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CORDELIA T., married November 9, 1886, James W. Sher- wood, and resides in Oxford.
Philo Judson, after the death of his wife, Charity, July 26, 1851, went to Omaha, Neb., to reside with his son, where he died January 9, 1872.
Children : JOSEPH, died September 6, 1828, aged 4; ORMAN B., AUGUSTUS, CHARLES, HENRY MARTIN, PHILO M., died May 21, 1850, aged 28; JANE E., died January 4, 1853, aged 26.
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. -GOETHE.
Denison Family.
William Denison, born in 1705, lived at North Stoning- ton, Conn., was twice married and the father of eleven children. He died January 29, 1760. His fifth child, Daniel Denison, was born July 20, 1740, and married
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Martha Geer, an English lady from Groton, Conn., in 1771. About 1800 they emigrated to Pharsalia, this county, where he purchased large tracts of land and settled on lot 70 in that town. They left their Connecticut home surrounded with the comforts and luxuries that wealth could bestow. When they reached Chenango county it was almost a wild- erness, and the wolves and bears came howling around their log cabin. All their grain was carried to Bingham- ton to be ground. It was carried on horseback, and as there was no road they went by blazed trees. Daniel Deni- son was a man of considerable prominence and remained in Pharsalia until 1802, when he sold his real estate to his son, William, who already owned a large tract in that town, and came to Oxford, purchasing of Solomon Dodge what is now known as the Morse farm, and died there in 1817. He built the first frame house and barn in Pharsalia, and a house on the Morse farm, which within a few years has been replaced by a more modern structure. When he came here there was no church and the meetings were held at his house. He was a large, strong-built man of com- manding appearance and a bravery no opposition could intimidate. They had seven children-HANNAH, born in 1772, married William Popple; PRUDENCE, born in 1775, married James Dennison, Jr .; WILLIAM, born in 1777, married Betsy Ledyard; MARTHA, born 1779, married a Mr. Spaulding; MARY, born 1782, died unmarried; EMMA, born 1784, died unmarried; DANIEL, born 1787, married Betsey Hunt of Oxford.
William, who married Betsey Ledyard, remained in Pharsalia only a few years, and then moved to Oxford. His house stood where St. Paul's church now stands.
Daniel, Jr., who married Betsey Hunt, after a few years moved to Cleveland, O., where he died July 1, 1865, aged
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78. Mrs. Denison died before he left Oxford. They had six children :
EMMA AMELIA, born in 1815, married VanRensaeller Richmond. She lived and died May 18, 1854, in Lyons, Wayne county. Their children were: Denison, Frank E., and Emma.
BETSEY ANN, born in 1816.
MARY JANE, born in 1817, married Charles McNeil of Oxford, September 22, 1838. They moved to Cleveland, O., in 1852.
WILLIAM HENRY, born in 1819, married Ruth Thomas. Five children were born to them while living in Chicago, where both died: Daniel and William, both killed in the Civil war; Frank, Lydia, and Loren. Lydia was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Purdy of Cleveland, married George H. Foote and died in that city, leaving three chil- dren : Helen, Charles, and Mary.
CHARLOTTE REBECCA, born in 1820, married Nelson Purdy of Oxford, died at Green Spring, O., August 20, 1895.
CORNELIA LUCEBA, born in 1825.
Whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse. -SHAKESPEARE
Peter and John Dodge.
About the year 1800 Peter and John Dodge, with their sister Ruth, left their Vermont home and came to Oxford to reside with their uncle, Solomon Dodge. Peter married Matilda Sheldon. Their children, all born in Oxford, were: Otis, Lyman, Eliza, married James Carpenter, born in Exeter, Otsego county. They lived for several years on
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the farm above the village now owned by Edward B. Bar- ber, and in 1831 moved to Troupsburg, N. Y., and died there; Lucy, Nancy, and Cornelia.
John Dodge married in 1801 Mary Burghardt, daughter of Peter Burghardt, and lived and died in Oxford. They first lived on Panther hill, and in 1806 settled on the farm on the east hill now occupied by Ward H. Moore, a de- scendant. Mr. Dodge died September 4, 1847. Mary, his wife, died September 26, 1855. Children, all born in Oxford :
LUCRETIA, born June 17, 1803; died December 31, 1859; married Lyman Root, born October 13, 1798; died August 29, 1880.
SALLY, born June 17, 1806; married in 1833 Philo Bur- lingame. Moved to Cuba, N. Y., where they both died and were buried in the Franklinville cemetery.
JOHN, born July 27, 1808; died October 5, 1869; married (1) June 4, 1834, Maria Allen, born March 27, 1813; died October 15, 1839. Married (2) October 16, 1842, Amanda C. Sheldon, born August 25, 1824. In 1906 still living. Child by first wife: Ella Maria, born May -, 1835; died in infancy. Child by second wife: Alice L., born May 1, 1844 ; married Lewis Rowe of Schoharie House, N. Y. Mr. Dodge held the office of sheriff of the county, and was a man prominent in local affairs, both in Oxford and Guil- ford.
PETER, born October 4, 1810; died October 23, 1839; mar- ried January 26, 1835, Mary P. Lewis of Norwich; died February 5, 1896, in Cortland. She married (2) June 23, 1858, Colonel Ezra M. Stratton of Roxbury, N. Y., who died October 24, 1876. Children of Peter and Mary (Lewis) Dodge: Christianna O., born October 27, 1835; married February 21, 1855, D. D. Shepard of Oxford, and resides in Oxford. (Children, LaVerne and Addie L.)
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Anolia P., born May 23, 1837; married April 12, 1864, Richard T. Husted of Lisle. (Child, Lura F., born Sep- tember 8, 1869; died in 1903.) Augusta P., born Decem- ber 6, 1838; married May 9, 1857, Harry J. Wattles of Lisle, N. Y. (Children, Mason D., Louis and Louise, twins. )
MARY ANN, born November 17, 1814; died December 17, 1889; married June 5, 1834, John Moore.
LAURETTE, born June 30, 1818; died July 16, 1901; mar- ried April 7, 1841, Munson Smith.
HARRIET N., born June 19, 1821; died April 21, 1886; married Charles B. Moore.
JAMES, born November 9, 1824; died in infancy.
JAMES OSCAR, born August 25, 1830; died July 7, 1896, in Oxford; married (1) March 25, 1855, Elizabeth A. Roys of Oxford, born January 16, 1837; died August 6, 1870. Married (2) October 26, 1871, Lavina B. Hull of North Haven, Conn. Child by first wife: Loyal I., married Addie L. Stork of Coventry. (Child, Elizabeth V.) Chil- dren by second wife: Margaret I., died in infancy ; Mary Genevieve, married November 1, 1898, Arthur C. Lewis; died May 11, 1901.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunello. -POPE.
Job Willoughby.
Job Willoughby, a very worthy man, was a pioneer who in the early part of the nineteenth century settled on the east side hill of Oxford. He encountered many incidents on his way to the new settlement by a blazed trail, and his struggles in the forest to establish a home. He followed agricultural pursuits for many years, and was strong in his
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devotions, loyal in his relationship to men and principles, and frank and open in all his utterances. Nothing is now known in regard to his wife. Children :
JOHN, lived and died in Oxford. Unmarried.
IRA, married Minerva Colson of Poolville, N. Y., a lady much respected. After her death, which occurred May 20, 1864, at the age of 63 years, he then well advanced in age, went to Kansas, where he died. Their home for many years was on State street. Mr. Willoughby was very eccen- tric, and for a long period was " the town fiddler," whose services were frequently required for dances, also for pic- nics at Lake Warn, when that resort was very popular and reached by canal. His favorite song, which he used to sing to his own violin accompaniment, was:
He shot him a goat, To make him a coat, And his beard hung down like a Jew so ; By all that was civil, He looked more like the devil, Than he did like Robinson Crusoe.
Children of Ira and Minerva (Colson) Willoughby : FREDERICK STANLEY MONTGOMERY, born about 1824; while a student in Oxford Academy, from 1838 to 1846, composed a poem of several cantos of much merit, entitled " The Indian Queen of Chenango," which was dedicated to his intimate friend, William H. Hyde, Esq. He graduated from Union College and then went South on account of delicate health, later became principal of a leading acad- emy in Washington, D. C., where he also read law. Just as a brilliant career opened for him he died of yellow fever near Charlestown, Virginia, September 28, 1849, aged 25 years. ALFRED, possessing a genial disposition, located in Illinois, where he married and died October 16, 1867, in Nebraska City, aged 35. ELLEN MINERVA, married and went to Missouri, where she died, leaving one daughter. EDGAR RODNEY, enlisted during the Civil war, was a good
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soldier, but never returned. ROSALIE MARIE, married James Coley, then a teacher in Oxford Academy. They moved to Iowa, where she died in her twenty-second year, leaving two daughters. Her husband, in 1905, was still living at the age of 83 years. A singular coincidence of the family of Ira Willoughby is that no two members of the family are buried in the same state.
RUSSELL W., resided on Butler street, then known as Red street. He also played the violin and followed the occupation of a carpenter. For many years he had a clock dial set in the siding of his house facing the street, which for the passerby or neighbor answered the purpose of a town clock. He had a peculiar faculty of calling to him any cat, however wild, which he could pick up and caress. His death occurred December 22, 1869, aged 55. Ruth, his wife, died February 28, 1862, aged 52 years.
JAMES, a wanderer for many years, finally returned home to die.
ZEBULON, moved to Cooperstown, where he died.
ALMIRA, married Reuben Doty of Oxford.
He believed that he was born not for himself, but for the whole world. -LUCAN.
John Perry.
Deacon John Perry, born in 1781 at New London, Conn., died suddenly in Oxford June 3, 1857. For more than two score years he had been a member of the Oxford Baptist church, and was one of the constituent members, and the last but one of the little band who first received fellowship as a church.
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Deacon Perry's first wife was Mary Welch of New Lon- don, Conn., whose death on April 21, 1830, was of a dis- tressing character. At that time their residence was on Washington avenue, a little story and a half house on the site of the present residence of Millard C. Loomis, Esq. Ebenezer, their eldest son, was in his room and had taken down a gun preparatory for a hunting trip. Having for- gotten that the weapon was loaded, he snapped the flint and its contents were immediately discharged. Mrs. Perry was in the garden and directly in range; the ball passed through the side of the house, struck the right arm of the unfortunate woman about four inches from the shoulder, passed through her body and lodged in the left shoulder. She fell to the ground and immediately expired. At her funeral, which was largely attended, Elder Jabez Swan preached a sermon which took three hours to deliver.
Deacon Perry's second wife was Lydia -, whose death occurred April 4, 1869, at the age of 77.
Children by first wife :
EBENEZER W., died April -, 1875, at Tuscola, Mich., aged 68.
JOHN, died suddenly November 1, 1896, in Tuscola, Mich., aged 74.
REUBEN F., died February 18, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 40.
LAURA, died March -, 1897, at Atlantic City, N. J. Married Dr. Augustus Willard of Greene. Child: Anna, married George W. Connely of Atlantic City, N. J. John died in New Jersey.
MARY, died January 27, 1905, in Greene. Married Addi- son Dudley Adams.
MARIA LOUISE, died March 4, 1903, aged 92, in Oxford ; married Oliver Rhodes of Oxford.
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DORCAS, married Erastus Main of Friendship, N. Y.
FANNY, died March 26, 1881, aged 73. Married Palmer P. Yeomans of Oxford. Children: Rufus P., married Electa Norton; Fanny, died January 9, 1861, aged 16.
Bold of your worthiness, we single you As our best moving fair solicitor. -SHAKESPEARE.
Hon. John Tracy.
Hon. John Tracy, 6th, of Oxford was born at Norwich, Conn., October 26, 1783. His descent from Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn., was in this wise. His father was:
John the 5th, who married Esther Pride.
John the 4th, who married Margaret Huntington.
John the 3d, who married Margaret Hyde.
John the 2d, who married Elizabeth Liffingwell.
John the 1st, who married Mary Winslow. Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich.
Mr. Tracy, with his father's family, journeyed on horse- back at an early day to Columbus, this county. In 1805 he came to Oxford and was deputy clerk under Uri Tracy. Having pursued the study of law with Stephen O. Runyan, he was admitted in 1808 as an attorney in the Supreme Court, and commenced the practice of his profession in this village. His rulings in law were never reversed in the Court of Appeals. He was appointed examiner and master in chancery, and in March, 1815, received the appointment of Surrogate of the county. He was a member of Assem- bly in 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1826, and in 1821 again re- ceived the appointment of Surrogate, and in 1823 that of First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, holding these
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offices until 1833, when he resigned them. The legislature, in 1830, made him a regent of the university, and in 1831 he was appointed Circuit Judge of the sixth district, but declined the appointment. In 1832 Mr. Tracy, then called Honest John, was elected Lieutenant-Governor, with Wil- liam L. Marcy, Governor; and with him was re-elected in 1834 and 1836. In 1846 he was elected from Chenango county, with Colonel Elisha B. Smith as his colleague, a delegate to the convention for revising the constitution, and was chosen president of that distinguished body, which had on its roll the names of Ira Harris, Ambrose L. Jordan, Samuel J. Tilden, Samuel Nelson, Charles O'Connor, and Michael Hoffman.
Mr. Tracy's interests in all good works for the perma- nent improvement and welfare of the village was repeat- edly manifested, and the Academy, of whose board of trustees he was for years the president, and St. Paul's church, of whose vestry he was a member, and a warden at his death, will bear evidence to his worth in faithful and affectionate remembrance.
Mr. Tracy married August 5, 1813, Susan Hyde, daugh- ter of Joseph Hyde, of Franklin, Conn., who died Febru- ary 3, 1864, aged 76, survived but a short time by her husband, who died in the following June at the ripe age of four score years. They had one son and two daughters :
JOHN, born at Oxford, June 20, 1820, and was the seventh John in descent from Lieut. Thomas Tracy. He was drowned while skating on the Chenango river, De- cember 24, 1829.
ESTHER MARIA and SUSAN ELIZA, twins, born April 9, 1816. The former married Henry R. Mygatt, Esq., and died June 25, 1895, in New York City. The latter mar- ried James W. Clarke and died October 15, 1906, in New York City.
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In requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.
-- MILTON.
William G. Sands, M. D.
Dr. William G. Sands was a son of Judge Obadiah Sands, a native of Sands Point on Long Island, descended from Capt. James Sands, an Englishman, who came to this country about 1642, landing at Plymouth.
Dr. Sands was born in Bainbridge, N. Y., November 5, 1810. About the year 1828 he was in attendance at Oxford Academy, and immediately thereafter commenced and completed his course of studies here as a physician and surgeon with Dr. Perez Packer, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City in 1832. He returned to Oxford and until the death of Dr. Packer practiced with him. Later he was asso- ciated with Dr. William P. Holmes for a short period. In 1842 he entered into the drug business, having purchased the stock of goods formerly owned by Clarke & Babcock. After a time he took into partnership with him, his brother, Frederick A. Sands and James H. Fox, which was dissolved in December, 1850, Mr. Fox continuing the business.
Dr. Sands retired from the active practice of his pro- fession in 1864, and thereafter devoted his time largely to the care of his large and increasing estate, and to the numerous trusts as guardian and trustee for others, which he discharged with great fidelity and probity. He was elected to the Assembly, with Solomon Ensign, Jr.,
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and Hiram E. Storrs, as members from this county, in 1846, and was also Supervisor of the town in 1852. He died suddenly June 14, 1889, leaving an estate valued at from $500,000 to $600,000. Dr. Sands married October 26, 1837, Sarah Eliza, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Washburn) Mygatt, born January 6, 1818, in Oxford; died July 2, 1890, at Vallonia Springs, N. Y. Children : CLARISSA DONNELLY, died in infancy.
MARIA CLARISSA, born November 26, 1839; died March 4, 1870; married December 31, 1867, Peter W. Clarke.
SARAH WASHBURN, born January 13, 1842; died March 7, 1869; married October 1, 1859, Henry L. Wade. Chil- dren: William Henry, died in infancy; William Sands, died in infancy.
CATHERINE ODESSA, born October 15, 1852; died Oc- tober 7, 1890; married January 17, 1882, Joseph E. Pack- ard. Children: Edith; Henry, died July 7, 1893; Wil- liam Guthrie; Katharine.
From labor there shall come forth rest. -LONGFELLOW.
Daniel Dudley.
Daniel Dudley was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, August 6, 1808, where his early years were spent on a farm. He came to Oxford in the autumn of 1830 and taught school the following winter in the old schoolhouse east of the village, near the old Bush tavern, not very far from where the station of the N. Y., O. & W. railway now stands. In the spring of 1831 he started to learn
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the wagon making trade with Col. Tarbell. After serving a proper apprenticeship he formed a partnership with James Durham and they carried on the business together for a couple of years, when Mr. Durham withdrew from the firm and went to Norwich. Mr. Dudley continued the business and about 1836 built the house on Washing- ton avenue, now owned by Mrs. Charles M. Dodge, and carried on the business of wagon making in it for some twenty-three years, a portion of the time also having quite an extensive cooperage in the same building.
Mr. Dudley married, in 1834, Miss Miranda Bemis, born November 10, 1811, who had come from Stafford, Conn., two years previous. In 1860 Mr. Dudley gave up his business and bought a farm in Dodge Hollow, west of the village, where he lived some six years. In 1866 he moved to Maine, Broome county, where he engaged in farming for twelve years, and then went to Binghamton, where he died February 19, 1884. Mrs. Dudley died May 24, 1891, in Altoona, Pa.
Mr. Dudley joined the Methodist church soon after he came to Oxford, and, for a number of years, was one of its trustees. He was one of the three members of the building committee, which had in charge the erection of the church edifice where this society now worships. He served a full term in the old volunteer fire department in this village and was quite fond of the organization. He took a prominent part in the organization of the Republi- can party in Chenango county, and, although at one time yielding considerable local influence in the new party, he neither sought or desired any public office. His most prominent characteristics were integrity, strength of will, and independence in thought and action. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, of whom two, M. Elithea and Mary C., died in infancy. Of the remaining
LEWIS DAYTON BURDICK
CHARLES B. DUDLEY, PH. D.
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three, Amanda S., married January 4, 1859, Seth W. Free- man, and died March 14, 1891, in Peoria, Ill .; Charles B., married March, 1906, Mary Virginia Crawford of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and resides in Altoona, Pa .; and Eliza M., married S. S. Allen, and resides in Binghamton.
Charles B. Dudley, Ph. D., was born in Oxford, April 14, 1842. His early years were spent in the district school, and later Oxford Academy, in the fall and winter, and in working on a farm in summer. August 6, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 114th Regiment, N. Y. V., and was made a Corporal July 1, 1864. He was in seven battles, participating in the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; in the Red River campaign in the spring of 1864, and was finally severely wounded in the battle of Opequan Creek, in the Shenandoah Valley, September 19, 1864. He was then mustered out of the service and sent to the hospital.
The studious habits, which may be said to have charac- terized Dr. Dudley's whole life, manifested themselves even during his army service. During one winter, while the army was in winter quarters at Franklin, Louisiana, he had his Latin grammar and reader sent to him, and devoted many hours of his camp leisure to a study of that language.
Returning home in 1865, he began to prepare for col- lege at Oxford Academy, and entered Yale College in the fall of 1867, graduating as A. B. in the class of '71. The next year was spent in newspaper work in New Haven, obtaining means to prosecute further studies, and to pay off obligations already incurred during the previous four years. Having no independent means of his own Dr. Dud- ley obtained quite a portion of the funds needed to secure an education by working at whatever could be found to be done, both in vacation and in term time. In the fall of
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1872 he entered the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale Col- lege and graduated in 1874, with the degree of Ph. D., having spent two years largely in chemical study. The next college year was spent as assistant to Dr. George F. Barker, Professor of Physics, at the University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia. During this year some transla- tions of technical papers were made, which were published in the Franklin Institute Journal. In September, 1875, Dr. Dudley accepted the position of teacher of the sciences in Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, which position he retained only about a month, as on November 10th of the same year he was invited to accept the position of Chemist of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona, which position he still holds. When he began his work there, no railroad had a chemist as a regular em- ploye, although many of them had occasional chemical work done.
Of the work done by Dr. Dudley, perhaps that which has attracted the most widespread public attention was the study of steel rails made in the early eighties. Another and very important line of work in connection with the laboratory of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona has been the making of specifications for materials. This is perhaps the most exacting and time consuming work that has been undertaken.
Dr. Dudley has twice been abroad on business for the company, once in 1886 to study oil burning on locomotives in Russia, and again in 1900 as delegate to the Interna- tional Railway Congress in Paris. He has been vice- president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and has twice been president of the American Chemical Society. He has been president of the American Society for Testing Materials. He is a member of the English, French and German Chemical Societies, of the Iron and
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Steel Institute of Great Britain, and the Verein Deutscher Eisenhuttenleute. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Mining Engineers, the Mechanical Engineers, and the Electrical Engineers as well. He is a member of the Union League Club of Phila- delphia, the Cosmos Club of Washington, and of the En- gineers' Club of New York.
Apart from his professional work, Dr. Dudley spends no small amount of time in connection with the Altoona Mechanics' Library, which under his supervision and the fostering aid of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, con- tains now over 35,000 volumes.
They now to fight are gone ; Armor on armor shone ; Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder. -DRAYTON.
Mexican War Volunteers.
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The trouble with Mexico over the annexation of Texas began early in 1846, and Silas Wright, Governor of the State, issued orders in obedience to a requisition from the President, James K. Polk, for seven regiments of volunteer infantry, to be enrolled and held in readiness for muster into the service of the United States for the prosecution of the existing war between the States and the Republic of Mexico. On June 1 James Tyrell, " Captain of the Infantry, of the Town of Oxford," advertised in the village papers that applications from persons desir-
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ing to volunteer would be received by him up to the 12th of that month. Having enrolled a company of fifty men, it was organized June 29, by the election of the following officers: James Tyrell, Captain; John Dodge, Jr., First Lieutenant; Daniel A. Johnson, Second Lieu- tenant; R. H. Sisley, First Sergeant; Hiram Bartoo, Second Sergeant; William Eaton, Third Sergeant; Aus- tin R. Abbott, Fourth Sergeant; Edward M. Osborn, First Corporal; William Bowers, Second Corporal; Josiah L. Clark, Third Corporal; Benjamin Miner, Fourth Cor- poral. After the transaction of this business the company marched to an adjoining field to the music of the "spirit- stirring drum " and "ear-piercing fife," where it was inspected, and, after performing a few evolutions, was dis- persed until called for by " Uncle Sam."
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