aass__F" '' ' GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON NEW YORK A RECORD OE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OE HER PEOPLE AND THE Phenomenal Growth of her Agricultural and . Mechanical Industries COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERft'ISION OF THE LATE R. A. CAKES ci'STonnN OK the jefferson county histokicai. soctktv '■ h'lio-cj/cifi^f of kindred and tlu gt-malogirs of tlu- ancient families i/c:u-n',t/i t/ic /iig/u's/ fruise. Herein consistetli a part of the knowledge of a man's own self. It is a great spur to --irtiie to look back on the liwrth of our line.'' — Lord Bacon. " There is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man." — .S» IValter .Scott. I L L II S T R A T E D Volume II NEW YORK CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMl'ANY 1905 K^^"" -s*^ /J YfCi rrrCt:c.^4^_^ HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ADDISON WI.GHT GOODALE, M. D., one nf tlie oldest and best kiKJwn pliysiciaiis of Jefferson county, lias had a waried profes- sional career, and is now enjoying in contentment the fruits of a busy life. His ancestry has been traced to an early day in New England, and he preserves intact those qualities which were essential in settling a wilderness three thousand miles from tlie base of operations and inhab- ited by savages. (I) Robert Goodale. aged thirty years, came from Ipswich, Eng- land, with his wife Catherine and three children, to America, arriving April 3. 1634, at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and settled in that part of the town now Danvers. They crossed in the ship Elizal>eth, William Andrews, master. Five children were liorn to them after their arrival. (II) Isaac, son of Roliert and Catherine Goodale, was Ixirn in 1633, in England, and died at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife was Patience Cook. (III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i) and Patience (Cook) Goodale, was bom March 29, 1670, and lived in Salem, where his will was proved in 1739. From this document it is learned that his wife's name was Mary, and that he had seven children. (IV) Enos, son of Isaac (2) and Mary Goodale, was born No- vember 2, 1 718, in Salem. He married Mary Angier and lived in Marl- borough and Shrewsbury. Massachusetts. He had three children. (V) Aaron Goodale, son ol Enos and Mary (Angier) Goodale, married Eunice Marshall, of Holden, Massach.usetts, in 1767, and sul> sequently settled in Salem, New York. (VI) Aaron Goodale, of Salem, New York, married Betsey Rug- 668 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. gles, February 9, 1802. She was a daughter of Beujamin and Ehzabeth Ruggles (the latter, probably, a dauglitcr of Deacon James Fay), the former a son of Benjamin Ruggles, who was a son of Benjamin Rug- gles (see Ruggles, V). Betsey Ruggles was born August 9, 1780. Aaron Goodale was a pioneer settler of Fowler, St. Lawrence county, this state, and passed his last fifteen years with a daughter at Hailesboro, in that county, where he died at the age of ninety-five years. His wife died about 1865-8. They had two sons and four daughters. (VII) Ruggles Goodale, eldest child of Aaron and Betsey (Rug- gles) Goodale, was born September 10, 1S03, in Salem, New York. He settled in Fowler, where he continued farming until 1865, when he moved to the village of Antwerp, this county, and passed the balance of his life in retirement from the arduous labor of the farm, and died December, 1886. In August. 1830, he married Betsey \\'ight, who was born September 10, 18 10, in Oppenheim, Herkimer county, this state, a daughter of Abner and Polly (Hooper) Wight. She died Sep- tember, 1888, in Rutland. She was the mother of fi\e children. Addi- son W. is the eldest. Helen married Alvin Conklin, of Rutland. She died while visiting a daughter at Carthage. Warren Johnson Goodale, the third, resides in Binghamlon, this state. One child died when one week old. Estelle E. died, unmarried, in .\ntwerp, aged twenty years. Mr. Goodale was a member of the Baptist church at Fowler. He served several terms as assessor of his town. A Democrat in early life, he was a supporter of the Republican party from its org-anization. (VIII) Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fow- ler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Sem- inary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira II. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Med- ical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy .\rtillery, and remained with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities. After two years more of jiracticc in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Com])any, of Hartford, Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of jjbysicians. For the suc- ceeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 66!i at Canandaigua, Syracuse and Hartfard, and, for four years following 1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident of Watertown, in retirement from active practice, but interested in various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral prog- ress of the community. Dr. Goodale has lieen a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Asso- ciation since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secre- taiy. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota. He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and, for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Pres- byterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he has been president two terms. He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J- Fowler, of Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale. Hattie G. is the widow of Arthur B. Abernetliy, of New York city. Florence is the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown. Mrs. Aber- netliy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at Princeton University, in the class of 1907. CEPHAS R. STODDARD, one of the successful fanners of Cham- pion, has made his way in the world by industry and intelligent appli- cation. He was born December 12, 1840, in the town of Pinckney, Lewis county, this state, a son of Levi Stoddard, who was born in the same town. James Stoddard, a native of Brookfield, ■Massachusetts, was among the pioneer settlers of Pinckney. He was a son of Sanniel and Betsey (Dunn) Stoddard, of English and Scotch descent, respectively. He was married, in 1807, to Huldah Goodenough, a native of Chesterfield, Mass- achusetts, and immediately began housekeeping in the town of Den- mark, later removing to the frontier home in Pinckney, where he cleared land and lived out his days. They had three sons and three daughters. The eldest, Levi R., is further mentioned in this sketch. Eliza Dinah is the widow of David Richards, residing in Belleville, this county. Amy married Eli Penniman, and died in Libertyville, Illinois. Juliana is the widow of Dr. N. D. Ferguson, with home in Carthage, New York. 670 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Justice (lied near Carthage, Missouri, previous to 1S70. JdIiii Blodgett was a farmer in Pinckney, where he (hed. Levi Robbins Stoddard was born September 29. 1808, in Pinckney, where lie foHowed farming during his active hfe, varying this occupa- tion by working at liis trade of cooper. His last years were spent in Copenhagen, where he passed away Decemljer 28, 1893. at the ad\anced age of eighty-iive }ears. He was married June i, 1828. to Alarinda Orvis, who was born ]Ma}- 6. 1807. in Champion, and died May 8. 1903, at the home of her son. L. ^\'. Stoddard, in Champion. She was a daugh- ter of Samuel and Sally (Sage) Orvis, early residents of the town. The Orvis family was descended from Roger Orvis. who came to America from Wales and settled in Connecticut in th.e seventeenth cen- tury. For various services in defense of the colony he was presented with a silver-mounted cane by the then ruling King of England. This bore a number of inscriptions in royal recognition of such ser\'ices against the hostile tribes led liy King Phillip and others, wlm ravagetl the white settlements and made women and children the \ictims of their tomahawks and scal])ing knives. This cane has been handed down in the family, and is now' presiunably in the possession of an Orvis descendant residing iri Canada. Roger (2), son of Roger (i), the immigrant, was father of Roger (3), who married Ruth Howe, of English descent, and their cliildren were: Roger, Lorenzo, Philander, Samuel (who Avas father of Marmda, wife of Levi Robbins Stoddard), Ruth, Rachel, L'rana. Susie, Elmira, Diantha and Saloma. Roger (3), with his wife and daughters Rachel, Urana, Elmira, Diantha and Saloma, settled in Genes- see county. New York, and Samuel and Susie settled in Lewis county, in the same state. Roger. Lorenzo and Philander lived to be ninetv years of age, and Samuel to within twelve days of one hundred years. These older men were in the revolutionary war, and Samuel ser\ed m the war of 1812. Samuel married Sallie Sage, of English descent, of Sandvs- field, Massachusetts. In 1806 their possessions w'ere packed in two loads and drawn by ox teams to Lewis county. New York. In 181 3 thev moved into the town of Champion, Jefiferson county, same state, set- tling near Pleasant Lake, on the ]\Iaple Grove farm, where thev passed the remainder of their days. Samuel Orvis became a well-to-do farmer and a prominent resident of the town, in which he was among the found- ers and first settlers. He was a Methodist in religion and a Rqiublican in politics. His children were: Elias. Sallie. ]\[arinda. Fannie. Sam- uel, Elmira and Betsey. Levi R. Stoddard and wife were members in GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 671 good standing of the Methodist church, and he was a RepubHcan from the organization of the party. They had fi\-c sons and three daughters. Norton Stoddard, the eldest, is a farmer in llie town of Denmark. Em- ily, the second, married Jnhn Hodge, and after his death married ^Moses Lang, of Copenliagcii ; she died October 4, 1898. Clnrinda died in Ty- lerville, this count}-, whde the wife of Henry Hodge. Sarah resides in Allen, Michigan, tlie wife of James Clobridge. Cephas R. is the fifth. Orvis is a ma.son by trade, with home at Copenhagen. Levi ^^'esley is mentioned at length below. Duane is a farmer in the southern part of the town of Lowville, near the Harrisburg border. Cephas R. Stoddard remained on the home farm in Pinckney until he was nineteen years of age. after which he worked out on farms of the vicinity. He gave some time to study in the district schnol, and was for a short time a student at an academy in Copenhagen, but his school days were over when he was nineteen years old. Possessed of manly independ- ence he was eavh- resolved to possess a farm of his own, and made such use of his opportunities and so husbanded his earnings that he was alile in 1869 to assume the responsibility of ownership. At that time he bought one hundred and twenty-five acres in the town of Denmark, which he owned and tilled until 1880, when he exchanged it for his present farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres, on the "State road," in the w'estern part of Champion. He illustrates the fact that intelligent management leads to success in farming, as in other occupations. Be- sides maintaining a dairy of fifteen to twenty cows, he also raises stock tor the market, and so varies his interests as to secure an income from his lands each year. Mr. Stoddard is a member of Champion Grange, in which he has filled nearly all tlie chairs, and is a factor in every intelli- gent movement for the betterment of the farmer's condition. He affili- ated with the Masonic Lodge at Copenhagen while he lived near it, but is not now an active nieml>er. He attends the Methodist church at Cham- pion, with his family. Mr. Stoddard w^as married. May 10, 1871, to Miss Mary Tracy, w ho was born January 10, 1849, '" Bombay, Franklin county. New York. a daughter of Noble Everett and Cynthia (Spencer) Tracy, nati\es, re- spectively, of Vermont and Martinsburg, this state. Mrs. Stoddartl is a cultivated and sensible woman, an able coadjutor of her husband in the work of the Grange, and in rearing sons creditable to the family and to the town. The elder son, Wilbur Tracy, is his father's capable as- sistant in the cultivation of the- farm. The younger. Leon Arcellus. has (;72 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. laught four terms of school, and is now a student of the State Normal School at Potsdam, New York, in the class of 1904. Noble E. Tracy was born in Shelburne, Vermont, and died in Feb- ruary, 1899, in Champion. His wife died in Bombay. Noble E. was a son of Christopher Tilnian Tracy, who settled early near Black Lake, and died in Moira, New York, about i860, aged seventy-five years. His ancestors were among the earliest in New England. Cynthia Spencer was a daughter of William Spencer, who was born in Dutchess county, New York, Septembers, 1795, and died in Martins- burg, Lewis county, this state, November 7, 1877. His great-great- grandfather came from England and settled in Rhode Island before the revolution, and had a son and grandson who served as revolutionary soldiers. The name of the grandson was Rufus, and he was the father of William Spencer. After the revolution, Rufus Spencer settled in Dutchess county, and moved thence to Martinsburg in 1805. He had started with a sleigh in March to go to Spencerville, Canada, which was founded by his brothers, but the melting of the snow stranded him, and he settled in Martmsburg instead. He died there in 1836, over eighty years old. His wife's name was Cornelia Christy. William Spencer married Diadama Root, daughter of Salmon and Diadama (Byington) Root, who came from Salem (now Naugatuck), Connecticut, and set- tled in Martinsburg. Salmon Root entered the revolutionary army when fourteen years old, and fought through the struggle for independence. He was a well-read man and an interesting talker. Levi Wesley Stoddard was born September 15, 1847, on a farm in Pinckney, whence the family moved to Copenhagen when he was nine years old. He attended the village school, and learned the trade of cooper with his father. He followed the trade until he was twenty-five years old, being a partner with his father in the manufacture of casks at Copenhagen from his majority. He then purchased thirty acres of land in Denmark, and has been chiefly engaged in farming since. For the last twenty-one years he has lived in Champion, and has given his time wholly to agriculture during the last fifteen years. He acquired thirty acres on the "State road," in the western part of the town, which he afterward traded for eighty acres southwest of Champion village, near school number 6. where he now resides. Beside tilling this land he has rented other ground near by, and is a successful farmer. His dairy in- cludes twenty cows, and he is abreast of the time in methods. Mr. Stoddard embraces the faith of the Methodist church, and gives support GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 673 tc all moral and upward movements. He is an earnest believer in the principles and policy (if the Republican party, but is not a politician. Air. Stoddard was married February 4, 1S74, to Aliss Ella Tracy, who was bom in Bombay, Xew' York, and is a sister of Mrs. C. R. Stod- dard, \\hose ancestry is given above. Two children complete the fam- ih' of yir. and ]Mrs. Stoddard — Eva Luella and W'oolsey Everett, both at home. JilcALLASTER. This is the name of a very old family of Argyle- shire, Scotland, and has been established in this country for seven gener- ations. It had numerous representatives among those who tied, for re- ligion's sake, to the northern part of Ireland, and established what is known as the "Scotch-Irish" people. The IVIcAllasters were numerous in Londonderry and Antrim counties, Ireland. (I) Richard JMcAllaster, the founder of the tamily in America, was a scion of a Scotch family which settled in Northern Ireland. He was married about 1735, in Ireland, to Ann ililler, and together they came to Londonderry, Xew Hampshire, in tlie winter of 1738-9. Thence they went to the settlement called Bedford, in the town of Narragan-" sett, New Hampshire, probably in the spring of 1743, and Mr. McAl- laster was reckoned among the large landholders of the town in 1750. He was elected constable in 1763. His wife died there March 12, 1776, in her sixty-seventh year. They were the parents of eight children. (II) Richard, seventh child of Richard (i) and Ann (Miller) McAllaster, was born October 20. 1749, in Bedford. New Hampshire, where he married Susan Dimond. He was last taxed in Bedford in 1772, and for two years thereafter was engaged in clearing land in Antrim, same colony, and moved thither in 1775. His farm was on the north slope of "Meeting-House hill," and he was prominent among the first settlers of Antrim, where he was a member of the first board of select- men, in 1777, and again a selectman in 1784. He w-as a member of Captain Wilkins' company, of Colonel Bedell's regiment of the revolu- tionary army, and was among the band surrendered to a force of British and Indians at "The Cedars," in Canada, May 19. 1776. These prisoners were most brutally treated and suffered great hardships until exchanged, through the efforts of Colonel Bedell, who was absent after reinforcements w'hen the fort was surrendered. In 1795 Richard Mc- Allaster mioved to Alstead, New Hampshire, and was subsequently at Springfield, Vermont, whence he came to Antwerp, Xew York, with his 674 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. son, among tlie pioneer settlers of that town. He died here February II. 1813, a httle over two weeks after his wife, who passed away Jan- uary 23. Brief mention of his children follows : \\'illiam, the eldest, spent his life in Antwerp. Sarah died here, unmarried, at the age of eighty-eight years. Susan died, unmarried, at sixty-four. Athildred died in Antwerp, at a good age. Elizabeth married Henry Baldwin, and died in Antwerp. Francis died in Antwerp in 1841. Richard and Ann lived for a time in Springfield, Vermont, where the latter became the \\ife of Daniel Heald, and died in Antwerp. (HI) Francis, sixth child and second son of Richard (2) and Su- san (Dimond) ;\IcAllaster, was born August 16, 1773, in Antrim, Xew Hampshire, and died December 25, 1841, in Antwerp. He married Anna, daughter of John and J\Iary (Bradford) Averill. She was born May. 29, 1777, in Alount Vernon (now Amherst). Xew Hampshire, and died December 7, 1862, m the town of Antwerp. ]Mr. INIcAllaster was a farmer, a quiet and modest citizen. His life was an industrious one, and he aided in reclaiming from the wilderness- the present prosperous agricultural region about the thriving ^'illage of Antwerp. The fate of his children is herewith indicated. Polly, the eldest, became the wife of Francis Butterfield. and mother of William Butterfield, a prominent citizen of Redwood, this county (see Butterfield). David died in Erie, Pennsylvania. Nancy married Horace Hamlin (see Hamlin. \T)„ and lived and died in Antwerp. Emerson died in 1893. at Antwerp. Eliza, wife of William Buckley Bostwick, died in Gouverneur. Susan married Columbus Pinne}-, and died at Aurora, Illinois, over ninety years of age. Eucretia was the wife of Joseph Lyon Wait, and li\ed and died in the town of Antwerp. Cordelia married Charles Lewis, and. after his death, John Joyce, and is the only survivor of the family, now residing in .Aurora. Illinois, a widow. The ancestry of Mary (Bradford) Averill is traced back to the pioneer period of the Xew England colonies, as follows: (I) Robert Bradfoid, emigrant, was born about 1626. and died January 13. 1707. (II) \\'il]iam. son of Robert Bradford. Ijorn about 1650. married. November 14. 1676. Rachel Raymont. of Beverly. ^Massachusetts. He was a ropemaker Ijy occupation. (Til) \\'illiam. son of William Bradford (i), was born 1686, and uiarried. December it,. 1707. Grace Elliot, of Beverly. Massachusetts. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 677 He was a sailor and removed from Beverly to Boxford in 1721, and thence to Middleton, Massachusetts, where he died in 1761. (IV) William, son of William Bradford (2), moved from Mid- dleton, and settled m Sowhegan West (now Milford), New Hampshire, at an early date. His marriage to Mary Lambert is of record in Mid- dleton, as occurring January 16, 1737. She was born March 11, 1718, and died February 18, 1770. Mr. Bradford marrietl, second, Rachel Small, who died in 1802. He died in 1791. His first wife bore him nine children, and the second two. Two of his sons, Joseph and W'illiam, were soldiers of the revolution, and the former died in the service at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1775. The latter served also in the war of 1812. (V) Mary, third child and second daughter of W'illiam Bradford (3}, was baptized in 1742, in Middleton, Massachusetts, married John Averill, and died August 21, 1814, in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, aged seventy-three years. (VI) Anna, daughter of John and Mary (Bradford) Averill, wa.s born May 29. 1777, and becnme the wife of Francis McAllaster, as be- fore noted. GILL. There can be little doubt that this name is of Scotch origin. Many worthy citizens of this country are found l:earing the name, in various states. (I) The first record now known of the family herein traced is found at Exeter, Rhode Island, where Daniel Gill married his wife, Hannah (surname unknown^, in 1730. The reo.rd shows that they had six children born there, namely: John, June 29. 1732: Sarah, Sep- tember 30, 1733: Daniel, September 25, 1734: Hannah, April 2, 1740: Susannah, June 30, 1746; and Samuel, May i, 1752. (II) Daniel, third child and second son of Daniel (ij and Han- nah Gill, was born as above noted, at Exeter, Rhode Island. He was married there, January i, 1760, to ^lercy Whitford, daughter of John Whitford, the ceremori}- lieing performed by a justice of the peace named Benjamin Reynolds. Their family included several children. In 1770 they moved to Springfield, \'ermont, where the lialance of their lives was passed. Mr. Gil! was a colonel in the revolutionary army, and in spelling his name used the Scotch prefix. "]Mc." which has been dropped by his descendants. (III) John, eldest son of Daniel (2) and Mercy Gill, was born 678 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. in Exeter. He married Thankful Bates, and liad three sons — John, Daniel and Bates, but had no daughters. (IV) John, eldest son of John (t) and Thankful (Bates) Gill, was anidiig the pioneer residents of the town nf Antwerp, this county. He was married July 12. 1809, to Theodocia Henry, whuse ancestry is traced to about the beginning of the eighteenth century, as follows : (1) William Henry was a native of Lunenljurg, Massachusetts, and was married. December 6. 1753, to Mary Harper. They settled in Charleston, Xew Hampshire, where he dietl Xriveml)er 15. 1807, and his wife, September 14, 1818. They had eight children — David, Rob- ert B.. \\'illiam. Harper. Hugh, lonathan. Samuel and John. All these, save the voungest. who muved to Rockingham. \'ermont. lived in Charleston or Chester. \'ermont. ( n ) William, third son and child of William ( 1 ) and Mary (Har- per) Henry, was married, August 30. 1784. to Pnlly Holden. She was a daughter of Captain \\'illiam Holilen and Annis Xutting, who were married ^lay 10. 1747, in Grotc-n, Massachusetts. I'olly Holden was born February 15, 1703, in Charleston, Xew Hampshire. (HI) Theodocia, daughter of William and Polly (Holden) Henry, became tne wife of John Gill, as alicxe noted. John Gill was born about 1781. came to Antwerp in 1808. and be- gan clearing land for agriculture, and soon took ]3rominence in the town as a business man and citizen. He purchased the stage route between Denmark and Ogdensburg. and continued tn operate it until his death, which took place January 6, 1838. at the age of fifty-seven years. He was survived many years liy his widow. Both were liberal in religious views, and did not affiliate with any religinus organization, because they could not accept the creed of any church near them. ^Ir. Gill was a ^Vhig. and passed away before the time of the organization of the Re- pul)lican party, with whose principles he was in sympathy. He served as highway commissioner and overseer of the poor, and was many years a justice of the peace, so continuing up to the time of his death. The fate of his thirteen children is herein briefly noted : William, the eldest, lived and died in Antwerp. ]Mary. the second, married (first) Ephraim Taylor and (second) John Biu'ton, sm"\-iving the latter, and died in Philadelphia, this county. Joint died in Hendersi»n and was buried at .■\ntwerp. "Fdutheria died and was interred at .\ntwerp. Alarcus set- tled earlv in life in Minljurn. Iowa, where he died. James is mentioned at length in succeeding paragraphs. Harriet died when eighteen years GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 679 old. Lucius (lied in Watertow u. aud his reuiains rest in Antwerp. Hugh died and was l;uried at Atlanta. Georgia. Fanny, wife of Calvin Pier, died January 15. 1903, in Chicago, aged over eighty years. Ralph resides near Chamberlain, South Dakota. Susan died at the age of thirteen years. Robert kept a Iiotel many years at Carthage, where he now resides. (V) Janies, son of John and Theodocia (Henry) Gill, was born July 19, 1817, in the town of Antwerp, and died July 9, 1899, in that town. Being of studious nature, he marie rapid progress in school and was given a better education than most boys of his time and locality. After leaving the district school, he attended the public schools of Wa- tertown and Gouverneiu- W'csleyan Seminary. He settled near the pa- ternal homestead in Antwerp, and married, when aliout thirty years of age, Sarah Beaman, daughter of Joseph and Annis (Bemus) Beaman, of Antwerp. She was born July 28, 1819, and died July 3, 1885, in her sixty-fifth year. They were the parents of four children, three of whom are now living. Abbie P., the first, resides in Antwerp village, unmar- ried. John D. was a citizen of Chicago, Illinois, and now resides in Watertown. F'rancis B. was an attorney at Syracuse, where he died July 19, 1904, and Bion resides on a farm in the town of Antwerp. Janies Gill was a public-spirited citizen, lilieral and well-informed. He endeavored to shape his life according to the golden rule, and was universally respected and honored. He did not afhliate with any re- ligious organization, but w'as a true Christian in his daily walk. He was a stanch Republican, but sought no political preferment. At the earnest solicitation of his fellows he consented to act as assessor of the town, in wliich capacity he served several years. He was a charter member of Antwerp Grange, and was master one term. Industrious and careful of his resources, he accumulated a handsome property, and was able and w illing to aid his fellows in distress. In youth he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and followed the trade in early life, but purchased a farm before his marriage and cleared most of it himself. His energies were directed in the line of caring well for his family, and his home was the dearest place on earth to him. To the interest and general welfare of mankind he gave considerable thought, and was ever ready to foster any undertaking calculated to improve the condition of society. He viewed questions of current interest with a broad intelligence, and his ojiinions and advice were often sought. 680 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. GEORGE ADAAIS TAYLOR, a successful farmer and business man, passed away at liis home in Watertown. January 14, 1904, and was mourned by a large circle of acquaintances and friends. He was descended from the g-ood old New England stock, which has made the United States what it is to-day, respected among nat'ons and prosperous in its home economy. Daniel Taylor, the first of the line known to his descendants in Jefiferson county, lived and died in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he is supposed to have been born. His wife's name was Eunice, and their children were: Daniel, Sally (married Solomon Kellam, of Turin. New York), Loami. Eunice (died unmarried), and Fellows, who was a farmer in Constableville, Lewis county. Loami, second son and third child of Daniel and Eunice Taylor, was born November 9, 1784, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and went to Turin, New Yoik. when about twenty years old. Soon after he returned to his native place and married Betsey Kendall, who was born January 9, 1784, in that town, and died January 9, 1865, in Harrisburg. To- gether they made a home in the wilderness of Lewis county, whence they removed to the town of Pamelia, Jefferson county, prior to 1825. In the last-named year he settled in Harrisburg, and continued farming there during the balance of his life. His remains now rest in the town of Denmark. His family included six children, of whom the following record is given : Julia died at the age of twenty-six years, while the wife of Daniel Bailey, of Edwards. New York. Isabel, married Perry Crofoot, and died m Constableville. Elizabeth died in the same town, being the wife of Norman Higby. A sketch of Richard, the eldest son, forms the succeeding paragraph. Henry, the second son, born October 5, 1822, died October 15, 1902, in Harrisburg. John, the youngest, born March 28, 1825, rn Pamelia, resides near Carthage. He was two weeks old when his parents moved to Harrisburg. Loami Taylor was a member of the Presb}terian church, and was a Whig and later a Re- publican. He served as a soldier at the battle of Sacketts Harbor in 18 1 3. Richard Taylor, eldest son of Loami Taylor, was born August 27, 1809, on his father's farm near Copenhagen, and his education was such as the local school of that day afforded. On attaining manhood he left the paternal farm and jiurchased land in the town of Watertown. which is now owned and occupied by his grandson. Fred Emory Taylor. Fie was a successful farmer, being industrirms and persevering, and ap- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 681 plied sound judgment to the conduct of his affairs. With an inteUi- gent interest in tlie progress of events, and an earnest desire for tiie betterment of mankind, he was universally respected and esteemed. He died January 13. 1865. Mr. Taylor was married, January 25, 1836, to Charlotte M. Twitch- eil, who was born July 6, 1806. and died July 25, 1883, in W'atertown, aged seventy-eight years. Their children were: Duane De Wm&w born January 23, 1837, died November 25, 1892; George Adams, mentioned below; and Emma Jane. The last-named was born October 26, 1845, married Nathan Rose, and resided at Milford, New York, where she died May 15, 1890. George Adams Taylor, second child of Richard and Charlotte M. (Twitchell) Taylor, was born November 16, 1838, near Copenhagen, New York, and was educated in the public schools. With practical nu'nd. he made use of the knowledge thus gained, and attained success as a business man and respect as a citizen. He purchased a farm adjoin- ing that of his father's, in Watertown. being succeeded by his son. He was diligent in business, and continued to till his farm with gratifying results until 1890, when he moved to tiie city of Watertown and en- gaged in the retail harness business. To this he gave the same persistent application which gained him success as a farmer, and was thereby a gainer, while catering to the wants of his agricultural friends and neighbors. At the end of six years of trade he retired from active life and enjoyed a few years of well earned rest from toil. ]\lr. Taylor was a life member of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society, to whose welfare he was always devoted, and in politics he affiliated with the Democratic party. An advocate of liberal educational facilities, he served his district long as school trustee. He was a good neighbor, a worthy citizen, and a kind and loving husband and father. He was married, January 20, 1864, to Lucinda Ball, daughter of John Ballard and Melinda (Bailey) Ball (see Ball). She was born March 2, 1840, at Miller's Bay, now Riverview, in the town of Cape Vincent, this county. They were the parents of two sons, Eugene Richard and George Edgar. Eugene Richard Taylor, elder son of George A. and Lucinda (Ball) Taylor, was born February 3. 1865, on the farm in Watertown, on which he now resides, and which wiis the homestead of his grand- father. His educational training began in the public school adjacent to iiis home and he subsecpiently graduated from the Watertown high 682 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. schudl. He lias made farming his dccupatiou, and suceeeded his father in tlie ownersliip of tiie homestead, which he devotes to dairy farming. Ihe farm is kept under a higli state of cultivation, and is furnished with residence and barns as elegant and commodious as any in the town. 3.1r. Taylor is a n:ember of Watertown Grange Xo. 7, and of the Jef- ferson County Agricultural Society. In matters of governmental inter- est he follows the traditions of his father, and acts with the Democratic party. He is one of the leading agriculturists of his town, and enjoys the respect of his townsmen. He was married November 22, 1888, to Miss Hattie E. Hardy, who was born May i, 1S64, in the town of Leray, a daughter of David and Anna (Slack) Hardy. They have a son, Richard Hardy Taylor, born November 12, 1893, on the homestead, and now a student of the Watertown city public schools. George Edgar Taylor, junior son of George Adams and Lucinda (Ball) Taylor, was born February 24, 1872, and attended the schools of the city of Watertown. He is an expert bookkeeper, and resides with his mother in Watertown. Though not an active partisan, he supports Democratic policies and candidates. THE RUGGLES FAMILY. (I) Thomas Ruggles and Mary Curtis were married at Nazing, England, about 1623, and with his wife and two children came from England to Roxbury in 1637. A son John came over with Philip Eliot. Mr. Ruggles was a son of a godly father. Thomas Ruggles and his wife united with the church soon after coming to Roxbury, and both were zealous Christians. Mr. Rug- gles died 15th day 9 mo.. 1644. His wife was baptized in Nazing in April, 1589. She survived her husband, remarried and lived to be about eighty-six years of age. Their children were: Thomas, born about 1623; John, about 1625; Sarah, about 1627; and Samuel, about 1629. (II) Samuel Ruggles, born about 1629, married (tirst), January 10. 1654-55, Hannah Fowde, of Charlestown. She died October 24, i66g. He married (second). May 26, 1670, Anna, daughter of Deacon Henry Bright, of Watertown. His children were: Hannah, born Jan- uary 21, ir)55-5C; :\[ary, January 10, 1656-57; Samuel, June i, 1658; Joseph, February 12, 1659-60; Hannah (2), December 11, 1661 ; Sarah, November 18, 1663; :\Iary, December 8. 1666; Sarah, August 30, 1669; Thomas. March 10, 1670-71; Ann, September 30, 1672; Nathaniel, GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 083 November 22, 1674; Elizabeth, May i, 1677; Henry, July 7, 1681 ; and Huldah, July 4, 1684. Samuel Ruggles, the father, resided in Roxbury, where he kept a tavern. He was very actively engaged in public lite. He served as selectman for fourteen years, and was also assessor during the same period of time. He was representative for the four critical years preced- ing the Revolution. He was for several years captain of militia, and when Governor Andros and his associates were seized and imprisoned, Joseph Dudley (afterwards governor) was committed to his special charge, while temporarily released from prison. He died August 15, 1692. His wife Anna died September, 171 1, aged sixty-seven years. (HI) Samuel Ruggles (2), horn June i, 1658, married, July 8, 1680, Martha, daughter of the Rev. John Woodbridge, of Newbury, and granddaughter oi Governor Thomas Dudley. Mr. Ruggles resided in Roxbury, where he was an innholder, and a "set-work cooper." He inherited his father's militar}' sjiirit and succeeded him in many of his offices, having Ijeen captain of militia, 1702: assessor, 1694; representa- tive, 1697; and selectman continuously from 1693 to 1713, except in 1701 and 1704, nineteen years. He died February 25, 1715-16. His wife Martha died in 1738. Their children were: Samuel, born 1681 ; Lucy, 1683; Timothy, 1685; Hannah, April 10, 1688; Patience, No- vember 9, 1689-90; Martha, February 1, 1691-92: Sarah, June 18, 1794; Joseph, July 21, 1696; Mary, September, 1698; and Benjamin, July 4, 1700. (IV) Timothy Ruggles, born November 3, 1685, married, Sep- tember 2/. 1 710, Mary, daughter of Benjamin White. She died Janu- ary 23, 1749. Mr. Ruggles married, second, (intentions published March 26, 1750). Anne \\'ondworth, of Little Compt(in. His children were: Timothy, born October 20, 171 1: Benjamin, May 19, 1713; Samuel, July, 1715; Josejih, June 13. 1718; Mary, January i, 1719-20; Susanna, January 6, 1721-22; Edward, August 30, 1723; Nathaniel, April 12, 1725; Thomas, July 13, 1727; Hannah, October 18, 1728; Thomas, March 2, 1730; and John, September 2, 1731. Timothy Ruggles was graduated from Yale in 1707, and was or- dained pastor of the church in Rochester, November 22, 17 10. He held high rank in the ministry, and was pre-eminently a man of business. He was apparently more active and efficient than any other individual in promoting the settlement of Kardwick. Through his influence and exertions, six sons and a daughter of his own family, five sons and two 684 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. daughters of his sister, Patience, wife of James Robinson (also their father and mother, later in life) and many members of his parish, were among the early settlers. He died as sole pastor of the church, Octol>er 26, 1768, aged nearly eighty-three years. (V) Benjamin Ruggles, born May 19, 1713. married October 19, 1736, Alice, daughter of Nathaniel Merrick, of what is now Brewster. After her death Mr. Ruggles married, for his second wife, December 28, 1778, Mary Smith. He was one of the earliest pioneers and residents on the River Road to Barre. He possessed great vigor and energy, both physical and mental, and became the father of three children after he was sixty years of age. He was captain of the militia, selectman for six- teen years, assessor for eleven years, and was chairman of the committee of correspondence in 1774 and 1775. He was one of the most active and resolute opposers of his brother, the Tory brigadier, in the stirring political contest preceding the Revolution, He died October 11, 1790, aged seventy-seven years. His children were: May, born May 7, 1738; Benjamin, December 11, 1741 ; Sarah, February 6, 1743-44; Elizabeth, April 16, 1746; Elizabeth (2), January 31, 1748-49; Thomas, baptized June 24, 1750; Alice, born November 23, 1754; Seth, October 21, 1781 ; and David, November 30, 1783. (VI) Benjamin Ruggles, son of Benjamin and Alice (Merrick) Ruggles, born in 1741, as above noted, married Elizabeth (supposed to be), a daughter of Deacon James Fay, and they were the parents of (VII) Betsey Ruggles, bom August 9, 1780. She was married Feb- ruary 9, 1802, to Aaron Goodale (see Goodale, VI). CURTIS CORY. \Miile recognized throughout the length and breadth of Jefferson county as an authority on agriculture, Curtis Cory is numbered among the most valued citizens of Leray. His grand- father, James Cory, was born in 1762, in New Hampshire, wheTre he passed the greater part of his life and then moved to Jefferson county and settled on the farm which has been ever since in the possession of his descendants. Here he built a log house, which was the dwelling of the family until a permanent abode could be erected. He married Polly (surname unknown) and they were the parents of a large famih'. Mrs. Cory survived her husband several years and was ninety years old at the time of her death. Both she and her husband represented the best element among the pioneers of the county. Curtis Cory, son of James and Polly Cory, was born April 30, 1793. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 6S5 in Sullivan, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, where he passed his early life, coming to Jefferson county at the age of eighteen. In company with an elder brother, he walked from Keene, carrying an axe on his shoulder. His first employment was in the clearing of land in the serv- ice of a Mr. Woodruff, at Sanford's Corners. Returning to New Hamp- shire, he stayed there four years. About 1820 he purchased a farm, on which he built a log house, which he later replaced with a frame dwell- ing, at that time the only one in the region. He was one of the found- ers of a Methodist Episcopal church at Sanford's Corners, of which he W9s a member, and in which, in 1825, he became a class leader, holding that office for twenty years. He married (first) Annis Burlingame, of Pillar Point, November 5, 1822. She died January 29, 1824. Mr. Cory was married, January 31, 1835, to Nancy Parkinson, who was born May 5, 1795, in Scoharie county, New York, and they were the parents of six children, two of whom are living: Curtis, mentioned at length herein- after, and Nancy, who makes her home with her brother. A daughter of the first marriage, named Lucy, became the wife of John W. Acker- man, and died at Houseville, New York, in 1902. Of the second mar- riage, Mary J. married Joseph Child, and died May 24, 1862, aged twenty-eight years. Aaron settled in , Iowa, where he died. Two sons died in boyhood. Mr. Cory, the father of the family, died April 30, 1868, leaving behind him the memory of a kind-hearted and upright man and a good citizen. The death of Mrs. Cory occurred Octo- ber 3, 1872. Like her husband, she was an active member of the Method- ist Episcopal church and foremost in every good work. Curtis Cory, son of Curtis and Nancy (Parkinson) Cory, was born November 22, 1837, received his education in his native town, and was early trained to the labors of the farm. On reaching manhood he as- sisleil in the care and management of the homestead until the death of his father, when he came into possession of the estate. He has culti- vated the farm for the purposes of general farming and dairying, ni both of which he has been eminently successful. His life has been de- voted to agricultural pursuits, in consequence of which he has acquired a fund of that skill and knowledge which only experience can bestow. The exercise of this practical ability, aided by scientific information, has placed him in the front rank of the farmers of the county. As a citizen he possesses the fullest confidence and esteem of his neighbors, and for three years filled the office of assessor. He is a member of the Watertown Grange, and formerly affiliated with the I, O. O. F. His political affil- '!5<6 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. iations are with the RepubHcans. He and all his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a class leader, and for the support and advancemer.t of which he has always been an earnest w orker. Mr. Cury married, m 1859, Hannah Burdick, a native of LeRay, and they are the parents of the following children: William B., who resides in Black River and married Florence Martin: Andrew E., wdio lives in \A'atertnwn and married Elizabeth oNIartin, a sister of his lirother's wife: Mar_\' J., who is the widow of Simeon W'aful, of Black River, and has one son. Clarence: John M., who is employed in \\'atertown. mar- ried Ella Roberts and has one son, B_\-ron : Hannah May and Xettie, both of whom reside at home. ^Irs. Cory is a daughter of \\'illiam Burdick, wdio was born Sep- tember 30, 1808, in Dutchess county, whence he came to Jefferson county, where he took up forty acres of land. He married Rachel Child, a nati\-e of this county, and three children were born to them : .Annie, who mar- ried \A'inchester Wright and resides in Philadelphia, New York : Hannah, who became the wife of Curtis Cory, as mentioned above, and Ephraim. who lives on the homestead farm near Mr. Cor}-. Neither iMr. nor IMrs. Burdick attained to an advanced age. the former dying at forty-nine and the latter at fifty-two. Both are remembered with the feelings of affec- tion and respect, which their good and useful lives inspired in all who knew them, whether in business, social or church relations. \\^illiam Burdick was a son of Ephraim and Nancy (Parsons) Burdick. ISAAC McGINNIS. It is probable that no one resident of Jeft'er- son county has been longer or more prominently identified with educa- tional, agricultural and insurance interests than has Isaac McGinnis, of Watertown. He comes of sturdy North-of- Ireland ancestiy, from whom he inherited the trails of character which ha\e contributed so largely to his success in lile, both as a business man and a citizen. His grandfather, \\'illiam McGinnis, was born October 26, 1746, in county Down, Ireland, where he received his education. He sailed for America, June 3, 1772, in the ship Philadelphia, and landed at New- Castle, Delaware, August 22, of the same year. He settled in Marble- town, Ulster county. New- York, where he lived till his death. He was a weaver by trade. Before his departure from Ireland he married Eliz- alicth Bei r_\-, wlio accompanied him to the United States, or the Ameri- c'ui C( ill lilies, as thev were then. Vr. and ?ilrs. McGinnis were the parents GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 0S7 of the following children: John, who was born September 29, 1773: JIary, November 24, 1776; Isaac. January 16, 1779; James, August 26, 1781 ; Alexander, February 21, 1784; William, mentioned at length hereinafter; Rachel, born January 31, 1788; Phoebe, February 7, 1790; and Ann, May 29. 1792. Each one of these nine children lived to be over eighty, and their mother attained to the great age of one hun- dred and two years. William McGinnis, son of William and Elizabetli (Berry ) JMcGinnis, was born August 28, 1786, in ]\Iarbletown, Ulster county. Xew York, where he recei\ed his education. He was a weaver by trade, and in 1815 moved to the Black Ri\er Country and settled in th.at part of Brown- ville which is now Pamelia, where he bought a small farm, which he cultivated in connection with the practice of his trade. He also owned and managed a small dairy. He and all his family attended the Method- ist Episcopal church. He married Rachel Harper, a native of New York city, and the following children were born to them: Alexander, who died, very old, at Oconto, Canada; Henry, who died young: James, \\ho resides in Kingston, Canada: Roliert. who settled in Arkansas; Catherine, married James Spike, and died at .Vrrowsmith, Canada : ^la- ria, wife of Moses Spike, died in August, 1902, in Colfax, California; William, Jr.. who lives at Olioji, Iowa: Isaac mentioned at length herein- after: Eliza Ann, who is the witlow of Robert iVddison, and now resides in Athens, Canada; Phoebe J., who is the widow of Edward Upham, of Quebec, Canada : and Sarah Jane, who died when five years old. Mrs. INIcGinnis, the mother of this family, died in 1868. at the age of eighty- one, and her husband passed away in Januar}-, 1881, having com- pleted his ninety-fourth year. Both were sincerely loved and respected by all who knew them. Isaac, son of William and Rachel (Harper) McGinnis, was born May 4, 1825, in Pamelia, where he received his early education in the common schools, and at the age of eighteen engaged in teaching, a profession which he continued to j.iractice for twenty years. During the father's declining years the son became the manager of the farm and later purchased the adjoining estate. At the time of his father's death the son was in possession of two hundred acres, which, since 1865. he has devoted to general farming and dairying, and to the raising of blooded stock. He was the first in Pamelia to raise Ayrshire cattle. In 1869 he became connected with the Agricultural Insurance Company as an assist- ant to the agent at Watertown, and at the end of two vears was made 688 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. special agent. The business of the company was at this time confined to New York state, but Mr. McGinnis soon began appointing agents in other states and constantly enlarged the field until, in 1884, when he resigned, he had established agencies in sixteen states of the Union and in Canada. In 1881 he purchased a cottage in the Thousand Island Park, one of the first erected there, which he has made his summer home. For some years before he had spent his summers there, beginning with the establishment of the park. Mr. McGinnis is a member of Watertown Lodge No. 49, F. and A. ]\I., with which he has affiliated since 1852, being the only member now living out of the number who joined in that year. He is also a member of Watertown Chapter No. 57, R. A. M., and Watertown Com~ mandery No. 11, Knights Templar. He w-as a charter member of the Roque Club of the Thousand Island Park, in which he now holds the office of president, and which has very fine grounds, covered with a tent In politics he is a Democrat and has frequently been called upon by his townsmen to fill positions of honor and trust. In 1850 he was elected superintendent of schools and served three years, when he resigned in consequence of being chosen supervisor of the town, to which position he was elected five times, serving from 1852 to 1857, inclusive. He also served two terms of four years each as justice of the peace. He attends the State Street Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife is a mem- ber. Mr. McGinnis married, in 1850, Lasira, daughter ot Lyman W'hite, who was a farmer of Pamelia and an early settler in this region, where he and his w-ife, Hannah Wilson, natives of Massachusetts and Vermont, lived and died. His family consisted of eight children. Of this number only three are living : Mrs. McGinnis and her two brothers : Otis, who is a resident of Gladstone, North Dakota, and Morris, who lives in Northport, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis are the parents of two daughters, the elder of whom, Ida M., is the wife of George A. Fenner, of Watertown, one of the trustees and appraiser for the Jeiiferson County Savings Bank. Mr. and I\Irs. Fenner are the parents of two children: Louis, who is chemical engineer for the New York Air Brake Company, and Inez L. Ella, the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis, is the wife of George M. Haven, who is a contractor and builder in Wa- tertow-n. and they have one child, Clara Beth. Mr. jMcGinnis attended the first world's fair in America, at the Crystal Palace, in New York ; also visited the Centennial Exposition in GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 689 Philadelphia, 187C. In 1893 '^^ crossed the continent, accompanied by his wife, visiting the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, en route. After stopping at Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha. Denver. Salt Lake City, Stockton, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other California cities, they visited the ^lidwinter Fair at San Francisco. Since their return their winter home has been in Watertown. and they are enjoying, in the midst of family and frieiuls, the rewards of long years of industry, quietly and contentedly. WILLL'\M HENRY UNDERWOOD. It is safe to assert that no citizen of Dexter is more generally popular than is William H. Un- derwood. He is a great-grandson of Joseph Underwood, a revolution- ary soldier, whose son, also named Joseph, was born in 1771, in Ver- mont, whence he moved to Jefferson count)' and was one of the first settlers of the town of Rutland, where he lived for many years. He married Rebecca Hayes, by whom he was the father of seven children : William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Clarissa, Joseph, mentioned at length here- inafter; Huldah. and Warren. Mr. Underwood spent his last years in Brownville, where he died in 1843. He is remembered as a worthy member of that pioneer class to which the county is so greatly indebted for its worth and prosperity. Joseph Underwood, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Hayes) Under- wood, was born in 1806, in Vermont, and was educated in the town of Rutland, where he learned the shoemaker's trade, which he afterward followed for many years in Dexter. He married Louisa, daughter of Jeremiah and Sally (Bush) Scott. The former was one of the early set- tlers of the town of Brownville, where he cleared eleven farms and was a higlily respected citizen. His daughter, Louisa, was born in iSio, in Hamsley, Lewis county. New York. The Scotts belonged to a brancli of the same family as that of which the late General Scott was a mem- ber. Mr. and Mrs. Underwood were the parents of three children : Wil- liam H., mentioned at length hereinafter; Charles, who lives in Limer- ick; and Morell, who resides in Terre Haute, Lidiana. Airs. Under- wood, the mother of these children, who was a most estimable woman and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in 1858, at the age of forty-eight years, and Mr. Underwood subsequently married Julia, daughter of Daniel and Arvilla (Marsh) Whitney, of Brownville. Mr. Underwood, at the time of his death, was eighty-two years old. and has left the memory of an industrious, worthy man and a good citizen. 690 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. William H. L'nderwood, son of Joseph and Louisa (Scott) Under- wood, was born Aiiril 23, 1843. in Brownville, where he attended the district school until reaching the age of eighteen years. In 1862 he en- listed in Company I, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, as a private, and for eighteen months was on guard duty in and about the city of Wash- ington. In 1863 he was promoted to the rank of corporal, and was sub- sequently present at the battles of the Wilderness and Petersburg, after which he returned to Washington with a supply train, and later wit' iiessed the surrender of General Lee. May 2S. 1S65. he was honorably discharged, and retiu-ned to Limerick, where he bought a farm and was also the proprietor of a hotel, and was subsequently proprietor of a gen- eral store. In 187S he came to Dexter and purchased the hotel in the center of the village, now known as the Hotel L'nderwood, which he sokl in the summer of 1904. The popularity of the establishment ren- ders comment needless, and the simple statement of the fact that Mr, Underwood was for twenty-six years its proprietor is sufficient evidence of his success. He is now engaged in the construction of boats to be propelled by naphtha and gasoline engines. He is popular as a citizen, having ser\ed for a number of years as a trustee of the village, and w^as president for six years, and is now serv- ing his seventh term. He is a charter member of Julius Broadbent Post, G. A. R. of Dexter, in which he held the rank of commander three years, and is a member of Brownville Lodge, F. and A. M,, of Brownville, and of Sacketts Harbor Chapter. Politically he is a Republican, and he and his family are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Underwood married, in 1870, Genevieve Roseboom, and two children have been bom to them : May, who is now deceased, and Maud, who W'HS born in May. 1875. '" Limerick, and is the wife of E. P. Bin- ninger of this town. Mrs. LTnderwood is a daughter of L Alanson and Susan (Dw-elly) Roseboom. The former was a native of this town, where he passed his life as a prospeious farmer. He and his wife were the parents of the following children, all of whom are living: John, who resides in Dowagiac, Michigan ; Edgar, who lives in Watertovvn ; Jerome, who is a resident of Sacketts Harbor; Nancy, who is the wife of Harri- son S. Dean, and resides in Watertowm ; Josephine, who married William Hathaway, a banker of Watertown ; Genevieve, who was born in April, 1848, and became the wife of William H. Underwood, as mentioned above: George, who is a resident of Limerick: and Fanny, who married Albert Allen, of Petersburg, Virginia. Mr. Roseboom. the father, died at the age of fifty-five years. GENEALOGICAL AXD FAMILY HISTORY. 691 FOW'LEK. Tliis is one of tlie oldest New England names, and has had man_\- worthy representatives in America, who were active in the struggle for American independence, and in various ways ha\-e con- tributed to the welfare, prosperity and happy condition of the country now the abode of their posterity. (I) William Fowler, a nati\e of England, was a member of Rev. John Davenport's company, which came to Boston in 1637. In 1592 he was imprisoned with other Puritans, in the efifort to suppress the spread of their religious belief, or heresy, as it was then called, in Eng- land. He arrived at New Haven, Connecticut, April 16. 163S, and par- ticipated in the famous meeting in Mr. Newman's barn, June 4. 1639. In April 01 that year he settled at Milford, same colony, of which place he was one of the first trustees and was a magistrate. (II) Ambrose, only son of William Fowler, was at Windsor as early as 1640. The records of that town mention the burning of his house and barn in 1675. He was married there j\lay 6, 1646, to Jane Alvord, who died May 6, 1684, at Westfield. He died October 18, 1704. His will was made in 1692 and proved in 1706. His children, all of whom were residents of Windsor, Connecticut, were : Abigail, John, Mary, Samuel, Hannah, Elizabeth and Ambrose. (III) Samuel, second son and third child of Ambrose and Jane (Alvord) Fowder, w'as born November 18, 1652, in Windsor, and was married there November 6, 16S3, to Abigail Brown. He settled in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1684. His children, born in Westfield, were : Samuel, Jonathan, Abigail, Hannah, Hester, Isabel, Elizabeth. (IV) Samuel, eldest child of Samuel (i) and Abigail (Brown) Fowler, was born May 31, 1698, in Westfield, and married Naomi, daughter of Luke and Ruth Noble. She was born in August, 1707, and died in August, 1797. He died January 6, 1771, in his seventy-third year, and was buried in Westfield old churchyard. Ten of his children grew to adult age. (Y) Silas, son of Samuel and Naomi (Noble) Fowler, was born May 23, 1735, in Westfield, and married Keziah Noble. (VI) Silas, son of Silas (I) and Keziah (Noble) Fowler, was born April 23, 1767, in Southwick, and married Betsey Hough. She was bom September 30, 1775, in Meriden, and died May 20, 1835. He died August 29, 1839. Their children were: Frances, Lester N., George Jarvis, Earl Bill, Laura, Addison, Mary E., and Betsey Elvira. Silas 692 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Fowler was a farmer in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and a soldier of the Revolution. (VII) Lester Noble, son of Silas and Betsey (Hough) Fowler, was born September 21, 1796, and was married, April 12, 1827, to Dolly B. Green. She was lx)rn October 6, 1806, and died September 27, 1882, m her seventy-sixth year. Her father, Allen Green, was also a Revolutionary soldier. Lester N. Fowler was a soldier in the war of 1812, and soon after the close of that struggle settled in Oneida county, New York, where he was a farmer. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1S37, and died November 15, 1868, in Jersey City. From 1838 to 1858 he resided in Antwerp, this county. Mr. Fowler was ail Episcopalian, and a straight-out Democrat in political principle. (VIII) Helen J., daughter of Lester N. and Dolly B. (Green) Fowler, was born November 10, 1840, in Antwerp, and became the wife of Dr. Addison W. Goodale (see Goodale, VIII). CHRISTOPHER A. HOLDEN. In the death of Christopher A. Holden, which occurred at his late residence on Arsenal street, on Octo- ber 30, 1886, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, Watertown lost one of its most active and influential citizens, a man who was well and favor- ably known in the commercial, political, fraternal and social circles of the city, but was fully appreciated only by those who are able to estimate true manhood at its real value. The needy and afflicted always found in him a practical sympathizer who not only gave words of comfort and good cheer, but also rendered substantial assistance. Energ}^ perse- verance and thrift were his chief characteristics, and during his active business career he amassed a handsome property. He was born at North Adams, Massachusetts, October 24, 1823, a son of Cliristopher and Sarah (Potter) Holden. Christopher Holden was a native of Massachusetts, followed his trade of shoemaker in the town of North Adams, and died at the age of about seventy years. His wife, Sarah Patter, was a native of Rhode Island, and bore him the fol- lowing named children: Lydia, Edward, William, Sarah, Francis, Christopher A. and Charles. The mother died at the age of sixty-eight years. Christopher Anson Holden spent his boyhood and acquired his education at North Adams, and upon attaining the age of thirteen years went to Northampton in order to learn the trade of tinsmith. In 1843 he located in Bennington, Vermont, was employed as foreman in the GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. GIJS shop of Graves &■ Root, with whom he remained until 1852, when he came to Watertown. Ai tiiis time he became a member of the firm, and began business m the old Sewall store on Factory Scjnare. under the style of Goodnow, Plolden & Company. On a small scale the\- besian the manufacture of tinware, disposing of their stuck !)v sendino- nut six peddlers" carts, but tiie business increased so rapidly that they so(jn outgrew their limited quarters. In 1S53 tli^y commenced the erectiun <if a wooden building on the corner of Massey and x^rsenal streets, and the following }ear located in their new quarters, which were enlarged from time to time, and they finally erected a brick addition three sturies high and one hundred and fifty feet in length. In 1859 Air. Root withdrew his interest from the firm, and in 1865 Mr. Graves sold his interest, and the business was subsequently conducted under the style of Goodnow & Holden. In 1870 the firm changed to Goodnow, Holden & C'nmpany, through admitting into partnership Mr. J. M. Tilden, who. on the death of Mr. Goodnow, in April, 1872, acquired a half interest in the business, and the fiim name was changed to Holden & Tilden. In 1882 the com- pany required the services of one hundred employes and sent out forty-five wagons on the road, and this fact alone fully demonstrates the enormous increase in business which the firm enjoyed, and which came to it as the result of honorable and straightforward transactions in all departnients. The same year Mr. Holden retired from the firm, sell- ing his interest in the Watertown business, also a similar business at Norwood, St. Lawrence county, but retaining an interest in an establish- ment in Syracuse, with C. H. Fisk as a partner, and this connection con- tinued through the remainder of his life. The estimation in which he was held by his felknv citizens was evidenced by the fact that he was chosen from time to time to serve as a membier of the cit}' go\'ernment. as supervisor of his ward for sev- eral terms, and as a member of the board of education for sixteen con- secutive years. He was also one of the directors of the W^atertown Na- tional Bank from its organization. He was actively connected with the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Watertown Commandery, Knights Templar, and he also held membership in Jefferson Union Lodge and Montezuma Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. From the time of its organization he was an ardent supporter of the principles of the Republican party. At Bennington, Vermont, in 1849, Mr. Holden was united in niarriage with Lucy L. Sibley, who was born August 16, 1826. and 6y4 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. bore him Ihe following named children: Alice D.. who married Samuel Forsyth, and (second) Vincent W. Nims, of Painesville, Ohio, and is the mother of Louis Woodruff and Walter Holden Xims : Sarina S., Jiow Airs. W. F. Bingham, of New York city, who is the mother of two children, Anson Holden and Isaac Sabin ; Frances D., died in early childhood; Dwight Anson, died at the age of twenty-seven years; Flora N., wife of G. S. Farmer, who has two living children, Francis and Rosalind. Mrs. Holden died Jan- uary 9. 1877, and in November, 1878, Mr. Holilen married Sarina D. Sibley, who was born May 8, 1840, in Bennington, Vermont, a sister of his first wife, and who survives him. Chester Sibley, father of Mrs. Holden. was born and spent bis life in Bennington, Vermont, dying there at the age of seventy-six years ; be was a farmer and the son of Zadoc Sibley, v.'ho was the first niember of the family to settle in Ben- nington. Maria (Lillie), wife of Chester Sibley, was born in Pownal, Vermont, daughter 01 Caleb and Amelia ( Bassett ) Lillie. natives of Suffield, Connecticut. Caleb Lillie was a farmer during his mature life in Pownal, dying there at the age of eighty years. His father, Ebenezer Lillie, was a soldier of the Revolution, and drew a pension. Chester Sibley and wife were the parents of six children, two of whom are living at the present time ( 1904) — Mrs. Christopher .\. Holden, and Charles A. Sibley, who now resides with her. ]\Irs. Sibley died at the age of seventy-two years. Both she and her husband held mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Bennington. The illness which culminated in the death of ^Ir. Holden, despite the skill of physi- cians and the tenderest care of faithful nursing, was contracted during a tour of the eastern states made by himself and wife about two months prior t(5 bis death, when be \-isite(l the home of his childhood and the scenes of his struggles as a boy and young man, where he had laid the foundation of the success which attended him in bis l)usiness ventures and enter]Mnses. He was many years an active member of tlie L'ni- versalist church of W'atertown, to whose support he was a liberal con- tributor. JOSEPH WATSON TAGGART. No name is more closely identified with the manufacturmg interests of Jefferson county than is that nf ihe fauMly represented by Josejih W. Taggart, of Watertown. Hie progenitor of the race in the new world was Henry Taggart. a .Scotchman, win emigrated from the Isle of Man before the middle of GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 695 the eighteenth century. \\\^ son Joseph resided in Newport, ixhode Isl- and, where he carried on a shipping trade, which required him to make frec]uent trips to Europe in tlie saihng vessels which then afforded the only facilities for ocean voyages. Ahout the beginning of the nine- , teenth century he came to the Black River country. His son Henry was born in LeRay, where he became a prominent farmer. He married Julina, daughter of John Dighton, one of the early settlers of Pamelia, whose father had come to America as a soldier in Burgoyne's army, but after the battle of Saratoga had become a citizen of the United States and a sokher in the Continental army. (See \\'. W. Taggart.) Joseph B. Taggart. .son of Henry and Julina (Dighton) Taggart, was born July 13, 1823, in LeRay, where he received his education and for a time engaged in farming. He then went west, where he remained three years, and on his return settled in Evans' Mills, where he opened a general store. After conduxting this business for some years he moved to Erie county. New York, where he again liecame the proprietor of a general store, and alter his return to Jefferson cour.ty he C(jntinued in agriculture for seven years. He has for some time been engaged in general business about the paper mill of which bis son, Joseph \V., is superintendent. He married Margaret Bemiit, a native of Chateaugay, Franklin county. New York, and they were the parents of three chil- dren : Joseph W'., mentioned at length hereinafter; George H., who is a portrait painter, and is now located in Paris, France ; and Susie, who is the wife of W. C. Jones, of Watertown. ]Mrs. Tag^gart, the mother of the family, died August 31, 1875. Joseph W. Taggart. son of Joseph B. and Margaret ( Benoit ) Tag- gart, was born December 12, 1862, at Evans' ]\Iills, and spent bis early childhood on the homestead, obtaining bis education in his nati\'e place and also in \Vatertown, whither he went when twelve years of age. His first business experience was as clerk in a hardware store, where he re- mained two years, anrl Liien obtaineil employment in the paper mill of which his uncles, the Taggart Brothers, were proprietors. Here he has since remained, advancing, Ijy reason of ability and faithfulness, from one post of duty to another, and now holds the p(-)sition of superintendent of the mill. As a citizen Mr. Taggart has ever been ready to do all in his power for the promotion of the pulilic welfare. He served for four- teen vears as a member of the Thirty-ninth Separate Company, enlist- ing as a private and afterward being pronKjted to the rank of second lieutenant. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with 696 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Watertown Lod^e and Cliapter. He is a member of the Lincoln League, his political principles being tbose of tbe Republican party. Mr. Taggart married, in 1894. Caroline, daughter of Robert Rich- ardson, a leading manulacturer of Watertown, who died some years ago. Of his children only two are now living : John C, who is a resident of Rochester. New York: and Caroline, who was born in 1865. in Watertown. and became the wife of Joseph W. Taggart. as mentioned above. ORA LEROY SHELMIDINE. One of those men who in every relation of life possess the full confidence of their friends and of the public, is Ora L. Shelniidine, of Lorraine. Mr. Shelmidine belongs to a family which has l>een for nearly a century and a half resident in New York state. Benjamin Shelmidine was born in 1775. in Schoharie county, New York, and married Polly Judd. by whom he was the father of the fol- lowing children: William, mentioned at length hereinafter: Sally, who married W. Goodrich : Ehiel : Huldah, w-ho became the wife of John Cunningham: Almira. who married George Burton: Rosina, who died in Pennsylvania : Datus, who resides in Iowa : and Olive, who died young. William Shelmidine, son of Benjamin and Polly (Judd) Shelmi- dine. was born in 1806, and was a farmer as his father had been before him. He married in 1830 Anna, daughter of Isaac and Rosanna (Lown) Lampher, and five sons and six daughters were born to them. Rosina, who died at the age of twenty-three years: Nancy, who married Samuel McCumber: Jerome, who died at the age of three years; John, who died in the army in 1862; Jerome L., mentioned at length hereinafter; Kiildah, who died in infancy; Lester, who died at the age of six years; Huldah, who married A. Wagener; Benjamin B., who resides in Lor- raine; Alvira: ]\Iary R., who became the wife of Eli Caulkins, and has one son, Willie, born April 30. 1885. The death of Mr. Shelmidine, the father of the family, occurred in i860, at bis home in Lorraine. He was survived many years by his widow, who passed awav April 25, 1S98, at the advanced age of eighty-seven. Both possessed the sincere respect and cordial regard of all who knew them. Jerome L. Shelmidine, son of William and Anna (Lampher) Shel- midine, was torn May 9, 1838. in Lorraine, where he was reared upon the paternal farm and educated in the common schools. He took for GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 697 his occupation that of a farmer and stock-raiser, becoming one of the largest dealers in the county. He is particularly interested in sheep, the number raised by him being exceptionally large. He also deals ex- tensively in flour, feed, wood, and groceries, selling over one thousand loads of wood annually. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, in 1861, Betsey R., who was born in 1839, in Black River, Jefferson county, daughter of Andrew and Rox- iana (Scott) Middleton, the former one of the early settlers of Lor- raine. He and his wife were the parents of a large family, only three of whom are now living, Margaret married W. V. Walters, of Phila- delphia, and James is a resident of Lorraine. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Shelmidine: C)ra L., mentioned at length hereinafter; and John D., who was born in 1869, and is a farmer and hide-dealer, also a member of the Grange, in which he has held various offices. Ora Leroy Shelmidine, son of Jerome L. and Betsey R. (Middleton) Shelmidine, was born February 25, 1863, in Lorraine, and received his early education in the schools of the township. In 1884 he gradu- ated from the Adams Collegiate Institute, after which he was for ten years engaged in teaching, five years in Lorraine village school, and the same length of time in the district school. In 1891 he embarked in the agricultural and lumber business, in which he has been very suc- cessful. He has a stock of 800,000 feet of all kinds of lumber, and also a full line of every variety of agricultural implements. He deals largely in wagons, buggies, harnesses, sleighs, robes, fur coats, and everything to be found in a well equipped store. He purchases his buggies by the carload, and in 1903 received two carloads of double wagons and three carloads of buggies and carriages. He also handles by the carload all kinds of grain, grass and clover seeds and shingles. As a citizen Mr. Shelmidine is active and public-spirited, and his townsmen have on various occasions testified to their appreciation of his good qualities. For two years he held the office of town collector, and in 1898 was elected supervisor for one year. In 1901 he was re-elected for two years, and m 1903 was chosen to serve until December, 1905. He is a member of the Grange and of the Maccabees, also of the I. O. O. F. of Lorraine, in which he has held all the offices, including that of noble grand, and has passed all the chairs. Politically he is a Democrat. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he hoUls the offices of trustee and treasurer. He is 698 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. also supciinteiident of the Sunday schuol, his wife Ijeing a teacher therein. Mr. Shehiiidine married, August i. 1S95, Jennie, daugliter nf Carl- ton iloore, who was for many years a merchant in Lorraine, where he held the ofifice of supervisor. He died September 21, 1S99. Of the four- teen children born to himself and his wife five are now living: Martha, who married Everett Calkins, of Lorraine; Minnie, residing in Lor- raine, unmarried; Edward H., a resident of Lorraine; Stephen A., who is a merchant at East Rodman; and Jennie, who was born May 16, 1874, in Lorraine, and became the wife of Ora L. Shelmidine, as mentioned above. Mr. Moore, who was a man much respected in the community, IS now deceased, but is survived bj' his widow. Frank A. !Moore, who died November 4, 1898. was supervisor of Lorraine two years. JOHN NILL. Among the residents of Watertown who have served their fellow citizens in positions of trust and responsibility, none stands higher in the general regard than John Nill. He is of German descent, his ancestors having been respected and prosperous farmers. He is a son of Josias Nill, and was born May 7, 1835, in Nehren, Tuebingen, Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, and Waldburge Schel- ling, his wife, a native of the same place. Josias Nill was a son of Josias Nill, a stocking-weaver, and purchased land and became a farmer. His wife was a daughter of John Schilling. Josias Nill, Junior, was a farmer, and owned his land, and lived and died upon it. John Nill received his education in his native land, and in 1853, when in his eighteenth }ear, came to seek his fortune in the United States. His first place of abode was in Utica, where he worked as a candy-maker for seven years. In i860 he came to Watertown and at the end of three years found himself in circumstances which justified him in engaging in business for himself. In 1863 he formed a partnership with Henry Jess and established a bakery. The undertaking prospered and in 1897 the Nill & Jess Company was incorporated. The business is today one of the most flourishing of its kind in this part of the state. The company occupies a large four-story brick building, which was erected in 1885, and here conducts a wholesale and retail bakery busi- ness. An extensive cigar factory at 35 Fairbanks street is also the property of this corporation. The company employs a total of about fifty men and disposes of its goods in three or four counties. The officers are John Nill, president, and Henry Jess, secretary and treasurer. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 701 Mr. Nill has always taken a keen interest in public affairs, dis- charging with assiduity and faithfulness all the duties of a citizen. These traits of character have been highly appreciated by his towns- men, who, in 1881, elected him to the office of supervisor, a position which he held for seven years. In 1889 he was chosen mayor of Water- town and by his administration of the office more than justified the selection of those whose votes called him to discharge the duties of the mayoralty. He was an abolitionist in early life, and joined the Repub- lican party at its organization. He attends the Universalist church. He is a Mason of high standing, having taken the thirty-second degree, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Nill married, in February, i860, Dorothy Jess, and they are the parents of two daughters : Louisa Caroline and Amelia Paulina, who reside with their parents. Mrs. Nill's father was a cabinet-maker, who lived and died in Mecklenburg, Germany. LINCOLN GRANT HAWN, supervisor of the town of LeRay, is a native of this county, born May 16, 1866, in the town of Clayton. The earliest ancestor now known was Rev. George Hawn, a German minister, who was located in Connecticut, where his son, John H. Hawn, was born October 9, 1793. The latter was early located in Herkimer county, this state, where he was a popular and influential citizen, and served as sheriff of the county. His last forty years were spent in the town of Clayton, this county, where he died April -Jy, 1882, in his eighty-ninth year. His wife, Phoebe Morse, was born May 5, 1801, in Skaneateles, New York, and died November 23, 1880. She was a daughter of Dr. Nathan Morse and his wife, Melinda Thompson. Two of the five children of John H. Hawn are now living. The daughter. Rowena, is the wife of Abial Cook, of Clayton. Cyrus J. Hawn, son of John H. and Phoebe (Morse) Hawn, was born July 22, 1833, in the town of Ellisburg, where his parents were then residing. About the time of his majority he settled on a farm in Clayton, where he continued farming until his recent retirement, on account of advancing years. His home is now in the town of LeRay, where the majority of his children reside. His wife, Sarah Griswold, was born in Clayton, a daughter of Joseph Grisw^old, a pioneer farmer of Depauville. He was born January 19, 1796, in Herkimer county, and died April 29, 1874, at Depauville. His wife, Elsie Bushnell, was born in September, 1795, in Saybrook, Connecticut, and died Feliruary 702 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 22, 1863. They had four (langliters and a son. The last is the only one now hving. namely. James H. Griswold, of Watertown. Mrs. Sarah (Griswold) Hawn passed away at her home in Clay- ton, aged fifty-two years. All of iier eight children are living, as here noted: Edwin resides at Evans' Mills. Ida. wife of George W. Harter, resides at Lowville. Alice is the wife of M. VV. Doxtater, of LeRay. Elbert is a resident of Craig, Montana. Lincoln G. is the fifth. Minnie, Mrs. John Linstruth. has her home in Evans' Mills. George is a resi- dent farmer of Clayton, and Clarence is at Evans' Mills. Lincoln G. Hawn spent his early years in his native town and pur- sued his education in the public schools of the locality until about twelve years of age, when his inherent industry prompted him to seek a posi- tion in the business world. Subsequently he became connected with the wholesale hay business, in which he continued for fi\e years, and later was proprietor of a flour and feed establishment, which he con- ducted until 1S97, when he became proprietor of the Brick Hotel, at Evans' Mills. This is one of the largest rural hostelries of the county, and has excellent accommodations for a transient trade. Mr. Hawn is a Republican in political views and in 1899 was elected to the office of justice of the peace. He was appointed town clerk of LeRay to fill a vacancy in 1902, and was elected for the suc- ceeding year. Li 1903 he was elected supervisor of his town to serve during 1904 and 1905. He has frequently been a delegate to the county conventions of his party, and is active and influential in the local ranks of the organization. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and has served as senior warden and secretary of his lodge, and is a member of the Lidependent Order of Foresters, in which he served as financial secretary for ten years. He is identified through membership relations with the county Grange, and also with the Presbyterian church. In 1890 Mr. Hawn married Miss Louise Linstruth. who was born in Lewis county, New York, in 1868, a daughter of John Linstruth, one of the early settlers of that county, whence he removed to this county, and died May 13. 1904, in Evans' Mills. Mrs. Hawn was one of a family of six children, three of whom are yet living, the others being : John, who married a sister of Lincoln G. Hawn. as abo\-e noted : and Herman H.. of Evans' Mills. Mr. Hawn has two children — Iva Minnie and Hazel Esther. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. . 703 THOMAS JOHNSON ACHESON, supervisor of Philadelphia, who is noAv living retired after many years of active connection with agricultural pursuits, was born in New York city, September i8, 1852. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Acheson, was a native of Scotland, born in 1760. He became a farmer by occupation and spent his entire life in his native land, passing away at the advanced age of ninety years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane Williams, was born in Scotland in 1768 and died at the age of eighty-nine. George Acheson, father of Thomas J. Acheson, was liorn in Edin- burg, Scotland, in 1800, and was one of a family of fi\'e children. He had a brother who was killed in the American Civil war. George Aclieson was reared and educated in Scotland, and came to America in 1830 accompanied liy his family. He first located in Carmel, Putnam county. New York, wdiere he purchased a farm, making his home thereon for a number of years. He afterward removed to New York city, in the year 1850, and there engaged in milling business, spending his re- maining days in the metropolis. His death occurred in i860, while his wife passed away at the age of sixty-four }'ears. She bore the maiden name of Catherme Johnson, antl was born in Scotland in 1810. Her father, John Johnson, also a native of that country, died there a very aged man. T\Irs. Acheson had four children, namely : TliLimas J. ; Mary Jane, who is the wife of John Simmonds, of [Minnesota: Susan, who died in Colorado : and Anna, who died young. Thomas J. Acheson spent the first sixteen years of his life in New York city and acquired his education in its public schools. He then took up his abode upon a farm in Putnam county, where he remained until. 1876, w-hen he settled upon a farm in Philadelphia, Jefferson county, working by the month as a farm laborer. When his industry and economy had brought to him sutficient capital, he purchased a tract of land, upon which he resided until 1883. He then removed to the village of Philadelphia, and has since made it his home. Mr. Acheson's fitness for leadership has led to his selection for many public ofiices. He has been street commissioner for sixteen years and justice of the peace for eighteen years. He was superintendent of the water works for three years, and in 1899 was elected supervisor. In the last named office he discharged his duties with such ability that in 1901 he was re-elected and again in 1903, so that he will remain as the n:cumbent in that position until the 31st of December. 1905. He has frec|uently been a delegate to the county and district con\-entions 704 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of the Republican party, and his official service has ever been charac- terized by the utmost promptness and fidelity in the discharge of his duties, so that over the record of his public career there falls no shadow of wrong. He is a prominent member of the Lincoln League of Water- town, belongs lo the Knights of the Maccabees and the Improved Order of Red Men. Li both of these orders he has filled all the chairs and of the latter he is a charter member. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which he takes an active and helpful part. He is now serving as a trustee and steward of the church, and is also superintendent of the Sunday school. His family is likewise connected with this denomina- tion. December 7, 1877, Mr. Acheson was married to Miss Minnie Phelps, who was born August 21, 1859, and is a daughter of Butler and Manb C. (Williams) Phelps. Her father was born November 28, 1830, and became a mechanic of Philadelphia. He died in 1878, and his widow is still livmg. Mrs. Acheson was one of their two children, and by her marriage has become the mother of five children : Ena, who is the wife of William J. Smith, of Great Bend. New York, and has one child, \\'ilma; Addie, who is the wife of William Conway, and re- sides in Camden, New York; Clarence, who is occupying a position as salesman in a store in Philadelphia ; Ola, at home ; and Ruth, who is attendnig school. KINNE FAMILY. In the year 1624 there was born in Leyden, Holland, one Henry Kene. His parents were Puritans from the central or northern part of England, the native land of the Pilgrim Fathers, v.'ho. like many others of their sect, were obliged to leave their homes on account of an unholy persecution, and sought religious freedom in Holland. In 165 1 Henry Kene located at Salem Village (now Danvers), Essex county, Massachusetts. In a deed of Henry Kene he spells his name in four different ways, with one "n," with two "n's," and twice with a "y" on the end. The name is found in several forms in the church records in Danvers, in the records of Salem, and in the docu- ments in the State House in Boston. The second generation, in Salem and Topsfield (Massachusetts) records, always spelled their name "Kenney." In the third generation the name appears as "Kinny." Af- ter tlie arrival of the two brothers, Thomas and Joseph, in Preston, GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 705 Connecticut, tliey invariably wrote their name "Kinne," although their two brothers, Daniel and Jonathan, who remained in Massachusetts, re- tained the "Kenney; ' so also do many of their descendants today, while others have adopted the "i" and write it "Kinney." Henry Kene and others of his name lie buried m an old ground in Danvers, not far from the house in wdiich General Israel Putnam was born in 1718. This ground is in part, at least, made up of land once owned by Henry Kene. The descendants of Henry Ivene are now to be found in every state and territory in the Union. They also represent nearly all of the trades and professions. Those of the earlier generations were farm- ers, tanners, carpenters, ship-builders, blacksmiths, or mechanics of some sort, while among the later generations are included machinists, engravers, surveyors, mechanical and civil engineers, bankers, lawyers, merchants, ministers and doctors. In times of war they were always found ready to do their duty in defense of home and country; the name is found among the colonial records of the French and Indian war. In the Revolutionary war record of the state of Connecticut appear the names of twenty-two persons bearing the name of Kinne, and the rec- ords of Massachusetts show a large enlistment. In the records of the war of 1812, the Mexican war and the Civil war, there are many of the name who fought in them. (I) Henry Kene, born in Leyden, Holland, 1624, died in Salem (now Danvers), Massachusetts, 1712. Anne, his wife, bore him five daughters and three sons, born at Danvers and Topsfield, ^Massachu- setts. (II) Thomas Kene, second son of Henry Kene. liorn January i, 1656, died June, 1687. He married Elizabeth Knight, May 23, 1677, and they had four sons. The will of Thomas Kenny was dated May 30, 1687, and the estate was inventoried June 14, 1687. (III) Thomas, eldest son of Thomas Kene (i), was born July 27, 1678. He married Martha Cox, and they had a family of ten sons and six daughters. In December, 1715, Thomas Kinne sold his lands in Salem, and bought one hundred and fifty acre? in Preston (now Gris- woJd), Connecticut, adjoining the land of his brother Joseph, who had removed thither from Salem in 1706. This was un the south side of the Pachaug river, including the site of the present Glasgo post- office. Thomas Kinne was one of the founders and one of the first deacons of the "Second Church of Christ in Preston," now the First 706 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Congregational church of Griswold. and known as the "Pachaug Church." He died October i, 1756, and was buried on his own land, where were subsequently interred many of his descendants, in the old Kinne burying ground, on the banks of the Pachaug. (IV) Amos, fifth child of Thomas and Martha Kinne, was born September 3, 1708, in Danvers. ^Massachusetts, and was baptized on the tenth of the following month, in the "First Church" of that place. He died September 19, 1775, in Pomfret. Connecticut. He was mar- ried November 15, 1732, to Sarah Palmer, of Stonington, same state, and had a family of five sons and three daughters. His land comprised a large tract of what is now Elliott station, in the southwest part of Pomfret. The Connecticut colonial records, volume 9. page 515, say: "This assembly do establish and confirm Mr. Amos Kinne to be lieutenant of the Thirteenth Company, or trainband, in the nth Regiment in this Colony, and order that he be commissionetl immediately." Amos Kinne \\'as a man of much wealth and influence for those days. Deeds dated from 1741 to 1755 show that he dealt extensively in lands, and at his death his estate was \-alued at nine hundred pounds sterling. The following extracts from his will are quaint and inter- esting: "Item — I give to my son. Roger Kinne, the one-half of the farm on which I now li\e, with one-half of the buildings, after my debts are paid, he paying to my son, Robert Kinne, the sum of thirty pounds, lawful money, the one half in one year after my decease, and the other half in two years after my decease." "Item — I give to my son. Nathan Kinne, the other half of my home farm, on which I now live, with one-half of the buildings. * * * be, the same Nathan Kinne, paying out unto the aforesaid Robert Kinne, the sum of thirty pounds, lawful money." "Imprimis — I gi\-e and bequeath unto Sarah Kinne, my dearly I:>elo\-ed wife, the improvement of one-third part of my home farm. * * and also the in.ijjrovement of one-third of buddings thereon standing, during her natural life, she keeping the same in good tenantable repair, and also my will is that my wife have one good cow set off to her, and * * * all my indoor moveables during her natural life; and after her decease, to lie equally divided among her daughters, except Anne Trowbridge to have ten shillings less than either of her sisters." "Item — To my son. Amos Kinne, I give and bec^ueath twenty acres of land. * * To him I also give my silver shoe buckles." "Item — I hereby instruct my sons, Roger and GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 7(»7 Nathan, to pro\ ide a g<XKl liurse fur my wife to ride upon at all times when she requires." His children were: Simeon, Elizabeth, Robert, Roger, Amos, Anne, Nathan and P'reelove. Tlie first died at Fort Edward while serving in the French and Indian war, under Sir William John- son, in the winter of 1755-6. Amos, the fourth son, served as a soldier through the greater part of the Revolutionary war. (V) Robert, third child and second son of Amos and Sarah Kinne, was born in 1738. and married Abigail Brown. Mav 6. 1766. She was a daughter of James Brown and Abigail Watty, his wife. In 1767 Robert Kinne was one of tiie committee for bridge-building over the Ouinnebaug river, of Plaintield, Connecticut. He was also a soldier in the Re\'olutionary war, as a private in Lieutenant CV>n- stant Webster's conijiany, enlisted August 15, 1777, discharged Au- gust 23, same )ear. His se''vice amounted to twelve days, including nmety miles travel to his home. This service was on an expedition from Worthington. Massachusetts, to reinforce (ieneral Stark, and conducting prisoners from Bennington, Vermont. About 1785, or soon after the close of the war, Robert Kinne moved, with his family, from Worthington to the town of F'lorida, Montgomery conrity, New York, where he died October 24, 1831. His children were: Roger, Percy, Polly. Rufus, Robert, James, Amos, Nathan, Anne, Esther, David, Stephen, John and 01i\"er. (VI) Oliver, youngest of the fourteen children of Robert and Abigail Kinne, was born March 2. 1795, in Florida, this state, and died March 24, 1846, near Lockport, New York. He was married in 1823, at Franklin Springs. New York, to Oleva Angeline Amelia Pond, who was torn in 1801 (probably at that place) and died May 18, 1826. In 1828 he moved froin Clinton to Camden. New York, where three of his brothers had preceded him. He was a wagonmaker. and carried on a large business, and dealt in land extensively, becoming quite wealthy. He built a large frame house, which is still standing on Main street in Camden. In January. 1833, he married Diana Dodge, and six children were born to them, the first five at Camden. About 1840 he met with reverses m business, and lost the greater portion of his property. He then decided to move to Genesee county, wdiere some of his brothers were located, hoping to regain his lost fortunes in that new part of the country. In June, 1841, he made the removal to Ala^ baina Center. New York, and soon aftei-ward to "The Rapids." on Tonawanda creek, in Niagara county. Here he engaged in operating 708 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. a sawmill \vith his nephew, Ebenezer Silliman Kinne. Soon after this his wife was taken ill, and died in March, 1843. His own health gave out. and after two years of sickness he died March 24, 1846. They were buried in Lockport, but the removal of the cemetery caused the subsequent location of their bodies to be lost. Their children were: George Alfred, Oleva A. E., Angeline E., Helen E., Orlando Wood- ruff and Oliver E. P. The first of these was a soldier during the last year of the Civil war, and now resides at North Bay, Oneida county. The second son enlisted June 30, 1861, served in the Fourteenth Heavy Artillery and re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment Volunteer Infantry, and now resides in Denver, Colorado. (Vn) Oliver Evelyn Pond Kinne, youngest child of Oliver and Diana Kinne, born January 5, 1842. at Alabama Center, was left an orphan when very young, and his uncle, Amos Kinne, of Camden, New York, gave him a home until eight years old. He then went to live with the children of his uncle Nathan Kinne at Clinton, and resided there until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in l^attery A, Captain Bates' First New York Light Artillery. This battery w^as lost at the battle of Fair Oaks, which was the second engagement in which it took part. Its members were transferred to other companies, and Mr. Kinne became a member of Company H. This was known as "Mink's Battery," under command of Captain Charles E. Mink, and was engaged in some of the most severe battles of the war. Mr. Kinne was soon promoted, first to corporal, then sergeant, and became second lieutenant of Battery L, First Artillery, This was commanded by Cap- tain John Reynolds. Just before the close of the war Mr. Kinne was promoted to first lieutenant, and was assigned to Battery E, same regi- ment. After being discharged from the service, he returned to his home in Clinton, and soon after received a commission as captain by brevet. In 1865 he moved to Utica, where, on March 15, 1866, he was married to Miss Margaret Anna Cessford. Margaret A. Cessford was the daughter of George and Anna Isa- bel Cessford. The former was born at Lauder, near Edinburg, Scot- land, in the year 1802, and was descended from a very old Scotch family. He was educated at Melrose Abbey, to be a Presbyterian m.inister, but alx)ut the time he was to be ordained he concluded that he was too well fitted for a mechanic to become a preacher. Accord- ingly, upon attaining his majority, he entered upon an apprenticeship of seven years to learn the trades of machinist and millwright. About GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 709 1838 he came to America and located in Utica, wlierc he made a spe- cialty of pattern-making. He perfected many in\entinns and took out numerous patents pertaining to heating furnaces. He was a man of high attainments, being an excellent Latin scholar, and a wide reader. His family included seven children, two of his sons Ijeing machinists. He died, aged ninety-three years, at Utica, September 5, 1S95. His wife was Anna Isabel Stephenson, a grandniece of George Stephenson, whose engine, the '"Rocket," was the forerunner of our modern locomo- ti\es. She was born in Chester-le-Street, Northuml^erland county, England, in 1805, and died February i. 1899, aged ninety-four years, in Utica. She was a large-hearted, Christian woman, and her kind deeds and charities were numberless. In the year 1876 Oliver E. P. Kinne and his family removed frou'i Utica to Florence, this state, where he was engaged in the lumber Inisi- ness with his next older brother, Orlando. He remained there until 1879, when the family removed to Camden, where he followed his trade of a woodworker. He died May 5, 1892, after a sickness of four years. His wife removed, in 1894, with her two younger sons, Edwin and Harry, to ^^''atertown, where she has since resided with them. Ed- win J. Kinne is a machinist, and Harry C. Kinne is a mechanical draughtsman with the Bagley & Sewall Company. The children of Oliver E. P. and Margaret Cessford Kinne were: Clarence Evelyn, born April 16, i86g, at Utica: George Cessford, born April 4. 1873, at Utica, died February i, 1878, at Florence; Charles Alfred, born August 26, 1875, ^^ Utica, died July 2, 1892. at Camden: Edwin Johnson, born June II, 1879, at Florence: Harry Cessford, born June 8, 1882, at Cam- den. (VIII) Clarence Evelyn Kinne attended the Camden union high school, but at the age of fourteen years was obliged to leave school on account of poor health. For a part of two years he was employed in a large dry goods store at Utica, and resided with his grandfather. George Cessford. As he was always of a studious and mechanical turn of mind, his grandfather urged upon him to follow some mechanical pursuit, al- though his father wished him to follow the profession of law. On May 28, 1885, he began to learn the machinist's trade with the firm of Wood & Percival, at Camden. After finishing his apprenticeship of three years he worked at various shops in Rome, Schenectady and Little Falls, and came to W'atertown on June 20, 1889, where he began work as a ma- chinist for the Watertown Steam Engine Company. During the years 710 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of his apprenticeship and while he was a machinist, he studied mechani- cal drawing and mathematics at night, and while many of his companions were enjoying their leisure hours he was burning the "midnight oil." In 1892 he took a position as m.echanical draughtsman with the Eames A'acuum Brake Company, of Watertown. A year later he left this con- cern and took a position as mechanical draughtsman with the Bagley & Sewall Company of the same city. Five years later he became designer and mechanical engineer for this company, a position which he still holds. He has been very successful and has made and developed several inventions pertaining to the manufacture of paper-making machines. The Bagley & Sewall Company has been in business over fifty years, and has built some of the fastest running paper-making machines in use. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a member of Corona Lodge No. 705, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On June 18, 1890, he was married to Miss Delia L. Brewster, of Camden. She was a daughter of George J. and Sarah (Schott) Brew- ster, and a descendant, of the ninth generation, of Eider William Brew- ster, who came over with the Pilgrims on the Mayflow-er. They have (Oie daughter, ^Margaret Cessford Kinne, Isorn September 12, 1895. FRANK MARCELLUS PARKER, an active and prominent citizen of Watertown, for the past eight years treasurer of the county, is a worthy representative of a family whose members have been identified with Jefferson county through four generations, and with this country from the earliest period of its occupation by white people. (I) William Parker, was a member of Rev. Thomas Hooker's Hartford congregation, and was early in Saybrook, Connecticut. He was the father of three sons — William. Ralph and John. (H) The last-named settled in New Haven, and had a consider- able family, born as follows: John, in 1648; IMary, April 27, 1649, married John Hall in 1666; Hope, May 25, 1650, married Samuel Cook, May 2, 1677; Lydia, May 26, 1652-3, married John Thomas, January 12, 1671 ; Joseph, married Hannah Gilbert, 1673. (HI) John (2). son of John Parker (i), born 1648. married Hannah, daughter of William Bassett, November 8, 1670. He was among the early planters of Wallingford, Connecticut, and settled about two miles west of the village of that name, giving the name "Parker Farm;'" to the localitv. which name it still bears. He was an active busi- (^ A <w ^^^^^^^ .^^^A'^a.^^ GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 711 ness man, and did mucl: in advancing the interests of the settlement. He died in 171 1, and his widow survived until June 7, 1726. Their children were as follows: Hannah, born Augxist 10, 1671, married Will- iam Andrews, January 12, 1692; Elizabeth, 1673, married Joseph Royce, March 24, 1693; John, March 26, 1675; Rachel, June 16, 1680, married Thomas Relzea, of New Haven, in 1700; Joseph, mentioned below; Eli- phalet; Samuel; Edward. 1692; Mary, married Joseph Clark, November 27, 1707; Abigail, March 3, 1710, married Joseph Bradley, December 8, 1765. (IV) Joseph, fifth child and second son of John and Hannah Parker, married Sarah Curtis. June 7, 1705, and their children were as follows: Joseph, died young; Joseph, July 25, 1707; Andrew, married Susannah Blakeslee; Thomas, June 7, 1709; Hannah, August 30, 171 1; Ebenezer, March 5, 1713; Joseph (3), April 3, 1716; Ralph, January 9, 1718; Waitstill, July 24. 1721; Sarah, October 18, 1725, married Asa, son of Samuel Cook, January 15, 1744-5. (V) Andrew, third and eldest surviving son of Joseph and Sarah (Curtis) Parker, married Susannah Blakeslee, and their children were as follows: Ambrose, born March 6, 1738; Grace, December 10, 1739, died an infant ; Patience, twin of Grace, died when three days old ; Ze- ruiah, November 28, 1741, married David ^filler, January 3. 1765; Oliver, November 20, 1743: Ezra, mentioned at length below; Susan- nah, December 2, 1747; Rachel, December 28, 1749; Sybil, February 9, 1753 ; Jason, August 17, 1764. Andrew Parker was a farmer in Walling- ford, and moved thence to the town of Adams, in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, where he died. (VI) Ezra, sixth child and third son of Andrew and Susannah (Blakeslee) Parker, was born December 13, 1745, in Wallingford. He was one of the heroes of the Revolution, and acted as Arnold's orderly in the memorable expedition against Quebec, undertaken in the fall of 1775; through the wilds of Maine. With others he had smallpox during the winter, and he was one of the few who succeeded in making their way back in 1776. He continued in the service, and fought in the bat- tles of Bennington and Saratoga. He was offered a commission in the army but declined it. In 1772 he bought land of Samuel Perr)-, at the west end of the present Hoosac tunnel. He engaged in farming until his removal to Bridgewater, New York, after 1779. In 1802, to settle his sons, he purchased two hundred acres of land on Dry Hill, in the town of Watertown. Ezra Parker was twice married. His first wife. 712 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Sarah Tuttie, bore him a daughter, Sarah, who became the wife of Sam- uel Day. He married, second, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Perry, who sold him land, as before noted. She was born May, 175 1, in Strat- ford, Connecticut, and died November 8, 1826, in Sangerfield, New York. The children of the second marriage were : Samuel, David, Ezra, Joel, Hippocratus. William Morse, Ira, Betsey, Abigail, and a son whose name is unknown, probably because of early death. Ezra Parker, father of these, died July 7. 1842. at the home of his son. William M. Parker, m Royal Oak, Michigan. (VII) Hippocratus, fifth son and child of Ezra and Elizabeth Parker, was born June 17, 17S5. in Sangerfield, and died February 15, 1844, in Adams, this county, aged fifty-eight years. His educational opportunities were small, and his life was devoted to agricultural and other labors. He settled on fifty acres of the land purchased by his father, on Dry Hill, which he subsequently sold. He was employed many years by Joseph Sheldon, who operated distilleries and other enterprises, and passed his last days on a farm in the town of Adams. He married Olive Fuller, who was born Deceml^er 15, 1793, probably in Vermont, whence her father, Abner Fuller, came to this state. She died October 14. 1S62. Their seven children are thus briefly accounted for : Giles was a farmer at Adams Center, this county, where he died about 1890. Jeremiah receives further mention in a succeeding para- graph. George died in Russell, Lyon county, Minnesota, about 1898. Jemima married Riley Harrington, of Watertown, and lived in Houns- field, where he died. She died in 1893, at Thousand Island Park, at the home of her daughter. Austin lived to be only twelve years old. David lived in Adams and. after spending five years at Belvidere, Illi- nois, died of typhoid fever in i860, while on a visit to Adams. Eliza- beth became the wife of John Bartlett. of Adams, wliere she died June 2, i860, aged twenty-six years. (VIII) Jeremiah, second son and child of Hippocratus and Olive Parker, was born March 20, 18 14. in the town of Watertown. He was obliged to care for himself from a very early age, and had small oppor- tunity for education. Before he was nineteen years of age he paid for fifty acres of land in the town of Adams, out of his earnings as a farm laborer, and this afforded a home to his parents in their old age. He was a most industrious and successful farmer, being first located in the town of Adams, and later across the line in Watertown. and was the possessor of i\\t hundred and fifty acres of land at the time of his GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 713 death, which occurred May 19, 1872. Since 1847 he had resided in Watertown. He was a most pubHc-spirited citizen, and distinguished himself in the "Patriot War," of 1836, holding a captain's commission in the invading army. He affiliated with the Whig party in early life, and was among the founders of the Republican party. Though he held fixed opinions and was zealous in their support, he took no active part in the management of public affairs, preferring the quiet of his home and the pursuit of its duties. He was married September 20, 1836, at Amsterdam, to Miss Fransina. daughter of Tliomas B. Kenyon, and his wife, Rachel Allen, later of Adams. She was born June 18, 1817, in Amsterdam, New York, was a faithful member of the Baptist church, and died i\Iarch 23, 1891, being survived by two of her three children — Frank M., whose name begins this article, and Thomas C, who died June 25, 1896. in Paris, Illinois. Ella D.. the youngest, was born Octo- ber 2j. 1852, and died in her thirteenth year. (IX) Frank M. Parker, son of Jeremiah and Fransina Parker, was born January 20. 1842, in Adams, and continued upon his father's farm until he was twenty-two years old, gaining, in the meantime, together with the muscular development necessary to good health, the educational training afforded by the common and select schools in vogue at the time in the vicinity of his home. He began his business career in 1864, as clerk in a general store at Adams Center, where he remained until 1872. Upon the death of his father he resigned this position to take charge of the paternal estate, of which he now owns two hundred and sixty acres, comprising the original Lamon farm, on Dry Hill, and continued farming operations on an extensive scale, on Dry Hill, until 1896, when he removed to the cit)- of W'atertown. In that }-ear he was elected county treasurer, and his faithful and conscientious adminis- tration of the duties of the office have been rewarded by election to a second and third terms. He had previously served as supervisor of the town of Watertown for four terms, covering a period of five years; has been a trustee of the schools : and, during his residence in Adams, acted as assessor three years. He is a member of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society, of which organization he was treasurer fifteen years, a meml>er of the Lincoln League and has been a member of the Jefferson county Republican committee. He has affiliated with the Masonic fraternitv since 1864, is identified with all the local bodies of that order, ami holds an exalted position in it. Mr. Parker was married October 2. 1861. to iNIiranda H. Wilder, 714 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. daughter of Abel Wilder (see Wilder, VII ). One son and two daugh- ters ha\e been given to ]\Ir. and ]\Irs. Parker. Xettie F., the eldest, is the wife of Clinton J. Wadle}', a farmer of Watertown. Charles J. is a civil engineer, residing in New York city. He married Edith Clark Bowers, and they have a son named Franklin Bowers Parker, born Feb- ruar}- 17, 1905. Maud E. is her father's office assistant. WILLIAM A. POTTER. No more progressive and energetic business man than William A. Potter of Glen Park can be found within the limits of JefYerson county. He is a son of Thomas A. Potter, who was liorn in 1829, in Ireland, where he received an excellent education. When a young man he emigrated to the L^nited States and settled in New York city, where he oljtained a position as bookkeeper. After a time he went to Mijntreal, whence, after a brief period, he removed to Hartford, \'ermont, where he engaged in the lumber business. His next migra- tion was to North Mills, Vermont, where he remained some years. In TiSgo he disposed of his extensive lumber business and came to Brown- ville, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. Potter married Elizabeth Warren, who was born in 1S35, in Brockville, Canada, and thirteen children were born to them, of whom the following are living: Arthur, who resides in Glen Park, and is engineer in the mill of which his lirother William A. is superintendent; Rel.iecca, v\!k) is the wife of George Godsell and lives in Wilder, Ver- mont; Thomas, who is employed in a paper mill in Berlin Falls, New Hampshire; Leonard, who is engaged in the mill with his brother, ^\'ill- iam A.; Ernest, who is employed in a mill at Berlin Falls, New Hamp- shire; Isola, who is the wife of Alton Hayes, of Brownville; and Will- iam A., mentioned at length hereinafter. The death of Mr. Potter, the father of the family, occurred in May, 1902, when he had entered upon his seventy-fourth year. He was a successful business man and was also possessed of fine literary tastes, while his integrity of character com- manded the respect of all. His widow, who is a member of the Protest- ant Episcopal church, is still living. William Aaron Potter, son of Thomas A. and Elizabeth (Warren) Potter, was born Septeml3er 7, 1873, in Stratford Hollow, New Hamp- shire, and received his education at Newton Mills, Vermont. Soon after leaving school he obtained employment in a sawmill, where he re- mained for a time, and in 1890 entered a paper mill at Berlin Falls. After working there for eight months he came, early in 1S91, to Glen Park, GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 715 where he was employed in a paper mih, and by industry and faitlifulness worked his way up to the position of foreman. After working tor a time in two other mills in the same place he went to Marseilles, Illinois, where for eleven months he was employed in a mill as foreman of the machine room. He then returned tri Glen Park and took charge of the machine room of the Ontario mill of the International Paper Company. In July, 1903, he was advanced to the position of superintendent, and events have already more than justified his appointment. He is a mem- ber of the K. of P. and of the Lincoln League. His political principles are those of an earnest Republican, and he takes an active interest in the affairs of the organization. He is a member of the Protestant Epis- copal church. Mr. Potter married, in 1S94, May E. Foley, and they have two children: Lillian, who was born August 28, 1896, and James, who was born May 30, 1902. Mrs. Potter is a daughter of Patrick Foley, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to this country and settled in Adams, where he became a successful farmer, and now resides. He and his wife are the parents of five children : John, who is employed and resides in Glen Park ; Stephen, who works in a carriage factory in Adams ; Frank, who is a railroad employe ; Anna, who resides in Adams ; and May E., who was born in 1874, in Adams, and became the wife of William A. Pot- ter, as mentioned above. DEWEV. This name is borne by a large number of the American people, and includes many noted in military, naval, religious and civil affairs, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its representatives were nu- merous among the pioneers of different towns in Jeft'erson county, and they and their progeny have maintained the good standing of the name. The name is said to be of French origin, and has been traced to the ad- vent of William the Conqueror in England, in 1066. (I) Thomas Dewey, the emigrant ancestor, in early manhood, seems to have become a dissenter and emigrated to America from Sandwich, Kent, England, as one of the early settlers, under Governor Winthrop and Rev. John Wareliam. Mr. Dewey is of record as among those re- ceiving grants of land at Dorchester, in 1636. He was married, March 22. 1639, in Windsor, Connecticut, to Frances, relict of Joseph Clark. Their children, all born at Windsor, were: Thomas, February 16, 1640; Josiah, baptized October 10, 1641; Ann, October 15, 1643: Israel, born September 25. 1645 ; Jedediah. 716 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. (II) Jedediah. A-oungest child of Thomas and Frances Dewey, was born December 15, 1647. and married, about 1670, Sarah Orton, of Farmington, Connecticut, daugliter of Thomas and Margaret (Pell) Orton. They lived in Farmington, but a short time after their marriage removed to Wcstfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1718, aged sev- enty years. Mrs. Dewey died November 20, 171 1. All their children were born at Westfield, as follows: Sarah, March 28, 1672; Margaret, January 10, 1674; Jedediah, June 14, 1676; Daniel, March 9, 1680; Thomas, June 29, 1682; Joseph, 1684; Hannah, March 14, 1686; Mary, March i, 1687; James, April 3, 1692; Abigail, November 17, 1694. (III) Joseph, fourth son and sixth child of Jedediah and Sarah Dewey, was born May 10, 1684, and was married, in 1713, to Mrs. Sarah (Warner) Root, widow of Samuel Root and daughter of John and Sarah (Ferry) Warner. Mr Dewey was a farmer, and is also referred to as a wheelwright, and lived on the south corner of Elm and Frank- lin streets, in Westfield. He united with the church in 1727, and served as selectman of the town. He died January 3, 1757. He was survived by his wife, who passed away in 1769. Their children, born in West- field, were: Joseph, October 7, 1714; Sarah, April 15, 1716; Lydia, May 25, 1718: Mary, March 21, 1720; Roger, ]\Iarch 17, 1722; Noah, May 3, 1724. (IV) Deacon Joseph Dewey, oldest child of Joseph and Sarah (Warner) Dewey, was born October 7, 1714, and married (January 26, 1738) Beulah Sackett, who was born January 30, 1714, daughter of Joseph and Abigail Sackett, of Westfield. She died October 27, 1767, and he married, second, November 25, 1773, Hannah Phelps, daughter of Aaron and Rachel (Bragg) Phelps. Mr. Dewey was a farmer in Westfield, where he died August 25, 1799. All his children were born in Westfield, as follows: Beulah, February 5, 1739; Joseph, March 5, 1741 ; Benjamin, April 5, 1743; Gad, January 14, 1745; Eliab, Novem- ber 2, 1746; Beulah (2), October 12, 1748: Sarah, September 12, 1750; Mary, June 23, 1753. (V) Eliab, fourth son and fifth child of Joseph and Beulah (Sack- ett) Dewey, born November 2, 1746, was married to Lovisa Day, born March 15, 1753, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Bliss) Day of Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Dewey was a farmer and miller, and served as a soldier of the revclutinn. He was among those who responded to the Lexington Alarm, in April, 1775, and was drafted in 1776 to go to New York for two months. He died May 31, 1820. Mrs. Dewey died Tune 2s. 1806. Their children, all born in Westfield, were: Eliab. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 717 December 25, 1769; James, August 28, 1772; Louisa, August 4, 1775; Martin, March 31, 1778; Silas, August 30, 1780: Edward, February 17, 17S4; William, July 10, 1786; Jason, May 19. 1789. (VI) William, sixth son and seventh child ot Eliab and Lovisa Dewey, married Sally Bush, who was born May 3, 17S8, in Westfield. Mr. Dewey was a farmer in Westfield, and died April 14, 1817. His widow remarried, and died September 28, 1866, in Lowville, New York. They had children as follows: Mary Ann, born November 6, 1805; Silas B., February 2, 1807; William, died young; Emehne, October 25, 1812; William (2), November 9, 1813; Clarissa, November 9, 1809; Sally, September 21, 1815. (VII) William, fifth child and youngest son of William and Sally (Bush) Dewey, was married in 1836 to Fanny Seymour, who was born December u, 1813, daughter of Matthew A. and Cynthia (Betts) Sey- mour, of Greene county, New York. Mr. Dewey was a blacksmith by trade, and was an early resident of Lowville, Lewis county, this state, where he died February 11, 1890, in his seventy-seventh year. He was the owner of a farm there, which he cultivated in addition to the prose- cution of his trade. His wife, who was a most exemplary member of the Presbyterian church, died March 26, 1880. As pioneers they ren- dered valuable service in the upbuilding of the community and the ad- vancement of civilization. (VIII) Dwight B. Dewey, son of William and Fanny Dewey, was born in 1837, in Lowville, where his early life was passed. During the civil war he went west, and engaged in the clothing business at Spring- field, Illinois, and returned to New York in 1867, settling in Water- town. For a number of years he was a partner in the old established house of J. C. Streeter & Company, clothiers of this city, and in 1879 purchased the interest of Mr. Bristol, of the firm of Bristol and Mantle, dealers in the same line of wares, and the name of the firm was thereby changed' to DcAvey & Mantle. Upon the death of the latter Mr. Dewey admitted C. M. Fairbanks as a partner. At the end of five years this association was dissolved by the retirement of l\Ir. Fairbanks, after which event Mr. Dewey conducted the business alone for the remainder of his life. His establishment was at 10 Woodruff House block, where he carried on a far-reaching trade. He was an ardent supporter of the doctrines and measures advocated by the Democratic party and took an active share in the movements of the organization. Mr. Dewey married Mary Carey, who was born in 1840. in Ire- 718 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. land, one of a large family, two of whom are living: Mrs. Alice Hines, of Syracuse ; and Thomas Carey, of Watertown. Three children were born to ^Iv. and Mrs. Dewey: William H., who is engaged in the clothing business in Birmingham, Alabama: Leslie D., who died in 1881; and Frank S., mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Dewey and his children were early deprived of the estimable wife and mother, who passed away at the age of forty-three. The death of Mr. Dewey oc- curred in 1893, while he was yet in the prime of life. He was regretted as a loss not only to his family and friends, but to the entire community, tc which he had given the example of a business man whose success was due no less to integrity of character than to executive talents. Frank Seymour Dewey, son of Dwight B. and Mary (Carey) Dewey, was born June 4, 1876, in Watertown, where he received his education in the common schools. He was a member of the Thirty-ninth Separate Company, and upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war enlisted in Company E, Two Hundred and Third Regiment, United States Volunteers, in which he served for nine months with the rank of corporal. After his return he entered the office of the Jefferson Paper Company, of Black River, New York, where he remained two years, and at the end of that time v.as appointed manager of the Dexter mill, oper- ated by the same owners. His position is an extremely responsible one, involving the superintendence of fifty men, this being a fifteen-ton mill. He is an energetic participant in political affairs, his principles and the- ories being those of an unswerving Democrat, while at the same time he is not a strict partisan, and places the public good before party considera- tions. FRED HOWLAND. Among the farmers of Jefferson county there is none more deserving of the name of a successful agriculturist and public-spirited citizen than is Fred Howland, of Rutland. The fam- ily to which Mr. Howland belongs is of New England origin, but has been for a century represented in Jefferson county. William Howland was born February 8, 1747. in Rhode Island, and died in 1835 in Rutland. He was married in 1769-70 at Gloucester. Rhode Island, to Miss Mary Richmond, who was born in 1751, in that town, or in Taunton, Massachusetts. They continued to reside for many years in Gloucester, where they are of record September 24, 1791. on which date they signed a receipt to David Richmond for her share in the estate of her father, Seth Richmond. Soon after this they removed GENEALOGICAL AXD FAMILY HISTORY. 719 to Ballston, New York, whence they came to the town of Rutland, in this county, in 1806. They belonged to the Society of Friends, and died in the town of Rutland, the latter July 3, 1S28. Their children, recorded in Gloucester, were: Richmond. John and Oziel, and they also had sons Da\id and Rufus. Mary Richmond was a daughter of Seth and Esther (Walker) Richmond, and a descendant of John Rich- mond, who was born in 1594, and came to America from Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England, as early as 1637. In that year he was one of the original purchasers of Taunton, Massachusetts. From this John Rich- mond her lineage was through: (II) John (2), (III) Joseph, (IV) Joseph (2), and (V) Seth Richmond. Richmond Rowland, eldest son of William and Mary (Richmond) Howland, was born January 2, 1772, in Gloucester, Rhode Island, and subsequently lived in Providence, Rhode Island, removing thence to Jefferson county in 1804. He cleared a tract of land which he afterward sold for one hundred dollars. He then took another farm, three miles south of Felt's Mills, wdiich he also cleared, and which became his home for the remainder of his life. Fle became very prosperous, and was much esteemed by his neighbors, holding various township offices. During the war of 1812 he served in the army and was present at the battle of Sacketts Harbor. He married, before leaving Providence, Rachael, born January 25, 1769, daughter of James and Phebe (Allen) King. Mr. King spent his last days in Pamelia. Mr. and Mrs. Howland were the parents of six children, all of whom are deceased, namely : Oziel, Sarah, Richmond, James, Hiram and William. Mrs. Howland, who was a most excellent woman, and a member of the Society of Friends, was eighty-six years old at the time of her death, December 10, 1855. Her husband, like his parents, reached the age of ninety, passing away July 5, 1862. He was in all respects an estimable man and a good citizen. William Howdand, youngest son of Richmond and Rachael (King) Howland. was born April 22, 1809, in Rutland, where he obtained his education and passed his whole life, with the excq^tion of four years' residence in Pamelia. In 18G8 he purchased the farm one mile south of Black River village, which was his home for the remainder of his life. He took an active part in township affairs and held the office of assessor. He v^as the only I'^epublican in his family, and is entitled to the honor of having been one of the pioneer members who voted for Fremont. He died April 29. igoi. at his home, near Black River. Mr. Howland married, in 1840, Eunice P.. born in 181 5, in Rut- 720 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. land, daughter of James Eddy, who was born in 1780, in Rhode Island, and settled in Rutland. He was the son of Enoch Eddy, also a native of Rhode Island, where he was born in 1750, and whence, in 1801, he came to Rutland. The wife of James Eddy was Cynthia Philbrooks, who was born in 1795. Of the four children born to herself and her husband only one is now living : Egbert H., who resides in Rutland. Mr. and Mrs. Howland were the parents of three sons : Cyrus, who died at the age of thirty-seven years; Walter, who is a prominent farmer of LeRay; and Fred, mentioned at length hereinafter. The mother of these chil- dren died October 10, 1898. She was a Universalist in faith, and was loved and respected by all who knew her. Her husband maintained the reputation of his family for longevity by living to the age of ninety-two, and not one of !iis brothers died under eighty. Mr. Howland, both as a* man and a citizen, possessed the esteem and confidence of all. Fred Howland, son of William and Eunice P. (Eddy) Howland, was born March 28, 1862, in Rutland, and received his education in the common schools of the township, afterward attending the Watertown high school. Upon reaching the nge of twenty-one he went to Pierre, South Dakota, where he remained two years. He then returned to his native town, and settled on the paternal farm of one hundred and six acres, where he has since resided, devoting himself with great success to general farming. He has always taken an active interest in public af- fairs, and his fellow citizens have not been slow to assure him of their appreciation of his character as a leader in politics. In 1898 he was elected supervisor, re-elected in 1900 and 1901, and in 1903 chosen to serve until 1905. He held the otfice of commissioner of highways for six years previous to his election as supervisor. He has acted as dele- gate to county conventions and has served as chairman of the Jefferson county delegation to the Good Roads Convention at Albany. He is an upholder of the political principles advocated by the Republican party. He is a member of Watertown Grange and of Riverside Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Black River, in which he has passed all the chairs. Mr. Howland married. September 3, 1901, Stella C. Hungerford, a member of one of the leading families of the county, the genealogy of which will be found in the sketch of Orville Hungerford, which appears elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Howland is a daughter of Ell>ert Hun- gerford. "// -w^^^^-W/MW:' n GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 721 JOHN CLARKE STREETER. Xo one citizen of Watertown has been more strongly identified with its commercial, political and social life, during the last half-century, than John C. Streeter. Xelson White Streeter. father (jf the subject of this sketch, was an early resident of the county and was long distinguished as a leading citizen of Watertown. Xelson W. Streeter was born January lo, 1804, in Goshen, Hampshire county. ^Massachusetts, a son of Elijah and Abigail Streeter, the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of Massachusetts. In tlie year 1819 Elijah Streeter settled, with his son, in Champion, this county. His wife died May 20, 1806, at the age of tv.oity-three years, in Massachusetts. He followed shoemaking until a short time before his death, when he moved to Watertown, and passed away at the home of his son August 2\, 1830, at the early age of forty- nine years. In the year 182 1 Xelson W. Streeter was apprenticed to Thomas Peck, of Watertown, to learn the tailor's trade, which he completed in three years. He at once established himself as a tailor, and was imme- diately successful, as he was industrious, and so(3n accumulated means to engage quite extensively as a merchant tailor, beginning in 1830. After fourteen years he extended his business to include ready-made apparel, much of which he manufactured. After twenty years this was turned over to his son. John C. Streeter, who continued it su'ccessfully, along the lines early accjuired b}- association in the business. One of the monuments to the business sagacity and energy of Nelson W. Streeter is founti in the Streeter building, on the Public Square, which teems with the business life of the city. Being associated with the Whig party in early life, he identified himself with the Democratic part}- in 1856, and continued this allegiance until his life closed. Consistency was one of his most prominent traits, and he held tenaciously to a course once mapped out for himself. The esteem in Avhich he was held is indicated by the fact that he served the city as trustee and the county as sherifif. Out of the kindness of his heart, Mr. Streeter became respon- sible, by endorsement, for much of the paper of his friends, and his son, John C. Streeter, was called upon to meet these obligations to the amount of over sixty thousand dollars, which he did, without a dollar of discount, and with no compensation from those responsible for the loss. In 1828 j\[r. Streeter married Miss Aurelia A. Parsons, of Lewis county. She died January 19. 1837. leaving four children — John C, Cornelia, Aurelia and Augusta A. On October 22, 1837, Mr. Streeter married 72i; GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Eunice H. Burpee, of Lorraine, this county, who Ijore him one son, Henry \\\, for some years a practicing pliysician of Watertown, and who died in 1903. at Rochester, where he had been ten years engaged in successful practice. John Clarke Streeter, son of Nelson W. Streeter, was born Novem- ber 22, 1829, in Watertown. He is the eldest of a family of four children and at a very early age was engaged in trade. For a long period he was one of the leading business men of Watertown, being distinguished not onh- for financial success, but also for honorable deal- ing and strict integrity of character. He was one of the first board of directors of the Watertown Manufacturers' .\id Association and served in the same capacity on the organization of the Watertown board of trade. He was one of the incorporators of the Watertown Spring Wagon Company and one of the first trustees of the Watertown Sav- ings Bank. In 1887 Mr. Streeter retired from business, but continued his interest in the many activities by means of which he sought to advance in various ways the welfare and prosperity of the community. In the sphere of politics Mr. Streeter has always borne a prominent part, his personal pojiularity no less tlian his ability and worth being attested by the number cd offices of honor and responsibility which he has been called uprm to fill. In 1872 he was appointed a member of the state board of charities, and served several years in that capacity. In 1877 he was supervisor and in 1878 was elected to the mayoralty. In discharging the duties of both these offices a strict regard to the best interests of the town and city was the object to which all other considerations were subordinate. In 1885 he was appointed by Pres- ident Cleveland postmaster of W'atertown, a position which he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to the government until 1S89 Since t86i he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity and has been identified with the Union Club since its organiaztion. Mr. Streeter has been twice married and is the father of one son : Frederick W. Streeter. the present city clerk. The latter's mother. Mary, was a daughter of Stephen White, long and favorably known as a business man of Watertown. In December, 1900, Mr. Streeter married Mrs. Ella A. Phelps, daughter of the late Merritt Andrus, of Watertown. JOHN D. COLE. !\I. D.. a leading physician and progressive citi- zen of Ale.xandna Bay, Jefferson county, New York, is a native of the GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 723 state, born in Theresa, March 28. 1857. His paternal gran.dfather, Allen Cole, was one of the most extensive landholders and farmers of his day in that region, owning one thdusand three linndred acres of land in the vicinity of Theresa, and to him was due the honor of building the first saw mill on Cruoked Creek. He was united in marriage to Hope Jane , who was horn in the vicinit}- of Paris, France, and to this union was born twehe children, of whnm Alanson Cole, father of Dr. Cole, is the onh' survivor. Mr. and ^Irs, Cole were members of the Universal- ist church. Their deaths occurred, respectively, when they attained the age of sixty and fifty years. Alanson Cole (father) was born in the town of Theresa, New York, wdiither his parents removed from Massachusetts in 1812. He was reared in West Theresa, educated in the common schools, and fol- lowed farming as a vocation, clearing the land for that purpose. He be- gan life in a log caliin. later built the first frame dwelling in that sec- tion, then added to his pro])erty l.iy buying the Plymton farm, and then a part of the Wakefield farm, consisting of two hundred and twenty-six acres, upon which he erected a second dwelling. There he resided up to 1886, and in that year removed to the village of Theresa, wdiere he built a fine residence in which he now leads a retired life, being in the eighty- third year of his age. He has always been considered one of the pro- gressive men of his town, aiding to a large degree both educational and religious institutions. He married Lucy Makepeace, daughter of Solo- mon and Jane Cronkhite (also spelled I-vronkhite) Makepeace. Mr. Makepeace, who died at the age of eighty-six. during his early years led the life of a farmer, cleared land, built the first sawmill at Joachum, and subsequently established a general store, which he conducted for many years. He was noted throughout the county as a man of broad and philanthropic ideas, who believed in the scriptural adage that "it is better to give than to receive.'" and this injunction he followed out to the utmost of his ability. From his store he supplied the suffering new settlers with many of the necessaries of life, thereby alleviating much suffering incident to the hardships and privations of settlers in adverse crop seasons. Mr. and Mrs. Makepeace were the parents of a number of children, four of whom are living at the present time (1904) : i. Lucy, aforementioned as the wife of Alanson Cole: she was born Feb- ruary 6, 1825, was married October 27, 1844. and died August 2, 1904, at the age of seventy-nine years, after a married life of nearly sixty years. 2. Ursula, a resident of Illinois. 3. Lydia. who resides at Alexandria T24 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Bay and is the widow of Alfred Avery. 4. Solomon, of Alexandria Bay. 5. John, of Clayton. Dr. Cole received his literary education at Theresa Academy, and studied for his profession in the Hahnemann IMedical College of Chi- cago, from which institution he was graduated in 1882 at the age of twenty-five. After his graduation he located in Clayton, where he re- mained in practice for two years, and on April 15, 1884, he removed to Alexandria Bay, where he has since resided, and where he has continued to conduct a large and remunerative practice. He is a member of the Jefferson County Homeopathic iledical Society. He has always taken an active interest in educational and religious affairs, and has ever been foremost in advancing the measures that have for their object the growth and development of the town and the betterment of its people. He has served as coroner of Jefferson county for two terms of three years each, as deputy collector for a period of three years, and was the first health officer to be appointed by the village board but appointed by the state board under new law (1904) to serve till 1908. Dr. Cole was instru- mental in the organization of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Foresters, of which he is a charter member, and also examining physician. He is also a member of Alexandria Lodge No. 297, Free and Accepted IMasons, in which he has held the offices of junior and senior deacon, and junior and senior warden ; a member of The- resa Chapter, \\'atertown Commandery, and Media Temple of the Mys- tic Shrine. He also holds membership in Hopewell Lodge, Lidependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Alexandria Bay, of the Tribe of Ben Hur, and is a member and president of the Loyal Legion. Dr. Cole is a Re- pttblican in politics and, like his parents, a Universalist in religion. Dr. Cole married. May 13, 1885, Adda E. Garrison, born in Nap- anee, Ontario, daughter of William Garrison, who was torn in Canada, was a prosperous agriculturist of Napanee, and died at the age of fifty years. His wife is living at the present time (1904), and they were the parents of six children, five of whom are now living: Mrs. Dr. Cole, Mrs. Richard Hill, T. L Park. John, a resident of Chatham, Canada, and Edward Garrison, an editor of Winnipeg. Dr. Cole and his wife have one daughter, Lottie Grace Cole, who is now a student at St. Ga- briel's Seminar}' at Peek.skill, New York. PORTER. Among those names which have furnishe4 distin- guished citizens, in military, naval and business annals, none is more GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 7-25 noteworthy than this. It \vas estahhshed in America among the earhest, and its representatives have been excellent citizens and patriots from the beginning. In the revolntion and the late ci\il war it was especially noted and active. (I) Richarrl Porter, American ancestor of the name, was a pas- senger on the ship Susan and Elien, which sailed from W'e^-mouth, England, Alarch 20 (or 30), 1635, and was among those who settled in that year in \\'eymouth, Massachusetts. He was a memlser of the church there nian\- years, ser\-ed as constable and selectman, and kept up to the standard of citizenship then in vogue. Xo record is found of his marriage, and he died about 1689. (II) John Porter, son of Richard, was married, February 9, 1660, to Deliverance, daughter of Nicholas and Martha (Shaw) Byrum (By- ram). He resided in Weymouth and was said to be one of the most enterprising men of his time, a useful, honored citizen, holding all the \-arious town offices at different times. He died August 17. 1717. and his widow died September 30, 1720. (III) Thomas, son of John and Deliverance (Byram) Porter, was married, about 1706. to Susannah, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Hunt) Pratt. She was born in 1684. (IV j Ezra Porter, son of Thomas and Susannah (Pratt) Porter, was born September 8, 1725, and was married, in 1751. to Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Richards) Lovell. She was Ijorn Decem- ber 17, 1723, and died early in life. Mr. Porter subsequently married Patience, daughter of Solomon and Temperance Hathawa}'. She was born October 21, 1741. They lived in Weymouth. (V) Joel Porter, son of Ezra and Hannah (Lovell) Porter, was born June 16, 1755, in \\'eymouth, and died in September. 1824. 'He married Levina Woods, who was born in 1757. and died about 1819. In 1780 he moved to Marlboro, Nev,- Hampshire, where five of his chil- dren were born, and in 1792 removed to Dublin, an adjoining town of Cheshire county, of that state. He participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, and served two years as a soldier of the revolution. At Bunker Hill a bone in his ankle was shattered by a musket ball, but he poured rum into the wound from his canteen and continued to fight until his ammunition was exhausted and the retreat was ordered. He received a pension of twenty dollars per month during the last twenty years of his life. His children were: Joel, died in infancy; David, resided in Gil- sum, New Hampshire; Levina, married (first) Jesse Knowlton, and 726 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. (second) Chester Lyman, of Swanzey. New Hampshire; James, subject of another paragraph ; Joel, died when twenty years old ; Ezra, resided in Winchendon. Massachusetts ; Xoah, resided in ^Marlboro, New Hamp- shire; Joseph, lived ni l-'lorida, Massachusetts; Lucy, first wife of Ches- ter Lyman ; Hannah, died in Nashua, when fifty-one years old. (VI) James, son of Joel and Levina (Woods) Porter, was born in July, 1788, in Marlboro, New Hampshire, and married Betsey Will- iams, who was born in 1790. When a young man he spent some time in Vermont, whence he came at an early day to Norwood, this state, where he cleared up and tilled a fine farm, remaining upon it until his death. He had a large family of children, only two of whom are now living, namely : Susannah, widow of Seth Butler, residing in Como, Colorado, and Sophronia. wife of Thomas Ellison, of Colton, New York, now residing at Wanakena. (VH) Ora Bailey Porter, son of James and Betsey (Williams) Porter, was born May 9. 1S27. in Norwood, where he received his pri- mary education, afterward attending the Potsdam Academy. After graduating from- this institution he engaged for some time in teaching, and subsequently spent a few years in Ohio and Wisconsin. Upon his return to Norwood he purchased the homestead farm, which he sucess- fully managed for a number of years. He was thrice married, the third wife beiiig Caroline E. Gibson, daughter of Roswell Gibson, who re- sided in Florence. New York, from 1840 to 1857, in which year he died (see Gibson, VH). Mr. Porter was sixty-one years old at the time of his death, in August, 1888, and his widow reached nearly sixty-three years, passing away February 3. 1903. Both were active and respected members of the Methodist church. Their children are herewith briefly noted: Charles G., the eldest, is mentioned at length elsewhere; Bela J. is a bookkeeper in New York city; William R. was for some years employed by a hardware manufacturing firm of Bridgeport, Connecti- cut, and is now assistant mechanical engineer of the S. S. \\'hite Dental Company's works on Staten Island. (VIII) Charles Gibson Porter, eldest son of Ora B. and Caroline E. (Gibson) Porter, was born October 6. 1864, in Norwood. New York, and was educated in the common schools of that town. At the age of sixteen years he went to \A'est Camden, New York, and was employed nne and nne-half year? in a chair factory there. At the end of that period he mo\ed to Theresa, New York, where he was similarly employed six years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the business and acting a OSGOOD E. HERRICK GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 727 part of the time a? foreman. He was subsequently employed at Clayton an(.l Orwell, Oswego county. In association with A. E. Olmstead, he established a factory at the latter point, hut retired from the connection at the end of a year. For six months he was an employe of the Excel- sior Carriage Company, of Watertown, and returned to Orwell and re- mained two years, after which he again spent six months with the Ex- celsior Carriage Company. Subsequently he was engaged as superin- tendent for F. B. Woodbury in a chair factory at Onvell until 1893, in v,'hich year he went to Black River, this county. Since that time he has been superintendent of the manufacturing department of the H. C. Dexter Chair Compan}-. He is now a stockholder in the plant, which employs from seventy-five to one hundred people, and much of the pros- perity of the concern is due to his ability and energy. A genial and courteous gentleman, of upright character, he enjoys the respect and esteem of employes and associates and of the community at large. Mr. Porter united with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Orwell, and changed his membership on removal to Black River to Riverside Lodge No. 334, of that place. He has filled all the chairs, serving as noble grand in 1900, and for one year was secretary of Jef- ferson District No. 2, of the order. He is a warm supporter of Repub- lican principles and policies, but does not seek political position. He and his family are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church, and b.e is active in its work, being now superintendent of the local Sabbath school. Mr. Porter was married January 18. 1888, to Mercy A., daughter of Horace \V. Moore, who has been for many years, and is still, care- taker of the Holden property at Thousand Island Park. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have a son. Earl M., born August 5, 1889. Mr. iloore and his wife, Marcelia Antoinette (Sherman), had four children, of whom three are living, namely: Horace, residing at Fine View. New York; Carrie. 'wife of W. P. Kippler, of AVells Island: and Mercy A., born March 24. 1867. now the wife of Charles G. Porter, as before noted. REV. OSGOOD EATON HERRICK, D. D. The Reverend Doc- tor Osgood Eaton Herrick, of Watertown. is a representative of an ancient family of English origin. The ancestral history can I)e traced back previous to the reign of Edward the Third, and it was in 1340, during the memorial half-century when this monarch was king of Eng- land, that the estate of Leicestershire Park passed into the possession 728 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of the Herricks. hv whom it has since been owned without interruption down to the present time. The founder of the American branch of the family landed in 1630 in the Massachusetts colony and made liis home at Salem. For nearly three hundred years his descendants have been accorded the part of good citizens and soldiers — in colonial. Revolutionary and na- tional annals. (I) From Charles W. Upham's "Salem \\'itchcraft." it is learned that "Henry Herrick, who * * * purchased the Cherr3'-Hill farm, of Alford, was the fifth son of Sir William Herrick, of Beau Manor Park, in the parish of Loughborough, in the county of Leicester, Eng- land. He came first to \'irginia, and then to Salem. He was accompa- nied to Amerrcan by another emigrant from Loughborough, named Cleveland." The name appears to be of Scandinavian origin, and has undergone many modifications in its progress from "Eirikr, Eric," to Herrick. taking the last form about the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury. "Henry Herrick was a husbandman, in easy circumstances, but undistinguished by wealth." He married Editha, daughter of Hugh Laskin. of Salem. She was born in 1614, and lived to be, at least, sixty years old. He died in 1671. They were among the first thirty mem- bers of the first church in Salem, founded in 1629. They had seven sons and one daughter, and all the sons were farmers. (H) Joseph, fifth son and child of "Henerie" and Editha Her- rick, baptized August 6. 1645. d'^d February. 4, 1717-18, at Cherry Hill. Upham says: "He was a man of great firmness and dignity of character and, in addition to the care and management of his large farm, was engaged in foreign commerce. * * * He was in the Narragansett fight." The state of things at that time is illustrated by the fact that "This eminent citizen, a large landholder, engaged in pros- perous mercantile affairs, and who had been abroad — in 1692, when forty-seven years of age, was a corporal in the village company. He was acting constal^le of the place and. as such, concerned in the early proceedings connected with the witchcraft prosecutions." His title of Governor would indicate that he had been in command of a military post or district, or. perhaps, of a West Indiana colony. He married, February 7, 1666-7, Sarah, daughter of Richard Leach, of Salem. She died about 1674. and he married, about 1677-8. r\Iary Endicott, of Salem, who died September 14. 1706. The first bore him four children, and the second nine. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 729 (III) Martyn, sixth child and fifth sun of Joseph Herrick, was baptized January j6, 1679-80, and died in 1739. His twin brother. Kenry, died young. He settled in Lynn (now Lynnfield). ]\Iassachu- setts. on the Burnet Brown farm, given him by his father. He mar- ried. July 17. 1710. Ruth Endicott, of Salem, and they liad two sons and two daughters. (H') Samuel, second son and child of Martyn Herrick. was born in 1713. and died in 179^. He resided in Reading. Massachusetts. In 1742 he married Elizabeth Jones, of \\'ilmington. who died 1759. His second wife was a widow, Sarah (Putnam), Whipple, and was the mother of his last four children. There were nine of the first wife's ofifspring. (V) Ebenezer, ninth child and fourth son of Samuel Herrick, was born March 12. 1759, and died January 7, 1842. He settled in Marlborough, New Hampshire, in February, 1795, and there engaged in agriculture. He was married September 26, 1782, to Lydia Eaton, of Reading, who was born October 13, 1767, and died September 23, 1829. They were the parents of ten children. Ebenezer Herrick was a soldier of the Revolution. (\^I) Samuel, third son and fifth child of Ebenezer and Lydia Herrick, was born ]\Iarch 21, 1792, in Reading, Massachusetts, and died October 19, 1876, in \^'atertown. New York. He was a merchant some years at Boston and subsequently in Windsor, Vermont. He spent six years at Pillar Point, this county, whence he removed to Watertown in 1846. He was married January i. 1817. in Windsor, Vermont, to Eliza Hayes, a sister of Dr. .\. A. Hayes, a distinguished physician and chemist, and state assayer of Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Allen Hayes, many years the leading merchant of Windsor. (VII) Osgood Eaton Herrick, son of Samuel and Eliza (Hayes) Herrick, was born April 25, 1826, in Windsor, Vermont. In 1839 the family moved to Jefiferson county, and in 1846 took up their abode in WatertovvH. June 15, 1851, Mr. Herrick was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church by the late Bishop De Lancey, in Trinity church, Geneva, New York, and the same year became the first rector of Emmanuel church, Adams, New York. In i853Jie became rec- tor of Christ church, Manlius, New York, and in 1856 his field of labor was changed to the far south. In that year he became rector of St. Paul's church. Key West, Florida, an office which he held for thirteen years. This included the period of the Civil war and the loyalty of Dr. Herrick, 730 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. like tliat of every Union man during those dark days, was put to a severe test. His courage did not falter, and throughout that time of trial he never omitted to ofifer in his church, unchanged, the stated prayers for the President and congress of the United States. In 1864 the story of his loyalty came to the ears of President Lincoln, who thereupon ap- pointed him post chaplain in the United States army. During his resi- dence in Key West the place was visited by several epidemics of yellow fever, and he was himself twice the victim of the dread disease. In 1870 he w-as ordered to Fort Warren, Boston, Massachusetts, and upon his departure from Key West General Sherman issued an order, of which the following is a part : "To the Rev. Osgood E. Herrick, Chaplain, U. S. A., and his estimable wife, there is, probably, not a single otticer or soldier stricken down, who does not feel greatly indebted for their sympathies and their kind and constant attentions. "The arduous services of the chaplain, both as pastor and friend, among the stricken of the city, as well as in garrison, were unremitting to the extent of sacrificing his own health for the good of others. Con- trary to the advice of the commanding officer and his physician, this, oincer insisted upon keeping his post in spite of ill health and continuing in the periormance of every duty — official, pastoral and social — until this epidemic was stayed, and he has thereby shown how well the great mili- tary virtue of self-sacrifice combines with the highest virtues of re- ligion." In 1875 Dr. Herrick was ordered to Fortress Monroe, Virginia, where he remained until retired by operation of law, April 25, 1890, In the following year he took up his abode in Watertow'n, where he has since remained. For one term he was dean of the first district of the Diocese of Central New York. In 1859 he was a delegate to the general convention of the Episcopal church at Richmond, Virginia, The degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinity were conferred upon him by Hobart College, Geneva, New York. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of the Commandery of the District of Columbia, In closing the order for his retirement from the service, the commanding ofificer said : "Chaplain Herrick takes with him the affection and regard of all who have been the recipients of his faithful ministrations. His nobility of character and devotion to the duties of his sacred office will ever make his welfare and happiness the object of their most earnest solicitude." In 1866 Dr. Herrick delivered at Kev West a sermon commemora- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 731 ting the tenth anniversary of his settlement there as rector. This called forth the following request and testimonial, signed by the wardens and vestrymen, who were among the most conspicuous citizens of the town : "Reverend and Dear Sir: — The truths set forth and the precepts incul- cated in your learned and excellent sermon, delivered on Sunday even- ing, November 4, 1866, on the occasion of your tenth anniversary as pas- tor of this church, have suggested to the minds of the undersigned to request, most respectfully, that you would favor the public by permitting its appearance in print. "Language fails to express the depth of heartfelt gratitude we feel for your many Christian kindnesses, your indefatigable evangelical la- bor, in disseminating the knowledge and love of God among us, and the exemplifying of practical religion, and we avail ourselves of this oppor- tunity to acknowledge it." Dr. Herrick married, May 16, 1853, Charlotte Willard Smith, whose mother was a sister of the mothers of the late Bishop Whipple, of jMin- nesota, and the late General H. W. Halleck, of the United States army. Mrs. Herrick has been the efficient helper of her husband in his arduous labors, sharing the perils of his heroic ministrations to the yellow fever suft'ers and herself sustaining an attack of the scourge. In addition to the tribute from General Sherman quoted above. Dr. Herrick has re- ceived many others of a like nature from officers high in authority in the army and navy. He and his wife have the honor of numbering among their friends many of those distinguished in civil as well as in military life. As a resident of Watertown it may truly be said of him that he is "held in reverence of all them that are about him." GIBSON. The founder of this family in America was John Gib- son, who is supposed to have been a native of England, born about 1601, and was a resident of Newtown, now Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1631. He died there in 1694. His first wife, Rebecca, died there, and he was married (second), July 24, 1662, to Joan, widow of Henry Pren- tice, of Cambridge. (II) John Gibson, Jr., of Cambridge, was born about 1641, and died October 15, 1679, in Cambridge. He was married December 9, 1668, to Rebecca, daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Cutler) Erring- ton. (III) Deacon Timothy Gibsim, of Sudbury and Stow, Massachu- setts, was burn about 1679, in Cambridge, a son of John (2), and died T32 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. at Stow in 1757. He married, first, Reliecca, daugliter of Stephen and Sarah (Woodward) Gates; and, second, Mrs. Submit Taylor. (IV) Isaac Gibson, of Stow and Lunenburg (Fitchburg), Massa- chusetts, and Grafton (originahy Tomhnson), Vermont, was born April 27, 1 72 1, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and died in Grafton, June i, 1797. He married, first, Keziah, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Re- becca Johnson, of Lunenburg. He was married, second, at Leominster, Massachusetts, to Mrs. Abigail (Darby, or Stearns) Bennett. He was a Revolutionary soldier, servmg in Captain Wood's company, of Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment of militia, that marched to Fitchburg on the Lexington alarm of April 19. 1775, and served eleven days. (\') Nathaniel Gibson, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and Graf- ton. Vermont, was born February 22, 1753, in the foi^mer place, and died in Salisbury, Vermont, before 1824. He was married, first, June 25, 1776, to Hannah Brown, daughter of Daniel and Anna (Bright) Brown; and, second, July 6, 1791, to Mrs. Keziah Hayward, of Grafton. He was a Revolutionary soldier, his first service being as a private in Captain Eben Bridge's company, of Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment, marching to Fitchburg on the Lexington alarm, and serving six days. He was subsequently a private in Captain John Fuller's company. Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment of militia, serving eight months from April 25, 1775. He was on duty October 4 of that year at Prospect Hill, near Boston. His religious views were in advance of his day, and he was fearless in expressing them, though it incurred the ilhvill of some of his neighbors, as evidenced by the following statement, dated "Grafton, June 21, 1803," and signed by Nathaniel Gibson, attested by the town clerk, "1 do not agree in religious opinions with the majority of the in- habitants of the town of Grafton." (VI) Roswell Gibson, third child of Nathaniel Gibson, was born April 24, 1800. in Grafton. Vermont, and died June 28, 1857, in Flor- ence, Oneida county. New York, where he settled as early as 1840. He u-as for some time a resident of Mendon. Vermont, and was one of the organizers of the church at ^lendon, January zt,. 1836. He was married January 24, 1824, to Hannah Edson, who was born December 19, 1802, at Minot, Maine, and died July 22, 1893, at West Camden, New York. (VII) Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Roswell and Hannah (Ed- son) Gibson, was born ^Nlarch 9, 1840, in Florence, New York, and was married August 2, 1863, to Ora Bailey Porter. (See Porter, VII.) GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 733 JAMES ROCiERS SIMPSON, for most of his life connected ivith tlie mercantile interests of Jefferson county, died in the town of Adams, October 7, 1S82. He was born July 22. 1805, ™ Windham, New Hampshire, a son of Alexander and Mary (Rogers) Simpson, of undoubted Scotch and English lineage. About two hundred years ago the British crown confiscated large areas of land in northern Ireland, and offered inducements to its subjects to settle there. A considerable num- ber of hardy and enterprising Scotchmen, who sought to spread the area occupied by Protestants, moved to these lands, establishing what are known as the "Scotch-Irish" class, from whom many pioneers of this country were drawn. As early as 17 19 a considerable emigration to the American colonies from the north of Ireland took place, and others followed during the next thirty years, settling in southeastern New Hampshire. Among these emigrants was Alexander Simpson, who had distinguished himself at the siege of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1680, and was exempted from taxation as loug as the colony remained under Brit- ish rule. He was among the founders of Londonderry, New Hampshire, rt'hence some of his sons moved to the adjoining town of Windham. (I) In 1747 Alexander Simpson came from the linen-producing section of northern Ireland and settled in Windham. He was a weaver by trade, but purchased land of James Simpson (son of Alexander, above- named), and engaged in farming the balance of his life. His wife was Janet Templeton, and their children were: William (died young), Agnes, William, Janet (bom January 22, 1750, married James Wilson, and was the mother of three Rutland pioneers), Sarah. John. Alexander and Samuel. (II) Alexander, seventh child and fourth son of Alexander and Janet (Templeton) Simpson, was born November 28, 1756, in Windham, and early in life settled in Bow, New Hampshire, where he married Mary, daughter of Samuel Rogers. The Rogers family was of English blood, of strict Episcopal stamp, and had a coat-of-arms. Two of its representa- tives were in the British army during the Revolution, one being a pay- master of troops in Canada. Mr. Simpson was in the Lexington alarm service, and participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. He enlisted at several times, serving four months in 1775, four months in 1777, three months in 1778, and in other short periods. He applied for a pension September 11. 1832, and it was granted for one year's service. He returned to Windham to reside in 1789. One of his children was born in Salem, and the others in Bow and Windham, New Hampshire. 734 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. His wife liecame deranged l>efore her death. Aliout 1806 lie joined in the niitjratinn to the "Black River Country," and settled in the extreme south end of Champion, this county, where he cleared land and operated a sawmill. Late in life he visited his sons, at Lower Sandusky. Ohio, and died there. The children of his first wife were so unkindly treated by their step-mother that they embraced the first opportunities to care for themselves. The children of Alexander and Mary Simpson were: [anet Lindsey. horn ^larch 5, 1784, in Bow, married her cousin, John Lindsey Wilson, and lived in Rutland. Anna Caldwell, the second, mar- ried John King, of Rutland. Alexander and S_\-lvanus Leonard lived in Lower Sandusky. Ohio. Samuel Rogers, married Nancv Stoddard, lived in Alexandria Bay, and was buried at Whitesville. Isaac was drowned at Black Rock, near Buffalo, when nineteen \ears old. Margaret Flanders became the second wife of John L. Wilson, whom she siir- vived, subsequently marrying Otis Andrus, and died in Rutland Hol- low. Elizabeth McConnell was the wife of Patrick Xorris, and died in fvutland. (Ill) James Rogers Simpson, ninth child of Alexander and Mary Simpson, was not of strong build, and was forced to abandon his effort to learn the mason's trade. He gave some time to carpenter work, and also taugiit school in early life. For a period of twenty-five years Jie lived at Sacketts Harbor, where he was employed in a store. He was engaged in farming six years, being one-half of the time at Great Bend, and the balance of the time in the town of Pamelia. Immediately after the close of the Civil war he W'Cnt to the village of Smithville. in the towns of Adams and Henderson, where he kept a general store several \ears. Having retired from business, he moved one mile east of the village, wdiere he died, as above noted. He was married September 7, 1840. to Hannah Fulton, who was born September 9. 1809. in Champion, near Great Bend, daughter of James and Sarah (Choate) Fulton. See Fulton III.) Hannah (Fultim) Simpson died January 17. 1871. at Smithville. leaving an onh- child — Cleantha, who is now the wife of Alonzo P. Hall (q. v.). residing on Ten Eyck street, Watertown. Mr. Simpson was a faithful attendant and supporter of the INIeth- odist church, ;uid lived his religion, while making few professions. A nian of few words, he accomplished much by quiet acti\'ities. A \\'hig in early life, he was an earnest Republican, but took no part in active politics. ^^^f^^^Zj^^"" GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 735 CHARLES HAMILTON WALTS, ex-county judge of Jefferson county, and long prominently identified with its legal and political his- tory, IS a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of the state. They lo- cated in Otsego county, whence William Walts moved to Jefferson county, settling on a farm in the town of Pamelia. His wife, Louisa Allen, was. like himself, a native of Otsego county, and they were the parents of Charles H. Walts, further mentioned below. William Walts was a successful farmer, and retired to the city of Watertown to spend his last years. He died there, Decenilier 31, 1898, and his \\idow sur- vived him only four days, passing away January 4, 1899. Their remains were deposited m North Watertown cemeter}'. Charles H. Walts, son of \\'illiani and Louisa, was born December 7, 1839, in the town of Pamelia, and received his education in the com- mon schools and Jefferson County Literary Institute. Deciding to make the legal profession his lifework, he entered the office of Clark & Calvin, attorneys of Watertown, where he pursued his studies, afterward at- tending the Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in 1861, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He began practice in Theresa, but remained there only a short time and removed to Watertown, where he has since resided and continued in practice. Having formed an association with Judge F. W. Hubbard, Mr. Walts became rapidly engaged in much of the important business of the courts of northern New York, and has been busily occupied in this man- ner down to the present time. In February, 1877, Judge Hubbard with- drew from the firm, on account of removal from the county, and Mr. Walts was joined by Wilbur F. Porter, and the firm of Porter & Walts was a powerful factor in the transaction of legal business for twenty years. On the beginning of the year 1897, Mr. Fred B. Pitcher, present county attorney, joined Judge Walts, under the style of Walts & Pitcher, which connection continues, with mutual satisfaction and advantage. Since the beginning of his career Judge W'alts has manifested an intelligent interest in public progress and has borne a conspicuous part m the conduct of affairs. His energies have always been exerted in be- half of the welfare of the community and his efforts have invariably been directed toward the abolition of abuses and the reform of existing evils. The confidence with which his character and abilities ha\-e inspired his townsmen is indicated by the offices of honor and responsibility to which he has been called by their votes. In 1874 he was elected city attorney, and filled the position three years m a manner which testified his legal T36 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. acumen, learning and sagacity, as well as his executive talents. In 1877 he was chosen county judge, and in 1883 was re-elected. His record upon the bench strengthened his ah'eady high standing in the profession and increased (if it were possible) the regard in which he had been held by the people. He is a staunch Republican and is still active in the coun- cils of his party, and his word and influence are always given in behalf of that which, in his judgment, stands for what is best, thereby carry- ing much weight. He is devoted to his profession, in which he still oc- cupies an influential position. Judge Walts was married in early life to Miss Rebecca L. Law- yer, daughter of Hon. Nicholas Lawyer, of Perch River, this county. She died in January, 1895, and on June 2y, 1901, Judge Walts married Catherine L. Mitchell, of Watertown. An adopted daughter, leannette, completes the family, ALONZO P. HALL, a well-known citizen of Watertown, for many years in business at various points in Jefferson county, enjoys a wide acquaintance, and is respected as a man of worth and character. He inherits fnjm many generations of ancestry the Yankee propensity fur business activity and the sound mind, body and principles necessary to usefulness in the world. The Hall family is one of the oldest in Amer- ica, and was established at several points in New England at almost simultaneous dates. The origin of the name has been the subject of some speculation among its bearers and three probable sources have been found. The most probable is the fact that baronial seats in England were almost always called Halls, with a title annexed. When men were obliged to take surnames, many took the names of their estates, and thus many names were made to end with Hall. One authority at- tributes it to the Welsh word for salt, which would be attached to a worker in salt or a dweller near a salt mine. Again, it is traced to the Norwegian word for hero, which is hallr, the last letter being silent and only indicative of the nominative case. As the Norwegians overran England at one time, many of their words found their way into the lan- guage. Hallett is a diminutive of Hall, and was probably given to a dwarfed or younger son, only the eldest son being entitled to the paternal surname in early times. De la Hall (translated, of the Hall) is a Norman or Anglo-Saxon usage, which accounts for most of the occasions where this became a surname, without doubt. (I) John Hall came from Coventry, Warwickshire, England, in GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 737 1630. to Charlestown, Massachusetts, probably in the fleet with Governor Winthrop. Ci'iventry is about ninety-five miles northwest from London. He was born about 1609. His name appears the ninteenth on the list of members of the first church of Charlestown, organized July 30, 1630. There was then no church in Boston, and this was subsequently moved to that place, becoming the first church there. On November 2, 1632, a church was again formed at Charlestown, including sixteen men and their wives and three bachelors, among them John Hall and his wife, Bethia. Mr. Hall had lot number 48 in 1633, and was made a freeman May 14, 1634. He was an inhabitant of Barnstable after 1647, and of Yarmouth in 1653. He died July 22,, 1696, and was buried on his farm, which is in that part of Yarmouth now the town of Dennis, and was owned and oc- cupied by a lineal descendant as late as 1880. His will mentions eight sons, record has been found of ten, and tradition says he had twelve, and no daughters. (H) William Hall, sixth son of John Hall, was baptized June 8, 1651, and died June 11, 1727. He was taxed in Yarmouth in 1676, re- moved subsequently to Norwich, Connecticut, and thence to Mansfield, same colony. He bore the title of captain, earned in militia service. His wife's Christian name was Esther, and they had at least four children, namely : Isaac, William, James and Theophilus. (HI) James Hall, son of William and Esther Hall, lived in Mans- field, where he died June 16, 1742. He was married October 15, 1716, the Christian name of his wife being Mehetable. She died October 26, 1758. Their children were: Mary, James, Mehetable, Elizabeth, Jane, William, Thomas, Ephraim, Gershom and Josiah. (IV) James, second child and eldest son of James and Mehetable Hall, was born April 20, 1720. and died February 2, 1807, in Mans- field where he spent his life. He was a large, fleshy man. He was mar- ried October 24, 1743, to Mary Linnel, and they were the parents of ten children, namely: Vine. James, Joel, Lois, Mary, Abel, Peter, Elihu, Mehetable and Margaret. (V) Elihu Hall, son of James and Mary Hall, was born Decem- ber 2S. 1757, in Mansfield, Connecticut, was married June 17, 1778. to Elizabeth Davison, and lived most of his life in Mansfield. His children were Elizabeth and Elihu. (VI) Elihu, son of Elihu Hall, born 1780, married Nancy Maxon, a native of Norwich, Connecticut, born September 19, 1779, and moved in early life to Bridgewater, Oneida county, this state, where he was 738 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. a farmer. His children are accounted for as follows : Elihu, born June 17, 1802, lived and died in Elk Grove, Illinois. Chester, December 20, 1803, lived at Belleville, this county. Eunice, November 20, 1805, mar- ried General Joseph Northrup, and died at Lowville. John Lee is men- tioned below. Henry. October 25, 1813, died at Bridgewater. Nancy (Maxon) Hall died March 31. 1833, and her husband died September 18, 1848. (VH) John Lee Hall, son of Elihu and Nancy Hall, was born December 5, 1808, in Bridgewater. New York, and died September 18, 1894, on a farm two miles south of Smithvillc. this county. In 1835 he came to this county and settled on a farm in the town of Ellisburg, near Belleville. For a time he was an innkeeper, being located three years at Pierrepont Manor, and two years at Sacketts Harbor. About i860 he retired from business and went to Smithville, later going to Butterville, where he died. Mr. Hall was married, first, January 9, 183 1, to Mary Ward, a na- tive of Brookfield, Madison cijunty. New York, who died in February, 1863, being the mother of two sons and a daughter. The daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of Marcus Manville, and died at Smithville. James, the youngest, died at that place about the same time as his mother, at the age of twenty-four years. Mr. Hall married, for his second wife, Zilpha Thomas, widow of Morton Thomas, who survives him and resides in the village of Adams. (VIII) Alonzo P. Hall, eldest child of John Lee and Mary (Ward) Hall, was torn November 21, 1833, in Bridgewater, New York, and was a small boy when his parents brought Iiim to Ellisburg, where he grew up. He attended the district school near Belleville, and the acad- emy at his native place. He remained with his father on the farm until about 1855. and subsecjuently aided in the conduct of the Ontario House at Sacketts Harbor during the two years that the senior Hall was pro- prietor. He then became a clerk in a general store at Smithville, where he continued until August 7, 1862. on which date he entered his name as a soldier of the Union army. He was first attached to a light battery which afterward became the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and con^ tinned as a member of that organization two years and eleven months, being discharged in July, 1865. Soon after the organization he became duty sergeant, and so continued until February, 1865, when he was promoted to second lieutenant. Most of the service of the organization was rendered in garrison and guard duty, the heaviest engagement in GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 739 which it bore a part being before Petersburg on April 2. 1865, which re- suhed in the capture of that strongiiold. In 'the spring of 1866 Mr. Hall engaged in farming, in the town of Pamelia, and sold out his f;irm after three years and engaged in mercantile business at Smithville, where he remained until 1880. After conducting a similar business at Adams, two years, he came to Watertown to take charge of the oyster business of J. T. Ross of this city. Since that time he has been employed here as a clerk and bookkeeper, and has been clerk in the United States Internal Ke\-enue office for the last four years. Mr. Hall attends the Stone Street Presbyterian church, and is a member of the Lincoln League, a political and social organization of Watertown. He is independent in thought and action, and is not a blind partisan, though sound in Republican prin- ciple. He served four years as justice of the peace in the town of Adams, and was also ixistmaster at Smithville, while a merchant there. An up- right, intelligent gentleman, he is respected and esteemed as a man and citizen. He was married August 14, 1862, to Miss Cleantha Simpson, of Sacketts Harbor. (See Simpson.) Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, namely: Fred .\.. June 26, 1867. in Pamelia, and Jesse, August 5, 1872, at Smithville. The latter died January- 20, 1S96. The elder was married in October, 1893, to Cora A. Carter, daughter of Asa L. Carter (see Carter), and resides at Cortland, New York, where he conducts a five-and-ten-cent-store. He has a daughter, Ruth Cleanthe, l.iorn July 13, 1900, at Elmira, New York, CHARLES LELAND ADAMS. Among the active and repre- sentative members of the legal profession in the city of Watertiiwn, New York, is Charles L. Adams, who was elected surrogate in No\-em- her, J 895, and is still the incumbent of that responsible position. He was born at Neenah, Wisconsin, (Dctol^er 19, 1852, a son of Charles Luther and Amelia Lewis (Leland) Adams, and on the paternal side was a descendant of an old and prominent Connecticut family. His paternal grandfather. Dr. Adams, was a well-known and eminent medical practitioner of Syracuse, New York, and Beloit, Wis- consin; his maternal grandfather, Ziba A. Leland, a native of Vermont, and long a resident of Bath, New York, served as a member of the assembly and county judge of Steuben county. Charles Luther Adams was a native of Syracuse, New York, became a noted Presby- terian minister, and was one of the pioneer missionaries to carry the gospel to the Indians in Wisconsin, where he died in 1853. After this 740 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. sad occurrence his wife and child made their home with her father, Ziba A. Leland, at Mechanicsville, New York. Charles L. Adams, son of Charles L. and Amelia L. Adams, grad- uated from Hamilton College in the class of 1878, and for several years thereafter followed the vocation of teaching. He began the study of law in the office of John Lansing, of Watertown, under whose tutelage he remained until he was admitted to the Jefferson county bar in 1883, and from that year until 1895, a period of twelve years, he was in active practice, being six years with Senator E. R. Brown in Watertown. He was appointed city attorney in 1884, in 1889, and at the present time (1904) is serving his second term as surrogate, having first taken the ofiice January i, 1896. He is an active and prominent member of the Presbyterian church, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, a charter member of the Lincoln League, a stanch Republican in politics, and for two years served as chairman of the county Repub- lican committee. Mr. Adams was united in marriage September 29, 1892, to Char- lotte Grennell, daughter of George J. and Flavilla Diana Grennell, and they are the parents of one child, Leland W. Adams, born June 29, 1894. ISAAC PROCTER POWERS. Among the old residents and honored citizens of Watertown Isaac Procter Powers holds a foremost place. He comes of both old and new English ancestry, the founder of the family having emigrated from the mother country to the New England on this side of the sea. Leonard Powers was born in Proctersville, Vermont, whence he moved to St. Lawrence county. New York. His calling was that of a farmer. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving at Sackett's Harbor. He was an active member of the Universalist church, in which he held the office of trustee. He married Diadence, daughter of Cald- well, a member of a family which had furnished soldiers to the patriot army of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Powers were the parents of four children, only one of whom is now living: Isaac Procter, men- tioned at length hereinafter. The death of Mr. Powers occurred in 1883. He was a man whose character commanded the respect and con- fidence of all. Isaac Procter Powers, son of Leonard and Diadence (Caldwell) Powers, was born September 6, 1826, in St. Lawrence county, New GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 7il York, and received his education in the common schools. On complet- ing his course of study he was for a time a teaclier at Carthage and Denmark, where he was also engaged in mercantile business. In Jan- uary, 1852, he came to Watertown and was for many years numbered among the successful and respected merchants of the city. Sixteen years ago he opened a book store, which he conducted for a considerable period with the most satisfactory results. He was one of the incor- porators of the Watertown Steam Engine Company, of which he is now a director. The leading position which this company has always held and its increasingly flourishing condition is a sufficient testimony to the wisdom and good management of its incorporators and officers. Mr. Powers was one of the first trustees of the City National Bank of Watertown and a director of the National Union Bank, of which he is now ^•^ce-president. He is also a director in the Watertown Carriage Company. Mr. Powers recently retired from active business, trans- ferring his book store to his son-in-law, and the establishment is now- conducted under the proprietorship of E. N. Smith & Compan_\-. Mr. Powers has been for fifty years a member of the time-honored Masonic fraternity and is also connected with the I. O. O. F. He attends the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Powers married Lorenda L., daughter of Francis R. Lamoii, a member of one of the old famiHes of Watertown. The marriage took place in 1858. and three children were born to them, only one of whom is now living : Alice, who is the wife of Edward N. Smith, a prominent lawyer of Watertown. Mr. Powers is now enjoying the fruits of a useful and well spent life, happy in the aft'ection of his family and the sincere respect and friendship of his neighbors and townsmen. JOSEPH MULLIN. With the country at large, and more partic- ularly with the inhabitants of the state of New York, the name of Joseph Mullin, father and son, is synonymous with legal acumen, far-sighted statesmanship, and all the qualifications, both intellectual and moral, which go to the making of an honorable public record. The Mullin family is of Scotch ancestry, and remarkable for mental culture and attainments. John Mullin, father of Joseph Mullin, senior, was born in Ireland about the middle of the eighteenth century and dur- ing the greater part of his life was engaged in the work of an educator. He was a Presbyterian, and in 1808, while engaged as a teacher, estab- lished the first Sunday school in hi? district, in which in course of time 742 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. two thousand children received instruction. In 1815 Mr. Mullin, who was then principal of a school, resigned his position and five years later emigrated to the United .States. He was accompanied by his whole fam- ily with the exception of one son, Andrew, who succeeded his father in the principalship of the school and became a noted educator. Mr. Mul- lin settled in Wateitown, New York, where he passed the remainder of his life. His wife was Martha Bodel, and they were the parents of eleven children, all of whom became useful citizens and rendered good service to the land of their adoption. Joseph Mulliu, youngest child of John and Martha Mullin, was born August (), iSii, in Dromore, County Dowai, Ireland, and was about nine years old when brought by his parents to America. He attended the common schools and for a time worked in a printing office, but sub- sequently attended Union Academy at Belleville. Here he was prepared for college under the able preceptorship of Charles Avery, who was then principal of the academy. In 183 1 he entered the junior class of Union College and in 1833 graduated with honor. For three years thereafter he was principal of Union Academy and was for a tune teacher at the VVatertown Academy. i\Ieanwhile he read law with the Hon. T. C. Chittenden until 1835, when he came tu Watertown as principal of the academy and thencefortli studied in the office of Sterling & Bronson, of which firm he became a member when admitted to practice in 1837. After a time lie began to practice alone and at once took rank with the ablest younger members of the county bar, l)ut speedily rose to a position of commanding influence in the profession in northern New York. In 1845 he formed a partnership with John P. Brown, a former student in his office, the connection being dissolved in 1847 by the death of Mr. Brown. In the autumn following, Lawrence J. Goodale became his part- ner and at the end oi five years was succeeded by Milton H. Merw'in. In October, 1841, Mr. Mullin was appointed examiner of chancery, sujireme court cijinniissioiier and cumniissioner in l)aiikruptcy uniler the bankrupt act. In 1843 '^^ ^^'^s elected by the Democrats district attorney for Jefferson county, an office which he held until 1845. I" 1846 he was elected member of congress serving until 1849. ^" '^'^S7 ^^^ ^^''*s elected by the Repul)licar.s justice of the supreme court for the fifth judicial district of New York .state, and in 1863 and 1873 was re- elected without opposition. In 1870 he was appointed by the governor presiding justice <if the general term for the fourth judicial district, and was re-appointed after his last election in 1873. Having attained his GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTOR\'. 743 seventieth year, Judge Alullin was retired from the bench December 31,. 1881, having served long and faithfully in public office and enjoying the admiration and esteem ot the profession throughout the state. In addi- tion to the offices in which he had actually served, he was. in January, 1864, ex-officio a member of the court of appeals. The high regard in which he was held, not only as n member of the legal profession, but as a man of letters, is evident from the fact that he received from the trus- tees of Hamilton College and also from those of Union College the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Arduous and engrossing as were Judge Mullin's professional duties, and unremitting as was the attention he bestowed upon them, he yet found time to take an active part in local affairs, and in 1853 and 1854 served as president of the village of Watertown. He was one of the incorporators of the A. B. Cleveland Seed Company, and was the first president of the Watertown Cemetery Association. He shared fully the interest in educational work so characteristic of all his familv, and was one of the first trustees of the Adams Collegiate Institute. From the time of the incorporation of the Young Men's Christian Association he was intimately identified with it. serving on the first board of officers as corresponding secretar}-, and delivering the introductory address at the first meeting held after its organization. He was also one of those prom- inently connected with the Factory Square Lyceum. Judge Mullin married, in January, 1839, Lydia M.. daughter of the Hon. Egbert Ten Eyck, of Watertown, for many years one of the judges of the court of common pleas of Jefferson county. Judge Mul- lin and his wife were the parents of five children, all of whom proved themselves worthy of their ancestry. Judge Mullin died in June, 1882, at Saratoga, but his remains were interred in Watertown, of which city for more than half a century he had been an honored citizen. He left behind him the memory of an able lawyer, an incorruptible judge, and a man truly admirable in all the relations of life. Anthony Ten Eyck Mullin, elder son of Joseph and Lydia M. Mul- lin, was born January 24, 1841, in Watertown, and died very suddenly, at the home of his father, in that city, September 21, 1877. With a thorough course in the schools of his native city, he entered the Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, from which he graduated in June, 1861. In August of th.e same year, he entered the United States navy as third assistant engineer. Fie went at once on board the Harriet Lane, and participated in the attacks upon tiie forts below New Orleans 744 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. and the capture of that city, under Admiral Farragut. He was also in the terrific battle of Galveston, firing the last gun on the Harriet Lane before her capture by the Confederates, and being one of only two officers of the ship who escaped injury. His bravery on this occasion elicited high praise. After being paroled he walked, with others, from Houston to New Orleans, and thence went to his home for a short visit. Being ordered to the Agawam, he was one of the three officers of that vessel who grounded an old vessel, heavily loaded with powder, under the walls of Fort Fisher one dark night and fired it, in the effort to blow up the fort, es- caping upon a launch. All the officers were promoted for this act. After the war Mr. Mullin spent three years in the cruise of the Hartford, and a like period on board the Plymouth, in European waters. Stationed on special duty at New Orleans for a time, he was ordered to the Rich- mond, on which he spent two years along the South American coasts. On his arrival at Boston he was placed in charge of his department for a few days and arrived at home on the morning of the day before his death. While seated with the family, in the evening, he fell back in his chair and ceased to breathe. He had made no complaint and seemed in the best of health, and his demise was a great shock to his family and the community. In speaking of the event the Watertown Times said : "Mr. Mullin's death is a great bereavement to his family and friends, and a great loss to the service, of which he was a valuable member. He was a kind son, a good friend, and a prompt, brave and capable officer. He was exceedingly popular among his brother officers and friends here, and his sudden death wi'l be keenly felt by all." After Mr. Mullin's death a letter was received from S. D. Hib- bard. Chief Engineer, U. S. N., commander of the Richmond, whose assistant Mr. Mullin was, stating that he had just written to Secretary of the Navy Thompson, recommending him to the favorable considera- tion of the department for promotion. Joseph Mullin, son of Joseph and Lydia M. (Ten Eyck) JMuUin, was born May 29, 1848, in Watertown, and received his primaiy edu- cation in the public schools of his birthplace. He afterward attended the Troy Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated with honor. He adopted as his lifework the profession in which his father had achieved distinc- tion, and it was in the office of the latter that the son's preliminary legal studies were pursued. They were continued in the office of Judge M. H. Merwm, and at an early age Mr. Mullin v.-as admitted to the bar, that event taking place in 1871. He was for a time associated in prac- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 745 tice with Judge Merwin, in 1876 formed a partnership with the Hon. Daniel G. Griffin, and the firm of MulHn & Griffin became rapidly influential in the practice of the law. Mr. Mullin was appointed attor- ney of the New York Central Railroad for the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg- system. He was a director in the Watertown National Bank, the Farmers' National Bank of Adams, the Ontario Paper Com- pany, and the Watertown Street Railway Company. Mr. Mullin was always an active Republican, served as chairman of the Republican county committee, and was a delegate to the Rcpuli- lican national convention in 1888. In 1891 he was elected to the state senate from the twenty-first district, comprising the counties of Oswego. St. Lawrence and Jefferson. He was re-elected to the senate in 1893 under the new apportionment, in which Jefferson, Oswego and Lewis counties were grouped, and in 1895 '^^ '^^'^^ again re-elected under the later apportionment which made the district to consist of Jefferson and Lewis counties. In the senate he was a member of the senate judiciary committee, the committee on privileges and elections, and for se\^eral years had been chairman of the finance committee, the leading commit- tee in the legislative body. In his senatorial career he initiated many important measures, and as chairman of the finance committee his serv- ices were most efficient. It may readily be supposed that in a life as strenuous as his there was little time for social intercourse or for main- taining membership in fraternal organizations, but he was, nevertheless, a worthy member of the time-honored Masonic order. Senator Mullin married, April 20, 1887, Mrs. Rose Babcock, widow of H. P. Babcock, and daughter of John and Marietta (Priest) Monroe. The death of Senator Mullin, which was extremely sudden, occurred September i, 1897, at the University Club in New York city. The con- sternation and grief caused by the sad event were deep and widespread. The newspapers, in their biographical sketches, seemed to vie with each other in their efi'orts to do justice to his character, both as a man and a legislator. The Watertown Daily Times said in part : "Independent in his thought and action, he strove for the commendation of his own conscience and to represent the people who had chosen him." The Jef- ferson county bar adopted resolutions of regret, and men in public life all added their words of appreciation of his private and public virtues and his helpfulness for good government. The funeral of Senator Mullin was attended by the entire com- munity, by members of the state senate, Ijy all state officials, and Gov- 746 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. ernor Black was rejiresemed Iiy his prixate secretary. Senator jMullin was survi\-e(l tint dnlv hv liis w idriw, Init also l)v three sisters: Mrs. Henr}- Boyer, Airs. Rehecca Baker, hotli nf Watertown, and Mrs. Cath- erine Brown, of Nashville. Tennessee. Of all the tributes paid by the press to this disting;uished man, that of the Buffalo Comiiicrciai was, perhaps, the truest and best eulogy : "Whenever the test of manliness and independence has been brought to bear, he has never failed." In the state senate at the following session memorial services were held in which resolutions of appreciation and svmpathy were passed and eulogies delivered by Senator Elon R. Brown, who had been chosen as Senatnr Alullin's successor; Senator Cantor, of Xew York, the Democratic leader; Senator Stranahan. of Oswego: Senator Guy, Sen- ator Coggeshall, Senator Lexnw and others. In the assembly Assem- blymen Clark, of Jefferson; Costello, of Oswego; Mills and Ives, of St. Lawrence counties, and the Democratic and Republican leaders, Messers. Donnelh- and Nixon, all paid warm tributes to the distin- guished public services of the deceased. January 5, 1898. the senate adopted the following resolution; "That the senate of the state of New York received the sad intel- ligence (if the sudden death of the Hon. Joseph Mullin with sensations of profound grief; that in his death the state of New York lost an estimable ser\'ant who, by his public spirit, broad-mindedness, high character and ability, has lieen able to and has rendered important serv- ices to the state, notably as chairman of the committee of finance of this b<uly.'" January ^4. 1898, the following additional resolutions were passed; "Whereas, it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life Joseph Mullin, late senator of the thirty-fifth district, this assembly, sharing in the general sorrow which the melancholy event has pro- duced, is desirous of manifesting its sensibilitv of the same and of showing its respect and affection for the memorv of the illustriims de- ceased : "Whereas, bv the death of Senator Joseph Alullin this state has lost one of its most distinguished sons, an eminent citizen and legislator, a man of spotless and unstained character, of unwavering integrity, one whose genius has left ;m indelilile impress (^f good upon our political life and state policies : "Resolved, That this assembly give puljlic expression to the pro- found sense of loss felt at this time by all classes of his fellow citizens GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. T47 in the Empire state; their gratitude for his priceless services; their sorrow for his death and affection and respect for his memory. "Resolved, That these resolutions with the preamble be spread upon the journal of the assembly and an engrossed copy of the same forwarded to his bereaved family with the assurance of the deep sym- pathy felt for them by the individual members of this body." To the citizens of Watertown Joseph Mullin was all this and much more. To them he was not only the brilliant lawyer and the sagacious legislator; but, over and above these, the earnest, public-spirited citizen and the warm-hearted, constant friend. In the city which was his birth- place and his lifelong home, he was the object, not only of admiration and respect, but of true affection and sincere regard. COMSTOCK. (I) William Comstock came from England with his wife Elizabeth and probably his sons, William and Daniel, and resided in Wethersfield, Connecticut, for several years. In 1649 ^e removed to New London, Connecticut. Other sons were Samuel, and apparently Christopher, tlie latter of Fairfield, Connecticut, in lOOi. Daniel Comstock died in New London in 1683. (II) Samuel Comstock, son of William and Elizabeth Comstock, was a resident of W'ethersfiekl, Connecticut, his native town, and Provi- dence, Rhode Island. He purchased in Proxidence, in 1654, a house and lot from John Smith, a mason. Mr. Comstock died in 1660. His widow, Ann Comstock, married John Smith, the mason, and died in 1661. The children of Samuel Comstock were: Samuel, born in 1654; and Daniel, in May, 1655. (III) Samuel Comstock, son of Samuel and Ann Comstock, was born in 1654, married, November 22, 1678, Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Th(jmas and Phebe (Parkhurst) Arnold, and resided at Providence, Rhode Island, where he was taxed in 1679. He was deputy in 1699, 1702, '07, '08, '11, and was captain at the time of his death. May 27, 1727. His widow died October 20, 1747. Their children were: Sam- uel, born in 1679; Hazadiah, April 16, 1682; Thomas, November 7, 1684: Daniel, July 19, 1686; Elizabeth, December 18, 1690: John, J\larch 26, 1693; and Ichabod, January 9, 1696. Elizabeth Arnold was a descendant of a pioneer Puritan, the gen- erations preceding her being represented by (I) Roger, (II) Thomas, (III) Richard, (IV) Richard, (V) Thomas, and (VI) Thomas, who was born in 1599, and died in [674. His wife, Phebe, was a daughter 748 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of George Parkliurst. and the\- were the parents of (VII) Elizabeth Arnold. (IV) Thomas Comstock, son of Samuel (2) and Elizabeth Com- stock, born November 7. 16S4, married, July 9, 17 13, Mercy Jenckes, daughter of William and Patience (Sprague) Jenckes, was a resident of Providence and West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Mr. Comstock was taxed in 1713, was made a freeman of East Greenwich in 1735, and subsequently removed to West Greenwich. He died in 1761, and his wife died in that same year. Their children were: William, Job, Thomas, Patience, Susanna, Esther, Sarah and Lydia. (V) William Comstock, son of Thomas and Mercy Comstock, mar- ried, February 12, 1740, Ann Spink, and their children, of West Green- wich record, were: Thomas, born September 11, 1741 ; Mercy, May 6, 1743; Deliverance, November 16, 1744; Elizabeth, March 27, 1746; Ann, February 2, 174S; Sarah, March 3, 1749; Ishmael, October 9, 1750; Lydia, April 14, 1752; David, January 25, 1754; John, August 4. 1756; Susanna, September 2. 1758; and Gideon, April 17, 1760. (VI) Thomas Comstock, son of William and Ann Comstock, horn September 11, 1741, married, November 20, 1763, Martha Matte- son, daughter of Ebenezer Matteson, and their children, of West Green- wich record, were: Lydia, born June 6, 1766; William, February 29, 1768; Ebenezer, November 9, 1770: Stephen, March 22, 1774; and Bar- bara, February 25, 1776. (VII) William, son of Thomas and Martha (Matteson) Corn- stock, born in 1768, as above noted, married Asenath Guilford, and was a farmer in Salisbury, Herkimer county. New York. (VIII) William Guilford, son of William and Asenath Comstock, was born in October, 1809, in Salisbury, New York. He prepared him- self for the practice of medicine at Fairfield, New York, paying his way by teaching, and practiced a short time at Auriesville, New York, re- moving thence, between 1837 ^"<^1 1840, to Evans Mills, in this county, where he was the leading physician until his death, June 3, 185 1, at the early age of forty-two years. With this he combined the mercan- tile business, in partnership with Dr. Ira A. Smith, under the title of Smith & Comstock, beginning with drugs, to which the demands of a growing community soon caused to be added groceries and general merchandise. This partnership was dissolved in 1845, ^"^ Dr. Com- stock continued alone until his death. He was highly respected as an Holy'Famil.v'Chun-h. Watert..wn GEXEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 751 upright man. A \\"hig in political principle, he desired no official honors, and was busy in caring for a large medical practice. Dr. Comstock was married November 19. 1832, to Jane Munson. of Salisbury-, whose ancestral line is traced in another article in this work. Their family included fi\'e sons and two daughters. John Mil- ton, the eldest, was engaged several years in mercantile business at Evans Mills, succeeding his father, and was subsequently chief of the western division of the pension office at Washington for a long period. He died July 29, 18S5, in Watertown. George Gordon, the second, died at the age of three years and seven months. William Munson was for a long period in partnership with his elder brother in business at Evans Mills, where he is now living retired. He enlisted in 1862 in the Tenth New York Heavy Artiller}-. and went to the front as second lieutenant of Company C. ^^'ithin a year he was prostrated by typhoid fever, and after a long illness was discharged for disability. Emma Helena be- came the wife of Francis A. Simons, a bookkeeper in the United States treasurer's office, and resides in Washington. Jane Eliza died before two vears old. Clarence Edgar is manager of the Great Northwest Telegraph office at Watertown. Charles Guilford is a druggist by pro- fession, and resides in W'atertown. Since 1902 he has been connected with the New York Air Brake Company. MUNSON EAjNHLY. (I) The Munson family was founded in America by Thomas Munson, who was born about 1612 and is found of record at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1637, where he performed military service in the Pequot war. He was then twenty-tive years old. His house lot, two and one-half acres, was on the east side of the present High street, opposite the head of Walnut. As early as February, 1640, he was among those who settled at Ouinnipiac (now New Haven), his name appearing sixth in the forty-eight signers of a "Fundamental Agreement," as to franchise and other things. In 1645 ^^^ ^^'^^ chosen sergeant of artillery, and was subsequently prominent in many ways. At one time, when he proposed to spend the winter in the Connecticut col- ony, he was forbidden by the authorities, as his services were judged nec- essary to the protection of the home colony. He was frequently chosen as arbitrator, highway \-iewer, and in other public capacities. In 1655 he became leader of a movement to found a settlement on Delaware Bay, Init did ni)t renio\-e thither. In 1656 he bought a new residence in New Ha\en. and in the same vear was chosen one of the seven "townesmen" 752 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. (now selectmen), being re-elected the following year. In 1662 he ac- quired a residence on Temple street, between Grove and Wall. This was purchased from the town, at a cost of one hundred and five pounds, sterling. In 1663 he was chosen first of the six "townesmen," and deputy to the "particular" or town court for the ensuing year. In May of the same year he represented the colony at the general court. In 1644 he sold his former home, at the corner of Church and Elm streets. In this year he was again elected deputy to the general court for a year. He had now served for some time as ensign of the military, and was pro- moted to lieutenant. In 1665, after the union of Connecticut and New Haven colonies, Lt. Thomas Munson was chosen deputy to the general court, and was again chosen the following year. He was repeatedly selected as townsman, commissioner and deputy. In 1673 he was granted one bundled acres of land by the colony for his services in the Pequot war. In the same year he was chosen by the general court as one of seven, including the governor and deputy governor, as a council of war, with ample powers. In 1675 he was in command of troops at Say- brook, during King Philip's war, and subsequently commanded the dragoons sent up the Connecticut river to aid the settlers at Springfield and Hadle}^ Massachusetts. The next year he was made captain in command of New Haven county troops, and was also commissioned by the general court as captain commanding the seventy-eight men required to be furnished by that county as part of the standing army of the col- ony. He died May 7, 1685, and was buried on the Green. His monu- ment, a sandstone slab, may now be found in the Grove street burial ground. His wife, Joanna (supposed to be a second wife), died October 13, 1678, aged sixty-eight years. His estate was appraised at over two hundred seventy-nine pounds. His children were: Elizabeth, Samuel, and Hannah. (II) Samuel, only son ijf Thomas Munson, was baptized August 7, 1643, ^"cl was married October 26, 1665, to Martha, daughter of Will- ram and Alice (Pritchard) Bradley. (See Bradley.) He died in 1693, be^ tween January 10 and March 2. He was a shoemaker and tanner, and resided first at New Haven and later in Wallingford, and returned to New Haven. His name is nineteenth in the list of thirty-nine who signed an agreement in 1670-1 to form a settlement at Wallingford. His house lot had a frontage of three hundred feet on Main street, and re- ligious meetings were held during the first ten years in his house a part of the time. In 1673 he was chosen selectman, and was allowed forty GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 753 shillings for "maintaining and beating the drum in good order for the en- suing" year." In 1675 1^^ became "Ensigne of Wallingford Traine Band." He was chosen to ser\-e as the first school master, and was frequently elected lister, leather sealer, recorder, auditor, treasurer and selectman. In 1682 he returned to New Haven, and filled several offices there. His entire estate inventoried over three hundred and eighty-five pounds. He had nine sons and one daughter. The youngest died before ten years of age. The daughter married John Hitchcock. (2 — See Camp.) (III) Joseph, fifth son and sixth child of Samuel and Martha Alunson, was born November 6, 1677, i" Wallingford, where he lived. By trade he was a joiner. He was married March 10, 1700, to Margery, daughter of John Hitchcock, who was born September 9, 1681, and died previous to March, 1764. He died October 30, 1725. They had nine children. He served as lister, ensign, townsman, grand iuror and a member of the society committee of the East Wallingford church. His last years were spent on a new homestead in the First parish. (IV) Abel, eldest child of Joseph and Margery Munson, was born January 10, 1701, in Wallingford, and was a farmer in the southeast part of that town, within the parish of Northford, where he assisted in founding a church. He was one of the eighteen male members on its institution, June 17. 1750, and his wife joined by letter on the first of July following. He served the town as lister, grand jin"or, highway surveyor and on committee on care of poor. He died Februarv 13, 1779, and on the church record of his demise, his name is preceded by the title, sergeant. He was married November 7, 1728, to Sarah Peck, who died September 22, ijj^. aged sixty-three years. They had fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters. (V) Joseph, twelfth child and youngest son of Abel and Sarah Munson, was born November 16, 175 1, in Wallingford, where he resided until 1794, when he removed to the "Royal Grant," in New York, his home being from that time in Salisbury, Herkimer county, where he died June 29, 1830, in his eightieth year. He bought land near Peck's mill, and also purchased a half-interest in the mill. On going to New York he sold a third interest to his two partners in the null. He and his wife became members of the Northford church in January, 1776, and he was entered a freeman in Wallingford in April following. He was lister in 1787-89-92, and highway surveyor in 1790. In October, 1792, he was chosen a member of the committee to divide the town into high- way districts. His migration to New York was made with two horse- 754 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. teams and two ox-teams, and occupied six weeks. His motive was to settle his sons, and he acquired five hundred acres, and gave a farm to each of four sons. He is described as an old-school Puritan, a Presby- terian. He was married November ii. 1773. to Elizabeth Hart, who died July 2^. 1810, aged fifty-eight years, Ijeing the mother of his eight children. His second wife was a widow MunsDU. He was a Democrat in politics, and was executor of his father's will in 1781. (V) Levi, fifth of the fourteen children of Abel and Sarah (Peck) ]\Iunson, was born August 29, 1738, in \\'allingford, and died in 181 5, in Camden, New York. He lived in ^^'allingford until 1782, when he moved to Harwinton, Connecticut, where he purchased, on April 13, fifty acres with dwelling, barn and cider mill, at a cost of two hundred pounds. Within three years he purchased thirty-four and one-half acres more, and m April, 1784, he bought a mill privilege, and this he leased to another in October, 1792, "as long as trees grow and water runs." He was among those who marched from Branford at the Lexington alarm. April. 1775, and was subsequenth^ a sergeant in Captain Douglass' Company. Colonel \\'ooster"s Regiment. He was among those cap- tured near ^Montreal. September 2^. i/J^. and was taken to Falmouth, England, returning to Halifax June 21. 1776. and was subsequently ex- changed. January i, 1777. he was commissioned second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Line. He had three sons and a nephew in the same regiment. He served along the Hudson and in New Jer- sey until September 8, 1780. and participated in the storming of Stony Point, as well as in very active movements through the period of nearly four years. He was married November 27, 1760, to Mary Cooley, who died 1826, at the age of eighty-four years. They were communicants of the Episcopal church. Their children numbered nine. Li February, t8o2, Mr. Munson sold his mill place, and subsequently lived in Wind- bam, Greene county. New York, whence he removed to Camden alx)ut 1808. (AT) Abel, seventh of the eight sons of Levi and Mary Munson, was Ix)rn July 22, 1774, in Wallingford. He was married February II. 1798, to Lucy Osbnrn, of Waterbury, Connecticut, who died June i, 1850. He died October 12. 1831, in Camden, He moved there from ^\'in<lham in 1808. His fnurth son. }ilerritt. was a distinguished citizen of Henry county. Illinnis. where a township was named in his honor, and where he did much literary work, and owned valuable property. (ATI) Seidell, first of the seven children of Abel and Lucv Mun- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 755 son, was born June 2, 1799. in \\'in(lham. New York, and died January 22, 1873. at Watertown, New York. He was a farmer, a Republican, and a member of Uie Congregational church. He was married May 4, 1825, to Amanda, daughter of Manning Barnes, who kept the first tavern at West Camden. She died December 1, 1869. (Vni) Mary Annis. second of three daughters, and third of the five children of Selden and Amanda Munson, born January 16, 1836, became the wife of John Wesley Gamble, who died in Watertown. (See Gamble. ) (VI) Jacob, second son and child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hart) Munson. was born October ig. 1776, in Wallingford, Connecticut, and lived on a farm adjoining his father's. In January, 1798. he sold land in the southern part of Wallingford. and it is probable that he moved at that time to Deerfield. Oneida county. New York, where he died December 10, 1847. The strict ideas and customs of his father were irksome to him, and he embraced the religious ideas of Hosea Ballon, becoming a faithful and consistent Universalist. In politics he was a Democrat. He was married in 180^ to Lucy Smitli. who was born near Littleton. New Hampshire. Their children were born as follows: Henry Jacob. June 26. 1807: Erasmus Darwin. April 27. i8og; Isaac, March 4. 1812; Lucy. October 31. 1814: Achsah. January 18. i8j8: Samuel. June 17, 1821. (VII) Isaac, third son and child of Jacob and Lucy Munson. was born in Salisbury, Herkimer county, New York. March 4. 1812. He remained at home, working upon the farm and attending school, until he was seventeen, when he entered Fairfield Academy. He subsequently studied medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgons of Western New York, at Fairfield (which was then the most noted medical school north of Philadelphia), and graduated in January. 1834. Soon after- ward he removed to the Black River country, forming a partnership with Dr.' Ira A. Smith, of Evans's IMills. this association continuing for three years. Having married Miss Cornelia Stebbins, of Rutland. May 24, 1836, at the solicitation of relatives and friends he located in that town, where he followed his profession until 1849. Elected clerk of the county, he removed to Watertown in December of that year, and entered upon his official duties January i. following. In 1853 he aided in the organization of the Agricultural Insurance Company of Water- town and was elected its vice-president. This connection may be desig- nated as one of the most important events in his life, and in the history 756 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of the community. As executive officer of the company, he achieved an almost unparalleled success, laying tlie foundation for the large insurance interests of the city, the investments of which are now counted by millions of dollars. In 1855 Dr. Alunson was the moving spirit that effected the radical changes in the company's policy that saved the farmers from being taxed upon their premium .notes to pay the losses of the company, and wliich would have resulted in the abandonment of business and the disbanding of tlie cduipany. In May of the same year he was elected secretary, and for ten years practically carried the business in his pocket. During that period the company accumulated a surplus of more than one hundred thousand dollars, notwithstanding that for eight years the business was confined to but a few counties. In 1S63 an effort was made to largely increase the business, and in this undertaking Dr. Munson gave further evidence of his masterly executive ability and unbounded energy. From one of tlie smallest companies in the state it became one of the nine of tlie one hundred and four doing the largest business, and but two outside the city of New York. When the company became so large and its interests so extensive as to demand an increased executive force, his influence was potent in selecting able advisers and assistants to aid him, and who shared with him the exacting labors of that period. As county clerk he discharged his duties with consummate ability. During this time he took up the study of law, rather as a necessity incident to his official position, and about the time of his retirement from office was admitted to practice in all the courts of the state. As a physician he enjoyed the respect of his professional brethren, and by his kindness and devotion to his duties, combined with a well cultivated medical ability, endeared himself to the community in which he practiced. He died March 8, 1886. (VI) Thaddeus, fourth son and child of Joseph and Elizabeth }kIunson. was born July 11. 1784, in Wallingford. About 1808 he mar- ried Clarissa Smith, who was born June 9, 1790, in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, and died in 1833, in Salisbury. He was a farmer, and passed his last years in LeRay, this county, where he died in 1839. His children were: Eliza, Jane and Thaddeus William. (VH) Jane, second daughter of Thaddeus and Clarissa Munson, was born IMarch 16. 18 13, in Salisbury, and was married November 19, 1S32, to Dr. William G. Comstock, as elsewhere related. (See Com- stock.) After his death she married Cleanthus Parker Granger, and died August 14, 1883, at Evans Mills. Dr. Isaac llun GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 759 (III) Samuel (J), eldest son of Samuel and ^lartha (Bradley) ]\Iun.son, was liorn February 2S, lOrig, in W'allingford, and married Martha (surname unknown), who died January 7, 1707. He was mar- ried (secon<!) March 10, 1708, to ]\Iary, widow of Caleb Alerriman, and daughter of Deacon Eliasaph Preston. He died November 23, 1741- In 1690 his father deeded to him a dwelling house and barn and one- half of the "accommodations," and he subseciuently received thirty acres of land from the town, "'gratis." He bought and sold numerous small parcels of land, and was a very active man of affairs. On December 25, 171 T, he was elected town clerk, and at various times served the town in almost every official capacitv, such as fence viewer, lister, hay ward, town treasurer, rate collector, school committeeman, townsman, ensign, recorder, selectman, and proprietors' and society clerk. (IV) Waitstill. son nf Samuel (2) and Martha Munson, was born December 12, 1697. in Wallingford. and was married December 10, 1719, to Phebe, daughter of Caleb and Mary (Preston) Merriman, child of his step-mother by her first marriage. She was born September 16, 1699, and was buried December 11, 1772. Mr. Munson died March 6, 1789, in Wallingford, where he resided. His residence was in the eastern part of the town, and he bought and sold much land. In 1729 he was grand juror, and in 1743 filled that office and that of surveyor of highways, simultaneously. (V) Reuben, son of Waitstill and Phebe (Merriman) Munson, was born May 19, 1721, in Wallingford, and lived in that town and Farmington. In 1753 he bought land in what is now Southington, south- east of the "Great plains" (now Plainville). He died June 7, 1780. He was married December 29, 1741, to Mary Chittenden, who survived him many years, passing away January 15, 1801. (VI) Martha, ninth child of Reuben and Mary (Chittenden) Munson, was born October 12, 1760, in Southington, and was married June 26. 1782, to Ezekiel Andrus. (See Andrus, IV.) HON. CUSHMAN KELLOCG DAVIS, a lawyer and states- man of high ability, who died in St. Paul, Minnesota. November 27, 1900. was a native of the state nf New York, Ijorn in Henderson, Jef- ferson county, June 16, 1838. He came of a notable ancestry. In the maternal line he was a lineal descendant of Thomas Cushman, a son of Robert Cushman, who was the financial agent who fitted out the two historic vessels, the Mayflower 760 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. and the Speedwell, and who was largely inslrumental in procuring the Massachusetts grant from King James I. In the maternal line Mr. Davis was a descendant of Mary Allerton, who was last of the Mayflower passengers to survive. His parents were Horatio Nelson and Clarissa (Cushman) Davis. The father was a pioneer settler in Wisconsin in the year in which the son was born. He was a captain in the Union army (luring the Civil war, serving during tlie entire duration of the con- flict, and for several vears he was state senator from Rock county, Wis- consin. Cushman K. Davis was but a few months old when his parents removed to \A'isconsin, and he was reared and educated in that state. His first schooling was in a primitive log schoolhouse, and he was after- wards in turn a student in Carroll College, Waukesha, and the famous University of JMichigan at Ann Arlxjr, and he graduated from the latter named in 1S57 at the age of nineteen. He then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in the year of his attaining his majority. He was well established in practice in Waukesha when the Civil war broke out, and in its first year he laid aside his law books and entered the army as second lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Regiment Wisconsin Volun- teers. He subsequently became assistant adjutant general with the rank of captain, serving on the staff of Brigadier General Willis A. Gorman. He participated in various of the most momentous campaigns of the Army of the Mississippi, including the siege of Vickshurg and the Red River operations. He performed the full measure of a soldier's duty with courage and aliility until late in 1864, when he contracted typhoid fe\'er and was of necessitv obliged to resign. Having reco\ered his healtli, in 1865 Mr. Davis removed to St. Paul, where he was soon activelv employed with a large and important practice, which included some of the most notable cases known in the judicial annals of the state. His first cause cclchrc was the trial of George L. Van Solen, for murder, in which he appeared for the accused, whom he successfully defended in face of what appeared at the outset and before it was subjected to his keen analysis, an overwhelming mass of circumstantial evidence. In 1S78 he defended Judge Sherman Page,, who was impeached before the senate of Minnesota, and for whom he secured an honorable acquittal. He was concerned in much of the most important legislation in the state during the remainder of his life, sus- taining to the last the reputation of a thoroughly equipped and unusually resourceful lawver, and a brilliant advocate. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 761 A Republican in politics, he came to a position of leadership in his party at the moment of coming to Minnesota. In 1866 he was elected to the legislature, and proved himself one of the most able and far- sighted members of that body. From 1867 to 1871 he \Yas United States district attorney of Minnesota by presidential appointment. In 1873 he was nominated for governor. In the ensuing campaign he went before the people and with great ability and enthusiasm advocated various policies which were novel at the time, but time demonstrated their value and vindicated his prescience and judgment, .\mong these was his contention for the right and duty of the legislature to regulate passenger and freight rates on railroads, in which he anticipated the national Congress with its interstate commerce laws. Following his electitm, he recommended the passage of such an act as he had fore- shadowed, and the act formulated after his ideas was passed and re- ceived his gubernatorial signature making it a law. On the expiration of his term he declined a renomination, and left the executive chair with a splendid record for ability and integrity. In 1875 and again in 1881 the name of Mr. Davis was presented as a candidate for the United States senate, but his canvass was unsuc- cessful. He was elected, howe\-er, in 1887, and succeeded himself by re-election in 1893. During his entire first senatorial term he was chair- man of the committee on pensions, and was author of the act of that session which ended the attempts for the enactment of extravagant pen- sion legislation. He was an earnest champion of the Sault Ste. Marie canal, and it was through his effort that the old-time prodigal and un- businesslike methods of work were abandoned, and the contract system substituted therefor. For four years he was one of the most active members of the foreign relations committee. In this capacity he severely criticised the policy of President Cleveland in the Hawaii embroglio. His speech on the questions at issue between Great Britain and the United States respecting Venezuela was one of tremendous force and exhaustiveness, and the principles which he enunciated formed the basis upon which the treaty between Great Britain and Venezuela was formu- lated. In 1894 he made a vigorous speech in defense of President Cleveland for his action in the suppression of \-iolence during the Chi- cago riots and in the restoration of order, and his utterance, more than that of all others, disarmed the opposition against the chief executive in that critical hour. Mr. Davis's last conspicuous appearance in the .senate was in a peculiarly dramatic scene. As chairman of the foreign 762 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. relations committee he reported to the senate, un April 13, 1898, a series of resolutions which formed a practical declaration of war against Spain. In August following it was his distinction tcj be a principal actor in bringing to a close the struggle which he, in a sense, had in- augurated, by becoming a member of the Spanish-American Peace Com- mission. And this splendid service \vas practically the crowning and concluding act of his long, useful and brilliant public career. ^Ir. Davis was a man of fine literary attainments and instincts. He was a deep student of French and English history and literature, and his library was unusually rich in Napoleona and Shakespeariana. He was author of two valuable works — "Modern Feudalism" (1870), and "Law in Shakespeare" (1884). In 1886 the University of Michigan con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Mr. Davis was married, in 1880, to Miss Anna Malcom Agnew, of St. Paul, Minnesota. EDMUND OUINCY SEWALL, who for nearly half a century stood in the minds of the citizens of Watertown as a type of all that is best in the social, religious and political life of the community, was a representative of a family which, from the colonial period down to. the present time, has given to the country, and more especially to New England, some of its noblest citizens. The progenitor of the race was among the knights wdio accom- panied Duke William of Normandy to England and 'shared in the con- flicts and rewards of the Conquest. On the wall of St. Mary's Hall in the old city of Coventry is inscribed the name of Henry Sewall, who in the reign of "good Queen Bess" was ma_\'or of the city which was then second in importance to London alone. Henry Sew^all was held in honor by his fellow citizens, and was several times re-elected to the mayoralty. This office was held about 1600 by another Henry Sewall, nephew of the preceding. This second Henry Sewall, who was a trades- man of Coventry, belonged to the large and constantly increasing body of Puritans. It was possibly in consequence of his religious belief that he was moved during the latter part of his life to cast in his lot with those of his countrymen who had made a home for themselves in the American wilderness, and to send his son Henry in advance to the Massachusetts colony, well provided with means. This son settled in 1634 in Newbury, where he was soon after joined by his father. (IV) Samuel Sewall, son of the third Henrv Sewall, was born (Z.^. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 763 March j8, 1652, according to some authorities, at Bishopstoke, Eng- land, and graduated in 1671 from Harvard College. He afterward remained in the institution, studying theology and at the same time acting as librarian, but his marriage in 1676 with the daughter of the mintmaster, John Hull, diverted the current of his life. After the mar- riage (which is the subject of a popular colonial tradition graphically related by Hawthorne) , Samuel Sewall became an assistant in his father- in-law's business and ultimately acquired a large estate. In 1684 he was made assistant governor, and as such in 1686 surrendered the colo- nial charter to Sir Edmund Andros. In 1688-9 he visited England and during his absence the government of Andros was (Overthrown. In 1692 he was made a judge and also a member of the executive council. He was the only member of that body who consistently advocated the rights of the people when they came into collision with the prerogatives of the crown. It is a strong pr^of of the prevalence of superstition in that age that even his powerful and enlightened intellect was not able to resist the baleful and universal influence of the witchcraft delusion. In 1692 he presided at the trial of some of the victims. His subsequent self-condemnation and noble public confession of wrongdoing have shed additional lustre on his name. In religion he was a strong Puritan and was an advocate and supporter of Indian missions. To Samuel Sewall belongs the undying honor of having been the first to bear witness with his pen against the folly anfl wickedness of African slavery. In 17 18 he was promoted to be chief justice nf the colony and held that office ten years. He died in Boston, January i, 1730, leaving a name second to none in the colonial annals of New England. (V) Joseph Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall, was born in 1688, graduated at Harvard College in 1707, and in 1713 became assistant pastor of the Old South church. In the course of time he became head pastor, and his connection with the church, which covered a period of fifty-six years, was terminated only by his death. In 1724, when he was called to the presidency of Harvard College, he declined on account of the reluctance of his congregation to part with him. In 1727, when all the ministers in the colonies preached on the death of George the First and the accession of his son, Mr. Sewall in his sermon laid greater stress upon the obligations of kings to their people than upon the duties of subjects to their sovereign. He was a member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in New England, and in 1740 gave his approval to the preaching of Whitefield. He contributed to the 764 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. support of needy students at Harvard College. His death occurred in Boston, June 27, 1769. (VI) Samuel Sewall. one of the two sons of Joseph Sewall, grad- uated at Harvard College in 1733. He was a Boston merchant, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Ouincy. a member of the distinguished family of that name. (Vn) Samuel Sewall. eldest son of Samuel and Elizalaeth (Ouincy) Sewall. was born in T757 and graduated at Har\-ard College in 1776. He adopted tlie profession of the law, was frecpiently elected to the state legislature, and in 1797 to Congress. In 1800 he was made judg^e of the supreme court of Massachusetts and in 1813 chief justice. He married Abigail Devereux, who belonged to a well known family of Salem. Judge Sewall died June S, 1814. at Wiscasset. Maine, whither he had gone to hold court. (VIII) Henry Devereux Sewall. second son of Samuel and Abi- gail (Devereux) Sewall, was intended for a mercantile career and was not given a college education. In 1807 he went to Portland, where he was employed in a branch establishment of one of the business houses of Boston. In 181 t he moved the business to Montreal, Canada, and in 1813. owing to the war with England, was required either to take the oath of allegiance or to leave Canada. He chose the latter alternative and abandoned his business. Being obliged to return to Montreal during the year, he was arrested as a spy, but succeeded in proving his inno- cence. In 1814 he traveled for a time in western New York, collecting debts, and was afterward engaged for some years in foreign shipping and commission business in New York city. In 1828 he began to build a home for himself on Sewall's Island, and, in May, 1829, he and his family moved to ^^'atertown, taking ]iossession of their new home on October 17th. Mr. Sewall did much to advance the prosperity of A\'atertown by his interest in manufactures, and erected the original structure of Bagley iS: SewalTs Machine ^^'orks. When the first Trinity church was built in Court street the greater part of the expense was l)orne by Mr. Sewall. he and his family being members of the congre- gation. Mr. Sewall married Mar_\- Catherine Norton, who belonged to a well known family of Connecticut which was founded in October, 1635, by John Norton, who then landed in Plymouth, ^Massachusetts, and became a famous preacher in the colony, John Norton traced his de- scent from (me De Nor\ille, who was constable under ^^'illiam the GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 7U5 Conqueror. Mr. and ]Mrs. Sewall were the parents of nine children, only one of whom, Walter Devereux Sewall, is now living. Mrs. Sewall died in Decemher, 1840, and her hushand passed away in June, 1846. He is remembered not only as a successful merchant, laut as a man of literary attainments and poetic gifts, who counted among the names of his friends those of William Cullen Bryant and others dis- tinguished in the literary circles of Boston and New York. (IX) Edmund Ouincy Sewall, son of Henry Devereux and Mary Catherine (Norton) Sewall, was born July i, 1826, in New York city, and was three years old when brought by his parents to Watertown. Here he attended the common schools, and at the age of fourteen entered Harvard University, from which he graduated at eighteen. He applied himself to the study of the law and spent two years at Heidelberg, Germany. For one year he was associated with the law firm of ^Mullin & Goodale, and then, feeling a decided preference for a mercantile career, engaged in business with George A. Bagley, under the firm name of Bagley & Sewall. This connection was maintained until the death of Mr. Sewall. The firm did a flourishing business as manufac- turers of machines and other iron products. The works were situated on Sewall's Island, a place noted for the number and magnitude of its manufactures. The Bagley & Sewall Company was incorporated July G, 1882. Mr. Sewall was iine of the incorporators of the National Union Bank and was a director in several similar institutions. There were few things in which Mr. Sewall took a more li^'el}' interest than in the cause of education and the improvement of the school system. This object he was ever ready to do^ all in his power to aid, and from 1882 to 1884 served as president of the board of education. His benevolence was great and his works of charity numerous. The old hospital of Watertown was much indebted to his beneficence. He was an active member of Trinity (Protestant Episcopal) church, in which he served as vestryman. He was a fine musician and consecrated his gifts to the service of the church, officiating for thirty years as organist without compensation. Air. Sewall married June 28, 1866. Katherine, daughter of the late Major Henrv Smith, a distinguished officer in the United States army, who, during the Mexican war, commanded at Vera Cruz. Four children were born to Air. and Mrs. Sewall: Grace Foster, who married W. C. Stebbins, of Watertown; Edith Norton, who is the wife of Charles W. 766 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Valentine: Josephine Devereux. wife of Dr. Kendall Emerson, of Worcester. jMassachnsetts : and Elizabeth Ouincy. The death of ~Mr. Sewall. which took place Angust 21, 1892, at his home in Watertown. removed from the community one who will long he remembered as an honorable citizen, a true friend and an upright, lienevolent man. In his character was seen the rare combination of a remarkably successful business man and a ripe scholar. His attain- ments as a linguist were great and bis general culture extremely broad. There was proliably no citizen whose loss would have been more deeply felt. His famil}' were made to realize that tliey were not alone in their affliction, but that all classes of the community shared with them, to a certain degree, a sense of personal bereaxement. 'Sir. Sewall's widow, who still survives him. is one of the directors of the Bagley & Sewall Company. CRANSOX ORVILLE GATES, one of the nation's brave de- fenders during the Civil war. is a native of the town of Wilna, born July 3, 1841, a son of one of its pioneer settlers.- His ancestors on both sides included soldiers, and he came by his military spirit Ijv inher- itance. (I) Thomas Gates. Esq.. of Higheaster and Thursteubie. county of Essex, England, liorn in 1327. v.as the original ancestor of the family, so far as now known. (II) William Gates was the father of two children: Geofifrev and Ralph Cliies. (III) Sir Geoffrey Gates married Agnes, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Baldington, of Aldersburg, Oxford, England. (IV) W'illiam Gates married Mabel, daughter and heiress of Thomas Capdow. of Higheaster. and his wife, Ann, daughter of Thomas I'leming. of Essex. Their children were: Geoffrey and Anna. (Vj Sir Geoffrey Gates married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Will- iam Clapton Knight, of Kantwell. Sussex. Their children were: Sir John. Geoffrey, Henry, William and Dorothy. (VI) Geoffrey Gates married a ^liss Pascall, of Essex, England. Their children wcrt: Geoft'rey. Henry and John. (X'll) Geoft'rey Gates married Jean Wentworth. (VIII) Peter Gates, of London, married Mary Josselyn. (IX) Thomas Gates was a resident of X'orwich, X^orfolk, Eng- land. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 767 (X) Stephen Gates, second son of Thomas Gates, the first Amer- ican ancestor of the famil}-, came from Hingham, England, to Hing- ham. Massachnsetts, in the ship Diligent of Ipswich, in i('<^8, accom- panied by his wife, Ann (Hill) Gates, and two children. He was among the first residents of Lancaster, and subsequent to the year 1C56 was a resident of Cambridge, where he died in 16G2. \Ye are led to belie\'e that he and his family were of stubborn and independent character, from facts that he cjuarreled with his neighbor and lost his constable's stafY, his daughter Mary contradicted the minister in open meeting, and his sons tried to break his will. In 1663 his widow became the wife of Richard Woodward, of Watertown. She died at Stow, February 5., 1683. Their descendants participated in the Indian wars. Revolutionary war, and wars of 1812 and 1861 : one enlisted in the Revolutionary war at the age of ten years. Their children were : Elizabeth, Mary, Ste- phen, Thomas, Simon, Isaac and Rebecca. (XI) Simon Gates, third son and fifth child of Stephen and Ann (Hill) Gates, was liorn in Hingham. Massachusetts, in 1645, ^nd died April 21, 1693. at Brockton. His wife Mary was a native of Cam- bridge, where he resided for a time, but subsequently made his home in Lancaster and Muddy River. He inherited his father's estate at Cambridge. Their children were: Abraham, Simon (died young), Simon, George, Amos, Jonathan. Samuel and Mary. (XII) Amos Gates, born in 1681, died in 1754. at Framingham, Massachusetts. He married. May ig, 1703, Hannah Oldham, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Dana) Oldham, born October 10, 1681. They resided at Brookline, Cambridge and Framingham. Massachusetts, his death occurring at the latter named place. Their children were : Han- nah, Margaret, Abigail. Mary, Amos. Oldham. Susannah. Samuel and Sarah. (XIII) Amos Gates, eldest son and fifth child of Amos and Han- nah (Oldham) Gates, born in 1714. baptized October 3. 1714. died in 1800. at Marlborough. X^ew Hampshire. He married. November 28. 1744, Mary Trowbridge, daughter of John and Mehitable (Eaton) Trowbridge, of Framingham, Massachusetts, Ijorn June 2y. 1728. He served as a sergeant in the French and Indian war. and is supposed to have served in the Revolutionary war. though from his age and various other things this is somewhat doubtful. They resided in Framingham until 1799. and then removed to Marlbomugh. New Hampshire. Their 768 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. cliildren were ; Amos, Mary, Anna, George. Charles, Henry, Oldham, Edmund, JNIartha, Ruth, Susannah and John. (XIV) John Gates, youngest child ot Amos and Alary (Trow- bridge) Gates, born in 1772, baptized Alay 31, 1772, at Framingham, Massachusetts, died in 1844. He married (tirst), January 5, 1795, Eunice Winch, born October 26, 1770, died November 16, 1803, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary (Beals) Winch, of Framingham, Massachu- setts. He married (second), October 21, 1805, Jemima Harvey, daugh- ter of Timothy and Martha Harvey, of Marlborough, New Hampshire. They resided at Framingham, Massachusetts, for a short time, after wiiich they removed to Keene, New Hampshire, and thence to Cornish, New Hampshire. His children Ijy his first wife were : Leonard, Susan, Eunice and John. The children by his second wife were: Cranston, Alvira, JMartha, George. Henry, Timothy, Harvey, Charles, Edmund, Lucia and Amanda. (XV) Cranston Gates, eldest child of John and Jemima (Har- vey) Gates, and fourth child of the former, born May 6, 1810, in Cor- nish, New Hampshire, was reared on a farm on Cornish Flats. He . had very limited educational opportunities, Ijut withal became a useful citizen of Jefferson county. He came to Wilna in 1829, and worked through the season in the employ of Edmund Rawson, helping to build a dam on the site of the one now maintained at Herring, on Black river, between Wilna and Champion. Returning to Cornish, he remained one year, and was married to Susan Vinton. In the fall of 1831 he took up his residence here permanently, and bought two hundred and sixty acres of land, which he began to improve. He became a large farmer and sawmill operator, and owned sixteen hundred acres at one time. Much of this land was purchased to secure the timber growing upon it, and he made large amounts of lumber for building purposes. The son helped to haul to Watertown from his father's mills much of the lumber now forming a part of the .Arcade in that city. Mr. Gates continued in the manufacture of lumber until his death, on July 7, 1873, and was survived by his widow until August, 1875. She was a descendant of one of the earliest Massachusetts families, including a Revolutionary soldier, as shown in the genealogy aijpearing as a part of this article. Both Mr. Gates and his wife were among the leading members of the Disciples' church at Carthage, of whose Sunday-school he was superintendent for many years. He built the church edifice (which was afterward destroyed by fire) uiion contract, and donated seven hundred GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 709 dollars of the cost. In early life he was a Alethodist, but was among the chief supporters of the Disciples' church from its organization. He was a Whig and abolitionist, and among the most earnest Republicans after the organization of the party. He was captain of the local Militia company, and served as highway commissioner of Wilna many years. His family included five sons and two daughters. Vinton, the eldest, is now a resident of Buffalo. Frederick died in Wilna, in 1874. Linus lived in the town of Denmark and was a lumber jobber, and died as the result of exposure on a log-drive. Julius K. resides upon the home- stead, site of the sawmill operated so many years by his father. Maria died in 1868, while the wife of Aaron Crane, of Wilna. Susan married William Scott and resides on part of the parental homestead. (XVI) Cranson O. Gates, youngest of his father's children, grew up in Wilna, attending the district school and the academy at Carthage. In the meantime he made himself useful on the farm and about the sawmill, and continued with his father until he was twenty-three years old, renting the home farm during the last year of this time. In 1864 he enlisted as a member of Captain H. J. Welch's com- pany, namely A, of the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers, and was twice wounded in the service. At one time, during the capture of Petersburg, he was cut through the lid of the left eye by a bayonet, while on a charge, and later in the same engage- ment, received a gunshot wound in the left leg, disabling him so that he was unable to bear further part in hostilities, and he was discharged from Jarvis Hospital at Baltimore. For more than a year he could not touch his left foot to the floor, and his escape from permanent disability is remarkable. After recovering his health he engaged in making charcoal for some time, and subsequently purchased his father's sawmill, which he operated until 1876. In that year he moved to Carthage, and has since been employed at millwright and carpenter work and contracting. He has constructed many houses and other buildings, in the village and surrounding country, his latest large work being the completion of M. P. Alason's factory in West Carthage. He has been a busy man and has employed ten men much of the time in his operations. ]Mr. Gates afSliates with E. B. Steele Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Carthage, and was made a Free IMason in Carthage Lodge in 1866. He is a member of the Disciples' church, and an earnest Re- 770 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. pul)lican in politics. In 1874 he served as collector of the town of Wilna. He has been married three times, first on ■March 18, 1863, the bride being Miss Susan Osborn, who died in 1866, surviving her only child, Orville. September 10. 1868, Mr. Gates married Mary McDonald, a native of Wilna, daughter of Thomas McDonald, of Irish birth and Scotch ancestry. She died December 14, 1874, leaving five children. Orville, the eldest, is a carpenter, residing in Carthage. Welton died at the age of seventeen years. Deborah died in 1898. being the wife of Grant Gardner. Susan died in 1897, and Mary died at the age of eighteen. Mr. Gates \\as married, at Croghan, November 30, 1880, to Catherine Connolly, \\ho was born in Carthage, daughter of John and Bridget (Leonard) Connolly, natives of Ireland. The children of this marriage were born as follows: Leonard, April 4. 1S83: Agnes. April 26, 1885; John Earl, March 31, tS88; Roy, January 24, 1890: Edna, November 30, 1892: Donald Morris, August 30, 1903. VINTON. The Vinton family is of ancient lineage and distin- gm'shed in the colonial annals of this coimtry. (I) John Vinton is first of record at Lynn, INIassachusetts, in 1648. His wife's name was .Ann. (II) John Vinton (2). son of John ( i ), was born March 2, 1650, and married. August 26, 1677, Hannah Green, who was l)orn February 24, 1660. He lived at Lynn and Woburn, Massachusetts. (III) John Vinton (3) married (first). March 9, 1702-3, Abi- gail Richardson, and lived at Stoneham and Wolnirn. (TV) Joseph Richardson Vinton, son of John (3), was born July 24, 1714, in Stoneham, and married Hannah Baldwin, of that place, February 17, 1733-4. Later he moved to Dudley, Massachusetts, where the lialance of his life was passed. (V) J(jhn Vinton (4) was born Feliruary 14, 1742. and mar- ried Dorothy Holmes, of Woodstock, Connecticut. He lived in Dudley and tliat part of Charlton which became Southbridge. Mr. \'inton was a ])atriot of the Revnhuion. serving in a company of minute-men, com- manded I>y Captain Nathaniel Healy. in Colonel Ebenezer Larned's regi- ment, that marched to Lexington on the alarm, April 19. 1775. He was also in a com])any commanded by the same caj^tain, in Colonel Jona- than Holman's regiment, whicli marched on the alarm to Providence, Rhode Island, performing twenty-one days' service. Mr. Vinton v.-as GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 771 one of the largest landholders in Charlton, where he died in 1814. His widow snrvived until 1834, reicbing the venerable age (if ninety-nne years. (VI) Major John Vinton, liorn in 1 7'')0. married Snsanna Man- ning, of \\"oodstock, Connecticut, in 1784. He served in the Revolu- tion, from 1777 to 1780. In 1787 he moved to Cornish, New Hamp- sliire, where he was a i.ilacksmitJi and a prosperous farmer. He was a man of considerable note in the town, served as major of militia, was deputy sheriff and a large propertydiolder. He was a \-ery large man, weighing three hundred and fifty pounds or more. (VII) Susan M. Vinton, daughter of Major John an<l Susanna Vinton, was born in January, 1799, and was married, in April. 1831, to Cranston Gates, with whom she moved to Wilna, Xew VLirk (see Gates, XV). TOLMAN. This name, for generations in New England and, later, in the state of New York, has been borne and honored by patriots, pioneers and upright citizens in every walk of civil life. The descend- ants in Jefferson county bear the blood of several of the best families in America, have kept intact the character of a woithy ancestry, and have enjoyed the esteem and friendship of those privileged to know them. (I) The American ancestor of this family was Thomas Tolman, who came to Boston from England, in the year 1635-6, accompanied by his wife, Sarah, and their four children. He purchased a large tract of land in Dorchester, west of Neponset bridge, and built his residence on the north side of the creek. He was made a freeman in 1640, and re- sided on this property until his death, rearing a large family of chil- dren, several of whom were born there. His will was probated in Bos- ton. (II) John, son of Thomas Tolman, was born in 1642, in Dorches- ter, Massachusetts, and was made a freeman in 1678. He married (first) Elizabeth Collins, daughter of John Collins, of Lynn. She was Ixirn, probably, April 8, 1656, and died October 7, 1690. He married, June 15, 1692, Mary Paul, who bore him no offspring. He died January i, 1725, aged eighty-two years. (III) Henty, son of John and Elizabeth (Collins) Tolman, was bom March 4, 1679, in Dorchester, where he resided until after his chil- dren were born. Removing to Attleborough, he dwelt there until his 7Y2 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. death, at an advanced age. His wife, Hannah (surname unknown), died November ii, 1735. Their children were: Ehzabeth, Henry, Hannah and iVlolly. (IV) Henry (2), only son of Henry (i) and Hannah Tolman, was born February 23, 1709, at Dorchester, and married Mary Slack, daughter of Deacon Benjamin Slack, of Attleborough. His home was in the latter town, where he died December 25, 1762. His wife passed away December 26, 1785, at Fitz-William, New Hampshire. Their chil- dren were: Ruth, Thomas, Henry, John, Anne, Ebenezer, William, Joseph, Chloe and Benjamin. (V) Ebenezer, fourth son and sixth child of Henry (2) and Mary (Slack) Tolman, was born May 31, 1748, in Attleborough, Massachu- setts, and was deprived of his father by death when only fourteen years of age. He resided in the family of his maternal grandfather. Deacon Benjamin Slack, who was a wealthy farmer, until of age. In the mean- time he learned the trade of carpenter, and on attaining his majority removed to Fitz-William, New Hampshire, where he was engaged on building operations until the beginning of the Revolutionary war. He was one of the early volunteers, and participated in the battle of Bunker Hill. In the autumn of 1775, he became a member of Captain Ward's company, which was a part of Colonel Benedict Arnold's command (consisting of one thousand men) in the desperate expedition against Quebec, begim at that time. They made their way from Cambridge, Massachusetts, up the Kennebec river, and through the wilderness to the Chaudiere, intending to descend that stream to Point Levi. The march was one of untold hardship and suffering, through the deep snows amid intense cold, and the men were brought to the verge of star- vation. They killed and ate dogs, and even devoured their moose-skin moccasins, in the extremity of hunger. Finally arriving at Quebec, they participated in the assault on that city, on the last day of the year 1775, and Arnold's men succeeded in getting into the lower town, but were overwhelmed by superior numbers and most of the command were made prisoners. Among this band of heroes was Ebenezer Tolman, who, with others, made an effort to escape, and was detected and kept in irons for some time. Upon his release he returned to his home and entered the Colonial army as sergeant, but the hardships endured in the preceding winter had so undermined his health that he was forced to leave the service. He followed farming six years at Fitz-William, New Hampshire, and removed to Marlboro, same state, where he continued GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Tf3 three years. At the end of this period he settled in Nelson, New Hamp- shire, where he continued to dwell until his death, December 27, 1838. He was married, at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in March, 1781, to Mary Clarke, who was born February 16, 1756, and died March 18, 1834. She was a daughter of William and Sarah (Loct^e) Clarke, of Townsend, Massachusetts. William Clarke was of the same family as Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke, author of Clarke's Commentaries. Sarah Locke traced descent from William Locke, who came to America in 1O34. Following is a brief account of the children of Ebenezer and Mary (Clarke) Tolman : Polly, born February 16, 1782, at Fitz-William, died August 18, 1796. Ebenezer, born April 23, 1784, died in 1875. receives further mention in this article. George, May 31, 1785, died I^Liy 10, 1874, in Nelson. Betsey, born at Marlborough, New Hampshire, June 2, 1788, married (April 27, 1817), Thomas Baker, of the town of Wa- tertown, this county. Cynthia, born June 25, 1793, at Nelson, New Hampshire, was married in 1816 to Josiah Richardson, of Watertown, William, born 1795, in Nelson, receives further mention below. Mary, born February 11, 1798, in Nelson, was married September 21, 1836, to Captain Christopher C. Rich, of Richville, St. Lawrence county. New York. She died August 3, 1870. Cyrus C, March 16, 1800, at Nelson married Lucy Abbott, and died on the homestead there, August 15, 1857. Ebenezer Tolman, senior, stood over six feet and two inches in height, with muscular development in proportion. At one time, while going up the Kennebec river on a boat, it was compelled to wait for the tide in crossing a bar. A company of roughs on board sought to amuse themselves at the expense of their fellow passengers. They made a rule that each man must treat or be shaved. This process con- sisted in besmearing the face with malodorous grease and scraping it off with a wooden razor. When they approached Mr. Tolman to learn his choice, he threw them, one after the other, over the rail into the river and was not further molested. He built the first house in the present city of Haverhill, New Hampshire, for the founder, Colonel Haverhill. While he received little education, as far as books go, he possessed un- usual intelligence, and was well informed, through experience and ob- servation. He believed in education and saw that his children had the best opportunities of their time. His service in the struggle which freed his country from oppression should make his name honored by all his descendants, and he shares in the glory which attaches to the heroes of the Revolution in the mind of every patriotic citizen. 774 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. (VI) Ebenezer, eldest son and second child of Ebenezer and Mary (Clarke) Tolman, was born April 23, 1784, in Fitz-William, New Hamp- shire, and passed his early life after the manner of New England farm- ers' sons in the town of Nelson, same state. He became a resident of Jefferson county in 1817, accompanying his younger brother, William, and three sisters in the migration. He located on land in the southeastern part of the town of Watertown, near the present school house number 10, and cleared up and developed a farm in the wilderness. This farm is now occupied by his grandson, Charles A. Tolman, and is one of the best in the town. Mr. Tolman was a thorough-going man, industrious and attentive to his own concerns, and became successful as a farmer and was respected as a citizen. His integrity of character and honesty of purpose were never successfully assailed, and he led a life worthy of emu- lation, ever ready to meet every duty and obligation in a manly way, without ostentation. Mr. Tolman was married,. May 5, 1816, to Miss Hopeful Randall, a native of Massachusetts, who died IMarch 23, 1845. She was a woman of amiable and consistent character, a faithful member of the Burrville Congregational church, as was also her husband. He survived her many years, passing away P'ebruary 7, 1875. They were the parents of seven cluldren. (VH) Augustus Tolman, son of Ebenezer (2) and Hopeful (Ran- dall) Tolman, was born January 4, 1818, on the homestead where his father settled the previous year. He passed his life upon that farm, at- tending the local public school in his boyhood. Habits of industry and frugality were early inculcated and adopted, and he became a successful agriculturist, succeeding his father in the ownership of the farm. This he tilled throughout his active life, and enjoyed the confidence and es- teem of those who had opportunity to know his character. A Whig in early life, he continued steadfast in support of his principles when they became the basis of organization of the Republican party. He was nf quiet disposition, and sought no part in the management of public af- fairs, but was firm in adherence to principle and took a keen interest in the progress and welfare of his town and the whole country. Mr. Tolman was married February 16, 1853, to Sarah Louisa God- dard, who was born May 25, 1825, in the town of Clayton, a daughter of Nathan F. and IMatilda (Joddard. Mr. and Mrs. Tolman were the parents of a son and had an adopted daughter, Charles A. and Luella A. The latter died August 25, 1897, in Ogdensburg. :Mr. Tolman died GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 775 December i8, i8S8, on the old family homestead, and his wife survived him more than three years, passing away at the same place, April 15, 1892. (VIII) Charles Augustus, only son of Augustus and Sarah L. (Goddard) Tolman, was born November 4, 1853, on the farm where he now resides, which was located by his grandfather in 18 18, and on which his father dwelt all his life. He attended the local school, the Water- town high school and Hungerford Collegiate Institute at Adams. He Remained at home and assisted in the cultivation of the farm, to whose ownership he succeeded in time. He is one of the prosperous dairy farmers of the town, and an active member of Watertown Grange No. 7. He has ever cast his influence and vote with the Republican party. Mr. Tolman inherits in marked degree the traits of a worthy ancestry, and fills an important place in the affairs of his home town. He was married, j\Iay 12, 1880, to Emma Augusta Wilder, daugh- ter of George Joselin and Marcia Victoria (Sheldon) Wilder (see Wilder, VIII). Three children, all born on the homestead, complete the family of Mr. and Mrs. Tolman. Lena Louise, the eldest, was born May 30, 1883, and was educated at the local public school and the Car- thage high school. She resides at home with her parents. Win Augustus, born January 19, 1890, and Lenore Marcia, October 6, 1891, are stu- dents of the public schools. (VI) William Tolman, third son and si.xth child of Ebenezer and Mary (Clarke) Tolman, was born November 7, 1795, in Nelson, Che- shire county, New Hampshire. He was educated in the schools of his day, and remained upon the paternal farm until he was twenty-two years of age. At that time, in 1817, he came to this cnunty and was employed on farms, and took up land in what is now the town of Alex- dria, which he subsequently disposed of. After remaining for a period of three years, he went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he cared for and took charge of the affairs of an aged great-uncle. He continued to save hrs earnings, with a view to the establishment of a home in the new country. Returning to his native town, after six years' stay in Rhode Island, he was married, and in 1827 he again came to this county and purchased land in the southern part of the town of Water- town, on what is known as the "Sandy Creek road." After living there six years he purchased a farm a little farther north, where his son, W'illiam O. Tolman. now lives, and here he continued farming until his death, August 3, 1892, near the close of his ninety-seventh vear. 776 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. A\' illiam Tolman was married October 9, 1827, to Mary Bancroft, daugh- ter of Timothy and Abigail Bancroft. She was born May 9. 1796. in Nelson, New Hampshire, of one of the oldest American families. .(I) Thomas Bancroft, born near London, England, came to Bos- ton early in the seventeenth century and settled at Lynnfield, Massa- chusetts, where he died in 1691. (II) Ebenezer Bancroft, son of Thomas Bancroft, was the father of. (III) Timothy Bancroft, whose son, (IV) Timothy Bancroft (2), was born in the year 1759. in Dun- stable, Massachusetts. The last named was the father of (V) Mary Bancroft, who became the wife of William Tolman. as above recorded. Mr. and Mrs. Tolman were the parents of five children, namely: Solon B., Cornelia A., Henry, Mary Amanda and William Orville. The third died in infancy. Extended mention of the eldest and youngest appears in this sketch. Cornelia A. married L. T. Sawyer (see Saw- yer). Mar}' Amanda, born July 9. 1834, resides with her brother, Solon B. The mother died March 19. 188 1. She had been a member of the Presbyterian church at Burrville since 1835. William Tolman was a man of the highest type of character, and exercised a most beneficent influence upon the life of his time and com- munity. He was a member of Trinity (Protestant Episcopal) church of the city of Watertown. and at the time of his death was its oldest member, having united with it in 1841. In political principle he was steadfast, affiliating at first wath the Federalist party, later with the Whigs, and was among the first to join the Republican party upon its inception. In all these changes, he did not alter his opinions, but accepted new names for their exponents, as the mutations of political afifairs brought them forward. A man of sterling worth, with charac- ter above reproach, he was identified with the best interests of his town. By his industry and prudent management, he became the possessor of over three hundred acres of valuable land in the town, and his advice was often sought by others in practical affairs. He was frequently made the arbiter of disputes among his neighbors, and his adjustments were always accepted as satisfactory by those interested. He was a kind husband and father, and his memory is held sacred by his children. (VII) Solon Bancroft Tolman, eldest child of ^^^illianl and Mary (Bancroft) Tolman, was born July 27. 1828, in Watertown. He was educated in the public school near his home, at Rodman Seminarv and S^^.<r^^^< 'Z^/^y^i^ GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 777 Black River Institute at Watertown. He continued to be liis father's assistant -in tilling the homestead farm until he was twenty-two years of age, receiving wages during the last year. He then leased the pater- nal farm and continued to manage it until i860, when he purchased the Peck farm, a little more than a mile northward from his native spot. For three years he tilled both places, and since 1863 he has resided on and tilled the new purchase, which is productive and a profitable prop- erty. Conveniently and handsomely located on the Sandy Creek road, he has christened it "Greenwood Farm,"' a most appropriate title. Here his active years were passed, in application of the principles of success- ful agriculture, and he is now enjoying, in the ripeness of years and experience, the rewards of intelligent industry. Here he delights to entertain his friends, whose number is limited only by the scope of his acquaintance. He is a charter member of Watertown Grange and of the Jefiferson County Pomona Grange, having held office in the former for nine years, including that of master. His interest in agricultural progress is indicated by the fact that he has always been a yearly mem- ber of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society. His first presidential vote was cast for General Zachary Taylor, and ever since the formation of the Republican party he has been a supporter of its principles. He has served as inspector of elections, and was nine years an excise com- missioner, going out of ofiice when the position was abolished. Mr. Tolman was married March 16, 1854, to Lodusta Archer, daughter of Abram and Hannah (Underwood) Archer. She was born August 4, 1834, in the town of Rutland, and died March 4, 1866, at her home in Watertown. Since that sad event, Mr. Tolman's home has been presided over by his sister, Mary Amanda, an amiable and estimable lady. Mr. Tolman is one of the representative citizens of his native town, a man of excellent judgment, a true and tried friend, and a most worthy successor of a long line of exemplary ancestors. (Vn) William Orville Tolman, youngest child of William and Mary (Bancroft) Tolman, was liorn Octoljer i, 1837. on the paternal farm in the town of Watertown, and attended the public school near his home and the Jefl^ersnn County Institute, at Watertown. He was bred to the life of a farmer, remaining with his father until after he was of age. He located on the original farm of his father, near the south line of the town, where he continued ten years. .\t the end of this time he returned to the paternal home, on account of the advancing 778 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. years of his parents, who wished to relinquish their cares to younger minds and bodies. Here he has since continued to the present time, cind is reckoned among the most substantial and progressive farmers of the town. His present home, opposite tlie stone house which was the residence of his father, was erected by him in 1876. He is a member of Watertown Grange No. 7, in wliich he was the first secretary, con- tinuing four years, was subsequently overseer and master, member of the executive Ijoard. and is now a trustee. He has served as master of the Jefferson County Pomona Grange, and is an active worker in the interest of the organization. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Congregational church at Burr's Mills. He is a strong adherent of the principles of the Republican party, and sup- ports every movement for the advancement of mankind in general and of his home community. For several years he has filled the office of justice of the peace, with satisfaction to his townsmen and honor to himself. Mr. Tolman w'as married November 12. 1863, to Miss Mary Ophe- lia Bailey, daughter of Lyman and Susan (Bull) Bailey. She was born April 16, 1839, in W'hitestown, Wayne county. New York, and is the mother of three children, noted below. I. Mary Louise, born Sep- tember 5, 1864, in the town nf Watertown, was married October 8, 1890, to Fred D. Simmons, and resides on the paternal farm. They have one child. Ethel Ophelia, born October 15, 1891. 2. Susie Luella, second daughter of William O. Tolman, born May 11, 1869, was mar- ried November 21, 1894, to Albert L. Spink, and resides on a farm in the town of Rodman. Her children were: Seward Tolman. born Sep- tember 8, 1898, died when four months old; Sewell Laban, November 28, 1899, died before two months old; Susie Gwendolyn, September 9, 1903- 3- Hattie Ophelia, the youngest, died in her fourth year. LYMAN BAILEY, long a respected farmer of the town of Water- town, was born September 29, 1803, in Stephentown, Rensselaer county, New York, where he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the district school. His father, Silas Bailey, born May 19. 1770, is sup- posed to have been also a native of Stephentown, where he was a farmer, and died June 30. 1841. He was married to Olive Sweetland, who was born December 19, 1776, and died June 17, 1868. Lyman Bailey's first independent effort was put forth as a teacher in the public schools of his home county, which he continued until 1837. In the meantime, his vacation seasons were spent in farming. For a GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 779 time he resided in Wayne county, this state, and removed to Watertown about 1840. Here he purchased the Johnson Bull farm, two miles south of Burrville, and continued to derive his livelihood from its tillage until his death, January 15, 1877. He was a member of the Baptist church, and a Democrat in political principle. Mr. Bailey was married January i, 1837. to Miss Susan Bull, daughter of Johnson and Nancy (Brown) Bull. The last named was a daughter of Ichabod Brown. The children of Lyman and Susan Bailey are noted as follows: Louisa Ann, born December 11, 1837, resides in Watertown with Iier sister, Mrs. W. O. Tolman. ]\Iary Ophelia, April 16, 1839. is the wife of William O. Tolman, as elsewhere noted. Dwight L., July 12, 1847, married Hattie Waite, and died October 27, 1903, in the town of Watertown. Isidore S., November 18, 1857, is the wife of Orville M. Rexford, residing in the town of W^atertown. HARDY. This name has been traced back about two hundred years, and includes one of the brave soldiers of the Revolution, who bore many hardships and exposure to the danger of a violent death, in order that we might enjoy the blessings of a free government, in com- mon with all their posterity. (I) The location of Phineas and Al>igail Hardy is not now known to their descendants in this section, but records show that they had a son Thomas who was a soldier of the Revolution. (H) Thomas Hardy, son of Phineas and Abigail, was born in June, 1756, in the town of Hollis, Hillsborough county, New Hamp- shire. Before he was twenty years old he was among the defenders of colonial rights, and participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, June I7> 1775- ^oi" three years he was a non-commissioned officer, under General Slark"s command, fought at Bennington and Trenton, and took part in General Wayne's gallant attack on Stony Point. His service was contemporaneous with the duration of the war, and he was at \\'est Point at the time of Arnold's treachery, served under General Greene in his southern campaign and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, which closed the memorable struggle of the colonies for independence. After peace came Mr. Hardy settled in the town of Dublin, Che- shire county, in his native state, cleared up land and erected bukldings thereon, and followed agriculture during the balance of his life. He died there July 25, 1816, respected and honored for his service in behalf 780 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of his native land, as well as his upright character as a citizen in time of peace. In that day every one appreciated the fact that the patriots of the Revolution gave the best period of their lives and their best energies to the struggle for independence, and were factors in the estab- lishment of a nation, out of which has grown what is now recognized as the greatest republic the world has ever known — the United States of America. In January. 17S4, Thomas Hardy was married to Lucy Colbourn, daughter of Lieutenant Robert Colbourn, and they were the parents of nine children, born as follows: Thomas, October 23, 1784 (graduated at Dartmouth College in 1812) ; Moses, September 14, 1786; Elias, April 3, 1788, died in infancy: Robert, March 23, 1789; Lucy, Novem- ber 25, 1792: Phineas, January 2^. 1795; Elizabeth, November 28, 1796: Elias, December 19, 1798; and Anna, May 14. 1801. (Ill) Robert Hardy, fourth son and child of Thomas and Lucy (Colbourn) Hardy, was born March 23, 1789. in Dublin, New Hamp- shire, and his education was such as the common schools of that town afforded. He remained at home with his father, assisting in the culti- vation of the homestead. Wishing to become independent, and secure a home for himself, he set out in the year 181 1 for the Black River country, and settled at once in the town of \Vatertown, near Burr"s Mills. In company with his brother Phineas he purchased one hundred and twelve acres of land, which they proceeded to clear up. The latter gave his entire time to the cultivation of the farm, while Robert did much at his trade of builder. He employed several men, and many buildings are still standing in this section as evidence of his skill. After a few years he bought his brother's interest in the farm, which he man- aged, while still engaged in building operations. In 1836 he was in- jured by the fall of a building frame in process of "raising,'' and from that time he abandoned building and gave his entire attention to agri- culture. About 1818 he moved to the town of Rutland, where he lived the balance of his life. A man of devout Christian principles, he car- ried out in his every-day life his professions as a Christian. He died November 30, i860, at his home in the northern part of Rutland. Mr. Hardy was married February 2, 1815, in Dublin. New Hamp- shire, to Miss Abigail Stone, who was born in that town. November LS- 1793- She survived him over seven years, passing away IMarch 15, 1868. Following is a brief mention of their children: Thomas, born November 7, 1815. m Watertown. died September 24. 1841. Lovilla, GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 781 Tune 25, 1817, married James Hunt, of Champion, and died Alay jg, t868. Abigail, laorn February 16, 1819, in the town of Rutland, mar- ried Daniel Patton, of Lowvillc, and died February 28, 1847. Robert C, October i, 1820, resides in Rutland. Gustavus, August 3, 1823, is a resident of Watertown. Lucy Ann, November 19, 1825, married Samuel Frink, whom she survives, and resides in Rutland. William Addison, December 29, 1827, married Sarah Jane Warner, and died March 20, 1895, '" Rockford, Illinois. Charles Carroll, March 31, 1830, receives farther mention below. John Calvin, April 7, 1833, married Julia Scott, who is now deceased, and he resides in Copen- hagen. Arthur Livermore, January 22, 1835, died in 1842. (IV) Charles Carroll Hardy, fifth son and eighth child of Robert and Abigail (Stone) Hardy, was born March 31, 1830, in the town of Rutland, and attended the local school and Lowville Academy. At the age of nineteen years he left home and engaged with Benjamin Gibbs, of Watertown, to learn the trade of carpenter and builder. Two years of labor at this occupation revealed to him the value of archi- tectural drawing, and his talent in that direction, and he took up its study with Otis L. Wheelock. In 1853 he joined the course of travel to the Californian Eldorado. Having safely crossed the Isthmus by the Nicaragua route, be sailed on the ship Independence, which was wrecked and burned near "the island of Santa Margarita, off the Mex- ican coast, and one hundred and fifty of the four hundred persons on board were lost. Mr. Hardy was among the survivors, who were taken off the barren island and carried to San Fr.ancisco by the whaling ship Meteor. Having tried mining with indifferent success, Mr. Hardy turned his attention to his trade, and did much building at the mining town of French Gulch. Later he obtained an appointment as master mechanic and builder on the government work at Fort Walla Walla, Washington territory, and continued in this position until his return to his native town in 1859. After the death of his father, in the following year, he purchased Ihe interests of the other heirs and became sole owner of the homestead, on which he erected new buildings, the house being one of the finest in the town. Here he was successful as a farmer, his principal products being those of the dairy and maple syrup and sugar. In 188 1 he moved to a farm on the "South Road," where he followed agriculture and bee-culture, and died December 6, 1901, near the close of his seventy-second year. Mr. Hardy was a steadfast supporter of the principles enunciated 782 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. by the Republican party, and the confidence in which he was held by his townsmen is indicated by the fact that he served eight years as assessor, and was also town collector. He was two years master of South Rutland Valley Grange and also a member of Jefferson County Pomona Grange and a life member of the Jefferson Countv Agricult- ural Society. He was married January i, iS6i, to Miss Emily Caroline Scott, daughter of Ste])hen and Mary B. Scott. She was born August 8, 1837, in the town of Antwerp, this count}'. Stephen Scott was a son of Gideon and Mary Scott, and was liorn June 4, 1806. in the town of Remsen, Oneida county. New ^'ork. He was married in 1835 to Mary Bullock Carpenter, who was born December 4, 1806. By trade he was a shoemaker, and engaged in farming during most of his acti\'e life. He settled in Fairfield, Herkimer comity, whence he remo\'ed upon re- tirement, to Collinsville. Lewis county, where he died ^lay 13, 1888. His widow- died November 3, i8g6, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles C. Hardy, in the town of Rutland, aged eighty-nine years. Mrs. Hardy is the eldest of their children. Mar\- Julia, the second, born May 27, 1839, was married December 25, i860, to John Calvin Hardy, resided at Copenhagen, Lewis county, and died Septemlaer 13, 1003. They were the parents of eight children: Emma L., Marion (died in 1904), Gustavus, Millicent, Helen. Jay C, Lucy and Ethelwyn. Mr. Charles Carroll Hardy was a well informed man. much aljo\-e the average in exjierience and observatiim. beside being a student. By means of travel he gathered that practical wisdom which men do not secure in any other way. Actuated by the highest business integrity, he was a worthy citizen of his town, a trusted neighbor, and a loving and thoughtful husband and father. His widow survives and resides in the beautiful home which he had provided. She is a remarkable woman for her age, with an active mind and a memorv that a much younger person might be proud of. She was a fit and appreciated com- panion for her noble husband. They were the parents of a S()n and three daughters, David R., Fannie J.. Jennie S. and Mary S.. of whom further mention follows. (V) David Rogers Hardy was born October 25, 1861. on the paternal homestead in the town of Rutland, and was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native town and. the city of \\'atertown. He remained on the home farm until he was of age. when be took uji and mastered the art of photography, wdiich he followed in the city of Watertown un- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Ts3 til his father's death in 1901. He then returned to the farm, which has since lieen under his charge. Beside farming, he gives some time to his profession. He is a member of South Rutland Valley Grange, and also of Watertown Lodge Xo. 49, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a sound Repuhlican in political principle. He was married, January 17, 18S4. tu Miss Emily Grace Wilson, daughter of Gcdrge A. and Geraldine (Collins) Wilson, of T-5urrville. She was born February 17. 1864. in the town of Watertown. Her chil- dren are: Raymond Wilson, born Deceml)er 8, 1884. in Rutland; Charles Millar, December 9, 1891, in Clayton: and Walter Collins, Feb- ruary 27, 1898. The eldest was educated at the pui)lic schools and is now a clerk at Burrville. (V) Fannie Jennette, second child of Charles C. and Emily C. Hardy, was born October 31, 1S64, in the town of Rutland, and was educated at the local public school and Watertown high school. She was married March 16, 1893, to Arthur L. Williams, a druggist of Clayton, where they reside. (Vj Jennie Sarah Hardy was born December 30. 1865. and com- pleted her educati(jn at the Watertown high school. She was married. October 17, 1894, tO' Grant L. Lewis, and resides in the tow n of Rutland. where he is a farmer. They are the parents of a daughter, Ida Roberta, born March 23, 189G. (V) Mary Scott Hardy was born November 10, 1874, and received the same educational advantages as her sisters. She was married, June iG, 1902, to Harry Stewart Bandfield, a bookkeeper, and resides in Brooklvn, Greater New York. ( HI) Phineas Hardy, fifth son and sixth child of Thomas and Lucy (Colljourn) Hardy, was born January 2t„ 1795, in Dublin, New Hamp- shire. At the age of eighteen years he set out to join bis brother, Robert Hardy, who had settled in Watertown two years previously. His posses- sions at that time consisted of an axe and a small amount of clothing, iuit he vias in good health and possessed those qualities of energy, deter- mination and fortitude which have ever paved the way for the advance f.f civilization since the Puritan Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620. For a few seasons he worked for farmers in this section, being for some time in the employ of the late John Sterling, whose farm was witiiin the present lines of the city of Watertown. By industry and frugal care of his earnings he was sr)()n enabled to ])urchase land, which he did in Rut- land, three miles south of the village of Black Ri\cr. between the state 784 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. ruad and the Rutland Hollow road. He immediately began to develop a farm, and continued to make his home there until 1832, four of his children being born there. Having sold his land to advantage, he bought land in Lorraine, and lived one year in that town. Again selling out, he moved to Leray and purchased the old county farm at Sanford's Corners, April 15, 1834. His home continued to be on this farm until 1869, when he sold out to his son and moved to the village of Black River. He was the pioneer cheese-maker of his town, and kept from forty to sixty cows, whose product was marketed at Albany and Boston. Mr. Hardy was always active in promoting the welfare of the Jefiferson County Agricultural Society, and he was among the largest recipients of premiums. He was among the extensive dealers in lands, as shown by the records of the county. Mr. Hardy was an earnest member of the Presbyterian church dur- ing most of his life, and was many years one of the pillars of the society at Evans ]\Iills. After his removal tn Black River he united with the Stone Street Presbyterian church of Watertown. He was always inter- ested in the progress of his home community and of the nation, and took an active part in the conduct of local affairs. He was an ardent Repub- lican, and was defeated when a candidate for supen'isor because of the Democratic majority in his town, but was elected and served many years as justice of the peace, a tribute to his ability and worth. He acted as chairman of county conventions. Phineas Hardy was married March 24, 1822, to Sarah Howland, only daughter and second child of Richmond Howland (see Howland). She was born April i, 1798, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died Janu- ary 13, 1887, in Black River, near the close of her eighty-ninth year. Brief mention of her children follows: David, born November 19, 1823, married Anna Slack, was a farmer in Leray, and died November 2, 1S89. Elias, November 16, 1826, has been very successful as a fanner in the town of Throop, Cayuga county, this state, and now resides in the city of Auburn. Maria, December 11, 1828, in Rutland, became the wife of Simeon Dexter, whom she survives (see Dexter, VH). Lucy, April i, 1S31, in Rutland, died in childhood. Phineas, February 21, 1838, in Leray, was a farmer there all his life and died there July 24, 1895. He was an active Republican, but refused to be a candidate for office, and was a Universalist in religion. He was married, April 5, 1866, to Eunetia Earl, who survives him and now resides at Sanford's Corners. They were the parents of two children: George L.. the elder, is treas- urer of the Hunting Company of Watertown, a prosperous business con- f j^^ J.di^c GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. T85 cern. Tiie voiinger. Mary Gertrude, is tlie wife of Will Ballard Ball of \\'aterto\vn. JOHN STERLIXG SILL. The progenitor of the American branch of the Sill family was John Sill, a native of England, who emi- grated from thence to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in i''i37- 'The line of descent is traced through his son. Joseph Sill, who \Vas the father of a son. Joseph Sill, and among the children liorn to him was a son. Lieutenant John Sill, of Lyme. Connecticut, who in turn was the father of a son. Colonel David Fithen Sill, who participated in the French and Indian war as a lieutenant, was captain of a company at the battle of Lexington, in 1775. and afterward was promoted to the rank of colonel for gallant and meritorious service. His son. William '\l. Sill, was the grandfather of John Sterling Sill. W'illiam Sill, son of William ]M. Sill, was born in Lyme, Con- necticut, February 8, 1792. During the year 1812 he came to Jeffer- son county, Xew York, locating in the village of Brownville, and shortly afterward he became a merchant in the town of Rodman. In 1825 he began farming operations in the town of Henderson, and in 1836 he purchased the farm in Rodman, upon which he resided for the remainder of his days. This property consisted of two hundred and eighteen acres, to which seventeen more was subsequently added, making two hundred and thirty-five acres, all of which is under a high state of culti- vation. During the early years of his manhood he upheld the principles of Democracy, but in after years he became an active supporter of the Republican party. He served as supervisor of the town several terms, performing the duties to the satisfaction of the entire community. In 183 1 he became a member of the Congregational church, in which he held membership up to his death, and in which he served as trustee. On October 2, 18 16, he married Sophia Hopkins, who died May 16, 1851, aged fifty-nine years, and in 1853 '""^ married for his second wife Mrs. Sarah Isham. By the first marriage he was the father of four children — two sons and two daughters — Mary, deceased, was the wife of the late Horace Brown, of Henderson, and later a resident of Adams, where their deaths occurred ; John Sterling, mentioned hereinafter : Edward, who died in 1893, was a physician, practicing his profession in the towns of Dexter and Watertown; and Elizabeth, wife of Erastus Kelsey, of Le Ray, New York, a farmer. William Sill, father of these children, died August 8, 1869. 780 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. John Sterling Sill was born in the village of Rodman. New York, October 27. 1820. He attended the common schools of the neighbor- hood, and the knowledge thus obtained was supplemented by a course at the Black River Religious and Literary Institute of Watertown. Hav- ing been reared on a farm he was familiar widi all the details of farming, Axhich occupation he chose as his lifework. He is now the owner of the old homestead, upon which he has conducted extensive operations, and the neat and thrifty appearance of liis broad acres, together with his commodious and substantial outbuildings, denote the supervision of a careful and practical man. He erected a handsome house thereon, which is one of the finest in the town, and here his days are spent in quiet and contentment, as he is now reajjing the reward of his years of unceasing and tireless activity. He has served as assessor of the town, having been elected on the Republican ticket, the principles of which party he has always adhered to. He has lieen a member of the Congregational church since bo\-ho(]d. and fur many )ears ser\-ed in the capacity of deacon and trustee. He has been a wortliy and respected citizen, and the example of his life is a lienefit to any community. His wife died March 20. 1900. aged eight}" years. On June ig. 1850. Mr. Sill married .\rletta V. Winslow. of Rod- man, Xew York, daughter of William Winslow. Their children are: John Sterling. Jr.. born August i. 1858. a member of the wholesale and retail hardware firm of Weeks & Company, of Watertown. William Elisha, born December 24, i860, a progressive farmer, employed on the home farm. He is a Republican in politics, and has served his town as assessor. On March 21. 1900, William Elisha Sill married Anna Gates, daughter of Simeon Gates, of Rodman, who was born October 27. 1868. and they are the ].iarents of one child. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church. GEORGE SUMMERFIELD WALKER, one of the genial and intelligent citizens of W'atertown. whose friends are numbered by the list of his acquaintances, is a native of the county and a scion of one of the earliest American families. The records of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, show that one of the original proprietors of the town was "Widow Walker." whose projjertv in 1643 ^^'^^ valued at fifty pounds sterling. After 1646 the name disappears from the records, which may have been due to her removel to another town, with her sons. (TI) James Walker, bom 1619-20. in England, appears at Taun- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 787 ton. ?^Iassacinisetts. as anmng thuse able to bear arms in 1643. He was achnilted a freeman tbere June 4. 1O50. He married EHzaljetb I'billips. daughter of \\'ilHam and Ebzaljeth (Parker) Philb'ps. Her brothers, \\'iniam and Jolm. were among the prominent men of the colony, the lat- ter doing valiant service as a captain of troops in the expedition against Quebec in 1690, for which the colony granted him several fifty-acre "rights'" to lands then unsettled. Elizabeth (Phillips) Walker died Au- gust 14. 1678. aged fifty-nine years, leaving five children — James, Peter, Eleanor, Hester and Deborah. Mr. Walker married (second), November 4. 1678, Sarah Rew, widow of Edward Rew, one of the proprietors of Taunton, and daughter ot John Richmond, of that town. James Walker died February 15. i6yi, aged seventy-three years. He was a large land- holder, and interested in the iron works and saw mill. (HI) James, eldest child of James and Elizabeth Walker, born ir)45-6. died June 22, 1718, at the age of seventy-two years. He was married, December 23, 1O73. to Bathsheba, daughter of Gilbert Brooks, of Rehoboth. She was born in. 1655, and died February 23, 1738, in her eighty-third year. I\lr. Walker was constable in 1689. He lived at "The Weir." and had fifty acres of land. In 1697 he was granted fifty acres. (IV) David Walker, son of James (2) Walker, died in 1765. He was married October 18, 1703. His wife, Maiy, died May 19, 1750, as recorded in Scituate, and he married (second) Esther Dillingham, daugh- ter of Edward Paul, of Berkeley. Mr. \\'alker lived in Dighton. and was selectman in 173.2 and representative in 1721 and 1745. and was captain of militia. He had nine children. {Y) David (2), son of David and Mary Walker, was born May 24, 1717, and died about 1781, in which year the inventory of his estate shows him to have been worth 1,262 pounds sterling. He was married, April 5, 1755, to Mary Wilmarth, of Taunton, who died June 9, 1756, leaving a child. Mr. Walker married, second, March 25, 1758, Sarah Richmond, of Little Ccmpton, Rhode Island, daughter of William and Anna (Gray) Richmond. She was bom January 8, 1738. They lived ill Dighton, three-fourths of a mile from Three-Mile River, on the Bris- tol road. There were twehe children. (VI) Sylvester, son of David (2) and Sarah Walker, was burn in 1769, and died February 28, 1836, in the town of Adams, this county. The time of his marriage is indicated by the publication. May 19, 1792, of his intention to wed Sally Burt, of Taunton. She died of smallpox 788 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. at their liome in Dighton, and he later married ]\Iary, daughter of John and Ruth (Tahnan) Pullen, of Somerset. She was born in 1774. In the autumn of 1791, ^Ir. Walker accompanied a friend to Charleston, South Carolina, where they did a profitable business in the boot and shoe trade during the winter, returning in the following spring to their homes in Massachusetts. In December, 1799, he went to Havana, Cuba, and for three succeeding winters he was engaged in the stove trade there, with success. On his last voyage he was made prisoner by a French priva- teer and set ashore at Matanzas, after being stripped of all his possessions. In June, 1802, he went to Brattleboro, Vermont, and IxDught a farm, and in April, 18 15, came to Adams, where he passed the balance of his days. He was a religious and highly respected man. One of his nine children — Nancy — became the wife of James Neelon, and their son, Sylvester, was a large shipper and merchant of St. Catherine's, Ontario, and a member of the Canadian parliament. (VII) David, son of Sjdvester and Mary (Pullen) Walker, was born October 28, 1799, in Swansea (now Somerset), Massachusetts, and was married in ]\Iarch, 1820, to Eunice Thomas, daughter of Ira Thomas (see Thomas). She died August 3, 1824, in Adams, leaving two daugh- ters. On September 19, 1826, Mr. Walker married Lucy Thomas, a sister of his first wife, who also bore him two children. He was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, and conducted many funer- als among his fellow pioneers, and otherwise ofificiated among them. He was also a competent civil engineer, and surveyed most of the lands in the southern part of the county. He took the first level in the pre- liminary surveys for the construction of the Rome, Watertown & Og- densburg Railroad, at Rome. He was largely self-educated, though he had some academic training. In early life he owqed and tilled a farm of one hundred and seventy acres in the town of Ellisburgh, near the "Thomas Settlement," but moved in 1839 to the village of Adams, where he resided until old age. His death occurred at the home of a son in Cape Vincent, September 3. 1883, when almost eighty-four years old. He was an active Whig, and an earnest supporter of Republican prin- ciples from the birth of the new party. He was for some time superin- tendent of schools in the town of Adams. His first child, Lucy Elmira, died at the age of sixteen years, and the second, Eunice, in childhood. Sarah Janette, the third, married Jonathan Hall, of Smithfield, Penn- sylvania, whom she survived, and died at Adams in the autumn of 1862. (VIII) George Summerfield Walker, youngest child of David and GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 789 Lucy Walker, was born Xovemljer 27. 1830. in the tnwn ui EUishurg. and was reared in Adams. He attended the Incal imliHc schools and Black River Institute, at W'atertown. Illness compelled him to abandon the course begun at the Albany Normal School, and he subsequently attended an academy at East Smithfield, Pennsylvania, for a time. He taught school in Rodman. Adams and Mannsville. and liecame agent of the railroad company at .Vdams, continuing a long time in its service, there, at Clayton. Brownville and Potsdam, remaining at the last named post thirteen years. He opened the station, organized the fdrce and sold the first ticket at Clayton. After farming a short time in .\dams. he engaged with A. B. Cleveland & Company, seed growers of that towq, with whom he removed to Cape Vincent, and was superintendent of one of their departments there ten years. During the last seventeen years he has resided in Watertown, and is now engaged with the \\'atertMwn Carriage Company. His home is on Cadwell street, where quiet hos- pitality and culture rule. Mr. Walker adheres to the faith of the Meth- odist church. He was made a Free Mason in Racquette River Lodge No. 213, of Potsdam, in which he subsequently served as warden, and is a member of St. Lawrence Chapter No. 24, same order, in which he was king, and affiliates with Canton Commandery No. 28, Knights Tem- plar. Being independent of party organizations in politics, he has escaped much ofiicial service, though he acted as collector of the town of Adams and was postmaster at Castorland while station agent there. Air. Walker was married April 11, i860, by Rev. B. S. W'right, of the State Street church, Watertown, to Miss Ellen E. ^^"illiamson, who was born February 22. 1835, in Rodman, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Williamson) Williamson. The last-named was born in Rodman, a daughter of Christopher Williamson, one of the first settlers of that town. His wife, Eleanor Heustis, was the only daughter in a family of six brothers who came from England. Samuel ^^'illiamson was born August 21, 1799, and lived in Rodman and Adams. He died August 6, 1899, aged ninety-nine years and fifty weeks, at the home of a daughter, in Rochester, this state. His wife died May 28. 1883, in New Haven, Oswego county. The children of George S. and Ellen E. Walker are noted as fol- lows: Lillian J. is the wife of Daniel Marks, a dentist of Bridgeton, New Jersey. Leone Lunette is at the head of the .schools of New Rochelle, New York. Lucy Ellen is the wife of DeWitt L. Parker, a doctor of medicine and also of dentistry, of Brooklvn, this state. Herbert D., a 790 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. large advertising publisher, resides at Xew Rochelle, and George Samuel at Xew Brunswick, Xew Jersey. Anna M., the youngest, died at the age of twenty-three, unmarried. HON. HARRISON FULLER, of Adams, was during his lifetime one of the most eminently progressive and useful men in his community. He served several terms in the legislative assembly of the state, and was primarily instrumental in formulating and securing the enactment of some of the most salutary measures which have contributed to the ad- vancement of the commonwealth in educational, agricultural and other affairs affecting the best interests of the people at large. He traced his ancestr\' to \\'illiani Fuller, whose son, Samuel Ful- ler, was born in \\'hitingham, A'ermnnt, in 1775. was a farmer by occu- patinn, and during the early part of the nineteenth century became a pioneer settler of the town of Adams, where he purchased a tract of land upon which his descendants now reside. He was successful in his business operations, and his standing in the community was of the best. His death occurred October 4, 1857, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He married Anna Phillips, and they were the parents of seven children — two sons and five daughters — William, Royal, Huldah, Rhoda, Sophia, Diana and Maria. William Fuller, father of Harrison Fuller, settled" on the farm (later occupied by his son) which is located about two miles northeast of Adams Centre, on what is known as the Old State Road. He owned a large number of acres, was a successful farmer, and accumulated a comfortable fortune for those early days. On September 10. 1837, he married ?klartha Keep, a sister of the late Henry Keep, and four chil- dren were born to them, three daughters and one son. Two of the daughters died, one at five and nne at twelve. The other daughter. Mary, became the wife of Jcjhn A. D. Snell. of Adams Centre, where she now resides. Their only son was Harrison, mentioned hereinafter. ]\Irs. Fuller was a faithful member of the State Road Baptist church, and Mr. Fuller was a liberal supporter of all churches, and was greatly esteemed in the community for his many nol)le characteristics. He died at his residence in .\dams Centre. April jo. 1884, aged seventy-two vears. His wife, whose decease was mourned by all who had the honor of her ac(|uaintance, passed away January 18, 1883. ]\Irs. Fuller re- ceixed a muniiicent legac_\- from her brother. Henry Keep, — eloquent evidence of the affection which suljsisted between them. In her hour of 7fu ■r S4ylyX,'UlLi>^-Y' '^' GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. T91 prosperity. !Mrs. l"iiller exemplified in lier cnncluct the splendid traits of character whicli she possessed. .\s a farmer's wife she had toiled early and late and practiced the utmost economy and self-denial in the rearing of her family. Many cnuld not have been introduced thus sud- denly to a condition of affluence without serious detriment to dignity and sincerity. To her the transition gave no excuse for alteration of conduct. She remained the modest, kindly hearted, sincere woman she had been in her davs of comparative poverty, and this same disposi- tion was reflected in her son. Harrison, who when, in turn, he came into the piissession of the fine estate received from his mother, refused to be drawn into a life of ease and ])leasure by the allurements of the city and its money-fed society, but remained in the old home, endeared by count- less tender associations, and. identifying himself with his fellows, in all sincerity devoted himself to the interests of bis home and of the com- munity. When called by his neighbors to important official position, he remained the same simple, modest man, exemplifying in his every word and act the creed u]K>n which bis daily conduct was based : "He praveth best who loveth best All things both great and small." Harrison Fuller was born August i. 1845, on the homestead in Adams, and received his preliminary education in the public schools in the home neighborhood, and pursued ach-anced liranches in Union Acad- emy, at Belleville. On coming to manhood he gave himself industriously to the care of the property committed to him. and to which he added largely as the fruits of his persevering and intelligent effort. In course of time he had come into the ownership of about fourteen hundred acres of rich and productive land immediately adjoining his residence, and a farm in the town of Orleans, making in all nearly seventeen hun- dred acres, and constituting him one iif the largest holders of cultivated land in Jefferson county. His Imme was the object of bis most careful solicitude, and he made it one of the most delightful residential places in all the region. Overshadowed by the stately trees wbicli he had planted, 't was e\en nmre beautiful within, — an abude of culture and domestic happiness, ancl whose inmates clispensed their hospitalities bountifully and in unaff'ected sincerity. Mr. Fuller was throughout his life actively identified with al! that enhanced tlie interests of the town and vicinage. He was vice president of the Farmers' National Bank of Adams, and a director in the Water- town National Bank. Educational and other community concerns of 792 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. moment always recei\ed his most cordial and sagacious support. A Republican in politics, he was always regarded as one of the most po- tential figures in the councils of his party in the county. In 1891 he was elected to the general assembly of the state, and his wise and judi- cious course as a member of that body so commended him tO' his con- stituency that he was returned to his seat at the succeeding three elec- tions, extending his legislative term to the period of four sessions. In his first term he introduced a bill which was of commanding import- ance, one providing for the compulsor}' education of children. This was warmly supported by the state superintendent of public instruction and by the leading educators throughout New York, as well as by the great m:'?s of the people, whose interest was amply compensated by the beneficent results which proceeded from the enactment of Mr. Fuller's most salutary measure. He also introduced a bill placing upon the state the exepnse of keeping in repair the state armories, thus relieving from an irksome and unjust confiscation of their own funds the counties in which these edifices are situated. Other meritorious subjects of legis- lation to which J\Ir. Fuller gave his attention by the introduction of bills were the restoration of water diverted from Black river for canal purposes; and regulating speed of cars on the Watertown street railway. In the session of 1893 Mr. Fuller introduced bills making an appropria- tion for the construction of a bridge over Black river: declaring that stream a public highway : and enlarging the scope of investments author- ized to be made liy sa\'ings banks. In the session of 1894, he was chairman of the committee on banks, and a member of the committee on ways and means, and that on trade and manufactures. In this ses- sion he introduced wirious important bills : for regulating the fees of medical examiners; for establishing a fish hatchery at Clayton; for taxing the capital of foreign corporations doing business in the state of New York; concerning mortgages, and in relation to the water power of Black river. It is not too much to say that during the four sessions in which Mr. Fuller sat in the assembly, there were few. if any, who surpassed him in industry and sagacity and none to whom he was second in honest devotion to pul)lic interests. Mr. Fuller was married, Octolier 25, 1865, to Miss Ella Snell, a lady of beautiful character and disjiosition, and who proved a devoted lielpmeet tc him and a sympathetic ally in all pertaining to his relations with others, whether in public or social concerns. To them was born a daughter, Martha Annette, who has but fairly entered upon young GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 793 womanhood, and in whom is discernible the traits wliicli mark the mother, whose helpful assistant she already is in domestic matters. Mr. Fuller was a prominent member of Rising Sun Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of Adams; Adams Chapter No. 205, Royal Arch Masons; Watertown Commandery No. 11, Knights Templar: and Media Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of Watertown. He was a man of kindly and generous disposition, and was a liberal contributor to the churches and to charities calculated to benefit the poor. His death, as a result of being thrown from his carriage on the hard pavement of Washington street, Watertown, occurred June .2. i9c^4, at the city hospital of that city. ABXER TREMAINE, who died in the town of Rodman, this county, June 9, 1870, was a son of Solomon Tremaine, one of the pioneer settlers of this county. The latter married Lucy Brainard, and lived for some years in Paris, Oneida county, whence he moved to the town of Rodman, this count}-, about 1S21. He cleared land there and became a successful farmer, and the location is still known as Tremaine's Cor- ners. He had four sons, and Abner early resolved to strike out for himself. Abner Tremaine was born November 11, 181 1, in Paris, New York. At the age of nineteen years he went to Brownville, and first found employment as gardener and useful man about the estate of a merchant there. He learned the tinner's trade, and followed it most of his life. For a few years he conducted a grocery store at Brownville, and following that kept a meat market. Before the close of the civil war, he went to St. Joseph, Michigan, where he was employed some six years in a tin shop. About this time he invested in a fruit farm near there, which was sold after his death at double the cost to him. Be- cause of failing health he returned to Jefferson county, in May, 1870, and died, in the following month, as aliove noted, while on a visit to relatives in Rodman. He was a Methodist in religious faith, and was a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge at Brownville, until it was disbanded. While a resident of Brownville, he served several years as constable. He al\va\'s acted politically with the Democratic party. Alxjut 1838 Mr. Tremaine was married to Cordelia Kane, who died in April, 1844, leaving one daughter, Adelaide. The latter is now the wife of John Bronson, residing at Eau Claire, Michigan. On April 18, 1849, Mr. Tremaine married Mahala Hatch, who was born Julv 21, Ttti GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 1S19, in ihc town of Watertown (sec Hatch). Two of the five children of this union are lix'ing — three sons having dieil. one WilHs, at the age of twenty years ; Charles when sixteen years old. and Everett died at the age of two years. Henry Abner. born June 7. 1852, is now a manu- facturer of electric light supplies at Cleveland. Ohio, and a prosperous business man. Clara Lorania. Octoljer 24, 1858. married James A. Horton. and resides on Orchard street. \\'aterti.nvn. She is the mother of t\\o children. Lulu Jean and Nellie !May. The former of these is the wife of Royal Wight, a dentist of Park City. Utah, and has a daughter, Eleanor Jean, and son. Guy Horton. The latter resides with her parents in Watertown. HATCH. Henry, son of Isaac and brother of Willard Hatch, was l.Kirn October 2, 1783, in New Milford, Connecticut, and was brought up in the tijwn of Kent. Litchfield county, same state. In the fall of 18 10 he visited JetYerson county on a prospecting tour and purchased a farm in the northwestern part (jf the town of Watertown, on which he settled the next spring. He clearetl off the forest and developed a farm, becoming a successful farmer and an exemplary citizen. His first pur^ chase was one hundred acres, to which he sulisecjuently added sixty acres by purchase, making one of the finest farms in the tcnvn. He was a ^Vhig in early life, and was among those who fostered the movement leading to the organization of the Republican party, though he did not live to participate in its action and triumphs. He passed away July 13, 1856. in his seventy-third year of age. He married Laura Everett, whose ancestry follows : ( I ) Richard Everett came to New England as early as 1636. It is surmised that he was born in county Essex, England, the home of the Everard family. He is first of record, with William Pynchon and other settlers, at Springfield. Massachusetts, in 1636. He was married June 29. 1643. to Mary Winch and. from this time on. made his home in Dedham. Among the forty-two names recorded at a town meeting in Dedham, 1644-5, ■^'^'^■'^ Richard Everett. John Dwight and Ralph \\'heelock, ancestors of five subsequent college presidents — Edward Everett, of Harvard; Alexander H. Everett, of Jefferson; Timothy Dwight. of Yale; and Eleazer and John Wheelock, of Dartmouth. Both Richard Everett and wife were admitted to the Dedham church in 1646. Mr. E\erett was active and jirominent in town affairs, was constable, surveyor, and filled other positions. He died July 3. 1682. His children GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. T;t5 of record at Dedham, were: John, Israel, Mary, Samuel, Sarah and James ; and the children of a second wife were : Sarah, Abigail, Israel, Ruth and Jedediah. (II) Captain John Everett, baptized fifteenth day of first month, 1646, in Dedham, Massachusetts, married there, May 13, 1662, Eliza- beth Pepper, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Johnson) Pepper. She was born May 25, 1645, and died April i. 1744, at Dedham. Captain Everett's name first appears in Dedham records in 1662. He held a num- ber of local offices, and received grants of land in 1668 and 1674. Dur- ing King Philip's war he was captain of a company stationed in the colonies of New Hampshire and Alaine. He died in Dedham June J 7, 1715. His children were: Elizabeth, Hannah. Bethiah, John, William, Israel and Richard. (III) Israel Everett, burn August 8, 1681. in Dedham, married, November 9, 1710, in Lebanon, Connecticut, Sarah Culver. She was born in 1694, in Norwich, Connecticut, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Backus) Culver. Mr. Everett, in 171 3, was a citizen of Lebanon, and in that year sold land in Coventry. Connecticut. In 1721 he was of Windham, Connecticut, and both himself and wife were members of the Windham church in 1726. He died in Windham. February 6, 1751. His children were: Israel. Daniel, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, Sarah (2), Ebeneezer, Bethiah, John, Mary, Jonathan, Ann, Jeremiah and Abner. (IV) Ebeneezer Everett, born in 1722, in Windham, Connecticut, married Lucy ^loulton, who was baptized in 1728, and died at Sharon, Connecticut, September 28, 1813. aged eighty-five years. Mr. Everett lived in early life in Hebron, Connecticut, and moved to Sharon in 1745, and lived m what was the parish of Ellsworth. Both he and his wife were among the original members of the church organized there in 1802. Mr. Everett enlisted in 1776 in a company of minute-men under Captain Caleb Jewit. His children, born in Sharon, Connecticut, were: Lucy, Jacob, Ebe (Ebeneezer), Eliphalet, Olive, Mehetabel, Sylvia. Lois and Irene. The father died July 24, 1810, at Sharon. (\') Eliphalet Everett, born December 3. 1757. in Sharon, mar- ried Rhoda Peck, a descendant of the "Massachusetts Pecks," and was a farmer, living many years in Sharon (Ellsworth Society). Later he moved to W'atertown, New York. On March 3, 1777, he enlisted as a private soldier for three years, and in April, 1778, was transferred to General Washington's Life Guards and remained with them until 1780. Familv tradition savs he was for two vears steward of Washington's 796 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. military famih'. His children were: Elias. Austin, Laura. Mary and Hampton. He died in 1816 and was buried at Brownville. (VI) Laura (or Loraina) Everett, born September 19, 1787, in Sharon, Connecticut, was married October 18, 1806, to Henry Hatch, of Kent, Connecticut, with whom she removed to Watertown, New York, in 181 1. She died February 4. 1882. Six of their children grew to maturity. Maria, the eldest of these, married Amasa Powers, and lived in Hounsfield. where she died. Mary married (first) Jesse Aj-ers, and (second) Elisha Wakefield, and died in Watertown. Abiah married William Brown, and made her home in East Arlington, Vermont, where she died. Laura Ann became the wife of Nathan Coffeen, of Watertown, where she died. Mahala is the widow of Abner Tremaine, residing in Watertown (see Tremaine). George Whitfield died in May, 1903, at Watertown. JARED CANFIELD TUBES. Jared Canfield Tubbs, for many years a most active factor in the business circles of Watertown, and a thorough business man, was a native of this county, born June 30, 1827, at Evans Mills, and died February 11, 1901. Alanson Tubbs, father of Jared C, was a son of Asa and Philette Tubbs, early settlers of New York state, and his birth occurred in Chatham, New York, February 15. 1801. He was a hatter by trade and after conducting a small business in the town of Champion and in Evans Mills, he removed to Watertown in 1827, and for almost half a century was engaged continuously in the same line of trade. He began manufacturing hats in the old red hat factory which stood upon the river bank at the foot of Arch street, below \^'hittlesey point, Water- town, but the building has long since disappeared. He made his own hats, and year by year the business increased in volume and importance, and his goods were regarded by critical judges as the best on the market. He gained the confidence of the public by his honest and fair dealing, and, being an expert mechanic, he accumulated a competency, and was regarded as one of the leading merchants of his day. for he was contemporaneous with Safford, Ely, Farwell, Peck, and others, and he left a memory of which his descendants may well be proud. He was married in September, 1826. to Camilla Canfield, of Champion, New York, daughter of Jared Canfield, one of the prominent agri- culturists of the county. Three sons were born of this marriage — Tared Canfield, mentioned hereinafter; Sanford Alanson, who was a <^-^U ^ (^ O^^c/^-'Za^ GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 797 teller in the Black River Bank, and died in 1S54, at the age of twenty- two years; and Charles Hobart, who was in partnership with his father until the death of the latter, and continued the business, and is still the owner of the building, which is located at No. 18 Public Square. Alanson Tubbs died in February, 1874. His wife survived him until August 12, 1876. In speaking of Jared C. Tubbs, the Watertown Times said, on the evening following his death: ••The death of Jared Tubbs, an esteemed lifelong resident of this city, occurred at his home on Ten Eyck street at 12:30 this afternoon, in his 74th year. "Mr. Tubbs came to this city with his parents when he was but six months old and has ever since resided here. For twenty years he was connected with the treasurer's ofifice of the R., W. & O. Railroad Company when R. E. Hungerford and" Colonel J. A. Lawyer were treasurers of that company. For a short time after that he was in the insurance office of Henry S. Munson. He has not been actively engaged in business for the past fifteen years, and for many years has been an invalid. He had grown up with the city of Watertown, and among its older citizens he was well known and was highly esteemed for his many sterling qualities of personal worth." He was a modest man, of progressive ideas and keen sensibilities, and possessed many excellent traits of character. He was a member of Trinity (Episcopal) Church, and supported Democratic principles in government affairs. In 1896 and 1901 he voted the Republican ticket, on account of the currency issue. He was a constant reader, and ahvays kept abreast of the times until his death. Mr. Tubbs was married October 22, 1855, to Maria Canfield, daughter of Stephen and Sally Canfield. She was born in Morristown, New York, June 2t„ 1830, and now resides in Watertown. Two children were born of this marriage: Sanford Ernest, Septemlaer i, 1856, died January 30, 1863; and Anna Gertrude, April 10, i860, died December, i, 1861. Stephen Canfield w'as born November i, 1796, in Sandisfield, Mas- sachusetts, and died May 3, 1874, in Watertown. He was a son of John' Canfield, who was born January 18, 1774, and died February 14, 1853, ^t Morristown, New York. Rebecca (Smith), wife of the latter, died July 25, 1825. John Canfield built a hotel in Morristown, which he kept many years, and served as justice of the peace. He was a son of John and Deborah Canfield. The former died July 30, 1834. and his wife July 10, 1817. 798 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Stephen Canfield was married February i, 1824. in Champion, to Sally (Harmon), widow of Jared Kilbourn. She was born March 7, 1801, in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. Mr. Canfield was a farmer in early life, and subsequently kept a store and hotel at "Honest Cor- ners," near Morristown. He continued to till the soil until his retire- ment, in 1862, when he moved to Watertown. His wife died there March 21, 1863. ]\lrs. Tubbs is the onh' one of his children who grew to maturity. HADCOCK. This is an oUl English name, which has conferred credit upon Jefferson county through its representatives, who have been known for their industry, business ability and upright lives. (I) John Hadcock came from Norwich, England, in 1718. and settled in the interior of this state, in Herkimer or Oneida county. He was accompanied Ijy two l.injthers. Thomas and Daniel, but neither of them left any progeny, and all of the name in this part of the state are believed to have descended from John. His wife was a Helmer, a mem- ber of one of the old Dutch families which settled eastern and middle New York. (H) John, son of John Hadcock (i), married a Kane, also of Dutch lineage. They had eight sons and two daughters. (IH) Jacob, fourth child and third son of John Hadcock (2), was born March 20, 1785, in Herkimer county, and married Catherine Kisner, daughter of William Kisner, of Dutch ancestry. She was born October 4, 1786, and died February 11, 1868, in Harrisburg. Lewis county, this state. Jacob Hadcock died at Harrisburg March 4, 1S61. the day on which Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated president. His children are noted as follows: Simeon, the second, born in 1810, died in Copenhagen, Lewis county. Emanuel, born in 1811. was a tailor by trade, and died in the town of Rutland. Hiram, born in 1S14. died in \\'atertown. Philo, 1816. died near Brandnn. Wisconsin. William. iSig. li\-e(l in Pamelia. and died there, near the city fif Watertown. John. 1823. died at Mechanicsville. Iowa. Jacob), 1824. died in Cojienhagen. Joseph, 1827. was a farmer in Rutland, where he died. (IV) Benjamin Hadcock. eldest child of Jacnl) and Catherine, was born March 10, 1808, in Frankfort, Herkimer county. New York, :md was tweh'e years old when his parents moved to Harrisburg. where lie matured, gaining Iiodily strength and \-igor by helping in the clearing GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 709 and tillage of a farm in the wilderness. In the meantime his mental activities were directed by study in the frontier district school. Soon after attaining his majority, he bought a small piece of land, to which he added at various times until he had a fine farm of one hundred and fifty acres. This he sold and then bought a farm in the town of Lowville, near the Denmark line. In 1863 he retired from active farm labor and moved to W'atertown. He purchased five acres of land rmd a lnjuse on the outskirts of the city where his only son now resides. This is on upper State street, and is no longer on the outskirts, being known as No. 105. Here a handsome modern house has l>een erected by the son, and affords the abode of hospitality, good cheer, peace and contentment. Benjamin Hadcock died in Watertown December i, 1891, in his eighty- fourth year. He was a Universalist in religion, and always supported the Democratic party in political contests. Mr. Hadcock was married, December 30. 1834, to Mary Pickert, who was born in ]\Iannheim, Herkimer county, daughter of Frederick Pickert and wile, whose maiden name was W'indecker. Mary (Pickert) Hadcock died May 8, 1858, in Lowville. Subsequently Mr. Hadcock married Almeda Tuttle, of Rutland, who left no issue. A daughter and son came of the first union. The former. Catherine A., is the widow of Stephen Howard, residing in the town of Denmark, Lewis county. ( \' ) George Benjamin Hadcock, son of Benjamin, was born June 18, 1843, ''i Harrisburg. New "\'ork. and grew up on his father's farm, in whose cultivation he bore an active part from an early age. He con- tinued upon this place until his marriage, after which he tilled the Jesse Fulton farm, in the town of Rutland, which is now the property of his wife. Being industrious and energetic, he realized a deserved gain by his labors, and is now in independent circumstances, and retired from the personal cultivation of the farm. He applied sound sense to the manage- ment of the farm, and so diversified his products as to keep the farm in good condition, and realize good crops at the same time. Among his in- terests were dairying and stock growing, and the farm usually supported a herd of t\venty-fi\e cattle, mostly milch cows. In December. 1892, he moved to his ])rcseiit home in Watertown. and is reckoned among the substantial citizens nf the city. He is a memljer of Watertown Grange No. 7, of which he has been overseer and is now trustee. During the existence of the first Odd Fellows' lodge at Black River he retained fel- lowship with it. but has never rejoined since that lodge was disbanded. He is an independent thinker and accepts in general the faith of the Uni- 800 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. versalist church. While he classes himself as a Democrat, he is not bound by partisan behests, and votes according to his own judgment, which is usually found to be sound. On December 20, 1870, Mr. Hadcock was married to Miss Ida Eu- dora Fulton, who was bom September 7, 1849, in Rutland, a daughter of Jesse Fulton (see Fulton, IV). Their children are: Jesse Benjamin, born August 8, 1872; Lynn George, March 31, 1875; ^^nd Jerome Ful- ton, March 26, 1880, all at home with parents. JOHN CLARKE, who died at his home in Watertown, April 12, 1S65, was one of the most prominent lawyers of northern New York, a man highly respected for his integrity and ability and, therefore, trusted with great interests, and he never betrayed a trust. From a long line oi New England ancestors he inherited those traits w^hich have distin- guished the American people, both individually and as a nation. (I) John Clarke, a native of Great Mundon, Hertfordshire, Eng- land, came to America in 1632 and settled, first, at Cambridge, Massachu- setts. Four years later he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1046 to Saybrook. where he became an extensive landholder. In his old age he removed to Milford, where he had a brother George Clarke, and died there in 1673. In company with Captain Mason, under the author- ity of the general court, he built the fort at Saybrook. His wife is sup- posed to have been a Coley, and their children were : John, Joseph, Elizabeth and Sarah. The second son was lost at sea. The elder daugh- ter married William Pratt, of Saybrook, and the younger became the wife of William Huntmgton. (II) John, eldest child of John Clarke, married Rebecca Porter and lived in Saybrook. (III) Major John Porter Clarke, son of John and Rebecca (Por- ter) Clarke, was born in 1655, at Saybrook, and died in 1736. He mar- ried Rebecca Beaumont, and had a numerous family — Abigail, Rebecca, John, Joseph, Nathaniel (a graduate of Yale), Temperance and Samuel. (IV) Samuel, youngest child of ^Major John P. and Rebecca (Beaumont) Clarke, was born in 1702, and when twenty years of age married iMary Minor. Their children were: Samuel, Joanna, Stephen and Titus. (V) Samuel, eldest child of Samuel and Mary (Minor) Clarke, was born in 1723. and died in 1798. He married Patience Pratt, who died early in 1761. and before the close of the year he married Azubah GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 801 King-, who died in 1810. He had a large family uf children, namely: Patience (born in 1748, died young), Minor (died in infancy), Rebecca, (died young), Samuel (who was drowned in 1786), Mary, Patience, Ezra, Azubah, Rufus, a son unnamed. Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and another 5on unnamed. (VI) Ezra, son ot Samuel Clarke (2), was born and lived and died in Saybrook. He married Betsey Whittlesey. (VH) Jidin Clarke, son of Ezra and Ltetsey (Whittlesey) Clarke, was born Ma}- i. 1799. in Saybnxjk, where he grew up. He attended the village school until sixteen years old. w;!s early put to work, being employed in a store. His thirst for knowledge was not easily quenched, and he prepared for college by studying during every leisure hour and reciting at night, after his duties at the store were over, his preceptor being Parson Hotchkiss. a learned man uf Saybrook. In 1820, having attained his majorit)-. he went to 0\-id, Xew York, where he taught school. Late in that year he came to Watertown, where his elder brother, Charles E. Clarke, has establi.shind a law office, and began the study of law with his brother. In the meantime, to support himself, he taught in the Factory District school during part of the year 182 1-2. Near the close of the last-named year he went to New York city and en- tered the law office of Fessenden & Ketchani, and was admitted to the bar in 1824. In the autumn of that year he started for Savannah. Georgia, in a sailing vessel, to establish himself in practice. Through unflagging industry and rigid economy he had secured a small stock of law books, clothing and other necessities, all of which were swept away in the wreck of the vessel near Darien, Georgia, m a terrific storm. But the measure of his misfortunes was not yet full, and he was seized with an attack of yellow fever. After a partial recovery, acting under the advice of his physician, he made his way back to New York. Here were friends to welcome and aid him in a new start in the world, and he set resolutely to work to obtain a new footing. Being blest with a sound constitution, and having recovered his health, he soon repaid those who had aided him, and' rapidly established himself in a lucrative practice. He came to Watertown and became a partner of his brother, and his close appli- cation to the duties of his office nnd the interest of his clients brought him a brilliant professional reputation in all courts. He was thorough in research, and had an immense capacity for work, and his kindness of heart and fine mind and character won and retained friends. Though somewhat abrupt and brusciue in manner, his warm heart and generous 802 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. nature were apparent to all who were privileged to know him well. He continued in active practice until his death. April u. 18O5. At the time of his funeral the city was draped in mourning on account of the death of President Lincoln. Mr. Clarke was a regular attendant of the First Presbyterian church, and was acti\-e in establishing and supporting the Jefferson County Orphan's Home, and in the general promotion of education. He was a stern opponent of slavery, being a lover of justice, and was in succession a Whig, "Knowncthing." Abolitionist and Republican. While loyal to the last-named, he was conservative, and did not be- lieve the civil war necessary. During the last ten years of practice he was a partner of Delano C. Calvin. He was attorney for large land owners of this section in the early dax-s, and defended many persons accused of particii)atioii in (.r ai'ling the i)Vosecution of the "Patriot" War. In h'eliruary. 1(840. he was appointed surrogate, to fill a vacancy, and served subseciuently liy election until 1844. His successor died be- fore the close of his term, and Mr. Clarke again fulfilled the duties of the office until a new election. At one time he was considered by the Democratic leaders as a candidate for judge, because of his well-known ability and conservative character, but he did not desire the position, preferring the emoluments and honor of a successful practice. In 1840 Yale College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. John Clarke was married. October 5. 1830. to Elizalieth Smith, who was born in 1809, in Watertown. a daughter of William and Ellice (Xasli) Smith, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She died April 25. 1840. sur\i\Td l)y three of her four children. Elizabeth, the eldest of these, resides in Watertown, unmarried. Mary Louise is the wife of Le\'i A. Johnson (q. v.). Juliet died at the age of fourteen years. In 1841 Mr. Clarke married Cornelia Catherine Ranney. who was Frances Grace l^ecame the wife of George W. Knowlton. and died in 1868 (.see Knowlton). born at Adams, this county, a daughter of Butler and Orra (Heath) Ranney. natives of Connecticut. She died October 14, 1892. aged eighty Years, and her memory is as dearly clierished by her foster children as bv her own surviving ciiild. The younger. Helen Minerva, died at the age of one vear, and the elder. Cornelia, is the wife of Frederick ^I, Sey- mour, of Watertown. (VTI) CH.XRLES E. CL.\RKE was a native of Saybrook, Con- necticut, born about 1789. Shortly after his graduation from Yale Col- GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. m>3 lege lie began a cnurse oi stud}- in the law in Greene connty, Xew York, continued the same in Jefferson count\-, and was there admitted as an attorney in 1813. His career as a lawyer was distinguished by sterling character, a display of comprehensi\-e knowledge of the law. and a steady devotion to the best interests of his numerous clients. Having a command of language that was truly remarkable, and being specially endowed with a \ast store of wit. humor and eloquence, be achieved suc- cess in his chosen calling and gained a prominent position at the bar. Subsequent to the year 1S25, when bis brother. John Clarke, was ad- mitted to the bar, a copartnership was ft.irmed b}- the two Ijrotbers un- der the name of C. E. & J. Clarke, and this connection continued until about the A'ear 184S. About 1830, or later, Charles E. Clarke purchased a gristmill, sawmill and distillery at the Great Bend, the greater part of which was formerly the property of Angel Potter, rmd in the management and operation of the same he spent the larger part of his time thereafter. During the terms of the court be came and assisted his brother in the preparation and trial of cases, taking the leading part until after 1S48. and assisting in important cases until 1850. He was elected to the as- sembly in 1839 and 1840, and in 1848 was elected to congress, and in these important oftices his record was conspicuously meritorious. He enjoyed the confidence of his constituents and the esteem of his col- leagues for the energy and fidelity he displayed in contending for the interests of the people. In ^^'atertown. New York, where he resided for many years, he was held in peculiar honor, anrl there set an example of citizenship which was well worthy of emulation. His death occurred in 1863, at the age of seventy-four years. (Vnr) John Victor Clarke, son of Charles E. and Hannah (San- ford) Clarke, was born Xovember 14, 1859, in Great Bend, Xew York, and went to Watertown with his mother after bis father's death. He was educated in the public schools of Watertown, and set about his own support at an early age. Entering the employ of George B. Phelps, an extensive railroad contractor, he rapidly acquired a knowledge of civil engineering, and in 1886 became a member of the firm of Moffett, Hodg- kins & Clarke, contractors. This included John F. Moffett and H. C. Hodgkins, well known in connection with railroad and other construc- tion contracts. During his connection with this firm it remo\-ed head- quarters to New York city, where it was dissolved. Mr. Clarke went to White Plains, where he became interested in 804 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. the Le A'alley Carbon Brush Company, of which he was made president. Through his energy and good Ijusiness management, it was made a suc- cess, and he was cut off by death in tlie midst of a most useful and prom- ising career, June g, 1904. He was a vahied member of the Larchmont Yacht Chib and the Colonial and Knowlwood Clubs, and his kind na- ture, affable manners and unimpeachable integrity lirought to him and retained many warm friendships. A true and worthy representative of a noble ancestry, his demise was a distinct loss to the community at large, as well as to a sorrowing family. Mr. Clarke was married in 1884 to Aliss Lucile Copley, daughter of Hiram Copley (see Copley, VI). Mrs. Clarke is a lady of good busi- ness f^uaiifications, as well as graceful accomplishments and fine per- sonality, as is shown by her successful management of the business be- queathed to her by her lamented husliand. Three children remain to comfort her in her bereavement, namely : John Victor. Copley and Car- ree Rosalind. JOHN JAY LAMON, who died at his home on Paddock street, Watertown. April 21, 1903, was among the successful business men of that city, a descendant of one of the first to locate in Jefferson county. (I) Francis Lamon was the first of the name known to his descendants in this section. His Avife was Elizabeth Ray. Not far from 1780 they moved from Salem. Washington county, this state, to Bridgewater, Oneida county, taking some live-stock. It is said that they were not well-to-do at that time, and moved to the newer country to improve their prospects. They had seven sons and one daughter. One of the sons, Francis, was a small boy when they moved, and could not keep up with the party on foot, so he was placed on the back of one of the steers and got along comfortably. Those were pioneer times, and none of the conveniences of to-day were available, in travel or almost any undertaking. Francis Lamon died in Hounsfield at the age of one hundred and three years, and his wife about ten years younger. Their remains are supposed to rest in Sulphur Springs cemetery. Fol- lowing is a brief account of their children : John, the eldest, settled in the western part of this state, where he reared a family. Isaac, the second, lived at Lyons, New York. James settled in Hounsfield, where his father gave him fifty acres of land. Justice settled at Manyunk, Pennsylvania, where he died, and had a family of eight children. Noah lived and died in Belleville, this county. Levi lived in the town of 1^ 9 ^i^^^^uzty^^ GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 805 Hounsnelil, between Sackets Harbor and Dexter. Francis, tbe youngest son, is nientioned hereinafter. Anna Ijecame the wife of Timothy Andrus, and Hved in Hounsfield. (II) Francis Lamon, son of Francis and Ehzaljeth. was born April 19, 1775, in Salens, New York. After he came of age, his father gave him a small piece of wild land, which he cleared up and impruved. About 1802 he traded this for one hundred acres on iJry Hill, in the town of Watertown, and brought his family here in the following spring. He had only one child then. The remo\al was made on snow, in the month of March, and was attended with many difticulties and hard- sh.ips. He had an ox-team, a cow, pig and a few sheep. The latter animals caused much trouble, on account of their aversion to turning out in the deep snow, in passing or meeting teams. On reaching Dry Hill, they found a log hut erected the previous year by Samuel Knapp, in the deep forest. No roof had yet been put on, and Mr. Lamon went three miles with his oxen to a small sawmill, where he obtained a few boards. With these he placed a roof on the cabin and settled his family there until he coukl get on his own land, alnjut a mile away, and provide some shelter. On the arrival of Knapp, a few days later, the latter was pleased to know that he would have a neighbor, and made Mr. Lamon and family welcome. As soon as he could chop out space for and erect a cabin, Mr. Lamon moved to his land and hastened to clear as much as possible, in order to raise something for the suc- ceeding winter. It was with ditTiculty that he kept his stock from wan- dering back toward their former home, during the first year, and a sharp ear was needed in listening for the bell which was hung on the neck of one of the oxen. Wild animals stole his young stock, and his experience, like that of other pioneers, was somew'hat unpleasant, while laying the foundation of the present civilization enjoyed by his (.le- scendants. He was married in Bridgewater, March 23, 1797, to Philena Crane, who was born March 26, 1779, and died Septemlier 22. 1844, in the village of Watertown, whither they moved in 1836. At that time his lands amounted to four hundred and fifty acres, and he sold out on removing to the village. He died July 29, 1862, aged eighty-seven years. Francis and Philena Lamon had two daughters and two sons. Huldah, the first, married Alpheus Wilson, when she was fourteen years of age and died at twenty-one, having borne four children. Lorinda, the second, married Garrett Ives, and died at the birth of her son, 606 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Francis Ives, now deceased. Joel married Phebe Jacquitli, and settled at Sycamore, Ohio. (III) Francis Ray, youngest son of Francis (2), was born Jnne 24, 1807, in the town of Watertown, where he grew up on his father's farm. His health w'as feeble for many years in early life, but he lived to a great age, being eighty-three years old when he died, February 14, 1 89 1. \Mien a young man he made fishing trips to the banks of New Foundland, and worked one winter in a store in New York city. After keeping a grocery in Watertown a year or two, about 1833, he bought a hotel, the "Center House," in that village, which he conducted several years. At one time he sold it and subsequently re-purchased, finally selling out about 1844. He also kept a livery, in connection with the hotel. After buying and selling several farms, he settled on State street, about a mile from "the Square." where he built a house and lived a few years. About i860 he sold out and moved to \'ineland, New Jersey, to enjoy a milder climate. He returned to Watertown in 1873, and purchased a home on Academy street, where he died. He attended the Universalist church, of which he was a liberal supporter. A Whig in early life, he was among the first supporters of the Repub- lican party. He was married May i, 1833, to Susan Miles, who was born August 3, 181 1, in Watertov.n, a daughter of Jonathan E. and Lucinda (Sheldon) Aides, pioneer settlers of that town, coming in 1804. Mrs. Susan Lamon died October 27, 1854, and about 1859 Mr. Lamon mar- ried Esther Cobb, who survived him, dying in Watertown, December JO, 1899. She was born August 9, 1824, in Marcy, Oneida county. Air. Lamon's children were all born of the first marriage. The eldest, Francis Aides, long a merchant of Watertown, now resides in that city. Lorinda Ives is the wife of Isaac Proctor Powers, of Water- town. Plmy Eugene, born September 26, 1843, died April 5, 1903, in Watertown. John J. receives further mention below. (IV) John Jay, youngesi child of Francis R. and Susan (Allies) Lamon, was born November 2, 1845, in a house fronting the Public Square, in Watertown. He was educated in the public schools of Water- town ana the seniniary at Clinton, Oneitla county. New York. Soon after attauiing his majority he became a partner of the late Henry AI. Ball, in conducting a grocery business at numlier 4 Washington street, and suljscqucntly jjurchased the interest of his ]]artner and continued GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. So7 the business alone. _\fter eight years in this hne, he kept a meat market on Frankhn street hfieei: years. In the meantime Air. Lamon acquired some real estate and, on disposing of iiis mari^et, gave his entire attention to his realty interests, buying and selling property as long as he continued to do anything. While conducting a market, he also dealt largely in cattle and farm machinery, and was widely known among the rural population of this and neighboring counties. During the last ten years of his life his health was not good, and he attempted no new enterprises. In speaking of Air. Lamon's character, the Watertown Statidard of the day following his death said : "He was noticeable among men for the independence and strong force of character which shone through his striking personality, making him a man once seen not easily for- gotten. He was passionately devoted to his family. A man of sound judgment, he always had the hearty support of the best people of the city. His infinite love for luimanity was a very prominent point in his character. Mr. Lamon served several years as a member of the board of public works of this city, and received much praise from the city officials and the general public, for his very efficient work in that capacity." John J. Lamon was married December 12, 1867, to Miss Helen Medora Ball, daughter of H. M. Ball (see Ball, VII). Four children survive him, with the widow, all residing in Watertown, namely: Selma G., Alice AL, Harry AI. and Fred R. W hile somewhat eccentric and independent in character. Air. La- mon's heart and purse were open to e\-erybody, and he often assumed, through sympathy, much of the burdens of others. He was always inter- ested in the welfare of the Universalist church, which he sought to pro- mote in every way. The Utica Globe said of him : "He was a faithful official and a man who, though brusque in manner and positive in con- victions, counted everybody his friends. A large proportion of the • ilder residents of the city knew him and \alued highly his acquaintance." PEXNIAIAX. The name of Penniman was early planted in this countr}-. and figures extcnsi\-ely in the history (jf Bijston and its neigh- boring tcnvns. It is al^-o found in \vestern Alassachusetts, and in Xew Ham]3shire and Xew \'ijrk. One nf the early settlers of this county was Zuriel Penniman. who receives further mentiim belnw. (I) James Penniman was .'idmitted a freeman at Boston in 1631. 808 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Witli his wife Lydia he settled in Braintree in 1639. and died there De^ cember 26, 1664. He had ten children. (II) Deacon Joseph Penniman, son of James and Lydia Penni- man, was born August i, 1639. in Braintree. and married Waiting ■Rol> inson, daughter of William Robinson, of Dorchester. She died August 21. 1690, and he subsequently married Widow Sarah Stone, daughter of Deacon Samuel Bass, of Braintree. He died November 5. 1705. and his widow was living in 1739. (III) Moses, son of Deacon Joseph Penniman and his first wife, Waiting (Robinson), third of their seven children, was born February 14, 1677, in Braintree. His will, dated July 9. 1718. mentions his wife, Mary. He died ten days after making his will. (IV) Moses (2), son of Moses (i) and Mary Penniman. was born June i, 1715, the last of six children of his parents. He ^as mar- ried, in Boston. April 7. 1737, by Rev. Dr. Cutler, rector of King"s Chapel, to Rebecca Edmonds, both of Braintree. (V) William, son of Moses (2) and Rebecca (Edmonds) Penni- man. was born in 1738. in Braintree. and lived Si>mt time in Chester. Massachusetts, whence he went to Xorth Adams, same state, where he died in 18 10. He was married, in Boston. January 12. 1769. by Rev. \\'illiam Walter, to Catherine Hivell. (VI) Zuriel Penniman was born I-'eliruary. 13. 17S8. in Keene. Xew Hampshire, and was very early at Black River and Great Bend, in this county. He was married, June 12, 182 1, to Almira Freeman, daughter of Colonel Alfred Freeman, a pioneer settler of Wilna. After her death he married Nancy Everett, who was born March 12, 1795, in New Hampslure. Mr. Penniman purchased land in Wilna, which he cleared, and on which his descendants now reside. It is located about four miles in a northerly direction from the village of Carthage, and now includes some of the finest sugar trees for which that town is famous. The present farm covers one hundred acres, and has a fine brick house and other first-class farm buildings. (\^II) Guy Earl Penniman. son of Zuriel and Nancy (Everett) Penniman. was born January 4, 1827. in the town of Rutland, and was reared in Wilna on his father's farm. He attended the district schimN of his time, and made farming his business through life. When the farm came to his hands by inheritance it had forty-five acres of cleared land, and he continued to improve and till it until old age. He ilied Jan- uary I, 1903, being only three days short of seventy-six years old. He GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 809 '•ttended the Universalist church, and was a Repubhcan in politics. An industrinr.s and (juiet farmer, he (Hd not care for ofhcial honors, and filled only minor offices which duty seemed to recjuire of him. He was married, on the day he was twenty-tvvO' years old. to Made- line. daui^lUer of John and Susan Smith, who receive further mention in this article. His children were Guy and Carrie, the latter now the wife of Dexter Crowner, residing on the parental homestead in Wilna. John Smith was employed when a young man by Stephen Girard, the noted Philadelphia philanthropist, and was married in New Jersey to a native of that state. In the earliest days he came with teams to W'ilna, making" his way through the v.'ilderness by the guidance of blazed trees, and settled five miles northeast of the present village of Carthage. He was possessed of some means at the time of his arrival, and brought iiis large family with him. He also brouglit some stock, and was soon engaged in successful farming. He built by far the most pretentious house in the town, of stone, and it is still standing and occupied. He was a highly respected citizen, and wielded considerable influence in local affairs in his time. All of his family, save one, are now deceased. His sons were: John, Alonzo and Joseph. The first two died in Wilna, and the last resides in Hailesboro, St. Lawrence county, this state. Of th:e daughters. Lorissa became the wife of Simeon Fulton (see Fulton, IV). Emeline married John Twining, of Denmark. Lewis county. Madeline was the wife of Guy Earl Penniman. Susan, wife of Eber Mayhew, lived near Sterlingville, in Wilna. Julia married Henry Pearce, and lived near the center of Wilna. Cora died unmarried, and Almini married Warren Crowner, of Wilna. (VIII) Guy Penniman, elder child and only son of Guy Earl and Madeline (Smith "I Penniman, was born October 29. 1830, in Wilna. where he grew up, remaining on the home farm until twenty-three years of age. He attended the common school and spent one term at Low\-ille Academy.' Ha\ing an active mind, he has kept abreast of the times, and is well informed on topics of usual interest in his community. For ten years he tilled land adjoining the home farm, and was suljsequently en- gaged in farming m the eastern ])art of the town. He sold this place and purchased one hundred and fifty acres, which he still owns, near Natural Bridge, and tilled it until 1888. when he moved to Carthage. Since that time he lias 'neen engaged in the livery business, with success, in that ])lace. In T()03 he enlarged his jiroperty on Schno] street, by pur- chase, and now maintains large 'ibeds fur the accommoilation of farmers' 810 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. teams and \ehicles. Of genial ami geneiMus nature, he makes and re- tains friends. ;\ir. Penniman attend? and suppt.irts the Universalist church, and is a substantial and sound Republican. While attentive to his business, without desire for public responsibility, he has served very acceptably as collector of his native town, and is frecjuently called upon to assist in the duties of the collector, Ijecause of his success in that line of effort. Mr. Penniman was married, November 6, 1873, to Miss Cornelia M. Colburn, a native of Wilna. daughter of Orlin and Eliza (Gates) Col- bum, of Champion and Wilna. Her grandfather, Amos Colburn, and his brother, Asa, were among the pioneers of Champion. Orlin Col- burn sawed by hand the plank used in making the first bridge over Black river, at the present village of Deferiet. Two children complete the fam- ily of Guy and Cornelia M. Penniman — Phila P. and Eber Guy. The former is now the wife of Elias Wagar, of Shenandoah. Dutchess county, this state. The latter conducts a harness store on School street, Car- thage. He was married, June 4. 1902, to Annah Claude Gardner of Utica. GEORGE BRAGG MASSEY. Xo name in the annals of Water- town holds a more conspicuous or more honored place than Massey. The family has been represented there since the earliest settlement of the town, and has been a virile element in its development and growth. Hart Massey, who pushed across the Vermont frontier into the northern wilderness, was himself of strong and pioneering ancestry. He was a descendant of one of the earliest comers to New England, Jeffrey Massey (I), who was born in 1593, in England, and died in 1677, in Salem, Massachusetts, where he was i.me of the first settlers. The first white male born in that town (1631) was his son, John Massey (H). The latter had a son, John Massey (HI), who was born in 1668. (IV) Deacon Jonathan Massey, son of John (HI), was born July 6, 1 747. and was one of a family of eight sons and three daughters. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving with the New Hampshire militia, and in 1776 being a lieutenant in the continental armv. He died in Watertown March 30, 1830. (V) Hart, son of Jonathan Massey, was born December 5, 1771, in Salem, New Hampshire. In 1792 the family moved to Windsor, Vermont, where Hart married Lucy, a daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Swain, in 1795. She was born in 1771. in Reading, Massachusetts. C?^AC^2;,^z,<z_^. GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. *n Hart Massey went to Watertown in 1800. his family following the next year. On the land he bought the town grew up. His first purchase was ninety acres, to which he soon added a hundred more. In 1808 he was appointed colonel and inspector of state troops, having previously been in service as quartermaster in Colonel Abijah Putnam's regiment, and as adjutant to Colonel Gershom Tuttle. He was also a collector of customs at Sackets Harbor during the war of 18 12, when that port was an important post. Two war ships were built there of timbers taken from the forest, and put in commission, one within forty-five, and the other within eighty days. He received a number of appoint- ments to civil office, being deputy collector of the county when it was attached to Oneida county, and in 1820 was made common pleas judge. In any capacity he was a noteworthy man, and always held the high regard of the community. He was a Quaker, and the first religious services of the town were held in his cabin on the first Sunday after his arrival with his family. He died in Watertown March 20, 1853, the half centur)' of his life there being marked by great industrial devel- opmeHt. (VI) Edward Swain Massey, son of Hart JMassey, was born in Watertown. October 18, 1806. He was a farmer, and in 1828 built the house where his son George B. now lives. He was active in business circles and local public life, inheriting much of his father's energy'. He was the first coal dealer of the town, and was a director of the Jefiferson County Bank. He was adjutant in the military service, when the troops were called out at the time of the Fenian invasion of Canada. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, and was twice married. The first wife, Nancy Kilbourn, of Champion, was wedded May 28, 1828, and died April 17, 1832, being the mother of two chil- dren, Fred K. and Emma S. The second wife, Esther Bragg, was a daughter of Jairus Bragg, of Newport, Herkimer county, this state, and bore him six children, Maria E., George B., Mary E., Jairus Ed- ward, Albert P., and Annie M., of whom George B., Mary E., wife of George Munson of New York, and Anna M. are now living. Edward S. Massey died July 14, 1876, in Watertown. (VTI) George B. Massey was born January i, 1836, in the house which has always been his home, and educated in the public schools and Homer Academy. .\t the age of fourteen he entered the drug store of T. H. Camp, as clerk, and slinwed such adaptability and indus- try that eight years later he was made junior partner. In the meantime, 812 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. his education iiad been completed at Homer. Soon after the firm name was changed to Camp and Massey, under wliich name it was conducted until 1899, though in 1889 Mr. Massey l:iecame sole owner. He has been in some manner connected with all W'atertown's more important financial enterjjrises. He is \ice jiresident of the New York Air Brake Company, the largest manufacturing cr)ncern in the city, and president of the Excelsior Carriage Company, a concern famous throughout the country for the superior quality of its output. He is also president of the Jefferson County National Bank, of which he has been a director for thirty years, and was over six years vice president; was a director of the Watertown Street Railway Company, is a director of the Water- town Steam Engine Company, and was, during its existence in Water- town, a director of the Davis Sewing Machine Company. He has up- held the interest which his father had in church work, having been treasurer of the Sunday school and of the Jefferson County Bible Society for many years. He has also felt great interest in the Young Men's Christian Association and done much constructive work for the organi- zation, in which he has held the ofiice of treasurer over twenty-five years. He was among the founders of tlie Jefferson County Historical Society, and has been its secretary four years. In 1861 he married Sarah H. Thompson, who died the next year, lea\"ing no children. ALBERT PARSON MASSEY, who died June 5, 1898, was a representati\'e of one of the oldest families of Watertown, and a man of marked mechanical genius. His natural ability was developed by a thorough scientific education, and he was the inventor of industrial appli- ances of great moment. His ancestors were among the first to push across the New England frontier into tlie wilderness of northern New York, and they were of a fibre and a temper to make themselves felt as a benignant and constructi\-e force in the industrial upbuilding of the community, and the formation of its social traditions. For account of the line of descent, see .sketch of George B. Massey. Albert Parson Massey was liorn March 30, 1842, in Watertown, and recei\-ed his preliminary education in the public schools there. The unusual order of his mind was early evident, and he went to Yale Col- lege, where he was graduated in the scientific course. He went to San Francisco and afterward to the Sandwich Islands in the course of his professional work. Returning to Cleveland, Ohio, he liecame a member GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. .^15 of the firm of Younglove & Massey. manufacturers of agricultural im- plements. He invented a straw-cutter, among other pieces of valuable machiner\-. In 1887 he came back to Watertown, and became an expert for the New York Air Brake Company, perfecting for it many important inventions. The company was in litigation with the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, and his mechanical knowledge and expert testimony on the stand at the trial turned the decision in favor of the former. The business of the company was not in a prosperous state when ^Nlr. ]\Iassey became its mechanical expert. Init with the Massey air brake, which was his invention, also engineer's \-al\e, the company made a great success. He had a fine mind that reached beyond his special field, and found pleasure in all lines of liberal culture. While at Ceveland he served as librarian of the Case Public Librar}^ He died at sea while seeking to restore his broken health, and he literally gave his life for the New York Air Brake Company. Mr. Massey was known as a Christian man and he was active in the work of the local Presbyterian church, in which he was manv years a trustee. He married, October 18, 1870, Phoebe Scott Griffith, daughter of Walter S. Griffith, of Brooklyn, president of the Home Life Insurance Company. He was de\'Oted to family life, a considerate and helpful friend, and a man of wide and generous sympathies. His wife is active in the work of the church and of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, interests to which her husband gave his cordial support. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Massey, namely : Frank L. : Eliza- beth Griffith, who died in infancy; George B., a graduate of Yale Uni- versity: ^^'alter G., a graduate of Cornell: and Clara E., at home with her mother. In the spring of 1903 the sons incorporated the Massey Machine Company, and built a plant on Pearl street, where they are turning out lathes and other heavy machine work. Tlie president is George B. Massey ; vice president, Frank L. Massey : secretary, W. G. Massey ; and treasurer, George B. Massey, second. The last-named is a veteran of the Cuban and Philippine wars, having served as ensign in the navy. In speaking of Mr. Massey 's career, the IVaterto'iiiih Times said : "It was his genius that turned defeat into success when the New York Air Brake Conipnny's powerful ri\al. the Westinghouse Company, jirocured an injunctinn which declared that a certain principle invnl\-ed in the cnnstruction of the Watertcwn brake was an infringement on tiie 816 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Westinghouse patent. 'Mv. ]\Iassey at that time devised a new valve entirely different from the Westinghouse pattern, and operating even more effectually than the old valve, practically nullifying the injunction and placing his company's product at the front again. This, though perhaps his most notahle achievement of its kind, is only an indication of the strength and versatility of his mechanical genius. Unlike many inventors, there was nothing vague or visionary in the mental concepts that he brought to such successful conclusion. His ideas were sound and practical and were nearly always successfully executed. "He was essentially a busy man and could spare but little time to society, but his home life was his rest and solace, the atmosphere in which he was relieved from the mental strain and constant thought of his life-taxing work and where he found his greatest pleasure." FRA\'CIS W. H. MASSEY, M. D. In no other county of the Empire state has the medical profession been more ably represented than in Jefferson county. During the lapse of a century skilful and honorable physicians have, in each generation, taken their places in the ranks of the cnunty practitioners. In none of these have the peculiar and distinguishing characteristics of the profession been more worthily exemplified than in Dr. Francis W. H. Massey of Brownville. He is a lineal descendant of Jeffrey ]\Iassey, wdio was born in England in 1593, and was one of the original settlers of Salem, Alassachusetts. (For complete genealogy, see George B. Masse}', in this work.) (V) Hart Massey, third son of Jonathan ]Massey, purchased a tract of land on which a portion of the city of Watertown is now situ- ated. Here in 1801 he brought his family, and first resided in a house where the Paddock Arcade now stands, removing thence to the lot now owned by E. L. Paddock, on Washington street. In 1S12 he built the first brick house erected in the county, an edifice which is still standing on Massey avenue. He is remembered as one of those who have sat with honor on the bench of Jefferson county. (VI) Solon Massey, second child and elder son of Hart Massey, was born July 29, 1798, and was but three years old wdien brought by his parents to Watertown. He was a man of literary ability and was the author of a series of articles in the Watertown papers, signed "A Link in the Chain," which describe the early settlement of Jefferson county. The name of his wife was Alary Esther Boalt. Mr. Massey passed his life GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 817 as a fanner on the homestead, his death occurring when he liad reached the age of seventy-two. (VII) Wilh'am Penn Ivjassey. son of Solon and ^lary Esther (Boalt) Massey, was liorn September 23, 1824. in the town of Water- town, and at the age of nine years went to hve with his uncle by mar- riage. Dr. James K. Bates, who conducted a drug store at Brownville and also for some years held the office of postmaster. ]\Ir, Massey re- ceived his education in the select schools of Brownville and at the Black River Literary and Religious Institute of Watertown. During the winter of 1843-44 he taught school near Cape \^incent, and then regxilarly commenced the stud}' of medicine with Dr. Bates, attended lectures at the University of New York during the sessions of 1846-47 and 1847-48, and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1848. Returning to Brownville, he succeeded to the practice of Dr. Bates, who removed to Watertown shortly after. He built up a large practice and gained the confidence, respect and esteem of the community in which he lived, his advice being frequently sought in matters political, as well as professional, by eminent men in all parts of the county. In August, 1855, while returning from Perch River, he was thrown from his carriage and was found lying in the road unconscious, his shoulder broken, his spine injured and his limbs paralyzed. He was disabled until the next November, and was then not fully recovered, overexertion or anxiety causing attacks which on several occasions threatened his life. This accident, by prostrating his nervous system, was the main factor in shortening his career, but his energy and ambition triumphed over his bodily ills, notwithstanding which he led an active life. The winter of 1860-61 he spent in New York, attending lectures and visit- ing the various hospitals of that city. In 1881 he was appointed exam- ining surgeon for pensions, and with Drs. C. AI. Johnson and J. Morti- mer Crawe constituted the board of pension surg'eons for Jefferson county. Dr. Massey held the office of treasurer of the board and was also a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society. In politics he was a stanch Republican. He was a member of the Presbvterian church of Brownville, in which for many years he served as elder. Dr. Massey married, ]\Iay 8, 1848, Adeline, born in 1822, in Coop- erstown, Otsego county. New York, daughter of Charles and Abigail Robinson (Macomber) Smith, of Utica, New York. Charles Smith was a cotton manufacturer. He spent his last years and died in Coopers- town, being seventy-two years old at the time of his death. Of the 818 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. children born to him and his wife only two survive : C. W. Smith, of Brooklyn, New York ; and Mrs. S. W. Paine, of Rochester, New York. Dr. and Mrs. Massey were the parents of two children : Frederick, who is extensively engaged in business as a dry-goods merchant in Rochester, Minnesota ; and Francis W. H., mentioned at length hereinafter. Dr. Massey was a lifelong resident of Brownville, and died there May 22, 1883, under circumstances of singular and striking interest. While engaged in dressing the wound of a patient who had just been injured, he fell, and in a few minutes expired. Although the suddenness of his death was a shock, not only to his family and friends, but to the entire community, to which he had so long ministered and in which he was so greatly belo\-ed, it was felt to be fitting that he should close his long career of bene\-olence and usefulness while in the active dis- charge of those duties to which he had so constantly and unselfishly devoted himself. Francis W. H. Massey, son of William Penn and Adeline (Smith) Massey, was born June 16. 1853. in Brownville. where he received his primary education in the common schools, afterward attending the Adams Collegiate Institute. In 1S74 he entered the University of Mich- igan, Ann Arbor, jNIichigan, graduating in pharmacy in 1876. and later began a course of medical study under the guidance of his father. In 1884 he received from the medical department of the University of New York the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and entered upon the dis- charge of his professional duties in Brownville, succeeding, on the death of his father, to the latter's practice. Of the position which Dr. Massey has for many years held in the ranks of the medical profession of Jeffer- son county, it is sufficient to say that it is worthy of the son of such a father. He has served as president of the Jeft'erson County jNIedical Society. Politically he is a Republican. In the Presbyterian church, of which he is a member, he also serves as elcler, an office in which every generation of the family has been re]iresented for more than a hundred years. Dr. Massey married, September 2^, 1878, Nellie Torrey, and they are the parents rif fi\-e children : Mary, who is now studying art in Brooklyn, New York; Jennie; Torrey: Ruth: and Francis. Mrs. Massey is the daughter of Silas H. Torrey, a prominent lawyer of Saratoga countv. He and his wife Marion were jiarents of six children: Nellie, who was born in 1838, in Saratoga cnunty, and became the wife of Dr. Francis W. H. ]\Iassey. as mentioned above; Julia; Jennie; Belle, GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. S19 who resides in California, as clo her two sisters liereinbefore mentioned: Cora, who lives in Philadelphia: antl lunily. who is a resident of Oberlin, Ohio. Both Mr. and I\Irs. Torrey ilied at the cnniparatively early as^e of fifty-five years. ALFRED LIXLEY GRAXGER. one of the successfnl farmers and good citizens of Champion, is a scion of one of the oldest families in northern N'ew York, a family that distinguished itself in the war for in- dependence, as well as in civil life. (I) The founder of the family was Launcelot Granger, a native of England, who was among the settlers of X'ewbury. Massachusetts. He was one of the one hundred persons who received a grant of land in 1680 in what is now Suffield, Connecticut, then called Southold, and a part of Massachusetts. He died in that town in 1689. (H) Abraham Granger, son of Launcelot, born April 17, 1^173, in Newbury, married (first), in 1706, Hannah, daughter of Deacon John and Esther (Prichet) Hanchett, of Suffield. She died in 1718, and he married (second), Hannah (surname unknown), who died June 7. 1726. Mr. Granger was a farmer and resided in Suffield, where he died. One child, Benjamin, was born of the first marriage. Januarj- 15. 1708. Two sons and a daughter were the fruit of the second union, born as follows: AJjraham, January 5, 1720: Seth, May, 1723: Hannah. May 25, 1726. (HI) Seth Granger, second son of Abraham and Hannah Granger, born in Suffield, was married. May 4, 175 1, to Ruth, daughter of Ebeneezer Allen, and resided in Granville, Massachusetts. Their chil- dren were: Abigail, born January 18, 1752; Seth, August 18, 1754: Sebra, January 31, 1763, died March 4. 1848; Levi, Ruth. December 23, 1770: and Thankful. (IV) Sebra Granger, second son and third child of Seth and Ruth (Allen) Granger, was born in Suffield, and died in 1840 (or 1848), in Rosebrom, formerly Cherry Valley. Xew York, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. His widow passed away March 12, 1852. Their children were: Allen, born May 23, 1787; Abner, July 20, 1789; John, May 6, 1791 ; Lucy, September 25, 1792; Bela, October. 1794; Clare, November 20, 1798: Julius. May 22, 1801 : Seth. 1802; Joette. August 28. 1803; Luranah. October 20, 1807; and Oliver. (V) Seth Granger, born 1802. was married, August 17, 1823, to Belinda Miner, and became a pioneer settler of Martinsburg, this state. 820 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. in which town he hved and died. He was a shoemaker by trade, and tilled o\-er one hundred acres of land with the aid of his sons. His first child, Olive, married Nathan Satterlee, with whom she settled in Ran- dolph Center, Wisconsm. Alfred, the second, died in his twenty-first year. Clarissa died while the wife of Franklin Wheat, of Manchester, New York. Lewis, the fourth, receives further mention below. Henry H. is now a resident of Glenfield. (VI) Lewis, son of Seth and Belinda Granger, married Melissa, daughter of Noadiah Kulburt, bom March i, iSio, in Lowville, Lewis county, this state. The last-named was a son of Josiah Hulburt, a na- tive of Massachusetts, and one of the pioneers of Lewis county. Har- riet, born May 3, 1818, in Martinsburg, wife of Noadiah Hulburt, was a daughter of John Mott and his wife, Electa Steuben. Melissa (Hul- burt) Granger died December 4, 1904, at the home of her second son in Cnampion. Her children are : Marion Adella, wife of Richard Dawson, residing in Lyonsdale, New York; Alfred L., who receives further men- tion in following paragraphs ; William Steuben, a farmer of Champion ; and Hubert Noadiah, of Lowville. Two others died in childhood. (VH) Alfred L., eldest son and second child of Lewis and Melissa (Hulburt) Granger, was born February 14, 1859, in Glendale, now Glen- field, Lewis county, this state, whence he moved, when six years old, to Brantingham, and was later in ]^,Iontague townships of his native county. He had meager opportunity for improving his mind, being early forced to become self-supporting. At the age of seventeen he counted a full man at farm labor, which occupied his time for a period, and he was subsequently employed three years in the lumber woods. Li 1S84 he purchased a farm in Champion, this county, but received an offer for it which afforded a good profit, and immediately sold it. For five years subsequently he worked the Miller farm, in Rutland, as a tenant. His present farm of one hundred and ninety-three acres in Champion, was acquired in February, 1889. He conducts business on a large scale, keeping forty-four cows, and produced over one thousand bushels of potatoes in 1903. Mr. Granger is a shrewd and most indus- trious farmer, and his prosperity is due to his intelligent and persevering efforts, aided by his good wife. Both are members of South Valley Grange, of Rutland, and keep in touch with every improvement in agri- culture. Mr. Granger speculates in wood in winter, buying up timber, which he cuts and markets. Thus he has no season of idleness, but utilizes all seasons in accumulating a competency. He is a member of GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 821 the Copenhagen Tent. Knights of the Maccabees, takes no part in poli- tics, preferring his own interests to those of the pubHc. and is usually found in pursuit of home industries. He was married September 8, 1885, to Abbie, adopted daughter of Harvey Loomis (see Loomis). She was born iNIarch 2. 1S39. a daughter of Joseph and Angeline Geroy, of French extraction, antl was early left an orphan, her father having died when she was se\-en years old. B'or a time she was an inmate of the JefTerson County Orphan's Home, and left there June 10, 1867, being taken by a family in St. Law- rence county. Not being kindly treated she was returned to the home and on December 31. 1868. entered the home of Air. Loomis. where she found kind parents and was well reared. Her elder brother, John Ge- roy, left the home May 27, 1867, and no record can now be found of his whereabouts or fate. One son completes the family of Mr. Granger, namely, Clai'ence, now fifteen years old. ROOT. The Root family is among the oldest in America. an<I was conspicuous in the furmative period of Jeffersi>n county history. It, has suppned successful attorneys, luiilders and business men to numerous states, and the name is now prominent in New York city and other points of this state. (I) Thomas Roote, believed to be the son of John Roote and Ann Burrell, of Badby, England, born January 16, 1605, came to this coun- try about the year 1637, and was among the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived many years, and where his children were liorn. Thomas Roote, of Hartford, went to Pequot in 1637 ^^ a soldier. He was a considerable land owner there. After a residence of ab(iut fif- teen years in Hartford he remoxed. witli his six sons and one daughter, and settled m Xorthampton, Massachusetts, on the 9th day of i\Iay, 1655, as one of the planters of what was then called Nonotuck. and was appointed selectman in 1659. He was one of the church in 1661. Thomas Roote died at a very advanced age on the 17th of July, 1694. He lived with his son Jonathan on the old homestead. (II) Thomas Roote, son of Thomas, grandson of John of Badby, was born in 1644 in Hartford, Connecticut. He married (first), July 3, 1666, xA.bigail, eldest daughter of Alexander and Mary (Hoar) Al- vord. She was born October 6. 1647, in Windsor, and died June 17, 1699. He lived in Northampton until after the death of his wife, and then removed to Boston, and thence to Lynn, Massachusetts, where it is 822 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. recorded that "Thomas Roote, late of Boston, married Mary Cox, De- cember 4, 1701." She was a widow, her maiden name being Krilland, daughter of Philip Krilland. She was born June 3, or 8, 1640. (III) Deacon Thomas Roote, son of Thomas, grandson of Thomas, born April 11, 1667. in Xorthampton, ^Massachusetts, married, March 4. 1691, Thankful, daughter of Jedediah and Freedom (Wood- ward) Strong, of Xorthampton. He went to Coventry, Connecticut, in the }ear 1709, and was the first town clerk and the first deacon in Coventry. The second child of English parents born in that town was his son Ephraim, born 1709. Deacon Thomas died January 19 or No- vember 13, 1758, aged ninety-one years. (IV) Eliakim Root, son of Thomas, grandson of Thomas, born December 28, 1696, in Xorthampton, Massachusetts, removed with his father to Coventry, Connecticut, where he lived. He married (first), December 15, 1724, Mercy, who died March 27, 1728. He married (second), August 15, 1731. Joanna Allis, daughter of Xathaniel and ^lary Aliis, of Hatfield, Massachusetts, born January 20, 171 1. He died January 19, 1759, aged sixty-three years. His children, of first marriage: i, Asahel, born April 13, 1726; 2, liliakim. Children of second marriage: 3, Joseph; 4, ]\ledad : 5, Jonathan; 6, Miriam; 7, Jonathan ; 8, Jemima. (V) Joseph Root, son of Eliakim, grandson of Thomas, born July 5 or [3. 1732, in Xorth Coventry. Connecticut, married December -O. 1753- Salc.me Curtis. He lived in Xorth Coventry, Connecticut. Children (born in North Coventry. Connecticut) : i, Jerusha; 2, Bille; 3, Xaomi ; 4. Elijah. (VT) Bille, eldest son and second child of Joseph and Salome (Curtis) Root, was born August i, 1756. in Xorth Coventry. (VII) Alpheus, son of Bille Root, was born April 4. 1785, in Coventry, and married Electa Eardwell, who was born August 20, X792, in Denmark. Lewis county, Xew York. Mr. Root was an early resident of Deer River, in Lewis county, and passed the last five years of his life at Carthage, this county, where he died April 16, 1879. His wife died about four years before him, being nearly eighty years of age. .'Sir. Root held most of the town offices in Deer River, and wa-; a soldier in the \var of 181 2. He was a carpenter by occupation, and built I'lanv farni buildings in bis neighborhodd. He accepted the faith of the ^ilethodist church, and was a Repulilican from the organ- ization of the party. He had six sons and two daughters, briefly GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 823 accounted fur as fullows: Ali'licus Fnrtune dieil at Riicktunl, IIHikhs, lea\ing two children. Recellus was many years a resident of Rax'enna, Ohio, \\here he died. Juseph H. receives extended mention in a later paragraph. J(jhn S. died at Qnincy, Plumas county, California. Wealthy hecame the wife of Mr. Morse, and died in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Hiram H. died in Carthage, in 1901. William was leader of a cavalry regiment from Mobile, Alabama, in the Confederate army during the Ci\il war, and never communicated with his family there- after. Nancy, wife of J. Wesley Horr. died in Carthage. (VIII; Joseph 11. Root was born Septemiier 2(>. icSiy, at Deer River, where he grew up, recci\ing his education in the district school. \\"hen a boy he was ajiprenticed to the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he continued t(.) follow until five years before his death. He passed away in Carthage b'ebruary jo, 1S92. in his seventy-fourth year. Most of his work \\as clone in and about Carthage, and many houses and farm buildings of that vicinity are of his handiwork. He spent two summers at his trade in Canada. Mr. Root was a member of the Methodist church of Carthage, in which he served as trustee, steward and class leader. He affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in early life was a Son of Temperance, and never used tobacco in any form. He was a strong Republican, and ser\'ed in various capacities in the local office. He was several terms a trustee of the village of Carthage, and was two years superintendent of the Black River canal between Carthage and Lyons Falls. He married Cynthia, a sister of the late Jesse Willes, whose ancestry will be found on another page. She was also an active member of the iMethodist church, and died June 3, 1854. Of their three sons, one died at liirth, and another at the age of seven years. (IX) Arthur Chester Root, youngest and only surviving son of Joseph H. and Cynthia Root, grew up in Carthage, where nearly all his life ha-s lieen spent. He attended the village school until seventeen years old and in meantime gave much time to work wnth his father, from whom he acquired the builder's trade, ^vhich h.as occupied most of his time. On account of poor liealth he spent three vears as clerk in stores, but with that exception he has been jjretty busily employed in building. He is a member of the Ei)isco])al churcli, ami of the local lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd I*"ellows, as well as the Daughters of Rebekah, in which his wife is als(j acti\e. He is a charter 824 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. meml>^ of the encampment, in which he has held several official posi- tions, and was two terms secretary of the lodge. j\Ir. Root was married December 8. 1880, to Miss Luella D. Hutch- inson, a native of Deer River, and daughter of William and Almira (Ball) Hutchinson. A daughter was born to ^Mr. and Mrs. Root on September iS, 1S82, and named Grace Almira. She married Francis M. Jeffers, a reporter of the Watertown Tiiiws. and has a son. George Arthur, born August 8, 1903. Mrs. Jeffers has been an active member of the Daughters of Rebekah. DRESSOR. This name has been identified with American his- tory for nearly three hundred years, and is prominently identified with the pioneer period of JetYerson county's development. As business men and citizens, the representatives have been respected and esteemed. (I) John Dresser, the founder of the family in America, came from England and settled at Rowley. Massachusetts, as early as 1639. He is of record there in 1643, as the owner of a houselot of one and one-half acres, on Bradford street. He brought with him his wife, Mary. He was a shoemaker by trade and occupation, and died in Rowley, 1672, the records showing his burial on April 19th of that year. His children were : John, Mary, Samuel, Jonathan and Elizabetli. (II) Lieutenant John Dresser, eldest child of John and Mary Dresser, was born about 1640, in Rowley, and was married November 27, 1662, to Martha, daughter of Richard Thorley. She died June 29, 1700, and he was married, second, January 7, 1702, to Rebecca, widow of James Dickmson. She died April 2, 1718. and was survived almost six years by her husband, who passed away ^Nlarch 14, 1724, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. His children were: John, Mary, Martha, Jonathan, Jane, Sarah, Richard, Nathaniel, Lydia and Elizabeth. (III) Jonathan, second son and fourth child of John and Martha (Thorley) Dresser, was born June 27, 1674, and was married October 31, 1695, to Sarah, daughter of Thomas Leaver. Their children were: Jonathan, born August 6, 1700 (died young); Jonathan (2), July 23, 1702; Thomas, November 7, 1704; Sarah. December 2, 1706: Richard, December 17, 1708 (died in 1709); Hannah, August 19, 1710: and Nathan, February 23. 1716. Jonathan Dresser bought land, in 171 7, in the Mashamoquet Purchase, where his brother Richard had pur- chased in 1706, This tract became the town of Pomfret, in Windham GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 825 county, Connecticut, where Jonatlian Dresser settled and died. Ricliard spent a short time there and then located in the adjoining town of Thompson. (IV) Jonathan, second son of Jonathan (i) and Sarah (Leaver) Dresser, was born July 3, 1702, in Pomfret, where he spent his life and died in 1790. His wife was Elizabeth Warren. (V) John, son of Jonathan (2) and Elizabeth (Warren) Dresser, was bom August iS. 1735, in Pomfret, where he died June 24, 1814. He was married September 24, 1759, to Sarah, whose surname has not been preserved. His education was in advance of many men of his generation, as evidenced by letters now preserved by his great- grandson in Watertown. The penmanship and composition of these letters are good, the thoughts expressed are those of a Christian and a lover of the truth. They also indicate that he was a kind father and exemplary husband. While others of the family writing at the same time (1795) spell the name according to the records as now appear- ing in New England, John Dressor signed his name as last alx>ve shown, and this form has been followed by some of his descendants to the present time. The letters give the names of following children, and there may have been others : John, Alanson, Tanforth, Rowland, Polly, Mrs. White and Mrs. Tucker and Samuel second. (VI) Alanson Dresser, son of John and Sarah Dressor, was born June 11, 1768, in Pomfret, Connecticut, and he was well advanced in the common branches of learning in the schools of his native town. He was married February 7, 1793, to Elvira Lothrop, a member of one of the oldest and best America^ families. She was born June 13, 1768. Immediately after his marriage, Mr. Dressor settled in Tunbridge, Ver- mont, where he continued farming until 1804, when he removed to the Black River country. He secured land in the town of Watertown, within the present limits of the city, where he remained three years, and then moved, in 1807, to Huntingtonville, near his former location, where he died October 6, 1S08, at the early age of forty years. His widow subsequently married William Huntington, by which marriage she had a daughter, Lucia, who died in her twentieth year. Mrs. Hunt- ington died December 5, 1836. The children of Alanson and Elvira (Lothrop) Dressor were : Leonard. Elvira, John Gray. Chauncey, Row- land, Laura and William. Leonard Dressor was born November 30, 1794. in Tunbridge, Vermont, and was married September 28, 1824, to Melora Doty, who >:'26 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. died May j. 1S77. He died January 23, 1878. Their children were: Charlotte Jane, died a.ged one year; Lucia Jane, Ixirn September 14, 1S28, died September 13, 1895; George Morton, October 7, 183 1, mar- ried, April 22, 1857, Martha Jane Chellis, and had a daughter. Hattie Melora. George Morton died December 16, 1871. Elvira Dressor, born December 30, 1796, was married December 25, 1823, to George Pike. She died April 13, 1881. She was the mother of six children — Henry Alanson, William Harrison, Caroline, Elvira, Chauncey Jackson and Charles George. John Gray Dressor, born January 28, 1799, w-as married, Decem- ber 4. 1824, to Charlotte Sawyer, wdio soon died, and on October 17, 1827, he married her sister, Sylvia Sawyer. He died February 4. 1S83, and was survived over five years by his widow, who passed away July 5, 1888, aged seventy-seven years. Rowland L. Dressor was born November 29, 1802, in Tunbridge, Vcimont, and died in October, 1862. He was married June 5, 1828, to Emily Harris, and they had ten children, of whom two are now living, namely: Laura A., wife of Michael Way Llewellyn, of Sterling, Illi- nois, and Mrs. Mary J., wife of S. C. Robinson, of Tama, Iowa. Laura Dressor, born January 2y, 1805, in Watertown, was married in December, 1832, to William Murray, and they were the parents of four children — Minerva Sylvia, Mary, Mattie and Wilniina. She mar- ried, second. May 3, 1859, Lester Forward, who died March 6, 1889. She died three days previously. \Villiam Dressor, born March 6, 1807, died when four years old. Alanson Dressor, junior, born March 17, 1809, more than iive months after tiie death of his father, died June 8, 1846. He was mar- ried January 15, 1834, to I'hebe Roxcelia Sawyer, who was bnrn [May 17, 1809. Their children were: Lucia Roxcelia, Adelia S., and .Man- son Sawyer. The eldest was married September 10, 1871, to David D. Curtis. Adelia S. married a Mr. Stoneman, and was the mother of four children — Frank, Charles, Edwin and Estella. Alanson Sawyer Dressor married, September 16. 1867, Almeda Dye, and they were the parents of ten children, bom as follows: Guy Alanson, December 31. 1868; Dallas Reuben, February 16, 1873 (died September 25, 1884); Lucia Roxcelia, August i, 1874; Frank Thomas. December 27, 1876; Herbert Wort, August 16, 1878; Sylvia May, January 29, 1880: Hattie A., April 8, 1882; Edith Gladys, April 16, 1884 (died before three GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. ^27 months old); Rena Barbara, July i, 1886; and Bayard. February 27, 1888, died aged eight days. (VII) Chauncey Dressor, third son and fourth child of Alanson and Elvira (Lothrop) Dressor, was born November 9, 1800, in Tun- bridge, Vermont, and was in his fourth year when brought to Water- town by his parents. His father died when he was not quite eight years old, and he was early accustomed to care for himself, thus developing the self-reliant character for which he was subsequently noted. He contrived to secure a practical education, and became one of the most useful citizens of his town. He was employed in farm work during the summers, and began teaching at an early age, during the winter months. He thus continued until he was about twenty-six years of age, when he entered the employ of John Felt, at Felt's Mills, where he was a foreman in the lumber business for eight years. For the next ten years he was general manager, bookkeeper and salesman for Keyes & Hungerford, lumbermen at Dexter. Being industrious and steady, he was enabled to save from his earnings enough to buy one hundred and twenty acres of land at Huntingtonville, to which he added by various purchases until it amounted to twO' hundred acres. In 1848 lie settled on this land and continued farming there untfl his death, whicii occurred there July 20, 1876. He was a successful farmer, applying intelligent methods and industry in tilling his land. A Democrat of the old school, he was a firm supporter of the government during the Civil war. He appreciated the value of education, and was deeply interested in the welfare of the public schools. He was a member of the Watertown Light Infantry militia company in 182 1, and a certificate of that fact by his captain, A. S. Dygette, under date of May 7th of that year, is preserved by his son, George F. Dressor. In this he is reported to be fully armed and equipped on the date thereof. As a business man Mr. Dressor commanded the highest respect of his associates for his sterling honesty and promotion of justice and fairness. As a citizen he was universally esteemed for his correct and manly example, and as a hus- band and father he was kind and considerate. He was married December 6, 1838, to Lydia Spencer Stiles, who was born June 10, 1817, in Watertown, a daughter of Farrington and Emily (Kelsey) Stiles. She survived her husband twenty-eight years and died Januaiy 24, 1904. Their children were: Alanson Lothrop, George Farrington, Albert Marian, John Wesley, William Henry, Car- oline Elizabeth, Josephine Ella, Emmogene Ellen and Jenette Elvira. 828 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. Alanson Lcthrop Dressor was born January ii, 1840, in the town of Hounsfield, and died January 10. 1903. He served three years in Company 1, Seventh Vermont Regiment, in the Civil war, and was shghtly wounded at the battle of Baton Rouge. He was married July 21, 1865, to Eliza Hastings, who was born September 7, 1841. Their children were : William Lemuel and Nellie Eliza. The former was born January 24, 1867, and was married in 1897 to Helen Dressor. They have three children, namely : Helen Lucy, Wilfred Dressor, and Margarette Irene. Albert Marian Dressor was born Maixh 19, 1843, iii Hounsfield, and married Mary Wolsencraft Adams. The mother and their chil- dren— Mary, Josephine A. and Matie L. — are deceased. John Wesley Dressor lived only three months. William Henry Dressor, born September 12, 1847, in Hounsfield, married Mary Ely, and they were the parents of the following children ; Nettie (now deceased), Chauncey Ely, Anna; Clara, Emma and Oliver, deceased ; Helen and John. The last named resides in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Caroline Elizabeth Dressor, born June 16, 1851, at Huntington- ville, was married August 28, 1872, to Melvin Chapman, and resides at Pendleton, Indiana. Josephine Ella and Emmogene Ellen Dressor, twins, were born May 26, 1852, at Huntingtonville. The former was married October 2C, 1873, to Ithai Thomson, and resides in Watertown. Their children are : Ithai Ira, who married Sena Gonyea ; Irene Josephine, wife of Jean Shaffrey; and William Chauncej'. Emmogene E. Dressor was married July 27, 1874, to David M. Holbrock, of New York city. They have four children, namely : Fred- erick Montgomery, Arthur Chauncey, Edwin Almus and .A.nna Stiles. The eldest married Jessie Johnson, and resides in Chicago. Jenette Elvira Dressor, born September 11, i860, married Wilbur F. Woodworth, a farmer of East Watertown. Their children were born as follows: Henry Dressor, July 26. 1885: Clarence Wilbur, March 12, 1887; Helen Lydia, November 28. 1889; Laura May. April 2, 1893; s^"d Amy Lovina, April 24, 1894. (VIII) George Farrington Dressor, second son and child of Chauncey and Lydia S. (Stiles) Dressor, was born August 11, 1841, in the town of Hounsfield. and his education was received at the public schools. He remained with his parents until twenty years and one J2^^^ /i^uk^-^-r- Universalist Church. Waterto GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. 831 month old, when he entered the mihtary service in defense of the Union. He enlisted September 14, 1861, at Watertown, in Company A, Thirty- fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, for two years, under Colonel Newton B. Lord. He was a faithful and exemplaiy soldier, participating in all the skirmishes and battles of the regiment until the engagement at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862, when his left leg was carried away by a cannon ball. The same Ijall cut off both legs of the man on his right and both, of those of the one on his left, resulting fatally to both. The regiment was exposed for two hours to close-range artillery cross-fire, being on the extreme left of General Burnside's command. One battery was in front nf them, another on the left and a third on the left oblicjue, and all kept up a severe attack. In due time, Mr. Dressor recovered from his wound, and was honorably discharged at Washington, December 14, 1863. Returning to Watertown, he was employed as a traveling sales- man and subsequently purchased land in the town of Watertown, on which he resided engaged in gardening until 1881, when he purchased property in the city of Watertown, and took uyi his residence there. By industry and prudent management he was enabled to retire from hard labor upon his removal to the city, and he is now occupied with the care of his investments. He supports the principles of the Repub- lican party, and takes part in the social and religious life of the com- munity. He is a member of Joe Spratt Post No. 323, Grand Army of the Republic. He united with the Baptist church at Poughkeepsie, New York, in May, 1864, and subsequently received a letter by which he joined the First Baptist church of Watertown, September 24, 1876. For five years he was a deacon of this society. In February, 1904, he was one of twenty-five members to obtain letters of dismissal, and on the fourth day of that month they organized a second society in Water- town, known as Calvary Baptist church. A lot of land was secured at the corner of Academy and Clay streets, upon which a chapel was erected during the season of 1904, and which was dedicated November 27, 1904. Of this society Mr. Dressor is a deacon and most active member. He is a wortJiy representative of a long line of honorable ancestors, an upright and respected citizen, a faithful Christian, a con- siderate parent and a loving and true husband. As one of those who gave of their blood for the integrity of the nation, he receives the honor and gratitude of everv patriotic citizen. He was married July 26, 1866, to Helen Lucy Wilson, daughter 832 GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY. of Samuel and Lucy (Woodward) Wilson (see Wilson'). She was born in Rutland, and is a member of Calvary Baptist church and the local Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. (IX) Walter William Dressor, only child of George F. and Helen L. Dressor, was born May 25, 1867, in Poughkeepsie, New York, and was educated for a civil engineer, which occupation he follows. He is quartermaster cf General Bradley W^inslow Camp, Sons of Vet- erans, and is a staunch Republican, as indicated by his membership in the Lincoln League. He was married November 20. 1888, by Rev. L. J. Dean, to Jessie Maria Paige. EDWARD G. SHORTT, a successful inventor and patentee of many useful appliances, including engines and airbrakes, is a native of Ireland, and a patriotic citizen