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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 430
Surname: BASCOM
Col.
George BASCOM was one of the pioneer settlers of Cattaraugus county, and was
prominently known in this town, where the most of his life was spent. In the days of general trainings he was
closely connected with the State militia, whence he obtained his title of
colonel. He died in Allegany village
April 11, 1893, in his eighty-fourth year.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 430
Surnames: BLAIR, GRAVES
Jason
BLAIR, a native of
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 430
Surnames: BOCKOVEN, VAN
VLACK, LAMBERTON, RENWICK, RICE, HAYES, WILLARD
Lieut.
William C. BOCKOVEN was born in
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 430
Surnames: BOOTH, SLOCUM,
HEALD
Edward
BOOTH was born in
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 430
Surnames: BOSTWICK, MEEKER,
BROOKS
Harry
BOSTWICK was born in
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 431
Surnames: BUCHER, SUTTER,
KREIN
John
B. BUCHER, a weaver by trade, with his wife, Mary Ann SUTTER, and their two
daughters and one son, emigrated to
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 431
Surnames: BURLINGAME, JONES,
LYON
Ira
BURLINGAME, the father of Mrs. Cordelia C. JONES, was born in
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 431
Surnames: CALKINS, MACK, WAY,
SIMMONS
John
C. CALKINS, born in Ballston,
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 431
Surnames: CARLS, HEIT
John
H. CARLS was born in
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 432
Surnames: CHAMBERLIN, PLATT,
BECKER, GOODEN, PARKS, COVELL
Charles
CHAMBERLIN, son of Moses and Anna (PLATT) CHAMBERLIN, was born December 11,
1818, and married Caroline BECKER, of Chautauqua county, Nov. 12, 1848. She was born March 9, 1829. Mr. CHAMBERLIN came to Allegany over forty
years ago and settled on a farm about one mile north of the village. He also owned a saw-mill on Five Mile
creek. Feb. 16, 1880, while
superintending the manufacture of lumber at the mill, the circular saw caught a
board from the carriage which it severed in an instant and one of the pieces,
thrown with great velocity, struck Mr. CHAMBERLIN on the left temple, causing
instant death. He was an earnest member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. His
widow resides on the homestead. Their
children are William M., born April 22, 1850, G. Frank, born Nov. 3, 1853,
married Kate GOODEN, December 1, 1880, and has three children, Lewis M.,
Florence B., and Willard A.; Charles E., born August 3, 1856; Frederick E.,
born September 12, 1859; Anna P., born April 27, 1862, married Frank PARKS, of
Allegany, and has three children, Grace, Sadie, and Clara; John, born June 10,
1865; and Jennie, born October 4, 1868.
William M. CHAMBERLIN is a farmer and owns the mill where his father met
his death. He married Miss Roslia
COVELL, March 24, 1875. She was born
September 16, 1850. Their children are
Mabel C., Carrie J., Lewis S., Roy P. (deceased); and Edna R.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 432
Surname: CHAPIN
The
CHAPIN family has long been well known in Allegany. The first representative who came here was
Jabez CHAPIN, Sr., from
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Page 432
Surnames: CLARK, JONES,
LOOMIS, TYRRELL
Alfred
CLARK, born in
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 432 & 433
Surnames: CLARK, PRESTON
Henry
CLARK, born in Franklin, N. Y., September 3, 1830, came to this town with his
parents when nine years of age. He
served three years in the late war in Co. D, 154th N. Y. Vols. He is now engaged in lumbering and farming. He married Mary J. PRESTON, December 12,
1854, who was born in Hinsdale, December 2, 1836. They have six children, viz.: Staley A. (died
July 29, 1861), Ida J. (died Jan. 16, 1887), Harriet A., Lewis G., Anna E., and
Gracie M.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 433
Surnames: CORTHELL, FITCH,
FIELD
Lewis
S. CORTHELL was born in Lima, Livingston county, in 1837, and in 1840 or 1841
came with his parents, Daniel and Sally (FITCH) CORTHELL, to Allegany (then
Burton). His father and mother dying
when he was very young he was early in life thrown upon his own resources for
support, and in 1851 he began to learn the trade of harness maker, which has
been his life vocation. May 5, 1859, Mr.
CORTHELL married Annette F., daughter of Rev. J. M. FIELD, of Machias; they
have an adopted daughter, Gertrude S. It
is not in a business capacity only that Mr. CORTHELL is known to his
townsmen. In 1862 he entered Co. C, 154th
N. Y. Vols., and was postmaster of Allegany from 1866 to 1869 (through Johnson's
administration). He was also justice of
the peace for eight years from April, 1882, until he was compelled to resign in
1890, by reason of deafness, has served as town clerk, and for twenty-three
consecutive years was clerk of the School Board. Mr. CORTHELL is a member of the Presbyterian
church and is at all times deeply interested in the success of the Democratic
party. He is widely known and much
esteemed.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 433
Surnames: DONAHUE,
FITZGERALD, BURNS, CRONYN
Michael DONAHUE, who was born in Ireland, September 25,
1820, came to America in the fall of 1850.
After residing six years in Buffalo he came to Allegany, where he is
said to have cleared a piece of land by moonlight, his days being occupied in
the employ of others. He was one of the
pioneer farmers of the town and as a man has always been much respected. In the fall of 1852 he married Mary
FITZGERALD, who died March 26, 1883.
Their children were Ellen (Mrs. William BURNS), Bridget (Mrs. John
CRONYN), Thomas, Michael P. (born March 1, 1865, died February 22, 1885), John,
Mary, Mattie, and Maggie.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 433
Surnames: DYE, MERRILL,
MOORE, PIXLEY
Dennis
DYE was born in Litchfield, N. Y., March 15, 1805. In 1830 he removed to western New York, and
from then until his death lived much of the time in Cattaraugus county. In April, 1852, he settled in Allegany as a
farmer and died here February 23, 1872.
His wife, Minerva MERRILL, who was born in Johnstown, N. Y., September
27, 1808, died here September 27, 1887.
Their son Nathan A. was born in Litchfield, August 22, 1829, came to
Freedom, and thence on March 7, 1852, to this town, where he became a merchant,
dying December 5, 1882. A Democrat in politics
Mr. DYE was elected to many town offices and in 1871 became justice of sessions
of the county. Jan. 26, 1851, he married
Rosaline, daughter of Oliver MOORE, a farmer and an early settler of Freedom
and subsequently (in 1869) a resident of Allegany, where he died March 2,
1877. Mr. MOORE was born in Vermont,
April 6, 1804, and his wife, Judith PIXLEY Jan. 12, 1796. Mr. and Mrs. DYE had born to them these
children: Charles O., born May 18, 1852, died December 29, 1887; Mason M., born
May 6, 1854; Jennie R., Sept. 23, 1858; Edwina M., July 11, 1860, William H.,
Nov. 19, 1862; Nellie B., Sept. 3, 1868; and Nathan E., October 14, I870, died
Sept. 14, 1871. Mrs. DYE died Dec. 22,
1892. Mason M. and William H. are
bankers in Allegany village. Mason M.
was supervisor of Allegany from 1886 to 1889 inclusive.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 433 & 434
Surnames: EGGLESTON, HOPPING,
ATWOOD, GILLETT, SPICER, BLISS, HADSELL, BURDICK
Isaac
EGGLESTON, born in Vermont, February 13, 1792, came with his brother to
Onondaga county about 1808, where in 1819, he married Rebecca HOPPING. In 1820 they settled in Olean and finally
removed to Allegany, locating on Five Mile creek and subsequently on Nine Mile
run, where Mr. EGGLESTON died May 17, 1872.
His wife died February 15, 1872.
They had eight children, three of whom died in infancy; the others are
Eliza A. (Mrs. Jeremiah ATWOOD), Clarissa A. (Mrs. Cornelius GILLETT).
deceased, John W., Almira B. (Mrs. Horace O. SPICER), and Rev. Charles C. John W. EGGLESTON married, first, Lydia L.
BLISS, Dec. 2, 1858, by whom he had three children, Cora, Charles L., and
William F. He married, second, August
27, 1873, Euphonia A., daughter of Abel and Lucy (HADSELL) BURDICK.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany – Chapter
XVIII (18)
Page 434
Surnames: EISERT, FICK
George
EISERT was born in Buffalo on the 7th of February, 1860, and came to Allegany
in 1874 and engaged in peeling bark, beginning his present business in
1880. September 2, 1884, he was married
to Anna FICK, who has borne him three children: Frank J., James W., and
Lena. Mr. EISERT is a respected citizen
and a prominent factor in the German population of the town.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 434
Surnames: EMMONS, BORN
John
C. EMMONS was born in Corning, June 13, 1856.
There he received his education.
He married Ella BORN, of Cuba, Sept. 15, 1880, and came to Allegany in
1883. Mr. EMMONS is an experienced and
reliable pharmacist. His is the leading
drug store in Allegany village.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 434
Surnames: FARQUHARSON, HALE
James
Henry FARQUHARSON, son of Francis and Margaret A. FARQUHARSON, was born in East
Pike, Wyoming county, March 23, 1837. He
became a telegraph operator in 1854 and performed the duties of that avocation
in several stations in Cattaraugus county, receiving the appointment at
Allegany on May 1, 1856. His wife,
Marion J. HALE, of Hinsdale, whom he married August 19, 1856, bore him six
children: Francis H., Fred H., William L., Millie J., Charles B., and Van
Deusen. Mr. FARQUHARSON held many
offices of trust, including that of supervisor on the Greenback ticket in 1878,
and was prominently connected with the business, religious, and educational
interests of the town and county.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 434
Surnames: FELT, LICHTENTHAL,
KARL, COLT, REHLER, CLARK
Nicholas
FELT, a native of Germany, was born May 3, 1823, and came to America in
1849. His first home was in Buffalo,
from whence he moved to this town about 1861 with his brother-in-law. Three years prior to this, however, he had
purchased his present home. His wife was
Margaret LICHTENTHAL, who was born in Germany, December 31, 1827, and whom he
married September 14, 1849. Children:
Mary (Mrs. Joseph KARL), Magdalena (Mrs. Louis COLT), Katie (Mrs. Albert KARL),
Margaret (Mrs. Andrew REHLER), Joseph, John (who married Angie CLARK),
Nicholas, and Annie. The family are all
exemplary, industrious citizens and are counted among the town's representative
settlers.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 434 & 435
Surnames: FREELAND, ROBINSON,
NORWOOD, HARDY, WORTHINGTON, SOULE, LOOMIS
James
FREELAND was born in Caroline, N. Y., May 11, 1810. His father, Robert FREELAND, born in the
North of Ireland about 1773, came to America in 1798 and settled in Tompkins
county, where he married Catharine ROBINSON in 1800. He was a farmer and mechanic. James FREELAND attended the common schools
and worked on his father's farm. May 23,
1833, he married Lucinda, daughter of Jonathan NORWOOD, Esq., of Caroline, and
in 1836 removed to Allegany with his wife and two children. He soon became an expert river pilot, which
occupation he followed for thirty years and never had a "breakup,"
but always landed his rafts safely at their place of destination. He was prominent and popular, and constantly
in town offices until his retirement on account of old age. He successfully filled the offices of highway
commissioner, justice of the peace, assessor, and postmaster. In 1876 he was the Democratic nominee for
member of Congress. The characteristics
that distinguish his life are enterprise, perseverance, honesty, and
integrity. Mr. and Mrs. FREELAND's
children are Dolphus S., who married Fannie E. NORWOOD in October, 1868, and
now resides in Maywood, Neb., where he is postmaster; Jonathan B., who married
Mariette HARDY, November 2, 1859, and is a minister of the Free Methodist
church; Ruvena, who married Rev. Randolph WORTHINGTON, October 30, 1873; James
A., who married Lottie E. SOULE, November 27, 1870, resides in Allegany; and
Mabel L., who married Rev. H. H. LOOMIS.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 435
Surnames: FRIES, MESSER
John
FRIES was born in Buffalo, November 24, 1846, and came to Allegany with his
parents when he was eight years of age.
They were farmers and settled on the farm where John now resides. John FRIES was a soldier in the Rebellion,
enlisting in Co. H, 188th N. Y. Vols.
June 16, 1866, he married Elizabeth MESSER; children: Maggie, Annie,
Mary, Lizzie, and Josie.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 435
Surnames: GALLETS, MOHR,
BLAZUR, BRAND, GEISER, GEARINGER, NUSSER, KARL
Jacob
GALLETS, Sr., was born in 1815 in Germany, where he married Susan, daughter of
Jacob MOHR. With an only son they came
to Allegany in the spring of 1853. Jacob
MOHR had contracted for 250 acres of wild land on Four Mile creek, which was
worked by himself and three sons, Henry, Joseph, and Peter, and John BLAZUR and
Jacob GALLETS. These pioneers cleared
their tract, and in winter were jobbers in cutting logs, spending their
evenings in shaving pine shingles, which their wives packed into bunches for
market. Upon the division of the
250-acre tract Jacob GALLETS received thirty-seven and one-half acres as his
share. He added to this from time to
time and at his death, February 10, 1879, had a farm of 360 acres. His widow survives him. Their children were Henry, Marcus, Mary,
Joseph A., Jacob, Jr., Henry, Anna, and Barbara. Henry died in infancy. Marcus GALLETS was born in Germany, October
4, 1852, married Lucy BRAND, of Allegany, and resides in Pennsylvania. Mary was born here May 7, 1854, married
Philip GEISER, and lives in Olean.
Joseph A. GALLETS, born February 14, 1857, is engaged in farming,
lumbering, and oil producing. May 7,
1878, he married Fanny GEARINGER, who has borne him six children: Jacob, Jr.,
Mary, Clara, Rosie, Laney, and Barbara.
Jacob GALLETS was born October 6, 1858, and November 8, 1883, married
Mary A., daughter of George NUSSER. They
have four children, viz.; Theresa, George J., Mary E., and Grace A. Henry GALLETS, born May 6, 1861, is a farmer. May 5, 1886, he married Sophia E., daughter
of George NUSSER, and they have two daughters, Agatha T. and Sophia G. Anna GALLETS was born in 1863. Barbara, the eighth child of Jacob GALLETS,
was born November 1, 1865, and married, April 4, 1887, Jacob KARL, who was born
April 4, 1862. Their children are
Katharine S. and Ernest J.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 435
Surnames: GATES, BRANDALL,
HIGGINS, LOBDGER, ERWIN, PERKINS
Rossell
GATES, born in Canada on March 12, 1834, went to the oil regions of
Pennsylvania in 1865, at a time when "Oil Well Johnnie," sprung into
prominence as a spendthrift and had a meteoric career. Mr. GATES settled at Knapp's Creek in 1883
and removed in 1890 to the BRANDALL farm.
On the 4th of January, 1855, he married Alecia HIGGINS, daughter of
William HIGGINS, for fifty-two years high bailiff of Toronto, Can. Children: Hannah (Mrs. John LOBDGER), Mary
Ann (deceased), Jonathan (deceased), Roswell, Lydia (Mrs. Henry ERWIN), and
Anna (Mrs. Frank PERKINS).
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 435 & 436
Surnames: GEIGER, GATEZ,
LIPPERT
Jacob
GEIGER, born in Germany, April 24, 1841, came to America with his mother in
1854, landing in New York city on the 12th of October. His mother, after the death of Mr. GEIGER,
married Peter GATEZ, and after living in Buffalo two weeks came to Allegany,
arriving here in November, 1854, and settling on a farm on the Nine Mile
run. In 1861 Jacob GEIGER enlisted in
Co. H, 37th N. Y. Vols., and was discharged on the 6th of September of the same
year for disability. In 1864 he
re-enlisted in Co. A, 188th N. Y. Vols., and served until the close of the
war. He participated in many important
battles and suffered much hardship.
November 12, 1866, he married Rossella, daughter of Albert KARL, and
their children are John (deceased), Joseph, Katie (Mrs. Andrew LIPPERT),
Robert, Rosie, and Mary (deceased).
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 436
Surname: GORDON
Rev.
Walter GORDON is a son of John GORDON and was born in Rushford, N. Y., January
22, 1824. In 1849 he located in Olean
and the following year joined the Methodist Episcopal Conference. Rev. Mr. GORDON, during the years of his
ministry, was stationed in various places in western New York and achieved wide
distinction as a thorough worker and eloquent preacher. He was eminently successful in building up
his charges to a higher degree of activity and usefulness, and left in all many
warm friends and followers. He is now
engaged in farming, being the owner of a large tract of land in southern
Cattaraugus.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 436
Surnames: HAASE, REHKOPF,
WIEGRAFE, ANGLE, SMITH, CONNHAISER, MASNER
Frederick
HAASE, son of John H. and Louisa HAASE, was born in Germany, Nov. 18,
1824. After his father's death in 1860
he came to Allegany with his family and mother and bought a farm where he still
resides. Louisa HAASE was born in 1797
and died in 1875. Frederick married,
first, Laney REHKOPF and second Louisa WIEGRAFE. By his first wife he had seven children, two
of whom died in infancy; the others are Henry F., Frederick E., Caroline,
Hanna, and August V. Henry F. HAASE was
born in Germany, Oct. 19, 1845, and is a farmer. He married Catharine A., daughter of George
J. and Catharine (ANGLE) SMITH, Oct. 1, 1872, and they have bad two children,
George F. and Emma. August V. HAASE,
born Nov. 18, 1855, is a farmer on the homestead. He married Anna, daughter of Martin and
Margaret (CONNHAISER) MASNER, April 12, 1883.
She was born July 24, 1863. Their
children are Howard F., Frederick H., Raymond, and Mildred.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 436
Surnames: HALL, MORRIS
George
A. HALL, son of Lewis S., was born in Westfield, Chautauqua county, May 2,
1841. He came to Allegany in the fall of
1860, married Hattie C. MORRIS, of Chesterfield, Va., and has had born to him
seven children, of whom six are living.
Mr. HALL has a sash and door factory and planing-mill in the village
which was owned and operated by his father for several years up to the time of
his death in 1876.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 436
Surnames: HARBEL, KIANAN,
BOCKMIER, SCHIFTER, EHBORER, SCHUMANN
John
HARBEL, Sr., was born in Germany, Aug. 6, 1816, and married there Katharine
KIANAN. He was among the early settlers
on Four Mile run. His wife died July 30,
1876. He resides with his son John,
Jr. They had four children: John, Jr.,
Andrew, Tresea, and Maggie. John, Jr.,
was born May 5, 1850, married Rose, daughter of George and Mary A. (BOCKMIER)
SCHIFTER, Jan. 7, 1877, and has three children: Mary, Anna T., and George. Mr. HARBEL is engaged in farming and
producing oil. Andrew HARBEL was born
Aug. 12, 1852, married Tresea SCHIFTER on Oct. 21, 1879, and died July 26,
1882. Tresea HARBEL, born April 10,
1857, married August EHBORER. Maggie
HARBEL was born March 8, 1860, and married, May 4, 1886, Anton SCHUMANN, who
was born in Germany, Feb. 13, 1859, and came to Allegany in 1885. They have two children, Katie and Agnes.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 436
Surnames: HARMS, ACKLEY,
BRADY, MILLER
Henry
E. HARMS, a native of Germany, was born January 14, 1859, and came to Scio,
Allegany county, with his parents in 1868.
In 1878 he accepted a position as clerk with A. E. ACKLEY, with whom he
remained four years. In 1884 he formed a
co-partnership with W. E. BRADY, of Allegany, in the boot and shoe business,
which continued until 1887, when Mr. HARMS built the brick block where he is
now located. He married Polena daughter
of John MILLER, of Allegany, and they have one child, Mintie Louise.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 436 & 437
Surnames: HILLS, MIDDAUGH,
SEELEY, WRIGHT, ALTENBURG, GROSSMAN
Zarah
C. HILLS, born in Tompkins county in 1814, came to Portville about 1831 and to
Allegany in 1868. He married Amanda
MIDDAUGH, of Allegany county, in 1837.
She died January 25, 1885. Mr.
HILLS resides in Warren county, Pa. They
had five children, of whom Elphonso, James M., Miranda, and Jennie are
living. Elphonso HILLS was born July 28,
1838, and is engaged in the manufacture of bee-hives and in handling bees. He married Martha E. SEELEY, February 17,
1862, who was born in Owego, N. Y., June 30, 1841. Their children are Flora I. (Mrs. William
WRIGHT), Addie B. (Mrs. Abram ALTENBURG), Minnie H. (Mrs. Charles GROSSMAN),
and Floyd A.
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Surnames: HIRT, SMITHER,
ZISTER
Andrew
HIRT, father of Henry, was born in Germany in 1810. He came to Buffalo in 1835, where he married
Mary A. SMITHER, and in 1855 removed to Allegany, where he cleared 100 acres of
woodland, and where he still resides.
His wife died August 21, 1878.
Their children were Lena, Louie (deceased), Mary, Francis (deceased),
Henry, and Andrew. Henry HIRT, born
September 24, 1850, married, October 3, 1876, Agatha ZISTER, who was born
February 9, 1856. Their children are
Mary L. Clara M. (deceased), Theresa M., Vincent H. (deceased), Frank L., and
Annetta A.
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Surnames: JONES, LYON,
BURLINGAME, BURNETT
Homer
H. JONES, son of Benjamin, was born in this county April 10, 1826. He came to Allegany when about twelve years
of age, and in 1851 bought the farm where he now lives. He married Cordelia C., daughter of Ira and Elizabeth
(LYON) BURLINGAME, May 21, 1854. She was
born in Franklinville, May 21, 1832.
They have one child, Willis P., born August 9, 1859, who married Eva
BURNETT, November 6, 1884, by whom he also has one child, Rochester B. They reside in Buffalo.
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Surnames: KARST, PRESACK,
KERBER, LAKE, SCHAFER
George
KARST, born in Germany, November 8, 1828, came to Fredonia, Chautauqua county,
in 1852 and thence to Allegany in 1866.
Here he was engaged in manufacturing light and heavy carriages in
partnership with Joseph PRESACK until 1880, when the firm dissolved, Mr. KARST
succeeding to the business, which he still conducts. He married, first, in 1854, Magdalene KERBER,
who died October 16, 1884, and he married, second, Barbara LAKE, of Buffalo,
February 17, 1887. His first wife was
the mother of all his children: Philip, Charles, and Anna. Philip KARST is a wagon maker and repairer
and dealer in carriages. He married
Katie SCHAFER, of Allegany, June 10, 1878; she was born in Germany, October 23,
1858. They have four children: George
P., Lena J., Emma K., and Clarence C.
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Surnames: LEWIS, McNALL, KEIM
Oren
J. LEWIS was born in Collins, Erie county, September 4, 1842. He came to Allegany in 1869, married Olive
A., daughter of Levi McNALL, October 14, 1871, and he has had two children: Ada
L. and Leroy M. Mr. LEWIS with William
KEIM organized the Crescent Milling Company in 1882, and by careful management
the firm has established a substantial business and an enviable reputation.
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Surnames: LINDERMAN, FARWELL,
WHITLOCK, ROGERS, SEARL, SILL, SMITH, CANADY
Nicholas
LINDERMAN, born in Tompkins county, November 22, 1803, settled in Ischua in
1831. He was the father of eleven
children (see Hinsdale). His son, John
M. LINDERMAN, born in Ischua, October 4, 1831, married Ellen E., daughter of
Thaddeus J. and Elizabeth FARWELL, June 14, 1855, and came to Allegany in 1869,
settling the farm where he now resides.
They have had three children: Medora F. (Mrs. Stanley WHITLOCK), Flora
E. (Mrs. George ROGERS), and Ray. Orson,
son of Nicholas, was born March 23, 1836.
He married Hannah FARWELL, by whom he has five children: Charles, Alice,
Nicholas, Eola, and Ellen. They reside
in Allegany. Nicholas A. LINDERMAN was
born March 11, 1838, and married Lucinda SEARL.
Mary LINDERMAN was born June 26, 1840, and married Jackson SILL. Lester P. LINDERMAN was born March 13, 1842,
and is a farmer in Allegany. He married
Frances SMITH, by whom he had one child, Gertrude E., who married Charles
CANADY. Mr. LINDERMAN married, second,
Clara WHITLOCK, of Hinsdale, December 12, 1876.
Adeline and Emeline (twins) were born Aug. 25, 1844. Edgar LINDERMAN was born March 17, 1847, and
died September 11, 1850.
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Surnames: MASNER, MACK,
CONNHAISER
Martin
MASNER, born December 11, 1823, came to America from Germany in 1847 and to
this town in 1851, where he still resides.
He married, first, Elizabeth MACK, by whom he had four children, of whom
Henry MASNER is the only one living. His
second wife, Margaret CONNHAISER, was born in Germany, November 11, 1826, and
by her he had nine children: Horace, died Oct. 26, 1881; Freddie, died Nov. 19,
1889; John, of Iowa; George, of Allegany; and Margaret, Carrie, Anna, Mary, and
Minnie.
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Surnames: McCARTY, McAULIFFE,
BLAIR
William
P. McCARTY was born in Utica, N. Y., January 1, 1849. In 1854 he moved to Princeton, Ill., and in
February, 1870, married Miss Margaret McAULIFFE, of Allegany. They have a son and a daughter. In 1887 Mr. McCARTY was appointed postmaster
of Allegany by President Cleveland and served until April, 1891. He has been engaged in the furniture and
undertaking business with J. C. BLAIR since 1889. He is a member of the C. M. B. A.
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Surnames: McCLURE, WARNER,
BURLINGAME, TAGGART, STARR, GRIFFIN, CHAPMAN
Hiram W. McCLURE was the first white male child born in
Cattaraugus county. His birth occurred
at McCLURE settlement in the town of Franklinville on the 30th of April, 1806
and he was the eldest of nine children born to David and Orilla (WARNER)
McCLURE, of whom something is said in the history of that town. David McCLURE was born in Stafford, Conn.,
June 29, 1778, and died in Allegany, January 20, 1848; his wife was born in the
same place December 24, 1783, and died in Franklinville, February 19,
1849. Their children, besides Hiram W.,
were Antoinette, born January 5, 1808, died in Kansas, August 1, 1888; Adaline,
born March 15, 1810, died May 4, 1811; Sidney W., born December 30, 1811, of
Wisconsin; Hannah, born October 5, 1813, died December 10, 1866; David, Jr.,
born March 17, 1815, a physician of Indiana; Pennel, born January 2, 1817, a
physician in Ohio, where he died October 6, 1842; Dexter, born February 9,
1819, a physician in Indiana, where he died February 24, 1879; and Lemira, born
June 3, 1822, of Minnesota. Hiram W.
McCLURE on September 12, 1830, married Caroline BURLINGAME, who was born
September 21, 1813, and who died January 6, 1887. Children: Dr. Sanford B. (see p. 114);
Elizabeth L., born February 2, 1838, died 1839; Alice B., born August 5, 1840,
married W. B. TAGGART; Maria E., born July 12, 1842, married Riley L. STARR,
who died in Ellicottville, December 26, 1886; Esther C., born December 6, 1844,
married George S. GRIFFIN; Rosebelle, born June 2, 1847; Francis C., born
February 12, 1850; Agnes G., born Nov. 12, 1851, married Dr. E. A. CHAPMAN, of
Jefferson county; and Kate L., born Sept. 22, 1856. Hiram W. McCLURE located where he now resides
in 1847. His first ballot was cast in
1828 for Andrew Jackson for president, and since then he has voted at every
regular election except one. It is
doubtful if another man in western New York can claim such an unbroken record. He has ever been prominent in town affairs
and has held nearly every office of trust and responsibility. In 1838 and 1839 he represented Franklinville
on the Board of Supervisors and in 1851 and 1873 served in the same capacity
for the town of Allegany. His son and
his father were several times elected to the same office, the former from
Allegany and the latter from Ischua and Franklinville. As a citizen Mr. McCLURE is greatly respected
and esteemed. He has lived an active,
honorable, upright life, and has always been foremost in promoting the general
weal of the Communities in which he has resided.
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Surnames: McCOY, WICKHAM,
THORNTON, ALLEN, BURDICK
Richard
H. McCOY, born in Goshen, N.Y., April 30, 1811, married Mary Ann WICKHAM
November 17, 1835, who was born June 4, 1811, and died November 30, 1889. Mr. McCOY came to Ellicottville at an early
day, and finally removed to Allegany and located where he now resides. His children are Abigail (Mrs. David
THORNTON), Elizabeth (Mrs. Seth D. ALLEN), Richard, Albert, Mary Ann (died in
infancy), Alfred, and Susan. Richard
McCOY enlisted in Co. I, 64th N. Y. Vols., was wounded at Fair Oaks, was
confined in Libby, Salisbury, and Belle Isle prisons, and married, May 1, 1867,
Sarah B. BURDICK, and has three children: Albertus A., Gertrude B., and
Florence L.
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Surnames: McINTOSH, EVERTS,
PRATT, JOHNSON, PARKER
Silvertus
D. McINTOSH was born at Homer, Cortland county, May 13, 1831. He came to Humphrey with his parents,
Jonathan and Annie McINTOSH, when thirteen years of age. He served in the Rebellion on the U. S.
steamer Paw Paw and died Jan. 9,
1866. He married, Jan. 5, 1861, Cornelia
S., daughter of Rollin and Susan (EVERTS) PRATT, who came from Vermont to Olean
in 1838, where Mr. PRATT died in 1886 and his wife June 19, 1889. Mrs. McINTOSH resides on the homestead. They reared children as follows: Salina G.,
Addie C. (Mrs. Myron D. JOHNSON), Annis S. (Mrs. John A. PARKER), Jonathan E.,
Elizabeth C., Lillie F., Grace U., and Judson R.
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Surnames: McMAHAN, CLARY,
DEVEREUX, EDGERTON, HICKEY
Thomas
McMAHAN, brother of John McMAHAN, of Ellicottville, was born in County Clare,
Ireland, in 1830, came to America with his younger brother, James, about 1844,
and spent the remainder of his youth in Ellicottville, where he married Ann
CLARY. Soon afterward he settled in
Allegany and engaged in farming on the DEVEREUX farm. Later he purchased the EDGERTON homestead on
the Five Mile, where he was a thrifty farmer and an extensive dealer in live
stock. Mr. McMAHAN was a man of
integrity, sound judgment, and of more than ordinary business ability. He died May 14, 1877. Mrs. McMAHAN survives and resides on the
homestead. Their children are Mary A.
(Mrs. Eugene HICKEY), of Allegany; Nora T., John C., and Thomas F., who reside
with their mother; and James G., an enterprising merchant in Ellicottville,
secretary of the Board of Trade, and for a time a member of the Board of
Village Trustees. John C. McMAHAN, like
his father, is one of the heaviest dealers in live stock in Cattaraugus county.
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Surnames: MILLER, RUPPERT,
SCHRADER
John
MILLER was born in Bavaria, Dec. 14, 1833.
He came to Maryland in 1853 and in 1860 removed to Allegany, where in
1883 he built the MILLER block, which contains a hall capable of seating about
500 people. Mr. MILLER was overseer of
the poor eleven years, commissioner of public highways two years, and school
trustee fifteen years. He married, in
Nov., 1855, Rose RUPPERT, who died Nov. 24, 1886. By her he had eight children: Eve, Joseph,
Polly, John, Kate, Andrew, Charles, and Rose, all of whom are living except
Eve, who died November 5, 1879. He
married, second, Mary SCHRADER, of Salamanca, Sept. 10, 1889.
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Surnames: MOHR, MIAR
Henry MOHR was born in Germany, July 8, 1832, came to
Buffalo and thence to Allegany in 1853, settling on 125 acres of land which he
has cleared. June 10, 1859, he married
Ann MIAR, who was born in Germany, June 26, 1834. They have eight children; Joseph, Katie,
Andrew, John, George, Anna, Frank, and Martha.
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Surnames: MORTIMER, KEMMER,
SPINDLER
John
MORTIMER was born in Belgium, October 28, 1828, came to Allegany in 1854, and
settled on Chipmunk creek. In 1860 he
returned to Belgium on a visit and there married Mary KEMMER, March 4,
1861. In 1867 he took possession of
their present home. Their children are
John H., Josephine A. (Mrs. John J. SPINDLER), Henry F., and Mary A.
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Surnames: MULTRUS, ZINK,
SMITH
Joseph
H. MULTRUS was born in Dayton, December 8, 1857. September 18, 1883, he married Mrs. Libbie
(ZINK) SMITH, daughter of William F. ZINK, of Allegany, by whom he has had
three children, viz.: Mary, Libbie, and Joseph.
Mr. MULTRUS is a prosperous farmer in the town of Allegany.
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Surnames: NENNO, ZINK,
FURNACE
Nicholas
H. NENNO was born in Buffalo, June 5, 1838, came to this town about 1857, and
was a farmer and lumberman. About 1867
he bought the farm where his widow now resides.
February 13, 1890, Mr. NENNO was killed by falling from the top of a
tank house at the oil well on the ZINK farm, where he was at work. At the time of his death he was poormaster
and president of Branch 41, C. M. B. A.
January 15, 1858, he married Barbara FURNACE, of Buffalo. They reared twelve children: John, William,
Mary, George, Michael, Joseph, Victor, Lena, Frank, Freddie, Charles, and
Edward.
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Surnames: NESSEL, GRIMES, BOUGHTON,
DYE
Joseph
NESSEL was born in Montgomery county January 15, 1830, and about 1855 married
Almari GRIMES, of Vermont. Their two
children were George H. and Mary. When
sixteen years of age Mr. NESSEL came to this town and contracted for 378 acres of
land, which he paid for by clearing off the timber and converting it into
lumber. His first habitation was a log
cabin, which stood 150 rods from his present home. Four years later he erected another near by
and subsequently a third on the site of his present residence. This burned down February 1, 1885. He was one of the earliest settlers on the
Four Mile and has always been considered a solid, substantial citizen. His son George H. was born in March, 1857,
married Harriet BOUGHTON, and has one child, Joseph B. The daughter, Mary, born in 1859, married
Charles O. DYE, and died in 1884; Mr. DYE's death occurred in 1885. They left one child, Florence E.
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Surnames: NORWOOD, LAKE,
HILLS, PHILLIPS
Thomas
C. NORWOOD was born in Caroline, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1820, and came to Allegany on
a visit about 1842. After remaining one
year he returned to Tompkins county, but in 1860 came back and settled
permanently. He has been a farmer and
blacksmith. He married, in 1846, Sarah
LAKE, of Tompkins county, who bore him three children: Byron, Fred H., and
Nettie.
Byron
NORWOOD was born Oct. 30, 1847, and for about twenty years has been express
messenger between Salamanca and Chicago.
He married Jennie HILLS, of Allegany, November 1, 1872, and they have
had four children -- Harry, Guy, Genevieve, and Geraldine.
Fred
H. NORWOOD was born Aug. 27, 1849, and is a farmer. He married Celestia PHILLIPS, Oct. 14, 1875,
and has two children, Agnes G. and Emma D.
Nettie
NORWOOD, born July 28, 1852, died April 15, 1862.
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Surnames: PERRIGO, STEDMAN,
BESSEY, RAISH, CHASE
Lyman
PERRIGO, a native of Franklinville, was born Sept. 20, 1832, and married, July
4, 1853, Mary Ann, only child and daughter of Frederick and Maria M. (STEDMAN)
BESSEY, who bore him two children – Fred C., born Feb. 2, 1856, married Flora,
daughter of Thomas and Eliza RAISH, of Allegany Oct. 26, 1885, has two
children, Raymond N. and Clarence R., and resides on the homestead; and Estella
M., born May 20, 1859, married Edwin E. CHASE, Nov. 6, 1877, and had one child,
Mortimer D. Frederick BESSEY was born in
Vermont, Feb. 6, 1808; his wife was also born there May 15, 1813; they were
married Sept. 29, 1833. They came to
Allegany in 1845. He died here March 30,
1875. His widow survives him and resides
with her daughter, Mary Ann PERRIGO, who was born Sept. 5, 1834.
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Surnames: PHELPS, TORREY,
KEYES, SCOFIELD
Dudley
PHELPS, son of Gideon Spencer PHELPS, was born Sept. 5, 1834, in the town of
Barker, Broome county. He came to
Friendship, Allegany county, in 1854, where, in 1855, he married Maria TORREY,
who bore him two children: Jennie E. (Mrs. S. G. KEYES) and Charles S. both of
Gowanda. The family came to Allegany in
1856, where Mrs. PHELPS died Sept. 10, 1863, while her husband was in the
army. On Aug. 6, 1862, Mr. PHELPS
enlisted in Co. C, 154th N. Y. Vols., and served until the war closed, being
promoted corporal. He married, second,
Nov. 23, 1865, Julia A., daughter of Amos SCOFIELD, of Allegany. Mr. PHELPS is a general merchant, and is
serving his eighteenth term as town clerk.
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Surnames: PHILLIPS, RANNEY,
NORWOOD, PLATNER, McNALL
Abiathar
PHILLIPS, Sr., was born at Ashfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1774, and married Hannah
RANNEY, Dec. 4, 1800. He came to Phelps,
Ontario county, about 1820, and in 1828 removed to this town with his oldest
son, Abiathar, Jr., locating on land where Fred NORWOOD now lives. In the summer of 1829 he brought his family
to this home, where he and his wife resided the remainder of their lives. He died Feb. 1, 1863, and his wife July 28,
1857. They reared twelve children:
Esther, Eliza, Abiathar, Jr., George, Anna, Samuel R., Jared, Harriet, William
H., Charles H., Alonzo F., and John P., of whom four sons are living: Abiathar,
Jr., William H., Charles H., and John P.
Mr. PHILLIPS served as supervisor of the town in 1845 and 1846. John P. PHILLIPS resides in this town and is
a farmer. He married Sophronia
PLATNER. Jared D. PHILLIPS, son of
Samuel R., was born in Allegany, Oct. 30, 1841.
He married Mary J., daughter of Levi McNALL, Nov. 1, 1876. They have one child, Myrtie M.
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Surnames: POTTER, PRIEST,
LITTLE, CURTISS
Jeremiah
POTTER was born in Otsego county in 1796.
He married Betsey PRIEST, and with his wife and three children came to
Farmersville about 1839. There they
died, she in 1851 and he in 1871. They
reared three children: Eliza A., who married Walter N. LITTLE, of Farmersville,
and died on the homestead in October, 1886; Augustus F., who married Elmira
CURTISS, of Bradford, Pa., and resides in Wisconsin; and Chester L., who was
born Aug. 6, 1834. The latter served in
the late war in Co. K, 105th N. Y. Vols.
He married Mahala PRIEST, Sept. 30, 1870, and came to Allegany in 1880,
where they still reside.
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Surnames: PRESACK, DOMBROWSKY
Joseph
PRESACK, born in Germany, June 18, 1838, emigrated to America in 1862. He served in the late war in Co. I, 16th N.
Y. Cav., and was discharged Sept. 21, 1865.
He came to Allegany in 1866 and worked at his trade of blacksmith until
poor health obliged him to make a change.
He is now in the insurance business.
Oct. 30, 1866, he married Frances DOMBROWSKY, of Allegany, and they have
had four children: Randolph, Frank, Lizzie, and Gustave.
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Surnames: SCHIFTER, BOCKMIER,
HARBEL, FELT
George
SCHIFTER was born in Germany, February 10, 1817. In 1852, the year he came to America, he
married Mary A. BOCKMIER. They settled
in Clearfield county, Pa., whence they moved to this town about 1857. Their first home here was on the Nine Mile
run, but in 1865 they located in Allegany village, where they died – Mr.
SCHIFTER on May 19, 1875, and his wife on June 30, 1884. They had nine children, viz.: Caroline, Mary,
and George who died in infancy, Katie (deceased), Rose (Mrs. John HARBEL),
Tresea (Mrs. Andrew HARBEL), Mary, Lena (Mrs. Joseph FELT), and Michael.
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Surnames: SCHULTZ, SMITH, LAMB
William
F. SCHULTZ was born in Buffalo on the 5th of December, 1860. His father, Charles H. SCHULTZ, moved with
his family to this town in 1861, arriving here on the 8th of November, where
the son has since resided. His wife is
Mary SMITH, by whom he has one son, Howard H.
Mr. SCHULTZ's mother's maiden name was Christina LAMB. The family is a prominent one in the German
element of the town.
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Surnames: SCOFIELD, LINES,
SELLECK, BULLOCK, PHELPS, SMITH, CLAYTON
Amos
SCOFIELD was born in Hadley, Saratoga county, February 22, 1810, and came as a
lumberman to the town of Allegany in 1839, settling on Five Mile run, where he
died April 15, 1858. By his wife, Ruth
LINES, who died here January 21, 1880, he had seven children, viz.: Harriet
(deceased), who married Rev. E. J. SELLECK; Augusta Charlotte (Mrs. A. W.
BULLOCK), of Allegany; Julia A. (Mrs. Dudley PHELPS), of Allegany; Ellen
Lorette (Mrs. Frank S. SMITH), of Binghamton; Lovina E. (Mrs. Rev. T. E.
CLAYTON), of Ocean Grove, N. J.; Amos B., of Rochester; and Willis J., of
Allegany. Mr. SCOFIELD was prominent in
town affairs and owned and operated several saw-mills at various times. His brothers Barzilla settled in Portville,
Harvey in Hinsdale, and Shadrack in Oneida county – all in 1839.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 442
Surnames: SHELDON, LAMBERTON,
OVEROCKER, BROWN, PARK
George
C. SHELDON, a native of New Hartford, Conn., was born Jan. 13, 1811, and when
about twenty-one years of age came to Allegany, where he died Oct. 7,
1882. He was a member of the Free
Methodist church. Nov. 4, 1834, he
married Julia LAMBERTON, of Allegany, by whom he had five children. Mrs. SHELDON was born September 28, 1818, and
died in 1853. Mr. SHELDON married,
second, Elizabeth OVEROCKER, in 1856, who survived but a few years. He married again, in June, 1866, Mrs. Rebecca
H. BROWN, who still resides on the homestead with Norton T. SHELDON. The children of George C. and Julia SHELDON
were George L., Mary A., Norton T., Charles C., and Margaret S. George L., born October 18, 1835, enlisted in
Co. I, 64th N. Y. Vols., and served three years. He is a baker in Allegany. He married Georgianna PARK and they have four
children: Charles F., Park C., a wholesale liquor dealer in Allegany, Luceba
H., and Bennie D. Norton T. SHELDON
resides on the homestead and owns, besides, a saw-mill near the mouth of Five
Mile creek. September 26, 1866, he
married Louisa A. BROWN, and their children are Estella J., Minnie L., and
Clare E. Charles C. SHELDON, Jr., died
Jan. 7, 1885.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 442
Surnames: SMITH, ANGLE,
HAASE, WILLARD, BURGER, GOODWIN, WRIGHT
John
G. SMITH was born in Germany, April 15, 1803. There he married Katharine R. ANGLE in 1838
and emigrated to America in December, 1851, settling first in Buffalo and in
1856 in Allegany, where he died March 23, 1876, and his wife February 8, 1885. They had born to them seven children, three
of whom died in infancy. The others were
Katharine A., Frederick, George, and John S.
Katharine
A. married Henry F. HAASE, of Allegany.
Frederick
SMITH was born in Germany, October 21, 1841, came to America with his parents,
and commenced his business life as a clerk with Erastus WILLARD, who in 1868
admitted him to an equal partnership, which continued until 1884, when Mr.
SMITH became sole owner. April 21, 1881,
he married Mary L. BURGER, who was born in Olean, Aug. 19, 1856, and graduated
from the State Normal School at Fredonia.
They have three children: Raymond, Georgianna and Clinton.
George
SMITH was born Jan. 20, 1845, and served in Co. I, 64th N. Y. Vols., being
fatally wounded in the battle of Gettysburg.
John
S. SMITH, born Aug. 16, 1859, is engaged in the mercantile business with his
brother. He married Emma L., daughter of
Isaac and Eliza J. (GOODWIN) WRIGHT, Sept. 8, 1881.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 442 & 443
Surnames: SPRAKER, SOUTER,
HYDE, CARR, HALL, FRANK, MIXER
The SPRAKER
family in Allegany has been one of the most prominent families in the
town. The record goes back to William
SPRAKER, who was born in Germany, Oct. 9, 1808, and there married Christina
SOUTER. They emigrated to America in
1847 and located in Erie county. Only
two of their nine children are living.
Mr. SPRAKER came to Allegany in May, 1854, and died in the village May
30, 1875. His son, William SPRAKER, Jr.,
born in Germany, December 11, 1838, came with his parents to this town in 1854
and has since been one of its foremost citizens. His education was obtained in the common
schools of Erie county and clerking was his early occupation. August 21, 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 64th
N. Y. Vols., and participated in ten regular engagements, receiving a wound at
Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, and being discharged May 3, 1864. Mr. SPRAKER was appointed postmaster Dec. 20,
1865, and was re-appointed in 1875, serving continuously from then until 1887. He was again appointed in 1891 and is the
present incumbent of that position. He
has also served as town clerk and in other capacities, and is a member and has
been an officer of the local G. A. R. Post.
October 29, 1867, he married Susan E. HYDE, who died Aug. 12, 1886; she
bore him three children: Clarence H., Lois M. (Mrs. Miner CARR), and George
V. He married, second, Mrs. Phoebe HALL,
sister of his first wife, on June 28, 1887, by whom he has one child, Harold
E. Henry HYDE, the father of Mr.
SPRAKER's two wives, was born in Germany and came to Allegany in 1855.
Charles
SPRAKER, the other surviving son of William SPRAKER, Sr., was born Oct. 20,
1842, and Feb. 18, 1868, at Olean, he married Mary FRANK. He began life as a clerk for Marsh & Van
Campen in March, 1857, in which capacity he continued until just before his
marriage, when he was admitted to the firm under the name of Marsh &
Co. In 1876 he formed the firm of
SPRAKER & MIXER, and in April, 1881, bought his partner out. February 22, 1889, a fire destroyed his
mercantile establishment, but he soon rebuilt and started anew, He has two
children, Frank and Anna. Mr. SPRAKER
has served as town clerk and in 1885 he represented Allegany on the Board of
Supervisors.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 443
Surnames: STEPHEN, FRANK,
HETZ, WELCH, NOONAN, TRAVERS
William
M. STEPHAN was a native of Germany, where he was born Oct. 8, 1819. He came to the United States in 1850 and
after living in Buffalo four years removed to Allegany, locating on Nine Mile
run. In 1864 he settled on the Four
Mile, where he still resides, being one of the early settlers in that
locality. Mr. STEPHAN has held several
town offices and has been quite an extensive oil producer. In 1849 he married Mary FRANK, who was born
Aug. 29, 1816. Their children are Charles
P., born Jan. 12, 1853, married Emma, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth HETZ,
Oct. 3, 1881; Clara, born Feb. 16, 1854, married Michael WELCH; George; Mary
J., born Dec. 3, 1856, married Patrick NOONAN; and Frank H., born Nov. 27,
1858, married, Dec. 25, 1883, Maggie A., daughter of Frank and Margaret
TRAVERS, and has had born to them these children: Jennie M., Laura P., and
Francis (deceased). The children of
Charles P. STEPHAN are William Henry, Frank A., Elmer H., and John M. George STEPHEN, third child of William M.,
was born Sept. 8, 1855, and until 1880 was engaged in lumbering. In that year he located on his present
farm. Dec. 27, 1880 he married Mary
NOONAN and their children are Celia, Fred, Clara (deceased), Albert, Agnes, and
Eddie.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 443 & 444
Surnames: STRONG, WHITE,
CLIFFORD, FOX, ANDREWS, MAY, LEMON
James
STRONG, son of Solomon and Mary (WHITE) STRONG, born in Vermont, May 3, 1868,
married Catharine CLIFFORD, of New Hampshire, in 1799, came to. Olean in 1819,
and two years later removed to Allegany, settling where the widow of his son
James, Jr., now resides. The first
marriage in Allegany occurred at his house, being that of his daughter Sally to
William B. FOX in 1825. James STRONG died
April 20, 1839, and his wife, Catharine, Aug. 16, 1852. Their children were Almeda, Solomon, Sally,
Emily, Luthera, James, Jr., Catharine, Adeline, William, and Jame A., all
deceased. James STRONG, Jr., married
Carmale, daughter of Rhody (ANDREWS) MAY, of Hinsdale, April 25, 1857, and died
in June, 1882. His widow survives him
and lives on the old homestead. Their
children were Eola and Lew J. Eola, born
Oct. 30, 1858, married Frank LEMON and has two children, Lew S. and Fred
H. Lew J., born Nov. 22, 1864, is a
farmer and resides on the homestead.
William MAY, father of Mrs. James STRONG, Jr., died in 1840 and his wife
Rhody in 1844.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 444
Surnames: THORNTON, McCOY,
FRANK
Davis
THORNTON, born in Allegany county, July 2, 1828, came to this town when
eighteen years of age and followed lumbering and rafting on the Allegheny river
until 1889. In the spring of 1890 he
built the Allegheny River House near the Indian reservation. He married, first, Abigail, daughter of
Richard H. McCOY, who was the mother of his son David. Mrs. THORNTON died May 27, 1856. His second wife was Lydia A. FRANK, by whom
he has three daughters, Katie, Mary, and Abbie.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 444
Surnames: WHEELER, LINDSLEY,
SPALDING, HATCH, REDOUT, CURTISS, HAYNES, PETERSON, KAHN
William
H. WHEELER was born in Washington county, January 1, 1824. He married Rebecca LINDSLEY, July 4, 1845,
who was born October 15, 1826. Mr.
WHEELER came to this county when about ten years of age, with his parents, who
settled in Yorkshire. He now resides in
Allegany and is a farmer. He has two
brothers, Charles M. and Joseph A. WHEELER, and one sister, Mrs. Helen M.
SPALDING, who reside in this town.
William H. WHEELER has eleven children: Devillow, born in Yorkshire,
October 4, 1846, enlisted in the late war at the age of sixteen in Co. I, 154th
N. Y. Vols., and starved to death at Andersonville prison; William W., born at
Yorkshire, August 26, 1848, served in the late war in Co. A, 188th N. Y. Vols.,
married Julia H., daughter of Marshall and Emma HATCH, April 23, 1874, who was
born November 1, 1856, and has six children, Jennie R., Alice A., J. Russell,
George P., William W., Jr., and Matie E.; Myron Devereux, born in Allegany,
December 8, 1850 married Emeline REDOUT, and resides in South Saginaw, Mich.;
George C., who died in infancy; Caroline H., born May 9, 1855, married John
CURTISS, Jr.; Halsey A., born June 28, 1858, married Emelia REDOUT; Hannah L., born
June 25, 1860, married Russell HAYNES; Nancy, born February 7, 1863, married
Theodore PETERSON, and died in 1879; Guy I., born October 15, 1866, in
Allegany; John H., born September 18, 1869, died in infancy; and Ada, born
February 1, 1872, married John KAHN.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 444
Surnames: WARD, HANEY, SMITH
Dwight
W. WARD, second son of Robert D. and Mary A. (HANEY) WARD, was born in
Jamestown, N. Y. Robert D. was an only
son and was born in Ireland, October 20, 1812, emigrating thence to America in
1828, the voyage lasting three months.
Learning the cabinet maker's trade in Bath, N., Y., where he married
Mary A. HANEY on September 24, 1833, he removed to Jamestown, where he ran a
foundry for fourteen years, when he engaged in hotel keeping until his death in
1857. His widow with her family removed
to Allegany in 1859 and resides with her daughter, Mrs. William H. SMITH. Their children were Elida S. (Mrs. W. H.
SMITH), Hibbard P., Dwight W., John D. (deceased), and Mary E. (deceased). Dwight W. WARD was born February 12,
1849. Coming to this town in 1859 he
subsequently purchased what was known as WARD's Hotel, now called Park Hotel, which
he conducted until 1883, when he engaged in the business of developing the oil
fields and producing oil, in which he has been one of the most extensive
operators in town.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 444
Surnames: WILBER, PALMER
Henry
WILBER was born in the town of Humphrey, and has one child, Henry S., who was
born in Allegany, Jan. 21, 1884. Mr.
WILBER is manager of Sheldon's Allegany cheese factory. His father, Philo C. WILBER, came from
Onondaga county to this county when about nine years of age. He married Catherine PALMER.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 444 & 445
Surnames: WILLARD, REYNOLDS,
HUNTLEY
Erastus
WILLARD, son of Sherlock and Elizabeth (REYNOLDS) WILLARD, was born in Lisle,
N. Y. March 23, 1823, while his parents were moving from Fort Edward to
Cattaraugus county. The family settled
in Franklinville. In the fall of 1843 he
came to Allegany (then Burton) and taught a district school, which closed in
March, 1844. In December of this year he
began his mercantile life in this town.
Mr. WILLARD began a small business with small means, and constantly
increased both until he finally had one of the largest and best stores in
western New York. He took an active
interest in local Democratic politics, and was supervisor in 1850 and from 1865
to 1867 inclusive, and served his town as justice of the peace about forty
years. In 1877 he was his party's
candidate for member of Assembly, but his district being overwhelmingly
Republican he was defeated. He was loyal
and true during the Rebellion, and although he was not drafted he nevertheless,
in accordance with his convictions of duty, placed a substitute in the
army. April 26, 1848, he married Harriet
A., daughter of Henry HUNTLEY and a native of Herkimer, N. Y., and
granddaughter of Abner HUNTLEY, who was born near Bunker Hill, Mass., in
1767. Her father was born in 1804 and
she was born in Cuba, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1828.
Mr. WILLARD's children were Charles, born in Allegany, March 11, 1849,
died Nov. 10, 1865; Clare, born July 28, 1870, who is his father's successor in
business and the proprietor of WILLARD's Stock Farm; and Hattie, born Aug. 5,
1872, died Sept. 7th following. Mr.
WILLARD died Dec. 31, 1889. Mr. and Mrs.
WILLARD were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Allegany and
he was one of its liberal supporters.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 445
Surnames: WILTSE, HALL,
JONES, WILBER, KENYON, VAN BRUNT
William
WILTSE was a native of Marcellus, Onondaga county, and was born April 2,
1802. On the 26th of April, 1821, he
married Sophia HALL, who was born in Connecticut on March 10, 1800. They came to Allegany in the spring of 1848
and the next year built a hotel, which they kept until 1859, when they engaged
in farming, continuing in it until his death Oct. 7, 1865, her death occurring
June 5, 1874. Their children were
Cornell, Charles C., and Danford W.
Cornell WILTSE, born May 16, 1824, came to this town with his parents,
and married Electa JONES, of Hinsdale; they have one child, Wesley C., a
Baptist preacher who married Louisa WILBER, of Allegany. Charles C. WILTSE was born December 19, 1827,
and died May 28, 1866. Dec. 7, 1847, he
married Abigail KENYON, who survives him and resides in this town; their
daughter Orcelia is the wife of Orran VAN BRUNT. Danford W. WILTSE was born Aug. 17, 1833; he
resides in Springville, N. Y. Amos
JONES, the father of Mrs. Cornell WILTSE, came with his wife Eliza to Allegany
in 1841 and in 1867 removed to Minnesota.
They had eleven children.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 445
Surnames: WING, BLOWER,
CONNHAISER, BARNES
Asa S.
WING was born in Oneida county, March 7, 1837.
He came to East Otto with his parents when twelve years of age. He was a soldier in the late war in Co. G,
154th N. Y. Vols., and was taken prisoner at Gettysburg and confined in Libby
prison. He came to Allegany in
1865. Mr. WING married, first, Louisa
BLOWER, of Oneida county; their three children died in infancy. His second wife, Catharine CONNHAISER, whom
he married in June, 1862, was born in Germany, March 9, 1837. Their children were Eliza L. (Mrs. Thomas A.
BARNES), Nelson, Julia, Edward, Emma, Georgie Anna, Charles E., Elizabeth C.,
and Samuel.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 445
Surnames: WOODARD, FRANKLIN
Frederick
J. WOODARD, born in Bolivar, Allegany county, July 16, 1859, learned the
printer's trade at Wellsville in the office of the Allegany County Reporter, and was employed three years in the Herald office in Olean. In 1885 he came to Allegany and purchased the
farm where he now lives. He married Anna
FRANKLIN, of Portround, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 26, 1881, and by her has had two
children: George and Artiemarie.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Pages 445 & 446
Surnames: ZINK, CRIQUIE,
KENOCH, ROBINSON, MULTRUS, SMITH, LINEHART, REITZ, BRITCHEL
William
F. ZINK, born in Germany, Feb. 3,1828, emigrated to Buffalo with his parents in
1831. He came to this town in 1855 and
is engaged in farming. Mr. ZINK married,
Feb. 3, 1851, May C. CRIQUIE, who was born in Buffalo, Oct. 9, 1829. She is said to have been the first German
child born in that city. Their children
were William, Jr., born Nov. 23, 1851, married Rickey KENOCH; Minnie, born Feb.
3, 1853, married John W. ROBINSON; Frank, born June 8, 1856, married Rosa
MULTRUS; Libbie born April 15, 1859, married, first, April 24, 1877, Sebastian
SMITH, who died Sept. 13, 1880, and second, Sept. 18, 1883, Joseph H. MULTRUS,
and their children are Mary, Libbie, and Joseph, Jr., Mrs. MULTRUS's first children
being Frank and Nellie SMITH; John F., born May 5, 1861, married Lizzie
LINEHART; George H., born June 6, 1865, married Mary REITZ; Mary Z., born Aug.
7, I870, died Sept. 28, 1870; and Mary M., born June 29, 1872. Francis ZINK, father of William F. ZINK, was
born in Germany in 1800. He there
married Bridget BRITCHEL, who with him came to America in 1831, settling at
Eden Corners, Erie county. He died May
29, 1855, in Allegany, at the residence of his son. His wife survived him until April 9, 1880.
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History of the Town of Allegany –
Chapter XVIII (18)
Page 446
Surnames: ZISTER, WEAVER,
HYDE
Michael
ZISTER, born in Germany about 1818, came to Buffalo about 1850, and a few years
later settled in Allegany. He had
thirteen children, of whom seven are living.
His wife was Louisa A. WEAVER, who died in 1888. Michael ZISTER died in 1867. John ZISTER, son of Michael, was born in
Buffalo, Jan. 3, 1856. He came to
Allegany with his parents and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sebastian HYDE,
Aug. 16, 1880. They have had born to
them five children, viz.: Edna C., Alice L., Clara E., Clarence, and Laura A.
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History of the Town of Ashford –
Chapter XIX (19)
Page 453
Surnames: ALDRICH, ENSWORTH,
BALDWIN
Jirah S. ALDRICH, son of Rev. Adon
ALDRICH, was born in Walrath, Wayne county, Nov. 20, 1823, removed to Fabius,
and in 1852 came to Ashford, where he purchased of Andrew STEVENS the farm
where he now resides. His father, who
resided with him, died in July of that year.
Mr. ALDRICH taught common and singing schools several years, served as
town superintendent of schools two years, and justice of the peace eight years. He has been identified with the
Congregational church since its organization.
He married Cordelia H., daughter of Tracy ENSWORTH, by whom he has
children as follows: Leroy, of Williams, Iowa;
Cornelia, deceased; Alma (Mrs. O.
A. BALDWIN) of Bradford, Pa.; and Fred, of Ashford.
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History of the Town of Ashford – Chapter
XIX (19)
Pages 453 & 454
Surnames: BIGELOW, GODDARD,
SAMPSON
Job BIGELOW came from Brookline, Vt., to
Ashford in 1825 and settled on the farm which Miss C. GODDARD now owns, and
where he reared his ten children. His
son, Charles C. BIGELOW, was born in Brookline, Vt., Dec. 18, 1807 and removed
to Ashford in 1825. A few years later he
began business for himself and bought the farm where his son Henry now
lives. He never "sought place or
position, but was often chosen to fill positions of responsibility and
trust". He was an Odd Fellow and a
Mason and was buried with Masonic honors.
He married Roxana, daughter of Peter SAMPSON, by whom he had ten
children; those now living are William
W., Caroline, Henry W., Maria, Adaline and Charles D. William W. resides in Chicago, Charles D. in
Buffalo and the others in Ashford.
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History of the Town of Ashford –
Chapter XIX (19)
Page 454
Surnames: BLOCK, KRUSE
Joseph BLOCK was born in Mechlenberg
[sic], Germany, and came to America in 1854 and to Ashford in 1857. He married Dora, daughter of Frederick
KRUSE; their children were Charles,
John, William L., Sophia, and Mary.
William L. BLOCK came to America with his parents at the age of twelve
years. Oct. 5, 1861, he enlisted in Co.
I, 44th N. Y. Vols., and served three years, participating in the battles of
Malvern Hill (where he was wounded), Fair Oaks, and Williamsburg.
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History of the Town of Ashford –
Chapter XIX (19)
Page 454
Surname: CARTER
Joseph T. and Norman B. CARTER came to
Ashford from Darien, Genesee county, in March, 1821, and purchased a quarter
section of lot 45. They were bachelors
and kept their own house. N. B. was one
of the first school commissioners and was a justice of the peace in 1834, and
taught one of the first schools in the town in the winter of 1822-1823. These brothers removed to Michigan in
1835. Their brother, Russell M. CARTER,
who had visited Ashford in 1822, settled on a part of lot 45 in 1825 and later
located on the farm where William and George SHULTIS first settled in 1818.
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History of the Town of
Page 454
Surnames: CHAMBERLAIN, EHMAN,
HUNTLEY, WILLIS, McKAY, HICKS, BEMIS
Hiram CHAMBERLAIN, son of Piny
CHAMBERLAIN, a native of
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Page 454
Surnames: COLE, BIGELOW,
BEMIS
Daniel Mansfield COLE was the oldest of
four children of a crippled father, and was born in
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Surnames: CONRAD, LEEZER
Peter CONRAD, son of Jacob, a native of
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Pages 454‑455
Surnames: DEMON, BROOKS,
SAMPSON, FOLTS,
Abel DEMON emigrated from Ware,
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Surnames: EHMAN, CARTER,
HAUFFMAN, GROFF
Frederick EHMAN, a native of
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Surnames: EMERSON, CHASE
William L. EMERSON came from
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Page 455
Surnames: FOLTS, CLAPSADDLE,
VAN SLYKE, MUNGER, FRANK, UPSON
Joseph FOLTS came to this town in 1832
from Herkimer county. He was an axe
maker by trade. He married Elizabeth
CLAPSADDLE, who bore him ten children, of whom those living are William, of
Timothy FOLTS, son of Joseph, settled in
Ashford about 1834. He was a moulder by
trade, but gave his attention to farming.
In 1853 he purchased the farm where his son, Allen C. FOLTS, now lives,
and where he died in May, 1872. He
married Mary, daughter of John FRANK, of Ashford, and of their nine children
only Wealthy (Mrs. Robert FRANK) and Mary (Mrs. Solomon UPSON), of Springville,
Frank and
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Surnames: FOX, BROOKS
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Surnames: FRANK, OYER, WEBER
Jacob FRANK was born in
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Surnames: FULLER, HUGHEY
Almon FULLER, of
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Surnames: GIBSON, WAITE,
ALDRO, TIBBETTS, SMITH
William GIBSON came to this town from
Genesee county in 1834 and bought the improvements of Lorenzo WAITE, the farm
where John ALDRO lives. He worked at
carpentering and farming. He married
Charlotte TIBBETTS, and of their seven children, Anna, John, Juliette, Garry,
Peter, and Lavilla (Mrs. E. B. SMITH) are living.
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Surnames: GROAT, NEFF, MABEE,
DRAPER, NELLIGAN
Jasper GROAT settled in this town in 1829
where James NEFF now lives. He came from
Montgomery county. His wife Maria,
daughter of Uriah MABEE, bore him ten children, of whom eight are living, viz:
Jerry, Uriah, John, Seth, Esley, Susan, Hurmey, and Deborah. John GROAT, a native of Ashford, served in
the war of the Rebellion, and married, first, Emily DRAPER, who was the mother
of two children, Frank S. and Mary. He
married, second, Margaret NELLIGAN, by whom he has four children: Charles E.,
Jasper C., Jennie and Earl E.
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Surnames: HADLEY, HOLLAND,
THOMAS
Cornelius HADLEY came to Ashford in
1842. Alonzo and William HADLEY, sons of
Jesse HADLEY, came to this town from Brattleboro, Vt., in 1843, and purchased
the farm now owned by Otis HOLLAND.
Later Alonzo purchased the farm on which he now lives. Nelson H., another son of Jesse HADLEY, came
from Brattleboro, Vt., to Ashford in April, 1850, and purchased the farm where
his son Henry H. now lives. He died July
6, 1867. By his wife, Catharine THOMAS,
he had two children, Henry H. and Willard, both of Ashford. Mr. HADLEY was a member of the Congregational
church and much esteemed by his neighbors.
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Surnames: HANSON, HUGHEY
Cornelius HANSON came to Ashford in 1836
from Glen, Montgomery county, and settled on land now owned by George
HUGHEY. Four of his six children are
living: R. Hudson, Sarah A., Margaret, and Peter W.
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Surnames: HOLDEN, GREEN,
PRATT, WOODWORTH, ROBBINS
Arnold HOLDEN, son of Edward, a descendant
of George HOLDEN of Revolutionary fame, removed from North Adams to Aurora ,
Erie county, and in 1829 settled in the town of Ashford. He built one of the first framed buildings in
town for the purpose of carrying on the business of carding wool and dressing
cloth, and eventually used it for manufacturing cloth. It was one of the first establishments of the
kind in the county. This he run
successfully until the business declined, when Mr. HOLDEN became a farmer. He was prominent in the affairs of his town
and used his influence to advance the cause of education and the general good
of society. He was supervisor in 1831
and a justice of the peace a quarter of a century. He also served as justice of sessions. Mr. HOLDEN removed from Ashford about 1865
and died in Bradford, Pa., in 1869. He
reared ten children, all living: Julia (Mrs. A. M. GREEN): June M. (Mrs. N.
PRATT): Sarah A. (Mrs. M. WOODWORTH): John R., of Franklinville: Amos B., of
Sparta, Wis.: Martha A. (Mrs. L. C.
ROBBINS) and William A., of Ashford: Edwin C., of Topeka: Dennison F., of
Oviatt, Mich.: and Nelson H., of White, S.D.
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Surnames: HUFSTADER, ALLEN,
DYGERT, BLOCK, FOX, HOLLAND, HUGHEY
Michael C. HUFSTADER came to Ashford from
Frankfort, N.Y. in 1822, making the journey on foot and carrying his provisions
on his back. He came to live with his
uncle Michael HUFSTADER, who had preceded him in 1820, but soon after “bound
himself out” to Seth ALLEN, of Springville, and engaged in the manufacture of
pearlash and potash. In 1831 he married
Sally, daughter of Abram DYGERT, of Frankfort, and settled in Ashford on the
farm now owned by John BLOCK. He was
fond of hunting and fishing. He killed a
great number of deer and wildcats, and once or twice each season he made a
fishing trip to Lake Erie. The children
of Mr. and Mrs. HUFSTADER were Willard, of Salem, Ore.; Michael, deceased:
Hannah C. (Mrs. George O. FOX), of Ashford; and Mary E. (Mrs. John HOLLAND),
Abram, and Sadie (Mrs. E. HUGHEY), also of Ashford.
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Surnames: HUGHEY, McMICKLE,
FOLTS, VEDDER
George HUGHEY, born of Scotch parentage in
Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 14, 1803, learned the trade of paper making, and at the
age of twenty-one emigrated to America, where he followed his avocation several
years, and conducted a grocery and bakery in Schenectady. In 1840 he came to Ashford and purchased and
cleared the farm now owned by his son George H.
He served as highway commissioner, and both he and his wife were active
members of the Baptist church. He was
honest and charitable. He married Marry
McMICKLE, who bore him eleven children: Mary A.; Eliza J.; James, of
Ellicottville; John, 1st, drowned at Schenectady; John, 2d, born in Ashford,
Sept. 24, 1847, married Ida FOLTS, of Mansfield, and has four children, Carl
B., Claude L., Neil and Guy; Matilda; Catherine; Ellen; George H., born in Ashford,
Oct. 9, 1843, owns the homestead, and for several years has been a dealer in
live stock, produce, and real estate; Robert, a merchant in Ashford Hollow; and
Rosanie. George H. HUGHEY served Ashford
on the Board of Supervisors in 1883, 1885, and 1892, and has held other town
offices. He married Adaliza, daughter of
John A. VEDDER, of Ellicottville, and their children are Eugene G. and Vedder
G. Edverdo HUGHEY, son of James, served
as highway commissioner in 1888 and 1889.
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Surname: KRUSE
Herman KRUSE came to Ashford in 1858 and
settled on the place where Henry KRUSE now lives. William C. KRUSE represented the town on the
Board of Supervisors in 1879 and 1880.
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Surnames: LAMPMAN, FRANK
John LAMPMAN, from Schoharie county,
settled in Ashford on the farm now owned by Elmer FRANK. He cleared the place and died aged 102 years.
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Surnames: MULTER, WIDRIG,
FRENCH, HINMAN, PICKETT, FOLTS
Peter A. MULTER came from Camillus,
Onondaga county, to Ashford in 1831 and settled on the farm where his son
Gilbert now lives. He spent much of his
life from home repairing clocks and watches.
He married Elizabeth WIDRIG, of Herkimer county, and had born to him
nine children, six of whom are living: Gilbert, Jacob, Lydia A. (Mrs. Lawrence
FRENCH), of Ashford, Margaret (Mrs. HINMAN), of Ellicottville, Eliza (Mrs. Eli
PICKETT), of Wisconsin, and Adaline (Mrs. O. FOLTS), of Ashford. Gilbert MULTER is a farmer on the old
homestead. Jacob MULTER has been engaged
in the furniture and undertaker’s trade since 1859, and has served as justice
of the peace about twenty-five years.
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Surnames: MURPHY, KIMBALL,
HOLLAND, RICE, WEAVER, HOLDEN, PIERCE, BUCK, KRUSE, REED
Ormel MURPHY, son of John MURPHY, and
grandson of John KIMBALL, a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Royalton, Vt.,
in 1801, came to Ashford in 1831 from Genesee county, and made the first
settlement on the farm now owned by his son John L. When Mr. MURPHY came to his home in the woods
there were only the families of Nathaniel HOLLAND and William M. RICE living
between him and Cattaraugus creek. He
married Minerva, daughter of Thomas WEAVER, of Darien, and their children were
John L.; Betsey (Mrs. George HOLDEN), of Springville; Marilda (Mrs. John S.
PIERCE), of Machias; and Omer, also of Machias.
John L. MURPHY was born in Darien, Oct. 28, 1830. He was taught by his mother and with only two
months at a select school, up to the age of eighteen, he began teaching in the
common schools and continued for ten winter terms. At the age of twenty-one, he was elected a
justice of the peace, which office he held for thirty-five consecutive
years. He was supervisor of Ashford in
1881 and 1882 and is often employed as petfogger in justices’ courts. He is a farmer and dealer in real estate. He married, first, Calphurnia, daughter of
Jeremiah BUCK, who was an early settler of Ellicottville. Their children now living are Lucius J., of
Bolivar; Orville W., a veterinary surgeon in Kansas; Albert H., of Ashford; and
Lizzie (Mrs. William C. KRUSE), whose husband is president of Ridgeville
College in Indiana. Mr. MURPHY married,
second, Adelphia, daughter of Stephen REED, a pioneer of Ashford who now
resides in Little Valley.
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Page 458
Surnames: NEFF, BELLOWS,
BARGY, CRARY
Andrew B. NEFF, son of De Nike NEFF, was
born in Glen, Montgomery county, September 14, 1840, and came to Ashford to
live with his uncle, Isaac BELLOWS, when twelve years old. He received his education in the common
schools and in Springville Academy and taught district schools six winter
terms. Mr. NEFF purchased a farm of
James J. BARGY, and he added to it until he now has about 1,000 acres. He also owns three cheese factories in
Ashford and one in Ellicottville, in which he manufactures full-cream cheese
from the milk of 1,200 cows. Mr. NEFF
has represented Ashford on the Board of Supervisors nine terms and has recently
been elected for another year. He is now
one of the Board of Directors of the Farmers’ Bank of Springville. He married Ann, daughter of Frederick CRARY,
of Springville, and their children are Charles C., Alice A., Andrew B., and
Ellen C.
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Surnames: OYER, SMITH,
HOLDEN, TEFFT, VEDDER, MILLER
John P. OYER, who came to Ashford from
Herkimer county in 1827, made the first settlement on the farm now owned by
Mrs. Sally SMITH. His children were
Philinda (Mrs. William A. HOLDEN), of Ashford; Mary (Mrs. Samuel TEFFT), of
Springville; Betsey (Mrs. John A. VEDDER); and Sally (Mrs. William SMITH). George OYER came from Herkimer county in 1828
and settled where his son Adam now lives.
His wife Mary MILLER bore him these children: Adam, Levi (deceased),
David, and Simon. The latter was born in
Ashford, November 5, 1831, is a shoemaker and carpenter by trade, and is now a
lumberman and miller. Two of the OYER
family, George and John, have represented the town of Ashford on the Board of
Supervisors, the former in 1874 and the latter in 1886 and again in 1888.
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Surnames: PETTENGILL, KELMER
Charles B. PETTENGILL was born in Wales,
Erie county, February 15, 1848. In the
spring of 1862 he enlisted in the service of the Union, but was rejected on
account of his youthful age. December 5,
1863, he enlisted in Co. A, 14th Wis. Inf., and served until December,
1865. He was wounded July 22, 1864, at
the battle of Peach Tree Creek. While
running from rebel pickets at Black River, near Vicksburg, in March, 1864, he
fell down the bank of the river, fifty feet, and seriously injured his
spine. After the war he engaged in the
harness trade. In 1882 he settled in
West Valley. He has been town clerk four
years, postmaster of West Valley four years, and treasurer of the Ashford Fire
Insurance Company seven years. He
married Louisa, daughter of Abram KELMER, of Washington county. Their children are Allie, Mamie, Guy, and Rob
Roy.
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Surnames: PORTER, GILMORE,
VAN AERNAM, RICHARDSON, BUFFINGTON, HERRICK
Aaron PORTER from Danby, Vt., settled in
New Albion in 1836. He married Sarah,
daughter of David GILMORE. Five children
survive them: Electa J., widow of Richard VAN AERNAM, of New Albion; Chloe A.
(Mrs. Lorenzo RICHARDSON) of Great Bay, Wis.; Weltha L. (Mrs. Augustus
BUFFINGTON), of New Albion; Caroline (Mrs. Fillmore HERRICK), of New Albion;
and Dr. Asher C., of Ashford. For a
sketch of Dr. A. C. PORTER, see page 118.
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Surnames: PRATT, OYER, CLARK
John and Nathan PRATT, natives of
Massachusetts, came to Ashford about 1825 and settled on lot 77. John made the first settlement on land now
owned by Adam OYER. He died in
1869. John PRATT’s children were
Benjamin, of Ashford; Amos, deceased; Noah, of Franklinville; and Patience
(Mrs. John CLARK), of Yorkshire.
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Pages 458 & 459
Surnames: PROCTOR, JONES
James PROCTOR, born in Quebec, Canada,
came when young to Attica, N.Y., where he married Elizabeth JONES. Their children now living are William H.,
John, Leonard, Harvey, and Ella. William
H. PROCTOR was born in Attica, June 4, 1859, came to Ashford with his parents
in 1861, and in 1880 opened the first furniture and undertaker’s establishment
in West Valley, which business he still successfully continues. In 1881 he was elected town clerk and in 1882
justice of the peace, which latter position he has held consecutively to the
present time. He is serving a second
term as deputy sheriff and is secretary of the Ashford Mutual Fire Insurance
Company.
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Surnames: QUACKENBUSH, NEFF,
PRINCE, CARTER, BARGY
Peter QUACKENBUSH came to Ashford from
Montgomery county in the fall of 1819, and made the first improvement on the
farm now owned by A. B. NEFF. His
father, John H. QUACKENBUSH, joined him in 1821 and built the first tavern in
town on his son’s farm. He was a soldier
in the Revolutionary war, and with his brother David was captured by the
Indians, taken to Niagara, and while in captivity were compelled to run the
gauntlet. Peter QUACKENBUSH married
Hannah PRINCE, daughter of Peter PRINCE, of Montgomery county. Their children were Rebecca, who married
Russell A. CARTER, and John, who was born in Montgomery county April 16,
1818. John came to Ashford with his parents
and has since been a resident of the town.
He is a farmer and served as a supervisor in 1870. He married Mary E., daughter of Jacob P.
BARGY, and of their six children four are living: John, of Eagle, Wyoming
county; Clark P., of Ellicottville; George B., of Yorkshire; and Charles, of
Ashford.
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Surnames: SAMPSON, KELLOGG,
GOODEMOTE, SHULTIS, McLEAN, BIGELOW, BENSLEY
Peter SAMPSON, a native of New Salem,
Mass., was born in 1773. He married Sarah
KELLOGG in 1793, and to them thirteen children were born. In 1816 he moved with his family to Concord,
Erie county, and settled on the north side of Cattaraugus creek. In 1822 he traded farms with John GOODEMOTE
and moved over to the south side of the creek in the town of Ashford. He was elected commissioner of highways in
1824, was supervisor from 1825 to 1830 inclusive and again in 1832 and 1833,
and was afterward justice of the peace eight years. He early contracted to carry the mail from
Buffalo to Olean by way of Townsend hill, Springville, and Ellicottville. This was the regular mail carried between
these points. He first went on
horseback, then with a wagon, and finally with a stage coach, and continued as
mail-carrier and expressman until his death Dec. 8, 1836. His daughters married William SHULTIS, Royal
McLEAN, Charles C. BIGELOW, and Truman BENSLEY.
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Surnames: SHERMAN, TABOR,
WHITNEY
Ebenezer C. SHERMAN came to Ashford from
New Bedford, Mass., in 1822, and made the first settlement on the farm where
his grandson, W. H. SHERMAN, now lives.
He assisted in cutting the road from his place to Ellicottville. Mr. SHERMAN was a cabinet maker, but he gave
his whole attention to his farm. He
married Constant TABOR, and their children were Charles, Mary A., Sarah, Clark,
and Lydia. Charles SHERMAN came to
Ashford with his parents at the age of twelve years. He was an exemplary Christian and a worthy
member of the Methodist Episcopal church for more than fifty years, for forty
of which he was a licensed exhorter. He
removed to Springville, where he died April 2, 1883. Mr. SHERMAN married Mary, daughter of William
H. WHITNEY, who came to Riceville in an early day and taught school in a log school
house. Mr. and Mrs. SHERMAN had nine
children: Helen, Charles W., Mary O., Fanny, Angie H., Ebenezer C., William H.,
Hattie L., and Lucy C.
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Pages 459 & 460
Surnames: SMITH, WATKINS,
GIBSON, ANDRES, PHILLIPS
Elsbree J. SMITH. ‑ Andrew WATKINS
came to Ashford from Pennsylvania in 1839.
His grandson, Elsbree J. SMITH, came at the same time and learned the
trade of a bricklayer and mason, which he has followed as an avocation. Feb. 2, 1862, he enlisted in Co. K, 105th N.
Y. Vols., as second sergeant. He was
wounded at the second Bull Run battle, was captured, and remained a prisoner of
war until the next September, when he was paroled and removed to Fairfax
Seminary Hospital. He was exchanged and
November following was discharged.
August 24, 1863, he re-enlisted in Co. C, 13th N. Y. H. A., and was
first duty sergeant. He served until
September 24, 1865, when he again received an honorable discharge. He married Luella, daughter of William
GIBSON, and their children are Emma J. (Mrs. D. ANDRES), Sabra (Mrs. A. J.
PHILLIPS), and Grant, all of East Bradford, Pa.
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Surnames: STARKS,
Nathan
STARKS became a resident of Machias in 1850.
Dec. 10, 1861, he enlisted in Co. K, 94th N. Y. Vols., was
captured in front of Petersburg, was confined in Salisbury prison seven months,
and was paroled and taken to Annapolis, Md., where he died April 2, 1865. John D. STARKS enlisted Sept. 17, 1861, in Co.
A, 106th N. Y. Vols., and re-enlisted in February, 1864. He was wounded and captured at the battle of
the Wilderness and died in Andersonville prison in September following.
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Surnames: STOWELL, MEACHAM,
WEAST, WILCOX, SCOTT
Ebenezer STOWELL, a native of Worcester,
Mass., was born in 1782, married Hannah MEACHAM, who was born in New Salem,
Mass., in 1787, and emigrated with his family to Ashford in 1836, where he died
in 1845. They had born to them eight
children. His son, Charles E. STOWELL,
married Susan, daughter of Joseph WEAST.
Their children now living are Haplona (Mrs. Daniel WILCOX), of
Springville; Mary (Mrs. Edwin SCOTT), of Springville; Charles E. STOWELL, Jr.,
of Ashford; and Luthera M., of Springville.
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Surname: TILLINGHAST
Arthur O. TILLINGHAST was born in
Sardinia, July 10, 1850, and came to West Valley in 1878, where he has since
been engaged in mercantile business. He
was supervisor in 1884 and in various ways has shown much enterprise.
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Surnames: TURNER, KELCH
Joseph TURNER, son of Dyer, came to
Ashford from Frankfort, N. Y., in 1835.
He was a collier by trade. He
married Ellen KELCH, and their surviving children are Harriet E., Horace M.,
and Jerome J., the latter a soldier for three years in Co. D, 154th N. Y.
Vols., being wounded in his right shoulder.
Horace M. TURNER is a resident of this town and Jerome J. of Great
Valley.
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Pages 460 & 461
Surnames: WAIT, WAITE,
BARLOW, LINCOLN, QUACKENBUSH, LEACH, HITCHCOCK, SCOTT
Dr. William WAIT, born at White Plains,
N.Y., in 1784, came from Darien, Genesee county, and made the first settlement
in West Valley in 1829. With his sons he
cut a road from Riceville to West Valley, and settled on the farm now owned by
his grandson, Hudson WAITE. He was for a
long time the only doctor in the place.
He died May 20, 1873. He had four
sons and two daughters: Weston, Lorenzo D., Henry, Esek B., Fanny M., wife of
Parmenus P. BARLOW, and Melissa, who married Apollos LINCOLN. Lorenzo D. WAITE was born in January, 1807,
and came to Ashford with his father.
Like many other pioneers they had a hard struggle to live. Their homestead twice reverted to the Holland
Land Company. It was finally reclaimed
and paid for by Lorenzo D., who in 1849 built a saw-mill on the site of the old
tannery which was the only saw-mill in the place for several years. Mr. WAITE was a Baptist. He held several town offices, and in the
State militia he attained the rank of captain.
He died February 12, 1877. Mr.
WAITE married, first, Laney QUACKENBUSH, of Ashford, who was the mother of
Hudson, Charlotte, and Sarah A. (deceased).
He married, second, Nancy M., daughter of James LEACH, and their
children were Lovinus B., a Union soldier who died in Lincoln hospital of fever
contracted in front of Richmond; George N., of West Valley; and Ira,
deceased. Hudson WAITE was born December
16, 1834, and is a farmer and formerly a dealer in horses and cattle and
breeder of fine Holstein cattle. With
his son he is now breeding thorough blooded Shropshire sheep, their fine flock
numbering 160 head. Mr. WAITE married
Lydia A., daughter of James LEACH, and their children are James S., of
Salamanca, and Bert L. George N. WAITE,
born January 26, 1847, was a farmer with his father until 1865, when he learned
the carpenter’s trade. For several years
he has been a millwright and a contractor and builder. Since 1882 he has also been a dealer in
lumber. He married Adelaide HITCHCOCK,
of Ashford, who died and left one child, Thirza J. He married, second, Mary J. SCOTT, of North
Collins, N.Y.
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History of the Town of Ashford –
Chapter XIX (19)
Page 461
Surnames: WEAST, SCHULTIS,
GOODEMOTE, VOSBURG, SCHOONOVER, FULLER, COLE, DILLINGHAM, BOWEN, LINDSEY,
WHITNEY
Conrad WEAST came from Schenectady in 1829
and was the first settler on the farm where his grandson, George W. WEAST, now
lives. Mr. WEAST married Anna, daughter
of Martin SCHULTIS. Their children were
Stephen C., Sally, Francis, Susannah, Clark, and Lewis O. Stephen C. WEAST, born in Schenectady, was
six months of age when his parents came to Ashford. He married Sally, daughter of John GOODEMOTE,
and had five children: Augusta A., Julia E., Josephine (Mrs. William VOSBURG),
George W., and John L. George W. WEAST,
born in Ashford, November 12, 1859, married Edna O., daughter of Daniel
SCHOONOVER, of Tuscarora, N.Y. Their
children are Myrtle, George L., and Anna.
Benjamin WEAST was born in Schenectady and
came to Ashford with his father. He
married Olive, daughter of Amos V. FULLER, and has eight children: Mary A.
(Mrs. Ozro COLE), of Ashford; Catherine, widow of A. R. DILLINGHAM, of Arcade;
Amos B.; Emeline (Mrs. L. F. BOWEN); Louisa (Mrs. E. LINDSEY), of Yorkshire;
Franklin C., of Arcade; Sarah (Mrs. M. J. LINDSEY), of Franklinville; and
Adelle (Mrs. C. WHITNEY), of Franklinville.
Amos B. WEAST was born in Ashford, and
Aug. 8, 1862, enlisted in Co. D, 154th N. Y. Vols., serving to the close of the
war. He was promoted corporal in May,
1864, sergeant April 1, 1865, and was honorably discharged June 11, 1865.
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History of the Town of Ashford –
Chapter XIX (19)
Page 461
Surnames: WEST, DOLE, DE
WITT, HALL, OYER, STICKNEY, HITCHCOCK, QUACKENBUSH, DOX, PIKE, WEMPLE
Joseph WEST, son of Jonathan, was born in
Galway, Saratoga county, settled in Sempronius, Cayuga county, and a few years
later removed to Darien, Genesee county.
In 1839 he settled in this town on the farm now owned by Peter DOLE and
eventually removed to West Valley, where he died. He married Susan, daughter of Peter DE WITT,
who bore him eleven children. George N.
WEST, second son of Joseph and Susan WEST, was born in Sempronius, September
25, 1820. He came to Ashford with his
parents, but returned to Darien in 1842, where he married Mary A., daughter of
Rufus and Jerusha HALL, in 1849. About
1844 he engaged in the sale of merchandise in Attica and in 1857 he settled
permanently in Ashford. About 1854 he
built the first store in West Valley. It
was conducted by William C. WEST, and now forms the rear part of the building
occupied by the postoffice and harness shop.
In 1858 he opened a store in West Valley, where he kept the first
postoffice in 1860. He used his
influence in securing the line of railroad through the town of Ashford and was
the agent of the railroad company in procuring the right of way. In 1877 the company located a depot at
Ashford Junction, which he had urged and recommended, and he was its station
agent the ensuing five years, the postoffice there being named in his
honor. Mr. WEST served as supervisor of
Ashford in 1867-68 and again in 1877. In
November, 1869, and in 1889 he was elected to the Assembly from his
district. Mrs. WEST died January 6,
1890. By her he had these children:
Clara A. (Mrs. G. W. OYER), of West Valley;
Leonidas D., a merchant of Dundee, N.Y.; and Ida M. (Mrs. C. D.
STICKNEY), of Buffalo. Mr. WEST married
Mrs. Mary C. HITCHCOCK, of Oakland, Cal., December 10, 1891.
Rev. James L. WEST, son of Joseph WEST,
was born in Ashford, June 22, 1838. He
began working for wages and supporting himself at thirteen years of age. He obtained a common school education and
engaged in farming. He has also been a
dealer in live stock for the past thirty years.
In 1878 he was licensed as a clergyman of the Free Baptist Church and is
now the pastor of the church at Rawson.
He married Christina, daughter of John D. QUACKENBUSH; children: John
E., Cora L. (Mrs. Charles G. DOX), and James C.
Lockward
WEST came to Ashford in 1839. He married
Mary, daughter of Joshua PIKE, of Springville, who bore him two sons, Eugene
and Charles. His second wife was Emeline
WEMPLE, by whom he had seven children: Simon, James, Mina, Fred, Dewitt, Susan,
and Eddie.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published
1893
Bio from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 469
Surnames: ADAMS, WADE,
CORKINS
John Smith ADAMS, son of William and Magdalene
(WADE) ADAMS, was born in Massachusetts, April 23, 1806. His ancestors came from England to America
about 1630. In 1820, as near as can be
ascertained, he came to Farmersville with his parents, where he married Theda
CORKINS, January 17, 1831, who was born October 18, 1811. In 1834, they emigrated to Ohio with a team
and heavy wagon and settled in Lorain, on a farm adjoining his brothers, W.H.H.
and Lyman. He was there a farmer and a
ship-carpenter and returned to Cattaraugus County in 1883 and spent the
remainder of his old age with his son, Albert Quincy ADAMS, in where he died,
March 21, 1889.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 469
Surnames: ADAMS, NICHOLS,
BOSWORTH
Albert Quincy ADAMS was born in Loraine, Ohio, July 14, 1844. With his father's consent he enlisted in the
55th Ohio Infantry and was mustered in September 11, 1861, being honorably
discharged November 5, 1862, on account of a gunshot wound in his left leg
received at the second battle of Bull Run.
He returned home and was employed to drive a team for the government in
Kentucky in the winter of 1863-64. In
the summer of 1864 he was employed on board a government tugboat on the Potomac
and James rivers. In the fall of 1864 he
came to Carrolton and ran a stationary engine in the steam sawmill of Dr. J.
NICHOLS for nine years. He settled on
the place where he now resides in 1868, and has since been a farmer. December 5, 1866 he married Euthenia BOSWORTH
and they have two sons and two daughters.
Their oldest child, May B., is a successful teacher.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 469
Surnames: ANDREWS, WILMOT,
IRVINE
Harper G. ANDREWS, son of Robert H. and
Julia E. (WILMOT) ANDREWS, was born in Windsor, Broome county, February 3,
1845. He was educated in the common
schools, at Rogers Seminary at Great Bend, Pa., and at Lowell's Business
College in Binghampton. He was a farmer
with his father until July 23, 1862, when, with his father's consent, he enlisted
in Co. B, 137th NY Vols., and returned at the close of the war with the rank of
first lieutenant. He participated in all
the events of his regiment, marched to the sea with Sherman, and returned by
way of Richmond to Washington. He led a
charmed life and only received one gunshot wound in his right arm at the Battle
of Peach Tree Creek. He was honorably
discharged June 20, 1865. He was again a
farmer with his father the ensuing two years.
In November, 1867, he settled in Limestone as a clerk and two years
later engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber, which he followed until
1881. He then conducted a hotel up to
1890. Mr. ANDREWS is a staunch
Republican, and has been elected assessor and two times supervisor. May 5, 1869, he married Mary A. IRVINE, of
Carrolton. They have had three children,
all of whom died in early childhood.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Pages 469 & 470
Surnames: BAILLET, WHITCOMB,
LEONARD
Felix BAILLET, born November 22, 1802,
married Aff. WHITCOMB, who was born April 11, 1807, and removed from Farmersville to Limestone in the fall of
1852. He built a small tannery, the
first in town, and tanned leather and made boots and shoes. His brother, Francis E. BAILLET, was clerk of
Cattaraugus county for nine years. Felix
BAILLET was a great reader, well informed, was familiar with the bible, and
loved an argument, especially with the clergymen. He had a mind and will of his own. He was supervisor of this town in 1867. He removed with his family to Tullahoma,
Tennesee, in 1868, where he still resides.
His father, Francis BAILLET, was born in Rocheforte, France in 1769, and
died in Philadelphia in 1804.
John W. BAILLET, son of Felix, was born in
Farmersville, March 12, 1837. January
31, 1864, he married Abigail, daughter of Levi LEONARD. He was a railroad conductor and train
dispatcher for eighteen years. He was
always affable and kind. He died in
1881. His only surviving child is a son,
Frank, born July 26, 1871.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 470
Surnames: BEARDSLEY, BROMLEY,
WHITAKER, HAZARD, LEONARD, IRVINE, HULL
John Odell BEARDSLEY was born in Dutchess
county in 1779 and married Charity BROMLEY, of Delhi, NY. Being a lumberman and merchant with his
father they used the Delaware River as a means of transportation to and from
Philadelphia. Mr. BEARDSLEY removed to
near Seneca Lake and in 1813 or 1814 to Chataqua County, where he was a
successful lumberman until 1829, when he came to Tuna Valley and purchased
several hundred acres of pine land in the township of Bradford, Pa., and
engaged extensively in manufacturing lumber.
In February 1831, he brought his family to his log cabin. In a few years he built a comfortable
residence, the center of which was exactly on the state line. He claimed his residence in Pennsylvania. In 1836, with his sons John O. and William,
he built a double mill on Foster Brook, where they were engaged in
manufacturing lumber to the time of his death, April 23, 1842. John O., William and Hiram were all
lumbermen. They had a tract of land
along the state line in Carrolton which contained 2000 acres, from which they
cut the timber.
J. O. BEARDSLEY was the river pilot for the family from the
age of fifteen years and took millions of feet of lumber to market. He became a prominent man in society and the
first leader of the M.E. class organized in Carrolton in 1850. He is now a farmer in Sardinia, Erie
county. Mr. BEARDSLEY married Alinda
WHITAKER and his children are Malvina, born Nov. 10, 1836 of Arcade, NY;
Louenza (Mrs. Richard HAZARD), of Limestone; Lucy, born May 6, 1842, wife of
Joseph LEONARD, of Carrolton; Charles O., born May 10, 1844, of Duluth, Minn.;
Louise J., born Oct. 27, 1846 (Mrs. M.W. Caffee), of Bradford; Millie A. , born
Nov. 14, 1850 (Mrs. Guy C. IRVINE), of IRVINE's Mills; Clinton J., born Sept.
18, 1853, a farmer on the homestead; and Wilbur G., born Nov. 18, 1858.
Hiram BEARDSLEY, youngest son of John O.,
Sr., was born March 25, 1825. He married
Mandana HULL, succeeded his father on the homestead, and gave his mother a home
until she died in August, 1876, aged ninety-two years. He built his present fine residence in 1880,
north of of the State line. In 1865,
Hiram and William BEARDSLEY, with a company of capitalists, took the first
leases of territory and made a test by drilling the first well in this region
on land where the city of Bradford has since been built. Although this well was not a success, because
it was not bored deep enough, it established two facts: that oil did exist in paying quantities, and
that William and Hiram BEARDSLEY were the pioneers in the discovery of
petroleum in Tuna Valley. On the farm of
Hiram BEARDSLEY is the first paying well in Carrolton. This was drilled in the winter of 1875-76 and
is still yielding oil. William BEARDSLEY
died in October, 1885. He served the
town as supervisor in 1855, 1856 and 1857.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 471
Surname: BEDELL
Jacob BEDELL, a native of Branchville, NJ,
was born March 1, 1840. His parents
removed to Owego in 1850, where he resided until 1860, when he joined them in
Prompton, PA. He then began business for
himself as a jobber in lumbering. He has
since been a jobber and overseer of lumbering and peeling bark, except three
years and a half spent on contract work in the coal mines. In 1879 he began business as a jobber in
peeling bark for Hoyt Brothers in Gouldsboro, Pa, which employed him there and
in Hillsgrove, Pa. about six years.
Since then he has resided in Limestone and is the overseer for Hoyt Brothers
in the business in which he has long been an expert. Mr. BEDELL is efficient and trustworthy. In March 1881, he married Emma ENGLER, of
Gouldsboro, Pa. they have two daughters,
Maud and Frances M.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 471
Surname: BIDEN
Rev. J.D. BIDEN, born in Buffalo,
September 30, 1852, spent his boyhood in Cattaraugus county and acquired his
early education in the common school on Whig Street in Little Valley. After a short business career in Buffalo, he
entered Niagara University in 1874 and in December 1879, received the degree of
A.B. After a two years’ course in
theology he received in 1881 the degree of A.M. and was ordained to the
priesthood of the Roman Catholic church June 3, 1882. He then spent one year as assistant at West
Seneca. August 1, 1883, he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick’s
church of Limestone, where he still officiates.
Since coming to Limestone, he has purchased a cemetery for the parish,
enlarged and greatly improved the parsonage, has wrought many other necessary
improvements, and has built a small but neat church edifice at Carrolton
village. He has also started a fund to
build a more commodious church at Limestone.
He served a term on the Board of Education.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 471
Surnames: BISSELL, PULLEN,
NICHOLS, PATON, BEEBE
Byron BISSELL , son of Aaron and Delilah
(PULLEN) BISSELL, was born on the BISSELL homestead in Lyndon, November 5,
1849, and was educated in the common school and Ten Broeck Academy. He was a farmer with his father until he
attained his majority and the winter ensuing taught the district school where
he had himself been taught. He spent two
years of the ensuing ten as druggist’s clerk with Dr. James NICHOLS in
Limestone, two or three years on the home farm in Lyndon, where he held the
offices of town clerk and justice of the peace, and the remainder of the period
was engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania. August 26, 1880, he succeeded Dr. NICHOLS in
the firm of NICHOLS & PATON, druggists, of Limestone. Since 1883, when he purchased Mr. PATON’s
interest, Mr. BISSELL has conducted the business alone. He has held the positions of deputy
postmaster and trustee and president of the village. October 10, 1875, he married Ella BEEBE of
Carrolton. They have five children: Jennie H., Clara M., Maud, and Leon B. and
Lena (twins).
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 471
Surnames: BOSWORTH, PAGE,
ADAMS, NICHOLS
Alonzo BOSWORTH was born in Marion, Wayne
county, June 17, 1823, and moved with his parents to New Hudson, Allegany county when about five
years old where his parents resided to the close of their lives. Alonzo BOSWORTH married, in November, 1854,
in Allegany county, Amelia PAGE, who died in June, 1855 and in February, 1861,
he married second, Sarah ADAMS, who was born in Deerfield, Oneida county in
1832. Her father, Israel ADAMS, was a
native of New Hampshire and of English descent.
Mr. BOSWORTH is a lumberman and has been employed as head sawyer and
manager of the lumber firm of NICHOLS & Co. for more than twenty
years. He now gives his attention to his
farm.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Pages 471 & 472
Surnames: BROWN, SMITH,
ARMSTRONG, SEYMOUR
Ansel J. BROWN, youngest child of Erastus
BROWN, a pioneer of Mansfield, was born on the homestead January 8, 1849, was
reared a farmer, and was educated in the district school. His father died when he was only eleven years
old. At eighteen, he and his brother
Levi bought the homestead and together cultivated it about twenty years. In the spring of 1883 Mr. BROWN opened a
general store at Union Corners, near his old home, where he remained until the
spring of 1887, when he purchased his present sore in Limestone. In 1875 he made an extensive tour through
California. April 6, 1870, Mr. BROWN
married Ellen L., daughter of Lorenzo H. SMITH, of Mansfield. Their children are Harry, who married Miss
ARMSTRONG; Clara (Mrs. George SEYMOUR);
and Melva. Mr. BROWN is a musician and
Mrs. BROWN conducts a millinery store.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 472
Surnames: CARMODY, O’DAY,
SCANLON
John CARMODY was born in county Clare,
Ireland, in 1823. He resided in England
three or four years, where he married Mary O’DAY, a native of Ireland, and born
in 1830. They came to New York City in
1853; he was engaged on the Erie and New York Central Railroads until 1858,
when he came to Limestone, where he was employed in the tannery until 1866. He then purchased a wood lot of fifty acres
in the neighborhood known as New Ireland, where he resided about two
years. In November, 1869, he settled on
the farm where he now resides. This
farm, with the aid of his industrious sons,
he has converted into well-cultivated fields and a good home. In March, 1875, he leased fifty acres of his
farm for oil purposes, with a royalty of one-eighth net to himself, and has an
income from six producing wells. Mr. and
Mrs. CARMODY have had born to them eight children, three of whom died
young. Those now living are Michael,
Kate M., John F., Mary, and Ellen A.
Michael and John are contractors and jobbers in drilling oil and gas
wells; Kate M. and Ellen A. are teachers;
Mary (Mrs. M. SCANLON) resides in Bradford, Pa.
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History of the Town of Carrolton – Chapter
XIX (20)
Page 472
Surnames: COGSWELL, LAWTON,
BROOKS, TALLMAN, LAWSON
Mason W. COGSWELL, son of Samuel, was born
in Warren, Pa., November 4, 1822, and about 1847 came to Carrolton, where he
began manufacturing square timber and pine shingles. With four or five others he lived in a shanty
kept by a mulatto. When their raft of
timber arrived at Warren Mr. COGSWELL took charge of it and ran it down to
Pittsburgh. He was known as one of the
most capable pilots on the river. Until
1882 or ’83 he made dozens of trips a pilot and was successful with all but
one. In 1853 he settled where he now
resides and is engaged in farming.
August 1, 1851 he married Sarah LAWTON, who bore him these
children: Adelaide and Hannah, who died
in childhood; Chloe A. (Mrs. W. BROOKS),
born April 3, 1857, died February 10, 1877;
John L., born August 23, 1859, married Sylvia TALLMAN, of Minnesota and
resides on the homestead with his father;
and Perry M., born February 10, 1862, also with his father. Mrs. COGSWELL died February 10, 1863. January 1, 1874 he married second, Phoebe
LAWSON.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 472
Surnames: COWEN, HILL
George J. COWEN was born in Candor, Tioga
county, in June 1840. His father was a
shoemaker and later a grocer in Limestone, where he died in 1873. August 6, 1862, George J. enlisted in Co. C,
109th N. Y. Volunteers, and he participated in all the events of his regiment
for two years, when he was sent to the hospital to recover from an amputated
finger. He left before it was fairly
healed and assisted in repelling the attempted assault on Washington. Soon afterward he was transferred to the 13th
Veteran Reserve Corps, from which he was discharged July 13, 1865. He immediately settled in Limestone, where he
was a grocery man with his father one year.
Mr. COWEN has served as constable since 1885, and since 1882 he has been
police constable of Limestone. August
29, 1865, he married Anna A. HILL, and their children now living are Fred C.,
Georgianna N., and Luney M.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Pages 472 & 473
Surname: CROWLEY
John J. CROWLEY, son of Dennis, was born
in Cattaraugus, May 12, 1866, and attended the Union Free School of his native
village. He began to learn telegraphy at
the age of fourteen, and became an operator for the Buffalo, Rochester and
& Pittsburgh railroad at the age of sixteen. One year later he was operator and clerk at
Mt. Jewett, Pa., and two years afterward was made station agent of Limestone,
taking charge March 1, 1886. His is a
family of railroad men.
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Surnames: DREHMER, COMMON
Jacob G. DREHMER was born in Dansville,
NY, February 2, 1844; enlisted August 1, 1862 on Co. B, 1st N. Y. Dragoons, and
was honorably discharged June 10, 1865.
Mr. DREHMER participated in the battle of Cold Harbor, where he received
an injury in his left leg and was excused from duty in consequence for about a
week, but did not leave his regiment. He
was present also at the Wilderness, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Yellow Tavern,
Fisher’s Hill, the siege of Suffolk, and other battles and skirmishes. Since returning from the army, he has pursued
his trade as a manufacturer of boots and shoes.
Mr. DREHMER married Julia L. COMMON, of Angelica, NY, and they have one
son. Mr. DREHMER is a Republican. Both are members of the Methodist church, of
which he is one of the trustees, having held the position the last fourteen
years. He has also served as
superintendent of the Sunday school.
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Surnames: FRANK, MULTER,
WATERS
Daniel FRANK, son of Daniel, a pioneer of
Ashford, married Catherine, daughter of Peter MULTER, also a pioneer of
Ashford. He was a farmer and
blacksmith. He came to Vandalia and
built the fences from Olean to Dunkirk for the Erie railroad by contract. He also carried on his trade of blacksmith,
and was the superintendent in the construction of the State road from Vandalia
to Great Valley. In 1861 he enlisted in
the 64th NY Inf. for three years. He
stood six feet three and one-half inches in his stockings. The exposures of army life brought on
inflammatory rheumatism, and after a period of treatment in the hospital he was
discharged an invalid. He returned home about
eleven months after he entered the service and died two years later. Mrs. FRANK died October 25, 1888. Their son, Clark FRANK, was born in Otto,
March 27, 1844. August 31, 1862 , he
enlisted in 111th N. Y. Inf., participated in all the engagements of the Army
of the Potomac, was never in the hospital nor away from his company until he
received a wound from a minieball that struck him a little above the heart,
passed through his left lung and out at his back. By a strange coincidence his brother Sylvester,
a soldier in the 61st Regiment, received precisely such a wound the same day
and in the same battle. They were
treated in the same ward of the hospital by the same surgeon, recovered at the
same time, were honorably discharged June 14, 1865, and went home
together. November 7, 1868, Clark FRANK
married Lucina WATERS, of Limestone. He
conducted a grocery in Carrolton and was a lumberman until about 1870. He was successively baggagemaster, telegraph
operator, and three years station agent
at Limestone. Since 1888 he has been a
farmer. Mr. FRANK has officiated as
justice of the peace eight years, and has held several other town offices. He has five children. James D. FRANK, son of Daniel, was born March
23, 1854. He learned telegraphy without
a tutor, was assistant station agent at Carrolton, and for eight years was
station agent at Great Valley. He is now
the station agent and telegraph operator at Vandalia.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Pages 473 & 474
Surnames: FULLER, KENYON,
McMILLEN, LEONARD, JONES
Chase FULLER, son of John and Betsey
FULLER, was born in Piermont, NH, April 18, 1797, received a good business
education, and married Nancy KENYON, of Holland, NY on May 5, 1822. She was born January 12, 1802 at Stanley, Connecticut. They came to Freedom in the winter of
1839-40. In February 1844, they removed
to Carrolton on lot 25, where the village of Limestone has since been built. His residence, a two story log house, was
located where the Bateman house now stands.
Mr. FULLER was an extensive farmer and a manufacturer and dealer in pine
lumber, which he rafted down the river to Cincinnati. In 1846 he opened a general mercantile
establishment where the Tuna Valley store now stands. Mr. FULLER was a man of good business
ability, well informed, and a leading and prominent citizen. He was elected supervisor of Carrolton in
1844 and represented the town ten years and held the same office in Humphrey
four years. He officiated as magistrate
over forty years and as associate judge of the county several terms. As magistrate, he was the trial justice and
officiated at nearly 200 weddings. Early
in life he began practice in justice’s courts and continued successfully until
old age compelled him to relinquish the work.
In the spring of 1857 he removed to Humphrey, where he gave his
attention to his farm, the various offices which he held, and his law
practice. In 1868, he removed to
Virginia, where he was postmaster; but five years later returned to Carrolton,
where he died January 25, 1880. Mrs.
FULLER survived him until December 24, 1887.
Their children were: Philetus
M., born May 4, 1823, now of Smethport ,
Pa, a soldier in the union army five years, a magistrate eight years, associate
judge five years, county commissioner
six years, and has been a heavy oil producer;
Lafayette T., born March 25,
1825, living near Bradford, PA; Manley
C., born April 3, 1827, a magistrate in Carrolton several years, removed to
Rochester, Minnesota in 1865, was elected to the legislature in 1868 and in
1870; Dolly P., born May 8, 1829, widow
of Marcus McMILLEN, of Olean; Romanzo
E., born May 22, 1833, married Harriet, daughter of Calvin LEONARD, September
11, 1853 and their children are Herbert C., a railroad bridge builder in Nebraska,
Jerome H., a farmer and oil well driller near Limestone, and Sam R., an oil
producer in Forest county, PA; Desire
E., born November 3, 1835, widow of Almanzer JONES, of Allegany; and Millard F., born February 15, 1850, died
at the age of fourteen years. Romanzo E.
FULLER is a carpenter and builder by trade, which until recently has been his
avocation. He was elected magistrate of
Carrolton in 1866 and has served in that position twenty-four years. He has also held other important town
offices.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 474
Surnames: GREENWOOD, ROCKWELL
Joseph GREENWOOD, son of Robert, was born
in Manchester, England in 1843, emigrated to America with his parents in 1848,
and settled fi rst in Massachusetts, where he resided until twelve years
old. His mother died in 1855, and Joseph
then had a home with his grandparents in Patterson, NJ, with whom he lived
until 1859, when he became an apprentice to the trade of tinner in Orange, NJ,
where he remained until 1862. He then
enlisted in the 26th N. J. Vols. and was honorably discharged June 7,
1863. In March 1864, he enlisted in the
US Navy and was discharged in June 1865.
Mr. GREENWOOD settled on Oil creek in August, 1865, and was a tinner
there until 1871, when he began dealing in hardware and oil supplies in Salem.
PA. In 1876, he came to Limestone and
opened a general hardware store, which he still conducts. Mr. GREENWOOD is a staunch republican, but is
not an office seeker. In 1868, he
married Celestia A. ROCKWELL, of Summit, PA and they have had four children, of
whom Joseph P. and John W. are now living.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Pages 474 & 475
Surnames: GRIMES, DUDLEY,
HORTON
William GRIMES was born in
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History of the Town of
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Surnames:
John HAMM, a native of
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History of the Town of
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Surnames: HYDE, SCHOONMAKER
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History of the Town of
Pages 475 & 476
Surnames:
Guy Carrolton IRVINE, brother of Andrew
and uncle of B. F., was born on the West
Branch of the Susquehanna River in
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Surnames:
Benjamin F. IRVINE, son of Andrew, was
born in
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History of the Town of
Pages 476 & 477
Surname: JOHNSON
Allen JOHNSON was born in Monmouth county,
N.J., June 6, 1832. August 29, 1861 he
enlisted in the 6th N. J. Inf. and served three years. He participated in seventeen general
engagements, was never absent from roll call except when on detached service,
was never in the guardhouse or hospital, and was never reprimanded by any
officer. He was several times struck
with spent balls and had two guns shot from his hands. He was honorably discharged in September
1864. In January 1880, he came to
Carrolton from
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History of the Town of
Pages 477 & 478
Surnames: LEONARD, CARGILL,
Levi LEONARD, born in Pennsylvania,
February 22, 1809, married April 15, 1828, Elizabeth CARGILL, of Corydon, Pa.,
a native of Maine, who was born December 25, 1810. In 1832, he came to Carrolton as a lumberman
and in 1834 he brought his wife to his log cabin which he had erected near the
mouth of the Tuna creek. At that time
the vast unbroken forests were in their pristine glory. Mr. LEONARD was a young man of fine physical
development, broad shouldered, very muscular, and stood fully six feet
high. He was energetic and
courageous. Lumbering was then, and for
many years after, the leading industry of the county, and the river was the
only highway to convey it to market. To
accommodate the scores of river men and wood-choppers he built a large hotel at
the mouth of the Tuna creek, on the east side of the Allegheny on the Indian
reservation, and opened it to the public in 1836. This tavern was a famous resort. He also established a ferry across the
river. Mr. LEONARD also dealt
extensively in lumber and was famous as a river pilot. He gave his attention mainly to what is known
as square timber and handmade pine shingles.
His knowledge of the Allegheny was proverbial. He was credited with knowing every shallow
and rock, and lumbermen claimed that “LEONARD could sail the river on a dark
night with as much safety as midday.”
Food, clothing, etc. were brought up the stream in canoes and the last
one now in the vicinity was constructed by Mr. LEONARD and is still kept by his
family as a relic of “ye olden time.” To
keep a supply of fresh fish with which the river and streams abounded he
confined them in a skiff covered with boards and sunk in the water. He was a successful hunter. The city of
Mr. LEONARD was always on the most
amicable terms with the Seneca Indians, whom he uniformly treated kindly and
with the strictest honesty. He thus
gained their undying friendship and confidence.
All matters of importance were submitted to him for his advice, and they
never failed to act in accordance with his suggestions. So great was his influence over them that his
friends in a facetious way spoke of him as the “God of the Senecas.” The Indians acknowledged him as their
superior and were in awe of him. He was
master of the Seneca dialect and spoke it fluently. In November, 1858, he removed to the farm
about one mile north of Limestone, where he spent the remainder of his life in
the pursuit of farming. He died September
10, 1879. Although he never held high
office, nor wished to, he was as well and as widely known as the proudest
official and as much esteemed. His
children were: Rebecca, born July 12,
1830, widow of B. F. IRVINE; Sabra, born
January 1, 1832, widow of Billings LAWTON and proprietor of the LAWTON House,
Carrolton; Jerome B., born December 15,
1835, died January 15, 1859; Abigail, born March 22, 1837, widow of John
BAILLET, now residing with her aged mother; Joseph born September 4, 1839, a
jobber, lumberman, and farmer; Mary A.
born November 24, 1842, widow of George BAKER, a tanner who served three years
in the late war and died of disability contracted in the army; Levi, Jr., born December 20, 1844, died in
early childhood; Frank A. born May 21,
1846, a traveling salesman from East Liverpool, Ohio; Robert, born April 2, 1848, drowned in the
river at the homestead at the age of three and one-half years; Sarah J., born
October 3, 1850, wife of Hon. E. R. SCHOONMAKER; and Bradley R., born February 28, 1853, died
of an injury received while coupling cars, November 15, 1875. The children of George BAKER are Georgia
(Mrs. John GOODSELL) of
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History of the Town of
Page 478
Surnames: LEONARD, COGSWELL,
SCHOONMAKER, FULLER, STEVENS, VIBBARD
Calvin LEONARD, brother of Levi LEONARD,
Sr., was born in August, 1801. He
married Jemima COGSWELL and came to Carrolton from
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History of the Town of
Page 478
Surnames: McCAHILL, DWYER
Joseph F. McCAHILL was born in the city of
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History of the Town of
Page 478
Surnames: McDONNELL, BARNES
Donald J. McDONNELL, of sturdy Scotch
descent and cousin of Alexander McDONNELL, Bishop of Alexandria, Can., was born
in
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History of the Town of
Page 478
Surnames: McKENZIE, ZELIFF
John McKENZIE was born in
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History of the Town of
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Surnames: McNALLY, McNAMARA
George McNALLY, of Scotch-Irish descent,
was born in
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History of the Town of
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Surnames: MILLER
John MILLER, a native of
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History of the Town of
Pages 478 & 479
Surnames: MORSE, WIXON
Charles MORSE was born in
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History of the Town of
Page 479
Surnames: NYE, MATHER, STONE
Rev. DeWitt C. NYE, son of Nelson and
Abigail (MATHER) NYE, was born in Hume, Allegany county,
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History of the Town of
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Surname: O’BRIEN
John E. O’BRIEN, a native of
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History of the Town of
Page 479
Surnames: PARKER,
Nelson PARKER, born February 2, 1806,
began business in Carrolton as a manufacturer and dealer in pine shingles and
lumber. In 1853, with A. J. IRVINE, he
bought the
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History of the Town of
Page 479
Surnames: PATON, LEE
William PATON, Sr., born in
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 480
Surnames: PATON, DODGE,
SMITH, ALDRICH,
William PATON, Jr., was born in Annan,
Dumfrieshire, Scotland, September 14, 1847.
In 1864 he came to Limestone and at once commenced a clerkship with
DODGE & SMITH, remaining in their employ until they sold their
property. He was engaged the ensuing
year with A. E. & G. W. Palen. In
the year 1889, he went to Wilcox, Pa. where he was a clerk in the tannery store
of Jackson, Schultz & Co., where he remained for three years. With his partner Mr. ALDRICH, he then opened
a general store in that place under the name of ALDRICH & PATON, which
continued three years. Mr. PATON sold
his interest to Mr. ALDRICH in 1871 and removed to Louisville, KY, where he was
engaged with Mr. SMITH, before mentioned, in building the manufactory of the
Ohio Falls Cooperage Company. The plant
covered an area of two acres. As soon as
the establishment was opened the company employed an average of 125 hands. Mr. PATON remained there as a partner with
Mr. SMITH the ensuing four years, when, on account of ill health, he sold his
interest to his partner and returned to Limestone, where he opened a general
country store, and where he is still selling goods. He also has two farms on which are five oil
wells. Mr. PATON has been identified
with the entire growth of Limestone, has aided in building its schools and
churches, and has erected his store building, and four dwelling houses. He married Harriet, daughter of Daniel SMITH,
in 1870. They are members of the M. E.
church.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 480
Surnames: PATON, HAPGOOD
John PATON was born in Dumfrieshire,
Scotland, April 24, 1849 and removed to Carlisle, England, in his
childhood. His mother had died and in
June, 1867, he came to Limestone where he accepted a position with his uncle,
W. PATON, Sr. He was next an employee of
Daniel Smith in Wilcox, Pa., a year. He has
since been an employee and jobber and dealer in bark, wood, and lumber. Since Hoyt Brothers became proprietors of the
Limestone tannery Mr. PATON has been employed as a finisher of leather. September 28, 1874, he married Georgiana
HAPGOOD, also a native of England. They
have an only son, Floyd, born in January, 1876.
Mr. and Mrs. PATON are members of the M. E. church.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 480
Surname: PAXON,
Myron H. PAXON was born in Aurora, Erie
county, in 1840. In 1863 he assisted as
a carpenter in building the tannery at Salamanca, the office and outside charge
of which he assumed in 1864 and continued until 1873. In the fall of that year he accepted a
similar position in Jewett & Keating’s tannery at Olean. In the spring of 1874 this firm transferred
Mr. PAXON to their tannery in Port Allegany, McKean county, where he also had
charge of the office and outside work.
He remained there until the fall of 1877, when he came to Limestone,
where he has since had control of the office, outside work, and financial
interest of the concern. He represented
Carrolton on the Board of Supervisors in 1881.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 480
Surnames: RENNER, BELL, SMITH
Harry RENNER, born in Mense, Germany, June
6, 1826, emigrated in 1840 to Susquehanna county, Pa., where he engaged at his
trade of journeyman tanner until October, 1869, when he came to Limestone and
was employed in the Limestone tannery three years. In 1875 he erected the Limestone House and
opened it to the public. December 24,
1857, he married Mrs. Julianna BELL, widow of Worthy BELL, and to them was born
one daughter, Maud R. (Mrs. M. W. SMITH).
Mr. RENNER died April 19, 1878.
His widow survives him.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Carrolton – Chapter
XIX (20)
Pages 480 & 481
Surnames: RIGDON, BRADLEY
Algernon Sidney RIGDON, son of Sidney, was
born in Mentor, Ohio, July 4, 1828. The
family emigrated with teams to Missouri when he was nine years of age. A year later they removed to Illinois, whence
after six years’ residence, they settled in Pittsburg, Pa. A. S. came to Friendship, Allegany county in
1847, and was employed on the Erie railroad from 1859 until 1874, whence he
removed from Cuba to Carrolton village and has since been the efficient agent
of that station. Mr. RIGDON is a staunch
Democrat, prominent in his party, a competent and popular citizen, but has
constantly refused to accept town office. October 19, 1854, he married Annis
BRADLEY, of Cuba. They have two
sons: Walter S., station agent at
Dayton, and George R., manager for the Postal Telegraph Company at Scranton,
Pa.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 481
Surnames: SCHOONMAKER, PALEN,
NICHOLS, BULLIS, McNEIL, SHELDON, DAVIS, KALL, STICKNEY, BELL, LEONARD
Hon. Elijah R. SCHOONMAKER, of Limestone, was born in
Sullivan county, and is descended from solid Dutch stock. His father, a farmer and contractor, gave his
son a common school education. At a very
early age he was a clerk in a store in his native county for seven years. He next filled a like position in Ulster
county for several years more. He was a
traveling salesman the next three years (until 1868) for a wholesale boot and
shoe house at Kingston, and then settled in Limestone, where he has since led a
very busy life. When he located here he
formed a partnership with A. E. and G. W. PALEN in mercantile business and was
associated in trade with them for three years.
The lumber firm of SCHOONMAKER & NICHOLS was then formed. About this time he also conducted a lumber
business alone, and for many years was one of the owners of the “tannery
store.” From 1875 to 1885 he operated in
oil, largely in real estate, and heavily in bark, supplied the tanneries of
Great Bend, Canisteo, Hornellsville, and Limestone, and pulled bark from the
trees on 10,000 acres. In addition to
this he bought and handled from 5,000 to 10,000 cords of bark per year. He is now a member of the following firms: Northern Tier Hemlock Co. Ltd., of which he
is general manager; BULLIS, SCHOONMAKER, and McNIEL, real estate and lumber;
SCHOONMAKER & SHELDON, hardwood lumber; SCHOONMAKER & DAVIS, lumber;
HALL, SCHOONMAKER & Co., lumber; and STICKNEY, BELL & Co.,
merchants. He is also prominent in
politics and decidedly popular with the people.
He was postmaster of Limestone four years, station agent ten years,
seven years president of the Board of Education, and supervisor of Carrolton
six consecutive years, ending with 1890, and was reelected in 1893. In 1882-83 he represented the Second Assembly
District of Cattaraugus County in the State Legislature. He has served as a member of the Republican
State Committee for Chatauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties, has attended
several times as a delegate the Republican State congressional and senatorial
conventions, and is always a delegate to the Republican county
conventions. Mr. SCHOONMAKER is a man of
comprehensive business ability and has a ready knowledge of men. He is a bold speculator and apparently relies
on his own judgment. He is affable and
gentlemanly, and a pleasant companion.
He is a good talker, a good listener, and fond of a good joke. Emphatically, he is the poor man’s friend,
ready to aid the needy and help them to help themselves. February 21, 1867, he married Eliza PALEN, of
Sullivan county, who died August 4, 1870.
She was the mother of his son Fred P., born March 11, 1870. November 2, 1871, he married Sarah J.,
youngest daughter of Levi LEONARD. Their
children are: Eliza W., born July 25,
1872; Alice, born December 8, 1873; and Faith, born October 12, 1881.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Pages 481 & 482
Surnames: SCHRADER, MILLER
Charles E. SCHRADER, son of Edward, was
born in Prussia in April, 1853. In
October 1870, his parents with their family of five sons and two daughters
emigrated to America. In April, 1871,
they settled in Limestone, where Mr. SCHRADER at once found employment in the
tannery. Charles E. SCHRADER has spent
his whole life as an employee in tanneries and is capable, industrious, and
trustworthy. December 8, 1881, he
married Anna L. MILLER, a native of Mechlenberg, Schewrin, Prussia, and a
daughter of John MILLER.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 482
Surnames: SCOTT, SMITH,
DODGE, WOOD, SKINNER
Bradner SCOTT was born in Walkill, N.
Y.. Losing both parents in early
childhood he experienced a youth of extreme hardship. In 1859 he came to Limestone with Mr. SMITH,
of the firm of DODGE & SMITH, in whose employ he had been several years,
remaining with them here until August, 1864, when he enlisted in the US Navy
under Commodore Farragut in the Squadron of the Mississippi, and was honorably
discharged in August 1865. Returning to
Limestone he continued in the employ of DODGE & SMITH until they sold their
tannery, and was an employee of the Limestone tannery nearly all the time until
1887. Since then he has been a
farmer. Mr. SCOTT married, first, Eliza
WOOD, who was the mother of six children, five of whom are living. He married, second, Melinda SKINNER.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 482
Surnames: TULLER, PIERCE
Maurice TULLER, son of Alvah, was born in
the town of North East, Pa., November 4, 1861, and was reared and educated to
railroad station work. His father, the
present station agent at Cattaraugus, taught him both telegraphy and depot
business. At the age of sixteen he began
as telegraph operator and clerk at Cattaraugus.
He accepted the position of station agent of the B., R. & P. R. R.
at Limestone and took charge August 4, 1890.
October 10, 1882, he married Elsie PIERCE, of Cattaraugus, NY.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 482
Surnames: VIBBARD, SHANKLAND,
LEONARD
Shep. L. VIBBARD was born of English
parentage in Ellicottville in 1838. His
father, Chester VIBBARD, came from Massachusetts at an early day. Shep. learned the printing business of the
late Robert SHANKLAND, and at the first call for troops enlisted in Co. I, 37th
N. Y. Vols., leaving the service as corporal two years later. Soon afterward, he settled in Limestone,
where he has since been prominent in local Democrat politics. He was elected justice of the peace in 1866,
1870, 1874, 1880, 1884, 1888, and 1892, and is now serving his twentieth year
as town clerk. In 1874 he served as supervisor. He is also clerk of the village of Limestone
and of the Board of Education. He is a
member of Henry Renner Lodge, No. 780, F. & A. M., is it’s present master,
is a member of St. John’s Commandery at Olean and of Olean Chapter, of Bradford
Post, No. 141 G. A. R., of the A. O. U. W., being district deputy grand master
of the latter order in 1889, and of the K. O. T. M. and the E. A. U. In 1868, Mr. VIBBARD married Cynthia R.,
daughter of Calvin LEONARD, and they have three children.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 482
Surnames: WAMPLE, GRIMES
Marcus N. WAMPLE, born in Montgomery
county, N. Y. November 1, 1824, came to Vandalia from Chatauqua county in
1850. He is a lumberman and was employed
by William GRIMES, and since his death in 1877 he has been engaged by J. H.
GRIMES. About 1855 he married Mary J.,
daughter of William GRIMES. They have
one daughter, Jessie, born July 22, 1858.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Pages 482 & 483
Surnames: WATSON, HALLOCK, KIERSTED,
PAXON, KNOWLES
Robert J. WATSON, son of James and
Catherine (HALLOCK) WATSON, was born in South Worcester, Schoharie county,
November 15, 1856. His father enlisted
in the Union army, was captured, confined in Andersonville prison, and died of
starvation. Robert J. WATSON, being left
at the age of six years without fatherly counsel, experienced a youth of severe
hardship. He began chopping wood for J.
H. & A. KIERSTED, tanners of Hancock, NY, who soon gave him a clerkship in
their office and store, where he remained five years, devoting the winters to
attending school. He was their
bookkeeper and in 1881 accepted the position of agent for the Salamanca
tannery. In 1884 he came to Limestone as
bookkeeper of the Limestone tannery, and in 1887 was made agent in place of Mr.
PAXON for one year. Since Mr. PAXON’s
return, Mr. WATSON has been his assistant.
Mr. WATSON served as treasurer of the village and as member of the Board
of Education several years, being president one year. In February 1891, he was elected supervisor
of Carrolton and reelected in 1892.
April 24, 1881, he married Irona KNOWLES, of Delaware county. They have one son, Roy R., born August 18,
1884.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 483
Surname: WHITTAKER, OWEN
William WHITTAKER, born in Darbyshire,
England, May 9, 1821, emigrated with his wife and five children to Blair
county, Pa., where Mrs. WHITTAKER died in 1858.
In May 1860, he married Jane E. OWEN, of Colden, N. Y., and in the
ensuing fall they settled in Limestone, where Mr. WHITTAKER found employment in
the Limestone tannery. In April 1861, he
located on a wood lot of 100 acres, cleared a part of it, and remained there
until 1875 when he removed to his present home.
Mr. and Mrs. WHITTAKER have had five children.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 483
Surnames: WILLIS, PHILLIPS, ZELIFF, ETHRIDGE, FISK
Chauncy WILLIS, son of Isaac, was born in
Conesus, N. Y. December 18, 1818. His
father settled in Machias in March, 1832, their log house having a Dutch-back
fireplace and a stick chimney plastered with mud. The doors were hung on wooden hinges and
fastened with wooden latches. Their
currency -- black salts – was at first the only commodity that would bring
money. Isaac WILLIS died in 1837. October 22, 1842, Chauncy WILLIS married
Polly PHILLIPS, who was born in Freedom, October 5, 1822. They commenced housekeeping on the homestead,
where he gave his mother a home until her decease. From 1862 or ’63 until 1868 he was a farmer
near Little Valley Center. Since then he
has been a citizen of the town of Carrolton and has owned the Peter ZELIFF
homestead within the corporation of Limestone.
He is a member of the village Board of Trustees. His children are: Sarah J., born July 29, 1845, married
Nathaniel ETHRIDGE, January 17, 1869, and died October 3, 1872, leaving an only
daughter, Cora, who was born April 8, 1870, and resides with her grandparents;
Warren W., born April 9, 1846, died in Little Valley, March 22, 1866; and
Daniel C., born August 24, 1849, married Loretta FISK, August 24, 1876.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Page 483
Surname: WIXON
Barnabas WIXON and his wife Elsea, with an
infant daughter, came to Carrolton from Allegany county in June, 1838. He was a farmer and died August 1, 1889, aged
seventy-nine years. His aged widow
survives him.
Seth WIXON came to Carrolton as early as
1836, was a farmer, and settled in the valley about a mile north of Limestone
village. He was a soldier in the War of
1812. He died in 1850, aged sixty-five
years. He had nine children.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
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Page 483
Surnames: WYNN, TODD
James I. WYNN, born in Scottsville, Pa.
October 13, 1836, began business as a sawyer in his father’s mill. In March, 1863, he came to Carrolton as
superintendent of B. F. Irvine’s mills, which position he filled until Mr.
Irvine died, since which time Mr. WYNN has conducted them for Irvine Bros. and
for Plumer, Gilfillan, Steele, & Co.
Mr. WYNN is a man of energy and good business ability. November 24, 1859, he married Rachel TODD, a
native of Jamestown, N. Y., and of sturdy Scotch descent. Their children are T. Adelaide, a graduate of
Geneseo Normal School, a teacher in the city schools of Bradford, Pa., and her
father’s bookkeeper, and Irvine L., his father’s head sawyer.
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History of the Town of Carrolton –
Chapter XIX (20)
Pages 483 & 484
Surnames: ZELIFF, DODGE,
McKENZIE, BALMAN, SCOTT, DUEL, INGLER, GLASS
Peter ZELIFF was born in Northumberland
county, Pa. He was a lumberman, and when
a little less than twenty-one years of age he married Marvelous HODGE. In 1832 he settled in Carrolton, being the
second family to locate where the village of Limestone has since been built. He cleared a small piece of ground and built
a log cabin, which he covered with bark.
His place was ten miles from Great Valley, the nearest white settlement,
and no road the last six miles. He used
Tuna creek for a highway and brought his wife and four children to his “lodge”
in a canoe. He bought and paid for 200
acres. Eventually he started for the
gold regions of Pike’s Peak and was last heard from near his destination. It is supposed he was murdered. Mrs. ZELIFF died in Carrolton in 1874. They had eleven children. A daughter, Harriet (Mrs. John McKENZIE),
born June 29, 1834, was the first white child born in Carrolton.
George ZELIFF, oldest son of Peter, was
born in Farmington, Pa, September 19, 1825, came with his parents to Carrolton
in 1832, and has since resided here. He
began business for himself in cutting and hewing square timber, making pine
shingles, and piloting rafts down the river.
Later he has given his attention to his farm. April 14, 1853, he married Betsey BALMAN, of
Lawrence, Pa, and they have had four children, two of whom died in infancy; the
others are William A., born February 28, 1854, married first Jennie SCOTT, and
second Stella DUEL; and Ornaldo, born February 5, 1865, married Hetty INGLER.
William E. ZELIFF, son of Peter, was born
on the homestead in Carrolton in 1835, and was educated in the common schools
with a few terms at Chamberlain Institute.
He commenced his business life by buying and selling lumber and shingles
and running them to market down the river to
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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497
Surnames: BRACE,
ANGLE, REEVES
Elisha
BRACE was born Jan. 13, 1818, and came to
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Surnames:
BRUSHINGHAM, MASONER
Jeremiah
BRUSHINGHAM was born in
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Surnames: CONGLETON,
BEARDSLEY, TIBETTS, WINN
Wilber
CONGLETON, son of Phelps and Hannah (BEARDSLEY) CONGLETON, was born in
Ellicott, Chautauqua county, Oct. 11, 1842.
Phelps CONGLETON came from
Wilber
CONGLETON was raised on a farm, came to the town of
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497
Surnames: COVERT,
ANGLE, WILSON, BUTLER, EWING, McMILLAN
Anthony
COVERT was born in Dryden, Tompkins county, Nov. 30, 1821, and came to
Chautauqua county with his father in 1837.
In 1843 he came to Randolph, where he married Almira A., daughter of
John N. ANGLE, and their children are John Asher, William N., and Lydia E.
(Mrs. L. WILSON), who died Nov. 25, 1889.
Mr. COVERT removed to his present farm in Cold Spring in 1846, and has
since served as overseer of the poor and road commissioner. He has also carried on lumbering in
connection with farming.
John
Asher COVERT, born Feb. 2, 1849, married, first, Addie BUTLER, of Randolph, by
whom he had three children – Bessie, Herbert, and Glenn. Mrs. COVERT died in July, 1890, and he
married, second, Margaret, daughter of Joel EWING, of Randolph. He is a farmer near his father.
William
N. COVERT was born in Cold Spring, Jan. 15, 1854, and married, Feb. 2, 1873,
Sibbie J., daughter of Alden McMILLAN, and they have had two children: Cora
Alma, born April 1, 1874, and Hart A., who died Aug. 26, 1886. Mr. COVERT has served as excise commissioner
and school trustee.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
Chapter XXI (21)
Page
498
Surnames: CULVER,
PRICE
Noah
CULVER, a soldier of the War of 1812, came to Little Valley about 1817. His sons were Lyman, Eliphalet, Noah, Jr.,
Edward, and Charles and his daughters were Charlotte, Martha, Eletha, Louisa,
and Sally. Edward CULVER was fatally
injured in the railroad accident in Steamburgh on Oct. 28, 1872, and died Nov.
2d following. His widow, Matilda PRICE,
and son Jerome reside in Cold Spring.
Lyman CULVER was a long time resident of this town and prominent and
influential as a citizen. His daughter,
Miss Helen CULVER, resides in Chicago, Ill., and by her own industry has
accumulated a fortune running into the millions.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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498
Surnames: FLAGG,
CROOK, WYMAN
Alpha
FLAGG was born in Canada West, July 31, 1841, and came to South Valley in 1855
to work for his uncle, Elzi FLAGG. Later
he engaged in farming there and in 1868 removed to Steamburgh as proprietor,
first with Howard Wright and afterward alone, of the Steamburgh House, which he
conducted until August 20, 1876, when he went to Salamanca as landlord of the
Dudley House. He returned to Steamburgh
in 1877 to resume the proprietorship of his former hotel, running, it until
June 1, 1882, when he went to South Valley.
There he remained until April 11, 1888, when he again returned to
Steamburgh as proprietor of the Steamburgh House, which he conducted until July
1, 1892, when be converted it into his own dwelling and became assistant
postmaster under H. G. WYMAN, which position he now fills. Mr. FLAGG married Laura, daughter of Nathan
CROOK, one of the first settlers in Cold Spring; children: Cleve M., Carl P.,
Ruth, and an infant deceased.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
Chapter XXI (21)
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497
Surnames: HACKET,
PRICE, CROWLEY, TURNER, KENT
James
HACKET, born in Ireland in 1809, came to America in 1829, locating in
Cattaraugus county near Ellicottville.
In 1831 he came to Cold Spring and was killed by the cars at Marsh's
crossing in March, 1891. He was a farmer
and a Catholic. His wife was Lucy,
daughter of Samuel PRICE, who came to Cold Spring in 1832. Their children were Barney, Perry, Aurelia,
John, Francis, and Susan, of whom John, born April 15, 1846, has been a
life-long resident of Cold Spring and by occupation has been a farmer and
lumberman. He studied law with Rodney R.
CROWLEY, of Randolph, but was never admitted to the bar. August 8, 1863, he enlisted in Co. M, 13th N.
Y. H. A., and served two years. His
brother Perry enlisted in 1862 and served about three years in Co. A, 154th N.
Y. Vols. John HACKET has been elected
justice of the peace continuously since 1878, and has served as constable,
school trustee, and justice of sessions two terms. He married, first, in 1873, Ellen, daughter
of Thomas TURNER, an early settler of Cold Spring. She died in 1874 and Mr. HACKET married,
second, Feb. 28, 1877, Annett, daughter of Brazil KENT, of Steamburgh, and
their children are B. Grace, born Dec. 11, 1877, and Cary, born July 11,1880.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
Chapter XXI (21)
Page
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Surname: HALE
Albert
HALE was at one time a prominent resident and one of the leading farmers of
Cold Spring. He was supervisor of the
town in 1889 and 1890, and died a year or two ago. His widow resides on the homestead.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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Surnames: HELMS, KELLEY, CHAMPLIN, HOLT, REEVES, EDDY, COY
Milton
HELMS came to Cold Spring in 1826 and cleared the farm where his son Orson E.
now lives, where he lived and died in November, 1873. His wife, Lorinda KELLEY, died there in
1879. Mr. HELMS was constable and
collector and otherwise prominent in town affairs. His children were John (deceased), Julia A.
(Mrs. George CHAMPLIN), deceased, Mary E. (Mrs. H. H. HOLT), Willard
(deceased), Emeline (Mrs. G. W. REEVES), Elizabeth (Mrs. Nathan EDDY), Eliza
(Mrs.A. COY), and Orson E.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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499
Surnames: HOVEY,
METCALF, SPAULDING, SNOW, CASE, HALL, HARMON, LARKIN
Ziba
HOVEY, born in 1788, came from Genesee county (now Wyoming) to Conewango in
1829, where he pursued farming. Shortly
afterward he removed to Randolph and engaged in hotel keeping, following this
business in both villages during a considerable portion of the remainder of his
life. In 1836 he started west with his
family, intending to go down the, Allegheny and Ohio rivers on a raft. He embarked his effects at the confluence of
Cold Spring creek with the Allegheny river, but navigation gave out and he
landed there and built and started a hotel, which he kept two years, being
succeeded by Howard FULLER, Sr. The
building burned a few years ago. Mr.
HOVEY returned to Randolph, where be kept hotel, and eventually removed to Cold
Spring, where he died at the residence of his son, La Fayette, Feb. 17, 1879,
aged nearly ninety-one. His wife, born
in 1789, was Sophia METCALF, whom he married Dec. 25, 1810. Their children were Chauncey A. (deceased);
Sophronia S. (deceased); Andrew J. (deceased); Ziba M., born July 1, 1816, of
East Randolph; Emily A. (Mrs. D. B. SPAULDING), born April 5, 1818, of Cold
Spring; Alta M. (deceased), born Nov. 29, 1819; Laura P. (Mrs. C. A. SNOW),
born Oct. 20, 1821, of East Randolph ; Franklin C., born Oct. 21, 1823 ;
Clarissa H., of Iowa; Amelia A., born July 23, 1827; and La Fayette, born March
15, 1831. Mrs. HOVEY died Feb. 17, 1873.
LaFayette
HOVEY came to Cold Spring in 1863 and to his present farm in 1866. He married, Oct. 13, 1858, Louisa T. CASE, of
Bergen, Genesee county, and their children are Fernando G., born Sept. 11,
1859; Carrie E., born June 20, 1862; and Nettie M., born July 14, 1865, Mr. HOVEY is a carpenter and joiner by trade,
and with his father and two brothers has assisted in the erection of almost
every building in East Randolph village.
Franklin
C. HOVEY is also a carpenter and joiner by trade. From 1858 until 1865 he followed lumbering,
and since then has been both a farmer and lumberman. He now lives in East Randolph. While residing in Cold Spring he served as
assessor six years and justice of the peace one term. May 8, 1848, Mr. HOVEY married Harriet H.,
daughter of Horace HALL, one of the pioneers of Randolph. Their children are De Ette (deceased); Edgar
W. (deceased); Adelle (Mrs. W. G. HARMON), of Old Orchard Beach, Me.; Nellie
F.; and Kittie M. (Mrs. F. LARKIN, Jr.), of Randolph.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
Chapter XXI (21)
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499
Surnames: LYON,
WRIGHT, WYMAN, MORSE
Ethel
L. LYON, for a long time a prominent resident of Steamburgh, was a lumberman
and a farmer. He came into the town in
the fall of 1847, and died here Dec. 19, 1889.
His wife, Sophia, a daughter of Charles WRIGHT, deceased, lives with her
son in Steamburgh village. Their
children were Ellen J., Clayton S., Manley S. (deceased), Maryette (Mrs. H. G.
WYMAN), Adella R. (deceased), Julia E. Herman A., and Fred L. Mr. LYON organized the first school ever
taught in Cold Spring and with Charles MORSE named the village of Steamburgh.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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499
Surnames: METCALF,
ASH, HUNTINGTON, SMITH, HEVENOR, HUGGINS
Jotham
METCALF, born July 16, 1791, in Keene, N. H., came to Conewango in Feb., 1823,
and settled on lot 2, being the first settler on Elm creek in that town. His wife, Sarah ASH, born in Rensselaer
county in 1794, died March 22, 1883.
Their children were Sarah H. (Mrs. T. HUNTINGTON), deceased; Jotham H.,
deceased; Henry L., of East Randolph; David M.; and Mary M. (Mrs. Zalmon
SMITH), of Napoli. Mr. METCALF died at
the home of his youngest daughter July 5, 1875.
He was a life-long resident of Conegango, and both he and his wife were
exemplary members of the Freewill Baptist church, uniting, however, with
several others in 1826 in forming a Methodist class at their house, there being
no services of their own faith then in the town. For many years Mr. METCALF was a deacon of
the church.
David
M. METCALF, born in Conewango, April 10, 1823, married, March 19, 1847,
Jeannette, daughter of Ira SMITH, and they have had two children, viz.: Mary
Isabelle, who married W. D. HEVENOR, of Salamanca, and is deceased, and Cora
(Mrs. C. A.. HUGGINS, of Salamanca). Mr.
METCALF has been justice of the peace many years, justice of sessions two
terms, poormaster, and town auditor. He
is a representative farmer and a public spirited citizen.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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Surnames: MORSE,
HARTMAN, ARNOLD
Harding
MORSE, born in Connecticut, Feb. 5, 1796, was a descendant of seven brothers,
early settlers of New England, and his father, James, served seven years in the
Revolutionary army. His mother was a
Brewster, a family noted in New England history. Mr. MORSE was a hatter by trade and worked in
the first factory in the United States that employed machinery in the
manufacture of hats, pursuing his avocation under lock and key, for the work
then was a secret. His wife, Catherine
HARTMAN, whom he married in Dansville, Livingston county, about 1820, bore him
eight children, three of whom grew to maturity, viz.: Harman, Lovisa, and
Charles. He removed finally to Perry,
Wyoming county, after following his trade in nearly all the eastern States, and
came thence in 1833 to Otto, where he was a farmer and lumberman, running a
saw-mill there about two years. In 1842
he moved to Mansfield and thence in 1847 to Cold Spring, where he died Oct. 30,
1853. His wife died in Otto, April 10,
1840. He was a Royal Arch Mason.
Charles
MORSE, born in Perry, Wyoming county, Aug. 14, 1830, was reared on a farm and
came to Steamburgh with his father in 1847, when there was but one house in the
place, and for four weeks saw no white man and but one Indian. He married, Jan. 15, 1854, Rachel, daughter
of Rev. Thomas ARNOLD (see Napoli), and their only child, Charles Harding, was
born Sept. 7, 1856. Mr. MORSE has
manufactured large quantities of lumber.
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Surnames: PRICE,
CHENEY, CULVER, POPE, EARL, CROOKS, BUTLER
The
PRICE family has long been prominent in the settlement of Cold Spring. Its members have always been public spirited,
influential citizens, many of them holding offices of trust and responsibility. The first of the name to arrive was Meletiah
PRICE, who came about 1827, settling where Steamburgh now is. He later moved to Little Valley and thence to
Conewango, where he died in 1850.
Samuel
PRICE came from Otsego, Otsego county, to Cold Spring in 1833 and settled on
the farm where his son Dorr now lives, and where he died May 31, 1862. His wife, Elizabeth CHENEY, who died March
11, 1876, bore him these children: Ebenezer C. (deceased), James W. (deceased),
Sarah (deceased), Matilda (Mrs. Edward CULVER), of Steamburgh, Lucy, Angeline
(Mrs. Angel POPE), of Randolph, Jonathan (deceased), Joseph, Martin, and
Dorr. Mr. PRICE was justice of the peace
many years, poormaster, assessor, school trustee, and a lumberman and farmer.
Joseph
PRICE was born March 10, 1832, married, Feb. 12, 1854, Diantha, daughter of
William EARL, and they have had two children: Amanda (Mrs. John CROOKS), of
Corydon, Pa., and Elmer, of Waterford, Pa.
Mr. PRICE built and for fifteen years ran a saw-mill. Aug. 13, 1862, he enlisted in Co. A, 154th N.
Y. Vols., and served until the close of the war, being slightly wounded. Dorr PRICE enlisted at the same time and in
the same company, and served nineteen months, being discharged for physical
disability.
Ebenezer
C. PRICE, born June 19, 1815, died in Cold Spring June 17, 1875. He was prominent in political affairs,
serving as supervisor, county excise commissioner, justice of the peace,
justice of sessions, and coroner. His
wife was Sally, daughter of Noah CULVER, and their children were Ellen
(deceased), Emma (Mrs. T. P. BUTLER), of Cold Spring, Elbert, of Cold Spring,
and Elsie.
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History of the Town of Cold Spring –
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Surnames: REEVES,
HELMS, ABBEY, PROSSNER, BRACE
George
W. REEVES, son of Warren H. (see South Valley), was born Aug, 16, 1827, and
came with his parents to South Valley in 1837.
He married, June 51, 1849, Emeline, daughter of Milton HELMS, of Cold
Spring, and their children are Fayette W. (deceased); Delora R. (Mrs. D. J.
ABBEY), of Salamanca; Frank A., of Salamanca; Lizzie M. (Mrs. M. P.PROSSER), of
Buffalo; Lorenda A. (deceased); and Ernest G. and Darwin W., of Johnsonburg,
Pa. Mr. REEVES has been a farmer,
carpenter, and lumberman. He came to
Cold Spring in 1849. While in South
Valley he was town clerk one term. With
his two brothers, William I. and Daniel F., he enlisted in Co. I, 9th N. Y.
Cav., in 1864, serving until the war closed.
He has retired from active life.
Daniel
F. REEVES, another son of Warren H. REEVES, was born May 12, 1834, and married,
March 31, 1866, Sophronia, daughter of Elisha BRACE, and their children are
Warren E., born Jan. 11, 1867; George R., born Feb. 5, 1869, of North Dakota;
Ernest C., born Dec. 2, 1872; Daniel E., born Jan. 24, 1875; and J. BRACE, born
April 20, 1877. Mr. REEVES has been assistant
clerk of the Board of Supervisors, town assessor, and for over thirty years a
teacher in the public schools. He has
been district deputy of the county grange and was supervisor in 1892 and
re-elected in 1893
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Surnames: WYMAN, LYON,
MORSE, LEACH
Josiah
WYMAN came to Steamburgh from Kennedy, Chautauqua county, in 1847, but soon
returned. His children were Harvey G.
and Hettie (deceased). He died in 1857. Harvey G. WYMAN, born April 30, 1849,
married, July 4, 1870, Maryette, daughter of E. L. LYON, and their children are
Jennie S., Nellie S., Elmer H., Ellis A., and Beulah H. He has spent his life in lumbering. In September, 1892, with C. H. MORSE, under
the firm name of MORSE & WYMAN, he bought the steam saw and shingle-mill of
Joseph LEACH which was formerly owned by E. L. LYON. Mr. WYMAN has been postmaster four years,
highway commissioner one year, and school trustee three years.
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Surnames: ALDRICH,
WEBBER, SANDERSON, STANLEY, CHAPIN, WHITFORD, HOLBROOK
Ziba
ALDRICH, a native of Richmond, N. H., died in Rutland, Vt., aged
eighty-two. His wife was Hannah
WEBBER. Abner ALDRICH, their third
child, was born in Vermont, May 9, 1782, and removed to Canton, St. Lawrence
County, where he died in 1862. He was a
soldier in the War of 1812. His wife
Betsey was a daughter of Moses SANDERSON, a Revolutionary soldier, and of their
seven children Harris was born in Rutland county, Vt., Oct. 31, 1814, and came
to Randolph, Aug. 3, 1837. March 8,
1840, he married Diana, daughter of Joseph and Pearl (CHAPIN) STANLEY, of
Homer, N. Y. She died Feb 17, 1886. Their children were Pearl A., born Sept, 26,
1841, married David F. WHITFORD, and has one daughter, Cordelia L. (Mrs.
Charles HOLBROOK), of Oil City, Pa.; Hartwell B., Jan. 16, 1844; Abner A., June
13, 1848; Estella D., died in 1872; and Kate A., March 4, 1859. Mr. ALDRICH is said to have been the first in
Cattaraugus County to apply steam-power to the manufacture of butter and
cheese. He has served many years as
Justice of the peace, has been school superintendent, was associate justice of
the county two years, and has taught at least twenty terms of school. He has been a man of prominence and
enterprise, and now, in retired life, carries the esteem and high respect of
his fellow townsmen. Abner A. ALDRICH
was supervisor of Conewango in 1869.
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Surnames: ALLEN,
TOWNSEND, FARNHAM
James
ALLEN, son of Joseph and Sarah Ann ALLEN, was born in Rhode Island and came to
this town in 1830. He died at Clear
Creek on March 2, 1854. His first wife,
Hannah TOWNSEND, bore him these children: Ripley T., Sarah A., James P., and
Henry. Mr. ALLEN married, second, Terzah
TOWNSEND, by whom he had one son, Mason.
His third wife was Emily FARNHAM who was the mother of his youngest son;
Charles T. Henry ALLEN owns and occupies
the paternal homestead.
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Surname: BENSON
Archer
BENSON was an early settler of Randolph.
A grandson is a general merchant in Conewango.
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Surnames: BAILEY,
NOYES, JOHNSON
Joseph
BAILEY who was born, lived, and died in Oxford, Vt., left one son, Joseph, who
was born June 23, 1800, removed to Black Rock in 1827, and came thence to
Conewango in 1826, settling where he still resides (April, 1893). He is a cooper by trade. He married Ann NOYES, whose mother's father,
Timothy JOHNSON, was a captain at the battle of Bunker Hill. Their children are James J., Maryam, and
Mandana N.
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Surname: BARTON
David
BARTON died in Leon about 1830, having come to that town from Massachusetts in
1820. His son Grosvenor located in
Conewango the same year and cleared the farm on which he died in 1876. Some of the latter's children still reside on
the homestead and in the vicinity.
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Surnames: BENSON,
DOREMUS, PIER, FOX, MARTIN
Daniel
BENSON came to Conewango from Mendon, N. Y., in 1824. Here he died in 1859. aged ninety years. He was born near Patterson, N. J., and
married Rachel DOREMUS, who died in this town in 1838. Their children were Rebecca, John, Jane,
Cornelius, Garret, Peter D., and David.
David BENSON, a native of New Jersey, was born April 25, 1798, and died
in Conewango on Oct. 30, 1870. His wife,
Catharine PIER, died in Randolph on Oct. 11, 1882. Their children were Sally A., John D., Rachel
J., Caroline A., Rebecca S., Mary C., Lydia L., Ellen A., and Daniel D. The latter was born in Conewango, Jan. 18,
1825, married, Oct 15, 1848, Catharine M. FOX, and had one child, Gary, born
May 13, 1852. Gary BENSON married Laura
E. MARTIN, Sept. 9, 1874, and resides on the BENSON homestead. The BENSONs have been prominent in local
matters.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
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Pages
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Surnames: BIGELOW,
SPENCER, WELLS, WOOD, BURT
John BIGELOW, a son of John and a native of
Colchester, Conn., died in Conewango on April 14, 1844, coining here in
1834. He was a Revolutionary soldier and
for many years a Baptist minister. He
married Temperance SPENCER and had born to him these children: Elihu, Temperance, Temperance, 2d, Lucy,
Cynthia, Mary, Eunice, John S., and Israel B.
John S. BIGELOW was born March 14, 1807.
He married Caroline A. WELLS and his children were Wells J., Emmaria,
Harriet, Antoinette L., Mary J., Charles A., Francis M., and Amanda H. Mr. BIGELOW died March 26, 1866. Mrs. BIGELOW survives and lives with her
daughters Amanda and Harriet. Wells J.
BIGELOW, born Nov. 5, 1830, married Laura P. WOOD, and has one daughter, Caroline
A. (Mrs. Franklin C. BURT). Mr. BIGELOW
owns and operates the Axeville cheese factory, which was built in 1870 by
Morgan L. Worden.
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Surnames:
BUFFINGTON, CHURCHILL, BALLARD
Hon.
William BUFFINGTON, son of William, was born in Cambridge, Washington County,
May 31, 1817. William, Sr., came with
his family to New Albion (q. v.) in June, 1826, where both he and his wife
(Harriet CHURCHILL) died, the former in March, 1858, and the latter in March,
1874. Both were Baptists and highly
esteemed citizens. William, Jr., at an
early age evinced considerable ability as a scholar, especially as a
mathematician, and while young was elected in New Albion inspector of schools
and subsequently superintendent of schools five successive terms. In 1849, 1850, and 1857 he represented that
town on the Board of Supervisors and in 1857 was elected to the Assembly, being
re-elected in 1858, and was chairman of the Committee on Roads and
Bridges. First a Whig of the Seward type
and afterward and continuously a staunch Republican he represented his district
as a delegate to the first Republican convention in 1854, and in 1861 he
received the first appointment from Lincoln's cabinet as mail-route agent from
Dunkirk to New York city over the Erie railroad. Mr. BUFFINGTON from early manhood took an
active and a prominent part in temperance movements and in religious matters,
and in all affairs his excellent judgment and influence have carried vast
weight and prestige. In Feb., 1850, he
married Eleanor BALLARD, who bore him six children. The family came to Conewango several years
ago. Mr. BUFFINGTON purchased a farm on
Elm creek.
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Surname: CHENEY
Willard
CHENEY, after living in Genesee County and later in Chautauqua County, moved to
Leon, and finally settled in Conewango, where he died. His son Thomas W. located in Leon in 1818 and
died there November 17, 1892. He was a
Wesleyan Methodist minister and at one time was presiding elder. Mrs. Willard CHENEY was a niece of General
Warren of Revolutionary fame.
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Surnames: COATES,
JARVIS, MERRY, MASON
Daniel
COATES, an Englishman by birth, came to Conewango in 1830 and died April 11,
1857. He was a farmer. He married Martha Jarvis, who was born and
died in England, being the mother of two children, Nathaniel and Ann. His second wife was Ann MERRY, by whom he had
one son, Nathan. Ann COATES, who was
born February 9, 1807 married, August 1, 1825, Charles MASON, who died October
2, 1851, from accident. Their children
were Martha J., Mary A., Charlotte E., William J., George J., Daniel B. P., and
Charles J. Mrs. MASON died Feb. 11,
1893.
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Surnames: COATES,
MERRY
Nathaniel
COATES, son of Daniel and brother of Mrs. Ann (COATES) MASON, was born in
England, October 13, 1809, and died in Chautauqua County in March 1871. His wife was Martha MERRY, who bore him three
children Alfred N. (deceased), Thomas D. (deceased), Richard J., William M.
(deceased), Elizabeth, James, and Mary S. (deceased). Mrs. COATES died Aug. 15, 1848, and Mr.
COATES married, second, Mary MERRY, sister of his first wife, and third Harriet
HOUSE. Richard J. COATES, born Nov. 12,
1839, married, January 7, 1869, Julia F. MORGAN, of Conewango. He enlisted Aug. 21, 1861, in Co. I, 49th N.
Y. Vols., and was discharged Jan. 6,
1863. He has been supervisor since 1892
and has served as town clerk five terms.
Thomas D. COATES served in Co. E, 9th N. Y. Cav., and died from poison
at Annapolis, MD., Nov. 4, 1862.
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Surnames: COE,
STEWART, FOSTER, LACY, JONES
COE. –
John M. STEWART, a native of Williamstown, Mass., settled in Ohio, where he
died. He married Electa FOSTER, who bore
him these children: Alonzo, Sophia, and Elvira R. The latter married Alfred LACY, who died in
Union, WI., aged forty-five. She
married, second, Luman COE, who died at the age of about seventy years. Mrs. COE survives her husband and resides in
Conewango. Her sister Sophia married
Hanson JONES, also of this town.
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Surnames: COREY,
FITCH
Benjamin
COREY, the father-in-law of one of John A. FITCH's sons, settled in Leon in
1821, moved thence to Rutledge, and died in 1857. He was a pioneer in temperance work in
Cattaraugus County and gained a considerable reputation as an abolitionist. .
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Surnames: COWAN,
SMITH, SEAGER, METCALF
John
COWEN was born in Rhode Island, served in the Revolutionary war, came to
Conewango in 1833, and died at the age of ninety-one years. His wife, Olive SMITH, bore him these
children: Eddie, John, Arthur F., Sally, Esther, and Waity. Eddie COWEN died in Tolland, Conn. His children were Theodore, Jane, Olive,
Sarah, Norman E. G., and John M. John
M. COWEN, born December 12, 1826, came to Conewango when six years old. He cleared the farm where he now
resides. August 3, 1847, he married
Rachel A. SEAGER, by whom he has had these children: Adeline, Josephine W.,
Salla A., John N., Lester E., Jennie M., Orestus S., and William S. Norman E. G. COWEN, born in Connecticut in
1833, married Hattie A. METCALF, a native of New Albion, and their children are
Eddie L., Austin M., Arthur C., and Olive A.
He resides on the homestead of his grandfather.
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Surnames: COWAN, HOTCHKISS,
MERCHANT, BUSHNELL
Emmett
COWAN was born in Jamestown, N. Y., in 1828.
His marriage with Harriet HOTCHKISS, of South Valley, bore him these
children: Emma, Erie, Irving, Abbie, and Dana A. Mr. COWEN [sic] died in 1868. Dana A. COWAN was born in South Valley, March
4, 1862, and March 4, 1891, he married Stella. daughter of Album and Helen
(MERCHANT) BUSHNELL. He is proprietor of
the Elm Creek cheese factory.
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Surnames: COWLEY,
STEPHENS
Samuel
COWLEY, a native of Delaware county and an early settler of Conewango, died
Feb. 15, 1845. His wife, Sophronia
STEPHENS, died here Sept. 11 1885. They
reared a large family, several representatives of whom still reside in
town. He was a famous hunter, and in
early days killed much large game.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
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Pages
513 & 514
Surnames: CROOKER,
McGLASHAN, CRUMB, PENHOLLOW, BATES, ALDRICH, O'CONNER
Sampson
CROOKER was a native of England and for many years a sea captain. He came to Conewango from Greene County in
1818, and with Robert McGLASHAN built the first sawmill in town. With Culver CRUMB he built a saw and
grist-mill on Clear creek in 1825, and alone he set out the first orchard and
gave the land for the first cemetery in Conewango. His wife Alma was an energetic, hardy
pioneer, and braved with undaunted courage the incidents of a frontier
life. Their son, Hon. George A. S.
CROOKER, is mentioned at length in the chapter on the Bench and Bar. Among the latter's children is S. Deloss, who
was born in Conewango, May 4, 1828, married, Sept. 4, 1848, Philena F.
PENHOLLOW, daughter of Reuben and Eliza M. (BATES) PENHOLLOW, of Conewango, who
bore him two children: Paul D., born Sept. 4, 1849, died Oct. 26, 1852, and Alice
I. G., born Feb. 2, 1852, who married, May 14, 1871, Abner ALDRICH, and has
these children: Ella, D. Estella, Emir M., Stanley C., Harris, Philena, and
Lilly I. Mr. CROOKER has always resided
in Conewango. He has served as town
clerk and has held other positions of trust.
George A. S. CROOKER's second wife was Mary J. O’CONNER, of Albany, by
whom he had five children: Minnie, Alma,
Georgia, Roderick, and Magdalene.
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Surnames: CURTISS,
HART, BATES, DAY
Joseph
CURTISS was born in Huntington, Conn., where he died at an advanced age. He was a life-long farmer. His son Joseph came to Cattaraugus county in
1836 and died March 4, 1840. He followed
the sea many years. His wife, Mary HART,
died January 4, 1837. Their children
were George W. John, Clarissa, Mary,
Cornelia, 2d, Sarah A., Asa E., and Robert H.
The latter was born in Huntington, Conn., September 25, 1832, and now
occupies the homestead. January 31,
1850, he married Josephine E., daughter of William and Mariah (BATES) Day, who
was born Sept. 24, 1831. Their children
are Helen, born Oct. 24, 1850; Frank F., born October 24, 1851; Helen, 2d, born
July 14, 1854; Walter E., born March 22, 1856; William R., born Nov. 14, 1857;
Frances J., born January 14, 1860; Carrie V., born Sept. 18, 1861; Harland,
born Feb. 14, 1866; Lizzie C., born July 31, 1870; Evelin E., born Oct. 14,
1872; and Joseph A., born Aug. 25, 1874.
Mr. CURTISS is a farmer in the north part of the town, where he has lived
since 1861.
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514
Surnames: DARLING,
MORETON, SAUNDERS, HOLLISTER, WORDING
Benjamin
DARLING, born in Rutland, Vt. Nov. 8, 1782, came into the town of Conewango in
1821 and died in April 1861. He married
Maria MORETON, who died January 18, 1848, their children being Betsey M.,
Huldah Ezra, Polly Ann, Benjamin S., and Christiana. Benjamin S. DARLING was born July 7, 1819,
and married, February 3, 1844, Sally SAUNDERS, who bore him these children:
Polly A., Sally M., Saloma D., Charles B., Thomas J., Titus S., James B., Ada
C., Ezra I., Frances P., and Myrta M.
James B. DARLING was born March 15, 1857. Nov. 12, 1879, he married Effie S. HOLLISTER,
and his children are Ezra B. and Effie M.
Titus S. DARLING, who was born March 4, 1855, married Ada L. WORDING
Dec. 25, 1877, and has one son, Cleveland S.
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Surnames: DOCKSTADER,
VAN DE WALKER, VEEDER, SEARLES, FOX, COWAN
George
Adam DOCKSTADER, son of Nicholas and Dorcas (VAN DE WALKER) DOCKSTADER, was
born in Johnstown, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1775.
Nicholas DOCKSTADER was a native of Montgomery county, where he died in
1830. He was a German by birth, a farmer
by occupation, and a Revolutionary soldier from patriotism. George A. DOCKSTADER came to Conewango in
1834, was the first permanent settler on the DOCKSTADER farm, and removed to
Montgomery county, where he died July 26, 1870.
He was a very prominent and enterprising pioneer, and possessed untiring
energy and much native ability. He
married Sarah VEEDER, who died here in Oct., 1855, having borne him these
children: Catharine, Anna, Adam, Sarah, A. V., and Alida. Adam DOCKSTADER was born Nov. 27, 1806,
married, Feb. 22, 1827, Angelica SEARLES, and had born to him children as
follows: Dennis, Sarah J., Anna M., Alida C., and George A. The latter was born Dec. 31, 1827, and
married, April 28, 1869, A. Alida FOX, by whom he had three children: Annie. K.
(Mrs. Orestus S. COWEN), Sarah, and Georgie A.
Not only the paternal ancestors of the DOCKSTADER family but the
maternal ancestry as well were prominent in Revolutionary times.
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Surnames: ELLSWORTH,
DAY, JENKES, GARDNER
Stiles
B. ELLSWORTH, son of Benjamin, was born in Ellington, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1832. Benjamin ELLSWORTH was born in East Windsor,
Conn., Dec. 25, 1793, and died in Conewango, Nov. 8, 1871. His wife, Calista DAY, was a daughter of
Judge DAY, of Vermont, and their children were M. Eliza, Stiles B., and
Florence A. Mr. ELLSWORTH came to this
town from Chautauqua County in 1840, and was a farmer by occupation. Stiles B. ELLSWORTH finished his rudimentary
education at Fredonia Academy and devoted much of his life to the practice of
civil engineering. In 1862 he enlisted
in Co. K, 154th N. Y, Vols., and at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, was three
times wounded. Being left on the field
for dead he laid there four days and was finally taken by the Confederates,
being subsequently exchanged and promoted first lieutenant. Jan. 1, 1856, he married Victoria JENKS, who
died Aug. 13, 1867. He married, second,
Oct. 14, 1869, Betsey M. GARDNER. Mr.
ELLSWORTH was supervisor of Conewango in 1882, 1883, and 1884.
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Surnames: FISHER,
SMITH, STANLEY
Simeon
FISHER, son of Simeon and Lucy FISHER, was born in Windham county, Vt., came to
Poland, Chautauqua county, in 1831, and thence to Randolph in 1840, where he
died at the age of seventy-two. Simeon
FISHER, Sr., was a Revolutionary soldier, as were also two brothers, while
Simeon, Jr., served three months as a musician in the War of 1812. Simeon FISHER, Jr., married Lucy SMITH, who
bore him nine children: Lucy C., Palena, Lewis, Ebenezer, Rosella, Carmelia,
Lucy, Olive (deceased), and Vilando. The
latter was born in Windham county, Vt., Jan. 22, 1820, came to Randolph in
1837, and married, Aug. 11, 1842, Betsey STANLEY, who was-born in March, 1821,
and died in Conewango in 1881. Their children
were Diana (deceased), Luceba, and Mary.
Mr. FISHER is a chair and cabinetmaker by trade, a farmer by occupation,
and has voted at every election since 1842.
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Surname: FITCH
Eseck
FITCH came to Leon in 1845 and died there ten years later. His son John A., born in 1805, came to
Conewango in 1831. Both had large
families and were prominent in town affairs.
John A. FITCH was an indefatigable temperance worker and eminent as a
local abolitionist.
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Surnames: FRISBIE,
BROWN, NEWCOMB, NOYES, BAILEY
George
FRISBIE was born in Litchfield, Conn., and came to Conewango in February 1832,
clearing the farm on which he died February 25, 1868, aged eighty-five. He married Filena BROWN, and their children
were Orator K. and Charles R. Orator K.,
born Aug. 27, 1823, married Aurilla NEWCOMB, had children George, Roxana, Charles,
Maxa, Ellen, Flora, and Nelson, and died in Conewango in April, 1869. Charles R. FRISBIE, born Dec. 20, 1826,
married Mandana, daughter of Joseph and Ann (NOYES) BAILEY, and has had born to
him four children: Mary Ann, Ettie E., and Melvin and Melvina (twins).
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Surnames: FULLER,
GREENWOOD, McGLASHAN, FARMER
David
FULLER was born in Dover, Mass., was a farmer, and died here at an advanced
age. His son Joseph, who died in
Shrewsbury, Vt. in 1845, married Achsah GREENWOOD , who was born Dec. 16, 1778. Their children were Charles, Greenwood,
Joseph, Achsah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Daniel.
Daniel FULLER was born in Shrewsbury, Vt., March 18, 1823, came to
Conewango in 1855, and purchased the Charles McGLASHAN farm, where he now
resides. His wife, Harriet M. FARMER,
whom he married Feb. 21, 1859, died July 13, 1886. Their children were Henry E., born Nov. 29,
1859, died Sept. 4, 1872; Achsali H., born July 29, 1861, died Oct. 28, 1872;
Frank D., born Sept. 22, 1865; Flora, born Oct. 24, 1870; and Hattie M., born
Feb. 3, 1872, died Oct. 28, 1872. Mr.
FULLER is a farmer and has been justice of the peace eight years.
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Surnames: GARDNER,
MORTON, CROSSFIELD
George
GARDNER, son of George and Huldah GARDNER, was born in Lunenburgh, Mass., and
came to Conewango in 1830, where he died in 1854. He married Rebecca MORTON, a native of
Massachusetts, and their children were George, Harry, Morton, Daniel W.,
Stephen, Huldah, Aurilla, and Christianna.
George, Jr., was born in Woodstock, Vt., Jan. 7, 1812, and Dec. 14,
1842, married Lorena CROSSFIELD. Their
children are Emma, born Sept. 18, 1845; Frank, born May 12, 1847; John, born
Jan. 22, 1849; George D., born Oct. 6, 1856; and Dr. Will F. (see page 121).
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Surnames: GARDNER,
WHITE, CROSSFIELD, COOPER
Daniel
W. GARDNER, a son of George and a native of Woodstock, Vt., came to this town
with his father in 1830 and died Oct. 31, 1861.
He served as constable and collector for sixteen consecutive years and
was deputy sheriff under George WHITE.
He married Laura CROSSFIELD, who was born in 1816 and died in 1872. Their children were Christiana D., Betsey M.,
Edwin S., Julia A., Marcus M., Edna R., Martha F., and Dana W. Marcus M. GARDNER was born April 13, 1847, and
married, Jan. 1, 1868, Emma J., daughter of Silas COOPER. Their children are Mary G., Martha A., Maud
L., Daniel D., and Bessie E. Mr. GARDNER
conducts the Conewango cheese factory.
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Surnames: GROVER,
WYLLYS, MILLIMAN, STEBBINS, STEWART
Daniel
GROVER, a native of Connecticut, came at an early day to Conewango and died
here at a good old age, as did also his wife.
Of his four children Lewis was born in this town and died here in
1862. He married Abigail, daughter of
Rufus WYLLYS, and their children were Elijah, Mason, Alvin, Alonzo, Mary, De
Heart, Deloss, William, Elisha, Sophia, and Gustavus. The latter was born February 23, 1841. October 7, 1861, he married Hannah E
MILLIMAN, who has borne him three children, Frank, Jennie J., and Charles
M. Mr. GROVER enlisted Oct 7, 1861, in
Co. K, 64th N. Y. Vols. participated in
the battles of Fair Oaks, Williamsburg, Second Bull Run, and Portsmouth, being
wounded at the latter engagement, and was discharged May 5, 1863. Deloss GROVER enlisted in the same company
and regiment and died in 1872. William
GROVER served in a regiment of New York heavy artillery. Frank GROVER, son of Gustavus, married Ida,
daughter of Gordon and Abigail STEBBINS.
Jennie GROVER married Joseph C. STEWART, Jan. 24, 1888.
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Surnames: HALL,
ARNOLD, ELLWORTH, FRANKLIN, BLANCHARD, FLENTJE, DAY
Joseph
K. HALL was an early settler of Leon.
Both he and his wife, Nancy ARNOLD, died there. Their children were Nancy C., Joseph, Abner,
Elvira, Frederick, Chauncey C., Harvey, Charles, and Harrison. Chauncey C. HALL, born April 7, 1818, came to
Leon in 1847, and June 24, 1856, married Eliza, daughter of Benjamin ELLSWORTH,
of Conewango, their children being Jennie C., Ralph N., Henry E., Kate F.,
Stiles C., and Frank H. Mr. HALL was a
carpenter by trade. His second wife was
Sarah FRANKLIN, by whom he had children Anice, Maud E., and Warren A. Anice married Washington BLANCHARD, of Leon,
and has two children. Maud E. (Mrs.
Herman FLENTJE) lives in Winona, Minn.
Mrs. Eliza (ELLSWORTH) HALL survives her husband, residing in Conewango
village. Her father, Benjamin ELLSWORTH,
served in the War of 1812, came to Chautauqua County from Connecticut on foot,
and removed in 1839 to Conewango. He
donated for the purpose the land where the Presbyterian Church now stands, and
both he and his wife, Calista DAY, were instrumental in the organization of the
society and the erection of the edifice.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
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Surnames: HALL,
HOLLISTER
Rev.
Edwin HALL, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Conewango, was born in
Middlebury, Vt., Aug. 1, 1829. The most
of his early life was spent in Norwalk, Conn., where his father, Rev. Edwin
HALL, D.D., was pastor of the First Congregational church from 1832 to
1855. Thence his father removed to
Auburn, N. Y., where he was professor of theology in the Theological Seminary
from 1855 to 1876. He died at Auburn in
1877. His mother, Fanny (HOLLISTER),
died in 1885. Mr. HALL came to Conewango
in Jan. 1890.
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Page
516
Surnames: HAMMOND,
TALBOT
Joseph
HAMMOND was born in Rhode Island in 1767, removed to Chenango county in 1800,
and came to this town in 1830, where he died in 1848, and where his wife, Anna
TALBOT, died in 1836. They reared
several children.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
Chapter XXII (22)
Pages
516 & 517
Surnames: HARRIS,
WHITMORE, FISHER, CLARK, HARRIS
William
HARRIS, son of Jonathan, was born in Elba, N. Y., in 1803, and removed in 1864
to this town, where he died. His wife
was Marilla WHITMORE, who bore him these children: Sumner, Eliza, Lyman F.,
Levi, George, and Samantha, of whom Lyman F. HARRIS, born July 18, 1832,
married, Aug. 26, 1856, Matilda FISHER, and their children are Mary and
Burdette (killed Dec. 20, 1886). Mary
married Melvin, son of Warren and Jane (CLARK) HARRIS, of Napoli, Jan. 18,
1882.
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Page
517
Surnames: HILL,
KENNICUTT, HUBBELL
Levi
HILL early cleared a farm in New Albion, where he died in 1862. His children were Gardner, Jerome, Emma, and
Alexander. Gardner HILL died in New
Albion, March 1, 1854. By his wife
Matilda, daughter of John A. and Sophronia KENNICUTT, he had these children:
Leroy, Lucius D., Ellen, and Gardner.
Lucius D. HILL was born March 5, 1849, and married, Dec. 30, 1870, Alma
M. HUBBELL, of Leon, who has borne him children as follows: Rolland S., born
Oct, 21, 1871; Eva, born Feb. 1, 1873, died June 30, 1883; Emma M., born Nov.
22, 1877; Ray C., born Oct. 19, 1879; and Addie H., born Aug. 13, 1883. Mr. HILL has served as justice of the peace,
notary public, and town clerk, and is a general merchant.
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517
Surnames: HILLS,
WATKINS, WINSHIP
Calvin
HILLS was born in New England, Sept. 16, 1799, came to Conewango in 1832, and
ran the first carding-mill and cloth-dressing establishment in the town. He cleared a farm on which he died Oct. 9,
1889. His wife was Mary F., daughter of
Lyman and Abigail WATKINS, and their children were Emily, Edwin F., Charles S.,
Mary F. (Mrs. W. H. WINSHIP), William G., and Ellen C. The three sons served in the Rebellion and
were honorably discharged.
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517
Surnames: HOLLISTER,
HOLDEN, FOSTER, MORGAN
William
HOLLISTER, son of William, was born in Weathersfield, Conn., Jan. 15, 1763,
married Rachel HOLDEN, removed to Granville, N. Y., where he erected a tannery,
and in 1833 came to Conewango, where he died.
His children were Ann, Sarah, Emma, Melissa, and William. The latter was born Aug. 31, 1792, came to
Conewango in 1831, and built and for many years conducted the first tannery in
the town. He married Laura FOSTER and
their children were William H., Edward, Norman, and James H. James H. HOLLISTER, born Dec. 10, 1824,
married, Dec. 10, 1846, Cornelia L. MORGAN, by whom he has children as follows:
Mary L., Emma M., Edward M., James T., and Fanny C. Mr. HOLLISTER has been prominent in town
affairs and resides on the homestead.
William H. HOLLISTER was born in Granville, December 16, 1815, and died
at Conewango on March 8, 1893. He was a
life-long member of the Presbyterian Church, for twenty-four years its ruling
elder, and for thirty years superintendent of the Sunday school. A man of great activity he was an
indefatigable worker and lived a life worthy of imitation.
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Surname: HOPKINS
Jacob
I. HOPKINS came to Conewango as a farmer and died in 1878. His father was for many years a sea captain
and finally died in Cooperstown. A son
of Jacob I. is a blacksmith in this town.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
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Pages
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Surnames: HUNTINGTON,
METCALF, SPRAGUE, KEENE, TUTTLE, GORDON
John
HUNTINGTON, born in Vermont, Aug. 20, 1775, was a soldier in the War of 1812,
was a ship-carpenter by trade, and came to Conewango in 1824, dying here March
24, 1858. His wife, Betsey METCALF, was
born May 5, 1780, and died April 20, 1862.
Their children were Arnold, born June 28, 1801; Charles, Nov. 4, 1802;
Amos, April 7, 1804; George, Oct. 10, 1805; Hiram, April 25, 1808; Trumbull,
March 14, 1810; David, June 27, 1812; Emily, Sept. 2, 1814; Nancy, June 14,
1816; Mary, May 9, 1819; Henry, May 14, 1820; Almeda, Aug. 11, 1823; and
Horace, 1826. Horace HUNTINGTON married,
May 12, 1849, Samantha C., daughter of Asa R. and Emily (SPRAGUE) KEENE. Their children are Mary, Charles M., Frank
D., and Almeda. Charles M. HUNTINGTON
was born Feb. 14, 1864. Frank D., born
April 4, 1867, died April 3, 1870.
Almeda, born June 1, 1869, died May 8, 1882. Mary, born March 25, 1859, married Charles L.
TUTTLE, and has one son, Clair, born March 8, 1892. David HUNTINGTON married, Jan. 21, 1839,
Adaline GORDON, of Rushford, N. Y., and died in Conewango, Aug. 24, 1886. Their children were Loraine E., Mary J.,
Charles D., Ellen L., and Ina G. Mr. HUNTINGTON
was town supervisor in 1872.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
Chapter XXII (22)
Page
518
Surnames: KAISER,
SAUNDERS, CARR
George
KAISER, son of Hartman, Jr., and a native of Germany, being born there May 20,
1829, came to Conewango in 1840, married Alzina SAUNDERS, of this town, and has
had born to him two children: Jennie A. (Mrs. Adello CARR) and Nellie E.
C. Mr. KAISER is a farmer on the
SAUNDERS farm.
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518
Surnames: KINNEY,
GALLOP, SPICER, COWAN
Alfred
A. KINNEY, son of John and Lucy (GALLOP) KINNEY, was born in Connecticut, March
23, 1808. He settled in Conewango in May
1832, and cleared the farm where he died Oct. 14, 1882. His wife,, Athelia SPICER, bore him these
children: Lucy E., Eunice E., Matilda, Sarah J., Sally Ann, Olivia A.,
Christiana, and Alfred, and died June 4, 1882, aged eighty-one. Alfred KINNEY was born Oct. 4, 1836, and
married, April 17, 1877, Flora B., daughter of Elisha and Mary J. COWEN. He is a farmer on the KINNEY homestead.
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518
Surnames: KESSLER,
DOLE
Daniel
KESSLER came to Conewango in 1859. He
was born in Saxony.Germany, December 14, 1841, a son of George and Caroline
KESSLER, and married, April 18, 1873, Mary B., daughter of Alonzo and Jane
DOLE. Their children are Carrie J., Maud
E., Alonzo, and Lida E. Mr. KESSLER
cleared the farm on which he resides.
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518
Surnames: KNAPP,
WEAVER, JENKS
Mrs.
Cynthia A. KNAPP. – Christopher WEAVER, a native of Rhode Island, was killed by
an accident. His son William, born in
Rhode Island, Feb. 22, 1801, came to Otsego county and thence to Cherry Creek,
N. Y., where he died in 1880. His
children were Betsey A., Cynthia A., Electa, Oscar, Abner W., Laura, and Mary
W. Cynthia A. WEAVER was born July 20,
1820, married, April 13, 1840, Bucklin JENKS, and had born to her two children,
William L. and Leafy A., both deceased.
Her second husband was lra, son of Elijah KNAPP, who died September 9,
1891. Mrs. KNAPP survives him and
resides in Conewango village. Mr. JENKS
held several town offices.
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Surnames: LAMPER,
BROWN, YOUNG, PRITCHARD, FARNSWORTH
James
LAMPER, son of James and Sarah (BROWN) LAMPER and grandson of Benjamin, was
born in New Hampshire, April 23, 1798, and came to Randolph in the fall of
1829. James LAMPER was for thirty years
a sea captain. Two brothers, Benjamin
and Asa, served seven years in the Revolutionary war and participated at the
battle of Bunker Hill. James LAMPER,
Jr., removed to Conewango in the spring of 1830, and cleared the farm on which
he died Feb. 5, 1848. His wife, Mary
YOUNG, who died Sept. 25, 1865, bore him these children: Alexander, Susan M.,
Sarah, William, Delia, Mary, Julia, and Alonzo S. Alonzo S. LAMPER, born June 1, 1826, married
Huldah PRITCHARD, by whom he had five children – Acta M., Myron C., Susie B.,
Charles C., and James J. Mr. LAMPER was
for six years county superintendent of the poor, thirteen years local assessor,
and since 1887 town overseer of the poor.
Alexander LAMPER married Sylvia FARNSWORTH, of Dayton, had one son,
Edward A., who was born in Conewango, and now resides in Minnesota.
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518
Surnames: LEACH,
GOODIER, SEEKINS
Joseph
LEACH was born in Herkimer county and came to Ellington, Chautauqua county,
where he cleared a farm and died in 1844.
His wife was Betsey GOODIER and his children were Aaron, Alma, and
Joseph G. Joseph G. LEACH was born Dec.
9, 1828, and married, June 27, 1856, Angeline, daughter of Amos LEACH, by whom
he had two children, Aaron (deceased) and Alice, who married Manley A. SEEKINS,
March 4, 1878, and has four children – Marian, Myra A., J. Ray, and Guy M. Joseph G. built in 1882 the steam saw-mill in
Conewango which he now owns. He is also
a farmer.
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History of the Town of Conewango –
Chapter XXII (22)
Pages
518 & 519
Surnames: LIMBOCKER,
STEPHENS, EDWARDS
Uriah
LIMBOCKER was for many years a Wesleyan Methodist minister. Born in Conesus, N. Y., he came to Leon and
removed finally to Michigan, where he died June 20, 1883. His son Gardner was born in Conesus, April
20, 1828, came to Leon with his parents, and subsequently removed to Conewango,
where he died in 1853. He married
Harriet STEPHENS, of this town, who bore him one son, Gardner A., July 29,
1853. Mrs. LIMBOCKER survives her
husband and resides with her only son.
Gardner A. LIMBOCKER married Mattie EDWARDS, Feb. 8, 1870, and their
children are George R. and Lloyd L. He
is a farmer on the STEPHENS farm.
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519
Surnames: LOOP,
WINTER, COWEN
David
LOOP was born and died in Columbia county.
He participated in the War of 1812.
His son David, born in Dover, N. Y., in 1810, came to Conewango in 1840,
cleared three farms, and for many years operated the HOLDRIDGE mills at East
Randolph. He died in 1880. He married Mary WINTER, who died March 29,
1890. Their children were Moses W.,
Charlotte, Mary, Edward, Thomas, and David.
David LOOP, Jr., born May 8, 1850, married, July 4, 1873, Sally A.,
daughter of John and Rachel COWEN, and their children are Claude A., Josephine,
and Mary R. He owns and occupies the
homestead farm, and under the firm name of SNOW & LOOP conducts a saw-mill
in the southeast part of the town.
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Page
519
Surnames: MASON,
PERRY, WATKINS, HILLS
Charles
MASON, son of William, Jr., and Mary (PERRY) MASON, both natives of England,
was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1800, came to Conewango in 1830, and was
killed by an accident in 1851. His son
Daniel B. P., born Feb. 27, 1844, married, Nov. 26, 1879, Ellen C., daughter of
Calvin and Mary (WATKINS) HILLS, and they have one child, Flora E.
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Surnames: MASON,
SEAGER, COWEN
George
J. MASON, son of Charles and Ann MASON, married Josephine W., daughter of John
and Rachel (SEAGER) COWEN, of Conewango, and their children are Amy L., Jessie,
Mattie, and Mabel. Mr. MASON enlisted in
1862 in Co. K, 154th N. Y. Vols., and served until the war closed,
participating in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Mission Ridge,
and in Sherman's march to the sea.
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519
Surnames: McELWAINE,
FISH, MILKS, POOL
Timothy
McELWAIN, son of Roger and a native of Massachusetts, removed to Erie County in
1818 and to this town in 1843, dying here in 1877. His wife was Mariah FISH, who died here the
same year. Their children were Reuben,
Samuel, Clarinda, Benjamin, and Heman.
Reuben McELWAIN, born April 1, 1824, married Mary G. CHAMPLAIN, who bore
him these children: William H., John A., Clara W., Grant, and Earl. William McELWAIN married Anna L. MILKS and
has seven children: Robert L., Mary A., Albert D., Bennie C., Jessie E.,
Hattie, and Hettie. Clara W. McELWAIN
married Alanson A. POOL and died Oct. 21, 1890, leaving two children, Bessie E.
and Claude.
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519
Surnames: METCALF,
WALDRON, FOX, SMITH
The
METCALF family. – John WALDRON, a German by birth, was born in Auburn, N. Y.,
in 1827, and is now a resident of Arkansas. His wife was Elmir FOX, who died in
1886, and of their children Ida married William METCALF, Nov. 7, 1881, who died
January 19, 1882. He was a son of Henry and Julietta (SMITH) METCALF. Their
children were Coila E. and Raymond D. Mrs. METCALF resides on the FOX farm,
which was cleared by George FOX.
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Surnames: METCALF,
CHAMPLAIN, MOORE
Jotham
H. METCALF. – Asa CHAMPLAIN, a native of Stonington, R. I., where he died, had
five children, of whom Robert came to New Albion, where he died in 1850. His wife was Polly MOORE and his children
were William M., Hannah, Lydia, Robert, Sarah, Jessie, George, Dudley, and
Armenia. The latter was born Jan. 21,
1821, married Jotham H. METCALF, Jan. 9, 1840, and resides on the
homestead. Their children were Leroy C.,
Harriet, Eveline, Arvilla, and Mary. Mr.
METCALF died in 1884.
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Surnames: MERCHANT,
STANNARD, WOOD, DELAND, JOHNSON
Amos
MERCHANT was born in Cazenovia, N. Y., and came to Napoli, where he died in
1881, aged eighty-four. His wife, Almira
STANNARD, died in Napoli at the age of sixty-five. Their children were Warren W., Truman,
Reuben, Chester, Miranda, Alzina, and Betsey.
Warren W. MERCHANT was born in Napoli in 1827 and came to Conewango in 1849. He is a farmer. He married Mehitable, daughter of Thomas and
Deborah WOOD, who died in 1863. Their
children were Charles T., born May 14, 1844; Lafayette, born in August 1848;
Ella D., born Aug. 10, 1852; Austin, born in 1856; and Adelbert, born in
1861. Charles T. MERCHANT married Ella
D. DELAND, by whom he has one daughter, Hattie A. The latter married John JOHNSON and has two
children.
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Surnames: MOREY,
FORWARD, TEN EYCK, TRAVIS
Samuel
MOREY, a Revolutionary soldier, was an early settler of Otto and died there in
1874. His wife, Electa FORWARD, who died
in Otto in 1876, bore him these children: Stillman, Phebe, Sarah, Samuel,
Clarissa, and George. Stillman MOREY was
born Nov. 17,1817, moved to Mansfield in 1856, and thence to Oregon in
1888. His son Levi E., now a resident of
Conewango, was born in Sacket's Harbor, N. Y., May 7, 1847, married, Sept. 16,
1866, Nellie, daughter of John and Annie M. (TEN EYCK) TRAVIS, of Mansfield,
and has children as follows: Effie A., Etta L., and Ladore E. Levi E. MOREY enlisted at the age of
seventeen in Co. K, 9th N. Y. Cav., and served to the close of the war,
participating in nineteen engagements.
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Surnames: OTIS,
BACOCK, WALKER, HEATH
Justin
OTIS came to this town in 1860 and died in East Randolph on Nov. 22, 1882. Born in Colchester, Conn., March 23, 1798, he
married Minerva BABCOCK, and has had these children: George, Norman G., Patty,
Harrison G., and Mary A. Norman G. OTIS,
born in Perry, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1849, married Eliza C. WALKER, who bore him one
daughter, Lucy, and died Jan. 30, 1854.
His second marriage was with Louisa HEATH, by whom he has children as
follows: Bennie C. (deceased), Norman E., George H, and Mettie. Mr. OTIS was census enumerator for the town
in 1880. He is now a farmer and a
retired merchant and miller.
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Surnames: PHILLIPS,
McINTYRE, HITCHCOCK, TORRENCE, MASON, MARVIN, HALL
Isaac
PHILLIPS was born in Brookfield, Madison county, and came to Villenova, N. Y.,
where he died in 1872. His wife, Diantha
McINTYRE, who died Feb. 9, 1864, bore him twelve children, of whom William P.
was born in Brookfield, Oct. 12, 1814, removed to Chautauqua county in 1835,
cleared several farms, came to Conewango in April, 1869, and died here April
14, 1884. He married, July 28, 1844,
Lorinda, daughter of Timothy and Zurvina (HITCHCOCK) TORRENCE, of
Randolph. She was born Nov. 20,
1824. Their children were Mandana M.,
born Nov. 8, 1845, died in infancy; Adelaide, born June 21, 1848; Marvin W.,
born July 12, 1851; Oliver H., born Sept. 1, 1853; Charles, born Feb. 13, 1856;
Moses, born Oct. 13, 1859, died Feb. 7, 1864; Lee S., born May 29, 1862; and
Nellie E., born April 14, 1864. Mr.
PHILLIPS was an industrious man and a highly respected citizen. Adelaide PHILLIPS married Charles J. MASON
and their children are Mertie J., Alta L., Annie M. and Lynn P. Marvin W. PHILLIPS married Jennie C. HALL and
has had two children: Claude (deceased) and Ethel. Oliver H. PHILLIPS married Ettie WATKINS, of
East Randolph.
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Surname: POPE
Elnathan
POPE came to Conewango in 1828 and died in Wisconsin in 1865. His father, Nathaniel, was a Revolutionary
soldier. He cleared what is known as the
POPE farm, and before moving west left several descendants. It was in honor of this family that the POPE
postoffice was named.
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Surnames: PRITCHARD,
CHAPMAN
Jeremiah
PRITCHARD was a son of John, who served in the Revolution and died in Madison
county, N. Y. Jeremiah located in
Conewango in 1847, cleared three farms, and died in 1874. His daughter Mary E. married Welcome CHAPMAN,
who settled in Leon at an early age, moved thence to Conewango, and died Nov.
29, 1892. For twenty years Mr. CHAPMAN
was a member of the Presbyterian Church and during his whole life was a farmer.
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Surnames: PROSSER,
SEAGER, McKEEVER
Potter
A. PROSSER, twin brother of Amos P., born in Livonia, N. Y., came to Conewango
among the early settlers, cleared a farm, and died in 1890. His wife, Eliza, bore him six children, of
whom Andrew R., a native of Livonia, came to this town with his parents, and
finally removed to Cold Spring, where he now resides. His wife, Caroline SEAGER, died in 1887. Their children were Charlotte A. Micah,
Aurora, and Anson S. Anson S. PROSSER
was born in Conewango, Sept. 13, 1849, married, April 12, 1885, Susan McKEEVER,
of Cold Spring, and has two children: Andrew C., born April 29, 1888, and May,
born Oct 31, 1891. Mr. PROSSER is a
farmer on the John Benson farm.
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Surnames: RICE,
HENDERSON
Chester
RICE became a resident of Conewango in 1835 and died here on the farm, which he
cleared in 1862. His wife, Dorothy
HENDERSON, died in 1882. Both were hard
workers and reared a family of sturdy children.
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Surnames: ROBINSON,
SLADE, BENSON
Elijah
ROBINSON, son of Ex-Governor ROBINSON, was born in Bennington, Vt., married
Experience SLADE, had three children, and died there, aged twenty-eight. His son Elijah, who was born in Bennington,
Jan. 20, 1812, came to Conewango in 1846, cleared a farm, kept hotel, and died
May 27, 1886. He married Mary D. BENSON,
who was the mother of his children:
Francis E., C. Janette, Edwin E., John C., Robert E., Mary S., and F.
Eugene. John I. BENSON, father of Mrs.
Mary D. ROBINSON, served in the War of 1812, came to Conewango in 1847, and
died Jan. 13, 1889. His wife Alice, a
native of Washington county, died in this town in 1887. Mrs. ROBINSON still survives.
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Surnames: ROSS,
ELLSWORTH, CONGDON
Reuben
ROSS was a soldier in the War of 1812, a pensioner, and died at Arkwright,
Chautauqua county, after living in Conewango twenty years. Of his children Zenas, Wilber, and Edwin,
Wilber was born in Leon, April 11, 1830, married Frances A., daughter of
Benjamin and Calista ELLSWORTH, of Rutledge, and has had nine children: Ida, Benjamin E., Willard, Micah, Eva E.,
Harriet C., Willie, Herbert, and Susan.
Benjamin E. ROSS married Kate CONGDON, of Napoli, has one, son, Leo C.,
and is a farmer with his father.
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Surname: SAUNDERS
Charles
SAUNDERS, son of Hezekiah, came to Conewango about 1830, cleared a farm, and
died here in 1876. One of his sons has
been a merchant in Clear Creek for twenty-five years.
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Surnames: SCHULZ, FELTSNER,
WORDEN
Sabastian
SCHULZ, born in Solson, Germany, in 1817, came to Conewango in 1851. He married Amelia FELTSNER and their children
are Ann, Eliza, Frank, Charles, Frederick, and Ada. Frank SCHULZ was born June 3, 1854. Dec. 25, 1877, he married Ida L. WORDEN, of
Randolph, and has three children: Iva I., Goldie, and Floyd F. Mr. SCHULZ is a farmer.
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Surname: SCOTT
William
SCOTT was born in Franklinville and moved to Versailles, where he was killed by
a stone falling from a-bridge he was building.
His father was a, native of Germany.
One of his sons has resided in Conewango forty years.
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Surnames: SEAGER,
GRAHAM, HARMON, HILDUM
Anson
G. SEAGER, son of Micah, Jr., and Lois (GRAHAM) SEAGER, was born in 1805. The family were early settlers in Phelps,
Ontario County, coming there from Connecticut, where Anson G. was born. In 1833 he removed to this town and cleared
the farm he still occupies. He has held
several town offices, among them being that of justice of the peace for sixteen
years. His wife was Aurora HARMON, who
died April 4, 1891. Their children were
Caroline, Charlotte, Delia, William M., and Micah. William M. SEAGER, born March 22, 1835,
married Martha E. HILDUM, who is the mother of his children Charles H., Edwin
W., and Fred L. Edwin Brennan, an
adopted son of Anson G. SEAGER, was born in Randolph, July 28, 1842, served in
the Civil war as a lieutenant of artillery, and for twelve years has been a
customs officer in New York city.
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Surnames: SMITH,
EDWARDS, ROWE, MAYO, OSBORNE, KNAPP, LINDSLEY, ROBERTS, BUSHNELL, BIGELOW
Isaac
SMITH, son of Isaac, was born Nov. 1, 1791, in Milford, Conn. He came to this State in the spring of 1814,
married Elizabeth, daughter of Alanson and Elizabeth EDWARDS, of Skaneateles,
NY, April 1, 1817, and in 1827 removed to Napoli, then little more than a
wilderness. They built a log house and
commenced farming, where they remained until 1865, when they moved to Conewango
to live with their son Thaddeus.
Elizabeth SMITH died April 9, 1866, at the age of sixty-nine years;
Isaac SMITH died Feb. 20, 1883. They
were members of the Presbyterian Church.
The eldest son, Edward SMITH, was born Dec. 30, 1817, and married, April
4, 1847, Eveline ROWE; James Henry SMITH, born April 18, 1819, married Sarah
MAYO, June 10, 1844; William Clark SMITH, born April 16, 1821, married Mary Ann
OSBORNE, Aug. 28, 1853; a son born April 30, 1823, died same day; Elizabeth
SMITH, born Aug. 9, 1824, married Stephen C. KNAPP, June 15, 1846; Ann SMITH,
born Feb. 27, 1828, married Harvey LINDSLEY; Melissa Edwards SMITH, born Aug.
20, 1830, married Albert ROBERTS, Oct. 14, 1850; Cynthia SMITH, born Aug. 21,
1832, married Elias BUSHNELL; and Thaddeus C. SMITH, born Aug. 15, 1836,
married Mary J. BIGELOW, Nov. 29, 1864, and has had two children – Frank
Clayton SMITH, born Sept. 8, 1865, died Sept. 15, 1889, and Ralph Bigelow
SMITH, born March 15, 1868. Edward SMITH
is a prominent school teacher in Syracuse, NY., having been superintendent of
the city schools twenty-three years.
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Surnames: SNOW,
HOVEY, HUESTON, BENEDICT
Nathan
SNOW, a native of Connecticut, came to Conewango in 1828. Serving as a captain in the War of 1812 he
was at the burning of Buffalo in 1814, and after his settlement here died upon
the farm which he cleared. His wife,
Laura HOVEY, also died here, after bearing him these children: William D.,
Sewell H., Chauncey A., Orey, Edward, Melvin, Alvira, and Lucelia. Melvin SNOW owns and occupies the
homestead. He was born March 8,
1831. July 1, 1857, he married Mariah
HUESTON, by whom he has had two children: Ella G. and Clarence A. Ella G. married Hiram BENEDICT, of East
Randolph, in 1881, and has one son, Leo.
Orey SNOW served in the late war.
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Surnames: SPEAR,
CLARK, ROSS, BARTON
David
Clark SPEAR, son of David and Mary (CLARK) SPEAR, was born in Hartford, Conn.,
March 9, 1802, came to Ellington, Chautauqua county, among the early settlers,
cleared a farm, and finally removed to Iowa.
His son William D., born April 25, 1827, married, Nov. 17, 1850, Edna
M., daughter of Grosvenor and Charlotte (ROSS) BARTON, of Conewango (see also
Leon), and has had born to him these children: Charlotte, William G., and Karl
E. Mr. SPEAR is a farmer and
manufacturer of grain cradles in Conewango.
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Surnames: STEVES,
JONES, STANLEY, FISHER
John
STEVES was a farmer in Leon for many years.
He was born in Onondaga county in 1818 and married Rachel JONES, who
died in 1889. Their children were George
G., Francis M., Jeremiah, Fred E., Allen M., Marshall, Charles, Clara, Alice,
Estella F., Rose M., Ruth, Elmer, and John H.
The latter was born Aug. 14, 1853, married, July 4, 1877. Mary A., daughter of Vilando and Betsey (STANLEY)
FISHER, of Conewango, and is now a farmer on the FISHER farm. Joseph STANLEY was an early settler in
Conewango.
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Surname: THACHER
Cyrus
THACHER came to Conewango in 1823 and was the first merchant in Clear Creek, of
which place be was postmaster, holding the position there and at Seeleysburg
and Conewango in all twenty-seven years.
Born in Vermont in 1802 he died here August 3, 1892. He was a very active man and up to the date
of his death possessed a remarkably attentive memory. His son Charles C. is now postmaster and a
general merchant at Conewango village.
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Surnames: TOWERS,
SEAGER, SLYKER
Lucas
TOWERS, a native of Schaghticoke, N. Y., died in Conewango in 1853. His wife Rachel bore him these children:
Jared, Mary, and John. The latter was
born in Syracuse and died here aged 44 years.
He married Clarinda SEAGER, who died in 1891. Their children were Jane, Mary, Rachel,
Clarissa, Levi, and John H. John H.
TOWERS was born Dec. 8, 1832, and married, Dec. 25, 1859, Mary SLYKER. Their children are Cora, Lena, Ida, Ada,
John, Daniel, and Grace.
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Surnames: WATSON,
WILCOX, WOODMANSEE, ELLSWORTH, HALL
John
A. WATSON, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (WILCOX) WATSON, early settlers in
Ellington, Chautauqua county, was born in Rensselaer county, Oct. 29, 1831,
came to Conewango from Ellington in 1879, and is now a wood mechanic and farmer
residing in Rutledge. He married, Oct.
13, 1856, Fidelia WOODMANSEE, by whom he has had children as follows: John S.,
Daniel, Permelia, and Mattie M. Daniel
WATSON married Kate F., daughter of Chauncey and Eliza (ELLSWORTH) HALL. They conduct a millinery store in Conewango.
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Surnames:
WATTENPAUGH, RICHMOND, BROWN
Andrew WATTENPAUGH, a native of Germany, was a soldier in
the Revolution, and died in Troy, N. Y.
His son John married Amorilla RICHMOND, who died in Dayton in 1848. Their children were Emeline, George, Louisa,
William, Filena, Cordelia, Andrew, and Merrick.
Merrick WATTENPAUGH, born May 28, 1816, married, Jan. 13, 1854, Margaret
J. BROWN, and has six children: Janette, Sarah J., George, Frank J., Emogene,
and Ann M. Born in 1816 he is doubtless
the second oldest living native of the county.
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Surname: WILEY
Daniel T. WILEY settled in New Albion in 1865 and died in
Conewango in 1890. He was a son of John
WILEY and was born near Gloversville in 1813.
His son James F., a farmer in town, has taught over thirty terms of
school.
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Surnames: WINSHIP,
LATHROP, WATKINS, HILLS
William
H. WINSHIP, son of Isaac and Augusta (LATHROP) WINSHIP, was born Nov. 1, 1936,
came to Conewango in 1856, and Oct. 17, 1857, married Mary F., daughter of
Calvin and Mary F. (WATKINS) HILLS, and they have one son, Charles H., of
Fremont, Neb. The children of Isaac and
Augusta WINSHIP were Rossa R., William H., and Albert E.
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Surnames: WYLLYS,
McHURON, DANA
Mara
WYLLYS, who was born in Chesterfield, Mass., came to Conewango in 1820, cleared
a farm, and eventually removed to Ohio, where he died. His wife, Maria McHURON, bore him children as
follows: Rufus, Silance, Miriam, Lyman, Elijah, and Maria. Rufus WYLLYS was born in Massachusetts in
1780, came to this town with his father in 1820, and died here in 1871. He married Freedom DANA and his children were
Abigail, Lucretia, Rufus, Russell, John, Wealthy, Silance, and Elijah. Silance WYLLYS occupies the homestead.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter
XXIII (23)
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Surnames: ALLEN, BENEDICT, SHAW
Asahel ALLEN, son of Peter, a native of Connecticut, was
born in Fabius, Onondaga county, Nov. 5, 1802, and came to Dayton in 1818,
cleared a farm where that village now stands, and erected the first dwelling
house on the site, buying the land of the Holland Land Company at $3 per
acre. He finally moved to Cottage, where
he died Jan. 21, 1858. His wife, Sally
A., daughter of Jonathan BENEDICT, of Onondaga county, died Oct. 22, 1847. Their children were Jonathan B., Peter R.,
Harlow, Lucy M., Laura J., Eliza L., Mary C., James M., George M., and Ellen
M. By his second wife, Julia A.,
daughter of Timothy M. SHAW, he had three children: Annette, Newton, and Julia A.
Peter R. ALLEN married Betsey, daughter of Daniel and Lydia
(EDDIE) JOHNSON, and died July 29, 1880.
He was a farmer and wood mechanic.
Their only son, Daniel E., was born Aug. 25, 1862, and is postmaster of
Dayton. Mrs. ALLEN is still living.
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Surnames: ALLEN, REDFIELD, SHAW, WRIGHT, BRAND
Jonathan
B. ALLEN was born Aug. 10, 1824, and married, Nov. 8, 1849, Fanny M., daughter
of Timothy M. and Amanda (REDFIELD) SHAW.
Their children are Ellen (Mrs. A. C. WRIGHT), Laura (Mrs. David BRAND),
and Cora L., who died Sept. 2, 1877. Mr.
ALLEN is a farmer and has been justice of the peace fourteen years.
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Surname: ALLEN
Luther
ALLEN also came to Dayton in 1818 and became prominent in town affairs. He arrived before he had attained his
majority, and soon returned to Onondaga county for his wife, whom he brought to
his rude home on an oxsled. His was the
first frame house erected in Dayton village, in 1834. Mr. ALLEN finally removed to Gowanda, where he
died in Feb., 1847. He was supervisor of
Dayton in 1837, 1838, and 1844.
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Surnames: AUSTIN, HOOKER
Hiram
AUSTIN, son of Samuel, came to Dayton in 1826, cleared a farm, and died here
Nov. 16, 1875. He was twice married and
had three children, of whom Hiram C., born Jan. 26, 1825, married Jane HOOKER,
has five children, and is a farmer on the homestead.
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Surnames: BABCOCK, BARBER, SMITH, BUTTON, CHASE
Christopher
BABCOCK was a native of Rhode Island and served in the Revolutionary war. Asa, his son, born in Westerly, R. I., Oct.
9, 1777, died in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1840; he married Mary BABCOCK and,
second, Elizabeth BARBER, both of whom were born in Westerly. His children were Caroline, Thomas, George
W., Amy, Mary, Asa C., Elizabeth, and Christopher J. Christopher J. was born in Smyrna, Dec. 14,
1814, and married, Nov. 11, 1838, Rebecca A., daughter of Silas and Jerusha
SMITH, and their children were Amy., 2d, and William A., both of whom were born
in Truxton, N. Y. Mr. BABCOCK married,
second, Harriet BUTTON, and their children are Julius C. (deceased), Wesley J.,
Willis A., Frank P., and Herman T. He
was formerly a Shipbuilder, but is now a retired resident of South Dayton. He married, third, Mrs. Sarah A. CHASE.
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Surnames: BACON, PARK, RICH, DEAN
Norman
BACON was a son of Penuel and was born in Onondaga county. He came to Dayton at an early day and died
May 9, 1849, on the farm which he cleared.
His wife, Lucy Ann PARK, died here in 1872. Their son Elisha H. was born in town Sept.
15, 1846, married, in 1868, a daughter of Zalmon RICH and afterward a daughter
of Walter DEAN, and has six children. He
is a farmer. His brother Ezek P. served
in Co. B, 154th N. Y. Vols., and died in Andersonville prison.
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Surnames: BADGERO, WEST, JOLLS, PETERSON
John
W. BADGERO, son of Jacob and Sophia BADGERO, was born in Vermont and came to
Dayton while young. He married Laura A.,
daughter of Abel and Maria (WEST) JOLLS, by whom he had these children: Christiana C., Frances M., Ellery G., Laura
M., Phoebe E., Ada E., and Iva M., of whom Phoebe E. is a dressmaker and
resides with her widowed mother in Dayton, and Laura M. married M. P. PETERSON
and lives in Norfolk, Neb. Mr. BADGERO
was a soldier in the late war in Co. A, 154th N. Y. Vols., and died in Dayton.
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Surnames: BARTLETT, CAMPBELL
Dennison
BARTLETT came to Dayton while young and died here aged sixty years. His wife was Alzina CAMPBELL, who bore him
five children.
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Surnames: BATCHELLOR, DOW
Abner
BATCHELLOR, a native of Massachusetts, came to Dayton as an early settler,
married Mary A. DOW, had three children, and died June 19, 1880. Netta A., who resides on the homestead, is
the only survivor of the family in town.
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Surnames: BLAIR, WEBB, SMITH, CURTIS, WALKER, BADGERO
Charles
W. BLAIR was born at Stockbridge, Oneida county, Feb. 22, 1822, and came to
Perrysburg and thence to Dayton at an early day. His father was William, son of Robert, a
native of Massachusetts. Charles W.
BLAIR has served as justice of the peace, highway commissioner, and postmaster
at Cottage. He married Pastorette A.,
daughter of William D. and Betsey (WEBB) SMITH, and their children are Emmett
W., Ada A., and Cora A (deceased).
William
BLAIR, another son of Robert, was born in Massachusetts in 1785 and came to
this town while young, locating at Cottage, where he died Dec. 14, 1862. His wife, Susan CURTIS, was born Feb. 14, 1793,
and died Sept. 3, 1832. One of their
sons, William W., married Mary WALKER, and of their children Charles H. was
born in Perrysburg, Sept. 22, 1838, and July 4, 1865, married Christiana C.,
daughter of John W. BADGERO. Charles H.
BLAIR enlisted in Co. A, 44th N. Y. Vols., was wounded at Gettysburg, and was
discharged in 1864. William W. BLAIR
served from 1862 until 1865 in Co. K, 155th N. Y. Vols., and was six months in
prison.
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Surnames: BLASDELL, ALLEN, SHEPARD, MERRILL
Nathaniel
BLASDELL was one of Dayton's pioneers and died here aged sixty-two. Of his seven children David married Lucinda,
daughter of Daniel ALLEN, of Persia, and had born to him six children. His brother Daniel was born in Otto, Jan. 28,
1828, married Elizabeth SHEPARD, of Dayton, and of their children Frank married
Mary MERRILL and May became the wife of Marshall MERRILL.
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Surnames: BRAND, Howard, LOOMER, SMITH, SHAW, ALLEN
David
BRAND came to Gowanda and lived many years, removing finally to Dayton and
eventually to Iowa, where he died. Of
his children Henry C. was born in Gowanda and died in Dayton in 1872. He married Sarah HOWARD, who survives him,
and their son Henry M., born in Dayton on Feb. 22, 1847, married Eliza M.
LOOMER, Feb. 20 1869, who died, and he married, second, Rachel E. SMITH. Daniel H., another son of Henry C., was born
July 6, 1854, and married Kate, daughter of Jonathan and Fanny (SHAW) ALLEN, and
is a farmer in the south part of the town.
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Surnames: BROWN, PERHAM, ASHDOWN, WILLIAMS, EASTERLY
Ezra
BROWN, a native of Vermont, came to Chemung county, where he died at an
advanced age. He served in the War of
1812 and was a farmer. His son Daniel
was born June 15, 1813, and came to Dayton in 1847, locating near Howard's
Corners, where he died Aug. 5, 1882. He
married Fanny PERHAM, who survives him, and their children were Ellen, Harriet
Janette, Josephine, Julius, and Ellis.
The latter was born Feb. 11, 1856, and Nov. 21, 1875, married Sarah L.,
daughter of George and Jane (ASHDOWN) WILLIAMS, and their children are Welcome
J., Helen M., and Leon W. He is
proprietor of a cheese factory with his brother Julius. Julius BROWN, born Feb. 24, 1854, married,
Dec. 27, 1874, Ida Ann EASTERLY, has one son, Ellsworth, and is a farmer and
breeder and dealer in carriage horses and roadsters.
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Surnames: BUNCE, OLCOTT, PUTNEY, BROWNELL, WHEELER,
INGALLS, BADGERO HUBBARD
Rory
BUNCE was born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 9, 1758, and died June 27, 1812. He served in the Revolutionary war. His wife, Elizabeth OLCOTT, born in
Connecticut, Jan. 14, 1763, died in Dayton, July 24, 1843. His son Simeon was born in Hartford, Conn.,
June 9, 1789, and died in Dayton, Nov. 26, 1875. Dec. 28, 1814, he married Esther, daughter of
Joseph and Rebecca (PUTNEY) BROWNELL; she died Sept. 20, 1870. Their children were Harriet, Sanford, and
Nelson. Nelson BUNCE, born in Dayton,
Nov. 30, 1821, married, Nov. 22, 1843, Katharine WHEELER, who died March 24,
1891. Their children were Sanford C.,
Maria S., Francelia, Jay B., Simeon A., and Nellie L. Mr. BUNCE married, second, Mrs. Mary E.
INGALLS. Jay B. BUNCE married, Aug. 15,
1877, Elva A., daughter of Jacob and Adelaide BADGERO. Francelia married George HUBBARD, Jan. 18,
1871, and their children were Katie, Lynn P., and Melva M. She died Jan. 6, 1886.
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Surnames: CASTEN, WHEELER, FAIRBANKS, TOWN
John
CASTEN was born in Dutchess county and came to Collins, Erie county, where he
died. His son James, born in Dutchess
county, Sept. 29, 1801, was located in Buffalo as a dealer in live stock for
many years and came thence to Collins and from there to Leon, where he died
March 3, 1888. He married Amanda WHEELER
(born July 16, 1802), and his children were Ann E., James W., Ira W., Emily A.,
Mary J., William H., Eunice L., Stephen L., and John G. John G. CASTEN was born in Buffalo, March 14,
1833, and in 1860 married Martha M., daughter of Samuel and Susan (FAIRBANKS)
TOWN, of Leon, who was born March 9, 1841.
Their children are Susie A., James S., Addie M., John F., Ira B.,
William E., Stephen A., Ella M., and Archie R.
Mr. CASTEN is a farmer in Dayton.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 535
Surnames: CATLEN, BENNETT, PECK
William
CATLIN, born in Massachusetts, moved to Tioga county, Pa., and died in Chenango
county, N. Y., aged ninety-seven years.
He was a farmer and a manufacturer of leather and ratan whips. His wife bore him thirteen children, four of
whom served in the Union and one in the Confederate army. One of his sons, Wells G. CATLIN, was born in
Tioga county, Pa., where he married Sarah B. BENNETT, and moved to Persia,
where he lived twenty-five years. His
children were Annie S., Helena, Herbert L., Aaron F., George, and Orren. Orren was born in Charleston, Pa., Aug. 22,
1848, and Aug. 17, 1875, married Melissa A. PECK (born in Persia, Nov. 1,
1851), daughter of Joel and Philena PECK, and their children are Inez, J.
Gordon, and Orren. Mr. CATLIN is a
cheesemaker in Dayton.
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Surnames: COMSTOCK, REMINGTON
Abner
COMSTOCK, a Canadian by birth, came to Dayton in 1829 and died in 1859. He had ten children by two marriages, among
them being David, who was born in Persia and married a daughter of Ransom
REMINGTON, by whom he has had five children.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 535 & 536
Surnames: CROWELL, FAULKNER, ROBBINS, SMITH
David
CROWELL was born at Sherburne, N. Y., and came to Villenova, Chautauqua county,
where he died in 1861. He was married
three times, and of his children David also lived in Villenova until his death
in 1841. He married Annie FAULKNER, and
their children were Seth, Norman, William, James, George, and Charles H. Charles H. CROWELL was born in Villenova,
Aug. 27, 1840, and Dec. 3, 1861, married Celestia ROBBINS, of Hanover, N. Y.,
and has one son, Fred D., born Aug. 5, 1871.
Mr. CROWELL enlisted in 1861 in Co. H, 100th N. Y. Vols., and was
honorably discharged in 1862. Fred D.
CROWELL married Emma SMITH, of Dayton.
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Surnames: DARBEE, PHELPS, CHURCH, AMSDEN, LEWIS
Azariah
DARBEE was born in Vermont in 1762. His
wife, Susan PHELPS, was born in 1761.
They came to Dayton in 1817 and cleared a farm in the western part of
the town, where their deaths occurred Aug. 18, 1851, and Jan. 28, 1840,
respectively. Their children were
Chester, Susanna, Aurilla, Azariah, Olive, Clarissa, Celia, and Henry. Chester DARBEE was born Nov. 24, 1785, served
in the War of 1812, cleared a farm, and married Theodotia CHURCH, by whom he
had these children: Henry, Olive,
Chester, Jr., Simeon, and John. Chester
DARBEE, Jr., was born in Hamburg, Erie county, July 28, 1811, and married,
first, Caroline AMSDEN, and second, Caroline LEWIS. His children are John H., Lewis H., and John
H. John H. enlisted in the 44th Regt. N.
Y. Vols. and was shot at the battle of Malvern Hill.
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Surnames: DERSEY, SMITH, HUFF
Joseph
DERSEY was born in Germany and came to Eden, Erie county, as an early settler,
and died there in 1867, aged sixty-four years.
He married Elizabeth SMITH, and. their children were Mary, Elizabeth,
Delia, Joseph, Philip, and Jacob. Jacob
DERSEY was born in Eden, June 20, 1840, and June 29, 1876, married Mary W.
HUFF, who was born June 4, 1851. Their
children are Alfred, born April 28, 1882, and Mildred P., born March 13,
1890. Mr. DERSEY is a farmer in the town
in a locality known as Fair Plain.
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Surname: DEXTER
Charles
W. DEXTER came to Leon and died there at the age of seventy-five years. His grandson, William A. DEXTER, the son of
Bela E., was born in Gowanda, Dec. 14, 1856 and is now a farmer in the town of
Dayton.
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Surnames: EDDIE, KETCHUM
Elbridge
EDDIE was an early settler of Persia, where he died in 1878. He was a native of Enfield, Mass. His son Guilford J. was born in Persia, May
10, 1833, married Clarissa KETCHUM, and has had seven children. He is a blacksmith.
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Surnames: ENGLISH, GERE, WAITE, POTTER, FILLEY
Daniel
D. ENGLISH, son of William, was an early pioneer of Dayton. He was born in Washington county, N. Y., May
9, 1807, and died here April 15, 1874.
His wife, Amanda GERE, died in Leon, Oct. 21, 1880. Their children were Eleanor, Sanford, Oscar,
Alida, Amelia, Edgar, Theodore, and Lewis, all born in Dayton. Oscar ENGLISH, born December 31, 1839,
married, Sept. 2, 1866, Mercy R., daughter of William and Basheba (WAITE)
POTTER, of Leon. She was born in
Machias, Oct. 26, 1843. Their children
are Bert L., born May 27, 1869, and Maud (adopted), born Aug. 22, 1878. Mr. ENGLISH has resided on his present farm
twenty-four years and has served as assessor three terms. Theodore ENGLISH was born June 22, 1851, and
January 10, 1874, married Etta A., daughter of George and Mary FILLEY, and
their two children, Ethel and Bernard, were born Sept. 14, 1877, and Sept. 6,
1885, respectively. Mr. ENGLISH is a
general merchant at South Dayton.
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Surnames: FISHER, BOWER, TRABER
Carl
FISHER, son of John, was born in Dunkirk, N. Y., March 1, 1864. John FISHER was born in Germany in I815,
served in the war of the Rebellion, and died in Dunkirk in 1863. July 24, 1882, Carl FISHER married Reka,
daughter of Christopher and Caroline (BOWER) TRABER, of Dayton, and their only
child is Isabella, born January 23, 1892.
Christopher TRABER, son of Gotlieb, was born in Germany, Nov. 26, 1841,
came to Buffalo in 1861, served in Co. H. 96th N. Y. Vols., in the late war,
married Caroline BOWER, and now lives in Dayton. Mr. FISHER and Mr. TRABER are employees of he
Erie railroad.
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Pages 536 & 537
Surnames: FISHER, GILLETT, COOK
John
FISHER, a native of Albany, a miller by trade, a soldier of the War of 1812,
died in Italy, Yates county, at the age of 106 years and six months. Of his children James married Rachel GILLETT
and of their children Jeremiah was born May 8, 1830, married Sally Ann COOK,
has three children, and is a dealer in monuments in South Dayton.
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Surnames: FOSTER, WHEELER, NEWCOMB
Joseph
FOSTER, born in Hartford, N.Y., in 1800, died in Otto aged seventy-five. His wife was Hester WHEELER, of Otto, and
they had eight children, of whom Harvey, born Oct. 9, 1834, in Otto, married,
Dec. 25, 1862, Emily, daughter of Simon NEWCOMB, of Dayton, and is a farmer in
this town.
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Surnames: CADWIN, FRANCIS, WHITE, BRIGGS
Francis
CADWIN was born in Cayuga county in 1795, came to Hamburg, Erie county, removed
thence to Leon, and finally settled in Perrysburg, where he died, aged
seventy-five years. His father, Roswell,
a native of Connecticut, served in the War of 1812 and died in Cayuga
county. Francis married a daughter of
Simon FRANCIS, by whom he had seven children, of whom George was born in
Hamburg, May 7, 1831, married, Dec. 18, 1856, Mary WHITE, and reared one
daughter, Lydia (Mrs. Morris O. BRIGGS, of Buffalo). Mr. FRANCIS enlisted in 1861 in Co. K, 64th
N. Y. Vols., and served 14 months.
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Surnames: FULLER, CONKLIN
Henry
FULLER, son of Benjamin, had seven children, of whom Edgar was born in Dayton,
July 7, 1843, married Alice CONKLIN, and is a Wesleyan minister. His mother Betsey survives and resides in
Dayton on the homestead.
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Surnames: GREGG, ADGATE, JOHNSON
Jonathan
GREGG, born in New Hampshire in 1791, came to Dayton, where he was killed by a
falling tree Oct. 21, 1850. His wife,
Philinda, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ADGATE, died in 1855. Their children were Clarinda, Margaret,
Elizabeth, Joseph, Chester, Adgate T., Caroline, and Edgar. Adgate T. GREGG, born April 20, 1837, married
in 1864 Philena, daughter of Gile JOHNSON, of Dayton, and has had born to him
these children: Lizzie M., Grace C.,
Althea M., Clara S., and Georgia A. Mr.
GREGG enlisted Oct. 2, 1861, in Co. H, 44th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably
discharged in 1864. He is a farmer on
the Gile JOHNSON farm in Dayton.
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Surnames: HALL, RICH, PARK, BACON, WOOD, LUCE
William
G. HALL, son of justice, was born at Portage, N. Y., came to New Albion, and
finally removed to near the Wesley postoffice, where he died. He was a farmer, and married Almeda RICH, of
Barre, Orleans county, who survives him and resides on the homestead. His children were Charles W., Leonard O.,
Alzina A., Mary D., Delbert, Rowland, Arad, Sarah, Denton, and Marian (deceased).
Charles
W. HALL was born in New Albion, Nov. 3, 1837, and March 11, 1861, married
Betsey A., daughter of Norman L. and Lucy A,. (PARK) BACON, by whom he has one
son, Burt H. Mr. HALL is a merchant and
postmaster at Wesley. He served as
corporal in Co. B, 154th N. Y. Vols., and was at the battles of
Chancellorsville and Rocky Face Ridge, being severely wounded at each
engagement.
Delbert
HALL, another son of William G., was born in New Albion, May 12, 1848, and
married, March 27, 1865, Mary J. WOOD, a native of Niagara county, who has borne
him three children: Glenn W., Willie J.,
and Jennie M. Mr. HALL served in the
late war in Co. D, 179th N. Y. Vols., and is now a carpenter and proprietor of
a planing-mill in Dayton village. Glenn
W. HALL, born Aug. 15, 1868, married Anna, daughter of Obediah and Mary J.
LUCE, of New Albion, has one son, Blaine D., and is a farmer in the south part
of the town.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 537 & 538
Surnames: HALL, MOSHER, WATKINS, SHAFER
Calvin
HALL, a native of Vermont, came to Dayton in 1855, where he died in 1890. His wife, Sarah MOSHER, died here aged
fifty-four. They had three
children: Calvin E., Phebe, and
Lydia. Calvin E. HALL was born Jan. 22,
1826, came to Dayton with his father, and finally moved to Buffalo, where he
died in 1890. By his wife, Sarah
WATKINS, he had these children: Mary Z.,
Ada, Edmond, Drusa, Jessie, and Robert B.
The latter was born in New Albion, July 1, 1853. January 1, 1872, he married Nettie, daughter
of Patrick SHAFER, of Salamanca, and their children are Gertrude, Charles C.,
Jessie M., and Mabel D. Mr. HALL is a
farmer on the homestead. Patrick SHAFER,
son of Andrew, was born Oct. 26, 1822, and died Oct. 15, 1875; his wife
Cordelia was born May 20, 1820, and died Jan. 16, 1876.
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Surnames: HILLBERT, HARVEY, BAILEY, PAYNE, SKEELS
Nelson
HILLEBERT, son of John C. and Elizabeth HILLEBERT, was born in Onondaga county,
Nov. 11, 1809, came to Dayton in 1837, and settled near Wesley, where he died
Sept. 13, 1871. He was postmaster and
highway commissioner many years. He
married, Sept. 11, 1845, Eleanor HARVEY, and their children were Emeline J.,
Amelia, George N., Adaline, Mary, and Warren W.
Mrs. HILLEBERT survives her husband and resides on the homestead. Emeline J., born in Dayton, Sept. 22, 1846,
married, Feb. 15, 1871, George BAILEY, and has one daughter, Dora E.; Warren W. was born Aug. 21, 1885, married
Belle PAYNE, and has two children:
Willie J. and Chester. George N.
HILLEBERT, born in Dayton, Jan. 27, 1851, married Ursula SKEELS, and their
children are Nelson and Clifford (deceased).
Mr. HILLEBERT is a farmer in town.
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Surnames: HOOKER, GATES, FIFE, WATERMAN, JOHNSON
Jacob
HOOKER was a son of Daniel., who was a native of Germany, a resident of Boston
and later of Brandon, Vt., and a soldier of the Revolution. His wife, Mary (GATES) HOOKER, died in
Perrysburg aged about ninety years.
Jacob HOOKER was born in Stowe, Mass., came to Perrysburg in 1835, and
died Nov. 25, 1863. His wife, Lois FIFE,
was born Dec. 24, 1788, and by her he had five children.
John
HOOKER, another son of Daniel, married Philena WATERMAN, reared ten children,
and died in 1888, in Perrysburg. His
sons Hall and Ray served in the Rebellion, the first mentioned being killed in
action. Newell P. HOOKER, another son,
was born in Perrysburg, March 20, 185o, married, June 22, 1884, Christine
JOHNSON, and has five children. Mrs.
JOHNSON was born in Sweden, Feb. 1, 1860,
Her father came to Dayton in 1884 and is a farmer.
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Surnames: HOWARD, BACON, TOWN, ROSS, INGERSOLL,
REMINGTON
Harry
HOWARD, a native of Onondaga county, came to Persia as one of the first
settlers, cleared a farm on Nash hill, and thence removed to Dayton, where he
died in 1881; his wife, Delilah BACON, died in 1888. Their children were Harriet, Amanda,
Alexander, Norman, Emeline, and Charlotte.
Alexander HOWARD, born in Persia, died in Dayton in March, 1861. He married Lucy, daughter of Amos and Almeda
(TOWN) ROSS, and his children were James, Albert, Emma, and Amanda. William H. HOWARD was born in Wisconsin, June
8, 1850, and March 1, 1874, married Mary A., daughter of Hiram and Alzada
(INGERSOLL) REMINGTON, of Leon, and his children are Worden A., born March 13,
1875; Bertha, born April 13, 1876; Orville, born Feb. 17, 1880; Ray, born July
18, 1885; and Custer, born Feb. 18, 1891.
Mr. HOWARD is a farmer in the southeast part of Dayton.
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Surname: HUBBARD
Harvey
HUBBARD, a native of Massachusetts, came to Dayton while young and died here in
1872. His son Charles accompanied him to
the town and still resides within its limits, having removed in 1891 from near
Markham to his present location. Several
family connections of the name also live in Dayton and hold high places in the
esteem of the community.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 538 & 539
Surnames: HULETT, CALKINS, DARBEE, ALLEN, KIMBALL, DYE,
STIVERS, WADE
Asahel
HULETT was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., in 1800.
His father, Aaron, served seven years in the Revolutionary war as
groomsman of Washington's horses. Asahel
married Almira, daughter of Elisha and Dolly (CALKINS) DARBEE, who bore him
eleven children, of whom Andrew J., born Oct. 26, 1833, married in 1856 Frances
ALLEN, by whom he had two children, Lucy and Allen. Mr. HULETT married, second, Mrs. Elizabeth
KIMBALL, daughter of John DYE, in 1865, who was the mother of two children,
Helen and Horace Greeley. His third wife
was Mrs. Annie DYE, daughter of Jonathan C. and Margaret (STIVERS) WADE. Mr. HULETT enlisted in July, 1863, in Co. C,
112th N. Y. Vols., and served to the close of the war. His brother Marcus was a soldier in Co. A,
154th N. Y. Vols.: another brother, Asahel, was a member of Co. B, 112th
Regt. Mr. HULETT is a blacksmith in
South Dayton.
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Surnames: HURLBURT, EASTON, VINCENT
Edward
C. HURLBURT, son of Byron C. and Harriet C. HURLBURT, was born in Haskinville,
N. Y., April 17, 1868. Aug. 31, 1889, he
married Bertha M., daughter of Oscar and Emma (EASTON) VINCENT, of Leon, and
resides on the EASTON estate in the southeast part of the town.
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Surnames: INMAN, CALDWELL, BLAIR, RANDALL, HOOKER
Harvey
INMAN came to Dayton with James CALDWELL and married Betsey C., daughter of
William and Susan BLAIR. His father,
Peleg, served in the War of 1812. Harvey
INMAN removed to Illinois, but returned after a few years to Dayton and
enlisted in the late war and served until its close, being captured at
Chancellorsville and incarcerated in Libby prison for a time. He died in Dayton, May 24, 1891. His wife survives him and resides with their
daughter at Cottage, where also live two sons, Henry and Orris. Lowell D. INMAN, born in Illinois, Dec. 13,
1854, married Alia RANDALL, and resides at Cottage. H. Burt INMAN, son of Harvey, was born in
Dayton, May 16, 1842, married Harriet, daughter of John and Philena HOOKER, and
has six children. He served three years
in Co. H, 44th N. Y. Vols., in the Civil war.
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Surnames: JOHNSON, SALISBURY, RICH
Gile
JOHNSON was a son of John, who served in the War of 1812 and died in Herkimer
county. He was also a brother of Ralph
JOHNSON, who figures largely in the early settlement of the town. Gile died here in 1872. His first wife was Philena SALISBURY and the
mother of three children. His second
wife was Milla RICH. His children were
Calvin, Corydon C. (see Medical chapter, p. 168), George, Gile, Belva, Philena,
Mary, Elsie, Althena, Leonard, and Julia.
Ralph JOHNSON was supervisor of Dayton in 1851, while his brother Gile
served in the same capacity in 1855 and 1857.
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Surnames: JOHNSON, CROSBY
Leroy
B. JOHNSON, son of Hugh, was born in Mansfield, June 7, 1855, and Nov. 22,
1876, married Jennie, daughter of Lot and Rachel CROSBY, by whom he has five
children. Mr. JOHNSON is a merchant and
postmaster at Cottage, and is also a farmer. Hugh JOHNSON served in Co. K, 56th
N. Y. Vols., and now resides in Fredonia, N. Y.
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Surnames: JOLLS, FOSTER
Carrier
JOLLS was an early settler in Perrysburg, where he died. Among his large family of children was John,
who was the first to settle on the present FOSTER farm, where he died aged seventy-nine. He likewise had a large family from two
wives.
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Surnames: LAW, DAILEY
Chauncey
E. LAW, son of Lewis M., who was for many years a hardware merchant and died in
Pennsylvania in 1861, was born in Aurora, April 22, 1857, and married, May 2,
1882, Minnie E., daughter of George and Caroline DAILEY, of Dayton, by whom he
has had two children, George L., born July 30, 1883, and Chester D., born Jan.
4, 1892. Mr. LAW is a resident of
Dayton.
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Surnames: LEONARD, MANCHESTER
Isaac
LEONARD was born in Taunton, Mass., came to Perrysburg in 1825, and thence to
Dayton, where he died aged sixty-nine years.
His wife, Lucy MANCHESTER, a native of New Hampshire, died here at the
age of forty-seven, after bearing these children: Joseph N., Otis W., Ann M.,
Schuyler B., Maryette, Ellen, Lyanda, and Cornelia. Mr. LEONARD's father, Noah, a native of
Massachusetts, served seven years in the Revolutionary war and died in
Southfield, N. Y., aged ninety years.
Joseph N. LEONARD is a farmer in the town of Dayton on a farm of 242
acres.
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Surnames: LOCKE, WOOD, McMILLEN
Henry
W. LOCKE was born in Massachusetts and came to Dayton from Moravia, Cayuga
county, in February, 1852, clearing what is known as the LOCKE farm, where he
died in 1890 at the age of eighty-five years.
He was born Jan. 22, 1805, was justice of the peace three years, and
married Temperance WOOD, of Moravia, who died in 1883. His children were Henry A., James, David A.,
Mary A., Mary L., and John, all of whom were born in Moravia. John LOCKE came to Dayton with his father and
now resides on the McMILLEN farm.
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Surnames: MARKHAM, ADGATE, GREGG, CHASE, DAY
Henry
J. MARKHAM is a lineal descendant of an English family of the name who were
early settlers of Massachusetts, of whom Benjamin, grandfather of Henry J., was
seven years in the Revolutionary war and finally moved to Broome county, where
he died. His son Joshua had five
children, of whom Henry J. was born in Windsor, Broome county, Jan. 1, 1815,
married, Feb. 17, 1842, Clarinda, daughter of Jonathan and Philinda (ADGATE)
GREGG, and has had born to him these children:
John H., born Dec. 8, 1843; Philinda, born March 17, 1847; and Annie B.,
born Aug. 30, 1867. Mr. MARKHAM is a
farmer on 700 acres of land, most of which he cleared. His son John H. married, Aug. 11, 1870,
Harriet, daughter of Eli and Sirena (CHASE) DAY, has two children, Sirena and
Annie, and is a farmer near the station of Markham.
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Surname: MARKHAM
Aaron
MARKHAM is a native of Massachusetts, came to Dayton in 1836, and died here in
1852. Among his five children was Aaron,
Jr., whose son William R., born Nov. 27, 1814, came to this town in 1843, where
he still resides, a retired farmer. Of
his sons Aaron and Sylvanus, served in the late war in the Ellsworth's Zouaves,
the former being killed (age nineteen), and Philo A. was a member of Co. B.,
154th N. Y. Vols., and lost an arm at Rocky Face Ridge. The latter was brevetted first lieutenant for
meritorious service.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 540
Surnames: MASON, CRANE
Henry
C. MASON is a son of Isaac MASON, who was born in Massachusetts, Nov. 23, 1798,
and died Dec. 27, 1885. Brooks MASON,
the father of Isaac, was a Revolutionary soldier and the third settler in the
town of Penfield, Monroe county, where he died.
Henry C. MASON was born in Penfield, Sept. 14, 1825. Oct. 31, 1847, he married Amanda M. CRANE,
who bore him these children: Orinda C.,
born May 20, 1850: Isaac C., born April 28, 1852; Levi D., born May 14, 1854;
and Loren D., born Sept. 25, 1860, now a farmer in Dayton. James B. MASON, a brother of Henry C., was
lieutenant-colonel in command at Clinch Mountain, West Virginia, where he was
killed in 1863. George P. MASON, another
brother, was captain of Co. B, 11th Mich. Vols., and was killed in
Kentucky. Levi A. MASON, still another
brother, enlisted as captain of Co. 1, 2d Mich. Vols., and served-to the close
of the war, participating in forty-seven different engagements. Russell B. MASON, another brother still,
enlisted in Aug., 1861, in a Michigan regiment, and was wounded at White Oak
Swamp. Henry C. MASON, the fifth brother
in service in the war of the Rebellion, enlisted in Co. C, 64th N. Y. Vols., in
Sept., 1861, and was discharged Dec. 3, 1862.
He is now a farmer near South Dayton.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 540 & 541
Surnames: McMILLEN, BEACH, SHEPARD
William
McMILLEN, Sr., son of Hugh McMILLEN, who was born at Loch, Scotland, came to
America and settled near the head of Lake George, where he became an
enterprising citizen, and where he died.
Among the children of William, Sr., was William, Jr., who was born in
Athol, Warren county, Nov. 8, 1813, and came to Dayton in 1831. By his first wife, Esther BEACH, of
Bennington, Vt., he had five children:
Mary A., Margaret, James, William W., and Wesley. His second wife was Corilla SHEPARD, who has
borne him six children: Orland, Rachel,
John, Edwin, Frank, and Irving. Mr.
McMILLEN has been deputy sheriff and constable nine years and now resides near
Markham.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 541
Surnames: MERRILL, PRENTICE, ALLEN, DAY, RHODES,
MARSHALL
Johnson
MERRILL, son of Captain Israel, was born in Manchester, N. H., May 9, 1833,
began life teaching school when sixteen, came to Syracuse, N. Y., in 1854, and
purchased an interest in the salt works there, and in 1856 removed to Persia,
where he married, June 17, 1858, Sarah E., daughter of Benjamin J. and Sally
(PRENTICE) ALLEN. They moved to
Meadville, Pa., where they both taught school three years, and then went to Oil
Creek, Pa., where he engaged in oil speculation. In 1866 they returned to Dayton and settled
at Cottage, where he died May 7, 1891.
Their only son, William W. MERRILL, was born May 29, 1868, and with his
widowed mother occupies the homestead.
Anson
C. MERRILL was an early settler of Dayton and held many offices of trust, among
them that of supervisor in 1839 and 1840, and died here aged 75. Of his seven children Albert J. occupies the
MERRILL farm in Dayton.
Heman
MERRILL, son of Barzilla, was born in Fabius, Onondaga county, March 27, 1891,
and came to Dayton at an early day. He
was supervisor of Dayton in 1846 and 1847.
He died on the farm he cleared on June 1, 1871. Heman R. MERRILL, one of his thirteen
children, was born here Feb. 1, 1836, married, April 1, 1855, Lydia M. DAY, of
Villenova, Chautauqua county, and has bad born to him six children. Mr. and Mrs. MERRILL reside on the Marvin
farm in Dayton, where he has lived twenty-eight years.
Silas
H. MERRILL, the father of Mrs. Marcus J. RHODES, was born in Dayton in
1830. His father, Heman, was born in
Connecticut in 1791 and died at the age of eighty years. Silas H. married Maria J. MARSHALL, of Erie
county, Pa., and their children were Ara N. and Martha I. He was prominent in local politics and for
many years was a deacon in the Baptist church.
On Dec. 29, 1876, he was killed in the Ashtabula (Ohio) railroad
disaster, and nothing was ever found of his remains. A pocket knife, a bunch of keys, and his gold
watch were all that were recovered by which identity could be established. His watch had stopped at 7:32 P. M.
indicating the time of the accident.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 541
Surnames: MILKS, MILLER, KIMBALL, FRANKLIN
Jonathan
MILKS was the first settler on a farm in the south part of Dayton. He was born in Washington county in 1800 and
died here at the age of eighty years, his wife Margaret dying aged sixty. Their children were John, Benjamin, Jonathan,
Prince W., Luke, Mary, Bashebee, Sarah, and Deborah. Benjamin MILKS married Elida MILLER and their
children are Leonard, Charles, Cordelia, Betsey, Garret, Joanna, Deborah,
Gilbert, and Freeman. The latter was
born in Dayton, July 22, 1831, and Oct. 23, 1856, married Joanna, daughter of
Eber and Martha (KIMBALL) FRANKLIN, of Leon.
She was born July 24, 1836. Mr.
MILKS resides in Dayton village. He has
lived in the town from his birth, has been a farmer, and now owns 500 acres of
land and a saw-mill.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 541 & 542
Surnames: NASH, BUNCE, SMITH
Silas
NASH was a native of Massachusetts and came to Dayton in 1810. He and Simeon BUNCE were the first settlers
in the town. He cleared a farm now known
as the NASH farm, where he lived until his death. In his house occurred the first birth and
first death in Dayton. He married Sally
BUNCE, a sister of Simeon, and their children were Aras (the first child born
in town), Miranda, Almira, Emeline, and Dewitt. The latter was born in Dayton, July 10, 1818,
and died here April 27, 1891. He was a
great hunter. With his gun and friends
he would roam the wild forests in search of game, which they always found. He married Julia H. SMITH on October 5,
1842. She was an excellent woman and his
companion for nearly half a century, and survives him. Their adopted children are Adelbert, Charles,
Orlando, and Marshall.
The
NASH family has been prominent in the northwest part of the county. Representatives of the various branches have
frequently filled positions of trust and responsibility and have invariably
served their constituents and their country with unswerving fidelity and
lasting honor. Silas NASH was supervisor
of Perry in 1818, of Perrysburg in 1821 and 1822, and of Dayton in 1835, 1836,
1841, 1842, 1843, and 1845. Dewitt NASH
held the same office for the town of Dayton in 1858 and 1859.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 542
Surname: NEWCOMB
Thomas
NEWCOMB, a pioneer of Dayton, cleared a farm near Markham, where he died at an
advanced age. His son Edwin, who was
born here in 1831, has married three times and resides on the homestead. Another son, George, served in the 154th N.
Y. Vols. and died a prisoner on Belle Island.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 542
Surnames: OLIVEY, COOMB, VANCE
Isaac
OLIVEY was born in London, England. He
was paymaster in the Royal Engineers' Corps at Aldershoot. He had one son, Isaac OLIVEY, Jr., who was
born in London in 1835 and was drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Ireland
in 1860. His wife, Elizabeth COOMB, who
died in London in 1883, bore him two children, William and John. John OLIVEY came to Dayton and married
Catharine A., daughter of Joseph VANCE, of New Hamburg, Canada, and their
children are Charles D., Clara E., and Laura I.
Mr. OLIVEY is a cheesemaker at Markham.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 542
Surnames: PARK, PARKE, KIRBY, HALL, NASH, ENGLISH
Sidney
PARK, son of Ephraim and Betsey PARK, was born in Chenango county, Sept. 1,
1805, and died in Leon, April 17, 1864.
He came to Dayton in 1826. His
wife, Cornelia E. KIRBY, whom he married June 24, 1825, bore him five children: Wellington N., Betsey E., Elizabeth A., John
Q., and Andrew G. The latter was born in
Dayton, Aug. 6, 1839, and Jan. 1, 1866, married Mary D., daughter of William
and Almeda HALL, of New Albion, and his children were Fenton M., William H.,
Alzina C., Lester A., and Earle S. Mr.
PARK is a farmer, a dealer in hay and grain, and assessor and highway
commissioner. Aug. 11, 1862, he enlisted
in Co. B, 154th N. Y. Vols., and was honorably discharged June 17, 1865. He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, was transferred to the Army of the
Cumberland, was in Sherman's campaign and march to the sea, was first duty
sergeant, was taken prisoner at Snow Hill, N. C., March 26, 1865, and was
incarcerated within twenty miles of where Jefferson Davis was captured.
Avery
PARK, another son of Ephraim, was born in Chenango county in 1800, came to
Dayton in 1826, cleared a farm in the eastern part of the town, and died in the
village in 1876. He was justice of the
peace many years. He married Lodema Ann,
daughter of Alexander NASH, of Dayton, who died in I846, their children being
Franklin, Electa Ann, Achsah M., Porter A., Artson N., Hudson H., and Esek
K. The latter, born in Dayton, Sept. 6,
1830, married, Dec. 25, 1852, Emeline O. WADE, who was born in 1832. Their children are Roselia A. (Mrs. Rowland
HALL) and Lincoln A. PARKE. Mr. PARK is
a resident of Wesley, where he is a general merchant and farmer and a justice
of the peace. Lincoln A. PARKE was born
Sept. 11, 1867, and is a merchant with his father.
Porter
A. PARK, son of Avery and Lodema (NASH) PARK, was born on the homestead in
Dayton, June 26, 1840, and Sept. 9, 1864, married Amelia, daughter of Daniel D.
and Amanda ENGLISH, who was born March 14, 1844. Their children are Clayton A., born May 1,
1867; Clarence E., born April 3, I872; Clara A., born Dec. 24, 1875, died Feb.
28, 1879: and Herbert H., born May 8, 1882.
Mr. PARK served in Co. K, 25th Wis. Vols., and was discharged Feb. 16,
1865 on account of wounds. He is a
farmer near Wesley.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 543
Surnames: PECK, HYDE, POLAND
Joseph
K. PECK, a native of Connecticut, was born Nov. 4, 1776, and came at an early
day to Freedom. His wife, Isabella HYDE,
also a native of Connecticut, was born June 30, 1779, and their children were
Mary, Samuel, Joseph, Hannah, David B., Emily, Porter, Lurany, Eunice, Joel,
and Horace, of whom Horace was born in Freedom, Dec. 27, 1831, married, Oct. 3,
1852, Delia POLAND, and has had born to him these children: Hiram C., Jan. 17,
1854; Elmer H., Jan. 25, 1859, died Aug. 25, 1859; Ella O., Nov. 12, 1862; Elma
S., Feb. 2, 1865; Willa C., May 2, 1867; Albert H., June 9, 1874; and Elga E.,
May 25, 1878. Horace PECK has resided on
the Matteson farm 39 years.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 543
Surnames: POTTER, WAITE, LOCKE, JOHNSON
Daniel
POTTER came from Wyoming county to Machias, where he cleared a farm and died at
the age of eighty-seven years. His
children were Allen, Daniel, David, Silas, Achsah, Mary, and William. William POTTER, born in Wyoming county, Jan.
25, 1809, came to East Leon, where he now resides, in about 1840. He married Basheba WAITE and his children are
Butler, Allen, George, Silas, Peter, Mary Jane, Melissa, and Mercy. Silas POTTER was born .in Leon, March 5, 1848,
and Feb. 20, 1876, married Mary LOCKE, who died in September, 1890. He married, second, Florence, daughter of
John JOHNSON, and his children are Juvie and Charles (adopted). He is a farmer in Dayton.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 543
Surnames: REMINGTON, MAYO, DEAN, ALDRICH, MERRILL,
MARKHAM
Orange
REMINGTON was born in Wallingford, Rutland county, Vt., June 2, 1810, and came
to Onondaga county and thence to Dayton in 1832, where he cleared a farm in the
south part of the town and died in 1871.
Nov. 11, 1835, he married Mary D. MAYO and his children were Hepsabee,
born Nov. 8, 1837; Wallace W., born June 30, 1839; Garret P., born Sept. 5,
1841; and George W., born Feb. 25, 1845.
George W. REMINGTON married Alice DEAN and they have one daughter,
Carrie I., born April 11, 1870. He is
now a farmer on the homestead. His
mother, Mary, survives her husband. On
the 5th of Sept., 1892, it being her birthday, a re-union of the family
occurred, at which were present three children and their families, fourteen
grandchildren and their families, and twenty-one great-grand children. Mrs. REMINGTON came from Chautauqua county
and has lived in Dayton seventy-three years.
Her stepfather, Royal ALDRICH, was the first settler on what is called
the Summit, where he cleared 200 acres of land.
Garret P. REMINGTON, born in Dayton, Sept. 4, 1841, married, July 4,
1861, Augusta, daughter of Darius and Mary A. (MERRILL) MARKHAM, who was born
in Dayton, Jan. 20, 1846. He enlisted in
the late war April 4, 1861, and is a farmer on the Benjamin MARKHAM farm.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 543
Surnames: RHODES, MERRILL
Marcus
J. RHODES, son of Joseph (son of George and Annie) and Sarah L. RHODES, of
Northville, Pa., was born at Corning, N. Y., March 5, 1854, married Martha J.
MERRILL, and has had born to him four children, Maria B., Merrill H., Sarah A.,
and Silas A. He is a farmer.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 543
Surnames: RICE, HOWE
James
RICE came to Gowanda in 1834 and died in Dayton in 1884. He was a cabinet maker by trade, a farmer,
and for twenty-five years station agent at Dayton village. His wife, Eleanor HOWE, survives him.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 543
Surname: SHERMAN
Hiram
SHERMAN, an Englishman by birth, came to New Albion as an early settler and
died there in 1861. He married twice,
and of his ten children Alvin H. is a harnessmaker in Dayton village.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 543 & 544
Surnames: SMITH, SEARLES, AMES
Chauncey
R. SMITH was born in Oneida county. His
father, Thomas SMITH, was also born there, was one of the earliest settlers of
Villenova, Chautauqua county, where he died March 3, 1872, and served in the
War of 1812. Chauncey R. SMITH married
Lucy E. SEARLES and died in Villenova aged fortythree. His children were Marvin E. and Emeline D.,
of whom the former was born in Villenova, July 14, 1840, and married, Aug 15,
1858, Rhoda AMES, by whom he has had these children: Henry P., Susie D., Nellie A., Jennie V., and
Emma L. (deceased). Mr. SMITH was
proprietor of the SMITH Hotel in South Dayton twelve years and is now a farmer
near that village.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 544
Surnames: SPRAGUE, SHAW, OAKS
Abram
SPRAGUE, son of Reuben and Huldah SPRAGUE, was born in Hamburg, Erie county,
married Louisa, daughter of Samuel and Mary (SHAW) OAKS, and had two children,
Juliette and Emery, the latter of whom was born Feb. 1, 1873, and is now a
farmer with his widowed mother. Emery
SPRAGUE died in Dayton in 1874, aged sixty-three.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 544
Surnames: STEELEY, SCOTT, PECK, HOOKER, AUSTIN
Anderson
STELLEY died in Franklinville in 1875.
His children were Spencer, James, Dottson, Anderson, Olive, and
Wealthy. Spencer STELLEY died in
Chautauqua county Sept. 7, 1889. For a
time he was a resident of Ischua. He
married Malinda, daughter of John SCOTT, of Farmersville, and their children
were Nathan S., Warren, Laura A., Pelona, Almira, Edwin, Bert, and
Adelbert. Laura A. STELLEY,born in
Franklinville, July 18, 1860, married, Oct. 7, 1871, Hiram PECK, of
Dayton. Their children are Ida, born
July 6, 1888; Charley, born Dec. 17, 1884; and Ray, born Oct. 16, 1890. Nathan S. STELLEY was born at Ischua, July
21, 1856, and in 1880 married Mary A., daughter of Hiram C. and Jane (HOOKER)
AUSTIN, of Dayton. Their children are
Hiram A., Laura A., and Bernice B. He is
a harnessmaker in Dayton village.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 544
Surnames: STUDLEY, HUNTLEY, STARKS, ADAMS, DARLING
Philemon
STUDLEY, son of Jonathan and Lois (HUNTLEY) STUDLEY, natives of New England,
was born March 27, 1817, settled in Pomfret, Chautauqua county, and finally removed
to Dayton, where he now resides, a farmer.
He married, first, Elvira STARKS, second, Chloe A. ADAMS, and, third,
Alvira DARLING. His children are Mary
E., Charles A., David, Maria, and Marion.
Charles and David served in the late war, the latter dying in Vicksburg,
June 9, 1863. Mr. STUDLEY has been a
member of the M. E. church 63 years.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 544
Surnames: TITUS, STARR, WHIPPLE, LEGGETT, DANIELS
Stephen
TITUS was born on Long Island in 1772 and died Sept. 4, 1814. He was a farmer. His wife, Sally STARR, born Jan. 25, 1774,
died Nov. 30, 1814. Of his twelve
children Ira C. was born in Onondaga county, Oct. 1, 1803, and May 4, 1826,
married Mary WHIPPLE, who was born in March, 1808. They had five children, of whom Silas, born
in Perrysburg, Nov. 21, 1832, married, Feb. 22, 1855, Naoma, daughter of Samuel
LEGGETT, who bore him three children, Eva, Frank, and Emma. He married, second, Ellen, daughter of
Willard and Johanna DANIELS, and his children by her are Burt, Emma, May, and
Burt, 2d. Silas TITUS is a farmer in the
west part of the town.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 544
Surnames: VOLK, BEESEL, HOWARD
Adam
VOLK was a son of Adam and was born and died in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. He was a farmer, and of his eight children
George was born Jan. 21, 1831, and came to America in 1853. After residing at Black Rock near Buffalo one
year he removed to Sandusky, Ohio, thence to Canada, later to Gowanda, and
finally to the village of Dayton, where he was killed by the cars March 14,
1893. He was a, cooper by trade, and for
sixteen years was proprietor of a hotel in Dayton village. As a gentleman and a citizen he was highly
respected. His wife was Catharine
BEESEL, who died in 1884, and their children were John J., Louisa, Catharine,
George, Ida, and Emma. John J. VOLK was
born March 4, 1858, and married Maggie, daughter of Daniel and Emeline
HOWARD. He is a hardware merchant in
Dayton, and has held the office of town clerk in all twelve years.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Pages 544 & 545
Surnames: WAITE, BARSE, ROBERTS, POLAND, PECK
Benjamin
WAITE, born in Washington county, came to East Leon with his father in 1830 and
died there in 1891. He married Martha, daughter
of George BARSE, and his children were Vermelia (Mrs. Alphie ROBERTS), Fred,
Lucy, and Albert. Albert WAITE was born
in Dayton, March 7, 1858, and Feb. 29, 1882, he married Ella, daughter of
Horace and Adelia S. (POLAND) PECK.
Their children are Martin M., born Feb. 4, 1883, and Nettie M., born
June 12, 1888. He is now a farmer on the
homestead.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 545
Surnames: WELLS, HOPKINS, FARNSWORTH, SMITH
Elijah
WELLS, Jr., son of Elijah and Lydia WELLS, of Massachusetts, was born in Conway
in that State and moved to Oneida county and finally to Perrysburg, where he
died. By his wife, Mercy HOPKINS, he had
these children: Thomas, John, Clarissa,
Dexter, Elijah, and Luther. Elijah WELLS
was born in Sangersfield, Oneida county, Nov. 1, 1813, came to Perrysburg with
his father, and married, April 7, 1842, Lovina, daughter of John and Julia
FARNSWORTH, who bore him children as follows:
John L., Julia A., Clarissa, Jonathan S., Adelbert C., and Eleanor. Mrs. WELLS died at the age of
seventy-eight. Mr. WELLS survives her
and resides in Dayton. Adelbert C. WELLS
married Lillie SMITH and has one son, Leo.
He lives with his father on the homestead. John L. WELLS enlisted in the 64th Regt. N.
Y. Vols. and died at Camp California in 1862 of typhoid fever.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 545
Surnames: WILBER, GOLDING, WHITE
Joshua
WILBER was born in Collins, Erie county, June 17, 1819, married, Jan. 29, 1840,
Clarinda, daughter of Daniel L. and Sybil (GOLDING) WHITE, and came to Dayton
in 1885. His father, Stephen, a native
of Vermont, came to -Buffalo in 1807, being there at the burning of that city
in 1814, and removed to Collins, where he died in 1862. Isaac WILBER, the brother of Stephen, was a
native of Scotland and a Quaker, and before settling in Danby, Vt., followed
the ocean for about twenty years. He
eventually came to Collins, where he died at nearly 100 years of age. The children of Joshua and Clarinda (WHITE)
WILBER are George, Daniel, Imogene, Steukley, and Frank B. He enlisted in Co. D, 10th N. Y. Cav., and
served under Gen. Sheridan until the war closed.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 545
Surname: WILCOX
Alanson
WILCOX became a settler of this town at the age of twenty years. He served in the War of 1812. His son William C., who was born here in
1845, has married twice, and lives on the WILCOX homestead.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 545
Surnames: WOOD, SATTERLY
Alonzo
WOOD, son of George, married in 1844 Betsey SATTERLY, of Otto. He served in Co. A, 9th N. Y. Cav., and is a
farmer in the town of Dayton.
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History of the Town of Dayton – Chapter XXIII (23)
Page 545
Surnames: WOOD, WELLS
Lemuel
H. WOOD was an early comer to Leon, where he died in 1853. His son Daniel T., born in 1830, married
Sarah WELLS, served in Co. K, 64th N. Y. Vols., and now resides at South
Dayton.
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Bio from:
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
552
Surnames: ANDREWS, WELLS,
BONESTEEL
The name ANDREWS is the modern English
form of the Latin, Andreas, which signifies a man. Some bearing the name have claimed that
"it is derived from St. Andrew the Apostle." The family has been prominent in England,
whose books of heraldry contain full descriptions of their "coats of
arms." John ANDREWS came from
England in 1640 and settled on land in Connecticut in what was anciently known
as "Tunxis," afterward as "ffarmingtowne," and later as
Farmington, on which land some of his direct descendants still reside. He died in 1681 and his wife Mary in
1694. Daniel, their third son, was born
in 1649 and died in 1731. His son Daniel
was born in 1672 and died in 1748.
Joseph, son of Daniel, Jr., was born in 1711, lived in Glastonbury,
Conn., and died about 1747, leaving a son Joseph, born in 1745, who was a
soldier in the Revolution, as was also his brother Daniel. Joseph died in 1837. George, the fourth son of the last named
(Joseph), was born in 1780, removed to Knowlesville, N. Y., in 1815, and died
in 1861. Willis M., the second son of
George, was born Feb. 7, 1806, in Glastonbury, Conn. In 1829 he came with Samuel WELLS, a brother
of Horace WELLS, the pioneer, to East Otto, and Jan. 1, 1832, married Mariette
BONESTEEL, who was born in Worcester, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1810, and who came with
her father's family to East Otto in 1828.
Soon after his marriage he built a house and shop at East Otto Corners,
where he carried on shoemaking till the early forties, when he purchased a farm
near "the corners," which he managed. till his removal in 1864 to
Cattaraugus, where he died Sept. 3, 1870, his wife surviving until Nov. 36,
[sic] 1891. Prior to their marriage she
was a schoolteacher. Both lived useful,
honorable lives, and their many sterling characteristics were inherited by
their "descendants. Sketches of
their children appear in the chapters of the towns with which they have been
most recently identified. The ANDREWS
family has ever been ready to take up arms in their country's defense. From the Revolution to the present day they
have gallantly participated in every war which has threatened the nation's
life, enlisting others in the strife, and leading or themselves going to
victory or death. In all that interests
the soldier, his widow, or his children they are first and foremost in aid and
influence.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
552 & 553
Surnames: ANDREWS, PRATT,
CARTER, SLAWSON, RICH, COURTER
George
William ANDREWS, the oldest child of Willis M. and Mariette ANDREWS, was born
in East Otto, Nov. 12, 1832, and was married, April 13, 1856, to Ellen,
daughter of Calvin PRATT, an early comer to this town. She was born in East Otto, Sept. 17, 1837,
and died June 19, 1878. She was a brave,
true woman and a devoted wife and mother.
Children: Tully, born Feb. 27, 1857, died Aug. 6, 1857; Annie L., born
July 6, 1858, married, Sept. 24, 1884, Oscar CARTER, a photographer at
Cattaraugus, and died March 27, 1885; Walton C., born Jan. 13, 1861, married,
Nov. 29, 1885, Nellie SLAWSON, was a partner with his uncle, Jerome A. ANDREWS,
in the general merchandise business for several years at Cattaraugus, now with
Clayton RICH in the same line at Gardeau, Pa.; and Crissy, born Dec. 25, 1869,
married, Jan. 9, 1889, A. S. COURTER, a merchant at Otto. The latter has one child, Walton C., born
Nov. 29, 1890. George W. ANDREWS, like
his brothers and sisters, obtained the rudiments of an education in the common
school. During a part of three terms he
was a student in Springville Academy and engaged in teaching in the intervals
of farm labor till after his marriage.
In 1861 he enlisted more than a score of men for the 9th N. Y. Vol.
Cav., in which regiment he served as private until discharged for
disability. He then engaged in general
merchandizing with his brother Jerome A. (see Salamanca) till 1869, since which
time he has been alone. He was
postmaster twenty-one years at East Otto, where he has always resided.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
553
Surnames: ANDREWS, KING
Edson
Alfred ANDREWS, youngest son of Willis M. and Mariette ANDREWS, was born Aug.
8, 1845, at East Otto. He early began
the study of law with Rice & Scott at Ellicottville. While yet a student in their office he
married Ellen, daughter of Hon. Alanson KING, of Ashford, and enlisted as
sergeant in the 179th N. Y. Vols. in the same month, April 11, 1864. He served gallantly in front of Petersburg,
was taken prisoner at the great mine explosion July 31, 1864, and died of
starvation and exposure in the rebel prison pen at Danville, Va., Jan. 11,
1865.
"He
heard his country's call and gave his life, Just wed, from nuptial joys he went
where grim Death grinned o'er Petersburg; – Ta'en in that strife He died – sad prison death – far, far from
home, and friends, and wife."
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
553
Surnames: ANDREWS, RICH,
OAKES
Eva
A., youngest daughter of Willis M. and Mariette ANDREWS, was born at East Otto,
Oct. 28, 1857, and removed with her parents to Cattaraugus. Dec. 30, 1871, at Silver Creek, N. Y., she
married Olin G. RICH, of Cattaraugus, now senior partner of the firm of RICH
& OAKES, real estate dealers of Buffalo, N. Y. They have one daughter, Nellie, born at St.
Petersburg, Pa., Aug. 18, 1874. As a
child Eva was musical and is now a talented pianist and instructor in piano,
organ, and vocal music.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page 553
Surnames: ARMSTRONG,
COPELAND, ANDRE, TRAVERS, AUSTIN, BENTON
Harvey
K. ARMSTRONG was born in Perry, Wyoming County, Feb. 10, 1834. Jedediah ARMSTRONG, his father, was a native
of Oneida County, whence he moved to Perry in 1823. In the winter of 1844 he came to East Otto. He located on the farm on which H. K. now
lives, where he resided till his death in 1865, aged sixty-eight years. The mother of Harvey K. was a daughter of
Amasa COPELAND, a soldier of the Revolution who belonged to the detachment that
guarded Major Andre and conducted him to the scaffold. She lived with H. K. until her death in 1891,
aged ninety-four years. Five others of
the COPELAND family lived to be from ninety-one to ninety-seven years old. Harvey K. ARMSTRONG married, Sept. 16, 1857,
Mary, daughter of Abel TRAVERS, of Chautauqua County. They have two sons and one daughter: J. D.,
of Salamanca; Rosa (Mrs. M. H. AUSTIN), of Buffalo; and J. Benton.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
553 & 554
Surnames: BARNES, BURCHARD, MERCER, HOLMES, LARABEE, HAWKINS,
DITCHER, TWITCHELL
Clark
BARNES was born in Dayton, Feb. 2, 1852, and traces his ancestry back to the
heroes of the Revolution. His
great-grandfather fell while scaling the walls of Quebec; his grandfather,
Tompkins BARNES, came from Maine to Sardinia, Erie county, about 1820; and his
father, Surlanty BARNES, born there March 16, 1828, came. to East Otto in 1846,
and was here married, Dec. 9, 1849, to Caroline, daughter of Joseph
BURCHARD. She was born in East Otto,
July 8, 1829, and both are now living on their farm in this town. Children: Lovina A., born Sept. 25, 1850,
died Sept. 20, 1863, and Clark. Clark
BARNES married, Jan. 19, 1876, Ann L., daughter of James MERCER, who was born
in England, Jan, 14, 1807, came to America in 1826, and settled in Oneida
county, removing in 1835 to East Otto, where he died Sept. 5, 1880. He married Betsey HOLMES, Sept. 23, 1830;
children: Mary, born Sept. 8, 1831, married Amos LARABEE; James C., born Oct.
22, 1833; Elizabeth, born March 3l, 1839, married William HAWKINS; Ann L., born
March 17, 1845, married Clark BARNES; Martha M., born Sept. 26, 1848, married
Chris DITCHER; Philama, born Dec. 4, 1850, married Laban TWITCHELL; and William
A., born Sept. 11, 1855. To Clark and
Ann L. BARNES have been born Carl J., June 27, 1877, and Mary, May 21, 1887,
now living, and Ina, Feb. 22, 1879, who died at the age of three years. Mr. BARNES is one of East Otto's thorough,
reliable farmers. A Republican in
politics he served his town as assessor and is now commissioner of highways,
having received the largest majority ever given in town for that office in a
contested election.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
554
Surnames: BEACH, NASH,
HINMAN, BUSH, NORTHRUP
Oscar
F. BEACH was born in Massachusetts, Sept. 23, 1818, and is a son of Henry
BEACH, who came to East Otto with his family in 1825 and died here Feb. 7,
1847. Mrs. BEACH (Maria NASH) died June
14, 1872. Oscar F. BEACH purchased the
homestead and made it his life-long home.
He married, Oct. 8, 1846, Adaline, daughter of S. B. HINMAN. She was born in this county Oct. 8,1827. Children: Edson F., Cornelia (Mrs. A. B.
BUSH), and Addie (Mrs. L. H. NORTHRUP).
A Republican in politics Mr. BEACH represented the town of East Otto on
the Board of Supervisors in 1874 and 1875, and in religion was an exemplary
member of the Congregational church.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
554
Surnames: BEEBE, BATTELL,
PRATT, MILLS
About
1640 four brothers, sons of John BEEBE, of Dorset, England, came to America and
settled on Long Island. Silas BEEBE, a
lineal descendant of John and the grandfather of Edwin F., was born on Long
Island in 1763. James BEEBE, his son,
was born March 30, 1804. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of James BATTELL, a soldier of the Revolution who died at
the age of eighty-nine years. Edwin F.
BEEBE, son of James, was born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 30, 1836, his father at
that time being an engineer on a steamboat running from New York to New Haven. The family residence was in Newport, Herkimer
County, and it was here that Edwin F. grew to manhood. In 1858 he came to East Otto and Oct. 10,
1860, married Elizabeth, daughter of Darius PRATT. Sept. 2, 1861, he enlisted in Co. B, 9th N.
Y. Cav. He was first duty-sergeant and
was in the siege of Yorktown, after which he was taken sick with fever and sent
to the hospital at Baltimore, whence he was discharged by order of the War
Department. In the fall of 1864 he
re-enlisted in the same regiment and was assigned to Co. D, was detailed as
drill-sergeant at Pleasant Valley remount camp, joined the regiment Dec. 1st,
and was in the raids and battles during the winter of 1864-65. In the spring he was sent back to remount
camp with crippled horses and was there detailed as provost-sergeant and
afterward to assist Quartermaster Bean in selling horses and other
supplies. He was mustered out June 1,
1865. In 1876 he was appointed keeper in
Auburn prison and held that position three years and four months. He has been justice of the peace in East Otto
fourteen years. Children: Luella, born
June 20, 1861, died Aug. 12, 1874, and Maggie J., born Oct. 17, 1874, married
James MILLS in 1888. Mr. BEEBE is one of
three brothers who served their country during the Civil war. George H. BEEBE was in the 65th N. Y.
Regiment and Silas T. BEEBE was captain in the 152d N. Y. Inf., serving four
years.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
554 & 555
Surnames: BRADLEY, MORROW
Levi
BRADLEY was born in Vermont, July 18, 1798, and died Dec. 4, 1877. After his marriage in 1827 he came to East
Otto and settled on a farm, and for many years was a respected member of the
Baptist church. His second wife was
Betsey, daughter of James MORROW, of East Otto, whom he married. Aug. 9, 1853,
and who survived him.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
555
Surnames: BURCHARD, BARNES,
MILKS, GAMPP, DARLING, WELLS
Joseph
BURCHARD came from Massachusetts about 1821 and died here two or three years
later. His son, Joseph BURCHARD, Jr.,
was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1797, and emigrated to this town in 1828,
where be died in 1867. His wife, Martha
BURCHARD, was born in Massachusetts in 1793 and died in 1875. To them were born eighteen children, seven of
whom lived to maturity: Edwin, Hiram, Mary and Martha (twins), Caroline, Clark,
and Adaline; of these Caroline (Mrs. Surlanty BARNES) and Clark are
living. Clark BURCHARD was born in East
Otto, Jan. 8, 1833. On the 8th of May,
1859 he married Calista, daughter of Benjamin MILKS, an early settler of
Otto. Children: Charles E., born Dec.
29, 1860, died May 1, 1863; Mara Eleanor, born April 7, 1862, married Abram
GAMPP; Edith Sophia (Mrs. Edgar DARLING), born Dec. 27, 1864; Grace A., born
May 7, 1869, (Mrs. Isaac GAMPP); Ida jean. born May 5, 1874, died Nov. 15,
1886; and Beatrice A. E., born Jan. 14, 1877. Mr. BURCHARD owns the farm on
which Horace WELLS, the first settler in East Otto, originally located, his
buildings standing in the village. he has been elected to several official
positions.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
555
Surnames: COLVIN, KRUSE,
LINCOLN, ZEILMAN, GAMPP
John
C. COLVIN was born in East Otto, April 11, 1833. He is of New England lineage; his
grandfather, Ephraim COLVIN, was born in Coventry, R. I., Dec. 14, 1764, and
afterward settled in Wardsboro, Vt., where Samuel COLVIN, the father of John
C., was born Feb. 14, 1794. He was also
the father of seven other sons and two daughters. In 1832 Samuel came from Vermont to East Otto
and in 1833 settled in the west part of the town on the same farm on which he
now resides. Here he spent the remainder
of his days, rearing a family of seven sons and five daughters, of whom six sons
and one daughter are yet living. About
the same time he came, three of his brothers and his two sisters also settled
in town and another brother in an adjoining town. John C. has always resided on the farm on
which he was born. Jan. 1, 1867, he
married Sophia, daughter of Ernest KRUSE, of Ashford. Children: Emily (Mrs. Heman LINCOLN), Nellie
(Mrs. George ZEILMAN), Anna (Mrs. H. GAMPP), Cyril, Grace, and Elmer
(deceased).
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
555 & 556
Surnames: DOW, DOUGLAS,
WEBER, DUDLEY, FLECKENSTEIN
Benjamin DOW emigrated from England about 1635, soon
thereafter settling in Stonington, Conn., and here Daniel DOW, his lineal
descendant, was born April 22, 1771. His
wife, Mrs. Susannah DOUGLAS DOW, was born in Voluntown (now Sterling), Conn.,
Nov. 23, 1777. The name of DOUGLAS comes
down from an early period in Scotch history, when the name and degree of
knighthood was conferred upon a cavalier for valor in saving the life of his
king. In 1640 Dea. William DOUGLAS came
to America and located in New London, Conn., and for two centuries his
descendants have been in possession of lands previously owned by him. Daniel DOW and Susannah DOUGLAS were married
March 28, 1799, in Voluntown, Conn., and here John DOW was born Feb. 11,
1809. His parents moved to this State in
1815 and the youthful days of Mr. DOW were passed in the counties of Dutchess,
Columbia, and Otsego. April 18, 1833, he
married Eliza, daughter of Michael WEBER, and the same year came to East Otto
and settled on a farm. In 1855 he buried
his wife and Sept. 11, 1855, married Maria A., daughter of John DUDLEY. By his first marriage he had three sons and
four daughters; Daniel M., William C., James E. and Gertrude M. are living. By his second wife he had one daughter, Belle
(Mrs. C. H. FLECKENSTEIN), with whom Mr. DOW now makes his home, his second
wife having died Jan. 15, 1886. Mr. DOW
was active in military affairs and was successively promoted from sergeant to
Major. He has held a number of offices
of trust and responsibility and for many years has been a deacon in the
Congregational church.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
556
Surname: EVERTS
Samuel
C. EVERTS came to East Otto in 1834 and for seventeen years was one of the
deacons of the Presbyterian church. He
was born in Massachusetts, July 5, 1805, and acquired his education at Lenox
Academy. In 1851 he moved with his
family to Illinois. One of his sons,
Louis H., attained the rank of major in the Rebellion and afterward became a
prominent publisher.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
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556
Surnames: GALLOWAY, WHITE
Cyrus
and Jacob GALLOWAY, brothers, came from New Jersey to this State and in 1823
located in Mansfield. Cyrus GALLOWAY
came with his wife and four children, to which were subsequently added four
more, making in all one daughter and seven sons. Ozias P., next to the youngest of the
children, was born Oct. 6, 1829, and obtained his education in the district
school. In 1847 he came with his father
to East Otto, where he has since resided.
His father died in 1851. On the
17th of March, 1859, he married Mary O. WHITE, adopted daughter of Jacob WHITE,
of Otto. Martin V. B. GALLOWAY, a
younger brother and single gentleman, resides with them. Mr. GALLOWAY has been assessor twelve years. He is engaged in the poultry business.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
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556
Surnames: GAMPP, NEFF, CAPRON
Jacob
GAMPP was born in Boston, Erie County, July 9, 1844. His father, George GAMPP, emigrated from
Germany a short time previous to Jacob's birth, whose schooling was limited to
common schools in the English language.
The war of the Rebellion opened just as he came of age for military
duty, and on the 9th of Aug., 1862, he enlisted in Co. F, 116th N. Y. Vol.
Inf., for three years. The regiment was
stationed at Baltimore until about December, and while there detachments were
sent into Pennsylvania to oppose Gen. Stewart's cavalry raid. In December they were sent to Ship Island in
the Gulf of Mexico and landed at New Orleans about the 1st of January,
1863. He was in the battle of Plain
Store, May 21, 1863; in the siege of Port Hudson from May 27th to July 8th and
under, fire forty-seven days; in the battles of Cox's Plantation, July 13,
1863; at Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864; at Pleasant Hill, April 9, and
Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864; and at Fisher's Hill, Sept. 22, and Cedar
Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. He was discharged
at Washington on June 26, 1865. After
the war he took up his residence in Ashford and in 1873 commenced the
manufacture of cheese in company with A. B. NEFF. In 1884 they dissolved partnership and with
his brothers Mr. GAMPP bought four factories in East Otto, where he has since
resided. He has also bought the
interests of his brothers, and now in his four factories receives the milk from
nearly all the cows in the town. In the
fall of 1890 he made the largest cheese on record. It took one day's milk from 3,400 cows, the
milk weighing about 40,000 pounds and the cheese 4,500 pounds. The cheese was sold for sixteen cents per
pound. Mr. GAMPP married, Feb. 6, 1867,
Almira, daughter of Joseph CAPRON, of Ashford.
Children: Henry E., Maron F., two daughters.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
556 & 557
Surnames: HAMELE, SCHINGLER
John HAMELE
was born at Wendlingen, Wurtemburg, Germany, June 22, 1849. His father, Freidrich, was a farmer; his
mother, Katherina, died when he was but a few months old. John lived on the farm and went to school
till the age of fourteen and was then apprenticed for three years to learn
harness making and upholstering.
Completing his apprenticeship he became a journeyman and traveled over a
considerable part of Europe. Leaving
Wurtemburg he passed through Baden, Alsace, Switzerland, Bavaria, and Austria
to Wien, where he remained six months working at his trade. Thence he went to Hungary, but soon turned
back into Styria, where he worked for eighteen months. He then passed through the principal towns to
Trieste, Carinthia, and the Tyrol, crossing the Alps to Baden and the Rhine
province to Frankenthal, through Bavaria and Saxony into Silesia, back to
Berlin, through the smaller German States into Switzerland, to Zurich, to
Interlachen, and in June, 1870, was called on to enter the army. In his journeying about Europe he visited the
interesting and historic cities of Stuttgard, Carlsruhe, Strasburg, Freiburg,
Basle, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Stein Augsberg, Munich, Linz, Wien, Gratz,
Laibach, Trieste, Mannheim, Mayence, Frankfort-on-Main, Wurzburg, Chemnitz, Dresden,
Gorlitz, Leipsic, Magdeburg, Gottingen, Cassel, Coblenz, Bern-Neufchatel, and
many smaller towns. He served in the 22d
Uhlans through the Franco-German war under Prince Freidrich (the Prussians'
Unser Fritz). Upon the expiration of his
term of military service he came to America, locating at Springville, N.
Y. In March, 1875, he removed to East
Otto, where he has since been engaged in the manufacture and sale of harness,
etc. Feb. 9, 1875, he married Elizabeth
SCHINGLER, who was born in Boston, N. Y., March 25, 1848. Children – Otto, born June 22, 1876; Utmer,
April 16, 1878; Amelia, Dec. 16, 1883 ; and John, July 22, 1885.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
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557
Surnames: HAMMOND, FOLTS,
SCOTT, WILLIAMS
Joseph
HAMMOND came into this town about 1823 and settled in the north part on land
now known as the Fry farm. His son
Samuel was then only thirteen years old; upon attaining his majority he
articled from the land office land about two miles south from Cattaraugus
creek, which remained in his possession till his death. He married Mary FOLTS in 1832 and commenced
clearing up his farm, on which William HAMMOND was born Nov. 7, 1834, and here
he enjoyed such school privileges as the early settlements afforded. After attaining the age of twenty-one years
he purchased 162 acres of land adjoining his father's farm, and in Jan., 1857,
married Mary E., daughter of J. J. SCOTT, of East Otto. They lived on his farm until 1890, when he
moved to East Otto village and since 1892 has kept the only hotel in town. Children: a son and daughter, deceased, Sarah
E. (Mrs. Elmer D. WILLIAMS), and William S.
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557
Surnames: HAWKINS, CLARK,
PHILBRICK
Daniel
HAWKINS was born in 1822 in St. Lawrence County. In 1839 he came to Collins, Erie County,
having for two years previous lived in Canada.
In 1847 he built a saw-mill in the north part of Otto, where he resided
until 1861, when he bought mills in Collins and manufactured lumber, shingles,
and cheese boxes until 1871, when he moved to East Otto and built the steam
mill in the west part of town known as the swamp mill. In 1876 he built a stave-mill in New Albion
and in 1880 he erected the steam mills in East Otto village, putting in a
grist-mill in addition to the lumbering business. He has a steam mill in Otto village and also
one in the north part of East Otto. Mr.
HAWKINS has disposed of all his mill property except the last three mentioned,
which he still continues to operate, manufacturing in them large quantities of
rough and dressed lumber, shingles, and cheese boxes. In 1877 he married Mrs. Orrilla CLARK, his
present wife; he has by a former wife two daughters and one son (Franklin). Mrs. HAWKINS has one son, Roswell PHILBRICK,
of East Otto, by her first husband, Hon. Franklin PHILBRICK. Mr. HAWKINS is recognized as the veteran
lumberman of this section of the county.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
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Surnames: LAING, PIERCE,
ELLSWORTH, PRATT, EDDY
John
LAING was born in Hebron Washington County, Feb. 6, 1812. His father, Adam LAING, was a captain in the
War of 1812 and a farmer by occupation.
John enjoyed only common school privileges. In Aug., 1841, he purchased a stock of goods
and came to East Otto, where he has since continued, being probably the oldest
merchant in Cattaraugus county doing business in the same locality. In the fall of 1842 he married Minerva,
daughter of Sylvester PIERCE, of East Otto.
They have two sons and two daughters; they buried one son and one
daughter while quite young, and one son, Frank, was fatally injured in a
railroad accident, dying aged thirty-four years. Those living are Hon. Solon S., of Salamanca;
J. W., in company with his father; Mrs. C. B. PIERCE, of Otto; and Mrs. V. A.
ELLSWORTH, of East Otto. Mr. LAING ever
since his residence in East Otto has been one of the leading citizens of the
town. Politically he has acted with the
Democratic party, which has at all times been considerably in the minority, but
notwithstanding that fact he has for eight years been elected a member of the
Board of Supervisors of Cattaraugus county (three years from Otto and five
years from East Otto). Hon. Solon S.
LAING was supervisor from East Otto four years.
Stephen
LAING was born in Hebron, Washington County, April 5, 1818. He followed farming till 1847, when he came
to East Otto and soon after engaged in the mercantile business with his brother
John, and for nearly twenty years the brothers carried on a successful
trade. In 1866 he sold his interest to
his brother and since then has been occupied chiefly in attending to his
farming interests. He married, Feb. 1,
1849, Arvilla, daughter of Philip PRATT, who for many years was a prominent dealer
in cattle, and who died in Jan., 1893, at the age of eighty-four years. Children: two daughters, deceased; Owen S.,
of East Otto; Fremont C., of Buffalo; Hon. Philip A., also of Buffalo; Stephen
A.; and Dora (Mrs. Marcellus PIERCE).
Mr. LAING has represented his town three terms on the Board of
Supervisors and has been justice of the peace several years. For nearly fifty years the LAING's have been
a power in East Otto, politically, socially, and executively.
Owen
S. LAING was born in East Otto, Jan. 20, 1850.
He has been bucolic in his pursuits and stuck to the soil. Dec. 10, 1873, he married Alice R., daughter
of Elisha C. EDDY (see Mansfield), who was born Dec. 8, 1851. They have a beautiful home, so situated as to
afford a splendid view of the village and valley. Although quite prominent politically as well
as socially he has seldom held office, because his party – Democratic – is in a
minority.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
557 & 558
Surnames: LARABEE; GRANT,
SCOVEL, LANGMADE
Fayette
C. LARABEE was born in East Otto, March 13, 1847. His grandfather, Eleazer LARABEE, came from
Hamburg, Erie county, about 1823, and with him came also about the same time
five sons and four daughters, four of the sons – Miner, Thomas Nathan, and Ira
– being married and bringing their families.
Eleazer LARABEE was born Aug. 31, 1756, and died Jan. 29, 1837; his
wife, Mary (GRANT) LARABEE, was born Sept. 15, 1767, and died May 28,
1835. Sidney L. LARABEE, the youngest of
the five sons and father of Fayette C., was born in Oneida county April 2,
1805; his wife, Lorinda (SCOVEL) LARABEE, was born in Orwell, Vt., Feb. 15,
1810; they were married Sept. 16,1827.
Hezekiah SCOVEL, the father of Mrs. LARABEE, had settled in town in
1822. In 1840 Sidney LARABEE located on
the farm where Fayette C. now lives, which has been in the possession of the
family for fifty-three years. Here he
resided till his death June 6, 1875. He
was the father of six daughters and six sons, of whom but two sons and one
daughter are now living. Fayette C.
LARABEE married, Dec. 21, 1869, Abbie T., daughter of Rev. N. F. LANGMADE, a
Baptist clergyman of this county. They
have one son, C. Rossie, born Dec. 22, 1880.
After the death of Mr. LARABEE's father his mother was cared for by him
till her death Oct. 12, 1890. In the
earlier history of the town the LARABEEs composed quite a proportion of the
inhabitants; it is said there were at one time about thirty voters by that
name, but at the present time Fayette C. and his family are the only
representatives of the name left. His
only remaining brother, Nathan, is a farmer in Otto and his only sister resides
in the west.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
559
Surnames: LINCOLN, MARSH,
COLVIN
Heman
P. LINCOLN was born in Grafton, Vt., Dec. 20, 1866. His father, George T. LINCOLN, was born in
the same town June 26, 1836; his mother's maiden name was Clarissa J., daughter
of Dudley P. MARSH. When Heman M. was
but three months old his parents came to East Otto. His father was a farmer and the son followed
the same calling till 1890, when the two engaged in the grocery and provision
trade at East Otto village. His father's
health soon after failing, he purchased the entire business and continues it. May 18, 1892, he married Emily L., daughter
of John COLVIN, of East Otto.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
559
Surnames: LINCOLN, SCOBEY
William
Z. LINCOLN is a son of L. L. LINCOLN and was born in East Otto, May 28,
1838. The father came to this town at an
early day and subsequently moved to Hinsdale.
William Z. devoted his life to farming, but gave some attention to
public affairs, representing his town on the Board of Supervisors in 1886,
1887, and 1888. He married Louisa A.,
daughter of Alexander SCOBEY, and both were members of the Baptist church.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
559
Surnames: MASON, IRISH,
ANWERTER
Charles
H. MASON was born Oct. 27, 1860, in East Otto.
His great-grandfather, Benjamin MASON, and his grandfather, David Tyler
MASON, came to the town about 1825.
Benjamin MASON died in 1866, aged eighty-four years; David T. MASON died
in 1890, aged seventy-eight years.
Charles T. MASON, the father of Charles H, was born in East Otto, April
30, 1840, and resided here till 1881, when he removed to Franklinville. While living in East Otto he was for a number
of years justice of the peace and was also justice of sessions. Charles H. MASON's boyhood days and school
privileges were confined to his native town.
He married, Sept. 8, 1881, Bertha G. B., only daughter of A. A. IRISH,
of Otto. Nov. 20, 1890, she died. Mr. MASON lived three years at Franklinville,
moving there in 1883; the rest of his life has been spent in East Otto, where
he followed farming till 1892, when he bought the hardware store of F. W.
Holmes. Dec. 6, 1892, he married Mary
ANWERTER of Concord. He has one son,
Roscoe Dee, by his first wife.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
559
Surnames: MATTESON, PERKINS
Girvase
A. MATTESON was born in Russia, Herkimer County, Dec. 28, 1857. His father, Almirin B. MATTESON, came to East
Otto in 1867. In addition to other
school privileges G. A. attended Griffith Institute two years, taking the first
two years a college course in mathematics, intending at that time to follow
civil engineering. He commenced teaching
school at the age of eighteen and taught ten terms, and has to some extent been
engaged in land surveying. He married Nellie
M. PERKINS, March 3, 1880; she is a daughter of John L. PERKINS and granddaughter
of John PERKINS, who was for about fifty years one of the prominent and wealthy
citizens of East Otto. They have two
sons. In 1881 Mr. MATTESON. engaged in
the insurance business. He has been town
clerk four years and is now serving his second term as supervisor, being
elected in 1893 by the unprecedented majority of 112. He is also postmaster of East Otto, which
office he held during Harrison's administration.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
559 & 560
Surnames: ORR, RUSH, KRUSE
Cyrus
ORR, the father of George F., came from Cortland County in 1833 and located in
the northwest part of East Otto, where he resided until his death in 1855. He left four sons and two daughters. George F., the oldest, was born Nov. 13,
1842. His early years were spent on his
father's farm with common school privileges and Sept. 2, 1864, he enlisted in
Co. A, 9th N. Y. Cav., was mustered in Sept. 9, and remained in remount camp,
Pleasant Valley, Md., and on detached service till Dec., when he joined the
regiment near Winchester and was with it in all the actions and raids in the
Shenandoah valley during the winter of 1864-65.
In the Gordonsville raid he received injuries by his horse falling on
him. He was mustered out June 1,
1865. Sept. 19, 1866, he married Mary,
daughter of George RUSH. They have one
daughter, Isa (Mrs. E. F. KRUSE). For
about twenty years Mr. ORR has been engaged in wagon and carriage manufacturing
in East Otto village, where he resides.
He is drawing a pension for disabilities received in the army. John W. ORR, a brother of George F., was a
member of Co. C, 64th N. Y. Vol. Inf., and was killed at Antietam on Sept. 18,
1862.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
560
Surnames: PERKINS, MATTESON,
ZEILMAN
Everett
H. PERKINS was born in East Otto, Dec. 6, 1862.
His grandfather, John PERKINS, was born in Vermont, July 15, 1810, and
came to this town in 1833, where for many years he was prominent in all matters
relating to its business, social, and moral interests. He was an earnest member of the M. E. church
and gave largely of his means to sustain its educational and benevolent
interests. He died Oct. 15, 1891. John L. PERKINS, the father of Everett H.,
was the only one of six children who lived to attain their majority; he was
born Sept. 23, 1836. He was supervisor
two terms (1865-66) and justice of the peace a number of years. His death occurred Nov. 5, 1868. He left a widow and four children, only two
of whom are now living: Everett H. and his sister, Mrs. G. A. MATTESON. The mother died Nov. 20, 1885. Everett H. PERKINS married, Nov. 20, 1884,
Mary, daughter of John ZEILMAN, of Ashford.
They have two daughters. Mr.
PERKINS owns the homestead farm
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
560
Surnames: PHILBRICK, HAWKINS,
DEWEY
Roswell
P. PHILBRICK was born in Persia, Aug. 15, 1864.
His father, Hon. Franklin PHILBRICK, was a prominent citizen of that
town, in which he occupied responsible official positions. In 1861 he represented the Second Assembly
District of Cattaraugus county in the State Legislature, making an honorable
record both for his district and himself; he was supervisor of Dayton in 1854
and 1856. In 1865 he removed to Erie county,
where he died when Roswell P. was fourteen months old. The mother of Roswell P. (now Mrs. Daniel
HAWKINS) gave him, in addition to the school privileges of Angola village,
several terms of school in Buffalo and a three months course in Bryant & Stratton's
Business College. Sept. 14, 1885, he
married Alice E., daughter of T. M. DEWEY, one of the old residents of East
Otto, he having previously come to this town, took up his residence in the
village, and in 1888 engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. Jan. 10, 1893, his wife died. He is serving his fifth consecutive term as
town clerk of East Otto.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
560
Surnames: RANKE, WOLF,
LANGHAUS
Edward
RANKE was born in East Otto, Oct. 23, 1864.
In 1853 his father, John RANKE, emigrated from Germany; he was a native
of Mechlenberg, Schwerein, and was born May 12, 1827. About one year after his arrival in America
he came to East Otto, where he finally purchased a large farm in the southeast
corner of the town. He married, in 1953,
Dora, daughter of Henry WOLF, of this town; they have three sons and three
daughters, all married but one daughter.
Edward RANKE was educated both in German and English schools, and
married, Oct. 22, 1888, Augusta, daughter of John LANGHAUS, of Ellicottville. They have a son and an infant daughter. Mr. RANKE has purchased the homestead, on
which he keeps a large dairy.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
560 & 561
Surnames: RICE, PINDAR
Hon.
Elijah A. RICE was one of the foremost pioneers of Cattaraugus county. Such a mighty influence did he exert on
subsequent generations that his name shines with peculiar luster on the pages
of history. No citizen ever gave his
community a healthier energy, a wider influence, a purer patriotism. A man of good address he was an interesting
speaker, a brilliant conversationalist, an active temperance advocate, and a
sterling exponent of thorough education.
His little locality furnished to the world more eminent men than any
similar area of terra firma in the
county, and it was due to his own high principles and moral worth that so much
was accomplished. Lawyers, governors,
physicians, soldiers, and statesmen went forth into the world from his
community as shining lights of his great energy and unparalleled
influence. Mr. RICE, although a farmer
by occupation, devoted much of his life to land surveying, and so great was his
skill in this profession that his word was considered as paramount authority. He was the ultimate arbitrator for many years
in numerous cases involving boundaries and land controversies, and his
decisions were never questioned. As a
surveyor he was employed by the Holland Land Company and its successors and by
Nicholas Devereux.
Mr.
RICE was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., Sept. 20, 1795. Orphaned at an early age he removed to
Washington county, N. Y., and lived with a relative until 1809. He then started in life alone. By economy and perseverance he gained a good
classical education and mastered land surveying. He volunteered in the War of 1812 and
participated in the battle of Plattsburgh, and in 1818 he moved to Herkimer
county. In 1819 he removed to Otsego
county, where he surveyed and laid out the now celebrated village of Richfield
Springs. In 1823 he came to Cattaraugus
county on a visit, which he repeated in 1824 and 1825, each time on foot, and
in the latter year located a farm in East Otto and erected a log house. In the spring of 1826 he brought his family
hither and continued his residence in this county until his removal to
Wisconsin in 1854. He subsequently moved
to Minnesota. Mr. RICE was school
commissioner of Cattaraugus county seven years and represented his district in
the State Legislature in 1842 and again in 1846. His four sons were lawyers and attained
positions of prominence and responsibility.
His only daughter married Rev. William E. PINDAR of the M. E. church.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
561
Surnames: SAFFORD, GAMPP,
ARMSTRONG
Pearl
P. SAFFORD was born in Windham county, Conn., Aug. 25, 1837. His father, Halsey SAFFORD, came to East Otto
in 1839 and located on the farm where Pearl P. now resides, and which has
always remained in the family. Halsey
SAFFORD was the first person to start a cheese factory in East Otto; he erected
the large factory at the village about 1867 now belonging to Jacob GAMPP, and
manufactured cheese several years, but subsequently sold the factory and moved
back to his farm. He was supervisor (in
1868) and commissioner of highways. His
death occurred in 1885; his wife died in 1890, aged seventy-three years. Children: Pearl P. and John. Pearl P. has since his majority continued to
live on the homestead farm. He married,
Feb. 16, 1859, Eliza C., daughter of Jedediah ARMSTRONG. Children: a daughter who died in infancy;
Addison H., who resides on the homestead; Charles E., a carpenter in East Otto
village; and Harry M.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
561 & 562
Surnames: SCOTT, BULLIS,
HAMMOND, HAWKINS
Wilber
L. SCOTT's ancestry dates back to Connecticut, whence his great-grandfather,
Justus SCOTT, emigrated to Wallingford, Vt., where he was one of the first
settlers, and where, in 1799, Justus SCOTT, the grandfather of W. L., was
born. In 1816 Justus SCOTT came to
Springville, Erie County, where Justus J. SCOTT was born May 14, 1818, being
the first child born there. About 1830
he came with his father to East Otto, where he became a prosperous farmer and
was for a number of years a magistrate of the town. He died suddenly in Cattaraugus village in
1865. His widow, who is still living,
was Catharine, daughter of Dr. Levi BULLIS, an early physician in East
Otto. Children: Mary E. (Mrs. William
HAMMOND), born in 1838; Marshall E., born May 10, 1842, who served three years
in the 9th N, Y. Cav.; and Wilber L., born Dec. 21, 1848. Besides the privileges of the district school
W. L. attended several terms at Griffith Institute at Springville, and Feb. 25,
1874, he married Eliza, daughter of John HAWKINS. Mr. SCOTT was a plumber and tinner fifteen
years, living part of the time in Salamanca and six years in Cattaraugus
village, and about two years ago he bought the homestead on which he was
born. Children: Elbert J., born Feb. 16,
1876; Adams H., born June 6, 1877; and Frank W., born March 3, 1880.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
562
Surnames: SIKES, SCOVEL,
EDMUNDS, TORRANCE, BROWN
Ladore
V. and Stillman R. SIKES are sons of Hiram SIKES, who came from Washington,
Mass., to East Otto in 1831. The lineage
of the family is traced back to Richard SIKES, who was born in London, England,
about the year 1600, and who came to America not far from 1640; from him
descended in the following order Jonathan SIKES, Jonathan SIKES, Jr., Posthumas
SIKES, Stephen SIKES, and Shadrach SIKES, the father of Hiram. Hiram SIKES was born Feb. 12, 1811, in
Massachusetts, settled in East Otto in 1831, married Lodema SCOVEL on March 3,
1836, and resided here till his death Sept. 6, 1886. He had five sons and one daughter; but three
of them are living, viz.: Ladore V., born July 8, 1849; Stillman R., born July
8, 1851; and Elton, born March 28, 1854.
Ladore V. SIKES married, Jan. 7, 1875, Emily EDMUNDS, who died June 3,
1876; on the 2d day of April, 1878, he married Rhoda J. TORRANCE, his present
wife. By his first marriage he has one
son, Ceylon; by his second wife he has two sons, John and Lester, and one
daughter, Lodema. He resides about three
miles southeast of East Otto village, where he has a sawmill. Stillman R. SIKES married Frances A.,
daughter of T. Frank BROWN, March 3, 1875.
They have one son, Ferry, and one daughter. Mr. SIKES resides in East Otto village.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
562
Surnames: SLOCUM, WICKHAM,
PRATT, HARRISON
Nathan
J. SLOCUM was born in Herkimer county April 13, 1834. In 1843 his father, John SLOCUM, came to East
Otto and in 1844 settled on a farm in the northwest part of the town, which has
remained in possession of the family to the present time. He had seven daughters and six sons, of whom
six daughters and five sons are living.
Mr. SLOCUM died Sept. 16, 1877; his wife survives him. In Aug. 1861, Nathan J. SLOCUM enlisted in
Co. C, 64th N. Y. Vol. Inf., for three years, and on the 23d of Sept. was
mustered in at Elmira. He was at the
siege of Yorktown, was taken sick on the march from Williamsburg towards
Richmond, and did not participate in the battle of Fair Oaks; was in the Seven
Days Fight, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam, previous to which he
had been detailed to General Richardson's headquarters as cook. General Richardson being killed at Antietam
he again joined the regiment and was in the battles of Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and to Petersburg, where he was
discharged Sept. 23, 1864. After the
battle of Fair Oaks, while on picket duty, his left cheek was grazed by a
bullet from a rebel sharpshooter. He
married, Sept. 28, 1865, Emma E., daughter of James WICKHAM, of East Otto;
children: Nellie R. (Mrs. Albert PRATT), of Dunkirk, and William J., who
married Helen M., daughter of John HARRISON.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
562 & 563
Surnames: TEFFT, DEWEY,
NILES, STEELE
Alexander
TEFFT, son of Oliver and Deborah (DEWEY) TEFFT, was born in Rhode Island, July
19, 1784, and came to East Otto in 1828, dying here in 1868. He was a farmer and as well a Freewill
Baptist preacher; his wife was Deborah, daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah
(NILES) NILES, and their children were Nathaniel Niles, Alexander, Samuel,
Deborah A., Dewey, Polly, Oliver D., and Olive.
The latter married Solomon STEELE and has been a preacher in the Free
Methodist church for several years, ministering to congregations of that
denomination in a number of towns in Cattaraugus County. Dewey TEFFT was a Free Methodist minister for
twenty years and died in this town January 8, 1892. Nathaniel Niles TEFFT was born Aug. 12, 1814,
and acquired considerable fame as a surveyor.
He served East Otto as supervisor in 1867 and 1872. Alexander TEFFT held several offices of
trust, and besides was a writer of no mean ability; his productions comprised
both poetry and prose.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
563
Surnames: TUTHILL, GUERNSEY,
PETTY
Harvey
TUTHILL traces his lineage back several generations. His great-grandfather, John TUTHILL, was born
on Long Island, Sept. 8, 1742; his grandfather, Samuel TUTHILL, was born May
17, 1768; and his father, Samuel TUTHILL, Jr., was born in Windham county, Vt.,
May 29, 1797. He married, Oct. 17, 1822,
Sarah GUERNSEY, a descendant of the ancient titled GUERNSEY families of
England. Previous to his marriage Mr.
TUTHILL had been to East Otto, selected a farm, and cleared a small piece of
land; after his marriage he, with his wife, started for their wilderness home,
where they arrived Jan. 23, 1823. About
two years later he located on the farm now owned by Harvey TUTHILL, where he
resided till his death. Mr. TUTHILL was
for many years a prominent citizen of the town, holding several offices of
trust and responsibility. He and his
wife were constituent members of the Baptist church, of which he was chosen one
of its first deacons in 1825. He left a
family of two sons and two daughters.
Col. Henry G. TUTHILL raised a company in Nunda in 1861, joined the
104th N. Y. Vol. Inf., and was a brave and efficient officer through the
war. He was wounded at Antietam, and at
Gettysburg was shot through the groin and still carries the ball in his body. He is an architect in Corning. Miss Anna TUTHILL is a graduate of the Art
Department of Cooper Union, New York city.
She taught that branch of education four years in Freehold University,
New Jersey, was engaged in the same department three years in Deland University
in Deland, Fla., and is now teaching in McFerrin College in Martin, Tenn. She was in Charleston, S. C., when Fort
Sumter was bombarded. Harvey TUTHILL was
born in East Otto, Oct. 27, 1835, on the farm on which he now lives, and where
he has always made his home. He obtained
his education in the district school and Sept. 4, 1881, married Jennie E.
PETTY, of Burlington, Vt., daughter of Rev. McKendree PETTY, A.M., a clergyman
of the M. E. church and professor of mathematics and natural history in Vermont
University. Mr. TUTHILL is a leading
member of the Baptist church, having been deacon nineteen years and has been
sixteen years justice of the peace.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
563
Surnames: UTLEY, BROWN,
BROOKS
Rodney
C. UTLEY was born in Pawlet, Vt., July 22, 1823. He is the youngest son of Capt. Leonard
UTLEY, who came to East Otto in 1835 with his family of four sons and three
daughters and settled on a farm in the north part of the town, afterward owned
by his son, Leonard S. UTLEY. He died in
1862. There are now living of the family
the three daughters and Rodney C. The
latter married. April 23, 1848, Malvina, daughter of James L. BROWN, who died
March 14, 1867. He married, second,
Electa A., daughter of Philo BROOKS, of Otto, Feb. 3, 1871. By his first marriage he had two daughters
and one son; by his second wife he has three sons and one daughter.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Pages
563 & 564
Surnames: WHITMEYER, KERN
Nicholas
WHITMEYER was born in France, July 4, 1844, and in 1856, in company with an
older brother and two sisters, he came to America and settled in Boston, Erie
County. In 1859 he came to Otto, where
he worked till the summer of 1861, and on the 16th of Aug. enlisted in Co. C,
64th N. Y. Vol. Inf., for three years.
He was in the battle of Fair Oaks and in the Seven Days' Fight, where he
was prostrated by sunstroke and sent to the hospital. After partially recovering he was detailed to
guard duty and stationed on Governor Wise's farm. He joined his regiment in June 1863 and was
in the battle of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, where on May 12,
1864 he received a bayonet wound in his arm and while in the hospital was taken
prisoner the next morning by the Black Horse Cavalry, but escaped during the
night of the 13th and lay in hiding all the 14th, partly in the water of the
North Anna river. He crossed the river
just before night, but was discovered and shot at a number of times, escaped,
and reached the Union lines about two o'clock next morning. He was again sent to the hospital and
rejoined his regiment at Cold Harbor, was in the siege of Petersburg, and was
present at the surrender of General Lee, having re-enlisted in the winter of
1863-64. He was mustered out at Elmira
in July, 1865. In July 1866, he married
Catharine, daughter of John KERN, of Eden, Erie County; they lived in Erie
county ten years and in the town of Otto thirteen years, and since 1888 have
resided in East Otto village, where he carries on a meat market. They have three daughters and three sons
living and a son and a daughter deceased.
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History of the Town of East Otto –
Chapter XXIV (24)
Page
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Surname: WILLIAMS
Lyman
WILLIAMS came from Vermont to East Otto about 1830, at which time his son,
Solomon WILLIAMS, the father of Dr. Elmer D., was about two years old. He afterward located permanently in
Mansfield, where he was for many years a prominent citizen and substantial
farmer, and where he resided till his death.
Solomon WILLIAMS passed nearly all of his active life in Mansfield and
died in 1887. His son, Dr. Elmer D.
WILLIAMS, is the oldest of one brother and two sisters. See Medical chapter, page 124.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published
1893
Bio from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Elko – Chapter
XXV (25)
Page 569
Surnames: BARTON, FARGO, CASKEY, MORRISON, HILL, WILLIAMS
Leonard BARTON came to Elko in 1838 and settled on lot 2,
where he died July 13, 1891. His wife,
Eveline FARGO, of Gerry, Chautauqua county, is still living; their children were James S., of Quaker
Bridge; Elizabeth D. (Mrs. Gideon CASKEY) of Frewsburg, Chautauqua county;
Frank M.; Charles M., of Randolph; Edgar A., of Elko; Ella V. (Mrs. Charles
MORRISON), of Elko; Clarinda and Celestia (deceased); LaFayette L., of Tennessee;
and Loretta E. (Mrs. Frank HILL), of Bradford, Pa. Frank M. BARTON has served as highway
commissioner, school trustee, and assessor, as well as in other capacities of
responsibility. He married Emily M.,
daughter of George A. WILLIAMS, of Cold Spring.
They have an adopted son, Leo D.
The BARTON family were early and have always been prominent,
public-spirited residents of Elko. The
father of Leonard BARTON, James, was an early settler, as were also his sons
Chester, Smith, Asher, Joseph, Merrills, Sylvester, and Walter.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Elko – Chapter
XXV (25)
Page 570
Surname: HOLT
Manley
D. HOLT came to Elko from Warren county, Pa., about 1873. He has always been engaged in the lumber
business. Since residing in this town he
has manufactured and shipped large quantities, owning both saw and
shingle-mills of good capacity. Although
never seeking office, in fact always declining it, he has been elected to
several local positions of importance, which he filled with credit. He resides at Quaker Bridge.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Elko – Chapter
XXV (25)
Page 570
Surnames: MORRISON, BROWN,
BRADLEY, WRIGHT
Ephraim
MORRISON was one of the first settlers in South Valley where the village of
Onoville now stands. He was the first
innkeeper there and for some time was a justice of the peace. In politics he was a Whig. He died in Iowa. His children were Hiram, Benjamin, William
(deceased), Harriet (Mrs. John BROWN, deceased), Rosina (Mrs. Elijah BRADLEY),
Ophelia (Mrs. Asa WRIGHT), John, Reuben, and Lafayette. Benjamin and the last two mentioned reside in
Elko. Benjamin Morrison married a
daughter of Zabin WRIGHT, a long-time resident of Quaker run, in which locality
Mr. MORRISON has lived since 1872.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published
1893
Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
582 & 583
Surnames: ALDRICH, WALKER
Thomas
R. ALDRICH was born at Quaker Springs, Saratoga county, Oct. 6, 1840. His father removed to Otsego county soon
after his birth and died there in Jan., 1844, leaving his wife without means
and with four small children. Thomas had
a home with a friend and an uncle until he became fourteen, and since then he
has provided for his own wants. Aug. 8,
1862, he enlisted in Co. B, 154th N. Y. Vols. May 2, 1863, he received four
bulletwounds at the battle of Chancellorsville and was sent to Carver Hospital
at Washington, D. C. He rejoined his
regiment at Alexandria, Va., Sept. 11, 1863, and left with it on the 26th for
Tennessee, taking part in the battle at Wauhatchie on Oct. 28th. He was also at Chattanooga and Mission Ridge,
and started with his regiment in the march through Georgia with General
Sherman, but was wounded and captured at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga., May 8,
1864. May 12th he was a prisoner in
Andersonville; Sept. 7th he was transferred to the prison at Savannah and later
to Millen, to Blackshear, Ga., and to Florence, S. C., and escaped Feb. 22,
1865 at Wilmington en route for the rebel prison at Salisbury, N. C.,
re-entering the Union lines reduced to a mere skeleton. He was sent to Annapolis, was given a
furlough, and was honorably discharged June 22, 1865. In Sept., 1865, he was given a position in
the quartermaster's department of the 100th U. S. Colored Infantry at Columbia,
Tenn., where he remained until the regiment was mustered out Dec, 30,
1865. He returned to Cattaraugus county
and is now and has been for fifteen years deputy sheriff, has been postmaster
of Ellicottville five years, deputy U. S. marshal eight years, and commander of
S. C. Noyes Post, No. 232, G. A. R., and of Maybee Tent, No. 23, K. O. T. M.,
several years. Feb. 2, 1869, he married Maryette WALKER, who died June 29,
1877.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
583
Surnames: ARNOLD, HADLEY,
DEVEREUX, YOUNG, FRAZIER, NEUBACHER, LAWTON
Samuel
P. ARNOLD, born in Londonderry, Vt., about 1798, married Betsey HADLEY, and
shortly afterward emigrated to Le Roy, N. Y., coming thence in 1827 to
Ellicottville, where he conducted a tannery and had an interest in a shoe shop
and furniture establishment. He was
deputy sheriff nine years and represented Ellicottville on the Board of
Supervisors in 1853 and 1854. He was a
collector for the Holland Land Company and later for Mr. DEVEREUX. At one time he owned 1,300 acres of land
which he stocked with cattle, being also a heavy dealer in cattle and
sheep. Mr. ARNOLD was an active,
energetic business man and a good companion; he was generous and kind to the
poor, but never made any display of his virtues.
E.
Young ARNOLD, son of Samuel, was born in Le Roy, N. Y., May 8, 1826. April 12, 1859, he married Laura P. YOUNG, of
New Albion, daughter of Hon. Horace C. YOUNG.
He has had extensive dealings in cattle in his own county, in Buffalo,
and in Canada. Both he and his wife are
great readers.
Charles
S. ARNOLD, another son of Samuel P. and Betsey E. (HADLEY) ARNOLD, was born in
the village of Ellicottville, Feb. 9, 1838.
He attended the common schools and was on his father's farm until he was
twenty-eight, when he began farming for himself. Besides this he is an extensive dealer in
cattle and sheep. In 1859 he married
Addie FRAZIER, who bore him one son, Charles E., and one daughter, Nellie (Mrs.
Frank NEUBACHER), of Salamanca. Mrs.
ARNOLD died Dec. 10, 1874, and Dec. 16, 1875, Mr. ARNOLD married, second, Emma
LAWTON.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
583 & 584
Surnames: BALLOU, BARRETT
The
BALLOU family in America are of Huguenot descent and early settled in Rhode
Island with Roger WILLIAMS's colony.
They were lovers of civil liberty, possessed quite a military spirit,
and one of the family served in the Revolutionary war.
Charles
F. BALLOU, son of David and Eliza (BARRETT) BALLOU, natives of Vermont, was
born in East Otto in 1840, and in early life taught district schools. Sept. 17, 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 44th N.
Y. Vols., and at Gettsyburg received a severe gunshot-wound and was discharged
from the hospital a cripple Dec. 21, 1863.
Returning to his home in Ashford he attempted farming, but was obliged
to give it up and entered the New York customs house in the city of New York,
becoming finally a grocer in Ellicottville.
H. E.
BALLOU, son of David and Eliza (BARRETT) BALLOU, was born in East Otto in 1845,
and in 1861 enlisted in Co. A, 100th N. Y. Vols., experiencing all the
vicissitudes of his regiment, and escaping with only the loss of a piece of
skin from his nose. He had his haversack
and canteen shot from his shoulders at the charge on Fort Wagner and the stock
from his gun at Fair Oaks; his blouse was several times pierced with
bullets. He was discharged a corporal
after a service of three Years and four months, being always on duty and never
in the hospital. Mr. BALLOU returned
home with imperfect eyesight. He is
engaged in bee-keeping.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
584
Surnames: BARLOW, BIDEN
Rev.
Arthur E. BARLOW, a native of Ireland, was born in 1854 and emigrated to
America at the age of seventeen years.
He completed his education for the priesthood in Rome, Italy, in 1877,
where he was ordained a priest of the Catholic church. He returned to America, was soon assigned to
duty in the profession of his choice, and was appointed pastor of the Church of
the Most Holy Name of Mary at Ellicottville in 1889. Father BARLOW is distinguished in his
denomination as a sound theologian, and by all who hear him as a gentleman of
fine attainments. He was succeeded in
his pastorate here during the present year by Rev. J. D. BIDEN and transferred
to a permanent charge in Hornellsville, N. Y.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
584
Surname: BIRD
Alexander
BIRD, born in Montgomery county, July 21, 1842 enlisted in Co. G, 154th N. Y.
Vols., Aug. 6, 1862, was promoted to corporal, sergeant, sergeant-major, and
first lieutenant, and commanded a company as acting captain during the last
nine months of the war. Mr. BIRD fought
at Chancellorsville and under General Sherman was in the battles of Rocky Face
Ridge, Resaca, Kingston, Cassville, Pine Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and
Atlanta, marched to the sea, and was engaged at Savannah. He marched through the Carolinas to Raleigh
and was present at General Johnston's surrender. He marched to Washington by way of Richmond
and was discharged at Elmira, N. Y., June 22, 1865. Being wounded at Rocky Face Ridge he refused
to go to the hospital, never asked for nor received a furlough, and was absent
from his company only six months on recruiting service by order of the War
Department. In this capacity as well as
in the "tented field" he was an able and efficient soldier. On his return from the army he was a blacksmith
twelve years; since then he has conducted a grocery and a meat market. In the autumn of 1880 he made a tour of all
his old battlefields. From the field of
Rocky Face Ridge, where he was wounded, he cut a hickory walking-stick and
formed a head for it with a grape shot that he picked up on the field of
Resaca. Mr. BIRD is a Republican. He had three brothers in the army: William,
James, and Alexander. The aggregate
number of battles fought by these four brothers was sixty-one and the sum total
of service tendered was eleven years and five months.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
584
Surnames: BLACKALL, KELLY
George
BLACKALL was born in County Clare, Ireland, and died in this town June 12,
1893, aged 103 years and ten months. He
was a Catholic and had lived in Ellicottville thirty-five years. He was the father of eighteen children, five
of whom survive him, one of them being the wife of Timothy KELLY.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
584 & 585
Surnames: BOYCE, BACON,
GREEN, LAMB
William
BOYCE, a native of Massachusetts, married Mary BACON, a native of New England,
and in 1830 settled on lot 10 in Ellicottville.
He came from Boston and bought his farm of Allen GREEN, who had lived on
it a short time and had made a small improvement. Three years after he settled here a kind
friend in Massachusetts offered Mr. BOYCE a yoke of oxen if he would go and get
them. The present was gladly accepted
and he made the entire trip on foot.
Mr., BOYCE died in his native town while there on a visit. Benjamin F. BOYCE was supervisor of
Ellicottville in 1868, but died between the first and second weeks of the
session and Rensselaer LAMB filled the office the remainder of the term.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
585
Surnames: BROWN, BUCHFINK
Frederick BROWN, Sr., born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1831,
emigrated in 1853 to America, and was seventy-four days crossing the ocean,
landing in New York on July 9th and coming at once to Buffalo. In 1856 he married Anna Maria BUCHFINK, a
German lady who crossed the Atlantic in the ship with him. In 1863 they settled where they now
live. Mr. BROWN began here with
sixty-four acres of primeval forest, which he has changed into cultivated
fields and added to it by purchase fifty acres.
He enlisted in Co. A, 188th N. Y. Regt., and was honorably discharged
June 1, 1865. He fought in the battles
of Hatcher's Run, Five Forks, and Appomattox Court House, and is now a
pensioner and a member of S. C. Noyes Post, G. A. R. He has been assessor six years. Children: Frederick, Jr., Henry J., Anna,
Louisa M., and Charles J.
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Bio
from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
585
Surnames: BRYANT, STAUNTON,
WOODARD, VINING, KINGSLEY, BEEBE, WILLIAMS, FRENCH DROWN, SEARL
Samuel
BRYANT, born in Chesterfield, Mass., Oct. 5, 1781, married Anne STAUNTON, who
was born in Northampton, Mass., March 10, 1785.
They settled on Bryant hill, so named in honor of the BRYANT family,
leaving New England with their seven children and household goods loaded in a
heavy covered wagon drawn by two pairs of oxen and arriving at their home, a
log cabin, about 1821. While on the
journey their little son Royal T. fell under the wheels of the wagon and was
instantly killed. They brought with
their goods half a bushel of apples, carefully saved the seeds, and planted a
nursery which produced the trees of his large orchard, and for several other
Orchards in the BRYANT neighborhood. Mr.
BRYANT resided on the farm, where he first settled until his death April 17,
1853; Mrs. BRYANT died June 29, 1869.
Mr. BRYANT was a captain of militia in Massachusetts; he was a prominent
citizen in Ellicottville, a member of the Baptist church, and an old line
Whig. They had eleven children, those
living to maturity being:
Maria
BRYANT, born April 9, 1809 married Alonzo WOODARD
Ursula
BRYANT, born April 22, 1810, married Jerold VINING, settled in Kalamazoo,
Mich., where she died about 1870
Mary
Ann BRYANT, born Feb. 20, 1812, married Nathan KINGSLEY, and died in
Ellicottville
Samuel
A BRYANT, born March 8, 1814, married Rachel BEEBE
Royal
T BRYANT, 2d, born May 29, 1823, died on the homestead Sept. 19, 1844
Louisa
F. BRYANT, born March 1, 1825, married Cooley WILLIAMS, and died at about
twenty years of age
Amanda
M. BRYANT, born April 18, 1827, married Alfred FRENCH, and settled in Lake
View, Mich.
Hiram
BRYANT, born Nov. 27, 1830, succeeded his father on the homestead. He married,
Jan. 3, 1855 Jennette H., daughter of Peter DROWN, who died July 31, 1868,
being the mother of these children: Eva A., born Oct. 2, 1858, died July 16,
1884; Freddie A. and Eddie A. (twins), born March 16, 1861; and Warren G., born
Sept. 20, 1870. Freddie A. died Oct. 4, 1872. Sept. 20, 1870, Mr. BRYANT
married, second, Electa M. SEARL, of Franklinville, who is the mother of two
daughters: Bertha L., born Dec. 11, 1874, and Ida J., born Dec, 28, 1 881. Mr.
BRYANT is a prominent citizen and a Republican. He and his wife are members of
the Presbyterian church.
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Bio
from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
585 & 586
Surnames: CASE
Charles
A. CASE, son of Thomas, was born in Lyndon, Oct. 25, 1851, was educated in
school district No. 7 of his native town, at Franklinville Academy, and in a
commercial college in Buffalo. Remaining
with his father, a farmer, and assisting in his large business as a dealer in
farmers' produce, He began business himself in dealing in livestock, having a
large trade in Canada and the west. He
subsequently engaged in life insurance business about two years, when the Bank
of Ellicottville was organized and Mr. CASE became its first cashier, a
position he has continuously held. Mr.
CASE is a prominent citizen, an affable gentleman, a thorough business man, and
a true friend.
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Bio
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
586 & 587
Surnames: CLARKE, THAYER
Hon.
Staley N. CLARKE – Every epoch of a nation's life produces certain individuals
who, by virtue of innate strength of mind and breadth of character, stand above
the level of common men, and by them are honored and followed as their
benefactors and leaders. It is not in
the higher walks of life alone that such men appear; they stand forth in the
by-ways to assist and cheer the toils of their fellows by their example and
advice. Often in the settlement and
development of this country such leaders of men have come opportunely to guide
the well-being of some struggling colony, and by their purity of life, honesty
of purpose, and conscientiousness in the discharge of duty have contributed to
the happiness and promoted the welfare of all with broad and generous sympathy. Identified with the early history and
development of the county was Hon. Staley Nichols CLARKE. Mr. CLARKE was born in Prince George county,
Md., May 24, 1794. At about the age of
twenty-one he settled at Buffalo, N. Y., and began his career as a clerk in the
Bank of Niagara. In 1819 he was offered
and accepted a clerkship in the office of the Holland Land Company at Batavia,
N. Y., where he remained until Jan., 1822, when he was transferred to the
office of the company at Ellicottville and appointed as their authorized agent
for the county of Cattaraugus. In this
selection of manager the company chose wisely.
His previous service in the office at Batavia had shown that he
possessed the qualities requisite to success in the new field to which they
desired to send him, and they were quick to discern and prompt in availing
themselves of the benefit they would derive from his business capacity. The result amply justified the trust they
reposed in him, and Mr. CLARKE remained the agent of the company until it sold
out to the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company.
The
country was rugged and uninviting and then but sparsely settled. Communication
between the different settlements, widely separated by unbroken forests, was
slow and difficult, and the settlers at first came but little under the charm
of the agent's presence, and hence intimate acquaintanceship was of slow
growth. Those who came to take up the
land were, in the main, without capital or resource, except brave hearts and
brawny arms, with will as sturdy and purpose as rugged as the surrounding
forests and hillsides. The instinct of
self-preservation inspired them to constant watchfulness lest in some way they
should be deceived or imposed upon. They
knew their weakness, and for a time they feared the power of the agent. Better acquaintance, however, disarmed
suspicion and revealed to them the true excellence of his character; they came
to know him as he was and trusted and respected him. The settlers came to him for advice and
counsel in all the simple affairs of their uneventful lives, and his relations
with them soon became paternal. They
confided in and trusted him to a degree quite wonderful, and consistent only
with, the fact that they had discovered his merit and read aright his character. Without judicial authority Mr. CLARKE was for
many years the people's chancellor. To
him they came as to an upright judge with their disputes and their contentions. He listened to their recitals, and his
intuitive perception of right and wrong enabled him, to see where justice lay;
and so great was their confidence in his wisdom and integrity that his
decisions were always respected. Men
left his presence with the conviction strong upon them that if they pursued the
course suggested by him they could not go far wrong.
His
position as between the settlers and the company, whose representative he was,
must have been at times a delicate one, not wholly free from embarrassment, and
yet, through it all, there was never once the slightest intimation or suspicion
of injustice to the one or lack of fidelity to the other. It is believed that in no case was a settler,
if worthy and meritorious, evicted from the land for which he held a contract
because of inability to meet promptly his payments. If to those who held the security further
indulgence seemed beyond the limit of business prudence, and foreclosure became
imminent, Mr. CLARKE often made the obligation his own, paid the debt to the
company, assumed the risk, and carried the burden, thus insuring the settler
against oppression and the company against loss; and so at once was generous to
the one and just to the other. In later
years, when the condition of the settlers had improved and the gloomy forest
had become productive farms; when poverty had given way to modest competence,
and to the scant and coarse necessities of life had been added many of its
comforts and some of its luxuries; when hard and unremitting toil had been
succeeded by some degree of leisure and the pioneers had become independent, self-supporting
citizens, they did not forget their friend and benefactor; they were wont to
dwell with a fondness amounting almost to devotion upon the unselfish,
disinterested, and immeasurable service he had rendered them. They told their children the story of his
life, and his name became a household word and his memory a benediction.
Not
only by those whom he had befriended was he honored; he was respected and
beloved by all men, the affluent, the learned, and the influential. To the needy, if deserving, he was an
unfailing friend; no worthy person in distress ever appealed to him for aid and
was sent away empty handed. Benevolent
far beyond the common, his charities were not bestowed with ostentation or
desire for notoriety, but with unobtrusive modesty in harmony with the simple
grandeur of his nature. In short his
character was ennobled by the unity and harmonious blending of more good
qualities and marred by fewer faults than is usual with men who are esteemed
both good and great. He was of stately
figure and commanding presence, and his manner was one in which were combined
both simplicity and elegance. Though not
indifferent to public affairs he was not in the popular sense ambitious to
appear in them. He served his county as
treasurer for seventeen years, and at the earnest desire of his friends
consented to represent the district in the Twenty-seventh Congress. On the expiration of his term he declined a
re-election. On Oct. 27, 1816, he
married Eunice THAYER, of Ontario county, N. Y., who was born March 5, 1797,
and died at Corry, Pa., June 23, 1873.
Mr. CLARKE at Ellicottville, Oct. 14, 1860.
Ed. Note: This biography includes a photograph of
Staley N. CLARKE
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
587 & 588
Surnames: CLARK, STEWART
William
CLARK, son of Wells CLARK, was born in Granville, Aug. 28, 1814, and reared in
Blandford, Mass. He married Caroline M.
STEWART, of Canton, Conn., a native of Blandford, Mass., Aug. 20, 1839, and the
ensuing spring emigrated to Ellicottville, coming by canal from Albany to
Buffalo, thence with a team to this town, arriving May 1, 1840. His farm had some twenty-five acres partly
cleared and a small frame barn, but no house.
While building a portion of the house he now occupies, they resided in a
deserted old log house nearby; here the little striped snakes were in
possession and would frequently bob up their heads through the large cracks in
the floor. Mr. CLARK had means to pay
for his original farm of 122 acres, and has added to it from time to time until
he now has nearly 300 acres. His
children are: George and Harlan M.
CLARK, farmers on the homestead
Charles
W. CLARK, who occupies his father's farm in Mansfield
James
O. CLARK, a lawyer and teller of the Bank of Ellicottville
Wells
W. CLARK, a mechanic and farmer in Ellicottville
Carrie
L. CLARK, at home
Mary
CLARK, who died in Sept., 1889, aged twenty-nine.
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Bio
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
588
Surnames: COIT, HARRIS,
HUNTLEY, CLARKE, SHULTS
Lewis
COIT, son of Roger and Hannah (HARRIS) COIT, was born in Norwich, Mass., June
18, 1818. His parents came to
Ellicottville in March, 1820. Their
conveyance was a heavy sled drawn by a pair of oxen; their first residence, a
log cabin, stood on the site of Judge Scott's barn. Two or three years later he built the
residence occupied by the late Amy HUNTLEY.
In 1827 Mr. COIT removed to the COIT homestead, the home of Lewis COIT,
where he had cleared twenty acres and built a log house, and where he died Dec.
14, 1829. Lewis COIT and his younger
brother William then had the labor of the farm and the care of their mother and
her seven children. They cut wood three
feet long and drew it to Hon. Staley N. CLARKE (the only one who would buy it
at any price) and sold it for fifty cents per cord. They saved the ashes in their fields and from
the kitchen fire, leached them, and made black-salts. Their industrious mother spun and wove linen
and wool and clad her family, and often wove cloth for her neighbors. They rode to church in summer in a lumber
wagon drawn by oxen an in winter on a sled.
Lewis COIT has twelve children living.
His mother died at the age of sixty-seven years. In 1847 he married Maria SHULTS. He has been a dealer in working oxen.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
588
Surnames: COLMAN, BEECHER
Truman
Rowley COLMAN was born in Coventry, Conn., Nov. 13, 1809, and was a resident of
Ellicottville from 1829 until 1854. He
was prominently identified with the land interests in Cattaraugus, Allegany,
and Wyoming counties and besides carried on at times an extensive mercantile
trade and banking business. In 1854 he
removed to Dunkirk, N. Y., where he established what became the Lake Shore National
Bank. He married Sophia M., a daughter
of Moses BEECHER. She died Sept. 30,
1867.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
588 & 589
Surnames: COTTER, RICE,
JOHNSON, HACKETT
James
COTTER, born in County Cork, Ireland, Oct. 31, 1831, received a good business
education, and at the age of seventeen years, with his father, William, and
brother Richard, emigrated to America in a sailing vessel and landed at Quebec
after a voyage of six weeks and three days.
In 1852 they all settled in Ellicottville. James COTTER, in May, 1858, invested what he
had saved in a grocery store, which he continued until 1880, since which time
he has lived a retired life. Mr. COTTER
has always been a fair dealer. He is a
liberal Democrat and during the late war he gave his aid and influence to the
Union. He is a great reader. In religion he is a Catholic. Feb. 23, 1864, he was elected town collector
of taxes; March 26, 1864, Addison G. RICE, Samuel William JOHNSON, and James
COTTER were appointed a committee on the part of the town of Ellicottville to
procure the number of men to fill the quota, and were allowed to pay bounties
in their discretion, but in the aggregate not to exceed $4,800; Feb. 27, 1866,
he was again elected collector; in 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic
State convention at Rochester and the same fall he was a delegate to the
Democratic national convention at Baltimore, which nominated Horace Greeley for
the presidency: he is now serving a three years’ term as assessor. Oct. 27, 1858, he married Honora H. HACKETT,
a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, who was born Dec. 10, 1835, and came to
Ellicottville in 1852. They have been
members of the choir of the Catholic church about thirty years and Mrs. COTTER
has been organist the last twelve years.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
589
Surnames: CRAWFORD, FULLER
Burt
J. CRAWFORD was born in Napoli in 1861, was reared in Java, Wyoming county, and
married Minerva FULLER, of Arcade, N. Y.
For two years he kept hotel in Springville, N. Y., and in Nov., 1882,
purchased the CRAWFORD House in Ellicottville, which was burned May 11,
1890. He immediately rebuilt a fine
brick hotel, which was conceded to be one of the handsomest structures and the
best appointed hostelries in Cattaraugus county. This property he exchanged in February, 1893,
for property in Buffalo, where he is now proprietor of the newly refitted Hotel
Carlton on Exchange street.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
589
Surnames: DAVIS, EDDY
William
H. DAVIS, son of John H. and Almira DAVIS, was born in Montgomery county April
5, 1840. In 1845 the family removed to
Ellicottville and located where William H. DAVIS now lives. Feb. 6, 1862, he enlisted in Co. C, 105th N.
Y. Vols., reached Washington on April 8th, and the first night there slept on
the ground, which during the night was covered with snow six inches deep. He was attacked with measles on the 10th and
sent to the hospital, where he was confined three weeks, when he rejoined his
regiment at Cloud's Mills, Va. From the effects of the measles he was again ill
and confined in the hospital about two months.
He participated in the battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, was in
the battles of Warrenton Junction, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run,
Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Mine
Run, and Cold Harbor, where he received a wound from a minie-ball which
fractured his skull above the left eye and shattered his cheek bone, which has
never united. From blood-poisoning from
this wound he has totally lost his left lung.
From the time he received the wound until July, 1865, he was confined in
the hospital and was then mustered out with his regiment. He has been an invalid ever since. March 26, 1871 he married Lucy EDDY.
Children: Emma O., Clara, William H., and Mildred.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
589 & 590
Surnames: DROWN, GREEN,
THAYER, BURLINGAME, HUFF, HUENERFELD, WALKER, BATTS, DAY
Peter
DROWN, a native of Hartford, Conn., married Eliza GREEN and soon after removed
to New York State. He was employed as a
sentinel at the prison in Auburn about two years; settled on a farm in Sweden,
N. Y., and marketed his wheat in Rochester for twenty-five cents per bushel;
and about 1827 began anew in the woods in the northwest part of Ellicottville,
where he cleared the land and gave all his family a good education. Mr. DROWN served as commissioner of
highways. His wife died in 1821 and left
five children; his second wife, Sarepta THAYER, bore him nine children. Ten children are living; two reside in
Ellicottville. Mr. DROWN died March 11,
1875, aged eighty-three years.
Elbridge
DROWN, the youngest by the first wife, was born Nov. 5, 1819, began life as a
jobber clearing land and taught school nine winter terms. He has been a farmer, and also a dealer in
real estate and cattle. He married
Frances, granddaughter of Rickertson BURLINGAME.
Oliver
T. DROWN, son of Peter and Sarepta (THAYER) DROWN, was born in Monroe county
Aug, 1, 1824, and about 1854 he removed to Spartansburg, Pa., where he engaged
in mercantile business. In 1865 he came
to Ellicottville and opened a general store, which he conducted until his
decease in 1870. Sept. 3, 1849, he
married Harriet, daughter of Jacob HUFF, of East Otto, and they had four
children, the oldest, Herman B. DROWN, being the only survivor. He was born in Ellicottville in 1850 and
commenced his business life as a druggist in Spartansburg, Pa., in 1876. In 1878 he returned to his native town, where
he has since conducted a drug store. In
1876 Mr. DROWN married Louise HUENERFELD of Ellicottville. They have one son.
Alfonso
DROWN, youngest child of Peter, was born on the DROWN homestead, where he now
resides, Jan 10, 1842. He received a
good English education, and married Nancy, daughter of Collins and Amanda
(WALKER) BATTS, of New Albion. Mr. DROWN
has been an elder of the First Presbyterian church of Ellicottville for many
years.
Peter
M. DROWN, son of Elbridge, born Jan. 22, 1854, received a good English education,
and Oct. 11, 1879, married Flora DAY. He
settled on Bryant hill, where, when he took possession in 1872, his crop of hay
was only eight tons; he has so improved his farm that in 1890 he harvested
about 160 tons. Mr. DROWN is a
progressive farmer and gives his influence for the cause of temperance. Both are members of the Presbyterian
church. Meetings of Bryant Hill Lodge,
No. 808, I. O. G. T., are held at his house.
Of this body he was its first chief templar.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
590
Surnames: GRAY, ROMYEN
Andrew
GRAY was born in Northumberland county, England, in 1790 and with his parents
came to America in 1800, settling in Gorham, Ontario county, where they lived
ten years. His father then purchased a
tract of 500 acres of wild land in Caledonia, Livingston county, removed to it,
and there the parents died. Andrew had
100 acres of this purchase. He married
Agnes ROMYEN, Feb. 21, 1821, and in 1832 removed his family to a farm in the
southeast part of Mansfield, where he died March 22, 1864, and his wife Nov.
27, 1879. Mr. GRAY was a soldier in the
War of 1812. They had five children.
Their
oldest son, George GRAY, born in Caledonia, July 16, 1823, received an academic
education, was a farmer, was nine years supervisor of Mansfield, and was many
years a member of the Board of Trustees and a generous supporter of the
Presbyterian church of Ellicottville. He
gave his influence to every good and noble object and died Oct. 28, 1874.
His
brother, Abram GRAY, was born in Caledonia, July 7, 1826. He supplemented his common school education
with a year's attendance at an academy, remained with his parents until
twenty-three years of age, and began business for himself as a carpenter and
builder, which has since been his avocation.
Many fine residences, among others St. Bonaventure's College at Allegany
and the wooden bridge spanning the Allegheny river in South Valley, are
monuments to his skill. Mr. GRAY has
resided in the village since 1873. He
has been an elder of the Presbyterian church for twenty-one years and trustee
twenty years.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
590
Surnames: GREEN, PUTNAM
Allen
GREEN removed from Cazenovia, N. Y., to Sardinia, Erie county, in 1815. In 1826 he came to the northeast corner of
Ellicottville, where he purchased 317 acres of wild land, and where his nearest
neighbor was five miles distant. He died
Sept. 13, 1859, and his wife, Mercy PUTNAM, May 5, 1872. Children: Charles, Job, Betsey, Clarinda, Obadiah,
Allen M., Perry, Ellen, Sarah, Mary, and Job, 2d. Allen M. GREEN resides in Franklinville. Obadiah GREEN lived in Sardinia and became a
prominent citizen.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
590
Surnames: GRINOLS, TRIPP,
HINMAN
Harvey
GRINOLS, son of Daniel R. and Elsie (TRIPP) GRINOLS, was born in Otto, Sept.
23, 1839, and Sept. 23, 1861, enlisted in Co. B, 9th N. Y. Cav., and was on
duty with his regiment until he was attacked with fever and obliged to go to
the hospital. He was transferred in an
emaciated condition to Block Island Hospital, near Providence, R. I., from
which he was. discharged Oct. 28, 1862.
He returned to his farm with ruined health and was obliged to give up so
laborious an occupation, and now resides in the village, where he is engaged in
dealing in light produce. Jan. 15, 1865,
he married Lorincla HINMAN, of East Otto, and they have two sons and two
daughters.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
591
Surnames: HARRINGTON, AIKEN,
BEECHER
Joseph,
Owen, Miles, and Caleb HARRINGTON, sons of Nathaniel HARRINGTON, came from
Otsego county and settled in Mansfield in 1826.
The father had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was a
pensioner. He was a well-to-do farmer in
Otsego county and gave each of his sons a yoke of oxen and fifty acres of land
in Mansfield. They soon disposed of
their farms. Joseph and Miles settled in
Ellicottville, Owen went to Ohio, and Joseph and Caleb eventually located in
Little Valley.
Miles
HARRINGTON married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin AIKEN. Their children were Henry W., Stephen A.,
Augustus C., and Sally D.
Stephen
A. HARRINGTON, born on Fish hill in Mansfield, July 8, 1828, was early obliged
to leave school, and finally entered the law office of his brother, where he
was two or three years, leaving by the advice of his physician. He was a groceryman in Ellicottville most of
his life, was an aggressive politician and a life-long Democrat, and sometimes
in the heat of political campaigns he had a little trouble. He believed in the principles of the
Democracy as opposed to those of the Whig party, and was an influential
leader. He held several town offices,
being justice of the peace nearly thirty years.
He was a keeper in the Auburn prison until he resigned the position; he
also did some conveyancing and pettifogging in justice's court. He married Adaline BEECHER, niece of Moses
BEECHER, of Ellicottville, and their children were Walter A. and Fred L.
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Bio
from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
591
Surnames: HILER, LANCHOW,
FOX, STADLER, KING
John
HILLER, born near Hamburg, Germany, about 1831, married Mary LANCHOW, and in
1863 emigrated with his wife and three children to America, coming to
Cattaraugus county and settling in East Otto.
He was a brickmaker in his native country, but gave his attention to
farming after locating here. He died in
Ashford in 1868. His widow married
William FOX, Sr., a native of Germany and a farmer. Mr. HILLER's children were Sophia (Mrs. A. STADLER);
Henry J., who married Mary KING and resides in Plato; and Herman F., a general
merchant and an extensive dealer in farm produce. Mr. HILLER commenced his mercantile life a
clerk at $12 per month and boarded himself.
Three years later he began business where he had been a clerk.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
591
Surnames: HORNUNG, WEIDMANN,
BUSCKRIST
Joseph
HORNING was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1844. In 1871 He married Louise
WEIDMANN and came to America. Being a
carriage maker he prosecuted his trade successively in Little Valley and
Ellicottville, and in the spring of 1880 settled on the farm near Ashford
Junction where he now resides. Mr.
HORNING is also a dealer in agricultural implements and fertilizers. His wife died in 1872 and in 1874 he married
Henrietta BUSCKRIST, who is the mother of all his living children.
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Bio from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
591 & 592
Surnames: HUNTLEY, STILLWELL,
McGOWEN, HAWKINS, CHAMBERLAIN
Daniel
HUNTLEY, a native of
Daniel
I. HUNTLEY, born in
Thomas
S. HUNTLEY held the same office in Ellicottville in 1840, while Horace S.
HUNTLEY served the town of
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
592
Surnames: HURLBURT,
Grove
HURLBURT, the first settler in the town of
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
592 & 593
Surnames: JOHNSTON, HURLBURT
William
JOHNSTON, a pioneer of Ellicottville, was born in
William
H. JOHNSTON, born Sept. 21, 1832, enlisted in August, 1862, in the 154th N. Y.
Vols. as a musician and was honorably discharged from
Capt.
Byron A. JOHNSTON, was born in Ellicottville, Jan. 31, 1827. In 1852 he went overland to
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
593
Surnames: KING, COOK, MUNGER,
GAYLORD, MATTESON
Alanson
KING, son of Arnold and Candace (COOK) KING, was born in Collins,
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
593 & 594
Surnames: LANGHANS, MEROW,
BLOCK, EULERS
John
LANGHANS, born in
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
594
Surnames: LAWLER, STACK,
SHANKLAND
William
LAWLER was born in the Parish of Kilconley,
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
594 - 596
Surnames: LITCHFIELD, HAYDEN,
DOOLY, BROWN, BUCK, THATCHER, FRENCH, BOYCE
Beals
E. LITCHFIELD, youngest son and child of Ensign and Mary (HAYDEN) LITCHFIELD,
was born in
As
Beals LITCHFIELD grew in strength and years he assisted in the great work of
transforming the forests into fruitful fields, became an agriculturist, and has
ever been a careful and successful one.
He loved and honored his vocation, and his opinions on agriculture are
worthy of record. He says: "During
the last quarter of a century I have noticed that many young men have left the
farm and engaged in other occupations, either because they considered that of
agriculture less dignified or less lucrative.
There undoubtedly are other occupations or speculations in which, if
successful, a large fortune can be more speedily accumulated than by
agriculture, but I am sure that the different branches of agricultural pursuits
contain all the elements and conditions necessary to bring wealth and happiness
to those farmers who pursue their labors in a reasonable and scientific
manner. Agriculture is the basis of all
other pursuits, hence it can not be less dignified or less useful to
mankind. In an early period it was
supposed by many that a farmer did not need much education, that a half-idiot
could plow, sow, reap, and mow, and consequently be a successful farmer, but
opinions as well as agricultural implements have changed, and it is now
admitted by well informed farmers that a scientific education is necessary for
success in agriculture. A scientific
application of labor and other means often unlocks nature's storehouse and
fills the farmer's barn with the rich fruitage of the soil and his heart with
joy, and I here affirm that agriculture is a chemical science and. one of the
most useful ever revealed by the Creator to mankind."*
Mr.
LITCHFIELD is modest and unassuming in his manners and honest in his
convictions. For forty years he has been
a believer in Spiritualism, was one of its pioneer speakers, and with
conscientious endeavor he lives up to the truths of his belief. In 1890 he published a book, "Leaflets
of Thought gathered from the Tree of Life," and has another volume (his
autobiography) ready for publication. He
has passed a quiet and uneventful life of three-score years and more on the
beautiful place where his father first settled; here he brought his worthy
helpmeet, Lucinda, daughter of Israel and Delight THATCHER, of Hopewell,
Ontario county, whom he married October 14, 1847. Here they have dispensed a generous
hospitality; here they have experienced many joys and many sorrows; here their
children were born, and here they have mourned their departure for the spirit
world; and from here after long and useful lives may they cross to the beautiful
land beyond, and "meet their Pilot face to face."
Levi
LITCHFIELD, son of Ensign, was born in Massachusetts in 1805 and married Nancy
FRENCH. In the spring of 1831 he settled
in the north part of Ellicottville and in 1835 or '36 made a permanent home on
the farm now owned by Fred Weishan. He
cleared this farm, erected good buildings, aided in building school houses, and
gave all his children a substantial education.
During the Rebellion he sold his farm and retired to the village, where
he died in June, 1887. Like most of the
pioneers he worked hard, was a good financier, accumulated a fair fortune for a
farmer, and was highly respected. His
oldest son, Harvey LITCHFIELD, was born in Massachusetts in September, 1826,
was educated in the common schools, and early chopped, rolled logs, made
black-salts, and at the age of twenty-six had 100 acres of his father's
farm. He married Almira BOYCE. He inherited his father's sterling qualities.
Ed. Note: This biography includes a photograph of Beals
E. LITCHFIELD
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
596
Surnames: LOWE, BUGBY,
PITCHER, CHAMBERLAIN, BARTLETT, WARD
Andrew
LOWE came to Ellicottville from
Theodore
LOWE, son of Andrew, was born Sept. 8, 1839.
From 1859 to 1866 he was in the employ of Daniel BARTLETT, who ran a
stage line from Ellicottville to
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
596
Surnames: MABEE, COIT, CLARK
Abram
MABEE was born in Canajoharie, N. Y., July 4, 1839. His father was born a slave, but was
liberated in early life; he resided in
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
596 & 597
Surnames: McCOY, BEACH
Bethuel
McCOY, son of John and Hannah (BEACH) McCOY, was born in
Stephen
McCOY was born in Seneca, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1817.
He became a clerk for his brother Bethuel, and in May, 1847, bought the
latter's interest in the store and conducted it until 1875. Mr. McCOY represented Ellicottville as
supervisor in 1851 and 1852, the county as treasurer one term, and was loan
commissioner two years.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
597
Surnames: McMAHON, DEVEREUX,
WALSH, DALEY
John
McMAHON, born in.
James
W. McMAHON is much interested in the affairs of his town and has represented it
on the Board of Supervisors nine years. He was the youngest delegate to the
national convention that nominated Grover Cleveland for president in 1884 and
has been a member of the Democratic State Committee, representing the 34th
Congressional District.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
597
Surnames: MOFFIT, CHAPMAN
James
MOFFIT was born in Franklinville in Feb., 1843, was reared a farmer, was
educated in the common schools and the academy at Genesee, and Oct. 24, 1863,
enlisted in Co. G, 64th N. Y. Vols., which a year later was transferred to the
187th Regiment, with which Mr. MOFFIT served to the close of the war, being
honorably discharged in July, 1865. He
received a gunshot wound and an abrasion of the skin on his right side at
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
597 & 598
Surnames: NORTHRUP, LANSING
Halsey
F. NORTHRUP was born in
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History
of the Town of
Page
598
Surnames: OYER,
Michael
OYER, son of
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History
of the Town of
Page
598
Surname: PETTIT
Joshua
R. PETTIT, born in
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
598
Surnames: PITCHER, WOODRUFF,
HURLBURT, HUNTLEY
Orrin
PITCHER, a native of
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
598
Surnames: QUACKENBUSH, BARGY,
HINMAN
Clark
P. QUACKENBUSH, second son of John and Mary (BARGY) QUACKENBUSH, was born in
Ashford, July 7, 1849, and June 7, 1871, married Augusta HINMAN, of his native
town, who was born in
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
598 & 599
Surnames: RANDALL, DIMMICK,
McCOY, SHANNON
Charles
P. RANDALL, a native of Chenango county, married Margaret DIMMICK, and as near
as can be ascertained made with his bride his first settlement in
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History
of the Town of
Page
599
Surnames: REED, WAIT
E. T.
REED, son of J. W., was born in Ashford, May 29, 1853, and choosing dentistry
as a profession became a pupil of Dr. Carlos WAIT, of Springville, N. Y., where
he spent two years. He located in
Ellicottville in the spring of 1877, where he has since resided, and where he
has acquired a flourishing practice. Dr.
REED was burned out in the great fire in May, 1890, but quickly became settled
in his present handsome quarters.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
599
Surnames: RUST, ELLIS,
Quartus
RUST, born in
Children
:
Quartus
Ellis RUST, born in
Lewis
RUST, who died in infancy
Lewis
S. RUST, born July 25, 1819 who was killed at Second Bull Run
John
W. RUST, born March 11, 1821, was a mechanic and farmer, and died April 26,
1872
Mary
A. RUST, born Jan. 21, 1823, married Howland WASHBURN, and died Nov. 13, 1871
Angeline
RUST, born in December, 1830. died July 12, 1842
Edwin
R. RUST, born March 31, 1832, a farmer who faithfully cared for his aged
parents until their decease, and who now resides with his nephew, Charles C.
RUST, in the village.
Quartus
RUST married for his third wife Mrs. Sarah, widow of Lyman TODD, May 8, 1853;
he died Sept. 10, 1854, and she May 10, 1884.
Mr. RUST was a justice of the peace for twenty-five years. Quartus E. RUST was a cabinet maker by trade
and a farmer on the homestead. In 1859
he settled in the village and conducted a cabinet shop and furniture store
until his death Sept. 8, 1889. Dec. 19,
1839, he married Electa M. KNIGHT, who died March 17, 1861; she was the mother
of all his children: Amelia M., Charles C., and Ellis E. March 3, 1863, Quartus E. RUST married Ann
McCOY.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
599 & 600
Surnames: SAXTON, LEONARD,
SKINNER
Henry
SAXTON was born in
Children:
Albert
SAXTON, who lives in
Hannah
L. SAXTON, widow of J. King SKINNER, resides on the homestead where she was
born, and which now shelters three generations of the family.
Baker
Leonard SAXTON, who enlisted in
Frederick
A. SAXTON, of Washington, D. C.
Walter
SAXTON, who died in 1855
Ebenezer
SAXTON.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
600
Surname:
James
M. SHEFFIELD, born in
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Page
600
Surnames: SMITH, McINTYRE
Rev.
Courtney SMITH; born in Bolton,
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Bio
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
600 -602
Surnames: SMITH, NICHOLS,
CLARKE, COLMAN, BEECHER
Theodore
SMITH was born in Orwell,
Although not a politician and never in office Mr. SMITH took
great interest in public affairs.
Thoroughly independent in feeling, with ideas founded on long study of
political and constitutional writers as well as affairs of the day, he was
above and beyond party bias, and followed what seemed to him to be the line of
public policy most conducive to the interests of the whole rather than a party
or section of the nation. Previous to
1860 he had taken no active part in matters of public interest beyond the
discussion incident to a political campaign, and then only to express briefly
his views upon the point at issue. But
in that year the question of the conservation of the Union, the fatuity of the
doctrine of States rights, and the attempt to abolish a system that was
contrary to the basal idea of the constitution stirred within him the spirit he
had inherited from his Puritan ancestors.
He resolved to do his duty to his country so far as it lay within his
power. Prevented by physical weakness
from serving at the front he directed his energies towards supplying the
material with which the struggle was to be won.
With a thoroughness which was a characteristic feature, he went to
Washington and familiarized himself with the detail of army life which was to
be seen in the great army then encamped near the capital during the period of
McClellan's campaign. He likewise
visited the various departments of the government and was favored with an
interview with the president. At the
second call for troops in 1861 Mr. SMITH gave his time to the raising of
volunteers and the organization of regiments for service. He canvassed Cattaraugus county from end to
end, exhorting the people both publicly and privately to do their part for the
Union. When companies were formed in the
various towns he cheered the departing volunteers with inspiring and patriotic
words. Ordinarily of an undemonstrative
and unimpassioned manner he became at such inspiring moments a fascinating and
brilliant speaker, and through the fervor of his addresses and the earnestness
of his manner stirred the enthusiasm of the men of the county to give their
best efforts for the Union. In 1863 Mr.
SMITH went to New York, spending his time between that city and Cattaraugus
county until the end of the war, when he moved to Buffalo, where he lived until
his death, Jan. 12, 1883. About the time
of his removal to Buffalo he gradually began to give up active business,
leaving his interests in the hands of his son, Archibald Clarke SMITH, and
devoted the remainder of his years to his books and to travel. In 1868 he suffered a severe loss by the
death of his only daughter, Lucy NICHOLS, wife of James Curtis BEECHER. In time the infirmities of age became too
strong to permit an active life, and, surrounded by his family and guiding the
development of a younger generation grown up beside him, he passed his last
years among the comforts and blessings to which an energetic and benevolent
life entitled him. His wife, the eldest
daughter of Hon. Staley Nichols CLARKE, as perfect a woman as her father was a
man, and whose motherly kindness many have cause to bless, has survived Mr.
SMITH many years.
Mr. SMITH was a man of great breadth of character and depth
of mind. Fond of study, he devoted his
spare moments to his library and was a writer not only of the spirited
addresses delivered during the war, but of many short stories and critical
essays of literary worth. Combined with
these talents were a fund of dry humor and the faculty of easy expression, all
of which made him fascinating and instructive in conversation; men left him
feeling charmed and elevated by his presence.
Of Puritan stock he was naturally severe and critical, but once
convinced of the merit of a man there was no more steadfast friend than
he. He was charitable and kind,
convinced that it was no merit but the pleasantest of duties to serve and make
others happy. He was a man of great
business capacity, whose foresight and sagacity brought his many interests
through dangerous crises, and seized the opportunity where a wrong step would
not only have ruined himself, but brought desolation to the many who trusted
him.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
602
Surnames: SOMERVILLE, HILL
William SOMERVILLE, son of James, was born in Dalkeith,
Scotland, in March, 1797. His father was
a miller; William was a stone cutter. In
1817 he came to America and went to Washington, D. C., where he was employed on
the capitol over two years. Returning to
Europe he married, in London, in March, 1822, Hannah HILL, and brought his
bride to Washington, where he was employed on the White House. Remaining there until the completion of the
national buildings he returned to New York, where he conducted shops of his own
until 1842, when he came to Ellicottville and settled on the farm where his
son, Henry SOMERVILLE, now lives, in Somerville valley, so named in his
honor. He died in 1859; his wife died in
1852. Mr. SOMERVILLE was a member of the
Baptist church. He had ten children who
came to "The Valley" with their parents; only five are living. Henry SOMERVILLE succeeded his father on the
hornestead. He was supervisor of
Ellicottville in 1892 and was re-elected in 1893.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
602
Surnames: STAUNTON, BREWSTER,
STAUNTON
John W. STAUNTON and his wife, Sally BREWSTER, were born in
Massachusetts and soon after their marriage removed to Nunda, N. Y. In March, 1820, with three children and all
their household goods loaded in a heavy covered wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen,
they came to Ellicottville and settled on a farm. He died here at the house now the home of the
widow of Dr. J. B. STAUNTON, Dec. 13, 1858.
Mr. STAUNTON was a well educated gentleman of dignified deportment whose
integrity was above question. He was the
first town clerk of Ellicottville in 1821, was supervisor in 1823, 1824, 1825,
and 1829, and was clerk of Cattaraugus county from Jan. 2, 1826, to Jan. 1,
1838.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
602
Surname: STOKES
William STOKES, son of Michael STOKES, was born in Limerick,
Ireland, in 1849; in 1856 his parents came to America, and in 1861 he settled
with them on a farm in the north part of Ellicottville. At the age of twenty-seven he became a
carpenter, and almost continually since then has been engaged as a contractor
and builder, employing from twelve to twenty men. Mr. STOKES is a skillful mechanic and drafts
his own work. The Union school building
in Ellicottville, the new Crawford House, the Catholic church at Suspension
Bridge, the Congregational church at Kane, Pa., the Catholic church at
Tonawanda, and numerous residences are monuments to his skill.
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TYLER
Family of Ellicottville
Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Pages
600 - 602
Surname: TYLER
Asher TYLER became land agent for the Devereux tract in
1836, and during his residence in Ellicottville he was elected to
Congress. He was a man who commanded
universal respect and possessed remarkable ability. He subsequently removed to Elmira and was
appointed land agent of the Erie railroad, and died there in 1875. "He knew the Indian when as yet the
white man's mastery over lands west of Schenectady was only in process of
recognition."
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VAUGHAN
Family of Ellicottville
Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
603
Surnames: VAUGHAN, ROOD,
LITCHFIELD
Joseph
VAUGHAN, of English descent, married Lydia ROOD and in 1810 removed to
Pennsylvania. In 1822 they settled in
the woods on Bryant hill and about 1830 located in Somerville valley, where they
spent the remainder of their lives. Mr.
VAUGHAN was a blacksmith before he came to Ellicottville. He had twelve children, nine of whom grew to
maturity. Joseph Millen VAUGHAN, their
first child, born in Massachusetts, May 21, 1808 married Polly LITCHFIELD, of
Ellicottville, Feb. 17, 1832, who was born in Chesterfield, Mass., Sept. 6,
1811. They settled on a woodland farm
adjoining his father's place, where Mrs., VAUGHAN still resides. Mr. VAUGHAN died Jan. 13, 1870. Their eleven children all grew to maturity.
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WALRATH
Family of Ellicottville
Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
603
Surnames: WALRATH, RICHARDS,
CHASE
Walter
WALRATH, son of David and Elizabeth WALRATH, was born in Manheim, Herkimer
county, Aug. 28, 1826, and in 1844 came to Cattaraugus county. In Dec., 1852, he married Mary RICHARDS and
in 1856 settled on a farm near Great Valley Center, which he still owns. He enlisted in the Union army in 1862,
leaving his wife and four helpless children, the youngest an infant only six
days old. He followed the vicissitudes
of the 154th Regiment three years, except that he was a prisoner four months,
and escaped without a wound, but had several hair-breadth escapes. A bullet passed through his cap and clipped a
lock of his hair, and again his gun was shivered in pieces in his hands. In 1865 he was discharged and is now leading
a retired life in the village of Ellicottville.
His children are Adelaide (Mrs. J. CHASE), Nelson D., Dr. Charles M.
(see Medical Chapter), Walter D., and John C.
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WEIR
Family of Ellicottville
Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Ellicottville – Chapter XXVI (26)
Page
603
Surnames: WEIR, BEEBE
A.
Spencer WEIR married Lucretia BEEBE and settled on a farm in Freedom in
1836. He was an exemplary citizen and
died there in 1888; Mrs. WEIR died in 1877.
Their oldest son, Charles A. WEIR, born in 1852, received an academic
education, learned the mercantile business, and at the age of twenty years
became a general merchant in Arcade. A
year later he removed to Yorkshire Center and in 1889 settled in Ellicottville,
opening a furniture store and an undertaking establishment. His maternal grandfather, Charles BEEBE, was
a very early pioneer of Freedom. In his
early manhood he built a log house in the woods and brought to this home his
young wife and their first-born child.
He resided in Freedom until the approach of old age, when he and his
wife retired to Arcade, where they died.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published
1893
Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 610
Surname: ADAMS
Oliver
H. ADAMS, born in Johnstown, N. Y., in January, 1800, settled in 1824 on the
farm where he has passed his life. He
has probably done more hard work than any man in town. His sons Warren and Edward live on the
homestead. His wife died in 1889.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 610
Surname: ADAMS
Cummings
ADAMS settled in Farmersville in 1827, was nearly blind when he came here, soon
became entirely so, and remained so until his death. Of great strength and activity of mind and
body, the town has had but few men better read than he. His sons were for many years among the most
influential in town. Andrew, the
youngest, now a citizen of Franklinville, represented the town two terms as
supervisor and was a faithful and active trustee of the Ten Broeck Academy
until his removal to that town.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 610
Surnames: ALEXANDER, BACON
Nelson
and Joel H. ALEXANDER came to town in 1835, bought land in company, and while
clearing up their farms both worked a portion of the time at the blacksmith
trade. Nelson was an expert horseshoer
and has been a successful farmer on the lands originally bought by the brothers,
where he now lives. Nelson ALEXANDER,
son of Solomon and Gratia ALEXANDER, was born in Winchester N. H., April 26,
1807, came at the age of twenty three to Otsego county, where in 1831 he
married Polly BACON, and removed thence to this town. Mrs. ALEXANDER died Nov. 7, 1887. They had eleven children, ten of whom grew to
maturity. His son Albert D. is the only
representative here. By reading and
study he has become one of the ablest men of the town. His wife, a woman of great executive ability,
will long be remembered as a kind neighbor and excellent nurse. After a few years the brothers dissolved
partnership and Joel, the younger, is now living in New Hudson, N. Y.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 610
Surnames: AUSTIN, DOUD, TARBELL, LEWIS
William AUSTIN, a veteran of the War of 1812, a native of
the eastern part of this State, and a son of John, removed to Pittsford, Monroe
county, where he married Rebecca DOUD, and came in 1827 to this town, where he
built a log house, cleared a farm, and ten years later sold out. He immediately began clearing the second
farm, where his wife died in 1843. Six
of his eight children grew to maturity, viz.: Susannah, Elihu D., Hannah, Sarah
H., Anna, and William D. Mr. AUSTIN died
in 1884. Elihu D. AUSTIN, born May 21,
1825, married Jane, daughter of Laban and Sarah (TARBELL) LEWIS, and has eight
children: Zina, Lucinda M., John W.,
Albert H., Reuben L., Fred E., James W., and Luther M. Zina AUSTIN enlisted in the Rebellion and served
on the gunboat Key West, participated
in five engagements, was taken sick, and died on the boat Red Rover, Jan. 11, 1865.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 611
Surnames: BACKUS, BAKER, RHOADES, HOWARD
Henry BACKUS started in the race about the same time with
others who came to town during its early settlement. For fifteen years his success, hardships, and
endurance corresponded with the companions of his youth, when his wife, a
sister of Marsena BAKER, was stricken down with consumption, leaving him seven
small children. His second marriage was
inharmonious, which broke up the family, and he died in Boston in January,
1873. Olive H. RHOADES, of Boston,
Mass., is the only one living of the family.
Aaron B., the oldest child, emigrated to Oregon with his uncle in 1852,
became wealthy, and died in 1882, leaving a large family. Thomas went to Oregon in 1857, where he
buried his wife and only son, after which his mind and health became impaired
and he died in 1890. James H. was a
Congregational preacher, started for Oregon in 1860, and was shipwrecked
between San Francisco and Portland. The
hardships and exposures impaired his mind and health, and returning to this
town in 1869 he died in 1881 at his brother William's. Elizabeth, the oldest daughter and first wife
of George HOWARD, died in 1843.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 611
Surnames: BAKER, COBB, GILBERT, PEET
Marsena
BAKER was born in Brimfield, Mass., acquired a large landed property, mostly earned
by hard work, economy, and good judgment, and inherited a few hundred acres
from his father. Aside from him there
was up to this time scarcely a man that received as much as $100 by
inheritance. While discharging his duty
as Committee on Charitable Institutions as member of Assembly he caught the
small-pox and died at his brother's in Brimfield, Mass., aged fifty-two. His widow, a woman of culture, great
versatility of reading, and many virtues, still lives on the old
homestead. The oldest daughter married
judge COBB, a former resident of the county, and lives in Kansas City, Mo. The second is the wife of Frank GILBERT, of
Chicago. The fourth married Putnam PEET,
youngest son of Levi PEET. The two sons
are unmarried. The children received
nearly all their education in the checkered school house; the younger ones had
some advantages at Ten Broeck Academy.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 611
Surnames: BALDWIN, HINDS, PROCTOR, BLACKMON, TARBELL
William
BALDWIN, son of Benjamin, a Baptist preacher in Vermont, came to Farmersville
about 1835 and settled upon the farm where his son, D. P. BALDWIN, now resides,
and where he died. His wife was Martha
HINDS, a native of Vermont. He had six
children, of whom three are living: Benjamin, Martha (Mrs. A. PROCTOR), and D.
P. The latter married Susan BLACKMON and
has one daughter, Bertha A. (Mrs. M. O. TARBELL).
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 611
Surnames: BREWER, KNIGHT, HOVEY
Jacob
BREWER came from Pittsfield, N. Y., with his family about 1833 and settled in
the west part of the town, where he took up some wild land and built a log
house. Of his four children two are
living: Mrs. Olive KNIGHT in
Franklinville and Maria (Mrs. Aaron HOVEY) in Missouri.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 611
Surnames: BULLOCK, WOODBURY, CRONK, TERRY, RICHARDSON
Preserved
BULLOCK was a settler of 1824; his sons Preserved and Woodbury (twins) are
dead. Elisha, a son of Preserved, owns
and lives on the homestead. Horace, a
son of Woodbury, is living near Franklinville Station and his mother lives with
him. The wife of Preserved, Sr., was
Lydia WOODBURY, and both died on the homestead.
Preserved, Jr., was born Feb. 5, 1804, married, Nov. 13, 1831, Malana
CRONK who was born May 17, 1804, and died Aug. 18, 1879. Mrs. BULLOCK died Feb. 23, 1879. Their two children were Joel and Elisha, the
former of whom was burned to death.
Elisha was born October 1, 1835.
Nov. 1, 1857, he married Anna A., daughter of Orrin and Augusta Hayden
TERRY. They have five children. Woodburry BULLOCK married Eunice RICHARDSON,
who survives him. Mr. BULLOCK died June
15, 1872.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 611 & 612
Surnames: BURR, MUNGER, GOULD, ADAMS
Duma
BURR was born in Denmark, N. Y., in 1812.
In 1832 he married Lucy MUNGER and in 1849 removed with his family to
Farmersville, where he was for many years a justice of the peace and a
respected citizen. He was a member of
the M. E. church and died in 1887, his wife dying in 1876. Children: Allen C., who died in 1860; Amelia
S. (Mrs. George GOULD), of Franklinville, and Triphena (Mrs. William H. ADAMS),
who resides on the homestead.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surnames: BUTLER, SAGE, DOUGLASS, HOLMES, GRAVES
Harvey
BUTLER, son of Richard and Mercy (SAGE) BUTLER, natives of Connecticut, came to
Farmersville in March, 1823, and in September following his wife, Lovisa
DOUGLASS, came on with their five children. They lived on two different farms here until
1854, when they moved to Sparta, Wis., where he died in 1871 and where his wife
died in 1866. Their daughters were all
educated in the public schools and did good service in teaching. The only ones now living are Mrs. Eliza A.
HOLMES and Mrs. Laura H. GRAVES, of Franklinville. One son, the oldest of the family, died when
sixteen; another is living in Sparta, Wis.
The girls were all married.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surnames: CARPENTER, PEET
David
CARPENTER, a nephew of Levi PEET, was apprenticed to him soon after PEET was
married. He married in town, raised a
large family, and for many years was one of the wealthiest and most influential
men in the county, representing the town as supervisor, town clerk, and justice
of the peace many years. The too free
use of his name endorsing notes, etc., led to his failure in old age, but he
strained every nerve to prevent loss to his friends, for many years working by
the day or at odd jobs to earn his support or pay debts. He remained a citizen of the town until 1889
and voted at elections for nearly sixty years.
In politics he was first an anti-Mason, next a Whig, and then a
Republican until 1872, when he supported Horace Greeley, and for the last six
years has voted with the Prohibitionists.
A Baptist in religion he has all his life been a teetotaler. Born in Massachusetts he belongs to a family
noted for extraordinary memories, which distinguished him, enabling him to
transact much business; he was a sort of encyclopedia among his neighbors.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial
of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surnames: CARPENTER, WEBSTER
Zenas
CARPENTER was born July 9, 1801, and settled in this town in 1827 with his
wife, Laura WEBSTER, and two children.
He afterward removed to the Bullard district, whence he went in 1844 to
Lyndon, where be died Dec. 18, 1854.
Children: Warren and Laura.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surname: CHAFFEE
Michael
CHAFFEE settled in 1821 and raised five boys and two girls. The boys were remarkable for physical
strength. De Nike, the youngest, the
only representative living in town, is a well-to-do farmer.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surnames: CLEAVELAND, BLACKMON, CRAWFORD
Lucius
CLEAVELAND came to Farmersville in 1851 and died here in 1876, his wife dying
in 1882. Of his seven children five are
living: Norris, Freeman, Matilda (Mrs. Horace BLACKMON), Charles S., and Delos. Norris CLEAVELAND married Marion CRAWFORD,
and has had three daughters, all deceased.
Lucius CLEAVELAND was a stone mason by trade, a native of Rhode Island
by birth, and an Englishman by ancestry.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surnames: CUMMINGS, GRAVES
Solomon
CUMMINGS came to Farmersville in 1829 and a few years later married Jonathan
GRAVES's eldest daughter, Mariette. He
was a merchant here and represented the town on the Board of Supervisors in
1843, 1844, 1846, and 1848. For a number
of years he has lived in Franklinville, in which chapter a further notice of
him appears.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 612
Surnames: CUTTING, BANCROFT, POTTER
David
CUTTING emigrated from New Berlin, N. Y., about 1824, settling with his wife,
Nancy BANCROFT, upon a tract of one hundred acres on lot 32, where he erected a
log house, set out an orchard, and cleared a farm. His children were Diana, Mianda, Risina, and
David L., the latter of whom resides on the homestead. David L. married Mary C. POTTER and has one
son, Frank L.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 612 & 613
Surnames: DAY, TOZER
David
DAY was a settler of 1829; he died in 1804.
His son James owns the homestead, to which he has made additions. Nelson, the second son, lives on and owns a
part of the old TOZER place. His farm
had the first fruitbearing orchard in town, and it is yet among the best. William is a dentist in Franklinville, and
Daniel B. lives in Kansas, and Clark, the youngest, died there. Daniel B. was in the battle of Fair Oaks and
received five severe gunshot wounds, his being one of the most marvelous
escapes from death recorded during the war.
His vigorous constitution, great strength, and temperate habits can
alone account for his marvelous recovery.
James DAY represented the town of Farmersville on the Board of
Supervisors in 1862.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 613
Surnames: EVANS, DAVIS, LEONARD
James
EVANS was born in March, 1811, in South Wales, whence he emigrated to America
and to Freedom in 1852, with his wife, Mary DAVIS, and three children. Mrs. EVANS died July 11, 1870, and Mr. EVANS
resides with his daughter Mary (Mrs. Theodore LEONARD).
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville – Chapter
XXVII (27)
Page 613
Surnames: GILLET, COMSTOCK
George
W. GILLET, successor to Jacob COMSTOCK, the first merchant, built a store in
1828. In connection with it he ran an
ashery, making pearlash and potash, nearly the only cash articles manufactured
or raised for many years. Mr. GILLET was
an enterprising man, but failed in business after a few years. He served the county as clerk from 1841 to
1844 and emigrated west soon after his term expired. Himself, wife, and children are all dead.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 613
Surnames: GRAVES, GILLET, TOZER, CUMMINGS
Jonathan
GRAVES, son of Jonathan, settled at the Center in 1828 and was a partner of G.
W. GILLET in the mercantile business a number of years; he afterward bought
Richard TOZER's tavern. His oldest son,
Grove B. GRAVES, remained a citizen of the town and died in 1889 on the farm
his father had owned. His second son,
Delos, is a merchant in Franklinville.
The daughters were accomplished ladies.
The eldest, Mariette, is the wife of Solomon CUMMINGS, of Franklinville.
Julia, the wife of J. T. CUMMINGS, died in Arcade, where they lived, in
1872. Her life was one of great
labor. She was equalled by few and
excelled by none. She was among the
sweetest of singers and most accomplished and beautiful women the town was
proud to own. Jonathan GRAVES was
supervisor of Farmersville in 1831.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 613 & 614
Surnames: HENRY, CHEESEMAN
Gideon
HENRY was born in 1777 and settled in Farmersville in 1826. In August of that year his right shoulder was
dislocated by the kick of an ox. It was
not properly set, inflammation and rheumatism set in, and for many weeks he was
a great sufferer. The neighbors were
faithful in volunteering to watch with him night and day, and after he began to
recover they made a large logging-bee.
This helped the elder boys, Backus and Thomas, so they sowed about the
quantity of winter wheat the father had intended. He died here January 14, 1857. Of Protestant Irish descent his father
emigrated to Colchester, Conn., when seven years old (in 1737), and thence to
Richfield, Otsego county, when Gordon was sixteen, where he was married to
Phebe CHEESEMAN in 1803, and where all his children were born, five sons and
three daughters. He came to this town
May 6, 1826. Unselfish and charitable,
honest and just, he was especially prompt to pay hired help. He was deacon in the Presbyterian church, and
after the division he sympathized with the new school. He was one of the first to embrace the
temperance movement and espouse the cause of the slave, and discarded the use
of tobacco when sixty years old after using it over forty years. With Phebe, his wife, he lived a loving and
respectful union of fifty-four years.
Their oldest son, Anson G. HENRY, was a person of many virtues and
varied experience. He studied medicine
in Richfield Springs, N. Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1829 came to visit
his parents in Farmersville, where he taught the district school the following
winter. Completing his medical education
he located in Springfield, Ill., in 1832, and became a close and a life-long
friend of Abraham Lincoln. Dr. HENRY
took an active interest in the politics of the State and was elected and appointed
to places of importance and great trust.
He moved to Oregon and in 1861 was appointed surveyor-general of
Washington territory, which position he held until his death. After Lincoln's assassination Dr. HENRY
accompanied the remains on their journey to Springfield and sailed for his home
in Oregon on board the Brother Jonathan,
but was wrecked Aug. 12, 1865.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 614
Surnames: HENRY, HOOPER, LAWTON, McKERROW
Joseph
HENRY, of Irish descent, was born in 1815, came to this town in 1827, and for
two years rented the John HOOPER place.
He then bought a portion of the farm he now owns, and by industry, aided
by an excellent wife (Amanda LAWTON), has added to his lands and other personal
property until he is one of the wealthiest men in town. Since the completion of the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg railroad he has kept a general store and his sons
John and Andrew have conducted the farm.
Since the death of his wife, in 1875, he has lived alone with his
youngest daughter. He has three other
daughters married and two sons deceased.
Andrew HENRY was born Aug. 26, 1856, and married in 1879 Jennie
McKERROW; children living: Matthew and Blanch.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 614 & 615
Surnames: HENRY, WOOD
William HENRY, the youngest son of Gordon, was born in
Richfield, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1818, and married Sophia C. WOOD, of Gainesville, N.
Y., Jan. 19, 1843. The union has been
harmonious and their progress along the same lines of thought and belief. For over sixty years he has taken an active
part in all matters of public interest; especially has he always been an
earnest worker in the temperance and anti-slavery reforms; never used tobacco,
always avoided late hours, and strenuously opposed all luxurious living and
show. From 1831 to 1854 he was a
Presbyterian, but then became converted to modern spiritualism. For many years he was a pioneer school teacher,
the wages at first being $9 per month.
In the winter of 1843 - 44 he taught for $14 and boarded himself. Besides this he had from two to four night
schools each week. Teachers at that time
set copies for the scholars and made and mended good quill pens. In politics he was first a Whig and afterward
a radical Republican. In 1872 he
supported Greeley for president. From
that time until 1890 he acted with the Democrats and since then has been a
leading and enthusiastic member of the People's party. For over thirty years he has been a prolific
writer for the local press; and has occasionally written for leading papers in
Boston, New York, Elmira, Buffalo, Rochester, and Chicago. His communications generally command the
attention and respect if not the approval of readers. His honesty, his courage, and his
independence can not be questioned. It
became his duty by common consent to lead in raising the quota called for the
spring of 1864. He volunteered himself
and in less than twenty-four hours the quota of the town was filled. He was supervisor in 1866 and has held other offices
of trust. He served on the gunboat Paw
Paw until the close of the war and was able to do full duty nearly every
day. Since seventy years old he has
nearly retired from business and has devoted his life to reading and
writing. Besides his prose writings he
has written some verses that have been approved by the best minds in the
country. He read an interesting poem in
1892 at the Pioneers Picnic. His
education was limited to the log school houses and one term in the high school
in Springfield, Ill., in 1839 - 40. At
that time he made the acquaintance of Lincoln, Douglass, and many more of the
men who afterward acquired national prominence.
Mr. HENRY often repeats the immortal words of Lincoln: "With charity for all and malice towards
none," and Paul's summing up: "Charity never faileth."
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 615
Surnames: HOLMES, BUTLER, SILL, SEARL
Peter
HOLMES became a citizen of the town in 1820, bought land, and lived upon it
until his death in March, 1864, getting his first start making woodenware by
hand. He and his wife were very hardy,
substantial. people, and reared five sons and one daughter. Cicero S., the second son, is the only
representative still living in town.
Born here in 1823 he has been an exceptionally industrious and
hardworking farmer. Luther M. HOLMES is
a son of Hosea and Eliza A. (BUTLER) HOLMES and was born Oct. 25, 1851. In 1876 he married Ettie, daughter of Lyman
and Maria (SILL) SEARL, and has two children, Mattie and Ernest. He is an industrious farmer and a
representative citizen.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 615
Surnames: HOOPER, THRASHER, KING, BLAIR, ROGERS
Ebenezer
HOOPER, Jr., was born in New Berlin, Otsego county, came to Farmersville about
1833, and settled and cleared the farm now occupied by his son Lyman. He was a member of the Freewill Baptist
church and a man respected and esteemed by his neighbors, and died in 1869. Mr. HOOPER married Caroline THRASHER, who
died in 1839, leaving him one child, William, who lives in this town. For his second wife he married Almira KING,
who bore him five children: Lyman,
Solomon, Cornelia, Mary A., and Mary A., 2d.
Both of the latter are deceased.
Lyman HOOPER is a farmer. Born
Feb. 4, 1843, he married, in 1863, Florinda, daughter of Robert BLAIR, and has
five children: Alta L. (Mrs. James
ROGERS), Wallace W., Bertha E., Flora B., and Frankie. Another daughter, Mary C., died in infancy.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 615
Surnames: HOWARD, MILLS, BRYANT
George
HOWARD came to this town in 1830 and bought the farm owned by Joseph
MILLS. An excellent farmer, a good
neighbor, and a public spirited citizen he emigrated to Le Roy, N. Y., in 1868,
where he died in 1882. His oldest son
went to California, where he still lives.
A daughter went to Oregon in 1863.
Frank, the third child by the first wife, was killed at Gettysburg. The children of the second wife are Thomas,
Byron, Charles, and Anson (deceased).
Anna, the eldest daughter, is unmarried and lives with her mother in Le
Roy. Ella (Mrs. Clarence BRYANT) lives
in York, N. Y.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 615 & 616
Surnames: HUBBARD, HAYFORD, BLACKMON, WATKINS, SCOTT
Russel
HUBBARD with his father, who survived him only a few years, and his brother
Lyman, who soon removed to Rushford, came in 1821 and settled on a farm of two
hundred acres in the east part of the town, where he lived until a few years
before his death at Waverly, N. Y. Being
one of the best informed and finely cultivated men in the county he was
discovered by Horace Greeley and by his influence was nominated and elected to
the Assembly in 1831. He also served the
town as supervisor, school commissioner, and in other places of trust, and
might have been returned to the Legislature, or sent to Congress, or appointed
to other positions if he had sought them.
A most interesting and fascinating man in conversation he had the
elements of an orator, but would only say a few words in public at a time. After being an active member of the Methodist
church for many years he became converted to modern spiritualism. He remained a citizen of this town until a
few years before his death, which occurred at Waverly in 1875. His remains now rest in the Farmersville
cemetery beside his wife, who survived him a few months. His son Jedediah born Jan. 24, 1828, a
farmer, represents him in town. Jedediah
married, Feb. 21, 1861, Ann E., daughter of James and Percy (HAYFORD)
BLACKMON; children: Jessie (Mrs. Glenn WATKINS), Russel C., and
Hattie M. For some thirteen years he has
been town assessor. An only daughter of
Russel, Hattie SCOTT, is living in Chicago, Ill. The oldest and only other surviving son, Rial
W., lives in Chicago and has been a member of the Legislature.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of
Farmersville – Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 616
Surname: JEWELL
Abel JEWELL came from Sherburne,
Chenango county, in 1841, settling on the farm now owned by his nephew, Michael
A. This he cleared and improved,
reclaiming it from a thickly wooded tract to fertile, cultivated fields.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 616
Surnames: KING, HAWKINS, POTTER
Solomon
J. KING, son of Samuel and a native of Genesee county, was born March 22, 1818,
came with his father to Cattaraugus county, and married Euphema, daughter of
Ezra and Betsey HAWKINS. Mr. KING is a
mason by trade and a farmer by occupation, residing on the homestead of his
father. They have a son, Lewis A., who
married Ellen L. POTTER and has one child, Lora E.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 616
Surnames: KNIGHT, BREWER
Andrew
KNIGHT, Jr., son of Andrew, was born in Pittsfield, N. Y., in 1808, and in 1830
married Olive BREWER. The same year they
moved to Farmersville onto a farm of 100 acres.
Mr. KNIGHT was well known in the county.
He bought and drove cattle to Philadelphia, and was supervisor of
Farmersville in 1867. Of his six
children only one, Fremont, is living.
Andrew KNIGHT died April 19, 1886; his widow lives in Franklinville.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 616
Surname: LANE
Dea.
Timothy LANE and his sons Lloyd, Jacob, and Samuel settled on farms on lot
39. The deacon was a Baptist and a
gifted man in conference and prayer meetings.
The three sons and three daughters comprising his family are
deceased. The oldest son of Lloyd, James
H., is an enterprising farmer here. His
success has been phenomenal. In 1868 he
bought a large and poor hill farm, mostly on credit, and has made it into a
pleasant home.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 616
Surnames: LAW, STRONG, PARISH
Ezra
B. LAW is a son of Eliphalet and Mary E. (STRONG) LAW. Born in this town Dec. 16, 1853, he married,
April 12, 1873, Eva, daughter of Zabad PARISH, and has been a farmer and dealer
in cattle and horses. Children: Lovina
(deceased), Vernia E., Bertha E. (deceased), and Reuben W.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 616
Surnames: LEONARD, DAVIS, BYDLEMAN, THOMAS, EVANS
Benjamin
LEONARD, son of Evan and Margaret (DAVIS) LEONARD, was born July 2, 1828, and
came to Freedom in June, 1844. He
married Jenette BYDLEMAN and had these children: Dora, Theodore, Julia, Sarah, Jane
(deceased), George (deceased), Charles E., Melvin E., Eddie (deceased), Hattie
J., and William B. By his second wife,
Martha THOMAS, he had children Gretta G., Lewis J., Mary E., David T., and
Eliza A. Theodore LEONARD was born in
Freedom Feb. 8, 1851, received his education in the common schools and in Ten
Broeck Academy, and married in 1879 Mary EVANS;
children: James F. and Irving B.
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Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 616 & 617
Surnames: LITTLE, HINES, WRIGHT, SISSON, POTTER, CURTIS, SESSIONS,
MANWARING, LOOMIS, DRUMB
William
S. LITTLE, who came into Farmersville as a farmer in 1840, was a native of
Middletown, Conn., for some time a resident of Genesee county, raised thirteen
children, and died at the age of ninety-seven years. Five of his family are living, viz.:
Elizabeth (Mrs. E. HINES), Sarah (Mrs. Amos WRIGHT), Emily (Mrs. Clark SISSON),
Walter N., and Fred M. The latter owns
and occupies the homestead. Walter N.
LITTLE was born in Bethany, N. Y., Dec. 6, 1822, came to Farmersville with the
family in 1840, and in 1845 married Eliza A., daughter of Jeremiah and Betsey
POTTER; children: Adelbert W.
(deceased), Amelia (Mrs. E. CURTIS), Bessie L. (Mrs. M. L. SESSIONS), and
Orville. Mr. LITTLE resides on the farm
he originally settled, and carried on his back from Farmersville Center the
apple trees now comprising his orchard.
Feb. 17, 1862, he enlisted in Co. K, 105th N. Y. Vols., and was with the
regiment until its discharge, acting as teamster.
Frederick
M. LITTLE, son of William S. and Lurana (MANWARING) LITTLE, was born in this
town Nov. 27, 1840, on the farm on which he now resides. May 13, 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 71st N.
Y. Vols., and participated in the engagements of Fair Oaks, Seven Days' Fight,
Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg.
At Second Bull Run be was taken sick, sent to Philadelphia, and rejoined
his regiment in April, 1863, and was discharged July 31, 1864. Returning home he went to Warren, Pa., where
he married Carrie B. LOOMIS, and in 1878 resumed his residence in
Farmersville. Children: Charles F. and Nellie M. (Mrs. H. W. DRUMB).
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 617
Surnames: LOVE, LANE, ROGERS, COLERICK, KIDDER, MARTIN, CHARLES
Charles
LOVE, born March 22, 1798, settled here in 1827. He was most scrupulously honest and faithful
to every obligation. His wife was Katie
LANE and they had eight children. Their
son James remains on the homestead.
George is a farmer in Freedom.
Elanah, wife of John RUST, and Catherine, wife of Landes ROGERS, reside
in this town. Thomas lives in Portville,
as does also Mary (Mrs. N. COLERICK).
Martha (Mrs. H. ROGERS) resides in Humphrey. James LOVE was born Dec. 26, 1832. Aug. 28, 1864, he married Harriet L.,
daughter of Benjamin and Lucy (KIDDER) MARTIN.
Children: Nettie L., Lillie M.
(Mrs. Milton CHARLES), Anna J., Charles B., and Edna May.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 617
Surnames: MARTIN, KIDDER, BULLARD, TURNER, PATTERSON, LOVE, LOCKE,
JOSLYN, BLOUNT, PRESCOTT
Benjamin
MARTIN, a native of Salisbury, Vt., came to Yorkshire in 1834 and in 1851
removed to this town, locating five years later on the farm his son William P.
now owns. By his wife, Lucy KIDDER, he
had eleven children, all but one of whom are living, viz.: Mary (Mrs. Daniel
BULLARD), Caroline (Mrs. Harvey TURNER), Ann (Mrs. Nathaniel PATTERSON),
Benjamin F., Henry G., Hiram A., Harriet L. (Mrs. James LOVE), Ellen J. (Mrs.
Harlan LOCKE), William P., and Clara A. (Mrs. Fayette JOSLYN). Susan is deceased. William P. MARTIN was born in Yorkshire, Feb.
4, 1845. Nov. 19, 1868, he married
Adelaide, daughter of Horace and Laura (BLOUNT) PRESCOTT; children:
Erdine L., Leona A., Prescott U., Burnett H., Denton E., and Ethel L.
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 617 & 618
Surnames: MERRILL, WILTERTON, WATSON, PRATT, WATERS, BIGELOW, BELDEN,
MERRY, SMITH, HOWE, STEELE, HAYES, ALDRICH, BAILET, PERSONS, HILSLE
The
MERRILL family in America is of English descent and date their residence in
this country to the year 1633 or 1634.
Nathaniel MERRILL and his brother John, as near as can be ascertained,
were natives of Wiltshire, England, came to America in 1633 - 34, and resided
in Ipswich, Mass., about a year. They
then removed to Newbury, Mass., where they were farmers and original
settlers. The homestead of Nathaniel has
but recently passed out of the possession of his descendants. Nathaniel and Susanna, his wife, had four sons
and a daughter. Their son John was
adopted by Gregory WILTERTON, supposed to be his uncle (the brother of his
mother, Susanna), and at his death he inherited his estate. John married Sarah WATSON and they had eight
sons and two daughters. Their fifth son,
Wilterton, married, first, Ruth PRATT, and second, Hannah WATERS, who was the
mother of Gideon MERRILL. Gideon married
Mary BIGELOW and had sons Samuel and Nathaniel.
Nathaniel married Hannah BELDEN and they had sixteen children. Their seventh child, Allen, was born in
Litchfield, Conn., and early in life became a pioneer of Litchfield, N. Y.,
where his brother-in-law, Samuel MERRY, was the first settler. Allen MERRILL married Tammie SMITH and they
were parents of eleven children. His
fifth child, Smith MERRILL, was born in Johnstown, Montgomery county, Oct. 16,
1810, and came to Yorkshire in 1835. In
the early part of 1838 he married Melinda, daughter of John HOWE, who settled
in Yorkshire in 1832. Mr. MERRILL was a
tailor and opened a merchant tailor's store, and remained there in trade until
1849. He then located in the village of
Franklinville, where he continued his business until the financial
embarrassments of 1857, when he closed out.
In 1859 he removed to a farm in Farmersville, where he was a farmer
until 1881, with two years of the time in the same occupation in Great
Valley. He has since then resided near
his son, Perry E. MERRILL, and two of his daughters in the town of Freedom. This family consists of ten children: Henry S., John B., Emmett W., Perry E., Addie
E., Loraine H. STEELE, Wallace W., Mary E. HAYES, Grace M., and Frank M. John B., Emmett W., and Addie E. are
deceased.
Henry
S. MERRILL, the eldest of this large family, was born in Yorkshire, June 5,
1839, was educated at the common schools, and at the age of fifteen he entered
the printing office of the Olean journal,
of which Charles ALDRICH was then editor and proprietor. There he was an apprentice for three years,
when he returned home and remained until the breaking out of the
Rebellion. He enlisted April 22, 1861, a
private in Co. B, 23d N. Y. Vols., and followed the vicissitudes of his
regiment the next two years, being honorably discharged at the close of his
term of enlistment. He participated in
the battles of Manassas, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, (first and second) Chancellorsville, and several of lesser
importance. He escaped without a wound
and was only four weeks in hospital.
Returning home upon his discharge he again went to the war and was
engaged with an army sutler a year. He
was then a farmer until 1868, when he engaged in cheese-making, which he
followed successfully until 1874 and was proprietor of three factories at the
time he sold and left the business.
Since then he has been engaged as a farmer, station agent, insurance
agent, and in the railway mail service four years. His first presidential vote was given to
Abraham Lincoln in Nov., 1864. He cast
his lot with the Republican party and there are few, if any, more zealous
adherents in his town or county. He
served six terms as supervisor of Farmersville, where he has lived since 1868,
and has held other places of trust both political and financial; and were he to
die today his political account should balance.
Financially he has been better to acquire than to preserve.
In the
fall of 1888 Mr. MERRILL received the Republican nomination for the office of
county clerk and was elected by the flattering plurality of 2,291 votes. He is now serving his second term acceptably
and satisfactorily. Mr. MERRILL is the
first county clerk in this county who has succeeded himself since 1846, when
Francis E. BAILET, formerly of Farmersville, was also his own successor. Feb. 12, 1866, he married Miss Hattie E.
PERSONS, daughter of Alonzo PERSONS of Rushford, N. Y., and they are the
parents of a son and two daughters. His
son Emmett W., born Nov. 19, 1867, married Bula HILSLE on June 6, 1893, and is
now aiding his father as special deputy clerk.
His oldest daughter, Hattie E., recently graduated at, the Normal School
at Fredonia, N. Y., and the youngest, Mertie C., is at home.
Ed. Note: This biography includes a photograph of Henry
S. MERRILL
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Bio
from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 618
Surnames: METCALF, WEIRE
Alvenus
METCALF, son of Rufus, was born in Freedom in 1820, married Alma WEIRE, and
settled finally in the northeast part of Farmersville, where he died on the
farm where his son Carlos now lives. His
five sons were Carlos, Earl (deceased), George, Odell, and Charles.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 618
Surname: MULLIKEN
Samuel
MULLIKEN was among the early settlers.
To the girls the community is indebted for their faithful service as
teachers. Fidelia commenced teaching when
only sixteen years old and received seventy-five cents per week: her labors and
pure Christian example should perpetuate her name through all coming
generations. The family consisted of
seven girls and two sons; of the girls all but one, Angeline, were married. She died quite young. The youngest son died in the west. Edwin, the oldest, retains the old homestead,
married, and is now living in Rushford, N. Y.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 619
Surnames: OLDER, TOZER, PACKARD, PEET, NOBLES, MULLIKEN, WOODS,
CARPENTER
Sally
OLDER was a worthy friend and co-worker as a pioneer teacher with Mary Ann
TOZER, Miss PACKARD, Minerva PEET, the NOBLESes, and Fidelia MULLIKEN. She has been twice married and is now a widow
living in Illinois. She was an excellent
scholar, especially in mathematics, in which she had no equal in town. All her learning was acquired without the aid
of an academy or high school. Marvin
OLDER, an elder brother, was an able and very successful teacher in this and
other towns during our early history.
Mr. OLDER has been a citizen of Franklinville many years and one of
their best scholars and ablest writers in prose and poetry. Paulina OLDER taught school as early as 1825
in district No. 2, at the Center, and the writer went to school in the same
place during the summer of 1826. Morden
OLDER, brother of Marvin and an accomplished scholar and a successful teacher,
studied law later in life and practiced in Moscow, N. Y., until his death.
Wallis
OLDER, son of William, came to this town with his father in 1818, married
Juliette MULLIKEN, followed farming and his trade of cooper, and died here
after rearing a family of five children.
Alonzo, his son, married Mariam WOODS and had six children: Charles E., William W., Rosa, Ella M., Frank,
and Clyde. Mr. OLDER's second wife is
Jane CARPENTER. He was town supervisor
in 1880 and 1881 and is a prosperous farmer.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 619
Surnames: PATTERSON, MARTIN, BANCROFT
Nathaniel
S. PATTERSON was born in this town April 8, 1842. Enlisting in Co. D, 154th N. Y. Vols., he
served until the close of the war, being discharged June 11, 1865. April 22, 1864, he married Mrs. Lucy A.,
widow of Henry L. MARTIN, and has one daughter, Alta M. (Mrs. Frank
BANCROFT). Mr. PATTERSON is a
progressive farmer on the homestead.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 619
Surname: PEET
Rufus
PEET became a citizen of the town in 1828, was highly endowed, and few men had
better memories or a more correct and ready flow of language. He used to say that he obtained a mastery of
language by a severe study of Webster's Dictionary; he divided the book into
365 parts, and each day learned to spell and define one of those parts. At the end of the year he had mastered his
task and never after that did he hesitate for a word when writing or
speaking. With all the qualities he
possessed he seemed to lack the power to attract or please. Perhaps the community is as much to blame for
not listening and appreciating his superiority as he for not making a more
judicious use of his wonderful gifts.
Levi PEET was a marked character in many directions. It would hardly be possible to find a human
form more devoid of grace and beauty.
Slim, six feet two inches tall, loose-jointed, having very few
opportunities for school, he was undoubtedly possessed of latent powers
susceptible of great development. He was
elected justice of the peace in 1822, and by the help of his excellent and
well-educated wife he continually advanced in usefulness and influence until
his death in 1863. He became an able
business man, studied law, and became quite a successful practitioner in
justices' courts. He was twice married;
his wives were sisters. To them he owes much
for his success. And to them he and the
world are indebted for a large family of stalwart sons and cultivated
daughters. One of his sons in a letter
to an old schoolmate in 1891 says:
"Some of us may not have filled the niche designed for us by our
Creator, yet I think the boys and girls who lived in Farmersville sixty years
ago will rank with the average."
Schuler
PEET taught school a number of seasons, emigrated to Iowa, and became one of
the ablest lawyers in that State.
Cornelius also went to Iowa, has been a successful farmer, and has ably
represented his county in the Legislature.
S. L. PEET, before marriage, was a teacher. They were sons of Levi.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surname: POWELL
Joseph
POWELL became a resident of Farmersville about 1828, settling near the center
of the town on a tract of land he afterward sold to Cornelius Ten Broeck. About 1853 he moved to Wisconsin, where he
died.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surnames: PRATT, STOCKWELL, THOMPSON
Truman
C. PRATT, son of Jeremiah, Jr., was born in New Lisbon, N. Y., Nov. 19, 1825,
came with his father to Lyndon, and subsequently removed to this town, settling
in 1862 upon the farm he now occupies.
Jan. 1, 1851, he married Charlotte M. STOCKWELL; children:
Eleanor S. (deceased), Lucien R., Rose M., and Ernest A. Gertrude M., an adopted daughter, married
Charles M. THOMPSON, and died Dec. 15, 1890.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surname: RICHARDSON
Enoch
RICHARDSON came to Farmersville Center about 1828 and engaged in the tanning
business. He was afterward a farmer and
eventually moved to Rushford, N. Y., where be died.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surnames: ROBBINS, HENRY, BAKER, DROWN
Richard
ROBBINS married the second daughter of Gordon HENRY. His farm joined Mr. BAKER's. Their children were all born and educated in
the same school district. In culture,
reading, and literary taste Mrs. BAKER and Mrs. ROBBINS were much alike. Mr. ROBBINS, a man of great strength and
endurance, did a great deal of clearing by the job, and would chop twenty-five
acres in 100 days and has chopped five and three-fourths cords of four-foot
wood in a day. He signed the pledge
previous to his marriage in 1833 and was among the earliest to espouse the
cause of the slave. They had six sons
and four daughters. Two, Milton and
Egbert (the twin brother of Albert, a policeman in New York) were killed in the
Rebellion before Petersburg. Richard was
drowned and Frank, the youngest, died in Portland, Ore.; Ellen, the oldest, is
not married; Elizabeth died when quite young; Esther F. has had superior
advantages of travel and was a genius in sketching and drawing. She has been twice married; her present
husband is James BROWN, LL.D., of Portland, Ore., where she has had a home
since 1863.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surnames: SESSIONS, SHEPARD, SWEET, LITTLE
Israel
SESSIONS, born in Vermont, October 24, 1806, came with his parents to Oneida
county, and moved thence in 1836 to Farmersville, where it is said he
"cleared up more land than any man in the county." Marrying Sophia SHEPARD he had born to him
six children, of whom Albert served and died in the navy during the Civil war;
Mariette (Mrs. Orson SWEET) is deceased; Luther enlisted in the Rebellion and
died at Elmira; Marenus H. married Bessie L. LITTLE and has one child, Edith
B.; Edwin C. resides on the homestead.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surnames: SMITH, BALCOM, IVES, BURGER, THOMAS
Nelson
D. SMITH, son of Asa B., was born in Otsego county. Coming to Rushford, Allegany county, he
married there Adaline P. BALCOM, and was engaged in milling and cheese
making. In 1870 he came to this town,
having since been a farmer and cheese maker, and now resides at the
Center. He has two sons, Melvin E. and
Willis D., who are merchants in the Center village. Melvin E. has been supervisor for several
years, and in other positions he has served faithfully and honorably. He married Mary L., daughter of James and
Catherine (IVES) BURGER; children:
Genevieve and Mildred. Willis D.
SMITH married Florence J. THOMAS, and has one child, Harry C.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 620
Surname: STRONG
Ezra
STRONG was among the early settlers and made a manly struggle with poverty
while rearing and educating a family of six sons and three daughters, all of
whom are living excepting the third son, Ezra B., and the youngest daughter,
Mary Ann. Walter and Jacob are farmers,
the first living in Machias and the latter in Freedom. William, the oldest, is a wealthy farmer in
Michigan. The two younger are well
educated men.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 620 & 621
Surname: TARBELL
D. O.
TARBELL.-Among the few who have remained on the homestead of their father D. O.
TARBELL, son of James TARBELL, has been most successful. He took the farm, which was badly encumbered,
cleared off the debts, and added largely to it by purchase. His barns with all their contents were burned
by lightning in the fall of 1877 and again in the fall of 1881. The insurance covered only a small part of
the loss. Myron O., his son,
superintends the farm and D. O. lives in Olean.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 621
Surname: TAYLOR
Chauncey
TAYLOR was an emigrant from Otisco, Onondaga county, to Farmersville in
1820. Settling on the farm where he died
he reared three daughters and one son.
Edwin TAYLOR was supervisor of Farmersville in 1845.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 621
Surname: TEN
BROECK
Hon.
Peter TEN BROECK became a permanent resident of Farmersville in 1817 and at one
time was the wealthiest man in town. An
extended sketch of him appears on page 278.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 621
Surname: THOMAS
Samuel
THOMAS and his son and their families settled in town in 1840. Samuel, Sr., is, dead. His son Samuel A. still lives here, is a wit
and a good story-teller, and has made a specialty of rearing blooded
stock. He has been acting justice of the
peace for a number of terms, is a very ingenious person, and can make any
common article in iron or wood.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 621
Surnames: THOMAS, GILLEY, HAND, LEONARD
J. W.
THOMAS, a native of Wales, England, came to Cattaraugus county in 1855 and to
this town in 1860. In 1857 he married
Mary F., only daughter of Robert GILLEY.
Robert GILLEY came with his father to Farmersville when a small boy,
married Clarinda HAND, and died on the homestead, which he had purchased. Mr. THOMAS was a tanner and currier by trade
and combined that vocation with farming, being fairly successful in both
occupations. His three children are Fred
W., who was killed in an accident at Alpine. Tex., Sept. 19, 1890, Addie V.
(Mrs. M. A. LEONARD), and Herman H.
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from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 621
Surnames: TOZER, PACKARD
Richard
TOZER was born in Richfield, N. Y. Soon
after his settlement in 1817 he built additions to his one-room cabin and
commenced keeping tavern. A few years
after he tore down the log cabin and built what was then considered a beautiful
and spacious hotel, which still remains without scarcely any changes or repairs
to this day, a period of over sixty years.
He was the first supervisor after the organization in 1822 and was
re-elected in 1823, 1824, and 1826, and was a man of enterprise and
ability. He was noted for his sharp wit
and burlesques and stories. He had a
large family of sons and daughters.
Addison, his oldest, was the first child born in the settlement. His second daughter, Mary Ann, married John
PACKARD in 1844. They emigrated first to
Galena, Ill., but now live in Chicago.
It seems quite proper to keep alive her memory in the town of her birth,
where she received in the plain little school house all, or nearly all, her
literary education, and where for years she and her husband will be remembered
by their pupils for their faithful service and good examples as teachers. She died in Aug., 1892.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 621
Surnames: TYLER, ADAMS, BUTLER
Jamin,
and Arthur TYLER came to this town with their father, Alvin, in 1826, and the
father died a few months afterward. They
became farmers, retaining lands articled by their father, where Jamin lived
until his death in 1888. He has one son,
Clayton, living in town, a daughter, Emma ADAMS, in Bradford, Pa., and another
in Sandusky. The widow of Jamin is still
living on the homestead. Arthur and his
wife, Hurry, oldest daughter of Harvey BUTLER, died in Portville, where they
had lived many years. Lucius, an older
brother, was a still earlier settler, a tanner, currier, and shoemaker, and an
early justice of the peace. Henry C.,
son of Jamin, resides in this town.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Pages 621 & 622
Surnames: WAKEFIELD, WRIGHT, KNIGHT
Samuel
WAKEFIELD, Jr., moved into Farmersville in 1844 and located on the farm now
owned by Orin WRIGHT. Born in
Brattleboro, Vt., in 1800 he reared a family of eight children, and died on the
homestead respected by a wide circle of friends. His wife was Polly KNIGHT and their children
now living are Benjamin F., Delia H., Mary J., Fenner, Charles B., and William
K.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 622
Surnames: WILDER, SKINNER, TARBELL, BROWN, HENRY
Charles
WILDER, a native of Windham county, Vt., emigrated to Otsego county, whence his
son Reuben came to Farmersville in 1837, where he settled on the farm now owned
by his son R. S., and where he died. His
wife was Elsie L. SKINNER, who bore him four children: Frances M. (Mrs. D. O. TARBELL), Mary A.,
Sarah A. (Mrs. N. BROWN), and Reuben S.
The latter was born Aug. 17, 1829, came to this town with his father,
and Feb. 25, 1857, married Sarah J., daughter of Joseph HENRY, by whom he has
one son, Millard R. For nine years he
lived in Fairview, where be was postmaster and a grocer.
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Historical Gazetteer and Biographical
Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 622
Surnames: WILLIAMS, OSMAN
William
C. WILLIAMS, son of John, was born in Pembrockshire, South Wales, in 1848, came
to America and to Freedom in 1868, and worked by the month until 1878, when he
built a store at Farmersville Station, where he has since been engaged in the
mercantile business. He married Carlie,
daughter of Alonzo OSMAN, and has been postmaster. Mr. WILLIAMS has acquired an excellent
reputation as a thorough business man. The first merchant at the Staton he is one of
the very few laboring men who saved enough from their wages in an iron-mill to
bring them to America and start them in business.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 622
Surname: WORTHINGTON
John
WORTHINGTON, whose father was an early settler of Freedom, became a citizen of
this town quite early, where his children were born and educated. The oldest, Dubios, became an accomplished
scholar and a popular preacher. William,
a lawyer, was corporation attorney of the city of Buffalo when he died in
1890. Another son is a carpenter (the
trade of his father).
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History of the Town of Farmersville –
Chapter XXVII (27)
Page 622
Surnames: WRIGHT, LITTLE, WAKEFIELD, LAW
Amos
WRIGHT came from Genesee county to Freedom in 1824, settling on 160 acres of
land near Elton. There he cleared a farm
and worked at his trade of carpenter and millwright and removed to this town in
1838, locating on the place now owned by Henry LITTLE, where he was killed by a
falling tree. He had ten children, of
whom four are living: Amos, Jr., Orin,
Harriet, and Sally. Orin WRIGHT, a
native of Freedom, was born Feb. 23, 1829.
Dec. 5, 1852 he married Angeline C. WAKEFIELD, who has borne him eight
children, six of whom are living:
Samuel, Charles E., Albert B., Irving P., Orin S., and Katie D. His wife died in June, 1888, and for his
second wife Mr. WRIGHT married Mrs. Mary J. LAW. He is a farmer and a carpenter.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published
1893
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from:
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
646
Surnames: ADAMS, BUNTING, ROOT
George
ADAMS was a native of London, England, and came to Humphrey in this county in
1830. He was born Jan. 16, 1805 and died
Oct. 27, 1890, residing in Sugartown for sixty years. His wife was Mary BUNTING, also a native of
England; she died March 28, 1874. Of
their five children two, Sarah (Mrs. Warren S. ROOT) and George W., are living.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
646
Surnames: ANTISDALE, COON, STORRS, LINDSAY, PATTERSON, OAKES
Moses
ANTISDALE came to Franklinville from Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1829, and settled
on lot 45, previously purchased. He
finally sold out and moved into Morgan hollow, where he resided until his
wife's death in 1860. He married Nancy
COON, of Cherry Valley, previous to coming to this town. Children: Mary J. (Mrs. G. C. STORRS), Diantha
(Mrs. Walter LINDSAY), Willard, Sarah Ann, Louisa (Mrs. William PATTERSON),
Anna (Mrs. John OAKES), and Luther S.
Mr. ANTISDALE and Luther went to Illinois in 1860. In 1861 Luther enlisted in Co. A, 2d Ill. Cav., and was soon
promoted orderly, in which capacity he served until General Oglesby was
mortally wounded at Corinth, Oct. 3, 1862.
After General Oglesby's death he served under Gen. John A. Logan. He was in many battles along the Mississippi,
including Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, and Vicksburg,
through all of which he passed without a wound, but afterward died of
intermittent fever in the military hospital at New Orleans in the fall of
1863. Moses ANTISDALE enlisted a few
months later and received an injury on board a gunboat at the siege of Fort
Donelson, in consequence of which he was discharged and died aboard the cars on
his way home, in April, 1862.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
646
Surnames: BARD, FREEMAN, PATTERSON
Robert
BARD came to Farmersville from Herkimer county in November, 1816, and settled
on what is now known as the FREEMAN farm.
He married a daughter of Ashbel FREEMAN and had four children. Mr. BARD came to the village of Franklinville
in 1829, having traded his farm with John PATTERSON for property where now
stands the Globe Hotel, where he kept hotel 26 years.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
646
Surnames: BOND, CARPENTER, SEARL
Marshall
O. BOND is a son of Ora and Laura (CARPENTER) BOND and was born June 26, 1828.
January 1, 1852, he married Hannah SEARL, of Franklinville, and settled in the
village, where he engaged with his father in harness making. In July, 1862, Mr. BOND enlisted in Co. D,
154th N. Y. Vols., as first lieutenant, and resigned in 1863 on account of
sickness. A number of years were spent
in the oil country and upon returning to this town he engaged in farming. Children: Ida E., Adda M., Hanford S., and
Kate G. Ora BOND, the father of Marshall
O., was supervisor of Farmersville in 1829-30 and again in 1840.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
646
Surnames: BOYCE, BLOODGOOD, DAY, BUCK, LITCHFIELD, VAUGHAN
James
F. BOYCE, born in Worcester, Mass., March 1, 1795, came to this county in
1823. He kept bachelor's hall in the
woods two years and then married Elizabeth BLOODGOOD, from Herkimer, N. Y., the
ceremony being performed by Israel DAY, J. P., of Franklinville. The couple located on Bear creek, two miles
farther into the forest than any other settlers, and remained there seven years. They then came to this town and settled on
lot 32, on BOYCE hill, where he resided until his death Jan. 12, 1864. His wife died April 5, 1885. Children: Louisa H. (Mrs. Ezra BUCK), David
F., Almira C. (Mrs. Harvey LITCHFIELD), Nancy E., Amy L., and Mary A. Z. (Mrs.
Joseph VAUGHAN).
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
646 & 647
Surnames: BURROWS, ROCKWELL, ALGER, SQUIRE
David
BURROWS, a Vermonter by birth, at the age of eighteen came with his father to
Gainesville, N. Y., and in 1840 removed to Franklinville, settling in Cadiz,
where he commenced shoemaking. His wife
was Orrilla ROCKWELL, who bore him five children, of whom three are living:
Jasper A., Lucinda M. (Mrs. D. ALGER), and George W. Mrs. BURROWS died July 9, 1855 and Mr.
BURROWS on March 31, 1885. Jasper A.
BURROWS was born Oct. 28, 1843, and married Candace, daughter of Edward C.
SQUIRE; two children: Dora A. and Edward C.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
647
Surnames: BUTLER, LYON, NAPIER, HOWARD
Samuel
BUTLER, son of Nathan, came with his wife, Phebe LYON, from Otsego county to
Franklinville in 1820. Two years
afterward he bought seventy-five acres of wild land in Farmersville, whither he
moved and erected a frame house. He was
a carpenter and joiner by trade. A few
years later he returned to this town and purchased the farm and built the stone
house where John NAPIER now lives. Of
his four children two are living: Eliza A. (Mrs. HOWARD) and Lewis L.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
647-649
Surnames: BUTTON, DUNCAN, TEN BROECK
Jonas
K. BUTTON was born in Machias on the 3d of May, 1821. His father, Charles, was a pioneer farmer,
and the early life of Mr. BUTTON was passed on the farm with a large family of
brothers and sisters, and his stalwart frame was inured to the severe toil
which was the lot of the “tiller of the soil” in the primitive history of the
county. His father died in 1832 and the
duties of the farm so occupied the attention of the children that the education
of Mr. BUTTON was restricted to a few winter terms of school in the log school
house, but that temple of learning has been the source of inspiration to the
men who have risen to prominence in western New York. After attaining the age of eighteen years he
worked out at farm work by the month during the summer season and taught school
during the winter months. He early
acquired habits of thrift and economy and was particular to add to his savings
each year, knowing that this course was the only one that insured the
attainment of a competence. He was never
afflicted with the modern mania of becoming suddenly rich, but preferred to
acquire his accumulations by ceaseless energy and in business where his ripe
judgment could be of service to him. On
the 27th of Sept., 1845, he was married to Jane M. DUNCAN, and together they
began life in the employ of Judge Peter TEN BROECK, of Farmersville, and that
rare judge of men at once appreciated the merit of the young couple, and their
friendship continued unabated until the death of Judge TEN BROECK.
In
1847 Mr. BUTTON purchased and moved onto a farm about three miles south of the
village of Franklinville, and which has ever since been known as “the BUTTON
farm” and is now owned by his youngest son and namesake, who, at twenty-two, is
proving himself a “chip of the old block” in representing the town as
supervisor. Mr. BUTTON was early
ambitious to excel as a farmer and like his early patron, Judge TEN BROECK, to
become a large landed proprietor, and so well was his ambition gratified that
at his death he owned 2,100 acres of farming land in the county of Cattaraugus,
being the largest owner of tillable land within its borders. This land comprised six farms well stocked
and under an excellent state of cultivation. In 1864 he took up his residence
in the village of Franklinville and thereafter leased his farms. Mr. BUTTON was the model landlord. He was unerring in his estimate of men,
understood well when his farms were properly carried on, and while fair and
considerate to his tenants was strict and exacting in requiring them to care
for his stock and maintain his farms in good condition. His relations with his tenants were close and
kindly, and he seldom was obliged to change them, and his leaseholds were
profitable alike to him and his lessees.
When
the cheese industry by factory-making first started Mr. BUTTON erected a
factory between Franklinville and Cadiz and another west of Cadiz, and they
were the nucleus of a combination that has become celebrated. For many years he
attended to the financial management of this combination, selling the cheese
and distributing the proceeds, and his excellent judgment and methodical habits
prevented criticism as to his performance of this trust. Mr. BUTTON early took an interest in politics
and was soon recognized as one of the leaders of his party in the county. He was an uncompromising Democrat, zealous in
defending the principles of his party, and a partisan in practice. He was supervisor of Franklinville for five
terms and was elected member of Assembly in 1867, though the district was
regarded as safely Republican. He was the candidate of his party for Congress
in one or two campaigns. He affiliated
with his party during the Civil war, yet believed in the suppression of the
Rebellion and the unity of the nation.
He contributed liberally for the payment of bounties, and, to induce
enlistments, at one time paid $1000, at another pledged $100 to be divided
equally among the next four who should enlist, and again personally advanced
$3,000 to enable the town to fill its quota, trusting to future legislation for
its re-payment. Western New York has
been largely Republican since the inception of that party, so Mr. BUTTON's
political preferment was confined to the offices stated, but in the councils of
his party and among those in this end of the State who were instrumental in
party organization he was a prominent factor.
Judge
TEN BROECK appointed him sole executor of his will with plenary power in the
management and disposition of his large estate.
When it is remembered that his property included about 7,000 acres of
land the magnitude of the undertaking can be partly appreciated. This vast area he managed with consummate
judgment, making sales from year to year until the entire land was converted
into money or securities that were gilt-edged.
He was also by the act of incorporation one of the trustees of TEN
BROECK Free Academy, and by virtue of his residence in Franklinville and his
aggressive individuality was the master spirit of the Board of Trustees until
his resignation shortly prior to his death.
The academy was erected in the village, which was then remote from a
railroad and where education was at a low ebb.
Mr. BUTTON assumed the direction of this business with his wonted energy
and the academy was soon the potent agency in eastern Cattaraugus for higher
education. His zeal in behalf of this
institution was irrepressible and he seized every opportunity to advance its
influence. When Franklinville became a
full-fledged village Mr. BUTTON, though opposed to incorporation, was elected
as one of its first trustees, as the taxpayers had implicit faith in his
judgment and fairness. He well served
his constituents in this capacity, believing thoroughly in public improvements
and yet guarding wisely the expenditure of the moneys raised.
In
1879 he united with the First United Presbyterian Church Society of
Franklinville, of which his wife was a member.
Thenceforth he was a faithful, earnest Christian. He made no parade of his new life. He contributed one-fourth of the $11,000 used
in building the substantial church edifice of this society. He died in Franklinville, Sept. 8, 1884,
leaving his widow, four sons, and two daughters, all of whom are still living.
Mr.
BUTTON was a man of sterling, positive traits of character. He despised any cant or hypocrisy and
asserted his intense convictions confidently and fearlessly. On any matter, either local or of a wider
range, he took a decided stand. With
little education in his youth, yet, by friction with men, by keen observation,
by an aptitude for comprehending the pith of any subject, and by his unfailing
common sense, he soon became well informed.
He made a marked impression on the people of eastern Cattaraugus, was
thoroughly respected, and was recognized as one of its leading men. In defining to a young man the cardinal
principles leading to success he stated they were “integrity, industry, and
perseverance,” and they certainly comprised the elements that made his own
career so successful.
Ed. Note: This biography includes a photograph of Jonas
K. BUTTON
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
649
Surnames: BUTTON, BROWN, LITTLE, CURTIS
Reuben
C. BUTTON, son of Lyman and Polly (BROWN) BUTTON, was born in Machias, Nov. 25,
1839, and removed to this town in 1855, living for a time with his uncle, Jonas
K. BUTTON. Nov. 3, 1861, he married
Elizabeth, daughter of John LITTLE, and was engaged in farming until 1865, when
he opened a livery stable in the village.
In 1876 his wife died and Nov. 25, 1880 he married, second, Addie V.,
daughter of Sylvester and Mary CURTIS.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
649
Surname: BUTTON
Peter
T. B. BUTTON has always taken an active interest in the mercantile and
political affairs of the town. He has
served as supervisor and in other offices, and was largely instrumental in
organizing the Franklinville Agricultural and Driving Park Association, of
which he has served as treasurer, secretary, and president.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
649
Surnames: CAMPBELL, MORGAN, DICKINSON
Robert CAMPBELL, a relative of Judge CAMPBELL, of Cherry
Valley, Otsego county, N. Y., was born in that place and resided there until
after his majority. He married Elizabeth
CAMPBELL, and in 1829 he came with his family to Franklinville and settled on a
part of lot 29 on the road known as Otsego street, from the fact that every
settler thereon was from Otsego county. He
remained on the place about thirty years and then, with his son, Andrew J.
CAMPBELL, removed to Black Creek and remained there until his death. Children: Samuel, Mary Ann, Albert J.,
Eleanor, Alanson, Deborah, and Andrew J.
Samuel married Eliza MORGAN, July 24, 1851, and remained on lot 29 until
his death in 1889. Children: Dewitt,
Sarah, and Amenzo. Amenzo now resides on
the place with his mother. Albert J.
married Permelia daughter of John W. DICKINSON, Feb. 2, 1841, and settled on a
farm in upper Sugartown, where he resided until his health failed, when he
moved to Franklinville village and kept a hotel twenty-five years. Children: Mary and Devillo. Devillo went to Mazo Manie, Wis., where he is
a druggist. Mary, at the age of
twenty-four, met with an accident in a collision on the Great Western railroad
at Komoka, Ontario, which rendered her a cripple.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
649
Surnames: CARPENTER, DE KAY, SCOTT
Warren
CARPENTER, son of Zenas (see Farmersville), was born Jan. 17, 1827, and Dec. 18,
1849, married Catherine J., daughter of Thomas DE KAY, of New Hudson, Allegany
county; children: Zenas, Thomas, Elroy V., Samuel, and Julia A. (Mrs. E. D.
SCOTT), who died Nov. 7, 1890. Mr.
CARPENTER lived with his parents until their deaths and in Lyndon until 1880,
when he came to Franklinville village.
He has taken an active interest in laying out and beautifying Mt.
Prospect Cemetery. Besides this he has
been called upon to plan and adorn several other burial places.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
649
Surnames: CARR, CHAMBERLAIN, POWER, HOGG, WEED, JOLLY
Peter
CARR, a postmaster under the British government, came to Franklinville in 1849
and purchased the farm belonging to Moses CHAMBERLIN, which he made his
permanent home until his death in 1873.
He was justice of the peace several years. He left Peter CARR, Jr., his only heir, in
possession of his estate, who still resides upon it. In 1857 Peter, jr., married Katharine,
daughter of Patrick POWER. Children:
Mary, Rose (Mrs. Wilson HOGG), Josephine (Mrs. Charles WEED), Katie, Anna (Mrs.
J. G. JOLLY), and Joseph.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of
Pages
649 & 650
Surnames: CASE,
Thomas
CASE, born in
Jason
D. CASE, son of Thomas, was born in Lyndon, Oct. 3, 1847, attended school in
the Hayden district and two terms at the
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History
of the Town of
Page
650
Surnames: CHAMBERLIN, CARR, PLATT, CURTIS, KNOX, BABBITT
Moses
CHAMBERLIN came from Dutchess county to Ellicottville in 1816 and thence he
moved to Franklinville, settling on the farm now owned by Peter CARR, where he
lived about thirty years. He then moved
to Allegany, where he died in 1869. Mr.
CHAMBERLIN married Anna PLATT, of
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History
of the Town of
Page
650
Surnames: CLEMENTS, LOCHARD
James
CLEMENTS came here from
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History
of the Town of
Pages
650 & 651
Surnames: COLLIE, MITCHELL, WATSON
James
COLLIE, a native of
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History
of the Town of
Page
651
Surnames: COLVIN, WHITCOMB
Milton
N. COLVIN was born March 28, 1870 on Chappel hill in Humphrey. He was the son of Royal and Mary COLVIN and
the second child of a family of seven children: Charles, Milton N., Carrie, Lucia,
Agnes, Hattie, and Welcome. Sickness and
other dire misfortunes pursued the family until it was broken up and its
members scattered.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
651
Surnames: CONRAD, KORTWRIGHT, WARNER, SILL, FARWELL, MORRIS, SEARL,
GARDNER
Henry
CONRAD, from Tompkins county, during the summer of 1807 located on the north
half of lot 37 and commenced the erection of a mill, which he completed in the
summer of 1808. The mill was in keeping
with its surroundings, primitive indeed, but it would grind wheat into flour
which did not always resemble the "beautiful snow". That useful old mill more properly belonged
to the "Tuscan Order" of architecture than to any other. In the early part of 1807 John, Nicholas, and
Daniel KORTWRIGHT, from Tompkins county, settled upon the north part of lot 36
and south part of lot 37. They were
millwrights and superintended the building of Henry CONRAD's grist-mill, and
instructed "Uncle Hank" (as he was commonly called) in the art of
grinding grain and taking toll. Owing to
some defect in its construction the mill was not uniform in its mechanical
behavior. There is one anecdote in
relation to Uncle Hank and his mill which illustrates the fun-loving
propensities, of the WARNER family.
Parley WARNER, who lived near the mill, on observing some customer
emerge from the forest with a bag of grain across his brawny shoulders, would
stealthily approach the rear of the mill and seize the arms of the wheel in his
herculean grip, and, with muscles firmly set, await the coming ordeal. The gate would be raised, but the wheel would
not move; it was as firmly bound as the nymphs had bound Andromeda. After uttering a few words not admissible in
Sunday school Uncle Hank, armed with the necessary tools, would go around to
the rear of the mill to see "vat vas der ail mit der tam veel." By the time he reached the wheel Parley would
be snugly concealed in the alders. Mr.
CONRAD was a kind-hearted man. He had
four children by his first wife: Elizabeth, Margaret, Catharine, and
Samuel. Margaret married Elijah SILL;
Elizabeth married Thaddeus FARWELL; Catharine and Samuel were mutes and were
never married. One of the granddaughters
of Mr. CONRAD, Fanny FARWELL, is the wife of D. J. MORRIS. By his second marriage Mr. CONRAD had six
children: Peter, Henry, Joseph, John, Henrietta, and Fanny. About 1820 he sent Samuel and Catharine to
New York, where they received an education.
When they came back they could read and write fluently and converse by
means of the hand alphabet. Samuel died
of smallpox at his brother-in-law's, Elijah SILL, about 1830. Lyman SEARL, Thomas M. SILL, Fayette SEARL,
and Robert E. GARDNER also married granddaughters of Henry CONRAD.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
651 & 652
Surnames: CROSBY, AUSTIN, STARR, KENYON, WENRICK, WRIGHT, BAILLET,
WARNER, McCLUER, WHEELER
Samuel
A., Alanson, Jedediah W., and Lot C. CROSBY came to Franklinville in 1830 and
settled on CROSBY hill, the place taking its name from the four brothers. Alanson and Jedediah purchased portions of
lot 28, while S. A. (known here as Austin CROSBY) made his home on lot 36 and
Lot C, on lot 35. They were sons of Col.
Jedediah CROSBY, who was born near Boston, Mass., in 1776. At an early period he removed to Gorham, N.
Y., where he married Mabel AUSTIN, a native of Connecticut. She was born May 1, 1782. In 1805 the couple moved to Bergen, N. Y.,
then known as the Triangle, where they made a permanent home. Colonel CROSBY was a volunteer in the War of
1812 and commanded a regiment at the battle of Fort Erie, where one-third of
his soldiers were left on the field.
Both Colonel CROSBY and his wife were of English descent. He died in Bergen, August 18, 1830; she died
May 21, 1866. They had five sons and
four daughters, the latter being Polly, Louanny, Harriet, and Lovina. S. Austin CROSBY married and had sons
Christopher C., Jedediah W., and Luther V.
Christopher C. married Helen STARR.
Jedediah married Viola KENYON and resided on the homestead until his
death. Luther married Mary WENRICK. Newton A. and Ora B. are deceased. Alanson CROSBY married Cornelia WRIGHT;
children: Mabel, Manley, and Alanson, Jr.
Mabel married George BAILLET.
Manley (see Bench and Bar, page 363) is a practicing attorney in Corry,
Pa. Alanson enlisted in 1862 in the
154th N. Y. Vol. Inf. and was killed before Atlanta, Ga. He was a young man of rare promise. As a well-deserved tribute to his memory the
Grand Army Post in Franklinville received his name. Jedediah CROSBY, Jr., married a daughter of
Roswell WARNER, a granddaughter of Gen. Joseph McCLUER. He still resides on CROSBY hill, occupying
the place on which he settled when he first came to this town. One of his daughters married Dudley KENYON
and a second married Thomas WHEELER.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
652
Surnames: CUMMINGS, GRAVES
Solomon
CUMMINGS came to Farmersville in 1829 and a few years later married Jonathan
GRAVES's eldest daughter, Mariette. He
became a merchant, was successful, represented Farmersville as supervisor in
1843, 1844, 1846, and 1848 and Franklinville in 1875, was a very exact business
man, and always performed his duties with ability and fidelity. For many years he has resided in
Franklinville. He sold his property in
1850 to his father and brother, John T. CUMMINGS, who continued the mercantile
business until his sudden death in 1876.
J. T. CUMMINGS left all excellent record behind him for ability and
integrity. He was supervisor of Farmersville
in 1863. By consulting him and his
library almost any matter of history, law, politics, religion, or science could
be learned. From tinkering clocks to
making or repairing any article of the house or tool on the farm he was an
expert, and he had a great variety of tools that he persistently refused to
lend. He was a Congregationalist, a
cultivated scholar, and a valuable friend.
The CUMMINGS’s emigrated to this town from Warren, Mass., and are direct
descendants of the Puritans.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
652
Surnames: CURTIS, ROSE, FOOT, FOSTER, CHAMBERLIN, BUTTON
Solomon
CURTIS, from Lanesboro, Mass., located on a large tract of land where the
village of Franklinville now stands in 1806 and removed thither with the first
settlers, erecting his log house a few rods west of the center stake in the
village plat in 1808. It is said that
hunting and trapping were his primary and agriculture his secondary
pursuits. Mr. CURTIS married Abigail
ROSE, of Rushford, Allegany county; children: Azur,
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History
of the Town of
Pages
652 & 653
Surnames: DAVIS, KLOCK
Thomas
DAVIS, son of John and a native of
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History
of the Town of
Page
653
Surnames: DEAN, YOUNG, LITTLE, SPRING, CONNERS
Danforth
W. DEAN, son of Tower J. and Esther E. (YOUNG) DEAN, was born in
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of the Town of
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653
Surnames: DREWRY, SIMONDS
Willard
DREWRY removed from Genesee county to this town in 1831 and settled with his
wife on a wild lot on Genesee street. In
1865 he sold to Mr. SIMONDS and went west.
His son Ebenezer enlisted in 1861 for three years, and served his full
time; he was mustered into the service in the 105th Regt. in Oct., 1861, and
was honorably discharged. He died in
1878.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
653
Surname: DUNCAN
James
DUNCAN and his wife Annie came from Scotland in 1833 and the next year settled
in Franklinville, first at what is now the village and subsequently on East
hill. He finally removed to the village
and died. They had nine children.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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653
Surnames: ELMER, CROSBY, DICKINSON
William
ELMER was born in Hartford, Conn., May 14, 1807, and came with his father to
Genesee county in 1815. He married
Harriet CROSBY, March 27, 1835, and they had four daughters and two sons. He moved to Franklinville, March 16, 1855,
and his wife died June 4, 1860. He
married his second wife, Mrs. Lydia DICKINSON, Nov. 27, 1862. Austin W. ELMER, the eldest son, was mustered
into the navy in Sept., 1864, for one year, and died of disease contracted in
the service. Crosby L. ELMER resides on
the homestead, with his father, on CROSBY hill.
The family influence has been exemplary.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
653
Surnames: ELY, WALKER, DAY, SMITH, FERRIS, STILLWELL
William
ELY, son of C. C. ELY, of Rushford, Allegany county, was born July 27, 1841,
and obtained his education in the common schools and in Rushford Academy. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. D, 64th N. Y.
Vols., and was in all the engagements with his regiment from Antietam to Cold
Harbor, where he was wounded by a minie-ball in the ankle. Being discharged in 1865 he returned home and
in 1866 came to Franklinville, where he started a drug store in the village
under the firm name of WALKER & ELY, which two years later was changed to
ELY & DAY by WALKER disposing of his interest to W. A. DAY. DAY subsequently sold out to H. D. SMITH and
the firm became ELY & SMITH. In 1884
SMITH sold to W. H. FERRIS and the style was changed to ELY & FERRIS. In 1867 Mr. ELY married Caroline S., daughter
of Marcus and Susan (STILLWELL) SMITH.
Mr. ELY was supervisor of Franklinville in 1886 and 1887.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
653
Surnames: ESSEX, MORSE, RATHBUN
Moses
ESSEX came from Decatur, N. Y., in 1827, and settled on the west part of lot
13, which he had previously purchased from James O. MORSE and Benjamin
RATHBUN. He soon erected an ashery,
which he operated over twenty years. He
purchased all the ashes and black-salts that he could from those who were
clearing up their farms and worked them into potash, which he shipped to New
York city. In those early times about
the only way the settlers had to raise money to pay taxes and buy bread was by
making ashes and black-salts, which were jocosely called "legal tender." ESSEX remained on the place about 23
years. His daughter resides on a part of
the farm.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
653 & 654
Surnames: FARRAR, LOOMIS, CARVER
Aleanzor
M. FARRAR is a son of Wiggin M. and Betsey (LOOMIS) FARRAR, of Machias (q.
v.). He was born in that town Sept. 15,
1829, and Jan. 1, 1854, married Lydia CARVER.
Until 1884 Mr. FARRAR was a resident of Machias, on the old homestead
where he served as justice of the peace twelve years and as assessor. In 1884 he came to Franklinville. He has in his possession a sword used by John
FARRAR, his grandfather, on the field of Bunker Hill.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
654
Surnames: FARRINGTON, McAFEE
Edward
H. FARRINGTON, son of Harvey, was born in Newport, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1848. His father was an early cheese maker, in
which business the son was educated. In
1873 Edward H. came to Franklinville and began manufacturing cheese, being
interested in 1890 in nine factories producing several hundred thousand pounds
of cheese annually. In 1872 Mr.
FARRINGTON married Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel McAFEE, of Canada. Children: Irvin A., Howard P., Harry, and
Ellen.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
654
Surnames: FARWELL, COOK
Henry
C. FARWELL, son of Thaddeus (see Ischua), was born Feb. 19, 1832. In 1854 he engaged in lumbering in the great
lumber woods of Wisconsin, and June 1, 1861, enlisted in Co. K, 4th Wis. Vols.,
fighting in the battles of Williamsburg, Second Bull Run, Seven Days' Fight,
Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg (both engagements), Gettysburg, and
Rappahannock Station, where he was wounded by a ball passing through the
leg. He was promoted captain of his
company and was discharged Oct. 14, 1864.
Returning to Ischua he married, March 28, 1866, Anna, daughter of Henry
and Betsey COOK, of Mansfield. He was a
farmer in Ischua, which town he served as supervisor in 1873 and again in 1875
and as assessor several years. Mr.
FARWELL moved to the village of Franklinville in 1885. Children: Lettie C. and Arthur M.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
654
Surnames: FAY, RICE, COLE, PIERCE, GREENE, LITCHFIELD
James
FAY, son of Cyrus, was born in Sturbridge, Mass., married Olive RICE, of
Brookfield, Mass., and came to Cattaraugus county in 1829, in 1830 settling on
the farm now owned by Cyrus M. FAY, his son.
He was a man highly respected, held several town offices, and was a
member and deacon of the Presbyterian church.
He died in 1882, aged ninety-two years.
Of his five children four are living: William G., Sarah J. (Mrs. I. L.
COLE), J. C., and Cyrus M. Cyrus M. FAY,
living on the homestead, was born Nov. 13, 1833. In 1858 he married Ellen I., daughter of
William M. PIERCE, of this town.
Children: Sarah O. (Mrs. B. J. GREENE) and Elsie M. (Mrs. E. E.
LITCHFIELD). He was supervisor from 1877
to 1879 and assessor nine years.
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Surnames: GOO, BRAND
J. B.
GOO, son of Hiram, was born in Ashford, Sept. 29, 1829, and in Jan., 1855,
married Lucy J., daughter of Samuel BRAND, of Ellicottville. By trade he was a carpenter. About 1860 he moved to Yorkshire Center,
where he, carried on cheese-box manufacturing.
In 1882 he came to Cadiz. He has
two sons and three daughters.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
654
Surnames: GREEN, JENNINGS, HOLDEN, RUST
Allen
M. GREEN, born in Cazenovia, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1812, came with his father, Allen
GREEN, to Cattaraugus county in 1826. In
1838 he married Mary JENNINGS, of Fort Madison, Iowa, where he lived and
followed his trade of blacksmith. Upon
the death of his wife in 1840 Mr. GREEN returned to Cattaraugus county, and in
1845 he married Julia J., daughter of Arnold HOLDEN, of Ashford. He settled in Franklinville in 1869. Of his six children three are living: Emma
(Mrs. Eugene RUST), Burnett J., and Perry W.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
654 & 655
Surnames: GRIERSON, McQUENN, St. JOHN, FULLER, SKEELS
James
GRIERSON, son of Thomas and Agnes (McQUENN), was born in Dumfries, Scotland,
May 27, 1832, and came to Franklinville in 1854, where he resided for one year,
when he went to Otto, where he worked at his trade, as miller for Selleck St.
JOHN. There he married Melissa, daughter
of Sylvester and Harriet (FULLER) SKEELS.
He also lived in East Otto and in Ellicottville. In 1870 he returned to Franklinville and
purchased the grist-mill below Cadiz known as the Conrad mill, which he
conducted until 1876, when he moved to the village of Franklinville, where he
now resides. Children: Luna C., Mina C,
Harriet A. (deceased), Nettie O., Grace M., and Edgar J.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
655
Surnames: HACKETT, WOODS, SEARLE, SILL
George
S. HACKETT, son of Stephen K. (see Ischua), was born Feb. 20, 1844, in the town
of Ischua, and at the age of seven years, his mother dying, he was bound out to
D. H. WOODS of Rushford, Allegany county, where he lived until Dec. 22, 1863,
when he enlisted in Co. B, 2d N. Y. Mounted Rifles. He was actively engaged in the battles of
Shady Grove, North Anna River, Tolopotomoy Creek, Cold Harbor, Gaines's Farm,
siege of Petersburg, and Pegram Farm, and was discharged at White Hall Run on
June 18, 1865. Returning to Rushford Mr.
HACKETT married, July 4, 1866, Fannie M., daughter of John W. and Caroline
(SEARLE) SILL, and in 1867 settled on Buzzard hill in Humphrey. He followed cheese making for a number of
years, residing in various places, and in 1881 located in Franklinville
village, where on Jan. 10, 1891 his wife died.
She was born April 1, 1846, and bore him two children, Willie B.
(deceased) and Lewis A.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
655
Surname: HAYDEN
Squire
C. HAYDEN has been prominent in the industrial and political interests of the
town and county, and in various capacities has represented his constituents
with eminent ability and unswerving integrity.
He is trustee of the village and was supervisor of Farmersville in 1879
and Franklinville in 1889.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
655
Surnames: HAYNES, STEWART, BUSECKER, SMITH, MORRIS, GRIERSON, WILLARD
James
A. HAYNES, a native of Yorkshire and a son of Daniel B. and Amanda (STEWART)
HAYNES, was born March 7, 1839, and Feb. 24, 1861, married Isadore BUSECKER, of
Ischua, who died Jan. 20, 1868. May 19,
1869, Mr. HAYNES married for his second wife Mary A., daughter of S. J. SMITH,
of Ischua. The same year he formed a
partnership with Mr. SMITH in the mercantile trade under the firm name of S. J.
SMITH & Co., which business was continued until 1873, when Mr. HAYNES sold
his interest to A. J. MORRIS. He then
purchased a farm, which he sold in 1885, and in 1886 moved to Franklinville
village, where he handled sewing machines until 1890, when he started with
Thomas GRIERSON a flour and feed store.
Soon afterward Mr. GRIERSON sold to F. P. WILLARD. Mr. HAYNES was supervisor of Ischua in 1872.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
655
Surnames: HOLDEN, RUSH
John
R. HOLDEN was born July 30, 1843, in Ashford, and is a son of Arnold and
Patience HOLDEN. In Sept., 1861, he
enlisted in Co. B, 9th N. Y. Cav., and was discharged from the Patent Office
Hospital in April, 1862 for sickness. He
re-enlisted in October, 1864, in Co. A, 9th N. Y. Cav., and was mustered out in
June, 1865. Jan. 18, 1863, he married
Melvina, daughter of Poltus and Elizabeth RUSH, of East Otto, and in 1867
settled in Farmersville, whence he removed in 1885 to the village of
Franklinville, where he has been engaged largely in the cheese trade, a
business he has successfully followed for more than a quarter of a
century. Mr. HOLDEN has been prominent
in town affairs and is vice-president of the First National Bank of Franklinville. His father, Arnold HOLDEN, was supervisor of
Ashford in 1831.
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from:
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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655
Surnames: HOLLISTER, NORTON
Samuel
L. HOLLISTER was born in Cairo, Greene county, Oct. 29, 1788. In 1806 he came to this town and in 1812
married Sibyl NORTON, who was born in Litchfield county, Conn., May 24,1791,
and moved to Franklinville in 1811. In
1816 he removed to Great Valley and in March, 1821, went to Mansfield, where he
died June 29, 1849.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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655
Surnames: HOLMES, BUTLER
Hosea
T. HOLMES, son of Peter HOLMES, an early settler in Farmersville, was born in
that town Dec. 28, 1821. In Jan., 1843,
he married Eliza A., daughter of Harvey BUTLER, and until 1871 was a
farmer. He then came to Franklinville
and died June 13, 1889. Children: A. O.,
Clark L., and L. M.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
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Surnames: HOLMES, SPRAGUE, STONE
Joseph
HOLMES, a native of Leeds, England, came to America and to Franklinville in
1830, settling in Cadiz, where he followed his trade of gunsmith and kept also
a dry goods and grocery store. He was
born March 6, 1817, and died June 9, 1882.
He married Amantha, daughter of Eli A. and Finetta SPRAGUE, of Ischua,
and had born to him seven children, five of whom are living: John T., Alfie F.,
Jennie G., Mary E. (Mrs. R. STONE), Reuben B.
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from:
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
656
Surnames: HOTCHKISS, SEARL, OSGOOD, PLATT
Benjamin
HOTCHKISS, about 1817, came from Whitehall, N. Y., and after a brief residence
in the Ischua valley located on lot 38.
His son Hiram settled on the same lot a little farther west. One of his daughters was the wife of Isaac
SEARL and another became Mrs. Aaron OSGOOD.
Hiram HOTCHKISS was a soldier in the War of 1812. Simeon HOTCHKISS located on lot 38. He married Lucretia, daughter of Stephen
PLATT, from Plattsburgh, N. Y. Children:
Benjamin, Sarah, Alexander, Mary, Stephen, Orange, and Charles. Stephen and Orange enlisted in the 154th
Regiment in Aug., 1862, and both died in the service. Alexander served in the artillery.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
656
Surnames: INGALLS, STORRS
Simeon
INGALLS came from Otsego, N. Y., in 1828, with his wife and family, and settled
on lot 29. He married Martha, daughter
of T. D. STORRS. He finally sold his
place and moved to Tennessee, where he was at the breaking out of the
Rebellion. With several others from the
north he was forced to leave the State, barely escaping with their lives.
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from:
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
656
Surnames: JOHNSTON, SILL, PENMAN
John
JOHNSTON was a Scotchman by birth. He
came to this county in 1833 and bought a farm of Elijah SILL; in June, 1834,
his family joined him, and in September following he died. He had four sons and three daughters; two
sons, James and John, reside on the homestead.
John JOHNSTON, Jr., born in May, 1818 married Agnes PENMAN, by whom he
had seven children. He was a popular
citizen and a respected gentleman; he represented the town of Franklinville on
the Board of Supervisors in 1859.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
656
Surnames: KINGSBURY, BASSETT, SMITH
William
W. KINGSBURY, son of Benjamin, was born in Cherry Valley, Otsego county. In 1830 or 1831 his father came to Rushford,
Allegany county, where he now resides.
He is a carpenter and farmer. He
married Betsey BASSETT and has three children.
Frank D. KINGSBURY, his son, was born Sept. 25, 1849, and in 1880
married Arlouine L. SMITH, of Rushford.
In 1882 he came to this town and purchased the Dell Zell farm; children:
Harry and Willie.
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from:
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
656
Surnames: KINGSLEY, GILBERT, McNALL
Warren
KINGSLEY, son of Nathan, came from Otsego county to Franklinville in 1825, he
being at that time seventeen years of age.
For five years he worked on the farm and for eight years was a clerk in
the employ of Tilly GILBERT in Cadiz.
February 22, 1838, he married Augusta, daughter of John McNALL, who died
Dec. 26, 1889. Mr. KINGSLEY was
thoroughly identified with the best interests of the town, holding for twelve
years the office of assessor and for a number of terms the position of town
clerk. With the exception of some
fifteen years, which were spent in Machias, Mr. KINGSLEY made the town of
Franklinville his home from the date of his settlement until his death, which
occurred at the residence of his son, Avery W. KINGSLEY, Feb. 25, 1891.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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656
Surnames: LAIDLAW, DUNCAN
Gilbert
LAIDLAW and his wife Margaret and their three sons and two daughters emigrated
to America from Scotland in 1851. They
first settled in Rochester and in 1852 removed to this town, locating on a farm
in what has since been known as the LAIDLAW district. His wife died soon after their arrival and
his death occurred in 1863. One son,
Hon. William G., is a prominent lawyer in Ellicottville; the other children
were Robert, James, Agnes, and Betsey (Mrs. A. DUNCAN).
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
656 & 657
Surnames: LATHAM, CHILTON, WALWORTH, WINSLOW, CROSBY, NELSON,
PARKHURST
The
LATHAM family trace their ancestry back to Mary CHILTON, the first female to
land on Plymouth Rock from the Mayflower. The American
Messenger for 1850 says: "Chancellor WALWORTH, an eminent jurist of
this State, traces his ancestry to Mary CHILTON. John WINSLOW, brother of Edward WINSLOW, one
of the first governors of the Plymouth colony, married her, and their daughter
became the wife of Robert LATHAM, from England, who came to this country some
twenty years after the arrival of the Mayflower. From Robert LATHAM and his wife all the
LATHAM’s in this country, so far as known, have descended." A branch of the family early moved to Vermont
and at about the same time David LATHAM settled at Lyme, Conn. His grandson, Joseph LATHAM, born Dec. 12,
1787, came thence to Le Roy, Genesee county, in 1808, commencing the journey on
his birthday, crossing the Hudson river on the ice opposite the city of Albany
and the Genesee river where the city of Rochester now stands. He volunteered in the War of 1812 with the
rank of sergeant-major and participated in the storming of Fort Erie with
unloaded muskets and fixed bayonets. May
2, 1818, he married Polly, daughter of Col. Jedediah CROSBY, came to
Franklinville in the spring of 1834, settled on CROSBY hill on the farm now owned
by his son, Joseph LATHAM, and died June 7, 1865; his wife died Dec. 9,
1870. Children: Joseph, William, Russel,
and Helen. Russel LATHAM enlisted in the
Rebellion, served on board the U. S. gunboat Towa, and after that vessel was destroyed in action with the rebel
forts on Cumberland river he died at Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 23, 1864.
Joseph
LATHAM, Jr., born Dec. 12, 1819 has been a minister in the Genesee Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church for over forty years. He married, Sept. 4, 1851, Lydia R., daughter
of Hon. Lyman NELSON, county judge of Potter county, Pa.; children: Franklin
(died Nov. 4, 1874), Orry N., William H., Russel M. (died August 28, 1867),
Lyman R., Joseph C., Minnie M., and Josephine Eugenie (died Jan. 22,1878). Orry N. is a physician at Bolivar, N. Y.; William
H. is a lawyer in Nebraska and county judge of Frontier county; Minnie M.
married Rev. F. S. PARKHURST, of the Genesee Conference, Aug. 25,1880. The LATHAM family has represented California
as collector of the port of San Francisco, as governor, and as U. S. senator.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
657 & 658
Surnames: LOW, BUCHANAN, PUDDY
Teneyck
LOW was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1789. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and
served in the militia under Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer; he was one of the
brave little band who volunteered to cross the Niagara and attack the British
at Queenstown Heights, where he received a slight wound in the shoulder. Some years after the war he married Abigail
BUCHANAN and came to Franklinville in 1825, settling on lot 21, where he
resided until his death May 15, 1870.
Children: Charlotte, Margaret, Anna, Amanda, Marvin, Judson, Mary, and
Clarinda. Marvin married, Feb. 8, 1851, Lucy PUDDY, and resided on the
homestead until his death Aug. 25, 1886.
Children: Alvin A., Lluwellyn, and Judson M. Alvin now lives on the place with his widowed
mother. Judson was born Jan. 22, 1839,
and remained on the farm with his father until 1861, when he enlisted in Co. B,
9th N. Y. Cav., as orderly-sergeant. He
went to the front and for gallantry in the service was soon promoted to second
lieutenant. His indomitable courage and
readiness to undertake dangerous duties often led him into hand-to-hand
encounters with the enemy. On one
occasion he and his company were sent forward to ascertain the position of the
rebels. Their course led them into a
piece of woods where they found a considerable force of cavalry drawn up ready
to receive them. The rebels were so
vastly superior in numbers that instant retreat was their only course, during
which he became slightly detached from his company and was at once surrounded
by five Confederates, the foremost of whom exclaimed “Now, you d…d Yank,
surrender!” After shooting one rebel
through the head and unhorsing two with his saber a fourth rode up behind and
struck him across the neck with a carbine, which knocked Judson from his horse,
and while he laid on the ground a horse struck him in the side, from the
effects of which he died Nov 9, 1863.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
658
Surnames: LOWDEN, WALLACE, DICKSON, WOOLLEY, TEN BROECK
Robert
LOWDEN was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and fitted himself for the ministry at a
college in Edinburgh. His father, a sea
captain having a daughter and five sons, emigrated to America and settled in
Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the family became largely interested in mercantile
business and ship building, in which Robert continued, and thus relinquished
the idea of entering the ministry. He married
a widow, Mrs. WALLACE, nee Abigail DICKSON, and had eight children. Charles Thomas, the third, was born in
Merigomish, Nova Scotia, Aug. 22, 1815, and by his half-brother, Alexander
WALLACE, was instructed in blacksmithing, a trade he followed for many
years. At the age of twenty-one he came
to the States and on Oct. 22, 1837, arrived at Yorkshire Center, where he set
up as a blacksmith and continued for thirty-five years. In Nov., 1838, he married Pamey B. WOOLLEY,
who died Nov. 4, 1877; in the fall of 1878 he married Mrs. Martha J., widow of
John TEN BROECK, of Franklinville, to which village he at once removed. Mr. LOWDEN, after his settlement in
Yorkshire, took an active interest in politics, and after becoming a legalized
citizen he was chosen delegate to several Republican conventions, including the
one at Ellicottville for organizing that party in Cattaraugus county. He was several times town clerk, justice of
the peace, and justice of sessions; was supervisor of Yorkshire in 1861; was
for five years loan commissioner; was postmaster at Yorkshire Center for twelve
years; and from 1872 until Dec. 31, 1878, held the office of county
superintendent of the poor. In all these
positions he served with marked ability.
He had six children; his two sons became blacksmiths.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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Surnames: LYON, PERKINS
Jonathan
H. LYON came to this town in 1816 from Troy, N. Y. He married Harriet PERKINS, from Otsego
county, in 1819. He was a man of some influence
among the early settlers. About 1830 he
was doing business in the dry goods line, tanning, shoemaking, etc. Children: Russell, Reuben, Delos, Amanda, and
Clara. Clara is now living on the
homestead lot in the village.
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Page
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Surnames: MASON, DUDLEY
Charles
T. MASON was born in East Otto, April 30, 1840.
His father was David T. MASON, a pioneer of that town. In 1858 Charles married Jennie E. daughter of
John and Sally DUDLEY, and in 1864 he purchased the MASON homestead in East
Otto. He followed carpentering and
farming, and in 1881 removed to the village of Franklinville. Children: Charles H. of East Otto; Rosa M.,
who died March 4, 1889; and Lois A.
Lewis J. MASON was supervisor of this town in 1856.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
658 to 660
Surnames: McLURE, McCLUER, McCLURE, GRICE, CARPENTER, NICHOLS,
WIGHTMAN, LONG, WARNER, CROSBY, JEWELL, MATHEWSON, LEONARD, MORRIS
NOTE: The original orthography of this name in
Franklinville was McLURE, though the pronunciation was identical with McCLUER
or McCLURE. Gen. Joseph McCLUER used, it
is said, the ancient form, but his descendants have many of them adopted the
present spelling, McCLUER.
Gen.
Joseph McCLUER (or McLURE), the first settler in the town of Franklinville, was
born in Belchertown, Worcester county, Mass., May 14, 1775, and at about the
age of twenty married Betsey GRICE. He
came to this town and located on the site of the village in March, 1806, with
his wife and five children. He was an
agent and surveyor of the Holland Land Company.
He served as captain on the Niagara frontier in the War of 1812 and was
the soldier who rescued the bugler Burns after he had deserted from the British
and swam the Niagara river to reach the American lines. Mr. McCLUER represented the counties of
Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Niagara in the Assembly of 1814 – 15; the three
counties forming one district. He was
county clerk in 1821 and was a general in the State militia. After an active
and eventful life he died of heart disease Sept. 11, 1833. His wife survived him eleven years, and was
buried by his side in the family burying ground a few rods south of their
former habitation. The remains of both
were subsequently removed to the present cemetery. The family of Joseph and Betsey McCLUER
consisted of five sons and three daughters: Samuel, Manly, Joseph, David,
Freeman, Emily, Harriet, and Caroline.
Samuel married Lucy CARPENTER and settled on the hill road on lot
30. He kept a hotel until his
death. He was born Dec. 4, 1795, and
died in July, 1829. He built the first
frame barn between Franklinville and Ellicottville. He had nine children. Frederick, his son was born Aug. 5, 1825,
married Permelia NICHOLS, and occupies the old homestead. Of their six children four are living: Dell,
James H., Frank D., and John H. Manly
married Emily WIGHTMAN and settled on the west part of lot 30. He filled several town offices, one of which
was justice of the peace for several years.
He was born June 26, 1800, and died May 1, 1853. Joseph occupied the west part of lot 23 prior
to 1827, and resided on it until he removed to Canada in 1830. He was born June 1, 1802. He gave a bushel of wheat for four pounds of
nails, which were used in building his barn.
He married Patty LONG. Emily
married Roswell WARNER, a farmer and a man of influence. One of their daughters married Jedediah
CROSBY and settled on CROSBY hill.
Harriet married Pardon T. JEWELL in 1825. Mr. JEWELL was one of the early teachers and
took a lively interest in our common schools. He was superintendent of schools
for several years. He was elected
Justice of the peace in 1834 and again in 1840.
Caroline married John G. MATHEWSON in 1826 and settled upon the north
part of lot 4. After a few years Mr.
MATHEWSON removed to Michigan with his family, where his wife died several
years ago. Freeman McCLUER first located
on the south part of the old homestead and afterward on the south part of lot
38. He was in the U. S. service from Nov., 1861, to about 1863, when he was
discharged on account of ill health.
Returning to Franklinville he was granted a pension, and soon disposed
of his interests here and removed to Iowa.
David always resided within a few rods of the old log cabin in which he
was reared. He lived in the town about
seventy-five years. He received a fair
education, studied law, and became an attorney of some note. In 1817, at the age of ten, he drove a team
once a week to Ellicottville to supply Baker LEONARD with provisions while he
was building the first hotel erected in that place. He represented the town on
the Board of Supervisors and filled other offices of trust. In Feb., 1825, he
married the daughter of Thomas MORRIS.
Of their children Leonard D. McCLUER enlisted in 1861 in the 21st N. Y.
Regt., and served until 1865. John, the
youngest son, enlisted in Co. I, 6th N. Y. Cav., and fell in battle in 1864.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
659 & 660
Surnames: McCLUER, BARBER, MALLORY, OLDER, BRIGGS, CAMPBELL, HOYT
Benjamin
McCLUER, a brother of Gen. Joseph McCLUER, was born in Belchertown, Mass., in
1775. He married Elizabeth BARBER in
1814, came to this town about 1821, and purchased a farm on lot 7, where he died
in 1832. The farm was occupied by
members of the family for many years afterward.
Children: Elizabeth (Mrs. James MALLORY and later Mrs. William M.
OLDER), Dr. Benjamin, and Mary J. (Mrs. Allen BRIGGS and afterward Mrs. Alanson
CAMPBELL). Porter McCLUER and Abner HOYT
owned parts of lot 7.
David
McCLUER, a cousin of Joseph McCLUER, arrived in this town from Vermont in
April, 1806 and selected the north part of lot 5, a few rods below the village
of Cadiz, where Hiram Warner McCLUER was born April 30, 1806, being the first
child of Saxon origin born within the limits of Cattaraugus county. Mr. McCLUER removed from Franklinville to
Allegany with his family about 1836 and resided there until his death. He was supervisor of Ischua in 1822. Hiram W. McCLUER still resides in Allegany.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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Surnames: McKERNAN, PHILLIPS, WILLIAMS
Thomas
McKERNAN, son of Thomas, was born in County Caven, Ireland, in 1823, and came
with his son Hugh to Scottsville, N. Y., in 1848, where he was engaged in
manufacturing barrel hoops. His wife,
Ann PHILLIPS, whom he had married in Ireland, came to join her husband in 1849,
bringing with her their children, James and Mary. After residing in Scottsville, Holley, and
Eagle for brief periods the family moved to Ellicottville in 1866 and settled
on a farm, where he died Oct. 18, 1879.
His wife died Nov. 5, 1880.
Children: a daughter who died in infancy, Hugh, Joseph, Frank, Thomas,
John, Michael, and James. James McKERNAN
was born Nov. 12, 1846, and Oct. 6, 1867 married Susan M., daughter of S. R.
and Prudence WILLIAMS. Children: William, Joseph, John, Thomas, Catherine,
Simeon, Helen, James, and Josephine.
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Surnames: McNALL, WASHBURN, SEWARD
William McNALL, oldest son of John and Mellison (WASHBURN)
McNALL, was born Feb. 23, 1806, at Stafford Springs, Conn., and died Dec. 20,
1870, in this town, whither he had removed with his parents in 1816. The family settled in Cadiz. Dec. 17, 1829, he married Sibyl, daughter of
Stephen SEWARD. Children: Charles
(deceased), William, Jr. (deceased), Nathan (died March 5, 1857), Thomas E.
(killed at Morton's Ford, Va., in 1864), Stephen E., and four daughters. Stephen McNALL was supervisor of this town in
1888.
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History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
660 & 661
Surnames: McVEAN, GILLESPIE, VAN AERNAM, SPRING, BUTTON
Rev.
D. C. McVEAN was born Oct. 10, 1818, in Caledonia, N. Y. His parents settled on the farm where he was
raised in 1816. His twin brother, John
C. McVEAN, still resides on the homestead.
After receiving the usual drill of a village school, D. C. studied at
Cambridge, N. Y., and Cleveland, Ohio.
In after years he said that while a boy working on a farm a premonition
sometimes came over him that he should preach the gospel. His mother was left a widow and his labor was
needed at home. At the age of seventeen,
on profession of faith in his Master, he united with the United Presbyterian church
of Caledonia. He graduated at Union
College in 1844 and was licensed to preach in June, 1847. After laboring as a licentiate in the New
England States and in the south he accepted a call from the Lyndon church in
this county and was ordained and installed pastor Jan. 29, 1850. During the sixteen years he labored there the
church grew and prospered. The
membership was scattered, yet he was indefatigable in his work. After the resignation of his charge at Lyndon
his labors were mostly confined to Franklinville, where he resided, and where
by his efforts a nucleus was formed around which gathered those who afterward
formed the membership of the First United Presbyterian church of Franklinville,
which was organized by Mr. McVEAN on June 25, 1867 with forty members, and now
there 214 communicants. An epidemic soon
afterward broke out in the community and during his visits he became the victim
of the disease, and while he was preaching on the last Sabbath before his death
he was stricken with this malady and died the following Saturday. Mr. McVEAN married M. J., daughter of Abram
GILLESPIE, of Orange county, N. Y. Their
only son, Creighton, died at the age of seventeen. In 1848 Mr. McVEAN, Dr. Henry VAN AERNAM, and
Hon. S. S. SPRING located in Franklinville.
To the united efforts of these three men, aided by Hon. J. K. BUTTON,
the citizens of Franklinville and adjacent towns and indebted for the endowment
of Ten Broeck Free Academy.
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of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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Surnames: MEAD, CLARK, McKEAN, HOE, ROMEYN, ELY, DAY, GIDDINGS,
McGUIRE, TREADWELL, PACKARD, JOHNSTON
The
MEAD family – Tradition has it that three brothers came from England before the
Revolutionary war and settled in Greenwich, Conn.; most of their descendants
settled elsewhere in New England. Merlin
MEAD, son of Clark, was born in South Salem (now Lewisboro), Westchester
county, Aug. 18, 1794, and at seventeen began teaching district school in the
winter, working on his father's farm summers.
After his marriage, Nov. 14, 1820, to Polly, eldest daughter of Eli
CLARK, of Waterbury, Conn., he removed to New York city and in connection with
Mrs. MEAD continued teaching about ten years with the subsequently famous Mr.
McKEAN. They opened an evening school,
teaching two hours each evening, charging simply for light and fuel. Richard and Robert HOE, the inventors of the
celebrated printing press, were among his pupils. Mr. and Mrs. MEAD united with
the Cedar Street Presbyterian church under the pastorate of Dr. J. B.
ROMEYN. Owing to Mrs. MEAD's failing
health they removed to Cattaraugus county in the fall of 1830, settling in the
village of Franklinville. With his
brother-in-law, the late Seth ELY, who preceded him by two years, he kept
tavern in a building erected for the purpose (standing near where W. A. DAY's
buildings now are). Mr. MEAD taught the
district school in the old red school house two winters. As Mr. and Mrs. MEAD came with a
"gift" (A communion plate, still in use, presented by three young men
of New York City) in their hand to the Presbyterian church of Franklinville,
they esteemed it their greatest joy to unite with that church, which they did
by letter on the first Sunday after their arrival, and Mr. MEAD was elected and
ordained an elder, remaining such till his death, being also elected clerk of
the session, trustee, clerk of the society, etc. Nov. 14, 1870, they celebrated their golden
wedding. In politics Mr. MEAD was in
early days a Whig, becoming afterward an Abolitionist. He died at his home in Cadiz, Dec. 23, 1874;
Mrs. MEAD died May 19, 1882. Children:
Thomas Ely, born Aug. 10, 1821, died Aug. 28, 1822; Maria S., born July 30,
1824, married J. C. GIDDINGS on July 4, 1849, and now lives in Venango Pa.;
Romeyn, born March 22, 1827, married Mrs. Jane B. McGUIRE on Oct. 12, 1871, and
now lives in McMinnville, Tenn.; Lois Rebecca, born Sept. 16, 1830, married
Aaron TREADWELL, settled in Redding, Fairfield county, Conn., and she died Oct.
16, 1888; Rhoda Ely, born Dec. 17, 1833; Eli Clark, born Aug. 1, 1836, died
Jan. 3, 1839; Aaron Benedict, born Nov. 7, 1838, married Mary E. PACKARD on
Sept. 2, 1868, and now lives in Chicago, Ill.; and Merlin Edward, born Aug. 18,
1842, married Isabella W. JOHNSTON, March 7, 1877, and resides in Cadiz.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
661 & 662
Surnames: MITCHELL, YULE, CURRIE
William
MITCHELL, with his wife and sons Alexander, Thomas, and John and daughters
Janet and Agnes, emigrated from Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1834, and settled on a
part of lot 6 in the town of Freedom.
Respected by his neighbors for his moral and religious worth his house
was the ministers' home, and through his influence a branch of the United
Presbyterian church of Lyndon was formed and sustained during his life. He died in 1860, aged seventy-six; his widow
died in 1874, aged eighty-five.
Alexander, after living in York, N. Y., a number of years, returned to
Freedom and was elected justice of the peace in 1857, which office he held
until his death in 1875. He was largely
identified with all the public affairs of the town, settled satisfactorily many
family estates, and always used his influence to prevent litigation. Janet married James YULE and settled in
Eagle, Wyoming county, where their family still remains. Agnes married Andrew CURRIE, of Lyndon, where
she lives with her sons. John was
elected justice of the peace in Freedom in 1876 and held that office until his
removal to Franklinville, where he and Thomas now reside.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
662
Surnames: MORGAN, McCLUER, CAMPBELL
Henry
MORGAN, son of Samuel and Sarah MORGAN, was born in Cherry Valley Otsego
county, April 2, 1806. It is a
noteworthy coincidence that while Gen. Joseph McCLUER was taking the initiatory
steps toward developing the future town of Franklinville, a child should be
born in a distant part of the State destined to play such a conspicuous part in
its history. Of Mr. MORGAN's early life but little is known, except that he
received a common school education that was scarcely up to the standard even of
those early times. But what he failed to
acquire from teachers was amply compensated for by his strong, vigorous
intellect and his instinctive love of knowledge. After he fully developed into manhood, many
of the intricate problems in the sciences were solved as if by intuition,
especially so in the mathematics. He was
kind hearted and sympathetic, and easily moved by the misfortunes of those
about him, yet he was eccentric in his modes of charity. He was ready in case of need to do what he
could by his own labor, or to furnish a team, or himself and team, or supply
food such as he had to spare; but it is not known that he ever bestowed money. When property was turned into cash it was
carefully laid by. He was no miser, yet
he was not a spendthrift; he was industrious and fruga1. In 1833, in company with his parents and
three sisters, he removed to this town and settled on lot 51, town four, range
five, a tract of land then known as the Big Elm flats, since known as MORGAN
hollow. Here during the succeeding four
years he underwent the toils and privations of pioneer life. In 1837 he rented what was then known as the
"Half-way House," and with the family left, for the time being, his
home in the "Hollow." For
about four years he acted as host, hostler, and farmer. In 1841 he returned with the family to his
home on the "Elm flats." Soon
after his father died and two of his sisters married, and thus he became the
head of a family consisting of himself, his aged mother, and a sister, for whom
he ever provided with a bountiful hand.
Thus situated he continued to reside on his farm in MORGAN hollow
twenty-five years. In 1866 he sold his
farm in the hollow and purchased of Robert CAMPBELL a farm of fifty acres, on
which he resided a few years. Soon after
his mother's death he removed with his sister Almira to Cadiz, where her death
occurred a few years later. Afterward
his sister, Mrs. Eliza CAMPBELL, and her husband remained with him until his
death, which occurred at Cadiz after a brief illness Oct. 8, 1881.
A few
years prior to his death, Mr. MORGAN held consultation with some of his friends
concerning the propriety of having a town hall.
After a few interviews of this nature the subject was not again
mentioned by him to anyone except to his attorney. His mind was of the argumentative type; he
reasoned from cause and effect, and his beliefs were mainly based on such
propositions as could be demonstrated.
He regarded all phenomena as the effect of natural, though often either
of obscure or invisible causes. His
intellect was adapted to deal with the physical sciences rather than with those
of the metaphysical and psychological.
He believed in the existence of God and in the immortality of the soul,
and derived his belief from the material universe. Near the close of his life, and after those
who had affectionately clung to him to the last had passed to the palace of
rest, he decided to bequeath to the town of Franklinville the larger portion of
his property for the purpose of erecting a town hall. After Henry MORGAN's munificent bequest of
about $8,000 a magnificent building was erected, on which, in bas-relief, are
two words, MORGAN HALL.
There
are three names that will ever remain green in the hearts of the people of
Franklinville: Gen. Jos. McCLUER, Peter TEN BROECK, and Henry MORGAN.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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Surnames: MORRIS, STILLWELL, PATTERSON
John
MORRIS and his father, Thomas, came to Franklinville from New Jersey, in
1807. Thomas MORRIS selected lot 38 and
erected a dwelling house upon it. During
the same summer he opened a store on the ground now occupied by the residence
of the late Horatio STILLWELL. Mr.
MORRIS was supervisor of the town of Ischua (now Franklinville) in 1818, 1819,
1820 and 1822 and of Franklinville in 1846, 1847, and 1848. John was born in 1802 and in 1823 married
Lovina, daughter of John PATTERSON, and had ten children.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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Surnames: MYERS, CAMPBELL
Samuel
B. MYERS was born in Portage, N. Y., June 30, 1842. Feb. 14, 1865, he enlisted in Co. B, 154th
Ill. Vols., and was mustered out May 22d following. Nov. 15, 1880, he married Mary E., daughter
of Albert J. and Permelia C. CAMPBELL, of Franklinville.
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from:
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
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663
Surnames: OAKES, LEONARD, MORGAN, CLEVELAND, CROSBY
Elijah
OAKES is a son of Elijah, who served in the Revolutionary war. At an early day the father settled in
Rochester and moved thence in 1839 to Franklinville, where he located a farm of
fifty acres, which he cleared. He
married Joannah LEONARD, who bore him twelve children, of whom Elijah, Jr., was
born Feb. 10, 1835, and Oct. 20, 1856, married Sarah C., daughter of Hiram and
Harriet C. MORGAN, of Franklinville. In
Sept., 1864, Mr. OAKES enlisted in Co. A, 187th N. Y. Vols., participated in
the battle of Hatcher's Run, and was discharged in March, 1865. Returning to his farm, he resided there until
1880 when he moved to Cadiz. Mrs. OAKES
died Oct. 24, 1881, and he married, second, Katie, daughter of Freeman and
Maryette CLEVELAND. His children are
Manley C., Willie V., and Ella E. (Mrs. B. CROSBY).
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Pages
663 - 665
Surnames: OLDER, MARVIN, MOORE, SMITH, JEWELL, PERKINS, REYNOLDS
Marvin
OLDER was born in Middletown, Delaware county, Aug. 22, 1810. A few days after his birth the Hon. Dudley
MARVIN called at the house of his parents and suggested that the tiny specimen
of humanity before him be christened Marvin.
The name was agreed to by common consent, and ever since he has answered
to it. His parents, William and Hannah
OLDER, raised sixteen children, Marvin being the sixth son and eighth
child. In 1815 his parents with their
family removed to Otisco, Onondago county, where they remained three
years. Mr. OLDER has jacously remarked
that, during that time, there was nothing pertaining to the narration of his
life "except that I invariably stood at the head of my class in district
school, from the fact that there were but two in the class, and one of them at
least was lamentably underwitted," which of course was the other
fellow. On the 16th of July, 1818,
William OLDER unloaded his household appendages from an emigrant wagon by the
side of an excellent spring on the northeast corner of lot 25, township five,
range four, of the Holland Land Company's purchase. This location was then in the original town
of Ischua, which at that date included the entire north half of the county of
Cattaraugus. It is now in the town of
Farmersville, one and one-half miles northeast from the village of
Franklinville. The location for the last
seventy-three years has been known as OLDER hill. At that time there was but one school house
in the whole country. Marvin's father
was a cooper, and the shop became the school room of the young student. His library consisted of a Bible and psalm
book, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Young's Night Thoughts, Hervy's Meditations,
an antiquated dictionary whose first pages contained a condensed synopsis of
English grammar in its most incomprehensible and mysterious form, Dwight's
Geography, Dilworth's and Daboll's Arithmetics, the American Preceptor,
Webster's Spelling Book, Esop's Fables, Robinson Crusoe, and Charlotte
Temple. Such were the surroundings of
the mere stripling when he commenced the struggle for intellectual
development. Without the privilege of
attending school, and with an unquenchable desire to obtain knowledge, home
study became a passion as well as a necessity.
In that cooper shop, with the shavings that fell from his father's
drawing-knife for a light, a barrel-head for a slate, and a piece of coal for a
pencil, many a knotty problem yielded to his persevering efforts.
From
the age of thirteen to fifteen years, Marvin attended the district school in
the old log school house which stood a short distance north of the village of
Franklinville; two months to Miss Louie MOORE (since Mrs. SMITH, of Hinsdale)
and about the same length of time to Pardon T. JEWELL; and afterward eleven and
a half days to Eleazer PERKINS. This
rounded him up and polished him off as an accomplished scholar of the period. In the autumn of 1828 he entered upon his
first term as a teacher, and at intervals, both summer and winter, has followed
the profession through a period of forty years, having in all taught what is
equal to fifteen years without recess or vacation. It is balm of Gilead to the heart of Mr.
OLDER at this time, when the shadows of life are lengthening, to know that he
has no warmer or more faithful friends than those old-time pupils who received
the first rudiments of an English education from him. Of the nine sons in his father's family
Marvin alone remains; of the daughters three survive and reside in the west.
On the
17th of July, 1836, Marvin married Diantha T. REYNOLDS, of East Bloomfield,
Ontario county, who was born in Sullivan, Madison county, Feb. 23, 1816. There have been born to them four sons and six
daughters. Their oldest child (a son)
died in infancy; of the other sons, Robert E. and William M. served in the army
during the Rebellion. Robert E. was
killed near Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; William M. was wounded and captured
in the valley of the Shenandoah and died of starvation in Andersonville, Ga.,
Aug 22, 1864. The remaining son, Wallis
M., died at Franklinville, Dec. 24, 1878.
Of the daughters five are or have been teachers and all are married.
Oct.
24, 1861, Mr. OLDER enlisted in Co. I, 6th N. Y. Vol. Cav., and after a brief
period of camp drill at Staten Island, N. Y., the regiment was sent to the
front early in the summer of 1862, and was successively under command of
Generals PLEASANTON, AVERILL, CUSTER, and SHERIDAN. Soon after the organization of the regiment
he was detailed on extra duty as clerk in the quartermaster's and commissary's
departments in the field, which positions gave additional comforts and
duties. This relieved him from ordinary
duties of the rank and file, yet he participated in the battles of South
Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and came out free from bruise or
scratch. On the night of the last day of
April, 1863, he was one of a squad of seventy, under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel McVICKER, who, being on a reconnaissance, suddenly found
themselves in the darkness of a foggy night, surrounded on all sides by the
enemy enroute for the historic heights of Chancellorsville. Mr. OLDER says of this adventure:
"To
stay and fight would be sheer madness; to tamely submit would be cowardice; and
the only way was to hew a road with the sabre in a desperate charge. The latter alternative was adopted; some
succeeded and reached the main body, and some fell in the encounter. I was among the latter, and when I had, after
a severe effort, collected the scattered fragments of what little intellect I
once possessed, I found myself half buried in mud, with my head sadly battered
by a sabre-stroke and a dead horse across my legs. I drew myself from beneath my dead horse and
crawled to a little mound beneath some dwarf pines and communed with myself in
sober, almost in dead, earnest. There
was nothing to disturb or vary my gloomy forebodings except the groans of the
wounded, the twinges of acute pain, the moaning of the chill night wind, and
the heavy rumble of artillery trains on the distant pikes enroute for the
bloody scenes of the coming morrow. I
had dragged from my saddle two blankets, an overcoat, and a haversack of provisions,
but of these, as soon as it was light, the vandal hounds relieved me. We were then taken to some farm buildings
hard by, and suffered to sun ourselves and nurse our wrath on the south side of
an old out-house. Toward night we were
taken to Spotslyvania Court House and our wounds dressed, and the next day I,
with two others who were unable to walk, was loaded into a dump-cart drawn by a
dilapidated mule, and started on our triumphal march to the city of
Richmond! After much fatigue, many
delays, privations, and starvations, we arrived at our destination, and were at
once escorted to that historic watering place, Belle Isle, and subsequently to
that fashionable resort, the 'Hotel de Libby,' where we were treated to rebel
hospitality by way of the naked floor for a bed, the grimmy old roof for a
covering, gray-backs for recreation, mule soup for refreshment, and river water
for a beverage. But all things have an
end, and so did my imprisonment. I was
returned on parol by way of Petersburg, City Point, James River, Fortress
Monroe, and Annapolis to convalescent camp near, the city of Washington, where
we arrived in July, 1863. I was
immediately detailed as a clerk in the ordnance department, and for merit was
promoted to the first rank in the office, and the order of detail was made
permanent by the endorsement of the secretary of war, in which position I
remained until the close of the term of my enlistment, when I returned to my
family a poor, battered, time-worn veteran of the war."
Mr.
OLDER's life has been one of changes. He
has labored in the field and has held official positions; he has taught common
schools, and has been at the head of polite literary circles. For ten years he held the chairmanship of the
Regents' Board of Examiners in TEN BROECK Free Academy, and filled the position
with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. In disposition he is unobtrusive and
retiring, and the positions he has held are those in which his services have
been next to indispensable.
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Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 1893
History
of the Town of Franklinville – Chapter XXVIII (28)
Page
665
Surnames: PATRIDGE, ELLIS, MORGAN, WARING
Maj.
Flavel PATRIDGE was a native of Wilbraham, Mass. His wife was Azubah ELLIS, of Stafford
Springs, Conn., and with one child, Frances C., they came to Franklinville in
1820, living in a small house where the MORGAN block now stands, where he
carried on shoemaking and conducted a store.
Major PATRIDGE was a prominent man in politics and held several
positions of honor and responsibility.
He was town supervisor in 1828, was postmaster a number of years, and a
member of Assembly in 1829. He was a
strong temperance advocate and an active member of the Presbyterian
church. Of his nine children only one,
Eliza A. (Mrs. James WARING), is living in town.
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Surnames: PATTERSON, STONE, ADAMS
John
PATTERSON came from Onondaga county to the county of Wyoming in 1805, and moved
thence to Franklinville in 1820. A few
years later he purchased and settled on a farm.
Mr. PATTERSON was well known in the county as well as in his town. He was supervisor of Franklinville in
1830. He built a hotel about 1830 which
he kept for several years and sold to Jarvis STONE, who kept it until his
death. Between 1860 and 1870 the
property was sold by the heirs and has since acquired the name of "Brown
Eagle." Mr. STONE left three
children: George, William, and Mary (Mrs. Russell ADAMS). John PATTERSON was the first collector in
Franklinville after its organization in 1824.
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