canoe Club ;
Sons of the American Revolution, by right of
Daniel Denison (2nd) ; Parish Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons; Delta Epsilon (Cor
nell) ; Phi Delta Phi (Law School). He mar
ried, October 24, 1901, Maude I., daughter of
Lester B. and Nellie . (Cash) Smith. (See
Merritt). Children: Dorothy Charlotte, horn
June 24, 1903 ; Lee Harris, July 2, 1908.
Charlotte A. (Stoneman) Williams is a
granddaughter of Richard Stoneman, born in
the parish of Drews, Garrington, eleven miles
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died November 2, 1821. He was killed by the
falling of a tree and is buried at New Berlin,
New York. He had a brother, George, who
was a lieutenant in the British navy under Ad
miral Nelson, and was killed at the battle of
the Nile. There were also three sisters : Ann,
Elizabeth and Charlotte. Richard Stoneman
came to the United States soon after the revo
lution, with means furnished him by an Aunt
Grace, who had married an Englishman of
wealth and rank. Returning to England, he
visited his sister Elizabeth in the garb of a
common sailor, in which capacity he had made
the return voyage. She requested him to get
better clothes before she would present him to
her friends. Being independent in spirit, he
shook the dust from his feet and went to his
sister Charlotte, who received him with open
arms. In memory of the episode he named
his first daughter Charlotte. His Aunt Grace
again furnished him with funds, with which
he bought a cargo of wool and returned to
America. He there built a woolen mill and
became a manufacturer. He married, Decem
ber 31, 1797, Mary Perking, from Foster,
Rhode Island, at New Berlin, New York.
They had ten children.
(II) George, eldest child of Richard and
Mary (Perkins) Stoneman, was born at New
Berlin, Chenango county, New York, January
9, 1799, died August 6, 1877, at Busti, Chau
tauqua county, New York. With his brother
Richard he started out to seek his fortune.
They parted at a cross road, one going to Os
wego, George going to Chautauqua county,
and never met again. George Stoneman be
came a farmer of the town of Busti. He mar
ried Katherine Cheney, July 22, 182 1. They
had eight children, the youngest of whom was
Charlotte A., who married Benjamin Harris
Williams. Maude I. Smith Williams is a descendant
of James Merritt, who was born at Canton,
Connecticut, August 24, 1744, died 1821, at
Barkhampsted, Connecticut, fie served in the
revolutionary war. (See "Connecticut Men
in the Revolution.") He married, June 16,
1768, Hannah Phelps, born at Simsbury, Con
necticut, May 29, 1749, died 1825, daughter
of Thomas and Margaret (Watson) Phelps.
They had ten children.
(II) Peter, son of James and Hannah
(Phelps) Merritt, was born October 31, 1788,
died October 14, 1867. He married Sylvia
Merrill, born 1792, died January 15, 1852,

daughter of John and Elizabeth (Shepard)
Merrill. They had eight children.
(Ill) Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and
Sylvia (Merrill) Merritt, was born 1825, died
January 21, 1895. She married, January 25,
1845, Asa W. Cash, born 1824, died December
25, 1907. They had two children.
(IV) Nellie, daughter of Asa W. and Eliza
beth (Merritt) Cash, was born July 12, 1854,
died September 11, 1893; married, April 24,
1874, Lester B. Smith.
(V) Maude I., daughter of Lester B. and
Nellie (Cash) Smith, married Harris S.
Williams.

This is a well-known name in
FRANCIS this country and is borne by
men of high rank in the pro
fessions, in business and in public life. The
family first appears in Western New York, in
Cayuga county, later in Orleans county, where
Elihu Francis lived in the town of Ridgeway,
about one mile east of Ridgeway Corners. He
was of an unsettled disposition and travelled
extensively. He died at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Jacques, at the foot of Hemlock Lake
in Livingston county. He married and had
children: Amanda, married (first) a Mr.
Sweetland, married (second) a Mr. Allen;
Harriet, married Russell Jacques ; Lydia, mar
ried Alfred Kendall ; Sylvester and Harvey.
(II) Harvey, son of Elihu Francis, was
born in the state of Connecticut in 1806, died
in Middleport, Niagara county, New York,
November 24, 1869. His father, who was a
native of Connecticut, began his travels in
New York about 1830-40 and took his son
Harvey with him. After a short residence
in Cayuga county, New York, he removed to
Ridgeway, Orleans county, where they re
mained until the spring of 1847. Harvey set
tled at Johnson's Creek, Niagara county, and
in 1864 removed to Middleport in the same
county, where he died five years later. He
was a farmer and operated country stores in
several different localities. He was a good
business man and during his life possessed a
generous estate. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church and lived a life
consistent with his profession. He married
Elizabeth P. Hooker, born 1810, died October
2, 1872, at Middleport, daughter of David
Hooker, of Ridgeway, Orleans county, New
York. Their children: Three who died in
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county, at the age of thirty-two years; mar
ried Frank B. Seeley ; left a son and daughter ;
Charles S. and Harriet E. Seeley ; Charles H.
(of further mention).
(Ill) Charles H., only son of Harvey and
Elizabeth P. (Hooker) Francis, was born at
Ridgeway, Orleans county, New York, Sep
tember 6, 1835. He was educated in the vil
lage school, and after leaving school became
clerk in his father's store at Johnson's Creek.
He remained in that employ for three years,
and in 1857 . he purchased of his father the
store and business. He remained there in
successful business until 1864, when he sold
his property and business and removed to Mid
dleport, where he has ever since resided. For
six years after locating in Middleport he en
gaged in milling, then for several years en
gaged in mercantile life until 1878,. when
he engaged in farming, continuing until 1884.
In that year he became interested in the can
ning and preserving of fruits and vegetables,
operating canning factories at Middleport,
Batavia and Brockport until 1905, when he
retired from all active participation in busi
ness. He is a Democrat in politics, and for
six terms (not consecutive) served as presi
dent of the Middleport village corporation.
In religious faith the family are Universalists.
He is highly esteemed in his community and
is one of the substantial men of his town.
He married, February 4, 1873, at Middle-
port, Sarah Southwick, born in Orleans
county, New York, October 28, 1844, daugh
ter of Alfred and Ann (Watson) Southwick,
of Orleans county, New York. Children:
Anna, born May 30, 1878, died March 8, 1888 ;
Dora, born May 4, 1883; married, March 4,
1909, Fred J. Haist, formerly of Buffalo, now
engaged , in the drug business in Middleport.

The history of the Warren
WARREN family is exceeded in interest
and antiquity by none in Eng
land. The surname is derived from Garenne
or Varenne, a small river in the old country
of Calais, or Caux, in Normandy, which gave
its name to the neighboring commune. There
is at present a village called Garenne in the
same district, and it is here that the origin
of the family has been fixed by historians.
On the west side of th'e River Garenne was
trie ancient baronial seat of the de Warrenes,
and ruins were standing in 1832. The sur
name has assumed different forms from time

to time — Gareyn, Wareyn, Waryn, Warin,
Warynge, Waryng and Warren. The Nor
man ancestry of the family is traced to Rollo,
Rolf, or Rov, 860 to 930, the great-great-
great-grandfather of William the Conqueror.
About 1060 the Norman line unites with the
Saxon by the marriage of William de War
ren to Elizabeth of the twelfth Saxon genera
tion, beginning with Ealhmund of Kent, King
of England, great-grandfather of King Al
fred the Great.
(I) Rollo Rolf, or Rov, a Scandinavian
rover, born A. D. 860, died 930, made him
self independent of Harold of Norway, vis
ited Scotland, England and Flanders, in plun
dering expeditions, and about A. D. 912 es
tablished himself on the River Seine and laid
the foundation of the Duchy of Normandy,
through grants- obtained through rulers in
France, fie was the first Duke of Normandy ;
and had a son
(II) William, second Duke of Normandy,
surnamed "Longsword," ruled from 927 to
943; he had a son (III) Richard the Fear
less, third Duke of Normandy, from 943 to
997; he had a son (IV) Richard the Good,
fourth Duke of Normandy, 997 to 1027, who
had a son (V) Robert the Magnificent, fifth
Duke of Normandy, died 1035 ; he had a nat
ural son (VI) William the Conqueror, King,
born in Falaise, Normandy, 1027, died Sep
tember 9, 1087, whose mother, fielena, was
daughter of Fulbert, a tanner of Falaise. Oc
tober 14, 1066, William declared himself King
of England, and ruled from 1066 to 1087.
In 1052 he married Matilda of Flanders,
daughter of Baldwin V. One of William's
daughters was
(VII) Gundreda, married William de War
ren (1), a kinsman of her father, and who
was in command at the battle of Hastings.
As a reward of his valor, he was made earl
by William, and granted a large estate in
lands. He selected a site for his castle on
an eminence near the village of Lewes, in Sus
sex. He erected a cluniac priory, or convent,^
in the town of Lewes, and he and his wife
were buried in the priory, side by side, and
in 1845, when laborers were excavating
through the site for the purpose of building
a railroad, their remains were discovered, each
enclosed in a leaden box or coffin, and sur
rounded with rock pebbles of small size. On
one of these boxes was the name "William,"
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perfectly legible, although they had lain bur
ied more than eight centuries, for the earl
died 1088, and the princess 1045. They had a
son (VIII) William de Warren, second Earl
of Surrey and Mortimer, in Normandy, born
about 1 1 14, died 1138, and after 11 18 was
Robert, Earl of Leicester. Pie married Eliza
beth (Isabel), daughter of Hugh, Count of
Vermandois, son of Henry I of France, a
descendant of Henry the Great. (See XII,
Saxon line, where this line merges).
(Saxon Ancestry).
(I) Ealhmund of Kent, King of England,
founder of the Saxon line, had a son (II)
Egbert, succeeded Brithric in the kingdom of
Wessex, A. D., 800. He married Raedburk,
and died 836, leaving a son (III) Ethelnolf,
reigned from 836 to the time of his death,
856; married Osburh, daughter of Osalf, his
cup-bearer, and had a son
(IV) Alfred the Great, born 849, died Oc
tober 24, 901 ; crowned King of England,
March 23, 872. During his reign he formed
and promulgated a code of laws, established
a system of trial by jury, organized an army
and navy, caused the kingdom to be surveyed
and subdivided, adopted measures for the en
couragement of learning, and thus brought
about the culminating power and glory of
Saxon England. In 869 he married Ales-
witha, of the royal house of Mercia, by whom
he had three sons and three daughters. His
second son,
(V) King Edward the Elder, became King
of the West Saxons and died 924. He mar
ried three times, and by his first wife had
a daughter (VI) Princess Edguia, married
Charles III, King of France, who died Octo
ber 27, 982, and had a son (VII) Louis
D'Outremer (Louis IV), King of France,
married Gerberger, daughter of Henry -I, of
Germany, and died September 10, 954, leav
ing a daughter (VIII) Princess Gerberger,
'married Albert I, Count of Vermandois, born
943, died 983, leaving a son (IX) Herbert,
born 968, died 993, leaving a son (X) Her
bert, Count of Vermandois and Valois, died
1080, leaving a daughter (XI) Adela de Ver
mandois, married Hugh the Great, son of
Henry II, of France, and Count Vermandois
and Valois. They had a daughter
(XII) Elizabeth (Isabel), married William
de Warren, second Earl of Surrey, and War

renne and Mortimer in Normandy. He was
born about 1040 and died 1130. They had
a son (XIII) Reganal de Warrenne, married
Adela, daughter of Roger de Mowbray.
They had a son (XIV) William de Warren,
married Isabel, daughter of Sir William de
Hayden, and had a son (XV) Sir John de
Warren, who married Alice, daughter of
Roger de Townshend, and had a son (XVI)
John de Warrenne, married Joan, daughter
of Sir Hugh de Post, and had a son (XVII)
Sir Edward de Warrenne, married Maude,
daughter of Richard de Skeyton, and had a
son (XVIII) Sir Edward de Warren, mar
ried Cicely, daughter of Sir Nicholas de Ea
ton, and had a son (XIX) Sir John de War
ren, married Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard
Wynnington, and had a son (XX) Sir Laur
ence de Warren, married Margery, daughter
of Hugh Bulkley, Esquire, and had a son
(XXI) John de Warren, married Isabel,
daughter of Sir John Stanley, and had a son
(XXII) Sir Lawrence de Warren, married
Isabel, daughter of Sir Robert Leigh, in 1458,
and had a son (XXIII) William de Warren,
by wife Anne, had a son (XXIV) John de
Warren, by wife Elizabeth, had a son (XXV)
John Warren, of Headbury, Devonshire, Eng
land, who had a son (XXVI) Christopher
Warren, who had a son (XXVII) William
Warren, married Anne Mable, and had a son
(XXVIII) Christopher Warren, married
Alice Webb, and had
(XXIX) John Warren, married, in Eng
land, Margaret  . and came to New
England in 1630, in the same fleet with Sir
Richard Saltonstall, and settled at Watertown,
Massachusetts, where he died in December,
1667. He was made freeman, 1631, was a
selectman, 1636-40, and commissioner for lay
ing out roads in the town. He owned a
houselot Qf twelve acres, and other lands to
the extent of one hundred and seventy-six
acres. In October, 1651, John Warren was
fined twenty shillings for not complying with
the law relating to baptism, and in 1661 the
houses of "Old Warren"' and "Goodman
Hammond" were ordered searched for Quak
ers. John and Margaret Warren had chil
dren: John, born 1622; Mary, born in Eng
land, 1625, married, October 31, 1642, John
Bigelow; Daniel, born in England, 1628;
Elizabeth, born in England, 1630, married,
about 1654, James Knapp.
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Margaret Warren, was born in England in
1622, came to New England with his father
in 1630, and married, July 11, 1667, Michal,
daughter of Robert Jennison and widow of
Richard Bloise. Children : Margaret, born
May 6, 1668; Sarah, January 25, 1671, died
young; Eliza, July 18, 1673, married, October
18, 1705, Daniel Harrington; Mary, May 25,
1675, married, December 30, 1690, Joseph
Pierce; John, May 21, 1678; Grace, March
12, 1680; Samuel, January 23, 1683, was
called captain, died 1703.
(XXXI) John (3), son of John (2) and
Michal (Jennison-Bloise) Warren, was born
May 21, 1678; married (first) Abigail Hast
ings, died July 19, 1710; (second) May 14,
171 1, Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel Fisk.
John Warren had five children by his first
and four by his second wife: 1. John, born
April 3, 1701. 2. Sarah, September 20, 1702.
3. Samuel, March 18, 1704. 4. Thomas, De
cember 11, 1706. 5. David, June 22, 1708.
6. Benjamin, April 4, 1715. 7. David, Janu
ary .8, 1717. 8. Abigail, October 28, 1719.
9. Lucy, October 26, 1721 ; married, June 21,
1744, James Leland, of Grafton, son of James
and fiannah (Earned) Leland, and brother
of Phineas Leland, who married (second)
Sarah, daughter of Samuel Warren, half-
brother of Lucy Warren.
(XXXII) Samuel, son of John (3) and
Abigail (Hastings) Warren, was born March
18, 1704, died January 26, 1776. In 1730 he
removed from Weston to Grafton, and died
in the latter town. He married, August 26,
1728, Tabitha Stone, born 1702, died Grafton,
April 21, 1765. Children: Samuel, born
April 20, 1730; Sarah, December 24, 1731,
first child baptized in Grafton ; Rebecca, April
16, 1733 ; Abigail, April 29, 1735 ; John, Au
gust 8, 1736; Tabitha, August 6, 1739; Will
iam, May 29, 1740, settled in Conway; David,
March 24, 1742; Joseph, April 22, 1745;
Martha, May 31, 1749.
(XXXIII) David, son of Samuel and Tabi
tha (Stone) Warren, was born March 24,
1742, died at Weathersfield, Vermont, about
1826. He removed from Massachusetts to
New Hampshire, settling first at Croyden,
and later removed to Vermont, where he
died. He married, at Newport, New Hamp
shire,. Prudence, daughter of Jacob and Je
rusha (Leland) Whipple, and maternal
granddaughter of James Leland. She was
horn in Grafton, Massachusetts, died in New

port, New Hampshire, 1820. Children : 1.
Moses, born 1762; died in Cape Breton. 2.
Aaron, born 1763; died in New York state.
3, Tabitha, born 1764; died in Pomfret, Ver
mont. 4. David, of further mention. 5. Pru
dence, born 1768; died at Newport, New
Hampshire ; married Abel Wheeler. 6. Polly,
born 1770; died in Newport, New Hampshire.
7. Isaac, born 1772; died in Newport, New
Hampshire. 8. Samuel, born 1775; died in
Ohio. 9. Louise, born 1777; died in Morris-
town, Vermont. 10. Asahel, born 1778; died
in Weathersfield, Vermont; married Huldah
Leland. 11. Jemima, born 1781 ; died in Mor-
ristown, Vermont; married Lyrell Goodell.
(XXXIV) David (2), son of David and
Prudence (Whipple) Warren, was born
March 13, 1766; died at Rochester, Vermont,
October 24, 1832. He married Anna Bullen,
born February 1, 1771 ; died August 7, 1838.
Children: 1. David (3), born October 9,
1 791 ; died in Brandon, Vermont, December 5,
1868. 2. Anna, born September 5, 1793 ; died
in Rochester, Vermont, January 6, 1826. 3.
John, born October 17, 1796; died July 27,
1853. 4. Daniel, of further mention. 5. Hor
ace, born October 11, 1800; died July 11, 1803.
6. Polly, born July 8, 1803. 7. Olive, Decem
ber 4, 1805 ; died April 10, 1897. 8. Lothera,
January 24, 1809; died April 12, 1898. 9.
Eliza, September 10, 181 1; died March 26,
1855. (XXXV) Daniel, son of David (2) and
Anna (Bullen) Warren, was born near
Rochester, Vermont, March 3, 1798; died
near Rochester, January 29, 1864. He was
a farmer, cultivating a farm in the town of
his birth, also a Congregational minister. He
married Priscilla Sparhawk. Children: 1.
Elizabeth, married (first) a Mr. Bassett; (sec
ond) Kettridge Goodnow. 2. Joseph, of fur
ther mention. 3. Henry D., born 1834, died
1885. 4. Evarts E. S., born 1836, died 1880.
5. Ellen Priscilla, born 1839, died 1882; mar
ried Luther B. Hunt.
(XXXVI) Joseph, eldest son of Daniel and
Priscilla (Sparhawk) Warren, was born in
Waterbury, Vermont, July 24, 1829; died in
Buffalo, New York, September 30, 1876. He
was educated in the district schools, and by a
great display of energy and ambition pre
pared for college, later literally working his
way through the University of Vermont,
graduating Bachelor of Arts, 185 1, receiving
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gree of Master of Arts. After graduation
he removed to Albany, New York, where he
was employed for a time on the Country Gen
tleman and Cultivator. Here his natural quali
fications for journalism and editorial work
were made manifest and satisfactorily demon
strated. During his sojourn in Albany he was
an instructor at the Albany Boys' Academy,
occupying the chair of ancient languages. In
October, 1854, he came to Buffalo to accept
the position of local editor of The Courier, and
at once made his department attractive, re
liable and popular. In 1857 he was elected
superintendent of schools. In 1858 he asso
ciated himself with Gilbert K. fiarroun in
the purchase of The Courier, and began his
connection with Buffalo journalism, which
continued for more than eighteen years, and
gave him a conspicuous position among the
newspaper workers of the country. He was
first assistant to the editor, but soon assumed
chief editorial control, and maintained that
position until his death in 1876. In i860 the
firm became Sanford, Warren & Harroun,
later changed to Joseph Warren & Company.
January 1, 1869, this firm and Haward &
Johnson consolidated, the proprietors forming
a joint stock company with the title of The
Courier Company, with Joseph Warren, presi
dent. The company then published the Daily,
Evening and Weekly Courier and The Re
public. They also did a very large job print
ing business, and had the largest show printing
establishment and business in' the country.
After the death of Dean Richmond, in 1866,
the leadership of the Erie county Democracy
fell upon Mr. Warren by general consent. He
was made member at large of the Democratic
state committee and for ten years previous to
his death he was the recognized leader of the
party in Western New York. For six suc
cessive years he was chosen president of the
State Associated Press, and held other posi
tions of responsibility. He was a member of
the Board of Park Commissioners that inaug
urated the present park system of Buffalo, by
the employment of Frederick Olmstead, the
famous landscape architect, upon whose report
the law of April 14, 1869, was passed, which
gave the necessary powers to the board. He
Was a member of the first local board of the
Buffalo State Normal School, founded in
1870; was a member of the first board of
school commissioners of Buffalo, elected by
the people; was a member of the first board

of managers of the Buffalo State Hospital, the
corner stone of which was laid with Masonic
ceremonies, September 18, 1872. He was one
of the founders of the Buffalo Club, the first
meeting being held and organization . effected
in his office. He was a man of high ideals,
and lived an honorable, useful life.
He married, at Albany, New York, in 1854,
Jane Vail Goold, born September 30, 1834,
died January 27, 1908; daughter of James
and Elizabeth Vail Goold. Children: James
Goold, of whom further; Gilbert Holland,
born August 1, 1861, died July 11, 1869.
(XXXVII) James Goold, eldest child of
Joseph and Jane Vail (Goold) Warren, was
born in Buffalo, New York, September 12,
1858. He was early educated in the Heath-
cote School, and in 1876 entered Phillips
Exeter Academy, preparing for college and
intending to enter fiarvard. The death of his
father changed the family plans, and instead
of entering the university he obtained an ap
pointment as cadet at the United States Mili
tary Academy, West Point, entering July 1,
1877, and was graduated June 11, 1881, and
commissioned in the army to additional sec
ond lieutenant, Corps of Engineers; served
with the Battalion of Engineers at Willets
Point, New York; April 5, 1882, promoted
second lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, and
served until August 4, 1884, on detached serv
ice at Creedmoor, New York. March 26, 1883,
he was advanced to the rank of first lieutenant.
In 1884 and 1885 he was assistant to Major
King at Chattanooga, Tennessee; from Octo
ber 1, 1885, to August 20, 1886, assistant in
structor of civil and military engineering in
United States Military Academy, West Point,
New York; from January 15, 1886, to Decem
ber 3, 1887, assistant instructor of practical
military engineering in same institution, on
duty with Company E, Battalion of Engineers,
and in charge of Post schools. December 6,
1887, he was assigned to duty at Willets
Point, with the Battalion of Engineers, on va
rious staff duties, and as inspector of small
arms practice, December 17, 1887, to August
17, 1891. In July, 1890, he was the inspector
of the Encampment of Pennsylvania National
Guard at Mount Gretna, Pennsvlvania ; from
August 12, 1891, to December '27, 1893, as
sistant in local charge of construction of for
tifications at southern entrance to New York
Harbor. From September 20 to December 15,
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gineer officers to test gun lift mechanism at
Sandy Hook, New Jersey. From January 1,
to May 10, he was secretary and disbursing
officer of the Missouri River Commission;
from June 13, 1894, to August 15, 1898, was
stationed at Louisville, Kentucky, in charge
of various works of internal improvements at
the Falls of the Ohio and vicinity. From
May to June, 1897, he was on duty at the
lift-lock at Colbert Shoals, Tennessee river;
in December, 1897, on bridge across Ohio
river at Marietta, Ohio;. June to November,
1898, on harbor lines at Wheeling, West Vir
ginia; August 16, 1898, assigned to duty at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in charge of various
works of river and harbor improvement; in
October, 1898, was in addition engineer in
charge of the Ninth Lighthouse District, in
charge of construction and repairs ; also mem
ber during same period of the Board of En
gineers on harbor lines at West Superior,
Wisconsin. In 1905 he was assigned to duty
at Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1910 to Buffalo,
where he is now stationed. In June, 191 1,
Lieutenant Colonel Warren will complete
thirty continuous years of army service, chiefly
spent in river, harbor and lake engineering
work and improvement.
Lieutenant Colonel Warren is an active
member of the Mississippi River Commission ;
the Association of Graduates of United States
Military Academy; Western Association of
Civil Engineering; Army and Navy Clubs
of Washington and New York City, Buffalo
and Saturn Clubs of Buffalo.
He married, July 6, 1881, Sarah Clifton
Wheeler, born November 27, i860; died May
4, 1901, daughter of Col. Junius B. Wheeler,
late professor of civil and military engineer
ing, United States Military Academy, West
Point, New York. Children: 1. Jennie, born
February, 1882; died July, 1882. 2. Emily,
born April 6, 1883. 3. Wheeler, June 19,
1886. 4. Josephine, February, 1889; died
July, 1889. (XXXII) John Warren (4),
WARREN son of John (3) (q. v.) War
ren and his first wife, Abigail
Hastings, was born April 3, 1701. He mar
ried Zippora Brigham, who died December 27,
1783. Children: Elizabeth, born March 31,
1734; John (5), 1735, died young; Anne, born
August 27, 1737; John (6), June 19, 1739;
Persis, April 9, 1741 ; Hastings, February 20,

1743 ; Catherine, November 3, 1745 ; Thad
deus, of further mention.
(XXXIII) Thaddeus, youngest child and
fourth son of John (4) and Zippora (Brig
ham) Warren, was born March 20, 1747; died
June 12, 1821. He married Lucy Stevens,
who died June 17, 1821. Children: Lydia,
born January 28, 1773; John, December 2,
1774; Samuel, June 1, 1777; Hastings, of fur
ther mention; Lucy, October 18, 1781 ; Sarah,
July 5, 1784; Edward, August 4, 1786; Eliza
beth, March 19, 1789; Sophia, February 16,
1792 ; Millicent, March 23, 1797.
(XXXIV) Hastings, third son of Thaddeus
and Lucy (Stevens) Warren, was born July
20, 1779, died May 6, 1845. He resided at
Middleboro, Massachusetts, and from 1800
at Middlebury, Vermont. He was a man of
commanding presence, of high honor and
great energy. In the war of 1812, when there
was a call for troops to defend the Niagara
frontier, he raised a company, was elected
captain, and marched to Plattsburgh. He was
promoted and at the battle commanded a wing
of the American army. Shortly after the war
he acquired cotton milling interests in Au
gusta, Georgia, which necessarily called him
there for several winters. During these ab
sences the care of his business interests in
Middlebury and of his family of young chil
dren, devolved upon his wife. He died in Mid
dlebury, where he is buried. He married
Janet Young, who died August 17, 1839. Chil
dren: William Young, born February 13,
1806; Jane Betsey, February 2, 1808: Thad
deus Hastings, February 13, 1810; Edward
Stevens, of further mention ; Henry John,
born January 21, 1815.
(XXXV) Edward Stevens, third son of
Hastings and Janet (Young) Warren, was
born in Middlebury, Vermont, May 16, 1814,
died in Buffalo, New York, May 20, 1863.
He prepared for college at Wilbraham Acad
emy, .Wilbraham, Massachusetts ; entered the
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont,
whence he was graduated, class of 1833. He
chose the profession of law, and prepared
under the preceptorship of Judge Samson, at
Rochester, New 'York. He removed to Buf
falo in 1834, where he continued his legal
studies under Hon. Israel T. Hatch. In Jan
uary, 1837, he was admitted to the bar, and
later, in association with Henry K. Smith and
George W. Clinton, formed the law firm of
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existed for a short time; then as Smith &
Warren until about 1844. Mr. Warren stood
high among his legal brethren and conducted
an honorable, successful practice. The dull
routine of professional life was distasteful to
his active temperament, and in 1844 he aban
doned the law, and henceforth his splendid
talents and energies were wholly directed to
large business enterprises. In connection with
his father-in-law, Sheldon Thompson, and
Henry Roop, he organized the Buffalo White
Lead Works, with factory at Sixth and
Georgia streets, Buffalo, an enterprise then al
most novel in Western New York. To his
sagacity and active management is largely due
the success of this enterprise. In i860 he
withdrew. from the white lead business, but to
engage in larger enterprises. He lent his in
fluence and energy to the organization of the
Niagara Street Railroad Company, became its
first president, and by his industry, activity
and tact accomplished many things essential
to its success. The railroad having been
placed upon a solid basis, he was ready for
any new enterprise of promise to Buffalo, be
ing one of those true benefactors who have
the courage to invest their capital in new ven
tures. There was an opening for a plant for
the manufacture of iron, and in this business
he was one of the pioneers. The Buffalo
Union Iron Works was_ formed, which , has
had a lasting and salutary influence upon the
prosperity of Buffalo, fie was one of the
original incorporators, and to his indomitable
energy and liberal action much of the final
success of this important experiment is due.
The triumph of this enterprise demonstrated
the superior natural advantages of Buffalo as
not only an iron manufacturing city, but paved
the way for other important manufacturing
establishments that have made this city their
home. He retained his active interest in the
Iron Works until his sudden death, in 1863,
aged forty-nine.
Lack of political ambition alone kept him
from high civic position; the only office he
ever consented to accept was that of alderman
of Buffalo, an office he held at the time of
his death. He was a Democrat in politics, but
too whole-souled to be a mere partisan. He
was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
and a most devoted and liberal supporter. Dr.
Shelton, his venerable pastor, spoke in his fun
eral discourse "of his keen sense of honor,
his devotion to the public interest, his kind

ness of heart, his frequent and unostentatious
charities, his liberality to the church and his
many social virtues." He had a soul attuned
to nature and he loved all things, particularly
such as needed protection. He delighted in
watching the birds and provided dwellings for
them about his residence, and shielded them
and, their nests from injury in adjacent
grounds. But his kindliness was not limited
to birds and animals. He loved his fellow-
men, and used his means for their betterment.
He had a talent for nursing, and some of the
poor whom he visited thought him a regular
physician. His family were ignorant of many
of his kindly deeds and were surprised when
some of those he had tended in sickness and
helped in ( other ways asked to look upon the
face of their dead friend and benefactor. To
quote from his friend, Judge Clinton (as we
have heretofore), who used this quotation
from Shakespeare:
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I ne'er shall look upon his like again.
He married, August 6, 1839, Agnes Latta
Thompson, born January 19, 1819, died De
cember 17, 1899, daughter of Sheldon Thomp
son, of previous mention, an early pioneer,
prominent citizen and churchman, of Buffalo.
Children :
1. Sheldon Hastings, born May 10, 1840;
died young.
2. Henry Porter, born November 22, 1841,
died young.
3. Catherine, October 25, 1843, died young.
4. William Young, of further mention.
5. /met, born December 19, 1847; married
George Brydges Rodney, U. S. A., now re
siding- at Hollywood, California. General
Rodney enlisted as a private in the First
Pennsylvania Artillery, in April, 1861, and
soon received a commission as second lieuten
ant in the regular army, and was assigned to
the Fourth Regiment, U. S. Artillery. He
served with distinction during the entire civil
war, being brevetted captain at the battle of
Stone River, and major at the battle of
Chickamauga for gallantry in action. He
served in many Indian campaigns, notably the
Nez Perces and Bannock uprisings. He re
ceived successive promotions to brigadier-gen
eral in the regular army, and was retired in
1905, his entire term of service from second
lieutenant to colonel having been with the
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Warren and Walter Henry; the latter was a
graduate of Lehigh University; he was ap
pointed .second lieutenant First United States
Cavalry and was promoted first lieutenant
Second United States Cavalry. Lieutenant
Rodney was assassinated in the Philippines,
April 16, 191 1, by a fanatical Mohammedan
Moro, whose crazed brain conceived bliss m
paradise if he shed Christian blood. He mar
ried Gladys E. Helliwell, and left a daughter,
Janet Warren.
6. Edward Stevens, of further mention.
7. Laetitia Viele, born April 15, 1856, mar
ried Henry Cornelius Hasbrouck, U. S. A.,
died at Newburg, New York, December 17,
1910. She survives her husband, and resides
at Newburg. Brigadier^General Henry Cor
nelius Hasbrouck was born in Newburg, New
York, October 26, 1839, second son of Hon.
William Cornelius and Mary Elizabeth Roe
Hasbrouck. He entered the United States
Military Academy, West Point, July 1, 1856,
was graduated in the May class of 1861, going
immediately to the front with Griffin's West
Point battery. He served with the Army of
the Potomac during the civil war; was in
valided home in 1863 ; when convalescent, de
tailed to West Point as assistant to Professor
Bartlett, and rejoined the army before Peters
burg. After the war he was in command
of- Battery B, Fourth Artillery, and partici
pated in several Indian campaigns ; Arapahoe,
in 1870; Modoc, in 1873; Nez Perces, 1877,
and Bannock, in 1878. In the Modoc cam
paign he particularly distinguished himself and
received a brevet for "gallant service in action
against the Indians." He was commandant of
cadets at West Point, 1882-88, and in 1887,
with Inspector-General Absalom Baird, repre
sented the United States at manceuvers of the
French army. He was a member of the board
that prepared the drill regulations .adopted
by the War Department for use in the United
States army ; on duty at artillery school, For
tress Monroe, Virginia, as director of the de
partment of artillery ballistics, chemistry and
explosives, and artillery practice exercise for
the First Battalion, from September 28, 1892,
until appointed May 27, 1898, brigadier-gen
eral United States Volunteers, serving in vol
unteer army as commanding Second Brigade,
Second Division, Seventh Army Corps. He
was military governor of the province of Pinar
del Rio during the American occupation of
the island of Cuba until its evacuation. From

1899 to 1903 he was in command of the Nar-
ragansett artillery district, and directed the
army and navy manceuvers in the vicinity of
Newport ; in 1900-02 was a member of the
commission to decide what lands were required
for the use of the army and navy in the island
of Porto Rico ; in 1902 was appointed briga
dier-general in the regular army, and retired
in 1903. He was a member of the Military
Order,. Loyal Legion of the United States;
Lafayette Post, Grand Army of the Republic ;
Lawton Post, Army and Navy Union; St.
Nicholas Society of New York; Holland So
ciety of New York; Army and Navy Club
of New York ; University Club of New York ;
vice-president of the board of trustees of
Washington Headquarters, Newburg, New
York; Historical Society of Newburg Bay,
and the Highlands.
^ (XXXVI) William Young, son of Edward
Stevens and Agnes Latta (Thompson) War
ren, was born in Buffalo, New York, August
30, 1845. His early education was obtained
in public and private schools of Buffalo. He
prepared for college at Walnut Hill School,
Geneva, New York, after which he entered
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University,
where he took a special course in chemistry
with a view of entering the Iron Works
founded by his father and others. After fin
ishing his college years, Mr. Warren at once
began an active business life. He was con
nected with the manufacturing department of
the Union Iron Company for a few years;
was with Palmer & Company, and until 1872
was treasurer of the Akron Cement and Plas
ter Company. As junior of the firm of Phil
lips & Warren he was engaged in the manu
facture of opaque shade cloths, a business that
was terminated by the destruction of their
factory by fire. Subsequently he was again
connected with the Union Iron Works, re
signing to accept a position in the office of
the county treasurer of Erie county. On re
tiring from that position he became associated
with the. Barber Asphalt Paving Company as
cashier of the Buffalo office, continuing in
that position until his retirement from active
business. He is a Republican in politics, and
a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. His
clubs are the Saturn and the Ellicott. He
married, November 26, 1872, Clara Barton,
daughter of William and Eliza P. (Whitte-
more) Barton, of New York City.
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Edward Stevens (i) and Agnes Latta
(Thompson) Warren, was born in Buffalo,
New York, April 6, 1850. . His early education
was obtained in public and private schools,
after which he attended The Rectory School,
near New Haven, Connecticut. After com
pleting his studies he was for fifteen years
engaged as an iron manufacturer in Buffalo.
He then became district manager of the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company of New York,
for the territory in and around Buffalo, con
tinuing in the successful management of this
office until 1891. In 1896 he became treasurer
of the dry goods corporation of Flint & Kent,
of Buffalo. He remained as treasurer of this
corporation until 1910, when he resigned and
retired from active business life. He was
connected with the New York National Guard
for several years as captain, serving in various
departments, later assistant adjutant-general
of the Fourth Brigade, resigning the latter
position in 1898. He is a member of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, and an Independent
in politics. His club is The Saturn, fie mar
ried, June 1, 1886, Alida, daughter of Derick
, Lane and Mary Noble Boardman ; her father,
born in Watertown, New York, son of a Pres
byterian minister. Children : Derick Board-
man Warren, born March 27, 1887; Edward
Hastings, born May 15, 1892, died August 27,
1893.

This family is of Scotch
McLOUTH origin, but a search of Scotch
records indicates that it was
not numerous. From Scotland one branch re
moved to Ulster Province, north of Ireland,
and according to tradition and direct evidence
came to Taunton, Massachusetts, perhaps land
ing at Boston and remaining there a short
time. In the early records we find the name
spelled McCloth, McCloath, McClouth, and in
other forms.
(I) Lawrence McLouth, the first settler,
was born probably as early as 1725, and was
living in Taunton in 1775, when his son was
called "Jr." On account of the loss of the
Taunton vital records, we know little about
the immigrant and the birth of his children.
His sons made a magnificent record as sol
diers in the revolution. All the family left
Taunton and settled in Lewisborough, Berk
shire county, soon after the close of the revo
lution. We give a paragraph to each son.
(II) Lawrence (2), son of Lawrence (1)

McLouth, and doubtless the eldest, was born
probably as early as 1750. As Lawrence Jr.
he was a soldier in the first year of the revo
lutionary war, in Captain Hodge's company,
December, 1775, two months, and in 1776 is
reported in Captain Noah Hall's company. He
was also in Captain Edward Blake's company,
Colonel George Williams' regiment, in the
Rhode Island campaign of 1776. He was cor
poral in Captain Joshua Wilbur's company,
Colonel John Hathaway's regiment, in Rhode
Island, in April and May, 1777, and corporal
in the same company under Colonel Josiah
Whitney in September, 1777; also in Captain
Caleb Richardson's company ,_ Colonel Danforth
Keyes' regiment, in 1777-78, and sergeant in
December, 1777, at Providence. His name
is on the list of men who went with Captain
Fales in January, 1778, for three months at
Slade's Ferry, fie was sergeant in Captain
Samuel Fales' company, Colonel J. Daggett's
regiment, from January to April, 1778, in the
Rhode Island campaign. (See vol. x, p. 437,
etc., Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution). Under the spelling McClouth,
he is recorded also as in Captain Mathew Ran
dall's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's
regiment, June to August, 1776. He was
also a private in Captain Randall's company,
same regiment, August to November, 1776;
also in Captain Thompson J. Skinner's com
pany, Colonel Barnes' Berkshire county regi
ment, November 1 to 10, 1781. This company
marched to western frontiers by order of Gen
eral John Stark on an alarm. The record
was short, but shows that Lawrence had
moved to Berkshire county before the close
of the war and that his father was living
during the revolution. Lawrence was in the
war continuously, we conclude from the rec
ords, from 1775 to 1778. In the first federal
census we find three of the family in Massa
chusetts, all then living in Lanesborough.
Lawrence had two males over sixteen and
five females in his family ; Solomon and John,
the others, are mentioned below, but Lewis
was also living, as proved by other records.
The census was not complete and the name
may have been misspelled. The census spells
it McCloth in these three cases. The town
of Cheshire was set off from Lanesborough.
(II) John, one of the elder sons of Law
rence ( 1 ) McLouth, was a soldier in the revo
lution as early as 1776. He was from Taun
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Hall's company at Winter Hill, in February,
1776; went to the Castle with Captain Ran-
. dall in May that year, serving six months;
was fifer in Captain Edward Blake's company,
Colonel George Williams' regiment, of Bristol
county, in alarm of 1776; also fifer in Cap
tain Joshua Wilbur's company, Colonel John
Hathaway's regiment, in Rhode Island, April-
May, 1777 ; also in Captain Caleb Richardson's
company, Colonel Danforth Keyes' regiment,
and sergeant in Captain Jacob Haskin's com
pany, Colonel Hathaway's regiment. He moved
to Lanesborough during the last of the revo
lution or directly afterward. In 1790 the cen
sus showed that he was living in Lanesbor
ough, and had one son under sixteen and two
females in his family.
(II) Solomon, son of Lawrence (1) Mc
Louth, was a soldier in the revolution, from
Taunton, in Captain Josiah Crocker's com
pany, Colonel Carpenter's regiment, in the
summer of 1776; also in Captain Jacob Has
kins' company, Colonel John Hathaway's regi
ment, March 13, 1779, to April 15, 1779; also
in Captain Edward Blake's company, Colonel
Mitchell's regiment, in August, 1780, on the
Rhode Island alarm, and other service. In
the vital records of Lanesborough we find but
one record of the family, and that is the mar
riage, November 2, 1788, of Solomon Mc
Louth and Charity Mason. Solomon had in
1790 one son under sixteen and two females
in his family, in Lanesborough.
(II) Lewis, son of Lawrence (1) McLouth,
was a soldier in the revolution. He went with
Captain Wilbur and Captain Leonard's party
to Howland's Ferry in April, 1777, for three
weeks. He was also in Captain Caleb Rich
ardson's company, Colonel Danforth Keyes'
regiment, August 26, 1777, to January 1, 1778,
in the Rhode Island campaign ; also went with
Captain Fales to Slade's Ferry; also in Cap
tain Samuel Fales' company, Colonel J. Dag
gett's regiment, January 6 to April 1, 1778, in
Rhode Island, and he was with Captain
Crocker and others in the six weeks campaign.
Lewis McLouth and his son Lewis Jr. signed
the petition of the inhabitants of Cheshire,
Berkshire county, Massachusetts, July 8, 1814,
requesting the punishment of British prisoners
for misdemeanors (p. 205, Cheshire history).
Lewis removed to Lanesborough with his
brothers, as shown by this record, but was in
Taunton as late as 1778, as other revolution
ary records show. He was in Captain Eben

ezer Dean's company, Colonel Thomas Car
penter's regiment, in 1777, and in Captain
Nathaniel Snow's company, Colonel George
Williams' regiment, from Taunton, under
General Sullivan; in Colonel Wade's regiment
at Providence in 1778; also in Captain Josiah
King's company, Colonel John Daggett's regi
ment, August 25, 1778, and later. Roll dated
at Taunton.
(II) Peter, son of Lawrence (1) McLouth,
was in Captain Haskins' company in March,
1781, in Rhode Island; no further trace of
him. (Ill) Lawrence (3), son of Lawrence (2)
McLouth, was born at Taunton, before 1770,
and removed with the family to Lanesborough,
afterward to Cheshire, Massachusetts. Thence
he moved to Ira, Rutland county, Vermont,
where in 1790 he had two sons under sixteen
and three females in his family. Most of the
McLouths soon went to the westward and
branches are now living at Palmyra, New
York; Sandusky, Ohio, and Ray, Indiana. A
picture of Lawrence has been preserved by
descendants. (IV) Dr. Charles McLouth, son of Law
rence (3) McLouth, was born in Cheshire,
Massachusetts. He attended the winter terms
of the district school in his native town, and
worked on his father's farm in summer. After
he removed with the family to western New
York he entered upon the study of medicine
in the office of Dr. Smith, of Clyde, Wayne
county. In 1819 he was licensed to practice
by the Seneca County Medical Society, and
opened his office in Aurora, Erie county, New
York. His original certificate has been pre
served, as well as a later one issued by the
Cattaraugus County Medical Society, and both
are in possession of descendants. In 1821 he
located in Franklinville, Cattaraugus county,
where he continued in active practice until his
death, July 26, 1870. In 1825 he was sur
geon of the One fiundred and Seventy-third
Regiment, New York militia. In 1837 he was
vice-president ' of the Cattaraugus County
Medical Society. He became one of the best
known physicians and surgeons of this section
of the state, and in many cases was family
physician in the same homes for more than
half a century.
Possessing a robust constitution, a fine in
tellect and natural skill as well as thorough
knowledge of his art, he gave freely of his
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both as a physician and as a citizen. Some
what careless in dress and brusque in manner,
he was withal a man of wit and humor, a
cheerful influence in the sick-room, and a
jovial companion among his fellows. In short,
he was of the highest type of the old-time
country doctor, with his multifarious and
arduous duties and responsibilities. He was
a member of the Masonic fraternity. He mar
ried Anna McNett, of a Scotch-Irish family
that came soon after 1700 to Massachusetts.
The name is also spelled McNight, McNutt
and McNitt by other branches. By his first
wife he had three children, and one by a sec
ond wife.
(V) Dr. Charles Darwin McLouth, son of
Dr. Charles McLouth, was born in Franklin
ville, Cattaraugus county, New York, April
14, 1829, and died there July 7, 1902. He
attended the public school, and studied medi
cine under the instruction of his father, being
licensed to practice August 12, 1874, by the
Eclectic Medical Society of the -Thirty-Second
Senatorial District of New York. He opened
an office in Franklinville and practiced there
all his life. Like his father, he was naturally
skillful and well suited to his profession, and
likewise won the confidence and esteem of the
entire community. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he
was a Democrat. He married, March 22,
1848, Pauline Shepard, born October 31, 1830,
died February 26, 1883.
(VI) Lawrence E., only child of Dr.
Charles Darwin and Pauline (Shepard) Mc
Louth, was born in Franklinville, May 25,
1850, and died there July 1, 1909. He was
educated in the public schools. He was a
farmer, cattle dealer and salesman. In religion
he was a Presbyterian, and a trustee of the
church. In politics he was a Democrat. He
Was a member of the local lodge of Odd Fel
lows. He married, January 10, 1876, Isabel
Burlingame, born August 18, 1848, daughter
of Selah and Hannah (McClure) Burlingame,
granddaughter of Ira and Elizabeth (Lyon)
Burlingame. Hannah McClure, born 18 14,
was a daughter of David McClure, a soldier
in the revolution, who was once sent out as a
scout on Washington's own white horse. He
was captain of a company at the defense of
Niagara in the war of 1812, and was a cousin
of General Joseph McClure, agent of the Hol
land Company. The McQures were also
Scotch-Irish, coming early in 1806 to this sec

tion from Vermont. In 1770 James, John
and Thomas McClure were heads of families
at Middleton, Rutland county, Vermont, for
merly in part Ira, where the McLouths lived
also. Selah Burlingame, born in 1807, was a
farmer in Franklinville, a man of great
strength and agility, one of the famous wrest
lers of this section at a time when that sport
was at the height of its popularity, and it is
said that he never met his match. He was a
member of the Baptist church and held various
offices of trust and honor. Children of Selah
and Hannah Burlingame: Amelia, married
David Sill, and had Lena, who married Tony
Werries ; Addison, married Harriet Priest,
lives at Findlay, Ohio, and has children : Piatt,
Howard, Marshall, fiarry and Helen; Ellen,
married Hawley Starr, resides in Bradford,
Pennsylvania, and has children : Blanche, Isa
bel, Plarriet and Harold; Marshall, died aged
sixteen years ; Adele, married Fillmore But
ton, and had a daughter, Grace; Ira, married
Ann Vandewater. Children of Lawrence E.
and Isabel McLouth: Charles L., mentioned
below; Claude, born January 17, 1880, died
January 25, 1883; Earl A., born January 31,
1882, married, November 30, 1905, Georgia
Hout. (VII) Charles Lawrence, son of Lawrence
E. McLouth, was born in Farmersville, Cat
taraugus county, New York, February 9, 1878.
He obtained his education in the public schools
and at Ten Broeck Academy. He began busi
ness life as clerk in a drug store, and studied
pharmacy at the University of Buffalo, from
which he graduated in 1,900. He was a phar
macist for a time at Watertown, New York,
and at Cuba, in that state. He - afterward
bought the drug store of D. F. Rundell, in
Little Valley, New York, and since 1901 has
been in business in that town. He has achieved
a marked success in mercantile life, and ranks
high among the business men of the com
munity. He is a member of Arion Lodge, No.
812, Free Masons; Salamanca Chapter, No.
266, Royal Arch Masons; Salamanca Com-
mandery, No. 62, and Ismailia Temple, Mystic
Shrine. In politics he is a Republican, active
in public affairs and imbued with public spirit
and enterprise.
He married, September 5, 1900, Fanny Eliza
Green, daughter of Charles and Eva (Grover)
Green, of Little Valley, New York, and grand
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(Kent) Green. (See Green, elsewhere.) They
have one child, Royal L., born June 23, 1902.
(The Lyon Line).
(I) Henry Lyon, the immigrant ancestor,
was one of the family of Lyons of Glen Lyon,
in Perthshire, Scotland, and he came to the
colonies with his two brothers, Thomas and
Richard, in 1648. The three brothers had been
soldiers in Cromwell's army, and were on
guard before the Banqueting House at White
hall, January 31, 1648, when Charles the First
was executed. Immediately after they fled to
America. Henry went to Milford, Connecti
cut, where he is first on record February 24,
1642, when he was admitted to the church.
In 1652 he married Elizabeth, daughter of
William Bateman, of Fairfield, Connecticut,
and was granted a house lot there. On May
28, 1654, he was dismissed from the Fairfield
to the Milford church. In 1666 he came to
Newark, New Jersey, as one of the founders
with the Milford colonists. He was the first
treasurer of Newark, 1668-73, and first keeper
of the ordinary. In 1673-4 he removed to
Elizabethtown, where he was a large land
owner and a merchant of extensive interests.
He was a member of the general assembly
November 5, 1675; August 11, 1681, he was
appointed justice of the peace; February 4,
1 681, he was made judge of small causes, and
February 28, 1681, a member of the gover
nor's council; December, 1683, commissioner;
November 26, 1684, representative in council
of the governor. Among his lands were one
hundred acres of upland, since known as Lyon
Farm. He married (second), 1669-1700, Mary
 . He returned to Newark in 1696, and
died there in 1703. Children of first wife,
born in Fairfield, Connecticut: Thomas, born
1652-3 ; Mary, 1654-5 ; Samuel, mentioned be
low; Joseph, 1658-59; Nathaniel, 1663-4;
John, 1665-6; born in Newark, New Jersey:
Benjamin, 1668; Ebenezer, 1670. Children of
second wife, born in Elizabethtown, New Jer
sey: Mary, 1 690-1 ; Dorcas, 1692-3.
(II) Samuel, son of Henry Lyon, was born
about 1655-6, in Fairfield, Connecticut. He
married (first) Sarah Beach, born 1654,
daughter of Zopher and Sarah (Piatt) Beach,
of New Haven, Connecticut; (second) Han
nah, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Harri
son) Pierson. In 1666 Samuel Lyon received
a lot in the distribution of lands. On June 24,
1667, when he could have been only about

twelve or thirteen years of age, he signed the
"fundamental agreement" with the Milford
colonists, and February 25, 1683-4 he sold two
acres of land to Zopher Beach. His will,
dated August 20, 1703, proved at New York,
February 26, 1707, mentioned wife Hannah
and children, making his brother Benjamin
executor. Children of first wife: Samuel;
Henry, born 1682; Joseph; Mary; Sarah. Chil
dren of second wife : John, mentioned below ;
James, born October 5, 1700; Hannah.
(Ill) John, son of Samuel Lyon, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary
Riggs. Edward Riggs was descended from
Edward Riggs, who came in 1633 with his
family to Boston. John Lyon's descendants
have not been traced definitely, but it is pos
sible that he had sons Joseph, John and
Thomas. (IV) Thomas, son of John Lyon, married,
in 1760, Huldah, sister of Martha Burlingame,
who married John Lyon ; she was daughter of
Daniel and Rose (Briggs) Burlingame. Sam
uel, Alexander, and Major Thomas Lyon were
probably his sons. One reason for this state
ment is that' Cyrus, a son of John, brother of
Thomas, named his oldest son Alexander in
1797, and there can be no doubt that Cyrus
and Alexander were cousins. Also, a daugh
ter of Samuel Lyon married a Burlingame.
(V) Samuel, son of Thomas Lyon, came
to Chenango county, New York, in 1791, with
his brothers Alexander and Major Thomas.
Samuel and Alexander are said to have served
in a Connecticut regiment in the revolution ;
Alexander never married. Major Thomas
Lyon was killed at Little York in 18 12, in a
fight with the British. He led a regiment
of state troops from Chenango county in 1812.
"Towards the close of 1813, General Dear
born, under whom Major Lyon served, crossed
Lake Erie with seventeen hundred men with
the intention of attacking York, now Toronto,
and then the chief depot of the British depots
in the west. A landing was made before York
on the 27th of the month (April) under hot
fire, but the Americans pushed on and the
enemy were driven from the works. The
Americans were still pressing toward the main
works when a magazine exploded, a plot of
the British. Two hundred Americans were
killed and wounded, among the mortally
wounded being Major Lyon, who was carried
on board the Commodore's vessel and there
died the death of a hero."

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Samuel Lyon and his brothers bought land
of Benjamin Hovey, Governor Clinton's land
agent, for one shilling an acre, and built a
grist mill, lumber and woolen mill. He set
tled in Oxford in 1792, and made his home at
Lyon Brook, near Lyon Brook Bridge, on the
New York, Ogdensburg & Western railroad.
He came from Great Bend, Pennsylvania. He
is said to have had a brother, Dr. Daniel
Lyon. Children : Daniel ; Huldah, married
Charles Smith; Sally, married a Rathbone;
Betsey, mentioned below; Polly, married
Samuel Pollard ; Samuel, married  —
Eddy ; Lovina and Lucina, twins, Lovina mar
ried John Pollard, Lucina married

Baker; Ira; Lovica, married William Smith;
George Rowley, born August 16, 1800.
(VI) Betsey, daughter of Samuel Lyon,
married Ira Burlingame. Their son, Selah
Burlingame, married Hannah McClure. Isabel,
daughter of Selah Burlingame, married Law
rence E. McLouth (see McLouth).

George A. Moore, a resident of
MOORE Buffalo, New York, from 1835
to 1 89 1, was born in Fabius,
New York, March 27, 1814. He was of revo
lutionary descent, also descended from Thomas
Moore, born in England, died in Windsor,
Connecticut, 1645, and his son, John Moore,
born in England, died in Windsor, Connecti
cut, September 17, 1677. His wife, Abigail
Moore, was still living according to church
records, December 22, 1677. These men came
to America in the "Mary and John," with
others, from Devonshire, Somersetshire and
Dorsetshire. Two famous ministers came with
them, Mr. John Maverick and Mr. John War-
ham. They set sail from Plymouth, England,
March 30, 1630, and arrived at Nantasket,
May 30, 1630. They began a settlement at
Mattapan, now called Dorchester, Massachu
setts. In the summer of 1635 Mr. Warham's
people, sixty men, women and children, re
moved to Connecticut and settled at Windsor.
Thomas Moore and John Moore remained at
Dorchester until 1639.
(II) January 2, 1637, John Moore was one
of twenty men at Dorchester, chosen to gov
ern all of the affairs of the plantation. They
were made freemen at Windsor, Connecticut,
April 9, 1641. John Moore was ordained
deacon, January 11, 1651. His accounts as
deacon were granted February 10, 1673. At
the court of election at Hartford, May 16,

1661, John Winthrop was elected governor,
and John Moore deputy. The house which
Deacon John Moore built in those early days
is still standing in Windsor, Connecticut.
Deacon John Moore had one son, John Moore,
Junior, and four daughters, mentioned in his
will published in the Hartford probate records,
vol. 1, page 195. P. 222: Nathaniel Loomis
married, November 24, 1653, Elizabeth Moore;
Thomas Bissell married, October 11, 1655,
Abigail Moore; Nathaniel Bissell married,
September 25, 1662, Mindwell Moore; John
Drake Jr. married, November 30, 1648, fian-
nah Moore.
(Ill) John Moore Jr., born December 5,
1645, son °f Deacon John Moore, died June 1,
1718. He married, September 21, 1664, at
Windsor, Connecticut, Hannah Goffe, born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 23, 1644,
died in Windsor, April 4, 1697. Seven sons:
John, Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel, Edward;
Josiah and Joseph, twins. By second wife,
Mary Farnsworth, one daughter, Martha
Moore, married Job Drake (2).
(IV) Joseph Moore, born July 5, 1679, son
of John Moore Jr., died August 15, 1713. He
married, 1702, Sarah Browne, of Windsor,
Connecticut, granddaughter of Peter Browne,
of the "Mayflower," 1620. Children: Four
daughters and one son : Sarah, Deborah,
Phcebe, Lydia, and Joseph Moore Jr.
(V) Joseph Moore, only son of Joseph and
Sarah (Browne) Moore, was born August 11,
1712, at Windsor, Connecticut, and died May
5, 1790. He married, May 29, 1735, Elizabeth
Allyn, born November 22, 1712, died May 11,
1790. Six sons and four daughters: Joseph,
Josiah, Elisha, Theophilus, Asa, Abijah, Han
nah, Elizabeth Wakeman, Anna and Sarah.
The father of this family and his eldest son,
Joseph, were in the French war; also the
father and five of the sons and the husbands
of the four daughters were revolutionary
soldiers. (VI) Lieutenant Josiah Moore, born Sep
tember 17, 1737, second son of Lieutenant Jo
seph Moore, died in New Hartford, Connecti
cut, February 28, 181 1. He married, at Wind
sor, Connecticut, November 18, 1762, Anna
Gillette. Children, mentioned in his will:
Susanna, Clarina, Anna, Prudence, Laura,
Josiah Moore ( deceased), Elihu, and Theron.
(VII) Josiah Moore Jr., born September
28, 1765. son of Lieutenant Josiah Moore, died
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married, 1788, at Harwinton, Connecticut,
Abigail Dewey, born 1769, died September
3, 1853, at Fabius, New York, daughter of
Captain Daniel Dewey, revolutionary soldier.
"Centennial History of Onondaga County,
New York, Town of Fabius" : ""In the spring
of 1794 Timothy Jerome and Josiah Moore,
of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, moved in and
erected log cabins. Josiah Moore settled on
lot fifteen on the old Chenango road. He
sowed the first wheat, brought the first farm
implements into this section, became the first
town clerk, built the first frame house in 1800,
and died there April 29, 1802, being the first
one of the pioneers to cross to the other
shore." Five sons and one daughter: John,
Josiah, Henry, Charles, Augustus C. and
Maria Abigail. The youngest son, Augustus
C. Moore, born 1799, came to Buffalo in 183 1,
died 1883.
(VIII) John Moore, born June 7, 178,9, at
Torrington, Connecticut, eldest son of Josiah
Moore Jr., died September 24, 1872, at Tully,
New York. He married, April 2, 1808, Mary
Lerana Middlebrook, born in Trumbull, Con
necticut, October 2, 1790, died February 1,
1854, at Fabius, New York, granddaughter
of Lieutenant Ephraim Middlebrook, killed
April, 1777, in the "Danbury Raid." John
Moore was a soldier in the war of 1812. Chil
dren : Josiah Beach Moore, George Augustus
Moore, John Osborne Moore, Mariette L.
Moore, Norman Titus Moore, Maria Abigail
Moore* Ann Elizabeth Moore, Theodore Mid
dlebrook Moore.
(IX) George Augustus Moore, son of John
Moore, was born March 27, 1814, in Fabius,
New York, died in Buffalo, New York, De
cember 28, 1890. He married, January 1,
1839, at Buffalo, Catherine A. Brown, born
in Attica, New York, March 12, 1819, died
in Hamburg, New York, March 16, 1884,
granddaughter of John Nichols, revolutionary
soldier, Brimfield, Massachusetts. Five sons
and six daughters: Theodore Middlebrook
Moore, born 1839, died 1900; Mary Louise
Moore, born 1841 ; Norman Titus Moore, born
1842; Frederick Brown Moore, born 1844;
George Barnard Moore, born 1847, died 1888 ;
John Henry Moore, born 1849; Kate Eliza
Moore, born 1851, died 1853; Emma Caroline
Moore, born 1853; Anna Maria Moore, born
1855 ; Marion Isabel Moore, born 1857 ; Alice
Olivia Moore, born i860.
(X) John Henry Moore, son of George A.

Moore, was born in Buffalo, New York, Feb
ruary 18, 1849; married, March 5, 1878, Kate
Victoria Bullymore, born April y, 1853, in
Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the
United States Naval Academy, June, 1869;
retired as commander United States Navy,
June, 1899. Two sons: 1. Langdon Moore,
born January 8, 1879, Washington, D. C. ;
married, in Baltimore, Maryland, March 4,
191 1, Minda Ellenworth Gottlieb, born April
12, 1886. 2. Theodore John Moore, born Oc
tober 23, 1891, Washington, D. C.

The surname Hodge had its
HODGE origin in the name Roger. It is
supposed to be of Norman-
French origin, brought into England by a
"Roman knight and valiant follower of Wil
liam the Conqueror." From Roger came
Oger, then Odger, Hodger, and finally Hodge.
He settled in Scotland and the name is now
common in every civilized country. The Eng
lish-Teutonic meaning is "Spear of fame."
The family bore arms in both Scotland and
England. The English coat is: Crest: An
eagle rising, looking at the sun. Arms : A
chevron surmounted by a pale. The 'Scotch
crest: A garb entwined with two serpents.
Arms: A chevron between two amulets.
The Buffalo family of Hodge herein re
corded descends from John Hodge, born about
1643, died in Lyme, Connecticut, 1692 or 1694.
He was an early settler of Killingworth (now
Qinton), of Windsor and of Suffield, Con
necticut. He married, August 12, 1666, Sus
anna Denslow, born September 3, 1646, daugh
ter of Henry Denslow, who was killed by the
Indians at Windsor, Connecticut, April 4,
1676, son of Nicholas Denslow, the emigrant.
Of his eleven children the first was born at
Killingworth, five at Windsor and five at Suf
field: John, Thomas, Mary, Joseph, Ben
jamin, fiehry, William, Elizabeth, Susanna,
Abigail and Samuel.
(II) Samuel, youngest child of John Hodge,
was born October 4, 1686, died in Glastonbury,
Connecticut, May 8, 1764. He was a land
owner of that town as early as 1712. There
is no record of his marriage yet found, but
there was a widow Sarah Hodge, who died in
Glastonbury, May 31, 1781, supposed widow
of Samuel fiodge. Some of his descendants
claim that she was Sarah Dustin before her
marriage, born July 4, 1688, daughter of
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Massachusetts, whose Indian fame is histori
cal ; but this claim is not allowed by Orlando
John Hodge in his "Hodge Genealogy," 1900.
Children: Samuel (2), John and Benjamin.
(Ill) Benjamin, youngest son of Samuel
Hodge, was born 1731, died at Glastonbury,
Connecticut, July, 1799. He served in the
French and Indian war from May 29 to Octo
ber 25, 1758, in Captain Samuel Gaylord's
company, Fourth regiment, and received as
pay nine pounds twelve shillings ten pence. He
was on town patriotic committees during the
revolution, and was of help to the revolution
ary cause in many ways. He married, No
vember 21, 1 75 1, at Glastonbury, Lydia
Welles, born May 24, 1728, died 1810, daugh
ter of Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (1), son
of Thomas, son of Hugh Welles, who came
from England to America in the ship "Globe,"
in 1635, landing at Boston. Children : Ben
jamin (2), of further mention; William,
Lydia, Ann, Jerusha, Asahel, Lois and Eunice.
His daughters all married revolutionary
soldiers. (IV) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
Hodge, was born in Glastonbury, Connecti
cut, February 1, 1753, died February 23, 1837,
in Buffalo, New York. In 1775 he made a
whaling voyage, and on his return enlisted in
Captain Jonathan Hale's company, Colonel
Erastus Wolcott's regiment, and was sent to
a point on Lake George, New York, to defend
the frontiers. The extreme cold and hardship
caused him to fall ill, and the next year be
was sent home. In 1777 he went to sea on a
merchant vessel, which was captured by a
British vessel, the crew escaping to the shore.
In 1783 he taught school in Glastonbury, for
which he was paid a pound. In 1786 he bought
land, and in the years following he appears
in several real estate transactions. In 1793
he moved to Richfield, Otsego county, New
York, where he resided until 1798, when he
sold and moved to Exeter in the same county.
In 1806 he sold his lands in Exeter and started
for a home farther west, with several of his
neighbors. In July, 1806, the party made its
way on the Mohawk river to Oneida lake, by
Oswego river to Lake Ontario, on the lake
to the mouth of the Niagara river, which they
ascended to the falls. Here their flatboat was
loaded on a wagon, drawn around the falls,
and again placed in the river. They reached
Buffalo creek, where William Hodge, elder
son of Benjamin (2) was located at Cold

Springs, three miles from the mouth of the
creek. Buffalo was then known as New Am
sterdam, afterward Buffalo, and contained
about a dozen white families. Before leaving
Exeter Benjamin had purchased, for $23, the
title to lot 35, containing forty-seven and
three-tenths acres, just outside the village of
Buffalo, which has long since become a part
of the city. This he exchanged with his son
William for a farm the latter owned at Eden,
a few miles from Buffalo. He lived on the
Eden farm until December, 1812, when he
moved to Cold Springs, near his son. Here
he engaged in farming, trading in cattle, and
other pursuits. December 30, 1813, he was
an eyewitness to the burning of Buffalo by
the British. Hearing the British were com
ing, he hastily sent his family in a wagon
drawn by a yoke of oxen to Harris Hill, now
Clarence, while he remained to watch his
property. The following day a patrol of Brit
ish sent to destroy the residence of his son
William (in the cellar of which was stored
merchandise valued at $50,000, belonging to
the merchants of Buffalo) saw Benjamin and
another man in the street near William's house
and ordered them to surrender. Instead, they
both ran. Benjamin halted, while his com
panion kept on and was shot. Benjamin was
directed to get an axe and break in the heads
of some of the liquor casks stored in William's-
cellar. While an officer was filling his can
teen with spirits, a sentry cried "the Yankees
are coming." The officer fled in such haste
that when Mr. Hodge reached the floor above,
the officer had disappeared. The building had
been fired in several places, however, and was
soon in ruins. Mr. Hodge was a member of
the Masonic order, which fact, it is said, saved
him from being carried away prisoner with
his son Benjamin (3), who was taken to Can
ada and held prisoner. Benjamin lived
through two wars with Great Britain and
much early frontier life. He wore knee
buckles after the Continental style, long after
they had gone out of general use, and was
probably the last man in Buffalo to discard
them. He died greatly respected by his busi
ness and social acquaintances. He is buried
with his wife in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buf
falo. He married, April 9, 1780, Sarah Churchill,
born November 25, 1757, in Chatham, Con
necticut, died in Buffalo, May 20, 1837, daugh
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son of Josiah Churchill, who came from Eng
land about 1636, settled in Wethersfield, Con
necticut. They lived a happy married life,
continuing fifty-five years. Children: William,
of further mention; Clarissa, Philander, Al
fred, Lorin, Sarah, Clarissa, Alfred, Ben
jamin (3) and Velorius.
(V) William, son of Benjamin (2) Hodge,
was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, July 2,
1781, died in Buffalo, September 18, 1848.
When he was thirteen years of age his parents
moved to Otsego county, New York, where
for several years William taught school. On
June 16, 1805, he entered Buffalo Creek and
began life at Cold Springs, now a part of
Buffalo. He bought land, built a house, en
gaged in mercantile trade, kept a tavern,
manufactured bricks, and followed other pur
suits. It was his house and goods that the
British were after, as described in preceding
generation. After the war Mr. Hodge rebuilt
his house, using the old brick walls, which
had not been materially damaged by the fire.
After many years this building was torn down
and replaced by the widow with the fine struc
ture now standing at the southwest corner of
Main and Utica streets, Buffalo. December
26, 1838, the Buffalo Bank was organized, with
William Hodge (1) and William Hodge (2)
as two of the incorporators.. Philander, an
other son of William Hodge (1), had an in
terest in the bank and was one of its officers.
Pierre A. Barker, vice-president, was not
equal to the task of carrying the bank through
the great financial panic which soon after
swept over the country, and the bank failed.
William Hodge ( 1 ) was much the largest
stockholder in the bank, in fact had furnished
most of the capital, and in the failure neces
sarily lost largely. In time he recovered from
his reverses and at his death left a large es
tate, much of it in land now within the city
limits. A tract of thirty acres lay between
Elmwood avenue and a line halfway between
Hodge and Bryant streets (on the south), on
the north Utica, on the east Main. His brother
Velorius owned a large tract adjoining.
Hodge avenue is named after his son, William
Hodge. William Hodge married, March 25, 1802,
Sally Abbott, born April 3, 1787, died March
9, 1868, daughter of Daniel Abbott, of Exeter,
Otsego county, New York, who moved to
Hamburg, Erie county, New York, in 1810.
Children: Sarah, William, of further men

tion; Sophia, Philander, Sabrina, Julia, Ade
line, Sally Abbott, Mary Beaufort, Joseph,
Jasper, Susan Maria, Helen Louise and Ben
jamin Franklin.
(VI) William (2), son of William (1)
Hodge, was born in'Frie county, New York,
December 20, 1804, died in Buffalo, April 24,
1887. In 1805 he accompanied his parents
on their removal from Otsego to Erie county.
He was nine years old when Buffalo was
burned by the British and his father's house
destroyed. He was a man of good education,
and more the scholar than the business man.
He laid out Hodge avenue on land he owned,
and erected thereon many fine buildings. The
property he inherited from his father, to which
he added by wise management, made him a
man of large means with which to gratify his
intellectual tastes. He was at one time presi
dent of the Buffalo Historical Society, and
wrote for the newspapers of Buffalo many ar
ticles in regard to the early settlement of that
city. In 1885 he published a very interesting
volume entitled "Memoirs of the late William
Hodge, Senior," which contains many facts
about the older inhabitants of Buffalo. In
speaking of the battle of Black Rock, when
the British burned Buffalo, he says : "Two of
my uncles, Lorin and Alfred Hodge, were
in that battle." He was a member of West
minster Presbyterian Church, and of other
leading organizations of the city.
He married, November 24, 1848, Arrietta
A. Hodge, born October 18, 1815, died De
cember 14, 1883, daughter of Lorin Hodge,
son of Benjamin (2). Children: 1. Mary
Davis, born January 8, 1850, died 1851. 2.
William Churchill, of further mention. 3. Wil-
liard Way, born April 15, 1853 ; married, June
12, 1879, Elizabeth Anstey Christey; children:
Elizabeth and Shurly Christey. 4. Charles
Jones, of further mention.
(VII) William Churchill, eldest son of Wil
liam (2) Hodge, was born in Buffalo, July 4,
1851. For many years he was partner in a
large gentlemen's furnishing store, retired and
devoted himself to real estate and fire insur
ance with Armstrong, Roth & Cady Co. He
is much interested in the preservation of our
forests and game ; he was appointed game pro
tector in 1907 for Western New York, and is
a director of the Forest, Fish and Game Club.
He is a member of the Westminster Presby
terian Church and of the Park Club. Politi
cally he is a Republican. He married, Octo-

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ber 18, 1876, Helen Maria Hopkins, born Oc
tober 20, 1857, daughter of Nelson Kerr and
Louise Ann (Pratt) Hopkins. Nelson K. was
son of Timothy S. and Nancy Ann Kerr Hop
kins. Timothy S. was son of Ichabod and
Sarah Hopkins. Nancy Kerr comes from the
Kerr family of England and Scotland, whose
history is traced to the year 495. Louise Ann
Pratt was the daughter of fiiram and Maria
Fowle Pratt, of Northampton, Massachusetts,
and great-granddaughter of Captain Samuel
Pratt, a captain of the revolution, buried in
Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo. These mar
riages join the five ancient families, Pratt,
Hodge, Hopkins, Bigelow and Warren. Chil
dren of William Churchill and Helen Maria
Hodge: 1. William Churchill (2), born Oc
tober 24, 1877; prepared for college at An
dover, graduating in 1895, and graduate of
Yale University, 1899, A. B., in 1903 as mas
ter of forestry ; is a linguist, speaking fluently
Latin, Greek, German, French and Italian. In
1899 he entered the service of the United
States Forestry Department, and in 1907
moved his residence to California. He is an
authority on red woods and forestry. He is
a valuable man to the service and stands high
with his superiors in office. His interest in
forestry was among the first, he having made
a study of the subject in French before there
were any books printed in English, Mr. Hodge
translating several of the French books into
English for the use of American students.
2. Helen Marguerite, born May 30, 1879, died
May 5, 1891. 3. Harold Hodge, born March
29, 1882; graduate of Andover (preparatory),
and a student two years in Yale University.
He is now sales manager of the King Sewing
Machine Company, having formerly been with
the Needham Company, the Larkin company,
and with Jones Brothers, of Kansas City. He
has made a specialty of advertising methods
and stands high in that profession. He is very
fond of athletics, and has held the tennis cham
pionship of Buffalo, New York state, and of
the Missouri valley. 4. Sheldon, born April
23, 1883 ; graduate of Andover; now manager
of the architectural department, Pratt & Lam
bert; married, February 8, 1910, Helene,
daughter of Cassius A. Lockhart, of Buffalo.
(VII) Charles Jones, youngest son of Wil
liam (2) Hodge, was born February 18, 1856,
in Buffalo, New York. He was educated in
the public and high schools of Buffalo, and
began business life in care of his father's es

tate for several years, then engaged in the
real estate business in California, having offices
in Los Angeles. His family remained in Buf
falo, which city is his home. He is a Repub
lican and a member of Westminster Presby
terian Church. He married, October 22, 1879,
Annie Emily Belton, born July 21, 1859,
daughter of Webster Belton, of London, Can
ada, who married Jane Scatcherd, born in
Canada, now a resident of Buffalo. Webster
was a son of George Belton, a farmer of Can
ada, who married Alita Philpot. Children of
Charles J. and Annie E. Hodge, all born in
Buffalo: 1. Charles Lansing, born April 7,
1 88 1 ; now engaged in construction work;
married, June 7, 1907, Florence Tupper, and
has a daughter, Jane Belton. 2. Gilbert
Scatcherd, born March 28, 1884; now on a
ranch in California. 3. Nelson Webster, born
May 19, 1887 ; now with the Aluminum Cast
ing Company of Cleveland, Ohio. 4. Robert
Belton, born January 11, 1889; now a ranch
man of California. 5. Eric Lawrence, born
January 17, 1894; graduate Lafayette high
school (1911).

The progenitor and American
HOPKINS ancestor of this branch of the
family is Stephen Hopkins,
who settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
1634; was made a freeman in 1635; removed
to fiartford, Connecticut, in 1636, where he
became a juror in 1643. It is not known what
relation, if any, he bore to Stephen Hopkins,
who came to Plymouth in 1620, or to Edward
Hopkins, who arrived in Boston in 1637, and
afterwards became governor of Connecticut,
although he could not have been a near rela
tive of the last. Stephen Hopkins died in 1654.
His will was dated 1648 and an inventory of
his estate was taken April 15, 1654. He left
a widow Jane, who married (second) Nathan
iel Ward. Children : Stephen ; Bethiah, mar
ried Samuel Stocking, of Middletown, Con
necticut. (II) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1) and
Jane Hopkins, was born either in England or
shortly after the arrival at Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts. He came to Hartford with his
father and was made a freeman in 1656. He
was a farmer and a miller. His will bore
the date of September 28, 1680, and the in
ventory (amounting to 591 pounds) Novem
ber 6, 1689. He married Dorcas, daughter
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Children: 1. John, became one of the most
respected and influential of the early settlers
of Waterbury, Connecticut. He was one of
the youngest of the original proprietors, and
ran the mill at Mattatuck. He was constable,
'grand juror, deputy many times, justice of
the peace, town clerk, kept an "ordinary," ser
geant, ensign, lieutenant, and a large land
owner. He married Hannah  and had
five children. 2. Stephen, born 1665, died
1704; married Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant
Thomas and Hannah Judd. 3. Ebenezer, of
whom further. 4. Joseph, married, April 27,
1693, Hannah, daughter of Paul Peck, of
Hartford. 5. Dorcas, married, May 11, 1681,
Jonathan Webster. 6. Mary, married Samuel
Sedgwick. (Ill) Ebenezer, son of Stephen (2) and
Dorcas (Bronson) Hopkins, was born in
Hartford, 1669. He became one of the early
settlers of Harwinton, Litchfield county, Con
necticut, in 1730, and had land granted him
in 1732. There were then living in the same
town, Ebenezer (1), Ebenezer (2), Jonathan
(1), Jonathan (2), Stephen, and Hezekiah
Hopkins. The records of the first town meet
ing show Ebenezer Hopkins appointed to be
one of the surveyors of the highway, "Hez
Hopkins to be constabool." Both Ebenezer
and son Ebenezer were signers of the petition
to have a new county erected (Litchfield). He
was a grantor of the part of the town called
"East Harwinton." The records show that at
the town meeting held September 17, 1745, it
was voted "Ebenezer Hopkins and 
shall sit in ye pew under ye stares at the West
end of the meeting house," and voted De
cember 31, 1750, "Ebenezer Hopkins and
 shall be a committee to appoint
the places for the schools and dispose of the
school money for the purpose for which it
was voted." These two items doubtless refer
to Ebenezer (2), as Ebenezer (1), the father,
would have then been an old man. Ebenezer
(1) Hopkins married, January 21, 1691, Mary,
daughter of Samuel Butler, of Wethersfield,
Connecticut. Children: 1. Ebenezer, died
young. 2. Jonathan, baptized June 28, 1696.
3. Ebenezer, of whom further. 4. Mary, born
January 30, 1705. 5. Stephen, born August
6, 1707; settled in Waterbury; married
Jemima Bronson. 6. Isaac, born November
28, 1708; settled in Waterbury ; married Mary,
daughter of Thomas Hickox. 7. Sarah, born
June 20, 1 7 10.

(IV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
and Mary (Butler) Hopkins, was born June
25, 1700. fie removed to Pittsfprd, Vermont;
died at Shaftsbury, 1784, while returning from
a visit to Massachusetts. He married and had
sons: James, of whom further; Nehemiah,
deacon in the church, died at Crown Point,
New York, 1814 ; Elias ; Tabitha, married Dr.
Abithar Willard. Deacon Nehemiah had a
daughter, Susannah, who married Elijah Kirk-
ham, and some time after both she, her hus
band, and child were drowned in Lake Cham-
plain. (V) James, eldest son of Ebenezer (2)
Hopkins, removed to the state of New York
and settled in the Genesee Valley. He mar
ried and had sons, James and Caleb, and two
daughters,. one, Rhoda, married Elias Hopkins.
(VI) Caleb, son of James Hopkins, was
born in 1770, reared near Pittsford, Vermont,
on the farm, died 1818. In 1791, with Gen
eral Jonathan Fassett and others, he removed
to Western New York. He was then twenty-
one years of age. In 1791 he built his log
house on land he had secured, and in 1800
was the first settler in Penfield, Monroe
county, New York. Soon afterward he re
moved to Stonetown, nearby, where he erected
a mill. He became a large land owner and
spent his time between his mill and overseeing
his farms. He was appointed by Governor
Madison collector of the port of Genesee and
commissioned in 1804 lieutenant of militia by
Governor George Clinton. In 1807 Governor
Morgan commissioned him major, and in 1812
he received a colonel's commission from Gov-
ner Tompkins. He was in the service during
the war of .1812-14 as colonel of the Fifty^
second Regiment, New York state militia. In
1816 and 1817 he was elected a member of
the New York state assembly. The following
is an extract from a letter written by Gover
nor Tompkins, dated Albany, February 21,
181 7:
I recall the distinguished part you took in the
militia and volunteers of the war and the intrepid
conduct exhibited by you . in the ¦ various battles
of that memorable struggle. I cannot communicate
an acceptance of your resignation, without adding
personal acknowledgment .of my gratitude and ap-
provation. Your friend and servant,
Daniel D. Hopkins.
In the early settlement of Pittsford he was
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1796 and supervisor in 1804. In 1806 he be
came interested in manufacturing, but his
death, January 14, 1818, prevented his engag
ing to any great extent.
He married, about 1795, Dorothy, daughter
of Jacobus Mabee, who came from Vermont
with Colonel Hopkins. She died August 20,
1847, and is buried at Pittsford, Monroe
county, New York. Among their children was
Marvin, of whom further.
(VII) Marvin, son of Colonel Caleb and
Dorothy (Mabee) Hopkins, was born at Pitts
ford, New York, 1805, died there in 1867. He
was educated at Canandaigua, New York, and
after completing his studies returned to the
farm and ever after followed that occupation.
He was a successful man of business, of high
character, and of considerable influence in his
town. He was a Democrat in politics, and
served the town of Pittsford as supervisor in
1840-42-46-50-62. He was a member of the
Episcopal church, and active in good works.
He married, in 1830, Jane Phelps, born No
vember 1, 1812, daughter of Josiah and Rox
cena (Newcomb) Phelps (see Phelps III).
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins: James,
removed to St. Louis, Missouri; Clarissa M.,
married (first) Lyman M. Barkers; (second)
Orlando Austin ; Dorothy, married Charles W.
Rogers ; Robert M., of whom further ; George,
of Akron, Ohio ; Chauncey, of Granger, Ohio ;
Jared W., a farmer, of Pittsford, New York,
and member of the assembly of New York
from there.
(VIII) Robert M., son of Marvin and Jane
(Phelps) Hopkins, was born at Pittsford,
Monroe county, New York, August 22, 1847.
He was educated in the public schools and at
Ohio Academy. After completing his studies,
he settled on a farm at Pittsford and until
1903 was engaged in agriculture. In the lat
ter year he retired from business and took up
his residence at Lockport, New York, where
he now resides. He is past master of North-
field Lodge, No. 420, Free and Accepted
Masons. He is a member of the Presbyterian
church, and a Republican in politics. He mar
ried (first) Laura Kent; she died January 14,
1874; married (second) Emma E. Hayner
Day; married (third) October 15, 1903, Jo
sephine Lapp Day, daughter of Jacob and
Sarah Lapp, of Niagara county, New York.
Child by second marriage, Jared R., born July
6, 1886.

(The Phelps Line).
(I) John Phelps, the first of the line here
under consideration of whom we have definite
information, married Polly Converse and
among their children was Josiah, of whom
further. (II) Josiah, son of John and Polly (Con
verse) Phelps, married Roxcena, daughter of
Silas and Susan (White) Newcomb; Susan
White was a daughter of John White. Rox
cena (Newcomb) - Phelps died November 13,
1812, aged forty-three years. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Phelps: John, Silas, Orenda, Sarah,
Janet, Jane.
(Ill) Jane, youngest child of Josiah and
Roxcena (Newcomb) Phelps, was born in
Pittsford, Monroe county, New York, Novem
ber 1, 1812. She married, in 1830, Marvin
Hopkins (see Hopkins VII).

This name, also written Clarke,
CLARK Clerk, Clerke and Clearke, is a
name of great antiquity in Eng
land. Originally any person who could read
or write was given the name, and it came to
be the surname of learned persons generally,
but particularly of officers of ecclesiastical
courts and parish churches who were entrusted
with recording and preserving the records. In
medieval days the name was one to be re
spected, hence it is of frequent use in "Domes
day Book," either written in one of the va
rious spellings given above, or Clericus, "clerk
or clergyman," "one of the clerical order." In
the early settlement of New England by the
English Puritans, 1625 to 1640, we find men
of the name who became founders of large
and distinguished families, not only in the
New England colonies, but in Virginia, Mary
land and New York. In the southern section
of the United States they generally spelled
the name with a final "e." The most numer
ous of the christian names appear to have been
William, with John, Thomas and Samuel in
abundant evidence. Irish emigrants to Amer
ica have added to the name either from Scotch-
Irish or from the families of O'Clery or
O'Clersach, not only common but distinguished
names in the Emerald Isle, and literally indi
cating "the son of the cler."
Four brothers from Bedfordshire, England,
came to New England in the first quarter of
the seventeenth century — John, Joseph,
Thomas and Carew Clark. John was a
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liams, and the founder of the Baptist church
in Newport, 1638, and has numerous descend
ants. Thomas Clark (1593-1697), a carpen
ter, in Plymouth colony, 1623, and Susannah
Ring, his wife, have among their illustrious
descendants Alvan Clark (1804-87) of tele
scope fame, and his son, Alvan Graham Clark
(1832-97), the lens maker of Cambridge,
Massachusetts ; Alonzo Howard Clark, born
1850, the scientist; George Bassett Clark
(1827-91); the mechanician; James Freeman
Clark (1810-88), the clergyman, author and
anti-slavery advocate; Samuel F. Clark
(1851), the naturalist. Nathaniel Clark, of
Newbury, 1642, and Elizabeth (Somerby)
Clark, his wife, have among their descendants
Thomas March Qark (18 12- 1903), second
bishop of Rhode Island; Rufus Wheelwright
Clark (1813-86), Yale, 1838, clergyman and
author; Samuel Adams Clark (1822-79),
clergyman, and others equally notable. Wil
liam Clark (1609-90), Nantucket, Massachu
setts Bay Colony, 1630, Dorchester, 1636,
Northampton, 1659, is the progenitor of the
Qarks of Western Massachusetts and Con
necticut and has numerous descendants in the
far west. Among his more distinguished de
scendants we may name General Emmons
Clark (1827-1905), commander of the
Seventh Regiment, National Guard, N. Y. S.
M., 1864-89; Edson Luman Qark, born 1827,
clergyman and author, Yale, 1853 ; Ezra Clark
(1883-96), representative in the thirty-fourth
and thirty-fifth congresses, and president of
the Hartford Water Board; Myron H. Clark
(1806-92), governor of New York, 1854-55,
and others.
There were a number of Clark families in
Dorchester, Roxbury, Boston, Dedham, Water-
town, Blanford and other Massachusetts
towns before and after the year 1700. From
one of these the Qarks of Ellicottville, Cat
taraugus county, New York, descend. The
name of the emigrant is not known, but he
was of the English family. The first of whom
there is positive knowlelge is Wells Clark, of
English parents, who lived probably in Blan
ford, Massachusetts, where he married and
had a family.
(II) Wells (2) Clark, of Blanford, Massa
chusetts, was a son of Wells (1) Clark, a
revolutionary soldier from Berkshire county,
Massachusetts. He was in Captain John Col
lar's company, July 19 to August 27, 1779,
Lieutenant-Colonel Powell's regiment. He

was also a private in Captain Samuel War
ner's company, Colonel John Brown's regi
ment, Berkshire county, July 18 to October
22, 1780; also in Captain Ezekiel Herrick's
company, Colonel John Ashley's regiment
(Berkshire county, Massachusetts), in Octo
ber, 1781. (See Clerk and Clark, vol. iii.,
"Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolu
tion"). (Ill) William, son of Wells (2) Clark, was
born in Massachusetts, in 1814, died 1894. He
came to Cattaraugus county in 1841, settling
in Ellicottville, where he purchased one hun
dred and twenty acres of wild, uncultivated
land. Here he erected his house, and as the
years passed added to the cultivated area of
his fields and became a well-to-do farmer of
the town. The farm he wrested from the
wilderness is now owned by his unmarried
children. He served the town as highway
commissioner, was a Whig and Republican,
and a member of the Baptist church. He mar
ried Caroline M. Stewart, born 1816, died
1894. Children: 1. George F., resides on the
original Clark farm, in Ellicottville; unmar
ried. 2. Charles, married Adelia Smith, and
resides in the town of Mansfield. 3. Harlan
M., resides on the home farm, unmarried.
4. Caroline L., resides on the home farm, un
married. 5. James O. (of further mention).
6. Mary, died aged twenty-nine years. 7. Wells
W., married Bertha B. Beach.
(IV) James O., son of William Clark, was
born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, New
York, October 1, 1856. He received his early
education in the public schools, then entered
Ten Broeck Academy, whence he was grad
uated, class of 1877. He commenced the
study of law, and at the same time taught
school in the villages of East Otto, West Sala
manca, Ellicottville and numerous outlying
districts. During the years so employed he
practiced strict economy, and when a sufficient
amount had been accumulated abandoned
teaching and gave all his time to his legal
study in the law offices of C. P. Vedder and
George M. Rider. In 1883 he was admitted
to the bar, and at once formed a partnership
with his former preceptor under the firm name
Vedder & Clark. In 1887 he entered the em
ploy of the Ellicottville Bank, becoming later
assistant cashier and vice-president. He re
turned soon to the practice of his profession,
continuing until failing health compelled him
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in the state of Texas, returning to Ellicottville
in 1908, greatly improved in health. He again
resumed practice and is now so engaged. For
twenty years he held the office of justice of
the peace, and is one of the best known men
of his town. He is a Republican in politics,
and a member of the Presbyterian church and
of the Masonic Order.
He married, July 18, 1883, Kathryn M.,
born January 21, 1859, daughter of Ph'ilo and
Sarah (Barnard) Harrington.

The house of Argyle, head
CAMPBELL of the Scottish Clan Camp
bell, has an authenticated
history extending back to the great Diarmid
MacDwibhne, who was contemporary with the
seventy-ninth King of Scots, Anno Domini
977. From him, through lyric odes of the
hards and tradition, it traces thirteen genera
tions further back into antiquity to Constan-
tine, who came over from France A. D. 404,
and died A. D. 420. In the seventeenth gen
eration from Constantine, the whole Clan
O'Dwibhne in Argyleshire assumed the name
of Campbell, in courtesy to their chief, Archi
bald, whose name or title was in the Latin
Campus Bellus, and Campbell has been the
name ever since. The, family were noble for
ten generations to Archibald, tenth earl, who
in 1 701 was created Duke of Argyle by Wil
liam III. He was of the fortieth generation.
The present Duke of Argyle is the thirty-first
Campbell in direct descent to hold the title of
this important house.
The first of the Clan Campbell to come to
America and settle in Northern New York
was Captain Laughlin Campbell, a soldier of
great courage, who visited Washington county
in 1737, in response to the invitation of the
New York authorities to Scotch Highlanders
to settle here. He was a younger brother
of the then Duke of Argyle. Being pleased
with the country, and being promised a grant
of 30,000 acres for colony use, for survey fees
and quitrent, by Lieutenant Governor Clark,
he returned to Scotland, sold his property
there, raised a colony of four hundred and
twenty-three adults, and with a party of them
came the next year (1738) to New York,
where Governor Clark insisted on full fees
and a share in the land. Campbell refused his
demands, and Clark recommended the legisla
ture to grant the colony assistance, but that
body, being at war with the governor, de

clined, suspecting that the money would go to
the colonial officials as fees. The colonists
were obliged to separate, and Campbell, with
the remains of his broken fortune, purchased
and settled down upon a small farm. In 1745,
when the rebellion broke out in Scotland, he
went back and served under the Duke of Cum
berland until the close of the war. He then
came back to New York, and soon afterward
died from the effects of wounds received in
the war. In 1763, after his death, his children
were granted- a tract of 10,000 acres in Wash
ington county, in the town of Argyle, now
Greenwich. (I) Undoubtedly belonging to the above
line, but not distinctly identified, was, the im
migrant ancestor of the family here considered
— John Campbell, son of Robert. He was of
that branch of the Scotch family which settled
in the North of Ireland, and known in history
as Scotch-Irish. He came from county Ul
ster, Ireland, and settled in New London,
Connecticut. It is presumed that he served
in the revolution.
(II) Lieutenant James Campbell, son of
John Campbell, is borne on the revolutionary
rolls as serving at Newport, Rhode Island, in
1778, under General Sullivan. He had three
sons— James, John, and Allen.
(Ill) Dr. Allen Campbell, son of Lieuten
ant James Campbell, was born February 24,
1749, and died March 6, 1829. He was a
physician, and served as a surgeon under Gen
eral Sullivan at Newport, Rhode Island. He
was also a lay preacher, and a meeting house
was built for him near Voluntown, or New
London, Connecticut. He married, January
18, 1778, Sarah Kime, born August 1, 1759,
died 1834.
(IV) John Allen, son of Dr. Allen Camp
bell, was born in Voluntown, Connecticut,
March 31 1781, and died August 27, 1844.
He married, November 25, 1802, Mollie
Wylie. (V) John, son of John Allen Campbell,
was born in 1805, and died in 1883. He mar
ried 1825, Susan Maria Blood. Children:
Harvey, Matilda, Mary, James Warren, Lucy,
Harrison, George, Josephine, and Alphia.
(VI) James Warren, son of John and Susan
Maria (Blood) Campbell, was born in 1833,
and died January 1, 1892. He was a lumber
dealer, fie married Adaline Holmes, born
1844, died 1905. Children: 1. Emmett L.,
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Waters; children: Irene, Anna and Edna.
3. Edna.
(VII) Emmett L., only son of James War
ren and Adaline (Holmes) Campbell, was
born in South Valley (now Elko), Cattarau
gus county, New York, March 18, 1872. He
was educated in the public schools and at
Chamberlain Institution. He began business
life as a clerk in a lumber yard at Quaker
Bridge. After a term of service there he
went to Jamestown, and pursued a course of
study in the Jamestown Business College.
During the years 1893-94 he was bookkeeper
in a knitting mill in Jamestown, and for a
year was in a lumber business. In 1895 he
located in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county,
and opened a grocery store. The telephone
company installed a pay station in his store,
and he thus became familiar with that busi
ness, with the result that he disposed of his
store and entered the employ of the telephone
company in order to build up its rural busi
ness. How well he succeeded is made ap
parent by the fact that in a remarkably short
time he established in the territory committed
to his charge five offices numbering one thou
sand subscribers — a result far surpassing the
expectations of his superiors, and winning for
him high commendation for his ability and
energy. Mr. Campbell is a member of the
Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, a communicant of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is a Republican in
politics. He married, February 25, 1897, Adelene L.
Burrell, born July 13, 1875, daughter of Wil
liam H. Burrell, of Cattaraugus county, and
granddaughter of Adonijah Burrell, of New
Albion, born 1799, died 1878, a farmer, held
in good repute, married Betsey Gilleland, born
1801, died 1876. William IT. Burrell was born
in Otsego county, 1835, died in Cattaraugus
county, 1902. He came early in life to New
Albion, where his father had taken up land.
He was educated in the public schools, and
was a farmer, and later kept a hotel in Little
Valley. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and in politics was a Demo
crat. He married, July 29, 1874, Almeda
Ridout, born September 18, 1852, a daughter
of Hiram Ridout, born July 29, 1824, died
May 12, 1878, married, November, 1848, Julia
Filley, born April 1, 1832, died January 29,
1886, daughter of Austin and Martha (Flan
ders) Filley, who came from Vermont, and

settled in the town of Leon. Hiram was a
son of Ezra and Mahala (Dye) Ridout, old
settlers in Cattaraugus county. Children of
William H. Burrell: Maude, died aged two
years ; Adelene L., wife of Emmett L. Camp
bell; Harold W.
Children of Emmett L. and Adelene L.
(Burrell) Campbell: Burrell, born December
28, 1897 ; Malcolm, April 29, 1903 ; Corydon,.
January 31, 1906.

This name was well known in
GIBBS England prior to the emigration
of the Puritans to America. Wil
liam Gibbs, of Lenharn, Yorkshire, England,
for signal service, received a grant from the
King of England embracing a tract of land
four miles square in the centre of the town.
Tradition says he had three sons, the eldest
of whom inherited the paternal estate and re
mained thereon ; the younger learned the trade
of ship carpenter, and on arriving at maturity
received funds from his elder brother, with
which he and the other brother came to Bos
ton, Massachusetts, where they separated.
Matthew Gibbs, the third son, is the American
ancestor of a large family.
The family of Gibbs, whose descendants are
herein traced, was founded in Chautauqua
county by Preserved Gibbs. He had brothers,
William, Harris and Guy, who came from
England together. The three brothers settled
in the west while Preserved located first in
Chautauqua county, New York. He purchased
wild land, on which he lived for a time, later
settling near Batavia, New York, where he
engaged in agriculture until his death. His
wife was Hannah Wood ; his children : Daniel,
Delos, Betsey, Erastus and Hannah.
Erastus, youngest son of Preserved and
Hannah (Wood) Gibbs, was born near Ba
tavia, New York, February 26, 1810, died in
1876 in Chautauqua county. He was a man
of education and well read in the literature of
his day. He settled in Chautauqua county,
where he was a prosperous farmer. He mar
ried Nancy E. Eades, born in Batavia, New
York, died in Chautauqua county, April 3,
1893, aged seventy-six years, eight months and
twenty-two days, daughter of Elisha A. and
Sophia (Dorman) Eades, who came to Ba
tavia from Vermont, settling in Chautauqua
county, in 1822. Her father was a soldier in
the war of 1812. Her mother, Sophia (Dor-
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necticut, daughter of Captain John Dorman,
a mariner. Children of Mr. and Mr-s. Gibbs:
i. Helen, born May i, 1837; married, May
14, 1871, in Chautauqua county, New York,
Lyman White Skinner, of Chautauqua county,
born in Pomfret, April 21, 1829, died in Sher
man, May 4, 1910. He was educated in the
public schools and in early life learned the
.trade of carpenter; he also engaged in farm
ing, devoting his life to these occupations. He
was a man of upright character and highly
esteemed in the county. He was a member
of the Methodist church, and a Republican
in politics. He is survived by his wife Helen,
who continues her residence in Sherman.
Child : Alice Martha, born, in Chautauqua
county, December 8, 1878; married Clifford
H. Newall, of Sherman ; children : Lyman
Thomas, born May 30, 1905 ; Helen Julietta
and Elizabeth Jean, twins, born August 26,
1907. 2. Alice, born August 26, 1841, died in
Sherman, August 26, 1903. She married De-
Witt Clinton Pratt, of New York. Children:
i. Lee Sheldon, born 1878; married Olive
Page; child, Leland DeWitt, born 19 10. ii:
William Fred, born July 30, 1880. iii. James
Gibbs, born July, 1882; married Susan Thay
er ; children : Philip, born 1908, and Julia
Alice, born August, 1909.
3. Sophia, born July 29, 1845 ; married,
March 19, 1863, in Chautauqua, New York,
Charles Murray Harrington, born in West-
field, New York, November 9, 1839 ; he is a
well-known auctioneer and a farmer. He is
a Republican in politics, and a man highly re
garded in his county. The family residence is
in Westfield. They have no children.
4. George Washington, born February 21,
1849. He is a leading dairy farmer of Chau
tauqua county and an extensive cattle dealer.
He married, September 24, 1878, in Westfield,
Anna Jane Reid, born there September 22,
1856. Children : i. Charles Erastus, born
June 3, 1879 ; married, September, 1904, Clau-
dine Kidder ; children : Geraldine, born Octo
ber 16, 1906, and Anna Kathlyn, born Febru
ary 22, 19 10, both born in Fredonia, New
York. ii. Alice Helen, born November 17,
1882. iii. Emma Martha, born July 30, 1887 ;
married, August 26, 1908, Hugh C. Howe.
5. Charles Franklin, born March 26, 1853,
died May 24, 1904; he was a farmer and an
extensive dealer in agricultural implements.
He married, December 1, 1875, Mary Stan

ton, born in Ripley, New York, 1855, died
September, 1909, daughter of Charles and
Martha Maria (Aspinwall) Stanton. Five
children: i. Gerald Gilman, born August 25,
1876 ; educated in the public schools ; graduate
of Sherman high school and of Cornell Uni
versity, class of 1902 (law school). ITe was
admitted to the bar the same year, and at
once began practice in Westfield, New York.
His first partner was James H. Pendergast;
later he associated with Henry C. Kingsbury.
Upon the death of the latter he formed a law
partnership with Henry C. Williamson, under
the firm name of Gibbs & Williamson, which
still continues, they being engaged in success
ful practice. He married, June 26, 1907, .Nel
lie L. Herron, born in Westfield, June, 1883,
daughter of John and Rose (Wood) Herron.
ii. Sophia, born March 8, 1880; married, De
cember 30, 1907, Charles Harvey; children:
Franklin DeWitt, born 1008, and Mary Ann,
born 1910. iii. Glenn Stanton, born Septem
ber 25, 1889; married, July 18, 1911, Nellie
Irene Bates, of Westfield. iv. George David,
born August 31, 1894. v. Murray, died in in
fancy.

This name appears in early
STEVENSON colonial records as both
Stevenson and Stephenson,
with other occasional variations of spelling.
Stevenson families in New York state spring
from both Scotch and English ancestors, but
the family herein recorded are of English de
scent. It is not possible from available rec
ords to give the line in detail, but all evidence
points to Edward Stevenson, a freeholder of
Southold, Long Island, in 1686, as the Ameri
can ancestor. From Long Island members
of the family crossed the Sound, settling in
Connecticut, where Edward Stevenson, found
er of the Buffalo family, was born in 1770.
The Stevenson family of Salem, New York,
descend from James Stevenson, of Ayrshire,
Scotland, 1746.
(I) Edward Stevenson was born June 1,
1770, at Greenwich, Connecticut, died in Buf
falo, New York, October 5, 1834. After his
marriage he came with his wife to New York,
settling at Auburn, Cayuga county. ' He was
a prosperous merchant in Auburn for many
years, retiring from business and coming' to
Buffalo about 1822. He did not engage in
any business in Buffalo, but served the city
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uary 16, 1805, Ann Lockwood, born August
13, 1786, in Massachusetts, died in Buffalo,
November 7, 1862. Children, all born in Au
burn, New York: 1. Edward L., March 31,
1806, died May, 1890. He was for many years
associated with Chauncey H. Coe, of Auburn
and Buffalo, and in charge of a division of
the great stage route between Buffalo and
Albany, an enterprise in that day 'of consider
able magnitude. At one time four regular
lines of coaches left Buffalo, making the dis
tance to Albany in forty-eight hours and
charging fifteen dollars fare. He invested
largely in real estate, and for twenty-five years
was engaged with his brother, George Piatt
Stevenson, in the livery business in Buffalo.
He was alderman of the Third ward ; trustee
of the Buffalo Savings Bank; vestryman of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and a man of
high character and standing. He married, in
1832, Amelia S., daughter of William and
Sally Geer, of Shelburne, Vermont; children:
Edward Henry, died in childhood, and George
Piatt (2), born May 9, 1849, died May 23,
1878. 2. Henry E., born July 11, 1807; died
unmarried, in Buffalo. 3. George Piatt (q.
v.), August 11, 1812, died May 17, 1864. 4.
John Savage, March 31, 1819; married Han
nah Richardson. 5. James Isaac, of whom
further. (II) James Isaac, fifth son of Edward and
Ann (Lockwood) Stevenson, was born in
Auburn, New York, March 5, 1821, died in
Buffalo, New York, November 27, 1897. He
came to Buffalo when a boy, and nearly
seventy years of his life were spent in that
city, and for nearly fifty years he lived at 203
East Eagle street. He was connected early
in life with the stage lines that crossed the
state, but his entire life was spent in the livery
business, the Stevensons at one time having
a practical monopoly of that trade in the city,
occupying the present site of the J. N. Adam
stores, the partners being George, John and
James Stevenson. This was his life work and
continued till about ten years prior to his
death, when he retired. He was a staunch
Republican, but would never accept office. He
was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
and in his quiet way did a great deal of good.
He was a greathearted, generous man, and
quick to relieve distress, doing a great deal
of charitable work in his business at funerals, t
etc. No one ever knew of his giving, as it '
was done quietly and where it was both needed

and appreciated. In his younger days he was
a member of a military company, but aside
from that belonged to no clubs or societies.
His genial, kindly manner won him a host of
friends. He married, September 7, 1845, Eliza Avery
Sage, born October 22, 1822, at Ypsilante,
Michigan, died at Buffalo, January 19, 1878,
daughter of Abraham (2) Sage. Children:
1. Kate, married, December 30, 1870, Augus
tus Van Cleve; children: Kate and Antoin
ette, both students of music in Boston; this
family resides in Michigan. 2. Ann Lock-
wood, a resident of Buffalo.
(The Sage Line).
The Sage family without doubt is of
Scandinavian origin, and the name at first was
Saga. When the Norsemen conquered Nor
mandy, in France, they generally softened the
final "a" tone, thus making Saga, Sage, and
added a French suffix to denote landed occu
pation. To the first Norman Saga or Sage
was added "ville," thus making it Sageville,
or Sagetown, or Sageland. As the name
spread to other countries it was subjected to
other changes — in Germany, Saige or Sauge;
in Switzerland the same, while in France it
became Le Sage. The name first appears in
England on the roll of Battle Abbey, pre
pared by the monks of Battle Abbey at the
command of William the Conqueror, to per
petuate the names of those who took part in
the battle of Hastings, which gave him the
English throne. It is there recorded Sageville.
(I) David Sage, American ancestor of Ann
Lockwood Stevenson, was born in 1639, a na
tive of Wales. He was one of the first set
tlers of Middletown, Connecticut, where he is
of record in 1652, He settled upon a tract
of land now part of the town of Cornwell,
upon the banks of the Connecticut river, where
some of his descendants yet reside. His will,
dated March 27, 1703, is in the probate office
at Hartford, Connecticut. The stone marking
his grave is still standing in Riverside ceme
tery, on the bank of the Connecticut, at the
north end of Main street, Middletown. It
gives the date of his death as March, 1703,
O. S., and his age as sixty-four years: He
married Elizabeth, daughter of John Kirby,
in February, 1664. He married (second) in
1673, Mary Wilcox. Children by first wife:
David, born 1665; John, 1668; Elizabeth,
1670; Mary, 1672. Children of second wife:

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Jonathan, born 1674; Timothy, 1678, ancestor
of Russell Sage, the great financier who left
a fortune of $70,000,000 ; Nathaniel, 1680, and
Mercy, twin of Nathaniel.
(II) John, son of David Sage, the emigrant,
was born in 1668; married Hannah Starr.
Children: Hannah, born 1694; John, 1696;
Elizabeth and Mary (twins), 1699; Elizabeth
(2), 1701 ; Ann, 1702; David and Benjamin
(twins), 1703; Jemima, 1704; Nathaniel,
1707; Ebenezer, 1709; Comfort, 1710; Prud
ence, 1 713; Thankful, 1717; Gideon, 1718.
(Ill) Captain David Sage, son of John
Sage, was born in 1703 ; married Bathsheba
Judd. Children: David (2), born 1732;
Rhoda, 1734; Solomon, 1737; Jedediah, 1739;
Bathsheba, 1743; Mindwell, 1746; Zaddock,
1748; Candace, 1762.
(IV) David (2), son of Captain David (1)
Sage, was born 1732; married Lois Harris.
Children: Lois, born 1752; Abraham, 1754;
David, 1756; Ann, 1757; Haines, 1759; David
and Jonathan (twins), 1761 ; Ann (2), 1763;
Mehitable, 1765; Bathsheba, 1768; Seth, 1770;
Ruth, 1772; Lois (2), 1775; David (2), 1778.
(V) Abraham, son of David (2) Sage, was
born 1754; married Candace — ¦  . Chil
dren: fiarris, born 1779; James, 1780; Ruth
(married a Thompson), 1787; Betsey (mar
ried an Avery), 1789; Abraham (2), 1793;
Emily (married a Martin), 1794; George,
1799. (VI) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1)
Sage, was born 1793 ; married Patty Luce.
Children: Morris, born 1818; Seth, 1823;
Robert, and Eliza Avery.
(VII) Eliza Avery, only daughter of
Abraham (2) and Patty (Luce) Sage, mar
ried James Isaac Stevenson.
(VIII) Ann Lockwood, daughter of James
Isaac and Eliza Avery (Sage) Stevenson.
Line of descent of Russell Sage: (I) David
Sage, married Elizabeth Kirby. (II) Timothy
Sage, married Margaret fiolebert. (Ill)
Amos Sage, married Rebecca Wilcox. (IV)
Elisha Sage, married Martha Montague. (V)
Elisha (2) Sage, who married Prudence Ris-
ley, of an old family.
(VI) Russell, youngest son of Elisha (2)
Sage, was born in 1816. He became one of the
leading and wealthiest financiers of New York
City, and at his death left his immense for
tune to his widow, who is dispensing it in
charitable and philanthropic benevolences. He
was a Member of Congress from New York

City. In private life he was most unassuming
and democratic. He left no children.

(II) George Piatt Steven-
STEVENSON son, third son of Edward
(q. v.) and Ann (Lock-
wood) Stevenson, was born in Auburn, New
York, August 11, 1812, died in Buffalo, May
17, 1864. He came to the latter city with his
father and brother in 1822, and soon after es
tablished in the livery business, continuing un
til his death. He had as partner for twenty-
five years his brother, Edward L., and at one
time they practically controlled the livery busi
ness of Buffalo. His place of business was
on Main street, where the stores of J, N.
Adam now stand. He was a man of good
business and executive ability, active and ener
getic, with an agreeable, kind manner that en
deared him to all. He was social in disposi
tion, and a man held in high esteem. He was
a Republican in politics, and held .several city
offices. He was a member of the Masonic
fraternity. He married Ruth Ann Thayer,
born in Palmyra, New York, April 22, 1817,
died in Buffalo, June 29, 1864, daughter of
Amasa Thayer, a descendant of Richard
Thayer, who came from England and settled
in Braintree, 1640. Children: 1. George L.,
born September 1, 1839, died March 14, 1844.
2. Edward L., born April 21, 1841, died June
14, 1849. 3. Joel Thayer, born April 11, 1843,
died July 26, 1877, at Toledo, Ohio. 4. Amelia,
born January 18, 1845 > a resident of Buffalo.
5. Georgianna, born October 24, 1846, died
at Ashville, New York, in August, 1899 ; mar
ried Francis Shaw Thorn, of Utica, New York
(see Thorn). 6. Amasa, born April 24, 1849,
died August 30, 1849.

William White was born in Mas-
WHITE sachusetts in 1742, and died in
Bainbridge, New York, in April,
1827.' According to family tradition he was
a descendant of Peregrine White, the first child
born in Plymouth, of the "Mayflower" colony,
but his ancestry has not been traced definitely
as yet. He married, May 12, 1767, at Guil
ford, Vermont, Eunice Rogers, who was born
February 6, 1745, and died in 1818, daughter
of Abijah Rogers, a descendant in the seventh
generation from John Rogers, the English
Puritan. William White was a soldier in the
revolution, from Guilford, Vermont, a private
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William Williams' regiment, in the fall of
1777; also in Captain William Dyer's com
pany, Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's regiment,
in 1781. He was lieutenant of the First Guil
ford Company in the same regiment in 1782.
He was granted, on account of his revolution
ary service, a section of land, 640 acres, in
Chenango county, New York, where he lo
cated and cleared a farm. He became well-
to-do for his day, and was highly respected
in the community. He was well educated, a
lifelong student and reader of books, and one
of the best-informed and most influential men
of the county. The Guilford history states
that in 1772 he had a family of five children
(p. 19, vol. v). Children: 1. Eunice, born
February 6, 1768; died October 14, 1776.
2. Isabelle, horn August 14, 1770; died Octo
ber 10, 1776. 3. Asa, born April 30, 1772;
died in 1818-9. 4. Ezra, born March 30, 1774.
5. William, born May 20, 1776; died July 4,
1803. 6. Eunice, born June 18, 1778; died
December 14, 1827. 7. Royal, born July 29,
1780; died 1848. 8. Garner, born December
21, 1781, died in 1825. (Royal and Garner,
the two last mentioned, were early settlers of
Binghamton, New York, and owners of land
now in the heart of that thriving city.) 9. Dr.
Squire, mentioned below.
(II) Dr. Squire White, son of William
White, was born in Guilford, Vermont, No
vember 20, 1785. He attended the public
schools, and under the instruction of Dr. Pet-
til, of Cazenovia, New York, began the study
of medicine. Afterward he was a student un
der Dr. Joseph White, of Cherry Valley, New
York, and at the medical school of Columbia
College, now Columbia College of New York,
where he received his degree of doctor of
medicine. In 1808 he came to Fredonia, New
York, to practice his profession. For a time
he taught school at Sheridan township, but
his practice grew so large that he had to de
vote all his time to it. For fifty years he was
in active and successful practice, and he was
highly esteemed not only, for his professional
ability but for his kindness, charity and up
rightness. Hezekiah Barker, whose daughter
Dr. White married for his first wife, in 1804
purchased four hundred acres of land in Fre
donia, situated in what is now the village, and
in 181 1 Dr. White purchased of Mr. Barker
twenty-five acres of that tract, part of which
now comprises Forest Hill Cemetery. In the
same year Dr. White erected a frame building

on the corner of Main and White streets, and
there all his children were born. In 1868 this
building was moved back on White street, and
Devillo Asa White, the doctor's son, built the
present home of the family. The old house
was afterward demolished. Dr. White was
the first surrogate of Chautauqua county, New
York, being appointed February 9, 181 1, by
Governor David D. Tompkins, and he filled
the office with fidelity for several years. He
was elected to the New York state assembly
in November, 1830, and served with credit.
At the time of the burning of Buffalo in 1812
by the British forces, he was there on business
and was impressed into service by the United
States army, and made surgeon of the 169th
Regiment of New York Infantry.
Dr. White died at Fredonia, April 2, 1857.
He married (first) Sarah Barker, who was
born February 1, 1795, and died July 13, 1823,
a daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah (Wood)
Barker. The Wood family came originally
of Rhode Island stock. The Barker family
was among the pioneers and founders of Fre
donia, New York. Hezekiah Barker was a
leading man in Fredonia, and was the donor
of the ground for the public park, the old
cemetery, and the academy.. The family came
of old New England ancestry. Dr. . White
married (second) Lydia Cook Cushing, born
March 14, 1798, died January 2, 1886, daugh
ter of Judge Zatter Cushing. Children by first
wife, born at Fredonia: 1. William D., born
September 10, 1814 ; died October 18, 1892 ;
married Susan Blondel, of Kentucky. 2.
Devillo Asa, mentioned below. 3. Julia Scully,
born March 3, 1819; died September 14, 1856;
married Francis Edwards. 4. Edward, born
June 25, 1823 ; died July 13, 1825. Children
by second wife, born at Fredonia: 5. Ellen
Douglas, born June 20, 1827; died December
19,. 1887. t6. George fiinckley, born Septem
ber 11, 1829; died 1906. 7. Mary Sturgis,
died young.
(Ill) Devillo Asa White, son of Dr. Squire
White, was born at Fredonia, New York, July
2, 18 16. He was educated in the public schools
and at Fredonia Academy. He studied medi
cine, and engaged in business as a druggist
at Fredonia for many years, retiring on ac
count of age a few years ago. He is now
(1911) in his ninety-fifth year, well preserved
mentally and physically. His mind is a store
house of early history of the town of Fre
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he is personally familiar, and in most of the
events of the community he has been an actor
or witness. In 1849, when gold was dis
covered in California, he joined the "Argo
nauts," but remained in the gold fields but
a short time. He has invested his money
largely in real estate, and has built many resi
dences in Fredonia. He married Lamaria
Jones, who died December 20, 1892, aged
seventy-one years, daughter of Harry and
Laura (Tucker) Jones. Laura Tucker was
a daughter of Samuel Tucker, a soldier in the
revolution. Children : Child, died in infancy ;
Mary, married George S. Josselyn, of Fre
donia, now engaged very extensively in the
nursery business ; Isabelle, unmarried, regis
trar of the Benjamin Prescott Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, Fre
donia.

The Storm family of Westfield,
STORM New York, represented in the
present generation by Captain
Stephen V. Storm, descends from Dirck Storm,
who came from Utrecht, Holland, to Harlem,
New York, in 1662. The family in Holland
bore arms : Field, A ship at sea under storm
sail. Crest: The helm of a knight visor
closed,, affronte surrounded by eagle's wings.
Motto: Vetrouwt. (In God we trust). Dirck
Storm came from the district in or near the
province or diocese of Utrecht, in Holland,
sailing from Amsterdam, September 2, 1662,
with his wife, Marie (Pisters) Storm, and
three young children. In 1670 he succeeded
Carel de Bearevoks, deceased, as secretary at
Brooklyn ; afterward served nine years as town
clerk at Flatbush; was made clerk of the ses
sions for Orange county, in 1691, holding that
office until 1703. In 1697 he and his family
were living at Phillips Manor, Westchester
county, where his descendants became numer
ous and noted. Children : Gregoris (of whom
further) ; Peter, David, Maria, married Cas
par Springsteen.
(II) Gregoris, son of Dirck and Marie
(Pisters) Storm, came to America with his
parents in 1662. He was commonly known
as "Goris." He married Engeltic, daughter
of Thomas Van Dyck, who survived him and
married (second) Jacques Tourneur, of Har
lem. Children : Derick, born 1695, and
Thomas (of whom further).
(Ill) Thomas, son of Gregoris and Engel
tic (Van Dyck) Storm, was born 1697. His

will was proved January 15, 1770. He re
mained at Phillips Manor, holding a farm un
der Colonel Frederick Phillips, but he made
several purchases of land in Rombout precinct,
Dutchess county, on which he settled his sons,
Gerritt, Goris, Abraham and John. His son
Isaac inherited his place at Phillips Manor;
other sons, Thomas, his eldest, and Jacob, were
dead when he made his will, June 28, 1763.
He was twice married, his second wife being
a daughter of Adolph Meyer, of Harlem, and
widow of Johannes Sickles. Children: Ger
ritt, Gregoris, Abraham, John (of whom fur
ther) ; Isaac.
(IV) John, son of Thomas Storm, was
given land in Dutchess county, New York,
where he probably lived and died. He mar
ried Catherine Van Anden, of Fishkill, New
York. Children: 1. Susan, married (first)
John Conkling; (second) a Mr. Van Wagner;
(third) Montross Thurston. 2. Peggy Polly,
married Abraham Halenback, of Greene,
Chenango county, New York. 3. Abraham
(of whom further). 4. Betsey, married Caleb
Hill, and removed to Waterloo, New York.
5. Agnes, married Isaac Roosa, and settled in
Waterloo. 6. John, settled in Chenango
county, New York ; later removed to Wil-
loughby, Ohio. 7. James, settled in Greene
county, later in Monroe county, New York.
8. Engeltic, married Joshua Badgley, of
Dutchess county. 9. Catherine, married
Stephen Truesdale, of Coxsackie, New York.
10. Annetje, married Abraham Delamater, and
settled in Duanesburg, Schenectady county,
New York.
(V) Abraham, son of John and Catherine
(Van Anden) Storm, married Eva Roosa and
settled in the town of Greene, Chenago
county, New York. Children : Barnick, Isaac,
Jane, Polly, John, DeWitt and James Tour-
gest (of whom further).
(VI) James Tourgest, son of Abraham and
Eva (Roosa) Storm, was born in Chenango
county, New York, died near Colesville, town
of Bennington, Wyoming county, New York,
aged about eighty. He was a farmer and
fought in the defense of the Niagara Frontier
in 1812, participating in the battle of Lundy's
Lane. There is no obtainable record of his
wife's name. Children: Anson (of whom
further) ; Sophronia, Lucinda, Otis, Ambrose
and Amny.
(VII) Anson, son of James Tourgest Storm,
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York, 1799, died at Alden, New York, 1878.
He was a merchant in Colesville, New York,
for several years, later removing to Alden,
where he owned and cultivated a farm until
his death. Although only a boy at the time
of the second war with Great Britain, he drove
a transport team on the Niagara frontier and
was at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He mar
ried Harriet Caldwell, of English descent,
born near Hartford, Connecticut, died in
Alden, New York, aged about fifty-five years.
Children: 1. Stephen V. (of whom further).
2. Gaius, born in Bennington, Wyoming
county, New York, 1829, died in Wisconsin,
about i860. He married Calista Ann Mercer,
born in Alden, New York, died there August
22, 1858, aged twenty-six years, ten months
and twenty days, daughter of Sinaster and
Mary Mercer. Her father died December 10,
1859, her mother April 18, 1856. Their only
child-, Jennie Blanche, born in Alden, July 4,
1856, died there February 28, 1900; married,
November 19, 1874, in Alden, George Hutch
inson. Five children: i. Helena Mabel, born
September 2, 1875. ii. Grace Estelle, born
July 25, 1880; married Raymond S. Elwell;
child, Mildred Grace, born June 17, 1905. iii.
Grover P., died aged four years, iv. Nellie
June, born June 10, 1890, died November 27,
1910. v. Ruth Fern, born August 19, 1895.
(VIII) Captain Stephen V. Storm, eldest
son of Anson and Harriet (Caldwell) Storm,
was born in the town of Bennington, Wyo
ming county, New York, December 20, 1826.
He was educated in the pubKc schools, and
began his business career as a clerk in a whole
sale grocery house in Buffalo, New York. In
1849 he left Buffalo to join the army of the
United States in Mexico, but before arriving
at the scene of action the war was over. He
continued his journeying until he reached Cali
fornia, where for six months he prospected
and mined for gold. He then became a sailor
on a vessel running from San Francisco, Cali
fornia, to Portland, Oregon. He continued
his career on the sea for several years, finally
becoming master of a vessel and owner of
several vessels engaged in the Pacific coast
ing trade. For eighteen years he followed a
seafaring life, the period during which trad
ing posts were being established on the Pacific
.and coasting vessels much in demand. He
closed out his California interests, and going
to Guatemala, Central- America, established a
mercantile business that he operated very suc

cessfully until 1888, when he retired, and
coming north settled in Westfield, Chautauqua
county, New York, where he has since resided.
Captain Storm has passed an eventful life and
has a rich fund of experience gained amid
scenes now past and gone forever. The early
rush of the gold seekers in 1849, the wild
scenes incident to the seaman's life, and his
business experience in the tropics, called for
the best attribute of manhood. He met each
emergency manfully and came through his
varied experiences most successfully. That
hardship and active life do not shorten one's
days is fully proven in the life of Captain
Storm, as he has long passed man's allotted
years and is still active and maintains a keen
interest in current events. He is a Republican
in politics.
fie married, December 20, 1855, in Buffalo,
New York, Elizabeth Brown, born near Hart
ford, Connecticut, January 1, 1828, died at
Westfield, New York, February 4, 1906. She
shared much of her husband's eventful life
and was a tried and trusted helpmeet. Cap
tain Storm has no children.

Burke states in his "Landed
KELLEY Gentry" that the Kelley family
may look back beyond the Con
queror and derive themselves from the ancient
Britons. The Kelley family from Devonshire,
England, were undoubtedly of Celtic origin,
as Irish families were settled in South Wales,
Devonshire and Cornwall, descendants, it is
believed, of "fighting King Kelley," whose
manor was in the possession of the family
from the time of Henry II. The earliest
mention of the name in Irish history was
A. D., 254, when Ceallach MacCormac is re
corded as son of the monarch, Cormac Ne-
fadha. The king of Connaught had a son
Ceallach, in 528. The Irish Archaeological So
ciety, in 1843, published Customs of Hymany,
who lived A. D. 874, and bore the name Cel-
laigh. His grandson, Muechaddo O'Callaigh,
was the first to use the surname, the law being
made by the celebrated Irish king, Brian
Baroimbe, that "everyone must adopt the
name of his father as a surname". Thus the
grandson of Callaigh became O'Callaigh, and
the name simplified to Kelley about 1014.
Queen Elizabeth requested Cola O'Kelley to
discard the "o," as it tended, by keeping up
the clanship in Ireland, to foster disaffection
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district called Kellieshire, and various branches
of Kelleys were dispersed through England.
The most probable signification of the name
is : War, debate, strife. The spelling has
been much varied, but its origin is undoubtedly
as given above. Many of the name who came
to this country, and their descendants, take
greater pride in their ancient Irish descent
than in their English. The arms granted the
family in Ireland are: A tower triple tow
ered supported by two lions rampant or. Crest :
a greyhound statent proper. Also : Gules
on a mount vest, two lions rampant: and
azure in chief, three estoiles argent. Crest: A
hand holding by the horn a bull's head erased
or. A coat-of-arms granted to Hon. Robert
Kelley, of Doncaster, 1473, bore the motto :
"We sacrifice our goods for the cause of
right". The family herein recorded are be
lieved to descend from William Kelley, a de
scendant of the above family who came from
Cape Cod to Phippsburg, Maine, in the seven
teenth century. The meagre records, how
ever, do not establish the line of descent.
(I) Jacob Kelley was born in New Sharon,
Maine, about 1827, died at Gainesville, Flor
ida, in 1893, having gone there for the bene
fit of his health. He was educated in the
public schools and so well improved his op
portunities that he became a teacher, continu
ing for seven years in the Maine schools. He
had brothers: Isaac, William, John, George,
and a sister, Deborah, all born in Maine, who
did not remain there but dispersed to other
parts of New England. Jacob, however, re
mained with his parents on the farm until
the death of his father. He then sold the
homestead, and in 1856 settled in Lowell,
Massachusetts, where he engaged in the plan
ing mill business, manufacturing sash, doors
and blinds, having as partners his brothers.
William and George. After two years the
firm was dissolved. About the year 1858,
with his brother George and another, he
formed the firm of Kelley, Wentworth & Com
pany, and began the manufacture of staves
and headings in Lockport, New York. The
business was a successful one and resulted in
Jacob Kelley coming to Newfane, where a
branch was established. In i860 he disposed
of his entire interest in Kelley, Wentworth &
Company, and purchased a small farm in
Newfane, Niagara county, on which he de
voted himself to fruit culture until his death.
He married, in 1847, at Lowell, Massachu

setts, Mary White, who died in 1895. Chil
dren: 1. James A., of further mention. 2.
Abbie, born December 8, 1851, at New Sharon,
Maine; married Frank Goodrich, of Pendle
ton, Niagara county. 3. George, born 1855,
died 1864. 4. Ella, born at Lowell, Massa
chusetts, 1857 ; died at Lockport, New York.
5. Willis, born 1861, at Newfane, New York;
now a resident of Lockport.
(II) James A., son of Jacob and Mary
(White) Kelley, was born at New Sharon,
Maine, February 16, 1849. He was educated
in the public schools of New Sharon, Lowell,
Massachusetts, and Newfane, New York. He
was his father's assistant until he reached the
age of eighteen years, then was apprenticed
to learn the carpenter's trade. After four
years'' service as apprentice and journeyman
he started in business for himself as contrac
tor and builder, in the town of Newfane, New
York. He was a very capable and successful
builder, continuing fully employed until 1887.
During these years he erected many buildings
of various kinds and purposes in Newfane,
Olcott and adjacent towns. In 1887 he formed
a connection with the Newfane Basket Manu
facturing Company, becoming manager of
their plant. This company was incorporated
in 1887 and for twenty years he was manager
of the mill department. He has served as
secretary and treasurer, now occupying the
office of vice-president of the company. This
has been a very successful corporation, well
officered and managed. Mr. Kelley is second
vice-president of the Newfane Hardware Com
pany, and interested in other town enterprises,
including the ownership of two small fruit
farms. He is a Republican in politics and
has held the office of supervisor continuously
since 1908. Fraternally he is connected with
Cataract Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Lockport. He is a man of public
spirit, progressive, and can always be relied
upon to champion the cause of improvement
in whatever form it may be presented. The
motto of the ancient family, "We sacrifice for
the cause of right," justly applies to the repre
sentative of the present family.
Mr. Kelley married (first), December 26,
1872, at Newfane, Mary E. Ketchum, born in
Newfane, 185 1, died 1899, daughter of George
Ketchum, who was a pioneer and one of the
first settlers of Newfane, coming when the
country was a forest. He married (second),
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lin, born January 26, 1866, daughter of James
McKee, who cleared a farm and with his yoke
of oxen drew in the first pair of millstones
in the town of Newfane; this was in 1836
and they were placed in the old Charlotte grist
mill. Mrs. Kelley had one son by her first
marriage, Van S. Loughlin, born February 1,
1890, a graduate of Lockport Union School
and past his second year in the Buffalo Medi
cal University.

This is a family name more
MELDRUM frequently found in Scotland
than in the United States.
The Buffalo branch descend from a grandsire,
Thomas Meldrum, born in Scotland, in 1801,
died there in 1881. He was a land owner, and
interested in the manufacture of gas for il
luminating purposes. He held the position of
manager of the works supplying the town of
Kennoway, Fifeshire, where he died. He
was a member of the Presbyterian church, and
ordered his life according to the strict tenets
of the Scotch church. His wife was Janet
 , whom he survived.- Children : Ann,
married John Husband, in Scotland, came to
the United States, and is now a widow resid
ing in Sumner, Bremer county, Iowa ; Alex
ander, of whom further; James, died in Lin
coln, England ; George, a successful manufac
turer of linseed oil, later settled at Brighton,
England ; married late in life and has no issue ;
Kate, married and resides in Fifeshire, Scot
land, has child, Arthur, a resident of London,
England, where he is general manager of a
gas company.
(II) Alexander, son of Thomas and Janet
Meldrum, was born in Scotland, November
21, 1833, died in Buffalo, New York, October
21, 1891. He came to the United States in
1853 and settled in Boston, Massachusetts,
where he remained until 1867. When a lad of
eleven years he had been apprenticed to the
mercantile business, and in Boston continued
in the same line. He entered the employ of
Hogg, Brown & Taylor, general merchants,
and was advanced until he became head of a
department. In 1867 he removed to Buffalo,
where he laid the foundations for the present
modern department stores, in the family name.
He first opened a drygoods store at No. 400
Main street, which soon outgrew its original
quarters. As he prospered, more space was
added and new departments established. He
was an energetic, capable man of business,

and from his beginnings grew the present im
mense stores of Adam, Meldrum & Anderson.
He stood high in business circles, and was
one of the men who contributed so largely
to Buffalo's mercantile supremacy, building
both wisely and well. He mingled little in
concerns outside of business life, but supported
with his influence and means all good causes.
He was a member of the Lafayette Presbyter
ian Church, and of the Republican party. He
married Ann Elizabeth Webster, born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, who survives
him. She is a member of the same New Eng
land family of Webster from which Daniel
Webster, the statesman, descends. Children:
1. Thomas, died in infancy. 2. Arthur Ross,
of whom further. 3. Alice Elizabeth, married
Thomas P. Daniels, son of Judge Charles
Daniels of Buffalo, an eminent jurist (see
Daniels); child: Charles Meldrum Daniels,
born May 10, 1883, married Florence, daugh
ter of Frank H. Goodyear of Buffalo (see
Goodyear). 4.- Thomas Alfred, born June 14,
1866, died June 19, 1886; graduate of Buf
falo high school, class of 1884; he met his
death by drowning while canoeing on the
James river, Virginia. 5. Herbert Alexander,
of whom further. 6. Jessie Pollock, graduate
of Buffalo high school, 1891 ; married, June
13, 1896, Frank Terew Van Denburgh.
7. Florence Janet, attended Buffalo Female
Seminary ; married, December 23, 1909, Harry
Lawrence Brown, a mining engineer of
Arizona. (Ill) Arthur Ross, son of Alexander and
Ann Elizabeth (Webster) Meldrum, was born
in Maiden, Massachusetts, July 26, 1861. He
was six years of age when his father located
in Buffalo, where he was educated in the
grammar and high schools. He began busi
ness life with the firm of Barnes, Bancroft &
Company, of Buffalo, and later was associated
with Adam, Meldrum & Anderson until 1892.
One of the lines established by Alexander
Meldrum was a mill for the manufacture of
underwear, and after leaving Adam, Meldrum
& Anderson, Arthur R. continued the opera
tion of this plant until 1896. He was also
during this period a partner of Francis H.
Crafts in the manufacture of wood working
machinery in Buffalo, and interested in the
manufacture of windmills at Blaisdell, New
York. From 1896 to 1898 he was engaged
in the development of Florida real estate. In
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A., in the department store. He is a Repub
lican in politics and attends St. John's Episco
pal church.
He married, July 18, 1888, Eva Mary,
daughter of John H. and Jane Smith of Buf
falo; her father is Buffalo manager of the
R. G. Dun Company. Children: 1. Alfred
Smith, born May 10, 1889 ; educated in gram
mar and high schools of Buffalo ; entered Cor
nell University, and graduated in class of 191 1
with degree of Mechanical Engineer. 2. Eliz
abeth Jane, born July 28, 1891 ; graduate Buf
falo Seminary, 191 1. 3. John Alexander, born
March 1, 1893.
(Ill) Herbert Alexander, son of Alexander
and Ann Elizabeth (Webster) Meldrum, was
born in Buffalo, New York, February 15,
1870. He was educated in the public schools,
and was graduated from the high school, class
of 1890. He was at once admitted to business
with his father, continuing until the death of
the latter in 1891. For the next seven years
he continued with Adam, Meldrum & Ander
son, and was connected with different depart
ments during these years. In 1897 the fi. A.
Meldrum Company was incorporated. On Sep
tember 23, 1897, their new store on Main
street was opened, with all the departments
of a modern establishment, and has since been
in successful operation. ,Mr. Meldrum is a
most capable and energetic man of business
and measures up to the full standard his posi
tion requires. He was one of the organizers
of the American Savings Bank of Buffalo,
and chosen its first president, July 1, 1907,
the date of organization. Under his guidance
this bank has had a most rapid advance not
exceeded by any similar institution in the state.
He also serves the bank as trustee. " He is
one of the managers of the State Hospital at
Buffalo, appointed by Governor Hughes, June
13, 1907. He is prominent in the club organi
zations of Buffalo; he was president (1896)
of the Automobile Club, also president of the
State Automobile Association, 1909 ; charter
member and first treasurer of the Park Club,
and member of the first board of trustees ; di
rector of the Buffalo Club, member of the
County and Saturn clubs ; vice-president of
-the Buffalo Aero Club, and member of the
Aero Club of America (New York City). Po
litically Mr. Meldrum is a Republican, and a
member of the Lafayette Presbyterian Church.
He married, September 23, 1895, Louise
Reese, daughter of Edward Jenkins Hingston.

Children: Herbert Alexander Jr., born Sep
tember 5, 1897; Alan Hingston, December 31,
1899; Esther Louise.

This family was for many gen-
MARSH erations native to Germany,
where Henry Marsh was born in
1824, died in 1905. He was well educated in
the German schools, and was apprenticed to
a shoemaker, with whom he served seven
years. He was then qualified to become a
journeyman shoemaker. He worked at his
trade in Germany until 1853, when he came
to the United States with his wife. He set
tled in East Otto, Cattaraugus county, where
he made his first purchase of fifty acres. Then
he moved to Mansfield, where he purchased
land and later added thereto until his holdings
totaled four hundred acres. His homestead
was on the Mansfield and Ellicottville line, and
he owned land in both towns. While he pros
pered in his adopted land he was always quiet,
unassuming and industrious. He was a Re
publican, serving as commissioner of high
ways, and a member of the Lutheran church.
He married, in Germany, Minnie Merow (not
related to the Little Valley family). Children:
Charles ; Henry ,A. ; Mary, deceased ; Augus
tus, deceased ; Frank, deceased ; two other chil
dren died in infancy.
(II) Henry A., son of Henry and Minnie
(Merow) Marsh, was born in East Otto, De
cember 2, 1855. He received a good common
school education, and has so conducted his
affairs that he possesses a handsome compet
ence. He owns one of the finest farms in
the county, but has retired from active life
to a comfortable home in the village of Little
Valley. His farm is worked for him on the
share plan. He is a Republican in politics and
has served as assessor of the town of Little
Valley for some fourteen years. He is an at
tendant of the Lutheran church, and is held
in high esteem by his friends and neighbors.
He married, March 28, 1883, Mary E., born
April 21, 1861, daughter of John H. Merow,
of Little Valley, born in Germany, 1823, came
to the United States, 1858 ; killed accidentally
on his farm in Little Valley, May 6, 1890. Of
the children of John H. Merow, John C, mar
ried Estella Day; Sophia, married Spencer
Holdridge; William, married Mosella Whip
ple, and Mary E., married Henry A. Marsh.
Children of Henry A. and Mary E. (Merow)
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married Albert C. Woolf, deceased ; has a son,
Marshall L. Woolf, born April 25, 1909. 2.
Mabel, born March 25, 1889. 3. Maurice,
born November 6, 1893.

This branch of the Adams fam-
ADAMS ily descends from Abraham
Adams, born at Wilton, Con
necticut, April 5, 1774, died February 3, 1858.
He was a son of Nathan and Rhoda (Scrib-
ner) Adams, of Wilton, Connecticut. Abraham
Adams was a resident of South Salem, New
York. He married Betsey Bouton, born at
Poundridge, New York, March 17, 1774, died
March 5, 1869. She was a daughter of Daniel
Bouton, who served in the revolutionary war
in Captain Crane's regiment of New York
militia. The regiment was composed of men
from Westchester county, Daniel Bouton giv
ing his residence as Poundridge. While the
British were in that section of the state' all
the valuables in the home were hidden in the
rocks, and Betsey, then a child, was hidden
under a large iron cauldron kettle for safety.
Children of Abraham and Betsey Adams: 1.
Edwin (of further mention). 2. Philo, born
in South Salem, New York, March 22, 1799,
died March 26, 1832. 3. Rhoda, born at Cairo,
New York, July 15, 1801, died September 30,
1900. 4. Clarissa, born at Greene, New York,
September 4, 1803, died January 27, 1900, at
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 5. Moses, born in
Greene, New York, November 3, 1805, died
in 1873. 6. Charles, born in Greene, New
York, December 8, 1807. 7. A. Marlin, born
in Greene, New York, May 27, 181 1, died
June 25, 1885. 8. Lucinda, born in Greene,
New York, June 26, 1812, died May 9, 1833.
9. James, born in Greene, New York, May 23,
1814, died in 1891. 10 and 11. Henry and
William, twins, born. November 26, 1816;
Henry, died October 23, 1857; William, died
July 8, 1817.
(II) Edwin, son of Abraham and Betsey
(Bouton) Adams, was born in South Salem,
New York, August 11, 1797, died January 27,
1881. He settled first in Greene, Chenango
county, New York, remaining until about
/830. He then moved to Corydon, Pennsyl
vania, and later to Kent's Corners, in town
of Cold Spring, and engaged in the lumber
business; from the latter named place he
moved to Conewango, and in 1865 came to
Randolph, Cattaraugus county, where he en
gaged in lumbering and farming. He mar

ried, February 10, 1823, China Phelps, born
in Cambridge, Saratoga county, New York,
October 3, 1799, died April 10, 1881. Chil
dren: 1. Charles Palmer, born in Greene,
Chenango county, New York, December 3,
1825; now (1911) living retired in James
town, New York; he married, August 31,
1852, Cornelia Crane, who died January, 1909,
daughter of Judge Crane, of Fredonia ; chil
dren: i. Frances M., married Harry Lewis,
of Jamestown, New York ; ii. Douglass Crane.
2. Julia A., born November 27, 1831. 3. Susan,
born June 14, 1836. 4. Theodore Edwin (of
further mention).
(Ill) Theodore Edwin, youngest child of
Edwin and China (Phelps) Adams, was born
at Corydon, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1839,
died in Randolph, New York, June 17, 1910.
He attended the public school until attaining
the age of fourteen years, then began clerk
ing in a general store in Fredonia. He soon
realized the need of further education, left
the store and pursued courses of study at El
lington and Randolph academies. After com
pleting his studies he entered the employ of
William H. Camp as clerk in his Randolph
store. Later his brother, Charles Palmer
Adams, bought an interest in the business,
which was continued under the firm name of
Camp & Adams. Later Charles Palmer
Adams became sole proprietor. Theodore E.
Adams continued as clerk during these
changes, and until 1865, when he became a
partner under the firm name of C. P. Adams
& - Brother. The brothers continued in suc
cessful business until 1874, when Charles
Palmer withdrew and assisted in the organi
zation of the State Bank of Randolph, of
which he was the first cashier. Theodore E.,
after the retirement of his brother, became
sole proprietor, and although at subsequent
times he had partners in the business he re
mained the active head of the establishment
until his death. At the time he became sole
owner the store building was located on the
site of the present post office, but about 1890
he purchased a new brick block on the opposite
side of the street. Later this was enlarged
to accommodate his growing trade, which be-
" came the largest in any village of similar size
in Western New York. February 1, 1906, the
business was incorporated as The T. E. Adams
Company, Mrs. Adams, Theodora C, Percy
C. and Florence C, their children, R. T.
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Bowen, employees, being taken into the com
pany. Although Mr. Adams never sought or would
accept public office, he was public-spirited to
a high degree, and every enterprise promising
to advance the interests of Randolph received
his hearty personal and financial support. He
was one of the trustees of the Merchants' and
Manufacturers' Association, director of the
State Bank of Randolph, and interested in
other enterprises in Randolph and elsewhere.
While perfectly open and frank by nature, in
his business dealings he was most secretive,
and in his benevolences few knew the extent
of his private charities. It is said of him that
no needy person ever went from his store
without a garment required for comfort,
whether the money was forthcoming or not.
He was a great sufferer in his last years, but
gave daily attention to his business as long
as strength remained and ever turned a smil
ing face to' the world. He died in New York
City, at a private sanitarium, where he was
being treated by the best medical experts. He
is buried in Randolph cemetery, his funeral
being attended by a large gathering of his
friends, including his brethren of Randolph
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, who
marched in a body.
Mr. Adams married, December 15, 1865,
Mary Lenett Crowley, born February 16,
1844, daughter of Asahel Crowley (see Crow
ley line). Children: 1. Theodora Crowley,
born June 23, 1867; married William L.
Rathbone. 2. Percy Crowley, born April 4,
1869 ; married, June 22, 1899, Amy Farmer,
of Oil City, Pennsylvania ; children : i. Theo
dora, born December 12, 1901 ; ii. Thomas Ed
win, born December 26, 19 10. Percy C.
Adams is now residing in Washington, D. C,
and is a member of the well-known firm of
architects, Averill & Adams. 3. Florence
Crowley, born May 19, 1881 ; married Robert
T. Searle, her father's business associate; chil
dren: i. Robert, born May 13, 1905; ii. Wil
liam Adams, born June 10, 1906; iii. Mary
Lenett, born March 7, 19 10.
(The Crowley Line).
Mary Lenett (Crowley) Adams, wife of
Theodore Edwin Adams, survives her hus
band, and is a resident of Randolph. Her
grandfather, Walter Crowley, was a native
of Connecticut and emigrated to Vermont
long before it became a state. He married

Mary Todd, also of Connecticut, whose par
ents also emigrated to Vermont at an early
date. Walter Crowley cleared a farm from
the then almost unbroken wilderness on the
summit of the Green Mountains, where his
family of four sons and three daughters were
born. They remained in Vermont until 1839,
when they came to Randolph, New York, and
passed their remaining years there with their
sons, all wealthy and influential citizens of
that town. He died in 1851, his wife in 1855.
Asahel Crowley, father of Mrs. Adams,
was born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, February
14, 1809. He came to Randolph in 1831,
where for half a century he was actively en
gaged in business life, and at the time of his
death, January 30, 1901, was the oldest resi
dent. On first coming to the town he taught
school for two winters, then engaged in lum
bering. In 1833 he first engaged in mercan
tile life, admitting to a partnership three years
later his brother, Addison Crowley, and Jo
seph Stanley. They erected a large store
building which at that time was the largest
in the country. They conducted a general
store and dealt extensively in cattle and lum
ber. After four years' association Mr. Stan
ley withdrew and the firm continued as A. and
A. Crowley. A younger brother, Alvin Crow
ley, was admitted and had charge of the lum
ber business at Cincinnati, the firm then be
coming A. Crowley & Company, continuing
until i860, when Alvin withdrew, the firm
name reverting to its former name, A. and A.
Crowley. In 1868 a general division of the
business was made, Asahel Crowley then es
tablishing a general farming, lumbering and
cattle dealing business, which he continued
until his final retirement. He was one of the
incorporators of the State Bank of Randolph
and a director. He was treasurer of the
Western New York Home for Homeless and
Dependent Children, a charity to whose in
terests he was devoted. He took a deep in
terest in the building of the Erie railroad and
was one of the original directors of the com
pany, a position he occupied seven years. He
was a highly respected gentleman and was
ever devoted to the best interests of the town.
He bore a blameless reputation and lived a
business and private life free from blot or
stain. He married, in Mt. Holly, Vermont, Octo
ber 6, 1836, Clarissa M. Johnson, born May
3, 1815, daughter of Marvel and Julia

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(Mason) Johnson, of Mt. Holly. Children:
1. Julia M., born September 1, 1837; married,
May 16, i860, Charles M. G. Chase. They
have one daughter, Mary, born July 26, 1862 ;
married Dwight Rundell, of Randolph. 2.
Ellen A., born August 26, 1839 ; married, Oc
tober 10, 1859, Alexander Wentworth; chil
dren: i. Isabel, born September 13, i860;
ii. Crowley, born May 8, 1868. 3. Marvel J.,
born August 3, 1841 ; married, August 29,
1865, Adelaide Weed, of Franklinville. 4.
Mary Lenett, married Theodore Edwin
Adams. 5. Genevieve, born October 31, 1858;
married, in 1883, Edwin Terhune.

The name Matthew, hav-
MATTHEWS ing belonged to one of the
Twelve Apostles, was
adopted by a great number of persons in early
Christian times, and with its variations and
derivations is borne today by many families
who are wholly unrelated. The Matthews
family with which this narrative is concerned
was located in the county of Kent, England,
in the latter part of the eighteenth century,
and has been prominently connected with the
printing business for four generations.
(I) Edward Matthews was born at Seven-
oaks, county of Kent, the son of a steward
to the third Earl of Stanhope. This was the
Earl Stanhope who invented or at least de
veloped and applied what came to be known
as the "plaster process" of stereotyping. He
also invented the Stanhope press, still known
in the printing trade, and was otherwise fa
mous as a practical scientist. Edward Mat
thews learned stereotyping under Earl Stan
hope, and thus became one of the earliest
and most skillful masters of the art. He was
sent by the Earl over various parts of the
United Kingdom to install and teach the
Stanhope process of stereotyping. He en
countered the bitter hostility that the intro
duction of labor-saving devices often pro
vokes, and at times went about in hourly peril
of assassination. Some of his most trying exr
periences were in Glasgow, where he installed
the stereotyping process for the famous firm
of Black & Company. Though a small man,
he was full of energy and courage, and he
persevered in his task until it was completed.
Returning to England, he was sent to intro
duce the stereotyping process at the printing
works of Robert and John Childs,' at Bungay,
county of Suffolk. This establishment did

fine book work for London publishers, notably
the Douay and other Bibles, dictionaries, and
numerous historical works. The firm after
ward became John Childs & Son. The firm
made him so advantageous an offer that he
remained with it permanently, being granted
a pension in his old age. fie married Har
riet Newson, by whom he had many children.
The following lived to maturity: 1. George,
entered the printing business and became an
expert compositor, pressman, stereotyper and
finisher, and was employed by the Hebrew
Society of London many years. He married
Susan Knight. His son William became the
principal stereotyper for the London Times,
in which work he was succeeded by his son
George. 2. Simon, became chief engineer in
the British navy, served in the Crimean war
on the battleship "Magnificent," also in the
Chinese war, and received a medal for sav
ing his captain's life, and another for meri
torious service. The war office loaned him
to the Italian government, and he served as
chief engineer on one of Italy's first warships
in a voyage around the world. He was af
terward for many years engineer on the
Queen's yacht. He married (first) Lucy Hay-
ward, of Ipswich; (second) Elizabeth Fitch.
He had two sons, Henry and George, by his
first wife, and three daughters, Susan, Louise
and Pauline, by his second. Henry was a
schoolmaster on board the training ship "St.
Vincent," and afterward became connected
with the London Fire Brigade. He married
Minnie Jenkins. Two sons, Cecil and Earn
est, are both warrant officers in the royal
navy. George was a commissary officer, and
served under Lord Kitchener in Egypt, South
Africa and India, where he died, fiis widow
is matron of the military school at Cairo,
Egypt. 3. Mary Ann, married James Barber
and had eighteen children, of whom Susan,
Betsey, Austin and George survived. 4. Eliz
abeth, married George Helsdon, an artist
colorist in the employ of Sir John Kelk and
E. M. Ward; children: John Edward, came
to America in 187 1, and has since worked
in the printing business in Buffalo; married
Maria Forsyth; his son, James Newson Mat
thews Helsdon, married Margaret Hebard,
and they have a daughter, Elizabeth Ann;
other children of George and Elizabeth Hels
don were James and Harriet. 5. James New-
son, mentioned below. 6. Susan, died of con
sumption at age of twenty. 7. Henry, born

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1834; removed to America in 1852, and fol
lowed the printing trade in Buffalo; was for
ten years superintendent for the firm of Mat
thews & Warren, proprietors of the Commer
cial Advertiser, and afterward member of the
firm of Matthews Brothers & Bryant, which
established the printing house now known as
the Matthews-Northrup Works. He married,
1857, Ellen S. Glover, of Bungay; children:
Frank Russell, born February 4, i860; Har
riet Wells, born May 26, 1861, married Edgar
J. Nelson, and has children, Ellen Olive and
Hazel Annette, of whom Ellen Olive married
Edward R. Earle, and has one child, Nelson
Matthews, born August 8, 1903; Fanny Au
gusta, born April 24, 1870, married Herbert
Spinney ; Harry Newson, died in infancy. 8.
Edward, married Anna Mobbs ; children : Ed
ward, Anna and Harriet.
(II) James Newson, son of Edward and
Harriet (Newson) Matthews, was born at
Bungay, county of Suffolk, England, Novem
ber 21, 1828. While thoroughly grounded in
the elementary branches, he was unable to
obtain an advanced education, and at an early
age was apprenticed in the printing and book
binding business. As the trade was then
taught, this experience in itself gave him the
best kind of education for a man who was
later to become a great newspaper editor.
When seventeen years old he emigrated to
America, coming directly to Buffalo, where he
made his home for the remainder of his life.
He obtained employment in the printing office
of Jewett, Thomas & Company, who were
concerned in the publication of the Commer
cial Advertiser, and his superior technical
training and efficiency made him foreman of
the shop before he was twenty, while he was
still an apprentice. The managing partner,
C. F. S. Thomas, had a national reputation
as a printer. He was very proud of his
young foreman, but differences arose between
the two men, and in 1848 young Matthews
gave up his position to become foreman in the
office of the Buffalo Republic. After a short
experience there, he opened a printing office
of his own on the southeast corner of Wash
ington and Exchange streets, directly opposite
the site where he afterward erected what is
still known as the Matthews Building, and is
occupied by the great business which he
created. In 1850, with some associates, he
established a daily paper called the Journal of
Commerce, which lived but a short time. He

then became foreman of the job-printing office
connected with the Buffalo Express, of which
Almon M. Clapp and Rufus Wheeler 'were
owners. A year later he was admitted into
partnership, the firm becoming Clapp, Mat
thews & Company. This connection lasted
until i860, when political differences caused
Messrs. Clapp and Wheeler to dissolve part
nership. Mr. Wheeler joined James D. War
ren and Joseph Candee in buying the Com
mercial Advertiser. In 1862 Mr. Candee re
tired and Mr. Matthews was taken into the
firm, which became known as Wheeler, Mat
thews & Warren. Mr. Matthews took charge
of the job-printing branch, which soon be
came famous, and acquired a virtual monop
oly in fine color work for railroads. In 1864
Mr. Wheeler retired on account of ill health.
His partners bought his interest and continued
the business under the name of Matthews &
Warren. Mr. Matthews at. this time as
sumed charge of the editorial management of
the paper. In 1872 the firm purchased The
Express, and conducted it during the Grant-
Greeley campaign, when they sold it again.
In 1877 political differences arose between
Messrs. Matthews and Warren and they de
cided to dissolve partnership. They had al
ways made their investments together outside
as well as within the printing business. On
going over their accounts they found that the
value of their outside investments about
equalled that of the printing business, and
Mr. Matthews offered Mr. Warren his choice
between the two. After a day's consideration
Mr. Warren chose the business. Mr. Mat
thews believed at the time that the step which
he was talking would mean his retirement
forever from journalism, but it was charac
teristic of the man that he preferred to give
up an honorable and lucrative profession
rather than make any concession of principles
which he believed to be right. It so happened,
however, that the fortunes of The Express
were then at a very low ebb. Mr. Matthews
was asked to take hold of the property and
attempt its rehabilitation. After due consid
eration he consented. Failure and personal
ruin were predicted as the inevitable conse
quence of what to many appeared a rash en
terprise. But Mr. Matthews was not a man
either to fail in any undertaking to which he
put his hand or to be easily discouraged. The
first number of The Express under the new
management came out January 7, 1878. Mr.

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Matthews's announcement declared that it was
his settled purpose to make The Express "the
neatest and brightest, bravest and best news
paper ever published in Buffalo, steadfastly
Republican as to political principles, but ab
solutely independent in reference to our mu
nicipal government — the organ of no man or
set of men, but, in fact, worthy to be styled
'The People's Paper.' " The announcement
continued: "If our interpretation of the
party's faith is not very well known already,
the fault is not ours. At any rate it will ap
pear soon enough in these columns. We do
not conceive, however, that political princi
ples have anything whatever to do with mu
nicipal affairs, but we do most sincerely be
lieve, on the contrary, that municipal affairs
should be absolutely divorced from political
manipulation. And this is just what we pur
pose doing so far as The Express can effect
the separation. We shall run no caucuses.
If any man hereafter pretends to represent
The Express in any political convention, he
may be set down as an impostor. It will have
no delegates. It will seek no official patron
age. If it is approached with promises or
threats of exclusion from political papers, it
will invite those who think they control this
business to place it wheresoever they think it
will do them the most good. We do not want
it." Here was a revolution, not only in the
character of The Express as it had recently
been conducted, but in Buffalo journalism
generally. And it is but just to say that the
standard which Mr. Matthews set on that
first day of his editorship was adhered to by
him throughout his life and by his successors.
The public appreciation of this kind of a
newspaper was attested by a rapid growth in
circulation and advertising until the property
was soon on a profitable basis. The occasion
for Mr. Matthews to prove his sincerity was
not long in coming. The administration of
the city at that time was Democratic, but in
the fall of 1879 it shifted to Republican
hands, but without effecting any material
improvement in government. There was an
antiquated charter dating from country- vil
lage days, a wide and virtually irresponsible
distribution of powers, and the time was one
of rapid railroad building, sewer building,
street paving and other improvements involv
ing large contracts and valuable franchises.
The Express attacked various features of the

city government, bringing about some inves
tigations on its own account, and when in the
fall of 1881 the reform elements obtained con
trol of the Democratic city convention and
nominated Grover Cleveland for Mayor, The
Express promptly declared for him, saying
that every honest citizen could vote for him
without doubt or misgiving and that the city
would be to him as a client. The famous
Stalwart-halfbreed war was also waging at
this time, and The Express became the
most prominent of the Halfbreed organs
in the western part of the state. Sherman S.
Rogers, one of Mr. Matthews's most valued
friends, became a candidate before the legis
lative caucus for United States senator after
Conkling and Piatt resigned. In addition to
the mayoralty contest, the election of that
year centered on the candidacy of William B.
Sirret for re-election as county treasurer and
of Arthur W. Hickman for assemblyman.
The Express had attacked and had brought
about an investigation of Sirret, who had been
Republican state committeeman and was one
of the principal party leaders in the county.
It now opposed him for re-election and he
was defeated. Mr. Hickman had been in the
assembly, where he had voted with the Half-
breeds. He had withdrawn as a candidate
for the regular renomination, alleging that the
caucuses had been fixed against him. He af
terward accepted an independent nomination
with Democratic indorsement. The Express
supported him and he was elected. It also
bolted the nomination for Senator of Harvey
J. Hurd, who had been a Stalwart assembly
man. Hurd was beaten. The short adminis
tration of Mr. Cleveland as mayor, with his
numerous vetoes, particularly the "Plain
Speech" veto of a street-cleaning contract, was
one of the stirring periods in the city's politi
cal history." The Express supported him heart-
- ily, not as a partisan, but as an independent
reform newspaper, and when he was nomi
nated for governor the following year, it car
ried its independence into state politics by de
claring in his favor. Its loyalty to the na
tional principles of the Republican party, how
ever, was too strong to admit of its support
ing him for president. In the two Demo
cratic city . administrations which followed
Mr. Cleveland's retirement, The Express
again maintained the attitude of a critical in
dependent Republican newspaper. This was
a time when the first civil service reform laws

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were given effect. Mr. Matthews became
much interested in .the merit system and
heartily supported it. With the nomination
of Philip Becker for mayor by the Republi
cans in 1885, The Express gave him earnest
support, which was continued throughout his
two administrations. An exciting fight oc
curred at this time on the granting of a natu
ral gas franchise by the common council over
the mayor's veto without compensation to the
city, almost without restrictions, without
limitation as to price to be charged consum
ers, and even with the privilege of discrimina-
ing in price between different classes of con
sumers. The Express declared that this grant
was a betrayal of the city into the hands of
the Standard Oil Company; that it was the
street-cleaning steal of 1882 over again, only
"bigger, bolder and in every way worse." It
even went so far as to charge that the grant
had been put through by bribery, and in con
sequence a committee of the legislature came
to Buffalo and investigated it, but reported
that it found no evidence that the alleged brib
ery had occurred. By withholding his ap
proval of the company's bond, the mayor was
able to finally secure some modification of the
worst features of the franchise. Another
crusade undertaken by The Express in 1887
was against the administration of the school
department, which -had become a political ma
chine. While the superintendent was not re
moved, the agitation resulted in some new or
dinances regulating the appointment of teach
ers, and later in the creation of a board of
school examiners to determine by fair writ
ten examinations the qualifications of candi
dates. The career of Mr. Matthews as a printer
was no less distinguished than as an editor.
Immediately after buying The Express he es
tablished in connection with it the art-printing
plant of the Matthews-Northrup Company.
Under his skilled direction this establishment
attained a national reputation for the printing
of high-class railroad folders, advertising
booklets, maps, etc. On one occasion it com
peted successfully with firms in Paris and
London for a contract for maps for the Mexi
can government. On September 30, 1883, the
first number was issued of The Illustrated
Express, a Saturday and Sunday edition of
the daily. This was the pioneer newspaper
in issuing a half-tone supplement. The ex
cellence, number and variety of illustrations

soon made it the admiration of the trade as
well as of its patrons, and no small part of
the reputation of its founder rests upon its
success. Mr. Matthews never held a political
office. He served by appointment of Govern
or Hoffman as one of three inspectors of the
special election ordered by the legislature for
the Erie railway when the Gould-Fiske con
trol was upset, and he was a delegate-at-large
to the Republican national conventions of
1872 and 1876. He first voted for John C.
Fremont, and he voted for every Republican
electoral ticket thereafter so long as he lived.
He was at one time president of the Church
Charity Foundation, and was connected with
the vestry of St. John's Church. The Express
gave vigorous support to the Republican na
tional ticket in 1888, but at the height of the
campaign its editor was stricken with Bright's
disease, complicated by abscess of the kidney,
and his powerful pen was laid aside forever.
He lingered until December 20th, when he
breathed his last, at his home on Delaware
avenue. He married, July 24, 1851, Harriet, daugh
ter of Austin L. Wells, of Westfield, New
York. She was born at Westfield, July 6,
1830, and died in Buffalo, February 21, 1888.
Children: George Edward, mentioned below;
Frances Amy, born March 13, 1867, married
(first) Charles Buckingham Graves, (second)
Ernest G. Boon, of London, England.
(Ill) George Edward, son of James N. and
Harriet (Wells) Matthews, was born at
Westfield, Chautauqua county, the home of
his mother's parents, March 17, 1855. He
grew up in Buffalo, where he attended the
Heathcote School and was prepared for col
lege by the Rev. Dr. Theodore M. Bishop.
He was ready for Yale by the time he was
sixteen years old, but his parents thought him
too young to enter college, so he spent the
next two years in travel and in acquiring some
knowledge of the printing business in the
office of the Commercial Advertiser, of which
his father was then editor and part owner.
He was kept at practical work like an ordi
nary apprentice, and this instruction in the
business which he was to take up was con
tinued during his college vacations. Thus he
gained a very comprehensive knowledge of
the fundamental details of the various
branches of the printing trade. He was grad
uated from Yale with the class of 1877, gain
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lowing year his father bought The Express,
and he became a clerk in the counting room,
and rose through various grades to be busi
ness manager. He served the same practical
apprenticeship in the editorial department, be
coming successively telegraph operator, city
editor and literary editor. Ultimately he was
given the position of treasurer of the Mat-
thews-Northrup Company. Upon the death
of his father, Mr. Matthews succeeded to the
management of the business, becoming editor
of The Express, and president of the Mat-
thews-Northrup Company, which was at that
time organized as a separate firm. The part
ners were mostly men who had worked up in
its employ. This policy of taking the older
employees into the business was extended to
the newspaper firm, which became George E.
Matthews & Company, the junior partner be
ing Charles E. Austin, who had begun work
for the elder Matthews as a carrier boy. Some
years later James W. Greene, who had grown
from copyholder to managing editor, was ad
mitted to the firm, and in 190 1 the two
branches of the business were consolidated
into the J. N. Matthews Company, in which
most of the older employees were allowed to
become stockholders, and George E. Mat
thews was president from its organization un
til his death.
In addition to his newspaper and printing
business, Mr. Matthews was at one time in
terested in the Buffalo Printing Ink Works.
He. also gave a great deal of time and hard
work to developing the invention known as
the noiseless typewriter, and to the organiza
tion of the company which manufactures and
sells it. He was himself the inventor of the
prismaprint process for which the Matthews-
Northrup works is famous — a four-color proc
ess designed to take the place of the more
familiar three-color process. He also invented
and patented an improved method for index
ing books, and some other devices. He was
the first publisher in Buffalo to introduce
typesetting machines, of which his subscribers
were given the benefit in the reduction of the
price of the paper to two cents. At a later
period the price was further reduced to one
cent, but without in any way lowering the
high standards which The Express had set for
itself. To Mr. Matthews' practical knowl
edge of the mechanics of printing was due
in large part the brilliant success of The Il
lustrated Express. As the first newspaper to

demonstrate the practicability of high-class
illustration under the management of the
elder Matthews, it had this field virtually to
itself for some years, but with the appearance
of competitors steady improvement and en
largement were necessary to maintain the
primacy which has led its friends to declare
it equal to the high-grade magazines. Only
a publisher who knew the printing processes
thoroughly, who had the taste of an artist
and the literary judgment of a scholar, could
have led in this field as Mr. Matthews did.
But while so much of his energy was given
to these branches of his business, he never
neglected his duties as an editor. The inde
pendent tone of The Express never weakened.
An early test came in 1889 when it felt
obliged to bolt the nomination of James H.
Carmichael for mayor and to support the
regular Democratic nominee, Charles F.
Bishop, who was elected. It supported vig
orously the movement for a new charter,
which was adopted in 1891, although not fully
satisfied with all the details of the instrument.
It was strongly opposed to the domination of
the Republican state organization by Thomas
C. Piatt, which it criticised unceasingly for
years, but/ being ever more strongly opposed
to the methods and policies of the Democratic
organization under David B. Hill, it usually
supported Republican state candidates. It
was at the front of the fight in 1893 when
the people arose and overthrew the Demo
cratic regime to the amazement of the politi
cians of both parties. In the following^ year
it heartily approved the nomination of Edgar
B. Jewett for mayor, and gave energetic sup
port to his administration. At the beginning
of 1896 the Republican state organization de
clared for the nomination of Governor Levi
P. Morton for president, and set to work in
the usual manner to elect delegates for him.
The Express declared that the popular choice
was unquestionably William * McKinley, that
with him the party could be sure of winning,
and that it was folly to ignore a popular de
mand for the sake of creating a local candi
date or of giving the political leaders a dele
gation which could be used in the convention
for trading purposes. The response was im
mediate and inspiring. Business men, who
never had shown any activity in politics ex
cept to vote, rushed to The Express office and
urged that it take the lead in organizing a
movement for the election of McKinley dele-

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gates in Erie county, at least. Mr. Matthews
consented. Caucuses had been called by the
organization early in March and on very short
notice, with a view to heading off opposition.
But the independent forces refused to be
overawed. Mr. Matthews and Wesley C.
Dudley were elected delegates to the national
convention from the Thirty-third district, and
nineteen other delegates from Western New
York and Brooklyn were elected for McKin
ley. Contesting delegations were sent to the
state convention in New York, and the Mc
Kinley League was organized throughout the
state, with Mr. Matthews as president, and he
stumped the state for the league. At the con
vention in St. Louis he became involved in
a sharp debate with Senator John Raines, an
organization delegate. He was chosen to lead
the cheering when the demonstrations for Mc
Kinley began. The work of the McKinley
League was continued during the campaign,
and it had no small part in piling up the ma
jority by which the state was carried. This
was Mr. Matthews' only venture in practical
politics. His only political office was that of
delegate to the St. Louis convention of 1896.
President McKinley intimated a personal de
sire to have him in the cabinet, but Mr. Mat
thews did not believe that an editor should
be an office-holder. The Express continued to
bolt Republicans and to support Democrats
on occasions. It continued to fight strongly
for Republican candidates when they were of
the right kind. Mr. Matthews was always
for the better man for local office, regardless
of politics. He was always opposed to per
sonal machines, depending on patronage.
When the independents pitted Joseph H.
Choate against Thomas G. Piatt as a candi
date for United States senator, Mr. Matthews
made a canvass of Erie county which showed
that local sentiment was strongly against
Piatt, and he fought the election of Piatt
fiercely. It was sometimes said sneeringly
that The Express was always beaten. That
was not true, but it went into many fights with
full knowledge that they were hopeless,
merely because its principle was to support
what it believed to be right rather than to try
to pick winners. Despite its admiration for
McKinley, it was unable to follow him in the
policy of annexing the Philippines, although
it was less radical than were most of the anti-
imperialists, and it supported McKinley for
re-election in 1900. It was an admirer and

supporter of Roosevelt, both as governor and
as president. As an editorial writer, Mr. Mat
thews had his father's vigorous style com
bined with a felicity of phrase that made de
lightful reading. He was an omnivorous
reader and was gifted with a memory which
made all his sources of information imme
diately available. There were few subjects
that did not interest him and he was able to
turn nearly everything which he saw or
thought to newspaper account. He originated
many of the most successful departments and
features of The Express. His rule for a busi
ness manager was : "In conflicts between my
interests and those of others, be just; but if
there is a doubt, give the benefit of the doubt
to the other party." He was charitable even
when he knew his charity was being imposed
on. He was for several years president of
the Buffalo Typothetse and of the Buffalo
Newspaper Publishers' Association. He was
secretary to the McKinley Monument Asso
ciation, a member of the Buffalo, University,
Country and Ellicott clubs, the Historical So-^
ciety, the Fine Arts Academy, and was at one
time president of the local Yale Qub.
He married, July 12, 1887, Mary Elizabeth,
daughter of George - H. and Mary (Cook)
Burrows, of Buffalo, who was born Novem
ber 24, 1866. Mr. Matthews' health began
to break down in 1910, and he died at his
home at Falcon wood, Grand Island, June 11,
191 1. Children: George Edward, born May
11, 1888; married, April 20, 191 1, Frances,
daughter of William T. and Anna (Baker)
Jebb, of Buffalo; Harriet Wells, born Septem
ber 17, 1889, married June 11, 191 1, J. Ran
dall Williams Jr., of Philadelphia; Burrows,
born January 27, 1893.

The surname Lockwood is
LOCKWOOD of very ancient origin* and
is mentioned in the Domes
day Book. It is a place name, and the family
has several branches in England, in Stafford
shire, ^ Yorkshire, Essex and Northampton.
Burke's "General Armory" gives the arms of
Lockwood: "Argent, a fesse between three
martlets, sable. Crest, on the stump of an
oak tree erased proper a martlet sable. Motto :
Tutus in undis ('Secure against the waves')."
(I) Robert Lockwood, immigrant ancestor,
came to New England about 1630, and set
tled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where six
of his children were born. He was made a

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freeman March 9, 1636. About 1646 he re
moved to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he died
in 1658. He was made a freeman of Connecti
cut, May 20, 1652 ; appointed sergeant of train
band, May, 1657. fie died intestate, and the
court ordered the division of his property:
one-third to the widow, the ten children divid
ing the remainder. His widow Susannah mar
ried (second) Jeffery Ferris, and died at
"Grinwich," December 23, 1663. Children:
1. Jonathan, of whom further. 2. Deborah,
born October 12, 1636. 3. Joseph, August 6,
1638;. "Sergeant Joseph Lockwood departed
this life April 14, 1717, aged seventy-eight
years, eight months and eight days." 4. Dan
iel, born March 21, 1640, died 1691. 5.
Ephraim, born December 1, 1641 ; married
Mercy Sention (St. John). 6. Gershom, born
September 6, 1643, died March 12, 1718.
"Lieutenant Gershom Lockwood was the prin
cipal carpenter and builder in the town of
Greenwich, Connecticut, and filled many
offices of trust and importance." He married
Lady Ann Millington. (This lady's romantic
story has often been told, together with that
of the chest containing a half bushel of
guineas, and fine silk dresses. The chest is
yet in evidence in Greenwich.) 7. John. 8.
Abigail, married John Barlow. 9. Sarah.
10. Mary, married Jonathan Huested.
(II) Lieutenant Jonathan, son of Robert
Lockwood, was born in Watertown, Massa
chusetts, September 10, 1634, died May 12,
1688, in Greenwich, Connecticut, in his fifty-
fourth year. He married Mary, daughter of
Jeffrey Ferris, who married, late in life, Mrs.
Susannah Lockwood, widow of Robert Lock-
wood, and Jonathan's mother. Jonathan signed
a paper, January 1, 1657, at Easttowne, in the
New Netherlands, in which he promised alle
giance to the Dutch governor as long as he
lived within his jurisdiction. He lived in
Stamford, Connecticut, October 16, 1660, and
in 1665 sold his estate there and moved to
Greenwich. He was made a freeman here
in 1670, was assistant in May, 1671, and in
1672 was "one of the twenty-seven pro
prietors." He represented the town in the
legislature for four years. At his death the
people met in town meeting and passed reso
lutions deploring the loss of so valuable a citi
zen, and he was greatly mourned. He was
deputy to the general assembly several times.
He was appointed by the court, with three
others, to determine the boundary line between

Greenwich and the colony of New York, from
Mamaroneck river to Hudson river. On May
9, 1688, he made a deed, a division of prop
erty, and named his wife and children. This
was three days before his death. His wife,
after his death, made provision for her chil
dren, when about to marry Sergeant Thomas
Merritt, of Rye, June 5, 1696. Children:
Jonathan, born about 1663; Robert, of whom
further; Gershom; Still John, about 1674; Jo
seph, 1675; Sarah; Abigail.
(Ill) Robert, son of Lieutenant Jonathan
Lockwood, was born in Greenwich, Connecti
cut, died between May 7, 1731, and January
23, 1732. He made his will May 17, 1731,
naming his wife Mary and son Jonathan as
executors. He calls himself "Husbandman,"
and appears frequently in town records. His
wife Mary survived him. Children: Phebe,
Deborah, died young; Jonathan, Mary, Sam
uel, Susannah, David, of whom further, and
Deborah (2).
(IV) Captain David, son of Robert Lock-
wood (2), was born in Greenwich, Connecti
cut, August, 1707, died December 4, 1755. He
was representative from Greenwich to the gen
eral assembly in 1745, and was commissioned
captain of the train hand, 1752. His will, made
November 29, 1755, was probated December
9, 1755. His estate was appraised at £1753.
fiis wife being dead at the time his will was
made, there is no mention of her name. Chil
dren: David, Enos, Stephen, Timothy (of
whom further), Abigail, Ephraim, Philip,
Joshua and Sarah.
(V) Timothy, son of Captain David Lock-
wood, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut,
October 26, 1735. He married Abigail Mead,
born November 24, 1740, died November 29,
1826. She survived her husband and mar
ried (second) Samuel Guernsey. Timothy
Lockwood,, was a soldier of the revolution,
serving as drummer. Whether there was an
other Timothy Lockwood than Timothy, son
of David, is not clear. The evidence seems
to establish the fact that the latter Timothy
was a member of the first company of Colonel
Waterbury's Fifth regiment of Connecticut
troops, enlisted May 8, 1775, discharged Octo
ber 30, 1775, later of Captain Bell's company,
Colonel Charles Webb's regiment, January 10,
1777, for three years. (See "Connecticut in
the Revolution.") Children: "Timothy, Titus,
Stephen, Henry, Ebenezer, of whom further,
Abigail, married  Knapp.

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(VI) Ebenezer, son of Timothy Lockwood,
was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, January
4, 1775; died in East Hamburg, Erie county,
New York, August 19, 1856. He settled in
Eastern New York when twenty years of age,
later driving a team loaded with his house
hold goods from Brewster, Dutchess county,
to Hamburg, Erie county, consuming twenty
days on the journey. He cleared a farm in
Hamburg, and was one of the prosperous men
of that town. He married Betsey, daughter
of Jesse Seymour. Children: 1. Nathaniel,
married Lydia Hammond. 2. Philo, married
Polly Utley. 3. Rachel, died aged seven years.
4. Malinda, married Salmon or Solomon
Washburn. 5. Jesse, married (first) Wil-
helmena Cook, (second) Mary Ann Law
rence. 6. Orrin, married Eliza Jamison ; he
was in 1856 sheriff of Erie county. 7. Dr.
Timothy T., in 1858 mayor of Buffalo; mar
ried (first) Charlotte Allen; (second) Louisa
Fancher. 8. Maria, married Daniel R. New
ton. 9. Harrison, of whom further. 10.
Stephen. (VII) Harrison, son of Ebenezer Lock-
wood, was born January 15, 1816, died April
10, 1849. He came to Western New York
at an early date, and was a farmer of Erie
county, owning a small farm near Hamburg,
where he died while still a young man. He
married Martha Phillips, of New England an
cestry, who yet survives him, a resident of
Hamburg, where on August 1, 191 1, she cele
brated her ninetieth birthday. Left alone with
her two children to maintain and educate
without means, she nobly fulfilled her part
and lived to see her son in honored position
and eulogized by all men. Children : Daniel
Newton, of whom further ; Harriet, born No
vember 13, 1845, died July 3, 1872.
(VIII) Daniel Newton, son of Harrison
Lockwood, was born in the town of Hamburg,
Erie county, New York, June 1, 1841, died
on his birthday, June 1, 1906. His early edu
cation was obtained in the district public
schools. When yet a boy he came to Buffalo
and became an inmate of the home of his rela
tive, Hon. Timothy Lockwood, then mayor
of Buffalo. He completed his preparatory
education in Buffalo high school and under
private instruction, entering Union College in
1 861. The college was then presided over by
the celebrated Dr. Eliphalet Nott. Mr. Lock-
wood was graduated A. B. in 1865, his alma
mater shortly afterward conferring the degree

of Master of Arts. After graduation he re
turned to Buffalo and began the study of law
in the offices of Parsons & Humphrey, the
junior member, James M. Humphrey, being
at one time Member of Congress from the
Buffalo district. In 1866 Mr. Lockwood was
admitted to the bar and was at once admitted
to the firm with whom he had studied. Mr.
Parsons later retired, the firm becoming Hum
phrey & Lockwood. Later William B. Hoyt
was admitted, the firm becoming Hum
phrey, Lockwood & Hoyt. Mr. Lockwood
always remained a member of this firm, and
at the time of his death was senior member
and a leading figure of the Erie county bar.
He was well known and held prominent rank
in a generation that produced many unusually
brilliant men for the City of Buffalo. His
firm always occupied a commanding position,
later generations fully maintaining the honor
of the Lockwood name.
Immediately after his admission to the bar,
Mr. Lockwood assumed a prominent part in
city politics, and in 1871 was nominated by
the Democratic party for the office of district
attorney of Erie county, meeting defeat at
the polls. In 1874 he was again the nominee
of this party for the same office, and was
elected by a handsome majority, fie did not
serve his full term, as in 1876 he was elected
a member of the Forty-fifth Congress. He
made a very creditable record in Congress, and
in 1880 was a delegate to the Democratic na
tional convention which nominated General
Winfield S. Hancock for president. In 1881,
being then leader of his party in Erie county,
he placed in nomination Grover Cleveland for
mayor of Buffalo. In 1882, at'the Democratic
state convention he nominated Mr. Cleveland
for governor of New York, and in 1884, at
the Chicago convention he made the speech
placing Mr. Cleveland in nomination for the
high office of president of the United States.
As Mr. Cleveland was elected to every office
for which he was nominated by Mr. Lock-
wood, the latter became known over the entire
county as the "great nominator." From 1886
to 1889 he served as United States district
attorney for the western district of the state
of New York, retiring from that office owing
to the stress of private business. In 1890 he
was again the successful nominee of his party
for Congress, and again in 1892, sitting in the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. He
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years, serving on important committees and
influencing legislation valuable to his state
and county, fie was a candidate for lieuten
ant-governor of New York on the ticket with
David B. Hill for governor, both going down
in defeat, as did the entire state ticket. Mr.
Lockwood being now in failing health, retired
from active participation in politics. He be
gan to feel the effects of that disease which
later caused his death, and found it necessary
to watch over his health with a greater
amount of care. In 1900 he was appointed by
Governor Roosevelt, chairman of the New
York State Commission of the Pan American
Exposition, which office he filled with such
efficiency that he was enabled to return to the
state $50,000 as an unexpended balance of the
amount appropriated. This money, with other
funds, was later used on the erection of the
McKinley Monument in Niagara square,
which is one of the finest ornaments of the
city of Buffalo. The Historical Society build
ing, located in Delaware Park, was also built
under his supervision, from money jointly
contributed by the state, the city of Buffalo
and the Historical Society, for the use of the
State Commission during the Pan American
Exposition. The report of the State Commis
sion gives much interesting data concerning
their expenditures, and of the entertainments
given by them during the continuance of the
exposition. In 1902 Mr. Lockwood was ap
pointed by Governor Odell as the legal mem
ber of the State Lunacy Commission, a posi
tion he held until his death. He was a mem
ber of the bar associations of city, county and
state, and of many societies and associations,
professional, political and scientific. His col
lege fraternity was Theta Delta Chi, which
he joined while a student at Union College.
In church membership he was connected with
the First Presbyterian Church, of Buffalo. He
died on his birthday, aged sixty-five years,
leaving behind him a record of unusual ac
tivity and a reputation that classes him for
all time as one of Buffalo's most eminent
citizens. He married, in 1870, Sarah E., daughter
of Thomas Brown, of Buffalo, formerly of
Caledonia, New York. Children: Elizabeth,
married Bronson Rumsey, of Buffalo ; Thomas
B., of whom further.
(IX) Thomas B., only son of Hon. Daniel
N. Lockwood, was born in Buffalo, New
York, February 7, 1873. He was educated in

the public schools, Buffalo, State Normal Col
lege, Buffalo High School, and entered Yale
University in 1891,. whence he was graduated,
B. A., class of 1895. Returning to Buffalo,
he read law with Rogers, Locke & Milburn,
attended Cornell University Law School one
year, and was admitted in 1897 to practice
in the Supreme Court of the state of New
York. He was at one time associated with
the firm of Lockwood, Hoyt & Greene, but
for some years has practiced alone. He was
formerly a director of the Third National
Bank, and a director of the Federal Tele
phone Company. In 1907 he was appointed
by Mayor James N. Adam, a member of the
board of park commissioners, and is at pres
ent (1911) president of the board. In 1910
he was appointed secretary of the Municipal
Tuberculosis Commission of Buffalo, created
by act of the state legislature. This position
he resigned in 191 1. In that year he was ap
pointed by Mayor Louis P. Fuhrman, a mem
ber of the Small Parks Commission. Politi
cally Mr. Lockwood is a Democrat. His fra
ternities are Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi
Delta Phi. His clubs are the Saturn, Buf
falo, University, Country and Park of Buf
falo, and the University of New York City.
He married, November 1, 1904, Marion,
daughter of George K. and Carrie (Hum
phrey) Birge, of Buffalo.

The paternal grandfather of
LANDY Peter P. Landy, of Barker,
Niagara county, New York, was
James Landy, who was born, lived and died
in county Tipperary, Ireland. He was mar
ried and had six children, all born in Ireland :
John, William, James, George, Mary and
Johannah. All came to this country except
John, who purchased the old homestead and
lived on same.
(II) William Landy, son of James Landy,
was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1823, died
in Niagara county, New York, in 1902. In
1843 he emigrated to the United States, land
ing in New York City. He was a shoemaker
by trade, and after a time settled in the town
of Hartland, Niagara county, New York,
where he followed his trade until later in
life, when he purchased a small farm on the
town line between Somerset and Hartland.
Plere he followed farming until his death. He
married Elizabeth Monahan, born in Tip
perary, Ireland. Children: 1. James, owns

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a farm on Coomer road, town of Newfane,
on which he now resides ; he married Wini
fred, daughter of James and Margaret But
ler, of Hartland ; they have children : Rena
E., Roy P., Pierce, and Winifred. 2. John,
lives at Niagara Falls ; holds a position with
the power company; married, in 1904, Grace
Mahon ; children : George and Carl. 3. Cath
erine, died in the fall of 1893. 4. Margaret,
married, October 25, 1894, Richard McAvoy,
died October 13, 1895. 5. Peter P., men
tioned below. 6. George E., resides in
Barker, New York; also owns the Landy
farm, on the town line between Hartland and
Somerset, and is making a nice fruit farm
out of same. He is very prominent with the
people of the town, and is highway commis
sioner there, having held that position for
the past six years, which goes to prove that
he is giving good satisfaction. At the present
time he is building a town and county road
for his town. He is also street commissioner
for the village of Barker. He is also past*
master of Somerset Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, No. 639; a member of the Independ
ent Order of Foresters ; Knights of the Mac
cabees, and Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, Barker Lodge No. 877. In the year
1900 he married Cora, daughter of John and
Frances Denniston. 7. William, died at age
of six months.
(Ill) Peter P., son of William and Eliza
beth (Monahan) Landy, was born in the town
of Somerset, Niagara county, New York,
March 1, 1868. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, finishing with a course at Bryant
& Stratton's Business College, at Buffalo,
New York. He worked with his father on
the farm until he was nineteen years of age.
He then became associated with the firm of
Harden & Sweeting, fruit evaporators, con
tinuing with them until 1893, when he formed
a partnership with P. L. Pallister, and as Pal-
lister & Landy continued in business until
1 901. They purchased the fruit business and
evaporating plant of Harden & Sweeting, and
operated along the same lines as the old firm.
In 1901 Mr. Landy sold his interest to his
partner and retired from the firm. In the
same year he went south and for a short time
operated an evaporating plant in Arkansas.
On his return north he bought the old Adam
Pease farm on the Somerset road, a tract of
sixty-seven acres devoted entirely to the cul
ture of fruit and the growing of vegetables,

and where he now resides. He is also inter
ested in buying fruit and produce, having a
large warehouse and evaporator on the farm.
In 1906 he purchased a farm of two hundred
acres on the lake road, known as the Homer
Mead farm, bordering on Lake Ontario. He
has sixty-five acres devoted to apples, fifty
acres to peaches, ten acres to quinces, plums
and prunes, ten acres to pears, the remainder
being cultivated and used for general farming
purposes. His orchards are yet young, but
if the promise of the present is fulfilled he
will have the finest fruit farm in Niagara
county. Mr. Landy is an able man of af
fairs and an expert in fruit farming. He
has been successful in his ventures and ranks
high among the substantial, thrifty men of
his town. He has been justice of the peace
since 1897 ; was village clerk of Barker two
years, and is now a member of the board of
education. He is a Republican in politics.
He is in high standing in the Masonic order,
belonging to Somerset Lodge, No. 639, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Barker, in which
he has held office for fourteen years, having
held the master's chair for four years, and
has been re-elected for 1912. He is also affil
iated with Ames Chapter, No. 88, Royal Arch
Masons, and Genesee Commandery No. 10,
Knights Templar, these latter two being of
Lockport; also the Ismailia Temple, Mystic
Shrine, Buffalo, New York. He was instru
mental in the organization and a charter
member of Barker Lodge, No. 877, Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has
held the office of noble grand ; also a member
of the Independent Order of Foresters, and
the Knights of Maccabees. He bears a high
reputation among his brethren of these or
ders, and is a man of the best standing in
his community, always ready to aid any new
enterprise that will prove of benefit to the
town of Somerset.
He married, December 2, 1896, Mary A.,
daughter of William A. and Cecelia E.
(Brownell) Mclntyre, of Junius, Seneca
county, New York; born February 14, 1874.
Children: Gertrude E., born June 16, 1899;
Maurice W., March 29, 1903 ; Marion C, twin
of Maurice W. ; P. Carlyle, born May 2, 1904 ;
George P., October 30, 1906; Owen T, April
2, 191 1. (The Mclntyre Line).
Samuel Mclntyre, grandfather of Mary A.
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died in 1896. He married (first) Mary Jane
Hathaway, about 1844 or 1845, and settled
in Junius, New York. She was born in 1820,
died in 1866, at Hastings, Michigan, where
they lived for a few years. Her mother lived
with them until her death at the age of one
hundred and four years. Children: William
A., of whom further; Irvin, born January,
1848; Delia, March 3, 1851 ; Elizabeth, 1853;
John, 1855, died young; Samuel, born 1858,
died in infancy; Katherine, born i860; Jen
nie B., February 28, 1863. After the death
of his first wife, Samuel Mclntyre with his
family returned to New York state, and in
1868 he married (second) Nancy Crysler
Dean, who died in 1888 or 1889. She had
one son, Edward Dean.
William A., son of Samuel and Mary Jane
(Hathaway) Mclntyre, was born September
7, 1846. When he was nineteen years old he
went to Nashville, Tennessee, to work for
the government. He was a Christian young
man, being the only one in camp who carried
a Bible. Shortly before the war closed he
was sent home on account of serious illness.
He became a brick-maker and worked at that
for several years. At the age of twenty-seven,
November 28, 1873, he married Cecelia E.
Brownell, daughter of Philip F. and Almira
C. Brownell. Children: 1. Mary A., born
February 14, 1874, at Junius, Seneca county,
New York; moved with her parents to Michi
gan in 1882, and lived on a farm in town
of Locke, Ingham county, for a short time,
and then moved to Belding, Michigan, about
1885, where she was educated in Belding high
school ; her parents were among the founders
of the First Baptist Church of Belding, of
which she became a member at the age of
twelve years; she was an active worker in
the church and Sunday school, being a
teacher and junior superintendent until she
was married and went to New York state
to make her future home as wife of Peter P.
Landy. She was united with the West Som
erset Baptist church by letter, where she is
still a member, although she is also a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church so
ciety. She is a member of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and has held
offices in that organization; a member of
Miller Bible class, and at one time was presi
dent of same; a charter member of Town-
send Chapter, No. 305, Order of the Eastern
Star; also an officer and charter member of

the Ladies' Auxiliary. Mrs. Landy has some
natural talent as a reader. She is a great-
great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Smith and
wife, who came from Scotland to New York,
about 1770, and settled in Tarrytown, New
York. Rev. Smith was a very learned man,
a noted preacher of the Dutch Reformed
Church, and owned a large religious library
in his native language. One child, born 1781,
a girl, married a man by the name of Bur
nett. They lived at Lyons, Wayne county,
New York, and had one child: Sarah B.,
born October 15, 1797, married March 8,
1813, Rev. William Brown, died March 14,
1846. They had eleven children, among
whom was Almira C, of whom further. Rev.
William Brown was born in Vermont, April
23, 1793, of English descent, and died July
25, 1870. He moved to Lyons, New York,
in 1796. For several years he lived in
Junius, New York, where he was ordained,
at the age of nineteen, as a Baptist minister.
He was well known through Central New
York for his probity and honor. He owned
and worked a two hundred acre farm, and
did not preach for a salary. He was among
the citizens called out to defend Sodus Point
during the war of 1812-1814. They were soon
disbanded and sent home, and that same
night the British burned the town. He was
the possessor of two original copies of Ulster
County Gazette, printed in 1800, and giving
a full account of the death and burial of
George Washington. One of these copies is
now owned by Mary A. Landy.
Almira C, daughter of Rev. William and
Sarah B. (Burnett) Brown, was born August
6, 1827, and died July 19, 1900. She was
educated in private schools, and was herself
a teacher for a number of years. She was
married to Philip F. Brownell, about 1848.
She was a devoted member of the Baptist
church, a very intelligent, well-read person,
honored and beloved by all who knew her.
Philip F. Brownell was born April's, 1825,
in Dutchess county, New York. His parents
were born in Pennsylvania; his mother, Jan
uary 5, 1801. Philip F. was a carpenter by
trade, and lived on a farm in Junius, New
York. In 1864 or 1865 he enlisted in the
army, remaining in active service until the
close of the war. In 1879 he removed with
his family to Michigan and settled in the
town of Locke, Ingham county. He was dis
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from which he never recovered, and conse
quently was a pensioner for many years. In
church affiliations he was a Methodist, and
died August 22, 1892. Children of Philip
F. and Almira C. Brownell : Cecelia E., born
March 2, 185 1; William E., May 10, 1852,
died young; Frank A., born March 4, 1854;
Martha H., July 29, 1855; Myron E., June
11, i860; John W., July 13, 1861 ; Allie M.,
May 27, 1864; Cecelia E. lived with her
grandparents (the Browns) from the time she
was a child. She was educated in the public
schools and married William Augustas Mc
lntyre, November 28, 1872, at McGees Cor
ners, Junius, New York, the ceremony being
performed by the Rev. Plasky Smith. She
was a member of the Baptist church, and al
ways lived a consecrated, Christian life. She
died December 5, 1907, after a long illness.
Other children of William A. Mclntyre:
2. Minerva B., born January 9, 1878 ; she was
educated in the Belding high school; married
Jesse B. Brown, great-great-grandson of Rev.
William Brown, described elsewhere in this
work, about the year 1900. They have two
children : Carlton, aged nine years, and Car
mine, one year. The family are members of
the Baptist church. 3. Almira C, born Feb
ruary 18, 1889; she was educated in the Beld
ing high school, and business college at Grand
Rapids, Michigan; she follows the profession
of stenography, and resides at Detroit, Michi
gan. 4. Buelah B., born October 9, 1892 ;
educated in Belding high school, member of
Baptist church; married James Banks, of
Greenville, Michigan, July 11, 1910, and re
sides in Belding.

The Robbins family, represen-
ROBBINS tatives of which reside in Me
dina, New York, bear the fol
lowing arms : Gules, two fleur-de-lis ; each
divided paleways, and fastened to the sides
of the escutcheon, the points following each
other or. Crest: A talbot's head or.
(I) Richard Robbins, the first member of
this family of whom we have definite infor
mation, came from England to New England,
about 1639. He settled first at Charlestown,
afterwards removing to Cambridge, Massa
chusetts, where he shared in the division of
the Church lands in 1652. He married Re
becca  and among their children was
Nathaniel, see forward.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Richard Robbins,

was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
1649, died there in 17 19. He married, August
7, 1669, Mary Brazier, who bore him eight
children, among whom was Nathaniel, see
forward. (Ill) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Robbins, was born in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, February 28, 1678, died January 26,
1 761. He married Hannah Chandler, who
bore him nine children, among whom was
Philemon, see forward.
(IV) Philemon, son of Nathaniel (2) Rob
bins, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
September 19, 1709, died in Branford, Con
necticut, August 3, 1781. He married (first),
December 27, 1735, Hannah Foot, who died
June 16, 1776; she bore him three sons and
six daughters, among whom was Ammi
Ruhamah, see forward. He married (second)
October 28, 1778, Mrs. Jane Mills, who died
July 30, 1788.
(V) Ammi Ruhamah, son of Philemon
Robbins, was born in Branford, Connecticut,
September, 1740, died in Norfolk, Connecti
cut, October 31, 1813. He was a graduate of
Yale College, was installed pastor at Norfolk,
October 28, 1761, and remained as minister
for fifty-two years^ and was a trustee of Wil
liams College. He married, May 13, 1762,
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Lazarus and Lydia
(Bradford) Le Baron, and granddaughter of
Dr. Francis Le Baron. Among their children
was Samuel, see forward.
(VI) Samuel, son of Ammi Ruhamah Rob
bins, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, Au
gust 29, 1784, died in Penn Yan, New York,
April 6, i860. He also resided in Woodbury,
Connecticut. He married, May 27, 1817,
Fanny, daughter of Jeremiah and Anna
(Sherwood) Osborne. Among their children
was Thomas Burr, see forward.
(VII) Thomas Burr, son of Samuel Rob
bins, was born in Camillus, New York, Jan
uary 4, 1828. In early life he went to Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, where he became man
ager of large coal mines, along the line of the
Panhandle railroad, and was one of the most
extensive coal operators in western Pennsyl
vania. He retired in 1873. In the winters he
resided in Pittsburg, and during the summers
at Midway, Washington county, Pennsylvania;
He was a member of the Presbyterian church
in Pittsburg, and a Republican in politics. He
married (first), in 1851, Alice Brockaway,
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Le Baron and Edward. He married (sec
ond), in 1861, Mary, born at Penn Yan, New
York, October 2, 1836, daughter of Judge
Henry and Margaret (Haight) Welles, and
granddaughter of Dr. Welles, of General
Washington's staff. Mr. Robbins had two
children by his second wife : 1. Harry Welles,
born July 30, 1870; he is the proprietor of a
machine stamping works, which makes auto
mobile supplies, and is also president of the
Bignell Foundry. Company, both of which con
cerns are in Medina. He married Bessie Rut-
ton, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; they have one
child, Thomas Burr Robbins. 2. Bertine.
Judge Henry Welles, father of Mrs. Rob
bins, was born at Kinderhook, Columbia
county, New York. During his boyhood his
father removed to the east bank of Lake
Keuka. He read law with Vincent Mathews,
at Bath, Steuben county, New York, and there
he commenced his professional life. About
1829 he came to Penn Yan and resided there
until his death, in March, 1868. He became
district attorney of Yates county; in June,
1847, he was appointed an assistant justice of
the court of common pleas ; later he was made
a justice of the state supreme court, for the
seventh judicial district, and this position he
held .until his death, fie married Margaret,
daughter of Samuel S. and Sarah (Mathews)
Haight, who was born in Elmira, New York,
August 15, 1801 (see Haight III). Children
of Judge Henry and Margaret (Haight)
Welles; Samuel H., died in October, 1867;
Mary, referred to herein.
(The Haight Line).
(I) Jonathan Haight, the first member of
this family of whom we have definite infor
mation, died at Cortlandt, Westchester county,
New York, before 1780. He had formerly
lived at Rye, Westchester county, New York.
According to tradition, he and his son Jona
than were Englishmen; but this may mean
nothing more than that they were not Dutch
descent. Children, as far as known: Jona
than, died about 1780, married Elizabeth Man-
deville; Stephen, referred to below; Ben
jamin. (II) Stephen, son of Jonathan Haight, re
moved from Rye to Loonenburg, now Athens,
Greene county, New York. He married Mar
garet, daughter of John Cooke, of Loonen
burg. Children: Jonathan T. ; John, bap
tized May 16,1775; Samuel S., referred to

below; Stephen; Hannah, died in 1814, mar
ried Leon Van fiusen ; Elizabeth, married Joel
Collier; Mary, married Richard Collier; Mar
garet, married John Houk.
(Ill) General Samuel S. Haight, son of
Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Haight, was
born at Athens, September 17, 1778, died in
Cuba, Allegany county, New York, April 20,
1863. He studied law with his father-in-law
at Newtown, now Elmira, New York. He re
moved to Bath. As major-general of the state
militia, he was on the march toward the fron
tier when peace was declared after the war
of 1812. fie practiced law at Angelica, Alle
gany county, New York, from about 1818,
and was judge of the county court. From
1833 he lived for six years at Rochester, New
York, and afterward settled at Cuba, where
ihe owned wild land. For many years he was
a Presbyterian elder. His benevolence pre
vented the accumulation of great property. He
married (first) January 26, 1799, Sarah,
daughter of James and Hannah (Strong)
Mathews, who died at Angelica in 1831 ; (sec
ond) April 2, 1839, Maria W. Chesseman.
Children, all except last two by first marriage :
1. Fletcher Mathews, born November 28, 1799,
died February 23, 1866; married (first) Octo
ber 3, 1822, Elizabeth Stewart McLachlan, and
(second) September 20, 1829, Mary Ann
Brown. 2. Margaret, born at Newtown, now
Elmira, New York, August 15, 1801 ; mar
ried Judge Henry Welles, referred to above.
3. Henry, born January 19, 1804, died August
26, 1820. 4. Hannah, born June 2, 1805, died
in 1836; married, in 1832, W. R. Bunnell.
5. Robert, born June 17, 181 5, died in 1868;
married, about 1858, Caroline Mason. 6. Ju
liana, born October 12, 1818, died in 1845 ;
married, in 1842, George W. fiart. 7. Henry,
born October 18, 1820, died March 24, 1869;
married, October 22, 1845, Weltha Buel. 8.
Samuel W., born June 13, 1822, died about
1858; married, January 14, 1852, Juliette Cros-
well. 9. George W., born December 19, 1842.
10. Juliana, born October 17, 1846.

Albert Gallatin Dow was born in
DOW Plainfield, New Hampshire, August
16, 1808, and died in Randolph,
New York, May 21, 1908. He was the son
of Captain Solomon Dow. and Elizabeth (Buz-
zell) Dow, was the grandson of Richard Dow,
who served as captain in the revolutionary
war, and Elizabeth (Clough) Dow, and great-

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grandson of Solomon Dow and Mary (Saun
ders) Dow. The family are in direct descent
from the Dows of Hampton, Massachusetts,
who came to America from Renham, county
of Norfolk, England, in 1637.
In many respects Mr. Dow was one of the
most remarkable men of his time. As a cen
tenarian, he took the same active interest in
public affairs that had always characterized
him. In his hundredth year he was still the
man of affairs, his eye was bright, his faculties
keen, and his mental vision clear. Within a
few weeks before his death he had written,
at the request of members of his family, to be
distributed to his guests at his anticipated
hundredth anniversary, his personal reminis
cences, which abound in interesting incidents
of the pioneer life of Western New York.
The personality of the man speaks through
them. His interest in political movements, in
business, educational and social affairs, his
pen-pictures of old friends and relatives, with
here and there a touch of humor or a fine
phrase descriptive of some spot hallowed to
him by early association, together with its lit
erary qualities, all combine to make this, the
autobiography of Western New York's most
distinguished citizen, a work of rare interest
which we here reproduce in full:
TO MY SON, CHARLES M. DOW
At your request I give you some reminiscences
of my life. Now that we are zv.ell within the year
of my one hundredth anniversary, I will confine
myself particularly to those incidents that 1 think
have some bearing on my longevity, only deviating
to add interest for the younger members of our
family. — A. G. D.

My first recollection of anything, is of the ferry
boat crossing the Connecticut river when my father
moved his family from Plainfield, N. H, to Hart-
bud, Vt. I was born August 16, 1808, and we
moved in May before I was three years old.
I recollect many things of our home in Hartland
— the large meadow running down to the Connec
ticut river; the house, a large white colonial build
ing; the great room upstairs with its fireplace, and
my sisters spinning by the light of pine knots while
seme one of the family read; the Masonic Lodge
meeting in that room, where my father was the
master. I remember of his going off to Indiana to
look for a new home, and of his return ; that on
that trip he rode a very fine black mare of ours ;
she would not let any boy on her back, but my
mother used . to ride her. I remember my father's
saddle and saddlebags and my mother's side-saddle ;
the large table around which the ten children sat ;
the brick bake oven; and that at Thanksgiving time
when we children got up we found pumpkin pies

around on the wood-piles and fences. One day
some slaves passed our house; I think there were
seven of them chained together with two white
men attending them. We thought they were run
away slaves being taken back to their masters.
I heard of the failure of Mr. Pulcifer, a mer
chant of Plainfield, and that at the time of his fail
ure he owed my father $1,600, which was an entire
loss. My brother Richard enlisted in the war of 1812
and I remember my father going to the army at
Sackett's Harbor with a sleigh-load of provisions,
gotten together by the friends of the boys who
were serving from our neighborhood, and that later
one morning the mail coach carried a flag and we
knew the war was over. Richard came home soon
after that.
As I look back to that Vermont home, it seems
to me that we were a very thrifty, healthy, happy
family and its ' fireside recollections are very vivid
in my memory.
In September, 1816, when I was eight years old,
we left Hartland for our western home. We had
two horses, a yoke of oxen and two cows. One
horse was hitched before the yoke of oxen draw
ing the wagon that carried our effects. In a cov
ered carriage drawn by one horse were my mother
and the children. The morning we started, as we
passed through the village of Hartland, my teacher
came out and kissed me good-bye. I remember
going through the village of Windsor, three or
four miles from our home, but recollect none of
the other towns through which we passed except
Utica and Rochester. On our way through Utica,
which was a small place, we heard music from a
house and we stopped to enjoy it. I also remem
ber walking across the Cayuga Bridge and that it
was one mile and eight rods long. My only recol
lection of Rochester was of some sawmills, a great
many logs and piles of lumber. During our. journey
we had all the comforts that were possible at that
time. We stopped nights at hotels and I remember
well the bread and milk we had at our noon meal.
It was baker's bread and sometimes now when I
eat baker's bread with milk it tastes just as that
did. We had thirty days of travel, no sickness and
all stood the journey well.
When we got to Genesee county, New York,
where father had friends and among them some
old Vermont families who had settled there just
before, we concluded to stop for the winter and
then go on the next spring to Indiana. My father
leased a log house south of the Buffalo Road and
made some board additions to it. It was comfort
able enough, but as I think of it, life there was a
stern reality. The country at that time was all
woods with but few clearings except on the main
road. Small game was in abundance and some deer
were killed.
The next spring, instead of going to Indiana,
father bought a cleared farm on the Buffalo Road
nine miles and a half from Batavia. He built a
log house on a slightly elevated plateau overlook
ing a broad stretch of fine country to the west.
The house was large, had a brick chimney, which
was an exception, the logs were hewn inside, and
the house was better than any other around there.
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a project to build a schoolhouse and it was com
pleted without delay. I remember among the chil
dren in that school Mr. Mason's little daughters,
Nancy and Lydia Ann. Nancy's toes touched the
floor when she sat on the benches, but Lydia Ann's
did not. A Sunday School was a new institution
and one was opened in a private house near our
home. We recited verses selected by our parents,
had some singing and the teacher, Mr. Stewart,
talked to us.
About that time we heard that a circus was to
pass through at night and we children built a line
of fires along the road and scattered potatoes for
the elephant, so he would stop and eat them and we
get a good look at him.
I went to Batavia for my first Fourth of July cele
bration. They had an address, and martial music
was made by some of the Revolutionary soldiers
while others of the veterans were seated on the
platform. The old Buffalo Road was the main New York
State thoroughfare between the east and the west.
Two stages passed every day and there was a con
stant stream of emigrants on their way to the
Holland Purchase and Western Reserve which were
then being rapidly filled up, and -eastern people and
foreigners in their private carriages passed on their
way to and from Niagara Falls, then as great a
wonde'r as now, so we saw much of the activities
of life.
Father had a large family to provide for ; was
also active in the building of roads and bridges and
all those things that go to help establish social or
der. Axes were swinging on all sides and the coun
try was being rapidly settled, the forests giving
way to farms. On our farm we produced almost
everything that necessity or rude comfort would
demand. Our cellar from which we lived in winter
was well filled. We raised flax and my sisters made
our shirts and handkerchiefs, and made "homespun"
for the boys of the family. We kept a hired man,
a Vermonter, to whom we paid $8.00 a month and
board. Our first summer there was very cold, but I think
we never felt any anxiety for the ordinary necessi
ties. My father had some ready money and I recall
that- he loaned $100 to one of the Vermont families
who were near neighbors. I was the one to go to
milL We went to Pembroke, although it was far
ther away than the mill toward Batavia. We went
there as our old friends had settled in that direc
tion. Soon after we settled in Genesee county, a man
who was a cooper came along on horseback. He
had no money to continue his journey and wanted
to stay and go to work at his trade. Father bought
a set of cooper's tools, fixed up a place for him,
and he went to coopering, and after that father
conducted a cooper business until about the time of
his death, making pork barrels, firkins, sap-buckets,
etc. From the time we came West until our family
"broke up, I attended school near home and helped
about the farm, as boys generally do.
My sisters and brothers were Sarah, Mary, Rich
ard, Eliza, Caroline, Nancy, Hannah, Amos and
Phoebe. I was next younger than Hannah.
Genesee county at that time was an unhealthy

section. My- father had the ague and died in 1822
at fifty-six years of age. As I recollect him, he
was a tall and large man, I should think weighing
upwards of one hundred eighty pounds; was aus
tere in manner, a man of strong common sense,
and a leader among men in a way; not in politics,
however; was high in Masonry and was, I think,
a member of Batavia Lodge. He was not a church
member, but was a Universalist in belief, prized
education and virtue, and was a great lover of
books. He governed his household well, was a true
friend, and honest in all of his transactions. As I
think of him, it seems as though he was serious
minded, particularly after we came West; the prob
lems of life confronting a man with a large family
in a new country would naturally make him so.
My mother was rather small of stature. I remem
ber her light-blue eyes, light complexion, her ex
pression of goodness, and her interest in everything
that tended toward our happiness and prosperity.
There was an air of refinement about our home.
My sisters were all women of culture, had prepared
themselves for teaching, and all at one time or an
other taught school. In the winter we had spelling
schools and straw rides from one district to another,
and good times all together. Our family stayed to
gether on the farm until mother married the Rev.
Mr. Gross something over a year after father's
death. That winter I went to school at Attica, and
Amos, who was three years younger than I, went
with my sister Mary. My mother went to Clarence
to Mr. Gross's home, where she died in the autumn
of 1826 when fifty-four years of age. Mr. Gross
was a Universalist preacher and an excellent man.
He was then the editor of a religious paper in
Buffalo, also conducted a school for lads at his
home and prepared young men for college.
The summer I was sixteen I earned the first
money for myself, working for Mr. Huntington on
his farm. My first work was chopping a great pile
of wood and it was pretty hard business. The
Huntingtons were newly married people and Mrs.
Huntington flattered me somewhat by commending
me for not sending my plate back for more food.
It worked out as a matter of economy for the Hunt
ingtons and left me sometimes pretty hungry, but
I was probably just as well off for it afterward.
I worked there six months at $6.00 a month ; used
$18.00 of my wages and at the end of the time took
his note for the remaining $18.00.
The day before commencing work I made my first
trip to Buffalo. It was then a small city and there
were no buildings except shanties below the present
Mansion House. I went down to see the old "Su
perior," the great lake steamboat of that time.
After finishing with Mr. Huntington I went to
work for Mr. Carpenter and earned enough in the
fall to get my clothes, still keeping the $18.00 note.
During the time I was at Mr. Carpenter's he bought
the first stove that I had ever seen. It was a
curiosity and a great many people came to his house
to see it. That winter I went to school at Clarence
and the following summer I worked for Mr. Thomas
on his farm at $8.00 a month.
The first event attracting public attention that I
attended was the hanging of the three Thayers.
I went to Buffalo that day in. June, 1825. There
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all through the country, many passing through Clar
ence several days before. The hanging took place
in the large field opposite the Courthouse.
The next event that took me to Buffalo was the
starting of the first boat on the Erie canal. I got
my colt up the night before and on the 25th of
October, 1825, by the time the sun was up, I was
over half way to Buffalo, which was twelve or
thirteen miles from Clarence. I hitched the colt
in a shed somewhere near the present Genesee
House and ran my best down to where the crowd
was gathering around the boat. As it started, the
first of the signal cannons was fired. There were
several superintending the starting and at almost
the first move the bowsprit struck a bridge abut
ment and flew in pieces. However, there was little
damage or delay. I think there were not over two
or three hundred people there to see that great
event. My ambition was to become a merchant and I
had secured a position in a store at Ransom's Grove
but wanted to take further schooling before com
mencing, so I studied three months with Mr. Gross
and after finishing went to take the position, but
found that the store had been closed by the sheriff
the same day.
My sister Sarah had married Wheaton Mason of
Batavia, and as there was no chance for me at
Ransom's Grove, I continued on to Batavia, hoping
to find a position in a store there. A gentleman
going through on horseback suggested that I ride
his horse and save my stage fare and he would
take the stage. I saved my fare, but had a very
cold night's ride.
I found Mr. Mason with a great many things on
hand and quite a number of people about him. He
had a shoeshop employing five or six hands, a brick
yard, some farming and a grocery, aside from loan
ing money. They had a great many fires to build
and I commenced by making myself useful. During
the year and a little over that I was with them I
worked some about the grocery, put in and har
vested potatoes three miles away, and learned
enough of the shoe trade so that I was able to start
for myself the following year. During that summer
it became general talk that a Mr. Morgan, living
there, and whom I often saw, had written and pro
posed to publish an exposure of Free Masonry. In
the autumn of that year, 1826, he disappeared. Aside
from the great interest all through that section, I
was particularly interested in the subject, as Mor
gan's disappearance created intense feeling against
all members of the Batavia Lodge, of which my
father had been and my employer was then a mem
ber. This agitation resulted in the organization of
a new political party, the Anti-Masonic. Since that
time I have been an interested participant in the
political movements of the day.
On February 2, 1827, Mr. Mason and I started
for Panama, N. Y., to make our home there. As
we passed through Silver Creek, I was particularly
impressed with the beauty of its location, its busi
ness prospects, with a fine harbor on Lake Erie,
and with the people we met. At Panama Mr. Mason
bought a hotel at the top of the hill above the vil
lage. A short time after locating there, he sent me
back to Batavia on business. Stopping at Silver
Creek, I made up my mind to make it my home and

soon moved there; commenced a shoe and leather
jobbing business, which I conducted for thirteen
years and until I formed a partnership with George
Farnham, having bought a half interest in his hard
ware store.
When I was twenty years old I went to Westfield
and worked in the Aaron Rumsey tannery to learn
what I could, intending to start in that business for
myself the following year. There were several young
men working in the tannery and we had the usual
time that young fellows do. I recall that we at
tended the revival meetings held in the schoolhouse
for the fun of seeing the girls have the "power."
The practice of the converts and the people in the
meeting was not unlike that I have recently seen
among the southern negroes. Sunday afternoon we
boys in the tannery used to play cards out under
the trees by the creek. Through the influence of
Mrs. Rumsey I became interested in the Sunday
School and used to attend with her, where she was
one of the teachers. This was my first real interest
in the Sunday School, and when I became a mem
ber of the church several years later I became a
Sunday School teacher and have been either a Bible
class teacher or a superintendent nearly all the time
since. October 4, 1829, I married Freelove, the daughter
of Wheaton Mason and Octavia Belden, when I
was twenty-one years old. Mr. Mason, who had
married my sister Sarah, was then keeping the hotel
in Silver Creek where I boarded. The Mason fam
ily and our family had been intimate from the time
we came to Genesee County, Mr. Mason keeping
"The Brick Tavern," the most important house in
that country. He was a man of genial tempera
ment, maintained himself and his family in a gen
erous way and was in excellent credit and commer
cial standing during his entire life. He died in 1850
and was buried in Ellicottville. As soon as I was
married, we commenced keeping house in my own
house, which was paid for, and I have maintained
my own home ever since. With this first home there
were twenty-five acres of land, and since that time
I have never been without land of my own within
easy access of my home.
During most of the years that I was in Silver
Creek, before going into the hardware and .stove
business, I held town offices ; was collector, con
stable or justice of the peace, and was more or less
interested in politics. Those were Anti-Masonic
times and I was a Democrat. While I was acting
as collector, constable and justice, I had many prac
tical lessons as to those things which make for suc
cess or failure and give credit or discredit in busi
ness. I also had the evil of intemperance impressed
upon me through the misfortune of a dear friend,
and I have remembered those lessons.
During my time as constable, a large amount of
the work was collecting debts and many debtors
were taken to the county seat at Mayville up to
1831 when the imprisonment for debt was abolished.
Debtors were not confined in the jail, but were on
"the limits" and boarding houses were maintained
for their accommodation. They could give bail and
if they were found off the limits during week days
the bondsmen were obliged to pay the debt for
which they were imprisoned. Sundays they could
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Later when I was justice of the peace, Judge
Ward had an office with me. He was an excellent
judge of the common law and during that time I
took a great interest in law study. The Judge
wanted. to admit me to the bar, but I felt that if
I were admitted, I would do more or less petti
fogging which would interfere with my business
as a merchant.
Soon after I went to Silver Creek a miniature
railroad train was exhibited in the hotel ballroom
and created much interest. The first talk regard
ing the practical operation of railroads was that
the railroads were to be public highways used by
individuals who would operate their own vehicles
under the same plan as canal boats were operated,
pay tolls and be under state regulation, but that
did not materialize. Private corporations built the
roads, but their rates were fixed so as not to com
pete to the disadvantage of the canals.
My first railroad trip was taken in 1840 and to
make better time I took the stage to Bushnell's
Basin ; from there a canal boat to Syracuse, where
I took the train. The 'track was of strap-iron laid
on timbers. The train was off the track two or
three times before we got to Albany and the pas
sengers assisted in putting it on. We were helped
up and down the hill west of Albany by a stationary
engine to which our train was attached by a rope.
The station in Albany where we stopped was near
the capital on the left hand side of State Street
looking down. From Albany we took a boat down
the river to New York City.
That year, 1840, I became a partner of Mr. Farn
ham in the hardware business and succeeded to the
business a year later. During the next few years
I had established a dry goods store in Randolph,
had a store one year in Sinclairville and had filled
that country up with stoves, and in 1845 I moved
my family to Randolph and established a hardware
store there. I moved my dry goods store to East
Randolph in 1848 and soon after sold it to my
brother Amos, who conducted it for many years.
The Erie Railroad had been abandoned in 1842,
business was stagnant in Randolph, and the prin
cipal merchants had been obliged to suspend, but
they had a large and good tributary country. From
the time we started the business in Silver Creek
we sent peddling wagons through Cattaraugus and
Chautauqua counties, selling our tinware and stoves
at wholesale or retail and often placing them on
commission. I continued that business in Randolph,
extending the territory farther and into Pennsyl
vania. Our teams often brought home large amounts
of furs and bales of buffalo skins, they having been
carried on the backs of raftsmen returning from
the Ohio River country. My business there was
good from the start. I sold a large amount of goods
and both bought and sold on long credit. Soon
after moving to Randolph, I established a store in
Ellicottville and started a nephew in one at Brad
ford, Pa.
My wife died at Randolph August 21, 1847. Our
children were James, Warren, Sarah, Mary and
Albert. On April 25, 1850, I married Lydia Ann Mason
at Schenectady, N. Y. She was the daughter of
Wheaton and Octavia Belden Mason and was bom
June 9, 1814, at Pembroke, N. Y. Our only child

was Charles Mason. My wife died at Randolph
June ii, 1891.
In 1863 I discontinued merchandising, having es
tablished a banking business in Randolph three years
before. I was active in the banking business until
1891. As in my merchandising, my field of opera
tion was not confined to Randolph, where the de
mand for money was limited. My discounts and
paper covered quite a large territory. Lumber was
being manufactured both above and below on the
Allegheny river, with the result that my banking
operations extended from the head-waters and the
upper tributaries of the Allegheny to Pittsburg and
below. Since 1891 I have held interests in several other
banking institutions in western New York and have
in a way kept in touch with that business. I have
kept my Randolph office open daily when at home,
have given my personal attention to my affairs and
have retained control of my investments. Since
coming to Randolph I have varied my activities
somewhat, serving in several official positions locally
and in the state assembly and senate, and have al
ways been actively interested in political, educational
and religious affairs.
A few years ago I went back to my old home in
Vermont and my birthplace in New Hampshire. I
found the Hartland house well preserved and it has
evidently been a prosperous and well kept place.
The house is on the slope above the bottomlands
and looks over the Connecticut Valley. This, the
Cornish Artists' Colony section, is where the first
eight years of my life were spent. I cannot but
feel that the beauty of my surroundings during those
years has had a marked influence on my life.
The scenery of all that country is picturesque
rather than grand, but old Ascutney Mountain that
my parents used to talk so much about when we
were in our new home in Genesee county looked
to me just as it did when a child. Along the road
near the house is a row of handsome shade trees.
The meadow is not as large and the river not as
wide as my memory had pictured. It is a section
untouched by commerce and manufacturing. The
farms on that road all look well cared for, the
buildings are large and general thrift prevails. We
crossed the ferry over to Plainfield, a little village
now, as then, called "The Plain." The house where
I was born is still standing and is said to be the
oldest house in the village. It is a one and a half-
story building with a veranda and pillars in front.
The village now has a deserted appearance. The
main street is broad and is lined with old elms, so
much a part of New England beauty. At both
places I found people who knew the young people of
our family when we lived there. One very old
lady told us that it ft one of the traditions of her
family that the first time she was taken to church
when a baby, Captain Dow carried her in his arms
from the carriage to the pew. Another remembered
of my brother Richard going to the War of 1812 and
coming back afterward. We drove back to Windsor
through Cornish.
I afterwards spent an afternoon at Bow, N. H.
I knew very little of Bow except my recollection
of my father's and mother's talk of their early home.
Mother once told us of the first time she saw father ;
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on the green before their house, and that he was
then a tall lad. I went to her father's farm, saw
the old house where she passed her childhood, the
green, the old meeting house, the center of their
social life, where my grandfather, James Buzzell,
was a deacon, and all that section that was familiar
to father and mother when they were young. Where
they lived is a high plateau and extremely rocky
and is about two miles back from the Merrimac
River. A matter of no small interest to me was what I
learned of the part my grandfather, Captain Richard
Dow, took in the public affairs of his time ; of his
Revolutionary service, of his being selectman of
his town and captain of the local militia.
I could clearly see the early surroundings of my
father and mother, which added to the traits trans
mitted to them by their ancestors, gave them their
sturdy character, which I hope may carry through
generations. As to my personal habits and practices : In my
early business life I ate and worked quite irregularly
as I was pushing my business in every direction pos
sible. Since soon after discontinuing merchandising
and for something over forty years I have been
regular in my meals and have not eaten rapidly.
Early, my stomach would reject both liquid and
solid food if taken too hastily. The habit I formed
- of deliberation in eating naturally led to modera
tion with little craving for rich sauces. My sense
of taste is now and has been delicate and definite.
I have always humored it and eaten anything that
I desired.
I never cultivated the desire for liquor and have
been an abstainer from alcoholic drinks. I at one
time enjoyed cigars, but have not used tobacco dur
ing the last seventy-five years.
It has been my custom to rise early and take a
sponge bath, sometimes in cold and at others in
tepid water, but never in a cold room. After my
bath I have read from books and studied until the
family breakfast was served. I have learned much
from reading and I think the desire to learn is as
strong with me now as ever. After breakfast all
members of the family united in the morning de
votion before taking up the business of the day. I
have never spared myself on account of inclement
weather if business demanded. Except for some
business or social engagement, I have retired early
and have slept well.
I have had little use for medicine or medical at
tendance and do not recall that I ever used physic
except possibly during the cholera times in 1832,
when I was under the care of a physician and do
not know what medicines were given me.
I am five feet, four inches tall. My weight has
varied from 130 to 140 pounds and is now- about
135 pounds and I am without a pimple, blemish or
scar of any kind, which, considering all my long
continued activities, is quite remarkable.
I do not recall that I have ever taken any sys
tematic exercise for the sake of exercise, except
possibly this winter and spring I have walked a
little with that end in view, but I have never taken
any of the exercises prescribed by the gymnasiums.
In my early business life I did a great deal of horse
back riding, being in the saddle as often as possible,
and while the saddling was all done in the transac

tion of business, I found great pleasure and ex-
hileration in it. In later life, however, driving has
taken the place of saddling.
I have enjoyed my home, my neighbors and my
surroundings and have always been in touch with
the spirit of the country. There has seemed in and
about Randolph something of the serenity that in
my mind has always been associated with my New
England home.
Of Mr. Dow's children : 1. James, was born
July 1, 1830, died February 15, 1859; mar
ried Lucy O. Stevens, of Rochester. 2. War
ren, of whom further. 3. Sarah, born Janu
ary 22, 1837, died February 6, 1840. 4. Mary,
born June 14, 1842; married James G. John
son: children: Mark Dow, married Ora
Thorpe: Ruth Dow, married Carl S. Tomp
kins. 5. Albert G. Jr., of whom further. 6.
Charles Mason, only child of second wife, of
whom further.
Warren, second son of Albert Gallatin, and
his first wife, Freelove (Mason) Dow, was
born at Silver Creek, Chautauqua county, New
York, January 15, 1833. He attended the
public schools, and when Randolph Academy
was opened he was the first pupil to register.
After leaving school he entered his father's
hardware store as clerk, remaining in that
capacity five years, being then admitted a
partner under the firm name of A. G. Dow
& Son, which continued until 1863, he alone
being its manager after his father began his
banking business in i860. He continued mer
chandizing in Randolph until about 1870,
when he established the same business in De
troit, Michigan, and a few years afterward
become one of the firm of Dow & Co., bankers
of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Since which time
he was also first cashier of the Salamanca Na
tional Bank, now the Salamanca Trust Com
pany, and for succeeding years has been in
terested in banking, real estate and farming.
He is past master of Randolph Lodge, No.
359, and is a Democrat in politics. He mar
ried, September 1, 1858, Josephine, daughter
of John J. and Susan (Thorne) Guernsey.
Children: 1. Louise, born March 13, 1864;
married George E. Allen, of New York City;
children: Josephine and Louise. 2. Jennie,
born May 1, 1867; married Allen Falconer;
children : Eleanor and Janet.
Albert Gallatin (2), son and fifth child of
Albert Gallatin (1) and his first wife, Free-
love (Mason) Dow, was born at Silver Creek,
Chautauqua county, New York, April 17,
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Randolph Academy and Homer Academy. He
began business life as a clerk in the store of
his uncle, Amos Dow, at East Randolph. In
February, 1865, he enlisted in Company B,
Sixty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer
Infantry, under Captain Jones and Colonel
William Glenny. His regiment was a part
of the Army of the Potomac. He was pro
moted sergeant, April 2, 1865, sergeant-major,
June 1, 1865, and later first lieutenant and ad
jutant, but did not muster in. He was hon
orably discharged July 14, 1865. On return
ing from the war he engaged in the dry goods
business in Randolph under firm name of
Swan & Dow, for some years, and then lo
cated in Louisville, Kentucky, where he estab
lished and successfully conducted the well-
known manufacturing concern, Dow's Wire
Works Company. After disposing of his in
terests in Louisville, he undertook farming
operations in Randolph, which he has contin
ued extensively. He is president of the board
of Water Commissioners of Randolph, presi
dent of the Merchants & Manufacturers Asso
ciation, treasurer of Chamberlain Institute,
and member of the Masonic Order, and of
D. T. Wiggins Post, Grand Army of the Re
public, and is interested in all that pertains to
the welfare and prosperity of his home village.
He has recently established and equipped a
public library with lecture hall, reading rooms
and all that goes to make a well-equipped
library, known as the A. G. Dow Free Li
brary. This was built and maintained at his
personal expense.
He married, September 16, 1868, Frances
A. Sheldon, daughter of George A. and Mar
gery M. (Sample) Sheldon.
Charles Mason Dow, a resident of James
town, Chautauqua county, New York, born
at Randolph, August 1, 1854; educated at
Randolph Academy and Oberlin College; pre
pared for the law with Johnson & Crowley,
attorneys, of Randolph ; became a member of
the banking firm of A. G. Dow & Son, Ran
dolph, New York, in 1876. He continued the
same association at Bradford, Pennsylvania,
in 1879, under the firm name of Dow & Co.
He discontinued the business in 1884 and de
voted three years to leisure and travel. In
1888 he established the Jamestown National
Bank at Jamestown, and was its president un
til the consolidation with the Chautauqua
County Trust Co., now the National Chautau
qua County Bank, in 1899, he having been

previously elected president of that institution,
and has since continuously held that position.
He is director of several financial institutions,
among them the American Surety Co. of New
York City. In 1903, as a special work, he
organized the banking department of the Title
Guarantee & Trust Co. of New York City,
and was vice-president of that institution for
two years. He has varied his activities, and,
aside from interests in philanthropic associa
tions, he has been for fourteen years a com
missioner of the State Reservation at Niagara,
and for the last eight years president of that
commission. He was active in the establish
ment of the park system of Jamestown, was
the first president of the Park Board, one of
the parks of Jamestown being named in his
honor in recognition of his services. He is a
trustee of the Society for the Preservation of
the Adirondacks ; is a trustee of the American
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and
chairman of the Letchworth Park Committee
of that Society. He is director of Letchworth
Park and Arboretum, and has inaugurated
and established at Letchworth Park, the first
timber arboretum in the world, where the tim
ber trees of the known world are gathered
together. The function of the arboretum as
laid down by the director is as follows:
The principle upon which the Letchworth Park
Arboretum is established is that it shall consist of a
permanent collection of the various species of the
world's timber trees likely to thrive in this northern
climate, planted scientifically, to test their value and
illustrate the processes of development, so supplying
not only knowledge for knowledge's sake, but also
knowledge for practical use.
The establishment of this arboretum will
lead to results of far-reaching importance to
the State of New York, and also to the Na
tional welfare, extending through the cen
turies. Mr. Dow is a member of the University
Club of Jamestown, the Jamestown Club, the
National Arts Qub of New York City, the
Lawyers' Club of New York City, the Cham
ber of Commerce of New York City, and other
associations and scientific societies. He has
been an extensive traveller, and is a frequent
contributor to magazines. He is a member of
the First Congregational Church at Randolph.
He married, January 12,- 1876, Eleanor,
daughter of Elisha L. Jones and Emily (Sib
ley) Jones. Children: 1. Alberta Gallatin,
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will, October 10, 1907; children: Eleanor,
born August 7, 1908 ; Charlotte, born Sep
tember 6, 1910. 2. Charles Mason Jr., born
September 25, 1878, a graduate of Yale Col
lege and Harvard Law School ; died Decem
ber 27, 1907. 3. Howard, born August 15,
1880. 4. Paul Livingstone, born March 15,
1884, died September 9, 1884.

Thomas Nichols, immigrant
NICHOLS ancestor of this family, was
born in England and came to
America before 1655, as he was married at
Maiden that year, fie was doubtless a rela
tive of Thomas Nichols, who was a planter
in the adjoining town of Cambridge before
1638, when he removed to Hingham. Thomas
had a brother George in England, who was
executor of the estate of their father, Walter
Nichols, a clothier of Coggeshall, county Es
sex, England. James Nichols, perhaps another
brother, married, April, 1660, at Maiden,
Mary, daughter of George Felt. Thomas
Nichols removed as early as 1665 to Ames-
bury, and had a seat in the meeting house
there in 1667 ; he belonged to the train band
in 1680, and died before 1720. He married,
in Maiden, Massachusetts, in September,
1655, Mary Moulton. Children: Thomas,
died young; Josiah, twin of Thomas, died
young; Ebenezer (a daughter), married
Benoni Tucker; Thomas, of whom further;
Samuel ; Rachel ; John, married Abigail Sar
gent ; Sarah, married Roger Stevens.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and
Mary (Moulton) Nichols, was born at Ames-
bury, Massachusetts, October 16, 1670. He
became a member of the Society of Friends.
His will, dated November 16, 1724, was proved
December 7 following. He married (first)
Jane Jamison, born February 23, 1673-4,
daughter of John and Esther (Martin) Jami
son; (second) April 30, 173 1, Judith fioages,
of Newbury. Children by first wife : Anna,
married Samuel Colby ; Jonathan ; Mary, mar
ried Ralph Balisdell; Esther, married Ichabod
Colby; Thomas; David, of whom further;
Rachel ; Stephen. Children of second wife :
Ebenezer, Benjamin.
(Ill) David, son of Thomas (2) Nichols
and his first wife, Jane (Jamison) Nichols,
was born at Arhesbury, Massachusetts, Octo
ber 26, 1709, and died in 1756, lost at sea. He
was a resident of Salem. He married, 1730,
Hannah Gaskill, born August 16, 1709, died

June 30, 1793, daughter of Samuel (2) and
Bethia (Gardner) Gaskill. Her father was
born January 23, 1663, and died in 1725 ; her
mother was born March 26, 1654, daughter of
Thomas (2) Gardner, died 1683, son of
Thomas (1), born 1592, died 1674, at Salem.
Samuel Gaskill (1), father of Samuel (2),
was born September 6, 1638, married Provi
dence Southwick, born December 6, 1639,
daughter of Lawrence and Cassandra South
wick. Edward Gaskill, father of Samuel, was
the immigrant. David and Hannah Nichols
had issue.
(IV) It cannot be stated with certainty
which of the children of David and Hannah
Nichols should be placed at the head of the
fourth generation. It was not Ichabod, as his
son David died unmarried. It seems sure that
David Nichols, of New York, was a grandson
of David and Hannah, of Salem, Massachu
setts. (V) David, grandson of David and Hannah
(Gaskill) Nichols, was born at Claverack, Co
lumbia county, New York, about 1775. He
later settled in Jefferson county, New York,
at Cape Vincent, where he died in 1830. Dur
ing the war of 1812 he served in the American
army. He followed farming, and was a man
of great energy and thrift. He married
Jerusha Spinning. Children: Elijah, Andrew,
Lucretia, George, Demmick and Julianna.
(VI) Andrew, son of David and Jerusha
(Spinning) Nichols, was born in Oneida
county, New York, April 2, 1806, and died
in Kennedy, Chautauqua county, New York,
May 13, 1891. He was a farmer of Jefferson
county, owning his own land, and was also
engaged in lumbering on the St. Lawrence
river. About 1870 he sold his interests in
Northern New York and came to Chautauqua
county, where he purchased a small farm near
the village of Kennedy. Here he resided until
two years prior to his death, when he removed
into the village. He was a Democrat all his
life, but voted for President Lincoln when
he was a candidate for a second term. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and always was most hospitable, in
his entertainment of its members and min
isters. He was a member of the school board,
interested in the cause of education, and of
the upbuilding of the church. He had pros
pered in business, and was considered one of
the substantial men of his town. He married,
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county, New York, March 22, 181 1, died Oc
tober 21, 1900, aged eighty-nine years, daugh
ter of Sullivan Holcomb, who was born in
Guilford, Connecticut, December 3, 1776, and
settled in Jefferson county, New York, near
Cape Vincent, where he died, January 25,
1865, at the age of eighty-eight years ; he was
an officer in the war of 18 12, fought at Chip
pewa, Lundy's Lane and Little York, and was
captured by the British after "he was dis
charged from service and on his way home ;
he married Abigail Lee, born October 7, 1778,
died November 7, 1866, daughter of Seth Lee.
Children of Andrew and Cordelia Nichols:
1. Maria, born 1831, died 1887, aged fifty-six
years, four months, twelve days ; married Har
vey S. Elkins. 2. Benjamin, of whom further.
3. Seth Lee, born July 2, 1837 ; veteran of the
civil war ; now a stock dealer and farmer of
Minnesota. 4. Ira C, born in Clayton, New
York, March 16, 1840, died 1908 ; he served in
the civil war as lieutenant of the Thirteenth
Regiment, United States Colored Troops, and
after the war engaged in the lumber business
at Kennedy, New York; he married, July,
1867, Selina Abbey ; children : E. Ross, Lynn,
Leigh, Mary and Edna. 5. Jane, married Ed
ward Carr ; resides near Randolph, New York ;
no issue. 6. Andrew (2), was a stockman
and farmer of Minnesota, now resides near
Tacoma ; married Harriet Walker, deceased ;
has son, Kenneth. 7. Mary, married William
Cole, superintendent of Chautauqua Lake As
sembly Grounds, where they reside; no issue.
8. Isaac C, a mine owner of Ashland, Wis
consin; now a re'sident of Tacoma, Wash
ington. (VII) Benjamin, son of Andrew and Cor
delia (fiolcomb) Nichols, was born at Clay
ton, Jefferson county, New York, January 1,
1835. He was educated in the public schools,
and worked with his father on the farm until
he was about seventeen, when he came to
Chautauqua county, finishing his studies at
Jamestown Academy in' 1852. He learned the
millwright's trade with Barnett Stillwell, and
after two years with Carlisle Paterson and
John Phetelace, was engaged in business for
himself until 1883. He built and equipped
flouring mills in Kennedy, New York, Union
City, Meadville and Conneautville, Pennsyl
vania, and other places, as well as doing a
great deal of work in his line at other points.
He resided in Kennedy, New York, from 1857
to 1884, and was engaged in the lumber busi

ness there with W. T. Falconer Sr., also with
his brother, I. C. Nichols. During the civil
war he built flatboats in association with Dan
iel Griswold and Harvey S. Elkins, which
they loaded with provisions and farm produce
for the army, floating them down and dispos
ing of their largess on the Allegheny and Ohio
rivers. In 1883 he formed a partnership with
William Babcock, and operated a foundry and
machine shop. They purchased the Jamestown
Iron Works, which they fitted up for their
purposes, operating them successfully until
1888, when he purchased Mr. Babcock's inter
est and admitted his son, Qiarles M. Nichols,
as a partner. In 1904 he retired from active
business. In 1884 he built his present home
in Jamestown, which has been his place of
residence ever since, and he maintains a hand
some summer home at Point La-Ni-Ta, on the
St. Lawrence river, between Clayton and Cape
Vincent. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and for many years was a
member of the official board. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and served his city as alder
man. He married, November 10, 1856, at
Kennedy, Jane M. Taylor (see below). Chil
dren: 1. Delia M., born February 8, 1858,
died October 3, 1904; she was a woman of
most cheerful and happy temperament, was
educated in music, and was organist of the
Kennedy Methodist Episcopal Church ; she
married Celestus L. Wilcox. 2. Melvin C,
died aged four years. 3. William S., died in
infancy. 4. Charles M., of whom further.
5. Myrtle L., born May 12, 1866 ; she is an
educated musician, and a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church ; she married, Novem
ber 20, 1901, Charles E. Brown. 6. Maud C,
born December 20, 1867, died November 26,
1887 ; she married Salem Parker, and left a
daughter, Maud Alline, born November 20,
1887, married Paul Rosencrantz. 7. Pearl L.,
born December 14, 1871, married Franklin H.
Oaks; children: Louis Benjamin, Gerald Z.,
Percy, Donald and Dudley.
Jane M. Taylor, who became the wife of
Benjamin Nichols, was born at Schroon Lake,
Essex county, New York, March 28, 1841,
daughter of Eli and Lucinda (Jenks) Taylor.
She was twelve years of • age when her par
ents settled in the town of Poland, Chautau
qua county. She is a devoted member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, taught a Bible
class for many years in the Sunday school,
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Society. Eli Taylor, father of Mrs. Jane M.
Nichols, was born at Schroon Lake, February
13, 1812, died July 10, 1875, son of Nathan
and Mehitable (Watkins) Taylor. Nathan
was a mill owner, was twice married, and had
fifteen children. Eli continued his father's
milling business at Schroon until after his
marriage, when he removed to Chesterton,
Warren county, New York, where he operated
a flouring mill. Later he settled in Randolph,
Cattaraugus county, thence at Kennedy, Chau
tauqua county, where he died. He was an ac
tive member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and superintendent of the Sunday
school. He married, 1832, Lucinda Jenks,
born June 15, 1816, died December 9, 1894,
daughter of Obadiah and Melintha (Mason)
Jenks. Children: Nathan, born in Essex
county, New York, 1839; Jane M., married
Benjamin Nichols ; Orlando, born 1843, a vet
eran of the civil war, now a resident of Ken
nedy; Fayette, born 1845, a veteran of the
civil war, resides in Kennedy; Charles, born
1847, a veteran of the civil war, resides in
Kennedy; Jesse, born 1849, in East Randolph,
New York, resides in Kennedy.
(VIII) Charles M. Nichols, fourth child and
third son of Benjamin and Jane M. (Taylor)
Nichols, was born in Kennedy, Chautauqua
county, New York, May 18, 1864. He was
educated in the public schools of Kennedy,
where his early life was spent. In 1883 he
entered the office employ of Nichols & Bab
cock, then owning and operating the James
town Iron Works as a foundry and machine
shop. When Benjamin Nichols purchased the
interest of his partner, Mr. Babcock, in 1888,
Charles M. was admitted a partner and the
firm name was changed to Benjamin Nichols
& Son. The business was continued under
this name until 1904, when the father retired.
This brought about a reorganization, and busi
ness was continued as the Jamestown Iron
Works, founders and machinists, with Charles
M. Nichols as superintendent and general
manager, in which position he now continues
(1911). The plant of the company is located
in Jamestown, is well equipped, and in suc
cessful operation. He reorganized in 1910 the
Jamestown Garage Company, located on
Cherry street, of which company he is sec
retary and treasurer. This is a prosperous
company, owning and conducting the largest
garage in the city. He has spent eleven years
in the service of the National Guard of New

York, enlisting September 20, 1887, in the
Thirteenth Separate Company. During the
Spanish-American war he volunteered and
went out with his company, but ill health com
pelled him to return in a few weeks. He is a
member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free
and Accepted Masons, and Rising Sun Chap
ter, No. 67, Royal Arch Masons. He is a
member, with his family, of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He is a Republican in poli
tics ; in 1898-99 he represented the third ward
as alderman, and he served eleven years as vol
unteer fireman, member of Eagle Hose Com
pany No. 2.
Mr. Nichols married, June 10, 1895, at
Jamestown, Sadie (Sara) Sweet, born at
Corry, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1871, daugh
ter of Samuel and Regina Frances (Huber)
Sweet. Child, Charles Malcolm, born in
Jamestown, June 25, 1906. The family reside
at No. 108 Barrett street, Jamestown, with
summer home at Clement Park, on the shores
of Lake Chautauqua.
Samuel Sweet is a son of Isaac and Sarah
(Powell) Sweet, who were the parents of six
other children, all born in the parish of St.
George, near Bristol, England, and whose
names were as follows : Ann, Isaac, George,
Henry, Walter and Elizabeth. Isaac Sweet
was a son of Abraham Sweet, born at Rayne-
ham, near Bristol, England, and his wife was
a daughter of Samuel Powell, born at Kings-
wood, near Bristol, England. Regina Frances
(Huber) Sweet is a daughter of Jacob Peter
and Elizabeth Huber, natives of Freiburg,
Baden, Germany. (The Holcomb Line).
Cornelia Holcomb, wife of Andrew Nichols,
mother of Benjamin and grandmother of
Charles M. Nichols, is a descendant of
Thomas Holcomb, an early Puritan settler of
Massachusetts, later of Connecticut.
Thomas Holcomb was an early settler in
Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was made
freeman there in May, 1635, and that year
sold his house and lands and removed to Wind
sor, Connecticut. In 1639 he went to Pequon-
nock to live, and that year was one of the rep
resentatives of Windsor and Hartford on the
committee which framed the constitution of
the colony of Connecticut. He died at Wind
sor, September 7, 1657, leaving a widow,
Elizabeth, who married (second) James Enno,
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Joshua, Sarah, Benajah, Deborah, Nathaniel,
Deborah (z), Jonathan.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Thomas and Eliza
beth Holcomb, was born November 4, 1648.
He settled at Simsbury, Connecticut, which
town he represented in general court, 1703-04-
05-06-20-22. He was a farmer, and later in
life was of Granby, Connecticut. He married
Mary Bliss, of Springfield, February 27, 1670.
Children: Nathaniel, Mary, Jonathan, John,
Esther, Catherine, Sarah, Benjamin.
(Ill) John, son of Nathaniel and Mary
(Bliss) Holcomb, was born in 1680. He was
of Granby, Connecticut. He married, March
19, 1706, Anna Pettibone. Among their chil
dren was Azariah.
(IV) Deacon Azariah, son of John and
Anna (Pettibone) Holcomb, died in Granby,
Connecticut, in 1771, aged sixty-four years.
He married, June 25, 1730, Hannah Loomis,
born May 21, 1705.. Children: Abner, born
April 3, 1731 ; Elizabeth, May 18, 1733 ; El-
dad, January 9, 1735; Obed, January 8, 1737;
Hannah, January 9, 1738; Bethia, January
20, 1740; Mary, May 21, 1744; Benjamin, of
further mention; Lois, July 5, 1749; Eunice,
June 11, 175 1.
(V) Benjamin, son of Deacon Azariah and
Hannah (Loomis) Holcomb, was born March
3, 1746, died about 1809. fie married Mercy
Kendall, who died in 1827. Children: Sulli
van, Harvey, John, Lyman, Samuel, Mahala,
Nettie, Susan, Lillie, Mercy.
(VI) Sullivan, son of Benjamin and Mercy
(Kendall) Holcomb, was born December,
1776, died January, 1865. He married Abi
gail Lee, born October 7, 1778, died November
7, 1866, daughter of Seth Lee, born 1732, died
1802; married Johanna Johnston, who died
in 1818 (see Nichols, VI).
(VII) Cornelia, daughter of Sullivan and
Abigail (Lee) Holcomb, married Andrew
Nichols (see Nichols, VI).

The earliest mention of this
MOODY name in England is that of Reg
inald Moody (spelled Mody),
living in Norfolk, 1272. In America the fam
ily has been prominent from very early times,
beginning in Essex county, Massachusetts, the
emigrant ancestor, William Moody, settling in
Newbury. The family is notable for the great num
ber of distinguished ministers it has pro
duced,, the best known of the present day be

ing Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist,
whose fame extended over two continents.
(I) William Moody, the principal pro
genitor of the name in New England, came
from Wales in 1633, wintered at Ipswich in
1634, and removed to Newbury, Massachu
setts, with the first settlers of that place in
1635. Tradition asserts that they landed on
the north bank about one hundred rods below
the spot where the bridge now stands. Here
he was admitted a freeman and received a
grant of ninety-two acres of land. It is said
he was a blacksmith by trade and the first
person in New England who adopted the prac
tice of shoeing oxen, enabling them to walk
on ice. He, as well as his three sons, was of
considerable note in church and civil affairs
of the town, from which it may be inferred
that they were not only pious men, but pos
sessed much practical wisdom and general in
telligence. He married Sarah  , by whom
he had three children: 1. Samuel, took the
oath of allegiance in 1666, and united with
the church in Newbury, 1670; he died in that
town, April 4, 1675 ; married, November 30,
1657, Mary Cutting. 2. Joshua (of further
mention). 3.. Caleb, born 1637; married
twice; was representative from Newbury in
the Massachusetts general court in 1677-78,
and during the administration of Governor
Andros was imprisoned five weeks for daring
to act and speak like a freeman ; he died Au
gust 25, 1698. Caleb was the ancestor of the
famous Evangelist, Rev. Dwight L. Moody.
(II) Rev. Joshua Moody, son of William
and Sarah Moody, was born 1632, died, July
4, 1695, his funeral sermon being preached by
Cotton Mather from the text, "Looking stead
fastly on him they saw his face, as it had been
the face of an angel." He was graduated
at Harvard College in 1653, after which he
commenced the study of divinity and very
early began to preach. Before leaving college
he made a public profession of religion and
joined the Cambridge Church. He began his
ministerial labors in Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, early in the year 1658, founding the
First Congregational Church of that town,
then supported by eighty-six subscribers. In
1660 the town passed a regular vote for his
establishment in the pastoral office, but for
some reason he was not ordained until 167 1.
He continued his ministry in Portsmouth until
1684, when he began the first of a series of
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Governor Cranfield, to whom he had refused
to administer the Lord's Supper after the way
of the Church of England, Rev. Moody being
a Nonconformist, fie was held in prison
for nineteen weeks, and then by the interces
sion of friends was dismissed with a charge
to preach no more under penalty of further
imprisonment. He then accepted a call from
the "Old Church" in Boston, where he con
tinued preaching until 1692, when he returned
to Portsmouth. While in Boston he declined
giving any countenance to the severe measures
taken against those charged with "Witchcraft,"
his usefulness being greatly impaired by his
manly resistance to popular and widespread
delusion. From 1692 until his death he re
mained in Portsmouth in usefulness, harmony
and love. He published many of his sermons
and probably wrote more sermons than any
other minister. The ninety-third volume of
his manuscript sermons is in the library of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, the last of
which is numbered 4070, and dated September
30, 1688, which will average two and a half
sermons weekly for a period of thirty years.
He was twice married. His first wife is be
lieved to have been a daughter of Edward
Collins, of Cambridge, and a sister of Rev.
John Collins. His second wife, a widow, Ann
Jacobs, of Ipswich, survived him. Among his
children are: 1. Martha, married Rev. Jona
than Russell, of Barnstable, Massachusetts.
2. Sarah, married Rev. John Pike, of Dover,
New Hampshire. 3. Hannah. 4. Samuel. In
his last will and testament Rev. Moody di
rects: "If I die in Portsmouth my body shall
be laid in the burying place there, under the
great stone by the side of the Oak where I
buried my first wife and the deceased children
I had by her."
(Ill) Samuel, only son of Rev. Joshua
Moody, was born, it is believed, about 1669,
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was
graduated at Harvard College in 1689, and
was for several years a preacher at New
Castle. If is said that dating from about
1700, he preached several years at the Isle
of Shoals, off the coast of Maine a few miles,
where his hearers were mostly fishermen and
sailors. After this he seems to have laid aside
his calling as a preacher and to have taken
up the profession of arms. He took command
of a body of men in an expedition against the
Indians, eventually settling at Falmouth, now
Portland, Maine, where he rendered important

services. His house was the first resort for
the minister and school master. He was a
member of the committee who invited Rev.
Thomas Smith to settle in the town, "the first
church that was ever settled to the eastward
of Wells." He acquired the military title of
"Major" and seems to have been a sort of
spiritual Gideon, willing to fight foes, seen and
unseen. He was selectman, justice of the
peace, and held other responsible positions.
He died April 5, 1729. He married, April 4,
1695, Esther, daughter of Nathaniel Green, of
Boston. Children: 1. Joshua, born October
31, 1697; baptized in the First Church of Bos
ton, 1698; graduate of Harvard College, 1716.
2. Samuel (of further mention). 3. Mary,
born November 16, 1701 ; married Edward
Mountfort, of Boston.
(IV) Dr. Samuel (2) Moody, son of Sam
uel (1) and Esther (Green) Moody, was born
October 29, 1699, died at- Brunswick, Maine,
1758. He studied medicine, was graduated
from Harvard College, 17 18, and practiced
his profession for several years. He was a
magistrate and a man of great force of char
acter. He was a surgeon in the army and an
officer. He married and had sons.
(V) Daniel, son of Dr. Samuel (2) Moody,
was born in southeastern New Hampshire or
southwestern Maine, about 1730, later settling
in Unity, Sullivan county, same state. He is
recorded there among the signers to divide
the town of Unity and address to the legis
lature in 1791. He married and had issue.
(VI) Israel, son of Daniel Moody, was born
in Unity, New Hampshire, 1774, died about
1826. fie was a farmer of the town of Unity,
where he passed his entire life. He married
Abigail Tufts. Children : William and Elisha.
(VII) Elisha, son of Israel and Abigail
(Tufts) Moody, was born in Unity, Sullivan
county, New Hampshire, October, 1809, died
April 18, 1 89 1. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Unity, and early in life became
engaged in the manufacture of woolens at
Port_ Byron, New York. During this period
of his life he traveled extensively, sometimes
on business connected with his plant, and often
for recreation and pleasure. He had an expert
knowledge of timber and the value of timber
lands, which resulted in his giving up manu
facturing, and for several years he was en
gaged in locating and buying pine lands in
Michigan. In 1835 he settled in the town of
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he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty
acres, which he cleared and brought under cul
tivation. In 1839 he established a nursery on
his farm, which became later his main busi
ness. The fame of his trees, plants and shrub
bery became wide-spread, and the business
then established yet endures and flourishes.
He became well known throughout the county,
and took a leading part in the development
of Niagara county. He was connected with
several public enterprises, one of them being
the promoting and construction of the Lock-
port & Buffalo railroad, in 1876. He was a
member of the first board of directors, and
took an active interest in its development. He
also was a director of the Exchange Bank of
Lockport. He was active in the Niagara
County Agricultural Society, and served as
president. He was also active in the organi
zation of the American Nurserymen's Asso
ciation, and was elected its first president. He
was the first nurseryman in that section, and
was equally well known as a horticulturist.
In politics he was a staunch Republican, and
in 1867 he was chosen to represent Niagara
county in the house of assembly, where he
served on committees on roads, bridges and
agriculture. In 1872 he was elected mayor
of Lockport, and his administration is yet re
ferred to as a model of careful business
methods. He was a leader in the party and
' chairman of the county committee. In religion
he was a Congfegationalist.
He married Margaret Cole, born in Penfield,
New York, in 1814, died 1881, daughter of
John T. and Sarah (Taylor) Cole. Children:
1. Emily, born 1835 ; married Henry Gilrie, of
Cambria, New York. 2. George H., born
1838; resident of Lockport. 3. Ellen M., born
1845 ; married Edward W. Scott, of New
York City. 4. Edward M. (of further men
tion). (VIII) George H., eldest son of Elisha and
Margaret (Cole) Moody, was born in Pen-
field, Monroe county, New York, March 15,
1838. He was educated in the public schools
of Newport, Niagara county, the Union
School of Lockport, and Niagara Academy,
Niagara Falls. In 1859 he began business
with his father on the old Jesse P. Maines
farm in Lockport, where they continued in the
nursery business until the death of Elisha
Moody in 1891. This caused a change in the
firm name, which was effected by the brothers,
George H. and Edward M., combining and

continuing the business under the name of E.
Moody & Sons. Mr. Moody has spent a life
time in the nursery business, many of those
years having been spent in close association
with his father, than whom there was no more
capable nurseryman in Western New York.
Add to that his own long years of experience
and experiment and you have the secret of
the great popularity of the products of the
Niagara Nurseries. While he has passed the
years allotted to man, Mr. Moody is still vig
orous and as capably manages his business
as in younger days. He is a trustee of the
Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Lockport,
and is interested in other business enterprises
of his town. In religious faith he is a Pres
byterian, belonging to the First Church of
Lockport. He has been a member of the
Masonic Order for many years, affiliating
with Niagara Lodge of Lockport. Politically
he is a Republican.
He married, May 20, 1863, at Lockport,
Laura A., daughter of George E. and Cor
delia (Whipple) Wheeler (see Whipple, VII).
(VIII) Edward Mortimer, son of Elisha
and Margaret (Cole) Moody, was born at
Newfane, Niagara county, New York, May
10, 1848. He was educated in the public
schools, and after completing studies he asso
ciated with his father in the nursery business,
which had then begun to assume large pro
portions. They continued together in business
until the death of Elisha Moody, since which
time George H. and Edward M. have con
ducted it under the firm name of E. Moody &
Sons. Each has a thorough knowledge of
the lines in which they deal, and under their
management the fame of the Niagara Nur
series has not diminished. Mr. Moody is a
resident of the city of Lockport, occupying
the property purchased by his father in 1861.
He has served his city as a member of the
board of education and as water commis
sioner. In politics he is a Republican ; in re
ligious faith, an Episcopalian ; and in frater
nal relations a Free Mason. He married, De
cember 25, 1867, Ellen M. Holbrook, daugh
ter of Amos and Ellen (Briggs) Holbrook, of
Lockport, New York. She is a descendant of
revolutionary ancestors, one of them Captain
Jeremiah Stiles, commanding a company of
New Hampshire militia at the battle of
Bunker Hill. Children: 1. Ralph, died in in
fancy. 2. Edward Erie, born in Lockport,
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school, Berkely Preparatory School and Wil
liams College. In 1901 he became associated
with the Provident Life Assurance Society,
and is now a stock broker in Newark, New
Jersey. Married, February 8, 1906, Helen
Mathews Crane, daughter of Edward Nichols
and Cordelia C. (Mathews) Crane, of New
ark, New Jersey. (The Whipple Line).
Matthew and John Whipple, brothers, were
among the earliest settlers of that part of Ips
wich, . Massachusetts, called the "Hamlet,"
where they received a grant of land of more
than two hundred acres, in 1638. They may
have been the sons of Matthew Whipple, of
Bocking, county of Essex, England, whose
will, proved January 28, 1618, mentions sons
Matthew and John. Another record speaks
of "John, Whipple, son of Matthew, is said to
have been baptized in Essex, England, 1632."
The descendants of Matthew Whipple seem
to have settled in northern New England
largely, among them being General William
Whipple, -born in 1730, died at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, November 28, 1785 ; one of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence
and general of a New Hampshire brigade,
and in civil life judge of the supreme court of
New Hampshire. Other noted descendants
of John and Matthew Whipple are statesmen,
soldiers and scholars whose names are found
in army records of every war ; in college ros
ters, legislative reports and in high positions
in the church, notably among the latter Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota.
(I) John Whipple, born 161 7, died May 16,
1685, was of Ipswich and Dorchester, Massa
chusetts} and in July, 1659, of Providence,
Rhode Island, where he was received as a pur
chaser. He took the oath of allegiance, 1666 ;
was chosen deputy, 1666-69-70-72-74-76-77.
Although his military service is not shown, he
is called "Captain" John. In 1674 he was li
censed to keep an ordinary. August 14, 1676,
being one of those "who staid and went not
away," he had a share in the disposition of the
Indian captives of King Philip's war, whose
services were sold for a term of years. His
will, proved May 27, 1685, disposes of quite
a large amount of land. He and his wife were
buried on their own land, but their bodies
were afterward removed to the North Burial
Ground. His wife Sarah was born in 1624,
died 1666. Children: 1. John, was town

treasurer of Providence, Rhode Island; town
clerk ; ; deputy and assistant to the governor ;
married (first) Mary Olney; (second) Re
becca, widow of John Scott. 2. Sarah, born
1642, married John Smith. 3. Samuel, born
1644; was constable and deputy; married
Mary Harris. 4. Eleazer, born 1646; was
deputy ; married Alice Angell. 5. Mary, born
1648; married Epenetus Olney. 6. William,
born 1652 ; married Mary  . 7. Benja
min (of further mention). 8. David, born
1656, died December, 1710; married (first)
Sarah Hearnden; (second) Hannah Tower.
9. Abigail, married (first) Stephen Dexter;
(second) William Hopkins. 10. Joseph, born
1662 ; was deputy twenty terms ; member of
the town council six terms ; assistant and colo
nel of a militia regiment ; married Alice Smith.
11. Jonathan, born 1664; married Margaret
Angell. These children all settled in Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
(II) Benjamin, fifth son of John Whipple,
was. born 1654, died 1704, in Dorchester, Mas
sachusetts, fie settled on a farm of three
hundred acres situated about four miles west
of Providence, Rhode Island. He lived and
died and is buried on that farm. He married,
April, 1686, Ruth Matthewson. Children: Ben
jamin (of further mention) ; Ruth, May 12,
1692; Jessie, July 27, 1697; John, February
25, 1699; Abigail, June 12, 1703.
(Ill) Benjamin (2), eldest son of Benja
min (1) Whipple, was born November 11,
1688, died at the great age of ninety-nine
years, 1787. He lived on the homestead farm
which he inherited from his father, and was
a tanner of leather, also a maker of boots and
shoes. It is said that in making wax to be
used in his business he spilled some of the
hot, poisonous material on his foot, which later
resulted in the loss of a leg. This occurred
after he was seventy-five years of age. He
married (first) Sarah Benson, November 11,
1722. Children: Andrew, born February 23,
1724; Benjamin, June 6, 1726; Content, Au
gust 30, 1727; Daniel, September 9, 1728;
Ephraim, November 9, 1729; Benedict, died
young; Esther, March 12, 1731 ; Mary, May
28, 1732. He married (second) Esther Miller.
Children: Benajah, born June 17, 1734;
Stephen (of further mention) ; Joseph, July
!. x737; Benedict, October 13, 1739; Jessie,
September 16, 1744; Fedove, June 8, 1750;
John, December 9, 175 1 ; Abigail, October 12,
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(IV) Stephen, son of Benjamin (2) Whip
ple by his second wife, was born on the home
stead farm near Providence, Rhode Island,
July 9, 1736, died February 28, 1819. At the
time of his marriage he removed to North
Providence, where he lived seventeen years
and where all but four of his children were
born. In 1777 he moved from Providence to
Chester, Massachusetts. Was a soldier of the
revolution. Pie married Zilpha Angel, died
January 28, 1830. Children: 1. Theodore,
born June 22, 1762, died at Rutland, Vermont,
June 3, 1843. 2- Asel, born March 12, 1764,
died at Hardwick, Massachusetts, July 1,. 1846.
3. Andrew (of further mention). 4. Samuel,
born July 12, 1768, died at Chelsea, Massa
chusetts, December 26, 1853. 5. Mary, born
May 31, 1770, died in Canada, December 4,
1813. 6. Oliver, born April 24, 1772, died at
Shaftsbury, Vermont, December 28, 1855. 7-
Nedabeck, born December 1, 1773, died at
Chester, Massachusetts, December 4, 1776.
8. Celinda, born June 14, 1776, died at Ches
ter, Massachusetts, September 16, 1839. 9.
Zilpha, born March 28, 1778, died at West
Burlington, New York, March 15, 1875, at
the great age of ninety-seven years. 10.
Stephen, born September 22, 1781, died at
Shaftsbury, Vermont, March 6, 1879, aged
ninety-eight years. 11. Angel, born July 15,
1784, died at Roscoe, Illinois, January 22, 1874.
12. Benjamin, August 8, 1787, died at Peters-
field, Massachusetts, November 6, 1867. One
of these children died in childhood, one at the
age of forty-three years; the other ten died
at ages ranging from eighty-one to ninety-
eight years.
(V) Andrew, third child of Stephen and
Zilpha (Angel) Whipple, was born at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, September 9, 1765, died
at North Pownal, Vermont, August 28, 1851,
aged eighty-five years. He married, Decem
ber 22, 1787, Polly Perkins, born December
26, 1771, died April 28, 1856. Children: 1.
Clarissa, born May 25, 1789, died in New
York state, January, 1821 ; married Gideon
Clark. 2. Stephen, November 14, 1791, died
August 24, 1866. 3. Moses, November 27,
1793, died December 21, 1892; married Clar
issa Stratton. 4. Daniel, December 26, 1795,
died in Troy, New York, December, 1865;
married Louisa Barnard. 5. William, July 2,
1798. 6. Almon, May 20, 1800, died in Cleve
land, Ohio. 7. Andrew (2), September 8,
1802, died October 21, 1868; married Mar

garet Doyle. 8. Laura, December 1, 1803,
died December 7, 1862 ; married S. fiubbell,
died May 2, 1837. 9. Nelson, March 10,
1806, died October 19, 1807. 10. Cordelia (of
further mention). 11. Alonzo, November 10,
1813; married Nancy Wheeler. 12. John, born
November 11, 18 17, died October 24, 1843;
married Angelina Brimmer.
(VI) Cordelia, tenth child of Andrew and
Poily (Perkins) Whipple, was born July 18,
1810, died March 13, 1889. She married,
March 16, 1834, George E. Wheeler, born
February 20, 181 1, died January 4, 1864. Chil
dren: 1. Elias, horn August 9, 1835, died
June 5, 1864; married, April 7, 1858, Elvira
Lewis. 2. Edward, born September 8, 1837 ;
married, April 13, 1871, Martha Matthews.
3. Mary, born October 6, 1839, died March
13, 1886; married, June 10, 1861, J. W. Vail.
4. Everett, born July 4, 1841 ; married, De
cember 1, 1869, Martha Hall. 5. Laura A.
(of further mention). 6. Andrew T., born
January 14, 1845, died March 27, 1861. 7.
George .Dallas, born May 10, 1847; married
Fanny Proctor. 8. Delia, born June 10, 1850,
died March 2, 1877; married, April 22, 1873,
Peter Johnson.
(VII) Laura A., fifth child of George E.
and Cordelia (Whipple) Wheeler, married
George H. Moody, of Lockport, New York
(see Moody VIII). She is a member of the
Buffalo Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.

Alexander (2) Williams, son
WILLIAMS of Alexander (1) Williams,
came from the Black River
country in Vermont, and settled early in the
nineteenth century in New York, and died in
Pembroke, Genesee county. He married
Sally  . Children: 1. Hannah, born at
Geneva, New York; married Erastus Saw
yer ; children : Helen, Chauncey, Henry, Wal
ter, Louise, Augusta, Carrie. 2. Lydia, mar
ried Alvin D. fiarroun; children: Eliza, Al
vin D. Jr., Sylvanus, Henry, Edgar, Ella Har-
roun. 3. John, married  , and
had children: Cynthia, Allen C, Elmer A.
4. Alexander, mentioned below. 5. Sylvanus,
married Sarah Robinson ; children : Edward,
Mary Jane, Charles.
(II) Alexander (3), son of Alexander (2)
Williams, was born in Pembroke, New York,
in 181 1, died August 26, 1853, in the town
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his life in Pembroke, and held the office of
constable while living there. Afterward he
was in the hotel business at Irving, on Cat
taraugus creek, New York, and finally became
the owner of the old Kensington Hotel at
Sheridan, New York, and conducted it until
about two years before he died. He married
Caroline Cone, born in 1817, in Mayville, New
York, died in September, 1858 (see Cone V).
Children: 1. Alexander, mentioned below. 2.
John, died aged about twenty years, of disease
contracted in army service at Folly Island,
South Carolina, sergeant in 112th Regiment,
New York Volunteer Infantry.
(Ill) Alexander (4), son of Alexander (3)
Williams, was born February 24, 1839, at
Pembroke, New York. He attended the pub
lic schools of Fredonia, New York, and after
ward became a clerk in the store of L. B.
Grant, at Fredonia. In 1861, when the civil
war came, he enlisted, September 11, as a pri
vate in Company K, Ninth Regiment, New
York Cavalry, and was mustered into service
at Fredonia, Chautauqua county, October 2
following. He was promoted sergeant, Oc
tober 4, 1861, and became quartermaster-ser
geant December 1, 1861. He was transferred
to the regimental non-commissioned staff, Feb
ruary 26, 1863, as hospital steward, and con
tinued in this department until he was dis
charged, October 1, 1864, at the expiration of
his term of enlistment. Before his battalion
was mounted, it was transferred to Hunt's
Regular Reserve Artillery, and he was as
signed to Battery M, under Lieutenant Sin
clair. He served in the artillery with the
rank of brigade sergeant-major from March
9 to May 22, 1862, when his battalion was
ordered to Washington to be mounted. His
first active service was the siege of York-
town, and later he took part in the battles of
Williamsburg, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull
Run, Fredericksburg, Upperville, Beverly
Ford, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Boones-
boro, Frederickstown, Falling Waters, Mary
land, and in many other minor engagements.
He was never wounded nor taken prisoner.
He was sent to Judiciary Square Hospital in
November, 1863, and remained there until
mustered out. As soon as he was able, after
coming to the hospital, he was assigned to
duty in the dispensary, and during the last
few months was in charge of that department.
Mr. Williams' regiment was the first to enter
Gettysburg the day before the battle, and fired

the first shot of the great fight, losing the first
man killed and capturing the first prisoner.
In the evening, when the regiment fell back
through Gettysburg to the new line, the Con
federates followed so close that the Federals
had to dismount and drive them back.
After his discharge from the army, Mr.
Williams lived in Lockport for thre^ years,
working as a clerk in a dry goods store. In
March, 1868, he opened a fancy goods store
in partnership with Clinton H. Smith, under
the firm name of Williams & Smith, at Dun
kirk, New York, and built up a large retail
and wholesale trade. In 1874 they sold the
retail business, and it seemed advisable to re
move the business of the firm to New York
City. In 1876 their store was burned, and
the firm thereupon was dissolved. Mr. Wil
liams returned to Dunkirk and engaged in the
retail dry goods trade there. In 1882 he sold
his store and engaged in the manufacture of
shirts with abundant success, employing about
a hundred hands and continuing until 1904.
Not only in business but in public affairs
Mr. Williams has been prominent and distin
guished. He served several terms in the com
mon council of the city of Dunkirk, from the
third ward, and in 1898 he was elected mayor
for one year, but owing to a legislative change
in the city charter his term was extended to
January 1, 1900. In 1904 he was elected re
ceiver of taxes of Dunkirk and re-elected in
1906-08-10. He is a Republican in politics.
In all of the offices he has held he has per
formed his duties with characteristic fidelity
and zeal, thoroughness and uprightness. He
is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons,
of Dunkirk ; Royal Arch Masons ; Royal and
Select Masters; and Knights Templar. He
served three terms as the head of the council,
and two as commander of the commandery.
He is also a member of the Buffalo Con
sistory. He belongs to W. O. Stevens Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, and was for
many years its commander. He is a prom
inent member of the Dunkirk Presbyterian
Church and one of its trustees.
He married, October 15, 1861, at Lockport,
New York, Evelena P. Baright, born at Lock-
port, September 15, 1841, daughter of Allen
and Evelena (Peck) Baright. Her father was
born at Chatham, Columbia county, New York,
May 5, 1810, died August 17, 1888; her
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and Mrs. Williams: i. Carrie E., born at
Lockport, June 30, 1866. 2. Zella B., born
September 1, 1873, at Dunkirk, New York.
3.' Alexander Jr., born at Brooklyn, New York,
June 22, 1875 ; married Elizabeth D. Scott, of
Dunkirk, and had : Alexander, born January
18, 1899; Roger Scott, January 30, 1901. 4.
Evelena B., born November 3, 1876, at Dun
kirk, New York; married Owen F. Asbury, of
Houston, Texas. 5. John Egbert, born July
21, 1879; died April 16, 1880.
(The Cone Line).
(I) Daniel Cone, immigrant ancestor, set
tled at Haddam, Connecticut. He married
(first) Mehitable Spencer, of Hartford, daugh
ter of Jared and Alice Spencer. Her father
settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1634,
at Lynn, 1637, at fiartford in 1660, finally
at Haddam in 1662. Mr. Cone married (sec
ond) Rebecca Wakeley, widow of Richard
Wakeley, in 1692. He lived at Haddam until
1680, removed to the east side of the river
at Machi-Moodus in 1695, and returned to
Haddam, where he died October 24, 1706,
aged eighty years. He deeded land on the
west side of the river to his son Caleb. Chil
dren : Ruth, born January 7, 1662 ; Hannah,
April 6, 1664; Daniel, January 21, 1666;
Jared, January 7, 1668; Rebecca, February 6,
1670; Ebenezer, baptized March 25, 1673;
Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Stephen, baptized
March 26, 1678; Caleb, born at Haddam,
1679, baptized March 19, 1682, at Middletown.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Daniel Cone, was
born in Haddam, Connecticut, in 1674, and
baptized in Middletown, Connecticut, June 6,
1675. He married, in East Haddam, Sarah,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Gray) Hun-
gerford. She was born in New London, Con
necticut, 1679, and died in East Haddam, Sep
tember 25, 1753. They were both members
of the First Congregational Church at East
Haddam. He died there 1731-32. Children:
James, born August 24, 1698; Daniel, men
tioned below; Sarah, born February 11, 1703;
Nathaniel, baptized June 18, 1704, died young;
Esther, born April 27, 1705; Lucy, May 24,
1707; Mehitable, May 10, 1710; Nathaniel,
January 19, 1712; Jemima, March 20, 1714;
Jonathan, January 11, 17 16.
(Ill) Daniel (2), son of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Hungerford) Cone, was born in East
Haddam, May 9, 1701. He was justice of the
peace for over twenty years, and held other

local offices. He was admitted to the church
July 23, 1721, and died in East Haddam, in
June, 1756. He married Mary, daughter of
Isaac Spencer, March 14, 1728. His wife mar
ried (second) Phineas Norton, in 1760. Chil
dren: Daniel, born November 2, 1728; Tem
perance, September 29, 1730; Lydia, February
5, 1732 ; Rachel, October 9, 1735 ; Elihu, men
tioned below; Mehitable, 1739; Mary, 1742;
Ann, 1745.
(IV) Elihu, son of Daniel (2) and Mary
(Spencer) Cone, was born at East Haddam,
Connecticut, about 1737. He married (first)
Mary Spencer, 1770, and she died soon after
wards. He married (second) Dorothy Smith,
November 2, 1775. In 1790 they moved to
Spafford, Onondaga county, New York, where
they lived until death. Children : fioratio,
died in Ripley, New York ; Elihu, committed
suicide in La Porte, Indiana, in 1850; Marcia,
married Laban Crehore; Spencer, mentioned
below; Ophir, born July 29, 1785, married
Sarah Fisher, and died September 7, i860;
Obed W., born February 12, 1789, married
Sabrina Whaley, died March 28, 1867; Ma-
rinda, born September 24, 1796, married Win
sor Bingham, and died December 25, 1885.
(V) Spencer, son of Elihu Cone, married
Clarissa, daughter of Amos and Margaret
Fisher, and lived at Mayville, New York.
She was born in 1785, died 1852, in Pembroke,
New York. Children: Eliza, born July 20,
1815, married Joseph Stockwell, and died Au
gust 20, 1864; Caroline, born 1817, married
Alexander Williams, and died in September,
1858 (see Williams II) ; Marinda, born De
cember 26, 18 18, married Charles Harroun,
and died January 16, 1898.

Henry George Trout was the son
TROUT of Henry Trout, whose father,
of the name of William or Henry
Trout, it is uncertain which, was born in Eng
land and was a farmer, never coming to the
United States. Henry Trout, born in Eng
land, spent the latter part of his life in Can
ada, where he engaged as a contractor, dredg
ing, building mills, and doing construction
work. When he was forty-seven years of age,
in about the year 1853, he was killed in the
Canadian woods. His wife, Margaret (Kirk-
wood) Trout, bore him five children : 1. Henry
George, mentioned below. 2. Margaret, de
ceased; married John Monteith, of Canada.
3. Jessie, deceased; married Edward Redding.

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4. An infant, deceased. 5. William B., men
tioned below.
(Ill) Henry George, eldest son of Henry
Trout, was born November 29, 1829, in Erin,
Canada. He came to Buffalo, New York,
about the year 185 1, working as an apprentice
in the manufacture of engines. With unusual
intelligence, adaptability and industry, he
rapidly became proficient in his business and
rose from post to post, through the grades
of fireman, etc., until he established himself
in an independent business, incorporating the
H. G. Trout Company in 1908, of which he
was president. His firm succeeded the King
Iron Works, he being alone in business at
that time ; the King Iron Works were the im
mediate successors of the Shephard Iron
Works. The H. G. Trout Company engages
in the designing, building and repairing of en
gines, chiefly marine, of all sizes and descrip
tions, and have a wide reputation for their
work; the firm is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce. Mr. Trout died July 22, 191 1,
in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Trout invented
the Trout propeller wheel, which is used very
extensively in all vessels in the United States
and Canada. In politics he affiliated himself
with the Republican party; his chief social in
terests, however, were in connection with the
church, he having been a staunch churchman
and member of the Central Presbyterian
Church for sixty years. He was one of the
few founders of this church, and a very large
contributor to its erection ; it was dedicated
December 17, 191 1, a few months after his
death. Not only had Mr. Trout given abun
dantly in a financial way, but he gave also
his personal attention and services throughout
his lifetime, leaving them a handsome bequest.
He was an elder and trustee of this church
for the entire sixty years during which he
was a member; was active in the laymen's
move of the Presbyterian Union, and a mem
ber of the Men's Club. Mr. Trout was twice
married, having no issue by either marriage.
His first wife was Fannie Wills ; after her
death he married Lillian GoUan, June 15, 1892;
she was a daughter of John Gollan, of In
verness, Scotland, whose father was also a
resident of that city.
John Gollan was born January 5, 181 1, died
October 30, 1874, in Buffalo, to which city he
came in the year 1846; he emigrated to the
United States in 1842. He was employed
in the King Iron Works as machinist. He

was a Republican in his politics, and a mem
ber of the Central Presbyterian Church. In
the year 1842, before coming to America, he
married Janet White in the Isle of Arran,
Scotland. Seven children were born to them:
1. Isabella, born 1843, died 1851. 2. Lillian,
married Henry George Trout. 3. Mary A.,
married Edmund Wilcox; lives in Brooklyn;
they have three children: John Gollan, born
January 5, 1874; Esther; Douglas, born March
22, 1878. 4. Bella, married Thomas M. Smith;
lives in Corcoran, California. 5. Jessie M.,
lives in Buffalo. 6. Katherine, lives in Buf
falo. 7. Joan, lives in Pasadena, California,
widow of Charles S. Christy, who was born
in 1840, died March 26, 1896; she has three
children : Sumner Lincoln, born July 24, 1887 '>
Harlan Gollan, May 2, 1891 ; Janet.
(Ill) William B. Trout, youngest son of
Henry Trout, was born April 19, 1850, at
Hamilton, Canada, his father having emi
grated to that country from England. The
tragedy of his father's death in the Canadian
woods occurred when the child was only three
years of age, and in the following year, when
he was four years old, he was sent to the
United States to live with his brother, Henry
George Trout. He attended the public schools
of this country, receiving a good education,
and was admitted into business with his
brother. Owing to his diligence and his at
tention to his duties, he rapidly rose from one
position to another until, when the H. G.
Trout Company was incorporated in 1908, he
was made vice-president; after his brother's
death, he succeeded to the presidency of the
firm. In his political convictions Mr. Trout
is a member of the Republican party ; he also
stands high in the community as a member of
the Presbyterian church, being a communicant
of the Church of the Covenant.
Mr. Trout married, December 12, 1876, Es
tella Eastman, by whom he has two children:
1, Henry Franklin, born September 26, 1882;
graduated from the Central high school in
the year 1904, and went into business with
his father ; he is now superintendent. The
firm, of which fuller details are given in the
sketch of its founder, Henry George Trout,
prospered greatly, and is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce. Henry Franklin
Trout married, January 12, 1908, Grace Eliz
abeth Ball, and has one child, Robert Franklin
Trout, born December 2, 1909. 2. Mary

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Genevieve, a graduate of Lafayette high
school.

The Wilcox family is of Saxon
WILCOX origin and was seated at Bury
St. Edmunds, county Suffolk,
England, before the Norman conquest. Sir
John Dugdale, in the Visitation of the county
of Suffolk, mentioned fifteen generations of
this family previous to the year 1600. This
traces the lineage back to the year 1200, when
the surname came into use as an inherited
family name. On old records the spelling
Wilcox, Wilcocks, Wilcoxon and Willcox are
used interchangeably. It is of interest to note
that the names Northington and Southington
were names of communities in England where
the Wilcox family were prominent as peers
before their migration to America. The Wil
cox family had a coat-of-arms of which ac
count is found in a number of heraldic works.
From a member of the family in Connecticut
was secured a reproduction of the original
arms brought from England, the features of
which were the mantling motto, crest, lion
rampant, and demi lion sable issuing out of
the mural crown and collared with a ducal
crown. The ducal crown indicates the rela
tion of the person to the crown who bore the
arms, that of a duke, and the highest next
to a prince or sovereign, and usually a son or
brother or near relation of the sovereign. The
significance of the lion rampant is that the
person bearing the arms had, as general of
the army of England, won great victories and
honor to the crown. The. motto, Fidux et
Audax, means faithful and true, or faithful
and bold. The supporters here shown are the
same as used by the Earjs of Norfolk, a
branch of the family, and recognizable in the
fact that the family were seated in Northing-
ton, Connecticut, a place of the same name as
in England. Northington is a community in
Norfolk, England, the history of which is the
most rich in antiquity, as connected with the
progress of Anglican civilization, and at one
time nearly all of the eastern part of England
was governed or controlled as one province
by this same family. A branch of the family
were Dukes of Suffolk directly south of Suf
folk, but political changes caused them to be
submerged, and only ancient history discloses
these facts.
(I) John Wilcox lived in Hartford, Con
necticut, and was chosen surveyor in 1643-44,

and surveyor of the jury in 1645. He served
first as selectman in 1640, and died in 1651,
his will being dated July 24, 1651. He was
buried in the Center Church burying ground
in Hartford, and his name is on the monument
with that of the other first proprietors. His
wife died about 1668. Children: 1. John, see
forward. 2. Sarah, born about 1614; married
John Biswell, and settled in Middletown. 3.
Ann, born about 1616; married John Hall Jr.,
and settled in Middletown.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Wilcox,
was born in England, and came to Hartford,
Connecticut, with his father, where he was
one of the first proprietors in 1639. He re
moved to Middletown Upper Houses (now
Cromwell) in 1655, where he died May 24,
1676. He had agreed to settle in Middletown,
but failing to do so promptly the general court
voted in 1653 to compel him to occupy his
grant or to find a substitute. On March 10,
1657, he bought the homesteads of Joseph
Smith and Matthias Treat, and afterwards
sold them to his cousin, Samuel Hall. In 1659
he was a member of the committee on roads,
and June 30, 1660, he was granted lands at
Wongunk. It has been claimed that he re
moved to Dorchester, where he resided for a
few years. He purchased land and built a
house prior to November 1, 1665, on land oc
cupied by the Beaumont-Hammer house. He
married (first) September 17, 1646, Sarah,
who died 1649-50, daughter of William Wads-
worth. (Second) January 18, 1650, Cather
ine, daughter of Thomas Stoughton, of Wind
sor, who built the stone house or fort. (Third)
Mary, widow of Joseph Farnsworth ; she died
in 1671. (Fourth) Esther, born May, 1650,
died May 2, 1732, daughter of William Cron-
wall; she married (second) John Stow, of
Middletown. John Wilcox had a child by the
first marriage: Sarah, born October 3, 1648,
died December 3, 1727. Children by the sec
ond marriage: John, born October 29, 1650,
died young ; Thomas, died young ; Mary, born
November 13, 1654, died young; Israel, men
tioned below; Samuel, November 9, 1658.
Children of the fourth marriage: Ephraim;
Esther, born December 9, 1673, married Jo
seph Hand; Mary, March 24, 1676; married
Benjamin Hand.
(Ill) Israel, son of John (2) and Catherine
(Stoughton) Wilcox, was born June 19, 1656,
in Middletown, died December 20, 1689, at
East Berlin, Connecticut. He married, March

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26. 1678, Sarah Savage, born July 30, 1657,
died February S, 1724, daughter of John Sav
age. Children: 1. Israel, born January 16,
1680. 2. John, July. 1682. 3. Samuel, men
tioned below. 4. Thomas, July, 1687. 5.
Sarah, November 30, 1689.
(IV) Samuel, son of Israel and Sarah
(Savage) Wilcox, was born September 26,
1685, in East Berlin, died January 19, 1727.
He married, March 3, 1714-15, Hannah Sage,
born December 21, 1694, daughter of John
and Hannah (Starr) Sage, of Middletown.
She married (second) Malachi Lewis, and
died April. 1737. Samuel Wilcox's children:
Daniel, born December 31, 1715 ; Josiah, men
tioned below: Hannah, December 24, 1718;
Rachel, January 6, 1722 ; Elizabeth, October
25, 1726.
(V) Josiah, second son of Samuel and Han
nah (Sage) Wilcox, was born June 28, 1717,
in what was then Farmington township, and
resided in that town. His will made distribu
tion of his property to sons, Josiah, Ezra,
Eleazer, Jesse, and daughters, Lovice Thomp
son. Salome North, Mary Ann_Hart, Hannah
Gillette and Anne Wilcox. He married, Jan
uary 1, 175 1, Elizabeth Curtiss, who survived
him. (VI) Ezra, second son of Josiah and Eliza
beth (Curtiss) Wilcox, was born June 16,
1753. in Farmington, where he probably passed
his life. He married Phebe Woodruff.
(ATI) Ezra Aaron, son of Ezra and Phebe
(Woodruff) Wilcox, founder of the family in
western New York, was born in 1789, in
Farmington, as shown by family records (not
recorded in Farmington). For some years he
resided in Floyd, Oneida county. New York,
and in 1837 removed to Niagara county. New
York, settling first in the town of Royalton,
removing in a short time to the town of Som
erset, where he died November 4, 1872. He
served in a cavalry regiment in the war of
1812, and participated in the battle of Platts-
burg. He was an active member of the Pres
byterian church in Somerset, and a highly re
spected citizen. He married, at Half Moon,
Oneida county. New York, Sarah Davis, born
there in 1793, who survived him nearly three
years, and died August 11. 1875, in Somer
set. Children : Ezra, Davis, Edwin, Freder
ick, Charles W., Theodora, Adelia, Emily,
Melissa, Julia, Mariette, Sarah and Frances.
(YIII) Charles William, son of Ezra Aaron
and Sarah (Davis) Wilcox, was born at

Floyd. New York. April 25, 1829. He mar
ried Man- P. Wilcox, born September 12,
1840, daughter of Josiah S. and Mary (Root)
Wilcox, of Orwell, Vermont, and now resides
at Niagara Falls, New York. Mr. Wilcox
owned and conducted a farm in the town of
Somerset for many years, and served as super
visor of the town for two terms in the early
eighties. He was for man}- years an elder of
the First Presbyterian Church of that town,
and was elected several terms as delegate from
the Niagara Presbytery to Auburn Theological
Seminary. He was of a pronounced literary
turn of mind, and wrote much high-class
poetry and made many public addresses. Mr.
Wilcox died at Niagara Falls, February 15,
191 1. Children: 1. William Stevens, men
tioned below. 2. Minnie Frances, married Ed
ward T. Williams, June 21, 1893, and resides
at Niagara Falls, New York (see Williams,
III). (IX) \\ illiam Stevens, only son of Charles
William and Mary P. (Wilcox) Wilcox, was
born November 4, 1872, in Somerset. He
received his elementary educational training
in the Lockport union school at Lockport, New
York, where he attended three years. This
was supplemented by a course in the Albany
Business College, where he was graduated in
1 89 1. Soon after this he became secretary to
Charles E. Bush, at Orwell. \rermont, where
the latter was president of the First National
Bank. In 1895 Mr. Wilcox resigned this po
sition and became associated with the Ticon-
deroga Paper & Pulp Company at Orwell, first
as purchasing agent and subsequently in other
capacities of confidential character until 1898,
when he removed to New York City to repre
sent the company there. In 1903 he was elected
secretary of the corporation, which office he
now occupies, with headquarters on Fifth
avenue, fie is a member of the West Presby
terian Church, located on Fortv-second street,
New York City, and affiliates politically with
the Republican party. He is a member of the
Aldine and Traffic clubs of New York City,
and Continental Lodge, No. 287, Free and Ac
cepted Masons.
He married, in New York City. February
24. 1903, Maud Elizabeth Cowen, born Janu
ary 19, 1878, in New York, daughter of
Charles Anthony and Mary Elizabeth (Paton)
Cowen, of that city. Mr. Cowen. now de
ceased, was a prominent contractor and builder
of New York.

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This is a very ancient name
WILLIAMS in America, having numer
ous immigrants in New
England, and is also found very early in New
Jersey, where the family still flourishes. It
has been impossible to trace the earlier ances
try of the family herein mentioned because of
lack of definite data.
(I) The first known member of this family
was John Williams, a native of New Jersey,
who resided in Ovid, Seneca county, New
York, whence he went about the middle of the
last century to Pendleton, Niagara county,
New York. He was a farmer and merchant;
in religion a Methodist, and in politics a Re
publican. He married Sarah Ann Drake and
they had children : George W., John, Abram
C, Charles Albert, Theodore C., Frederick
D., Rhoda M., Jane Ann, Sarah Ann, Elmira
S., Lucinda, Elizabeth L., Phebe N.
(II) Abram C, son of John and Sarah Ann
(Drake) Williams; was born September i,
1849, m Pendleton, Niagara county, New
York. He was a farmer and stockdealer in
Somerset, same county. In religion he was
a Methodist, in politics a Democrat. He mar
ried Emma Augusta, daughter of George K.
and Emma (Stocking) fiood, of Somerset,
who came from Otsego county, New York.
She was born in 1840 in that town. Children:
Edward Theodore, mentioned below; Hattie
Rose, born June 25, 1871 ; Minnie A., Febru
ary 19, 1875 ; Emma A., September 19, 1877.
(Ill) Edward Theodore, only son of
Abram C. and Emma Augusta (Hood) Wil
liams, was born April 30, 1868, in Somerset.
Here he early attended the district schools,
and was afterward a student of the Wilson
union school and Cornell University. His
business life began as a reporter on the staff
of the Buffalo Courier, and he subsequently
became president of the Cataract Journal
Company, and editor of the Daily Cataract
Journal and Weekly Niagara Falls Journal,
serving for ten years. For four years he was
a member of the board of education of the
city of Niagara Falls, and was one year ap
praiser of real estate for the city of New
York in the condemnation of Ulster county
property, for the construction of the Ashokan
Reservoir. He has been for some years and
is at present industrial commissioner of the
city of Niagara Falls. He is a member of
Niagara Falls Lodge, No. 132, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, the Ongiara Club of Niagara

Falls, and of the Civic Qub of Niagara Falls,
of which he has been president and vice-presi
dent. Mr. Williams is serving his third term
as president of the Niagara County Pioneer
Association and has been recording secretary
of the Niagara Frontier Historical Society for
many years, fie is also a charter member of
the Niagara Frontier Landmarks Association.
He is a member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Niagara Falls, and acts politically
with the Democratic party.
He married, June 21, 1893, in Somerset,
Minnie Frances, daughter of Charles W. and
Mary P. (Wilcox) Wilcox, of that town (see
Wilcox VIII). Mr. and Mrs. Williams have
a daughter, Marjory Frances, born April 22,
1906.

The Donnellys of Olean,
DONNELLY New York, herein recorded,
descend from Irish ances
tors. John Donnelly married  O'Neill
and came to the United States. Of their
eleven children nine grew to maturity: John,
Henry, of whom further ; Ann, Michael,
James, William, Charles fiugh, Jane. Of
these, John, the eldest, and Jane, the young
est, are still living (1911).
(II) Henry, son of John Donnelly, was
born in 1833, in Ireland, died in West Kendall,
New York, 1879. He was fifteen years of age
when he came to the United States with his
father, and for many years father and son
were associated in business. They first settled
in Vermont, then came to New York state, set
tling in Fowlersville, Livingston county, where
they engaged in farming and operated boats on
the old Genesee canal from Weston's Mills
to Rochester. Plenry then started for himself.
He went to Scottsville, where he learned black-
smithing, and after mastering his trade lo
cated in Kendall and opened a blacksmith shop.
Later he moved his business to Jenkins Cor
ners in the town of Greece, where he contin
ued in successful operation for several years.
He then settled in West Kendall, where he
was in active business until his death. He was
a Democrat in politics, an energetic, useful
citizen, and well regarded. He married Cath
erine, daughter of Bryan Brice, who died in
Liverpool, England. Children: 1. Henry, of
whom further. 2. Mary Jane, married Fred
Day, of Albion, New York; children: Tapha
N. and Jessie. 3. Owen, married Margaret
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(Ill) Henry (2), eldest son of Henry (1)
Donnelly, was born in West Kendall, Orleans
county, New York, March 16, 1861. Pie was
educated in the public schools, Albion high
school and Brockport State Normal school.
He decided upon the profession of law and
studied under John Cunneen, afterward at
torney-general of New York. He finished his
studies under W. P. L. Stafford, who was
district attorney of Orleans county. He was
admitted to the bar in 1888; came to Olean,
New York, the sariie year and began the prac
tice of his profession. He had not reached
this point in his career without hard work
and unusual perseverance. During his years
of legal study he taught school, and for a
period of five years before had taught and
studied, so that he was well equipped to begin
his legal preparation. He has attained a good
position at the bar and is established in a good
legal practice. He was chosen town clerk of
Olean and is -the present city attorney. He
has many friends and is held in high regard.
He is an active Democrat, an untiring worker
for party success and a leader in his city. He
is a member of the State and County Bar as
sociation, and attends the Presbyterian church.
He married, March 5, 1888, Mary Brower,
born in Albion, Orleans county, New York.

In Grove's Antiquities of England
COIT and Wales is a description of Coity
Castle, also spelled Coite. "The
exact time when this Castle was first erected
seems uncertain, though in all likelihood it
was first built about the year 109 1 by Payanus
' de Tuberville, one of the twelve Norman
knights who under Robert Fitzhamon seized
the Lordship of Glamorgan." An ancient
coat-of-arms is thus described: "He beareth
sable on a chevron between three spears heads
argent, three cross crosslets of the first, by the
name of Coit."
John Coit, the first of the name in America,
came to America probably from Glamorgan
shire, Wales, between 1630 and 1638. He was
in Salem, Massachusetts, where he had a grant
of land in 1638. He removed in 1644 to
Gloucester, where he was selectman in 1648,
having been admitted freeman in 1647. In
1650 he had a grant of land in New London,
Connecticut. At the same time several others
from Gloucester received grants, hence the sec
tion in New London allotted to them was
called "Cape Ann's Lane," Gloucester, being

situated upon the peninsula of Cape Ann. He
was a ship carpenter by trade. He later re
ceived a grant along the water front and made
some purchases that gave him room to start
a shipyard. He was also allotted a farm in
Ledyard. His will, made August 1, 1659,
provides for his son Joseph, and daughters
Mary and Martha, but he refers to four other
children, two sons and two daughters, as be
ing "absent from him," and leaves them a
trifling legacy "if they be living." Of these
four none appear on the New London or
Gloucester records except John, who came to
New London with his father in 1651, but re
turned to Gloucester. The other three prob
ably never left England. John Coit married,
in England, Mary Ganners, or Jenners. "Mr.
John Coit died August 29, 1659. Mrs. Mary
Coit died January 2, 1676, aged eighty." Chil
dren : John, married Mary Stevens ; Joseph,
of whom further; Mary, married John
Stevens ; Martha, married (first) fiugh
Mould, (second) Nathaniel White.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Mary (Jen
ners) Coit, was probably one of the younger
children of his parents, and may have been
born in Salem, Massachusetts. He is sup
posed to have settled in New London at the
same time his father died (1651). He was
a ship carpenter, and carried on business at
New London with his brother-in-law, Hugh
Mould. They built many vessels in their yard,
and seem to have been important characters,
as in 1667 they were "freed from common
training" by order of the. county court. Mr.
Coit was elected constable July 24, 1665, and
in 1683 was on a committee to procure a min
ister. He joined the church with his wife,
April 3, 1681, and in 1683 he is mentioned as
deacon in the church records, an office he held
for more than ten years. He died March 27,
1704. He married, July 15, 1667, Martha
Harris, died July 14, 1710, daughter of Wil
liam and Edith Harris, of Wethersfield, Con
necticut. From this marriage spring most of
the Coits of America. Children: John, a
ship builder, married Mehabel Chandler; Jo
seph, of whom further; William, married
Sarah Chandler, sister of his brother John's
wife; Daniel, died young; Solomon, deputy
and man of note, married (first) Mary
Stevens, (second) Elizabeth Short, (third)
Abigail Cary, (fourth) Margaret  ;
Samuel, baptized August 4, 1692.
(Ill) Rev. Joseph Coit, second son of

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Deacon Joseph and Martha (Harris) Coit,
was born in New London, Connecticut, April
4, 1673, died at Plainfield, Connecticut, July 1,
1750. He was graduated at Harvard College
in 1697, and was admitted to a master's de
gree at the first commencement in Yale Col
lege in 1702. He became a minister of the
gospel, and preached in Norwich in the latter
part of 1698, but declined an offer to settle
there. He soon after went to the new town
of Plainfield, where he preached for the next
five years, then accepted a formal call to settle
as pastor, and remained forty-three years. On
March 6, 1748, he "appeared before a coun
cil and desired a dismission by reason of his
advanced age and some other reasons, all of
which so influenced ye counsel's judgment
that according to his desire ye people consent
and they dismissed him." He continued to
reside in Plainfield until his death in 1750.
His property at his death was considerable,
and included one male and two female negro
slaves. Twenty years after his death he was
described as "an ornament to his profession,
not only a preacher of the Gospel of Peace,
but a zealous promoter of peace among his
hearers." He married, September 18, 1705,
Experience, died January 8, 1759, aged
seventy-five years, daughter of Isaac Wheeler,
of Stonington. She lies by her husband's side
in the old burial place of Plainfield. Children :
1. Elisabeth, died young. 2. Colonel Samuel,
of further mention. 3. Joseph, settled in
North Preston (now Griswold) ; married
Mary Spalding. 4. Martha, married Lemuel
Smith, (second) fiumphrey Avery. 5. Isaac,
deacon of church, captain of militia, deputy,
moderator, and member of the committee on
correspondence. In his will he bequeathed
£250 for the maintenance of a Latin or gram
mar school, a legacy yet held intact by Plain-
field Academy. He married Ruth Spalding,
(second) Elizabeth Pratt, widow of Rev.
Nathan Webb. 6. Abigail, married Thomas
Gates. 7. Mary, married Nathaniel Stanton.
8. William, married, and had a family. 9. Ex
perience, married John Stevens. 10. Daniel,
married Tamasine Kimball.
(IV) Colonel Samuel Coit, eldest son and
second child of Rev. Joseph and Experience
(Wheeler) Coit, was born at Plainfield, Con
necticut, in 1708. He settled in the town of
North Preston (now Griswold), Connecticut,
and there spent a long and honored life, dy
ing October 4, 1793. In military life he rose

to the rank of colonel, and in 1758 had com
mand of a regiment which wintered at Fort
Edward. In civil life he represented Preston
in the general court in 1761-65-69-71-72-73.
He sat as judge of the county court and of
a maritime court during the revolution. In
1774 he was moderator of a meeting on the
"Boston Port Bill," and one of the Preston
committee on correspondence. He joined the
church in 1742, his wife having joined in
1733. He married (first) Sarah Spalding,
March 30, 1730; she died July 11, 1776, aged
sixty-five years, daughter of Benjamin Spald
ing. He married (second) March 22, 1779,
Mrs. Jemima Hall. Children: 1. Benjamin,
of whom further. 2. Samuel, married Mary
Clark. 3. William, shipmaster and merchant
of Norwich, Connecticut; married (first)
Sarah Lathrop, (second) Elisabeth, widow of
Joseph Coit, of fiartford. 4. Oliver, lieuten
ant and captain in the revolutionary army;
married Zipporah Morgan. 5. Wheeler, deputy
in 1793 ; a merchant and man of high stand
ing; married (first) Mehetabel Lester, (sec
ond) Sibyl Tracy, (third) widow, Hannah
Abel. 6. John, a farmer, married Mehetabel,
daughter of General John Tyler, of Preston.
7. Sarah, distinguished as a woman of high
endowments and marked piety ; married Peter
Lanman. 8. Joseph, died at the age of twenty
years. 9. Isaac, died at the age of ten years.
10. Olive, married Captain Elisha Morgan.
(V) Benjamin, eldest child of Colonel Sam
uel and Sarah (Spalding) Coit, was born at
Preston, Connecticut, March 28, 1731, died
while on a visit to North Stonington, April
21, 1812,. and is buried in the Coit tomb in
Griswold Cemetery. He was a farmer and
a very influential man; was often moderator
of town meetings; representative in the state
legislature, 1772-73 and 1778; judge of county
court, and held many other positions of trust
and honor. He was a member of the Second
Church in Preston, where he owned the
covenant October 20, 1754, always remaining
a devoted, sincere Christian. He married
(first) January 30, 1753, Abigail, daughter
of Roger Billings, of Preston; she died Jan
uary 27, 1760, aged thirty years. He married
(second) May 28, 1760, Mary Boardman, died
June 15, 1800, aged seventy years, widow of
Elijah Boardman, and daughter of Captain
Moses Tyler of Preston. Children of first
marriage: Isaac, married Ruhamah Hall,
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ried Olive Brewster; Daniel, married Olive
Tyler, (second) Mary Brewster; Benjamin,
of whom further. Children of second mar
riage: Harry, died unmarried; George, died
in London, England; William, a merchant of
New York City, married Hannah Corning;
Abigail, married Nathaniel Shipman; Martha,
married Dwight Ripley; Betsey, married Rev.
Jonathan Pomeroy; Thomas, lost at sea.
(VI) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1)
and Abigail (Billings) Coit, was born in Pres
ton, Connecticut, December 21, 1759, died at
Norwich, Connecticut, December 28, 1841.
He was a shipmaster and merchant of Nor
wich. At the age of eighteen years he enlisted
in the naval service of the colonies, serving
on board the "Spy," a vessel of fifty tons,
commissioned by Governor Trumbull for con
veying intelligence and transporting supplies.
In the extemporized navy of 1779 he was
made commander of the armed ship "Hope."
The remainder of his life he was engaged
as a merchant of the firm of Erastus Coit &
Company. He was for several years judge
of the county court, as his father and grand
father had been before him. He married,
October 15, 1788, Sarah, daughter of William
and Sarah Coit, of Norwich, who survived
him until August 31, 1855, aged ninety years
six months. Children: 1. George, of whom
further. 2. William Henry, manufacturer and
merchant, married Cornelia A. Bray. 3. Fran
ces, lost at sea. 4. Charles Frederick, died
1829. 5. Sarah Lanman, died unmarried. 6.
Benjamin B., graduate of Yale, 1822, Jeffer
son Medical College, 1826, also of College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City;
he settled in San Francisco, California, where
he rose to the front rank of his profession ;
he was a member of the California Pioneer
Association, who attended his funeral in a
body; he married Adelaide C, daughter of
William and Susan Johnson, of Lebanon, New
York. 7. Edward, a goldsmith and jeweler;
married Elisabeth Richards Coit, daughter of
Doctor Thomas and Mary W. Coit. 8. Abby,
married George P. Barker, a lawyer, of Buf
falo, New York.
(VII) George, eldest son and child of Ben
jamin (2) and Sarah (Coit) Coit, was born
in Norwich, Connecticut, June 10, 1790. He
learned the drug business, and had a store
in Norwich in partnership wth Charles Town-
send, which yielded them a competence. In
181 1 the partners came to New York state*

locating at Lewiston, where they opened a
general store stocked with a full stock of
goods they had brought with them. In 1812
they established a drug store in Buffalo on
the present site of the Townsend Block, con
ducting this until 1818, when it was sold to
Orsamus Marshall. Then, as Townsend &
Coit, they became heavily interested in lake
transportation, forwarders of freight and
owners of lake boats. They became very
prosperous, and were leaders in Buffalo. Dur
ing their forty years' partnership, it is said,
they used everything in common, each taking
from common stock and funds what was re
quired, no account being kept and no friction
ever arising. After the Erie canal was com
pleted, Sheldon Thompson & Company re
moved from Black Rock to Buffalo, and the
two firms united, doing an immense freighting
business as the Troy and Erie Line. Mr. Coit
continued his residence at the corner of Pearl
and Swan streets for fifty years. He was
one of the pioneers that Buffalo should always
hold in grateful remembrance. When money
was needed for the construction of a harbor,
George Coit was one of the four men who
gave bond and mortgage for the raising of
needed funds. The firm of Townsend & Coit
were of the highest business standing, and
stood back of many of the early industries of
Buffalo. Mr. Coit was conservative in his
political and religious views, practicing what
he professed, and professing no more than
he practiced. His charities were unostenta
tious, but no worthy object or applicant left
his door empty handed. In March, 1825, he
united with the First Presbyterian Church of
Buffalo, but from his youth had been atten
tive upon the means of grace, sober, reverent,
and in a sense devout. He was a director of
the Buffalo Water Company, of which he was
an organizer. He was also a member of the
Buffalo Historical Society, and in his quiet
way helped along all good causes.
He married (first), April 4, 1815, Hannah
Townsend, died March 12, 1835, daughter
of Nathaniel Townsend, and sister of his
partner, Judge Charles Townsend. He mar
ried (second) July 28, 1837, Mary Smith
Atterbury, died February 14, 1840, daughter
of Lewis Atterbury, of New York. He mar
ried (third) in 1841, Emmeline P., daughter
of William Martin, of Providence, Rhode Isl
and. Children, all by first wife: 1. Sarah
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October, 1837, Edward T. Winslow, who died
January 12, 1850; children: Hannah C. and
George. 2. Charles T., born February 14,
1819; married, April 3, 1846, Julia Eliza,
daughter of Henry R. Seymour, of Buffalo;
son, Charles F. 3. George, born March 22,
1 82 1 ; married Catherine S. Ketchum, June
20, 1854; children: Kate, William Ketchum
and Sarah Eliza. 4. Rev. John, born May 8,
1824, died January 23, 1863; graduate of
Yale, 1844; studied theology at Andover,
Massachusetts, then went abroad for two
years, returning, was ordained a minister of
the Presbyterian church, and installed over
the church in Albion, New York; in July,
i860, installed pastor of St. Peter's Church,
Rochester, where he was in charge until his
death. He married Martha J. Davis ; no issue.
5. Francis E., of whom further. 6. Nathaniel
T., died aged six years. 7. Eliza Ripley, born
June 23, 1832 ; married, October 5, 1853,
Alexander W. Harvey, a lawyer, of Fort
Washington, New York; children, Eliza Coit
and Alexander. 8. William B., died in in
fancy. (VIII) Francis Edward, fifth child and
fourth son of George and Hannah (Town-
send) Coit, was born in Buffalo, New York,
June 4, 1826, died there, 1885. He was edu
cated in Buffalo. He became heavily engaged
in the lumber business, but ill health compelled
his retirement from active business some
twenty-five years prior to his death. He was
a church member, and a Republican in poli
tics. He was interested in many of the social
and business organizations of the city, and a
man highly respected by all. He married
Caroline E. Hamilton, died at East Aurora,
New York, December, 1902, in her seventy-
second year, daughter of Henry and Eliza B.
Hamilton. Children: 1. Henry Hamilton,
born November 27>, 1852; married Matilda
Moffat, of Buffalo; children: Henry Hamil
ton (2), Frank E., Caroline H. and Jessie R.
2. George, of whom further. 3. Mary A.,
born April 2, 1862; married John C. Cham
pion, of California; child: John Gerald. 4.
John Townsend, born September 27, 1865;
married Mary S. Cushman; children living:
Marv Cushman, born April 25, 1891, and
Margaret Stuart, May 11, 1895. 5. Mabel
Barton, born August 2, 1867.
(IX) George, son of Francis E. and Caro
line E. (Hamilton) Coit, was born in Buffalo,
New York, October 24, 1854. He married

Carrie, daughter of Thompson and Annette
C. Hersee, of Buffalo. Children: 1. Carrie,
died when eight years old. 2. Thompson
Hersee, born May 27, 1886. 3. George (2),
born March 11, 1889; married, November 9,
191 1, Janet, daughter of Willis O. and Abby
F. Chapin. 4. William Hersee, born Febru
ary 28, 1891. 5. Walter Hamilton, born May
13, 1892. 6. Annette Catherine, born March
3, 1895. 7. Henry Hopkins, born January 25,
1898.

Joseph B. Enos, great-grandfather
ENOS of the present generation of the
Enos family of Buffalo, was a
farmer of Birdsall, Allegany county, New
York, where he died. He was a prominent
member of the Masonic order, holding the po
sition of grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge,
State of New York, and was an authority on
Masonic ritual and law. He was an active
member of the Presbyterian church, and in
politics a Republican. He married Hannah
Patterson. Children: 1. Lorenzo, of New
York City, deceased. 2. Joseph, of Water
ford, New York. 3. Laurens, settled in Buf- v
falo ; married Mary E. King, who survived
him and married (second) Judge Charles
Daniels. 4. Dr. Charles, removed to the state
of Illinois, where he died; studied medicine
and graduated M. D. at the age of fifty-five
years. 5. George. 6. Ephraim P., of whom
further. 7. Mary, married William Scott, of
Neenah, Wisconsin. 8. Maria, married John
Brown, of Batavia, New York. 9. Sarah,
married William Crego, of Batavia, New
York; one child, Cornelia. 10. Hannah, died .
young. 11. Thankful Cordelia, married 
Wilson, of Buffalo, New York.
(II) Ephraim P., son of Joseph B. and
Hannah (Patterson) Enos, was born at Bird
sall, New York, died at Lake Geneva, Wis
consin. Early in life he removed to Wiscon
sin, where he purchased a farm midway be
tween Elkhorn and Lake Geneva, where he
lived and died. He attended the Baptist
church at Elkhorn, and was a Republican in
politics. He married Polly Dinsmore, of Lake
Geneva. Children: 1. Joseph, died in infancy.
2. Lucy T, married Stuyvesant Gibson, of
Waterford, New York ; children : i. Cornelia,
married Howard Van Santvord, and has chil
dren, Margaret and Dorothy; ii. Anna, mar
ried Louis Breslin, of Waterford, and has
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Stuyvesant, married Beulah Lewis. 3. Anna
E., married Edward Wilgus, deceased; chil
dren: Edward P., University of Michigan,
class of 1912, and Laurens Enos Wilgus. 4.
Laurens, of whom further. 5. George
Ephraim, of whom further.
(Ill) Laurens, son of Ephraim P. and
Polly (Dinsmore) Enos, was born at Lake
Geneva, December 25, i860. He attended the
public schools until he was fifteen years of
age, when his father died. In the same year,
1875, he came east to Batavia, New York,
where he finished his education, living with
an uncle. When he was eighteen years of age
he became a clerk in his uncle's milling estab
lishment, continuing some four or five years,
then removed to Buffalo, where he engaged in
the furniture business, and still continues,
member of the firm of Bricka & Enos. The
firm is a successful one and conducts one of
the best stores in Buffalo. He is also president
of Dwelle, Kaiser & Company, jobbers of paints
and glass, and is a director in the Casualty
Trust Company. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and frequently a delegate to county and
state conventions. He is a member of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church, and of the
York and Scottish Rite Masonic bodies in the
city, holding all degrees up to and including
the thirty-second. He is a member of the
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce ; president of
the Buffalo Auto Club, the largest club of its
kind in the world; he was elected president
of the same, December 20, 1909, and re-elected
in 1910. fiis other clubs are the Acacia, of
which he is treasurer; the Park (Masonic);
Motor Boat, and the Launch. Mr. Enos is
unmarried. (Ill) George Ephraim, youngest son of
Ephraim P. and Polly (Dinsmore) Enos, was
born at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He was
educated in Waterford, New York, where he
lived until 1871, when he came to Buffalo,
graduating in 1878 from Professor Bagg's
School. After completing his studies he was
employed with his uncle in the milling busi
ness for six years, then, until 1895, with
Fowler & Sons, carriage hardware. In the
latter year he organized the Enos, Sanderson
Company, of which he is president. In 1902
Mr. Sanderson retired from the company and
was succeeded by George Dudley Enos. The
firm is a prosperous one, dealing in carriage
hardware and supplies, marketing its goods
in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr.

Enos is a member of the Westminster Pres
byterian Church, and holds all degrees in the
Masonic order, including the thirty-third. He
is a Republican in politics. His clubs are the
Buffalo, Acacia and Auto.
He married, February 7, 1882, Helen J.,
daughter of Charles B. Underhill, of Lancas
ter, New York. Child: George Dudley, born
in Buffalo, October 29, 1884 ; educated in the
common and high schools of Buffalo, and
now associated in business with his father.
He is a member of the Masonic order, and of
the Westminster Presbyterian Church. He
married, June 22, 1910, Mary Caroline,
daughter of Clarence L. Wheeler.

This family is of German ances-
MOOT try, the name being originally
Muth, the German word for
courage. (I) The American ancestor came from
Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, was a school
teacher, and earned his citizenship by service
in the revolutionary war.
Since 1820, at least, when the family first
came to New York state, the name has been,
as now, spelled Moot. The earlier genera
tions were tillers of the soil, but with Adel-
bert Moot, of the fourth generation, the law
has become a family' profession in this branch.
All were, however, men of education. Not
only was the progenitor a school teacher, but
his grandson, Charles D. Moot, father of
Adelbert, was a college man, having studied
for some time in the college then at Lima,
New York, although he never graduated.
From him Adelbert got much instruction at
home. (II) John Moot was born in Hudson
county, New Jersey, 1784, died 1868. He
was a farmer of New Jersey, and about 1824
settled at Springwater, Livingston county,
New York, where he engaged in the same
business until his death. He was a Whig,
later a Republican. He married Susannah
Kunkel. His children were: 1. George, mar
ried and had three children, George J., Mary
Ann, both dead, and a son, Martin C, of
Webster's Crossing, Livingston county, still
living. 2. Matthias, who had a daughter,
Amelia, deceased, married Henry Isaaman;
has issue living in Allegany county, New
York. 3. Martin, never married. 4. Charles
Dudar, of whom further. 5. John, never mar
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in the contest of the so-called Poultney title
to a considerable part of Livingston and
Steuben counties, fie was a great friend of
the Indians. Matthias was one of the most
eloquent speakers in the village of Belmont,
Allegany county. Martin was for a quarter
of a century one of the well-paid experts in
the employ of Steinway & Company, piano
manufacturers. John was for years a writing
teacher of much repute.
(Ill) Charles Dudar, son of John Moot,
was born in Livingston county, New York,
1822, died July, 1879, at Allen, Allegany
county, New York. He was two years old
when his parents settled in Livingston county,
where he was educated and lived until 1850,
when he settled on a farm in Allegany county.
He followed agriculture all his life, and was
a Lutheran in religion, a Whig, then a Repub
lican, in politics. He married, February 22,
1854, at Allen, New York, Mary Rutherford,
born October 20, 1830, at Allen, died at Wells-
ville, New York, May, 1903, daughter of An
drew Rutherford, born in England, coming
from there direct to Allegany county, where
he followed farming as a business. Children :
1. Adelbert, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth,
married Herbert Harvey, of Bradford, Penn
sylvania. They have two children, Eva and
Harry A. 3. Ida, died aged twenty years.
4. Andrew, a farmer of Friendship, Allegany
county; married and has a -daughter, Vada.
5. Charles, a farmer, of Black Creek, Alle
gany county ; married and has two sons, Allen
and Raymond. 6. John, a farmer, deceased,
leaving widow and two children, Belmont and
Hannah, who reside at Belfast, Allegany
county. 7. Mary A., married Frank Smalley;
resides in Friendship, Allegany county; has
five children: Richard, Lloyd, Ruth, Marion,
Helen. 8. Harriet, born September, 1868 ;
married Lafayette Starkweather. She was
one of the victims of the Austin flood, Sep
tember 30, 191 1, being overtaken by the rush
ing flood while in her home. No children.
9. Margaret, married Harvey Winship; re
sides at Fillmore, Allegany county ; has three
children: Clare, Lois, Kenneth. 10. Char
lotte, married Raymond Duncan, of Buffalo,
their home; no children.
(IV) Adelbert, eldest son of Charles Dudar
Moot, was born at Allen, Allegany county,
New York, November 22, 1854. He was edu
cated in the public schools, Nunda Academy,
and the State Normal at Geneseo. Having

decided upon a profession, he entered Albany
Law School, whence he was graduated
LL.B., class of 1876, and on his twenty-second
birthday, November 22, 1876, was admitted
to the New York bar. A few months .later
he formed a partnership with George M. Os-
goodby, of Nunda, New York, and one year
later the firm of Osgoodby & Moot was lo
cated in the city of Buffalo. In 1879 Judge
Titus was adniitted to the firm, and for three
years they continued as Osgoodby, Titus &
Moot. The junior partner then withdrew to
enter the law firm of Lewis, Moot & Lewis,
a connection that existed twelve years. This
firm was very successful. In 1894 he became
a member of Sprague, Moot, Sprague &
Brownell, which became Moot, Sprague,
Brownell & Marcy in 1897, and so remains.
He has conducted many important cases in
both state and federal courts, from the lowest
to the highest in the land ; also before the In
terstate Commerce Commission ; some of these
cases like the coal trust cases, the Hay cases,
the car stake cases, being leading, well-known
cases. He is best known as an all-round law
yer, rather than a specialist. He has won
prominence, also, outside his profession. He
has been a lifelong, but independent, Repub
lican, though never seeking public office. He
believes in patriotism first and partisanship
afterward and acts accordingly. He is a strong
advocate of an honest ballot, and when in
1892 the election frauds were so glaring in
Buffalo, he was retained by the Citizens' As
sociation to prosecute the guilty parties. His
service of five years on the board of statutory
consolidation, appointed under the act of May
9, 1904, was valuable to the state. That act,
passed at the instance of the New York State
Bar Association, provided for the consolida
tion of the statutes of the state of New York,
and named as the board: Adolph J. Roden-
beck, Judge Charles Andrews, William B.
Hornblower, John G. Milburn and Judge Jud
son S. Landon, nominees of the New York
State Bar Association. Judge Andrews de
clining to serve on account of age, Governor
Odell, at the request of the other members,
appointed in his stead Adelbert Moot. Shortly
after the organization of the board Judge
Landon died, and his place remained unfilled.
Messrs. Rodenbeck, Moot, Hornblower and
Milburn carried on the work imposed upon
them by the legislative act until the general
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prepared and recommended for enactment
sixty-one consolidated laws, this term being
used to distinguish the new statutes, into
which all the general statutes of the state were
consolidated, excepting only part of the code
of civil procedure. All of these were passed
by both houses, and all but two received the
executive approval of Governor Charles E.
Hughes. The two thus omitted were the rail
road law and public service commissions law,
to which further additions were made, after
which . they too became part of the consoli
dated laws in 1910. Upon making their final
report the board received the thanks of the
legislature for their otherwise unpaid service.
The results of their labors are known under
the title of The Consolidated Laws and are the
governing laws of the state. Mr. Moot also
served as chairman of the unpaid commission
of distinguished men and women appointed
by Governor Hughes to investigate conges
tion of population in large cities, and to sug
gest more normal means of distribution of
population and employment. As the result of
their investigations and recommendations, at
tempts are now being made to provide normal
remedies by legislation for congestion and
lack of employment in one place, while labor
cannot be had in another.
Mr. Moot is a member of the Erie County,
New York State and American Bar associa
tions, and is connected with the legal depart
ment of the University of Buffalo. He was
president of the Erie County Bar Association,
1900-01 ; president of the State Bar Associa
tion, 1909-10. He remains a student and an
extensive reader, as his well chosen library
of scientific, historical and professional works
attests. He is a member of the Thursday Club
(literary), the Buffalo Historical Society, the
Society of Natural Sciences, and many other
like bodies. His social club is the Saturn. In
religious faith he is a Unitarian, belonging to
the "Church of Our Father" (First Unitarian
Church) ; also being president of the Unitar
ian Conference of the Middle States and
Canada. He married, July 22, 1882, at Cuba, New
York, Carrie A., daughter of Enos Van Ness,
of Cuba. Children: 1. Richmond Dana, born
in Buffalo, May 6, 1883 ; graduate of Harvard
University, 1905, A. B. ; Buffalo Law School
(University of Buffalo) 1907, LL.B. ; now
connected with the legal department of the
General Electric Company at Schenectady,

New York. He married Margaret Atwater,
and has a son, Dana, born May, 191 1. 2i
Welles Van Ness, born in Buffalo, December
12, 1885 ; graduate of Harvard University,
A. B., 1908; Harvard Law School, LL. B.,
191 1 ; now practicing law in Buffalo with his
father. 3. Seward Adelbert, born in Buffalo,
August 28, 1887; graduate of Harvard Uni
versity, A. B., 191 1 ; now studying agriculture
at Cornell University. He is well known from
his voyage to the West Indies in the schooner
yacht "Adventuress" in 1910-11.

This name is well known in
WRIGHT both England and the United
States, and probably in no
place in either country is it as well known as
at Niagara Falls, New York, where three gen
erations of the name have catered to the popu
lar taste for thrilling adventure, and safely
piloted many thousands down the stairways,
across the bridges, and behind the falls to the
wonderful "Cave of the Winds."
(I) Joshua Wright was born in Yorkshire,
England, in 1805, died at Guelph, Canada,
1857. He came when a young man, in 1833,
to Canada, and followed his trade of tailor.
He was a member of the Established Church
of England. He married Mahala Garrett.
Children: 1. George William, of whom fur
ther. 2. Joshua Garrett, born at Guelph, Can
ada, in 1837, died May 16, 1905,' at London,
Canada; he was in the employ of the Cana
dian government as railway mail clerk; he
married Milly Batedo; children: Edith, Ger
trude and Alice; a fourth died in infancy. 3.
Mahala Pauline, deceased; married 
Jackson, proprietor of New Market Era, at
New Market, Canada.
(II) George William, eldest son of Joshua
Wright, was born in Yorkshire, England,
March 25, 1830, died July 14, 1908, at Niag
ara Falls, New York. He was an infant in
arms when his parents came to Canada, where
he was educated and grew to manhood. He
learned the cabinet maker's trade, serving a
seven years' apprenticeship, and December 19,
1859, located at Niagara Falls, New York,
where he was a contractor and builder, also
an architect of considerable ability. He be
came well known and erected many buildings
at Niagara. In 1867 he obtained a concession
from the Porter family to conduct visitors
down the cliff and under the falls at the now
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ployed in building bridges connecting the Sis
ter Islands, and the idea of obtaining the con
cession came to him while engaged in this
work. His wife was the first woman to cross
the completed Sister Island bridges. He re
tained this concession as long as Goat Island
was held by the Porters, and on July 15, 1885,
when the state of New York took charge of
the property as a state park, he received an
annual lease of the privilege, which was re
newed each year until 1909. He was a Demo
crat in politics, and served not only as the
last president of the village corporation of
Niagara Falls, but as the first mayor under
the charter creating it a city, in 1892. He
was a foremost factor in procuring the city
charter, was secretary of the charter commit
tee, and. his son still has the records of that
body. Pie was a member of the Episcopal
church, and a man well known and highly
respected. He was active and prominent in
the Masonic order, holding all degrees up to
and including the thirty-second degree, An
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He was
worshipful master of Niagara Frontier Lodge
No. 132, 1878-1880, and high priest of Niag
ara Chapter No. 200, Royal Arch Masons. He
married, April 13, 1853, at Dundas, Canada,
Christina Bastedo, sister of Milly, wife of his
brother, Joshua G. They were daughters of
John Bastedo, born in 1805, at Stamford,
Canada, died at Brantford, Canada, 1872. He
married  McMicken. Children of
George W. Wright: 1. George Edward, of
whom further. 2. Caroline, married Walter
McCullough, a civil engineer connected with
the state of New York Waterways Commis
sion, with office at Niagara Falls; no issue.
3. Agnes, born 185.8, died January 31, 1890.
(Ill) George Edward, only son of George
William Wright, was born in Dundas, Can
ada, March 2, 1854. He was educated in the
public schools of Niagara Falls, his parents
settling there when he was five years of age.
He followed his father's trade and profession,
and became a leading contractor and builder.
He developed a decided taste and talent for
architecture, a profession in which he has
gained prominence and with which he is yet
intimately connected. He was associated with
his father in the operation of the Cave of the
Winds concession at intervals, but not as pro
prietor until the death of the latter in 1908.
Prior to that date the concession had been
operated under a yearly lease, which fact pre

cluded all improvement except such buildings
and appliances necessary to assure the safety
of tourists. In 1909 Mr. Wright, who suc
ceeded his father as concessionary, obtained
from the state a six years' lease, and at once
erected the appropriately designed, comfort
able and commodious building on Goat Island,
which has become the most popular point of
that famous resort. Here visitors who de
sire to make the trip under the falls are fur
nished, in private dressing rooms, with suit
able clothing, and sent out in charge of ca
pable guides, while their waiting friends are
comfortably entertained on the spacious
verandahs surrounding the offices and dress
ing rooms. Mr. Wright has made the trip
to the Cave of the Winds the crowning pleas
ure of a trip to Niagara, and his registers
contain the names of many of the most fa
mous men and women of the United States
and Europe. The registers, which date from
1867, are on exhibition in the office on Goat
Island, and are a rare curiosity. In them
-may be found the names of George, then Duke
of York, now King George of England ;
Tyndall, the great English scientist; Mark
Twain, President Roosevelt, and many other
men of note. A souvenir, hanging framed
in the office, is a duly attested and witnessed
statement of the first party who ever made
the trip behind the Falls and through the
Cave of the Winds, dated July 15, 1834.
Mr. Wright is an Independent Republican,
and a member of the board of education of
Niagara Falls, elected in 1906. He is a Pres
byterian in religious faith, and a prominent
member of the Masonic order. He is widely
known, his pleasing, courteous manner win
ning for him a wide circle of friends. He
married, October 10, 1883, Nettie, daughter
of Osbourne and _ Betsey (Hathaway) Can-
field, of Niagara F'alls, New York. Children,
of the fourth generation in the United States :
1. Irene Christina; graduate of Niagara Falls
high school, 1905 ; married, September 22,
1909, Irvin K. Giles, a chemist, graduate of
Cornell University, now with the Electric
Chemical Company of Niagara Falls. 2. Har
old Osbourne, born March 26, 1887; he is as
sociated with his father in the management
of the Cave of the Winds concession ; is a
member of the Masonic order; active in
Young Men's Christian Association work;
member of Presbyterian church. 3. Chester
William, born September 30, 1889 ; graduate

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of Niagara Falls high school, 1907; now a
student of architecture at University of Michi
gan, class of 1912; member of the Masonic
order.

The family here described
RICHMOND originated in Brittany,
France, deriving their name
from the two French words "riche" and
"monde" or "monte," and being known
at various times and places by the dif
ferent forms of the name, such as : Ryche-
monde, Richemount, Richmonte, Richmond
and Richmon. Roaldus Musard de Richmond,
who came from France to England with Wil
liam the Conqueror, is said to have ridden at
the side of his illustrious leader at Hastings
Field, and is spoken of by Thackeray as being
a direct descendant of King Edward I. The
family settled early in Yorkshire, and the
branch which located at Ashton-Keynes,
county Wiltshire, are supposed to be descended
from the Yorkshire Richmonds, the line of
descent to the American family being as fol
lows: Roaldus Musard De Richmond (here
tofore mentioned), Hascalfus Musard De
Richmond, Roaldus De Richmond "Le En-
nase," Sir Alan De Richmond, Sir Roald De
Richmond, Alan Richmond De Croft, Sir
Roald Richmond De Croft, Eudo De Rich
mond, Elyas De Richmond, Elyas (2) De
Richmond, Thomas De Richmond, William
De Richmond (who married Alice, daughter
and heiress of Thomas Webb, of Draycott,
and for the next four generations the family
assume the name of Webb) ; William Rich
mond, alias Webb; William (2) Richmond,
alias Webb; Edmond Richmond, alias Webb;
Henry Richmond, alias Webb ; John Rich
mond, supposed to be identical with John
Richmond, of Taunton. The last named, ac
cording to a manuscript left by one of his
family, took part in the civil wars in England.
Their manor at Ashton-Keynes contained
about four hundred acres of land, and they
owned the entire village of that name.
(I) John Richmond, known as John of
Taunton, "to distinguish him from others of
the name who came to America during the
same period, was born in 1594, and in 1597
was baptized at Ashton-Keynes, a parish in
county Wiltshire, England. He emigrated to
America about 1635, perhaps direct to Mas
sachusetts, but as the first definite knowledge
of his being there is in 1637, it has been sup

posed by many that he may have been the
John Richmond spoken of as being in Maine,
as George Richmond, who may have been his
cousin, was trading with Saco, Maine, in 1635,
and the name of John Richmond is found on
the court records of that place during March,
1636. He became one of the original pur
chasers of the town of Taunton, Massachu
setts, in 1637, being owner of six shares, and
took the oath of allegiance there prior to 1640.
His name does not appear on the list of those
able to bear arms, in 1643, and no record of
his name is found there until 1655, when he
was also in Rhode Island. If he took part
in the civil wars of England during this time,
according to family tradition, his absence is
thus easily explained, and tradition also says
he was known as Colonel John, as result of
this service. He and his sons became large
landholders, and the family lived in the east
erly part of the town, their name being still
perpetuated in the village of Richmondtown,
in that location. John Richmond made his
will in 1664, in which document he bequeaths
to his son John all his writings, "which are
in my chest, in my son-in-law's, Edward Rew's
house." He made his mark in signing this
will, the reason being probably on account of
his age and feebleness, as he therein mentions
his "writings," and his sons Edward and
John were well educated, refined and gentle
manly for their day and age. He was one of
the older men of Taunton and died there
March 20, 1664. Neither the date of his mar
riage nor the name of his wife has yet been
found, but it is supposed he married before
coming to America. Children: John; Ed
ward, born about 1632; Sarah, about 1638;
Mary, about 1639.
(II) John (2), eldest "son of John (1)
Richmond, was born before the family left
England, about 1627, and as a young man
settled on his father's land in Taunton. He
became prominent in every public transaction
in the town, and in its interest purchased a
large amount, of land from the Indians. He
served as constable in 1674 and again in 1685 ;
was a member of the council in 1676 and again
in 1690. His home was on "Neck of Land,"
about three-quarters of a mile from the
"green" or center, and here he and his wife
were buried. He died October 7, 1715, at
the age of eighty-eight years. It is supposed
he was twice married, although no record has
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was the mother of his first four children, and
died about 1662. He married, about 1663,
Abigail, daughter of John Rogers, of Dux
bury, born in 1641, died August 1, 1727, aged
eighty-six years, the mother of the last seven
children. Children were born to John Rich
mond as follows: Mary, June 2, 1654, at
Bridgewater; John, June 6, 1656, killed in
1672; Thomas, February 2, 1659, at Newport,
Rhode Island; Susanna, November 4, 1661, at
Bridgewater; Joseph, December 8, 1663, at
Taunton; Edward; Samuel, September 23,
1668, at Taunton; Sarah, February 26, 167 1 ;
John, December 5, 1673 ; Ebenezer, May 12,
1676, at Newport; Abigail, February 26, 1679,
at Newport.
(Ill) Edward, fourth son of John (2) Rich
mond by his wife Abigail, was born at Taun
ton, February 8, 1665, died in 1741. He mar
ried (first) a lady whose christian name was
Mercy; married (second) May 6, 171 1, Re
becca, born November 28, 1689, daughter of
Jonathan and Sarah Thurston ; he married
(third) Mary  ¦, by whom he had no
children. Children of first wife : Mercy, born
in 1693 ; Edward, 1695 ; Richard ; Josiah,
Nathaniel, about 1700; Seth; Elizabeth;
Phebe, 1706. Children of second wife : Sarah,
born December 20, 1712; Mary, 1714; Pris
cilla, February 27, 17 18; Eunice, September
23, 1722.
(IV) Josiah, third son of Edward and
Mercy Richmond, was born at Taunton, in
1697. His will is dated January 26, 1762,
and he died in 1763. Family tradition speaks
of his great physical strength, which was also
noticeable in many of his descendants. He
married (first) Mehitable Deane, born June
6, 1677, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah
(Williams) Deane, and after her death he
married (second) February 5, 1745-46, Lydia
Crocker, widow of Theophilus Crocker and
daughter of Jabez Eddy. His children, all of
whom were born at Middleboro, were as fol
lows : Mary, Josiah, Gershom, Benjamin,
born_ in 1727; George, Ephraim, Eleazer,
Lemuel, Miriam, Zeriah, Mercy, Mehitable.
(V) Josiah (2), eldest son of Josiah (1)
and Mehitable (Deane) Richmond, was born
at Middleboro, 171 1, died 1785, at the age
of seventy-four years. In his will he left to
his son Josiah a farm at Middleboro. He mar
ried, June 9, 1743, Elizabeth Smith, of Mid
dleboro, who died about 1803. Children : Ed
ward, died in 1748; Phebe, Josiah, Mercy,

Walker, Edward, Nathaniel, Abner, Priscilla,
Elizabeth, Hannah.
(VI) Josiah (3), second son of Josiah (2)
and Elizabeth (Smith) Richmond, was born
at Dighton, in May, 1747-50. He had a farm
at Middleboro, and in 1792 removed to Bar
nard, Vermont, thence to Salina, New York,
where he died May 28, 1821, at the age of
seventy-four years. He was a farmer by oc
cupation, and a man of unusual physical
strength. He served during the revolutionary
war, was taken prisoner by the British and
taken to Bermuda, where he was exchanged.
Following his discharge from service he was
paid in Continental money, whose value is
shown to have been very small from the fact
that Mr. Richmond found it necessary to pay
forty-eight dollars of this money for a break
fast. He married Betsey, daughter of Shad-
rach Hathaway, of Elizabethtown, New Jer
sey, who was born about 1750, died in 1835.
Children: Betsey, born 1770; Hathaway;
Edward, about 1774; Sarah, about 1776; Jo
siah, drowned at the age of twenty years ; Ab
ner; Phebe, born about 1787; Anson, Febru
ary 24, 1790; John, July 25, 1792; Sybil, De
cember, 1797.
(VII) Hathaway, eldest son of Josiah (3)
and Betsey (Hathaway) Richmond, was born
in 1772. fie removed from Massachusetts
to Barnard, Vermont, and in 1816 to Salina,
New York, where he and his brothers were
for some time engaged in salt manufacture.
He was a man of unusual business ability,
fond of travel, and was ever on the lookout
for profitable investments. He died of yellow
fever at St. Louis, Missouri, in 182 1. He
married, May 4, 1798, Rachel, daughter of
Elkanah Dean, of Taunton, died at Salina, in
1 82 1. Children: Betsey, born in 1799;
Frindey, 1801, married (first) Benjamin Beb-
bitt, (second) Augustus Chester; Dean.
(VIII)*Dean, only son of Hathaway and
Rachel (Dean) Richmond, was born at Bar
nard, Vermont, March 31, 1804, died in New
York City, August 27, 1866. He became a
power in railroad and commercial circles, at
the time of his death being almost as well
known throughout the Mississippi Valley as
in the cities of New York state, where his
connection with the New York Central rail
road brought him into great prominence. He
is probably best known to the country at large
as having been the first railroad man to ad
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worker, a deep thinker, and having natural
business instinct and ability, success came to
him as a matter of course, and each enterprise
into which he entered seemed the logical out
come of his previous ones. In 1842 he re
moved to Buffalo from Syracuse, where he
had been engaged in the salt industry, and in
1843 returned to the last named city. He re
sided at Attica from 1846 until May 31, 1853,
the date of his removal to Batavia, ever af
terward his home. For many years Mr. Rich
mond was director of the Rochester & Buffalo
railroad, and at the time of the consolidation
of the line from Albany west, was elected
vice-president of the New York Central rail
road, and on the resignation of the president,
Erastus Corning, Mr. Richmond was chosen
to succeed him as president. He was also
president of the State Line Railroad Com
pany. He was one of the most influential
and well-known business men of the country
and led a very busy and useful life, entering
into many projects for the development of
industries and incidentally helping many
young men to make their start in life through
personal advice and friendship. Though so
much engrossed in commercial and business
affairs, he was a true friend of the poor, re
lieving the lot of many unfortunates who
mourned his loss as a personal bereavement.
He was a leader of the Democratic party of
New York for many years, being chairman
of the state committee at the time of his death.
Prior to the National Democratic convention
of 1864 he was the choice of the leaders of
his party for president and was strongly urged
to accept the nomination, but he absolutely re
fused to allow his name to be used in this
connection, although his friend, Samuel J.
Tilden, advised him to accept, saying his nom
ination was "very possible and election prob
able." Speaking of him, Mr. Tilden said : "I
think he was one of the best informed and
ablest men whom I have ever had the oppor
tunity to know." He was a friend of Presi
dent Lincoln, who consulted him on important
political matters affecting New York state and
offered him preferment. After attending the
Democratic state convention at Saratoga, in
1866, he returned to New York City, where
he died at the home of Mr. Tilden in Gram-
ercy Park.
fie married, at Troy, New York, February
19, 1833, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Hath
away and Electa (Dauchy) Mead, who was

born at Troy, June 21, 1813, died at Batavia,
April 6, 1895. Her grandfather, Jasper Mead,
was an officer in the revolutionary war and
one of the founders .of the Society of the Cin
cinnati. Her mother was of French and her
father of English descent. After her husband's
death Mrs. Richmond proved herself to be
a discreet, careful business woman. In the
management of the large estate she had the
assistance of her daughter, Mrs. Adelaide
(Richmond) Kenny, who seems to have in
herited in an exceptional degree the business
talents of her distinguished father. The busi
ness ability and good judgment of these
women seem to have been evinced by the fact
that the estate left by Dean Richmond more
than doubled under their care and manage
ment. Children of Dean and Mary E. Rich
mond : 1. Alfred William, born in October,
1836, deceased. He was twice married; his
first wife was Mary L. Soper. 2. Harriet,
born in October, 1838, died at Saratoga
Springs, in August, 1839. 3. Henry Augus
tus, see forward. 4. Adelaide, born June 7,
1845, died February 4, 1905 ; married Dr. Wil
liam J. C. Kenny. 5. William Eugene, born
August 12, 1848; married Clara Nims; died
May 14, 1906, at his home in Buffalo. 6. Ed
ward G., see forward. 7. Edgar Dean, twin
of Edward G., born at Attica, October 29,
185 1, died in September, 1852. 8. Dean, born
at Batavia, October 30, 1853, died February 2,
1885, unmarried.
(IX) Henry Augustus, third child of Dean
and Mary E. Richmond, was born at Syra
cuse, New York, August 3, 1840. He was
educated in public and private schools of Ba
tavia, ill health preventing him from taking
a college course. In 1861 he located in Buf
falo, where for several years he was active
in commercial life, in the grain and lake trans
portation business. Many years ago he re
tired from active business life, devoting him
self to scientific study, investigation and travel.
He has made several extended journeys
abroad, visiting Europe, Asia and Africa, one
of his trips consuming about two years. He
spent much time in the Holy Land and in
Africa. He has traveled his own land ex
tensively, especially Alaska, having followed
the Yukon river on one of his trips its entire
length. He has been a Democrat all his life,
but is extremely independent in political ac
tion, men and measures taking precedence with
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ardent supporter of Samuel J. Tilden, and of
Grover Cleveland in his mayoralty, govern-
ship and presidential campaigns, and strongly
endorsed his policies in state and national af
fairs. In city affairs he has always been
deeply interested in all that pertained to the
welfare of the public schools, and so well
known was his interest that the "Schoolmas
ter's Society," an organization composed of
the principals of the public schools of Buffalo,
elected him an honorary member. He has
been a director of the Buffalo Society of Nat-
? ural Sciences for forty-six years; a director
of the Buffalo Historical Society for thirty-
seven years; was for thirty years a director
of the Society of Fine Arts. In 1880 Mr.
Richmond joined the Civil Service Reform
movement and has been very active in that
up to the present time. When Governor
Grover Cleveland was forming his board of
state civil service commissioners he appointed
Mr. Richmond a member. He held the office,
rendering efficient service to the cause of civil
service reform, until his retirement during the
administration of Governor David B. Hill. He
is a member of the Buffalo and Saturn clubs,
and an attendant of the Episcopal church. He
resides in Buffalo, New York, unmarried.
(IX) Edward Gould, sixth child of Dean
and Mary E. Richmond, was born in Attica,
New York, October 29, 185 1, died at Chat
tanooga, Tennessee. His twin brother, Edgar
Dean, died in infancy. He was educated in
private schools and prepared for college at
Cary Collegiate Seminary, at Oakfield, and
the "Rectory" at Hampden, Connecticut. He
entered Columbia Law School, Columbia Uni
versity, New York City, whence he was grad
uated. He resided for a time in Batavia, New
York, after leaving the university, then in
company with his brother, Dean Richmond,
settled in Colorado, where they established a
hardware business. Edward G. Richmond for
a time also engaged in banking in Colorado.
In 1886 he took advantage of the opportuni
ties the new south was offering to men of
capital and enterprise and located in Chat
tanooga, Tennessee, which was ever afterward
his home. He became interested in banking
and in several of the large industries of Chat
tanooga. He was president of the Richmond
Oil Company of that city, with branches at
several points in the south. He was exten
sively interested in the manufacture of cot
ton seed oil and other by-products of the

cotton plant. His health failed in latter years
and he travelled much, seeking a congenial
climate. He always retained an interest in
Batavia, the family home, and each year paid
an extended visit there. He inherited much
of his father's business ability, and held a
prominent place in the financial and commer
cial world of Chattanooga and the south. He
was affable and courteous in manner, making
many warm friends.
He married, June 18, 1889, Carrie Pfau, of
a prominent Cincinnati, Ohio, family. Chil
dren: Edward Dean, born 1892, and Ruth
Dean, born 1895.

This family, although bearing
JOHNSON an English surname, is orig
inally of French and more
immediately of Holland extraction. The an
cestor of the family in America is Antoine
Janssen Van Salers (meaning Antoine, son of
Jan 'from Salers), acquiring the name from
an inheritance left him by a relative who re
sided in Salers, a town of France in Upper
Auvergne. He was born in Holland and emi
grated to America in 1631. Van Salers was
dropped from the name in the third generation
and the simple patronymic Janssen retained,
composed of the Dutch compounds Jan and
Zoon. Zoon was corrupted to Sen-Jan-Sen,
the same as English John-son, and having the
same significance as in English — son of John.
Another family of a totally dissimilar name
sprang from this same ancestor, Antoine Jans
sen Van Salers. His neighbors called him
"Antoine, the Turk," and this nickname being
perpetuated by some of his descendants as a
surname, a distinct family has been originated,
bearing the singular and uncommon surname,
Turk. (I) Antoine Janssen Van Salers founded
the town of Gravesend (Grav elands) at the
southwestern extremity of Long Island, about
twelve miles from Wal-boght (Wallabout,
now Brooklyn navy yard) where his brother
resided. The patent of lands there granted in
his name bears date of August 1, 1639 (see
Book I, page 124, Albany Records) compris
ing one hundred morgans (something less
than 200 acres) extending along the shore two
hundred and fifty-three rods opposite Coney
Island. His estate in 1673 was assessed at
one thousand guilders. This family has been
noted for great strength. Antoine, the ances
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William was equally remarkable for great
size and great muscle, it being confidently as
serted by his descendants that he carried at
one time five bags of wheat from his barn to
his house, seventy-five yards, up a steep flight
of stairs, one bag under each arm, one in each
hand and one in his teeth. Children of An
toine Janssen Van Salers, of Gravesend, and ¦
his wife, a Quakeress : Claes, died September
ii, 1642; Pieter, died in 1696, had four sons,
Hans-Pieter, Rem Jan, Daniel Rapelle and
Jan ; Barent, see forward ; Hendrick.
(II) Barent, third son of the emigrant, An
toine Janssen Van Salers, settled in Albany
and Montgomery counties. He died in 1698,
leaving sons.
(Ill) Jan (John) Barent (Jan, son of Ba
rent) so called to distinguish him from Jan,
son of Henry, married and had a son Isaac.
(IV) Isaac, son of Jan Barent Johnson
(as that name had now become) married and
had a son Barent.
(V) Barent, son of Isaac Johnson, died July
I5- x777- He was a farmer of the Mohawk
valley and of Albany county, New York. He
married (first) Maria Lymesen, February 1,
1753. He married (second) Maria, daughter
of Captain John Guest, who died at Antigua,
April 8, 1753. Among his children was a son
John. (VI) John, son of Barent Johnson, was
born in the Mohawk valley, New York state,
later moving for a time at least to Saratoga
county. He married and had a son Peter.
(VII) Peter, son of John Johnson, was
born at Ballston Springs, Saratoga county,
New York, August 16, 1795, died October 2,
1895, aged one hundred years and forty days.
He married and had a son John.
(VIII) John, son of Peter Johnson, was
born in Richmondville, Schoharie county. New
York, August 1, 1826, died February 15, 1910.
He was a farmer at Leroy, New York, for
about fifty years. He married  . Chil
dren : 1. Ina, married D. A. McVane, and
resides at Caledonia, New York. 2. Luella I.,
of Le Roy, New York. 3. Olena C, married
Homer McPherson, of Le Roy, New York.
4. William D., of whom further. 5. Bertha,
married James E. Bissel, and resides at Ber
gen, New York.
(IX) Dr. William D. Johnson, son of John
Johnson, was born in Le Roy, New York,
June 4, 1869. He was educated in the public
school at Le Roy, prepared for college at the

Academic Institute, entered Syracuse Univers
ity and was graduated M.D. from the Syracuse
Medical College, 1892. Dr. Johnson served
as interne at St. Joseph's Hospital, Syracuse,
1892-93. In the latter named year he engaged
in active practice in Bergen, New York, where
he remained for seven years. He then located
in Batavia, October, 1900, and has resided
there since. 1912 President Medical Associa
tion of Central New York. He devotes his
time entirely to surgery in which he excels.
He owns a good farm near Batavia, where he
spends many hours free from professional
cares. He is a member of the American Medi
cal Association, New York State Society,
Medical Association of Central New York, of
which he is president at the present time
(1912), Buffalo Academy of Medicine, Roch
ester Academy of Medicine, the Genesee
County Medical Society, the American So
ciety for the Advancement of Science, the
National Geographical Society, the American
Microscopical Society, the New York and New
England Railway Surgeons' Association, the
Gross Medical Club, and the Rochester,
(Minnesota) Surgeons' Club. He is an In
dependent in politics.
He married, August 9, 1900, Bessie E. Em
erson, born in Bergen, July 1, 1876, daughter
of John Emerson, a farmer. Children : Mar
jory L., born July 31, 1901 ; John E., March
8, 1905 ; Morris Townsend, October 12, 1907.

The Ogdens of Buffalo, New
OGDEN York, are of English parentage.
The English seat of the family
was at Kingsthorpe, where Thomas and Mar
tha Ogden lived and died. Thomas Ogden
was a malster and a member of the Church
of England.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and
Martha Ogden, was born in Kingsthorpe,
England, June 15, 1797, died in London, June
21, 1866. He was a shoemaker by trade and
carried on business in his native parish and in
London. He was a member of the Church
of England. He married Rose Hannah Page,
born April 13, 1804, died December 15, 1853.
Children: Charles, born April 6, 1822, died in
London, January 27, 1877; James, January 29,
1824, died December 7, 1852; Thomas, De
cember 1, 1825, died May 24, 1853; Joseph,
May 17, 1828, died January 28, 1908; John,
January 2, 1831, died March 17, 1891 ;
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191 1 ; Martha, March 11, 1835; Frederick, of
whom further; Edwin, April 15, 1839, died
1906; Harriet, living in Buffalo, married
James Fox, a veteran of the civil war, de
ceased. (Ill) Frederick, eighth child and seventh
son of Thomas and Rose Hannah (Page) Og
den), was born in Northampton, England,
August 9, 1837. He was educated in the
English schools, and in 1854 .came to the Uni
ted States, settling at Norwich, Connecticut,
where he remained for a short time. He next
was at Rock Island, Illinois, later at Roches
ter, New York, where he engaged in the mill
ing business. From Rochester he went to
Thorold, Canada, where he married. He had
now become an expert, experienced miller.
In 1858 he came again to New York state
and for ten years was head miller for the mill
ing firm, Thornton & Chester, at their Globe
Mills at Black Rock. In 1868 he took charge
of their then new mill on Erie street, called
the National Mills, continuing until 1878, mak
ing nineteen years' continuous service with
Thornton & Chester as their trusted and val
ued head miller. In 1878 he went to Eng
land in an important position, remaining nine
months. On his return in 1879 he was offered
his old positon with Thornton & Chester, but
declined, having completed arrangements for
entering the milling business himself. In 1879,
in company with John Esser, who had been
Thornton & Chester's retailer and shipper, he
leased the North Buffalo Mills at Black Rock,
which he operated. Soon after starting at
Black Rock, H. C. Zimmerman was admitted
a partner. Mr. Ogden sold out in eighteen
months, but soon after again entered into
partnership with Messrs. Esser & Zimmerman,
and in 1882 built the Banner Mill. In 1887
Mr. Zimmerman sold out and business was
continued with John Esser, Frederick Ogden
and Henry F. Shuttleworth, proprietors of
the Banner Milling Company. In 1887 they
"secured the old Erie Mill at Black Rock. In
1908 all the different mills and properties were
incorporated under the title of the Banner
Milling Company, of which Mr. Ogden is
vice-president. This is a very successful com
pany and has an established position in the
market. Mr. Ogden is the oldest practical
miller in Western New York, his experience
in Buffalo alone covering a period of half a
century, over thirty years of this period hav
ing been himself a mill owner and manufac

turer. While now retired from actiye partici
pation in business, he is by no means incapaci
tated, but retains a keen interest in his private
affairs. As a business man he has always been
energetic, progressive and self-reliant, while
as a citizen and neighbor he is held in the
highest esteem. He is an attendant of Pilgrim
Congregational Church, and a member of the
Masonic order. His clubs are the Buffalo,
Ellicott and Acacia.
He married, February 2, 1858, Susan
Haynes, born May 26, 1837, died May 19, 1902,
daughter of William and Maria (Flanders)
Haynes, of Canfield, Canada. Children: 1.
Frances O., resides with her father in Buffalo.
2. William T., born January 7, i860; now a
member of the Banner Milling Company. 3.
Frederick Edwin, born April 4, 1863 ; now of
the Banner Milling Company. 4. George Har
vey, born January 29, 187 1, died March 5,
1872". 5. Alice Maria, married Walter Wil
liam Richardson. 6. Blanche Susan, married
Edward Arthur Selkirk, member of the
American Body Company (Automobile). 7.
Percy, twin with Blanche Susan, died in in
fancy.

Mention of this family is
BOWLES found in records of "the long
ago." The name "Bolls" is
found in the Roll of Battle Abbey as given by
Hollingshead. Duchesne, from a charter in
that abbey, gives a list of the soldiers under
William of Normandy, among whose names
appears that of "Bools." The names of Boll,
Bol, Bole and Bolle occur frequently in
Domesday Book. One family of Bolles of
long standing in the county of Lincoln was
resident there as early as the reign of Henry
III. when Alaire or Alaine Bolle, of Swine-
head and Bole Hall, in the county of Lincoln,
resided at the principal seat of the family un
til the close of the reign of Edward IV. Since
that date the family has scattered and spread
to all parts of England. Members of the
family immigrated to America at an early day,
Joseph Bolles being found in Maine in 1640.
The original spelling, Bolles, is now generally
Bowles. The family herein recorded were
native to Gloucestershire, England, where
John Bowles, the founder in the United States,
was born. He is a grandson of George
Bowles, who was born, lived and died in
Gloucestershire, England. He had four sons:
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(II) Thomas, son of George Bowles, was
born in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England,
in 1812, died there at the age of sixty-six.
He was educated in the schools of Fairford
and Dowd, and became a merchant of Fair
ford. He was a member of the Established
Church of England. He married Mary Ann
Miller, born in 1823, at Maiseyhampton, Eng
land, who survives him (1912), aged eighty-
nine ; resides in Staffordshire, England. Chil
dren : Martha, born 1843 > Charles, Decem
ber 23, 1845; Alfred, July, 1847; John, of
whom further ; Ellen, born 1854 ; Arthur W.,
1856; Albert H., 1858; Emily G., 1861 ; Annie,
1864. (Ill) John, third son of Thomas Bowles,
was born in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Eng
land, November 6, 1849. He was educated in
the Dowd school, and began business life as
a mason's apprentice in Devonshire, where
he served his term and worked as journeyman
until 1871, when he came to Toronto, Canada.
In a short time he came to the United States,
locating at Albion, Orleans county, New
York. He at once engaged in contracting and
building, erecting many residences and busi
ness blocks in Albion and vicinity. In 1895,
in connection with his building operations, he
began laying cement and concrete walks and
did a very large business in Orleans and Niag
ara counties. He later engaged in the pro
duce business and in coal. After a busy, pros
perous business life, he closed out his enter
prises, and in March, 191 1, retired to private
life. For twenty years he has been a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church of Albion;
was president of the board of trustees up to
191 1, when he resigned from presidency, al
though still a member of the board. He is a
member of the board of education, and of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is
one of the substantial citizens of Albion and
held in high regard.
He married, September 24, 1870, in Tor
quay, Devonshire, England, Elizabeth S. Web
ber, born April 28, 1850, daughter of John
and Joanna (Soper) Webber. John Webber
was a contractor and builder in England ;
member of the Wesleyan Methodist church;
son of Samuel Webber, of Devonshire, Eng
land. Children of John and Elizabeth Bowles :
1. Nellie, born March 8, 1875; now a teacher
in the Rochester (New York) high school.
2. Ethel, December 9, 1879 J graduate of Syra

cuse University; now a teacher of history in
the Yonkers (New York) high school.

This name is probably one of
ALBERTY the many forms of surnames
derived from the Christian
name Albert. The family is of German descent
and may have been orginally Albertse or Al-
bertsen. There are no published records of
the family and family records do not carry be
yond John and Peter Alberty, who lived in
Pennsylvania. (I) John Alberty, progenitor of the Al-
bertys, of Newfane, Niagara county, New
York, left Pennsylvania and settled in New
York state, at Catskill-on-the-Hudson. He
was a farmer. Later he removed to Niagara
county, locating in the town of Lockport, five
miles from the then village of the same name.
He made the journey by wagon and team,
passing through Syracuse and Rochester. The '
country through which he traveled was then
in a wild, dangerous and unsettled condition,
which made it unsafe for the women of his
family, whom he sent by the safer route, canal
packet. He operated a tannery in Lockport
and with the aid of his sons also culti
vated a farm in the town. The maiden name
of his wife was Atwatef, her Christian name
has not been preserved. Children: Hannah,
married Amos Runsey and removed to Kan
sas; Stephen, married Margaret Buchanan
and also removed to Kansas ; Catherine, mar
ried M. B. Hoy, of Woodstock, Illinois; Ber
nard, married Sophronia Kingdon; John W.
(of further mention) ; Reuben ; Sarah, married
Harry Gregory; Esther, married a Mr. Macy
and removed to Iowa ; Thomas, married Han
nah Kenney and settled in Illinois.
(II) John W., son of John Alberty, was
born at Catskill, New York, June 19, 1818,
died in the town of Lockport, Niagara county,
New York, at the age of ninety years. He
attended the Catskill public school until he
was thirteen, then made the journey to Niag
ara county with his parents, finishing his
school years in the Lockport school and Gas-
port Academy. He worked with his father
in the tannery .and on the farm during the
summer months, teaching school during the
winters. About 1850 his father purchased the
Nichols farm of one hundred and forty acres
lying on the turnpike, part of which he cleared
himself. The farm was a good one and
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chards. John W. later bought the farm of his
father, sold ninety acres, cultivating the re
maining acres until near the end of his life,
when he deeded them to his children. He was
a man of good standing in his town and held
the office of supervisor and road commis
sioner. In political faith he was a Republican,
later supporting the cause of Prohibition. He
was one of the founders and for thirty years
an elder of the Presbyterian church at
Wrights Corners, also a trustee of the Ceme
tery Association, at that place. He was lib
eral in his support of the church and very
charitable. He married Caroline Soper, born 1837, died
January 20, 1900, daughter of Isaac Soper, of
Lockport. Children : Esther, died in infancy ;
Homer M., born December 9, 1857 ; Loren S.,
(of further mention) ; Harriet E., born May
16, 1864; married Albert Webb; child, Loren
Webb. (Ill) Loren S., son of John W. Alberty,
was born in the town of Lockport, Niagara
county, New York, at the old homestead farm,
September 6, 1859. He received a good edu
cation in the public schools and Lockport
Union school. He was his father's assistant
for a time, then began teaching. He taught
nineteen terms in the public schools at Wil
son, Newfane and Lockport, and was very
successful in that profession. About 1884
he began farming, working on the share plan
for the first three years, on the Asa Burton
farm, in Wilson, then one year on the Heze
kiah Seeley farm in the same town, then for
ten years on one of his father's farms. He
then purchased the Dewey Angevine farm of
sixty acres, situated about one mile west of
Wrights Corners. Here he remained eight
years, engaged in fruit and general farming.
In the spring of 1905 he rented the John Tice
farm and in 1906 removed to the village of
Newfane, where he built a house and is now
engaged in the fruit and produce business,
buying and shipping.
He is a member of the Wrights Corners
Presbyterian Church, of which for many years
he was an elder, also superintendent of the
Sunday school. He is a strong advocate of
the cause of Prohibition and supports his prin
ciple with his votes. He is a member of the
Farmers' Club of his town, and a most highly
respected citizen.
He married, May 3, 1882, Ada E. Tice,

born December 4, 1861, daughter of John R.
and Charity (Richardson) Tice.

The Welds of England claim to
WELD have descended from Edric Syl-
vaticus Wild, a Saxon of great
renown in the reign of King Harold. Hum
phrey Weld, who married Clara Young Ernst,
daughter of Thomas Ernst, Lord Aurondel,
of Wardor, England, owned Lulworth Castle
and other estates in Dorset, England. He is
said to be the ancestor of the American
family. (I) Edmond Welde, of Sudbury, Suffolk,
England, born 1550, was the father of Cap
tain Joseph Weld, the emigrant ancestor of
the family herein recorded. His will, dated
December 5, 1605, probated May 3, 1608, men
tions wife "Amye" and children : Daniel,
John, Edmund, Thomas, Benjamin, Joseph,
"my sixth son," James, Mary and Elizabeth,
to all of whom he bequeathed liberally. The
coat-of-arms borne by Captain Joseph Weld
of Roxbury and which his descendants are en
titled to bear was : Azure, a f esse nebulee be
tween three crescents ermine. Crest: A
wivern sable guttee, ducally gorged and
chained or. Motto : "Nil sine numine."
(II) Captain Joseph Weld, son of Edmond
Welde, was born in England, 1595, died 1646.
He came to New England in 1632 with his
wife Elizabeth, daughter ' Elizabeth, aged ten,
Mary, aged eight, Hannah, Thomas, and an
elder son, John, at twelve years of age. Jo
seph was admitted a freeman March 3, 1636.
He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, be
came a proprietor, 1646, house owner, and
captain of the military company. He was se
lectman several years, and deputy to the gen
eral court in 1637 and in later years. We
are told he was a man of good estate and
high repute. His first wife, Elizabeth, died
October 16, 1638. He married (second),
April 30, 1639, Barbara, daughter of Nicho
las Clapp,- of Venn Ottery, England. In his
will he left a bequest to Harvard College.
Children: John, of further mention; Eliza
beth, Mary, Hannah, Thomas, Edmond ; chil
dren of second wife: Sarah, Daniel, Joseph
and Sarah.
(Ill) John, eldest son of Captain Joseph
Weld, was born in England, October 28, 1623,
died September 20, 1691. He came to New
England later with his father, and settled at
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was made a freeman in 1650, and was a sol
dier in King Philip's war. He married Mar
garet, daughter of Griffin Bowen, of Rox
bury, who came from Glamorganshire, Wales.
Children, born in Roxbury : Joseph, died
young; Joseph, of further mention; John,
Ephraim. Margaret, Mary, Abigail, died
young; Esther, died young; Hannah.
(IV) Lieutenant Joseph Weld, son of John
Weld, was born September 13, 1652, died Feb
ruary 14, 1712. fie spent his entire life at
Roxbury. fie married (first) in 1674, Eliza
beth Devotion, who died 1678. He married
(second) November 27, 1678, Sarah Faxon,
born August 28, 1659, at Braintree, daughter
of Thomas and granddaughter of Thomas
Faxon, the immigrant. She survived him
and married (second) Jacob Chamberlain.
She died October 14, 1743. Children by first
wife : Margaret, died young ; Elizabeth, died
young. Children of second wife: Margaret,
Joseph; Sarah, died young; Sarah (2), John,
Thomas, Deborah, Mary, Daniel, Edward and
Ebenezer. (V) Ebenezer, thirteenth child of Lieuten
ant Joseph Weld, was born October 19, 1702,
died in Roxbury, September 24, 1761. He is
buried at Roxbury, where his gravestone is
still standing. He was a farmer of his native
town. He married, November 28, 1725, Mary
Craft, born April 1, 1706, died October 10,
1763, daughter of Samuel (2) Craft, of Rox
bury, son of Samuel ( 1 ) , son of the emigrant,
Griffin Craft. Children, born at Roxbury :
Rebecca, died in infancy; Eben, died young;
Mary, Eben (2), died young; Nathaniel, and
Eben (3).
(VI) Eben, also written Ebenezer, youngest
son of Ebenezer Weld, was born at Roxbury,
April 8, 1744, died there March 28, 1821. He
was a soldier of the revolution, serving as
sergeant in Captain Childs' company (Third
Roxbury), Colonel William Heath's regiment,
in April, 1775, on the Lexington alarm; also
in Lieutenant Craft's company, Colonel Mc
intosh's regiment, in July, 1778. He married
Rebecca Mayo, born 1746, at Roxbury, died
1844. Children: 1. Dr. Nathaniel, settled in
Maine ; his son was a graduate of West Point
and served in the Mexican war. 2. Joseph,
who had a number of children. 3-4. Two
daughters. 5. John.
(VII) John, youngest son of Ebenezer
(Eben) Weld, was born in Roxbury, July 17,
1788, died at Medina, Orleans county, New

York, January 7, 1875. He lived in Roxbury
until 1816, when he came to Orleans county
and purchased from the Holland Land Com
pany two parcels of land in the town of
Ridgway, the larger tract containing one hun
dred and thirty-three acres, for which he paid
four dollars per acre. In 191 1 part of this
purchase still remained the property of his
son, John M., who also has the deed above
mentioned, one of the oldest in the county.
John Weld did not then remain in Ridgway,
but returned to Roxbury, coming again in
1 818 and making permanent settlement. He
lived upon and cultivated his farm until 1869,
when he retired and passed his remaining
years with his daughter in Medina, New York,
He was a Whig in politics, and an attendant
of the Baptist church. He married in Ridg
way, in 1818, a widow, Sally (Cook) Hall,
born January 2, 1788, died October 20, i860,
in Ridgway. She came with her parents from
Danbury, Connecticut, to Albany county,
New York, where she married Benjamin Hall.
Children of John Weld : 1. Sally Ann, born
January 10, 1820, died October 4, 1910; mar
ried Deacon James Sumner. 2. Mary Re
becca, born March 27, 1822, died June 2, 1861 ;
married Albert Breed. 3. Lucy M., born Feb
ruary 15, 1824, died September 9, 1908; mar
ried James McCormick. 4. Joseph Mayo, born
1827, died 1870; married Caroline M. Hart.
5. John Milo, of further mention.
(VIII) John Milo, youngest son of John and
Sally (Cook-Hall) Weld, was born in the
town of Ridgway, Orleans county, New York,
June 30, 1834. fie was educated in the public
school, and remained with his father on the
farm until he was twenty-five years of age.
His father then gave him a farm which he
cultivated until 1890, then settled in Medina,
where he now lives a retired life. Pie is a
Republican in politics, and was an attendant
of the Baptist church, and many years later a
Presbyterian. He married (first), June 22,
1864, Fidelia E. Hart, born 1836, died Janu
ary 24, 1894. He married (second), April
11, 1895, Mrs. Sarah L. (Skinner) Barrett,
born March 22, 1850. Child of first wife:
Lewis Hart Weld, born December 30, 1875;
graduate of Medina high school, where he
took a post-graduate course for one year;
graduate of Rochester University, A. B. ; took
a special course at the University of Mich
igan, two years ; also one year special course
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ogy and botany in the academic department of
North-Western University, Evanston, Illinois.
J. Ruggles Weld was born in
WELD Troy, New York, April 19, 1826,
died in Medina, New York, June
20, 1904. He was well educated in the Troy
schools, and was for a short time engaged in
business in Albany, New York. In 1849 he
came to Medina and engaged in the milling
business under the firm name, Weld & Stan
ford, his partner being a brother of Governor
Leland Stanford, of California. The firm in
later years was Weld & Hill. Mr. Weld lived
retired for several years before his death. Pie
was a Democrat in politics, and a member of
St. Johns Church, Medina. He married, at
Albany, December 13, 1848, Rebecca Chester,
daughter of Lyman and Elizabeth (Haswell)
Root, of Albany. Lyman Root was a lead
ing business man of Albany and one of the
first board of directors of the Canal Bank, or
ganized in 1829. Children of J. Ruggles
Weld: 1. Julia Chester, died in 1856. 2.
Jessie Ruggles, married Edward Beverly Nel
son, of Rome, New York. 3. Emeline Rath-
bone, married George Kennan, the well-known
author and lecturer. 4. J. Ruggles (2). 5.
Anna Boyd, died aged twelve years. 6. Charles
Corning, resides in England. 7. Anita Bo
gart, married David Anthony Acer, of Me
dina. 8. Erastus Corning, died in infancy.

Robert Dargavel Young was
YOUNG born in Toronto, Canada, of
Scottish parents. Shortly after
his birth the family moved to Fort Erie, Can
ada, and there took up residence. The boy
Robert attended school to the age of twelve,
and then went to work for_ an old German
farmer of Stromness near the Welland canal.
Here the life the lad was forced tq live was
one of extreme hardship, and it is to be doubt
ed that he could have surviyed it long, had
he himself not brought it to an end by run
ning away, which he did at the age of four
teen. In the depth of winter he walked from
Stromness to Buffalo, where he found and
received aid from his elder brother. Mere
youngster that he was, grim necessity forced
him into all sorts of employments, and for the
ensuing four or five years he worked suc
cessively as a printer, a fireman, and as a plan
ing mill hand. However, the boy was fever
ishly ambitious for something better and he

set systematically about the task of improving
himself, and by working nights he fitted him
self for a clerical position. A chance came
in the then comparatively small Erie County
Savings Bank. He became a bank clerk, and
to a young man of his caliber his subsequent
rise to his present position was but a natural
sequence of events. Now, 1912, as secretary
and treasurer of the Erie County Bank, he is
one of the trusted custodians of that institu
tion's fifty millions.
Mr. Young is a thirty-second degree Ma
son, a past commander of Lake Erie Com-
mandery, and has held office in nearly every
Masonic order. He is a Republican, and is in
close touch with the trend of up-state politics.
In the matter of recreation, motor boating
claims him as one of its devotees, and his boat,
"Saville," and he are familiar figures on the
Niagara river. The clubs which he most fre
quents are the Acacia, Park, Ellicott, and Buf
falo Launch Clubs.
Shortly after entering the bank, Mr. Young
married Julia Ditto, daughter of John A.
Ditto, who was for several terms city engi
neer of Buffalo, and Margaret McKenna.
Mrs. Young is the niece of Margaret Emma
Etftto, who was well known as a highly skilled
creator of boys' short stories, and in whose
society much of Mrs. Young's girlhood was
spent. Perhaps it is from this association that
Mrs. Young's own literary genius had its in
ception. Anyway, it is certain that while still
a girl she was spoken of as one whose future
as a poet was assured. The poetical writings
of Julia Ditto Young need no comment here.
Suffice it to' say that among the best known
are : "Adrift, a Story of Niagara" ; "Thistle
Down"; "Glynne's Wife"; "Black Evan";
"Saville"; and "Barham Beach, the Presi
dent's Poem."
Mr. and Mrs. Young have one son, Laur
ence Ditto Young, who has turned his literary
heritage to account by the authorship of sev
eral novels, including "The Climbing Doom,"
"Straight Crooks," and "Marco's Maelstrom."
The family home is in Lafayette Avenue,
Buffalo, and is called Poet's House, because it
is the headquarters of the Browning and
Shakespeare Societies of Buffalo.

This name has been borne in
WEBSTER our country by men who had
few equals in eloquence or
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the name are to be found John Webster, who
became governor of Connecticut, as well as
Daniel Webster, the orator and statesman,
and Noah Webster, the lexicographer. The
family herein traced settled first in Virginia
and held prominent position there.
(I) John Webster's name first appears in
the colonial records of Virginia in the will of
William Batts, July 18, 1632; in 1639, by act
of assembly, John Webster is named one of
the viewers of tobacco crops for Accomac
county; August 18, 1650, an inventory of the
"estate of John Webster" was taken in court.
He married and had a son John.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Webster,
was perhaps born in- England. In 1630 he
was living on Savages Neck, Northampton
county, Virginia, with his father; later he
moved to Hovekills, now Lewes, Delaware,
where before 1680 he was a petitioner for a
court for the county of St. James. He mar
ried and had a son John.
(Ill) John (3), son of John (2) Webster,
was born in 1667 in Northampton county, Vir
ginia, died in 1753. He moved from Dela
ware to Maryland, where in 1733 he lived near
the town of Joppa. The boundary between
Maryland and Pennsylvania was frequently in
dispute, and in 1740 John Webster testified
on this question before the commission from
the two states that met at Joppa, then in Bal
timore county, now Hartford county. By his
first wife Hannah he had several children,
among them Michael and Isaac. She was
probably a sister of Isaac Butterworth, as in
his will of May, 1728, he mentions his
nephews, Michael and Isaac, "sons of John
Webster." He married (second) Sarah Giles;
(third) Mary, widow of John Talbot, of West
River, Maryland.
(IV) Isaac, son of John (3) Webster and
his first wife Hannah, was born about 1700,
died October 11, 1759. He married, Novem
ber 22, 1722, Margaret Lee, who died 1783,
the mother of thirteen children.
(V) Samuel, youngest child of Isaac Web
ster, was born 1746, died December 13, 18 17.
He married, in March, 1769, Margaret Ad
ams, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They
had twelve children.
(VI) Edward, son of Samuel and Margaret
(Adams) Webster, was probably born in New
Jersey, possibly in Philadelphia, about 1790.
In 1813 Daniel, Samuel, William and Edward
Webster settled in the town of Eden, Erie

county, New York, near Tubb's. Hollow, com
ing from what is now the town of Boston,
same county. They were no doubt brothers
or near relatives. Edward took up land and
followed, farming. He married, in New Jer
sey, Rachel Kester, born in that state, died in
Eden in 1879, aged ninety years. After his
marriage the young couple came to Eden,
where Edward took up land and followed
farming until his death, September 26, 1865.
Children: Mercy, married John Webster;
Levi, of whom further; Benjamin, Ellis, Em
ily, married Henry Case.
(VII) Levi, son of Edward Webster, was
born in Eden, Erie county, New York, June
25, 1818, died at Silver Creek, Chautauqua
county, New York. He lived on the old Eden
homestead until 1886, then moved to Ham
burg, thence to Silver Creek. He followed
farming all his active years. He married
Mary Rockwood, born in Vermont, died in
Eden, New York, June 21, 1877, aged fifty-
five years, daughter of Reuben and Polly
Rockwood. Children, all born in Eden, New
York: Harriet M., married Melvin J. Hill;
Mary Jane, married Elias Hill, brother of
Melvin J. ; Rachel R., married George Ide ;
Elmer J., married Selma Hauth; Julia, mar
ried Robert O'Connor ; Edward S., married
Sarah Parker; John B., of whom further;
George M., unmarried.
(VIII) John B., son of Levi Webster, was
born in Eden, Erie county, New York, April
1, i860.
He was educated in the public school
in Eden Valley and worked on the farm dur
ing his minority. After his marriage he kept
a hotel at Athol Springs, Erie county, New
York, remaining there one and one-half years.
In 1886 he located in the town of Hanover,
Chautauqua county, at the village of Silver
Creek, where he successfully conducted the
"Silver Creek House" until he purchased the
"Windsor Hotel" property in the same village,
of which he is the present proprietor. He is
now serving his second term as president of
the village, having formerly served two terms
as trustee. He is interested in the Silver
Creek Sand Company. He is a Democrat in
politics. He is a member of Silver Creek
Lodge, No. 682, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and of Dunkirk Lodge, No. 922,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He married Emma M. Roeller, born in Col
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(Stuhtmiller) Roeller. Child: Howard C,
born at Silver Creek, New York, July 1, 1889.
The surname Chapman
CHAPMAN means "merchant" and has
been known in America from
an early period. The family in Chautauqua
county are well known in the towns of Port
land and Westfield.
(I) Thomas Chapman was born in Ver
mont, 1798, died in Portland, Chautauqua
county, New York, in i860. He lived in Ver
mont during his early years, then came to
New York state, settling in Rome, Oneida
county, where he married. He later came to
Chautauqua county, settling first in the town
of Stockton, later in Portland. He was a
prosperous farmer. He married, in Rome,
New York, Rachel Ward, and they were the
parents of nine children.
(II) Lewis Ward, son of Thomas Chap
man, was born in Stockton, Chautauqua
county, New York, July 16, 1843. He was
educated in the public schools of Portland,
New York, at Columbus, Pennsylvania, and
completed his studies in the joint school main
tained by Portland and Westfield. For a
short time after coming of age he followed
farming, but soon decided in favor of mercan
tile life. In 1887 he established a hardware
business in the village of Westfield, which he
successfully conducted for twenty years, sell
ing out and retiring from business in 1907.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, a Republican in politics, and member
of the Men's Club of Westfield.
Mr. Chapman married (first) Flora Wilbur,
of the town of Ellery, Chautauqua county,
New York; she died in 1884. fie married
(second) Lillian, born in Westfield, daughter
of William T. Hynes.

According to the "Patronymica
HODGE Brittannica" a Roman knight
and follower of William the
Conqueror, named Rdger, after the con
quest, 1066, settled in Scotland, and from
him came the name Hodge. From Roger
first came Oger, then Hodger and finally
Hodge (see Domesday Book). In England
among the common people the name is gen
erally pronounced as though spelled Odge,
after the old English mode, giving the "h" no
sound. Yonge's "Christian Names" says
Hodge was once a "famous knightly name."

The English-Teutonic meaning is "spear of
fame." In England the name Hodge is not with
out distinction. P. R. Hodge, of London,
wrote several works on steam engines, and
it is claimed was the first to invent and use
a hydraulic table that engineers might know
the weight in pounds and imperial gallons,
and the cubic feet in cylindrical pipe. Com
mander Andrew Hodge, Midshipman J. T.
Hodge and John Hodge all served under the
great English naval commander, Lord Nel
son, the two latter being with him at Trafal
gar when the French fleet was destroyed and
Nelson was killed. Sir Edward Cooper
Hodge, K. C. B., served in the Crimean war
with distinction, and in 1889 was holding the
rank of general in the English army and was
an officer of the Legion of Honor. In both
England and Scotland the family bore arms,
the English arms being: "A chevron sur
rounded by a pale crest : An eagle rising look
ing at the sun." The Scotch arms : "A
chevron between two amulets. Crest : A garb
entwined with two serpents." In the United
States the name is found in every state and
territory, many being descendants of John
Hodge, who died in Lyme, Connecticut,
1692-94, from whom the Hodges of western
New York descend. In the revolutionary war
the family was well represented, more than
fifty of the name serving in the continental
army from the states of Massachusetts, Con
necticut and New Hampshire.
The emigrant ancestor of the western New
York branch of the family is John Hodge,
born 1643, died in Lyme, Connecticut, 1692-
94. He was a resident of Clinton, Middlesex
county, Connecticut, as early as December 28,
1663. After spending three years improving
his lands, he visited Windsor in the summer
of 1666, from which town he had emigrated
to Killingworth with a number of others from
that town. Here he married and with his
wife soon returned to his home in the then
called "Hammanasset Wilderness." Here he
remained until about 1670 when he removed
to Windsor where the parents of his wife
were still living. In 1674 he removed to the
town of Suffield where his name appears on
a list of the first grantors of that town. Here
he had several grants of land and lived until
1687. In 1688 and 1691 he paid personal
taxes in Lyme, and was no doubt living there
at that time. He married, August 12, 1666,

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Susanna, born September 3, 1646, daughter
of Henry Denslow, who was killed by the In
dians in Windsor, April 4, 1676. They were
the parents of eleven children, the first born
in Killingworth, the next five are found on
the records in Windsor, the last five in Suf-
field. Children: John, Thomas, Mary, Jo
seph, Benjamin, fienry, William, Elizabeth,
Susanna, Abigail, Samuel.
John Hodge, a descendant of John Hodge,
the emigrant ancestor, was born in Jefferson
county, New York, January 17, 1837, died at
Lockport, New York, August 7, 1895. He
received his education in public schools and
academy, leaving his father's house to make
his own way in the world before reaching his
majority. He had little capital save a stout
heart, energy, ambition and well formed hab
its of industry and thrift. With these attri
butes of character to build his fortunes upon
he located in the then village of Lockport,
where he began the study of law. His tastes,
however, were more for a business than a
professional career, and he did not long con
tinue his legal studies. His next venture was
as a clerk in the office of the Merchants' Gar
gling Oil Company of Lockport, an enterprise
not yet established in public favor. He was
rapidly promoted and soon in a position to
give his unusual business talents full oppor
tunity. He became the controlling spirit in
the business, and in 1866 was elected secre
tary and sole manager. Under his wise and
capable direction prosperity came in abun
dance. Though most emphatically a self-made
man he possessed qualities of character that
would have graced one born to a life of lux
ury and ease; modest and retiring, full of en
ergy and laudable ambition, yet with such
sound good sense and of such genial, attrac
tive personality, that all rejoiced at his suc
cess. His energy and talents were not de
voted to self-aggrandizement, but he was ever
ready to lend a hand to promote the interests
of his adopted city or to help some to a better
condition. He erected the Hodge Opera
House in Lockport, in 1871, and when it was
soon afterward destroyed by fire quickly re
placed it with a most imposing and costly
block still considered one of the best in the
city. This was purely a private enterprise
which added greatly to the fame of Lockport,
and is a most creditable monument to his pub
lic spirit. His activity was not confined to
his private business but reached out and em

braced many local and county enterprises.
He was treasurer, later president, of the
Lockport and Buffalo Railroad Company;
president of the Union Publishing Company;
director of the Cataract Bank, of Niagara
Falls; president of the Firemen's Life Asso
ciation of the State of New York ; director of
the Masonic Life Association of Western New
York; chief of the Lockport Fire Depart
ment; president of the Driving Association;
president of the Lockport Water Supply Com
pany and president of the Lockport Street
Railroad Company. He declined party nomi
nation for mayor, but for nine years was
president of the board of education and a
most useful member. He assisted the
churches of the city by generous contribu
tions, and served as vestryman of Grace
Episcopal church for many years and until
his death. He stood high in the Masonic
order, holding all degrees in the York and
Scottish Rites, and was an active thirty-third
degree Mason, with which degree he was in
vested June 4, 1875. He was a member of
Niagara Lodge, No. 375, in which he received
the E. A. degree, September 30, 1861 ; F. C.
degree, October 21, 1861 ; M. M. degree, No
vember 4, 1 86 1. He was installed in follow
ing offices in said lodge at dates respectively
below: Appointed tiler, December 21, 1863;
elected secretary, December 19, 1864; senior
warden, December 20, 1869; worshipful mas
ter, December 20, 1880. He was a member
of Ames Chapter, No. 88, in which he became
mark master, February 11, 1869; past mas
ter, February 18, 1869; most exalted master,
February 18, 1869; Royal Arch Mason,
March 11, 1869. He was a member of Gene
see Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar;
became a member of Red Cross, May 14,
1869; constituted and created a Knight Tem
plar, June 11, 1870; received the degrees in
Rochester Lodge of Perfection, May 11, 1875,
and demitted to Lock City Lodge of Perfec
tion, -of Lockport, New York, December 25,
1875. Received the degrees in the Roches
ter Council of Princes of Jerusalem,' May 12,
1875 ; Rochester Chapter of Rose Croix, May
12, 1875; Rochester Consistory, May 13,
1875; received his thirty-third degree, Sep
tember 16, 1879; crowned active member,
September 19, 1888, and became deputy of
Supreme Council for State of New York.
He was a member of the Grand Lodge of
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New York. District deputy grand master for
the then twenty-fourth Masonic District for
the years 1882 to 1884 inclusive; junior grand
warden, 1885-90; senior grand warden,
1891-92; deputy grand master, 1893; grand
master, 1894, which exalted office he held at
time of death. He was also grand receiver
of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
from the time the Grand Lodge, was organ
ized in New York to the time of his death.
His. death in 1895 was deeply mourned all
over the state, especially in his own city
where his worth was best known.
He married, February 23, 1870, Ella C,
daughter of Willard Johnson and Caroline
(Walbridge) Daniels. Mrs. Hodge survives
her husband, a resident of Lockport, where
she is actively engaged in caring for her vari
ous interests. (The Daniels Line).
(I) Robert Daniels, emigrant ancestor,
was horn in England, about 1590, as on June
26, 1652, he deposed that he was about sixty
years old. He was an early settler at Water-
town, and was a property owner there as
early as 1636. He was a farmer. In 1636
he removed to Cambridge, but later returned
to Watertown. He was admitted a freeman,
March 14, 1638-39. On October 7, 1651, he
sold to Edward Garfield six acres of land on
the Hither Plain in Watertown. In Decem
ber of the same year he sold six acres more
in the same location to John Whitney. He
was in Cambridge again in 1652. He married
(first) Elizabeth  , died October 2, 1643;
(second) May 2, 1654, Reana, widow of Will
iam Andrew. His will, dated July 3, 1655,
proved October 2, 1656, bequeathed to his
widow, Reana, the property she had when
she married him, besides other property; to
his five children and his cousin, Anna New-
comen. His widow married (third) Ed
mund Frost. Children: 1. Elizabeth, mar
ried Thomas Fanning. 2. Samuel, married
Marie (or Mercy) Grant. 3. Joseph, men
tioned below. 4. Sarah, married William
Cheney. 5. Mary, born September 2, 1642;
married, 1660, Sampson Frary, who was slain
at Deerfield by the Indians. 6. Thomas, bur
ied September 6, 1644.
(II) Joseph, son of Robert Daniels, was
born in Watertown, in 1640, died June 23,
1715. He settled in that part of Medfield
which is now Millis. He married (first) No

vember 16, 1665, Mary Fairbanks, born Sep-.
tember 10, 1647, in Dedham, died June 9,
1682, daughter of George and Mary (Adams)
Fairbanks; (second) Rachel Sheffield, born
in Braintree, March 24, 1660, died May 3,
1687, daughter of William and Mary Shef
field; (third) Mrs. Lydia (Adams) Allen,
born 1653, died December 26, 1731, daugh
ter of Edward and Lydia Adams, widow of
James Allen. Children : 1. Joseph, men
tioned below. 2. Mary, born July 14, 1669.
3. Samuel, October 30, 1671 ; married, 1694,
Deborah Ford. 4. Mehitable, July 10, 1674,
died June 3, 1686. 5. Ebenezer, April 24,
1677. 6. Elizabeth, March 9, 1679; married
Joseph Mason. 7. Jeremiah, March 17, 1680,
died June 16, 1680. 8. Eleazer, March 9,
1 68 1 ; resided in Mendon. 9. Jeremiah, No
vember 3, 1684. 10. Rachel, October 17,
1686. 11. Zachariah, April 9, 1689, died May
2, 1689.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Dan
iels, was born September 23, 1666, in Med
field, died there January 14, 1739. He mar
ried (first) Rachel Partridge, born 1669,
daughter of John and Magdalen (Bullard)
Partridge; (second) Methia Breck, born De
cember 20, 1673, in Sherborn, died February
3, 1754, daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Hill) Breck. Children: 1. Samuel, men
tioned below. 2. Joseph, born December 15,
1695. 3. David, February 21, 1698-99. 4.
Hannah, September 30, 1701 ; married, Octo
ber 27, 1725, Eleazer Thompson. 5. Ezra,
March 10, 1704. 6. Sarah, May 1, 1707; mar
ried, February 20, 1733, John Bullard. 7.
Abigail, March 15, 1715, died December 14,.
1718. 8. Tamar, March 17, 1717; married,
December, 1733, John Metcalf.
(IV) Samuel, son of Joseph (2) Daniels,
was born in Medfield, December 25, 1693,
died in 1789. He settled in that part of Med
field which became Medway. He married
(first) December 6, 1718, Experience Adams,
born 1696, died March 29, 1731, daughter of
Deacon Peter and Experience (Cook) Ad
ams; (second) February 20," 1733, Sarah
Phipps, born in Wrentham, daughter of John
Phipps, who was a nephew and adopted son
of Sir William Phipps, of London, England.
Children of first wife: 1. Samuel, mentioned
below. 2. Timothy, born September 6, 1722;
married, February 6, 1754, Ruth Leland;
lived in Sherborn. 3. Nathan, August 20,
1727. 4. John, August 18, 1728. 5. Simeon,

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'March 8, 1730-31 ; married, April 9, 1754,
Lydia Adams; lived in Franklin. Children
of second wife: 6. Reuben, born November
25> !733> died February 26, 1734. 7. Sarah,
January 10, 1734-35; married, March 2,
1758, Timothy Force. 8. Mary, April 23,
1736; married, July 5, 1764, Jonathan Wis-
well. 9. Japheth, February 17, 1738; mar
ried Melatiah Hayward; lived in fiolliston;
died March 3, 1805. 10. Abijah, July 27,
1740; married, 1774, Hannah Dix; lived in
Milford. (V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Dan
iels, was born June 8, 1720, in Medway, Mas
sachusetts. In 1773 he settled in Leicester,
Vermont. He enlisted in the revolutionary
army and was killed in 1778. He married
(first)  ; (second) in Medway, Massa
chusetts, November 26, 1760, Mrs. Elizabeth
Wiswell, died 1802. The marriage record
gives his residence at that time as Belling-
ham, Massachusetts. Children : Dan, Sam
uel, George and others.
(VI) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and
Elizabeth (Wiswell) Daniels, was born 1776,
died 1843. He married Huldah Parker, born
1 78 1, died 1858. Children: 1. William Par
ker, born December 3, 1803, at Whiting, Ver
mont, died August 2, 1865 ; married, October
10, 1827, Betsy Landon Fox, born at James
town, Virginia, January 8, 1800, died Novem
ber 27, 1877; children: i. Eliza E., born Sep
tember 30, 1829, died April 10, 1831. ii.
Charles Fox, born September 5, 183 1, died
February 19, 1905. iii. Mary, born January
10, 1833, died January, 1834. iv. Helen Mon
son, born October 27, 1834, died April 22,
1 89 1 ; married, January 6, 1857, Cromwell
John Lloyd, and had a. Walter Cromwell, born
January 6, 1858; married, 1884, Clara Louise
Woerts; b. Nellie Lloyd, died in infancy; c.
Frances Helen, born February 1, 1867; mar
ried, in 1889, Carl W. Preston, v. Eliza (Liz
zie) born December 11, 1838; married, Au
gust 11, 1857, Lewis Lackore, born March
25, 1834, died July 10, 1902; children: a.
Louis Horace, died aged ten years; b. Fred
William, born September 20, 1859; married,
January 1, 1890, Edna Olive Kneeland, born
October 26, 1857, died December 5, 1899,
leaving Lucius fiarrington, Charles Daniels,
Edna Olive ; c. Ida Fox, born June 24, 1861 ;
married, June 10, 1885, James Taylor Park
inson, born January 8, 1856, died January 7,
1910, had Gladys Elizabeth and Robert Lac

kore Parkinson; d. Henry Daniels, born
January 28, 1870 ; married, April 28, 1898, Isa-
bell Susanne Gove, born August 30, 1873;
child: Elizabeth Gove Lackore. vi. fiarriet,
born February 1, 1841, died March 8, 1905.
2. Russell Case, born December 22, 1804. 3.
Monson Haskins, born October 23, 1805, died
October, 1845; married Harriet Wright. 4.
Loyal Carpenter, born June 20, 1806, died
June 29, 1841 ; married Mary L. Tyler. 5.
Eliza E., born May 30, 181 1, died January 25,
1825. 6. Willard Johnson, mentioned below.
7. Lucy Wiswell, born August 21, 181 5, died
August 21, 1818. 8. Livonia Nichols, born
March 16, 1818, died June 20, 1894; married
Peter Palmer, of Toledo, Ohio, died July 18,
1875; children: i. Livonia Nichols, died July
18, 1879. ii. William Nichols, born 1842, died
December 23, 1898. iii. Emma Louise, iv.
George Samuel. 9. Lucy Wiswell (2), born
May 21, 1822, died September 25, 1908; mar
ried, October 9, 1839, Roswell W. Cheney, of
Toledo, Ohio, died August 17, 1844; children:
i. Caroline, born 1842, married Emory D. Pot
ter, of Toledo, Ohio ; children : Paul Emory,
born December, 1869; Rollin Daniels and
Mary Caroline, ii. Roswell W. (2), born
October 18, 1844. 10. Samuel Rollin, born
July 11, 1825, died December 3, 1902; mar
ried Marion Wilkinson, born April 2, 1830;
children : i. Rensselaer Wilkinson, born Oc
tober 6, 1851, married Edith Alden. ii. Wil
liam Russell, born September 13, 1853, died
April 12, 1858. iii. George Samuel, born May
27> x857- iv. Frances Marian, born March
1, 1864, married Harry A. Marlin, of Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania ; children : Kenton, born
1880; Marion, 1882; Ralph, 1884.
(VH)Willard Johnson, sixth child of Sam
uel (3) and Huldah (Parker) Daniels, was
born May 2, 1813, died November 25, 1877.
He gave its name to the city of Toledo, Ohio,
and was for a long time connected with the
Toledo Blade. He married (first) January
16, 1838, Caroline Walbridge, who died No
vember 24, 1849. He married (second) Isa-
dore Emma Hopkins, who died in 1899. Chil
dren by first marriage: 1. Mary C, married
Samuel Alfred Wheeler, of Toledo, Ohio;
children : Frederic Russell, married Florence
B. Fargo ; Caroline Walbridge, married John
C. Williams. 2. Lucy, married, January 5,
1864, John E. Mack, of Lockport, New York.
3. Kate, married Rev. Lawrence Stevens, died
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ary 23, 1870, John Hodge, of Lockport. Chil
dren of second marriage: 5. Carrie, married
Howard Helmer, of Lockport. 6. Frank,
married Anna Heckel. 7. Dora, married Ken
ton Sawlnier. 8. Jennie, married Jabez Mil
ton Woodward.

The Wilsons of Jamestown,
WILSON New York, herein recorded,
are of English ancestors, who
settled on part of the site of the present city
of Jamestown, while it was yet farm land
and known as "English Hill." Four families
came from England, and one of these, John
Wilson, was the American ancestor and early
settler in Chautauqua county. The name was
originally spelled Willson and was so written
by the first settler. Later generations have
adopted Wilson as the proper form, although
another branch of the same family in James
town continue the old spelling.
(I) John Wilson was born in Ely, Eng
land, about 1770. He married there Eliza
beth Atkinson, born in the same parish,
March 25, 1772. They removed to St. Ives,
Cambridgeshire, England. He had a son
John. (II) John (2), son of John (1) and Eliza
beth (Atkinson) Wilson, was horn at St.
Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, December 26,
1802, died in Jamestown, New York, July 4,
1873. He was a boat builder by trade and
followed that occupation in his native town.
In 1834 he came to the United States with
his wife and three children, accompanied by
four other families from England. One of
these was also named Willson, although it is
not known that they were related. This col
ony remained together and finally settled in
Chautauqua county, near the then village of
Jamestown, and now within the city limits.
They secured land adjoining and gave the
place the name it bore for many years "Eng
lish Hill." John did not long remain on his
original location but moved into the village of
Jamestown where he could find work at his
trade. He later built flat boats for himself,
loaded them with lumber and other salable
products, and floated them down the rivers
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where a profitable market
was found. He was very successful in his
river trading, and as years came upon him
abandoned the river and purchased a farm
at Kiantone, Chautauqua county, from Gover
nor Reuben E. Fenton. He cultivated and

lived on this farm the remainder of his days,
although his death occurred at the residence
of his son Robert, in Jamestown. He was a
member of the Episcopal church, and a Demo
crat. He married, in Ely, England, June 17, 1825,
Rebeckah Thorp, born June 26, 1806, died
January 14, 1873, daughter of John and Eliza
beth Thorp. Children: 1. Robert (see
sketch). 2. William, see forward. 3. George
J., born January 28, 1831, died April 27, 1832.
4. Elizabeth, born in England, April 11, 1833;
married, 1854, H. V. Kellogg, a native of Ver
mont; child, Jennie R. Kellogg, born Novem
ber 2, 1863; now (1911) and for the past
thirty years a teacher in the Jamestown pub
lic schools. 5. John Thorp (see sketch). 6.
Horace A. (see sketch). 7. Sarah Ann, born
August 6, 1843; married John Reed and re
sides at Frewsburg, New York. 8. Mary L.,
born February 2, 1846; married (first), 1865,
Jefferson Frew; (second) Captain Whitney,
and resides at Frewsburg.
(Ill) William, second son of John (2) and
Rebeckah (Thorp) Wilson, was born in Ely,
Cambridgeshire, England, July 27, 1828, died
in Jamestown, June 2, 1903. When a lad of
six years his parents came to America, set
tling at Jamestown, where the lad was edu
cated in the public schools. When he reached
the age of twelve years he began driving a
team engaged in hauling freight from Dun
kirk to Jamestown. Following this he worked
for his father and at carpentering. All his
mature years he was engaged in some form
of the lumber business. He assisted his father
in his boating operations on the Allegheny
and Ohio rivers and later engaged in the same
business for himself, building, owning and
operating river boats. At one period he was
engaged with the Fenton Lumber Company,
managing their traffic on the rivers. He was
also much employed as an inspector of tim
ber lands by his brother, John Thorp Wil
son. In this line he was unexcelled, fie was
successful in his private business and was
also deeply interested in the public affairs of
the then village of Jamestown. For fourteen
years he served as village trustee and the rec
ords kept by the town clerk contain frequent
reference to his public spirited work while a
member of the village board. He also served
his city as paving and sewer inspector. He
was a lifelong Democrat and lived in a strong
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known that he always held office, elected by
the votes of friends opposed to him politically.
He was a member of the Baptist church of
Jamestown, and of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows.
He married, March 25, 1852, Adaline Mac-
lease. Children: 1. Mary E., born November
21, 1855, died August 16, 1879; married
Thomas Johnson, also deceased. 2. Lillian,
died in infancy. 3. Fred H.,.of whom further.
(IV) Fred H., son of William and Adaline
(Maclease) Wilson, was born in Jamestown,
New York, at 333 Allen street, June 29, 1864.
He was educated in the public schools of
Jamestown, and began business life in the
employ of his uncle, John Thorp Wilson.
After working for a time in the saw and plan
ing mills he was made foreman of the lum
ber yards and purchasing agent for that de
partment. He continued in that position until
April, 1898, when he resigned to accept the
appointment of chief of the Jamestown fire
department. He held this position continu
ously under the volunteer system until the
year 191 1 when he was appointed to the same
position in the newly created paid fire depart
ment. This speaks volumes for his efficiency
as fire chief for the past thirteen years. Mr.
Wilson's military record deserves more than
passing notice. He enlisted in the Fenton
Guards in 1887, he served continuously until
1898, when he, with others of the "Guards"
offered their services to the government to
fight in the Spanish-American war. He was
mustered in as second lieutenant of Company
E., Sixty-fifth Regiment, New York Volun
teers, on May 17, and in July of the same
year was commissioned first lieutenant of the
same company. He was honorably dis
charged, November 19, 1898, and returned to
Jamestown. In 1903 he was elected captain
of the Thirteenth Separate Company, and is
Still serving. He also resumed his old posi
tion of chief of the fire department after his
return. Besides his well known and fully ap
preciated qualities as leader of the fire de
partment, Mr. Wilson has a well established
reputation in his city for integrity and hon
orable dealing with all. He was on the mili
tary staff of Governor F. W. Higgins during
his term as governor. He is a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Knights of Pythias, Maccabees, and the
Eagles. Politically he is a Republican.
fie married (first) in 1888, Gertrude My

ers, died January 20, 1891. Child, Mary Isa
bel, born May 9, 1889 ; graduate of Jamestown
high school, class of 1909. He married (sec
ond) Angie Lenore Dowler, born at Water
ford, Erie county, Pennsylvania, September
21, 1869, daughter of Frank King and Kath-
erin (Price) Dowler. She is a member of
the Presbyterian church, and of Jamestown
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. Child of second marriage : Katherin A.,
born April 15, 1893; attending high school,
class of 1912. (The Dowler Line).
The Dowlers descend from Henry Dowler,
a native of county Cavanaugh, Ireland. He
married Elizabeth Wah. Among their chil
dren was a son John, who served in the war
of 1812. He married Susan, daughter of
John Lang. Their son, John Dowler, mar
ried Elizabeth King (see forward). Their
son, Frank King Dowler, was born in
a log cabin on his father's farm, lo
cated- between Miller's Station and Cam
bridge Springs, Crawford county, Pennsyl
vania, January 30, 1845. He learned the
blacksmith's trade which he followed in early
life. Later he went to the oil fields of Penn
sylvania, where he engaged in the oil busi
ness as a speculator and broker. He later
resided in Waterford, Pennsylvania, going
from there to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he
established a wagon making and blacksmith-
ing business, which he continued for five
years. He then settled in Jamestown where
he conducted the same business for several
years. In his latter days he kept a tobacco
store in Jamestown. He was of an adventur
ous disposition, and during the Klondike ex
citement went to the gold fields of Alaska,
but did not long remain. He died in James
town, New York, September 22, 1909. He
was a Democrat in politics, a member of the
Presbyterian church, and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, April 10, 1867, Katherin Price,
born February 27, 1841, died January 18,
1893, daughter of Henry and Margaret
(Hart) Price. Children: 1. Luella, born
January 11, 1868; married Charles E. Free
man, of Jamestown. 2. Angie Lenore, mar
ried Fred H. Wilson (see Wilson IV). 3.
Charles W., born March 6, 1871 ; married
Belle Manton ; children : Edna K. and Winton
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5. Frank Price, born March 30, 1876. 6. Fred
Byers, twin of Frank Price.
(The King Line).
Elizabeth King, wife of John Dowler, was
a descendant of Captain Robert King, one
of the pioneers and the first actual settler of
Erie county, Pennsylvania. He settled there
in 1794, coming west by way of the west
branch of the Susquehanna river, and over
the mountains, following nearly the present
line of the Philadelphia & Erie railroad, to
the Tionesta river near Sheffield, in Warren
county. He made his first selection of land
(also the first entry) in Le Boef township,
Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1794. It con
sisted of four hundred acres at the present
"Ford Bridge." He then returned to his
home in Lycoming county, and in the spring
of 1795 came to Erie county with his family
and hegan the erection of a home in the
wilderness. His first trip was made with his
hired man. When they reached Sheffield they
built a canoe and descended the Tionesta and
Allegheny rivers to the site of the present
city of Franklin, thence overland to the loca
tion of his tract of land in Erie county.
Captain King was an officer of the revolu
tionary army and rendered his state important
service, not only in the field but in the nego
tiation of treaties with the Indians. As a
reward for his services the legislature of
Pennsylvania voted him four hundred acres
of land "west of the Alleghenies." It was
to locate this grant that Captain King made
his first trip through an unbroken wilderness.
His family, consisting of five sons and six
daughters, arrived with him on his second
trip, May 15, 1795, having come by way of
Pittsburg. Captain King lived on his Erie
county farm until his death about 1824. He
was a hardy, resolute pioneer, as well as a
brave soldier and devoted patriot. His mili
tary service is attested by the following rec
ord : Pennsylvania Archives, third series, vol.
23, page 432. "Robert King was a first lieu
tenant Second Battalion, Lancaster county
militia, commanded by Colonel James Wat
son, June 20, 1777." His wife was Elizabeth
Walker. Their son Samuel settled with his father
in Erie county, Pennsylvania. He married
Mary Ann Lattimore (Lattimer), daughter
of Major James Lattimer, a soldier of the
revolution (see Pennsylvania Archives, Third

Series, vol. 23, page 301). "James Lattimer
was an ensign in Rangers, on the Frontiers,
1778-83, from Northampton county." He
was born in 1761, died 1827, and is buried
at Waterford, Pennsylvania. He married
Mary Ann Walker. Children: 1. William,
married Rhoda Williams. 2. John, died a
young man. 3. Robert, married Polly Hood.
4. Margaret, married John Ireland. 5. Nancy,
married Moses Nimrod. 6. Mary Ann, mar
ried Samuel King. Their daughter, Elizabeth
King, married John Dowler. Their daugh
ter, Angie Lenore Dowler, married Fred H.
Wilson (see Wilson IV).

(Ill) Robert Wilson, eldest
WILSON son of John (2) (q. v.) and
Rebeckah (Thorp) Wilson, was
born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, Au
gust 17, 1826, died suddenly at Mayville,
Chautauqua county, New York, December 26,
1902. He was eight years of age when the
family came to the United States. He was
educated in the Jamestown schools, and early
in life was taught the trades of carpenter and
boat builder by his father. He began boat
ing on the river as his father's assistant and
later owned and operated boats and rafts for
his own account. He was actively engaged
in this business for thirty-five years. Finally
quitting the river, he followed his trade and
was buyer for his brother, John Thorp Wil
son, who was a large lumber dealer, Robert
selecting and buying timber lands for him.
He continued in active life up to the moment
of his death, having left Jamestown the day
previous with his brother, Horace A., for
the purpose of measuring some timber. They
reached Mayville and were just ready to start
for the woods when he suddenly fell and ex
pired. The physician, quickly summoned,
pronounced the cause heart disease. For
nearly twenty years Jamestown had been his
home and he had done much for the improve
ment of that city. He owned considerable
real estate and had erected many buildings.
For forty years he lived on King street in a
house erected by himself. He was greatly
interested in Odd Fellowship, was a member
of Ellicott Lodge and one of the organizers
of Jamestown Lodge. He was prominent in
the order and wore with pride his medal
showing fifty years' membership. He was
one of the oldest Odd Fellows in Jamestown,
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ren of the Order, the three lodges of the city
attending and participating. He was an ac
tive member of the Baptist church and liberal
in his support. He is buried in Lakeview
cemetery, Jamestown.
He married, in August, 1852, Mary Louisa
Merriam, born in Busti, Chautauqua county,
New York, August 21, 1833, died in James
town, February 5, 1904, daughter of Abel and
Mary (Foster) Merriam. She was a most
kind-hearted and sympathetic woman. Dur
ing the civil war she took charge of two or
phaned children of her sister, cared for them
as her own until they grew to adult years.
In August, 1902, this aged couple celebrated
their golden wedding, an occasion that was
properly observed by their many friends and
relatives. She survived her husband but a
little over a year. Children: 1. Elliott S.,
born August 14, 1853, died February 24, 1855.
2. Ernest Charles, born May 2, 1856, died
November 8, 1859. 3. Minnie Etta, born July
6, 1859; was educated in the Jamestown
schools, graduating from the high school, class
of 1882. She prepared for the profession
of teacher and for twenty-three years taught
in the Jamestown public schools. She is an
active member of the Baptist church ; she
resides at 108 King street, Jamestown.
(Ill) Horace Allensby, sixth child of John
and Rebeckah (Thorp) Wilson, was born in
Jamestown, New York, March 2, 1841. He
was educated in the public schools, and has
always engaged in the lumber business in
some capacity. He served three years in
the civil war, enlisting in Company F, One
Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, New York
Volunteer Infantry. He is a Republican in
politics. He married Mary Jane Peck, born
February 10, 1845, in the town of Ellicott,
Chautauqua county, New York, daughter of
Ezra and Harriet Peck, of Ellicott. Children :
Louie Herbert, of whom further; Gertrude,
born June 13, 1879; Stella, June 24, 1883.
(IV) Louie Herbert, only son of Horace A.
and Mary Jane (Peck) Wilson, was born in
Kiantone, Chautauqua county, New York,
February 25, 1870. He was educated in the
Jamestown public schools, and from early life
has been closely associated with his father
and uncles in the lumber business. He now
occupies the position of timber inspector. He
is thoroughly qualified for the position, be
ing recognized as an expert in his line. He
is a Republican in politics, and a member of

the Sons of Veterans, also of Jamestown
Tent, No. 9, Knights of the Maccabees. He
married, March 14, 1900, in the town of Car
roll, Chautauqua county, Ruie Harriet, daugh
ter of Robert Ezra and Julia Ann Fuller.
Robert E. Fuller served as a private of the
Ninth New York Cavalry during the civil
war, and was a farmer by occupation. His
children : Fred, Earl R., Maude M., Hugh E.,
Louie H., Ruie H., Bertha M. and Edward J.
Children of Louie H. and Ruie H. Wilson:
Mary Rebecca, born April 24, 1901 ; Lois
Thorp, September 2, 1903 ; Sarah Gladys,
March 18, 1907. (Ill) John Thorp Wilson, fifth
WILSON child and fourth son of John
(2) (q. v.) and Rebeckah
(Thorp) Wilson, was born at English Hill,
Jamestown, New York, September 18, 1835,
and died May 14, 1910. He was the first
American born child of his parents, and spent
his life in Jamestown, where he became a
prominent business man and influential citi
zen. He was educated in the public schools,
and spent his early life assisting his father
and elder brothers in their various enterprises.
His first entrance into business for himself
was in i860, when he began the drug and
book business with W. C. T. Hall, their store
on Main street, between Second and Third
streets, being opened for business October 1,
i860. Following this venture, in 1863, he
began his long career in the lumber business.
He formed a partnership with Mr. Corydon
Hitchcock in 1873, trading under the firm
name Hitchcock & Wilson. In 1877 Mr. Wil
son bought his partner's interest. He de
veloped an immense business, purchased large
tracts of timber lands, erected mills for saw
ing and dressing, also extensive lumber yards
and planing mill equipped with best modern
machinery, and manufactured everything in
wood required for the erection of a building.
He was a man of great energy and business
ability, managing his large business with suc
cess and attaining an influential position in
the commercial world. He was highly hon
ored in his home city, and had the distinction
of being the only Democrat ever elected su
pervisor of the town of Ellicott, being elected
first in 1878 and reelected in 1879. He lived
to be nearly seventy-five years of age and
continued in active business until his last brief
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tained to the upbuilding of Jamestown, and
supported liberally her various institutions.
He held membership in the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the Royal Arcanum,
and other societies. He was a director of the
First National Bank of Jamestown at the
time of his death.
Mr. Wilson married (first) November 8,
i860, Mariette Julia Cook, horn November
25, 1839, m Jamestown, died April 18, 1903,
eldest child of Judge Orsell Cook, of James
town, and his wife, Annie Tew Cook. She
was educated at the Old Academy in James
town, and at Miss Wheeler's Seminary. She
was a most charitable and benevolent woman,
and a tireless worker for the relief of others,
doing a great deal of. good through the or
ganization as well as through her own private
work, of which little was known. She was
an active worker and Tegular attendant of
the Unitarian church, which she supported
with the same generosity displayed in her
charitable work. She was one of the organiz
ers of the Home Relief Society, member of
the Liberal Christian Guild of her church, and
through her patriotic ancestry held member
ship in the Daughters of the American Revo
lution. Children : Anna M., born May 30,
1863, married Alfred S. Dunham ; Charles C,
of further mention; Jennie M., born June 3,
1868, married Frank W. Cadwell. Mr. Wil
son married (second) Elizabeth Detwiller, who
survives him.
(IV) Charles C, only son of John Thorp
and Mariette Julia (Cook) Wilson, was born
in Jamestown, New York, October 3, 1864.
He grew up in Jamestown, attending the pub
lic schools, after which he took a course in
Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Buf
falo, New York. At the age of twenty he
entered the employ of his father and grew up
in the business. Upon the death of his father
in 1910, he assumed the entire responsibility
of that business, which to-day is one of the
large industries of Jamestown. Mr. Wilson
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having
attained the thirty-second degree. He be
longs to Mt. Moriah Lodge, Western Sun
Chapter, Jamestown Commandery, and Ismai-
lia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of
Buffalo; he is also a member of the Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks of James
town, Lodge No. 263. He is secretary of the
Jamestown Club, and was a member of the
Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department for

fifteen years. He is a member of the Grange,
and a director of the First National Bank
of Jamestown. Mr. Wilson's house on East
Fourth street, which he built and was com
pleted in 191 1, is one of Jamestown's beauti
ful residences.
He married, January 9, 1890, Mary Cheney
Hall, of Jamestown, daughter of Erie L. and
Sarah Jane (Marvin) Cheney. Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson have one child, Marvin Cook Wilson,
born April 27, 1897.

Thomas Kent, immigrant ancestor,
KENT was born in England, and came
with his wife to Gloucester,
Massachusetts, before 1643. He had a house
and land near the burying ground in the West
Parish, sometimes known as Chebacco, and
now as Essex. He may have been connected
with Richard Kent, of Newbury, who had a
grant of land near Chebacco in 1635. Thomas
Kent's name is on the list of eighty-two set
tlers, the proprietors of land in Gloucester
from the time of settlement until 1650. He
was a yeoman or farmer. According to Col
onel Kent, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, he
died May 1, 1656, and his widow died at
Gloucester, October 16, 1671. Children:
Thomas, born probably in England; Samuel,
mentioned below; Josiah, born probably in
England. (II) Samuel, son of Thomas Kent, was
born probably in England. When the town
of Brookfield was destroyed, he moved to
Suffield, Connecticut, in 1678, and on Sep^
tember 8, 1686, he sold his house lot and
rights to John Scott, of Suffield. His will
was dated August 17, 1689, with a codicil on
January 3, 1690-91, and in it he mentioned his
wife and sons Samuel and John. According
to the Springfield records he was "taken sick
and died Feby. 2, 1690-1." He married twice,
for his first wife, Frances, died August 10,
1683, and the inventory of his estate, which
amounted to ninety-six pounds, ten shillings,
was sworn to by his widow, Mary Ann, soon
after his death. He was married, by Rev.
Samuel Simonds, January 17, 1654, to Fran
ces Woodall. Children by first wife: Sarah,
born August 14, 1657; Mary, December 19,
1658 ; Samuel, October 26, 1661 ; John, men
tioned below.
(Ill) John, son of Samuel Kent, was born
in Gloucester, Massachusetts, April 28, 1664.
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died there April n, 1721. He married (first)
May 9, 1686, Abigail, born May 24, 1667,
daughter of William and Mary (Roe) Dud
ley. He married (second) in 1708-09, Abi
gail, daughter of Captain Joseph Winched,
and she survived him for many years. Chil
dren of first wife: Mary, born January 25,
1687; John, January 26, 1688; Abigail, Sep
tember 28, 1690; Deborah, August 22, 1693;
Dudley, October 23, 1695; Mary, October 28,
1697; Samuel, December 14, 1698; Abner,
June 7, 1 70 1 ; Elisha, mentioned below. Chil
dren of second wife : Joseph, February 26,
1 7 10; Noah, April 28, 1714; Experience,
March 4, 1717.
(IV) Elisha, son of John Kent, was born
July 9, 1704. He was graduated from Yale
College in 1729, and was elected minister of
Newtown, Connecticut, at a town meeting
held June 30, 1732. On page 37 of vol. II of
the town journal, there is a record that he was
to be paid first, a deed of the lands held by
his predecessor, Mr. Beach, and second, one
hundred and ten pounds a year, provided he
held to his faith; and if he did not hold his
faith, he was to pay over to the church four
hundred pounds of lawful money. He died
July 17, 1776, at Phillippi, New York. In
1740 he had moved to Dansbury, the northern
part of the town of South East in Dutchess,
now Putnam county, New York. He estab
lished the first Presbyterian church, over
which he was pastor until he died. He mar
ried (first) April 3, 1732, Abigail, daughter
of Rev. Joseph Moss, of Derby, Connecticut,
whose wife was daughter of Rev. M. Russell,
a graduate of Yale College in 1702. She died
January, 1751, and he married (second) a
sister of Gov. Thomas Fitch, of Norwalk,
Connecticut, who survived him. Children of
first wife: Moss, born March 25, 1733;
Elisha, mentioned below; Abigail, July 6,
1736; Sybil, July 9, 1738; Lucy; Mary, De
cember 10, 1744; Sarah.
(V) Elisha (2), son of Elisha (1) Kent,
was horn October 30, 1734. He moved to
Royalton, White River, Vermont, in 1772 or
1773. In 1759 he married Anna  , born
May 18, 1737, died August 8, 1810. He died
March 19, 181 1. Children: John, born July
6, 1 761, at Windsor, Vermont; Elisha, men
tioned below; Joseph Moss, 1774; Abner,
1 78 1 ; Charles; Samuel; Lydia; Polly.
(VI) Elisha (3), son of Elisha (2) Kent,
was born in Royalton, Vermont, August 5,

1762. He married, November 30, 1785, Alice
Flynn, born at Royalton, July 21, 1763, died
March 15, 1837. He died March 10, 1826.
Children: Barzillia, born June 3, 1788; Polly,
February 10, 1790; Hannah, February 5, 1792;
Anna, February 21, 1794; Elisha, March 1,
1796; Elizabeth, April 12, 1798; Archibald,
mentioned below; Alice, May 1, 1802; Sybil,
July 8, 1804.
(VII) Archibald, son of Elisha (3) Kent,
was born March 28, 1800, at Royalton, Ver
mont. He married, September 77 1835, Eme
line Morgan, of Royalton. She was born
September 2, 1809, died October 3, 1864, at
Chelsea, Vermont. He died May 26, 1849,
at Royalton, on the old homestead. Children:
Archibald Flynn, born March 22, 1837; Ellen
Maria, March 20, 1838; Eliza Ann, twin of
Ellen Maria; Alba Morgan, mentioned be
low; Alice Flynn, 1843, died 1850; Walter,
1845, died 1846; Gertrude Mary, April 10,
1847 5 Charles, October, 1849, died 1850.
(VIII) Alba Morgan, son of Archibald
Kent, was born at Royalton, Vermont, April
3, 1841. He is one of the leading stock farm
ers and honored citizens of Chautauqua
county. He was a member of a Wisconsin
regiment in the civil war. On September 2,
1862, at Madison, Wisconsin, he enlisted in
Company G, Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Volun
teer Infantry, and was made second lieuten
ant of his company when it was mustered into
the United States service. At the time of his
enlistment he was steward at the Wisconsin
State Hospital at Madison. Later he rose
to the office of first lieutenant, and during
the greater part of the last two years of the
war he had command of the company, though
he did not receive formal commission as cap
tain. He was never wounded or captured and
was absent from his command only during
a furlough of sixty days, within which time
the regiment was not in action. He was
thus a participant in every engagement in
which the regiment took part and lived up
to the full tension of the sanguinary conflict
between the north and south. He took part
in the Vicksburg campaign, starting with Port
Gibson and after the fall of Vicksburg was
with his regiment in the memorable Red River
campaign. Subsequently he took part in the
siege of Mobile and after the capitulation of
that city accompanied his regiment to Shreve-
port, Louisiana, where he received his hon
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After the war Mr. Kent returned to James
town, New York, where he previously resided,
and here he is recognized as a liberal, reliable
and public-spirited citizen, commanding un
qualified confidence and esteem in the com
munity which has so long been his home. He
is a member of the James Brown Post, No.
285, Grand Army of the Republic, at James
town, near which his fine stock farm is lo
cated, and May 7, 1890, he was elected to
membership in the New York Commandery,
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, insignia
No. 7,989. He married, June 12, 1873, Mrs.
Rose Elena (Hall) Wetmore.
(IX) Morgan Bostwick, son of Alba Mor-
gan Kent, was born May 21, 1878, at James
town, New York. He attended the public
schools, and St. Paul's School at Concord,
New Hampshire, from which he graduated in
1897. He entered the worsted mills of his
grandfather to learn the business, and for
three years was foreman of a department.
Since 1909 he has been distributing agent of
the National Insulator Company of 39 Sud
bury street, Boston. He resides at James
town. He is a member of the Mount Moriah
Lodge, No. 144, of Jamestown ; of Western
Sun Chapter, No. 67, Royal Arch Masons; of
Jamestown Council, Royal and Select Masters ;
of Jamestown Commandery, Knights Templar ;
Buffalo Consistory, Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, and of the Jamestown Club.
In religion he is a Christian Scientist, and in
politics a Republican.
He married, at Brookline, Massachusetts,
September 30, 1902, Eleanor, born October
4, 1889, daughter of James E. and Juline
(Quayee) Rothwell. fier father resides at
153 Sewall avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Children : Eleanor Rosalie, born October 7,
1903; Juline, born March 13, 1905.
(The Hall Line).
(VII) Chapin Hall, son of Samuel (q. v.)
and Susanna (Davis) Hall, was born July
12, 1816, died September 12, 1879. The fol
lowing is taken from "Early History of Elli
cott, Chautauqua County, New York," edited
by Gilbert W. Hazelton, M. D., who was a
lifelong friend of Mr. Hall:
"Chapin Hall was born in the wilderness July
12, 1816, in the wilderness which in afterlife he
was so active in subduing and from which he
derived his great wealth. Chapin Hall was a
man of great activity and bodily endurance; his
mind was a mathematical one, always filled with

figures, and finance and ideas of great wealth,
to the attainment of which he bent all his best
energies. Early in life, and for many years, his
home was mostly at mills and on fleets of lum
ber on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. Warren,
Pennsylvania, claims him, we are informed, as a
resident of that place, and Louisville, Kentucky,
ranked him among her prominent citizens. The
claim of Warren, Pennsylvania, must be allowed,
for it was from the Congressional district of
which it is a part that he was elected to Con
gress; nevertheless he was born in Ellicott, re
ceived his education in her log school houses,
and a short time before his death purchased of
his brother the old homestead on which he was
born and upon which his son-in-law now (1887)
exhibits the choicest herds of cattle in western
New York — and he departed this life in Ellicott,
at the home of his brother, John A. Hall, Sep
tember 12, 1879. His remains are interred in
Lake View Cemietery. Chapin Hall' married,
November 2, 1837, Susan Bostwick, born July 16,
1817, daughter of one of the early pioneer set
tlers. To him was born a daughter, Rose Elena,
married Alba Morgan Kent." (See Kent VIII).

There are many distinct families
PIERCE bearing this name in the United
States, and several distinct
spellings are employed. In the earlier colonial
records of Massachusetts the name of the
same individual is found under numerous
spellings. The founder of the family herein
recorded is referred to in the early records
as Pearse and Pierce.
(I) Abraham Pierce* (or Pearse) came
from England between 1620 and 1623, and
is early found in Plymouth, Massachusetts,
where he is on record in 1623, and is re
corded as a purchaser of lands in 1663, In
1627 it is recorded that he exchanged with
Captain Miles Standish two shares in the
famous "red Cow" for two ewe lambs. He
owned several tracts of land, selling one to
John Winslow. In 1643 ne served as a soldier
under Captain Miles Standish, and died about
1673. There is no record found of his mar
riage or death. His wife was Rebecca, and
had children : Abraham, born 1638 ; Rebecca,
Mary, Alice and Isaac. Abraham, the foun
der, removed from Plymouth to Duxbury, and
was an original proprietor of Bridgewater in
1645. (II) Isaac, son of Abraham and Rebecca
Pierce, born 1661, married Alice  , and
had: Isaac, married Judith Booth, of Scit
uate; Thomas, of whom further; Mary;
Lydia, married John Heyford, of Bridge-
water ; Mercy, married Joseph Trovant ; Sarah
Rebecca, married Samuel Hoar. He served

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in the Narragansett war, receiving a grant of
land for his services. He died at Middleboro
(Lakeville), Massachusetts, February 28,
1732, while sitting in a chair.
(Ill) Thomas, son of Isaac and Alice
Pierce, married, April 16, 1714, Naomi Booth,
of Middleboro, Massachusetts. Children :
Thomas, married Rebecca Jones, of Yar
mouth ; Shadrach, of whom further ; Naomi,
born 1719, married Josiah Jones; Jonathan,
1723; Richard, 1725; Hilkiah, 1727, married
Hannah Briggs.
(IV) Shadrach, son of Thomas and Naomi
(Booth) Pierce, was born July 8, 17 17. He
married, August 16, 1737, Abigail Haskins, of
Taunton, Massachusetts. Children : Naomi,
born October 1, 1719, married Josiah Jones;
Jonathan,, born March 23, 1723 ; Richard, born
April 15, 1725, married Mary Simnon; Hel-
kiah, born October 19, 1727, married Mrs.
Hannah Briggs; Levi, of whom further, and
others. (V) Levi, son of Shadrach and Abigail
(Haskins) Pierce, was born in Middleboro,
Massachusetts, February 26, 1739. He served
for a brief time in a company of local militia
sent from Middleboro in 1757 to reinforce
Fort William Henry, but the danger being
over before they had proceeded far, they soon
returned. In an expedition to Crown Point
he served as a private soldier from April 26
to December 16, 1759, his wages amounting
to fifteen pounds two shillings two pence. He
is said to have served in the revolution under
three enlistments. After the war his love of
the chase led him to settle in the Berkshire
Hills of Massachusetts, then abounding in
deer, bears, wolves and foxes. At Peru, Berk
shire county, he opened a tavern on the high
road from Boston to Bennington, Vermont.
He retained his physical and mental vigor,
dying at the age of eighty-seven, from acci
dent. Before, settling in the Berkshires he
lived for a time at Spencer, Massachusetts.
He married, February 11, 1761, Bathsheba
Babbett, of Berkley, Massachusetts. Chil
dren: Abner, George, Benjamin, Eli, Liberty,
Henry, Levi, Shadrach, Daniel, Isaac and
Sarah Ann.
(VI) Liberty, son of Levi and Bathsheba
(Babbett) Pierce, was born in Spencer, Mas
sachusetts, October 19, 1774, died in Burling
ton, New York, February 8, 1864. He re
moved from Massachusetts to New York, set
tling in Otsego county, where he was one of

the hardy pioneers of the town of Burlington.
Here he bought and cleared land, wresting a
farm from the forest and compelling the wilds
to retreat before cultivated fields. He was a
Baptist in religion. He married, June 29,
1797, at Peru, Berkshire county, Massachu
setts, Lydia Beals, born March 11, 1774, in
Abington, Plymouth county, Massachusetts,
died September 2, 1852. She came from a
prominent revolutionary family that figured
especially well at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Children : Gordon, Orin, Gaylor, Vador,
Duane (of whom further), and Enoch. All
these sons reached the ages seventy to ninety
years except Enoch, who died at the age of
twenty-one years.
(VII) Duane, fifth son of Liberty and
Lydia (Beals) Pierce, was born in Burling
ton, Otsego county, New York, January 11,
1809, died in Buffalo, New York, October 20,
1 88 1. He was educated in the district schools,
and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to
his Uncle Isaac Pierce, of Berkshire county,
Massachusetts, to learn the trade of carpen
ter, joiner and millwright. After gaining an
expert knowledge of these callings he returned
to Otsego county, where he worked at his
trade and for several years operated a saw
mill and sash, door and blind factory. In
1838 he removed with his family to Herki
mer, New York, where he built a cotton mill
at Van Hornesville, for an operating com
pany. In 1 84 1 he again removed with his
family to Plum, Venango county, Pennsyl
vania, traveling by the Erie canal to Buffalo,
thence to Erie, Pennsylvania, by steamboat,
finishing his journey by team. He built many
of the early saw, flouring and woolen mills
in Northwestern Pennsylvania, where he also
owned and conducted a farm. In 1827 he
retired from active life and removed to Buf
falo, New York, where he died. In politics
he was a Republican, and in religious faith a
Universalist. He married, January 23, 1833,
at Hartwick, Otsego county, New York, Mary
Morse, born in Burlington, Otsego county,
January 21, 1817, daughter of Nathaniel
Morse, a pioneer settler of Otsego county, who
came there from Connecticut. Nathaniel was
a son of Stephen, son of Daniel (2), son of
Daniel (1), son of William, son of Anthony
Morse, the emigrant ancestor, born in Marl
boro, Wiltshire, England; came to America
in 1635, settling at Newbury, Massachusetts.
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his father Stephen, and was a prominent
farmer of Otsego county. Children of Duane
and Mary (Morse) Pierce: i. Maryette, born
January 30, 1834, died in Van Hornesville,
Herkimer county, New York, February 17,
1840. 2. Amelia M., born January 19, 1836,
died January 20, 1900; she married, April,
1857, Thomas Tipton; one son, Ray Pierce
Tipton. 3. Ray Vaughn, of whom further.
4. Franklin Duane, of further mention. 5.
John Edmund, born June 10, 1857, died July
18, 1881, after a brief but promising busi
ness career; married, November 28, 1879,
Louise M. Whicher, of Buffalo, New York.
(VIII) Franklin Duane, son of Duane and
Mary (Morse) Pierce, was born February
22, 1853. He was educated in the Buffalo
high school and Williams Academy. His pro
fessional education was obtained at the Eclec
tic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, gradu
ated, M. D., class of 1875, and at the Uni
versity of the City of New York, Medical
College, class of 1878. He practiced medicine
in Buffalo, New York, from 1875 to 1886,
except one. year spent at University Medical
College, New York, and in hospitals practic
ing medicine and surgery. From 1886 to
1900 he conducted a private sanitarium at
Union Springs, New York. From 1900 to
1903 he practiced medicine in Syracuse, New
York. In the latter year he located in Jack
son county, Alabama, and engaged in the de
velopment of coal and timber lands, and is
now (1911) so engaged, being vice-president
and manager of the Pierce Development Com
pany. He is a member of the Unitarian
church, and of Warren Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, of, Union Springs, New York.
He is a Republican in politics; he has never
sought public office. He married (first) April
17, 1876, in Buffalo, New York, Ida J. Con-
stantine, born in Hamilton, New York, Sep
tember 13, 1854, died June 5, 1877, in Buf
falo, New York, daughter of James and Helen
Constantine; her father was a veteran of the
civil war. Other children of James and
Helen Constantine are: Charles, Frederick,
Nellie, Lafayette and Myrtie May, who mar
ried Professor Frank Fosdick. Franklin
Duane Pierce married (second) May 26, 1879,
in Brooklyn, New York, Alice Baker, born
in Connecticut, May 3, 1854, daughter of
Daniel and Anna Baker, whose children are :
William N., Alice, Caroline, Amanda and Ida
Louise. Daniel Baker was a veteran of the

civil war, serving from New York state.
Child of Mr. Pierce by first marriage : Frank
lin Duane Pierce (2), born May 31, 1877;
was graduated from Oakwood Seminary,
Union Springs, New York, at about the age
of sixteen, and from Union Springs high
school a year later. He entered the Medical
Department of Syracuse University, whence
he was graduated M. D., class of 1904, and
later from New York Post-Graduate Medical
School. He specializes in ear, nose and throat
diseases, and has taken post-graduate and
special courses in different noted institutions.
In 1904 he became connected with the World's
Dispensary Medical Association at the In
valid's Hotel, of which he is now (1911) in
charge. He is director of the Pierce Develop
ment Company. He is a member of the Na
tional and State Eclectic Medical Society,
member of the Liberal Club and other organi
zations. He is an enthusiastic sportsman, de
voted to the sports of the forest and stream.
His passion is for firearms of improved makes
and "kinds, of which he has an unusually fine
collection. He is an independent Republican,
and a member of the Presbyterian church.
He married, July 21, 1904, Louise Julia,
daughter of George W. Boxall, retired, of
Buffalo. Child: Duane Boxall, horn at Buf
falo May 12, 1907.
_{VIII) Dr. Ray Vaughn Pierce, son of
Duane and Mary (Morse) Pierce, was born at
Stark, Herkimer county, New York, August
6, 1840.
His preliminary education was obtained in
private and public schools, after which he
entered the Eclectic Medical College of Cin
cinnati, Ohio, whence he was graduated,
M. D., class of 1862. He began the prac
tice of his profession at Titusville, Pennsyl
vania, where he remained four years. In
1867 ne removed to Buffalo, New York, where
he embarked in the manufacture and sale of
proprietary medicines. He was remarkably
successful in business and later, as a logical
outgrowth of his large business, established
in Buffalo The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute. The entire business is now com
bined, and is known everywhere as the
World's Dispensary and Medical Association,
of which Dr. Pierce is president. He has
written and published several household medi
cal works, and innumerable essays and treat
ises on medicine and health. He has not only
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reaped honors in civil life. In 1877 he was
elected state senator from the Thirty-first
district, Erie county, serving as chairman of
the Committee on Public Health, canals and
railroads. At the expiration of this term in
the state senate he was elected representative
in Congress, serving in the Forty-sixth Con
gress. Politically, Dr. Pierce is a Republi

can.

He has many other business interests, in
cluding the Pierce Development Company of
Jackson county, Alabama, heavily interested
in timber a/id mining properties. He owns
three hundred acres of the original tract in
the Berkshires, to which his ancestor Levi
came nearly a century and a half ago with
his family and household effects, drawn by an
ox team. This farm has not been in the
family continuously, but was purchased by
Dr. Pierce, who takes great pride in possess
ing a part at least of the ancestral acres. He
married Mary Jane Smith. Children: Valen
tine Mott, of whom further. Hugh C. and
Ralph Waldo, both further mentioned below;
Ida Belle, died aged eighteen years; Oakley
Pierce and Franklin, both of whom died in
infancy. (IX) Dr. Valentine Mott Pierce, eldest son
of Dr. Ray Vaughn and Mary J. (Smith)
Pierce, was born in Chapmanville, Pennsyl
vania, August 7, 1865.
He was educated in the Buffalo Classi
cal School, Harvard University (A. B.,
class of 1888), Buffalo University Medical
Department, M. D., 1891. He practiced in
the hospitals two years and in the Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, and in 1893 became man
ager of the World's Dispensary and Medical
Association, and is also secretary of that cor
poration. He is also president of the Pierce
Glass Company; president of the Charter
Bond Company of New York City; president
of the Pierce Development Company of Jack
son county, Alabama, a corporation devoted
to coal mining and lumbering. He is a Re
publican in politics, and was especially active
in the McKinley and Roosevelt campaigns.
He is a member of the Masonic order, and of
Theta Delta Chi. His clubs are: The Hasty
Pudding of Harvard; Buffalo, Ellicott, and
Harvard, of Buffalo ; Automobile, Advertisers,
Yacht and Launch, of -Buffalo ; the Genesee
Association of New York City ; Harvard Club
of New York City; and Western New York
Medical Association. He married, February

5, 1910, at New York City, Matilda Louise,
daughter of John Kamerer.
(IX) Hugh C, second son of Dr. Ray
Vaughn and Mary J. (Smith) Pierce, was
born in Buffalo, New York, May 8, 1875. He
attended Heathcote School of Buffalo, Peeks-
kill Military Academy, Lawrence Scientific
School and Harvard University, graduating
therefrom as an electrical engineer. In 1905
he was elected president of the American En
gine Company of Boundbrook, New Jersey,
where he now resides, being an extensive
dealer in real estate. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Plainfield Hunt
Club and the Harvard Club of New York
City. He married, March 1,-1907, Jessie Per
kins, of Brooklyn, New York. No children.
(IX) Ralph Waldo, third son of Dr. Ray
Vaughn and Mary J. (Smith) Pierce, was
born in Buffalo, New York, November 6, 1883.-
He was educated in Heathcote School of Buf->
falo, Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania,
Phillips Andover Academy, Massachusetts,-
and Bryant & Stratton's Business College,
Buffalo. In 1902 he became associated with
his father in business, entering the advertis
ing department, later in the accounting de
partment of the World's Dispensary and
Medical Association. In 1904 he was elected
treasurer and director of the corporation and
chosen advertising manager. He is also
treasurer of the Pierce Development Company
of Jackson county, Alabama, and treasurer
of the Pierce Coal and Lumber Company.
He is a member of the Society of Natural
Science, Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo
Poultry Association, the Buffalo Business
Men's Club, Buffalo Club, Country Club, Au
dubon Club and Automobile Club. He mar
ried, July 27, 1904, Florence M., daughter of
John C. Kingston, of Buffalo. Children : Ray
Vaughn and Mary Jane Pierce.

Thomas Woodford, immi-'
WOODFORD grant ancestor, was born
in Lincolnshire, England,
and came among the early settlers to Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. He was in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, in 1632. In 1633 he was one
of the party led by Rev. Thomas Hooker to
Hartford, of which he became one of the
founders. During his stay there he took an
active part in the affairs of the colony, serv
ing at various times as town crier, fence
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March 4, 1635, Mary Blott. In 1654 he moved
to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he be
came a proprietor, and where he died March
6, 1667. He is mentioned among the settlers
of Springfield in 1636 in the Compact. His
will was dated April 26, 1665, and proved
March 26, 1667. He bequeathed to daughter
Mary and her children; daughters Hannah
and Sarah; sons-in-law Isaac Sheldon and
Nehemiah Allen. Children : Hannah, married
Samuel Allen; Joseph, mentioned below;
Sarah, married Nehemiah Allen ; Mary, mar
ried Isaac Sheldon.
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Woodford,
was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636.
He moved to Farmington, Connecticut, where
he acquired a large tract of land, fie died
there in 1701 and was buried in what was
known as Cider Brook cemetery. He mar
ried Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Re
becca (Olmstead) Newell. Children: Mary,
died in 1723; Rebecca, married John Porter;
Esther, died in 1742; Sarah, died in 1750;
Hannah, married Thomas North; Joseph,
mentioned below; Elizabeth, born 1682; Su
san, married Deacon Anthony Judd; Abigail,
born 1685.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Wood
ford, was born in 1677 in Farmington, in
the Society of Northington, now Avon, Con
necticut, and settled in what is known as
Nod, where he owned a large tract of land
and was a farmer. He died in 1760 and was
buried in Cider Brook cemetery. He was
one of the organizers and a prominent mem
ber of the church. He married (first) in
1699, Lydia Smith; married (second) Sarah
Garrett, widow, born in 1668, died in 1769,
over a hundred years old. Children : Child,
died in infancy, 1702; Lydia, born 1702, died
1723; Mary, 1704, died in childhood; Jo
seph, 1705. Children of second wife: Eliza
beth, 1707; Mary, 1709; Rebecca, 171 1; Sam
uel, 1712; Sarah, 1714; Rebecca, 1716; John,
mentioned below; Susanna; William, 1722.
(IV) John, son of Joseph (2) Woodford,
was born in Northington, Connecticut, in
1 71 8. He married, July 1, 1723, Sarah, born
June 23, 1729, daughter of Amos and Sarah
(Pettibone) Phelps. Amos Phelps was born
at Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1708, died June
11, 1777, served in revolution for three months
in 1776, Fourth Regiment; his wife Sarah
was daughter of John and Mary (Buell) Pet
tibone; his father was Joseph Phelps, born

at Windsor, Connecticut, August 20, 1667.
Joseph Phelps, father of Joseph Phelps, was
born in England in 1629 and lived at Dor
chester, Massachusetts, and Windsor ; he mar
ried, September 20, 1660, Hannah, daughter
of Roger Newton ; William Phelps, immigrant
and father of Joseph Phelps, was baptized at
Tewksbury Abbey Church, England, August
19, 1599, son of John and Dorothy Phelps.
John Woodford died in 1802 at Avon, fie
was called captain.
(VI) James Woodford, grandson of John
Woodford, was born about 1786 in Connecti
cut. (In 1790 Elijah, Joseph, William Jr., Dud
ley, Samuel, Selah, William and Isaac were
heads of families in Farmington, Hartford
county, Connecticut, and one of them was
father of James.) James Woodford settled
early in life in Onondago county, New York,
and followed farming. He married Cynthia
Edson. Children : Harriet, Laura, Eliza, Es
ther, Grove, Alanson, William, mentioned be
low. (VII) William, son of James Woodford,
was born February 18, 1807, at Onondaga
Hill, Onondaga county, New York, died, April
2, 1885, at Millville, Orleans county, New
York. He received his early education in
the public schools, and for a time followed
farming on his father's homestead. After
ward he settled at East Shelby, Orleans
county, where he bought a farm, fie married
(first) Margaret Bent. He married (sec
ond) Dolly Ann (Smith) Wood, a widow, in
1843. She was born in Saratoga county, and
died in Millville, New York. Children by
first wife: 1. George, born September, 1834,
died in 1902. 2. James, born in December,
1837. Children by second wife: 3. Celia J.,
born May 12, 1844; .married Lorenzo D. Gif-
ford and had Frances C, married Anson G.
Wilbur, of Hartford, Connecticut, and An
son E. Gifford, who died aged eight years.
4. Ella A., born October 12, 1845 ; married
John Wood, of Savannah, New York. 5.
Charles J., born October 7, 1847; living in
California. 6. Eugene E., mentioned below.
7. Myrta M., born March, 1856, died in in
fancy. (VIII) Eugene E., son of William Wood
ford, was born March 4, 185 1, at Millville,
Orleans county, New York. He was edu
cated there in the public schbols. He assisted
his father on the farm until 1870, when he
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Smith at Knowlesville, New York. After six
years in this position he returned to assist his
father and continued on the homestead until
April, 1883. From that date until 1903 he
conducted a general store on his own account
at Knowlesville. Since 1903 he has lived at
Knowesville, retired from active business. In
politics he is a Democrat, and from 1886 to
1890 he was postmaster of Knowlesville by
appointment of President Cleveland. He at
tends the Presbyterian church of Knowles
ville. He is a member of Medina Lodge, No.
336, Free and Accepted Masons; and of the
City Club of Medina.
He married (first) March 28, 1878, Carrie M.
daughter of Andrew Stanley. She died June
25, 1898. He married (second) December
13, 1899, Cora A., born November 5, 1864,
daughter of Ezra S. and Elizabeth (Warren)
Perry, of Knowlesville, granddaughter of
Abel Perry, and descendant of a revolutionary
soldier and pensioner. Her father was an
elder in the Presbyterian church. By his first
wife Mr. Woodford had one child, Laura E.,
born at Millville, New York, February 12,
> 1882, now teaching at Knowlesville union
school, graduate of the Medina high school
and of Nebraska University, of Lincoln, Ne
braska, class of 1903.

Samuel Joseph Morris, immi-
MORRIS grant ancestor, was born in
Wales. He married, in Wales,
and came to this country when a young man.
The public records reveal little of his his
tory. In 1790 the census of Rhode Island
shows that the family had left Rhode Island,
for the only head of a family of this name was
Charles Morris, of Warwick. William Mor
ris, perhaps a son of Charles, married, July
5, 1798, Deborah, daughter of Amos Greene,
of Warwick; William Morris lived at East
Greenwich, Rhode Island. Elizabeth Morris
married, August 30, 1798, Samuel Bennett,
at Warwick. According to family tradition the
Morris family was all killed by the Indians.
One account states that the massacre was by
Narragansetts near Nantucket. It seems more
likely, however, that the family had gone to
western New York before or during the revo
lution and that the family was killed there
during the revolution, when the Indians were
fighting on the British side.
(II) John, son of Samuel Joseph Morris, is
said to have been the only one of the family

to escape from the Indians. He was saved,
we are told, by white settlers who concealed
him in the woods. He was brought up on a
farm near the New York-Pennsylvania line.
He worked at farming in his youth and was
educated in the common schools. He finally
located at Olean, New York, and engaged
in business as a tavern keeper. He used to
tell of seeing his mother's scalp among others
the Indians had taken during the massacre,
recognizing it by the red hair. His birth
place was Newport, Rhode Island, but the
records show no trace of the family, and
doubtless they lived but a short time in New
port. He married (first) Matilda Decker.
He married (second)  . Children by
first Wife : John ; Samuel Dexter, mentioned
below; Matilda. Child by second wife:
Emma, married  Jones and is now liv
ing in Waverly, Kansas.
(Ill) Rev. Samuel Dexter Morris, son of
John Morris, was born July 28, 1815, died
January 24, 1887. He was the first white
child born in Olean, New York. His parents
were then living on a boat on the Allegheny
river. He received his education in the dis
trict schools. He was converted early in
life, joined the church, and disliking the na
ture of the tavern business for various rea
sons, he left his father and engaged in farm
ing, studying at night and in spare time to
qualify himself as a preacher. He taught
school in various places, working on a farm
during the summer. At length he was li
censed to preach by the Baptist denomination.
He traveled extensively and preached in many
localities. He had charges in Smethport, Port
Allegany, Eldred, and in several smaller towns
of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He
was widely and affectionately known as Elder
Morris. For many years his home was at
Eldred, Pennsylvania, later at Delevon, then
Holland, New York, where his last years
were spent, but he died at Olean after an ill
ness of only a few weeks. He was a staunch
Whig and afterward a Republican.
He married, in May, 1837, Elizabeth Knapp,
born November 12, 1818, died September 2,
1902. Children: 1. Matilda, born August
19, 1838, died February 9, 1910; married
Henry Cohoon. Their son Vinton married
Anna Everett and had children : Robert, Win
throp, Claude, Mary, Gertrude, Hazel and
Angie Cohoon; their daughter Effie married
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and Gladys Love. 2. Ann Elizabeth, born
November 4, 1841, died March 13, 1885;
married David Hull. Their son Frank mar
ried Edith Phendorf and has children: Gen
eva, Dudley, Catherine and Chrystal; their
son Guy William had three children. 3. John,
born May 4, 1844; at eighteen years of age
he engaged in the civil war, joined the fam
ous Pennsylvania Bucktails and participated
in sixteen battles ; died in 1865 from exposure
and hardship. 4. Mary Margaret, born Jan
uary 23, 1847; married (first) Sylvanus
Oviatt and had children : Myrtie, married Dan
iel Fisher and had Raymond and Roydon
Fisher; Dolly, married Laverne Palmer and
had Frank, Mercy, Arthur, Allie and Doris
Palmer; Grace; Will. She married (second)
Peter Creighton. 5. Emma, born September
18, 1849; married John Feller and had a
daughter Emma Feller. 6. Annette, born
April 3, 1852 ; married Charles Bishop and
had children: Lena, Morris, Bessie, Eugene,
Earl, Leona and Alowena Bishop. 7. Jacob
Eugenio Kincaid, mentioned below. 8. Car
rie, born September 18, i860; married, May
5, 1886, Martin Ferrin, born August 3, 1862,
and had Elizabeth, born July 2, 1903.
(IV) Jacob Eugenio Kincaid Morris, M. D.,
son of Rev. Samuel Dexter Morris, was born
November 23, 1856, at Eldred, Pennsylvania.
He attended the public schools of his native
town and Friendship Academy. He studied
his profession at the University of Buffalo
and in 1879 received the degree of Doctor
of Medicine. He practiced medicine for seven
years in Eldred, and then removed to Olean,
New York, where he continues in general
practice, making a specialty, however, of surg
ery, and in later years has devoted himself
entirely to surgical cases. He has taken an
active interest in public affairs. In 1886
he was health officer of Eldred for two years.
For several years he was a member of the
board of education at Eldred, and for fifteen
years of the board of education of Olean and
its president for two years. He is a member
of the County and State Medical societies, and
American Medical Association. He is a trus
tee of the Methodist Episcopal church and
superintendent of its Sunday school. He is
a member also of Olean Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and of the various Masonic
bodies including the thirty-second degree of
Scottish Rite Masonry; also of Lodge No.
471, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, July 2, 1881, Sarah F. Gilling-
ham, born May 22, 1858, daughter of Charles
and Caroline (Ault) Gillingham, and grand
daughter of John Gillingham. Her father
died August 29, 1905 ; her mother was a
daughter of Samuel Ault. Charles Gilling
ham, only brother of Mrs. Morris, was born
October 26, 1862, and was associated with
his father in business after he left school.
Children of Dr. and Mrs. Morris: 1. Charles
Dexter, born January 22, 1883 ; graduate of
the Olean high school, and of Yale College,
A. B., 1906, and after holding a fellowship
one year at Yale entered the newspaper busi
ness in New York City and now holds an
important position with the Associated Press ;
he married, November 26, 1908, Araminta
Miles and has one child, Richard Miles, born
November 22, 1910. 2. Raymond Bartlett,
born March 19, 1885 ; graduate of Olean high
school and Yale College, A. B., 1907, graduate
of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore,
1910; interne one year in the hospital of the
United Protestant Infirmary of Baltimore ;
now a partner in his father's business under
the firm name of Morris & Morris. 3. Caro
line Elizabeth, born December 19, 1893. 4.
Margaret, August 7, 1895.

Thomas Jewell, immigrant an-
JEWELL cestor, was born in England
about 1600, and it is thought
that he was of the same stock as Bishop John
Jewell, who was born in the north of Devon
shire in 1522, died in 1571. The surname
was formerly written Jule, Joyell, Jewell, and
in various other ways. Thomas Jewell came
over in the ship "Planter" in April, 1635,
when he gave his age as twenty-seven in the
ship register." He settled at Mount Wollaston,
now Braintree, Massachusetts, and was
granted land there for three heads, twelve
acres, upon the covenant of three shillings
per acre, April 24, 1639. He died in 1654.
His will was proved July 21, 1654, bequeath
ing to his wife and children. Administration
was granted to Grisell, widow of Thomas,
July 21, 1654, but October 5, 1655, she being
about to marry Humphrey Griggs, William
Needham and Thomas Foster were appointed
executors and Griggs agreed to bring up the
Jewell children. She was soon left again a
widow and was appointed administratrix of
Humphrey Griggs, August 18, 1657. She
married afterward John Gurney Sr., Henry

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Kibbe and John Burge, having at least five
husbands. Children: Joseph, mentioned be
low ; Thomas, twin, February 27, 1643 '> Han
nah, twin of Thomas; Nathaniel, April 15,
1648; Grisell, March 19, 1651; Mercy, April
14, 1653-
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Jewell, was
born at Braintree, April 24, 1642. He settled
in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and bought land
there, July 17, 1694, of Richard Cheever, of
Boston. He deeded this farm to his son,
November 27, 1719. He kept the ferry at
Charlestown for a time, and his son Joseph
assisted him. He had a grist mill, known
afterward as Jewell's mill, at Stow-on-the-
stream dividing that town from Sudbury. He
married (first) Martha  , about 1670;
(second) Isabel  , who lived to be over
one hundred and three years old. Joseph died
before September 2, 1736. Children: Joseph,
mentioned below ; Martha, born July 25, 1675 ;
daughter, married  Townsend ; Mary,
married William Skinner, of Stow ; John, died
at Stow ; James, settler of Winchester, New
Hampshire. (Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Jewell,
was born June, 1673, died in 1766, at Dudley.
He was married, by the famous Rev. Cotton
Mather, September 14, 1704, in Boston, to
Mary Morris. Children : Mary, died at
Thompson, Connecticut ; Joseph, born Septem
ber 1, 1708; Elizabeth, May 31, 171 1 ; Nathan
iel, mentioned below ; Archibald, April 8, 1716;
Martha, March 12, 1718.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Joseph (2) Jewell,
was born in 1713 at Sudbury, Massachusetts,
died aged about eighty at Dudley, Worces
ter county, Massachusetts. He and some of
his brothers settled in Dudley. He married,
March 20, 1738, Elizabeth Webster. Children,
born at Dudley: 1. John Morris, born Sep
tember 24, 1739, died at Cherry Valley, New
York. 2. Aaron, born December 23, 1742,
died at Guilford, New York. 3. Moses, born
April 5, 1744, died at Dudley. 4. Phebe, twin
of Moses, died young. 5. Nathaniel, born
May 17, 1746, died at Hartwick, New York.
6. William, born September 18, 1747, died
young. 7. Jesse, mentioned below. 8. Adoni-
jah, born November 9, 1750, died young. 9.
Susanna, baptized February 2, 1752, died
young. 10. Elizabeth, baptized December 9,
1753, died young. 11. Benjamin, baptized
July 23, 1755, died young. 12. Joseph, born
January 20, 1758, died at Dudley. 13. Benja

min, May 25, 1759, died at Whitingham, Ver
mont. (V) Jesse, son of Nathaniel Jewell, was
born at Dudley, Massachusetts, March 8, 1749,
died at Franklinville, New York, December
10, 1837. He married, at Dudley, June 1,
1775, Zerviah Corbin. He was a soldier in
the revolution from Dudley in Captain Lem
uel Corbin's company, Colonel Jacob Davis'
regiment, in 1780. fie also appears as a pri
vate from East Hoosick, New York, in the
Massachusetts records, in Captain Samuel
Sloane's company of militia, from April 19,
1775, to August of that year. Children born
at Dudley: Lucretia, July 2, 1777; Stephen,
May 27, 1779, died young; Phila, August 1,
1 78 1, married Benjamin Talbot; Charles P.,
mentioned below; Abel, Decemher 9, 1785;
Sarah, September 15, 1789; Moses, February
26, 1 79 1 ; Charles L., April, 1793, died at
Smyrna, New York; Pardon Taylor, June 2,
1795; Zerviah, April 3, 1798, married Albee
Briggs. (VI) Charles Proctor, son of Jesse Jewell,
was born November 2, 1783, at Dudley, Massa
chusetts. He settled in Franklinville, New
\ork. He followed farming throughout his
active life. In politics he was a staunch
Democrat. He was a member of the Metho
dist Episcopal church. He married (first)
in 1805, Sally Hutchinson, (second) in March,
1807, Jane Inches. Children of first wife:
1. fiarriet A., born January 5, 1806; married
Harmon Stilwell and had children; Pardon
Jewell, born January, 1829, died at Franklin
ville, December, 1847; Chauncey, November,
1835, died in Illinois, September 28, 1854;
Ann, July, 1837. 2. Charles, born December
19, 1808, died young. 3. Sally H., born March
5, 1810, died August 10, 1814. 4. Jerome
Buonaparte, mentioned below. 5. Sally Jane,
born May 7, 1815; married Isaac B. Edson,
November 22, 1831, and had children: Sylvia
Moore Edson, born May 25, 1833; Alonzo
Rawson Edson, September 2, 1835 ; Orrin,
September 12, 1839; Henry, June 10, 1841 ;
Lorentus, February 26, 1844; Amy, August
IQ. J847; Helen, January 25, 1850; Delpha,
July 17, 1851; Ella and Eva, July 14, 1853.
6. Orrin Gordon, born July 23, 1817, lived at
Elgin, Illinois.
(VII) Jerome Buonaparte, son of Charles
Proctor Jewell, was born at Franklinville,
New York, March 8, 1813, died at Machias,
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by occupation, but was versed in law, and
though never admitted to the 'bar tried many
law suits in justice's courts throughout Cat
taraugus, Erie, Allegany and Chautauqua
counties and was very successful as a trial
lawyer. He was a loyal supporter of the
government during the civil war and active
in securing enlistments for the service. In
politics he was a Democrat and from time to
time held various offices of trust and honor
in the county. He married, _July 7, 1839,
Charlotte Warner, born at Franklinville, died
at Machias, New York, in 1873. Children,
born at Machias: 1. Joseph R, April 15,
1842; resided in Olean, where he was an at
torney, and died in 1901. 2. Jane J., August
4, 1844. 3. Jerome Buonaparte, July 18, 1848.
4. Jenny Lind, 1850, died in 1853. 5. Rovilla,
June 6, 1852. 6. Cassius Monroe, July 26,
1856. 7. Marcius B., mentioned below.
(VIII) Marcius B., son of Jerome Buona
parte Jewell, was born November 7, 1858, at
Machias, Cattaraugus county, New York. He
attended the district schools of his native
town and the Ten Broeck Free Academy at
Franklinville. During his boyhood, when not
in school, he worked on his father's farm. In
1879 he began to read law, in the office of
A. J. Knight at Arcade, New York, and pur
sued the study of law for one year. He came
to Olean, New York, in 1880, and continued
his studies in the law office of Cary & Jewell
until he was admitted to the bar, April 3,
1883. The Mr. Jewell of this firm was the
Joseph R. spoken of above. Marcius B. Jew
ell immediately began the practice of law in
Olean, in association with his brother, Jo
seph R. Jewell, under the firm name of J. R.
& M. B. Jewell. The partnership was dis
solved in 1894, and since then Mr. Jewell has
practiced alone with offices in Olean. He has
taken a prominent position among the lawyers
of this section and has tried many cases not
only in Olean, but throughout Western New
York, in Erie, Monroe, Wyoming, Cattarau
gus and Allegany counties. He has tried a
large number of criminal cases in these coun
ties and has carried many of them to the
higher courts, securing a reversal in many
instances on points of law, and has achieved
a wide reputation as a criminal lawyer. He
was appointed city attorney of Olean, Janu
ary 2, 1912, by the council of the city, con
sisting of eight Republicans and eight Demo
crats. In politics he is a Democrat, believing,

as he says, that the high tariff gives one class
of people an advantage over others, and that
equal privilege cannot exist under a high tar
iff system. He was supervisor of the town
of Olean seven years, up to 1894, when he
declined to run. He is a member of St.
John's Commandery, No. 24, and the Oasis,
of Buffalo; Olean Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons; Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks ; Heptasophs ; the Tribe of Ben Hur and
the Elks Club of Olean. He attends the Bap
tist church of Olean; his wife is a communi
cant of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church of
Olean. He married, November 10, 1886, Elizabeth
B. Hazlitt, born in Olean, April 4, 1865,
daughter of George F. and Augusta Hazlitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Jewell have one child, Robert
H., born July 16, 1894, at Olean, now a stu
dent in the Olean high school.

The Shedd family of James-
SHEDD town are descendants of Simeon
and Lavina (Rhelts) Shedd of
the state of Vermont.
(II) Lewis, son of Simeon and Lavina
(Rhelts) Shedd, was born in Vermont, De
cember 19, 181 7, died at Ellery, Chautauqua
county, New York, March 16, 1853. He set
tled for a time at Youngsville, Warren county,
Pennsylvania, later locating in Chautauqua
county, New York, where he engaged in mer
cantile business, having a general store at
Ellery Center. He was an energetic, capable
business man, and was held 'in the highest
esteem. He was a Universalist, and took deep
interest in religious matters. He married, in
1845, Phoebe, born April 26, 1826, died in
1881, daughter of Philip and Louisa (Mor
gan) Strong. Children: William Darwin, of
whom further; Charles Eugene, born August
20, 1850; Merritt Jones, March 10, 1854,
died 1880.
(Ill) William Darwin, son of Lewis and
Phoebe (Strong) Shedd, was born in Youngs
ville, Warren county, Pennsylvania, Septem
ber 27, 1846. His parents removed to Chau
tauqua county, New York, when he was yet
a child. He was educated in the public
schools of Ellery and Jamestown, and after
finishing his studies entered the drug business.
He was employed for five years in the drug
store of Hall & Moore, Jamestown, but after
being granted -a license and diploma, engaged
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ciated with Dr. Frank Ormes as partner, later
purchasing his interest and conducting a suc
cessful business alone until 1886, when he dis
posed of his business. In that year he began
the manufacture of patent medicines, continu
ing until 1893, when he sold out and retired
from active business life. He was well known
throughout his city and state and commanded
universal respect and esteem. He was public-
spirited and aided materially in the develop
ment of his city. While not an aspirant for
political honors he was keenly interested in
public affairs and an ardent supporter of the
Republican party. His handsome residence
on West Third street he erected in 1872, and
it is yet the home of his family. He was an
attendant of the Presbyterian and Universalist
churches, and of the Masonic Order, belong
ing to Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of
Knights Templar. He was interested in the
volunteer fire department, and at one time was
a member of Jamestown Hook and Ladder
Company. He married, at Chestertown, War
ren county, Pennsylvania, Jennie, daughter of
Charles and Eliza K. (Baker) Fowler. She
was born at Chestertown, August 9, 1848, and
survives her husband, a resident of James
town. She is an active member of the Pres
byterian church and interested in the Needle
Work Guild and Missionary societies of the
church; the New Century Art and Mozart
clubs, and the Young Women's Christian As
sociation of Jamestown. Children: 1. Lewis
Fowler, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth Fow
ler, born in Jamestown, August 8, 1875 > mem
ber and an active worker in the Presbyterian
church, the Guild, Agnes Home Association,
Mozart and New Century Art clubs. She re
sides at home with her mother.
(IV) Lewis Fowler, only son of William
Darwin and Jennie (Fowler) Shedd, was
born in Jamestown, New York, August 28,
1872. He was educated in the city schools
and Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hamp
shire. He was engaged in the manufacture
of patent medicines, later in the coal and lum
ber business in Jamestown. He is a Republi
can in politics. He married, at Louisville,
Kentucky, Julia Lawrence.

Dwight Perrin, son of Walter
PERRIN and Lucy (Dorset) Perrin, was
born in the town of Stockton,
Chautauqua county, New York, July 13, 1847,
died in Jamestown, New York, April 14, 1900.

He was educated in the Stockton public
schools and Fredonia Academy. He was
reared to farm labor and followed that occu
pation until five years after his marriage, when
he came to Jamestown, and in association with
Gilbert W. Klock, purchased a planing mill,
which they operated for several years. Mr.
Perrin, after retiring from the planing mill
engaged in the retail shoe business in James
town, until he was compelled by failing health
to seek a change of climate. He spent some
time in North Dakota, then returned to
Jamestown, which was his home until his
death. He took a deep interest in public af
fairs, served as assessor, and was for several
years chairman of the Republican county com
mittee. He was fraternally connected with
the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows and Maccabees. While
a resident of Stockton he was connected with
the Baptist church, but after his removal to
Jamestown was a regular attendant of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was
a faithful, consistent supporter. He was a
man of fine business ability and strict integ
rity. He made many friends and retained
their confidence always.
He married, at Jamestown, April 7, 1868,
R. Maila Klock, born in Stockton, New York,
September 14, 1847, daughter of Hiram and
Margaret (Quinn) Klock. She was educated
at Jamestown and Fredonia academies, and is
an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Jamestown, the Clotho Society,
Home and Foreign Missionary societies, and
other church and benevolent work, the Mo
zart Club and Daughters of the American
Revolution. Her grandfather, David Klock,
was a soldier of the war of 1812. He lived
in the Mohawk Valley, New York, later set
tling in the town of Ellery, Chautauqua
county, New York. Hiram, a son of David
Klock, was born June 6, 1816, in the Mohawk
Valley, died February 29, 1866, in Portland,
Chautauqua county. He came to Chautauqua
county with his parents when young, and be
came a successful farmer of Stockton, where
he owned a good farm of one hundred and
sixty acres. He was a prominent member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and an ac
tive, influential supporter of the Republican
party. He married Margaret Quinn, born at
Poultney, near Burlington, Vermont, Decem
ber 22, 1823; came with her parents when
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county. She was well educated, and at the
age of fifteen years taught the public school
of Ellery. She received as salary for her first
term twenty dollars for twenty weeks' teach
ing, and boarding around among the patrons
of the school. She was a daughter of Rob
ert and Jane (Allen) Quinn. Robert Quinn
was born January 25, 1798, died at the age
of seventy-eight; his wife, Jane (Allen)
Quinn, was born September 15, 1797, died at
the age of sixty; they were married March 1,
1822, at Fintona, Ireland, by Rev. Mr. Samp
son. Children of Hiram and Margaret
(Quinn) Klock: 1. R. Maila, born Septem
ber 14, 1847; married Dwight Perrin, whom
she survives, without issue, resident of James
town, New York. 2. Gilbert W., born March
8, 1852, resides in Buffalo. 3. Eudora E.,
born November 28, 1854; married, Septem
ber 19, 1883, Myron W. Pardee, died Novem
ber 22, 1889. She is a graduate of Jamestown
high school, after which she went to college.
She taught school in early life and later took
up music, voice culture, while at college. She
went to New York City, where she spent a
year in vocal music and afterward taught vo
cal music in the public schools and gave pri
vate lessons in Norwich, New York, and af
terward at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph,
New York. Mrs. Pardee was soloist at the
Chautauqua Assembly Grounds. She also
sang at Florida Chautauqua, De Tuwick
Springs, Florida. She sang in the principal
churches of Jamestown many years. She is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and active in church and charitable work.
Member of Jamestown Chapter, Daughters of
American Revolution; Needle Work Guild;
Agnes Home; board of directors of Young
Women's Christian Association; and Warner
Home Society.

William Baird, the first member
BAIRD of this family of whom we have
definite information, was born in
Virginia and died in Ohio, about 1850. He
was a farmer at Red Oak, Brown county,
Ohio. The family were Presbyterians. He
was an active Abolitionist; some of his fam
ily were financial agents and supporters of
the underground railway. He married Re
becca, daughter of Charles Campbell, who was
born in Scotland. Child, Samuel, referred to
below. (II) Samuel, son of William and Rebecca

(Campbell) Baird, was born at Red Oak, in
1826, died at Baird Furnace, November 2,
1878. He was an iron manufacturer in south
ern Ohio. He was a Presbyterian in religion,
and a Republican in politics. He married
Mary Jane, daughter of William and Polly
(Burkett) Steece. Children: 1. Frank Bur
kett, referred to below. 2. Mary Eliza, mar
ried Frank Searles Gordon; lives at Los An
geles, California; children: Theodore, Helen.
3. Chester Raymond, married May Culbert-
son; lives in New York City. 4. Samuel
Hamilton, married Emeline Bell; lives in
Philadelphia; child, Marjorie. 5. Faith D.,
married William Cameron; child, Eleanor.
(Ill) Frank Burkett, son of Samuel and
Mary Jane (Steece) Baird, was born at Ma
rietta, Ohio, November 24, 1852. He went
into business with his father at Hocking Val
ley, Ohio. In 1888 he came to Tonawanda,
Erie county, New York, and bought the Ton
awanda Furnace, which he changed the next
year into a coke furnace. He built a furnace
in Buffalo, and became in 1891 vice-president
of the Buffalo Furnace Company. In 1898
he built the Union Iron Works, of which he
was president, and in the following year he
organized the Buffalo Charcoal Company, of
which he was also president. These three
companies were consolidated in 1900 as the
Buffalo Union Furnace Company, Mr. Baird
being president. He is also vice-president of
the East Jordan Furnace Company, in Michi
gan. He is a. Mason and belongs to the Buf
falo Club, Country Club, Park Club and Auto
mobile Club, all of Buffalo. Mr. Baird has
been for several years a vestryman of St.
Paul's Episcopal church, and he is a Repub
lican. He married, November 21, 1900, Flora,
daughter of William and Flora (Berry) Cam
eron, of Waco, Texas. Her mother was of
Little Rock, Arkansas, daughter of J. R.
and Flora (Murphy) Berry, granddaughter
of Governor Isaac Murphy, of Arkansas.
Isaac Murphy was born near Pittsburg, Octo
ber 16, 1802, died at Huntsville, Arkansas,
September 8, 1882. He had a classical edu
cation, and afterward taught school in Ten
nessee for several years; he continued teach
ing at Fayetteville and Mount Comfort, Ar
kansas, fiis labors and influence awakened
great interest in education in that part of
Arkansas. Having studied law as opportuni
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bar in 1835, after which he both practiced
law and taught. He was also engaged in civil
engineering, and took part in public land sur
veys in Arkansas. In 1848 he was a member
of the state legislature, but the following year
he joined one of the first caravans proceed
ing to California, where he remained four
years. Returning to Arkansas, he with his
daughters conducted a high school at Hunts-
ville, Madison county, for two years. He was
again a member in the state legislature in
1856. He was elected a delegate to the state
convention called in 1861 to act on secession;
when the ordinance was passed, in May, he
alone voted no. Feeling against him becom
ing threatening, the following year he fled
from Huntsville and joined the Federal forces
in Missouri, under General Curtis; he was
made a staff officer, and his son Frank a
major. In 1863 he joined the commands of
Steele and Davidson, which captured Little
Rock. In January, 1864, he was made pro
visional governor, and in March of the same
year elected to that office for a term of four
years. His administration was moderate and
pacific, and Arkansas was largely spared the
sufferings of the reconstruction era. Find
ing an empty treasury, he succeeded in paying
all the debts of his administration and leav
ing a surplus. After the expiration of his
term of office, he returned to his home at
Huntsville, and there spent the remainder of
his life. He married, in Tennessee, July 31,
1830, Angeline A. Lockhart, daughter of a
soldier of the war of 181 2, and granddaughter
of a revolutionary soldier. Children of Frank
Burkett and Flora (Cameron) Baird: Frank
Burkett, born August 25, 1902; Cameron,
July 17, 1905; William Cameron, April 30,
1907.

Among those foreigners of Ger-
HAAS man birth who have contributed
so much to the prosperity of
America, introducing to this country the
strong habits of thrift and industry which
are so peculiarly the possession of the Ger
man people, may be mentioned Peter Haas,
an old resident of Jamestown, and a veteran
of the civil war. Mr. Haas was a native of
Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, where he
was born in September of the year 1827.
Coming to America when he was about eigh
teen years of age, he settled at Watertown,
New York, afterwards removing to Erie,

Pennsylvania ; from there he returned to New
York state, residing for brief periods at sev
eral places in this county, and finally locating
in Jamestown. This was about fifty years ago.
Mr. Haas engaged as a mason, in which call
ing he proved very successful, doing contract
ing work on an extensive scale, and becom
ing well known in the community.
During the civil war Mr. Haas did good
-service in the cause of his adopted country,
enlisting for a year in the Ninth New York
Cavalry, at Ellicott; he was mustered in Au
gust 31, 1864, as a private in Company G;
mustered out at Winchester, Virginia, June 6,
1865. The remainder of his long life was
passed in this city, where he died on the
morning of May 16, 1910, at his home, No.
1 102 North Main street, nearly eighty-three
years of age. His health had been failing for
some time prior to his last illness which was
of brief duration, and he was buried with
military honors, having been a member of
James M. Brown Post, Grand Army of the
Republic. The impressive ritual service was
conducted by the Rev. Oliver E. Williams,
pastor of Grace United Brethren church, and
the members of the James M. Brown Post
attended in a body to do him honor; George
A. S. Kent acting as commander ; C. W. Lord
as chaplain; F. E. Pennock, Adams Ports,
and C. W. Whitmore as first, second and third
comrades; William Callahan as color bearer,
and A. C. Jones as officer of the day. Major
E. P. Putnam, Chapin Tiffany, J. C. Staf
ford, A. H. Stafford, W. O. Orter, and S. L.
Willard, all members of the Post, acted as
bearers, and amid many floral offerings he
was laid to rest in Lakeview cemetery.
Mr. Haas was a widower at his death; his
wife was a Miss Elizabeth May, who died in
1905. Six children survive their parents, two
sons and four daughters. They are : William
and Charles C. Haas, of Jamestown; Mrs.
Francis Lavery, of Warren, Pennsylvania;
Mrs. Kate Lilley, of Geneva, Ohio ; Miss Mary
Haas, of Gowanda, Pennsylvania, and Miss
Nellie Haas, of Jamestown. Charles C. Haas
is a builder and contractor.

The progenitor of this branch
BISHOP of the Bishop family in the
United States, John Bishop,
was born in England, came to the United
States in 1852, settling in Buffalo, New York.
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in England and in Buffalo. He married, in
England, Martha Pierce, who accompanied
him to the United States. Their children
were all born at Tunbridge Wells, Kent
county, England : John P., of further men
tion; Stephen, William, Edwin, Jane, Caro
line and Emily.
(II) John P., eldest son of John and Mar
tha (Pierce) Bishop, was born at Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, England, August 6, 1822. fie
was educated in the English common schools.
He did not come to the United States with
the family, but early in life engaged in fish
and sea food dealing. For over sixty years
he continued in that business, and is now liv
ing retired in the town of his birth, with a
son. He married Harriet Haycot. Children :
J. Pierce, of further mention; Mary Ann,
horn 1846, married James Stuart, and resides
in England; Clara, born 1848; Edwin; Mar
tha, unmarried; Ernest, resides in England.
(Ill) J. Pierce, eldest son of John P. and
Harriet (Haycot) Bishop, was born at Tun
bridge Wells, Kent, England, September 6,
1844. He came to the United States with
his grandfather in 1852, and lived with him in
Buffalo, New York, until 1862. In that year
he enlisted in the United States navy and
saw active service under Admiral Porter on
the Mississippi, Cumberland, Tennessee and
Yazoo rivers. He was first assigned to a
revenue cutter of the Upper Mississippi
Squadron ; then at Cairo, under Admiral Por
ter; then on the gunboat "Rob," on the Ten
nessee; then on the gunboat "Chillicothe ;"
thence to the receiving ship at Cairo. At the
taking of Vicksburg he was assigned to the
gunboat "New Era," and later served on the
same boat in the engagements on the Cum
berland and Tennessee rivers. He was also
engaged at the capture of Fort Heinman, Ar
kansas; then up the Yazoo river at the tak
ing of Fort Pemberton. After a season of
guard duty at Island No. 10 he. was honor
ably discharged in August, 1864. He re
turned to Buffalo where he learned the coop
er's trade. He worked with an uncle at St.
Catherines, Canada, until 1866, then removed
to Lockport, New York, where he worked
at coopering for nine years as a journeyman,
then engaged in business for himself. He
started in a small shop, but his business has
so expanded that it has become the largest
of the kind in Lockport. He is a careful,
capable business man, and has won his suc

cess through his own merit. He is an ardent
Democrat, and has for many years been prom
inently identified with his party in town,
county and state politics; is a frequent dele
gate to state and district conventions, and is
a strong local leader. He is a member of
the Lockport Board of Trade, and a director
of the Lockport Board of Trade, and a direc
tor of the Lockport City Brewing Company.
He is prominent in the Masonic order, be
longing to Niagara Lodge, No. 375, Free and
Accepted Masons; Ames Chapter, No. 88,
Royal Arch Masons; Bruce Council, No. 15,
Royal and Select Masters; Genesee Comman
dery, No. 10, Knights Templar; and Ismailia
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He
belongs to the Congregational, church, of
Lockport. He married, in 1866, at St. Catherines,
Anna Mary Begy, born there, 1847, daugh
ter of William Begy. Children: Carrie E.,
married Harvey J. Smith, of Rochester, New
York; Alice G., deceased; Lottie E., resides
at home; Edwin S., married Elizabeth Ded-
inger, and resides in Rochester; children: J.
Pierce (2) and Marion.

The family of Fiske flourished for
FISK a very long period in England, in
the county of Suffolk. So early as
the eighth year of the reign of King John,
A.D. 1208, we find the name of Daniel Fisc,
of Laxfield, appended to a document issued
by the King, confirming a grant of land in
Digneveton Park, made by the Duke of Lo-
raine to the men of Laxfield. The name Fisk
is simply an older form of Fish. In Anglo-
Saxon times the termination "sh" was regu
larly sounded hard, like "sk." Symond Fiske,
Lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh, held lands
in Laxfield Parish, and was probably grand
son of Daniel Fisc. He bore for his arms,
chequey, argent and gules, upon a pale, sable,
three mullets pierced, or. The motto was :
Made virtute sic itur ad astra — "So to the
stars we go, For doing as we ought below;"
this motto was evidently taken from the ninth
book of Virgil's Aeneid, the 640th and 641st
lines. The Fiskes of America are descended
from this ancient family, the name being va
riously spelled Fisk, Fiske, etc., as shown.
Robert Fiske, of Laxfield, son of Simon, and
fourth in descent from Symond Fiske, of the
same, married Sibyl Gold, and had sons Will
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parents were the progenitors of all the Fiskes
that settled in New England, so far as known,
before 1640. In ¦ considering their posterity
they must be considered as descended from
two distinct groups, coming over about the
same time, 1637, one group settling in Wen
ham and the other in Watertown, Massachu
setts. (I) Lord Symond Fiske, grandson of Dan
iel, was Lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh,
parish of Laxfield, county of Suffolk, Eng
land, and lived in the reigns of Henry IV.
and VI. (1399- 1 422); he married Susannah
Smyth; she died, and he married (second)
Katherine  . Simon Fiske, of Laxfield,
will dated December 22, 1493, . . . be
queaths his soul to God, the Virgin Mary,
and all the saints in heaven; and to each of
his sons twenty pounds, mentioning his
daughter. Children: William, born in Eng
land (see below) ; Jeffrey, married Margaret
 ; John, married  ; Edmund, married
Margery  ; Margaret, married a Dowsing
or Dowling. Symond died February, 1464.
(II) William Fiske, son of Lord Symond
Fiske, was born at Stadhaugh, England, mar
ried Joan Lynne, of Norfolk. He lived dur
ing the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV.,
Richard III., and Henry VII. He died about
about 1504, before his wife. He also resided
at Laxfield. Children : Thomas, married
Anne  ; William, married Joan  ;
Augustine, married Joan  ; Simon (see
below ) ; Robert, married  and Joan  ;
John, married  ; Margery; Margaret.
(Ill) Simon, son of William Fiske, was
born in Laxfield ; married Eilzabeth  , who
died in Halesworth, 1558; Simon died June,
1538. Children: Simon (see below); Will
iam; Robert, married Alice  ; Joan, mar
ried  Iverton; Jeffrey; Gelyne, married
 Warner ; Agnes ; Thomas ; Elizabeth ;
John. (IV) Simon (2), son of Simon (1) Fiske,
was born in Laxfield ; married  ; died
1505; in his will left legacies to all of his
children, all young, and to his brother, Mas
ter John Fiske, ten marks, bequesting that he
sing for his soul for one year. Children :
Robert (see below) ; John, married Thomas-
ine Pinchard; George, married Anne

Nicholas, married Joan Crispe; Jeffrey
Jeremy, married — — ; William, married

Richard, married Agnes Crispe; Joan; Gelyne

Agnes.

(V) Robert, son of Simon (2) Fiske, was
born in Stadhaugh, England, about 1525;
married Mrs. Sybil (Gould) Barber; for some
time he was of the parish of St. James, South
Elmham, England. His wife was in great
danger in the time of the religious persecu
tion, 1553-58, as was her sister Isabella, orig
inally Gould, who was confined in the Castle
of Norwich and escaped death only by the
power of her brothers, who were men of great
influence in the county. Robert fled for re
ligion's sake in the days of Queen Mary to
Geneva, but returned later and died at St.
James. Of his four sons, Eliezer had no issue,
but the progeny of the other three, in whole
or in part, settled in New England; about
this time was a season of great religious per
secution. Children, born in England: 1.
William (see below) ; 2. Jeffrey, married
Sarah Cooke. 3. Thomas, married Margery
 . 4. Eliezer or Eleazer, married Eliza
beth  ; he died s. p. in Metfield, England,
in July, 161 5, leaving property and legacies
to his widow and the children of his brothers ;
his widow died in 1629. 5. Elizabeth, mar
ried Robert Bernard, a farmer of the estate
of Custrick Hall, in Wecky, county Essex,
which he held of Sir Edward Coke, the lord
chief justice; a daughter of this Bernard mar
ried a Locke, and was the mother of John
Locke, who was thus a grandson of Robert
Fiske. (VI) William (2), son of Robert Fiske,
was born in Laxfield, England, in 1566; mar
ried Anna Anstye, daughter of Walter, of
Tibbenham, Long Row, in Norfolk; she died,
and he married (second) Alice  . Will
iam is described as of St. James, in South
Elmham, and it is said of him that he fled
with his father for religion's sake. Children,
born in South Elmham, England, all but the
youngest by his first wife: 1. John, mar
ried Anne Lantersee. 2. Nathaniel (see be
low). 3. Eleazer, married and settled in Nor
wich; female issue only. 4. Eunice, died un
married. 5. Hannah, married, May 4, 1603,
William Candler ; he was schoolmaster at Tof-
ford; their son, Rev. Matthias Candler, was
author of the celebrated Candler Manuscript
on file in the British Museum ; other children
were John and Mary Candler. 6. Hester,
married John Chalke, or Challie, of Rednall
or Road Hall, England. 7. Mary, married
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county Suffolk, England; their descendants
settled in America.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of William (2)
Fiske, born in England  ; resided at Wey
bred/ England; married Mrs. Alice (Hend
or fienel) Leman. Children, born at Wey-
bred, England: Nathaniel (see below); Sa
rah, married Robert Rogers.
(VIII) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel
(1) Fiske, was born at Weybred, Suffolk
county, England; resided at Weybred; there
is a tradition that he died on the passage to
New England. He married Dorothy, daugh
ter of John Symonds, of Wendham. Chil
dren, born in England: 1. John (see below) ;
2. Nathan, married Susanna  . 3. Esther.
4. Martha, married Martin Underwood; he
was a weaver, coming to New England.
(IX) John, son of Nathaniel (2) Fiske,
was born in England, about 1619, came to
America with his brother Nathan and father
Nathaniel, the latter dying on the passage
over; the mother probably .died in England.
John took the oath of fidelity in 1652 ; he pur
chased land in Watertown and resided there,
where he died October 28, 1684, aged sixty-
five years.
He married, December 11, 165 1, Sarah, only
child of Nicholas Wyeth, by his first wife.
Children: 1. Sarah, born February 1, 1652.
2. John, 1654; died 1655. 3. John, Novem
ber 20, 1655 (see below). 4. Margaret, born
November 28, 1658; died unmarried, aged
ninety-one, January 15, 1750. 5. Mary, born
July 5, 165 1 ; married Joseph Mason; died
1723, leaving children.
(X). John (2), son of. John (1) Fiske, was
born at Watertown, Massachusetts, Novem
ber 20, 1655 ; he was a husbandman, made a
freeman in 1690; died January 6, 1718. He
married (first) Abigail Parks, December 9,
1679, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Dix)
Parks, born March 3, 1658. He married
(second) January 7, 1699, fiannah Richards,
who died 1714. He resided at Watertown
and Waltham. Children, all but last by his
first wife: 1. Abigail, born 1684; married
John Stearns, of Watertown. 2. Elizabeth,
born 1685, married Benjamin Whitney. 3.
John (see below). 4. Jonathan, born 1688;
died in infancy. 5. Jonathan, baptized 1689;
married Lydia Bemis. 6. Hepzibah, born
1693; married George Harrington. 7. A
daughter, born November 19, died November
20, 1695. 8. David, born 1697; married Eliz

abeth Durkee. 9. Hannah, baptized 1704, died
1714. (XI) John (3), son of John (2) Fiske,
known as Lieutenant John Fiske, was born
at Watertown, May 15, 1687; he resided at
Waltham and Worcester, Massachusetts, dy
ing November 2, 1756; married (first) Mary,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Bemis) Whit
ney, June 7, 171 1 ; (second) Elizabeth, daugh
ter of John Chinery, December 14, 1727. His
first wife died February 27, 1726. Children,
four first by first wife, three last by second :
1. Mary, born 1711; married Samuel Hagar.
2. Abigail, born 1714; married Stephen
Sawin. 3. John (see below). 4. Sarah, born
1718. 5. Jonathan, born 1729; married Abi
gail  . 6. David, born 1734. 7. Daniel,
born about 1730; married Sarah Kendall.
(XII) John (4) Fisk, son of John (3)
Fiske, was born at Watertown, Massachu
setts, June 10, 1716; married, at Worcester,
Massachusetts, June 1, 1748, Azubah Moore.
He resided at Worcester, dying about 1797.
Children: 1. John (see below). 2. Mary,
born December 22, 175 1-2; married 
Fisk. 3. Samuel, born 1753 ; died young. 4.
James, born 1755; died young. 5. James,
horn 1757 ; married Azubah Moore. 6. Sam
uel, born 1759; married Olive  and Pris
cilla  . 7. Elizabeth, born 1761 ; married
Daniel Chaddick, of Worcester. 8. Sarah,
born 1764. 9. Azuba, born 1768; married
James Goulding, of Worcester.
(XIII) John (5), son of John (4) Fisk,
was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, Au
gust 16, 1749'; was a commissary in the United
States army during the revolutionary war,
his family residing at Crown Point, New
York; his house was burned by the enemy
just before the close of the war, after which
he sold out the place and moved east, set
tled in Connecticut, and lived there until 1797,
then moved back to New York state with his
family, and resided in Brookfield. Here he
was killed by a tree falling upon him on his
premises, in 1802. He married Irena or Irene
Buck, born 1754, died 1850. Children: 1.
David (see below). 2. John, born 1778; mar
ried Eunice Bugbee. 3. James, born 1780;
married Hannah Green. 4. Azubah, horn
1785; married — — Faulkner; died in 1869,
in Brookfield, New York, leaving a large fam
ily. 5. Jonathan, born 1790; died in infancy.
6. Sally, born 1792; died in 1825. 7. Olive,
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dence, Ellington, New York; had a large
family. (XIV) David, son of John (5) Fisk, was
born November 12, 1782, in Worcester, Mas
sachusetts; was a farmer, residing in Brook
field and Ellington, New York; died in El
lington, in 1862 ; married, in Brookfield, De
cember 18, 1803, Lydia Bugbee, born March
— , 1784, died July 10, 1838. Children: 1.
Dennison, born 1807; married Polly P. Bush.
2. John, born 1821 ; married Clarinda Main.
3. Friend Lyman, born September 24, 1804;
married Perley Farman, died 1868. 4. Da
vid, born 1812; married Mary Maria L.
Wentworth. 5. Sally, born 1809; married
Robert Golding; died 1861 ; resided at Elling
ton. 6. James (see below). 7. Charles, born
October 17, 1823; residence Ellington; mar
ried and has children. 8. Irena, born 1818;
married George Pierce, and has children.
(XV) James, son of David Fisk, was born
in Brookfield, New York, August 3, 181 5. He
was a farmer and a resident of Ellington,
Chautauqua county, New York. He came
from Brookfield, Madison county, New York,
in a sled drawn by oxen; he was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and an
old line Whig; married Harriet Larkins.
Children: 1. George, drowned in well at age
of four years. 2. Harriet Olive, died aged
about ten years. 3. Irving, born September
3, 1848; resident of Ellington. 4. Chauncey.
5. LeRoy, born October 14, 1856; a resident
of Jamestown. 6. Charles Edward (see be
low). (XVI) Charles Edward, son of James and
Harriet (Larkins) Fisk, was born in Janu
ary, 1841, in Ellington, New York, where he
was educated, and where he farmed. He en
listed in 1862 in Company B, 112th New York
Volunteers, as a private in the civil war. He
was taken prisoner at Chapin Farm and sent
first to Libby. Prison, afterwards to Ander-
sonville, where he died and was buried with
the others who shared his terrible fate.
Though a young man, he offered all that he
had, his life, upon the altars of his country,
and his memory will be perpetuated in the
hearts of his fellow-citizens as one who died
for what he believed to be the right; it is of
such stuff that heroes are made. He married
Sarah Falconer, daughter of Cyrus Falconer ;
she was born at Randolph, in 1843.
(XVII) Charles Edward (2), son of
Charles Edward (1) and Sarah (Falconer)

Fisk, was born at Ellington, Chautauqua
county, New York, February 21, 1863. He
spent the first seven years of his life on the
old farm, when the family removed to a farm
two and a half miles north of Fluvanna, New
York; they remained at this place until a
later move was made to the town of Gerry.
Charles Edward's education being conducted
in the primary schools and the Academy of
Ellington. Upon leaving school he entered
the employ of the Strong Veneer Company at
Gerry, and by the intelligent performance of
his duties and the interest which he took in
his work, rose rapidly in the business, and
prospering, built himself a comfortable resi
dence in the town where he remained for over
twelve years. In the year 1897 he assisted
in' founding the Jamestown Veneer Works, in
which he later became a partner in company
with Nathan M. Willson, George B. Peter
son, and A. J. Thayer, and of which he is
now the manager. This business represents
to-day one of the chief industries of the city
of Jamestown; the plant is located on Steel
street, the firm occupying a building of three
floors and containing a space of 225x65 feet;
fifty persons are employed, including the
members of the firm ; Griffith & Cadwell, who
were interested in the beginning of the con
cern, as early as 1895, sold out their interest
entirely to Messrs. Peterson, Thayer & Pratt,
who also retired later from the business. All
of the members of the firm are eminently
practical men, giving their entire time and
attention to the work. Messrs. Peterson and
Willson were both born in Jamestown, while
Mr. Thayer is a native of Brocton. The busi
ness of the firm is the manufacture of every
variety of veneer from the plain to the beau
tiful, bird's-eye blister and curl maple, plain
and fancy birch, oak, ash, and other native
woods. The work of cutting the wood into
strips almost as thin as paper, and of any
length, is most interesting. The firm's trade
embraces all the first-class furniture makers
in the country, and has a very large follow
ing among the manufacturers of Jamestown,
being one of the standard commercial institu
tions of the city.
Mr. Fisk has been a resident of Jamestown
since 1901, residing since the year 1905 at
JNo. 82 Barrett avenue, which he then pur
chased and which is one of the most modern
and convenient homes in the city. He occu
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ity, and is a leading man in all public affairs ;
in politics he is an adherent of the Republi
can party, and belongs to the organization of
the Sons of Veterans. He and his family also
are members of the Seventh Adventist church,
Mrs. Fisk taking a very active interest in
church affairs.
Mrs. Fisk, to whom Mr. Fisk was married
at Gerry, New York, September 30, 1886, was
a Miss Minnie Waite, daughter of Ephraim
and Lovilla (Starr) Waite, born April 27,
1866, and a most delightful and capable
woman ; they have one daughter, Mabel Cleo,
born at Gerry, New York, June 22, 1888, and
now married to Mr. Ralph G. Sage, residing
in Jamestown, New York.

(Ill) William Armour, son of
WILSON Alexander (2) (q. v.) and
Eunice (Seeley) Wilson, was
born in the town of Ballston, Saratoga county,
New York, April 21, 1808. He settled with
his father in the town of Wilson, Niagara
county, New York, at an early date in the
history of that town, which was named after
Reuben Wilson, the original settler, but of
another branch of the Wilson family. Will
iam A. Wilson was a farmer, and a promin
ent member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He was a Democrat in politics, and
a man of high standing in his community.
He married (first) in 1840, Almira Tappan,
who died in 1861. He married (second)
Mary Sinsel, of Niagara county. Children
by first wife: 1. George E. 2. Juliet, mar
ried John Hill. 3. John S. 4. William T.
5. Charles A., of whom further. 6. Ruth
Almira, married George Campbell. 7. Ste
phen, died in infancy. 8. Stephen. Children
of second marriage: 9. Benjamin F. 10.
Eleanor, married William Capen. 11. Frank.
12. Walter. 13. Henry. .14. Luther. 15.
George. (IV) Charles A., son of William Armour
and Almira (Tappan) Wilson, was born in
Wilson, Niagara county, New York, August
1, 1849/ He obtained his education in the
Lockport schools, and after completing his
studies returned home and assisted his father
in the cultivation of his farm. After a few
years he purchased a farm of his own and
since that time has devoted all his energies
to general farming and fruit growing. He
now owns two farms, the one on which he
resides consists of one hundred and seventy-

five acres, and is situated in the town of Wil
son, about fifteen miles from Lockport. It is
well furnished with suitable buildings and
stocked with improved breeds of cattle and
horses. His orchards are mostly apple and
peach trees in full bearing and very produc
tive. In politics he is a Democrat, and has
served in important capacities. In religion
he is a Methodist, belonging to the First Meth
odist church, of which he is a trustee. He
is a man of high principle, and universally
respected in his community. He is interested
in matters genealogical, and is vice-president
of the Wilson Association of Niagara county.
Mr. Wilson married (first) December 8,
1875, Frances E. Reed, born October 18, 185 1,
died April 13, 1895, daughter of Orson Reed,
of Somerset Corners, Niagara county. He
married (second) November 1, 1895, Eliz
abeth Rehring, born February 21, 1877. Chil
dren by first marriage: 1. Lelia E., born
September 4, 1876; married' Andrew Steers,
of New York City. 2. Orson Floyd, born
June 29, 1887; educated in Niagara Falls
Academy and Wilson University; now his
father's assistant. Children by second mar
riage: 3. Hazel Ruth, born August 1, 1896.
4. William Alexander, born January 3, 1898.
5. Myrtle L., born September 25, 1899, died
September 19, 1900. 6. Garnett M., born
January 15, 1902. 7. Harold Seymour, born
July 7, 1905.

This is an old English family
THORN of high standing. The name
has been an honored one in
England for centuries. Robert Thorn, 161 5,
was mayor of Bristol, and in 1523 represented
his borough in parliament. He is buried in
Temple Church, London, where a monument
stood, bearing in part the following: "By
will devised certain property for the erection,
foundation, continuance and supportation of
a free school of grammar to be established
in Bristol." He left two sons, Robert and
Nicholas. Robert (2) was a man of great
wealth and on terms of intimacy with the most
scientific seamen and geographers of his day.
To advance the interest of science he advanced
one-seventh of the cost of fitting Cabot for
his famous expedition to the Rio de la Plata
in 1526. On his coat-of-arms is a Latin dis
tich to this effect : "I am called a thorn. The
glory be given to God who giveth the good
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(I) This branch of the family descends
from Thomas Thorn, who came to the United
States with his wife and three sons.
(II) Stephen, son of Thomas Thorn, was
born May 2, 1802, in Brenchly, county Kent,
England, died August 16, 1878. He came to
the United States with the family and set
tled in Utica, New York. He was extensively
engaged in business in that city and also was
engaged in the oil business. He married, in
Albany, New York, November 16, 1825,
Mary Ann Bennett, born August 21, 1807,
in the Bermuda Islands, West Indies, died
January 11, 1875, daughter of Joseph Ben
nett, of Albany, New York. Children : An
infant,- born and died August 8, 1826; Ste
phen Springate, born September 7, 1827;
James Edward, June 10, 1829; Samuel Sprin
gate, September 22, 183 1 ; William Bennett,
July 14, 1833; Ann Elizabeth, June 3, 1836;
Joseph Clifford, May 26, 1838, died March
8, 1839 ; Francis Shaw, of whom further ; Sa
rah E., born February 3, 1844, died Novem
ber 28, 1856.
(Ill) Francis Shaw, sixth son of Stephen
and Mary Ann (Bennett) Thorn, was born
July 26, 1841, in Utica, New York. He spent
his life engaged in mercantile pursuits, and
is now living retired in Buffalo with his son-
in-law, Dr. Charles Van Bergen. He mar
ried, January 25, 1869, Georgianna, born Oc
tober 24, 1846, died July 31, 1896, daughter
of- George Piatt and Mary Ann (Thayer)
Stevenson, of Buffalo, New York. Children:
1. Amelia Louise, married Dr. Charles Van.
Bergen. 2. Georgianna, born September 25,
1876; married (first) James B. Fenton, Octo
ber 3, 1900; child, George Stevenson Fenton,
born December 19, 1901 ; she married (sec
ond) December 31, 1910, Richard L. Wood.

The surname Taylor is an an-
TAYLOR cient family name in England,
and is derived from an occu
pation or trade, like Smith, Mason, Carpen
ter, etc. The name is also found in Ireland
quite frequently. A branch of the family set
tled in the north of Ireland at the time of the
grants to the Scotch and English Protestants,
from whom the hardy, virile Scotch-Irish race
descend. Many Taylors landed in New England
in the seventeenth century, and families
were founded in every colony prior to 1700.
Several branches of the family settled in Con

necticut, and many of the earlier families are
also found in New Hampshire.
The English Taylors, some of whose de
scendants now live in Westfield, New York,
were of Norman stock. The name is a cor
ruption of Taliaferro, and came to England
with William the Conqueror.
(I) The first one in America was John
Taylor, who came from Haverhill, Suffolk-
shire, England, with Governor Winthrop,
June 12, 1636. His first wife died, also their
child. He married (second) a widow with
two or more daughters. He moved to Wind
sor, Connecticut, in August, 1639. In Janu
ary, 1646, leaving two sons, he, together with
other prominent men, sailed for England, sent
by the colony to endeavor to secure for Con
necticut as good a charter as that held by the
Massachusetts colony. The ship was never
more . heard from, but is famous in poetry
and prose as "The Phantom Ship." His
widow married a Mr. Hoyt, and accompanied
by her youngest son, they moved to Norwalk,
Connecticut. The sons of John and Rhoda
Taylor were : John, ¦ born 1641 ; settled in
Northampton, Massachusetts, was captain of
a troop of horse and was killed by the In
dians at Northampton in 1704, leaving a large
family. Thomas, see forward.
(II) Thomas, youngest son of John and
Rhoda Taylor, was born in 1643. He settled
at Norwalk, Connecticut. He married, Feb
ruary 14, 1668, Rebecca, daughter of Edward
Ketcham, and moved to Danbury, Connecticut,
one of the first settlers, and his death occurred
there, January 17, 1735. Children: 1.
Thomas, born November 26, 1668; ancestor of
Presidents Seelye, of Amherst and Smith col
leges. 2. Deborah, born June, 1671 ; married
Daniel Betts. 3. Jephthah, born December,
J673- 4- John, twin of Jephthah. 5. Daniel,
born October, 1676; ancestor of Mrs. Noah
Porter. 6. Timothy, born 1678. 7. Nathan,
born February 7, 1682; ancestor of P. T.
Barnum, the celebrated showman. 8. Re
becca, born 1684; married Daniel Benedict.
9. Theophilus, see forward. 10. Eunice, born
1689; married Lieutenant Benjamin Starr.
(Ill) Theophilus, youngest son of Thomas
and Rebecca (Ketcham) Taylor, was born in
1687, died at Danbury, Connecticut, at the
age of ninety years. He married (first) 
Benedict, who bore him two children. He
married (second) Sarah Gregory. Children:
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Sarah, married Abraham Andrews; Benja
min, see forward; Rebecca, married Robert
Andrews. (IV) Benjamin, son of Theophilus and Sa
rah (Gregory) Taylor, married Rebecca Dib
ble. Children: Timothy, born August 13,
1753; colonel in the revolutionary war; Theo
philus, see forward; Rebecca, married Seth
Hall; Elizabeth.
(V) Theophilus (2), son of Benjamin and
Rebecca (Dibble) Taylor, was born in Con
necticut, January 28, 1760, died November
24, 1 83 1, at Murray, Orleans county, New
York, whence he removed from New Fair
field, Connecticut, in 18 17. He was a farmer
by occupation. He married Azubah, daughter
of Jonathan and Sarah (Ward) Hoyt; she
died April 16, 1830. Children: Benjamin
Dibble, born October 19, 1786; Lucy, May 23,
1789; Jonathan Hoyt, see forward; Sarah,
June 26, 1797.
(VI) Jonathan Hoyt, son of Theophilus
(2) and Azubah (Hoyt) Taylor, was born
in New Fairfield, Connecticut, March 7,
1792, died in Westfield, New York, April 28,
1846. He served with the state militia at
New London, Connecticut, during the block
ade of that port by the British in 1814, hold
ing a commission as lieutenant from Governor
John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut. He
moved to Murray, Orleans county, New York,
in 1817, thence to Westfield, New York, in
1832, where he erected the first foundry built .
in the town, and manufactured the first cook
ing stoves made in that section. He was an
elder of the Presbyterian church, oi which
his wife was also a member. He married
(first) November 28, 181 1, Lucy, daughter
of Benjamin Bearss, now spelled Beers. She
died January 9, 1815, leaving two daughters:
Mary (Polly), born October 30, 1812; mar
ried Dr. S. G. Peck, died September, 1879;
Lucy B., born November 23, 1814; mar
ried Henry Howard, who died August 7,
1871. He married (second) October 11, 1815,
Polly Hendrick, of New Fairfield, Connecti
cut, who died in Westfield, New York, i860,
aged sixty-six years. Children of second
wife: Sarah, born December 1, 1817, mar
ried Thomas Macomber, died January 13,
1864; David Hendrick, see forward.
(VII) David Hendrick, only son of Jona
than Hoyt and Polly (Hendrick) Taylor, was
born in Murray, Orleans county, New York,
September 4, 1822, died in Westfield, Chau

tauqua county, New York, May 11, 1895. His
parents resided in Murray until 1832, then
moved to Chautauqua county, where David
H. was educated in the public school and at
Westfield Academy. On arriving at manhood
he engaged in mercantile pursuits, later was
purser on a- steamboat navigating the Great
Lakes. In i860 he began farming operations,
his farm of fifty acres near the village of
Westfield being devoted exclusively to the cul
ture of grapes. He used the best and latest
methods in caring for his vineyard and reaped
abundant returns. He also engaged exten
sively and very successfully in oil production
in the Pennsylvania fields. His residence was
always in the village of Westfield, where he
was held in high esteem as an honorable, sub
stantial, enterprising and liberal minded
citizen. He married, November 22, 1852, in West-
field, New York, Harriet Phidelia Campbell,
born in Westfield, November 22, 1833, daugh
ter of Judge Thomas Burns Campbell (see
Campbell III). Children, born in Westfield:
1. Mary, married Dr. Charles G. Stockton,
of Buffalo, New York ; children : Harriet,
married Maulsby Kimball, of Buffalo, and
has three children : Stockton, Maulsby Jr.,
Emily; Mary, died unmarried, aged twenty-
two years; Lucy; Dorothy. 2. Kate, died in
infancy. 3. Fanny, died unmarried, aged
twenty-two years. 4. Annie, married Henry
W. Harter, of Canton, Ohio ; children : Henry
W. Jr. ; David Taylor, died in infancy ; Stock
ton. 5. Thomas Burns Campbell, married
Charlotte Flower, of St. Lawrence county,
New York; child, Thomas Campbell.
(The Campbell Line).
This is a name famous in Scotch history
and one that has contributed in no small man
ner to the honor and glory of America. It
is widely and creditably known throughout
the United States and was well represented
in New Hampshire, from which state the fam
ily herein recorded first settled. Sir John
Campbell, as Duke of Argyle, assisted at the
coronation of James the First, of Scotland.
He was an officer of William, Prince of Or
ange, in 1690, and participated in the battle
of Boyne Water, in the north of Ireland. He
later settled in Londonderry, Ireland, where
he married and became the head of a family
of seven.
(I) Thomas Campbell, undoubtedly a de
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gyle, .was a^ scholar of note, a graduate of
Glasgow University, Scotland, fie removed
from Argyleshire, Scotland to America, and
was one of the early settlers of Londonderry,
New Hampshire, and there married Jane Da
vidson, who bore him three sons : John, Na
thaniel, Hugh, see forward.
(II) Hugh, son of Thomas and Jane
(Davidson) Campbell, was born in London
derry, New Hampshire, about 1750, died in
Scipio, New York, in 1810. He served in
the revolutionary war from New Hampshire
and received a disability that prevented his
doing manual labor of a severe nature. He
learned the trade of tailor after the war and
followed that as a business. He settled in
Cherry Valley, New York, about the year
1800, from whence he removed to Scipio. He
married Mary Smith, of New Hampshire,
whose parents came from Scotland and set
tled at Londonderry, New Hampshire, where
a large number of Scotch-Irish families set
tled when conditions in the north of Ireland
became unbearable.
(Ill) Judge Thomas Burns Campbell, son
of Hugh and Mary (Smith) Campbell, was
born in Alexander, Grafton county, New
Hampshire, May 19, 1788, died in Westfield,
New York, March 4, 1885, lacking only three
years of completing a century. He was
twelve years of age when the family moved
to Cherry Valley, New York, and had just
reached his majority when his father died. In
181 5 Thomas B. Campbell purchased a mill
a few miles west of the village of Batavia,
Genesee county, New York, which he oper
ated until 181 7, then moved to Westfield (then
Portland), Chautauqua county. He erected
a saw and grist mill there, which he op
erated, also a distillery, and the present
Campbell homestead on the old Por
tage road. Here his daughter Harriet
was born, here her children were born and
here her life has been passed. He purchased
other lands in the vicinity, including a farm
of three hundred and sixty acres in the south
part of the village, which he sold for the fair
grounds. He carried on general farming with
his milling and distilling, marketing his pro
ducts in New York and other cities. He was
far seeing, energetic, possessed of sound
judgment and prospered abundantly. While
a resident of Batavia he held the office of
justice of the peace, and filled the same office
in Westfield. In 1819 he was appointed clerk

of Chautauqua county ; in 1826 associate
judge, and in 1845 nrst judge, holding until
the election of judges under the constitution
of 1846. He was elected to the state legis
lature in 1822 and again in 1836. He was
supervisor eight years, serving first in 1819
when the town was yet Portland. He was
a member of the commission that erected the
first court house, and was prominent in all
public affairs of his county, fie was a staunch
Democrat and held all his offices through that
party. He was originally a member of the
Presbyterian church, but in later years joined
St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Westfield;
was a vestryman and gave freely of his time
and means to the upbuilding of this church
and congregation. He joined the Masonic
order at the age of twenty-one years and was
both active and prominent in that fraternity.
He was buried by his brethren with the sol
emn and impressive ceremony of the Masonic
ritual. Judge Campbell married, in Scipio, New
York, in 1814, Phidelia Terry, born in Ge
noa, New York, died in Westfield, New York,
November 5, 1853, daughter of Gamaliel
Terry, who was a soldier in the revolutionary
war; his widow, Susanna (Moore) Terry,
drew a pension of $2,000; her father, Roger
Moore, was also a soldier in the revolution
ary war, was taken prisoner and sent to Eng
land with Ethan Allen; his wife was a Miss
Spencer, daughter of Judge Ambrose Spen
cer. Children of Judge Campbell: 1. Ma
ria Louisa, died unmarried, aged twenty-seven
years. 2. Robert Emmett. 3. Thomas B.,
died at the age of nineteen. 4. Mary, died
at the age of eleven years. 5. Harriet Phi
delia, born on the old homestead in West-
field, which is yet her residence ; she married
David Hendrick Taylor, whom she survives
(see Taylor VII).

This family can be definitely
WRIGHT traced in England for four gen
erations prior to the immigra
tion to America of Thomas Wright, who came
hither some time before the year 1640. In
old England, when family names were first
assumed, he who wrought metals was called
Smith, and he who wrought in wood was
called Wright, hence both are classed with
our English patronymics derived from occupa
tions. It cannot be claimed that the Wrights,
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descended from a common ancestor, however
remote may have been his origin, but it may
be assumed that, wherever the surname
Wright is found, the ancestor of him who
bears it was in the remotest generations an
artificer or worker in wood. In New Eng
land there are several distinct families of the
surname Wright who date from the early col
onial period, but they are not supposed to
be of one kin.
(I) John Wright, born in England, pur
chased the Manor of Kelvedon Hall, at Kelve-
don, county Essex, in 1538, and there resided
until his death, in 1551. He is buried in
Kelvedon Hatch churchyard. The christian
name of his wife was Olive; she died in 1560.
Children: 1. John, of Kelvedon Hall, married
Joane. 2. Robert, mentioned below. 3. John,
of Wright's Bridge, married Alice Wood. 4.
John, of Wealdside, married Joan Page. 5.
Katherine. 6. Alice. 7. Elizabeth.
(II) Robert, son of John and Olive Wright,
died in 1587. He lived in Brook Hall (called
the Moat fiouse), of Brook street, in South
Weald, and is buried in the churchyard of that
place. He married Mary Green. Children :
John, died unmarried; Olive, married Rich
ard Thresher; Katherine, married William
Kent; Dorothy, married John Hatch; Robert,
baptized June 30, 1542; Thomas, mentioned
below. (Ill) Thomas, youngest child of Robert and
Mary (Green) Wright, lived in Brook Hall,
in South Weald. He married Roberdye Pake.
Children : John, mentioned below ; Robert,
married Ann  -. William, baptized Oc
tober, 22 1578; Matthew; Mary, baptized
March 20, 1568; Olive, baptized February 28,
1569; Joane, baptized January 1, 1571 ; Thom-
azine. (IV) John (2), son of Thomas and Rober
dye (Pake) Wright, was a native of England,
and lived on the old family homestead, Brook
Hall. He- married Grace, daughter of Henry
and Grace Glasscock, of High Easter. Two
sons, Anthony and Thomas, immigrated to
Wethersfield, Connecticut, prior to 1640. Chil
dren: John, married Anne Pigott; Martha,
married Robert St. Hill; Anthony, baptized
January 23, 1608; Robert, baptized June 16,
1609; Thomas, mentioned below; Grace, bap
tized in February, 161 2; Anne, married John
Drayton; Ignatius, baptized in April, 1621,
died in 1623.
(V) Thomas (2), son of John (2) and

Grace (Glasscock) Wright, was born in Eng
land, November 19, 1610, and died at Weth
ersfield, Connecticut, in 1670. He was the
original immigrant of this branch of the fam
ily to America. "Stiles' Ancient Wethers
field," vol. I, page 317, states that: "Thomas
Wright, the settler, came from Watertown be
fore 1639. He had one homestead, three and
a half acres, west side of High street, on which
his house was built, probably before 1639;
Robert Abbott, north, and Samuel Clark,
south. Another homestead received 1654, a
house, barn and five acres of land, bought of
Samuel Hale, on west side of Back street, be
tween Luke Hitchcock, north, and land be
longing to Matthew Griswold, south. He
bought the Richard Belden lot of twenty and
a half acres in Westfield in 1654. He became
by purchase the owner of a large part of the
Great Island, thereafter known as "Wright's
Island" and 'which he mostly gave to his sons,
Thomas and James, who bought other parcels
of the Island. Thomas had the north part
and James the south part." Vol. II, page 851,
of the same work, states: "Thomas Wright
came first probably to Watertown, Massachu
setts. Was of the Massachusetts court of as
sistants before the colonial government was
established in Boston, and removed to Weth
ersfield, probably about 1639. He was recog
nized as a man of influence and high standing.
A house lot of three acres is recorded to him
in Wethersfield, December 11, 1640, but his
principal estate was an island in the river
called by the Indians 'Mannahannock' (Great
Laughing Place) ; the Indians used to meet
there and have games and wrestling, part of
which ever since and is now owned by his
lineal descendants."
Thomas Wright was a deputy to the general
court of Connecticut in 1643, selectman in
1658, and later commissioner on town lines.
He was made freeman May 11, 1654, was con
stable in 1668-9, and on the court jury at
Hartford during the latter year, fie also
seems to have had prominence in the church
fight which resulted in a number of the mem
bers removing to Hadley. He brought with
him from England a wife, name unknown, and
five children. The wife died, time and place
unknown, and he married, May 2, 1647, Mar
garet, widow of John Elsen, who had been
killed by Indians in the Wethersfield massacre
of 1637. Before her marriage to Elsen she
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whom she had three children — Ben, Job and
John. She died 1670-71 without issue by
Wright. Her will, dated January 19, 1670,
mentions her grandson William, son of Job
Hillier, deceased; Margaret Woustan and
Sarah Holamouth, daughters of her son, Ben
jamin Hillier, and the wife of her son Thomas
Wright. Children of Thomas Wright by first
wife : James ; Joseph, mentioned below ; Thom
as, Samuel, Lydia.
(VI) Joseph, son of Thomas (2) Wright
by his first wife, was born about 1639, and
died December 17, 1714, at the age of seventy-
five years. He married (first) December 10,
1663, Mary Stoddard, who died August 23,
1683, and (second) Mercy, Mary's sister. Chil
dren of Joseph and Mary (baptismal dates) :
1. Mary, April 15, 1665; married a Mr. Gris
wold. 2. Elizabeth, November 18, 1667; mar
ried John Curtis. 3. Joseph, February 14,
1669; married Mary Dudley, of Guilford. 5.
Thomas, January 19, 1676; married (first)
Prudence Deming, (second) Abigail Church
ill. 6. John, May 19, 1679; married Mercy
Boardman. 7. Jonathan, mentioned below.
Children of Joseph and Mercy: 1. Benjamin,.
December, 1686; married Hannah Holmes. 2.
Nathaniel, October 16, 1688; married Ann
Deming. (VII) Jonathan, son of Joseph and Mary
(Stoddard) Wright, was baptized June 18,
1681, and died about 1770. The only record
of importance concerning him to be found is
a will dated March 29, 1740, in which he dis
poses of his real and personal property to his
family and relatives. He married Hannah
Rand, or Hand, of Guilford, Connecticut,
March 26, 1706. Children: 1. Abigail, may
have died young. 2. Jonathan, born February
17, 1709, died March 31, 1712. 3. Judah, men
tioned below. 4. Jane, horn January 13, 1713;
married James Tryon, June 17, 1735. 5. Jo
siah, born September 19, 1714, died February
22, 1799. 6. Thankful, born June 2, 1716;
married Nathan Judd, February 3, 1743. 7.
Anne. 8. Elizabeth. 9. Mary.
(VIII) Judah, son of Jonathan and Hannah
Wright, was born June 7, 1710, and died
probably in 1782. His first marriage was to
Mary Judd, of Farmington, who was the
mother of all his children. His second wife
was Zurvieh (Loveland) Crowfoot. He lived
where his son Reuben built north of Halfway
Hill, New Britain. In 1752 he bought of
Thomas Stanley, at Halfway, a piece of land

of eight acres, called the Flag Swamp, which
lay southwest of the house. In 1762 he sold
to John Lusk, for ninety-four pounds, his
house, barn and home lot of seventeen acres ;
lying in Farmington. In 1772 his taxable es
tate was thirty pounds and fifteen shillings.
His trade was that of carpenter and joiner.
Inventory of estate January 1, 1783, was
thirty-seven pounds. Children : Daniel (or
David), killed in old French war; Amos;
Simeon; Joseph, born October 11, 1741 ; Lois,
September 17, 1744; Reuben, mentioned be
low; Ashael.
(IX) Reuben, son of Judah and Mary
(Judd) Wright, was born at New Britain,
Connecticut, in 1748, and died April 17, 1841.
He was a wheelwright, and built a home with
workshop adjoining on the Farmington road.
He served in the revolutionary war, enlisting
in 1780 in the Seventh regiment, Connecticut
militia. He was highly esteemed in his com
munity, and as a skilled workman was con
stantly in demand. In 1803 he removed to
Redfield, Oneida county, New York. There
he built and operated saw mills, continuing in
the lumber business until 181 7. He was very
successful and accumulated a modest fortune.
In the last named year he disposed of his
Oneida county interests and settled in the town
of Westfield, Chautauqua county, where he in
vested his money in lands for the benefit of his
two sons, James and Martin. He was a man
of unusual mental ability for his day and of
most powerful physique. He stood over six
feet and was large in proportion. He mar
ried, March 12, 1780, Martha Gridley, born
April 10, 1756; she survived him only three
months, never having recovered from the
shock of his death. She was a daughter of
Ebenezer Gridley, of Kensington and Farm
ington Plains, Connecticut, and his wife,
Zubah Orvice. Children: 1. Gad, born Sep
tember 30, 1780, died in Virginia, unmarried.
2. Martin, born September 5, 1782; married
Mary Tryon, February 22, 1812, and died Sep
tember 23, 1865. 3- Reuben, mentioned be
low. 4. Hannah, born January 23, baptized
July 7, 1787; married Henry Brooks, January
25, 1807. 5- James, born October 25, 1791,
baptized July 7, 1793; married Julia Strong,
January 16, 1823, and died May 12, 1864. 6.-
Mary, born February 13, 1794, baptized April
6, 1794; married James Bacon, April 28, 1819,
and died July 20, 1864. 7. Nancy, born April
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August 22, 1839. 8. John, born November 4,
1798, died in 1879, at Prairie Center, Kansas.
(X) Reuben (2), son of Reuben (1) and
Martha (Gridley) Wright, was born in New
Britain, November 17, 1784. He died in West-
field, October 13, 1847. He was baptized July
17, 1793. He accompanied his father to Red-
field, New York, in 1803, and in 1812, after
some correspondence with Colonel Austin, of
Austinburg, Ohio, who was anxious to have
him come to Ohio and build and operate a
carding and cloth-dressing factory, he started
west with an ox team and all his possessions
in a covered wagon. Winter overtaking him
at Batavia, New York, he was obliged to stop
there until spring. At Batavia his first child
was born. The journey was resumed as early
in the spring as was practicable. In Ohio the
country was new and the life difficult. Many
hardships were endured, the wife cooking by
a stump while he was building a cabin which
was minus a floor and chimney for some time,
as he was anxious to get his factory in condi
tion for work by the time the wool should be
ready for carding. Both worked heroically,
but he began to feel the effects of the malarial
climate, and in the spring of 181 7 they decided
to go to Westfield, where his two brothers,
James and Martin, had settled while he was
in Austinburg. Here he took up the same
business, building his factory and his house
on the creek flat, just above where the Rorig
bridge now stands. The house is still (1912)
standing, and is, of the two there now, the one
farthest south. In this house Charlotte, Reu
ben and Martha were born. In 1826 his
health began to fail, he having had three se
vere attacks of pleurisy in three successive
winters, induced by the high temperature of
the carding room, and he was advised to
change his occupation. In the spring of 1827
he sold his mill to Norton, of Fredonia, New
York, taking obligations which he traded for
a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one
mile east of the village, now owned by heirs
of J. O. Guild. He afterwards added seventy-
five acres to the first purchase. About 1840
his health utterly failed, and although he lived
several years longer he was a great sufferer.
He is buried in Westfield.
He married, March 10, 181 1, Betsey Sey
mour, born April 13, 1787, died in 1880. Chil
dren: 1. Betsey Maria, born February 18,
1813, died March 13, 1814. 2. Allyn Seymour,
born April 14, 1814; married Emily Persons,

and died in 1887. 3. Betsey Maria (2), born
February 28, 1817; married Thomas Knight,
March 19, 1836, and died in 1901. 4. Char
lotte, born December 10, 1820; married Reu
ben Bradley, and she died at Lesueur, Minne
sota. 5. Reuben Gridley, mentioned below.
6. Martha Milla, born February 8, 1826; mar
ried a Mr. Warren. 7. Franklin Martin, born
March 20, 1834; married Elizabeth Royce in
1864. (XI) Reuben Gridley, fifth child of Reu
ben (2) and Betsey (Seymour) Wright, was
born at Westfield, New York, July 1, 1824,.
and died there January 12, 1906. He received
a public school education at Westfield, and
later attended the Westfield Academy. After
leaving school he secured a position as clerk
in a grocery store belonging to Hungerford &
Knight. When gold was discovered in Cali
fornia in 1849, he organized a company of ten
and on May 28 that year left for the gold fields.
The company journeyed by stage to Pitts
burg, from there by boat down the Ohio river,
and up the Missouri to Council Bluffs, thence
striking across the country by mule team.
After a long, hard, perilous journey, which
only farmer boys and mules could endure,
they reached California in safety, and it is a
matter of record that theirs was the 'only party
that crossed that year without loss of man or
animal. The gold fever was strong in the
blood of all of them, and they immediately
turned their attention to mining. After three
years of this, with but indifferent success, Mr.
Wright began to supply the town in which he
lived, which stood on the site now occupied
by the city of Sacramento, with water. The
business grew to some magnitude and proved
to be profitable. 'However, in 1855, deciding
to return home, he sold out his business and
started for Westfield, New York, where he
arrived New Year's Day, 1856. His Califor
nia venture had been successful, and he was
now possessed of what for those times was
looked upon as considerable capital. After a
short period of inactivity he was drawn into
the lumber business in Clarion county, Penn
sylvania. He continued actively in this busi
ness until 1866, when he sold out at consid
erable profit all of his timber and mill proper
ties and returned to Westfield, New York,
which thereafter he considered his home. For
the next few years he devoted most of his
time to the location and purchase of Michigan
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were sold almost at once, and some of which
were held for a long time. In 1870 he married
and confined his active business interests to
the operation of farm properties, of which he
owned more or less from that time until his
death. He was a man of strong physique,
strong character and strong convictions, and
had the respect and confidence of all who
knew him. He was a staunch and active Re
publican but had no office-holding ambitions,
the only nomination which he ever accepted
being the purely honorary one of presidential
elector, fie lived to the age of eighty-one
years, and up to his last illness was possessed
of unusual activity, both mental and physical.
Although not a member, he regularly attended
the Presbyterian church and served for many
years as one of its trustees.
He married, June 22, 1870, Emma Cora,
daughter of Elisha C. Pierce, born November
26, 1840, in Victor, New York. (See Pierce).
She survives her honored husband, and resides
at Westfield, in 1912. Her usual signature
is Cora Pierce Wright. Children : Paul Darl
ing, Ralph Glenn, and Ross Pier, all of whom
are mentioned below.
(XII) Paul Darling, son of Reuben G. and
Cora (Pierce) Wright, was born at West-
field, New York, March 9, 1872. He re
sides (1912) at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he
is president of the Reed Manufacturing Com
pany. He has been twice married. April
30, 1 90 1, he married Lillian Gillen, who died
August 4, 1905. July 16, 1908, he married
Charlotte Augusta Mehl, who was born Jan
uary 23, 187—. Children of Paul and Lillian :
Campbell, born March 23, 1903; and Reuben
Gridley, born February 8, 1905.
(XII) Ralph Glenn, second son of Reuben
G. and Cora (Pierce) Wright, was born Feb
ruary 20, 1873. He is vice-president of the
Reed Manufacturing Company, at Erie, Penn
sylvania, and is sole proprietor of the firm of
R. G. Wright & Co., of Buffalo, New York,
where he maintains his home, fie is unmar
ried, in 1912.
(XII) Ross Pier, youngest son of Reuben
G. and Cora (Pierce) Wright, was born at
Westfield, New York, August 22, 1874. He
is associated with his brothers in the owner
ship and management of the Reed Manufac
turing Company, at Erie, Pennsylvania, and
is secretary and treasurer of that concern.
June 19, 1903, he married Mabel Eliza Wood
ward, who was born May 5, 1879, a"d they

reside at Erie. Children : Theron Woodward,
born August 2, 1905 ; Allyn Seymour, born
December 26, 1907; and Robert Pier, born
September 4, 1909.
(The Pierce Line).
There is a tradition extant in this family
that the earliest settler in America was named
John, and that he came hither about 1660
from Wales. In the proceedings of the town
meeting held in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
July 5, 1666, is the following record: "John
Pearce, admitted this day a free inhabitant
of this town." (The name was subsequently
changed by some of the lineal descendants of
John to "Pierce," the early spelling having
been "Pearce.") John Pearce may have been
one of the Baptist congregation of John Myles,
of Swansea, Wales, these people having come
from Wales to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in
1666-67, as a result of religious persecution.
In his testimony given May 7, 1673, as to the
death of Mrs. Rebecca Cornell, he calls him
self forty-one years of age, therefore he was
born in 1632. His trade was that of a mason,
but he was not identified by that designation
Until John Pearce, son of Richard, had come
of age, in 1668. Therefore there were two
of the name "John Pearce," inhabitants of the
town. The following public records have been
found concerning him. April 14, 1668, John
Pearce (Mason) bought a dwelling house and
thirty-eight acres of land of William Corry
(Corey). September 29, 1668, John Pearce
(Mason) took a lease of William Corey of
sixty-eight acres for a period of seven years.
May 4, 1675, John Pearce (mason) was made
a freeman of the colony, from Portsmouth.
October 31, 1677, John Pearce (mason) was
included by the general assembly in the list of
grantees of the lands at East Greenwich. June
12, 1678, John Pearce (mason) was allowed
by the general assembly to dispose of his East
Greenwich rights to Henry Matthewson.
March 16. 1685, John Pearce (mason) and
John Pearce, probably his eldest son, drawn
on jury of "Tryalls" at Newport. After John
Pearce, son of Richard, went to Pocasset or
Tiverton, about 1683, John Pearce (mason)
seems to have been styled John Pearce Sr.
March 5, 1686, John Pearce Sr., a member of
a coroner's inquest held at the house of James
Sweet Jr., on Prudence Island. February 23,
1691, Major John Green deeds land in Natick
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ence Island." August 20, 1691, John Pearce
and Mary, his wife, deed this land to their
loving son Daniel. John Pearce Sr. made his
will September 23, 1689, and it was proved
in Portsmouth, April 26, 1692. In this will
he styles himself John Pearce Sr., of Prud
ence Island, makes his wife Mary sole execu
trix and residuary legatee, after dividing small
legacies between his three children — John
Pearce Jr., Daniel Pearce, and Mary, wife of
Robert Hill. The widow Mary Pearce made
her will September 17, 171 1, and the same was
proved October 15, I711. She left first "forty
shillings to the poor brethren of the Church
of Christ to whom I doe belong." The re
mainder she divided amongst her three chil
dren, John Pearce, Daniel Pearce and Mary
Sweet. Children of John Pearce ( mason ( and
his wife, as far as known : 1 . John, born about
1658; married Martha Brayton. 2. Daniel,
mentioned below. 3. Mary, born about 1666;
married (first) Robert Hill, (second) James
Sweet. The father died about 1692, and his
wife Mary passed away in 171 1.
(II) Daniel, son of John and Mary Pearce,
was born about 1662, and there are reasons
for believing that he did not die until after
1744. Few family records can be found of
him, and the names of his children have been
recovered from deeds and other legal papers.
The records of his public services are quite
full and cover the period from 1694 to 1731.
He was made freeman of the town of Ports
mouth June 6, 1692. He resided in that place
up to 1720, and for the two years following
was more or less at Kingston, but took up a
permanent residence at North Kingstown in
the summer of 1723. In 1694-5-7 he was con
stable in Portsmouth; 1 698- 170 1-5- 10- 11 -20-
23-31, he was deputy to general assembly from
Portsmouth. In 1700, Daniel Pearce Sr., of
Prudence Island, bought of Benjamin and
Jonathan Viall and John Thomas, of Swan-
zey, seven hundred and sixty acres of land
at Aquidnesitt. In 1707-8-11-20 he was jus
tice of the peace in Portsmouth. In 1720 he
was grand juryman and deputy for Kingston.
In 1 72 1 he and his wife conveyed by deed of
gift to their two sons, Daniel Pearce Jr. and
John Pearce, of Portsmouth, in common, four
hundred acres of land at Aquidnesitt. July
8, 1722, Daniel Pearce, of Kingston, sold to
his son and daughter a mulatto man, by name
Ephraim Smith. March 17, 1723, Daniel
Pearce Jr. and wife Patience, and John Pearce

and wife Martha, sold to their honored father,
Daniel Pearce, of Kingston, four hundred
acres of land conveyed to them in 172 1. In
1724 Daniel Pearce was grand juryman and
overseer of the poor ' in North Kingstown.
August 11, 1724, Daniel Pearce, of North
Kingstown, executed a free deed of gift to
the town of land for a road from Fones Bridge
to the sea, for a drift way for public use.
March 16, 1726, Daniel Pearce, of North
Kingstown, and Elizabeth, sold lands to sons
Daniel and John, of Prudence Island. March
17, 1726, Daniel and John Pearce gave a bond
to their brothers, Nathan and William Pearce,
that they would give them a part of their
father's estate when they came of age. No
vember 12, 1736, Daniel Pearce, before the
town council of North Kingstown, agreed to
bring a certificate from Portsmouth concern
ing his daughter and her two children. (This
was his daughter Mary.) Daniel Pearce was
twice married, but the name of his first wife
is unknown. His second wife was Elizabeth
Tucker, of Prudence Island, and the marriage
occurred December 13, 1733. Children by first
wife: 1. Daniel Jr., mentioned below. 2.
Margaret, born about 1689; married (first)
Ephraim Smith, (second) Immanuel Clark.
3. John, born about 1691 ; married Martha
Sweet. 4. Mary, born about 1693 ; married
John Moss, in 171 5. Qiildren by second wife :
1. Benoni, born about 1704; married Sarah
Rhodes. 2. Nathan, born 1706; married Abi
gail Spink. 3. William, born about 1709.
(Ill) Daniel Pearce Jr., son of Daniel
Pearce Sr., by his first wife, was born about
1687, and died probably in 1758. He was
made a freeman of the town of Portsmouth,
June 6, 1715, and resided on Prudence Island.
In February, 1724, he was made a freeman
of the colony from Portsmouth. After 1737
he seems to have lived in North Kingstown.
In February, 1727, Daniel Pearce Jr. and Pa
tience, his wife, sold lands in North Kings
town to John Pearce, of Prudence Island.
About the same time he sold lands in North
Kingstown to Nathan Pearce for the sum
of one thousand pounds. In 1722-3 Daniel
Pearce Jr. was deputy to the general assem
bly for Portsmouth. August 30, 1737, he was
petit jouryman for Portsmouth. April 17,
1738, he deeded to his son, Daniel Pearce,
glazier, eighty acres of land in North
Kingstown. In January, 1739, he sold
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town, the same being bound easterly by
land of Daniel Pearce (3). June 26,
1744, Daniel Pearce Jr. and Nathaniel Pearce
assisted in taking inventory of estate of John
Pearce, of Prudence Island. In October, 1705,
Daniel Pearce Jr. married Patience Hill. Chil
dren: 1. Sarah, born March 6, 1710. 2.
Nathaniel, born January 20, 171 5; married
Meribah  . 3. Daniel, born October 22,
171 7; married Mary  . 4. Jonathan,
born April 6, 171 9. 5. Deliverance, born Sep
tember 20, 1720; married Elisha Tillinghast.
6. Thomas, born May 31, 1723; married Mar
tha Pearce (first cousin). 7. William, born
May 8, 1725; married Meribah Pearce
(Nathaniel's widow). 8. Patience, born No
vember 21, 1728; married a Mr. Wall. 9.
Ebenezer, mentioned below.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Daniel and Patience
(Hill) Pearce, was born February 17, 1731.
fie was a farmer and revolutionary soldier,
and is supposed to have spent his early life
at Prudence Island, Rhode Island. In the cen
sus of 1774 he had in his family at North
Kingstown, Rhode Island, one male and two
females over sixteen years of age, and two
females under sixteen. This would appear to
indicate himself, wife, twin boys, two daugh
ters, and perhaps his mother. In 1790 he had
in his family in Hancock, Massachusetts, three
males and one female over sixteen years of
age. This would indicate himself, wife, and
sons Daniel and Benjamin, the other three
children having married. He constructed
roads for the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and in 1 80 1 received some land in payment
for work ; for this land he also remitted a few
dollars. The land was mortgaged and in the
latter part of 1803 he sold it. Early in 1804
he removed with his sons to Fabius, New
York. He and his wife Elizabeth, whose last
name is not known, had five children : 1 .
Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Caleb, born Jan
uary 29, 1768 (twin of Daniel), married (first)
Zeviah Chase, (second) Lucy Wadsworth. 3.
Catherine, married Robert Ellis. 4. Phoebe,
married Eben Williams. 5. Benjamin, born
after 1774.
(V) Daniel Pierce, son of Ebenezer and
Elizabeth Pearce, was born at Prudence Is
land or North Kingstown, Rhode Island, Jan
uary 29, 1768, and died December 2, 1847. He
moved in his youth with his parents from
Rhode Island to Hancock, Massachusetts,
where he married. In the early part of 1804

his family, his brothers, and perhaps his par
ents and sisters, moved from Hancock to
Fabius, New York. His father seems to have
spelled the name either "Pearce" or "Pierce,"
but Daniel and his brother Caleb adopted the
spelling "Pierce." Daniel and Caleb were twin
brother. The climate at Fabius was malarial,
and Caleb removed to Rice, now Ischua, Cat
taraugus county, New York. Daniel was a
very active and robust man, quick tempered,
above medium height, a Democrat, very jolly
and fond of horses. He lived in the eastern
part of the town of Fabius until his death,
but was a helpless invalid for twenty years. .
He purchased a farm of ninety acres in the
vicinity of Fabius. It adjoined the estate of
his brother Caleb, was considered the best
farm in the town, and was fenced with cedar
rails. His niece, Zeviah, tells that he had
one blue eye and one brown. Near Hancock,
Massachusetts, he married Betsey (Elizabeth)
Coats, born December 9, 1775, died April 22,
1850. Daniel and wife are buried at Delphi
Falls, New York. Children: 1. Caleb D., born
June 3,' 1793; married Lucia Beach. 2. Rob
ert E., born October 11, 1795; married Annis
Hammond. 3. Benjamin, born December 15,
1797; married Minerva Weaver. 4. Eliza, born
March 6, 1800; married John Snyder. 5.
Anna, born February 26, 1802; married Daniel
Lansing. 6. Hiram, born Fehruary 27, 1804,
died August 22, 1824, unmarried. 7. Esther,
born February 27, 1806; married Almon Fox.
8. Lyman, born February 8, 1808; married
Phebe Dean. 9. Alzina, born January 23,
1810; married Humphrey Fosmer. 10. Elisha
C, mentioned below. 11. Lucy, born Decem
ber 1, 1814; married (first) Jacob Fosmer,
(second) Nathaniel Waters.
(VI) Elisha C, son of Daniel and Betsey
(Coats) Pierce, was born on a farm near
Fabius, New York, February 17, 1812, and
died at Phelps, New York, August 17, 1896;
he is buried at Phelps. Elisha Pierce, although
descended from a long line of farmers, was
apparently born with an antipathy toward
anything connected with a farm. In his youth
he learned the harness business, and subse
quently was employed as a traveling salesman
for a hardware firm in Syracuse, New York.
Eventually he located at Phelps, New York,
where he owned and operated .a hardware
store until his death. He was fond of music
and had a fine tenor voice. In his youth he
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and dancing school. In appearance he was
about medium height, thin and spare, with
small hands and feet, and gray eyes. He was
lithe and active until eighty years of age. He
married (first) at Victor, New York, Decem
ber 31, 1834, Georgiana Charters Campbell,
born August 23, 1812, died at Victor, June
7, 1841, and is buried at Westfield, New York;
she was a great-granddaughter of Thomas
and Jane (Davidson) Campbell, who are men
tioned elsewhere. For his second wife Mr.
Pierce married, December 9, 1848, Nancy
Yale, born in 1824, died February 11, 1907.
Ghildren by first wife : 1 . Emmet Butler, born
in Victor, New York, September 20, 1836,
died November 8, 1839. 2. Emma Cora, men
tioned below. Children by second wife: 1.
Ida Gertrude, born in Delphi, New York, in
1851, died in August, 1868. 2. George Mc-
Clellan, born in Delphi, New York, December
9,' 1863; married Lillian White; they reside
in Washington, D. C. ; have no children.
(VII) Emma Cora, daughter of Elisha. C.
Pierce by his first wife, was born at Victor,
New York, November 26, 1840. Her mother
having died, from the after effects of scarlet
fever, when Emma Cora was six months old,
she was taken into the family of her mother's
brother, Nathaniel Campbell, who had lived
near her home in Victor, New York. He
later removed to Valparaiso, Indiana, where
he died after a few years. She was then sent
east to live with her paternal aunt, Dolly
(Coats) Hill, in Fabius, New York, where she
went to public school and later pursued a
three-year course of study in Cazenovia Sem
inary. After completing her education she
taught for one year. in Hamilton, Ohio, and
for one year at Valparaiso, Indiana. In the
spring of 1865 she came to Westfield, New
York, where she taught for three years in
the family of her cousin, Mrs. Harriet Tay
lor, and for two years in the public school,
from which she resigned in order to marry.
She is a member of the Presbyterian church
at Westfield, and for a number of years she
served as superintendent of the primary de
partment of the Sunday school. She is still
living (1912) at Westfield, New York, where
she has resided ever since her marriage. She
married, June 22, 1870, Reuben Gridley
Wright, who was born July 1, 1824, and who
died January 1.2, 1906. Children : Paul Darl
ing Wright, born March 9, 1872; married
(first) Lillian Gillen, (second) Charlotte

Mehl. 2. Ralph Glenn Wright, born February
20, 1873, is unmarried, in 1912. 3. Ross Pier
Wright, born August 22, 1874, married Eliza
Woodward.

The surname Hart seems to be
HART common to several nationalities,
England, Scotland and Ireland all
having families of that name. The origin of
the name is not known ; perhaps from David's
beautiful animal that panted for the water
brooks. The variety in spelling is not great,
the prevailing form being Hart, occasionally
Hartt, Harte, Heart and fiearte. The patriot
ism of the family is shown by the great num
ber found in the ranks of the armies in the
wars of the revolution, of 1812, and the great
rebellion, or civil war. John Hart was a
signer of the Declaration of Independence
from New Jersey, and a member of the con
tinental congress.
(I) Deacon Stephen, founder of the Hart
family of Connecticut, was born in Braintree,
Essex county, England, about 1605, died 1683.
He came to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in
1632, and to Hartford, Connecticut, with Rev.
Thomas Hooker's company, in 1635, and was
one of the original proprietors. He had been
a deacon of Rev. Hooker's church in New
town (Cambridge), Massachusetts, and natur
ally accompanied his friend and pastor to
Hartford. Later he settled in the fertile val
ley of Farmington, where he purchased large
tracts of land from the Indians. He continued
active in the church there, also holding the of
fice of deacon. He was deputy to the general
court fifteen years. His eldest son, John,
built a house at Farmington that was burned
by the Indians and his entire family destroyed
except a son John (2), who was absent; John
(2) had three son's who married three Hooker
sisters, great-granddaughters of Rev. Thomas
Hooker. (II) Captain Thomas Hart, son of Deacon
Stephen fiart, was born in Connecticut, in
1644, died August 27, 1727. He was captain,
speaker of the general court, commissioner,
member of council, representative from Farm
ington in the general court twenty-nine ses
sions, and a man of wealth and usefulness.
He owned an estate of two thousand acres,
and was buried with military honors. He
married Ruth Hawkins.
(Ill) Deacon Thomas (2) Hart, son of
Captain Thomas (1) Hart, was born April,

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1680, died at Kensington, Connecticut, Janu
ary 29, 1773. He was a man of influence and
wealth, was representative six sessions, and
deacon of the church at Kensington. He mar
ried Sarah, daughter of John Thompson.
(IV) Elijah, son of Deacon Thomas (2)
Hart, was born at Kensington, Connecticut,
January 18, 171 1, baptized August 12, 171 1,
died in New Britain, Connecticut, August 3,
1772. He settled in New Britain, in the "Hart
quarter," a near neighbor of Judah Hart (1).
fie was an industrious, prosperous farmer and
land owner, very strong, yet in carrying a
piece of fencing timber on his shoulder he
stepped in a hole in the ground, the weight
crushing and injuring him so greatly that
death resulted. The record says : "Sergeant
Elijah Hart was chosen and appointed deacon
at a meeting of the church soon after its in
corporation." His epitaph reads: "In mem
ory of Deacon Elijah Hart, who provided for
his own and served his generations with great
diligence and fidelity even to the last day
of his life; was taken suddenly to the inheri
tance above on the 3rd day of August, 1772,
in the 61 st year of his age." He married,
December 26, 1734, Abigail Goodrich, born
December 14, 1714, died January 21, 1809, at
Simsbury, Connecticut, aged ninety-five years,
daughter of Allen and Elizabeth Goodrich.
They had nine children.
(V) Joseph, seventh child of Deacon Elijah
Hart, was born May 17, 1750, died in New
Durham, Greene county, New York. He built
a home in the "Hart quarter" near his father,
which he later sold to Oliver Gridley, and
moved to New York state. There is a "fiart's
Village" in Dutchess county, New York, where
several families of Harts from Rhode Island
and Connecticut settled, and it is very prob
able that Joseph settled here for a time. He
is next found in New Durham, Greene county,
New York, where he died. He was a farmer.
He married, November 5, 1772, Huldah Smith,
born January 4, 1749, daughter of Jedediah
and Susanna (Cogswell) Smith. Children:
Joseph (2), of whom further; Luther, Hul
dah, and Selah, all baptized September 11,
1785 ; a daughter, name unknown, who accom
panied the family to Durham.
(VI) Deacon Joseph (2) Hart, son of Jo
seph (1) Hart, was born in Berlin, Connecti
cut, November 20, 1773, died in Albion, Or
leans county, New York, July 22, 1853. In
1779 his parents, with their three sons and

two daughters, moved from Connecticut to
Durham, Greene county, New York. Here
Joseph lived until after his marriage at the
age of twenty-five. He then moved with his
bride to Phelps, Ontario, where he remained
six years. In 181 2 he settled in what was then
Genesee, now Orleans county, New York,
then an almost untrodden wilderness. He pur
chased two hundred and forty acres from the
Holland Land Company, paying three dollars
and twenty-five cents per acre. On this tract
he built a log house and began clearing a
farm. Here he resided until his death, seeing
the forest give way before the fields and a
thriving village springing up on the borders
of his farm, a part of which is now included
within the village limits of Albion. He pros
pered and became one of the prominent men
of his town. He served in the war of 1812,
and was one of the founders of the Presby
terian church of Albion, always being known
as "Deacon Joseph," or "Deacon Hart." Part
of the tract which he purchased from the
Holland Land Company and brought under
cultivation has since changed hands at eight
hundred dollars per acre. He was a thrifty,
industrious and energetic pioneer, founding a
family that has numbered some of the fore
most men in civil and political life in Orleans
county. He married, May 3, 1798, Lucy Kirt-
land, born in Saybrook, Connecticut, Novem
ber 11, 1778, died at Albion, January 4, 1867;
she came with her parents and their family
to Greene county, New York, where they set
tled at Windham, a village not far from Dur
ham. Children : 1. William, of whom further.
2. Elizur, (q. v.). 3. John I., born April 8,
1805, died May 24, 1818. 4. Benjamin K.,
July 2, 1807, died August 30, 1864. 5. Chris
topher, October 25, 1809, died January 28,
1810. 6. Lovica L. (or Louise), April 27,
181 1, died April 9, 1892. 7. Lucy K., January
22, 1814, died July 18, 1904; married Ambrose
Berry. 8. Mary A., June 2, 1817, died March
8, 1849; married Langford Berry. 9. Joseph
S., (q. v.). 10. Samuel E., August 13, 1823,
died October 22, 1893.
(VII) William, eldest son of Deacon Jo
seph (2) Hart, was born in Durham, Greene
county, New York, February 23, 1801, died
in Albion, New York, December 30, 1879.
He was educated in the public schools and
grew up a farmer, an occupation he followed
all his life. After coming to Orleans county
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lies within the corporate limits of Albion, now
owned by his son, John W. He was an at
tendant of the Presbyterian church and a
liberal contributor to its support and charities.
Politically he was a Democrat. He married
Pamelia Wells, of Wethersfield, Connecticut,
born 1807, died January 25, 1865. Child,
John W., of whom further.
(VIII) John Wells, only child of William
Hart, was born on the original Hart home
stead, Albion, New York, September 11, 1836.
He was educated in the public schools and Al
bion Academy. He was associated with his
father in farm management until 1892, when
he retired from active life, having from the
age of twenty-one years been in charge of the
homestead farm which he inherited upon the
death of his father. He was one of the in
corporators of the Albion Shoe Company in
1890, and one of the principal stockholders
of the Blanchard Vinegar Company, also being
actively connected with other Alhion enter
prises. He has been a lifelong member of the
Presbyterian church, and one of its most zeal
ous, liberal members, and for many years
served on the board of trustees. He lends his
support and influence to every good cause,
and is rated one of the prominent, substantial
and influential men of his town and county.
Politically he is an Independent and has served
as trustee of the village corporation of Al
bion. He married, October 28, 1869, at Albion,
Sarah, daughter of Russell Smith, a farmer
of Gaines, Orleans county, New York, who
came to the county from Heath, Massachu
setts, son of Moses Smith. Russell Smith
married Lydia Warren. Children of John
Wells and Sarah L. Hart : 1 . Pamelia
Wells, born September 26, 1870 ; married Au
gustus W. Behrend; children: Marion H.,
born June 30, 1894; Fredericka, January 16,
1898; Maynard, March 19, 1900; Sarah L.,
June 10, 1906. 2. Grace, born March 30, 1874 ;
married (as second wife) John J. Larwood,
whose first wife was her sister Gertrude L. 3.
Gertrude L., born June 27, 1882, died April
20, 1908; married John J. Larwood; children:
John Hart, born March 10, 1905; Gertrude
Jane, April 1, 1908.
(VII) Elizur Hart, second son of
HART Deacon Joseph (2) Hart (q. v.),
was born in Durham, Greene
county, New York, May 22, 1803, died while

on a visit to his relatives at Jonesville, Sara
toga county, New York, August 13, 1870.
He acquired such education as advantages at
that early day and locality afforded, which at
the best were very limited. He assisted in
clearing the farm, developing a robust con
stitution and acquiring habits of industry and
frugality. In 1827 he was elected constable,
an office he held two years, and was often nec
essarily called to the village of Albion on of
ficial business. Here he first began to invest
in good promissory notes, using his own small
capital and a like sum placed in his hands by
his brother William. He sold his one hundred
acres deeded him by his father, to his brother,
William Hart, and with the proceeds con
tinued his investments in local securities, also
in bonds, mortgages and articles issued by the
Holland Company for land. In 1852 he was
appointed receiver of the Orleans Insurance
Company, and upon the failure of the old
Bank of Orleans was appointed receiver of
that institution. He closed up the affairs of
these two concerns with such general satis
faction that his reputation as a sound, able
financier was fully established. February 17,
1859, he organized the Orleans County Bank
with himself as president and Joseph M. Cor
nell as cashier. They began business in Feb
ruary, i860, with a capital of $50,000, which
was soon increased to $100,000. August 9,
1865, this bank was reorganized as the Or
leans County National Bank, of which Mr.
Hart was president and principal stockholder
until his death. He was a most successful
business man, and from an humble beginning
became one of the wealthiest bankers of his
day. He was widely known and highly re
spected for his unquestioned integrity. He
was an active member of the First Presbyte
rian Church of Albion, and in his will gave
$50,000 to that society to erect a house of wor
ship, and $5,000 as an endowment to the Sun
day school. This bequest was used in the
erection of a most beautiful church in the vil
lage, a fitting monument to the memory of a
good man. He took no part in public af
fairs officially, being essentially the man of
business. He married, May 11, 1835, Lor
raine A. Field, who died February 11, 1847.
He married (second) October 16, 1849, Cor
nelia King, who died February 2, 1907, in
Albion. Children : Frances E., married Oliver
C. Day; Jennie K., married fienry L. Smith;
E. Kirke, of whom further.

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(VIII) E. Kirke, only son of Elizur Hart,
was born in Albion, New York, April 8, 1841,
and died there February 18, 1893. He was
educated in the public schools and Albion
Academy. After completing his studies he
spent two years, 1856-58, in Adrian, Mich
igan, and Alton, Illinois, joining, at the
latter place, General Harvey's expedition
against the Mormons. Returning to Albion,
he became in February, i860, bookkeeper in
the newly established Orleans County Bank,
of which his father was president. He con
tinued until 1865, when he became teller of
the newly organized Orleans County National
Bank, that superseded the state bank. After
the death of Elizur Hart, Joseph M. Cornell
succeeded him as president, Mr. Hart advanc
ing to cashier. In July, 1890, Mr. Cornell died,
and Mr. Hart was elected president, a posi
tion he held until his death, having been con
nected with the bank thirty-three years. In
1882, with George Elwanger, he founded the
Rochester (New York) Post Express, was
president of the company for several years
and a principal stockholder until late in 1891.
He was also a director of the Niagara Falls
International Bridge Company. He gave
much time to the public service of his town,
village and state. Originally a Republican, he
was elected in 1871 a member of the house
of assembly, serving on the committees of
ways and means and on banks. In 1872 he
became identified with the Liberals, and sup
ported Horace Greeley for president, ever
afterward acting with the Democratic party.
In 1876 he was nominated for congress by
the Democrats of the Thirtieth Congressional
district, comprising the counties of Orleans
and Monroe. This district had a normal Re
publican majority of four to five thousand,
but Mr. Hart was elected by nearly one thou
sand majority. He served while in congress
on the committees on banking and currency
and revision of the laws, making a creditable
record and forming warm friendships with
leading statesmen of both parties. In Albion
he was for many years village trustee, member
of the board of education, commissioner of
beautiful Mt. Albion cemetery (where he is
buried) ; was instrumental in giving the vil
lage electric lights; and was the first presi
dent of the board of managers of the House
of Refuge for Women, which was located
at Albion solely through his influence and per
sonal effort. When a young man he joined

the First Presbyterian Church of Albion, and
for many years served as trustee. Through
the efforts of himself and his cousin, John
Wells Hart, both giving liberally, the erection
of the present brick parsonage was made pos
sible. He also liberally supported many other
charitable and philanthropic societies. A gen
uine lover of books, he possessed one of the
finest private libraries in Western New York.
He was the first signer on the petition to es
tablish a public library in Albion, and always
took deep interest in its welfare. He was a
man with warm attachments and faithful
friendships, with a keen sense of justice and
with a warm sympathy for the unfortunate.
He married, June 10, 1863, Louise Sander
son, of Alton, Illinois, who survives him.
Children: Charles E., of whom further;
Emma Brown, graduate of Vassar College and
a director of the Orleans County National
Bank; Loraine Field; E. Kirke (2), graduate
of Harvard University; Louise Sanderson;
Mary, Ann, died May 3, 1875, aged four years.
(IX) Charles E., eldest son of E. Kirke
Hart, was born near Alton, Illinois, May 31,
1865. He was educated in the Albion public
schools and Albion Academy. After com
pleting his studies he spent four years in the
west engaged in mining and real estate enter
prises. On his return to Albion he became
associated with his father in business, and
on the death of the latter succeeded him as
president of the Orleans County National
Bank. He retained the presidency from 1893
to 1903, when he resigned and retired to pri
vate life. He is a Democrat in politics, and a
member of the village board of education, and
treasurer of the Swan Library in Albion.
He married, February 10, 1898, Eulalie
Reynolds, born December 27, 1874, died
March 26, 1910, daughter of Cassius M. and
Jane (Ough) Reynolds, of Albion. Children:
Eulalie, born November 29, 1899; Charles E.
(2), July 21, 1901; Jane H., February 8,
1906; John R., March 4, 1908; Beatrice,' Feb
ruary 11, 1910.

(VII) Joseph S. Hart, ninth child
HART of Deacon Joseph (2) fiart (q. v.),
was born in Albion, New York,
February 2, 1820, died October 30, 1904. He
was educated in the public schools, and re
mained his father's assistant on the farm until
coming to manhood he received as a gift
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twenty-four acres that is now partly within
the limits of Albion and still owned by his
widow (1912). He was a man of high stand
ing, possessing the qualities that made him
universally loved and respected. He was a
Republican in politics, fie took little part
in public affairs, finding his greatest enjoy
ment in hts home and the operation of his
large and finely cultivated farm.
fie married, May 30, 1861, at Albion, Har
riet A. Cole, born March 17, 1834, daughter
of William and Asenath (Williams) Cole, of
Barre, New York. She survives her husband,
a resident of Albion, a lady of splendid quali
ties and greatly beloved. Children: 1. Lucy
Kirtland, born October 1, 1862; married John
Edgerton ; child : Ruth Hart, married La
Verne Hey, and has a son, William Hart, born
October 31, 1910. 2. Alice Josephine, born
August 12, 1865 ; married Dennis W. Evarts. 3.
Harriet Cole, born August 26, 1867. 4- Jen~
nie S., January 6, 1870. 5. Kitty Louise, May
9, 1871; married Myron Billings; child: Cath
erine Hart.

The Jones family appear in the
JONES early records of several New
England colonies, emigrants of
the name coming from England, Wales and
Ireland. The name is an honored one in
American history and figures prominently in
the present day. In Jamestown, New York,
the name is gratefully remembered by the
Jones Memorial Hospital and by the thousands
of men and women who sat under the in
struction of these two noble sisters, Miss
Calista S. Jones and Mrs. Sarah L. (Jones)
Hall. The former was connected with Chau
tauqua county schools for sixty years, as a
tablet in Jamestown high school testifies; the
latter a teacher for fifty-three years, forty-nine
of which were spent in the Jamestown schools.
Besides his gift of a site for the hospital Or-
sino E. Jones presented Jamestown with a
site for a public park. The above mentioned
were children of Ellick Jones by his first wife.
(I) Thomas Jones, a native of Oxfordshire,
England, came with wife and children in ship
"Confidence," landed at Hull, Massachusetts,
1638. Sons: Joseph, John, Abraham, Benja
min, Robert and others.
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Jones, came to
Nantucket, Massachusetts, as a fisherman, and
remained there several years, then removed
to Mendon, Massachusetts. He married Sarah

Howard and had issue, among whom was
Abraham. (Ill) Abraham, son of Joseph Jones, was
born in a fort or garrison house at Mendon,
Massachusetts, in 1702, died there in 1787.
He married Keziah, daughter of Jotham Whit
ney, of Framingham, Massachusetts. Abra
ham Jones was a deacon of the church and
noted for his piety and liberality. He was a
farmer in easy circumstances. Three of his
children died in one week during an epidemic
of typhoid fever. Only two of his sons grew
to maturity: John and Abraham.
(IV) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1)
Jones, was born in the town of Milford, Wor
cester county, Massachusetts, May 3, 1746.
After the revolution he settled in Wardsboro,
Vermont, where he died. He was a soldier
of the revolution. He married, October 30,
1765, Olive Bates, born in Hingham, Massa
chusetts, September 22, 1743, died aged eighty-
five years, a descendant of Clement Bates, who
came from Kent, England, in 1635, settling in
Hingham. Children: Susan, born September
25, 1766, married Daniel fiazeltine; Laban,
-September 10, 1768,. married Fanny Dean;
Neoma, March 17, 1770, died in childhood;
Whitney, March 22, 1771, married Betsey
Hazeltine; Jonas, September 13, 1773, mar
ried Frances Monatt; Solomon, of whom fur
ther; Olive, October 29, 1778, married Elisha
Winslow; Lucretia, February 3, 1783, mar
ried David Boyd; Abraham, December 13,
1786. (V) Solomon, fourth son of Abraham (2)
Jones, was born in Milford, Worcester county,
Massachusetts, August 7, 1775, died in James
town, New York, August 2, 1862. He early
settled in Wardsboro, Vermont, with his
father, and in 1810 came to Chautauqua
county, New York, settling first in the town
of Ellicott, later at Carroll, now Kiantone.
At one time he kept a house of entertainment
in Jamestown at the corner of Third and Main
streets, where his two youngest children were
born. For about forty years he was a justice
of the peace. He was one of the founders
of the first Masonic Lodge in Jamestown and
a man much respected. He married Clarissa,
eldest daughter of John and Mary "Hayward.
She was born in Worcester county, Massachu
setts, January 15, 1781. Children: 1. Ellick,
born in Wardsboro, Vermont, May 5, 1800;
married (first), July 4, 1822, Louisa, daughter
of Thomas and Betsey Walkup. Children : i.

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Calista Selina, for sixty years an honored
and highly useful teacher in the Jamestown
schools, ii. Rufus Alonzo. iii. Elvira Statira..
iv. Orsino E., gratefully remembered by his
gifts to his city. v. Sarah Louisa, born March
30, 1832; married, December 1, 1852, Samuel
W. Hall, who died in 1866. Mrs. Hall sur
vives her husband, a resident of Jamestown,
greatly beloved and highly respected. For
fifty-three years she taught in the public
schools where the good she accomplished in
molding the lives of the thousands of chil
dren who passed under her care eternity only
will tell. By a second wife Ellick Jones had
thirteen children. 2. Laura, born May 4, 1801.
3. Julia, May 31, 1802. 4. Clara, December
23, 1803. 5. Abraham, of whom further. 6.
Olive, December 1, 1806. 7. Rufus, July 29,
1808. 8. Selina, August 8, 1810. 9. Whitney
(the first born in Chautauqua county) May
2, 1812. 10. Solomon, February 21, 1814. 11.
Louisa, May 18, 1816. 12. Ezra, October 13,
1819. 13. Mary, November 14, 1821. 14. Sid
ney, July 27, 1823.
(VI) Abraham (3), second son of Solomon
and Clarissa (Hayward) Jones, was born in
Wardsboro, Vermont, August 1, 1805, died
May 8, 1875, and is buried in Lakeview ceme
tery, Jamestown, with his wife. He came to
Chautauqua county with his parents in 1810,
being then a child of five years. He learned
the trade of blacksmith and also carried on
farming operations. He was a member of
the Methodist church. He suffered from
paralysis and was helpless for more than
twenty years. He married, April 13, 1828,
Rebecca Fenton, born in Otsego county, New
York, July 3, 1804, died in Jamestown, 1890,
third daughter of Jacob and Lois Fenton, who
survived him fifteen years (see Fenton IV).
Children : Marshall, deceased ; Mary, deceased,
married Thomas Gifford; Emory, of whom
further; Laura, died unmarried; Wilbur, a
soldier in the rebellion, died in the army ; Ma
tilda, married George W. Jones; Louisa, un
married; Ellen, married E. H. Day; Francis
S., deceased. Children born in Jamestown,
New York.
(VII) Rev. Emory Jones, second son of
Abraham (3) and Rebecca (Fenton) Jones,
was born in Jamestown, New York, January
9, 1833, died in Syracuse, New York, Sep
tember 15, 1886. He learned the trade of
blacksmith, but feeling called to preach entered
college at Adrian, Michigan, and after his

graduation was ordained a minister of the
Wesleyan Methodist church. He was an earn
est, faithful servant of God and did a great
deal of good. He preached in different places
and for the six years previous to his death
was pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church
in Syracuse. He was a tireless worker, con
sistent in his preaching and practice and en
tirely consecrated to his Master's service. No
undertaking was too great or too disagreeable
for him to engage in if he could gain a good
result. He was known far and wide through
out Western New York for his unselfishness,
his devotion to christian duty, his purity of
character and his devotion to his calling. He
was particularly severe in his onslaught on
intemperance and infidelity, but so honest and
so earnest and so consistent that he gained
the respect of all, even those who totally dif
fered with him, and died sincerely lamented.
He is buried with his father, mother and
sister Laura in Lakeview cemetery, at James
town. He married, October 8, 1856, Marcia A.
French, born June 11, 1839, daughter of Jar-
vis and Alida (Wample) French, who sur
vives him, a resident of Springfield, Illinois
(1912). Children. 1. Emma L., born Sep
tember 15, 1857; married Rev. Wilson T.
Hoagland, bishop of the Free Methodist •
church, of Evanston, Illinois. 2. Cyrus Emory,
of whom further. 3. Harvey Wilbur, of Syra
cuse, New York. 4. Ernest, of New York
City. (VIII) Cyrus Emory, eldest son of Rev.
Emory and Marcia A. (French) Jones, was
born in the town of Ellicott, Chautauqua
county, New York, March 16, 1863. He was
educated in the public schools, and reared on
the farm. At the age of fifteen years his
parents removed to Syracuse, New York,
where he lived until the age of seventeen
years, when he went to New York City, enter
ing the employ of Charles E. Bentley, a man
ufacturer and importer of fancy goods. Two
years later Mr. Jones was appointed manager,
later becoming a partner. He remained in
this business seventeen years in New York
City. The firm established branch stores in
Brooklyn and Baltimore and was a most suc
cessful one. In 1897 he came to Jamestown
having disposed of his business interests in
New York City. He purchased the interest
of W. J. Maddock, in the Maddock, Bailey
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Jones Company. In 1906 he became one of
the incorporators of the Jamestown Table
Company, of Jamestown, of which he is chair
man of the board of directors. He became
also interested in the banking business and
until 1910 was a director and first vice-presi
dent of the Union Trust Company, of James
town. His connection with journalism in
Jamestown has been as one of the incorpora
tors and first president of The Morning Post
Publishing Company. In 1902 he associated
with William S. Bailey and John H. Wiggins
and incorporated under the laws of the state
of New York the Chautauqua School of Nurs
ing, with general offices at Jamestown, for
the training of nurses through correspond
ence methods. This institution has had ten
successful years, enrolling over twelve thou
sand students and solving the problem of a
vocation for thousands of ambitious women
and brought expert helpers to the aid of phy
sicians ; given the hospitals trained nurses and
brought to the wife, mother and sister knowl
edge that has enahled them to intelligently
care for the sick in their own households. Mr.
Jones is president of the school; William S.
Bailey, secretary and treasurer; Dr. J. M.
Brooks, medical director.
Mr. Jones is one of the directors of the
Allied Real Estate Company, of New York
City; president of the Manufacturers' Asso
ciation, of Jamestown, of which association
he has been a member since its formation and
in which he takes the greatest interest; vice-
president of the Allen Square Real Estate
Company. He is interested in Kansas prop
erties and was one of the incorporators and
builders of the Coffeeville & Independence
Traction Company, in the southern part of
that state. He has a fine farm of one hundred
and twenty acres on Chautauqua Lake oppo
site the grounds of the Chautauqua Institu
tion, and a beautiful city home near the "Rose
Gardens," consisting of five acres of ground
laid out with the best possible landscape ef
fects. He is a member of the Jamestown
Club, of which he is an ex-president. Mr.
Jones is a member of New York State Grange
and much interested in that order. About
ten years ago he erected a beautiful building
on the assembly grounds at Chautauqua and
presented it to the grange to be used as their
headquarters. This building was erected as
a memorial to his father, Rev. Emory Jones,
and was dedicated August 22, 1903. In poli

tics he is a Republican; delegate to the na
tional convention that nominated William H.
Taft for the presidency and one of his orig
inal supporters from New York state.
Cyrus E. Jones married, March 26, 1891,
at Ba)jonne, New Jersey, Mary Ella Beebe,
born in Brooklyn, New York, June 25, 1868,
daughter of General Ira Lovejoy and Zilpah
I. (Hartt) Beebe. General Ira L. Beebe was
a paper manufacturer, born in Ghent, Colum
bia county, New York, son of Roderick (2)
Beebe and grandson of Captain Roderick (1)
Beebe, an officer of the revolutionary army,
through whose patriotic service his great-
granddaughter, (Mrs.) Mary Ella (Beebe)
Jones, gains admission to the Daughters of
the Revolution. The name Beebe is one of
great antiquity, being found in various forms
of spelling as far back as Bebi, an Egyptian
King of the second Dynasty, 3000 years B. C.
In -Roman history Quintius Baebius figures
534 A. D. The tradition in the family of
French origin is very plausible. Richard and
William de Boebe were of the Royal Guard
of William the Conqueror and passed over to
England with him and were granted manors
in Warwickshire where the family lived up
to the close of the Commonwealth. At East
Farndon, England, John Beby was pastor of
the Church of St. John the Baptist, prior to
the year 141 1. One branch of the English
family has the right and titles to a coat-of-
arms : A blue shield with golden chevron
and three gold bees. Crest : A golden bee
hive (indicative of industry, vigilance and per
sistence of purpose). Motto: Suo De-
fendo. The church register of St. Andrews,
in the village of Broughton, Northampton
shire, England, dating from 1560, contains
the names of John Beebe and his children who
emigrated to America about the year 1650.
John Beebe is the American ancestor, al
though he never saw the shores of this coun
try, dying on shipboard. His three sons,
John, Samuel and James, landed in Boston,
worked their way westward, were prominent
in the early settlement of Connecticut, and
from there branched out in all directions. In
New York they settled in Columbia county
about 1760, and from there came to Albany
county. They are of frequent mention in the
annals of the early wars of the colonies.
John Beebe with his men marched through
the wilderness to the relief of Major Talcott
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the minute-men of 1776, and in the armies of
the revolution as privates and officers. They
fought from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, and
James Beebe was an original member of the
Society of the Cincinnati. The pension rolls
of the revolution contain a number of names
of the family. It is spelled Bebe, Beby,
Beeby and Beebe. Children of Cyrus E. and
Mary E. Jones: Madelyn, born January 11,
1892; Margaret, September 14, 1893; Cyrus
Emory (2), October 2, 1895; Ursula, June
14, 1897; Beebe, March 7, 1899; Roderick
Beebe, March 14, 1903; Lois Mary, Novem
ber 8, 1907. (The Fenton Line).
Rebecca Fenton, grandmother of Cyrus E.
Jones, was a descendant of Robert Fenton,
who is first of record in Woburn, Massachu
setts. Nothing can be told of his parentage,
birthplace or nationality. There is a tradi
tion that he came from Wales. He settled
in Windham, Massachusetts, about 1694, in
the "North End" now Mansfield. He is of
mention there in 1694, was on committee to
lay out lots and "Fence Viewer." He built
the first bridge across the Natchang river, so
probably was a carpenter. He purchased a
large tract of land and in 1702 his property
was appraised at ninety pounds. He was one
of the patentees of Mansfield which was set
off from Windham in 1703. Between 1712
and 1730 he left Mansfield and settled in the
then new town of Willington, where he died
at the home of his son, at an advanced age.
His wife Dorothy (written in the records as
"Dorritty") was a member of both the Wind
ham and Mansfield churches. Children : Rob
ert, Francis, Samuel, Bridget, Jacob, Dorothy,
Anne, Yiolata, Ebenezer, of whom further.
(II) Ebenezer, youngest son of Robert
Fenton, the first settler, was born in Mans
field, Massachusetts, August 29, 1710. He
married (first) Mehitable, daughter of Jona
than Tuttle, February 11, 1740-41; (second)
Lydia, eldest daughter of Malachi Conant,
August 26, 1762. Children by first wife:
Jonathan, Ebenezer, Nathan, Solomon, Lydia,
Elijah. Children by second wife: Colonel
Nathaniel, Jacob, of whom further ; Mehitable,
Abigail, Robert, Justin or Justus Malachi,
Robert. (Ill) Jacob, second son of Ebenezer Fen
ton and his second wife, Lydia (Conant)
Fenton, was born November 5, 1765. He mar

ried, at Milford, and soon after removed to
New Haven, Connecticut, where he engaged
in the manufacture of stoneware. In 1801
he moved to Burlington, New York, where
he carried on the pottery business for several
years. In 1812 he moved to Mayville, Chau
tauqua county, New York, and the next year
to Jamestown in the same county. In 1817
he moved to Fluvanna, where he died Janu
ary 21, 1822. At the age of fifteen years he
enlisted in the continental army and served
until the war ended. He married Lois Hurd,
of New Milford, Connecticut, September 13,
1790. Children, born in New Haven, Con
necticut: William, died young; Henry, Will
iam A., Anna, born in Mansfield, Connecti
cut. Children, born in Burlington, New York :
Seneca, Sabrina, Rebecca, of whom further;
Marcus A.
(IV) Rebecca, third daughter of Jacob and
Lois (Hurd) Fenton, was born in Burling
ton, Otsego county, New York, July 3, 1804,
died in Jamestown, New York, 1890. She
married, April 13, 1828, Abraham Jones (see
Jones VI).
Governor Reuben Eaton Fenton, born July
4, 1819, governor of New York, was a son
of George W. Fenton, an early settler of
Chautauqua county in 1807, son of Roswell
Fenton, of Mansfield, Massachusetts ; Han
over, New Hampshire; Broadalbin, New
York; and near Louisville, Kentucky, where
he died September 16, 1806, supposedly mur
dered, son of Jacob Fenton, of Mansfield and
Norwich, Vermont, fourth son of Robert
Fenton, the first settler.

The name Fillmore is of
FILLMORE English origin and at dif
ferent periods has been vari
ously written as Firmer, Filmore, Fillamore,
and Phillmore. Robert Filmer lived in the
county of Herts in the . time of Edward II.
A descendant of the same name was prothono-
tary of the court of common pleas in the time
of Elizabeth and in 1570 was granted a coat
of arms — sable, three bars, three cinque foils
in chief, or. fie died in 1585. His son, Sir
Edward Filmer, of Little Charlton, bought
an estate in East Sutton, county of Kent. He
married Elizabeth, second daughter of Rich
ard Argall, whose father, Thomas Argall, was
the heir of Sutton.
(I) John Fillmore, or Phillmore, first of
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was probably the ancestor of all the Ameri
can Fillmores. He bought an estate in Ips
wich, Massachusetts, and later, November 24,
1704, in Beverly, Massachusetts. Apparently
between 1708 and 171 1, while on a voyage
homeward bound from the West Indies, his
ship was taken by a French frigate, this be
ing the time of Queen Ann's war. He was
carried to Martinique, where he suffered the
hardships of a close imprisonment. He was
ultimately redeemed, but, according to the nar
rative of his son, he was poisoned by the
French during the homeward voyage. The
basis for this assertion appears to be the fact
that nearly all of the prisoners died before
reaching home. He married, June 19, 1701,
Abigail, daughter of Abraham and Deliver
ance Tilton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. His
widow married (second) Robert Bell, and re
moved to Norwich, Connecticut, where she
and her husband bought a tract of forty acres
from John Elderkin Jr. Robert Bell died Au
gust 23, 1727, and Abigail, November 13,
1727. Children: John, mentioned below;
Ebenezer, born in Beverly, baptized in Wen
ham, July 21, 1706; married Thankful Car
rier, in Norwich, Connecticut; Abigail, born
in Beverly and baptized in Wenham, died
young. (II) John (2), son of John (1) and Abi
gail (Tilton) Fillmore, was born in Ipswich,
Massachusetts, March 18, 1702. He must
have been under nine years of age when his
father died. His mother apprenticed him to
a carpenter, but his ambition was to go to
sea, and a few years after his father's death
he shipped on the fishing sloop "Dolphin,"
Captain Mark Haskell, of Cape Ann. After
arriving at the fishing grounds the sloop was
overhauled by the notorious pirate, Captain
Phillips. He sent a boat's crew on board the
"Dolphin," and among the number young Fill
more was astonished to recognize a youth
named William White, whom he had known
at home as a tailor's apprentice, and who had
gone to sea some time before. The pirate
captain found nothing to arouse his cupidity
on board the fishing sloop, but he was short-
handed and was informed by White that Fill
more was just the kind of resolute lad whom
he needed. He accordingly sent word to Cap
tain Haskell that if young Fillmore were sent
to him, the sloop with the remainder of the
crew might go free. Fillmore refused, but,
upon a second demand being made, with a

threat that the sloop and all on board would
be sunk unless he complied, he concluded to
sacrifice himself to save his companions, on
a promise that he should be set at liberty in
two months. He was firmly resolved how
ever that he never would sign articles on
board the pirate. At the outset he was not
pressed hard on this point, and was assigned
to the helm of the ship, which relieved him
from any piratical duty. At the expiration
of the two months he demanded his release
from Phillips, who promised on his honor that
if Fillmore would stay three months longer
he should be set at liberty. This promise was
not kept, and his treatment thereafter was
much worse. Gradually the number of pris
oners taken from different prizes increased.
Among them were an American whom Fill
more had known at home, a ship's carpenter,
named James Cheeseman; Captain Harridon,
a young man of twenty-two, son of a Boston
merchant ; and a Spanish Indian, all of whom,
like Fillmore, refused to sign the pirate's ar
ticles. These five conspired to seize the ves
sel and effect their release. The pirate. cap
tain, suspecting the design, killed the young
American who was Fillmore's friend, and
threatened Fillmore, even discharging a pistol
point-blank at his breast, but happily it missed
fire. The prisoners continued to plot, and
their looked-for opportunity came about nine
months after Fillmore had gone on board the
pirate, when the crew, having taken a prize,
engaged in a drunken carouse. The four pris
oners consulted together, but Harridon re
fused to join in their desperate venture, say
ing his spirit was broken and his courage
gone as a result of the ill treatment he had
received. This left only Fillmore, Cheeseman
and the Spanish Indian to engage the entire
crew, and they felt much doubt of the Indian,
although, as the event proved, he carried out
his part manfully. Fillmore contrived to burn
the feet of two of the pirates while they lay
drunk, so that they could do nothing. This
left only four of the original gang, the re
mainder having joined by compulsion since
Fillmore had been on board. The carpenter
left some axes and hammers on deck where
they would be handy for weapons. When the
pirates came up next morning, Fillmore,
Cheeseman and the Indian killed Phillips, his
boatswain, master and quartermaster. Fill
more led the attack, personally killing two of
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at Phillips. The remainder of the crew sur
rendered and Fillmore and his companions
took the vessel to Boston and delivered it to
the authorities. Six of the pirate prisoners
were executed. Fillmore, as a reward for his
courage, was presented by the court with
Phillips' gun, silver-hilted sword, silver shoe
and knee buckles, a curious tobacco box, and
two gold rings. Captain Fillmore's own nar
rative of this remarkable adventure was pub
lished by A. M. Clapp, at Aurora, New York,
in 1837, and was long in the possession of his
great-grandson, Millard Fillmore. It was re
published by the Buffalo Historical Society in
1907. Captain Fillmore removed from Bev
erly to Norwich (now Franklin) Connecticut,
where he bought seventy acres of land in
1724. Here he joined the church in 1729 and
lived many years. In May, 1750, he was com
missioned captain in the Second military com
pany of Norwich. He married (first) No
vember 28, 1724, Mary Spiller, of Ipswich;
(second) about 1734, Dorcas Day, of Pom
fret, who died March 16, 1759; (third) Mary
Reach, a widow. He died in Norwich, Feb
ruary 22, 1777. Children by first wife: 1.
John, married Leah  , and settled in Nova
Scotia. 2. Abigail, married Nathaniel Kim
ball Jr. 3. Mary, born 1731 ; married John
Taylor, and lived in Norwich. 4. Henry, bap
tized 1733; married Thankful Downer; emi
grated to New York. By second wife : 5.
Dorcas, born February 13, 1735-6; married
Abel Page; lived in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
6. Jeremiah, born 1737; died 1741. 7. Mi
riam, born 1738; married Nathan Colgrove;
settled in Middletown, Vermont. 8. Nathan
iel, mentioned below. 9. Comfort, born 1742;
married, 1763, Zerviah Bosworth; lived in
Norwich. 10. Amaziah, born 1743; joined the
expedition against Havana in 1762, and died
there of fever. 11. Mimee, born January 3,
1745-6; married Nathan Dillings. 12. Lydia,
born 1747; married Jacob Pember; lived in
Norwich. 13. Luther, born January 14, 1749-
50; married Eunice  ; emigrated to Mid
dletown, Vermont. 14. Calvin, born 1752;
died 1753. 15. Deborah, born 1755. 16. De
liverance, born 1757.
(Ill) Nathaniel, son of John (2) and Dor
cas (Day) Fillmore, was born March 20,
1739. In early manhood he removed to Ben
nington, Vermont, then called the Hampshire
Grant, where he resided the remainder of his
life. He inherited the sword which his father

won from the pirate Phillips, and used it va
liantly in both the French and the revolution
ary wars. During the French war he was
wounded and left in the woods, where, he sub
sisted for nearly a week on a few kernels of
corn and upon his shoes and a part of his
blanket which he roasted and ate. He was
finally discovered and rescued. He was a lieu
tenant under Stark at the battle of Benning
ton, August 16, 1777. He married, October
20, 1767, Hepzibah Wood. He died at Ben
nington in 1814. Children: Simeon; Na
thaniel, mentioned below; Philippa, born
March 22, 1773; Calvin, below; Elijah, born
April 8, 1778; Darius, born September 28,
1781. (IV) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
and Hepsibah (Wood) Fillmore, was born in
Bennington, April 19, 1771. He removed to
Locke, Cayuga county, New York, thence to
Sempronius, in the same county, and finally
to Aurora (now East Aurora), Erie county.
He was a farmer, and for many years a civil
magistrate. He married (first) Phoebe,
daughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, of, Ben
nington, who died May 2, 1831 ; (second)
Eunice Love, widow. He died in East Au
rora, March 28, 1863. Children, all by first
wife: 1. Olive Armstrong, born December
16, 1797; married, March 7, 1816, Henry S.
Johnson, of Sempronius, farmer; removed to
Dexter, Michigan; five children. 2. Millard,
mentioned below. 3. Cyrus, born December
22, 1801; married, May 19, 1825, Laura Mo
rey, of Holland, New York; removed to
Greenfield, Indiana; farmer; six children. 4.
Almon Hopkins, born April 13, 1806; stu
dent at law; died January 17, 1830. 5. Cal
vin Turner, born July 9, 1810; married, 1830,
Miranda Waldo ; lived in Scio, Michigan ; car
penter. 6. Julia, born August 29, 1812; mar
ried, October 27, 1840, A. C. Harris, lawyer;
removed to Toledo, Ohio. 7. Darius Ingra-
ham, born November 16, 1814; student at law;
died in East Aurora, March 9, 1837. 8.
Charles De Witt, born September 23, 1817;
married, February 11, 1840, Julia Etta Green;
mason; removed' to St. Paul, Minnesota; died
July 27, 1854. 9. Phoebe Maria, born No
vember 23, 1819.
(V) Millard, son of Nathaniel (2) and
Phoebe (Millard) Fillmore, was born in
Locke, New York, January 7, 1800. Cayuga
county was then a western wilderness, and
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Fillmore says in an autobiographical sketch
of his early life that until he was ten years of
age he never had seen a dictionary. Though
he was drilled thoroughly in Webster's spell
ing book, he had little idea of the meaning
of the words he learned. At about that age
his services on his father's farm became too
valuable to admit of his going to school ex
cept for two or three months during the win
ter. He never saw a map or an atlas until
he was nineteen years old. His father occu
pied a leased farm, having lost his own
through a defective title, and this gave him
a prejudice against farming which decided
him to have his sons taught trades. Millard,
at fifteen, after being dissuaded from a boy
ish ambition to become a soldier, was sent to
learn the trade of wool carding and cloth
dressing with Benjamin Hungerford, of
Sparta, Livingston county. He made the
journey of one hundred miles mostly on foot.
He became dissatisfied with his employer be
cause he was kept at cutting wool and simi
lar work, instead of being taught the trade.
Mr. Hungerford threatened to chastise him,
and young Millard replied by menacing the
man with his axe. After about three months
he returned to his home. He was next ap
prenticed to Zaccheus Cheney and Alvan Kel
logg, who carried on the business of carding
and cloth-dressing at Newhope, near his
father's home. This trade occupied his time
from June until about the middle of Decem
ber, for which he received $50 a year. He
had leisure during the winter to continue his
studies. His father's library consisted only
of the Bible, a hymn book and an almanac,
with an occasional weekly newspaper, but Mil
lard gained access to a small circulating li
brary which considerably broadened his field
of study. By the time he was eighteen he
had begun to ' teach a country school during
the winter season. In May, 1818, he shoul
dered his knapsack and made a journey to
Buffalo to visit friends. , At that time he
could and did walk forty miles in a day.
About this time his father removed to Mont-
ville, Cayuga county, where Judge Walter
Wood was a leading citizen. Without Mil
lard's knowledge, his father made arrange
ments with Judge Wood to receive the young
man into his office as a student. Millard
was so overjoyed when his mother told him
the news that he broke down and cried. He
was set to reading "Blackstone," to which he

offered some objection because he could not
see why he should study the laws of England
instead of these of New York. Nevertheless,
he made such progress that when the time
came to return to his apprenticeship, the
Judge, who was a Friend, said to him: "If
thee has an ambition for distinction, and can
sacrifice everything else to success, the law is
the road that leads to honors ; and if thee can
get rid of thy engagement to serve as an ap
prentice, I would advise thee to come back
again and study law." Millard replied that
he had no means of paying his way, where
upon the Judge offered to give him some em
ployment and to lend him such necessary
money as he could not earn during his clerk
ship. Accordingly he made an arrangement
with his employers to buy the remainder of his
time for $30, and the following winter he
resumed his law studies, teaching school at
the same time. Within two years, however,
he quarreled with Judge Wood because the
Judge objected to his undertaking pettifog
ging practice before justices of the peace.
Millard pleaded his .poverty, but the Judge
was inexorable, declaring he must promise
not to take any more pettifogging cases or'
they must separate. Suspecting, perhaps un
justly, that Judge Wood was more anxious
to keep him in a state of dependence to look
after his tenants than to make a lawyer of
him, Millard determined to leave. He gave
the Judge his note for $65 which had been
advanced to him, afterward paying it with
interest. This was the only help he ever re
ceived in obtaining his profession. His father
had then removed to Aurora, Erie county.
Thither Millard went and again to teach
school and to practice in justice's courts. In
the spring of 1822 he removed to Buffalo,
where he became a clerk in the office of Asa
Rice and Joseph Clary. He continued to
teach school and to carry on a pettifogging
practice to support himself, and in 1823, by
the especial solicitation of some older mem
bers of the bar, he was formally, admitted.
He opened his first office in East Aurora,
where he practiced until May, 1830, when he
removed to Buffalo, forming a partnership
with Joseph Clary. He was admitted as an
attorney in the supreme court in 1827 and as
counselor in 1829. The partnership with Mr.
Clary was soon succeeded by the firm of Fill
more, Hall & Haven (Nathan K. Hall and
Solomon G. Haven). This firm continued

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until 1847, and became the most prominent in
western New York.
Mr. Fillmore's political career began with
the birth of the Whig party and ended with
its extinction. He was elected to the assem
bly as a Whig in 1828, and continued to
serve in the sessions of 1830 and 1831. Most
of his legislative work was local, but he was
chiefly responsible for one important law of
general interest — an act abolishing imprison
ment for debt. He was one of a committee
of eighteen citizens who drew up the first
charter for the city of Buffalo, which was
incorporated in 1832. In the fall of that year
he was elected to congress. After serving
through the Twenty-third Congress he retired
for a term, but was re-elected in 1836 to the
Twenty-fifth Congress, and continued to serve
through the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-sev
enth. Until the Twenty-seventh Congress he
was one of the minority party. fie took
sufficient part in the debates, however, to gain
for himself a position of leadership. He was
proposed as a minority candidate for speaker
of the Twenty-sixth Congress, and when the
Whigs came into power in the Twenty-sev
enth Congress he was made chairman of the
ways and means committee. The great act of
this session, for which Mr. Fillmore was
chiefly responsible, was the tariff of 1842.
The national treasury was virtually bankrupt,
and the tariff was in the nature of an emer
gency measure. Nevertheless, it was vetoed
by the president because of a duty on tea and
coffee. A subsequent bill became a law with
out these duties. Mr. Fillmore retired from
congress by his own wish after the end of
this session. As early as 1836 Mr. Fillmore
was a delegate to the Whig state convention,
and he was again a delegate in 1838, when
William H. Seward was nominated for gov
ernor. In 1842 he was proposed as a suitable
candidate for vice-president on the ticket when
Henry Clay was expected to head two years
later. The choice, however, fell upon Theo
dore Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. Mr.
Fillmore was made his party's nominee for
governor. He conducted an energetic canvass,
but was defeated by Silas Wright, the vote
being 231,057 for Mr. Fillmore to 241,090 for
Mr. Wright. In 1846 his name was again put
before the state convention and, although it
was known that he would not accept, he re
ceived 65 votes to 44 for John Young. He
declined and Mr. Young was nominated and

elected. The following year he consented to
accept the nomination for state comptroller
and was elected. In his report for 1849 he
suggested the organization of national banks
with currency secured by deposits of national
bonds — the system which was adopted during
the civil war and is still in force. The Whig
national convention at Philadelphia, on June
9, 1848, after naming General Zachary Taylor
for president, nominated Mr. Fillmore on the
second ballot for vice-president. He was
elected, and inaugurated on March 5, 1849.
He presided over the senate during the excit
ing controversy over Clay's omnibus bill, and
also distinguished himself by enforcing order,
contrary to precedents, during a slavery de
bate. On July 9, 1850, President Taylor died,
and on the following day Mr. Fillmore took
the oath of office as president. His adminis
tration is rather national than personal history.
His cabinet included Daniel Webster, secre
tary of state; Thomas Corwin, secretary of
the treasury; Alexander H. H. Stuart, secre
tary of the interior; John J. Crittenden, at
torney-general; Nathan K. Hall, of Buffalo,
his former law partner, postmaster-general,
and later Edward Everett. Mr. Fillmore's
temper was conciliatory and his guide was the
written law of the constitution, rather than
the higher law of the anti-slavery men. This
explains his approval of the celebrated com
promise measures of 1850, including the fugi
tive slave law, which cost him the support of
most of his party in the North. He sought
a peaceful solution of the great controversy
over slavery. His last message to congress,
as originally written, contained a plan for the
colonization of negroes in Africa, similar to
the one later favored by Mr. Lincoln. By
advice of his cabinet it was suppressed, but
Mr. Fillmore was personally proud of it. He
was also much criticised for the appointment
of Brigham Young as governor of Utah, but
on that point it should be said that the doc
trine of polygamy had not then been declared
by the Mormon church. The majority in con
gress was hostile to him throughout his ad
ministration, but the country, nevertheless,
owes him thanks for a number of acts of
great importance. Chief of these was the send
ing of Commodore Perry to Japan and the
opening of that country to trade. He also
sent the Lynch expedition to Africa, the Ring
gold expedition to China, and the Herndon
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Lopez insurrection in Cuba called for rigid
measures to suppress filibustering, and the
visit of Kossuth to this country required a
declaration against interference with foreign
affairs, despite the President's personal sym
pathy with the Hungarion patriot. Postal
rates were lowered and the capitol was en
larged. Mr. Fillmore's estrangement from
his former friend, Thurlow Weed, was an
other famous incident. He was a candidate
for renomination at the Whig national con
vention in 1852, but could command only
twenty votes from the free states, although
his policies were indorsed by a vote of 227
to 60. After his retirement he made a tour
through the south, speaking frequently in the
hopes of calming the political animosity then
raging. Later, in 1855-6, he made a tour of
Europe. It was while he was abroad in 1856
that he was nominated again for president by
the American party, to which many of the
former Whigs had gone at that time. The
remnants of the Whig party met at Baltimore
in September and indorsed Mr. Fillmore. He
received, however, only the eight electoral
votes of the state of Maryland. Returning
to Buffalo, he lived in the Fillmore mansion,
now the Castle Inn, on Niagara Square. His
lack of sympathy with the northern cause sub
jected him to some unpleasant experience in
the early stages of the civil war. Neverthe
less, he entertained President .Lincoln at his
house during Mr. Lincoln's visit to Buffalo
in 1 861, and he headed the citizens' commit
tee which met Mr. Lincoln's funeral train in
1865. He was chosen as the first captain of
the Union Continentals, an organization of
well-known Buffalo men whose chief func
tion was to arouse enthusiasm, encourage re
cruiting and act as an escort for departing
volunteers. Mr. Fillmore personally marched
in full uniform with this organization. He
was also chairman of the committee of public
safety. He was one of the founders of the
Buffalo General Hospital and of the Buffalo
Historical Society, chancellor of the Univer
sity of Buffalo, and aided in establishing the
Fine Arts Academy and the Society of Na
tural Sciences.
He married (first) February 5, 1826, Abi
gail, daughter of Lemuel and Abigail (New-
land) Powers, born in Stillwater, New York,
March, 1789. Her father was a Baptist
clergyman at Moravia, New York, at the time
of the marriage. Ill health and mourning for

a deceased sister prevented her from taking
a very active part in social affairs during her
husband's administration, and soon after the
close of his term she died at the City Hotel
(Willard's) in Washington, March 30, 1853.
She was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery,
Buffalo. For his second wife Mr. Fillmore
married, February 10, 1858, at Albany, New
York, Caroline C. Mcintosh, widow, daughter
ot Charles and Tempe (Blachly) Carmichael
of Morristown, New Jersey. She died August
11, 1881. Mr. Fillmore suffered a stroke of
paralysis February 13, 1874, and died on
March 8th following. He was buried in For
est Lawn Cemetery. Children, by first wife :
1. Millard Powers, mentioned below. 2. Mary
Abigail, born in Buffalo, March 27, 1832 ; she
was educated in the Buffalo Normal School,
and taught for a time in one of the public
schools. She was a talented musician, playing
the harp and the piano, and was very attract
ive. She was a great social favorite at the
White House during her father's administra
tion. She started on a visit to East Aurora
on the morning of July 26, 1854, and died the
next day of-- cholera, aged 22.
(VI) Millard rowers, son of Millard and
Abigail (Powers) Fillmore, was born in East
Aurora, April 25, 1828. fie became a law
yer, and served as his father's private secre
tary during Mr. Fillmore's term as president.
He remained a bachelor, making his home in
Buffalo, and died November 15, 1889.
(IV) Simeon, son of Nathaniel (1) and
Hepzibah (Wood) Fillmore, was born in Ben
nington, Vermont, December 13, 1768. He
removed to Paris (now Kirkland) New York,
and later to Clarence, Erie county. He mar
ried (first) Susanna Glezen, (second) Lucy
Pelton. Children by first wife : 1. Gle
zen, born 1789; married, September 20,
1809, Levina Atwill; became a Methodist
clergyman, and later presiding elder of the
Niagara district; lived at Clarence, Erie
county, and died there January 26, 1875; his
wife died September 3, 1893, at the age of
106, the oldest resident of Erie county. 2.
Sherlock, born 1793; married (first) 1817,
Lois Slosson, who died in 1844; (second)
Orra Hamlin; was a lieutenant and captain
in the Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry during
the war of 1812; lived at Clarence as a
farmer. 3. Hiram, born 1801 ; married, 1838,
Julia Webster, widow; lived in Michigan. 4.
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Lydia A. Webster, of Buffalo, who died in
1836; (second) 1837, Lovina F. Atwill; be
came a Methodist clergyman, and presiding
elder of the Seneca Lake district; lived at
Waterloo, Seneca county. 5. Harriet, born
181 1 ; married, 1827, John Conly.
(IV) Calvin, son of Nathaniel (1) and
Hepzibah (Wood) Fillmore, was born in
Bennington, Vermont, April 30, 1775. He
removed to Cayuga county, New York, with
his brother Nathaniel (2) and later to East
Aurora. In the war of 1812 he was made a
captain in the Thirteenth Regiment of Infan
try and was engaged in several actions on the
Niagara frontier, notably one near Fort
George, in which he was successful and took
some prisoners. He was promoted to major
and to lieutenant colonel of the same regiment,
and was in command during the latter part of ¦
the war. He became coroner of Erie county
and a deputy United States marshal, and in
1824 was elected to the assembly. He mar
ried, December 12, 1797, Jerusha Turner, who
died in East Aurora, January 4, 1852. Cal
vin Fillmore died in East Aurora, October 22,
1865.

This family, originally from
BAILEY England, settled in Connecticut
where the name is yet common.
The American ancestor came prior to the
revolution. Benjamin, of the third genera
tion, settled in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania,
while Milton, of the fourth, founded the pres
ent family in Jamestown, New York. The
record made by the family is an enviable one
and continues so up to the present day.
(I) Jeremiah Bailey was born in England
and came to the American colonies early in
the eighteenth century, being then a young
man. He settled in the state of Connecticut,
where he married and had issue. Little more
can be told of him.
(II) Jeremiah (2), son of Jeremiah (1)
Bailey, was born in Preston, Connecticut,
about 1740. He was a shoemaker by trade,
carrying on his business .for many years in
Preston. He was a man of great industry
and strict integrity in all his business deal
ings. Intellectually he was far above the av
erage man of his day but not successful in
accumulating property. He married a lady of
education, formerly a school teacher, who bore
a most enviable reputation. Children : 1 .
Samuel, born 1764, died at the age of eighty-

three years; married Cynthia Meach. 2. Asa,
born 1767; was a seafaring man, mate of a
merchant vessel; he was lost at sea leaving
a widow and one son, Erastus, who married
and settled in the west. 3. Benjamin, of
whom further. 4. Benajah, born 1770; was
a practicing physician of northern New York
or Canada. 5. Elizabeth, the only daughter,
was born 1780; she married John Brigden
and lived in Norwich, Connecticut; children:
Benajah, Cynthia, George P., Sally M.
(Ill) Benjamin, third son of Jeremiah (2)
Bailey, was born at Preston, Connecticut, No
vember 7, 1768, died May 2, 1858. With lim
ited opportunities and early thrown upon his
own resources, he yet succeeded in obtaining
a good education, giving much attention to
music, both vocal and instrumental. He was
fond of his books and a student all his life.
At various times he taught school and was
also a leader and teacher of ordinary church
music. By trade he was a tanner and cur
rier, also learning his father's trade of shoe
maker. He carried on business in, Norwich,
Connecticut, until 1804, when he moved with
his family to the Wyoming Valley of Penn
sylvania, settling in the township of Wilkes-
Barre on a tract of twelve acres lying two
and one-half miles north of the court house
in the city of Wilkes-Barre. As he prospered
additional lands were purchased until he
owned a valuable property on which he erected
a commodious residence. Here he engaged
in the manufacture of leather and at times
(during the winter season) taught in the vil
lage school. Here he passed his remaining
years, honored and respected by all. He was
elected treasurer of Luzerne county, Pennsyl
vania, handling a large amount of public
money, all of which was faithfully accounted
for. The site of his farm is now covered by
a thriving, incorporated borough, while un
derneath a rich vein of anthracite coal has
brought great wealth to his successors in own
ership, a deposit one hundred feet thick (of
which he was totally unaware) underlying the
entire farm. He was a member of the Bap
tist church in good standing for over fifty
years preceding his death. His home, near
Wilkes-Barre, was always a home for minis
ters of that church, nor was the latch string
drawn in upon the approach of ministers of
other evangelical churches. It was his regu
lar practice to give personal attention to see
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fortable order before service began, whether
the minister was or was not of his own par
ticular faith. The covenant meetings of his
church were usually held at his residence.
He married, November 27, 1794, Lydia
Gore, born May 7, 1768, died July 25, 1854
(see Gore VI). She was a woman of quiet
manners, small in stature and attractive in ap
pearance, a true helpmeet and faithful mother.
She was baptized with her '"husband and ad
mitted to the Baptist church in 1808. Chil
dren: 1. Sidney Smith, born November 22,
1795, died September, 1858; married, in 1818,
Laura, daughter of Ebenezer Shaw. He was
a manufacturer of leather, boots and shoes;
dealt in merchandise, lumber, cattle and was
exceedingly active in business operations. He
was a member of the Masonic Order and of
the Methodist Episcopal church. 2. Benja
min F., died December 1, 1839; married, May
20, 1 82 1, Catherine, daughter of Henry and
Elizabeth Stark. He settled in Abington, near
Factory ville (now Wyoming county, Pennsyl- '
vania) where he successfully engaged in busi
ness. He filled several public offices of trust
and late in life joined the Baptist church. 3.
Benajah P., born November 26, 1799, died
March 22, 185 1 ; he was largely engaged in
the manufacture of lumber and in merchan
dising. He was an- officer of the civil war,
serving as colonel of the Eighty-sixth Regi
ment, New York Volunteers; at the second
battle of Bull Run he was wounded and re
tired from the army in shattered health, dy
ing not long afterward. He married (first)
January 4, 1821, Parma, eldest daughter of
Captain Hezekiah Parsons. He married (sec
ond) 1836, Martha Pierce. 4. Caroline, born
February 10, 1802, died September 28, 1855;
married Jeremiah Smith. 5. Hannah, born
October 8, 1803, died December 1, 1839; mar
ried Samuel Wilcox. 6. Harriet, born De
cember 2, 1805, died March 22, 1851 ; mar
ried Cornelius Courtright and settled in
Newark, Illinois. 7. Avery W., born July 7,
1808, died March 9, 1856; married Lydia At-
wat'er. 8. Milton, of whom further. 9. Dan
iel Gore, born April 22, 1815; married Maria
Scott, of English parentage.
Lydia Gore, wife of Benjamin Bailey, was
a descendant of John (1) Gore, of England,
who came to America in 1635. Obadiah
Gore, of the fourth generation,' was a lieu
tenant in the regular continental army and
at the massacre of Wyoming, being old, was

left in the fort (Forty Fort) to help protect
the women and children. Seven members of
the Gore family were in the battle of Wyom
ing, one only escaping unhurt and five lay
dead on the field of battle. Children of Oba
diah Gore : Obadiah, Samuel, Daniel, Silas,
George, Asa, and John, also two daughters.
Silas, George and Asa and the two sons-in-
law were slain at Wyoming, July 3, 1778,
Daniel losing an arm. Captain Daniel, son
of Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, after his escape
at Wyoming with the loss of an arm, ren
dered important service to the government
during the revolution and became one of the
most noted characters of western Pennsyl
vania. He married a Miss Parks and had
Daniel, Obadiah, George, Polly, Rachel, Ly
dia and Thirza (or Theresa). Lydia Gore
married Benjamin Bailey.
(IV) Milton, eighth child of Benjamin
Bailey, was born February 13, 1812. fie
early attended the public district school, and
when ten and one-half years of age became
an inmate of the home of his brother, Sidney
S., at Ulster, Bradford county, Pennsylvania,
where he finished his studies Under the teach
ing of Miss Betsey Starks. As he grew to
manhood he learned the trade of tanner, cur
rier and shoemaker. At the age of eighteen
he often accompanied his brother on business
trips to distant points. On one of these trips
he traveled over the entire length of the rail
road from Frenchtown to Newcastle, Dela
ware, the first railroad ever built in this country
for passenger travel upon which a locomotive
was used for motive power. Also traveled
over the road from Mauch Chunk to the great
Summit coal mines, a distance of nine miles.
At the age of twenty years he taught school
and traveled the following years as a cattle
and lumber salesman to eastern and southern
markets in Pennsylvania. In 1835 he mar
ried and became associated in business with
his brother. He was elected justice of the
peace, serving some eight years until his re
moval from Bradford county. In 1840, he
with his wife and two children were baptized,
the parents uniting with the Methodist Epis
copal church. Soon after he was made an
official member and from that time until his
death held official position in that church, of
which they were both devoted members. He
was postmaster at Ulster several years and
a school director. In 1844 he closed out his
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home for twenty-two years, and moved to
Newark Valley, Tioga county, New York,
where he established a boot and shoe busi
ness, but met with indifferent success. His
health becoming impaired he acted on the ad
vice of his physician and made an extended
trip as agent for the sale of Bibles and relig
ious books. He next obtained a position as
bookkeeper at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, where
he removed his family after disposing of the
Newark Valley property. In 1850 he was
ordained a local preacher by Bishop Elijah
Hedding, of the Methodist Episcopal church
at Philadelphia, on March 31. In 1855 he lost
his wife and in 1856 married a second wife.
While living in Tamaqua he was chosen a
member of the borough council which con
summated the bringing to that town of an
abundance of pure water from distant springs.
After twelve years in Tamaqua he joined his
brother, Benajah P. Bailey, at Corydon, War
ren county, Pennsylvania, as partner in the
management of a large lumber manufacturing
plant, removing to Corydon, December 1,
1859. Here he was postmaster, member of
the school board, and owing to the inf requency
of ministerial services, buried the dead, per
formed marriages and other ministerial work.
He was ordained an elder of the Methodist
Episcopal church by Bishop Simpson, July 19,
1859. During his five years in Corydon he
was superintendent of the Sunday school and
a main pillar of the church.
In the fall of 1864 Mr. Bailey sold his in
terests in Corydon, where he had been very
successful, and came to Jamestown, New
York, where he bought an established gro
cery business at 38 Main street. This he op
erated for several years, then sold out and
accepted a general fire, life and accident in
surance agency, to which later he added a loan
department, fie took an active interest in
the establishment of the Chautauqua Lake
Camp Meeting Association, in 1870-71, and
built the first cottage within the grounds at
Fairpoint. In 1875 he joined with Rev. Theo
dore I. Flood in the publication of The Chau
tauqua Assembly Herald under an arrange
ment with the authorities of the Chautauqua
Sunday School Assembly. Rev. Flood was
the editor, Mr. Bailey the business manager.
The paper met with marked success and af
ter four years a monthly magazine The Chau-
tauquan was established under the same man
agement, the initial number being published

in August, 1880. At about this time Mr.
Bailey sold his interest in the Chautauqua
publications to Dr. Flood and entered into
partnership with Charles L. Jeffords and Lu
ther S. Lakin for the manufacture of furni
ture. '. On the night of December 7, 1883,
their factory burned to the ground, the work
of an incendiary. For the succeeding eight
years Mr. Bailey was employed as traveling
salesman, quitting the road in the spring of
1890. While a resident of Jamestown he was
elected a member of the board of education
of the Jamestown union school and Collegiate
Institute, serving eight years. He also con
tinued his public ministerial work, preaching
in the surrounding towns, baptizing and per
forming much other work as his- license al
lowed. He led a long, active and useful life,
rearing a large family and rendering efficient
service in religious and public life. He died
universally loved and respected by all. On a
memorial window in the Methodist Episcopal
church at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, is inscribed
the name of Milton Bailey and his wife Mary.
This was placed there thirty years after his
removal, by the trustees, in remembrance of
his active interest in church and Sunday
school during his twelve years residence in
that village.
He married (first) September 10, 1835,
Lodoiska M. Lent, adopted daughter of James
Elliott. She died at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania,
December 20, 1855, after a married life of
over twenty years, the mother of four chil
dren. He married (second) December 24,
1856, Fanny G., daughter of Dr. Daniel An
drews, one of the early settlers of Smithfield,
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, going there
when young from Canaan, Connecticut. He
was a physician of long practice and of great
influence in the community and in the Metho
dist Episcopal church. Children of first mar
riage: 1. Maria Louise, born July 29, 1836;
married Conrad F. Shindel, a veteran of the
civil war ; children : Ella, Clarence, Elizabeth,
Charles, Louise. 2. Katherine Elliot, born
August 25, 1838; married, June 28, i860,
William R. Allen. Children: Anna, Louise,
and two who died in infancy. 3. Emma Ma
tilda, born February 20, 1841, died June 29,
1842. 4. Clarence Edward, born April 8, 1843,
died December 13, 1862; enlisted in 1862 in
Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, fie saw
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and at the battle of Fredericksburg, Decem
ber 13, 1862, was shot through the heart. His
body was never found, having been buried by
the enemy. Children of second marriage: 5.
Colonel Charles Austin, born June 21, 1859;
appointed cadet at the military academy, West
Point, 1876, after a. competitive examination;
was graduated June 21, 1880, eighth in his
class. He was at once attached to the First
Regiment, United States Artillery ; took post
graduate course of two years at Fortress Mon
roe; in 1890 traveled six months in Europe
visiting military stations; in 1893 was post
quartermaster located at New York; now col
onel of a regiment in the coast artillery. He
married, in San Francisco, California, Novem
ber 4, 189 — , Mollie Dodge, of that city.
Children: Ormira, Polly. 6. Benjamin Mil
ton, born April 29, 1861 ; educated at James
town union school and Eastman's Business
College, Poughkeepsie, New York; was
treasurer of the Woolson Spice Company, To
ledo, Ohio ; manager of the Andrews Oil Com
pany, of Bradford, Pennsylvania; manager,
secretary and treasurer of the Bradford Hard
wood Lumber Company; now (1911) one of
the proprietors of the Bailey Table Company,
of Jamestown, New York. He married, Oc
tober 18, 1888, Emily May, daughter of Frank
W. Andrews, of Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Children: Frances, Helen, Milton, Roger,
Mary, Carol. 7. Mary Lodeska, born August
23, 1863, died July 20, 1887; unmarried. She
was educated at Jamestown union school and
afterward engaged in teaching. 8. Emma
Bird, born October 24, 1866, died yoUng. 9.
William S., of whom further.
(V) William Shindel, son of Milton Bailey,
was born in Jamestown, New York, January
7, 1869. He was educated at Jamestown
union school and Collegiate Institute, leaving
school at the age of fourteen years, owing to
trouble with his eyes. He entered the employ
of The Jamestown Journal, as office boy, and
worked his way up to a partnership. He was
connected with The Journal for fifteen years,
the last years being treasurer of the company
and in charge of the editorial department.
In 1889 he disposed of his interest in The
Journal and became director of publications
for the Chautauqua Assembly, now the Chau
tauqua Institution. He continued in this po
sition four years, removing his residence to
Qeveland, Ohio, where the assembly general
office was located. He was in entire manage

ment of the Chautauqua publications and edi
torial manager of The Assembly Daily Herald,
at Chautauqua. His long years of training
and experience with The Journal had fully
qualified him for this important post, which
he filled with great credit to himself and
profit to the Chautauqua Institution. In Oc
tober, 1902, he resigned and in association
with Cyrus E. Jones and John H. Wiggins,
incorporated the "Chautauqua School of
Nursing" at Jamestown, of which he is sec
retary and treasurer. The following resolu
tion was adopted by the board of trustees of
the Chautauqua Institution, at the close of the
last year of its department of publications, at
which time Mr. Bailey severed his relation
with the institution :
The committee to whom were referred the re
port of William S. Bailey, director of publica
tions, would respectfully report that we have ex
amined and discussed the document. We find
that Mr. Bailey has displayed marked ability,
loyalty to his institution and intelligent compre
hension of the needs of the publication depart
ment. To our personal knowledge he has la
bored unceasingly in the interest of Chautauqua,
and we consider the exhibit that he has been
able to make highly creditable to him as head of
one of the important departments of the Insti
tution, and we recommend that the secretary of
the board transmit to Mr. Bailey a copy of this
report coupled with the hearty thanks and ap
preciation of the board. Respectfully, Fred W. Hyde.
Ira M. Miller.
W. A. Duncan, Committee.
The Chautauqua School of Nursing re
ceived more extended notice in sketch of Cyrus
E. Jones. The particular work of Mr. Bailey
is in connection with the educational litera
ture of the school, which is of the very highest
order. Mr. Bailey enlisted in the Fenton Guards
(now Thirteenth Separate Company, New
York National Guards) in 1887, and was hon
orably discharged in October, 1892. For five
years he was secretary of the civil organiza
tion of the "Guards." For six years he was
a member of the Ellicott Hook and Ladder
Company of the Jamestown Volunteer Fire
Department, and secretary and treasurer of
the company. He belongs to the Jamestown
Club, and the Chadakoin Boat Club, which he
served as commodore in 1908-09. During his
administration the club removed from their
old quarters at Greenhurst to the new club
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of the very best locations on Chautauqua
Lake. He is an independent Republican in
politics, and served as a member of the James
town board of education, 1 908-11.
He married, October 14, 1896, at James
town, Sagrid Wilhelmina, born there June 28,
1875, daughter of Elof and Minnie (Burlin)
Rosencrantz, both born in Sweden but mar
ried in Jamestown. Her father was one of
the earliest Swedish settlers and is one of
Jamestown's prominent, substantial citizens.
Mrs. Bailey is a graduate of Jamestown high
school, belongs to the First Congregational
Church and the Mozart Club. Children:
William Shindel, born October 2, 1898;
Aleric Rosencrantz, June 26, 1909.
(The Gore Line).
(I) The immigrant ancestor, John Gore, and
Rhoda, his wife, came from England to Amer
ica in 1635, settling at Roxbury, Massachu
setts. (II) Samuel, son of John Gore, married
Elizabeth Wells.
(Ill) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Gore, married Hannah Draper.
(IV) Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, son of
Samuel (2) Gore, married Hannah Park.
(V) Captain Daniel Gore, son of Lieuten
ant Obadiah Gore, married Mary Parks.
(VI) Lydia, daughter of Captain Daniel
Gore, married Benjamin Bailey (see Bailey
III).

The Fuller family in America
FULLER traces its ancestry back to Rob
ert Fuller, of Redenhall, Eng
land, a butcher, who in the beginning of the
seventeenth century lived in comfortable cir
cumstances with his wife, Frances, and some
six or eight children, sons and daughters, for
whom he provided amply at his death, in ac
cordance with his will which is on record and
which is reproduced in the Genealogy of the
Fuller Family. Among the sons of Robert
Fuller of Redenhall were Edward and Sam
uel, who came over to this country in the
"Mayflower" in 1620. Samuel, known as Dr.
Samuel Fuller, was a physician, eminent in
his profession, pious, and wise in counsel; he
was one of the band of Pilgrims, persecuted
on account of his religious convictions, who
escaped from England to Holland in 1608,
and settled in Leyden, emigrating to Amer
ica in 1620. Edward, his brother, who it

seems had remained in England, inheriting
house and lands from his father, sailed direct
from Southampton, where the "Speedwell,"
with the emigrants from Holland, joined the
"Mayflower;" the "Speedwell," proving, un-
seaworthy, returned after the two vessels had
started on the long journey across the Atlan
tic, and the "Mayflower" proceeded on the
voyage alone.
(I) Edward Fuller, immigrant ancestor of
this line of the family in America, was the
son of Robert Fuller, butcher, and was bap
tized September 4, 1575, in the parish of Re
denhall, county of Norfolk, England. As no
trace of him has been found to indicate that
he was with the other Pilgrims in Holland,
it would seem that he joined the others at
Southampton, as stated above, coming over
in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and landing at
Cape Cod in November. As stated by Gov
ernor Bradford, "Edward Fuller and his wife
died soon after they came on shore." Ed
ward died at Plymouth, between January 11
and April 10, 162 1 ; his wife, whose name is
sometimes given as Ann, but is really wholly
unknown, died early in 1621, after January
nth. Their only child was Samuel, who
came over with them in the "Mayflower."
(II) Samuel, son of Edward Fuller, was
born about 1612, at some place in England
not yet determined, no record of his birth
or baptism having been discovered. He grew
up under the care of his uncle, Dr. Samuel
Fuller, at Plymouth. He had three acres at
the division of lands in 1623, receiving, it is
thought, those of his father and mother, and
one for himself; this is not quite certain,
however, as it would seem to indicate that
he must have been at least sixteen years of
age at that time, and his birth therefore some
years previous to the date which has been as
sumed. The land assigned to him was on
the south side of the town brook, "to the
woodward," and included what is now Wat
son's Hill. His neighbors were John How
land, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Winslow,
Gilbert Winslow, and the Indian Hobomok.
At the death of his uncle, of whose house
he was an inmate, he was left certain cattle,
swine, and personal effects, and having
reached man's estate, being from twenty-one
to twenty-five years of age, started out to
seek a home. He became a freeman of the
colony in 1634, and settled in the nearby town
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married Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lathrop,
the pastor of the Scituate Church. He joined
this church, receiving a letter of dismissal
from the church at Plymouth. In 1636 he
built for himself the fifteenth house in Sci
tuate, on Greenfield street, "a small plaine
pallizadse House;" the walls were made of
poles filled between with stones and clay, the
roof thatched, the chimney to the mantel of
rough stones and above of cob-work, the win
dows of oiled paper, and the floors of hand
sawed planks. The kind of house has been
described as "meane," but all the houses in
the village were alike. He had about twenty
acres of land, probably a grant from the town.
In 1639 the Rev. Mr. Lathrop and many of
the members of his church removed and
founded the town of Barnstable, probably at
the time the most easterly settlement on Cape
Cod. If Samuel Fuller and his young wife
did not at once follow him thither, they did
so in a few years. Captain Matthew Fuller,
Samuel's cousin, appears to have removed
from Plymouth at about the same time, and
together they bought of Secunke, an Indian,
that portion of Scorton or Sandy Neck which
lies within the town of Barnstable. Samuel
also bought other lands, and lived in the
northwest angle of the town in a secluded
spot, where few had occasion to pass. He
had been a constable at Scituate in 1641, and
his name appears a few times as juryman, or
on committees to settle difficulties with the
Indians. He was the only one of the pas
sengers of the "Mayflower" who settled per
manently at Barnstable, and one of the late sur
vivors of that company. He died October 31
(November 10), 1683, at Barnstable, Massa
chusetts; and was buried, if not on his own
estate, in the ancient burial place at Lathrop's
Hill in Barnstable, near the site of the first
meeting house. No gravestone now exists.
After his marriage to Jane Lathrop, daugh
ter of Rev. John Lathrop, "at Mr. Cudworth's
house in Scituate, by Captain Miles Standish,
magistrate, 'on ye fourthe daye of ye weeke,'
April 8-18, 1635," there is perhaps only one
mention to be found of her ; this in 1650,
when her consent is appended to a deed of
sale by her husband. Her death, however,
seems to have preceded her husband's. Their
children were: 1. Hannah, born in Scituate;
married, January 1, 1658-59, Nicholas Bon-
ham, of Barnstable. 2. Samuel, baptized Feb
ruary n, 1637, at Scituate. 3. Elizabeth,

married Joseph ( ?) Taylor. 4. Sarah, bap
tized August 1, 1641, by Rev. John Lathrop;
died about 1651-54. 5. Mary, baptized June
16, 1644, by Rev. John Lathrop; married, in
1674, Joseph Williams, son of John Williams,
of Haverhill, Massachusetts. 6. Thomas,
born May 18, 1651, died young. 7. Sarah,
born December 10, 1654; married  Crowe
(probably John Crowell Sr., of Yarmouth). 8.
John, see further mention. 9. Infant, born
February 8, 1658, died fifteen days after.
(Ill) John, son of Samuel and Jane (Lath
rop) Fuller, was born at Barnstable in about
the year 1656. He was called "Little John,"
to distinguish him from his cousin, Dr. John
Fuller. He lived on his father's estate at
Scorton Neck until 1694, when he removed
to East Haddam. Here he seems to have
prospered in worldly estate; about 1721 he
conveyed to each of his seven sons ample lands
and farming implements ; the signature of his
will is very poor, showing extreme age or in
firmity, fie died at East Haddam, Connecti
cut, between February 28 and May 20, 1726.
About the year 1678 he married Mehitabel,
daughter of Moses Rowley; she was born at
Barnestable, Massachusetts, January n, 1660-
61, died in East Haddam about 1732. Chil
dren: 1. Thomas, see further mention. 2.
Samuel, born about 1682, in Barnstable. 3.
Shubael, born about 1684, in Barnstable. 4.
Thankful, born about 1688, in Barnstable;
married Jabez Crippen, son of Thomas Crip-
pen, of Falmouth. 5. Deborah, born about
1689; married, in 1716, John, son of Moses
and Mary Rowley; died in 1752, leaving chil
dren. 6. Edward, born about 1691, at Barn
stable. 7. Elizabeth, born about 1693, at
Barnstable; married Samuel Rowley, her
cousin, of East Haddam and Hebron, Con
necticut; was living in 1766. 8. John, born
November 10, 1697, at East Haddam. 9.
Joseph, born March 1, 1699- 1700, at East
Haddam. 10. Benjamin, born October 20,
1701, at East Haddam. n. Anne, born about
1703-04; married in 1727, Jonathan Rowley,
of East Haddam and Sharon. 12. Mehitabel,
born April 6, 1706, at East Haddam ; married
Benjamin Kneeland.
(IV) Thomas, son of John and Mehitabel
(Rowley) Fuller, was born about 1679, in
Barnstable, died April 9, 1772, in East fiad-
dam, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth  ,
born about 1689, died November 5, 1784, at
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further mention. 2. Thomas, born April 5,
1717; married (first) Martha Rowley, (sec
ond) Mary Hosmer. 3. Nathan, born April
20, 1719; married Abigail  . 4. Hannah,
born March 21, 1720; married, in 1743, Cap
tain William Church, of East Haddam. 5.
Jabez, born February 19, 1722; married Lois
Hubbard. 6. Jonathan, born January 12, 1725,
died 1758, unmarried. 7. Elizabeth, born
March, 1727; married Samuel Church, of
East Haddam.
( V) Ebenezer, son of Thomas and Eliza
beth Fuller, was born October 27, 1715, in
East Haddam, died September 30, 1749, in
Hebron, Connecticut, fie married, Septem
ber 30, 1738, Mary Rowley, probably daugh
ter of Moses and Martha (Porter) Rowley,
of Colchester and East Haddam, born Decem
ber 5, 1708, at Colchester, died at Hebron,
February 5, 1798. Children: 1. Ebenezer,
born May 8, 1739, at Hebron. 2. Dimmis,
born October 1, 1742, at Hebron; married
Solomon Huntington, of Hebron; died at
East Haddam in 1800. 3. Mary, born Au
gust 25, 1743; married John Filer. 4. Ozias,
born September 25, 1745. 5. Roger, born
July 21, 1747. 6. Elizabeth, born April 5,
1750; married, in 1769, Joshua Phelps Jr.
All the above children born at Hebron.
(VI) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
and Mary (Rowley) Fuller, was born May
8, 1739, at fiebron, Connecticut. He enlisted
May 8, 1762, in Captain Timothy Northam's
company in the service of the Province of
New York (see muster rolls in New York
Historical Society Collection, 1891). He mar
ried Abigail Hendee, March 20, 1764. Chil
dren, born in Hebron: 1. Rowena, born
March 3, 1765; married, in 1784, Jared
Phelps, son of John and Deborah (Dewey)
Phelps. 2. Abigail, born November 25, 1766,
died 1853, in Becket, Massachusetts; married
Nathan Phelps, son of John and Deborah
(Dewey) Phelps. 3. Mehitabel, born Febru
ary 13, 1770, died December 6, 1773. 4.
Ebenezer, see further mention. 5. Mehitabel,
born May 26, 1775, died April 17, 1869, in
Becket, Massachusetts; married, January 9,
1800, Jesse Rudd. 6. Elizabeth, born May 1,
1778. 7. Sally, born June 28, 1782; married
Elihu Watrous, in 1812. 8. Arethusa, born
April, 1785, died April 17, 1869; married,
April 3, 1807, Isaiah Kingsley, died in Becket,
Massachusetts. (VII) Ebenezer (3), son of Ebenezer (2)

and Abigail (Hendee) Fuller, was born No
vember 8, 1772, in Hebron, Connecticut. He
was a cheerful, energetic, active and industri
ous man, having many friends. He married,
in March, 1801, Hannah House, born July 25,
1782, died April 16, 1847; they settled in
Cazenovia, New York, about 1802, and here
Ebenezer Fuller died May 10, 1858. Their
children, all born in Cazenovia, were: 1.
Polly, born March 19, 1802, died February
7, 1854. 2. Erastus, born November 25,1803;
married Lucretia Gilbert. 3. Harriet, born
October 25, 1804, died January 25, 1876, at
Corning, New York; married David Smith,
who died in 1864, and had son James, who
died in 1902. 4. Emily, born July 27, 1806,
died February, 1858; married Orange Hill
and had one daughter. 5. John H., born Janu
ary 9, 1809; married (first) Wilhelmina
Tucker, (second) Susan Garder. 6. Terrell,
born August 18, 1813 ; married (first) Char
lotte Frizell, (second) Jane Card. 7. Dwight
A., born January 27, 1815; married Jane E.
Merrick. 8. George Washington, born March
n, 1818; married Adeline Bradley. 9. Ralph
D., see further mention.
(VIII) Ralph D., son of Ebenezer (3) and
Hannah (House) Fuller, was born in Caze
novia, New York, February 26, 1820. He was
the earliest of this branch of the Fuller fam
ily to settle in Chautauqua county, New York.
He was educated in the district school, and
lived in Cazenovia until 1840 when he re
moved to Portland, Chautauqua county, and
for thirty years engaged in merchandising,
for four years in company with William Barn-
hart, and the remaining twenty-six years alone.
In 1866, while still in Portland, he purchased
a wine cellar and wine making plant, and
thereafter was also engaged in the manufac
ture of wine. In September, 1879, he formed
a partnership with J. A. H. Skinner, which
continued until Mr. Fuller's death, in 1886.
He was a prominent politician in the town,
being a Democrat, and holding the appoint
ment of supervisor and various other public
offices in Portland. He died possessed of a
large estate accumulated through his own un
tiring industry and ability, having inaugurated
the wine making business in the village. His
death occurred May 20, 1886. He married, in
Jamestown, New York, December 22, 1859,
Adeline Coney, born in Portland, February
12, 1830, and who, in 191 1, still survived him.
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(Fales) Coney, who were the parents of eight
children: Lucius Coney, married Diana
Lowry; Dexter F. Coney, married Thirza
Burley; DeWitt Clinton Coney, married Car
rie  ; Jeremiah Coney, a veteran of the
civil war from Colorado, who died unmarried ;
Adeline Coney, married Ralph D. Fuller;
John R. Coney, married Mary Young; Alice
Coney, died young ; Oliver Coney, died at the
age of twenty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
D. Fuller had but one child, George Washing
ton, see further mention.
(IX) George Washington, son of Ralph D.
and Adeline (Coney) Fuller, was born in Port
land, Chautauqua county, New York, Novem
ber 26, i860.
He received an excellent practical education
at the public schools and at Westfield Academy.
After completing his studies he became asso
ciated in business with his father, and under
his expert teaching grew thoroughly versed
in grape culture and the art of making wine.
Upon his father's death he became manager
of the business in partnership with J. A. H.
Skinner. The firm, Fuller & Skinner, con
tinued the manufacture of wines until 1907,
when Mr. Fuller purchased his partner's in
terest and continued the business alone until
poor health compelled him to dispose of the
manufacturing plant. Since then he has de
voted himself exclusively to grape culture and
the management of his vineyards. He is one
of Portland's business men, and a leading and
prosperous citizen. In politics he is a Demo
crat and is greatly interested in the public wel
fare, though he has never sought nor held
office of any kind.
George W. Fuller is a member in high
standing of the following organizations : King
Solomon's Lodge, No. 219, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Westfield; Westfield Chapter, No.
239, Royal Arch Masons; Dunkirk Council,
No. 25, Royal and Select Masters; Dunkirk
Commandery, No. 40, Knights Templar ; Buf
falo Consistory, thirty-second degree, Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite. Mr. Fuller mar
ried, May 5, 1891, Berneda Fay, at Portland,
New York; she is the daughter of Elisha H.
and Ada Dodge Fay, and was born March 1,
1869 (see Fay VIII). The children of Mr.
and Mrs. Fuller, all born in Portland, are as
follows: Viola Beatrice, March 13, 1893;
Ralph D., August 26, 1897; Donald C, Feb
ruary 2, 1899; Gertrude L., January 1, 1904;
George Winston, March 6, 1907.

(The Fay Line).
(II) David Fay, son of John Fay, the im
migrant (q. v.) was born in Marlborough,
Massachusetts, April 23, 1679, died April 10,
1738. He inherited the homestead in Marl
borough and settled in that part of the town
apportioned as Southborough. About 1731
he built a grist mill on Stony Brook; he was
constable and selectman of Southborough, and
his house was one of those chosen as a garri
son for protection against the Indians. On
April 2, 1 710, he became a member of the
church. He married, May 1, 1699, Sarah Lar-
kin. There were twelve children.
(Ill) Captain Aaron Fay, tenth child of
David Fay, was born in Southborough, Mas
sachusetts, April 18, 1719, died very suddenly
in his carriage near the Stony Brook station
in his native town, in January, 1798. He
built a mill near Stony Brook, afterward re
moved to the old homestead of his grand
father. He served in the French and Indian
war; and was a tithingman, overseer of the
poor, and captain of militia. He married
(first) Thankful Newton, born July 27/1719,
died 1756, daughter of Jonathan and Bethia
(Rice) Newton. There were ten children.
fie married (second) Eunice Brandish. There
were ten children.
(IV) Nathaniel, fourth child of Captain
Aaron Fay by his first wife, was born Feb
ruary 6, 1747, died in Southborough, Massa
chusetts, August 10, 18 1 2. He married Ruth
Rice. Sons : Elijah, Elisha, Nathaniel and
Hollis, all of whom were among the early set
tlers of the town of Portland, Chautauqua
county, New York. Elijah and Elisha have
further mention. Nathan Fay, not a brother,
also settled early in the town.
(V) Deacon Elijah Fay, son of Nathaniel
Fay, was born in Southborough, Massachu
setts, September 9, 1781, died in Portland,
Chautauqua county, New York, August 23,
i860. He married, prior to 181 1, Lucy Bel
knap, of Westborough, Massachusetts, who
died January 18, 1872. In 181 1 he came with
his wife to Portland in a wagon drawn by a
yoke of oxen and a horse ; forty-one days were
consumed in making the journey from Massa
chusetts. He settled on lot No. 20, township
No. 5, one hundred and seventy-nine acres;
his first log cabin was built and ready for oc
cupancy, January 1, 1812. The next year he
built a better house, using the first as a barn
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ing floor. Three years later a still better house
was built, which the family occupied in 1831,
when the present residence was built. Mr.
Fay was a man of prominence in the town ; he
was one of the founders of the Baptist church
and one of its early deacons. He is the father
of the grape industry in western New York;
and in 1830 made the first wine ever made in
Chautauqua county, ten gallons, all of which
was used for sacramental purposes. Children :
Clinton S., married Almira A. Clark; Lydia
E., married Laurance E. Ryckman; Joseph B.,
married (first) Maria M. Sage, (second)
Martha Haywood.
(V) Elisha, son of Nathaniel Fay and bro
ther of Deacon Elijah Fay, was born in Fram-
ingham, Massachusetts, June 2, 1783. He
came to Portland in June, 1806, and at the time
of his death was the oldest actual settler in
Portland. He settled on lot No. 25, on which
he lived about seventy years. In 1807 he re
turned to Massachusetts, and married, Septem
ber 7, 1807, coming back with his bride, Sophia
Nichols. He then built a new log house, which
he occupied until 1828, when he built a stone
house, which is now standing. He served in
the war of 1812, and was in battles at Black
Rock and Buffalo. He was an early member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, later join
ing the Wesleyan Methodist. His wife, So
phia, died October, 1850 ; and after her death
he continued to reside on the old farm with
his son. Children : Lincoln, of further men
tion ; Edward, died aged twenty-three years ;
Charles, married Lydia A. Hall ; Otis N., mar
ried Emmeline Van Tassel.
(VI) Lincoln, son of Elisha Fay, was born
in Portland, Chautauqua county, New York,
about 1808. He became owner of the home
stead located in 1806 by Nathan Fay (not an
uncle). He married Sophronia Peck.
(VII) Elisha II., son of Lincoln Fay, was
born in Portland, New York, June 21, 1844,
died October 23, 19 10. He married Ada
Dodge. (VIII) Berneda, daughter of Elisha H.
Fay, was born March 1, 1869. She married,
May 5, 1891, George W. Fuller (see Fuller
IX).

The immigrant ancestor of the
WARING Warings and Warrens, of Con
necticut, was Richard Waring,
who arrived in Boston on the ship "Endeavor"
in 1664, accompanied by his young son Rich

ard. Shortly afterward he settled on Long
Island. He spelled his name Waring, and as
such was one of the original proprietors of
Brookhaven, Long Island, in 1665. His de
scendants use both Waring and Warren as a
surname, although in England they are two
separate and distinct families, as their ancient
armorial bearings conclusively prove. Richard
Waring, the immigrant, owned large tracts of
land on Long Island. Edmund, his son, set
tled at Norwalk, Connecticut, and is the an
cestor of the Warrens of Troy, also of the
Warings, of Stamford, Connecticut, and of
New York state.
(I) William Waring, a descendant, of Rich
ard Waring, was born in Stamford, Connecti
cut. He served in the war of 1812, and later
lived in New York City, settling in Franklin
ville, Cattaraugus county, New York, in 1820.
His wife, Catherine, bore him eight children.
(II) John, son of William Waring, was
born October 7, 1817, died February 20, 1890.
He was a child of three years when his father
settled in Franklinville, New York, where, ex
cept for a few years spent in Ontario, Canada,
his after life was spent. He was educated in
the district school, and after his marriage pur
chased a good farm one mile north of Frank
linville, on which he lived until his death. He
married, in 1836, Catherine Hogg, born in
Scotland. Sons : James Henry, of whom fur
ther; William W.,-an attorney, married Lucy
Flagg Thayer; Melvin T., of St. Louis, Mis
souri ; Samuel Hogg, of Franklinville, New
York. (Ill) James Henry, eldest son of John War
ing, was born in Farmersville, Cattaraugus
county, New York, February 3, 1848, died
July 6, 1906. He was educated in the public
school, and at Ten Broeck Academy, where
he completed a full course and was graduated
in 1870, a member of the first class graduated
from that institution. In his years of minority
he was engaged in farming with his father.
In 1871-72 he attended the Law School of
Michigan University. After his return he
read law with Scott, Laidlaw & McVey, of
Ellicottville, later with Judge Samuel S.
Spring, of Franklinville. In 1875 he was ad
mitted to the bar and began the practice of
his profession in Franklinville, Cattaraugus
county, alone ; later practiced with his brother,
William W., the firm being J. H. and W. W.
Waring. In 1884 he came to Olean, New
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Judge D. H. Bolles, continuing as Bolles &
Waring until 1894, when Mr. Waring with
drew and ever afterward practiced alone. In
1889 he was elected district attorney of Cat
taraugus county, served three years, and in
1892 was re-elected for another term of three
years. He became the foremost leader of
the Cattaraugus county bar and the best
known man in the county. He was an earnest,
active, forceful, party worker, and the suc
cess of the Republican party in the eastern
part of the county was due to his popularity
and efficient leadership. He was learned in
the law — probably no member of the bar of
Cattaraugus county equalled him. in that re
spect, while in his knowledge of pleading and
practice he was unsurpassed, fie was very
successful as a public prosecutor and made an
enviable record during his six years in that
office. In his private practice he held the con
fidence of a large clientage among the leading
men of the county, who relied implicitly upon
his counsel and advice. He was elected mayor
of Olean in 1900, and re-elected in 1904. His
health then becoming impaired, he refused a
reelection. His administration of the mayor's
office was most admirable and is yet referred
to as a model of efficiency, economy and hon
esty. He was so well known and highly re
garded that he was spoken of for the supreme
bench of the state, hut poor health defeated
that intention. He was a member of the state
and county bar associations ; member of lodge,
chapter and commandery of the Masonic or
der ; member of the City Club, and a supporter
of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He married, July 19, 1876, Agnes Little,
born September 12, 1848, who survives him,
a resident, of Olean, New York. She has no
children. Mrs. Waring is a daughter of John
Little, a prominent public man of Franklin
ville, where he held the office of postmaster
twenty-nine years, 1861-90, until his death.
He married Elizabeth Shearer. Children: 1.
James, married Mary Oakes ; children : Orrin
J., Reuben B., J. Frank, Guy, and David. 2.
Margaret, married Stephen Andrews; chil
dren: John Frank and Creighton S., of
Olean. 3. Elizabeth, married Reuben C. But
ton. 4. Catherine, married P. T. B. Button.
5. John, married Christine McVey; children:
Elizabeth Margaret, Carrie M., Mason W.,
Katherine and Archie McVey. 6. Agnes, mar
ried James Henry Waring. 7. Mary Frances.

The ancestors of the Huntons
HUNTON of Salamanca, New York,
were of English birth. The
family was founded in America, simultane
ously in Massachusetts, Maine and Northern
Virginia. The founder of the branch herein re
corded was William Hunton, born in Eng
land, came to America and soon after settled
in New Hampshire, where he had a grant of
land in 1643. Nothing is known with certainty
of his family, but it is supposed that Philip,
the ancestor of the Huntons and Huntoons of
New England, was his son. From William
and Philip Plunton the family spread over
New England, this particular branch going
first to Maine, later settling in New York
state. The first definite record is of William
Hunton, as stated.
(II) Philip, son of William Hunton, mar
ried Betsey fiall, of Exeter, New Hampshire.
He was captured by the Indians, July 22, 1710,
his son Samuel being mortally wounded at
the same time. Philip was taken to Canada
and sold to the French. He purchased his
freedom by erecting a saw mill, and returned
home after two years.
(Ill) John, son of Philip and Betsey
(Hall) Hunton, was born about 1690. He
married Mary Rundlett and had twelve chil
dren. (IV) There is no record found of these
twelve children by which the true head of this
generation can be determined.
(V) John (2), grandson of John (1) and
Mary (Rundlett) Hunton, was a resident of
the state of Maine. He was born about 1750,
married and had issue.
(VI) John (3), son of John (2) Hunton,
of Maine, was born in that state about 1788,
died 1834, at Forestville, Cattaraugus county,
New York. He was educated in the district
school, and followed farming all his life. In
1827 he was living in Orleans county, New
York, later removed to Cattaraugus. He
served in the war of 1812, as a drummer boy,
and was a man of good reputation. He was
a Democrat in politics, but held no public of
fice. He married, at Holley, Orleans county,
New York, Anna, born in Mendon, New
York, 1800, daughter of David Day, a farmer
and a soldier of the war of 1812. He mar
ried Polly Lee. Children: Charles, married
Clarissa Mitchell ; children : Lewis, George
and Mary ; Anna, married John Hunton. Chil-

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dren of Mr. and Mrs. Hunton: George, of
whom further; Mary M., Ozro, John.
(VII) George, son of John (3) and Anna
(Day) Hunton, was born in Holley, Orleans
county, New York, September 19, 1827. His
father removed to New Albion, Cattaraugus
county, where George was educated in the
public schools. He worked at farming in New
Albion, and later learned the trade of wagon
and carriage maker. He is now, in his eighty-
fourth year, a resident of Walterboro, South
Carolina, and furnished in his own handwrit
ing data for this record. He is a Republican
in politics. Was town clerk of New Albion
three years, and held the office of justice of
the peace twenty-eight years, by successive
elections, from 1863 to 1891, making seven full
terms of four years each. He married, Oc
tober 25, 1849, at New Albion, Philenia Mack-
ey, born at Milford, Otsego county, New
York, March n, 1828, daughter of David
Mackey, a farmer and town collector, and his
wife, Laura. David and Laura Mackey had
children : Philenia, Rachel, Oscar. Children
of George and Philenia Hunton : Eugene
Oscar, of whom further; Cora M., born Janu
ary 19, 1854, died young; Jessie, born April
25, 1864, married J. R. Lawrence, and resides
at Walterboro, South Carolina.
(VIII) Eugene Oscar, eldest son of George
and Philenia (Mackey) Hunton, was born in
New Albion, Cattaraugus county, New York,
May 21, 1853, died in New Albion, same
county, March 1, 1901. He was educated in
the public schools, and learned the trade of
carriage maker with his father. He was an
all-round wood worker, built houses and did
carpenter work in summer, made barrels and
did wagon work in winter. He held to the
Spiritualistic belief in religion, and was a Re
publican in politics. He married Cora, daugh
ter of Albert and Theresa (Boardman) Eddy;
she died in 1880. Albert Eddy was one of the
early settlers of New Albion. Children : El
bridge Gerry, of whom further ; Nellie, born
November 20, 1875, now a trained nurse in
Denver, Colorado.
(IX) Elbridge Gerry, only son of Eugene
Oscar and Cora (Eddy) Hunton, was born
in New Albion, Cattaraugus county, New
York, May 10, 1874. He was named for El
bridge Gerry, "the signer." He was educated
in the public schools of Cattaraugus, attended
the high school, Cattaraugus, two years, then
finished his studies in the Salamanca hisrh

school. After leaving school he taught five
years in the schools of New Albion. He was
next engaged in the drug business with J. C.
Kreiger, going from there to the University
of Buffalo, where he took a course in phar
macy, graduating in class of 1902. On the for
mation of the Kreiger Drug Company, Mr.
Hunton was elected secretary, continuing un
til 1907, when he resigned and spent a year
in Denver, Colorado. Returning in 1908 he
resumed his office of secretary of the Kreiger
Drug Company, of Salamanca, New York,
which office he now fills (1912). He is a
member of the Masonic Order, belonging to
lodge and chapter in Salamanca. He also be
longs to the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian,
member of St. Mary's Church, Salamanca.
He is a Republican in politics, and served two
years as village trustee.
He married, August 18, 1897, Bertha May,
born August 21, 1878, daughter of James Mc
Guire, born June 2, 1838, died May 21, 1894,
married, October 2, 1866, Flora fiorth, born
August 22, 1845, died September 18, 1893,
Children of Mr. and Mrs. McGuire: 1. Sarah,
born December 9, 1871 ; married, October 25,
1899, Willett E. fiazard ; children : James M.,
born September 15, 1903 ; Maurice H., June 15,
1905; Walter L., July n, 1907. 2. Belle M.,
born November 6, 1876; married, April 12,
1899, John E. Mabie. 3. Bertha May, mar
ried Elbridge Gerry Hunton. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Hunton: 1. Eugene Willis, born
November 27, 1902. 2. Marie Gertrude, Jan
uary 14, 1906. 3. Flora Bell, October 22,
1910.

This family descends from a
BEYER German ancestor, who at the
date this record begins was a
physician, practicing in Alsace-Lorraine, then
a province of Germany, as it is now. Dr.
Frederick Beyer, of Alsace, Germany, married
and had a son.
(II) Frederick (2), son of Dr. Frederick
(1) Beyer, was born in Alsace, Germany,
where he married and had children born. He
came to the United States and settled with
his family in Albany, New York, July 3, 1841.
While a resident of Albany, Mr. Beyer met
with a serious accident that so injured his leg
as to leave him a cripple. Later he removed
to Buffalo, New York, making his journey
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largely in cash, with which he intended to
purchase a large tract of land. After examin
ing Erie county farms, and deciding that the
price was higher than he wanted to pay, he
took passage on the vessel "Erie" for Chicago,
where he was told land in plenty could be
bought for one dollar per acre, fie left with
his wife one thousand four hundred dollars,
taking with him the balance of his capital to
purchase a large tract wherever price and loca
tion suited him. The "Erie" caught fire and
was totally destroyed, Mr. Beyer perishing in
the wreck, it is supposed, as he was never
again heard from, fie was a member of the
German Lutheran church, and identified with
the Whig party. He married, in Germany,
Barbara Hahn, who survived him, and after
becoming a widow purchased a farm in the
town of Lancaster, which she operated with
the assistance of her older sons. She kept the
family together on the farm until they were
self-supporting, they in turn caring for her
in her old age. Only one of the children ever
married. There were seven in the family:
John Frederick, John, Mary Barbara, Philip,
Christian, of whom further, Magdalena and
David. (Ill) Christian, fifth child and fourth son
of Frederick (2) and Barbara (Hahn) Beyer,
was born in Alsace, Germany, June 9, 1837,
died in Erie county, New York, December 12,
1909. He was brought to the United States
by his parents in 1841, and received a good
education in the public schools and Williams
ville Academy, fie worked with his brothers
on the Lancaster farm until he arrived at a
suitable age for learning a trade. For several
years he followed carpentering, teaching in
the district schools during the winter terms.
He was a good singer, and understood music
so well that he organized singing classes, after
the style of the old-fashioned "Singing
School." He became a well-known contractor
and builder, erecting many barns, dwellings,
etc., in the neighborhood. He wanted to en
list during the civil war, but was prevented by
his mother. After marriage he settled in the
town of Lancaster, where he remained four
years, and in 1868 purchased a farm and re
moved to Blossom, town of West Seneca, Erie
county. He was tax collector of his town, and
served as school trustee. In early life he was
a member of the Lutheran church, with his
family, but later in life became a Christadel-
phian. In politics he was a Whig and a Re

publican. His acquaintance was a very large
one, his duties as school teacher and singing
master bringing him in contact with the
young, while as contractor and farmer he met
their elders. He was highly respected by
young and old, and died loved and sincerely
mourned. He married, January 14, 1863, Lucy E.,
born in Nova Scotia, October 23, 1845, daugh
ter of John and Sarah Elizabeth (Weir) Tray-
nor, and maternal granddaughter of Samuel
Weir. The Traynors and Weirs were of
English, Scotch and Irish descent. Children:
1. Frank A., of whom further. 2. Edward
F., born June 8, 1866; married, June 26, 1900,
Alice Lindsay; children: Winifred F., born
April 20, 1906; Robert L., born January 29,
1910; Gertrude T., born August 12, 191 1. 3.
James M., born April 7, 1869, died January
1, 1893. 4. Ruby E., born December 13, 1872;
married, August 30, 1905, Almon B. Farwell,
born January 19, 1870. 5. Pearl E., born
October 24, 1880.
(IV) Frank A., eldest son and child of
Christian and Lucy E. (Traynor) Beyer, was
born in the town of Alden, Erie county, New
York, September I, 1864. In 1868 his par
ents removed to Blossom, West Seneca, Erie
county, where his boyhood years were spent
and public school education acquired. After
completing his studies there, he began clerk
ing for Adam Beckel, continuing until he had
saved money enough to pay for a course in
business training at Bryant & Stratton's" Busi
ness College in Buffalo, from whence he was
graduated. His first business engagement in
Buffalo was with L. F. W. Arend, a dry goods
merchant on Main street. In about half a
year this was purchased by Barnes, Bancroft
& Company, which later became "The William
Hengerer Company," a large department
store. Mr. Beyer remained through these
changes and had so established himself in
favor, as a capable and trustworthy young
man, that he was made manager of the credit
department, a position he held for eleven
years. During the last two years of this
period he was interested with his brother, Ed
ward F., in the firm of Beyer & Company,
grocers, Buffalo, a business later sold to Frank
J. Eberle. In 1884 opportunities so presented
themselves to Mr. Beyer that he resigned his
position, removed to Red House, Cattaraugus
county, New York, where he opened a general
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the lumber business, a line in which he was
destined to become notably identified. In
1902 the growing importance of the lumber
trade demanded so much of his time that he
disposed of his store and removed to Sala
manca, New York, which he made his head
quarters during his residence in Cattaraugus
county. In 1904 he returned to Buffalo and
at once assumed a leading position in the lum
ber trade. He organized the firm of Beyer,
Knox & Company in 1904, and in 1907 the
Pascola Lumber Company, of which he was
chosen president. Besides being a large deal
er and closely identified with large lumber en
terprises, he labored successfully to bring
about a spirit of co-operation among lumber
men and dealers, and in fostering a unanimity
of sentiment, and natural helpfulness that
greatly benefited the trade. In 1908 he was
chosen president of the Hardwood Lumber
Exchange of Buffalo. In 1907 he was chosen
treasurer of the Manufacturers' Club, 1908-09
he was president of the same, and in the
same years vice-regent snark, Western Dis
trict of New York, of the -Hoo Hoo's, a
lumber organization. He is also a director
of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa
tion of Chicago, Illinois. In 1910 he was
elected treasurer of Erie county, assuming the
duties of that office, January 1, 191 1.
Progressive and public-spirited, high-mind
ed and honorable, energetic and ambitious,
there seems no qualification that Mr. Beyer
lacks to carry him onward and upward in
public or business life. He stands as a leader
in civic and industrial progress; his opinions
carry weight with his fellows and his advice
is sought on important matters relating to the
public good. Politically he is a Republican,
and an attendant of the Park Presbyterian
Church. He is a member of the Manufac
turers' Club, of which he was president, 1908-
09, and president of the Otovega Club. He
has been identified with the Masonic Order
for several years. He is a member of Queen
City Lodge, No. 358, Free and Accepted Ma
sons; Salamanca Chapter, No. 362, Royal
Arch Masons ; Lake Erie Commandery, No.
20, Knights Templar ; Buffalo Consistory, No.
320, and Ismailia Temple, Mystic Shrine. He
is also a director and member of the executive
committee of the Buffalo Chamber of Com
merce. He married, August 20, 1890, Elizabeth G.,
born August 2, 1866, daughter of Samuel S.

Rolls, of Ontario, Canada, and his wife, Eliza
beth (Walker) Rolls. She is the third of five
children, Joseph W., Louise, Elizabeth G.,
George and Jennie A. Children of Frank A.
and Elizabeth G. Beyer: 1. Florence A., born
December 5, 1892. 2. Marguerite A., June
20, 1894. 3. Lillian Vera, September 9, 1896.
4. Frank A. Jr., May 5, 1903.

The great mass of the English
HALL Halls undoubtedly are the posterity
of the men of Halle, Saxony, who
came in the successive Saxon invasions of
England. They were called De la Halle,
which became a surname and is now simply
Hall. It is said the Halls of Great Britain
exceed in number any other name except
Smith, Jones, Brown and Robinson. There
were many Hall emigrants to New England
prior to 1700 settling in all colonies.
The emigrant ancestor of the Halls of Port
land, Chautauqua county, New York, is Ed
ward Hall, who is probably the Edward made
freeman at Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1636.
He was at Duxbury, Massachusetts, July 7,
1636; at Bridgewater, 1640; at Taunton, 1641 ;
at Duxbury, 1642-43 ; at Bridgewater, Massa
chusetts, 1644, where land was allotted him
March 28, 1645. He owned a one fifty-fourth
part of the town from 1645 to 1650, when he
withdrew and had land apportioned him in
Rehoboth. Edward Hall had a family in
Braintree, Massachusetts, where he resided
from 1650 to 1655. He moved to Rehoboth
in 1655, where he was number 41 out of for
ty-nine persons in order of the settlers' estates
for meadow lands. Lots were also drawn,
May 26, 1668 for meadow lands. The name
of Edward Hall appears in both drawings.
He made his will, November 23, 1670, and
died November 27, 1670. His wife, Hester,
survived him. Children, born in Rehoboth,
except the first two, born in Braintree: John,
Esther, Samuel, Jeremiah, Thomas, Pre
served, Andrew, Benjamin (of whom fur
ther). (II) Benjamin, youngest child of Edward
Hall, "the emigrant," was born in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, August 7, 1668, died in Wren-
tham, Massachusetts, August 26, 1726. He
was absent from Wrentham a year or two be
fore 1699 and a year or two after 1710. He
married, in Wrentham, January 9, 1691, Sarah
Fisher, died November 2, 1756. Children:
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Jeremiah, Benjamin, twin of Jeremiah, Pre
served, Sarah and possibly two other children
not born in Wrentham.
(Ill) Edward (2), son of Benjamin Hall,
was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in
March, 1698. He was a proprietor of that
town in 1734 and 1742. He died between
November, 1764, and 1765. He, was a ser
geant, ensign and lieutenant, commissioned by
the English crown, and was in the colonial
service. He removed to Uxbridge, where he
purchased two hundred acres of land, pay
ing two thousand pounds. He married, Feb
ruary 7, 1 72 1, Hannah, daughter of Eleazer
Fisher, of Wrentham. Children: Ezekiel,
Edward (of whom further), James, Hezekiah,
Hannah, Mary and Seth.
(IV) Edward (3), son of Edward (2)
Hall, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts,
July 18, 1727, died in Croydon, New Hamp
shire, December 28, 1807. He settled in Croy
don before 1774 with a family of ten children
and his niece, Elizabeth Hall. He lived near
his father's farm in Massachusetts, and it is
said kept a tavern. He was a lieutenant in
the colonial service, commission by the
crown, and was a Royalist from principle. He
. was highly esteemed, serving as selectman,
1784-85-86; also was constable, collector and
moderator. His children were all born in
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, four of his sons
serving in the continental army. He married,
in 1748, Lydia, daughter of John and Sarah
(Taft) Brown, of Uxbridge, or Leicester,
Massachusetts. She was born 1730, died 1819.
Children: 1. Hannah, "married Ezekiel Pow
ers. 2. Ezekiel. 3. Abijah, held the offices of
constable, collector, selectman and captain. 4.
James, of whom further. 5. Edward, held the
offices of captain, constable, collector, modera
tor, representative and proprietor's clerk, 1794-
1810; a man of large property in Croydon.
6. John, married Jerusha Woodbury. 7.
Lydia, married Timothy Eggleston. 8. Betty,
married John Leverin. 9. Ezra, married
Molly Leland. 10. Darius, married Betty
Brown. All died in Croydon, New Hamp
shire, except Ezekiel, Ezra and Darius.
(V) James, third son of Edward (3) Hall,
was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, April
19, 1757, died in Croydon, New Hampshire,
July 29, 1835. He was a farmer all his life
and owned a large trace of land. He served
in the revolutionary war and fought under
the direct command of General Washington.

He was in receipt of a revolutionary pension
until his death. He was a member of the
Episcopal church, and a man of great influ
ence. He married, November 30, 1775, (then
in his nineteenth year) Huldah Cooper, of
Croydon, who died February 19, 1847, aged
eighty-eight years, and is buried in Croydon.
She was a niece of Roger Sherman, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Children, five born in Croydon, New Hamp
shire, five in Richmond, Vermont, and two
in Peru, New York: 1. Abijah, born Novem
ber 7, 1777. 2. Sarah Cooper, July 12, 1779,
died young. 3. Delia Ann Ward, August 31,
1782; married Benjamin White. 4. Ahira,
of whom further. 5. Chloe, born May 19,
1787; married Manasseh Sawyer. 6. Huldah,
July 21, 1789; married  Darling, of
Croydon. 7. James, born July 22, 1792 ; mar
ried (first) his cousin, Ruth Hall; (second)
Mrs. Sarah Dustin; settled in Newport, New
Hampshire, and represented that town in the
state legislature, 1845-46. 8. Asaph Sherman,
born August 2, 1794, died 1813. 9. Carlton,
born February 17, 1797; married (first)
 ¦ ; (second) Mrs. Catherine Hall. 10.
Albina, born October 16, 1800; student of
the medical department of Dartmouth Col
lege and prepared the herbarium used in the
college for many years, being the best botanist
in college. He was a graduate of Berkshire
Medical Institute, 1823, and practiced his pro
fession successfully in Landoff, New Hamp
shire; Sedgwick, Maine; Fredonia, New
York; Newport, New Hampshire; Wisconsin
and Croydon, New Hampshire, dying in the
latter place. He represented Croydon in the
state legislature in 1868-69; was candidate
for state senator in 1871, and served as jus
tice of the peace many years. He was the last
survivor of his large family. He married
Livia Powers, December 18, 1823; no chil
dren. 1 1.. Lyman, born in Peru, New York,
December 9, 1808; studied medicine and set
tled in Cornish, New Hampshire ; married and
had issue. 12. An infant, died unnamed.
(VI) Ahira, second son of James Hall, was
born in Croydon, New Hampshire, December
26, 1784, died in the town of Portland, Chau
tauqua county, New York, February 24, 1858.
He worked on the home farm in New fiamp-
shire until attaining legal age, then went to
Charlotte, Vermont, where he remained a few
years before removing to Messina, St. Law
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a tract of land. At the outbreak of the second
war with Great Britain, in 1812, he was
among the first drafted for service and fought
through the entire war on the Niagara fron
tier. His wife determined not to remain
alone on their wilderness farm, and, after
packing all she eould upon a horse, buried the
remainder of their household effects, started
with her three children for her father's home
in Vermont, which she reached in safety.
After peace was declared, Ahira located in
Chautauqua county, where he began his resi
dence with his family in a log house owned
by Alfred Palmer, in October, 1815, in the
town of Portland. Here his after life was
spent in prosperity and honor, enjoying the
confidence of his community. He was of
uncommon ability, and occupied high position
in town and church. He held the office of
justice of the peace for fourteen consecutive
years, being chosen on the Whig ticket. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, serving on the official board.
He married, in Charlotte, Vermont, October
18, 1807, Laura Palmer, who died in Brock
ton, Chautauqua county, New York, Decem
ber 18, 1863, aged seventy-three years. She
was a daughter of John Palmer, born in Tol
land, Connecticut, in 1755, and when quite a
young man settled in Charlotte, Vermont,
where he took up a large tract of land which
he cleared and cultivated until his death in
1835. He served in the reyolutionary war un
der General Washington and was awarded a
pension for his services. He was a member
of the Baptist church, of which he was a dea
con for many years. He married Ruth Chap
man, by whom he had ten children : John,
James, William, Chapman, Melinda, married
Zemri Hill; Abigail, married Edward Allen;
Laura, married Ahira Hall; Ruth, married
Annanias Jones ; Charlotte and Lovica. Chil
dren of Ahira and Laura Hall : 1. John Pal
mer, born 1809, died August, 1871 ; married,
in Sherman, New York, October 24, 1841,
Jane Ann Miller. 2. Albina, born October 10,
1810; became a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal church; married, October 13, 1835,
in Portland, New York, Nancy Quigley. 3.
Ruth, born June 14, 1812 ; married, in Port
land, April 29, 1838, Richard Reynolds. 4.
James Ahira (of whom further). 5. Laura
Ann, born October 17, 1817 ; married, in
Portland, November 25, 1841, Charles Fay.
6. Samuel P., born April 1, 1820; married, in

Sherman, New York, March, 1848, Miranda
Kip. . 7. Ralph H., born November 3, 1821 ;
married, in Sherman, New York, March 29,
1852, Caroline J., daughter of James and
Ruth (Hall) Hall, of Newport, New Hamp
shire. He became one of the most prominent
men of his county, was a school teacher, cat
tle broker, farmer, bank president and a lead
ing member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. In 1903 he completed the erection of
a beautiful white brick and stone building on
the corner of Main and Fay streets, in the
village of Brocton, at a cost of nearly ten
thousand dollars, and presented the same to
the town of Portland to be used as a public
library for the use and benefit of the inhabi
tants of the town. This is to be known as
the "Ahira Memorial Library." This hand
some gift was made as a memorial to his
father, who was one of the early settlers of
the town. The people so appreciated his gift
that a perpetual appropriation has been voted
for its support and maintenance. No chil
dren. 8. Nancy Altheda, born February 21,
1824; married, in Portland, May 20, 1846,
Henry Flint. 9. Livia Paulina, born Novem
ber 28, 1826; married, in Sherman, New
York, January 17, 1852, John T. Green. 10.
Lodoiska Matilda, born October 1, 1828; mar
ried, in Portland, William Martin. 11. Sarah
Melinda, born March 24, 1831 ; married, at
Forestville, New York, October 7, 1865, John
D. Merritt. 12. Laura Jane, born February
11, 1833; married, at Forestville, September
3, 1867, Frank D. Ellis. 13. Chloe, born
May 4, 1835, died December 4, 1836. 14.
Ezra, died in infancy.
(VII) Dr. James Ahira Hall, son of Ahira
Hall, was born April 4,1815, in New Hamp
shire, died in Brocton, town of Portland,
Chautauqua county, New York, April 8, 1865.
He was brought to Portland when but a year
old. He was educated in the public schools,
entered the medical department of Bowdoin
College, whence he was graduated, M. D.,
1839. He began practice in Sedgwick, Han
cock county, Maine, continuing until his com
ing to Portland, in 1844. He located in the
village of Brocton, where he was in practice
until his death in 1865. He was commissioned
surgeon by Governor Morgan, September 9,
1 86 1, of the Forty-ninth Regiment, New York
Volunteers ; served until October 13, 1864,
when he was honorably discharged at Fort
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geon in charge of the New York hospitals, lo
cated in and about Washington, D. C. .He
was a skillful physician and surgeon, and
carved out for himself an honorable, useful
career. He married, in January, 1839, Caro
line H., born August 25, 1820, daughter of
John Herrick, of Brooklyn, Maine. Mrs. Hall
survives her husband and is now in her ninety-
second year (1911). Children: Ralph A.
(of whom further) ; Theodore F. ; Helen A.,
married Milton C. Belknap; Alice C, mar
ried Frank J. Mericle ; Ada C., married Lewis
D. Sullivan.
(VIII) Ralph Ahira; eldest son of Dr.
James Ahira and Caroline H. (Herrick) Hall,
was born in Sedgwick, Hancock county,
Maine, June 5, 1844, his parents coming to
Brocton, Chautauqua county, New York, the
same year. He was educated in the public
schools, completing his studies at" Fredonia
Academy, which he attended in 1859 and
i860, fie entered business life as a clerk for
John T. and William F. Green, in Sherman,
New York, when he was seventeen years old.
In 1870 he began business for himself as
senior member of the firm of Hall & Thomp
son. In 1871-72 the firm was Hall & Ball.
From 1-872 to 1881 he was engaged in the
hardware business under the firm name of
Ralph A. Hall. In 1883-84 he was traveling
salesman for the wholesale hardware firm of
Walbridge & Company, Buffalo. From 1885
to 1892 he was engaged in private banking
under the firm name of Dean & Hall. In 1892
he organized the State Bank of Brocton, was
chosen president and held that important posi
tion continuously until August 1, 1911,
when he resigned. In 1891 he organ
ized the Brocton Land and Improvement
Company and purchased all of the remain
ing property of the "Harris Community,"
some five hundred acres. This tract
was divided into small vineyards of five and
ten acres each and . proved a most successful
business venture. In 1900 he was instru
mental in organizing the Brocton Fruit Juice
Company, for the manufacture of native
wines, fie has been treasurer of this com
pany since its beginning. His greatest activ
ity has been in the extension and improvement
of grape growing, and as treasurer of several
grape shipping companies has been brought into
close touch with that important Chautauqua
county industry. He is a member and trustee
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is a

Republican in politics. He is a highly-respected
gentleman and has passed a busy, useful life.
He is a member of Lake Shore Lodge, No.
851, Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch
Masons, Dunkirk Commandery, No. 40,
Knights Templar, and Ismailia Temple, Buf
falo, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
He married, in Brocton, New York, Octo
ber 19, 1870, Mary Jane Haight, daughter
of Mark and Densy (Knickerbocker) Haight,
of Chenango county, New York, later of
Brocton, Chautauqua county. Child: Evelyn
H., born July 7, 1873; married Walter N.
Clark, of Brocton, New York, and has
Frances H., born in Brocton, November 1,
1897.

The Love family is of Scotch-Irish
LOVE stock, and county Antrim, Ire
land, is the region from which
the Buffalo branch immediately spring. Here
the father of the original immigrant was born
and died. His wife's name was Sloan, and she
was an aunt of William Wilson Sloan, presi
dent of the Buffalo General Electric Company.
(IT) David Love, son of the parents above
referred to, was born in county Antrim, Ire
land, July 12, 1825, died in Buffalo, New
York, May 30, 1884. While still under twenty
years of age, he came to the United States.
He was long engaged in Buffalo, in the pro
duce and commission business, buying out'
William Sloan. In politics he was an active
Republican, and both in public affairs and
in business was a man of prominence and in
fluence. . Originally a Presbyterian, he was a
convert to the Roman Catholic church, and
was an attendant of St. Joseph's Cathedral.
He married Anna Connor, born in Dublin,
Ireland, in 1826, died in 1897. Children: James
Andrew, married Villa Carman ; David, de
ceased, a grocer in Buffalo, left a son and
daughter ; Elizabeth Eugenie, deceased, Anna,
died in infancy; John, died at age of thirteen
years ; William Henry, of whom further ;
Rose Gertrude, married John F Cochrane,
lives in Buffalo.
(Ill) William Henry, son of David and
Anna (Connor) Love, was born in Buffalo,
New York, November 18, 1862, died there,
November 17, 191 1. He was educated in the
public schools of Buffalo, and graduated in
1881, at the age of nineteen years, from the
Central high school. In the same year he was
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public schools. He filled several positions of
this character until 1892, holding place in the
front rank of public school teachers in the
city. In 1892 he was unanimously chosen by
the appointing board to fill the position of
superintendent of education of the city of
Buffalo, in which capacity he remained one
year. At this time he was under thirty years
of age. Though his tenure was short, he
established for the first time a system of kin
dergarten work in connection with the pub
lic schools, and otherwise left his impress
upon the department of public instruction.
He had previously, in 1891, commenced the
study of law in the office of Cuddeback &
Kenefick. In 1893 he was admitted to the
bar, and entered into partnership with Daniel
J. Kenefick; he practiced in association with
him and with James Lester Quackenbush, now
of New York City. In 1909 Mr. Love, as
attorney, reorganized the New York State
Steel Company. On account of the great
ability displayed by him in this, he was two
years later made president of the corpora
tion, one of the first importance, capitalized
at about six million dollars. He was a direc
tor in the Columbia National Bank, the Buf
falo Abstract and Title Company, the United
States Fidelity and Guarantee Company, the
Holland Patent Realty Company. Besides
these, he was largely interested in the Stadler
Hotel, now under construction in Cleveland,
Ohio. For a short time he was a member of
the park board. He was a member of the
Buffalo Club, the Country Club, and the Auto
mobile Club. He was in good health and ac
tivity until a few days before his death, when
he was taken ill with appendicitis, was oper
ated upon, and died several days later. In
religion he was a Roman Catholic, and an
attendant at the Cathedral Chapel. In poli
tics he was a Democrat.
Mr. Love married, in Buffalo, June 18,
1896, Helen A., daughter of Louis and Jose
phine (Hohman) Niendorf. Children: Helen
E., born August 16, 1897; James, April 22,
1899; Virginia Ann, December 27, 1907.

John Love, founder of this family,
LOVE was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
He came to America about 1850,
going first to Michigan, but soon coming to
Buffalo, New York. He is buried at Forest
Lawn cemetery, Buffalo. Child, William, of
whom further.

(II) William, son of John Love, was born
at Glasgow, Scotland, died at Buffalo, New
York, December 24, 1887. He was a ma
chinist, and for thirty years foreman of the
John W. Tifts machine shop. He married
Janet Marr. Among their nine children the
sixth was Archibald Stuart, of whom further.
(Ill) Archibald Stuart, son of William and
Janet (Marr) Love, was born in Buffalo, New
York, December 13, 1859, died in Buffalo,
March 9, 1906. He was a machinist, but re
tired some years before his death. At one
time he was an Odd Fellow. In politics he
was a Republican. He married, June 28, 1888,
Sarah Julia, born in Brooklyn, daughter of
George Deloss and Sarah Ann (Lewis) Shep
ard. Her father was born at Little Falls,
Herkimer county, New York, October 27,
1834, died October 28, 1908, at Buffalo, to
which place he had moved in 1863. He was
a carpenter and builder. Pie was a Democrat,
and in his younger days quite active. In Buf
falo he was a member of the Richmond Ave
nue Methodist Church. He married, April
13, 1859, Sarah Ann Lewis, born at Little
Falls, July 17, 1837, died in Buffalo, August
8, 1909. Children: 1. Sarah Julia, born May
5, i860, of whom herein. 2. George Dennis,
born August 11, 1861, died June 11, 1910;
married Elizabeth Guth, and had eight chil
dren; he was a carpenter and builder in Buf
falo. 3. Charles Francis, born in Buffalo, Oc
tober 30, 1873 ; educated in the public schools,
engaged for a year and a half in the dyeing
business, but since 1899 a carpenter and build
er ; he is independent in politics, and a member
of the Richmond Avenue Methodist Church.
Dennis Lewis, father of Sarah Ann (Lewis)
Shepard, was born in Little Falls, New York,
August 1, 181 3 ; he was a boatman on the canal
and moved to Buffalo about 1863, where he
died February 10, 1872. Edward L. Shepard,
father of George D. Shepard, was born in
Herkimer county, died in 1861 in New York
City, where he had been living for some time.
Edward L. Shepard was a carpenter and
builder, and also interested in the soap busi
ness, the manufacture of stoves, and a paper
factory at Little Falls. Children of Archi
bald Stuart and Sarah Julia (Shepard) Love:
1. William George, born and died October 31,
1889. 2. Janet Marr, born August 13, 1891;
married, December 18, 191 1, Frank Maynard,
who is with the International Railway Com
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May 24, 1895; lives in Buffalo. 4. Grace
Sarah, horn October 16, 1898.
Edward Livingston Hall, eldest
HALL son of John Adams Hall (q. v.)
and Emily (Perry) Hall, was born
October 1, 1841, in Warren, Pennsylvania. In
1849 ms parents removed to Busti, New York,
upon the farm that had been originally taken
up by his grandfather, Samuel Hall, when
he came from Vermont in 18 14. His common
school education was supplemented by courses
of study in the academy at Painesville, Ohio,
and in a business college at Poughkeepsie,
New York. Mr. Hall' assisted his father on
the farm until the outbreak of the civil war.
Enlisting then in the Seventh Company of
Sharpshooters, which went to the front in
1862 with the One Hundred and Twelfth Regi
ment' of New York Volunteers, he was hon
orably discharged in the following year at
Suffolk, Virginia, for serious illness, and was
taken home. After his recovery he managed
the farm for his father upon shares, during
the absence of the latter in Washington where
he held a clerkship in the house of representa
tives. In 1865 Mr. Hall was engaged in the oil
business in Pennsylvania with his brother
Henri, and a couple of years later was a part
ner for a brief time in a retail drug store in
Jamestown, New York, with Delos W. Hatch
and Edward A. Dickinson. The principal
business of his life, however, the purchase of
standing timber and its manufacture into lum
ber, which he took up in 1868, and for about
ten years he and his business associates de
voted themselves to the pine lumber industry,
marketing their product by shipping it down
the Allegheny and Ohio rivers in rafts, gen
erally at the time of the spring freshets. As
the pine forests disappeared from Western
New York and Pennsylvania, and water trans
portation became^ supplanted by the newly de
veloped railroads, Mr. Hall turned his atten
tion to hardwood timber, and in 1878 formed
with Edward Shaver the partnership of Shaver
& Hall, a business association unbroken for
more than a quarter of a century. The firm
manufactured staves and heading for the east
ern market, and in a few years located its
principal mills in Kentucky and Tennessee.
When Orlando C. Frisbee -joined the firm,
about 1888, its name became Shaver, Hall &
Frisbee, and its business was greatly extended.

Separating in 1892, Hall & Frisbee engaged
in manufacturing hardwood lumber in Mis
souri, Arkansas and Mississippi, while Shaver
& Hall continued the stave and heading busi
ness. In 1901 Mr. Hall withdrew from the
lumber business, but continued with the other
until 191 1. Although Mr. Shaver died in
1904, his estate remained interested until the
business was wound up.
Mr. Hall has withdrawn largely from active
manufacturing since 1900, devoting himself
principally to landed investments in the" south
and west, and becoming interested in a variety
of local enterprises. He was a director of the
Jamestown National Bank, the Chautauqua
County Trust Company and the National
Chautauqua County Bank, as each institu
tion was merged in the succeeding one. Al
ways a Republican in politics, he held the office
of supervisor of the town of Carroll in 1878-
79. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, be
ing a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons; Western Sun Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; Jamestown Commandery,
Knights Templar; Ismailia Temple, Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine; Buffalo Consistory, Scot
tish Rite Bodies, and is also a member of the
Jamestown and the Sportsman's clubs.
On February 6, 1867, Mr. Hall married
Charlotte, born June 14, 1845, eldest daughter
of James and Sabra (Howard) Parker, of
Frewsburg, New York. James Parker was
born in Westfield, Chautauqua county, New
York, December 18, 1818, died at Frewsburg,
September 21, 1863. In 1838 he married
Sabra, daughter of Luther Howard. He was
teacher, superintendent of schools in his dis
trict for many years, justice of the peace and
town supervisor, being chairman of the county
board of supervisors for two years. In i860
he was a Republican presidential elector of
New York, and from 1861 to his death was
assistant clerk in the house of representatives
in Washington. As a prominent free soil
Whig and Republican political writer of great
vigor and independence, he was editor of the
Chautauqua County Democrat from 1854 until
his appointment in Washington, and after
wards carried on a vigorous political corre
spondence in the county papers.
The children of Edward L. and Charlotte
(Parker) Hall were: 1. James Parker, born
in Frewsburg, New York, 1871 ; graduated
from Jamestown high school, 1890; A. B.,
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University, 1897; professor of law and dean
of the University of Chicago Law School since
1902; married Evelyn Movius, of Buffalo,
New York, in 1900; children: Livingston,
born 1903, and James Parker Jr., born 1906.
2. Glyde, born in Frewsburg, New York ; edu
cated in Jamestown high school, with addi
tional study for several years in Europe ; mar
ried Charles S. Grover, of Jamestown, New
York, in 1907. Henry Wait, the first member of
WAIT this family of whom we have def
inite information, was born at
Half Moon, Saratoga county, New York. He
emigrated in 1819 to Owego, Tioga county,
New York, and settled on a tract of nine hun
dred acres, south of the Susquehanna river,
which has since borne the name, Wait's Set
tlement, and the postoffice is called Wait's
Landing. He was a farmer. Children : Chris
tian, referred to below ; William, Henry, John.
(II) Christian, son of Henry Wait, was
born February 1, 1801. He went with his
parents to Wait's Settlement. They were
obliged to cut a road six miles through the
forest to the place where the old homestead
was built, in which he married. He married,
in 1830, Rachel Briggs, of Briggs Hollow,
New York, who died January 16, 1868. Chil
dren : 1. Martha C, married Rev. Charles
White; children: Ida, married  Shaw,
lives at Salina, Kansas ; Lillian ; Durbin ;
Henry Oliver, named after his uncle. 2.
Elizabeth, married J. B. Russell ; children :
Amanda, married  Cass ; Stella, married
Boardman; Harriet, married Samuel

Crater ; children : William K. and David G.
3. Henry Oliver, referred to below. 4. David
Gaylon. 5. Josephine, married John Mead;
children : Jay, Bell.
(Ill) fienry Oliver, son of Christian and
Rachel (Briggs) Wait, was born at Owego,
September 19, 1840, died February 27, 1904.
He went to a district school, and worked at
farming and other things until 1861. He en
listed, April 28, 1 861, and was assigned to
Company K, Captain James B. Caryl, of the
Twenty-sixth Regiment, New York State
Volunteer Infantry. This enlistment was for
two years, or during the war. May 16th, he
was enrolled at Elmira, and five days later
the regiment, under Colonel William H.
Christian, was called into service for three
months by the president. He then ranked as

corporal. He served with distinction in the
Army of the Potomac, First Army Corps,
under General McDowell, and took part in
the battles of Cedar Mountain, Bull Run (the
second battle) and South Mountain. At An-
tietam he was severely wounded, and was
promoted for gallant conduct to the rank of
captain. He was then laid up by his wound
for several months, in the Queen Street Hos
pital, at Alexandria, Virginia. His enlist
ment expiring in two years, he reenlisted, and
was commissioned major by President Lin
coln. Being assigned to the Army of the
Southwest, under General Sherman, he joined
him at Chattanooga, and was engaged in the
battle of Lookout Mountain. After this he
was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-col
onel, and took part in Sherman's inarch to the
sea. After the surrender of Lee he was mus
tered out of service. He came to Salamanca,!
Cattaraugus county, New York, and entered
the passenger department of the Atlantic &
Great Western railroad, which afterward be
came part of the Erie ; he remained in their
employment until 1879. . In that year he was
elected treasurer of Cattaraugus county, and
being repeatedly reelected, he held this posi
tion until 1894, when he declined a renomina-
tion. May 15, 1880, the First National Bank
of Salamanca was started; he was active in
its formation and was made its president.
After retirement from the county treasurer-
ship, he devoted all his time to the bank. He
was always interested in politics, being an
active Republican ; besides the county treasur-
ership he was three times, in 1873-74-75,
elected supervisor of the town of Salamanca.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and
belonged to Cattaraugus Lodge, No. 239, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Salamanca, and Sal
amanca Chapter, No. 266,. Royal Arch Ma
sons. He was also a member of Sherwood
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Sala
manca, the name of which was changed after
his death to Colonel H. O. Wait Post. He
attended the Episcopal church, and was a
very generous man.
fie married, May 6, 1874, Bell, born Jan
uary 3, 1854, daughter of David and Joanna
(Armstrong) Kirkpatrick. (See Kirkpatrick
V). She now lives partly in her old home at
Cuba, Allegany county, New York, which has
been remodeled and is now a fine house, and
partly in apartments at Salamanca. She trav
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(The Kirkpatrick Line).
(I) Alexander Kirkpatrick, the founder of
this family, was born at Watties Neach, Dum
friesshire, Scotland, and died at Mine Brook,
Somerset county, New Jersey, June 3, 1758.
Although a Scotch Presbyterian he was loyal
to the House of Stuart, and participated in
the rising of the Earl of Mar. Coming thus
under the disfavor of the English govern
ment, he emigrated first to Belfast, Ireland,
and in the. spring of 1736 to America. With
him came his brother Andrew, and Andrew's
four children. After a stormy voyage of
thirteen weeks, he and his family landed at
New Castle, Delaware, almost starved by the
unexpected length of the passage. They
crossed the Delaware at Philadelphia, and
wandered up through New Jersey to Bound
Brook, then crossed the mountain by the In
dian path ; finding a spring of water, they set
tled and built a log house. Here he finally
acquired large tracts of land. He married,
in Scotland, Elizabeth  . Children :
Andrew, married Margaret Gaston; David,
referred to below; Alexander, married Mar
garet Anderson; Jennet, married Duncan Mc-
Eowen; Mary, married John Bigger.
(II) David, son of Alexander and Eliza
beth Kirkpatrick, was born at Watties Neach,
Scotland, February 17, 1724, died at Mine
Brook, March 19, 1814. He came to America
with his father. Purchasing the property at
Mine Brook from his brother, he resided all
his life at that place, and built a fine stone
mansion. He seryed in the New Jersey leg
islature. He married, March 31, 1748, Mary
McEowen, born in Argyleshire, Scotland, Au
gust 1, 1728, died at Mine Brook, November
2, 1795. Children: 1. Elizabeth, born Sep
tember 27, 1749, died December 14, 1829;
married  Sloan. 2. Alexander, re
ferred to below. 3. Hugh, born September
2, 1753, died January 9, 1782. 4. Andrew,
born February 17, 1756, died in 1831 ; mar
ried, November 1, 1792, Jane Bayard. He
was chief justice of the state of New Jersey,
and founder of Princeton Theological Semin
ary. 5. David, born November 1, 1758, died
December 11, 1828; married Mary Farrand;
he was a captain in the revolutionary war. 6.
Mary, born November 23, 1761, died July 1,
1842; married (first) Hugh Gaston, and (sec
ond)  Todd. 7. Anne, born March 10,
1764; married Moses Etsey. 8. Jannet, born
July 9, 1769; married Dickinson Miller.

(Ill) Alexander (2), son of David and
Mary (McEowen) Kirkpatrick, was born
September 3, 1751, died September 24, 1827.
He was a private in the New Jersey state
troops, in the revolution. He married Sarah,
born about 1760, died February 15, 1842,
daughter of Judge John Carle, of Long Hill,
Morris county, New Jersey. Children, who
reached adult years: 1. David, born Decem
ber 24, 1776; married Sarah Cooper. 2.
Mary, born April 25, 1781 ; married John Laf-
ferty Cross. 3. John, referred to below, , 4.
Rev. Jacob, born August 8, 1785, died May
2, 1866; married, December 13, 1809, Mary
Sutfin. 5. Sarah, born September 22, 1787;
married William Annin. 6. Elizabeth, born
September 21, 1789; married (first) Alexan
der Vail, and (second) William Gaston. 7.
Lydia, horn December 20, 1791 ; married
Peter Demott. 8. Anne, born January 27,
1794; married John Stelle. 9. Rebecca, born
June 15, 1796; married Squire Terrill. 10.
Jane, born May 22, 1798; married John Cory.
11. Alexander, born August 10, 1800; mar
ried  Tingley. 12. Martha, born Octo
ber 8, 1802; married Israel Squiers. 13. Rob
ert Finley, born July 22, 1805 ; married Char
ity Terrill.
(IV) John, son of Alexander (2) and Sa
rah (Carle)- Kirkpatrick, was born July 24,
1783, died Decemher 11, 1855. He was a mil
ler, and one of the pioneers of Seneca coun
ty, New York. He married Mary, daughter
of David Ayers. Child, David, referred to
below. (V) David (2), son of John and Mary
(Ayers) Kirkpatrick, was born in Seneca
county, New York, December 24, 1820, died
in 1903. He attended the public school. He
was employed by the Erie railroad, and was
a contractor. Finally he came to Cuba, Al
legany county, New York, renting a house
on the spot where afterward he built the house
now occupied by his daughter. He was a
member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He was active in politics, being a
Democrat, but did not hold office. He was
a vestryman in the Episcopal church. He
married, in 1849, Joanna, born June 4, 1828,
in Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, died
in 1868, daughter of Philip Scarboro Arm
strong. Her father was the son of Philip
Scarboro and Arabella (Rafter) Armstrong,
his mother being a daughter of John Rafter,
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Queens county, Ireland. Child, Bell, born
January 3, 1854; married, May 6, 1874, Henry
Oliver Wait (see Wait III).

Caleb Lewis, the first member of
LEWIS this family of whom we have
definite information, was born in
1800, died in 1856. He came to Farmersville,
Cattaraugus county, New York, in 1816, one
of the first settlers of the county. He mar
ried Joanna Wade, born January 1, 1800, died
in 1862, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Jones)
Wade (see Wade IV). Children: 1. Mary,
died in infancy. 2. Jacob, moved to Dick
son, Missouri; was killed in the civil war;
left a family. 3. Caleb, married; children:
Clarissa, married Andrew Robinson, and Hat-
tie, married George Munger. 4. Lovica, mar
ried George Swift, of New Hudson, Allegany
county, New York; eleven children. 5. Oli
ver ; was a farmer ; married Clarissa Norton ;
children : Duane and Lillie. 6. Joanna, mar
ried  Wilson ; children : Charles and
Fred. 7. Eliza, married John O. Badger;
children; Jennie, married James Swift; and
Jessie, deceased. 8. Guy C, died in 1909;
was a sergeant in Company D, Sixty-fourth
New York Volunteer Infantry in civil war,
enlisting in 1861 ; after discharge reenlisted,
served in all four years; married Marie Fer-
rington ; children : Grant and Addie. 9. Mary,
married De Alton Swift ; children : Mrs. John
Giles, living at Cuba, Allegany county ; and
Arloene, married Benjamin Lees, of North
Baltimore, Ohio. 10. Ralph, was a private
in Company D, Sixty-fourth New York Vol
unteer Infantry, and reenlisted after his dis
charge; was transferred to the bureau relief
corps; resides at Burton, Nebraska; married
Emma Otto; children: Stillman, Frank,
Harry, Guy, Molly, Ernestine. 11. Stillman
E., of whom further.
(II) Stillman E., youngest child of Caleb
and Joanna (Wade) Lewis, was born at
Farmersville, February 25, 1845. He at
tended the district school. His parents both
died before he was sixteen years of age. He
enlisted in 1863, at seventeen years of age,
as a private in Company C, Thirteenth New
York Heavy Artillery, and Marine, and later
served in Company M, Marine Artillery, same
regiment. He first went to Salamanca, then
to New York City, and then to active service
at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, en
gaged in gunboat service, pursuing Confed

erate blockade runners and hunting guerrillas.
He was first appointed orderly to the assist
ant surgeon, J. A. Fontane, and afterward
to Surgeon A. J. Steele, being on detached
service duty during his term of service, and
was discharged June 28, 1865, the war hav
ing ended. Returning to Farmersville, he
went to work on the farm with his brother
Ralph. Having saved some money from his
army service, and also receiving a little from
his mother, he went to Arcade, Wyoming
county, New York, and attended the Com
mercial College and Academy for a year and
a half, graduating in 1867, at twenty-one years
of age. Then he worked for a farmer, Wil
liam Curry, through haying and harvesting,
for thirty dollars a month. In 1869 he began
the study of dentistry in the office of Whipple
& Jackson, in Cuba, New York, to whom he
paid $100 for tuition in dental science. He
remained eight years and subsequently bought
out Dr. Jackson, later sold out to Dr. Whip
ple, and ultimately purchased the business en
tire. He practiced until 1876, when he sold
out to Rollin B. Tuller, after which he prac
ticed for two years in Elmira, and in 1878
located in Olean, where he has now been in
successful practice for thirty-four years, in
both mechanical and operative dentistry. He
is a member of the City Dental Society, and
of the board of health, having been chairman
of the relief committee for two years. He
is vice-commander of G. D. Bayard Post, No.
222, Grand Army of the Republic, and for
the past six years has been esteemed lectur
ing knight of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks ; is a member of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, the Select Knights
and the Loyal Mystic Legion of America. In
politics he is a strict Democrat and has twice
made a splendid run as a congressional candi
date in his district, which is strongly Repub
lican. Dr. Lewis has been honored by the
Democratic convention of the thirty-seventh
congressional district of the state as its chair
man for the last ten years, and still holds that
honorable position.
He married (first), February 20, 1872, at
Angelica, New York, Julia Huntley, who
died March 8, 1874; married (second),
March, 1877, Jennie M. Hastings. Children,
two by each marriage : 1 . Archie, died at age
of two years. 2. Stanley, born 1873 > married
Carrie Reynolds, of Olean ; child, Stillman H.
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W., born June 17, 1884; married, July 17,
1904, Frank P. Hanson, born April 24, 1883;
children: Lewis F., born June 7, 1906; Lo-
raine Mary, born October 26, 1908; Arloene
T., born August 1, 1910.
(The Wade Line).
(I) Benjamin Wade, the first member of
this family of whom we have definite in
formation, perhaps the emigrant ancestor, was
born about 1646, died about 1700. He was
among the early settlers of Elizabeth, New
Jersey, and by trade a clothier. He was an
extensive land owner. He married, about
1670, Ann, born in 1649, died July 31, 1737,
daughter of William Looker. Children : 1 .
Robert, referred to below. 2. John, born in
1688, died November 16, 1761 ; married Pa
tience  . 3. Benjamin, died in 1738;
married  Lyon.
(II) Robert, son of Benjamin and Ann
(Looker) Wade, died at Elizabeth, New Jer
sey in August, 1766. He married (first)
Elizabeth  , and (second) Sarah  .
Children: 1. Robert. 2. Benjamin., born
about 1727, died May 21, 1760; married De
borah  . 3. Patience, born in 1736, died
February 9, 1795; married Josiah Woodruff.
4. Matthias, born September 1, 1738, died Oc
tober 29, 1739. 5. Daniel, referred to below.
6. Henry. 7. Daughter, married Stephen
Brown. 8. Daughter, married  Cherry.
(Ill) Daniel, son of Robert Wade, died at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, in July, 1793. He
was a private in the Essex county militia in
the revolution. He married (first) Eliza
beth  , born about 1719, died December
14, 1758; (second) Temperance  . Chil
dren, all but first two by second marriage :
1. Amos, born about 1740; married, April 3,
1763, Elizabeth Jewel. 2. Daniel, born June
10, 1753, died September 9, 1821 ; married
Ahigail (Tucker) Tucker. 3. Benjamin, born
in 1759, buried October 10, 1812. 4. Moses,
born about 1760; married Mary Headley. 5.
Jacob, referred to below. 6. Robert, born
October 23, 1766, died July 18, 1799; married
Rebecca Jones. 7. Timothy, married Prussia
Osborne. 8. Patience, married Caleb Wade.
9. Temperance, married David Bonnell. 10.
Esther, married David Baker.
(IV) Jacob, son of Daniel and Temperance
Wade, was born February 25, 1762, died in
October, 1828. He sold his property in New
Jersey and moved to Western New York.

He married Sarah Jones, born April 14, 1765,
died April 22, 1845. Children: 1. Magdalen,
born November 15, 1783, died about 1820;
mame'd William Adams. 2. James J., born
October 23, 1785. 3. Jonathan, born Febru-
ary 5> T788, died about 1872; married (first),
January 7, 1808, Anna Childs; (second), No
vember 11, 1824, Abigail Gillette. 4. Moses,
born July 2, 1792, died November 20, 1869;
married Sally Maria Bundy. 5. Oliver, born
December 10, 1794, died in infancy. 6. Joan
na, born January 1, 1800, died in 1862; mar
ried Caleb Lewis (see Lewis). 7. Oliver,
born April 23, 1802, died about 1870. 8.
Henry, born February 1, 1805; married, Oc
tober 5, 1826, Samantha Hayfird.

The first member of this
SHERMAN family about whom we have
definite information was a
native of Rhode Island. The Sherman family,
which is of German origin, has long been es
tablished in Rhode Island. Children: Al
bert, of whom further; Frances.
(II) Albert, son of  Sherman, set
tled in Owego, Tioga county, New York. He
married Sarah Farnham. Children: Mary;
Frank S., of whom further.
(Ill) Frank S., son of Albert and Sarah
(Farnham) Sherman, was born in Owego,
New York, March 8, 1856. He attended pub
lic school, also worked on the farm of his
grandfather, Sylvester Farnham; made spin
ning wheels and wood products, carded wool,
worked on a cider press, and at other forms
of labor, in an old-fashioned waterpower mill.
At the age of eighteen he entered the lumber
business at Jenkin's Mills, Tioga county,
where he remained four years. In 1877 he
went to Starrucca, Wayne county, Pennsyl
vania, where he engaged in the manufacture
of lumber, afterward keeping a general store
in partnership with H. F. Aldrich, under the
name of Aldrich & Sherman. This he con
tinued until 1885, being also postmaster at
Starrucca. In 1885 M. F. Quinn bought out
Mr. Aldrich, and the firm became Quinn &
Sherman. They continued the business here
for three years, dealing in lumber and gen
eral merchandise. They then removed to Sin-
namahoning, Cameron county, Pennsylvania,
and dealt there in lumber for three years ;
after this they followed the lumber and bark
business near Qermont, and built a village
near the place, which is called Quinnwood.

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For three years they were associated with
Henry Baird & Company. They then built
the mills and acid plant at Straight Creek,
also manufactured lumber there fifteen years,
which enterprises have been exceedingly suc
cessful. Mr. Sherman also enters individ
ually into real estate transactions. In 1909
he moved to Olean, and bought one of the
finest houses in the city. He is a Republican
in politics. He married (first) Iva Mary
Every; (second) Frances N. Cavenaugh.

The English family of Bart-
BARTLETT lett or Barttelot dates back to
the Norman Conquest. The
ancient coat-of-arms is : Sable three sinister
falconer's gloves argent arranged triangularly
two above and one below pendant bands
around the wrist and tassels or. At about
the close of the fifteenth century the castle
was granted as the crest to John Barttelot,
and in the sixteenth century the Swan crest
was granted in commemoration of the right
granted the (family by William the Conqueror
to keep swans in the river Arun. The fol
lowing lineage from 1086 to the present is
completely established. >
(I) Adam Barttelot, an esquire, came with
the Conqueror from Normandy, and had his
seat at Ferring, county Sussex. He was
buried at Stopham, in 1100.
(II) William Barttelot de Stopham, son of
Adam, was buried at the Stopham church.
(Ill) John, son of William, was buried at
the Stopham church.
(IV) Richard, Esq., son of John, was bur
ied at Stopham.
(V) Thomas Bartlett (the spelling of the
surname varies greatly, but for clearness the
present American way will be used during
the remainder of this lineage), son of Rich
ard, Esq., married Assoline, daughter, of John
Stopham. His brother, Adam Bartlett, had
a seat at East Preston.
(VI) John Bartlett, Esq., son of Thomas
Bartlett, captured Castle Fontenoy, in France,
and to him was granted the crest on the Bart
lett arms. He married the daughter and co
heir of John de Stopham.
(VII) John (2), son of John (1) Bartlett,
Esq., was a member of parliament from Sus
sex in 1453. He married Joan, daughter and
heir of John de Lewknor.
(VIII) Richard, son of John (2) Bartlett,
married Petronilla, heir-general of Walton.

(IX) John (3), son of Richard Bartlett,
died in 1493. fie married Olive, daughter of
John Arthur, and heiress of Sylveston.
(X) Richard (2), son of John (3) Bart
lett, married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Gates. His brother John married Catherine
Dawtrey. Children : William, died 1601, aged
ninety-seven years; Edmund, mentioned be
low. (XI) Edmund, son of Richard (2) Bart
lett, lived at Ernley; died 1591.
(XII) Edmund (2), son of Edmund (1)
Bartlett, was of Ernley; married Elizabeth
Gore. Children: John, came to Newbury,
Massachusetts; Richard, mentioned below;
Thomas, settled at Watertown, Massachusetts.
(Authority of the family historian, Levi Bart
lett.) (XIII) Richard (3) Bartlett, immigrant
ancestor, was born in Wiltshire,' England, in
1575. He was a shoemaker by trade. He
was one of the earliest settlers of the old
town of Newbury, Massachusetts, where he
was living before 1637, and died there May
25, 1647. His family Bible — one of the fam
ous "Breeches Bibles" (so-called from the
translation of the word for the original gar
ment worn by Adam and Eve) is now owned
by William Bartlett, of Lowell, who received
it from his father, Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett,
late president of Dartmouth College. The
records of his children's births are given, and
the statement, "Richard Bartlett bought this
book Anno Domini 1612." Richard Bartlett
was progenitor of Hon. Josiah Bartlett, of
New Hampshire, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, and foremost citizen of that
state. Richard's oral will, proved Septem
ber 29, 1647, stated that John had already
received his share; bequeathed to Christopher
and Joane and each of her four daughter; to
Richard and John, who received the "Great
Bible." Children : Joane, married William
Titcomb; John, Thomas, Richard, mentioned
below ; Christopher, Anne.
(XIV) Richard (4), son of Richard (3)
Bartlett, was born in England, October 31,
1 62 1. He was called a shoemaker and yeo
man in various records. He resided first in
Oldtown, Newbury, removing finally to Bart-
lett's Corners, Deer Island, in the Merrimac
river. He was reputed to a facetious, genial
and intelligent man. He represented the town
in the general court. He married Abigail
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in 1698. His will was dated April -19, 1665,
and proved July 18, 1698. Children: Sam
uel, Richard, mentioned below ; Thomas, Abi
gail, married, May 27, 1700, John Emery;
John, Hannah, Rebecca, married, September
5, 1700, Isaac Bagley.
(XV) Richard (5) son of Richard (4)
Bartlett, was born February 21, 1648-49, died
April 17, 1724. He was called a yeoman, and
was also a currier and cordwainer. He re
sided first near Oldtown Hill, in Newbury,
and afterwards removed to a place now called
Bartlett's Bridge, just above the chain bridge
in Salisbury. He was four years deputy to
the general court. He married Hannah Em
ery, November 18, 1673. She died May 11,
1705, aged fifty. Children: 1. Hannah. 2.
Richard, married, April 12, 1699, Margaret
Woodman. 3. John, married Mary Ordway;
resided on the homestead ; children removed to
Deerfield and Northwood. 4. Samuel. 5.
Daniel. 6. Joseph, soldier in 1707, captured
by French and Indians at Haverhill, August
29, 1708, and ransomed November 8, 17 12 ;
recovered his gun from its hiding-place, and
the same gun was used in the revolution by
a grand-nephew, Richard Bartlett, of Ames-
bury, who removed to Warner, and it is now
deposited in the museum of the New Hamp
shire Historical Society, though it was partly
blown to pieces in a Fourth of July celebra
tion. 7. Hannah, married, December 28, 1706,
John Ordway. 8. Samuel, mentioned below.
9. Deacon Stephen, married, December 18,
1 7 12, Hannah Webster; their son, Josiah, was
the New Hampshire signer of the Declaration
of Independence. 10. Josiah, resided at New
bury and Amesbury; married, April 13, 1725,
Elizabeth Bartlett. 11. Thomas, married, No
vember 18, 1718, Hannah Moody. 12. Mary,
married Joseph Hills.
(XVI) Samuel, eighth child of Richard
(5) Bartlett, was born May 2, 1689. He mar
ried and had a son, Samuel, mentioned below.
(XVII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Bartlett, was born about 1725, died about
1765. He settled in what was then Ulster,
now Orange county, New York, town of New
Windsor. He married Mercy  , who
survived him and married a second husband.
Children: William, Samuel, Ebenezer,
Haynes, mentioned below; Mercy.
(XVIII) Haynes, son of Samuel (2) Bart
lett, was born in Ulster county, New York,
1757, died in Romulus, Seneca county, New

York, October 16, 1841. He was a black
smith and a farmer, fie served in the revo
lutionary war and helped to forge the great
chain and bolts that was stretched across the
Hudson river to impede the passage of British
ships. He was an old-time Democrat. He
married, in Orange county, November 1, 1791,
Hannah Cooley. Children: Thomas, Eben
ezer, Kezia, John, mentioned below; Aaron
Burr and Benjamin.
(XIX) John, son of Haynes Bartlett, was
born 1797, died July 2, 1839. He was a
farmer of the town of Belfast, Allegany
county, New York, and a Democrat of the
Jacksonian type. He married, in Allegany
county, New York, in 1823, Nancy White.
Eleven children.
(XX) Ebenezer, son of John Bartlett, was
born September 14, 1824, in Allegany county,
New York, town of Belfast, died there, No
vember, 1910. He was a farmer and lumber
man; was successful in business and retired
about 1895, He married, in Allegany county,
Corintha Angell, who survives him, a resident
of Belfast, Allegany county. Children : John,
of Belfast, New York; Silas, of Caneadea,
New York; Frank L., mentioned below.
(XXI) Frank Leverne, youngest son of
Ebenezer Bartlett, was born in Allegany
county, New York, December 25, 1858. He
was educated in the public schools and grew
up on the farm. In 1879 he secured a position
as clerk or bookkeeper in the First National
Bank of Cuba, New York, and on June 14,
1880, came to Olean, where he held a similar
position in the Exchange National Bank. In
five years he worked his way through succes
sive promotions to the position of cashier, be
ing elected to that office, November 21, 1885.
He had found his true vocation and had so
established his value as a financier upon his
associates that on January 9, 1895, he was
elected president of the bank and so continues
(191 1 ). Under his wise management, the
Exchange National Bank has a most success
ful history. Handsomely located in one of
Olean's most attractive buildings with a
large combined capital surplus and undivided
profits, it challenges comparison with any
bank in the United States or situated in a
similar locality. This, however, is but one of
Mr. Bartlett's activities. He is president of
the Olean Glass Company ; president of the
Sterling Brick Works Company ; treasurer of
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Olean Improvement Company, and officially
connected with all the Higgins industries. He
is an Independent Democrat in politics, and a
leader in public affairs, although never accept
ing office himself, fie is a trustee of the
Presbyterian church of Olean; president of
the Hamilton Country Club and a member of
the City Club of Olean. He is a member of
the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chap
ter and commandery in Olean, and Ismailia
Temple, Nobles of the -Mystic Shrine, Buf
falo. He married, July 15, 1886, Fannie E., born
April 6, 1864, only child of John and Mary
England, of Tidioute, Pennsylvania. Qiild,
Nancy, horn in Tidioute, August 26, 1896.

This is a branch 6f an old Eng-
PORTER lish family that was transplant
ed to the United States in 185 1.
The English seat was in Lincolnshire, where
John Porter was born in the parish of Balling-
shay, April 3, 1806. He came to the United
States in 1855, locating at Webster, New
York, where he engaged in farming until
1866, when he went west, settling in Hillsdale
county, Michigan, where he resided for several
years. He then returned to Webster, but in a-
few years again located in Hillsdale county,
Michigan, where he died April 27, 1889. He
was twice married. He married (first), Oc
tober 24, 1826, Jane Hull; she died Septem
ber 12, 1875. Children: William, born May
24, 1827; John H., of whom further; Thomas,
born August 5, 1833 ; Jane, born July 6, 1839,
married Henry Leadley; George, born Octo
ber 11, 1845.
Jane (Hull) Porter was a daughter of Will
iam and Mary Hull, the former of whom died
August 22, 1824, and the latter April 30,
1809, aged forty-five years. William Hull
married (first) Eleanor  , who bore him
three children, namely : William, born March
21, 1790; Mary Alleybon, February 23, 1792;
Sarah, March 16, 1794, died July, 1794; El
eanor Hull, died September 12, 1794, aged
twenty-three years. Children of William Hull
and his second wife, Mary Hull: Sarah, born
October 16, 1796; Rebecca, October 21, 1798;
Jane, February 3, 1800, died June 27, 1800;
Jane, May 5, 1801, died July 1, 1801 ; Jane,
October 12, 1802, died August 27, 1803 ; Jane,
March 15, 1805, aforementioned as the wife
of John Porter.
(II) John H., son of John and Jane (Hull)

Porter, was born in Ballingshay, Lincolnshire,
England, February 23, 1830, died at the home
of his son, Charles G. Porter, in Albion, New
York, May 11, 191 1. He preceded his father
to the United States, coming in 185 1. He
settled first in the city of Utica, New York,
where he spent two years, then moved to Web
ster, New York, where he spent sixteen years,
engaged in farming, and he then removed
to Hillsdale, Michigan, but in 1871 re
turned east and resided on a farm in Orleans
county, New York, three miles north of Hol-
ley, until 1874. fie then moved to Carlton,
New York, where he remained until 1875,
when he purchased another farm near Carl
ton Station, and upon which he remained
until 1889, when he sold out and retired from
active life. He was a man of many activities
and good business capacity. After his retire
ment he lived in Albion for several years, end
ing his days there at the age of eighty-one
years. He was an attendant of the Baptist
church, and a Republican in politics. He mar
ried, in Webster, New York, in 1858, Amelia
Atchinson, of English birth and parentage,
born in England, June 30, 1833, died in Al
bion, New York, March 14, 1908, aged sev
enty-five years. She came to the United States
at the age of six years. Children: 1. Will
iam H., born in Penfield, New York, March
24, 1859. 2- George Thomas, born in Web
ster, New York, November 5, i860. 3.
Charles Grayson, of whom further. 4. John
Leslie, born in Jefferson, Michigan. Decem
ber 20, 1869. 5. Burton P., born in Jefferson,
Michigan, June 5, 1871. .
(Ill) Charles Grayson, third son of John
H. and Amelia (Atchinson) Porter, was born
in Webster, Monroe county, New York, April
28, 1863. He was educated in the public
schools, completing his studies at Bingham-
ton Business College, from which he was
graduated. In the fall of 1884 he went to
Washington, D. C, where for two years he
was a clerk in the office of a firm selling type
writing machines. He next took a position
with the Hammond Typewriter Company in
New York City, and for three years was in
their employ and with the American Writing
Machine Company. He then returned to
Washington, D. C, and for eleven years, until
October 15, 1900, he was with the Smith
Premier Typewriter Company. On the lat
ter date he came to Albion, New York,
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yard, which he conducted for five years. In
January, 1906, he disposed of his Albion busi
ness, and on April 3, 1906, purchased what is
known locally as the "Old Sanford Farm."
This property, consisting of one hundred and
seventy-five acres, is situated four miles north
of Albion. He has devoted twenty-three acres
to fruit culture and the remainder to general
farming purposes. Mr. Porter resides in Al
bion, is a member of the First Presbyterian
Church, and since 1906 has served as trustee.
He is a member of Renovation Lodge, No.
97, Free and Accepted Masons ; Orleans Chap
ter, No. 75, Royal Arch Masons; is secretary
and treasurer of the Orleans County Fruit
Growers' Association, member of the execu
tive committee of the New York State Fruit
Growers' Association, and treasurer of the
Orleans County Pioneer Association, and a
member of the board of directors of the Roch
ester Industrial Exposition Association. He
is active and energetic in business, and one
of the successful men of Orleans county.
Mr. Porter married, at Oxford, Connecticut,
August 2, 1887, Nellie E. Scott, born at Nau-
gatuck, Connecticut, May 28, 1861. Child,
Eleanor Amelia, born June 27, 1895. The
Scotts, of Naugatuck, were large land owners
and leading citizens. Asahel Scott, grand
father of Mrs. Nellie E. Porter, was born
there in 1783, died November, 1837. He mar
ried, in 1808, Hannah Bouton, also born in
Naugatuck, 1793, died January 6, 1844. Chil
dren : 1. Laura O., born September 28, 1813,
died March 17, 1883. 2. Sarah S., born April
2, 1816, died March 25, 1888. 3. Mary, born
November 28, 1818. 4. Edwin W., born No
vember 3, 1820. 5. Nelson T., born Au
gust 10, 1821, died Thanksgiving Day, 1909;
he was a carriage manufacturer; he married
Ellen Augusta Scott, and their daughter,
Nellie E., married Charles Grayson Porter.

About the year 1640
VAN BERGEN there came to New
Netherland, Martinsen
Gerretson Van Bergen, or Marte Gerritse
(Martin, son of Gerritt) as he called him
self, who is said to have been a cousin or
nephew of Killian Van Rensselaer, of Am
sterdam, and to have come to Rensselaer-
wyck (Albany) under his patronage. Marte
Gerritse soon became a man of note in the
colony, and for many years was komissaries of
Fort Orange (Albany), an office of varied

civil function and considerable profit. He was
also a member of the governor's council, one
of the justices of the peace for the county
of Albany, and captain of a company of foot.
He seems to have been a punctual, industrious
man, but was covetous of land and fond of the
power which wealth and office confer. He
gave freely of his substance when the colony
or his church was in need. In 1689 few sub
scribed a greater sum than he for the defense
of the frontier. No man, even Van Rensse
laer or Livingston, the richest men of their
clay in the upper Hudson valley, paid a larger
sum towards the support of Godfrey Dellins,
the zealous minister of the Dutch Reformed
Church at Albany. .Marte Gerritse died at his.
"bouwerie," an estate of several hundred acres.
on the west side of the Hudson, which after
ward was owned by James Van Rensselaer.
It is a well-founded family tradition that
Marte Gerritse was killed while resisting an
attack upon his house by a party of Canadian
Indians, who intended to carry him off as
prisoner. He left a large estate in land, lots
in Albany, a farm just below on the Hudson,
and an undivided interest in the Catskill pat
ent, the Coxsackie patent and the Corlaers Kill
patent. He married (first) Janetje Martinse ;
(second) at Albany, January 21, 1686, Neelt-
je, daughter of Myndert Frederickse Van
Iveren, who survived him and married a sec
ond husband. Children, baptized at Albany:
1. Gerritt, November 27, 1687; married, June
1, 1711, Annatje Meyer. 2. Myndert, Septem
ber, 1689, died young. 3. Marten, March 28,
1692 ; married, June 7, 1715, Catrina Meyer.
4. Pieter (Petrus), of whom further. 5. Jo
hannes, October 4, 1695, died without issue.
(II) Pieter (Petrus), fourth son of Marte
Gerritse Van Bergen, was baptized in Albany,
New York, February 21, 1694, died at Cox
sackie, New York, January 4, 1778. He set
tled on the Coxsackie Patent, and founded a
family prominent in the annals of Greene
county. He married, November 7, 1724,
Christina, born 1700, died December, 1777,
daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth (Ten
Broeck) Costar. Children: 1. Martin Ger-
retsen, born September 9, 1725, a prominent
burgher of Albany; a magistrate and member
of the governor's council. He never married
and was familiarly known as "Mart Gers, the
bachelor." 2. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 3.
Anthony, of whom further. 4. Henry, No
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ried Neeltje Staats. 5. Elizabeth (2), born
January 8, 1733, died September 4, 1814;
married, 1771, Hermanus Cuyler. 6. Myn
dert, baptized in Coxsackie, October 16, 1739.
7. Peter, born April 23, 1742; married Eliza
beth Fryer.
(Ill) Anthony, second son of Pieter Van
Bergen, was born November 1, 1729. His
will bears date of February 10, 1792. He was
a revolutionary soldier, colonel of the Elev
enth Regiment, Albany County Militia. He
married, at Catskill, New York, in 1762,
Maria Salisbury, baptized April 22, 1739,
daughter of Abraham and Rachel (Ten
Broeck) Salisbury, granddaughter of Francis
and Maria (Van Gaasbeck) Salisbury, great-
granddaughter of Silvester Salisbury (who
came to New Netherlands from England,
1664; married Elizabeth Beck, and had only
one son who survived childhood, Francis, born
1679). Children of Anthony Van Bergen:
1. Abraham, born December 3, 1761, died No
vember 11, 1848. 2. Peter A., of whom fur
ther. 3. Myndert, baptized at Coxsackie, Jan
uary 17, 1767. 4. Catharina, baptized January
17, 1767; married Coenradt Hoogtilling. 5.
Marten Gerretsen, born December 17, 1768;
married, March 30, 1793, Sally Conyn. 6.
Christina, baptized July 17, 1774; married Ar
thur MacCloskey. 7. Henry Costar, born 1777,
died August 11, 1816. 8. Rachel, baptized
July 16, 1780.
(IV) Peter A., second son of Anthony and
Maria (Salisbury) Van Bergen, was born July
11, 1763, died August 30, 1804. He was a
large land owner and a state senator, 1802-04,
dying while in office. He married Hester
Hoogtilling, baptized at Coxsackie, June 5,
1768. She survived her husband and married
(second) Dr. James Oliver, of Marbletown,
Ulster county, New York. Child, Anthony A.,
of whom further.
(V) Anthony A., only son of Peter A. Van
Bergen, was born 1786, died December 27,
1859. He was judge of county court and
president of the New York State Agricultural
Society. He married Clarine, who died at
Coxsackie, October 30, 1872, aged eighty-
seven years, daughter of John Peck, of Lyme,
Connecticut. Children: 1. Elizabeth, born
July 13, 1807. 2. Lucy Ann, born 1809; mar
ried, January 7, 1836, Rev. Leonard B. Van
Dyck. 3. Peter A., born at Coxsackie, Janu
ary 12, 1812 ; married, June 20, 1849, Lucy
Smart, of Flushing, Long Island. 4. John P.,

married Margaret Baker, of New Orleans. 5.
James Oliver, married Harriet Lay. 6. Es
ther, married Stephen J. Matson. 7. Rebecca,
married Roswell Read (2). 8. Anthony A.,
of whom further. 9. Maria, died July 31,
1879; unmarried.
(VI) Anthony A. (2), fourth son of An
thony A. (1) and Clarine (Peck) Van Ber
gen, was born at Coxsackie, January 1, 1824,
and is still living. He has acquired large
business interests abroad, become very
wealthy, and has permanently removed his
residence to Paris, France, where he has held
high position, and was an officer of the Legion
of Honor, fie married Julia Peirson. Chil
dren : Charles, of whom further ; Henry, mar
ried Ethel Irving; Alice, married Otto Graf
Grote, of Varchenten.
(VII) Dr. Charles Van Bergen, eldest son
of Anthony A. (2) and Julia (Peirson) Van
Bergen, was born in Paris, France, July 28,
1869. He was graduated Bachelor of Science
and Bachelor of Arts, University of Paris,
1887, and Doctor of Medicine from an Eng
lish University, 1896, holding the last degree
also from other European universities, but
never practiced his profession. Dr. Van Ber
gen divides his time between his Paris mansion
and his beautiful Buffalo residence. He mar
ried, December 15, 1896, Amelia Louise,
daughter of Francis and Georgianna (Stev
enson) Thorn, of Buffalo (see Stevenson and
Thorn).

Among the early New England
EDSON names, the family name of Ed
son has not been so widely dis
seminated as some others. Its representatives
have, however, fully sustained the New Eng
land characteristics of intelligence, industry
and integrity. They have borne a part in
every movement calculated to develop the best
interests of the country. Some have been prom
inently identified with Eastern and Central,
and some with Western New York from the
first settlement down to the present time.
(I) Deacon Samuel Edson, was born in Fil-
longley, Warwickshire, England, in 1612-13.
He was a descendant of Thomas and Julianna
(Bustard) Edson, of Addenburg, Oxford-:
shire, England. Thomas Edson was the earli
est identified male ancestor of the Edsons in
England and America. He was born about
1480, twelve years before the discovery of
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Samuel Edson, when about twenty-five years
of age, immediately after his marriage to Su
sanna Orcutt, then aged twenty-one, embarked
in England on board of a ship with his young
wife, for America. He arrived at Salem,
Massachusetts, in July, 1639, and had granted
to him land near Catt Cove, where he first
resided, and later also at Mackerel Cove. He
engaged, perhaps at first, in catching and cur
ing fish, as did many of the immigrants on
first reaching America. He continued to re
side in Salem until not later than 1651, when
he removed to Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
He was one of the fifty-six original propri
etors of that town, and became one of the
earliest, if not its first settler. Besides his
original share in the town he purchased other
lands and became a very large farmer. He
owned two saw mills, and built the first corn
mill there, for which he was given an addi
tional share of the proprietary lands. The
mill irons were brought from England. The
mill was built upon Town river. The site of
his mills has been continually occupied by a
mill ever since. The site of his residence was
south of Town river, in what is now West
Bridgewater. In 1676 he represented the
town in the general court or legislature of
Plymouth. For nine years he was selectman
of Bridgewater. He was an active member
of the counciLof war from 1667 to the end
of King Philip's war, and also of the com
mittee to distribute contributions made by the
Irish people for that war, and also to those
entitled thereto in Bridgewater. He was on
the committee with two others to negotiate
for, and received from the Indian Chief Pomo-
noho a conveyance of the Titcut purchase, also
from the Chief Wampatuck a confirmatory
deed of lands of the town, previously con
veyed by Massasoit. In 1680 he, with two
others, was appointed to settle the boundary
line between Bridgewater and Middleboro, and
also the line between Bridgewater and Taun
ton. Samuel Edson had a large robust frame,
and a strong countenance. Although he had
not received the liberal education for his day,
he had a keen intelligence, was enterprising
and in every sense was a man of affairs. He
had a strong individuality and an unblemished
character. When he spoke at the town meet
ings he carried great influence, and was
chosen to fill many offices in the town of
Bridgewater. He was one of the first dea
cons of the Bridgewater Church, elected in

1664, and so continued until his death. His
wife, Susanna, had a happy disposition, mod
est deportment, dignified, presence and grace
ful manners, fier education and natural abili
ties were said to be fully equal to his. He
died July 19, 1692. She died February 20,
1699. In the old burying ground at Bridge-
water, the oldest monument of the kind is that
standing over their graves. They had three
sons and five daughters. Susanna, their eld
est daughter, married Rev. James Keith, the
first minister in Bridgewater.
(II) Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel (1)
Edson, was born in 1645, in Salem, and died
in Bridgewater in 1719. In August, 1667, he
and eighteen other settlers of Bridgewater,
while on their way to join Captain Church, in
King Philip's war, surprised a party of Indian
warriors, killed some, and captured seventeen.
Upon being reinforced, they pursued the In
dians, and finally returned to Bridgewater,
having killed and captured 173 of them. Sam
uel Edson was a prominent and highly re
spected citizen of Bridgewater. fie was
chosen in 1697 to represent that town in the
general court of Boston, and again 1713, and
was elected town selectman in 1709- 12- 19.
He was regarded as wealthy by his townsmen.
He owned, in different parcels, 1,500 acres of
land, much personal property, and also two
negro servants, or slaves, George and Sarah.
In 1678 he married Susannah, daughter of
Nicholas and Susannah (Shaw) Byram. They
had one son and two daughters.
(Ill) Samuel (3), only son Of Samuel (2)
and Susannah (Byram) Edson, was born
January 14, 1690, in Bridgewater, where he
died in 1771. fie was the first of the family
to affiliate with the English Church, and gave
a deed, January 23, 1747, of fourteen acres
of land to the society for the propagation of
the gospel in foreign parts. This applied to
the use of the Episcopal Church in Bridge-
water, and was leased for a period of nine
hundred years at twenty-one dollars per year.
The religious faith of the people of his town
and of the colony generally being intensely
Puritan, he and his excellent and intelligent
wife were subjected to the criticisms that such
differences in religious faith would invite, and
he, although an intelligent citizen of irre
proachable character, took little part in the>
affairs of the town. His numerous posterity
are scattered wide over the United States, are
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resented by many ministers of that denomina
tion. He married, in 1707, Mary, daughter
of Benjamin Dean, of Taunton, horn 1687,
died 1770. Children: Susannah, born 1708;
Bethiah, 1710; Mary, 1712; Samuel, 1714;
Nathan, 1716; Abel, 1718; Obed* mentioned
below; Elizabeth, 1722; Sarah, 1724; Silence,
1726; Ebenezer, 1727; John, 1729; Ezra, 1730.
(IV) Obed, fourth son of Samuel (3) and
Mary (Dean) Edson, was born December 31,
1720, in Bridgewater, and died in Richfield,
New York, September 8, 1804. He was a
sergeant in the French and Indian war, having
served against the French in several expedi
tions in Nova Scotia and against Crown Point.
He probably went to Richfield in his old age
to join his son and namesake. He married
(first), November 11, 1741, Katurah, daugh
ter of Jonathan and Abigail (Stoughton)
Willis, of Bridgewater, born 1722, died 1750.
He married (second), about 1750, Martha,
whose surname is not preserved. Children of
first marriage: Jesse, born 1744; Obed, men
tioned below; Lewis, 1748. Of the second
marriage: Katurah, born 1751 ; Thomas,
J753; Lydia, 1754; Silence, 1756; Isaac, 1758.
(V) Obed (2), second son of Obed (1)
and Katurah (Willis) Edson, was born May
2, 1747, in Bridgewater, and died in Richfield,
New York, May 9, 1840, aged ninety-three
years and seven days. He served in the
French and Indian war. For some years he
resided at Lanesboro, Massachusetts, where
he was connected with a foundry. Between
1790 and 1793 he settled in what is now Rich
field, Otsego county, then a part of the town
of German Flats, Montgomery county, New
York, where he engaged in farming, and also
kept a hotel in the locality now known as
Monticello. He had previously been a farmer
in Massachusetts, and purchased a tract of
land on his arrival in Richfield. He does not
appear in the census of 1790, but in 1793 he
was among the citizens of the town, fie was
on a committee of three to divide the town
chosen at a special meeting, December 18,
1798, and this action resulted in the erection
of the towns of Exeter and Plainfield the fol
lowing year. He was in his religion a strong
Episcopalian, acquainted with and ia close
friend of Rev. Daniel Nash, a celebrated Epis
copalian clergyman, distinguished in the fron
tier history of that region. He possessed
large musical talent, and had much natural
abilitv. He was a Jeffersonian Republican,

and was an influential citizen of the com
munity. For many years he was the owner
of a slave named "Ike," whom he finally eman
cipated. He married, April 22, 1769, Pru
dence, daughter of Wyllys Howe. She was
of Welsh descent.
(VI) Obed (3), son of Obed (2) and Pru
dence (Howe) Edson, was born August 16, 1772,
in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, and resided for a
time at Cooperstown, Otsego county, New
York, later at Richfield, in the same county,
whence he removed to Eaton, Madison county,
New York, where he died August 6, 1804. He
was a clothier by occupation, in religion an
Episcopalian, in politics a Jeffersonian Repub
lican, and was affiliated with the Masonic fra
ternity. He married (first) Aurora Higgins;
(second) Fanny Bigelow, July 16, 1794, at
Cooperstown. The latter marriage was per
formed by Rev. Daniel Nash, the prototype of
Parson Grant in James Fenimore Cooper's
"Pioneers." Obed Edson was well educated
for his time — a student, and a reader of good
literature. Children: Obed, John Milton
(mentioned below), and Fanny Aurora. The
latter became the wife of Horace Potter, and
resided at her decease at Kankakee, Illinois.
Fanny (Bigelow) Edson, mother of John
Milton Edson, was born in Colchester, Con
necticut, April 7, 1777, daughter of Elisha
Bigelow. fie was a captain in the American
army in the war of the revolution. His three
sons served during that war — two of them
were officers. Her mother, Thankful Beebe,
whose ancestor served under Cromwell, died
in Sinclairville in 1839, at the age of ninety-
seven years. Fanny came with her father's
family in 1793, to Cooperstown, Otsego
county, New York. Her father purchased
land of the father of J. Fenimore Cooper,
and the families were well known to each
other. She knew the persons who were rep
resented in the "Pioneers," and was familiar
with incidents upon which the story was
founded. She married (second) Major Sam
uel Sinclair, with whom she and her children
removed in 1810 to Sinclairville, Chautauqua
county, when its site was a wilderness, where
a village afterwards grew up, that was named
in his honor. She was intelligent and well
educated in her day, and filled an important
place in the several communities in which she
lived, and was widely known and honored for
her virtues and her useful life. She died in
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Samuel Sinclair, her husband, whose first
wife was Sarah or Sally Perkins, when a
mere lad attended for a year as a servant or
page for his uncle, Joseph Cilley, colonel of
the First New Hampshire regiment, and then,
when about fifteen years of age, enlisted as a
soldier in his uncle's regiment, for three
years. He was in the battles of Saratoga and
Monmouth, and at Valley Forge, and in Sul
livan's campaign against the Indians. His
mother was Mary, daughter of Captain Joseph
Cilley, of New fiampshire. Mr. Sinclair was
a near kinsman of Governor B. F. Butler, of
Massachusetts, Hon. John G. Sinclair, late
lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire, and
Hon. Jonathan Cilley, who fell in a famous
duel with Graves, a member of congress from
Kentucky. Samuel Sinclair was a Royal Arch
Mason, the founder of the Masonic lodge in
Sinclairville, and one of the founders of For
rest Lodge of Fredonia, the first established
in Chautauqua county.
(VII) John Milton, son of Obed (3) and
Fanny (Bigelow) Edson, was born July 30,
1 801, at Eaton, Madison county, New York.
When a child of about nine years he removed
with his mother and stepfather, Major Sam
uel Sinclair, to the site of the present village
of Sinclairville, when the county was then a
wilderness. His early life was spent in the forest,
without school opportunities, but he was dis
tinguished for his physical power and skill.
Accomplished in all manner of woodcraft, he
became a leader among pioneers. His taste
for investigation, large and original views and
natural ability, supplied in a great measure
the poverty of his early opportunities for ob
taining a high education. When a very young
man he was chosen colonel of the regiment
allotted to his part of the county, and later
the first master of Sylvan Lodge of Masons
in Sinclairville. In his early life he was long
a justice of the peace, often supervisor of his
town, and also a United States marshal. He
became a judge of the court of common pleas,
and served as such until that court was abol
ished by the constitution of the state. In
183 1 he married Hannah, daughter of Jona
than and Ursula (Church) Alverson. She
was born in Halifax, Windham county, Ver
mont, June 3, 1804; came with her mother
to reside in Gerry, Chautauqua county, New
York, in 1821. She died November 22, 1878.
Children : Obed (4) (mentioned below) ;

Fanny Ursula, born June 4, 1834, married
Henry, son of Melzer Sylvester.
(VIII) Obed (4), only son of John M. and
Hannah (Alverson) Edson, was born Febru
ary 18, 1832, at Sinclairville, and received
his primary education in the public schools
of that village and the Fredonia Academy.
He began the study of law with Hon. E. H.
Sears, at Sinclairville, subsequently entered
the law school at Albany, and was admitted
to the bar in Albany, April 8, 1853, and
is now the oldest lawyer practicing in
Chautauqua county, where he has been thus
engaged fifty-nine years. In early life and
at intervals later he followed the business of
railroad and land surveying. In 185 1 he was
employed in the counties of Chautauqua and
Cattaraugus in the survey of the New York
and Erie railroad, which was then being built
from New York City to Dunkirk. Mr. Edson
was afterwards engaged in the survey of
other railroads and plank roads in New York
and Pennsylvania and also in land surveying.
In 1867 he assisted in the survey and location
of the line then known as the Dunkirk and
Warren railroad.
Mr. Edson has always taken a keen in
terest in historical matters, and is the author
of various histories of Qiautauqua county
and other books, besides contributing leading
articles to The Magazine of American His
tory, The Continent, The Chautauquan, and
other periodicals, and has lectured before the
Chautauqua Institute, and delivered the his
torical address at Westfield in 1902 on the
occasion of the centennial celebration of the
settlement of Chautauqua county. He made
a similar address at the celebration of the cen
tennial of the settlement of the city of James
town, and has delivered many other addresses
and lectures. For many years he has been
president of the Chautauqua County Histori
cal Society^ and is a member of the Buffalo
Historical Society; of the New York State
Bar Association; and president of the Ever
green Cemetery Association of Sinclairville.
In political matters Mr. Edson has always act
ed with the Democratic party. In early life
he served as justice of the peace ; was several
years supervisor of his native town (Char
lotte), and has served as a member of the
state legislature. He is an active worker of
the Masonic fraternity; was several years
master of Sylvan Lodge, Free and Accepted
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in 1861 and last elected in 191 1, a half cen
tury later, and is now, at the age of eighty,
still its master. He is a member of the Royal
Arch Masons of Jamestown. Mr. Edson is
active in both mind and body, and those meet
ing him are surprised when they learn his
age. He is by nature genial and kindly; is
most democratic in character and habits, and
enjoys the warm regard of a very large num
ber of people.
He married, at Sinclairville, May 11, 1859,
Emily Amelia Allen, born November 27, 1835,
at New London, Connecticut, daughter of
Caleb J. and Emily (Haley) Allen. She died
in March, 1899. In his youth, Caleb J. Allen
was a sailor before the mast on a Pacific
ocean whaler, and later became a hatter in
New London; subsequent to that he was a
merchant in that city and in Sinclairville, New
York. He served as mayor and postmaster
at New London, and was a member of the
state senate in Connecticut. His children were :
James A. Allen, a lawyer of Buffalo; Samuel
T., a captain of the civil war, and a lawyer in
New York City; Caleb J., a lawyer of Iowa,
and officer in the civil war, serving at Vicks
burg, afterwards prisoner at Belle Isle, and
died in the service; Stephen H., the only sur
vivor of the family, is a lawyer of Topeka,
Kansas, where he has held important judicial
positions, having been six years judge of the
supreme court of the state. Children of Obed
(4) Edson and wife: 1. Fanny Allen, born
April 28, i860, in Sinclairville; was educated
at Buffalo high school, and became the wife
of John A. Love. 2. John Milton, September
29, 1 86 1 ; was educated at Randolph Academy,
and until recently was printer, editor and pub
lisher at Bellingham, in the state of Washing
ton; he is also a well known ornithologist of
that state, having made many valuable con
tributions to the chief book upon that sub
ject west of the Rocky Mountains, and also
to other publications relating to that science;
married Alma B. Green, formerly a well-
known teacher in leading schools of Chautau
qua county, New York. 3. Samuel Allen,
September 15, 1863, deceased. 4. Mary Ursu
la, September 11, 1865, deceased. 5. fiannah,
February 15, 1869, deceased. 6. Walter Henry,
of whom further. 7. Ellen Emily, July 21,
1875, deceased. 8. Allen Obed, September 3,
1880, deceased.
(IX) Walter Henry Edson, son of Obed
(4) and Emily A. (Allen) Edson, was born in

1874, at Sinclairville, Chautauqua county,
New York. He graduated- at the Sinclair
ville high school, and was valedictorian of his
class. Winning the state scholarship for
Chautauqua county, he entered Cornell Uni
versity in the fall of 1892. During his college
course he took part upon the prize stage in
declamation, oratory and debate, and was an
assistant in the oratorical department of the
university. He graduated in 1896, receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He deliv
ered the memorial address of his class. He
-was class baseball director and pitcher for
the second 'varsity, and many local teams in
Chautauqua county. He graduated from Cor
nell University College of Law in June, 1897.
He and Harley N. Crosby, now surro
gate of Chautauqua county, then holding
a state scholarship from Oswego county,
became acquainted the first week of their
college year in Cornell. They entered
in the same class and course, and graduated
at the same time. They entered and graduated
from Cornell University College of Law at
the same time, and secured the degree of
Bachelor of Laws. They both studied law at
Sinclairville in the office of his father, Obed
Edson, and were admitted to the practice of
law in the courts of the state of New York
in 1898. The same year they opened an of
fice at Falconer, Chautauqua county, under
the firm name of Edson & Crosby, where they
still continue the practice of law together,
and are regarded as one of the strongest law
firms of the county.
Walter H. Edson devotes himself closely to
the practice of law, is not only an able advo
cate, but strong and thorough in the practice
and trial of cases. He is a leading Democrat
of the county, often presiding at the meetings
of the party and speaking at mass meetings
and on other occasions, fie has been the can
didate of his party for member of assembly
and county judge, but, as his party is greatly
in the minority it seldom succeeds in electing
its candidate. He was chairman of the Demo
cratic county committee from 1901 to 1905.
He has been president of the board of educa
tion of Falconer, and is now president of the
University Club, the men's literary society of
Jamestown, and belongs to the Masonic fra
ternity. June 27, 1899, at Shumla, Chautau
qua county, he married Florilla Belle Clark,
daughter of Francis Drake Qark and Isabel
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Fredonia, New York, April 18, 1874, gradu
ated from Sinclairville high school in the same
class with Mr. Edson. After teaching several '
terms in the district schools of the county, in
1897 she graduated at the Fredonia Normal
School, and afterwards taught in the schools
of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and at Angelica, New
York. She is a great-great-granddaughter of
Major Samuel Sinclair, the founder of Sin
clairville, and his first wife, Sarah (Perkins)
Sinclair. Sarah Perkins Sinclair was a direct
descendant of Samuel Edson, of Bridgewater,
Massachusetts. Walter H. Edson is a great-
grandson of Fanny (Bigelow) Edson, the
second wife of Major Samuel Sinclair, and
also a direct descendant of Samuel Edson,
above named. The children of Walter H. and
Florilla B. Edson are: Isabel Emily, born
August 5, 1902, at Falconer, New York, and
Samuel Sinclair Edson, born at Falconer, May
13, 1906. Families bearing the name of
JOHNSON Johnson have been numerous
in England for centuries and
many have immigrated to America. Probably
the first of the name to reach New England
were three brothers, Edward, William and
John, sons of William Johnson, of Heme
Hill, near Canterbury, England. They came
in the fleet with Winthrop in 1630. Solomon
Johnson and another John Johnson also are
mentioned as having come in the same year.
They were likewise from Heme Hill, and we're
probably kindred. Edward Johnson was one
of the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts;
William settled in Charlestown, and John in
Roxbury. Isaac Johnson, of Clipsham, Rut
landshire, England, also came in the fleet with
Winthrop in 1630. His wife, Arabella, was
the daughter of Thomas, fourteenth earl of
Lincoln. He was the richest man in the col
ony; both he and his wife died in the same
year that they emigrated. He was probably
a kinsman of the other Johnsons mentioned.
Edward Johnson and his brothers were evi
dently of the landed gentry, inasmuch as Ed
ward left a large estate in England. He is
known particularly as the author of "History
of New England of Wonder Working Provi
dence of Sien's Savior in New England,"
published in London in 1654. He returned to
England in 1636 and brought back his wife,
seven children and three servants.
(I) John Johnson, brother of Edward and

William, and son of William of Heme Hill,
England, brought with him his wife Margery
and five children. He was admitted a freeman
in 1630, settled in Roxbury, and was called
a yeoman. October ig, 1630, he was chosen
constable of Roxbury and serveyor of all the
arms of the colony. He kept a tavern, was
a man of wealth and distinction, and a deputy
to the general court in 1634 and for many
years afterward. His house was burned Au
gust 2, 1645, when seventeen barrels of pow
der and many arms belonging to the colony
were lost. He was elected a member of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in
1638. He was granted three hundred acres
of land by the general court as compensation
for his services as surveyor-general. His wife
Margery died in 1635. He married (second)
Grace, widow of Barnabas Fawer. He died
September 30, 1659. Children by first wife:
Isaac, mentioned below; Humphrey, married
Ellen Cheney; Mary, married Roger Mowry,
of Providence, Rhode Island; Elizabeth, mar
ried, Robert Pepper; a daughter.
(II) Isaac, son of John and Margery John
son, was born in England, and came to Massa
chusetts in 1630. He was a lieutenant and
captain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company, and represented Roxbury in the
general court. He was killed in King Philip's
war while storming the Narragansett fort, De
cember 19, 1675. He married, January 20,
1637, Elizabeth Porter. Children : Elizabeth,
born 1637, married Henry Bowen, died 1701 ;
John, born 1639, died 1661 ; Mary, born 1642,
married, 1663, William Bartholomew; Isaac,
mentioned below ; Joseph, 1645 ; Nathaniel,
1674, married Mary Smith.
(Ill) Isaac (2), son of Captain Isaac (1)
and Elizabeth (Porter) Johnson, was born
November 7, 1643, m Roxbury, Massachu
setts. He moved to Middletown, Connecticut,
about 1672.* He married, 1669, Mary Harris,
and died in Middletown, February 23, 1720.
Children: Isaac, born 1670; Daniel, men
tioned below; John, 1674; Joseph, 1677; Na
thaniel, 1679; Elizabeth, 1681 ; William, 1683;
Mary, 1687; Ebenezer, 1692, died in infancy.
(IV) Daniel, son of Isaac (2) and Mary
(Harris) Johnson, was born in Middletown,
Connecticut, October 8; 1672. He married,
February 11, 1707, Abigail Leek, and died at
Middletown, January 28, 1758. Children:
Abigail, 1707; Daniel, mentioned below ; Mary,
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(V) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) and Abi
gail (Leek) Johnson, was born June 8, 1710,
at Middletown, Connecticut. He married
(first) Elizabeth Ward, 1734; (second) Jane
Richardson, 1747; (third) Edith Arnold,
1754; (fourth) Sarah Tryon, 1755. Children
by first wife: Elizabeth, 1735; Daniel, 1737,
died 1740; Daniel, 1741 ; Seth, 1743; Jesse,
mentioned below ; by second wife : Lucretia,
1748; Jane, 1749; Abigail, 1751, married Eli-
phlet Hubbard; a daughter, died in infancy;
by third wife: A daughter, died in infancy;
by fourth wife: Buckley and Edith, twins,
1758. (VI) Jesse, son of Daniel (2) and Eliza
beth (Ward) Johnson, was born at Middle-
town, Connecticut, November 7, 1745. He
was a farmer, and was also largely engaged
in the curing of beef to supply ships. He
lived at Chatham and Middletown till 1804,
when he bought a farm at Cherry Valley, and
removed thither through the influences of Dr.
Joseph White. He married (first), February
27, 1769, Mary Stevenson; (second) March
2, 1812, Abigail Goodwin, born Butler, widow
of Samuel Goodwin Jr. He died April 30,
1812, aged eighty-six. Children, all by first
wife: Robert, born 1769, married Lucy Wil
cox; Jesse, born 1771, died 1775; Elizabeth
born 1773, married Samuel Stewart Jr. ; Mary,
born 1775, married Colonel Eli Wilder; Jesse,
born 1777, died 1780; Ruth, born 1779, mar
ried Abraham Roseboom; Lucy, born 1781,
married Dr. James Kennedy ; Sally Maria,
mentioned below ; Erastus, born 1786, married
Jerusha W. Holt; Jesse, born 1792, died 1813.
(I) Ebenezer Johnson was born May 9,
1760, probably in Massachusetts. He went to
sea at an early age, and was in the privateer
service during the greater part of the revolu
tion, although for a time he acted as deputy
commissary for land forces. He was in six
teen actions at sea, and was taken prisoner
seven times. For three months he was con
fined on the prison ship "Jersey," where the
prisoners were so starved and ill treated that
only a few survived. On one occasion John
son secured a light, made his way to the pow
der magazine and threatened to blow up the
ship if the officers would not pledge him their
honor to grant the prisoners relief. He car
ried his point. In seven different actions he
formed one of a boarding party. In one of
these engagements a heavy sea separated the
ships when only a part of the American crew

had reached the British vessel; although out
numbered and cut off from reinforcements,
•Johnson and his companions carried the ship,
which proved to be a transport loaded with
provisions. He obtained command of a priva
teer, and, while cruising in the West Indies,
encountered a British vessel and fought her
until darkness and a high wind separated
them. On mustering his crew he found there
were but 47 men left alive out of 109. He
was one of the defenders of New London
when it was attacked by the British under
Benedict Arnold, September 6, 1781, and nar
rowly escaped the massacre of Fort Griswold
at Groton. While retreating from the place
he was fired on and all of his companions were
killed. He escaped with seven bullet holes
through his clothing. He was several times
shipwrecked. Once in the West Indies he lost
his ship and all the crew save one. With this
companion he traveled eighty miles bare
footed and almost naked under the burning
sun before a human habitation was found.
On another occasion he was dug out of a
snowbank unconscious and nearly lifeless.
After the revolution he abandoned the sea and
settled in Wells, Vermont. From there he
removed in 1794 to Utica, New York, and
in 1795 to Cazenovia. Here he built a large
house on the public square, which became the
first tavern in the village. It was known as
the Johnson House. About 1816 he removed
to Chautauqua county, and later to Buffalo.
Captain Johnson married, August 13, 1783,
Deborah, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Sally
(Oakman) Lathrop, of Wells, Vermont. De
spite the perils and vicissitudes of his life he
lived to be eighty-one years old, dying Feb
ruary 8, 1841. fiis last words, reminiscent of
his revolutionary adventures or prophetic,
perhaps, of the new life that was opening to
his vision were : "Bear down, boys, and pre
pare to board. Mrs. Johnson died in Buffalo
in 1834, of cholera. Children: Elisha, born
at Wells (Wells River?), Vermont, mentioned
below ; Fbenezer, mentioned below ; Will
iam, born November 5, 1789; Lucy, born Au
gust 7, 1790; William, born August 6, 1792;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Lucy, born Febru
ary 7, 1797; Hiram, born August 13, 1798;
Marlin, born July 27, 1800; Lathrop, born
July 26, 1802; Caroline, born September 29,
1804; Amanda, born December 7, 1806;
Palmester, born November 29, 1804.
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and Deborah (Lathrop) Johnson, was born in
Middlebury, Vermont, November 7, 1786. He
studied medicine with Dr. Joseph White, of
Cherry Valley, New York. At the age of
twenty-three, having been admitted to prac
tice, he came to Buffalo bearing a letter of
introduction from Hezekiah Granger to Eras
tus Granger, the superintendent of Indian af
fairs. He settled in Buffalo permanently in
1810. Dr. Cyrenium Chapin already was es
tablished as a physician and owned a drug
store. Dr. Johnson applied to Joseph Elli
cott for the loan of sufficient capital to open
an opposition drug store, arguing the advan
tage to the public of competition in medicines
as well as medical advice. At the outbreak of
the war he was appointed surgeon's mate in
the Niagara county regiment commanded by
Lieutenant Colonel Asa Chapman, brigade of
Brigadier General Timothy S. Hopkins. He
was promoted to surgeon in the Thirteenth
regiment of infantry, Niagara county, Lieu
tenant Colonel Calvin Fillamore, commander,
and to hospital surgeon in the Twenty-fourth
division of infantry, Niagara county, Laur
ence J. Woodruff, inspector. He was absent
on military duty when Buffalo was burned,
but his house was destroyed with the others.
Mrs. Johnson fled with her infant child to
Williamsville. A family letter written at the
time tells of hardships that followed. For
' three months Mrs. Johnson kept house with
three knives and forks, one teacup, three cus
tard cups and five earthen plates, which was
all she saved of her crockery. She saved her
bed and bedding, but that was about all of
her property that was not burned. She was
obliged to sell her looking glass and some
other articles in order to buy things to make
her home habitable. After the war Dr. John
son gave up his practice and engaged in busi
ness with Judge Samuel Wilkeson. His first
purchase of real estate was in 1814. Subse
quently he bought about twenty-five acres on
Delaware avenue, extending from Chippewa
to Tupper and west to the village line of
Black Rock, Here he built for his home the
stone cottage still standing on Johnson's
Park, which until recently was a part of the
Buffalo Seminary. His business activities
were gradually extended with varying for
tunes. At one time he had a bank in partner
ship with Philander Hodge, under the firm
name of Johnson, Hodge & Company. He
was public-spirited and active in promoting

the welfare of the village. When it was or
ganized as a city in 1832 he became its first
mayor. The duties of the office at that time
were apt to be vigorous. On one occasion
at least he was obliged personally to quell a
riot with his own cane, and did it effectively.
The most serious part of his work was the
preparation for the cholera epedemic that
was known to be coming and that appeared
soon afterward. He was again elected mayor
for the year 1834, the term of office being
then one year. Toward the close of his life
he bought in partnership with his brother
Elisha, about 35,000 acres of land in eastern
Tennessee, where an iron foundry was built
at the village of Tellico Plains, about fifty-
five miles southwest of Knoxville. Dr. John
son married (first) at Cherry Valley, New
York, January 25, 181 1, Sally Maria, daugh
ter of Jesse and Mary (Stevenson) Johnson,
born 1783, whose descent is traced in the
opening of this sketch; (second) Lucy E.
Lord, December 7, 1835, of Millersville, New
York. He died at Tellico Plains, December
23, 1849, aged sixty-two years. Mrs. Lucy
(Lord) Johnson died November 30, 1859.
Children by first wife: 1. Mary, mentioned
below. 2. William, mentioned below. 3.
Sarah Maria, born February 22, 1821, in Buf
falo; married, January 22, 1842, Dr. Smith
Inglehart; they settled in Cleveland, where
Dr. Inglehart was a druggist, physician,
farmer, merchant, and collector of the port
under President Polk; he died February 14,
1871, aged fifty-five. Children of Smith and
Sarah (Johnson) Inglehart: George Nelson,
1847, married Margaret Cuthbertson; Fred
M., 1851, married Lizzie Stevens; Maria
Smith, 1852, married James B. Gill; two
daughters died in infancy. By second wife :
4. Cecilia, married Horace Utley. 5. Herbert
Lord, mentioned below. 6. Sarah Louisa,
died in childhood.
(Ill) Mary Elizabeth, eldest child of Dr.
Ebenezer and Sally M. (Johnson) Johnson,
married, December 9, 1828, John Chase Lord,
son of Rev. John Way and Sarah (Chase)
Lord, who was born in Washington, New
Hampshire, August 9, 1805. The marriage
was an elopement, and was the great social
sensation of early Buffalo. Young Lord at this
time was a lawyer. He had been educated
at Madison and Hamilton colleges, had left
college to edit The Canadian; and had begun
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at the same time in the academy and serving
as deputy county clerk. Tradition says that
when Mary Johnson eloped with him she left
a note for her father reading : "The Lord
gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name of the Lord," but descendants
doubt this story. Mrs. Lord was famous for
her wit. She was also noted for her fond
ness for animals and for protecting them from
cruelty. She had a diploma of honor from
the Humane Society of Turin, Italy. A six-
horse team of Shetland poines, which she was
accustomed to drive, was one of the features
of Buffalo. John C. Lord delivered the semi
centennial address at the celebration of the
founding of Buffalo in 1826. Dr. Johnson
soon became reconciled to the marriage, and
he married for his second wife a sister of his
son-in-law. In 1831 Mr. Lord entered
Auburn Seminary to study for the ministry.
He preached for a short time at Fayetteville
and at Genesee, and in 1835 came to Buffalo,
where he became pastor of what was then
called the Pearl Street Church. It became
the Central Presbyterian Church in 1852, and
has lately amalgamated with the Park Pres
byterian Church. Dr. Lord remained pastor
of this church until 1873, having an assistant
only during the last three years of that period.
He collected a magnificent library which upon
his death was given to the Buffalo Histori
cal Society, fie published: "Lectures to
Young Men," "Lectures on Civilization,"
poems, sermons and essays. He died Janu
ary 22, 1877, aged seventy-one. Mrs. Lord
died May 26, 1885, aged seventy-three. Dr.
and Mrs. Lord had no children of their own,
but adopted a daughter, Frances Johnson
Lord, who married William C. Sherwood, son
of John and Anna (Adams) Sherwood, of
Orangeville, New York, born February 10,
1813. Children of William and Frances
(Lord) Sherwood: Mary Lord, died in in
fancy ; William Lord, born 1847, died 1873 ;
John Chase, born October 25, 1854, married,
February 17, 1886, Louise Isett Madeira.
(Ill) William Henry, son of Dr. Ebene
zer and Sally M. (Johnson) Johnson, was born
in Buffalo, April 25, 1816. He was gradu
ated from Union College, and became a civil
engineer. Afterward he conducted a farm
near Fredonia. He married Mary Anne,
daughter of William F. and Susan (Conant)
Wheeler, born in New York City, November
5, 1820. William Johnson died in Fredonia,

May, 1845, aged twenty-nine. His widow re
moved to Centralia, Illinois, where she died,
September 4, 1887, aged sixty-six. Children :
Charles Ernest, born August 27, 1840; Will
iam Sherwood, mentioned below.
(IV) William Sherwood, son of William
Henry and Mary A. (Wheeler) Johnson, was
born in Fredonia, May 12, 1844. He went
to San Francisco and became a merchant.
He married Kate Francis, daughter of James
Martin and Ann Melissa (Butterworth)
Richards, born in Wellsburgh, Virginia, De
cember 22, 1855. Children: Sherwood, born
1879, died in infancy; Katherine, born Janu
ary 21, 1882.
(Ill) Herbert, son of Dr. Ebenezer and
Lucy (Lord) Johnson, became a lawyer and
practiced in Chicago and Kansas City.
(II) Elisha, son of Ebenezer (1) and De
borah (Lathrop) Johnson, was born at Wells
(Wells River?), Vermont, November 29,
1784. He settled in Rochester. He was a
surveyor and became a contractor on the Ge
nesee Valley canal. He built a house which
became famous as "The Hermitage." He
built a dam at Rochester which is still known
as Johnson's Race. He gave Washington
Square to the city. He served as president
of the village, and after its incorporation as
a city he became its fourth mayor in 1838.
He was in partnership with his brother, Dr.
Ebenezer Johnson, in buying land and build
ing a foundry at Tellico Plains, East Tennes
see. The foundry was still being operated
under lease during the civil war, when it was
burned by General Sherman's troops. The
government afterward compensated Elisha
Johnson, who was a strong Union man. He
married, July 23, Betsey, daughter of Jede
diah and Betsey (Swift) Jackson, of Caze
novia, New York, and died at Tellico Plains,
June 24, 1866, aged eighty-one. Children:
Mortimer F., mentioned below; Eliza Maria,
Emily Amelia, Mary Abby, Helen Ann, Julia
Miller. (Ill) Mortimer F., son of Elisha and
Betsey (Jackson) Johnson, was born in
Cazenovia, ' October 10, 1806. He removed
to Buffalo, and was engaged in the banking
business with his uncle Ebenezer. He re
moved to Tennessee and became an active
public man in that section, serving for a time
as county judge. He married Louise, daugh
ter of Samuel and Jean (Oram) Wilkeson.
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1876. Children: Hugh Mortimer, who was
a Union officer throughout the civil war ; Tel
lico, born June 28, 1846; Flora, married W.
H. Beard, 1858, died the same year. Mr.
Beard was a famous artist in New York.
(II) Samuel, son of Ebenezer (1) and
Deborah (Lathrop) Johnson, was born May
16, 1794. He came to Buffalo, where he had
a wholesale grocery at the corner of Main
street and Buffalo creek. Afterwards he was
engaged in land operations. He removed to
Fredonia and built and kept there a hotel
known as the Johnson House. He married
 , who died December 27, 1845. Mr.
Johnson removed to Belvidere, Illinois, where
he died April 11, 1854. Children:  , mar
ried William J. Mills; Caroline, married
Charles Harrington, of Buffalo, son of Isaac
R. Harrington, who kept the Eagle Hotel and
was at one time mayor of the city. Mrs. Har
rington is deceased.

Captain Edward Johnson,
JOHNSON emigrant ancestor, was born
in Canterbury, Kent, Eng
land, 1598, son of William Johnson. He
came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, with the
first emigrants, but soon returned to England.
In 1635 or 1637 he came again with wife,
seven children and three servants. He re
sided in Woburn, Massachusetts, and was a
man of influence in the colony, holding many
important offices in Woburn. He was the
first town clerk, active in founding the first
church, and commanded the first military com
pany in Woburn. He was the author of some
unique verses beginning the first volume of
Woburn town records, also of "Wonder-work
ing Providences of Sion's Savior in New En
gland." He was famous as a surveyor and
early explorer, and was appointed in 1665 to
make a map of the colony in conjunction with
William Stevens. He died in Woburn, April
23, 1622. His wife Susan survived him until
1689. Children: Edward, George, Susan,
William, Martha, Matthew and John.
(II) William, son of Captain Edward
Johnson, was baptized in Canterbury, England,
March 22, 1628-9, and came with his parents to
New England, fie became a prominent citizen
of Woburn, and succeeded his father as the
second recorder or town clerk of that town. He
was assistant, and held military rank from en
sign to major. He resisted the policies of
Governor Andros and was in command

against the Indians. He died in 1704. He
married, 1655, Esther, daughter of Elder
Thomas Wiswall. Children: William, Ed
ward, Ebenezer, Esther, Joseph, Benjamin,
Josiah, Susanna and Abigail.
(Ill) Captain Edward (2) Johnson, son of
William Johnson, was born in Woburn, Mas
sachusetts, March 19, 1658, died there August
7, I725- He was deacon of the church, en
sign, Heutenant and captain of the Woburn
military company, 1693- 1724. He commanded
his company against the Indians in 1704. He
married (first) January 12, 1687, Sarah Wal
ker, died May 31, 1704, daughter of Samuel
and Sarah (Reed) Walker. He married (sec
ond) Widow Abigail (Gardner) Thompson.
Children by first wife : Edward, died young ;
Edward, Sarah, "Esther, Samuel, Abigail, Su
sanna, Ichabod. By second wife: Elizabeth
and Joseph.
(IV) Deacon Edward (3) Johnson, son of
Captain Edward (2), was born in Woburn,
May 4, 1689, died October 5, 1774. He was
corporal, ensign and lieutenant of the Woburn
company, and deacon of the Woburn second
parish church, 1741-74. He married (first)
Rebecca, daughter of Captain William and
Abigail (Kendall) Reed, of Lexington; (sec
ond) Mrs. Esther (Mason) Coolidge. Chil
dren, all by first wife: Rebecca, Mary, Ed
ward (4), Joshua, Eleazer, Jonathan, Nathan,
Abigail, Ichabod, Lucy, Jonas, Asa and Su
sanna. (V) Edward (4), son of Deacon Edward
(3) Johnson, was born September 28, 171 5.
Little is known of him further than that he
married and had issue.
(VI) Edward (5), son of Edward (4)
Johnson, was born (according to his grave
stone), in 1734. He died in Yorkshire,
Broome county, New York, November 2,
1819, "in his 85th year." His military record
which follows shows him to have been forty-
three years of age in 1781, which would make
his birth 1737-38. He probably settled in
Broome county on his soldier's warrant for
two hundred acres of land. His wife Abby
bore him four children : Stoddard, Orrin, Ed
ward (6) and another who went west and
was never heard from directly, although there
was a report that he was killed.
Certified copy of the revolutionary service' of Ed
ward Johnson: Edward Johnson appears on list of
men mustered between January 20, 1777, and June I,
1778, by Truman Wheler, muster master for Berk-

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shire county, Captain Stoddard's company; terra
three years. Reported received, state, county. Vol.
25, page 246. Edward Johnson appears in a return
of men raised to serve in the continental army (year
not given). Residence, Lenox. Engaged for Lenox.
Joined Captain Stoddard's company, Colonel Vose's
regiment. Vol. 42, 177.
Edward Johnson appears with rank of sergeant on
continental army pay accounts of Captain Orringh
Stoddard's company, Colonel Vose's regiment; for
service from January 1, 1777, to December 31, 1779.
Credited to the town of Lenox. Vol. 1, part 1,
page 1.
Edward Johnson appears with rank of sergeant on
muster roll of Captain Orringh Stoddard's company,
Colonel Joseph Vose's regiment, for December, 1777.
Sworn to in camp near Valley Forge, June 6, 1778.
Appointed December 9, 1776. Term during war.
Reported on furlough. Vol. 48, 331.
Edward Johnson appears with rank of sergeant on
muster and pay rolls of Captain Orringh Stoddard's
company, Colonel Joseph Vose's regiment, for No
vember, 1778, April, 1779. Dated, Providence. Vol.
61, pp. 157-178-191-240-256.
Edward Johnson appears with the rank of ser
geant on continental army pay accounts of Captain
Stoddard's company, Colonel Vose's regiment, for
service from January 1, 1780, to December 31, 1780.
Residence, Stockbridge. Vol. 1, part 2, page 54.
Edward Johnson appears in a descriptive list dated
February 3, 1781, age forty-three years; stature, five
feet, nine inches ; complexion, dark ; hair, black ;
residence, Stockbridge; birthplace, Litchfield, Con
necticut. Enlisted, January 1, 1777. Enlisted at
Stockbridge by Captain Stoddard for during war.
Captain Noah Allen's company, First Massachusetts
regiment. Vol. 63, page 83.
Edward Johnson appears with rank of sergeant on
muster rolls of Captain Noah Allen's company, Colo
nel Joseph Vose's (1st) regiment, for January, 1781,
to March, 1782. Term, during war. Reported sick
at Stockbridge in 1781, on duty in January, 1782; on
command at King's Ferry in February and March,
1782. Rolls dated West Point, camp near Dobb's
Ferry, Peekskill, and quarters at York Hutts. Vol.
50, file 7, and vol. 51, file 15.
Edward Johnson appears among a list of men of
the second regiment entitled to two hundred acres
of land or twenty dollars in money agreeable to re
solve of March 5, 1801. Vol. 29, page 146.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Office of the Secretary,
Boston, September 5, 1905.
I hereby certify the foregoing to be true abstracts
from the record index to the Military Archives de
posited in this office. Herbert H. Boynton,
Deputy and acting Secretary of the Commonwealth.
(VII) Stoddard, son of Edward (5)
Johnson, was born in Yorkshire, Broome
county, New York, where he died in 1837.
He, was educated in the district schools, grew
up to manhood on the farm and always fol
lowed agriculture as a business. In politics
he was a Whig. He was successful in all his

undertakings. He at one time made the trip
from Broome to Niagara counties before there
were any roads to follow a great part of the
way, and many dangers to encounter. He
made the trip safely in both directions, a great
undertaking at that day. He is buried at
Lisle, Broome county. He married Mary
Jones. Children : Lucretia and Sarah, both
died unmarried ; James F., of further mention.
(VIII) James Franklin, only son of Stod
dard Johnson, was born in Lisle, Broome
county, New York, November 3, 1831. He
was educated in a private school at Triangle,
Broome county, kept by Henry Ford. This
was followed by instruction at Whitney
Point under Dayton Peck, who taught him
geometry and higher mathematics. This
ended his years of study, as he was needed
at home, his father having died when the lad
was but seven years of age. He returned to
the farm of one hundred and forty acres at
Lisle, where he remained until 1848 with the
exception of a few months spent in Rochester,
New York. In 1848 he began clerking in a
store. In 1851 he caught the "gold fever"
and started for California via the isthmus
route. He reached Sonora and soon hard
ened into an experienced prospector. On No
vember 3, 1852, with his partner, McCarthy,
he loaded their burros with camp and mining
outfit for a prospecting trip into the moun
tains. On reaching an elevation they discov
ered a crowd of men in the distance. It then
occurred to Mr. Johnson that it was election
day. Johnson was a Whig, McCarthy a
Democrat. He said, "Mac, we will go vote."
They did so, Johnson declaring that he was
twenty-one that day, and there cast his first
vote in favor of General Winfield Scott for
president. The partners then proceeded to
the mountains, prospecting and working sev
eral claims with fair success. "One of their
workings was an abandoned claim to which
they brought water by canal, four miles from
a dam built further up in the mountains. They
were panning out gold in paying quantities
when one day the owner returned and with
drawn gun attempted to bluff them off the
claim which he had legally forfeited. John
son, although unarmed, held his ground until
finally the stranger departed. He continued
mining until 1854, then' returned as far east
as the state of Iowa, where he spent a year.
In 1855 he returned to New York state, lo
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in the clothing business, continuing about
three years. In 1856 he was a member of a
Fremont club and worked for the election of
governor Fremont to the presidency. In
1858 he was appointed deputy sheriff of Cat
taraugus county, serving two terms until 1864.
During the civil war he was active in trans
porting men to Dunkirk, New York, to enlist
in the army, and to Erie, Pennsylvania, for
enlistment in the navv. He was justice of
the peace for many years, resigning in 1884.
In" 1878 he bought the Martin farm of one
thousand acres and started in the real estate
business selling and renting small portions.
He now lives retired at his beautiful home, a
feature of which is twenty-four large maples
that Mr. Johnson planted in 1857. Another
charm of this home is the plain, hearty, old
fashioned life lived by the owners. Garden,
flowers and all the surroundings speak of the
contented, happy home. Mr. Johnson has
voted at every presidential election since that
memorable November 3, 1852, when his first
vote was cast for General Scott. While al
ways an interested observer and student of
public men and affairs, it has been as citizen
only, never having had a desire for office
himself. He married, January 15, 1856, Mary A.
Hubbard, born March 1, 1830, daughter of
Franklin Hubbard, of Broome county, New
York. They have no children.

Sergeant Benjamin Waite, sup-
WAITE posed to have been a son of
Thomas, of Seconet, Rhode Is
land (now Little Compton) was of Hadley,
Massachusetts, in 1664, later of Hatfield. He
was born as early as 1640, died February 29,
1704, aged about sixty- four years, killed in
battle with the Indians. He was a brave,
fearless guide and leader of scouts, was well
versed in Indian warfare and excelled in his
ability to cope with the savage in cunning.
At the battle of Deerfield the Indians were
driven from the field, but were reinforced by
the French, who in turn drove the Americans
back. Sergeant Benjamin Waite fell in the
retreat, his body being stripped and mutilated.
He is buried in the Deerfield cemetery. He
married, June 8, 1670, Martha, born May 15,
1649, daughter of John Leonard, of Spring
field. Eight children.
(Ill) Sergeant John Waite, son of Ser
geant Benjamin and Martha (Leonard)

Waite, was born January 7, 1680. His will
was made in 1743, probated 1744. Like his
father he was much in the service, com
manded scouts and was often sent out with
others under his command. He was in the
Deerfield fight, February 29, 1704, when his
father was slain, and brought off a hatchet
captured from an Indian, fie married Mary,
born May 20, 1685, daughter of Stephen and
Mary (Wells) Belden. Ten children, born
at Hatfield, Massachusetts.
(IV) John (2), eldest son of Sergeant
John (1) and Mary (Belden) Waite, was
born December 3, 1703, died at Whateley,
Massachusetts, March 4, 1776. He was
prominent in town and church affairs. He
married (first) September 19, 17237 Submit,
born July 16, 1707, daughter of Benjamin
and Elizabeth (Graves) Hastings, of Hat
field; (second) Mary, daughter of Eleazer
and Deborah Chapin Frary. Eleven children,
born in Whateley.
(V) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary
(Frary) Waite, was born November 25, 1743.
He served in the revolutionary war, and was
a man of active, energetic nature. He sold
his farm in Whateley and removed to Che
nango county, New York. He married, June
14, 1770, Mary, born July 14, 1746, daughter
of Elisha and Sarah (Smith) Smith. Eleven
children, born in Whateley.
(VI) Solomon, eldest son of John (3) and
Mary (Smith) Waite, was born October 15,
1768. He removed to Preston, Chenango
county, New York, with his parents, and en
gaged in farming. He married, December 6,
1792, Lucy Wells, of Hatfield, Massachusetts.
Children: Chester, married and had a large
family ; Wells, married and had a large family.
(VII) A son of Solomon Waite.
(VIII) Zina, grandson of Solomon and
Lucy (Wells) Waite, and son of either Ches
ter or Wells Waite, was a resident of Catta
raugus county, New York. He married Lu
cinda, daughter of Jesse and Susan (Wright)
Wilbur. Children: Darwin, born June 18,
1856, died January, 1908; Edgar E., of whom
further. (IX) Edgar E., son of Zina and Lucinda
(Wilbur) Waite, was born August 19, 1859,
in Napoli, Cattaraugus county, New York.
He was educated in public and select schools,
finishing at Chamberlain Institute. Owing to
the illness of his mother he was obliged to
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taught school for several years and while so
engaged in Randolph began buying and sell
ing cattle. After a time he abandoned
teaching and established a livery, sale and ex
change barn. In 1903 he was elected sheriff
of Cattaraugus county, serving until 1906,
continuing as under sheriff in 1907-08-09.
Prior to his election as sheriff he had been
engaged in selling farm machinery in connec
tion with the livery business. He has a wide
acquaintance among the farmers of the county
and is said to be able to call each one by
name. He was a very popular public officer
and, notwithstanding the many unpleasant du
ties connected with the sheriff's office, re
tained all his friends and made no enemies.
He is president of the Cattaraugus Agricul
tural Society, and it has been through his ef
forts and those of Secretary Wilson that the
society has been made so successful an en
terprise. He married, March 11, 1883, Ade
laide M., daughter of George and Jane
(Thorne) Hoelts. Child, Harold E., of whom
further. (X) Harold E., only child of Edgar E.
and Adelaide M. (Hoelts) Waite, was born
in New Albion, Cattaraugus county, New
York, December 7, 1885. fie passed through
the common and high school of Little Valley,
graduating in 1904. He then decided upon
a professional career and entered the dental
department of the University of Buffalo,
where he was graduated, D. D. S., class of
1908. He practiced for a time in South Day
ton, then located in Little Valley, having pur
chased the business established by Dr. Frantz.
He has been very successful and has a large
and satisfactory practice, which he conducts
alone. Although a young man he possesses
the skill that inspires confidence and has those
elements of character that insure popularity
and the esteem of his townsmen, fie is a
member of the Masonic Order, belonging to
Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and is past
worthy patron of the Order of the Eastern
Star. He also is affiliated with the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows. He married,
March 16, 1910, Katherine Bell, born May
15, 1887, daughter of Charles and Eva
(Grover) Green (see Green IX).
(The Green Line).
(I) Two men bearing exactly the same
name settled in Rhode Island at about the
same time : John Greene, ancestor of Gen

eral Nathaniel Greene and John Greene, an
cestor of the Greens of Chautauqua county,
New York. In 1639 Richard Smith built a
trading post near the present village of Wick-
ford, Rhode Island, in North Kingston, Rhode
Island. With him was living John Greene,
of whose previous history nothing certain can
be told, fie was a freeman and a large land
owner of the colony at a later period. He
died about 1695. fiis wife was named Joan.
Children: John, Daniel, James, Edward,
Benjamin. (II) Benjamin, son of John and Joan
Greene, was born about 1665. His will was
proved in East Greenwich, Rhode Island,
March 5, 1720. He was deputy, member of
the town council and a man of property. In
his will he mentions his wife Humility, who
survived him, and twelve children, the three
youngest under eighteen years : John, Mary,
Benjamin, Ann, Henry, Phebe, Catherine, Ca
leb, Sarah, Dinah, Deborah, Joshua.
(Ill) John (2), son of Benjamin and. Hu
mility Greene, was born in 1688. In 1732 he
is styled "Lieutenant John." He was a
farmer and large land owner. He married
(first) about 1708, Mary, daughter of Arthur
and Mary (Brown) Aylsworth, originally
from England or Wales. He married (sec
ond) Priscilla Bowen (or Barry). Children,
all by first wife: Thomas, Philip, Mary,
Josiah, Amos, Benjamin, Caleb, Jonathan, Jo
seph, Elizabeth, Ruth, William, Joshua.
(IV) Benjamin (2), son of John (2) and
Mary (Aylsworth) Greene, was born about
1719. He lived in West Greenwich, Rhode
Island, where he married (first) February 7,
1742, Mercy, daughter of Samuel Rogers. He
married (second) Mrs. Anna Sweet, a widow.
Children : Simeon, Caleb, Jonathan, Clark,
Elizabeth, Lois.
(V) Jonathan, son of Benjamin (2) and
Mercy (Rogers) Greene, was born in West
Greenwich, Rhode Island, April 30, 1749,
died in Berlin, Renssalaer county, New York,
June 30, 1807. He was a soldier of the revo
lution. During, or soon after the war, he
removed from Rhode Island and settled in
Little Hoosick, now Berlin, Rensselaer county,
New York, where he spent his life as a farmer.
He married (first) in Rhode Island, 1768,
Margaret Budlong; (second) Penelope  .
Children: Simeon, Isabel, Rebecca, John,
Samuel, Margaret, Jonathan, Caleb.
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garet (Budlong) Greene, was born in West
Greenwich, Rhode Island, May, 1769, died in
Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York, Oc
tober, 1838. He was a farmer. He married,
in Berlin, Rensselaer county, New York,
Eunice, born 1774, died 1855, daughter of
Joseph and Betsey (Rhodes) Budlong. Chil
dren: Samuel C, Jonathan, Benjamin, Dan
iel C, Clark, Qiarles, Eunice, Lydia R, Al
onzo, Mary Ann.
(VII) Daniel C. Green, son of Simeon and
Eunice (Budlong) Greene (the final "e" now
having been dropped) was born in Berlin,
Rensselaer county, New York, in 1802, died
in 1847. He was apprenticed to the mill
wright trade and worked at glass blowing at
Sand Lake, Saratoga county, New York. He
settled in the town of Ellington, Chautauqua
county, New York, in 1823. He married Ro-
sannah Rhodes. Children : Charles Backwith,
James J. and Dewitt C.
(VIII) Judge Charles Backwith Green,
son of Daniel C. and Rosannah (Rhodes)
Green, was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer
county, New York, January 13, 1809, died in
Cherry Creek, March 21, 1894, aged eighty-
five years. He received a good education, and
when fourteen years of age settled in Cherry
Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, com
ing February 14, 1823. In his earlier days he
taught school, at the same time beginning the
study of law. He later took up a regular course
of study with Judge Mullett, of Fredonia, and
was admitted to practice in the inferior courts
in 1843, and to the higher and supreme courts
in 1851. He rose to eminence in his profes
sion, and for many years was judge of Chau
tauqua county. In 1858 he was a member of
the state legislature. He filled at various
times and for many years the offices of jus
tice of the peace, school commissioner and
school inspector. He married, November 20,
1836, Lydia Kent, born 18 16, the first white
child born within the limits of the town of
Cherry Creek. She was a daughter of Jo
seph M. and Polly Kent. Joseph M. Kent
was the first settler in Cherry Creek. He was
born in Royalton, Vermont, came to New
York sta'te where he resided, first in Herki
mer, then in Onondaga county, later in 1819,
settling on lot nine, in Gerry, now Cherry
Creek, Chautauqua county. He reared his
bark-covered log house and returned for his
wife and seven children. With the aid of his
sons and a nephew, he cleared the first land

in the town and raised the first crop of pota
toes, the same year. The next spring, heing
destitute of provisions, he felled a pine tree
and from it made a canoe sixty feet long
which he launched in Conewango creek,
loaded it with fifteen pounds of maple sugar
and some buck salts, and ran his cargo down
creek and river to Pittsburgh. He readily
exchanged his maple sugar and salts for pro
visions, and with the aid of his son George,
pushed his rude canoe back to Cherry Creek,
having been absent three weeks. The family
during his absence had subsisted chiefly on
maple sugar and milk.
(IX) Charles, son of Judge Charles Back
with and Lydia (Kent) Green, was born in
the town of Cherry Creek, Chautauqua county,
New York. He learned the trade of harness-
maker, and after being in business in James
town, went to Little Valley, same county,
where he followed the same business. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and a Republican. He married Eva, daughter
of Seth and Betsey (Wilcox) Grover. Seth
Grover was the first merchant in business in
Cherry Creek. His store, which he opened
in 1 83 1, stood on the site later occupied by
the establishment of P. R. Pope. Mr. Grover
in connection with his store had an ashery and
pearling oven. He was postmaster of the
village of Cherry Creek, being the third to
hold that office. Children of Charles and Eva
(Grover) Green: 1. Maude Ellen, married
Dr. Walter M. Litchfield; child Stanton
Green. 2. Fanny Eliza, married Charles Law
rence McLoutts ; child, Royal L. 3. Fred H.,
married Ethel Simpson ; children : Maude and
Pauline. 4. Gertrude G., married James Pa-
terson; children: Paul, Margaret, Katherine,
Harold. 5. Bessie Odell, married Harlan
Barnard. 6. Katherine Bell, married Dr. Har
old E. Waite (see Waite X). 7. Harold. 8.
Hazel. 9. Eva. 10. Margaret.
The belief is well founded that
AUSTIN Robert Austin, of Kingston,
Rhode Island, is the ancestor of
this family, although the positive proof that
he. was the father of Jeremiah is lacking.
(II) Jeremiah Austin died in 1754. He
was of Kingstown and Exeter, New Hamp
shire. His will, proved in 1754, named wife
Elizabeth as executrix.
(Ill) Stephen, son of Jeremiah Austin,
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Island. The first town meeting ever held in
Exeter was at his house. He was constable
six terms, surveyor of highways four. His
will, proved in 1750, names his wife as exe
cutrix and brother Jeremiah as executor un
til "son Rufus is of age." He married, April
25, 1729, Mary, daughter of Daniel and Abi
gail (Mumford) Fish. Five children.
(IV) Rufus, son of Stephen and Mary
Austin, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire,
April 11, 1742. He settled in Pawlet, Ver
mont, where he married and reared a family.
(V) Rufus (2), son of Rufus (1) Aus
tin,- was born in Pawlet, Vermont, January
6, 1793, died 1849. He served in the war of
1812, fought at Lundy's Lane and received a
land grant for one hundred and sixty acres
for his services in the Seminole war in Flor
ida, and the two tracts were located adjoin
ing at De Kalb, Illinois. Both claims were
later sold at a large advance in price. Rufus
Austin was a blacksmith, also had a knowl
edge of medicine and was called doctor. He
moved to Pennsylvania, locating at Meade's
Corners, now Meadville. Later he purchased
sixteen hundred acres of timber land in Penn
sylvania, paying one dollar and a quarter per
acre. On this he erected a saw mill and made
a large amount of money in the lumber busi
ness. His first wife died soon after the birth
of her first child. He married (second) 1814,
Eleanor Fiddock, born November 13, 1795,
died January 6, 1870; ten children: 1. Will
iam, born June 20, 181 5, died in infancy. 2.
Harriet, born February 5, 1817, died 1907;
married Edward Ryan. 3. Horace, born Sep
tember 1, 1819, died 1903; married (first)
Ann La Due; children: Martha and Har
riet; married (second) Louisa Reed. 4.
Henry, born July 22, 1821, in Olean, New
York, died 1908; married Mellissa Wooden;
children : Rufus and Alfred. 5. Hesler, born
in Burlington, Vermont, September 27, 1823,
died 1870 ; married William Johnston ; child :
Richard Fulton. 6. Herman, born in Bur
lington, Vermont, March 6, 1826; deceased;
married and went west. 7. Harrington, of
whom further. 8. Hiram, born in Meadville,
Pennsylvania, November 25, 1830; married
Annice Maloney; children: John, Edward
and Eleanor. 9. Rufus, born May 26, 1833 ;
married Sally  ; children: James and
Grace. 10. fielen Laura, born in Meadville,
Pennsylvania, September 10, 1835, died 1899;

married George Sidler; children: Herman,
Rufus, Eleanor and Ida.
(VI) Harrington, son of Rufus (2) Aus
tin and his second wife, was born in Mead
ville, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1828. He
was educated in the public school, and began
business life as apprentice to a carriage
builder. He served four years, then went to
Evansville, Indiana, and worked another year
"under instructions" in order to learn another
employer's methods. He then took a river
trip to New Orleans, making frequent stops,
visiting the carriage shops and learning ev
erything possible about carriage making and
methods of the different makers. On his
return he remained for a short time in Mead
ville, then in January, 1856, located in Olean
and established a carriage manufactory. In
1857 ne admitted Hollis Moore, an expert
carpenter, to a partnership. They conducted
a successful business together for eighteen
years, when, owing to ill health, Mr. Austin
retired and in 1875 purchased a farm of fifty
acres on which he resides in Olean. He is
a Republican and a member of the Baptist
church. He married, September 12, 1858, Maria,
born February 10, 1837, daughter of Joseph
Trumbull Carter, born 1800, died 1849; mar
ried, 1826, Olive Hartwell Fuller, born 1807,
died 1856, daughter of Almond and Betsey
(Rhodes) Fuller, and granddaughter of
James Fuller, a revolutionary soldier, and his
wife, Esther (Stone)- Fuller. Joseph T. and
Olive fi. Carter had children: Phcebe, de
ceased ; William, deceased ; Almond ; Caroline,
deceased; Maria, married Harrington Aus
tin ; Olive and Clarissa. Joseph T. Carter was
a son of  Barzilla and Mary (Crary)
Carter, and grandson of Captain Joseph Car
ter, a revolutionary officer, and his wife, Ruth
(Austin) Carter. Mr. and Mrs. Austin cele
brated their golden wedding, September 12,
1908, on which occasion there were seven
people present who were at their wedding fifty
years before. Children of Harrington and
Maria Austin: 1. Edmund H., of whom
further. 2. Harry Ellsworth, born January
18, 1864; educated in the public school, en
tered the service of the Western Union Tele
graph Company as messenger boy ; became an
expert operator and for the past twenty years
has been manager of the North Tonawanda
office. He is an officer of the Baptist church,
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sonic Order. He married, August 23, 1888,
Emma Jean Southard, born July 8, 1866;
children: Eleanor May, born May 1, 1892;
Emma Arvis, May 9, 1895.
(VII) Edmund PL, eldest son of Harring
ton Austin, was born in Olean, New York,
July 15, i860. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and began business life as office
boy in the Pennsylvania railroad office, then
was promoted to the ticket office. He left
the Pennsylvania railroad and entered the
employ of the Queen and Crescent Railroad.
Company, at Fort Payne, Alabama. Finally
abandoning railroading he spent nine years on
a North Dakota wheat farm. While there he
held the office of town clerk. In 1901 he re
turned to Olean and is now (1911) chief clerk
of the freight department of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Olean. He is a member of lodge,
chapter and commandery of the Masonic Or
der, and is past master, past high priest and
past eminent commander. He is also one of
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is sec
retary of the board of trustees of the Baptist
church, and a Republican in politics.
He married, November 26, 1889, Alice Es
ther, born April 18, 1861, daughter of Menzo
W. Porter (see Porter IX). Children: Ma
ria Porter, born September 29, 1892; Herbert
Porter, September 30, 1895. Mrs. Austin is
a member of the Eastern Star, worthy matron
three years and district deputy grand matron
of the thirty-sixth district, and secretary of
her home chapter for the past six years.
(The Porter Line).
The Porter line traces to William de la
Grande, a Norman knight, who came to En
gland with the "Conqueror." His son, Ralph
(or Roger) became "grand porteur" to Henry
the First, 11 20-1 140, from which he derived
the name Porter.
(I) Among the early settlers to the colony
of Massachusetts bay in 1628 was John Por
ter, founder of this branch of the Porter fam
ily. He settled at Windsor, Connecticut,
where he died April 22, 1648. His wife Rose
died July, 1647. Eleven children.
(II) Samuek son of John Porter, "the emi
grant," was born in England, 1626, died Sep
tember 6, 1689. He was a merchant, fie
married, 1659, Hannah, daughter of Thomas
Stanley, who came from England in the ship,
"Planter," to Lynn, Massachusetts, 1635. Ten
children.

(Ill) John (2), son of Samuel Porter,
was born December 12, 1666, died January
4, 1747. He moved from Hadley, Massachu
setts, to Lebanon, Connecticut, thence to He
bron, Connecticut. He married (first) April
3, 1690, Mary, daughter of Thomas Butler,
son of Richard Butler. He married (second)
October 13, 1726, Sarah Church. Eight chil
dren by first wife.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Porter,
was born October 3, 1694, died January 5,
1753. He was a deacon of the Hebron
church. He married (first) November 19,
1720, Esther Deane, who died July 10, 1726.
fie married (second) November 2, 1727, Sa
rah Heaton. Twelve children, three by first
wife, Mary, John and Daniel.
(V) Daniel, son of John (3) Porter, was
born January, 1726. fie resided at Hebron,
Connecticut. He married (first) October 25,
1747, Diana Dunham, who died January 2"],
1760; married (second) April 23, 1761, Sa
rah Barnard, who died October 17, 1769.
Eight children (last two by second wife).
(VI) Eleazer, son of Daniel Porter, was
born March 8, 1752, died July 5, 1833. He
lived in Litchfield, Connecticut, from whence
he moved to Hamilton, Madison county, New
York, in 1800. He married, 1775, Susannah,
daughter of Daniel Rowley, son of Thomas
(2) Rowley, son of Thomas (1) Rowley, son
of Henry Rowley, who came from England to
Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1630. Thomas (2)
Rowley married, March 16, 1699, Violet,
daughter of John (2) Steadman, and grand
daughter of John Steadman, a lieutenant in
King Philip's war.
(VII) Lieutenant Roswell Porter, son of
Eleazer Porter, was born January 9, 1785,.
died April 7, 1853. He lived at Hamilton,
New York, was a lieutenant in the war of
1812, served at Lundy's Lane, Queenstown,.
and in the defense of the Niagara Frontier.
He married, April 26, 1807, Nancy Shattuck.
Seven children.
(VIII) Menzo W., sixth child and second
son of Lieutenant Roswell Porter, was born
in Hamilton, New York, February 26, 1827.
He was one of the first to operate in the oil
fields. In 1882 he went to North Dakota and
in 1883 settled there, being among the first to
settle in that state. He remained there until
November, 1893, when he returned to New
York and has since made his home with his
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June 30, 1846, Maria Muir, who died August
27, 1 89 1. Children: De Alton, De Elbert, De
Azro, Alice Esther, De Elwin.
(IX) Alice Esther, daughter of Menzo W.
Porter, was born April 18, 1861. She mar
ried, November 26, 1889, Edmund H. Aus
tin (see Austin VII).

The first of the Swans of. whom
SWAN we have record are of old New
York stock, namely the parents
of William G. Swan, of the town of Albion,
Orleans county, New York. Mr. Swan's par
ents were Coddington W. and Susan (Gere)
Swan, both natives of Saratoga county. C.
W. Swan was born there June 13, 1797, and
his wife one month and a day later. In the
year 1835, the Swan family moved from Sa
ratoga to Albion, Orleans county, and there
settled permanently. The senior Swan en
gaged in business as a general merchant there,
and so continued until his death which oc
curred in 1843. His wife survived until 1875.
(II) William G., son of Coddington W.
and Susan (Gere) Swan, was born in Gal
way, Saratoga county, February 9, 1822. He
was the elder of two children, the other Mary
J., died in November, 1839, when she was
fourteen. William G. Swan was educated in
the schools of Albion and also at Lima, Liv
ingston county. He was about eighteen when
he began clerking in his father's store in the
Village of Albion. He had been reared to
habits of thrift and frugality; and soon be
gan to display excellent qualifications for a
business career. He early won and has ever
retained the confidence of his fellow towns
men. He engaged in business on his own
account a short time before his father's death,
entering into a partnership with Joseph M.
Cornell, under the firm name of Swan & Cor
nell, which concern continued and flourished
for about ten years. In the year 1855, Mr.
Swan received the appointment of superin
tendent of the Niagara railway suspension
bridge at Suspension Bridge, New York.
This position he held until October, 1893,
some thirty-eight years, when he retired per
manently from business. He received, on his
withdrawal, the recognition from the com
pany, and from the press, which his long and
faithful service well merited. Mr. Swan had
retained, from 1835, a residence in Albion.
In 1877 he built himself a fine brick residence
there, a commodious mansion on the corner

of Main street and Mt. Albion avenue. Mr.
Swan has always taken a warm interest in
the town of Albion and has given hearty sup
port to all measures calculated to advance or
improve it. In the matter of education, and
toward the churches and charities, he is lib
eral and public spirited. He is a popular man
and has had conferred upon him a number
of local honors. He is treasurer and one of
the commissioners of Mt. Albion Cemetery;
also treasurer and one of the board of direc
tors of the Niagara Falls International Bridge
Company, and president of the board of trus
tees of the Baptist church of Albion.
Mr. Swan has been twice married. His
first wife was Catherine C, daughter of Lem
uel C. Paine, of Albion. She died Septem
ber 28, 1854. On October 16, i860, he mar
ried (second) Emma M. Etheridge, of
Hastings, Minnesota. Mrs. Swan, like her
husband, is actively identified with the chari
table, religious, and literary work and move
ments of their home town.

This name is said to have orig-
ROOT inated in Normandy, and was
originally spelled Routes, pro
nounced with two syllables, the "s" being si
lent. Thomas Roote was one of the earliest
settlers and selectmen of Hartford, Connecti
cut. It is said of the family "that since the
earlier days they have held an honorable po
sition among the multitude of characteristic
New England families." Thomas Roote was
born about 1605, and came to America about
1637. He "went to Pequot in 1637 as a sol
dier." He became one of the founders of
Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1653-4, and
one of the "pillars of the church," at its or
ganization in 1661. He died July 17, 1694.
His wife's name is not known. They had six
children. (II) Joseph Root, son of Thomas Roote,
was born at Hartford, Connecticut, about 1640,
died April 19, 1711, at Northampton, Massa
chusetts, where he had lived for over fifty
years. He married (first) December 30, 1660,
Hannah, daughter of Edmund and Hannah
Haynes. She died January 28, 169 1. He
married (second) Mary fiolton, widow of
David Burt. She died 1713. They had eight
children. (Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Hannah (Haynes) Root, was born in 1664,
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ber 23, 1690. He settled in Northfield, Mas
sachusetts, but the settlement was broken up
by the Indians, and he returned to North
ampton. He married Hannah  . They
had two children.
(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and
Hannah Root, was born in 1686, died Febru
ary 9, 1728, leaving an estate valued at £540,
which was at that time the largest in Sunder
land, Massachusetts. He was one of the first
forty settlers of Sunderland, and the first
school teacher employed by that town. He
married, February 16, 1710, Mary, daughter
of Philip Russell, who survived him. At a
town meeting held December 2, 1734, it was
"voted to give Widow Root for tending the
Flagg on the Sabbath days and on other occa
sions for the year, one pound ten shillings."
Seven children.
(V) Joseph (4), son of Joseph (3) and
Mary (Russell) Root, was born June 16, 1713.
He removed to Hunting Hills, Massachusetts,
as early as 1740. He was selectman, captain
of militia, justice of the peace, representative,
1767-8. In 1759 it was voted by the town of
Montague "to buy the Shell of Lieutenant
Clapp for one pound ten shillings, and to al
low Captain Joseph Root twenty shillings for
blowing the same on the Sabbath for one
year." He married (first) November 11,
1736, Abigail, daughter of James Bridgman;
she died April 24, 1781. fie married (sec
ond) November 5, 1782, Widow Mary Bas-
com. Eight children.
(VI) Elisha, son of Joseph (4) and Abi
gail- (^ridgman) Root, was born in Monta
gue, Massachusetts, June 7, 1739, died Jan
uary 1, 1812. He was a surveyor and a
magistrate. He married, October 30, 1776,
Lucy Mattoon, died September 22, 1817, aged
seventy-seven years. Five children.
(VII) Arad, son of Elisha and Lucy (Mat-
toon) Root, was born September 10, 1767,
died September 1, 1855. fie settled in Wil-
liston, Vermont; he married (first) Mary
Severance, who died November 27, 1800;
(second) Lydia Shattuck.
(VIII) Zadoc, son of Arad and Mary
(Severance) Root, was born in Vermont, Feb
ruary 20, 1786, died, 1863, in Busti, Chautau
qua county, New York. He settled in Busti,
range eleven, lot forty-seven, and lived there
until his death. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and helped to
build the first log church in Jamestown. He

married (first) November 7, 1800, Rachel
Skinner, born in Vermont; (second) in 1815,
Polly Parmenter, born November 7, 1796,
died aged seventy-six years. Children by first
wife : Almira, born June 10, 1809, died 1851 ;
Samantha, born November 13, 1810; Zadoc
(2), May 25, 1812, died, 1848. Children by
second wife: Polly, born September 7, 181 6;
Philander, November 12, 1817; Horace, Feb
ruary 20, 1818; Cynthia, July 31, 1822; Will
iam, of further 'mention; Lucy, born October
27, 1827, died October 31, 1836.
(IX) William, son of Zadoc and Polly
(Parmenter) Root, was born April 10, 1825,
died January 24, 1898. He attended district
schools and was reared a farmer. When a
young man he made a purchase of fifty acres
of land to which he added from time to time
until he was the possessor of several fine
farms aggregating several hundred acres.
He was noted for his well-kept and productive
lands and the fine quality of his dairy and
farm stock. He also dealt largely in live
stock and made a specialty of dairying. In
his later years he moved to Jamestown, but
after a few years returned to the farm. He
was a Republican, and always maintained an
active interest in town affairs, and served as
road commissioner and in other of the town
offices. He married, November 17, 1847, at
Westfield, New York, Nancy Draper, born in
Bridgewater, Connecticut, February 29, 1832,
daughter of Joseph and Martha (Farnham)
Draper, a descendant of Edward Draper, of
England, and Boston, Massachusetts, who was
a private in Lieutenant Colonel Jabez Hatch's
regiment, guarding stores in and about Bos
ton by order of the council, May 12, 1777,
service five weeks. He had sons : Joseph,
Sanford, Nathan, William, Henry and Harry.
Joseph Draper was a farmer and a Univer
salist. He married Martha Farnham, born
1798, died 1854, daughter of Walter and
Nancy (Weeks) Farnham. Children: 1.
Jedediah, now living at the age of riinety-two
years. 2. Laura, born September 10, 1822;
now living, in her eighty-ninth year; married
L. Howard, and has George, Vinton, Carrie
and Matthew. 3. Martha, born 1826, died
June, 1881 ; married George Brown. 4. Han
nah, born June, 1828; married Morris Burn-
ham, lived in Columbus, Wisconsin, died Sep
tember 3, 191 1. 5. Nancy, born November
29, 1832; married William Root, whom she
survives, a resident of Jamestown in her sev-

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enty-ninth year; she is a highly respected
lady and attends the Methodist Episcopal
church. Children of William Root: i.
Frank H., born January 18, 1851, died July
1, 1910; married Josephine Wilcox; children:
Frank H. (2), Pearl B., Ralph. 2. William
Morris, born March 8, 1855 ; married Rhoda
Wilcox, and resides on his farm in Busti ;
children: Belle, Ethel, Lulu. 3. Harry, of
further mention. 4. Charles H., born Decem
ber 7, 1862; married Mary Ellis; children:
Maud E., married Mariel Trask; children:
Florence and Gerald. 5. Kate L., born May
21, 1866, married Frank A. Thomas; children:
Robert L. and Harold W.
(X) Harry, son of William and Nancy
(Draper) Root, was born in Busti, Chautau
qua county, New York, November 6, i860.
fie was educated in the Jamestown schools
and in bookkeeping under a private tutor.
He has followed agriculture all his active life,
making a specialty of stock raising and deal
ing. His farm, about two miles from the
heart of Jamestown, has been his home since
he was two years of age. It consists of one
hundred and seventy-three acres of the best
kept and productive land. He has another
farm of one hundred and twelve acres near
Boomertown, and a ten acre tract close to
the city line. Besides his farming interests
Mr. Root is a member of the firm of Donel-
son & Root, conducting a storage and general
dray and heavy trucking business in James
town. He is interested in the work of the
Patrons of Husbandry, belonging to Union
Grange. He is strictly independent in his po
litical views, and is an attendant of the Metho
dist Episcopal church. He married (first)
May 13, 1886, Elva R. Fenton, born Novem
ber 8, 1864, died January 20, 1892, daughter
of Berry Fenton. Children : Fred Harry,
born February 6, 1887; Clyde Fenton, born
November 3, 1891. He married (second)
August 30, 1894, Myrtie Martin Frank, born
September 21, 1874, daughter of Warren A.
and Melissa Martin Frank (see Frank). She
is a woman of energy and elevated Chris
tian character, devoted to her home and chil
dren. She is an attendant of the Methodist
Episcopal church and is interested in all good
works. She is careful of the preservation of
the family records and has rendered great as
sistance in the compiling of both the Root
and Frank genealogies. Children: Bessie

Mildred, born June 23, 1898; Qarence Roy,
February 4, 1905.

The first of this name which
MERRILL was originally Merle and
signifies "black bird" was a
native, or at least a resident of France, and
took his name from the figure of a blackbird
displayed on a sign over his door. The earli
est generation of the family in France used
a seal on which is displayed three blackbirds.
In the persecutions following the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, a Merle, being a Pro
testant, fled to England to save his life and
cast in his lot with the Puritans. Some of
the family still remain in France, the most
distinguished member in recent years being
Merle D'Aubigne, the historian. As the Hu
guenots were of the best blood of France so
their descendants in England and America
have been regarded.
(I) Nathaniel Merrill, emigrant ancestor
of the Merrills of Cattaraugus county, New
York, was born in England, 1610, died in
Newbury, Massachusetts, March 16, 1655.
With his brother John he emigrated from En
gland and came to America, settling at Ips
wich, Massachusetts, about 1633. In 1635 he
removed to Newbury, at the first settlement of
the town, and settled on land at the junction
of the Parker and Plum rivers, which until
recently was owned by a descendant, Tyler
Merrill. In his will dated March 8, 1655, he
gives his farm to his eldest son upon payment
by him of five pounds each to his brothers,
and furnishing a residence for his mother and
sister. He married Susannah Wellerton, also
spelled Wilterton. She survived him and
married (second) Stephen Jordan or Jour-
dain. She died January 25, 1673. Children:
John, Abraham, Nathaniel, Susannah, Dan
iel, Abel. These children all grew to years of
maturity, married and reared families. Among
their descendants are many ministers and men
of mark in every walk of life.
(II) John, son of Nathaniel Merrill, went
when young to Hartford, Connecticut, where
he was taken into the family and legally
adopted by Gregory Wilterton. He married
Sarah Watson. At the death of his benefac
tor it was found he had left his entire estate
to his adopted son. Children: Nathaniel,
John, Sarah, Abraham, David, Wilterton, of
whom further; Susanna, Abel, Isaac, Jacob.
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ried (first) Ruth Pratt; (second) Hannah
Watts. Child, Gideon.
(IV). Gideon, son of Wilterton Merrill,
married Mary Bigelow. Son, Nathaniel.
(V) Nathaniel, son of Gideon Merrill,
married Hannah Belden. Children: Nathan
iel, Hannah, Truman, Samuel, James, Allen,
died young, Allen (2), Mary, Asher, Ebene
zer, Ethan, Perry, Charles, Dorothy, Candace,
died young, Candace (2).
(VI) Allen, son of Nathaniel Merrill, was
born in Litchfield, Connecticut. Early in life
he settled in Litchfield, New York, fie mar
ried Tammy, daughter of Simeon Smith. Chil
dren : Maria, died aged nineteen ; Amanda,
married and left issue; Leonard Smith, mar
ried and left issue; Lyman B., died in Chau
tauqua county, New York; Alton; Minerva,
married Dennis Dye ; Smith, of whom further ;
William B., married Calista Loomis ; Caro
line, married Charles Sentill ; Mason F., twice
married; Elizabeth, married Mason Morey;
Wallace. (VII) Smith, son of Allen Merrill, was
born at Johnstown, Montgomery county, New
York, October 16, 1810. He settled in York
shire, Cattaraugus county, 1835. He was a
• * tailor and engaged in merchant tailoring in
the village of Franklinville. In 1859 ne re"
moved to a farm in Farmersville, which he
cultivated until 1881, also farming in Great
Valley. He married, 1838, Melinda, daughter
of John Howe, who settled in Yorkshire, in
1832. Children: 1. Henry, born June 5,
1839, died July 10, 1902, buried at Little Val
ley, New York; married, February 12, 1866,
Harriet F. Persons, born July 23, 1844, died
August 10, 1895 ; children : Ernest Warren,
Harriet Esther, Charles Persons, Mertie Me
linda. 2. John Burdett, born June 22, 1841 ;
enlisted in Company D, Sixty-fourth Regi
ment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and was
killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, June 1, 1862.
3. Ernest W., born April 24, 1843; enlisted
in Company B, Twenty-third Regiment, New
York Volunteer Infantry, serving without in
jury until the close of the war ; returned home
and was accidentally killed December 12,
1866. 4. Perry E-, born June 30, 1845 ; mar
ried, January 9, 1878, Mercy I. Loomis; chil
dren: Eugene L., Floyd S., Esther H., Shir
ley. 5. Adelaide E., born June 14, 1847, died
February 28, 1873. 6. Helen Loraine, born
June 17, 1849; married (first) Hiram Steele,
who died November 25, 1899; married (sec

ond) Elvin E. Johnson. 7. William Wallace,
born September 21, 1851 ; married, January
5, 1876, Julia E. Tarbell; children: Rena,
Edna, Frances, Anna, Winfield. 8. Mary
Emma, born September 2, 1856; married,
1887, Allan E. fiayes. 9. Theodore Grove,
born June 16, 1858. 10. Frank Merton, of
whom further.
(VIII) Frank Merton, youngest child of
Smith Merrill, was born in Farmersville, Cat
taraugus county, New York, June 6, i860.
He was educated in the public school and Ten
Broeck Academy. He began his business life
in Freedom, New York, in association with
his brother, conducting dental offices and a
drug store. In 1889 he settled in Little Val
ley, taking a position as recording clerk in
the office of the county clerk. He remained
in this position one and one-half years, when
he was appointed deputy county clerk, which
office he now holds. He moved to Sandusky,
New York, in 1880, where he has been town
clerk for ten years. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of the First Congre
gational church. He is a member of the Ma
sonic Order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter and
Commandery. He married (first) July 3,
1884, Martha Williams, born 1861, died April
30, 1899, daughter of Peter and Adelia (How-
lett) Williams. Children: 1. Marie E., born
April 22, 1887; now a teacher in Olean, New
York. 2. Emmons M., born March 20, 1892.
3. Bernard W., born January 19, 1899. fie
married (second) August 10, 1903, Minnie
M. (Cobb) Wade.

This name, sometimes spelled
LANGS Luick and Link in Pennsylvania
records, was borne by the emi
grant ancestor of Major Shepard Lang, of
Niagara Falls. The usual spelling of the
name, however, was Langs. Jacob Langs,
born either in fiolland or Germany, came to
America about 1750, settling in the state of
Pennsylvania, where in 1754 he was living
near Sunbury. Later he removed to Lewis-
burg in the same state, and in 1790 was liv
ing in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania,
where it is supposed he died. He served in
the revolutionary war and rose to the rank of
captain of Pennsylvania militia. He married,
and had three sons, George, Jacob and
William. (II) Jacob (2), son of Captain Jacob (1)
Langs, was born at Sunbury, Pennsylvania,

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1759. fie lived in Pennsylvania until 1810,
when he removed with his family to Canada,
at Langford, Brant county, Province of On
tario, where he purchased a farm which has
ever since been in the family. He married,
about 1790, Elizabeth, daughter of William
and Elizabeth Fowler, who came to Pennsyl
vania from Westchester county, New York.
Children, all born in Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania: Elizabeth, 1792; ' Catherine,
1794, died in Norfolk county, Ontario, i860;
Jacob, died in 1871, Norfolk county, Ontario;
John, of further mention ; George, died about
1838; Lavina, Martha, Sidna.
(Ill) John, son of Jacob (2) and Eliza
beth (Fowler) Langs, born in Northumber
land county, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1799,
died at Langford, Ontario, March 30, 1855.
He removed to Canada with his father in
1810, being then a lad of eleven years. He
received such education as was possible under
the conditions, and was his father's assistant
on the farm until the death of the latter, when
he succeeded him in the ownership of the es
tate. While working with his father they
cleared the timber from two farms, one of
one hundred and sixty-three acres, the other
of one hundred and fifty. During this period
they furnished most of the lumber used in the
construction of the government road from
Hamilton to London, Ontario. John Langs
was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
church, and a strong supporter of the cause
of Prohibition. He married, at Langford,
Ontario, in 1823, Sarah Westbrook, born
February 7, 1800, at Brantford, Ontario, died
April 5, 1880, at Langford. Children: John,
died in infancy; Martha, born July 23, 1825,
died November 30, 1906, married, December
24, 1854, Martin Millard, of Simco, Ontario;
Nelson, born February 19, 1827, died Febru
ary 15, 1900, married, April 4, 1854, Eliza
Sand ; Squire Emanuel, born November 19,
1828, married, November 30, 1852, Maria
Leach; Elizabeth, born July 19, 1830, mar
ried, December 24, 1859, Randall Woods;
William Wallace, born October 5, 1832, mar
ried, March 12, 1867, Emily McKay, married
(second) June 9, 1870, Helen Louise Allen,
of Hazelmere, British Columbia; Major She
pard, of further mention ; Edwin Rutten, born
September 2, 1836, died May 14, 1898, mar
ried, February 4, 1863, Annie Duncan; Cyn
thia Victoria, born February 17, 1840, mar
ried, December 26, 1867, Daniel Blaisdell;

George Alfred, born July 2, 1842, died Octo
ber 27, 1859; Lavina Catherine, born Febru
ary 17, 1845, married, September 8, 1859,
William H. McKay.
(IV) Major Shepard, son of John and
Sarah (Westbrook) Langs, was born in
Langford, Ontario, Canada, August 22, 1834.
He attended the district school, afterward he
finished his preparatory education in the
grammar school at Brantford, Ontario. He
began the study of medicine October 1, 1861,
at the Toronto School of Medicine, and was
graduated at the University of Toronto, June
8, 1864, with the degree of M. D. During
the summers of 1863 and 1864 he took a
course at the New York City Medical School,
and having received the degree of M. D. the
same year began practice at Lynden, Went
worth county, Ontario, where he remained
for four years. On October 31, 1868, he set
tled at Suspension Bridge, Niagara county,
New York, where he was in the active prac
tice of his profession for twenty-two years,
retiring in 1890. During this entire period
he was physician at Devereux College, and
from 1868 to 1872 physician of Niagara Uni
versity. Dr. Langs was a weli known, skill
ful physician, and commanded a large prac- « « «
tice. After his retirement in 1890 he re
moved to Redlands, California, where he en
gaged in orange culture until 1897, when he
returned to his old home at Suspension
Bridge. Here he has since lived a quiet, re
tired life. He has traveled extensively at
home and abroad. He married, March i,
1866, at Niagara Falls, Helen Abigail Pierce,
born there, daughter of George H. and Abi
gail (Roberts) Pierce. Child: John Pierce
Langs, born April 23, 1882, educated at Red-
lands, California; entered Columbia Univer
sity, was graduated, A. B., class of 1902. He
was professor of music at the University of
Colorado for one year ; master at Devereux
College, 1903-4. He studied music with Pro
fessor Edward MacDowell in New York City
during the years 1901-02-04-05. Later de
ciding on the profession of law, he entered
the Buffalo Law School, where he was gra
duated in 1909 with the degree of LL.B., and
is at present engaged in the practice of law
at Niagara Falls. (The Pierce Line).
Helen Abigail (Pierce) Langs, wife of
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Sergeant Thomas Pierce, who was born in
England in 1608 and came to New England
about 1633. The name Pierce was common
in England at a very early age. The family
bore arms "Three ravens rising." Crest : a
dove with olive branch in bill. Motto: Dixit
et fecit (he said and he did). Sergeant
Thomas was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth
Pierce of England. As no mention is made
of Sergeant Thomas coming with his parents,
it is surmised that he came shortly after them
if not with them. He married shortly after
his arrival and settled in Charlestown. He
was styled Sergeant Thomas, and was ad
mitted to the Charlestown church February
21, 1634, at the same time as his father, show
ing that the family must have emigrated to
gether. Sergeant Thomas Pierce was among
the original settlers of Woburn in 1643, and
was taxed there in 1645 > was selectman in
1660; and many times was on the committee
for dividing the common lands there. He was
also one of "the right proprietors" chosen
March 28, 1667, and also of the general court
committee appointed for the same purpose in
1668. He was a large land owner, as he sells
Thomas Richardson forty acres formerly of
John Cole, southeast of Mount Discovery;
also numerous real estate transactions in his
name are found in the Middlesex county reg
isters in Cambridge. The inventory of his
estate after his decease, November 6, 1683,
amounted to £440, and was appraised by Mat
thew Johnson and James Convers. fie was
sergeant, 1669-82, and a member of Captain
Thomas Prentice's troop, also under Lieu
tenant Oakes in King Philip's war, 1675-76.
He married, May 6, 1635, Elizabeth Cole,
who died March 5, 1688, daughter of Rice
and Arnold Cole. Children: Abigail, John,
Thomas, Elizabeth, Joseph, Joseph, Stephen,
Samuel, Samuel, William, James, Abigail,
Benjamin. The first ancestor of Mrs. Langs to settle
in New York state was John Pierce, born
May 31, 1773, and resided near Westminster
until after his marriage. In 1801-02 he re
moved to Middletown, Connecticut, where he
followed his trade of harness maker. In
1810 he located in Stockbridge, Massachu
setts, remaining until 1822, when he came
to New York state, settling in Livingston
county, at Livonia. In 1830 he settled in
Wheatfield, Niagara county, New York,
where he purchased a farm on which he re

sided until his death. He married, in 1792,
Abigail Stow, born May 8, 1775, died 1842.
Children: 1. William W, born July 4, 1793,
died at Alton, Illinois, May 27, 1825. 2. Mary
A., born February 28, 1796; married Horace
Morrill, of Lenox, Massachusetts. 3. Abigail
E., born June 23, 1798, died unmarried. 4.
John, born September 3, 1800, died in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin. 5. James G., born De
cember 3, 1802, died at Albany, New York.
6. Joseph W., born June 5, 1805, died about
1890, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 7. Eli S.,
born December 10, 1807, died in 1888, at
Rochester, New York. 8. Hannah G., born
May 8, 1810; married John Wilkins, of Clio,
Michigan. 9. Charles T., born September 13,
1812, died in Toledo, Ohio. 10. George Hen
ry, of further mention. 11. Harriet, born
April 27, 1818, died at Suspension Bridge,
New York, Fehruary 17, 1878. 12. Francis,
born August 25, 1820, died November 14,
1838. George Henry, tenth child of John and Abi
gail (Stow) Pierce, was born in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, January 24, 181 5. He re
moved to Western New York, and was edu
cated in Rochester. In 1838 he settled in
the town of Wheatfield, Niagara county,
where he taught school and cultivated a small
farm. He held some local offices in the town,
where he remained until 1852, when he came
to Niagara Falls, where he engaged in the
lumber business until 1866. In that year he
located at Suspension Bridge, where he en
gaged in the coal and lumber business until
1873, when he retired. He died July 17,
1880. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and a Democrat in politics.
He married, 1838, Abigail Sarah Roberts,
born 1812, died at Suspension Bridge, New
York, 1882.

This is a name of distinc-
WEBSTER tion in Warsaw, Wyoming
county, as that of its first
settler, Elizer Webster. He came to the
place, in fact, before even its survey had
been made, in 1803. He built the. first house
there, and a rude one it was, a log cabin,
with neither board nor nail in it. fie lived
in Warsaw thirty-four years. He kept the
first tavern, built the first saw mill, dispensed
justice, and was a foremost citizen.
Judge Webster, as he was known, was of
New England lineage, born in Connecticut,

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August 24, 1767. He went while a youth to
Hampton, New York, and there grew to
manhood. There also he married Elizabeth
Warren, who was born May 15, 1774. It
was in 1803, at the age of thirty-six, that he
came to the site of Warsaw, prepared to set
tle down there. The place was then so primi
tive that, as has been said, the ground was yet
unsurveyed. When he raised his cabin he
had to go a long distance for help. He found
it in the timber "choppers," who were laying
out the "Old Buffalo road." When he had
the shanty finished, he went back to Hamp
ton and brought his wife and five children
to share with him the rough life of the pio
neer. Prosperity attended him here and in
course of time, though he never seemed in
haste to be rich, he acquired considerable
property. He rose to distinction also in the
public affairs of the burg. In 1808, at the
first town meeting, when town officers were
elected, he was chosen supervisor and con
tinued in that position seven years. He held
the office of justice of the peace for a long
time by appointment, and in 1813 was made
associate judge of the county court. In 1816
and 181 7 he represented Genesee county, in
the state assembly, and in 1821 he was a
member of the state constitutional convention,
which last-named service terminated his pub
lic career. But, although he held these vari
ous offices, he was singularly exempt from
political aspiration. His educational advan
tages were limited, but he had great common
sense and sound judgment. When acting
as justice he paid little attention to the law
books, in his decisions, he rather made reason
and even-handed justice his guides, and his
decisions we may say were seldom reversed.
Judge Webster was a man of great inde
pendence, a very excellent business man. He
never speculated, but managed to accumulate,
in various ways, a pretty fair fortune. He
had a great fondness for gunning and hunt
ing, and in that sport he found his favorite
recreation. In the year 1836, when he was
sixty-nine years old, he sold out his lands,
consisting of a square mile at Warsaw and
other bodies elsewhere, and the following
year went to live at Ripley, Chautauqua
county, New York. Here he survived to the
ripe old age of eighty-seven, dving in March,
I8.S4- Judge Webster was the father of twelve

children, eight sons and four daughters: 1.
Arvin, born 1792, died in Illinois. 2. Warren,
born in 1795, died in Gowanda, and is buried
in Ripley, fie was, for a time, like his father,
a justice of the peace. 3. Chipman, born in
1797, settled in Illinois. 4. Lucinda, born
1800, married Elijah Norton, of Warsaw, and
remained in that town. 5. Clorinda, born
1802, married Orson Hough. 6. Eliza, born
1804, married Andrew W. Young. 7. Lem
uel, born 1806, lived for a time in Gowanda,
and other towns in New York, but at length
moved to Wisconsin and there made his home.
8. Horace, born 1808, lived for a while in
Pennsylvania, later in Kentucky. 9. Elizer
(2), born 1809, lives in Ripley. 10. Gideon,
horn 1812, was long a merchant of Gowanda,
and later a farmer of that vicinity. 11. Will
iam Henry Harrison, born 181 3, was a mer
chant of Coldwater, Michigan, to. which
place he went in 1867. 12. Harriet, born 1815,
married John Smallwood, of Warsaw.
In the third generation of this family, there
are children of Arvin by his two marriages
in Illinois ; child of Warren, namely Walter,
who was in the leather business in Gowanda,
and moved to Illinois in 1862; children of
Chipman, who was married twice; and de
scendants of Lemuel, Elizer (2), Gideon, and
William H. Harrison Webster. The children
of Walter Webster, grandson of the Judge,
are: 1. Mary L. 2. Walter. Lemuel had
nine children ; Horace had children by both
wives ; Elizer had eleven children ; Gideon had
six, and William H. H. had four, truly a
numerous and prolific stock.

This surname is a very an-
BALLARD cient one in England, and it
took root in America with
the colonization of New England. Numeri
cally speaking, it has long been a prominent
name in Worcestershire, and although the rec
ords state that the immigrant ancestor of
those of its bearers about to be mentioned
came from Wales, it is impossible to deter
mine whether or not he belonged to a family
of Welsh origin.
(I) William Ballard, born in 1603, and said
to have come from Wales, arrived from Eng
land in the "James," 1635. He was one of
the earliest settlers in Andover, Massachu
setts, where he was admitted a freeman, May
2, 1638, and was a member of the quarterly
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Andover, July 10, 1689. The christian name of
his first wife, who was born in England, in
1609, and accompanied him to America, was
Elizabeth, and that of his second wife was
Grace. The latter died in Andover, April
27, 1694. He had sons Joseph, John and
William; a daughter Sarah, who married,
February 24, 1670, Henry Holt; perhaps other
children. (N. B. That part of Andover
known as Ballardvale was named for this
family.) ,
(II) Joseph, son of William Ballard; re
sided in Andover,' and died there in 1721.
On February 28, 1666, he married (first)
Elizabeth Phillips, who died July 27, 1692,
and November 15 of the same year he mar
ried (second) Mrs. Rebecca fiorne. She
died in 1740. The only one of his children
mentioned in the record at hand is Joseph,
but he doubtless had others.
(Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Bal
lard, was born in Andover, in 1667, died there
in 1732. In 1698 he married Rebecca John
son. (IV) Josiah, son of Joseph (2) Ballard,
was born in Andover, in 1702, died there in
1780. He married Mary Chandler, in 1721 ;
they had William, Josiah and probably other
children. (V) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (1) Ballard,
was born in Andover, in 1721. He married
Sarah Carter, in 1744, and in 1746 he re
moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts. His
death occurred about the year 1780. He was
active in religious work, and a deacon.
(VI) Captain William (2) Ballard, son of
Josiah (2) Ballard, was born in Lancaster,
March 23, 1764. fie settled at Charlemont,
Massachusetts, where he followed the occupa
tion of a builder, and he died in that town
May 25, 1842. fie was captain in the state
militia. He married, March 9, 1787, Eliza
beth Whitney, born February 14, 1769, daugh
ter of Jonathan and Mary (Wyman) Whit
ney. She died December 7, 1857.
(VII) John, son of Captain William (2)
Ballard, was born in Charlemont, October 1,
1790. He seems to have been for a time in
Vermont and New York states, later set
tling in Ohio, where he became a successful
merchant and manufacturer. He married, in
1816, Pamelia, born April 15, 1793, died Oc
tober, 1858, daughter of Joseph Bennett.
(VIII) Nathaniel, son of John Ballard, was
born in 1817, died 1895. He lived in the town

of Otto, New York, where he followed his
trade of wagon maker in connection with
farming. He was very progressive and led
in town improvements, fie was noted for his
unusual growth of very curly hair, and fine
appearance. He married Lucy Ann Paine,
born 1815, died 1875. Children: Henry D.,
Charles E., Walter.
(IX) Rev. Walter Bailard, son of Nathan
iel- Ballard, was born in Otto, New York, July
19, 1845, died there, September 23, 1881. He
was educated in the public schools of Otto
and Springfield high school. He prepared for
the ministry, was ordained and was settled
over the Congregational Church at Pollard
(two years), Black Creek (three years), Stick-
ersville and Otto. He was a faithful minister
of the gospel, leading many into the church
by his preaching and example. His useful
life was ended all too soon by the dread dis
ease, consumption. He married, August 29,
1872, Josephine Mabel, born May 28, 1858,
daughter of Daniel J. Brown, born 1814, died
1882, married Fannie Buchanan, born 1822,
died 1897. He was a minister of the Free
will Baptist Church, of unusual ability and
power. Children of Rev. Walter Ballard :
Mark P., died in infancy; Lynn Walter.
(X) Lynn Walter, son of Rev. Walter Bal
lard, was born at Black Creek, Allegany
county, New York, October 3, 1877. He was
educated in the public school, Forestville
Academy and Cattaraugus high school. He
taught school for a few years, then was for
five years clerk with the Cattaraugus Cutlery
Company, of Little Valley, New York. In
1890 he entered the employ of the private
banking house of Crissey & Crissey. In 1892
a charter was obtained for a state hank, which
the Crissey brothers organized under the
name of the Cattaraugus County Bank. Mr.
Ballard was appointed the first cashier, Janu-
uary, 1892, a position he won and has retained
by efficient and faithful service. He is a
Republican in politics and has served for
years as treasurer of the school board and of
the village of Little Valley. He is a steward
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a
member of the Masonic Order, belonging to
lodge, chapter and commandery.
fie married, January 29, 1904, Emily Black-
man, born October 19, 1876, daughter of Rev.
John H. Bates, born November 27, 1848,
married, 1873, Caroline, born March 1, 1846,
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Phillips. Children of Rev. John H. Bates;
i. Samuel M., married Dorothy Moench. 2.
Emily Blackman, married Lynn W. Ballard.
3. Madge, married Clinton T. Horton; child,
Roger, an attorney of Buffalo. 4. Charles E.,
married Mabel Rich; child, Philip. 5. John
Henry, married Katherine Crawford. Child
of Lynn W. and Emily B. Ballard : Roderick
Blackman, born December 21, 1907.

Lyman as a surname existed
LYMAN from the earliest use of sur
names in England, and is de
rived from an old Saxon person name, Leo-
man. The name has been varied by different
branches of the family, but Limas, Limon,
Lemon, Leamond, Lehman, Leyman, Lyeman,
Lamman, Leman, and de Leman have been
used. Possibly some branches of the family
have taken the surname from the word lay
man, just as priest and pope, sexton and dea
con, have become surnames. Mann itself,
used as a surname, may have the same origin
as Le Man, the French style of spelling. The
oldest coat-of-arms is now used by families
spelling the name Lyman, Leman, Leeman,
Lemmon, distinguished by a ring within a
triangle. The arms are quartered with the
Lambert armorials. The family motto : Quod
verum tutum. While the name Leman occurs
in the Domesday Book, the authentic Eng
lish pedigree begins two centuries later, as
given below.
(I) Thomas Lyman, alias Leman, held land
in county Wilts during his father's lifetime,
in the reign of Henry III. In 1275 he was
fined for not attending a certain inquisition
to which he had been summoned, fie also
held land of the Abbot of St. Edward, Ox
ford. (II) Richard Leman held lands of the
Knights Templar, county Bedford, in the time
of Edward I.
(Ill) Alisalon Lyeman purchased lands at
county Kent, in Beaksbourne, in the time of
Edward I, and had them in 1327. He was
living in the first year of the reign of Ed
ward III.
(IV) Epsilon Lyman, alias Lemman, suc
ceeded his father in the possession of the es
tate at Beaksbourne, county Kent, where he
was taxed until 1349.
(V) Solomon Lyman was the eldest son
and heir of Epsilon Lyman. He had sons:

William, who inherited the estate ; John ; Rob
ert, mentioned below; Richard.
(VI) Robert Lyman, of Beaksbourne, was
living in 1430.
(VII) Thomas Lyman, of Navistoke,
county Essex, gentleman, succeeded his father
in possession of the estate at Navistoke and
Wethersfield. He married Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Henry Lambert.
(VIII) Henry Lyman, of Navistoke and
High Ongar, county Essex, gentleman, had
the estates at Navistoke and Wethersfield -in
1487, and was living as late as 1517. He mar
ried Alicia, daughter of Simon Hyde, of
Wethersfield. (IX) John Lyman, gentleman, eldest son
and heir of Henry Lyman, also possessed
land at Ovyngton, Asshe, Chylton, county
Suffolk. He was living in 1546, and was a
contributor toward the carrying on of the war.
He married Margaret, daughter and heiress
of William Gerard, of Beauchamp, county Es
sex. (X) Henry, son of John Lyman, inherited
his father's estates at Navistoke, county Es
sex, and was living at High Ongar in 1598,
He died May 4, 1605. fie married (first)
Elizabeth -  , who was buried at Navis
toke, April 15, 1587; (second) Philb's Stane
or Scott, who married (second) William or
Ralph Green. Children of first wife : Judith,
baptized November 2, buried November 4,
1578; Jane, baptized October 20, buried Oc-
toher 21, 1579; Richard, mentioned below;
Henry, baptized November 19, 1581, buried
March 13, 1589; Agnes, baptized November
28, 1585; Sarah, baptized January 18, 1587.
Children of second wife : Henry, baptized
June 6, 1 59 1, went to America and died with
out issue; William, baptized March 2, 1594;
Phillis, baptized May 12, 1597.
(XI) Richard Lyman, immigrant ancestor,
son of Henry Lyman (X), was baptized at
High Ongar, county Essex, England, Octo
ber 30, 1580, died in 1640, In 1629 he sold
to John Gower lands and orchards and a gar
den in Norton Mandeville, in the parish of
Ongar, and in August, 1631, embarked with
his wife and five children in the ship "Lion,"
William Pierce, master, for New England.
In the ship, which sailed from Bristol, were
Martha Winthrop, third wife of Governor
Winthrop, the governor's eldest son- and his
family, also Eliot, the celebrated Apostle to
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Richard Lyman settled first at Charlestown
and with his wife united with the church of
which Eliot was pastor. He was admitted a
freeman June 11, 1635, and in October of the
same year, joining a party of about one hun
dred persons, went to Connecticut, and be
came one of the first settlers of Hartford.
The journey was beset by many dangers, and
he lost many of his cattle on the way. He
was one of the original proprietors of Hart
ford in 1636, receiving thirty parts of the
purchase from the Indians. His house was
on the south side of what is now Bucking
ham .street, the fifth lot from Main street,
west of the South Church, and bounded ap
parently on Wadsworth street either on the
east or west. His will was dated April 22,
1640, and proved January 27, 1642, together
with that of his wife, who. died soon after
he did. His name is inscribed on a stone col
umn in the rear of Centre Church of Hart
ford, erected in memory of the first settlers
of the city. He married Sarah, daughter of
Roger Osborne, of Halstead, in Kent, Eng
land. Children : William, buried at High
Ongar, August 28, 1615; Phillis, baptized
September 12, 161 1, came to New England,
married William Hills, of Hartford, became
deaf; Richard, baptized July 18, 161 3, died
young; William, baptized September 8, 1616,
died November, 1616; Richard, of further
mention; Sarah, baptized February 8, 1620;
Anne, baptized April 12, 1621, died young;
John, baptized 1623, died August 20, 1690;
Robert, born September, 1629, married, in
Northampton, November 15, 1662, Hepzibah
Bascom. (XII) Richard (2), son of Richard (1)
and Sarah (Osborne) Lyman, was born in
High Ongar, England, February 24, 161 7,
died 1662; married Hepzibah, daughter of
Thomas Ford, of Windsor, Connecticut.
(XIII) Richard (3), son of Richard (2)
and Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman, was born 1647,
died 1708; lived in Northampton and Leba
non, Connecticut. He married, 1675, Eliza
beth Cowles, daughter of John, of Hatfield.
(XIV) Samuel, son of Richard (3) and
Elizabeth (Cowles) Lyman, was born in,
Northampton, 1676; lived in Lebanon, Con
necticut, where he died, 1772. He married,
1699, Elizabeth Fowler.
(XV) Jabez, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Fowler) Lyman, was born 1702. He mar
ried and had issue.

(XVI) Ezekiel, son of Jabez Lyman, was
born 1733. He married and had issue.
(XVII) Jabez (2), son of Ezekiel Lyman,
was born 1775; married Lois Johnson. He
settled in Royalton, Vermont, where several
of his children were born.
(XVIII) Alvin, son of Jabez (2) Lyman,
was born in Royalton, Vermont, October 20,
1809, died in Randolph, Cattaraugus county,
New York, 1900. After his marriage he
moved from Royalton to Bethel, Vermont,
where he engaged in farming until 1835,
when he came to New York state, settling in
the town of Napoli, Cattaraugus county. In
1847 he built a good residence in East Ran
dolph, where he owned a farm and lived until
1868, when he moved to a farm within the
limits of Randolph village, that he had pur
chased. Mr. Lyman was a millwright by
trade and built mills in Olean and on Willow
Creek. He also owned and operated a saw
mill. -In addition he also cultivated the soil,
carrying on his milling business in connec
tion, fie was a member of the Freewill Bap
tist Church of East Randolph, which he
served as deacon for many years. While a
resident of Napoli he served as highway com
missioner, and in Randolph was justice of the
peace and assessor. He married, February
12, 1835, Eleanor, born January 7, 1813,
daughter of Amos and Lydia (Whitcomb)
Huntington, of Bethel, Vermont. Four of
their seven children died in childhood. The
three who grew to maturity were: 1. Joel
H., of further mention. 2. Mary L., born
October 3, 1849; married, October 18, 1870,
Cassius M. Faulkner, and has : John A., mar
ried, and Eleanor, married Charles Doble,
and has daughter Eleanor. 3. Ellen Almira,
born July 24, 1853; married (first) Oscar M.
Sheldon; (second) Fred Willard.
(XIX) Joel H., son of Deacon Alvin and
Eleanor (Huntington) Lyman, was born in
East Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New
York, May 11, 1845. He was educated in
the public schools and at Chamberlain Insti
tute, leaving school in 1861, when but sixteen
years of age, and enlisting August 9 of that
year in the Ninth Regiment, New York Vol
unteers, Cavalry. He was mustered in as a
private of Company E, October 7, 1861, to
serve three years, and served under Generals
Stoneman, Pleasanton and Buford, with the
Army of Potomac and in the Shenandoah
Valley under General Philip Sheridan, where

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he displayed such gallantry in action that in
1864 he was voted by congress a medal of
honor. In the battle of Port Republic, Sep
tember 26, 1864, he was shot through the leg
by a rifle ball and taken from the field. On
February 16, 1864, he was appointed quar
termaster sergeant, and February 18 was
transferred to Company B; honorably dis
charged and mustered out, October 23, 1864,
and then returned home. He was later con
nected with the adjutant general's office at
Washington, D. C, and May 8, 1866, was
commissioned second lieutenant in the United
States regular army; October 12, 1867, was
promoted first lieutenant, and assigned to
duty in Florida. He served as assistant adju
tant general on the staff of General J. G. Fos
ter from July, 1866, until 1867, when General
Foster was ordered north and the department
broken up, and was in command of his com
pany until 1870. He resigned from the regu
lar army in December, 1870. After leaving
the army, Captain Lyman became a traveling
salesman, with headquarters in New York
City. Later he located in Elmira, New York,
where he established a hat and fur store,
which after a few years he sold. He has since
resided in Randolph, New York. He was a
brave and intrepid soldier, and it is particu
larly pleasing to his friends that congress rec
ognized his gallantry with the medal of honor.
Captain Lyman is a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and the Army
and Navy Medal of Honor Legion. He stands
high in the Masonic order, in both the York
and Scottish rites, being a Knight Templar
and a thirty-second degree Mason, holding
his Scottish rite degrees in Rochester Con
sistory. He is a Republican in politics, and
has served as president of the village corpo
ration of Randolph. He is a warden of the
Protestant Episcopal church, and interested in
the welfare of his village. His clubs are the
St. Augustine (Florida), Yacht and Golf, also
Army and Navy Club, of New York City.
He married (first), October 21, 1868, Caro
line E., born 1847, died June 24, 1902, daugh
ter of Edward and Elizabeth (Robins) Car
ter, of New York City. Children: 1. Ed
ward Carter, born December 24, 1869, died
December 1, 1903; married, April 21, 1897,
Sarah C. Logan; child: John Carter, born
April 6, 1898. 2. Alvin Robins, born Sep
tember 7, 1874. Captain Lyman married

(second), November 17, 1903, Laura A. Ed
wards, born October 31, 1867.

The Messingers of Sala-
MESSINGER manca are of German an
cestry and parentage, the
original name being Moessinger. The father,
Peter Messinger, son of John, was born in
Menzlinger, a small village near Carlsruhe,
Baden, Germany, June 5, 1832, and died at
Salamanca, New York, July 4, 1904. He re
ceived a good education in the German
schools, served his allotted years in the army,
and in 1856 came to the United States. He
located at Hemlock Mills (now Salamanca),
Cattaraugus county, where he secured em
ployment in the lumber mills, continuing until
1862. In that year he enlisted in Company A,
154th Regiment, New York Volunteer In
fantry. His regiment was attached to, the
Army of the Potomac, and with that hard
fought army he saw continuous service until
the battle of Gettysburg, when he was se
verely wounded by a shell, taken prisoner,
and sent south. He spent twenty-two months
in the prison pens at Andersonville, Belle Isle
and Libby. fie returned home in 1865 great
ly broken in health. After regaining strength
he returned to his work in the lumber mills,
situated on the south side of the river, and
at that time almost the only industry at Sala
manca. In 1880 he entered the employ of
the Erie Railroad Company as car inspector,
continuing until his accidental death while
in the performance of his duty, July 4, 1904.
He was passing underneath a train which
suddenly started, crushing him beneath the
wheels. Pie was a good soldier, a faithful
employee, and highly respected by all. He
was a member of Cattaraugus Lodge, No.
239, Free and Accepted Masons; H. O. Wait
Post, Grand Army of the Republic; the Ger
man Lutheran church, and was a Republican
in politics. He married, July 4, 1857, Cath
erine Bachmann, born April 6, 1838, died Sep
tember 18, 1904. Children : Carl H., of fur
ther mention; Cora May, born May 29, 1866;
Emma, September 30, 1868; Kittie, February
26, 1872, died 1884.
(II) Carl H., only son of Peter and Cath
erine (Bachmann) Messinger, was born at
Hemlock Mills, now Salamanca, New York,
June 4, 1858. He enjoys the distinction of
being the first white child born in the town,
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settle there. He attended the public school
until he was twelve years of age, then began
work in the lumber mills with his father dur
ing the summer, and going to school again
during the winter months. In 1880 he began
working for the Erie Railroad Company as
yardman. In 1882 he was promoted to the
baggage room at Salamanca, where he was
in charge until 1891. In the latter year he
was again promoted and made ticket agent
at Union Station, a position he still holds.
Salamanca is an important point, and the po
sition of ticket agent one of unusual responsi
bility. Mr. Messinger has had thirty-one
years of continuous service with the company,
twenty of these having been passed in his
present position. He is quiet arid unassum
ing in manner, but a most valuable and effi
cient official. He is very popular with his
associates and townsmen, and is held in high
esteem. He is a member of the Masonic or
der, belonging to lodge, chapter and com
mandery in Salamanca, and to Ismailia Tem
ple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Buffalo.
He is a member of the Lutheran church, and
a Republican.
He married, February 27, 1886, Frances N.
Langton, born November 22, 1861, daughter
of Charles and Jane (Lamb) Langton, who
came to the United States from England.
Children: Joseph, Elizabeth, John H., Fran
ces, Nannie V., Harriet L., Frederick and
Grace. Children of Carl H. and Frances Mes
singer: Frances Evelyn, born August 26,
1888; Kittie Langton, September 11, 1892.

This branch of the Wilson
WILSON family are of direct English de
scent, the original settler being
Daniel Wilson, born in Yorkshire, England.
He came to the United States in 1832 and
settled at Lockport, New York, where he en
gaged in farming. He married, in England,
Martha Robinson. They continued their resi
dence in England until after the birth of their
twelfth child. One child, William R., was
born in the United States. Children : Thomas,
born June 12, 1804; Mary, September 12,
1806; John, September 6, 1808; Richard, No
vember 29, 1810; Martha, March 27, 1813;
Elizabeth, March 16, 1815; Joseph, June 26,
1817; Eleanor, October 6, 1818; Daniel, of
whom further; Henry, December 21, 1824;
Robert, March 28, 1826; Margaret, April 16,
1829; William R., September 2, 1832.

(II) Daniel (2), ninth child and fifth son
of Daniel (1) and Martha (Robinson) Wil
son, was born in England, April 24, 1822,
died at his farm on the Wheeler road, New
fane, Niagara county, New York, October 25,
1884. He was ten years of age when he
came with his parents to Niagara county,
where he was educated in the public schools.
He worked on the home farm until 1848,
when he purchased a tract of unimproved
land containing seventy acres. This he cleared
and brought under cultivation excepting four
teen acres. He engaged in general farming,
also fruit culture, and was quite successful.
He was a man of industrious, thrifty habits,
and left a good name behind him. He was
a Democrat in politics, but did not mingle in
public affairs. He married, November 16,
1843, Elizabeth ' Temple, born in England,
May 6, 1825, died December 16, 1898, daugh
ter of Adam Temple, born in England, emi
grated to the United States, where he died.
Children: 1. Martha, born October 6, 1844,
died 1847. 2. William T., born March 4,
1846; married (first) Martha, daughter of
Stephen Wilson, who bore him four children :
Raymond, Robert D., Lester and George ;
married (second)  Adams, to whom was
born one child, Eugene. 3. Elizabeth A.,
born April 2, 1849; married John M. Farns-
worth; children: Daniel H., died May 9,
1899; Fanny, married Frank Carlton; Loesa,
resides at home. 4. Robert D. (of further
mention) .
(Ill) Robert D., youngest child and second
son of Daniel (2) and Elizabeth (Temple)
Wilson, was born on the "Wheeler" home
stead farm in the town of Newfane, Niagara
county, New York, June 12, 1853. He was
educated in the public schools, and until the
death of his father in 1884 remained at home
as his assistant. He then purchased the
homestead which he now (1911) owns and
cultivates, with the exception of fifteen acres
of fruit he devoted himself to general farm
ing. In 1887 he became one of the incorpo
rators of the Newfane Basket Manufacturing
Company, was chosen secretary, and still holds
that position. In 1907 he was one of the in
corporators of the Newfane Hardware Com
pany, of which he is also secretary. He is
interested in the Wrights Corners Cemetery
Association, of which he is secretary and
treasurer. Mr. Wilson possesses fine busi
ness qualities and fills his several offices with

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great acceptability. He is a man of great
energy and stands high in his community.
He is a member of the Wrights Corners Pres
byterian Church. He married, February 6,
1878, at Newfane, Alice L. Miller, born Feb
ruary 2, 1855, daughter of Peter D. and Ta-
mar (Mather) Miller. Child, Emma J., born
June 12, 1886; married, October 28, 1908,
Frank R. Harwood, of Newfane, and has
Alice Irma Harwood.

This family of Willsons, liv-
WILLSON ing in Jamestown, originally
came from England a little
before the middle of the last century, being
one of a group of five families emigrating
from Ely, England, and settling in this coun
try in 1834. The group included two fami
lies of this same name, whose ancestors were
related ; the descendants of one of these fami
lies now spell their name Wilson. After
their arrival the five families remained to
gether, settling in Chautauqua county, New
York, near what was then the village of
Jamestown and within the limits of- the pres
ent city. They secured adjoining land and
gave the place the name it bore for many
years, "English Hill."
(I) John Willson, emigrant ancestor, was
born in England, coming to this country as
aforesaid in company with four other fami
lies ; he was a farmer, settling on "English
Hill," where he lived and died. His original
purchase of one hundred acres of farm lands
was made from the Holland Land Company,
December 26, 1836. Mr. Willson became a
Republican in his politics, and he and his wife
were members of the Presbyterian church.
He died at the age of sixty-one years, and
was the father of eight children, two of
whom are still living ; these children being :
David, Sanford, Mark Thomas, mentioned
below; John, John, William, Sarah, who be
came the wife of Jefferson Prosser and is still
living; Susanna, unmarried, and still living.
(II) Mark Thomas, son of John Willson,
was born at Jamestown, New York, June 3,
1840. He was reared in his native city and
received his education in its public schools.
He followed his father's vocation, becoming
a farmer, and inheriting the farm purchased
by his father and now in the possession of
his own son. During the civil war he served
with distinction, enlisting as a private, August
26, 1862, in Company F, One Hundred and

Twelfth Regiment, New York Volunteers,
and remaining until the close of the war in
1865. Having been wounded by the bursting
of a shell, he was granted a pension in after
years because of the injuries thus sustained.
Mr. Willson became prominent in the politics
of the city, being a staunch Republican, and
receiving the appointment of street commis
sioner. His death occurred in Jamestown,
October 16, 1901 ; and he was buried in Lake-
view cemetery. Mr. Willson married Mary
Ann, daughter of Simon Bootey, December 8,
1869. Mrs. Willson was born at Jamestown,
February 19, 1837, died September 28, 1904.
There were two children born to the union:
1. Nathan M., see forward. 2. Anna E., born
June 8, 1877, married Jesse P. Parker, who
resides at the old Bootey homestead in James
town, and is a contractor, doing general team
ing ; they have one child, Ethelyn Parker. Mr.
and Mrs. Willson were both members of the
Baptist church.
(Ill) Nathan M., son of Mark Thomas
Willson, was born at Jamestown, Chautauqua
county, New York, September 19, 1870. He
spent his early years in Jamestown, and was
educated in the public schools of this place.
His first business employment was in the
plant of John T. Wilson, where he began in
the glazing room, and was, after two years,
placed in charge of the paint rooms, fie re
mained for six years in this responsible posi
tion, until in 1897 he entered into partnership
with A. J. Thayer, C. D. Pratt and George B.
Peterson, in the establishment of the James
town Veneer Works. This firm was finally
incorporated in 1903, with Mr. Willson as
secretary and treasurer; Messrs. Pratt, Peter
son and Thayer have since retired from the
partnership, which now includes Charles E.
Fisk, of PearlCity Veneer Company, who is
also the manager of the works, H. D. Hanch-
ett, president. The firm does a flourishing
trade, embracing all the first-class furniture
makers in the country and a large following
among the manufacturers of Jamestown. It
is one of the standard commercial institutions
of the city, manufacturing every variety of
veneer, plain and ornamental, birdseye blister
and curl maple, plain and fancy birch, oak,
ash, and other native woods. The building
occupied by the works is located on Steel
street, has three floors, 225x65 feet. The
business was first established in 1895 by Grif-
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ing firm, all of the members of which were
prominent and enterprising men, the present
management being fully up to the high stand
ard originally set.
Mr. Willson is also connected with the
Gerry Veneer and Lumber Company, of Sin
clairville, New York; he is a prominent man
in business and social circles in the city, as
well as being a leading member of the Re
publican party. He is a member also of the
following organizations : Sons of Veterans,
Maccabees, Eastern Star, Jamestown Com
mandery, Western Sun Chapter No. 67; and
Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Ac
cepted Masons. He is an attendant of the
Baptist church.
Mr. Willson married, June 27, 1894, Ber-
nice LaDue, born April 29, 1869, daughter of
William T. LaDue, a farmer, and band saw
yer by trade, born at Wallington, New York,
September 25, 1842. Mr. LaDue is still liv
ing at the age of sixty-nine years. Mrs. La
Due, the mother of Mrs. Willson, was Hor-
tense Lamson, born at Sodus Center, New
York, July 27, 1841, and is now seventy years
of age. This venerable couple have also an
other daughter living, Nettie, wife of Frank
C. Rice, of Sinclairville, New York. Mr. and
Mrs. Willson are the parents of three chil
dren: Mildred Bernice, born July 4, 1895;
Glenn LaDue, May 25, 1899; Elizabeth Hor-
tense, January 5, 1906.

The name of Young is distin-
YOUNG guished in Wyoming county,
and more especially in Warsaw
as that of a pioneer journalist and author,
Andrew White Young, who came to Warsaw
as a boy, and remained there until 1855, when
he moved to Chautauqua county and later to
Minnesota. He returned to Warsaw, how
ever, some twenty years later, and resided
there again for about a year before his death.
Mr. Young's ancestry on his father's side
was the old Dutch stock, so strongly repre
sented in the Empire state. His mother was
born in the Emerald isle, but was brought up
in this country. She was of the Protestant
or Scotch-Irish stock so-called.
Mr. Young was born in Carlisle, Scho
harie county, New York, March 2, 1802, and
came to Warsaw in 1816. What schooling
he had was received in the common schools
and embraced a half term also at the age
of nineteen in- the Middlebury Academy. He

was so apt a scholar that he was engaged in
teaching school at the early age of thirteen,
his father receiving for his services the mu
nificent sum of five dollars a month. Farm
labor and school teaching were the employ
ments of his youth. When he came of age,
he engaged for a time as clerk and merchant,
at first in Wethersfield and later at War
saw. In the year 1830 he embarked in the
newspaper business with the Warsaw Sentinel,
which two years later he merged with the Re
publican Advocate, continuing that journal
for the space of five years. While thus en
gaged he took up authorship and eventually
made it his life work. He made a specialty
of subjects relating to government, believing
a more general diffusion of knowledge of its
principles to be essential to good citizenship.
His first work was an edition upon the
"Science of Government," which was issued
from his Warsaw press in 1835. It was the
first work of its kind brought out in that part
of the country and, though it met with a fa
vorable reception, 'its author re-wrote, revised
and republished it in 1840.
In 1843 Mr. Young wrote and published
"First Lessons in Civil Government," a text
book for schools. It was intended for the
younger class of learners, and was designed
for use in the schools of New York. Two
years later he compiled a similar work for
the schools of Ohio, of which many thou
sands of copies were sold. In 1845 and 1846
he served in the state legislature as the rep
resentative of Wyoming county, and in the
latter year also the state constitutional con
vention. In 1852 he returned to the making
of books commencing that year "The Ameri
can Statesman; a Political History of the
United States," which he completed in 1855.
This work treats of the purely political his
tory of. the government, from its beginning in
the old colonial days. In 1858 Mr. Young
produced the "Citizen's Manual," a digest of
constitutional, common, statutory and inter
national law, intended especially for adults,
and in i860 a work on "National Economy."
He was the author also of a number of
textbooks, chief among them being the "Gov
ernment Class Book," issued in 1859, and the
"First Book on Civil Government," an
abridgement of his earliest work, made in
1867. In the preparation of these works, Mr.
Young's purpose was to prepare the citizen
for a more intelligent discharge of his duties.

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Mr. Young remained a resident of War
saw until 1856, then moved to Chautauqua
county and from there in 1868 to Red Wing,
Minnesota, where his descendants reside to
day. He died at Warsaw in the year 1877.
Mr. Young took a prominent part in public
affairs. Politically he was originally a Whig
and high in the councils of that party. He
was an earnest worker in the cause of temper
ance. Mr. Young married, October 4, 1827,
while resident of Wethersfield Springs, Eliza
Webster, of Warsaw, who was born June 9,
1804, the first child born in that town, daugh
ter of Judge Elizer Webster. Their children
were: 1. David A., born in 1828, lives in Red
Wing, Minnesota ; has two children. 2. Lucy,
born 1862, married Emery Purdy, resides at
Red Wing. 3. Elizabeth, born 1834, living in
Red Wing. 4. William, born in 1841, died in
infancy. 5. Mary E., born 1846, married E.
K. Sparrel ; living in Red Wing.

Robert Hickey, the first mem-
HICKEY ber of this family of whom we
have definite information, was
a farmer in Tipperary, Ireland. His wife's
name is unknown. Children: John; Robert;
Frank ; James ; Richard ; William ; Michael,
referred to below; Bridget; Ellen.
(II) Michael, son of Robert Hickey, was
born in Tipperary, Ireland, and died there.
He served on the police force of Tipperary,
and was promoted sergeant and held the of
fice until he was pensioned off, and retired to
a small farm. He married Ann Stack. Chil
dren : John, married Elizabeth O'Hare ; Mary
Ann, married James O'Leary ; Robert, re
ferred to below ; William ; Bridget.
(Ill) Robert, son of Michael and Ann
(Stack) Hickey, was born in Cork, Ireland,
April 22, 1847, and is now living in Olean,
Cattaraugus county, New York. He was a
shoemaker by trade, and in 1865 he emigrated
to New York City in the steamer "Calabria."
From there he went on a visit to Canada to
see an uncle, and remained there for two years
in the lumber business, after which he removed
to Titusville, Pennsylvania, and went to work
for the Standard Oil Company, with whom he
remained until 1905, being employed in posi
tions of responsibility in different departments.
In 1880 he was sent by them to Olean, New
York, where he has remained ever since. In
1905 he resigned his position with the Stand
ard Oil Company, and took a position with his

sons. The family are Roman Catholic in re
ligion, and Democrats in politics. Mr. Hickey
is a member of the C. M. B. A. He married,
September 22, 1874, Ellen, daughter of James
and Johanna (Fahn) Barry, who was born in
Cork, Ireland, in 185 1, and is now living in
Olean. Her father, James Barry, was an
only child, and lived in Cork, where he
was a shoemaker and a farmer. Her
mother, Joanna, was a daughter of Homer
 (Ratterly) Fahn, and granddaughter
of Donald and Ellen (Lane) Fahn. Chil
dren of James and Joanna (Fahn) Barry:
Nora, married John Deegan; Ellen, referred
to below and above; Mary, married Jeremiah
Ford; Johanna, James, Michael and Bridget,
all died in infancy; Ellen - (Barry) Hickey,
came over to America in 1865, in the steamer
"Edinboro," and was seven weeks in making
the voyage. She remained in New York for
seven years, and then went to Titusville,
Pennsylvania, where she met Mr. Hickey.
They are charming people to meet. Children
of Robert and Ellen (Barry) Hickey, three
born in Titusville and one in Olean: 1. John,
born September 30, 1875, learned the iron
molders' trade; married, September 23, 1903,
Harriet Carr; children: Helen, born Novem
ber 5, 1904; James, born June 6, 1908. 2.
William, born October 14, 1876; is in
with Robert; for six years he was a member
of the board of aldermen of Olean, and identi
fied with many other industrial interests of the
city. 3. Robert E., referred to below. 4.
Anna, born July 6, 1882 ; married, October 4,
191 1, Daniel O'Connell.
(IV) Robert E., son of Robert and El
len (Barry) Hickey, was born in Titusville,
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, October 2,
1878, and is now living in Olean, Cattaraugus
county, New York. With his brothers he re
ceived his education in the public schools of
Olean. He and his brother, William, both
learned the trade of steam fitter and plumber.
In March, 1905, the two brothers founded the
Olean Plumbing, Heating and Lighting Com
pany, later changing the name to Hickey
Brothers, which is now doing the largest
plumbing business in Cattaraugus county.
Their well-equipped store is located at 256
North Union street, Olean, where the com
pany handles all kinds of plumbing, heating
and lighting goods, and carries a large and
high-class stock. They do all kinds of instal
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workmen. There shop is open evenings, and
is connected with both phones, and they are
always prepared to furnish estimates on any
work, no matter how extensive. In addition
to their store, they have a warehouse where
they carry a large line of goods required in
their work. Both brothers are members of
the Knights of Columbus and of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians. They are Roman Cath
olics in religion, and Democrats in politics.
Robert Hickey married Lillian Dorr. Child:
Margaret, born in September, 1908.

William Bentley, immigrant
BENTLEY ancestor, first appears in this
country in Kingston, Rhode
Island. He was a currier by trade, and is
first mentioned on the records, July 29, 1679,
when he and forty-one others of Narragansett
sent a petition to the King, asking that "he
would put an end to these differences about
the government thereof, which hath been so
fatal to the prosperity of the place ; animosities
still arising in people's minds, as they stand
affected to this or that government." He was
taxed in 1687. In April, 1705, he had liberty
granted by the town to set up a house con
venient for the carrying on of his currying
trade. On January 20, 1712, he and his wife,
Sarah (Leithfield) Bentley, deeded to their
son James one hundred and twenty-eight acres
of land; on June 14, 1714, he bought eleven
acres, November 1, 1715, he deeded to his son
Thomas the eleven acres mentioned above. In
1720 his will was executed and proved, with
his wife and son Benjamin as executors. To
his eldest son he left five shillings, and a like
amount to sons James and Thomas and daugh
ter Jane Whitman. To his wife the remainder
of his personal property was left. He mar
ried Sarah Leithfield, and they both died in
1720. Children: William, mentioned below;
James; Thomas; Benjamin, died 1744; Jane,
married, January 6, 1700, John Wightman.
(II) William (2), son of William (1)
Bentley, was born about 1680. He lived in
Kingston, Westerly, Richmond, Rhode Island.
He was made freeman in 1712. He made his
will, August 16, 1748, and it was proved Au
gust 12, 1760. His wife Bathsheba was exe
cutrix. To his eldest son he left five shillings,
he having had his share, and a like amount
to sons George, Caleb and Ezekiel, and daugh
ters Elizabeth Potter, Tabitha Sweet, Ruhama
James and Mary James. He left to his wife

all his household goods and movable estate.
His wife was to sell the homestead and house
when son Benjamin came to the age
of fourteen and divide the proceeds
equally among the five youngest children.
To his wife was left also the income of
the entire estate, to bring up the five
youngest children. He died in 1760. He
married (first), April 21, 1703, Mary Eliot.
He married (second), August 1, 1734, Bath
sheba Lewis, widow of Israel Lewis. She
died in 1760. Children of first wife: John;
George, mentioned below; Caleb; Ezekiel;
Elizabeth; Tabitha; Ruhama; Mary. Chil
dren of second wife: William, born May 29,
I73S! Thomas; James, born June 6, 1739;
Greene, March 25, 1741-42 ; Benjamin, June
11, 1744. William Bentley and wife, Mary,
owned the covenant at Stonington, June 5,
1704, and their children, John and Mary, were
baptized there.
(Ill) George, son of William (2) Bentley,
was born about 1705 in Rhode Island. It is
said that he married Jane Carson. He settled
in Stonington, and George Bentley married
there, March 4, 1723-24, Ruth Barber. Among
their children was Caleb, born May 20, 1742,
settled at Berlin, New York, was supervisor,
died there March 5, 1827, aged eighty-four
years ; came from Stonington, Connecticut,
and settled at Berlin, Rensselaer county, New
York ; captain in the revolution under Colonel
Stephen John Schuyler, and also served in
the Sixth Regiment, Albany County Militia'
(p. 94, "New York in the Revolution").
(IV) William (3) Bentley, believed to be a
brother of Caleb, and son of George Bentley,
was born about 1745. Joseph was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania, son of
George Bentley, and presumably, therefore,
brother of Caleb and William (p. 39, Bent
ley Family). Uriah Bentley, who was a son
of Caleb, came from" Rensselaer county to
Chautauqua county in May, 18 10, and settled
on lot No. 9, township 2, range 12, on the
north part of the town of Busti. Uriah was
born in Berlin, Rensselaer county, New York,
June 21, 1779, and married, December 28,
1800, Nancy Sweet, born May 7, ' 1779.
Joshua Bentley settled in what is now Elling
ton in 1812 and kept' a tavern for a number
of years ; his son, Joshua Jr., came from Ste
phentown, Rensselaer county, and settled on
lot No. 15, September 1, 1815. Gardner Bent
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land there in May, 1822. Elder Bentley, bro
ther of Joshua Bentley, settled on lot No. 15
at Ellington (pp. 23-24-25, Bentley Family).
(V) Reuben Bentley, son or grandson of
William (3) Bentley, was of the Rensselaer
county branch, his ancestors coming thither
from Stonington, Connecticut, or the neigh
boring towns in Rhode Island. With various
relatives he came to the town of Ellington,
Chautauqua county, New York. The records
of the town do not give the necessary vital
records to establish the lineage beyond a
doubt, though there is no doubt of the close
relationship of the Ellington Bentleys men
tioned. Reuben Bentley had children: Reu
ben, Calvin, mentioned below ; Thomas, Sam
uel, Elizabeth, Mercy.
One account of the family states that Noah
Bentley came from Manchester, England (but
it is known that he belongs to the Rhode
Island family described here) about 1750, mi
grated to Rhode Island with his family, con
sisting of a wife, sons William and Niles and
daughter Polly. The latter "died on the voy
age over." "Shortly after their arrival here
another son Noah was born to them." Will
iam, the elder son, removed to New York
state shortly after Noah's birth and finally set
tled in what is now New Lebanon, Columbia
county; married a Bromley, and had Noah,
Niles and others. One of his daughters,
Mercy, married Calvin Bentley, third son of
Noah Jr. Niles, son of Noah Sr., was acci
dentally killed in Rhode Island. Noah Jr.,
when young, settled in Rensselaer county, near
his brother William.
(VI) Calvin, son of Reuben Bentley, was
born, probably in Connecticut, and died at El
lington, New York, in 1846. He settled in
the town of Ellington, Chautauqua county, on
lot No. 23, town No. 3, range No. 10, which
he purchased of Morse, Beardsley & Stuart,
one hundred acres, by deed dated September
8, 1828, for $225. He married, in 1824,
Amanda Hildum, born in Providence, Maine,
in November, 1808, died about 1881-82,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hildum. The
Hildum family came from Rensselaer county
also in 1825, and located in Chautauqua
county, New York. Calvin and Amanda are
both buried in the Conewango cemetery. Chil
dren: Eunice; Susan, married Lucius Ami-
don and had a daughter Amelia, who married
Asa Bentley, now living in Conewango Valley,
Chautauqua county, New York ; Burton, men

tioned below; Lorenzo, died aged two years
and a half; Betsey, died aged six months;
Drusilla. (VII) Burton, son of Calvin Bentley, was
born at Ellington, New York, and except for
about eighteen months resided there all his
life. He was educated in the public schools,
and bought a farm of one hundred and thirty-
one acres, lot No. 57, town No. 3, range No.
10, from Arad Fuller, by deed dated Febru
ary 27, 1864. He was a useful citizen, of
sterling character, and commanded the respect
and esteem of the community. In politics he
was a Republican, and he served on the board
of education. He married Sarah Angeline,
daughter of Covil and Corlana (Youngs)
Nickerson. She died April 24, 1900, aged
about sixty-seven years. Children: 1.' Demo
J., born October 2, 1854; now a resident of
Ellington; married (first) Josephine Gilbert;
(second) Bird Waggoner; had no children.
2. Calvin Eugene, mentioned below. 3. Addie
M., born June 6, 1858 ; taught school a number
of years, now a nurse, residing in Jamestown ;
unmarried. 4. Effie E., born April 24, 1861 ;
married Charles L. Swanson and had Hazel;
they live at Jamestown. 5. Rose L., born
February 26, 1869; married Fred J. Naxton;
children : Mabel, Lloyd, Burton, Genevieve
and Fred ; they reside at Onoville, Cattaraugus
county, New York.
(VIII) Calvin Eugene, son of Burton Bent
ley, was born in Potter county, Pennsylvania,
July 1, 1856. He lived during childhood on
the homestead at Ellington; he attended the
public schools there, the Ellington Academy,
Jamestown Union School and Collegiate Insti
tute at Jamestown. He taught school for a
short time, and for ten years worked at the
trade of carpenter and at other mechanical
trades in the town of Ellington and the city
of Jamestown. In 1890 he adopted the pro
fession of surveyor and civil engineer, for
which he was well prepared, and he was assis
tant city engineer for one year. He has fol
lowed this profession with eminent success to
the present time. His offices are in the Cha-
daokin Building, and his home at 513 East
Fifth street, Jamestown. In 1884 he bought
a lot on Eleventh street and built a residence.
Afterward he exchanged this property for a
lot on Main street, and in 1892 bought house
and lot on Crescent street, which was later
sold, and finally, after two or three months,
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municant of the Methodist Episcopal church.
In politics he is a Republican.
He married, March 17, 1883, at Ellington,
Elizabeth T. Currie, born in New Utrecht,
New York, daughter of Robert Ormiston.
They had one child, Carl, who died aged four
months. Mrs. Bentley received a thorough
musical education and has taught music in the
Institute for the Blind in New York City;
also at Culpeper, Virginia, Lawrenceville,
New York, and in various towns of Chautau
qua county, New York. Her father was a
minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at
New Utrecht for more than thirty years.
This in an ancient and
LIVINGSTON noble family of Scottish
origin, more remotely de
scended from Leving, a Hungarian noble,
who came to Scotland in the train of Mar
garet, queen of King Malcolm III., of Scot
land, about 1078. This once powerful family
of Livingston through their romantic attach
ment to a "lost cause" (the line of the
Stuarts), suffered a complete downfall in
Scotland. Sir William de Livingston, founder
of the House of Calender, served under Sir
William Douglass at the siege of Sterling
Castle in 1339. King David, son of Robert
the Bruce, granted him the forfeited Calender
estates. Sir William afterward married the
daughter and heiress of Sir Patrick Calender.
In America the family name is an honored
one, and above one of the dormer windows
in the state capital at Albany their armorial
bearings are sculptured, a mark of public
honor. The arms of the American family
are the quartered arms of Livingston of Cal
ender and date back to the fourteenth century.
Chancellor Livington stands chief among the
chancellors of New York state and is honored
with a bronze full figure statue in the state
capital. William Livingston was the famous
"war governor" of New Jersey during the
revolution. At the battles of Saratoga, eight
Livingstons were in command of troops, three
of them leading their regiments at critical
points of the battles. The history of the fam
ily is a history of over a century and a half
of the most exciting and important years of
American life. The name is found every
where in honorable position and all are de
scended from the Rev. John Livingston, here
after mentioned, Robert Livingston, "the
nephew," and James Livingston, whose descen

dants left the Hudson valley, settling in the
Schoharie valley and along the upper Susque
hanna. The line of descent from Leving
(1068) to Rev. John Livingston (1603) fol
lows by generations.
(I) Leving. (II) Thurstan. (Ill) Alex
ander. (IV) Sir William de Levingstoune,
the first to assume the full name and title, had
son, Sir William, who left no issue. The title
descended to his Uncle Archibald, brother of
Sir William (I). Archibald's son, William,
succeeded. (V) Sir William de Livingstone.
(VI) Sir William de Livingston, married
Christian, daughter and heiress of Sir Pat
rick Calender. (VII) Sir William Living
ston. (VIII) Sir John Livingston. (IX) Sir
Alexander Livingston. His estates were for
feited to the crown, but later were restored.
(X) James, first Lord Livingston, died with
out issue, the estate going to Alexander, son
of Alexander, brother of James. (XI) Alex
ander, second Lord Livingston. (XII) John,
third Lord Livingston. (XIII) William,
fourth Lord Livingston. (XIV) Alexander,
fifth Lord Livingston. (XV) Thomas, third
son of Alexander, fifth' Lord Livingston.
(XVI) Alexander, fourth son of Thomas
Livingston. (XVII) Rev. William Living
ston, of Lanark, Scotland.
(XVIII) The immediate English ancestor
is Rev. John Livingston, son of Rev. William
Livingston, minister of Lanark, Scotland.
Rev. John Livingston was born at Kilsyth in
Stirlingshire, Scotland, June ,21, 1603. He
was for a time chaplain to the countess of
Wigton, and was shortly afterward installed
over the church of Killinchie in Ireland. Be
ing persecuted for non-conformity, he deter
mined to emigrate to America, actually em
barking for that purpose in a vessel bound for
Boston, but being driven back by contrary
winds, he abandoned his purpose and settled
in 1638 in Stranraer in Scotland. In 1648 he
removed to Ancrum, in Teviotdale, where his
son Robert was born. In March, 1650, he was
sent as a commissioner to Brede to negotiate
terms for the restoration of Charles II. After
that event, the persecution against him being
revived, he went to Rotterdam, Holland. Here
he began to publish an edition of the Bible
which he did not live to complete. He died
at Rotterdam, Holland, in August, 1672.
He married, at Edinburgh, in the West
church, June 23, 1635, Janet, eldest daughter
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family of that name, of which the then head
was the Earl of Wigton, who with his eldest
son, Lord Fleming, was present at the wed
ding. She was born at Edinburgh, Scotland,
November 16, 1613, died at Rotterdam, Hol
land, February 13, 1693-94, and was buried
in the French church in that city. Children,
fifteen in number, all born in Scotland, except
John, the eldest, who was born at Milton, Ire
land, June 30, 1636. The youngest son, Rob
ert, is the ancestor of the American family of
Livingston Manor. James, the ninth child,
is the father of Robert Livingston, "the
nephew." (The Jamestown Family).
(I) John Livingston, founder of this branch
of the Livingston family in America, was a
native of county Monaghan, Ireland. He is
said, by good authorities, to have been a lineal
descendant of Rev. John Livingston, through
the latter's son James, who was also the
father of Robert, "the nephew," who came
over at the invitation of his Uncle Robert, first
lord of the manor of Livingston, an immense
estate in Columbia county, New York. John
Livingston was one of the company who came
to the American colonies in 1764, or soon
after, with Rev. Thomas Clark, M. D., from
Ballybay, Ireland. After a brief stay in Still
water, Saratoga county, New York, where his
son, Dr. William, was born in 1768, he moved
northward to Salem, Washington' county, for
merly called "White Creek" and "New Perth."
He served during several brief periods as a
private in the war of the revolution. Older
brothers of John also came to America and
fought in the war of the revolution on the
colonial side. He married, in Ireland, a Miss
Boyd. Children : John, Francis, Robert, Jo
seph, Benjamin, William and Samuel; one
daughter Mary.
(II) Dr. William Livingston, son of
John Livingston, "the founder," was
born February 15, 1768, in Stillwater,
Saratoga county, New York, died May 8,
i860. His birthplace overlooked the later,
historical battlegrounds of Stillwater and
Saratoga, where many of his name bore prom
inent part. He studied medicine and became
a leading physician of his day. His home was
in Hebron, Washington county, where he
practiced for many years, later in Essex
county, New York. About 1830 he came for
a time to Chautauqua county, New York, re
siding in Hartfield, but later returned to Essex

county, where he died. At Hebron he owned
a farm of two hundred and sixty acres on
which he built first a log house, later a frame
house, which he kept open as an inn for the
entertainment of travelers. He was a promi
nent Whig and represented Washington
county in the state legislature four terms. He
married (first), March 11, 1790, Sarah Tracy,
of Salem, born in Norwich, Connecticut, De
cember 13, 1770, died July 8, 1828. Children:
Daughter, died unmarried ; Anna, born May 6,
1795; a son, died unmarried; John Jay, of
whom further; William Tracy, born June 16,
1800; James Gray, March 22, 1802; Jane Ag
nes, July 23, 1804; Sarah Gifford, May 4,
1806; Wealthy Maria, March 13, 1808; Rob
ert Wilson, April 2, 1810.
(Ill) John Jay, son of Dr. William Living
ston, was born at Hebron, Washington county,
New York, October 19, 1798, died August 3,
1890, at Jamestown, New York. He was edu
cated in Hebron and lived in Washington and
Essex counties until 1830, when he came to
Chautauqua county, remaining two years. In
1832 he located in Venango county, Pennsyl
vania, where for fifty-eight years he was a
resident of Shippenville. He was of a studi
ous disposition and mastered a fluent control
of both the French and German languages.
At that early day capable surveyors were in
demand and Mr. Livingston, taking up that
study, mastered it and followed surveying and
civil engineering from 1832 until 1883, over
half a century, when not engaged in teaching
or mercantile business. After his eightieth
birthday he performed field work with his
instruments for twenty-seven consecutive days.
He attained the same age as his honored
father, ninety-two years, spending his last
years in Jamestown with his son, Dr. Alfred
T. Livingston. He lived a clean, manly, up
right life and was not only one of the oldest
men of Western New York, but one of the
most highly respected. He was an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal church
and a consistent observer of his Christian ob
ligations. He married (first) Mary Ball, who died six
months later; (second) Maria Rice, of Wash
ington county; (third) Elizabeth Jane White-
hill, born April 8, 1809, near Bellefonte, Penn
sylvania, died June 7, 1886, daughter of James
Whitehill, born March 3, 1771 ; lived three
miles southwest from Shippenville, a black
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a forge and foundry in Center county, Penn
sylvania, near Bellefonte, where he forged
axes and edged tools, marketing them in
Pittsburg. He was a man of considerable
prominence and a member of the Presbyterian
church. He married, January 6, 1800, Bar
bara Milliken, born February 22, 1780. Chil
dren: Samuel, James, Elizabeth, Jane, Mar
garet, Jane and  . Children of John
Jay Livingston by second wife: Dr. James
Benjamin, a physician of West Middlesex,
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, now aged
eighty-three years; William fi., of Centre
Chain, Michigan, now deceased ; Mary, widow
of Isaac G. Lacy, now residing at Warren,
Pennsylvania; Harriet Elizabeth, unmarried,
resides with her brother, Dr. Alfred T. Liv
ingston. Child by third wife : Alfred Tracy,
of whom further. (Name generally written
Alfred Tennyson, because his college diploma
and that from the medical college were so
written). (IV) Dr. Alfred Tracy Livingston, only
child of John Jay Livingston by his third wife,
Elizabeth Jane Whitehill, was born at Ship
penville, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, April
1, 1849. When he was five years old his par
ents moved to Tylersburg, Pennsylvania. He
was educated in the public school and James
town Academy. For a short time he was clerk
in the postoffice at Titusville, Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 1865 he entered Allegheny Col
lege and having spent one year in teaching
was graduated in 1870. He began the study
of medicine with his brother, Dr. James B.
Livingston, and then studied for a short time
with Dr. Benton, at Tarr Farm, Pennsylvania,
afterwards entering the medical department
of the University of Buffalo, whence he was
graduated in class of 1873. He began the
practice of his profession in Buffalo, but in
less than a year accepted the appointment of
assistant physician at the State Insane Asylum
at Utica, New York, where he remained five
years, fie then located in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, where he established the first known
home hospital for the treatment of those suf
fering from mental disorders. He continued'
there eight years, specializing in mental and
habit cases. In 1886 he located in Jamestown
and continued practice in the same specialties.
He is a member of the American, New York
State and Chautauqua County Medical Asso
ciations. He is an authority in his specialties,
and has written frequently on medical sub

jects. Eight years ago he purchased a fruit
plantation in Porto Rico at La Sardinera, near
Dorado, where he spends about half the year.
His summer home is at Driftwood-on-Chau-
tauqua. He married (first), January 16, 1879, in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Catherine Packer,
born May 13, 1853, daughter of Hezekiah B.
and Catherine J. Packer, who died July 13,
1883. He married (second), June 21, 1899,
Nellie Elizabeth Hallock, born January 26,
1862, daughter of Rev. William Allen and
Clara M. (Hall) Hallock. Children by first
marriage : A son, died at birth ; Alf reda, died
aged four months. Child by second marriage:
Clara Elizabeth, born in Jamestown, May 5,
1900. (The Hallock Line).
Rev. William Allen Hallock, for a number
of years a resident of Jamestown, New York,
died September 4, 191 1, after a lingering ill
ness of nearly a year. Thus a long and active
and useful career came to a peaceful end.
He was born at Plainfield, Massachusetts,
August 27, 1832, where his grandfather, Rev.
Moses Hallock, had been pastor of the Con
gregational church for forty-five years. Leav-
itt Hallock, his father, was an energetic and
capable business man, conducting a farm, a
tannery and store, fie also served as post
master, town clerk, justice of the peace and
represented his town in the legislature of .Mas
sachusetts. William Allen, named after his
uncle, Rev. Dr. Hallock, for more than fifty
years secretary of the American Tract So
ciety, had the advantage of a good education,
having graduated from Amherst College in
1855. Meeting with an injury to his head
after entering Yale Theological Seminary, he
took a sea voyage to Constantinople on a sail
ing vessel and finished his theological studies
at what is now the Hartford Theological Semi
nary, in 1859. He was pastor of the Congre
gational church at Gilead, Connecticut, nearly
four years when he met with a serious rail
way accident which made him an invalid for
nearly two years. After regaining his health
he preached in Kiantone, Frewsburg, Sugar
Grove and Ashville and returning to New
England, served twelve years as pastor of the
Congregational church at Bloomfield, Con
necticut. He returned to Jamestown, New
York, in 1887 and made this his home, though
the last few years were mostly spent in Porto
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was an original thinker, a forceful preacher
and a man of great energy, activity and en
thusiasm. All the churches that he served
prospered under his administration. He was
greatly interested in the Sunday school out of
which grew the Pilgrim Memorial Church of
Jamestown. He gave the site on which the
building of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation now stands and his portrait adorns
the wall of the library.
In September, i860, he married Clara M.,
daughter of William and Julia Hall. To them
were born two children, Nellie Elizabeth, and
William Hall. William graduated with honor
from Amherst College in 1885. After several
years of study in Germany he came home an
invalid and died in 1894. Nellie Elizabeth
graduated from Smith College, in Northamp
ton, Massachusetts, in 1885, and married Al
fred T. Livingston, M. D. (see Livingston
IV). The funeral of Rev. William A. Hallock
was held from Pilgrim Memorial Congrega
tional Church, and was marked by a large
attendance. Rev. George Extence, pastor of
the church, Dev. Dr. Leavitt H. Hallock, pas
tor of the First Congregational Church of
Lewiston, Maine, and Rev. Dr. Charles H.
Small, pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Jamestown, officiated. The part
taken in the service by the brother, Rev. Dr.
Hallock, was particularly impressive. Seldom
does a minister officiate at his own brother's
funeral, and it is still more unusual for a
minister to deliver a last tribute over the re
mains of his own brother, who was also a
minister. The tribute paid by Rev. Dr. Hal
lock to his brother was most impressive.

Grover Cleveland, son of
CLEVELAND Rev. Richard Falley and
Anne (Neale) Cleveland,
was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, March 18,
1837. His father's predecessor in the pas
torate of the Presbyterian church at Caldwell
was a man greatly beloved by his congrega
tion, who had recently died, and, as tribute of
respect to this good man, Mr. and Mrs. Cleve
land named their boy after him, Stephen Gro
ver. In later life he dropped the name Ste
phen and became known only as Grover Cleve
land. During Grover's boyhood, his father held
various pastorates, notably at Fayetteville,
Clinton and Holland Patent, New York, where

he died when Grover was sixteen years old.
At fourteen years of age, Grover left school
to go to work in a store at Fayetteville, re
ceiving the salary of $50 for the first year and
$100 for the second. The death of his father
ended his hopes of a university education. His
elder brother William was then engaged, as
a teacher in the Institution for the Blind in
New York. He secured for Grover a position
in that institution as a clerk and bookkeeper
at a salary considerably larger than the coun
try store had been able to pay. Grover re
mained in New York for about a year when
he determined to try his fortunes in the west.
He started for Cleveland, Ohio, a city named
for a member of his family. He stopped at
Buffalo to visit his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, who
then owned a large stock farm on Grand
Island. Mr. Allen was celebrated as a breeder
of shorthorns, and was at that time preparing
a descriptive catalogue called the "American
Shorthorn Herd Book." He gave Grover em
ployment in the preparation of this book, and
soon afterward secured for him an opportunity
to study law in the office of Rogers, Bowen
& Rogers. Four years later, in 1859, he was
admitted to the bar, but he remained with
Rogers, Bowen & Rogers as their managing
clerk until 1862. The following year he was
appointed an assistant district attorney for
Erie county. At about this time he was
drafted for war service, but being obliged to
support his mother and sisters, he was unable
to go. He was so short of funds, however,
that he had to borrow the money to hire a
substitute, and it was some years before he
was able to repay this loan, fie had two bro
thers in the military service, and his decision
to remain at home and take care of his wid
owed mother and his sisters was not only jus
tifiable, but usual with families in similar cir
cumstances at that time.
At the expiration of his term as assistant
district attorney in 1865, he was nominated as
the Democratic candidate for district attorney.
His opponent was Lyman K. Bass, who later .
became his law partner. He was defeated by
only 602 plurality, running somewhat better
than other candidates on the Democratic ticket.
Five years later some of his friends proposed
him as a candidate for congress, but the
choice of the convention fell upon William
Williams. In order to strengthen the ticket
as much as possible, it was thought desirable
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managers asked Mr. Cleveland to. take the
place. He did not care for it, b#E accepted
as a party duty. His standing in the com
munity at that time may be judged by the
fact that the leading Republican newspaper
referred to him as "the ablest and most popu
lar of the younger members of the bar in
Erie county who affiliate with the Democracy."
The nomination, however, was not obtained
without opposition. The two rivals whose
names were presented to the convention were
George W. Nickles and Darius A. Hovey,
both representing the country towns. Cleve
land received 66 votes, Nickles 37, and Hovey
11. Mr. Cleveland's Republican opponent was
Colonel John B. Weber, who was defeated by
403 plurality. The term of the office was
three years, and Mr. Cleveland performed its
duties with credit. After retiring as assistant
district attorney he had formed a law partner
ship with Isaac V. Vanderpool, and in 1869
he entered the firm of Lanning, Cleveland &
Folsom. After the expiration of his term as
sheriff he formed a partnership with Lyman
K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell, under the firm
name of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. He con
tinued with this firm until he was elected
mayor in the fall of 1881, and it had then
come to be known as one of the leading law
firms in the city. Buffalo in 1881 was suffer
ing from ring rule, which had its seat princi
pally in the board of aldermen. There was
much complaint about extravagance and politi
cal favoritism. There had been several in
vestigations. The street commissioner had
been removed from office on charges of a fail
ure properly to perform his duties, and there
was a general feeling that the time was ripe
for reform. Mr. Cleveland, always interested
in public affairs, suggested to some of the
Democratic leaders that, if desired, he would
run for alderman in the ninth ward, where
he boarded. The salary of an alderman was
then only $250 a year. The office would have
required a considerable sacrifice of Mr. Cleve
land's time, virtually without compensation,
but he believed he could be of some use in
improving existing conditions. The active
leader of the Democratic party at that time
was Charles W. Goodyear, while John C.
Sheehan, who was the then city comptroller,
headed a rival faction. Mr. Goodyear arid
other friends of Mr. Cleveland believed that
he was suited to a higher office than alder
man, and proposed that he run for mayor.

The convention, however, was in the control
of Mr. Sheehan, but he declined a renomina-
tion for comptroller, thereby allowing Mr.
Cleveland not only to have the unanimous
nomination for mayor, but to have as an asso
ciate on the ticket his friend, Timothy J. Ma-
honey, who was named for comptroller. Mr.
Cleveland had the united support of his own
party and also of a large element among the
Republicans. Two Republican newspapers
promptly indorsed him, while the one which
remained in opposition could find nothing
worse to say ahout him than that he was "a
wealthy old bachelor who is pretty well
thought of." His Republican opponent was
Milton E. Beebe, the president of the board
of aldermen. In addition to the local issues,
the canvass was considerably helped by the
Stalwart-Halfbreed war then raging in the
Republican party, and he was elected by 3,620
plurality. Within a few weeks after his in
auguration Mr. Cleveland had established his
reputation as a reform mayor and particularly
as a vetoing mayor, despite the fact that the
council was controlled by his own party.
There were no less than fifty-five vetoes of
importance during the scant ten months that
he remained in office, not mentioning many
minor ones. His very closest friends were un
able to influence where he believed the public
interests were opposed to their requests. The
so-called "Plain Speech Veto" was the most
famous of all, wherein he rejected a street-
cleaning contract which had been awarded for
$100,000 more than the lowest bid. The mes
sage derived its popular name from the fol
lowing passage: "This is a time for plain
speech, and my objection to the action of your
honorable body, now under consideration,
shall be plainly stated. I withhold my assent
from the same because I regard it as the cul
mination of a most barefaced, impudent and
shameless scheme to betray the interests of
the people, and worse than to squander the
public money." The veto had the desired ef
fect in securing a proper award of the con
tract. Moreover, it attracted attention to Mr.
Cleveland throughout the state and contribu
ted more than any other one thing to making
him his party's nominee for governor. As
the time for the fall campaign approached,
Cleveland clubs sprang up all over Buffalo
and in many other parts of Western New
York. His friends were able to take to the
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three men from the western counties. After
two ballots had been taken without result, the
convention stampeded to Mr. Cleveland. He
carried the state by the then unprecedented
plurality of 192,800 votes.
With his election as governor his Buffalo
career virtually came to an end. His life here
had been given solely to work and politics.
He never had any other home here than his
law office and his boarding house. While the
best social privileges, the homes of wealth and
refinement were open to him, he preferred to
remain a hermit so far as anything outside of
law and politics were concerned. He did not
return to Buffalo after the expiration of his
term as President.

John Stone, immigrant ancestor,
STONE was born in England. He set
tled at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
and was buried there October 25 or 26, 1743.
The church records, kept by the Indian Apos
tle, Rev. John Eliot, says "Goodman Stone
died * * * an old Kentish man not of the
church yet on his sick bed some had hopes of
him." He left children and the land of his
heirs is mentioned in the proprietors' list, but
their names are not known. Pope thinks
Thomas Stone, who married at Boston, De
cember 4, 1639, Mary Cragg, was a son per
haps. Daniel and Mary Stone, of Boston, had
a son Daniel, died February 27, 1660; the
wife Mary died August 8, 1658, and Daniel
himself died in 1687.
John Stone, of Boston, perhaps another son
of John Stone, had a wife Sarah; their son
John died September 12, 1661. John and
Mary Stone had a daughter, Sarah, at Bos
ton, September 16, 1659. John Stone died in
1664. (II) Nicholas Stone may have been a son
or grandson of John Stone, of Roxbury. No
connection can be established with the other
pioneers, Simon and Gregory, of Watertown,
John, of Salem, and John, of Lynn. Nicholas
Stone married Hannah  . Children, born
at Boston: Hannah, January 8, 1651 ; Josiah,
mentioned below ; Hopestill, January 7, 1655 ;
Abigail, November 20, 1658; Elizabeth, Sep
tember 25, 1661 ; Benjamin,' February 7, 1663,
married Joanna and had Joanna, John, Sam
uel and Abigail.
(Ill) Josiah, son of Nicholas Stone, was
born in Boston, February 4, 1653, died in
1717. He married Mary  . Children,

born in Boston: Mary, August 4, 1686; Sa
rah, May 3, 1688; Eliza, December 22, 1689;
Luke, August 30, 1692, lived in Boston; Joy,
March 2, 1699; Benjamin, December 2, 1701;
Daniel, mentioned below ; Abigail, January 29,
I705- (IV) Daniel, son or nephew of Josiah
Stone, of' Boston, was born about 1703. He
went to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, when a
young man, and married there, January 11,
1725-26, or May 11, 1726 (both records given
in vital records of town), Mary Wood. That
he was closely related to Daniel, Josiah and
Samuel Stone, of the adjacent town of Fram-
ingham, appears probable from the similarity
of names in the families, and the location of
their homes. Their descendants went to Rut
land about the same time also. Children, born
at Hopkinton: Martha, born November 12,
1726; Josiah, mentioned below; Daniel, De
cember 6, 1732 (see Josiah below) ; Benja
min, January 9-16, 1742; Sarah, June 11,
1745 ; Samuel, June 13, 1751.
(V) Josiah (2), son of Daniel Stone, was
born at Hopkinton, July 29, 1730. At the
time of the death of his brother Daniel both
were living in Rutland, west wing, now Oak
ham, Massachusetts. In the probate papers
the brother is called Daniel Jr. and Josiah was
appointed administrator of Daniel's estate on
petition of the widow Hannah, December 3,
I759- The inventory was filed March 21,
1760, and the account, April 3, 1764. His
father Daniel was a surety on his bond. This
probate record clears up an old problem of
genealogists, due to the large number of Dan
iels and Josiahs in this family. Josiah (2)
Stone received from his father by deed
dated March 9, 1762, land in Oakham
on the New Braintree line (vol. 43, p.
408). John and Sarah Stone witnessed
this deed. Josiah Stone lived in Oak
ham from about 1759, when he came
there with his father and brother and perhaps
others of the family. He married there (In
tention dated March 12, 1760) Mary San-
ford, of Western (record both at Warren,
formerly Western, and at Oakham). He re
moved from Oakham some time prior to the
revolution, for we find that he and his son
Benjamin were both in the revolution from
Colerain. The year of Josiah's service is not
given, but he was for eight months in the
Fifth Hampshire County Regiment under Col
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in the Revolution, vol. XV, p. 1 1 1 ) . He was
probably the Josiah Stone, of Brookfield, who
served on the Lexington alarm in Captain Ith-
amar Wright's company and later in 1775 in
Captain Sylvanus Walker's company, Colonel
Timothy Danielson's regiment; Brookfield
was near Oakham. Josiah Stone also served
without doubt under Captain Walter McFar-
land, who was of Hopkinton, in Colonel
Howe's regiment, June 24, to October 30,
1780. Josiah Stone and wife Mary exchanged
land with Stephen Minot by deed dated Sep
tember 11, 1762. He had bought land of Mi
not, July 20, 1762, in Oakham. He bought
land of John Barr, of New Braintree, October
20, 1763 (see Worcester Deeds, vol. 48, pp.
57 and 471). He bought of Josiah Crosby
land in New Braintree, June 10, 1763. Land
owned in common by Josiah Stone, Joseph
Tidd and David Gilbert was divided March
24, 1766. He was called of New Braintree
district, but was living in what is now Oak
ham. Children of Josiah and Mary Stone,
born at Oakham: 1. Anna, July 19, 1761.
2. Benjamin, April 10, 1763; was a soldier
from Colerain in the revolution in 1779, aged
sixteen, and in 1780, aged seventeen (p. 86,
Mass. Soldiers and Sailors, vol. XV) ; settled
at Cazenovia, near Syracuse, New York; died
July 5, 1839, aged seventy-six, at Ballina, near
Cazenovia, New York. 3. Eli, not recorded;
lived and died at Northville, New York ; mar
ried Deborah Gambell. Born at Colerain: 4.
Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born June
J3> J775- °\ Huldah, born September 16,
1779. According to the census of 1790 Eli
(Elias in census) Benjamin and Josiah had
families in Colerain and these only of the
Stone surname.
(VI) Joseph, son of Josiah (2) Stone, was
born in Colerain, Massachusetts, July 13,
1772, died August 19, 1841, in Luzerne, New
York. He settled, between 1802 and 1808, in
Luzerne, New York, and was deacon of the
Baptist Church there. He married (first)
Abigail Call, of Colerain, born March 19,
1776, died June 5, 1838. He married (second)
Widow Sage. Elizabeth Call, sister of Abi
gail (Call) Stone, married Jacob Randall and
they were the great-grandparents, on the ma
ternal side,, of Fred C. Stone, mentioned be
low. Children of Joseph and Abigail Stone,
born in Colerain : Adin, born October 18, 1795 ;
Alpha, May 15, 1797; Achsah, July 20, 1799,

died June 26, 1814; Daniel, mentioned below;
Olive, February 20, 1804; Lydia, March 13,
1806, died May 17, 1808; Joel, May 24, 1808;
Lydia, January 18, 1810; Rufus, December
14, 1813, died July 19, 1815 ; Achsah, June 5,
1816; Rufus, November 13, 1817, died March
31, 1889, at Jamestown, New York; Huldah,
June 15, 1821.
(VII) Daniel (2), son of Joseph Stone, was
born at Colerain, November 17, 1801, died in
the town of Poland, Chautauqua county, New
York, February 7, 1875. fie attended the
public schools of Colerain and Luzerne. After
his marriage in Luzerne he removed to Chau
tauqua county, settling first in the town of
Stockton, later in Dexterville (now East
Jamestown) ; he later owned a farm of ninety-
eight acres in the town of Poland. He was
a man of strong character, peace-loving, but
when thoroughly aroused it was .said of him
that "he was hard to handle." He was of a
powerful, athletic build, with a quick wit, as
anecdotes told of him testify. He was greatly
disappointed that he was refused enlistment
in the arrhy during the civil war on account
of his age. While he never advised any of
his sons to enlist, three of them served in
the Union army. He married, September 18,
1823, at Luzerne, New York, Velonia Rolph,
born in Corinth, Saratoga county, New York,
February 28, 1806, died in the town of
Poland, Chautauqua county, New York,
October 14, 1890, eldest daughter of Benja
min and Asenath (Cook) Rolph. Stephen
Rolph, her grandfather, came from England
about 1770 to avoid service in the English
army. Abigail Temple, sister of Henry,
father of Charlotte Temple, came with him.
They were married immediately on reaching
New York. They settled in New England,
near the Vermont-Massachusetts boundary
line, but after five years Stephen was obliged
to flee to avoid recapture by the British sol
diers, and was never again heard from. It is
believed he joined the revolutionary army
under an assumed name and was killed. Chil
dren of Daniel and Velonia (Rolph) Stone:
1. Henrietta, born October 28, 1824; married
Ashael Allen. 2. James Hadley, born April
21, 1828, killed by cars, September 27, 1888;
unmarried. 3. Thomas Benjamin, born De
cember 17, 1832, in Stockton, New York;
married Margaret A. Millspaugh. 4. Harri
son Columbus, born June 24, 1835, at Levant ;
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January 25, 1838, in Jamestown; married (first)
SanfordBunce; (second) Joseph W. White. 6.
William Seward, of whom further. 7. Abner
Almon, born October 30, 1842, in James
town; married Asenath Ann Fisher. 8. Nor
man Ormandus, of whom further. 9. Levi
Madison, born December 5, 1847, in town of
South Valley; married Florence Covey. 10.
Lana Thayer (adopted) born June 1, 1856.
(VIII) William Seward, fourth son of
Daniel and Velonia (Rolph) Stone, was born
in East Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New
York, June 25, 1840. He was educated in
the public schools, and grew up on the farm.
He followed farming in different localities for
several years, and in 1889 came to Jamestown,
where for several years he engaged in a gen
eral teaming business. He served nine months
in the civil war, enlisting August 23, 1864,
in Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, New
York Heavy Artillery, being honorably dis
charged at Norfolk, Virginia, June 21, 1865,
at the close of the war. He is a Republican
in politics, and is now living a retired life in
Jamestown. He married, March 27, 1862, at
Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York,
Mary Elizabeth, born March 3, 1840, at Lu
zerne, New York, daughter of Jonathan
Nourse Kellogg, for many years a pilot on
the Hudson river, later a farmer; died in
East Randolph, Cattaraugus county, aged
eighty years ; he married (first) Martha Ran
dall; (second) Mrs. Ann Pope Lindsey. Mrs.
Mary (Kellogg) Stone is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Children of Wil
liam Seward Stone: 1. John Nelson, born at
Randolph, New York, March 19, 1863 ; mar
ried, Louise A. Page, September 8, 1903. 2.
William Henry, born at Randolph, July 14,
1864; married, in Jamestown, August 18,
1887, Nellie Snow ; children : Rulan W., born
June 23, 1888, died August 12, 1893 ; Roland
E., June 18, 1895; Bethel E., December 11,
1897. 3. Fred Qayton, of whom further. 4.
Edith Maria, born at French Creek, Chautau
qua county, New York, October 1, 1874; mar
ried, at Jamestown, September 10, 1896; Bur
ton M. Gay; children: William Burton, born
June 29, 1902 ; Marian Elizabeth, February
28, 1904.
(IX) Fred Clayton, third son of William
Seward and Mary Elizabeth (Kellogg) Stone,
was born in Napoli, Cattaraugus county, New
York, October 19, 1868. When he was one
year old his parents moved to French Creek,

where they remained eight years, then lived
in town of Randolph and in Poland. In 1889
he made permanent settlement in Jamestown.
Fred Clayton Stone was educated in the pub
lic schools of these towns and at Chamberlain
Institute, finishing with a course at Jamestown
Business College. After settling in James
town he entered the government postal service
as letter carrier, continuing thirteen years,
then served for some time as clerk in the
Jamestown postoffice. During this latter pe
riod he took up the study of ophthalmology,
later entering the Northern Illinois College of
Ophthalmology and Otology, from which he
was graduated in June, 1906. He located in
Warren, Pennsylvania, where he successfully
practiced his profession for four years. He
then returned to Jamestown, where he is es
tablished at 202 Main street. He is a skilled
optometrist and commands a liberal patron
age. He is a member of the Chautauqua
County Optometric Society, the Optical So
ciety of the State of New York, and the Am
erican Optical Association. His fraternal
bodies are : Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free
and Accepted Masons ; Western Sun Chapter,
No. 67, Royal Arch Masons ; Jamestown Com
mandery, No. 61, Knights Templar. He be
longs in his father's right to James Hall
Camp, Sons of Veterans. He is a Republi
can in politics, and a member of the Episcopal
church. He married, at Jamestown, August
15, 1891, Adelaide Miriam Blanchard, born
in that city, December 18, 1871. She was
educated in the public schools, graduated from
the high school, and for some years prior to
her marriage taught in the Jamestown schools.
She is a member of the Order of the Eastern
Star and of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. She is a daughter of Silas
Wright and Maria (Keyes) Blanchard, of
Jamestown (see Blanchard-Keyes). Children
of Fred C. Stone : Fred Kellogg, born Sep
tember 4, 1892; Robert Keyes, December 24,
1893- (The Blanchard-Keyes Line).
Mrs. Adelaide M. (Blanchard) Stone de
scends maternally from Robert Keyes, who
came to America about the year 1633, settling
at Watertown, Massachusetts. He died at
Sudbury, 1647. His widow Sarah married
(second) in 1664, John Gage. Children of
Robert Keyes: Solomon, Sarah, Peter, Re-,
becca, Phebe, Mary, Elias, of whom further;
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(II) Elias, youngest son of Robert and
Sarah Keyes, born May 20, 1643, resided in
Sudbury, Massachusetts. He married Sarah,
daughter of John Blanford, or Blanchard.
Children : Elias, John, James; Sarah, Thomas.
(Ill) Elias (2), son of Elias (1) and Sarah
(Blanford or Blanchard) Keyes, born No
vember 15, 1666, resided in Marlboro, Massa
chusetts, with a family, 1696- 1702. All rec
ords were destroyed at the burning of the
court house at Lancaster, Massachusetts, ren
dering it impossible to give further details of
this generation.
(IV) Eli, son of Elias (2) Keyes, married
Mary Wheelock in 1732 and resided in
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Children: Eli,
Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Mary, Ezra.
(V) Eli (2) , eldest son of Eli ( 1 ) and Mary
(Wheelock) Keyes, was born in Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts, March 24, 1733. He married,
at- Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, April 1, 1762,
Hannah Howe, and in 1803 was living in
New Hampshire. He was a ¦ soldier of the
revolution, serving as a private in the Massa
chusetts line. His first enlistment was for
three years in the Sixth Worcester County
Regiment, Captain Wheeler's company, Col
onel Thomas Nixon, and in December, 1779,
enlisted "for the war" in Captain Heywood's
company, Lieutenant-Colonel Calvin Smith,
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. The rec
ords show him on duty at various places dur
ing the entire war. Children: Ezra, Daniel,
Azubah, Abigail, Sally, Nathan.
(VI) Ezra, eldest son Eli (2) and Hannah
(Howe) Keyes, was born in Holden, Massa
chusetts, January 27, 1763, died in Reads-
boro, Vermont, December 29, 1841. At the
age of sixteen years he enlisted and served
in the revolutionary army. He married, De
cember 6, 1792, Hannah Knowlton, born Au
gust 13, 1770. Children: Eli, Sally, Ruel, of
whom further; Hannah, Polly, Ezra, Heman,
Daniel, Nathan, Azubah, Lawton.
(VII) Ruel, second son of Ezra and Han
nah (Knowlton) Keyes, was born June 22,
1797, died in Kiantone, Chautauqua county,
New York, December 22, 1870. He settled
in New York state in 1823, first in the town
of Perry, in Genesee county, and two years
later in Kiantone. He was a farmer, and
at one time owned a saw mill on Stillwater
Creek. When quite an old man he kept the
toll gate on the "old plank road" at Kiantone,

and while trying to collect toll from two
drunken ruffians was run over, and died from
the effects of a blow on the head from the
hoof of the horses they were driving. He
married, in 1823, Hannah Bottum, of Shafts
bury, Vermont. Children: 1. Lucretia, died
'unmarried, February, 1862, aged thirty-six
years. 2. William, died in 1854, aged twenty-
six years ; unmarried. 3. Lyman Bottum, born
1830; married Adelia Burt; he served in the
civil war as a private in Company F, Third
Regiment, New York Volunteers. 4. Alfred,
born June 15, 1834; resided in Jamestown,
New York, now deceased; unmarried. 5.
Mary Ann, born November 10, 1836; mar
ried, April 9, 1862, Edwin R. Kimberly. 6.
Maria, of whom further.
(VIII) Maria, youngest child of Ruel and
Hannah (Bottum) Keyes, was born in Car
roll, New York, February 2, 1844. She mar
ried, May 19, 1870, at Jamestown, New York,
Silas Wright Blanchard, who is of Huguenot
descent and who comes from a family many
times represented among the Massachusetts
soldiers in the war for independence. He was
born at Sherburne, Chenango county, New
York, October 15, 1846, son of Lorenzo and
Miriam (Hill) Blanchard. He came to James
town with his sister when about eighteen
years of age, and for a number of years was
employed by the firm of Allen & Grandin,
afterward Allen & Preston, in the manufac
ture of woolen cloth. Later he engaged in
the manufacture of furniture, being senior
member of the firm of Blanchard & Miller, one
of the pioneer firms in that business. Blan
chard & Miller later sold out to Norquist &
Nord, now one of the oldest firms in their
line in the city. Mr. Blanchard was then
engaged for four years as letter carrier in
the Jamestown postoffice (1885-89), since
when he has been engaged in the grocery
business in Jamestown, in farming at Ken
nedy, Chautauqua county, and now resides in
Jamestown. In his younger days he was a
member of the original Rescue Fire Com
pany of Jamestown, receiving a certificate of
honorable discharge after seven years'
service. The children of Silas Wright and
Maria (Keyes) Blanchard, ninth generation:
1. Adelaide Miriam, born December 18, 1871,
at Jamestown ; married, in that city, August
15, 1 89 1, Fred Clayton Stone (see Stone IX).
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(VIII) Norman Ormandus
STONE Stone, son of Daniel (2) Stone
(q. v.) was born in the town
of Carroll, Chautauqua county, New York,
August 4, 1845. He has devoted his atten
tion to the occupation of farming from which
he has derived a comfortable livelihood. He
is an Independent in politics. He enlisted,
September 1, 1864, in the Thirteenth New
York Heavy Artillery, New York Volunteers,
for term of one year; he served nine months
and twenty days; was sick in hospital three
months, and was honorably discharged, June
25, 1865. He was married (first) July 3,
1867, in Napoli, at the residence of his bro
ther, William S. Stone, by the Rev. Dr. Baird,
to Oril A. Newton, born April 19, 1845, in
New Albion, Cattaraugus county, New York,
daughter of Jesse and Louisa (Puddy) New
ton, and great-granddaughter of Lord Venn.
She died March 5, 1907. Anna Venn was the
daughter of Lord Venn ; she married 
Puddy ; children : Lisher, Jared, Louisa, Lucy
and Charles. Children of Jesse and Louisa
(Puddy) Newton: Caroline, Edwin, Augus
tine, Reuben, Truman, Oril and Harlin New
ton. Mr. Stone married (second) August
4, 1908, Katherine M., daughter of Patrick K.
and Mary (Mclnerney) Kane. Children of
first wife: 1. Cleon C, born August 11, 1869,
in Poland, New York, died April 5, 1908, bur
ied at Clark, New York, in the same cemetery
in which are interred the remains of his pa
ternal grandparents and his mother. He mar
ried, October 16, 1897, Ida M. Peck, at the
home of William Peck, at Helena, Ohio ; chil
dren: Beatrice Goldie, born September 11,
1898; Gladys Vieanna, born August 20, 1901 ;
Hila Amena, born January 10, 1904; Floy
Oril, born August 22, 1906; the widow and
children reside in Helena, Ohio. 2. Claude
De Val, mentioned below. 3. Hila Louise,
born May 23, 1873 '> married Merritt L. Jones,
July 25, 1895; died November 13, 1900; had
one daughter, Hazel, born July 28, 1896, died
July 8, 1900.
(IX) Claude De Val, son of Norman Or
mandus Stone, was born in the town of Po
land, Chautauqua county, New York, Decem
ber 29, 1870. He attended the district school,
the high school of Jamestown, and the Cham
berlain Institute, Randolph, New York. He
is recognized as a progressive farmer, taking
every advantage of raising the standard of
farming. He owns and occupies the farm

purchased in 1850, by his grandfather, Daniel
Stone ; the original house (built of logs) erect
ed by his grandfather was destroyed by fire,
after which a frame house was erected, a
portion of which was moved to another part
of the farm and is now owned by a neighbor,
the part remaining being destroyed by fire,
July 3, 1895. Hie was at one time engaged
in the oil business, drilling a number of
wells. He was one of the original stock
holders in the Ivory Telephone Company,
which was later sold to the Home Telephone
Company of Jamestown, New York. Mr.
Stone is a Republican in politics, and at the
present time (1912) is serving his second term
as constable, fie is a member of James Hall
Camp, No. in, Sons of Veterans, of James
town, New York; Order of Owls, Jamestown;
Local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Frews
burg, in which he has taken an active inter
est, and Carroll Farmers Club. He is one
of the enterprising, substantial residents of
the community, honorable and straightfor
ward in his dealings with his townspeople and
neighbors. Mr. Stone married, August 19, 1903, at
the home of the bride's parents, in Carroll,
New York, Cora Allene, horn in the town of
Carroll, Chautauqua county, August 17, 1882,
daughter of Clarence Henry and Belvera
Sarah (McCullough) Love, who were the par
ents of five children, namely : Cora Allene,
Reuben Van Rensselaer, Ethel Lillian, George
Henry and Claribel. Mr. Love is a farmer by
occupation. Mrs. Stone was educated in the
district schools, is a member of the Baptist
church of Frewsburg, Friendship Club, the
Ladies' Aid Society, and is also a member
of the local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
Frewsburg, New York, and Carroll Farmers'
Club.

The first settlement of the Poler
POLER family in New York state was
made in Saratoga county; from
there they spread to other localities, the
branch herein recorded settling in Orleans
county. Simon Poler was born in 1778, died
in Orleans county, New York, January 8,
1868. He* resided in Saratoga county until
1830, when he removed to Orleans county,
where he -purchased of the Holland Patent
Company a farm in the town of Shelby on
the Salt Works Road, containing one hun
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thicket. Here he resided thirty years, clear
ing his farm and developing it into a very
productive property, which is still in the pos
session of the family. He was a man of un
tiring energy, and was particularly noted for
his unusually fine wheat crops, fie married
Fanny Sayles, Children: i. John S., born
in Saratoga county, New York, October, 1820,
died at Washington, D. C, March 28, 1899,
being at the time in government employ. 2.
Avery, of whom further. 3. George. 4. Mary,
born July 10, 1831, died March 12, 1895. 5.
Albert H., born 1845.
(II) Avery, second son of Simon and
Fanny (Sayles) Poler, was born in Saratoga
county, New York, September 12, 1823, died
in the town -of Shelby, Orleans county, New
York, September 18, 1890. He came with
his, parents from Saratoga county in 1830 to
Shelby, where he attended school in the win
ter and assisted his father on the farm until
he attained the age of twenty-one. In 1845
he took the management of one of his father's
farms, continuing its cultivation until 1852.
In that year he purchased a farm of one
hundred and thirty acres of Joseph Pixley.
He cultivated this property and resided there
until his death. He was also a noted wheat
grower, although he carried on general farm
ing, fie was a man of good standing, an
attendant of the Baptist church, and a strong
Democrat in politics. He married Nancy D.
Blair, born June 13, 1825, died May 7, 1910.
Children: 1. A. Blair, of whom further. 2.
Anna M., born November 8, 1853. 3. Re
becca, born July 23, 1855. 4. Fraley, born
July 6, 1857. 5. Frederick, April 13, 1859.
6. F. Marion, of whom further. 7. Emmet J.,
of whom further. 8. Nancy, April 30, 1870.
(Ill) A. Blair, son of Avery and Nancy D.
(Blair) Poler, was born in the town of
Shelby, Orleans county, New York, on what
is known as the "old Ashton farm," Novem
ber 8, 1851. He was educated in the town
schools, Medina public school, Nunda Acad
emy, completing his studies with a course at
Bryant & Stratton's Business College. He re
mained on the home farm after finishing his
school course until his marriage, when he pur
chased a property in Medina. Here he re
sided until shortly after his father's death in
1890, when he returned to the homestead
where he yet resides. He has a well-improved,
productive farm, twenty-five acres of which
is devoted to the culture of pears and apples.

He is a member of the State Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry ; The City Club of Medina ; the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of
Medina, and the Ridgeway Reading Club. He
is an attendant of the Universalist church, and
an Independent in politics. He married,
March 4, 1885, at Medina, New York, Flora
J. Fuller, born January 9, 1857, daughter of
Darwin and Rosalind I. (Weld) Fuller (see
Fuller VI). Children: 1. Jessie Irene, born
October 27, 1887; married, September 17,
1910, J. Cornelius Possom, of Millville, New
York. 2. Darwin, born April 1, 1890; mar
ried, January 11, 191 1, Zoie Compton, born
September 15, 1889.
(Ill) F. Marion, son of Avery and Nancy
D. (Blair) Poler, was born in the town of
Shelby, Orleans county, New York, August
1, 1861. He was educated in the public
schools of Shelby ; Medina Academy and "the
State Normal School at Brockport, New York.
He was his father's assistant on the farm and
later worked the homestead farm on the share
plan, continuing this until 1889. He then
came to Medina and entered the employ of
the A. L. Swett Iron Works, as office man
and traveling salesman. He spent most of
his time on the road until 1895, when he re
signed, and for two and one-half years was
employed in Chicago, Illinois. He returned
to Medina, New York, in May, 1898, and on
the organization of the A. L. Swett Iron
Company was elected secretary, a position he
yet fills (1912). Since 1904 he has also been
general manager of the company's plant at
Medina. He is a member of the Masonic
Order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, at Me
dina, Council and Commandery at Lockport.
He is an Independent in politics, serving on
the board of education. In religious faith he
is a Baptist and for several years was clerk of
the church at Medina.
He married, February 28, 1894, Edith, born
October 10, 1874, daughter of Emmons and
Amelia (Alderman) Edson, of Spencerport,
New York. Children : Emmons Edson, born
January 23, 1908; Christine Hamilton, May
31, 1910.
(Ill) Emmet J., son of Avery and Nancy D.
(Blair) Poler, was born September 15, 1863,
in the town of Shelby, Orleans county, New
York. He attended the district schools of his
native town and Medina Academy. After
he left school he went west and spent several
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his native town, he assisted his father on the
homestead. In 1892 he became connected
with the Central Foundry at Medina and
afterward with the A. L. Swett Iron Com
pany for which he is at present a traveling
salesman. In religion he is a Baptist, and in
politics a Democrat. He married, June 30, 1892,
at Medina, Lena A. Swett, born October 12,
1864. Children: Frances D., born May 17,
1893; E. Carroll, September 19, 1894; Donald,
June 21, 1896; Justin, May 10, 1899, died
March 27, 1901 ; Norman, January 23, 1905.
(The Fuller Line).
The first of the Fuller family of whom there
is record is Jepotha Fuller, of Ulster county,
New York, a private in the revolution, serv
ing in the Second Regiment, Ulster county
militia. He married Sarah Daggett, March
10, 1736, and had issue.
(II) Amos, son of Jepotha and Sarah (Dag
gett) Fuller, was born September 14, 1739.
fie was a resident, perhaps a native, of Little
Nine Partners, Dutchess county, later a pion
eer farmer of the town of Petersburg, Rens
selaer county, New York, where he settled in
the wilderness, cleared a farm and ended his
days. He married and had sons : Lewis and
Daniel. (Ill) Daniel, son of Amos Fuller, was born
January 9, 1763. He married Rhoda Prin-
dle, born March 13, 1764. They had issue.
(IV) Ezra, son of Daniel and Rhoda (Prin-
dle) Fuller, was born in Rensselaer county,
New York, February 19, 1793. He settled in
South Berlin, Rensselaer county, where he re
sided until his marriage, then removed to Or
leans county, where he followed farming un
til death, fie married Mary Godfrey, born
February 20, 1794.
(V) Darwin, son of Ezra and Mary (God
frey) Fuller, was born May 13, 1831, at
Rodmansville, Jefferson county, New York,
settled in Orleans county, where he became
wealthy and influential. He married, Sep
tember 30, 1850, Rosalind I. Weld.
(VI) Flora J., daughter of Darwin and
Rosalind I. (Weld) Fuller, was born January
9, 1857; married, March 4, 1885, A. Blair
Poler (see Poler III).

The late William Broad-
BROADHEAD head, Jamestown's "grand
old man," and foremost
manufacturer, stood forth as a central figure

in the business life of Jamestown for more
than half a century, and to his discretion, fore
sight and superior ability is due the splendid
success that crowned his efforts. In addition
to his business interests his energies were
devoted to the furtherance of many enter
prises which had for their object the uplift
ing of man and the promulgation of higher
standards among humanity. Honorable in
business, loyal in citizenship, charitable in
thought, kindly in action, true to every trust
confided to his care, his life was the highest
type of christian manhood.
William Broadhead was born in Thornton,
Yorkshire, England, February 17, 1819. He
served an apprenticeship at the trade of
weaver in his native county, and later worked
with his father in the village smithy until he
decided to emigrate to the United States, be
lieving that the prospects for advancement
were better there than in his native land.
Accordingly in January, 1843, he set sail, set
tling first in Busti, New York, where his
uncle, Rev. John Broadhead, was residing.
Seeing that Jamestown offered a much more
favorable opening for a good mechanic, he
sought employment there and found it in the
shop of Safford Eddy, but being too ambitious
to remain long a day laborer, he was ever on
the lookout for something more profitable,
and soon formed a partnership with Adam B.
Cobb. The firm of Cobb & Broadhead, scythe
snath manufacturers, continued nine years,
when it was dissolved, Mr. Cobb continuing
to make snaths and grain cradles, and Mr.
Broadhead purchasing an axe factory, where
he manufactured axes and forks.
Later Mr. Broadhead engaged in another
field of labor, opening a clothing store, taking
his eldest son, Sheldon B. Broadhead, into
partnership with him, and subsequently he
gave his younger son, Almet N. Broadhead,
an interest, under the firm name of William
Broadhead & Sons. Their business increased
rapidly until they soon had the largest mer
chant tailoring establishment in the county,
drawing patronage from Dunkirk, Warren,
Salamanca, and other nearby towns.
In 1872, Mr. Broadhead, accompanied by
his wife and eldest daughter, visited his na
tive place and found the little village de
veloped into thriving manufacturing town.
His early interest in weaving was rekindled
by the signs of prosperity and success due to
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New York, thoroughly impressed with the
feasibility of establishing a mill for the manu
facture of dress goods, and to him in a large
measure is due the fact that Jamestown is to
day a progressive and prosperous manufac
turing city. Although past his fiftieth year
he entered into this project with all the energy
of youth, united his own capital with that of
others and the result was that within two years
there were two worsted mills in Jamestown,
instead of the one first planned, both of which
have made Jamestown goods famous through
the length and breadth of the land. There
are many living at the present time who will
recall the discouragement under which he
labored and the predictions of disaster which
were freely made by pessimists. The first mill
was operated under the style of Hall, Broad
head & Turner. This mill, devoted to the
manufacture of alpaca, was owned by them
for eighteen months, at the expiration of
which time Mr. Broadhead retired. Shortly
afterward he built a mill for the manufacture
of similar cloth, having for partners his two
sons, and for a time their attention was given
to the manufacture of ladies' dress goods, their
salesmen traversing nearly every state in the
Union. He also built the Meadowbrook
worsted mills at Falconer, which was con
ducted in connection with the Broadhead mills
in Jamestown.
As Mr. Broadhead foresaw, these mills con
tributed immeasurably to the growth and pros
perity of the city, and considerable of the
rapid increase in population is due to their
continued demands for skilled workmen.
Though controlled by different owners most
of the worsted mills of Jamestown, with all
their wealth and importance, owe their origin
to Mr. Broadhead. He outlived most of the
men who had been associated with him in es
tablishing the textile industry in Jamestown,
and he was justly proud of this great busi
ness development achieved in less than forty
years, and his name is known far and wide as
synonymous with business enterprise and in
tegrity. Later the Broadheads, father and
sons, engaged in extensive street railway en
terprises, being the leading promoters of the
Jamestown Street railway which his son, Al-
met N. Broadhead, later controlled. They
built business blocks, established the Rose
Gardens, and in every way manifested their
interest in the home town, Mr. Broadhead
having been a director and vice-president of

the First National Bank of Jamestown. Mr.
Broadhead's large manufacturing interests
naturally made him a believer in a protective
tariff and consequently he was always an ar
dent Republican, although he never sought
nor held public office.
The father and sons were a unit in purpose
and business. Their success has been a con
stant commentary upon their good manage
ment and the good will that pervaded their
establishment. Fairly well educated for busi
ness life, these sons were successes from the
start, interested in each other's welfare and
both feeling it a duty to guard well their
father's interests, they were bound by the
strongest earthly ties and are exemplifying
in conduct what they proposed in words.
In his native town, Mr. Broadhead belonged
to the Wesleyan Methodist church and was
superintendent of the Sunday school. On set
tling in Jamestown he joined the Methodist
Episcopal church as the nearest like the Wes
leyan. During the exciting period before the
civil war, when the Methodist Episcopal
church took a stand in favor of slavery, a
number of staunch Abolitionists, among them
Mr. Broadhead, left the church and formed
a Wesleyan Society. When after some years,
the church building having been destroyed by
fire, the organization was given up, Mr. Broad
head became a member of the First Congre
gational Church, where he was an active
member up to the time of his decease, con
tributing liberally to its support.
On October 27, 1887, a banquet was given
by the employees of the Broadhead Worsted
Mills, in the Sherman House, welcoming Mr.
Broadhead home from England and the con
tinent. At the head of the table were seated
Mr. Broadhead, President Edward Appleyard
and the invited guests of the evening. At
each plate was a buttonhole bouquet, a toast
card and a very handsome souvenir menu card,
the covers of which showed in lithograph a
portrait of Mr. Broadhead with suitable in
scription and on the reverse a picture of the
mammoth worsted mills of William Broad
head & Sons. The greeting to Mr. Broadhead
was delivered by President Appleyard, who
then presented, on behalf of the employees,
a very handsomely engrossed copy of the ad
dress, in a rich frame of oak; the designing
and pen work of which was done by Richard
E. Toothill, the designer in the mills. Mr.
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toast was delivered by Dr. G. W. Hazeltine;
it was "Our Honored Guest." This was fol
lowed by a toast to "Our City" by Mayor
Oscar F. Price; a toast, "Jamestown's Pio
neer Citizen," by C. R. Lockwood; a toast,
"The Bar," by Judge Richard P. Marvin, and
a toast, "The Board of Trade," by Orsino E.
Jones ; a toast, "Our Local Industries," by
Hon. Jerome Preston; a toast, "Our Coun
try," by Jerome B. Fisher, and Frederick
Hyde spoke for "The Press."
On February 15, 1900, Mr. Broadhead was
signally honored by his fellow citizens at a
great banquet given in the Sherman House
in honor of his eighty-first birthday, which
was to come two days later. The most promi
nent men of Jamestown sat down at the ban
quet tables and noted men came from other
places to honor the Jamestown manufacturer
and city builder. The banquet was one of
the notable events in the city's history, and
Mr. Broadhead's worth as the developer of
great enterprises that had exerted powerful
influences in the growth of the city were re
ferred to by brilliant speakers.
Mr. Broadhead married, October 29, 1845,
Lucy Cobb, born March 11, 1825, at Schroon,
Essex county, New York, daughter of Adam
B. and Thetis (Bishop) Cobb. Children: 1.
Sheldon Brady, who married, in 1870, Mary
Woodworth. 2. Herwood, who died at the
age of seven years. 3. Almet Norval, who
married, in 1886, Margaret Allen Bradshaw.
4. Mary T., who married, in 1878, Adna H.
Reynolds Jr., and died in February, 1894. 5.
Stella Florine. 6. Mertie M. Mrs. Broad
head, while interested in every project that
was worthy, and for the best interests of all,
was quiet and retiring, and her church, the
First Congregational, with which she united
many years ago, its various societies, and the
Jamestown Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, were the only organizations
with which she was identified at the time of
her death, which occurred January 17, 1908.
She was charitable but most unostentatious
in her charities, and few outside of those to
be benefited knew of the extent of her gifts.
She was a woman of gentle ways, of kindli
ness, of sweet disposition, but of great
strength of character, and her influence and
example will be long remembered and cher
ished. Mr. Broadhead passed away May 21, 1910,
aged ninety-one years, three months, four

days. To few men are given the years of
health and activity that were allotted to him,
and fewer still have made better use of those
years. Although he had long since passed the
scriptural span of life, almost to the end he
maintained his mental and physical vigor in
a marked degree. The news of Mr. Broad-
head's death was received throughout the city
with genuine sorrow, for all who knew him
respected him for his sterling qualities and
splendid character.
The funeral services were held in the First
Congregational Church, Rev. Dr. Charles H.
Small, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev.
Eliot C. Hall, officiating. Rev. Dr. Small
spoke as follows :
From abundant labors through an unusually long
life, William Broadhead has gone to his rest and to
his eternal reward, and his works do follow him.
They need not be recounted here, they are known
and read of all men, but we do well to honor his
memory. He came from a land where kings are
born, and in this land of freedom and opportunity he
made himself a king among men and he is crowned
with glory and honor.
There were three interests dear to his heart. His
home and all who helped to make it home were ex
ceeding dear to him. His love for them and his in
terest in them was strong and beautiful. The com
panion who shared his life for more than sixty years
and who was recently taken from him still seemed
to be near and waiting for him on the other side.
It was an inspiring faith with which he looked for
ward to being with her again and forever. While
he clung to those who gave him such splendid and
such devoted care and attention, he was ready and
eager to go to the home over there.
"But with his God to guide his way,
'Twas equal joy to go or stay."
At last he saw the beckoning hand and said with
the aged servant of old, "Now lettest thy servant
depart in peace."
His business was dear to Mr. Broadhead. He be
lieved that a man is put into this world to do his
part with energy, with faithfulness, and cheerfully.
He has left to young men a noble example : that it
is good and honorable and desirable to work, to do
things worthily and eagerly. He has wrought the
energy of his life into this community and it will
abide ; he has left it richer for his having labored,
richer because of what he has accomplished, richer
because of what he has inspired. With a noble man
hood, strong principles, integrity of purpose and a
fidelity to duty he has left a lasting contribution and
an abiding influence.
His church was dear to Mr. Broadhead. He was
faithful in his attendance, liberal in his support and
he participated eagerly in its devotions. We who
were permitted to hear his words at the prayer serv
ice will not soon forget the simple but earnest and
heartful utterances, and his prayer to the dear Sav
iour, whom he loved and served and trusted, will
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We shall miss him in the church family where he
entered so fully into the life and every interest. His
sweet, earnest, friendly Christian spirit will be a
blessed memory.
He will be missed from the places where business
is done, where for so long he was a potent factor
and an inspiring figure.
But he will be missed the sorest by those who
knew him best and loved him most and feel his loss
the keenest, the family and kindred to whom his
memory will be a blessed heritage, to whom we give
our heartfelt sympathy, and with whom we mingle
our tears of sorrow ; and we commend them to the
God of all comfort, their father's God.
Mr. Broadhead's faith was simple and genuine, his
Saviour was real to him, and we are sure that
"He saw his Pilot face to face
When he had crossed the bar.';
"Beautiful toiler, thy work well done;
Beautiful soul, into glory gone;
Beautiful life, with thy crown full won;
God giveth thee peace."
(The Cobb Line).
(11) Matthias Cobb, who is supposed to be
son of Benjamin Cobb, grandfather of Mrs.
William Broadhead, was a native of Connecti
cut, but early in manhood emigrated to Essex
county, New York, where he followed farm
ing until his death. During the revolution,
like Putnam, he left his plow, and with mus
ket on his shoulder, remained in the colonial
service until the contest was decided, and
again, at the breaking out of the second war
with England, he went to the front. He mar
ried Elizabeth Brady and they reared a large
family, among whom was Adam B., see for
ward. (Ill) Adam B., son of Matthias Cobb, and
father of Mrs. William Broadhead, was born
in Essex county, New York, in 1801, died in
Jamestown, New York, in 1883. At the age
of thirty-two years, accompanied by his fam
ily, he removed to Chautauqua county, New
York. He was a Whig, afterwards a Re
publican. For a number of years he was asso
ciated with his son, William J. Cobb, in the
manufacturing business, but several years
prior to his death disposed of the business.
He was a member of the Congregational
church, in which faith he died. He married,
in 1822, Thetis Bishop, born March 4, 1800,
daughter of Elijah Bishop, born in New Mil
ford, Connecticut, in 1760. During his early
life he emigrated to Vermont, and later re
moved to New York, where his death oc
curred. He was a man of considerable in
genuity, which he employed to good advan

tage. During the war of 1812 he served as
major with distinction. He was a Democrat
in politics. He was twice married, his first
wife having been Tabitha Dorcas Holcomb,
who bore him eight children, among them be
ing Thetis, aforementioned. Children of
Adam B. and Thetis Cobb : William J., Nor-
val B., who served on the Union side during
the rebellion; Sheldon B.; Lucy, aforemen
tioned as the wife of William Broadhead ;
Thornton A.

William Churchill, immi-
CHURCHILL grant ancestor, is first
mentioned in theyean672,
when he married. It is thought he was son of
Joseph Churchill, of London, though no re
lationship has been found. He may have
been a soldier in England. When Will
iam of Orange was placed on the throne,
the provinces repudiated the officers of King
James II., and organized a self-government.
Jacob Leisler, a German by birth, had been
appointed by King James, and he was chosen
to become the leader of the party until the
new king should appoint officers. William
Churchill was appointed lieutenant and Joost
Stall, ensign. Lieutenant Churchill became a
chief military officer until Lieutenant-Gover
nor Leisler, through enemies, was seized, con
demned and executed without authority from
the new king, after the new royal governor
was sent over, although he had served him
faithfully. Churchill, though he was impris
oned, escaped the fate of his superior officer,
and was released. When he was tried, the
judge who tried him said he was "apparently
illiterate," but despite lack of education, he
was a strong, honest and fearless man. In
1696 he was summoned before the court be
cause he refused to appear before at muster
in arms on a training day; he was enrolled as
a "Sentinell," or private, in Captain Tudor's
company; he was "commanded by the Lieut-
Coll, in his own person," and replied to him in
"insolent language." Churchill said that he
had a commission for a lieutenant under Leis
ler, and "did then say that he would not ap
pear in arms in any inferior station," that be
ing sufficient to discharge him. For contempt
of court he was fined ten pounds or six
months' imprisonment. In 1698 he was admit
ted freeman at New York. He was a brick
layer. The lot on which he lived is said to
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ceived eighty acres on the northwest side of
Staten Island, with six acres of salt meadow,
and four acres of fresh meadow in the cove.
It is thought that he moved to Jamaica, Long
Island, about 1690, but no authority has been
found. His will was dated September 19,
1702, bequeathing most of his property to his
wife Susannah, but for some reason the will
was declared invalid and the property went to
his elder son, Charles, mariner. On Septem
ber 25, 1714, Charles deeded the property over
to his mother.
He married, at Manhattan, after March 10,
1672, Susannah Baryster or Brasyer. Chil
dren, born in Manhattan, now New York
City: Anne, born September, 1673; Charles,
May, 1675; Richard, March, 1676; Robert,
mentioned below ; Edward, 1679.
(II) Robert, son of William Churchill, was
born in Manhattan, and settled at or near
Fairfield, Connecticut. His will was dated
November 3, 1733, bequeathing his property
to his children, fie married, about 1693-94,
Sarah  . Children, born at or near Fair
field: Abigail, baptized February 17, 1695;
Sarah, baptized February 17, 1695 ; Elinor,
baptized October 20, 1695 ; Nehemiah, bap
tized March 21, 1698; Edward, mentioned be
low; Robert; Patience.
(Ill) Edward, son of Robert Churchill,
was born about 17 18, and lived in Greenwich,
Connecticut. He married, in Walesburg, New
Haven county, Connecticut, 1741, Esther,
daughter of Abijah and Abigail Hull. Chil
dren, born in Greenwich : James, December
25, 1742, died in infancy ; John, June 3, 1744 ;
Esther, May 11, 1746; Edward, mentioned he-
low; Sarah, 1750.
(IV) Edward (2), son of Edward (1)
Churchill, was born in Greenwich, Connecti
cut, September 4, 1748. He lived in West
Haven, Connecticut, where he died in early
manhood, leaving two children. He was a
cooper by trade. Children: Edward, men
tioned below; Abigail, born February 5, 1774.
(V) Edward (3), son of Edward (2)
Churchill, was born at Hartford, or West fia-
ven, Connecticut, about 1773. His son John
wrote about him: "My father's parents died
when he was an infant; he had one sister, by
the name of Abigail, fie was bound out to a
Mr. Buckingham, and suffered many hard
ships in his early days. In 1830 he removed
to Boston, Erie county, New York, and there
died aged about one hundred years. He was

a very temperate man, honest and upright in
his dealings, a Baptist in his religious faith.
He lived to see five generations of his de
scendants. My mother died fifty-eight years
ago (1826), and my father married her sis
ter Martha." His grandson, Byron A.
Churchill, of Buffalo, New York, gives the
date of his birth as 1767 and death as 1867,
and first wife's death as 1819. He says his
grandfather was a shoemaker and farmer, of
very small stature, never weighing more than
one hundred and thirty pounds; he says that
he was very energetic all his life ; one example
was that he one day, when he was ninety-two
years of age, rode a horse without a saddle,
forty-five miles. He had a property amount
ing to nearly $20,000.
He married (first), in Litchfield, Connecti
cut, in 1797, Margery Morse, who died before
1826; married (second) Martha Morse, who
died in 1865. Children by first wife: Sarah,
born September 17, 1799; Martha, December
1, 1800; Abigail, October 20, 1802; Edward,
February 25, 1805 ; Levi Morse, July 10, 1807;
Laura, December 20, 1808; Achsie Maria,
April 29, 181 1 ; John, mentioned below; Ste
phen, April 30, 1816; Luman B., March 3,
1819; Margery, June 5, 1821, died in infancy.
Child by second wife: Olive, married Reu
ben Dye.
(VI) John, son of Edward (3) Churchill,
was born in Bangall, New York, December
14, 1 81 3. He was living in Springville, Erie
county, New York, October 1, 1884, and wrote
a letter and filled out a blank concerning his
father's and his own families. He died re
cently nearly a hundred years old. He wa's a
Republican, town clerk, and held other offices
of trust. He was a prominent and influential
citizen. In religion he was a Baptist, a dea
con of the church and lay-preacher, fie mar
ried Laura Wellington, who died May 26,
1884. Children: John Ozro, born October 1,
1837 ; George Morse, mentioned below ; Laura
Martha, October 28, 1842 ; Lovina Maria, Oc
tober 28, 1844, died March 28, 1846; Edward,
May 14, 1848, died March 19, 1850; Gerard,
July 25, 1851, died October 22, 1865; Geral-
dine, February 24, 1854.
(VII) George Morse, son of John Church
ill, was born at Springville, New York, April
1, 1840, died October 2, 1890. He was edu
cated in the public schools, and was a mer
chant and farmer in Boston, Erie county, New
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consin, where he was with the firm of Monta
gue & Company in the marble business. He
lived in the west most of his life. He married
Frances Morris, born February 12, 1841, died
October 2, 1900, daughter of Edward Morris,
of Boston, Erie county, New York, a farmer.
Children : DeForest, mentioned below ; Osce
ola, February 9, 1864, married, June 3, 1884,
John J. Stambach, of Buffalo, New York;
Clement George, August 20, 1874; Llewellyn
L., April 25, 1871, died in infancy. His
widow married (second) Henry L. Griffith,
and is living at Boston, New York (1911).
(VIII) DeForest, son of George Morse
Churchill, was born at Boston, Erie county,
New York, September 27, 1861. He attended
the public schools and the high school at La
Crosse, Wisconsin, from which he was gradu
ated with a teacher's certificate. He also took
a course in Lambert's Business College of that
city. He came to Buffalo about 1879, and
was employed by the firm of Fortier, Sand-
rock & Bailey, general insurance agents, and
remained with them nine years, leaving to go
in business for himself, fie later consolidated
with the firm of Williams & Mitchel, as a
special interest partner, leaving them in 1898
to incorporate the Buffalo Fire Office, Inc., D.
F. Churchill, manager, the company taking
over the business of the Fayette A. Cook
agency. This company is organized under
the laws of the state of New York and has
been successful since its organization. His
agency is one of the largest in the city. He
has been director in various other corpora
tions from time to time. In politics he is an
independent Democrat. He is a communicant
of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which
he was treasurer for many years. He is a
member of Crescent Lodge, No. 551, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows; the Knights
of the Maccabees; Chamber of Commerce;
the Autornobile, Eagle and Turnverein clubs.
He married, September 25, 1884, at Buffalo,
Jennie M. Moxham, born December 12, 1861,
daughter of James Moxham. Children: 1.
Florence Ethel, born July 21, 1885, died July
25, 1887. 2. Clinton Harrington, mentioned
below. (IX) Clinton Harrington, son of DeForest
Churchill, was born August 10, 1888. He
graduated from public school No. 8, and Mas-
ten Park high school, of Buffalo, New York.
He is now engaged with his father in the
insurance business in Buffalo. He married

January 1, 1907, Sarah Dennison, of Buffalo.

The surname Holdredge
HOLDREDGE is identical with Oldredge,
Holdred, Oldred and
Holdridge. It is spelled in various ways.
Originally, it is likely that it was the same as
Aldridge, Aldredge, Aldred, Eldred, Eldredge,
Aldrich, variations of the same original sur
name. (I) The first of the name of Holdredge in
this country was William Holdredge, of Hav
erhill, Massachusetts. He was a tanner by
trade, and came from St. Alphage, Cripple-
gate, London, England, in the ship "Eliza
beth," in 1635, giving his age at that time
as twenty-five, fie was for a time at Salis
bury, Massachusetts, afterward at Haverhill.
Children of William and Isabella Holdredge:
Sarah, born 1640, died young; Mary, April
22, 1641, died young; Rebecca, June 20, 1643.
William, March 15, 1647; Sarah, December
26, 1650; Mehitable, April 14, 1652; Abigail,
November 12, 1654, died young; Mary, De
cember 24, 1656^ Samuel, November 6, 1659.
(II) John, son or nephew of William Hold
redge; settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He
married Elizabeth  . Children, born at
Roxbury: Sarah, November 15, 1665; John,
February 25, 1668; Thomas, May 23, 1670;
Elizabeth, February 14, 1672; Mary, baptized
November 22, 1674; Samuel, born March 12,
1676, died young; Samuel, June 8, 1679;
Mercy, May 16, 1684.
(Ill) The third generation of the family
went from Roxbury to Windham and New
London counties, Connecticut. Windham
county was settled first by Roxbury men.
The records of Roxbury are fragmentary and
those of Connecticut not available for tracing
the generations in detail. New London county
has been the #seat of the family since about
1700. The census of Connecticut, • taken in
1790, does not separate the towns in New
London county, but it gives eight families
there at that time, Nathaniel, Benajah, Phin-
eas, Rufus, Samuel, Samuel Jr., and two
Williams. One other family is given in Con
necticut, Hezekiah's of Washington, Litchfield
county. But in 1790 many had moved west
ward to New York state, and in 1790 Abra
ham, Amon, Arnold, Felix, Gershom, Heze
kiah, Israel, John, Richard, Richard Jr. and
Thomas had families in New York, largely in
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at Hillsdale, some at Canaan, New York. In
Massachusetts we find Dudley Holdredge at
New Ashford, Berkshire county, with five
females in his family, and John 'fioldrich, also
in Massachusetts. In the revolution, Amasa,
Benajah, Dudley, Ephraim, Hezekiah, John,
Robert, Rufus and William were soldiers from
Connecticut. Dudley, John and William, as
we have seen went from New London county
to Berkshire county, Massachusetts, after the
revolution. William Holdredge was a soldier
from October 18 to December 10, 1775, in
Captain John Tyler's company, of Preston,
Connecticut; also a drum major in Colonel
Henry Sherburne's regiment, 1777-80, and
drummer in Captain John Williams's company
in 1779, in the same regiment. William was
afterward drum major in a Massachusetts
regiment (vol. VIII). Dudley Holdredge was
a lieutenant in a Berkshire county regiment,
and John was in the revolution from Loudon
and Spencertown, Massachusetts. Benajah
Holdredge was wounded at the battle of Or-
ton Heights. Abraham, Amasa, Amesiah,
John and Richard served in New York regi
ments. (IV) Darius Holdredge, of the New Lon
don county family mentioned above, was born
in Connecticut in 1801, died in 1865 at Mid
dleport, New York. He came from Connecti
cut with his family in 18 10 and settled at
Bethany, New York, afterward locating at
Middleport in that state. He bought a hun
dred acres of Holland purchase land and
cleared a farm. In Middleport he followed
the cooper's trade in winter and farming in
the summer months. He married Rebecca
Bishop. Children: 1. William Orlando, men
tioned below. 2. Sarah Ann, born in 182 1 ;
married Stephen Fuller, and had three chil
dren. 3. Emeline, married George Slocum,
of Michigan, and had four children. 4. Ed
win, born in 1825 ; married and had two chil
dren. 5. George, born in 1827.
(V) William Orlando, son of Darius Hold
redge, was born in 1819 at Bethany, New
York. He there attended the public schools,
and during his youth worked on his father's
farm. In 1853 he bought a farm of one hun
dred and sixty acres in the town of Shelby
and resided there until after 1870. He then
removed to Medina, New York, but con
tinued to carry on his farm. At the age of
ninety-two he is residing with his daughters
in Middleport. He is a member of the Chris

tian church. In politics he is a Democrat and
he has voted for every Democratic candidate
for president since Polk.
He married, November 5, 1845, R- Jane
Fuller. Children : 1. Celestia, born March 10,
1847. 2- Daniel D., mentioned below. 3.
George E., June 3, 1853; now living in Cali
fornia. 4. Hattie I., August 23, 1855, died
July 4, 1890; married Henry Chubbuck. 5.
Helen A., June 15, 1857, died January 10,
1883 ; married Charles Colton. 6. Emily A.,
July 27, i860.
(VI) Daniel D., son of William Orlando
Holdredge, was born June 21, 1849, at Royal
ton, Niagara county, New York, fie attended
the public schools at Royalton and the Starkey
Seminary, near Watkins Glen, Yates county,
for two years. He worked on his father's
farm during his boyhood, when not in school,
and continued with his father until 1876, when
he located at Medina and in partnership with
S. J. McCormick engaged in the furniture
business, in which he has continued to the
present time, a period of thirty-six years.
The firm is now Holdredge, Hart & Hill. Mr.
Holdredge is extensively interested in real es
tate also. He is a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Royal
and Select Masters. He is also a member of
the Baptist church, has been in active mem
bership for thirty-seven years and is now on
the board of trustees and was for twenty-five
years its treasurer.
He married, June 3, 1880, Ida W., born De
cember 27, 1852, at Flint, Michigan, daughter
of James C. and Mary A. (Rutherford)
Decker. Children: 1. William D., born Sep*
tember 25, 1882, died October 22, 1902 ; mar
ried Edna Easlip, and has one son, William D.
2. Helen D., November 18, 1885. 3. Ruther
ford D., June 15, 1892. 4. Beatrice V. D.,
January 23, 1895. They have an adopted son,
William D. fioldredge, born February 23,
1903.

Michael Quinn, the first member
QUINN of this family to settle in Amer
ica, came from county Galway,
Ireland, in 1847, in a sailing vessel. He
landed in New York City, going on from
there to Poughkeepsie, where he started in
farming; he remained there for a while, then
removed to Callicoon, New York, where he
opened a general store and established himself
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termination and enterprise he prospered in
this undertaking, and came to be one of the
foremost citizens of the place, highly esteemed
by all and prominent in public affairs. He
was made road commissioner, holding this im
portant post for a number of years ; in his re
ligious views he was a strong Roman Catho
lic. While in Poughkeepsie, Mr. Quinn met
his future wife, Mary Kenelley, who was from
Waterford county, Ireland, and a co-patriot;
they were married before his removal to Calli-
coon, and the following children were born
to them: 1. Mary A. 2. Martin F., married
Mary E. Collins. 3. Rose A., married Thomas
McGrath. 4. Thomas H., of whom further.
(II) Thomas H., son of Michael and Mary
(Kenelley) Quinn, was born in Callicoon, New
York, October 16, 1858. His education was
acquired in the public schools. In 1876 he
became interested in farming near Sullivan,
New York, and in 1881 engaged in the chemi
cal business. Possessing the natural gifts
which have distinguished his family, his
shrewdness and enterprise were abundantly
rewarded and he proved singularly success
ful in whatever he undertook to perform. In
1885 he was employed and later became super
intendent for his brother, Martin F. Quinn,
and F. S. Sherman, in their general store and
lumber business in Forest City, Susquehanna
county, Pennsylvania, where he had charge of
the business of peeling bark, running mills and
shipping sawed lumber. In 1888 the business
was removed to Cameron county, and here they
continued their lumber and other enterprises.
In 189 1 Mr. F. H. Quinn became a partner in
the business and it was removed to Quinn-
wood, McKean county, Pennsylvania, conduct
ing the same operations until 1895. Upon the
subsequent removal to Straight, Elk county,
Pennsylvania, they added the acid industry
to the business, which they still continue. Mr.
Quinn made his home in Straight until Octo
ber, 1910, when he removed to Olean, New
York, where he has one of the finest houses
in the city, located on Union street, and he
and his family are surrounded with all the
luxuries that money can procure. Mr. Quinn
has shared -the general prosperity of the firm
and has acquired a considerable fortune. He
is held in high esteem in the community, and
is a member of the Roman Catholic church.
In politics he is an ardent supporter of the
Democratic party, and occupied the important

post of road superintendent in Straight. He
is a_member of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Quinn married, December 20, 1887,
Mary A., daughter of Michael and Margaret
(Rodgers) Moran. They came from county
Langford, Ireland, in a sailing vessel, when
Mary A., who was born November 9, 1859,
was only three years old; she was the only
child. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn have three chil
dren : Margaret L., born in November, 1889 ;
Raymond M., born in July, 1892 ; Rose, born
in April, 1898.

This Williams family origi-
W1LLIAMS nated in Wales. The coat-
of-arms is described : A
white lion rampant on a shield sable. Crest:
a cock. Motto: "What God Willeth Will
Be." The side motto : "Watches His Oppor
tunity." (I) Robert Williams, the immigrant, was
born in Norwich, England, and married, be
fore coming to America, Elizabeth Stratton.
He landed at Boston with his wife and two
children, Samuel and John, in 1637, and be
fore the end of the year had joined the settle
ment at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and he and
his wife had become members of the church
of Eliot, the Indian Apostle. He was ad
mitted a freeman about the same time. From
1647 to 1653 he was one of the five selectmen
there. Ellis, the town historian, calls him one
of the most influential men in town affairs,
and Farmer, in his "General Register," calls
him the common ancestor of the divines, civil
ians and warriors of the name, who have
honored the country of their birth. His will
is dated November 26, 1685, and was proved
September 29, 1693. He died at Roxbury,
September 1, 1693, aged one hundred years.
His wife died July 28, 1674, aged eighty, and
was buried in the ancient burial ground of
Roxbury. Professor S. Wells Williams, the
learned Chinese scholar, a descendant of Rob
ert, says: "There is an interesting tradition
in the Williams family about the wife of
Robert Williams, as follows: that when Rob
ert Williams of England desired to come to
this country, his wife, of good family and
delicately brought up, shrunk from the hard
ships to be encountered. While the subject
was under consideration she had a dream,
foreshowing that if she went to America she
would become the mother of a long line of
worthy ministers. The dream so impressed

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her that she rose up cheerfully and prepared
for the journey. Nine years after she died,
those two grandsons, John and William, sons
of Samuel and Isaac (Isaac, the founder of
Williams College, descended from Eleazer, the
son of Isaac, grandson of Robert), came out
of Harvard College, and the day of fulfilment
began." He is said to have married (second) Mar
garet Fearing, widow of John, November 3,
1676, and (third) Martha Strong, who died
December 22, 1704, aged ninety-one years.
Children: Isaac, mentioned below; Stephen,
born November 8, 1640 ; John, died October 6,
1658; Samuel.
(II) Captain Isaac Williams, son of Robert
Williams, was born in Roxbury, September 1,
1638. He settled in Newton, Massachusetts,
and was deputy to the general court five or six
years, and captain of a troop of horse. His
will was proved July 27, 1706. He married
(first) Martha Park; (second) Judith Cooper.
Children, born at Newton: Isaac, December
11, 1 661 ; Martha, December 27, 1663; Rev.
William, February 2, 1665 ; John, August 31,
1667, settled in Connecticut; Ebenezer, Octo
ber 22, 1669, settled in Stonington, Connecti
cut; Thomas, October 23, 1673. Children of
second wife: Peter, August 31, 1680; Sarah,
October 2, 1683 ; and Ephraim, October 21,
1 691. (Ill) Captain Isaac (2) Williams, son of
Captain Isaac (1) Williams, was born at
Newton, December 11, 1661, and died in 1739.
He married Elizabeth  and lived at
Roxbury. She died there June 26, 1699.
Children: Isaac, born November 1, 1686;
Jonathan, November 5, 1687; Mary, February
27, 1688 ; John, April 30, 1689 ; William, Sep
tember 19, 1690; Ebenezer, June 18, 1691 ;
Samuel, February 11, 1692. Martha, Septem
ber 11, 1693; Daniel, mentioned below; Eliza
beth, September 23, 1697.
(IV) Daniel, son of Captain Isaac (2) Will
iams, was born in Roxbury, October 22, 1695.
He settled at Canterbury, Connecticut. Sev
eral of his family and many other Roxbury
men located in Woodstock and other parts of
Windham county, Connecticut. He married,
in 1724, Hannah fiolbrook. Children: Daniel,
mentioned below ; Isaac, August 5, 1726; Ben
jamin, January 9, 1730; Phebe; Mary.
(V) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Will
iams, was born August 15, 1725. He lived
at Canterbury, Connecticut, but for want of

records the details of his family have not
been learned.
(VI) Alexander, son or nephew of Daniel
(2) Williams, was born about 1750, at Can
terbury, or an adjacent town. He was a sol
dier in the revolution from" Voluntown, in
Major James Gordon's company on the Lex
ington alarm. Afterward in 1775 he was in
Captain Obadiah Johnson's company from
Canterbury, and in 1776 he was in Captain
Gallup's company, Colonel Parsons's regiment.
In the same company we find Solomon, Isaac,
Robert, David and John Williams, his brothers
or cousins.
(VII) Alexander (2), son of Alexander
(1) Williams, was born about 1775-80, in
Windham county, Connecticut. He removed
to Vermont, and settled in what is known as
the Black River Country. As the name of
Alexander Williams is not found in the census
of 1790 as a head of a family (only the heads
of families ar mentioned by name), we con
clude that he was married after that date, and
that his father died before that date. Early
in the nineteenth century he moved to New
York state, and died at Pembroke, Genesee
county, New York. He married Sally (Morey
or Drake) at Clarence Hollow, New York,
now called Williamsville for his family. His
widow died at Crescent City, Illinois. Chil
dren: Hannah, born at Geneva, New York;
married Erastus Sawyer; children: Helen,
Chauncey, Henry, Walter, Louise, Augusta
and Carrie. 2. Lydia, married Alvin D. Har-
roun ; children : Eliza, Alvin D. Jr., Sylvanus,
Henry, Edgar and Ellen. Harroun. 3. John,
married Emeline Allen; children: Cytheria,
Allen E. and Aimer A. 4. Alexander, men
tioned below. 5. Sylvanus, married Sarah
Robinson ; children : Edward, Mary Jane and
Charles. (VIII) Alexander (3), son of Alexander
(2) Williams, was born in Pembroke, New
York, in 181 1, and died August 26, 1853, in
the town of Sheridan, New York. He spent
most of his life in Pembroke, and held the
office of constable while living there. After
ward he was in the hotel business at Irving,
on Cattaugus creek, New York, and finally
became the owner of the old Kensington Hotel
at Sheridan, New York, and conducted it un
til about two years before he died. He mar
ried Caroline Cone, born in 18 17, in May
ville, New York, and died in September, 1858
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tioned below. 2. John, died aged about twenty
years, of disease contracted in army service
at Folly Island, South Carolina; was sergeant
of the 112th Regiment, New York Volunteer
Infantry. (IX) Alexander (4), son of Alexander (3)
Williams, was born February 24, 1839, at
Pembroke, New York. After the death of his
father he went to live with Aaron Fisk, who
married a cousin of his mother, on a farm in
Sheridan, New York, and lived with him for
three years, during which he attended the
spring and fall terms of the Fredonia Acad
emy. Afterward he became a clerk in the
store of L. B. Grant, at Fredonia. In 1861,
when the civil war came, he enlisted as a pri
vate in Company K, Ninth Regiment, New
York Cavalry, September 11, and was mus
tered into service at Fredonia, New York, Oc
tober 2 following. He was promoted sergeant
October 4, 1861, and became quartermaster-
sergeant December 1, 1861. fie was trans
ferred to the regimental non-commissioned
staff, February 26, 1863, as hospital steward,
and continued in this department until he was
discharged, October 1, 1864, at the expiration
of his term of enlistment. Before his bat
talion was mounted, it was transferred to
Hunt's Regular Reserve Artillery, and he was
assigned to Battery M, under Lieutenant Sin
clair. He served in the artillery with the
rank of brigade sergeant major from March
9 to May 22, 1862, when his battalion was
ordered to Washington to be mounted. His
first active service was the siege of Yorktown,
and later he took part in the battles of Will
iamsburg, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run,
Fredericksburg, Upperville, Beverly Ford,
Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Boonesboro,
Frederickstown, Falling Waters, Maryland,
and in many other minor engagements. He
was never wounded nor taken prisoner. He
was sent to Judiciary Square Hosital in No
vember, 1863, and remained there until mus
tered out.
As soon as he was able, after coming
to the hospital, he was assigned to duty
in the dispensary, and during the last few
months was in charge of that department. Mr.
Williams's regiment was the first to enter
Gettysburg the day before the battle, and fired
the first shot of the great fight, losing the
first man killed and capturing the first prison
er. In the evening, when the regiment fell
back through Gettysburg to the new line, the

Confederates followed so close that the Fed
erals had to dismount and drive them back.
After his discharge from the army, Mr.
Williams lived in Lockport, for three years,
working as a clerk in a dry goods store. In
March, 1868, he opened a fancy goods store
in partnership with Clinton H. Smith, under
the firm name of Williams & Smith, at Dun
kirk, New York, and built up a" large retail
and wholesale trade. In 1874 they sold the
retail business, and it seemed advisable to
remove the business of the firm to New York
City. In 1876 their store was burned, and
the firm thereupon was dissolved, and Mr.
Williams returned to Dunkirk and engaged
in the retail dry goods trade there. In 1882
he sold his store and engaged in the manu
facture of shirts, with abundant success, em
ploying about one hundred hands and contin
uing until 1904.
Not only in business, but in public affairs,
Mr. Williams has been prominent and distin
guished. He served several terms in the com
mon council of the city of Dunkirk, from the.
third ward, and in 1898 he was elected mayor
for one year, but owing to a legislative change
in the city charter his term was extended to
January 1, 1900. In 1904 he was elected re
ceiver of taxes of Dunkirk, and re-elected in
1906, 1908 and 1910. He is a Republican in
politics. In all of the offices he has held he
has performed his duties with characteristic
fidelity and zeal, thoroughness and upright
ness. He is a member of Dunkirk Lodge, No,
367, Free Masons, of Dunkirk,; Dunkirk
Qiapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Dunkirk Coun
cil, Royal and Select Masters; and Dunkirk
Commandery, Knights Templar. Pie served
three terms as the head of the council and
two as commander of the commandery. He
is also a member of the Buffalo Consistory.
He belongs to W. O. Stevens Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, and was for many
years and is at present its commander. He
attends the Dunkirk Presbyterian Church and
is one of its trustees.
He married, October 15, 1861, at Lockport,
New York, Evelina P. Baright, born at Lock-
port, September 15, 1841, daughter of Allen
and Evelina (Peck) Baright. fier father was
born at Chatham, Columbia county, New
York, May 5, 1810, and died August 17, 1888;
her mother was a native of Westmoreland,
Oneida county, New York. Children of Mr.
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Lockport, June 30, 1866. 2. Zella B., born
at Dunkirk, New York, September 1, 1873.
3. Alexander Jr., born at Brooklyn, New York,
June 22, 1875 ; married Elizabeth D. Scott, of
Dunkirk, and had : Alexander, born January
18, 1899; Roger Scott, January 30, 1901. 4.
Evelina B., born November 3, 1876, at Dun
kirk, New York; married Owen F. Asberry,
of Houston, Texas; child: John Egbert As
berry, born December 9, 191 1. 5. John Eg
bert, born July 21, 1879; died April 16, 1880.
(The Cone Line).
(I) Daniel Cone, the immigrant ancestor,
settled at Haddam, Connecticut. He married
Mehitable Spencer, of Hartford, daughter of
Jared and Alice Spencer. Her father settled
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1634; at
Lynn, 1637; and at Hartford in 1660; finally
at Haddam in 1662. Cone married (second)
Rebecca Wakeley, widow of Richard, in 1692.
He lived at Haddam until 1680, removed to
the east side of the river at Machi-Moodus in
1695, and returned to Haddam, where he died
October 24, 1706, aged eighty years. He
deeded land on the west side of the river to
his son. Caleb. Children: Ruth, born Janu
ary 7, 1662; Hannah, April 6, 1664; Daniel,
January 21, 1666; Jared, January 7, 1668; Re
becca, February 6, 1670; Ebenezer, baptized
March 25, 1673 ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ;
Stephen, baptized March 26, 1678; Caleb, born
at Haddam, 1679, baptized March 19, 1682,
at Middletown.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Daniel Cone, was
born in Haddam, Connecticut, in 1674, and
baptized in Middletown, Connecticut, June 6,
1675. He married, in East Haddam, Sarah,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Gray) Hun
gerford. She was born in New London, Con
necticut, 1679, and died in East Haddam, Sep
tember 25, 1753. They were both members of
the First Congregational Church at East Had
dam. He died there, 1731-32. Children:
James, born August 24, 1698; Daniel, men
tioned below; Sarah, born February 11, 1703;
Nathaniel, baptized June 18, 1704, died young;
Esther, born April 27, 1705 ; Lucy, May 27,
1707; Mehitable, May 10, 1710; Nathaniel,
January 19, 1712; Jemima, March 20, 1714;
Jonathan, January 11, 1716.
(Ill) Daniel, son of Nathaniel and Sarah
(Hungerford) Cone, was born in East Had
dam, May 9, 1 70 1. He married Mary, daugh
ter of Isaac Spencer, March 14, 1728. He

was j ustice of the peace for over twenty years,
and held other local offices. He was admitted
to the church July 23, 172 1, and died in East
Haddam, in June, 1756. His wife married
(second) Phineas Norton, in 1760. Children:
Daniel, born November 2, 1728; Temperance,
September 29, 1730; Lydia, February 5, 1732;
Rachel, October 9, 1735 ; Elihu, mentioned be
low; Mahitable, 1739; Mary, 1742 ; Ainn, 1745.
(IV) Elihu, son of Daniel and Mary (Spen
cer) Cone, was born at East Haddam, Connec
ticut, about 1737. He married (first) Mary
Spencer, 1770, and she died soon afterwards.
He married (second) Dorothy Smith, Novem
ber 2, 1775. In 1790 they moved to Spafford,
Onondaga county, New York, where they
lived until death. Children : Horatio, died in
Ripley, New York; Elihu, committed suicide
in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1850; Marcia, married
Laban Crehore; Spencer, mentioned below;
Ophir, born July 29, 1785, married Sarah
Fisher, and died September 7, i860; Obed
W., born February 12, 1789, married Sabrina
Whaley, died March 28, 1867; Marinda, born
September 24, 1796, married Winsor Brig
ham, and died December 25, 1885.
(V) Spencer, son of Elihu Cone, married
Clarissa, daughter of Amos and Margaret
Fisher, and lived in Mayville, New York. She
was born in 1785, and died in 1852, in Pem
broke, New York. Children : Eliza, born
July 20, 1815, married Joseph Stockwell, had
George B., Ella M. and Clara I., and died Au
gust 20, 1864; Caroline, born 1817, married
Alex. Williams, and died September, 1858 (see
Williams) ; Marinda, born December 26, 1818,
married Charles Harroun, and died January
16, 1898; children: Sarah A., Alkenzar,
Mary.

This family is of English ori-
WALLER gin, and was early found in
America, both north and south,
being largely represented in Virginia. It was
early established at Boston, where many of the
descendants continued and has thence spread
over many sections of the United States.
(I) Joseph Waller is found of record in
Boston as early as 1670, and others of the
name were residing there at the same time.
He soon removed to Fairfield, Connecticut,
where he died in 1672. The inventory of his
estate, made Decemher 25, that year, showed
a very small provision for the support of his
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soon after married John Davis, with whom
she removed to Woodbury, Connecticut. Jo
seph Waller's children were Joseph and Lydia.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Lydia Waller, was born February 3, 1670, in
Boston, and grew up in Woodbury, Connecti
cut, where he died in 1727, "in the great sick
ness." His wife's name was Abigail. Their
first three children, Sarah, Lydia and Abigail,
were baptized September 25, 1698, in Wood
bury. Others were Joseph, born April 3, 1701 ;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Martha, September
6, 1705; Mary, baptized 1708; Bathsheba,
May 19, 1710; Daniel, May 23, 1713.
(Ill) Samuel, second son of Joseph (2)
and Abigail Waller, was baptized March 8,
1703, in Woodbury, and died there in 1745.
His wife Esther survived him four years, dy
ing October 6, 1749. Children: Jane, bap
tized June 22, 1729; Lydia, April 18, 1731;
Joseph, born June, 1733 ; Samuel, April 17,
1735; Elijah, baptized April 3, 1737; Esther,
born December, 1738 ; David, December, 1740 ;
Martha, baptized July 7, 1745 ; Peter, August
3, 1747. It seems that some of this family
settled in Washington county, New York, but
the absence of vital records in this state makes
it impossible to trace the line to connection
with the family below.
(IV) The earliest of the descendants of
Samuel Waller of whom we have knowledge
was Philander Waller, a farmer of the town
of Hartford, New York, who was an active
and influential member of the Methodist
church. He married Thankful Kenyon; born
1802, died February 22, 1876, and they were
the parents of eight children.
(V) Eli, eldest child of Philander and
Thankful (Kenyon) Waller, was born in
Hartford, Washington county, New York, in
1821, died 1898. He was educated in the
public schools and grew up a farmer. After
his marriage he purchased a tract of one hun
dred acres which he cleared and cultivated
until 1867. In that year he closed out his
Washington county interests and came to Cat
taraugus county, settling in the town of Day
ton, where he rented a farm which he culti
vated for many years. He was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a Re
publican. He married Elizabeth Elkins. Chil
dren: 1. Amelia, died January, 1892, married
Luther Luce, of Dunkirk, New York; chil
dren : Rollin, married Ethel Topping ; Mabel,
married Marcia Adams ; Bert, married Bertha

Miller; Minnie. 2. Estella, died in infancy.
3. Loraine, died in infancy. 4. George E., of
further mention. 5. Flora, married William
Easton. 6. Clarence, married Elsie Schofield;
children: Emma, Iva, Edna, Gerald, Leone,
and Alice. 7. May, died July, 1894; married
Charles Hartway; child, Gladys. 8. Bertha,
married Daniel fienderson ; children : Rheva,
Margaret and Ruth.
(VI) George E., son of Eli and Elizabeth
(Elkins) Waller, was born in Hartford,
Washington county, New York, November 21,
i860. He was six years of age when his
father came to Cattaraugus county, where
George attended the public schools of Dayton.
He took a course at fioughton Academy, Alle
gany county, New York, and later a special
course in the Chautauqua Summer School.
He taught one year at Well's Hill, Leon, one
year at Wesley, then at Perrysburg and Day
ton, then was appointed principal of the Little
Valley high school, which latter position he
occupied most satisfactorily for seven years.
On April 7, 1899, he was appointed school
commissioner for the third district of Catta
raugus county, a position he still holds (1911).
He is in charge of the schools of ten town
ships, and under his administration he has
been able to accomplish a great deal for the
cause of education. He is a member and trus
tee of the Methodist Episcopal church; mem
ber of the Masonic order, Lodge No. 812, and
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Lodge No. 671. Politically he is a Republi
can. He married, August 12, 1891, Lottie W.
Graves, born August 26, i860, daughter of
Charles F. Graves, born March 19, 1825, died
March 15, 1890, married, September 11, 1854,
Melissa Atwell, born 1833, died August 28,
1895. Charles F. was a son of Lester Graves,
born December 21, 1790, died January 24,
1869, married, October 20, 1817, Sophia Rans-
ford, born January 6, 1794, died February 28,
1863. Lester was a son of Jonathan Graves,
born 1750, married, August 15, 1771, Jemima
Scott. Jonathan was a son of Elisha Graves,
born 1724, of the French and Indian war; he
married, December 29, 1748, Rachel Scott,
who died August 7, 1762. Elisha was the
son of Jonathan Graves, one of the first set
tlers of Sunderland, Massachusetts; he mar
ried (first), June 2, 1715, Mrs. Elizabeth
Coombs, who died 1721 ; he married (second)
Hannah  . Jonathan was a son of Sam-

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uel Graves, born about 1657, one °f the early
first settlers of Sunderland, died March 11,
1 73 1, married Sarah  , who died Octo
ber 15, 1734. Samuel was the son of John
Graves, born in England, lived in Wethers
field, and Hatfield, Massachusetts, 1661, mar
ried Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel
Smith, born 1630, died 1668; he married
(second), 1671, Mary, daughter of John
Bronson, and widow of John Wyatt, of Had
dam, Connecticut. John Graves was killed by
the Indians at the attack on Hatfield, Septem
ber 19, 1667. John was the son of Thomas
Graves, the American ancestor, born in Eng
land before 1585; was of fiartford, Con
necticut, 1645, moved to Hatfield, Massa
chusetts, 1 661, where he lived with his son
Isaac until his death, November, 1662 leaving
estates in both Massachusetts and Connecticut.
His wife Sarah died December 17, 1666.
Charles F. Graves was a farmer and a Metho
dist. His wife, Melissa Atwell, was a daugh
ter of William and Betsey (Leggett) Atwell,
of Steuben county. Children of Charles F.
Graves: 1. Burt, born November 9, 1855,
married Jennie B. Stillson ; children : i.
Byron, married Leah Searle ; children,
Helen, John A. ii. Elizabeth, iii. Charles
F. (2). iv. Arthur B. 2. Cora Es
tella, born July 10, 1859, died June 14, 1866.
3. Nora G., born November 26, 1858, died
June 17, 1884; married Frank E. Haight;
child, Charles F., died December 5, 1908. 4.
Lottie W., married, August 12, 1891, George
E. Waller. 5. Edith E., born June 8, 1867,
died November, 1895. 6. George R., born
October 24, 1869; married Millie F. John
son ; child, Norris.
Child of George and Lottie W. (Graves)
Waller: Harold Graves, born October 7,
1895

The grandfather of George
FREEMAN W. Freeman, of Jamestown,
New York, William Free
man, married Lydia Jane Perkins. He was a
farmer of Hartfield, New York.
(II) Leon Wellington, only child of Will
iam and Lydia Jane (Perkins) Freeman, was
born at Hartfield, New York, April 29, 1852.
He was a lumberman and farmer of New
York until 1889, when he moved to Iowa, lo
cating in Keswick, Keokuk county, where he
conducted a restaurant. In 1890 he invented
and patented the Freeman roller-bed washing

machine. Since 1895 he has lived on a farm
in the town of Ellington, Chautauqua county,
New York. He is a Spiritualist in religious
belief, and a Socialist in politics. He married,
at Nashville, New York, October 7, 1883,
Mary Ann Gibbs, of English parentage, born
in Saratoga county, New York, January 3,
1865, daughter of Stephen and Mary Ann
(Larington) Gibbs. Children: George W.,
of further mention ; Alice Edith, born October
17, 1886; Elsie Dora, July 26, 1888; William
Henry, August 18, 1893; Calla Lillian, July
16, 1896; Jennie Belle, June 6, 1904.
(Ill) George Wellington, son of Leon
Wellington and Mary Ann (Gibbs) Freeman,
was born at Nashville, Chautauqua county,
New York, February 19, 1885. He was edu
cated in the district schools of Chautauqua
county, which he attended until he was fifteen
years of age. At that age he was obliged to
leave school and work on a farm. This did
not quench his thirst for an education, but he
continued his studies evenings and such times
as he could manage during working hours.
He entered as a student in the Home Corre
spondence School of Springfield, Massachu
setts, taking first a business course, later math
ematics and the common school branches. At
the age of eighteen years he had so improved
his limited opportunities that he secured a
teacher's certificate. A review of the years
from seven to fifteen reveals some of the
hardships of an ambitious boy without means.
At seven years he was a canvasser for a
paper, and at eight he dug sassafras roots
and carried them six miles to Kennedy for a
market, earning in this way several dollars.
This continued until at fourteen he traveled
with his mother, who gave an illustrated lec
ture on Cuba and the Philippine Islands. The
lad was enthusiastic over the war between the
United States and Spain, and composed sev
eral patriotic songs, which he sang to the
crowds who attended the lectures. At fifteen
he began farm work, as stated, and at eighteen
entered the schoolroom as a teacher. His first
school was in District No. 6, Gerry, Chautau
qua county, but he continued his private study
and added to his mental equipment. From
that time he taught school winters and worked
at different vocations during the summers,
gradually working his way into higher schools
and better salaries. When he was twenty-
three he entered Ellington high school, from
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class after five months' work. He also took
a course in electric lighting and railways, un
der the International Correspondence Schools
of Scranton, Pennsylvania; a course in taxi
dermy, under the Northwestern School of
Taxidermy, Omaha, Nebraska; also a course
in civil investigation and business law, under
the American Police and Secret Service
Schools. In the autumn of 1906 he visited
Florida, where he engaged in teaching. While
there he became interested in the universal
language, "Esperanto," which he studied until
he gained proficiency, and conducted a corre
spondence school for the purpose of teaching
the language to others. In 1909 he started a
school at Lily Dale, New York, for the pur
pose of teaching "Esperanto," but this enter
prise failed through the illness of his business
associate, A. W. Damon. In the autumn of
1909 he again visited Florida with his wife,
but failing health compelled an early return in
the spring. During the summer of 19 10 he
taught several weeks at Berlin Heights, Ohio,
and. in the fall he was chosen principal of the
Union School, at Portland, Chautauqua
county, New York.
Professor Freeman married, at Stockton,
Chautauqua county, New York, June 5, 1909,
Dorothea M. Gampp, born at East Otto, Cat
taraugus county, New York, August 22, 1889,
eldest daughter of Abraham and Eleanor
(Burchard) Gampp, whose children are: Dor
othea M., Leslie M., Genevieve and George.
Abraham Gampp is a resident of Hamlet, New
York, where he is engaged in cheese and but
ter making. The clan Armstrong was
ARMSTRONG famed in Scotland for
courage and patriotism.
Scott, in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel,"
makes the chief say, when about to assemble
the clans for some daring enterprise :
"Ye need not go to Liddisdale,
For when they see the blazing bale
Eliots and Armstrongs never fail.
The family tradition is that the name was
originally bestowed upon a Highland chief for
his great courage and physical powers. An
other and better authenticated tradition is that
the name Armstrong is derived from the fol
lowing circumstance: "An ancient king of
Scotland, having his horse killed under him
in battle, was immediately remounted by

Fairbaim, his armor bearer, who took the
king by the thigh and placed him in the
saddle, although heavily weighted by armor.
For this timely assistance and feat of strength,
the king amply rewarded him with lands on
the border ; gave him the name of Armstrong,
and assigned him for crest an armed hand and
arm ; in the left hand a leg and foot in armor
couped at the thigh all proper."
(I) The immigrant ancestor of the Arm
strongs of Jamestown herein recorded is
George Armstrong, a descendant of the Scotch
family that settled in the north of Ireland! He
may have been connected with the Armstrongs
of New England, but seems to have been an
independent branch in this country. He was
born in the north of Ireland and in 1836 came
to America with his wife and children, settling
in the province of Ontario, Canada. He was
a farmer, and a faithful member of the Epis
copal church. He married Eleanor Harper.
Children: William, Isabella, Elmer, Thomas
Gilbert, of whom further; Amelia, Christo
pher, Nellie, George, Mercy.
(II) Thomas Gilbert, son of George Arm
strong, was born in Ireland, December 11,
1835, died in Jamestown, New York, March
30, 1907. When he was one year of age his
parents emigrated to Canada, settling at Lis-
terville, province of Ontario. Here he grew
to manhood, receiving his education in the
public schools, and working with his father
on the farm. In 1859 he came to the United
States, and from that date until within a few
years of his death he was actively engaged in
railroad construction and operation. During
the earlier part of the civil war he was super
intendent of the construction of the Rock
Island & Arkansas Railroad, representing an
English syndicate. In 1863 he became super
intendent of construction of the Franklin
(Pennsylvania) branch of the Erie railroad,
and later in charge of the work at Salamanca,
New York. In 1871 he was appointed super
intendent of the Meadville division of the
Erie, which position he retained until his fail
ing health compelled him to retire from active
business. He resided in Jamestown forty
years and of him it was said most deservedly
that he wore from youth "the white flower
of a blameless life." His relations with the
men over whom he had charge, as well as with
the officials of the Erie and the traveling
public, were most cordial, his straightforward
dealings and sturdy honesty of purpose win-

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ning him universal respect. He was a de
voted churchman, was warden and vestry man
of St. Luke's Episcopal Church at Jamestown
and for twenty years superintendent of the
Sunday school. While in Salamanca he was
one of the organizers and a member of St.
Mary's Episcopal Church. His naturally
strong and manly character was strengthened
and ennobled by his christian devotion and
association with the church, and made him a
man of great influence with his associates.
He married, at Meadville, Pennsylvania,
February 28, 1865, Ruth Hale, born in Sugar
Creek township, Venango county, Pennsyl
vania, February 13, 1844, daughter of George
W. and Mary Jane (Canon) Parker (see Par
ker forward). She survives her husband, a
resident of Jamestown, where she has several
of her children with her. Children: 1. Nellie
Jane, born in Jamestown, April 18, 1866;
since 1886 she has been a teacher in the
Jamestown public schools and is now (1911)
principal of the South Side grammar school,
2. Mary Belle, born February 2, 1868, died
May 4, 1875. 3. Ruth Eleanor, born March
12, 1871 ; married Dr. Henry William Lang-
heim ; now in the Philippine Islands, under the
auspices of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions. 4. George Thomas, of whom fur
ther. 5. Belle Amelia, born March 17, 1882;
married, January 19, 1907, Howard Smith
Kelsey. 6. Grace Parker, born February 17,
1886 ; now a government teacher in the Philip
pine Islands.
(Ill) George Thomas, only son of Thomas
Gilbert and Ruth Hale (Parker) Armstrong,
was born in Jamestown, New York, January
27, 1874. He attended the public schools of
that city and was graduated from the high
school. He decided upon the legal profession
and began study in 1893 with the law firm of
Booty, Fowler & Weeks. In 1895 he entered
Cornell University (Law School) whence he
was graduated LL. B., class of 1897. In that
year he was admitted to practice in the state
courts of New York, and in 1899 to practice
in the United States supreme court. He be
gan practice with G. Glenn Worden, the firm
being Worden & Armstrong. A year later
the firm dissolved, Mr. Worden going to New
York City, Mr. Armstrong continuing alone
until 1909, when he formed a law partnership
with Frank H. Mott, as Armstrong & Mott.
The firm is a very successful one, their busi
ness being a general one in its character.

They are attorneys for the Warren Traction
Company and other corporations of James
town and vicinity and stand well in their pro
fession. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the
Episcopal church; the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks ; the Knights of Pythias
and Knights of the Maccabees. He is an
active Democrat; has served as secretary and
chairman of the Chautauqua Democratic
county committee. He was appointed by the
late mayor, Emil Johnson, to the office of
secretary of the city civil service commission
and is also an examiner of the New York
state civil service commission. His club is
the Jamestown.
He married, in Jamestown, October 4, 1900,
Elizabeth Oliver, born in that city, September
14, 1878, daughter of Charles A. and Celes
tia Priscilla (Cook) Breed, and maternal
granddaughter of Judge Orswell Cook. Chil
dren: Priscilla, born January 26, 1902;
Ruth, January 2, 1904; Elizabeth Breed, Jan
uary 25, 1909. (The Parker Line).
• Mrs. Ruth Hale (Parker) Armstrong is a
granddaughter of William Parker, born Jan
uary 27, 1772, died March 3, 1844. He was a
farmer of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania,
later of Venango county, where he settled in
18 18 in Sugar Creek township. He married
Ruth Dougherty, born in Lancaster county,
1772, died August 27, 1831. Children: 1.
Mary Ann, died an infant, April 7, 1813. 2.
George Washington, born May 29, 1813, in
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, died Octo
ber 6, 1889, at the homestead in Venango
county, Pennsylvania. He was but five years
old when his parents moved to Venango
county, and there his after life was spent. He
was educated in the public schools and fol
lowed agriculture all his active life. His prop
erty was in the Venango oil belt, which added
greatly to its value. He was one of the pros
perous, respected, and influential men of his
town. He was a Democrat and held many of
the township offices. In religious faith he was
an Episcopalian. He married Mary Jane Can
on, born July 17, 1816, died July 30, 1894,
daughter of John and Margery (Dean) Can
on and maternal granddaughter of James
Dean. Children : i. William C, born March
31, 1842, died August 7, 1888. ii. Ruth Hale,
September 13, 1844; married Thomas Gilbert
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G, March 9, 1846, died April 30, 1909. iv.
Charles B., 1848. v. Henry R., 1850. vi.
Jennie, 1865.

In the earlier develop-
WADSWORTH ment of the Genesee
country, the Wadsworth
brothers, James and General William, played a
conspicuous part. Like many more of the
first settlers in that region, they were of Yan
kee stock.
James Wadsworth was born in Connecticut
in 1767. He graduated from Yale College at
the age of 20, and about this time his father
died. From the family home at Hartford,
Connecticut, James went north to Montreal,
Canada, and there taught school a year. The
father's estate was then administered -and
James received for his share something like
$15,000, for the time a considerable sum. An
uncle with an interest in what was known as
the Phelps and Gorham purchase, a land ven
ture, induced the Wadsworth brothers to take
2,000 acres, the cost of which extensive tract
in that day was but $160. In the spring of
1790, William (later the General) went by
ox team from the old Hartford home to settle
on the place at Geneseo, while James pro
ceeded to New York to purchase them an
outfit. Proceeding up the river, he had for
fellow passenger by sloop the first John Jacob
Astor, then on his way to Canada and the
northwest to purchase furs. They struck up
an acquaintance on the trip which lasted dur
ing life. The brothers made their way
through the woods and waters of the primeval
wilderness that lay between them and their
destination, and were the first settlers at Gene
seo. They built a cabin and bought 4,000
acres more, paying for it fifty cents an acre.
In 1796 James Wadsworth was in London,
selling lands. An observer of that period
says: "No land agent of the Genesee coun
try is so successful as James Wadsworth. He
sells three times as much as any one else." In
that statement, we have an indication of his
energy and business qualifications, and of the
part he played in the up-building of those
parts. He was active also in public affairs.
In 1816 he was elected commissioner of com
mon schools. In a story told of him in the
"History of Livingston County" is an ex
ample of his energy and liberality. It is to
this effect: He won a bet by the election of
Polk to the presidency in 1844, when he de

feated Clay. With this money James Wads
worth conveyed water in log pipes from what
was known as Mammoth Spring to Main
street, where a reservoir was constructed. He
declined office, but did much privately thus
for the public good.
His life was uneventful, but full of acts of
charity and liberality. The education of the
people was one of his hobbies. He was the
father of the district school library. That
measure he urged upon the legislature as long
ago as 1835, which body, yielding to his sug
gestions, passed the first law for that pur
pose. Nor did he stop there, but went on to
secure the publication of suitable works for
such libraries, and assumed expenses for dis
tricts in his own locality which were never re
paid. He took great interest in the subject
of agricultural chemistry and spent consider
able sums to secure the publication of works
and tracts on that subject. He is said to have
influenced also his friend Astor in the foun
dation of the great public library of New
York. The crowning act of his life career
was the establishment at Geneseo of the Athe
naeum, now known as the Wadsworth Library,
with an endowment for its support and im
provement. This institution is free, and the
pride of the county.
In 1804, he married Naomi Walcott, of
East Windsor, Connecticut, a woman of taste,
•intelligence and congenial disposition. In
1833 General William Wadsworth, his bro
ther, died without children and James Wads
worth inherited his estate. In 1843 his health
began to decline. He tried a change of cli
mate, but without result. Returning to Gene
seo, he died, June 7, 1844, aged 77 years. Mr.
Wadsworth, we are told by one who knew
him, was dignified but courteous. His con
versational talents were great. He was com
plementary to his brother, the more intellectual
of the two. He was the "inside" man of their
partnership, William, the "outside." General
James Samuel Wadsworth, who served the
north gallantly during the civil war at Chan-
oellorsville, Gettysburg, and Other engage
ments, and was killed in the battle of the
Wilderness, May 6, 1864, was the eldest son
of James Wadsworth. (VIII) Isaac (2) Eddy, son of
EDDY Rev. Isaac (1) Eddy (q. v.),
was bom October 22, 1800, died
1873. In early life he was a merchant

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of Jamestown, New York, later purchased and
cultivated a farm now a part of that city. He
was a Whig, later a Republican, and a con
sistent member of the Congregational church.
He married Ann Howe, born 1800, died 1891.
Children: Myron Winslow, of whom fur
ther; Isaac Webster, Elizabeth Ann, Cory
don W.
(IX) Myron Winslow, eldest son of Isaac
(2) and Ann (Howe) Eddy, was born in
Genesee county, New York, January 1, 1826,
died March 15, 1889. He was two years of
age when his parents moved to Jamestown,
New York, where he was educated and grew
to manhood. He learned the trade of car
penter, and during his earlier life followed
that trade as an occupation. He later en
gaged in farming, owning a good farm of
eighty-eight acres at Oak Hill. After his
marriage he was proprietor of a hotel in May
ville. During the civil war he served as Uni
ted States deputy provost marshal, having
headquarters at Dunkirk. For five terms he
was deputy sheriff of Chautauqua county. He
was a Republican and took an active part in
county politics. He was a member of the
Congregational church.
He married, June, 1852, Louisa Marie Sher
man, born at Sherman's bay, Busti, Chautau
qua county, New York, December 28, 1826,
clied January 27, 1898, daughter of Merritt
and Laura (Barnes) Sherman. Children: 1.
Fred Sherman, of whom further. 2. Willis
C, born October 14, 1857; married Rose
Hawkins and had Luella Louisa, Gwendoline
and Lura Mabel. This family resides at Au-
burndale, Massachusetts, where Willis C. is
engaged as a printer. 3. Charles Sumner,
born August 19, i860; for thirty years asso
ciated with the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Com
pany of Akron, Ohio, now living retired ; he
married Ellen  , and has a daughter,
Ethel N., married Maurice Toomey, son, Da
vid E.
(X) Fred Sherman, eldest son of Myron
Winslow and Louisa Marie (Sherman) Eddy,
was born in Jamestown, May 7, 1853. He
attended "old No. 1" school, passing from
there to the high school. He began business
life as a bookkeeper with E. A. Dickerson,
remaining two years. For the ensuing two
and one-half years he occupied a similar posi
tion with the Proudfit Clothing Company. He
spent the next three years in Cleveland, Ohio,
engaged in bookkeeping. He then returned to

Jamestown, becoming clerk of the Sherman
House, a position he most capably filled for
seventeen years. Following his experience at
the Sherman House came a series of short
engagements of similar nature in Olean and
Salamanca, New York, Adrian, Michigan, and
in Ohio, returning to the Sherman House. He
was clerk of the Lakewood Hotel three sea
sons, then for eight years in the employ of
R. fi. Johnson. On September 25, 1905, he
embarked in the retail tobacco business in
Jamestown, which he still continues at the
corner of East Third and Pine streets. Mr.
Eddy is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, Jamestown, belongs to
the Congregational church and is a Republican
in politics.
fie married, October 24, 1888, Harriet Eli-
nore Meek, born at Fostona, Wood county,
Ohio, August 6, 1863, daughter of George
and Hannah Meek. Child, a daughter, died
in infancy.

This branch of the Carl-
CARLSTROM strom family in America
was founded by Carl
Peter Carlstrom, born in Lilla Salshult, Kors-
berga, Sweden, in 1832. He was the son of
Johannes Nilson Carlstrom, born in 1801, and
Stine (Jones) Carlstrom, born in 1793 ; and
had one brother, Johannes Carlstrom, born in
1834. (II) Carl Peter Carlstrom was educated in
the district schools of his native land, after
which he learned the trade of a carpenter and
joiner which he followed in his own country
for many years, becoming prominent in his
calling and doing contracting work. In the
fall of 1878 he emigrated to this country, ac
companied by his eldest son, John; landing
here in November, he located at Jamestown,
New York, where he found work at his trade.
Owing to business depression, however, he
soon removed to Youngstown, Ohio, finding
employment in the iron works there for a
short time, after which he returned to James
town, resuming his old trade, which, in con
nection with cabinetmaking, he followed for
the remainder of his life. After he had firmly
established himself in this country, he was
joined in April, 1879, by his wife and the
remainder of his children, making their home
in Jamestown and attaining prominence in
the community. The family are now among
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this place, alike in social, religious and politi
cal circles, and lend their beneficent influence
to its advancement and progress in which their
interest is keen, Mr. Carlstrom having been a
member of the Swedish Mission Church, and
in politics a leading Republican. He died Oc
tober 21, 1902, universally esteemed and
mourned. Mr. Carlstrom was married in his native
country to Louise Catherine Carlson, born at
Sologard, Nye, Sweden, February 13, 1843,
and died in this country, March 12, 1902, a
few months prior to the death of her husband.
Their children :
1. Jennie, who was born at Sologard,
Nye, Sweden, November 21, 1863; came to
America with her mother in April, 1879 ; mar
ried August Erickson, July 5, 1884. Children :
Mabel, deceased; Iver W., Irene, Lloyd, Le-
vern. The family resides at No. 102 Broad
head avenue, Jamestown, New York. 2. John
A., born at Hester, Baxheda, Sweden, July
6, 1866; came to America with his father in
1878, and is now a member and director of the
John J. Mitchell Garment Cutting School in
New York City, and is editor of their trade
journal; his residence is at Flushing, New
York. He married, April 20, 1892, Anna
Penny, who died October 8, 191 1. One son,
Claud, was born to them. 3. August Eduard,
born at Hammarsdal, Korsberga, Sweden,
November 26, 1870 ; came to America with his
mother and sisters in 1879, and is now fore
man of the machine floor of the Watson
Manufacturing Company, Jamestown, New
York. He married Alma Anderson, born Oc
tober 23, 1877, and they have two children,
Elton and Bernes. 4. Anna E., born at
Kallas, Nye, Sweden, February 22, 1877; she
came to America in 1879 with her mother,
and January 1, 1903, was married to Edward
J. Donelson, one of the most respected mer
chants and business men of Jamestown; they
have no children. 5. Ellen M., born at James
town, New York, February 18, 1882; mar
ried Algot Larson, September 22, 1909, and
one son was born to them in 191 1. 6. Rey
nold Frederick, see forward.
(Ill) Reynold Frederick, youngest child of
Carl Peter and Louise Catherine (Carlson)
Carlstrom, was born at Jamestown, New
York, December 21, 1885. He passed his
early years in his native city where he at
tended the public schools. His business ca
reer was begun at the bottom of the ladder,

as he started as an errand boy in the depart
ment store of Jones & Audette; he remained
with this firm for two years, when he con
nected himself in the same capacity with the
Proudfit Clothing Company, working himself
up through the various branches of the mer
chant tailoring business until he became an
assistant cutter after an engagement of four
years with this company, which is distin
guished as being one of the oldest and best
houses in this line in Western New York.
He then went to New York City, taking a
general course of instruction in the cutting
of .men's garments, after which he went to
Springfield, Illinois, in the capacity of cutter
for the firm of Thornberry & Danner, re
maining with them for about eighteen months,
and resigning in order to accept a similar
position with the firm of Edward Olson, 200
Broadway, New York City. After this he
did work in the same line at New Haven,
Connecticut, and for two years associated
himself with William Casel, of Youngstown,
Ohio. He then became cutter for Charles Ep
stein, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, where
he remained for about a year and a half, re
signing and returning to Jamestown, New
York, to enter into business for himself. In
January, 191 1, he formed a partnership with
Mr. Enoch C. J. Swanson, establishing the
firm and business of the Interstate Woolen
Mills Company, custom tailoring, and making
a specialty of fifteen dollar suits and over
coats, doing a general line of gentlemen's
tailoring. The firm has built up a large busi
ness and won a reputation for high grade
work, having offices and show rooms in the
New Gokey Building, and shops in the Union
Building on West Third street; twelve jour
neymen are also regularly employed. Mr.
Carlstrom, „ who is the head of the firm, has
proved himself a most enterprising and suc
cessful young business man, winning for him
self and the house which he has established
the commendation and esteem of the entire
community. He is a member of the First' Lu
theran church, and stands well in social cir
cles; in politics he is a member of the Re
publican party.
Mr. Carlstrom married, in Warren* Ohio,
August 21, 1909, Elva Theodora, daughter
of Vicrus and Rachel (Cook) Ellis, and was
born at Elmira, New York.

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This family was planted in
ROBERTS England many generations
ago and has been borne by
men high on the roll of fame. In the United
States this branch is of recent settlement.
William Roberts was born in England, emi
grated to the province of Ontaria, Canada,
where he died at Brantford in 1870. He mar
ried, in England, Ellen Hicks. Children, all
born in Brantford: Robert N., of whom
further; John, born 1866, died 1876; William,
born 1868, now engaged in the printing busi
ness in Lockport, New York.
(II) Robert Nathaniel, eldest son of Will
iam and Ellen (Hicks) Roberts, was born in
Brantford, Ontario, Canada, October 3, 1864.
His education was obtained in the schools of
Fort Erie, Ontario ; Gasport, New York ; Port
Huron, Michigan; Lockport, New York. He
learned the art of type setting and printing,
working in different places. In 1872 he es
tablished for himself in Lockport, where he is
now (1911) in successful publishing business.
He organized and is treasurer of the Roberts
Brothers Printing Company, job, book and
newspaper publishers, and secretary and treas
urer of the Lockport Journal company. The
Journal is an influential county paper, devoted
to the interests of Niagara county and the
city of Lockport. Mr. Roberts is a man of
wide experience and capability and is highly
esteemed by his friends and associates. He is
a Republican in politics, and has made The
Journal an outspoken, fearless advocate of
Republican principles.
Mr. Roberts served efficiently for nine years
as supervisor from the third ward of Lock-
port, and in 1907 was appointed postmaster
by President Roosevelt, fie is secretary of
the Niagara County Agricultural Society, and
has other interests and affiliations. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church;
Niagara Lodge, No. 375, Free and Accepted
Masons, and in 1901 was elected master; is
a member of Ames Chapter, No. 88, Royal
Arch Masons ; past grand of Cataract Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and past
grand inside guardian of the Grand Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the
state of New York.
He married, March 1, 1887, at Lockport,
Sarah E., born in England, December 25,
1864, daughter of William Sipson, a musician,
who came to the United States about 1873
and located in Lockport. Children : E. Wes

ley, born 1889; Harrison E., 1892; Florence,
1893; Olive W., 1897.

The name of Fenton has dis-
FENTON tinction in Chautauqua county
as that of one of the pioneer
families, and in the Empire state as that of
one of her eminent sons, one of the most
notable of her national representatives in civil
war times, and during a considerable period
after, a rival of Seymour, and competitor,
within party lines, of no less a figure than
Roscoe Conkling himself.
(I) The first of the Fentons on this side
of the water came from England in the year
1635, a very early and primitive day. He was
the great-grandfather of Governor Fenton,
and settled in Connecticut. On the distaff
side, according to the authorities, the Gover
nor's ancestry was Scotch-Irish.
(II) Roswell Fenton, who, at the age of
thirty-four, in 1769, moved from Connecticut
to fianover, New Hampshire, and subse
quently to the state of New York, was a son
of the immigrant and grandfather of Gover
nor Fenton.
(Ill) George W. Fenton, son of Roswell
Fenton, was born in New Hampshire, De
cember 30, 1783. He grew to manhood, how
ever, in New York. In 1804, at the age of
twenty-one, he left the paternal roof to seek
his fortune in the region which was then
known as "the west." He went to Philadel
phia, thence to Pittsburgh, and from there
down the Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky; after
which he taught school in Pennsylvania for
a time. In 1806 he married Elsie Owen,
daughter of John Owen, a soldier of the
French and Indian war and of the revolution,
a native of Windsor, Connecticut, who died in
1843, aged one hundred and eight years. The
Governor's stock it will be seen is storied and
revolutionary. George W. Fenton married
in Carroll and built a log cabin there on the
southern side of the Chautauqua outlet. He
was a very intelligent man, and followed the
business of farming successfully the rest of
his life. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton had the fol
lowing children : Roswell O., George W. Jr.,
William H. H., John F., and Reuben E.
(IV) Governor Reuben E. Fenton, son of
George W. Fenton, was born in the little log
cabin above mentioned as built by his father,
July 4, 1819. He went to school in his boy
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the district. At fifteen he was sent to Cary's
Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he re
mained two years and finished at seventeen,
with a term at Fredonia Academy, Fredonia,
New York. Then he read law for two years
with Waite Brothers, of Jamestown, New
York. About this time, his health failing, he
engaged in the lumber business on the Alle
gheny and Ohio rivers, in which he was suc
cessful. His father had met with business
reverses and it was to repair the shattered
family fortune that he was constrained to
embark in this enterprise.
In fourteen years, between 1838 and 1852,
he acquired a fortune. It was said of him :
"He had a genius fqr business; was a born
financier." Public life interested him early.
He was supervisor of the home town from
1846 to 1852; in the latter year, he was
elected to congress at the age of thirty-three.
He was the Democratic nominee. That ended
his business career ; from this time on, he was
in the public service. Two years later he
was defeated for congress by the "Know-
Nothing" candidate. Then, having reason to
change his views by the course of events, he
joined the Republican party and was presid
ing officer at its first conveintion in New
York state. To that party he attached him
self and through it rose to high honors. It
elected him to congress in 1856, and again
and again until 1864. Then he ran against
Horatio Seymour for Governor of New York.
It was a presidential year, and he led the
presidential vote in the balloting by several
thousand. His success made him at once a
figure of national importance.
As Governor during the last year of the
civil war, his energy did much to sustain the
hands of Lincoln. Within four days after his
inauguration, for example, he had raised the
state's quota of troops and sent them to the
front. At the close of his term, he was re
elected, over John T. Hoffman. His reputa
tion by this time had spread over the land,
and the New York delegates to the Republi
can national convention at Chicago in 1868
were instructed to present his name for Vice-
President. On that occasion, Colfax received
the vote ; but Fenton stood next to him.
The following year the legislature of New
York elected him United States senator for
the term expiring in March, 1875. As sena
tor he interested himself in questions of debt,
taxation, banking and currency — the financial

problem in a word. His speeches on these
subjects were regarded as very clear and very
able. In 1878 after his senatorial term had
expired he still occupied a distinguished posi
tion. That year President Hayes appointed
him, with William S. Groesbeck of Ohio, and
Gen. Francis A. Walker of Massachusetts,
commissioner of the United States to the In
ternational Monetary Conference at Paris.
Mr. Fenton was chairman of that commission.
On his return from that trip, he was chosen
president of the First National Bank of
Jamestown, New York, which position he held
until his death, which occurred suddenly, at
his desk, August 20, 1885. In his home town
especially, this death was regarded as a great
bereavement. His obsequies were impressive;
the Fenton Guard, named after him, acted as
his guard of honor. The Governor of the
state, and his staff, and many other distin
guished persons participated in his funeral.
In politics Governor Fenton had a great
name as an organizer. He was a careful and
methodical man of business and a conscien
tious legislator. His benefactions were num
erous and judiciously bestowed. He con
tributed generously to the support of Syra
cuse University of which he was regent and
he was a director of Meadville College and
Chamberlain Institute. Personally he was of
commanding presence. He was six feet in
height, of powerful frame, and gentlemanly in
his manner, a man of polish and elegance,
kind and courteous, especially to young men,
to more than one of whom he rendered timely
aid, both in financial and other ways.
Governor Fenton was twice married. His
first wife, Jane Few, died two years after
their marriage, leaving one child, a girl. By
his second wife, Elizabeth Scudder, he had
three children : Josephine, who married Frank
E. Gifford; Jeannette, married Albert Gilbert
Jr., Reuben Earle, who died on his way home
from a trip to the Holy Land in 1895, aged
thirty years.

Jonathan Gifford came from
GIFFORD the north of England to
America, in 1630, with his bro
ther William. He married and had a son
Silas. (II) Silas, son of Jonathan Gifford, born
1650, was of Falmouth, Massachusetts. He
married and had a son Jonathan.
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born 1680, was of Falmouth. He married and
had a son Silas.
(IV) Silas (2), son of Jonathan (2) Gif
ford, born 1710, was of Dartmouth, Massa
chusetts. He married and had a son Gideon.
(V) Gideon, son of Silas (2) Gifford, was
born about 1740. He came from Ponagansett,
Massachusetts, and settled in Pawlet, Ver
mont, in 1792. He is said to have served
throughout the revolutionary war. He was a
blacksmith by trade. He married (first) Ruth
Butts, of Rhode Island, who died 1796, leav
ing eight children. He married (second) Bet
sey Willey.
(VI) Caleb, son of Gideon Gifford, was a
resident of Dartmouth, later removing to
Cambridge, Washington county, New York.
He married, November 7, 1782, at Dartmouth,
Jedidah Cushman, a direct descendant of
Robert Cushman, born in England, 1580-85,
a leader of the Puritan exiles at Leyden, Hol
land. With Carver and Martin he organized
the expedition in the "Mayflower" in 1620.
He sailed in the "Mayflower," August 5, 1620,
in company with the "Speedwell," .and was
chosen assistant governor. The "Speedwell"
becoming unseaworthy, he returned in her to
England and took charge of the remaining
Puritan band, emigrating with them the next
year in the ship "Fortune," arriving at Plym
outh, New England, November 9, 162 1. He
returned to England in the "Fortune," leaving
his son Thomas, a lad of fifteen years, in
charge of Governor Bradford. He was cap
tured on the return voyage and held a pris
oner in France fourteen days. He wrote and
published a vindication of the Plymouth enter
prise, and made an appeal for Christian mis
sions to the Indians. He was agent for the
colonies in Great Britain and obtained a royal
charter for territory on Cape Ann. He is
supposed to have died in England. He was
the leading and most energetic spirit of the
Puritans, both in England and at Leyden. He
married, at Leyden, 161 7, Mary Singleton, of
Sandwich, England (second wife). Children
by first wife: Sarah; Thomas, born 1608,
who. came to America with his father in the
"Fortune" in 1621 ; he married Mary, daugh
ter of Isaac Allerton ; their son, Eleazer, mar
ried Elizabeth Combes ; their son, James, born
in Plymouth, 1709, lived in Dartmouth, mar
ried and had a son Seth, of Dartmouth, New
Hampshire, born 1740; his daughter, Jedidah,
married, 1782, Caleb Gifford. Children of

Mr. and Mrs. Gifford : Alden, Gideon, Isaac,
Theron, Mary, Calista.
(VII) Gideon (2), second son of Caleb
Gifford, was born in New Bedford, Massachu
setts, April 18, 1789. He removed to Wash
ington county, New York, with his father, re
maining until the spring of 1828, when he
came to Chautauqua county with his family
and household goods, making the journey in a
covered wagon drawn by a team of young
horses. He purchased over three hundred
acres bordering on /Lake [Chautauqua, the
southern portion of which he selected for the
site of his future home. The original farm
(town of Busti) is nearly all owned by his
descendants at this date (1911). The first
house built upon the' farm was a post
and beam house, and was shingled all over the
outside with pine-shaved shingles, some of
which were ten to twelve inches in width.
The nails were cut nails, headed by hand.
The door trimmings and nails were brought
in the wagon from Washington county. He
was surveyor and became widely and favor
ably known throughout Chautauqua county.
In the early years of his residence he traveled
on foot over a large part of the county in
the employ of Mr. Peacock, of Mayville, agent
of the Holland Land Company. For a long
term of years and until his eyesight failed
he spent much time in surveying in the south
ern part of the county, especially in laying
out roads and establishing disputed boundar
ies. He married, May 26, 1810, Millicent
Cornell, born January 28, 1792. Children: 1.
Alice, born April 28, 181 1, died December,
1890; married, in 1838, Simeon Bentley. 2.
Daniel, December 2, 1815, died 1888. 3.
Matthew C, November 29, 1820, died i860.
4. Mary, 1824, died 1889; married (first)
Richard Stoneham; (second) Stephen Hunt.
5. Jane, May 17, 1826; married Washington
Palmeter. 6. Walter C, May 8, 1829. 7.
Cyrus, August 11, 1832, died in Kentucky in
1865. (VIII) Daniel, son of Gideon Gifford, was
born in Cambridge, Washington county, New
York, December 2, 1815. fie came to Chau
tauqua county with his parents and became a
well-to-do farmer of the county. He married
Ann M. Sherman. Children : George, married
Anna Bisbee, no issue; Charles D., of whom
further. (IX) Charles D., second son of Daniel Gif
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tauqua county, New York, on the homestead
farm of his father and grandfather, July 16,
1846, died there December 18, 1903. He was
educated in the Jamestown schools and fin
ished his education at Chamberlain Institute,
at Randolph, New York. He spent his early
years on the farm, but after finishing his
studies taught school for about three years.
He then became an agriculturist and was one
of the most successful and prominent farmers
of Chautauqua county, fie was especially
noted as a breeder of fine cattle, making a
specialty of Durhams and Jerseys. His fine
horses, stock and the abundance of his crops
were of especial note in agricultural circles.
His farm of one hundred and twenty-five
acres was beautifully located along Lake Chau
tauqua, near the summer resorts of Celoron
and Lakewood, while its close proximity to
the Erie railway station, and the electric cars
made it one of the most desirable as well as
most beautiful properties in Western New
York. The modern house he built is now the
residence of his widow (1911). He took a
deep interest in the Patrons of Husbandry,
was a charter member of Union Grange, of
which he was- master, also was a member and
master of Pomona Grange. He was an ex-
president of the Kiantone Farmers' Club, and
for a long term of years was an active mem
ber and a director of the Chautauqua County
Agricultural Society. At the time of his death
he was a director of the Farmers' and Me
chanics' Bank, of Jamestown. He was an
attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and in politics a Republican. Although al
ways interested in public affairs and keenly
alive to his duties as a citizen, he would never
accept public office, although for a short time
he consented to serve as assessor. He was
a man of high honor and strict integrity,
broad and liberal in his views, and always
lent his efforts and influence for the better
ment of his community. He was honored and
respected in his town and had many warm
friends. n/. .-,,
He married, September 22, 1869 Clemen
tine Jeanette Hitchcock, of Ripley, New York
(see Hitchcock IX). Children: 1 Marion,
born January 30, 187 1 ; married, June 26
1895, Melville Maltby Martin, now connected
with the Erie Railroad Company; child, Will
iam Gifford ; they reside on the home farm.
2. Elmer Corydon, born January ii, 1873,
was educated in the Jamestown public schools,

finishing his studies with a course at James
town Business College. He is a modern
farmer and conducts a successful business. He
is a member of Union Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry; the Knights of Pythias; and a
Republican in politics. He married Pearl E.
Terry, born May 4, 1873, daughter of Jay L.
and Nettie Bates Terry, of Sinclairville, New
York. Children: i. Louise Jewell, born Au
gust 19, 1904; Charles Jay, June 9, 1907;
Corydon Daniel, February 15, 1910.
_(The Hitchcock Line).
This family originally came from Wiltshire,
England, where it had been numerous since
the days of William the Conqueror. Anciently
there were two families bearing coats-of-arms.
From these the name spread to other parts of
England, one branch settling in Warwick
shire. There were several emigrants of the
name among the early settlers in America:
Thomas and William Hitchcock, who settled
in Virginia ; Matthias, Luke and Edward, who
settled in New England. This branch de
scends from Luke Hitchcock, who came from
Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, England, and
settled in Connecticut. He was living in Weth
ersfield in 1646, and died there November 1,
1659. It is said he was very friendly with
the Indians, who in return gave him a deed
for the land now covered by the town of
Farmington. His deed was clear and valid,
but so little thought of at that early day that
his wife used it to cover a pie in the oven
and it was destroyed. Luke Hitchcock was
a shoemaker by trade and had a shop and
residence near the center of the town. He
was selectman in 1655-56. He married Eliza
beth, sister of William Gibbons, of Hartford,
Connecticut, who came from Fenny Compton,
England, and who left a bequest in his will
to his "brother Hitchcock." She survived him,
as she did, her two subsequent husbands; died
April 25, 1695. Children: John, Hannah,
Luke. (II) Deacon John Hitchcock, son of Luke
Hitchcock, was a deacon of the church at
Springfield, Massachusetts. On May 19, 1676,
he was wounded in the fight at Turner's Falls,
one arm shot through, the other broken. He
married, September 27, 1666, Hannah Chapin.
Children : Hannah, John, Samuel, Luke, Na
thaniel, David, Jonathan, Sarah.
(Ill) Samuel, son of Deacon John Hitch
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August 21, 1672. He settled in New Milford,
Connecticut, where he joined the church, No
vember 17, 1716. He married, November
*7> :695, Sarah Weller, born in Deerfield,
Massachusetts, daughter of John and Mary
(Alford) Weller. Children: Samuel, Jona
than, Sarah, Esther, Deborah, John, Hannah.
(IV) Captain John (2) Hitchcock, son of
Samuel Hitchcock, was born in New Milford,
Connecticut, September 28, 1716. He was
justice of the peace, captain of militia and
representative to the state assembly. He and
and his sons were grantees of the town of
Hinesburg, Vermont. He married (first) Sa
rah Barnum; (second) Sybil Sherwood;
(third) Mrs. Rebecca Buel. Children by first
wife: Isaac, Asahel, Eunice, Abigail, John.
By second wife: Zina, John. By third wife:
Sarah, Buel, Hannah, Ebenezer.
(V) Asahel, son of Captain John (2)
Hitchcock, was born in New Milford, Con
necticut, September 16, 1740, died May 6,
1829. He moved from Connecticut to Kings
bury, Washington county, New York, where
in 1795 he was justice of the peace, fie mar
ried (first) Hannah Collins; (second) Mrs.
Anna (Beach) Northrop. Children of first
wife: Collins, Prudence, Noble B. Child of
second wife : Hannah Ann.
(VI) Collins, son of Asahel Hitchcock, was
born September 9, 1767. He settled in Cam
bridge, Washington county, New York, where
he married and had issue.
(VII) Oliver, son of Collins Hitchcock,
was born about 1795, in Washington county,
New York. He learned the trade of carpen
ter, and when a young man came to Chau
tauqua county, where he followed his trade
for several years. He later purchased a farm
of eighty acres between Westfield and May
ville, on which he resided until death, fie
was a regular attendant of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and took a great interest
in church affairs. He married Elvacinda
Hunt. Children : Alzada, Emery, died young ;
William, Corydon.
(VIII) William, son of Oliver Hitchcock,
was born in Chautauqua county, New York.
He was educated in the public schools, and
became one of the successful farmers of his
county. He owned a farm of one hundred
and twenty acres at Ripley, on which he re
sided until death. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and a Republican.
He was a man of energy, good business ca

pacity and bore a most excellent character for
uprightness and fair dealing. He married
Maria Gorsline, born 1821, died 1900, a de
voted wife and mother. Children: 1. Clem
entine Jeanette, of whom further. 2. Cor
nelius, died aged four years. 3. George W.,
born in the town and county of Chautauqua,
New York, January 24, 1854; he was post
master of Ripley and operated a feed mill.
He married (first) Ida Perry; (second) Mary
A. Cochran. Children by first marriage:
Martha N. and Laura H.
(IX) Clementine Jeanette, only daughter
of William and Maria (Gorsline) Hitchcock,
was born in the town and county of Chau
tauqua, New York. In 1855 her parents re
moved to Ripley, where she was educated in
the public schools. She married, September
22, 1869, Charles D. Gifford (see Gifford IX).
She survives her husband and resides on the
beautiful farm on the shores of Lake Chau
tauqua. Her daughter resides with her, while
her only son resides nearby. Mrs. Gifford is
a member of the Congregational church and
interested in church affairs. She is a woman
of good business ability, and dispenses a
charming hospitality to her many friends and
acquaintances.

The Laidlaws of Ellicottville,
LAIDLAW New York, descend in the
third American generation
from illustrious Scotch ancestors. The first
of the family to come to the United States
was Gilbert Laidlaw, who with his wife, Mar
garet Lamb, and five children, came from near
Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, in 1851.
He settled first near Rochester, New York,
where he purchased a farm which he culti
vated until 1852. He then moved to Cattarau
gus county, settling in Franklinville, where he
bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres
which he cleared, brought under cultivation,
and made his home during the remainder of
his life. This locality has ever since been
known as the Laidlaw district. Margaret, his
wife, died soon after the settlement in Cat
taraugus county. Gilbert died in 1863. Chil
dren: William G., Robert, James, Agnes and
Betsey. (II) William Grant, son of Gilbert Laid
law, was born near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire,
Scotland, January 1, 1840, died in Ellicott
ville, New York, August 19, 1908. He came
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family in 185 1, and to Franklinville, Cattarau
gus county, New York, in 1852. fie had re
ceived good school advantages in Scotland,
but after coming to Cattaraugus he could only
attend school during the twelve winter weeks,
but there was a most excellent school in the
district, taught by well educated men, where
he became well grounded in the common and
gave some time to the higher branches. He
procured an elementary geometry which he
studied at home. During these youthful years
he assisted in clearing the farm and in all the
different kinds of work incidental to bringing
new land under cultivation. When quite well
grown he hired out to a neighboring farmer
for six months, receiving twelve dollars per
month. In the fall of the same year a private
school was started in 'Franklinville by Mr.
Kimball, which he attended, and in the follow
ing winter secured a school and began teach
ing at a salary of twenty dollars per month.
For several terms he attended a private school
studying the higher branches, Latin, Greek,
etc., part of the time teaching a class in the
school. He taught in all three winters, and
about i860 began the study of law with Judge
Samuel S. Spring, at Franklinville. In the
summer of 1861 a party of young men from
Olean and Hinsdale were making preparations
to enlist in the United States navy. He had
become strongly anti-slavery in his views, the
family newspaper having always been Horace
Greeley's New York Tribune. He joined the
party, went to New York City, enlisted, and
was assigned to the "Montgomery." He
saw hard fighting in southern waters, serving
on the "Cincinnati," and rose through several
promotions from landsman to ordinary sea
man^ able seaman, and captain of the fore
castle. He was honorably discharged May
15, 1865, returned to Franklinville, began
keeping house, and again resumed his studies
with Judge Spring.
In the fall of 1866 he was admitted to the
bar and began practice in his home town. His
practice really began before his admission, for
he had prior to that time tried numerous cases
in the justice's court, generally with Judge
Spring on the opposing side. In the fall of
1866 he was elected school commissioner for
the first district of Cattaraugus county, serv
ing three years. In the spring of 1869 he
moved to Ellicottville, where he formed a
law partnership with Judge Allen D. Scott,
later admitting his brother-in-law, James D.

McVey, to the firm. In April, 1871, he was
appointed by President Grant assessor of in
ternal revenue, holding until the following
year, when he resigned. In the fall of 1871
he was elected district attorney of Cattaraugus
county, served three years, was reelected, and
served another term. In 1873 Mr. McVey
was elected surrogate of Cattaraugus county,
and the next year moved to Franklinville. In
1875 Mr. Laidlaw's partner, Mr. Scott, was
elected county judge, and Mr. Laidlaw con
tinued practice alone; he later admitted a
former law student of his, S. R. McNair, to
a partnership, a connection that existed many
years. In the fall of 1886 he was the success
ful candidate for the Republican party for
congress, and served in the Fiftieth Congress
on the claims committee, to which he was ap
pointed by Speaker Carlisle. In 1888 he was
elected to the Fifty-first congress, and ap
pointed chairman of the committee on claims,
by Speaker Reed, the political complexion of
the house having changed. This was a very
important committee, dealing with claims in
volving vast amounts of money and intricate
points of law. Upon the expiration of his
congressional career Mr. Laidlaw returned to
Ellicottville and the practice of his profession
with his son, continuing until his final retire
ment in 1908. His was a strong character,
possessing all the Scotch attributes of te
nacity, loyalty, honesty and thrift. His num
erous canvasses for office and his legal prac
tice caused him to travel much in his district,
and as "Uncle Billy" he was known to all. He
was learned in the law and a skillful practi
tioner. As district attorney he prosecuted all
criminals without fear or favor, while in politi
cal life he served first his country's needs,
then his constituents. No man could buy him,
none intimidate him. He served his adopted
country wel| in war and peace, and was loyal
to his adopted state and county. He was a
member of St. John's Episcopal Church, and
interested in local associations and societies.
He married, September 1, 1864, Elizabeth,
born June 21, 1838, died February, 1904,
daughter of William and Margaret (Dow)
McVey. Children: 1. Gilbert William, born
July 23, 1868; educated in the public schools,
Chamberlain Institute, Cornell University
(Theological), finishing at the private school
conducted by Bishop Lawrence, of the Protest
ant Episcopal church. He studied theology
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dained to the priesthood of the Protestant
Episcopal church. He was rector of Protest
ant Episcopal churches at Fall River and Mid
dleboro, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Is
land, and is now (1911) associate rector of
St. Paul's Episcopal church, at Chicago; un
married. 2. Archibald M., of further mention.
3. Clarence Scott, born September 15, 1874;
educated in public schools; was in ill health
for several years, during which he lived on
the farm, engaged in light work, fitting his
physical condition. He took up clerical work
and so engaged with the National Packing
Company, of Richmond, Virginia; unmarried.
(Ill) Archibald McVey, son of William
Grant Laidlaw, was born in Ellicottville, Cat
taraugus county, New York, April 17, 1871.
He was educated in the public schools and
Alfred University. He pursued a course of
legal study under the direction of his
father, and in June, 1900, was admitted to
the bar. During his years of study he taught
in the public schools. He began practice with
his father, who admitted him a partner under
the firm name of W. G. & A. M. Laidlaw.
This association continued until the death of
the senior partner in 1908; since which time
A. M. Laidlaw has conducted the business
alone. He has been elected supervisor four
times, serving seven years, resigning before
the expiration of his last term. He is a Re
publican in politics, and a member of the Epis
copal church, which he serves as clerk of the
vestry. He married, July 14, 1897, Helena M., born
November 25, 1871, only child of Edwin S.
md Elizabeth (Brooks) King, and grand
daughter of Alanson and Charlotte (Mun
ger) King; maternal granddaughter of Ma-
rena and Anna Minerva (Kimball) Brooks.
Children: William King, born April 24, 1900;
Archibald McVey (2) King, September 11,
1905- (The Maternal Line).
Elizabeth (McVey) Laidlaw, was a de
scendant of John Robine, who married (first)
Janet Downie, or Dourie. He married (sec
ond) Isaobell Dounie. Children by first mar
riage : John (see forward), and Katherine,
born December 7, 1669. Children by second
marriage. Harry, born February 13, 1672,
and Thomas, February 14, 1674.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John (1) Ro
bine, was born May 28, 1665. He wrote his
name Robin. ' He married Margaret Kemp.

Children : Thomas, see forward ; Janet, born
May 26, 1702, died young; George, February
6, 1705; Janet (2), July 10, 1707; Margaret,
December 8, 1709; Alexander, June 22, 1714,
(III) Thomas, eldest son of John (2) Ro
bin, was born March 28, 1700. He married,
July 5, 1734, Margaret Hodge. Children:
Margaret, born May 2, 1735; Elizabeth,
March 1, 1737; Janet, January 10, 1739; John
(3), see forward; Jane, born December 5,
1743- (IV) John (3), son of Thomas Robin, was
born August 24, 1741. He married Jean (or
Jane) Adam. Children : Margaret, see for
ward; John (4), born August 3, 1774.
(V) Margaret, daughter of John (3) Robin,
was horn January 21, 1773. She married
James Dow. Children : Janet, James, born
1804, Robert, 1805, Margaret (see forward),
Elizabeth, born March 14, 1808; John, April
7, 1814.
(VI) Margaret, daughter of James Dow,
was born March 14, 1808. She married Wil
liam McVey, born November 8, 1806. Chil
dren : Margaret Robin, born September 14,
1834; Archibald, September 20, 1836; Eliza
beth (see forward) ; Susan, born September
15, 1840; James Dow, March 22, 1843; Chris
tina Templeton, May 25, 1848.
(VII) Elizabeth, daughter of William Mc
Vey, was born June 21, 1838. She married,
William Grant Laidlaw (see Laidlaw).
(VIII) Archibald McVey, son of William
Grant Laidlaw, married, July 14, 1897, Helena
M. King. (See Laidlaw III.)
(IX) William King, son of Archibald Mc
Vey, was born April 24, 1900.
(IX) Archibald McVey (2), son of Archi
bald McVey Laidlaw, was born September
11, 1905. (The King Line).
The King family descends from ancient
English forbears. The spelling of the name
has varied, being found as Kinge, Kynge,
Kyng and King. No less than thirty-eight
coats-of-arms are given as belonging to King
families in England, with fifteen more borne
by families spelling their names Kinge. This
family early settled in New England, where
they shared in the perils and hardships of
founding and defending a nation. Four Kings
have been governors of states and seven mem
bers of congress. Up to 1900 forty-seven
had been graduated from Harvard and thirty-
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members who have borne the name may be
mentioned Vice-President Rufus King, of New
York; Thomas Starr King, clergyman and
author, who more than any one man kept
California in the Union; Charles King, sol
dier and writer; Edward King, journalist and
essayist, and others whose name is legion.
(I) Clement King, ancestor of the branch
herein recorded, first appears as constable
of Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1668-70, but
the records of that town fail to disclose whence
he came or to which of the several King fam
ilies then in Plymouth Colony he was re
lated. Though nothing can be proven, there
is a strong probability that John King of
Weymouth was his ancestor, or closely re
lated. Clement King was proposed as a free
man in 1681 and admitted June. 6, 1682. In
a list of Marshfield townsmen, dated May 21,
1688, his name is marked with a cross indi
cating his removal to Providence, Rhode Is
land, where he bought land at Pawtuxet on
May 20, 1687. His name is on the tax list,
1688. fie was a member of the Fourth com
pany, or train band, of Providence, in Janu
ary, 1686. His wife Elizabeth survived him
and married (second) Rev. Thomas Barnes,
pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Swan-
zey, Massachusetts. Children of Clement and
Elizabeth King: John, of further mention;
James, died November 19, 1756, twice mar
ried, and left issue; Thomas, born 1691, died
October 10, 1723; Ebenezer, married Hannah
Manning, eight children; Joanna, married
Joshua Turner; a child, born June 19, 1669;
a daughter, married Richard Harris.
(II). John, eldest son of Clement King, died
September 18, 1723. He resided in Provi
dence, . Rhode Island, where his name fre
quently appears as buyer and seller of land.
He married (first) Hannah —  , of whom
no issue is known. He married (second)
Elizabeth  , who survived him. Chil
dren of latter: Sarah, died young; John (2),
born March 13, 1705; Hannah, married John
Bailey (2) ; Jemima, married John Wheaton;
Obadiah, born about 1708; Fearnot, married
Anne Briggs; Isaac, of further mention;
Sarah, married Joseph Jenckes (2) ; Josiah,
married Hannah Field, (second) Mary Bor
den; William, married Anne Dunkin.
(Ill) Isaac, son of John King, was born
about 1 7 10, died at Scituate, Rhode Island,
July 5, 1757. He was admitted a freeman of
Providence, Rhode Island, May 6, 1729, and

first purchased land at Scituate, November,
1733. His will, dated April 16, 1752, proved
August 1, 1757, names wife Sarah, and his
brother, Obadiah King, executors. He mar
ried, at Providence, about 1723, Elizabeth
Bates, daughter of Samuel. He married (sec
ond) Sarah  , who survived him and
married (second) Joseph Jenckes, of Provi
dence. Children of first wife: 1. Mary, mar
ried John Stafford. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Samuel,
born 1737, at Scituate, Rhode Island; a sol
dier of the revolution ; married Freelove Phil
lips; (second) Dinah Burton. 4. Mercy, born
1739; married Rachel Carder. 5. Margaret,
born June 27, 1742. 6. Sarah, married Joseph
Bowen (2). 7. Keziah, married Stephen Aid-
rich. 8. Joshua, of further mention. 9.
Prudence. 10. Isaac (2), married (first)
Catherine Pattey; (second) Keturah Appleby.
11. Nathan, born September 6, 1756. 12.-13-
14. Hope, Patience and George, triplets, born
November 25, 1755; Patience married Benja
min Aldrich.
(IV) Joshua, son of Isaac King by his sec
ond wife, was born June 13, 1748. He re
sided in Scituate and Foster, Rhode Island,
where in the census of 1774 he is mentioned
as having two sons and two daughters under
sixteen years of age. He married, Septem
ber 20, 1768, at Scituate, Martha Place. Chil
dren, first four born at Scituate, others at Fos
ter: Enoch, May' 15, 1769; Sally, married
Josiah Tyler; Isaac, June 23, 1776; George,
May 21, 1778; Joshua (2), May 25, 1783;
Mary, married John Foster; Arnold, of fur
ther mention.
(V) Arnold, son of Joshua King, was born
at Foster, Rhode Island, September 2, 1790.
He became a settler of the town of Collins,
Erie county, New York, in 181 1. He married
Candace Cook, and had issue.
(VI) Alanson, son of Arnold and Candace
(Cook) King, was born in Collins, Erie
county, New York, March 20, 1816, died Au
gust 10, 1888, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Candace M. Gaylord, in Liona, Pennsyl
vania, and was buried at Ashford, New York,
with Masonic honors. Early in life he was a
major of militia. In 1848 he removed to Ash
ford, Cattaraugus county, where he became a
prominent business man and noted public offi
cial. He engaged in mercantile life in Ashford,
where he also owned and operated a flouring
and saw mill. In 1849 he represented Ash
ford on the board of supervisors of Cattarau-

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gus county. He was an old time Whig, and
on the organization of the Republican party
joined the ranks of that party. In 1856 he
was elected to the New York assembly, where
he distinguished himself by the work done
for his constituents. General Samuel W.
Johnson, a Democrat, said of him, "he re
turned from the legislature as poor as he en
tered it." Mr. King was a man of more than
average ability, had great influence, and bore
an unquestioned reputation for integrity and
honesty. In 1861 he was appointed to a posi
tion in the New York City custom house,
which he held until 1871. fie spent the two
ensuing years with his son in Ellicottville,
New York, then went to his daughter at
Liona, Pennsylvania, where he died. He mar
ried, January 12, 1843, at Hanover, Chautau
qua county, Charlotte Munger. Among his
children was Edwin S.
(VII) Edwin S., son of Alanson King, was
born in Collins, Erie county, New York, Feb
ruary 8, 1844. At the age of fifteen years
he commenced teaching in the public schools,
continuing through three winter terms. In
February, 1862, he located in Ellicottville,
where in 1872 he established in the drug busi
ness in partnership with Charles H. Matte-
son, whose interest he later purchased. He
was assistant assessor of internal revenue for
ten months, and when that office was abolished
he was appointed deputy collector, holding
eight years. He was secretary of the Re
publican county committee and clerk of the
board of supervisors. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Marena and Anna Minerva
(Kimball) Brooks. Child: Helena M.
(VIII) Helena M., only child of Edwin
S. and Elizabeth (Brooks) King, was born
November 25, 1871. She married, July 14,
1897, Archibald McVey Laidlaw. (See Laid
law.) (IX) William King and Archibald McVey
(2) King, sons of Archibald McVey (1) and
fielena M. (King) Laidlaw.

Theophilus Whaley, the immi-
WHALEY grant ancestor, was born in
1616. It is said that he was a
son of wealthy parents who gave him a col
lege education. A proof of this fact is that
there is a record of him which states that he
once said: "till he was eighteen years old, he
knew not what it was to want a servant to
attend him with a silver ewer and napkin

whenever he wanted to wash his hands." Be
fore he was of age he came to America and
served in the army in Virginia, staying only.
a short time. He returned to England and
served in the Parliamentary army. In 1649
his regiment took part in the execution of
King Charles I. It has been surmised that
he was Robert Whaley, a brother of Edward,
the Regicide, and that he changed his name tp
Theophilus because of circumstances connected
with the execution. In 1660 he came again
to Virginia, and married there. Some of his
children were born there. In 1680 he moved
to Kings Town, as he had religious troubles
in Virginia ; he was a Baptist in religion. He
settled near the head of Pettaquamscut Pond,
in what is now South Kingstown, and made
his living by fishing, weaving and teaching.
Through his'good education he knew Hebrew,
Greek and Latin. He was often required to
write the deeds and papers of his neighbors.
There is a tradition that he was one of the
regicide judges, and had signed the death
warrant of King Charles; the visits of dis
tinguished men from Boston and other places
aid in confirming this theory. His reticence
about his history leaves much mystery con
cerning him; there are few records of him
in the town history. His name occurs a few
times as witness to deeds. On September 6,
1687, he was taxed 3 shillings 11 pence. On
January 20, 171 1, he received 120 acres in
East Greenwich from the proprietors of the
land which now is West Greenwich. On Feb
ruary 20, 171 1, he and his wife deeded to
their son Samuel 120 acres in East Green
wich, for love. Late in life he moved to the
house of his son-in-law, Joseph Hopkins, in
West Greenwich. He died in 1720, and was
buried with military honors on Hopkins Hill.
Francis Willet told Dr. Stiles that he wrote
a will for Theophilus Whaley, but it has not
been found. He married, in 1670, Elizabeth
Mills, who was born in 1645, and died in 1715.
Children: John; Ann, unmarried; Theodosia,
married, July 15, 1697, Robert Spencer, who
was born November 6, 1674, and died 1748,
son of John and Susanna Spencer; Elizabeth,
died 1752, married Charles Hazleton, died
March 28, 1712, son of Charles Hazleton;
Martha, born 1680, died 1773, married (first)
Joseph Hopkins, died May 15, 1735, son of
Thomas and Sarah Hopkins, married (sec
ond) Robert Spencer, who was born Novem
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Susannah Spencer; Lydia, married John
Sweet; Samuel, mentioned below.
(II) Samuel, son of Theophilus Whaley,
married first  Hopkins, daughter of
Samuel and Susannah Hopkins. He married
(second) Patience, daughter of Isaac and
Sarah fiearnden. On July 1, 171 3, he and
his wife signed a deed. A descendant gave
the date of his death to Dr. Stiles as about
1782, aged seventy-seven, but this date would
apply better to his son Samuel. There was
a Samuel Hopkins at Voluntown, Connecticut,
as early as 1721 ; in that year he was select
man there, and was on a committee in regard
to a tax for the support of a minister. Chil
dren : Thomas ; Samuel. By second wife :
Theophilus, mentioned below; Jeremiah;
John; Ann; Sarah; born August 11, 1729.
(Ill) Theophilus (2), son of Samuel Wha
ley, was born about 1720-5. He settled in
New London county, Connecticut, and accord
ing to the census of 1790 (p. 122) had in his
family himself and three females. Theophilus,
doubtless his son, was at Easton, Albany coun
ty, New York, and had in his family two
males over sixteen, one under that age, and
two females. At that time Theophilus was
the only one of the name head of a family in
Connecticut, according to the census, unless
the name was incorrectly spelled. At the pe
riod during and following the revolution the
family scattered widely from Rhode Island
and New London county, Connecticut. All
were descended from Samuel (II), but the
tracing of the lines is made difficult and in
some cases impossible on account of lack of
vital records and the changing of residence.
In 1790 Alexander Whaley was reported of
New York City. Of this Alexander we know
that Alexander and his brother James, sons
or grandsons of Samuel (II), lived in the
north parish of New London, Connecticut.
Alexander, who was born in 171 3 and died in
1799, somewhere in New York probably, was
a farmer and blacksmith; married, at New
London, in 1737, Elizabeth Shaw. Alexan
der Jr., his son, born 1745-50, removed to
New York state. Samuel and Jonathan
Whaley, also sons of Alexander, lived at New
London. In 1790 an Isaac Whaley was liv- '
ing with his family at Pawling, Dutchess
county, New York. Some of the family re
mained at North Kingston, but the records
tell little about them. We find that Thomas
Whaley had children at North Kingston: one

born March 5, 1756; Theophilus, April 19,
1758; Thomas, March 10, 1760. Lawrence
Whaley had at North Kingston: Lydia, May
13,  ; Susannah, January 21,  ; The

ophilus, February 14,
10, - — . In 1790 we also find in the census

• ; Thomas, April

of New York, Isaac Whaley of Eastern, Rey
nolds of Stephentown, Isaac and James of
Pawling, John and Timothy. The name is
sometimes found spelled Whalley and Whealy.
(IV) George Whaley was a descendant in
direct line from Samuel, of the branch that
went by the way of New London, Connecti
cut, to eastern New York, before 1790. He
went west and located at Schuyler, New York,
where he followed farming. He later located
at Holland, Erie county, New York. He
married and had four children : 1 . Perry,
married Polly Chase and had Polk, Amelia,
William, Malinda, Edward and Arthur ; Perry,
settled first in Michigan and later removed to
Grand Valley, Pennsylvania ; he was a farmer.
2. Almira, never married; taught school for
thirty-three years in Java and Holland, Erie
county, New York. 3. Sally Ann, never mar
ried. 4. Benjamin, mentioned below.
(V) Benjamin, son of George Whaley, was
born February 3, 1821, at Schuyler, New
York, and died on his son's farm at
Strykersville, New York, and is buried
there. He married Keziah Bond, who
died when a young woman, and is also
buried at Strykersville. Benjamin Wha
ley was a prosperous farmer, owning at
one time no less than fifteen hundred
acres of land under cultivation and keeping
a herd of one hundred cows. Children : Dex
ter, Seymour, George, Quincy (mentioned be
low), Ida and Frank. Dexter married Esther
Kimball, and had Julia, unmarried; Seymour
married Flora Parker, and had Mary, Alice,
Cora, Belle and Riley ; George died young, and
Ida died young, unmarried.
(VI) Quincy, son of Benjamin Whaley,
was born February 11, 1851, in Strykersville,
New York, about twelve miles from East Au
rora. He was educated in the public schools
of his native town. He has followed farming
on a large scale, and is one of the most sub
stantial citizens of Strykersville. He is a
member of the Lodge of Odd Fellows of
Strykersville. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, October 17, 1875, Frances Moore,
born September 3, 1855, in Wales, daughter
of Joshua and Catherine (Martin) Moore, of

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Wales, Erie county, New York. Children: i.
Jennie, born December n, 1876; married, No
vember 28, 1894, Riley Parker; children:
Riley and Mildred Parker. 2. Carrie, born
November 13, 1878; married, November 21,
1894, Thomas Jones ; children : Anna, Robert,
Kenneth and Elizabeth Jones. 3. George,
born October 3, 1880; unmarried. 4. Myrtle
E., born July 20, 1883; married, August 15,
1897, Everett Stratton; children,: Dorris and
Velma. 5. Emma, born December 22, 1887 ;
resides with her parents, unmarried. 6. Gould,
born November 25, 1890, resides with his
parents.

The pedigree of this family
ADAMS traces the ancestry, according to
one account, to Ap Adam, the
father of John or Lord Ap Adam, who was
called to Parliament by Edward I, and Baron
of the Realm from 1296 to 1307, and states
that he came out of the Marches of Wales
into Devonshire. This statement has been dis
credited by genealogists, though proof of er
ror seems as much wanting as proof of cor
rectness. If correct, the lineage includes kings
of England and France and goes back to
Charlemagne. (I) Henry Adams, the immigrant ancestor,
was born in England and came from Brain
tree, England, to Braintree, Massachusetts,
about 1632-3. He was allotted forty acres
of land for the ten persons in his family, Feb
ruary 24, 1639-40. President John Adams,
a descendant, believed that Henry Adams came
from Devonshire, and erected a monument to
him in the old burying ground at Braintree,
now Quincy, with this inscription : "In mem
ory of Henry Adams who took flight from the
Dragon persecution in Devonshire, England,
and alighted with eight sons near Mount Wol-
laston. One of the sons returned to England ;
and after taking time to explore the country
four removed to Medfield, and two to Chelms
ford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his
left hand, remained here — an original pro
prietor in the township of Braintree." The
monument commemorates the "piety, humil
ity, simplicity, prudence, patience, temperance,
frugality, industry and perseverance" of the
Adams ancestor. President John Quincy Ad
ams, however, dissented from the conclusion
of his father that Henry Adams was of Dev
onshire. Savage agrees with the younger
Adams that the immigrant was of Braintree,

England, in county Essex, and some of the
sons from Chelmsford in that county. It is
generally believed that the wife of Henry Ad
ams returned to England with her daughter
Ursula, and died there. Henry died at Brain
tree, October 6, 1646, and was buried Oc
tober 8. In his will, proved June 8, 1647, he
mentioned his sons Peter, John, Joseph, Ed
ward, Samuel, and daughter Ursula. Chil
dren: Lieutenant Henry, born 1604; Lieuten
ant Thomas, mentioned below ; Captain Sam
uel, born 1617; Deacon Jonathan, 1619; Peter,
1622; John, 1624; Joseph, 1626; Ensign Ed
ward, 1630; Ursula, mentioned in father's
will. (II) Lieutenant Thomas Adams, son of
Henry Adams, was born in England, in 1612,
and died in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July
20, 1688. He removed from Braintree to
Concord and thence to Chelmsford. He was
chosen chief sergeant of the military company
in 1659, but the court refused to confirm him
on account of his religious views. He was
confirmed in April, 1660, upon agreeing not
to disseminate any views contrary to those of
the church sanctioned. He was chosen ensign
in 1678 and lieutenant in 1682, in the com
pany in which his brother Samuel was cap
tain. He served as town clerk, selectman, and
deputy to the general court. His will was
dated March 28, 1688, and proved October 7,
1690. He married, in Braintree, in 1642,
Mary (Blackmore?). Children: Mary, born
in Braintree, July 24, 1643, died young; Jona
than, twin, born in Concord, January 6, 1646;
Peletiah, twin of Jonathan ; Timothy born
April 2 or February 15, 1648; George, born
March 29, 1650, died young; Samuel, men
tioned below; Edith, born February 21, 1655;
Rebecca, September 18, 1657, died young;
Elizabeth, December 21, 1658-9, died young;
Thomas, July 22, 1660, died November 20
following; Mary, born October 29, 1664.
(Ill) Samuel, son of Lieutenant Thomas
Adams, was born in Chelmsford, about 1652-3.
He was a millwright by trade and removed
to Charlestown and thence to Canterbury,
Connecticut, where he was a prominent citi
zen. He was one of the first board of select
men in Canterbury, in 1699. His will was
dated August 7, 1727, and proved December
4, 1727. He died November 26, 1727. He
married Mary  , who died March 28, 1718.
Children: Abigail, born in Chelmsford, about
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Henry; Thomas; Samuel; Susanna, born in
Charlestown, March 13, 1692; Katherine, born
May 27, 1695 ; Margaret, born in Canterbury ;
Rebecca, died July 5, 1709.
(IV) Captain Joseph Adams, son of Sam
uel Adams, was born in Chelmsford about
1682-3, and died March 3, 1752, aged sev
enty. He was a first settler at Canterbury,
a large land dealer and a prominent man.
He married (first) July 23, 1708, Eunice
Spalding, who died April 5, 1726. He mar
ried (second) April 4, 1728, Mrs. Susanna
(Woodward) Adams, born 1693, died April
29, 1790, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Dana) Woodward and widow of William
Adams. Children of first wife: 1. Joseph,
born in Canterbury, June 10, 1709, died Sep
tember 7, 1709 ; Captain Samuel, born Septem
ber 4, 1710; Eunice, July 25, 1713; Lieutenant
Joseph, September 6, 171 5; Mary, August 5,
1719; Parker, April 18, 1722. Children of
second wife : Susanna, born January 19,
1728-9, died October 3, 1728; Elihu, men
tioned below; Captain Thomas, born July 31,
1734- (V) Elihu, son of Captain Joseph Adams,
was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, June 11,
1731, and died December 22, 1804. fie mar
ried, March 6, 1752, Jerusha, daughter of
Eliashib and Deborah (Tracey) Adams; she
was born August 24, 1729, and died January
24, 1799. Children, born in Canterbury :
Roswell, June 13, 1753; Daniel, mentioned be
low; Elihu, September 28, 1759, died Janu
ary 3, 1777; Jerusha, born September 12,
1762; Susanna, April 16, 1765; Joseph, No
vember 9, 1767.
(VI) Daniel, son of Elihu Adams, was
born in Canterbury, October 7, 1754-5, and
died February, 1829. He was a soldier in
the " same company and regiment with his
brother Roswell, May 19 to December 16,
1775; Roswell was a private in Captain Oba
diah Johnson's company, Colonel Israel Put
nam's regiment. Daniel lived in Preston, Con
necticut. He married, November 28, 1782,
Alice Ensworth, born 1752, died September
9, 1823. Children, born in Preston: Captain
Elihu, May 20, 1784; Guy Fitch, mentioned
below; Sophronia, March 7, 1790; Alice, born
January 6, 1796.
(VII) Guy Fitch, son of Daniel Adams,
was born in Preston, Connecticut, July 13,
1786; he settled in Ledyard, Connecticut; he
died at sea, August 8, 1832; he married (first)

July 7, 181 1, Temperance, born April 27,
1783, died November 29, 1813, daughter of
Captain Israel Morgan. Captain Adams mar
ried (second) August 6, 1820, Susanna,
daughter of Paul and Susanna (Adams) Da
venport, granddaughter of Daniel Adams.
Children of second wife, born in Ledyard,
except first, born in Canterbury: 1. Fitch Da
venport, born August 30, 1822, died in Sep
tember, 1904; married, September 2, 1844,
Nancy Wheeler, who died in Newton, Mas
sachusetts, January 16, 1895, was a master
car builder, working ten years with the Buf
falo & Erie railroad at Buffalo, New York,
and serving as superintendent of car shops for
twenty-six years for the Boston & Albany
railroad; was second president of the Na
tional Car Builders' Association. 2. Caroline,
born December 26, 1824, died December 27,
1824. 3. Charles Bingley, mentioned below.
4. Thomas Peck, born October 17, 1828,
died February, 1902, unmarried; lives at Po-
quetanuck, Preston, Connecticut. 5. Susanna,
born March 15, 1831, died June 26, 1831. 6.
Susanna Temper, born December 22, 1832.
(VIII) Charles Bingley, son of Guy Fitch
Adams, was born in Ledyard, Connecticut,
January 6, 1827. He was educated in the
public schools of his native place, and learned
the trade of carpenter. In 1853 he came to
Buffalo, New York, and found employment in
the railroad carshops with his brother, Fitch
D. Adams, under their cousin, Abner C. Ar
ams, then superintendent of the Buffalo Car
Works at Black Rock. He had previously
worked in the carshops at Norwich, Connecti
cut. In 1857 the car works failed during the
great panic, and Mr. Adams went to work
for the Lake Shore railroad. In 1862 he en
listed in the 116th Regiment New York Vol
unteer Militia, under Captain Sizer, in Com
pany G. Captain Sizer occupied the famous
Sizer mansion in Buffalo. Mr. Adams con
tinued in civil war service until he was
wounded and had to come home in 1864. He
took part in the battles of Plain Store, Cox's
Plantation, Port Hudson, Sabine Cross Roads,
Winchester and Pleasant Hill. He received
his wound in the battle of Winchester, and
his leg was amputated. He was quartermas
ter of his company five years and was made
sergeant September 10, 1862. He arrived
home December 24, 1864. After his return
he was given a cane on which is engraved
the names of the battles in which he fought,

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the gift of his fellow-workmen in the Buf- ,
falo & Erie railroad shops. For a few years
after his return from the service he was a
time-keeper for the Lake Shore railroad.
From 1870 to 1890 he was a clerk in the Buf
falo post office, and since then he has made
his home at East Aurora, New York. He is
a member of Arthur Smith Post, No. 306,
Grand Army of the Republic, of East Aurora.
He is a communicant of the Protestant Epis
copal church, and for several years was a
vestryman of St. James' Church of Buffalo,
and is now a member of St. Matthew's Pro
testant Episcopal Church of East Aurora. In
politics he is a Republican.
He married, September 10, 1849, Olive
Maples Ford, born September 16, 1826,
daughter of Samuel Sherwood and Sarah
(Maples) Ford, of Bozrah, Connecticut,
granddaughter of Joseph Ford and of Ste
phen Maples. Children: 1. Charles Fitch,
born in Norwich, Connecticut, March 12,
1853 ; married, May 10, 1873, Kate Fieler, of
Buffalo ; child : Edward Max, born in Buf
falo, November 4, 1874, resides at Hamburg,
New York. 2. Alice Isabel, born in Norwich,
September 11, 1855; married, November 6,
1873, John E. Wellington Lynn, of Buffalo;
she died at Buffalo July 6, 1877 > children :
John Franklin Adams Lynn, horn at Port
Hope, Ontario, December 6, 1874; Everett
Harvey Lynn, born in Buffalo, January 2,
1876. 3. John Franklin, born in Buffalo,
March 10, 1857; married, June 20, 1882, at
Omaha, Nebraska, Alice Cornwell, who died
July 28, 1898; resides at Buffalo; child: Ruth
Cornwell, born in Buffalo, September 15,
1884. 4. Mary Nellie, born in Buffalo, Octo
ber 31, 1861, resides at Willink, New York.

William E. Richmond, son
RICHMOND of Dean (q. v.) and Mary
E. (Mead) Richmond, was
born in Attica, New York, August 12, 1848.
He was educated in private schools or with
tutors, and at Oxford. After finishing school
he traveled for about two years on the conti
nent. On returning home, he worked for a
time in the New York Central railroad offices.
Later he became interested in the lake-carry
ing trade. He was the owner of several ves
sels and managed them successfully for many
years. Toward the close of his life he bought
a large farm near Hamburg, in which he be
came much interested. He was a Democrat

in politics, but was no office-seeker. He was
a member of the Buffalo Club, a Mason, and
an Elk. He belonged to the Episcopal church,
in which he was greatly interested.
He married, in 1871, Clarice Nims, daugh
ter of Ozias and Sarah (King) Nims, who
was born in Fremont, Ohio. He died in Buf
falo, May 14, 1906. Children, born in Mil
ford, Connecticut: 1. Watts Lansing, April
29, 1872; married, 1899, Mabel Wood; re
sides in Batavia, New York. 2. Eugene, born
April, 1873; married, May 6, 1906, May Bar
nard ; is a manufacturer in Buffalo, where he
lives. 3. Adelaide K., born in 1878. 4. Har
old, born September 17, 1881. 5. Clarice N.,
born 1883, died in 1886. 6. Frances N., born
September 8, 1889; educated in Buffalo. 7.
Dean, born 1895.

The Mills family of Livingston
MILLS county is of New England origin
and Puritan stock. It has had
distinguished representatives in this state in
the ministry, in the militia and public affairs
of the country, and in the profession of medi
cine. Rev. Samuel Mills, first of the name to
settle here, was the first ordained minister in
the Genesee Valley. General William Augus
tus Mills was the founder of the village of
Mt. Morris, and of note as major general of
the citizen soldiery. Dr. Myron Holley Mills
was a surgeon in the Mexican war and the
first to introduce what is known as the "flap
operation" in amputations.
(I) Rev. Samuel Mills, first of the family
to settle in this state, was a native of Derby,
Connecticut, born there in 1744. He was a
graduate of Yale, and came to the Genesee
country in middle life and located at a place
between Mt. Morris and Geneseo, then known
as Williamsburg, but which has since disap
peared from the map. He was a distinguished
scholar and we are told, "possessed in a
marked degree, the Christian graces." He
died of what was known as the Geneseo or
spotted fever, one of the ailments character
istic of the opening era of that then new
country. (II) General William Augustus Mills, son
of Rev. Samuel Mills, was born at New Bed
ford, Massachusetts, May 27, 1777. He be
gan his career at an early age. When his
father died the family returned to New Bed
ford, but William A. remained behind. At
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valley from Williamsburg to Mt. Morris, then
Allan's Hill, to take up land. His possessions
were simply a suit of clothes, the indispen
sable axe of the pioneer day, and a five-franc
piece, the equivalent of a dollar bill. Here
on land of Robert Morris, he built a cabin
and settled. The Indians were his neighbors ;
he was very friendly with them; they called
him "So-no-jo-na," the big kettle or generous
man, and it is said that Mt. Morris, as his
place of residence is known by that name
among the survivors of "red blood" on the
Cattaraugus reservation to this day. Mr.
Mills paid thirty dollars an acre for a portion
of the land on which he settled in 181 1. He
was exceedingly energetic and enterprising
and later as his means grew bought more and
more land. When he died he was a very ex
tensive land owner and one of the most pros
perous and prominent citizens of the county.
He was the founder of the village of Mt.
Morris. He saw early the need for develop
ment of water power there and the inconveni
ence of going twenty miles to mill, and it was
through his arguments and advocacy that the-
general assembly, in spite of strong objection
made by the boating interests, granted the
right for the dam.
General Mills was patriotic. Upon the out
break of the war of 1812, he organized a mi
litia company in Livingston county, which he
commanded and rose afterward in the service
to the rank of major general, his command
then comprising the state soldiery of six coun
ties". He was a kindly man, of liberal dispo
sition, as his Indian nickname shows. He
"went .good" often also for the land pay
ments of struggling pioneers, and is credited
with many charitable acts. He married at the
age of twenty-six, Susannah H. Harris, of Ti
oga Point, Pennsylvania. By this union he
had ten children, of whom nine reached ma
turity. One of the most distinguished of these
was the surgeon Dr. Myron H. Mills, who
after graduation from the Geneva Medical
College, practiced a while in St. Louis, Mis
souri, and saw service in the field in the Mexi
can war. After that war he lived in Roches
ter some twenty years, and then returned to
pass the remainder of his days in Mt. Morris.
General Mills, the father, passed away sud
denly, April 7, 1844, at the age of sixty-seven.
While still in apparent vigor, he was stricken
with heart failure. He left a large landed
estate, and an unclouded memory.

Peter Worden, the immigrant
WORDEN ancestor, came probably from
Clayton, Lancashire, England,
and lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, for a short
time. He was among the early settlers of thft
section of Cape Cod just north from Nantucket.
His will was dated February 9, 1639, and it
was proved March 9 same year. He was the
first among the English to die there. He
called himself a hatter, and in the Plymouth
records was said to be "old." He had lands
at Yarmouth Port, Barnstable county, Mas
sachusetts, and doubtless was buried there.
His will is on record at Plymouth, Massa
chusetts. He had one son, Peter, mentioned
below. It is said there was a daughter Elea
nor, who married John Adams and Kenelm
Winslow, but she was not mentioned in the
will. (II) Peter (2), son of Peter (1) Worden,
inherited his father's estates in England and in
America. He was executor of the estates.
He was born probably in England in 1609.
He is often spoken of in the records as juror.
In 1643 he was one of fifty-two who were
enrolled at Yarmouth with those required "to
provide a place of defence against sudden
assault." In 1648 he was given a grant of
land and probably moved at that time to "Se-
suet," in the eastern part of the town. He
and one other person were fined a few shill
ings in 1667 "for disturbance at the Yarmouth
meeting-house." In 1676 he was taxed for
the war £8 2s. 3d. This was during the time
of the wars with the Narragansetts and King
Philip. His tax was one of the largest in
town. His will was dated January 9, 1680,
and proved March 3, 1681. He was seventy-
two years of age when he died. He married
Mary (Sears? or Winslow?), who survived
him six years, and died aged seventy-seven ( ?)
years. Her will was dated March, 1686, and
proved May? 1687. In the northeast part of
the town of Dennis, which was formed from
the east end of Yarmouth, near the line of
the town of Brewster, is the Worden grave
yard, which sometimes is called the Winslow
graveyard from the fact that the Winslow
family keep it in good condition, since they
live near and have intermarried with the Wor-
dens. It is situated on a slight elevation south
of the highway. There is a fine view of Cape
Cod Bay from the graveyard; in front of it
are works for evaporating salt from the bay
water, and in the back is an old windmill.

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Peter Worden and his wife are thought to
be buried in about the center of the yard.
Several of the Winslow and Burgess families
are buried there, as well as other relatives and
..neighbors. Children: Mary, born 1639;
"Mercy, 1640; Martha, 1643?; Samuel, men
tioned below.
(Ill) Dr. Samuel Worden, son of Peter
(2) Women, was born in 1646, and died Au
gust 26, 1716. He was a physician and land
holder. Among other offices he served as
juryman in Yarmouth. In 1695 he bought
lands in the Pettiquamscut purchase, Rhode
Island, of Benedict and James Arnold. In
December, 1696, he was one of those active
in organizing Kingstowne. Worden's pond,
at the "head of the Pawcatuck," was named
after him. He moved before 171 5 to Ston
ington, Connecticut. In the town clerk's book
at Norwich is this record: "Sept. 13, 1715,
it was to me that woful day in which my dear
and tender and loving wife departed this life
and was buried on ye 15th day. Samuel Wor
den." On February 12, 1696-7, he deeded to
Isaac Chapman, of Bristol, his farm in Se-
suet, Yarmouth, except for a half-acre which
he reserved for a burying place. The farm
included 145 to 150 acres. He married
(1665?) Hopestill fiolley, born 1646, died
1715, aged seventy years. Qiildren: Peter,
born in Yarmouth, 1668; Samuel, mentioned
below" Isaac, born 1673?; Dr. Thomas, born
1675- (IV) Samuel (2), son of Dr. Samuel (1)
Worden, was born in 1670. He was made
freeman in 1694 in Massachusetts, and at
Kingstown in 1696. His father in 171 5
deeded him 100 acres on the Great Neck.
He probably died in 1729 or before, as his
five sons and daughter deeded each other
twenty-five acres of land, valued at £200 ?
portion. He married Rose  . Children :
Samuel, married Abigail  ; Edmund;
Daniel ; James ; Jeremiah ; Hannah, married
J. Collins. The five brothers were made free
men from 1723 to 1735.
(V) Probably Samuel, Jeremiah, James or
Edmund Worden was father of the Samuel
mentioned below. Daniel Worden moved to
Stonington and had a Samuel in 1745. A
Samuel Worden and his wife Thankful,
daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Worden, in Green
wich records, had a Samuel in 1742; this
Samuel had a Samuel in 1766. Samuel, son
of Samuel, mentioned above, who married

Rose, is last on the records in 1740, when he
and his mother Rose sold lands to James
Perry. (VI) Samuel (3) Worden was born in
South Kingstown, in 1753. In 1771 he bought
twenty acres from Nathan Lewis in Charles
town for £37, and in 1773 he sold Jeremiah
Worden twenty acres for £41. On June 1,
1774, he had two daughters under sixteen,
at Richmond. In 1780 he was of Charles
town, when he bought 42*4 acres of Miel
Salisbury for £2,700. In 1786 he bought 40%
acres of Daniel Crandal for £305. In 1788
Christopher, Samuel, and Benjamin Worden
voted against adopting the federal constitu
tion, and probably these were his brothers.
Pie died in 1828, aged seventy-five. Children:
James, born 1778; Isaac; Susan; Patience, and
another daughter, both of whom married and
moved West.
(VI) Christopher, brother or cousin of
Samuel Worden, was probably born at
Charlestown, Rhode Island. According to
the Rhode Island census of 1774 he was at
Charlestown, and had in his family two males
over sixteen, two under that age, and one fe
male. In 1790 he was also at Charlestown,
according to the first federal census, and had
in his family then one son under sixteen and
five females. Neither his birth nor that of his
children are on record. The marriage record
of Gardner or Garner, proves that he was a
son of Christopher, however. In 1788, Chris
topher, Samuel and Benjamin, believed to be
brothers (p. 141 Worden Genealogy), voted
against the federal constitution.
(VII) Garner, son of Christopher Wor
den, was born at Charlestown, in 1760. He
married, according to the town records (by
Peleg Cross, magistrate) March 18, 1793, at
Charlestown, Rhode Island, Nancy, daughter
of William Worden, a relative of Garner. In
1810 we find a deed of Benjamin Worden,
of Richmond, Rhode Island, to Garner Wor
den. In 1794, Garner and" Nancy Worden, of
Charlestown, deeded land to Christopher
Worden, of Charlestown, land at Hopkinton,
Rhode Island. In 1834 Garner and his sec
ond wife Lucy deeded land. Garner had one
child, Gardner, or Garner, mentioned below.
He is said to have been the largest landowner
in the state.
(VIII) Garner (2), son of Garner (1)
Worden, was born, according to family rec
ords, January 6, 1793 (if the marriage record

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is correct, this should be 1794). He married
Esther Prosser, who was born in Charles
town, according to family records, July 8,
1797. Her mother was a Larkin. Garner
Jr. located at Alfred, New York. He was
a tavern keeper. Children of Garner and Es
ther Worden : William A., married 
Eastman; Frances, died young; John Patent,
- mentioned below ; Mary Ann ; Jane ; Alexan
der Dexter ; George P., now living at Hornell,
New York.
(IX) John Patent Worden, son of Garner
Worden, was born May 1, 1826, and died
March 26, 1908. He was educated in the
public schools, and when a young man worked
in a saw mill and in the lumber business.
Some time after 1849, when gold was discov
ered in California, and in 1853 or thereabouts,
he went out as a gold seeker. In 1857 he
returned to settle his father's estate and took
charge of the farm. He made a specialty of
cheese manufacture and did some lumbering.
In politics he was a prominent Democrat. He
was a member of the blue lodge, and a Royal
Arch Mason. He married Susan Pendleton
Barber, who was born in 1836 and died Feb
ruary 1, 1879, daughter of Hosea and Eunice
(Pendleton) Barber. Her father settled in
Alfred, New York, at Five Corners, and was
a manufacturer of leather, boots and shoes,
and was a quiet, industrious citizen, highly
respected by his neighbors. Children of Ho
sea and Eunice Barber: William; Amos;
Freelove, married Jefferson M. Thomas;
Susan, mentioned above; John, died in ser
vice in the civil war; Charles, and Harrison
Barber. Children of John Patent and Susan
(Pendleton) Worden: 1. Irving Eugene,
mentioned below. 2. Wilson E., born Sep
tember 1, 1 86 1, married and has three chil
dren. 3. Ethel L., born March 10, 1870, mar
ried Allaire A. Crowell.
^ (X) Irving Eugene Worden, son of John
Patent Worden, was born in Ward, Alle
gany county, New York, December 17, 1859.
He attended the public schools, and Friend
ship Academy, from which he was graduated
in 1880. From 1882 to 1884 he was employed
in the First National Bank of Richburg, New
York, and in the following year was teller of
the State Bank at Bolivar, New York. He
came to the Exchange National Bank of
Olean, New York, June 1, 1885, and has con
tinued there to the present time, winning pro
motion by faithful service and being elected

cashier in January, 1907, an office he still fills.
He has been treasurer of the board of educa
tion of Olean. He ranks high among the
bankers of Western New York, having a na
tural" aptitude for the business, as well as the
best of experience. He has also been occu
pied much with the settlement of large estates
and the administration of private trusts. He
is a member of Olean Lodge, No. 252, Free
Masons, of Olean; of Olean Chapter, No. 150,
Royal Arch Masons ; of St. John's Comman
dery, No. 24, Knights Templar; of Ismailia
Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo. He is
also a member of the City Club, and of the
Hamilton Country Club ; a director in the Ex
change National Bank, and member of the
Chamber of Commerce. He has a financial
interest in various industrial companies of
Olean. In religion he is an Episcopalian, and
is a vestryman of St. Stephen's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Olean.
He married, April 22, 1896, Bessie Sart-
well, who was born in June, 1873, daughter
of Henry Solomon and Kate B. (Coleman)
Sartwell. She has one sister, Ethel B. Sart-
well, born January 19, 1875, married May 28,
1900, George B. Cowper, born May 25, 1874.
Mr. and Mrs. Worden have two children:
John Sartwell, born December 29, 1898, and
Katherine, born October 8, 1900.

John Sibley, immigrant ancestor,
SIBLEY born in England, came to New
England on the ship "Fleet," in
1629, with the Higginson fleet. Richard Sib
ley, believed to be his brother, was with him.
He settled at Salem, and was admitted a free
man there May 6, 1635. He may be the son
of John Sibley, of Charlestown, who with his
wife Sarah was admitted to the church there
February 21, 1634-35, and who was admitted
a freeman there September 3, 1634; he was a
proprietor of Charlestown, and may have been
•selectman of Salem, in 1636, instead of the
John Sibley first mentioned. There are rea
sons for believing that John Sibley (1) was
too young to have held such an important
office at that date. John Sibley, of Charles
town, died November 30, 1649. But for this
death record, all the references to John Sib
ley in both towns could refer to one and the
same man. It may be that this death was of
an infant son. John Sibley was a proprietor
of Salem, served on the jury in 1636, was
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sided at Manchester then called Jeffreys
Creek, in 1637. He died in 166 1. fie mar
ried Rachel, daughter of John Pickworth.
Children, with dates of baptism : 1 . Sarah,
born in Salem, baptized September 18, 1642.
2. Mary, September 8, 1644; married Jona
than Walcott. 3. Rachel, May 3, 1646; mar
ried  • Bishop. 4. John, May 4, 1648. 5.
Hannah, June 22, 1657; married Stephen
Small. 6. Samuel, April 12, 1657. 7. Abi
gail, July 3, 1659. 8. Joseph, mentioned
below. (II) Joseph, son of John Sibley, was born
probably in 1655, in Salem. He was a fisher
man. On his return from a fishing voyage he
was impressed on a British frigate and put
to hard service for seven weeks, then re
leased and sent home. His five sons settled
in Sutton, and were ancestors of a numerous
family there. Joseph, John and Jonathan
were among the thirty original settlers there.
He married, February 4, 1684, Susanna,
daughter of William Follett, of Dover, New
Hampshire. Children: 1. Joseph, born No
vember 9, 1684. 2. John, September 18, 1687.
3. Jonathan, May 1, 1690. 4. Hannah, bap
tized May 9, 1695 ; married, August 10, 1722,
Ebenezer Daggett. 5. Samuel, born 1697. 6.
William, September 7, 1700, died October 18,
1763; married, July 4, 1726, Sarah Dike. 7.
Benjamin, mentioned below.
(Ill) Benjamin, son of Joseph Sibley, was
born in Salem, September 19, 1703. fie re
moved with his brothers to Sutton, Massa
chusetts, and settled there. About 1729 he
removed to the adjacent town of Oxford,
Worcester county, where the daughter Zeru-
iah was born August 31, 1729. He went with
his family soon afterward to Union, Connec
ticut, lived also at Ashford and Ellington,
Connecticut, and died at Ashford or Union.
Children, born at Sutton: Priscilla; Benja
min Jr. Child born at Oxford : Zeruiah, Au
gust 31, 1729. Children born at Union: Jo
seph ; Ezekiel, mentioned below ; Samuel ;
Jonathan. (IV) Ezekiel, third son of Benjamin Sibley,
was born in Union, Connecticut, about 1735.
He resided in Ellington, Connecticut, where
other members of his family also settled. He
married Sarah Yeomans and had issue : John,
Ezekiel, Moses, Aaron, and three daughters.
(V) John, son of Ezekiel Sibley, was born
at Ellington, Connecticut, April 26, 1774, died
in Westford, Otsego county, New York, in

1849. In 1807 he moved to Otsego county,
New York, being the founder of this branch
in that state. He married, April 7, 1793,
Esther Bellamy, born May 16, 1777, a rela
tive of Governor Bellamy, of Massachusetts.
Children: 1. Esther, born March 15, 1794,
died 1870. 2. John (2), June 6, 1797, died
June, 1878. 3. Aaron, April 16, 1799; killed
by a falling tree in New Albion, New York,
April 28, 1842. 4. Charles, mentioned below.
5. Orrin, April 14, 1803, died March, 1878.
6. Ira, November 16, 1805, died November 12,
1 89 1 ; married (first) Polly Hazen; (second)
Miranda Sprague Gowan. 7. Sarah, 1808,
died in infancy. 8. Cynthia, July 29, 181 1,
died 1870. 9. Laura, December 12, 1813, died
in 1836.
(VI) Charles, third son of John Sibley,
was born in Ashford, Connecticut, July 4,
1 80 1, died in Napoli, Cattaraugus county,
New York, December 14, 1869. He was six
years of age when his parents moved to Ot
sego county, where he was educated, grew
to manhood and married. In 1832 he moved
with his family to the town of New Albion,
Cattaraugus county, New York. After a resi
dence there of ten years he moved to the
town of Napoli, same county. In 1836 he
erected the first grist mill in New Albion. It
was located on a branch of Conewango creek
and was used for a mill about twenty years.
He was elected justice of the peace in 1833.
He married, in Otsego county, Sarah Darl
ing, born in Columbia county, New York,
February 15, 1798, died in Napoli, Cattarau
gus county, February 21, 1885, daughter of
Ebenezer Darling, born March 16, 1775, died
October 9, 18 15 ; married Rebecca Allen, born
May 23, 1779, died April 23, 1865. Children:
Sarah, married Charles Sibley; John, Allen,
Phoebe, Luther, Diana, Smyrna, William and
Rebecca. Children of Charles and Sarah Sib
ley: 1. Harriet, born February 26, 1819, died
December, 1891 ; married Stephen A. Green.
2. Sherman, born November 27, 1820, died
March 14, 1888; married Mary Ann Moshier.
3. Charlotte, born September 6, 1822; mar
ried George S. Boyle. 4. Amanda, born Feb
ruary 27, 1824, died August 27, 1903; mar
ried, March 16, 1838, Francis Allen. 5. Jud
son, mentioned below. 6. Horace G, born
November 16, 1827, died January 30, 1852;
married, October 2, 1850, Mary Kendall. 7-
Orrin, born November 11, 1829; he left home
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phia; visited his home once or twice there
after, then disappeared. 8. Eben, born July
20, 1 83 1, died September 26, 1896; he mar
ried (first) January 1, 1851, Sarah A. Glad
den; married (second) December 25, 1866,
Mary Gladden, sister of his first wife. 9.
Amenzo, born April 24, 1838; married, March
7, 1858, Alzina Stratton.
(VII) Judson, second son and fifth child
of Charles Sibley, was born near Cooperstown,
Otsego county, New York, May 30, 1826. He
was six years old when his parents came to
New Albion, Cattaraugus county, where he
was educated in the public schools. As a
boy and young man he worked with his father
on the farm, in the mill, at lumbering, and
in making potash, also driving a team to Buf
falo, where the potash was sold. Later he
went to Albany, New York, where he entered
the State Normal College, graduating in 1848.
After his graduation he taught school for sev
eral years in Cattaraugus county. Among
other positions he held was the principalship
of schools in Gowanda and Randolph. He
then returned to Napoli, going from thence
to Little Valley, New York, his present home.
He is a member of the Congregational church
and a Democrat.
He married, October 1, 1850, Ann Eliza,
born October 17, 1826, died June 26, 1889,
daughter of Silas and Nancy (Crane) Mil
ler. Silas Miller was born March 14, 1799,
died December 12, 1876; married, January
23, 1825, Nancy Crane, born May 24, 1800,
died April 16, 1881. Silas was a son of Moses
Miller, born August 13, 1766, died June 1,
185 1 ; married, February 22, 1791, Elizabeth,
born April 2, 1771, died 1848, daughter of
Silas Hopping, born on Long Island, 1740.
Silas and Nancy (Crane) Miller had two chil
dren: .1. Ann Eliza, married Judson Sibley.
2. Betsey Ann, born February 8, 183 1 ; mar
ried, October 3, 1855, George E. Thorpe, born
March 11, 1831, died November 19, 1887;
children: Clayton M., born December 27,
1857; Minnie A., born December 22, 1859;
Kate M., born March 25, 1862; Lewis S.,
born September 22, 1872. Children of Jud
son and Ann Eliza (Miller) Sibley: 1. Ella,
born February 7, 1852; married, December
23, 1880, Charles E. Van Aken; children:
Edith V., born August 28, 1882, a teacher;
Harry Qinton, born September 28, 1884 ; em
ployed on The Olean Herald. Charles E. is
a son of Martin Van Aken, born September

17, 1827; married, May 25, 1854, Martha N.
Swain, born January 31, 1830, daughter of
John B. and Elmira (Tyler) Swain; children:
Lucius, Lena I. and Charles E. Martin was
a son of Peter M. and  (Cole) Van
Aken. 2. Herbert Delano, mentioned below.
(VIII) Herbert Delano, only son of Jud
son and Ann Eliza (Miller) Sibley, was born
in the town of Napoli, Cattaraugus county,
New York, December 8, 1861. He was edu
cated in the public schools, Chamberlain In
stitute (under Dr. Edwards), Auburn high
school, entered Cornell University, whence he
was graduated, class of 1884, with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts. He, early in his college
life, evinced great adaptability and interest in
newspaper work; was one of the editors of
The Cornell Daily Sun, published by the stu
dents, and was an associate on the editorial
staff of The Ithaca Daily Democrat, a city
paper. After graduation he was connected
with The Rochester Morning Herald, con
tinuing until January, 1885, when he located
in Olean, New York, where he secured an in
terest in The Olean Herald, in association
with Charles F. Persons, who in 1888 went
to New York with the American Press Asso
ciation. Mr. Persons advanced through vari
ous offices until his death, when he was vice-
president and general manager of the Ameri
can Press Association. Mr. Sibley greatly
improved the character and value of The
Herald, and in 1894 admitted his brother-in-
law, W. L. Ostrom, to a partnership. Later
the business was incorporated as The Olean
Herald Company, with Mr. Sibley president
and treasurer, Mr. Ostrom, vice-president and
secretary. The Herald is a recognized organ
of the Democratic party in Cattaraugus
county, and through it the editor wields a
strong influence in molding public opinion.
When Mr. Sibley first came to Olean The
Herald was only a weekly and Sunday paper
and it was made a daily in June, 1885. He
is a member of the New York Associated
Dailies, the City Club of Olean, and the Ham
ilton Country Club. He has served for a
number of years on the water board of Olean,
and has been secretary of the board of trus
tees of the Olean Public Library. He and
his wife are members of the First Presby
terian Church, of Olean, of which he has long
been a member of the hoard of trustees.
Mr. Sibley married, June 16, 1884, Mar
garet Eleanor, born April 1, i860, daughter

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of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Reed) Camp
bell. Prior to his death the Rev. John
Campbell was a Presbyterian clergyman in
Markham, Canada. His brother, Rev. Rob
ert Campbell, has been pastor of the Presby
terian church in Montreal for the past fifty
years.

William Ames, the immigrant
AMES ancestor, was son of Richard
Ames, of Bruton, Somersetshire,
England. He came to America with his
brother John, and settled in Braintree, Mas
sachusetts, as early as 1640. He died in 1654.
He married Hannah  -. John Ames, his
brother, came from Duxbury to Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, where he was an original
proprietor ; he married Elizabeth Hayward, in
1645 '• no children ; he left his large estate by
deeds in 1697 to his nephew John, mentioned
below, and to the sons of his nephew ; he died
in 1698. Children of William and Hannah
Ames: Hannah, born 1641 ; Rebecca, 1642;
Lydia, 1645; John, mentioned below; Sarah,
1650; Deliverance, 1653.
(II) John, son of William Ames and ne
phew of John Ames, was born in 1647. He
settled in West Bridgewater as early as 1672,
probably earlier. His estate was settled in
1723. He married Sarah, daughter of John
Willis. Children : John, born 1672 ; William,
1673; Nathaniel, 1677; Elizabeth, 1680;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Sarah, 1685 ; Da
vid, 1688; Hannah.
(Ill) Thomas, son of John Ames, was born
in 1682. He married Mary, daughter of Jo
seph Hayward, in 1706. She may have mar
ried (second) in 1739, John Buck, or it may
have been her daughter Mary who married
him. Children : Thomas, mentioned below ;
Solomon, born 1709; Joseph, 171 1; Ebenezer,
1715; Mary, 1717; Susanna, 1720; Nathan,
1722; Sarah, 1724; Betty, 1727.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Ames, was born in 1707, died in 1774, aged
sixty-seven years. He married Keziah,
daughter of Jonathan Howard, in 1731.
Children: Keziah, born 1732; Susanna, 1734;
Thomas, 1736; John, mentioned below; Me
hitable, 1740; Silvanus, 1744.
(V) Captain John (2) Ames, son of
Thomas (2) Ames, was horn in 1738. He
married Susanna, daughter of Ephraim How
ard, in 1759. Children: David, mentioned
below; Keziah; Susanna; Huldah, born 1768;

Abigail, 1769; Cynthia, 1772; John, 1775;
Olive, 1777.
(VI) David, son of Captain John (2)
Ames, was born in 1760. He and his family
moved to Springfield from West Bridgewa
ter. The first six of his children were bap
tized at West Bridgewater. He married Re
beckah, daughter of Major Isaac Johnson, in
1781. Children: Lucinda, Mary, Rebecca,
Susanna, David (mentioned .below), Abigail,
Galen, Charlotte, John.
(VII) David (2), son of David (1) Ames,
was born about 1788. He married (first)
Mary, daughter of Nahum Mitchell, of
Bridgewater; (second) Sarah Hardy. Among
the children of the second marriage was Da
vid, mentioned below.
(VIII) David (3), son of David (2) Ames,
was born in 1817, died at Charlotte, Chautau
qua county, New York, in 1893. He was a
farmer by occupation, and resided near Cas-
adaga. fie married Clarissa Edson, born in
1816, died in 1889. Children: David Edson,
mentioned below; Homer Adelbert, who was
a captain in the 154th Regiment New York
Volunteers, married Maria Darrow; Adeline
Adelia, married Thomas Henry Hart, in 1867,
and moved to the state of Kansas the same
year; Jonathan Milton, a soldier in the 154th
Regiment New York Volunteers, married
Sylvia Tarbox; Charles Quincy, died at age
of fourteen years ; Mary A., married Dr. Will
iam A. Putnam.
(IX) David Edson, son of David (3) Ames,
was_ born in Charlotte, Chautauqua county,
New York, October 14, 1840. fie received
his education in the public schools. He en
listed in Company F, 154th Regiment New
York volunteer Infantry, August 15, 1862; he
was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, but escaped;
was wounded in the battle of Rocky Face
Ridge ; was discharged with his regiment, June
11, 1865, at Bladensburg, Maryland. In
March, 1867, accompanied by his wife, he
moved to Great Valley, Cattaraugus county,
New York, where he engaged in farming and
the wholesale produce business. He retired
from business several years ago, and is now
located in his pleasant home at Ellicottville,
New York. He is a Presbyterian in religion;
and a strong Republican in politics. He is a
member of Van Aernam Post, Grand Army of
the Republic. He married, January 1, 1867,
Clementine Carolyn, daughter of Thomas and
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born in 1805, died 1870; his wife was born in
1815, died 1888; their children were: 1.
Thomas Henry, married, 1867, Adeline A.
Ames ; children : Hattie, deceased ; Dr. Clinton
T., deceased ; Harry, of Hutchinson, Kansas ;
Mrs. Alice Swan, of Pittsburg, Kansas;
Thomas Henry Hart died in 1910. 2. Cath
erine, married, 1875, William O. Ensign ; chil
dren: Guert W., graduated from Allegheny
College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, assistant
superintendent of public highways for state
of Pennsylvania, located at Harrisburg; Earl
H., deceased. 3. Qementine Carolyn, afore
mentioned as wife of David Edson Ames. 4.
De Witt Clinton, married, 1877, Emma
Stephens; died 1909, leaving one son, Dr.
Floyd T. Hart, of Jamestown, New York,
class of 1905, Buffalo Dental College. Chil
dren of David Edson and Clementine Carolyn
(Hart) Ames :
1. Adelbert David, son of David Edson
Ames, was born September 18, 1869, at
Humphrey, New York. He was reared on
the home farm, and is still interested in agri
culture, owning a large dairy farm. Early
in life he engaged in the mercantile business,
and later took up the study of dentistry, grad
uating from the Kansas City Dental College,
of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1898, and has
since practiced his profession at Ellicottville,
New York. He is closely allied with the busi
ness interests of the town, and holds offices
in many of the stock cofnpanies. He is a
member of the Masonic bodies at Ellicottville
and Salamanca, and also of Ismailia Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, at Buffalo, New York.
2. De Hart Henry, born January 30, 1872,
at Great Valley, New York. He was reared
on the home farm, and graduated from Ten
Broeck Academy at Franklinville, New York,
in 1892. He became interested in politics, his
allegiance being given to the Republican party,
and was employed in the county clerk's office
from 1893 to 1 90 1, when he received the ap
pointment of under sheriff for the county,
which position he held for six years, and in
the fall of 1906 was elected to the office of
sheriff of the county for a term of three years.
He is now (1912) interested in the real es
tate business with his brother, Guy Clarence,
at Franklinville, New York. He is the owner
of an extensive dairy farm. He is a member
of the Masonic, fraternity.
3. Guy Qarence, born October 5, 1873, at

Great Valley, New York. He was reared on
the home farm, and received his education
at Ten Broeck Academy and Fredonia Nor
mal School. He engaged in banking and later
in real estate and insurance business at Frank
linville, New York, where he now resides.
He is the owner of a large dairy farm, and
is a stockholder in various enterprises of the
town. He is a member of the Masonic fra
ternity. He married, July 11, 1900, Josephine,
daughter of F. M. Perley, one of the first
editors of a weekly newspaper in Cattaraugus
county, New York, and granddaughter of
Samuel Perley, an associate of Horace Gree
ley in the ownership of a paper published at
Erie, Pennsylvania. Children : Elizabeth Per
ley, born September 12, 1901 ; Russell De
Hart, January 30, 1904; Virginia Josephine,
January 8, 1909.
4. Allan Edson, born September 13, 1875,
at Great Valley, New York. He was reared
on the home farm, and graduated from Ten
Broeck Academy in 1897. He engaged in
mercantile business at Ellicottville, New York,
and is a member of the firm of Ames & Clark,
dealers in men's furnishings, clothing, boots
and shoes. He is also interested in several
of the manufacturing plants of the town, and
in agriculture, being the owner of an exten
sive dairy farm. He is a member of the Ma
sonic fraternity. He married, August 30,
1910, Julia H., daughter of J. W. Mudgett,
one of the leading wholesale produce dealers
in Western New York.
5. Lora Kathryn, born March 20, 1880, at
Great Valley, New York. She was reared on
the home farm, educated at Ten Broeck
Academy and Fredonia Normal School, and
is a graduate of Ithaca Conservatory of Mu
sic, class of 1905. She married, October 6,
1906, Charles M. Cross, of Hartford, Connec
ticut, a graduate of Cornell University, in
electrical and mechanical engineering, class of
1904, now connected with the Ridgway Dyna
mo Works at Ridgway, Pennsylvania. One
child, Robert A., born February 6, 191 1.

This' branch of the Cole family was
COLE founded in America by Rev. Ben
nett Coleman, born in the parish of
Thules, county Clare, Ireland, August 5, 1754.
He was a graduate of Dublin University, and
educated for the priesthood, but did not take
holy orders. In 1776 he came to the Ameri
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of Lord Howe. He was in the battles around
New York, and at White Plains managed to
be taken prisoner by Captain Lee, of Wash
ington's army. He was taken to Washing
ton's headquarters, where he declared his
wish to become a soldier of the army of in
dependence, October 3, 1776. He was en
listed in Troop B, Second Light Dragoons,
under the name which he ever afterward bore,
Benjamin Cole. He was detailed as clerk
in the office of the adjutant-general, serving
until the close of the war, and was present
at the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown.
He was mustered out of the service at Charles
ton, South Carolina, twelve hundred miles
from Franklin, Massachusetts, where he set
tled, covering the distance on foot. He was
borne on the rolls as a revolutionary pen
sioner from March 18, 1818, until his death.
His papers, etc., are now in the possession of
Barnard Salisbury, Ellicottville, New York.
In Franklin he taught school, married, and
then entered the employ of the original Ameri
can Baptist Home Missionary Society, travel
ing and preaching in every one of the thirteen
states of the original Union. He moved his
residence to Marlboro, Vermont, from thence
to Phelps, Ontario county, New York, finally
coming to Humphrey, Cattaraugus county,
New York, in 1824, where he died in January
1834. He married, Rachel Salisbury. Chil
dren: Mary, married General Phineas E
Mather; Seth, married Lucretia

Stephen S., of further mention; Benjamin
Betsey, married Foster B. Salisbury; Sarah,
married David Wheeler (2) ; Elijah, died at
the age of twenty-four years.
(II) Stephen S., son of Rev. Benjamin
Cole, was born in Marlboro, Wyndham county,
Vermont, 1804, died 1887. He grew up on a
Vermont farm but in early youth went to
Phelps, New York, and lived with a relative
until he was thirteen years of age, then with
his brother Benjamin, he came to Humphrey,
New York, in March, 1822, and settled near
his older brother Seth. fie took up land,
prospered, and added other parcels until his
farm comprised four hundred acres, on which
he built a comfortable home. He rose to
prominence in public life ; was supervisor,
justice of the peace many years, and in 1850
and 185 1 was elected a member of the New
York legislature. He stumped Cattaraugus
county for the first Republican candidate, Gen
eral John C. Fremont, and was always allied

with that party. He was offered the nomina
tion of his party for congress when Fenton
was nominated, but declined the honor. He
took an active part in recruiting volunteers for
the Union army during the civil war, and
used his voice and influence in opposition to
the extension of slavery. He was a man of
extraordinary talents. As an orator he was
unsurpassed in the county, having a wonder
ful voice and a well stored mind. He spent
his last days in retirement on the farm, but
retained an active interest in public affairs
until his death. He was a generous contribu
tor to all churches and was everywhere re
garded a good man and a most useful citizen.
fie married, in January, 1838, Lemira P.,
daughter of Alonzo P. Berry, of Humphrey,
New York. Children: 1. Marvin S., of fur
ther mention. 2. Rosalia, married (first)
Mark Sill; (second) Eugene Reynolds; chil
dren: i. Minnie, married, and had Ona and
Claire, ii. Lemira. 3. Helen L., married Al
bert McKoon; children: i. Bertha, married
Frank Hyatt, of Auburn, New York; eight
children, ii. Vera, married Lyman Phipps;
three children, iii. Eusebia, married Julius
Vahne; three children, iv. Kitty. 4. Delia,
married  Reynolds. 5. George Wilson
(q. v.).
(Ill) Marvin S., eldest son of Stephen S.
Cole, was born in Humphrey, Cattaraugus
county, New York, February 25, 1839. He
was educated in the public schools, and was
engaged as a teacher until the first call for
volunteers at the outbreak of the civil war.
He enlisted for two years in Company H, 37th
Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and
served in all the battles in which this hard
fought regiment took part. At the battle of
Charles City Cross Roads he received two
buckshot in his leg; a bullet was turned aside
by a combination knife, fork and spoon he
was carrying in his trousers pocket. Beyond
inflicting a severe bruise, this bullet did no
other damage, one of the miraculous escapes
of the war. Mr. Cole enlisted as sergeant, and
by bravery and soldierly conduct was pro
moted first sergeant of Company H, being
mustered out with that rank and receiving
an honorable discharge. After his two years
spent in a brave defense of his country's flag
he returned home and resumed his profession
of teaching. In 1868 he located in Olean,
New York, and in 1870 reorganized the
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department. He was principal of this school
for five years, after which he taught in Lime
stone for three years. He then discontinued
teaching and entered the employ of the West
ern New York & Pennsylvania railroad as
cashier, at Eldred, Pennsylvania, in 1883 he
came to Machias, New York, where for six
teen years he was station agent. In 1899 he
went to Fanning, Cattaraugus county. In
1901 he was appointed postmaster by Presi
dent McKinley, an office he still holds. He
has held the office of justice of the peace eight
years, and is one of the best known men in
his section. His long life of activity, mostly
spent in Cattaraugus county, brought him in
contact with representatives of every walk of
life. He is a Republican in politics, and a
member of the Freewill Baptist church. He
belongs to Phillips Post, Grand Army of the
Republic. He is a man of marked ability
and is held in high esteem in his town. He
has met every demand made upon him and
whether as teacher, soldier, business man or
citizen, has borne well his part.
He married Mary Jane, born January 2,
1842, daughter of Rev. D. W. McKoon. Chil
dren: 1. Rhoba C, married George R. Price,
of Perry, New York ; three children : Mary J.,
Mildred C, George R. 2. Mamie C, married
Martin W. Bookman; children: Martha W.,
Ada and Marvin J. (2). 3. Claude C, married
Elizabeth Manning; child: La Derne S.

A brave, hardy, patriotic
SHATTUCK and liberty-loving race in
America have sprung from
early colonists of this name in Massachusetts.
The citizens of this cognomen performed yeo
man service in the Colonial days in the found
ing of the civil liberties that their descendants,
in common with all other Americans, now
enjoy. A goodly per cent of Shattucks have
fought in all the principal wars of the nation,
and a due proportion have filled places of in
fluence, honor and trust in the various pro
fessions and institutions of learning, and un
der the government. The number of persons
of this name now living in the United States
is probably about fifteen thousand. The
American spelling of the name is Shattuck,
the old English form Shattocke. There are
many other early forms now in use.
(I) William Shattuck is the most remote
ancestor with whom the persons of the Shat
tuck family in America are enabled to con

nect themselves. Of his parentage and birth
place nothing definite is known, though there
is no doubt that his immediate ancestors and
connections were residents of England, and
that they were either of Lancashire, Somer
setshire or Berkshire. William Shattuck was
born in England in 1621 or 1622, and died in
Watertown, Massachusetts, August 14, 1672.
He was a weaver, and in addition to his trade
also engaged in agriculture. His name ap
pears in the old list of proprietors of Water-
town, made about 1642, twelve years after
its first settlement, although he was but twenty
years of age. The 'first allotment of land to
him was a homestall of one acre, by estima
tion, and three acres of upland by estimation.
To this estate he made large additions by
subsequent grants and purchases. Among
other parcels of land the records show a
house, garden and thirty acres of land sit
uated on Common Hill, near his own estate;
a farm at Stony Brook near the present
bounds of Weston, also a dwelling house and
a large farm in another part of the town. He
resided in Watertown about thirty years, and
acquired for the times in which he lived a
large property, the inventory of which at his
death amounted to four hundred *and thirty-
four pounds, nineteen shillings, eleven and a
half pence sterling, of which two hundred
pounds was in real estate, and two hundred
and thirty-four pounds, nineteen shillings and
eleven and one-half pence in personal estate,
including one hundred and three pounds,
seventeen shillings, seven and one-half pence
in money. He appears, so far as can be as
certained from contemporary records, to have
sustained the character of a sagacious, ener
getic and successful business man ; of an hon
est, upright and worthy citizen ; and of a good
and peaceful neighbor. He held a respectable
social position among his fellow townsmen,
and his family and the families to whom they
were allied by marriage were highly re
spected, and among the most wealthy and
influential in Watertown. He was buried in
the ancient burying ground situated on the
old road leading from Cambridge to Water-
town, a short distance westerly of Mount Au
burn. He married, about 1642, Susan or Susanna
 . She married (second) fifteen months
after his death, November 18, 1673, Richard
Norcross, who survived her. She died in
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dren of this union were : Susanna, Mary,
John, Philip, Joanna, William, Rebecca, Abi
gail, Benjamin, Samuel.
(II) John, eldest son and third child of
William and Susan or Susanna Shattuck,
was born in Watertown, February n, 1647,
and according to the records of that town
"was drowned as he was passing over
Charlestown ferry, September 14, 1675,"
aged twenty-eight years. He had lands
granted to him in Groton in 1664, but it does
not appear that he was an inhabitant of that
town for any length of time, if at all. He
was a carpenter and resided principally in
the Middle District — the present village of
Watertown — where he was employed by the
town in 1669 and subsequently to keep the
town mill, then situated near the present
bridge leading to Newton Corner. In 1675,
the year of the outbreak of King Philip's war,
John Shattuck was appointed sergeant in
Captain Richard Beer's company, which pro
ceeded to Hadley. Hearing that Squaw-
keague, now Northfield, had been attacked,
they marched to its relief, September 4, 1675,
and while on their route were ambushed by
a large force of Indians and twenty of the
thirty-six men of the company were killed.
Sergeant Shattuck was one of the sixteen
who escaped, and was immediately dispatched
as a messenger to the governor of the colony
to announce the result of the expedition.
September 14, ten days after the battle, he
was drowned as above stated.
He married, June 20, 1664, Ruth, born in
Watertown, April 15, 1645, daughter of John
Whitney. She married (second) March 6,
1677, Enoch Lawrence, and in 1678 they re
moved to Groton with several of his relatives
at the resettlement of that town, taking with
them the four children by her first husband,
and probably occupied the land granted to
John Shattuck, in 1664. From this family
the Shattucks in Groton and Peppered orig
inated. Mr. Lawrence died September 28,
1744, aged ninety-five years. The date of his
wife's death is not known. Children of John
and Ruth Shattuck: John, Ruth, William,
Samuel. (Ill) Samuel, son of John Shattuck, was
born in Watertown, 1673, died in Groton,
Massachusetts, July 22, 1758. He married
Elizabeth, born April 27, 1675, daughter of
James Blood, killed by the Indians, Septem
ber 13, 1692;' son of Richard Blood, one of

the original -proprietors of the town of Gro
ton; son of James Blood, who came to Con
cord about 1638, died there December 17,
1683 ; an Englishman, said to have been a
brother or near relative of Colonel Thomas
Blood, distinguished in history during the
reign of Charles II. as one of the most re
markable characters of his day (see note in
Scott's novel, "Peveril of the Peak"). She
died October 20, 1759. She united with the
church in 1705 and her husband in 1709.
Children, born in Groton: Samuel, married
Anna Williams ; James, married Sarah Cham
berlain; Jeremiah, of whom further; Eliza
beth, married John Shad; Ruth, married
Jacob Ames ; John, married Sarah Hobart ;
David, married Dorothy Varnum ; Sarah, mar
ried James Green ; Rachel, married Nehemiah
Hobart; Joseph (supposed), married Joana
Chandler. (IV) Captain Jeremiah Shattuck, third son
of Samuel Shattuck, was born in Groton,
Massachusetts, June 11, 1703, died in Pepper-
ell, August 2, 1798, aged ninety-five years
one month twenty-one days. He was a
blacksmith, was often chosen selectman and
to other offices; was captain of a military
company and a very prominent man of Pep-
perell. He marriel (first), July 2, 1723, Sarah
Parker, born April 12, 1705, died June 8,
1789, in her eighty-fifth year, daughter of
Nathaniel, son of Joseph (2), son of Joseph
(1) Parker, one of the original proprietors
of Chelmsford and Groton. fie married (sec
ond) February 28, 1792, Ruth Bixby. The
Columbian Centinel of March 10 following,
chronicles his second marriage there: "In
Pepperell, Captain Jeremiah Shattuck, aged
ninety, to Mrs. Ruth Bixby, aged seventy-
five." Children of first wife, all born in
Pepperell: 1. Nathaniel, of whom further. 2.
Jeremiah, married (first) Lydia Lakin; (sec
ond) Kezia Shattuck. 3. Elizabeth, married
John Shattuck. 4. Oliver, died aged ninety-
six years, eleven months; married Mary
Reed, died aged eighty-nine years; no issue.
5. Sarah, married Patrick White. 6. David,
married (first) Sarah Burt; (second) Lucy
Sawtell ; he lived to be nearly eighty-five. 7.
Solomon, married Hepzibah Perkins. 8. Ne
hemiah, married Betsey Hosley. 9. Sybil.
10. Parker, died unmarried.
(V) Nathaniel, eldest son of Captain Jere
miah Shattuck, was born in Pepperell, Massa
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great fever epidemic in Pepperell, July 17,
1757, in his thirty-third year. He married
(first) Hannah Symonds, of Reading, Massa
chusetts; (second), April 18, 1757, Ruth
Shattuck. Children, born in Pepperell : fiannah,
married Isaac Boynton ; Nathaniel, of whom
further; Elizabeth, married James Lakin.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1)
Shattuck, was born in Pepperell, Massachu
setts, April 3, 1749, died in Temple, New
Hampshire, January 30, 1828, in his seventy-
ninth year. He was one of the fifty-three
men who in September, 1773, fell at the rais
ing of the meeting house in Wilton, New
Hampshire. Three were instantly killed, two
more died soon after, others were crippled
for life and most of them received injuries.
Mr. Shattuck was wounded in the head and
had three ribs broken. He served in the
revolutionary war and was one of the com
pany of fifty-six men who marched from
Temple to Cambridge on the Lexington
alarm, April 19, 1775, but arrived too late
to engage in the battle ; service fourteen days.
In July, 1777, he was one of the seventeen
men who marched from Temple to Benning
ton in Captain S. Parker's company, Colonel
M. Niehol's regiment, General John Stark's
brigade. fie married, in 1773, Catherine, born in
Ipswich, Massachusetts, February 16, 1753,
daughter of Jeremiah Andrews, of Concord,
Massachusetts. She died in Temple, Novem
ber 19, 1845, aged ninety-two years, nine
months, three days. At her decease she had
two hundred and eight descendants; thirteen
children, seventy-eight grandchildren, one
hundred and fifteen great-grandchildren and
two great-great-grandchildren. She could
say "Arise, daughter, and go to thy daughter
for thy daughter's daughter hath a daughter."
Children, born in Temple, New Hampshire :
Nathaniel, of whom further; Oliver, died
young ; Parker, married Sally Spofford ; Han
nah, married Nathan Richardson; Catherine,
married George Kimball; Polly, died young;
Oliver (2), married Sally Start; Polly (2),
married Aaron K. Putnam; Dolly, married
Josiah Wheeler; Sally, married Joseph Put
nam; Milly, married John Bales; Ralph, died
young; Ralph (2), died young.
(VII) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2)
Shattuck, was born in Temple, New Hamp
shire, February 27, 1774, died in Concord,
New Hampshire, September 1, 1864, aged

ninety years, six months, four days. When
a young man, in the winter seasons between
January, 1792, and March, 1800, he was em
ployed in teaching the common schools in
Parkersfield (now Nelson), Cheshire county,
New Hampshire, Sharon, Mason and Temple,
Hillsboro county. He graduated at Dart
mouth College in 1801, in the class of Daniel
Webster. While in college he became the
author of the illustration of cube root by the
use of blocks when under the instruction of
tutor, John Noyes, which was afterward intro
duced by Dr. Daniel Adams in the subsequent
editions of his arithmetic, and by others who
have published their arithmetics since that
time. Daniel Webster in his "Life and Cor
respondence," referring to his college course,
says : "I left mathematics to Shattuck." After
reading law for two years with Hon. Benja
min J. Gilbert, of Hanover, and two more
with Hon. Timothy Bigelow, of Groton,
Massachusetts, he was admitted to the bar in
the county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, in
1804. He commenced practice in Milford,
New Hampshire. In 1830 he removed to
Mason village (now Greenville), where he
remained in the practice of his profession till
the failure of his eyesight by cataracts in 1844,
being the seventieth year of his age. For two
years he was totally blind. By a successful
operation his sight was restored so that by
the aid of glasses he could read with facility.
Having given up his profession he resided
with his children at New Hampton, New
Hampshire, Lancaster and Lynn, Massachu
setts, and later at Manchester, New Hamp
shire, with his son-in-law, Rev. A. W. Chaffin.
During these years he kept up his early habit
of methodical reading and study. He was a
careful student of the Bible. It was his cus
tom to devote three or four hours daily with
pen in hand to a critical study of the Bible,
comparing scripture with scripture. Recently
when asked how many times he had read the
Bible through, his reply was, "Over fifty
times." Prior to his being blind, as a literary
labor he verified the more important events
and facts of scripture. So fond was he of
the Bible that latterly he had but little relish
for other reading, save that of the religious
and political news. In his own language :
"The book of books, the Bible ever new,
Be this our Chart, our Sail and Compass, too ;
And when the beating storms of life are o'er,
Our souls be landed safe on Canaan's shore."

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In the pending national struggle he was
deeply interested and heartily sympathized
with the government in its effort to overcome
the rebellion and to extirpate slavery, the
cause of it. Summing up his mental charac
teristics we may style them as eminently
mathematical, legal and poetical. As a law
yer but few of his contemporaries were better
read and wiser or safer counsel. He used
his profession for the benefit of others rather
than his own pecuniary profit. As a writer
he often indulged in poetical rather than
prose compositions ; composing hymns and
odes and other pieces dedicated to friends
or used on public occasions. In conversation
he was slow of speech. Possessed of a re
markable memory, he never wanted for an
anecdote or fact to point his remarks or illus
trate a principle, fiappy in repartee, he was
scrupulously careful not to wound the feelings
of others. Physically blessed with a strong
constitution, he attended carefully to the laws
of health. His favorite exercise was walking.
In his eightieth year, having been left at
Lawrence, Massachusetts, by the cars on his
way to Manchester, New Hampshire, he
walked the whole distance (28 miles) that
day rather than remain over one train. His
last sickness was short and violent, he having
an apoplectic attack while on a visit to his
friend which resulted in mental derangment
and death. His remains were carried to Am
herst, where appropriate funeral services were
held in the Congregational chapel, Rev. J. G.
Davis officiating. His remains were deposited
in the burying ground near the court house
in which he spent so many of his professional
days. He reposes there with kindred dust
awaiting the resurrection morn, to come forth
in the robes of Christ's righteousness in
whom as the only Saviour he believed and
trusted. He was greatly interested in pre
serving the genealogy of the Shattucks. The
compiler of the "Shattuck Genealogy" says :
"We are greatly indebted to him for much
valuable information concerning the family
and descendants of his father."
He married (first) June 15, 1806, Mary,
born in Temple, April 5, 1790, daughter of
Hon. James and Betsey (Kimball) Wallace,
of Milford, New Hampshire. She died June
3, 1812, in her twenty-third year. He mar
ried (second), April 4, 1816, Sally, born in
Amherst, New fiampshire, July 25, 1789,
daughter of Samuel and Jane (Seaton) Stan

ley. Child of first wife: 1. Ann Jane, born
May 12, 1809, died August 16, 1847; married
B. F. Wallace, of Antrim, principal of Bid-
ford Academy. Children by second wife: 2.
Mary Wallace, died in her twelfth year. 3.
Algernon Parker, born February 15, 1819, at
Amherst, New fiampshire, died August 20,
1874, at Lynn, . Massachusetts ; she was a
teacher of penmanship in various places and
in 1854 was connected with the New Eng
land Normal Institute. 4. Catherine Kimball,
born December 15, 1823, died December 20,
1907, ; she married, in Boston, April 20, 1848,
Rev. Aaron W. Chaffin, professor of lan
guages and later a minister of the Baptist
church. 5. George Freeman, died young. 6.
Henry Campbell, died young. 7. George
Henry, of whom further.
(VIII) George Henry, youngest child of
Nathaniel (3) and his second wife, Sally
(Stanley) Shattuck, was born at Amherst,
New Hampshire, December 9, 1830. He was
educated in the public schools, Hancock Lit
erary and Scientific Institution, and the insti
tution at New Hampton. He learned the
trade of machinist in Manchester, New
Hampshire. He worked as a journeyman
at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, for a time,
and then secured employment in Colt's pistol
shops in Hartford, Connecticut, where he
worked until 1850. In that year he aban
doned his trade and went to New -York City,
later going west, and in 185 1 settled in Or
leans county, New York. He had under the
tuition of his brother become an expert pen
man. In 1853-54 the association for the exhi
bition of the Industry of All Nations awarded
Mr. Shattuck mention, with special appro
bation for specimens of penmanship ; this was
on the same ground as now occupied by the
new public library in New York City. He
personally taught penmanship in Western
New York and in Western cities, and was
employed by the publishers to introduce
Payson, Dunton & Scribners copy books
in Western New York. He continued teach
ing in Western New York for several years,
then was sent by the publishers to New York
City, where he taught Payson, Dunton &
Scribners system of penmanship, introduced
them in the public school, and was interested
in the publication of this copy book until
1890. At that time the American Book Com
pany was formed and they took over the
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1876 he bought an interest in Spencerian and
was agent and associate author until 1890.
In 1900 Mr. Shattuck disposed of his inter
ests in Payson, Dunton & Scribners and Spen
cerian copy books to the American Book
Company and associated himself with Mr.
H. W. Shaylor, of Portland, Maine, who has
been for more than a quarter of a century a
teacher of writing in that city and the au
thor of Harper's copy books, also Ginn &
Company copy books and together they pre
pared the Medial system which at this writing
enjoys a larger circulation than the four sys
tems above named. Payson, Dunton & Scrib
ners system was copied and reprinted in
Canada, was reproduced in Edinburgh, Scot
land, and issued under the title of the Inter
national system. The Spencerian was re
produced in Tokio, Japan. All of the above
reproductions were made independent of and
without consulting the original publishers or
authors. The Medial was adopted for the
schools of Porto Rico, and at the request of
the school authorities the lower numbers were
translated into Spanish. During his career
more than eighty million of copy books have
been used throughout the schools of the
world, in which he had an interest. Mr.
Shattuck retired to Medina, Orleans county,
New York, where he continues his residence,
now in his eighty-second year, and remark
ably well preserved. He is independent in
politics; from 1889 to 1904 he was commis
sioner of Boxwood cemetery in Medina, New
York. He is a member of Medina Lodge,
No. 336, Free and Accepted Masons ; Medina
Chapter, No. 281, Royal Arch Masons; Alpha
and Omega Council, No. 71, Royal and Se
lect Masters; Morton Commandery, No. 4,
Knights Templar, of New York, also Mecca
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is
a communicant of the Episcopal church. Mr.
Shattuck presented to the New York Public
Library, New York City, his entire collec
tion of books, pamphlets, etc., relating to the
history of penmanship, the whole comprising
four hundred and twenty-eight works, cov
ering the period from 1659 to 1850, a valuable
and highly appreciated gift, fie also pre
sented in 1907 to the Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy an interesting collection of cata
logues of art exhibitions and sales for thirty
years, from 1876, held at the American Mu
seum of Natural History and the National
Academy of Design. Many of these cata

logues contained the prices at which paintings
were sold at that time and they are a source
of great interest and very valuable. He also
presented to the library of the Forty-second
Separate Company bound copies of twenty-
two volumes of Scribners that preceded the
Century, and bound volumes of the Century,
the successor of Scribners, over eighty vol
umes in all, in memory of his son George H.,
whose death was the first in the company and
who was accorded a military funeral, three
volleys were fired over his grave and taps
were sounded by the bugler.
Mr. Shattuck married, June 30, 1862, at
Medina, Margaret Bathgate, born there De
cember 5, 1829, died October 5, 1904, daugh
ter of Simeon and Euphemia (Atchison)
Bathgate. Children: 1. William B., born
May 5,' 1864, died October 27, 1864. 2.
George H., born March 29, 1866, died No
vember 17, 1894. 3. Algernon B., born De
cember 7, 1871 ; educated in the public school
and Orchard Lake Military Academy, Michi
gan; now employed in the government postal
service at' Medina, New York ; he served in
the Spanish-American war as second lieuten
ant of Company F, Third Regiment, New
York Infantry. Enrolled May 1, 1898, at Me
dina to serve two years; mustered in as sec
ond lieutenant Company F, May 17, 1898;
mustered out with company November 30,
1898, at Medina, New York, commissioned
second lieutenant, May 17, 1898, with rank
from same date original. He married Flor
ence Bilton and has a daughter, Margaret B.,
born May 4, 1910.

Thomas Lapham, the immi-
LAPHAM grant ancestor, came probably
from county Kent, England,
and was at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1635.
It is thought that he left England in 1634, and
from his friendship with Rev. John Lothrop,
pastor of the first church of Scituate, and El
der Nathaniel Tilden, the first ruling elder, it-
is believed he left Kent because of religious
troubles. He joined the church of which Lo
throp was pastor, March 24, 1636. His home
was near Scituate harbor. He died in 1648,
and his will, dated 1646, is recorded in the early
Plymouth Colony records, proved June 5,
1 65 1. His wife was executrix. His name is
found very rarely on the town records, and
it is evident that he was more active in church
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the church records than anywhere else. He
married, March 13, 1637, Mary, daughter of
Elder Nathaniel Tilden. Children, Elizabeth,
born May 6, 1638; Mary; Thomas, mentioned
below; Lydia; Rebecca, born 1645; Joseph,
born 1648.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Lap-
ham, was born in 1643. He married Mary
¦  . He married a second time, and about
1700 moved to Marshfield. He died in 1720.
Children by first wife: Joseph, born 1670;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Lydia, born 1677.
Child by second wife: Mary, born 1704.
(Ill) Samuel, son of Thomas (2) Lapham,
was born in 1676. He married Hannah Rog
ers, of Marshfield, November 19, 1701. Chil
dren : Hannah, born April 1, 1703 ; Mary,
September 13, 1704; David, mentioned below;
Elizabeth, April 13, 1708; Joshua, December
22, 1710; Mercy, May 10, 1713; Thankful,
Ma)-, 1715; Amos, December 1, 1717; Lydia,
May 17, 1724.
(IV) David, son of Samuel Lapham, was
born April 3, 1706. He married, 1727, Re
becca King. Children : Thomas, born Sep
tember 11, 1728; David, April 19, 1730; Amos,
March 30, 1731 ; Rebecca, September 21, 1732;
Elisha, May 10, 1734; Elizabeth, November
7, 1735 ; Stephen, mentioned below ; Benjamin,
December 10, 1738; Daniel, March 10, 1739;
Isaac, October 25, 1741 ; King, October 4,
1743; Lydia, December 7, 1744; Asa, April
12, 1746.
(V) Stephen, son of David Lapham, was
born February 10, 1736; married, in 1761,
Ruth Rogers. He and his brothers moved to
the town of Washington, in Dutchess county,
New York. According to the census of 1790
there were four heads of families there at that
time. David had two sons under sixteen and
one female in his family ; Jonathan, five males
over sixteen, three under that age and eight
females; Benjamin had two males over six
teen, one under that age and five females ;
Solon had two over sixteen, one under that
age and two females. Stephen was in the
same section of the state. He settled at
Queensbury, Washington county, and in 1790
had in his family two males over sixteen, one
under that age and seven females in his fam
ily. Nathan, with a family of twelve, lived at
Danby, in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1790,
and Asa Lapham with six in his family lived
at Charlotte, Chittenden county, Vermont.
(VI) Gideon, born January 7, 1787, died

September 13, 1871, was son or nephew of
Stephen Lapham ; the records are not available
to show the exact relationship, but that he
was of this family is without doubt. He
came from Vermont to Cayuga county, New
York, among the early settlers of the county,
and afterward settled in Erie county, buying
a farm on the Big Tree, road, near East Au
rora, New York. This farm is now part of
the town of Wales, in Erie county, and has
been owned lately by Charles A. Sill. From
this place Gideon moved to East Hill, just
south of the village of East Aurora. He
married Dorcas Bowen, born April 17, 1790,
died September 29, 1869. Children: Dr.
George Henry Lapham, of whom further;
Susan, born January 29, 1815; Ann E., July
9, 1822; May E., March 21, 1829.
(VII) Dr. George Henry Lapham, son of
Gideon Lapham, was born at Scipio, New
York, September 5, 1813, and died December
14, 1885, in East Aurora, New York. He
was educated in private schools and at the
Aurora Academy. Under the instruction of
Dr. Hought and Dr. Wallis he began the study
of medicine, and in 1833 was a student in the
State Medical College at Fairfield, New York,
and in the following year at the Philadelphia
Medical College, from which he was gradu
ated in 1836 with high honors. He located in
1836 in East Aurora and began to practice
his profession. In 1840 he built a residence
on Main street, near the East Aurora railroad
station, and there he had his office and home
during the rest of his life. At the time of his
death he was the oldest practicing physician
in Erie county. He had a large practice, and
was a sagacious man of affairs, acquiring a
competence in his practice and wisely invest
ing it. He was for many years one of the
largest taxpayers of the town. He took a
keen interest in town affairs and exerted a
strong and wholesome interest in politics. He
was especially interested in public education,
served for a long time on the board of educa
tion, and was a prime mover in changing the
district school and Aurora Academy to the
Union schools. He was superintendent of
schools for a number of years, and also served
the town as highway commissioner. He mar
ried, in 1840, Catherine White, born August 5,
1815, daughter of David P. and Betsey
(Piatt) White. Dr. James P. White, of Buf
falo, who built the White Block in that city,
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and Dr. Lapham married (second), in July,
1882, Mrs. L. W. Graves, who survives him.
Children by first wife: Mary Penfield, born
February 18, 1842, married Seth R. Sill, of
Rochester, New York; Henry White, born
October 8, 1845, died January 19, 1882 un
married; Clara E., born August 6, 1853, died
June 9, 1866; Albert H., mentioned below.
(VIII) Albert H., son of Dr. George Henry
Lapham, was born April 15, 1857, at East
Aurora, New York. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town. For a
number of years he conducted a general store
at East Aurora, and from 1889 to 1906 he was
postmaster of that place. Since then he has
not been in active business. His time is de
voted to the care and improvement of his real
estate. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the Royal Arcanum.
He married, November 30, 1881, Mary T.
Leigh, born September 26, 1856. They have
one child, Florence Katherine, born May 2,
1884, married, October 12, 1910, George R.
Van Keuren, a hardware merchant in East
Aurora. Mrs. Lapham was the daughter of Edwin
Leigh, who was born in England, in 1828, and
came to America when seven years of age,
with his parents. He married Abigail Shaw.
Children: Ida E., Mary T. (wife of Albert
H. Lapham), Emma S. and Nettie L. Mr.
Leigh was postmaster at Wales, New York,
for many years, and was a merchant and suc
cessful business man. He died May 7, 1910,
and his wife died June 12, 1904. Mrs. Lap
ham is a member of the Presbyterian church.

Nicholas Patch, the American
PATCH progenitor, was born in the par
ish of South Petherton, Somer
setshire, England, near Burlescomb, son of
Nicholas and Jane Patch, and was baptized in
the parish church there June 20, 1597. He
came from England with his wife Elizabeth
and two sons, John and James, and settled
in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1636. He had a
grant of ten acres of land in 1638, and an
other of forty acres in 1639. He was a pro
prietor and freeman in 1639. He was a farm
er, and prominent in town and church, to
which he made a bequest in his will. He was
a member of the First Church of Salem, and
with his wife was among the founders of
the church at Beverly, where he died Novem
ber 16, 1673. His estate was inventoried in

1673, and division made between his sons
Thomas and John by mutual agreement. Chil
dren: John, James, and Thomas (mentioned
below). John married Elizabeth Bracken-
bury, daughter of Richard, "called" the first
female child born in Salem (Boston News
Letter, N. E. Reg., iv. 289).
(II) Sergeant Thomas Patch, son of Nicho
las Patch, was born in 1638, and died in Wen
ham, Massachusetts, February 19, 1721-22,
aged eighty-three years. He was admitted a
freeman in 1670, and was deputy to the gen
eral court in 1689. He married Mary Scott,
daughter of Thomas of Ipswich. He settled
at Wenham. Children (Savage and Wenham
vital records) : Thomas, born July 19, 1674,
died October 7, 1754; Stephen, April 12, 1680;
Isaac, 1682, settled at Groton; Ephraim; Tim
othy, mentioned below; Simon, of Wenham;
Sarah, December 8, 1666; Marah (not Mary
or Maria), February 3, 1669.
(Ill) Timothy, son of Thomas Patch, was
born about 1670, and died at Wenham, June
24, 1746, or May 16, 175 1. He married, at
Beverly, November 18, 1705, Elizabeth Po
land, who died September 6 or 7, 1742. Chil
dren, born at Wenham : Elizabeth, November
23, 1706; Timothy, September 13, 1708; Anna,
March 5, 1711-12; Sarah, December 15, 1714;
Margery, May 6, 17 18; Deborah, October 6,
1721 ; Samuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Samuel, son of Timothy Patch, was
born at Wenham, Massachusetts, July 14,
1726. He lived at Wenham, but may have
spent his last years at New Boston, New
Hampshire. He married, February 14, 1744-
45, at Wenham, Abigail Williams. Children,
born at Wenham: 1. Reuben, August 11,
1745, probably died young. 2. Samuel, No
vember 3, 1747 (a Samuel died in West Indies
of broken leg and lockjaw, December 4, 1765,
and another Samuel died August 22, 1788,
aged thirtyjfive, according to Wenham rec
ords. But this Samuel of his father was in
New Boston in 1790). 3. Molly, October 1,
1749. 4. Ephraim, June 21, 1751 ; soldier in
the revolution, at Chesterfield. 5. Abigail,
baptized August 12, 1753. 6. Reuben, bap
tized August 13, 1758; settled at New Boston;
soldier in the revolution. 7. Nathaniel, bap
tized November 29, 1761. 8. Stephen, men
tioned below. 9. Sally, baptized November 29,
1767. (V) Stephen, son of Samuel Patch, was
born at Wenham, Massachusetts, and baptized

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there November 29, 1767. He went with his
family to New Boston, New Hampshire. Ac
cording to the first federal census taken in
1790 he had two females in his family, and
three males under sixteen. Samuel Patch, of
New Boston, had one female, and was pre
sumably his father. His brother Reuben had
two females in his family, and removed later
to Henniker, New Hampshire. Stephen Patch
came from New Boston, New Hampshire, to
Buffalo, New York, in 1816, making the jour
ney in wagons, and he died at Buffalo two
years later, fie married Anna Thompson.
Children: David, was a soldier in the war
of 1812 ; Samuel, went to New Orleans to
live; Joshua; Oliver; Thompson; Martha;
Nancy; Reuben, settled in Ohio; Stephen W.,
of whom further.
(VI) Stephen Williams, son of Stephen
Patch, was born at New Boston, March 7,
1808, and came to Buffalo with his father.
He married Thankful M. Winsor, daughter
of Abraham Winsor and Sophia (Bigelow)
(see Bigelow). Children: 1. Anna Sophia,
married George • Ehresman, born in Bavaria,
and came to America when seven years of
age ; afterward a farmer in East Aurora, and
had one child, Daisy Ehresman, who married
William S. Butlin, of East Aurora. 2. Anne,
married Nelson B. Randall, of Chicago, Illi
nois. 3. Margaret R., born 1862 ; married
(first) Zenas Foote; (second) John D. Weed.
4. Alice M., married Rev. Schuyler S. Ballou,
a clergyman. (The Bigelow Line).
(I) John Bigelow, the immigrant ancestor,
is believed to have come from England, but
the variations in spelling at the time of his
immigration to New England make it difficult
to trace the name. The first mention of his
name on the records is found at Watertown,
Massachusetts, where September 30, 1642, he
married Mary Warren, who died October 19,
1 69 1. She was daughter of John and Mar
garet Warren. In 1652 he took the oath of
fidelity there, and April 18, 1690, he was ad
mitted freeman. He was a blacksmith by
trade, and was allowed certain timber by the
town for the building of his forge. He was
highway surveyor in 1652-60; constable in
1663, and selectman in 1665-70-71. His home
stead consisted of six acres. He married
(second), October 2, 1694, Sarah, daughter
of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown. He died
July 14, 1703. His will was dated January 4,

1703, and proved July 23, same year. Chil
dren by first wife: John, born October 27,
1643; Jonathan, December 11, 1646; Mary,
March 14, 1648; Daniel, December 1, 1650;
Samuel, mentioned below; Joshua, November
5, 1655; Elizabeth, June 15, 1657; Sary, Sep
tember 29, 1659; James; Martha, April 1,
1662; Abigail, February 4, 1664; Hannah,
March 4, 1666; died March 8, 1666; son, born
and died December 18, 1667.
(II) Samuel, son of John Bigelow, was
born at Watertown, Massachusetts, October
28, 1653. He married, June 3, 1674, Mary,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Flagg; she
was born January 14, 1658, and died Septem
ber 7, 1720. He was a prominent citizen of
Watertown; an innholder, 1702-16; deputy
to the general court, 1708-09-10. His will,
dated September 30, 1720, proved February
21, 1 73 1, mentions children as given below,
and some grandchildren. Children : John,
born May 9, 1675 ; Mary, September 12, 1677;
Samuel, September 18, 1679; Sarah, October
1, 1691 ; Thomas, October 24, 1683; Mercy
or Martha, April 4, 1686; Abigail, May 7,
1687; Plannah, May 24, 1711; Isaac, men
tioned below; Deliverance, September 22,
1695. (Ill) Sergeant Isaac Bigelow, son of Sam
uel Bigelow, was born in Watertown, March
or May 19, 1691, and married, December 19,
1709, Mary Bond, of Watertown; she died
July 9, 1775. Shortly after his marriage he
removed to Colchester, Connecticut, and
bought land there May 23, 1712. He was a
military man of considerable prominence, and
was commissioned sergeant by the governor
in 1744. He died in Colchester, September
11, 1 75 1, and left an estate valued at £2,087
us. 9d. Children, born in Colchester: Mercy,
July 23, 171 1, died young; Isaac, May 4, 1713;
Mercy, February 4, 1715; Mary, July 31,
1719; Hannah, October 2, 1721 ; Abigail, April
13, 1723; Samuel, December 21, 1724; Sarah,
died young; Sarah, June 27, 1727; Lydia,
April 22, 1729 ; Elisha, mentioned below.
(IV) Elisha, son of Sergeant Isaac Bige
low, was born in Colchester, April 14, I731-
He married (first), May 25, 1751, Mary,
daughter of Jonathan Kilborn ; she died Jan
uary 11, 1765, aged twenty-nine. He married
(second), October 2, 1765, Deborah Chapman,
of East Haddam, and she died January 20,
J773> aged forty-two. He married (third)',
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born in Colchester: by first wife: Elisha,
January 17, 1752; Molly, August 28, 1753,
died October 15, 1756; Bond, born May 18,
1755; Mary, May 19, 1757; Noah, Febru
ary 7, !759; Joel, January 9, 1761 ; Lydia,
December 12, 1762. By second wife:
Deborah, born October 13, 1766; Hannah,
February 10, 1768; Aaron, June 19, 1769;
Isaac, January 23, 1771 ; Robert, January 19,
1773, died January 24, same year. By third
wife: Samuel, May 19, 1774, died March
28, 1775 ; Samuel, November 19, 1775, died
February 22, 1778; Thankful, April 7, 1777;
Lucy, August 30, 1779; Olyndajuly 31, 1781 ;
Sophia, August 1, 1783, married, 1802, Abra
ham Winsor; Cynthia, August 1, 1783;
Betty, May 9, 1786.

The Shearer family was or-
SHEARER iginally from England, and
never appears to have been
very numerous. The name belongs to a large
class of English surnames derived from the
trade of the ancestor at the time of adopting
surnames, doubtless as early as the year 1200.
The American family is descended from a
branch that located in the eighteenth century
in Ulster Province, Ireland, probably before
the days of Cromwell, but the name is not
among the first grantees and tenants in 1610
and afterward. In 1890 the Irish census
shows that a small branch of the family still
resides in the north of Ireland. In that year
five children bearing this surname were horn
in Ireland, of whom four were in Ulster.
(I) James Shearer, the American pioneer,
came from Antrim, Ireland, to America, about
1720, with the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and
in 1720 he located at Union, Connecticut,
where several other Scotch families also set
tled. In 1726 he came with the Nevins family
to the Elbows, now Palmer, Massachusetts,
which was largely settled by Scotch-Irish
moving westward from Worcester, Massachu
setts. He was born in 1678, probably in An
trim, and died in 1747. He occupied a central
location in Palmer. He was one of the peti
tioners from the Elbows to the governor and
general court in 1732 to have the titles of
land there confirmed. The settlers bought
lands to which the title proved defective, lack
ing the authority of the general court. Among
the other farms granted and confirmed in an
swer to the prayer of the petitioners, was a
hundred acres to James Shearer. His farm

was east of the Cedar Swamp brook and south
of Deacon Sedgwick's farm. The proprie
tors helds their meetings at his house fre
quently. He was on the committee to collect
money and pay the minister, Rev. Mr. Har
vey, who was ordained August 23, 1731, in
Shearer's house. His gravestone shows that
he died January 21, 1747, in his sixty-seventh
year, and that he was born in the county An
trim, Ireland. Children, born in Ireland : John,
James and William. The gravestone of his
wife states that she was born in Derby county,
Ireland (England?), and died July 7, 1750, in
her seventy-fifth year.
(II) John, son of James Shearer, was born
in Ireland, probably in Antrim, in 1706, and
died in 1802. He married Jane King. He set
tled in the town of Brimfield, near Palmer,
in the eastern part of what is now Three
River Village. He was a soldier in the revo
lution, a corporal in Lieutenant Joshua Shaw's
company in 1777. He and his son William
responded to the Lexington call, April 19,
1775, and both served in Captain David
Speer's company, Colonel Pynchon's regiment
(P. 133, vol. xiv, Massachusetts Soldiers and
Sailors; also "History of Palmer"). John Jr.
was also in the revolution in 1779. His sons
Joseph and Thomas were also in the service
in 1777. Two sons fought at the battle of
Bennington and two at the battle of Saratoga.
John signed the petition of 1739 with his fath
er, complaining of the minister, Mr. Harvey,
and of the faction that supported him. John
was admitted an inhabitant in 1734 on the
Abel Curtis right. Children: Joseph; John
Jr., born March 22, 1746, married, 1774, Jane
White; William, married Jerusha Perry;
Thomas; David, married, 1791, Kate King;
Jonathan, born March 29, 1762, married Han
nah Dickinson ; Noah, mentioned below ; Dan
iel, married Sarah King; Jane, married Wal
lace Little; Betsey, married William White.
The order of births is not known.
(Ill) Noah, son of John Shearer, was born
1764, and married, in 1791, Tirzah Merrick,
who died, according to her gravestone in the
old Center cemetery, October 10, 1820, in her
fifty-first year. He married (second) Betsey,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hobart)
Heald, of Pepperell, Massachusetts. Joseph
Heald was a descendant of John Heald, a
pioneerj of Concord, Massachusetts. Noah
Shearer was a farmer. When he was thir
teen years old he went to the battle of Ben-

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nington, in which a brother was engaged, to
take horses to the soldiers. Companies of
militia were hurried to the support of the
northern army at this time. Although not an
enlisted soldier, he volunteered, like many
others at the time, and carried a musket in
the battle. His living children are now among
the few surviving children of revolutionary
soldiers. Children by the first wife, born at
Palmer : William, October 27, 1791 ; Minerva,
May 9, 1793; John Little; fiannah Williams;
Merrick, April 3, 1800; Sextus, February 28,
1802 ; Louisa, May 5, 1805 ; an infant, died
December 5, 1809. Children by second wife:
Elizabeth Hobart, born 1822, married, 1846,
Williston Jones, a Presbyterian clergyman,
and resides in East Aurora with her nephew,
Albert Shearer (1911) ; she had no children;
Joseph Heald, mentioned below; Tirzah Jane,
born June 28, 1826, died unmarried; Albert
N., mentioned below.
(IV) Joseph Heald, son of Noah Shearer,
was born April 13, 1824, in Palmer, Massa
chusetts. He was educated in the public
schools and studied law, beginning to practice
in Wyoming county, New York, in 1855. In
1864 he came to East Aurora, New York,
where he_ continued in the general practice of
law until' he retired, and where he has lived
since that time. In 1874 he was in partner
ship with B. S. Farrington, the office of the
firm being in Buffalo. For three years he
was an excise commissioner of the town of
Aurora, and for many years was notary pub
lic by appointment of the governor of the
state. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and
one of the builders of that party. He attends
the Universalist church. He married, July 1,
1852, Emma Richcords, in East Aurora. Chil
dren: 1. Albert R., born April 9, 1853; mar
ried (first), Abigail Persons, of East Aurora;
(second) Laura Weed; no children. 2. Clara,
born September 27, 1855 ; married L. F. Per
sons; children: Floyd, Hobart, William and
Flossie Persons. 3. Louisa, horn April 3,
1857; married George Noyes; five children;
resides in western Nebraska. 4. Mary Jane,
died when ten years of age. 5. Dora, Febru
ary 27, 1863 ; married Albert H. Peirson. 6.
William R., born October 3, 1866; married
Flora Gilbert ; resides in Hennessy, Kingfisher
county, Oklahoma ; seven children. 7. Child,
died an infant.
(IV) Albert N., brother of Joseph Heald
Shearer, was born in October, 1828. When

a young man, in 1848, he went to St. Louis,
Missouri, and afterward, in 1852, to San
Francisco, California. Thence he went to
Australia as supercargo of a vessel which was
wrecked on the return voyage on Raven
Island. For some time he and four other
survivors lived on the island subsisting on
fruit and wild hogs until rescued by a passing
vessel. He subsequently engaged in business
in Hong Kong, and later in Shanghai, China.
He returned to this country, and died in Cali
fornia, after many years of "retirement, in
1894. He married, in 1865, Laura B. Smith;
their only child died young.
The Hunt family, of which Gov-
HUNT ernor Hunt was a scion, was of
revolutionary ancestry. The gov
ernor's father was Sanford Hunt, a resident
of Greene county when Washington was born,
but later moved to Livingston county and
gave the name of Hunt's Hollow to a settle
ment which he made there.
Washington Hunt was born in Windham,
Greene county, this state, August 5, 1811.
There he laid the foundations of his educa
tion. At seventeen he was a resident of Lock-
port, where he was clerk in the general store
of Tucker & Bissell. Two years passed thus
and his ambitions rose; next he is found
studying law with Lot Clark. He was more
of the business man, however, than lawyer;
after his admission to the bar, he found con
genial employment for his talent in real estate
and other investments. In 1833, for instance,
the firm of Hunt & Walbridge was formed.
Its purpose was the purchase of 32,000 acres
of land in Niagara county from the Albany
Land Company. This transaction made Mr.
Hunt a very rich man. The following year
he married Mary Walbridge, daughter of his
partner. A year after his marriage, at the
early age of twenty-four, he was appointed
by Governor Marcy -"first judge," as it was
then known, of the county. This office he
filled for five years with great dignity and
ability, his youth notwithstanding.
He ran for congress in the thirties on the
Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In the
year 1840 he abandoned that party, on the
financial issue, and in 1842 was sent to con
gress by the Whigs. His service in Wash
ington extended from 1843 to 1849. In con
gress he earned a name for ability and in
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After this service, he was appointed comp
troller of the city of New York, and in 1850
received the nomination of the Whig party
for governor of the Empire state. His oppo
nent was the redoubtable and popular Horatio
Seymour. Hunt defeated him by two hundred
and sixty-two votes in a total poll of 429,000 ;
but in the next gubernatorial campaign, both
being candidates again, Seymour turned the
tables and won over his antagonist similarly
in a close race. Hunt was a coalition candi
date for congress in 1856, but was defeated;
again in 1862, when he was the Democratic
candidate for the place, he was unsuccessful.
For some years before his death, he spent a
good part of his time in New York City.
There he died of cancer, February 2, 1867.
In the development of Lockport along business
lines, Governor Hunt was intimately identified.
At different times he had interests there in
five banks. In the development of the water
power of the canal, which he and Governor
Marcy leased from the state in 1836, he was
prominent. He had investments also in a
number of the industrial concerns which util
ized the water power and he was a large
holder of realty and railroad securities.

The first Congdon of record
CONGDON in New England was Benja
min Congdon, born 1650,
who settled in Rhode Island, at Kingstown,
where he bought two hundred and thirty
acres of land in Narragansett, but did not
occupy it for several years. He was made a
freeman in 1677: In deeds made in 1683 he
styles himself "late of Portsmouth, planter."
He died June 19, 1718. His will, dated July
2, 1715, was probated December 10, 1718. He
married Elizabeth, died November 15, 1720,
daughter of John and Dorothy Albro. John
Albro was born in England, in 1617, came to
America in the ship "Francis," and four years
later (1639) was among those who first set
tled Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he mar
ried Dorothy, widow of Nathaniel Potter.
From him descend all bearing the name of
Albro, who are of early New England ances
try. Children of Benjamin Congdon: 1.
William, died 1761 ; had first wife Mary, and
second wife Margaret; children of first wife:
Joseph, William, Margaret, Elizabeth and
Abigail. 2. Benjamin, married, 1701, Frances
Stafford ; children : Benjamin, William, Stuke-
ley and James. 3. John, had wife Mary;

children: Jeremiah, Mary, John and James.
4. James, of whom further.
(II) James, fourth child of Benjamin and
Elizabeth (Albro) Congdon, was born April
19, 1686, and died September 27, 1757. He
resided at Kingstown, Providence and Charles
town, Rhode Island. He married three times :
(first) Margaret Eldred, daughter of Samuel
and Martha (Knowles) Eldred, by whom he
had nine children: James, Penelope, Benja
min, Samuel, William, John, Elizabeth, Mar
tha, Margaret. Margaret (Eldred) Congdon
died in 1728. James Congdon married (sec
ond) Dorcas Westcott, daughter of Benjamin
and Bethiah (Gardner) Westcott, by whom he
had three children : Ephraim, Dorcas and
Joseph. Dorcas (Westcott) Congdon died in
1734. James Congdon married (third) Mary
fioxsie, widow of Joseph Hoxsie, daughter
of Robert and Deborah Taylor. Mary (Tay
lor) (Hoxsie) Congdon was born November
23, 1703, and died in 1755. She was married
to James Congdon, November 15, 1739, at
her residence in Charlestown, "that being the
usual meeting place ¦ in Charlestown of the
Quakers." By her James had three children:
Robert, Susannah, Phebe.
James Congdon appears in the town rec
ords as follows: 1720, freeman; 1731-32-33-
34-47-48, town council; 1732, deputy, 1738,
sold land in South Kingston for £900; 1745-
55, moderator of town meeting; 1745-47-48-
49-50, deputy; his will, proved in 1757, dis
poses of a large estate, ten slaves by name to
various children, negroes to sons and Spanish
Indian girls to daughters, lands, houses, cat
tle, etc., to each child.
(Ill) John, sixth child of James and Mar
garet (Eldred) Congdon, died a little before
the revolution, at about forty-five years of
age. He married, October 6, 1745, at Charles
town, Sarah Hoxsie, a sister of Judge Hox
sie, of Charlestown. By her he had eleven
children: James, of whom further; Joseph,
Sarah, Isaac, Mary, Catherine, Martha, Pene
lope, Mary (second), Frances, John.
(IV) James (2), eldest son of John and
Sarah (fioxsie) Congdon, was born October
13, 1747, and died May 3, 1803, at Charles
town, Rhode Island. In a letter written by
him he signed himself James Congdon 3rd.
He married (first) Elizabeth Sherman, Janu
ary 23, 1773; by her he had no children;
(second) Rebecca Ryder, November 2, 1780;
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January 16, 1783; James; Catherine; Benja
min, of whom further ; and a boy who died in
infancy. At the time of the revolution, James was
one of the committee of safety in Charles
town. He spent a thousand dollars of his
own money for the revolution, and after the
war received a grant of about one thousand
acres of land in Ohio, near Marietta, in pay
ment. He was considered the best and largest
farmer in Charlestown. He was the last of
the family to work his farm with slave labor.
(V) Benjamin, fourth child of James (2)
and Rebecca (Ryder) Congdon, was born
August 29, 1788, at Charlestown, Rhode
Island, and died March 20, 1881, at Napoli,
New York. He was twice married; (first)
to Harriet, daughter of William Hazard
Knowles, of Point Judith, Rhode Island, Feb
ruary 25, 1816; by her he had four children,
all of whom died in infancy except William
Hazard Knowles Congdon, of whom further.
Benjamin Congdon married (second) Mary,
daughter of Gardner Kinyon, of Point Ju
dith, Rhode Island, and Susannah (Boss)
Kinyon, December 9, 1824. By her he had
nine children. Harriett Augusta, born No
vember 1, 1825, married Sydney Marsh; Su
san Rebecca, born September 20, 1827, mar
ried Joseph Hazard; Mary Catherine, born
February 12, 1829, married Elias Harmon;
Emily, born January 24, 183 1, married Elias
Rowley ; Caroline Elizabeth, born December 6,
1832, never married; Hannah Maria, born
June 18, 1835, married Andrew Vidal; James
Gardner, born January 5, 1837, married Lucy
M. Beers; Lucretia Kinyon, born March 28,
1839, died in infancy ; Benjamin Edwin, born
August 8, 1843, married Martha Brown.
Benjamin Congdon served in the war of
1812. He came to Napoli, New York, about
1840, and was a well-known farmer of that
town until his death, at the age of ninety-two
years. (VI) William Hazard Knowles Congdon,
eldest son of Benjamin and Harriet (Knowles)
Congdon, was born September 12, 1818, at
Point Judith, Rhode Island, and died August
14, 1906, at Randolph, Cattaraugus county,
New York. He was married, April 6, 1843,
at Napoli, New York, to Elizabeth Mariah
Miller, born January 1, 1826, daughter of
Joseph Hoppin Miller, one of the early settlers
of Napoli, and Mariah (Boardman) Miller,
his wife. To them were born six children :

Benjamin Franklin, of whom further; Joseph
Miller, born January 12, 1846, married Alice
Miriam Jenkins, died September 15, 1907;
William Henry, born October 20, 1847, mar
ried Ilona Leone Booth ; Florence Maria, born
January 29, 1851, married Ira Peaslee;
Charles Edwin, born January 23, 1854, died
December 6, 1873 ; Silas Salmon, born De
cember 20, 1857, married Cora Bryant, died
January 11, 1904.
William H. K. Congdon was a farmer of
the town of Napoli during the whole of the
active period of his life.
(VII) Benjamin Franklin, eldest son of Will
iam H. K. and Elizabeth M. (Miller) Cong
don, was born in Napoli, Cattaraugus county,
New York, May 2, 1844. He was educated
in the public schools and Randolph Academy.
He chose the profession of law, and pursued
legal study under M. T. Jenkins, then of East
Randolph, Judge Hazeltine, of Jamestown,
New York, and William Manley, of Ellicott
ville. While obtaining his legal studies there
were periods when he taught in the schools
of his district. He completed his law study
at Albany Law School in 1870, and was ad
mitted to the bar in October of the same year.
He began practice with his brother, Joseph
M. Congdon, in East Randolph, New York,
continuing until 1873, when he located in Ran
dolph, where for a year he was in partnership
with James G. Johnson, after which he con
tinued practice alone. He was well read in
the law, and commanded a good and lucra
tive practice. He was a Republican in poli
tics, and in 1880 was appointed by Governor
Cornell attorney for the Seneca Nation of In
dians, a position he held three years. During
the legislative sessions of 1892 and 1893 he
was a senate committee clerk. He married,
December 12, 1872, Frances Mary, daughter
of Dr. Samuel S. and Mary Jane (Bell) Wil
cox, of Napoli. Of this marriage were born
four children. 1. Darwin Wilcox, attorney;
born July 3, 1875 ; married, November 14,
1906, Marilla Adams ; children : Frances Eva,
born November 5, 1907 ; Elsie Mary, March
7, 1909. 2. Charles Edwin, attorney; born
July 17, 1877; married, October 4, 1905, Mary
Isabel Cotrael ; children : William James, born
November 2, 1907; Elizabeth, August -2, 1910.
3. William Bell, born March 7, 1881, died
February 25, 1882. 4. Harold Knowles, of
further mention.
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Benjamin F. and Frances M. (Wilcox) Cong
don, was born in Randolph, New York, Oc
tober 6, 1883. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, Chamberlain Institute, graduating
class of 1902, and entered Oberlin College, re
maining two years. He then took up the
study of law under his brother Darwin, and
in 1910 was admitted to the bar. He is now
(1911) in the practice of his profession in
Randolph. He is a member of Randolph
Lodge, No. 359, Free and Accepted Masons,
and is a trustee of the Congregational church.
He is a Republican in politics, -and for six
years has been town clerk of Randolph.
He married, November 24, 1906, Ethel
Woodmancy; child: Harold Knowles (2),
born August 15, 1908.

Uriah Persons came to New
PERSONS York state in 1806, and made
his home in the town of Shel
don, in the Holland Purchase. He was born
March 12, 1763, died in March, 1842, and
married Elizabeth Dalrymple, born June 10,
1762. Children: David, born December 10,
1782; William, June 5, 1784; John, October
29, 1786, died July 25, 1843 ; Uriah Jr., born
June 6, 1789, died March 11, 1842; Joseph,
born September 5, 1791 ; Robert, born April 1,
1793, died August 31, 1864; Charles, April 21,
1795; Elihu, April 15, 1798, died May 24,
1868; Henry, born August 25, 1799, died Oc
tober, 1819; Hiram (twin); Elizabeth, born
August 10, 1801 ; Polly, born August 24,
1803 ; James, of whom further ; Alonzo, born
July 1, 181 1, died October 26, 1897.
(II) James, son of Uriah Persons, was born
in Sheldon, October 1, 1807, and died Octo
ber 21, 1896. He married Diana, daughter
of Theophilus Humphrey, of Connecticut.
Children: 1. Alonzo, married Sarah Fisher.
2. Herrick, married Marian, daughter of
James Blakeley, and lived in Minnesota; died
in Gordon, Wisconsin, December 8, 1910. 3.
Julia, married Warren Hall, of Wales Centre,
New York, a farmer and prominent citizen.
4. Cynthia, married Michael Higgins, a
farmer. 5. James, married Marian, daugh
ter of Dr. Wallace. 6. Lucy, of whom fur
ther. 7. Harriet, married Oscar Gail, a bro-
, ther of Dr. Gail. 8. Mary, married James
Holcomb, of Bloomington, Illinois. 9. Wal
cott Humphrey, married Jessie, daughter of
Thomas Wilson, of East Aurora, New York.
(Ill) Lucy, daughter of James Persons,

was born February 18, 1839, at Yucatan,
Houston county, Minnesota. She married,
November 10, 1864, Orlando John Gardner,
born at Youngstown, Trumbull county, Ohio,
February 5, 1842. Orlando John Gardner was
son of Clinton Milo Gardner, a carriage manu
facturer, and came to East Aurora, New
York, at the end of the civil war. He had
enlisted in Minnesota in 1861, and was com
missioned second lieutenant, afterward first
lieutenant .of the First Minnesota Regiment
of Volunteers. He was a civil engineer and
surveyor, as well as a carriage maker by
trade, and was employed to lay out many
highways in East Aurora. He was a member
of the local lodge of Free. Masons, "a well-
known and highly respected citizen. He died
at East Aurora, April 7, 1910. His widow
resides in the old home, East Aurora. Chil
dren : 1. Charles Albert, born August 29,
1866, in East Aurora. 2. Minnie, born June
30, 1869; married I. G. Ogilvie, of East Au
rora. 3. James, born December 10, 1873 ;
married Nellie Curtis, and resides in Buffalo,
New York ; has one child, Bernice.

Michael Jansen Vreeland,
VREELAND the founder of his name in
America, was born in 1610,
and came to America from Scrabbekerk
Island of South Beveland, Province of Zee-
land, Netherland, by way of Amsterdam, in
the ship "Arms of Norway." He arrived at
New Netherlands (New -York), August 4,
1638, with his wife Fitje (Sophia), one son,
Qaas, and two servants. He proceeded at
once up the Hudson, where he leased a farm
of the Van Rensselaers, at what is now Green
Bush, opposite Albany. He soon became en
gaged in the fur trade with the Indians, in
which it is said "he made his fortune in two
years." The fur trade, however, was the pre
rogative of the Dutch West India Company,
consequently he found himself in difficulty
with the authorities, and removed to New Am
sterdam before November 4, 1644, having
empowered Arent Van Curler to settle his
accounts and differences with Van Rensselaer.
In 1646 he settled in Communipaw, New Jer
sey, and in 1647-49-50 represented Pavonia in
the. Council of Nine. On September 15, 1655,
the Indians massacred every one of the Pa
vonia community except the family of Michael
Jansen Vreeland, which was obliged to take
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1656, he was granted a lot in the city, and
February 21, 1657, he was appointed one of
the measurers of lime and grain; April 13,
1657, he was enrolled as one of the lesser
burghers ; January 22, 1658, he asked for per
mission to return to Communipaw, New Jer
sey, and three years later he was living there
on his own farm in competence. He was one
of the first magistrates appointed for the
court of Bergen, and in December, 1662, he
joined in the petition to the governor for a
minister of the gospel, to whose support he
pledged twenty-five florins. He died in 1663.
His wife, Fitje (Hartman) Vreeland, died
September 21, 1697. She was a widow of
thirty-four years and maintained her place at
the head of her household until she died at
the age of eighty-six years. She came from
Amsterdam, Holland, and was married in
1 63 1. Upon the death of her husband she '
had the title of the land confirmed to her by
Sir Philip Carteret, held it during her lifetime
and disposed of it in her will.
Beginning about the year 1760 many of the
Bergen and Hudson county Vreelands emi
grated to Pennsylvania, some of them settling
there, others going northward into New York
state, where they founded settlements and
built churches in many different places, in
cluding the town of Cuba, Allegany county.
(I) Simon Vreeland, the ancestor of the
line herein recorded, and probably a descen
dant of the founder of the family, mentioned
above, was born in 1763, died April 29, 1840.
He married and among his children was Si
mon, of whom further.
(II) Simon (2), son of Simon (1) Vree
land, was born in 1820, died in 1887. He fol
lowed the occupation of farming in Cuba, New
York, and was an inventor of many devices
of value, among which was a steel suspen
sion carriage wheel. He removed to Olean,
Cattaraugus county, New York, in 1859, but
after a residence of three years there returned
to Cuba. He married Jerusha Butterfield.
Children : Oliver S., Addison Gardiner, and
Edward Butterfield, all of whom are of fur
ther mention.
(Ill) Judge Oliver S. Vreeland, son of
Simon (2) and Jerusha (Butterfield) Vreeland,
was born in the town of Cuba, Allegany coun
ty, New York, September 28, 1842, died May
20, 1897. He was reared to farm labor and
attended the public schools. In the fall of
1859 his father removed to Olean, and in the

spring he began a two years' course at Olean
Academy. In 1862 the family returned to
Cuba. In the fall of 1862 he entered Rush-
ford Academy, remaining there two years,
except two winter terms when he taught the
public school in the town of Ischua. He then
spent a year at Alfred University, and taught
a term at Hume, Allegany county. In the fall
of 1865 he entered Michigan State University
at Ann Arbor, whence he was graduated
A. B., 1869. In July of that year he began the
study of law with E. D. Loveridge, of Cuba.
In June, 1872, he was admitted to the New
York state bar. He at once located at Sala
manca, where he formed a partnership with
Hudson Ansley, which continued until 1879.
He then practiced alone until 1887, when he
was elected county judge of Cattaraugus
county, continuing in that office until his death.
Judge Vreeland gave much time to the pub
lic service. He was president of the village
corporation in 1878-80, and represented his
town on the board of supervisors, 1882-86.
In 1888 he was appointed counsel to the com
mittee appointed by the New York legisla
ture to investigation the conditions of the In
dians in the state. This committee made a
thorough investigation which they embodied
in a "Report on the Indian Problem." Judge
Vreeland rendered important public service in
enabling the committee to settle points hith
erto in controversy. He was an able lawyer,
and a wise, impartial judge. In politics he
was a Republican, and in town affairs he was
interested and helpful. He was a member of
the Episcopal church.
He married, September 15, 1870, Anna M.
Guilford, born October 2, 1841, daughter of
Samuel A. and Irene Guilford. Children: 1.
Irene J., died January 11, 1904. 2. Harry E.,
born July 9, 1876. 3. Charles G., of whom
further. (Ill) Addison Gardiner, second son of Si
mon (2) and Jerusha (Butterfield) Vreeland,
was horn in Cuba, October 27, 1844, died
September 9, 1904. He was educated in the
public schools and after completing his studies
removed to Syracuse, New York, where he
was clerk in a drug store. He later became
a traveling drug salesman, and spent several
years upon the road. Later he settled in ¦
Salamanca, New York, where he engaged in
mercantile business, fie served three terms
as postmaster of the New York senate at Al
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where he was engaged in the ice business un
til his death. During his residence in Sala
manca, he was postmaster of the village. He
was a Republican in politics, and a member
of the Masonic order. He married (first)
Flora Bradley; (second), February 16, 1880,
Mary MacDonald. Child, Elizabeth, born
January 5, 1883; married, October 27, 1906,
John F. Vauchelle.
(Ill) Edward Butterfield, youngest son of
Simon (2) and Jerusha (ButterfielcF) Vree
land, was born in the town of Cuba, Alle
gany county, New York, December 7, 1857.
He was educated in Friendship Academy, and
in 187 1 came to Salamanca, entering the Acad
emy there, graduating with the class of 1876.
At the age of twenty years he was appointed
superintendent of the Salamanca schools, hold
ing that position five years. During this
period he began the study of law. In 1881
he was admitted to the bar, but has never
been engaged in continuous practice. After
resigning the superintendency and while study
ing law, he opened a fire and life insurance
office in Salamanca, in which he retained his
interest until a few years ago. In 1890 he
was elected president of the Salamanca Trust
Company, successor to the Salamanca Na
tional Bank, which was founded in 1882 by
A G. Dow, father of the present vice-presi
dent of the Trust Company. In 1899 he was
elected to the national house of representa
tives, taking his seat as a member of the fifty-
sixth congress, and has served continuously
in the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth,
sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second con
gresses. At the last election he received
thirty-two thousand three hundred and twen
ty-seven votes against nineteen thousand four
hundred and sixty-six cast for his opponents.
He has served on the following committees:
Pensions, merchant, marine and fisheries, la
bor and education, naval affairs, appropria
tions, and is the present chairman of banking
and currency. After the panic of 1907 Sena
tor Aldrich introduced the emergency cur
rency act, known as the "Aldrich Act," which
passed the senate. Congressman Vreeland
framed a similar act, known as the "Vreeland
Bill," which passed the house. These bills
were consolidated under the name "Aldrich-
Vreeland Emergency Currency Bill," which
passed both houses. This bill provides for a
commission of senators and representatives,,
whose duty it shall be to make a study of cur

rency and banking and report to congress,
with their recommendations for reform in the
banking and currency laws of the United
States. Senator Aldrich is chairman and Con
gressman Vreeland vice-chairman of the Na
tional monetary commission. During his long
congressional term Mr. Vreeland has rendered
valuable service to his district, to his state
and to his country. He has attained a com
manding position in the house, where his ut
terances are received with the closest atten
tion and the greatest respect.
Although deeply immersed in public busi
ness he retains the liveliest interest in the
affairs of his village, and has been an impor
tant factor in its growth and development.
He is a director in the Salamanca Veneer
Panel Company, and the Salamanca Furniture
Manufacturing Company. At the expiration
of the twenty year charter of the Salamanca
National Bank, Mr. Vreeland was active in its
re-organization as a trust company, and when
the Salamanca Trust company was organized
as successor he was elected its first president,
and is still at the head of that very prosperous,
conservative and well-managed institution.
He is president of the Salamanca Business In
stitute; director of the Salamanca Building
and Loan Association, and interested in other
business enterprises at home and abroad, in
cluding large holdings of oil producing prop
erty. For many years he served on the vil
lage board of education, and is a member of
the various literary and historical societies.
Always a strong Republican, Mr. Vreeland
has, from early life, taken a deep interest in
public affairs and early became a leader in
the party. He was appointed postmaster of
Salamanca in 1889, resigning to take his seat
in congress. He is an eloquent public speaker
and has rendered valuable assistance as a cam
paign orator as well as a legislator. He is
a man of the people and very popular in his
district. In his own village of Salamanca he
is every man's friend. Whether considered
as financier, statesman or citizen, Mr. Vree
land is emphatically a successful man, and all
agree that the honors attained have been
fairly won and richly deserved. He is a mem
ber of the Masonic Order, belonging to Cat
taraugus Lodge, Salamanca Chapter, Sala
manca Commandery, Jamestown Council of
the York Rite, Buffalo Consistory of the Scot
tish Rite, in which he holds the thirty-second
degree, and is a noble of the Mystic Shrine.

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He also holds membership in the Salamanca
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows;
Knights of Pythias ; and Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks. |His summer home is
Salamanca, his permanent apartments in
Washington, District of Columbia, at the
Hotel Dewey.
He married, February 27, 1881, Myra S.
Price, of Friendship, New York, born De
cember 14, i860, daughter of Jacob Orson
and Laura Cornelia (Bradley) Price, grand
daughter of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Ryan)
Price, great-granddaughter of Jacob and
Catherine (Barrington) Price. Her maternal
grandparents are William Bronson and El
mira (Scott) Bradley. Children: 1. Laura
Elizabeth, born April 10, 1882; married, No
vember 27, 1902, Burdette Whipple, born
April 4, 1878. Children: James Vreeland,
born August 2, 1904; Elizabeth, born Janu
ary 31, 191 1. 2. Anna Florence, born Novem
ber 20, 1885 ; married, June 24, 1908, Dr.
Harry Reger. 3. Edward Price, born June
14, 1889.
(IV) Charles G., son of Judge Oliver S.
Vreeland, was born July 17, 1878. He was
educated in the public schools of Salamanca,
graduating from the high school. After com
pleting his studies he entered the employ of
the Salamanca Trust Company, occupying a
clerical position for seven years. His health
failing, he was compelled to adopt an occu
pation that would permit him to be more out
of doors. He obtained an appointment as
letter carrier in Salamanca, a position he has
now held for several years, to which he owes
his complete restoration to health. He is a
Republican in politics, and a member of Cat
taraugus Lodge, No. 236, Free and Accepted
Masons. He married, April 2, 1904, Louise
Smith, born February 17, 1878, daughter of
Dr. Julian G. and Sarah E. (King) Smith.
Child: Oliver J., born November 15, 1907.

The name of Wyman is of
WYMAN German derivation and was
originally spelled Weymann.
The American founders of the family, John
and Francis Wyman, were English Puritans,
and came to Massachusetts between the years
1620 and 1640. The Wyman brothers were
original settlers of the town of Woburn and
were both tanners, their home and tanning es
tablishments being on what was known as
Wyman's Lane. They were also joint pro

prietors of extensive tracts in other parts of
the town. Their descendants have been many
and influential. Up to the time of the revo
lution they were mainly settled in and around
Woburn. Thirty-three of the name served
in the war of the revolution, from Woburn
alone, two of them, Jabez and Nathaniel, .
meeting death on the battle fields of Lexing
ton and Concord.
(II) John, sdn of Francis Wyman, of
Westmill, Hertford county, England, was
baptized at Westmill church, February 3,
1621, one of a family of ten children. He is
first mentioned as a subscriber at Charles
town to town orders for Woburn, December,
1640; was taxed at Woburn, September 8,
1645. He was a tanner, prosperous and in
fluential. He was known as "Lieutenant"
John Wyman. He married, November 5,
1644, Sarah, daughter of Miles Nutt, of Wo
burn, whom she survived, and married (sec
ond) August 25, 1684, Thomas Fuller, of
Woburn. Lieutenant John Wyman died May
9, 1684. Children: Samuel, died in infancy;
John, of whom further; Sarah, married Jo
seph Walker; Solomon, born February 26,
1652 ; David, a tanner, married Isabel
Farmer; Elizabeth, died young; Bathsheba,
married Nathaniel Tay; Jonathan, cornet of
Woburn train band, married (first) Abigail,
Fowle; (second) Hannah Fowle (not sis
ters) ; Seth, lieutenant of Woburn Military
Company, married Hester Johnson; Jacob,
married (first) Elizabeth Richardson; (sec
ond) Elizabeth Coggin.
(Ill) John (2), son of Lieutenant John
(1) and Sarah (Nutt) Wyman, was born
March 28, 1648. He was slain by the Indians
in the Narragansett fight, December 19, 1695.
He married Mary, daughter of Rev. Thomas
Carter, about 1671. She survived him and
married (second), October 31, 1696, Nathan
iel Batchelder. Qiildren : John, of whom fur
ther; Mary, born June 25, 1674, married,
February 27, 1693, Thomas Peirce.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary
(Carter) Wyman, was born April 23, 1672.
fie married, January 28, 1696, Rebecca Reed.
Children: Rebecca, born October 14, 1699;
John, of whom further; Israel, 1705; Mary,
1709; Ezekiel, 1712; Elizabeth, July 3, 1714;
Martha, July 20, 1718; Abigail, 1722.
(V) John (4), son of John (3) and Re-
.becca (Reed) Wyman, was born in Woburn,
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ber 9, 1762, at Lunenburg, Massachusetts. He
married Rebecca  and had issue : Jo
seph, of whom further; Reuben; John, died
"in his Majesty's service up Mohawk river,
September, 1759, being then twenty years of
age"; David, born April 30, 1744.
(VI) Joseph, son of John (4) and Rebecca
Wymani was born in 1734. He married
(first) June 21, 1759, Keziah Parker, at
Lunenburg; (second) 1777, Sarah Allen;
(third) Sarah Colton. Children of first wife,
born at Lunenburg, Massachusetts : John,
born October 14, 1756; David; Joseph, of
whom further; Oliver, Thomas, Sarah, Eliza
beth, born November 10, 1773.
(VII) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Keziah (Parker) Wyman, was born April 3,
1764, at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, died at
Millville, New York, October 28, 1841. He
removed to the state of New Hampshire, later
to Orleans county, New York, fie married
Betsey Whalley, of Shirley, Massachusetts,
and had issue.
(VIII) Oliver, son of Joseph and Betsey
(Whalley) Wyman, was born at Hillsboro,
New Hampshire, March 28, 1800, died at
Millville, New York, November 28, 1861. He
removed first to Rupert, Vermont, thence to
Orleans county, New York, where he and his
father were among the pioneers. He married,
October 29, 1826, Emily Morse, born at Win
chester, New Hampshire, March 18, 1810,
died at Millville, New York, June 16, 1889.
Children : Erastus, died in infancy ; Martha
E., died aged thirteen years; Albert G., died
October 20, 1852, aged twenty-one years;
Orrin T., of whom further; Nelson T., died
young; Mary Ellen, married, 1862, James B.
Wyman, died in October, 1895; children:
Flora, fiattie, Orrin, Roy, Edith, Fanny.
(IX) Orrin T., youngest son of Oliver and
Emily (Morse) Wyman, was born at Mill
ville, Orleans county, New York, August 25,
1836. His early' education was obtained in
the public school and Millville Academy, after
which, in 1855, he entered Meadville Theo
logical School at Meadville, Pennsylvania.
The following year he entered Antioch Col
lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, then under the
presidency of Horace Mann. On account of
a severe illness he was soon obliged -to leave
college, and upon his recovery reentered
Meadville Theological School in 1857, grad
uating in 1859. Following the completion of
his studies he became pastor for a brief time

of the Christian Church at Oregon, (now
Centralia), New York. His ordination to
the ministry occurred at De Wittville, New
York, May 18, 1862, when a special session
of the Erie Christian Conference was con
vened for the purpose. His first charge after
ordination was at Conneaut, Ohio, upon which
he entered in June, 1862, and where he re
mained until 1874. After a pastorate of two
years in South Westerlo, Albany county, New
York, he returned to his first charge in Con
neaut, continuing there until 1883. His other
pastorates have been De Wittville, New York,
1883-89; Newark, New York, 1889-91; De
Wittville, New York,. 1891-92; East Spring
field, Pennsylvania, 1892-93; West Shelby,
New York, 1896-97. For many years his
home has been at De Wittville, New York,
but in 1910 he removed to Sinclairville, New
York, where he acted as supply for nearly
two years for the Congregational church.
Here he now resides.
In his professional work Mr. Wyman has
been unusually successful. As a preacher
his sermons are characterized by thoughtful
preparation, originality of conception and a
clear expression. Several of Mr. Wyman's
sermons and addresses have found their way
into print, notably, "Doctrines of the
Christian Church." The pre-eminent work
of his ministry was the pastorate of twenty
years in Conneaut, Ohio, where he built up
from a defunct organization a large flourish
ing church with a very wide constituency.
Here he was the minister at large for many
miles around among the unchurched, marry
ing the living and burying the dead, in ad
dition to his own parish duties.
Mr. Wyman married Tacy Victoria, daugh
ter of Newell and Lucy Putnam, of Centralia,
New York, September 7, 1859. Their only
child is Benson Newell, of whom further.
(X) Benson Newell, son of Orrin T.
and Tacy Victoria (Putnam) Wyman. was
born in Conneaut, Ohio, June 17, 1863. Here
his early education was secured in the public
schools, graduating from the high school of
Conneaut in 1881. After a year in the pre
paratory department he entered the freshmai
class of Oberlin College, graduating from the
classical course in 1886. In the fall of 1887
he became teacher of classics in Starkey (now
Lakemont) Seminary, Yates county. The
following year he entered the Divinity School
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graduating with the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity in 1891. In the fall of the same
year he entered upon his first ministerial
charge, the Congregational church of Bald
win, Wisconsin, remaining until the spring of
1893. Here he received his ordination Octo
ber 20, 1 891. Called to a small and dis
couraged church at Sinclairville, New York,
in four and a half years he succeeded in
bringing it to a very flourishing condition. In
the spring of 1897, in company with several
friends, Mr. Wyman visited Europe, landing
at Naples. After visiting the principal cities
of Italy, the party proceeded northward
through Switzerland, . Germany, Belgium,
France, England and Scotland, sailing from
Glasgow. In the fall of 1897 Mr. Wyman accepted
a call from the Congregational church of
Savannah, New York. This was a newly
formed organization of only twenty members
and without property. Within the eight
years of his pastorate the membership more
than quadrupled and a beautiful church edi
fice was built with the property practically
freed from debt. In 1905 Mr. Wyman ac
cepted a call to the Congregational church of
Salamanca, New York, where he is now labor
ing. During the present pastorate of about
sented the Western New York Congregational
six years there have been added one hundred
and seventy-five members to the church and
the debt upon the property has been reduced
by over $5,000. Although primarily a pas
tor, several published articles have come from
the pen of Mr. Wyman, notably, "The Prob
lem of the Country Church," also several
articles of travel. In 1910 Mr. Wyman repre-
Association as delegate to the National Coun
cil of Congregational Churches held in Bos
ton. (The Putman Line).
Tacy Victoria (Putnam) Wyman is a de
scendant of the early Puritan family of the
name so well known throughout the country.
Her grandfather, Captain Andrew Putnam,
sixth descendant from the original John Put
nam, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was born in
Winchester, Massachusetts, March 11, 1769.
He was married at Greenfield, Massachusetts.
December 7, 1791, to Azuba, daughter of
Samuel and Agnes (Anger) Stanhope, of
Northfield, Massachusetts. Andrew Putnam
with his wife and two children, Harriet and
Newell, emigrated from Greenfield, in 1796,

to the township of Brookfield, Madison county,
New York, where he had purchased two hun
dred acres of wild land and had erected a
temporary dwelling the previous year. The
following sons were born to them in Brook
field: Gilbert, Lovell, Hiram, Olvin, Oren,
Royal, Union, Worthy. On account of the
dangers from hostile Indians, a military com
pany was formed and Andrew Putnam was
chosen and commissioned as captain. In the
year 1814 the daughter Harriet was married
and emigrated to the wilds of Chautauqua
county. Three years later, having received
an offer of $2,000 for his farm, Andrew de
cided to remove to the same locality. The
undertaking was far from easy. The family
was large, consisting of nine boys, ranging
in age from six years to twenty-two. The
moving outfit comprised one span of horses
and sleigh, four yokes of oxen and two sleds,
followed by thirteen cows and young cattle.
The journey was in February and the snow
was deep. Their route led them over the
very poor road prepared by the Holland Land
Company for the benefit of the prospective
settlers on their Western New York lands.
The little hamlet of Buffalo had just been
destroyed by the British and they passed in
sight of its charred dwellings. Eighteen days
after starting upon their journey they ar
rived, February 20, 181 7, at the home of their
married daughter at what is now known as
Centralia. Captain Putnam soon secured a claim upon
a tract of land and was the first in the or
ganized town of Stockton to obtain a deed.
He soon began the clearing of the land and
the erection of a frame house. This was
built according to the wish of his wife in
the old New England style with a huge chim
ney in the center. The house occupied two
years in building and was a most prominent
landmark for a period of seventy years. It
was the first frame house constructed upon
the road uniting the county seats of Chautau
qua and Cattaraugus. In May, 1828, Mr.
Putnam had the misfortune to cut one of his
knees and from what was regarded a trivial
accident he came to his death, June 14, 1828.
Thus ended an eventful life, fie was a man
of great energy and firmness of character.
In religious faith he was a Baptist, and his
home was a hospitable tarrying place for min
isters of the faith.
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Northfield, Massachusetts, November 25,
1770, died at the home of her son Newell,
Centralia, New York, January 18, 1864, at
the advanced age of ninety-three years. For
many years after the death of her husband
Mrs. Putnam continued to occupy the old
homestead, and what became known as the
Old Yellow House became the Mecca for
her many children and children's children liv
ing nearby. Mrs. Putnam was a woman of
strong- will and forceful character, well fitted
to meet the difficulties. of a pioneer life and
the responsibilities of a large family.
Newell Putnam, eldest son of Captain An
drew and Azuba (Stanhope) Putnam, was
born in the town of Greenfield, Massachu
setts, February 28, 1795. The following year
his parents removed to Brookfield, Madison
county, New York, where he remained until
the family's removal in 1817. In the war
of 1812 he enlisted from the town of Brook
field, and for six months was stationed at
the barracks of Sacket Harbor. On account
of the bad sanitary arrangements here, a
fever was contracted that nearly cost him his
life. In January, 1817, he was married to
Tacy Fenner, of Brookfield, and their wed
ding journey was the long pilgrimage of two
hundred and fifty miles to Chautauqua
county, where they settled near the paternal
home. Here he took up one hundred and
fifty acres of unbroken forest land, built him
a log house and cleared the land. In com
mon with other early settlers he suffered
many hardships. On one occasion food was
so scarce that they were obliged to resort to
potato tops. But Mr. Putnam was an ex
cellent marksman and he was able to re
plenish the larder occasionally with venison
and other game which was plentiful. As one
of the pioneers of this town he helped to lay
the foundation of the community life, and
for a period of half a century he built himself
into its interests. He held several offices
of trust and when any affairs of important
public interest were considered, Squire Put
nam was consulted.
In January, 1833, his wife died leaving a
son Welcome, born 1820, died October 28,
1871. Mr. Putnam married (second), Sep
tember 10, 1833, Lucy Winchell, formerly of
Western, Oneida county, New York. Of
several children only one daughter, Mrs. Tacy
Victoria (Putnam) Wyman, survived. In
1867 he removed from Centralia, New York,

to Conneaut, Ohio, where he made his home
until 1886, when he returned to Chautauqua
county, New York, making his home with
his daughter at De Wittville. Here, January
12, 1887, Lucy (Winchell) Putnam, his wife
died in her eighty-first year.
Removing with his daughter to Newark,
New York, he survived until March 12,
1890, dying in his ninety-sixth year. Thus
closed a long eventful life which had wit
nessed so large a share of the nation's de
velopment. Born two years before the close
of Washington's administration, he lived un
der every president of the United States until
McKinley. His first vote was cast for John
Quincy Adams. Mr. Putnam was a strong
anti-slavery man when abolitionism was not
popular, and his home was a station of the
underground railway for runaway slaves. As
a citizen he was distinguished for his public
spirit, his high standard of honor and unim
peachable honesty. Religiously he was a man
of decided convictions of duty and with sturdy
faith he conformed his life to the strict dic
tates of his conscience. As he repaired regu
larly to the church each Sabbath morning,
clad in a long cloak, a high hat and supported
by a cane, he embodied in reality all that
he seemed in appearance, a worthy successor
of his Puritan ancestors.
Tacy Victoria (Putnam) Wyman, daugh
ter of Newell and Lucy Winchell Putnam,
was born at Centralia, New York, January
25, 1839. Her early education was received
at the common school near her home and
subsequently at Ellington Academy, an in
stitution of high grade in a neighboring town,
where as a student she took high rank. Re
ceiving the certificate of a teacher at the age
of sixteen, she pursued that vocation for sev
eral years among the schools of the township,
' including a large select school in the village
of Stockton. Possessed of a love for books
she has been appreciative of the best litera
ture, and not only has she valued these for
their intrinsic merit but gifted with a rich
imagination she has been a contributor in
prose and verse to various publications. The
total of these productions would comprise a
not inconsiderable volume. True to her an
cestral traits, Mrs. Wyman possesses a strong
moral nature, abhoring shams, quick to dis
cern ethical distinctions and firm to sustain
the right. Thus she has proven herself well
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the high ideals pertaining to her husband's
gospel ministry.

The progenitors of the Weld fami-
WELD lies in America descended from
distinguished and ancient ances
try in England. The orthography of the name
has sustained many changes as have other
family names of Englishmen. There were
certainly people of the name in England be
fore the date of the Reformation, for some
of the families bearing it remained adherents
to the Roman church, and some of their de
scendants have been elevated to high positions
within it ; while others became Protestants,
mostly Puritans or Independents. They were
a sturdy, honest folk, firm in opinion and loyal
to the Crown, until later, when they with
others of the Protestant faith immigrated to
America that they might enjoy complete free
dom of opinion in religious matters. Even
in America their loyalty to the Crown in mat
ters of national government was unshaken,
for they considered themselves a colony from
England and an integral part of it, and cheer
fully bore arms in the King's service in de
fense of His Majesty's rights and prerogatives
against his enemies, until the oppressions of
George IV became unendurable.
There were those in the family in England
who rose to distinction in civil life, and many
of them became learned and influential. Some
were distinguished preachers and writers upon
religious subjects. Their writings were
mostly, however, upon questions of doctrine
that at the time engaged attention, but were
chiefly controversal treatises and pamphlets
that have not come down to the present time,
and were upon doctrines that are not now of
great interest save to the antiquarian. The
emigration from England did not end the
practice of such controversy and discussion,
nor the rigor of it. The first of the families
whose lineage follows were well descended,
for they were the sons of Edmond Weld, of
Sudbury, Suffolk, England, whose will con
taining the names of his children is found in
Windebanck. (I) Captain Joseph Weld, with his brother,
Rev. Thomas Weld, who was a colleague of
Rev. John Eliot, who laboriously translated
the Bible into the Indian language, and with
him and Rev. Richard Mather produced the
famous first essay in New World hymnology,
the "Bay Psalm Book," in the pastorate of the

First Church at Roxbury, Massachusetts ; set
tled in Roxbury in the colony of Massachu
setts Bay before 1635. Captain Joseph was
captain of the training band, and one of the
first members of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company, a military company yet
in existence in Boston. He laid the founda
tions of the wealth he acquired in mercantile
ventures, upon the Weld farm in Roxbury,
which is yet in the possession of his descend
ants. He died possessed of a large estate
estimated by some as. possibly the largest at
that time in the colony. It inventoried £10,-
000 sterling. He was a man who loved learn
ing. His will, published in the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register (vol. vii,
pp. 33-34) is a monument of his liberality in
matters of education. It is written in the
quaint orthography and rhetoric at the time.
It contains his bequests : "To the Collidg,
which is in Cambridge, ten pounds for the en
couragement of such youth in sound laming
as may not be able to help themselves." He
bequeathed to' his firm friend, John Eliot, "his
best tawny cloke." He was the founder of
the famous Roxbury Latin School. There
now stands upon the campus of Harvard Uni
versity, "Weld Hall," and a late valuable ad
dition to the library is known as the "Weld
Collection." He had a son, John, mentioned
below. (II) John, son of Captain Joseph Weld,
was born in England, in 1623, and arrived in
Roxbury in 1638, three years after his father.
He had a son, Joseph, mentioned below.
(Ill) Captain Joseph (2), son of John
Weld, was born in Roxbury, 1650. Married,
November 27, 1679, Sarah Faxon. His children :
Sarah, born October 25, 1685 1 John, born
August 19, 1689, died January 11, 1764; Dan
iel, mentioned below ; Edmond, born June,
1700, died July 25, 17 10; Ebenezer, born Oc
tober, 1702.
(IV) Lieutenant Daniel Weld, son of Cap
tain Joseph (2) Weld, was born at Roxbury,
August 4, 1697; married Elizabeth Tucker,
January 22, 1720. He, like his father, Cap
tain Joseph, and his great-grandfather, Cap
tain Joseph, the emigrant, faithfully served
the King in the colonial war, and against the
Indians in the defense of the colony. Lieu
tenant Daniel remained upon the original farm
in Roxbury. He was buried in the old cem
etery near Bussey Park, Boston, a part of the
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Job, moved to Charlton, Worcester county.
Children: 1. Daniel Jr., born August, 1721,
married Joana Haven. 2. Stephen, born July
7, 1723, died August 16, 1745. 3. "Noah, men
tioned below. 4. Job, born August 4, 1730;
married Eunice Thayer. 5. Edward, born
April 1, 1733, died October 13,  . 6.
David, born August 14, 1734, died January 5,
1821. (V) Noah, son of Lieutenant Daniel Weld,
was born at Roxbury, December 7, 1725, died
August 16, 1745; married Eleanor  .
His children: 1. Calvin, born August 14, 1751.
2. Isaac, mentioned below. 3. Luther, born
April 14, 1 761 (Calvin and Luther both mar
ried Rogers sisters, were for a time residents
of Guilford, Vermont; several of the sons
of Luther lived at Cohocton, New York). 4.
Kath'rin, married a Porter, of Franklin county,
Massachusetts. 5. Eleanor, married a Wells,
and moved to Tennessee.
(VI) Lieutenant Isaac Weld, son of Noah
Weld, was born at Charlton, Massachusetts,
1755, died April 22, 1808. fie served in the
revolutionary war to the credit of his native
town, although he was a resident of Guilford,
Vermont, for it is recorded in "Massachusetts
Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary
War" that "Isaac Weld, Guilford (there was
no Guilford in. Massachusetts), private, Capt.
Moses Drapers Co. Lieut. Col. Wm. Bonds
(late Col. Thomas Gardiner's) 37 Regt, com
pany return, dated Camp Prospect Hill, Dec.
30, 1775." It is also recorded in the same
volume as follows : "Isaac Weld, private ; list
of men mustered May 15th, by Thomas New-
hall, muster master, engaged for the town of
Petersham, term 8 months." Also, "certificate
dated Petersham, May 23, 1778, signed by
Capt. Asa Howe and Capt. Wing Spooner,
stating that said Weld and others had engaged
and mustered to serve in the Continental army
for the term of 8 months to the credit of
Petersham." He also served as second lieu
tenant of the Third Guilford, Vermont county,
Captain Joseph Elliott, in 1782. (Vermont
Revolutionary Rolls, pages 822-824).
In 1783, after the close of the war, he
served in the controversy in Vermont between
the settlers from New York and those from
New Hampshire as to the rights of the peo
ple of those states to the territory, which was
subsequently admitted into the Union as Ver
mont. He joined the party that defended the
people of New York. To them was applied

the reproachful term, "Yorkers." These peo
ple in Vermont appear to have been formed
into some sort of military or quasi-military
organization in the controversy, probably
wholly voluntary, without any authority over
them for there is not to be found in Vermont
any record of its proceedings. It is found,
however, that Isaac Weld was fined in Guil
ford, two pounds ten shillings for being sec
ond lieutenant in the Yorkers regiment. It is
a well known historical fact that these prob
ably misguided men were dispersed by Ethan
Allen. He removed from Guilford to Wards-
borough, in the same county, and afterwards
to Verona, New York, and then to Sodus
Bay, Wayne county, New York.
fie married, 1780, Betsey Farrell. Chil
dren: 1. Catherine, born March 8, 1782; her
record is unknown. 2. Robert Farrell, men
tioned below. 3. Noah, mentioned below. 4.
Anna, born October 29, 1789, died unmar
ried, June 6, 1808. 5. Betsey, born Novem
ber 24, 1792; married a Pierce; lived at
Wales, New York. 6. Jane, born 1795, died
unmarried, 1854, at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl
vania. 7. Sally, born January 27, 1799; mar
ried Amos Moore; died soon after marriage.
8. Roxana (spelled in some records Roccena),
born November 22, 1803 ; married John Baker,
January 26, 1826; lived at Rices, New York;
died November 1, 1891.
(VII) Robert Farrell, son of Lieutenant
Isaac Weld, was born 1784, died 1870, at
Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. He resided in
Sodus Bay, ' New York, and Sugar Grove,
Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, a man of
superior intelligence, sterling integrity and
highly respected. He married, February 9,
1817, Clarissa Howe. Children: .1. Theodore
Nelson, born November 23, 1817, died at
Chandlers Valley, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1862 ;
married, January 14, 1848, Julia A. Jones;
children, born at Sugar Grove : i. Frank Al
bert, born March 7, 1849, died November 12,
1893 ; married (first) September 6, 1870, El
len Knapp ; (second) November 25, 1879,
Clara Irvine ; children : a. Clyde Albert, born
April 29, 1 87 1, married, June 21, 1900, Elea
nor Vance, and their children are: Theodore
Vance, born September 10, 1903, Clyde Vance,
born June 20, 1907, and Paul Allison, born
October 25, 1908; b. Muree, born April 23,
1891, married and lives in California, ii.
Emma, born November 3, 1854; married,
March 1, 1877, Aaron Skinner, M. D. ; resides

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at Ashville, New York ; children : a. Frank
Austin, born January 26, 1879, died March 11,
1888; b. Gertrude Emma, born February 28,
1881, married, March 3, 1903, Victor M.
Thompson, children : Alice, born February
14, 1905, Helen, November 27, 1907, and
John, October 12, 1910. iii. Maude Julia, born
September 28, 1884. iv. Edgar Aaron, born
December 9, 1886, married, September 14,
191 1, Lillie V. Akeley. v. Mabel Bernice,
born April 1, 1890. vi. Clifford Weld, born
October 2, 1892. 2. Susan Ann, born July
25, 1821, at Bath, New York, died at Youngs-
ville, Pennsylvania, 1894; married, April 8,
1857, Cyrus F. Arters ; no children. 3. Squire
Howe, horn November 23, 1823, at Bath, New
York, died February 18, 1900; he lived in
Centerville, Pennsylvania ; served in the civil
war in the Two Hundred and Eleventh Penn
sylvania Infantry. He married (first) June
27, 1853, Martha Goodwin; (second) Novem
ber 26, 1884, Susannah Dye ; children : i. Wil
liam R., born September 4, 1854, married
Kate Simmons, child, Ellis, horn June, 1889,
resides at Springfield, New York. ii. Mary
Amelia, born September 25, 1856, married,
December 25, 1873, Sidney R. Putnam, and
their children are : a. Jay A., born March 22,
1875, married (first) August 11, 1897, Louise
Fish, (second) December 19, 1901, Addie
Goodwill, resides in Centerville, Pennsylvania,
children : Elmer R., born October 14, 1898, El
lis D., October 14, 1898, Leonard, August 7,
1903, Laota, July 23, 1905. b. Jennie A., born
August 4, 1 88 1, married Charles McFadden,
lives at Centerville. iii. Charles, born October
25, 1858, married, June 6, 1879, Mary Mc-
Cabe, lives at Bradford, Pennsylvania, chil
dren : Theresa K., born March 12, 1883, James
Squire, May 4, 1885, Martha Grace, March
24, 1890. iv. Franklin, born January 23, 1861,
married, May 14, 1882, Etta Young, lives at
Centerville, Pennsylvania, children : Duane,
born August 6, 1883, Clara, June 10, 1886,
Letty, August 13, 1890, Ethel, May 9, 1892.
v. Frances, born January 14, 1863, married
Fred Wilson, resides at Centerville, Pennsyl
vania, vi. Squire, born February 22, 1867,
died December, 1896; married Rose McFad
den, no children, vii. Minerva, born August
14, 1869; lives at Bradford, Pennsylvania.
viii. Mabel, born April 1, 1872; married Lon
Bernard, of Bradford, Pennsylvania; no chil
dren, ix. Aaron, born March 15, 1874, mar
ried Rose (McFadden) Weld, widow of his

brother Squire. 4. Sarah McCay, born July
25, 1826, died August, 1905; married, April
J3> 1853, Washington P. Cummings; children:
Ada (Cummings) Blodgett, of Bakersfield,
California, Duane Cummings, of Peoria, Illi
nois, Dona (Cummings) Jackson, of Warren,
Pennsylvania. 5. Lieutenant William Wallace,
born February 23, 1829, at Bath, New York,
died at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania ; he remain
ed on the Weld farm at Sugar Grove; served
three years in the civil war in that fighting
regiment, the Ninth New York Cavalry; was
highly respected by his townspeople, a very
capable man and a progressive farmer; mar
ried, January 1, 1868, Christine Falconer;
children : i. Robert James, born at Sugar
Grove, October 27, 1868, married, June 5,
1902, Fanny Wright; he was educated at
Pennsylvania State College, is a thoroughly
scientific farmer, and is employed by the Penn
sylvania Agricultural Authorities in the win
ter to conduct farmers' institutes throughout
the state, ii. Fred Falconer, born at Sugar
Grove, September 19, 1871, married, June
27, 1901, Eliza R. Busick; children: Alice
Christina, born January 29, 1903, and Theo
dore Busick, June 24, 1905 ; he was also edu
cated at Pennsylvania State College, is a civil
engineer, and resides at Seattle, Washington.
iii. Guy Theodore, born at Sugar Grove, April
25, 1874, died February 27, 1883. 6. Caroline
Howe, born January 4, 1832, at Busti, New
York, died January 14, 1832. 7. Jeanette
Langdon, born March 16, 1833, at Busti, New
York, died October 5, 1833. 8. Mariette, born
October 1, 1835, at Busti, New York, died
June 11, 1836. 9. Mary Ann, born October 1,
1835, at Busti, New York, twin of Mariette,
died in infancy. 10. Qarissa Emaline, born
January 18, 1840, at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl
vania, died September 3, 1883 ; married, Sep
tember 2, 1868, Enoch Dupree; it is said she
left three daughters, but no record of them
is found.
(VII) Noah (2) Weld, M. D., son of Lieu
tenant Isaac Weld, was born at Wardborough,
Vermont, November 4, 1787, died in July,
185 1, at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, on a farm
adjoining that of his brother, Robert F., upon
the state line between Pennsylvania and New
York. He also resided at Centerville. He
had an extensive practice in both Pennsyl
vania and New York. He was a skillful phy
sician, and possessed the confidence of the
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nah Hoyt, of Danbury, Connecticut. She was
born in Danbury, January 14, 1787. Children :
1. Decatur, born at Centerville, Pennsylvania,
died at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, August
16, 1  . 2. Delilah, born at Centerville,
1818, died at Sugar Grove, 1847; married,
1837, Jeremiah Andrews, M. D., a regimental
surgeon in the civil war ; children : i. Wesley
R., bom 1838, died at Washington, D. C, Feb
ruary 5, 1910; he was quartermaster of the
One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Regiment,
New York Volunteers, in the civil war ; after
wards became a merchant .in New York City,
and subsequently became editor of an influen
tial newspaper at Meadville, Pennsylvania;
was chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican
state committee and secretary of United States
Senator Boise Penrose ; married Ruby A. Rob
inson, one daughter, Genevieve, married
Charles A. Singer, of New York, and died
in 1 891. ii. William H., born January, 1840,
at Youngsville, Pennsylvania ; was first a mer
chant, which business he conducted at Titus
ville, Pennsylvania; was elected state senator
from Crawford county, Pennsylvania; subse
quently settled in Alberquerque, New Mexico,
where he engaged in railroad building and
real estate; he represented New Mexico in
congress as territorial delegate and will" be
elected beyond doubt to the senate of the
United States when the legislature of New
Mexico meets; he married (first) 1862, Rose
Eddy; (second) 1883, Mary Frey; children:
William H. Jr., born 1864, died 1885; Belle;
Frank, died in infancy; Marguerite, died in
infancy ; William Stanley, resides at Titusville,
Pennsylvania. 3. Descartes, born at Center
ville, 1820, died in California, 1853 ; he settled
in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, where he
joined his father in the practice of medicine,
succeeded him, and continued practice until
his health failed and he went to California;
he married, in 1840, Angeline Noyes; chil
dren : i. De Silver, born at Sugar Grove, 1842,
died 1899 ; married Mary Derickson, one child,
Charles D. ii. DeLeo, born at Sugar Grove,
1853, married, 1880, Henry C. Lay; children:
Henry C. Jr., Margaret Weld, Harold; they
reside at Blairstown, New Jersey. 4. Del-
phine, born at Centerville, August, 1826, died
at Meadville, Pennsylvania, July, 1876; mar
ried, January, 1852, Chester Bullock; child,
Frances Lena, born at Sherman, New York,
1852, married, 1870, William Thorpe, of
Meadville, Pennsylvania. 5. DeForest, men

tioned below. 6. Delisca Jane, born at Sugar
Grove, 1832, died at Chicago, Illinois, 1899;
married, October, 1857, Charles H. Baker,
child, William De Forest, born at Red Wing,
Minnesota, died in infancy. 7. Delonora, born
at Sugar Grove, August, 1836, died March,
1888; married, 1857, Joel I. Hoyt; no children.
8. Delessley, born at Sugar Grove, April,
1841, died there at age of six.
(VIII) DeForest, son of Noah (2) Weld,
M. D., was born at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl
vania, August 31, 1828. Upon him, before
he obtained his majority, because of the de
mand of the extensive medical practice of his
father and elder brother which required long
rides to the distant homes of pioneers, de
volved the management of the business * of
the farm and the care of the household. He
early acquired a taste for traffic and manage
ment of affairs, and soon learned to hold his
own with traders. He was especially fitted for
such service by an excellent education in the
common schools supplemented by a course in
the academies that provided better advantages.
At his majority the desire for a business ca
reer called him from the farm to Jamestown,
New York, then a prosperous village of active
business men, where he found employment
in the store of Alonzo Kent, then the most
enterprising merchant of the region. Such
was his industry and his application of sys
tematic methods that in two years he was ad
mitted a partner in the firm, Kent & Weld. It
was not long after that, on the retirement of
Mr. Kent to organize the Jamestown Bank,
he succeeded to the entire business. He be
came the leading merchant of the county, and
his business affairs extended to the adjoining
county. His enterprise aided largely in build
ing up the village into a city of great activity.
After some years as a merchant he engaged
in the life insurance business at Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and brought to it the same in
dustry and systematic methods that had char
acterized him as a merchant. He soon be
came the manager in that city of the affairs
of one of the leading life insurance companies.
This position he yet holds, and his endurance,
persistent industry, and success as an octogen
arian are the envy of men many years his
junior. On August 12, 1863, at Jamestown, New
York, he married Mary Matilda Hazeltine, a
descendant of the Haywards who settled at
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time as did Captain Joseph Weld, her hus
band's ancestor. She is also a descendant of
Edward Rawson, who was for more than
thirty years the secretary of Massachusetts
Bay Colony. One son Lewis DeForest, born
July 9, 1863, died August 28, 1863.
The foregoing was compiled upon the au
thority of manuscripts in the possession of
Mr. J. Edward Weld, and the Rev. Charles
F. Robinson, descendants of Captain Joseph
Weld, which were written from the records
of the towns of Oxford and Charlton, Massa
chusetts, and Guilford, Vermont, and from
the records in the possession of the families
of descendants. Correspondence has been had
by the present compiler with the living de
scendants of Captain Joseph Weld, with clerks
of the towns above mentioned, and use has
been made of the records in the offices of the
adjutant-general of the United States and
the adjutant-general of Vermont. Aid was
received from the Genealogical Dictionary
(Savage) ; the New England Historical and
Genealogical Register; the Historical Regis
ter of the Officers of the Continental Army
(F. B. Heightman), and the Orderly Book
(Col. William Henshaw).

The American ancestor of the
SIDWAY Sidway family of Buffalo, New
York, was James Sidway, of
Dudley Woodside, England, born May 8,
1759. He was educated and grew to early
manhood in his native land. During or about
the revolutionary period he immigrated to the
American colonies, where he made settlement
in Orange county, New York. He enlisted
as a drummer in Captain Henry Goodwin's
company, Colonel Messenfel's New York regi
ment, serving until this regiment was mus
tered out of service. He married, in 1781, and
continued his residence in Goshen, Orange
county, until late in life, when he removed
to Buffalo, where he died March 18, 1836.
He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery of
that city, where his grave has been appro
priately marked by Buffalo Chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, being the
first grave so honored. He married, August
14, 1781, Rebecca Milks. They had two chil
dren, William and Jonathan.
(II) Jonathan, son of James and Rebecca
(Milks) Sidway, was born in the town of
Goshen, Orange county, New York, April 1,
1784, and died in Buffalo, January 21, 1847.

He was educated in the district schools of
Goshen, and followed a farmer's life until
about 1812, when he removed to Buffalo.
Here he engaged in the shipping business and
became a conspicuous figure among the early
pioneers in lake navigation and commerce.
He married, January i,- 1826, Parnell St.
John, born at Aurelius, Cayuga county, New
York, June 12, 1801, died in Buffalo, April
29, 1879. 'When she was a child her parents
removed to Buffalo, where her mother was
living in 1813, when the town was burned
by the British and Indians. Gamaliel St.
John and his oldest son, Elijah Northrup,
were drowned in the Niagara river, June 6,
1813, while they were bearing dispatches from
army headquarters in Buffalo to a division in
Canada, their boat being capsized by coming
in contact with the cable of the war vessel
"John Adams," which was anchored in the
river. It is an interesting fact that the St.
John home on the west side of Main street,
between Court and Mohawk streets, was the
only house left standing. Of the nine chil
dren of Jonathan Sidway, four only reached
years of fnaturity: 1. Katherine, married
Asaph S. Bemis of Buffalo. 2. Jonathan (2),
married Caroline B. Taunt, of Buffalo. 3.
Franklin, of further mention. 4. James
Henry, who met a hero's death at the early
age of twenty-five' years, as assistant fore
man of Taylor Hose No. 1, while battling
with the flames that consumed the American
Hotel, January 25, 1865.
(Ill) Franklin, son of Jonathan and Par
nell (St. John) Sidway, was born in Buffalo,
New York, July 23, 1834. He was educated
in private schools, Canandaigua Academy, the
George W. Francis School at Yonkers, New
York, and other institutions of learning.
After completing his studies, in 1853 he toured
Europe, and on his return began his active
and useful business career. He organized and
was one of the firm of Sidway, Skinner &
Moore, general ship chandlers and grocers,
Buffalo, a firm that did a large and success
ful business until the date of the civil war,
when it was dissolved. After the war he
became cashier of the Farmers and Mechanics
National Bank, continuing as such until his
election to the vice-presidency, which office
he held until the bank wound up its affairs in
1898. He also served as trustee of the Buf
falo Savings Bank. His long association with
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the fact that he was peculiarly adapted to the
banking business, being prudent, conserva
tive, quick of decision, and not afraid of large
undertakings. He was a strong Union man,
and during the civil war was commissioned
colonel of volunteers, with authority to raise
a regiment. He recruited several companies,
but owing to the fact that the payment of
bounties was discontinued, the organization
was not completed, and the men already en
listed were transferred to another regiment.
He has always taken a deep interest in many
Buffalo institutions, both educational and
charitable. He is a life member of the Buffalo
Library, member of the Historical Society,
and former treasurer and a member of the
Buffalo General Hospital Board. He was also
a trustee of the Buffalo City Cemetery (For
est Lawn). All his life Mr. Sidway has taken
a keen interest in athletics and out-door sports.
He was a member of the old Forester Gun
Qub; was a member of one of the first four-
oared rowing crews organized in Buffalo, and
president of the Archery Club of Buffalo, the
Toxophilites, and was one of the organizers
of the Niagara Base Ball Club, one of the first
amateur base ball clubs organized. His clubs
are the Buffalo, of which he is an ex-presi
dent, and the Country. For many years he,
was president of the Falconwood Club. He
married, February 27, 1866, Charlotte, daugh
ter of Elbridge Gerry Spaulding, of Buffalo
(see Spaulding). Their surviving children
are as follows:
1. Harold Spaulding Sidway, born in Buf
falo, New York, April 26, 1868; educated at
Professor Shortlidge's Academy, Media,
Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated in
class of 1888. He was with the Farmers and
Mechanics National Bank one year, and from
September 7, 1888, to October, 1897, with the
Buffalo Gas Light Company; he is now a
resident of New York City. He was a mem
ber of Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 441,
Free and Accepted Masons; Hugh De Pay-
ens Commandery, Knights Templar; Buffalo
Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, in which he held the thirty-second de
gree, and a noble of Ismailia Temple, Mystic
Shrine, all of Buffalo. He and his wife are
members of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He married, December 20, 1897, in London,
England, Mary Chase, of Buffalo. Children:
James, born September 28, 1898; Franklin,
May 23, 1900.

2. Frank St. John Sidway, born December
5, 1869, in Buffalo. He prepared for college
at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Har
vard University, class of '93. He afterward
worked in the American Exchange Bank and
the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Buffalo.
Choosing the profession of law, he entered
the Buffalo Law School, graduating and re
ceiving his degree in 1894. He also studied
with the law firm of Lewis, Moot & Lewis,
Buffalo, until his admission to the bar in
1894, when he practiced in the office of
Sprague, Moot, Sprague & Brownell until
1897, when he began practice alone and has
so continued, having a well established office
business to which and in the care of estates
he devotes himself chiefly. In March, 1894,
he was elected second lieutenant of Company
B, 74th Regiment New York National Guard.
A year later he was promoted first lieutenant,
and in the fall of 1897 was elected and com
missioned captain. When the Spanish-Ameri
can war broke out he was commissioned cap
tain, and organized Company C, 202d Regi
ment, being one of the first four captains mus
tered in. His regiment was the first body of
United States troops to enter Havana. After
being mustered out of the United States ser
vice, April 15, 1899, he returned to Buffalo.
He was again elected captain of Company B,
74th Regiment, which rank he held until his
resignation, October 1, 1902, having given
eight years to state and government service
as a soldier. He was chairman of the Re
publican county committee in 1909-10. He
is a member of the Buffalo, Saturn and Elli
cott clubs ; the United Spanish War Veterans'
Association; the Naval and Military Order
of the Spanish- American War; life member
of the Buffalo Library ; the Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy; and the Buffalo Historical Society.
He married, April 16, 1903, Amelia, born
December 4/1 881, daughter of James A. Rob
erts, former comptroller of the state of New
York. Children: 1. Margaret St. John, born
May 16, 1907. 2. Martha Roberts, October
i," 1908. 3. Edith.
3. Edith, daughter of Franklin and Char
lotte (Spaulding) Sidway, was born January
12, 1872; educated at Buffalo Seminary and
Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts.
She married, April 26, 1892, William Allan
Gardner, born in Buffalo, March 18, 1869, eld
est son of William Hamilton and Alice (Hop
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and of John Hopkins (see Gardner). Chil
dren : William' Hamilton and Nancy Strong.
4. Clarence Spaulding Sidway, born Feb
ruary 12, 1877, in Buffalo, New York. He
was early educated in the public schools, pre
pared for college at Canandaigua Academy,
and entered Cornell University, class of 1897.
After leaving college he entered the employ
of the Manufacturers and Traders National
Bank, after which he was chosen secretary and
treasurer of the Robertson Electric Company,
1902 until 1909, when the merger with the
Cataract Electric Supply Company dissolved
the company, Mr. Sidway becoming treasurer
of the new company. Mr. Sidway is a mem
ber of the Saturn and Country Clubs of Buf
falo. His college fraternity is the Kappa Al
pha. He married, October 16, 1901, Genevieve
C. Hingston, born September 24, 1880. Chil
dren : Elbridge Spaulding, born September
22, 1903 ; and Charlotte Mary, born March 21,
1906. 5. Ralph H. Sidway, born December 15,
1884, in Buffalo, New York. His early edu
cation was obtained at the Heathcote School,
Buffalo, and Thatcher, California, finishing his
preparatory studies at Lawrenceville Prepara
tory School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
After leaving school he studied law with his
brother, Frank St. John Sidway, for a short
time. He did not long pursue a legal course,
but soon became actively engaged in business
as director and secretary of the Cataract Elec
tric Supply Company of Buffalo, which later
was merged with the Robertson Electric Com
pany under the name of the Robertson Cata
ract Company, of which he is secretary and
a director. He is a director of the Buffalo So
ciety of Natural Science, and a member of the
following clubs : Saturn, Country, Ellicott,
Park, Niagara, Motor Boat, Launch, and
Auto, all of Buffalo. He married, September
16, 1908, Stephana O. Barnum, daughter of
Theodore D. and Sarah (Avery) Barnum, pa
ternal granddaughter of Stephen O. and Eliza
beth (Chatfield) Barnum, great-granddaugh
ter of Ezra and Mary Barnum. Theodore D.
Barnum had three children: i. Fanny B.,
married Langford Keating, who died in 1896,
son Theodore, born January 5, 1894; she
married (second) April 28, 1903, James How
(q. v.). ii. Evelyn, died at age of nineteen
years, iii. Stephana O., married Ralph H.
Sidway.

This family is of Scotch an-
GARDNER cestry and has been located
in America since the revolu
tion. The present representatives also are
grandchildren of John A. Look.
(I) William Hamilton Gardner, immigrant
ancestor, was born in Scotland, and came to
America in 1778. He settled in Beaver, Penn
sylvania, where he lived for the remainder
of his life. He married in Beaver, and had
four children.
(II) Noah Hamilton, son of William Ham
ilton Gardner, was born in Beaver, Pennsyl
vania, in 1800. He came to Buffalo about
1824. He was prominent in business all his-
life. He was one of the incorporators of the
Buffalo Savings Bank and of the Erie County
Savings Bank, and was connected with these
institutions in some official way throughout
his life. In politics he was first a Whig and
later a Republican. He was one of the first
tanners in Buffalo, being mentioned under
that occupation in the directory of 1828. In
1830 he entered partnership with his brother-
in-law, George Palmer, who had brought here
for investment the large sum, for those days,
of about $15,000. Their tannery soon became
the principal one in the village. It adjoined
the Indian Reservation on Seneca street, then
a corduroy road, and the firm also maintained
a store on Main street. Mr. Gardner after
ward became sole proprietor of the tannery,
which he continued to operate until his death.
His interest in public affairs is illustrated by
his appointment in 1838 as a -member of a
citizens' committee to inquire into the condi
tion of the schools and report plans for their
improvement. He married (first) Alice M.
Brown, (second), in 1832, Fannie Foster, who
was born in Palmyra, New York, about 181 5,
and died in Buffalo, in 1867. Mr. Gardner
died in December, 1873. Children, all by sec
ond marriage : 1. May J., died unmarried, in
1872. 2. Edward Payson, married Martha
Hall; children: Edward, Mary, Katharine,
Raymond. 3. Alice M., married William P.
Fisher, in i860; has one daughter, Kate, who
married Daniel McCool. 4. William Hamil
ton, mentioned below. 5. Frances, born 1848;
married, 1874, George W. Frances; children:
Alice G. and Edith.
(Ill) William Hamilton, son of Noah Ham
ilton and Fannie (Foster) Gardner, was born
in Buffalo in 1842. He was educated in the
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ness man all his life, following his father's
occupation in the management of the tannery,
and later becoming a manufacturer of freight
cars and of automobiles. He is interested in
many business enterprises, but is active only
in the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, of
which he is a director. He is a Republican
in politics, and a member of the First Presby
terian Church, of which he has been an elder,
trustee and superintendent of the Sunday
school. He was in the National Guard for
about four years. He married, October 6,
1863, Alice B. Hopkins, who was born in
Farmers Creek, Michigan, in 1843, and died
in Buffalo, January 18, 1906. She was a
woman of culture and was highly respected.
Children: Harry Tifft, born in Buffalo, June,
1865, died 1867; William Allan, mentioned
below; Lawrence Hamilton, mentioned be
low; Mabel, married William A. Stowall.
(IV) William Allan, son of William Hamil
ton and Alice B. (Hopkins) Gardner, was
born in Buffalo, March 18, 1869. His early
education was obtained in the Buffalo pub
lic schools. When he was ten years old the
family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where
he finished his education, being graduated
from Washington University with the class of
1887. Returning to Buffalo, he entered the
employ of the Buffalo Car Company as as
sistant superintendent, but continued with that
company for only a short time. He then
formed an association with Bartlett, Frazier
& Carrington in the brokerage business, which
continued until 1902. In that year he be
came connected with the firm of Dann & Rob
inson. In 1905 Mr. Robinson retired and
Mr. Gardner took his place, the firm becoming
J. C. Dann & Company, bankers and brokers.
Mr. Gardner is a member of Ancient Land
marks Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and
of the Saturn, Ellicott and Country clubs.
He married, April 26, 1892, Edith, daughter
of Franklin Sidway ; children : William Ham
ilton and Nancy Strong.
(IV) Lawrence Hamilton, second son of
William Hamilton and Alice B. (Hopkins)
Gardner, was born in 1872. He was educated
at the Buffalo Preparatory School and at St.
Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island.
He fitted for the army, but gave up that plan
and returned to Buffalo, where for a time
he was employed by the Buffalo Car Company.
Later he became connected with the Pierce-
Arrow Motor Gar Company and when it be

came a corporation he was chosen its secre
tary. He served in the National Guard and
was appointed by Governor Hughes, April 24,
1909, as first lieutenant of Company C, Sev
enty-fourth Regiment. His clubs are the Sat
urn and Automobile. He married (first) Isa
bel Gibson, of Buffalo, born October 22, 1873,
died April 20, 1905, daughter of James Gib
son; (second) June 22, 1910, Sally Field
Oviatt, born August 22, 1878, daughter of
 and Sally (Field) Oviatt. Children
by first wife : Alice Lydia, born September
22, 1895 ; Gibson, March 14, 1897.
The branch of the Scofield
SCOFIELD family now residing in James
town, Chautauqua county,
New York, claims descent from a passenger
on the "Mayflower," which landed at Ply
mouth Rock, December, 1620, and the- repre
sentatives of the family in the various gen
erations since then have displayed the char
acteristics of their Puritan ancestors.
(I) Daniel Scofield, the immigrant, was
born in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire,
England, between the years 1594 and 1600,
and was a grandson of Sir Cuthbert Scofield,
of Scofield Manor, the family being of ancient
and honorable lineage. He resided for a time
at Ipswich, Massachusetts, then removed to
Hartford, Connecticut, and from there to
Stamford, Connecticut, where he died in 1670,
after a life of usefulness and activity. He
was an active factor in the affairs of Stam
ford, and in 1658 served in the capacity of
marshal. He married Mary, daughter of
Rev. John Youngs. Children: 1. Daniel,
married Hannah Hoyt ; children : Nathan,
Daniel, Hannah, Abigail, Reuben, Miles. 2.
Sarah, married John Pettit ; children : Sarah,
John, Solomon, Mercy. 3. John (see for
ward). 4. Joseph, who suffered so much
hardship in King Philip's war as to lose his
life in 1696, leaving his estate to his brothers
and sisters. 5. Richard, who must have died
about the same time, from the fact that his
inventory was recorded by his widow.
(II) John, son of Daniel and Mary
(Youngs) Scofield, married, July 12, 1677,
fiannah Mead. Children : 1 . Samuel, born
July 10, 1678; married Hannah Scofield; chil
dren : Samuel, Nehemiah, John Ely, Hannah,
Mary. 2. John, born January 15, 1680; mar
ried, December 23, 1703, Mary Holly. 3.
Ebenezer, born June 26, 1685 ; married Ruth

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Slater, April 10, 1712; children: Ebenezer,
Hannah. 4. Nathaniel (see forward). 5.
Mercy. 6. Mary. 7. Susannah. The father
of these children died March 27, 1699.
(Ill) Nathaniel, son of John and Hannah
(Mead) Scofield, was born December 10,
1688, died in 1768. He married, June 13,
1713-14, Elizabeth Scofield. Children: John,
Nathaniel, Jonathan, Josiah (see forward),
Elizabeth, David, Silvanus, Thankful, Silas,
Abraham. (IV) Josiah, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
(Scofield) Scofield, was born at Stamford,
Connecticut, June 26, 1731. He served as
first sergeant during the revolutionary war.
In 1783, accompanied by his wife and chil
dren, he removed from Stamford to the town
of Poundridge, Westchester county, New
York. He married, February 3, 1757, Mary
Smith,, born July 14, 1738. Children: 1.
Tamison, born May 10, 1758, died January
14, 1777. 2. Henry, born March 28, 1760.
3. Sarah, March 25, 1762. 4. William, May
15, 1764. 5. Phebe, February 9, 1767. 6.
Mary, August 2, 1769. 7. Lydia, September
14, 1771. 8. Josiah, February 2, 1774. 9.
Tamison (2), April 25, 1778. 10. Ezra, Feb
ruary 4, 1 78 1.
(V) William, son of Josiah and Mary
(Smith) Scofield, was born at Stamford, Con
necticut, May 15, 1764, died at Ellery, Chau
tauqua county, New York, September 26,
1 85 1. His early life was spent at Poundridge,
Westchester county, New York, from whence
he removed to Greenfield, Saratoga county,
New York, and subsequently to Ellery. He
served in the revolutionary war, enlisting from
Greenfield, and by his patriotism and courage
became noted, attaining the rank of captain
of the state militia. The following is a copy
of a letter which was written by him to the
comptroller of the state of Connecticut:
I heare by Certify that I Was a Souldier in the
Revolution War of Great Britain & the United
States in the State of Connecticut County of Fair
field & towne of Stamford in the Militia of that
State I went in to the Service in the year 1780 till
the War Eighty three in Captain Hanford Hoyt
Company And Colonel John Mead Reidgement in
the State of Connecticut, Stamford this I certify to
be the truth.
I being a Minor perhaps my name is not on the
Records for my father took and turned my wages
to the taxes or rates as was called in those times
my fathers name was Josiah Scofield the fourth as
it was put on the Stamford Record or Josiah Sco
field of new Field in the Statement. Furthermore

I have an Affidavit from one of my fathers Appren
tices that was in the Service with me By the Name
of Oliver Stewart, whitch draw a pension. But I
thought it was 'Necessary to have the Seal of the
Comptroler of the State of Coneticut'.
If my name is on the Record I want you should
Certify to it by giving a Certificut and the Seal of
your office and if my name is not there and my
Fathers name there Certify to that" for my Father
Drawd my wages and my Father was not in the Ser-
vise then for he had been in the Servise before to
Boston and peakeskill and had his legg Broke
but he Drawed my wages for I was a minor my
Brother Henry Scofield was in the Servise also
With Respect your Humble Servant
William Scofield.
William Scofield married (first), August 2,
1786, Patty Seely. Children: William Seely
(see forward) ; Patty, born November 16,
1789. Mrs. Scofield died December 7, 1789.
Mr. Scofield married (second) November 21,
1790, Hannah Abbott. Children: Smith, born
August 12, 1 791 ; Polly, born April 16, 1794.
(VI) William Seely, son of William and
Patty (Seely) Scofield, was born at Pound
ridge, Westchester county, New York, No
vember 3, 1787, died at Ellery, Chautauqua
county, New York, November 22, 1871. He
removed from his native place to Greenfield,
Saratoga county, New York, and about 1819-
20 settled at Ellery, New York. He followed
the occupation of farming and hotel keeping,
both of which proved highly remunerative.
During the war of 1812 he served as first
sergeant for three months at Sackett's Harbor,
under command of Captain Lewis Scott. He
was a Universalist in his religious views, and
an ardent supporter of the Democratic party.
He served as postmaster of Ellery for many
years. The following is a copy of his com
mission in the militia signed by Daniel D.
Tompkins, then governor of New York.
The People of the State of New York, by the
Grace of God, Free and Independent: To William
S. Scofield, Greeting:
We, reposing especial trust and confidence, as
well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty, as in
your valor, and readiness to do us good and faithful
service, have appointed and constituted, and by
these presents do appoint and constitute you the
said William S. Scofield Lieutenant of a Company
in the 59th Regiment of Infantry of our said State,
whereof John Prior Esquire, is Lieutenant Colonel
Commandant : You are therefore to take the said
Company into your charge and care, as Lieutenant
thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Sol
diers of that company in arms, who are hereby
commanded to obey you as their Lieutenant and
you are also to observe and follow ^such Orders and
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from our General and Commander in Chief of the
Militia of our said State, or any other your superior
Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of
War, in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you ; and
for so doing this shall be your commission, for and
during our good pleasure, to be signified by our
Council of Appointment.
In testimony whereof, we have caused our Seal
for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed :
Witness our trusty and well-beloved Daniel D.
Tompkins, Esquire, Governor of our said State,
General and Commander in chief of all the Militia,
and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with
the advice and consent of our said council of ap
pointment, at our city of Albany, the Second Day
of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand
Eight Hundred and fourteen, and in the thirty-
eighth year of our Independence.
Daniel D. Tompkins.
Passed the Secretary's Office, the
29 day of March, 1814.
J. Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Secretary.
William S. Scofield married, at Greenfield,
Westchester county, New York, September
2j, 1810, Lois Ingham, born at Greenfield,
Saratoga county, New York, November 6,
1791, died at Ellery, Chautauqua county, New
York, January 18, 1863, daughter of Benja
min Ingham. Qiildren: 1. Armenia, born
July 10, 181 1. 2. Smith W., March 26, 1813.
3. Laura Ann, April 4, 1816. 4. Patty Seely,
March 17, 1818. 5. Catharine, December 13,
1819. 6. Seth (see forward) . 7. Mary, July
13, 1825. 8. John, March 29, 1827. 9. Eme
line, August 25, 1828. 10. Ray, November
20^ 1830. 11. Marion, March 25, 1833. 12.
Infant child.
(VII) Seth, son of William Seely and Lois
(Ingham) Scofield, was born at Ellery, Chau
tauqua county, New York, March 3, 1823,
died there, September 10, 1887, having been
born, lived, and died on the same farm. He
was successful in his farming operations, and
was the owner of sixty acres. He was a
member of the Christian church of Dewitt-
ville, New York, a member of the Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Royal
Templars of Temperance. He was a Demo
crat in politics, fie married (first) January
25, 1844, at Ellery, New York, Rua Eliza
beth Scofield, born October 3, 1825, died Feb
ruary 13, 1 861, daughter of Demas and Han
nah (Benedict) Scofield. Children, born in
Ellery, New York: 1. Harriet E., born Feb
ruary 28, 1845 ; married Benjamin Franklin
Beach, a farmer; they removed to Cotton
wood Falls, Kansas ; children : Anna Beach,
Frank Irving Beach, Seth William Beach,
Minnie Beach. They all reside in Kansas. 2.

Frank E., born June 8, 1848; married (first)
Lizzie Crofoot, (second) Anna Taylor; he
now resides at Whittier, California, and has
one child, Rua, by his first wife. 3. Armenia,
born July 8, 1850, died October 7, 1862. 4.
Earl A., born August 21, 1854; married Leo
nora Brown, March 24, 1875 ; he is a prac
ticing physician at Bemus Point, New York;
children : i. Irving, died young, ii. Bessie,
married Raymond Kohn; they reside at Be
mus Point, New York. iii. Bernice, married
Lucien J. Warren; he is teller of the Bank
of Jamestown, New York. iv. Georgia, mar
ried Rev. Lucius Bugbee, a Methodist min
ister, now a resident of Maiden, Massachu
setts. 5. Era M. (see forward). 6. Mary J.,
born January 28, 1861. 7. Laura A., twin
of Mary J. Mr. Scofield married (second),
in 1863, Sophronia Waterman, widow of Cal
vin Ingerson.
(VIII) Era M., son of Seth and Rua Eliza
beth (Scofield) Scofield, was born in Ellery,
Chautauqua county, New York, December
23, 1856. He attended the public school of
Ellery, thereby acquiring a practical educa
tion. In early life he worked at farming
and cheese making, and also followed the
latter occupation between college terms. By
studying nights he prepared himself for
college, and in the fall of 1882 entered the
medical department of the University of Buf
falo, graduating therefrom February 26, 1884.
On March 31, 1884, he located at Gerry, New
York, for the active practice of his profession,
and remained there until December 1, 1891,
when he removed to Jamestown, New York,
and became a partner of Dr. Henry P. Hall,
which connection continued until April 1,
1893, since which time Dr. Scofield has prac
ticed alone. In addition to his private prac
tice, which is both extensive and remunerative,
Dr. Scofield served in the capacity of sur
geon for the Erie railroad during the years
1892-93. He keeps in touch with the ad
vanced thought along the line of his work
by membership in the National Medical Asso
ciation, New York State Medical Society,
Chautauqua County Medical Society, which
he served as president, and at the present
time (1911) is president of the board of cen
sors of that body, and the Jamestown Medical
Society, of which he has been president. He
organized and became the first president of
the Medical Library Association of James
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in the Chautauqua Historical Society; Sylvan
Lodge, No. 303, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Jamestown Commandery, No. 61, Knights
Templar; Ismailia Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Buffalo
Consistory, thirty-second degree; Ellicott
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Jamestown, and the Camp Fire Club, of
Jamestown, fie is a Democrat in politics, and
from 1888 to 1891 served as treasurer of the
Democratic county committee.
Dr. Scofield married (first) May 13, 1874,
at Ellery, New York, Louisa M. Brownell,
born April 17, 1859, at Ellery, New York,
daughter of William O. and Armenia (Wallis)
Brownell, who were the parents of three chil
dren : Earl W., Louisa M., George G. Mr.
Brownell was a farmer by occupation. Dr.
Scofield married (second) April 30, 1907, at
Jamestown, New York, Bessie C. Brown, born
January 25, 1876, in Jamestown, daughter of
John T. and Samantha (Neff) Brown, who
were the parents of four children: Samuel
A., Louie B., Bessie C. and George W. Dr.
Scofield married (third) April 16, 191 1, at
Mitchell, Ontario, Canada, Letitia M. Dufton,
born April 21, 1885, at Stratford, Ontario,
Canada, daughter of John Frederick and Le
titia Ead (Young) Dufton, who were parents
of five children: Gertrude, Herbert E., Le
titia M., Olive Hope, John Frederick Jr. Mr.
Dufton is a woolen manufacturer ; school trus
tee ; member of council. Dr. Scofield had one
child by his first wife, Ellis Nelson, born Jan
uary 26, 1877, graduated from Jamestown
high school in 1894, now superintendent of
veneer plant, married Grace Woodbury.

The spelling of this name va-
JOSLYN ries greatly, Josselyn, Jocelyn,
Ijoscelyn, Jostlin, Joslin, Jos-
lyn, being some of the more common forms
under which it is found in early New England
records. Henry Joslyn, son of Sir Thomas
Kent, England, came to this country about
1634, as agent for Captain Mason, but soon
left that service and in 1638 had settled at
Black Point, now Scarboro, Maine. After
the Indian attack on that place and the in
habitants compelled to flee, Henry Joslyn's
son, Henry (2), settled in Gloucester, Massa
chusetts. John Joslyn, brother of the first
Henry, made two trips to America, the last
time staying eight years with his brother at
Scarboro. After his return to England he

published, in 1672, his quaint and curious
book, "New England Rarities." Other early
Joslins settled about Boston. Thomas Joslin,
from whom the Machias, New York, Joslyns
descend, and Nathaniel Joslin, who settled
at Hingham.
(I) Thomas Joslin, aged forty-three, and
Rebecca, his wife, aged forty-three, with their
children, Rebecca, aged eighteen, Dorothy,
aged eleven, Nathaniel, aged eight, Elizabeth,
aged six, and Mary, aged one year, embarked
at London, England, April, 1635, for Ameri
ca. Abraham, an older son, does not appear
to have come with them, but a short time
after he is here with his family, which set
tled first at Hingham, Massachusetts, of which
town Thomas was one of the proprietors, in
1637. Abraham was in Hingham in 1647.
Thomas and his son Nathaniel subscribed to
the town covenant in Lancaster, in 1654,
Thomas Joslin died 1660, and his widow
married (second) William Kerley.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Thomas and Re
becca Joslin, born 1627, came to America in
r635, aged eight years. His parents settled
at Hingham where he spent his boyhood and
youthful manhood. He settled first in Lan
caster, but after the destruction of that town
removed to Marlboro, Massachusetts. He
married Sarah, daughter of Thomas King, of
Marlboro. He died April 8, 1694. His will,
dated March 3, 1694, mentions wife Sarah,
sons Nathaniel, Peter, daughters Sarah, Dor
othy, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Martha. Sarah, his
widow, died July 2, 1706.
(Ill) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Nathan
iel (1) and Sarah Joslin, was born in Lan
caster, Massachusetts, June 21, 1658, died
March 8, 1726. He married, February 8,
1682, Hester Moss. (Marriage records). An
other record says Hester Morse. She died
April 27, 1725, aged sixty-one years. Chil
dren : Hester, married Samuel Lamb ; Mary,
married James Newton ; Patience, died young;
Nathaniel (3), died young; Nathaniel (4),
married Sarah Forbush ; Israel, married Sarah
 ; Martha, died unmarried, aged twen
ty-four; Experience, married Ebenezer Snow;
Abigail, married Hezekiah Bush; Joseph,
married Catherine Reed; Susanna, married
Joseph Johnson; Abraham, married Jemima
Snow; Thomas, of whom further.
(IV) Thomas (2) Joslyn, son of Nathaniel
(2) and Hester Joslin, was born March 10,
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Fort William Henry, November 3, 1760. He
married (first) Mary  ¦, died December
23, 1737; (second) December 31, 1740, Lucy
Forbush, of Westboro. Children: Esther,
married Josiah Moore; Mary, married John
Bruce; Susanna, married Timothy Bruce, she
had a large family and died in Marlboro, aged
ninety years; Catherine, born July 20, 1735;
Lucy, died young; Israel, married Ann New
ton; Thomas, of whom further; Jonas, born
April 25, 1750.
(V) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and
Lucy (Forbush) Joslyn, was born in Marl
boro, Massachusetts, August 6, 1745. He set
tled in the town of Hanover, Massachusetts,
married and had a son Joel.
(VI) Colonel Joel Joslyn, son of Thomas
(3) Joslyn, was born in Hanover, New Hamp
shire, in 1771, died 1826. He was a carpenter
and joiner by trade. He served in the war
of 1812 as colonel of a Vermont regiment. In
1816 he came to New York state, bringing
his family and possessions in a wagon drawn
by oxen. He settled, first, in Pembroke, later
in Darien, where he died and is buried. He
was a member of the Masonic order and a
man of prominence. He married Elizabeth
Patterson. (VII) James, son of Colonel Joel and Eliz
abeth (Patterson) Joslyn, was born in New
Hampshire, in 1805, died in Machias, Catta
raugus county, New York, 1877. He was a
farmer, and in Darien served as justice of
the peace for many years. He settled in
Machias in 1849. He served that town as
(assessor. He married (first) Edna Hale
Stone; child, Joel, born 1839, married Edna
Cole; children: Edna and Inez. He married
(second) Levina Andrews, born in Columbia
county, New York, 1815, died in Machias,
New York, 1874. Children: 1. Fayette, born
1841 ; married (first) Elnora Love ; (second)
Adelaide Martin; children: F. Martim and
Edith. 2. James,'born 1843; married Saman-
tha Gould; children, Victor and Grace. 3.
George, born 1845 ; enlisted September, 1862,
in the Union army and was killed at the bat
tle of Spottsylvania, May 8, 1864. 4. William
A., of whom further. 5. Frank, born 1849;
married, and has a son George. 6. Ansell S.,
born October 14, 185 1. 7. Mary L., born
August 24, 1857; married Dayton Parker;
child, Henry.
(VIII) William A., son of James and Le
vina (Andrews) Joslyn, was born April 14,

1847, in Darien, New York, and in 1849 was
brought by his parents" to Machias, Cattarau
gus county. He was educated in the public
schools and for two terms attended the acad
emy at Arcade, New York. After complet
ing his studies he taught in the public schools
for seven terms, then purchased a farm of
one hundred and eighty acres, where until
1884 he made a specialty of dairy farming.
In the latter year he removed to the village
of Machias. After the death of his father
he succeeded him on the homestead, turning
his dairy business over to his son. This busi
ness has now (1911) grown to such propor
tions that he and his sons are all engaged in
its management. For twenty-four years Mr.
Joslyn has been justice of the peace in Ma
chias, where as "Squire Joslyn" he is known
far and near. He was made a Mason in 1870,
and has been a member forty years, belonging
now to Urania Lodge, No. 810, of which he
was master in 1894-95-96-98-99-1904, and was
master of Franklinville Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, in 1867-68. In politics he
is a Democrat. He is a man of high character
and commands universal respect. He has been
president of the board of trustees of Ten
Broeck Free Academy, which is situated in
Franklinville, since 1894.
He married, March 8, 1871, Emma J., born
1848, daughter of Asa B. and Caroline
(West) Parker. Children : 1. Essie A., born
April 5, 1872; married Henry Neff. 2. A.
Jackson, December 23, 1873; married, Janu
ary 18, 1909, Mary Goucher; child, Lucy,
born October, 1910. 3. Viola, July 20, 1880.
4. James Ray, December 10, 1882; married,
June, 1904, Calla Potter; child, William Otis,
born February 10, 1907. 5. Lila M., May 31,
1886.

The Banton family, according
BANTON to family historians, are of
French descent, and spring
from two brothers of that name who settled
first in Rhode Island. Later one brother went
south, the other settling in New York state.
The family home was in Hamilton, Onondaga
county. (I) Jonas Banton settled in Hamilton, New
York; married Elizabeth, daughter of God
frey Cook. Children: John, Jonas (2), Les
lie, Julia, Harriet, Emmeline.
(II) Jonas (2), son of Jonas (1) Banton,
was a wealthy farmer and hop grower. He

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owned a great deal of land, and was a good
and influential man. He later removed to
Gowanda, where he farmed and was vice-
president of the Eagle Oil Company. Later
he removed to Salamanca. He was a Whig
and Republican, later becoming a Democrat.
He served as village trustee and held other
offices of trust. At his death he distributed
all his wealth among his grandchildren. He
married Mary Brown. Children: Isaac, Da
vid, Sarah, Francis.
(Ill) Isaac, son of Jonas (2) and Mary
(Brown) Banton, was born in Hamilton,
New York, February 15, 1832, died June 1,
1908. He was educated in the public schools,
and was his father's assistant in both Hamil
ton and Gowanda during his years of minor
ity. He began business for himself as a
farmer, making a specialty of hop growing
and fruit culture. He was successful and
in 1869 removed to Salamanca, New York,
where he established a hop yard at West
Salamanca, buying and shipping. He was a
prominent man of the village and one of great
benevolence. He was a free thinker in re
ligious matters and bound by no creed. He
was village trustee several terms, member
of the Benevolent Society and a Democrat
in politics, but originally a Republican. He
married, May 14, i860, Louise A. Hitch
cock, born May 14, 1840, daughter of Eri and
Susan (Tower) Hitchcock; paternal grand
father, Ephan Hitchcock; maternal grand
father, Pium Tower. Eri Hitchcock was born
in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was a
watchmaker and made wooden clocks until
their sale declined. He settled in Gowanda
where he purchased a farm. He was a Meth
odist and a good man. Children : Alfred,
Louise A. and Eri (2), married Helen Van
Mater, who died soon after the birth of her
only son, Ralph. He was taken by his aunt,
Louise A. Banton, and grew up under her
care, now employed by the Erie railroad.
Children: 1. Stanley, born 1863, died 1883.
2. Sidney S., born September 3, 1865 ; mar
ried, May 10, 1888, Jessie A. Bull, born July
9, 1869; children: i. Gertrude A., born June
2, 1892, died November 12, 1900. ii. Milo E.,
born January 18, 1899. iii. Florence E., June
13, 1902. 3. Wesley C, of whom further.
4. Minnie M., born November 14, 1870; mar
ried, November 19, 1896, John T. Berthune,
born April 20, 1868; children: i. Donald M.,
born October 6, 1897. ii. Doris L., born No

vember 17', 1906. 5. Nellie L., born August
11, 1872; married, December 23, 1894, E. R.
Prigg, born December 1, 1868; children: i.
Sidney F., born March 10, 1896. ii. Harold
S., October 16, 1902. iii. Ralph B., January
27, 191 1.
(IV) Wesley C, son of Isaac and Louise
A. (Hitchcock) Banton, was born in Gowan
da, June 12, 1868. He was a student by dis
position, and acquired a good education in
the public schools. In 1888 he entered the
employ of the Erie Railroad Company at
Salamanca, taking a position temoorarily, to
trace some lost freight. He got such quick
and satisfactory results that he was retained
by the freight department permanently. He
has passed through various promotions and
now is cashier. He is secretary and treasurer
of the local lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, No. 501 ; past chief patriarch
of the encampment, No. 127, and member of
the Modern Woodmen of America. He served
as clerk of the board of health of the vil
lage, and in other positions has shown his
aptitude and accuracy. He is a member of
the Baptist church. He married, July 14,
1891, Minnie M. Hinckley, born September
22, 1873, daughter of Racine, born 1848, died
1895, married Mary Allen, born 1854, daugh
ter of Melvin G. and Mary (Schermerhorn)
Allen. Children: Minnie M., and Myrtle
May, born 1876, died 1881. Racine was a
son of David and Minerva (Treat) Hinck
ley; Minerva a daughter of Ashbel Woodbury
and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Treat. Mrs. Ban-
ton is a member of Salamanca Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, No.
62441. Children of Wesley C. and Minnie
M. Banton: Bertrene, born May 30, 1899;
Theodore, February 17, 1902.

A branch of the Fish family settled
FISH in Pennsylvania, descendants of J.
Feach, of Schoharie, New York,
born 1760, died 1820, who came from Ger
many to America. The English branch of
the family descend from Jonathan Feach,
born in England, died 1663, emigrated to New
England, settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, later
of Sandwich, Cape Cod, and in 1653-54 was
a magistrate at Newtown, Long Island. The
presumption is that Joseph Fish descends
from the German emigrant, J. Feach.
(I) The first record at hand is of Joseph
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 . Children: i. Samuel. 2. Henry,
married and has son, Ray. 3. Wilbur J.,
married Lydia Parkhurst; children: William
and Edward. 4. Louisa, married Charles
Hooker ; children : Wilbur, Fred, Anna. 5.
William, married Mary Beace ; children : Wil
liam, Minnie, Charles. 6. Mary, married Ir
win Blood ; children : Louise, Blanche. 7.
Harriet, married Adelbert Burtis; children:
Joseph and Lee. 8. Charles Summers, of
whom further.
(II) Charles Summers, son of Joseph Fish,
of Tioga, Pennsylvania, was born there Au
gust 14, 1849. fie was educated in the pub
lic schools, and in 1874 went to Saginaw,
Michigan, where his brother Wilbur J., had
established in the dry goods business. In
1877 he engaged there in business for him
self. After Wilbur J. closed out his business
in Saginaw and located in Elmira, New York,
Charles S. did likewise. He lived in Elmira
until 1880, being engaged as a traveling sales
man. In 1880 he located in Salamanca and
established a wholesale trade in general no
tions, employing several salesmen on the road.
He dealt largely in real estate, built a fine
house and erected the Fish block on Main
street. In 1905 he retired from business. In
January, 191 1, in company with his son, he
went to Syracuse and began the manufacture
of machines and machinery used in evaporat
ing plants.
He is a Republican in politics, and a
member of the school board of Sala
manca. He belongs to the Congregational
church, and to lodge, chapter and commandery
of the Masonic order, and to Ismailia Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Buffalo.
He married, October 20, 1875, Charlotte
Estelle, born March 25, 1854, daughter of
William Chester White, born 1821, died Sep
tember 18, 1874, married, October 29, 1848,
Catherine Sylvania Bramhall, born Novem
ber 22, 1824, who survives him (1911),
daughter of Edmund Bramhall (who was
drowned in Lake Erie, 18 18) and his wife
Sally, daughter of Elijah Herbert. William
Chester White was the son of Job and Mar
garet (Stebbins) White. Job White came to
New York state from Massachusetts ; married,
in Waterloo, New York; William Chester
White was born in Waterloo. He was tin
smith by trade, also engaged in the hardware
business. He was an elder of the Presbyterian
church, and a member of the school board.

He went to Port Byron, but later returned to
Waterloo. Children of Charles Summers and
Charlotte Estelle (White) Fish. 1. Charles
Edward, born September 17, 1876; educated
in the Salamanca schools, graduating from the
high school, entered Cornell University, scien
tific course, 1899; then entered the law school
and after graduation was admitted to the bar.
He practiced his profession for a few years
in California, returned to Salamanca, where
he was engaged in business with I. L. Newton.
Later he associated with his father in manu
facturing and is so engaged. He is a member
of Salamanca Lodge, No. 239, Free and Ac
cepted Masons. 2. Qiarlotte Estelle. 3. Lu-
,cia Maria, born October 20, i£

Franc C. Zwetsch, the foun-
ZWETSCH der of this family in the
United States, was born in
Trier, Prussia, about 1797, died in 1865. In
his native country he had long held public
office, similar to that of the supervisor of a
town in the state of New York. In 1849 he
came to this country, settling first at Attica,
Wyoming county, New York ; three years later
he removed to Alexander, Genesee county.
After his coming he lived retired. He was a
communicant of the German Lutheran church.
He married Dora Peck, a native of Paris,
France, who died about 1898; her name was
originally La Rou. They had nine children,
including the following: Peter, married
Christine Woelfley; Philip, married Margaret
Weimar; John J.; and Christian Franc, of
whom further.
(II) Christian Franc, son of Franc C. and
Dora (Peck) Zwetsch, was born at Trier,
Prussia, December 25, 1832. He is yet liv
ing at Alexander, New York, where he has
been a farmer for many years. During the
civil war he served three years and sixty
days, first as a member of the Twenty-second
New York Independent Artillery Company;
afterward, by transfer, as a member of Com
pany M, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery.
He was offered a lieutenancy, but declined it.
In religion he is a German Lutheran, and
in politics a Republican. He married Kath
erine Gillespie, daughter of Patrick Hopkins,
who was born in county Roscommon, Ireland,
and who is still living. Her grandfather Gil
lespie was an active Irish Home Rule advo
cate, and was assassinated after which his
family came to the United States. Children :

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Horace Charles, of whom further; and one
died in infancy.
(Ill) Horace Charles, son of Christian
Franc and Katherine Gillespie (Hopkins)
Zwetsch, was born at Alexander, New York,
January 5, 1871. He was educated at the
Genesee and Wyoming Seminary, graduating
in 1890, at the age of nineteen years, with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He taught
in the graded schools at Varysburg and John-
sonburg, both in Wyoming county, New
York, one year in each place. He then read
law with Johnson & Charles, at Warsaw,
Wyoming county, and on July 15, 1895, was
admitted to the bar. For the next four years
he practiced at Warsaw, being a member of
the firm of Botsford, Zwetsch & Botsford.
In 1899 he removed to Buffalo, where he now
resides. Here he practiced, making a speci
alty of corporation law until 1906, when he
associated himself with A. B. Leach & Com
pany, in the purchase and sale of investment
bonds and high-grade securities, he being
their general manager for Western New York
and Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Zwetsch is a
Mason, having attained all the degrees, and
enjoying every honor obtainable among the
craft of the state ; he is a noble of the Mystic
Shrine. In the Knights of Pythias and the
Odd Fellows he has been through all the
chairs. He is also a member of the United
Commercial Travelers. In politics he is a
Republican, but independent ; he did a consid
erable amount of public speaking at one time,
but has not been active in recent years. He
was justice of the peace of Warsaw. His
clubs are the Genesee Valley, of Rochester;
the Ellicott, of Buffalo; the Chamber of Com
merce .Club and the Automobile Club, both
of Buffalo; and the Shrine Club, of Erie,
Pennsylvania. Until recently he was a mem
ber of the New York City Athletic Club. In
religion he is a Presbyterian.
He married, at Warsaw, September 18,
1905, Estella, born at Castile, Wyoming
county, September 20, 1872, died September
16, 1910, daughter of Harris and Ann Lucy
(Slocum) Norton. Her father was a cheese
manufacturer.

Early colonial records teem with
CHASE the name Chase and from that
period until the present it has
been an honored one. The line herein re
corded came to New York state from New

Hampshire, a state that has given birth to
many of the name, including Salmon Port
land Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, of the United States. The family is
said to have been of Norman origin. In the
old English records it is spelled Chaace,
Chaase, but in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen
turies was modified to the present form, most
in use — Chase. The arms of the family are:
Gules four crosses, flory, two and two, or,
on a canton azure a lion passant of the second
or. Crest: a demi-lion rampant or, hold
ing a cross of the shield gules. Motto: Ne
cede malis.
(I) Matthew Chase, of the parish of Hun-
drich, in Cheshire, England, gave his father's
name as John and the father of the latter as
Thomas. As the name of Matthew's wife is
given, he will be considered the first of this
line. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rich
ard Bould.
(II) Richard, son of Matthew and Eliz
abeth (Bould) Chase, married Mary Roberts,
of Welsden, in Middlesex, England. He was
one of a f amily-of eight.
(Ill) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) and
Mary (Roberts) Chase, was baptized August
3, 1542. He married, April 16, 1564, Joan
Bishop. Children : Robert, Henry, Lydia,
Ezekiel, Dorcas, Aquilla, Jason, Thomas, Abi
gail, Mordecai.
(IV) Aquilla, son of Richard (2) and
Joan (Bishop) Chase, was baptized August
14, 1580. The unique name of Aquilla is
found nowhere else in England in connec
tion with the name Chase, which makes it
reasonably certain that this Aquilla was the
ancestor of the American family. Tradition
says his wife was named Sarah. Record
is found of two sons: Thomas and Aquilla
(2). Some authorities intimate that Thomas
and Aquilla were employed by their uncle,
Thomas Chase, who was part owner of the
ship "John & Francis," and thus became navi
gators and thus found their way to America.
This theory is supported by the fact that
Aquilla Chase was granted a home lot and
six acres of marsh at Newbury, Massachu
setts, "on condition that he do go to sea and
do service in the Towne, with a boat for foure
years." (V) Aquilla (2), son of Aquilla (1)
Chase, settled in Newbury, Massachusetts
(Newburyport) about 1646. He was for
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New Hampshire) where he and his brother
Thomas received grants of land in June, 1640,
along with fifty-five others. As the owner of
a house lot he was listed with those entitled
to a share in the common lands, December 3,
1645. This he afterwards sold to his brother
after his removal to Newbury. According
to the county records, Aquilla Chase, his wife,
and her brother, David Wheeler, were pre
sented and fined "for gathering pease on the
Sabbath." They were admonished by the
court, after which their fines were remitted.
Aquilla Chase died December 27, 1670, aged
fifty-two years. He married Ann, daughter
of John Wheeler, who came from Salisbury,
England, in September, 1646. She survived
him and married (second) Daniel Musselo-
way, June 14, 1672. She died April 21, 1687.
Children: Sarah, Ann, Priscilla, .Mary,
Aquilla, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Ruth, Dan
iel, and Moses.
(VI) Ensign Moses Chase, eleventh and
youngest child of Aquilla (2) and Ann
(Wheeler) Chase, was born at Newbury, Mas
sachusetts, December 24, 1663. He married
and settled in what is now West Newbury,
on the main road about one hundred rods
above the present Bridge street. A large ma
jority of the Chases of the- United States are
said to be his descendants. He married
(first) Ann Follansbee, who was admitted to
the Newbury church in 1698, died April 15,
1708, at the birth of a son. Her tombstone'
at the old "Plains" graveyard is the oldest
one known bearing the name Chase. He mar
ried (second) December 13, 1713, Sarah Ja
cobs, of Ipswich. His will, bearing date July
3, 1740, mentions his grandson, but does not
mention his wife, from which it is inferred
that he also survived his second wife. Chil
dren: Moses, died young; Daniel, twin of
Moses; Moses; Samuel, Elizabeth, Stephen,
Hannah, Joseph, Benoni.
(VII) Daniel, eldest son of Ensign Moses
and Ann (Follansbee) Chase, was born Sep
tember 20, 1685, in West Newbury, Massa
chusetts, died at Sutton, Massachusetts, April
1768. He removed to Littleton, Massachu
setts, in 1725, going from there to Sutton.
He married, January 6, 1706, Sarah, daugh
ter of George March, of Groton, Massachu
setts. Children: Samuel, Daniel, Anne,
Joshua, Judith, Nehemiah, Sarah, Caleb,
Moody, Moses.
(VIII) Samuel, son of Daniel and Sarah

(March) Chase, was born at West Newbury,
Massachusetts, September 28, 1707, died at
Cornish, New Hampshire, August 12, 1800.
He was one of the pioneers and founders of
Cornish, and became the leading man of the
whole region thereabout. He was made judge
of the superior court of the present Cheshire
and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, and
was also state agent for boundaries. When
he was about seventy years old, he joined the
regiment of his son, General Jonathan Chase,
and he went, in 1777, to Saratoga and Ben
nington. He married (first) Mary Dudley,
who died February 12, 1789. After her death,
he married again, but the name of his second
wife is uncertain; some think it was Mary
Esterbrook. Children : Samuel ; Jonathan, of
whom further; Dudley, grandfather of Chief
Justice Salmon Portland Chase (who was
born at Cornish, January 13, 1808) ; Sarah,
Elizabeth, Solomon, Anne, Mary.
(IX) General Jonathan Chase, son of Sam
uel and Mary (Dudley) Chase, was born at
Sutton, December 6, 1732, died January 12,
1800. When his father's family moved to
Cornish, he went with them to the new home.
In early life he was a farmer, surveyor, store
keeper, and miller. At the outbreak of the
revolution he gathered a company of men and
was chosen captain. Afterward he was made
colonel of a regiment of New Hampshire mi
litia. In the fall of 1776 he marched to rein
force the army at Ticonderoga; the follow
ing May, again, to reinforce the Northern
army. In September, 1777, he was called a
third time into service, at Saratoga. After
the surrender of Burgoyne he and his regi
ment were "discharged with honor," by order
of General Gates, October 18, 1777. An un
tutored man, but a natural and recognized
leader, ready at once when called upon, but
without pretensions or claims, he has been
stated, by one who was familiar with the ca
reers of the Chief Justice and both the Bish
ops, to have been really the greatest man in
the Chase family. General Chase married
(first) November 28, 1759, Thankful Sher
man, of Grafton, Massachusetts, who died
November 25, 1768; (second) October 22,
1770, Sarah, daughter of Rev; David Hall, of
Sutton, who was born December 15, 1742,
died October 13, 1806. Among his children
were Jonathan, of whom further, and Leb-
beus. (X) Jonathan (2), son of General Jona-

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than (i) Chase, was born in Cornish, New"
Hampshire, died there June 5, 1843, and is
buried with his wife in the old churchyard.
He married Jeanette Ralston, who was of
Scotch parentage; her father, Alexander
Ralston, coming from Falkirk, Scotland, set
tling in Keene, New Hampshire, proprietor
of the historic "Ralston Tavern." She died
February 17, 1845 ; she bore him eight sons
and two daughters.
(XI) Dr. Alexander Ralston, son of Jona
than (2) and Jeanette (Ralston) Chase, was
born in Cornish, New fiampshire, September
24, 1802. He was educated in the public
schools and prepared for college at a military
school in New Hampshire. He entered Yale
and after finishing his course there began the
study of medicine with an uncle, Dr. Nathan
Smith, a leading physician of Hartford, Con
necticut. In 1826 he settled in Lockport, New
York, where he established in practice, con
tinuing for over half a century, retiring a few
years prior to his death in 1887. He com
manded a large practice and became one of
the prosperous men of his city. He acquired
large real estate holdings and did much for
the promotion of Lockport's interests, being
public-spirited and progressive. He was a
man of high character and held a place in
the hearts of his people, only vouchsafed to
the old school family doctor. He was both
loved and respected by those who knew him
best. He was a Whig and Republican in po
litical faith, but never desired or held office.
In religious faith he was an Episcopalian. He
married Emily Cooke, born March 12, 1805,
died November 18, 1887, daughter of George
and Tamison (Wilson) Cooke, of Cornish,
New Hampshire. Children: 1. Mary, died
in childhood. 2. Eliza L., of whom further.
3. George C, born May 14, 1843 > enlisted at
Lockport, assigned to the Eighth Regiment,
New York Heavy Artillery; was wounded at
the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864 ; was
brought home where he died July 7th of the
same year.
(XII) Eliza L., only daughter of Dr. Alex
ander and Emily (Cooke) Chase, was born
in Lockport, February 9, 1838, and educated
in the public and private schools of Lock-
port. She married in that city, November 8,
1888, Reuben Carroll, born in Croyden, New
Hampshire, May 29, 1828, died August 1,
1906, in Lockport. fie was educated in New
Hampshire and settled with his parents in

Rochester, New York. They afterward re
moved to Williamson, New York, where both
died. Mr. Carroll was an upholsterer and
cabinetmaker. In the pursuit of his trade he
resided in the cities of Chicago, Toronto,
Hamilton, Niagara Falls, and prior to i860
located in Lockport. He was a member of
the Episcopal church, the Masonic Order and
a Republican. Mrs. Carroll survives him, a
resident of Lockport, and though advanced
in years takes a keen enjoyment in life and
keeps herself young by a life filled with good
deeds. She is a member of the Episcopal
church.

James Kavanagh, grand-
BENTLEY father of William John Bent
ley, was born in Ireland, and
came to Canada, where he served in the Ca
nadian rebellion. He met his death by being
shot accidentally by one of his comrades. He
married Elizabeth Darling. Children: James,
William, John, mentioned below ; Maria,
Eliza, Jane.
(II) John Kavanagh, son of James Kavan
agh, lived in Canada. The place of his birth
is not known exactly. He was a well edu
cated man, and learned the trade of a carpen
ter, which during, his early life he followed.
Before the outbreak of the civil war he came
to the United States and enlisted in a New
York regiment from Rochester, New York.
The New York muster rolls (p. 514, vol. vii)
show that John Cavanaugh, aged twenty-nine
years, was corporal in Captain Michael Mc-
Mullen's company (D) Colonel Samuel J.
Crooks' regiment, the Twenty-second New
York Cavalry, which was called into service,
January 10, 1864, and continued to the end
of the war. He joined the regiment, Decem
ber 7, 1863, at Rochester, being enrolled by
Lieutenant Jacob Fisher. This record does
not give his previous service, but the fact that
he was a non-commissioned officer corrobor
ates the statement of the family as to his pre
vious .service in another regiment. The
Twenty-second was organized in December,
1863. After the war Mr. Kavanagh returned
to his native place in Canada and was ap
pointed postmaster of the town of Sharon. He
died at Toronto, Ontario, at the age of sev
enty-four years. He was born, according to
the age he gave at enlistment, in 1834. He
married twice. By his first wife he had one
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the children by his second wife were: Dan
iel; James, resident of New York City, agent
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
(Ill) William John Bentley (born Ka
vanagh), son of John Kavanagh, was born
in Sharon, Ontario, Canada, September 20,
1858, and when an infant was adopted by his
father's sister, Eliza, wife of Charles F. Bent
ley. His foster-parents changed his name to
Bentley. He attended the public schools of
Rochester, New York, but when he was only
five years old his foster-father died. Seven
years later his foster-mother married (sec
ond) John Ray, of Edinborough, Erie
county, Pennsylvania, whither he went with
her and here he continued in the public
schools and afterward attended the State Nor
mal School of Edinborough.
Mr. Bentley began his career as a school
teacher, working during the summer months
in a cheese factory. He had charge of what
was called the "Population School," about six
miles from Edinborough for four terms in
winter. He then learned the trade of black
smith, which he followed for four years at
Erie and other places, and afterward at Cun
ningham Carriage Works in Rochester. In
October, 1880, he removed to Union City,
Pennsylvania, and for a year was clerk in the
hardware store of E. Marvin Cooper. Mr.
Cooper's store was then bought by Thomas
H. Hagerty and Milton Shreve and in their
employ Mr. Bentley continued for five years.
Afterward he was a traveling salesman for
the Novelty Wood Works Company, selling
drawing boards through Western New York
and Michigan, representing the company for
one year and afterward selling its goods on
his own account. He saved a thousand dol
lars while a salesman, but lost it in another
venture. He taught writing schools in Michi
gan, New York and Pennsylvania for a time,
and then was in the employ of Charles Twin
ing, of Corry, Pennsylvania, and later estab
lished the Corry Business College, in which
he took charge of the department of penman
ship. After he disposed of this school he
came to Lakewood, New Jersey, as clerk of
the Sterling Inn one season, and thence he
came to Jamestown, New York, where he was
employed as clerk in a hardware store owned
by William H. Sprague. After ten years in
this business he resigned his position to be
come stockkeeper of the United States Voting
Machine Company, of Jamestown, remaining

there for five years. Since then he has been
in the life insurance business with the Con
necticut General Life Insurance Company,
and at present is the general agent of that
company with offices in the Chadakoin Build
ing in Jamestown, in charge of Chautauqua
and Erie county business in New York and
Warren county, Pennsylvania. He ranks high
among the insurance men of this section, and
possesses the confidence and esteem of the
community. He is a member of Mount Mo
riah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Ma
sons ; of Western Sun Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, of which he is past high priest; of
Jamestown Commandery, No. 61, Knights
Templar; of Jamestown Council, Royal and
Select Masters; of Ismailia Temple, Mystic
Shrine, of Buffalo, being a thirty-second de
gree Mason. He is well known and popular
in Masonic circles. In politics he is a Re
publican. He married (first) at Beaver Dam, Penn
sylvania, Sarah P., daughter of William and
Rebecca McKinley, of LeBeuf township, Erie
county, Pennsylvania. The McKinley family
is among the oldest living near ¦ Waterford,
and her parents were prominent in social life.
Mrs. Bentley died in September, 1885. He
married (second) at Jamestown, May 17,
1890, Margaret M., born October 23, 1868,
daughter of Peter and Mary (Lyman) Kel
ley (see Kelley II). She was educated in the
public schools and at the State Normal School
at Fredonia, and was a teacher for several
years in the schools of Chautauqua county.
Child by first wife: Nellie R., born March
17, 1882 ; married George Foster and has one
child, Rupert Foster; Mr. Foster is switch
man in the employ of the Erie Railroad Com
pany at Jamestown and resides at 124 Lakin
avenue. Children by second wife: William
J., born February 21, 1891 ; Robert McKin
ley, December 18, 1893; Lyman K., March 30,
1896; Margaret E., December 21, 1898; Rich
ard P., February 10, 1901 ; Marion J., June
3, 1904; Roger K., November 2, 1906; Don
ald E., January 5, 191 1.
(The Kelley Line).
(II) Peter Kelley, son of Michael and Eliz
abeth (Gormley) Kelley, was born in Ireland,
died August 22, 1907, killed by an accident,
when his team ran away. His parents came
to America when he was ten years of age and
settled on a farm near Findley Lake, Pennsyl-

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vania. He was a farmer, and a man respected
and of good character, being held in high es
teem by those who knew him. In religion he
was a Roman Catholic. He married Mary
A. Lyman, born at Syracuse, New York, Sep
tember 28, 1840, daughter of Peter and Cath
erine Lyman; Peter Lyman was born in Ire
land, and came to America about 1834, set
tling first at Syracuse and later at Dunkirk,
New York. Mrs. Kelley is living at James
town, New York. Children : Michael E., born
April 22, 1863-; Jennie P., October 12, 1865;
Margaret M., October 23, 1868, married Will
iam J. Bentley (see Bentley III) ; John J.,
July 15, 1871; Peter S., April 8, 1874; Rich
ard P., January 25, 1877; Elizabeth A., Au
gust 15, 1879; James P., May 6, 1882; Ed
ward J., April 14, 1885.

John Albro, immigrant ancestor,
ALBRO was born in England in 1620,
and at the age of fourteen ' came
from Ipswich, England, sailing April 30, 1634,
in the ship "Francis," in care of William Free
born, whom he accompanied to Portsmouth,
Rhode Island. He is the progenitor of all of
this name, of the colonial families, in this
country. Pie became a prominent citizen of
Portsmouth. He became corporal, lieutenant,
captain and major of the militia. In 1647 ne
was clerk of weights and measures. He was
a member of the town council and moderator
of town meetings. In 1660-61 he was com
missioner. For many years he was assistant,
between 167 1 and 1686. He married (first)
Dorothy Potter, born in 1617. He married
(second) Dorothy, widow of Nathaniel Per
kins, fie died in 1712; she died in 1696.
Children: Samuel, born 1644; Elizabeth,
Mary, John, mentioned below ; Susanna.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Albro,
was born about 1660-65. He resided at Ports
mouth, Rhode Island, and at East Greenwich,
of which he was one of the original settlers.
He died in 1724. He married, April 27, 1693,
Mary Staples. Children : John, born August
23, 1694; Mary, Sarah, Samuel, mentioned
below. (Ill) Samuel, son of John (2) Albro, was
born June 16, 1701, died October 5, 1766.
He was admitted a freeman in 1722. He mar
ried, November 25, 1725, Ruth Lawton. Chil
dren, born at East Greenwich: 1. Samuel,
mentioned below; Mary, August 31, 1728;
John, January 30, 1730; Daniel, January 17,

173 1 ; Jonathan, January 2, 1734; David,
April 1, 1736; James; Ruth.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Al
bro, was born at East Greenwich, February
10, 1727. In 1790 Samuel Albro and Benja
min Albro were heads of families at Beek-
man, Dutchess county, New York. Samuel
had in his family three males under sixteen
and four females; Benjamin had one male un
der sixteen and five females. From Dutchess
county the family removed to Allegany
county. (VII) Garner Albro, descendant of Sam
uel (2) Albro (IV), was born in Portage,
New York. He was educated in the public
schools. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment,
New York Volunteers, and was enrolled as a
private in Company A. He went to Wash
ington with his regiment and was stationed
at Arlington Heights. He took part in the
battle of Chancellorsville and was at Chatta
nooga and Louisville, Kentucky. On account
of illness he was sent to a soldiers' home.
There his son joined him and drew his pay.
The son tried to get a furlough in order to
take his father home, but his request was re
fused and the father was sent home alone.
Two days after he reached home he died.
He married Melissa, born in 1823, died in
1904, daughter of Seth and Eunice (Straight)
Markham. Seth and Eunice Markham had
fifteen children: Lucina, Eliza, Aurilla, Ca
roline, Sophina, Electa, Jeremiah, Henry,
Seth, Lorenzo and Melissa Markham. Four
died in infancy. Garner Albro's father died
before he was born and he was brought up
in the family of an uncle. He was a farmer
in Ramson's settlement, near Cuba, New
York. (VIII) Ruel C, son of Garner Albro, was
born November 26, 1843, in Ramson's set
tlement, near Cuba. He attended the public
schools of the district. At the age of nine
teen he enlisted, August 11, 1862, in Com
pany A, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regi
ment, New York Volunteers, and went to the
front. He took part in the battle of Chan
cellorsville and was wounded in the battle of
Lookout Mountain by a minie ball under the
left arm. He was sent to the hospital at
Nashville and afterward to Louisville. He
was transferred afterward to the Invalid
Corps of the Veteran Reserves and afterward
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and the hospital boat, "Jennie Hopkins," and
to the end of the civil war was engaged in
transporting the sick and wounded. He was
discharged August 22, 1865. From the money
saved from his pay in the service, he was
enabled to pay his tuition at Bryant & Strat-
ton's Business College at Rochester. After
ward he was employed as clerk in the gen
eral store of his uncle at Oil City, Pennsyl
vania. In 1867 he went to Kansas with his
uncle and took up one hundred and sixty
acres of land. He returned to New York,
however, and in 1875 engaged in the manu
facture of cheese and other dairy products
at Ramson's until- 1880, when he returned to
Kansas and bought eighty acres of land which
he planted to wheat and corn. In 1889 he
came to Ramson's settlement again, bringing
with him his western horses and for five years
engaged in teaming and contracting there.
In 1894 he bought a grocery business at North
Olean, New York, fie continued in this busi
ness until 1908 when he sold his interests. At
one time he owned oil lands at the state line.
He was an enterprising, active and successful
merchant, and is one of the best known and
most highly respected citizens of Olean. In
politics he is an Independent, and in religion
he is a communicant of the Protestant Epis
copal church. He is a member of G. D. Bay
ard Post, No. 222, Grand Army of the Re
public. He was formerly a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, September 2, 1867, Eliza
Markham, born February 3, 1847, died No
vember 22, 1906. Children : 1. Ernest, born
Decefnber 16, 1868, died March 1, 1872. 2.
George Henry, December 29, 1870, died Sep
tember 23, 1872. 3. Alice, September 7, 1872 ;
married, March 19, 1897, Fred S. Beeman
and has one son, Garnet, born April 24, 1908.
4. Georgia, June 28, 1875; married, Decem
ber 19, 1901, Charles F. Benson. 5. Gladys,
January 15, 1884. James Whitton, the first
WHITTON member of this family of
whom we have definite infor
mation, lived in Canada. He was a farmer
and lumberman, and made money by work
and saved it. He married Elizabeth Hazel-
ton. Among their fifteen children was
Thomas, referred to below.
(II) Thomas, son of James and Elizabeth
(Hazelton) Whitton, was born in Canada in

1857, died in 1903. He went to school, then
learned the lumber business, married, and had
two children in Canada. He then had a good
offer from Mr. Bullis, for whom the place
was named, to come to Bullis Mills, Pennsyl
vania. He accepted this position and later en
tered the lumber business on his own account,
buying and selling stumpage, running saw
mills, selling bark, and doing lumber business
of all kinds, and followed that up to 1890. In
1 89 1 he came to Olean and bought the Dot-
terweich brewery. Under his management
the business forged ahead. He gave personal
attention to it while he lived, and his wife con
tinued the business after his death, being now
president and treasurer. The business has
evolved into a large industry, with an annual
output of thirty thousand barrels, in connec
tion with a large ice plant and bottling works ;
the ice is sold throughout this section and
much beer is shipped to other points, and
much of this development is due to his skill
and genius in business and finance. Practi
cally all the stock is held now by his widow
and children. He was a member of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He was al
ways a Republican, and served four years as
an alderman in Olean. He was a member of
the Church of England.
He married, September 26, 1878, Eva B.,
born in 1857, daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Stanley) Leonard. (See Leonard III).
Children: 1. Blanche, born June 24, 1880;
married, August 22, 1899, James J. Rodgers
(see Rodgers III). 2. Maude Frances, born
January 17, 1881. 3. Oscar J., born May 10,
1884; married, January 29, 1907, Lottie
Craig; child, Katharine, born April 19, 1910.
4. Thomas L., referred to below. 5. Mary
Gertrude, born September 22, 1889. 6. Ethel
Anna, born July 3, 1902. 7. and 8., deceased.
(Ill) Thomas L., son of Thomas and Eva
B. (Leonard) Whitton, was born at Bullis
Mills, July 31, 1886. He attended public
schools, St. Bonaventure College, and Niagara
University. Going into the brewery, he had
charge of the bottling department until April,
1910, and then went into business for him
self and has one of the finest cafes in Olean.
He is president of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, past prelate of the Order of Moose,
and a member of the Benevolent and Protect
ive Order of Elks and of the Knights of Co
lumbus. He is a Roman Catholic in religion,
and a Democrat in politics. He married, No-

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vember 25, 1907, Nora, born October 3, 18
daughter of John and Margaret (McClerey)
McCormick. Children of John and Margaret
(McClerey) McCormick; James, deceased;
Nora, referred to herein; Margaret, John.
Child of Thomas L. and Nora (McCormick)
Whitton : Margaret Evangeline, born Octo
ber 4, 1909. (The Leonard Line).
(I) James Leonard, the first member of
this family of whom we have definite infor
mation, was born on the ocean. The family
came from England, and settled first at Perth,
Lanark county, Ontario, then at Burgess, Ox
ford county, Ontario. He was a shoemaker
and did a little farming; he was a man who
worked hard for his family. He was a Ro
man Catholic in his religion. Child, John.
(II) John, son of James Leonard, lived in
Ontario. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
John Stanley. Children: Catharine, married
William Carman; Elizabeth; Margaret, mar
ried Arthur McCarren; James, married Har
riet Scanlon; Anna, married Charles Boste-
rick; Eva B., referred to below; Patrick Jo
seph, married Mary Watt; Thomas.
(Ill) Eva B., daughter of John and Eliz
abeth (Stanley) Leonard, was born in Can
ada in 1857. She married, in Canada, Sep
tember 26, 1878, Thomas Whitton (see Whit
ton II). Coming with her husband to the
United States, she succeeded him upon his
death in the management of the Dotterweich
Brewing Company, of which she is now presi
dent and treasurer; James J. Rodgers is vice-
president, and J. S. Shoemaker is secretary.
In the management of the Dotterweich Brew
ing Company and the Pure Ice Company, a
subsidiary concern, the successful methods of
former years are continued.

This branch of the Costi-
COSTIGAN gans was founded in the
United States by James Cos
tigan, who came from Kings county, Ireland,
about 1845, and settled near New York state,
residing at Newburg and Herisdale. He fol
lowed the occupation of a farmer, and was
killed by falling from a tree. He married,
in Ireland, Elizabeth Doherty. Children: 1.
William PL, married Catherine Doyle; chil
dren : James T., John, Mary, Carrie and Ag
nes; John J., of whom further.
(II) John Joseph, son of James and Eliz
abeth (Doherty) Costigan, was born in Ire

land, in 1840. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Newburg and Herisdale, and
began business life in the construction depart
ment of the Erie railroad, and was advanced
through successive grades until he became di
vision superintendent. In 1874 he retired
from the railroad service and settled in Sala
manca, New York, where he established a
grocery store. As he prospered other depart
ments were added until he so outgrew his
original quarters that a change was necessary.
He erected the Costigan Block, a handsome
three-story brick block fronting on Main
street, where he removed his business and
continued until his death. He also dealt ex
tensively in Minnesota real estate, and was
interested in Salamanca's development. He
was a director of the Salamanca Building and
Loan Association, and held several town and
village offices. He was a liberal, whole-souled
gentleman, and had a host of friends. He
was a member of the Roman Catholic church,
and in politics a Democrat.
He married, at Allegany, New York, Jan
uary 18, 1858, Anna, daughter of Lawrence
and Mary (Doane) Grant, and granddaugh
ter of John and Mary (Delany) Grant. Mary
Doane was a daughter of John and Sarah
(Cosgrove) Doane. Lawrence Grant mar
ried (second) Elizabeth Doherty Costigan,
widow of James Costigan. John J. and Anna
(Grant) Costigan lost their only child, and
then adopted as their own two children of
Edward Michael Grant, born August 1, 1849,
died February 9, 1910, married Mary A. Si
mon, died 1879. The adopted children are:
1. Frank L. Grant, born June 7, 1874; mar
ried, January 28, 1891, Agnes Crandall, born
October 4, 1868; children: Celesta, and Ma
deline, born June 20, 1906. 2. Gertrude
Grant, born June 7, 1878 ; married, August,
1899, Howard Edward O'Donnell, secretary
and treasurer of the Charles R. Gibson Com
pany, son of Charles and Margaret (John
son) O'Donnell, and grandson of Edward
O'Donnell; child, Anna, born November 3,
1906. Margaret Johnson was a daughter of
James Johnson. Mrs. Anna (Grant) Costi
gan survives her husband and now resides in
Salamanca.

John Fullagar, father of
FULLAGAR Langley Fullagar, of Dun
kirk, New York, was born
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Mary Langley, born in the same county. In
1827 he came with his wife to the United
•States, having then a family of two sons and
three daughters, all of whom accompanied
their parents. He settled in Schenectady,
New York, where he engaged in mercantile
life and continued his residence until death.
His wife died in Schenectady, New York.
Children: Langley, of whom further; Mary
Ann, married William Checker; Sarah, mar
ried Samuel H. Sexton ; Elizabeth, married
Cornelius Earl; John, married (first) Katurah
 , and (second) Sopha  .
(II) Langley, eldest son and child of John
and Mary (Langley) Fullagar, was born in
Kent county, England, in 1815, died in Dun
kirk, New York, in 1892. He was educated
in the English schools until the family emi
gration, when he was twelve years of age.
fie finished his studies in Utica, New York,
and was engaged in mercantile life with his
father. When still a young man he went to
New Orleans; Louisiana, where he was a mer
chant for several years. Returning from the
south, he located at Chenango Forks, New
York, where he was associated in business
with his father-in-law, conducting a mercan
tile establishment until 1854, when he removed
to Dunkirk, New York, fiere he became as
sociated with Truman Coleman in the Lake
Shore Bank, acting as cashier for over twenty-
five years. In 1882 he organized the Mer
chants' National Bank of Dunkirk, becoming
its first president. He retained active inter
est in both banks up to the time of his death,
but retired from official connection some years
prior to his demise. He was a most capable
man of affairs, wise and conservative, and an
ideal head of a financial institution. His in
tegrity was unquestioned, and he maintained
his honor unsullied throughout an active, use
ful business life. He was strictly independ
ent in political action, ever regarding the can
didate's fitness, caring nothing for his party.
He was generous in nature, liberally contri
buting to all worthy causes. In religious af
filiation he was a Unitarian.
He married, August 16, 1846, Mary Anne
Rogers, born in Chenango county, New York,
daughter of John B. and Harriet (Meloy)
Rogers. John B., son of Simeon and Mary
(Barker) Rogers, was the first white child
born in Broome county, New York, where he
died aged ninety-two years. His wife Har
riet was born in New Haven, Connecticut/

and died aged seventy-seven years. Children
of Langley and Mary Anne (Rogers) Fulla
gar, the first two born at Chenango Forks,
the last two at Dunkirk, New York: 1. Eliz
abeth, married Dan W. Abell; child, Kather
ine. 2. Mary L., married Edward R. Rice;
children : Helen Fullagar and Edward Fulla
gar. 3. Harriet, married Theodore Thomas
Danforth; child, Thomas Fullagar. 4. Guy
Kent, unmarried.

This name is found in England,
LUNDY France and Italy under the
same spelling as in Ireland. It
is supposed to belong to that class of sur
names derived from a place or locality, and
to have passed through some changes in spell
ing since it first became a surname. The
Lundys of Olean, New York, descend from
forbears long seated in county Sligel, Ireland.
(I) Charles Lundy, the grandfather of
George M. Lundy, of Olean, married Bridget
Logan. After his marriage he moved from
county Sligel to Galway, where his eleven
children were born. He was a cabinetmaker
and owned a small farm. He was a quiet, in
dustrious man, a devout Catholic, and reared
his family in that faith. Had five sons:
James, William, John, Patrick, Thomas.
(II) James, eldest son of Charles Lundy,
was born in county Galway, Ireland, in 1830.
In 1862 he came to the United States, land
ing in Boston, Massachusetts, where for two
years he found employment in the leather fac
tories of that section. In 1863 he sent for
his wife and children, who joined him in Bos
ton. In 1864 he came to Olean, New York.
He first worked in the Barrett tannery, later
with Root & Keating, remaining with that
firm all his active years. He died in Olean
in 1909. He was a whole-souled, warm
hearted Irish' gentleman, full of native wit
and humor, industrious, and had a host of
good friends. He was a Democrat, and a
faithful Catholic. He married, in Galway,
Ireland, in 1858, Anna Kane, born 1841, who
survives him. Ghildren, first two born in Ire
land: 1. Mary, married W. H. Car ringer;
children: Plarvey, Raymond, Irene. 2. Ellen,
married James Kepner; children: Harry, Ha
zel, Royal. 3. Charles, died at the age of
twenty-six years. 4. Agnes, married W. M.
O'Connor; children: Eileen, Watson M. 5.
James, married Louise Eichler ; child, George.
6. Thomas. 7. George M., of whom further.

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(Ill) George M., youngest child and
fourth son of James Lundy, was born in
Olean, New York, July 21, 1881. He was
educated in the public school, and after de
ciding upon law as his profession pursued
this study with M. B. Jewell, as preceptor.
He followed up his office study with a special
course at Albany Law School and was ad
mitted to the New York bar in June, 1904.
On August 1 of that year he established an
office in Olean and began practice. He won
many clients and continues without a partner.
He has always been active in public affairs
and is a prominent Democrat. While a resi
dent of the village of North Olean he served
on the board of health; was village trustee
and assessor, resigning the latter office to ac
cept that of village attorney. This office he
retained until 1909, when the village of North
Olean became a part of the city of Olean. He
had been clerk of the school board, and for
two years was president of the board of edu
cation of North Olean before it was merged
with the city of Olean. He was also justice
of the peace; he was appointed city clerk of
Olean, January 3, 1910, to serve two years.
He is past grand knight of the Knights of
Columbus and a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. His clubs are
the City and Hamilton Country.
He married, April 20, 1909, Florence, born
October 1, 1883, daughter of Edward and
Adell (Crum) Floyd, of Cornwall, England,
whose children are : Florence, married George
M. Lundy; E. Mead, married Jane Kay;
Hazel.

Langford Highland Rodgers,
RODGERS founder of this family, came
from the north of Ireland,
and settled at Buffalo, New York. He dealt
in horses and was interested in racing. Chil
dren: William, James Langford, referred to
below; Sarah, Elizabeth.
(II) James Langford, son of Langford
Highland Rodgers, was born in Buffalo, New
York, in 1841, died in 1905. For years he
was a coppersmith, after which he entered
the fire department, and served in this strenu
ous, heroic and perilous duty for twenty-five
years, becoming superintendent of the depart
ment; he was also a member of the excise
board. He was a Democrat in politics and a
Catholic in religion. He married, June 25,
1867, Mary A., born May 7, 1845, daughter

of Nicholas and Mary (Rohl) Gittere. Her
father came from Alsace, then part of France,
but married in Buffalo; he followed the trade.
of stonemason and bricklayer. Children of
Nicholas and Mary (Rohl) Gittere: Peter,
Lewis, Mary A., referred to herein; Sarah,
Francis. Children of James Langford and
Mary A. (Gittere) Rodgers: 1. Langford
G., referred to below. 2. Lewis James, born
May 5, 1869; married, January 17, 1895, Min
nie Smith, born May 13, 1872; children:
Frederick, born January 16, 1906; Marion,
born April 3, 1908. 3. Frank Robert, born
January 29, 1874; married Grace Newcomer;
children: Francis, David, Marion, Langford.
4. James J., referred to below.
(Ill) Langford G., son of James Langford
and Mary A. (Gittere) Rodgers, was born in
Buffalo, New York, April 8, 1868. He at
tended public school No. 10, in that city, and
then took a commercial course at St. Joseph's
College. After this he served an apprentice
ship with Irlbacher & Davis, plumbers, in
Buffalo. From 1891 to 1893 he was in part
nership with Hugh Boyd, under the firm name
of Boyd & Rodgers, plumbers. He then went
to Olean and was employed two years in the
Dotterweich brewery. But he then returned
to the plumbing business, and as head of the
firm of Rodgers & Company, conducts a gen
eral plumbing business, steam heating and
allied lines of business. He has served as al
derman of Olean for four years, and was su
pervisor from 1908 to 19 10. His father's in
terest in the fire-fighting has passed to him,
and he has begun a second generation of fam
ily service in this capacity, for in 1910 he
was appointed as chief of the fire department
at Olean, under Mayor Foley, and in 1912
he was reappointed. He is a Democrat. He
is a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and a member of
the Knights of Columbus and of the Catholic
Mutual Benefit Association. He is a Catholic
in religion.
He married, September 24, 1891, Mary,
born May 6, 1869, daughter of Charles and
Dorothea (Volk) Dotterweich. Her father
was born in 1829, died in 1885. In 1856, two
years after the incorporation of Olean as a
village, he established the brewery, a concern
at first employing only four men, and having
a capacity of only five hundred barrels of beer
annually. It has been several times destroyed
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in 1872 a substantial brick structure was built,
and in 1893 the business was incorporated
under the name of Dotterweich Brewing Com
pany, with a capital of ten million dollars.
Mr. Dotterweich married, in 1854, Dorothea
Volk, bom in 1834, died in 1887. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. Dotterweich: 1. George,
born in 1856, died in 1907; married, January
9, 1879, Minnie Wendell; children: Charles
P., born November 17, 1880; married, Decem
ber 2, 1908, Ella LaReu; Henry, born No
vember 10, 1885 ; Magdalena, born October
11, 1889. 2. John, born in 1859, died in 1895 ;
unmarried, a bright business man. 3. Ru
dolph, married Susan Griffin ; children : Hazel
and Helen. 4. Herman, married Mary Cram-
sey; child, John. 5. Mary, referred to herein.
6. Adolph, born in June, 1870, died in 1904;
married Mary Wallace. Child of Langford
G. and Mary (Dotterweich) Rodgers: Doro
thea, born November 4, 1896.
(Ill) James J., son of James Langford
and Mary A. (Gittere) Rodgers, was born in
Buffalo, March 19, 1878. fie took a course
at the College of Commerce, then went into
the weighmaster's department, at the Mer
chants' Exchange, where he remained until
1899. In that year he moved to Olean and
went with Thomas Whitton into the lumber
business. Mr. Whitton, in 1901, bought the
Dotterweich Brewing Company's business ; he
then went into the clerical service of this
company. In 1904 he was president, and
since 1905 he has been vice-president. He
is a Catholic in religion, and a Democrat in
politics. He married, August 22, 1899,
Blanche, born June 24, 1880, daughter of
Thomas and Eva B. (Leonard) Whitton.
Children: Florence V., born December 30,
1901 ; Thomas J., August 24, 1904 ; Jane Eliz
abeth, November 26, 191 1.
The Coltons now in the third
COLTON generation in the United States
have achieved success in the
business world and unusually high distinction
in the church. The emigrant, John Colton,
came in 1830, settling in Pennsylvania. He
married Mary Smith, in Ireland, and -reared
a family. (II) Patrick Smith, son of John and Mary
(Smith) Colton, was born about 1818, in Ire
land. He came to the United States with his
parents when a lad of eleven years, the fam
ily settling in York, Pennsylvania. After se

curing an education he went to Baltimore,
Maryland, where he was actively engaged in
business for several years. In 1845 he set
tled in New York City where he at first es
tablished a locksmith shop, later engaging in
the builders hardware business as senior
member of the firm, Colton & Mullen. Dur
ing his residence in Baltimore he was active
in church work and in New York was known
as a most faithful and devoted member of
the Roman Catholic church. He married,
February 2, 1846, Theresa Augusta Mullen,
born in Donegal, Ireland, July 25, 1824, died
April 6, 1891, in New York City, daughter
of Thomas and Mary Mullen, of Irish birth,
and later of New York City, where Mr. Mul
len was engaged in business with his son-in-
law, Patrick S. Colton. Children: 1. Rev.
John Smith, deceased; a devoted priest of the
Roman Catholic church. 2. Charles Henry,
of whom further. 3. Thomas J., a success
ful business man of New York City. 4. Mary
Theresa, married  Pentz, of New York
City. 5. Margaret, married James M. Bing
ham, of New York. 6. Josephine, unmar
ried. 7. Agnes, married William R. Do
herty, of Brooklyn.
(Ill) Right Rev. Charles Henry Colton,
D. D., son of Patrick Smith Colton, was born
in New York City, October 15, 1848. His
early education was obtained at public school
No. 5 and other schools in the city. He pre
pared for college at the Latin school of St.
Stephen's Church, and in 1869 entered St.
Francis Xavier College, continuing his stud
ies three years. In September, 1872, he en
rolled as a student of divinity at St. Joseph's.
Theological Seminary, at -Troy, New York,
where he was ordained a priest of the Roman
Catholic church, June 10, 1876. During the
interval between his puhlic school life and
his entering the Latin school of St. Stephen's
he was call boy with the dry goods firm of
Arnold & Constable, remaining eighteen
months. The ensuing five years he" was with
the Central Express Company and the Mer
chants' Union Exchange. He continued his
studies during this period, then definitely de
ciding upon the ministry he entered the Latin
school of St. Stephen's, as stated. After his
taking holy orders he was appointed assistant
pastor of St. Stephen's Church at the request
of Rev. D. Edward ' McGlynn, then rector of
that church, and he was his energetic, valued
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appointed first assistant pastor. During this
period and for thirteen years Rev. Colton did
chaplain's duty at Bellevue Hospital in addi
tion to his regular pastoral work in St. Ste
phen's. In the latter part of 1886 he was
stationed as pastor of the Church of Our Lady
of Mercy, at Port Chester, New York. In
1887 he was recalled to St. Stephen's to as
sist the Rev. Arthur Donnelly, the temporary
pastor. In a few days Father Colton was ap
pointed administrator and a few months later,
by appointment of Bishop Corrigan, succeeded
to the. pastorate of St. Stephen's. His admin-
tration of the temporal and spiritual affairs
of that parish brought him prominently be
fore the church authorities as one of their
coming great men. When he assumed the
pastorate the parish debt of St. Stephen's
was one hundred and fifty-two thousand dol
lars and the parish had no school. During
his pastorate the debt was extinguished and
one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars
expended in the erection and site of a parish
school house; two residence buildings pur
chased for the sisters of the parish at a cost
of forty thousand dollars ; the church property
was kept in repair and improved. To hold
his young people social features were intro
duced, evening classes were established and a
young men's club formed; a practical charity,
the Presentation Day Nursery, was founded,
and the parochial school advanced in quality
of instruction, number of instructors and in
attendance. At the close of his pastorate
two-thirds of the cost of erecting the school
and the sisters' houses had been paid and in
1894 St. Stephen's was free of debt and con
secrated on December 30 of that year, with
all the beautiful ceremony of the church, in
the. presence of Archbishop Corrigan, five
bishops, one hundred and fifty priests and an
immense concourse of worshippers. The Ga
len Jubilee of St. Stephen's was held in 1899,
and on Jvme 10, 1901, the twenty-fifth anni
versary of Father Colton's ordination was
celebrated by a congratulatory address from
his parishioners and a purse of eight thou
sand dollars. His work at St. Stephen's was
now finished and further honors were con
ferred upon him ; Archbishop Quigley having
been advanced from third bishop of the Dio
cese of Buffalo to the Metropolitan of Chi
cago, Father Colton was' chosen as his suc
cessor. The bulls were issued to him May
20, 1903, his consecration taking place July

25> I9°3» at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New
York City.
Bishop Colton has measured up to the full
standard of ability expected of him and the
affairs of the diocese are wisely and capably
administered. Many, new parishes have been
founded and over two hundred new priests
have been appointed to minister to their wel
fare. Bishop Colton is a hard, systematic
worker and a convincing, eloquent pulpit ora
tor. He is devoted to his holy calling and
keeps in close touch with the spiritual and
temporal needs of the diocese, fie is a man
of scholarly tastes and is oftener found in his
library than elsewhere, when not engaged in
ministerial work. He is courteous and kindly
in manner and greatly beloved by his people.
He is thoroughly American in his views and
places patriotism and love of country high in
the scale of virtues. He is the author of
"Seedlings," a religious work, and a "Trip to
Rome and the Holy Land," he having gone
abroad in 1904 to visit the Vatican and receive
final consecration to his high office from His
Holiness, the Pope.

The Conger family of Spring-
CONGER ville, Erie county, New York,
descend from Abraham Con
ger, who seems to have descended from John
Conger, of New Jersey, through grandson
Enoch Conger, who settled in Danby, Ver
mont, in 1774. Enoch was a son of Job Con
ger, also of Danby, who later settled in PlattSr
burgh, New York. Enoch Conger married
(first) Ruth Irish; (second) Hannah Kelley.
His children were: Noah, fiiram, David and
Lydia. Abraham Conger must have been the
son of one of these, and of the fifth genera
tion, beginning with John Conger, of New
Jersey. This cannot be fully proven but all
evidence tends to Danby as his home before
coming to Erie county.
(V) Abraham Conger came to Collins,
Erie county, New York, in 1817. He mar
ried, June, 1830, Anna Hunt, and had issue.
(VI) George Densmore, son of Abraham
and Anna (Hunt) Conger, was born in Col
lins, Erie county, New York, December 10,
1842, died October 26, 1908. Until he was
eighteen years of age he attended school and
worked on his father's farm. On August 8,
1 86 1, he enlisted in Company A, Forty-fourth
regiment New York Volunteer Infantry,
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battle in which his regiment was engaged ex
cepting six weeks spent in the hospital recov
ering from a wound received at Gettysburg.
He was honorably discharged and mustered
out October 12, 1864, at Albany, New York.
After the death of Colonel Elmer E. Ells
worth, a plan was adopted of forming a regi
ment in his honor, taking one man from each
town and ward in the state. "He must be a
man of good moral character and temperate,
unmarried, under thirty years of age, at least
five feet eight inches in height, and pay into
the regimental fund $100." This was modi
fied to allow five men from any town and
ward, and reducing the sum to be paid to
twenty dollars. Many of the officers were
taken from the celehrated "Ellsworth Chi
cago Cadets," some of whom served with
Colonel Ellsworth in the New York Fire
Zouave Regiment. The regiment was known
as the People's Ellsworth Regiment, or the
Forty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteers.
The Forty-fourth shared in all the hard
fighting of the Army of the Potomac during
its three years of service ; was in the seven
days fighting on the Peninsula, at Mechanics-
ville, Gaines Hill, New Market and Malvern
Hill, later at Fredericksburg under General
Burnside, and in the thick of the fight at
Gettysburg under General Meade. They saw
hard service and always gave a good report
of themselves. In all this, Company E and
Corporal Conger bore their full share.
After the war Mr. Conger returned to his
home and for the succeeding two years was
engaged in farming at North Collins. He
then hecame salesman for the White Sewing
Machine and for all kinds of agricultural im
plements. He became well acquainted all
over his section,' and when later he estab
lished a store in Springville found many cus
tomers among his old friends. He was a di
rector of the O'Neil Wagon Company, and
after that failed opened a general store for
the sale of implements, carriages, wagons,
wood, coal, builders' materials, etc., continuing
alone until 1901, when he admitted his son-in-
law, Lloyd S. Ware, to a partnership, under
the firm name Conger & Ware. In 1906 he
sold his interest to Mr. Wyatt, the firm con
tinuing as Wyatt & Ware. He was engaged
in other enterprises in the town. He was for
many years a buyer and shipper of apples;
organized the Cascade Cider Company, of
which he was president ; also president of the

Springville Canning Company, and always
lent his influence to further local prosperity.
He was largely instrumental in bringing the
Borden Milk Company to Springville, and
in other ways worked for the development of
his village. He was president of the village
corporation of Springville for many years,
and always an earnest Republican, fie was a
member of the Grand'Army of the Republic,
and president of the local Veteran Associa
tion of the Forty-fourth Regiment. He also
belonged to the Masonic order and the Uni
versalist church of Springville. He was held
in the highest esteem by his townsmen and
during his life accomplished a great deal of
good. He married, February 16, 1865, Diantha
Sampson, died May 4, 1900, daughter of Wil
liam Sampson, a farmer and cooper, born No
vember 7, 1815, died December 5, 1902, mar
ried at Wyndale, Erie county, March 15, 1840,
Fatima Ballou, born May 2, 1816, died Au
gust, 1876. Children: 1. Diantha, born Janu
ary 14, 1842. 2. Luthera, December 27, 1846;
now living in Springville, New York. Child
of George D. and Diantha Conger : Cora May,
born August 16, 1869; married, July 17, 1900,
Lloyd S. Ware.

The Thebauds of Buffalo
THEBAUD spring from French ances
try, and date in that country
far back into the past. The family was emi
nent in France, and in the United States have
ranked high as business men and citizens.
(I) Joseph Thebaud was a merchant of
Nantes, France, and a highly respected citi
zen. He married, and had a son Joseph (2).
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) The
baud, was born in France, died in New York
City in 181 1. He came to the United States
in 1792 as agent of the French East India
Company. He established the house of The
baud in New York City, which continues
now in the third generation. He was a gen
tleman of the highest education and the strict
est integrity, fie married Miss Le Breton,
whose family fled from Martinique to escape
the revolution, after the death of her father.
She survived her husband, and married (sec
ond) in 1814, his confidential clerk, Joseph ¦
Bouchand, who died 185 1. She died 1822.
(Ill) Eugene Sigimund, son of Joseph (2)
Thebaud, died in California where he had
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married, in New York City, about 1835, when
he was about twenty-one years of age, Vic-
torien Antoinette Crassous, who was born in
the United States in 1818, and educated in
France. Her mother, Eliza Crassous, was
born in Martinique, her father being gover
nor of that island, appointed by Napoleon.
Children: Joseph, born 1837; Eugene, 1839;
Victor C, 1 841 ; John James, of whom fur
ther; Charles, 1845; Emile, 1847, died young.
(IV) John James, son of Eugene S. The
baud, was born at Port Richmond, Staten Is
land, New York (now New York City), April
6, 1843, died in Buffalo, November 18, 1899.
He received a good education in the public
schools and became an expert dyer. In 1868
he came to Buffalo and established in business
as a dyer under his own name. Later he was
joined by Charles A., and in 1870 by another
brother, Victor C, the firm becoming The
baud Brothers. They continued in successful
business several years, when Charles with
drew and established in New Orleans, Louis
iana, Victor C. purchasing his interest and
the interest of his deceased brother's heirs and
continuing as Thebaud Brothers, the present
name of the firm (1911). Shortly after com
ing to Buffalo John James Thebaud began
investing in Buffalo real estate, commencing
in a small way, purchasing small pieces of
property in different parts of the city. As
he prospered he enlarged his purchases. In
1887 he bought a farm situated on the lake
shore, which for a time he cultivated. Shortly
before his death he surveyed and laid it off
in lots suitable for large suburban residences.
He erected several homes on this tract, which
he called "Hamburg on the Lake," now Wan-
akah. He had invested about $25,000 in this
enterprise when death overtook him. By the
terms of his will his widow had a life tenure
in the estate, which was not divided until
after her death. Since then the improvements
have been continued by his children, follow
ing the plans of their father, and making it
one of the most desirable of Buffalo suburbs.
He was a well known business man of Buf
falo, and held in highest esteem. He was very
energetic, public spirited and liberal in his
views. He had the greatest faith in the fu
ture greatness of Buffalo and lost no op
portunity to show his faith by his deeds. Pie
was a Republican in politics, and a member of
Trinity Episcopal Church. He was a strong

advocate of temperance and belonged to sev
eral societies devoted to that cause.
He married, in New York City, March 29,
1869, Annie Maria Herley, born in that city,
November 4, 1849, died in Buffalo, January
18, 1906, daughter of Morris Herley, born
in Ireland, came to the United States when
a young man, where he married Ellen Ellis.
He was a -merchant tailor, his place of busi
ness being on Ann street, New York City.
His children were : Ellen H., married Fran
cis Portington ; Margaret H. ; John Joseph ;
Anna Maria, married John James Thebaud;
Josephine and Michael.
Children of John James and Anna Maria
(Herley) Thebaud, all born in Buffalo. 1.
John Edward, born February 15, 1871 ; grad
uate of Cornell University, civil engineer ; now
in business in Buffalo. 2. Eugene D., born in
Buffalo, November 1, 1873; graduate of Cor
nell University, 1899; married Catherine
Kelly, December 5, 1908. 3. Estelle Annie,
born June 29, 1875 ; educated at Buffalo High
School, Hill's Ladies' Seminary and Buffalo
State Normal College; married, November 3,
190 1, Edward Gillette Van Winkle, a drug
gist of Hornell, New York. 4. Celesta Au
gusta, born September 4, 1884; educated in
Buffalo public schools; married, October 31,
1905, at Trinity church, Buffalo, Dr. Harry
Richard S. Emes, of Toronto, Canada; chil
dren ; Estelle Lillian, born December 4, 1906, •
at Lewiston, New York; Celeste Annie, born-
February 28, 1908.

The city of Jamestown,
PETERSON New York, owes consider
able of its present prosper
ity to its Swedish population, and the mother
of the Hon. Frederick R. Peterson, now a
resident of Falconer, Chautauqua county, New
York, enjoys the distinction of being the first
of that nationality to locate at Jamestown,
her own countrymen and countrywomen;
claiming for her the honor of being the "First
Lady of the Land." Possessing the qualifica
tions of a true and earnest woman, she is
highly esteemed and honored by all who know
her, and although she has passed her eightieth
birthday, she still retains her faculties to a
remarkable degree and is as active and inter
ested in affairs as many who are many years
her junior. She located in Jamestown, June'
9, 1849, being then a young woman of eigh
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wonderful growth along many lines, especially
in population, and at the present time (1911)
Chautauqua county has several thousand peo
ple whose native land is Sweden.
(I) Frank A. Peterson, father of Hon.
Frederick R. Peterson, was born in Smoland,
Sweden, March 10, 1827, died at his late resi
dence, Falconer, New York, October 30, 1903.
He was reared and educated in his native
land, and in 1850 came to the United States,
and after his marriage settled on a farm in
the town of Ellicott, Chautauqua county, New
York, five miles from the village. He was a
very successful farmer, and by energy and
thrift rose to a leading position among his
countrymen. In 1893 he left the farm and
moved to the village of Falconer, but being of
too energetic and ambitious a nature to retire
from active pursuits, he leased land in the
vicinity, which he cultivated and improved
to a considerable degree. He erected his
late residence in Falconer, which is one of
the finest and most completely equipped in
that town, and there resided until his death.
He was held in the highest esteem for his
many sterling characteristics. He was one of
the founders of the Swedish Lutheran Church
in Jamestown, which he served as trustee, and
was also one of the founders of the Gustavus
Adolphus Swedish Orphanage, a most useful
benevolence, of which he was a member of
the board of directors for many years.
Mr. Peterson married, November 10, 1852,
Charlotte Johnson, born in Hessleby, Sweden,
July 20; 1 83 1, daughter of Erickson and Sa
rah (Bergerson) Johnson. At the age of
seventeen, accompanied by her brother, An
drew Johnson, she emigrated to the United
States. They landed in New York City and
from there proceeded to Western New York,
settling in Hamburg, near the city of Buf
falo, where they joined their two brothers,
who had emigrated to this country a few years
prior. Having friends residing at Sugar
Grove, Pennsylvania, Charlotte Johnson went
thither in October, 1848, and for a few months
made her home with the Falconer family, the
parents of the late Patrick Falconer, and on
June: 9, 1849, removed to Jamestown^ New
York, where she secured employment. She
is a "devoted member of the First Lutheran
Church of Jamestown, being one of its char
ter members. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Peterson: 1. Ellert M., born July 28, 1853;
he was educated for a physician and practiced

his profession in Jamestown ; he died in the
prime of life, October 24, 1891 ; he was un
married. 2. Frederick R, see forward. 3.
Charles L., born April 11, 1859, died April 12,
1881 ; unmarried. 4. Anna A., born Decem
ber 26, 1865; married Emil Peterson; one
daughter, Dorothea; he is the present post
master of Falconer.
(II) Frederick Robert, second son of Frank
A. and Charlotte (Johnson) Peterson, was
born on the farm in the town of Ellicott,
Chautauqua county, New York, January 21,
1856. His early education was obtained in
the public school, and he completed his studies
at Jamestown union school, and Collegiate
Institute, from whence he was graduated. He
chose a profession and read law with Green,
Stevens & Benedict, of Jamestown, and was
admitted to the New York bar in 1885. He
began practice in Jamestown, continuing alone
until 1888, when he formed a partnership
with Clark R. Lockwood, which connection
was later dissolved. He then became asso
ciated with Frank W. Stevens and practiced
law until 1905, since which date Mr. Peter
son has practiced alone. His practice is a
general one and has been continuous ever since
his admission to the bar. He devotes himself
exclusively to his profession, having no other
interest excepting his political affairs. He is
a staunch Republican, active and prominent
in the ranks of his party, and has been chosen
to fill offices of importance. He served the
village of Jamestown as its last clerk and
the city of Jamestown as its first clerk under
the city charter, five years in all, 1883 to
1888. In 1892 he was elected supervisor, rep
resenting Jamestown on the county board. In
1896-97 he was elected to the state assembly,
serving his two terms with credit. He is a
member of the Masonic order, belonging to
Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine. He
is also a member of the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks. He served in the Fen
ton Guard for seven years and is yet inter
ested in their welfare, although it is now a
part of the New York National Guard and
known under another name.
Mr. Peterson married Edith S., daughter of
Nathan Osgood, of Jamestown, New York.
Child, Marguerite G., born May 17, 1891 ;
graduate of Jamestown high school, class of
1910; member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and a teacher in the Sunday school.
Erickson Johnson (in Sweden the name was

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John Erickson) maternal grandfather of Hon.
Frederick R. Peterson, and father of Char
lotte (Johnson) Peterson, referred to in the
first paragraph of this sketch, was born in
Sweden, 1790, died there in 1867. He was
one of the prosperous farmers of his native
land, he being the owner of a farm which
comprised between one hundred and fifty and
two hundred acres, which was considered
large for that country and that day, which
he improved and cultivated, and on which he
resided for the greater part of his life. He
was a consistent member of the Lutheran
church, to which he devoted his time and sub
stance. As a citizen he was universally es
teemed, and in his home he was an exemplary
husband and father. He married, in 1815,
Sarah Bergson or Bergerson, born in 1793,
died about 1839. Children: 1. John, born
1816, was drowned at the age of eighteen. 2.
Frederick, born 1818, died October 25, 1904;
was a resident of Chandlers Valley, Pennsyl
vania. 3. Andrew, born 1821, died 1880; was
a resident of Minnesota. 4. Sarah C, born
1824, died October 30, 1908; was a resident
of Chandlers Valley, Pennsylvania. 5. Charles,
born 1826, died April 6, 1892; was a resi
dent of Illinois. 6. August, died at the age
of four weeks. 7. Charlotte, born July 20,
1831, aforementioned as the wife of Frank A.
Peterson and mother of Hon. Frederick R.
Peterson. 8. Philip, born 1833 ; retired
farmer, residing in the state of Minnesota.
The first Manley of whom
MANLEY there is record, in the line
herein recorded, is William
Manley, a resident of Weymouth, Massachu
setts, and a settler in 1694 of the town of
Easton, of that state. This was prior to the
settlement and incorporation of the town.
When the first division of lands was made
he did not choose his shares by lot, but like
a few other of the earliest settlers, was as
signed the land upon which they had already
located. He owned, with his three sons, con
siderable land in Easton. While a resident
in Weymouth he served in the colonial army
against the Indians. His wife, Rebecca, bore
him three sons. William Manley died in
Easton, Massachusetts, December 2, 1717.
Sons, born in Weymouth : 1 . William, of
whom further. 2. Thomas, born July 11,
1680, died June 6, 1743, leaving considerable
property among which was "a negro boy,

George, valued at 38 pounds." In 1701 he.
married Lydia Field, of Bridgewater, and
in his will did all he could to have her always
remain Mrs. Manley. He left generous pro
visions for her "so long as she shall remain
my widow" but if "my well beloved wife see
cause to change her condition by marriage"
she is to. be summarily dismissed from the
premises with a pittance of ten pounds. They
had six sons and seven daughters. 3. Nathan
iel, born May 27, 1684, died April 21, 1753,
his wife (name unknown) dying the next day.
(II) William (2), eldest son of William
(1) and Rebecca Manley, was born in Wey
mouth, Massachusetts, 1679, died in Easton,
January 16, 1764. He was one of the early
settlers and a land- owner in Easton. He
married, February 22, 1710, Mercy Howin,
born about 1677, in Taunton, Massachusetts,
died January 6, 1777, having almost com
pleted her one hundredth year.
(Ill) John, son of William (2) and Mercy
(Howin) Manley, was born in" Easton, Mas
sachusetts, September 27, 1715. In April,
1758, he with twenty- four other Easton men
enlisted under Captain James Andrews in
Colonel Thomas Doty's regiment, for service
at Crown Point and Ticonderoga during the
French and Indian war. In 1659 he enlisted
in Captain Lemuel Bent's company and
served thirty-two weeks. His son, John (2),
served in the same company. He married,
November 27, 1739, Mercy Smith, born in
Stoughton, Massachusetts, February 19, 1718.
Sons : John, James, Jesse.
(IV) Jesse, son of John and Mercy
(Smith) Manley, was born May 28, 1754. He
lived in Royalton, Massachusetts, and later re
moved to Dummerstown, Vermont. He mar
ried there, in 1776, Eunice Holmes. Chil
dren: 1. Jesse (2), of whom further. 2. Eu
nice, born 1782; married Reuben Newton; 3.
Amasa, born 1789 ; married Lydia, daughter
of Nathaniel French, sister of Betsey French,
wife of his brother Jesse. 4. Nathaniel. 5.
Hannah. 6. Betsey. 7. William. 8. Sally.
9. Polly. 10. John. 11. Luke, born October
17, 1800.
(V) Jesse (2), son of Jesse (1) and Eu
nice (Holmes) Manley, was born in Dum
merstown, Vermont, January 26, 1776. He
married, April 27, 1801, Betsey, daughter of
Nathaniel French, and in 1831 came with his
family to the town of Mansfield, Cattaraugus
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name had preceded him prior to 1828. He
was a farmer, and a deacon of the Baptist
church. (VI) Nathaniel, son of Jesse (2) and Bet
sey (French) Manley, was born in Vermont,
1816, died in New Albion, New York, 1895.
He was part of the family emigration to
Washington county and later to Cattaraugus
county, where he became a prominent farmer
and public official. He later removed to New
Albion, where he died. He married Mary
Vosburgh, born 18 14, died 1887. Children:
1. Martin H., married Celia Ellis and re
moved to Lyons, Nebraska ; son : Emmett N.
2. Wilbur Jesse, of whom further. 3. Em
mett F., married Mary Hughey; resides in
Little Valley, New York; children: Georgi
anna and Cecil. 4. Jennie, married Frank
Woodward1; son, Nelson, married Mattie Al
len and has Ruth and Gretchen.
(VII) Wilbur Jesse, second son of Na
thaniel and Mary (Vosburgh) Manley, was
born in the town of Mansfield, Cattaraugus
county, New York, March 9, 1847. He was
educated in the public schools, Randolph In
stitute, Jamestown union free school and Bry
ant & Stratton's Business College, Buffalo.
After his school years were finished he
worked with his father for one year, then
took the management upon the share plan,
continuing two years. He then began his
long connection with the cheese industry as
manufacturer and dealer. In 1870 he began
buying and shipping butter and cheese. For
two years he operated a cheese factory, and
in the pursuit of his business has traveled the
whole cheese district, being intimately ac
quainted with every maker and farmer in his
line. He is a well-known writer on "Cheese,"
"The Farmer" and "Reciprocity," taking the
ground on the latter question that it is not
wise. His articles are lengthy, well written
and his points well sustained. He was super
visor of the town of New Albion in 1878-79,
president of the village of Cattaraugus two
terms, member of the school board three
terms. In 1898 he was appointed deputy Uni
ted States marshal for his congressional dis
trict, serving eight years, and in all these
positions proved a public official of especial
value. He is a successful man of business
and holds a high place in the regard of his
townsmen. His residence is on Seneca street,
Salamanca, New York. He was made a Ma
son on arriving at legal age, in 1868; was a

charter member of Cattaraugus Lodge, now
a member of Berean Lodge No. 810, Free and
Accepted Masons, and of Gowanda Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons. He is interested in the
work of the Patrons of Husbandry, and is a
member of Elkdale Grange. He is a ready
and forceful speaker, and is frequently called
on for public speaking. He is liberal in his
ideas on all subjects, and a generous supporter
of the churches. His political faith is Re
publican. He married, April 27, 187 1, Henrietta Mc-
Duffie, born November 30, 185 1. Children:
1. Robert Elwood, born May 3, 1875 ; gradu
ate of Harvard University; now connected
with the office of the district attorney of New
York City. 2. Roscoe, born June 8, 1879;
married, April 25, 1906, Elizabeth, born De
cember 28, 1878, daughter of Robert C. and
Jane C. (Curts) Reed; child, Wilbur Jesse
(2), born July 28, 1907.

This family came originally
BEACOM from Scotland, where John
Beacom lived near Edinburg.
He was the first of this branch to come to the
United States. He settled in the Scotch-Irish
county of Pennsylvania, Westmoreland, which
lies west of the Allegheny mountains, and at
one time included most of West Pennsylvania.
Here came a hardy race of people called
Scotch-Irish, but peculiarly Scotch in religion
and character. Many were Covenanters and
among them were men of high education and
the deepest piety. They were very industri
ous and from the rugged hills and fertile val
leys of Westmoreland carried names and for
tunes for themselves that yet exist. To this
people belonged John Beacom and his wife
Mary. He took up land in Franklin town
ship, much of it fertile meadow, and in time
became possessed of a large acreage. His
meadows produced grass in abundance, and
during haymaking season it required fifty
men, with the old-fashioned scythes and rakes,
to harvest the crop. Westmoreland was also
prolific in distilleries in the early day and the
juice of apple and corn was freely distributed
among the haymakers of John Beacom, com
ing pure from his own distillery, located on
the farm. He prospered abundantly and
added to his acres until a large share of the
tillable land of the township was owned by
him. He had six children, of whom Johns
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(II) Johnstown (or Johnson), son of John
and Mary Beacom, was also a prosperous
farmer of Westmoreland county, Pennsyl
vania. He first purchased one hundred acres
in Franklin township," and as he prospered
added to it by other purchases until he had
one of the largest, best improved and well
stocked farms in the township. Grain and
live stock were the especial lines followed in
his farming operations. He was a well-
known, influential man in his town and was
chief executive of his village. He married
Rebecca Miller. Children: John, James Van
Buren, Johnson William, Mary.
(Ill) Johnson William, son of Johnstown
(or Johnson) and Rebecca (Miller) Beacom,
was born in Franklin township, Westmoreland
county, Pennsylvania. He grew up on the
home farm where his early life was spent.
He left the farm when oil was discovered in
Pennsylvania and went to Oil Creek in Ve
nango county. He was located on the "Stony
farm," the point in Venango county where
the operations of the Standard Oil Company
began. Mr. Beacom drilled many wells and
became a large producer. He also discovered
a process for extracting a carbon black from
the crude petroleum that has proved of great
value in electrical conduit work. He estab
lished factories in Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia, where the carbon black is manufactured
and shipped. The product is mixed with
other substances and forms a perfect non-
conducter and fills an important place in the
electrical world. In 1889 Mr. Beacom pur
chased a summer home in Randolph, New
York, which he still occupies in summer,
spending his winters in the south. He be
longs to lodge, chapter and commandery of
the Masonic Order, the Presbyterian church,
and is a Democrat in politics. This has been
the family political faith from John Beacom,
the emigrant, down to the present.
He married Charlotte Amanda Capen.
Children: 1. William Johnson, married
Louisa Bignell, and resides in Medford, Cali
fornia; six children. 2. Jessie Estella, mar
ried Julian Van Dusen ; child, Paul B. 3.
Mary Ella, married Frederick Rich; children:
Marian, Beacom, Charlotte Amanda. 4. Ori
tia Rebecca, married Juan Parrell ; children :
Paul and Edith. 5. Henry Clay, married
Emma Zimmerman; children: fiarold and
Donald (twins), Charlotte, Oritia. 6. Paul,

unmarried; manager of the West Virginia
carbon factory.

The surname Horton, origi-
HORTON nally from a place name, is one
of the oldest in England. The
name was formerly spelled Orton also.
Thomas Orton or Horton was an early set
tler of Charlestown, Massachusetts, a ship
carpenter by trade, appointed to ring the
church bell, April 3, 1674, by the selectmen.
He married Mary Eddy, who was admitted
to the Charlestown church, April 12, 1650,
and died September 13,-1693. Thomas lived
on Bow street and sold land in Charlestown
in 1678 to B. Mirick. He died May 19, 1687,
at Charlestown. Children, born at Charles
town : Mary, August 22, 1648 ; Sarah ; Ben
jamin Mirick; Thomas, January 9, 1654-55,
died young; John, March 23, 1656-57;
William, January 13, died January 21, 1658-
59; William, baptized February 5, 1660;
Samuel, November 10, 1661 ;_ Ebenezer, Jan
uary 14, 1663; Thomas, May 1, 1665; Ann,
July 31, 1666.
The Horton Genealogy makes Thomas Hor
ton, of Rehoboth, a descendant of Barnabas
Horton, of New York, but there is no reason
to support the claim.
(I) Thomas Horton, of Welsh ancestry,
according to tradition, and, judging from the
location of their homes and the similarity
of the names of their children, a near relative
of Thomas Horton, of Charlestown, men
tioned above, was at Milton, Massachusetts,'
as early as 1669. He married (first) Sarah
 . He married (second), at Milton,
December 25, 1693, Susannah Keney. Prob
ably married (third), at Rehoboth, Massa
chusetts, June 8, 1700, Katherine fiarrison.
His sons settled at Rehoboth and he was
doubtless the ancestor of all the Rhode Island
and Rehoboth families of Horton. Children,
born at Milton: 1. Rachel, August 6, 1669.
2. John, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, Oc
tober 3, 1677 ; married, June 7, 1700, at Reho
both, Hannah Garnsey and had David, Han
nah, Rachel, Elijah, Experience and perhaps
others, at Rehoboth. 4. David, October 14,
1679. 5. Solomon, January 11, 1682; lived
at Milton and Rehoboth. 6. Esther, married,
at Rehoboth, April 10, 1701, Benjamin Viall.
Perhaps others.
(II) John, son of Thomas Horton, was
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brothers and father removed to Rehoboth.
The names of his children are not recorded,
but his son John located in Scituate, Rhode
Island. The census of 1774 shows the heads
of family in Scituate to be John, Nathaniel,
Hezekiah, Patience and Stafford, all doubt
less his grandchildren's families. Hezekiah
and Stafford went to Guilford, Vermont,
about 1775.
(Ill) John (2), son of John (1) Horton,
was born before 1700. fie married Mary
 and settled at Rehoboth, removing
probably about 1730 to Scituate, Rhode
Island. Children, born at Rehoboth : Ruth,
July 19, 1720; Mary, October 27, 1725; John,
mentioned below. Probably others.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Horton,
was born in Scituate, Rhode Island, January
27, 1727-28. In 1774 the census shows all
of this family, as mentioned above, at Scitu
ate. The only other Horton in the province
was Amos Horton, of Providence. He was
also a native of Rehoboth. In 1790 some
had left the state. Nathaniel was living at
Foster; Benjamin at Scituate (Benjamin had
Mary, born August 6, 1757; Jesse, January
28, 1760) ; Amos, Samuel at Johnston, for
merly Providence. John was not in the state
of Rhode Island. John (3) Horton married,
at Rehoboth, April 6, 1756, Sarah Hix, of
Swansea, Massachusetts. Among their chil
dren were: Isaac, mentioned below; Asel,
who resided near Whitesboro; Thomas, who
lived for some time at Castleton, Vermont.
(V) Isaac, son of John (3) Horton, was
born probably at Scituate, Rhode Island, or
Rehoboth, about 1760. fie removed during
the revolution to Lanesborough, Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, afterward Cheshire.
He served in the revolution in Captain Daniel
Brown's company, Colonel Benjamin Simonds'
regiment, six days on the alarm at Berkshire,
October 13, 1780. Squire Horton, a brother
or near relative, went to the same town and
was in the same company in the revolution,
and he was also in this same company from
Lanesborough, marching to Meloomscuyck,
August 14, 1777. In the previous year Squire
Horton was in Captain Stephen Bullock's
company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regi
ment, from Rehoboth to Rhode Island, De
cember 8, 1776. Hence Squire and Isaac
probably came to Lanesborough in 1777 (see
"Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution," vol. xiii, p. 276). In 1790 the

first federal census shows that the only Hor-
tons of Berkshire county were Isaac, who
had one son under sixteen and four females
in his family, and Squire, who had two sons
under sixteen and four females.
There was an Isaac Horton, of Bridge-
water, in the revolution, aged seventeen, year
not given, from Bridgewater, and another in
i783Naged twenty-three, residence given as
England, but this record does not appear to
belong to Isaac of this family, who was in
Berkshire county in 1780. Squire Horton
married, at Rehoboth, January 23, 1769, Lydia
Peirce, of Swansea. Isaac fiorton is said to
have lived in Providence prior to removing
to- Berkshire county, but if he was born in
1760 he did not marry until after coming to
Lanesborough. Cheshire^ was incorporated
from Lanesborough and other adjacent towns
in 1793. Isaac fiorton resided in Cheshire,
on the Hawley or Holly road, and it is said
that he used to teach the children of the
town during the long winter evenings in his
somewhat pretentious red cottage,, without
compensation, sometimes reading to them
from his books or the newspaper. It is said
that the first prayer meeting in Cheshire was
held at his house.
Isaac Horton married Lovisa Brown, born
in Providence, Rhode Island. The record of
her birth is not found on the town records.
Daniel Brown was the first representative to
the general court from Cheshire. James
Brown, son of Caleb and Ann Brown, came
from Rhode Island to Cheshire. She is de
scribed as being "short and stout," very ener
getic, somewhat sharp of tongue, and often
very impatient over her husband's love for
reading and study, but devoted" entirely to
the interests of her home and religion. She
was doubtless of the Rehoboth family, whose
ancestry is traced to the "Mayflower." She
was a "school dame" in Rhode Island before
her marriage and received the modest salary
of twenty-three dollars a year. She died at
Marcy, New York, about 1857. They re
moved to Whitesborough, New York, from
Cheshire, in 1818, to reside with their daugh
ter, Polly Crane, and he died at Whitesbor-
. ough in 1840. Both, are buried at Marcy,
New York. Children: Lucy, Polly (Mary),"
Jesse, Asel, Benjamin, mentioned below ; Isaac,
Lovisa, Achsah, Amanda.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Isaac Horton, was
born in Cheshire, Massachusetts, March 29,

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1793. After his marriage he lived for some
years in different towns: Pownal, Vermont;
Lenox and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He had
accumulated some money, owned a team of
horses and a yoke of oxen. With this equip
ment he started west with wife and two young
children, Jeannette and Albert. He started in
the winter in order to take advantage of
frozen roads and streams. His objective
point was Chautauqua county, by way of
Buffalo. The journey was a most fatiguing
one, but they often had company at their night
campfires, other parties like themselves who
were seeking home and fortune in Western
New York and Ohio. They passed through
Buffalo about March 1, 1818, unmolested by
the Indians, and on arriving at the mouth of
Cattaraugus creek found to their great joy
that it was still frozen and passable. When
the big red house of Nebediah Angell, in Han
over Center, Chautauqua county, came in
sight, and Nebediah's children came running
down the road to meet them, their happiness
was complete ; Jordan had been crossed and
Canaan, the promised land, was reached.
They remained about three weeks with the
family of Nebediah Angell (who was a
brother of Benjamin Horton's wife, Adah)
then Benjamin fiorton purchased of the Hol
land Land Company eighty-seven acres of
land, which is still owned in the Horton family
(1911), and began housekeeping in a little
log cabin situated about where the present
farm house stands. When the log cabin was
finished and home life again resumed, both
Benjamin and his wife declared those to be
"the happiest days of their life," although all
around their little home lurked the wild things
of the forest. Adah Horton brought from
her Cheshire home a wardrobe that for the
time and place was more elegant than useful,
for in that new country the silk gown, the
scarlet dress and pretty muslins were gener
ally loaned either to the young people to wear
at the "husking bees" and "barn dances," or
to some neighbor to attend a funeral. Ben
jamin prospered, and in the course of time
built a more modern home to replace the log
cabin. This house is still standing and in it
many of their children were born. The par
ents lived to see all their children married
and settled in life.
Benjamin Horton married, January 25,
1815, his cousin, Adah, daughter of Esek and
Martha (Brown) Angell, of Pownal, Ver

mont. She was a descendant of four of tht
thirteen signers of the first written compact
of the Providence plantations; a lineal de
scendant of two governors, Winthrop and
Williams, the latter "the first person in mod
ern Christendom to establish civil government
on the doctrine of liberty of conscience, the
equality of opinion before the law." This
ancestry opens the door of all colonial soci
eties to her descendants.
(VII) Albert, son of Benjamin Horton,
was born in Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts,
December, 1818, died at Silver Creek, Chau
tauqua county, New York, March 22, 1882.
He came from Massachusetts to Chautauqua
county a babe in arms, with his parents, and
grew to manhood on the farm at Angell's
Settlement, town of Hanover. He remained
on the old homestead, engaged in farming,
lumbering and operating a saw mill. He
hauled the product of his mill to Silver Creek,
where a large amount of it was used in the
construction of houses at that village. He
held no public office, but was always active
in public affairs and served in the town mili
tary company. He married Mary Ann Wax-
ham, born in Cambridge, England, about
1820, died at Silver Creek. She came to the
United States with her father, after the death
of her mother, settling in Hanover, Chautau
qua county, in 1-832. Children: Helen C,
married Henry Montgomery ; Elmer, of whom
further; Walter, died in infancy; Charles C,
of whom further.
(VIII) Elmer, eldest son of Albert Hor
ton, was born at Angell's Settlement, town
of Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York,
May 4, 1845. He was educated in the public
school, and remained on the old homestead
several years. Later he engaged in the oil
business in Pennsylvania, returning to Chau
tauqua county in 1879, and in company with
his brother, Charles C., established the drug
and grocery firm of Horton Brothers, at Sil
ver Creek. After a successful mercantile life
of over a quarter of a century in that village,
they sold their interests and retired. In 1891
the brothers planted their first grape vine
yard. Since then they have been successful
cultivators of the grape, and now own jointly
about seventy-five acres in bearing. Mr. Hor
ton is a Republican in politics ; a member and
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church,
also holding official position on the cemetery
board of directors.

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He married (first) Emma Montgomery,
who died 1868, daughter of Ezekiel and Fi
delia (Martin) Montgomery; (second) Chris
tina Thompson, bom March 9, 1846, in Pic-
tou county, Nova Scotia, daughter of John
Thompson, born in Pictou county, and who
died there in 1906, at the great age of ninety-
three years, fie married Elizabeth Murray,
born in the same county, died there in 1892,
aged seventy-nine years, daughter of David
and Margaret (Huggin) Murray, natives of
Scotland and England. Children of John
Thompson : Elizabeth, married a Patten ;
Hannah Jane, died unmarried ; Christina, mar
ried Elmer Horton; Helen Young, married
a Meldrum; Abigail J., unmarried; Howard
married Alice Waters; Mary, unmarried;
George W., married Nettie E. fiuggin; Fen-
wick W., unmarried. Children of Elmer and
Christina Horton: 1. Albert Howard, born
July 23, 1875 ; married Althea Briggs ; chil
dren: Ada, born August 25, 1906; John,
February 21, 1910. 2. Clinton Thompson,
born October 3, 1876 ; married Madge Bates ;
children: Roger Bates, born September 3,
1907; Virginia, July 26, 191 1. 3. Ada, born
September 5, 1880, died unmarried, aged
twenty-five years. 4. Ernest Earl, born April
11, 1884, died 1891.
(VIII) Charles C, youngest son of Albert
Horton, was born at Angell's Settlement, town
of Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York,
September 19, 1857. He was educated in
the public schools, finishing with a course at
Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie.
He taught school for one year in Silver
Creek. In 1879, in company with his brother
Elmer, trading as Horton Brothers, they es
tablished a drug and grocery store, which was
continued in successful operation until Feb
ruary, 1908, when they sold out. In addition
to their mercantile business, the brothers en
gaged in grape culture, having between them
about seventy-five acres of bearing vineyard.
Charles C. Horton, in 1898, was appointed by
President McKinley postmaster at Silver
Creek, and has been successively reappointed
to that office by Presidents Roosevelt and
Taft, and is the present incumbent (191 1).
He has always been public-spirited, progres
sive, and a close student of national, state and
county public questions, fie belongs to Silver
Creek Lodge, No. 757, Free and Accepted
Masons, and Silver Creek Lodge, No. 682,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, in 1882, Leora B., daughter of
Sylvanus S. and Grace (Stearns) Staning, of
Silver Creek. Sylvanus S. is a veteran of
the civil war, enlisting from Michigan. In
an earlier battle of the war he was wounded
and discharged. Later he reenlisted and
served under General Sherman in his famous
campaign "from Atlanta to the Sea." The
Stanings descend from an early settler in the
Mohawk Valley. Children: 1. Harvey S.,
born April 22, 1884; graduate of Cornell Uni
versity, school of architecture. 2. Mabel. 3.
Grace.

The Terrys of Salamanca de-
TERRY scend from Irish ancestors
whose coming to this country is
a matter of conjecture. In 1790 there were
more than fifty families bearing the name liv
ing in Montgomery county, New York, alone,
while in New England they are found at an
early date in nearly every colony, also in New
Jersey. Terry is a name common in some
form to several nations, according to Fergu
son in his "Teutonic Name System." Samuel
Terry, of New York City, classes it among
the early French names, under the form of
Therry. The first record of the name is found
in America, October 15, 1650," when the boy,
Samuel Terry, was apprenticed to Samuel
Pynchon to be taught the trade of linen spin
ner. We know the Terrys were seated in
Montgomery county, New York, prior to the
revolution, but no definite date can be given
earlier than 18 18 concerning the family here
in recorded, although they were residents of
Allegany county, New York, previous to
that date.
(II) William A. Terry was born in Alle
gany county, New York, August 16, 1818,
died April 22, 1893. He was left an orphan
when a young child, the eldest of three chil
dren — William A., Charles and Laura Ann.
He received a limited education in the country
school, and was early apprenticed to the mil
lers' trade, a vocation he followed for over
fifty years, the greater part of this period
being passed in Cattaraugus county. He was
a Whig in politics, later a Republican, and a
Protestant in religious faith, fie married Lu
cretia R. Thomas, an orphan, born October 9,
1819, died May 1, 1881. Children: 1. Alan
son T., who enlisted in the Ninth Regiment,
New York Cavalry; fought at the first Bull
Run.; was injured and later received an hon-

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orable discharge. After returning home he
married Emma Trace, of Meadville, Pennsyl
vania, and engaged in railroading on the At
lantic & Great Western, now a part of the
Erie system ; at the time of his death he was
engine dispatcher at Kent, Ohio. Children :
Laura and Arthur. 2. Charles W., of further
mention. 3. Chester F., born in Rushford, Alle
gany county, New York, died at Jamestown,
New York. In early life his parents came to Cat
taraugus, where he was educated in the public
schools. He became an employee on the At
lantic & Great Western railroad, beginning as
fireman, promoted engineer, and held that po
sition many years until his death. He married
Rachel E. Trace, of Meadville, Pennsylvania,
now deceased. Children : Grace, Leroy and
Belle. 4. Frank, born at Rushford, New
York, was educated in the public schools of
Cattaraugus county; became first a. fireman,
then engineer, but for several years has been
unable to follow any business on account of
injuries received, and a paralyzed arm. 5.
Willie W., born at Sugar Grove, Warren
county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1857. He
was educated in the public schools, and in
1871 entered the office of Dr. M. F. Lenox,
of Cattaraugus, New York, remaining two
years. He then spent several years at Phila
delphia Dental College, becoming well
equipped for the practice of his profession.
He spent three years in practice at Salamanca,
then in Cattaraugus and Newark, New York,
until 1894, when he located in Buffalo, where
he is now in practice. He married, July 18,
1880, Emma Taft, born February 2, 1855 ;
child: Lucretia Laura, born November 10,
1881. (Ill) Charles W., second son of William
A. and Lucretia R. (Thomas) Terry, was
born in Franklinville, Cattaraugus county,
New York, March 25, 1846. He was edu
cated principally at Chamberlain Institute, at
Randolph, New York, where he passed the
examinations and received his academic cer
tificate. He taught one year at Chamberlain
Institute, and for another year was principal
of the public school at East Randolph. Au
gust 4, 1864, he enlisted in Company K, Ninth
Regiment New York Cavalry, serving under
General Phil Sheridan from Winchester to
Appomattox, receiving honorable discharge in
June, 1865. He was then for nine years en
gaged in the drug and grocery business in
East Randolph, New York, during this period

holding the offices of town clerk, deputy, post
master and justice of the peace. In 1876 he
registered as a law student in the office of
M. Van Benson, but never applied for admis
sion to the bar until 1893, when he passed
the examinations, and received his diploma.
In 1877 ne was appointed deputy collector of
internal revenue by F. Bull, collector at Buf
falo, and was placed in charge of the counties
of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus. In the fall
of 1877 and each year thereafter until 1882
he was elected journal clerk of the board of
supervision of Cattaraugus county. At the
fall elections of 1882 he was elected clerk of
Cattaraugus county, being the regular Repub
lican nominee for the full term of three years.
In 1886 he again took up his residence in
Randolph, where he was president of the vil
lage corporation two years and supervisor of
the town five years ; also for several years a
member of the Republican county committee,
and for a few years its chairman.
In 1893 he was elected to the state legisla
ture as the regular Republican nominee, and
was appointed by Speaker George R. Maltby
to the chairmanship of the committee on In
dian affairs, and to the committees on codes,
judiciary and public health. He was re
elected in 1894, and appointed by Speaker
Hamilton Fish to be junior chairman on the
committee on revision, and to committees on
judiciary, codes and privileges and elections.
His natural business ability, combined with
legal education and knowledge of legal pro
cedure, rendered him a valuable public offi
cial, and one fully appreciated by his constitu
ents and fellow members. In 1898 he formed
a copartnership with R. R. Crowley, attorney,
and for three years was engaged in the prac
tice of law. In 1900 he moved his residence
to Salamanca, where he helped to organize the
Salamanca Furniture Works, a very success
ful company, of which he is vice-president and
general manager. He was a director of the
Veneer Panel Company, and is a director of
the Salamanca Trust Company. In 1895 he
was elected president of the village of Sala
manca, and reelected in 1896. On August 5,
1908, he was elected member of the board of
education; on August 9, 1910, he was elected
president of the board; again elected member
in May, 191 1, and reelected president of
board in August, 191 1. He is a member of
D. T. Higgins Post, Grand Army of the Re
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noble grand in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and belongs to the blue lodge, chap
ter, commandery of the Masonic order, and
to Ismailia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine of Buffalo.
He married, February 19, 1870, Adele M.,
daughter of A. B. Fox, of East Randolph,
New York.
(IV) Leland B., only child of Charles W.
and Adele M. (Fox) Terry, was born in
East Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New
York, July 3, 1874. His primary education
was secured in the public schools, after which
he prepared for college at Chamberlain Insti
tute, graduating in 1892. He then attended
the Princeton Preparatory School for one
year, and entered Princeton University,
whence he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Science, class of 1897. fie then
prepared for the profession of law at the Uni
versity of Buffalo, Legal Department, gradu
ating LL.B., class of 1900. In 1901 he was
admitted to the bar of New York state, but
has practically relinquished his profession in
favor of a business career. He is secretary
and treasurer of the Salamanca Furniture
Works and in charge of the sales department.
He is also vice-president of the Salamanca
Mirror Company. He is a member of the
Masonic order, belonging to the lodge, chap
ter, commandery and Mystic Shrine. He is
a Republican in politics, and a member of the
Delta Chi legal fraternity.
He married, February 27, 1901, Nellie J.
Colgrove, born October 10, 1878, daughter of
Dr. John Pitts and Dr. Salina (Parker) Col
grove. Dr. John P. Colgrove is a son of
Francis and Amanda (Pitts) Colgrove. Dr.
Salina Colgrove is a daughter of George W.
and Marena (Jones) Parker. Child of Leland
B. and Nellie J. Terry : Sybil Pitts, born De
cember 15, 1902, died May 30, 1905.

Lieutenant Francis Smith, immi-
SMITH grant ancestor, was born in Eng
land and came to this country as
early as 1636, when he was a proprietor of
Watertown. One Francis Smith sailed from
England in the ship "James," April 5, 1635.
He was admitted a freeman, April 17, 1637.
From Watertown he removed to Lynn and
afterward to Rtimney Marsh, now Chelsea.
He was in Reading, Massachusetts, and a
proprietor of the town in 1644 and member
of the church. His farm was at the north

end of Smith's pond, which was named for
him and he owned a large tract extending to
Woodville. The site of his house was near
the present location of the Wakefield Junction
railroad station. He died at Reading, March
20, 1649-50. Children: 1. John, mentioned
below. 2. Benjamin, born at Watertown, as
stated on the Reading records, October 10,
1637. Hannah, married, in 1659, George Lil-
ley. 4. Mary, married Jeremiah Swain.
(II) Lieutenant John Smith, son of Lieu
tenant Francis Smith, was born in England
about 1625. He was a proprietor of Reading
and a town officer. He was deputy to the
general court in 1669. He married (first),
August 1, 1647, Catherine Morrill, who died
September 12, 1662, daughter of Isaac Mor
rill, of Roxbury. He married (second), in
1663, Mary Bill, passenger in the "Planter"
in 1635, aged eleven years. At the time of
his second marriage he was a lieutenant. Chil
dren, born at Reading: John, 165 1; Mary;
Sarah, born April 14, 1654, died young;
Isaac, June 20, 1655 ; Benjamin, August 8,
1657, died August 11, 1657; Francis, men
tioned below ; Abraham, April 10, 1661 ;
James, 1663; Jemima, 1670.
(Ill) Deacon Francis Smith, son of Lieu
tenant John Smith, was born in Reading, De
cember 23, 1658, died there in 1744. He was
selectman, town clerk, deacon for many years,
and held other offices in his native town. He
married Ruth Maverick, who died in 17 17,
aged sixty-two, daughter of Elias and Ann
(Harris) Maverick, of Charlestown and Chel
sea. Children, born at Reading: John, 1680;
Isaac, 1682; Abraham, mentioned below;
James, 1690; Catherine, 1691, married Samuel
Felch; Benjamin, 1692; Ruth, 1694; Mary,
1696; Elias, 1698.
(IV) Abraham, son of Deacon Francis
Smith, was born at Reading, in 1687. He
settled on the Loell ' Emerson place, Wood
ville, Reading. Children, born at Reading:
Elizabeth, 1720; Lydia, 1723; Jemima, 1726;
Mary, 1727; Abraham, mentioned below;
Martha, 1732; Stephen, 1736.
(V) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1)
Smith, was born in Reading in 1730. He was
of Reading, according to the Lynn town rec
ords, when he married, April 26, 1755, Mary
Hawkes. He was a soldier in the revolution
in Captain Jeremiah Putnam's company, Col
onel Nathan Tyler's regiment, from July 10,
1779, to December 1, 1779, and later in De-

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cember in the Rhode Island Campaign. (See
"Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution," vol. XIV, p. 336.) He removed
to Surry, Cheshire county, New Hampshire,
with others of the Smith family. In 1790, ac
cording to the first federal census, there were
at Surry, Abraham, Abraham Jr., Daniel, Ich
abod, Jonathan, Samuel, Stephen, Thomas
and Thomas Jr. Smith, with their families.
Abraham had no children, all being grown.
Children, born at Lynn: Mary, March 20,
1756; Hannah, December 7, 1757 ; Lydia, July
27, 1760; Abraham, mentioned below; Eliza
beth, July 13, 1764; Stephen, September 21,
1766; Sarah, July 24, 1768; Francis, April 21,
1772; Rebecca, died April 28, 1773. Samuel
and Stephen Smith, of Lynn, also went to
Surry, New Hampshire.
(VI) Abraham (3), son of Abraham (2)
Smith, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts,
April 12, 1762. In the intentions of mar
riages at Lynn appears that of Abraham
Smith, October 3, 1786, and Susanna Brock.
The record of marriage does not appear. He
married (perhaps second) Delilah Willey, a
descendant of Isaac Willey (see Willey V).
He was in the revolution in the same com
pany with his father from Lynn. He lived
at Surry after the revolution. Among his
children was Reuben, mentioned below.
(VII) Reuben, son of Abraham (3) Smith,
was born at Surry, Cheshire county, New
Hampshire. He married Lydia Remington,
born at Wallingford, Vermont, daughter of
Joshua Remington, of Rutland county, Ver
mont (see Remington IV). Reuben Smith
removed to China, New York. Children of
Reuben Smith : Enos F., Henrietta, Buel
Goodsell, mentioned below.
(VIII) Buel Goodsell, son of Reuben
Smith, was born at China, now Arcade, New
York, April 1, 1826, died October 27, 1887.
He was educated in the district schools, and
followed farming at Yorkshire Center, Catta
raugus county, New York, all his active life.
In politics Mr. Smith was a Republican, af
ter that party was formed; in religion he was
a Universalist. He married Lucy E., daugh
ter of Richard and Eleanor (Wood) Thorn
ton. Samuel Thornton, father of Richard,
was a soldier in the revolution, as was also
Barnard Wood, father of Eleanor (Wood)
Thornton, a descendant of John Thornton, a
colleague of Roger Williams in the settle
ment of Providence, Rhode Island. Children

of Buel Goodsell Smith: 1. Enos F., born
September 13, 1846, died in infancy. 2.
Emma A., born June 13, 1848; married C.
C. Pingrey, living at Delevan, New York. 3.
Lydia H., born March 25, 1851, died March
21, 1896; married F. J. Cluny. 4. Buel R.,
born August 24, 1853 ; now living at Pike,
Wyoming county, New York. 5. Flora E.,
born October 14, 1855 ; now living at East
Aurora, New York; married M. C. Lang7
made. 6. William V., born August 6, 1857;
now living at Flint, Michigan. 7. Jasper E.,
mentioned below. 8. Jessie E., born March
14, 1863; living at Franklinville, New York;
married Edward Rowland. 9. Cora E., born
March 15, 1867; living at Delevan, New
York ; married  Pingrey. 10. Earl, born
March 24, 1869, died in infancy.
(IX) jasper Elvin, son of Buel Goodsell
Smith, was born in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus
county, New York, January 22, i860. He
attended the Dryden union school of Dryden,
Tompkins county, New York, and entered
Hamilton College at Clinton, New York,
graduating with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1885 and receiving from his alma mater
the degree of Master of Arts in 1888. He
began to study law in the office of his brother,
William V. Smith, and was admitted to the
bar in 1887. In partnership with his brother
he began to practice law at Olean, New
York, and continued until the firm was dis
solved in 1902. Each of the partners con
tinued to practice alone at Olean. Since 1902
William V. Smith has been located at Flint,
Michigan. Jasper E. Smith has retained his of
fices in Olean to the present time and is
a prominent lawyer of that town. In politics
he is a Republican, and for three years was
a member of the Olean board of education,
1901-04, and for two years represented the
first assembly district of Cattaraugus county
in the legislature of New York, filling im
portant committee places. He is a member
of the Cattaraugus County Bar Association.
He married, at Olean, May 6, 1891, Mary
Louise Lee, born June 18, 1865, at West
Salamanca, New York, daughter of Maurice
Lyman and Jane A. (Aldrich) Lee, grand
daughter of Lyman Lee. Children, born at
Olean: Maurice Lyman, December 7, 1893;
Lydia Remington, March 24, 1898; Jane Aid-
rich, May 13, 1902 ; Richard Thornton, Au
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(The Willey Line).
(I) Isaac Willey, immigrant ancestor, was
in Boston, Massachusetts, as early as
1640. Before 1644 he removed to Charles
town, Massachusetts, where the records of
his children are found, in addition to those
records in the Boston record of births. In
1645 he went with John Winthrop Jr. to
New London, Connecticut, where he died
about 1685. His house lot was on Mill brook,
at the foot of Post hill. He was a farmer,
and in a short time moved to a farm at the
head of Nahantic river, which in 1664 was
confirmed to "old Goodman Willie." Their
children were doubtless all born before they
moved here. In 1645 he and John Stebbins
mowed the meadows of the Upper Mamacook.
He was chosen at a meeting, February 25,
1647, with John Winthrop, Robert Hemp-
steed, Samuel Lothroup and Thomas Minor,
"to act in all Toune affairs," and at the same
time he was granted a planting lot near the
cove. He was one of sixteen who had cattle
marks before 1650. In May, 1649, he was
before the general court with two others,
charged with resisting a constable and letting
go an Indian committed to their charge, and
they were summoned to appear at Hartford
to answer for their conduct. About 1652 he
received two grants of land east of Pequot
river, and he sold them to Amos Richard
son. In 1669 his name was on a list of
twenty-one freemen. On November 29,
1669, he was on a committee for laying out
the King's highway between New London
and the head of the Niantic river. On
March 12, 1671-72, he was among those ar
raigned at Hartford "for attempts by vio
lence to drive Mr. Mathew Griswold and
Lieut. Wm. Waller off their lands, and re
sistance to authority and assault." This
shows that he was among those who parti
cipated in the affray in August, 1671, because
of disputed lands between New London and
Lyme. In-1667 Goodwife Willey was brought
before court and fined five shillings "for not
attending public worship and bringing her
children thither."
He married (first) Joanna  , who died
in New London. He married (second) af
ter 1670, Anna, widow of Edward Lester,
and she died in 1692. Children, by first wife :
Joanna, birth not recorded; (Savage doubts
her existence; Miss Caulkins says she was

second wife of Robert Hempstead, who died
at New London in June, 1655, after which
she married Andrew Lester) ; Isaac, baptized
on his mother's right at Boston, August 2,
1640; Hannah, baptized in Boston, March 6,
1641-42; Sarah, born at Charlestown, June
19, 1644; Mary, born about 1646; John, men
tioned below; Abraham, at New London,
perhaps about 1650.
(II) John, son of Isaac Willey, was born
at New London about 1648. He was one of
those who made the mill dam. He lived be
yond the head of Nahantic; when the bounds
between New London and Lyme were settled,
his farm was split by the line, leaving twenty
acres with his house in New London. On
September 23, 1682, land was confirmed to
him in Lyme, and this land with some in New
London was sold February 17, 1692-93.
There are records of other land bought by
him. He died at Haddam, Connecticut, May
2, 1688, and . his wife was administratrix of
his estate. He married, at New London,
March 18, 1668-69, Miriam, daughter of
Miles and Isabel (Joyner) Moore, and she
married (second) in 1689, Samuel Spencer.
Children, born at New London: Isaac, Jan
uary 18, 1670-71; Isabel, October 21, 1673;
John, mentioned below ; Miriam, November
1, 1677; Allen, June 25, 1680; Abel, March
3, 1682-83 ; Mary, December 10, 1685.
(Ill) John (2), son of John (1) Willey,
was born at New London, February 24,
1674-75. He and his wife joined the church
in Hadlyme, Connecticut, May 18, 1752,
when she was baptized and was called sev
enty-two years old. He died there June 19,
1754, according to his gravestone, while the
church record says June 20, 1754, aged
eighty-two. He received grants of land in
1727 and 1750, when he was called sergeant.
Tit sold land to his son Allen in 1727 and
to his son John in 1752, his house lot with
house and twelve acres. He married, at East
Haddam, in October, 1698, Elizabeth, daugh
ter of John Harvey, of New London. She
was born about 1680. Children, born at East
Haddam: John, May 24, 1699; Allen, Sep
tember 29, 1700; Elizabeth, December 29,
1701; Mary, December 13, 1703-04; Joseph,
mentioned below; Lydia, April 15, 1707;
Phebe, January 6, 1709; Mehitabel, Septem
ber 14, 171 1 ; Lucretia, June 7, 1713; Noah,
August 28, 1716; Benajah, birth not recorded;
Sarah, baptized at Hadlyme, April 10, 1748,

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being about twenty-two years old; Rachel,
birth not recorded.
(IV) Joseph, son of John (2) Willey, was
born in East fiaddam, April 16, 1705. He
married (first) at East Haddam, May 22,
1727, Lucretia, daughter of John and Mary
(Willey) Holmes, who was less than sixteen
years old at the time of her marriage, hav
ing been born July 14, 171 1. She died be
tween 1742 and 1746, and he married (sec
ond) Rebecca  . He died January 9,
1790, aged about eighty-five, and his widow
died November 2, 1807, aged eighty-two.
His children by first wife, born at East Had
dam: Elizabeth, January 24, 1728; Mary, October
18, 1730; Lucretia, July 9, 1732; Joseph,
March 22, 1734; Esther, May 1, 1736; Benja
min, September 6, 1737; Ephraim, July 18,
1740; Grace, October 6, 1742. Children of
second wife: Barnabas, mentioned below;
Rebecca, August 20, 1749; Aaron, Septem
ber 1, 1 751; Dimmis, May 27, 1754; Seth,
December 27, 1756; Jemima, August 6, 1758;
Cyrus, March 22, 1762; Titus, July 3, 1764;
Caroline, October 22, 1767.
(V) Barnabas, son of Joseph Willey, was
born at East Haddam, December 27, 1747,
died about 1829, aged eighty-two, being bur
ied in the neighboring town of Cambridge.
In a deed of August 29, 1786, he and his
wife are called of Walpole, New Hampshire,
"yeoman and spinster." He went from there
to Waterville, Vermont, where some of his
children were settled, and lived with his son
Abner. He enlisted in 1776 in a company
under Colonel Benjamin Bellows from New
Hampshire, went to Ticonderoga, and was
away for a month. (See "New Hampshire
Revolutionary Rolls," vol. iv.) In 1777 he
again enlisted in the same company, going
to Ticonderoga. (See vol. II, page 25.) He
married Mercy Harvey. Children, two born
at Surry, New Hampshire, remainder in Wal
pole: Delilah, November 15, 1767; married
Abraham Smith (see Smith VI) ; Barnabas,
November 7, 1769; John, April 18, 1771 ;
Amos, September 7, 1772; Nathan, April 18,
1775; Mercy, April 17, 1777; Abner, March
20, 1779; Asenath, November 10, 1780; Jo
seph, August 28, 1782; Abel, July 11, 1784;
Seth, September 30, 1786; fiuluth, Septem
ber 20, 1788; Leah, March 18, 1790; Lois,
September 16, 1793.

(The Remington Line).
(I) Thomas Remington, grandson of John
Remington, the pioneer in this country, set
tled at Hingham^ Massachusetts, and mar
ried there, March 16, 1687, Remember,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Farrow)
Stowell. She was born in Hingham, April
22, 1762, died November 5, 1694. Children,
born in Hingham; Jael, April 22, 1688;
Joshua, mentioned below; Mary, May 9,
1691 ; Abigail, February 27, 1692-93.
(II) Joshua, son of Thomas Remington,
was born at Hingham, in 1889-90, died there
June 1, 1733. He left an estate valued at
four hundred and ten pounds. He married
Elizabeth  . Children, born at Hingham:
Joshua, 1714, died 1730; Elizabeth, 1716;
John, 17 18; Elisha, January 17, 1719-20;
Mary, June 13,. 1722; Sarah, June 23, 1723';
Thomas, May 22, 1724; Thomas, May 22,
1726; Olive, September 28, 1728; Joshua,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (1) Rem
ington, was born at Hingham, February 14,
1730-31. He removed to Cummington, Mas
sachusetts, and was a soldier from Hampshire
county in the revolution, (p. 113, vol. xiii,
"Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution.") He was a private in Captain
Joseph Clapp's company, Colonel Israel Cha-
pin's regiment. fie married Ruth Cary.
Children, born at Hingham: Ruth, August
5» 1755 ; Uriah, baptized June 26, 1757;
Joshua, mentioned below. Probably others
at Cummington.
(IV) Joshua (3), son of Joshua (2) Rem
ington, was born in Hingham, baptized there
September 14, 1760. He removed to Rutland
county, Vermont. He served in the revolu
tion in Captain John Sprague's company, Col
onel Gideon Warren's regiment, in 1780, and
in the same company in 1781, also in Captain'
Orange Train's company, Colonel Lee's regi
ment (see "Vermont Revolutionary Rolls,"
pp. 211-379-475). He lived at Wallingford,
and his daughter Lydia married Reuben
Smith (see Smith VII).

Several members of
L'HOMMEDIEU the L'Hommedieu fam
ily fled from LaRo-
chelle, France, after the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes. Pierre and Osee (or
Hosea) were the sons of Pierre L'Homme
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band died in France before September 29,
1685, on which date the name of his widow
appears in a "list of Religious Fugitives from
La Rochelle, whose goods have been seized."
Marthe accompanied her children to England
and came to America with Pierre, who settled
in Kingston, Ulster county, New York, and
died while on a visit to New Amsterdam in
1692. Benjamin and John L'Hommedieu,
born at LaRochelle, France, were natural
ized in New York, September 27, 1687. Ho
sea L'Hommedieu fled from LaRochelle sev
eral months previous to the flight of his
brother Pierre and their mother Marthe. Per
haps he was accompanied by Benjamin and
John, who may have been his brothers. The
existing tradition among the descendants of
Benjamin L'Hommedieu agrees perfectly
with these facts. Benjamin and a brother
left France together and their widowed
mother went with them to the shore at La
Rochelle and as a parting gift confided to
one a Bible and to the other a silver watch.
They fled to Holland and thence came to
America. The watch is now in the possession
of Eben Norton Horsford, of Harvard Uni
versity. A monument in memory of Nathan
iel Sylvester has been recently erected on
Shelter Island by the daughters of Professor
Horsford, descendants of Benjamin L'Hom
medieu and of Patience Sylvester, his wife.
The foregoing data was taken from a His
tory of the Early Huguenots and from
American Ancestry the following facts con
cerning Benjamin L'Hommedieu have been
gleaned :
Benjamin L'Hommedieu was born in La
Rochelle, France, in 1665, died at Shelter
Island, Long Island. He married, in 1695,
Patience, born in 1664, died in November,
1719, daughter of Nathaniel and Grissel
(Brinley) Sylvester, of Roxbury, England,
who bought Shelter Island, upon which the
old manor house stands to-day. Benjamin
was a son of John, born in England, in 16.18,
died in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1708. John
L'Horiimedieu married, in 1655, Patience
Throckmorton. He was a son of John
L'Hommedieu, who was born in Essex county,
England, in 1591, and died at Newport, in
1647. The above two records differ concern
ing the ancestry of Benjamin L'Hommedieu
but as the first one merely infers that he was
a brother of Pierre and Osee, it is possible
that the latter is correct. That the same

Benjamin is referred to in both instances is
certain because they agree concerning his
marriage to Patience Sylvester. Children:
1. Benjamin, referred to below. 2. Osee (or
Hosea) died November 6, 1752 ; married, in
1718, Freelove Howell. 3. Sylvester, born
January 5, 1703, died March 9, 1788 ; mar
ried, in 1737, Elizabeth Booth. 4. Peter, mar
ried, February 13, 1723, Sarah Corwin. 5.
Susanna, married, February 22, 1722, Jona
than Tuthill.
Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) and
Patience '(Sylvester) L'Hommedieu, was
born in Southold, Long Island, about 1698.
He was a harbor merchant there, corner of
Town street and Harbor lane, which had
formerly been owned by his father-in-law.
Here he died, September 17, 1755. He mar
ried (first) in 1716, Mary, daughter of Ben
jamin and Hannah (Mulford) Conklyn, of
Southold, who died there June 19, 1730. He
married (second) July 1, 1731^ Martha
Bourn, of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
The L'Hommedieu family was one of un
usual importance in the early history of Long
Island. One of the. foremost citizens of
Southold was Ezra L'Hommedieu, a son of
Benjamin, whose father was Benjamin
L'Hommedieu, of La Rochelle. Ezra L'Hom
medieu was a graduate of Yale College and
was a lawyer by profession. He represented
Long Island in the congress of the United
States as a member from the state of New
York during the course of the revolutionary
war — four years — from 1779 to 1783. After
the close of the war he was state senator for
a period of sixteen years — 1784-99 — with the
exception of the year 1792-93. He was a
member of all the privincial congresses of
New York, including the fourth, which
framed and adopted, at Kingston, the first
constitution of the state, in the spring of
1777. In 1801 he was a member of the
celebrated convention, which was elected to
interpret, some of the points of the constitu
tion of the state and to determine how many
members there should be in each house of
the legislature. He was repeatedly a member
of the council of appointment, which had the
power, until 1821, to select civil, military
and judicial officers of the commonwealth.
He was foremost of all men who had lived
from birth until death at Southold. From
1737 until his death, September 28, 181 1, he
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chairman of the judiciary committee of the
senate, he wrote many of the laws which
were enacted by the legislature after the es
tablishment of peace and which were so pro
lific in advancing the state's prosperity. He
was an ardent church worker and was a
member of the First Church of Southold.
He was influential in passing the statute for
the election of trustees of churches, and the
First Church of Southold was the earliest
in Suffolk county, and on Long Island also,
to elect its trustees and file its certificate of
incorporation. (This was taken from Whit-
aker's "History of Southold, Long Island.")
(I) Mulford L'Hommedieu, the earliest
member of the branch of the family at pres
ent under consideration of whom we have
definite information, was undoubtedly a
grandson of Benjamin (2) and Mary (Conk-
lyn) L'Hommedieu, and was named for his
maternal great-grandfather. He enlisted in
the patriot army during the revolution, just
before the battle of Long Island, and served
until the end of the war. He enlisted July
26, 1776, from South Hampton, under Cap
tain Jeremiah Rogers, First Regiment of
Minute-Men. He then removed to Swanton,
Franklin county, Vermont, where he died.
Among his children was Henry, mentioned
below. (II) Henry, son of Mulford L'Homme
dieu, was born at Swanton, Franklin county,
Vermont, January 13, 1799, died in July,
1898. In the spring of 1826 he removed
to Shelby, Orleans county, New York. He
married Almira Hathaway, born in Granville,
New York. Children: 1. Mary, married
 Morgan. 2. Asahel. 3. Wallace, men
tioned below. 4. Charlotte, married fiorace
Linsley. 5. Nancy, still living. 6. Marshal,
residing at Denver.
(Ill) Wallace, son of Henry L'Homme
dieu, was born in Shelby, Orleans county,
New York, September 8, 1833. Until he ar
rived of age he worked on his father's farm
and received his education from the common
schools of the neighborhood and the Gene
see Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York.
He was a member of the Republican party at
its formation in 1856, and held several pub
lic appointments of trust. From 1869 to 1876
he was assessor of the town of Shelby. In
1887 he was elected supervisor of Shelby,
being the first Republican to hold the office
in eleven years. He was re-elected in 1888-89

and declined a renomination in 1890. In the
fall of 1889 he was elected to the New York
state assembly, and in 1890 served on the
committees on commerce and navigation, on
banks and excise. As assemblyman he was
active and prominent, and secured the pas
sage of two general and several special and
local acts. He is a member of the Presby
terian church at Medina, Orleans county,
New York, and for a long time was a mem
ber of its session and board of trustees as
well as a trustee of the Slater fund of the
Niagara Presbytery. When not in Albany
he spent his life on his large farm at Maple
Ridge near Shelby. He married, in 1862,
Frances M., daughter of Colonel John Berry,
of Holley, New York. Children: 1. Avis
Marion, married Hervey D. Jump, of Sayre,
Pennsylvania. 2. Irving, mentioned below.
3. John Berry, first deputy health officer of
New York City. 4. Jessie Belle. 5. Albert
Warren. (IV) Irving, son of Wallace and Frances
M. (Berry) L'Hommedieu, was born on his
father's farm at Maple Ridge, near Medina,
Orleans county, New York, January 12, 1865,
and is now living in that town, fie received
his early education in the common schools
of Orleans county and in the Medina Acad
emy. In 1884 he began studying law in the
office and under the tutelage of the Hon. Ed
mund L. Pitts, of Medina, and during the
winters of the two ensuing years taught
school. In 1886 he graduated from the Al
bany Law School and was admitted to the
bar in New York later in the same year.
From 1886 to 1888 he practiced his profes
sion at Omaha, Nebraska, and in the fall of
returned to Medina where he inaugu

rated the law partnership of Simon & L'Hom
medieu. He is a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons of Medina, and has held
many Masonic offices ; a member of the coun
cil and chapter of Medina, Genesee Comman
dery, of Lockport; Ismailia Temple, Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo; through
all Scottish Rite bodies, including thirty-
second degree. He is also a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was
president of the Alert Hose Company of Me
dina. In March, 1893, he was appointed vil
lage attorney of Medina, and the previous
August elected to the board of education.'
He is a Republican in politics. He was a
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1890-92, postmaster at Medina, 1898-1902.
Having been elected to the state senate in
1902, he served on the committee on cities,
codes, and that of taxation and retrenchment,
and was chairman of the committee on trades
and manufactures; and was also on the com
mittee on canals. He was re-elected to the
senate in 1904, and served on the same com
mittees, except the one on canals from which
he resigned. He has taken an active part in
political affairs since he became of age.
He married, June 29, 1887, Christina,
daughter of Charles H.' Breed, of Medina.

The independent and adven-
HARMON turous spirit of the men of
this name is evidenced by the
fact of their being very early settlers in the
wilderness of New England. Francis, of
whom very little is known, came in 1635 ;
Nathaniel settled at Braintree before 1641 ;
John was of Plymouth in 1643, and of Dux
bury in 1657 ; a second John was a member
of Pynchon's colony at Springfield in 1643;
James was of Saco in 1655 ; and there were
others later. They have ever been men of
enterprise and courage, leaders in business
and brave soldiers in war.
(I) John Harmon, the progenitor of the
Harmon family of Suffield, Connecticut, was
born in England in 161 7, died in Springfield,
Massachusetts, "ye 7th of ye 1 mon. 1660-61,"
aged forty-three years. He settled in Spring
field in 1643, and was granted lanM, February
12, 1649, tne record stating: "It. is ordered
ye Geo. Colton and Thomas Cooper who is
ye Towne treasurer should with yr best dis
cretion lay out the severall parcells of Mea
dow granted ye last yeare, to Henry Burt 4
acres, Tho. Mirick 4 acres, Alex. Edwards
4 acres, Jno. Harman 4 acres, In ye Longe
meadow over ye Brooke." January 22, 1651,
John Harmon was grantee of lot 6, two and
one-half acres "on Pacowick." "February
8th (1654) thease parsells of meadow com
monly called by the name of Wattchnett was
granted these ' inhabitants as f olloweth vid
John Harman 3 acres," etc. He also received
a grant of land "over ye mill river" contain
ing three acres, in 1655. He also received
other grants of land. In "a rate for ye ray-
singe of 30 pounds for the purchase of the
lands of the Plantation 1646." John Har
mon is assessed 9s. 2d. on the thirty-
three acres of land. John Harmon was

one of six persons seated by the select
men in the third seat of the church, De
cember 23, 1659. He was a man of good
character, and was made fence viewer, 1635 ;
surveyor of highways of the lower part of
the town, November 2, 1647, and November
2, 1658; November 4, 1656, he was chosen
to the office of "presenter to present breaches
of the laws of the county or of town orders
and to which service he took his oath." He
married, in 1640, Elizabeth, whose surname
does not appear. She was born in England
in 1617. After the death of John Harmon
she married Anthony Dorchester, who died
in Springfield, August 28, 1683. She died in
Springfield, May 16, 1699, aged ninety-one
years. The children of John and Elizabeth
were: John, Samuel, Sarah, Joseph, Eliz
abeth, Mary, Nathaniel, Ebenezer. The first
two were born before John's settlement at
Springfield. (II) Joseph, third son of John and Eliz
abeth Harmon, was born in Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, "11 mon. 4 day, 1646," and died
in Suffield, Connecticut, October 28, 1729,
aged nearly eighty-three years. In Decem
ber, 1664, upon the request of Anthony Dor
chester, there was granted by the town of
Springfield to his own and to his wife's sons
thirty acres of land each. Joseph Harmon
was one of those who received one of these
portions of thirty acres. In 1676 Samuel and
Joseph Harmon were two of several persons
desiring grants of land at, towards or about
Stony river on the west side of the great river
toward Windsor ; and the selectmen granted
to the Harmons "30 acres of land apiece there
and six acres of wet meadow." Joseph Har
mon's place in the church was "in ye south
side at ye upper end of the Backer seate," in
1662-63. In 1670 Samuel and Joseph Har
mon were required to furnish one load as
their part of the minister's wood. Samuel
and Joseph Harmon seem to have been suc
cessful hunters; on the town books, among
similar entries, of date January 11, 1668, are
the following: "To Samuel & Joseph Har
mon for killing 6 wolves this Summer past 3
pounds." December, 1670, "To Samle & J.
Harmon for killing 4 wolves 2 pounds."
January 14, 1670, the settlement of Suffield,
Connecticut, was begun by the grants of land
to Samuel and Joseph Harmon, Benjamin
Parsons and others, says Burt in his "History
of Springfield." D. W. Norton in his "State-

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ment at the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the
Town of Suffield, October 12, 1870, states
that the settlement of the town was begun in
1670." John Lewis, Esq., at the same place
says, "Unfortunately, no documents have yet
been discovered, that definitely state the time,
place, and sircumstance of the first settlement
of Suffield. . . . While it is quite certain
that the Harmons were the pioneers of the
town, and that they came here in 1670, the
exact date of their settlement is not known."
"In 1669 the selectmen of Springfield as
sumed authority to form and direct the set
tlement of Springfield. They made several
grants of land, and among others to Samuel
and Joseph Harmon, who it is thought, in
the following summer, took up their abode on
the Northampton road, in the vicinity of
Stony Brook." This was about one mile west
of High street, on what is now the road lead
ing from High street to West Suffield.
Joseph Harmon married Hannah Philley,
or Fille, in Southfield, Massachusetts, now
Suffield, Connecticut, January 22, 1674. She
was born in Windsor, Connecticut, July 3,
1653, and died in Suffield, August 28, 1729,
aged seventy-six. They had ten children:
Hannah, John (both born at Springfield),
Samuel, died young; Elizabeth, Joseph, Sa
rah, Samuel, Ebenezer, Mary, Nathaniel.
(Ill) Nathaniel, tenth child and sixth son
of Joseph Harmon, was born at Suffield, Con
necticut, July 30, 1695. He married and
among his children was Phineas.
(IV) Phineas, son of Nathaniel Harmon,
was born in Suffield, Connecticut, January 4,
1720. He married and among his children
was Elijah.
(V) Elijah, son of Phineas Harmon, was
born in Suffield, Connecticut, June 18, 1747.
He married and among his children was
Elias. (VI) Elias, son of Elijah Harmon, was
born in Westfield, Massachusetts, November
19, 1774. He was a minister of the gospel
and a farmer. He settled in Onondaga, New
York. He married and among his children
was Eleazar.
(VII) Eleazar, son of Rev. Elias Harmon,
was born in Onondaga county, New York,
February 28, 1808, died in Ellicottville, Cat
taraugus . county, New York, November 22,
1882. His early education was obtained in
the poorly conducted schools of the district,
but he eagerly availed himself of every ad

vantage they offered. At an early age he be
gan the study of- law beginning his prepara
tory course at Aurora, New York. In 1832
he came to Ellicottville where he continued
his law study in the office of Anson Gibbs.
He was admitted to the bar as an attorney
and counsellor and at once began practice,
becoming one of the most prominent lawyers
of the Cattaraugus county bar. The county
then was comparatively new and Ellicottville,
the county seat, was the location of the Hol
land Land Company offices, and a most thriv
ing town. Important litigations frequently
grew out of the real estate transaction of the
land companies as well as out of the exten
sive lumbering operations along the Alle
ghany river and its tributaries. Mr. Harmon
was employed and thereafter continued to be
engaged on one side or the other of nearly
every important case that was brought before
the courts. Whatever controversies there"
were he was called on as a lawyer to adjust
them, many being thus settled out of court.
The most important question that arose in
the county for many years related to the title
of the Holland Land Company. Every land
owner was interested in it and the excitement
became so intense as to endanger the public
peace. Mr. Harmon was engaged as attorney
of the land companies, and by his great influ
ence with all parties, induced them finally to
abide peaceably by the decision of the court
in a case pending therein, wherein the ques
tion of title was the only issue. The case
was brought to trial, where full documentary
and other evidence, procured at great trouble
and expense, clearly established the title and
no doubt was thereafter entertained in re
gard to it. Few lawyers in western New
York equalled Mr. Harmon in the knowledge
of the law, fewer still in the ability to pre
sent a case in the most forcible manner be
fore a court or jury. He was of a nervous
temperament and threw his whole soul into
his case. Possessed of a logical mind- he
drew his conclusions with unerring judgment.
He never went into court unprepared, hence
in all the cases in which he was retained he
showed a remarkable familiarity with the le
gal questions that arose in the progress of
a trial, and which the ordinary practitioner
finds it difficult to meet. In the preparation
of his cases his power of concentration was
intense. No point escaped him and he was
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prised by the citation of an authority, nor
deceived by mistaken analogy. His manner
was candid and courteous, apt at repartee,
though rarely indulging in wit for effect, yet
ready in parrying an attack. As an advo
cate he was earnest, logical, effective and very
successful. He was not a fluent speaker but
had that powerful eloquence that convinces
a jury. By his sincerity of manner, his re
markable power of analysis, his judgment of
the bearing of evidence and power of mar
shaling it, he frequently put aside the most
eloquent efforts of an adversary and rescued
his case when defeat seemed inevitable. He
will long be remembered, not only as stand
ing at the head of the Cattaraugus county
bar of his time, but as ranking high among
eminent contemporaries in the profession in
western New York. He retired from active
practice in 185 1 on account of failing health
and thereafter devoted himself to private
business enterprises of various kinds until his
death in 1882. From the date of his retire
ment from the bar he lived amidst the refine-
.ments and quiet pleasures of his beautiful
home in Ellicottville, where his later years
were spent in the enjoyment of his family
and friends with whom he had lived for half
a century.
He married (first) Harriet Goodspeed,
who died March 24, 1839, leaving two sons :
1. Luke Goodspeed, born October 4, 1836,
died July 1, 1908; married Margaret Mar
vin. 2. Clarence Gillette, born March 24,
1839; married, August i, 1868, Mary Patter
son ; child, Mary, married, December 30, 1903,
James Dudley Tupper and has Clarence Har
mon, born in eastern Pennsylvania, February
7, 1907. Mr. Harmon married (second) July
2, 1840, Caroline Goodspeed (sister of his
first wife) who died in June, 1842, leaving
a daughter, Harriet Caroline, born 1842, died
in Florida, March 30, 1872. He married
(third) March 18, 1847, Hannah Maria Thal-
heimer (or Thalhermer), of Montezuma,
New York, born February 23, 1825, who
survives him. Children : Jennie, born March
27, 1851, died March 27, 1852; Eleazer, of
whom further.
(VIII) Eleazar (2), son of Eleazar (1)
and his third wife, Hannah M. (Thalheimer)
Harmon, was born in Ellicottville, Cattarau
gus county, New York, February 28, 1853.
He was educated in the public school and at
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he took

a general course, covering a period of three
years. After completing his studies in 1870
he went to Corry, Pennsylvania, where he
was employed in a bank. In 1877 he located
in Baltimore, Maryland, where in association
with John Thompson he established the firm
of John Thompson & Company, dealing in
dairy products. They continued in success
ful operation until 1892 when Mr. Thomp
son retired. Mr. Harmon continued the busi
ness under the firm name of E. Harmon &
Company until 1899, when he retired and the
business was closed out. He then became
a member of R. B. Stewart & Company, of
Baltimore, dealers in produce, fruits and gro
cers' specialties, continuing until 1905, when
he withdrew and formed the firm of Cook,
Harmon & Company, of Baltimore, dealing
in the same lines. This is an incorporated
company of which Mr. Harmon is vice-presi
dent and treasurer. He is also president of
the Manchester Produce and Fruit Products
Company, of New York City, manufacturers
of evaporated fruits, etc. Mr. Harmon is a
successful business man, of sterling character
and high standing. He is a Democrat in poli
tics, and a member of the Protestant Episco
pal church. He is a member of the Masonic
order in Baltimore and in Corry, Pennsyl
vania, where Clarence Commandery of
Knights Templar is named, in honor of his
half-brother, Clarence Gillette Harmon. He
is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias,
Knights of Honor, Order of United Ameri
can Mechanics and the Royal Arcanum.
He married (first) April 30, 1878, Helen
Chase, born November 3, 1858, died Decem
ber 30, 1878. He married (second) Septem
ber 27, 1881, Minnie House, born July 26,
1856, died January 12, 1910. Mr. Harmon
maintains his residence at Ellicottville, where
all his hours, "off duty" are spent. This has
been the family home since 1832.

This surname is derived from
CURTIS a Norman French word Curteis
or Curtois, meaning courteous,
civil. The family settled very early in Kent,
England. The coat-of-arms of the family of
Kent and Sussex is : Argent, a chevron sable
between three bulls' heads cabossed gules.
Crest: A unicorn passant or between four
trees proper. The pedigree of this family is
traced as far back as Stephen Curtis, of Ap-
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descendants were mayors of the town of Ten-
terden from which came some of the first
settlers, of Scituate and Roxbury, Massachu
setts. Four Curtis brothers settled in Scituate
— Richard, William, John and Thomas.
Thomas Curtis went to York, Maine; John
appears to have left no descendants, while
those of William and Richard are numerous
in Massachusetts and Connecticut. There are
three distinct families of this name in Con
necticut early records, and two men, John
and Thomas Curtice (Curtis), were among
the early settlers of Wethersfield, Connecti
cut. Some of the descendants of this branch
spell the name Curtis, the Stratford branch
descendants retaining the double "s".
(I) Thomas Curtice, born in England,
1598, settled in Connecticut about 1636. He
had a home lot of six acres by the common
on High street, Wethersfield, Connecticut,
purchased of Richard Montague, February
20, 1659, and also a meadow and other lands
granted later. He practiced medicine, and
was relieved by an order of the general court
May 21, 1657, from "training, watching and
warding during the practice of phissicke."
He was a man of good reputation, a freeman
in Wethersfield in 1669, and doubtless before
that, and at the time of his death had a large
estate for those days, viz., £717. He died
November 13, 1681, in Wethersfield, Connec
ticut. His wife's name was Elizabeth  .
Children: John, born January 1, 1639;
James, September 15, 1641 ; Joseph, of whom
further ; Samuel, born April, 1645 1 Isaac,
1647 > Ruth, married Hon. Eleazer Kimberly,
secretary of the colony; Elizabeth, married
John Stadder.
(II) Joseph Curtis, third son of Thomas
and ¦ Elizabeth Curtice, was born March 31,
1644; died December 31, 1683. In 1681 he
was surveyor of highways, and also served as
haywarden. He owned land and made several
transfers. He married, February 8, 1674,
Mercy  . Children: Meribah, died
aged ten ; Joseph Jr., of whom further ; Henry,
born September 2, 1676; Mary, September 2,
1677; Sarah, September 28, 1679; Thomas,
December 24, 1680 ; David, November 29,
1682. (Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and
Mercy Curtis, was born in Wethersfield, Con
necticut, and died there December 31, 1765,
aged about ninety-two years. He married
Dorothy Edwards, December 7, 1708, born

September, 1681, died April 18, 1760, daugh
ter of Joseph and Sarah Edwards. Children:
Dorothy, baptized August 21, 1709, married,
November 12, 1746, Oliver Atwood, a chair-
maker, residing in Newington, Connecticut,
1776; Katherine, baptized December 31, 1710,
married at Hartford, April 21, 1737, Daniel
Hinsdale; Joseph, baptized January 25, 1712;
Daniel, born March 29, 1715; Sarah, baptized
May 26, 1717; Zachariah, of whom further;
Joseph, born December 12, 1721.
(IV) Zachariah, son of Joseph (2) and
Dorothy (Edwards) Curtis, was born in
Wethersfield, Connecticut, September 13,
1719, died in Dorset, Vermont, May 14, 1805.
He bought land in Goshen, 1749, and moved
to Redhook-on-the-Hudson, in Dutchess
county, New York, in 1750. From there he
moved to Dorset, Vermont, where he pur
chased a tract of land one mile wide and six
miles long. He was twice married, his first
wife being Mary Ann  . She died and
he married Lena, daughter of Jacob W.
Wheeler, of England. By his first wife he
had thirteen children ; by his second wife he
had twelve. Several of his sons served in
the Continental army. Twenty-one soldiers
by the name of Curtis appear on the Ver
mont revolutionary rolls. Names of some of
his children : Josiah, of whom further ;
Joshua, born 1742; Salathial, 1743; Elias,
1745 ; George, April 6, 1797, died Septem
ber 4, 1867 (father of Henry C. Curtis, the
shirt manufacturer of Troy, New York) ;
Horace, Lewis and John.
(V) 'Josiah, son of Zachariah Curtis, died
at Elbridge, New York, in 18 — . He was a
farmer by occupation. He was religious, and
a noted student of Holy Writ, fie served
in the revolutionary war from the state of
Vermont, as a sergeant of Captain Nathaniel
Smith's company, Colonel Ira Allen's regi
ment of militia. He moved from East Dor
set, Vermont, to Elbridge, New York, about
1805, where he resided until the time of his
death. He was a very patriotic man. He
always wore Union blue. He married Tain-
son Gale, of Holland Dutch ancestry. Chil
dren: Walter, Hamilton, Heman, Minerva,
and Alonzo Mead Curtis, of whom further.
(VI) Alonzo Mead, son of Josiah and
Tamson (Gale) Curtis, was born 1817, and
died May 22, 1890. fie was a resident of
Elbridge, Onondaga county, New York,
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teacher, later turning his attention to agri
culture. He was twice married. Children by
first wife: Arthur, Edward and Jennie E.
Children by second wife (Electa A. Townsend
Curtis): fieman De Lett, born 1866; Clara
B., 1868; Jessie W., 1871 ; Fred Mead, 1874;
Don Allen, 1876; Frank George, of whom
further; Caroline V. Curtis, born 1884.
Electa Adelaide (Townsend) Curtis was
born in Auburn, New York, April 17, 1846;
died in Jamestown, New York, August,
1900. (VII) Frank George, son of Alonzo Mead
and Electa A. (Townsend) Curtis, was born
August 8, 1878, on a farm in the town of El
bridge, Onondaga county, New York. He
received his early schooling in a country
school, and later education in Jordan Free
Academy, Jordan, New York; Jamestown
High School, Jamestown, New York, and
Cornell University, having graduated from
Jamestown High School and Cornell Univer
sity. He is now a practicing attorney in
Jamestown, New York, where he has been so
engaged since January 15, 1904. On Janu
ary 1, 1905, he became assistant district at
torney of Chautauqua county, New York,
which office he filled until June 1, 1906. In
September, 1908, he married fiarriet C.
, Smith, of Jamestown, New York.
(The Townsend Line).
Philetus Edward Townsend, born June 4,
1818, son of Marcus Townsend (of whom
further), was the father of Electa A. Town-
send Curtis. He married Caroline Dodge,
daughter of Don C. Dodge (of whom fur
ther). His children were: George E., born
1844; and Electa Adelaide, born 1846, men
tioned, and Virginia A. Townsend, born
1848 ; and one other child who died in infancy.
Philetus Edward Townsend was a railroad
contractor, and for some years the warden of
Auburn Prison, at Auburn, New York.
Marcus Townsend, born September 8, 1784,
was a son of Zephaniah Townsend. In 1806
he married Mary Bemus, daughter of Eph
raim Bemus, of whom further. Mary Bemus
was born December 9, 1786. Children of
Marcus and Mary (Bemus) Townsend: Ju
liana, Roxana, Elijah, Martha, Martin, Phi
letus Edward (mentioned above) ; Mary and
Sarah. Zephaniah Townsend (first name some
times spelled Zepheniah) lived at Esopus-on-

the-Hudson. He was a descendant of the
Townsends who settled at Oyster Bay, Long
Island, in 1622. They were descendants of
Sir Lodovic (Townsend) Townshend, a
knight of Normandy, who came into Eng
land with William the Conqueror in 1066.
This family has furnished leading men for
England from 1066 to the present. The Oys
ter Bay Townshends were Quakers.
Zephaniah Townsend was a revolutionary
soldier. He served as a sergeant in Captain
Myrick's company of Rangers from New
York. This company was active from the
early beginning of the revolution. He was
later a corporal in Captain Elijah Townsend's
company, of Colonel Morris Graham's regi
ment of New York militia, revolutionary war.
At another time he served in Captain Heze
kiah Mead's company of Ludington's regi
ment, New York. He married Sarah Woo-
din, an English girl. Children: Marcus,
mentioned above; Richard, Nathan, George,
Emily, Angeline, Betsey and Kate.
Don C. Dodge, great-grandfather of Frank
G. Curtis, moved from Dorset, Vermont, to
Geddes, New York, where he was one of the
first settlers. He was in the war of 1812
in the United States Commissary Depart
ment, operating between Oswego, New York,
and Syracuse, New York. He married Electa
Curtis, born July 5, 1793, a daughter of Jo
seph Curtis, of whom further. He died in
1832. He was a merchant and a son of
Thomas Dodge, of whom further. Don C.
and Electa (Curtis) Dodge had children:
Caroline (Dodge) Townsend (mentioned
above), and George Dodge.
Thomas Dodge, father of Don C. Dodge,
was a revolutionary soldier. He served
through most of the war, and at one time
was a fifer in Captain Jotham White's com
pany, of Colonel Samuel Fletcher's battalion
of Vermont troops, revolutionary war. He
was with Washington's army a part of the
time, and spent one winter at Valley Forge.
He was a cousin of Colonel Ethan Allen, of
Vermont. Joseph Curtis, a son of Zachariah Curtis
(before mentioned), lived in East Dorset,
Bennington county, Vermont. He was a sol
dier, serving through most of the revolution
ary war with different Vermont companies,
mainly under Colonel Ira Allen and Colonel
Stephen Pearl. Joseph Curtis held the ranks
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He also served in the war of 1812. He was
born at Nine Partners, Amenia Precincts,
Dutchess county, New York, January 28,
1759, and died December 27, 1833, at Dorset,
Vermont. He married at Manchester, Ben
nington county, Vermont, March 4, 1784
(Adelia) Delia, daughter of Timothy Mead.
She was born May 18, 1766.
Timothy Mead, father of Delia Mead, who
married Joseph Curtis, a son of Zachariah
Curtis, was a revolutionary soldier. He was
at one time a member of Captain Thomas
Bull's company, Colonel Ira Allen's regiment,
Vermont militia, revolutionary war. Timothy
Mead Jr. also served in the same company ;
also Timothy Mead (3d), served in the same
company. Ephraim Bemus, father of Mary (Bemus)
Townsend, served as a sergeant in Captain
Solomon Strong's company, Fifth Connecti
cut Regiment, commanded hy Colonel Phillip
B. Bradley, revolutionary war. He married
Ann Bolyn, of pure Scotch ancestry. She
was a member of the famous Scotch family
of that name. Ephraim Bemus lived at
Esopus-on-the-Hudson.

Walter Palmer, the immi-
PALMER grant ancestor, was a citizen
of Charlestown, Massachu
setts, as early as 1634, and May 14, 1634 was
made freeman there. There is a tradition
that he came from County Nottingham, Eng
land, and that Abraham Palmer, also of
Charlestown, and a freeman at the same time,
was his brother. He owned considerable real
estate there, and received land in the first di
vision in 1637 and again in the division of
1643. He was among those who met to pre
pare for the new settlement at Seacuncke, af
terwards Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and settled
there. At this time he gave the value of his
estate as £419. He was deputy to the general
court from Rehoboth, and in 1653 moved to
what is now Stonington, Connecticut. He
bought land from Governor Haynes on the
east bank of the Nequetequoc river. His
whole tract of land contained about twelve
hundred acres. His will was dated May 19,
1658, and proved May 11, 1662. He died in
Stonington, November 19, 1661. He mar
ried (first) in England, Ann  ; (second)
Rebecca Short, a member of Rev. John
Eliot's church in Roxbury. Children of first
wife: Grace; John, died unmarried; Will

iam, died unmarried ; Jonas ; Elizabeth. Chil
dren of second wife: Hannah, born June 16
1634; Elihu, January 24, 1636; Nehemiah^
November 27, 1637; Moses, April 6, 1640;
Benjamin, May 30, 1642; Gershom, men
tioned below; Rebecca.
(II) Gershom, son of Walter Palmer, was
baptized in Charlestown. On June 5, 1684 he
received from his brothers, Nehemiah, Moses
and Benjamin, five hundred acres of land in
Stonington, as his share of his father's es
tate. On May 3, 1693, there was laid out to
Lieutenant Gershom Palmer, first, fifty acres,
then one hundred acres, and again, fifty acres.
On November 20, 171 1, he received four hun
dred acres of land in the purchase of Catta-
peset. In this deed he is called Deacon.
Most of this property he distributed to his
sons before he died. He -married (first) in
Stonington, November 28, 1667, Ann, daugh
ter of Captain George and Ann (Borodel)
Denison. She was from a fine old English
family, and from her Mrs. Palmer inherited
such stately manners that she was called
"Lady Ann." She was born May 20, 1649,
and died in Stonington, 1694. fie married
(second) Elizabeth, widow of Major Samuel
Mason, of Stonington. Her maiden name
was Peck, and she was from the Rehoboth
family of that name. Gershom Palmer died
September 27, 1718. Children of first wife:
Mercy, born 1669; Gershom, baptized Sep
tember 2, 1677; Ichabod, baptized Septem
ber 2, 1677; William, mentioned below;
George, baptized May 29, 1680; Rebecca,
baptized 1682, died young; Ann, baptized May
20, 1682; Walter, baptized June 7, 1685;
Elihu, baptized May 6, 1688, died young;
Mary, baptized June 8, 1690; Rebecca, bap
tized July 1, 1694.
(Ill) William, son of Deacon Gershom
Palmer, was baptized April 25, 1678. On
May 9, 1 716, he received by deed from his
father lands at Puckhunganuek, which on his
death were to go to his three sons — William,
Elihu and Wait. He was living in 1728, when
he gave rights in two parcels of land to his
three sons. He married, January 10, 1701^2,
in Stonington, Grace, daughter of Ephraim
and Hannah (Avery) Minor, born in Ston
ington, September, 1683. They lived first at
Tangwonk and moved later to Punhungue-
nuch Hill, in North Stonington. Children:
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March 1, 1705 ; Elihu, baptized December 6,
1706; Wait, mentioned below.
(IV) Elder Wait Palmer, son of William
Palmer, was baptized in Stonington, May 27,
171 1. He lived on Pendleton Hill in Ston
ington, and was active in church interests
there. On April 10, 1772, he sold to his son
Wait the farm where he lived, on condition
that the latter give to him and his wife one-
half the profits yearly during their lives. He
married, 1727, Mary, daughter of Ebenezer
and Ann (Pendleton) Brown, born Novem
ber 28, 1703. Children: Wait, born May 5,
.1728 ; Amos, mentioned below ; Israel, Janu
ary 16, 1730; Isaac, September 15, 1732;
Mary, May 4, 1735 ; Content, January 27,
1736-7; Ebenezer, January 21, 1738-9; Elihu,
March 10, 1741.
(V) Amos, son of Elder Wait Palmer, was
born August 27, 1729. On November 21,
1784, he bought seventy acres of land in Exe
ter, Rhode Island, and on April 6, 1793,
eighty-three and three-quarters acres in Ash
ford, Connecticut. In the census of 1774 of
Rhode Island he had a family of four males
over sixteen, five under sixteen, two females
over sixteen and three under sixteen years
of age. His son Amos had one male over
sixteen, two under sixteen, one female over
'sixteen years of age; he married Mary Aus
tin, daughter of Ezekiel Elder Palmer, late
of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, February 15,
1770. He married, November 5, 1749, Mary
York. Four of their sixteen children were
Baptist ministers. Children, order of birth
not known : Amos ; Uriah, born 1753 ; Asa
hel, mentioned below ; Joel ; Stephen, born
August 22, 1758; Ziba; Bossell, born 1762;
Ezra ; Phineas, born October 19, 1765 ; Ben
jamin; Ezra; Desire; Comfort; Hannah;
Polly; Ellen.
(VI) Asahel, son of Amos Palmer, was
born January 22, 1755. He lived in Han
cock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. In
1790 he had at Hancock four sons under six
teen and two females. Among his sons were
Amos, mentioned below, and Nathan, who
settled in Canada.
(VII) Amos (2), son of Asahel Palmer,
was born in Berkshire county, April 11, 1789,
and died in Fredonia, New York, in 1836.
He moved from Massachusetts to New York
state, settling first in Madison county, and
in 1827 in Chautauqua county, at Fredonia,
ried, March 4, 1808, Dorcas Burlingham,

He was also engaged in distilling. He mar
ried, March 4, 1808, Dorcas Burlingham,
born in Windsor, now Cheshire, Massachu
setts, and died June 25, 1851. Children: Al-
vinza, mentioned below; Nelson (John Hora-
tius Asahel Nelson), born 181 1, died un
married, July 13, 1878; Alonzo, born at Will-
iamstown, Massachusetts, April 17, 1813, died
May 27, 1895, married Harsha Terwilliger,
who died March 20, 1908, in her eighty-
seventh year; Levi, June 11, 1815, at Will-
iamstown, died in Cattaraugus county, New
York, September 10, 1897, married Elizabeth
Tichnor; Stephen, November 20, 1819, died
at Fredonia, May 23, 1873; Charles Leland,
born in Easton, Madison county, New York,
February 21, 1821, died in Fredonia, April
7, 1836; Orange, born in Easton, New York,
October 7, 1823, died in Fredonia, October
13, 1861, married Lucy Gomsteck, who died
May 1, 1876, aged fifty-seven years.
(VIII) Alvinza, son of Amos Palmer, was
born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts,
April 21, 1809. He came to Chautauqua
county with his father, settling in the town
of Arkwright, New York, where he died Sep
tember 22, 1892, at the age of eighty-three
years five months one day. He married
Nancy Sellew, who died April 17, 1892, aged
seventy-seven years eleven months. Children,
born in Arkwright, New York : Alonzo, born
February 7, 1835, now a resident of Ark
wright, married Elizabeth Clinton ; George
H., mentioned below ; Sarah P., married
George Corey ; Charles, died unmarried ; Ste
phen, resident of Stockton, New York;
Frank, resident of Fredonia, New York, mar
ried Mrs. J. Raney; Lucy P., married (first)
Orling W. White, (second) Frank Healey;
Orange, resident of Arkwright.
(IX) George H., son of Alvinza Palmer,
was born in Arkwright, Chautauqua county,
New York, January 26, 1842, and died in
Fredonia, New York, January 17, 1901. He
was educated in the public schools of Fre
donia, where he lived most of his life. He
was a butcher and cattle dealer. He mar
ried Jane A. Hills, of Villenova, Chautau
qua county, New York, daughter of Hoel and
fiarriet (Dye) Hills. Children, born in Fre
donia: Nelson J., mentioned below; George
A., married Mary Wolleben.
(X) Nelson J., son of George H. Palmer,
was born in Fredonia, New York, March 15,
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the public schools ; his preparatory education
at the State Normal School, from which he
was graduated. He then entered the Buffalo
University Law School, where he was gradu
ated, Bachelor of Laws, class of 1899. He
was admitted to the New York bar in 1899,
and at once began the practice of law in Fre
donia. forming a partnership with William
S. Stearns. The firm of Stearns & Palmer
continued until 1902, when Mr. Palmer
moved to Dunkirk, New York. He continued
his professional career with Joseph C. White
as partner until 1904, when the firm dis
solved, since which Mr. Palmer has practiced
alone. He is well versed in the law, skillful
in its application, has high standing among-
his professional brethren, and the confidence
of his clients. He is an ardent Republican,
and an active worker for party success. In
1909 he was elected city attorney of Dunkirk,
which office he now capably fills. He has also
been since 1902 continuously, village attorney
of Fredonia. He is a member of the Protes
tant Episcopal church and of the Masonic
order, belonging to Forest Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and Dunkirk Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons. He is also an Odd Fel
low, of Olympia Lodge, No. 602, and an
Elk of Dunkirk Lodge, No. 922.
He married, June 10, 1903, at Fredonia,
Katherine Gertrude Washington, born at
Lockport, New York, daughter of George
and Katherine (Kennedy) Washington, and
granddaughter of George Washington, born
in Virginia between 1800 and 1812. Child:
Robert Nelson, born in Dunkirk, April 30,
1904.

This distinguished family is
ENDRESS of extremely ancient lineage.
Im Hof, a baronial race,
spreading out into many branches, is still
flourishing in the principal lines, namely, the
Swabian, the Franconian and the Italian, with
many subdivisions. In the records of the
twelfth century it is frequently found under
the name of "de Curia," or "in Curia." As
early as the thirteenth century it divided itself
into two prinicpal branches, which assumed
different arms. The elder branch remained
at the original seat of the race, in the city of
Laningen, in Swabia (now Bavaria) where a
village called Imhoff may yet be found.
(I) Johann Im Hof, called Johann (2)
who died A. D. 1341, is the progenitor from

whom all the race is descended. He dwelt
upon his estates at Laningen and procured
through his wife, Anne Von Gross, citizen
ship in Nuremburg. He was adopted among
the families capable of holding the office of
senator. He had issue.
(II) Konrad, married and had issue.
(Ill) Konrad (2), died in 1449. He had
issue. (IV) Johann (3), born in 1419, died in
1499. He had issue.
(V) Johann (4), born in 1461, died , in
1526. fie was hurgomaster of Nuremburg;
married and had issue.
(VI) Johann (5), born in 1488, died in
1526. He married and had issue.
(VII) Andreas, otherwise called Endres,
was born about 1490, and was a member of
the senate, or Rath, of Nuremburg, in the
year 1530. As senator he attended the Diet
of Augsburg and is styled "Herr Endress im
Hoff" by Saubertheim in his History of the
Augsburg Diet, written in 163 1. He married
and had issue.
(VIII) Endress, born about 15 13, married
and had issue.
(IX) Nicholas Endress, removed from
Nuremburg to Wertheim, on the north bank
of the Mayn rfver, about 1560.
(X) Peter, son of Nicholas Endress, born
about 1569, was judge of the criminal court
pf the district.
(XI) Nicholas (2), son of Peter Endress,
was born in 1603. He married and had issue.
(XII) Andress, son of Nicholas (2) En
dress, born in 1634, married and had issue.
(XIII) Philip Jacob, son of Andress En
dress, born in 1682, died in 1762.
(XIV) John Zachariah, son of Philip Ja
cob Endress, was born in 1726 and was edu
cated in the University of Tubingen, now
the University of Wirtenburg. He was an
extensive traveler ; was captured in the Medi
terranean sea by Corsairs of Algiers, the fam
ous sea pirates of that day, and sold into
captivity in Algiers. Subsequently a Neapoli
tan merchant (a Roman Christian) redeemed
him into freedom, took him to Italy and fur
nished him with means to return to his na
tive land. In 1766 he came to America and
located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
he accumulated considerable property near the
corner of Vine and Third streets. He was
an officer in the continental army in the war
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phia Guards, and as a result of his action in
the federal cause his "buildings were burned
to the ground when the British occupied the
city, fie died in 1810 and was buried at
Easton, Pennsylvania. -He married, Septem
ber 13, 1768," Mrs. Maria (Henrici) Sansfelt,
a widow, of French-Huguenot extraction.
They had a child, Christian Frederick Lewis,
mentioned below.
(XV) Dr. Christian Frederick Lewis En
dress, son of John Zachariah Endress, . was
born in Philadelphia, March 12, 1775. He
was graduated in the University of Pennsyl
vania, which institution honored him with the
title of Doctor of Theology in 1820. Through
out most of his lifetime he was connected
with Trinity Lutheran Church, pastor from
1815 to 1827 at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
About 1814, with his friend, Colonel Nathan
iel Rochester, he removed to Dansville, New
York, where they purchased large tracts of
land. Subsequently Colonel Rochester went
further on and established the city which now
bears his name. Dr. Endress did not remain
in Dansville but returned to Pennsylvania, lo
cating at Easton, where he died September
27, 1827. In 1801 he married Margaretha
Fries. They had a son, Isaac Lewis, men
tioned below.
(XVI) Isaac Lewis, son of Dr. Christian
F. L. Endress, was born in Easton, Pennsyl
vania, September 14, 1810, died in 1870. fie
was educated in Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. When his family left Penn
sylvania for Western New York he entered
the law office of Judge Ewing, of Trenton,
New Jersey, where he remained about one
year. He then went to Rochester and entered
the law offices of Messrs. Rochester & Ford
and later was in the offices of Messrs. Bar
nard & Hill. Eventually he was admitted to
the bar at Rochester, where he initiated the
practice of his profession and whence he re
moved to Dansville in 1832. He continued to
reside at Dansville during the remainder of
his life, and as a lawyer obtained an enviable
reputation and lucrative practice. For somes
thirteen years he was associated with Judge
John A. VanDerlip in the practice of law,
under the style of Endress & VanDerlip. He
was an old line Whig as a young man, and
after the formation of the Republican party
transferred his allegiance to that organiza
tion. He was appointed to the office of judge
in 1840 by Governor William H. Seward ; was

presidential elector in 1856; was elected a
member of the state constitutional convention ;
was a delegate to the National Republican
nominating convention of 1868; and was sev
eral times a member of the Republican state
committee. He was president of the board
of trustees of Dansville Seminary, and for a
number of years was one of the town rail
road commissioners. He was a member of
the vestry of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal
Church, and it may be said concerning him
that his charities knew only the bounds of
his opportunities. He was a brilliant lawyer
and business man, always fair and square-
minded in his dealings with his fellowmen,
and was ever held in the highest esteem by all
with whom he came in contact.
He married, October- 29, 1849, Helen Eliza
beth Edwards, daughter of William and Ma
ria (Fitzhugh) Edwards, the former of whom
was a direct descendant of Pierpont Edwards,
a brother of Jonathan Edwards. Maria Fitz
hugh was a daughter of Colonel Perregrine
and Elizabeth Crowley (Chew) Fitzhugh, the
former ' of whom was an aide to General
Washington. Colonel Fitzhugh was a son of
the distinguished Colonel William Fitzhugh,
born January 16, 1721, died February 11,
1798; at one time commander of all the Brit
ish forces in America ; married Mrs. Anne
Rousby, nee Frisby.
Children born to Judge and Mrs. Isaac L.
Endress: 1. Anna Maria, born September
26, 1850; married James M. Edwards, a
prominent banker at Dansville. They reside
at the old Endress Homestead and have two
children, Helen and Katharine. 2. Elizabeth
Chew, born October 11, 1852. 3. William
Fries, mentioned below.
(XVII) Colonel William Fries Endress,
son of Isaac Lewis and Helen Elizabeth (Ed
wards) Emdress, was born August 2, 1855, at
Dansville, New York. He was educated in
the United States Naval Academy, at An
napolis, and in the Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute, of Troy, New York. He followed his
chosen profession, civil engineering, for a
time, but gave it up soon after his marriage,
in 1879, and removed to Jamestown. Here
he purchased the old established coal and
building material business of J. Baldwin Jr.,
with which line of enterprise he has contin
ued to be identified during the long interven
ing years to the present time (1912). He is
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tauqua Refrigerating Company of Jamestown,
combining an ice and cold storage plant with
the coal and building material business. He is
now a member of the firm of Endress & Mitch
ell, wholesaling coal through Western New
York and North- Western Pennsylvania. In
the early eighties he owned and operated a
soft coal mine at Hilliards, Butler county,
Pennsylvania, and for many years was a job
ber and wholesaler of soft coal. In 1886,
when natural gas was piped into Jamestown,
thus destroying temporarily the coal business,
he devoted his attention to the development of
electric lighting, then in its infancy, organiz
ing and building the plant of the Jamestown
Electric Light & Power Company. He even
tually disposed of his interests in the electric
business at Jamestown and was induced to
visit the island of Cuba in the interest of the
Thompson-Houston Electric Company, made
up of New York and Havana capitalists. He
succeeded in introducing the "luz electrica,"
and was instrumental in lighting up the cities
of Havana, Matanzas, Cardenas, Puerto
Principe, and many of the great sugar plan
tations. After a two years' residence in Ha
vana he returned to Jamestown, where he
found the coal business much improved by
the decreased consumption of gas.
During his residence in Cuba, Colonel En
dress became proficient in the Spanish lan
guage and familiarized himself with Spanish
methods. While there he contracted yellow
fever, from which he recovered, thus making
him immune from that epidemic. It will thus
be seen that, when the Spanish-American war
broke out, in 1898, he was wonderfully well
equipped for service in the United States
army. On the inception of that conflict, he at
once offered his services to the government,
and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel on
Governor Black's staff. Throughout the five
months of the war, including the campaign
in Porto Rico, he served as aide to General
Guy V. Henry and he has many gratifying
evidences of the latter's appreciation of his
valiant services. He held superior rank to
any officer from Jamestown and was the only
one to see foreign service.
Colonel Endress is an officer of the Military
Order of the Porto Rican Expedition, and
by inheritance is a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and is also a mem
ber of Camp Porter, United Spanish War
Veterans. About 1900 he became interested

in association work, seeing the great benefits
to the retail dealer which should come from
organized effort. To his efforts can be traced
the splendid success now enjoyed by the New
York and Pennsylvania Association, of which
he was president for five terms, fie was an
important factor in the organization and de
velopment of the International Council and
in 1905 was elected, unanimously, to be the
executive head of all organized retail coal
merchants in the United States and Canada.
Colonel Endress resides at the old Newland
place, 500 Pine street, Jamestown, New York.
This is considered one of the finest homes in
Jamestown. He has always been identified
with St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church,
of which he is now junior warden.
He married, August 27, 1879, Dora Eliza
beth, daughter of Charles B. Willey, of Dans
ville, New York. Children : 1 . Captain Will
iam Fitzhugh, mentioned below. 2. Helen
Elizabeth Chew, born October 18, 1895 ; now
in attendance at the National Cathedral
School, at Washington, D. C.
(XVIII) Captain William Fitzhugh En
dress, U. S. A., son of Colonel William Fries
Endress, was born July 17, 1880. He was
graduated at West Point, in 1905, and is
now head of the Engineer School, Washing
ton Barracks, D. C. He married Abbie Van
Buren Wright, November 20, 1908, and they
have two children : William Fitzhugh Jr. and
James Wadsworth.

There were four broth-
RICHARDSON ers, Ezekiel, Samuel,
Thomas and James Rich
ardson, who came to America within a few
years after the founding of the Plymouth col
ony. They were sons of Thomas and Kath
erine (Durford) Richardson, who lived at
West Mill, Herts county, England. The mar
riage date of Thomas Richardson and Kath
erine Durford is recorded as August 24, 1590.
Ezekiel, the eldest of the four brothers, came
in the fleet with Winthrop in 1630. Samuel
and Thomas followed in 1636. They were
men of the middle class of life, of discretion
and piety. James settled in Chelmsford. Eze
kiel, Thomas and Samuel lived first at Charles
town, and a little later were associated with
Captain Edward Johnson in the founding of
Woburn. Samuel was already married at
the time he left England, and had two chil
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Elizabeth in 1635. The date of his admis
sion to the church at -Charlestown was Feb
ruary 18, 1637-38, and he was admitted a free
man at Charlestown, May 2, 1638. He re
moved to Woburn in 164 1. It was the custom
among the Puritans of New England, when a
new church was to be founded, to designate
seven men of eminent piety and sound judg
ment to be the "seven pillars" of the new or
ganization. They constituted the nucleus of
the church and had the responsibility of de
ciding what other members should be added.
It was also their duty to lay out the new town
which was to be formed in connection with
the church and make all needful arrangements
for the same. The seven commissioners ap
pointed by Charlestown to establish the new
church at Charlestown Village, afterward Wo
burn, included Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas
Richardson. The fact that all three brothers
attained this distinction so soon after their
arrival in the colony testifies to the esteem in
which they were held by the community. The
three brothers settled on a road which re
ceived from them the name of Richardson
Row. It is now within the limits of Win
chester. Their names, of course, are recorded
among the original members of church at
Woburn, which was the twenty-third church
founded in the Massachusetts colony. Sam
uel's house was occupied by several genera
tions of the family and was at one time the
scene of an Indian massacre, but that was not
in his time. Samuel's birth date is very closely
fixed by the fact that he was baptized at West
Mill, England, December 22, 1602 or 1604.
He died at Woburn, March 23, 1658. His
wife's given name was Joanna and she died
in 1666. Their children, besides those already
mentioned, were: Mary, born February "25,
1637-38; John, November 12, 1639; Hannah,
died in infancy ; Joseph, July 27, 1643 > Samuel
(2d), May 22, 1646; Stephen, August 15,
1649 > Thomas, died in infancy.
(II) Stephen, fourth son of Samuel and
Joanna, married, at Billerica, January 2, 1674-
75, Abigail, daughter of Francis and Abi
gail (Read) Wyman, of Woburn, who was
born about 1659. They lived at Woburn.
Stephen became a freeman in 1690, and died
March 22, 1717-18. His widow died Septem
ber 17, 1720. Their children were : Stephen,
born February 20, 1675-76, died 1718 ; Fran
cis, died in infancy; William, born December
14, 1678; Francis, born January 15, 1680-81;

Timothy, died in infancy; Abigail, born No
vember 14, 1683, married March 9, 1702-03,
John Vinton; Prudence, born January 17,
1685-86, married Lieutenant Samuel Kendall,
died in 1720; Timothy, born January 24,
1687-88, died June 1, 1717; Seth, born Janu
ary 16, 1689-90; Daniel, born October 16,
1691 ; Mary, born May 3, 1696; Rebecca, born
June 10, 1698 ; Solomon, born March 27, 1702.
(Ill) William, the third son of Stephen
and Ahigail (Wyman) Richardson, married,
September 15, 1703, Rebecca, daughter of
John Vinton, of Maiden, and later of Woburn,
who was born March 2, 1650, married August
26, 1677, Hannah Green, and died February
5, 1687-88. He was the son of John Vinton
of Lynn, ancestor of the Vinton family in
America, who came to this country probably
prior to 1640. Little is known about him, but
the family is believed to have been of French
origin and to. have been naturalized in Eng
land from the early part of the seventeenth or
the latter part of the sixteenth century. Re
becca Vinton was born March 26, 1683. Will
iam" Richardson was a husbandman, and lived
at Woburn till 1709 or 17 10, when he re
moved to Charlestown End, now the town of
Stoneham. On December 25, 1710, he bought
land from the proprietors at Attleboro, Massa
chusetts, and about 1718 he removed thither.
His death is not recorded. The children of
William and Rebecca (Vinton) Richardson
were: Rebecca, born August 4, 1704, died'
October 28, 1788; Hannah, born Octoher 28,
1706; Abigail, born April 18, 1709, married,
August 8, 1728, John Shepard, died Novem
ber 27, 1730; William, born April 17, 17 12,
married Mary Coy; Stephen, born September
7, 1714, married, November 11, 1736, Hannah
Coy; Mary, born April 18, 1717, died unmar
ried, November 1, 1797; John, born Novem
ber 27, 1719; Joanna, born September 17,
1722. William Richardson, son of Vinton Rich
ardson, and a descendant of William and Re
becca (Vinton) Richardson, was born at At
tleboro, Massachusetts, January 5, 1820.
When he was an infant his parents removed
to Pennsylvania, traveling overland by wagon.
After a short residence there they removed
to DeWitt, Onondaga county, New York,
where Mr. Richardson's boyhood was spent
on a farm and where he obtained a common
school education. The Erie canal was then
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years Mr. Richardson was employed by one
of the contractors on repair work between
Syracuse and Chittenango. Later he helped
to build the reservoir at Cazenovia, and after
ward was engaged in dredging operations at
Detroit. From an employee he developed into
a contractor, and his business rapidly grew to
large proportions. He constructed a large
piece of the embankment for the Great West
ern railroad. He carried on the first dredg
ing work ever done on the St. Clair flats in
the Detroit river. He dredged out the chan
nel at Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1854 he had
the contract for enlarging the Erie canal be
tween Tonawanda and Black Rock. He had
many commissions from the United States
government for improving harbors on the
Great Lakes. He removed to Buffalo in
1850, where he gradually became active in
both business and public affairs. He was a
director of the People's Bank and of the Niag
ara Bank. He was a member of the board
of supervisors for three years, and repre
sented the old eleventh ward in the board of
aldermen from 1884 to 1887. It has been
justly said of him that he never found it
necessary, in, order to achieve success, to
depart from the pathway of integrity and
honor. Having acquired a competence, he
retired from active business in 1890. He be
came a member of Grace Episcopal Church,
and was for many years one of its vestry
men. He is still living (1912), in his ninety-
third year. He married, in November, 1852,
Anne O'Day (originally spelled O'Dea),
daughter of Michael and Anne (O'Dea)
O'Day. She died February 21, 1912, aged
eighty-one years. Children : Ida, married
Charles R. Huntley, of Buffalo; May; Eliza
beth, twin of May, married Charles E. He
bard (q. v.), of Buffalo; Walter William,
mentioned below.
Walter William, son of William and Anne
(O'Day) Richardson, was born in Buffalo,
March 11, 1873. He was educated in the
public schools and at the Episcopal Academy
of Connecticut, from which he was graduated
in 1-891. He entered business with the Buf
falo Natural Gas Fuel Company, was elected
a director and manager in 1905, and was
elected president of the Buffalo United Nat
ural Gas Company in 1908. He is president
of the Franklin Natural Gas Company, vice-
president of the Natural Fuel Gas Company
of New Jersey, president of the Salamanca

Gas Company, vice-president of the Provincial
Natural Gas Fuel Company of Ontario, presi
dent of the Commercial Natural Gas Com
pany, director of the Clear Creek Oil and
Gas Gompany, director of the Springville Nat
ural Gas Company, president of the California
Natural Gas Company, and director of the
People's Bank of Buffalo. He is a Republican
in politics, and a member of Grace Episcopal
Church ; a member of the Masonic order,
thirty-second degree, and of all local lodges
and chapters; a member of the Buffalo, Elli
cott, Accacia and Automobile clubs and of the
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, and Manufac
turers' Club.
He married, September 30, 1900, May,
daughter of Frederick Ogden, vice-president
of the Banner Milling Company of Buffalo.
Children : William Frederick, died Novem
ber 21, 1905; Ruth Anne; John Walter, born
May 23, 1906, died November 4, 1909.

Elizabeth Richardson, third
HEBARD daughter of William and Anne
(O'Day) Richardson (q. v.),
married, October 5, 1888, Charles Edgar, son
of George Frederick Hebard, born in Con
necticut, in 1825, died in Buffalo, New York,
1 88 1. He was an officer of the United States
navy, and after his retirement spent several
years on his plantation in the West Indies.
A few years prior to his death he came to
Buffalo. He was a Democrat and an Episco
palian. He married Susan Gillespie.
(II) Charles Edgar, son of George Fred
erick Hebard, was born in Buffalo, New York,
December 10, 1855, died in Ashtabula, Ohio,
December 10, 1908. He was educated in the
public schools of Buffalo and at Cheshire,
Connecticut. He was for several years super
intendent of the Buffalo branch at Picando,
Mather & Company, shippers of coal and iron
ore, with principal offices at Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1904 Mr. Hebard was transferred to the
superintendency of the branch at Ashtabula,
Ohio, continuing until his death in 1908. He
was vestryman of St. Mark's Episcopal
Church, Buffalo, later removing his member
ship to Grace Church. In Ashtabula he was
a member of St. Peter's. During his Buffalo
residence he enlisted and served in the Sev
enty-fourth regiment, New York National
Guard. He was a prominent member of the
Masonic order, holding the thirty-second de
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the York Rite held the degrees of Master
Mason, Royal Arch Mason and Knight Tem
plar. He also was a Noble of Ismailia Tem
ple, Mystic Shrine. He held membership in
all Buffalo Masonic bodies. Politically he
was a Republican. He was a man of high
character, good business capacity, and was
held in high regard in business, fraternal and
social circles. After his death Mrs. Elizabeth
Hebard, his wife, returned to Buffalo, where
she now resides. Children, all born in Buf
falo : i. Margaret, married, December 18,
1909, James M. Helsdom, of Buffalo ; now
with the Williams Coal Company ; child : Eliz
abeth Ann. 2. Henry Dlalton, horn August
12, 1893 ; graduate Lafayette high school, class
of 1909; took a post-graduate course, 1910;
now with the Natural Gas and Fuel Company
of Buffalo. 3. George, born May 31, 1896.

The Irwins of Buffalo descended
IRWIN from an Irish progenitor, Will
iam Irwin, who came to the Uni
ted States early in the eighteen century, being
then a lad of fourteen years. He settled in
Dutchess county, New York. His ancestors
were of Scottish birth and settled in_ the
north of Ireland about 1650. William Irwin
was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and was
a relative of the Earl of Antrim. He came
to America with an elder brother, who later
returned to Ireland to receive some property
to which he had fallen heir. On coming again
to America, he sailed on a ship bound for Bal
timore and he ever afterward lived in Mary
land. William Irwin was seventy-five years
of age when the American revolution broke
out. He was a strong Whig, a friend of Gen
eral Washington, and acted with the patriots
in an advisory capacity,, but was too old for
military service. On account of the troubles
of the times, he was obliged to leave Dutchess
county for the more quiet region west of the
Hudson. He settled in Orange county, five
miles west of Newburgh, where he died about
1787, aged eighty-six years. He married
(first) Elizabeth McClane, who bore him a
son, Joseph. He married (second) Jane Hoff
man. Children : Robert, married Mary Pell ;
James, mentioned below; William, married
Jane Ennis ; Allen, married Esther Townsend ;
Mary, married Samuel Wickman; Margaret,
married Jacobus Ickmoody; Elizabeth, mar
ried Joseph Simmons.
(II) James, son of William and Jane

(Hoffman) Irwin, was born in Dutchess
county, New York. He married Margaret
Patten. Children : William Patten, men
tioned below ; Robert, Israel, James, Jane,
Ann, Elizabeth, Allen, John.
(Ill) William Patten, son of James and
Margaret (Patten) Irwin, was born in Dutch
ess county, New York, February 21, 1789,
died in Sodus, Wayne county, New York,
where most of his life was passed. He was
a farmer and a breeder of fine stock. He
was colonel of a regiment of Wayne county
militia in the old "general training" days and
was a man of prominence in the county. He
married Mehetable Hayward, a descendant of
the Pilgrim Hayward. Children: Theodore,
•who was a leading banker and business man
of Oswego, New York ; Dudley Martin, men
tioned below; David Wickham, D/aniel Pat
ten, William P., Frances Mary, Eliza Maria,
Theresa Mehetable, Evelina Margaret, Har
riet Ann.
(IV) Dudley Marvin, son of William Pat
ten and Mehetable (Hayward) Irwin, was
born in Sodus, Wayne county, New York,
March 17, 1829, died January 24, i860, at Al
bany, New York, as a result of an accident
on the New York Central railroad at Tarry
town. He married, January" 11, 1859, at Ful
ton, New York, Mary Elizabeth Miller, born
in Hillier, Upper Canada, December 9, 1837,
died at Fulton, New York, April 22, 1866,
aged twenty-eight years. Her mother was a
Townsend of Connecticut.
(V) Dudley Marvin (2), son of Dudley
Marvin (1) and Mary Elizabeth (Miller) Ir
win, was born at Fulton, New York, June 10,
i860. He was educated in a private school
at Oswego, New York, and at Lafayette Col
lege, Easton, Pennsylvania. He did not com
plete his college course, but in 1898 Lafayette
conferred on him the degree of Master of
Arts, Mr. Trwin having continued his studies
and earned his degree while engaged in busi
ness. He was for many years the junior part
ner in the firm of Irwin & Sloan, grain deal
ers. In 1896 he was located in Chicago, and
in 1898 he made his permanent home in Buf
falo, New York, where his interests are now
largely centered. He handles grain in im
mense quantities and in that trade is regarded
as an expert. He is also largely interested in
other fields of activity. He is vice-president
of the Great Lakes Construction Company,
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for piers and breakwaters along the lake
coasts. It also has contracts for sections of
the new Erie barge canal. He is president of
the United Producers' Company, which owns
and operates oil wells in Pennsylvania and
Illinois. He is a director of the American
Savings Bank, the Buffalo General Hospital
and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. He is
a man of energy and public spirit, holding
high position in the commercial world. He
is a Republican, but thoroughly independent
in political action. In religious faith he is an
Episcopalian and a vestryman of Trinity
Church, Buffalo. His college fraternity is
Zeta Psi. He belongs to the Ellicott, Buffalo,
Saturn, University, Country and Automobile
clubs of Buffalo, and to the Grolier Club of
New York.
He married, December 14, 1892, Jennie,
daughter of William Marsh, of Scho.oley's
Mountain, New Jersey. Mr. Marsh died in
July, 1892. Mrs. Irwin is a graduate of
Madame de Silva's Young Ladies' School of
New York. She is a granddaughter of An
drew H. Reeder, of Easton, Pennsylvania,
who was appointed in 1854 the first governor
of the territory of Kansas. He was a Demo
crat, but the conduct of the "border ruffians"
shook his partisanship. After his removal
by President Pierce he was chosen by the Free
State party as territorial delegate to congress.
In 1856 he and James H. Lane were chosen
United States senators by the Free State
party, but congress refused to recognize the
election. He and General Nathaniel Lyon
were the first brigadier generals appointed by
President Lincoln, but he was too far ad
vanced in life to accept. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Irwin are: Katherine Penn Gaskill,
Theodore Hayward, Gwendolyn Reeder, Dud
ley Marvin (3).

This well-known Scotch
MacDONALD name is widely spread
• over the English-speaking
world. The family with which we have now
to deal is of that Scotch-Irish stock which is
so prominent in American life and history.
Their family home had long been in Scotland,
previous to the time of emigrating to Canada.
(I) Donald MacDonald, the founder of this
family, was born in Cumberland, Ontario,
Canada, died about 1870, his death due to
drowning, by an accident in rafting. He was
engaged in the lumber business. He married

Margaret McLaughlin, whose family are old
settlers in the Ottawa valley, Ontario. Child,
Peter Daniel, of whom further.
(II) Peter Daniel, son of Donald and Mar
garet (McLaughlin) MacDonald, was born
near Rockland, Russell county, Ontario, in
1858, died February 14, 1899. He attended
the public schools and the high school, also
the Collegiate Institute at Collingwood, Sim-
coe county, Ontario. He received a teacher's
diploma of the highest grade, and took first
class honors in Queen's University in his yean
Successively he was principal of the George
street school, the Mutchmor street school, and
the First avenue school, all in Ottawa ; he was
engaged in this work nine years. He also had
public service, as political secretary to William
C. Edwards, then a member of the house of
commons, now a senator in the Dominion
parliament. He was an active Baptist, a mem
ber of the First Baptist Church in Ottawa,
many years librarian of the Sunday school,
and much interested in Sunday school work.
He married, in February, 1884, Janet Lamb,
daughter of Alexander and Janet (Lamb)
MacLean. Her father was born in 1824, in
Abau, Scotland, died August 17, 1906; he
lived at Thurso, Labelle county, Quebec, and
was for twenty-five years secretary of the
town council. Her mother was a member of
an old Scotch family from Sterling, Scotland,
long settled at Ottawa valley. Children: 1.
Norman Alexander, of whom further. 2.
Wilford Donald, born February 21, 1887; with
the Saskatchewan Lumber Company, Sas
katchewan; a member of the Baptist church;
married Jean MacTavish, a graduate of the
London Normal School ; her parents were de
scendants of the Selkirk pioneers. 3. Er
nest Stanley, born March 12, 1889; lives in
Buffalo, and is with Spencer Kellogg & Sons.
4. Everett John, born May 2, 1891 ; lives in
Buffalo, and is office manager for the Empire
State Ring Company. 5. Stewart Kenneth,
born in 1893 ; lives at Crooked River, Sas
katchewan, and is with a lumber company. 6.
Herbert Keith, born in 1895 ; lives at Crooked
River, is with a lumber company.
(Ill) Norman Alexander, son of Peter
Daniel and Janet Lamb (MacLean) Mac
Donald, was born at Cumberland, Russell
county, Ontario, June 24, 1885. He attended
the public schools and the high school, but did
not graduate from the latter. In 1901 he
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Business at Ottawa. In 1900 he was page in
the Canadian house of commons; the next
year he was employed in the general man
ager's division of the Canada Atlantic rail
road. In March, 1902, he came to Buffalo,
and he was for two years in the office of
the Hugh MacLean Lumber Company. He*
entered the service of the Citizens' Bank of
Buffalo in January, 1904, as city collection
clerk; the next year he was promoted to be
secretary to the president, and in another year
was made assistant to the officers. In 1908
he was made assistant cashier, and in 1909
cashier. Mr. MacDonald is independent in
politics. He is a member of the First Bap
tist Church of Buffalo, the Buffalo club, the
Country club, the Buffalo Canoe club.
He married, June 19, 1907, in Buffalo, Ma
bel, daughter of William J. and Annie M.
- (Davis) Crawford. 'Hqr 'father is senior
member of the firm of William J. Crawford &
Company, Delaware and Delavan avenues,
Buffalo, manufacturers of mausoleums and
statuary; both her parents are living, and re
side at 840 Potomac avenue. She is a gradu
ate of the Masten Park high school, in the
class of 1904. Children: Janet Crawford,
born October 30, 1908 ; Norman Alexander,
February 19, 191 1.

This name is common to all
SMITH' lands. Every country that has
its workers in metal has its
smiths, and from this occupation came the
surname Smith, with its varied forms of spell
ing. The family was an early one in the
American colonies, but there seems to be no
clews by which the earlier families can be
connected with William Smith, of Vermont,
founder of the line in Erie county, New York,
herein recorded, and a pioneer settler of the
town of Concord. Since his advent the
family have been prominent in the public
and business life of the town.
Governor William Smith came from the
state of Vermont to the town of Concord, Erie
county, New York, in the spring of 1810. He
obtained his title at the time of the raising
of the first liberty pole. at the Four Corners, a.
mile east of Springville, which has ever since
been known as Liberty Pole Corners. The
time was July 4, about 1819. The ceremony
of raising a flag to the top of the long, grace
ful pole was accompanied by the firing of
guns, the cheers of the crowd and the music

of fife and drum. There was an absence,
however, of notables, and to supply the de
ficiency titles were invented for many of those
present, and a list of the gathering included
"President Adams," "General Knox," "Gov
ernor Smith," etc. To many of these pioneers
these names ever afterward clung, and they
were known to rising generations by no other.
The writer, after searching in vain for the
state which elected William Smith as its gov
ernor, applied to a descendant of the "Gov
ernor," and received the foregoing explana
tion. William Smith was a man of tall, command
ing presence, and was once asked by an In
dian whom he had asked to join in a social
glass, "Be's you the governor of New York
state?" The governor replied in his heavy,
guttural voice, "Not exactly, but I am gov
ernor of Dutch Hollow." fiis farm was lots
fifty-six and fifty-seven on Cattaraugus Creek,
where he built a log house and in the fall
of 1810 moved his family there. He was a
very strpng, energetic man and in a few years
had made many improvements. In 1816 or
1817 he sold his farm receiving his pay in
silver, of which there was nearly half a
bushel. He then located on lot forty-nine
and later made several removals in the same
•locality. He died December 29, 1853, and
his wife Hannah died October 9, 1857, aged
eighty years. Sons: Stephen, William and
Calvin, all lived and died in Concord. Daugh
ters: Deborah, married Samuel Wilcox and
died November 15, 1850, in Concord, aged
fifty years, five months ; Sally, married Clem
ent 'Carney and moved to Michigan.
(II) Calvin, son of "Governor" William
Smith, was born in Vermont, September 30,
1803, died in Concord, Erie county, New
York, February 4, 1879, and was buried at
Block Schoolhouse cemetery, later his re
mains being, moved to Maplewood cemetery.
He came to Erie county with his father in
1810 and spent his after life in Concord. He
was a farmer owning land on Sharp street,
three miles distant from Springville, which he
purchased arid cleared. As he prospered in
business he added to his holdings until he
had two hundred and twenty-five acres under
cultivation. He was a hard-working, upright
man, an active member of the Free Baptist
church, and a good citizen. He married,
March 12, 1826, Harriet Mayo, born in Mas
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her parents from Oxford, Worcester county,
Massachusetts, in 1816. She was the daugh
ter of Jonathan Mayo, who died in 1859, aged
eighty-two years,' his wife dying several years
before him. They had six sons and three
daughters. Harriet (Mayo) Smith died at
Springville, New York, August 21, 1894, aged
eighty-five years. Children of Calvin Smith:
1. Cynthia, born January 20, 1827, died Janu
ary 28, 1863 ; married Abram Patch. 2. Mal-
vina, born September, 28, 1828; married
Archibald C. Preston. 3. Stephen, born
June 27, 1830; married (first) Mary
Gardinier; (second) Anna Krieger. 4.
Lucy Ann, December 23, 1832, died August
31, 1884; married A. Jackson Backus. 5. Jer
emy, March 3, 1836; married Marion Palmer.
6. Calvin C. (of further mention). 7. Lo-
rinda, December 29, 1840. 8. Selinda, No
vember 6, 1842 ; married Yates Gardinier. 9.
Philena, December 2, 1844, married Murray
Chandler. 10. Zelia M., May 17, 1847; mar
ried John H. Melvin.
(Ill) Calvin C, sixth child and third son
of Calvin and Harriet (Mayo) Smith, was
born on the old homestead farm near Spring
ville, Erie county, New York, September 27,
1838. He attended the district public school,
finishing his studies at Springville Academy.
He grew up a farmer and followed that voca
tion until reaching adult years. He then loca
ted in the village of Springville, where he
established a general store which he conducted
for several years. He then sold out and re
turned to the farm. He continued his agri
cultural business until 1910, when he retired
from active life and moved to a comfortable
home in the village. He was active in town
affairs; was road commissioner fourteen
years, and also served as town clerk. He is
a member of the Baptist church and a Repub
lican. He married, November 15, 1864, Josephine
Fleming, a great-granddaughter of James
Fleming, born in Ireland, his wife in Wales.
They emigrated to the United States prior to
1786. Their son, James (2) Fleming, was
born in Massachusetts, in 1786. ,He married
Sally Loomis, born in Massachusetts in 1789.
They came to New York state, settling first in
the town of Boston, in 1819, and in 1823 com
ing to the town of Concord, Erie county.
James Fleming died December 29, 1866, aged
seventy-nine years, his wife Sally, March 14,
1854, aged sixty-five years. They had seven

children: 1. Jane, married (first) E. T.
Briggs; (second) William Field; she died in
Springville, New York, January 14, 1892. 2.
James (3), died in Springville, September 6,
1867, in his fifty-fifth year ,- he married Mary
Norcutt. 3. Hannah, died in Concord, New
York, September 24, 1841, aged twenty-five
years ; she married Samuel Wheeler. 4. Sally,
married (first) Adoniram Blake; (second)
Elam Chandler; she died February 25, 1880.
5. Joseph B., born March 11, 1822, died in
Buffalo, December 11, 1904, in his eighty-
second year ; he married, in 1842, Harriet Bis-.
bee (see forward). 6. Parker, died in Ash
ford, New York, in 1873, aged forty-seven
years; he married Susan Babbitt. 7. Mar
garet, died in Ellicottville, New York, in 1861,
aged thirty-one years; she married H. B.
Harrington. Joseph B. Fleming, the fifth child, was
born in the town of Concord, Erie county,
New York, and is buried in the Block school-
house cemetery by his wife, Harriet (Bisbee)
Fleming, who died November 18, 1897. She
was born at Niagara Falls, New York, May
29, 1824, daughter of William Bisbee, born
in England in 1778, married, in 1810, Mary
Frye, born in Massachusetts, August 16, 1786.
Children of Joseph B. and Harriet Fleming:
Josephine, married Calvin C. Smith; Ernest
B., born February 27, 1856, married Jean
Parker, child, Josephine, married C. Mause
and has Nellie, Joshua and Harriet. Children
of Calvin C. and Josephine Smith: Grant
Fleming (of further mention) ; Ira Wood
ward (of further mention).
(W) Grant Fleming, eldest son of Calvin
C. and Josephine (Fleming) Smith, was born
in Springville, Erie county, New York, Au
gust 19, 1865. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and began business life as a clerk,
continuing in mercantile life for sixteen years.
In the fall of 1899 he came to Ellicottville,
Cattaraugus county, entering the employ of
the Bank of Ellicottville. He passed through
several promotions and in 1901 was chosen
cashier, a position he yet most capably fills.
He is a vestryman of the Episcopal church;
was town clerk of Ellicottville five years, and
is a Republican in politics.
He married, May 3, 1888, Ella Abbott, born
June 30, 1868, daughter of Delos and Ella
(Hardy) Abbott. Child, Gertrude Odell,
born June 26, 1892.
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vin C. and Josephine (Fleming) Smith, was
born in Concord, Erie county, New York,
October 12, 1871. His education was ob
tained in the public schools and at Griffith In
stitute. On reaching years of maturity he
decided upon the legal profession and prose
cuted his studies with Edwin A. Scott, a law
yer of Springville. He was admitted to the
bar of New York state at Rochester, in Feb
ruary, 1896. After his admission he spent
two years in association with Mr. Scott, his
¦former preceptor, then started in practice for
himself. He conducted a successful general
practice until 1906, when he admitted as a
partner William E. Bensley, the firm being
Smith & Bensley. Mr. Smith has an intimate
knowledge of the law and has won recogni
tion as one of the sterling members of the
Erie county bar. He served four years as
justice of the peace, and eleven years as vil
lage clerk of Springville. In 1904 he was
elected supervisor and has held that office con
tinuously, this being his seventh year in that
office, fie is a Republican in politics, and
follows his fathers in their religious belief,
the Baptist. He is prominent also in frater
nal circles : Is past master of Springville
Lodge, No. 351, Free and Accepted Masons;
past high priest of Chapter No. 275, Royal
Arch Masons ; member of Salamanca Com
mandery, No. 62, Knights Templar; past
sachem of Running Deer Tribe, No. 442, Im
proved Order of Red Men ; memher of
Springville Lodge, No. 588, Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, and of Salamanca Lodge,
No. 1025, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He married, February 27, 1895, Inda A,
daughter of Eugene and Lottie (Crary) Mills,
and granddaughter of William P. and De
borah Mills, early settlers in Erie county,
coming from Orange county, New York. Her
mother Lottie was a daughter of Frederick
Crary. Mrs. Smith died August 13, 191 1.
Children of Ira W. and Inda A. Smith : Crary
C, born April 7, 1896; Richmond Pearson,
October 8, 1898; Josephine, April 23, 1901 ;
Janice, November 27, 1903 ; Charlotte, March
1, 1906.

The Clairs of Little Valley, New
CLAIR York, descend from Louis Clair,
born in Hesse, Darmstadt, Ger
many, about 18 1 5. He was a carpenter and
builder, having also a knowledge of the ma

son s trade. He married in his native land,
ana in later years, with wife and children,
came to the United States, taking passage in
a sailing vessel in the year of 1848. He set
tled in Sardinia, Erie county, New York,
where he purchased a farm on which he re
sided until death. He married Helena Am-
mertroudt. Children: 1. Conrad, who en
listed in the civil war, serving three years in
the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment,
New York Volunteers. Plje married Eliza
beth Frye; children: Lavina, married
Charles fiartman, and Frank, married Anna
 . 2. John W., married Alice Frank ;
children: Louis P., married Bertha Chesbro;
Albert, married Bessie Briggs and has daugh
ter Violet. 3. Henry C, married Sarah
Perry ; children : Minnie M. and Dr. Frank.
4. Fred K, married Julia Loth ; children :
Lora and Claude. 5. Elizabeth, married Mar
tin Merwin ; children : Lena, married E. Far-
land, two children ; Mabel, married  ¦
Vaughan. 6. Charles J. (of further mention).
7. Carrie, married Erhart Schwertz; children:
Clyde and Avery.
(II) Charles J., son of Louis and Helena
(Amrnertroudt) Clair, was born in the town
of Sardinia, Erie county, New York, June 22,
i860. He was educated in the public school
at Sardinia. Worked in early life on the farm.
At the age of thirteen he went to Coopers-
ville, Michigan, where he was employed as a
helper in a cheese factory. During the next
three years he was employed by J. B. Lewis
as cheesemaker at Elton and Fish Lake. In
1879 he went to Reading, Michigan, to work
at his trade. Returning to New York state
he resumed his work at Farmersville and Lime
Lake. In 1881 ,he was married. Pie then
moved to East Java, Wyoming county, where
he resumed his trade for three years. He
then located at Ellicottville, where he and
his brother, J. W. Clair, formed partnership
and bought about twenty-five factories. He
resided at this place for eleven years. In
1896 they purchased other factories and
Charles J. located at Little Valley, New York,
where he was engaged as cheese manufacturer
and dealer until 1910. He sold his plants and
became a wholesale dealer, buying and ship
ping to outside markets. He is a stockholder
and director of the Cattaraugus County Bank,
Buffalo & Porto Rico Fruit Company, and
president of the Little Valley Realty Com
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has served eight years on the village board
of trustees, fie is an energetic, progressive
business man, and is highly regarded by his
associates, fie is a Republican in politics,
member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fra
ternities, and a communicant of the Metho
dist Episcopal church.
He married, June 19, 1881, Lucetta J. Pot
ter, born April 29, 1856, daughter of Silas
Potter, born 1818, died 1899, a farmer of
Lime Lake, Cattaraugus county, New York,
son of Daniel Potter, born in Vermont, set
tled at Lime Lake, New York, where he fol
lowed farming. He married Lydia Hale.
Silas Potter married Mary Anne, born 1816,
died 1892, daughter of Isaac Waite, of Eas
ton, New York. Children: 1. Mary ette, mar
ried Riley Hodges. 2. Isaac, married (first)
Speedy Hall ; children: Nettie, married (first)
Ellsworth Holbrook; (second) Lenard Cran-
dell ; Fred, married Matilda Sanf ord ; chil
dren, three boys and two girls. Married (sec
ond) Mary Twomly. Married (third) Ida
Baker. 3. Merritt, married Lois McNall;
children : i. Effner, married Blanch  ;
child, Alice, ii. Ethel, married Edward Cham
berlain ; children, four boys and four girls.
iii. Mabel, married Victor Chamberlain; two
children, iv. Effie, married Walter Milholn;
two children. 4. Sarah, married Milton H.
Watson ; children : i. Gertrude, married Orrin
Wright; child, Mildred, ii. Clyde. 5. Wil
bur, married Celia Lafferty ; children : i. Inez,
married Manley Wright; four children, ii.
Ward, married Mary Toner, iii. Irving, mar
ried Nettie Ashcraft. 6. Lucetta J., married
Charles J. Clair. 7. William J., married Linda
Harmon; children: i. Edgar, married Nina
Thompson, ii. Clayton, iii. Lamont. Charles
J. and Lucetta J. Clair have one child, Eva M.,
horn November 28, 1890.

The Harris family of James-
HARRIS town is represented in the pres
ent generation by George A.
and Alfred T. Harris, representative busi
ness men, whose energy and enterprise have
aided considerably in the development and
progress of their adopted city.
(I) The first of the family herein recorded
of whom we have knowledge was Otis Har
ris, a resident of Garry, New York, where
he followed the occupation of farming, de
riving therefrom a comfortable livelihood. He
was a man of energy and thrift, and was

highly respected in the community. He mar
ried Maria Van Houten and among their
children was Alfred T., see forward.
(II) Alfred T., son of Otis Harris, was
born in Garry, New York, in 1838, died No
vember 13, 1867, his death resulting from a
fall from a wagon, his spine being seriously
injured. He attended the common schools
of the neighborhood, and throughout his ac
tive career devoted his attention to farming.
He was a man of high character and his in
fluence for good was brought to bear -upon
all with whom he associated. He married
Annis Elizabeth Day, born January 23, 1841,
now (19 12) living at North Warren, Penn
sylvania, daughter of Anson R. and Elizabeth
(Heath) Day, who were the parents of four
other children, namely: Electa C, born De
cember 21, 1835, died September 21, 1866,
was the wife of Stephen L. Mead, who is
now living at Forrestville, New York; Mor
gan H., born October 26, 1837, now living in
Syracuse, New York; Waty Ann, born April
30, 1839, died February 6, 1854; John A.,
born September 16, 1844, now living in Aber
deen, South Dakota. Anson R. Day was born
in Tioga county, New York, September 20,
181 1, died June 21, 1877, at Ellery, New
York; Elizabeth (Heath) Day was born in
Washington county, New York, October 4,
1813, died September 23, 1904. She was a
daughter of James Heath, born in July, 1784,
and his wife, Azuba Heath, born July 14,
1791. Mr. and Mrs. Heath were the parents
of the following named children : Morgan,
Elizabeth, Isaac T., Ruth A. Langford, Lydia
M. Smith, Waty, Diana, Mary Crossman, now
living at Jamestown, New York ; Laura Lang
ford, Austin, James, Ebenezer, killed in the
first days battle of Gettysburg ; Arville B. Pe
terson, now living with her sister in James
town. Mr. and Mrs. Harris were the parents
of two children, George A. and Alfred T.,*see
forward. (Ill) George A., eldest son of Alfred T.
and Annis E. (Day) Harris, was born in
Garry, New York, November 25, 1866. He
was reared on the farm, remaining there until
fourteen years of age, during which time he
attended the district school. He then entered
the employ of the A. D. Sharpe Dry Goods
Company, of Jamestown, New York, with
whom he remained for nine years, thoroughly
mastering the business in all its branches.
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Clark in the baking business, which connec
tion continued until 1890, when his brother,
Alfred T. Harris, purchased Mr. Clark's in
terest and formed the partnership of Harris
Brothers, which still continues. They con
duct an extensive and profitable business, their
cash receipts for the past year (1911) being
$60,000. They give employment to eighteen
men, have three route wagons and eight
horses. Their bakery occupies a building one
hundred and twenty feet deep on a lot twenty-
five feet wide, and consists of three stories
and a basement, thoroughly equipped for
their line of work. The brothers are men of
high character, enterprising and progressive,
and all their transactions are conducted in a
practical and business-like manner, and thus
they merit the success which has attended
their efforts. Mr. Harris is a member of the
Methodist church, and of the Fraternal Or
der of Eagles. He married, January 9, 1907,
Minnie, born May 16, 1876, daughter of Will
iam and Jannet Jackson, of- Westminster,
county of Middlesex, province of Ontario,
Canada. (Ill) Alfred T. (2), youngest son of Al
fred T. and Annis E. (Day) Harris, was born
in the town of Ellery, Chautauqua county,
New York, March 27, 1868. He was reared
on the farm, and his education was acquired
in the district schools and Jamestown high
school. He began his active career in the
employ of the A. D. Sharpe Dry Goods Com
pany of Jamestown and in 1890 became asso
ciated with his brother in the baking business,
described in the foregoing paragraph. He is
a member of the Methodist church. He mar
ried, July 11, 1895, Pearl, born January 14,
1872, daughter of Dr. Henry Neville. Chil
dren : Margaret Elizabeth, born June 29,
1901 ; John Neville, April 30, 1907.

The Rath family of Jamestown
RATH traces back, not alone through its
own head, Warren M. Rath, but
on the distaff side through Mrs. Rath to the
Willsons. Mrs. Rath's father and Nathan
Willson's father were brothers.
(I) The first of the Rath name to appear
in New York state was the grandfather of
Warren M. Rath, of Jamestown, Casper Rath,
who migrated from Germany to America
many years back, bringing with him his fam

ily, and settling in Western New York. The
time of his coming is not certainly known.
(II) Casper Friedrich, son of Casper Rath,
was born in Germany, but was brought up,
educated and lived the greater part of his life
in Buffalo, New York, where he died March
16, 1898, at the age of fifty-six. He was in the
live stock husiness, handling horses, cattle
and poultry, largely at Buffalo, for more than
twenty-five years. He was eighteen years of
age when the civil war broke out, and he en
listed at Buffalo and saw three years' service
in the Union army. After the war he mar
ried, at Lancaster, New York, Mary Nebe-
lacker, a native of that place, but like himself
of German lineage. They were the parents of
nine children, namely : Catherine, Annie, Nich
olas, William, Frederick, Joseph, Warren M.,
of whom further; Mamie, Carolina.
(Ill) Warren M., son of Casper Friedrich
and Mary (Nebelacker) Rath, was born in
Buffalo, New York, September 26, 1876. His
education was obtained in the city and Catho
lic parochial schools of Buffalo. As a youth
he learned the candy maker's trade, serving
nine years with A. W. Mauser to perfect his
knowledge of it. After he had mastered it
there, he went to other cities and visited many
leading factories in the candy line.- He spent
considerable time in the great factory of C. F.
Gunther in Chicago. He had experience in
fourteen different departments of the business
of John S. Huyler. He visited at different
periods in the line of his vocation Detroit, St.
Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Cleve
land, Buffalo, Albany, New York, Boston and
Portland. It is this wide experience that
gives him fame as an expert in the business.
Mr. Rath left the Huyler employ in 1901 to
set up in business for himself. This he did
in Philadelphia, at 1609 Susquehanna avenue,
and here he flourished for six years. He
came to Jamestown, New York, in April,
1910, and opened up a handsome place, a
candy store and factory together, in the Lilli-
bridge Block, which is the finest confectionery
and ice cream parlor in Western New York.
Here Mr. Rath has been selling the highest
grade goods on the market. He has also
opened (1912) another confectionery store in
the New Samuels Block. During the time
that he has been established in Jamestown,
Mr. Rath has strikingly displayed his business
ability. He is highly regarded, and is con
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ising of the younger business element of the
town. Mr. Rath married, in Jamestown, June 28,
1904, Jennie Amelia, born in Lyons, Kansas,
November 30, 1882, daughter of Sanford
Isaac and Mary Ann (Nicholas) Willson.
She was educated and brought up there also,
while her father was engaged in business in
that part of the country. Having traveled
over the country and assisted her husband in
the business, having served four years her
self in the trade here in Jamestown, she has
been of invaluable aid to Mr. Rath in his
undertakings. She is a member of the
Thoughtful Circle of King's Daughters, of
the Jamestown Congregational Church Bible
Qass and of the Daughters of Liberty. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Rath are members of the Con
gregational church.
Sanford Isaac Willson, father of Mrs. War
ren M. Rath, was born in English Hill, James
town, March 3, 1846, died in that city, De
cember 23, 1903. He was educated at James
town Academy, and spent his early life in
Chautauqua county, fie was in the lumber
line for years there, and had a thoroughly
practical knowledge of it, and was specially
expert. After having operated in Western
New York and Pennsylvania, he went out to
Lyons, Kansas, took up land, and started
farming. Some ten years later he sold this
land and went to live in Lyons village, where
he was superintendent for the Martin Lum
ber Company. There he remained about
twenty years. In 1899 he came back to James
town, and until he retired was with the Pearl
City Veneer Works. He was a Democrat
in early life, but later became a Socialist. He
was a member of the Odd Fellows in Lyons,
superintendent of the Sunday school of the
Reformed church, and in other ways was ac
tive in good work.
He married, at Hanover Center, New York,
February 3, 1870, Mary Ann, born May 8,
1846, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Tay
lor) Nicholas. Their children: 1. Agnes
May, born January 27, 1872, died February
23, 1872. 2. Ira Thomas, born January 28,
1873; married Ethelyn Spear; one child,
Douglas Sanford Willson, born November 29,
1910. 3. Jennie Amelia, wife of Warren M.
Rath, as aforesaid.
The Nicholas line, from which she traces
on the maternal side, begins in this country
at least with Thomas Nicholas, born in Cam

bridgeshire, England, in 181 5. He came to
America in 1852, and settled at Hanover, New
York. In 1880 he went out to Lyons, Kansas,
and took up land. He died there, as did his
wife, he at seventy-six in 1891, she at seventy-
five the following year. They had five chil
dren, all born in England: 1. John, died in
Kansas. 2. William, of Lyons, Kansas. 3.
Sarah, of Smith Mills, New York. 4. Eliza
beth, also of Smith Mills. 5. Mary Ann, Mrs.
Rath's mother, of Jamestown, New York ; she
is a member of the Congregational church.

Elisha Andrews was born in
ANDREWS Huntington, Vermont, about
1800, one of a family of
nineteen children, died at Richmond, Ver
mont. He was a farmer. He married Elsa
Lynn. Children : Salmon F., mentioned be
low; Horace.
(II) Salmon F., son of Elisha Andrews,
was born at Huntington, Vermont, in 1835.
He received a common school education. He
followed farming all his active life and is
now living, retired, with his son, Clarence
Andrews, at Richmond, Vermont. For some
years he lived at Middlesex, Vermont. In
politics he is a Republican. He has held vari
ous offices of trust and honor in Vermont.
He is a member of the Congregational church,
and was formerly a trustee of the society. He
married Ellen Sumner, born at Stockholm,
New York, in 1836, died in February, 1908,
daughter of Henry Sumner. Children: 1.
Clark S., a shoe dealer in Barre, Vermont. 2.
Lillian, married Fred W. Powers, of Water
bury, Vermont. 3. Clayton Gerald, mentioned
below. 4. Clarence Bertrand, a farmer at
Richmond, Vermont. 5. Carlotta, married
Stephen G. Sumner, principal of the high
school at Scio, New York.
(Ill) Dr. Glayton Gerald Andrews, son of
Salmon F Andrews, was born at Middlesex,
Vermont, November 26, 1870. He attended
the public schools of Richmond and Burling
ton, Vermont. He studied his profession in
the medical department of the University of
Vermont and graduated with the degree of
M.D. in 1897. He was on the medical staff
of the Vermont State Hospital for the Insane
the same year and continued for seven years.
In 1905 he took a short course in the Post-
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began to practice his profession at Canton,
New York, and has continued there since. He
is a member of the St. Lawrence County
Medical Society, the New York State Medi
cal Society, the American Medical Associa
tion, and the American Medico-Physiological
Association. He is an elder in the Presby
terian church at Canton. In politics he is a
Republican. He married, September 28, 1899,
Mabel Hutchinson, of Burlington, Vermont,
daughter of Merrill N. Hutchinson.

This family is of German ancestry,
EISS the founder, George Eiss, settling
in Boston, in 1820, after a short
previous residence in Ogdensburg, New York.
He was a farmer and man of some means.
He married, in Germany, Katherine Reichert.
He died May 5, 1843. Children: 1. Chris
tian, born October, 1808, died in Boston, New
York, May 28, 1891 ; married Catherine Don-
nocker; sons: i. Daniel, born December 25,
1849, married, May 25, 1875 ; no children.
ii. John, bom February 6, 1854, unmarried.
iii. Celia, born 1855, married fienry Stietzel,
of Boston, New York. Both Daniel and John
are of Hamburg, Erie county, New York. 2.
George, died in Buffalo, buried in Forest
Lawn cemetery; married  ; daughters:
Celia, married Thomas Humberstone, and re
sides in Buffalo; Elizabeth, married John But
ters, lives in Chicago. 3. Michael, married
and had a large family. 4. Katherine, mar
ried Jacob Carr; has son, Joseph Carr, a jew
eler, of Niagara Falls. 5. Godfrey, of whom
further. 6. Adeline, married Joshua Lumley ;
one son, George, resides at Sardinia, New
York. 7. Margaret, married Fred Coltz;
daughter, Kate, married Frank Friedman, re
sides at Java Village, New York.
(II) Godfrey, son of George and Kather
ine (Reichert) Eiss, was born in Og
densburg, New York, February 5, 1831.
When he was three years of age his par
ents removed to Boston, New York. He
married, in 1852, Anna Margaret Fatty,
born in Boston, New York, April 5, 1833,
died September 20, 1899, in Buffalo,
daughter of Jacob Fatty, bom in Alsace, then
a province of France, where he was a pros
perous farmer, making a specialty of grape
culture. He came to Boston, New York, was
married and had children: Caroline, George,
Jacob, Henry, Anna Margaret (married God

frey Eiss), Mary, married John Evans, a
veteran of the civil war, now deceased. Ten
children were born to Godfrey and Anna
Margaret Eiss, three of whom died in in
fancy: 1. Mary Louise, resident of Buffalo.
2. Franklin J., horn July 9, 1857; resident of
Snyder, New York; married (first) Kate
McNerney; children: Lillian, Frank, Harry,
Walter and Alfred. 3. Clark Eber, born Feb
ruary 25, 1861 ; resides in Buffalo, engaged
in the real estate business; married Emma
Nachtrieb ; children : Violet and Blanche. 4.
George Martin, of whom further. 5. Rose
J., born March 14, 1865; married Albert F.
Unholz; children: Ethlyn, Milton and Lil
lian. 6. Lillian B., born September 5, 1870;
married Charles H. Weisseman, of Weisseman
& Eiss Company, Buffalo ; children : Hazel,
Orville, Ruth and Chester. 7. Arthur D.,
married Nellie Honsburger; child, Margaret.
(Ill) George Martin, son of Godfrey and
Anna Margaret (Fatty) Eiss, was born in
Sardinia, New York, April 23, 1863. He was
educated in the public schools of Buffalo, his
parents having removed to that city in 1868.
After finishing in the city school he took a
course in Bryant & Stratton's Business Col
lege. For four years, 1877-81, he was em
ployed in a printing office; from 1881 to 1885
was employed in the coal department of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Company, at Buffalo; from 1885 to 1899 was
bookkeeper in the Buffalo office of the Stand
ard Oil Company; in 1899 he formed a part
nership with Charles H. Weisseman, and un
der the firm name, Wiesseman & Eiss, es
tablished, at Broadway and Fillmore avenue,
Buffalo, a modern department store. They
have a very large establishment and conduct
a most successful business, their line embrac
ing all departments of the present day de
partment store. Mr. Eiss is a Republican in
politics, but takes no active part in public
affairs. He is an active member of the Lin-
wood Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1895 he was elected trustee and is still
serving. He was a teacher of the young men's
class in the Sunday school for many years, and
since 1907 has been superintendent. For
thirty years he has been an active member of
the Young Men's Christian Association, serv
ing on many important committees. He is a
member of De Molay Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons; of Keystone Chapter, Royal
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Chamber of Commerce, and of the East Side
Business Men's Taxpayers' Association.
' He married (first), January i, 1890, Har
riet J., born September 13, 1867, died August
20, 1901, daughter of Adam Weller, an offi
cial of the United States custom house, at
Buffalo. Children: 1. Mildred, graduate of
the Maston Park high school, 1910, now a
student at Buffalo State Normal College. 2.
Weller George, born November 5, 1897. Mr.
Eiss married (second), June 23, 1903, Bertha
Inez, daughter of George Wallace Smith.
Children : 3. Robert Martin, born May 5,
1904. 4. Norman Smith, March 31, 1906. 5.
Dorothy Louise, June 4, 1909.

The antiquity of the Horton
HORTON family is well-proven. Long
before the time of Henry
Larey, Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1310,
Robert De Horton manumitted a bondman to
his manor of Horton. The name Horton in
the Anglo-Saxon language means an inclosure
or garden of vegetables. The name is evi
dently of Latin origin and has been known in
England ever since the conquest. The first
of the family in America of whom there is
authentic record came from England in 1633-
38. Thomas, Jeremiah and Barnabas Horton
were among the early immigrants. Tradition
says they were brothers.
(II) Barnabas Horton, son of Joseph Hor
ton, was born in Mouseley, Leicestershire,
England, July 13, 1600. He came to New
England in the ship "Swallow," Captain Jer
emy Horton, master and owner, in 1635-38,
landed at Hampton, Massachusetts, went to
New Haven, Connecticut, 1640, with wife
Mary and sons Joseph and Benjamin. In Octo
ber, 1640, he made a permanent settlement in
what is now Southold, Long Island, New
York, where his last eight children were born ;
the first two were born in England. Children :
Joseph, of whom further; Benjamin, married
Anna Budd, sister of Jane, who was wife of
Joseph Horton; Caleb, married Abigail Hal
lock; Joshua, married Mary Tuthill; Jona
than, married Bethia Wells ; Hannah, married
Barnabas Terrill ; Sarah, married Joseph Con-
klin; Mary, married Joseph Budd, brother of
Jane ; Mercy, married Christopher Youngs ;
Abigail, married Charles Booth.
(Ill) Joseph (2), eldest son of Barnabas
Horton, was born in Mouseley, England,

about 1635, and was brought to New England
by his parents. He resided in Southold near
his father for several years after his marriage,
but in 1664 moved to Rye, Westchester
county, New York, where his father-in-law,
John Budd, had previously settled. He was
admitted a freeman of Connecticut colony,
1662, In 1671 he was chosen selectman of
Rye. In 1678 he was justice of the peace, a
lieutenant, later captain of militia, and also
authorized by the general court to issue war
rants and .perform marriages. In 1695 he
was vestryman of the church and in 1699
licensed to keep a house of entertainment. He
was a miller, an occupation followed by sev
eral of his descendants. He married, about
1655, Jane, daughter of John Budd, one of
the thirteen original Puritans, who settled
Southold in 1640. Children, all but the last
born at Southold, Long Island : Joseph, John,
Samuel, David (of- whom further), Abigail,
married Roger Park; Jeremiah.
(IV) David, fourth son of Joseph (2) Hor
ton, was born in Southold, Long Island, 1644.
He settled at White Plains, New York, where
it is believed all his children were born. His
wife is supposed to have been Esther King.
Children : Joseph, bom 1687, married Anna
Howell; Thomas, 1690, married Mary Knapp;
Daniel (of whom further) ; Samuel, John,
Jeremiah, Abigail, Ambrose.
(V) Daniel, son of David Horton, was
born at White Plains, New York, April 23,
1702. He settled at Yorktown, New York,
where he died December 10, 1777. He mar
ried, about 1724, Esther Lane, born at Rye,
New York, May 24, 1704, died April 18, 1769.
Children, all born at Yorktown : Daniel, born
1725; Elizabeth, married a Mr. Wright; Ra
chel, married Daniel Wright; Stephen, born
April 30, 1 73 1, married (first) Sarah Owens;
(second) Elizabeth Frost; Esther, married a
Mr. Wright; Phebe, married a Mr. Knapp;
Millicent, married (first) an Owens; (sec
ond) a Lee; William (of whom further).
(VI) William, youngest child of Daniel
Horton, was born at Yorktown, New York,
January 10, 1743, died in Colchester, New
York, 1831. fie settled in the town of Col
chester, Delaware county, New York, in 1789.
Colchester was then a wilderness. He pur
chased large tracts of land, built saw and grist
mills and operated a tannery, his trade being
that of tanner and currier. He tanned and
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Delaware county. He dealt largely in lumber
and kept a general store. He was a man of
much influence and prominence; was justice
of the peace many years, was president judge
of Ulster county, New York, (Ulster and
Delaware then being one county) and in 1794
was elected to the state legislature. He was
an active member, with his wife, of the Bap
tist church. He married, in 1768, Elizabeth
Covert, born January 9, 1743, of French de
scent. She survived him but two weeks.
Children: John, born 1769, married Sallie
Hagan; Henry,, November 7, 1771, married
Abigail Cook; James, January 23, 1773, mar
ried Martha White; Sarah, 1775, married Ja
cob Radaker; Mica j ah, 1777, married Han
nah Williams; Isaac (of whom further);
Harriet, married John Radaker.
(VII) Isaac, fifth son and sixth child of
William Horton, was born at Somers, New
York, April 13, 1780, died May 10, 1855. He
grew up in Colchester, where he lived until
April, 1826, then moved to Liberty, Sullivan
county, New York, driving his cattle, cows,
hogs, horses and sheep through two feet of
snow. In the morning all his sheep were
gone, killed by the wolves. He built a grist
mill atXiberty Falls, in 1827, and another in
1841. He was exclusively engaged in the
manufacture of bed posts and other turned
woodwork, including wooden bowls. He also
shipped out much of curly and bird's-eye
maple with which the district abounded, fie
was a member of the Baptist church at Col
chester, but after moving to Liberty attended
the Episcopal church. He was a Whig in
politics and an ardent supporter of Clay and
Webster. He married, January 1, 1807, Pru
dence, daughter of Enoch and Esther
(Wright) Knapp. They had ten children, all
living when the youngest was fifty years old.
"In 1837 they had thirty-seven grandchildren,
all living but two." Prudence Horton sur
vived her husband, and February 8, 1874, was
living at Liberty Falls, New York, in good
health, in her eighty-seventh year, and had
then living ten children, thirty-seven grand
children, and nineteen great-grandchildren.
Her father lived to be eighty-eight and her
grandmother, Prudence Schofield, to be ninety-
four. Children, all born at Colchester, except
Emily: Homer (of whom further); Ray,
born April 8, 181 1, married Martha A. Rada
ker; James, June 5, 1813, married (first)
Elizabeth Krimer, (second) Eliza Ann Clem

ents; Charles, February 25, 1815, married Bet
sey Grant; Esther, August 4, 1817, married
Nathaniel Gildeslave; Clarissa, May 11, 1819,
married John C. Smith; Obed, May 5, 1821,
married Catherine Holliday; Annis, January
16, 1824, married William Gried ; Webb, Feb
ruary 24, 1826, married Elizabeth Ann Rada
ker; Emily, born at Liberty, New York, De
cember 11, 1829, married Nicholas M. Young.
(VIII) Homer, eldest child of Isaac Hor
ton, was born at Colchester, New York, June
29, 1809, died in Sheffield, Pennsylvania,
where he removed about ten years prior to
his death. He also lived in Bethel, Sullivan
county, New York. He married, at Liberty
Corners, New York, Jane Davidge. Children,
all born in Sullivan county: Walter (of
whom further); Lucien, born December 11,
1836, married (first) Harriet Burr, (second)
Ella Ball; Elizabeth, married William Mc-
Nair; Rachel, married John McNair; James,
born August 1, 1849, married Wilhelmina
Garrett; Isaac, married Ella Morse; Sarah.
(IX) Walter, eldest child of Homer Hor
ton, was born in Bethel, Sullivan county, New
York, October 17, 1832, died in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 31, 1901. His home
was in Sheffield, Pennsylvania, where he was
in business for many years. Going to Phila
delphia to consult a physician he was taken
with a mortal illness and died there three
months later. He attended the Methodist
Episcopal church, and was an active Republi
can. He married, September 14, 1858, at
Hancock, New York, Harriet, daughter of
Dr. William Johnson Lee, born at Jackson
ville, New York, where he died. He was a
graduate physician and practiced his profes
sion in Jacksonville all his active life. He
was an active member of the Methodist Epis
copal church, and affiliated with the Repub
lican party. He married Almira Lyke, daugh
ter of  — Moore. Her mother married
(second) Samuel Lyke and Almira took his
name, Lyke. Dr. Lee was a son of Jeptha
Lee, born in Connecticut; married Esther
Franklin, and after his marriage and the birth
of two children settled in Jacksonville, New
York. Children of Walter and Harriet (Lee)
Horton: 1. Cora, born August 26, 1859, died
August 13, 1865. 2. Myra Lee, born April
17, 1861, died July, 1910; married Louis
Schoelkopf; children: i. Walter Horton, born
October 1, 1883; graduate of Pennsylvania
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married Anna Johnson, ii. Genevieve Chris
tians, married, September 26, 1907, Henry
Von Birge and has a son, Henry Schoelkopf,
born July 6, 1908.
This family was founded in New
TEW England by Richard Tew, son of
Henry and Mary (Clarke) Tew, of
Maidford, Northamptonshire, England. The
following instrument, dated October 18, 1633,
was placed upon record in Rhode Island at a
later date: "This indenture made the 18th
day of October in the 9th year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord Charles of England and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.,
between Henry Tew of Maidford, etc., yeo
man, and William Clarke of Prior Hardwick,
etc., witnesseth: That for and in considera
tion of a marriage by the grace of God shortly
to be had and solemnized between Richard
Tew, son and heir apparent of said Henry and
Mary Clarke, one of the daughters of William
Clarke, and for the sum of £20 of lawful
money of England, by bond secured to be paid
by William Clarke unto the said Henry Tew,
upon the last day of May next, and for the
sum of f 120 by bond secured to be paid by
him, the said William Clarke, to him the said
Richard Tew upon 29th day of September,
1640, and for other good causes, etc." Then
follows an engagement entered into by Henry
Tew to make over on his part to his son Rich
ard, houses, barns, tenements, hereditaments,
fields, etc.
Richard Tew came to New England in 1640,
his daughter Seaborn receiving her name from
the fact that she was born on the ocean, dur
ing the voyage to America. In 1642 he is
found at Newport, Rhode Island, where that
year he bought fifty-nine and one-half acres
of land of John Anthony of Portsmouth. This
seems to have been his home ever afterward.
In later years he united with the persecuted
Quakers (Society of Friends) and had re
corded upon the French records the births of
his children. In 1643 ne purchased twenty
acres of land. In 1653 he was on a commit
tee for arranging matters that concern Long
Island and in the case concerning the Dutch.
He was called at the time "of Portsmouth,"
but he abode there but a short time. During
the years 1654-56-57-58-60-63, he was com
missioner. In 1655 ne was made a freeman.
(This is the date of his joining the church.)
In 1657 he bought forty acres of land. In

1657-62-63-66-67 he was chosen assistant (to
the governor). In 1659 he bought a share
of the Conanticut settlement, consideration:
"A good ewe and six ewe lambs, or a mare
colt." In 1661 he was on a committee to re
ceive contributions for the agents in England
(Roger Williams and John Clarke). In 1663
he is named in the Royal Charter granted
Rhode Island by Charles II. The same year
he was on a committee for setting bounds
between Portsmouth and Newport. In 1663-
64-65 he was deputy from Newport to the
general assembly. In 1664 he bought a dwell
ing house and land, together with a marsh,
consideration: "a certain sum." In 1667
he was on a committee appointed on prison
and pound. In 1671 he was nominated with
twenty-seven others as persons from whom a
special court should appoint a jury in case of
two Indians imprisoned on a criminal charge.
He died in 1673. A tradition of the family
relates that he died in London, England,
where he had gone to look after some prop
erty. In 1687 his widow Mary, signed as a
witness in settlement of estates of John Pea-
body Sr., of Newport. He married, in Eng
land, Mary Clarke, who survived him until
1687. Children: 1. Seaborn, born- on the
ocean, January 4, 1640; married (first), Jan
uary 5, 1658, Samuel Billings ; (second) Owen
Higgins ; issue by both. 2. Flnathan, born
October 15, 1644; died 1711. 3. Mary, born
August 12, 1647; died 1688; married, Decem
ber 8, 1670, Andrew, born 1635, died May 1,
1686, son of William and Susannah Harris.
4. Henry, of further mention.
(II) fienry, only son of Richard and Mary
(Clarke) Tew, was born in Newport, Rhode
Island, 1654; died there April 26, 1718. He
had, November 15, 1674, two lots containing
eighty acres, dwelling house, barn, orchard,
etc., from his father, "late deceased." He
was deputy, 1680 and 1698, and the latter
year was on a committee to "inspect our body
of laws." He now had the title of captain.
In 1699 he was chosen agent to go to Eng
land, but declined. He signed a letter with
others concerning matters of controversy be
tween Connecticut and Rhode Island. Begin
ning February 4, 1702, and for several years
thereafter, he served on a committee of four
teen persons appointed to attend to matter of
proprietors' lands. In 1703-04-05-08-09-10-11-
12, he was assistant (governor's). In 1706
he was on a committee to build a fort on Goat

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Island. In 1707 he was with others given
authority to impress a vessel into commis
sion "to bear up for volunteers." In 1709 he
was on a special committee for advising Gov
ernor Cranston concerning the expedition
against Canada. In 17 14 he was chosen dep
uty governor in place of Walter Clarke, de
ceased. He now held the rank and title of
lieutenant-colonel, June 18, 1717. He deeded
his son Henry, "for love, etc.," certain land
in Newport, with mansion, house, barns, or
chards, garden, etc., and sundry other parcels,
reserving six rods where his mother and wife
were buried, to be laid out "twelve rods wide
and three in length, for use as a burial place
forever." The son Henry agreed to keep one
hundred sheep for his father for life and to
make certain payments to his five sisters.
Henry (1) and his wives were buried in the
family burying ground, half a mile north of
Sachuest Beach. His will, dated April 20,
1718, was proved May 18, 1718. He married
(first) Dorcas  , died 1694; (second)
Sarah  , died 17 18. Children by first
wife: 1. Mary, born October 12, 1680; died
May 30, 1752; married June 10, 1703, William
Peckham (2), born August 3, 1675; died
January 18, 1764. 2. Henry, of further men
tion. 3. William, born 1683; died April 5,
1718; married, March 16, 1708, Abigail Sis-
son, born March 23, 1685 ; died August 30,
1723. '4. Richard, born 1684; deputy, 1718-
24-27-36; married, December 1, 1709, Ruth,
sister of Abigail and daughter of George and
Sarah (Lawton) Sisson. 5. John, mentioned
below. 6. Elizabeth, died 1769 ; married, Sep
tember 17, 1712, Edward, son of Philip and
Mary Smith. 7. Sarah, married Sylvester, son
of James and Mary (Greene) Sweet. 8.
Elisha, born 1691 ; died February 23, 1714. 9.
Edward, died January 18, 1702. Children by
second wife : 10. Dorcas, September 26, 1696,
died February 5, 1715. 11. Paul, born Sep
tember, 1699; died May 24, 171 1. 12. Ed
ward, born November 1, 1703, died November
4, 1749; was town clerk of Middletown,
Rhode Island, 1749; married, January 3, 1744,
Mary Hoar, born 1723, died September, 1800,
daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah (Bright-
man) Hoar.
(Ill) John Tew, son of Henry Tew, was
born in Newport, Rhode Island. He re
ceived under his father's will his land in Digh-
ton, Massachusetts, and removed thither. He
married Sarah  . The town records of

Dighton show the birth of three children:
Henry, October 29, 1729; William, September
12, 1 73 1 ; Dorcas, March 26, 1734.
(IV) Captain Henry Tew, son of John
Tew, was born at Dighton, Massachusetts,
October 29, 1729. Until after the revolution
the family remained mostly in Newport and
Middletown, Rhode Island, and in Dighton
and the adjoining town of Freetown, Massa
chusetts. In 1771, according to the provincial
census, Job, William, Thomas and James were
heads of families in Newport. In 1790 Elisha,
Henry, James, John, Joshua, Mary, Newport,
Thomas, and William were heads of families
in Newport, Rhode Island. At Dighton, in
1790, Paul, Daniel, Henry, Benjamin and
Henry Jr. were heads of families, all doubt
less descendants of John. Henry had two
males over sixteen, one under that age, and
Henry Jr. two under sixteen and four females
in the family. No other Tews were then re
ported as living in Massachusetts. Henry
Tew, born January 23, 1705, son of Henry,
lived at Middletown, Rhode Island, by wife
Sarah had : Henry, born February 14, 1735 ;
Ann, February 11, 1737; Job, January 9,
1739; Mary, December 14, 1742; Admiral,
March 13, 1746. His family left town, how
ever, as the only head of the family of the
name in 1771 was Edward, having three fe
males in his family. A Henry Tew married
at Newport, October 2, 1728, Margaret Eas
ton. Henry Tew, of Dighton, married there
(intention dated October 20, 1753), Elizabeth
Hathaway. Daniel Tew, doubtless a brother,
married at Dighton (intention dated January
12, 1762) Rosa Hathaway. In the revolution
we find David Tew of Dighton, Uriah of
Dighton (who married, in 1787, Sarah Samp
son), Daniel Tew of Berkley, Peter Tew of
Lancaster, Charles Tew of Berkley and Digh
ton, and William Tew of Rhode Island. Cap
tain Henry Tew and his son Henry were also
soldiers from Dighton. Henry was second
lieutenant in Captain James Nicolls' "(Eighth)
company, second Bristol county regiment,
commissioned April 26, 1776, serving in the
Rhode Island campaign; also captain of the
same company in 1779, and in Colonel John
Hathaway's regiment in 1780. As both H'enry
Sr. and Jr. were reported in the census, of
1790, neither lost his life in the revolution.
rfenry Tew Jr. married, at Dighton (inten
tion dated July 4, 1782), Betty Hathaway.
The names of other children of Henry Jr. are

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not found, except William, mentioned below.
(V) William, son of Captain Henry Tew,
was born at Dighton, Massachusetts, Septem
ber 17, 1769.* About the year 1796 he came
to New York state, settling at fiudson. In
1803 he settled in Rensselaerville, Albany
county, removed in 1810 to Otsego county,
and in July, 1832 made permanent settlement
in Jamestown, New York, where he died
April 26, 1847. He married, June 11, 1797,
Priscilla Fish, born at Nantucket, Massachu
setts, March 16, 1776, died at Jamestown,
New York, February 13, 1852. Children, first
three born at Hudson, next three at Rensse
laerville, and last three at Fly Creek, .Otsego
county, New York: 1. Samuel, born April 9,
1798; died in Kansas City, Missouri, May
19, 1877; he lived for several years near
Rochester, New York; after the death of his
wife he removed to Minnesota to live with his
children. He married, at Farmington, New
York, in 1822, Elizabeth Morrison. Children:
i. William, born November, 1824, twice mar
ried, ii. Mary Jane, born July, 1827, married
R. C. Wilkins, about 1852. iii. George W.,
born February, 1830, married, in Wisconsin,
in 1849. iy- Marshall D., born May, 1833,
died 1843. 2. Sally Ann, born February 24,
1800; married, in 1823, in Otsego county, R.
F. Fenton; they removed to Jamestown, New
York, where two children were born ; all their
children are dead, and they left no issue ; she
died July 11, 1832, in Jamestown, New York.
3. John Enos, born January 4, 1802 ; died at
Delanti, New York, June 20, 1879; married,
at Norwich, Connecticut, February 16, 1823,
Mary Washburn, born in Tolland, Connecti
cut, August 24, 1803 ; died at Delanti, Novem
ber 13, 1886. 4. George Washington, of fur
ther mention. 5. Mary Eliza, born Septem
ber 5, 1806; died at Jamestown, New York,
October 30, 1881 ; married, at Fly Creek, Ot
sego county, New York, in 1823, Nicholas
A. Sprague, born February 7, 1805, at Coop
erstown, New York, died at Jamestown, Octo
ber, 1870; children: i. Harvey A., born at
Cooperstown, New York, April 22, 1825, died
at Danville, New York; ii. Esther Jane, born
at Cooperstown, New York, September 26,
1827; iii. George W., born at Laona, New
York, Decejmber 6, 1829, died at Jamestown;
* The connection between William and Cap
tain Henry Tew has not been established to the
full satisfaction either of the family or of the
editors of this work.

iv. William Henry, born at Arkwright, New
York, April 16, 1832, died at Jamestown, Au
gust 15, 1910; v. Horatio N., born at Laona,
New York, February 27, 1834; vi. Albert L.,
born at Dansville, New York, March 26, 1844,
died November, 1873 ; vii. Adelaide M., born
in Rochester, New York, August 6, 1850. 6.
William Henry, born July 16, 1808; died in
Jamestown, August 24, 1885 ; married, near
Laona, New York, April 12, 1829, Rhoda
Burnham, born December 13, 1805, near La
ona, New York, died at Jamestown, January
22, 1869; children, all born in Jamestown,
New York : i. Julia Matilda, born August 10,
1830, died in Jamestown ; ii. Harvey W, born
September 23, 1832, died November, 191 1;
iii. Alice Louisa, born September 28, 1840;
iv. Mary Minerva, born March 2, 1847, died
in Jamestown ; v. Charles Henry, born Octo
ber 7, 1849. 7. Emily Jane, born March 3,
181 1, died in Jamestown, New York, October
8, 1882; married, in Jamestown, March 13,
1832, Rufus Jones, died in that city, Decem
ber 11, 1879; children, all born in Jamestown:
i. Horace P., born February 9, 1833, died
March 19, 1833 ; ii. Sally Ann, born June 13,
1836; iii. Edward Payson, born May 21, 1838,
died September 14, 1886; iv. Celestia P., born
June 29, 1840, died February 27, 1844; v.
George Tew, born June 1, 1843, died Septem
ber 5, 1845 > vi- Louis Kossuth, born October
13, 1851. 8. Ann Maria, born Janua'ry 13,
1813, died May 22, 1847; married, in James
town, 1839, Orsell Cook, born in Wells, Rut
land county, Vermont, February 23, 1809,
died July, 1895 ; children: i. Mariett, born No
vember 25, 1839, died in Jamestown, New
York; ii. Florence A., born January 16, 1845;
iii. Celestia P., born April, 1847. 9. Betsey
Matilda, born August 12, 1815, died in James
town, New York, January 6, 1848; married,
in Jamestown, December 9, 1834, Walter Ste
phens, born in Schoharie county, New York,
October 26, 1808, died in Florida, April 9,
1861 ; children, all born in Jamestown : i.
Emily Matilda, born October 4, 1835, died in
Faribault, • Minnesota, January 15, 1901 ; ii.
Marie Antoinette, born October 29, 1837 ; iii.
Alfred W., born January 9, 1839, died May
30, 1841 ; iv. Edgar William, born March 6,
1842, died in Jamestown, January 16, 1909;
v. Lawrence L., born March 7, 1844, died
April 30, 1845. Walter Stephens married
(second), October 3, 1850, Prudence Cor
delia Havens, who is deceased.

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(VI) George Washington, third son and
fourth child of William and Priscilla (Fish)
Tew, was born at Rensselaerville, Albany
county, New York, April 15, 1804; died at
Silver Creek, New York, November 27, 1875.
He learned the tinsmith's trade with Albert
North, and soon after his marriage moved
to Rochester, New York. In the fall of 1825
he removed to Jamestown, New York, where
he engaged in business for himself as a tin
and sheet iron, worker. He had received a
good common school education in his youth,
and being possessed with a liking and ambi
tion to become a lawyer, began the study of
law in 1829 with Samuel A. Brown. In 183 1
he was admitted to the bar and began prac
tice at once, being admitted to a law partner
ship with his preceptor, Mr. Brown. In 1834
he was elected clerk of Chautauqua county,
was reelected in 1837, and resided at May
ville. He returned from Mayville to James
town in 1841, and soon afterward removed
to Silver Creek, having accepted the position
of cashier of the Bank of Silver Creek. About
1846 he was elected president of the bank,
holding that position until his death in 1875.
Following his death the bank went into volun
tary liquidation. Mr. Tew started in life in
humble circumstances and position, and carved
out an enviable career, fiis unusual talents
were given full sway, and whether as artisan,
lawyer, or banker, he was a leader. For over
a quarter of a century he was president of the
Silver Creek Bank, and was well known as a
wise and conservative financier. In religious
faith he was a Presbyterian, and in politics a
supporter of the Republican party.
He married (first), May 25, 1825, in Ot
sego county, New York, Mary Day Alger,
born in Hartwick, New York, March 4, 1802,
died at Mayville, New York, August 30,
1839. He married (second), at May
ville, June 4, 1840, Mrs. Caroline Jack
son Reynolds, born April 9, 1810, widow of
Guy Reynolds, and having a child Agnes, born
October 15, 1837, who was afterward known
as Agnes Reynolds Tew ; she married John J.
Whitney, June 13, 1865. They moved to
Jamestown in 1866. Children by first mar
riage: 1. Helen, born at Jamestown, New
York, September 16, 1826, died at Weyau-
wega, Wisconsin, October 24, 1879; married
(first) Charles A. Rice, (second) Jerome
Crocker. 2. Minerva, born at Jamestown, No
vember 13, 1828; died there June 29, 1909;

married, April 11, 1849, Isaac S. Powell, and
resided at Newburg, New York, and later
at Jamestown, New York, where they died ; he
died February 11, 1895. 3. George Wash
ington (2), born in Jamestown, January 6,
1832, of whom further. 4. Mary Josephine,
born in Mayville, New York, November 2,
1834; died there January 7, 1839.. Children
by second marriage: 5. Grace, born at Silver
Creek, New York, July 28, 1841 ; died at Buf
falo, New York, November 23, 1904; married,
September 17, 1885, Alfred Wilbur; he died
November 16, 1895, at Boston. 6. Willis, of
further mention.
(VII) George Washington (2), son of
George Washington (1) Tew, was born at
Jamestown, New York, January 6, 1832. The
family moved to Silver Creek, New York, in
1841, and after leaving school he began his
business career in the Bank of Silver Creek,
of which he was afterwards teller for several
years. In April, 1865, the Second National
Bank of Jamestown, which he had assisted
in organizing, began business, and he was
chosen its first cashier. Later the name of
the bank was changed to The City National
Bank, and in 1880 he was elected president,
resigning the office in 1893 and retiring
from active business. He served nine years
as president of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Jamestown. He is a member
of the Presbyterian church, and is a Republi
can in politics. He married, October 12, 1854,
Lucia A. Whitney, born at Conesus, New
York, December 31, 1834, died at Jamestown,
October 12, 1906. Children: Herbert Whit
ney, born at Silver Creek, April 8, 1861 ;
Georgia Lucia, born at Jamestown, August
10, 1873.
(VII) Willis, youngest child of George
Washington Tew (1), and only son of his sec
ond wife, Caroline Jackson-Reynolds Tew, was
born at Silver Creek, Chautauqua county, New
York, February 27, 1844. He began his edu
cation in the public schools of Silver Creek, at
tended Fredonia Academy, New York, and en
tered Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu
setts, September, i860, where he was gradu
ated, class of 1862, and then entered Yale Col
lege. After leaving college he at once began
what has proved to be his life work. He en
tered the Silver Creek Bank, of which his
father was president, remaining there until the
fall of 1864, when he was appointed teller of
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Warren, Pennsylvania. In January, 1869, he
resigned to become cashier of the Second Na
tional Bank of Jamestown, New York, which
later became the City National Bank of
Jamestown. He was elected vice-president
of the latter in 1880, and in January, 1893,
was chosen president. When the consolida
tion of the City National Bank and the Chau
tauqua County Bank was effected under the
name of Chautauqua County Trust Company,
Mr. Tew was elected one of the two vice-
presidents of the Trust Company, continuing
in that position until his retirement from
active business in 1903. He is independent
in politics, and an attendant of the Presby
terian church. He married, November 18,
1869, Mary E. Cady, born July 24, 1847, at
New Concord, New York ; died December 17,
1886, daughter of Sylvester S. and Ann Eliza
Cady, of New Concord, New York, but sub
sequently of Jamestown, New York, where
they resided for nearly half a century. Mr.
and Mrs. Willis Tew had no issue.
(The Fish Line).
Thomas Fish, who died in 1687, first ap
pears in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1643,
when he had land granted him. In 1655 he
was made a freeman. This would indicate
that he then joined the church. March .20,
1660, he had deeds made him for house and
land. In 1665 he bought two parcels of land
with dwelling house, barn, and orchard. In
1674 he was a member of the town council.
May 2, 1684, he deeded land to his grandson,
Preserved Fish. His will was dated Decem
ber 13, 1687, and proved May 2, 1684; execu
trix, wife Mary, who survived him until 1699.
Children: 1. Thomas (2), of further men
tion. 2. Mehitable, married, August 6, 1667,
Joseph Tripp; thirteen children. 3. Mary,
died April 4, 1747; married, March 18, 1671,
Francis Brayton; six children. 4. Alice, died
1734; married William Knowles; ten chil
dren. 5. John, died 1742; resided in Ports
mouth, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth, Mas
sachusetts; married Joanna  ; children:
Ebenezer, John, Mary, Abigail, Mehitable,
Joanna, Hope, Susanna, Elizabeth, Sarah,
Alice and Patience. 6. Daniel, died Septem
ber 16, 1723 ; resided in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island; married, May 1, 1682, Abigail, died
1717, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Shu-
man) Mumford ; children : Comfort, Thomas
Ruth, Daniel, Sarah, Jeremiah, Abigail, and

-Mary. 7. Robert, died 1730; resided at Ports
mouth, Rhode Island; a blacksmith; freeman,
1686; 1694-99,- 1707-15, he was a juryman;
1705-06-07-08-09, was pound keeper. At the
time of his death he held the rank of lieuten
ant. His will, proved 1730, devised much
property, including "my negro boy Tony."
He married, September 16, 1686, Mary Hall,
died June 8, 1735, daughter of Zuriel and
Elizabeth (Tripp) Hall. Children: Robert,
Mary, William, Zuriel, Isaac, Alice, Jona
than, Daniel and David.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) and
Mary Fish, died 1684. He resided in Ports
mouth, Rhode Island; married, December 10,
1668, Grizzal, daughter of John and Alice
Strange. Children: Alice, Grizzal Hope,
Preserved, and Mehitable.
(Ill) Preserved, only son of Thomas (2)
and Grizzal (Strange) Fish, was born at
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, August 12, 1679,
died there July 15, 1745; married, May 30,
1699, Ruth, died after June 2, 1738, daugh
ter of John and Ruth (Shaw) Cook, of Ti
verton, Rhode Island. The ceremony was
performed by Giles Slocum, assistant. He
doubtless was a member of the Society of
Friends, as his death is recorded in their
books. (IV) Benjamin, son of Preserved and
Ruth (Cook) Fish, was born at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, April 14, 1716; died October
16, 1798; belonged to the Society of Friends;
married, November 8, 1739, Priscilla Arthur,
born November 2, 1718, at Nantucket, Mas
sachusetts, died April 1, 1774, daughter of
John (2) and Mary (Folger) Arthur.
(V) Silas, son of Benjamin and Priscilla
(Arthur) Fish, was born at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, September 24, 175 1; married
(first) Susanna Sisson, born June 12, 1754,
at Newport, Rhode Island; died September
19, 1790, and was buried on her husband's
farm in the town of Foster, daughter of Jo
seph and Ruth (Sherman) Sisson. He was
a farmer, and a member of the Society of
Friends. In a deed to his brother Elisha, in
1787, he is styled "yeoman," both are called
"of Foster." Silas and Elisha removed with
their families to Rensselaerville, Albany
county, New York, in 1799. Later Silas .re
moved to Ohio.
(VI) Priscilla, daughter of Silas and Su
sanna (Sisson) Fish, was born at Nantucket,
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Jamestown, New York, February 13, 1852;
married, June 11, 1797, William Tew. (See
Tew V). (The Jackson Line).
Caroline Jackson (Reynolds), second wife
of George Washington Tew, was a grand
daughter of Asahel Jackson, of Wallingford,
Vermont. He was a delegate and sat in the
constitutional convention that ratified, on the
part of the state of Vermont, the Constitu
tion of the United States, January 10, 1791.
He also held the military rank of major, and
was known as a devoted patriot. In 1794, in
company with his two brothers and some ten
other families, he left Wallingford and set
tled in Nelson, Madison county, New York.
On his tombstone in the Nelson cemetery is
inscribed : "Sacred to the memory of Major
Asahel Jackson, his wife and three daughters.
Major A. Jackson died April 29, 1827, aged
seventy-three. Major Jackson was a patriot
of the Revolution; was in the battle of Ben
nington; came to this town when a wilder
ness ; was among the first to engage in pub
lic improvements. A good neighbor, a kind
friend, respected in life, lamented in death."
Lavinia, wife of Major Asahel Jackson, died
August 16, 1817, aged sixty-one years.
(II) Selathiel, son of Major Asahel and
Lavinia Jackson, was born February 1, 1781 ;
died August 21, 1819. He was commissioned
a captain of militia by Governor George Clin
ton, of New York, February 29, 1804. He
married, October 3, 1804, Sarah Covell, born
May 24, 1787 ; died June 25, 1841. She sur
vived him, and. married, February 25, 1830
(second) Dr. William Livingston, born Feb
ruary, 1768, died May 8, i860.
(Ill) Caroline, daughter of Selathiel and
Sarah (Covell) Jackson, was born at Nelson,
Madison county, New York, April 9, 1810;
died at Jamestown, March 25, 1886; mar
ried (first) August 8, 1832, at Lewiston,
New York, Guy Reynolds, born February 19,.
1807, at Norwich, New York; died at Lewis-
ton, New York, August 13, 1838. She mar
ried (second) June 4, 1840, at Mayville, New
York, George Washington Tew, father of
Willis -Tew, of Jamestown, New York (see
Tew VII). John Parrish, immigrant ances-
PARISH tor, was the first of the name
in New England. The name is
used as Parrish and Parish. John Parrish

settled first in Braintree, Massachusetts.
About 1665 he moved to Mendon, Massachu
setts, where he had an original proprietor's
lot of twenty acres. The earliest record of
him there was December 1, 1669, when he
signed an agreement concerning a pastor for
the church. He must have moved to Groton,
Massachusetts, either during or just after
King Philip's war, for he signed the agree
ment at Concord, made by the inhabitants of
Groton, "that those present would go up in
the spring following, and begin to repair our
habitations again." On May 9, 1677, he was
a member of the council of safety, just after
Governor Andros was deposed; he was
elected a representative to the general court
on May 9, 1677. He was on the list of those
who were to compose one of the garrisons for
the security of the town during King Will
iam's war. March 17, 1691-92, he moved to
Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Massachusetts, and
frolm there to Preston, Connecticut, where
he and his wife Mary were admitted to the
first church, November 15, 1704, by letter
from the Ipswich church. He died in Pres
ton in 1715.
He married (first) June 30, 1664, Hannah
Jewell, born December 12, 1643, daughter
of Thomas Jewell, of Braintree, Massachu
setts. He married (second) December 29,
1685, Mary, daughter of John Wattell, of
Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Children by
first wife: Hannah, born in Braintree, July
3, 1665; Samuel, mentioned below; Benjamin,
probably born in Mendon; John, probably
in Mendon. Children by second wife : Lydia,
in Groton, April 20, 1687; Elizabeth, in Gro
ton, March 19, 1691 ; Sarah, in Ipswich, Janu
ary 16, 1692; William, in Ipswich, February
11, 1694; Isaac, in Ipswich, March 17, 1697;
Rachel, in Ipswich, February 14, 1699 ; Mary,
in Preston, October 8, 1704; Abigail, in Pres
ton, March 25, 1708; Dorothy, in Preston,
June 7, 1710; Ephraim, "not of age," in
T7T5- (II) Samuel, son of John Parrish, was
probably born in Mendon. In 1698 and 1700
his name was on the church records at Es
sex, Massachusetts, and later at Chebacco
Parish, Ipswich, Massachusetts. After his
father went to Stonington, Connecticut, he
was admitted an inhabitant of Norwich, Gon-
necticut, in 1716, He bought land there on
April 18, 1719, and again on April 28, 1719,
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the Quinnebaug river. His son Samuel re
ceived this homestead, June 9, 1735, in a quit
claim deed from his other children. Pie died
May, 1735. He married Mary  . Chil
dren : Samuel, mentioned below ; Joel, born
January 8, 1701, married, June 27, 1732, Re
becca Green ; Mary, died in Norwich, Connec
ticut; Solomon, bom in Norwich, October
1, 1710; Nathaniel, January 12, 1712-13; Ne
hemiah, in Norwich, 1715; Rebecca, in Nor
wich, 1718 ; John. ,
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Parrish, was born in Chebacco Parish, Ips
wich, Massachusetts, October 12, 1700. He
was admitted by letter to the First Congre
gational Church of Canterbury, Connecticut,
April 7, 1742, and in September, 1744, he
was among the majority of the church to
sign a protest against the call by the society
of the Rev. Mr. Cogswell. In December,
1744, these members finally separated from
the church, and on September 10, 1746, he
was a subscriber to the call of Solomon
Paine as pastor. He married, July 6, 1724,
Mary Rood, of Norwich, Connecticut. Chil
dren, born in Canterbury : Samuel, February
12, 1728; Ebenezer, June 8, 1730; Lemuel,
mentioned below; Mary, February 17, 1734;
Judith, March 26, 1737; Elijah, baptized
April 9, 1740; Sylvia; Elisha, born January
3, 1742-43; Deborah, August 29, 1749.
(IV) Lemuel, son of Samuel (2) Parrish,
was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, No
vember 17, 1732, died there April 17, 1821.
He married, May 4, 1758, Zerviah Smith,
born November 8, 1741, died May 13, 1828,
daughter of John and Mehitable (Adams)
Smith. They lived in Canterbury. Children,
born in Canterbury : Roswell, October 18,
1759; John, June 11, 1761 ; Obadiah, Septem
ber 22, 1764; Rufus, September 8 or 16,
1768; Cynthia, February 19, 1770; Mehitable,
January 22, 1773, died May 10, 1775. Jere
miah, mentioned below.
(V) Jeremiah, son of Lemuel Parrish, was
born October 17, 1775, died at Tolland, Con
necticut, January 13 or 18, 1856. He mar
ried Lydia Manning, born March 27, 1785,
daughter of Calvin and Lydia (Robertson)
Manning, of Coventry. Children: 1. Ariel,
born July 2, 1808, died in Denver, Colorado,
1885 ; married (first) April 3, 1836, Caro
line Dickerman, who died July 25, 1838 ; mar
ried (second) November 28, 1839, Anna
Woods. 2. Lydia, September 27, 1814, died

unmarried. 3. Smith, of whom further. 4.
Eliza M., March 26, 1823, died unmarried. 5.
John C, March 4, 1832, died at Des Moines,
Iowa, 1890; married Mrs. Amanda Spangler,
of that place.
(VI) Smith Parish, son of Jeremiah Par
rish (named for Zerviah Smith, wife of Lem
uel) was born in Vermont. In 1790 there
were at Bethel, Windsor county, Vermont,
three Parrish families. Nathaniel Parrish
had in his family three females; John had
himself and wife; Jeremiah had one son un
der sixteen and two females. It may be
mentioned here that Jacob Parrish, born Jan
uary 30, 1752, removed in 1788 (New Eng
land Historical and Genealogical Register for
October, 1909) with his younger brother Na
than. They were sons of Zebulon, grandsons
of Isaac, and great-grandsons of John, the
immigrant. Jacob had sons,. Daniel and Ja
cob Kimball, of Randolph; Nathan, born
June 30, 1769, had four sons and five daugh
ters. It should be stated also that Obadiah,
son of Lemuel, settled in Gilmanton, New
Hampshire, as did also his brother Rufus,
and the baptismal name Smith may have
come through their sons.
Smith Parish came to Portville, New York,
and engaged in the lumber business, owned
saw mills and became a citizen of large means
and influence. He served two terms in the
New York state assembly. He was for many
years a justice of the peace. In religion he
was a Methodist and he donated the land for
the present Methodist Episcopal church at
Portville. After his death, his daughter La
vinia gave a memorial window in this church,
in commemoration of his good deeds. He was
a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. In politics he was a Republican.
He adopted the spelling Parish, most of his
immediate ancestors having used the spelling
Parrish. By his first wife, Catherine S.
(Wales) Parish, he had children : David La
throp, mentioned below ; Ellen, married Wes
ley Schofield; Kate, married John Archibald;
Lavinia C. ; Clark Watson. By his second
wife he had : Fred and Frank.
(VII) David Lathrop, son of Smith Par
ish, was born in what was then Olean, now
Portville, New York. He attended the pub
lic schools and the Genesee Wesleyan Semin
ary at Lima, New York. When a young man
he worked with his father on the homestead
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riage he followed farming. He engaged in
business afterward as a grocer, but was
burned out in 1875. From that time until
1882 he devoted himself to farming and then
started again in the grocery business. He
lost his store again by fire but later rebuilt
and continued in business until his death. He
was an active and prominent citizen and a
leader in the movement to secure a public
water supply for the village. He was trustee
of the incorporated village. In religion he
was a Methodist. He was a member of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen.
He married Mary Ruth, daughter of Ste
phen Waterman and Amanda (Hoyt)
Thomas, granddaughter of Vail Thomas, of
Angelica, who lived to the age of one hun
dred and one years five months. Children
of Stephen W. Thomas : Amanda, Jennie and
Mary Ruth. Children of David L. and Mar)'
Ruth (Thomas) Parish: Smith, mentioned
below; Edna A., born September 17, 1879,
married Archibald W. McDougall and had
children: Marion, born October 31, 1908, and
Priscilla, born February, 1910.
¦ (VIII) Smith (2), son of David Lathrop
Parish, was born June 14, 1868, in Portville.
He attended the public schools and the Gene
see Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, from which
he was graduated in 1890. He was engaged
in the lumber business at Saginaw, Michi
gan, for a time. Afterward he read law in
the office of Hon. Charles H. Brown and at
tended the Buffalo Law School for six
months. He abandoned the study of law to
assist his father in the grocery business and
on the farm. He purchased the hardware
store of F. S. Persing, September 12, 1892,
and since then he has devoted the larger part
of his- attention to the hardware business
which has flourished under his ownership.
He owns a farm of one hundred and twenty-
four acres and conducts it. In addition to
hardware, he has added a line of crockery,
china, glassware and other household goods,
and has established a plumbing business. In
1909 he admitted to partnership A. D. Glover
under the firm name of Parish & Glover, and
engaged in the furniture, carpet and rug busi
ness, in a separate store. In politics Mr. Par
ish is a Republican. In religion he is a Meth
odist, has been superintendent of the Sunday
school for eighteen years, and is now presi
dent of the board of trustees of the church.
He married, June 21, 1893, Fanny, born

November 12, 1870, daughter of Colonel
Frank and Ruth Jane (Wheeler) Bell, grand
daughter of Robert Bell, of Ceres, Pennsyl
vania, and of Darius Wheeler. Colonel Frank
Bell's children were: Horatio, Wheeler W.,
Fanny, John D. and George H. Bell. Whee
ler W. married Rebecca Wood and had Mar
garet, Howard A., Fanny, Lucy, John, Wil
son and Helen. John D. married Mame
Maxon. Children of Smith and Fanny Par
ish: Robert B., born September 15, 1895;
Ruth Francis, March 22, 1898; David Wat
son/ April 19, 1904; Earl Thomas, Novem
ber 26, 1910.

This family is traced back to
HILLER Benjamin Hiller, the date of
whose birth is unknown. He
married Priscilla, daughter of David and
Martha Irish, the former of whom was born
in 1675 and died in 1748. David Irish was
a son of John (1) and Elizabeth Irish. John
(2) Irish lived from 1645 to 1717 and was a
son of John (1) Irish. Benjamin and Pris
cilla (Irish) Hiller had a son, Nathan, men
tioned below.
' (II) Nathan, son of Benjamin Hiller, mar
ried Abigail Gifford, daughter of Jedadiah
and Elizabeth (Gifford) Wing, the former
of whom was a son of Edward and Sarah
(Tucker) Wing. Sarah Tucker was a
daughter of Abraham and Hannah Tucker.
Edward Wing was born in 1787 and was a
son of Daniel and Deborah (Dillingham)
Wing, the former of whom was horn in 1664.
Daniel Wing was a son of Daniel and Han
nah (Swift) Wnng, and Daniel Sr. was a son
of John and Deborah (Batchelor) Wing.
Deborah Batchelor was a daughter of Rev.
Stephen Batchelor, born in 1561. Elizabeth
(Gifford) Wing, mother of Mrs. Nathan
fiiller, was a daughter of Gershom Gifford,
whose father was William Gifford. William
was a son of William and Mary (Wills) Gif
ford, and the former was a son of Walter G.
Gifford, whose father was Sir Ambrose Gif
ford, of England. Nathan and Abigail Gif
ford (Wing) Hiller had a son, Jonathan,
mentioned below.
(Ill) Jonathan, son of Nathan and Abi
gail Gifford (Wing) Hiller, was born in
1767, died in 1846. He married (first) Jo
anna Briggs, born in 1769, died in 1803,
daughter of Thomas and Ather Briggs ; (sec
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1785, died June 15, 1856, in Dutchess county,
New York. Sarah Wooley was a daughter
of Eseck and Martha (Soule) Wooley, the
former of whom was born in 1753, died in
1837, and the latter was born in 1759 and
died in 1842. Martha Soule was a daughter
of Ebenezer and Martha (Thomas) Soule.
Ebenezer Soule was descended from George
Soule, who came over in the "Mayflower,"
in 1620, and who married Mary Beckel.
George Soule died in 1680. His children :
John, born in 1632 ; George, Zechariah, Pa
tience, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Elizabeth and
Mary. Martha (Thomas) Soule was a
daughter of Abraham and Mary (Aken)
Thomas, the latter of whom was born in 1716,
daughter of David and Sarah (Allen) Aken.
David Aken was born in 1689 and was a
son of John and Mary (Briggs) Aken. John
Aken was born in 1663, son of  and Mary
Aken. Mary (Briggs) Aken was a daughter
of Thomas and Mary (Fisner) Briggs. Chil
dren of Jonathan Hiller, by first wife: 1.
Elizabeth, born March 23, 1795, in Dutchess
county, New York; married Nicholas Uhl.
2. Richard, mentioned below. Children by
second wife, the first eight born in Dutchess
county, New York, and the last in Cayuga
county, New York: 3. Aaron Burr, born
February 22, 1807. 4. Cornelia, September
3, 1809. 5. Seth, June 6, 181 1, died Novem
ber 15, 181 1. 6. Seneca Soule, January 15,
1813, died November 2, 1813. 7. Joseph But
ler, January 2, 1815, died May 8, 1893. 8.
Isaac Haviland, July 9, 18 17, died June 2,
1897. 9. Aken Wooley, February 18, 1819,
died August 13, 1859. IO- George Uhl, April
3, 1821, died August 16, 1854. 11. Cathar
ine Caroline, February 10, 1824, died No
vember 16, 1902.
(IV) Richard, son of Jonathan and Jo
anna (Briggs) Hiller, was born in Dutchess
county, New York, November 23, 1797, died
at Frewsburg, New York, May 7, 1877. He
settled in Jamestown, New York, about 1818.
He was a cousin of James Prendergast, of
Jamestown, and later his partner. He was
evidently of prosperous, well-to-do parents as
he came to Chautauqua county on horseback,
bringing with him a cash capital of seven
hundred dollars. He was one of the first gen
eral merchants of Jamestown and also a lum
ber dealer. About 1848 he retired to a farm
he owned in the vicinity of Frewsburg. He
belonged to the Society of Friends 'and was

a Democrat. In 1825 he married Hannah
Garfield, born March 15, 1805, died Novem
ber 12, 1869, daughter of Joseph and Lydia
(Stearns) Garfield. Children: 1. Jedediah
Prendergast, born March 15, 1826. 2. Eliza
Uhl, April 5, 1828. 3. Joanna Briggs, May
15, 1830. 4. Jonathan, mentioned below. 5.
Martha Jane, December 22, 1833; married
William Sheldon (see Sheldon III). 6. Sam
uel Garfield, November 23, 1837. 7. Eliza
Uhl, October 31, 1839. 8. Cynthia Jeanette,
January 12, 1843. 9. Alexander, July 31,
1844. 10. Nicholas Uhl, July 18, 1847.
(V) Jonathan (2), son of Richard and
Hannah (Garfield) Hiller, was born in
Jamestown, New York, April 15, 1832, died
there January 7, 191 1. After finishing his
studies in the Jamestown schools he acquired
a knowledge of the lumber business with his
father, and later went to Titusville, Penn
sylvania, where he was foreman in the lum
ber yards of Parker, Myers & Company for
four years, fie then purchased a farm in
Frew's Run,' four and one-half miles from
Frewsburg, and cultivated the same for sev
eral years. Subsequently he located in the
village of Frewsburg, where in partnership
with a Mr. Baker he conducted a general
store very successfully for ten years, at the
expiration of which he retired and purchased
a small farm near the village and resided
thereon until a short time prior to his death.
He was deeply interested in the care and
beautifying of- the Frewsburg cemetery and
acted as its superintendent for twenty years.
He was a Republican in politics and took an
active interest in town affairs. He was a
member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free
and Accepted Masons; Western Sun Chap
ter, Royal Arch Masons, of Jamestown. He
was also an Odd Fellow, belonging to the
Frewsburg Lodge.
He married (first) Anna B. Rose, born in
1835, died May 1, 1863, daughter of John
and Polly (Wheeler) Rase. He married
(second) December 5, 1867, Mary, born Janu
ary 21, 1835, daughter of John and Adeline
(Hitchcock) Townsend. Child of first mar
riage: Bartie Rose, of whom further. Child
of second marriage: Lucien John, of whom
further. (VI) Bartie Rose, only son of Jonathan
(2) Hiller and his first wife, Anna B. (Rose)
Hiller, was born in Frewsburg, Chautauqua
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educated in the public schools of Frewsburg,
Frew's Run and Oak Hill. His early busi
ness life was spent in farming. On May 14,
1882, he entered the employ of the American
Express Company as a driver for the office
in Jamestown. Two years later he was pro
moted to the position of train messenger,
running between Jamestown and Brockton.
After two years on the road he was appointed
a clerk in the Jamestown office, continuing
as such eight years. He was then promoted
to be manager of the Jamestown office, a
position he now fills (1912). He is a trusted
official and has earned each promotion by
strict attention to business and an equal re
gard for the interests of his company and
the rights of the public. He is held in the
highest esteem by his fellow townsmen who
honor his strict integrity and devotion to busi
ness. After his marriage Mr. Hiller pur
chased a home at No. 306 West Fourth street,
but later made his home with Mrs. William
Carpenter, at No. 913 East Second street.
He is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No.
145, Free and Accepted Masons, and attends
the Buffalo Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, in behalf of which Mrs. Hiller is an
active worker.
He married, at Jamestown, March 26, 1885,
Julia W. Carpenter, born September 14, 1863,
in the same house in which she was married
and now resides (see Carpenter II). Child,
Richard Carpenter, born in the same house
as his mother, October 30, 1898.
(VI) Lucien John, only son of Jonathan
(2) Hiller by his second wife, Mary (Town-
send) Hiller, was born in the town of Car
roll, Chautauqua county, New York, June 16,
1870. He was educated in the schools of
Frewsburg, to which village his parents re
moved when he was six years of age. In
1893 he began the study of telegraphy as an
apprentice in the Frewsburg office. So well
did he master the art that in 1896 he was
appointed ticket agent and operator at Irving-
ton, Pennsylvania, on the Dunkirk, Alle
gheny Valley & Pittsburg railroad. He re
mained there until May 1, 1899, when his
health" compelled him to resign and take a
long rest. In about two years he was again
in good health, and on July 1, 1901, he en
tered the employ of the Jamestown, Chautau
qua & Lake Erie Railroad Company as re
lief agent, remaining until March, 1902, when

he went to the Chautauqua station, and in
June of the same year was appointed agent
at Westfield. On April 29, 1903, he was ap
pointed station agent and operator at Frews
burg, where he yet remains (1912). He has
been a member of Frewsburg Lodge, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, since July 1,
1903, has passed all the chairs and is one of
the trustees. He belongs to the Order of
Railway Telegraphers, being affiliated with
Lake Shore Division, No. 29. He is a Re
publican in politics.
He married, in Warren county, Pennsyl
vania, December 17, 1896, Cora Edith Learn,
born September, 1870, educated in the Russell
schools and a member -of the United Brethren
church. She is a daughter of Jacob and Sa
rah (Northrop) Learn. Children: 1. May
Edith, born in Irvington, Pennsylvania, July
16, 1898. 2. Maurice Lucien, born in Frews
burg, New York, March 15, 1908. This fam
ily resides in Frewsburg, where Mr. Hiller
erected a residence on Front street, in 1906.
(The .Carpenter Line.)
(I) William Carpenter was born in Lon
don, England, in 1792, died at Franklin,
Pennsylvania, August- 9, 1866. When a lad
of sixteen years of age he was forced to en
ter the British navy, serving on a man-of-
war. He sailed over many seas, cruised the
Guinea coast of Africa and finally the ship
was ordered to the United States coast. He
was steersman of the captain's gig and when
off the Maine coast was sent ashore for
grass, etc., for the ship's animals. He had
always claimed he was half American and de
termined at the first opportunity to become a
full fledged citizen of the United States.
Taking advantage of this trip ashore he made
pretext to get away from the boat's crew and
never returned, fie settled in Maine, where
he married, later coming to Chautauqua
county, New York, where he helped to build
the first steamboat on Lake Chautauqua.
When she was put in service she was com
manded by Captain Carpenter. He was a
devout member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and a man greatly beloved, fie was
fond of company, and from his rich fund of
adventure a most pleasing entertainer.
He married Nancy Blake, of Maine, who
bore him twelve children, among whom were:
William, mentioned below, and Colonel Eliot
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tie of Drury's Bluff, fought during the civil

war.

(II) William (2), son of William (1) and
Nancy (Blake) Carpenter,, was born in the
town of Ellicott, Chautauqua county, New
York, September 7, 1822. He was educated
in the public schools, and spent his early life
in Jamestown. Later he went west where he
followed farming. After his return to Chau
tauqua he bought a stump-pulling machine
which he operated for some time. He also
boated and rafted lumber to lower river
points. He finally went to Westfield where
he learned axe grinding, later returning to
Jamestown, where he followed that trade and
met his death through the bursting of a rap
idly revolving grindstone. He was a devoted
church worker, and a citizen of the best type.
The present family home, at No. 913 East
Second street, was purchased by him in 185 1.
He was a member of the Methodist Episco
pal church, and a Republican.
He married, at Fluvanna, New York,
March 10, 1846, Sibyl Maria Jeffords, born
in the town of Chautauqua, May 24, 1826,
daughter of John Jeffords, born in Monroe
county, New York, M*ay 16, 1802, died No
vember 5, 1834; married Phoebe Wood, born
May 28, 1800, died September 7, 1874. Mrs.
Jeffords married a second husband, Loren
Babcock. Mrs. Sibyl Maria (Jeffords) Car
penter survives her husband and continues
her residence in Jamestown. She has always
been an active christian worker, and although
left a widow at a comparatively early age,
brought up her children to lives of usefulness
and honor. Now in her eighty-fifth year, she
is still active and enjoys the companionship
of her many friends and relatives. Children
of William and Sibyl Maria Carpenter: 1.
Charles Frank, born June 15, 1847, died Sep
tember 11, 1852. 2. Elial Foote, born October
6, 1849, died July 3, 1887; married Florence
R., daughter of Samuel B. and Nancy Jane
Dowley ; children : Clara F. and Ethel H. 3.
Phoebe Wood, born November 16, 1852, died
March 9, 1903; married Nicholas Hiller ;
children: Clyde B. and Lizzie P. 4. Mary
Ida, born February 24, 1855 ; married Alex
ander Hiller. 5. Charles Jeffords, born No
vember 20, 1857; married Jennie H. Young;
children: Charles R. and Aline Sibyl, the
latter of whom married T. N. Nelson. 6.
Julia W., born September 14, 1863 ; married
Bartie Rose Hiller (see Hiller VI).

The Wheeler family is of
WHEELER English origin. It is re
corded that during the reign
of Charles II (1649-1685) Sir Charles Whee
ler .was appointed "Captain General of the
Caribee Islands," and that in 1693 the Eng
lish fleet under command of Sir Francis
Wheeler put into Boston to recruit. Orcutt,
the historian of Stratford, Connecticut, says
"Wheelers were in and around London four
hundred years."
Between 1620 and 1650 many families of
the name came from England and settled in
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Virginia. In
Hotten's "Lists of Emigrants to America,"
1 600- 1 700, it is stated, that Henrie Wheeler
embarked at London, May 16, 1635 in the
"Plaine Joane," for Virginia; that July 24,
1635, John Wheeler embarked in the "Assur
ance" from London for Virginia; that Au
gust 1, 1679, John Wheeler Jr., sailed in the
ship "Returne" from New England. There
was a John Wheeler in "Newbury, Massachu
setts, whom, Savage says, "came in the Mary
and John in 1634." fiis will (1668) men
tions children and grandchildren here, and
sons Adam, Edward and William in Salis
bury, Wiltshire, England. George Joseph and
Obadiah Wheeler were among the early set
tlers of Concord, Massachusetts, and may
have been members of the first party that set
tled there in 1635. There was a Thomas
Wheeler in Boston in 1636; an Isaac in
Charlestown in 1643; a Joseph in Newbury
who died in 1659; a Thomas in Lynn in 1642;
a Moses in Stratford, Connecticut, whom Or
cutt says was born in Kent, England, in 1598.
Shallick says that between 1650 and 1680
there were in Concord alone thirty distinct
families of the name. Farmer records as an
interesting fact that twenty-six of the name
graduated from New England colleges in
1826. The name is particularly distinguished
in medicine, and is a noted one in military
history. (I) George Wheeler came from England
about 1640; was an original settler of Con
cord, Massachusetts ; was freeman, 1641, died
prior to June 2, 1687. He was twice married.
(II) William, son of George Wheeler, died
in Concord, December 31, 1683; married, Oc
tober 30, 1659, Hannah Beers.
(Ill) William .(2), son of William (1)
Wheeler, was born in Concord, February 8,
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-, born, 1669, died September 23,

rah -
1744. (IV) Francis, son of William (2) Whee
ler, was born in Concord, February 8, 1697,
died there November, 1794; married, Janu
ary 23, 1740, Sarah Blood, born January 10,
1697, died May 17, 1769.
(V) Phineas, son of Francis Wheeler, was
born April 3, 1745, died June 18, 1814; mar
ried Lydia Meriam, born May 1, 1747.
(VI) William (3), son of Phineas Whee
ler, was born 1780, died at Deposit, New
York, 185 1. He lived when a young man at
Blandford, Massachusetts, but at the age of
twenty-one years came to Delaware county,
New York. He purchased pine timber on the
hills and built a cabin on the Delaware river,
in which he lived with one of- his brothers.
They cut the trees, hauled them to the river
bank and in the spring started a ra'ft down
the Delaware destined for the Philadelphia
lumber market. The first raft was broken up
and lost. The second, which William him
self piloted, reached Philadelphia safely. He
continued in the lumber business ten years,
then returned to Blandford and married the
girl who had waited for him ten years, they
having been engaged before he came to New
York state. They lived at Hancock, Dela
ware county, but in 18 13 moved to Deposit,
New York, then called "Cook House." While
at Hancock he built a saw mill, sending the
manufactured lumber to Philadelphia. At
Deposit he owned mills and timber lands and
carried on an extensive lumber business, be
coming prominent and well to do. He owned
a large farm in Greene, Chenango county, and
a great deal of timber land, and with Deacon
Ezra May and Henry Dusenbury bought fif
teen hundred acres and a saw mill on Dodge's
creek, in what is now Portville, Cattaraugus
county, New York. This was succeeded by
large purchases, and an extensive business
was done in lumbering, etc. He was repre
sented in the company by his son, William
F., while the father remained in Deposit,
where his private business was located. He
was a good man, deacon of the Presbyterian
church, and a Whig in politics. He married,
in 181 1, Eleanor Knox, of Blandford, Mas
sachusetts. Children: Malina, Nelson, Bet
sey, William F., of further mention; Tru
man, Addison and George. Nelson, George
and Truman were graduates of Union College,
Schenectady, New York.

(VII) William F., son of William (3)
Wheeler, was born in the town of Hancock,
Delaware county, New York, June 13, 181 1,
and died at his home in Portville, Cattarau
gus county, New York, June 6, 1892. He
was two years old when his parents moved
to Deposit, where his boyhood days were
spent and his education obtained. He was.
intended for a farmer, but at an early age
was allowed to make a trip to Philadelphia
on one of his father's lumber rafts and there
contracted a love for a lumberman's life that
never left him. He worked in the logging
camps, in the mills and on the rafts, until he
was twenty-two years of age, then was sent
to the farm of his father in Greene, Che
nango county, as manager, but having no
heart in the work did not long remain. In
1833 his father made a large purchase of tim
ber land in Cattaraugus county in association
with Deacon May and Henry Dusenbury, and
formed with others the lumber company of
Dusenbury, Wheeler, May & Company. Will
iam F. had an interest in the company, and
February 14, 1834, first came to Cattaraugus
county and began his lumbering operations
on the Allegheny river. A store was built
and is said to have been the first "cold water
raising" ever held in the county. The first
raft he took to Pittsburgh was sold at four
dollars and seventy-five cents per thousand
feet, more than a dollar less than it took to
make and run it to market. At this time oc
casional church services were held in a shed
at Millgrove, in an old barn or in Mr. Whee
ler's dining room. Mail came once a week,
the nearest postoffice being Olean. In 1836
the firm built a school house that was also
used for church purposes, the pulpit being
filled by itinerant ministers, both Methodist
and Presbyterian. The mercantile business
of the firm was conducted by Henry Dusen
bury, while Mr. Wheeler was in charge of
the lumbering operations. In speaking of his
partner, Mr. Wheeler said, "He was a thor
oughgoing, upright, business man, well fitted
for the position he occupied. Conscientious
in every act, reliable as the sun, he watched
every need and development of our business
and his stability gave character and success
to our firm. We were well fitted to work
together as each possessed qualities lacking
in the other. Without Dusenbury I might
have been a failure as a lumberman, and with
out Wheeler he might have been."

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At this time (1836) the nearest bank was
at Bath, New York, seventy miles distant,
and here the firm did all their banking, Mr.
Wheeler doing the depositing and making
these journeys on horseback. In 1837 the
firm started a lumber yard in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and made additional purchases of four
thousand acres of pine timber land and a
saw mill on Tionesta creek, Pennsylvania.
The Cincinnati branch was later in charge of
a son, Nelson P. Wheeler, and William, a
son of Mr. Dusenbury, for several years, then
sold. In 1 85 1 William Wheeler, the father,
died, followed in i860 by Mr. Dusenbury.
The business was continued by the two sons
of Mr. Wheeler, and three sons of Mr. Du
senbury being admitted, with William F.
Wheeler as senior member. In 187 1 they or
ganized a national bank at Olean, the first na
tional bank in Cattaraugus county. William
F. Wheeler was chosen the first president, an
office he held until his death. He was a mem
ber of the Presbyterian church, having joined
at Deposit, New York, when he was twenty
years of age. In 1840 he was active in the
organization of the First Presbyterian church
in Cattaraugus county, located at Olean. In
1849 a Presbyterian church was organized at
Portville, of which he was an elder, and for
eight years superintendent of the Sunday
school. He was the uncompromising foe of
liquor, and discouraged its use in every way.
For several years he was school trustee, held
other town offices, and in 1879 was elected a
member of the New York state assembly,
refusing to be a candidate for a second term.
He married (first) in 1839, Flora, daugh
ter of Judge Quintus Flaminius Atkins, of
Cleveland, Ohio. She died in 1850, leaving
three children: Nelson P., William Egbert
(q. v.), and Augusta, two having died. He
married (second) 1852, Marilla Clark, of
Peacham, Vermont, who bore one child, Lilla
Qark, who is now (1911) a resident of Port
ville, New York.
Marilla Clark Wheeler survived her hus
band until January 21, 1907, when she passed
away, leaving one child, Lilla.
(VIII) Lilla Clark, only child of William
F. Wheeler and his second wife, Marilla
Clark, was born in September — , 1859, in Port
ville, Cattaraugus county, New York, which
is still her residence (1911). She is a mem
ber of the Presbyterian church. With the
exception of some time spent in travelling,

she has resided here during her entire life.
In 1890 she edited and published for private
circulation an autobiographic sketch of her
father, William F. Wheeler. Her mother,
Marilla Clark Wheeler, left an autobiography
in manuscript, which follows in part :
"My father's name was George Washington
Clark, born in Lebanon, Connecticut. His fa
ther was Dan Clark, who married my grand
mother when she was sixteen and he nineteen.
At thirty-six she was left a widow with ten
children. Her name was Rebekah Hunt. My
father came from Lebanon to Peacham, Ver
mont, as a young man, bringing his mother and
her mother, my great-grandmother, whose name
was Abigail Rose. Her husband, Gideon Hunt,
died before they left Lebanon. Abigail Rose
Hunt lived to be ninety-six years old. My
grandmother's children were: Uncle Dan, the
oldest; Jonathan Trumbull, and my father,
George Washington. The daughters were:
Rebekah, who died of consumption at nineteen;
Aunt Abigail Sumner; Aunt Victoria Buell;
Aunt Clemency Poor; Aunt Dolly (Dorothy)
Merrill, and Aunt Lucinia Martin.
"My mother's name was Meroe Strobridge,
born in Claremont, New Hampshire, February
14, 1791. Her father, William Strobridge, was
born in Middleborough, Massachusetts. He
studied for the ministry with Rev. Ebenezer
Hinds, and married his daughter. She died in
less than a year, and he married my grand
mother, Hannah Tuttle. He enlisted in the rev
olutionary army in 1775, and was in the army
during the whole war. My father and mother
were married in Barnet, Vermont. My mother
had nine children, of whom I was the sixth,
and the youngest of five girls: Meroe, Lucetta.
Hannah, Lucinda and myself, Marilla; then came
three boys: George, Harvey and Dan. The first
child, Dan Clark, died aged four years.
"My father and mother began life in a little
house on a farm of forty acres. After about
six years my father bought a farm of two hun
dred acres. Here we lived in the primitive
fashion of those early days. We had bare
floors until I was a girl of sixteen or more, and
then the first carpet, a homemade one of rags,
was put down in the parlor. We had nothing
but tallow candles made from the tallow of our
own cattle while I was at home, and wood from
our own forests was our only fuel. We went to
school a long mile and a half away. We had
very_ few books. In school we had Webster's
spelling book, Murray's grammar, Morse's ge
ography, and Adam's arithmetic. We had just
one little weekly newspaper, and fully three-
fourths of it was taken up with advertisements.
My grandfather and grandmother lived in Bar-
net. He drew a pension all his life. I was
nine years old when we moved about three miles
away from the farm where I was born to what
was then called 'The Hollow,' now East
Peacham. The house we moved to was built
by _ General Chamberlain, an officer of the revo
lution. I attended the district school until I
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emy upon the hill. About 1838 I began teach
ing in the town of Barnet. I taught fourteen
weeks for fourteen dollars. Never in my life
have I felt so rich as when I brought home
those fourteen dollars. Then I taught in
Peacham, up at what was called the Corner.
My next school was in the east part of Peacham.
The last summer I taught in Vermont was in
West Barnet, but had only taught there a short
time when I received an invitation to go to Cin
cinnati, Ohio, and become the principal of a
school there. After a family consultation I de
cided to go, and one of miy sisters finished out
my school in West Barnet. My oldest brother,
George, accompanied me to Cincinnati. Our
people drove us to Burlington, then we took a
steamboat and went down to Whitehall, New
York; there we took a canal boat to Albany, from
there by canal boat all the way to Buffalo, and
from there on a steamboat to Sandusky, then
over a corduroy road, then by railroad to Cin
cinnati. From Sandusky to Cincinnati the cars
were flat cars, like the gravel cars of the present
day, with seats on the side. This was in July,
and the day after my arrival I went right into
school. The heat was something beyond my
power to imagine. I was not fitted for the place
and had to work hard to make myself capable.
There was not a single book I had ever seen
before except the Bible. There were nine de
partments. My pupils were all girls, ranging
from about thirteen to eighteen years. The first
three months it was extremely hot, and this was
the hardest three months of my life. But I
persevered, and after six months my troubles
all seemed to disappear. I was well and made
a great many agreeable acquaintances. I grew
to like the city and remained there five years,
teaching in the same room. It was three years
before I went home or saw one of my family.
I taught reading, spelling, geography, arithme
tic, grammar, algebra and history. All the
schools in the city began at eight o'clock, con
tinued till twelve, then from one to four. This
continued one year, when the hours were
changed to those of the present day. From the
very beginning I sang in the church choir, first
in the Campbellite church, then in other
churches. In 1849 the cholera came. No one
had thought of this being contagious, but it
proved so to an alarming extent and with ap
palling results. The streets were in a terrible
condition, all business was suspended, the water
in the Ohio river was very low, and as no one
had ever heard of boiling water to kill the germs,
this added greatly to the spread of the disease.
Physicians had no knowledge of how to deal
with it, and the ravages and death rate were
fearful. The schools were closed and I cape
home to Vermont. I had hoped for a vacation
of three months, but conditions improved more
rapidly than expected and I had only six weeks.
I returned and taught in Cincinnati two years
longer, when I was asked to go to Dayton, Ohio,
a small city of ten thousand inhabitants, sixty
miles away, and teach in a ladies' school called
Cooper Seminary. I went, and while in Dayton
I became engaged to Mr. Wheeler, whom I had

met in Cincinnati, and at the end of the school
year I went home to Vermont, and on the 8th
of September, 1852, we were married."

(VIII) William Egbert
WHEELER Wheeler, son of William F.
Wheeler (q. v.) and his first
wife, Flora Atkins, was born in Mayville, now
a part of Portville, Cattaraugus county, New ,
York, November 21, 1843, died at his home
in Portville, April 28, 191 1.
His boyhood was spent in Portville, and
his early education obtained in the public
schools of that village and of Olean. Later
he attended school at Deposit, New York, the
home of his Grandfather Wheeler, and his
father, finishing his preparatory studies at
Cortland Academy, Homer, New York. He
entered the sophomore class at Hamilton Col
lege, but after a year there entered Yale Uni^
versity, from whence he was graduated with
honors with the famous class of '66. While
at Yale he was interested in athletics, and in
his senior year rowed on the University
crew in the annual Yale-Harvard race. Re
turning from college he engaged in business
with his father and brother Nelson and the
Dusenburys, who were heavily interested in
and around Portville and Western Pennsyl
vania in the lumber business established in
1834 by William F. and Henry Dusenbury,
and which is still carried on by their descend
ants. In 1870, he and his partners established
a tannery which they operated for thirty years
until its sale to the American Hide and
Leather Company. William E. Wheeler was
the active manager of this department of the
firm's business, which for the greater part of
the time traded under the firm name of the
Portville Tanning Company. He was also
for many years active in the management of
a tannery owned by the . same interests, lo
cated at Hickory, Pennsylvania, near the lum
ber mills of Wheeler & Dusenbury. In 1878
oil was found on the lands of Wheeler & Du
senbury. Wells were bored and the firm pro
fited largely through the production of oil.
Shortly after 1880 Mr. Wheeler became a
stockholder of the Chicago Lumbering Com
pany of Michigan, and of other companies
operating at Manistique, in the upper penin
sula. He was elected a director and was ac
tive in the management of these companies,
and at the time of his death was president
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1900, having disposed of his tanning inter
ests, he visited the Pacific coast, spending sev
eral months. The fine timber of that section
attracted his attention, and soon afterward
he began making purchases in California and
Oregon. He invested largely, and at the time
of his death was president of the Lagoon
Lumber Company, the Rogue River Timber
Company, the Wheeler Timber Company and
the Manistique Lumber Company — corpora
tions owning timber in the west. He was also
prominent in the world of finance. He was
elected vice-president of the First National
Bank of Olean, holding that office until- his
death. He was one of the incorporators of
the Commonwealth Trust Company of Buf
falo, serving on the board of directors from
its organization until his death. He was
president for several years of the Acme Mill
ing Company of Olean. He was always
deeply interested in the welfare of his native
town ; he was president of the school board
when the new school building was erected,
and was always a warm friend of the cause
of public education. He donated liberally
toward the erection of the postoffice and op
era house, and could always be counted on
for financial aid for any worthy cause. He
was an active Republican all his life, served
six terms as supervisor from the town of
Portville, 1882-86 inclusive, and in 1888. He
was president of the village corporation of
Portville, and a member of the school board.
In 1892 he represented the first district of
Cattaraugus county in the state assembly, and
the following year was elected from the whole
county. In 1900 he again represented the
first district. He served with honor in the
legislature and left a record for energy and
zeal in behalf of his constituency. He was
a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church,
which he joined in boyhood. After the death
of his father he was elected to succeed him
as an elder of the Portville church. He was
for many years a trustee and for several
years president of the Western New York
Society for the Protection of Homeless and
Dependent Children, which society maintains
the children's home at Randolph.
He married, October 27, 1874, Allie E.
Mersereau, of Portville. (See Mersereau
VIII.) Children: 1. William M., of further
mention. 2. John Egbert, born May 19, 1879 ;
graduate of Phillips Andover Academy, 1897,
and Yale University, Sheffield Scientific

School, 1900; he engaged in the lumber busi
ness in Pennsylvania until 1905, when he lo
cated in Portland, Oregon, in charge of the
Wheeler lumber interests; he married, June
5, 1907, Margaret Culbertson; children: i.
William Egbert (2), born July 30, 1908; ii.
Mary Elizabeth, May .10, 191 1. 3. Eleanor
Knox, born April 6, 1886. 4. Laurence Ray
mond, July 19, 1888.
(IX) William M., eldest son of William
Egbert Wheeler, was born in Portville, Cat
taraugus county, New York, February 23,
1877. He prepared for college at Phillips
Andover Academy, graduating 1895 ; entered
Yale University, whence he was graduated
A. B., class of 1899. He chose the profes
sion of law, entered Harvard Law School,
was graduated LL. B., class of 1902. He was
engaged in the practice of his profession in
Buffalo, New York, until January 1, 19 10,
with the law firm Moot, Sprague, Brownell
& Marcy. His father's failing health com
pelled Mr. Wheeler to retire from the firm
and^ devote himself to the business interests
of the former, and later managing and set
tling the estate. He is an elder of the First
Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, this- same
office having been held by his father and
grandfather before him at Portville. Politi
cally he is a Republican. His clubs are the
Park and University of Buffalo.
He married, April 5, 1904, Margaret Mc-
Dougall, born June 3, 1878. Children: Pris
cilla McDougall, born January 1, 1905 ; Mary
McDougall, December 7, 1907; Eleanor K.,
twin of Mary. (The Mersereau Line).
John Mersereau was a native of France,
and a Protestant. In his youth he was pos
sessed of great physical strength. He stud
ied law, hut, disliking the confinement of
study, learned the trade of saddler. He was
captain of a military company armed with
pikes, the members of which attained great
skill in the use of that weapon. One evening
he met three men habited as friars, whom he
saluted, saying "Good evening, gentlemen."
They immediately charged him with .being a
Protestant, otherwise he would have said
"Good evening, fathers." He replied, "I
know of but one Father, who is in Heaven."
They then drew their sabres, which were con
cealed under their cloaks, and attacked him.
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wounded another, while the other took refuge
in flight. For some reason he was never mo
lested for this deed. He died young, leav
ing three sons, Joshua, Paul and Daniel, and
two daughters — Mary and Martha. These
children fled with their mother from France
to England in 1685, but, fearing further per
secution under the Catholic James II, they
continued their flight to America, all except
Paul. They settled on Staten Island, New
York, where the mother died and was buried
in the French churchyard.
(II) Joshua, eldest son of John Merser
eau, married a Latourette, and died May 23,
I756- (III) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (1) Mer
sereau, vfas born May 18, 1696, died July 9,
1769. He married Maria (Mary) Corsen,
born October 24, 1704, died July 3, 1763. Ten
children. (IV) Joshua (3), son of Joshua (2) Mer
sereau, was born on Staten Island, Septem
ber 26, 1728, died at Union, New York, June
10, 1804. He was educated at what is now
Columbia University, and practiced law in
New York City. Hie was a member of the
provincial assembly of New York state dur
ing the years 1777-86, being representative
from Richmond county. He was also deputy
commissary of prisoners, with headquarters
near Boston, and again at Elizabethtown,
New Jersey. His services were continuous
in various capacities during the entire war,
as proven by numerous manuscript records.
He enjoyed the friendship of Washington,
Lafayette, Hancock, Adams and others, and
entertained them at his Staten Island home.
After the war he moved with his family to
Tioga county, New York, where he was one
of the earliest judges. He married (first)
Sophie La Grange, of Huguenot ancestry;
(second) Ann Roome, of New York City;
(third, after settling at Union), Esther, widow
of Richafd Christopher, of Staten Island.
Three children by first, three by second wife.
(V) Joshua (4), son of Joshua (3) and
his first wife, Sophie La Grange Mersereau,
was born on Staten Island, New York, 1758,
died January 20, 1857, at Tioga, Pennsyl
vania. While but a youth he was engaged
with his father, Deputy Commissary Joshua
Mersereau, at Rutland, Massachusetts, and
later accompanied Lord Stirling's expedition
against Fort Richmond. He was a prisoner
in 1783 on the British ship "Scorpion," in

New York bay. After the war he married
Dinah Garrison, of Staten Island, and moved
with his father's family to the Susquehanna
valley, near Unadilla, New York. He was
engaged in the lumbering business until late
in life. His wife died October 19, 1822.
Thirteen children.
(VI) John Garrison, eighth child of
Joshua (4) Mersereau, was born in Guilford,
Chenango county, New York, September 18,
1799, died at Portville, Cattaraugus county,
New York, August 10, 1883. He was in the
lumber business on the Susquehanna, later in
Steuben and Tioga counties. In 1850 he
moved to Portville. He built, with Weston
Brothers, the mills in which they placed the
first gang-saw ever operated on the head wa
ters of the Allegheny. He was a leading
Whig and Republican, was twice elected to
the state assembly, and to him belongs the
greater credit for the extension of the Gene
see valley canal from Olean to Portville. He
was a member of the Presbyterian church.
He married (first) Julia Redfielcl, the mother
of his four children.
(VII) Samuel, only son of John G. Mer
sereau and his first wife, was born in Guil
ford, Chenango county, New York, October
6, 1823, died October 7, 1857. His early busi
ness training was in the hanking house of
John Magee-, at Bath, New York, later resid
ing at Lindsey, where he served as supervisor.
In 1849 ne located in Portville, New York,
and engaged in lumbering with his father un
til his premature death in 1857. He served
in various public offices, among them super
visor. He married Esther, daughter of Dan
iel Butts, of Rome, New York, who died
April 18, 1855, aged thirty-one years, a de
scendant of Governor William Bradford, of
the "Mayflower." Children: 1. Allie E.,
married William Egbert Wheeler. 2. Will
iam B., now of Portland, Oregon ; married
Helen E. Leavens ; children : Edith, Roland
W., Eugene L., Egbert W. and Harrison I.
3. John D., now of Pasadena, California;
married Nellie Coleman, of Ann Arbor, Mich
igan; daughter Irene.
(VIII) Allie E., eldest child of Samuel
Mersereau, married, October 27, 1874, Will
iam Egbert Wheeler. (See Wheeler VIII.)
(IX) William' M., son of William Egbert
Wheeler, married, April 5, 1904, Margaret
McDougall.

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The Williams families have
WILLIAMS always been numerous in
this country. To New Eng
land there came before 1650 no less than
twenty-four pioneers of this surname from
Wales and England and the name is found
very early in the other colonies. The Will
iams family was prominent in Lancaster and
Chester counties, Pennsylvania, at an early
date. (I) Cortis Williams, of the Pennsylvania
branch of the family, was one of the pioneer
settlers in the town of Waterburg", near Ovid,
New York, about the year 1800. He settled
there and followed farming and married in
that town. Children, born at Waterburg or
Ovid : John Wesley, mentioned .below ; Cor
tis, Frank, Angeline, Sirvila, and a child that
died in infancy.
(II) John Wesley, son of Cortis Williams,
was born in Ovid, New York, November 10,
1809, died at East Aurora in 1892. He was
educated in the district schools, and followed
farming at East Aurora, New York. He
married (first) Mary Orilla Randall; (sec
ond) Sally (Adams) Warren, widow of Phi
letus Warren. His second wife had by her
first husband three children : Bishop, Cynthia
and William. Children of John Wesley and
Mary Orilla (Randall) Williams: John;
Clarinda and Miles Williams. Children of
John Wesley and Sally Williams: Silas
Wright, mentioned below; Samuel A., Ben
jamin F., Charles, Jenny Lind, married De
Witt Page.
(Ill) Silas Wright, son of John Wesley
Williams, was born in East Aurora, New
York, December 4, 1850. He received his
education in the public schools of his native
town. Early in life he followed farming for
a vocation and has continued to the present
time, owning one of the most productive
farms in this section. He is also a dealer in
produce. In politics he is a Democrat. In
1906 he was president of the incorporated vil
lage of East Aurora and he was re-elected to
this office for the years 1907-08. He is a
member of Blazing Star Lodge, Free and Ac
cepted Masons, of East Aurora.
He married, December 22, 1874, Adeline F.
Griffin, of Elma, daughter of J. W. Griffin.
Children: 1. Emma Helen, born December 24,
1875, married B. F. Webster, born April 24,
1872; children: William L., Helen A., Benja
min F., and Anna Louisa. 2. Edwin Harlan,

born January 12, 1878 ; now with the Richard
son & Beebe Company, of East Aurora ; mar
ried Elizabeth Peters ; children : Elizabeth
Griffin, Katherine Louisa, and Winifred Ra
chel. 3. Frances Louise, born January 26,
1890.

Arthur McCann, the first mem-
McCANN ber of this family about whom
we have definite information,
married Bridget McLaughlin. Children:
Anna, Kate, William, May, Peter, Henry S.,
Charles R., of whom below ; Agnes.
(II) Charles R., son of Arthur and Brid
get (McLaughlin) McCann, was born March
4, 1861. His home is at Salamanca, where
he is head of the hardware firm of McCann,
Hubbell & Company. He married, January
30, 1890, Emma Belle, born February 24,
1869, daughter of Chauncey Staple and Eme
line (Hayes) Hubbell (see Hubbell VII).
She is a Daughter of the American Revolu
tion, No. 59,447. Children: Chauncey, born
October 16, 1892; Arthur H., born August
5, 1894. (The Hubbell Line).
The Hubbell family, of Wales and Eng
land, is of Danish origin, not improbably de
scended from Hubba, a Danish invader of
Britain in the ninth century. From this fam
ily the American Hubbells are presumably
descended. (I) Richard Hubbell, the founder of this
family, was born in England in 1627 or 1628,
died in Connecticut, October 23, 1699. It is
not known exactly in what year he emigrated.
His first American record is of date, March
7, 1647, when he took the oath of fidelity to
the government of the New Haven colony.
In 1654 he was admitted a planter at Guil
ford, Connecticut. In 1662 he was tried for
sedition against the colonial government, hav
ing joined Dr. Bray Rossiter in the signing
of two political papers, which were offensive
to the authorities of the colony. He after
ward removed to Fairfield county, Connecti
cut, where in 1685 he was one of the proprie
tors of the town of Fairfield. His final place
of residence was within 'the present limits of
Bridgeport. He was a planter and extensive
landowner, a leading citizen, and apparently
had some knowledge of surveying. He mar
ried (first) in 1650, Elizabeth, daughter of
John and  (Fry) Meigs, who died before
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an original emigrant, who settled at Wey
mouth, Massachusetts, but removed to Con
necticut. He married (second) but of this
wife nothing is known, save the initial "E"
on her tombstone, and the year of her death,
1688. He married (third) contract dated
April 16, 1688, Abigail, widow of Joseph
Walker, who died in 1717. Children, eight
by first, four by second, two by third, wife:
1. John, born 1652, died in 1690; married Pa
tience  . 2. Richard, born 1654, died in
1738; married (first) November 5, 1685, Re
becca Morehouse, (second) October 12, 1692,
Hannah Sillway. 3. James, born 1656, died
December 12, 1656. 4. Samuel, of whom
below. 5. Elizabeth, born November 16,
1659; married Joseph Frost. 6. Ebenezer,
born 1 661, died in 1698; married Mary Har
ris. 7. Mary, married James Newton. 8.
Martha, married, April 24, 1687, John Wake-
man. 9. Samuel, married Elizabeth  . 10.
Abigail, married Samuel French. 11. Sarah,
died December 17, 1726; married, June 25,
1699, Josiah Stevens. 12. James, born in
1673, died in October, 1777; married Pati
ence  . 13. Joseph, born in 1689, died in
1700. 14. John, born in April, 1691, died
April 8, 1774; married, November 6, 171 1,
Anna Welles. There were two sons named
Samuel, each of whom married, and had de
scendants to the present day.
(II) Samuel, son of Richard and Elizabeth
(Meigs) Hubbell, was born at Guilford, No
vember 6, 1657, died September 18, 1713. He
moved with his parents to Fairfield when he
was about five years old, and in this village
he held several offices. He married (first)
April 4, 1687, Elizabeth Wilson, who died
January 4, 1688; (second) April 17, 1688,
Temperance Preston. Children, all save one,
by second wife : 1. Benoni, born December 29,
1687, died January 20, 1688. 2. Elizabeth,
born December 29, 1688, died January 4,
1689. 3. Jehiel, born January 27, 1690, died
May 3, 1693. 4. Daniel, born August 8,
1691, died December 11, 1735; married, May
17, .1716, Esther Beach. 5. Katharine, born
March 11, 1693, died December 19, 1687. 6.
Ephraim, born October 11, 1694, died No
vember 4, 1780; married, October 17, 1717,
Abigail Bradley. 7. Stephen, of whom
further. 8. David, born July 1, 1698, died in
1753. 9. Abiel, born January 15, 1700, died
March 3, 1.700. 10. Tabitha, born December
24, 1700; married James Bennett. 11. Jo

seph, born October 29, 1702, died in May,
1777. (Ill) Stephen, son of Samuel and Temper
ance (Preston) Hubbell, was born at Strat-
field, Fairfield county, Connecticut, February
16, 1695-96, died April 20, 1792. "He mar
ried (first) January 10, 1720, Abigail Squire,
born about 1693, died October 1, 1727; (sec
ond) Rebecca  . Children, all except
the last by first wife : 1. Nehemiah, born May
19, 1722; married Hannah Treadwell. 2. Ja
bez, married (first), June 22, 1750, Sarah
Seeley; (second) Sarah  ¦. 3. Gershom,
of whom further. 4. Rebecca, baptized July
4, 1736, died November 9, 1754.
(IV) Gershom, son of Stephen and Abigail
(Squire) Hubbell, died before his father. He
served in the revolutionary war. He married,
December 6, 1752, Mehitable Hall. Children:
1. Lois, baptized April 24, 1754; married, July
6, 1773, Alpheus Fairchild. 2. Benjamin. 3.
Ezbon, of whom further. 4. Enos. 5. Eph
raim. 6. Abigail. Also, probably, Richard,
born July 4, 1766, died in 1830, married Annie
Trowbridge; and Gershom, born July 4, 1766,
died in 1833.
(V) Ezbon, son of Gershom Hubbell, was
born in 1757, died in 1820. He served as a
private in the revolution. After the war he-
returned to Ballston, Saratoga county, New
York, where he engaged in mercantile busi
ness. Being ruined by the disastrous outcome
of the business venture, he returned to farm
ing. At the age of thirty-five he was perma
nently crippled by an accident, and the last
eighteen years of his life were a period of
protracted suffering and paralysis. In 1801
the family moved to Ovid, Seneca county,
and in 1807, in the neighborhood of Rochester.
Children: 1. Francis, died in the war of 1812.
2. Enos. 3. Ephraim. 4. Eli, of whom fur
ther. 5. Louisa. 6. Philip Schuyler, died in
1874; married Caroline  . 7. Hannah
Louisa. (VI) Eli, son of Ezbon Hubbell, was born
at Ballston, December 29, 1796. In 1827 he
settled at Conewango, Cattaraugus county;
later he moved to Randolph, in the same coun
ty. In Conewango he bought one hundred
acres of land, which he cleared, and here die
reared his family. He married, at Wheatland,
Monroe county, New York, November 30,
1820, Mary Huxley. Children: 1. Schuyler
Philip, born November 2, 1821 ; married, in
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born October 10, 1823; married (first), in
1837, James Leffingwell, (second) Moses
Mills. 3. Chauncey Staple, of whom further.
4. Eli Sanford, born April 28, 1828 ; married
(first) Lydia Wait; (second) Helen M. Rork.
5. Mary Alma, born January 18, 1831 ; mar
ried William H. Wood. 6. Louisa M., born
December 7, 1838; married George A. Glad
den. 7. Lodisa A., born December 7, 1838;
married William A. Mills. 8. Stephen Charles,
born May 31, 1841 ; married (first), January
8, 1868, Jane A. Work; (second) February 3,
1873, Lora A. Loomis. 9. Spencer Ephraim,
born November 7, 1844; married Nettie Mer
chant. (VII) Chauncey Staple, son of Eli and
Mary (Huxley) Hubbell, was born October
26, 1825. He settled at Little Valley, Cattar
augus county, New York. He married, about
1855, Emeline, daughter of Benjamin and
Betsey (Boucher) Hayes, of Yates county.
Children: 1. Dwight, born January 7, 1856;
married, in 1875, Sarah Eleanor Puddy ;
child, Chauncey. 2. DeWitt, married Emma
Gage ; children : Charles, married Mae Came
ron, Cleon, married Frances Beckwith. 3.
Emma Belle, born February 24, 1869 ; mar
ried, January 30, 1890, Charles R. McCann
(see McCann II). 4. Mark, born May 19,
1870 ; married Stella Rockwell ; child, Mary,
born November 19, 1905.

The founding in America of
CROWLEY this branch of the Crowley
family is at once romantic
and tragic. The founder of the family and
captain of a sailing vessel, about 1720, put
into the harbor of Newburyport, Massachu
setts, for the purpose of having much needed
repairs made to his vessel. During the two
months required to make the repairs he wooed
and married a farmer's daughter about two
miles distant. After their marriage he re
sumed his voyage. Nothing further was ever
heard of vessel or crew ; presumably they
were all lost at sea. The young wife remained
in Newburyport, where she gave birth to a
son, Abraham.
(II) Abraham, Crowley, only child of the
foregoing, married, in 1741,  Capen, a
descendant of the emigrant, Bernard Capen,
of England. Children: 1. Royal, born 1766;
enlisted from the town of Attleboro, Massa
chusetts, at the age of sixteen years, April
11, 1782, for a term of three years. He died

in Mt. Holly, Vermont, 1856, in his ninety-
first year. 2. George, the second son was a
Quaker. 3. Walter, of whom further. 4.
John, of whom further. 5. Ellis.
(Ill) John, son of Abraham Crowley, mar
ried  Butterworth. Children: William;
Noah ; Martin ; Rufus, of whom further ; Mil
ton ; Newton ; John, and one daughter. They
moved from Mt. Holly, Vermont, to Massena,
New York, about 1826. He was a farmer,
and lived there until his death. He was very
prominent in Masonic circles, and during the
Morgan trouble, anti-Masonic feeling became
so strong in Vermont that Mr. Crowley de
cided to move to New York state.
(IV) Rufus, son of John Crowley, was a
resident of Mt. Holly, Rutland county, Ver
mont, 1800, died 1872. He was a clerk in
early life, then became a merchant. He was
a prominent man in his town, captain of mi
litia, member of state assembly, and a leader
in the church. In 1841 he removed to York
shire, Cattaraugus county, New York, where
he formed a partnership with L. D. Cobb,
and established a general store. He also
owned a farm and a hotel in the town. In
1846 he was elected to the state assembly
from Yorkshire. In 1848 he removed to Ran
dolph, same county, purchased a half interest
in the firm of A. & A. Crowley, which he
sold in 1852 and engaged in business alone,
and in 1858 he sold all his business interests
and retired. In 1857 he was again elected to
the state assembly. For many years he was
justice of the peace and in politics- an ardent
Whig, later a Republican. He was a member
of the Baptist church and a good man in every
sense of the word. Among his treasures was
a sword carried in the revolutionary war, by
Royal Crowley, who died in Mt.' Holly, Ver
mont. He married his cousin, Permelia Crow
ley, born 1800, died 185 1, daughter of Walter
Crowley. Children, all born in Mt. Holly,
Vermont: 1. Marcella, died in 1848. 2. Julia,
born in 1833, died in 1870. 3. Mary J., born
in 1835; married Porter Sheldon; children:
i. Cora, married Herbert W. Tew, and has
Dorothy, ii. Ralph C, married Isabel Marvin,
and has Julia and Ralph C. iii. Harry, mar
ried Mary Myers. 4. Rodney R., of whom
further. (V) Rodney R., only son of Rufus and
Permelia (Crowley) Crowley, was born in
Mt. Holly, Rutland county, Vermont, Novem
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parents came to Yorkshire, New York, where
he attended the public school. In 1848 they
removed to Randolph, where his education
continued in the public school, finishing at
Randolph Academy, whence he was graduated
after a four years' course. He taught school
in the winter of 1854-55. In the spring of
1855 he entered the law offices of Weeden &
Henderson. Close application developed a
weakness of his eyes, and for three years he
was clerk in the dry goods store of William
H. Lowrey, a dry goods merchant of James
town, New York. In 1858 he resumed his law
studies, completing them under Porter Shel
don, of Rockford, Illinois, and Alexander
Sheldon, at Randolph, New York. May 16,
1861, he was admitted to the bar. Shortly
after his admission the need of men to sup
port the government was so apparent, that
he laid aside all thoughts of his newly ac
quired profession, and enlisted as a private in
Company B, Sixty-fourth Regiment, New
York Volunteers, being then twenty-four
years of age. He was enrolled August 17,
1861, at Randolph, to serve three years; mus
tered in as private of Company B, September
7, 1861 ; promoted quartermaster-sergeant,
November 13, 1861 ; mustered in as second
lieutenant of Company B, January 16, 1862 ;
as first lieutenant and quartermaster, Febru
ary 28, 1862 ; was wounded at the battle of
Fair Oaks, Virginia, June 1, 1862. He was
mustered in as captain of Company B, No
vember 17, 1862, but served for several
months as brigade quartermaster and commis
sary on the staff of Brigadier General Cald
well. He then took command of his company,
fought with them at Chancellorsville, and Get
tysburg, where on July 2, 1863, he was
wounded in the knee and compelled to forego
a further military career. He was honorably
discharged, November 6, 1863. His commis
sion as second lieutenant, dated from January
16, 1862, succeeding James G. Johnson, pro
moted, another distinguished Cattaraugus
county soldier and citizen, with whom Mr.
Crowley was afterward in legal partnership.
His first lieutenant's commission dates from
February 28, 1862 ; his captain's, from July 12,
1862. After the war was over, he formed a part
nership with James G. Johnson. This existed
for seven years under the firm name of John
son & Crowley. December 6, 1864, he was
appointed provost marshal for the thirty-first

congressional district, holding until October
15, 1865. In April, 1869, he was appointed
collector of internal revenue for the thirty-
first district, New York, serving until June,
1 87 1. In 1872 he was nominated by the Lib
erals and Democrats for the assembly, but
was defeated by the Republican candidate. In
1875 he was the successful candidate of the
Democratic party for the office of state in
spector of prisons. He held this office until March
1, 1877, instituting several important reforms
that tended to improve conditions in the pris
on department. From i860 until 1872, Mr.
Crowley was justice of the peace of the town
of Randolph. In 1868 was elected supervisor,
reelected in 1869. In 1877 he returned to the
practice of law, being senior of Crowley &
Armstrong, until 1881 ; then until 1886 of
Crowley & Sackrider; until 1887 of Crowley,
Sackrider & Reilly. In that year Mr. Sack-
rider was appointed postmaster of Randolph,
and until 1897 the firm was Crowley & Reilly.
In 1897 he formed a partnership with C. W.
Terry, continuing as Crowley & Terry* until
1900, when the firm became Crowley & An
derson, remaining as such until 1902. He
practiced alone from that date until 1908,. then
admitted Arthur R. Conley. In 1893 he was
appointed deputy superintendent of banks and
served three years. He has been president of
the village several years, elected first 1890;
reelected in 1900-01-02-03. In his political
faith Mr. Crowley may be classed as an Inde
pendent Democrat. He has sat in many state
conventions of the Democratic party, but has
ever preserved his independence. In 189 1 was
chairman of the Democratic county commit
tee. As lawyer and politician, he serves clients
and constituents with fidelity, and has won a
high place in the esteem of his people. He is
commander of D. T. Wiggin's Post, No. 297,
Grand Army of the Republic, and ever mind
ful of the welfare of his old comrades. He
is past master of Randolph Lodge, No. 359,
Free and Accepted Masons, serving three
terms in the master's chair, declining to serve
after a fourth election. He is also a member
of Chapter No. 266, Royal Arch Masons. He
was one of the original incorporators of the
State Bank of Randolph. He has always been
a warm friend, and actively interested in the
Western New York Home for Homeless and
Dependent Children, as trustee and member
of the executive committee. He is a member
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He married, September i, 1861, Jane Ho
bart Mussey, born April 6, 1835. Children:
1. Fred B., born August 19, 1865; married
Lillian Hall, and resides in Des Moines, Iowa ;
child: Rodney E., born September 14, 1892.
2. Mary G., born April 19, 1872; married
Henry F. Harrington, and resides in Dayton,
Ohio; children: John H., born October 1,
1907 ; Louise J., July 9, 1909.

(Ill) Walter Crowley, third
CROWLEY son of Abraham Crowley
(q. v.), of Attleboro, Massa
chusetts, married Mary Todd. They settled
in Mt. Hjolly, Vermont. Children: Walter,
Martha, Permelia, Asahel, Addison, Sally, Al
vin. (IV) Addison, son of Walter Crowley, was
born in Mt. Holly, Rutland county, Vermont,
March 8, 181 1, died in Randolph, New York,
April 5, 1895. He was the third son of his
parents, and with his brothers spent his earlier
years employed on his father's Vermont farm
and attending the public schools during the
winter months. On. reaching his twentieth
year he entered Chester Academy (Chester,
Vermont) where his education was com
pleted. Until 1835 he taught school and en
gaged in mercantile life. In that year he re
moved to Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New
York, where the first year he taught a public
school. In 1836 he entered into partnership
with his brother, Asahel Crowley, establishing
a general store in Randolph. They also en
gaged extensively in the manufacture of lum
ber, running the same to southern markets
via the Alleghany and Ohio rivers. Later
Alvin Crowley was admitted to the firm and
a lumber yard established at Cincinnati, Ohio,
the lumber being obtained from the Cattarau
gus county mills. The firm also dealt largely
in farms lands, farming and cattle dealing,
driving their stock to eastern markets. They
also engaged in building, erecting over thirty
structures, including the Congregational
Church at Randolph, and Randolph, now
Chamberlain, Institute. They employed many
men and conducted a very large and success
ful business. Mr. Crowley was an old line
Whig, and took an active part in the forma
tion of the Republican party in Cattaraugus
county. In 1840 he subscribed for Horace
Greeley's paper, The Log Cabin, and when the
same editor founded the New York Tribune,
he became a subscriber, continuing until his

death. He held nearly every town office within
the gift of the voters of Randolph, and was
one of the most prominent and influential citi
zens of the town. He was supervisor in 1846-
47-54. In 1849 he was elected sheriff of Cat
taraugus county and reelected in 1852, serv
ing six years. He was appointed postmaster
of Randolph by President Lincoln, holding it
until the administration of President Johnson,
when he at once resigned. He was trustee
and treasurer of Randolph Academy until it
passed under the control of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and was active in the organ
ization of the Chamberlain Institute. His
health becoming impaired in his later years,
he gave up active business and lived a re
tired life. At the organization of the State
Bank of Randolph, in 1874, he was chosen
vice-president and director, and thereafter
president, continuing until his death. Both in
public and private life he was honored and
respected. He carved out his own fortunes
and the success he won was fairly earned and
well deserved.
He married (first), January 10, 1839, Mary
E., died November, 1843, daughter of Will
iam Shattuck, of Warren, Pennsylvania. He
married (second) in May, 1851, Arvilla,
daughter of William M. Champlin, a wealthy
farmer of Napoli, New York, a descendant
of Jeffrey Champlin, of Rhode Island. Chil
dren of first marriage : 1. Ella M., born Jan
uary 18, 1840; married, January 12, 1871,
B. G. Castel, of Randolph; she died Janu
ary 3, 1907, at Santa Monica, California. 2.
Melvin A., born May 5, 1843, died Novem
ber 21, 1876; married, May 30, 1864, Emma
Fenton. Children of. second marriage: 3.
A son, died in infancy. 4. Addie M., born
June 12, 1856; married, October 9, 1878,
Erie W. Fenton; resides in Wymore, Ne
braska ; two children : Beatrice, married Jesse
Craig, and has sons Robert and Arthur C. 5.
Sarah M., born March 6, 1858, died March
27, 1861. 6. Frank Champlin, March 2, i860,
died April 3, 1861. 7. Kate C, born Febru
ary 12, 1863; married Walter B. Saunders;
children : Phil C, Corrinne, Louis M. and
Earl ; resides in Millbank, South Dakota. 8.
Jerome A., of whom further. 9. Elizabeth
C, married Frank L. Seager; child, Kate C.
(V) Jerome A., son of Addison and Ar
villa (Champlin) Crowley, was born in Ran
dolph, Cattaraugus county, New York, No
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obtained in the public school after which he
entered Chamberlain Institute, whence he
was graduated with the class of 1885. He
then entered the employ of C. P. Adams &
Son, as a clerk in their hardware store, con
tinuing until 1887. He entered the employ
of the State Bank of Randolph as a book
keeper, advanced to the position of teller, then
assistant cashier, and in 1897 was elected
cashier of the bank, which position he still
holds. He is an able financier, thoroughly
informed in banking law and procedure, con
servative in his investments and a pillar of
strength to his bank. He has been the presi
dent of the board of education of the Ran
dolph high school since 1906, and during the
time the magnificent high school building at
Randolph has been erected. In politics he is
a Republican, and is also a member of the
Masonic order, Randolph Lodge, No. 359.
He married, April 14, 1897, Agnes, daugh
ter of John M. and Ruth Ann (Hall) Gif
ford (see Hall IX). Child, Addison G., born
December 31, 1899.(The Hall Line).
(I) John Hall, immigrant ancestor, was
born in county Kent, England, in 1584, died
in Middletown, Connecticut, May 26, 1673.
He came from England to Boston in 1633,
and settled first in Cambridge, moving soon
to Roxbury, where in the records of Mr. El
liot's church he was called Mr., a title which
in those days was seldom given and showed
the man to be prominent. In 1634 his name
was on a rate bill on the records of Roxbury.
On September 4, 1633, he, with John Oldham
and two other men, went to the Connecticut
river, where they were in October, and re
turned on January 20, 1634, with a favorable
report of the rich lands there which resulted
in the migrations from Dorchester to Weth
ersfield and Windsor, and from Cambridge
to Hartford in 1635-36. He was made free
man in Boston in 1635, and soon after he
probably joined the Hooker and Stone Col
ony and went to Hartford. His family did
not move until 1639. He was a carpenter
by trade. He had home lot No. 77 of six
acres on Lord's hill, in 1639, and he bought
lands that year of William Hooker and
Bloomfield also. He was surveyor of high
ways in Hartford in 1640. In 1650 he moved
with his family to Matabesick, now Middle-
town, where he was one of the original pro

prietors. His home lot consisted of five acres
on the northeast corner of Main and Wash
ington streets, running to the "Great River,"
joining the lot of his son-in-law, Thomas
Wetmore, on the north. On March 19, 1659,
he was appointed by the general court at
Hartford to enter and record goods subject
to customs for Middletown, and often after
this he held offices in the town. He seemed
to be one of the leaders and most prominent
men in town. He married Esther  , who
probably died in England. Children: John,
born in England, 1619; Richard, in England,
1620; Sarah, in England, 1622; Samuel, men
tioned below.
(II) Samuel, son of John Hall, was born
in county Kent, England, in 1626, died in
Middletown, Connecticut, in 1690. He was
made freeman at Middletown in 1654, and
on June 10, 1655, had lands recorded. His
home lot consisted of five acres on the east
side of Main street, extending to the river.
The Mansion House block occupies a part of
this land on Main street. He was a farmer
and owned much land. He also knew his
father's trade, that of carpenter. Hie was ad
mitted to the church at Middletown, October
19, 1663, and his wife was admitted, October
29, 1676. She moved to Guilford, Connecti
cut, after his death, to the home of her son
Thomas. He made his will, February 13,
1690, and his estate was inventoried at three
hundred and twenty-four pounds. To Sam
uel he left the house and barns, to John the
town lot, to Thomas, two acres of the home
lot, and to Samuel and John the carpenter's
tools. He married, 1662, Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke, of Guil
ford; Thomas Cooke came to Guilford with
Rev. Henry Whitfield; he was one of the
signers . of the plantation covenant of June
1, 1639, made on the passage from county
Kent, England. Children: Samuel, born
February 3, 1663-64; John, August 7, 1668;
Thomas, mentioned below.
(Ill) Thomas, son of Samuel Hall, was
born at Middletown, Connecticut, August 29,
1671, died at Guilford, February 11, 1753.
In 1727 he was chosen deacon of the first
church 6f Guilford. He was captain of the
militia. He was often moderator of society
and town meetings, and served as selectman.
He married (first) February 1, 1692, Mary
Hiland, born May 12, 1672, died April, 1738,
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Hiland ; George Hiland took the oath of fidel
ity at Guilford, September 4, 1650. He mar
ried Mary Cruttenden in 1665. He married
(second) Rachel, daughter of John Savage
and widow of John Spinning, of Middletown ;
she died January 19, 1752. He married
(third) very late in life, Abigail Seward.
Children, born in Guilford, by first wife:
Mary, November 5, 1693 ; Hannah, March
25, 1695 ; Elizabeth, June 12, 1698 ; Thomas,
January 10, 1701, died young; Hiland, Sep
tember 30, 1703 ; John, mentioned below.
(IV) John (2), son of Thomas Hall, was
born in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1706, died
there October 3, 1790. He married, Novem
ber 26, 1730, Ann, daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (Bradley) Criswold. She died July 4,
1750. Children, born in Guilford: Phile
mon, mentioned below; Amos, born Novem
ber 10, 1739, died February 7, 1740; John,
September 8, 1741 ; Isaac, November 18,
1742 ; Samuel, December 8, 1747, died Janu
ary 6, 1 751; Ann, June 6, 1750, died Decem
ber 17, 1764.
(V) Philemon, son of John (2) Hall, was
born at Guilford, September 23, 1733, died
September 21, 1800. He was a sergeant in
the revolution, in Captain Stephen Hall's
company. He was commissioned ensign, Jan
uary 1, 1777; promoted second lieutenant,
March 10, 1778 ; promoted first lieutenant,
March 12, 1780. Lieutenant Philemon Hall
continued from 1777 to 1781. Retired by
consolidation, January 1, 1783. He was one
of three representatives from Guilford to the
first Connecticut State Society of the Cin
cinnati. He married (first) May 6, 1756,
Sarah Page, of Brandford, who died March
22, 1791. He married (second) September
28, 1 791, Abigail, widow of Captain Stephen
Hall, and she died September 20, 1800. Chil
dren, born at Guilford, by first wife: Sarah,
born August 6, 1757; Mary, September 30,
J759; Phineas, August 1, 1761 ; Hannah,
February 15, 1763; Elizabeth, November 21,
1764; Anna, January 26, 1768; Philemon,
mentioned below; Lois, August 26, 1773.
(VI) Philemon (2), son of Philemon (1)
Hall, was born October 3, 1769, in Connecti
cut. He and his family moved to Bloom
field, Ontario county, New York, in the
spring of 1793, where he owned and con
ducted a tavern. A tavern keeper in those
days was quite a personage. In February,
1819, the tavern burned. About 1822 he with

his four sons moved to the then almost un
settled wilds of Cattaraugus county. He kept
the first inn, and store at Cold Spring. He
with his sons built a saw mill, which was
probably the first in the town of Cold
Spring. They built a second mill on
the Little Conewango, another in 1836,
another in 1839, one in 1841, and one
in 1844, on the site now known as the Stewart
Mills. They erected a small grist mill with
one run of stone on Spring Brook in 1824,
and a larger one with three run of stone, in
1833, on the site now known as the Holdridge
Mills. They later had a cabinet shop on the
site of Morton's Mill, where they made good
hand-made furniture, tables, chairs, bureaus,
etc. The business was conducted under the
father's name until his death, where the
brothers separated, and Amos took most of
the business. Philemon died in East Ran
dolph, May 12, 185 1, and after his death his
wife, Mary (Parmelee) Hall, lived with the
son Amos until her death, July 7, 1865. Her
father, Reuben Parmelee, was a revolution
ary soldier, sergeant in Captain Vail's com
pany, stationed at Guilford for defence of
coast, 1 78 1 ; served eight months, twenty
days. Children of Philemon and Mary
(Parmelee) Hall: Joel, married Lydia Ev-
arts ; Horace, married Lydia Rathbone ; Eras
tus, married Emeline Rathbone; Amos, men
tioned below. Twelve more children were
born, but died in infancy.
(VII) Amos, son of "Philemon (2) Hall,
was born July 19, 1805. He was extensively
engaged in the lumber and mercantile busi
ness, in East Randolph, and owned consid
erable farm land in the vicinity. He married
Emily Prince, and to them were born: Em
ily, married Charles Brown ; Ruth Ann, men
tioned below ; Mary, married Edward Beales ;
Clara, married Preston C. Staley; Frances,
married Walter Powers ; Thomas, died at age
of two years. After the death of his wife,
at the age of thirty-eight, his home was Kept
by his daughters until they were married. He
later went to Kansas to make his home with
his daughter Emily, where he died March 13,
1878. (VIII) Ruth Ann, daughter of Amos Hall,
was born July 13, 1846. She married (first)
August 14, 1866, John M. Gifford, who died
August 9, 1880. Children : Glen David, born
July 21, 1870, died September 26, 1891 ; John
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Agnes, mentioned below. She married (sec
ond) November 15, 1885, George H. Titcomb,
at Waterville, Kansas. She died July 18,
1886. (IX) Agnes, daughter of John M. and
Ruth Ann (Hall) Gifford, was born April
16, 1874. She married, April 14, 1897,
Jerome A. Crowley (see Crowley V).

(IV) Hiland Hall, son of Thomas
HALL Hall (q. v.), was born in Guil
ford, Connecticut, September 30,
1703, died there June 16, 1781, aged seventy-
seven, according to his gravestone in the old
Guilford cemetery, which was moved to the
farm of Minor Fowler when the ground was
made a public common. He was called Mr.
in the records of Deacon John Bangs. He
married, March 17, 1725, Rachel, daughter
of Daniel and Mary (Hall) Bishop, and
granddaughter of William Hall, who came
from Rolvendue, county Kent, England, in
the company of the Rev. Henry Whitfield,
the first minister of Guilford, in 1639. Mary
Hall, wife of Daniel Bishop, was daughter
of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Hall; John
was son of William Hall; Elizabeth was
daughter of George and Sarah Smith, of New
Haven. As Rachel Bishop, the wife of Hi
land Hall, was granddaughter of William
Hall, their descendants have two immigrant
ancestors by the name of Hall. Children,
born in Guilford: Thomas, February 11,
1726; Hiland, April 21, 1727; Rachel, Sep
tember 27, 1728, died October 23, 1728;
Abraham, mentioned below ; Gilbert, born No
vember 26, 1732; Thankful, January 19,
1735; Stephen, September 5, 1739; Eber, De
cember 5, 1 741.
(V) Abraham, son of Hiland Hall, was
born in Guilford, September 3, 1730, died in
Norfolk, Connecticut. He was a deacon of
the church at Norfolk. He moved from Guil
ford to Norfolk, and he may have lived for
a time in Starksborough, Vermont. He mar
ried, October 30, 175 1, Jerusha Bowen. Chil
dren, born in Guilford: Hiland, February
14, 1752, died February 1, 1753 ; Hiland, May
3, 1754; Abraham, May 29, 1756; Samuel,
mentioned below; Rebecca; Jerusha, Novem
ber 8, 1757.
(VI) Samuel, son of Abraham Hall, was
born in Guilford, Connecticut, October 5,
1759, died in Bristol, Vermont, about 1838.
He moved with his father to Norfolk, Con

necticut, and went from there to Starksbor
ough or Bristol, Vermont, where he lived the
most of his life. He was a farmer. He mar
ried, at Norfolk, Lucy, daughter of Asaph
Parmelee. Asaph Parmelee died at Bristol,
October 24, 1834, aged ninety years. Chil
dren: 1. Anson, died 1813, aged about
twenty-five or twenty-seven; married Lucia
Carrington a few months before his death.
2. Hiland, mentioned below. 3. Wheelock,
was living in Michigan in 1864. 4. Everett
D., died in Monkton, Vermont, September
15, 1838; married Sally Case, of Middlebury.
5. Lucia, was living in 1864; married, 1812,
Ansel Wentworth, of Starksborough, who was
justice of peace, representative of town in leg
islature, etc., died 1833, aged forty-four. (One
of his daughters married General George W.
Grundy, of Vergennes, Vermont, a promi
nent lawyer, who several times was elected
a member and speaker of the house of repre
sentatives.) 6. Charlotte, living in 1864;
married Norman Bell, of Weybridge. 7. Har
riet, died April 15, 1855, aged fifty-six years;
married, January 1, 1818,  . 8. Saman-
tha, living' in 1864 ; married Charles Whiting.
(VII) Hiland Hall, son of Samuel Hall,
was born at Bristol, Addison county, Ver
mont, January 4, 1790, died there May 4,
i860. He married, February 26, 1812, So
phia, daughter of Levi Smith, of Bristol. She
was born August 26, 1790, died January 26,
1876. He moved with his family and all their
possessions in a covered wagon from Addi
son county, Vermont, to Lyndonville, Or
leans county, New York, crossing Lake
Champlain on the ice, and enduring many
hardships on the journey. He was a farmer
in Lyndonville, and later at Oak Orchard,
Orleans county, with his son Nelson F. He
later returned to Bristol, where he died. Chil
dren: 1. Horace E., born October 21, 1814,
died March 23, 1895 ; married, May 6, 1835,
Elmira Carpenter, who died December 24,
1847; children: i. Melvina E., born June 11,
1836, died April 19, 1839; n- Sophia E., born
December 16, 1838, died August 2, 1896,
married Elisha Potter and they have two chil
dren: Carrie and Fred Potter; iii. William
H., born October 1, 1841, died January 13,
1892. 2. Nelson F., born November 23, 1816,
died April 25, 1899; married Elizabeth Ste
wart, who died in January, 1902 ; children :
i. Charles, born October 15, 1843, died Janu
ary, 1906; ii. Hattie S., born December 9,

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1846; married Jasper C. Egerton and now
lives on the old homestead at Oak Orchard.
3. Levi S., born February 15, 1819, died
March 1, 1819. 4. Otto M., born May 18,
1820, died March 11, 1840. 5. Anson, born
December 16, 1822, died September 27, 1825.
6. William A., born April 2, 1828; married,
December 29, 1852, Caroline M. Gould, who
died May 13, 1897; one child, Fred M., born
November 15, 1853. 7. Erasmus D., men
tioned below. 8. Mary, died in infancy.
(VIII) Dr. Erasmus D. Hall, son of Hi
land Hall, was born in Bristol, Vermont, Feb
ruary 12, 1 83 1. When he was three years
of age, he came with his parents to Lyndon
ville, New York, where he attended the
public schools. He also graduated from Al
bion Academy, and Castleton Medical College,
in Castleton, Vermont, from which he was
graduated as an M. D. in 1853. For three
years after this he practiced his profession at
Walworth, Wayne county, New York, and
then moved to Knowlesville, Orleans county,
New York, where he practiced until within
eight years, when he was obliged to retire
because of ill health. From 1858 until' he
retired, he owned a large grocery and drug
store which he conducted in addition to his
medical practice. In 1875 he built a large
business block, and he has been one of the
most progressive men of the town for fifty
years. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and
has been a member of the church for half a
century at Knowlesville, having served also
as clerk. He is a Prohibitionist.
He married, June 20, 1878, Julia, born
January 12, 1840, daughter of Christopher
Ostrander. Children: 1. Fannie, born Janu
ary 17, 1880, died April 29, 1907, at Schenec
tady, New York; married Thurlow W. Bux
ton; child, Seeley Hall, deceased. 2. Jessie
Ostrander, born April 9, 1884; educated in
district schools and was graduated from Al
bion high school, went one year to Oberlin
Conservatory of Music at Oberlin, Ohio, and
now lives at home with her father at Knowles
ville, New York.

This surname is derived
CHITTENDEN from the corrupt British
and Welsh word chy,
meaning "house," and tane, "lower," and din
or dun, "hill," the lower house on the hill.
The name is quite common in England, and
the spelling, which has been greatly varied, is

almost always Chittenden at the present time.
Only two families of the name were early
immigrants to America. Thomas Chittenden,
a linen weaver, came with his son Isaac from
Wapping, in county Kent, and settled in Sci
tuate, Massachusetts, where his descendants
are still found. It is not known whether he
was related to William Chittenden, mentioned
below. (I) William Chittenden, the immigrant an
cestor, came from the parish of Cranbrook,
Kent, England, and is believed to have been
the son of Robert Chittenden. In the record
of baptisms in the parish of Marden, near
Cranbrook, there is an entry of William, son
of Robert, March, 1594. He was an original
settler of Guilford, Connecticut, and one of
the six persons selected to purchase lands
there from the native owners. He was also
one of the four magistrates who received
"full power and authority to act, order and
dispatch all matters respecting the publick
weale and civile government of the plantation
until a church is gathered amonge us." He
was the chief military man of the plantation,
and bore the title of Lieutenant. Savage says
that he had been a soldier in the English army
in the Thirty Years War in the Netherlands,
and had received the rank of major. He was
a magistrate and deputy to the general court
until his death. His lands in Guilford com
prised about one hundred acres, the most
of which is still in possession of a descend
ant. He married, in England, Joanna, daugh
ter of Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe, of
Cranbrook, Kent. She survived him, and
married (second) as his second wife, Abra
ham Cruttenden, of Guilford. She died there
August 16, 1668. Her mother, Joanna
Sheaffe, emigrated with the family from Eng
land, and died in Guilford August 1, 1659.
William Chittenden died in February, 1660-1.
Children : Thomas, Elizabeth, Nathaniel,
John, mentioned below ; Mary, Hannah, born
November 15, 1649; Joseph, April 14, 1652,
died June 22, 1652; Hannah, twin of Joseph,
died September 13, 1674; Deborah, Decem
ber 12, 1653.
(II) Sergeant John Chittenden, son of
William Chittenden, married, December 12,
1665, Hannah, daughter of John Fletcher, of
Milford, Connecticut. He died in Guilford,
in April, 1716. Children: John, born Octo
ber 19, 1666; Elizabeth, January 26, 1670;
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23, 1678, died 1679; Abel, May 14, 1681 ; Ly
dia, March 30, 1684.
(Ill) Joseph, son of John Chittenden, was
born March 26, 1672, and married, August
26, 1692, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and
Mary Kimberly, of New Haven ; she was
born April, 1671, and died January 14, 1748.
He lived in Guilford, and died September
11, 1787. Children: Deborah, born January
28, 1695; Patience, January 19, 1696; Gideon,
mentioned below; Daniel, March 15, 1700";
Joseph, January 25, 1702 ; Thankful, January
27, 1704.
(IV) Gideon, son of Joseph Chittenden,
was born February 3, 1698, and married,
March 21, 1721, Abigail, daughter of Samuel
and Abigail (Wetmore) Bishop, of Guilford,
born April 19, 1701. He removed to New
Milford, Connecticut, in 1762. He was living
May 29, 1781. Children: Abraham, born
February 16, 1723 ; Millicent, April 5, 1725 ;
Abigail, March 17, 1727; Prudence, October
14, 1729; Giles, December 8, 1731 ; Miles,
June 15, 1734; Ruth, May 15, 1737; Stephen,
mentioned below; Catharine, May 9, 1747.
(V) Stephen, son of Gideon Chittenden,
was born May 9, 1739, and died in Kent, Con
necticut. He moved with his father from
Guilford to New Milford, and from there to
Kent. He married, September 26, 1765, Lucy
Bardsley, of New Milford. She was a widow
in 1808, and married (second) Asahel Stone,
being a widow again in 1812. Children:
Miles, born March 28, 1767; Stephen, 1768;
Lucy ; Ruth ; William ; Nathaniel ; Dolly ;
Erastus. (VI) Erastus, son of Stephen Chittenden,
was born in March, 1784, and died in Sep
tember, 1820. He married, 1805, Nancy Bis
sell, who was born in Goshen, Connecticut.
Children: Sarah Bissell Chittenden, born
June 18, 1806, married Jared Pratt, of Platts-
burg, New York ; William Erastus, of whom
further. (VII) Rev. William Erastus Chittenden,
only son of Erastus Chittenden, was born
July 6, 1808, at Goshen, Connecticut, and died
at Cleveland, Ohio, February 13, 1880. He
was educated in the schools at Litchfield,
Connecticut, and was ordained deacon in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, but preferring
the Presbyterian faith, he was ordained in that
denomination at Belleville, Illinois, in 1839,
and was pastor for a number of years there.
He left the ministry about 1847 to engage in

business as a banker in New York, but con
tinued active and prominent in the church,
and was elder of the North Presbyterian
Church of Buffalo. Before the civil war he
had banks (of which he was president) at
Holly Springs, Bank of Northern Mississippi ;
Bank of Eastern Tennessee, at Knoxville,
Tennessee ; Bank of Woodbury, at Woodbury,
Connecticut. At one time he was associated
in business with J. Pierpont Morgan, New
York City, in the firm of Chittenden, Morgan
& Church. During the panic of 1853 these
banks shared the general disaster to business.
He then became secretary of the Niagara
Car Works, and afterward manufactured hot-
air engines, the patent on which he controlled.
In politics he was a Republican. He was a
member of Niagara Lodge, No. 2, of Masons.
He married (first) May Bebee, of Jackson,
Michigan; (second) Agnes Kraft; (third)
in September, 1846, Ann Eliza Smith, who
was born September 14, 1820, and died De
cember 27, 1907, daughter of John Smith,
and granddaughter of Whitman Smith.
Whitman Smith's father and grandfather
bore the same name before him. Her mother
was Ann (Chapin) Smith. Children of first
wife: 1. William Frederick, deceased; was a
broker in Brooklyn, New York. 2-3. Twins
died in infancy. Children by third wife: 4.
Mary Adelia, born in Prattsburg, New York,
1847; resides at Niagara-on-the-Lake; mar
ried John Henry Wilson. 5. John Smith, of
whom further. 6. Anna Elizabeth, born Sep
tember 10, 1855 ; unmarried. 7. Gertrude,
born June 12, 1857, died January 6, 1896.
(VIII) John Smith, son of Rev. William
Erastus Chittenden, was born at Holfy
Springs, Mississippi, June 18, 1850. He came
to Buffalo, New York, with his father in May,
1 86 1, and finished his education there in the
public schools. He entered the hardware busi
ness, and was also a general merchant at Al
den for some years. From 1873 to 1880 he
was secretary and treasurer of the Fletcher
Furnace Company, of Black Rock. He is
now (1911) retired from active business. He
served a term of enlistment in Company B,
Seventy-fourth Regiment, New York Na
tional Guard. He is a member and deacon
of the Presbyterian church. In politics he is
a Republican. He is a member of the Acacia
Club, and of Era Lodge, No. 161, Free Ma
sons, and Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
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He married Annie Pratt (see Pratt), De
cember 3, 1869. Children: 1. John Lorenz,
mentioned below. 2. Phebe, born December
4, 1873 ; married Thedore L. Richmond, presi
dent of Buffalo Scale Works. 3. Anna Pratt,
born November 29, 1877; resides in Buffalo.
4. Lorenz Pratt, born July 13, 1884; living
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; dealer in automo
biles ; married, January 1, 1907, Claribel,
daughter of Dr. Clarence A. Tyler, of Alden.
(IX) John Lorenz, son of John Smith
Chittenden, was born at Knoxville, Tennes
see, January 24, 1871. He received his early
education in public and private schools of
Buffalo. He began his commercial life as
clerk in the Manufacturers and Traders' Bank
of Buffalo, and won promotion from time to
time to the rank of teller. In 1902 he en
gaged in business as a dry goods dealer in
Buffalo. Since 1910 he has been in the gen
eral brokerage and bond business, represent
ing Berton, Griscom & Jenks, of New York
City. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a member of the North Presbyterian Church
of Buffalo, the Chamber of Commerce of
Buffalo and of Landmark Lodge, No. 441,
Free Masons ; and the Buffalo, Park, Elmira
City Club of Elmira, the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution ; the Buffalo National Service
Society, the Black River Valley Qub, of
Watertown. He married, September 26, 1894, Amelia
Frederica Lautz, daughter of John Adam
Lautz and Catherine (Bardol), daughter of
Joseph. Her parents were married Novem
ber 16, 1845. Children: Hortense Pratt, Es
ther, and Ruth, born in Buffalo.
(The Pratt Line).
John Pratt, the immigrant ancestor, was
the son of Rev. William Pratt, and was bap
tized November 9, 1620, at Stevenange, Hert
fordshire, England. The exact time when he
came to America is not known, but is believed
to have been in 1632, with the company of
Rev. Thomas Hooker. April 7, 1634, he was
granted two acres of land by the old burying-
place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in
1635 he "owned a house on the northerly side
of Mt. Auburn street, between Brighton street
and Brattle Square, which he sold to Joseph
Isaac." He was made freeman May 14, 1634.
On May 31, 1636, he went with the company
of Rev. Hooker to Hartford, Connecticut,
where they arrived in June, 1636. His name

occurs in the list of proprietors there and fre
quently afterwards in the town records. On
January 14, 1639, he was elected representa
tive; April 11, 1639, one of the committee to
-elect magistrates; February 18, 1640, one of
a committee to appoint and lay out lands;
January 26, 1641, he was chosen to order the
affairs of the town; September 15, 1643, °ne
of the grand jury; February 3, 1644, con
stable. He is supposed to have been a car
penter by trade, as he made repairs on the
"Prison howse" in 165 1. He afterwards pur
chased two adjoining lots on Main street, of
Governor Haynes. Pratt street derived its
name from him, and was cut through his
home lot. The record of his marriage has
not been found. The Christian name of his
wife was Elizabeth. His will was dated Oc
tober 14, 1654, and he died in Hartford, July
IS> 1655. Children: John, mentioned below;
Daniel, born about 1639; Hannah, Novem
ber 25, 1648.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Pratt,
was born about 1638, in Hartford, and died
November 23, 1689. He married (first) Han
nah, daughter of Lieutenant James and Alice
Boosey, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, born
in 1641. Lieutenant James was clerk of the
train hand. Mr. Pratt married (second) Hep-
sibah, daughter of John Wyatt. He was
was made freeman February 26, 1656, chosen
constable for the years 1660-69-78-82, and
was chosen "to order the affayres of the town
from 1653 to :665." His name also appears
on the list of freemen on the north side of
the river, taken October 13, 1669. His will
was dated April 19, 1689. His widow Hep-
sibah' married (second) John Sadd, who was
a tanner from Earl's Colne, England, and
settled in Wethersfield, 1674. She died De
cember 20, 17 1 1. Children, born in Hart
ford: Hannah, November 25, 1658; John,
May 17, 1661 ; Elizabeth, October 7, 1664;
Sarah, June 20, 1668 ; Joseph, March 6, 1671 ;
Ruth, December 21, 1677; Susannah, October
2, 1680; Jonathan, mentioned below.
(Ill) Jonathan, son of John (2) Pratt,
was born in Hartford, October 6, 1683, and
died there December 6, 1755. In 1730 he was
listed as a tanner. His will was dated Au
gust 21, 1751, and proved January 6, 1756.
He married (first)  ; (second) Mary
Benton, born 1690, daughter of Andrew Ben
ton. They lived on the west side of Main
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1 78 1, aged ninety-one, and was buried in
East Hartford, where he also was buried.
Children: Elizabeth; Jerusha, born 1717;
Daniel, baptized June 10, 1722 ; Moses ; Jona
than; Eliab, 1724; Aaron, mentioned below;
Mary; Hepsibah, 1732.
(IV) Aaron, son of Jonathan Pratt, was
born in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1742,
and died in Buffalo, New York, at the home
of his son Samuel, February 9, 1807. About
1770 he moved with his family to Westmin
ster, Vermont, -where for many years he kept
a tavern, which in 1899 was still standing.
He married, in 1757, Mary Clark, born in
East Hartford, 1744, died in Buffalo, Novem
ber 20, 1809. Children, baptized in East
Hartford : Elizabeth, December 24, 1758, died
July 24, 1764; Aaron, September 7, 1760;
Mary, "August 22, 1762; Samuel, mentioned
below; William, June 1, 1766, died in in
fancy; William, January 10, 1768.
(V) Samuel, son of Aaron Pratt, was born
in East Hartford, Connecticut, and baptized
July 29, 1764. About 1770 he went with his
father to Westminster, and in the spring of
1775 returned to the old home at East Hart
ford, where he enlisted in the revolution, July
10, 1775, in the Third Company, Eighth Regi
ment, Huntington's Brigade. Until Septem
ber 14, 1775, they were stationed on the
Sound; they were ordered by Washington to
Boston camps, and took post at Roxbury, in
General Spencer's brigade, where they re
mained until the expiration of his service ; he
was discharged December 14, 1775. He en
listed again July 2, 1777, in Captain John
Harmon's company, Fourth Regiment, Con
necticut line, and was discharged January 1,
1778; this regiment camped at Peekskill, and
in September joined Washington's army in
Pennsylvania; they marched in the Connecti
cut brigade under General McDougall, and
fought in the battle of Germantown, October
4, 1777 ; they were closely engaged at the bat
tle of Monmouth; they were in Varnum's
brigades and defended bravely at Fort Mif
flin on the Delaware. In 1801 Captain Pratt
left Westminster and went to Montreal, where
he made arrangements for a long expedition
into the west, and in 1802 with a small com
pany he started the undertaking, leaving his
family at home. He was well fitted for lead
ing such an expedition, being courageous and
firm in character ; in appearance he was broad-
shouldered, thickset and stout, capable of

much endurance of hardships. In 1803, when
near Sandusky, he was stricken with small
pox, and his companions, either from fear or
hopelessness for his case, left him in the
woods among the Indians who nursed him
through the disease. His return home was a
great surprise, as he had been given up for
dead after his long absence. He had deter
mined to settle in Buffalo, and in 1804 sold
out his village store and started with his fam
ily for his destination. They reached Buf
falo in September, 1804. A small cabin and
store building were built until the larger one
should be made. Most of his trade was with
the Indians, exchanging his goods for furs.
His family was always on good terms with
the Indians and never had trouble except on
one occasion ; one day, while they were eating
dinner, Devil's Ramrod, an infuriated, half-
intoxicated Indian, came chasing Benjamin, a
son, through the rooms, brandishing a knife;
it seems that Benjamin had been teasing the
Indian until he became so angry that it was
hard to pacify him, but finally he said : "Will
not kill Ho-da-ni-da-oh's boy," and left the
room. Mrs. Fox (Esther Pratt) says: "I
took my little sister, Lucy Ann, then a baby,
into father's store one day, and placed her
on the counter. My attention was directed
from her for a moment, and when I turned
towards the child I beheld to my horror a
Tuscarora squaw come into the door, and,
like a flash, catch up my little sister in her
blanket and instantly disappear with her. I
ran screaming with all my might after her;
and brother Asa, who was near by, gave chase
after her, and with great difficulty succeeded
in getting Lucy from her grasp. When ques
tioned as to her motive for stealing the cKild,
she replied that she had just lost her own and
wished to possess another." In- 1805 Cap
tain Pratt, and his wife went to New Eng
land, and on their return brought their aged
father and mother from Westminster; the
father, Aaron Pratt, did not live long after
the trip, and died in 1806, his wife dying in
1809; they were both members of the Con
gregational church. Captain Pratt died Au
gust 30, 1812, and was buried in the Frank
lin Square burying ground. A short time
after the burning of Buffalo, Mrs. Pratt re
turned to Westminster to the old homestead.
She went again later to Buffalo and died
there in 1830. Captain Pratt married, about
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chusetts, April 20, 1766. Children: Samuel,
mentioned below; Asa, born 1788; Permelia,
1792; Pascal Paoli, 1794; Benjamin Wells,
1796; Esther, 1798; Hiram, 1800; Mary,
1802 ; Lucy Ann, 1805 ; Marilla Adaline, July
13, 1807.
(VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1)
Pratt was born in 1787. He was seventeen
years of age, in 1804, when his father moved
to Buffalo, and he remained in Townshend,
Vermont, where he was a clerk in Mr. Bige-
low's store. In August, 1807, with his wife
and infant son three months old, he went to
Buffalo, in company with his brother Asa,
who was taking Indian stores to his father.
He and his family were very fond of music.
He kept a store, as well as his father, nearly
opposite him on Exchange street, with Ben
jamin Caryl and others, but he soon retired
to become sheriff of Niagara county, March
10, 1810. Later he joined his brother-in-
law, Elijah Leech, under the firm name of
Pratt & Leech. At the time of the Buffalo
fire he lived on what is now the northwest
corner of. Eagle and Main streets, and back
of his house was a stretch of forest land.
"On the night of Dec. 30, 18 13, a little past
midnight, the weather being raw and dis
agreeable, Mrs. Leech (Capt. Pratt's daugh
ter, Pamelia), who, with her husband, was
sojourning at Wid. Pratt's farm homestead,
upon the creek, heard the booming of a dis
tant cannon. She was at once aroused to
the fact that it was the signal for the Brit
ish and Indians to commence attack upon
Buffalo, which had been anticipated as retal
iatory measure for the burning of Newark,
now Niagara, which had been done by Gen
eral McClure two weeks previous. She
aroused her husband, and no time was lost
in rescuing the family of her brother Sam
uel from impending danger. The family was
aroused and all packed in a wagon and driven
to the homestead. Samuel stayed behind to
watch and protect property. He put out many
fires kindled in the buildings by the enemy.
The family was severely pressed after the
war, and the strictest frugality was required
to secure even the necessaries of life for a
home formerly habituated to every seasonable
luxury." On December 24, 18 12, the Buf
falo Gazette printed : "Samuel Pratt, Esq.,
has been appointed Adjutant of the Volun
teers." In 1818 he took charge of the store
belonging to Mr. Bigelow, for whom he had

formerly worked, in St. Thomas, Canada.
He married, aged nineteen, in 1806, Sophia
Fletcher, aged eighteen. He was about five
feet 9 inches tall, rather slender, and delicate
in appearance. He died August 7, 1822, and
his wife died March 19, 1862. She was
daughter of General Samuel Fletcher, who
was at Crown Point in 1762 and served there
until November; he fought at Ticonderoga
and Bennington ; was lieutenant ; appointed
captain in March, 1776, major in August,
1777; brigadier-general of state militia in
1 78 1, and afterwards major-general for six
years ; he married a daughter of John Hazel
tine. Children : Samuel Fletcher, born May
27, 1807 ; Lucius Hubbard, January 6, 1809 ;
Sophia Charlotte, January 1, 181 1; Pascal
Paoli, mentioned below.
(VII) Pascal Paoli, son of Samuel (2)
Pratt, was born in Buffalo, New York, Sep
tember 15, 1819. He was educated in Buf
falo, studying at Hamilton Academy, Madi
son county, New York, in 1833, and then
spending a year at Amherst ' Academy. In
1836 he began work for his brother Samuel
F. in the store, and five years later became
a partner, with the firm name of Pratt &
Co. They had a prosperous business which
became one of the best known wholesale and
retail hardware houses in Western New York.
They added to the business a large plant for
manufacturing iron, building a blast furnace
and rolling mill at Black Rock, New York.
In this they employed as high as two thou
sand men. They had several large vessels for
bringing the iron ore from the Lake Supe
rior region. In 1846 he and his brother Sam
uel F., with Mr. William P. Letchworth, or
ganized a firm under the name of Pratt &
Letchworth, to manufacture saddlery hard
ware, wood hames, malleable iron and steel
castings, and a corporation bought them out
in 1896, now calling itself The Pratt & Letch
worth Company. For over thirty-five years
this firm has employed from five to eight
hundred men continually, and Black Rock as
a result stands as a monument of the industry.
Mr. Pratt was one of the originators of the
Buffalo Park system, and has always been
prominent in making the city beautiful. He
was first president of the Park Commission,
and served from 1869 to 1879, when he re
signed. He served on a commission to ap
praise lands at Niagara Falls, New York,
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sion made awards of one and one-half mil
lion dollars, satisfying both land-owners and
state, and being approved by the supreme
court and accepted by the legislature. In
1872 he was presidential elector of the Re
publican party, but he has always refused
other offices. From the time of its organi
zation in 1856 until 1885, when he became
its president, he was vice-president of the
Manufacturers and Traders' Bank, and for
years he held the office of president. He
was generous in charity, both with his time
and his money. Because of his great busi
ness ability he gained the confidence of all
his fellow citizens. He was president of the
Bankers' Association, a director in the Com
mercial Bank, and the Buffalo, New York &
Philadelphia Railroad, president of the Buf
falo Iron and Xail Company, the Young
Men's Christian Association, and the Buffalo
Seminary, trustee of the Buffalo Gas Light
Company, the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, and
the North Presbyterian Church.
He married, September 1, 1845, in Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, Phebe Lorenz, daughter
of Frederick and Catherine (Impson) Lo
renz, of Pittsburg. She was born May 3,
1.824, and died in Buffalo, May- 26, 1887.
Children: 1. Katherine Lorenz, born Sep
tember 5, 1847, in Buffalo; married, June 24,
1869, John Miller Horton, born February 18,
1840, in Mellenville, New York, son of Man-
deville and Sarah (Miller) Horton. 2. Fred
erick Lorenz, born September 17, 1848. 3.
Mary Beals, 1850, died 1852. 4. Annie Lo
renz, February 23, 1852 ; married John S.
Chittenden (see Chittenden). 5. Melissa
Dodge, March 5, 1854; married Robert L.
Fryer. 6. Pascal Paoli, born 1855, died 1856.
7. Samuel Fletcher, born June 17, 1857. 8.
Emma, born November 28, 1858 ; married Dr.
Charles S. Jones. 9. Edward Pascal, born
August 26, i860; married Annette Perrin.
The surname Scott is one of the
SCOTT oldest and most numerous of
Scotch names. Its derivation as
a surname is obviously from Scot, and is
similar to English, Irish, German, French
and Wales, used as surnames. Before the
year 1200 this surname was in use in Peeble-
shire, Fifeshire, Roxburgshire, Selkirkshire,
Kincardshire and other shires in Scotland.
Before 1619 some of the family settled in
Ulster province, Ireland, which was granted

to Scotch and English settlers. The name
is very numerous in the Protestant counties
of Antrim, Down and Londonderry, province
of Ulster, Ireland. Like all the Scotch set
tlers this family was opposed to union with
the Catholic Irish and hence intermarried
only with other Scotch families, and although
called Scotch-Irish are still pure Scotch in
. blood, customs and religion. They were Cov
enanters, rigid Presbyterians, devout and
faithful. From William Scott, of Roxburg
shire, England, and of Ulster province, Ire
land, came General Winfield Scott, the hero
of the Mexican war, the war of 1812, and
commander-in-chief of the Union army at the
beginning of the great civil war. A numer
ous branch settled in Virginia and a branch
in New England, from whom sprang Phineas
Scott, the founder of the family in Erie
county, New York.
(I) Phineas Scott was a resident of Danby,
Vermont, coming thence about 1816, settling
in the town of Concord, about three miles
south of Springville, on Cattaraugus creek.
He was unmarried,, and building a log cabin
kept a very rude sort of "bachelor's hall."
He cleared some land from which he raised
sufficient for his needs, supplementing his lar
der with the results of his skill with rifle and
rod. Later he removed to what was known
as the "Post place" on lot eleven, township
six, range six, and about the same time took
unto himself a wife. He lived on the latter
farm about ten years, when his wife died
leaving four children. He married a second
wife and then moved to Townsend Hill,
where he died in May, 1872" aged about sev
enty-eight years. He was an energetic, ca
pable man of business and accumulated a
handsome estate. At one time he owned a
number of unencumbered farms, containing
in all over one thousand four hundred acres.
He married (first) Polly Smith, of Chau
tauqua county, New York, who lived about
ten years after her marriage. He married
(second) Hannah, a sister of his first wife.
Children by first marriage: 1. George W.,
died 1877; was a merchant in Buffalo. 2.
May Matilda, died in Minnesota, in 1876. 3.
William J., of whom further. 4. Marcus D.,
lived in Chautauqua county. Children of sec
ond marriage: 5. Lewis, settled in Iowa. 6.
Eliza, married David Pugsley and moved to
Iowa. 7. Maryette, married James McClure,
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Elias Gould, and lived in Colden. 9. Ange-
rona, married Merritt Pugsley, and moved to
Wisconsin. 10. Delos A., moved to Iowa.
11. Abraham, resided in the town of Con
cord. 12. Oliver, lived in Ashford. 13. Da
vid E., resided in Concord, Erie county. 14.
Henry, lives in Concord.
(II) William J., son of Phineas and Polly
(Smith) Scott, was born in Concord, Erie .
county, New York, August 2, 1824. He was
reared to farm labor and worked for dif
ferent farmers during his earlier life. He
later rented farms in different localities, which
he cultivated with success. Finally, in 1852,
he bought a farm on Townsend Hill, where
he lived until 1876, when he moved to Chau
tauqua county, where he operated a cheese
factory. He then located in the village of
Springville, where he has since lived retired.
He married, in 1850, Hannah Parsed, born
July 7, 1829, died March 8, 1908. Children:
1. Mary, born October 28, 185 1; married
(first) Charles F. Williams, horn February 6,
1849, died February 7, 1897; they lived in
Chautauqua county; child,- Grace, born Sep
tember 10, 1878; married, January 4, 1899,
I. William Smith, of Buffalo, New York;
Mrs. Charles F. Williams married (second)
December 10, 1908, Harry Foote, born March
22, 1832. 2. Albert, died at the age of eight
years. 3. Dennis, married Rachel Rittman,
of Hamburg, Erie county; moved to Chau
tauqua county, in 1876, where he died. 4.
Edwin A., of whom further.
(Ill) Fdwin A., youngest son of William
J. and Hannah (Parsed) Scott, was born on
the Townsend Hill farm, Concord, Erie
county, New York, December 26, 1858. He
obtained his education in the academies of
Hamburg, Forestville and Springville, and
decided upon the profession of law at an
early age. All during his youth he read and
studied such text books as he could command.
When the railroad was being built through '
the town, he drove a team and aided in its
construction, and during this period he de
voted his spare time to the study of law in
the office of C. C. Severence, of Springville,
New York, where he pursued a systematic
course, becoming thoroughly versed in the le
gal procedure, passing the required exami
nation in Buffalo, being admitted to the bar
in June, 1881. He, however, did not begin
practice immediately, but for the three years
following, until 1884, he acted as clerk in a

general store in Hamlet, New York. In that
year he became associated with the Hon. Dan
iel Sherman, the well known surrogate and
Indian agent, firm of Sherman & Scott. This
continued three years, when it was dissolved.
In 1887 he located in Springville, where he
practiced his profession alone and then
formed a partnership with former Judge Al
lan D. Scott, the firm becoming Scott &
Scott, and established a branch office in Buf
falo which continued three years, when Judge
Scott died. In 1902 Ottamar Hammett began
study in his office and in 1909 was admitted
a partner. This continued until 1912, when
Mr. Hammett retired and Manley E. King,
who had studied under Mr. Scott, became
his partner, the firm being changed again,
becoming Scott & King, which it is at the
present time. Mr. Scott is a skillful lawyer,
sound in argument and thoroughly learned in
legal procedure. He holds the confidence of
his clients and the respect of his legal breth
ren. The most of Mr. Scott's work is estate
and surrogate matters. He controls a satis
factory clientage and is one of the strong men
of his town. He is an attendant of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, member of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and in poli
tics is a Republican.
He married (first) September 7, 1879,
Mary E., born 1859, daughter of Charles and
Susan (West) Stowell, of Cattaraugus
county. He married (second) Lucy, daugh
ter of Henry and Sarah (Vail) Kerr, and
granddaughter of T. J. Kerr. Child of first
wife : Bessie J., born December 19, 1881 ;
married, August 19, 1908, James H. Gray;
two children : Scott Byron, born June 9,
1909, and James H. Jr., November 30, 1910.
Child of second wife: Virginia Kerr, born
August 26, 1909.

Rev. Asahel Holcomb, the
HOLCOMB first member of this family
of whom we have definite
information, was a Baptist minister in Greene
and Chemung counties, New York. He mar
ried Phoebe Sweet. Children : John, referred
to below; Seymour; and a number of daugh
ters. (II) John, son of the Rev. Asahel and
Phoebe (Sweet) Holcomb, was born in 1812,
died in 1880. He studied medicine, but his
life occupation was farming. He was also
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Cummings. Children: Chandler L., married
Lucy Morse; John C, married (first) Erze-
lia Faye, and (second) Florence Taylor; Asa
hel, referred to below ; Laura, married George
Wood; Levi, married Cordelia Winship; Al
ice, married James Wood; Edwin, married
Nancy Foote ; Emma, died at the age of
twenty; Carlton H., married (first) Sarah
Absom, and (second) Mary Norton.
(Ill) Asahel (2), son of John and Abigail
(Cummings.) Holcomb, was born in Chenango
county, New York, in 1840. In 1843 the
family removed to Annin Creek, McKean
county, Pennsylvania. Here he was brought
up on a farm ; beside farming he learned the
trade of stonecutter and became a stonema
son. In July, 1864, he enlisted in Company
C, Two Hundred and Eleventh Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was
attached to the Fifth and Ninth Army Corps,
and -was in the battles of Fort Steadman,
Petersburg and Chapin Farm. An eloquent
proof of the reality of war, as seen by this
regiment, is afforded by the fact that they
went out thirteen hundred strong, but only
three hundred came back for discharge in
July, 1865. After the war he went to farm
ing, and in 1879 moved to Portville, Catta
raugus county, New York. Seven years la
ter he removed to Franklinville, Cattaraugus
county, New York, where he followed the
trade of a stonemason. A few years ago he
retired from active life. He is a member of
the Baptist church. In politics he is an ar
dent Republican. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Franklin
ville. He held the offices of school director
and highway commissioner of Franklinville.
He married (first) in 1861, Cornelia, born
in 1840, died in 1887, daughter of Henry
and Lydia (Clendenon) Chevalier. Her
father came from one of the French cantons
in Switzerland. He married (second) Mary
Hall. Children, all by first marriage: 1.
Henry C, referred to below. 2. Julian, born
in 1863, died in 1896. 3. Alice S., born in
1866, died in 1896; married James Greer. 4
Hector L., born in 1868, died in 1883. 5
Ella, born in 1869; married Bela Wood
children : Lillian, Archibald, Rowena. 6. Rob
ert, born in 1871 ; married Edith Beebe
children: Leana, Harold, Harriet. 7. Ethel
born in 1873; married Fred Holly; child:
Faye, died at the age of fourteen. 8
Archie, born in 1875 ; married Amelia Evans

9. Frank, born in 1877 ; married Alberta Win-
ship; child, Percy. 10. Mildred, born in 1883;
married Claire Norton; lives at Turtlepoint,
McKean county, Pennsylvania; has six chil
dren. 11. Mary, died at the age of five years.
12. Frederick, died at the age of two years.
(IV) Henry G, son of Asahel (2) and
Cornelia (Chevalier) Holcomb, was born in
the township of Ceres, McKean county, Penn
sylvania, December 23, 1861. He attended
public school and the Rochester Business Uni
versity. In 1879 his family moved to Port
ville, and he worked on the farm until he was
twenty years of age. His first business ex
perience was in lumber ; after this he learned,
in a store, the mercantile life, which he fol
lowed until 1903. In that year he was ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to the post-
mastership of Portville, reappointed in 1907,
and again reappointed in 191 1. Other offices
which he has held are justice of the peace,
1893 to 1898; supervisor, 1900 to 1906; and
for the past twelve years clerk of the hoard
of education, which he is at the present time.
Pie is an elder in the Presbyterian church.
He is a Republican in politics ; fraternally he
is a member of Portville Lodge, No. 579, F.
and A. M. ; Chapter No. 150, of the Olean I. O.
O. F., Lodge No. 779 ; and the K. O. T. M.,
Lodge No. 42.
He married, July 7, 1892, Mattie, born De
cember 17, 1861, daughter of Matthew and
Hannah (Burt) McDowell. Her father came
from Ireland, and was a farmer at Burtville,
Potter county, Pennsylvania. There were
nine children in this family. Children of
Henry C. and Mattie (McDowell) Holcomb:
Neil, born May 7, 1893, died January 8, 1907 ;
Marion A., born March 14, 1899.

This family was for
KRONENBERG many generations seated
at Lucerne, Switzerland,
where Joseph Kronenberg, the American an
cestor, was born. He was a grandson of Cas
par Kronenberg, born November 14, 1745,
died June 28, 1821 ; married Regina Bock
man, born April 3, 1752, died April 14, 1821.
Children: Caspar and others.
(II) Caspar (2), son of Caspar (1) and
Regina (Bockman) Kronenberg, was born in
Lucerne, Switzerland, June 14, 1789, died
there September 20, 1822. He married Marie
Arnold, who died in 1825. Children. 1. Ma
rie, born March 7, 1810, died December 24,

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1864; married

Le Dolf, and had six

children, one of whom came to the United
States in 1873. 2. Nicol, born September 9,
1812, died March 17, 1890; he married six
wives and had a son Nicol, born March 30,
1845, died June 12, 1902; twice married and
had three chilldren. 3. Caspar D., born Janu
ary 14, 1814; came to the United States in
1848, died in Hamburg, New York ; mar
ried and had a son Dominick Henry, born
March 15, 1842, died November 12, 1889.
4. Regina Cecelia, born July 16, 1816, died
July 16, 1867; married L. Stiners, and had
two children ; one,. Anna, lived at Niagara
Falls. 5. Elizabeth, born July 5, 1818, died
April 12, 1 88 1 ; married  Brondley ; eight
children. 6. Joseph, of whom further.
(Ill) Joseph, youngest child of Caspar (2)
and Marie (Arnold) Kronenberg, was born
in Lucerne, Switzerland, November 19, 1820,
died in Hamburg, Erie county, New York,
December 14, 1898. His mother died when
he was two years of age and his childhood
was spent with adopted parents who lived
at Minster, Switzerland. He was sent to
school and taught the tinner's trade. In 1847
he came to the United States, locating at
Buffalo, New York, where he followed his
trade. In 1849 he married and the same year
settled in Hamburg. He began business in a
small way, prospered and continued until
1882, when his shops and store were destroyed
by fire. He at once rebuilt and resumed
business, continuing until 1884, when he sold
to the present hardware firm of Fish & Kron
enberg. In 1878 he took a much needed vaca
tion, went abroad and visited his old home
in Switzerland, revisiting the scenes of his
boyhood and early manhood. Mr. Kronenberg
was a man of great energy and good business
ability. He was- public-spirited and helpful,
holding the respect and confidence of his
townsmen. He was a Democrat in politics,
but business was his ruling ambition and he
took little part in public affairs. He lived a
retired life from the sale of, his business in
1884 until his death in 1898. He married,
in 1849, Fanny Jurich, born in Switzerland,
near the home of her husband, died November
26, 1866. Children, all born in Hamburg,
New York : 1. Louise, married Frank J.
Fink, and resides in Hamburg, New York.
2. Fanny, died 1905 ; married George H. Si
mon, of Buffalo, New York. 3. John L.,
married Emma Folks; resides in Buffalo. 4.

William, of whom further. 5. Joseph, mar
ried Katherine  and settled in Spokane,
Washington. 6. Emma, married H. P.
Tucker, M. D., a practicing physician of Chi
cago, Illinois. 7. George .G., resides in
Tampa, Florida. 8. Sophia, married Henry
Hofer; resides in Chicago.
(IV) William, fourth child and second
son of Joseph and Fanny (Jurich) Kronen
berg, was born in Hamburg, Erie county,
New York, January 2, 1856. He was edu
cated in the Hamburg public schools, leaving
high school in 1870. He began business for
himself in 1871, his first employment being
with a farmer. In 1872 he began working
at the tinner's trade under the instruction of
his father. He became an expert workman
and continued in his father's employ and prac
tically manager of the business until January
1, 1884, when he formed a. partnership with
Newton C. Fish, purchased his father's plant
and business, which has since been operated
under the firm name Fish & Kronenberg.
The firm soon doubled their store capacity by
the erection of new buildings and have since
successfully operated a general hardware
business including tinning, plumbing, steam
fitting, stoves and furnaces. Mr. Kronen
berg was actively engaged in the business un
til 1 901, when failing health caused by strict
confinement inside compelled his retirement.
He has not been actively connected with the
firm since that date, but retains his original
financial interest. In 1901 he, at their earnest
solicitation, formed a connection with the
United Natural Gas Company, engaged in
the construction of pipe lines and leasing of
gas lands. This company has been promi
nent in gas operations and has contracted sev
eral of the most important pipe lines in the
country. In 1902 they laid a twelve-inch pipe
line extending from Bradford, Pennsylvania,
to Buffalo, New York. In 1903-04 laid some
of the most important of the West Virginia
lines. In the fall of 1904 the company se
cured from the Standard Oil Company the
contract for lowering and constructing a line
from the Indian Territory oil field to the com
pany's immense plant at Bayonne, New Jer
sey, at tide water, a total distance of one thou
sand six hundred and twenty miles. The
work kept from twelve hundred to two thou
sand men employed until its successful com
pletion in the spring of 1906.
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had under his immediate supervision from
eight hundred to twelve hundred men, com
posed of nearly every nationality. Not only
did he employ these men, making out his own
payrolls, and paying each man individually
in cash himself, his payrolls running from
$20,000 to $30,000 per month, but in addition
to this, he boarded and lodged the entire numr
ber. The rare ability which it was necessary
to display to deal with so large a number of
men of different nationalities is almost incon
ceivable, and yet so well did he do this that he
won the friendship of nearly every man em
ployed by him, and when he had finished the
work, a gala was inaugurated, and upon this
occasion he was presented by his employees'
with a magnificent diamond ring as a token
of their esteem and appreciation.
He has always taken a very active part in
everything connected with the development of
Hamburg, and has been largely interested in
The Hamburg Canning Company, of which
he has been president the last eight years,
and is still serving in this capacity. He is
also one of the directors of the Bank of Ham
burg. In addition to his other enterprises, he
has also taken an active part in real estate
matters, and has built for rent and sale twen
ty-eight houses in the town of Hamburg.
In 1906 he retired from all active partici
pation in business of any kind, although he
still acts as president of The Hamburg Can
ning Company, and director of bank. 1908
and 1909 he spent in travel, visiting Europe
and the scenes of his father's early life, spend
ing the year abroad. The following year he
toured the northwest, visiting Seattle, Yellow
stone Park and other points of unusual inter
est. He is a Democrat in politics, and in 1909
was elected supervisor representing Hamburg.
He has since served in this capacity as a credit
to the town and with honor to himself. He
is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging
to Hamburg Lodge, No. 625, Free and Ac
cepted Masons ; Salamanca Chapter, No. 266,
Royal Arch Masons; Buffalo Commandery,
No. 62, Knights Templar, and Ismailia Tem
ple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also
holds the thirty-two degrees of the Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite, belonging to Buffalo
Consistory. He is also a member of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married Louise, born in Hamburg,
daughter of George M. and Harriet (De
Wight) Pierce. Children: 1. Harriet, born

August 12, 1883, died 1884. 2. Charles B.,
born February 15, 1885 ; member of Fish &
Kronenberg, hardware merchants, Hamburg,
New York; married Ethel Crooker and has
Helene, born December 29, 191 1. 3. William
H., born February 25, 1893.

The Lakin family of Jamestown,
LAKIN Chautauqua county, New York,
is one of the early representative
families of the country, among whom have
been found many persons prominent in politi
cal and public affairs, and many intermar
riages with other leading iamilies of the
times. The Lakins are of old Massachusetts
stock, who later moved to the state of Ver
mont, and then to Chautauqua county, New
York. (I) Luther Lakin died at Sherman, New
York, July 15, 1864. He married, in 1825, at
Livonia, New York, Theodosia, born Novem
ber 20, 1788, daughter of Ephraim and Ruth
Lawrence. She died in December, 1869.
Children : 1. Henry O., of whom further. 2.
Edward L., born July 2, 1832, at Ashville,
New York; married (first), at Sheridan, New
York, January 9, 1856, Mary P. Robinson;
married (second), at Sherman, New York,
January 10, 1859, Martha E. Miller, and had
two children : Allena M., born December 9,
1859; and Mary S., born September 7, 1861.
Edward L. Lakin was a prominent physician,
practicing his profession in Sherman, and
later on became a prominent druggist in
Jamestown. (II) Henry O., son of Luther and Theo
dosia (Lawrence) Lakin, was born at West-
field, New York, September 30, 1826, died
July 17, 1884. He was educated at Mayville,
Westfield, and Meadville, Pennsylvania, grad
uating from college at the latter place. He
then studied law with Judge Lewis, of Pana
ma, and began practice in that place with
John H. Pray. Coming to Jamestown in 1859,
he formed a partnership with John F. Smith,
which continued until 1861, when he went
into partnership with H. C." Hubbell, and
afterwards with Judge J. L. Ingersoll. At
the dissolution of the firm Mr. Lakin re
mained alone, until in 1877 he associated him
self with Frank E. Session, admitting E.
Woodbury into the partnership during the
same year. In 1864 Mr. Lakin was state
librarian of the legislature at Albany, New
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Brown, in 1866, he was appointed by Gov
ernor R. E. Fenton, surrogate of Chautauqua
county for the remainder of the term, being
elected also for the succeeding term. In
1 881 he was appointed county judge, by Gov
ernor Cornell, in place of Judge Grosvenor,
deceased; and filled the office for the remain
der of that year and the year following. At
the annual meeting, in January, 1883, of the
First National Bank of Corry, Pennsylvania,
he was elected president of that institution,
holding the office until failing health com
pelled him in June, 1884, to tender his resig
nation. Judge Lakin was held in high esteem
not only because of his legal ability, but for
his upright and honorable life. He was a
member and one of the trustees of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, a member of the Chau
tauqua Council of the Royal Arcanum, and of
Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Ac
cepted Masons. His death, July 17, 1884, was
a great loss to the community ; he was huried
in Lakeview cemetery, Jamestown, New York.
Judge Lakin married, June 10, 1850, at
Panama, New York, Elizabeth Steward, born
at Panama, July 20, 1826, died April 6, "191 1,
daughter of John and Eunice (Wilcocks)
Steward. One child, Luther Steward, of
whom further.
(Ill) Luther Steward, only child of Henry
O. and Elizabeth (Steward) Lakin, was born
at Panama, New York, May 10, 1852. He
was educated at Jamestown Academy, Fred
erick Normal, and Poughkeepsie Military
Academy, followed by a commercial and busi
ness course at Buffalo, New York. His early
life was passed in Jamestown, New York, and
he began his business career as a clerk in a
store ; after this he conducted a grocery en
terprise for about five years, discontinuing for
the manufacture of furniture, lounges, tables,
etc., and embarking upon various other manu
facturing enterprises. He has been extensively
engaged in lumbering in Elk and Forest coun
ties, Pennsylvania, and in other places, and
for the past several years he has interested
himself in real estate in Jamestown. He is
very active in politics in his city, being a
prominent member of the Republican party,
and has served as alderman and in other offi
cial capacities. He is a member of the
Knights of the Maccabees.
Mr. Lakin married, at Jamestown, January
26, 1876, Ellen Eliza, born at Sugar Grove,
May 10, 1853, daughter of Jeremiah and

Sarah C. (Jackson) Andrews. Mrs. Lakin is
a woman of exceptional education, having
graduated at the Jamestown high school, af
terwards taking up the study of languages
with a private tutor at Buffalo; for over fif
teen years she taught languages and other
branches in the Jamestown high school. She
takes a very active part in the work of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which she is
a member, and belongs to the Clotho Society
of that body. She is also a member of the
Browning and Avon clubs, and of the Attic
Circle, Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A. and C. L. S.
C. work. Mr. and Mrs. Lakin have two sons :
1. Henry J., born April 14, 1877; he received a
good education in the schools of Jamestown
and Batavia, New York, and though heavily
handicapped by poor eyesight, has good busi
ness ability, assisting his brother, who is coun
ty clerk. He is a Republican in politics, and at
tends the Methodist Episcopal church; he re
sides at home and is unmarried. 2. Luther S.
Jr., born August 27, 1878; he was educated
at the Jamestown high school, taking up the
study of law at Buffalo University and at
Albany University. He read law early in
life with the Hon. John G. Wicks, and at the
age of twenty-one entered political circles;
when twenty-three years of age he was elected
supervisor of the third and sixth wards of
Jamestown, being reelected, and serving in
all four terms, when he resigned, owing to his
election as county clerk in November, 1909,
the position which he now holds. He also
served as game warden of Chautauqua county.
Mr. Lakin is a member of the following so
cieties : I. O. O. F., O. O. O., K. O. T. M., and
Eagles ; he is a Republican in his political con
victions ; he resides at home, being unmarried.
(The Lawrence Line).
This name is now almost universally writ
ten Lawrence, and not Laurence or Lawrance,
as was formerly the- case ; the derivation of
the name is from the latin word, Laurus, Lau-
rentius, and the signification is, "flourishing
like a bay tree." The lineal ancestry of this
stock of Lawrences in America, numerous in
New England and other parts of this country,
has' been very satisfactorily ascertained. As
traced and determined, it originates in and is
derived from one Robert Lawrence, of Lan
cashire, England, born probably as early as
A. D. 1 1 50, and the ancestor of the earliest
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his sovereign, Richard Cceur de Lion, in the
Wars of the Crusades, he distinguished him
self in the Siege of Acre, and was knighted
"Sir Robert of Ashton Hall," obtaining for
his arms, "Argent, a cross raguly gules,"
A. D. 1 191 ; "raguly," or "raguled," indicating
a tree from which the branches have been
rudely lopped. The immediate successor of
Sir Robert, of Ashton Hall, was his son, Sir
Robert, who was succeeded in his turn by his
son, James Lawrence, who, it is said, married,
in 1252, Matilda de Washington, an heiress,
daughter of John de Washington; a son by
this marriage, John Lawrence, succeeded
James of Ashton Hall, and is said to have
been living in the thirty-seventh year of Henry
III. Respecting the names "Lawrence" and
"Washington," it may be noted that Lawrence
Washington, a brother of the first president
of the United States, was one of the earliest
proprietors of Mount Vernon. John Law
rence was succeeded by his son, of the same
name ; in the sixth generation we have another
Sir Robert, whose third son, William, fought
under the Lancastrian banner at St. Alban's,
in 1455, and having- fallen there, was buried
in the Abbey; in the seventh generation, an
other Sir Robert, whose grandson, John Law
rence, commanded a wing of the English army
under Lord Stanley, in the battle of Flodden
Field; and so on down through the genera
tions to the sixteenth, when we come to
Henry Lawrence, of Wisset, the father of
John Lawrence, who came to America.
(I) John Lawrence, the immigrant ances
tor, was the son of Henry and Mary Law
rence, born at Wisset, England, and baptized
October 8, 1609. He came to New England
and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. He
was admitted a freeman, April 17, 1637, when
about twenty-eight years old ; though it will
be seen by the early Massachusetts records
that the freeman's oath was given at first to
males of only sixteen years. February 28,
1636, he received three acres of land, his
share of a grant then made to the townsmen,
a hundred and six in number. In 1650 he
bought of the town fifteen hundred acres of
common land (called King's Common).
Though a large landholder for the_ times, he
is said to have carried on the business of a
carpenter both in Watertown and Boston. He
removed to Groton, as is determined by vari
ous facts and dates, and as one of the original
proprietors, he owned "a twenty acre right";

the sale of his lands and mansion-house in
Watertown was made in 1662. In December
of the same year, it appears by the records
of Groton, "meet men were found amongst
the inhabitants," of whom "John Lawrence"
was one, "who were chosen selectmen." He
was evidently a man of some intelligence and
influence, and held a good place in the public
esteem. He died in Groton, July 11, 1667,
leaving his sons Nathaniel and Joseph, and
his wife Susanna, executors of his will. The
will was witnessed by Samuel Willard and
William Lakin, called his "loving friends."
John Lawrence married (first) Elisabeth
 , who died in Groton, August 29, 1663.
He married (second) Susanna, daughter of
William Batchelder, of Charlestown, Novem
ber 2, 1664; she survived him, dying July 8,
1668, in Charlestown. Children by first wife:
1. John, born March 14, 1636. 2. Nathaniel,
born October 15, 1639. 3. Joseph, born March,
1642, died May, 1642. 4. Joseph, born May
30, 1643; married, probably in 1670-71, Re
becca  ; had daughter Rebecca, bap
tized in the First Church, Boston, February,
1679-80. He was admitted a freeman, May
15, 1672; appointed an executor of his father's
estate and held lands in Groton. 5. Jonathan,
buried April 6, 1648. 6. Mary, born July 16,
1645. 7- Peleg. mentioned below. 8. Enoch,
born March 5, 1648-49. 9. Samuel, married,
probably, September 14, 1682, Rebecca Luen,
of Charlestown ; removed to Connecticut. 10.
Isaac, married, April 19, 1682, Abigail Bel
lows, born in Concord, May 6, 1661, who
through her mother, Mary Woods Bellows,
became heir with her husband, of an uncle,
Deacon Isaac Woods, of Marlborough. Isaac
Lawrence lived for a time in Norwich, Con
necticut. 11. Elisabeth, born May 9, 1655, in
Boston. 12. Jonathan, born in Watertown;
probably rfiarried, November 5, 1677, Rebecca
Rutter, of Cambridge; died in 1725, leaving
no issue. Left by will to the town of Groton,
"One hundred pounds towards the purchasing
and procuring a good meeting-house bell, and
putting it up" ; it was voted "that the name
of Lieutenant Jonathan Lawrence be set there
on." He also left forty pounds and twenty
pounds respectively for silver church vessels
for the service, and for minister's salary. 13.
Zechariah, born March 9, 1658-59, in Water-
town ; he was a mariner and lived probably
in Boston. Children by second wife: 1. Abi-

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gail, born January 9, 1666, in Groton. 2. Su
sanna, born July 3, 1667, in Groton.
(II) Peleg, son of John Lawrence, was
born January 10, 1646-47, lived at Groton,
where he died in 1692, aged forty-five years.
He married, in 1668, Elizabeth Morse, born
September 1, 1647. Children, born at Gro
ton: 1. Elizabeth, born January 9, 1669. 2.
Samuel, born October 16, 1671 ; supposed to
have lived in Sherburne; died March, 1712,
in Killingly, Connecticut, leaving Abigail, a
widow. 3. Eleazer, mentioned below. 4. Jon
athan, born March 29, 1679; probably married
Abigail  ; lived in Sherburne ; had a son,
Jonathan, born 171 1. 5. Abigail, born Octo
ber 6, 1681. 6. Jeremiah, born January 3,
1686-87, died April 26, 1687. 7. Joseph, born
June 12, 1688; went to Connecticut before
1712, and settled in Plainfield. 8. Daniel. 9.
Susanna. (Ill) Eleazer, son of Peleg Lawrence, was
born February 28, 1674. He lived in Groton,
where his children were born, also in Little
ton, and a short while in Pepperell, dying
March 9, 1754, aged eighty years. He was
known as Major Lawrence. He married
Mary  , born about 1679, died June 29,
1761, in the eighty-second year of her age;
children: 1. Elizabeth, born February 28,
1699 ; married  Buttrick ; and died, leav
ing children and heirs. 2. Peleg, mentioned
below. 3. Jonathan, born October 4, 1703. 4.
David, born December 26, 1705. 5. Mary,
married  Fletcher. 6. Sarah. 7. Sam
uel, born May 2, 17 14. 8. Experience, born
June 22, 1719 ; married Jabez Keep. 9. Pru
dence, born April 7, 1722. 10. Eleazer (may
have been fifth child).
(IV) Peleg (2), son of Eleazer Lawrence,
was born June 1, 1701. He was dismissed
from the Church of Groton, First Parish, and
signed the covenant of the church in the
West Parish, January, 1746-47; the parish
voted him one of a committee of two to con
sider a place for the meeting-house. He was
chosen a deacon, August 23, 1754; died July
27, 1757, in his fifty-seventh year. He mar
ried Ruth  , who died September 4,
1757, aged about fifty-seven years. Children:
1. Oliver, born March 18, 1728, in Groton. 2.
Ruth, born January 28, 1730. 3. Mary, born
March 23, 1733. 4. Ephraim, mentioned be
low. 5. Asa, born June 14, 1737. 6. Sarah,
born July 24, 1739, died July 24, 1757, in
Pepperell.

(V) Ephraim, son of Peleg (2) Lawrence,
was born March 31, 1735, and was known as
Dr. Ephraim Lawrence. He married (first)
Anna Fisk, March 3, 1768; she died June 12,
1774, aged twenty-seven years. He married
(second) Ruth  . Children by first wife:
1. Ebenezer, born January 9, 1770. 2. Anna,
born July 26, 1772. Children by second wife:
1. Ruth, born April 8, 1777; married Elijah
Smith, of New Ipswich. 2. Sarah, born April
18, 1779, died December 16, same year. 3.
George W., born October 1, 1780; married
Dorcas True ; died in Charlestown, New
Hampshire. 4. Sarah, born August 28, 1782,
died 1832. 5. Mary Emerson, born November
27, 1784 ; married Luther Lakin ; died in Troy,
New York, 1824. 6. Theodosia, born Novem
ber 20, 1788; married, at Livonia, New York,
Luther Lakin, in 1825 ; after his death, July
15, 1864, resided in Jamestown, New York
(see Lakin I). (The Andrews Line).
The progenitors of the Andrews family in
America came from Ireland, Richard (i) and
Susanna (Kelly) Andrews, the grandparents
of Mrs. Luther S. Lakin, coming from that
country and settling first at Peterboro, Can
ada, their eldest son, Jeremiah, being then
nineteen years of age ; later they removed with
their children to Jamestown, New York.
Richard Andrews was a shoemaker by trade,
and later a merchant in his native land; he
retired from business upon coming to Amer
ica, and while a resident of Jamestown was
a member of the Episcopal church. He and
his wife, who lived to a good old age, are
buried in Buffalo, New York. They had
seven children: Jeremiah, mentioned below;
William, deceased; Eliza, Ellen, Frances,
Anna, Richard Jr., died young.
(II) Jeremiah Andrews, M. D., son of
Richard and Susanna (Kelly) Andrews, and
father of Mrs. Luther S. Lakin, was born
near the city of Dublin, in Ireland, in the year
1810, where he lived until he was nineteen
years of age, and acquired the foundation of
his education. He then came to America with
his father and mother and the remainder of
the children, settling with them at Peterboro,
Canada, and coming on later to Jamestown,
New York. His first work in this country
was in the humble capacity of carpenter and
joiner; he then turned his attention to medi
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afterward attending the Buffalo Medical Col
lege. During the civil war he was appointed
surgeon, -joining his regiment at Harrisburg,
from which place he proceeded by boat to the
seat of war. The vessel to which he was as
signed was burned, and he went ashore at
Newbern, North Carolina, where he was taken
, with fever and sent to the hospital. The first
practice of his profession was at Panama,
New York, later at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl
vania; in 1863 he located finally in Jamestown,
New York, where he continued practice up to
the time of his death, becoming a prominent
physician, and well known and influential in
the community. He became a leading mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church and
very active in its affairs ; in politics he was an
adherent of the Republican party. He died in
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 4, 1877.
Dr. Andrews married (first) Delilah, sister
of DeForest Weld, a sketch of the Weld fam
ily appearing elsewhere in this work. There
were two children by this union: 1. Wesley
R., born December 23, 1837, died February 5,
1910; was a soldier in the civil war and much
interested in affairs in Pennsylvania ; was
chairman of the Republican central committee
of the state and was secretary of the senate
committee and on postoffice and post roads ;
he was also private secretary of Senator Pen
rose. 2. William H., born in 1839 ; he first
served. as clerk in Jamestown, later became a
successful merchant and had dry goods stores
in Meadville and Titusville, Pennsylvania^
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky,
and was also an oil producer; was several
times a state senator, and later went to New
Mexico, where he built a railroad; was terri
torial congressman, and after working twenty
years succeeded in having New Mexico ad
mitted as a state.
Dr. Andrews married (second) Sarah
Clark Jackson, born in Evans, Erie county,
New York, in 1821, died in May, 1891, daugh
ter of Gilbert Jackson, born in Genesee county,
New York, in 1810, died about 1890, at Silver
Creek, New York; and granddaughter of
Samuel Jackson, born in Onondaga county,
New York, in 1774, who later settled in
Orange county, New York, where he reared
a large family. Gilbert Jackson had four chil
dren: Oscar, Miranda, Caroline, Sarah C,
who became the second wife of Dr. Andrews.
Dr. Andrews' children by his second marriage
were: 1. Ellen Eliza, born May 10, 1853;

wife of Luther S. Lakin, as previously shown.
2. Charles J., born in 1855, died January 1,
1908; married Jennie, daughter of Richard
Hazeltine. 3. Delia M., born March 5, 1858 ;
married E. T. White.

(VIII) Fayette G. Leet, son of
LEET Franklin (q. v.) and Sally (Sum
ner) Leet, was born at Leet's
Point, now Point Chautauqua, May 15, 1847.
His early life was spent on the old Leet
homestead, his education being acquired at
the public schools and at Ellington Academy.
After his education was completed, he fol
lowed the vocation of farmer, continuing thus
until the year 1893. After his marriage in
1869, he removed from the old homestead
to Stockton, where he farmed for four years ;
after this removed to Ellery, where he re
mained for four years; then to Ellicott, re
maining six years, to Hornell, remaining for
one year, then to Cattaraugus county, to Ran
dolph, to Conewango, to Levant, and finally
to Jamestown, where in 1893 he embarked in
the bakery business. At the present time he
is employed in the Salisbury Wheel Works in
this city. In politics he is a Republican, and
is a member of the Methodist church. Mr.
Leet married, June 30, 1869, Helen D., born
at Clear Creek, New York, September 30,
1847, daughter of James and Cynthia D.
(Jackson) Olds. Their children: 1. Martha
D., born May 19, 1871, died April 8, 1903 ;
married William D. Blaisdell, and had three
children: Helen C, Moneta (married), and
Odis L. Blaisdell. 2. Frank F., of whom fur
ther. 3. Merton D., born August 27, 1883,
died March 26, 1894.
(IX) Frank F., son of Fayette G. and Helen
D. (Olds) Leet, was born in Stockton town
ship, Chautauqua county, New York, Febru
ary 27, 1873. His education was conducted
at the country schools, at Ellington Academy,
at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New
York, and finally at the Jamestown Business
College. He lived on the farm until he was
twenty years of age, at which time he came
to Jamestown and became bookkeeper for the
firm of F. N. Stearns, where he remained for
a year. He then became bookkeeper for the
White Sewing Machine Company and was
promoted to the post of assistant manager, and
later to that of manager, of the Bradford of
fice and territory. He continued with the
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their small offices throughout the United
States; he, however, remained in Bradford,
Pennsylvania, for another year, in. the em
ploy of the American Express Company.
After this he came to Jamestown and en
gaged in the bakery business with his father
for a period of two years. He then entered
the studio of A. N. Camp, one of the leading
photographers of Western New York, where
he spent six years ; at the expiration of which
time he removed to Randolph, New York,
where he established a studio on his own ac
count, and conducted a very successful busi
ness for three years and a half. Disposing
of his interest in this, he went to New York
City and took a special course of instruction
in the art of photography ; he then returned
to Jamestown and opened a studio in the
Fenton Building, on the corner of Main and
Second streets, where he has ever since con
ducted one of the largest establishments of
its kind. The work turned out by the studio
is of the highest grade and embraces all kinds
of photography; individual portraits, groups,
views, public gatherings, residences, etc., a
specialty being made of flashlight views. The
instruments in use are of the most approved
and modern type, among which is an appar
atus capable of making panoramic photo
graphs of practically any size. Mr. Leet has
on display at his galleries a view which he
made on the lake, showing a section of coun
try forty miles in extent and a sky line of one
hundred and twenty-five miles. The apparatus
by which this was made will also take a view
describing a complete circle. Landscapes, ex
pert illustrations of real estate for sale, con
struction work, farm and city property views,
exterior and interior views of stores, offices
and factories, and photographs of furniture
and machinery, are among the many kinds of
work upon which Mr. Leet has built his repu
tation which, as an expert professional pho
tographer, is unsurpassed in this section.
In the year 1893, in November, Mr. Leet
enlisted in the Thirteenth Company of the Na
tional Guard of New York, at Jamestown, and
served as a private for five years. In his
political opinions he is an ardent Republican;
he is a member of the First Methodist Church
of Jamestown and very active in its service.
While he was a resident of Randolph he
served as steward of the church there, and as
superintendent of its Sunday school ; the
church was burned during his residence in that

town, and he and his wife were largely in
strumental in its rebuilding, doing good work
in holding the congregation together until the
new structure was erected.
Mr. Leet married, July 31, 1895, Emma A.,
born in Conewango, Cattaraugus county, New
York, July 9, 187 1, daughter of William A.
and Mary (Mason) Shannon. They have
two sons: 1. Arthur F., born at Jamestown,
New York, November 4, 1899. 2. Ernest D.,
born at Jamestown, November 9, 1901. The
Leet family reside at No. 525 East Fifth
street, Jamestown, and have a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances. (The Olds Family).
The Old family in America trace their an
cestry back to William Old or Wold, of
Staunton, England, who in .1522 married
Elizabeth Ryton. The name was orginally
Wold, then Old, Olde, Ould, or Aulde, indif
ferently. The letter "s" was added to the sur
name after the immigration to America. The
coat-of-arms of the family is: Gules, a lion
statant, proper, on a mount, vert.
The Old family in England were mostly yeo
man farmers, living on their own estates.' Fol
lowing William Old (Wold), of Staunton,
England, 1522, came Richard Old (Wold), of
Sherborne, Dorset, England, who married
Agnes Courtney, died in 1566; then Bartholo
mew Old (Wold), of Sherborne, 1594, who
married Margaret Churchill, great-aunt of the
Duke of Marlborough; then William Old
(Ould), gi Sherborne, born 1592, who mar
ried Elizabeth Greensmith; then John Old
(Olde), born 1615, at Sherborne, died at Hill-
field, England, 1682, married  Gatherest;
he had five children, of whom Andrew Old
or Ould emigrated to Ireland and founded the
Irish branch of the family, who still spell their
name "Ould." Robert Old (Ould), a younger
son of John Old, was born in England in
1645, died January 16, 1728, in America. He
was the immigrant ancestor of the family in
this country, and was known as Dr. Robert
Old. He came over from England in 1669, and
settled at Windsor, Connecticut; he was, in
1670, one of the first five proprietors of Suf
field, Connecticut. In the year that he came
to America he married, at Windsor, his first
wife, Susannah Hanford, or Hosford, who
died January 6, 1688. Their children were:
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born January 4, 1672, died December 19, 1696.
3. Mindwell, born February 4, 1674. 4. Han-
ford, born March 24, 1677. 5. William (first)
born February 7, 1679, died August 24, 1680.
6. William (second) born August 28, 168 — ,
died September 21, 1749. 7. Ebenezer, born
December 22, 1681, died December 30, 1681.
8. Susannah, born October 21, 1683. On April
1, 1689, Robert Old married his second wife,
Dorothy Granger, born February 17, 1665.
Their children were: 1. John, born January
II, 1691. 2. Ebenezer, born January 22, 1693.
3. Josiah, born March 4, 1695, died Decem
ber 28, 1712. 4. Jonathan, born June 8, 1698.
5. Nathan, born March 2, 1702. 6. Joseph,
born February 3, 170 — .
From these children of Robert Old the
present Olds families are descended, the form
of the name changing in the later generations
from Old to Olds. Among these descendants
was James Olds, son of Jeremiah and Betsey
Olds, and the father of Helen D. Olds, who
married Fayette G. Leet. James Olds was
born in 181 1, died in 1886; in his early life he
was a hotel keeper at Olds Corners, Cone
wango valley, Chautauqua county, New York,
becoming in later years a farmer, his last resi
dence being on a farm near Ellington, New
York. In politics he was a Republican. He
married • Cynthia D. Jackson, born in 181 1,
died- in 1902 at the age of ninety-one years.
Their children: 1. Horace P., of Falconer.
2. Sophia K., married Whitcom Mather. 3.
Helen D., married Fayette G. Leet (see Leet
VIII). 4. Betsey D., married Wales D. Shep-
ardson.

The Lillibridge family,
LILLIBRIDGE represented in the pres-
• ent generation by Frank
G. Lillibridge, of Jamestown, have been resi
dents of the state of New York for several
generations, fulfilling well their part in public
and private affairs.
(I) Samuel Lillibridge, the first of the line
herein recorded of whom we have informa
tion, was a native of New York state. He
was a farmer by occupation, a member of the
Baptist church, and a Whig in politics. He
married, in the village of Whitehall, New
York, Julia Knowles, and among their chil
dren was George, see forward.
(II) George, son of Samuel and Julia
(Knowles) Lillibridge, was born at Whitehall,
New York, July 6, 1833, died at Jamestown,

New York, March 8, 1910. At an early date
he removed to Pennsylvania with his parents,
and was there reared and educated. Upon at
taining young manhood he engaged in mercan
tile pursuits, and in due course of time became
one of the successful merchants of the village
of Little Cooley, Crawford county, Pennsyl
vania, and was largely instrumental in build
ing up of the vicinity. He erected a substantial
brick business block in that town, also two
fine houses for dwelling purposes. He was
also interested in mercantile business at Union
City, Pennsylvania, at one time owning and
conducting an extensive store there. Subse
quently he removed to Jamestown, New York,
leased property on Second street, which he
greatly improved and then disposed of, and
then purchased property at the corner of
Washington and West Third streets and, al
though he labored under great difficulty,
erected the Lillibridge Block, which is an or
nament and credit to the city. He was an
industrious and persistent worker, attended
strictly to his own affairs, and was devoted
to his family. In early life he manifested a
keen interest in church work, and later be
came a member of the Baptist church, to
which he devoted both time and means. He
married, at Richmond, Pennsylvania, Polly
Melissa, daughter of Asel and Rosina (Cha
pin) Hamilton. Children: Ella G., married
Alfred D. Darling, of Jamestown (see Darl
ing IV) ; Emma B., a resident of Jamestown ;
Arthur, died at the age of twenty-one; Pearl
May, died young; Frank G, see forward.
The death of Mr. Lillibridge was mourned
by a wide circle of friends. The funeral ser
vices were held in the Masonic rooms in the
Prendergast Block, the Rev. James G. Town-
send officiating. The services were conducted
by Worshipful Master Roland K. Mason,
Past Masters John C. Mason and H. R. Wi
ley; and Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free
and Accepted Masons, of which Mr. Lilli
bridge was a member, attended in a body.
The pallbearers were members of the lodge.
(Ill) Frank G., son of George and Polly
Melissa (Hamilton) Lillibridge, was born in
the village of Little Cooley, Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, August 12, 1879. When he
was three years of age his parents removed
to Jamestown, New York, and he received
his education in the public schools of that
city. For a number of years he was in his
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of twenty-two years became an employee of
E. H. Warren, proprietor of a laundry, and
there acquired a practical knowledge of that
line of work, but later resigned in order to
devote his entire time and attention to his
father's affairs. Since the death of his father
he has been engaged in the management of
the estate, which consists of property inhab
ited by twenty-six tenants. He is one of
the enterprising and influential residents of
Jamestown, highly respected and esteemed by
all who have the honor of his acquaintance.
He is independent in politics, casting his vote
for the man best qualified in his estimation
for the position to be filled.

The Darling family, members
DARLING of which are now living in
Chautauqua county and also
other districts in Western New York, trace
their lineage back to the state of Massachu
setts. (I) Amasa Darling was a native of Massa
chusetts, as was also his father, who was a
sea captain, commanding a sailing vessel
which ran to the West Indies. In early man
hood Amasa Darling removed to the state of
New York and settled in Genesee county, near
Utica. He followed the occupation of farm
ing. He married and had children: Amasa
P., of whom further ; Charles ; John, who re
sided near Boston.
(II) Amasa P., son of Amasa Darling, was
born in Massachusetts, about 1790, died in
1852. He was a mason by trade, and also
followed the occupation of farming. He
owned and resided on a farm near Utica,
Genesee county, New York. He removed to
Cattaraugus county, where he purchased a
farm and also worked at his trade. He en
listed from Genesee county in the war of
1812, and carried (riding on horseback) or
ders for General Scott and General Wood.
He married Polly Gibbs, a native of Gene
see county, New York, born December 6,
1796, died at the age of eighty-nine years,
daughter of Lowell Gibbs, an Englishman by
birth, a carpenter by trade, and who in later
life returned to his native land. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Darling: Charles, died young;
Hattie, died young; Sarah, William, John,
Amasa, Horace, Mary, Louis, Charles H., of
whom further.
(Ill) Charles H., son of Amasa P. Darl
ing, was born in the town of Napoli, Catta

raugus county, New York, September 10,
1835. He began his active career as a farmer,
leaving home at the age of twenty-three. He
married- and removed to Chautauqua county,
New York, locating on a farm in the -town
of Harmony. He enlisted September 4, 1862
in Company H., One Hundred and Fifty-
fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers, as a
private, and during his service was stricken
with a paralytic stroke and sent home. While
thus afflicted the war closed and for that rea
son he did not receive his discharge until the
year 1889, when he received an honorable dis
charge. He resumed his farming operations
after the war, purchasing a farm consisting
of forty-two acres in the town of Carroll. La
ter he moved to Corry, Pennsylvania, where
he engaged in contracting and building. From
there he returned to Chautauqua county, New
York, and has been a resident of Jamestown
and vicinity since 1867, and has been engaged
in real estate speculations. He was a mem
ber of the Royal Templars for twenty-two
years. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and a Republican in poli
tics. He served as clerk of the school board
in the town of Carroll for a number of years.
He married (first) March 2, 1858, Phebe
Jane Hunt, born in Chautauqua county, New
York, December 22, 1835, died in December,
1869, daughter of Stephen Hunt. Children:
Otis, a resident of Celoron; Adie, deceased;
Alfred D., of whom further; Albert Byron,
deceased. He married (second) 1870, Liz
zie, daughter of Francis Blanchard. Children :
Charles ; Helen, married Grant Lusk.
(IV) Alfred D., son of Charles H. Darl
ing, was reared and educated in his native
town, and has followed the occupation of
farming throughout his active career, devot
ing considerable time to the care of horses,
he being particularly interested in that ani
mal. In politics he is an Independent. He
is thrifty and industrious, energetic and ca
pable, and commands the respect of all with
whom he is brought in contact. He married,
December 16, 1884, Ella G., born May 9, 1862,
daughter of George and Polly Melissa (Ham
ilton) Lillibridge (see Lillibridge II). They
have one child, Burt Earl, born July 29, 1887.

This family is of Welsh
GEORGIA origin, established in this
country about the time of the
revolution, or a little earlier. The first Amer-

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ican settlement was in the New England
states. The earliest record that we find of
the name is in the Connecticut revolutionary
records. Simon Georgia was a member, Feb
ruary 1, 1783, of the Second Regiment, Con
necticut Line, Captain Kimberley's company ;
his residence is not given, and this company
had members from widely scattered parts of
the state. Nor is it certain where he stands
in the family, but it is believed that all of
this name are related and descended from the
same immigrant ancestor or from two immi
grant brothers. The Connecticut Revolu
tionary records contain also two entries of
earlier date which, despite diversity of spell
ing, may refer to the same man. The earlier
of these gives the residence of "Simeon Gor-
goy," who enlisted February 7, 1777, as New
London. This name was in Colonel Seth
Warner's regiment, which served at Benning
ton and Saratoga. According to family tra
dition the immigrant ancestor or one of the
two brothers, after living in America for a
long time, became homesick, told his ' family
that he was going back to Wales, and started
out with his weaver's shuttle in his hand, and
was never heard of again.
(I) William Georgia, the first member of
this family of whom we have definite infor
mation, perhaps the immigrant, married Sa
rah Cable, who was born in January, 1748,
and died November 23, 1818, buried in New-
field cemetery, Tompkins county, New York.
Children: Elijah B., born October 1, 1779;
William, born January 21, 1781 ; Alma; Miles,
of whom further.
(II) Miles, son of William and Sarah (Ca
ble) Georgia, was born May 31, 1785. It
seems probable that the father perhaps hav
ing died or returned to Wales, the family
moved while he was still young to Tompkins
county, New York ; Miles at a later time lived
in Michigan. He married Sally North, born
June 21, 1788, died October 3, 1833. Chil
dren: 1. Saloma, born June 27, 1807, died
March 27, 1844; married Asahel B. Stilson.
2. Willis, of whom' further. 3. Polly, born
October 24, 1810; married Seymour A. Seely.
4. Harmon, born June 23, 1812; married
Martha  . 5. Miles, born December 25,
1814. 6. Alma, born November 14, 1816;
married Philander Foster. 7. Orson, born
November 18, 1818. 8. Orrin, born April 5,
1819; married Susan  . 9. Niles, born
January 28, 1822; married Cordelia H.  .

10. Elijah B., born October 7, 1823, died De
cember 13, 1886; married Elizabeth Butts.
11. William, born January 10, 1825. 12. Sally,
born August 10, 1826; married Charles Bel
lows. 13. David, born January 16, 1828;
married Lorania  . 14. Homer, born July
1, 1833.
(Ill) Willis, son of Miles and Sally
(North) Georgia, was born January 4, 1809,
died at State Line Mills, McKean county,
Pennsylvania, May 23, 1892. He was a lum
berman, and spent his life mostly in Chemung
and Tioga counties, New York; among his
places of residence were Vanetten and Spen
cer. He took tracts of timber lands, ran saw
mills, cleared and sold the lumber. He was
always a hard worker and prospered. He
was a Whig in politics, and a Baptist in re
ligion. He married Clarinda Wilson, born
April 5, 1810, died April 9, 1880. Children:
Harrison W., of whom further ; Albert W.,
born August 28, 1831, died February 28, 1904;
Harriet B., May 20, 1833; Louisa G, April
3, 1835, married Mark Dearborn, lives at Wa
verly, Tioga county, New York ; Beers P.,
April 3, 1839, died June 15, 1839; George F.,
June 30, 1841 ; Mary A., January 23, 1842,
died May 30, 1850; Saloma, Septemher 13,
1844, died August 26, 1903 ; Bennett W., May
7, 1846; Samuel E., August 15, 1848; Ar-
minda B., May 5, 185 1 ; Luna A., April 10,
1853, married George W. Ketcham, lives at
Lockwood, New York.
(IV) Harrison W., son of Willis and Cla
rinda (Wilson) Georgia, was born at New-
field, Tompkins county, New York, October
14, 1829, and died at State Line Mills, June
1, 1906. He attended the district school, and
afterwards learned lumbering and farming
with his father. After this he moved to Roar
ing Branch, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania.
He cut the*logs and skidded them to the mill,
as a jobber, for Harvey Thornton, and
Charles S. Green, of Roaring Branch, Penn
sylvania. He was a bright and active man.
Though drafted for the civil war, he was re
fused. He was a member of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, and a Republican
in politics. He was also a deacon in the Bap
tist church. He married, October 1, 185 1,
Almira M. Brooks, born August 13, 1832,
died February 18, 1898, daughter of Zebulon
and Amanda (Bull) Brooks. Her father was
born in 1805, died July 4, 1872 ; her mother
was born in 1806, died May 28, 1879. Chil-

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dren: 1. Elnora, born May 28, 1853; mar
ried, March 14, 1893, Ransford Jones. 2.
Wilson Edwin, born May 24, 1855, died
March 15, 1859. 3- Mary E., born July 3,
1857; married, March 25, 1883, William W.
Hicks ; child : William W. Jr., married Louise
Fleming, and their children are: Leonard
Barton, and Richard William. Mrs. Hicks
lives at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 4. Wil
lis Zebulon, of whom further. 5. Edward
Brooks, born April 19, i860, died October 1,
i860. 6. Maria L., born July 1, 1861 ; mar
ried (second) June 1, 1881, Julius P. Ayles-
worth. 7. Clara A., born September 23, 1864 ;
married (second) William J. Hazen; lives at
Williamsport. (V) Willis Zebulon, son of Harrison W.
and Almira M. (Brooks) Georgia, was born
at Vanetten, New York, November 3, 1858.
When he was ten years old his parents took
him to Roaring Branch, and later to Carpen
ter's, where he remained until he was fifteen
years of age, when the family removed to
Williamsport. He attended the public school and the
Lycoming Normal School at Muncy, in the
meantime teaching school and working in the
lumber mills with his father. He saved money
and in the winter of 1880 went to Smethport,
Pennsylvania, with his father, who had a con
tract to operate the saw mill owned by Bullis
Brothers. He worked in the mills as well as
in the various camps of this firm, scaling logs,
and performed other work connected with the
lumber business. In the spring of 1887 he
moved to Bullis Mills, where he entered the
general store of Stickney & Company. He
also kept the books for the Georgia & Ayles-
worth Manufacturing Company, dealers in
lumber, being secretary of that concern. In
1888 he was appointed station agent and tele
graph operator for the old B. N. Y. & P.
railroad, and held this until after the Penn
sylvania took the system, resigning in 1902
to devote his entire time to his own business.
He was appointed postmaster of State Line
Mills by President Cleveland, a position he
held up to 1908, when the office was closed.
He bought out Stickney & Company and took
two partners in the general merchandise busi
ness, under the firm name of Georgia &. Com
pany. In 1900 he bought out his partners in
the store, but later he closed out this business
to give his attention to other lines which he
had taken up. Buying stock in the Eldred

Powder Company, he acquired considerable
interest and finally bought the entire issue of
stock, which he sold April 15, 1909, to the
Dupont Powder Company. This plant manu
factured nitro-glycerine and dynamite, the
first of which was used in shooting oil wells.
He was one of the largest and best known
manufacturers of high explosives in the Brad
ford field, and from 1902 to 1909 was en
gaged in shooting oil and gas wells in both
this and the Allegany fields, with factory,
warehouse, docks and offices at State Line
Mills and branch offices with shooters at Brad
ford and Bolivar. He then went into the
Buckhannon Chemical Company, of Olean,
Cattaraugus county, New York, of which he
is secretary and treasurer; the works are at
Chemical, West Virginia, and are devoted to
the manufacture of wood alcohol, acetate of
lime, and charcoal. He has also large lumber
interests. His fraternal orders are Olean Lodge,
No. 252, Free and Accepted Masons; Olean
Chapter, No. 150, Royal Arch Masons;
Fraternal Union of Anointed High Priests of
the State of New York; Olean Council, No.
33, Royal and Select Masters; St. John's
Commandery, No. 24, Knights Templar, of
Olean; Ismailia Teriiple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
Oasis, of Buffalo ; the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite bodies, Valley of Buffalo and
Valley of Olean ; Olean Lodge, No. 471, In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and the
Smethport Encampment, No. 273. He is a
Republican in politics, and in 1909 was can
didate for mayor in Olean. He is a Baptist
in religion, and is president of the board of
trustees. On November 1, 1907, he moved
to Olean, No. 205 East State street, where he
has a fine residence.
He married (first) December 27, 1882, Ro
setta, born February 2, i860, died October 21,
1897, daughter of Joseph and Henrietta
(Montgomery) Shoemaker, of Muncy, Ly
coming county, Pennsylvania; married (sec
ond) November 23, 1898, Mary Jane Shoe
maker, born May 25, 1866, sister of his first
wife. Children, all by first marriage: 1.
Cora Lee, born October 28, 1883. 2. Willis
Scudder, born May 23, 1887 ; he is in business
at St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, with his father,
in the firm of W. Z. Georgia & Son, gro
ceries and meats. 3. Edith May, born August
12, 1892.

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The name Andrews is the
ANDREWS modern English form of the
Latin Andreas, which signi
fies "a man." Some authorities say the sur
names Andrews, Andros, Andreas, Andrus,
Andrieux and Andre are derivations of the
Biblical name Andrew. The family has been
prominent in England since the days of the
Norman conquest. The American ancestor
of the Andrews family of Cattaraugus county,
New York, is John Andrus (Andrews) who
came from England in 1640, and in 1672 was
one of the eighty-four proprietors of the an
cient .town "Tunxis," afterward Farming-
towne, now Farmington, Connecticut. He is
believed to have been born in the county of
Essex, England. Hinman says he was of
Hartford, Connecticut, and died in 1681. His
wife was Mary, died 1694. Sons : Benjamin,
John, Abraham, Daniel and Joseph; his
daughters were : Mary, married  Barnes ;
Hannah, married  Richards ; Rachel, mar
ried  Buck.
(II) Daniel, son of John and Mary An
drews, was born 1649, died in Farmington,
Connecticut, April 6, 1731. He was one of the
six original proprietors in 1672; had a divi
sion of the land; was town officer in 1702,
and one of the large land owners of the town.
He married and had issue.
(Ill) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) An
drews, was born in 1672, died 1748. He re
moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut. He mar
ried, in 1707, Mabel Goffe, a descendant of
William Goffe, the regicide judge.
(IV) Joseph, son of Daniel (2) and Ma
bel (Goffe) Andrews, was born 1711,. died
about 1747. He resided in Glastonbury, Con
necticut. He married and had issue.
(V) Joseph (2) son of Joseph (1) An
drews, was born in 1745. He was a soldier
of the revolution; served as corporal, Ninth
Company, Second Regiment, Connecticut
Line, from May 11, to December 17, 1775;
served as private in Captain Champion's com
pany, Third Regiment, Connecticut Line, from
May 26, 1777, to January 1, 1778. He died
in 1837. He married and had issue.
(VI) George, fourth son of Joseph (2)
Andrews, was born in 1780. He removed in
1815 to Knowlesville, New York, where he
died in 1861. He married and had issue.
(VII) Willis M., second son of George
Andrews, was born in Glastonbury, Connec
ticut, February 7, 1806, died September 3,

1870. In 1815 his father settled in Knowles
ville, New York, and in 1829, Willis M., in
company with Samuel, brother of Horace
Wells, the pioneer, settled at East Otto, Cat
taraugus county. About 1832 he built a house
and shop at East Otto Corners, where he car
ried on shoemaking, later purchasing a farm
near "the corners," which he cultivated until
1864, when he removed to the town of Catta
raugus, where he died. He married, January
1, 1832, in Cattaraugus, Mariette Bonesteel,
born in Worcester, New York, January 8,
1810. In 1828 she came with her parents to
East Otto, where prior to her marriage she
taught the public school. She survived her
husband until November, 1891. Children: 1.
George W., born in East Otto, November 12,
1832; married, April 13, 1856, Ellen Pratt;
children: Tully, Annie L., Walton F., Cris
sey. 2. Jerome A., of whom further. 3. Ed
son Alfred, born August 8, 1845, at East Otto ;
enlisted as sergeant in One Hundred and Sev
enty-ninth Regiment, New York Volunteers,
April 11, 1864; he was taken prisoner at the
time of the great mine explosion in front of
Petersburg, and died of starvation and ex
posure in the prison pen at Danville, Vir
ginia, January 11, 1865; just before his en
listment he married Ellen, daughter of Alan
son King, of Ashford, New York. 4. Eva
A., born October 28, 1857; married Olin G.
Rich, of Cattaraugus, later of Buffalo, New
York. (VIII) Jerome A., second son of Willis M.
and Mariette (Bonesteel) Andrews, was born
at East Otto, Cattaraugus county, New York,
January 6, 1839. He was educated in the pub
lic schools and remained with his father on
the farm until May, 1861, when he enlisted
in Company I, Thirty-seventh Regiment, New
York Volunteers, with which company and
regiment he served as private and sergeant
two years. He enlisted a second time in 1865
and was commissioned first lieutenant. The
following is a copy of the letter received by
Lieutenant Andrews: State of New York,
Executive Department.
Albany, June 5th, 1865.
Lieutenant :
Herewith enclosed is a commission of First Lieu
tenant in the 194th Regiment Infantry New York
Volunteers, conferred upon you by the Honorable
R. E. Fenton, Governor of this State.
Notwithstanding the exigency requiring your serv
ice again on the field has passed, happily, away, the
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conduct for two years in the 37th Regt. Infantry,
N. Y. Vols, and your more recent service in aiding
to raise the first named Regiment, the Governor
wishes to recognize your personal gallantry in the
field, your fidelity and patriotism in defence of all
that is dear to American citizens in the preservation
of our National Union.
With this, accept the personal good wishes of,
Truly your friend, John Manley,
Col. & Military Sec'y.
ist Lieutenant Jerome A. Andrews,
194th N. Y. Vols.,
Cattaraugus, New York.
He saw hard service and fully upheld the
family honor as a good man and a good sol
dier. After the close of the war he engaged in
general merchandising with his brother,
George W., as Andrews Brothers, at East
Otto, continuing until 1869, when he engaged
in the same business with Eugene Bonesteel,
under the name of J. A. Andrews Company, at
New Albion, where he was also postmaster.
Later he removed to Cattaraugus, where he
was in the same business as J. A. Andrews &
Company, until destroyed by fire. He settled in
Salamanca in 1891, where he purchased a half
interest in the hardware business of J. A.
Stevens, the firm name being Stevens & An
drews. Later S. S. Laing purchased Mr.
Stevens' interest and the firm of Laing & An
drews continued until 1893, when he admitted
his son, Bret L., to a partnership under the
firm name of J. A. Andrews & Son. The
firm carries a complete line of all kinds of
hardware, builders' and plumbers' supplies,
vehicles of all kinds, guns and sporting goods.
Both members of the firm stand high in public
esteem, and conduct their business along the
most approved modern lines. Jerome A. An
drews is prominent in the circles of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and has been several
times commander of the E. A. Andrews Post,
which was named for his brother, and is a
frequent delegate to state and national en
campments. He married, September 23, 1868, Emma,
daughter of Linus Lattin, of Mansfield, New
York. Children: 1. Bret L., of whom
further. 2. Neil W., born Decemher 27, 1874 ;
married Eloise Potter ; they had children :
Jerome, born December 16, 1906; Walton,
born February 21, 1908, and Margaret, born
February 2, 1910. 3. Max, born July 4, 1884;
married Sophia Torge.

(IX) Bret L., eldest son of Jerome A. and
Emma (Lattin) Andrews, was born in New
Albion, Cattaraugus county, New York, Feb
ruary 3, 1871. He was educated in the public
schools, and has been engaged in mercantile
life ever since his school days ended. He was
a clerk in the firm of Laing & Andrews, and
when Mr. Laing retired became the junior
member of J. A. Andrews & Son, one of the
leading firms of Salamanca. He has served
four terms as supervisor. He is a member of
Cattaraugus Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons; Salamanca Chapter, Royal Arch Ma
sons, past eminent commander of Salamanca
Commandery, Knights Templar, and a noble
of Ismailia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. His other fraternal orders: The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and
Knights of Pythias. He married, January 28,
1893, Fannie Benson, born in Cattaraugus
village, July 30, 1871, daughter of A. T. and
Mary Benson, whose other children are : Eliz
abeth, married Frank Weidner, children:
Grace, married Harry Kellogg, and William;
Nellie, married Frank Batxer, child Mary
Louise; Charles, died at the age of twenty.
Children of Bret L., and Fannie (Benson)
Andrews: Leland, born November 12, 1893;
Edward, December 9, 1894.

The name, whether spelled
BARROWS Barrus, Barrows, Barrowe
or Barrow, from Barrow, a
mound, or borough, a town, is of the family
that lived in Yarmouth, England, before 1637.
Out of the family was sent to New England
in 1637 the immigrant ancestor of the name
of Barrus or Barrows in America, in the per
son of John Barrows.
(I) John Barrows was born in England in
1609, and he left Yarmouth, England, at the
age of twenty-eight, with his wife Anne, and
settled in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
John and Anne Barrows received grants of
land in Salem in 1637, and were inhabitants
of that town for twenty-eight years, and all
their children were born there. They re
moved to Plymouth before 1665, and John,
the immigrant, died there in 1692. His will
shows that he left a second wife younger than
himself, and four sons : Robert, of whom
further; Joshua, Benjamin, who lived in Attle-
boro ; and Ebenezer, who lived in Cumberland,
Rhode Island; also two daughters, Mary and
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(II) Robert, eldest son of John and Anne
Barrows, was born in Salem, Massachusetts
Bay Colony, removed with his father to Ply
mouth, and had by his first wife, Ruth  ,
four children : John, born 1667, died in Ply
mouth, 1720; George, of whom further; Sam
uel, born 1672, died in Middleboro, 1755 ; Me
hitable, married Adam Wright. Robert Bar
rows married (second) Lydia Dunham, and
had children : Robert, born 1689, died in
Mansfield, Connecticut, 1779; Thankful, born
1692, married Isaac King; Elisha, born 1695,
died in Rochester, Massachusetts, 1767;
Thomas, born 1697, died in Mansfield; Lydia,
born 1699, married Thomas Branch.
(Ill) George, second son of Robert and
Ruth Barrows, was born in Plymouth, Mas
sachusetts, in 1670. He was a successful com
missioner in treating with the Indians, and by
his skill he kept their good will- and secured
peace to the early settlers. This service se
cured to him the title of "Captain George."
He was a large land holder, and had a large
family. His eldest son Peleg received the
homestead now located in the town of Carver,
and which was still in the possession of the
family in 1880. Peleg's son Joseph removed
to Maine, and was the ancestor of Judge W.-
C. Barrus, and Hon. George B. Barrows,
president of the Maine senate, and of Rev.
C. D. Barrows, of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Samuel, son of Captain George, was called
Samuel Jr. to distinguish him from his uncle
Deacon Samuel (1672- 1755).
(IV) The American record of this family
as collected and verified by R. J. Barrows, of
Jamestown, begins with John Barrows and his
wife, Jemima Barrows, who were of English
derivation, and were among the early settlers
of Colerain, Massachusetts.
(V) Abner Barrows, son of John and Je
mima Barrows, was born in Colerain, August
1, 1770. He came with his parents in early
life from Massachusetts to Luzerne, Warren
county, New York, and settling there became
a farmer. There he lived until his death in
1849. He married (first) April 17, 1793, Lucy
Call, born June 30, 1774. Children: Isaacy
born February 25, 1794; John, May 1,
1798; Stephen, January 7, 1800; Phoebe, De
cember 18, 1801 ; Levi, of whom further;
Mercy, November 19, 1806, died young;
Mercy, February 24, 1811 ; Rufus, July 15,
1815. Mr. Barrows married (second) May

26, 1828, Irene Crannell, who died June 13,
1836. (VI) Levi, son of Abner and Lucy (Call)
Barrows, was born in Luzerne, March 26,
1804, and was educated in the schools of that
place. There he remained until in his young
manhood he went to Glens Falls, New York.
While there, November 7, 1823, he was com
missioned by Governor Joseph C. Yates as
ensign of militia, a rank corresponding to the
present rank of lieutenant. He was then nine
teen years of age. July 30, 1827, he received
a commission from Governor De Witt Clin
ton in the same service as captain. He went
from Luzerne to Chautauqua county in 1832,
and purchased land in the town of Stockton
in that county, cut down the timber, built a
log cabin, and cleared a small tract, which
he planted in grain the same season. In his
youth he had assisted his father, who was a
farmer. Levi gained his experience as a saw
yer from his employer, Mr. Rogers, of Lu
zerne. He was induced to settle in James
town, by his brother-in-law, Smith A. Brown.
With Mr. Brown he was partner in the Dexter
Mill. They contracted later with the firm of
Scott & Rogers, and, after six years with
them, bought the Rogers interest. This was
about the year 1838. Scott & Barrows were
engaged in lumbering and the manufacture of
sash and blinds, shipping their product clown
the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, as the custom
was then, by rafts and flat boats. They were
very successful, and gradually acquired con
siderable land. In 1856 they dissolved part
nership and divided their possessions. Mr.
Scott took the landed estate they owned, and
Mr. Barrows the mill business, associating
with himself in that venture his sons, Ransom
J. and Henry R., which partnership continued
until March 10, 1863, when the elder Barrows
died. ,,
He married (first) July 6, 1828, at Luzerne,
Abigail Putnam Ransom, daughter of Jona
than and Mary (Nichol) Ransom. Children:
Mary Jane, born April 12, 1829; Maria
Louise, March 30, 1830 ; Ransom J., of whom
further; Sally Ann, June . 5/ 1834; Henry
Rogers, January 30, 1836; Mercy, Novem
ber 9, 1838; Melissa, June 26, 1840; Orton,
September 23, 1844; Levi Edwin, April 26,
1846. Levi Barrows married (second) Sally
E. Canfield, born April 15, 18 10, a sister of
the first wife. Children: Antoinette, born
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bert A., twins, born November i, 1850, both
now living. The father died March 10, 1863.
Levi Barrows was a man of business, prop
erty and influence, and the holder of a num
ber of public offices. At the time of his death
he was serving as justice of the peace. He
was long a trustee of the village of James
town, and had also served as poor master.
He was foreman of one of the first fire
companies of Jamestown. In early life he
subscribed to Democratic doctrines, but later
became an old-line Whig. His religious faith
was the Presbyterian ; he was a deacon of that
church for many years. When he died he
was buried in Lakeview cemetery, of which
institution he had been a trustee.
(VII) Ransom J. Barrows, only survivor
of the family of Levi Barrows by his first
wife, Abigail Putnam (Ransom) Barrows,
was born in Luzerne, Warren county, August
24, 183 1. He was an infant in arms when
his parents came to Jamestown, and he has
lived there ever since. He attended public
school there as a boy in "the old cooper shop,"
then went to the Jamestown Academy and one
term at Westfield Academy, then returned and
attended Jamestown Academy. He began his
business career in his father's sash factory.
In 1856 he and his brother Henry became
partners in it, and so continued until his
father's death, when Ransom J. bought out
his brother. He conducted the establishment
thereafter with great success, making improve
ments and introducing new machinery, for
seventeen years, and then sold out. In 1873
he went into the retail paint business, in which
he remained for ten years. Then he was in
the lumber business, and finally withdrew
practically from active business affairs.
Mr. Barrows married (first) Mary Jane
Putnam, at Stockton, New York, December
12, 1854; she was born September 10, 1832,
and died August 10, 1859, daughter of Union
and Clarinda (Fross) Putnam. Children: 1.
Jennie M., wife of Marion P. Hatch, of Buf
falo, New York. 2. Minnie, wife of Dr. Will
iam M. Bemus, of Jamestown. His grand
children are Mason B. Hatch, son of his
daughter Jennie, and Selden Barrows and
William M., children of his daughter Min
nie. The two children of Mason B. Hatch
(Elizabeth and Philip) are his great-grand
children. Ransom J. Barrows married (sec
ond) Ellen Adelaide, daughter of Deacon
John C. and Olive (Jones) Breed, March 7,

1861. Mr. Barrows married (third) Mi
nerva C. Williams, September 24, 1873. Chil
dren: 1. Ellen Abigail, born May 10, 1875,
wife of Erwin D. Shearman, of Jamestown,
and mother of Alton Barrows Shearman and
Ransom E. Shearman. 2. Elma M., born De
cember 26, 1877, wife of Floyd P. Almy, of
Jamestown; they have one child, Ruth Bar
rows Almy. 3. Ransom Jay Barrows, men
tioned below.
Mr. Ransom J. Barrows, Sr.,. has been sec
retary to the commissioners of navigation on
Chautauqua Lake since 1897. He has been
highway commissioner nine years. He is now
(1912), serving his third year as president of
the Exempt Firemen's Association. He was
one of the organizers of the first Union school
in Jamestown, and served on the board of
education nine years. He is treasurer of the
Chautauqua County Historical Society. He
is the oldest Jamestown member of Mt. Mo
riah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, and its oldest living member. Politi
cally, Mr. Barrows is attached to the Repub
lican party.
(VIII) Ransom Jay Barrows, son of Ran
som J. and Minerva C. (Williams) Barrows,
was born in Jamestown, New York, May 11,
1879, was educated there, and has been a resi
dent of Jamestown all his life. He is secre
tary of the Philo Burt Manufacturing Com
pany of that city. He is a member of Mt.
Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
the same lodge to which his father belongs;
of Western Chapter, No. 67, Royal Arch Ma
sons; of Jamestown Commandery, No. 61,
Knights Templars, of which body he is past
commander; of Buffalo Consistory, Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite, and of the Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
of that city. He is a member and ex-fore
man of Ellicott Hook and Ladder Company.
He is a Republican in politics, and a veteran
of the Spanish war. He enlisted at James
town, in May, 1898, in the 113th New York
Regiment, and again at Buffalo in Company
E, 65th Regiment, United States Volunteers.
He was discharged from service, November
17, 1898.

The Frank family of Chautau-
FRANK qua county, New York, descend
from one of the old German
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The emigrant came from Germany and was
a true type of the thrifty German emigrant.
(I) Henry Frank and his brother Christo
pher came from Germany together, landed at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, settled near that
city and remained there for a number of years.
This was about 1740. They were well-to-do
farmers, and prior to the revolution removed
to New York state, settling in the Mohawk
valley, at Frankfort, Herkimer county, on the
banks of the Mohawk river. There may have
been others of the name earlier settled there,
which accounts for the name Frankfort.
Henry Frank married and had sons : Henry,
Lawrence and Jacob, all of whom served in the
revolutionary war, Henry and Jacob being
killed. His daughters were Eve and Mary,
twins, and Margaret. Eve married John
Frank, a kinsman. Mary married a Mr. My
ers and had a son John, an early settler of
the town of Carroll. During the French and
Indian war the wife of Henry Frank was cap
tured by the Indians with her children and
carried away captive to Canada. The twin
sisters were then ten years of age. Eve was
kept in captivity three years, Mary a year
longer. At the time of the capture Mrs.
Frank had a son Lawrence, eighteen months
old, whom she was obliged to carry and
march as rapidly as the remainder of the party
or have the baby killed. Whether the family
were ever re-united does not appear, only the
facts of the return of the twins being given.
John Frank, of another family, was captured
at the .same time. Later he was a soldier of
the revolution and again captured, but es
caped. (II) Lawrence, son of Henry Frank, was
born in Frankfort, Herkimer county, New
York. October, 1749. He was carried away
by the Indians when an infant, as stated, later
was returned. He was a farmer, and served
in the revolutionary war. In 1777 ~he was
captured by the Indians and Tories and car
ried to .Quebec, where he was held prisoner
three vears and three months. He then re
turned' to Herkimer county, later settling in
the town of Busti, Chautauqua county, New
York, where he died April 13, 1813. He mar
ried, in Frankfort, New York, Mary Myers,
born in Germany in 1753, came when young
to America with her parents, and died in
Chautauqua county, New York, December,
1831. Children: Lawrence, died in Herki
mer county; Margaret, married a kinsman;

Stephen Frank, and died in Ohio; Elizabeth;
Peter, died in Ohio ; Henry L., married Mar
garet Damont and removed to Kirkland
county, Ohio, where both died; John L., of
whom further ; Michael ; Joseph, born Octo
ber 2, 1796; Matthew, born December 22,
1798. (Ill) John L., son of Lawrence and Mary
(Myers) Frank, was born in Frankfort, Her
kimer county, New York, November 29, 1786,
died at Busti Corners, July 4, 1875. He was
reared a farmer, and in 181 1, over a century
ago, removed to Chautauqua county where
he settled in the town of Busti, lot sixty-two,
township one, range eleven, later removed to
lot six, range twelve, same township. He
was a man respected by the entire community.
He was a devout Christian and an earnest
worker in the church. He was one of the
fourteen original members of the First Bap
tist Church, established in Busti, and was al
ways active and prominent in its affairs. His
old family Bible, published in 1810, now
owned by his grandson, Warren A. Frank,
has the family records written by himself
with the old style goose quill pen. He mar
ried Lucretia Chapman, born March 25, 1791,
died March 14, 1874. Four of their children
died in infancy; the others are: 1. Michael
C, born October 24. 1808: married Sally
Sherwin ; children : John S., Harriet E., Mary
J., Matthew, Alice, Electa, Adelaide. 2. Al
mira, born July 18, 1810; married Ransom
Burroughs ; both deceased. 3. Charles, born
July 22, 1812 ; married Mary Woodin. 4.
Alonzo, September 6, 1815; married Jane
Woodin, and resides at Blockville, New York ;
children: Lavant, Harriet M., Jane, Ophelia.
5. Mary Jane, born April 22, 1819; married
Jacob Chambers and resides at Pine Grove,
Pennsylvania. 6. Harriet M., June 1, 1821,
deceased ; married Denison Palmer. 7. Lo-
zenzo, born October 6, 1823 ; married Melissa
Barnes; children: West, Sidney, Clare. 8.
Davis, of whom further. 9. Marietta, born
December 13, 1830; married Samuel Smith;
children : Levant and Frank. 10. Ariel, mar
ried Margaret Stewart ; children : Emmet and
Frederick Stewart.
(IV) Davis, son of John L. Frank, was
born in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York.
He moved to Sugar Grove, Warren county,
Pennsylvania, but later settled in Busti,
where he followed farming the remainder of
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was held in high esteem by his neighbors as
a hard-working, honorable man and a good
friend. He married (first) Alvira Brown;
(second) Elizabeth Brown. Children: Theo
dore, George, Dwight, Davis, of whom
further; Laverne, Duane, De Etta, Earl.
(V) Dwight Davis, son of Davis and his
second wife, Elizabeth (Brown) Frank, was
born at Sugar Grove, Warren county, Penn
sylvania, February 27, 1856. He was edu
cated in the public schools, and began busi
ness life as a shoemaker in Busti, a trade at
which he worked several years. He settled
in Jamestown, New York, about 1880, and
established in the general teaming business.
He has proven a very energetic, capable man
of business and has succeeded. He keeps
from six to eight teams constantly employed
in his various operations and has also a good
cattle buying and .shipping business. He pur
chased his home at No. 283J/2 Main street.
where he now resides. He is a Republican
in politics. He married, July 2, 1876, at Busti,
Esther Lucina Trask, born at Open Meadows,
New York, July 9, 1856, daughter of Augus
tus M. and Adeline (Way) Trask. Mrs.
Frank is a member of the Baptist church.
Her father,. Augustus M. Trask, was a native
of Open Meadows. In 1859 he came to
Busti, following his trade of cooper at Busti
Corners. He died December 29, 1898, aged
seventy-seven years. He married Adeline
Way, born April, 1824, died December 6,
1892. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Trask: 1.
Eugene, born April 23, 1848 ; married Chris
tine Johnson and resides in Jamestown. 2.
Evaline, married Harrison Devereaux, whom
she survives with four children. 3. Agnes,
unmarried, a resident of Jamestown. 4.
Esther Lucina, married Dwight Davis Frank.
5. Aaron, of Farmington, Pennsylvania;
married Lulu Gage. Children of Dwight Da
vis and Esther Lucina Frank: 1. Glen Aaron,
born April 20, 1878 : educated in the public
school; studied law with A. C. Pickard; ad
mitted to the bar, now a practicing lawyer of
Jamestown, with offices in the Gokey block.
He married Ora Post and has a son, Nixon
Leverne. 2. Henry, born May 1, 1879; gradu
ate of Jamestown high school ; now with the
Clark Hardware Company of Jamestown. He
married Rose Mullen ; children : Lucille, El
nora, deceased; Frances, twin of Elnora. 3.
Meta, born June 2, 1880 ; graduate of James
town high school ; married Edward Olstrom,

of Jamestown ; children : Marvin D. and Ray
mond E.

Captain Solomon Dow, son of Rich-
DOW ard and Elizabeth (Clough) Dow,
was born about 1766, died near
Batavia, New York, 1822. "He was a man
of large physique, austere in manner, a
man of strong common sense and a leader
of strong men in a way, not in politics,
however. Was high in Masonry, master of
Hartland Lodge, and I think a member of the
Batavia Lodge. He was not a church mem
ber, but was a Universalist in belief, prized
education and virtue and was a great lover
of books." He was a farmer, first in New
Hampshire, later at Hartland, Vermont, and
in Genesee county, New York; also engaged
in the cooper business. He was a man of
some means and willing to help his less fortu
nate neighbors. He was known as Captain
Solomon, although Albert G. in his "Recol
lections" does not allude to his title. He mar
ried Elizabeth, daughter of James Buzzell, of
Bow, New Hampshire. Children: Sarah,
Mary, Richard, Eliza, Caroline, Nancy, Han
nah, Albert Gallatin, Amos and Phoebe. The
daughters were all women of culture, pre
pared for teachers, and all at one time or an
other taught school. Mrs. Dow survived her
husband and married (second) Rev. Mr.
Gross, a Universalist minister, editor of a re
ligious paper, conducted a school for lads and,
prepared young men for college. She died
at Qarence, New York, in the autumn of
1826, aged fifty-four years.
Amos, son of Captain Solomon and Eliza
beth (Buzzell) Dow, was born at Plainfield,
New Hampshire, May 22, 181 1, died April 25,
1903. He was twelve years of age when
his father died and then went to live with
his uncle, Martin Montgomery, a sub
stantial farmer and large landowner, of At
tica, New York. When he grew up he learned
the shoemaker's trade and the art of tanning
leather. He removed in manhood to Silver
Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, where
he bought a tannery, and established a gen
eral store. He prospered in business and in
1855 removed to East Randolph, New York.
where he continued in mercantile life until
1880. He purchased the present bank build
ing in East Randolph, in 1874, but two years
previous to this date had entered the banking
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berlain Bank, and began conducting the pri
vate banking house of Amos Dow, to which
he admitted his son Charles as a partner. The
latter sold out to Seth W. Thompson, and the
firm was known as Dow & Thompson until
1881, from this time until 1891 the bank was
conducted by Amos Dow, he having bought
Thompson's interests, and then the People's
State Bank bought the business, Amos Dow
still holding stock in the concern. He was a
capable man of business and a wise, conser
vative financier. He inherited the family
characteristics of thrift, energy and industry,
prospered in all his undertakings and held a
leading position in his community. He was
supervisor from East Randolph and secured
from the board proper recognition of his town.
In religion he was a Universalist; in politics
a Whig and later a Republican.
He married, in 1838, Eliza Ann Gates, born
October 2, 1816, died February 23, 1895.
Children: 1. Frank, born at Silver Creek,
New York, September 1, 1839, died there
1865 ; he served in the civil war as private
in the Ninth Regiment, New York Cavalry;
married Anna Sawyef. 2. Rollin, born March
. 31, 1846, died in East Randolph, March 18,
1908; was a merchant of East Randolph;
married, December 11, 1867, Nellie M. Gates;
children : i. Dora, married Edwin Robbins,
of Cortland, New York. ii. Frances, now of
Homer, New York; married (first) Ward
Snyder; (second) E. P. Nicholas. 3. Helen,
born October 22, 1848; married S. G. Jones
and' resides in Tacoma, Washington; children:
i. Harold D. ii. Lucretia, married William
Ross. 4. Charles, of whom further. 5. Har
riet, born September 3, i860; married John
F., son of Seth W. Thompson, of Jamestown,
New York.
Charles, youngest son of Amos and
Eliza Ann (Gates) Dow, was born at Silver
Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, De
cember 12, 1850. In 1855 his parents re
moved to East Randolph, New York, where
he received his early education. He then pre
pared for college at Chamberlain Institute, of
which he is a graduate, class of 1870. He
then entered Williams College, but poor health
prevented his finishing his college course. He
spent two years with Warren Dow in Detroit,
Michigan, engaged in the manufacture of
wire cloth, screens and hardware. In 1872
he returned to East Randolph, where for two
years he was cashier and partner in the bank

ing house of Amos Dow. In 1874 he re
signed his position and went to Minnesota
where he had interests in wheat elevators, as
junior of the firm of Hurd & Dow. Later
he operated a spice mill in Detroit, Michigan,
in connection with a wholesale tea, coffee and
spice business. Closing out his Detroit busi
ness he joined his cousin, Warren Dow, in
Bradford, Pennsylvania (then the center of
the oil industry) in the banking house of Dow
& Company. He was later in Florida and
Cuba until 1878. He returned to Bradford,
Pennsylvania, and entered the oil business as
a producer, remaining there until 1884, then
entered the bank as cashier for Amos Dow,
but resigned in 1888, and was succeeded as
cashier by his brother Rollin. In 1882, in con
nection with his brother, Rollin Dow, he
started the banking house of Dow Brothers,
in Richburg, and purchased three hundred
acres of oil bearing land which developed some
good and profitable wells. He then located
in the oil business at Warren, Pennsylvania.
He was one of the charter members of the
Bradford Oil Exchange and a large operator.
After spending some time in business with
his father at East Randolph, he went to New
York City, where he entered the Gansevoort
Bank as bookkeeper and became later assist
ant cashier. In 1889 he went to Michigan
to care for his father's business interests, re
maining there until 1891, when he returned
to New York City and entered the employ of
the Bell Telephone Company. His familiarity
with accounts led to three promotions while
in their service. He was next in Buffalo,
New York, with the Maltbie Chemical Com
pany; then in Lansing, Michigan, where he
purchased, improved and conducted the Hotel
Grand, until 1906. He has since his father's
death been settling the estate and arranging
his affairs. He resides in East Randolph, un
married. ' He is a Republican in politics.

This is an old English
BEAUCHAMP family that trace their
English ancestry to John
Beauchamp, of Burnham, England, who died
in 1637.
(II) John (2) son of John (1) Beau-
champ, died in 1662.
(Ill) Joseph, son of John (2) Beauchamp,
died in 1690.
(IV) Joseph (2) son of Joseph (1) Beau
champ, was born in 1641, died 1716; he set-

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tied at Burrington, which was the family
home until the immigration to the United
States. (V) Richard, son of Joseph (2) Beau
champ, was born in 1683.
(VI) James, son of Richard Beauchamp,
was born July 18, 1729.
(VII) John (3) son of James Beauchamp,
was born January 15, 1765, in Somersetshire,
England, died July 11, 1856. He was a highly
educated man, and conducted a noted board
ing school. He married Elizabeth Martin,
May 21, 1795 ; she died July 5, 1836. Chil
dren: John, born May 20, 1796; Jane Eliz
abeth, August 20, 1797; William Millett, of
whom further ; Mary Ann, died in infancy ;
Mary Ann (2), born February 23, 1804.
(VIII) William Millett, son of John (3)
Beauchamp, was born at West Pennard, Eng
land, April 6, 1799, died August 28, 1867.
He was a man of education and culture, and
the founder of this branch of the family in
the United States. He settled in Orange
county, New York, in 1829, the year of his
immigration. In 1831 he removed to Skanea-
teles, Onondaga county, New York, where
he founded and published the Skaneateles
Democrat in 1840. He also engaged in the
nursery business and was the first to experi
ment in raising teasels in New York state,
and thereby creating a new industry in his
town. He married, May 4, 1824, Mary Jay,
born in Somersetshire, England, February 1,
1800, died at Skaneateles, New York, April
28, 1859. Children : Mary Elizabeth, born
in Butleigh, England, June 14, 1825 ; Maria,
born at Wedmore, England, February 27,
1827; William Martin, of whom further;
John Alfred, born at Skaneateles, New York,
March 4, 1833 ; Sarah Anne, born July 31,
1836. Mary (Jay) Beauchamp was a daugh
ter of James Jay, born in Redrush Parish,
Cornwall, England, in 1766, died in Marcellus,
New York, April 24, 1845. He was a min
ister of the Wesleyan Methodist church. He
married, in Somersetshire, England, Mary
Smith, born January 31, 1769, died July 18,
1850. Children : Anna, Mary, married Will
iam M. Beauchamp; Maria, Elizabeth, Jo
seph, William Henry.
(IX) Rev. William Martin Beauchamp,
son of William Millett and Mary (Jay) Beau
champ, was born in Coldenham, Orange
county, New York, on the Governor Colden
estate, March 25, 1830. He was educated in

public and private schools, Skaneateles Acad
emy, and was graduated from De Lancey
School of Divinity (an adjunct of Hobart Col
lege) class of 1862. He was his father's as
sistant in a book store, bindery and printing
office at Skaneateles, mastering most of the
details of these. He also was associated with
him in the nursery business, and learned in
addition the trade of carriage painter. After
acknowledging, his call to the ministry he took
full courses at the School of Divinity, before
mentioned, and September 21, 1862, was or
dained deacon, and in 1863 a priest of the
Protestant Episcopal church. He was first
placed in charge of Calvary Church at North-
ville, Cayuga county, New York, and in 1865
became rector of Grace Church, Baldwins-
ville, New York, where he remained over
thirty-five years the beloved rector of that
congregation. During these years he was led
into the study of Natural History and Arch
aeology, which so held him that he has made
it' a lifelong study, his natural artistic ability
enabling him to make his own drawings and
sketches of noted local relics and objects. In
his archaeological study, research and explor
ation he has accumulated a collection of about
fifteen thousand original, drawings. His early
training in the printing office has enabled him
to be of the greatest assistance to editors and
publishers in their work, as well as in the
works he has himself published. He had
taken a great interest in all that pertains to
the American Indian, especially the Onondaga
tribe that still exists in Onondaga county, and
by whom he had been adopted. He is the au
thor of two works of great merit and interest
that are standard authorities, "The Iroquois
Trail" and "New York Indian Names," and
as New York state archaeologist, has pub
lished thirteen illustrated bulletins on the an
tiquities of New York. His work on "The
Revolutionary Soldiers of Onondaga County"
is just ready for the press (1912).
He is well known and highly honored in
scientific societies, many of which have elected
him to honorary membership. He has beep
president of the Onondaga Academy of Sci
ence, fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, vice-president of
the Onondaga County Historical Society, one
of the examining chaplains of the Diocese of
Central New York from 1884. He has been
an officer and contributor to the American
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ary and corresponding member of many other
scientific societies. For several years he has
been president of the Syracuse Clerical Club.
He is also interested in the work of the Ma
sonic order. Is past high priest of Riverside
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and thereby a
member of the Grand Chapter of New York
State. He has filled other offices in both
lodge and chapter. In 1886 Hobart College
conferred upon him the degree of Sacrae
Theologiae Doctor. He is a Republican in
politics, and in the pursuit of his archaeologi
cal work has been sworn into office as an aid
to obtaining privileges to explore, where a
private citizen could not gain admission.
He married, November 26, 1857, at Ra
venna, Ohio, Sarah Carter, born in Ravenna,
July 3, 1835, daughter of Howard and Ach
sah (Rouse) Carter. Howard Carter was a
farmer. His children are : Whiting, Ellen,
Sarah and Charlotte. Children of Rev. Will
iam and Sarah (Carter) Beauchamp: 1. Vir
ginia, born in Skaneateles, New York, Sep
tember 23, 1858; graduate of Michigan Uni
versity. 2. Ellen, born in Skaneateles, De
cember 8, 1861 ; graduate of Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, now an instructor in drawing. 3.
Howard Carter, born.in Ravenna, Ohio, Octo
ber 7, 1865 ; graduate of Cornell University,
class of 1888 ; now editor and publisher of the
Advance, Jonesboro, Tennessee; married L.
Frances Weed and has Elizabeth, born May
21, 1894. 4. Grace, born in Baldwinsville,
New York, March 21, 1874; married James
Street Lodder, and has William Beauchamp,
born May 12, 1910.

Lewis Nichols, bom June 12,
NICHOLS 1773, the progenitor of the
Cattaraugus county family,
came to Concord, Erie county, New York, in
1818, from Scipio, Cayuga county. He located
in Concord at the point known as Nichols
Corners, where he lived until his death, in
1862. He was a prosperous farmer, a Whig
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He married Betsey Hovell,' born July 18,
1774, died 1854. Children: Abijah, born
March 5, 1792; Lucy, March 9, 1794; Polly,
July 3, 1796; Sally, September 3, 1798; Isaac,
March 12, 1801 ; Betsey, April 29, 1803 ; Da
vid, May 28, 1805 ; Lewis, February 14, 1808 ;
Aner, April 28, 1810; John, of whom further;
Nancy, September 5, 1820.

(II) John, tenth child of Lewis Nichols,
was born in Cayuga county, New York, Au
gust 11, 1817, died October 5, 1875. He was
a farmer of Concord, Erie county, New York,
a Republican, and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He married Clarinda
Richardson, born in Concord, July 10, 1822,
daughter of Jeremiah Richardson, born De
cember 30, 1796, at Newport, New Hamp
shire. Children : Betsey, Charles H., Carlos
J. and Lawrence B., of whom further.
(Ill) Lawrence Byron, youngest son of
John Nichols, was horn in Concord, Erie
county, New York, January 20, 1859. He
was educated in the public school and at Grif
fith Institute, Springville, New York. He en
gaged in the drug business in Springville for
five years, and in February, 1886, located in
Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, where he en
gaged in the insurance business, which he
still continues. He is a Republican in politics ;
was supervisor of the town of Ellicottville
and for sixteen years justice of the peace.
He is a member of the Masonic Order, Lodge
No. 307, Ellicottville, and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, at Olean, New York, Septem
ber 22, 1880, Addie L. Davis, born at Win
nebago, Illinois, January 1, 1859, daughter of
David J. and Sarah M. Davis. Child, Arthur
Lyle, born July 15, 1881 ; educated in the pub
lic school and Jamestown Business College;
now freight agent for the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburgh railroad, at Ellicottville. He
married, December 16, 1908, Qara Koelsch,
of Buffalo.

This family is of English an-
ANSLEY cestry, the first record being
found of them in Pike county,
Pennsylvania. (I) Hudson Ansley was a resident of Pike
county, Pennsylvania, and with his wife came
¦to Collins, Erie county, New York, between
1825 and 1830. He purchased the only "clear
ing" then made in that section and there
reared a large family, which were given all
the educational advantages possible in that
day and section. He married (first) Maria
Heaton, who bore him: George, William,
Heaton, Hudson, Joseph, Ann, Mary, Laura.
He married a second wife who bore him two
children. (II) Hudson (2) son of Hudson (1) and
Maria (Heaton) Ansley, was born in Collins,

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Erie county, New York, January 15, 1838.
He was educated in the district public school
and the academies of Gowanda and Fredonia.
He taught in the district schools for five years,
then decided upon the profession of law, and
in i860 began study with the law firm of
Torrance & Allen, of Gowanda. He con
tinued with them until his admission to the
bar, June, 1863. While a law student he dis
continued his studies in 1861 and devoted him
self to procuring the enlistment of volunteers
for the Union army. He attended many war
meetings, at all of which he was an earnest
speaker, and his zeal inspired others and
many recruits were secured through his ef
forts. October 18, 1861, he was enrolled in
the Sixty-fourth Regiment, New York Infan
try, and later was commissioned regimental
hospital steward, serving until honorably dis
charged, March, 1862. After his admission
to the bar he formed, in July, 1863, a partner
ship with his former instructor, Henry F. Al
len, of Gowanda, continuing until April, 1864,
when he removed to Salamanca, where he has
since been constantly engaged in the practice
of his profession. He practiced alone until
1872 when he formed a partnership with Oli
ver S. Vreeland, which continued until 1879.
He then became associated with Carey D. Da
vie in a law partnership which continued until
the spring of 1890. The firm of Ansley &
Spencer (John J. Spencer) was formed in
1891, continuing until September 15, 1902,
when George H. Ansley was admitted to the
firm. In 1904 Mr. Spencer withdrew.
Besides his always large private practice, Mr.
Ansley has held important public positions. In
October, 1879, after the death of James D.
McVay, surrogate of Cattaraugus county, he
was appointed by Governor Lucius Robinson
to fill out the unexpired term. In 1882 he was
appointed by Governor Grover Cleveland, at
torney for the Seneca Indians, holding until
1892. His legal career has been a highly sue- ¦
cessful one, and no man ever stood higher in
the estimation of the Cattaraugus county bar
than he. His practice has been conducted on
a high plane and his record is an enviable one.
Learned in the law- and skillful in its applica
tion, he prosecutes his cases with consummate
skill, yet is always courteous and mindful of
the ethics of his profession and of the rights
of his opponents. He has important business
interests outside of his profession. He is
president of the Salamanca Veneer Panel

Company, attorney and director of the Sala
manca Building and Loan Association and
director of the First National Bank of Sala
manca. His life has been an active one and
in living it he has harmed no man in order
to succeed himself. Politically Mr. Ansley
has always been a loyal Democrat. He has
attained high rank in the councils of his party
and has been an untiring worker for party
success. He was a member of the state com
mittee in 1885-88, was a delegate to the "Anti
Snapper" convention at Saratoga, New York,
delegate to the national convention in Chi
cago, in June, 1892 (that nominated Grover
Cleveland) and a frequent delegate to county,
district and state conventions. He served as
trustee of the village of Gowanda, 1863-64,
supervisor representing Salamanca, 1866-67-
68-69-80-81-91, was appointed postmaster of
Salamanca, July 1, 1893, holding four years.
His public, like his private career, has been
an honorable one, each obligation to the public
having been faithfully met.
In Free Masonry he has had an honored
career. He is past master of Cattaraugus
Lodge, No. 239, having held the office of mas
ter through seven reelections. He is past
high priest of Salamanca Chapter, No. 266,
Royal Arch Masons; having held the office
of high priest two terms. He is also a Knight
Templar of Salamanca Commandery, No. 62.
Mr. Ansley enjoys the social side of life and
possesses a host of warm friends who speak
of him in the most complimentary terms. In
1880 he toured Europe, visiting Great Brit
ain and all parts of the Continent. In 1889 he
visited the island of Cuba and in 1891 visited
"Old Mexico." While many of the cares of
his profession and business have been sur
rendered, he is yet actively engaged, and while
the enthusiasm of youth has departed, the
calm, mature judgment that has succeeded it
more than compensates.
He married, November 4, 1863 Elzina Jane,
born March 30, 1839, daughter of Zalmon
Hanford, born August 9, 1807, died January
15, 1893, married, April 13, 1834, Belinda
Southworth. Her grandfather, Alexander
Hanford, married, November 1, 1787, Lydia
Tuttle, of Manlius, New York. Ten children :
Leander, born August 2, 1788; Philo, Janu
ary 1, 1 79 1 ; Sophie, December 25, 1792; Al-
mina, March 24, 1794; Keziah, June 25, 1799;
Zerua, February 6, 1801 ; Clarissa, April 4,
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gust 9, 1807; William, July 18, 1812. Chil
dren of Zalmon and Belinda Hanford : George
A., born April 6, 1835, died 1873; Lavina
Adelaide, born August 15, 1836, died Febru
ary 5, 1911 ; Elzina Jane, married Hudson (2)
Ansley; child, George H. Belinda South-
worth, wife of Zalmon Hanford, was third of
the fifteen children of Edward and Huldah
(Stevens) Southworth: Beriah, born August
28, 1809, died October 23, 1809; Lucretia,
March 13, 181 1, died April 23, 1896; Belinda,
September 9, 1812, died April 23, 1896; Lu
cinda, March 15, 1814, died May 11, 1836;
Edward, April 17, 1816, died June 16, 1890;
Samuel, March 27, 1818, died March 27, 1838;
Joshua, March 31, 1820; Isaac, July 13, 1822,
died September 23, 1875 ; Sarah Ann, October
23, 1824, died November 8, 1864; James,
March 9, 1827, died October 17, 1879; Louisa,
twin of James ; Thomas, February 28, 1829,
died April 4, 1848; Alonzo, May 29, 1831,
died October 9, 183 1 ; Melissa, twin of Alon
zo; Wallace, May 31, 1833.
(Ill) George Hanford, only son of Hudson
(2) and Elzina Jane (Hanford) Ansley, was
born in Salamanca, New York, December 14,
1875. He was early educated in the public
school, prepared for college, entered Williams
College, from whence he was graduated A. B.,
class of 1899. He then entered Columbia
University Law School, receiving his degree
of LL.B. with the class of 1902. In the same
year he was admitted to the New York bar
and became a member of the Salamanca law
firm of Ansley & Spencer. The latter with
drew in 1904 and father and son then formed
the firm of Ansley & Ansley, which still con
tinues in successful general practice. Both
are members of the Cattaraugus County Bar
Association, and in 191 1 George H. Ansley
was elected president of the association.
George H. Ansley is a director of the Sala
manca Loan and Building Association, village
attorney, 1908-09-11, chairman of the Demo
cratic county committee and interested in all
that pertains to the welfare of his village. He
is a member of the Masonic order, and is a
warden of the Episcopal church. He married,
October 18, 1906, Charlotte Fish, born Au
gust 14, 1 88 1 ; child, Charles Hudson, born
April 24, 1908. This family is derived from
GOODWIN staunch old English stock, the
progenitor of the name in

America having been born and reared in Eng
land. His name was Richard Goodwin and he
had two brothers, the eldest of whom settled on
the ancestral estate in England. The younger
brother was a sea captain and on one of his
voyages came to America, settling in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania; a number of his de
scendants are now residents of western Penn
sylvania. Richard Goodwin came to Amer
ica as a young man, in the latter part of the
eighteenth century, and settled in New Hamp
shire. He was a shipwright and carpenter,
and shortly after coming to this country he
plastered and shingled Dartmouth College.
He married Elizabeth Flanders, of South
Hampton,, New Hampshire. Mrs. Goodwin
had two brothers who served in the revolu
tionary war; one was killed in that struggle
but the other, John Flanders, survived the
many engagements in which he participated
and returned home. Children: 1. Richard,
mentioned below. 2. Dr. Ezra, settled in
Tompkins county, New York, where he built
up a large medical practice and where he re
sided until his death. 3. Esther, married
John Farnam and lived across the river from
her old home in New Hampshire. When her
eldest child was three weeks old she wanted
to go home to visit her parents but as the
spring freshet was on she could not cross the
ford. Undismayed, however, she carefully
wrapped up the infant and swam her horse
across the stream, reaching home in good
shape. 4. Ruth, married Biga Bruce.
(II) Richard (2) son of Richard (1) and
Elizabeth (Flanders) Goodwin, was born in
Rockingham county, New Hampshire. He
was a lumberman and farmer by occupation,
and came to New York state when it was a
howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts.
He purchased land, amounting to five hun
dred acres, in Cattaraugus county, from the
Holland Land Company, and there erected a
little log house and began the arduous task
of clearing and cultivating his estate. He
was a Whig in his political convictions, and
in religious matters was a staunch member
of the Baptist church. He married Ruth P.
Sanborn. Children : Mark S., born July 27,
1807; Eliza, February 15, 1809; Daniel,
March 15, 181 1; Laura, January 17, 1813;
Augustus Colson, mentioned below; Richard,
June 27, 1835.
(Ill) Augustus Colson, son of Richard
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born in Conewango, Cattaraugus county, New
York, June 20, 1827. He was reared and edu
cated on the old homestead farm, and after
attaining years of maturity was engaged in
farming on that estate until February, 1902,
when he retired from business life and re
moved to Jamestown, New York, where he
has since resided. He is Republican in poli
tics and during his career has been the effi
cient incumbent of a number of important
township offices, including that of township
assessor. He is a devout Methodist in his re
ligious belief. He parried (first) at East
Randolph, New York, October 23, 1850, Julia
Ann Ireland, born March 17, 1828, at Rush,
Monroe county, New York. She died Feb
ruary 9, 1874. Her parents were Nathaniel
and Mary (Cook) Ireland, the former of
whom was of Welsh descent. There were
thirteen children in the Ireland family. He
married (second) Polly (Wilcox) Bennett.
Children by first wife : Mary E., born March
18, 1853, married William Kirk and they re
side on the old homestead ; Elmer F., born
June 5, 1857, died in the fall of 1878; Perry
Wilber, mentioned below; Richard Vernon,
born October 24, 1862, is a resident of Tarpon
Springs, Florida, where he is superintendent
of a silica mine.
(IV) Perry Wilber, son of Augustus Col
son and Julia Ann (Ireland) Goodwin, was
born on the old homestead in Conewango,
Cattaraugus county, New York, August 16,
i860. He was reared on the farm, in the
work and management of which he early be
gan to assist his father, and his education was
obtained in the neighhoring district schools.
When eighteen years of age, in 1878, he came
to Jamestown with the intention of working
for one month for the Lakeview Cemetery
Company. Becoming installed as an employe
for that company he continued as such until
1898, when he was made assistant superin
tendent and sexton. On August 3, 1907, he
was made general superintendent and a mem
ber of the board of trustees of the company,
which important positions he retains at the
present time (1912). In 1878 the Lakeview
Cemetery Company consisted of thirty-five
acres; now it has one hundred and seventy-
five acres and is considered one of the finest
cemeteries in the entire state of New York.
Mr. Goodwin, in connection with his work,
has traveled throughout the country, visiting
many of the cemeteries of the largest, cities,

and he may be said to be one of the best in
formed men in the United States on the sub
ject of caring for the departed, ones. He is
a hard-working, conscientious, liberal-minded
man, honest and straightforward in all his
dealings, and as such commands the unalloyed
confidence and esteem of his fellowmen. He
is the owner of a large amount of valuable
real estate and residences in Jamestown; is a
director in the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of
Jamestown; a director in the National Bank
of Falconer ; and a director in the Crown
Metal Construction Company of Jamestown.
He is a member of the Buffalo Street Metho
dist Episcopal Church, and is president of the
board of trustees of that organization. In a
fraternal way he is affiliated with Ellicott
Lodge, No. 221, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, having passed through the official
chairs of that body three different times. In
politics he is a stalwart Republican.
He married, September 29, 1880, at James
town, New York, Jennie L. Bull, whose birth
occurred at Poland, Chautauqua county, New
York, July 15, 1859. She is a daughter of
Abraham and Lucy (Cassort) Bull, and has
two sisters and one brother, namely : Nellie
A., Lucy Z. and Clyde. Child of Mr. and
Mrs. Goodwin: Frank Perry, mentioned be
low. (V) Dr. Frank Perry Goodwin, son of
Perry Wilber and Jennie L. (Bull) Goodwin,
was born at Jamestown, New York, August
30, 1882. He was graduated from the James
town high school as a member of the class of
1900, and four years later was graduated from
the University of Cornell, with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. In 1906 he completed the
Cornell medical course and since that time
has been engaged in the practice of his pro
fession at Jamestown, where he is achieving
prominence as a physician. He is a member
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and
a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 145,
Free and Accepted Masons. He married, Feb
ruary 15, 1909, Inez C. Knowlton.

The prosperity of the state of
WAFFLE New York, especially in agri
cultural lines, is largely owing
to the excellent work accomplished by the
early settlers. Notably is this the case in Cen
tral and Western New York, where the set
tlers known as the "Mohawk Dutch" had their
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which they obtained their designation. Among
these settlers was the Wavle family, among
whose descendants is the Rev. Albert Edward
Waffle. While the original form of spelling
has been retained by the majority of the de
scendants, the name is pronounced Waffle. It
is a matter much to be regretted that so few
of the earlier records of this section have been
preserved, but it may be stated as a fact that
the Waffle family originally came from Hol
land, and followed agricultural pursuits in
this country. The grandfather of Dr. Waffle
was thus engaged, and was the father of
George, see forward, Andrew, John, Joseph
and two daughters.
(II) George Waffle, mentioned above, was
born at Palatine Bridge, New York, Septem
ber 9, 1808, died at Elm Valley, New York,
September, 1884. During his entire active
life he was engaged in farming in Allegany
and Steuben counties, New York, where he
gave his political support to the 'Democratic
party, while he made no profession of religion.
He married, at Scio, New York, December 25,
1842, Betsey Knight, born in that town, April
20, 1820, daughter of Samuel and Sarah
(Millard) Knight, the latter of Welsh extrac
tion, the former of English descent, and a
resident of Connecticut until he removed to
Scio, New York. The children of George
and Betsey (Knight) Waffle were: Anna
Bell, born at Scio, New York, January, 1843 ;
Albert Edward, see forward; Samuel George,
born at Troupsburg, New York, May, 1848;
Sarah, Troupsburg, 1850 ; Andrew, born ' at
Elm Valley, New York, 1856; and Florence
Janet, Elm Valley, July 18, i860.
(Ill) Rev. Albert Edward Waffle, D. D.,
eldest son of George and Betsey (Knight)
Waffle, was born in Troupsburg, Steuben
county, New York, November 14, 1846.
His elementary education was acquired in
the public schools of his district and he then
became a student at the Alfred University,
Alfred, Allegany county, New York. Subse
quently he matriculated at Madison (now Col
gate) University, from which he was gradu
ated in 1872, and finally pursued his theologi
cal studies at the Hamilton (now Colgate)
Theological Seminary. The last named insti
tution bestowed the degree of Doctor of Di
vinity upon Dr. Waffle in 1892. For some
years Dr. Waffle was engaged in teaching in
the public schools, and was ordained as minis
ter in 1873. He has been eminently success

ful in the profession he has made the princi
pal work of his life, and has officiated as fol
lows: Baptist churches at New Brunswick,
New Jersey, 1873-80; Lewisburg, Pennsyl
vania, 1880-84; Bay City, Michigan, 1885-88;
Jamestown, New York, 1888-95 ; Albion, New
York, 1895-1905 ; Woodstock, Ontario, Can
ada, 1905-08. Since the last mentioned year
he has served as a minister at large of the
Baptist church in various churches, and has
also been extensively engaged in literary work.
During his residence in Lewisburg, Dr. Waf
fle served as professor of rhetoric and logic
at the Lewisburg (now Bucknell) University.
Among the published works of Dr. Waffle may
be mentioned: "The Lord's Day," 1885,
which was awarded a prize of one thousand
dollars ; "The Interpreter with his Bible,"
1892 ; "Christianity and Property," 1896 ;
"The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth," 1902.
In the edition of 1912 of "Who's Who in
America," a sketch of Dr. Waffle will appear.
He has never been connected with any secret
society with the exception of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity while at college. He is,
however, a leading member of two literary
clubs — The Albion (New York) Historical
Club, and the Albion Historical Conversation
Club, holding the office of president in the
latter. Dr. Waffle was married at Hamilton, New
York, June 19, 1873, to Mary Rebecca Har
vey, born at Manlius, New York, August 1,
1848, and they have one child, Albert Harvey,
born March 16, 1893, who is now a student
at Colgate University. Mrs. Waffle is the
daughter of Hezekiah and Lucy Waitstill
(Loomis) Harvey, the former a doctor of di
vinity in the Baptist denomination and a pro
fessor at Colgate Theological Seminary, where
he was dean of the faculty at the time of his
death.

George Potter, the immigrant
POTTER of this family, and several oth
ers of the same surname, set
tled early in Rhode Island. He was born in
England. He died soon after 1638, it is sup
posed, as no further record of him has been
found. His widow married Nicholas Niles.
Potter was admitted an inhabitant of the
Island of Aquidneck in 1638. Pie and twenty-
eight others signed the following compact,
dated April 30, 1639 : "We whose names are
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legal subjects of His Majesty King Charles,
and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into
a civil body politicke, unto his laws according
to matters of Justice." Nathaniel Potter,
probably his brother, signed the same com
pact. (II) Abel, only known child of George
Potter, was doubtless born in England about
1638. His father-in-law (stepfather), Nicho
las Niles, bound him out to William Baul-
stone for the term of eighteen years. The
town approved the contract "for the better
security of Mr. Baulstone." (He may have
been three years old at the time, but probably
older, for the boy "gave his consent," so his
apprenticeship extended until after he came
of age.) He and Nathaniel Potter confirmed
a deed, September 5, 1664, of eight acres that
had once been in their father's possession, said
deed having been made by Samuel Wilbur to
John Tripp, shaft carpenter, May 7, 1663. By
father's possession the respective fathers of
each is meant. Nathaniel was son of Nathan
iel. Abel Potter bought land of John Read,
for £36, a right in Mashantatack, at Dart
mouth, Massachusetts, May 3, 1667. He and
his wife Rachel, of Mashantatack, sold sixty
acres and commoning near Pawtucket Falls
to Joseph Henckes, said land formerly belong
ing to her grandfather, Ezekiel Holliman, the
deed being dated at Providence, October 10,
1 67 1. He was admitted a freeman May 1,
1677. He sold land October 6, 1682 to Roger
Burlingame for two pounds. His will was
dated January 14, 1692, and proved March 9,
following. His wife Rachel was executor.
He bequeathed to son George "sixty acres
where he has made preparation for building,"
and various other property, he paying his sis
ter Mary five pounds. He directed his wife
to divide the rest of the estate among the chil
dren, excepting George and Stephen. The
latter was bequeathed, at the death of the wife,
all the homestead, paying to his sister Mary
five pounds, and the sons Abel and Benjamin
were to pay Mary five pounds within two
years after they became of age. The will of
the widow Rachel was dated November 23,
1724, her sons Ichabod and Job executors. She
bequeathed to sons Abel, Benjamin and Ste
phen and John ;# to daughter Mary. Ichabod
and Job had lands at Mashantatack. Abel
married, November 16, 1669, Rachel Warner,
who died November 9, 1724, daughter of
John and Priscilla (Holliman) Warner. Chil

dren, born at Warwick, Rhode Island 1 George,
May 3, 1 7 12; John, mentioned below; Abel]
January 1, 1713; Benjamin, married Sarah
Lockwood; Mary, married Hugh Stone; Ste
phen ; Ichabod ; Job, married Meribah Carter.
(Ill) John, son of Abel Potter, was born
at Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1680, and died
aged ninety. He married, February 19, 1702,
Rachel, daughter of John Dearborn. Chil
dren, born at Coventry, Rhode Island: John
Jr., July 8, 1703; Susanna, January 11, 1705;
Elizabeth, May 18, 1709; Mary, December 29,
171 1 ; William; Abel; Joseph, mentioned be
low. (IV) Joseph, son of John Potter, was born
at Coventry, Rhode Island, in 1715, and died
in 1785. He married, September 11, 1742,
Freelove Bennett, born 1723, died 1824, aged
one hundred years. Children, born at Coven
try : Samuel, May 24, 1745 ; John, July 28,
1747; Mary, May 28, 1750; George, Decem
ber 31, 1753; Mercy, March 13, 1756; Ruth;
Rowland; Hannah; Ephraim, mentioned be
low ; Betsey ; Gilbert.
(V) Ephraim, son of Joseph Potter, was
born at Coventry, July 14, 1760, and died
August 8, 1832. He married, in 1781, Eliza
beth Parker. He was a farmer at Floyd, New
York. Children, bom at Floyd: Catharine,
March 12, 1782, died August 30, 1861 ;
Thomas, January 28, 1784, died October 1,
1849; Esther, August 28, 1786, died May 23,
1823; Cynthia, September 22, 1788, died
March 2, 1867; Charles, October 16, 1792,
died May 20, 1839; Stephen, July 19, 1795,
died 1798 ; George, October 18, 1797, died
April 26, 1869; John E., mentioned below;
Jonathan, July 4, 1803, died 1805 ; Green, De
cember 18, 1807, died March 1, 1869.
(VI) John E., son of Ephraim Potter, was
born at Floyd, New York, January 9, 1801,
and died March 21, 1880. He was educated in
the public schools of his native town, learned
the trade of tanner, and afterward owned a
tannery at Orwell, Oswego county, New York.
He married, in 1820, Jane Davis, born in
1802, died in 1885, daughter of Nathaniel and
Jane Davis. Children, born at Floyd : 1. Da
vid Van Ness, April 24, 1821 ; married Nancy
M. Angell. 2. Roxanna, October 31, 1822;
married Orrin Beadle. 3. William, February
28, 1825, died October 18, 1829. 4. Nathaniel
E., February 14, 1826, died September 14,
1827. 5. Alexander, September 15, 1827;
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Marion Robbins. Born at Orwell : 6. Charles,
April 30, 1830; died February 16, 1857. 7.
Albert J., mentioned below. 8. Latham D.,
March 28, 1839; married Martha A. Doan.
9. Mary E., May 21, 1841, died October 17,
1845. 10. Marshall D., July 1, 1843; married
Mary Greenwood. 11. Ellen M., May 18,
1846; married Henry J. Pennock.
(VII) Albert J., son of John E. Potter, was
born at Orwell, New York, September 7, 1833,
and has always lived in that town. He was
educated in the public schools, and learned
the trade of carpenter when a young man.
During most of his active life he has been
a farmer. He is now living in Orwell. Dur
ing the civil war he enlisted in Company C,
110th New York Regiment, Volunteer Infan
try, and served to the end of the war. He
has been active in public affairs and has served
on the board of education. In politics he is a
Prohibitionist, and in religion he is a Congre-
gationalist. He is a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic of Orwell, in which
he has held the principal offices, and about
which he has recently written a book. He is
one of the most prominent and influential
citizens of the town, and is highly respected
by all his townsmen. He married, September
7, 1856, Mary M. Damon, born in 1832, daugh
ter of Daniel and Polly (Balch) Da
mon. Children, born in Orwell, New
York: 1. Genevieve, December 13, 1857;
married, September 5, 1877, DeForest
J., son of Julius Augustus and Eliza
Ann (Porter) Howlett. 2. Cora Albertine,
November 18, 1862, died September 29, 1864.
3. Llewellyn, December 27, 1868; married
Adelaide Washburn ; children : Glenn, Mar
jorie and Mary, all living at Orwell. 4. Clar
ence A., mentioned below.
(VIII) Dr. Clarence A. Potter, son of Al
bert J. Potter, was born October 11, 1874,
at Orwell, New York. He attended the pub
lic schools of his native town and the Pulaski
high school and academy. He studied his pro
fession in the New York Homoeopathic Medi
cal College, from which he was graduated in
1897 with the degree of doctor of medicine.
He made a specialty of mental and nervous
diseases, and after graduation became an in
terne in the insane hospital at Middletown,
under Selden H. Talcott, the well known and
famous expert. In February, 1899, he was
appointed assistant physician of the State
Asylum for the Insane at Gowanda, New

York, and in 1904 was promoted to assistant
superintendent, and he has filled that position
with skill and ability to the present time. He
is a member of the homoeopathic county, state
and national medical organizations. He is a
prominent Free Mason, and at the present
time is master of the Phoenix Lodge, No. 262,
of Gowanda, which is building a temple for
its future home. He is also a member of Go
wanda Chapter, No. 36, Royal Arch Masons;
of Salamanca Commandery, No. 62, Knights
Templar; and of Ismailia Temple, Mystic
Shrine, of Buffalo, New York; of the Go
wanda Club, and other organizations. In poli
tics he is a Republican. He is a vestryman
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Go
wanda. Dr. Potter is well known in business -
and social life, and popular with all classes
in the community.
He married, October 9, 1902, Caroline,
daughter of Charles B. and Mary (Hill)
Hibbard, of Sandy Creek, New York. She
had one sister, Cornelia. Dr. and Mrs. Pot
ter have no children.

Claude Edgar Strong, an en-
STRONG terprising and influential citi
zen of Jamestown, is a repre
sentative of a family that has long made its
home in New York state, active and promi
nent in the affairs of the communities wherein
the different members resided, gaining and
retaining the respect and confidence of the
people by their upright characters and consci
entious methods of performing the tasks al
lotted to them.
(I) Gilbert Strong, the first of the family of
whom we have definite information, was born
about 1769, in Chenango county, New York,
from whence he removed in 1818, settling
upon the highway between Sinclairville and
Gerry, where he resided many years. He mar
ried, and among his children was Horace, see
forward. (II) Horate, son of Gilbert Strong, was
born December 6, 1791, in Connecticut. He
attended the district school. In 1820, accom
panied by his wife, he removed to Gerry,
Chautauqua county, New York, the journey
being made with an ox team, which was a
tedious proceeding, they being three weeks
on the way. He married, December 24, 1817,
at Columbus, Chenango county, New York,
Polly Carter, and among their children was
John, see forward.

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(Ill) John, son of Horace Strong, was born
in Gerry, Chautauqua county, New York,
March i, 1825. He was reared and educated
there, and his entire life was spent there. The
principal manufacturing establishment in Gerry
is the Strong Veneer Company, which was
organized by John Strong and his son, Bur-
dette Edgar, and which is still in successful op
eration. Many years ago large tracts of land
in the vicinity of Gerry and Charlotte were
covered with timber suitable for veneer pur
poses, but this has been all used up and it
now has to be shipped in from Canada, Michi
gan, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and also from
other states.
The Strongs, father and son, used the first
machine made for the purpose of manufactur
ing veneer ; this machine was driven by two
horses hitched to a sweep, going round and
round. In those days veneers brought a good
price, certain kinds as high as ten, twelve and
fourteen cents per foot. In 1893 a new and
modern factory was erected, and the same
year destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt -at once.
In the old days two logs cut in the forenoon
and as many in the afternoon was a big day's
work, but with the advent of steam power
and modern machinery this was increased to
seventy-five or eighty logs, a vast difference.
For some years past the Strong Veneer Com
pany has made a specialty of birdseye maple
veneer, but this is now becoming very scarce,
and there are few veneer companies that pro
duce this particular wood satisfactorily, but
having been in the business for so many years,
this company has the respect and confidence of
the trade in general, and produce birdseye ve
neer whiter and put up in better shape than
any other concern in the country. Mr. Strong
was a Methodist in his religious belief, and
a Republican in politics.
Mr. Strong married Emily A. Wilson, who
bore him two children: Burdette Edgar, see
forward; Nellie A., married George Griffith,
of Jamestown, New York. Mrs? Strong was
a granddaughter of the Rev. Jonathan Wilson,
who was born at Colerain, Massachusetts,
April 12, 1777; came to Chautauqua county,
New York, as a missionary in 1818 from
Shaftsbury, Vermont; he organized a number
of churches, among which were the first Bap
tist churches of Sinclairville and Mayville.
He was a minister for fifty-eight years, bap
tized by immersion thirteen hundred and nine
ty-two persons, preached about nine thousand

sermons, in ten different states, and traveled
seventy-five thousand miles.
(IV) Burdette Edgar, son of John Strong,
was born in Gerry, Chautauqua county, New
York, March 16, 1852. He was reared and
educated in his native city, and upon attaining
suitable age engaged in business with his
father, continuing until the death of his father,
since which time he has managed the business
alone, retaining the high reputation established
so many years ago (see paragraph of father
for particulars of business). Mr. Strong is
scrupulously honorable in all his dealings, and
is an honor to the great commercial world,
as well as a credit to the mercantile community
in which he resides. He is public-spirited and
progressive, and is ever forward in encourag
ing enterprises which can in any way advance
the interests of Gerry. He is a member of
the Methodist church, and his allegiance is
given to the Republican party.
Mr. Strong married, September 26, 1874,
Mary Selina Gardner, born June 3, 1854, at
Gerry. New York, died November 10, 1891,
daughter of John and Selina (Pratt) Gard
ner, the former of whom was a minister of
the Methodist denomination, and a Republican
in politics ; he was twice married, having five
children by his first wife, namely: George,
John, Reuben, Elizabeth and Sarah, and by
his second wife, Selina (Pratt) Gardner, two
children : Mary Selina, above mentioned, and
Jessie Rice Palmeter. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Strong: 1. Bertice Floyd, born July 20,
1875 ; married Hettie Fisk. 2. Claude Edgar,
see forward. 3. Mabel Selina, born February
28, 1879 ; married Harry Clemenger. 4. Ethel
Mae, born August 3, 1882 ; married Ora Cad-
well. 5. Horace John, born August 23, 1884,
died December 10, 1904. 6. and 7. Benton
Wilson and Beulah Pratt, twins, born April
2, 1891, died in infancy. 8. Clarence Burdette,
born January 16, 1893. 9. Philip Gardner,
born September 13, 1901.
(V) Claude Edgar, son of Burdette Edgar
Strong, was born in Gerry, Chautauqua coun
ty, New York, April 20, 1877. He obtained
an excellent education by attendance at Gerry
high school, A. M. Chesbrough Seminary,
North Chili, New York, Jamestown high
school, and Fredonia Normal, Fredonia, New
York, graduating from the last named with
class of 1898. During his business career he
has served in the capacity of instructor in in
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Veneer Company, Gerry; stockkeeper for
Jamestown Panel & Veneer Company, James
town; bookkeeper for National Furniture
Company, Jamestown, and at the present time
(19 12) "bookkeeper for the Pearl City Veneer
Company. Mr. Strong is a member of Mt.
Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted
Masons, Jamestown, and Tent No. 45, of the
Maccabees, Gerry. He adheres to the princi
ples of the Republican party.
Mr. Strong married, June 8, 1899, at Fre
donia, New York, Lina Mae Hickey, born Au
gust 2, 1880, at Brandt, Erie county, New
York, the ceremony being performed by the
Rev. E. P. Cleveland, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, Fredonia, where they were
both members of the church choir. Mrs. Strong
is a daughter of John and Ann Maria (Ham
mond) Hickey, who are the parents of two
other children, as follows : Franklin Hickey,
married Belle Sherer, and Harry B., married
Matie Roberts. John Hickey was born in
Dublin, Ireland ; he is a retired farmer ; he
served as a soldier in the civil war, Company
B, Sixty-fourth Regiment, New York Volun
teers ; served as a private three years, and was
wounded at Fair Oaks and Fredericksburg.
His wife, Ann Maria (Hammond-) Hickey,
was born in Brandt, Erie county, New York,
and is a descendant of Paul Hammond, a sol
dier of the revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Strong
reside in Jamestown, where they enjoy the
acquaintance of a wide circle of friends.

The name Davis, which is of
DAVIS Welsh origin,- is derived from
Davy, a variation of David. In
the formation of the patronymic, Davidson
became in many cases Davison, or simply
Davis. (I) The American ancestor of this branch
of the family is Dolor Davis, one of the promi
nent pioneers of New England. He married,
in county Kent, England, March 29, 1624,
Margery, daughter of Richard Willard, yeo
man, of that county. She was baptized at
Horsemonden, Kent, November 7, 1602, and
died before 1667. Accompanied by his wife,
three children, and Simon Willard, his wife's
brother, Dolor Davis came to New England
and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, prior
to August 4, 1634. Simon Willard became
one of the founders of Lancaster, Massachu
setts ; was captain of foot in 1646, major in
1654, and at his death in 1673 "the colony lost

one of its most distinguished members." Do
lor Davis was a carpenter and master builder.
He received his first grant of land in Cam
bridge, June 4, 1635, and others later. He
removed to Duxbury, August 5, 1638-39 ; was
made a freeman and granted land there in
1640. He was in Barnstable in 1643, and ad
mitted a freeman there June 2, 1646. He
held several public offices in Barnstable, in
cluding surveyor of highways and constable.
He and his wife were dismissed from the
Duxbury to the Barnstable church, August 27,
1648. In 1656 he left Plymouth colony, and
returned to Massachusetts bay, purchasing in
Concord one hundred and fifty acres of land,
with a house thereon. In 1666 he returned to
Barnstable, where he died June, 1676. His
will was proved July 2, 1673. It mentions
sons, Simon and Samuel, as already having
their portions ; his eldest son, John ; son-in-
law Lewis, and Mary, his wife; daughter,
Ruth Hall. Children, first three born in Eng
land: John, who received the Concord home
stead by his father's will; Mary, Elizabeth,
Lieutenant Simon, Samuel, Ruth.
(II) Samuel, son of Dolor Davis, was born
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1635. He was
admitted a freeman, March 21, 1689-90, and
settled in that part of Concord that became
Bedford, his farm lying on the back road from
Concord to Bedford. He divided his real es
tate among his sons before his death, deeding
to each his share. He married (first), at
Lynn, January 11, 1666, Mary Meadowes, who
died at Concord, October 3, 1710. He mar
ried (second), October 18, 171 1, Ruth Taylor,
who died August 6, 1720. Children : Mercy,
Samuel, of whom further ; Daniel, Mary, Elea
zer, Lieutenant Simon, Stephen.
(Ill) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Da
vis, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, June
21, 1669. He resided at Bedford and Chelms
ford, being also one of the early proprietors
of Townsend. He married (first), March 2,
1697, Abigail Read, who died January 13,
1709. He married (second), about 1710,
Mary Law. Children of first wife: Abigail,
Mary, Samuel, of whom further; Jacob, Ste
phen, John. Children of second wife : Lydia,
Martha, Deliverance.
(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Davis,
was born at Bedford, Massachusetts, October
3, 1703. He settled at Lunenburg, where he
was fence viewer, 1731-36, and hog reeve,
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ried (first), Sarah  ; (second) January
13, 1746-47, at Lunenburg, Rebecca Larkin, of
Groton. He died in 1775, leaving a widow
Margaret. Children: Samuel, died young;
Sarah, Samuel, Joseph, of whom further ; Sub
mit, Hannah.
(V) Joseph, son of Samuel (3) Davis, was
born at Lunenburg, May 20, 1738. He was a
soldier in the revolution, in Captain Samuel
Stone's company of minute-men, Colonel Wil
liam Prescott's regiment, at Lexington, April,
1775, and he was in the Ashby company in 1776,
serving in New York state. He settled in
Townsend, in the part set off as Ashby, and
head of a family, reported in the census of
Ashby. He was the only Davis in Ashby, the
head af a family, reported in the census of
1790, when he had three sons under sixteen
and five females in his family. Some of his
sons may have left town before that date. He
was probably the Joseph whose intentions of
marriage were published with Elizabeth Fos
ter at Lunenburg, October 22, 1757, and mar
ried, November 8, 1757. He married (sec
ond), at Ashby, by Samuel Dix, Sarah Camp
bell, of Townsend, on February 14, 1769. The
names of all his children are not known. He
removed to Maine and spent his last years on
a farm there. Children : David, of whom
further ; Daniel, recorded at Ashby, 1782 ;
Reuben, at Ashby, December 23, 1783 ; Bet
sey, September 22, 1786; Rebecca, June 2,
1789; Polly, September 9, 1791.
(VI) David, son of Joseph Davis, was born
about 1760, at Townsend or vicinity. Al
though some of his children are said to have
been born at Ashby, his name does not appear
on the records. He went to Vermont, prob
ably before 1790. Children: Reuben, Polly,
Heald, born in Ashby, 1792, died in i860, in
Lubec, Maine, settled in Lubec, in 1818, and
served in the war of 1812, married Mary
Barnes ; Suel, of whom further ; Hiram ; Da
vid; Abner, a soldier in the war of 1812, re
moved after the war to western Illinois.
(VII) Suel, son of David Davis, was born
April 13, 1798, died in Somerset, Niagara
county, New York, September 28, 1872. He
resided in Vermont, where he learned the
blacksmiths' trade, and later settled at Pom
pey Hill, Onondaga county, New York, where
he had a shop and followed his trade. He
was next in Richville, New York, where he
went with his brother Hiram, and between
1830 and 1835 removed to Niagara county,

settling at Reynales Basin, near Gasport. He
continued there for. many years, spending his
last years with his son in Somerset. He mar
ried, October 29, 1821, Lucy Wheeler, born
October 5, 1792, died March 27, i860, at
Reynales Basin. Children : Charles C, of
whom further; Edwin, born 1824, deceased.
(VIII) Charles C, eldest son of Suel and
Lucy (Wheeler) Davis, was born November
6, 1822, at Pompey Hid, Onondaga county,
New York. He attended the Pompey schools
until he was ten years of age, when his par
ents removed to Reynales Basin, Niagara
county. He finished his school years there,
and became his father's assistant in the black
smith shop, continuing until 1871. He was a
most excellent smith, and well known among
the farmers. In 187 1 he purchased the old
Morgan Van Wagoner farm of two hundred
and fifty acres, lying on the Lake road in the
town of Somerset, where he lived until his
death, April 4, 1903. He was an attendant of
the Presbyterian church, and a Republican in
politics. He married, August 19, 1852, Sarah
Brooks, of Albany county, New York, died
February 22, 1879. Children : S. Delos, of
whom further; John E., born May 3, i860, at
Reynales Basin, died August 22, 1872, at
Somerset, New York.
(IX) S. Delos, eldest son of Charles C. and
Sarah (Brooks) Davis, was born at Reynales
Basin, Niagara county, New York, May 9,
1853. He was educated in the public schools
of his district and Lockport union school. Af
ter finishing his studies he became his father's
farm assistant, and on the death of the latter
came into possession of the home farm of two
hundred and fifty acres. Mr. Davis devotes
ninety acres of this to fruit, having fifty acres
of apple and forty acres of peach trees, all in
fine hearing condition. He is a prosperous
modern farmer, and has an estate that speaks
the quality of its owner. He is a Republican,
and in 1902 was appointed postmaster of Bar
ker by President Roosevelt for a four years'
term. He is an active party worker, and fre
quently represents his town in state and county
conventions. He is a member of Somerset
Lodge, No. 696, Free and Accepted Masons,
and actively interested in all that pertains to
the welfare of his community.
He married (first), September 6, 1881,
Helen, born November 14, 1853, died April 4,
1902, daughter of Stephen and Phcebe
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8, 1904, Catherine Weaver, of Lockport, born
March 1, 1870, daughter of George and Mary
(Williams) Weaver, and granddaughter of
John Weaver, of Lockport and Rochester,
New York. She is a descendant of Baron
Von Sitler, of eastern Prussia, Germany,
whose son Dietrich settled in Pennsylvania,
and was the founder of the German Lutheran
church of that state.

Many settlers of this name ar-
BREWER rived in New England prior to
1700. There is nothing yet
found that connects this branch of the Brew
ers with the early immigration. The family has
been eminent in the United States in law,
business and medicine. The earliest record
of this line is of Ebenezer Brewer, of New
Hampshire, who was believed to have been a
son of Thomas Brewer, a ship builder and ship
chandler of Boston.
(II) Ebenezer Brewer was an officer of the
New Hampshire militia. Pay roll of field and
staff officers of Colonel Wait's battalion in
service to November 30, 1781 : "Ebenezer
Brewer, sergeant major" received pay for
272 days' service, May 3 — November 30 (see
Vermont Rolls, p. 522). "Mason's History of
Windsor County, Vermont," says: "During
the remainder of the war the militia of Wind
sor were perpetually on the alert and were fre
quently called into service, under Captain
(also Colonel) Wait; they were of the troops
that beat back the British and Indians from
the northern frontier, etc." He remained
loyal to his king and early in the revolutionary
struggle moved with other loyalists to Sidney,
Cape Breton, where he remained until after
1787. It is said that he .returned to the Uni
ted States where he died before 1800. Family
tradition invests him with the military title
of colonel of the New Hampshire militia, and
a portrait of him preserved in the family shows
him in military garb. There was a Colonel
Brewer, of New Hampshire, who fought with
the colonists. Ebenezer Brewer must have
been a very young man at the breaking out
of the revolutionary war and the probability
seems strong that his military service was of
short duration, and his title gained in the
service of his king prior to the revolution,
and his rank may have been lower than col
onel. Many officers of the colonial army
would not fight against their king nor against

their neighbors and became voluntary exiles,
as did Ebenezer Brewer.
He married Mary, born between 1772 and
1775, third daughter and child of Colonel Jon
athan and Thankful (Sherman) Chase, par
ents of five children : Prudence, married Na
thaniel Hall; Elizabeth, married Dr. Nathan
Smith; Mary, married Ebenezer Brewer; two
sons, died in infancy. The town of Cornish,
New Hampshire, was settled by two brothers,
Moses and Samuel Chase, and Dyer Spalding,
in 1767. Colonel Jonathan Chase, son of Sam
uel Chase, no doubt, settled there at about
the same time. He died in Cornish, January
14, 1800, and is no doubt buried there. He
was appointed colonel by the fourth provincial
congress (Vermont), August 30, 1775, and
was holding that rank at Burgoyne's surren
der. Mary (Chase) Brewer was a descendant
of Aquilla Chase, from whom comes the illus
trious Chase family, of New England, the
best known member of which perhaps was
Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the supreme
court of the United States. A portrait of
Mary (Chase) Brewer, by Stuart, shows a
stately figure with the air and dress of an
American lady of the revolutionary period.
(Ill) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1)
Brewer, was born at Sidney, Cape Breton,
1789. His parents dying when he was quite
young, he was reared in the home of a rela
tive of his mother, in Henniker, New Hamp
shire, where he remained until his fourteenth
year. He was then entered as an apprentice
with a shipping house in Boston, Massa
chusetts, engaged in the grocery trade.
Here he remained until attaining his ma
jority. He developed good business ca
pacity in his mercantile life, which was
closed by his enlistment during the war
of 1812 in a regiment of light infantry with
marching orders for the Lake Champlain re
gion. His life as a soldier was uneventful,
though its close was signalized by a duel at
Burlington, Vermont, bloodless in its result,
and had no more result than hastening his
departure over the mountains to New Hamp
shire. He settled at Keene, where with sev
eral others he established a glass works, a
business that soon went to wreck. While in
Keene he was captain of the "Ashuelot Cav
alry" and was often thereafter known as "Cap
tain Brewer." During this period of his life
he married and moved later with his family to
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on the Connecticut river. Here he began
work in earnest, kept a public house, made
potash, ran a small store, taking contracts for
carrying the mails and finally engaged ex
tensively in lumbering, which afterward be
came his sole business. He was senior part
ner of Brewer, Gilchrist & Company, cutting
and manufacturing lumber, taking it to the
headwaters of the Connecticut and Mclndoe's
Falls and then floating it to Hartford, Con
necticut, for a market. He acquired consid
erable wealth, becoming president of the Wells
River Bank and participating in all matters
of public interest. About 1838 Brewer, Gil
christ & Company purchased a tract of sev
eral thousand acres of timber lands near Ti
tusville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, with
the purpose of manufacturing lumber for the
Pittsburgh market. The death of one of the
firm rendered it expedient for one of the part
ners to be on the ground, and about 1840 he
removed with his family to Titusville, taking
personal charge of the Pennsylvania business.
The timber lands on the Connecticut becoming
exhausted, the whole business of the firm was
soon after moved to Titusville and the Oil
Creek valley, where the new firm, Brewer,
Watson & Company, established a large and
successful business in lumber and merchan
dise. Though there were repeated changes in
the firm Mr. Brewer always remained the sen
ior partner. He remained at Titusville about
ten years, then established a lumber yard at
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now a part of
Pittsburgh and known as the "North Side."
The Titusville plant and business was sold
about i860 and he never afterward engaged
in any business requiring his personal atten
tion. He profited greatly by the discovery
of petroleum which added largely to his for
tune. He removed, later in life, to Haysville
(Sewickly), where he died October 18, 1870.
During his residence in Allegheny City he
was constantly in the public view. When
Pittsburgh was threatened by a raid in 1864
he was prominent in raising means for the
protection of the city, and one of the forts
constructed was called "Fort Brewer," in rec
ognition of his patriotic service. It was dur
ing this period that St. Andrewis Episcopal
Church was erected, in order, as Mr. Brewer
expressed it, "that Pittsburgh should have a
church large enough and broad enough for
the expression of sympathy for the Union."
He headed the subscription list with a gift

of twenty thousand- dollars and the building
hastened to completion. Volumes could be
written concerning the wonderful character
and personality of Mr. Brewer. He grew
from a rather reckless youth to a man whose
well balanced character was the admiration of
all. He was to Pittsburgh what Mr. Peabody
was to London and no man within the city
did more for the relief of the poor. After
providing for his own his large fortune was
divided among religious, charitable and phil
anthropic institutions. St. Andrew's Church,
of which he was senior warden, was especially
remembered. He married, in Windsor, Vermont, January
22, 1817, Julia Emerson, horn there April 1,
1794, daughter of William Emerson. She
was a loving, guiding influence in his life and
contributed a great deal to the upbuilding of
his naturally strong character. Children : 1.
Mary Elizabeth, born 1818,. died 1851; mar
ried Rev. John Mattocks, a minister of the
Presbyterian church. 2. Francis Beattie, of
whom further. 3. Julia Frances, born 1824,
died 1855 ; married Benjamin Palmer, M. D.
4. Helen Malonia, born 1825, died 1828. 5.
George Emerson, 1829, died 1880. 6. William
Emerson, born 1837, died 1842.
(IV) Dr. Francis Beattie Brewer, son of
Ebenezer (2) Brewer, was born in Keene,
New Hampshire, October 8, 1820, died July
29, 1892. He prepared for college at New
bury Seminary, Vermont, and Meriden Acad
emy, New Hampshire, later entering Dart
mouth College, from whence he was gradu
ated in 1843. He chose the profession of
medicine and after a course of lectures at
Hanover, New Hampshire, completed his stud
ies with Dr. Gerhard, of Philadelphia, and in
1846 received from Dartmouth Medical Col
lege his degree of M. D. He began the prac
tice of his profession at Barnet, Vermont,
where his boyhood days had been spent. In
1849 ne located in Plymouth, Massachusetts,
where he continued in practice until 1851.
In the latter year he moved to Titusville, Penn
sylvania, where he engaged with his father
and brother in lumbering and merchandising,
as a member of the firm of Brewer, Watson
& Company. They owned several thousand
acres of timber land on Oil creek and its trib
utaries, which they rapidly cleared and con
verted into lumber. On their lands was an
old Indian oil well. Dr. Brewer conceived
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illuminant and lubricant. He worked a pump
in this well and used the oil for these pur
poses in the lumber mills. This was years
before Colonel Drake put down the first oil
well, and entitles Dr. Brewer to the claim of
being among the very first to direct attention
to the value of petroleum and to move in an
enterprise to develop its production. The first
oil lease on record was made July 4, 1853,
between Brewer Watson & Company and J.
D. Augier. The first oil company organized
was "The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company"
in 1854, of which Dr. Brewer was an incorpo
rator and a director. The company operated
on the lands of Brewer, Watson & Company.
Colonel Drake did not sink his well until Au
gust, 1859. Dr. Brewer was really the pioneer
oil man, and the firm of Brewer, Watson &
Company was the first to introduce petroleum
in large quantities. They expended $750,-
000 in barrels before they realized a dollar,
but later reaped an abundant financial harvest.
In 1861 Dr. Brewer moved his residence to
Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York,
where he at once became identified with the
business interests. He purchased consider
able farm and village property, and in 1864
joined with others in organizing the First
National Bank of Westfield, of which he was
the first president for ten years and a director
the remainder of his life. In 1864 he joined
in organizing the Townsend Manufacturing
Company, in 1865 was chosen president, and
in 1870, having become sole proprietor, the
name was changed to the Westfield Lock
Works. In 1864 he volunteered his service as
surgeon in the army, but being incapacitated
for hard field work he was sent in 1865 by
Governor Fenton to the Army of the Potomac
as military state agent with the rank of ma
jor. He was on duty in the Carolinas and in
the hospitals of Annapolis and Washington,
looking after the condition and needs of the
wounded soldiers from New York state. His
public career was honorable and useful. In
1868 he was elected supervisor and for ten
years served upon the board, three years as
chairman. During this period he was also
president of the village of Westfield. In 1872
he was a delegate to the Republican conven
tion at Philadelphia that nominated General
Grant for the presidency. In 1873-74 he rep
resented the first assembly district in the state
legislature, serving both years on the ways

and means committee. In 1874 he was ap-
pionted by President Grant government-direc
tor of the Union Pacific railroad, which office
he also held under President Hayes. In 1881-
82 he was a manager of the Buffalo State In
sane Hospital, appointed by Governor Cornell,
and in 1886 was re-appointed by Governor
Hill. In 1882 he was elected to the forty-
eighth congress from the thirty-third district,
comprising Chautauqua and Cattaraugus coun
ties. During his term he served on the com
mittee on pensions. He was formerly a Whig,
but later gave strong allegiance to the Repub
lican party. He was a member of the Masonic
order, and while at college became a com
municant of the Baptist church, a faith he
ever adhered to. He was public-spirited and
aided all enterprises that promised the ad
vancement of town interests. While he never
sought office he never refused to serve his
fellow-citizens- as long as health permitted.
Like his honored father his charities were
numberless, and so thoroughly was he honored
and respe'cted that on the day of his funeral
all the business houses of Westfield were
closed. Notwithstanding the just pride Dr. Brewer
felt at the many marks of confidence which
showed the esteem in which he was held by
his fellows he ever regarded the ten years
spent in Titusville prior to coming to Chau
tauqua county as the most conspicuous period
of his service to science and civilization. His
conception of the vast possibilities of petro
leum, which up to that time he alone seems
to have grasped, was a source of great wealth
to the nation. When chemical experts re
ported .on the value of the oil submitted by
him as samples, while unanimous as to its
value, all declared it could not be found in
paying quantities. Here Dr. Brewer's scien
tific knowledge and careful observation led
him to an entirely different conclusion. His
positive statement and indisputable argument,
together with a large consignment of the oil
itself gathered from the Indian oil spring
convinced the New York gentlemen he was
trying to interest that it could be found in
abundance and that a fortune awaited their
investment. In December, 1854, articles of
incorporation were filed by the Pennsylvania
Rock Oil Company with the recorder of New
York City, and through the instrumentality of
this company the dream of Dr. Brewer and
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haustible commodity on the markets of the
world, was realized.
He married, in Haverhill, New Hampshire,
July 20, 1848, Susan Hooper Rood, born in
Gilmanton, New Hampshire, August 20, 1828,
died in Westfield, New York, December- 11,
1896, daughter of Rev. Herman Rood, a min
ister of the Congregational church and a pro
fessor of learning. Children: 1. Eben, born
in Barnet, Vermont, May 14, 1849, died in
Cuba, West Indies, June 14, 1898; he married
Mrs. Elizabeth (Courtright) Lowry; no chil
dren. 2. Francis B., of whom further. 3.
Frances Moody, twin of Francis B., was born
in Titusville, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1852,
died April 16, 1886; she married, June 29,
1875, William C. Fitch, of Buffalo, New
York ; children : i. Francis Brewer, born
April 15, 1876, died June 2, 1900. ii. Roger
Stanley, born July 31, 1877, now captain in
the United States regular army; he married
Ella Hill, of Danbury, Connecticut; no chil
dren, iii. Frances Elizabeth, born October
25, 1882, married Roy S. Pattison ; child, Free
man, born August 8, 1910. 4. Dr. George Em
erson, born in Westfield, New York, July 28,
1861 ; graduate of Hamilton College and of
the medical department of Harvard Uni
versity ; now practicing his profession in New
York City and associated with Columbia Uni
versity and the staff of Roosevelt Hospital.
He married Effie L. Brown ; children : Leigh-
ton, born December 27, 1895, and George
Emerson Jr., November 13, 1899. Susan
Hooper (Rood) Brewer descended on pater
nal lines from a Scotch ancestor and on the
maternal side from Welsh. "Her great-grand
father, Azariah Rood, was a deacon of the
Congregational church of Lanesboro, Massa
chusetts. His son, Thomas D. Rood, mar
ried Sarah Bradley, of New Haven, Connecti
cut. Their son, Rev. Herman Rood, D. D.,
married Frances Susan Moody, born 1799,
died 1875. Their daughter, Susan Hooper,
married Dr. Francis B. Brewer.
(V) Francis Beattie (2), son of Dr. Francis
Beattie (1) Brewer, was born in Titusville,,
Pennsylvania, October 16, 1852. He attended
school in Titusville, Westfield Academy, Union
School and Saunders Institute in Philadelphia ;
entered Cornell University, class of 1873, re
maining for two years ; prepared for classical
course with H. S. Dana, of Woodstock, Ver
mont; entered Dartmouth College, class of
1877, one year, and was at Yale, same class,

part of the year. After finishing his studies
he clerked for a hardware firm in Chicago
and was connected with the office of the Erie,
Pennsylvania "Morning Dispatch.'' From
1878 to 1882 he was in the book business in
Erie, junior of the firm of Allen & Brewer.
After a short time as clerk and travelling
salesman he became, in 1883, engaged in lum
ber, drainage and farm work at Ottawa Sta
tion, Ottawa county, Michigan. After re
claiming large tracts of swamp land his con
nection was broken by the death of his father.
He then returned to Westfield, which has since
been his home. He is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church of Westfield, and a Re
publican in politics.
He married, October 16, 1890, at Erie,
Pennsylvania, Caroline Elizabeth Selden, born
there February 23, 1855, daughter of Samuel
Selden, born in Erie, 1821, died 1881, a manu
facturer. He married Mary Caroline Perkins,
born in Athens, Ohio, 182 1, daughter of Dr.
Chauncey Fitch and Lydia (Lord) Perkins,
both of Connecticut. Children : Mary Lydia,
born 1852 ; Caroline Elizabeth, 1855 ; Edward
Perkins, 1858 ; Charles Card, 1861 ; Samuel
Fellows, 1864. Samuel Selden was a son of
George Selden, born in Hadlyme, Connecticut,
who married Elizabeth Card, of Troy, New
York. George was a son of Samuel Selden,
of Connecticut, a lieutenant in the revolution,
son of Captain Samuel, who also served with
Connecticut troops in that war. Children of
Francis B. and Caroline E. Brewer: 1. George.
Selden, born in Erie, Pennsylvania, October 8,
1891 ; graduate of Westfield high school, class
of 191 1 ; now a student at Oberlin Conserva
tory of Music. 2. Francis, bom in Westfield,
New York, August 5, 1893. 3. Selden, born
in Westfield, December 17, 1896; student with
his brother at Westfield high school.

This name came to the United
FORNESS States from Germany, which
country had long been the
family home. The original settler of the
family was John Forness, who came at an
early day.
(II) Joseph, son of John Forness, was born
in Elso, Germany, in 1802. He came to the
United States and settled on a farm in Erie
county, New York, five miles from Buffalo.
He served in the Black Hawk war and re
ceived a soldier's warrant for one hundred and
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the town of Allegany, Cattaraugus county,
New York. He was a member of the German
Catholic church and a Democrat. He married,
in Buffalo, in 1836, Tina Bart, born in Ger
many in 1812. Children, all born in Buffalo
except the last: Barbara, 1837; John, 1840;
Frederick W., of whom further ; Joseph, 1845 >
Mary, 1847; Theresa, 1849; Anthony, 1851 ;
Victor, 1853; Peter, born in Allegany, 1855.
(Ill) Frederick W., son of Joseph For
ness, was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1843.
He was educated in the public and parochial
schools. He was eleven years old when his
father moved to the farm in Allegany, where
he grew to manhood, working on the farm
and in the lumber woods. In 1863 he enlisted
in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-
eighth Regiment, New York Volunteer In
fantry, Colonel McMahon, attached to the
Fourth Brigade, General Griffin; Fifth Army
Corps, General Warren, Army of the Poto
mac. He served throughout the entire war
and was on the firing line at Appomattox
when General Lee surrendered. He was hon
orably discharged September 20, 1865. In
1908, at the great parade in Salamanca, Mr.
Forness represented an army surgeon on the
float showing an old-time recruiting officer
examining candidates for enlistment. It was
one -of the most striking features of the
parade. After the war was over he returned
to Allegany county and engaged in lumbering
for a time. After his marriage he entered
the employ of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company, and for thirty-seven years repre
sented them in Cattaraugus county. In 1909
he engaged in the automobile business with
his son. He has been very successful in his
business enterprises, and is a highly regarded
man of his town. Politically a Democrat, Mr.
Forness has represented his town and party
four years as commissioner of highways,
twelve years as commissioner of excise and
five years as school trustee. He is a member
of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association,
and Post No. 565, Grand Army of the Re
public, of Allegany, of which he was senior
vice-commander. He married, in Allegany in 1866, Mary
Reller, born in Hamburg, Erie county, New
York, in 1846. Children: 1. Caroline, born
1869; married, in 1892, Lewis Rietz; children:
Raymond, born 1893, and  , 1895. 2.
Frederick W., of whom further. 3. Frank A.,
of whom further. 4. Charles, born 1875 ; mar

ried May Hirt; children: Geneva, Herbert
and Ruth. 5. Andrew, born 1877; married
Grace Stickle, of Salamanca. 6. Emeline, born
1879; married, 1902, Frank Carls, of Alle
gany; children: Harold and Rosemond. 7.
Mae, born 1882; married, 1906, Charles Die-
terman; children: Dorothy and Charles. 8.
Harriet, born 1885; married, 1910, George
Stein. 9. Colletta, born 1887.
(IV) Frederick W. (2), eldest son of Fred
erick W. (1) Forness, was born in Allegany,
Cattaraugus county, New York, December 20,
1872. He was educated in the district school
and at St. Bonaventure College. After com
pleting his studies he learned the trade of
marble cutter. After working at this he estab
lished a marble yard at the village of Alle
gany, where he had a very successful and
profitable business which he sold in 1902. He
has a garage in the village, and buys, sells and
exchanges automobiles, and also a garage and
the largest automobile agency in Olean, selling
one hundred and twelve cars in 191 1. He is
also a member of the firm of Forness Brothers
of Salamanca, New York. He is of the
young, progressive, public-spirited type of
citizen, always ready to lend a hand in all
charitable and public affairs. He has been
very successful in business, but his success
has been earned by hard work, untiring energy
and a strict adherence to upright, honorable
business principles. He is an enthusiastic
horseman and delights in the ownership of
several speedy travellers, four of his children
being supplied with saddle horses, and each
being an expert rider. He has served the
village of Allegany three terms as president,
twice being the nominee of both tickets, his
first election being on the ticket of the Peo
ple's party. During his administration the
village system of water supply was installed
and many miles of concrete sidewalk laid. He
also lent his influence and aid to the establish
ment of the "state highway" between Allegany
and Olean, a great boom to the farmers and
horsemen of that section of the country. He
is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and of the Knights of Columbus, also
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Olean. In politics he is an Independent, sup
porting the candidates that best represent his
principles. He married, January 1, 1894, Bird Merrill.
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Doris Winifred, Bessie Kathleen, Robert Mer
rill and Francis.
(IV) Frank A., second son of Frederick
W. (1) Forness, was born in Allegany, Cattar
augus county, New York, April 2, 1875. He
was educated in the public schools, and after
completing his years of study began learning
the marble cutting trade, working for a short
time only. He was a hustling, energetic busi
ness lad and at the age of fourteen, in 1889,
was engaged with his father and brother in
the music business, with stores in Olean and
Salamanca. The firm was Forness & Sons.
He continued in the music store until 1897,
when he went to Northern Pennsylvania to
engage in the oil business. He returned to
Cattaraugus county in 1898, and with his
brother Frederick W. as partner opened a
piano and music store at Salamanca, New
York, trading as Forness Brothers. His store
is completely fitted and stocked with the lead
ing makes of all kinds of musical instruments,
having also repair and tuning departments. He
has of late taken the selling agency of some
of the leading makes of automobiles and has
been successful in placing many cars on the
road. He is a member of the Roman Catho
lic church and of the fraternal orders :
Knights of Columbus, Benevolent and Protec
tive Order of Elks, Royal Arcanum, Moose
and the Knights of the Maccabees. Politically
he is a Democrat. He inherits the Forness
push and energy and while still young in years
is considered- one of the successful business
men of his village, now serving as a village
trustee. - He has earned the respect of his
associates and conducts his business on the
principle of the "square deal."
He married, November 20, 1901, Jessie M.
Wheeler, born May 6, 1878, only child of Or-
ville E. and Ann (Quigley) Wheeler. Child:
Gerald B., born August 20, 1902.

The ancestor of the Sigel family
SIGEL of Olean was William Sigel, a
German farmer, who lived in
Wurtemberg, Germany, during the early part
of the last century, and whose son, John Ja
cob, is mentioned below.
(II) John Jacob, son of William Sigel, was
born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in the year
1834. He was reared and educated in his na
tive land, and there learned the trade of in
terior decorator. He came to the United
States in 1854, when twenty years of age, and

contracted at his trade, becoming very success
ful and a master of the art of interior deco
ration, making his residence in Buffalo, New
York. He married Julia, daughter of An
drew Klocke, of Prussia, having first met her
on the voyage over from Germany. Children :
1. John, married, Louise Wertzel; children:
William, Fred, Carrie, Josephine. 2. Jose
phine, married Edward Sturm; children: Ed
ward, Henry, Jacob, Tillie, Julia. 3. Cather
ine, married Gehard Thurman; child, Ger
trude. 4. Henry, mentioned below. 5. Louie,
married Anna Fitzpatrick ; children : Morgan
and Alleen. 6. Casper, married Minnie Piatt;
children: Glen and Genevieve. 7. Annie,
married Dascom Allen ; children : Claude and
Dascom. (Ill) Henry, son of John Jacob and Julia
(Klocke) Sigel, was born in Buffalo, New
York, March 2, 1863. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of that city and
at St. Mary's parochial school. He began his
active business career as a cash boy in a de
partment store. He later learned the trade of
undertaker, in which line of work he was en
gaged in Olean for seven years, from 1880
to 1887. Among other things he is interested
in the operating and producing of oil in the
Pennsylvania fields, and is actively connected
with the Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern rail
road in the capacity of claim, real estate and
tax agent. In the year 1907 he organized the
Olean Brewing Company, erecting a fine brew
ery and manufacturing a high grade of goods
for the local trade. The officers of the com
pany are as follows : Henry Sigel, president ;
John T. Howard, vice-president ; Joseph Kaye,
treasurer; Colonel J. M. Homer, secretary.
The company has a capital of $150,000 and
the plant occupies extensive buildings at Barry
and Green streets, constructed of Shawmut
pressed brick, and covering about two and a
half acres. The office building is entirely sep
arate and is elegantly furnished. The brew
ery, one of the finest in the country, is fitted
with the most modern machinery and is oper
ated by electricity and gas ; there is a modern
ice plant with a capacity of eighty tons a day,
finely equipped to supply the commercial and
family trade. In connection with the brewing
plant is a thoroughly appointed bottling estab
lishment and when in full operation the works
have a capacity of thirty thousand barrels of
"Olean Beer," as it is known. The establish
ment is under the supervision of Colonel James

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M. Homer as manager, and Brewmaster Con
rad Buehl, who has been engaged in this busi
ness for nearly twenty years, and whose father
before him was an expert in the art of beer
making. From thirty to forty skilled men are
employed under them, and in the manufacture
of the product only the best of malt, hops and
rice are used, and the purest of water and
yeast. The result is a beer of the highest pos
sible quality, pure, wholesome and delicately
flavored. All of the officers of the company
are men of prominence and high social stand
ing in the community, closely identified with
the commercial, financial and public life of
the city. ""'
Mr. Sigel took up his residence in Olean,
New York, in 1878, and for many years has
been active and prominent in its public af
fairs. In 1887 he became connected with the
police department, remaining until 1891, when
he was appointed by W. B. Hughes to the
position of under-sheriff, and he acted in this
capacity up to 1894, when he was the candidate
for the office of sheriff and was elected, serv
ing from 1895 to 1898, and at the expiration
of this term he again became under-sheriff,
under W. H. Hazard. He discharged the
duties of the office of sheriff with fidelity and
impartiality, year by year constantly growing
in public estimation. At the age of twenty-
one years he attended the state convention at
Buffalo as delegate and voted for Warner J.
Miller for governor, and also acted in the
same capacity in the convention that nominated
Theodore Roosevelt for the governorship. He
is an ardent advocate of the principles of Re
publicanism, and is an earnest and consistent
member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
Mr. Sigel is one of the most substantial and
enterprising citizens of Olean, wielding an
influence for good in the community. By his
own honorable exertions and moral attributes,
he carved out for himself friends, affluence
and position, and by the strength and force
of his own character has overcome obstacles
which to others less hopeful and less cour
ageous would seem unsurmountable. His
mind is ever occupied with projects for the
advancement and welfare of his adopted city.
Fortified with- a keen, resourceful mind, ex
cellent judgment and rare foresight, his en
ergy is inexhaustible. Scrupulously honorable
in all his dealings with mankind, he bears a
reputation for public and private integrity,
and being sociable and genial, he has a wide

circle of friends. He responds liberally to all
calls for charity, giving of his time and means
for the alleviation of distress. When he en
lists in a cause he never withdraws from the
conflict until the trouble ends, and it is due
to his force and resource very largely that
the vaccination trouble in Olean was brought
to a close. He could occupy a prominent posi
tion in political leadership. were he so disposed,
but he would rather devote his time and atten
tion to other lines of activity.
Mr. Sigel married, August 19, 1884, Mary
E. Lang, born August 10, 1864, daughter of
Nicolas and Phillysine Lang. Children : Clara
Frances, Florence Marie, Dolores Marie.

The name of Eaton is of Welsh
EATON and Saxon origin and is a place
name. In Welsh "Aw" means
water and "Twyn," a small hill; Awtyn, pro
nounced Eyton, "a small hillock near the
water." In Saxon "Ea" means water and
"Ton" town. The name of the family is
spelled in various ways : Eton, Etton, Eyton
and Eaton in the early days, but the latter
spelling became generally used several genera
tions before the first of the family came to
America. The coat-of-arms of the English
family is : Azure fret on a field. Crest : An
eagle's head erased sable in the mouth a sprig
vert. Motto: Vincit Omnia Veritas."
(I) Banqui Thane, of Lochabar, A. D. 1000.
(II) Fleance, son of Banqui, married Guenta
Princess, of North Wales. (Ill) Alan Fitz
Alan married Amiera  . (IV) William
Fitz Alan married Isabel de Say. (V) Robert
de Eaton was son of William Fitz Alan. (VI)
Peter de Eaton was son of Robert de Eaton.
(VII) Sir Peter de Eaton married Alice
 . (VIII) William Eaton married Ma
tilda  . (IX) Sir Peter de Eaton mar
ried Margery  . (X) Peter de Eaton
was son of Sir Peter de Eaton. (XI) John
Eaton was son of Peter de Eaton. (XII)
Peter de Eaton was son of John Eaton.
(XIII) Humphrey Eaton was son of Peter
de Eaton. (XIV) Georgius Eaton was son
of Humphrey Eaton. (XV) Sir Nicholas
Eaton, son of Georgius, married Katerina
Talbott. (XVI) Louis Eaton, son of Sir
Nicholas, married Anna Savage. (XVII)
Henry Eaton, son of Louis, married Jane Cres-
sett. (XVIII) William (2) Eaton was son
of Henry Eaton.
(XIX) William (3), son of William (2)

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Eaton, married Jane Hussey. He died before
1584, and his widow died that year, leaving
a will dated August 27, 1584, and proved De
cember 29, following.. She left instructions to
be buried in the church yard of St. James,
at Dover, England, where the family lived.
She named her son-in-law, James Huggenson,
executor, and gave directions for the educa
tion of her sons John, Peter, and Nicholas,
and her eldest son, William. One of the
daughters married  Allen, and Barbara
Allen administered her father's estate a few
months after her mother's death.
(XX) Nicholas (2), son of William (3)
Eaton, was born in 1573. In 1603 he was
keeper of the church yard of the church of
St. Mary the Virgin in Dover, England, and
probably for many years after, until his death
in 1636-37. He was buried in the church of
St. Mary the Virgin. From a record in the
Herald's Visitation of Kent in 1619, it is found
that Nicholas was a curate of Dover in 1619,
and doubtless he had been mayor of the town.
He was a merchant. He married (first), No
vember 2, 1596, Katherine Master, and (sec
ond) in 1626, Mrs. Joan Gibbs, widow of
John Gibbs, who died at St, Margaret's, Can
terbury, July 26, 1626, and daughter of 
Tidderman, of Dover. She was buried April
14, 1635. Children, born at Dover, with dates
of baptism: John, 1599, died young; William,
January 9, 1602; Elizabeth, February 10, 1603,
died in childhood ; Jane, March 28, 1606 ; John,
mentioned below ; Captain Nicholas, October
11, 1612; Thomas, February 20, 1613, died
1616. (XXI) John (2), son of Nicholas (2) Ea
ton, was baptized in Dover, England, August
21, 161 1. He was the immigrant ancestor.
He received a bequest of ten pounds from his
stepmother's will, dated April 10, 1635. He
is believed to have come with others of the
family on the ship "Elizabeth and Ann" in
April, 1635. He settled first in Watertown,
Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor, and
where, May 25, 1636, he was admitted a free
man. He removed to Dedham a year later
and was a proprietor there in 1637. He had
grants of land at Watertown in July, 1636, and
February 28, 1636-37-38. He joined the Ded
ham church in 1641 and signed the famous
covenant there. He bought the rights of
Thomas Hastings when he went to Dedham,
May 11, 1637. He was first present at the
Dedham town meeting, November 28, 1637,

although he was one of a committee in 1637
to cut pines for the meeting house. He helped
build the first foot bridge across the Charles
river. He was on a committee to lay out land
for settlers and survey highways. He was
wood reeve for several years, and in 1647 he
had to decide who were behind on the highway
work. In 1650 he was on the committee to
repair the foot bridge. He had numerous
grants of land. He married, in England, Abi
gail Damon or Damant, who had two children,
John and Jane, by her previous marriage. He
died November 17, 1658. His will was dated
November 2, 1658, and proved December 16,
1658. Children: Mary, baptized in Dover,
England, March 20, 1630-31 ; John, baptized
in Dover, England, October 1, 1633, died there,
buried January 2j , 1734; Thomas, born in
England, 1634; John, mentioned below; Abi
gail, born in Dedham, January 6, 1640; Ja
cob, born in Dedham, June 8, 1642, died March
20, 1646.
(XXII) John (3), son of John (2) Eaton,
was born probably in 1636 in Watertown, Mas
sachusetts. He inherited the homestead at
Dedham. He married Alice  , who died
May 8, 1694. Children : John, born July 15,
1665, died October 15, 1665 ; John, September
17, 1671 ; Thomas, July 23, 1675 ; William,
mentioned below; Judith, September 17, 1679,
died April 26, 1780 ; Jonathan, September 3,
1681 ; David, March 8, 1683, died March 28,
1683 ; Ebenezer, May 3, 1687, died May 23,
1688. (XXIII) William (4), son of John (3) Ea
ton, was born August 11, 1677, died April 3,
1718. He owned two farms on Dedham
Island, which his father and grandfather
had owned, and he also had large tracts of
land in Needham Great Plain and along the
borders of Rosemary Brook. In 171 1 Need
ham was set off from Dedham, and his name
was on the tax list of Needham in 1712 for
those lands, but he always lived in Dedham.
When his estate was settled, his eldest son,
William, received the Dedham lands, and Jo
siah and Jeremiah received the Needham lands.
The inventory of his estate was taken, June
23, 1728, and June 28, 1728, his widow
Mary, settled his estate. He married, April
27, 1704, Mary, horn in Dedham, November
28, 1685, died in 175 1, daughter of Comfort
and Mary Starr. Her will was dated April
14, 1746, and proved August 6, 1751. Chil
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December 3, 1706; Josiah, April 4, 171 1; Sa
rah, August 24, 1713; Jeremiah, March 4,
1716; Abiel, August 11, 17 18.
(XXIV) William (5), son of William (4)
Eaton, was born February 11, 1705, at Ded
ham, died March 22, 175 1. He inherited his
father's homestead and probably lived there
all his life. He married, February 15, 1738,
Abigail, born December 21, 1718, daughter of
Ebenezer and Abigail Brackett, of Dedham.
She married (second) Stephen Fales, May
20, 1754 (Stephen Eaton's widow, according
to Dedham records, but Professor Daniel C.
Eaton, of New Haven, Connecticut, gives it
as William's widow). William Eaton was
forty-six years of age at his death ; his widow
was administratrix of his estate. Children,
born at Dedham : William, mentioned below ;
Abigail, born September 4, 1740, died Novem
ber 21, 1748.
(XXV) William (6) son of William (5)
Eaton, was born in Dedham, December 31,
1738. He lived for about ten years after
his marriage at Dedham and then moved to
Lancaster, Massachusetts, thence to Vermont.
He finally settled in Springfield, Otsego
county, New York, where he died. Pie sold
the farms when he left Dedham. According
to the town records his wife's name was Sa
rah, while the church and land records call
her Mary. Very likely the marriage at King's
Chapel, Boston, December 18, 1760, of Will
iam Eaton and Mary Thorp was a record of
this William. -Children, first five born in Ded
ham : Mary, October 16, 1761 ; Abigail,
September 5, 1763; William, October, 1765;
Asa, baptized December 6, 1787; Joseph, born
January 29, 1770; Jesse, mentioned below;
Samuel; John. William Eaton served in the
revolution in the Needham Company under
Captain Robert Smith, Colonel William
Heath's regiment, April 19, 1775 ; also in Cap
tain Solomon Stuart's company, Colonel Josiah
Whitney's regiment, August 21, 1777. His
son William served in the revolution from
Ashby, Massachusetts.
(XXVI) Jesse, son of William (6) Eaton,
was born August 23, 1774, died in Cuba,
Allegany county, New York. He settled first
in Charlotte, Vermont, where he lived until
his removal to Rome, Oneida county, New
York, before 1808. He lived in Oneida county
until 1825, when he moved to Cuba, New
York. He was a tailor. He married, Janu
ary 16, 1799, Sarah Barbour, born near Paris,

France. Children: Harriet, Levi, George,
Caleb, Marenus, mentioned below ; Ebenezer,
Jesse, Sarah, Charles.
(XXVII) Marenus, son of Jesse Eaton,
was born in Rome, New York, March 15,
1808, died February, 1861. He was seven
teen years of age when his father came to
Cuba, Allegany county, where he grew to
manhood and married. He learned the black
smith's trade at which he worked for several
years. He then became interested in the
transportation business, acting as agent for
steamboat companies, and the New York Cen
tral and Michigan Central railroads. He was
colonel of the local militia regiment that made
the old "training days" so glorious, but his
actual military service was confined to quell
ing some trouble with the English of Buffalo,
in 1 83 1. He was a leading Democrat, and
held in high regard in his town. He married,
in 1826, Laura Scott, born November 15,
1810, died September 23, 1.896. Children:
1. George, married Angeline Beebe; child
Eugenia, married W. H. Merritt; child,
George Eaton. 2. Mary Jane, married John
Barnett. 3. Laura, married John Brooks;
child, Charles C, married Bessie Brown;
child, Clifford B. 4. Marenus, married Lu
cretia Wilcox; children: Walter, Jesse, Eu
gene, Arthur. 5. Charles, married Clara Mon-
tayne ; children : Imogene, married Mason
Freeman; Charles, Frank, Laura, Kathryn,
Mary. 6. Elizabeth, married Q. P. Vaughan;
children: Shirley, Percy, Robert. 7. Char
lotte, married George Weeks; children: Eliz
abeth and Robert. 8. Augustus Tiffany, men
tioned below.
(XXVIII) Augustus Tiffany, youngest
child and fourth son of Marenus Eaton, was
born in Cuba, Allegany county, New York,
May 17, 1849. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and although but a boy twice en
listed in the regiment, being recruited for
service in the civil war, each time being pre
vented by his mother from consummating
his desire. In 1863 he ran away from home,
and for four years battled for himself in vari
ous parts of the country, gaining an experi
ence that developed his character and turned
his steps homeward in 1867. On his return
he secured a position with the Cuba Banking
Company, which maintained a branch bank
at Olean, known as the "Bank of Olean," and
in 1870 Mr. Eaton came to that bank as teller
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chartered as the First National Bank of Ole
an, business commencing on the. arrival of
the charter, September 15, 1871. He was suc
cessively bookkeeper, teller and assistant
cashier until 1886, when he succeeded L. F.
Lawton as cashier, a position he yet holds
(1912). The bank has had a most successful
career and it is to the practical business abil
ity and wide popularity of Mr. Eaton that
this success is in a large measure due. He
has large business interests outside the bank,
and has given much of his time to public af
fairs. He was trustee of the old village of
Olean for years, and president in 1884-85 ;
treasurer of the school hoard for many years ;
treasurer of the city several terms, and is
president and member of the executive com
mittee of the chamber of commerce. In Free
Masonry he has taken all degrees of the York
Rite ; he is a thirty-second degree Mason of
the Scottish Rite and a "Shriner" of Ismailia
Temple, Buffalo. He is a member of the
Rochester, New York Consistory, treasurer of
the Masonic Temple Association since its or
ganization in 1892 ; has been treasurer of the
Commandery for several terms, and is treas
urer of nearly all the Masonic bodies of
Olean. He is a charter member of Olean
Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, organized March 4, 189 1, and belongs
to other social and fraternal societies. He
is highly regarded, not only in business Cir
cles, but as a good citizen, friend and
neighbor. He married, October 18, 1871, Harriet
Keller, born September 17, 1851. Children,
born in Olean: 1. Louis, January 27, 1873,
died May 1, 1893. 2. George, .November 19,
1876; married, January 1, 1900, Jeannette
McCorry; children: Aline M., born August
16, 1901, and Janet, May 4, 1907. 3. Tif
fany A., June 3, 1889.

John Leonard was of Knole,
LEONARD county Kent, England. He
was born in 1479, and died in
1556; there is no further record of him.
(II) John (2) son of John (1.) Leonard,
was also of Knole, county Kent; he was
born in 1508, died in 1590.
(Ill) Samson, son of John (2) Leonard,
was' the eleventh Baron of Dacre. He was
born in 1545, died in 161-5. He married Lady
Margaret Fienes.
(IV) Sir Henry Leonard, son of Samson

Leonard, was the twelfth Baron of Dacre.
He was born in 1569. He married Lady
Chrisogona, daughter of Sir Richard Baker,
of Sissinghurst, county Kent, England.
(V) Richard, son of Sir Henry Leonard,
was thirteenth Baron of Dacre, seated at
Chevening. He died in 1630. He married
(first) Lady Anne, daughter of Sir Arthur
Throckmorton. He married (second) Dor
othy, daughter of Dudley, Lord North.
(VI) Thomas, son of Richard Leonard,
was of Pontypool, Wales. He had sons:
Henry, James, mentioned below, and Philip.
(VII) James, son of Thomas Leonard, of
Pontypool, Wales, was born in Great Britain,
and came to America about 1645. He settled
first in Lynn and later in Taunton, Massa
chusetts. He was one of the founders of the
iron works in Saugus, near Lynn, the first
iron works in America. In 1653 he and his
brother Henry were engaged in the manufac
ture of iron in Taunton. He died in 1691.
He was a great friend of King Philip, the
famous Indian, who used to shoot wild birds
at Fowling Pond, 'which Was on James's
property; James often entertained him at his
house, and when the town was burned, his
house was spared by the Indians. Children:
Thomas, mentioned below ; James, born about
1643; Abigail, married John Kingsley, of
Milton; Rebecca, married, September 2, 1678,
Isaac Chapman, of Barnstable; Joseph, born
about 1655 ; Benjamin, married, January 15,
1678-79, Sarah Thresher; Hannah, married,
January 24, 1677-78, Isaac Deane; Uriah,
born July 10, 1662.
(VIII) Hon. Thomas (2) Leonard, son of
James and Margaret Leonard, was born Au
gust 3, 1641, at Pontypool, Monmouthshire,
Wales, died November 21, 1713. He was "a
distinguished character," and held the office
of justice of the peace, and also was judge
of the court. He was a physician, and had
the title of major, and also was town clerk
and deacon. In an old file of the "Boston
News Letter" from 1710 to 1715, between
the dates November 30 and December 7, 1713,
is an elegy in memory of Major Thomas
Leonard, written by Rev. Samuel Danforth,
of Taunton. On the upper part of the sheet
is an engraving about two inches wide, show
ing a skeleton, holding the scythe of time, and
on each side is an hour-glass, about half-way
from the skeleton to the border, with extended
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bones in each upper corner, and on each side
of the skeleton are white spaces bearing the
words, "Memento Mori," and "Remember
Death ;" under the hour-glass on the left side
are six pallbearers bearing a coffin, followed
by mourners, and on the other corner are a
spade and pickaxe crossed and a coffin on a
stand. The following verses are some taken
from the elegy, and give some of his biog
raphy :
"Let's first remark that GOD should him incline
In's early days to try with all his might
For skill to Write and Cypher, in a time
When other Youths- such learning did but
slight;
Yet he redeemed his time most carefully
And made in's Learning, good proficiency.
GOD bless'd his Care and Pains, that he at
tained
With little help from others, useful skill
Wherein he outshone others, that he gained
Preferment in the Town, Esteem, good Will;
From meaner Posts made gradual Ascent
To offices of Trust, Care and Moment.
In Medicine he practised his skill
Expending Time and Money in the Cure
Of sick and Wounded, with Compassion still.
Thus did the Love of all to him procure;
Many Confess, his kindness did abound
By helpfulness unto his Neighbors round.
For many Years, the chief Affairs in Town
Prudential, he managed carefully
With good Acceptance, unto his Renown
, Oerformed his Trust in all things faithfully;
So that the Governor did him prefer
In Military Trusts a part to bear;
And in the Civil Government he stood
Commissioned to Punich Vice and Sin,
For many Years; His Care and Prudence good
And Faithfulness were well displayed therein.
He always showed Pacifick disposition,
Trying to end all jarr's by Composition.
* * * * * * *
His famous crowning work was His great Care
That Gospel Worship, Gospel Ministry
In Norton, Dighton, Other Places near
On good Foundations might Settled be.
He joyed in Hope, that now were laid Founda
tions
Of Piety for many Generations,
Moestus Composuit. Samuel Danforth.
He married, August 21, 1662, Mary, daugh
ter of George Watson, of Plymouth, Massa-
chuetts. Children, names and dates of birth
taken from the family Bible belonging to
Thomas, printed in 1599 at London: Mary,
born August 2, 1663 ; Thomas, January 22,
1665-66 ; John, May 18, 1668 ; George, April

18, 1671 ; Samuel, February 1, 1673-74; El-
kanah, mentioned below; James, December
17, 1679, died May 8, 1682; Daughter, born
and died April 10, 1682; Phebe, March 3,
1684, died July 15, 1685; Elizabeth, July 15,
1686. (IX) Lieutenant Elkanah Leonard, son of
Hon Thomas (2) and Mary (Watson) Leon
ard, was born May 15, 1677, died December 30,
1714. When he was but twenty-three or
twenty-four years of age, his father put him
in charge of a forge on Trout brook, Mid
dleboro, Massachusetts, which he had built.
He held the office of selectman as early as
1709. He was lieutenant in the military com
pany and agent of the town in various affairs,
also carrying on his own farming and deal
ing in real estate.
He married, March 25, 1703, Charity,
daughter of Henry Hodges (see Hodges II).
Children: Elkanah, born December 15, 1703,
died July 24, 1777, at Middleboro, where he
was the second lawyer, and a very prominent
man, having been in the general court for
years, a selectman, and major of the First
Regiment of Plymouth Colony Militia; Jo
seph, mentioned below ; Rebecca, born Febru
ary 24, 1706; Abiah, April 30, 1707; Simeon,
January 9, 1708-09; Jemima, May 20, 1710;
Zebulon, January 15, 1711-12; Timothy, Apri^
29, 1713, died June 1, 1715 ; Henry, April 14,
1714, died May 29, 1714, at Middleboro;
Thomas, April 20, 1715, died May 1, 1715,
at Middleboro; Charity Perkins, December
6, 1724, at Norwich, Connecticut.
(X) Captain Joseph Leonard, son of Lieu
tenant Elkanah Leonard, was born April 9,
1705, at Middleboro, and died there in 1775.
He was first captain of the Fourth Company.
He married (first) April 9, 1725, Hannah,
daughter of Samuel Pratt, of Middleboro.
He married (second) November 18, 1731,
Fear, daughter of Nathaniel and Jane (Plow-
land) Southworth, of Middleboro. He had a
son, Joseph, mentioned below.
(XI) Lieutenant Joseph (2) Leonard, son
of Captain Joseph (1) and Fear (South-
worth) Leonard, was born July 29, 1732,
died November 2, 1788. He married, May 7,
1752, Abigail Raymond, born October 3, 1733,
died July 15, 1810, daughter of Barnabas and
Alice (Bent) Raymond. He had a son Noah,
mentioned below.
(XII) Noah, son of Lieutenant Joseph
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in Oneida county, New York. He was a
soldier from Middleboro in Colonel Benja
min Tupper's regiment in 1780-81 for twenty
months and seven days. Intentions of mar
riage published November 11, 1787, and mar
ried, February 13, 1788, Mehitable Richmond,
born at Taunton, Massachusetts, died at Au
gusta, Oneida county, New York, a daugh
ter of Isaac Richmond, son of Edward Rich
mond, son of Edward Richmond, son of John
Richmond, son of John. Richmond, immigrant
ancestor. Children, born at Middleboro :
Simeon, Isaac, Richmond, mentioned below ;
Noah Jr., Otis, Harry and Abigail.
(XIII) Isaac Richmond, son of Noah
Leonard, was born at Middleboro, Plymouth
county, Massachusetts, April 22, 1794, died
February 26, 1864, at Dayton, New York.
He married, December 8, 1817, Lucy Man
chester, born in Petersburg, Rhode Island,
September 30, 1798, died October 6, 1853,
daughter of Archibald Manchester, whose an
cestors were of Rhode Island. Among their
children was Joseph Nelson, mentioned be
low. (XIV) Joseph Nelson, son of Isaac Rich
mond Leonard, was born at Smithfield, Madi
son county, New York, July 27, 1820, died
April 4, 19 10, at Dayton. He was educated
in the public schools. In 1830 he went from
Perrysburg, New York, to Dayton in that
state. He followed farming for an occupa
tion. In politics he was a Whig; in religion
a Methodist. He married, September 8, 1847,
Maryette, born 1830, died June 4, 1905,
daughter of Hiram Edgerton (see Edgerton
III). Among their children was Irving
Richmond, mentioned below.
(XV) Irving Richmond, son of Joseph
Neison Leonard, was. born in Dayton, New
York, September 3, 1853. He attended the
public schools of his native town and the
Forestville Academy. After leaving school
he began to read law in the office of Allen
& Thrasher at Dayton, and was admitted to
the bar in 1877. In 1878 he began to prac
tice law in partnership with Joseph M. Cong
don. After this firm was dissolved, he prac
ticed alone for a time and then became a
partner of Judge Thrasher, continuing in this
relation for a period of twenty-one years up
to the death of Judge Thrasher, February 1,
191 1, since which time he has been alone.
After Winfield S. Thrasher and I. R. Leonard
had been engaged in business together for

nearly twenty years, they discovered that their
families intermarried about 1650, being the
marriage of Sarah Thrasher to Benjamin
Leonard, in Massachusetts. Mr. Leonard has
always taken an active part in public affairs.
He served the town as justice of the peace
and has been supervisor of the town since
1898. For three years he was president of
the incorporated village of Gowanda. In poli
tics he is a Republican. He is active in the
Presbyterian church, of which he was a trus
tee for a number of years. He is a Free Ma
son and has served two terms as worshipful
master of Phoenix Lodge. He is also a mem
ber of the Gowanda Club and a charter mem
ber of Cattaraugus County Historical Soci
ety. He married, June 21, 1882, Emma M.,
daughter of Nicholas Schaack, of Gowanda.
Child, John Schaack, mentioned below.
(XVI) John Schaack, son of Irving Rich
mond Leonard, was born in Gowanda, New
York, November 2, 1892, now a student in
the engineering department of the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, class of 1915.
(The Hodges Line).
(I) William Hodges, immigrant ancestor,
was doubtless born in England, died April 2,
1654, at Taunton, Massachusetts. He was
very likely the "William Hedges" who was
appointed on the jury at the court in Salem,
Massachusetts, March 27, 1638, though this
may have been the William Hodges, of Lynn.
His name is on the second list of the early
settlers of Taunton. The first record of him
is in August, 1643, in the list of males above
sixteen and below sixty years of age, able to
bear arms. On March 24, 1643-44, the town
voted that a cartway be made in the woods
near the land of William Hodges, William
Evans and Aaron Knapp. On October 4,
1648, at the Plymouth court, he was accused
of trading shot with the Indians, but was
cleared of the accusation. .He was pro
pounded freeman, June 6, 1649, and admitted
freeman, June 5, 1651, being also appointed
constable of Taunton at the same time. He
was on the grand jury, June 2, 1652, and on
a coroner's jury, August 2, 1653, at Ply
mouth. He was one of the original stock
holders of the Taunton Iron Works, and he
seems to have owned much property. The
inventory was filed March 15, 1654-55. He
married, Mary, born about 1628-30, died af
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drews, of Taunton. She married (second)
1655, Peter Pitts, of Taunton, who died 1692
or 1693. Henry Andrews was one of the first
seven freemen of Taunton, one of the first
two deputies to the general court, 1639, deputy
also in 1643-44-47-49; one of the first stock
holders of the Taunton Iron Works, and in
other ways a prominent man in the town ; he
died in 1633. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Hodges, born in Taunton: John; Plenry,
mentioned below.
(II) Henry, son of William Hodges, was
born in 1652, at Taunton, died there Septem
ber 30, 1 717, aged sixty-five years, and was
buried in the "Neck of Land Burying
Ground," where his gravestone may still be
seen. He lived "within a few yards of the
place where a red school house stood in 1820.
At that time there were some indications on
the surface of the spot where the cellar had
been." He was a leading man in the settle
ment, holding town offices for many years.
He was captain of the military company, and
was a deacon and presiding elder of the
church, occupying, it is said, a seat in the pul-
- pit with Rev. Samuel Danforth. He owned
much real estate, and was administrator of
a large number of estates. From his promi
nence in the allotment of lands it would seem
he was a surveyor. He was on a coroner's
jury held at Plymouth, October 30, 1678,
and on the grand jury, June 6, 1683 ; in 1681
he was constable at Taunton; he was select
man for twenty-eight years, 1687 to 1701,
1703 to 1709, 171 1 to 1717. His name ap
pears, April 8, 1682, in the roster of the Third
Squadron of the military company ordered
to bring arms to church on Sundays. He
was elected ensign of the First Military Com
pany in March, 1690, when the town was
greatly excited over the question as to who
should command the company. Before 1703
the Second Military Company was organized,
and he was its first captain, and retained com
mand until 1714. He was a subscriber to
the fund for the Canada expedition of 1690,
under Sir William Phipp. When the north
precinct of Taunton was established he do
nated land as an inducement for a minister
to settle in the new parish. He was a share
holder in the first Taunton Iron Works.
He married  . Children, born in Taun
ton : Mary, February 3, 1675-76; Esther,
February 17, 1677-78; William, March 18,
1679-80; Charity, April 2, 1682, married

(first) March 25, 1703, Lieutenant Elkanah
Leonard (see Leonard iX), married (second)
December 17, 1722, Jabez Perkins, of Nor
wich, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins;
John, 1684; Henry, 1685 or 1686; Joseph,
1688 or 1689; Benjamin, about 1691 ; Eph
raim, about 1693; Elizabeth; Abigail.
(The Edgerton Line).
The Edgerton family of Connecticut is
descended from Richard Edgerton, who was
an early settler of Norwich, Connecticut.
He married, at Saybrook, Connecticut, April
7, 1653, Mary Sylvester, and they had three
daughters there before 1659. ^n November,
1659, he had a house lot at Norwich, where
he was afterward a proprietor, townsman and
constable, and where he died in March, 1692.
He had sons : John, born June 12, 1662, mar
ried Mary Reynolds ; Richard, married Eliz
abeth Scudder; Samuel, married Alice Rip
ley > Joseph, a planter of Lebanon.
From Connecticut many of the family went
to Vermont in later generations. Eleazer,
Jacob, Jedediah and John Edgerton were in
the revolution from Vermont, and in 1790
Asa, Ezra, Jacob, Jedediah, Oliver, Simeon,
William and Roswell were the heads of Ed
gerton families in Vermont.
(I) Captain Daniel Edgerton, a descendant
of Richard Edgerton, came with his family
from Saybrook, Connecticut, and settled in
Tinmouth, Vermont, about 1780. He died in
Tinmouth, February 24, 1783, of small-pox,
and was buried there, his headstone being
moved to Wallingford cemetery about one
hundred years after he died. The family .
moved to Wallingford, Vermont, soon after
his death. He married, November 8, 1764,
Mary Douglas, who was an aunt of Senator
Stephen A. Douglas. Children : Phebe, born
December 6, 1765, married Samuel McClure;
Daniel, April 12, 1768, married Betsey Fargo ;
Robert, April 15, 1770, married Anna Bull;
Isaac, July 11, 1772, unmarried; Philip, men
tioned below ; Mary ; Sarah.
(II) Philip, son of Captain Daniel Edger
ton, was born October 1, 1774, and doubt
less died about 1863. He married (first)
Mary Hall, whose brother, Mosely Hall, mar
ried Mary Edgerton, Philip's sister. He mar
ried (second) Narcissa Osborne. Children:
Isaac, born December 4, 1797; Hiram, men
tioned below ; Philip Jr. ; Edmund, July 28,
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December 28, 181 1; Laura, August 28, 1815;
Julius, June 29, 1819.
(Ill) Hiram, son of Philip and Mary
(Plall) Edgerton, was born at Wallingford,
Vermont, July 28, 1800, died May, 1871. He
married (first) Louisa Pomeroy, (second)
Mary Ann Judd. Children by first wife:
Maryette, born 1830, died June 4, 1905, mar
ried Joseph Nelson Leonard (see Leonard
XIV) ; Cordelia, married Robert W. Marshall,
now living at North East, Pennsylvania; La
vinia, married Martin Merrifield, died about
1906; Daniel G., lived at Carbondale, Colo
rado. Children by second wife : Dexter, died
in infancy ; George D. ; Edmund A., ail de
ceased.

This branch of the Miller fam-
MILLER ily descends from John Miller,
who came from Stroudsburg,
Germany, in 1747, settling in Northumber
land county, Pennsylvania. He served in the
revolutionary war under the command of
General Washington, and was engaged at the
battle of Trenton and Monmouth. He mar
ried and had a son John, mentioned below.
(II) John (2) son of John (1) Miller, was
born in Northumberland county, Pennsyl
vania, and was killed by a falling horse, in
1818. He was a farmer and a lumberman.
In the war of 18 12 he served with Pennsyl
vania troops. He married and reared nine
children: Peter, James, John, Frederick,
Mary, Abraham, Susanna, Polly, Mary.
(Ill) Abraham, son of John (2) Miller,
was born in Hamilton township, Northum
berland county, Pennsylvania, died in Hins
dale, New York, August, 1906. He settled
in Hinsdale, New York, in 1824, where he
followed farming and lumbering. He was
captain of an independent rifle company, a
Whig in politics and a member of the Bap
tist church. He married, December, 1842,
Vesta Ann, daughter of Julian and Sarah
(Pitt) Underwood, of Massachusetts. Chil
dren: 1. Laurentius Yates, of whom further.
2. Lorentus, deceased, married and had issue.
3. Henry C, died at the age of twenty-eight
years. 4. Sarah Helen, married (first) Ed
gar Norton ; children : Frederick and Clair ;
married (second) Merritt A. Guile. 5. Vesta,
married Nelson Marsh; children: Sarah and
Vesta. (IV) Laurentius Yates, eldest son of Abra
ham Miller, was born December 9, 1843.

He was educated in the public schools, and
during his boy and early manhood worked
on the farm, in a saw mill and on lumber
rafts. When the civil war broke out he was
anxious to enlist and offered his services to
the recruiting officer of the Ninth Regiment,
New York Cavalry. His size decided against
him. He then tried to enlist in the One Hun
dred and Twenty-ninth New York Infantry,
but was again refused enlistment on account
of his small stature. One of his uncles had
served in the United States navy during the
Mexican war and he was told that he could
enlist in the navy if he would go to the
Brooklyn navy yard. Laurentius Y. then
worked for his father during the days and
for others until midnight, saving every cent
toward fare to Brooklyn, then $12.50. He
finally secured the required amount, and hav
ing obtained his mother's permission made the
journey to Brooklyn, where he enlisted in the
navy, August 18, 1863, being then under
twenty years of age. He was rated as "lands
man" and assigned to the barque "Circas
sian," propelled by both steam and sails. She
was a cruiser, employed between New York
and the West Indies. His next ship was the
frigate "New Hampshire," on which he served
as "ordinary seaman." The "New Hamp
shire" was stationed at Port Royal, South
Carolina. His next assignment was to the
double end gunboat "Commodore McDon-
ough" that later sank in a storm off Cape
Hatteras. On her he saw active service at
Stone river, Fort Prendell, Secessionville,
James Island, and was in action three days
and nights on the Kiawa river. At Light
House inlet she narrowly escaped capture.
He was then transferred to the "Philadel
phia" and was finally honorably discharged at
the Washington navy yard, August 31, 1865,
with the rating of "ordinary seaman."
After the war he returned home, worked
in a saw mill until March 19, 1866, on which
date he left New York harbor on a converted
man-of-war, the "Santiago de Cuba," bound
for the gold fields of Montana by way of the
Isthmus and San Francisco. In June, 1866,
he reached San Francisco, going from there
to Portland, Oregon, thence to Walla Walla,
Oregon, thence by pack train over the moun
tains to the Blackfoot gold field. In August,
1866, he arrived at Bear Gulch without a cent.
From there he forded the Missouri river and
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one month, working at four dollars per day.
He then started to reach Helena, one hundred
and fifty miles away, the road an Indian trail
and he alone. The second day out he ran into
a camp of Flat Head Indians who fortunately
proved friendly and gave him buffalo meat.
He spent the next five years at Confederate
Gulch, mining during the summers, hunting
and trapping in the winters. He experienced
much trouble from the hostile Blackfeet and
Sioux Indians, who would steal his traps and
game. The settlers had several severe skir
mishes and once were entirely surrounded.
In 1871 Mr. Miller returned home and
was married. The following April he re
turned to Montana, remaining two years. He
again returned to New York where he had
left his wife, and for the first time saw his
son, Thornton A., then over a year old. He
again returned to Confederate Gulch, going
thence to Phillipsburg, and to the Race Track
diggings, where he trapped and mined. He
had encounters with the Indians and with the
beasts of the mountains, but always came off
safely. After time spent in Colorado and the
Black Hills, quartz mining, he returned again
to his family. In 1884 he took an extended
trip up the Yellowstone river as far as Fort
Benton, buying furs and buffalo skins of the
Indians and traders, shipping his purchases
to New York City. The following year he
made the same trip. In 1885 he went to Bill
ings and Livingston, Montana, purchasing
land in both places along the route of the
Northern Pacific railroad, disposing of the
same after a few years, at a fair profit. In
1886 he returned east, still engaging in fur.
buying. In 1892 he located in Olean, New
York, where he purchased property and estab
lished the firm of L. Y. Miller & Sons, deal
ers in fruit and all kinds of country produce,
hides, furs, skins, wool, etc. His sons, Henry
C. and Elmer W., were admitted on attain
ing their majority. Mr. Miller's years of
western experience- cover the period, 1866-86,
during which conditions existed which have
now passed away forever. Where then roved
the Indians and the buffalo are now railroads,
villages and cultivated fields. A later devel
opment brought the cow boy and the desper
ado, now also almost a thing of the past.
These years of toil, hardship and danger left
him with undaunted courage and a rich fund
of interesting recollection. His fur purchas
ing expeditions took him through not only

personal danger but brought him in contact
with the wily, unscrupulous white trader and
his not less wily red brother, always on the
lookout for the best end of the bargain. This
school of training developed all his powers
and left him the strong, fearless, energetic
man found in active business to-day, carrying
his sixty-eight years, erect and vigorous. He
belongs to lodge, chapter and commandery of
the Masonic Order; was commander of G. D.
Bayard Post, No. 222, Grand Army of the
Republic; for fifteen years has been on the
staff of the national commander and for six
years a delegate to the national encampment.
He is president of the Republican Club of
Olean, and while living in Hinsdale served
seven successive terms as supervisor. He is
president of the Cattaraugus County Veter
ans' Association; member of the Park Club
and of the Presbyterian church of Olean.
He married, March 15, 187 1, Eveline A.
Wasson, born March 23, 1850. Children: 1.
Thornton A., born December 7, 187 1 ; mar
ried Mable Crawford; children: Harold W.,
Genella, Guynett, Marion. 2. Henry C, born
March 23, 1876; married, May 23, 1898,
Grace Howard, born August 18, 1876; chil
dren: S. Howard, born September 23, 1900;
Faith, December 24, 1902. 3. Elmer W., born
July 22, 1878; married Beulah Johnson, born
March 26, 1880; child, Josephine, born No
vember 9, 1904. 4. Arthur G.
Charles Bemis Coyle, an enter-
COYLE prising and energetic citizen of
Jamestown, noted for his busi
ness sagacity and acumen, is a worthy de
scendant (on the paternal side) of an English
and Irish ancestry, and (on the maternal side)
of a New England ancestry, members of this
family settling there in the early part of its
history and bearing well their part in the vari
ous walks of life.
(I) Cornelius T. Coyle, father of Charles
B. Coyle, was a resident of North Carolina.
He enlisted in the civil war and was
wounded at the battle of Gettysburg.
After the close of the war he followed the
occupation of farming, deriving therefrom a
goodly livelihood. He married Rosalie R.,
daughter of Charles F. and Minnie (Roberts)
Bemis. (II) Charles Bemis, son of Cornelius T.
and Rosalie R. (Bemis) Coyle, was born in
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14, 1876. He was reared on his father's
farm, and attended the schools in the neigh
borhood of his home. Being left an orphan
at the age of twelve, he went to live with an
uncle, John J. Coyle, D.D.S., who was for
merly dean of the Baltimore Medical College,
and during the one and one-half years he
remained with him he attended school for one
year. He then went to West Virginia and
worked for another uncle, George F. Coyle,
proprietor of a dry goods store in Charles
ton, remaining with him for a period of five
years, after which he entered the employ of a
grocery firm, but this was of short duration.
At the age of eighteen he came to New York
City and engaged in the real estate business
on his own account, along general lines, and
after considerable perseverance and persistent
labor attained the position of city appraiser.
In 1901 he took a short vacation, spending
the time in the south, during which time he
met the lady who became his wife and whom
he married after an acquaintance of ten days,
and upon his return to New York, accom
panied by his wife, again engaged in the real
estate business and was eminently successful
until the panic of 1907 when, like so many
other business men, he lost everything he had
accumulated. Upon the reorganization of the
Borough Bank of Brooklyn, Mr. Coyle was
given charge of the real estate and apprais
ing departments of the institution, which had
charge of about one million and a half dol
lars' worth of real estate, and this Mr. Coyle
tried to liquidate for them. The bank failed
again in 1910, and Mr. Coyle then organized
the Crescent Mortgage Company, a New
York corporation, but shortly afterward, tir
ing of the strenuous life of the metropolis,
he removed to Jamestown, New York, where
he opened a branch office, which he conducted
successfully up to 1912, when he purchased
the interests of the other members of the
Crescent Mortgage Company and is now re
organizing as a local company. Mr. Coyle's
life has been an active one, and his special
line of work has added to the general wealth
and welfare of his adopted city. He is a Re
publican in politics, and in 1912 was elected
as a delegate to the Republican state conven
tion at Rochester, New York.
Mr. Coyle married, September 19, 1901,
Blanche E. Stansbury, of Richmond, Virginia,
daughter of George A. and Georgina
(Grimes) Stansbury. Children: Blanche

Evelyn, born July 22, 1904; Kenyon Bemis,*
May 22, 1906; Charles Bemis Jr., April 3,

IQII.

J. George Quirin, father of
QUIRIN William C. A. Quirin, was born
in Westhoffen, Alsace, then
France, now in Germany, and died at Olean,
New York, April 1, 1907. He came to the
United States in 1852, and became an appren
tice in the calf skin shop of Mercer in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. He then removed to
Iowa, where he was engaged in the business
of tanning until 1867. He returned to the
east with his brothers, Philip and Jacob, and
in June, 1869, together with them, purchased
the tannery of the late Colonel William Ran
som at Tioga Center, New York, and con
verted it into an upper leather tannery under
the firm name of J. G. Quirin & Company.
They gave employment to from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty men in the tanning
of wax calf, and were connected with Will
iam C. Quirin & Company, of Boston. The
latter firm had a currying shop on Longwood
avenue, Roxbury, Massachusetts, where two
hundred men were employed in finishing the
product of the tannery. At that time they
were the largest manufacturers of wax calf
skins in the country and produced skins of
as superior quality to the French calf skins
then in such demand. In 1887 both firms went
into liquidation. J. George Quirin retired
from active business life, and spent the re
mainder of his life on his farm in summer
and with his sons at Olean in winter. The
other members of the firm had all died be
fore, Philip in 1871, Jacob in 1880, and Will
iam, of Boston, in 1901. Mr. Quirin wrote
a number of articles on the manufacture of
leather, which appeared in the Shoe and
Leather Reporter, 1867-69, principally on
"mill stuffing." He had been one of the first
operators of a stuffing mill when in the em
ployment of Mr. Hoffman in Somerville or
Cambridge, between 1852 and 1858.
He married Madeline Bernhardt. Chil
dren: William C. A., mentioned below;
Emill J. F., born February 21, 1855; George
L. A., married Celia F. Sewell ; Frederick,
died young; Edward N., married Edna L.
Earle ; Charles N., unmarried ; Lydia E., mar
ried Edward Muller ; Albert, deceased ; Frank
J., married Elma Brimdage; Carrie L., de
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(II) William C. A., son of J. George
Quirin, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 11, 1854. His early education was
received in the public schools of that city and
in Owego, New York, after which he spent
two years in study in France and Germany.
On his return to this country he entered the
employ of his fatlter in the large tannery at
Tioga Center, New York. He mastered the
business and laid the foundation of his future
business success in this' line of work. He is
the owner of one of the largest and best
equipped tanneries in the United States. It
occupies sixteen acres at Olean, New York,
and the plant comprises some twenty build
ings having the most modern machinery and
employing one hundred and fifty skilled la
borers. A railroad siding facilitates the ship
ment of freight over the Pennsylvania rail
road, and another connects with the Pittsburg,
Shawmut & Northern railroad. At the
Quirin tannery the finest grade of glove and
satin grade leather, kangaroo calf, dongola,
enameled leather, vegetable and chrome tan
nage for fine shoes. The business was es
tablished in 1887, and at the outset the tan
nery used about fifty hides a day. At the
present time (1912) twelve hundred hides are
used daily. The product is shipped to Boston
and thence distributed to customers in all parts
of the world. The disposal of the by-pro
ducts of the factory are interesting. The
tan bark after it has been used to make leather
is used for fuel ; the hair for manufacturing
blankets; warps for ingrain carpet, and the
scraps of leather are sold for shoe stock.
Mr. Quirin is progressive, enterprising and
practical, and enjoys. the confidence and es
teem of the entire community.' He is a direc
tor and president of the Olean Building and
Loan Association; trustee of Olean Public
Library nine years; chairman of the building
committee of the present fine building; one
of the water commissioners, appointed in
1907 and reappointed since; treasurer of the
Olean Water Board; treasurer of the Buck-
hannon Chemical Company of West Virginia ;
treasurer of the Quirin Leather Press Com
pany of Olean. He is also popular in social
life, and is a member of a number of clubs.
In religion he is a Baptist, and in politics is
a Republican. Mr. Quirin married, June 3, 1880, Libbie
Dean, of Walworth, New York, born March
4, 1858, died September 12, 1889, daughter

of Franklyn S. Dean. Children: Madeline,
born December 1, 1884; Ezela, July 27, 1887.
Rev. Truman Horton Perkins
PERKINS was born December 30, 1835,
died April 11, 1884. He had
a brother, Spicer M. Perkins, of Buffalo,
New York. His brother, Alfred D. Perkins,
died at Minden, Minnesota. Two sisters died
young. His mother, Eliza Ann (Horton)
Perkins, was a daughter of Truman and Bet
sey (Carr) Horton. Truman Horton Perkins
was educated for the ministry and received
his degree from the Northwestern Univer
sity at Evanston, Illinois. He spent his youth
in Erie county, New York, and taught school
there to aid in paying for his education. He
was for a time a student at Griffiths Institute,
Springville, New York, where he completed
his preparation for college. After graduat
ing from college he joined the Genesee Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
and had pastorates at Utica, Marilla, Alex
ander and Groveland, New York. He was
a member of the lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons of Attica, New York. In politics he
was a Republican. He was a gifted preacher,
a kindly, gentle, attractive personality, up
right and conscientious, faithful to every duty
of his great profession.
He married at Evanston, Illinois, Septem
ber 24, 1871, Carrie lone Andrews, born at
Bennington, Vermont, November 21, 1852,
daughter of Dr. David and Betsey (Wait)
Andrews. Her father resided at Lunenburg,
Vermont, where he was in general practice,
and afterward at Brant, Eite county, Western
New York, where he practiced for many years
and where he died at the age of sixty years;
he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church; had a son, Dr. Joseph Andrews, a
physician at Winfield, Kansas, where he died
in 1877^ Dr. David Andrews married (first)
 , (second) Betsey (Wait) Spencer, wi
dow of Osborn Spencer; she was born De
cember 11, 1823, in Hebron, Washington
county, New York, daughter of Lee and Lydia
(Stearns) Wait. Mrs. Perkins was the only
child. Rev. Truman Horton Perkins had one
son, Darwin Clure, mentioned below.
(II) Dr. Darwin Clure Perkins, son of
Rev. Truman Horton Perkins, was born at
Alexander, Genesee county, New York, July
28, 1879. He attended the public schools of
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ander high school in the class of 1895. He
entered Cornell University and was gradu
ated in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. He was a student in the Homoeopathic
College and Flower Hospital, New York, from
1904 to 1906, and he received degree of Doc
tor of Medicine from the Homoeopathic Col
lege. He began to practice at Jamestown in
1906, opening offices at 405-407 Chadakoin
Building, and has continued in practice there
to the present time. He has taken a position
of leadership in his profession in his city.
He is a member of the Chautauqua County
Medical Society and the New York State
Medical Society. He purchased the house at
803 Lafayette street, where he resided, and
in 1911-12 he erected the "Dorion," a large
and commodious brick apartment house, three
stories high, containing seven apartments, one
of which he occupies. His family attends the
Presbyterian church. In politics he is a Re
publican. He married, at Penbrook, New York, No
vember 17, 1901, Margaret Zwetsch, born
June 27, 1878, daughter of Philip and Sarah
Margaret (Weimer) Zwetsch. Children, born
in Jamestown, New York: Dorothy Evelyn,
June 27, 1907; Margaret lone, October 22,
1910.

This is one of the surnames
GARDNER derived from an occupation
and is found in many forms
of spelling, Gardiner and Gardner being the
most frequent. The name is characteristic
of .the middle counties of England and oc
curs in both forms in southern and central
Scotland, especially in Perthshire. The fam
ily is exceedingly numerous in the United
States. They have been prominent in the
history of New York from an early period.
George Gardner was an assistant justice of
the court, 1771. Powell Gardner held the
same office from 1802 to 1815. Stow Gard
ner was attorney general, 1853. They have
had representatives in the state legislature and
on the field and staff. Joshua Gardner was
"one of the first settlers of the town of Ste
phentown, then Albany county."
The family was founded in America by
Thomas Gardner, who came to Salem, Massa
chusetts, 1624, from Dorsetshire, England.
He is known as the founder of the Salem
branch. George Gardner was among the first
settlers of Rhode Island as early as 1638. He

came from England and is believed to be the
founder of the New York family. He mar
ried (first) Herodias, widow of John Hicks,
who died in Kingstown, Rhode Island, 1679;
(second) Lydia Ballou. Each wife bore him
seven children. The connection is not plain
between the Rhode Island ancestor and the
Cattaraugus county family on account of
breaks in the family records.
(I) William Gardner was a resident of
Wayne county, New York, where others of
his family had settled. He was later a set
tler in Cattaraugus county, New York, where
he engaged in farming. He married a first
wife who bore him eight children. He mar
ried (second) Susan Smith. Children by sec
ond marriage: George, William, James, Su
san, Caleb Smith.
(II) Caleb Smith, son of William and Su
san (Smith) Gardner, was born October 3,
1822, died June, 1904. He married, July 25,
1 861, Rachel Ann Maybee, born April 4, 1840,
daughter of Harmon Maybee, born 1818, died
1901, married Elizabeth Rowland; children:
Nicholas, married Abbie Dow ; Rachel Ann,
married Caleb Smith Gardner; John T., mar
ried Louise Luke; Clementina, married Red
mond Thomas, and Hiram, married Anna
 . Elizabeth was a daughter of Anderson
Ro"wland. Harmon was a son of Jeremiah
and Rachel Maybee. Children of Caleb Smith
Gardner: 1. Frank Harmon, born February
3, 1862, died June 6, 1902 ; married, October
28, 1884, Anna Coyle, born June 3, 1864;
children : Edna May, born October 9, 1885 ;
Stella A., June 21, 1888; Frances E., Novem
ber 29, 1891 ; Fred C, November 28, 1893.
2. Susan Elizabeth, born January- 7, 1864;
married, June 26, 1895, William A. Sprague,
born December 5, 1856. 3. Fred Wesley, of
whom further. 4. Edith May, born March
6, 1876, died 1885. 5. Edward Smith; born
March 27, 1882.
(Ill) Fred Wesley, son of Caleb Smith
and Rachel Ann (Maybee) Gardner, was born
August 29, 1867. He was educated in the
public schools, and began business life as a
cash boy in the store of William J. Fish, at
Salamanca. He was only in that position for
a short time when he decided to learn the
trade of printer. He entered in January, 1882,
the office of Perrin & Webber, where he thor
oughly mastered the printers art. He received
several promotions in pay and rank, continu
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to Washington where he was appointed to
a position in the government printing office.
He remained two years, resigned and went
to Rochester, New York, where he was chief
proofreader on the Democrat and Chronicle.
In 1900 he resigned and settled in Salamanca,
New York, where he purchased the mercan
tile business of Mr. Ellsworth. He later
formed a partnership with Eugene B. Se
near, and as Senear & Gardner, opened "The
Fair," a mercantile house devoted to general
merchandise, except groceries and provisions.
The firm has been a very successful one and
commands a generous patronage. Mr. Gard
ner is a member of Cattaraugus Lodge, No.
239, Free and Accepted Masons; Salamanca
Chapter, No. 266, Royal Arch Masons ; Sala
manca Commandery, No. 62, Knights Temp
lar, in which he holds the office of captain
general. Is also a Knight of Pythias. He
is very popular among his townsmen and has
a host of warm friends. He is a Republican
in politics ; was president of the village cor
poration one year and town clerk four terms
of two years each. He belongs to the Bap
tist church.
He married, August 29, 1888, Carrie Eve
lina, born September 14, 1869, daughter of
Warren W. and Elmira (Crandall) Wellman.
Children of Warren W. Wellman: 1. Alice
Leonora, married, 1885, Eugene Barker Se
near; children: Raymond, born November 5,
1886; Francis, November 21, 1889. 2. Carrie
Evelina, married Frederick W. Gardner. 3.
Grace Luella, married Ward B. Baldwin;
children: Marjorie and Dorothea. Children
of Fred W. and Carrie Evelina Gardner:
Victor Warren, born June 5, 1889; William
Frederick, August 17, 1903.
The Reed family of Dunkirk, New
REED York, descend from John Reed,
who was a boat builder and a
sailor on the Great Lakes. He married Nancy
 and had a son, William A., of whom
further. (II) Captain William A. Reed, son of
John and Nancy Reed, followed in the foot
steps of his father and became a sailor on
the lakes, rising to the rank of captain. He
was also a boat builder. He married Alfnda
Allen Children: 1. Alvah H., married Nel
lie Clark ; children : Clark and Alice. 2. Will
iam A., married Agnes Lott, of Canada. 3.
Daniel A., of whom further.

(Ill) Daniel A., youngest son of Captain
William A. and Alfrida (Allen) Reed, was
born in Sheridan, New York, Septefnber 15,
1876. He was educated in the public schools
of Sheridan, later attended Silver Creek high
school, and in 1896 entered Cornell Univer
sity (Law School) from whence he was gra
duated in 1899 with the degree of LL. B. He
returned for a post-graduate course of one
year, and in 1900 was admitted to the New
York bar. Mr. Reed made an enviable repu
tation at Cornell, both in scholarship and ath
letics. He earned the Cornell championship
and the record for heavy weight lifting and
the heavy weight wrestling championship of
the university. He was a member of the Uni
versity baseball team and for two years was
coach for the team. His ability as a coach
was so noticeable that he was in demand by
other colleges and universities. He coached
the team of Cincinnati University two years,
Pennsylvania State College one year and
Georgetown College, Kentucky, for a time.
In 19 10 he formed a partnership with Rollin
M. Snow, of Dunkirk, and established a law
practice in that city. His legal ability at
tracted the attention of state officials and he
was appointed attorney of the state excise de
partment, at Albany, a position he held sev
eral years. He is now in the practice of his
profession at Dunkirk.
He is a member of the Adelti Ki fraternity
and of the Quill and Dagger Society, of Cor
nell. He belongs to Irondequoit Lodge, No.
301, Free and Accepted Masons, the Young
Men's Christian Association, of which he was
president in 1903, and of the Dunkirk Club.
In politics he is a Republican and a recog
nized leader of the party in northern Chau
tauqua county.
Mr. Reed married Georgia. Tichner; chil
dren, bgrn in Dunkirk, New York: William
Tichner, July 23, 1906; Ruth, October 24,
1907. Whether this name
SHUTTLEWORTH is derived from the
weaver's art does
not appear, but true it is that many genera
tions of the family in England were expert
weavers of carpets and rugs, in fact it was
a family trade. One branch of the family
from Yorkshire, England, came to the United
States in 1875 under contract with A. T.
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prince," he to supply mill and machinery and
to dispose of their entire output. The branch
herein recorded seem to have followed other
lines of activity, the progenitor being a farmer
of Witham, Essex, England. His son Charles
is the founder.
(II) Charles Shuttle worth was born in the
county of Essex, parish of Witham, England,
February 8, 1799, died in Springville, Erie
county, New York, February 21, 1854. He
learned the trade of miller. In 1832 he came'
to the United States, landing in New York
City, August 21. He followed his trade in
different parts of the United States, finally,
about 1846, settling at Springville, where he
followed milling until his death. He always
remained a loyal citizen of England, never
becoming a naturalized citizen of the United
States. He was a member of the Episcopal
church both in England and the United States.
He married, March 26, 1821, in England, Julia
Anna Barnard, a sister of Captain Barnard,
in command of one of the large English war
ships. She was born July 16, 1799. Chil
dren: 1. Harriet, born April 4, 1822, died
June 16, 1905 ; married, October 9, 1842, Jef
ferson A. Robinson ; no issue. 2. Elizabeth,
born June 25, 1823, died 1896; married, No
vember 9, 1842, James Corbet; no issue. 3.
Jane, born September 11, 1824, died 1907;
married, July 7, 1844, Jacob Baker. 4. Han
nah, born November 19, 1825, died March
14, 1841 ; unmarried. 5. Mary Louisa, born
August 17, 1827, died February 12, 1877;
married William Barckley ; children : Han
nah, married William Brush, deceased, and
 . 6. Charles John, of whom further. 7.
Julia Emma, born September 11, 1840, died
June 2, 1890 ; married a Mr. Gilmore and
has three daughters living in the west.
(Ill) Charles John, the first American born
child of Charles Shuttleworth, was born in
Vernon, Oneida county, New York, Decem
ber 17, 1834. He was educated in the public
schools and lived in Springville, New York,
from the date of the family settlement there
until 1896; a period of about half a century.
He was engaged in the milling business, but
also owned a foundry and machine shops,
which burned in 1874, and dealt largely in
real estate in and around Springville. In
1896 he moved to Niagara Falls, New York,
where he was in charge of machine shops and
of the city water works for some time. In
1901 he came to Buffalo, where he has been

variously employed in draughting plans for
machinery and other mechanical work; was
in charge of the Josiah Ross shops for a time
and built the lighting plant for the East Au
rora Electric Light Company. In 1877 he
invented and patented a bolt for bolting flour
and in 1878 organized a company for its
manufacture. This company was a very suc
cessful one until the introduction of the rol
ler process of making flour, which could not
be treated by the process. He has been a
member of the Masonic Order for half a cen
tury, and is a Republican in politics. While
living in the town of Concord (Springville)
he was town clerk and collector of taxes sev
eral terms.
He married, October 25, 1859, Eliza Han
nah Holland, born June 28, 1837, died Sep
tember 14, 191 1, at Buffalo, one of the ten
children of George Holland, of Springville.
Children: 1. Elizabeth, married (first) Sam
uel W. Eddy; child, Ruth; married (second)
John P. Fiske; child, Helen. 2. Charles R.,
married Mabel -Jackson ; children : Margaret,
Marian, John, (Jack). 3. Luther J., of whom
further. 4. Mabel B. 5. Maleska G, mar
ried F. W. Street; child, Eliza Hannah. 6.
James E., married Jessie Wilson.
(IV) Luther J., second son of Charles John
Shuttleworth, was born in Springville, Erie
county, New York, August 11, 1865. He was
educated in the public schools and at Griffith
Institute. He learned the trade of machinist
and later engaged in the foundry and machine
business. After several years he retired from
this and has since been engaged in contract
ing and building. He owns and operates a
large planing mill where he does all his own
mill work, and a lumber yard. He has erected
many of the handsome houses and public
buildings of the village and in Western New
York, and in 19 10 built the present station
of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh rail
road in Springville. He is a Republican in
politics; was elected supervisor in 1904 but
resigned on his election to the state assembly,
in 1906 and in 1907, serving three terms in
that body of lawmakers. He is past master
of Springville Lodge, No. 351, Free and Ac
cepted Masons ; past high priest of Spring
ville Chapter, No. 275, Royal Arch Masons;
member of Salamanca Commandery, No. 62,
Knights Templar, and a thirty-second degree
Mason of Buffalo Consistory, Ancient Ac
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tic Shrine, Ismailia Temple, Buffalo, also a
member of Western New York Past Masters
Association. Mr. Shuttleworth is also affil
iated with Springville Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, September 17, 1891, Esther
Reese, born September 20, 1867, daughter of
John W. Reese, of Freedom, New York,
whose other child, Ellen, married Arthur Ev
erett, of Castile, New York, and has a son
Harry. Children of Luther J. Shuttleworth:
Esther, born August 20, 1892 ; Richard Reese,
December 13, 1895 > Doris, September 4, 1898.
There are two distinct families
OPDYKE of Opdyke in the United States
tracing from the earliest pe
riod in New Amsterdam. One of these is
of pure German descent, springing from Gys-
bert Op d Dyck (as he signed himself) who
occupied high position in the Dutch West In
dia Company and in the early government of
New Amsterdam under the Dutch occupation.
He was eighth in descent from Op Den Dyck,
born 1297. Magistrate of Wesel, a town on
the right bank of the Rhine in the province
of Rhenish, Prussia, Germany. This family
settled in Holland and were, no doubt, related
to the branch mentioned hereafter. The other
family descend from Louris Jansen Opdyck,
a Hollander. The family in Jamestown, New
York, herein traced, descend from this Dutch
emigrant. Beyond the indisputable fact that
he was a Hollander, nothing can be told of
him prior to his appearance in New Nether-
land, prior to 1653.
Louris Jansen Opdyck was born in Holland,
later than 1600 and prior to 1620. He mar
ried Christina  and came to New Nether-
land prior to 1653, in which year he owned
a residence in Albany and bought a lot at
Gravesend, Long Island; resided in Graves
end in 1655 and in New York, 1656-57; died
in 1659 at Gravesend. The Albany county
records of 1654 are missing, as all those of
the churches at Albany and Long Island be
fore 1660, therefore the part of Holland from
which he came has not been ascertained. He
wrote his name according to Dutch usage,
Louris Jansen, meaning Louris, son of Jan.
He was a well educated man and was pos
sessed of some means on coming to America.
He continued up the Hudson to Fort Orange
(Albany) where he engaged in the fur 'trade.
His house lot, corner of Broadway and State

street, now faces the postoffice in the very
heart of the business center of Albany. The
records show his later residence in Graves
end and New Amsterdam (New York). He
left three sons : Peter, Otto, Johannes.
(II) Johannes, son of Louris Jansen Op
dyck, was biorn 1651, died at Hopewell, New
Jersey, April, 1729. His mother Christina
married a second husband, Lourens Peter
sen, and the family selling their Gravesend
farm removed to Dutch Kills (Newtown)
where Johannes lived until his removal to
New Jersey, in 1697. He was a prosperous
farmer, married, with a large family, when
in 1697 he moved to New Jersey, settling in
what was then Burlington county, close to
what is now Lawrenceville, Mercer county,
New Jersey. Johannes later purchased thir
teen hundred acres which included the site
of the present village of Pennington, noted
for many generations as the home of Penning
ton Seminary of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He made other purchases which were
deeded to Johannes Louwrensen Op Dyck.
His Pennington purchase he sold for two hun
dred dollars, double what it cost him. He
owned lands in Trenton, Hopewell and in
other places, and during his thirty-two years'
residence in New Jersey he was one of the
heaviest dealers in real estate. February 12,
1729, he made his will in Hopewell, leaving
his property to be equally divided among his
eight children then living. Two months later
he died. His will is now preserved with a
few others of that period in the vaults of the
state house at Trenton. His burial place is
unknown, as is that of his wife Katherine.
Children: 1. Tryntje, married Enoch An
drus, and lived at Trenton, New Jersey. 2.
Engeltje, married Joshua Anderson, and lived
at Maidenhead, New Jersey. 3. Annetje,
married Cornelus Anderson, and lived at
Hopewell, New Jersey. 4. Lawrence, married
Agnes  and lived at Maidenhead, New
Jersey. 5. Albert, of whom further. 6. A
son, horn about 1720. 7. Bartholomew, lived
at Maidenhead.
(Ill) Albert, son of Johannes Opdyck, was
born at Dutch Kills, New York, about 1685,
died at Maidenhead, New Jersey, 1752. His
will, made May 7, 1752, was probated Au
gust, 1752. He resided the greater part of
his life in Hopewell township, New Jersey,
although removing to Maidenhead a. short
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est because he alone of all the immediate
descendants of the original Opdyck settlers
retained the Opdyck spelling, which the others
changed to Updike. Albert's four sons are
then the ancestors of all the Opdyckes, Op-
dykes and Obdykes in the United States. He,
however, departed from the family religious
faith and became a member of the Baptist
church. His wife was named Elizabeth. Chil
dren : i. John, born 1710, died 1777; married
Margaret Green; he was a merchant of Am-
well, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. 2.
Joshua, of whom further. 3. William, born
1715, died 1789; married Nancy Carpenter; he
was a farmer of Maidenhead, New Jersey. 4.
Benjamin, born 1721, died 1807; married
Joanna  ; he was a farmer of Bethlehem,
New Jersey. 5. Sarah, born 1724, died 1804,
unmarried. 6. Catherine. 7. Frank. 8. Han
nah. (IV) Joshua Opdyke (as he wrote it) sec
ond son of Albert Opdyck, was born in Hope
well township, Hunterdon county, New Jer
sey, about 1713, died 1789. Although the sec
ond son he inherited a double portion under
his father's will. He settled away from the
family home in Amwell, on the ridge that di
vides the water shed of the Delaware and
Raritan rivers. He had the great love for
the soil and purchased warrants for fractional
parts of allotments from the Quaker "pro
prietors," and under these were surveyed and
assigned to him lands in Hunterdon, Morris
and Sussex counties. He also received two
hundred and ninety-eight acres from his wife's
father, and purchased three hundred and
twenty acres in Sussex. It is not recorded
that he ever sold more than one of the ten
tracts he owned and it is known that he gave
a farm to each of his children, during his
lifetime or at his death. His homestead was
a tract of five hundred acres in the Amwell
forest that later became Kingwood. He built
there first a log house and lived therein until
he cleared off the heavy timber from some
of his land, then built a stone house that is
yet standing. He adhered to the Baptist
church which his father had joined long be
fore in Hopewell. He is said to have been
the leading spirit in founding the old school
Baptist church at Baptistown, near his farm.
Upon the old records of this church Joshua
appears as a deacon and he or his sons fre
quently presided at the church meetings. In
1789 he was a delegate from Kingwood to

the Baptist convention at Philadelphia. He
was a tall, well proportioned man of remark
ably cheerful and even temper, but firm and
resolute. When the British and Hessians
were committing depredations on the peaceful
inhabitants of Hunterdon county, a report
came that a band of the hated troopers were
approaching Kingwood. Joshua loaded four
guns and concealed himself along the road in
tending to fire them rapidly and create the
impression that a squad was firing; but the
troop turned out to be American soldiers. His
two sons served in the continental army, as
did six sons of his brother.
He married, in 1738, Ann, daughter of
Samuel Green, the surveyor. Children: 1.
Richard, born about 1740, died 1825 ; mar
ried (first) Grace Thacher; (second) Diana
B. Sutton. He was a farmer and justice of
the peace of Kingwood, New Jersey. He
held the latter office forty years and sat for
eleven years on the bench of the court of
common pleas. He was intensely patriotic and
served well the colonial cause. He was famil
iarly known as "Squire Richard," was tall,
dignified and reserved, wearing knee breeches
and his hair in a bag, walking lame from a
white swelling. 2. Luther, of whom further.
3. Sarah, married Thomas Allen, a farmer
of Sussex county, New Jersey. 4. Elizabeth,
married Samuel Hill, a farmer of Sussex
county. 5. Margaret, married  Glover, a
farmer of Sussex county. 6. Frances, born
1757, died 1809; married (first) John Hoag-
land; (second) Ambrose Bancroft. 7. Han
nah, born 1760, died 1821 ; married John
Britton, a farmer of Kingwood. 8. Cather
ine, married Aaron Van Syckel, a farmer of
Hunterdon county.
(V) Luther Opdycke (as he wrote- it) son
of Joshua Opdyke, was born March 29, 1750,
died 1838. He lived to be eighty-eight years
of age, and three of his sons passed the age
of eighty. The county and state records pre
serve his doings for a period of sixty years.
He was justice of the peace for fifty years,
and it is said that no decision of his was ever
reversed. A great part of the time he was
associate judge in the court of common pleas
of Hunterdon county, or in the surrogate
court. He was repeatedly chosen freeholder,
and continually administrator or guardian of
persons and estates. He was always called
"Squire Luther" and never addressed other
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larly commissioned ensign and served through
the greater part of the revolutionary war,
seeing his full share of hard service and actual
fighting. His father gave him two hundred
acres of the old homestead farm, where
"Squire Luther" built in 1770 "the old red
house" in which all his children were born
and in which four generations of his family
lived. He gave this farm to his son George
upon the .latter's marriage, and in 1800 built
the stone house, barn and mill at Nississacka-
way, in Alexandria, where he continued to live
until his death in 1838. He was a strong char
acter. He owned five or six farms ; owned and
ran two mills and a distillery ; 'married three
wives, and was on occasion a Baptist preacher.
He gave or devised a farm to each of his sons
and bequeathed property to his daughters.
He was a deacon of the old Baptistown Bap
tist Church and always gave out the hymns
sometimes preached there but more often at
the Locktown church. He was a solidly built,
square shouldered man, not quite six feet tall,
weighing one hundred and eighty-five pounds
and dressed in the old fashioned short clothes.
His family Bible, yet preserved, has the entries
all written by himself and shows a neat, rapid
hand. He married (first) Gertrude Hall, who was
the mother of all his children. She was a
daughter of Theodore Hall, born in England,
settled near Philadelphia ; married, in 1729,
Gertrude Gordon and moved to Kingwood
in 1757 and engaged in milling on the west
bank of the Delaware. He was drowned by
the upsetting of his canoe while crossing the
river during a freshet. His wife died in
1805, aged ninety-five years. He married
(second) a widow, Mrs. Ruth Sinclair, who
died in 1835. He married (third) Mary Dal-
rymple. Children: 1. George, of whom
further. 2. Joseph, born 1775, died 1855;
married Fanny Britton; he was a farmer of
•Kingwood, New Jersey. 3. Rebecca, born
1779; married Samuel Jones, a farmer of Ca
yuga county, New York. 4. Amos, born 1781,
died 1864 ; married Rebecca Bellis ; they were
both noted for their deep piety; he was a
farmer of Everittstown, New Jersey. 5. Lu
ther, born 1784, died 1867; married Phoebe
Bellis. He moved in December, 1830, to Ca
yuga county, New York, driving through the
Pennsylvania woods with the snow two feet
deep. The next spring he moved to the town
of Fayette, Seneca county, where he bought

two hundred and twenty acres, built a log
house and cleared a farm. He died at the
age of eighty-three years and is buried with
his wife in Waterloo cemetery. 6. Gertrude,
born 1788; married Stoffel Snyder, of Wilkes
Barre, Pennsylvania. 7. Hall, born 1792, died
1844; married Anne Hortman; he inherited
the stone house and mill at Nississackaway,
where he lived and died. He owned several
farms and held the office of freeholder.
(VI) George, eldest son of "Squire Lu
ther" Opdycke, was born in "the old red house"
his father built in 1770 on the Kingwood farm,
December 6, 1773, died June 15, 1851. His
tombstone stands in the old Baptistown
graveyard, where are the graves of his father,
grandfather and of his wife Mary. He was
a man of contented disposition, with a keen
interest in passing events but with no eager
ness to take a leading hand in public affairs.
His neighbors held him in great respect and
said that- "he knew more than all the school
masters." He was almost six feet tall,
weighed one hundred and eighty pounds, had
a well built figure and was a fine looking man.
He was an excellent sportsman and loved to
"bark" a gray squirrel with his rifle. He in
herited "the old red house" and two hundred
acres of land on which he spent a quiet, peace
ful life. He enrolled in 1793 with the Hun
terdon militia; was school trustee in King-
wood; overseer of the poor; assessor, and
served on the grand jury.
He married, 1796, May Stout, in the Bap
tistown church. She was a daughter of Ree
der Stout, who was the handsomest man of his
day, in Kingwood. Reeder Stout was a de
scendant of Richard Stout and Penelope Van
Princes. He was born in Nottinghamshire,
England, son of John Stout. Penelope Van
Princes was born at Amsterdam, Holland;
came to America; was wrecked at Sandy
Hook, safely landed but was attacked by In
dians, cruelly wounded and left for dead. She
was rescued days later after great suffering
and taken to -New York where she married
Richard Stout (her second husband) and
lived to the great age of one hundred and ten
years, the mother of ten children, of whom
the seventh son was David, born 1669, in
Middleton, New Jersey; moved in 1725 to
Hunterdon county; married Rebecca Ashton.
Their son Joseph, born 1698, settled in New
Brunswick, New Jersey, married Martha Ree
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three years. He married Hannah Kenney,
of French descent. Their daughter, Mary
Stout, married George Opdycke. Children :
i. Joseph, born 1797, died 1875 ; married Eliza
Housel ; he was a farmer of Kingwood. 2.
Sarah, born 1799, died 1835 ; married Christie
Little, a miller and farmer of Pittstown, New
Jersey. 3. Elizabeth, born 1800, died 1877;
married John Matthews, a farmer of Mt.
Pleasant, New Jersey. 4. John, born 1802,
died 1871. He settled in Richland county,
Ohio, where he was a prosperous farmer and
stock grower. He stood six feet three inches
and was never thrown but defeated many a
professional wrestler. He never kept a lock
or bolt on house or barn. He married Esther
Little. 5. Gertrude, born 1804, died 1877 ;
married Moses Heath, a farmer of Kingwood.
6. George, of whom further. 7. Nancy, born
181 1 ; married John D. Scott, a merchant of
New York City. 8. Fanny, born 1815; mar
ried James Carroll, a farmer of Hunterdon
county. 9. Horatio, born 1815; married Ca
therine E. Robeson. He was a farmer of
Kingwood, later of Fairfax county, Virginia,
where his farm lay in the track of the move
ments of both armies during the civil war.
Just before the first battle of Bull Run his
wheat, which was in stack, was used by the
Union army for bedding their horses. After
the battle he was seized by southern soldiers,
but released through the kindness of an offi
cer who knew him. At the second battle of
Bull Run a confederate battery was placed
near his buildings which were shot to pieces
and finally burned by the Union troops. He
returned to New Jersey in 1862 and bought
a farm in Kingwood. 10. Stout, born 1816,
died 1854; unmarried; he was a merchant -of
New York City.
(VII) George (2) Opdyke, third son of
George (1) Opdyske, was horn in Kingwood,
Hunterdon county, New Jersey, December 7,
1805. He was born in "the old red house"
built by his grandfather, and spent his early
life on the farm. His usual team was a pair
of young bulls and he was an expert with
the rifle. When he was but sixteen years old
he was made schoolmaster and taught his for
mer classmates who obeyed him very well af
ter he had flogged them into submission,
having arranged with his elder brother for
support in case of necessity. At the age of
eighteen he entered the country store in Bap
tistown, as clerk, saved his earnings and at

the age of twenty persuaded a boyhood friend
to go west. Each borrowed five hundred dol
lars from friends and .by river, canal and lake
made their way to Cleveland, Ohio. Here the
young partners established a grocery store
with some success, clearing one thousand dol
lars the first year, although compelled to as
sume and complete a canal building contract
in order to secure pay for groceries sold the
construction gangs. Here Mr. Opdyke con
tracted typhoid fever, nearly lost his life and
was permanently weakened in constitution.
Deeming Cleveland "too slow" (being then
little more than a frontier trading post) the
partners sold out and went south finally lo
cating in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they
opened a clothing store, manufacturing their
own goods. The first year the business
showed a profit Of six thousand dollars and
rapidly increased thereafter. He remained
five years in New Orleans, laying the foun
dation of his fortune, and also acquired the
finished southern courtesy of manner for
which he was remarkable in after life. In
1829 he made a trip to New Jersey, returning
with his bride. In 1832 he closed out his busi
ness in New Orleans and moved to New York
City, locating in the same business in Cherry
street, later in Nassau street, opposite the old
Dutch church. His residence was in Domin-
ick street, then a good residence street. He
continued in successful business for several
years, then changed to dry goods and import
ing. He made frequent trips to Europe on
business, never failing to include in his trips
the Rhine and Switzerland with their inspir
ing scenery. In 1837, when the first railroad
from New York City was built to Newark,
New Jersey, he purchased twenty acres of
land on the heights overlooking Newark and
New York bays. Here he built, improved
and made his residence for fifteen years. It
was during this period that his mental devel
opment was most pronounced and rapid. Dur-.
ing the few hours of wholesale business in the
city he was the model merchant, a close buyer
and a keen judge of men, surrounding himself
with successful young salesmen whom he re
warded with an interest in the business, keep
ing his own firm hand on the helm. As soon
as he left his office for the day business was
banished from his mind. On arriving at his
Newark home the remaining daylight hours
were spent with his family, discussing with
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ing the poets, .conversing in Spanish and
French, or playing the flute! The evenings
were spent in solitary communion with his
books. He reviewed his English studies, stud
ied closely history, logic, philosophy, litera
ture and the sciences, and studied them so
thoroughly that his knowledge seemed to be
come a part of him. The writings of Jeremy
Bentham, Jefferson, -Mil and Comte were his
especial pleasure. He became an accomplished
scholar and a deep thinker. The most learned
men sought his society. In his favorite sum
mer resort, Schooley's Mountain, he was a
choice spirit and an authority among the
group of statesmen, scientists and men of
letters who discussed serious questions all day
long under the tall trees. During this same
period of fifteen years the commercial ability
of this many-sided man made him a million
aire. It was during this period that he wrote his
work on "Political Economy," published in
185 1. This work found great favor among
the most profound students of the subject,
even with John Stuart Mill, but it was in ad
vance of the times and too terse to be gener
ally appreciated. In it he discussed the theory
of wages, the value of land and other ques
tions, advancing many theories that have
since become accepted doctrines. Among
these was his views on an "Inconvertible Pa
per Money," wherein he advanced, recom
mended and described our present national
currency fourteen years in advance, although
his plan made the issue proportional to popu
lation and by constitutional amendment guard
ed against an increased ratio. In the same
work, thirteen years before the war, he dis
cussed the question of slavery, with which
his southern residence had rendered him fa
miliar and to which he was unalterably op
posed. His chapter on free trade is a logical
argument as close and strong as a demonstra
tion in Euclid and one that has never been
refuted, but his views were then and still are
in advance of our country. In 1854 he
moved his residence back to New York City,
which was ever afterward his home. His time
was thereafter more and more devoted to the
public good, although he often regretted
abandoning his studies.
He became president of one of the largest
New York banks and director of several in
surance companies, where he was always a
watchful, often a controlling power. For

twenty-two years (1858-80) he was a mem
ber, and for eight years (1867-75) vice-presi
dent of the chamber of commerce, where he
was often the first to call attention to matters
of public interest and was usually selected to
memorialize congress or to visit Washington
in person. At the time of the financial panic
of 1857 he exerted himself to bring about a
concerted movement of the banks of New
York City to restore confidence. As a result
a board of currency was organized and an
investigation made by the leading bankers
into economic questions, suggesting action
that still influences the administration of the
banks of the country. Although a Democrat
he was opposed to the extension of slavery,
but he took no active part in politics until
1848, when he was a delegate from New Jer
sey to the convention in Buffalo, New York,
which organized the Free Soil party. He
served with Salmon P. Chase on the famous
committee on resolutions. To strengthen the
cause in New Jersey he allowed his name to
be used as a candidate for congress on the
Free Soil ticket. He was thus one of the
earliest and most active pioneers of the Re
publican party. In 1856 he supported Gen
eral Fremont for the presidency and was de
feated for the assembly from the Murray
Hill district. Two years later he was elected
from the same district to the assembly, where
he was prominent in the opposition to schemes
of plunder attempted to be forced through
the legislature. In 1859 he was defeated for
mayor of New York City by the Democratic
candidate, Fernando Wood. In i860 he was
one of the delegates to the Republican na
tional convention at Chicago and one of the
most effective workers for the nomination of
Abraham Lincoln for president. He and Da
vid Dudley Field cooperated with Horace
Greeley to defeat the nomination of William
H. Seward and finally effected the combina
tion that nominated Lincoln. Mr. Opdyke
contributed twenty thousand dollars to help
defray the expenses of Mr. Lincoln's cam
paign, and after the inauguration the presi
dent offered him the position of collector of
the port of New York, which was declined.
The first public action taken at New York
City in support of the national government
upon the outbreak of the civil war was that
of the chamber of commerce upon the reso
lutions proposed by Mr. Opdyke at its meet
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ning of his untiring patriotic labor which
continued throughout the war, during which
he gave freely of his time and means.
In the fall of 1861 he was elected mayor
of New York City, holding through the event
ful years, 1861-63. As mayor he was active
in raising and forwarding troops to the seat
of war. When the "Merrimac" threatened
the cities of the north with destruction he
called a meeting of prominent merchants at
his residence and made plans for the defense
of the city, but the victory of the "Monitor"
over his dreaded antagonist removed that dan
ger. It was during his administration as
mayor that the draft riots occurred in New
York City. He had protested to Secretary
Stanton against removing every regiment of
National Guard from the city, but in vain.
He was advised by friends to leave the city
until the excitement should subside, but he
refused. He called to his aid the heads of
the police and militia, the governor of the
state and General Wood, with his few soldiers
in the harbor and the marines in the navy
yard. With this small force used to good
advantage a bold front was constantly main
tained, while the mayor telegraphed to Sec
retary Stanton, demanding the return of some
of the city regiments. Three days of terror
passed, during which the streets of New York
were as silent as though the city were struck
by a plague, except where the mob raged,
plundered, burned and murdered. Mr. Op-
dyke's factory at Second avenue and Twenty-
first street was destroyed. His residence at
79 Fifth avenue was twice attacked. Mrs.
Opdyke escaped only through the next house
to a carriage which the driver ran at full
gallop to evade the howling mob. On the
evening of the third day three regiments ar
rived from the seat of war, four more came
the following day and the city was saved.
During four days the mayor labored twenty
hours out of each twenty-four, directing or
advising every movement of his forces and
assuming all responsibility. At the height of
the riot, to appease the mob, the board of al
dermen unanimously voted $2,500,000 for the
relief of those drafted. As mayor he refused
to approve the ordinance, declaring the riot
ers should be conquered, not conciliated. This
action excited alarm at the time, but later was
unanimously approved. In 1867-68 he was
a delegate to the constitutional convention
that revised the constitution of New York

state. Here he found work congenial to his
tastes and he rendered valuable service, par
ticularly on the articles relating to canals, the
public schools and to the government of cities.
In 1867 he retired from the dry goods busi
ness and established a banking house with his
sons as partners. The firm advanced funds
to build more than one thousand miles of
railroad in different parts of the country.
When the panic of 1873 occurred most of
the banking houses that had made such ad
vances went under. A morning paper an
nounced the failure of George Opdyke &
Sons, which caused a run of one day, dur
ing which he paid out half a million dollars.
But he weathered the storm as he had those
of 1837 and 1857. ^ was one °f his proudest
boasts that he had never suspended payment
during his business career of half a century,
although he had seen most of his competitors
do so. His wonderful foresight enabled him
to see and prepare for a financial storm in
advance. He, however, deliberately sacri
ficed a large part of his fortune to sustain
the railroads, whose bonds had been sold
through him to the public, also making fur
ther large loans, not as a safe financial trans
action, but from a high sense of business hon
or. The last few years of his life he retired
from public activity, but continued his fre
quent contributions to the public press on im
portant public questions and still devoted him
self to the private interests of his less fortu
nate friends. He worked until the last, al
though weakened by an attack of pneumonia,
dying June 12, 1880, at the age of -seventy-
five years.
He was by conviction a Unitarian, but at
tended the Reformed Dutch church, of which
his wife was a member. He never attacked
or defended a church creed, but he always
rebuked those who scoffed at the Bible. "Be
it inspired or not," he would reply, "you and
I can do no better than follow the teachings
of Christ." He was tolerant of all things but
intolerance. He was perhaps most widely
known as the only Republican mayor New
York City had ever had and as so loyally exe
cuting this important trust during the most
exciting period of that city's history. Yet to
himself and his friends this period of his
career was not of overshadowing importance.
He only did his duty, as he alw'ays did, but
he disliked public life because " it showed him
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who met him, so thorough yet so simple, so
stern yet so gentle, so keen yet so honest, so
burdened with cares yet so open to enjoy
ment. Even the common council liked him
though he scourged them with his repeated
vetoes. Modest in manner and gentle in
voice, he had the courage of his convictions.
Profound and abstruse he had yet an incisive
wit which once floored even Horace Greeley
and always discomfitted lawyers in cross ex
aminations. He was a student of finance, yet
an ardent lover of poets. Fatigued with
great public questions he would seek rest in
chess and whist. In politics he believed in
parties but his party must adhere to the right.
Violently opposed to human slavery and one
of the founders of the Republican party, yet
he made the longest speech of his career at
a meeting of the Union League Club, of New
York, against a recommendation to congress
to give the ballot to the freedman. Greeted
at first by groans he soon gained respectful
hearing and demonstrated from history and
physiology the utter unfitness of the freed
man for present citizenship. To those who
came to him after the meeting and said he
was right but the excitement of the meeting
prevented their Supporting his solitary dis
senting vote, he said: "You are a pack of
cowards." He was devoted to justice and
right and blazed in indignation at the wrong
doer. Yet he was the best and often the last
friend of the weak and erring. He was proud
of his Dutch ancestry. "The Dutch," he de
clared, "have been the bravest and the most
honest of all nations." "Self-made men" are
not rare in our time and country. Among
merchants, scholars or statesmen George Op
dyke was a notable instance of eminence in
all three of these classes at once. That at
the same time he excelled also in simplicity, in
purity and in humanity was a marvel to all
who knew him. In person he was five feet
eleven inches in height, spare and graceful,
with strong but handsome features. In all
his habits he was as moderate and regular as
though in training.
He married, September 26, 1829, Elizabeth
H. Strycker, a descendant of Jan Strycker
who was born in Holland in 1615, emigrated
from Ruinen, province of Drenthe, to New
Amsterdam, in 1652, with his wife, Lambertje
Leubring, and six children; settled at Flat-
bush, Long Island, in 1654; was representa
tive in 1664 from Midwout to the Landtag

at New Amsterdam; was chief magistrate of
Flat bush nearly twenty years, and in 1675
paid the heaviest taxes in the place. His son,
Pieter Strycker, was high sheriff of King's
county, New York, 1683; judge in 1720-22;
militia captain at 'Flatbush ; bought four thou
sand acres on Millstone river, New Jersey, in
1710, and married Annetje Barends. His son,
Jan Strycker, was a sachem of Tammany So
ciety of New York, and married Margaret
Schenck. H.is son, Jacobus, moved from Flat-
bush to Franklin township, Somerset county,
New Jersey, about 1762, and lost much prop
erty by the depreciation of continental money.
He married Jannette  . His son, Peter
Strycker, was a farmer of Hunterdon county,
New Jersey. His wife was Keziah Davis.
His daughter, Elizabeth Hall Strycker, mar
ried George Opdyke. She had twice refused
the handsome, hut awkward country clerk
and the Cleveland storekeeper, but the per
sistence of the New Orleans merchant won
her consent. His after success was perhaps
in a large measure due to her loving helpful
ness. Her portrait, as painted in 1834, shows
the quaint costume of that day. Children :
1. Emmeline, born in 1833, died August 18,
1908 ; married Edward C. Strobell, a merchant
of New York City.
2. Mary E., born in 1834, died August 14,
1907 ; married George W. Farlee, a lawyer
and banker, of New York City; child, Lily,
married Dr. Charles L. Dana, of New York
City ; children : Bessie, married Edward A.
Sheppard, and Ella G, both living in New
York City.
3. William S., born in New York City in
1836; was graduated in 1856 from the Col
lege of the City of New York, as valedic
torian; spent two years in Europe and at
tended law lectures at Heidelberg University ;
studied at the law schools of Albany and New
York Cfty and was admitted to the New York
bar in i860, and has since that time been an
active, prominent member in continuous prac
tice. He was a member of the New York
City common council in 1864; one of the state
assembly, 1875, and a memher of the council
of New York University. He married, in
1863, Margaret E., daughter of Dr. Alfred
C. Post, LL.D., president of the faculty of
the New York University Medical College.
Son, Alfred C. P. Opdyke.
4. Charles Wilson, born in New York City,
1838; was graduated from the University of

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the City of New York, at the age of eighteen
years, delivering the Latin oration. He spent
two years in Europe and devoted much time
to the study of the continental languages ;
studied at the law schools of. Albany and New
York City University. Broken health com
pelled him to abandon study in 1861. He
purchased a farm at Asbury, in the Musconel-
cong Valley, New Jersey, and made himself a
practical farmer for three years, thus recover
ing his health sufficiently to enter the dry
goods importing house of his father, in 1865.
His health again compelled him to give up
business, in 1867, when he again visited Eu
rope. From 1869 to 1879 he was actuary
and secretary of the Standard Life Insurance
Company. From 1872 to 1878, member of
the New York banking house of George Op
dyke & Company (or Sons)'; spent 1878-80
at St. Louis, Missouri, in the interest of in
vestments in railroads, mines and lands in
the west; returned in 1880 to the banking
house in New York City, which he relin
quished in 1881. After that date, he was en
gaged in the reorganization of several rail
roads and as joint executor of his father's
estate. He was greatly interested in his fam
ily history and while in Europe made exhaus
tive research to establish the early German
and Dutch lines of Op Den Dyck and the Den
Dycks, of Holland. In 1889 he published the
Opdyke Genealogy from which this record
has been compiled. He married (first), in
1862 Jane W. Creveling, of Asbury, New
Jersey, a descendant of Johannes, born 1706,
died 1782, and Catherine Creveling, both of
Woverlingen, Holland, who were married in
1737 and were among the earliest settlers of
the Musconelcong valley, in New Jersey.
Their son, Jacob Creveling, born 1755, died
1820, married Christina Hklely, born 1762,
died 1833. Their son, Samuel Creveling,
born 1796, died 1880, married Abigail Warne,
born 1800, died 1863 (daughter of John
Warne, a revolutionary soldier). Their
daughter, Jane W. Creveling, married Charles
Wilson Opdyke, who married (second) Percy
S., daughter of John N. Wheeler, of Chicago,
and Louisa Smith, a descendant of Henry
Bartie from Holland and Elizabeth White
from England. Children of first marriage:
Annie, born 1862 ; Edwin, 1866 ; Ralph, 1869.
Child of second marriage : Ethel, 1879.
Charles W. Opdyke died March 9, 1907.
5. George Francis, of whom further.

6. Henry B., born in Newark, New Jersey,
in 1 84 1 ; was graduated from the University
of the City of New York, in i860; entered
his father's dry goods importing house, and
in 1864 became a member of the dry goods
commission house of Kendall, Cleveland &
Opdyke, and in 1867 °f Kendall, Opdyke &
Company. From 1870 to 1877 he was a mem
ber of the banking firm of George Opdyke &
Company, when he retired from business. He
married, in 1868, Miriam B. Whiton, of Wor
cester, Massachusetts. Children : Henry,
born 1870; Howard, 1872; Agnes, 1876.
(VIII) George Francis, third son of
George (2) and Elizabeth H. (Strycker) Op
dyke, was born at Newark, New Jersey,
(Qinton Place), March 22, 1840. He was
educated in the Newark schools, which he at
tended until he was fourteen years of age,
then his father moved to New York City,
where he completed his studies. At the age
of seventeen years he entered the dry goods
importing house of his father and in 1869
became a member of the banking house of
George Opdyke & Company at its organiza
tion, continuing until its dissolution by the
death of George Opdyke, senior, in 1880. In
1873 Mr. Opdyke went abroad, spending a
year in European countries. On his return
he again joined his father in business. In
1881 he established the banking house of Op
dyke & Company, continuing until 1885, when
he retired. He had a natural aptitude for
the banking business and established an envi
able reputation as a wise, conservative finan
cier and a safe guide in matters pertaining to
finance. Schooled in the methods that made
his father's name a synonym for security, he
established for himself a name scarcely ex
celled in his day in banking circles. In 1881
he moved his residence from New York City
to Plainfield, New Jersey, where he lived after
his retirement until 1909, when climatic con
ditions induced him to come to Western New
York. He selected a location on Lakeview
avenue, Jamestown, where he purchased a
residence and now resides (1911). He pos
sesses many of the characteristics of his hon
ored father, one of which is his quality of
making and retaining friends. His delight is
in his friends, and his books, of which he has
a choice collection. He is a man of wide
reading and study, proud of his ancestry, and
has built a character consistent with the high
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Baptist church with which he has been con
nected since 1884. He is an advocate of Pro
hibition and acts with the party politically.
He married, in New York City, March 1,
188 1, Ida Reed, born in that city (7 West
Twenty-second street), November 20, 1852,
daughter of Almet and Lena (Van Deusen)
Reed. Children: 1. Wilbur Francis, born in
Plainfield, Union county, New Jersey, No
vember 29, 188 1 ; his early studies at Plain-
field and in the Moravian Boys' School 'at
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, showed an aptitude
along the lines of chemistry and the natural
sciences. He later took special courses at
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo
rado, and at Nevada State University, Reno,
Nevada. After extensive travel he married,
at Jamestown, New York, December 26, 1907,
Lulu Estella, daughter of Frank W. Cheney,
whose family has been identified with the de
velopment of Chautauqua county since pioneer
¦ days. After a year spent in the South, they
returned to Jamestown, where they now re
side. Children: George Francis, born in Ly
ons, Georgia, November 21, 1908; Frank
Wilbur, born in Jamestown, New York, Jan
uary 7, 191 1. 2. Dorothea Van Deusen, born
in Plainfield, Union county, New Jersey,
March 31, 1889. Throughout her school life
she was a conscientious student and usually
stood - on the honor line. Beloved by her
teachers and companions she finished her stud
ies in the Moravian College, Salem, North
Carolina. Always guided by high ideals, loy
ally devoted to her family and church, look
ing eagerly forward to a life of consecrated
usefulness, lovely and accomplished, she was
called higher, April 20, 1910.

DOROTHEA. (Gift of God)
This is your Birthday, my Darling,
The first you have been with God,
For you the Peace of the "pure in heart,'
For me the chastening rod.
Would I call you back, my Daughter,
Were it mine to still my pain;
Could I let the ceaseless heartache
Interfere with your great gain?
Through these dreary months of winter
You have walked the streets of gold,
Safe guarded from pain and sorrow
In the shelter of God's fold.

Last year you had gems and blush roses,
Twenty-one of the fairest that grew.
Each one for a year, my Precious,
All tenderly chosen for you.
The dreams that I dreampt then are broken,
Shattered and shivered and dead.
Yet you are alive in the summer land,
Forever at home with our Lord.
There is many a "box of spikenard"
That just lacks the opening key,
And it may be this year of anguish
Will unlock some sad heart to me.
The heart of somebody's daughter,
Just as full of warm trust as your heart.
As dainty, as winsome and loving —
But stained by a traitor's dart.
There are wee ones, bereft of a mother
Neglected and helpless and weak.
The babies you yearned for so deeply
Are waiting for some love to seek.
I must walk all alone — but upward
Mid the flint in the rocky road.
Grateful at least in the knowledge
You are happily safe with God.
Thank Him! I know you are happy,
With a surety not born of earth.
You are happy and gently singing
With a rippling tilt of mirth.
Yes — your first birthday in Heaven —
My Girlie's best gift this first day
Is to turn my life grief into service
For the weary who stumble and stray.
Your birthday will not be quite happy
If "Mother" is not counted a part.
God grant me today a comforting ray
Of your Paradise Peace in my heart.
(The Van Deusen Line).
This old Dutch name is derived from a
hamlet of about five hundred people in Noord
Brabant, in the Netherlands, called Deursen.
the immigrant ancestor of the family came
from Deursen (Van Deursen) and thus the
use of the surname arose, as is the case with
a multitude of Dutch families in this country.
Previous to arrival in America every Dutch
man was called by the baptismal name of his
father with "sen" added and it was a uni
versal custom for one hundred and fifty years
to use the father's name as a middle name
among the- Dutch families. This usage has
made it possible to trace many lines that
would otherwise be undiscoverable.
(I) Abraham Van Deusen came from Hol
land, probably in his old age, as five of his
sons settled in this country about the middle

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of the seventeenth century. They were:
Isaac, Melchert, Teunis or Mattheus, Jacob,
Peter. (II) Teunis or Mattheus, son of Abraham
Van Deusen, resided in Beverwyck (Albany),
where he was the owner of a lot from 1656
to 1667. This had a frontage of thirty-five
feet on Broadway extending back to James
street. At a sale in Albany, July 5, 1664, he
purchased a cow- for one hundred and eight
een florins. He was still living in Albany in
1700 ; no record of his death appears. His
wife bore the name of Helena and they had
children: Lysbet, Robert, Tryntje, Jan,
Isaac, Plelena.
(Ill) Robert, eldest son of Teunis or Mat
theus and Helena Van Deusen, was a resi
dent of Claverack, Columbia county, New
York, in 1720, and probably spent most of his
life in that town. He married (first), about
1689, Cornelia, daughter of Martin Cornelis
and Maritie Van Buren, who probably died
before 1718. He married (second) August
21, 1718, Gertruyd Van Benthuysen. Chil
dren : Johannes, Mattheus, Marten, Tobias,
Robert. (IV) Tobias, fourth son of Robert and
Cornelia (Van Buren) Van Deusen, was bap
tized August 16, 1696, and resided in Clave
rack, New York, where his will was made
January 15, 1772. He married, at Johnstown,
in the town of Livingston, Columbia county,
New York, March 21, 1723, Ariaantie Mul-
ler, of Claverack : Children : Robert, Cor
nelis, Johannes Heyltje, Cornelia, Ariaantie,
Tobias, Maria.
(V) Robert (2), eldest child of Tobias and
Ariaantie (Muller) Van Deusen, was baptized
February 12, 1726, in Johnstown, New York.
He resided in the town of Claverack near
Rathborn's wadding factory. He was an offi
cer in the revolutionary war. He married
Marytje Ostrander and had children: Adam,
Tryntje, Cornelia, Ariaantie, baptized at
Claverack; Heyltjen, baptized at Johnstown;
Cornelis, at Kinderhook ; Johannes, at Clave
rack. (VI) Johannes or John, youngest child of
Robert (2) and Marytje (Ostrander) Van
Deusen, was born June 15, 1779, at Clave
rack, and baptized there August 8th of that
year. He was early thrown upon his own
resources, and become one of the successful
business men and leading citizens of Colum
bia county. He began the mercantile busi

ness in an old shop at Johnstown in the town
of Livingston, and about 1800 built a store
in which he conducted business forty years.
At one time he had a partner named Forest
and in 1830 business was conducted by Van
Deusen & Reed. In 1820 he owned and oper
ated what was known as the "Good Hope"
flour mills, later known as the Bingham Mills,
and was an extensive dealer for many years
in real estate. He was a man of sound judg
ment and unspotted integrity, and because of
his. consequent success in business it seemed
as if money always stuck to him and he was
called by the nickname "Johnny Wax." He
served as town clerk of Livingston, 1805-12;
was supervisor 1812-20, and in 1823 was
elected a member of the state assembly. His
chief amusement was horseback riding and
he became a very skilled horseman and made
a fine figure on horseback; he served as an
officer in the cavalry division of the militia
for many years. He was a director of the ¦
National Hudson River Bank at Hudson, of
which he was one of the organizers. In 1842
he removed to a farm at Greenport, Columbia
county, where he died May 26, 1863, near
the close of his eighty-fourth year. He was
an active member of the Dutch Reformed
church in which he served many years as
treasurer. He married (first), December 7,
1800, Lena, daughter of Peter and Christina
(Van Loon) Fonda, born July 17, 1782, died
January 11, 1813. He married (second),
March 3, 1814, Anna Maria Elting, who died
September 29, 1816. He married (third),
June 17, 1817, Ann Maria Whitlock,, born
November 6, 1790. Children of first mar
riage: Rachel, born November 2, 1803; Jane
Maria, October 17, 1805 ; Evelina, January 4,
181 1 ; Lena, December 30, 1812. Children
of second marriage: Cathalina; Peter, born-
September 21, 1816, married Susan Livington
and resided at Hudson. Children of third
marriage: Mary Cornelia, born August 4,
1818; John, March 5, 1820; Harmon, August
10, 1824.
(VII) Lena, fourth daughter of John and
Lena (Fonda) Van Deusen, was horn De
cember 30, 1812. She married, September 7,
1831, Almet Reed, and died in 1894. Almet
Reed was born April 1, 1810, at Coxsackie,
Greene county, New York, died in New York
City, in February, 1880. Children: 1. Ed
gar, married Sarah Walsh, of Ithaca, New
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Sarah. The last died in infancy and the oth
ers married successively a Frenchman named
Gibert. 2. Helen Emma, born about 1833,
died October 13, 191 1; married Cornelius
Smith Mitchell, son of Samuel L. Mitchell, of
New York, and had children: Neil R., Helen
and Edith ; Neil R. married Agnes Lewis ; the
elder daughter became the wife of Dr. Jack
son, of New York City, and the junior of
Henry Prellwitz, a native of Germany. 3.
John, born April 26, 1838 ; married Mary
Louise, daughter of Samuel L. Mitchell, of
New York; they had daughters, Marie and
Alice; the former died in Paris and is buried
in Pere la Chaise cemetery. 4. Roswell, died
in infancy. 5. Ida, born November 20, 1852 ;
married, March 1, 1881, George Francis Op
dyke, of New York (see Opdyke VIII).

The Ferris family in America
FERRIS was originally from Leicester
shire, England, and descended
from the house of Ferriers (also written Fer-
ren, Ferreis and Ferris), the first member
of which in England was Henry de Feriers,
son of Guillaume de Feriers, master of the
house of the Duke of Normandy, who ob
tained from William the Conqueror large
grants of land in the counties of Stafford,
Derby and Leicester. It is said he took an
active part in the battle of Hastings, having
come to England in the train of the Con
queror. William Ferers, early of Derby, was
a descendant and bore arms : "Gules : seven
mascles, or, a canton ermine." The American
family bears : "Gules, a fleur de lis, or, a can
ton ermine with a crescent for difference."
Several of the name Ferris settled in New
England at an early day. Jaffrey Ferris
came from England to Watertown, Massa
chusetts, where he was admitted a freeman,
May 6, 1635. Hte went with the Watertown
pioneers to Wethersfield, Connecticut. He
remained there a few years, then went .with
the first colony to Stamford, Connecticut,
and received ten acres of land in the first divi
sion in 1640. In 1656 he was one of the
eleven men, of Greenwich, Connecticut, who
petitioned to be accepted under the jurisdic
tion of the New Haven colony. Tradition
tells us that his first wife was of noble birth,
marrying against the wishes of her family.
He married (second), shortly before her
death, Susannah, widow of Robert Lockwood.
She died December 23, 1660. His third wife

was Judy Burns, who thus signed her name
in receipting for her portion of the estate,
March 6, 1667. His will was proved at Fair
field, Connecticut, January 6, 1664, bequeath
ing to wife Judy; son James; step-children,
Jonathan and Mary Lockwood; son Peter's
three children; son Joseph's two children;
also giving ten pounds each to four boys that
he brought up. Children: John, of whom
further; Peter, born July 5, 1654, married
Elizabeth Reynolds; Joseph, born September
20, 1657, married Ruth Knapp; James, lived
in Greenwich.
John, son of Jaffrey Ferris, was born in
Leicestershire, England, about 1630. He set
tled in Westchester, New York, in 1654, and
was one of the original patentees. Bolton's
history states that he came to Westchester
from Fairfield, Connecticut, and was one of
the ten proprietors of Throckmorton's Neck
(now Throg's Neck), purchased of Thomas
Pell, in 1667. He receipted for his share
of his father's estate, July 16, 1705. His
father and brothers, according to this docu
ment, lived at Greenwich, Fairfield county,
Connecticut. Their names are spelled Feris,
while his is spelled Ferris. He lived to a
great age and was a member of the Society
of Friends in his later years. His will, dated
May 9, 1713, proved 1715, bequeathed to his
son Peter, houses and lands in Westchester.
Sons: John, Samuel, James and Jonathan.
Daughters: Phebe Bartling, Hannah Mott,
Martha and Sarah Ferris.
In 1665 Isaac, James and Benjamin Ferris
obtained a grant of land from King Charles
and came from Leicestershire, England, to
Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut. They
were, no doubt, relatives of Jaffrey Ferris,
the families in later days always claiming re
lationship. While the records do not estab
lish the fact, there is little doubt that Sylvanus
Ferris, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was a
direct descendant of Jaffrey Ferris, who was
the first of the name in that section. The
definite record begins with Sylvanus.
(I) Sylvanus Ferris was born in Green
wich, Connecticut, August 10, 1737, died Jan
uary 12, 1824. He married Mary Mead, also
born in Greenwich, September 30, 1743, died
July 12, 1822. They lived in their native
town, prosperous and happy until the outbreak
of the revolution, when Sylvanus, espousing
the cause of freedom, became obnoxious to
his Tory neighbors. He enlisted and served

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in the expedition against Crown Point and
Ticonderoga. He was persecuted to such an
extent in Greenwich that he sold out what the
Tories and cowboys had left him, and on May
26, 1788, purchased from Eli Randall the farm
in Westchester, New York, later owned by
Dr. Lawson. He moved his family there and
at Once began farming and keeping a country
inn. The house was known to travelers as an
inn until 1818. Mrs. Ferris, with saddle bags
filled with stockings of her own and neigh
bors' knitting, made annual visits to New
York City on horseback, disposed of the goods
and purchased such articles as they needed
and brought what she could home with her.
On one of these visits she pulled a sprout
from one of the black walnut trees north of
Harlem bridge for a whip ; when she reached
home she planted it, and the immense tree
that grew from it was one of the striking
features of the old homestead a century later
(perhaps is yet). A grandson of Sylvanus
Ferris, writing of him in 1890 (the writer be
ing then seventy-nine), says:
"I well remember our grandfather, Sylvanus Fer
ris, how he looked, his habits, etc. He was tall
and straight with a full head of white hair, always
wearing a smooth shaven face, spry and active until
within a few days of his death. He was much re
spected by his neighbors and had many friends. He
was dignified in appearance, though social and
friendly with all. He was a Presbyterian, always
attending church, though four miles away; al
ways faithful to family prayers night and morn
ing; always standing when he prayed or asked
blessing at the table, his family and guests
also standing. He was a man of even dispo
sition, always happy and delighted in making
others so. He was a tailor by trade, but did not
work at it while I knew him, but always cut and
made his own clothes. He did not work hard,
having good boys to do the work for him. I well
remember when a boy hearing grandfather tell of
his trials and experiences during the revolution :
how his Tory neighbors stole everything they could
lay their hands on. He had sold many things and
had quite a pot of money, which he buried, but jt
was found and taken from him. One night they
came with a British officer, who was on horseback,
made him get up and saddle and bridle his horse,
after which they rode away with it. One of his
neighbors, in his will made years afterward, directed
that Sylvanus Ferris should be paid with interest
the price of an ox he had stolen from him."
Children of Sylvanus and Mary (Mead)
Ferris: 1. Henry, born March 10, 1764, died
March 25, 1808. 2. Molly, born August 14,
1766, died September 13, 1840; married
Henry Hays ; lived and died in Galway, Sara
toga county, New York ; children : James,

Henry, William, Isaac, Polly, Ann, Rebecca.
3. Hannah, born October 23, 1768, died
October 24, 1846; married Abraham
Raymond; lived and died in Charlton, New
York; children: Harvey, Abraham, Letty,
Harriet.. 4. Sylvanus, of whom further. 5.
Sarah, born February 17, 1776, died July 23,
1857; married William Morgan; lived and
died in Wilton, Connecticut; children: Will
iam, Henry, Laura, Charles, Abraham. 6.
Elizabeth, died young. 7. Gideon, born De
cember 23, 1780, died November 6, 1861 ;
lived and died on the old homestead; married
Lois Boughton ; children : Helena, Cyrus
Mead, Elizabeth. 8. James, born April 18,
1783, died May 20, 1857; lived at Walton,
Connecticut, and in Ohio ; married (first) S.
Keller; (second) Nancy Smith; child, by first
wife: E. Keller; children by second wife:
Sally, Betsey, Abby, Harriet, Amanda. De
scendants live in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.
9. Betsey, born March 6, 1785, died January
28, 1863; married Joseph Darling; lived at
Reading, Connecticut, and Maryland, where
they died ; children : Henry, Sally, Aaron.
This indenture, made this 25th day of Novem
ber, A. D., 1815, between Amos Brownson, Syl
vanus Ferris, Rowland Sears, Josiah Smith,
James Norton, and Thomas Manley of the Nor
way Caverly Society of the first part and Syl
vanus Ferris of the second part,
Witnesseth: that the parties of the first part
for and in consideration of the sum of one hun
dred and eighty seven dollars and fifty cents to
them paid by the said party of the second part,
having bargained, sold, assigned, transferred, and
by these presents do bargain, sell, assign, trans
fer and deliver unto the said party of the second
part, his heirs and assigns forever, a Pew or Seat
number 7 on the ground floor of the new Church
lately erected in Norway. To have and to hold
the same unto the said party of the second part,
his heirs and assigns forever; upon condition
nevertheless, that the seat is only to be improved
or occupied as a pew or Seat for persons to sit
in during attendance on such Divine Worship
as shall from time to time be permitted to be
holden in said church.
In testimony whereof, the parties of the first
part have hereunto affixed their seal and sub
scribed their names the day and year first above
written. Amos Brownson,
Thomas Manley,
Josiah Smith,
James Norton.^
Sylvanus Ferris, Trustees.
Received South Salem this 23d day of June,
1824, of Gideon Ferris, executor of the last will
and testament of Sylvanus Ferris, late of South
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of two hundred and four -dollars and fifty cents
in full of legacies bequeathed to Sylvanus Ferris
of Norway, county of. Herkimer, in and by the
last will and testament of said Sylvanus Ferris
deceased.
$204.50. Sylvanus Ferris.
(II) Sylvanus (2) son of Sylvanus (1)
and Mary (Mead) Ferris, was born March 5,
1773, died July 23, 1857. He removed to Nor
way, New York, thence to Galesburg, Illinois,
where he died. He married Sally Olmsted.
Sylvanus Western, ' born June 30, 1799, died
September 30, 1887; Nathan Olmsted, Febru
ary 11, 1801, died November 19, 1850; Sally
Maria, September 18, 1803, died April 26, 1804 ;
Timothy Harvey, of whom further; William
Mead, November, 1807, died October 18,
1883; Henry, October 18, 1809, died April 15,
1891 ; Laura, December 16, 1811, died Febru
ary 23, 1831 ; Harriet Newel, June 23, 1816,
died December 12, 185 1; George Washing
ton Gale, May 11, 1818, died April 20, 1895.
(Ill) Timothy Harvey, son of Sylvanus
(2) and Sally (Olmsted) Ferris, was born.
October 20, 1805, in Norway, Herkimer
county, New York, died June 20, 1891. He
settled in the town of Russia, Herkimer
county, New York, where he engaged in agri
culture. He married, February 18, 1830, in
Norway, Eliza Ann Salisbury, born June
19, 1809, in Norway, New York. Chil
dren: Sarah Maria, born November 29,
1830, in Norway ; James Harvey, of whom
further; Harriet Newel, November, 1835,
Norway ; Frances Matilda, June 24, 1838, Rus
sia; Charles Sylvanus, November 28, 1840,
Russia; Stella Eliza, August 3, 1843, Russia;
Franklyn Stanton, August 26, 1846, Russia.
(IV) James Harvey, son of Timothy Har
vey and Eliza Ann (Salisbury) Ferris, was
born in 1833, died 1885. He was educated
in the public schools of Fairfield, New York,
where he lived until 1869, when he came to
Cattaraugus county, New York, settling in
the town of Farmersville. He was -a farmer
and a man well esteemed. He was a member
of the Masonic fraternity and a Republican.
He married Frances Terry. Children: 1.
William H., married Cora Robley. 2. Frances
died at the age of thirty-three; married El
mer McWall ; children : Harold, Francis, Mar
jorie. 3. George Washington Gale, of whom
further. 4. Hermon R., died at the age of
twenty-nine years ; lived in Colorado ten years
prior to his death.
(V) George W. G., son of James Harvey

and Frances (Terry) Ferris, was born in
Farmersville, Cattaraugus county, New York,
September 29, 1871. He was educated in the
public school and Ten Broeck Academy, class
of 1892. On embarking in business life for
himself he came to Franklinville, where in
association with his brother, William H., he
purchased the drug store of William Ely,
and carried on business under the firm name
of Ferris & Ferris. In 1904 he purchased
the mill property of G. C. Ames and organized
the Empire Manufacturing Company, of
which he is secretary and treasurer. He also
organized the Franklinville Electric Light
Company, operated by the same power. He
is also vice-president of the Union National
Bank and a trustee of the Duer Canning
Company. Mr. Ferris figures prominently in
the public affairs of his town and county. He
is a trustee of the village corporation of
Franklinville, and in 1907 was chosen treas
urer of Cattaraugus county. His administra
tion of the finances of the county was so sat
isfactory to the voters that in 1910 he was
nominated and elected for a second term of
three years. He is a member and trustee of
the Presbyterian 'church, member of Lodge
No. 636, Free and Accepted Masons, and po
litically a Republican. He married, May 27,
1896, Helen E. Robley, sister of Cora, wife
of William H. Ferris.

Thomas Scovell, the first of
SCOVELL the line here under considera
tion, was a soldier of the revo
lution, serving at Ticonderoga. He married
and had a son Thomas, of whom further.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Sco
vell, lived, at least as early as 1779 and as
late as 1781, at Lempster, Chester (now Sul
livan county), New Hampshire. Later he set
tled about two miles east of the village of Or
well, Addison county, Vermont. Here, with
others, he entered into a mercantile business,
which failed. He was a soldier of the revolu
tion, and served at Ticonderoga. He married
Rachel, born September 16, 1753, daughter
of Josiah and Rachel (Cole) Boardman. She
married (first) November 9, 1775, Hezekiah
Wilcox, who died September 11, 1776; a son
by the first marriage was born exactly a month
after his father's death. Children of Thomas
(2) and Rachel (Boardman-Wilcox) Scovell:
Josiah Boardman, of whom further.
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and Rachel (Boardman- Wilcox) Scovell, was
a farmer and breeder of merino sheep at Or
well. In the war of 1812 he served in the
battle of Plattsburg and elsewhere on the
northern frontier. In 1836 he settled in Nia
gara county, New York. He married, in Ver
mont, Anna, only daughter of John and Ca
therine (Weaver) Saxe, who had several sons,
and of whose sons one, Peter, was father of
John G. Saxe, the poet. Among the children
of Josiah Boardman and Anna (Saxe) Sco
vell was Oliver Perry, of whom further.
(IV) Oliver Perry, son of Josiah Board-
man and Anna (Saxe) Scovell, was born at
Orwell, March 24, 1820. In 1836 he came
with his parents to Cambria, Niagara county,
New York. In 1841 and 1842 he was clear
ing a new farm in the woods of Eaton county,
Michigan. The next two years he was in Or
leans county, New York; for six years, from
the spring of 1845, he was in New York City,
as agent for a line of boats on the Erie canal ;
for two years he was in Boston, in similar
work; in the summer of 1853 he was traveling
agent for the Albany & Rutland railroad. In
i860 he was elected a member of the New
York legislature. During the drafts he was
provost marshal of the county, and he held
several other offices under the village of Lew
iston and the nation. Besides these public
offices he was director and vice-president of
the Lake Ontario Shore railroad (now the
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg). For over
forty years he has been elder, treasurer and
clerk of the session of the Presbyterian
church. He married (first) at Lewiston, in 1846,
Elizabeth, daughter of Leonard Shepherd,
of Lewiston, who died in 1854; (second) Eliz
abeth, daughter of Philo Jewett, of Wey
bridge, Vermont. Children: 1. Anna Saxe,
died in infancy. 2. Oliver Perry, born June
3, 1859, died September 22, 1881, while a stu
dent at Oberlin College. 3. Elizabeth Eddy,
born October 12, 1861, died December 13,
1876. 4. Philo Jewett, born May 17, 1865 ;
attendant of Oberlin College, specializing in
music. 5. Josiah Boardman, of whom further.
(V) Josiah Boardman (2) youngest child
of Oliver Perry Scovell, was born in Lewis-
ton, New York, December 1, 1869. He gra
duated from Lockport union school and Cor
nell University, Law Department, 1891, LL. B.
He was admitted to the New York bar in Oc
tober, 1892. Until 1894 he was engaged with

the West Publishing -Company, a legal pub
lishing house, during which period he edited
thirty volumes of "Federal Cases," spending
his summers in St. Paul, Minnesota, his win
ters at Washington, D. C. In 1894 he began
the practice of law in Buffalo, continuing un
til 191 1, when he moved to Niagara Falls,
New York, where he is largely interested in
the development and use of Niagara power.
He is a lawyer of high repute, thoroughly
versed in corporation and international law, in
United States court practice and in general
legal procedure. In 1902 he assisted in the
reorganization of the Columbia National
Bank, serving the same two years as director.
He is on the directorate of several manufac
turing and business corporations, also serving
several of them as secretary and treasurer.
He is deeply immersed in business and a man
thoroughly capable both in and outside his
profession. He is an independent Democrat
in politics, and since 1897 an elder of the First
Presbyterian Church of Lewiston, also active
and interested in Sunday school work. He
is a member of the Erie County, New York .
State and American Bar associations ; mem
ber of the American Library Association ; life
member of the Lewiston Free Library Asso
ciation, which he served five years as presi
dent, and five years as treasurer, donating the
library building; member of Sigma Chi and
Phi Delta Phi, Cornell Alumni Association;
member of Buffalo Historical Society, and
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. His
clubs are the Buffalo, Ellicott and Lawyers',
of Buffalo, was president of the Liberal Club
of Buffalo, and is affiliated with clubs of To
ronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Winnipeg, Ca
nada; New York City, Washington, and Lon
don, England.
He married, January 16, 1909, at Lewiston,
New York, Rhoda Ann, daughter of George
H. and Margaret (McLean) Godfrey, of
Lewiston.. She is a graduate of Niagara Falls
high school and Elmira College. They have
one child, Margaret Elizabeth, born at "Fair
banks," in Lewiston, December 17, 191 1.

Hon. James Jefferson Mvers,
MYERS son of Robert and Sabra (Ste
vens) Myers, was born in
Frewsburg, Chautauqua county, Western New
York, November 20, 1842. He conies of old
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Puritan stock through the maternal Stevens
and Tracy lines. His grandparents on both
sides were among the pioneer settlers in West
ern New York, and he still owns the farm
which his father's father bought of the Hol
land Land Company early in the nineteenth
century. He received his early education in the pub
lic schools of his native town and at Fredonia
and Randolph academies, both in Western
New York. He entered Harvard College in
1865 and was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1869. While
preparing for college, he spent a portion of
the time each year in lumbering on the Alle
gheny river and on the Ohio river, making
long trips by raft, thus building up a strong
physique and acquiring a thorough knowledge
of the country and of human nature. In col
lege he won distinction for scholarship, taking
the Boylston prize for elocution two successive
years, and he was also prominent in athletics,
rowing in his class crew several years. He
studied for his profession in the Harvard Law
School, from which he was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1872, hav
ing spent a year abroad and having taught
mathematics in the college one year while a
law student. He was admitted to the bar of
Suffolk county in the summer of 1872, but
before he began to practice there he served
an apprenticeship of one year as clerk in a
New York City law office. In the autumn of
1874, in partnership with J. B. Warner he
began to practice in Boston, and since then he
has been in active practice there. His office
at present is at 53 State street. Mr. Myers
ranks easily among the foremost lawyers of
Boston. Mr. Myers has had a career of high distinc
tion in public life. In politics he is a Republi
can of large influence, and he has been for
many years a prominent figure in Massachu
setts politics. In 1892 he was elected to the
general court of Massachusetts from the first
Middlesex representative district, and he was
re-elected from year to year until 1904. In
1893 he served on the committees on rules,
on elections, and on probate and insolvency,
and became a recognized leader in committee
room and on the floor of the house. Pie took
a conspicuous part in some of the most no
table debates of the session, and was instru
mental in securing much important legislation.
He was the chief champion of the bill creating

a commission to inquire into the Norwegian
liquor system, and was one of the most effec
tive supporters of the Metropolitan parks bill,
spoke in favor of the measure to protect the
interests of the Commonwealth in the Fitch-
burg railroad case, and for the bill to abolish
double taxation, and was one of the active
members in the Bay State gas investigation,
one of the most important acts of that legis
lature. He also assisted in securing the ap
pointment of a special committee on revision
of the corporation laws, to sit during the re
cess, and as a member of this committee took
a leading part in its work and in the prepara
tion of its report. In the legislature of 1894
he was house chairman of the special commit
tee on the revision of corporation laws, and
a member of the committees on the judiciary
and on rules, and was especially active in pro
curing legislation to prevent the watering of
stocks of quasi-public corporations, such as
gas, electric lighting, water, telephone, tele
graph and railroad companies. He also had a
hand in drafting a municipal conduit bill, au
thorizing any municipality to construct con
duits for electric wires in its own streets, but
this measure was defeated. In the legislature
of 1895 he was appointed house chairman of
the committee on the judiciary and remained
a member of the committee on rules and as
a matter of course took a leading part in the
laborious work of that committee during the
session. Again in 1896 he was chairman of
the committee on rules and also of judiciary,
and during the next three years he held these
places of leadership. In 1899 he held these
chairmanships and also served on the special
committee on the reception of President Mc
Kinley. He was elected speaker of the house
in 1900 by a virtually unanimous vote, and
re-elected speaker in 1901-02-03. He was
chairman of the committee on rules and house
chairman in 1901 of the joint special commit
tee on the revision of the public statutes, a
work of vast importance. As speaker he came
to the position with superb natural gifts and
an unexcelled legislative training and experi
ence. No speaker in recent years filled the
high office with greater ability and distinction.
Through the legislative sessions while he was
speaker, he guided the body over which he
presided with consummate skill and tact, and
took a prominent part in the enactment of
much wise and beneficient legislation. It was
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whose confidence and admiration he had won
during his public service, that he did not seek
higher honors after retiring from the speak
ership. In Cambridge, where he has resided for
many years at 3 Wadsworth House, he has
kept in close touch with the social and civic
life. For many years he was a member of
the executive committee of the Cambridge
Civil Service Reform Association, treasurer
for a number of years of the Cambridge
branch of the Indian Rights Association,
treasurer of the citizens' committee for rais
ing funds for the public library, and he was
president of the Library Hall Association in
1892. He has been president of the Colonial
Club of Cambridge, and is a member of the
Citizens' Trade Association and a trustee of
the Prospect Union.
He has various business connections outside
of his profession, and is a director of the Cam
bridge Trust Company and of the Walworth
Manufacturing Company of Boston. He is a
member of various social and political organ
izations : The Massachusetts Republican Club,
the Middlesex Club, the Massachusetts Re
form Club, the Middlesex Bar Association,
the National Geographic Society,- the Massa
chusetts Civil Service Association, the Eco
nomic Club, the Cambridge Historical Society,
the Massachusetts Forestry Society, the
Hooker Memorial Association, of the Union
University, St. Botolph, Merchants, Twen
tieth Century, Massachusetts, and Oakley
Country clubs, of Boston, of the Cambridge
and Colonial clubs of Cambridge, and of the
Harvard, University and Zeta Psi clubs of
New York City. He is a member of the Ma
sonic fraternity.

James Brooks, the first of the
BROOKS line herein mentioned of whom
we have definite information,
was born in Haddam, Connecticut,, in Novem
ber, 1758, died December 30, 1832, in Carlisle
township, Lorain county, Ohio, aged seventy-
four years. He served seven years in the re
volutionary war, being a soldier in the Con
necticut line, from which he was transferred
to the commander-in-chief's guard, otherwise
known as the Washington Life Guard. He
wintered at Valley Forge. He was taken
prisoner five times, was never exchanged, but
made his escape every time. Once, when on
a prison ship, in New York harbor, after

they had gotten out into the sound, he crawled
through the port hole and swam seven miles
to Long Island. He had been a sea captain,
was a powerful man and a good swimmer.
He married, April 15, 1782, at Haddam, Con
necticut, Lydia, born December 2, 1763, on
Long Island, died in La Porte, Lorain county,
Ohio, December 3, 1847, aged eighty-four
years, daughter of Samuel King. They were
members of the Congregational church in
Connecticut. (II) Hezekiah, son of James and Lydia
(King) Brooks, was born in Haddam, Con
necticut, April 10, 1791, died January 24,
1862, in Carlisle, Ohio. He was a mechanic
and spent the winters of 1813-14-15 in South
Carolina constructing "cotton gins." He, ac
companied by his wife and three children,
Martin Luther, Ann Hopkins and Hannah
Miller, removed to the "Western Reserve" in
Ohio, in 1818, a journey of six weeks' dura
tion, with an ox team, and settled in the town
ship of Carlisle, Lorain county, among the
first settlers in New Connecticut, as that region
was called, enduring all the hardships of pion
eer life in the then wilderness. He was a man
of considerable executive ability, and inter
ested in all that made for the welfare of the
people. He was greatly interested in educa
tional work, a generous contributor to the
building of Oberlin College, in which his fam
ily of ten children received their education.
He was an ardent anti-slavery man and his
home was a refuge for those of the colored
race who attempted to escape from bondage
to freedom. He and his family were mem
bers of the Congregational church. He mar
ried, March 11, 1812, Hannah, born in Ber
lin, Connecticut, April 22, 1793, daughter of
Phineas and Hannah (Miller) Johnson; she
died in Cleveland, Ohio, July 23, 1880, aged
eighty-seven years, three months.
(Ill) Dr. James (2) Brooks, son of Heze
kiah and Hannah (Johnson) Brooks, was born
in Carlisle, Lorain county, Ohio, April 6,
1823. He received his literary education in
Oberlin College, and later was a student in
the medical department of the Western Re
serve College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which
he graduated in February, 1846. He settled
in Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York,
May 6, 1846, where he practiced his profes
sion for half a century and resided for sixty-
four years. He married, May 29, 1848, at
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Melvina, born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, May
19, 183 1, daughter of Hartwell and Hannah
(Aldrich) Bent, who removed to Randolph
when she was four years of age. She is now
living in Ellington, which has been her home
since marriage (see Bent). The family are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Children: 1. James Casper, born April 25,
1849, was killed in a railroad accident, Sep
tember 26, 1883, aged thirty-four years; he
was a civil engineer; married, September 9,
1874, Delora, daughter of Captain Julius B.
and Caroline A. Maltbie, of Gowanda, New
York ; one child, Harry Birdsey Brooks. 2.
Melvin Main, born July 14, 185 1, died in El
lington, New York, January 11, 1895, aged
forty-four years ; was a civil engineer ; was
superintendent of the construction of several
railroads, and had charge of several gas plants
in Ohio, Indiana, and Jamestown, New York ;
married, in September, 1876, Kate Josephine
Morgan, of Fort Edward, New York; chil
dren : Mabelle Morgan Brooks, born June 10,
1877; Kate Melvina Brooks, born June 13,
1880, and James Arthur Brooks, born August
26, 1885, accidentally killed while hunting,
July 25, 1899. 3. John Marvin, see forward.
(IV) Dr. John Marvin Brooks, son of Dr.
James (2) and Melvina (Bent) Brooks, was
born December 19, 1856, in Ellington, Chau
tauqua county, New York. He received his
early education in the schools of Ellington,
and pursued his preliminary studies in medi
cine under the guidance of his uncle, Dr. M.
L. Brooks, of Cleveland, Ohio. Subsequently
he entered the medical department of the Uni
versity of Wooster, Ohio, graduating in 1881,
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Im
mediately after graduation Dr. Brooks re
turned to Ellington and entered upon the ac
tive practice of his profession. He spent the
winter of 1894-95 in New York City, pursu
ing a post-graduate course, afterward settling
in Jamestown, where he has long occupied an
enviable position in the ranks of his profes
sional brethren, being generally regarded as
one of the foremost physicians of Western
New York. The professional career of Dr.
Brooks covers a period of thirty-one years,
including thirteen years at Ellington, the time
passed in New York City in post-graduate
studies, and seventeen years at Jamestown, a
period filled with tireless endeavor, steady
progress and well earned appreciation and re
ward. He is a member of the American Medi

cal Association, the Jamestown Medical Soci
ety and the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks of Jamestown. His political affilia
tions are with the -Republicans.
Dr. Brooks married (first) March 12, 1884,
E. Bessie, daughter of Morris and Mary Jane
(Hooper) Cook, of Gerry, New York, and
they became the parents of two daughters:
Mary Kate, born July 29, 1897; Lillian Em
ily, October 28, 1899. Mrs. Brooks died Au
gust 14, 1901, and Dr. Brooks married (sec
ond) July 4, 1910, Mrs. Rosabel (Peterson)
Pratt, daughter of Simeon and Augusta
(Chapman) Peterson. Mrs. Brooks was born
July 17, 1872, in Gerry, New York, is a mem
ber .of the Presbyterian church, and for a
number of years sang in the choirs of Presby
terian and Methodist Episcopal churches.
(The Bent Line).
John Bent, the progenitor of this branch
of the family, came to this country from Pen-
ton, Grafton, England, in 1638, and his de
scendants have filled well their parts in all
walks of life. He was a resident of Sud
bury, and was one of Major Simon Willard's
troopers in the expedition against Minigset
in November, 1654. Twenty-one descendants
of John Bent served in the wars between 1654
and 1771 ; twenty-three descendants served in
the revolutionary war of seven years, among
whom was Silas Bent, of Rutland, commis
sioned lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Regi
ment, Massachusetts Militia, July 1, 1781, and
six other descendants were commissioned in
Massachusetts militia from 1781 to 1824;
thirty-nine descendants enlisted in the civil
war; nineteen of his descendants were college
graduates ; eleven clergymen ; nine physicians ;
eight lawyers ; and twenty-eight were members
of the state legislatures, among whom was
Charles Bent, first governor of New Mexico,
appointed September 22, 1846, by S. W.
Kearny, brigadier-general of the United States
army. (I) David Bent, a descendant of John
Bent, aforementioned, was born in Rutland,
Massachusetts, April 3, 1756, died in Mt.
Holly, Vermont, January 1, 1832, aged sev
enty-five years. He was a farmer by occupa
tion. He started for Cambridge at the head
of his company, with Colonel Nathaniel Spar
hawk's regiment, as soon as the news of the
battle of Lexington was received. He saw
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tion (October, 1781) in Captain John Spoor's
company,' Colonel John Ashley's regiment,
that marched to Stillwater. He moved, about
1776, from Rutland to Templeton, Massachu
setts, and thence, about 1786, with his brother-
in-law, Joseph Green, to Mt. Holly, Vermont,
where he was one of the first settlers. Mt.
Holly, which was incorporated in 1792, lies
in a depression of the Green Mountains, about
fifteen miles southeast of Rutland, and was
the old stage road from Boston to Rutland
and the north. He served as town clerk of
Mt. Holly in 1797. He married, April 26,
1775, Phebe, born November 5, 1756, died
April 15, 1848, aged ninety-one years, daugh
ter of John and Elizabeth (Earle) Whitte-
more, of Paxton, Massachusetts, and a de
scendant of Thomas Whittemore, who settled
in Charlestown (the part now Everett) Mas
sachusetts, in 1645. Mr. and Mrs. Bent were
the parents of fourteen children, six sons and
eight daughters, among whom was David, see
forward. (II) David (2) son of David (1) Bent,
was born October 23, 1780, in Templeton,
Massachusetts, died in Cavendish, Vermont,
in December, 1859, aged seventy-nine years.
He accompanied his parents to Mt. Holly,
Vermont, was reared and educated there, and
followed the occupation of farming there for
many years. He was a member of the Bap
tist church, and a generous and highly re
spected citizen. He married (first) in 1800,
Lucy Fletcher, who died about 1807, aged
twenty-four years; married (second) Lydia
Bemis. Children of first wife: Dalmanntha,
born August 5, 1801 ; Hartwell, see forward ;
Betsey, born May 7, 1805 ; Robinson, born
about 1807, moved in 1835 from Vermont to
New York, and five years later to Wisconsin,
lived near Jamesville, married Esther Pierce,
and they had four children. Children of sec
ond wife: Samuel Walker; Elvira, married
 Sinclair, of Mt. Holly, Vermont; Cor
liss H., died unmarried, went west in 1845,
and drove a stage for S. Bent Walker, and
was killed by being thrown from his stage;
Mark Cole, born in Mt. Holly, 1825, went
west in 1852, settled in Wisconsin, died un
married. (Ill) Hartwell, son of David (2) Bent,
was born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, May 28,
1803, died in Randolph, New York, May 2,
1844, aged nearly forty-one years. He was
a merchant in Mt. Holly for several years

before removing to Randolph, New York,
where he took up his residence on September
30, 1835, and purchased a farm, on which he
resided for two years, when he rebuilt and
opened a public house (Union House) in Oc
tober, 1838, and which he conducted the last
six years of his life. He was a man of enter
prise, public-spirited, engaging in business
that would build up the town and give aid to
all. He with Thomas B. Walker, of Ellicott
ville, owned and conducted the old stage route
from Ellicottville to Jamestown, where, with
coach and four horses, the mail and passengers
were carried each day on the old stage route,
east and west, from 1838 to 1844. He held
office of deputy sheriff of Cattaraugus county
for several years, _ also held town offices. He
was largely interested in the Holland Land
Company of that day.
He married, in Shrewsbury, Rutland county,
Vermont, March 12, 1829, Hannah, born in
Shrewsbury, March 25, 1807, died in Ran
dolph, August 11, 1842, eldest daughter of
Abner and Betsey (Sanderson) Aldrich.
Children, born in Mt. Holly: 1. Elizabeth,
born and died February 2, 1830. 2. Melvina,
born May 19, 1831 ; married Dr. James
Brooks (see Brooks III). 3. Betsey, born
September 29, 1832. 4. Horace Aldrich, born
June 14, 1834, died May 21, 1862, from in
juries received in a railroad accident at Sala
manca, New York. Children, born in Ran
dolph : 5. Diana Hannah, born March 31,
1840; living in Randolph, New York; mar
ried, January 29, 1861, George S. Jones;
children : Frank H. Jones, born September
21, 1863, a printer in Washington, D. C. ; mar
ried and has two children ; Glenn C. Jones,
born November 27, 1865, a real estate agent
in Chicago, Illinois, married and has one
child; Anna M. Jones, born June 28, 1868,
married and has one child ; George Hartwell
Jones, born April 20, 1871, graduate of Buf
falo University, and a druggist in Dunkirk,
New York, married and has one child. 6.
Hartwell Jr., born April 22, 1842, died June
20, 1842.

James Tapp, the English ances-
TAPP tor of this family, was born in
London, England, in 1810, and died
in 1 88 1. He was a shoemaker by trade and
kept a shoe store in London. Fourteen chil
dren, three of whom died in infancy, the
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deceased ; Julia, deceased ; William Henry, of
whom further ; Martha, deceased ; Thomas
B., of Farmersville, New York; Albert P.,
deceased; Anna, of Churchill; Joseph D., de
ceased. James, George W., William H.,
Thomas P., Anna and Joseph D. came to the
United States.
(II) William Henry, fourth son -of James
Tapp, was born in London, England, in 1839,
died in 1904. In the year 1854, at the age of
fifteen, he came to this country, crossing in a
sailing vessel, and joined his brother who had
arrived some time previously, at Rushford,
New York. In August, 1861. he enlisted in
the Eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry ; was
taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Run ; he
re-enlisted in the Second United States Artil
lery, B. & L., was taken prisoner again and
was sent to Washington Territory, to guard
the Indians. He was discharged in Febru
ary, 1867. After having served in the army
in all for a period of six years, he returned
from his western service to Rushford, New
York, and bought for himself a farm of one
hundred acres in Farmersville. Here he en
gaged for awhile in farming, but was taken
sick as a result of sunstroke, and spent some
time in the Buffalo Hospital. Upon being re
stored to health he left that institution and
settled at Hardys Corners. He was a member
of Woodruff Post, Grand Army of the Re
public, and was a Republican in politics ; he
belonged to the Baptist church.
In 1868 he married Mary Elizabeth, daugh
ter of Thomas and Mary (Moore) Agatt, who
had nine children : Mary Elizabeth, Sarah
Jane, Phoebe, Martha, Lottie, William J.,
John Luke, Henry G. and Thomas. Thomas
Agatt, the father, was a farmer. Mr. and
Mrs. Tapp had three children : 1. Mertie May,
born September 21, 1871 ; married, February
25, 1890, Ernest Pratt, and had two children :
Roy, born in November, 1899, and Evelyn,
born March 6, 1907. 2. William James, of
whom further. 3. Fred H., born December
16, 1878; married, October 21, 1906, Mildred
Stevens; one child Gertrude, born August 5,
1907. (Ill) William James, son of William
Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Agatt) Tapp,
was born February 17, 1873. He attended the
public schools. At the age of twelve years he
began working on the farm during the sum
mer and attending school during the winter,
continuing thus until he was nineteen years

of age; he then helped his father, also going
out to work. For a year he was employed
in a cheese manufacturing business, and then
for another year in the oil business at Deer
Creek, engaging in the latter business also
at Salt Rising. After this he went to West
Virginia in company with Martin O'Connor,
and bought oil land in Hancock county. He
then came back to Cattaraugus county, New
York, buying leases on lands at Knapp Creek,
on which there were twenty-nine wells. This
he retained for eight years and then sold his
interests at a great advance, having bought
this property for twelve thousand dollars and
selling for twenty-five thousand dollars. Af
ter this he came to Olean, New York, buy
ing houses, finishing and selling them ; and
at Portville he invested in seventeen acres for
a private home where he now resides. He
is interested in the Ann Oil Company of
West Virginia, which has eleven wells, pump
ing free, and also in the Kinley Company
which he operates at Knapp Creek. He is
a genial man, well known in the community
and possessing the esteem of all among whom
he moves, and by his industry and native
shrewdness has accumulated for himself con
siderable means. He is a member of the Re
publican party, and a trustee of the Metho
dist church.
Mr. Tapp married, June 20, 1900, Parma
Belle, daughter of William P. and Margaret
(Sindorf) Bowser. Mrs. William Tapp's
father, William P. Bowser, was the son of
Benjamin Bowser, who was born in Walk
Chalk. He was a farmer in Kittanning, Wash
ington township, Pennsylvania, also followed
hotel keeping and was for many years turn
key of the jail; was a well known man of
that town, deacon of. the Baptist church, and
is still living at the age of ninety-four. He
married (first) Elizabeth - — . Children :

Christopher; Catherine; Ann, married 
Hawks ; Rachel, married  McGregor ;
William P. (Mrs. Tapp's father). Married
(second) Catherine Yerty, born in Arm
strong county, Pennsylvania. Children : Mer-
win, Stephen, Abraham, Sophia, Ellen, Denny.
Five died in infancy. Mrs. Tapp's mother
was born in Sherrett. Her father, John Sin
dorf, was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
He was a blacksmith, followed that at Sher
rett and in 1875 moved to Du Bois where
he followed the livery business until his death
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Torentine, Pennsylvania. Children: John,
Amelia, Margaret (Mrs. Tapp's mother),
James, Henry, Herman, Robert, Ray. Four
died in infancy. The mother of these children
is still living in Du Bois, at eighty-seven years
of age. Mr. and Mrs. Bowser have had seven
children : Parma Belle, Celeste, Clema, Sadie,
Park, Clarence, Wayne. Mr. Bowser, father
of Mrs. Tapp, is an oil man of Kittanning,
Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Tapp have had
four children : William Wayne, born March
19, 1903 ; Margaret Elizabeth, July 29, 1905 ;
Harold Leslie, February 10, 1907; Theodore
Leland, August 1, 1910.

Henry Bull, governor of Rhode
BULL Island in 1685 and again in 1690,
and the ancestor of many bearing
the name, was born in 1609 in England or
South Wales. Previous to July 17, 1636, he
entered his name on a volume in Ms. at the
augmentation office (so called) in London,
where Rev. Joseph Hunter, one of the record
commissioners, presided in Rolls Court, West
minster Hall, as a passenger to New England
in the "James," John May, master, and em
barked at the port of London after Christ
mas, 1634, with forty-three other passengers
by permission. On May 17, 1637, there was
a summons of the court of Boston to Henry
Bull and others to appear. He was one of
the company who went to Rhode Island in
1637, and was one of the signers of the con
tract for a "Body Politic," as also for the
purchase of Aquidinick Island of the Indians.
In 1680 Henry Bull was a deputy to the gen
eral assembly, Newport, and again in 1681.
He died at Newport, 22 of 11 mo., 1693-94
(Friends' Record) aged eighty-four years,
"the last man of the first settlers of this Rhode
Island." He married (first) Elizabeth  ,
who died in 1663; married (second) Esther
daughter of Ralph and Esther (Swift) Al
len, 14 of 12 mo., 1664 (Sandwich, Massa
chusetts record) ; she died 26 of 12 mo., 1676
(Portsmouth, Rhode Island record) ; mar
ried (third) Anne (Clayton) Easton, widow
of Governor Easton; she died in 1707. Chil
dren : Jireh, see forward ; Daughter, married
¦  Allen, of Little Compton; Amey, mar
ried Edward Richmond, of Little Compton.
(II) Jireh, son of Henry Bull, was born at
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1638. He married
and had sons : Jireh, see forward ; Henry,
married Ann Cole ; Mary, married John

Coggeshall; Ephraim, married (first) Mary
Coggeshall, (second) Hannah Holway; Eze
kiel, married Elizabeth  .
(Ill) Jireh (2) son of Jireh (1) Bull, was
born in 1659, died July 16, 1709. He mar
ried Godsgift, daughter of Governor Arnold.
Children : Jireh, Benjamin, Benedict, see for
ward. (IV) Benedict, son of Jireh (2) Bull, was
born in 1687. He went to Milford, Connec
ticut, 1711-12. He married, December 11,
1716, Sybella, daughter of Alexander Bryan
Jr., of Milford. Children: Benedict, born
1717, died young; Sybella, born February 14,
1720; married  Hunting; Jireh, see for-
word ; Benjamin, twin of Jireh, born Octo
ber 10, 1721 ; married (first) Esther Bald
win; (second) Anna Piatt; Godsgift, born
February 24, 1724; Content, born about 1725,
married  Bryan.
(V) Jireh (3) son of Benedict and Sybella
(Bryan) Bull, was born October 10, 1721. He
married Sybella, daughter of Jere. Peck.
Children: Jabez Benedict, see forward; Sibyl,
baptized January 7, 1750, married Daniel
Buckingham ; Jireh, Henry, Jeremiah, Abigail,
Jerusha, Content.
(VI) Jabez Benedict, son of Jireh (3) and
Sybella (Peck) Bull, was born January 5,
1748, in Milford, Connecticut, died December
25, 1815. He married, December 6, 1770, at
Milford, Mara Naomi, daughter of Captain
Richard Bristol. Children, born at Milford:
1. Benedict, see forward. 2. James, born Oc
tober 19, 1772 ; married Margaret, daughter
of Dr. Samuel Pond, and died in Milford,
March 18, 1831. 3. Mara, born October 7,
1774, died in New Albany, Indiana, July 4,
1833 ; married Joel Scribner. 4. Jireh, born
April 7, 1776, died December 31, 1823. 5.
Richard Bryan, born March 21, 1778, died in
New York, May 14, 1804, after being absent
from home four years and five months; un
married. 6. Lucy, born July 21, 1780; mar
ried, December 4, 1800, William Atwater. The
mother of these children died in December,
1842, at the residence of her son, Benedict,
in Plymouth, Connecticut, in her eighty-sev
enth year.
(VII) Benedict (2) son of Jabez Benedict
and Mara Naomi (Bristol) Bull, was born
July 10, 1771, died September 23, 1852, in
Plymouth, Connecticut. He married, April 6,
1800, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Edward and
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born at Milford: 1. Eliza, December 29, 1800,
died unmarried in Plymouth. 2. Edward Car
rington, April 9, 1802, died April 27, 1845,
in ' Orwell, Pennsylvania ; married Cynthia
M. Bronson. 3. Richard Bryan, April 24,
1803, died May 8, 1808, in Milford. 4. Sus
anna, April 13, 1804, died July 22, 1854, in
Vernon, Connecticut; married  Talcott.
5. Jabez Benedict, see forward. 6. Isaac Miles,
August 14, 1807, died September 8, 1884, at
Cromwell, Connecticut, unmarried. 7. James
Carrington,1 March 29, 1809, lived but two
days. 8. Martha, February 2, 181 1; married
Aaron D. Wells and died in Plymouth. 9.
Henry Carrington, October 29, 1812, died Au
gust 24, 1885, in Bunker Hill, Illinois ; mar
ried but had no issue. Children born at Ply
mouth: 10. Mary Bristol, June 27, 1815, died
there February 27, 1824. 11. William Whit
tlesey, November 28, 1816, died there; mar
ried twice but had no issue. 12. Esther Car.-
rington, November 14, 1818, died there Octo
ber 29, 1856. 13. Elizabeth M., November
11, 1820, died there June 30, 1838. 14. Jireh,
July 24, 1822, died August 8, 1822.
(VIII) Jabez Benedict (2) son of Bene
dict (2) and Elizabeth (Carrington) Bull, was
born in Milford, Connecticut, August 29,
1805, died in Buffalo, January 26, 1871. He
taught school as a young man in Farming-
ton, Connecticut, and removed to Buffalo,
New York, about 1830, where he spent the
remainder of his life. He was associated in
business with George Palmer and Noah H.
Gardner, operating a tannery at the "Hydrau
lics" with store and salesroom on Lloyd street.
He was president of the Western Savings
Bank and the Young Men's Association, but
held no public office. He married, April 12,
1841, at Litchfield, Connecticut, Sarah Eliz
abeth, daughter of James and Sarah (Cooke)
Butler. Children, born in Buffalo: 1. Mary,
February 10, 1842, died February 24, 1865,
unmarried. 2. Henry, see forward. 3. Ed
ward, May 28, 1846, died November 18, 1846.
4. Sarah Elizabeth, September 17, 1847, died
September 24, 1848. 5. Catherine Maria, De
cember 12, 1849, died September 30, 1870,
unmarried. 6. Elizabeth, September 20, 1853.
died February 24, 1855. 7. Jeannie, June 4,
1855 ; unmarried. 8. Charles, see forward. 9.
Elizabeth Carrington, July 14, 1861, died May
17, 1897, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey,
unmarried. (IX) Henry, son of Jabez Benedict (2)

and Sarah Elizabeth (Butler) Bull, was born
in Buffalo, New York, February 6, 1844. He
married, June 26, 1872, Frances, daughter of
Martin and Esther (Charles) Adsit, of Hor-
nellsville, New York. They now reside in
Buffalo, where their children were born : Chil
dren : 1. Henry Adsit, see forward. 2. Rob
ert Wilson, born October 13, 1874; married,
July 25, 1898, Maud, daughter of Jonathan
and Mary (McCabe) Sayre; now living in
Kelly, New Mexico. 3. Katherine, born Feb
ruary 28, 1877, died in Washington, D. G,
March, 191 1, unmarried.
(IX) Charles, third son of Jabez Benedict
(2) and Sarah Elizabeth (Butler) Bull, was
horn October 27, 1857, in Buffalo. He at
tended the public schools of that city, after
which he entered Lehigh University, from
which he graduated in 1878 with the degree
of mechanical engineer. Shortly after this
he became assistant superintendent of a cot
ton mill at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where
he remained five years. Following this he was
bursar and assistant librarian of the General
Theological Seminary of New York City, and
is now employed by the estate of E. A. Hoff
man, of New York City, with office on Broad
way. He is a member of the Sigma Phi, a
college fraternity, and of- the Protestant Epis
copal church.
(X) Henry Adsit, son of Henry and
Frances (Adsit) Bull, was born in Buffalo,
New York, May 19, 1873, and is now living
there. He married, December 7, 1901, Cor
nelia Rumsey, daughter of Ansley and Cor
nelia (Rumsey) Wilcox. Children: Kather
ine, born December 22, 1902; Henry Adsit
Jr., April 4, 1905 ; Marian, October 6, 1906.
William Compton, immigrant
COMPTON ancestor of the family in
New Jersey, was an early
settler at Monmouth, New Jersey. He was
there in 1667 and paid quit-rent from 1679
to 1686. He recorded the ear mark for his
cattle — a half-penny under the left ear — in
1679. He had land on Shoal Harbor, Middle-
town, New Jersey, adjoining John Smith's, in
1680. He was at Gravesend, Long Island,
probably before he located permanently at
Middletown, and in 1677 gave his residence
as Gravesend in the West Riding of York
shire, Long Island. He was constable of
Gravesend and a witness in court there in
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eighty acres, May 8, 1679, at Middletown, and
appears to have removed there about that
time. Cornelius Compton, doubtless his son, filed
his ear mark, July 18, 1702, and his son Cor
nelius filed the same, October 2, 1750, a slit
in the top of the left ear of the animal and
a half penny under the ear. John Compton,
son of Cornelius Jr., also lived at Middle-
town, and filed the same ear mark, December
28, 1771. Richard Compton, another son of
the first settler, appears to have died about
171 1, as in that year his mark was filed by
Abram Watson.
(I) Samuel Compton, several generations
from William Compton, was born in New Jer
sey and came from Newark, in that province,
bringing his goods and chattels in a wagon
to Seneca county, New York. He married
Polly -  and they had fifteen children : Sam
uel, Reuben, James, Jonas, Jacob, Mercy, Plar-
riet, Abner, Benjamin, Polly, Abbie, Mary and
three died young.
(II) James, son of Samuel Compton, was
born in New Jersey, July 9, 1806, died Janu
ary 12, 1881, at Middleport, New York. He
came from New Jersey with his parents and
settled there. He was a farmer by occupa
tion. Later in life he moved to Orleans
county, New York, and still later to Niagara
county where he bought a farm. Afterward
he bought another farm located partly in Or
leans and partly in Niagara county. His last
years were spent on a place in Middleport,
where he died. In early life he was a Whig,
afterward a Republican. He married, Septem
ber 18, 1825, at Romulus, Seneca county, New
York, Caroline Bailey, born at South East,
New York, April 20, 1805, died at Middleport,
in 1882. Children : Seymour (mentioned be
low) ; Eunice T., born November 3, 1828,
died July 29, 1874; Squire T., born May 31,
183 1 ; Rachel G, born September 2, 1832, died
September 11, 1861 ; Nancy, October 19, 1834;
Samuel, born January 24, 1837; James Jr.,
born September 16, 1846, a Republican in
politics, clerk of Niagara county, a man of
business. (Ill) Seymour, son of James Compton,
was born in Ovid, Seneca county, New York,
December 2, 1826. He was educated in the
public schools of Ovid and of Royalton, Ni
agara county, New York. He assisted his
father in the work of the farm until he came
of age, and then became a farmer on his own

account, conducting the old Dewey farm in
the town of. Royalton for ten years. After
ward he bought a farm of fifty acres, sold
it after a time, and in 1862 bought the farm
of one hundred and twenty-six acres, upon
which he has since lived. It is partly in Or
leans and partly in Niagara county. During
the civil war he supplied horses to the govern
ment, and afterward, for twenty-six years, in
partnership with D. H. Meade, he was a cat
tle dealer. At the same time he conducted
his farm, and in later years he has been asso
ciated with his sons in the cattle business. He
is a member of Cataract Lodge, No. 295, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Middleport, and one
of the oldest members. In politics he is a
Democrat. He married, at Shelby, Orleans county, New
York, in May, 1847, Catherine Travers, born
1830, died 1903. Children: 1. Seymour, died
in infancy. 2. Charles, died in infancy. 3.
Ida, born September 4, 1855 ; married Ed
ward Knapp. 4. William, born May 1, 1858;
married Sarah Allen; children: Zoie Leona
and Seymour D. 5. Inez, born January 10,
1863 ; married George Helenbolt. 6. John,
born August 29, 1870.

Joseph Compton was born in
COMPTON Newark, New Jersey, in
1802, died in 1900 at Middle-
port, New York, his death being caused by
injuries by fire. In childhood he was adopted
by Arunah Bennett, of New Jersey, but re
tained the Compton name. When Mr. Ben
nett moved to Niagara county the lad came
with him. They made the journey with ox
teams and settled on wild timber land near
the village of Middleport. Mr. Bennett was
one of the earliest settlers in that section and
his adopted son experienced all the toil and
privation of the pioneer. He helped to build
the log cabin, clear the ground of timber and
cultivate the fields, wrested foot by foot, acre
by acre and field by field from the virgin for
est. Mr. Bennett was a surveyor and did
considerable work for the Holland Land Com
pany, taking his pay largely in land. As Jo
seph Compton grew to manhood he began
buying land of Mr. Bennett and later became
a tanner, then a merchant and a manufacturer
of fan mills. He also carried on farming op
erations. In his different business enterprises
he was very successful and accumulated a
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fever, went to Pennsylvania and in oil specu
lation lost his money. He came back to Mid
dleport and died as stated. He married Bet
sey Bennett, born in Lima, New York. Chil
dren : Cordelia, married Linus Spaulding ;
Don Carlos, Arunah, John, James P., of
whom further ; Joseph, Emily, married James
Watson ; Elizabeth, died young ; Wilbur.
(II) James P., son of Joseph and" Betsey
(Bennett) Compton, was born at Middleport,
Niagara county, New York, January 12, 1836.
He was educated in the public schools, and on
arriving at a suitable age learned the trade
of tinner, which he followed for several years.
In i860 he established a hardware and tin
ning business at Clifton Springs, New York,
and was nicely started in business when, in
1861, he was drafted into the United States
service, but discharged on account of poor
teeth. In 1864 he settled in Canandaigua,
New York, and for two years engaged in the
tin and hardware business. In 1866 he re
turned to Middleport, engaged in the same
business (hardware and tinning), and con
tinued successfully until 1898, when he retired
from active business and moved to Medina,
New York, where he now resides (1912).
He is a land owner and interested in real es
tate outside his private holdings. He is a
Republican in politics, and an attendant of the
Episcopal church. He is well known and
bears an honorable name in his community.
He married, January 1, 1861, Sarah Coo
per, born September 15, 1844, died April 13,
191 1, daughter of William Cooper, of Ge
neva, New York. Children: 1. Mary Cor
delia, born September 28, 1861 ; married
(first) H. T. Underhill; has daughter. Sata;
(second) Joseph Blaba. 2. Linus, born Janu
ary 25, 1865 ; now a manufacturer and real
estate dealer at Rochester, New York; mar
ried Cora Murdock. 3. Florence A„ born
August 18, 1874; married John Sousie, of Me
dina ; children : James, Minnie, and Grace
Dorothy.

The Stout family of Schenec-
STOUT tady, New York, shows in its
history one of the early instances
of that intermingling of the English and
Dutch stocks which afterward became so com
mon. No two peoples seem to assimilate more
freely. They may come together in antagon
ism, as in the early days of New York, or as
at the end of the nineteenth century in South

Africa, yet a few years suffice to show that
the antagonism is not deeply rooted, and that
the Dutch easily take their place of honor and
usefulness in an English community. In this
family the union occurs in the first genera
tion, so that from the very beginning of their
American history the family is half English,
half Dutch.
(I) Richard Stout, founder of this fam
ily, was son of John Stout, a gentleman of
Nottinghamshire, England; he died about
1705, his will having been proved in Octo
ber of that year (dated June 9, 1703). When
quite young, Richard Stout paid his addresses
to a young woman of whom his father disap
proved. In consequence, he left home and
entered the British navy. After serving
seven years on a man-of-war he was dis
charged at New Amsterdam, now New York,
January 25, 1664, and he, with a few others,
all of Gravesend, made the first purchase of
land at what is now Monmouth, New Jersey,
of the Indians. He was one of the twelve
men named in the Monmouth patent. He
married, about 1622, Penelope Van Princes.
A ship from Amsterdam, Holland, on its way
to New Amsterdam was driven ashore at or
near Middletown, Monmouth county, New
Jersey, loaded with passengers. This wom
an's husband was killed by the Indians, and
she was horribly and dangerously wounded,
but escaped. An Indian found her some days
later ; taking pity on her, he cured her of her
injuries, carried her to New Amsterdam, and
sold her to the Dutch. At New Amsterdam
Richard Stout and she met, and after their
marriage they settled near the place where
the vessel had been wrecked. There were but
six white families at Middletown in 1648. It
is said that at her decease in 1712 Penelope
Stout had five hundred descendants. Chil
dren of Richard and Penelope (Van Princes)
Stout: John, born in 1650; married, Janu
ary 12, 1671-72, Elizabeth  ; Richard,
born in 1655, married Frances  ; James,
of whom further; Peter, born in 1658, died in
1703, married  Bullen ; Jonathan, born in
1664, died in March, 1723, married, August
27, 1685, Ann Bullen; Benjamin; David, born
in 1669, married, in 1688, Rebecca Ashton;
Deliverance, married  Throckmorton ; Sa
rah, married  Pike; Penelope, married
 Brown.
(II) James, son of Richard and Penelope
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before 1697. He married Elizabeth  .
Children: Benjamin, of whom further;
James, married Johanna Johnson ; Joseph ;
Penelope, married  • Jewell; Elizabeth,
married  Warf ord ; Mercy, married 
Warner ; Anne, married Cornelius Johnson.
(Ill) Benjamin, son of James and Eliz
abeth Stout, married Ruth Bogart, of Salem,
New Jersey. Children : Joseph, married 
Huff; Benjamin, of whom further; Elizabeth,
married John Quick ; perhaps also the follow
ing: Sarah; Mary, married — — Hunt; Ra
chel, married Stephen Howell ; Ruth ; Anne,
married Abraham Stout.
(IV) Benjamin (2) son of Benjamin (1)
and Ruth (Bogart) Stout, married Elizabeth
Anderson, of Hunterdon county, New Jersey,
daughter of William Anderson, by whom he
is said to have had "a great number of chil
dren." Among these was Zebedee, of whom
further. (V) Zebedee, son of Benjamin (2) and
Elizabeth (Anderson) Stout, was born July
6, 1770, died March 23/1850. He was known
as "Colonel." He was a farmer and settled
on the old homestead, which is in the pos
session of the family at the present time. He
married Eunice Hagaman, of Hunterdon
county, New Jersey, and came to Olcott, New
York, in 1815. Children: John, born August
8, 1798; Francis, June 7, 1800; Benjamin, of
whom further; Sarah, March 31, 1804; Ar-
mida, March 31, 1806; Isaac, 1808; Seneca,
November 14, 1810.
(VI) Benjamin (3) son of Zebedee and
Eunice (Hagaman) Stout, was born August
12, 1802, died April 2, 1882. He resided on
the Lake road at Olcott, New York, and was
a farmer by occupation. He married, March
27, 1827, Louisa Olmsted, at Newfane. Chil
dren: William T., born February 2, 1828;
Dexter, June 3, 1829; Mariette, April 23,
183 1 ; Dolphin E., April 4, 1834; Martin, of
whom further; Benjamin Frank, February
18, 1842.
(VII) Martin, son of Benjamin (3) and
Louisa (Olmsted) Stout, was born October
26, 1839. He resides in Newfane on a portion
of the old original Stout homestead. He fol
lowed agricultural pursuits throughout the ac
tive years of his life, and is now living re
tired, enjoying to the full the fruits of well-
earned labor. He is a Democrat in politics.
He married, in January, i860, Alice Hearn,
born in 1838, died 1889. Children: 1. Nel

lie, born October 29, 1861, died 1910; mar
ried J. B. Chapman. 2. Mary, January 17,
1863. 3. Cicero F., of whom further. 4.
Benjamin, August 9, 1867; living at Bay City,
Michigan ; married Jessie Ray ; they have two
children : Marion and Frank. 5. Seymour
E., May 3/1870, died in 1898.
(VIII) Cicero F., son of Martin and Alice
(Hearn) Stout, of Olcott, New York, was
born at Olcott, New York, May 9, 1865. He
was educated in the public school, and at
Wilson union school at Wilson, New York.
He grew up a farmer, and when starting life
for himself made nursery and fruit growing
his specialty. He had a nursery at Olcott un
til after his marriage, when he settled on the
old Burroughs farm belonging to his wife's
father. He continued in the nursery business
until the farm was sold. He then purchased
the old Miller homestead lying along the
shores of Lake Ontario, at Olcott. In 1899
he bought part of the Phillips farm, part of
which he later sold. He retains ninety-two
acres, forty of which is a thrifty full bearing
peach orchard. He has been successful in
business, and occupies an influential position
in his town.
Mr. Stout is a member of the Masonic
order, affiliated with Red Jacket Lodge, at
Lockport, New York. He is a Prohibitionist
in politics, and a member of the Universalist
church. He married, October 4, 1892, at Ol
cott, New York, Nettie Burroughs (see Bur
roughs II). Children: Alice L., born Octo
ber 26, 1893 ; Charlotte B., December 23,
1903. (The Burroughs Line).
This family name is spelled in a great va
riety of ways. Such forms even as Berg,
Bergo, and Dee Bergo are found in early
writings. In the fourteenth century there
were of this name an English secular priest,
and a monk who wrote some books of travels ;
in the sixteenth century there was a naviga
tor and discoverer of the same name. Many
of this name and its modern variants served
in revolutionary troops of New York state ; in
fact eight are noted in the state revolution
ary records, who spelled their name in the
exact way that this family use.
(I) James Burroughs, the first member of
this family about whom we have definite in
formation, died in Wyoming, Wyoming
county, New York, in i860. He married
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H. ; Charles, of whom further ; Anzolette,
married Wyman Raymond.
(II) Charles, son of James and Anne
(Bates) Burroughs, was born June 27, 1824,
at La Grange, New York, died 1897. He
was educated in the public school and Mid
dlebury Academy, Wyoming village, New
York. He followed farming for a time with
his father, then engaged in fire insurance,
making a specialty of Western New York
farm property. In 1867 he removed to West
ern Iowa, remaining nine years, engaging in
farming. In 1875 he returned to New York
state, settling at Olcott,' Niagara county,
where he purchased the old Albright farm of
seventy-six acres, which he cultivated until his
death. He was a Whig and a strong Aboli
tionist, later a Republican. He belonged to
the Universalist church. He married Lucetta
Perry. Their only child, Nettie, married Ci
cero F. Stout (see Stout VIII).

Patrick Foley, father of Peter C.
FOLEY Foley, was born in Leitrim
county, Ireland, landed as an
emigrant in Montreal, Canada, and at the
age of fifteen came to this country alone,
after which he learned the marble working
trade. He married Catherine Deitrich, born
in Cologne, Germany, who came to this coun
try at the age of eleven with parents and a
family of twelve children; His surviving
brothers are Martin, John P. and Henry W.
Foley. Peter C. Foley was born in Boonville,
Oneida county, New York, October 8, 1862.
He received his education in his native town,
and then learned the trade of marble cutter
and worked in various places throughout the
United States before locating in Olean, New
York, where he engaged in the marbie and
granite monument business in the spring of
1886, place of business at that time being lo
cated on West State street, near the corner of
First. The business has continued to the pres
ent time, known as Foley Brothers Company,
of which Peter C. Foley is the sole proprietor.
The business was started with the assistance
of one boy that was paid $3.00 per week, and
there is now employed, and has been for many
years, from thirty to fifty men, and the pro
ducts of this firm are shipped to nearly every
city and town in Western New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio. Mr. Foley is a Democrat
in politics and has always taken an active in

terest in the affairs of his party, and has been
elected mayor of the city of Olean three times,
the first time in 1902, the second time in 1909,
and the third time succeeding himself at the
election held in 191 1, which office he still
holds. Mr. Foley has always taken an active in
terest in music and musicians, having in his
early life been a member of the Tenth Regi
ment Band, and Albany City Band of Albany,
New York, and has traveled extensively with
circus companies and shows, having mastered
the clarionet, one of the most difficult of wind
instruments, studying from early childhood.
For many years he took an active interest in
Olean bands, and at one time furnished the
uniforms and instruments for a band known
as Foley's Forty-third Separate Company
Band. Of late years his business required his
attention and made it necessary to abandon
what has been a great pleasure to him. Mr.
Foley is a member of the City Club, Country
Club, Eagles, and also life member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Foley married, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
Zoda Coast Faulkner, in the year 1907.

The name Clark is derived from
CLARK the Latin clericus. This word at
first meant a person in Orders
(whether Holy Orders or minor orders);
later any one who had been educated by the
clergy ; and finally any one who could read
and write. As a surname, Clark or Clarke
is probably as old as the eleventh century. At
least one case is recorded where another sur
name was changed to Clarke, probably as be
ing more honorable.
Not less than thirty Clark (e) families set
tled in New England colonies before 1700 ;
there were, in fact, twelve Thomas Clarkes in
New England between 1623 and 1680.
A full record of many of the present Qarks,
including the family now under consideration,
cannot he given. Nevertheless, the repeated
occurrence of the same, even unusual, chris
tian names, and the family tradition of con
nection with Rev. John Clarke removes all
reasonable doubt as to the immigrant ances
tor. Moreover, this Rev. John Clarke brought
with him from England a Bible, preserved to
the present day, which gives three genera
tions before the immigration. The ancestry-
is traced to the parish of Westhorpe, Suffolk
county, England. In the earlier generations,

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as by many of the present-day descendants,
the name is spelled with the final e.
(I) John Clarke, of Westhorpe, the first
memher of this family of whom we have
knowledge, was buried March 3, 1559. Chil
dren : John, of whom further ; Thomas, bap
tized January 4, 1553, buried May 10, 1588.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Clarke,
of Westhorpe, was baptized February 11,
1 541, died April 4, 1598. He married Cath
erine, daughter of John Cooke, who was bap
tized February 12, 1546, died March 27, 1598.
Children: John, born April 25, 1569, buried
December 9, 1594; Thomas, of whom further;
Carewe, baptized August 17, 1572 ; Christo
pher, baptized December 6, 1574; John, bap
tized March 17, 1577; Margaret, born June
8, 1579; Mary, baptized September 21, 1581.
(Ill) Thomas, son of John (2) Clarke, of
Westhorpe, was born November 1, 1570, died
July 29, 1627. He married Rose Herrige or
Keridge, who died September 19, 1727. Chil
dren: 1. Margaret, born February 1, 1600.
2. Carewe, February 3, 1602 ; married Datre
 . 3. Thomas, born or baptized March
31, 1605, died December 2, 1674; married Jane
- — - — . 4. Mary, baptized July 17, 1607, died
in 1648; married John Peckham. 5. Rev.
John, of whom further. 6. William, baptized
February 11, 161 1. 7. Joseph, of whom fur
ther. Of these children, Carewe, Thomas,
Mary, John and Joseph all came to America;
but of these four sons Joseph only left sur
viving issue.
(IV) Rev. John (3) Clarke, son of Thomas
and Rose Clarke, the immigrant, was born
in England, October 8, 1609, died April 20,
1676. He was probably a graduate of Cam
bridge University; he was a physician and
Baptist minister, and had knowledge of Greek,
Latin, and Hebrew. With his first wife he
arrived in Boston, in November, 1637. His
first winter was spent at Exeter, New Hamp
shire ; in the spring he returned to Boston, and
associated himself with a colony which settled
on Conanicut Island, on what is now Ports
mouth, Rhode Island. He removed to New
port, and in 1644 became pastor of the first
Baptist church at that place. In 165 1 he went
with Roger Williams to England on matters
concerning the welfare of the colony, and
remained twelve years. He was frequently
the guest of Sir Harry Vane and other lead
ing men of the Commonwealth. In 1663 he
obtained from King Charles II. a most liberal

charter, which was the basis of the govern
ment of Rhode Island until 1843. In June,
1664, he returned to Rhode Island. Both
before and after his visit to England, he held
many offices of high importance and trust.
Although he was a Baptist, he had a decided
Calvinistic tendency. He published a concord
ance of the Scriptures. He married (first)
Elizabeth Harges, (second) February 1, 1671,
Jane Fletcher, (third) Sarah Davis. He is
known to have had a daughter by his second
wife, but no issue survived him.
(IV) Joseph, son of Thomas and Rose
Clarke, the immigrant, was born in England,
December 9, 1618, died at Newport, Rhode
Island, June 1, 1694. He must have left Eng
land about 1637, and settled immediately in
Rhode Island, for he was elected an inhabitant
of the island of Aquidneck in 1638. March
17, 1641, he was made a freeman. In 1644
he was one of the original members of the
Baptist church at Newport, of which his
brother was made minister. He was men
tioned by name in the charter granted by
King Charles II. He seems to have lived for
a while at Westerly, but to have returned to
Newport. He held many important offices
in the colony. He married twice; his second
wife, Margaret, died at Newport, in 1694.
Children: 1. Joseph, born February 11, 1642,
died January 11, 1726-27; married (first),
November 16, 1664, Bethiah Hubbard,
(second) Hannah (Weeden-Qarke) Peck-
ham. 2. William, died September 30,
1683 ; married Hannah ' Weeden. 3.
Mary, died in 1695 ; married Tobias Saunders.
4. Sarah, born January 29, 1663 ; married,
October 11, 1683, Thomas Reynolds. 5. John,
died April 11, 1704. 6. Susanna. 7. Joshua,
married Alice Phillips. 8. Thomas, died in
1705 ; said to have married Elizabeth  .
8. Carew or Cary (he is called by both names ;
in this family, Carewe, Carew, Carey and Cary
are to be regarded as the same name) married,
February 14, 1693, Ann Dyer. 9. Elizabeth.
Either Susanna or Elizabeth married Rev.
William Peckham. The son Carew or Cary
had a son, born September 20, 1696, and at
least three grandsons, bearing forms of this
name ; it is highly probable that Carey Clark,
of whom below, was his grandson or great-
grandson. (I) Carey Clark, progenitor of the line
herein traced, removed from Providence,
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Genesee (now Yates) county, New York, and
there passed the remainder of his days. He
lived to the patriarchal age of one hundred
years, and was never sick a day in his life. It
is said that the day before his death he showed
his sons how they used to dance an old-fash
ioned breakdown. Children: i. Carey, of
whom further. 2. George, resided in Yates
county, New York, and raised a -family of five
children: John, George, Orlando, Olive, Azu
ba. Of these, Olive married Augustus Moon,
Azuba married Gideon Moon, and removed
to Chautauqua county, New York. 3. Thank
ful ; married John Bently, a soldier of the rev
olution, and lived in Chautauqua C9unty ; they
had a son Solomon. 4. William, married Cyn
thia Moon, and had a son Arvin, who lived
in Chautauqua county, and whose children
were : Laura, married Alexander Simmons ;
William, married Permelia Dunton; Nicholas,
married his cousin, Betsey Bentley; a son,
married Phcebe, daughter of Benjamin Daw-
ley. • 5.  , married a Mr. Dawley, had a
son Benjamin. 6. Thomas, married and reared
a large family, including sons Thomas, John,
and George. Thomas and his sons before the
war built" a sloop to carry passengers and mer
chandise into Canada. At the beginning of
the second war with England they were among
the blockade-runners. Captain Clark, of Ver
mont, supposedly a great-grandson of Thomas
Clark, aforementioned, ran the warship "Ore
gon" from San Francisco down around South
America in the shortest time on record. It
was Captain Clark who said he was not afraid
of the whole Spanish fleet when the war de
partment advised him to stop and get more
help during the recent war with Spain, and
who, when the battle of Santiago was fought,
followed the Spanish fleet twenty miles and
sunk the last ship. Alvin Clark, who built so
many telescopes for European countries and
whose last work consisted of a great telescope
built for the Lick Observatory in California,
was a descendant in the ninth generation from
the John Clark who came over in the "May
flower." To this worthy ancestor the Clark
who started the Christian Endeavor likewise
traced his lineage.
(II) Carey (2), son of Carey (1) Clark,
was born at Kingstown, Rhode Island, about
1765, died in 1857. He was a large, active,
strong man, and retained his faculties in all
their vigor to the last. It is said that a few
months before hi,s death he jumped up and

hit his feet together like a young boy. He
removed with his brother Thomas, to Swan
ton, Vermont, near the foot of Lake Cham-
plain. In the war of 1812, when his sons
William and Benoni were drafted to fight at
Plattsburg, he rowed in a boat to that place
in order to be on hand if they should be killed
or wounded, but no harm occurred to the
young soldiers. In 1822 he accompanied his
son Warren to Ellicott township, Chautauqua
county, New York, where he settled on heav
ily-timbered land; this he cleared, and it is
still in the possession of the family. He mar
ried (first) in 1791, Dorcas Moon, who died
in 18 10; (second)  , who died in 1845;
she married (first)  Williams. Chil
dren, all by first wife: 1. Lucy. 2. Louis.
3. William G., born July 22, 1795, died De
cember 23, 1861 ; married and had the follow
ing children: Lucinda, William A., Mahala,
Arsula, Melissa, Esther and Cary. 4. Benoni.
5. Caleb, born January 6, 1799, died February
14, 1862; married, in 1824, Elizabeth Taylor;
children : Riley G., Cary D., Phebe, Sylvester,
Merritt, Nery, Leland. 6. Cary, born January
6, 1799, died September 3, 1866; children:
Harriet A., Warren M., William, Sylvester,
Lucy, Morgan, Albert, Roxey A. 7. Mary.
8. Warren, of whom further.
(Ill) Warren, son of Carey and Dorcas-
(Moon) Clark, was born at Swanton, April
11, 1804, died at his home near Jamestown,
New York, December 10, 1877. He came to
Chautauqua county with his father and mother
in 1822, and helped to clear the old home
stead. He married, June 24, 1821, Sibyl,
daughter of Jonathan Corey, who was born
at Bennington, Vermont, March 24, 1791.
Her father was of Shaftsbury, near Benning
ton. The Coreys are an old family in Amer
ica, and the resting places of early members
are marked by stones in the old graveyard
at Salem, Massachusetts. Children of Jona
than Corey: Jonathan, Rufus, Hiram, John,
Truman, Sibyl, Charlotte, Dennis, Nancy.
Children of Warren and Sibyl (Corey)
Clark : 1. Mahala, born in 1822, died in 1912.
2. Marvin Dudley, of whom further. 3. Mi
nerva, born in 1826, died in 1869. 4. Charles
Wesley, born in 1837, married Martha Put
nam (see Putnam VIII). Two others who
did not reach maturity.
(IV) Marvin Dudley, son of Warren and
Sibyl (Corey) Clark, was born on the old
homestead, in the township of Ellicott, Chau-

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tauqua county, New York, July 10, 1824, died
December 15, 1901. He received a good ele
mentary education. Throughout his whole
active career he followed farming, his estate
consisting of two hundred and seventy acres
purchased by his father and grandfather from
the Holland Land Company. Mr. Clark was
one of the most successful farmers in Chau
tauqua county, and took special interest in
raising fine stock and high-grade grains. He
had a tract of fine pine timber, which he
made into lumber. The present commodious
residence on the estate, now owned by his
son Frank, was erected by him. He was a
Republican; he attended the Baptist church,
of which his wife was a member. He mar
ried, January 1, 1851, Rosina, daughter of
Rev. Oren and Alvira (Scofield) Putnam,
who was born at Stockton, Chautauqua coun
ty, New York, January 7, 1832, died in Buf
falo, May 8, 1909 (see Putnam VIII). Chil
dren: 1. Cassius Eugene, born November 16,
1856; married Ida Bowen, and resides at
Jamestown ; children : Alene and Dudley. 2.
Frank Marvin, of whom further. 3. Mary
Rosalind, born February 9, 1872; married
Eugene D. Smith; children: Delight, Gladys,
Violet. (V) Frank Marvin, son of Marvin Dudley
and Rosina (Putnam) Clark, was born on the
old homestead in the township of Ellicott, near
Jamestown, April 2, 1863. His early life was
passed on the farm, and he attended the dis
trict schools. At the age of sixteen he came
to Jamestown, where in June, 1883, he gradu
ated from the high school. While attending
school he was a clerk in the drug store of
Plenderson & Putnam. In the fall of 1883
he matriculated in the University of Michigan,
at Ann Arbor, in the pharmacy department ; he
graduated in 1885 with the degree of phar
maceutical chemist, the highest degree held by
any druggist in Western New York. He
holds the first certificate, issued by examina
tion by the state board of pharmacy, which
was granted in Jamestown. After the com
pletion of his professional education Mr. Clark
returned to Jamestown, to the service of his
old employers, Henderson & Putnam ; he was
with this firm about five years in all. In No
vember, 1886, he formed a partnership with
Cassius F. Clark and Edward A. Tupper, to
conduct a general drug store at No. 11 East
Third street, Jamestown, under the firm name
of Clark Brothers & Tupper. They removed

in 1891 to the present store at the corner of
Third and Main streets. This is one of the
largest and most, thoroughly equipped drug
stores in the western part of the state ; a gen
eral book and stationery business is handled
in connection with the drug business. Mr.
Clark purchased his brother's interest in 1902,
and now conducts the store alone. He has
another large- drug store at Chautauqua, New
York, and is one of the directors of the Elli
cott Drug Company (wholesale), of Buffalo.
He owns his residence at No. 513 West Third
street ; the old Clark homestead ; a fine sum
mer cottage, the "Ingleside," at Lakewood,
New York; and another cottage at Allegheny
Springs, Pennsylvania. He is a member of
Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Ac
cepted Masons ; Western Sun Chapter, No. 67,
Royal Arch Masons ; Jamestown Command
ery, No. 61, Knights Templar; the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine; and the Buffalo Consistory, Scottish
Rite Masons. He is a member of the New
York State Pharmaceutical Association, and
of the American Microscopical Society. He
is affiliated with the Alpha Chapter of the Phi
Chi, college fraternity, of Ann Arbor, Michi
gan. Formerly he was a member of the Thir
teenth Separate Company, New York State
Militia. Mr. Clark married, December 30, 1891, Ma
bel, daughter of John and Mary (Gilhooley)
Hartan, who was born in Philadelphia, April
28, 1873 ; she is a granddaughter of Thomas
Gilhooley, of New York City. Children: 1.
Donald Marvin, born November 12, 1892, died
September 22, 1893. 2. Fitzgerald Hartan,
born April 22, 1894, now attending the high
school at Jamestown. (The Putnam Line).
The Putnam family of Salem, Massachu
setts, and its offshoots, have extended to every
state of the Union. The family is English in
origin ; it has also been planted in Canada and
Australia. The coat-of-arms is thus heraldic-
ally described: Sable, between eight crosses
crosslet-fitchee (or crusily-fitchee) argent, a
stork of the last, beaked and ' legged gules.
Crest, a wolf's head, gules.
(I) John Putnam, of Aston Abbotts, county
of Bucks, England, the founder of this family,
was born about 1580, died at Salem Village
(now Danvers), Massachusetts, December 30,
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and settled on the farm since known as "Oak
Knoll," at Danvers, where the poet Whittier
made his home during his last years. He was
a farmer, and very prosperous for those times.
In 1647 ne was admitted to the church, and
he was made a freeman in the same year, but
he was a man of standing in the community
before that time. He married Priscilla 
(perhaps Gould). Children, baptized at As
ton Abbotts: 1. Elizabeth, December 20,
1612. 2. Thomas, of whom further. 3. John,
July 24, 1617, buried November 5, 1620. 4.
Nathaniel, October 11, 1619, died July 23,
1700; married Elizabeth Hutchinson. 5. Sara,
March 7, 1622-23. 6. Phcebe, July 28, 1624.
7. John, May 27, 1627, died April 7* 1710.
(II) Lieutenant Thomas Putnam, son of
John and Priscilla Putnam, was baptized at
Aston Abbotts, England, March 7, 1614-15,
died at Salem Village, May 5, 1686. He had
a good education, and was wealthy. In 1640
he was an . inhabitant of Lynn, Massachuetts ;
made a freeman in 1642; selectman in 1643.
In the last-mentioned year he was admitted
to the church at Salem. He held several other
important offices. He married (first), at
Lynn, August 17, 1643, Ann, daughter of Ed
ward and Prudence (Stockton) Holyoke, who
died September 1, 1665; (second) at Salem,
September 14, 1666, Mary Veren, who died
in March, 1694-95. She married (first) Na
thaniel Veren, of Salem. Children, all except
the last by first wife: 1. Ann, born June 25,
1645, died September 14, 1676; married, Jan
uary 18, 1666-67, William Trask. 2. Sarah,
baptized May 23, 1648. 3. Mary, born August
17, 1649. 4- Thomas, born January 12, 1652',
died May 24, 1699; married, September 25,
1678, Ann Carr. 5. Edward, of whom fur
ther. 6. Deliverance, born July 5, 1656; mar
ried, April 23, 1685, Jonathan Walcott. 7.
Elizabeth, born June 30, 1659 ; married Joshua
Bayley. 8. Prudence, born December 28,
1661-62; married (first) William Wyman,
(second) Peter Tufts. 9. Joseph, born Sep
tember 14, 1669, died in 1724 or 1725 ; mar
ried, April 21, 1690, Elizabeth Porter ; he was
a strenuous opponent of the witchcraft trials.
(Ill) Deacon Edward Putnam, son of Lieu
tenant Thomas and Ann (Holyoke) Putnam,
was born at Salem Village, July 4, 1654, died
at Salem Village, March 10, 1747. He was a
man of good education. He was a deacon of
the church at Danvers, and figured promi
nently in the witchcraft trials. His occupa

tion was farming. He married, June 14, 1681,
Mary Hale. Children: 1. Edward, born
April 29, 1682, died October 23, 1755 ; married
(first) Sarah  , (second) September 3,
!735> Priscilla (Bradstreet) Jewett, (third),
February 24, 1736-37, Martha Nurse, (fourth)
November 29, 1743, Mary Wilkins. 2. Holy
oke, born September 28, 1683, died July 3,
1706. 3. Elisha, of whom further. 4. Jo
seph, born November 1, 1687; married Lydia
Flint. 5. Mary, born August 14, 1689; mar
ried, January 8, 1713, Thomas Flint. 6. Pru
dence, born January 25, 1692 ; married, De
cember 3, 1719, William Wyman. 7. Nehe
miah, born December 20, 1693. 8. Ezra, bom
April 29, 1696, died October 22, 1747; mar
ried, in March, 1719, Elizabeth Fuller. 9,
Isaac, born March 14, 1698, died in 1757;
married, December 20, 1720, Anna Fuller. 10.
Abigail, baptized May 26, 1700, died in Janu
ary, 1764; married, November 11, 1730, Jo
seph Fuller.
(IV) Deacon Elisha Putnam, son of Dea
con Edward and Mary (Hale) Putnam, was
bom at Salem Village, November 3, 1685,
died at Sutton, Massachusetts, June 10, 1745?
He was a farmer. He was for several years
a deacon of the church, and he served as town
clerk, town treasurer, and representative in
the general court of Massachusetts. He mar
ried (first), at Salem, February 10, 1710, Han
nah Marble, (second) February 15, 1713, Su
sanna, daughter of Jonathan and Susan
(Trask) Fuller, of Topsfield, Massachusetts,
who was born in 1695. Children, all by sec
ond wife: 1. Elisha, of whom further. 2.
Hannah, baptized September 8, 1717 ; married,
August 18, 1736, Jonathan Dudley. 3. Nehe
miah, born March 22, 1719, died November 27,
1791 ; married, October 5, 1742, Sarah Man
ning. 4. Jonathan, born July 19, 1721 ; mar
ried, November 3, 1743, Anne (Chase) Stock-
well. 5. Susanna, baptized September 8, 1723;
married (first), February 24, 1742, Timothy
Holton, (second) John Whipple. 6. Mary,
born June 12, 1725, died April 22, 1736. 7.
Stephen, born April 4, 1728; married, March
4, 1755, Mary Gibbs. 8. Amos, born July 22,
1730, died September 17, 1811; married, June
26, 1760, Sarah Swift. 9. Eunice, born July
6, 1732. 10. Huldah, born May 25, 1734;
married Daniel Matthews. 11. Rufus, born
April 9, 1738, died May 4, 1824; married
(first), in April, 1761, Elizabeth Ayers, (sec
ond) January 10, 1765, Persis 'Rice; he was

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a general in the revolution, and the leader (VII) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) and
of the first colony which settled in Ohio. Lucy (Parks) Putnam, was born at Win-
(V) Elisha (2), son of Elisha (1) and Su- Chester, Massachusetts, March 11, 1769, died
sanna (Fuller) Putnam, was born at Tops- June 14, 1828. He settled at Stockton, Chau-
field, Massachusets, December 2, I7i5,.,died tauqua county, New York. He married, at
at or near Crown Point, New York, in 1758. Greenfield, Massachusetts, December 7, 1791,

He was at that time a soldier in the provincial
army, in the campaign against Ticonderoga.
He married, March 3, 1742, Lydia, daughter
of Philip and Mary (Follansbee) Chase, who
was born August 12, 1722. She married (sec
ond), May 26, 1762, John Daniels. Children:
1. Andrew, of whom further. 2. Elisha, born
December 4, 1745, died May 25, 1784; mar
ried, April 2, 1765, Abigail Chamberlain. 3.
Antipas, born July 24, 1747, died in 1764. 4,

Azuba, daughter of Samuel and

(An

gie) Stanhope, who was born at Northfield,
Massachusetts, November 25, 1770, died at
her son Newell's home at Stockton, January
18, 1864. She was descended from the well
known Stanhope family. Children: 1. Har
riet, born October 28, 1792, died October 7,
1880; married, in February, 1813, Jonathan
Bugbee; they settled at Stockton, and had
seven children, Andrew, Charity, Delight,

Jokton, born May 1, 1750; married, April 7, James, Judge, Harriet, Damerras. Judge
1770, Anne Harris. 5. Luke, born October 5, married Mary Ann Flagg, and had Eugene
1755 ; married, November 23, 1786, Mary Put- and Florence; Eugene lives on the old home-
nam. 6. William, born January 7, 1758, died stead; Florence married Walter B._PIorton,

July 22, 1818; married, June 25, 1778, Submit
Fisk. (VI) Andrew, son of Elisha (2) and Lydia
(Chase) Putnam, was born at Sutton, Massa
chusetts, May 4 or 6, 1742, died at Townsend,
Massachusetts, aged over seventy years. He
owned and cultivated a farm at Greenfield,
and fitted young men for college. About 1794
he removed to Townsend,, He was a fine-
looking man, six feet two inches in height;
his wife was said to be the handsomest girl
who ever entered Sutton meeting house. He
married, January 10, 1764, Lucy Parks, of
Sutton, who died at Townsend, aged over
seventy. Children: 1. Lydia, born April 20,
1765, died March 13, 1787. 2. Eunice, bora
May 25, 1767, died February 8, 1821 ; married,
in 1790,  — ¦ Allen. 3. Andrew, of whom
further. 4. Malachi, born October 14, 1772,
died about 1848; married, September 13, 1802,
Sarah  . 5. Sarah, born July 28, 1774,
died August 30, 1776. 6. Peter, born August
5, 1776, died February 25, 1847; married
(first), December 3, 1801, Susanna Keep,
(second)  . 7. Stephen, born April 8,
1778, died September 2, 1867; married, Jan
uary 11, 1801, Deborah Egory. 8. David, born
January 11, 1783, died July 22, 1834; married,
February 14, 181 1, Orpha Scales. 9. Eliza
beth, married Eliphaz Allen. 10. Sally, mar-Jf^clairville, and Mrs. M. L. Ford, of Jamestown
ried, February 2, 1808, Isaac Colburn. 11.
Lucy, married Jeremiah Ball. 12. Mary, born

but died childless. 2. Newell, born February
28, 1795 ; he came with his father tp Stockton,
where he held several offices of trust in the
town; he afterward removed to Conneaut,
Ohio; he married Tracy Fenner; his only
son, Welcome, died at his father's homestead,
October 28, 1871. 3. Gilbert, born June 21,
1797, died in 1859; he married Thankful Rog
ers; children: James, George, Calvin, Delos,
Charles, Worthy, Angeline, Avis, Wealthy.
Of these, James married Maria Flagg, sister
of Mrs. Judge Bugbee; they had one child,
Major Edgar P. Putnam, of Jamestown,
whose daughter Pearl is now Mrs. Norris, and
resides at Attica, New York. After the death
of James Putnam, his wife married Welcome
Putnam, the son of Newell, by which union
there were two children, Sumner, postmaster
at Conneaut, Ohio, and May, the second wife
of Walter B. Horton; she has one daughter.
4. Lovell, born December 4, 1799, died Janu-
uary 31, 1815. 5. Hiram, born March 30,
1802 ; he settled at Ellington in 1823 ; he had
four children : Olvin, resided on the old home
stead ; Azuba ; Eveline ; Edwin, resided at
Clear Creek, died in 1912 at Conewango. 6.
Olvin, born July 27, 1804, died January 22,
1863 ; he bought of Jonathan Bugbee the farm
on which he lived ; children : Alonzo, of Sin-

April 5, 1789, died October 1, 1874; married
(first), in 1808, John Humphrey, (second)
July 13, 1843; •William Rugg.

* 7. Oren, of whom further. 8. Royal, born
June 6, 1809; he settled on a part of the old

Putnam homestead; children: Melville and
Murry (twins). 9. Union, twin of Royal;
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ward removed to Rochester, Minnesota; chil
dren, four, of whom only one, Leroy, is living.
10. Worthy, born October n, 1811; he was
a successful teacher, and afterward superin
tendent of schools of Chautauqua county;
later he studied first medicine and then law
and was admitted to the bar ; removing to
Valparaiso, Indiana, he continued the practice
of law, and also held the chair of elocution
in the college of Valparaiso ; he was the author
of a well known work on elocution. In 1864
he removed to Barrien Springs, Michigan,
where he died ; he had two children, Clarence
and Florence. Florence married Job Barnard,
a noted lawyer, who is judge of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia.
(VIII) Rev. Oren Putnam, son of Andrew
(2) and Azuba (Stanhope) Putnam, was born
at Brookfield, Madison county, New York,
January 5, 1807, died at Ellicott, Chautauqua
county, at the age of nearly eighty-eight years.
He was a Baptist minister, and lived the most
of his life in Chautauqua county. He settled
and resided until 1856 near his father-in-law,
Shadrach Scofield, in the southwest part of
the township of Stockton. He set out a large
orchard, which still bears good fruit. This
section was "beech and maple" land; he pro
duced quantities of maple sugar and pearlash.
He also kept a fine dairy and marketed butter
and cheese. After disposing of this farm he
resided at various times at Ellington, Frews
burg and Sinclairville, New York, and finally
with his daughters, Mrs. Marvin D. Clark and
Mrs. Alvin Shunk, at Ellicott, where he died,
at the latter's home.
He married Alvira, daughter of Shadrach
and Betsey (Waterbury) Scofield, who sur
vived him about four years, and died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. C. Wesley Clark,
near Fluvanna, New York. Shadrach Sco
field, Samuel Waterbury, and David Water
bury (son of Samuel) came from Saratoga
county, New York, and in 1810 made the first
settlement in the southern part of the town
ship of Stockton. Samuel Waterbury had
been a revolutionary soldier; Shadrach Sco
field afterward served at Buffalo, in the war
of 1812. Shadrach Scofield owned a consid
erable amount of property, and conducted a
general mercantile business, at what is now
designated as Denton Corners. He married
Betsey, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Sco
field) Waterbury ; she was, on her mother's
side, a distant relative. He married (second)

Mrs. Dalrimple, a widow with one child ; they
afterward removed to a place near Janesville,
Wisconsin, where he died. Children of Shad
rach and Betsey (Waterbury) Scofield: 1.
Alvira, born in 1807, died in 1898 ; she taught
for some time in one of the first schools in
the northern part of Ellery township ; she
married Rev. Oren Putnam. 2. Polly, married
Henry LeBarren, of Dewittville, and had Or
lando, Betsey, deceased, Hixen, Horace. Or
lando has one son, Plixen one daughter, Hor
ace three children. Children of Rev. Oren
and Alvira (Scofield) Putnam: 1. Luman, a
soldier in the civil war ; he married Lavina
Vanderwark and has children: Mary, Celes
tia, Emily, Frank. 2. Betsey Cordelia, mar
ried William Lee ; removed to Cokato, Minne
sota; children: Marion, deceased, Fayette,
Eugene, Marvin, deceased, Viola, deceased,
Charles, deceased, James, Edwin. 3. Rosina,
married Marvin Dudley Clark (see Clark IV).
4. Mary Ann, married Americus Sanders, who
is now deceased ; she resides at Maynard,
Iowa; no children. 5. Martha, married
Charles Wesley Clark, brother of Marvin
Dudley ; children : Myron, married Cora
Thompson, and has Lucille, Alta, Irene ; De-
Forest, married Mary Langhenberger, one
child, Roscoe W. ; Almon, married Clara Ma-
gee, one child, Charles ; Minnie, married Da
vid Green. 6. Maria, married Alvin Stumk;
resides at Ellicott ; one child, Bert Clarence,
married Mertie Brunson, but has no children
living.

The Seymour family is one
SEYMOUR of great antiquity in England.
The seal on the will of
Thomas Seymour, eldest son of Richard Sey
mour, the first settler of the name in this
country, bears the impress of two wings con
joined in line, the. device of the English Sey
mours from the time of William de St. Maur,
of Penhow. A "Bishop's Bible," printed in
1584, in the possession of Morris Woodruff
Seymour, of Litchfield, Connecticut, a descen
dant of Richard Seymour, has on one of the
fly leaves a drawing of the arms of the Sey
mours of Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, Eng
land, viz. : "Two wings conjoined in line"
quartered with the Royal Arms as granted by
Henry VIII. to Edward Seymour, Duke of
Somerset. Although some authorities differ,
it is believed Richard Seymour was the grand
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descendant in the eleventh generation from
King Edward III., of England.
(II) Richard, son of Edward Seymour,
though not a proprietor, was an early settler
of Hartford, Connecticut, probably settling
there as early as 1639. He held some of the
town offices hut did not long remain there, for
in June, 1650, his name appears among the
number who made the agreement with Roger
Ludlow "For the settlinge and plantinge of
Norwalk." He was selectman of Norwalk in
1655. His will made October 25, 1655, names
his "Loving wife Mercy" and his three sons
"John, Zachary and Richard." His will is
sealed with a small seal engraved with the
wings "Conjoined in Lure." His wife Mercy
survived him and married (second) John
Steele, one of the foremost men of the colony.
Children of Richard Seymour: 1. Thomas,
died in Norwalk, 1710. 2. Richard, became
a leading citizen of the colony, captain of
militia, held many offices and was killed by a
falling tree in 1710. 3. John, of whom fur
ther. 4. Mary. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Zachary, a
merchant of Wethersfield, died 1702.
(Ill) John, son of Richard Seymour, was
probably born in Hartford at date unknown.
He moved to Norwalk with his father and
then to Farmington with his mother after her
marriage to John Steele, later returning to
Hartford, where he appears on the records,
March 15, 1664, as one of a party, fined ten
shillings apiece for "their unreasonable con-
veening themselves together at the house of
Thomas Bunce, in his and his wife's offence."
This fixed the date of his marriage prior to
1664. He was one of the founders of the
Second Church, "February 12, 1669, where
he and his wife owned the Covenant" and re
ceived into full communion, March 31, 1678.
He held various offices in the town and owned
considerable land. He married Mary, daugh
ter of John and Margaret (Smith) Watson.
He died prior to August 3, 1713, the date his
will was probated. Children : John, of whom
further ; Thomas, born March 12, 1669 ; Mary,
November, 1670; Zachary, December 22, 1672,
died young; Margaret, July 17, 1674; Richard,
February 11, 1676; Jonathan, January 10,
1678; Nathaniel, November 6, 1680; Zachary
(2), January 10, 1684.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Seymour,
was born at Hartford, Connecticut, June 12,
1666, died there May 17, 1748, and his re
mains were interred in the old burying ground

in the rear of Centre Church. His tombstone,
a rudely sculptured slab of red sandstone,
bears the following inscription : "Here lies
interred the body of Mr. John Seymour, who
died May the 17th S. D. 1748 aged eighty four
years." His widow, Elizabeth, died May 15,
1754, and lies buried beside him. He married,
December 19, 1683, Elizabeth, daughter of
Lieutenant Robert and Susannah (Treat)
Webster. Her mother, Susannah Treat, was
a sister of Governor Robert Treat.
Among the descendants of John Seymour
may be named: Major Moses Seymour, a
revolutionary officer of distinction ; Thomas
Seymour, first major of Hartford ; Captain
Thomas Y. Seymour, a gallant officer of the
revolution ; Captain Thomas Hart Seymour,
the "Hero of Chapultepec," minister to Rus
sia and governor of Connecticut; Judge Ori-
gen Storis Seymour, chief justice of the su
preme court of Connecticut ; Horatio Sey-.
mour, governor of New York, and many,
many others. Children of John (2) Seymour:
John, born December 25, 1694 ; Timothy,
June 27, 1696; Daniel, October 20, 1698; Eliz
abeth, May 1, 1700; Jonathan, March 16,
1702; Nathaniel, November 17, 1704; Susan
nah, April 13, 1706; Margaret, January 20,
1707 ; Zebulon, May 14, 1709 ; Moses, of whom
further. (V) Moses, youngest son of John (2) Sey
mour, was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
February 17, 1710-11, died there September
24, 1795. He married Rachel Goodman, who
died there July 23, 1763. Children, born at
Hartford : Sarah, February 16, 1740, died
1799 ; Moses, July 23, 1742, a soldier of the
revolution in the northern army, and present
at the surrender of Burgoyne ; Rachel, De
cember 17, 1744, died July 24, 1794; Dorothy,
October 13, 1746, died June 5,' 1819 ; Aaron,
of whom further; Eunice, August 7, 1751 ;
Samuel, January 21, 1754; Catharine, August
29, 1756, died March 19, 1814.
(VI) Aaron, son of Moses Seymour, was
born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 4, 1749,'
died 1820. We have no record of his marriage
or his children, further than he had a son
Allen. (VII) Allen, son of Aaron Seymour, was
born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1785, died at
the age of eighty-three years. In his early
years he followed the sea and became cap
tain of a deep sea sailing vessel carrying car
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sea and engaged in the cooperage business.
He moved to Northern New York and settled
in the town of Luzerne, Warren county, many
of his kinsmen being residents of that and the
adjoining county of Saratoga. In 1832 he
moved to Chautauqua county, New York,
passing the winter of 1832 in the village of
Bear Creek, and in April, 1833, settled on a
tract on the west side of Bear Creek one mile
from the village of Delanti. This has ever
since been known as the "Seymour Farm."
It lies in school district No. 2, better known.
in this day as Stockton of the original tract,
three hundred and fifty-six acres being yet
owned by descendants, Dr. Burton W. Sey
mour, of Jamestown, New York, and his
brother, Allen, who owns one hundred acres
on which he resides. Allen Seymour was a
member of the Baptist church and a man of
high standing. He married Patience Bennett,
who died aged seventy-five years. Children :
Wilson, died in the east; Calvin, died in the
west ; William, died in Jamestown, New York ;
Daniel, died in Virginia ; Warren P., of whom
further ; Henry, born in Luzerne, New York,
October 24, 1826, died in Stockton, Chautau
qua county, New York ; Jerusha, married Sel-
leck'Weed; Jane; Polly, married Anson Bar
rows ; Julia, married William Gould.
(VIII) Warren Pulaski, son of Allen Sey
mour, was born in Luzerne, Warren county,
New York, 1820, died 1884. He attended the
public schools of Luzerne until he was twelve
years of age, when his parents moved to Chau
tauqua county, New York, where he finished
his studies. He learned the cooper's trade,
as did all his brothers, and for many years
he operated a factory for the manufacture of
tubs and barrels in the town of Stockton.
Later in life he moved to the old homestead
farm, about two miles from the village, where
he passed the remainder of his life. He was
a very successful manufacturer and farmer,
owning about three hundred and fifty acres
of land, which formerly was a part of the
old homestead taken up by his father. He
raised fine stock in which he took great pride
and kept his farm always in the best condi
tion. He was a Democrat in politics, and a
member of the Baptist church. He served in
several town offices and was a strenuous ad
vocate of the cause of temperance, being a
member of the Royal Templars, one of the
early temperance societies. He married Pru-
-dence Morrell. Children: 1. Wallace. 2.

Jeannette, married Hiram D. Hart. 3. Allen
J., born July 29, 1849, now a resident of
Stockton. 4. Burton Webb, of whom further.
5. Ella J., born February 14, 1856, died May
28, 1910; married Charles C. Todd, and re
sides in Stockton, New York ; children : Ma
bel and Myrtle.
(IX) Dr. Burton Webb Seymour, son of
Warren Pulaski Seymour, was born in the
town of Stockton, Chautauqua county, New
York, August 2, 1854. He attended the pub
lic schools and was graduated from the high
school in 1871. His early life was spent on
the farm, but his desire was for the profes
sion of medicine, beginning the reading of
medical books when but a lad of twelve years.
He began professional study under Dr. Har
rison, continuing three years, was also a stu
dent under Drs. J. J. and D. G. Pickett. Af
ter a preparatory course of two years at Buf
falo, New York, he entered the medical school
of the University of Buffalo, from which he
was graduated M. D., class of 1889. During
his last year at the university he spent a great
amount of time in the general hospital study
ing diseases and their treatment. In 1884 he
began the practice of his profession at Stock
ton, New York, and built up a large practice
among the farmers of that town. His health
would not stand the strain and work incum
bent on a country practitioner. He moved to
the village of Falconer adjacent to Jamestown,
where he purchased and remodeled a house
for residence and office combined, at the same
time establishing an office in Jamestown. In 1911
he sold his Falconer residence and purchased
a home on East Second street, Jamestown,
where he is now located with home and of
fices. Dr. Seymour stands high in his profes
sion, and has been very successful in his prac
tice. He is a specialist on rupture and dis
eases of women and children and in the treat
ment : of such cases his reputation is wide
spread. He is a member of the county and
state medical associations and interested in
the work of these societies. He has large
business interests outside his profession. He
is one of the proprietors of Forest Park Land
Company, which has erected over thirty resi
dences in Jamestown ; is president of the New
Oil Company ; was. one of the original paten
tees and owners of the Monroe-Seymour de
vice for cleaning oil wells by steam, and inter
ested in other enterprises. In early life he
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instruments and was connected with an or
chestra. He is a member of Sinclairville
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a
Seventh Day Adventist in religious faith.
He married at Niagara Falls, New York,
June 19, 1895, Clara Sprague, born in Boston,
New York, November 2, 1866, daughter of
Edwin and Malinda S. (Berry) Sprague (see
Sprague). Child, Burton W., born in Stock
ton, March 14, 1901.
(The Sprague Line).
The Spragues of Vermont descend from
William Sprague, born in Upway, England,
about 1609, died in Hingham, Massachusetts,
October 26, 1675. I-n *629 he settled at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, and in 1635 mar
ried Millicent Eames, removing to Hingham
in 1636. She died February 8, 1695. They
had ten children, including six sons : An
thony, John, Samuel, Jonathan, Jonathan and
William. The descendants of John, the sec
ond son, settled in Vermont. From them came
Benjamin Sprague, grandfather of Mrs. Dr.
Seymour, of Jamestown.
Benjamin Sprague was born in Vermont
and settled in Fredonia, Chautauqua county,
New York. He was a carpenter by trade and
conducted a general contracting and building
business. He served many years as justice of
the peace and on the board of education. He
was prominent in the Universalist church, and
a Republican in politics, but cast his last vote
for Governor Cleveland for president when he
was first a candidate. He died aged about
eighty-eight years. He married (first) Auda
Cook. Children : Welcome, Edwin, Calvin,
Andrew, Clarence and Cordelia. He married
(second) Samantha Bull; no issue.
Edwin, son of Benjamin Sprague, was born
at Boston, Erie county, New York, February
17, 1831, and is now (1911) residing at Stock
ton, New York. He received a good education,
learned the carpenter's trade with his father
and later blacksmithing at which he worked
many years. He later became interested in
the breeding and development of fast horses
and owned some of the best in Western New
York. He made his home for many years in
Fredonia, but since 1894 has been a resident
of Stockton. He is a Republican in politics,
and a Seventh Day Adventist in religious be
lief. He married, January 4, 1852, Malinda
Shaw Berry, a devoted Christian and deep
Bible student, born February 26, 1836, died

May 29, 1907, daughter of Abiah Berry. Chil
dren: 1. George W., born August 27, 1853,
deceased. 2. Lucy A., February 17, 1857;
married William D. Smith. 3. Bruce O., Sep
tember 2, 1859, died 1887. 4. Addie M., Jan
uary 7, 1864; married Fred E. Morse. 5.
Clara; married Dr. Burton Webb Seymour
(see Seymour IX).

Writing in her quaint and inter-
SMITH esting diary, September 18, 1795,
Mrs. Elizabeth Drinker, the pret
ty Quakeress of Philadelphia, says: "Samuel
Smith of Bucks County, Samuel Smith of
Philadelphia and Sally Smith called this morn
ing. Those three Smiths are in no way re
lated, it is I believe the most common name
in Europe and North America." This comes
from the fact that it is one of the so-called
trade names, and every land that has its work
ers in iron has its Smith. Many of the Smith
families of colonial days, even in the same
locality, were unrelated. The Smith family
of South Jersey, large and important as it
was, seems in no way to have been related to
the "Burlington Smiths" of nearby locality.
The founder of the South Jersey family set
tled in Cape May county, where by gift or
purchase from King George he secured a large
tract of land by royal patent.* His descen
dants overflowed into the counties of Cumber
land and Atlantic, and were as a family vessel
builders, owners and seafaring men. They
were seated in the colony prior to the revolu
tion and furnished many soldiers to the patriot
army. William Smith was a lieutenant-col
onel in the New Jersey line .and there were
other officers and many privates.
The first definite record in the branch here
in recorded is of Abel Smith, who was born in
Cape May county, New Jersey, where his
youth was spent. His parents were land own
ers but he did not remain with them. He be
came engaged in glass manufacturing, and
at the time of the second war with Great
Britain had a prosperous business established
* Among those who, by 1696, had obtained land in
Cape May county, of the West Jersey Society, or
of the agents of the former proprietor, Dr. Daniel
Cox, of London, was William Smith, who had one
hundred and thirty acres. He was in the county
by 1694, for his ear mark for cattle was recorded in
that year. By the end of this century, an Abraham
Smith was residing in the county; Richard Smith
died in 1713 or 1714, at which time the population
was about two or three hundred. These may well
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that was swept away during the years 1812-
14. He removed to Ashtabula county, Ohio,
ahout 1830, where for two years he was in
the iron business. Later he settled in Penn
sylvania near the Ohio line, and died at Clark's
Corners, and is buried there. Abel Smith
married Elizabeth Applegate, a descendant of
the Englishman, Thomas Applegate, the first
of the name to be found in America. Thomas
Applegate went from England to Holland with
a party of Englishmen before 1635, came to
Massachusetts where he was licensed to run
a ferry between Weymouth and Braintree. He
does not again appear in Massachusetts rec
ords, but was in Rhode Island in 1640, and
at New Amsterdam, 1641. He secured a pat
ent for land at Gravesend, November 12, 1646,
and appears in many land transfers. He mar
ried Elizabeth Morgan and had a large fam
ily. His son, Thomas,, married Johanna,
daughter of Richard Gihbons, who was one
of the twelve patentees of Middletown, Mon
mouth county, New 'Jersey. Thomas also had
a tract of farm land in Shrewsbury township.
His descendants settled in South Jersey and
in Monmouth county, where they have always
been among the most prominent in the pro
fessions, on the bench and in business. Chil
dren of Abel and Elizabeth (Applegate)
Smith: 1. James Plummer, of whom further.
2. Martha, married Otis Ransom, of Erie,
Pennsylvania; her daughter, Esther, married
Clinton Hoyt, of La Porte, Indiana, and re
sides in Oregon ; there are also two sons. 3.
William G., resides at Clark's Corners, Ashta
bula county, Ohio.
(II) James Plummer, eldest son of Abel
and Elizabeth (Applegate) Smith, was born
in Gloucester county, New Jersey, December
2j, 1818, died in Buffalo, New York, Novem
ber 8, 1874. He was educated in the public
schools, and early engaged with his father in
the lumber business, running a saw mill. For
nine years, from 1852 to 1861, he operated
saw mills at Conneaut, Ohio, then until 1865
was at Plumb, Venango county, Pennsylvania,
where he engaged in the oil business. Fol
lowing 1865 he was for two years engaged
in mining coal at Pulaski, Pennsylvania, and
then removed to Cleveland, where for one
year he attempted unsuccessfully to introduce
a water meter of his own invention. In 1868
he removed to Buffalo and continued his ef
forts. He finally induced William M. Tweed
to put it in use in New York City, but before

the machines could be manufactured and in
stalled the "Boss" had been dethroned. In
1868 he incorporated a company to manufac
ture the Young America Harvester, an in
vention of his brother-in-law, Samuel E. Pad-
en, but greatly improved by Mr. Smith. This
machine was far in advance of the times, and
after trying for three years they abandoned
the attempt. The harvester headed and
threshed the grain, delivering to the bag.
Thousands of similar machines are now in
use on practically the same plan, but at that
early day the demand was too small to make
their manufacture profitable. The company
had taken over the Vulcan Iron Works and
converted them into a harvester factory be
fore the final decision to retire was arrived
at. In 1872 he went with Dr. R. V. Pierce
as machinist and manager in charge of re
constructing the Courter House and convert
ing it into the "Invalids' Hotel." Mr. Smith
was an ardent Republican, a great admirer of
the New York Tribune, and a personal friend
of its editor, Horace Greeley. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church in
which his wife was an active worker.
He married, January 16,. 1840, at Conneaut
Junction, Erie county, Pennsylvania, Louise
Paden, born in Gibson county, Indiana, March
24, 1819, died in Buffalo, February 14, 1907.
Her father, Samuel Paden, was a government
surveyor and in charge of the laying out and
platting for settlement the states of Indiana
and Illinois. Children: 1. George Wallace,
of whom further. 2. Byron Abel, born June
6, 1843 ; graduate of Philadelphia College, now
a physician and pharmacist of Erie, Pennsyl
vania ; he married (first) Salome Griffey ; chil
dren, Salome and Ray; married (second) Ma
ria Griffey, sister of his first wife ; child, Mark.
3. Mary Jane, married Dr. Ray Vaughn Pierce.
4. "Squire" David, born November 20, 1847,
died September 23, 1849. 5. Lester, born Oc
tober 30, 1850, died November 23, 1893 ; Tie
was bookkeeper and accountant for the
World's Dispensary and Medical Association
for many years ; later engaged in independent
newspaper advertising in New York City; he
married Nellie Eliza Cash; two children:
Maud Imogene, married Harris Stoneman
Williams, an attorney of Buffalo, son of ex-
Senator Benjamin Williams, and Earl Burt,
born November 27, 1874, educated in the pub
lic schools and business course, was associated
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the death of the latter; was connected with
the advertising department of the World's
Dispensary and Medical Association until
1902, manager of the Florodora Tag Company
until 1904 ; in 1908 he was with the Morse In
ternational Advertising Agency of New York ;
in 1909 was appointed assistant manager of
advertising contracts for World's Dispensary
and Medical Association; unmarried. 6. El
mer Stillman, born May 13, 1853; is an in
ventor and in business in Bound Brook, New
Jersey ; he married, Marie Smith ; children :
Alma, Ho, Ray Lee. 7. Lee Herbert, of whom
further. 8. Oakley Ransom, born July 18,
1859, died August 13, 1873. 9. Twin of Oak
ley R., died in infancy.
(Ill) George Wallace, son of James Plum
mer and Louise (Paden) Smith, was born at
Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Novem
ber 26, 1840. He was educated in the public
schools, and associated with his father in the
saw mill and oil business in Venango county,
Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the United
States navy at Erie, Pennsylvania, May 26,
1862. He was first assigned to the United
States steamship "Michigan," transferred to
the United States receiving ship "North Caro
lina," at Brooklyn Navy Yard, transferred to
the United States steamship "Norwich," Sep
tember, 1862 ; in blockade duty off Charleston
two months ; blockade duty three months on
South Carolina coast; then on blockade duty
in St. John's river, Florida; remained there
until May, 1863 ; then went to Femandina,
Florida, then transferred to the United States
steamship, "James Agger," bound for Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, where he was honor
ably discharged, May 26, 1863. He enlisted
as "landsman" and was discharged "able sea
man." An an inducement to reenlist he was
offered a non-commissioned officer's position.
He returned to Venango county, Pennsylvania,
where with his father he entered into the
cooperage business and continued for two
years making oil barrels. He next removed
to Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, remaining there
and at Pleasantville until 1868, when he re
moved to the state of Iowa. In 1870 he came
to Buffalo, New York, where he entered the
employ of Dr. R. V. Pierce, with whom he
remained thirty-five years as chief engineer
at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
He then resigned and retired. Later yielding
to Dr. Pierce's request he became manager
of the treatment room. He is a member of

the Linwood Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a Republican in politics.
He married, May 3, 1864, Sarah Rebecca,
born March 21, 1843, died August 20, 1900,
daughter of David Free, a farmer of Plumb,
Pennsylvania. Children: 1. Louise Euphe-
mia, married Frank Herbert Grantier; child,
Helen Farnham. 2. Cash Paden, born in
Plumb, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1866,
died in August, 191 1; educated in the public
schools of Buffalo and Bryant & Stratton's
Business College ; clerked in a Buffalo gro
cery, 1880-83 ; was for a time with the Good
year Lumber Company at Liberty, Pennsyl
vania, and in other temporary positions until
1886 when he returned to the grocery business
with his old employer, T. S. Dunham ; in 1888
he entered the shipping department of the
World's Dispensary and Medical Association,
and was in their employ in various capacities
until his death, excepting three and one-half
years with the Ideal Cash Register Company
of Bound Brook, New Jersey; he was an in
dependent Republican and an active worker.
3. Bertha Inez, married George M. Eiss, of
Weisman & Eiss, Broadway Department
Store ; children : Robert M., Norman S., Dor
othy. (Ill) Lee Herbert, son of James Plummer
and Louise (Paden) Smith, was born at Con
neaut, Ohio, August 10, 1856. His prepara
tory education was obtained in the Conneaut
schools until arriving at the age of twelve
years, when the family removed to Buffalo.
He attended the Buffalo high school and was
graduated at Buffalo University, class of 1876.
He entered Columbia University, graduating
from the medical department, M. D., class of
188 1. He was graduated with the highest
honors from the University of Buffalo, taking
prizes on three subjects and his thesis. He
began practice in Buffalo in 1877, and has so
continued until the present,- excepting the time
spent in a special course of surgery at Colum
bia University. He is a specialist in abdomi
nal surgery and diseases of the abdomen, to
which he has devoted himself for the past fif
teen years. His work in the operation of lith-
olapaxy is unsurpassed by any surgeon in the
United States, and has rendered him famous.
Out of two hundred and eighty-four opera
tions of this character he has had but one
death. He has also improved the operation
for rupture by the use of an insoluble suture
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quired to remain but one day in bed. In per
forming the latter operation he has never had
a death. He was chairman of the questions
committee of the State Board of Medical Ex
aminers, been steadily reappointed by the
Board of Regents of the State of New York
and has served for over twenty years. He is
vice-president and director of the World's
Dispensary and Medical Association, having
served as director since 1882 and vice-presi
dent since 1886. He is also in charge of
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo. For many years Dr. Smith was presi
dent and is now vice-president of the Buffalo
Society of Natural Science and resigned same
on account of the increasing demands of his
practice. He has taken a great interest in the
society and has been useful in extending the
teaching of Natural Science in the public
schools. He is a member of the Buffalo Club,
which he served as director; also was director
and treasurer of the Ellicott Club ; was one of
the organizers and the second president of the
Automobile Qub of Buffalo, and is a member
of the Buffalo Yacht Club. His fraternal
order is the Masonic, belonging to Ancient
Landmarks Lodge, No. 44. His professional
societies are : The Western New York Medi
cal Society; New York State Eclectic Society,
of which he was president one year, and the
National Eclectic Society. He served as ord
nance officer of the Seventy- fourth Regiment,
New York National Guard, with rank of cap
tain. After ten years' service with the regi
ment, during which time the rifle team and
the regimental rifle practice were brought to
a high degree of efficiency, he was promoted
to ordnance officer of the seventh brigade with
rank of major and i-s in seniority second in the
state. He was one of the founders and is a
director and was president of the Seventy-
fourth Regiment Veterans' Association. He
is a Republican in politics, and a member of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
He married, October 5, 1880, Cora Emma,
daughter of Clark D. and Emma (Sleeper)
Lacy, and granddaughter of John T. Lacy,
of the American Express Company. Child,
Herbert Lacy, born May 10, 1888; educated
in private schools, Heathcote School, Buffalo,
and Cornell University; now with American
Ball Engine Works, Bound Brook, New Jer
sey, in the testing department, an expert in
testing high speed engines and dynamos. He
married, March 16, 1910, Zora Reed.

The Mackirdys formerly be-
McCURDY longed to the tribes which
possessed the Western Is
lands of Scotland. These original inhabitants
belonged to the Albanichs. From the Nor
wegian invasion in 880, they were under Scan
dinavian rule to the end of the Scandinavian
occupation. The Mackirdys were early pos
sessors of lands on the island of Bute. There
is a tradition that one of the family was made
a Cardinal.
The McCurdys, McCredies, and others of
similar names are supposed to form branches
of this ancient family. At the present day
they are scattered over various parts of Scot
land, Ireland, England, Canada and the
United States. It is said that soon after the
middle of the seventeenth century five broth
ers, on account of religious persecution, left
Scotland, crossed in an open boat, and settled
in the northern part of Ireland. In Ireland
the revolution of 1688 soon caused them fur
ther troubles. McCurdys have come to Am
erica at various times. The ancestries of
those now living of this name are often not
clear ; a probably correct line to James Earl
Spaulding McCurdy is as follows :
(I) Alexander McCurdy, immigrant, was
born in Ulster, Ireland, in 1744, died near
Livermore, Westmoreland county, Pennsyl
vania, about 1838. Coming to America in
1756, he settled first in what is now Indiana
county, Pennsylvania ; he afterward lived near
the Salt Works on the Conemaugh river. He
served in the revolution, in Captain Matthew
Scott's company, Thirteenth Pennsylvania
Regiment, and was wounded in both arms at
Yorktown. For a short time he accompanied
his son Samuel in the war of 1812, and was
employed in training soldiers in military ex
ercises. He possessed considerable wealth,
was a noted musician, and was well known for
his knowledge of the Scriptures. He married,
about 1785, Jane Heridenon. Children: Wil
liam", of whom further; Alexander H., born
in 1794, died in 1851, married, about 1820,
Mary Doty ; Andrew, Samuel, Keziah, Ann,
Jane. (II) William, son of Alexander and Jane
(Heridenon) McCurdy, was a farmer, and
lived near Livermore, Pennsylvania. He mar
ried  . Child, Thomas Alexander, of
whom further.
(Ill) Rev. Thomas Alexander McCurdy,
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ern Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wash
ington and Jefferson College with the degree
of A. B. He studied theology at Allegheny
Seminary, Pennsylvania, and is a Presbyterian
minister. He received from Washington and
Jefferson College the degrees of D. D. and
LL. D. He has had charges in Ohio, at
Wellsville, Steubenville and Wooster. In
1885 Macalester College was opened in St.
Paul, Minnesota, and Dr. McCurdy was its
president. He became pastor, in 1890, of the
First Presbyterian Church, Peoria, Illinois, and
in 1896 of the Central Presbyterian Church,
Wilmington, Delaware. Ten years after this
his health failed and he went to North Da
kota to live. He is now residing at Mandan,
in that state, and has charge of the First
Presbyterian Church. In the civil war he
served as a chaplain from Pennsylvania. He
married Elizabeth Smith Woodend, who died
February 21, 1906. Children: Paul Erskine,
living in Philadelphia, a graduate of Macales
ter, A. B., 1889; Allen Woodend, born June
23, 1874, a graduate of Amherst, A. B., 1893,
has done graduate work at Princeton, now
minister of the Morningside Presbyterian
Church, New York City; Earl Spaulding, of
whom further; Elliott Steele, born June 5,
1882, graduate of the Columbia School of
Mines, with the degree of M. E., living at
Amador City, California, where he is a min
ing engineer.
(IV) Earl Spaulding, son of Rev. Thomas
Alexander and Elizabeth Smith (Woodend)
McCurdy, was born at Wooster, Ohio, June
29, 1878. He attended the public schools at
Peoria, and graduated from the high school
in 1896. For five years he was in a national
bank in Philadelphia. In 1901 he went to
Tennessee and traveled as special agent for
eastern capitalists in buying and selling prop
erties. He came to Buffalo in 1906, and deals
in investments, including stocks and bonds.
He is a member of the Buffalo, Saturn, Buf
falo Country and Automobile clubs. He is a
member of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church. He married, October 18, 1905, Hel
en, daughter of William G. and Sally (Worth)
Pennypacker, of Wilmington, Delaware.

The family of Gifford is of
GIFFORD high antiquity and was seated
at Honfleur, Normandy, three
centuries before the conquest of England by
Duke William (the Conqueror). At the bat

tle of Hastings in 1066 "Sire Rundolph de
Gifforde" was one of the Conqueror's stand
ard bearers, and was rewarded by him with
estates in Somersetshire and Cheshire, which
were created into a barony, from which his
descendants had summons to parliament. In
the reign of King Henry IP, Sir Peter Gif
ford married Alice, daughter and heiress of
Sir Grey de Corbuchin, with whom he had
the Lordship of Chillington in Cheshire,
which was the seats of the Dukes of Buck
ingham of this family. Sir Stephen Gifford
was one of the barons accompanying Richard
Coeur de Lion to the Holy Land, and was
killed at the siege of Jerusalem; his son, Sir
Stephen (2), was also wounded there. The
family enjoyed great distinction at the Eng
lish court for several centuries, and at one
time five peerages existed in the family name.
Baron George Gifford was made Earl of
Buckingham by King Henry V., but joining
the house of York against that of Lancaster
during the "War of the Roses," and being one
of the prime favorites of King Edward V.,
he was created Duke of Buckingham and mar
ried the Princess Maude Plantagenet, cousin
of the king. His son, George Gifford, Duke
of Buckingham, was one of the favorites of
the Duke of Gloucester, afterward King Rich*-
ard III, and being detected by that tyrant in
the act of corresponding with the Earl of
Richmond (Henry VII.) he was attainted of
high treason and beheaded by Richard's or
ders. The duke left several small children,
but as they had been deprived of their lands
and titles, the king, Henry VII., found it
more convenient not to restore them, and
Humphrey Stafford, a powerful noble, hav
ing married the oldest daughter of Henry,
was created by him Duke of Buckingham.
The Staffords followed the fate of their ma
ternal ancestor and the grandson of Hum
phrey was beheaded, and his family deprived
of their vast estates. Of the sons of the last
George Gifford, Duke of Buckingham, George
continued the first line and continually solici
ted the Crown and Parliament for his restora
tion, but from the powerful opposition of his
brother-in-law (Stafford) was always de
feated. The Giffords in the reign of King
Henry VIII. and Queens Mary and Elizabeth,
uneffectually put their claims before the Eng
lish Parliament, never, however, successfully.
In the reign of James I., Sir Ambrose Gifford
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Duke of Buckingham, and in the second year
of the reign of Charles I. his claims were dis
allowed on account of his poverty. Walter
Gifford, the son of Sir Ambrose, emigrated
from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony
in 1630, and was the progenitor of the Ameri
can branch of this ancient family.
Noted descendants of this family are the
celebrated critic, Sir John Gifford and Lord
Gifford, Amster of the Rolls, who prosecuted,
while attorney general of England, the wife
of George IV. (Queen Caroline) upon' a
charge of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Coat-of-arms : Gules, three lions passant:
Argent: Crest, an arm couped above the el
bow, vested or charged with two bars wavy
azure, cuffed white, holding in the hand a
stag's head cabossed, gules. Motto: "Noth
ing without the Divinity."
So far as is known, no one has been able
to trace the descendants of Walter Gifford,
son of Sir Ambrose, who is mentioned in the
foregoing genealogy as having emigrated from
England to Massachusetts Bay in 1630.
(I) The first Gifford whose line of geneal
ogy we are able to trace in this country is ¦
William Gifford, who according to "Hunting
ton's History of Stamford, Connecticut," was
before the court of that settlement in 1647.
The sentence of the court against him was
that he be whipped at the court's discretion
and banished. The supposition is that this
William Gifford is the same William Gifford
we find in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and a
member of the grand inquest at Plymouth in
1650. He continued to reside in Sandwich un
til his death with the exception of five years
between 1665-70, when he, with George Allen
and the sons of Peter Gaunt, all of Sandwich,
together with others, were first proprietors of
and settled Monmouth, New Jersey, having
purchased the land of the Indians and to whom
the Monmouth Patent was granted, April 8,
1665. They being adherents to the Quaker
faith, suffered severely by fines and vexatious
suits, both in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
William Gifford owned land in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut. His Massa
chusetts possessions consisted of lands in
Sandwich, Falmouth and Dartmouth. The
facsimile of deed accompanying this volume
represents a forty-acre parcel purchased of a
Suckanessett (Falmouth) Indian named Job
Attukkoo, July 24, 1673. He £ave hY will
to his sons Jonathan and James lands in Fal

mouth, Massachusetts. He also deeded to his
sons Robert and Christopher lands in Dart
mouth, Massachusetts, both of whom erected
homesteads upon their estates. Robert con
tinued to live in Dartmouth, while Christo
pher moved later to Little Compton, Rhode
Island. Both have many descendants now
living in southern Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. William probably deeded his Connec
ticut lands to his son John, who gave by will
one hundred acres in the colony of Connecti
cut to his son Samuel, and two hundred acres
to his grandsons. He died April 9, 1687.
The foregoing is borrowed from the "Gif
ford Genealogy" published by Harry E. Gif
ford, of Wollaston, Massachusetts, March S,
1896. The following, also taken from the same
genealogy, is a copy of the Indian deed pre
viously mentioned. A photographic copy of
the original deed is in the possession of Mrs.
Alice Gifford Hayward, of Jamestown, N. Y.
To all people to. who these presents shall come
Job Natantero Indian of Suckanessett in the Gov
ernment of New Plymouth sendeth greet, etc. Know
yee that I the said Job Natantero alias Natankoo
for and in consideration of forty, acres of upland in
exchange given me and nine pounds and fifteen
shillings to me in hand paid by William Gifford of
Sandwich in the government aforesaid whereof and
wherewith I do acknowledge myself fully satisfied
and paid and thereof and of every part and parcel
thereof do for myself my heirs executors and ad
ministrators exonerate acquitt and discharge him
the said William Gifford his heirs executors admin
istrators and every one of them forever by these
presents have freely and absolutely given granted
bargained sold enfeofed and confirmed and by these
presents do give grant bargain sell enfeofe and con
firm unto him the said William Gifford his heirs
and Assigns for ever all that my parcell of land left
by my father Thomas Noontakoo to me and my
brother James whose interest I have bought as per
deed under his hand dated 20 of March 1671 or 72
appeareth lying and being at Suckanessett aforesaid
at a place called Sepuissett containing forty acres
be it more or less as it was laid out by some of ye
Inhabitants there viz. seven score and ten rods in
length and forty five rods in breadth abutting west
erly by ye marsh, easterly, northerly and southerly
upon the Commons together with all the privilages
profits and appurtenances what govern thereunto
belonging unto him the said William Gifford his
heirs and Assigns and to the only proper use and
behoof of him the said William Gifford his heirs
and Assigns forever with warranties against all
people whatsoever forever by or under me the said
Job or James my brother aforesaid, mine or his
heirs or Assigns claiming any right title use or in
terest of or into the said bargained premises or any
part or parcell thereof And I the said Job do for
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enant and grant to and with ye said William Gif
ford his heirs and Assigns that at ye time of en
sealing and delivery of these presents I have full
power just right and lawful authority to give grant
bargain and confirm all the said premises in and by
these presents mentioned to be given granted bar
gained and confirmed or intended to be granted,
bargained and confirmed according to the true
intent and meaning of the presents in manner
and form aforesaid and that it may and shall be
lawful to and for ye said William Gifford his
heirs and Assigns by themselves or their attor
ney to enroll or record these presents or cause
them to be enrolled or recorded in his Majesty's
Court of New Plymouth or any other place of
Records according to the usual custom and order
of recording evidences in such case provided. In
witness whereof I the said Jacob Nootenko have
hereunto set my hand this twenty-fourth day of
July Anno Dom one thousand six hundred sev
enty and three.
Signed Sealed and Delivered
in presence of Thos. Huskins.
Barnabas Cothier.
The within mentioned Job
appeared and acknowledged
these presents to be his act and
deed the date above said be
fore me. Thos. Hinckley, Ass'tt
pen Job Attukkoo (Seal)
(II) Robert, son of William Gifford, was
born 1660, died 1730. He married Sarah,
daughter of Stephen and Mary (Briggs)
Wing; she was born February 2, 1658, died
1725. They moved to Dartmouth, Massachu
setts. (Ill) Jeremiah, son of Robert Gifford,
was born 1682, died January 15, 1771. He
married Mary Wright, who died March 12,
1780. (IV) Peleg, son of Jeremiah Gifford, was
born December, 1719. He married, February
19, 1740, Alice Cornell, born March 14, 1726,
died 181 1..
(V) Caleb, son of Peleg Gifford, was born
October 14, 1764, died January 10, 1832. He
moved from Dartmouth to Cambridge, New
York, in 1790, where he lived until his death.
He married, Jedida Cushman, who was of
the sixth generation, from Robert Cushman,
who hired the "Mayflower." She died Oc
tober 7 or 8, 1848, at Albany, New York, bur
ied at Easton. Children : Alden, Gideon,
Isaac, Theron, Mary, Calista.
(VI) Gideon, son of Caleb Gifford, was
born April 18, 1789, at Cambridge, New
York, died March 29, 1855, at Jamestown,
New York. He married, in Cambridge, May
26, 1810, Millicent Cornell, born January 28,
1792, at Cambridge, New York, died July 30,

1866, at Jamestown, New York. They are
both buried in Lakeview cemetery, Jamestown,
New York. Gideon Gifford and family moved
in 1828, with an ox team from Cambridge,
Washington county, New York, to Chautau
qua county, New York, where Tie bought a
large tract of land lying between Jamestown
and Lakewood. He was a civil engineer, and
surveyed much of the land in that part of the
county. He and his wife, Millicent (Cornell)
Gifford, were of the Quaker faith, his mother
being a Quaker preacher. He was a cousin
of Lucretia Mott, who became famous not
only as a Quaker preacher, but as an Aboli
tionist and an advocate of woman's suffrage.
Mrs. Mott visited him at one time after he
moved to Chautauqua county. Children :
1. Alice, born April 28, 181 1, died Decem
ber 2, 1890; married Simeon Bentley, born
February 22, 1813, died August 7, 1880.
2. Cyrus, born 1813, died 1832.
3. Daniel, born December 2, 1815, died
January 31, 1889; married Ann M. Sherman,
born April 3, 1820, died February, 1885.
Children : i. George Winslow, born August
31, 1842, died December, 1906; married,
March 24, 1869, Anna Bisbee. ii. Charles
Daniel, born July 16, 1846, died December 18,
IQ03 ; married, September 22. 1869, Clemen
tine J. Hitchcock, and their children are:
a. Marion H., married Melville Maltby Martin,
June 26, 1895 ; child, William Gifford Martin,
born May 13, 1909 ; b. Elmer C, married Pearl
E. Terry, September 20, 1899, three children:
Louise Janette, born August 19, 1904 ; Charles
Jay, born June 9, 1907 ; Corydon Daniel, born
February 15, 1910.
4. Matthew, C, born November 29, 1820,
died June 2, 1866; married (first) Charlotte
Cowing, 1841, who died July 9, 1853; child:
Clara, born 1851, died July 13, 1875; mar
ried Ernest Hunt, 1873 ; one son Jay, born
1875, and he had several children. Matthew
C. married (second) 1857, Charity Hotch-
kiss, died 1858. Matthew C. married (third)
1859, Rhoda Cook; one son, Melville, born
September 24, i860, married (first) Arvilla
Newhouse, February 3, 1881, died November
4, 1883; married (second) Melissa Wells,
January 27, 1887, horn January 31, 1863;
child, Glenn M., born March 21, 1890.
5. Mary, born 1824, died 1889; married
(first) Richard Stoneman, brother of Gover
nor Stoneman, of California; married (sec
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went to California with the forty-niners and
died there.
6. Jane, born May 17, 1826, died June 25,
1905; married Washington Palmeter, 1846;
children: i. Willis Gaylord, born May 13,
1847, married in Kentucky, at Grassy Lick,
Eliza Plardman, 1868, children: Frank, John,
Fannie, Laura, Rezen, Clarence; ii. Jennie,
born March 31, 1851, married, in 1878, Osden
Thayer, children : a. Earl, born March 13,
1884, married, December 1, 1908,  , one
child, Dorthy Ethel, born August 10, 1910,
died- September, 1910; b. Erie, born January
20, 1886; c. Edna, born March 30, 1888, mar
ried, September 1, 1909, Thomas Heald Jr., at
Jamestown, New York; one child, Virginia
Rae, born September 6, 1910. iii. Frank W.,
born January 26, 1858, married (first) Edith
Palmeter and had Mabel; married (second)
Jessie Rice and had Minnie; married (third)
Hattie Fisher.
7. Walter Cornell, mentioned below.
8. Cyrus Frisbee, born August 11, 1832,
died September 19, 1864; he went to Ken
tucky before the war to teach school ; he mar
ried Sarah Ann Hardman, born December 10,
1836, died March 24, 1898; children: i.
Frank, born September 19, 1856, married
Kate Genung, children : Bessie, Clara, born
June 27, 1881, married, June 27, 191 1, Adolph
Woodward; Dimple Estelle, born January 21,
1884; Arthur Henry, born September 7, 1893.
ii. Edwin Pendleton, born October 24, 1859,
died April 14, 1896, married Lettie 'Ann
Wade, July 11, 1883; child, Eva Anna, born
May 27, 1884, married, May 1, 1902, Will
iam Mark, children : Ethel Gifford, born July
4, 1903, and Rosa Payne, February 12, 1907.
iii. Mary Alice, born February 27, 1858, died
February 1, 1895. iv. Lizzie Ann, born April
4, 1862, married John Wade, August 23, 1882,
children : Eda May Wade, born August 9,
1883 ; Millard Gifford, April 28, 1885 ; Elmer
J., January 4, 1887; Cyrus David, August
15, 1890; Leo Weaver, September 5, 1892,
died September 10, 1892 ; Arvilla Hargrove,
December 22, 1901 ; Millard G., married
Gladys Eunice Miles, June 20, 1906; Elmer
J., married Marjorie Jenner, August. 31, 1909.
(VII) Walter Cornell, son of Gideon and
Millicent (Cornell) Gifford, was born near
Jamestown, New York, May 8, 1829, died in
Jamestown, August 10, 1909. He was reared
on the farm of his father and was educated
in the schools of his town. He married at

the age of twenty-three years and was a Chau
tauqua county farmer, well known and pros
perous until years warned him that his active
work was finished. Pie then retired to James
town, New York, where his last years were
spent. Pie had an active public life, and in
the order of Patrons of Husbandry and in
the state legislature made his worth known,
and demonstrated once again that the farm
produces our great men. When the grange
was first organized he at once associated with
the movement, believing that it meant nothing
but good for the farmer. He with his wife
became charter members of Union Grange,
No. 244, and from that time until his death
was an earnest, active member and official.
He became county deputy, and in that office
organized fourteen subordinate granges. His
worth was so capably demonstrated in county
work that he was elected to the different of
fices of the State Grange and finally master
of the state, a position he worthily filled for
four years. While master of the State
Grange he visited nearly every county in the
state and organized several Pomona Granges.
During his administration the paying mem
bership in the state was nearly doubled.
Chiefly through the warm advocacy of his
many grange friends be was nominated for
the state assembly in 1890, and was elected,
succeeding Frederick Nixon. At this time he
was master of the State Grange and was the
recognized leader in all matters of legisla
tion affecting the interests of the farmers of
the state, and he was looked up to by the
leaders of the party and by the farmers them
selves as the special representative of the
latter as well as the representative of his
own constituency in Chautauqua- county. He
served on the committees: Public lands and
forestry, agriculture and taxation and was a
member of the New York state tax commis
sion. Though the Republicans were in a
minority at that time in the house, he suc
ceeded in carrying through a bill, authoriz
ing women to vote for school commissioners,
under which women have gained increased
influence in school affairs. He secured an
amendment to the insurance law exempting
co-operative fire insurance companies from
the provision of the standard policy law, also
legislation forbidding the adulteration of ma
ple sugar and maple syrup. He was active
in defeating the local option tax bill, de
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property from taxation. Mr. Gifford was
elected for a second term by an increased
plurality and again served with honor and
credit. From 1877 to 1891 he was secretary
of the Chautauqua County Patrons Fire Re
lief Association and for a number of years
was secretary of the New York Association
of Co-operative Fire Insurance Companies.
For four seasons he was in charge of the
Grange Building at Chautauqua, assisted by
his wife. He was delegate many times to the
National Grange and introduced in that body
some valuable legislation. After his retire
ment to Jamestown he retained his keen in
terest in public affairs and regularly attended
the meetings of Union Grange as long as
health permitted. To the very end of his
long and useful life he enjoyed the confidence
and esteem of his fellows, and passed away
in the consciousness of a life well spent. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Jamestown, and lived a life in con
formity with his profession. He was always
a Republican in politics, but never surrend
ered his independence and often supported
nominees of opposite faith.
He married, March 18, 1852, Eliza Cor
nelia Robertson, born at Ellicottville, Catta
raugus county, New York, August 4, 1830,
died May 9, 191 1, at Jamestown. Both are
buried in Lakeview cemetery at Jamestown.
They passed a happy married life of fifty-
eight years together, and March 18, 1902,
celebrated their golden wedding at the Gif
ford homestead in Chautauqua county, when
one hundred and fifty cherished friends
brought congratulations, good wishes and
many more substantial tokens of their es
teem. Children: 1. Clarence E., born April
18, 1853, on farm in township of Busti, Chau
tauqua county, New York, near Jamestown,
died January 22, 1909 ; he inherited a love
for mathematics and surveying from his
grandfather, Gideon Gifford, and a mechani
cal and inventive genius from his father. Very
early in life the family called him "the Tin
ker," and the house was strewn with batteries,
telephones and telegraph instruments. He
built, and with Robert N. Marvin, owned the
first telephone exchange in Jamestown. La
ter he was connected with the telephone, elec
tric lighting, and street car service of several
large cities. In Buffalo he was known as Dr.
Gifford, because the men said he could doc
tor up anything that was out of rig about the

street car system. He made a number of im
portant discoveries in the electrical world. He
was by invitation a member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, at that time
limited to a membership of six hundred and
has read papers at their national conventions.
He was a contributor to several electrical
journals and a great student in his chosen pro
fession. He was educated at Cornell Uni
versity. He married (first) August 10, 1881,
L. Adelaide Kent, in the village of Busti,
born 1858, died 1885, both buried at James
town; no children; married (second) October
28, 1889, at Allensville, Pennsylvania, Jennie
Keim ; no children. 2. Mary, born June, 1855,
died August 16, 187 1. 3. Willie, born Janu
ary 27, 1857, died May 12, 1882. 4. Milli
cent Cornell, born July 9, i860; graduated
from the Jamestown high school, class of
1878, and, when only eighteen years and
three months old, went to Chittenango, Madi
son county, New York, to act as principal of
the grammar school. Four years later, Oct-
tober 18, 1882, she was married to Henry
Bradford Jenkins, and for a number of years'
lived in New York. From there she and her
husband with their two children, Alice E. and
Frances Louise, moved to Dumont, New Jer
sey, twelve miles from New York City, on the
West Shore road. Here their son, Henry B.
Jr., was born. Mrs. Jenkins has always been
very active in the church and social life of
Dumont, and has been for a number of years
president of the Home Missionary Society
for Bergen county, New Jersey. She is a
member of the Reformed church. Her hus
band is a vestryman of the Episcopal church
in Bergenfield. Mr. Jenkins is a hay and
grain commission merchant of New York
City, and is a direct descendant of Governor
Bradford, of Massachusetts ; he was born
June 15, 1849. Children: Alice Elizabeth,
born October 21, 1884; Frances Louise, born
October 26, 1889; Henry Bradford Jr., born
March 8, 1894. 5. Alice Bently, born Octo
ber 29, 1866; was educated in the Jamestown
schools and afterward studied art at Cooper
Union, New York City. She is a member of
the First Methodist Church of Jamestown, a
member of both the Home and Foreign so
cieties, and of the Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union where she has done her best
work. For a number of years she served as
county and local secretary of the Loyal Tem
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thought to the teaching of temperance in the
Sunday schools of the city. She married, at
Jamestown, July 10, 1889, Orin B. Hayward,
born January 12, 1864; they have one son,
Walter Gifford Hayward, born October 12,
1891. Mr. Hayward is a member of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church as is also their
only son. Mr. Hayward is also an Odd Fel
low. Walter Gifford Hayward is at present
(1911) in his freshman year in the medical
school, University of Buffalo. 6. Fannie S.,
born July 12, 1870, died February 18, 1888.
Eliza Cornelia (Robertson) Gifford, 'wife
of Walter Cornell Gifford, was born on a
farm near the village of Ellicottville, Catta
raugus county, New York, August 4, 1830,
died May 9, 191 1, daughter of Henry Clark
and Ursula (Malthy) Robertson, both natives
of Connecticut, and both brought at an early
age to New York state by their parents, he
to Madison, she to Oneida county. They
came to Cattaraugus county in 1820, and
were among the pioneers of that section.
Both were school teachers and all their five
children followed that profession. Eliza C.
began teaching when still lacking three
months of being fifteen years of age. Her
salary was one dollar per week and "board
around." From that time until her marriage
she either attended school as a pupil or was
engaged in teaching. In that day there was
but one college open to girls (Oberlin, Ohio,)
the district school being the only opportunity
she had to acquire an education, except two
terms at a private school taught by the wife
of a Presbyterian minister, Rev. Sylvester
Cowles, at Ellicottville, and later two terms
at the old Jamestown Academy, with E. A.
Dickinson as principal, and Harriet Hazeltine,
preceptress. The limitations which custom
and opinion in those days set for girls were
much less liberal than at present, and many
things which were highly improper then for a
girl could be done by the opposite sex with
out question. Many things that a girl can
now do with perfect propriety then earned
only opprobrium and such terms as "unlady
like," "romp" or "tomboy." As a young girl
she often puzzled her head why so much
more was expected of a girl, especially in
morals, and decided in her own mind that
there should be one standard of morality for
both sexes. The newspapers that came to
her home sometimes contained articles on
"Woman's Rights," but almost always such

articles were disparaging and often con
temptuous. Women who took any part with
such ideas were called "Screechers" or
"Strong Minded," etc. On reflection the
young girl decided it better to be called strong
minded than the opposite, and at her first op
portunity became identified with the equal
suffrage movement, and equal rights in
the home, in church and in state, be
lieving that humanity can never be capable of
its greatest achievements until the wife and
mother takes her proper place beside her hus
band, his co-equal and helpmate. When the
grange came to bless the agricultural com
munity, she with her husband lost no time in
identifying herself with the movement, and
together, in 1873, they became charter mem
bers of Union Grange, No. 244, of James
town. In its organization not only the oppor
tunity but especial chance for a broader out
look for the farmer's wife was given, and
she often remarked that "the woman of the
farm needs the associations which the grange
affords more than the men, for her life
is necessarily more secluded and often iso-
. lated." At the first session of the National
Grange which she attended at Atlanta, Geor
gia, in 1890, her husband then being master
of New York State Grange, which made her
a delegate to the National Grange also, she
introduced a resolution which declared the
National Grange to be in favor of the "ballot
for women." As one of the fundamental
principles of the order is equal rights for both
sexes, this proposition would seem but the
legitimate sequence of such teaching, and al
though the grange has since declared in favor
of equal suffrage it met at this time with such
violent opposition, particularly from southern
representatives, that the resolution was af
terward defeated. A motion, however, pre
vailed to print five thousand copies of her
preamble and resolution for distribution
among the various granges of the nation,
which was done. Mrs. Gifford continued an
active, earnest worker in the grange for many
years. She introduced, in 1881, in the New
York State Grange, the first suffrage resolu
tion ever brought before that body, and was
the author of the memorial in favor of en
franchising woman, which was adopted by the
State Grange and submitted to the constitu
tional convention of 1894. She held the office
of master of Union Grange and that of mas
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She was for many years a frequent contribu
tor to the press, chiefly in advocacy of "Equal
Rights," believing the press to be the surest,
speediest way to gain the public ear. She
was also active and useful in the special work
of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
For many years she held the office of county
superintendent of franchise; she was also
state superintendent of legislative work for
the New York State Woman's Suffrage As
sociation. She and her husband were in per
fect accord in her work and labored together
for the public good. In common with most
women of the farm her life was a busy one,
and as she said "with some clouds and more
sunshine." Her later years were spent in
the companionship of her daughter Alice,
(Mrs. Orin B. Hayward) of Jamestown.
Ursula (Maltby) Robertson, mother of Mrs.
Gifford, was a double cousin of Lorenzo Dow,
the eccentric pioneer preacher, her mother be
ing Asenith Dow, sister of Lorenzo Dow's
father, whose wife was sister of her father,
Mr. Maltby. Ursula Maltby was born May
25, 1799, died August 24, 1876; married
Clark Robertson, born April 26, 1799, died
March 26, 1886. Had born to them six chil
dren of whom Mrs. Gifford was the last to
survive. Children: 1. Mary R., wife of Dr.
Moore, of Manlius, New York; one son,
Frank R. Moore, of Brooklyn, at one time
receiver of customs for the Eastern port of
New York, afterward principal of the Brook
lyn commercial high school and a lifelong
educator. 2. Amerette, wife of Ephraim Hud
son ; children : i. Julia, married Sidney Har-
son ; several children and grandchildren
living in and near Ellicottville, New York;
ii. Flora, married Truman Hinman, had Ar
thur and Charles; iii. Erma, born May 22,
1866, married (first) Erie Sherman, had Gil
bert; married (second)  Smith, lives at
present time (1911) in North Yacama, state
of Washington; they have three children;
iv. Eva, twin sister of Erma, married Elmer
Eddy, has two children. 3. Eliza C, afore
mentioned as wife of Walter C. Gifford. 4.
Albert, married Lucinda Smith ; children :
Robert Clark, Edith Agnes, Dr. R. Smith.
5. Frances, married Myron Sherman. To
them were born Edward Humphry, Edith
and Mabel. Edward H. married Florence
Shaver; children: Arthur, born April, 1884;.
Louise and Gertrude.
The Caleb Gifford branch have several in

teresting lines of ancestry, one tracing
through Jeremiah Gifford who married Mary
Wright of the fourth generation from Fran
cis Cook, of the "Mayflower." Another
through Jedida Cushman, wife of Caleb Gif
ford, sixth generation from Robert Cushman
who hired the "Mayflower" and to Mary
Allerton who came over in the "Mayflower"
and was the wife of Elder Thomas Cushman,
son of Robert Cushman, and still another
through the same source which traces back
fifteen generations to Thomas Sherman, of
Suffolk county, England, who died March 16,
1564. Thus this branch of the family traces three
lines to the Pilgrim Fathers and one to the
middle of the fifteenth century in old Eng
land. The father of Millicent Cornell, wife of
Gideon Gifford, was captain of a whaling
vessel and left the seas about the time of the
revolutionary war. (The Cook Line).
(I) Francis Cook, born 1577, died April 4,
1663 ; resided at Plymouth ; married Hester

(II) Hester Cook, died June 18, 1666;
married, November 21, 1644, Richard Wright,
born 1608, died June 9, 1691.
(HI) Adam Wright, born 1645, died Sep
tember 20, 1724; married for second wife
Mahiable Barrows.
(IV) Mary Wright, died March 12, 1780;
married Jeremiah Gifford (see Gifford III).
(The Cushman Line).
(I) Robert Cushman, father of Elder
Thomas Cushman.
(II) Elder Thomas Cushman, born in
England, 1608, married Mary Allerton, born
in Holland, 1616; she was the daughter of
Isaac Allerton, who came over in the "May
flower" and was for many years lieutenant-
governor of the colony.
(Ill) Eleazer, son of Elder Thomas Cush
man, born February 2, 1656, married Eliza
beth Coombs.
(IV) James, son of Eleazer Cushman, mar
ried (name of wife not given).
(V) Ebenezer, son of James Cushman,
born January 27, 1727, married Zurviah
Sherman. (VI) Jedida, daughter of Ebenezer Cush
man, married Caleb Gifford.

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