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He married, December 31, 1873, Adah Harriet Buck, of Hudson, Michigan, born April 13, 1852, daughter of George and Harriet (Smith) Buck. Children: Edgar Newton, born October 27, 1874, died January 8, 1888; Luman Lewis, April 6, 1878, died November 15, 1910, married Estella P. Haner, resided in Manchester Village.
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SMITH.
Carl D. Smith, although still a young man, has been prominently identified with the establishment of a number of newspapers in the state of New York.
He was born in Chateaugay, Franklin county, New York, June 19, 1876, and was educated at the Franklin Academy, Malone, New York. While employed in the office of the Malone Farmer, in 1892, he took up the trade of printing and was thus engaged for a period of three years. He then organized the Adirondack Enterprise, at Saranac Lake, this paper being one of the pioneers in this field of publication in that section of the country. Subsequently he purchased the Tupper Lake Herald, and the Lake Placid Adirondack, editing and publishing these in con- nection with the Adirondack Enterprise. At the expiration of four years he sold his interests in these papers and came to Victor, New York, in 1899, where he purchased the Herald, which he has edited and published since that time. He established the East Bloomfield Reviewe in 1900, and at the present time (1910) gives his personal attention to both publica- tions. Both papers express independent opinions on political subjects.
CLINE.
Martus Cline or Kline, immigrant ancestor of this family, came from Holland and settled in what is now Montgomery county, New York, before the revolution. He was living in 1790, according to the first federal census, and Jacob, John, William Henrik, doubtless his sons, were also heads of families in Montgomery county at that time.
(II) John Cline, son of Martus Cline or Kline, was born in 1764 or 1769, died in 1829. He had a grant from George the Third, according to one account, of a square mile of land on the north side of the Mohawk river. He removed to Victor, Ontario county, in 1814. Among his chil- dren was Mark, mentioned below.
(III) Mark, son of John Cline, was born at South Amsterdam, New York, June 1, 1802, and was educated in the district schools. He came with his parents to Victor, when he was twelve years old, and followed farming all his active life. He had a farm of one hundred and seventy acres at Victor. In politics he was a Whig, in religion a Methodist. He married Betsey Ann Wells, born January 6, 1805, at Mayfield, New
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York. Children: 1. Angeline, born September 7, 1823, married Harvey Holbrook, and had six children; she died in 1902. 2. Nancy, August 17, 1825, married Gilbert T. Aldridge, November 10, 1846, and had three children : Albert C., Angeline, and a child that died in infancy. 3. Richard, mentioned below. 4. John, December 29, 1832, married, January 13, 1858, Phebe A. Wilkinson; child, Henry M., married (first ) Jennie Brooks, and (second ) Helen Jenkins, and he died in June, 1906. 5. William I., December 23, 1836, a well-to-do farmer owning one hun- dred and twenty-three acres ; married (first). September 2. 1858. Rhoda A. Nichols, who died January 17, 1864, and had Irving, who died aged sixteen years ; married (second) Mary Mead, September 10, 1868, and had one child, William B., born 1871, now in the employ of the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York, as advertising manager.
(IV) Richard, son of Mark Cline, was born at Victor, New York, September 18, 1829. His education was received in the public schools of his native town. He has been a farmer all his active life, and still makes his home in his native town. His farm contains about a hundred acres: In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Methodist, and for a number of years he was a trustee of the church. He married Jane Ann Van Horn, February 15, 1854, daughter of Peter Van Horn. She died August 25, 1897. Children : Amenzo M., born January 20, 1855, died April 22, 1856; Ida E., June 28, 1857, died April 25, 1898.
COLLINS.
John Collins, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and came to Boston in 1638. He was a shoemaker and citizen of some prominence, a member of the Artillery Company (the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston). He died May 29, 1670. Administration was granted to Gideon Allen. He married Susan -. Children : 1. Su- sanna, baptized April 5, 1645, aged three years twelve days; married, March 25, 1662, Thomas Walker. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, October 15, 1645.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Collins, was born in Boston, about 1644. He was also a shoemaker. He removed in 1663 to Middletown, Connecticut, thence to Saybrook, later to Branford and Guilford. He married (first) Mary Trowbridge, who died in 1668; (second), June 3, 1669, Mary (Stephens) Hingnoth, widow of Henry Hingnoth; (third)
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Dorcas (Swain) Taintor, widow of John Taintor. He died at Branford about 1704. Children : John, born 1665, mentioned below ; Robert, 1667; Mary, married - - Chapman.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Collins, was born in Connecticut in 1665, died January 24, 1751. He married, July 23, 1691, Ann Leete, born August 5, 1671, died November 2, 1724, daughter of John Leete and granddaughter of Governor William Leete, descendant of a distin- guished English ancestry. Children, born in Guilford: Asa, May 9, 1692; Mary, April 1I, 1694, died February 2, 1729; John, February 23, 1696; Timothy, February 1I, 1698, died February 19, 1698; Timothy, April 13, 1699, mentioned below ; Daniel, June 13, 1701 ; Susanna, Sep- tember 25, 1703, died October 30, 1703; Samuel, November 2, 1704; Mercy, January 19, 1707 ; Oliver, October 18, 1710; Avis, April 1, 1714.
(IV) Rev. Timothy Collins, son of John (3) Collins, was born in Guilford, April 13, 1699, died at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1776. He graduated from Yale College in 1718. He became minister of the town of Litchfield and owner of one-sixtieth of the town rights. He probably was called through the influence of Deacon John Buell, who came from Lebanon. He was ordained June, 1723, and dismissed in 1752, after which he practiced medicine in Litchfield the remainder of his life. He studied medicine during the ministry. He was chosen justice of the peace in 1753. He married Elizabeth Hyde, January 16, 1723, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Calkins) Hyde, of Lebanon. Children, born in Litchfield : Oliver, March 7, 1724; Anne, August 24, 1725; Charles, August 5, 1727; Lewis, August 8, 1730, died young; Rhoda, May 3, 1731, married four times; Cyprian, March 4, 1733, mentioned below ; Ambrose, March 30, 1737; John, June 1, 1739.
(V) Cyprian, son of Rev. Timothy Collins, was born at Litchfield, March 4, 1733. In July, 1759, his father deeded to him fifty acres of land that he bought, March 4, 1745, on the west side of East street. Cyprian built his house on a lot of four acres on the west side of East street, bought of Benoni Hills. The house was begun by Hills, occupied later by Cyprian's son Timothy and with some additions, is still standing. and at last accounts was owned and occupied by Franklin Burlon, and was the oldest in the town, still in use as a residence. He had a large family, and was an industrious and influential citizen. He joined the church, September 18, 1808. He married, January 9, 1755, Azubah Gibbs, of Litchfield, born December 13, 1734, died at Goshen, August 24, 1823. He died January 7, 1809. Children, born at Litchfield : Ambrose, February 28, 1756; Triphena, August 21, 1757; Amanda, March 27.
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1759; Philo, January 5, 1761 ; Anna, November 21, 1762; Luranda, May or August 28, 1764; Rhoda, January 11, 1766; Timothy, January II, 1767; Cyprian, November 8, 1770, mentioned below ; Phebe, January 26, 1773 ; Tyrannus, 1775.
(VI) Cyprian (2), son of Cyprian ( 1) Collins, was born at Litch- field, Connecticut, November 8, 1770. He was an early settler in Bloom- field, Ontario county, New York, and died there. He was a farmer and contractor in the building of the Erie canal. He married, May 7, 1795, Huldah Norton.
(VII) Guy, son of Cyprian (2) Collins, was born in Bloomfield, in 1804. He was a prominent citizen in East Bloomfield, owning a farm of two hundred and twenty-five acres, and was for many years an exten- sive dealer in cattle and in wool. He was also an auctioneer. In poli- tics he was a Whig and in later years a Democrat, and for two years was supervisor of the town and for several years an assessor. He spent his last days in the home of his son, and died at East Bloomfield at an advanced age, August 3, 1894. He married, November 5, 1829, Maria Ellis, born in Schoharie county, died March 30, 1876. Children : Cholett, born September 22, 1830; Elizabeth, January 25, 1832, died September 19, 1882; George, mentioned below ; Daniel, March 26, 1836, died De- cember 12, 1895; Harskaline, December 16, 1839, died October 23, 1841.
(VIII) George, son of Guy Collins, was born at East Bloomfield, June 20, 1833. He attended the district schools and the academy at Bloomfield. He devoted his attention chiefly to farming, but was also an auctioneer, and traveling salesman for the Walter A. Wood Company of Hoosick Falls, and in 1862-63-64 was in England for the purpose of introducing and selling the agricultural machinery of this concern. In politics he was a Democrat and he served two terms as supervisor of the town of Farmington and for several years was postmaster. He was a member of Victor Lodge, No. 29, Free and Accepted Masons, of Canan- daigua Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Canandaigua. He died April 17, 1903.
He married, January 5, 1860, Ann Maria Victoria Hathaway, born November 12, 1838, now living at Farmington, daughter of Perez and Hannah (Lapham) Hathaway.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Collins: Perez Hathaway, born at Farm- ington, September 18, 1860, in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad since 1878, now agent at Newark, New York ; married, August 16, 1904, Anna May Shappee, of Horseheads, New York, now living at Newark, New York. 2. Eliza Briggs, born at Farmington, September 23, 1867,
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married George J. Loomis, January 15, 1896; child, Harold Frederick Loomis, born December 23, 1896. 3. Guy N., born at Farmington, August 9, 1872, married, August 3, 1903, Christine Hudson; children : George Briggs, born January 3, 1906, and Perez Hathaway ; he is now in the employ of the United States government at Washington in the agricultural department and in the service of the government has investi- gated agricultural conditions abroad, visiting Africa, Australia and other countries for that purpose.
COLLINS.
Louis D. Collins, head of the Collins Iron Works, of Geneva, Onta- rio county, New York, is a member of a family which has been con- nected with the military record of the country for some generations.
(I) Thaddeus, grandfather of Louis D. Collins, served during the revolutionary war, entering the army at the age of sixteen years and enlisting a number of times. He also served during the war of 1812. He went to Ontario county, New York, in 1798, took up a tract of land and engaged in farming.
(II) Chauncey Brooks, son of Thaddeus Collins, was born in Phelps, Ontario county, New York, 1809, and was a farmer. He was a member of the New York State Militia in 1831, and served as quarter- master of the regiment commissioned by Enos T. Throop, John A. Dix adjutant general.
(III) Louis D., son of Chauncey Brooks Collins, was born in Rose Valley, Wayne county, New York, 1852. His education was acquired at the high school. He established himself in the wholesale drug business in the city of New York, continuing this for seventeen years, and then removed to Ontario county, New York, and for a time lived retired from business responsibilities. In 1897 he took charge of the New York Central Iron Works in Geneva, and ten years later erected an entirely new plant for the manufacture of steam boilers and hot water tanks. This was incorporated under the name of the Collins Iron Works, and employs an average of twenty-five men. They supply the entire eastern market with their output and the business is steadily increasing as the demand grows. Mr. Collins is serving as quartermaster of the Third Regiment National Guard of the State of New York, is a Republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church. He is connected
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as a member with the following associations: Sons of the American Revolution, Kanadasaga Club, Geneva Country Club, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Rochester Club, Machinery Club of New York, Army and Navy Club and New York Military Service Institution. Mr. Collins married, 1888, Carrie Young, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849.
LAUDER.
The Lauder family is of ancient Scotch origin, originally Anglo- Saxon. As early as 1200 the family was located in Berwickshire, Scot- land. The name is also spelled Lowder.
(I) James Lauder, immigrant ancestor in this country, located with his wife Jane at Florida, Montgomery county, New York, coming thither from their home in Scotland. Among their children was John A., mentioned below.
(II) John A., son of James Lauder, was born in Florida, Mont- gomery county, New York, August 21, 1821, died December 3, 1883. He was a farmer all his active life. He came to Victor, Ontario county, about 1855, and located on a farm which his son now owns. He married, in September, 1855, Ann Bowerman, of Schenectady, New York, and they had one son, John W., mentioned below. The mother was born in 1815 in Montgomery county and died in 1901.
(III) John W., son of John A. Lauder, was born on the old home- stead at Victor, November 24, 1858. He attended the public schools of his native town, and the Lima Seminary, in which he took a commercial course. Beginning life as a farmer he has followed it with uniform success to the present time, succeeding to the homestead, which comprises one hundred and fifty acres of land. The farm is valuable and is cher- ished by its owner, not only for its present value and productiveness, but for its associations. About twenty-five acres of his farm are devoted to raising apples and his orchard is one of the best in the county. He has an evaporator, with which he prepares not only the fruit of his own rais- ing for the market, but he has built up an extensive business in this line in evaporating apples for the farmers of this section. In politics he is a Republican and he has always taken a keen interest and an active part in public affairs in the town and county. At various times he has served the town for five years as assessor and in other offices of trust and honor. In 1909 he was elected supervisor of the town of Victor and he is at
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present a member of the board of equalization of taxes, the most import- ant committee of the board of supervisors of the county, and also a mem- ber of the insurance committee and of the committee on county treas- urer. The family are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, December 20, 1883, Cora C. Marquis, born at Farming- ton, New York, February 24, 1862, daughter of Charles and Eliza Marquis, of Farmington. Her father is also a farmer. Children: I. Pearl A., born January 2, 1886, now a school teacher at Greeley, Colo- rado. 2. Ruth E., born June 1, 1888, graduate of the domestic science department of the Mechanics Institute of Rochester, New York. 3. C. Maud, born October 28, 1889, a student in the State Normal School at Greeley, Colorado. 4. Erma F., born May 8, 1891. 5. J. Adair, born November 22, 1892. 6. Lou C., born October 16, 1893. 7. Agnes M., born November 25, 1894. 8. Carl M., born January 16, 1897, died No- vember, 1898. 9. Elsie R., born October 10, 1898. 10. Mildred Z., born September 23, 1899.
STILTS.
John Robert Stilts, a native of Canada, settled in Steuben county, New York, where he became a successful farmer, and was highly respected for his excellent character. He married Elizabeth Hennion, and their children were: Rhoda, Mary, Ann, Rebecca, Sophronia, Jacob and Thomas Henry. The family records were accidentally burned many years ago, and information is meagre.
(II) Thomas Henry, son of John Robert and Elizabeth ( Hennion) Stilts, was born at Bradford, Steuben county, New York, in 1835, died May 16, 1898. He was a farmer. He married, December 14, 1855, Sarah Parks, born December 13, 1838. Children: John R., mentioned below; Robert C., born April 28, 1861 ; Carrie, March 16, 1863.
(III) John Robert (2), son of Thomas Henry and Sarah ( Parks) Stilts, was born February 8, 1858. He was educated in the common schools and at Union Academy, Canandaigua, New York. He engaged in farming in the town of Hopewell for a time, and for two years was a salesman for S. G. Lewis, who had an extensive grocery business in Bath, New York. Subsequently he was clerk in the store of M. J. King, a prominent merchant of Hartland, Niagara county, New York. In 1896 Mr. Stilts purchased of Charles Moore his general store at Chapin.
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New York, and he has built up a large and flourishing business there. He has demonstrated exceptional ability in business and has taken rank among the substantial merchants of this section. Having a kind and generous disposition, he has made many personal friends and enjoys the esteem of the entire community. In politics he is a Democrat. He has been justice of the peace for three consecutive terms, elected on the Demo- cratic ticket in a Republican stronghold, and he has been a capable and efficient magistrate and member of the town board. He is a member of Lodge No. 365, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Canandaigua. He married, March 15, 1893, Hattie E. Deuel, of Niagara county, New York, daughter of Alfred and Mary ( Height ) Deuel. Children: Paul D., born October 17, 1898; Doris, April 23, 1901 ; Florence, July 12, 1907.
BOWERMAN.
This surname is also written Bourman, Boreman, Burman and in various other ways including Boardman in the earlier records.
(1) Thomas Bowerman, as his descendants in this line spell his name, was born in England, and settled early in Barnstable, Massachu- setts. He appears to have been in Plymouth as early as 1633, when he was a taxpayer and was employed to repair the fort on the hill. He was a carpenter. In 1643 he was of Barnstable in the west part of the town, on the south side of the cove of the meadow at the head of Bridge Creek. He sold his lands, October 28, 1662, to Robert Parker, for seventy-eight pounds. He was surveyor of highways in 1648 and grand juror in 1650. He owned lands in Suckanesset, now Falmouth. He died in 1663. He married, March 10, 1644-45, Hannah, daughter of Anthony Annable. Children, born at Barnstable: Hannah, May, 1646; Thomas, men- tioned below ; Samuel, July, 1651, slain at Rehoboth, March 26, 1676; Desire, May, 1654; Mary, March, 1656; Mehitable, September, 1658; Tristram, 1661.
(11) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Bowerman, was born in Barnstable on Cape Cod, September, 1648, and settled in what is now Falmouth, on Cape Cod. He and his family joined the Society of Friends early. He bought a hundred acres of land, April 22, 1690, of Jonathan Hatch and Robert Harper, agents of Suckanesset (Falmouth), on the easterly side of the Five Mile river, bounded northerly by the pond and southeasterly by the river. He was town clerk in 1702-04-05. He served
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on a committee to lay out lands in Woods Hole. He resisted the law obliging him and other Quakers to pay to the support of the Congre- gational church at Falmouth, and in the winter of 1705-06 was com- mitted to the jail at Barnstable for non-payment of the ministerial tax. From that time to 1728 he continued to refuse to pay "the priest's rate" and property was annually taken by distraint from him to the value of many times the tax. For instance, two cows taken in 1709, worth five pounds, for a tax of three and some shillings; in 1715 a pig worth three pounds for a tax of one. He married, April 9, 1678, Mary Harper. Children: Samuel; Thomas, mentioned below; Stephen; Benjamin ; Hannah, married Nathan Barlow; Wait, married Benjamin Allen.
(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Bowerman, was born before 1700. He was also in trouble with the Puritan church and had his property seized to pay the church tax. In 1727 the constable confis- cated three bushels of malt and in 1728 a linen wheel and bason worth twenty shillings. He resided in West Falmouth on Cape Cod, on the estate lately owned by Captain Nathaniel Eldred. He married Jane Harby. Children, born at Falmouth : Ichabod ; Judah, married, in 1758, Mary Dillingham; David, married, in 1751, Ruth Dillingham; Hannah ; Silas, mentioned below; Joseph, married, September 17, 1766, Rest Swift; Sarah, married, in 1743, - . Gifford; Jane, married Joseph Bowerman; Elizabeth ; Peace ; Deborah.
(IV) Silas, son of Thomas (3) Bowerman, was born about 1720 in Falmouth. He removed to New Bedford and thence to Dover, Dutch- ess county, New York, in 1780. In 1790, the first federal census shows him living at Pawling, Dutchess county, with three males over sixteen, one under sixteen and seven females in his family. His second wife was Lydia Gifford. His three sons were Silas, Malthiah and Macy. Malthiah settled in Lafayette and built a house there where the hotel later stood and is ancestor of the Milan Bowermans, leaving sons Joseph, Esek, Otis and Sands. Macy settled on the Rowland Story farm. Silas is mentioned below.
(V) Silas (2), son of Silas ( 1) Bowerman, was born at Falmouth or New Bedford, Massachusetts, and came with the family to Dutchess county, New York, settling at length at Duanesburg, near Albany, New York, where he had a farm and where he died.
(VI) Silas G., son of Silas (2) Bowerman, was born about 1800 in Duanesburg. He married Lydia, daughter of Michael and Anna (Davis) Hoag (see Davis IV). Children : Brice W., mentioned below; Edwin C., Jarvis R., Gifford S. and Michael.
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(VII) Brice W., son of Silas G. Bowerman, was born in Farming- ton, New York, in 1837. He attended the district schools there and Macedon Center Academy. He finally settled in Victor, New York, and followed farming. He had an excellent farm of one hundred and eight acres. In politics he was a Republican; in religion a member of the Society of Friends. He married Lucena, daughter of Elwood and Joanna (Jenks) Smith, January 7, 1864. She was born in Farmington in 1839, died in December, 1897. He died in 1904. Children: Lyman, born 1866, married Josie Allen and had Nina, Joyce, Wesley and Russell; William, mentioned below; Grace, January, 1876, married Ira W. Mc- Connell and had sons John and Charles McConnell; Elma M., born April, 1878, married Thomas B. Roberts and had Dorothy and Beatrice Roberts.
(VIII) William, son of Brice W. Bowerman, was born in Victor, New York, October 3, 1874. He attended the public schools in his native town and at Brockport, New York. Since 1896 he has been engaged in farming. He had a farm of one hundred and fourteen acres at Brockport on which he kept a fine dairy and owned a milk route. In 1900 he came to Victor and since then has conducted the homestead containing one hundred and eight acres. In politics he is a Republican; in religion a Methodist.
He married, February 14, 1898, Marian E. Goffe, born at Brock- port, July 12, 1878, daughter of Ezra P. and Elizabeth (Eaglestone) Goffe. Her father was born in Oxford, England, and came to America when a boy of sixteen, in 1860, locating first at Chili Center, New York. In 1872 Mr. Goffe came to Brockport and engaged in the clothing busi- ness and in farming. He was a Baptist. Mrs. Goffe was born at Ban- bury, England, and came to America in 1874. She died in 1884. Mrs. Bowerman had a sister Alice E. Goffe, born November 8, 1881, married W. H. Paine; a brother, William E. Goffe, born at Brockport, October 30, 1890; a brother, Alvin E. Goffe, born at Brockport, December 6, 1891 ; a brother, Gilbert E. Goffe, born at Brockport, July 30, 1895. Mrs. Bowerman's grandfather married Betty Nichols in England and she is still living at the age of ninety years (19II). Her maternal grand- father, William Eaglestone, was also a native of England. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bowerman : Lulu, born at Victor, March 22, 1899; Edith, July 31, 1901 ; Verna N., December 18, 1902; Brice W., December 30, 1904; Earl P., November 16, 1906; Clarence J., July 6, 1908.
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( THE DAVIS LINE).
(I) William Davis, immigrant ancestor, lived in Freetown, Massa- chusetts, where he was grand juryman in 1697. He married, March I, 1686, Mary, daughter of William and Ann (Johnson) Makepeace, of Freetown, and granddaughter of Thomas Makepeace, of Boston, and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Mellows. Children: William, born June 11, 1688; Thomas, mentioned below ; John; Jonathan, married, December 24, 1730, Sarah Terry, of Freetown; Remembrance, married (first) Sarah Soul, of Tiverton, (second) Sarah Fox, of Freetown; Joseph; Rebecca, mar- ried, October 31, 1705, John Paine, of Freetown; Elizabeth, married William Cole; Abigail, married, January 29, 1723, Ephraim Hathaway ; Hannah, married William Gage, of Freetown ( ?) ; Ruth.
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