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LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
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raised a
family
attended
bought
known
what Avas
resided
as
the
rented
Perry
his thought
devoting
happily married
there,
E.,
he became
school until
After that time he
education.
Horace
of seven children.
the district
their third son,
age, acquiring
his father's farm until the
farm
and,
home
at
worked
and
a good common school
of
near
Speedsville,
energy to
has
and
dairying
1867; he
year
then
that time
since
In
stock raising.
and
Preston, a native of Caroline Center, who spent
Academy, fitting herself for a teacher. Mr. and Mrs.
Patch have but one child, Florence Lue'lla, wife of O. H. Wright, a jeweler of Ithaca.
Mr. Patch is a Republican, having
She was educated in the High School of Ithaca.
served his town six years as assessor.
He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry,
1859 he
and
was
has
acted as
their insurance director for the
Peters, John J.
father, was cashier
,
death.
Our
was
of
born in
the
past eighteen years.
Pa. , August
Philadelphia,
Philadelphia Bank from the
old
7,
1825.
age. of
John W. ,
twenty-one
his
until
his
to Ithaca Avhen young and lived with Miss Mary Linn, an
to
Caroline where he lived with his brother-in-law, James
moving
came from one of the first settlers of the place.
The father of the
subject came
afterwards
aunt,
R.
to Olive
time attending the Ithaca
some
Speed,
latter
who
Dr. Joseph
Avas
one of
the
years
with
signers of
Speed,
whose medical
the Declaration
his brother-in-law.
He
of
diploma had the
Independence.
in 1848
married
Dr.
signature of
Rush,
John J. Peters lived for
Mary,
daughter
of
eight
Jonathan
Snow, and they have three children: Sarah L. Clark, Hattie L. Doty, and Henry L.
Peters, the latter being in the store of Hawkins & Todd, of Ithaca. John J. Peters
Avas educated in Pennsylvania at Nazareth Hall, a
boarding school for boys. He is
a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Caroline Lodge No. 681, and a member of the
M- E.
church.
Her
Quick, Mary J., AA7as born in Livingston county, N. Y., March 5, 1837.
husband, Frederick, left his home twenty-five years ago, and is supposed to be dead.
Mrs. Quick is the daughter of Jonathan Haynes, she being the third child of a family
With the
of eight children.
her husband left
Edith
is
a
M.,
daughter
devout
Pearsall,
the
of
member of
Frank
S.,
assistance of
the M. E.
Avas
Elizabeth
Mr.
dairy
of
carried
on
connected
twenty-six
the farm
with
the
since
place.
Mrs. Quick
years.
born in
Manhassett, L. I., June 18, 1842,
part of
his life has
been'
was educated
in
devoted to the useful
this county in 1860, and in 1868 married
Seneca
Covert,
county, and they have had eight children:
Adrian C, Lillian Pearl, Anna, and Grace, besides two who
of
B., Harry B.,
died in infancy.
has
church.
his time, and the greater
He came to
of farming.
E. Vanlora Boardman
son she
and
schools of
occupation
her
they have a small
Mrs. Quick, died at the age
home,
Pearsall'
father,
s
Charles
Phoebe
W.,
Avas
born in
Bayside, L. I.,
Long Island, born in 1812. Of
Edmund, Mary W.,
He died May 18, 1861, and his AA7ife in 1883.
Frank S., Warren M., and Charlotte I.
Mrs. Pearsalls father, Harry Boardman, Avas born in CoA-ert, February 10, 1808, Avas
and Hobart College, Geneva.
educated in the public schools,
January 31, 1839, he
married Elizabeth S. OAven, of Perry City, Schuyler county, and
they have had three
August 13,
their
seven
children :
1803,
and
married
children, tAvo died in
L.
Vashti,
E.
Pearsall,
infancy, and the
Vanlora,
attending Cornell University.
Mr.
as
of
above
others Avere:
noted,
and
Curtiss
Boardman died August 27,
Avho
1882,
died
and
his
Avhile
Avife
FAMILY SKETCHES.
1878. The ancestry of this
Friends in their religious belief.
May 27,
were
family
135
is English
Welsh,
and
The Pearsalls
Putney, George E. was born in Howells, toAvn of Walkill, Orange county, February
19, 1851, the eldest son of Dr. George E. Putney of that town who Avas a physician
and druggist,
dying in 1883 at the age of fifty-three years. Our subject was educated
in the Walkill Academy in the city of Middletown, and went into his father's
drug
,
before he
store
Orange, N. J.,
ten
was
years
later
and a year
In 1867 he
old.
was
in
as a clerk
went
located in Cortland.
drug
a
In 1874 he
store at
opened a
drug
Farmer Village, Seneca county, which he conducted for two years, then came
to Ithaca to take charge of Dr. David White's
drug store. In 1877 he started a store
store at
at
the
West State
corner of
the corner
moved to
1889.
He then
street,
and
opened
after
the
Corn
and
State
of
and
drug
streets which
store now conducted
conducted
twelve years, then
to McClure & Fisher in
out
J. B. Todd
by
on
North Aurora
Shepard'
bought M.
one year
he
Plain streets, selling
s
and
grocery
confectionery store,
November 1, 1891, then bought the drug store of F. R. Mix at 107
North Cayuga street, where he carries a complete line of drugs, chemicals,
stationery,
he
which
ran until
etc.
Mr. Putney is a manufacturing pharmacist, whose goods
may be
found in many of the leading stores in the county. He is a member of the K. of H.
and of the Aurora street church.
May 1, 1872, he married Helen F. Ashley, of
Groton, and they have three sons and a daughter. The oldest son is a student of
toilet articles,
with
pharmacy
his father.
Peters, Jacob,
in the fall
born in Switzerland, February 13, 1855,
was educated in the schools of his
was
1881.
of
intended that he become
take up architecture,
of
building.
Academy
at
After
a civil
and
took
which
classical
he
the
He has
erection of
the new
erected a
the West
agricultural
large
brothers'
building
gymnasium
the first ward,
married
to
which
office
Mary Tugley
and
was
lieutenant, serving a year
On landing he came direct to Ithaca,
was commissioned
number of
block
as
in 1886 took his first
and
and
residences,
was
the
contract
contractor
in
in
on
No.
38,
Democrat in
a
it
State street, and one of the buildings on
Mr. Peters is a member of
for Cornell University.
69, St. Augustine Commandery
Mr. Peters is
and
he decided to
in that study together with mechanics
Mr. Peters entered the Military
Fidelity Lodge, F. & A. M. No. 51, Eagle Chapter No. 58,
Rochester.
to this country
land,
native
course
in the army, and then coming to America.
he followed his line of business five years,
city.
in the
while
a special course
his
finishing
Zurich, from
engineer, but
where
this
and came
He
and
they
member
politics and
he held two
have
a
years.
one
and
of
in 1889 was
The
daughter,
year
Ithaca Council No.
Damascus Temple
at
elected alderman of
he immigrated he
was
Mary.
Perrigo, Charles, was born at Canajoharie, September 22, 1817, the son of Martin
At the age of nineteen Charles was
B. Perrigo, a tanner, currier and shoemaker.
apprenticed to a founder at Genoa, where he worked four years, and afterwards at
came to Groton and started a foundry, now a
In 1849
Skaneateles and Geneva.
he'
part of
the Bridge Company's
Perrigo
tified
.
conducted a
with
other
organizers of
position
highly
successful
prominent
business,
interests
the First National Bank
until
For
extensive works.
January 14, 1890.
He
of
of
the
and
during
village.
Groton,
retired
about
was
from
thirty-seven
that time
In 1865 he
its first
active
years
was also
was
business life
iden
one of
president and
Mr.
the
held that
about seven
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136
In 1844 Charles Perrigo
years
ago.
child,
Urania,
1855 he
both
Charles S.
wife of
Adelia Jessup,
married
Barney,
of
Groton.
His
of whom
whom
he had
one
died in 1853, and in
Avhom he had two children,
Fanny Jessup, sister-in-law of his first, by
died during childhood.
His second wife died
married
by
wife
in 1861,
and
he
married
third, Minnie S. Williams, sister of Professor Williams, of Cornell University, by
The third wife died April 19,
whom he has one child, now the wife of Alvin Booth.
Mr. Perrigo was originally a Whig, later a Republican, and Avas one of the
1893.
organizers of
Perrigo has
Board
been in any
Education,
of
Groton
the latter party in the
not
and
Although
county.
He
sense a politician.
also
president of
earnest
an
was at one
the Board
of
time
Mr.
partisan
a member of
the
Water Commissioners
of
village.
Reynolds, William, was born in the town of Niles, Cayuga county, July 25, 1851.
father, David Reynolds, was a native of that town. Our subject was educated
His
iu the
common
observation.-
schools, to
At the
age of
which
he has
twenty-one he
through life
added
married
Elizabeth
by
reading
Graves,
and
and close
they have
He takes the Democratic side in politics and an active
son, George Reynolds.
interest in educational and religious matters.. Through life he has followed the
one
business
of
Red Mills
best
milling, commencing
at
Freeville,
water powers
energetic
business
at
ten
he does
where
in the State.
years of
a general
Our
In
is known in his town
subject
man of conservative and
July, 1893, he bought
milling business, having one of
age.
independent
as
an
the
the
active,
character.
Rummer, Gabriel, was born in the town of Dryden, May 29, 1848. His father,
Eli Rummer, was a native of the town in which he spent his life of sixty years, born
in 1820, and passing away in 1880.
Our subject was educated in the common schools
and
in Dryden
Licetna
Academy
Johnson,
under
daugter
of
Jackson Graves.
Philo A.
Johnson,
At the
who
age of
died in 1892.
twenty
he
married
In 1893 he bought
the John Morgan property
a
of
of sixty acres, on-which he raises hay, grain and
stock,
dairying.
He takes the Republican side in. politics and an
making
specialty
interest in school
active
of
boots
leading
and shoes
in
merchants
business
and church matters.
In 1893 he bought the Lombard
stock
his son, Charles E. Rummer, and
they are the
in their line in the town of Dryden.
He is noted for energy and
connection with
ability.
Rhodes, Bertrand, Avas born in the west portion of the town of Dryden, May 30,
His father, W. S. Rhodes, was born in Dryden in 1812, and spent his life-time
of sixty-six years as a farmer, also
Bertrand
engaging in the lumber business.
1837.
Rhodes
received a common
became known
as one of
school
education, but through force
the prominent farmers
his father's estate, to which
property.
At the age of twenty-six he married Maggie
four
sons, Elmer, Earl, William, and Orra.
leaving
a part of
Fogarty, daughter
Estella.
of
John
Fogarty,
He takes the Democratic
cational and religious matters.
well abreast of
farmer.
the times
of
character soon
his toAvn, having 126 acres of land,
he has added different pieces
adjoining
of
and
side
He is
of
in
Dryden,
of-
Brennan,
and
politics and an
a progressive well
recognized
in his town
died in 1874,
married Rosa
who
In 1876 he
they have
one
daughter,
intelligent interest in
informed citizen,
edu
keeping
as a practical and successful
.
FAMILY SKETCHES.
Puff, John L.,
until
was
twenty years
Avithout
for five
of
born June 15, 1833, at Bayonne Point, N. J.
He was a farmer
age.
At that time he entered the store of P. S. Dudley as clerk,
making any bargain or
At this time he
knowing
years.
interest;
one-half
seven years.
logg'
took
an
He
general
were :
Mr. Puff is
member of
a
,
a
to
Mr. Bush,
with
John W.
with
partnership
He
receive.
remained
each
Dean,
buying
which
bought Mr. Dean's interest, then sold to Mr. Kel
interest in the firm of Pierson, Puff & Co. Mr. Pierson retiring,
next
now changed
In 1858 he
merchandise.
Adah A.
was
into partnership
entered
the firm became J. L. Puff & Co. ,
in
the salary he
he formed
afterward
lasted for
and
137
La Monte D.
and
,
Katie E.
,
to J. L. Puff &
who
Son, doing a business
Dudley, and their children
L.
Mary
married
died
the
at
age of seventeen years.
Republican, and was supervisor of the town in 1864 and 1865. He is a
the Masonic Fraternity, King Hiram Lodge No. 784, and his son is also
a
Mason.
Pierce, Ebenezer, known
his
as
Captain
to Groton
Pierce,
was
native
a
the War
of
Massachusetts,
and
1812, and settled in the Bear
neighborhood.
His
wife
was
Hannah
and their children were:
Spooner,
Swamp
who
married
David
and
and
died
in
lived
Susan,
Teeter,
Groton; Otis, born in 1821,
married Mary Ann Savacool, and died December 24, 1879; J. Prescott,
living in Free
Connection.
N.
a
minister
of
the
Wesleyan
Methodist
His
first wife was
Y.,
ville,
who
died
in
N.
August
his
J.
second
Phebe
wife was
Peruville,
Y.,
9, 1889;
Moe,
Mrs. Jane E. Lane, widow of Isaac Lane ; she died in Freeville, September 18, 1892 ;
he married third Mrs. Louisa Johnston, April 13, 1893, widow of Ira Johnston, of
Wellsboro, Pa. ; Harrison, born in 1826, living in Ohio, married Rachel Gray, who
died in February, 1892; Phebe Jane, who married Luther Townley ; Stillman, born
in 1832, married Emeline, daughter of Dr. Isaac Underwood, in 1855, and died in
Peruville in July, 1864 ; and Zeno, born in 1830, married Caroline Morgan in 1854,
Captain Pierce was a large and successful
and died in February, 1880, at Groton.
He was a strong
farmer of Groton, and a man highly respected in the community.
Baptist
church.
member
of
the
was
a
He died
Republican.
He
later
on
a
Whig, and
of
Captain
1888.
son
Pierce, pioneer,
in the spring of 1858, and his wife in
Moses,
was born in Groton in 1831, Avas brought up and has always lived on a farm, and
while not a large farmer, there are none whose farms are kept under better cultiva
In 1853 Mr. Pierce married Elizabeth, daughter of William Underwood, of
tion.
Mrs. Pierce died April 25, 1891.
Groton.
came with
family
Palmer, William O.,
Daniel, his father, was
William O.
September
Avas a
bright
county, a
Ida
and
a native of
His
of
of
agriculturist,
his
parents
both
the NeAvfield
to this county
the district schools,
of
and was
married
and
was
a
in the
they
and was a
always
two
a
were
common
schools,
the
parents of
in this
of
farmer.
He died
Avhere
he
Tompkins
two children,
county.
Mr. Palmer
Democrat.
years old.
farmer.
cabinetmaker and
Mary A. Linderman,
born in New York city,
Avhen
Hope, July 27, 1830,
time owning three farms.
married and reside
Lodge,
Avas
and
one
acquired
29, 1857, he
AA7ho are
Pinckney, the late Henry,
Avith
at
Harvey Linderman,
Emma, tAvins,
Avas a member
State,
this
education Avas
March
scholar.
daughter
after
born in Orange connty, Mount
was
was always an
27, 1893.
soon
He
January 21, 1800,
He
married
and came
education
in
first Harriet Owen,
of
received
his
138
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
this
toAvn,
and
they had
the town
one
son, Qwen.
Follett,
Enfield,
Webb, John, Jay, Levett, and Fred.
of
of
had
second wife
he
Caroline S.
married
Harriet, Margaret,
2, 1878, and his
Mrs. Pinckney's father,
seven
children:
died December
Mr.
Pinckney
Kirby of this town.
Winchester, January 28, 1786, and
Fred
widow survives.
For his
they
and
Susie
married
married first Hannah
Follett, was born in
May, by whom he had four children, Fanny, Emily, Harriet, and Sophronia. He
married second Nancy Curry, of this county, and they had nine children : William,
James, Caroline, John, Betsey, Alexander, Lutherna, PameliaS., and Mary. He
died October 1, 1864, and his wife August 23, 1862.
Jay Pinckney now conducts the
farm
together
next to the county house farm.
Levett
and
Fred
a
now
farm,
owning
Silas
Palmer, H. B.,
of
Newfield,
Later he
removed
born in Orange county, October
was
a
native
His
children,
of whom our subject was
wife was
Nathan
by
Smith,
1, 1846, he
Horton,
the seventh,
farmer
a
Orange county,
of
being
Catharine Smith,
married
he had thirteen
whom
now seventy-one years of age.
tobacco raiser,
and
by
and at one
time
this county,
of
a
operated a
daughter
of
Dutchess county, having removed to this locality in 1832,
Sarah J,, who died aged eighteen months; Lucy M.,
a native of
he had three
whom
Phcebe
been
always
July
saw mill.
a son of
of
in 1872.
The latter has
12, 1822,
Orange county, but removed to this locality in
of Newfield, in what was known as the Sebring Settlement.
to Enfield, but returned again to the Settlement, and there he died
Daniel Palmer, who was
1832, settling in the town
children:
Helen
died
L., both of whom live at home, and both are artists in oil. Mrs. Palmer
Our subject is a member of the Grange, is a Republican in poli
in April, 1891.
tics,
and at present
and
is
Stratton'
postmaster at
s.
Quigg, James, was born in Ithaca, July 29, 1821, a son of David Quigg, a native of
New Hampshire, Avho came the first time to this section in 1801 and located in Spen
cer, where he tried farming, but gave it up in disgust and returned to his native
State, and the next year moved to Ithaca and established a mercantile business, con
ducting
dence
a general store
noAv
is ;
after a
House.
His
17, 1862,
ripe with
of
few
life
log
a
years
Avas
years
in the Ithaca
cated
fall
whole
in
and
for many
Avas
conduct
store
only
has
years
a store.
since
all
mercantile
his townspeople.
of
spare
hours
since Avhich
large
ton,
In 1852
been located.
they
Mr.
Reynolds, Robert Crandall,
death, February 15, 1874,
his
generous and public spirited
ing
many
have
the founders
a poor youth
enjoyed
of
Our
December
subject was edu
in the
In the
store.
Quigg
came
AA7as
in
the
all
old
local
married
Groton
of
that up and
State street, where the
in 1848 Julia A. Rose, of Chenango
one now
about
now given
on
living, Mrs. Whitney
1816,
the foremost
and
one of
OAvn
and
men
interests, especially
academy
at his
to the institution
those privileges.
to
one
This
continued alone.
have'
produce, but
bought the property
they have had three children, only
Pueblo, Col.
one of
and closed
were spent
time James has
shippers of
county, and
of
business,
up the business and the firm became John William and
the establisher.
This firm continued until the death of J.
James Quigg, the sons of
William, November 23, 1865,
firm
locating
the honor
and
gave
Beardsley'
Linn street, where artist
s resi
in a frame building opposite the Tompkins
on
devoted to the
Academy,
1847 the father
house
its
from that time
of
the town.
educational
chief
New
until
He
was
matters, be
supporters, sending
expense, who could not otherwise
Mr. Reynolds was born in Bristol, Mass., June
6,
FAMILY SKETCHES.
1792,
one of
two
Gideon
sons of
kimer county, where, he
subject started in trade
Hotel,
added
time he
lady
of
it,
in
refinement and
was
Clark Reynolds
Jeremiah Stevens, and
its proprietor for about twenty-five
to Her
At the
years.
same
enterprises, remaining in active business till 1866,
earned competency.
His wife was Louisa Stevens, a
education,
of
died
who
but
Democrat,
the nephew
was
who came
On coming to Groton our
also, purchased the old Groton
other
firm
a
Bristol,
death.
with
retired with a well
Mr. Reynolds
a shoemaker of
met with an accidental
and was
was engaged
he
when
to
Reynolds,
139
July 20,
Robert C,
1852, having been born in Herkimer
1866.
They
had
no children.
Samuel
sought no political preferment.
and
became
a resident of
Groton in
William
On coming to the village Samuel was a clerk in the
of
his uncle,
employ
and in later years became his business partner (1855-66).
Robert was succeeded in
1866 by H. K. Clark.
In 1880 Samuel retired from active business, and has since
been a traveling salesman.
Like his uncle, Mr. Reynolds has ever been a staunch
county,
February 28, 1833,
the
son of
Reynolds.
Democrat, and has been candidate for the Assembly. October 27, 1859, he
Mary, daughter of Sidney Gooding, and they have had three children.
married
Reed, Levi H., was born in the town of Ithaca, December 8, 1824: His father,
Andrew W., came to Tompkins county in 1806, and settled in the town of Ulysses,
there
being
L. H. Reed
only one frame house in Ithaca at the time of his arrival.
in the common schools and is a self-made and self-educated man. At
was educated
the
twenty-five he
age of
Katie A.
married
fifty
In 1870 he bought
acres.
bought
part of
Smith,
and now
and
the
active
has 125
Rood, G. L., M. D.,
study,
and
then
age of
part of
the Warren D. Ellis property,
a section of
the Horace
of
in 1872 he
and
and
William
in all, making a specialty of hay, though he raises grain
He is one of the substantial men of the town, taking an
then
in 1882
was
in the
born in Centre Lisle, Broome pounty, N.
common
made a
trip
graduated
returned and
tAventy-eight he
Y., July 16, 1855,
schools and afterwards graduated
west,
and on
his
return
took
from the Eclectic Medical Institute
established a
from
a course
of
general practice of medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio
Ida A. Ayers, daughter of Job Ayers,
have tAvo children, one son, Vaughn, and
matters and
recognized as a citizen of
side
in
politics and also an active
in advancing the best interests
ability and high merit.
of
Starkey
of medical
in Etna.
married
Tioga county, N. Y. They
Olive.
He takes the Republican
and church
In 1850 he bought the George Brown farm
education and religious matters.
and was educated
and
Manning, who died in 1851, and in 1856 he
Morris, of Lansing, and they have two
John
acres
usual crops also.
Academy
or
the Scott property, adding in 1888
interest in
and
Susan
daughter
Morris,
J., and Susan C.
Edgar
children:
married
of
a
Richford,
daughter,
interest in
his town,
,
At the
where
school
he is
born October 12, 1826, in the town of Danby, and was educated
in the district schools, to which he has added by intelligent reading and close obser
vation.
At the age of tw7enty-four he married Fannie M, Egbert, by whom he had
Roper, Luther,
was
The eldest, W. E. Roper, is now a practicing physician in
Candor. The other son, T. Eugene Roper, is also a physician, located in Pueblo,
Our subject is a Republican
Colo. The daughter, Mary E., died, aged twenty-two.
two sons
and a
in politics,
and
connected with
daughter.
is interested in
the
old
relating to education aud. religion, being
Presbyterian church of Danby.
He is a practical and sueall matters
140
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
150
farmer, cultivating
cessful
acres of
land
he
on which
raises
large
hay
crops of
and grain.
Roe, Moses,
He has
in
born in the town
was
been
always
his farm
connection with
fine farm land.
Danby, now part of Caroline, March 12, 1822.
joiner, having followed the same for forty years,
of
a carpenter and
He has
Avork.
1843, Mr. Roe
a place
consisting of about fourteen acres
Margaret A. Barnard, of Ulysses,
July 4,
they are the parents of eight children, of whom one son and one daughter live
at home, all the others
being married and away. They have celebrated their
fiftieth marriage anniversary, with all their children around them. William Roe, the
of
married
and
great-grandfather
General
Our
in
of
our
Washington,
is
subject
subject,
lived to
and
a member of
a good
the G. A.
in the
a quartermaster
was
R.,
old
army
under
family being long lived.
Grange, and is a Republican
the
all
age,
the
and also of
colonial
politics.
Rowe, Judge Jerome, deceased, was a native of Berkshire county, Mass., was edu
Union College, and followed teaching till 1857, when he took up the study
cated at
law.
of
He
languages,
was
in
a
he
and
man
of
practiced
very extended education, being the master
his profession in Ithaca for twenty-one years.
of
seven
He
was
late war, leading the first company from this county as their
captain.
Since his death his wife, Mrs. Fannie P. Rowe, has taken up the work he
left undone, and has become a pension attorney of considerable prominence, having
a soldier
the
It
specialty of rejected claims.
but her successful securing of it
made a
claim,
her to follow it
since.
tinuously
Central
School,
student
a
was
country,
went
C.
Gauntlet,
father
street, he
parlors,
of
the
in
he has
where
times to
Society
he
which
removed
fully
Russian
Ithaca,
In 1876 he bought
Poland,
for
a
came
land,
few
the gallery
since
ever
and
out
and
native
and
1892 ; Anna M. is
of
daughter.
started
and
and
for
all
The gallery
in, but
teacher in
country in 1868.
he landed in this
to this
and when
engaged in painting
30 State street, of John
Mr. Rubin has acquired
years was
at
28
and
been in business.
exactness
a
the Grammar School.
neatness
where
to
second
in painting or crayon
United Friends.
He married in his
to 15
equipped
class of
enlarge either
of one son and one
same one
to
for fine work,
prepared at all
member of
,
Cornell,
a student at
photography in his
immediately
sr.
public
a graduate of
a native of
of
and crayon work.
a reputation
as
Mildred L. is
and
Rubin, Henry, is
He
and she
profession,
Bertrand P. is
living.
and
has been very successful.
Mrs. Rowe was
in
and
has
held
the office con
1885,
notary
Judge Rowe died July 30, 1878, leaving four children, three now
as a
Governor Hill
by
appointed
her first intention only to prove her own
others for some of her friends, induced
was
native
he is
now
He is
none.
Mr. Rubin is
work.
land,
and
located is
a
is the
not
the
spending five years at 28 and 30 State
17 State street, where he has large and commodious
kinds
after
of photographic work.
Randolph, Frederick P., was born in the town of Ithaca, November 22, 1836, a son
Isaac, a native of Dutchess county, who came here in 1809, a mason and builder by
trade.
Among
his buildings may be
built for General Hubbell
years.
Frederick P.
life has been
spent
was
in this
on
mentioned
Geneva
the third
city.
street.
son
At the
in
a
the
old
Town
Hall,
He died here in 1873,
family
of seven
age of seventeen
and
residence
aged eighty-four
children,
he was
the
and
apprenticed
his
whole
to
Henry
FAMILY SKETCHES.
H. Moore to learn the
after
his time
trade, serving three
carpenter's
he
expired
two
remained
141
longer.
years
years and
He
Avas a
eight
and
months,
journeyman
carpenter
four years, then took his first building contract at the age of twenty-fi\Te.
Among some of the buildings for which he contracted may be mentioned the resi
about
O. G. Howard, Mrs. Vail, D. W. Burdick, and the Unitarian church, the Reed
block, Hollister hotel, and the annex of the High School. He is a Republican and a
member of Aurora Street Methodist Church, of which he was for many years a
dences
of
In 1854 he
trustee.
Mr.
maker, of this town.
died November
Adelaide, daughter
married
18, 1866,
Mrs. Randolph had
and
aged
Selah T. Benjamin,
or
twelve
daughter, Mary Ella,
one
He has
years.
fine residence,
a
a harnesswho
with office
in
the rear, built in 1875.
Robertson, Orris, was born in Lansing, March 18, 1855, the son of Thomas
Robertson, a native of Saratoga county, born January 2, 1798, whose parents were
Thomas spent his life on the farm, and was
George and Mary (Smith) Robertson.
for Dryden twelve
constable
In the
sheriff several years.
consecutive
1829 he
year
He
years.
was
was also
collector and
In 1830 he
elected sheriff.
deputy
married
and they had ten
of Jacob and Mary Teeter, of Lansing,
Newton, born August 29, 1832; Olive, born July 15, 1834; Rome, born
June 1, 1836 (deceased); Mary, born March 27, 1838; Jane, born February 7, 1840,
wife of Stroud Bush, of Lansing; Fame, born February 11, 1842, wife of Samuel
Smith, of Lansing; Paris, born July 2, 1844; Serene, born March 28, 1846, wife of
J. B. Spaulding, of Ulysses ; Homer T. born March 4, 1849 (deceased) ; and Orris,
In 1832 Mr. Robertson moved to Lansing, where he died in
born March 18; 1855.
Elizabeth, daughter
children:
,
1886,
his
and
the
and at
In 1882 he
death
home
returned
and
took
and
Avas
educated
and spent some years
of
in the district schools,
in various enterprises.
farm, which became his at the
Louise Jewell, born in 1866. daughter of
of
charge
married
(Dixon) JeAvell,
the
Mr.
Danby.
and
Mrs. Robertson have had
25, 1884; Elizabeth H., born June
Mr. Robertson is a Republican.
born October
children: Glen,
Elma, born January 11,
Rudy, Henry, jr.,
He
home
In 1883 he
Hannah
three
Avas
Orris Robertson
in 1884.
twenty-one left
his father.
of
Monroe
wife
age of
educated
At the
age of
Avas
in the
one of a
Avas
1894.
born in
Ulysses, July 15, 1835,
two terms
common schools and
family
of nine children, and greAv
twenty-one he began
teaching
taught
at
to
school,
tAvo
at
the
homestead.
old
He
Trumansburgh Academy.
manhood
and
27, 1889;
on
the home farm.
taught three
winters.
in the toAvn
In
Owen.
1857 he AA7ent to Rockford, 111., and
In the spring of 1858 he Avent on the Dakota frontier and assisted in the survey of
He returned to the
Sioux Falls toAvn site, remaining there through the summer.
enlisted
in
he
Company I, 137th N. Y. Vols. ;
home farm in 1859. August 22, 1862,
was
promoted
part
in
Mountain ;
forehead,
the
sores on
close
of
regiment
including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg
was shot
twice
Avas
legs, during
a
great march
three
of
in
Lookout
three
and received a shell wound
in his
sea.
He
missed
only
one engage
the hospital thirty-two days from scurvy,
service.
and
He
He took
and
Avas wounded
the field for dead.
because
the Avar, in June, 1865,
to the
through the neck,
carried off
in,
winters
Lookout Mountain to first lieutenant.
Sherman in the
in his side,
and Avas
at
and
engagements,
Avas Avith
times once
ment
to sergeant,
eighteen
school
He
received
Avas
an
mustered out
by
reason of
honorable discharge.
He is
the
not
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
142
June 18, 1872, he married CoraC Sirrine, of Trumansburgh;
had two children: Arthur H., born September 12, 1873, died August 22,
pensioned.
Laura C. ,
is
who
living
at
Mr.
home.
Rudy
farming
continued
they have
1879, and
some years after
the
from active labor, and is living in the village of Trumansburgh.
sr.
was born on his father's farm near where he settled
Rudy,
Henry
December 14, 1893.
died
He married Eleanor Owen, of
and
January 31, 1803,
Avar, but is noAv
retired
His father,
Hector,
by
,
whom
James, William,
been
having
board,
public,
the
he had
and
Health,
Board
of
Rudy,
grandfather of
Ulysses, April
thirteen
on
the
27, 1784,
and at
In
company.
and
1851
He
residence
from
and
Julia,
was
of
Co.
,
and
In
Edgar
town
of
of
Avho
in the
reading
Dryden,
and successful
ten
farmer for
years
owned
ago,
and
Swetland,
a
P.,
Rhoda
of
Perkins,
also a
daughter
Tavo
children
who
affairs
holds
thirty
purchased
-three
years.
the beautiful
member
of
married
the
of
Judge
16, 1863.
Swetland,
have been born
a prominent position with
old
the
and
of
the
Groton Bridge
Julia Swetland Wartrous died Septem
Mr. Wartrous has
a member of
schools,
observation.
they
and
purchased
stock of
merchant of
1833.
Mr. Wartrous
Cincinnatus.
For
been
ever
one year
the Baptist church,
born in the toAvn
was
common
and close
doubled the
of
distinguished
the
are
to
Avhich
a consistent
he
and
Whig
and
was supervisor of
his
wife and son
the
Edgar
At the
parents of one
Dryden, January 29, 1871, and was edu
added by an intelligent course of
age of
twenty he married Nettie Sager, of
daughter, Helen. He takes the Democratic
of
he has
in politics, and an active interest in church
bought a half interest in the general merchandise
large
a period
in 1889
Dye Williams.
by
side
1893
the
John
church.
Willey, F. R.,
cated
Post,
of
G. A. R. No. 572.
9, 1843; he died January 14,
no sense a politician.
He is
Groton.
the M. E.
Treman
and
died September
political
though in
Republican,
the Baptist church, president
they had three children: Martha, wife of D. H. Brown, of
died August 30, 1849; and Ellen, who died September 6, 1849.
C V. Perkins,
Mary,
director,
member of
and
second marriage:
ber 6, 1849.
for the
active
born in
Judge Walton
our subject married
AvidoAV of
died March
formerly
property
bar,
Cortland; Edgar, Avho
In 1851
and a
Freetown, Cortland county, March 3, 1814, one
Sally (Backus) Wartrous. Ezra was brought up
the age of twenty-three started for himself, traveling forawagon
he came to Groton and bought a farm, and thereafter was
Cortland county
the
of
years
was
active Avork about
daughter
deacon
and
commander of
Austin
recognized as a progressive
retired
his retirement, has been
born in Bucks county, Pa., February 22, 1774,
Trumansburgh in 1800.
His wife, Lucy Easling, was born in
children of
farm,
since-
the Fair for three
the subject,
Wartrous, Ezra Jason,
of
Rudy,
trustee
and post
near
settled
and
Mr.
president of
church
school
LeAvis, Ann, Miner, John, Henry, jr., Mary,
nine children:
Julia.
the interest
dry
of
his
brother,
AA'hich
goods, groceries, clothing, boots
volume of
ability,
his business.
and progressive
Our
and
he
is
matters.
Shaver &
now conducts
and
subject
ideas, taking
school
stock of
shoes, hats
recognized
In 1892 he
Willey,
alone,
and
and
having
caps,
and
in his town
a prominent part
in
a
has
as
a
in advancing its
best interests.
Wright, Horatio D. born in Danby April 15, 1819. His father. Orson Wright,
came to Danby in 1808, Avhere he and Zebulon, Charles Robbins and
Isaac Wright
,
bought and
cleared
up adjoining farms.
Orson Wright died
May 31, 1878,
at
the
ad-
FAMILY SKETCHES.
vanced age of
common
the
age of
Our
ninety-two.
schools, to
thirty
he
143
laid the foundation
subject
Caroline,
married
daughter
his
of
he has added through life
which
by reading
James Ireland,
of
education
of
Danby,
and
haveeight children, of whom fiveare living: Emogene, Louisa, Edward, Carrie
thur.
In 1864 he bought what was known as the Captain Denton property,
125
in the
At
and observation.
they
and
Ar
having
fine farm
lands, raising hay, grain and stock. Our subject is one of the
leading farmers in his town, taking an active and intelligent interest in educational
and religious matters.
The grandmother of Mr. Wright was a Douglass, and in that
acres of
way
was connected and
Welch, John B.,
which
he has
twenty-three
now
four
was one of
& Flint tract.
through his
Welch.
Our
He is
a
tical
old,
and who was
earliest settlers
subject
educated
family
politics
since
in his town
recognized
of
1806.
They
an
active
He
schools, to
married when
Silas Manning, who is
His father, John Man
the
the
same
have
old
Watkins
farm,
which
son, John B.
interest in educational
one
In the M. E.
and steward
as a man of
common
a portion of
resides on
takes
and
in
observation.
buying
now
and
been trustee
having
matters,
Stephen A. Douglass.
of
born in this town.
in the town,
purchased
Republican in
Mr. Welch is
by.
family
Cora Belle Manning, daughter
has been in the
wife
and religious
years
the
the
Danby June 4, 1850,
life by reading and
through
added
with
born in
was
years of age
seventy-
ning,
intimate
church
sterling worth,
in Dan
and as a prac
farmer.
and successful
Warren, James C,
was
born in
Albany
November
30, 1827,
moved
into Tompkins
county in 1875, and was educated at Pompey Hill Academy, N. Y. Mr. Warren has
a beautiful residence and farm on the west side of Cayuga Lake, and gives attention
fruits, fine fowls. and
to raising
on sevdral
different
occasions
He is
grain.
the city
of
Mr. Warren is known throughout his
whose word is as good as his bond, and
Whitlock,'
Lorenzo R. , born March
in the district schools, but was
Democrat, has been mayor pro tern.
Ithaca, and was alderman two years.
a
of
neighborhood
whose
as an
is
integrity
2, 1849, in Ithaca,
soon called
from
school
to
active, energetic man,
above suspicion.
his early education
his father on the farm,
received
assist
Subject's
sixty-three, he took the entire control.
upon whose death,
and
lived
to
the
age
of
mother was born in Lansing, Tompkins county,
ninety years.
Mr. Whitlock has given his attention to
eighty-five of which was spent in Ithaca.
at
farming
his
throughout
being
matters,
a
the
life, but
twenty
White,
married
Ellen D.
an active
church
also
in Ithaca,
interest in
thoroughly
of which
educational and political
identified himself
he has been
with
the
a consistent member
years.
Walter
Watts,
Laura Bliss
White,
who
in the
N. Y. Vols. ,
western
and
to
,
Washington county,
When a lad he came with his father, Thomas Eldridge, and
In 1863 M. Eldridge enlisted in Co. K, 137th
part of this town.
married
after
afterward regained
Windsor, Mass. born July 14, 1812. He
Groton, locating on a farm. Their only child was
a native of
was
and came
N. Y. , born in 1829.
settled
takes
He has
Republican.
Aurora Street Methodist
for
of
age
James H. Eldridge,
a year of service
his full
health,
hotel in Steuben county for
a
was
discharged for disability.
and was obliged
few years,
and
a native of
to
abandon
died in 1869.
farming.
He
never
He kept
a
COUNTY.
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS
144
Peck, William Mitchell, was born in South NeAv Berlin, Chenango county, Septem.
ber 21, 1823, and lived with his parents till 1845, Avorking on a farm and also learning
the
mason's
His
trade.
but later
It 1869 Mr. Peck
to Cortland county,
returned
In 1872 he bought
half interest in
a
Six
Nelson Trumbull.
stock,
and with
November
eleven
children,
and on
19, 1845,
Walter W.
of
that
he
year
for
Jane A.
a
Avas a
farm
dairy
Groton, his
nineteen
wife
farmer,
of sixty cows.
partner
being
years,
retiring in
he had
whom
February 2, 1871,
Eldridge, daughter of
Mr. Peck
strong Republican,
shoe
died
Ellen D.
second
married
he
Robbins, by
His
maturity.
there the young life
where
bought the S. B. Marsh
was connected
to
and
a
James H. Eldridge.
White, and widow of
Abolitionist, later
then an
Whig,
time had
retired and
married
of whom grew
nine
October 25
he
Peck
1824,
Groton,
to
business in
a mercantile
enterprise
Mr.
came
and at one
later he
months
the latter
1891.
to Truxton in
people moved
of our subject was spent.
and now
was
originally a
believes equally
strong in Prohibition.
the town
H., was born April 6, 1841, on the farm
Danby, was educated in the common schools,
William
Wilcox,
of
Mary
seven married
one
son,
Mr. Wilcox is
non.
terest in
church
a
at
the
Reuben Meeker,
the
in South Danby.
Our
fine farm
a
nineteen,
Republican in politics,
all educational and religious
town, having
hay
of
age of
E. , daughter
killed
who was
125
of
is
acres
and at
also of
takes
an
he
the
They
discharge
had
of a can
intelligent in
farmers in his
large
raises
resides, in
age of twenty-
active and
being
the leading
which
now
and steward of
one of
on
he
this town.
accidental
trustee
matters,
subject
by
and
where
the M. E.
part of the
quantities of
grain,
and stock.
Rumsey, Charles J., was born in the town of Enfield, January 30, 1849, the son of
James Rumsey, a farmer of Enfield, who died in 1868.
Charles was educated in the
common schools and
reaching his
brother, John, in
in the firm
ner
the
majority.
of
John
came
store
E. M. Finch, since
Democrat in politics, and
& Co.
to
Ithaca,
The
For three
establishment of
three years,
Cooper,
was president of
the
electric
also a prominent member of
of
Catharine, Schuyler
the homestead farm until
where
being
his
1882-83-84,
was
and
they
for his
a part
retiring in 1879 the firm
partners were
civil
the Masonic order.
county,
acted as clerk
the company.
Ithaca in
He
he
In 1876 he became
member
years
light plant.
on
in 1858.
senior
then only Mr. Gillette
the
living
established
Rumsey & Co.
Rumsey
and
rah
Ithaca Academy,
the hardware
became Charles J.
of
old
In 1870 he
this
service
He
Edwin Gillette
Mr.
Rumsey is a
being the time
commissioner
in 1880 Sa
have two sons, John and Law
married
rence.
Townsend'
s father, Addison Right
Rightmire, Trotter, and Townsend.Mrs.
mire, was born in Ulysses, on the old homestead, (recently known as the Vann
prop
erty) in October, 1818, was educated in the schools of that day, andwas a teacher and
farmer.
He married Hannah M. Franklin, and they had six children:
Arietta,
George, William, Henry, Emma and Sarah. William is a judge at Cottonwood Falls,
Kan.
Mr. Rightmire died
the
of
war of
1812.
the first settlers
property.
1876
his
about 1864.
Mr. Townsend's
born in Westchester county, and was a soldier in
Her great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution and was one
grandfather, John
about
Rightmire,
the
and
wife
was
town, locating on his land bounty claim, on the above noted
Arietta married twice, first on August 7, 1861, Abram M.
Trotter, of the
of
145
FAMILY SKETCHES.
town
of Enfield, who died
February 19, 1884. For her second husband, she married
in 1886 Orville R. Townsend, born in Ovid, Seneca county, who was educated in the
district schools, and was one of the town's intelligent farmers. For some years, he
was a
They
the town
resident of
William W. ,
had twelve
of
Hector, Schuyler
born in Hector
was
and
living
children all now
Mr. Townsend's
county.
Deborah
married
Auble,
Seneca
of
father,
county.
except one.
Robinson, Almon, was born in Exeter, Otsego county, January 22, 1813. He read
Dr. Haywood, and practiced a short time there, but soon removed to
South Cortland, where he remained about seven years., and in 1850 came to McLean,
where he lived until his death, June 5, 1889.
He was an extensive and successful
He married in Exeter, Bar
practitioner, and a large hearted and generous man.
bara Robinson, by whom he had one child, Helen M. Robinson.
His second wife
was Eliza Fassett,
whom
two
children
W. C Heminghe
had
:
Celia
E.
wife
of
by
The latter Avas born at South Cortland,
Avay, of Dryden, and Barzilla L. of McLean.
February 1, 1849, was educated in Homer Academy and entered Cornell, taking an
medicine with
,
,
elective
course, hence
the Groton Union
principal of
of
Milo Goodrich
abandon
with
his law
his father,
Later
school.
Dryden, but his
of
He
was not graduated.
studies.
attended
he
on
tensive
in
Emily
field he has
S. , daughter
He is
children.
Surgeons for this
a
and
Emily
He is
Democrat.
degree
La
one of
at
years
in the
office
was compelled
to
present
Board
Bellevue Hospital
1887,
and
has
of
Pension
married
have two
they
and
an ex
diseases,
In 1872 he
McLean
of
Examining
county.
Wayne county, Ohio, March 24,
The doctor was educated in the
schools, Bryant & Stratton's Business College
University
having been
of cancerous
of prominence.
Motte,
the
by
McLean in
His specialty is the treatment
clientage.
Lucius
at
Brenizer, W. I., D.D.S., Avas born in Worcester,
1858, a son of a farmer and a veterinary surgeon.
common
law two
impaired he
endorsed
was
practice
attained an enviable
of
time,
a
Upon his full recovery he read medicine nearly two years
Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia for two years and
Dr. Robinson began
increasing
and
which
read
being
eyesight
graduated; his diploma from Jefferson College
Medical College'.
teacher for
was a
After Avard he took
Berea, Ohio.
a
course
at
Cleveland,
in
civil
and
Baldwin
engineering
at
Cin
in this way worked for his
cinnati.
At the age of sixteen he began to teach,
He first began the study of dentistry in 1883 in Akron, Ohio, entered the
education.
and
Pennsylvania, Avhere he received the degree
of D.D.S.
January 11, 1892, he located in Ithaca, buying the office of Frank E.
Howe, in the Masonic block, Avhere he has since conducted a very successful practice.
dental department
of
the
University
of
born in
Erin, Chemung county,
December 20, 1833, son of Jeremiah and Eleanor (Swartwood) Barnes, the father born
He was a son of Abram Barnes, also a native
in Delaware county, January 8, 1800.
Barnes,
of
Stephen
I.,
The
NeAv York State.
Etten)
SwartAvood.
SAvartAvood.
Avhere our
The
Jacob
now
Avas
lives,
the first
of our
was
Avas
daughter
of
Gen. Jacob
postmaster of
subject,
and where
died August 27, 1860.
the Republican party
Lansing,
mother w7as a
Jeremiah, father
subject
mother
an old resident of
he
Jeremiah
formed he joined
came
resided
was
with
a
Cayuta
to
and
Creek,
Lansing
Catharine (Van
now
in 1844
known
as
and settled
his death April 1, 1878.
Democrat in politics, but when
until
them.
Our
subject was educated
in
the
schools
common
twenty-four he took
attended
and
an extended
term
one
trip
COUNTY.
TOMPKINS
LANDMARKS OF
146
At the
Aurora Academy.
at
through Iowa
west
age
three
Minnesota,
and
of
years
In 1858 he married Eunice
later returning home and settling on his father's farm.
M., daughter of Ashley and Phoebe Taylor, of Illinois, formerly of New York State,
they had four children : Fred, born in February, 1861 ; Floyd, born in June, 1864;
Ruth, died in infancy ; John, born in March, 1870. Fred married Elizabeth Rumsey
of Chemung county, and they have two children: George, born in June, 1885, and
Charles, born in 1889. John married Lora Ferriss, of Cayuga county, and they have
Our subject is one of a family of eight children: Ja
one child, Earl, born in 1891.
Cath
cob, Rubin, John, James R., Stephen I., Charles (died in the army), Elizabeth,
and
Ruth (twins), the
arine and
Ithaca
282,
assessor,
a member of
He has
I. O. G. T.
and
fruit
as
of
Mrs. Barnes died September
respectively.
his third term
Francis Smith
Avives of
a
farm
the I. O. O.
Lansing
4, 1890.
F., the
of seventy-three
J. G. Waldwin
and
of
Subject is
now serving
Rebecca Grange Lodge
and makes a
acres,
specialty
of
growing.
Browm, Richard H., of Lansing, was born in Dryden December 7, 1840, the son of
Benjamin Brown, a native of Lansing, born about 1807, whose father was Christo
The latter married Mary Snyder and reared ten children ; Benjamin,
pher Brown.
He married Hannah,
the eldest, was captain of a military company in Dryden.
daughter
getic
Henry
of
man, in
Elizabeth,
the district
twenty-three he
chased a
Some
1862
farm
She
born August
set off
Bacon, L. D.
his father,
Avas
subject Avas an
He
years.
obliged
to
,
AA-as
Mary Reed,
born
was
folloAving
he
until
OAvned
He
son.
age of
(1866)
year
155
pur
acres.
married
in
wife
died
July 23, 1892,
his deceased
and
he
married
wife.
Canton, Bradford county, Pa., March 21, 1841. Isaiah,
February 11, 1821, and came to this State when our
m
lumber
home
the
August
dealer,
on account
he
married
of
took up the grocery
Harrington,
business,
and
a
and
age of seventy-two
a short
in the
they had
time, but wras
At the
service.
three children,
of
moulder
being
for
a pension.
later began
married
the
in early life, following this
in the 86th N. Y. Vols., remaining in the
Avas
enlisted
at
Avar
contracted
When in the second battle
1863.
In 1863 he
rheumatism
Jane
In 1861 he
in the late
served
The latter
second.
30,
and
lay
successful.
to this
At the
summers.
this farm to his
a sister of
in the hospital five months,
crutches, for Avhich he noAv receives
very
the
Here he lived till his death in 1889
infant.
till the age of twenty.
and
farm
George,
farm,
the
subject was reared on
and
five
born in Rome,
return
serA-ice until
added
acres of
Mr. Brown's first
1863.
Avas a
L. D.
Later he
fifty-five
They
ener
reared
LudloAvville ; Richard H. ,
Our
Danby,
active,
of
age of eighteen years
Avhom
in
was an
him.
AndreAv W., and Nellie (Ostrander) Reed, of the town of
born in August, 1838.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one son, Miles S.,
Avas
20,
of
Barden.
one year
of sixty-six acres.
October 8, 1893,
second
farm
rented a
daughter
Olive,
Ithaca.
of
survives
still
Dr. D. T. Barr
He
Lansing.
of
Avife
schools Aviuters and worked on a
later he
years
Avife of
Eugene M. Baker
wnfeof
Teeter
His
Republican.
Henry, Jennie,
children :
attended
Wintchy (Sly)
and
politics a
Emeline
six
of
Bull Run he
years
unable
to
When he became
driving
piling, in
Vangilder,
of
Avas Avounded
walk
able
Avhich
to
Avithout
Avalk
he has been
Southport, Elmira,
they have three sons, the youngest being eighteen years of age,
Our subject is a member of the G. A. R. and is a Republican.
and
he
living
at
and
home.
147
FAMILY SKETCHES.
a
born in
Bailor, Daniel,
was
Mr. Lummis
that county,
gan.
After he
where
he
have
free he
years old.
the
being
married
was
in
Danby
of
George county, Va. , in 1843.
to
Winchester,
has followed
They
the
farming
to
be
there to
ever
being formerly
she
members of
are
Avar
Washington, D.C,
State, being then about
since he came to this State,
andfrom
farm in Tompkins county consisting
a
w7as a slave
to New York
came
in 1869 Rachael Dickson,
eleven children.
He
and was about eighteen years of age w-hen
He then
.'He
owner
King
went
remained a year.
twenty-two
now7
of
the Baptist
of
110
of
In
church.
He
acres.
Virginia,
they
and
he is
politics
a
Republican.
Boice, John,
born in the town
of Caroline, October 24, 1847.
His father, Eli,
born in Ulster county, and came here when quite young with his father, Abram.
The latter died when Eli was twenty-five years of age, and the latter made his home
was
was
his brother John for
with
which
he
John
time.
a
built
a
he had been living.
where
farm,
cleared and
Avhen our subject was
the last.
until
to
moved
another
for
residence
and consists
timber.
He
married
Boice
makes
He is
a
to the
next went
five
rented
the farm
he lived three
he
which
now
as
1885,
his father to
of
the Charles Mulks
This is
for
cared
outside
years, in the mean time
occupies.
of
ninety
situated
by
his
building
near
son
and
parties,
fine
a
Slaterville
the finest
his
of
acres
special
occupation, owning
Caroline Lodge No. 681,
of
known
place
Eli died in
years of age.
land, with twenty-five acres of
in 1870 Sarah, daughter of John Everlin, of Tioga county.
Mr.
dairying
Mason
his marriage, he took up a piece of land,
later bought still another place, near
He
where
himself,
Springs,
on
and
John then
place,
Later,
log cabin upon,
is
and
fifteen head
about
Democrat, having
a
of cattle.
held town
office.
Bogardus, Andrew B., a prominent farmer of Lansing, was born in Ellenville, Ul
county, June 8, 1832, a son of Jacob E. and Ann (Bruyn) Bogardus, of Kingston,
Ulster county, who came to this town in 1833, and bought a tract of over 300 acres,
ster
a portion of which
1859
and
part
in
his
political
our subject was
in Kingston
our
subject now
in 1865.
wife
He
affairs, he
the
of
the
having
the
daughter
The
sixth.
in the academy
he has since lived.
farm,
being
a
and
owns,
on
and at
at
which
Democrat.
he
They
Evert Bogardus*
grandfather was
the
Assembly during
Ithaca, and after leaving
At his father's death he
Jacob died in
resides.
in his town, taking
had eight children,
a prominent man
held the first
was
educated
Avhere
was
war of
school
1812.
he
into
came
an active
of whom
in his house
and
Andrew B.
returned
to the
was
farm,
possession of a portion
the mother's, death the brothers divided the property, Andrew B.
In 1888 he married Fannie,
the home buildings.
portion on which were
of
Hiram Herrick
of
Lansing.
Mr. Bogardus is
a
Democrat.
Bogardus, E. K. a prominent and successful farmer of Lansing, was born in Ulster
who was a sloop cap
county, N. Y., March 16, 1827, the son of Jacob E. Bogardus,
,
tain
on
the Hudson River between Rondout
river seven
years,
acres where
bought 240
by
whom
mon
the
went
village of
About
and sold.
then
Ellenville
seventeen years
acres of cleared
he had
schools,
to Ellenville
farm,
eight children.
with one year
now
stands,
later he
where
and
and
New York
bought
and
returned
this
he died in 1857.
and
has
always
city.
Our
He followed the
interest in
they
with
She died in 1865.
in Ithaca,
an
his
a
tract
portioned off
family
His
to
Avife was
Lansing
Ann
subject attended
remained on
the
of
300
into lots
and
Bruyn,
the
farm,
com
which
148
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
divided
was
He folkyws
after
the death
his parents, he taking 108
of
but
farming,
specialty
Seager, daughter of Philip
general
makes
a
Harriet Adelaide
married
of
he
acres where
sheep
and
Ann
now
1 ives.
In 1879 he
raising.
(Gardner) Seager,
of
Mrs. Bogardus's ancestry are Holland Dutch.
Our subject's
Jacob
Avas
captain
in
the
who
kept
a
a public
Revolution,
grandfather,
Bogardus,
When Kingston was
house and conducted a blacksmith shop in Kingston, N. Y.
Dryden.
Both Mr.
and
by the British his was the only house that escaped the flames. It was in this
building that the first State Assembly was held many years later. When it Avas
finally torn down there was found concealed in the walls a box of continental money
placed there by him.
Mr. Bogardus is a Democrat in politics.
burned
Cooper, Festus, was born in the town of Danby, June 27, 1823. His father was
Henry Cooper, who came to this town in 1815. Our subject acquired his learning in
the district schools,
school
followed farming.
Andrew U. Hill,
of
of
a considerable
and
At the
the same
Cooper bought the farm
Wells property,
by
supplemented
he
of
town,
114
large
raises
and
acres
observation,
twenty-eight he
of
age
and
reading
they have
where
he
married
and after
son, Lewis E.
one
resides, known
now
He
His first business
field.
member
daughter
Eliza
the
of
of
Grange,
being
S. J.
his
received
was
that
and
married
George Holmes,
married
of
a
They
Douglass,
the Josiah
hay and grain, also raising
Jersey and Holstein cattle.
grade
Carpenter, L. T., was born in Newfield June 13, 1832. Joseph, his
Dutchess county September 11, 1794, died at the age of ninety-six.
one of eleven children.
In 1867 Mr.
as
quantities of
extent, his specialty
education
farmer, has been
common
stock
to
father, born in
Our
subject
is
schools of New-
assessor of
the
town, is
a
in 1854, Caroline Holmes, born in Newfield,
have two children: Eliza C, and Fannie T.
they have
and
in the
leaving
Almira, daughter
two children: H.
B. Douglass
and
Nellie G.
was born in Newfield, March 4,
1843, a son of Israel O., a native
Tompkins county, born in 1813, who owned a farm of 140 acres in
Newfield, and
married November 2, 1837, Emeline, daughter of Charles
of
Mallory,
Chemung county.
They had three children : Martha A. James M. and William. The latter is a farmer
Clark, William,
of
,
lumberman, having
and
,
a saw mill and
quite
150,000 to 200,000 acres, consisting of hemlock,
married on October 7, 1868, and has had three
(deceased).
ma
Our
subject
is
Nora
a
Avas educated
Republican, but has
Carpenter, Jay, of Newfield,
Carpenter, also of this county,
owned a
dren,
he
farm
100
acres.
May Hall,
of
Mr. Carpenter is
a
tract
of
Havana,
children:
and
never aspired
Cora
to
land.
He is working from
lumber.
He w7as
and pine
Nora
at
S., Cora C,
and
Em
the Ithaca High School.
office.
born in this town June 11, 1855, a son of William
followed carpentry for fifty-six years, though he
He married Rebecca Volk,
by whom he had two chil
was
who
of whom our subject Avas
married
age.
of
in
a
chestnut
the
The latter follows farming.
In 1885
have
one
now
four
years of
they
child, Ray,
Democrat in politics, though he has never aspired to public
Ithaca,
youngest.
and
office.
Cole, Lewis,
Edmund Cole,
the
was
born in the town
came
earliest settlers
from
Dryden, November 24, 1838. His father,
Ballston, Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1851 and was among
in the town.
of
Lewis Cole
Avas a self-educated and self-made
man,
FAMILY SKETCHES.
having
his
received
his
in the
education
common
life solely
by
Dodge,
away April 10, 1877,
the parents of four children,
they
are
own unaided
Florence M. , Sarah J.
age
having
twenty-nine he
of
remarried, in
and
made a success
married
in
Alice.
1878, Maggie Henry,
and
son, James L. , and three daughters,
In 1868 he bought the old Henry White place,
Lenora.
and
and
schools,
At the
efforts.
passed
who
149
one
fifty-eight acres, and in March, 1872, he bought the Jesse
Freeville,
Blanchard property of 102 acres, having 160 acres in all, on which he raises hay, etc.
and where he has put up new buildings and erected a handsome residence.
Our sub
just
of
west of
,
ject is
known
and
the largest farmers in his
one of
toAvn, being identified
as a successful and practical
with
its best interests
farmer.
Crowley, Timothy, is a native of Ireland, born in County Cork, September 21,
1843, who came to this county in 1868, locating in Ithaca the same year, where he
followed his trade
His first
of carpentry.
versity buildings,
them.
Mr. CroAvley
tractor for a
great
his latest
and
partnership
and
with
Our subject is
Michael
Driscoll,
and
in the
After
of
the
common
leaving
was
and
he
In 1884 he left the farm
which
ter
of
he
of
Archibald Miller,
He takes the Democratic
Avhile
and
leading
an active
of
they
and
have three children,
Dryden, settling
of
age
the toAvn
of
of
side
on
himself in the
forty-one he
Dryden,
in politics, is
at
his father, Joseph
of
and
a
still exists.
the First Ward.
Dryden, August 5, 1845,
established
At the
of
Ithaca,
to the farm
the toAvn
now carries on.
& Driscoll
Crowley
finished under Prof. Jackson Graves
returned
earliest residents of
of
was elected alderman of
born in the toAvn
schools,
school
firm
and the
in 1893
in 1883 Margaret Handlen,
two daughters.
Cole, George,
the first of the uni
on
the erection of a number of
in business for himself in 1884, and hehas been the eonmany fine residences in this city, as Avell as the McWhorter Block
most prominent contract, the new Lyceum.
In 1890 he formed a
married
and
was
in
assisted
started
Democrat,
a
employment
time he has
since which
the
He
a son
and was educated
Dryden Academy.
Cole,
south
wdio was one
hill
about
coal and produce
1830.
business,
Emma Miller, daugh
have one son, Samuel Cole.
married
they
trustee
of
the
village of
business life finds time to take an interest in
Dryden,
and
church and school
matters.
Conklin, John H., one of the county's representative farmers, Avas born here, Jan
also a native of Lansing, born in 1798, whose
uary 4, 1834, a son of Gilbert Conklin,
The latter
Orange
county, and served in the Revolution.
father, John, was born in
Avas
Avith
favorably
when
the locality, he
charge, settling
English
ing
Avith
on Avhat
is
now
Mr. Conklin
ancestry.
children:
Emma
A.,
Avife of
moved
here
about
1788.
Lake Ridge,
receiATed
school
and
through Tompkins county,
marched
attending
Elizabeth Osborn, daughter
summers,
married
it
Sullivan's army
impressed
John
his
education
winters
of
until
the
Abram
Avith
his
The
in the
age
being
his dis
family
family is of Scotch and
common schools work
In 1854 he
of eighteen.
Lansing,
Osborn,
Lansing; and Etta M.
of
and
after
Miller, of
in 1874, Ann, daughter
and
they had
His
wife
two
died in
of Henry and Marilda (LudloAv)
1868, and he married second
born
had
one
have
son,
May 19, 1876. George Rhodes,
Rhodes, of Lansing, and they
the grandfather of Mrs. Conklin, Avas born in Pennsylvania, and came to this county
about
1788, settling on
some of
the
original
the land which
buildings
yet
iioav comprises
standing.
Mr. Conklin's farm
Mr. Conklin has
of
served as
240 acres,
supervisor,
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
150
justice
the peace, etc.,
of
is
and
Mason
a
Odd Fellow.
an
and
He is
a
Democrat in
politics.
Calauch, Isaac H., was born in the town
father, Benjamin Calauch, came to Dryden
settlers
At the
Dryden,
and
self-made
and
self-educated
forts.
I. H. Calauch
in the town.
of
age
they
are
was
and
in the
was
Aurelia, daughter
married
the
two sons, E.
Jay
among the
common
schools
independence
achieved an
twenty-six he
parents
1812
about
educated
having
man,
Dryden, September 25, 1825.
of
Fred
and
of
D.,
earliest
and
his
by
W. H.
His
is
a
own ef
Sutfin,
and one
of
daugh
In 1874 he bought the John Skilliman property of thirtyafterwards bought part of the Fisher estate and part of the John
ter, Mrs. Henry Brown.
five acres,
and
Sharp farm,
erected a
tical
handsome house
he is
where
the Hunter estate,
also part of
and
barns.
Our subject is
for his sterling
farmer.
qualities of
respected
and successful
Crandall, Clayton,
born in the town
was
having sixty-eight acres,
of
a well
known
and
ability
on Avhich
man
integrity
BridgeAvater, Oneida
he has
in his town,
is a prac
and
February
county,
4, 1858 ; he was educated in the public schools and the Ithaca Academy, and entered
After
Cornell in 1874, graduating with the class of 1878, with the degree of B. S.
His
father
came to this toAvn
school he engaged in farming and gardening.
leaving
in 1868
ance of
the
of
and
his life,
farm,
ber, 1891,
kinds
Crandall is
held the
and
a
in
He
he
of
ran
they have
a.
a
for
both
where
he
made
assumed control
and garden
handling
the
quite an
his home for the bal
and
management of
tract, containing thirty-five
of garden produce until
acres
Septem
20 West State street, where he buys and
extensive business in
Mr.
shipping fruit.
was
In 1888 he
two children,
hill,
market at
a
in 1889
and
years.
west
Clayton
fine fruit
doing
produce,
two
the
on
1892.
Avagon
established
Democrat,
office
July,
has become
soil.
when
farm
a
on
dying
which
the best
sells all
located
elected alderman of
married
Emma Cook
of
the First
the town
Ward,
of
and
Caroline,
sons.
Crawford, John R., D.D.S., was born in the toAvn of Newfield, January 16, 1865,
son of Andrew G. Crawford, a Avagonmaker of that town, later of Ithaca.
John R.
was
educated
study
two
of
Trumansburgh
at
dentistry
and one
graduated
half
years
March
Academy, and at the age of nineteen began the
his brother-in-law, Dr. Green, of Geneva.
After
he entered the New York College of Dentistry, from which he
in the
9, 1887,
office
and
of
the September
He married, June 22, 1892, Kittie Miller,
The doctor is a member of the K. of P.
Fenner,
in 1828
Mrs.
at
Venice, Cayuga
Vermont in
nine
Elizabeth, widow
1795)
children:
and
of
county.
of
following
Ithaca,
Casper Fenner
She is
a
of
opened an office
and
Lake
daughter
of
they
have
one
Ridge, Lansing,
in Ithaca.
daughter.
was
born
Dr. Jared Foote (born in
Eliza Ann Clark, (born in Rhode Island in 1803).
They reared
Marcia, born in 1826; Elizabeth, born in 1828; Darwin, born in 1830;
bora in 1832 ; Mary, born in 1835 ; Clark, born in 1837 ; Lucinda, who died
The grandfather, Jared Foote,
young ; Caroline, born in 1842, and Jared, born in 1845.
born
in 1771 and died in 1859, at the age of eighty-eight
a native of Rhode Island, was
Lovina,
Lucinda
Jennings, died at the age of ninety-seven, and
they reared eight children : Jared, Lucinda, Anna, David, Eli, Betsey, Clark and LaThe great-grandfather. Jared Foote, was a Revolutionary soldier and a prisoner
vina.
years.
The
grandmother was
FAMILY SKETCHES.
of
in the English
war
Foote,
father
the
and
Catharine
attended
school at
down
the
on
parents
mother
our
farm,
lived
Fenner,
(Marsh) Fenner,
and
in 1849
him
on
and
they had
in 1891 Hattie Gillette
homestead.
youngest
He
the farm
100
of
was
acres
their death,, the father
politics
five children,
was
a
New Year's
the
was
reared
to farm
life,
of
age, then settled
of
his father.
July 4, 1860,
was
Republican,
son of
a
the
of
the
member
though not
His
and
an aspi
had four children, Clark C, born in 1853 ; Luie L., died in infancy ;
born in 1860 ; Leslie A., born in 1867.
Clark married Sadie L. McCarthy,
Denver, Col.,
married
He
Cayuga
Venice,
was married on
twenty-one years
youngest of
in
in
practice
They
to office.
Casper, jr.,
of
the
and
until
Dr. Jared
of starvation.
1825 in Lansing.
Pennsylvania.
of
purchased
was
large
She
schools.
until about
the farm
He
1884.
8,
Groton
Grange Onward Lodge No. 106
rant
was a physician of
born in
and
he died
where
the district
attended
Genoa
with
August
subject,
York,
to Casper
1851,
morning,
George
of
Mrs. Fenner
county.
in New
prison
151
Mrs. Fenner has
Leslie,
son,
graduated
one
of
child,
Helen
provided
born in 1889.
Elizabeth,
Mr. Fenner died
Auburn.
her
all
from Cornell
May 24, 1882,
children with a
University
Casper, jr.,
liberal
the class
with
on
the
Her
education.
of
1893,
as
old
elec
trical engineer.
Rhodes
indicating
Family, The.
In 1798 George Rhodes (this
Dutch descent)
and
Lansing,
were p'oneers of
Mrs. Dr.
grandchildren,
wife reared
their
Frederick Storm
the former settling
Gibson,
and
children and passed
surname was
originally Roths,
from Northampton county, Pa.,
the farm now owned by two of his
came
on
Here this
Mrs. J. H. Conklin.
their
days,
and
at
their
pioneer
and
his
death (George in 1823
Lansingville in
burying
The children in this family were: Elizabeth (Mrs. Snyder);
the town of Lansing.
Margaret (Mrs. Henry Newman); Jacob, who died in Dryden; George, who died in
Hector; John an.] Frederick, who died in the town of Ithaca; Andrew who died on
the old homestead ; and Henry who was born, lived and died (in August, 1873) on the
old home farm.
Henry Rhodes was born in 1799, and was a successful farmer and at
his death left a goodly inheritance to his children. He married Marilda Ludlow, by
whom he had twelve children: George A., who died in 1886; Stephen O., Mary C.
(Mrs. Eben Lobdell), John, who died in 1841, Jacob F., Dana, Ellen A. (Mrs. Dr. Gib
son of Wilkesbarre, Pa.); Mariette, who died in 1862, Francis L. (Mrs. James Bow
ker) J. Henry. Ann R. (Mrs. J. H. Conklin), now resident upon the old homestead,
J. H. Rhodes is a prominent lawyer of Little Falls,
and Alice who died in infancy.
hi
and
addition
of a
has
large
to
a
lucrative
of
other
being
named after
bar.
He
a
drug
old
Dutch
ground near
attorney for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
he is largely interested in farming, being the owner
a number of years
practice
farm containing 1,500 acres, known as the Rhodesland Stock Farm. He
this farm in one year, over 16,000 bushels of wheat, besides several thou
bushels
afterward
buried in the
stock
raised on
sand
were
He has been for
Minn.
In
in 1824)
wife
grain.
Judge Dana
Dana Rhodes
of
Ithaca,
farm, attended
brought up on the
Later
the Groton Academy.
was
store,
then induced
aud while so engaged was
by J. B. Kline,
a
was
lawyer
born in
Lansing January 18, 1839,
a prominent member of
the
district
the
old
schools of
Tompkins Co.
that
on he located in Groton village, and
for twelve years justice of the peace.
of
the village,
now
of
Syracuse,
to
town,
and
conducted
He
enter
was
the
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
152
legal
profession
court,
he
business
was
;
duly
admitted
about
until
to the
years
eight
being
after
consequently
law.
practice of
he
when
ago,
in
registered
accordance with
However,
he
his
Mr. Rhodes is attorney for the Groton Carriage Co., of
vice-president, and this position in connection with his farm and other
Rhodes.
his
Mr. Rhodes is
attention.
in
visor
1892,
daughter
the
and re-elected
Israel Jacobs
of
next
On
year.
ton, N. Y., Mrs. F. A.
and
drug
interests,
also
engages
was elected super
children:
Sarah,
married
Chas. 0.,
W. G. Rhodes,
and
the
Chas. 0.
he is
which
he
May 30, 1858,
they have three
Lansing,
Mangang of Cortland, N. Y.,
of
He
Republican.
an active and earnest
son,
of
his
continued
by
was succeeded
the rules
of
of
Gro
Saginaw,
Mich.
Rounseville, Judson,
himself for
a school
born in
Caroline, July 7,
teacher, finishing his education in
was
land, but
taught only one term
operative
in the Institute
ent place since
1881,
being
she
in
:
E.
Leroy
is
politics
a
and
Salisbury
His
at
Mrs.
Sandy Creek,
Prohibitionist, formerly
a
He
has, however, lived on his pres
Hugill, whom he married in
Rounseville died in 1883, and he mar
Oswego county,
subject
an
Elizabeth
wife was
Our
learned to be
the age of nineteen, then
in Buffalo.
Dryden.
of
of
Clara Louise.
and
that
Telegraphy
1875.
of
the town
of
Annis
ried second
dren
the fall
of
In his early life he fitted
the State Normal School at Cort
1853.
is
they have
and
a member of
the
two
chil
Baptist church, and
vote for Pres
Republican casting his first
ident Hayes.
Robinson. Charles D.,
this
town,
Myers, by
McArthur,
died
who
born in 1826.
whom
of
The latter
he had
Dryden ;
born September
married
26, 1859, a son of David, also a native of
Melvina, daughter of George and Calista
Calista,
these children :
Mary Ann, Henrietta,
years, Eva,
died January
aged seven
His
Groton.
was
and
Emma.
1894.
now a widow of
George
H.,
Arthur
Mr. Robinson
His
now
the late Ebenezer
J.,
Charles
D.,
Viola
lives in the town
of
17,
Henry
Polly (Ross)
Robinson, Henry Robinson having come to Lansing from Long Island with his father
David, when a child. Charles settled on wild land one and one-fourth mile east of
North Lansing, now owned by William Patterson, near the year
1800, which they im
proved, and on which they erected a large house, which, by its fine finish, exquisite
wife
parents were
and
size, showed its builders to have been artists in their time. It was famous
House."
"
and known as the
Bellou
In later years it was used by
many poor
Charles D. attended the common schools and worked on different farms until
carvings and
in its
day
families.
nineteen years of
and
born
age,
when
he married, March 5,
Elizabeth
1879,
Ida
L.,
daughter
of
(Brown) Holden,
Pennsylvania respectively.
Lansing
Feburary 4, 1853, in Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Pre members of
of
and
John W.
She
was
the North
Republican in politics, and a spiritualist in belief. Their
farm consists of sixty-two acres, and on this place Mrs. Robinson was
born, her parents
having settled here in 1835. At the death of her father, in 1877, she became possessed
of the farm.
Her mother died in 1884.
Mr. Robinson has been for several years en
Lansing Grange,
gaged
m the
bee
and
he is
business,
a
and
has been
engaged
in the
sale of
various manufactured
articles.
Reed,
Truman B.
Andrew Reed,
was
born in the town
Truman B. Reed
of
Ithaca
was educated
May 26, 1826,
in the
and was
common schools
the
son of
to which he has
153
FAMILY SKETCHES.
by reading and close observation. At the age of thirty-two he mar
Snyder, daughter of Ira Snyder, and they are the parents of seven children,
five of whom are living : two sons, A. I. Reed and Roy B. Reed, and three daughters,
Mrs. Rena Scutt, Mrs. Carrie A. Snyder and Mrs. Ida E. Roe. In 1869 he bought the
Peter Ostrander property, which had been in the family possession ever since it was
added
ried
through life
Amelia
bought
of
the United States
Artemas Tyler lot,
specialty
of
sheep
having
breeding
In 1863 he bought
in 1813.
government
part
of
the
105 acres, and raising hay, grain and stock, and making a
'Our subject is one of the
and dairying.
leading farmers of
his town, taking an active interest in educational, religious and temperance principles,
and is recognized as a man of
sterling worth and high integrity.
Rhodes Omar
R.,
born in the town
was
of
Dryden, October 22, 1854
His father
born in the town December 30, 1812. The grandfather bought a military
part of lot forty-four and afterwards bought the whole of lot fifty- four, which
was also
title
of
has been handed down to
subject
finest
is
farming
mill and
mill
planing
married
111.,
and
and
in
wood
by
he has
which
of
are
the
by
added
lands in his town,
his farm.
333
having
and
running
He is
reading and close
William Dart of
of
parents of one
his town,
connection with
Omar R. Rhodes
his descendants.
Ellen A. Dart, daughter
they
the largest farmers
one of
lands
county,
now occupied
schools, to
common
Run, Stephenson
Rock
is
At twenty-one he
observation.
Our
in the
educated
was
and
daughter,
Mabel C.
acres of some of
a saw mill and
the
shingle
recognized as a conservative
independent citizen, and a man of high business ability
active interest in the leading events of his day.
and
and
talent
and
taking
an
Rhodes, Miles, deceased, was born in Dryden, July 29, 1818. His father, Jacob
Rhodes, was one of the earliest settlers in the town of Dryden. Miles Rhodes laid the
foundation of his education in the old log school house and finished at the Groton
Academy. He married Miss Margaret Dart, daughter of Thomas Dart of Ithaca, and
they
died
of
are parents
to two
January 27, 1891,
and
charity
in vain.
made
daughters, Mrs. Roaine Lombard
at
the
Quiet,
circle of acquaintances.
men.
An
Miss Maud Rhodes.
His life has been full
age of seventy-two years.
kindness to his fellow
and
appeal
to his generosity
unostentatious, he lived his life and was regretted
His wife and daughters were left to complete his
of
He
deeds
was never
by
a
large
unfinished
work.
Rumsey, Myron K., of Newfield, was bora in this town July 1, 1855. Isaac N.
Rumsey, his father, was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, in 1803 ; was a farmer and
hotel keeper, and came to Tompkins county in 1816, and settled in Enfield Falls. He
had three children. His
married in 1828 Joanna N. Pilgram, of this county, and they
Susan
J.
was
Dunning, of Orange county, and
second wife, whom he married in 1845,
the fourth.
The latter mar
children, of whom our subject was
county.
He
has
Tompkins
always been
of
Sarah J. Labar,
ried, August 11, 1880,
engaged ih agriculture, and in politics is Democratic.
by
her he had
seven
His
Robertson, Mott J., was born in the town of Dryden, November 19, 1822.
free
father, George Robertson, came to the town in 1798, March 12, and was the first
holder in the town
of
Dryden,
and
settled on
lot No.
53,
where
his
son now resides.
154
He
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
his
received
education
in the
institution in its
a celebrated
Teeter,
daughter
and an
intelligent interest in
the
acres of
Isaac
of
the James Giles farm
Teeter,
of
At the
and
he is
school
house,
forty-six he
age of
which was quite
and
religious matters.
and
in 1891 bought
has nearly 400
Martha J.
married
He takes the Republican
homestead,
where
brick
square
Ithaca.
educational
220 acres,
of
land in his town,
and wood
day.
Robertson
original
old eight
Our
in
side
has 175
subject
known
what was
acres of some of
politics
as
the best farm
recognized as a practical and successful
farmer.
family originally came from Scotland, and has always been prominently identified
leading events of the day and in advancing the best interests of the
Cap
George Robertson has a family of thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters.
The
in the
tain
-town.
Charles
Sullivan,
father
October
subject,
1812. He
6,
Abram
C,
of
our subject.
wood
the
Knights
ber
of
wood,
Smith,
April
18,
1852.
David
only a child
the father of three
and
was
David,
of
was
the
Lansing,
when
his
children
;
town,
Ithaca,
own
of
where,
and
of
of
Caroline,
William F.
He
as
he
was
old
educated
enough
in the
began
com
working.
for fifteen years, he has been engaged in various
as a carpenter.
In 1877 he took his first contract,
also
the finest
does
the city, many
Mr. Sullivan is reporter
residences of
repair work.
.of
of
a position he has held for nine
years, and is a mem
His beautiful residence, at 85 Cascadilla street, was
design. September 28, 1871, he married Susie N. Nor
this city,
Pythias.
own
they have
and
soon
as
erected sixteen of
designs.
Honor
and
He. was
the county.
a resident of
two children, Edward
Christopher Smith
C.
and
Flora B.
born in
Hunterdon, N. J., in 1750, and
as
His chil
early as 1798, where he died.
(Mrs.
Travis), Mary
Robinson), James, Isaiah,
was
to Hector (then in Tompkins county)
came
were
Peter
was
to
in 1874 from his
of
Caroline,
farmer,
and
Caroline.
of
establishments
the Knights
erected
contractor
been
native
that time has
them from his
dren
always
his
moved
working
and unce
a
was
of
the county, bora in the town
of
City, Michigan, Mrs. Mary A. Iwan, of Union City, and Charles,
David C. died June 10, 1891.
With the exception of one year spent in
schools of
In 1872 he
born in the town
also a native
Union
he has
Michigan,
was
was
into the town
parents moved
mon
W.,
of our
and
called
John, Elias,
William.
out
Christiann (Mrs.
John
in the
was
war
of
a captain
1812,
in the State militia, and
frontier. Peter Smith, born June
general
on
served
in the State militia,
and with
the Niagara frontier.
as
colonel
in the
war
Isaiah
of
his company
was
1812
on
a
major-
Niagara
9, 1777,
Mary (Haines) Halsey, March 7, 1799, and settled in Ulysses in 1802. Mrs. Smith
was born February 24, 1778.
Their children were Fithen Halsey;
Lucinda, born
August 20, 1802, died July 2, 1805 ; Polly P. (Mrs. Watson
Aldridge), bora August
26, 1804, died September 10, 1873 ; Charity, born July 10, 1806, died November 3,
1807; William, born January 12, 1809, died May 17, 1889; Jared H., bora March
1811, died January 7, 1891; Henry C, bora April 14, 1813, died in Wisconsin; Elias
A., born March 7, 1816, and Harriet W. (Mrs. Peter Wicks), born March 7, 1818. Mr.
Peter Smith died in June, 1858. Fithen Halsey Smith, born March
1, 1800, died May
14, 1875. October 30, 1825, he married Betsey Curry, who was bora March
14, 1802
ad who died May
1886.
settled
in
Enfield
in
15,
They
1826, but late in life removed
to Covert, Seneca county.
He was a self-educated man, taught school for
many years
and
married
Clarissa, daughter
of
David Fithin
155
FAMILY SKETCHES.
long school commissioner of Enfield. His children were Clara S. (Mrs. Frances
Hallenbeck), born November 11, 1826; Nancy M. (Mrs, Sidney P. Stevenson), born
August 20, 1828; Harris A., born January 22, 1830; William F. and Elizabeth S.
(Mrs. Lyman Ostrom), twins, born July 9, 1834, and Viola L., born May 26, 1836, died
June 4, 1855. William F.. Smith married, February 12, 1858, Mary B. Farrar, of Mas
sachusetts, who was bora November 12, 1830, died September 14, 1891. Their children
are Anna E. (Mrs. H. Knappenberger), of Illinois; Samuel
Frederick, born September
24, 1862, married Mary Smiley ; Ellen F. (Mrs. George A. Kresga) ; Harriet Halsey,
born February 24, 1867, died July 21, 1888 ; Charles F., born May 7, 1868, married
My r tie E. Rolfe in August, 1892; and William Herbert, born April 22, 1875, married
and was
Anna Belle Kresga.
continued until
Mr. Smith began teaching
1890,
has been justice
of
three
the
years of
peace sixteen
school when eighteen years of
this time in Connecticut
and
and was supervisor of
years,
age,
and
two in Ithaca.
Enfield
one
He
term.
Snyder, Ernest, was bora in the town of Dryden, March 2, 1844. His father, Peter
born in 1808, and lived to
T. Snyder, was one of the earliest settlers in the town,
the age of sixty-six, following the occupation of farming.
Ernest Snyder received his
being1
education
of
in 1890 he
and
his first
common school and
married
Our
M.,
educational
is
a self-educated and self-made man.
At the
age
Wm. Nixon, who passed away in 1885,
Ida,
Olive, daughter of Jacob Seaman. He had three children by
Eva
May,
estate of eighty-six
subject
is
daughter
married
Carrie
wife :
his father's
and
years.
in
in the
twenty-four he
one of
the
Ina Belle.
acres,
family
in his town, taking
a
as
In 1887 he bought the homestead
has been in the
which
substantial men
recognized
and
matters,
and
of
man
of
sterling
for
sixty-one
an active interest
integrity
and
high
character.
Elnathan
Selover,
W.,
was
bora in the town
of
Covert,
Seneca county, March
12,
1837. He moved to Tompkins county in 1873, and in 1875 he bought the Welch farm
of J. C. Nelson, and here he now resides, keeping a dairy which produces about forty
Our subject is a Democrat in politics, and takes quite an active interest
quarts per day.
in
the
educational matters and
thirty, Helen, daughter
are now at
home
of
general events
J. C.
and assist
Nelson,
and
the day.
of
has
a son and a
He
married at
daughter,
the
age of
of
whom
both
in managing the farm.
Williamson, was born in Lansing, October 19, 1833, a son of Walter,
a native of Tioga county, bora in 1808, who at the age of twenty-one came to Lansing
boatman on the Erie Canal,
where he worked at farming for a time, then engaged as
Searles,
which
farm
Marcus
After retiring from the boat business he bought the
His wife was Mary, daughter of
subject now owns.
he followed twelve years.
of
103 acres,
which
our
Williamson, by whom he had six children : Cornelius, Mark W., William, Mary
Vol
Ann, Mortimer, and W. Monroe. William enlisted in the 51st Regiment N. Y.
December
He
1862.
of
battle
the
Fredricksburg,
unteers in 1861, and was killed at
13,
Our sub
eight.
died in June, 1879, and his widow still survives at the age of
married
who
Tioga
of
Polly Galpin, by
county,
ject's grandfather was Daniel Searles
Marcus
eighty-
whom
he had
son was
seven children.
in the
Revolution,
He
serving
was a soldier
seven years.
in the
war of
1812.
Marcus William
Marcus Williamson Searles
was
edu-
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
156
in the
cated
common
twenty-five,
For the
next
next
two
stead,
himself
for
worked
five seasons, by the month
he devoted to railroading.
on
farming for eight
where
he has
years,
when
for two
He then
he
returned
age
three
Lansing
another
and
of
years.
shares, and the
on
to Orleans county
removed
to
In 1888 he bought
since remained.
years
the
till
for
land
rented
on
farm,
a
home farm
the
on
remained
years
in
engaged
he
when
and
schools
and
bought tbe home
farm
seve
of
1862, he married Nancy M., daughter of Jacob and Letty (Wood)
Bower of Lansing, bora in 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Searles have had six children : William
F., bora October, 1863; Sherman, born in September, 1865; Susan, bora in December,
1870; Adelia and Adelbert, twins, born in December, 1872; Charles, born in
June, 1878.
His.
Smith, William J., was born in the town of Dryden, August 30, 1821.
father, John Smith, came to the town about 1790, from Stroudsburg, Pa. William J.
acres.
In March,
was educated
of
in the
forty-eight he
are
the
married
of
parents
finished
daughter
Pamelia,
an
active
At the
the Ithaca Academy.
at
Spencer
of
Horatio
three children, two sons,
He takes
Susie.
daughter,
common schools and
Apgar, of Dryden,
S., and William A.,
interest in temperance
and
principles
age
and
they
and
one
has been
prominently identified in his county's affairs, being elected sheriff in the fall of 1878.
In 1870 he bought what was known as the Amon Apgar property of twenty-eight
acres, which adjoined the old homestead and he now has 118 acres of some of the best
land in the town, raising hay, grain and stock, and paying some attention to dairying.
He is
in his town
recognized
interest in
school and church
Sheldon, E.,
was
Dryden in 1854.
born in Columbia county, N.
He
was educated
At the
self-made man.
conservative, independent citizen, taking considerable
matters, and in advancing the best interests of his town.
as a
age of
in the
Y., January 2, 1819,
common schools and
twenty-two he
married
Laney,
is
and came
a self-educated
daughter
of
F
to
and
Rote,
of
Columbia county, and they are the parents of seven children. In 1856 he bought the
John Southworth property, now owned by his son Benjamin; in 1872 he bought the
Jesse Tappan property ; 1874 the Ed. Wheeler property ; in 1878 the Tom Mack prop
erty,
in 1891 the Jacob Updike property,
and
having
"
grain and
and
potatoes
a
specialty.
230
Our
acres
stock,
making
farmers in his town, identified in advancing its best interests
practical and successful farmer.
Sutfin,
came
educated
man.
James
from New
in the
At the
Skillings
and one
G., was born in Dryden April 20,
Jersey about 1825, and settled on
common
age of
schools, but is pre-eminently a
married Helen A. M.
and
are
the
is
and
His father
lot twenty-seven.
twenty-one he
Dryden,
they
daughter, Mrs. Anna M. Sager.
of
1838.
in all, and raising hay,
is one of the largest
subject
self-made
Skillings,
recognized as
was
W. H.
Our
and
a
Sutfin,
subject was
self-educated
daughter
of
W. W.
son, E. J. Sutfin,
In 1861 he bought the W. W. Skillings prop
parents
of
two children,
one
erty of 100 acres, and in 1871 he bought another portion of that estate. In 1875 he
bought part of the Luddington estate ; in 1880 the C. J. Wheeler farm ; and in 1892
he
purchased and
the
possession of
inherited
the
family
another portion of
since
1836.
the Skillings estate,
He has 186
acres
of
which
some of
has been in
the finest farm
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157
land in Dryden, raising hay, grain and stock, and making a specialty of dairying. He
takes the Republican side in politics and an intelligent interest in educational and
religious
matters,
being
George
his
of
school
district,
and
is known in his town
as a
farmer.
practical and successful
Sickmon,
trustee
B.,
born in the town
was
Dryden, May 7,
of
His father,
1864.
Sanford Sickmon, was for many years a prominent farmer in the town, and is now a
Our subject was educated in the common schools, finishing in the
resident of McLean.
McLean graded, and also the Cortland Normal schools. He commenced teaching in
1883 in the district school at Dryden, and taught two years at McLean.
He is now
teaching his fifth
become the
year at
leading
Freeville Graded School;
village school of this
county
has
which
and now
has
a
his principalship
under
daily
attendance of
100.
in his town, taking great interest in political, educa
Teachers'
tional and religious matters, and is now president of the
Association of the
Second Commissioner's District of Tompkins county, which office he has held for several
He is
the
one of
He
years.
prominent men
eighty
majority
man of high standing
male
-five
and
in his district in
school commissioner
and
votes,
losing
his
friend to the needy
the community,
of
a
lady
1893, receiving
a
He is
candidate.
a
in anything that will elevate
fearless in denouncing evil. He
aid
and
distressed, bearing
and
to
election
education, always ready to
be for the interest
mankind or
stands a
for
was candidate
of
the
of all of
respect
his towns
people.
Sisson,
P.
F.,
this county, born in
native of
jority,
he
builder
by trade,
his
born in Seneca Falls October
was
eight
Academy
went west
but
for
since
leaving
Falls. After spending
1862,
to
He
was
he
two
It
Mr. Sisson
Avas
was
then turned
and
secretary
for
boat-building
Mr. Williams dropped out,
years.
oldest
and
over
it
farm
on
the bank
He
son.
which
blind
Avas
to the
of
Philip Sisson,
a
Cayuga Lake.
of
was educated
in the
Of
in Seneca Falls
Seneca
post-office at
in New York he came, in
he followed tAvo years. He was then
and one year
nine years.
and
son
after
reaching his ma
located in Seneca Falls. He is a
one year a clerk
in Chicago
in the manufactory of Mr. Hickson
and Mr. Sisson Avent into the sash
then
and
next
owned a
the
Avas
months
engaging in
Ithaca,
1808,
1868 he has
which
six
in
time.
Danby
short
subject
children our
after
a
6, 1839, a
from here,
Then R. B.
business,
Williams,
conducted
by
existed
Ithaca Organ & Piano
treasurer eight years.
He
W. L. Bostwick
for two years,
the remaining partners for
which
was
Company,
five
18S9, lie bought the
of which
years with
the
re
Williams, and on August 1,
tailoring
now employs seventeen hands, carrying a
and
Jones,
very com
successful
a
and
does
experienced
in
business.
Mr.
He is
plete line of goods.
tailoring
Sisson is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Eagle Chapter, St. Augustine Com
is a Republican, and has been president of the village of Ithaca. In
mandery.
1864 Mr. Sisson married Eliza S. Hill of Ithaca, and they have three children.
ceiver, George R.
establishment
of
merchant
II. Iv.
He'
SAveet,
cated
Galusha
in the
observation.
lowed
C,
was
common
After
for four
born in the toAvn
schools, to
leaving
years
and
school
which
of
Virgil,
he has
he learned the
then learned the
November
added
24, 1849, and was edu
by reading and
through life
marble-cutter's
carriage-maker's
trade,
trade
which
about
he fol
ten years.
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158
In 1882 he
came
to the
Harford Mills
and
he
twenty-one
of
of
Miss Lida
and
into the
business, soon
Ithaca, Cortland, Virgil, Harford,
went
and
deserved
well
of
Virgil,
daughter
Williams,
Mr. Sweet takes the Republican
Miss Allie.
Our
dead.
the
of
died in January, 1888,
who
undertaker's
subject
has
At the
age
the late W
H.
throughout the country.
reputation
to Miss Hattie
was married
the town
Williams
interest in
as
and
acquired a wide
and
receiving calls from
the director of the obsequies
the lead in his line
taking
Dryden
village of
and
side
of
they have two children,
in politics and an active
educational and religious matters.
Sanford, Lyman, deceased, was born March 29, 1813, in the town of Dryden and
At the
with his father, Lyman Sanford, was one of the earliest settlers of the town.
were
of
six
and
the
parents
children.
married
he
age of thirty
they
Nancy Hutchings,
The daughters, Jeanette, De Ette and Alice and the son, Frank, are now living on the
Lyman Sanford was one of the leading men in his town, an honor
old homestead.
able, upright man whose word was as good as his bond, and known and recognized
Sandwick, Win. H.,
educated
in the
gaged
born in the town
was
His
graded schools.
Our
that town.
and currier of
in Rockwell's Woolen
in 1880
farmer.
and successful
a practical
as
John
father,
subject came
Factory,
which
in the barber's business in
Moravia, June 1, 1862, and was
Sandwick, was a well-known tanner
of
to the
village of
Dryden in 1877
business he followed for three years,
way,
by energy
ability he has been able to increase and fix up a store carrying a fine line of
nishing goods, tobacco, cigars and confectionery, with tonsorial parlors in
with
he
engaged
his
children,
He
store.
married
Mildred,
the establishing
of
a small
was appointed postmaster
Miss Nellie M.
Mabel
the
daughter
Givens,
and
Florence.
water works
in this
and en
which
October
of
1,
and
1893.
At the
Darius Givens.
Mr. Sandwick
and
business
gent's
fur
connection
age of
twenty
they have three
the instigators in
arid
was one of
village.
Stoddard, David, born November 5, 1773,
a native and
former
resident of
Litchfield,
in
Conn.,
Otselic, Chenango cbunty, in 1803, and his wife died October 11, 1813,
after which the pioneer divided his farm among his three sons and then came to Gro
daughter
ton, where he purchased a farm of 300 acres. In 1815 he married Lois
settled
Cobb,
Groton's pioneers, and by this marriage he had these children :
Ida, born in
September 1816, died in 1866 ; Ira, born in 1820, died in Salisbury rebel prison in 1864;
Isa, who married Alanso Durfee of Groton; Iren, born August 13, 1825; Iva, born
of
one
of
July 5, 1828. died September 6, 1864 ; Irena, born December 4, 1830, married
Francis, and lives on the old home farm in Groton; Athelia, who became the
Augustus Moe.
and
his
whom
six children :
of
of
of
Fay L.,
live in Groton.
educated at
Hare
Iren Stoddard
the Groton
Charles
wife
of
Fanny, daughter of Frederick Miller of Groton,
M., Omar C, Frank A., EdAvard and Jerome, all of
Stoddard was born September 22, 1854, and was
married
Giles
Giles M.
Academy
and
to the bar in
Union Free
school.
He
read
law
with
W. W.
1879.
Mr. Stoddard is a Democrat, and one
May,
his party in this part of the county. He was candidate for the office
district attorney in 1884.
He has twice been president of the village and member
and Avas admitted
the leaders
of
the School Board three terms.
February 7, 1888, he
was appointed postmaster at
FAMILY SKETCHES.
Groton
of
Groton,
and
they have
Olin
Stewart,
son of
In 1882 Mr. Stoddard
village.
L.,
was
he
where
Returning to
of
Solomon Loomis
child, Leola.
He
of
Newfield, January 24, 1852,
in the
was educated
common
his brother in the tobacco business.
established
Ithaca he
daughter
Maude,
married
born in the town
Horace S. Stewart.
same was engaged with
land
one
159
a
cigar
was one year
manufactory,
in the employ
which
youngest
schools, and after leaving
In 1871 he went to Cort
he
for two
conducted
years.
his
brother, and for one year
bottling business in this city, to
Agency of Schwartz, and from
of
In 1880 he established
in partnership with him.
which he added by the purchase of the Bartholomew
was
the
a
he has built up the present large and extensive establishment at 16 South
He is also agent for the Standard Brewing Co., of Rochester.
Aurora street.
Mr.
this
start
Stewart is
ward of
ber
of
Democrat in
a
the
city.
the K.
of
He is
in 1892 he
politics, and
a member of
P. Lodge No. 89.
was
elected
alderman
of
the
second
Hobasco Lodge No.
He
was
in
married
716, F. & A. M., and a mem
April, 1890, to Eva Jarvis of
Ithaca.
John, N. B., was educated in the University of
New Brunswick and in the General Theological Seminary in New York City. He
acted as assistant in St. Peter's church in New York city for a year and a half, and his
first rectorship was at Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he staid seven years.
From there he went to St. Paul's church, Poughkeepsie, where he was the rector for
Synnott,
seventeen
Rev. S.
of
born in St.
In 1891 he
coming to Ithaca in 1885 as rector of St. John's church.
Cornell
him
the
ex-officio
librarian by the trustees of
City Library, making
the University.
ter St. Augustine
In 1863 he
wife of
was
years,
was elected
trustee
H.,
He is
Commandery and
married
Knights
Alice T. Worthington
E. A. Pattison
of
Fidelity Lodge, F. & A. M., Eagle Chap
Pythias, and chaplain of the blue lodge.
Cooperstown, and they have one child, the
a member of
of
of
Troy, N. Y.
Hector, September 24, 1853, a son of Jeremy
Smith. He prepared for college at Stark ey Seminary and entered Cornell University
in the fall of 1869, graduating in June, 1873 with the degree of A. B. He taught Latin
then entered the law office of King &
and Greek one year in Ithaca Academy, and
in the fall of 1876 and formed a part
bar
admitted
to
the
was
Montgomery at Ithaca,
He
with his brother Simeon, which existed until May, 1885.
nership January 1, 1877,
a
general
but
been
since
and
has
himself
alone,
for
doing
practice,
then opened an office
Smith, William Hazlitt,
making
Fidelity
church.
was
bora
in
transactions.
specialty of real estate
Lodge F. & A. M., and also
a
In 1881 he
married
of
Celia Mattison
Mrs. Smith is recently the inventor
been on the
animals, which have
He is
the R. A.
and
of
Democrat,
of
for the
the
past
and
a member of
this county,
patentee
market
a
He is
and
the
a
member
of
Presbyterian
they have one daughter.
tabby cat and other
cloth
two
years and
have been very
popular.
Ithaca in
1849, only surviving son of Philip
He was educated at the High School, Clinton, N. Y., and at Briar Cliff
Stephens.
1878 he bought out the firm of E. C. Gregg, agri
Military School on the Hudson. In
located there until the summer of 1893, when he
cultural implements and seeds, and
Stephens,
Clements
T.,
was
born in
re-
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160
moved
to the
tural to
corner of
State streets,
and
in
Hill, which he still conducts,
of Fidelity
Lodge, F. &. A. M.,
member
In 1881 he
Commandery.
Hibbard
Stephens,
in the
Stephens, Jesse W.,
to this country in 1849
to Ithaca
and with
his
his
connection with
his line from
agricul
other
He is
business.
of
a
Ithaca Council. St. Augustine
Eagle
Chapter,
Hibbard,
they have
and
one
son, Fitch
grammer school.
born in England, June
was
changed
Susan M.
married
a student
has
and
In 1889 he bought the East Hill Coal Yard
house furnishings.
stoves and
Harmon
grated
Aurora
and after
spending
brother, Thomas,
in
one year
father, John L., emi
Quebec, Canada, he moved
His
1845.
3,
established a marble and monumental yard'on
He dissolved partnership after several years and located where the
John E. Stephens died at the
grocery of J. W. Stephens now stands on State street.
Since J. W. was five years of age he has made his home in this
age of fifty-nine.
S. Tioga
street.
He
town.
a marble
broke
was educated
out,
August
and
York Volunteers, to
battle
of
march
In 1873 he
the
return
Andrew D. White's
established
and sold
left
and
grocery
to Cascadilla
did the
minor
to
there
age when
He
the
engagements,
and
in the
was
Corps,
dispatch bearer for General
was
as
war
Regiment, New
saw service
the Twentieth
lettering
on some of
78 Cascadilla street,
on
street.
D. B. Stewart
by
from
He
occupation was
then
which
Geary,
Green, brigade commander, and was discharged
he resumed his trade and worked on the Cornell house,
house,
a
sea.
street, starting the first store
returned
store
to the
his first
the war.
during
other
and
and
and
only
in Company D, 137th
enlisted
years or
school
sixteen years of
was
General
and
On his
June 9, 1865.
Eddy
for three
to the Twelfth Corps
division commander,
and
He
he
16, 1862,
serve
joined Sherman in his
to
Lancastrian
old
shop.
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg
transferred
also
in the
in his father's
cutter
there,
He
sold
which
this
he
and
the College
in
a
few
afterward sold
store
on
Cascadilla
buildings.
years
moved
to George
street
Frost,
and
took
State street, which he conducted but a short time
During this time he bought and sold several other small
to Moses Shepard.
on
In 1892 he bought out the store of his brother, George Stephens at 110 W.
State street, which he conducted in connection with his Cascadilla street store. His
line is groceries and dry goods and meats in winter time. In politics he is a Repub
lican and in 1887 was the candidate for alderman, taking the second nomination
only
four days before election and defeated by only four votes.
The following year he was
elected
by 144 majority in a Democratic ward. For the past seven years he has been
concerns.
of St. John's Episcopal church and a member of the
Masonic frater
Hobasco
Lodge No. 716, of which he is the junior
nity,
warden, Eagle Chapter,
Ithaca Council, St. Augustine Commandery. He has passed all chairs of the Knights
a
of
vestryman
Pythias
the
next
Post,
and
and vice-chancellor
year
was
G. A. R.
they
are
He
the
health
Both
at
of
Ithaca, N.
in
was married
was
his
He
graduating from the latter
the
children, two
the
age
of
in
sons and
Hector,
June, 1867,
Mary Harrigan,
Schuyler county, N.
Starkey Seminary
honor in the
to
four daughters.
of seventy-five years are
was educated at
with
Grand Lodge meeting in this
city, and
He is a member of Sidney
commander.
Guilford, Conn.,
born in the town
parents at
Y.
year of
chancellor
parents of six
Smith, Simeon,
1850.
elected
the
class of
1873.
still
and
After
Y., August 2
living and in good
Cornell
University,
graduation
he took
161
FAMILY SKETCHES.
up the study of law, spending one year in the office
in thet Albany Law School, from which he graduated
1875.
15,
in the
to Ithaca he opened
Returning
his
active practice of
In the fall
profession.
Dowe,
and
has
ever
once,
1875 Mr. Smith
of
one
and
year
to the bar
and was admitted
office at
an
Ferris &
of
May
been
since
was appointed
Governor
Tilden, district attorney of Tompkins county, to fill a vacancy caused by
by
the resignation of S. D. Halliday, who had been elected to the Assembly.
In the fall
of
1875 he
was
the State ticket
solicitation on
Service,
at
Democrat
In
conventions.
of
the election.
his part,
his party for county judge, and ran largely ahead of
In 1889 he was appointed by Governor Hill, without
commissioner of
three
and reappointed
moderate
license
the candidate
years
the State Meteorological Bureau
later
has repeatedly
March, 1893, he was
and
by
Governor Flower.
represented
appointed
He has
by
been
always
his party in the county
city attorney
Weather
and
the
a
State
and
reform
anti-
mayor.
Smith, William M., was born in Dryden in 1838, a son of William R., a native. of
Massachusetts, who came to this State when quite young, taking up farming, and set
tling on the place now owned by his son William, consisting of 130 acres. He mar
ried Polly Vickery of Vermont, and they, had thirteen children, our subject
being the
in
The latter married Esther Hulselander of Dryden,
eleventh.
1866, and they are the
parents of two children, George A. and Bert S., both residing at home with their pa
Mr. Smith
rents.
supports
the Republican
party.
Stevens, Smith D,, was born August 5, 1833, in the town of Caroline, and was the
son of Harvey Stevens, who came from Ridgefield, Conn., to the town of Caroline in
1816,
was educated
in the district
schools and
finished
the Ithaca
at
Academy,
under
leaving school returned to his father's farm. At the age
of twenty-three he
Lucy M., daughter of D. Marsh, of the town of Danby,
Our subject is one of the prominent
and they have one son, Fred A., living at home.
of
fine
200
acres
farmers of the town, owning
land, which he devotes to the raising of
hay, grain and stock, making a specialty of the breeding of pure Berkshire swine and
He is a Republican, and has served as assessor six years and as
Shropshire sheep.
After
Professor S. D. Carr.
married
supervisor
leading
movements of
George, David,
battle
of
wounded
Shepard,
about
the
which
soldiers,
in 1804
and
and
occurred
the
with all
June
in the
J.,
he
28, 1778,
1768.
year
carried water
all
At the
day
to the
In 17D3 he married Aletta
nearly fell from exhaustion.
5 moved with his family into the toAvn of Dryden, settling
or
family
passed
east of
West Dryden
through all the
hardships
upon a
of
wolves and other wild animals were plentiful at
same
been identified
always
and at night
farm till his death in
tAventy-one
years,
seeing the British
and
died
soldiers
in
in the
way through the Jerseys.
only are living. None
two
his father have
born in Monmouth county, N.
was
Monmouth,
and
the town.
three-fourths of a mile
George
bears,
Both he
two years.
1848,
aged
Mr. George
of
eighty
1869,
Revolutionary
aged
the
war
his descendents
of
100
acres.
Mr.
the
town,
Mr. George lived
this time.
years.
ninety-six
raised a
farm
earlier settlers of
His
years.
widow
survived
She, too,
remembered
passing her father's house
family
of
survive
twelve children,
in Tompkms
on
him
on
of
county.
their
whom
His
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162
Joel
brother,
George,
West Dryden,
Avest of
and a number of
Silver, Solomon, jr.,
the city
a
into the town
moved
the
tannery
Point
the
at
Elmira,
crossing the ferry there, then
1808,
year
Bridge,
found,
it
and
was
and shoe
family
the
business.
black board in
July, 1836,
It
George.
school
settled
he
Shaffer,
York State
and
entered
and
at
age of
of
He
D.,
was
in
Amos
taken
His
went
and
was also one
N. Y., in
Academy,
Society."
finishing
and after
He
terms.
several
of
was
Mr. Sil
his
At
studies
the first to
use
a
tAvo
his
years of
father,
Matthew Shaffer.
1795,
years
in
an active part
in
the
to
of
Scotch
of
movement
104
28,
1824.
Adam,
where
ninety-eight
years
of
descent,
age.
a
his
tour to New
he
years,
Adam
daughter
the fifth.
of
He has
being
twenty-four, Elizabeth
of
Mrs. Shaffer died
children.
Mr. Shaffer has
flock
first spelling
others, helped to
Pennsylvania,
of
lived to be 102
children, our subject
He married, at the age
a
series of
a prospective
age
nine
has
and
November
made
returned
in Pennsylvania
1891.
present
Pa.,
and
age, but
died at
Avho
Sanders'
1886.
born in Monroe county,
Avas
of
Sanders'
the foremost in the abolition
May,
Pennsylvania in
Philip,
at
eighteen
twelve that formed the society.
farmer from early life.
Pike county, Pa,, and they had four
lambs,
Mr.
Ludlowville, and learned the tanning
movement began, and he and twelve
at
original
for
a
he
age of
Woodbury Avrote and compiled
Silver, Avith Mr. Mount
a
seventy-two
early
never
of
the
time
second
North Lansing.
house, adopting this method in Tompkins and Cortland
Peruville, and carried on the boot and shoe business.
Hannah George, of West Dryden, a daughter of David
Mary Van Buskirk, born
Buskirk, and they had
Walter,
at
Peruville Mr.
at
born
Avhen
been
and
young,
years
the Homer
Moses Van
ahvays
the
elseAvhere
Jamestown,
Avas a son of
married
and settled near
as communi
school
there.
farming.
he
Avas
the
married
mother
the "Washington Temperance
as
one of
Mr. William
near
Amos
Avas also
took up
last
married
living
establish a church
Mr. Silver died
he
apprehended,
in Mr. Silver's shop that Charles Sanders (author
and
While
father.
fall, through the lake regions,
Ovid, from there to Cayuga Bridge,
murderer ever
In 1810 his
Avhile
known
Lansing
Avas
books)
book.
the
district
a
He
counties.
In
died
was
was
in
school
his
nor was
to Tompkins county
moved
twenty-one he
age of
taught
in the town.
and
thence to
While there the temperance
what
his death
ver at
5,
Mr. Christie for three
with a
formed
others
living
and settled
sketch, was born at Chenango Point (now
1806.
His father, Solomon Silver, sr., conducted
Watkins),
search,
in those days.
slow
the
and
lived
are still
time,
About the
and Owego, and so returning home.
between
Ovid
and
Cayuga
father
murdered
these trips, his
was
supposed his body was thrown into Cayuga Lake, as it was never
step-father and mother
and
same
on one of
was
Allen,
the
to Ithaca
after a protracted
cation
about
his descendants
took trips yearly, spring
and
Jefferson (now
visiting
Dryden
this
subject of
Binghamton), November
of
of
at
the
specialty of the raising
He is a Granger, but has
made a
sheep.
public affairs.
Sheffer, Charles E., was born in the town of Clermont, Columbia county, N. Y.,
26, 1831, Avas educated in the common schools and made his home on the farm
which had been in the
family two generations before him. He assisted his father on the
farm till becoming of age, when he learned the carpenter's trade and
became a practical
April
FAMILY SKETCHES.
He
builder.
the employ of
the N. Y. C. R. R.
entered
tion
He
with
the Hudson River
Albany
at
In 1869 he became
ture.
assistant
as
specialty of bridge work, and
the H. R. R. Co, with whom he
a
made
months,
attended
the
until
he
building
the
born
was
in
place,
Groton in 1815.
He
Mr. Sheffer is
at
the
age of
secular affairs
teaching
financier,
Julia
terms,
several
consolida
across
iron
struc
a
He
was
the
next
the
car
year
he
established a
streets, where
Republican in politics,
Knights
Honor.
of
and also
this company
employed with
North Plain
the
shops,
grocery
he has ever
and a member
In 1849 he
married
county,
they have three children,
West Hill school, and Reuben W.
of
large intellect
and
entered
master
the ministry
to
call
of
high
acquired
a
Eliza
received a
the Rev. Francisco
as a man of
large
a
higher work,
liberal
Their
of
at
business
competency.
and
leaving
the Baptist denomination
aged seventy-four years.
Norman.
married
and ranked
in early life had
23, 1863,
and
of
and
Windsor, Conn., in 1789, married Almena Colegrove
service during the war of 1812, and settled
died December
Eliza, James, Oliver,
its
of
the first bridge
replaced with an
charge of
Columbia
forty-four he heard the
to his sons, he
and
evangelist,
at
was a man of
ability, was a successful
But
and
and
also of
had
and
1885,
Mill
the time
of
he
D., L. & W. R. R. Co., and was assigned
Scranton, where he remained but seven
the line.
on
since
twenty- eight
age of
the frontier
was on
same
Ithaca,
corner of
been in the business.
Gibbs, James,
been
at
shops
Fidelity Lodge, No. 51, F. & A. M. ;
Hannah A. Shephard, of Hillsdale,
Sarah E., Alice P., who is principal
the
has
the
of
administration
store at
which
was at
builder
the
transferred to
to the bridge
change of
and provision
since
was
1866,
the
at
assistant
an employee, of
superintendent
when
in
the
was
163
as
an
children were :
education
and
after
Dusenbury, Baptist minister,
and
later they moved to Newfield and afterward settled
settled at Etna,
James Gibbs, jr., was of a very genial,
at Lake Ridge, where she died, April 15, 1868.
made friends everywhere, devoted his time to teaching, both vocal
happy disposition,
N. Y.
Three
years
Nancy Richardson of Freetown, N. Y., and died
October 6, 1864, aged forty-eight years, leaving one son, Edgar Gibbs. Oliver graduated
from Hamilton Theological College, married Arvilla Hopkins of Ohio, and entered the
Baptist ministry at the age of twenty-eight, was a faithful, efficient pastor until failing
He died at Groton February 1, 1888, leaving
health drove him from his loved employ.
one daughter and two sons.
Julia, second daughter, received her education at Groton
a
thriving mechanic, own
and in 1844 married Abram J. Stout, born October 14, 1819,
years later they removed to
Two
of
Groton.
business
ing the leading blacksmithing
Lake Ridge, N. Y remaining in the same business ten years. They then returned to
and
instrumental
Groton, bought
tinuously
who at
farm
ing
with
the
After
a call
the
few
from
with
twelve
a man of
years entered
attending
marked
years of
school
success.
farm life he
a mercantile
Mich., having in
east of
exception of eight years
summers and
a
married
the Ira Riggs farm
age of
winters
He
music.
charge
house
the
business ability
the High
winters,
He
graduated
true
book
until
married
School
Mary
Groton,
when
eighteen,
E.
he
Smith
working
on
commenced
the
teach
Pontiac, Mich.
College, and accepted
of
business in Tuscola county,
post-office of the place.
He was
lumbering
accounts and
moral
at
from Elmira Business
and extensive
entire
and
Groton village, where they have lived con
in Cortland.
They had one son, Jerome W.,
worth,
having
the
confidence of all who
knew
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164
him,
his
until
Norman
E. Stout.
1829,
and was a
period
laAV
Gibbs,
young
the
entered upon
extensive
death
sudden
the
law,
practice of
is
daughter,
and
a Avife
James Gibbs,
youngest son of
man of marked
practice and
He left
1890.
February 14,
Bertha
Groton in
born in
Avas
then
ability, he was a teacher for many years,
to Mount Vernon, Mo., where he has an
removed
also a
large
owner,
Democrat, but
preceding the war Abram Stout was a
many fugitive slaves Avho came to him for
Jonathan,
The
time.
present
thorough
a
refuge.
assisted
the
at
real estate
abolitionist and
father
of
Abram
Mary
Bordentown, N. J., born January 18, 1782,
settled in Dryden in 1809, and Mr.
1786.
They
3,
Buckellew,
Their children were : Charlotte, Andrew, Mary,
Stout participated in the war of 1812.
Furman, Margaret, Abram J., Ellen, Sarah and Allen. Mr. Stout died March 19, 1846.
Stout,
who
was a native of
married
born June
who was
Sabin, Jefferson L.,
was
born in
Ithaca,
November
to Ithaca in
bought
His father
1838.
27,
knoAvn
was
born in
David D.
the
Lewis county
1835,
He Avas educated in the common
Spencer property, and Avhere our subject Avas born.
under
Professors Carr and Williams.
finished
at
old
Ithaca
Academy,
the
schools, and
and came
At the
of
is known
having
Henry Van
Order
what
as
acres of
hay,
amounts of
as
a
ideas, taking
his
married
and
grain
practiced
an
Miranda Van
Order,
daughter
of
father,
and
in Susquehanna,
Pa.,
a
stock, making
and
Earl V.,
are sons of
when
December
Black Rock
farmer,
a man
intelligent interest in
Smith,
farm,
farm land in the town, raising large
He is recognized in
specialty of hay crop.
most productive
and successful
active
Joseph
the
of
some
Wheeler H.
Smith,
with
twenty-five he
and
156
his town
as
they have two children, Burritt and Charles. In 1869 he bought
the Stephen Bucklin property and in 1884 he bought the Ireland
age of
Ithaca,
was
Avhat
23, 1787,
and
Smith,
who came
to this town
Joseph Smith
years of age.
died
independant
educational and religious matters.
Hugh H.
twenty-two
the latter
of conservative and
1875.
February 12,
1812
He
born
was
served
six
drew
a
during
His wife, Polly Van Tyle, was born in Minnisinkj Orange county, June 19,
pension.
and died December 2, 1822.
Their children were Rebecca, born November 4,
1787,
1809, died August 2, 1823; Sally A., born October 13, 1810, died August 10, 1830 ; Hugh
H., born November 24, 1815, died October 10, 1845. Joseph married second in Jan
uary, 1824, Sally Polly, born February 15, 1803, in Minnisink, died September 17, 1837,
by whom he had these children: Mary Ann (Mrs. W. C. Douglass), born October 26,
1824; Lewis W., born December 25, 1826; Jane, born May 20, 1829 ; Jacob, born
December 22, 1832; George V., born March 13, 1837 ; the last four are dead.
His third
wife was Abigail Carpenter, of Carrnel, Putnam
born
October
county,
27, 1802, whom
he married July 22, 1838, and who died February 14, 1875. She bore him these children :
Hannah, born April 17, 1839; William, born February 10, 1841 (deceased); Caroline,
born October 13, 1842; William, born December 9, 1844
(deceased); Fannie, born April
months at
15, 1850.
farm in
Joseph Smith
1837,
years was a
where
settled
he died
in Enfield
shorthorn
also a representative
church
Durham
farmer.
cattle
In 1839 he
the
war of
on what
as above stated.
deacon in the Baptist
brought the first
part of
He
is known
was
a
married
as
good
in Mecklenburg.
into Tompkins
and
Andrew Brown
farmer and for thirty
He
the
and
county.
Marinda
afterward
Hawey
Colonel Brewer
Hugh H. Smith
(born
July 2,
was
1809
FAMILY SKETCHES.
died in
1884), by whom he
February 2, 1865 ; Earl V.
had these
ability
born September
19, 1843,
four years,
Mecklenburg
Smith, who owns
Enfield,
Williams,
born
and
occupies
Saylpr, Samuel, was born in
of Hector, Schuyler
and
old,
he has
November
years ago.
than ordinary
Earl V. Smith was
more
large tract
a
west
He has been
part
land
of
of
the
near
postmaster
at
Wheeler H.
the town.
southwest
corner
of
Roxana
1, 1892;
born August
M.,
3, 1883;
and
Hugh
1888.
23,
the town
months
of
died
1846.
died August
May 21, 1880,
man
a
Olive N. Kirby.
farmer in the
a
was
21, 1841,
He has been twice married, first to Miss Frank
26,
He has had three children : Elizabeth,
to Miss Ella A. Spencer.
and second
born September
H.,
is
He
settlement of numerous estates.
and married
and
born June
was
the
born June
Elizabeth,
children :
Wheeler H.
and
and was entrusted with
165
the town
county,
followed
always
8, 1832,
Lansing, August 27, 1811,
of
where
he
he
until
his
Payne,
of
farming,
Lydia
married
taken
was
by
his
was educated
retirement
Hector,
in
parents when six
about
born
thirteen
May 18, 1813,
they had five children ; Hannah, Clarinda, Charles, Frances and Schuyler. Frances
died October 10, 1865; Clarinda died September 11, 1892. John, father of our subject,
and
was
born in New
Jersey
born
in 1786,
to this country
and came
her
in
when a
young man, marry
to Lansing about
Easton, Pa.,
1788,
ing Mary Bowers,
1800, and are buried at New Millford, 111., by whom he had nine children: Samuel,
Daniel, Sarah M., John, Mary, Harriet, Alma, Cynthia and William. He died April 2,
1842, and his wife May 9, 1857. Ira Payne, father of Mrs. Saylor, was born in Scipio,
Cayuga county, N. Y., and married Hannah Harvey, by whom he had three daughters
Mr. Payne was
and one son : Cynthia, Electa, Lydia and Silas, who died in infancy.
of
exposure
in
from
the
effects
and
died
that war.
a soldier in the Avar of 1812,
Mr.
Saylor
llth
came
day
of
North-side
Smith,
to
reside
1834.
His
above
Rockford,
he
the
A., who
Groton, is
parents were
thus
employed
he
days,
and
is buried in the
has held the
Scotland,
born in
pastorate of
Aberdeen,
the Con
November 10,
(Raffin) Smith, and of their four children
in Scotland, and in 1853 was graduated from
Jean
Although
that calling, but
resumed
seventeen years
a native of
and
eleven
Ills.
was educated
the King's College University.
at once enter upon
for
William
He
youngest.
fifty-eight years, less
aged
Rev. William
gregational church at
was
last,
parents moved
Clarrinda (Saylor) Hillock died the
in Trumansburgh in 1879.
September
Cemetery
near
educated
engaged
in
for the ministry Mr. Smith did not
After several years
mercantile pursuits.
in 1860
theological study, and
he
entered
the
ministry.
His
His
work
twelve years.
Douglass, England,
largely of a missionary character, Avas marked Avith wonderful success.
In September, 1860, he married for his first wife Ann Creer of Douglass, Avho died in
Annie Caley, likeAvise of Douglass, by
December, 1869. In August, 1873, he married
first
his
After
charge, he accepted a call to a church
whom he had five children.
leaving
In the spring
in the North of London, England; here he remained nearly four years.
called
to
once
the
at
Congregational
and
was
of 1877 he came to the United States,
first
pastorate
there
Groton,
church
He is
Avas at
remained
Avhich was
church at
this
where
and
has been
an advocate of
has
since
been its
by
degree
marked
the
"
a
pastor
"
new
theology
and
leader.
of success never
and
his
views
Mr. Smith's
before
have
attained
met with
pastorate of
in its history.
the
hearty
ap-
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166
the
proval of
the
church
beautiful
his
greater part of
numerically as well
has been erected.
as
Its membership
edifice
ber in the
Sunday
school,
More than this, Mr. Smith has built up
spiritually, and during his pastorate the present
parishioners.
the
while
Richard
Stone,
H.,
was
born in
200,
reaches
connected
with a
the
with
like
num
church give
head.
Trumansburgh, July 16, 1842,
He then
Academy.
public schools and old
societies
various
abundant proof of an excellent pastoral
now
clerked
was educated
in his father's store,
Geneva & Sayre Railroad
in the
was afterwards
by the Ithaca,
Company as
agent, and was
in the employ of the road through its various changes for fifteen years.
In the mean
time he established an extensive general produce business, has built an elevator with a
engaged
of
capacity
vided with
ten
his
His
3,000 tons.
he
and
produce,
of
bushels, coal trestle, warehouses, fruit cellars
machinery for handling produce, pressing hay, etc.
25,000
of
capacity
station
900
received about
and
per cent,
his
last
cars
year were over
of
coal,
in
one
This
etc.
average cash payments are about
position as station agent
Stephen
shipments
and
The
coal
car
indicates
per
all pro
trestle has
thousand
year
$1,000
hay barns,
an
He
day.
loads
a
of
increase
resigned
June
May, 1893.
29, 1864, he married Nancy, daughter
they have nir e children : Stephen L.,
Trumansburgh,
of
Knowlesville, Orleans county, N. Y., and has two children,
Ruth and Margarete; Albert G., Le Pine, Louise M., R. Harry, Edward C, Charlotte
L., Nancy L., and Estelle D. Mr. Stone's father, Albert G., Avas born in Litchfield
March 21, 1833, he
county, Conn., and came to Tompkins county at an early day.
married Ann E. Camp of this village, and
they had ten children, six of whom survive:
James L., Louise C, Richard H., Hermon C, Albertine and George, of Washington,
of
Lamport,
who married
is
Avho
chief clerk
to the
assistant
was
postmaster
here
postmaster
general
about
; two
sisters reside with
twelve years,
died April
and
David
came
field
the first
B.,
city of Ithaca, was born in the town of
Horace S. SteAvart, Avho was a native of Delaware county and
to Tompkins county in 1808 Avith his parents and has resided in the town of New-
Newfield,
ever
the
nary.
living
noAv
since,
He
farm.
various
1867,
until
whan
street,
a wholesale and
which
he
conducted
H. Winton
The firm
engaged
of
Company
street.
of
the
He is
a
of
retail
grocery,
for fourteen years.
in
wholesale
Louisa Crowell
in business.
bakery, confectionery and cigar manufactory,
In 1882 he sold this business, and with Mr. S.
grocery business
continued until
and cigar
1889,
when
manufacturing exclusively.
the firm of D. B. Stewart
established, and is now being conducted at 15, 17 and 19 South Tioga
member of Hobasco Lodge F. &
A.M., Eagle Chapter, St. Augustine
Ithaca Lodge No. 71,
Commandery,
Trust Company,
a mile from Newfield village.
The early life of
his birth, attending common school and
assisting
of the old Ithaca
Academy and Cazenovia Semi
employments, but mostly in mercantile and manufacturing
ne moved to Ithaca and established at No. 7 East State
Winton & Stewart
Avas
half
about
in the town
Avas also a student
He followed
business
mayor
second son of
our subject Avas spent
&
second
1870.
SteAvart,
on
and
Fannie HoAve
Mr. Stone's father
him.
12,
of
and
of
trustee
Newfield,
of
and
I.O.O.F.,
the Ithaca
they have
Protective
Police,
Savings Bank.
one
son, EdAvin C.
director
He
married
Stewart,
the Ithaca
of
in 1856 A.
with
his father
FAMILY SKETCHES.
Smiley, Joseph,
came with
place, to the town
Groton
of
his
Ulysses
wife
from
Peruville, where for many
September 1, 1879, His wife,
He died
later he
year
and settled at
farmer.
Sullivan county, his birth
Bloomingburgh,
A
1824.
about
167
years
he
to
moved
was a
the town
tanner
successful
Hannah Dickison Smiley, died
of
and
several
Four children, of the five born to them, are still living, two sons and
Everett Smiley, the older son, was born in Peruville, January 29,
two daughters.
1828, where he lived until twenty-six years of age, assisting his father on the faim and
years earlier.
in the tannery.
He
is
which
in his
still
until
ness
A
later, he, with his brother, bought a farm near West Dryden.
1863, when he exchanged it for the Smiley homestead,
possession.
Here he conducted a highly successful farming busi
year
this farm
occupied
1879,
until
when
he
removed
to Groton village,
where
he still
In 1855,
resides.
Nancy Halladay, daughter of Lyman Halladay of West Groton.
Mr. Smiley has been a con
child, Mary, wife of Charles 0. Rhodes.
They
servative Republican.
He supported Mr. Greeley for the presidency in 1872 and in later
he
to
was married
have
years
one
has favored the Prohibition
He is
party.
a
not
man who
ever
sought
public
office, yet has held many positions of trust, always retaining the confidence of his fel
He was a member of the Groton
low-men in his business ability, honor and integrity.
village Board of Education for several terms, and declined a re-election in August, 1893,
preferring complete retirement from public and business affairs,
deep interest in the welfare of his native town.
nevertheless
Smith, Clarence L., was born in Ulysses February 5, 1851. His
Smith, was a native of the town of Hector. He has been a farmer
father,
all
his
taking
a
Minor T.
life,
but is
subject, Maria King, was a
Clarence is the only child. He was educated in
native of Hector and is still living.
college
at Trumansburgh, and entered Cornell in
for
prepared
the common schools,
now a resident of
Trumansburgh
The
village.
mother of our
1869, graduating in 1873. He went at once as a student in the law office of S. D. Hal
liday and the fall of 1874 entered Albany Law School, being admitted to the bar in
1875.
His first
since alone.
being
which
re-elected
he held
of
murder
have two children,
Smith, Elias,
Camilla Iredell
and
Anna R.
A. Williams
He
of
a son and a
bora in
during
Ithaca,
by
office
during
to
Halliday,
a
his
four
district attorney,
service was
year
Spaulding
of
of
and
the peace,
term as
the cele
recorder of
Caroline,
and
they
daughter.
Ulysses,
December
for seventeen
whom
principal of
where
was elected
Mr.
was elected justice of
that fall to take the
in 1879 Evelyn D.
winters
this town
in 1879
the important cases
In 1890 he
married
Amanda is
of
of
years a partner with
politics and
resigned
One
trial.
He
was
taught
in Ithaca for two
Republican in
in 1882.
Ithaca.
schools and
a
six years.
brated Barber
the city
practice was
He is
they
10, 1828,
the
school at
reside.
September 21,
years.
he had three
was educated
children :
in the public
1852, he married
E., Will I.,
Amanda
Jacksonville ; Will I. married Ella
married Edwin S.
Johnson, of
Anna R.
H., was bora in New Jersey, April 20,
State, by whom he had three children,
1806, and married Catharine Longstreet,
He died in March, 1893, and
two sons and a daughter, Elias, Amos, and Margaret.
Joseph
L.
Iredell, was born in Montgomery
his wife in 1876. Mrs. Smith's father,
and married Letitia Quinby, formerly of New Jersey.
county, Pa., December 9, 1797,
Jacksonville.
The father
of our
subject, John
of
this
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
168
They
here
came
located
and
Helen,
Mrs. Iredell
both greatly
were
county superintendent for the
Welsh and Irish.
and
Mrs. Smith
reside.
Their
The ancestry
past six years.
of
Q.,
and
Mr. Smith has been
in the neighborhood.
respected
Mr.
family
the
is
English,
R., was bora in Ulysses, November 19, 1817, was educated in the
that day, aud reared on his father's farm until he attained his ma
entered Union College, where Dr. Nott was president,
graduating in
public schools of
July,
Mr.
Augustine
Pease,
He then
jority.
on which
Hannah, Camilla, Sarah, Hester, Mary Elizabeth,
He died April 15, 1891, and his wife April 23, 1891.
Susanna.
and
the farm
on
Martha
nine children Avere :
In 1853 he
1843.
in the south,
as well as at
of
was principal
In 1867 he
received
his
own
Trumansburgh
purchased
the degree
home
Academy
twenty-four
he
of
M., and taught in the west and also
Canton, Madison county, Miss. He
A.
in
and
two years,
acres of
and afterward
land in the
village
of
took up
farming.
Trumansburgh,
the
April
buildings,
8,
1846, he married Rebecca A., daughter of Samuel Hopkins,, one of the first settlers in
Covert, Seneca county, and they have two daughters, ladies of culture and refinement:
Mr. Pease's father, Simeon, was born in Enfield, Conn., May 29, 1790,
Ida and Lucy S.
and January
8, 1815, he married Cynthia Markham. About 1814 he moved to this
bought fifty acres, and upon his marriage came to live.
he
where
Of his thir
town,
teen children, ten grew to maturity: Augustine H., Cynthia D., Sarah, Simeon G.,
Harriet, Annis, Minerva, Antoinette, Emily and Benjamin F. Mr. Pease died in 1867,
Both of our subject's grandfathers served in the
and his wife, September 2, 1869.
where
were
non commissioned officers.. The ancestors of the
Revolutionary war,
they
family were English.
greater part of
Pratt, J. H.,
Geo. D.
Pratt,
business
which
was
covered
born in the
settled
in the
to. working
sold
Groton, September 11,
village of
village of
Ten
1839.
with
Groton
and established a
people.
His
1844.
harness, trunks,
father,
robes
later, in March, 1849, he removed to the village
of Dryden, and carried on the same business, assisted
by his son, who succeeds him.
About 1840 Geo. D. Pratt married Betsey M. Foster, daughter of Aaron
Foster, who
etc..
came
to Dryden
wards sold
flour
about
near
1830
and
to John McGraw.
and saw mills
located
at
years
located
at
Willow Glen
Aaron Foster
Willow Glen.
was
Our
on
the farm which he after
connected with and carried on
subject was educated at
the
the
common
finishing at the Dryden Academy. At the age of thirty-eight he married
Mary F. Hurd, daughter of Denison Hurd, of Ithaca, and they are the parents of one
daughter, Betsey L. Pratt. In politics he takes the Republican side. He has been
schools,
president
fine
of
the
hand- made
Pratt,
is
of
eleven
he
with
M.,
was
county.
years was
seventeen
now
treasurer.
He is the
leading
man
iijjhis business
of
robes, etc. A brother of our subject, Hail F.
him in business. Another
brother, George F., is a farmer of
sleighs,
Caroline.
William
from Otsego
is
harness, wagons,
associated
the town
Perry,
village and
left
He
an
born
near
was given
Buffalo, February 21, 1839, his family having come
his early education in Buffalo, and at the age of
orphan and
thrown
shipped aboard a whaler and
upon
his
own resources.
followed the
sea
for
eleven
At the
age of
years, the last
169
FAMILY SKETCHES.
four
being
he has
where
the
this
include the Dr. Dennis
houses
same
was
Beginning with the Fiske house, his
Elberon, N. J., and of Warren E. Den
M.,
and
five sons, the
Pierce, W. B.,
in the city
bookkeeper in
is
trustee
a
oldest son
was
of
Conn.
Norfolk,
at
born
on
Mr.
He
Providence.
was
R.
Feb.
I.,
enlisted
he
and
was a private
was with
in
the
which
sergeant
educated
Second Corps
during
the Second Corps took
the employ
all
part
in the
division
their
sentative of
never
M.,
been
and
superintendent
coal
interests
an aspirant
has been
a
for
at
of
this
office.
since
1865.
They
have
one
Until
March, 1864.
The first
lieutenant.
6, 1861,
he
the war, and was in every Union engage
On his return he
in the State of Virginia.
first
as
D.,
clerk, then station agent, then
poor health in
1876; entered
and
L. & W. R. R.
a
In 1861 he
Clarence,
in
Co.,
May, 1885,
and
also
he
the
was
repre
Republican in politics, but he has
member of
Fidelity Lodge, F. & A.
He is
point.
son,
and was a
secend year a commissioned
Mr. Pierce is
Mason
hanna county, Pa.
business at Ithaca.
the
public schools
was
the war, June
division superintendent; resigned on account of
October 1, 1881, as passenger conductor,
service
appointed
His early life
1841.
17,
assistant
their
daughter
one
out of
D., L. & W. R. R. Co.,
the
of
the
and
He has
church.
his father.
of
the
at
Society
University
building the Unitarian church, the
Carleton Island, and rebuilding a house
Perry is a member of Hobasco Lodge No.
breaking
until,
in the First Rhode Island Artillery, serving
a counting-room
the Cornell
now
the trade
Providence,
the Chi Phi
and
on
work
the Unitarian
of
following
at
wood
is
and
for Mr. W. 0. Wyekoff's house
716 F. & A.
entered
the Kappa Alpha
the contractor for the
also
for Dr. F. S. Dennis
ment
charge
city.
residence of
the Congregational church,
and
woodwork
He
he took
mansion was started
place.
Thurston, Professor Nichols,
and
Library
year
here,
In New York city he also remodeled the houses of W. E. Den
Mrs. J. D. Ripley, and in Ithaca he has built the residences of Professor Fuertes,
the
Professor
spent
the Fiske
when
buildings in this
residences and public
nis and
and
and settled
a
following spring he took up carpentry with
Four years later he
went with Hyatt & Oltz.
years
1881,
Newfield,
of
visit
work, and after the death of the owner it was finished by contract, and
Mr. Perry's first financial enterprise. Since that time he has built many of the
erections
nis of
In
to Ithaca to
carpenter
was
finest
two
came
The
his home.
and after
John Snaith.
went with
Miss Matilda M. Barnes
married
since made
William Nelson
of
here
and while
relative,
In 1869 he
in the United States Navy.
spent
a
married
Helen A.
has
who
King,
the
charge of
of
Susque
coal
retail
Peck, Solomon H., M. D., was born at White Lake, Sullivan county, N. Y., Sep
His grandfather Avas a nephew of General Richard Henry Lee, of
tember 15, 1825.
Revolutionary fame, and an officer himself on General Spencer's staff in the Revolu
a sister of ReA\ Adoniram Judson, one
tionary war. His maternal grandmother was
of
the first
cated at
finishing
lespie
at
medical
missionaries.
Liberty
his
His father
was
Normal Institute in his
education.
Bethel, N. Y.
department
of
Joseph Peck,
native
county,
He began the study
He attended lectures
a
farmer.
and
of medicine
the
University
of
New
taught for five years
in 1853
Albany
York, while
at
The doctor was
and
there
with
while
Dr. A. A. Gil
two terms
on
edu
the
at
staff of
the
Dr.
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170
He began
Valentine Mott.
1858
Ithaca,
to
removed
He is
profession.
he became
where
a member of
After
times.
a number of
practice at
be has
ever
County
the
Sullivan county, in 1856, and in
folloAved a general practice of his
Jeffersonville,
since
Medical
Society, and
State Society
being a delegate to the
body, and is also a member
that
a member of
of
has been its
president
years, in 1881
several
the International Medical
Congress, to which he was elected at Washington in 1883. He married in 1858
line R. Pratt, daughter of Col. Chauncey Pratt, of Covert, Seneca county, N. Y.
have
Ange-
They
no children.
Genoa, Cayuga county, September 10, 1823, the old
Sally Ogden. At the age of seventeen Lewis
began work for himself, working at farming first in Cayuga and Cortland counties, and
later in Tompkins county, town of Groton, where he married, January 25, 1854,
Samantha, daughter of John Hopkins. From that time on Mr. Ogden has been a per
manent resident here, as well as an influential man in town affairs.
His children are as
Charles E., of Genoa; William S. and David H., both of South Dakota.
follows:
Lewis M. Ogden was originally a Whig, later a Republican, but supported Greeley in
Lewis
Ogden,
1872,
has
and
the
of
M.,
excise
since
born in
was
seven children
est of
Joseph
of
been
a
this
the
Miller,
born October 24,
pioneers of
He has been
Democrat.
John
commissioners.
one of
and
town,
1807,
Hopkins,
and was
and
assessor
two
above
mentioned,
born August 7, 1793.
terms,
He
Samantha
their children were :
and now
is
one
descended from
was
married
and
Damaris
Sophronia,
also
John died February 18, 1847, and his wife Febru
son, Alva B. Hopkins.
1865. And I, Mrs. Ogden, his daughter, live on the old farm that my grand
an adopted
ary
22,
father bought in
on
the farm
1800,
it
when
was
all
Was born
a wilderness.
on
it
and
here lived
sixty-three years.
Ozmun, William A. J., a native of Lansing, was born September 21, 1827, a son of
William, of Orange county, born in 1783, who came to Lansing in 1793 with his father
Abram,
to
here
who settled
Here William
and reared eight children.
in his
grew
to manhood,
energetic man.
He ac
town, being
large property, and always transacted his own business, never
requiring an
assistant in the
of
of
drawing up
contracts, making
will, etc. He was a director of the
Tompkins County Bank, and a man of high standing. He married Catharine
and
a
prominent position
an active and
quired a
a native of
1862,
farm,
farm.
and
Pennsylvania, by
his
wife
educated
in
.September,
in the Groton
In 1866 he
he had
whom
1861.
Academy,
to Ithaca to
Newman,
January,
The father died in
nine children.
His son, William A.
and at
the
age of
J.,
was
twenty
reared
on
took charge
of
the
the
his children, and there lived five years
which
he
embarked
in
the
real
estate
business with success. After
during
returning
to the farm he erected a saw mill and engaged in the manufacture of
lumber, and had
in connection a planing mill, his property
being twice destroyed by fire. He was
instrumental in securing a station also, the railroad
running through the town, and he
was made station agent and express egent.
He also erected store buildings,
etc., and
removed
a wagon repair shop.
as
At this time
which office
a post-office was also
he has filled
postmaster,
known as Midway, but in 1889 the
little village,
of course
educate
suffered, both
ever
since, for
railraod
nineteen
company
financially
established,
with our
years, the
abandoned
and numerically.
subject
station
the road,
being
and
the
In 1852 Mr. Ozmun
171
FAMILY SKETCHES.
Mary M., daughter of Isaac and Sarah Davis, by whom he had five children :
A., born in 1853 ; J. Davis, born in 1856, who married Clara Norton of Lan
sing; Frank W., born in 1859, died aged eleven ; Burt L., born in 1862, married Minnie
L. Giltner, and has four children, Metta F., William A. J., J. Davis, and Bertha L. ; and
Kate F., born in 1872, who married William Phillips of Cleveland, 0. Our subject is a
Mason, and Knight Templar of St. Augustine Commandery No. 38 J. Davis, son of
William A. J., is a graduate of Syracuse University, from which he went to New York
city and took a post graduate course, settling in Canajoharie, where he now practices
married
William
his
profession.
Oltz,
the late
John,
was
born
on
West
Hill, Ithaca, May 23, 1835,
was educated
in the
schools,
early in life learned the capenter's trade, becoming a contractor and
builder. November 12, 1868, he married Margaret Neideck, of Ithaca, of which union
public
and
two children
young farmers
Flora,
of
who
friends
he
and at
as
by
arine,
Mary.
and
unteers,
Mrs. Oltz's
the death
infancy,
Albert,
charged at
its
his son,
is
one of
the intelligent
father,
Adam
They came to
Neideck, was born
reside
near
in the town
the Mosell
of
River,
his father, he resided with his uncle, in France. He was
after a time, he returned to his native place.
About 1839
of
and
they
came
to America in 1850.
Of their
eight chil
Adam, Anna, Albert, Lana, Margaret, Cath
Company B, Eighty-ninth New York Vol
of
the battle
Antietam, dying three days later of his
also a soldier in the late war, and was honorably dis
and six survive :
Mr. Neidick
and was wounded
wounds.
who
Ulysses, managing his mother's farm ; and a daughter
Mr. Oltz died March 17, 1889, mourned by a large circle
February 11, 1812, and
Margaret Loucks,
two died in
4, 1874,
his bereaved family.
married
dren,
born November
of
died in infancy.
as well
Germany,
John,
:
the town
of
Ulysses in 1889.
born
born
Avere
at
was
enlisted
in
close.
Osborn, Fred W., the subject of this sketch, was born in the village (now city) of
Ithaca, July 19, 1849, was educated in the public schools, and is a farmer, gardener and
September 29, 1872, he married Eliza M., daughter of
nurseryman by occupation.
Captain John C. Smith, of Farmer, Seneca county, and they have one adopted daugh
ter, Nellie E., who is a successful school teacher, residing at home. Mrs. Osborn's
father, Captain John C. Smith, was born in Friendship, N. J.. November 19, 1825, and
He was an architect and con
came to this locality with his parents when young.
tractor.
July 4, 1844, he married Persis M. Loomis, of Aurora, Cayuga county, and
they had two children : Eliza M., as above noted, and Chester C. Mr Smith enlisted
in 1864, in Company I, 111th New York Volunteers, as first lieutenant, and was hon
He died in Ovid, January 24, 1870, and his
orably discharged at the close of the war.
Mr. Osborn came to Jacksonville in
wife died October 23, 1879, aged fifty-two.
part
of the town four years.
He and
poor
in
this
the
1880, and has been overseer of
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and by integrity and industry
they have
Owen,
He
gained a pleasant
Charles B.,
was educated
Nine Partners
was
home
born
in his father's
Boarding
on
where
the
they
old
now reside.
homestead
select school at
School
and
is
one of
near
home, with
the leading
Jacksonville, July 15,
six months at
farmers
of
the
1822.
Friends'
his town.
He
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LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS
two
Sarah
May 15, 1844,
married,
Herman F.,
survive :
the latter
Otis,
Cayuga county, and of their children
The former married Jane Aldrich, of Steuben
Sherwood,
of
Rebecca.
and
COUNTY.
Mrs. Owen died
Jesse Mekeel.
February 29, 1876, and
he married second Flora A. Housel, of Ithaca, born at Townsendville, Seneca county,
Mr.and they have one daughter, Mary A.
Owen's father, Aaron K., Avas born in
and
county,
married
Orange county, in 1794,
here
came
and
his
his
with
second Avas
he had
whom
his
and
Avife
six children :
Mrs. Owen
Parvis W.,
in
His first
boy.
parents when a
Martha
Carman, by
Mary Dunham,
and Freelove.
Charles
Martha,
Mary,
B., Deborah,
in
Owen
died
Aaron
Greene county
1795.
K.
May 15, 1847,
and
was
born
was
November
wife
7, 1871.
S. D.,
Ouan,
Samuel,
was
September
Dryden,
of
His
1833.
2,
father,
young man, located in Dryden, where our subject
in the district school, but his father dying when he was eleven years of
was educated
age, he
born in the town
was
from Ireland
came
taken
soon
twenty-seven he
Avhen a
from
school
and
Martha A.
married
to
put
daughter
Snyder,
farm.
the
on
work
Joseph
of
At the
Snyder,
of
age
of
Dryden,
they have a daughter, Minnie, who is a graduate of the Ithaca High School. Our
subject is a Democrat in politics and takes a great interest in all questions of the
day,
and
both
political
and
bought the Abram Bates
raises
large
town,
a conservative
quantities of
George
Northrup,
73 E. State St.
in the
educated
1891,
one
when
he is
trust.
following
making
life
his father in
John
charge of
in the
carriage
retail
farmer.
& Son.
with office
out
tax
was engaged with
the D. L. & W.
the insurance business
and
He
was
of
his father
coal
until
business for
George L.
Gray,
N. Cayuga St.
Mr.
numerous offices of
honor
Block,
has held
Northrup
leaving school he
business, and became
He
of
John
After
spring bed
in No. 3 Clinton
Republican,
active
son of
in this town.
spent
and
department
he
147 acres, and he
farm,
of the largest farmers in the
Ithaca Academy.
trimming
Northrup
the
old
where
of
Ithaca, November 16, 1845,
he bought
July 27, 1893,
now
In 1880 he
one
George H. has been
of
public schools and
he took
He is
Ithaca,
of
Lake View
as
and stock.
born in
was
whole
of
known
to the town
came
and a practical and successful
conducting
has always been an
Northrup
and
H.,
the firm
and
year,
which
farm,
hay, grain
noAA7
man,
The
was engaged with
a member of
In 1861 he
educational.
Ithaca, serving one year, and the
county treasurer of Tompkins county and twice re-elected,
he filled this office. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity,
was elected
receiver of
year was elected
nine years
Fidelity Lodge
No.
also a member of
church, and one
daughter of M. D.
51,
Eagle Chapter No.
Ithaca Lodge No.
of
71,
Mr.
the trustees.
Bruce,
farmer
a
of
58,
and
St. Augustine
No. 38;
the Congregational
Commandery
I. 0. 0.
F., member of
Northrup married, January 18, 1872, Addie,
Danby.
He is
also'
treasurer
of
the
Y. M. 0 A.
Northrop, AmosB., was born in Winfield, Herkimer county, N. Y., Feburary 11, 1817,
in Rome, N. Y., and came to the town of Dryden in
1852, was educated in the
raised
schools, to
common
At the
age of
Rome, N.
1866 he
Y.,
came
which
he has
added
through life
twenty-eight he married Almira
and
they
to the
were
village
the parents
of
Varna
of
by reading
daughter
Dodge,
sons : Fred,
three
and established
a
and close
of
George
boot
and
observation.
Samuel
and
Dodge,
Samuel D.
shoe
of
In
manufactory.
FAMILY SKETCHES.
Our
is
subject
one of
the
substantial citizens
in his
173
town,
where
servative, independent citizen, of strong forceful character,
his word to be as good as his bond.
Jared
Newman,
T.,
Isaac H. Newman,
died June
inent
The father
in the town
and respected citizens
Lansing, born
of
Republican in
was a
life has
con
proven
4, 1855, a son of
April 10, 1823, and
politics and one of the most prom
Enfield, in
of
a man whose
a
as
Enfield November
of
the town
who was a native of
1893.
7,
bora in the town
was
he is known
he held the
which
offices
of
His mother, Cornelia A., was the daughter of
the village of Trumansburgh takes its name.
Ellen
supervisor and railroad commissioner.
Jared
Treman, from whose family
Newman, the only sister of our subject, is now a resident of Ithaca. Jared was edu
cated at Ithaca Academy and Cornell
University, graduating with the class of '75.
He was for a time principal of Blossburg, Pa., graded school, and January], 1878,
began the study of law with Hon. Marcus Lyon.
The next fall he entered the Albany
Law School and graduated in 1879, and being immediately admitted to the bar, began
He was a partner with James McLachlan, under the firm
practice January 1, 1880.
name of Newman & McLachlan, from May, 1883, to May, 1887, after which he continued
the practice of law alone until April, 1894, when the firm of Newman & Blood was
A.
formed
Charles H. Blood
with
January 1, 1882, to 1886. He was a
church, held at Washington, D. C,
daughter
of
Levi J., born November
Newman,
after
himself to be
a
attention
in
farmers
leaving
of
and
has
whom
of
by
he
a son of
been
16, 1852,
attended
that
as a man of
electing him
for
W. 0. Newman
married
ability
as supervisor
his early
received
profession
and
children.
the Ithaca
considered one
L. J.Newman
was special
they have four
he had four children, three
throughout the town
recognized
He is
always
the town.
Ithaca, by
which
teacher, following
to farming.
Enfield,
other partner.
the late Josiah B. Williams ;
trict schools,
He
county judge from
delegate to the general assembly of the Presbyterian
in May 1893. He married, October 7, 1886, JaneE.,
the
as
of
Academy,
the
Ithaca,
most
successful
and
sons
culture,
for 1893,
one
of
soon
and
dis
gave
and whose merit
his
settlers
prominent
Seymour Korts
of
He is known
daughter.
and re-elected
the
qualified
the early
one of
Ann E., daughter
in
he
where
years, but
some
of
education
his townspeople
in 1894 for
a
term
two years.
Marsh, Walker, deceased,
came
to New York State
three he
where
reading
married
he lived
born in
was
Avhen
he
was
Caroline C. Winslow
over
fifty
and commanded
He
only
of
November
six years of age.
Groton,
and
man
of
respect and esteem of
the
years.
the
Vermont,
was
a
came
4,
His
1810.
At the
age
to Etna to
large information
of
make
parents
twenty-
a
home
and extensive
whole community.
Politically a
many years
forty years,
acting
justice of the peace, and town clerk. As secretary he virtually organized and perfected
the Dryden and Groton Insurance Company, which has been a model for all subsequent
Democrat,
he
was postmaster and
organizations of
that kind.
six,
frequently sought by
leaving a widow and five
Sophie,
Mr. George Marsh
probity were above reproach and his counsel
He died at the age of seventyneighbors and friends.
His honor
and advice
and
was
postmaster over
and
children, three daughters,
Mr. Frank P. Marsh.
Misses
May,
Emiline
and
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174
James
McKinney,
born
this
town,
Lansing
to
on
the
at
had but limited
in 1840 he
children
the
took up 260
old
home,
of
schools,
in
and
land,
the
was
State.
native
The latter
1843,
and
came
Mr.
inspector
McKinney
of
schools,
of
justice
Sarah L.
children :
Fisk,
of
is
eleven
sixty-
aged
Michigan,
to the
return
At the death
tract
of
homestead.
of
the
of
in
and
in his
school
On Mr.
McKinney 's farm is
agent, having filled that position
and
Mary Josephine. His second
the
peace.
station
James H.
Chicago, 111.,
of
original
organizers
was
and educated
to
forced to
was
the
of
the
of
one
went
ever since resided.
one-half
of which our subject
He has two
years.
marriage was with
here he has
was
and
twenty -three,
years, but
nine
in 1864
the farm
he
wife
they had
and
wife
was reared on
age of
he lived
where
his
and
His
ticket.
Whig
Dryden,
of
years,
child,
the
at
malaria,
into possession
McKinney Station,
for twenty
second
the
on
Christina Brown
and
aged seventy-two
on account of
While in Michigan
the
Daniel
who Avas
acres of
his father he
locality,
Assembly,
was elected member of
; Jesse died in 1862
common
January 22, 1820,
Jersey, his
owns,
a son of
education, but he improved his opportunities, and became
in his community, having served sixteen years as justice of the peace,
Our subject,
eight.
now
twelve, from New
age of about
daughter
Elizabeth,
Lansing, is a native of
Jesse, who came
an old and prominent resident of
advantages of
a prominent man
and
Monroe,
the farm he
in 1877.
Morrison, James T., was born at Ludlowville, March 22, 1829, the youngest son of a
family of three children of James Morrison, who was a natiAre of Saratoga county,
He Avas
coining to this county in 1816.
In 1826, he settled on
in East Lansing.
chair
cabinet
a cabinet maker and engaged
farm
a
and
making,
manufacturing
in the town of Lansing for a great many
The
seventy-four years of age.
of
Deacon Charles Townley,
and
Revolutionary
who was one of
They
soldiers.
and
was also
and
the only
He died November
Mary ToAvnley,
subject,
the first settlers
Charles
married
Ludlowville,
of
He
years.
mother of our
Richard
brother Richard ToAvnley.
east
farming.
in that business
Townley
sisters
and
of
conducted
undertaker
24, 1870,
was
this county,
were natives of
in 1802.
at
daughter
a
Avith
New
his
Jersey
immigrated
from
Pennsylvania to Tompkins county, stopping over night with their ox team and house
hold effects in Ithaca Avhen there was but one house, the residence of the McDoAvells
day
resumed
their
the military tract
assigned
them.
and the next
attended school until
of
Avent
to New
1S48 he
1851 he
came
returned
York
and
to the town
James T.
when
a general store at
conducting
he
fifteen,
journey
he
entered
LudloAvville.
that
the
He
of
Lansing,
employ
of
Henry
remained with
year spent part of
Ithaca, where he Avas clerk for
to Ludlowville, AA-here he engaged
to
Adhere
the time in
Lansin-
L. Burr,
Burr
took the
they
his boyhood days in
spent
until
1847
Rochester.
and
who
was
when
The spring
Finch & StoAvell three
in business for himself
years.
six
In
years.
He then traded his property for a farm of 150 acres in Lansing, where he lived
year, and then came back to Ithaca in 185S, buying an interest in the business of
one
Avery
Woodruff &
Co.,
and
the
firm
name
became
Morrison,
years, and then became Morrison & Woodruff.
interest to HaAvkins & Finch, making the firm
continued eight years.
estate what
is
now
The spring
known
as
of
1869,
the Morrison
After
Woodruff &
one year
Morrison,
Avhere
existed
Mr. Woodruff
Hawkins & Co.
Mr. Morrison
block,
Granger,
he
purchased
removed
of
the
sold
two
his
This firm
Downing
his half interest
FAMILY SKETCHES.
in business
and Avas alone
Morrison is
and
The
daughter.
one
The daughter
Myers, AndreAv,
is
Avas
son, William
born in
was
Jersey,
Mary Cox,
Ireland,
a native of
March
one
17, 1849,
son, Alfred,
married
the father
graduate of
is
Cornell,
the laAV department
three
of
instructor in
an
ITniver-
Cornell
of
Mr.
sons
7, 1828. William R., his father,
Pennsylvania, Avhere he followed
being blacksmithing and carpentry. He married
October
Pennsylvania,
to
who came
the
seven children our subject AA7as
he
H.,
to Theodore Dobsin.
sold
and was
deceased.
who went
different occupations, among them
he
when
twice married,
now a student of
and one son are
New
was a native of
He
oldest
Wilmington, Del.; Maurice,
sity.
February, 1889,
until
Prohibitionist.
a
175
reside
to America
Willey,
young, aud of their
farmer from boyhood.
when quite
He has been
youngest.
Susan A.
in
of
a native
a
this county,
they have
and
in Waverly, working at his trade of plumbing and gas fitting, in
he is very efficient.
Mr. Myers is a Democrat in politics, but has not aspired to
which
now
public office.
McKee. James
and
Robert,
ing
there in 1801
and
the latter five
and
Irish birth
was
whom
among the first settlers of Dryden, the former locat
later. They Avere brothers, of Scotch descent
years
both brought f amiles to this
and
one
were
son,
Thomas,
married
who
Calvert
Miss
The latter
son, John C.
James had
country.
a
eight
children, among
county, in
Cortland
of
Janette
Stuart, and had
eleven children, as
Missouri; Alexander
Indiana; John,
Thomas,
(deceased); Margaret, now living on the home farm ; Elizabeth (deceased) ; Anna,
(deceased) ; Janette, wife of John Lamberson (deceased) ; Mahala, wife of Edward
Carpenter (deceased); and James and Henry, living on the home farm in the south
Groton. The place comprises 200 acres of excellent land, finely
part of
east
1806,
her had
by
and
one
follows
located
under
and
now
:
cultivation.
good
head of the family just mentioned,
His wife died in 1877.
1883.
And
was
married
in
in
Andrew
living in
farmer,
Michigan.
died
and
successful
a
John
the
September
16,
Meany, Edward, M. D.,
John Meany, a farmer of
in the
educated
with
Dr. F. A.
from
which
in
a class of
Ithaca
where
always
He is
been
a
of
institution he
March
fifty)
born in the town
town,
who
of
died in
Enfield, November 17, 1865, son of
November, 1890. Dr. Meany was
schools, and at the age of eighteen began the study of medicine
Jacksonville, and soon after entered Buffalo Medical College,
common
Kerst,
Avas
that
graduated with
1,
high honor
In April
1887.
of
the
he
same year
lucrative
he has built up an extensive and
Democrat, and was three
an enthusiastic
member
(standing
of
the Tompkins
County
seventh
health
Medical Society,
honor
roll
established an office
practice.
years
on
and
in
The doctor has
officer of
this city.
holds the
office
of
treasurer.
Messenger,
in the
the
and
Levi
was
born in the town
they
Virgil,
March
schools, but is pre-eminently
thirty-two he married Apilona Miller, daughter
are
the
daughter, Clara.
age
of
23 ; he
2, 1830,
a self-educated
common
age of
1893,
H.,
parents of
three children, two sons,
Gideon died in
was a
December, 1881,
very brilliant young man,
age
and
of
Gideon
sixteen,
having
and was educated
self-made
Isaac Miller
and
and
man.
of
At
Dryden,
George L., also one
George died in May,
graduated
from the Dryden
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176
diploma
graded school with a college entrance
Cornell University.
entered
and
From
overstudying his health began to fail and he entered the Leland Stanford University
in California.
His ambition was boundless, his talents of a high order, but overwork,
together
disease,
with
him
cut
off
in the flower
Messenger bought the Michael Thomas property of
He is one of the conservative
young manhood.
fifty-five acres, on
handsome buildings.
vancing its best
strict integrity.
interests,
Macey, Fred H.,
Dryden
ing
at
with
his
known
in
1870,
the Dryden Academy.
A.,
and
of
F. Earl.
where
At the
A. J. Shepard
he
now
making a specialty of hay
interest in all the leading
he
He has
In
and potatoes.
events of
the
the
of
Ithaca,
21, 1867,
day,
a
fine
farm,
they have
and raises
he is
politics
two children:
farm,"
hay,
participating in
of
grain and stock
Republican
a
to
schools, finish
he married Nellie E.
common
years
and
and came
inherited the E. McArthur "Hill
Macey
lives.
December
twenty-three
the town
erected
of
was educated at
age of
of
In 1894 Mrs.
where
seventy-acres,
as a practical and
he
his town, identified in ad
successful farmer and a man of
men
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
born in
was
parents
Shepard. daughter
Leo
and
In 1870 Mr.
his
of
takes
and
all movements
for the
an
good
his town.
of
Montgomery,
in the
Daniel
R.,
was
born in the town
Dryden,
of
March
7, 1838,
and was
schools,
leaving which he went back to his father's farm.
he enlisted in Company F, 76th N. Y.
Infantry, December 16
18G1, and received an honorable discharge December 16, 1864, serving three years, and
being engaged in the battles of Gainesville, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Antietan;
educated
When the
and
common
broke
war
Gettysburg,
the first
and
after
out
being
promoted
set of colors carried
to
color sergeant
by infantry
for
in the battle
bravery in
of
He
action.
Gettysburg,
when
carried
he
was
through the hand
supporting the colors, the same bullet passing through the
shoulder.
At the age of fortv-two he married Miss Sarah M.
Wilson, daughter of
Wilson
of Dryden, and
Henry
they have two daughters, Misses Fannie and Florence
In 1872 he went into the coal and lumber business with Mr.
Sperry, who in 1875 sold
out to I. P.
and
is
noAv
the
junior
member of the firm of Ferguson and Mont
Ferguson,
gomery, the leading firm in the town of Dryden.
He takes the Republican side in
wounded
politics and
has
always
Messenger, D. S.,
was
born in
Virgil,
Dr. Taylor farm
common
He
was
an active worker
born in the town
and came
of
to Dryden in
for the
success of
his
Dryden, July 7, 1836.
1835, and bought what
sixty acres, where he passed his life.
D. S.
to
Avhich he has added through life
schools,
by reading
married at
Kennedy
been
of
of
the
age of
Dryden,
party.
His
father, Nathan,
was
was
known
educated
they
are
the parents
of
one
the
in the
and close observation.
twenty-six, Miss Henrietta Kennedy, daughter
and
as
daughter,
of
Bradford
Anna A.
He is
a
Republican in politics, but through life has been too
actively engaged in busines to give
much attention to
politics, although he has always taken a deep interest in educational and
religious affairs.
In 1873 he purchased what was known as the old
Orrin
Smith farm
of
102
acres.
In 1883 he
purchased the
Chambers farm
he bought the Benjamin Simonds farm of
sixty acres,
best farm lands in the town of Dryden.
of
having
eighty acres,
250 acres of
and
in 1885
some of the
177
FAMILY SKETCHES.
McArthur, Ebenezer, deceased, was born in Dryden. December 4,
McArthur, came from Scotland to Dryden in 1811,
Elder Daniel
house
the
across
is known
1873.
from the homestead.
road
the McArthur
as
Homestead,
Ebenezer McArthur
Homer
In
in the
and
His
father,
a
log
lived in
he built the handsome house
1815,
and. which our
was educated
1813.
which
subject rebuilt and remodeled
common
schools
and
finished
at
in
the
for nearly twenty years, devoting the energies of
Academy,
his life to educating the young people of hjs town, and by his will
directing that the
larger portion of his estate should revert to the town of Dryden for educational uses.
He married in 1846, Miss Maria Hutchings, who passed
away in 1871. In the same
year he married Miss Calista
daughter
of
David
Robinson of Lansing, who
Robinson,
and
taught
school
left to take up his many benevolent and business interests and carry them forward
with unexpected business
Our
ability she has been able to do.
was
to completion, which,
subject was well
best interest
that of John
Mary
Stuart
and
phemia,
came
lar
to
Among
McKellar,
had these
and
thrifty
fortable home.
the Scotch families
a
native
the
where
and prosperous
years ago
Argylesbire, born about 1780, who married
Nancy, Archibald, Mary, Jean, Catherine, Eu
family
pioneer
in Groton many
who settled
of
children:
In 1841 the
John.
Groton,
was a
man"
John.
McKellar,
was
known through this town, prominently interested in advancing the
and recognized as a
of high ability and sterling integrity.
his town,
of
three
settled
died in 1850
farmer,
and
miles
his
and
established
east
wife
of
Ithaca,
in 1871.
for himself
and
later
John McKel
and
family
a com
His son, John, was born July 4, 1829, and resided at home until his
he started for himself, and now owns a fine place. He married Aman
marriage, when
da Halliday, and
they have had five children, four daughters. The names of the
daughters are, Helena, Minnie, Katherine and Grace and one son, the latter deceased.
He came with his
Archibald McKellar was also one of Groton's thrifty farmers.
father to this town, and lived on the old farm until his death in 1892, Catherine, his
sister,
kept house for him
having
Manning, Thompson,
His father
which
his
was
son
one
now
was
of
born
until
on
the early
resides.
He
1809
the
when she
farm
settlers
received
which
of
his
died.
he
now
the county
education
owns,
January 12,
and cleared
1822.
up the farm
in the district schools,
on
after
leaving which, he devoted himself to farming, at the same time taking an active in
He was trustee of the
terest in the events of the day, both political and educational.
school
the
in the district in
Our
office.
amounts of
About
Michael,
hay,
the
and
subject
which
is
grain and
year
Robert,
a
he lives for
prosperous
stock,
1800,
came
eight
or
more
finally declined
years,
farmer in his neighborhood,
and makes-a
David Morton
specialty
and
from Massachusetts
four
and
and raises
large
of sheep.
named
sons,
David, Zachariah,
in Groton ; of the sons,
five daughters.
The
settled
Mercy Williams ; they had three sons and
Of these, Adin Morton was very prominent as
names were, Adin, William and George.
He
a pioneer abolitionist when it was popular to heap opprobrium upon the cause.
overthrow
of
contributed liberally, and voted and worked for the
slavery from 1842 to
the
Groton
Porter
in
now
are
youngest,
of
sons
;
Five
his
1860.
Morton, owns
living
sons'
David
married
178
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
lives
and
years
the
on
same
and where
ago,
farm that his
his father (Adin
McGillivray, Ellsworth,
Josiah
McGillivray,
grandfather
was
the father
Morton)
born in
the town
of
and
September 30, 1862.
resident
has only one son, the subject. He was educated in the common
High School and his first occupation after leaving school was as
followed only
long
gallery to study for the
then
years and
ing
est
one
year
City
Art
went with
Ithaca,
of
schools and
Ithaca
E. D. Evans
and was with
him for
to Ithaca
August, 1890, he bought the
Mr. McGillivray makes a
returned
he has
which
since
by
employed
and
conducted.
Geo.
which
He
was
six
and
he
painter,
into the photograph
went
a
profession.
in Cortland he
Gallery,
In 1881 he
to learn the trade.
enough
over
ninety
died in 1867.
and
Caroline,
farmer
a
bought
Morton)
born in 1805
was
subject, is
of our
(David
Stanley
two
about
After
years.
spend
For
spe
cialty of large work, such as water colors, crayons, paintings, groups, and photography in
He also carries a complete line of photographic supplies and cameras for
all its branches.
He is
amateurs.
tember
5, 1893,
a member of
he
married
the
McElheny, John E., was born
father, James J., was one of the
in the
cated
common schools
At the
observation.
until
1846
Fire
he
Albion,
in the town
earliest
which
of
settlers
he has
of
Knights
and
of
Dryden September
in the town.
Our
through life
added
Pythias.
Sep
N. Y.
thirteen his father died
into the town
moved
of
Dryden.
by
he took
and
At the
age
13, 1822.
His
subject was edu
reading
charge
of
of
and
close
the farm
thirty-seven he
Aldridge, daughter of Benjamin Aldridge. He is one of the leading
of his town
having been president, and is now president of the Dryden and Groton
Insurance Company. He is also president of the Southworth Library Association
Adelia
married
men
when
of
age
to
I. 0. 0, F.
order of
Jessie L. Shaw
which
is
now
active
in
educational matters
terian
Church,
building
handsome
a
he is
of Avhich
he
structure under
also
his
personal
supervision.
finds time to further the interests
Our
Cortland
Academy,
subject was
after
Presby
a member.
Mason, F. Oscar, was born in Richland county, Ohio, May 26, 1838,
father, Edward Mason, who was from Lincolnshire, England, came to
Dryden in 1840.
the
of
While
leaving
educated
which
in the
he tanght
the town
of
finished
at
common
schools
and
for
several
years,
school
his
and with
and
also
in the grocery business in Dryden, and afterward at Ludlowville.
At twentyfive he was married to Miss Harriet C. Ralph, who lived until 1884. In 1889 he mar
ried Miss Carrie Gardner, daughter of D. P. Gardner of
Dryden, N. Y. They have two
In 1867 he bought part of his father's estate of
sons and one daughter.
sixty acres,
where he now resides, raising hay, grain and stock.
He is recognized m his town as
engaged
a practical and
farmer,
successful
a man of sound
views, taking an active interest in
his town. His son, Professor Arthur R.
Mason, is a
the Cortland Normal School and is now professor at Whitney's Point
Union
advancing the best welfare
graduate of
School
and
Academy.
McCorn, Moses,
a native of
county
at
Ireland,
of
Ireland
was
born in Orange county,
and came
first, but later
and
they
were
to America
removed
the
to
parents of
at
Tompkins
six
July 14,
the age
of
county.
children,
of
1820.
Moses, his father,
was
thirty, settling in Orange
He married Mary Allen of
about
whom our subject was
the fifth.
FAMILY SKETCHES.
His
has been lumbering
occupation
He
dairy.
small
has held the
married
in the Friends
and
September
he
16, 1835,
He
years old.
place
they have
and
In
politics
comprising sixty
to
came
what
in
educated
was
living
one son
at
acres with a
He
home.
he is Democratic.
the late William
Isaiah, are sons of
January 30, 1815, and
Westchester county
parents when four
house
Adaline Starr
and
his
his
farming,
office of assessor eleven years.
Walter
Mekeel,
and
179
is
a
Mekeel,
who was
bora in
Schuyler county with
in his father's
now
select
school
Nine Partners, Dutchess county, New York.
of Joseph and Elizabeth
Tripp, and
Boarding School,
Sarah D., daughter
married
they had five children; James, Elizabeth, Jesse, Amy and Charles. Mrs. Mekeel died
April 27, 1847, and he married second Mary G. Gorham, of Nantucket, Massachusetts,
June 18, 1849, and they had four children : George, Sarah J., Walter and Isaiah. Mrs.
Mekeel died May 7, 1867, and for his third wife he married Martha Hussey, of Nan
Isaiah have
and
a small stock of registered
the homestead
on
fort
Maple
now called
Their barn
specialty.
1871, and his widow survives him. Walter
Jersey cattle and a flock of Shropshire sheep
Shade Stock Farm. They make stock raising a
He died June 28,
tucket, Massachusetts.
contains a silo
and all
Metzgar, William, one of fifteen children
Pennsylvania, January 29,
where
start
the
pioneer and
in life
been
his
of
farm
178
respected
in the town.
acres
Samuel
twelve ;
Democrats in
Marsh
Groton,
Zimri,
to Groton
possessor
of
but is
he
the first
New York to
Augustus
and
"
gig
and
A. Marsh
with
and
their
was
H.,
His
Barber,
was elected
time in
of
and
for
possessor
he is
daughter
Nelson
C,
of
who
of
an
highly
a man
Samuel
died
aged
Groton. Mary Ann,
D. W. Francis,
Mr. Metzgar is one of the leading
He has
voted without
missing
an
Amherst,
Mass.
was a man of
as
attracted
in this
Creusa
S., Abigail,
came
the
much attention as
he traveled to
Albany
their
children
Caleb P.
Lucius
Hubbard,
William
In 1824 he
influence in the early
and
and
His wife was Huldah
for many years.
Chicago
Hiram
now
of
C,
; Dexter H.,
A.,
Eugene
died in Auburn, N. Y., March 30, 1883).
the
1834,
village
the
and
village.
In 1861 Mr. Marsh
first lieutenant.
Ithaca,
town,
the
while
Mary Ann,
his
made
Eugene
who
born in Groton in
affairs.
now
farm,
1891.
wife was
Ebenezer
children were :
the business interests
G. A. R.
is
a
honest labor have
of
having
Groton, and
remembered
goods.
Lucius
Creusa (Mrs. L. A.
on
constant and
children:
Mr. Marsh
brought to
was also a prominent merchant of
Finney,
married
was a native of
in trade.
is
"
purchase
C,
the
office seeker.
an
brought up
subject
our
wife of
January 19,
not
Groton,
engaged
history,
was
years of
have had three
Mary Metzgar, was born in
family came to Groton
of age.
pioneer of
where
of village
were :
They
and
In 1830 the
western part of
Dryden ; Ella L.,
he became
election since
and
of
and
in the
William Metzgar, died
wife of
days
E.,
fifty
results,
In 1849 Mr. Metzgar
Margaret Newman.
and
and
age,
substantial
rewarded with
of
of
Jonas
1821.
William
died.
wife
he became
when
excellent
and
com
of stock.
Monroe county,
H.
the necessary arrangements for the
For
enlisted
six years
some years past
from his early manhood has been identified
He is prominently connected with Masonic
he
in
was
Company K, 137th Volunteers,
deputy county clerk; living for
he has been book-keeper for the Groton
and
the
Car-
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
180
Company,
riage
appointed
Athens,
and
one
also
Groton
at
postmaster
of which marriage
four
McWhorter, Lockwood S.,
father
of
its directors.
of
born in the town
was
mechanic,
Ohio,
was
leaving
and after
He
The boyhood
the eldest.
Ithaca, being
of
in the
education was received
employed
a
as
was
native
of
when a
father
the
Lockwood S.
common
clerk
Minnie M.
married
of
was
Davies,
Orange county,
young
of
of
in the
1800
was
farm in Huron county,
children, of whom our
spent in his. native town
At the
store of
a
The
He
twelve years.
man of
on
15, 1822.
N. Y., bora in
subject
six
was
schools.
June
Lansing,
this county in 1855 located
he died in 1876.
where
Mr. Marsh
have been born.
and came with
a
In 1869 he
village.
children
subject, Richard E., was a
his mother to this county
our
February 29, 1892,
age of seventeen
L. H. Culver
and
he
Henry F.
and
his
came
to
Hibbard
for fifteen years, and in 1858 in company with F. Barnard for nine years he established
a store for himself at the corner of State and Cayuga streets, and for thirty years he
He also spent three years
grocery and provision store, retiring in 1888.
assisting his father in clearing up his farm in Ohio. Mr. McWhorter is a staunch
Democrat in politics, but has never been willing to become an aspirant for public office.
conducted
He
a
for
was
years
daughter
a
member
of
Abram
Fidelity Lodge, F.
farmer
& A. M.
Caroline.
In
1848 he
married
She died
Mott,
January 15, 1894.
one son, Charles Fred, who was for a number of years engaged with his
father. Charles F. is a member of Fidelity Lodge, F. & A. M., Eagle Chapter, St.
Augustine Commandery and a charter member of Ithaca Council.
He married in 1877
Cora Brooks of Trumansburgh, and they have a son and a daughter. Charles F. is also
Lojrinda,
They have
a
Our
Democrat.
in 1856
occupies
Mount,
William'
of
subject
and
has
a
of
bought the property in 1847
lived on the same spot.
and
built the house he
now
always
James
Harrison, was born at Peruville, June 10, 1845, and was the son of
Mount, the latter being remembered as a man of large influence in Peru
Our subject
vicinity during the period of the early history of that hamlet.
Dye
ville and
was
educated
began
in the
teaching
common
winter
school,
and
select
schools and
Groton Academy.
and so continued until about
time Mr. Mount was employed in the
ten years ago.
In 1865 he
During
this
months as a practical butter and cheese
maker, principally in the towns of Groton, Dryden and Caroline. In March, 1883, he
established a general store in Peruville, and has built
up a successful mercantile busi
April
ness.
of
the
30, 1871, Mr.
families
pioneer
Republican,
Prohibition
The firm
but his
Mount
of
earnest
summer
married
Martha Adeline
Larned,
a
descendant
of one
this county.
They have one child. He was formerly a
interest in temperance work has
naturally led him into the
party.
Egbert &
Merrill, drugs, is composed of John F. Egbert and Isaac H.
in 1890, at No. 79
Merrill,
Eddy street. They carry a full line of
and
chemicals
patent
drugs,
medicines, fancy articles, toilet articles, cigars, tobacco and
and
university supplies. They cater particularly to the university trade and
of
and was established
students'
carry
a stock of
McClune,
the finest goods which
Gideon Q,
William G. McClune,
was
born in
a native of
they
sell at margins
for their
support only.
Ulysses, November 16, 1820, the oldest son of
near
Belfast, who came to this country
Ireland born
FAMILY SKETCHES.
in 1802
but three
when
weeks after
landing.
county,
locating
balance
of
a
was
derived in the
academy
the
of
sons
established a
established
Ithaca,
In 1836 he
He died in 1862.
common
Judge
The
to
Finch,
grocery and dry
ill health.
engaged
the
added
stone walks
Forsyth
L.,
a
and
of
Fred
A.,
McKay,
in the
In
various
ice ten years,
Republican
A.,
was
He
that city,
of years.
son of religious parents.
the Y. M. C. A.
Ithaca,
he
He
cause
F.,
serving three
by
secretary of the Young
with credit to himself
filled
he has
which
of
years
he
Club,
of
member of
in
W. O.
which
he is
Everts,
of
second
Otis,
Auburn, N.
at
the First Presbyterian
Mandeville,
W-
E.,
Avas
born in
of
and
the
business for
age of
society.
at
secretary of
March 1, 1890, he
Ithaca,
He is
McKay
they have
also a member
married
Mr.
one son.
a son of
years
of
until
the
road
for
Dryden,
age of
twenty-
five,
with
the
and
132
acres
in the town
William.
is
McKay
a
exception of
two years,
who was
of cloth man
after which
he
Dryden,
Cantine, of
John, James, Jennie,
of
Our. subject
when
In 1877 he married Ophelia, daughter
nursery firm.
and bought a farm in Tioga county of 127 acres, partly
a
of
Lila Everts,
James H.,
in Cortland county,
and finally settled on a place
up farming,
daughter
Caroline, where he died in 1888. He married Caroline,
and their nine children were as follows: Charles,
this town
Harriet
position of
which position
Ithaca.
The
born in Ulster county in 1804.
for ten
this
business
folloAved
and
Theodore, Margaret, Garretta,
a num
thirteen, being
latter in early life learned the trade
took
Ithaca;
assistant
Directors to fill the
Dryden, July 16, 1853,
ufacturer,
of
was educated
and
capacity.
In 1890 Mr.
Y.,
church of
the
1848 Julia E.
in
druggist
a
7, 1864,
he became
in that
the Board
tenor.
the
of
the post-office ; Gilbert
entered
Christ
benefit to the
and
offices of com
office of treasurer of
of
James
eighteen
of
agje
was called
general
daughter
of which
candidate
married
Men's Christian Association
the Choral
years
street.
finishing
to the
At the
Syracuse,
at
held the
also
years.
practice;
after
was conA-erted
where
twice the
born in New York city, August
the
six
has held the
and
Wilbur
children :
in the bicycle office, South Cayuga
Arthur
it up in two
1851, when he
give
stone
a
was
and
years'
of
to
until
occupations
1859 he bought
ardent
an
They have four
Ovid, with fifteen
public schools of
to
Colgrove,
In 1849 Mr. McClune
Ithaca, but was obliged
nine
ber
came
the
spent
Hon. Roscoe
Paddock,
others.
and
Ithaca, handling
Ulysses.
dentist
he
where
six
to Tompkins
quarry in the town of
the laying of walks, sewers, foundations, etc.
He has
at Cornell
and full three-fourths of the walks
University
Mr. McClune is
highAvays
in
years, city treasurer,
for
supervisor.
Mr. McClune has
minority party
twelve
Agricultural
Tompkins County
.Society
missioner of
died
mother
came
subject, Sarah F.
Hon. Lewis
the
He followed
in farming.
he has
Avhich
laid nearly
in this city.
Ithaca,
mother of our
and
goods store
the first ice business in
all
he
Hon. E. S.
Hon. William H. Seward
also
to
moved
his
where
After coming to Ithaca he attended school at the
Esty, and later at the Auburn Academy, with
schools.
years on account of
was
Philadelphia,
years of age when
Rev. Hanibal Goodwin, Rev. M. M. Cass
Conklin,
he
at
twelve
She died in February, 1892, at eighty-nine years of age
Gideon C. was spent in his native town, where his early education was
of
with
landing
age,
about
this State.
of
The boyhood
was
Jacksonville.
at
his days.
native
years of
He
181
of
hoav
Charles
remained at
he
travelled
J. B.
home
on
the
Ostrander, of
covered with timber,
of
182
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
where
he lived for
six
bought the farm he
of
raising fruit
years,
taking from
kinds,
and
400,000 feet
place
of
timber,
and
then
Since coming to this county he has made a specialty
the breeding of the Cheshire swine.
He is an
now occupies.
of all
this
also
Republican.
active
Morgan, Evan,
the
was
large
pioneer of a
sylvania,
1799,
pioneer himself died on the
about
and
farm,
old
family
farm
on a
settled
from
who came
one mile
aged 'eighty-two
and
years,
Stroudsburg, Penn
South Lansing.
east of
his wife,
Sally
The
Good
win, died in the same place a few years before her husband. The descendants of Evan
Morgan are still living in the county, although a number of them settled in other States,
Their children were: William
noticeably in Michigan.
Thomas, who was killed in the war of 1812 ; Richard G.,
G.,
Fanny White;
who married
Elizabeth Ozmun ;
married Melissa Talmadge ; Edwin
Charles, who married Phoebe Gibbs; Nelson, who
G., who married Cordelia Talmadge ; Betsey, who
who married
married
John Mead ;
Ruth,
who
Abel Beach ; Phoebe, who married John Tichenor ; and Susan, who married
Lemuel Kelsey. William G. Morgan, the oldest son of Evan, was born in Pennsylva
married
nia
in 1789,
and
Fanny White,
children were :
and
Caroline.
in
ten
came
farm
his
with
parents
to Lansing.
He
married
Benson's
Corners, and died in Groton.
A., Nelson, Thomas, Phoebe, Richard, Fanny, Jerusha, Susan
G. Morgan died in 1870, and his wife in 1844.
Richard Mor
moved
to
a
near
18,
1820.
Richard G.
Evan the pioneer, was bora
1865. His wife, Elizabeth Ozmun,
Morgan,
son of
in
born in
in the
of
Miles
William
born June
Lansing
Avas
age
in 1832
and
His
gan was
the
at
1797, and died in Dryden in February,
1805, and died in Dryden in 1868. They
the town.
Their
were
married
in
1824,
and
lived
D. W.
; Catharine,
Groton ; Rich ; Sara, who married W. R. Sanford ; Elizabeth, who married
William E. Brown ; Isabelle, who married A. E. Snyder ; Almira, who died in Dryden
north
Manier,
in
of
children
wre
who married
of
1876;
Maria
Rich
Dans.
part
J., who married W. R. Fisher; and Adeline P., who married Joshua
Morgan, son of Richard G., and grandson of Evan, was bora in Dryden
In 1855 he
in 1827.
Luana Van
Nortwick, by whom he had four children :
Ella V., wife of C. B. Tarbell; C. Glenn, Rich V., and one other who died in infancy.
Rich Morgan died October 5, 1861, on the farm in Groton now owned
by Richard
Morgan, the latter having married the widow of Rich Morgan in 1864.
Monfort,
Cornelius
to
married
L.,
and
his brother
Peruville in 1830.
John,
were
former
Cornelius L, brought
residents
of
Schoharie
him his wife, he be
county,
then
just
and
in
this
town
their two
ing
married,
children, John M. and Peter, were
born. The latter was killed in the army during the late war. After the death of his
first wife Mr. Monfort married Esther, daughter of George
Gray, by whom he had one
and came
with
Cornelius L. is
child, Isabell, now the wife of Jonathan N. Fox.
been
a merchant in
trade he was a
ing
Peruville, although
by
same
he successfully
time
but
on
a
farm.
highly respected in the community.
being somewhat deaf, did not engage
was a man
lican,
carried
remembered as
shoemaker,
He
accumulated a good
Ee
in
was an active
politics
to
Whig,
hav
and at
the
property and
a Repub
later
a great extent.
He
was
He died in 1875, aged
prominently identified Avith the M. E. church.
seventy-eight,
and his wife in
aged
eighty-three
years.
Jonathan
N. Fox was born in
1879,
Dryden,
FAMILY SKETCHES.
February 1,
December
1830.
20, 1876, he
183
Isabell
married
Monfort,
they
and
reside
at
Peruville.
Mead, Benjamin Franklin, was born m Caroline, July 7, 1823, a son of Dr. Daniel L.
Mead, who came to Groton in 1813, and thence went to Slaterville in 1820, being the
first physician in the section. He practiced his profession for forty years until 1860,
and owned the place where our subject now resides.
He married in 1812, in West
Priscilla
N.
a
of
chester,
Y.,
Perry, native Greenwich, Conn., who came to Westchester
when young.
had
nine children, of whom B. F. Mead was the fifth, he now be
They
ing seventy years of age. He followed carpentry and building from early life to 1860,
since which
time he has lived
publican
He built
retired.
especially in
Slaterville, and he
by himself, keeping a house-keeper,
and
party, though he has
now
he
a
owns and
never
never aspired
to
many buildings in the town,
has worked the farm now occupied
great
having
He
married.
supports
the
Re
public office.
Morgan, Howard, was born on the old homestead south of Waterburg, in Ulysses,
February 23, 1832. He was educated in the public schools, and is a farmer by occupa
tion.
May 27, 1857, he married Jane Bower, daughter of David and Jane Bower, of
Mr. Morgan's
Ulysses.
father,
William
Morgan,
Genesee county, N. Y., September 7, 1795, and
burg, N. Y. Stie was born September 15, 1802,
who
died in
was
bora in
married
and
the town
of
Alabama,
Betsey Atwater,
of
Trumans
they had
three
David,
children :
infancy, Willis H., and Howard. William Morgan, grandfather of our
born in Wales, Great Britain, and came to the United States at an early
subject, was
day. The ancestry
of
the
family
were
Welsh
and
Scotch.
McCormick, Walter, was born in the city of Ithaca, October 25, 1854, a son of
Walter was educated
Michael McCormick, who has been a resident here since 1840.
in the public schools and Ithaca Academy, after leaving which he entered the dry
goods store of Hawkins, Finch & Co., with whom he was employed as a clerk for
He then formed a partnership with Patrick "Conway, which continued
three years.
three years, when our subject sold his interest to Mr. Conway and followed the meat
business for
He then
a year.
remaining five years.
firm being Francis &
mick sold
conducted
his interest
the
the American
been
engaged
He
went
next went
McCormick,
and
into
returned
into
which
liquor
a retail
a
foundry
concern
to Ithaca in
1883, buying
of
the
the city for three
Ellen
at
Waverly,
the
the St. John Hotel.
He
hotel, on the south side of the street, nine years, and in 1892 he bought
House, at the corner of State and Fulton streets, where he has since
in business, having a fine hotel of seventeen rooms and every conven
a member of
married
shop
year, then Mr. McCor
existed one
He is a Democrat in politics,
ience for the traveling public.
In 1892 he was elected alderman
active worker in the party.
is
South Cayuga street,
store on
and machine
street commission and
Dugan,
of
lighting
the illness
during
Pennsylvania,
months
and
of
and
of
commission.
Mayor Bouton.
they have five
has
always
the First
He
been
Ward.
was
an
He
mayor
acting
In 1878 our subject
children.
Montgomery, Dr. J. J was bora in the town of Dryden, May 5, 1843. His father,
He
J. W. Montgomery, M. D., came from Stillwater, Saratoga county, about 1825.
was
educated at
the Dryden
Academy
under
Professor Graves.
After
leaving
school
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
184
he
ing
1867;
he
which
States army and was attached to the medical s'ervice, after leav
from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York in
the United
entered
then
graduated
to Dryden
returned
in politics,
in educational
is
and
and religious
in his
active part
town, being
in raising
into
Hon. J. W.
father,
assembly in
member of
men and
to
means
takes
and
a physician
Montgomery,
1845,
to the
send
He is
regular practice.
There has been
matters.
His
town for seventy years.
man
and entered
the coroners of the county,
now one of
this
by
was a
Republican
interest
name
front, neglecting his
in the
prominent
very
through the
and
a
an active
took
war
an
business
own
His son, taking up his father's practice, has become widely
known in the profession, and is also prominently identified in the interests of his town.
to
push
those matters.
Thomas
Miller,
his
Scotland, bora in 1850, and came to America with
His father, Thomas, settled in Ithaca, where he was employed as
is
G.,
in 1853.
parents
He
a mechanic.
was
a native
of
the father
of
five children,
of which our subject was
the
fourth.
Lancasterian school, after leaving
Academy
which he went into the store of Andrus, McChain & Co., where he was employed till
That year he formed a partnership with Frank J. Enz, and they established a
1878.
He
was educated
wholesale
general
married
paper
and a
Julius (deceased),
Manning,
in the district schools,
G. Keeler,
living.
the town
was
the
end church
has
Caroline,
born
age of
thirty
away
a
paper
mill.
they have
and
Danby in 1842, was educated
G., daughter of Charles
of
married
a
In 1876 he
two sons in the High
Sarah
had four children, three
They
Mr. Miller is
to the Commandery.
the town
in
of whom
are now
1893,
nearly eighteen years of age, a
just stepping into womanhood.
Mr. Man
also gave an intelligent interest to educational
when
when
Republican in politics, and
In 1866 be bought
matters.
five acres,
advanced
died early in
B.,
girl who was called
was a
of
Danby.
of
The oldest, Anna
beautiful
ning
of
and at
and
old
now conduct
and
warehouse,
fraternity
Preston, of the town
daughter, Ada.
Ella
the
and
the Masonic
member of
School
in the Ithaca
the
of
his
live.
William
Our
Davis,
a
farm
of
died suddenly in the
family
spring
of 1883, leaving a wife and four small
children, and regretted by all with whom he had
been associated.
Mrs. Manning has displayed remarkable business talents and energy,
and has carried on the farm
successfully since the death of her husband.
seventy-
where
now
Mineab, N. H., the subject of this sketch,
ber 22, 1835.
His father, Wm. C. Mineah,
nent man
in his town.
good practical
of
business
Nelson Morgan
who married
of
Groton,
in
as
and
politics
McCutchan,
of
William
of
born in the town
was one of
was educated
age of
and
and
Dryden in
an
are
East
Lansing,
Newton
1807,
and
R.,
100
and successful
the
were
settled on
side, owning the homestead in common.
of
lot
sons of
settlers,
Septem
and a promi
schools,
and
is
a
Cordelia, daughter
daughter, Annett Louise,
1887.
acres.
and
In 1861 he bought
He takes the Re
school matters.
He is
farmer.
Robt. McCutchan,
forty-two,
The boys
Dryden,
married
20,
church
of
common
of one
October
interest in
as a practical
in the
the parents
they
active
the early
twenty-nine he
the Samuel Fulkerson farm
known throughout his town
to the town
At the
man.
B. La Vern Buck
the property known
publican side
N. H. Mineah
was
subject
where
his
were educated
who came
sons now
in the
re
common
185
FAMILY SKETCHES.
schools, but were
Morris, daughter
self-made
of
the best farm lands in the
to dairying.
They
At the
men.
Levi Morris
town,
age
Ithaca.
of
fifty-five Newton
of
The brothers have 164
Alvina
married
of some
acres
of
raising hay, grain and stock, paying special attention
in their town as substantial, conservative farmers,
are recognized
ability and high
their bond.
The family
integrity,
men of
whose
lives have
proven
from
their
word
to be
as good as
in Saratoga county,
Glasgow, Scotland,
N.Y, The grandfather, George McCutchan, served in the continental army for six years,
and Robert McCutchan took part in the war of 1812.
The sons inherited the best of
came
and
settled
the Scottish traits.
McKee, Samuel, was born
McKee, was one of the
John
four
of
Samuel Cunningham
now resides.
has
added
of
Samuel
through life
by
Lormor
in
Sharp
and
of
is
Mitchell,
under
they
and
William
L.,
was
1801,
Cunningham,
are
twenty-one
the
Our
at
in
side
is
subject
practical
the
After
a
which
leaving
Sharp,
he
school
Jennie
married
only
daughter
where our sub
schools, to
common
parents of
he
re
daughter
two children, Mrs. Wm. H.
and
politics
an
active
interest
independent man,
conservative
farmer.
born in the town
1846,
in the
father,
when
up the farm
observation.
the district schools,
In
cleared
education
close
age of
successful and
was acquired at
of
the
and religious matters.
Prof. W. S. Burt.
struction
and at
They
He takes the Republican
recognized as a
education
his
and
reading
Dryden,
James E.
educational
and
North Ireland.
His
to Dryden in
and came
received
turned to his father's farm
John
Dryden, November 23, 1839.
of
early settlers,
John McKee was married in 1835 to Martha
years old.
ject
of
in the town
of
with
Ithaca,
a
March
7,
His early
1825.
the Ithaca
at
course
Academy
twenty-one, he took charge of the con
New York and Philadelphia, under the
age of
the first telegraph line between
he
In 1847
Emily Steenburg,
daughter, now Mrs.
Steenburg
Ithaca, by
Mitchell
died
October 11, 1848,
Samuel Barnes of White Plains, N. Y. Mrs. Emily
and in 1849 he married Susan T. Bradley, daughter of Hemingway H. Bradley of the
late Hon. Ezra
daughter
town
of
of
Cornell
and
his
Hoffman
Enfield,
associates.
whom
of
who
bore him four children, two
married
he had
of
one
whom
are now
living, Ella B.
residing
residing in Montclair, New Jersey, and Cora B. Hegeman,
Mr. Mitchell is independent in politics as
at Middle Falls, Washington county, N. Y.
he is in all his views, taking an active interest in the events of the day and in the
Cochran,
now
now
promotion of
education
Mineah, John H.,
William C. Mineah,
and
was
religion.
born in the town
was one of
the
of
Dryden,
April
age of
thirty he
married
1826.
His
father,
in the town, and with his grand
is still in the family. J. H. Mmeah
earliest settlers
father took up part of lot sixteen, part of which
self-educated
was educated in the common schools, but is a
the
17,
Martha,
daughter
of
Leonard
and
self-made man.
Longcoy
of
Dundee,
At
Yates
and they are the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters.
county, N. Y.,
Mineah in this county, are
Two sons. W. L. Mineah of Haddam, Kansas, and Fred E.
now
living.
bought
138
In 1855 he bought the Ambrose Hill property
part of
the
; in 1876 part of
the best farm lands in the town.
the De Groff
acres of some
of
estate
of
108
acres
; in 1864 he
Teeter estate,
Our subject is one
Henry
having
of
the
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186
in his town, taking an interest in the leading events
director in the Fire Insurance Company of Dryden and Groton,
the
prominent men
of
a
and
and successful
day,
is
and
is
a practical
farmer.
Metzgar, Andrew, was born in Genoa, May 17, 1826, one of fifteen children of Jonas
His father was a blacksmith and farmer, and Andrew
and Mary (Merwin) Metzgar.
At the age of twenty-one he began life for himself,
was brought up to farm work.
with no capital
good
farm in
his
save
determination to
own
the buildings
Groton,
He is
succeed.
the
now
owner
of
a
In Janu
and attractive.
of which are substantial
married Harriet N., daughter of Amza and Susan (Sp oner)
1853,
Armstrong, of which marriage there were two children : Norman, who died in 1882, and
Amza Armstrong was a native
Edgar G., who now lives at home with his parents.
of Goshen, Orange county, and came with his father, Moses, to Genoa at a very early
day. They located in Groton on the farm now owned by Andrew Metzgar. Amza
married Susan Spooner, and had nine children :
Albert, Delilah, Harriet N., Czarina
Louisa (wife of Lyman Perrigo) ; Sarah Jane, Emily, Lucina A., Mary E., and one
Amza Armstrong was born July 1, 1795, and died February 26,
who died in infancy.
1875. His wife, Susan Spooner, was born June 24, 1798, and died February 27, 1887.
They were married May 1, 1825.
Mr. Metzgar
ary,
Mount, William Dye, a native of New Jersey came in 1828 to the town of Dryden,
bringing with him his young wife to whom he had then been recently married. A
short time afterward he moved to
Lansing and became foreman of the tannery of John
0. Christie, he being a practical tanner and currier. Five years later he returned to
Dryden, but soon after (1837) located permanently at Peruville, where he became a
man of much influence in town and church affairs, successful in business, and where he
continued to reside until the time of his death, August
27, 1887. In 1854 he was one
of
the
organizers of
justice
In 1859
of
the
of
peace and
He
was
prominently
than sixty years,
more
Episcopal
church of
Groton
town
of
ward
D.
with
a
connection with
Joseph
Groton.
Larned,
Groton.
viz. :
William
James H.
married
married
years.
Peruville,
of
church
and
continued
his death.
S., Joseph,
He had
James
upon a
Martha,
for
First Methodist
the
as
Robert N.
and
H.,
and
farm in
the
daughter
of
Ed
long
prominently connected
Annette, daughter of Nelson Morgan,
William E. Mount
the town.
resident of
known
Sylvanus Lamed,
Robert N.
twenty-four
was elected supervisor
the Methodist Episcopal
removing to
Peruville,
Joseph is unmarried;
next year was elected
a period of
in 1869 he
the society to the time
living,
James live in
and granddaughter of
the affairs of
life-long
and
are now
after
in the
and
for
office
and again
connected with
Dryden,
and
supporting
children, four of whom
Robert N.
held that
town,
and was a member of what was
an active and
seven
thereafter
the three succeeding years,
and
Groton.
the Republican party in the
and
was
the third
child of
the
pioneer
just mentioned, born in Dryden September
15, 1834, and moved with the family to
Peruville in 1837. In 1852 he was apprenticed to the joiner's trade which he learned
thoroughly,'
and was educated at
enovia.
During
Hewoiked
the
at
summer of
Groton
his trade
1862 he
Academy
several
and
years and
enlisted about
fifty
the
Conference
Seminary
at
Caz
taught school about twelve years.
men
in
Company F,
109th
Regiment,
FAMILY SKETCHES.
in
and
this
consideration of
Captain Mount
three
months,
June 5, 1865.
Returning
he
to Groton
when
justice
moved
the
of
Barbara
professor
peace
of
worked
In
born in Orange
and
Sarah Giles, the
at
1878,
After serving thirtyservice with his command,
captain.
out of
his trade
and
taught
in 1882
and again
On October
of
1882,
until
school
our subject was elected
Mount
10, 1865, Mr.
Barbara Giles
and
Dryden.
was
Three
married
to
have
children
William Dye
Mount,
living,
Joseph, who also is teaching school. James Giles
county, September 14, 1800, and was one of ten children of Isaiah
latter being the pioneer heads of a family who settled in Lansing
of whom are now
University ;
was
mustered
village.
James
of
its
elected
home he
the marriage, two
in Brown
was
the town.
of
daughter
L.,
been born
service was
187
assistant
and
in
1802, but who soon afterward moved to Dryden. James Giles married Barbara
Raymer, and to them these children were born : Lavilla, who married Arad S. Beach ;
Mary, who married Alanson Burlingame ; Marcella, who married W. S. Brown ; Susan
A., the wife of A. M. Ford ; Barbara L., wife cf Captain W. E. Mount; John J., of
Freeville ; Sarah E., now Mrs. S. Skillings ; and Nancy, wife of E. Hanford.
James
Giles was a successful farmer, an active and useful citizen, one of the first to introduce
improved machinery in farm work, and the inventor of the churn thermom
His death occurred October 11, 1890, his wife having died three years before,
and use
eter.
November
1887.
21,
Miller, William Henry, was born in Trenton, Oneida county, in 1848, a son of Major
Henry Miller of that town. His early education was derived in the common school,
He spent two years in Clinton
private instruction, and at Mechanicsville Academy.
the
first
students
Liberal Institute and was one of
Cornell, a special student in the
-at
really the first student of that school of Architecture.
in Ithaca in 1873, his first design being President Andrew D. White's
'71-72,
class of
that
time, he
years.
and
of
Mr. Miller is
He
the Masonic Fraternity.
they have four
and
is
Irving C,
a
a member of
married
on a portion of
Russell P.
his father's farm
Their five
Y.
Irving O,
wife
Irving O,
a
native
until
death
of
the
the
He
reared
age of
latter,
he
born
organist
was
Congre
and
for
several
be found in Canada
Fraternity at Cornell, and
of Henry Halsey, of
daughter
were :
and
ten
wife of
and one of
The latter
wife was
Martha
E.,
wife
beginning for himself
Ingersoll, of KinderBenoni Head ; Dwight,
of
to
Mr. Miller died in 1869,
Henry Miller,
Lansing where
distillery,
Irving C, our subject, lived
a
then hired to
Frederick H.
his life in farm
then
James D. Smith.
and came
a son of
spent
Alvira N.
aged sixty-nine.
operating
children.
twenty-one,
July 18, 1835,
twenty-one,
His
Pennsylvania,
of
property, owning
his farm.
stead
he
University Library
the Baptist
work can
the Chi Phi
1876, Emma,
age of
first.
died in 1875,
His
considerable
his
the
and
building,
which
and
17, 1805.
July
the
Henrietta,
aged sixty-four.
was
at
children
and
in
Lansing,
native of
Miller, also a native of Lansing,
ing, remaining with his parents till
hook, N.
School,
work
Since
children.
born
all on
the Law
of
Miller
of
Hall,
churches, also the Unitarian church,
He has done much work out of the city,
fifteen States.
Ithaca,
Barnes
In Ithaca he designed the Savings Bank
building.
gational
was architect of
He began
residence.
grandfather
he
acquired
a grocery, and a cabinet
his father
by the
his brothers bought two-thirds
on
month,
of
shop
the home
and after
the home
farm,
the
the
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
188
remaining third
who
Groton.
Mrs.
Charles
Morris,
and
takes
L.,
Groton,
stock
and
native
a
was
born
now
lives.
daughter
a
of
Solomon
Hannah (Armstrong)
and
of
in the town
July 21, 1868,
he
manhood
married
they have had
and
interest in both
an active
successful
most
and
Dryden,
of
was
In early
educated.
town
he
where
later they divided the property
In 1868 he married Esther Loomis,
years
Hartford, Conn., born in 1798, who early came to
He served in the war of 1812 and died in 1884, aged eighty-six years. Mr.
Miller have one child, Clara Alvira, born October, 3, 1880.
Solomon
Loomis.
and
born in 1844 in
was
Three
by his mother.
to the farm
Irving came
and
held
being
one
Emma
F.,
where
he
James Hanshaw
of
Mr. Morris is
son.
Ithaca,
of
daughter
Democrat in
a
He is
politics and educational matters.
was
the
of
politics
one
of
the
young farmers of the locality, raising large quantities of hay, grain
is recognized as an active and energetic young man who is bound to
succeed.
Moore,
cated
William H.,
in Homer
April
Dryden,
to
facture
and
Cortland.
1,
After
boots
and
of
leaving
In 1869 he
1861.
of custom made
Dryden,
April 26,
1840,
and was
edu
he took up the shoe trade, coming
a business of his own in the manu
school
established
shoes, together
with a general retail
trade
which
he
His grandfather, Dr. Zopher Moore, came from Vermont and was one
of Virgil, Cortland county, being the first postmaster and prac
now carries on.
of
born in the town
was
the early settlers
ticing
physician
Pond,
daughter
of
of
At the
that place.
Pond
age of
late
Virgil,
three daughters,
Timothy
of
children, three sons and
daughters and one son. The eldest,
six
a
twenty-three he
of
Dryden,
four
and
of whom
Miss Maria
married
the parents
they
are
are
now
living,
of
three
son, Charles L. Moore, at the age of twenty-one
in a large retail shoe house in Cortland,
obtained a position as superintendent salesman
N. Y.
where near
brought
the end
of
three
years
by over work, came home
daughter, Hattie E. Moore, at
on
The
eldest
tion
of
teacher.
At the
end of
he
was
and
the
with
typhoid
later,
age of eighteen
three years
Anna E.
taken
died five days
malarial
September
entered
upon
learning
second daughter,
the millinery business
13,
the
fever
1888.
voca
which
she
after
Moore, the
leaving school and learning
business, at the age of eighteen married Mr. E. B. Briggs, two years later,
1894, removing to Solomon City, Kansas, where she now resides. Victoria,
now carries on.
the millinery
of
spring
Moore,
at
the
daughter,
graduating from Dryden Union School and Academy,
Ithaca Conservatory of Music,
taking up the study of elo
After taking two terms, spring of 1894,
entering the school of oratory con
with the Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary at Lima, K Y. where she now is. Our
has spent a life time in the town in which he now lives and has always been
youngest
after
age of sixteen entered
cution.
nected
subject
known
as an active upright
business
man and
has found time to take
a
deep
interest in
educational, matters.
Wattles, Chauncey Lathrop, of Caroline, son of Capt. Lathrop Wattles and Jerusha
Wattles, his wife, was born in Virgil, Cortland county, N. Y., March 27, 1826 ;
he was the eldest son in a family of five sons and seven
daughters, all of whom grew to
manhood and womanhood.
Capt. Wattles removed to Caroline about
1840, and pur
chased a farm on Blackman
in
the
south
part
of
the
Hill,
town; the subject of this
Surdam
FAMILY SKETCHES.
that time
sketch was at
boy
a
fourteen,
of
he
and
at
189
once
set
in paying for the homestead and in providing for tne wants
family. He lived at home until the farm was paid for, with
he
until
Chain,
was
twenty-four
booksellers
he
the farm
purchased
from 1860 to his
for
now
large
and
share
growing
buildings;
suitable
the employ
entered
Ithaca,
and paper-dealers of
In 1855 he
ten years.
age; he then
years of
his
doing
about
of a
and
Andrus & Mc
of
he traveled extensively for
known as "Wattles Farm", and on
whom
death,
after a short
illness, January 8, 1890. He
Cortland
Tully,
Barker,
county, October 19, 1857; and to them
born two children, a son, Cephas B., April 11, 1863, who died in infancy, and a
which
married
were
resided
Almira J.
of
daughter, Mary Josephine,
August 29,
Mr. Wattles
was
than
Association,
treasurer
for
more
1864, now the wife of James W. Reed, of Ithaca.
twenty years treasurer of the Caroline Cheese Factory
the Caroline
Fire Insurance Co., and a Charter
Farmers'
also of
Caroline Lodge No. 784, F. & A. M. In politics a life long Democrat, he
was four times elected supervisor of a strong Republican town.
Chauncey L. Wattles
member of
united a
him
of manner with
geniality
eminently to be trusted and
known. It is the
as a man
respected
and respected wherever
two
or
three men to
Wattles
With
was one of
an excellent
whom
the
;
that
rule
of
countenance
he
and
was
of general affairs
which
stamped
universally trusted
each
community possesses some
do certain flowers to the sun; Mr.
naturally turn, as
few bearing this relation to the
all
choice
knowledge
benignity
certain
a
and
a
practical
entire
neighborhood.
knowledge,
gained
in
easy school, he united a genial and sturdy integrity which invited confidence. In
all his long lifetime in one locality, he never by act or omission forfeited the good-will
no
or
trust with
which
he
invested ;
was
his death Caroline lost
by
and
one
of
its
most
valued citizens.
born in Herkimer county, January 16, 1821, and was edu
He was a son of Walter B-, who moved into the town
schools.
Welch, William M.,
cated
of
in the
Dryden,
common
and
was
to
afterward
Danby,
where
he died in 1863.
twenty -eight, a Miss Apgar, who died,
1867, Naomi A., daughter of William Spaulding of
at
the age
of
four children,
of whom
daughter, Philma,
died
James
aged
B.,
William
twenty-two
S.,
and
William M. married,
he married second, March 17,
and
the town
of
Florence A.
Caroline.
are
They
living.
now
had
One
In 1869 Mr. Welch bought the Abram
years.
Gardner property of ninety-two acres, and also part of the Hutchens farm. Afterward
he bought part of the Mandeville estate, and the same year purchased a portion of the
Hart place, where he now lives, having 200 acres of some of the best farm land in the
town,
on which
servative,
Wood,
of
he
practical
A.
B.,
Washington
raises
large
amounts of
farmer, taking
was
a
deep
born in the town
Wood,
a
farmer
of
of
that
hay,
interest in the
practice
building,
many
leading events of
the
is
a
con
day.
Orange county, in April, 1850, a son
Our subject was educated in Warwick
county.
Cornell University, studying
of his profession in Ithaca.
and also of
subject
Warwick,
Academy and
the
Our
grain and stock.
architecture
He
residences and store
was
Avhile
the
buildings.
in
Cornell,
designer
He
of
and
he began
the High School
was also
the designer for
V. R. R. Co. north of Wilkes-Barre for fifteen years. In 1889 he formed a
since which they have built many large buildings, in
partnership with T. B. Campbell,
the L.
cluding the
chemical
laboratory
at
Cornell,
the
annex
to the gymnasium, Crane's place
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
190
Sheldrake, Zeta Psi Chapter House,
at
to
addition
Sibley
fire insurance
they
and
Mr. Wood has
College.
He is
companies.
Republican
a
and
White, D. M.,
D. M.
was
White,
for
John
of
He
himself,
Eagle
Fidelity Lodge,
married
in 1876 Ella Potter
hand,
live
to
went
was
a
native of
with
Bradford county,
his grandfather, Sylvester
went to live with an
years, then he
milling until nineteen years old, and then started out
shop in Bridgeport, Conn., where he took the place of
five
and worked
He
years.
next returned
to Brookton for
a
to Tioga county, where he worked at carpentry two years
and then
He
to Caroline where he still continued at carpentry and building for five years, and
nected with his trade the saw mill at Brookton, which he operated nine years.
went
White built
is
a
fine
a
Republican,
Morris
Willis,
inv
residence
and
S.,
of
worked at
a machine
entering
an experienced
Mingus,
seventeen
aud where
in Caroline.
uncle
He
of several
Monroeton, Bradford county, Pa., March 29, 1852. John,
born, in Caroline, and was a farmer, now owning a farm in
he lives.
He has been four times married. Our subject's
only an infant when he
he lived till the age of
was
representative
born in
was
of our
subject,
Bradford county, where
mother, Sophia Mingus, daughter
Pa.
the
as
a member of
Chapter, St. Augustine Commandery, F. & A. M.
Ithaca, and they have five children.
father
in constructing the
are now engaged
acted
also
has
of
this town
served as
Lansing,
a
few years ago, in
which
he
year,
came
con
Mr.
He
now resides.
commissioner and postmaster.
born in Enfield in
was
the
1848,
son of
John H.
and
Caroline'
(Marshall) Willis. His grandparents were John and Mary (Sivalls) Willis,
of New Rochelle, N. Y., who came to Tompkins
county in 1838 and settled in
natives
Enfield.
They
raised
the harnessmaker's
homestead.
Caroline
the
his
whom
four years,
farm
of
flowing
wood.
150
and
he
and
child, Morris S.
one
the
of
age
He then
from
which
fine,
large
he has
and
back
to the
the
portion of
in September 1843
The latter
was
educated
at
never
returned to the farm and worked
farm for five years on shares, the
disabled him for physical labor for
fully
commodious
In 1886 he
recovered.
buildings,
and
a
purchased
stream of water
saw
1877,
of
Stephen
December
Kennedy of Ithaca. She died September 16, 1883, and he
6, 1888, Louisa (Norton) Drake, daughter of Jonathan and
Norton, natives of Lansing. Mr. Willis's parents
member of the Grange, and in politics is a Republican.
Wright,
Charles L.,
Charles W.
settlers
school
a
a
Emma
which
went
on
the buildings, affording sufficient power to grind grain for
food and
Here Mr. Willis has ever since resided. He
married, December 12
married second
early
The latter learned
near
Ella, daughter
son of
John.
twenty
rented
met with an accident which
acres with
and
two years, then
1847, he continued farming
October, 1848. He married
he had
at
about
in
died in
ten years.
about
year of which
he followed
father,
James
William,
children :
which
mother
Marshall, by
his father
about
a
His
of
Angelica Academy,
with
last
trade,
At the death
farm.
three
he has
was
Wright,
in the town.
added
he took up
born in the town
who came
Our
through life
farming,
of
his
age
of
1812,
and
education at the
by intelligent reading
the
with
him.
Danby, November 22, 1828,
to this town about
subject received
and at
reside
and
a
is the
among the
district schools, to
was
and observation.
twenty-three
He is
married
After
leaving
Phoebe Dakin,
FAMILY SKETCHES.
daughter
Percy Dakin,
of
Phoebe 0.
Keithline,
of
Mr. Wright
the town
married
Windom, Pa.,
of
bought the
in
and
in
She died in
1863, Lydia
bore to him three
who
homestead,
old
Danby.
of
again
191
1866 bought
1860, leaving
daughter
A.,
known
was
Wright property, having 145 acres of some of the best farm lands in
Wright is one of Danby's most prominent men.
M.
White, David,
son
of
D.,
James White
school of
his
J. 0. Hill
of
he
dence
this
town,
work until
few years,
then bought
larger one,
where
where
he
he
Two
and
acres,
and
whole
when
on which
they
log
years
entered
the
of
the
remainder of
seven
He
son
of
partner's
he
Egbert Wil
the fine
out
resi
to do
worked on shares
which
when
was mar
three children.
bound
was
He
time he
finally
he
cleared and
sold and moved
purchased a
interest in the
for
sold,
to
a
half interest
mill.
This he
bought the homestead farm
of
time he took
an
his days.
for the Union
He
etc.
raised
land,
timber
He
mill.
the
1847,
life in Lansing.
which
recruits
They have
he began for himself.
tract
He
where now stands
cabin,
five years, during
later he purchased his
spent
been located.
county.
he lived three years,
years, then sold the
here
a
resided
assessor, notary public,
Newfield,
sixteen,
since
born October 23,
was
his
ever
Delaware
10, 1817, in
spent
farm
he has
of
purchased a small
in securing
part
Lansing,
He
was
another
conducted eight
active
he
when
a saw mill.
fifty
of
born June
of our subject.
a
in
to Ithaca
came
Williams, Nathan,
of
Dr.
at
in 1860 to Antoinette J. Crandall
liams
office of
Cincinnati, graduating in February, 1859. After spending
Dr. Hill he practiced two years in Danby and one year in Trumansburgh.
May, 1864,
farm
Delhi,
He began the study of medicine in 1855 in the
Farmer Village, with whom he remained two years and then
one year with
ried
Mr.
the county.
Delaware county, N. Y., June 20, 1834, a
The doctor was educated in the academy and high
farmer.
a
the Robbins
as
town.
native
Eclectic Medical Institute
In
born in
was
child,
Thompson
In 1848 Mr. Wright
children.
what
one
of
During
He
army.
war
was
justice
of
the peace,
Louise, daughter of Echobit Beardsley of
Ann Eliza, Nathan, Frank, died at four;
Egbert A. (deceased). The father died in June,
married
children:
Margarette, Estira O, Charles E. and
1889, and the mother in April, 1892.
Our
subject was
educated
in the
common
and
high schools, and remained with his father until he was twenty-one. when he began for
himself by operating one of bis father's farms, where he remained ten years. He then
went to Maryland, but after two years he returned to Lansing and soon after rented a
store
in East Genoa
sold and engaged as
and engaged
traveling
in the
general mercantile
four years,
salesman
After his father's death he
to farming.
removed
when
business for two
he turned his
to Groton
and
years.
attention
He
again
followed carpentry for
bakery in this place which he conducted two years, then
He married
old homestead, on which he now resides.
sold in 1893 and
had
and
three chil
they
first in 1867 Laura A., daughter of Charles Francis of Groton,
dren: Alida M., born in 1870, wife- of Alvin B. Teeter of Groton ; Lillie B., born in
Charles F., born in 1876. Mrs. Williams died
1872, wife of John Betts of Groton ; and
and Mary Ann Frltts of
in 1884; and he married second Edith M., daughter of Charles
subject
is an Odd Fellow and a
She was bora September 12, 1861. Our
Ludlowville.
a year, when
he
a
purchased
purchased
Republican.
father
was
the
Mrs. Williams's
instantly
killed
mother
by being
died October 15, 1879.
caught
by
a
Five
months
later her
belt and thrown on to a circular saw.
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Wade, Edwin R.,
Cayuga county (now Niles), July 27, 1822,
of New England ancestry, the
grandfather, Major Amos Wade, having served in a
of
colonial
regiment
troops at the battle of Quebec, and fought in the War of the Rev
the battle
olution at
of
the
of
our
infant,
Owasco
of
death,
whom
one
removed
He
August 1 6, 1864.
he had ten
sons and
for the ministry and was one
to Cayuga county in 1810,
studied
He
seventeen
of
One
children.
married
Hannah
was scalded
Flower,
death,
to
an
subject and a sister, Mehitable C.
age, and only
Edward R. Wade was educated in the public
living.
tworour
nine reached adult
Ammerman
the father
was
Ebenezer,
subject,
his ministry till his
Connecticut, by
a native of
He
Congregationalism.
earliest advocates of
and continued
Sempronius,
Bunker Hill.
of
The father
daughter.
born in
was
are
like his
Republicanism, but
schools, and has always been an ardent student of
has been a clergyman. He was for two years at
Plainville,
ancestors
Enfield Centre two
and at
years, making his home at. McLean. In 1867 he bought the property where the factory
was located, and has always made his home here.
During the war he worked hard in
In
the recruiting service.
offices of
third time
and refused
by the union
and
the Democrats
Forbush,
5, 1845,
died
who
S. Edwin Koons
La
of
been
always
He
He
was
for two
heart
at
Republican
a
and
has
Niles, elected
Dryden, elected
years supervisor of
the town
was supervisor of
Liberal Republicans.
and
He has
of
also served
in State
Elder Wade has been twice married, first in 1842 to Eliza
year and ten mouths later.
His second marriage occurred
one
to Abigail M.
December
he has
trust.
and
to qualify.
conventions.
county
beth
of
politics
honor
held many
Mosher,
and
they had
one
daughter,
who married
Rev.
Mrs. Wade is deceased.
Porte, Iowa.
H., was born in Ithaca, November 12, 1840, the oldest son of seven
The father was a native of New York city, born in
children of William H. Willson, sr.
and settled in Ithaca, in company with M. Hawkins.
He was employed in the
1810,
for
a few years and then returned to New
manufactory
York, where he remained, and
William
Willson,
after
shortly
That
where
he
ness
he
;
August,
He
he
year
was
to Lockport
the
In
1892.
was
burned
commercial
politics
the
schools
out.
a
staunch
he
then spent
Democrat,
New York
and
in 1861
went
a wholesale
his
native
conducted,
went
to
the
Board,
State
a
and
school
firm.
He
was
five
he has been secretary
part of
subject, Rachael Ann
1887,
at
seventy-six years
in
he
State
street.
He is
He
Mr. Willson is
also
been
the county committee
the time.
with
a
carries
a
a
a member of
the
and
the Health
delegate to
for fifteen years
a
full line
Democrat
appointed member of
He has
a
New York firm
the hat and fur store, which
years
established
south side of
collector.
conventions and a member of
tpwn collector.
to Buffalo where for four years he acted as
robes, blankets, trunks, umbrellas, etc.
hard worker for his party.
He has been
city collector,
busi
He died in
in
hats, furs,
has been
same
Ithaca, where he was educated
Lockport, remaining but a year, when
town, where he
on
days.
office of
mother of our
She died in
city.
in the
years
he filled the
The
church.
five
the balance of his
spent
of our subject was spent
traveler for
ever since
and
where
Episcopal
From there he
then returned to
he has
Ithaca,
was also a native of
common
Here he followed the hatmaker's trade until I860.
he spent four years, and then to Hornellsville
where
in business for four years,
then returned to
The early life
of age.
of
in Ithaca.
went
was a member of
Bradford,
and
settled
numerous
of which
First Presbyterian
FAMILY SKETCHES.
Mr. Willson
church.
owns
He married, July
they have two sons.
vacation.
and
Vorhis,
F.
C,
was
born in
time he bought the
summer
11, 1860,
Spencer,
Spencer also,
was a native of
father,
a
old grist mill at
cottage
Ellen
of
1,
1893.
the late Joseph C.
sole
his
Burritt,
Andrew O, his
1877,
the firm
conducted under
The
spends
at
which,
in partnership with his brother
proprietor.
After this he was
and was
was
he
where
Tioga county, August 24, 1861.
where he followed
farming until
Brookton,
This Continued till April
McKinneys,
at
daughter
M.,
for two years, then from 1879 to 1887- he
succeeded by his two sons, the business
being
Brothers.
193
name of
Vorhis
down
burning
January 28,
Bates, and he built the new mill now stand
ing on the old site. The firm was afterwards Bates, Vorhis & Company for a year
then the Vorhis boys in 1890 bought out Mr. Bates's
interest, and since 1893 our sub
ject has conducted the business
himself, buying out his brother. The capacity of the
mill is
barrels
of
flour
each
fifty
day, fifty barrels of buckwheat in the same time.
will
run
another mill in connection soon.
Mr. Vorhis is a member of the
They
old
mill
the"
1889, they sold
dam to Frederick
water
Congregational church,
in
and
he is Democratic.
politics
Van Iderstine, James, was born in Caroline
February 26, 1826. In early life he
learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked about four
years, but being hurt
while a|5 his work, he was compelled to give it up, and take
His first
up farming.
purchase was on
and bought his
sold
farming.
had
at
Bald
home.
.
near
Mott's
present place
In 1853 he
three
Hill,
Corners,
now
eighty-seven
known
acres,
Caroline Yaple, daughter
married
Arthur
^children :
of
L.,
Mr. Van Iderstine is
Bertha
A.,
Cora
and
of
G.,
the Grange
a member of
he devotes to
Harris Yaple,
the latter
and
in
This he
Brookton.
as
which
and
they have
the only
being
politics
general
is
one
Democrat.
a
Underwood, George E., was born in Groton, September 19, 1842. His father, Isaac
Underwood, M.D., was a physician and farmer in the town, raising a family of nine
children, and spending his life there, dying at the age of eighty-eight
E. was educated in the common schools and finished in the Groton
Professor Baldwin.
Zimri Morris
justice
of
of
the
At the
for the
educational and religious
of
twenty-six he
married
Academy under
Morris, daughter of
Maru
He takes the Republican
Lansing.
peace
age
past eleven years.
matters,
having
side in politics,
He has taken an
been trustee
of
his
George
years.
church
and
has
for the
served as
interest in
active
fifteen
past
being prominently identified in advancing the best interests of his town. In
1889 he inherited the farm property known as the Zimri Morris property of sixty
Our subject is one of the prominent citizens in
acres, and the residence in the village.
his village, a man of sterling worth and integrity, who has proven by his life that his
years and
word
is
Van
as good as
Orman, Myron,
and
finished
and
takes
same
his bond.
at
was
born November
the Lancasterian School
an active
homestead
interest in
during
his life time.
29,
1890.
Mr. Van Orman has
on
which
he
raises
school
large
a
1, 1840, was
under
was
beautiful farm
quantities
in the district
Professor D. L. Burt.
and political
He
educated
matters.
born
lying
of vegetables
He is
the foot
and makes
a
of
and
schools
Democrat,
His father lived
May 11, 1811,
at
a
died
on
January
Buttermilk
specialty
of
the
Falls,
Havana
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LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
tobacco,
hood.
which
he buys
and
Mr. Van Orman's
handling
sells,
grandfather came
the
of
most
of
in his
raised
crops
to the town
Ithaca
neighbor
1790,
about
first
and
bought
a
military title from a soldier of the Judge Gere farm, but the title proving
he
took
a
faulty,
journey to Albany on horseback, and returning home he gave up his
first purchase and removed to the east side, taking up the apple trees on the judge's
farm,
resetting them
and
the farm
on
he
where
his life.
spent
Tibbetts, J. Warren, was born in Athens, Pa., August 20, 1843, a son of Dr. Aaron
Tibbetts, the leading physician of Danby for over forty years. J. W. was the second
son of the
family of two children ; Frank E. Tibbetts is a lawyer of Ithaca. Our sub
ject
in the
was educated
He
keepsie.
he
1861,
was not yet eighteen years
He
taken
Tracey's,
ing
that laid
corps
the
leading
out
county, N.
Y.,
where
After his
the line
of
he
serving his
1869 Annie
in the
returned
term, being
daughter of Rodman
second
L.,
Lucy F.,
two children,
a
registry
the
of
broke out,
and
months.
at
Pough
August
He
27,
served
Alexandria, Va., by Hon.
Regiment, known as
S.
and
Ithaca,
Railroad,
business,
he
where
again
Fuller,
and
a merchant of
in
civil engineer
the
following
made
engaged
fall
Eddy, Sullivan
his home there
in the
manufacture
Tompkins county, and is
Mr. Tibbetts married in
in 1891.
in the post-office,
and
participated
the
to Pond
went
was. elected sheriff of
elected
clerk
engaged with
1867 he
of
Mr. Tibbetts
war.
he
return
mercantile
to
In 1885 he
paints, oils and colors.
now
war
for three
Cavalry,
the G. I.
In the fall
engaged
In 1879 he
twelve years.
the
brought home from
sick and
battles.
to Eastman's College.
went
old when
the First
till the close
and served
of
of
Eastman's Business College
in 1862 in the 109th New York
re-enlisted
thirty-one
of
Company I,
months and was
Ezra Cornell.
General
in
enlisted
his three
common schools and at
Pond Eddy.
and
Alice
H.,
They
student
have
in the
Grammar School.
Townsend, Andrew J.,
educated
of
John
in the district
Scott, by
was
born in the town
At the
schools.
whom
age of
he had three
sons
of
Ithaca,
March
twenty-one he
and
two
15, 1843,
Mary,
married
daughters.
and was
daughter
Mr. Townsend is
Democratic in politics, and takes an active interest in educational
matters,
school trustee for two years.
He gives his attention chiefly to the milk
having been
business, hand
ling
about
grain and
in this
120
finished
He has
daily.
His father
town, keeping
Townsend,
and
quarts
hay.
a
Jabez
B.,
the
old
at
was
grocery
was
a
farm
of
120 acres,
born in the town
store
for
and raises
Ithaca in
large
1815,
quantities of
and spent
his life
a number of years.
bora December
Ithaca Academy.
of
25, 1867,
educated
The father
and
in the district
schools
grandfather of our subject
among the early settlers of the town of Ithaca. After leaving school Mr. Townsend bought a milk route in Ithaca,
handling about 250 quarts per day. At the age of
twenty-one he married Carrie B. Jewell, daughter of John
of the town of
were
Jewell,
Danby,
aged
and
they have had
three years.
on which
in his
he
now
political
five years, and one son, Lynn,
daughter, Norma,
In 1892 Mr. Townsend bought the John Jewell farm of 114
acres,
lives, and which is devoted chiefly to dairying. He is independent
views,
one
and was elected collector of
aged
the town in 1893.
FAMILY SKETCHES.
C.
Titus,
A.,
gave
his
Seneca county, May 6, 1856 ; was educated in the
finished under Professor Williams at the old Ithaca Academy. He
born in
was
district schools,
then
and
to
attention
Ovid,
farming, moving into
the town
1884 he bought the Daniel A. Wood place, which
miles west of the city of Ithaca.
This is chiefly a
intelligent interest in
Tyler, Cyrus,
the town
of
on
the farm
ily
for the
log
the
old
the
age of
Mr. Titus is
day.
quarts of milk per
195
1877, and in
lying about a
244 acres,
comprises
dairy farm,
300
and produces about
Republican in his politics,
takes
and
general and
educational and religious matters.
born in
was
Dryden
a
Ithaca in
of
his
with
Lebanon, Wayne Co., Pa., August 25, 1838, and came to
father, Stephen Tyler, in the same year, and now resides
his father cleared, and which has been in the possession of the fam
Cyrus Tyler laid the foundation of his education in
years.
which
past sixty-one
school
but is pre-eminently
married Likinda L.
house,
twenty-four he
a self-educated
Givens,
At
and self-made man.
daughter
of
Samuel Givens,
and
and Locey.
Irving Tyler was a young
brilliant promise, but was cut off at the age of twenty-four in the prime of
Mr. Tyler takes the Republican side in politics and has held various
young manhood.
He has been a member of the Etna Baptist Church for the past sixteen years.
offices.
they
are
the parents of two children,
Irving
man of
In 1862 he bought the Walter
old
homestead
estate,
forty
of
125
having
acres,
acres and
property of sixty acres ; in 1867 he bought the
in 1869 inherited twenty-five acres of his father's
Knapp
and
raising large
quantities of
hay
and
potatoes,
of which
he
makes a specialty.
W., was born in England, August 24, 1833, and at the age of eleven
He went
years he came to Ithaca, where he was educated in the Lancastrian School.
into Treman's foundry and machine works and became an expert machinist and
At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Company F, 75th N.Y. Volunteers,
engineer.
Trew,
Samuel
and served
from August 9,
He
discharge.
was shot
1861,
till
November, 1865,
through the thigh
in
in
while
when
he
received
an
honorable
After returning home he
107 acres, which he later sold and
service.
place of
Danby, buying
bought a farm of Albert H. Martin, consisting of eighty-two acres, which he now owns.
He married at the age of thirty-seven, Anice Aldrich, daughter of Watson Aldrich of
Ulysses. His wife died in 1881, and he married second Mary E. Hollister, of Danby.
again
took up
He is
a
is
farming
Republican
a member of
the
Tailby, John,
his
the
parents
and
a
takes
M. E.
church at
schools,
M. Swartwout,
of
interest in
politics and educational matters.
He
Danby.
England, October 28, 1,841, and came with
1851, locating near Trumansburgh. He was educated in
born in Lincolnshire,
was
to this country in
common
an active
and
has
always
Perry City,
been
a
June 30. 1862, he
farmer.
Schuyler county,
and
they have
seven
Georgiana
Helen
married
children
living:
Arlo. William
H.,
Arthur,
A., Mary E.,
married Fred Rappalye, of Farmer,
E.
Owego
; Mary
E. married Mary E. Shuler,
Tailby's father, William, was
Seneca county, and they have a daughter, Grace T.; Mr.
Francis A., William
E.,
J.
Edith
and
of
born
his
at
the
old
homestead in England in 1807
native place.
A., John, Edward,
They
had ten children,
Charles, George
William
and married
six sons and
2d,
Maria
four daughters
W., Mary
A.
2d,
Woodward,
:
of
his
William, Mary
Anna M.
and
Eliza J.
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LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
Mr.
Tailby died
in
1884,
his
and
wife
in 1868.
Mrs. Tailby's
Vanardus Swart-
father,
out, was born in this county in 1798 and married twice, first Sarah J. Smith by whom
he had three children:
Addison, Sarah J. and Robert. He married second Mary
they had nine children : Augustus J., Vanardus,
Gustavus A., Caroline M., Robert, Mary E., Helen M., Julia A., and Cynthia M. Mr.
He was a
Swartwout died in 1872, and his wife survives, aged eighty-four years.
member of the State Assembly several terms, and his father, Robert Swartwout, was
Jeffery,
a
his
of
native,
county judge
and
Schuyler county,
of
January 28, 1864,
October 12, 1865.
county,
in
Company A,
He is
and a member
89th N. Y.
a member of
ley,
a native of
larly
as a
pioneers of
the county,
northern part of
His
wife was
which
Lansing, having
is
his
nine children was
and remembered as
latter capacity he
gained
they had
and
a
large
come
been among the
Effingham Town-
a
farmer and
a
large
the
family
leading
of
more particu
men of
children,
Moe,
Mary.
Effingham
Townley
came
to Groton in
the town.
nine of whom
to maturity : Sarah, who married Henry Hayes ; Charles A., Susan,
Calvin Van Buskirk; Luther H., Jemima, Effingham, Richard A., Frances,
and
in the
acquaintance
grew
Augustus
from New
having
as
remembered
of
and was regarded as one of
Bower
Fanny
Volunteers,
Post, No. 572
One
county.
born in 1801
Lansing,
surveyor, in
the
Tailby enlisted
honorably discharged
G. A. R., of Trumansburgh.
and was
pioneers of
and
Mr.
Congress.
Truman
Townley, Richard, was one of the
Jersey and settled in the town in 1793,
foremost of the
of
1831,
who married
who married
and
took up
his son, Charles A., now resides. Here he died in the fall of 1867,
his
and his wife in 1876.
Charles A. was born February 3,1823, and has been many
farmer
a
in
years
the town.
December 10, 1856, he married Susan Fulkerson, and five
residence where
years
later
the
occupied
old
home farm
of
his
father,
had ten children, nine of whom are still living. Mr.
the sdbstantial Republicans of Groton (originally he
been
of
called
to fill
the town,
and
Sutfin, W. E.,
Sutfin,
is
McLean
is
its
recognized
and
He has been
has
one of
as
one of
frequently
the assessors
excise commissioners.
was
born in the town
and other places
for two
In 1889 he bought
years.
H. W. Roe
and
is
now
junior
educational and
taking
religious
matters.
a prominent part
Mr. Sutfin is
a
partner
his town. At the age of twenty-four he married Nola 0.
Stone of Freeville. He takes the Republican side in politics
citizen,
is
Whig),
have
the
eral merchandise store of
in
They
now resides.
Townley
was a
the important town offices.
now one of
he
of
Dryden, June 4, 1864. His father, W. J.
of
the
farmers
He was educated in the common
town.
leading
graduated from the Cortland Normal School in 1886 and taught school at
one of
schools and
some of
where
half interest in the
in the
leading
Stone,
daughter
and an
intelligent interest
a conservative and
in advancing the interests
of
gen
house in
of
A. C.
independent
his town.
Stout, Jonathan, was a native of Bordentown, N/J., born January 18, 1782, and
Mary Buck Allen, who wtrs born June 3, 1786. They settled in Dryden in
1809, and Mr. Stout participated in the war of 1812. Their children were : Charlotte,
Andrew, Mary, Furman, Margaret, Abram J., Ellen, Sarah and Allen. Mr. Stout died
March 9, 1846. Abram J, was born October 14, 1819, and at the age of nineteen
started out to learn the blacksmith trade in Groton, and two years later had a
shop of
married
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FAMILY SKETCHES;
his
In 1846 he
own.
Riggs
farm,
of eight
April
remaining two years, then bought the Ira
he has lived continually, with the exception
to Lake
Ridge,
Groton village, where
in Cortland.
He has
east of
years
went
acquired
residence
30, 1844, he married
Julia Gibbs
of
a
comfortable
competency.
they have had one child, Jerome
in Michigan, and there died in 1890.
Groton,
and
promise,
W., young
the
period
During
preceding the war Mr. Stout was, a 'Democrat but a thorough
Abolitionist, and assisted many fugitive slaves who came to him for refuge. Later on
he became a Republican, though taking no interest in public affairs. James Gibbs, of
Windsor, Conn., settled here about 1815, and became a Baptist clergyman. He married
Almena Colgrove of Connecticut, and their children were : Eliza, James, Oliver, Julia,
a
and
man of much
Norman.
who settled
James Gibbs
Smith, Henry M.,
father, was a native
the frontier service
during
the
war of
born in Newfield, December 22,1828.
was
of
was on
Pennsylvania,
who
moved
1812.
Joseph Smith, his
to Tompkins county
when
young man, taking up a farm, and following this occupation all his life.
Henry M., lives on a part of the old homestead. He married Lizzie Pratts
quite
a
His son,
of
Penn
by whom he had seven children. His second wife was Catharine Miller of
Pennsylvania, by whom he had five children. Mr. Smith married third, in 1863, Mary
sylvania,
A. Singer
they have had
and
twenty-four
and one aged
three
He has lost two children, one aged
always been engaged in agriculture.
children.
He has
twenty-seven.
Newfield, was born in Meredith, Delaware county, June 15,
1804. Nathan S., his father, moved to Tompkins county in 1811, buying a year later
His
the place, about three miles from Newfield, which then consisted of 118 acres.
wife was Phoebe Tiffany, by whom he had eight children, our subject being the oldest.
He has always followed farming and stock raising and handling. He married first in
1830, Calista Barnes, and second, in 1864, Ruth E. Crane, and he has two sons living in
Ithaca, his eldest being a wholesale grocer and his youngest being a dealer in butter,
Stewart, Horace S.,
does
who
and
is
a
of
Mr. Stewart has held the
thriving business.
a prominent member of
Schutt, Aaron B.,
Dutchess county,
was
the M. E.
born in
Caroline,
who removed at
the
road
commissioner,
age
November 4,
of
seven
1826,
years
in time
a son
with
his
John,
of
parents
born in
to Ulster
He
becoming
county
and
with
brother
moved
to
this
his
James erected
followed this ten years, then
town,
brother
in
charge of the mill, he bought
his
a carding mill at Mott's Corners.
Leaving
and
a
farm
go on
of
there
114
acquired
acres
foot to this
children.
He had
Our
in
his
office of
church.
education,
Dryden,
which was
Here he built
new place.
subject remained with
married at
then
a
a
wilderness,
log
his father
the age of twenty-one Marilla
a noted school
and
he
cabin and reared
until
he
Belknap,
was
teacher.
was compelled
his
family
twenty-nine
daughter
of
Justin
of
to
twelve
years old.
Belknap,
(December 24, 1847), and In 1854 they came to their present home in Caroline, where
Mr. Schutt has made a specialty of horse raising, having received $2,600 for one team.
He is a Republican, though he has never cared for public office. He has had four
children :
lives
at
Maud,
home
Steuben
on
county.
Katie
May,
the farm.
who
died
Francis is
aged nine years
engaged
; Francis
G.,
Douglass, who
at
Hornellsville,
and
in the gocery business
LANDMARKS OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.
198
Stephens, J. L., was born
Connecticut,
in
was a native of
business in
Ithaca,
who
to
He
his farm.
connection with
5, 1826. The father, J. L. Stephens, sr.,
Ithaca, where he carried on the cooperage
moved to Caroline in 1840, and in
April
moved
.1848
Dryden, retiring from active work, and there he died in 1856. He married
Lydia Reynolds, her parents being natives of Connecticut, and they had seven children,
to
moved
our subject
of
Dryden.
of
Dryden,
He has
sold
of
Dryden,
and
they
have two
in the district schools, two
education
and one son
living
home.
at
at
farming,
They
into
He
being
are members of
Danby,
married
sons and a.
them
of
coopering in the town
owning a farm in the town
worked at
moved
in Slaterville Springs.
present place
Jacob Hazen
of
chiefly, however,
in 1853.
He then
worked
he
which
to his
moved
In early life the latter
the sixth.
being
in 1853,
daughter,
married
then
and
sold
Katie,
and
daughter
who received their
away from
and
the M. E. Church
at
home,
Slaterville.
Sellen Family, The. The surname Sellen stands for pioneership in Groton, and the
head of the family seems to have been Samuel Sellen, a native of Massachusetts, whose
he
settled
children :
Maria,
where
at
Leonard
Aurilla,
who married
successful
Saphronia
West
Nettie
and
his
Allena.
California, taking
twenty-eight
days.
in 1867,
a
Wesley, both
John Sellen,
born November 25,
agricultural
a
and
now
and
and
has
April
always
he
lived
19, 1849,
Mary, Willis, Hiram, Jennie,
pursuits.
six children :
Republican, but
1820,
of whom are
a progressive
not active
in
married
Both
political affairs.
the Baptist Church.
born in the town
Danby,
March
11, 1826. His early
in the district schools, which he soon left and learned the
he followed up to 1887, in the mean time.
spending four years
was
which
was
he has had
whom
obtained
blacksmith trade,
he
to
Mr. Sellen is
Swarthout, Reuben,
in
Groton,
wife are members cf
education was
successful
Truman Clement.
married
energies
Hayden, by
he
and
of
merchant, but in Groton,
farmer. In his family were ten
was
Orlando, who died in 1893 ; Susan, who
Groton; John, Martha, wife, of Jerome Clement ;
married
who
devoted his
and
on
farmer
State Samuel
Peck; Major, of
Henry Van Guilder ; Moses
Amanda,
and
native
early day, he was a
J. Clement ;
an
who
married
dead ;
In his
Maria Pratt.
wife was
the
trip
via
Returning
the Isthmus
he bought
a
of
of
farm
Panama,
of
and
making the journey in
of 100 acres, which
Luther Wright
bought the
old Mahlon LaRue farm of 150
acres, which he rents.
A Democrat in politics, Mr. Swarthout takes an active interest in educational and church
He is known in his neighborhood as a conservative man, who has made a
matters.
sold
success of
and
farming.
Stevens, John,
April
acre
6,
1866.
tract of
way the
farm
and
was
When
land,
pioneer
born in Washington county, N. Y., November
2, 1785, and died
young man he came to Groton and bought (about 1816) a fifty-
a
part of
the
began his
became known
home farm
farming
as one of
the
now owned
career
most
in this
by
his
son
county.
persevering
Nelson, and
Later
on
he
in
a small
added
and energetic men of
to his
the town.
On coming to the tract Mr. Stevens had only one pair of
oxen, and his wife owned one
cow, and these were fed through the first winter mainly on " browse."
John Stevens
married, February 13, 1805, Polly Wilson, by whom he had these children :
Volney, Harriet, Louisa,
Amanda
and
Marilla.
James,
Polly Stevens
died
July 13, 1822,
and
FAMILY SKETCHES.
all of
their children
Simeon
Conger,
Nelson.
lives,
this
and of
Nelson Stevens
his
where
as one of
and
the
The
dead.
four
marriage
enlarged
and
remodeled
was
Mary,
he has
John
was
he
which
and
now
increased the
somewhat
Nelson Stevens is
the buildings.
In 1859 he
widow of
Mary, Laura,
:
in the house in
10, 1830,
although
Groton.
of
men
John
born
children were
has been spent,
leading
second wife of
born December
was
entire. life
the farm
acreage of
known
are also now
199
justice
elected
the
of
peace, and with the exception of eight years has held that office to the present time.
In 1889, and again in 1890, he was elected to the Assembly, and in both sessions he
filled the
office with credit
to himself
his
and
He
constituency.
On November
Groton.
he
was also
for five
Laura M.
years
21, 1856,
Conger, by
Mary S., wife of Lorenzo Buckley of Columbus, 0.; Eveline,
who died an infant; Fred O, who died aged seven ;
John, who died at three: Herman
C. and Herbert J. (twins), both of Groton.
supervisor of
he has had
was a native of
is
who
the faithful
years
well remembered
the
pastor of
Seviah
young life
of our subject was passed
where
and
(Wilcott)
he learned to
and
later
he took the
himself in the
born
Stearns
and
in
this
now extinct
Westhampton, Mass.,
Stockwell
maker,
himself
whom
six children :
Stearns, Joseph W.,
many
married
and
in his
the
native
second
State,
pastorate of
those
welfare of
He
the ministry.
came
the Christian church,
about
him,
and was
He
their
where
nine
and at
the
particularly
same
active
son
was
He
at an
of
The
children.
his father
to West Groton
Groton,
the
was
itself for him to do.
work at whatever presented
on entered
of
West
church near
1808.
February 21,
been for
having
as
vicinity
Christian
a
shoe
educated
early
day
time interested
during
the days
slavery, he being one of the most earnest advocates
More than this, his house was the refuge of escaping negroes, and no
of that measure.
His life was
man did more to facilitate the freedom of the refugees than Mr. Stearns.
of
the
agitation of
the
abolition of
from every point of view,
He died in April, 1888,
community.
a success
14, 1889)
and
he held the
aged
his wife followed him to the
respect and esteem of
the
entire
eighty years, and a little later (September
Joseph W. Stearns married Amanda
grave.
Allen, and to them were born three children : Joseph W.,
now a clergyman residing in Huntersland, N. Y.; Alvin Stuart, remembered as a mer
chant and produce dealer, and also postmaster at West Groton, and who died April 18,
1892 ; and Eugene A., the enterprising quarryman and farmer of West Groton. The
latter was born May 3, 1847, and now lives on a part of the old home farm of his
of the first Allen log cabin being only afew rods distant
grandsire, Isaac Allen, the site
daughter
of pioneer
Isaac
In 1871 Eugene A. Stearns
from Mr. Stearns's house.
of
Onondaga
A.
Smith,
They
county.
Belmont,
the Union School
was
and
have
married
Sarah Jane
Rockafeller,
one child.
born in Trumansburgh April
the Academy.
He is
a
coal
15, 1860,
dealer
and
and was educated
insurance
agent
in
by
June 22, 1893, he married Fannie Ogden of Covert, Seneca county. Mr.
occupation.
Smith's father, John De Motte Smith, was born in Lodi, Seneca county, December 10,
Rutgers College, and graduated from Hobart
was educated in Ovid
Academy,
1832,
Collage,
Geneva.
Upon the
Judge
He
retirement
Henry
studied
of
C. Barto.
Mr.
He
law
Smith,
with
Smith & Barto
who went
was a sound
to
lawyer,
and was
Syracuse,
an able
admitted
he became
advocate,
a
bar.
to the
partner
with
and a generous
foe,