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In 1843, he married Miss Anne O'Connor, daughter of Patrick O'Connor of Kingsbury. Seven children, four girls and three boys, are the fruit of this union.
Mr. Keenan is a positive man, of strong good sense, warm attachments, and marked antipathies ; resolute and thorough going in what he undertakes ; and whose influence, both politically and socially, is widely felt. An ardent democrat, and avowed opponent of corruption, both his public career, and private life, have been consistent, exemplary and conservative of the general welfare. Having amassed a handsome fortune in the legitimate avenues of honest industry, it is to be hoped that he may be spared many years of a hale and vigorous old age, to enjoy the fruits of his early toil and labor.
(a) DWIGHT, son of Dr. Jared Hitchcock, of whom a sketch is given elsewhere in this work, was born in Massachusetts, on the 11th of September, 1805, came with his father to Glen's Falls in 1819; in 1833, in copartnership with J. G. Spencer, bought out the stock of merchandise belonging to George G. Sickles, in
ELLIS, ENOCH, 1842.
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MCDONALD, LEONARD G., 1857. MCDONALD, WILLIAM, 1843. MCEACHRON, WILLIAM, 1867, 71, ROSEKRANS ENOCH H., 1855.
2. MCNEIL, DONALD, 1847. MEAD, JOSEPH, 1867, 9.
MORGAN, ALONZO W., 1841, 8, 54, SHELDON, MELVILLE A., 1873. 70. SHIPPEY, GEORGE, 1856. MOTT, ISAAC, 1859.
NESBITT, HENRY, 1868.
NORRISS, JOSIAH, 1849.
NORTON, GEORGE, 1861, 2.
NUMAN, DANIEL, 1861, 2.
STARBUCK, BENJAMIN C., 1855.
TALLMADGE, SAMUEL S., 1843.
PALMETER, JAMES, 1840. PECK, BETHUEL, 1843. PECK, CHARLES, 1848.
TEARSE, ARCHIBALD C., 1857, 9, 60, 4, 7. THOMPSON, BERRY, 1842.
PECK, DANIEL, 1864, 7, 8.
PECK, WILLIAM, 1845, 9.
TILLOTSON, GEORGE J., 1853.
PHELPS, WALTER JR., 1858.
WAIT, WILLIAM, 1873.
RICH, MARQUIS C., 1859, 60.
WELLS, JAMES, 1840.
ROBBINS, CALVIN, 1839.
WILMARTH, MARTIN L., 1859, 60.
WILSON, JOHN W., 1839.
ROBERTS, DAVID, 1840, 1. ROBERTS, DAVID G., 1845, 66.
WING, ABRAHAM, 1847.
the stone store under the hill; and in the month of September following, the stock of goods in Thomas Cotton's store, consisting of dry goods, groceries, iron, steel and stoves. The two were immerged in one, in the old wooden building so often referred to, which stood on the south-east corner of Warren and Glen streets. Soon afterwards he bought out Spencer's interest and continued business alone in that locality until about the year 1840. Along about the year 1834, by the aid of means kindly and voluntarily furnished by the late Sidney Berry, he commenced operations in wood and lumber, which being successful were extended from time to time until the export of wood for the supply of the Hudson river steamboats finally stripped our pine plains of their verdant covering. In 1835 he had an in- terest in the first lot of logs driven down the Sacandaga river from the town of Edinburgh. In 1836-7 he owned a share in the first saw logs driven down the Schroon river from West Moriah to Glen's Falls. In 1846 he established a steam foundry on Warren street which continued in successful operation for several years. This was disposed of about the year 1853, to Stephen Goodspeed. Mr. Hitchcock's next enterprise was the purchase of a slate ledge in the vicinity of Castleton, Vt. In the development of this purchase he removed to Syracuse, N. Y., where he now resides, and where he embarked in the slate roofing business, a pursuit that he still follows. He married February 10th, 1836, Jane M., daughter of the late Dilwin Gardner, by whom he has had six children, four daughters and two sons, all living. The following year he erected the brick house occupying the site next west of the Methodist church, where that denomination contemplates erecting a parsonage. This building was utterly destroyed, with nearly all its contents, in the great conflagration of 1864.
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ROBERTS, HIRAM, 1856, 60, 4. ROBINSON, FREDERIC W., 1854.
SCHENCK, JAMES W., 1852, 6. SHAW, NATHANIEL, 1846. SHAW, NEHEMIAH, 1847.
SISSON, GEORGE W., 1865. SISSON, JAMES, 1839, 44, 5, 52, 6. SOMERS, JOHN, 1854. SPENCER, HENRY, 1841, 2, 4.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
CORPORATION ASSESSORS.
ARMS, LEWIS L., 1848.
BAILEY, LOUDOUN, 1852.
BENEDICT, DANIEL, 1859, 61.
BENEDICT, EZRA, 1852.
BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1847, 51.
BULLARD, JAMES P., 1857.
CARPENTER, IRA C., 1865.
CARPENTER, STEVENS, 1867, 70.
CHEESEBROUGH, HENRY E., 1866, 8, 9, 73.
CHENEY, GEORGE W., 1860.
COFFIN, MARTIN, 1856.
COWLES, DANIEL H., 1842, 53.
DEAN, DAVID M., 1841, 2, 5, 6.
DIX, SAMUEL B., 1863, 4.
EASTWOOD, MARTIN, 1849, 55.
ELLIS, ENOCH, 1859.
FAIRBANKS, JONATHAN W., 1845. ROBERTS, HIRAM, 1862, 3.
FERGUSON, HENRY, 1839, 40, 3, 4, 60.
FERRISS, BENJAMIN, 1854.
FISHER, ALFRED, 1841, 5.
FONDA, WILLIAM A., 1858.
GAYGER, WILLIAM H., 1855.
HARRIS, ALBERT T., 1854.
HAWLEY, GEORGE G., 1859. HICKSON, ALFRED, 1854.
HITCHCOCK, DWIGHT, 1839, 40, 3.
HOLLEY, HIRAM, 1867.
JOHNSON, FREDERIC A., 1841.
KETCHUM, DANIEL B., 1870, 1, 2.
KIPP, RULIFF, 1865, 7. LOCKE, IRA, 1849, 57, 8, 60, 1.
MEAD, JOSEPH, 1861, 2, 3, 4.
MORGAN, ALONZO W., 1844, 7, 8, 53.
MOTT, ZEBULON W., 1850.
NORRISS, DANIEL G., 1853.
NORTON, GEORGE, 1855, 66,. 8, 9, 70, 1, 2, 3.
PALMETER, JAMES, 1839.
PARSONS, ELNATHAN, 1857.
PECK, CHARLES, 1856.
PECK, WILLIAM, 1850, 1, 2.
POTTER, JOHN E., 1873.
PRATT, WILLIAM, 1859, 64.
ROBBINS, CALVIN, 1843. ROBERT'S, DAVID, 1846.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, 1850, 1.
ROCKWELL, CHARLES, 1847.
SANFORD, GEORGE, 1840. SANDS, GEORGE, 1862. SPRAGUE, MERRITT, 1856.
THOMPSON, JOHN S., 1866, 8.
TILLOTSON, GEORGE, 1865.
VANTASSEL, HERMON, 1846. WAIT, WILLIAM, 1871, 2.
WILMARTH, MARTIN L., 1869. WING, ABRAHAM, 1844.
WING, HENRY, 1858.
CORPORATION CLERKS.
ARMSTRONG, ADAM JR., 1868. CHENEY, GEORGE W., 1865.
CARPENTER, ALVIN R., 1869. DAVIS, ISAAC J., (a) 1856, 9, 60.
(a) ISAAC ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS was born at Castleton, Vt., on the 5th of October, 1831. His parents, Isaac and Aurelia (Parsons) Davis, were at the time visiting their friends in the above named place, being then residents of the town of Johnsburgh. They subsequently moved to Schroon and when the subject of this
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CIVIL LIST.
FENNEL, A. HACKLEY, 1867.
PECK, CHARLES, 1844, 5.
FERRISS, ORANGE, (a), 1839, 40, 1, PERINE, JOSEPH S., 1855.
2.
PERRIN, IRA A., 1843.
HARRIS, EMERY D., 1861, 2, 3, 4, 6. RANGER, FREDERIC E., 1857.
HAY, HENRY C., 1858.
SHELDON, JOHN A., 1870, 1, 2, 3.
MOTT, ISAAC, 1849, 50, 1, 2, 3, 4. WILSON, ALLEN T., 1846, 7, 8.
sketch was about five years of age went back to Vermont. His early education was received in the very excellent common schools of that state, supplemented by three terms at the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vt. After this he came to Glen's Falls, and in 1851 commenced reading law in the office of Levi Hooker Baldwin of this village. He taught a common school the winter following and in the spring renewed his legal studies with Henry B. Northup, Esq., of Sandy Hill, in whose office he remained a year. He then returned to Glen's Falls, and finished his studies in Baldwin's office. He was admitted to the bar in 1853, and immediately opened 'an office in the old long row, where he remained until the destruction of that building by fire in 1856. From 1854 to '57 he held a law partnership with the late Halsey R. Wing, Esq., at the termination of which, the latter retired from practice altogether. He was the democratic candidate in 1859 for district attorney, and in 1863 for senator, was defeated, although running ahead of his ticket in both instances. As shown by the record he has served as corporation clerk, and was elected in 1871 as county judge by ninety-five majority, while the county properly had a republican majority of nearly a thousand.
He married first, Philomelia Aylesworth Gray of Arlington, Vt., on the 8th of January, 1857. She died s. p. March 4th, 1860.
He married his second wife, Catharine M. Williams, of Schuylerville, N. Y., on the 2d of January, 1865.
Judge Davis possesses in remarkable degree the elements which go to make a successful lawyer.
Possessing a wonderful memory, ready utterance, rare oratorical powers, affable demeanor and obliging disposition, he has few equals and no superiors in his own vicinity either on the bench or rostrum or at the bar; while his great erudition in his profession and the rich plentitude of his mental resources, render his advice valuable and his opinions greatly sought. Yet in the noontide glory of his splen- did intellect and munificent powers, the future is still open before him in a long and brilliant vista of triumphant success, and professional achievements.
(a) ORANGE FERRISS, son of John A. and Hannah (Alden) Ferriss, was born at Glen's Falls on the 26th of November, 1814. His elementary education was obtained chiefly at the old academy, which stood on the site of Mr. Jerome Lapham's newly built residence on Ridge street.1 His collegiate course was pursued at the Uni- versity of Vermont, which institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M., in 1868.
He studied law in the office of the Hon. William Hay, of this village, having
1 This building has undergone many vicissitudes. It was built in 1814, by John A. Ferriss for use as a public school, and was afterwards incorporated by special statute under the name of the Glen's Falls High School. Here Abraham Wilson, Harvey B. Dodge, Benjamin Ela, Solo- mon Goodrich, Hicks and others have taught the young idea how to shoot. A private school was kept here as lately as 1838, or 9, by Obadiah Alma who resided and taught, and finally was taken sick about the year 1840, and died in the building. After the erection of the Glen's Falls Academy in 1840, it was used as a dwelling for a number of years. Subsequent to the great fire . in 1864, it was moved down to the centre of the village to the site now covered by Kennedy's shoe store, where Messrs. DeLong & Son continued the hardware business until their new and spacious brick store on Glen street was completed. It was then sold to Messrs. Joubert & White, and moved down to the corner of Jay and Warren streets, where it now stands, having been overhauled and converted to the purposes of a carriage shop.
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VILLAGE TREASURERS.
BASSINGER, GEORGE H., 1868, 9. PECK, CHARLES, 1846, 7, 8, 9, 50, 1, 2,3.
BENEDICT, EZRA, 1861, 2, 3, 4.
BROWN, DANIEL V., 1866, 7
PECK, DANIEL, 1854, 5, 6.
FERGUSON, GEORGE, 1857, 8, 9, 60. PECK, WILLIAM, 1839, 40, 1, 2, 3, 4.
GREENSLET, GEORGE B., 1870, 1, ROBERTS, HIRAM, 1845.
2, 3.
WAIT, WILLIAM A., 1865.
for fellow students the late Alfred C. Farlin, Esq., Allen T. Willson, and the author of this work. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, and the following year was appointed surrogate of the county by Governor Seward, in which position he served for four years. In 1845, he was the standard bearer of the whig party, in the canvass for assemblyman, but was defeated, the county being largely demo- cratic. The late Winfield Scott Sherwood, was his sucessful competitor.
In 1851, he was elected county judge and surrogate, by a majority of more than two hundred over his democratic opponent, while the remainder of the democratic ticket had five hundred majority. He was reëlected judge and surrogate in 1855, and again in 1859, thus serving in that capacity for twelve consecutive years, a tolerably conclusive evidence that his services were satisfactory to his con- stituents.
In February, 1865, he received the appointment of provost marshal for the 16th congressional district but declined to serve, and A. J. Cheritree was appointed in his stead.
In 1866, he was elected by a handsome majority to represent the same district in the fortieth congress, and was reelected the succeeding term. He served with great distinction in these two bodies, being appointed and acting on the commit- tees for the revision of laws, mines and mining, coinage, and weights and mea- sures. He opposed the purchase of Alaska, and made an able and exhaustive speech in the house against the acquisition of that territory. He favored the im- peachment of President Johnson, and delivered one of the most earnest and effec- tive speeches in support of this movement on the 2d of March, 1868. The closing paragraph of that memorable address, embodied in the following quotation, exhi- bits the earnestness and eloquence of his appeal, and his hearty sympathy with the radical Puritan stock from which he derives his descent.1
" The contest in our country has been between republican ideas on one side and aristocracy on the other, the pilgrims and the cavaliers. Jamestown typifies the one, and the Plymouth rock the other. Weeds and thistles have overgrown the site of the first settlement on the banks of the James, but Plymouth rock remains ; and ages after the waves of the ocean shall have worn away the last vestige of that rock the free civilization and social ideas of New England will be doing their work of Christianizing the races, and inculcating a love for liberty which is as broad in its philanthropy as the universe, and knows no distinction of race or color."2
On the 3d of March, 1871, just at the close of his congressional labors for the second term, an act was passed creating a board for ascertaining and determining the
1 See biographical sketches of his father John Akin Ferriss, and his maternal grandfather Dr. Seth Alden.
2 This article is compiled in part from a work entitled The Fortieth Congress.
Eng ª by G.E. Perine NYork.
O. Ferriss
HON ORANGE FERRISS PEPRESENTARLIVE FROM NEW YORK
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CIVIL LIST.
VILLAGE COLLECTORS.
ACKLEY, THOMAS, 1863.
ELLIS, ZABINA, 1842, 6.
ALLEN, AVERY, 1869.
GREEN, IRA, 1839.
ALLEN, KING, 1850, 1.
HALL, HILMAN A., 1856.
BITLEY, MELVILLE, 1860.
KENWORTHY, JOHN L. JR., 1870.
BRIGGS, JABEZ, 1865.
KNAPP, REUBEN W., 1852.
BROWN, CLARK J., 1866.
BROWN, GEORGE, 1873.
COFFIN, MARTIN, 1840.
PEIRSONS, SAMUEL B., 1858, 9, 61, 2. PRATT, B. P., 1844.
CRONKHITE, JAMES L., 1864.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, 1843.
CROSSETT, WILLIAM., 1845, 7.
SCOFIELD, WILLETT, 1848, 9.
DARBY, JOSEPH, 1857.
SMITH, WALTER JR., 1853, 4, 5.
EASTWOOD, JULIUS C., 1867.
TILLOTSON, JOHN C., 1868.
ELLIS, ENOCH, 1841.
WHITNEY, STOWELL B., 1871, 2.
VILLAGE CONSTABLES.
ACKLEY, THOMAS, 1863. 4.
GREEN, HAZARD, 1839.
ALLEN, AVERY, 1869, 70, 1, 2, 3. HARRIGAN, DENNIS, 1871.
ALLEN, KING, 1850, 1.
KNAPP, REUBEN W., 1852.
ALLEN, WARREN, 1873.
PEIRSONS, SAMUEL B., 1859, 61, 2.
BITLEY, MELVILLE, 1860.
PRATT, B. P., 1844.
BRIGGS; JABEZ, 1865, 7, 71, 2.
PRATT, WILLIAM, 1857.
COFFIN, MARTIN, 1840.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, 1843.
CROSSETT, WILLIAM, 1845.
SCOFIELD, WILLETT, 1848, 9.
DARBY, JOSEPH, 1858.
SMITH, WALTER JR., 1853, 4, 5, 6.
ELLIS, ENOCH, 1841. TILLOTSON, JOHN C., 1868.
ELLIS, ZABINA, 1842, 6, 7.
WRIGHT, JOHN D., 1866, 9.
claims of loyal southerners for losses suffered during the rebellion. The board was to consist of three members to be designated as commissioners of claims. To this important and responsible position Judge Ferriss was nominated by the president, and appointed by and with the advice and consent of the senate. Its duties in- volve an amount of investigation and research requiring in eminent degree the patient application and laborious, faithful industry which Judge Ferris has brought to the work. He was reappointed March 10th, 1873, for four years, a gratifying and complimentary testimonial to his integrity and incorruptibility.
During a long public life, and the fierce collisions of hot partisan strife, Judge Fer- riss has retained an unwonted popularity, and the good will, respect and esteem of all parties and shades of political opinion. Like Cæsar's wife he is above suspicion, and in a corrupt age, and surrounded by demoralizing partisan influences, he has escaped from the seething caldron of political contamination with clean hands and a pure heart.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
POUND MASTERS.
BENTLEY, LAYTON, 1850.
BIBBEY, BENJAMIN, 1853, 4.
CARPENTER, J. SULLIVAN, 1857.
CONERY, SOLOMON, 1844, 5.
COREY, CHESTER, 1851.
POTTER, JOHN E. 2d, 1867. SANFORD, DAVID B., 1862.
Cox, ROBERT, 1866, 8, 9, 70, 1, 2, SISSON, JAMES, 1841. 3.
STEVENS, WILLIAM, 1839.
STONE, VINCENT, 1847.
WRIGHT, JOHN D., 1855, 8, 64, 5.
FIRE WARDENS.
BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1854, 5, 6. BROWN, DANIEL V., 1859.
BURNHAM, CYRUS, 1849.
BYRNE, FRANK, 1861, 2, 8, 9.
CHENEY, ALBERT N., 1857.
CLARK, JAMES C., 1858, 65.
COLVIN, HIRAM K., 1863. CORBETT, JOHN, 1868, 9, 71, 2.
'CORLISS, CHARLES, 1856. COWLES, WILLARD B., 1860. GALLUP, BENJAMIN, 1864. HAMILTON, LEWIS C, 1854, 5, 7, SANDS, GEORGE, 1863. 8, 60, 5, 70. HAVERTY, JOHN, 1873.
HAWLEY GEORGE G., 1842.
HAWLEY, GEORGE K., 1871, 2. HIGBY, RICHARD W., 1854, 5, 7. HITCHCOCK, DWIGHT, 1842. HOSKINS, WILLIAM, 1863.
KETCHUM, DANIEL B., 1870.
LAPHAM, BENJAMIN F., 1859, 60, 7, 70. LEAVINS, JEREMY R., 1867. MEAD, JOSEPH, 1866.
MORGAN, ALONZO W., 1842, 9, 58.
NORRIS, JOSIAH H., 1865.
PIKE, AARON F., 1871, 2, 3. PUTNAM, EDWARD, 1867. ROBERTS, HIRAM, 1859. ROSEKRANS, ENOCH H., 1849.
SANFORD, DAVID B., 1856, 61, 2, 4. SPICER, HENRY D., 1864, 8, 9, 73. STARBUCK, STEPHEN, 1861, 2. THOMPSON, BERRY, 1842. WILMARTH, MARTIN L., 1866. WRIGHT, JOHN D., 1866.
STREET COMMISSIONERS.
ALLEN, AVERY, 1867, 70. BOYD, RUFUS, 1860.
BRIGGS, JABEZ, 1856, 9.
BROWN, RICHARD T., 1863. COLEMAN, GALES, 1865. DAGGETT, JACOB, 1857.
OGDEN, ZINA, 1842.
COREY, GARDNER M., 1843.
GREEN, JOHN, 1859, 60, 1.
GUYETTE, MOSES, 1852.
HARRISON, TIMOTHY S., 1846. JOUBERT, EDWARD, 1863.
KELLEY, JAMES F., 1856.
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CIVIL LIST.
DARBY, JOSEPH, 1861, 2. JOHNSON, FREDERICK A., 1854. NORTON, GEORGE, 1864. O'CONNER, DENNIS, 1868.
PHILO, HENRY, 1855.
THOMPSON, JOHN S., 1866. TILLOTSON, JOHN C., 1869. VANDERHEYDEN, GEORGE W., 1871,
2, 3. WRIGHT, JOHN D., 1858.
DIRECTORS PUBLIC LIBRARY.
BENEDICT, EZRA, 1854, 5, 6, 7. KEENAN, J. ROBERT, 1869. LITTLE, MEREDITH B., 1858, 9, 60. PLATT, MYRON, 1855, 6, 7. BOLLES, GEORGE F., 1864, 5, 6. BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1854, 5, 6. BULLARD, DAVID H., 1870, 1, 2,3. POTTER, THOMAS, 1869, 70, 1, 2, 3. BUTLER, BENJAMIN C., 1851, 2, 3. DAVIS, ISAAC J., 1862, 3, 4.
ROBERTS, HIRAM, 1861, 2, 3. WAIT, WILLIAM A., 1863, 4, 5. HOLDEN, AUSTIN W., 1857, 8, 9, WALKER, JASON F., 1851, 2, 3. 60, 1, 2, 9, 70, 1, 2, 3. JACKMAN, SAMUEL P., 1859, 60, 1.
WING, HALSEY R., 1851, 2, 3, 4.
HEALTH OFFICERS.
CHAPIN, F. L. R., 1869.
FERGUSON, JAMES, 1863.
HOLDEN, AUSTIN W., 1871, 2, 3.
MONIEL, DONALD, 1849.
PECK, MARVIN R., 1861, 2, 5, 7. STERNBERG, A. IRVING, 1864, 6. STREETER, BUEL G., 1870.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
BENEDICT, EZRA, 1861, 2. BURNHAM, JOSIAH, 1866.
CAMERON, CHARLES R., 1871, 2, 3. KEENAN. JOHN, 1868.
CHAPIN, F. L. R., 1868.
CONERY, GEORGE, 1863, 9. CRITTENDON, HORACE S., 1869. CRONKHITE, GEORGE, 1861. CRONKHITE, WILLIAM, 1867. DEAN, DAVID M., 1849. DELONG, ZOPHER I., 1864, 6. FICKETT, HENRY E., 1861, 2. FINCH, JEREMIAH W., 1866. HARRIS, HIRAM M., 1869. HUBBARD, EDWIN, 1863, 4.
JOHNSON, FREDERICK A., 1871, 2, 3.
KNAPP, ISAAC J., 1849. LASHER, RUFUS, 1873. LAPHAM, BENJAMIN F., 1871, 2, 3. LITTLE, MEREDITH B., 1867, 71, 2. MILLINGTON, STOKES P., 1867. PARDO, GEORGE, 1869. ROBERTS, DAVID G., 1861, 2, 3, 4, 8. SPENCER, HENRY, 1849. WEEKS, HENRY, 1866. WILMARTH, MARTIN L., 1861, 7.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY
SUPERINTENDENT OF CEMETERY. BARNES, LINUS B., 1856, to '68.
SEXTON OF CEMETERY.
DOTY, WILLIAM, 1868, to '74, now JOHNSON, PATRICK, 1855 to 61. acting. ORR, ALEXANDER JR., 1861, to '8.
LIST OF PRACTICING ATTORNEYS.
ABBOTT, A. B.
HAY, WILLIAM.
ARMSTRONG, ADAM.
HENDERSON, JAMES.
BALDWIN, LEVI H.
HOWARD, HENRY A.
BALDWIN, SETH C.
KEEFFE, DANIEL F.
BARTON, HIRAM.
MARTINDALE, HENRY C.
BEACH, WILLIAM A.
MASTIN, JAMES M.
BENTLEY, JOHN'A.
METCALF, WILLIAM.
BROWN, STEPHEN.
MOTT, CHARLES M.
BROUGHAM, R. T.
MOTT, ISAAC.
BUELL, HORATIO.
MOTT, JOHN O.
BUTLER, BENJAMIN C.
PADDOCK, FRANKLIN A.
CHERITREE, ANDREW J.
PADDOCK, IRA A.
CLARK, ASAHEL.
PARIS, URIAH G.
CLARK, ORVILLE.
PERINE, JOSEPH S.
COWAN, PATRICK.
PERINE, MELANOTHON W.
CRONKHITE, EDGAR.
PERRIN, IRA A.
CURTENIUS, FREDERIC C.
RIGGS, EDWARD.
CURTENIUS, JOHN L.
ROSEKRANS, ENOCH H.
DAVIS, ISAAC J.
SHELDON, MELVILLE A.
ELLSWORTH, JUDIAH.
THOMPSON, LEMON.
EMMONS, ADONIJAH.
VANDENBURGH, ABRAHAM L.
FARLIN, ALFRED C. FERRISS, ORANGE.
WELCH, THEODORE.
GEER, ASAHEL C.
WILKINSON, ROBERT.
HARRIS, EMERY.
HAY, HENRY C.
VAN KLEECK, LAWRENCE I.
WILLSON, ALLEN T.
WING, HALSEY R.
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LIST OF PRACTICING PHYSICIANS.
ALDEN, SETH.
HOFFMAN, HERMON.
AMER, WILLIAM.
HOLDEN, AUSTIN W.
AMIDEN, A. O.
HOLLEY, S. F.
BALDWIN, ISRAEL P.
JENKINS, SAMUEL.
BUCKBEE, ISRAEL I.
KAYNOR, D. P.
BULLARD, DAVID H.
LEACH.
CARPENTER, HENRY H.
LITTLEFIELD, MARSHAL S.
CHAPIN, F. L. R.
LITTLE, GEORGE W.
CLARK, BILLY J.
MCALLISTER, ARCHIBALD.
CROMWELL, JAMES.
MCALLISTER, J.
CROMWELL, PHILIP.
MCNEIL, DONALD B.
CUSHING, MARK A.
MOTT, WALTER S.
DAVIS, ASHER A.
NORTH, NATHAN.
EDDY, R. J.
OSMAN, J. S.
EDMONDS, DANFORTH.
PAINE, LEMUEL C.
FERGUSON, JAMES.
PATTERSON, FRANK.
GAZLEY, JOHN.
PATTERSON, JAMES H.
HALL. HITCHCOCK, JARED. (a)
PECK, BETHUEL. (b)
PERRIGO, JOHN.
(a) JARED HITCHCOCK, son of Elijah and Sarah Hitchcock, was born in the town of Palmer, Massachusetts, on the 11th of August, 1778. His elementary and profes- sional education were obtained in that state, where, as the writer has been informed, he also received the degree of doctor of medicine,and practiced for a number of years. He removed to Glen's Falls in the month of November, 1819. The following year his wife was thrown from a wagon near the residence of Truman Hamlin in the town of Moreau, and killed. By her he had four children. He married for his second wife Caroline Stickney who bore him six children. In 1821, he removed to Sandy Hill, N. Y., and from thence in 1828 to Galway, Saratoga county. He afterward went to West Troy, and thence in 1840 to Glen's Falls where he died March 26th, 1846. Dr. Hitchcock was a man of considerable erudition and a good practitioner. He invented a remedy which attained considerable local repute and celebrity, under the name of Hitchcock's pills. He also left a medical treatise containing an exposition of his peculiar views as to theory and practice, but which never came to print.
(a) BETHUEL PECK, was born at Sand Lake, Rensselaer county N. Y., on the 16th of June, 1788. His father, Daniel Peck, who was originally from New Hampshire, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. His mother was Mehitabel Harvey of Marlborough, N. H. His grandfather, Ichabod Peck of Cumberland, R. I., was a lieutenant colonel in the war of the Revolution. He was wounded in action, and died in consequence of his wounds. His wife was Lydia Walcott, of the same place. His father and grandfather both also bore the name of Ichabod. The latter was the son of Jathniel, the son of Joseph jr., who was born
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
PECK, MARVIN R. (a) RANSOM, FLETCHER.
ROBBINS, CHARLES. ROBINSON.
in England, and baptized there August 23d, 1623, came over to the new world with his father in the ship Diligent, of Ipswich, John Martin, master, and settled at Hingham, Mass., in 1638, from which place they both removed about seven years later, to Seekonk, now Rehoboth, Mass .- Peck Genealogy.
It is not known with certainty what causes led the subject of this sketch to Glen's Falls, but it is believed that he was brought along by some of the return gangs of raftsmen who, in the early days of the settlement here, rafted their lumber to market down the Hudson river. He at first found employment as a stable boy at the old Glen's Falls Hotel. Subsequently he secured a position as an office-boy for Dr. Levi Rugg, with whom he commenced the study of medicine, paying his way with his own earnings from a practice which he rapidly picked up and afterwards retained. He subsequently atttended medical lectures at the Medi- cal College of Fairfield, N. Y., from which institution he at a later period, received his diploma. He married Jerusha Winston, by whom he had one child that died in infancy. She survived him a few years and died at Chicago, Ill., whence her remains were removed and deposited by the side of her husband in the village cemetery. As will be seen by a reference to the civil list, he was elected for a term of four years to the state senate. He was a partner for a number of years. with the late Billy J. Clark in a drug and medicine establishment on the site now covered by Vermillia's market. After his return from the senate he erected the brick building to which he gave the name of the Glen's Falls Druggist, and which stood on the site of the Central House, conducted by W. McDonald. Here, in conjunc- tion with Dr. M. R. Peck, he carried on the drug business for a number of years. As a medical man, Dr. Bethuel Peck was a close observer, and good diagnostician, following in the broad beaten pathway of the schools, he was a safe and successful practitioner. His air in the sick room was well calculated to inspire trust and confidence, for besides his genial and sympathetic manner, he always contrived to leave the impression that what he didn't know about the case, was hardly worth knowing. He acquired in the practice of his profession, and the judicious investment of his resources, what was considered in those days a handsome fortune. He was for many years a leading and influential politician of the place. He died on the 11th of July, 1862.
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