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I may add that this statement is corroborated by the recollection of several per- sons, among whom may be mentioned the late Abraham Wing, and Judge Hay.
The first post office was established in a wooden building erected and first occupied as a store by Judge Hay's father on the south-east corner of Warren and Glen streets. The site is now occupied as a clothing store by Messrs. Pearsall and Cooledge. In a communication from Judge Hay, it is stated that, "at the time of Emmons' appointment, James Henderson became postmaster at the Oneida, but whether he was the first postmaster appointed there I know not." I. have not succeeded in obtaining the statistics of the Queensbury or French Mountain post offices.
JAJ Wilcox Bost
Dan Pick
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PECK, DANIEL, (a)
appointed 7th July, 1856.
PECK, WILLIAM,
11th April, 1853.
PECK, WILLIAM,
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21st February,1 1856.
(a) The subject of this sketch is a representative man, and descendant of one of the oldest families of the town. He is the son of Hermon, and Martha (Ken- worthy) Peck, and was born in the village of Glen's Falls on the 25th of February, 1831. William Peck, the pioneer of the family in this country was born in Lon- don, Eng., in 1601. With his wife Elizabeth, and his then only son Jeremiah, he emigrated to this country in the ship Hector, arriving at Boston, 26th June, 1837, in the company of Gov. Eaton, Rev. John Davenport and others, and was one of the founders of the New Haven colony, in the spring of 1638. He was a merchant by occupation, a man of high standing in the colony, and a deacon of the church in New Haven from 1659 to 1694 when he died. His son, the Rev. Jeremiah Peck, was the first teacher of the Colony Collegiate School in New Haven, and afterwards settled minister at Saybrook, Conn., in the fall of 1661, in Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1670, in Greenwich, Conn., in 1674, and in Water- bury, Conn., in 1690, where he died in 1699 in his 77th year. His son Samuel settled in Greenwich, Conn., where all his children were born.2 His grandson, Peter, the son of Peter, one of nine sons, was the pioneer of the family in Queensbury. He was the oldest of six children, and was born in Greenwich, Conn., in January, 1746. The father dying in 1759, his mother with her little family removed to New Milford, Conn., where on the 7th of December, 1768, Peter married Sarah, daughter of Paul Terrill. He with his family removed to Queens- bury in 1786,3 settled on the Ridge road about a mile from " the corners," where he remained until his decease, June 17th, 1813. According to the family tradition, the family were two weeks on the route ; the boys trudging along afoot, driving two yokes of oxen attached to strong, rude wagons, loaded with household stuff, while the father rode on horseback. They brought along with them a large, powerful watch dog, which one night, soon after their arrival was destroyed and eaten by wolves, troops of which then found their covert in the big Cedar swamp. At that time there were only three dwellings at Glen's Falls, a foot path to the Ridge, and a rude wagon road up Bay street as far as the log Quaker church by the Half-way brook. Peter Peck had three sons all of whom were born in New Milford, Conn., viz : Reuben, Daniel, and Edmund. Reuben, the eldest, was born 8th February, 1772, and married 1st, Tryphena Bishop, and 2d, Jane Haight. Hermon, his eldest child, was born 19th of April, 1800, and married 1st, Nancy Quin in 1825; 2d, Martha Kenworthy in 1830. Seven children were the fruit of this union of whom Daniel is the eldest. Hermon died at Glen's Falls, 27th July, 1865.
A few seasons at the district school, four terms at the Glen's Falls Academy, and at the early age of thirteen, we find the subject of this sketch, with true Yankee grit and perseverance, at work on a farm for small wages to be sure, in Sandgate Vt. At the age of sixteen he went to Union Village, where for six months he was employed in the manufacture of tin-ware. He returned home, and was sent by his father to run and manage a saw-mill of four gates on the Sacandaga river, at what is now known as Conklinville, Saratoga Co., N. Y. Here he re- mained for four years, during which time he had accumulated nearly a thousand dollars by overwork of the roughest kind. He then returned to the paternal roof,
1 At this date the office became "Presidential," and the same incumbent was re-appointed.
2 From the Peck Genealogy by Ira B. Peck, Boston, 1868.
3 From Darius Peck, Esq., of Hudson, N. Y., who has compiled and nearly completed another Genealogical Record of the Peck family.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
PHILO, HENRY,
appointed 7th June, 1843.
VAUGHN, ELEAZER S.,
21st September, 1848.
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN I.,
3d May, 1849.
and for a year or more was employed as a clerk in his father's hardware store. At the end of that period, being little more than twenty-one years of age, he bought out his father's store, enlarged the business, importing a portion of his stock from England directly and with characteristic enterprise, built up a large and flourishing business. To this, as is seen above, was added the cares and responsi- bilities of a large post office in 1856, which continued for four years. In 1860, Mr. Peck disposed of his business to De Long & Son, and in the latter part of the same year, embarked with his cousin Charles Peck in a lumber, grain and feed trade for which a new store was erected by them. They were burnt out in the great conflagation of May, 1864, when Daniel alone suffered a loss of upwards of twenty thousand dollars,
In less than a week, and while the charred ruins were yet smoking, he had bought out his partner, and established a street bazar for the sale of grain and lumber. During the season he rebuilt the store, and continued in the trade for a year, when he formed a co-partnership with Mr. Frank Byrne, to carry on the wholesale and jobbing grocery business on the north corner of Glen and Ridge streets.
PECK & BYRNE
PECK & BYRNE
PECK & DELONG'S STORE.1
Bringing to this enterprise, the same tact, energy and judgment, which has characterized his efforts through life, the undertaking was attended with un- precedented success. A new store, one of the finest in the place, was erected and completed the following season. Here for eight years was conducted the largest
1 The building in the distance is the new engine house, erected in 1865. Here two of the hose companies of the corporation, hold their meetings, and keep their trucks and paraphernalia. For- merly the building was used by the Cataract, and Jerome Lapham fire companies.
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CIVIL LIST.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
ROSEKRANS, ENOCH H., (a) 1855-71. Two terms.
grocery establishment north of the cities, the sales averaging for that time half a million of dollars annually. The establishment is now conducted by H. F. Peck (a brother of Daniel's) and C. J. De Long, and it continues to be the leading grocery concern of the place.
For the last two years, Mr. Peck, in conjunction with his partners, Messrs. Byrne, Keenan and Wing, have been engaged in developing a large and pro- mising lime interest at Smith's basin, on the Northern canal.
The products of this manufacture for the current season 1873 have been up- wards of fifty thousand barrels.
Mr. Peck has served a term as county treasurer ; has been several times elected treasurer of the corporation of Glen's Falls. He has also been chosen trustee of the village three or four times, and has served one year as president of the village.
Mr. Peck is a gentleman of great public spirit, liberality and energy ; is yet in the prime and vigor of life, with a future full of promise, and pregnant with hopes yet to be realized.
(a) ENOCH HUNTINGDON ROSEKRANS is a descendant on the mother's side from the widely distinguished Huntingdon family of Connecticut, which has produced so many brilliant ornaments of the pulpit, the bar, and the army. The name was originally written Rosakrans, signifying a garland of roses.
His grandfather, Benjamin Rosecrantz's name appears in the New York Civil List as a member of assembly from Saratoga county, in 1792. The family was of German or rather Dutch extraction, and originally settled in Dutchess county. E. H. Rosekrans was the son of Benjamin and Esther (Huntingdon) Rosekrans, and was born at Waterford, N. Y., on the 16th of October, 1808. The father was a merchant of that place. The childhood and youth of the subject of this sketch were passed under the parental roof. When about six years old, he went to live with his maternal uncle, the late distinguished lawyer and advocate, Judge Samuel G. Huntingdon of Troy, N. Y. His preparatory education was acquired at the Lansingburgh Academy, then quite a noted seminary of learning. He entered Union College, junior class - graduated in July, 1826 with honors-studied law with his uncle, above named, with whom, after being admitted to the bar in October, 1829, he remained in partnership a couple of years. Settled at Glen's Falls in 1831, was married at Saratoga Springs on the 14th of June the following year to Caroline, daughter of Miles and Cynthia (Warren) Beach. Was admitted to the bar as counselor in 1832, and about the same time received the appointment of Supreme Court Commissioner, and Master in Chancery. The remainder of his official services are of record in the Civil List. In 1867 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater. Possessed of rare intellectual gifts, great personal magnetism, keen discrimination and incisive argumentative abilities, he has always held a front rank at the bar, and on the bench has invariably com- manded the respect of friend and foe.
. His opinion in the Great Erie Railway case was one of the first heavy blows administered to that powerful corporation.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
COUNTY JUDGES.
BALDWIN, SETH C., -, 1832- 7. FERRISS, ORANGE, -, 1851-63.
BARBER, HIRAM, -, 1837-45. ROBARDS, WILLIAM, -, 1813-20.
BROWN, STEPHEN, -, 1863-71. ROSEKRANS, ENOCH H.,
BUELL, HORATIO, (a) -, 1829-32.
-, 1847-51.
DAVIS, ISAAC J., -, 1871. WING, HALSEY R., -, 1845- 7.
The present incumbent.
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SURROGATES.1
BALDWIN, SETH C., -, 1835-40. WILKINSON, ROBERT, -, 1813-15.
FERRISS, ORANGE, -, 1840- 5. WING, ABRAHAM, -, 1827-35.
GRAY, THOMAS S., -, 1845- 7.
COUNTY TREASURERS.
FARLIN, FREDERIC A., -, 1845-52. ROBERTS, CHARLES, -, 1832-45. HICKS, WESTEL W., -, 1852- 8. SHELDON, N. EDSON, -, 1873.
PECK, DANIEL, -, 1870- 3. (Resigned).
COUNTY CLERKS.
BALDWIN, SETH C., -, 1820- 1. RANSOM, ALBERT F., -, 1874.
The present incumbent.
HICKS, WESTEL W., -, 1861- 4. WAIT, GEORGE P., - 1864-73.
(a) " HORATIO BUELL, (christened Horatio Gates, but the middle letter was usually dropped in his signatures), was second son and child of Gordon and Martha (Whittlesey) Buell of Newport, N. H. He was born 13th January, 1791." 2 (From Genealogy of Buell Family, by J. S. Buell, Esq., of Buffalo, N. Y.). He graduated with honors at Dartmouth College, in 1809, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and soon after removed to Glen's Falls, where his commanding talents, and rare acquirements, soon placed him in the front rank of his profession the bar of which was already graced by the names of such distinguished advocates as Roger Skinner, Abraham L. Vandenburgh, Henry C. Martindale, Benjamin F. Butler, Robert Wilkinson, Lawrence I. Van Kleek, and Asahel Clark. He was married to Elizabeth daughter of the late James and Elizabeth (Cameron) McGregor, of Wilton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., on the 4th of July, 1819. Mr. Buell was a man of mark and influence in his day ; held in deservedly high considera- tion among those who knew him best; an active politician, possessing the rare gift of moulding and moving men to his wishes, and having withal a high sense of honor and justice to guide and control his mental forces. He died at Ballston, Saratoga Co., N. Y., on the 27th of February, 1833.
1 Since the year 1847, the office of surrogate has been associated in this county with that of first judge.
2 A brief biographical notice of HORATIO BUELL in Chapman's Sketches of the Alumni of Dart- mouth College, states that he was the son of Gordon and Hannah (Whittlesey) Buell, and that he was born at Newport, January 13th, 1787. The statement above is believed to be correct.
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CIVIL LIST.
SHERIFFS.
ALLEN, KING, -, 1852- 5. PERSON, LEWIS, -, 1864- 7.
BROWN, DANIEL V., (a)-, 1861- 4. RUSSELL, JOSEPH, -, 1834- 7.
FERGUSON, DANIEL, -, 1855- 8. SPENCER, HENRY, -, 1813-15.
HICKS, WESTEL W., -, 1867-70.
PERSON, LEWIS, -, 1855.
To fill vacancy.
STARBUCK, STEPHEN, -, 1858-61. TEARSE, PETER B., -, 1789-93.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
BALDWIN, LEVI H., -, 1850- 3. FARLIN, ALFRED C., -, 1845- 7. BALDWIN, SETH C., -, 1823- 5. HAY, WILLIAM JR.,(b) __ , 1825- 7.
-, 1827-35. MOTT, ISAAC, -, 1856-65.
BROWN, STEPHEN, -, 1853- 6. -, 1872- 3.
BUELL, HORATIO, -, 1821- 3. ROSEKRANS, ENOCH H.,
CHERITREE, ANDREW
-, 1835-45
J., (Resigned). -, 1871- 2. SHELDON, MELVILLE
CLARK, ASAHEL, -, 1818-21. A.,
Present incumbent. -, 1874.
(a) Son of Richard, and Sally (Vaughn) Brown, Was born 29th of May, 1821, in this town, and was a direct descendant in the fourth generation, from Benedick, the original settler, who immigrated to this town as early as the year 1772, his name appearing on the town records for 1773 as overseer of the poor.
The following is a fac-simile of his signature.
Bunwick Brown.
Daniel V. Brown was, for a number of years, a prominent business man, and active politician of the democratic party at Glen's Falls. He was elected to the position of supervisor against overwhelming odds in 1859. He has also held, as will be seen by the record, various other positions of honor and trust.
He was drowned on the ill fated steamer Melville, which was wrecked and sunk at sea, on the 8th of January, 1865. He was at that time on his way to South Carolina, to procure volunteers or substitutes, to supply the quota of Queensbury in the anticipated draft for levies in the war of the rebellion. He was accompanied on this mission by Edward Riggs, a lawyer of fine attainments, and brilliant pro- mise, who met with the same terrible fate. A large sum of money belonging to the town of Queensbury, taken out by these agents for the purpose of paying sol- diers' bounties, was lost in the same disaster.
(b) WILLIAM HAY was of Scotch extraction, his ancestors having been among the earliest of that hardy band of Scotch adventurers, who hewed them out a home in the wilderness, on the eastern confines of Charlotte county about a century ago. He was a blood relative of the late Henry Hay, Esq., of Ticon- deroga, and of Col. Udney Hay, who held important relations to the American army of the Revolution. He was born in the year 1790, in Cambridge, Wash-
" -, 1825- 8.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
BALDWIN, SETH C., THOMPSON, LEMON, -, 1844-5.
vice Wing resigned. - , 1843-4. WING, HALSEY R., -, 1843.
HOLDEN, AUSTIN W., -, 1846-7. (Resigned).
ington Co., N. Y., and his early training was in the straight and narrow ways of Scotch Presbyterianism. About the beginning of the present century, his father, William Hay, came to Glen's Falls, embarked in the lumber business, and erected a store, the first building put up on the site now occupied by Pearsall and Cool- edge as a clothing store.
For a season he carried on an extensive business ; but was ultimately unsuc- cessful and the property passed into the hands of John A. Ferriss and others. Amid these reverses, the son struggled on unaided in the acquirement of his education, the advantages being of the scantiest as to quality and opportunity. In 1808, he was pursuing the study of law in the office of Henry C. Martindale near the site of Vermillia's block. In 1812-13, he opened an office for the practice of law at the head of Lake George.
In 1814, he (being lieutenant commanding) proceeded with a rifle company, raised in great measure through his endeavors, to Plattsburgh, but did not reach the place in time to participate in that celebrated action, which contributed as largely as any one event to the final success of the American arms, in the second great struggle with England.
He was also one of the volunteers in that ill starred expedition to Carthagena, pending which, he spent a winter in Philadelphia, where he became practically familiar with, and an adept in the printers' art.
Early in the winter of 1816-17, and while in practice at Caldwell, he was married to a daughter of Stephen Paine, Esq., of Northumberland, Saratoga county, N. Y., by whom he had eight children.
In 1819, he became the proprietor and publisher of the Warren Patriot, the first and only newspaper ever published at Lake George. About the same time, he delivered a poem at a fourth of July celebration at Caldwell, which was pub- lished, and was remarkable for its enunciation of those broad principles of human rights and liberties, which forty years later became the corner stone of the repub- lican party.
In 1822 he removed to Glen's Falls, and resumed the practice of law. In 1827, he was elected to the assembly from Warren county. A doggerel verse which commemorates the spirit of that campaign, runs as follows :
"In Warren County lived a Fox, 1 The Quaker men were marshalled out, All headed by JohnA.,2
And he was wondrous wise,
He ran against a load of Hay, And scratched out both his eyes.
With long tailed coats and broad brimmed bats, A fighting Billy Hay.
Soon after his return from the legislature. he issued a thin duodecimo volume of poetry entitled Isabel Davalos, the Maid of Seville. In the spring of 1837, he removed to Ballston at the same time retaining a branch office in this village. In 1840 he transferred his residence to Saratoga Springs, where he remained up to the time of his decease. Of several published works of his, the one which has attained the widest circulation is " A History of Temperance in Saratoga County."
1 Norman Fox, his opponent, who was thrice elected to the Assembly, viz : 1819-20-30.
2 John A. Ferriss, father of Hon. O. Ferriss, and then postmaster of the village.
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CIVIL LIST.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
ARMSTRONG, ADAM, -, 1870-2. CHERITREE, ANDREW
ARNOLD, LUTHER A., -, 1860-6. J., -, 1856-7. (Two terms). KETCHUM, DANIEL B., -, 1873-4. The present incumbent.
WELCH, THEODORE, -, 1867-9.
DELEGATES TO STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONAL.
CHERITREE, ANDREW
HOTCHKISS, WILLIAM, -, 1846.
-, 1867-8. VERNOR, JOHN, (a) -, 1801. J.,
He died suddenly while attending service at the Baptist church in Saratoga Springs, on the evening of Sunday, the 12th of February, 1790.
He was a man of extensive reading and vast erudition ; not a little tenacious of his opinions and views, some of which bordered upon eccentricity. But few of the sterner sex ever possessed more delicate sensibilities, keener perceptions, or more rapid intuitions.
In the later decades of his life he became a bold and fearless advocate of tem- perance. His delight and recreation, however, were drawn through the flowery, though not thornless paths of poetry and romance. His memory was something extraordinary, his industry in research indefatigable, and his mind was stored with the choicest cullings from the wide fields of literature and belles-lettres. In American history he was standard authority, to whom it was safe to refer at a moments warning, and in the matter of local history his mind was an exhaustless treasury.
(a) Born 18th August, 1746, died 1st December, 1825, at Albany, N. Y. His re- mains repose in the old burial ground of the Protestant Episcopal church at Albany, where also may be found the following inscriptions to the memory of his wife and son. "Prudence, wife of John Vernor, died 20th June, 1846, in the 77th year of her age." "John Vernor, Jr., died 4th March, 1822, æt. 51." The name of the latter appears in the Wing manuscripts for the year 1795. By the roster it appears that he was commissioned cornet on the 23d March, 1797, in the regiment commanded by - Thurman of this regimental District. From some slight memoranda received from his son I learn that he was a magistrate for several years, and that he served with credit in the war of 1812-15.
John Donner.
Was a merchant and tavern keeper at the head of Lake George in those early days when the two pursuits were often combined. The town limits of Queens- bury, then extended half way to the county line. He was one of the earliest com- missioned magistrates in the county, having received his appointment 24th February, 1791. His name appears frequently in the town records from 1795 to 1802. He was chairman of a public meeting of the citizens from vari- ous towns of Washington county, held at the house of Col. Joseph Caldwell of Kingsbury, on the 25th of February, 1793, with Micajah Pettit as secretary, at
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
STATE SENATORS.
CLARK, Orville,1 -, 1844-5-6-7. LITTLE, RUSSELL M., -, 1862-3. HOTCHKISS, WILLIAM, -, 1856-7. PECK, BETHUEL, -, 1839-40-1-2.
which Dr. Zina Hitchcock was nominated as the federal candidate for the Senate. In the Calendar of New York Historical Manuscripts, Revolutionary Papers, his name appears as quartermaster in the 13th New York regiment from the Saratoga District, of which John McCrea was colonel, all of whose officers were commissioned on the 20th of October, 1775. In a conversation with the compiler held on the 13th Sep- tember, 1850, the late Peletiah Richards, Esq., in relating reminiscences of his first visit to Warrensburgh in May, 1800, stated that the first building north of Bloody pond at that time, was " the long-house," at the head of the lake, north-east of the
H.FERGUSON ALBANY.
VIEW OF LAKE GEORGE IN 1791.
This cut was copied from a manuscript map among the Wing papers entitled " A Map of Land adjoining the west side of Lake George belonging to James Caldwell, containing 2,232 acres. And also another adjoining containing 110 acres. Protracted by a scale of 15 chains to an inch. May, 1791. Pr. Archibald Campbell."
turn in the old road, near the barracks of old Fort George at the foot of the hill and near the shore of the lake. This was the old hospital of the Revolutionary war ; a framed building, and was kept as a hotel by John Vernor.
From the scanty memorials remaining of him, he appears to have been a man of means, culture, and refinement, having considerable influence, and mingling largely in public affairs. The following, among " notes from newspapers," appears in the VIIIth Vol. of Munsell's Annals of Albany.
1825, Dec. 1. "John Vernor died aged 80. He was a zealous partizan in the war of the Revolution, and for a time was deputy commissary of military stores, in which station, as well as in all others that he occupied, he showed himself competent and faithful. He was buried with masonic honors from his residence in North
1 Gen. Orville Clark, was, at the time of his election to the Senate, a resident of Sandy Hill, and in the full meridian of his splendid powers.
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CIVIL LIST.
SANFORD, (a) GEORGE H., -, 1870-1. From the 3d (New York city) District.
SICKLES, DANIEL E., -, 1856-7
From the xixth (Oneida) District.
SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE STATE SENATE.
CLARK, JAMES C., -, 1860-1.
Market street, opposite the arsenal." The drawing was a pen and ink sketch. The road, represented by dotted lines, winds down by old Fort George, passing the settlement represented by the engraving, and one solitary house on the beach to the west of the settlement, then following the margin of the lake around to the west side, strikes off from the lake in a northerly by west course just north of the big brook by Crandell's, and keeps on across the entire map. It is designated as John Thurman's road. Buildings are represented as standing as follows: A saw-mill on the brook just above the road crossing, just noted, a dwelling a little to the east of the mill between the brook and roads, and another dwelling near Mr. Hayden's residence. These are all the buildings indicated, except those re- presented in the picture. The picture is lettered "Fort George." This occupies the centre of a circle which extends several rods down the lake and whose dia- meter represents about 120 chains, embracing the entire south end of the lake and its adjacent territory on both sides. This is marked " Lands reserved for the use of the garrison." For some of the information herein contained, I am indebted to the Hon. James Gibson of Salem, N. Y.
(a) GEORGE H. SANFORD, son of George and Louisa (Gibbs) Sanford, was born at Sanford's ridge, in the town of Queensbury, N. Y., in the year 1836. A year later, his parents removed to Glen's Falls, where he lived till 13 years of age, enjoying such educational advantages as the place then afforded. At the age of thirteen, when most boys are helpless dependants upon their parents, he resolved to earn his own means of support, and work out his own career. Accordingly, with his parents' consent, he repaired to Albany, where he found employment as receiving and shipping clerk with Mead, Burnham & Co., wholesale lumber dealers. With the exception of one year spent at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, he passed the active business portion of the next seven years in the employment of this firm. During three winters of this time, he was employed in lumbering on his own account in Greene Co., N. Y., and Potter Co., Pa. When but twenty years of age, he made Syracuse his residence, and there entered into the lumber and salt trade, combining with it the manufacture of lumber at Saginaw, Michigan, and locating pine lands, in the productive pineries of that state. He was one of the pioneer company organized in 1858, to bore for salt water in the Saginaw valley. In 1861, he was married to Helen B. Stevens, a grand-daughter of the late Hon S. Sidney Breese, of Oneida county.
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