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Mrs. Codington's mother, Cordelia E. (Crane) Stanley, was the eldest child of Henry and Eliza (Cassety) Crane, was born at Eaton, N. Y., July 4, 1823, was educated at Fredonia and Eaton academies, married, September 19, 1844, to Caleb Stanley, of Fredonia, and died February 9, 1878. Her father, Henry Crane, was born at Weathersfield, Conn., November 23, 1785, made several voyages as supercargo to the West Indies, married in 1817 Eliza, daughter of Col. Thomas Casscty, one of the prominent and most highly educated men in the State, and in 1835 came to Fredonia, where he died March 9, 1857. He was a Royal Arch Mason, and his parents were Captain Curtis and Elizabeth (Palmer) Crane. Captain Crane in the early part of his life was a sea captain during the Revolutionary war, and was for seven years connected with the commissary department. He afterward removed to Eaton, N. Y., where he died.
STEPHEN N. BOLTON. One who has seen Jamestown grow from a country vil- lage to a live wide-awake city, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He came to Jamestown in 1851, where he has lived ever since. Stephen N. Bolton is a son of Hollis and Betsy (Sawin) Bolton, and was born at Westminster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, August 20, 1829. The Boltons were among the earliest white people who came to the cold and dreary winter climate of New England, but when the verdure of spring and summer burst forth, found the home pleasant and nature hos- pitable. Our indisputable record is when William Bolton married Elizabeth White, at Middlesex, Mass., in 1720. It is supposed that he came up from the settlement made on the James river in Virginia. He died at Reading, Massachusetts, September 10, 1725, leaving a young widow with two little sons. The mother was of New England origin and these sons laid the foundation of the Bolton family of the present. One of the sons mentioned, Wil- liam Bolton, was the direct ancestor of Stephen N. He married Mary Roberts, who was born November 30, 1725, and they had ten children : one of them, Ebenezer Boltou, born June 12, 1749, was the great-grandfather of our subject. He was married at Reading, on February 20, 1771, to Elizabeth Damon, a daughter of David Damon, and who was born May 3, 1749. Ebenezer Bolton enlisted in the Colonial army during the Revolution and served as a corporal. He was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was one of the minute-men, ready for im- mediate service all through that struggle. He had four children, of whom Ebenezer Bolton, Jr., was the grandfather of Stephen N. He was born February 14, 1778, married Linda, daughter of Simeon Leland, and served as a clerk in the War of 1812. His family consist- ed of four sons and two daughters. Hollis Bolton was born December 1, 1799, and is still living (May 1, 1891). He is a farmer, living
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near Mount Wachusett, Mass., and is enjoying excellent health for one of his years. He mar- ried Betsy Sawin, June 4, 1821, and had ten chil- dren : Charles H., born June 24, 1822, lived in Massachusetts and Maryland until 1852, and then went to California, and has lived there and in Oregon and Washington ever since, and was the first treasurer of Douglas county, Washing- ton ; Simeon, born November 27, 1823, lives at home with his father ; Franklin, born May 24, 1825, has been a selectman of his town; Al- mond A., born December 28, 1826, lives in Akron, Ohio; Aaron S., born April 3, 1828, served in the late war under Gen. Banks ; Stephen Nelson ; Eveline E., born May 6, 1831, died October 14, 1853; Andrew J., born Janu- ary 17, 1833, now living in Massachusetts, a carpenter ; Henry Clay, born May 20, 1834, married Anise Phillips, entered the Union army with Co. B, 100th regiment, N. Y. In- fantry, and was present at Drury's Bluff, in 1864, captured and taken to Andersonville where he was held from May until December. He took part in the Seven Days fight, White Oaks and other battles, and was promoted to corporal ; and Alonzo D., the youngest, enlisted from Massachusetts, but was discharged on account of poor health.
Stephen N. Bolton lived in Massachusetts until twenty-two years of age, when he came to Jamestown and worked as a wood-turner and chair-maker for nearly a score of years, and the subsequent five or six years was spent in the grocery business. Since that time he has been living a comparatively retired life. He was a sergt. in Co. B., 68th N. Y. S. M., which was called out by Gov. Seymour during the invasion of Penna., by Gen. Lee's army ; cnlist- ed in the U. S. service for thirty days and served their term of enlistment. Mr. Bolton has always voted with the Republican party, and served the city as assessor for nine years. He is a member of Ellicott Lodge, No. 221, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows.
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IRAM C. CLARK, a literateur of note, H' has been living in Jamestown since 1872. He was born at Norwich, Chenango county, New York, on July 9, 1816, his parents being Lot and Lavina (Crosby) Clark, both of whom came from old and distinguished families. His grandfather, Watrous Clark, was born in the State of Massachusetts in 1759, and with his two brothers served in the naval department of the colonial forces during the struggle for Amer- ica's independence. His two brothers were lost at sea. At the close of the war, Watrous migrated into Otsego county, in this State, and followed farming, and being of a mechanical turn also, used farm tools of his own manufac- ture, until his death which occurred in 1831. Politically Mr. Clark was a quiet voter and of unassuming demeanor, and was a member of the Baptist church. He was not a politician. His wife was Sarah Saxton, of Columbia county, this State, and they had three sons and five daughters. David Crosby was the mater- nal grandfather of our subject, who came from English stock but was born in Connecticut and removed to Broome county, New York, where he owned large tracts of land which he tilled. He died in Chenango county, in 1820, aged eighty years. Lot Clark, father of Hiram C., and second son of Watrous Clark, was born in Columbia county, near Kinderhook, this State, in the year 1788. Securing as thorough an ed- ucation as the times afforded, he studied law, and after being admitted to the bar, practiced for twelve years in the town of Norwich, Che- nango county, and was some years district attorney of that county. Succeeding his law practice he became a projector of large enter- prizes, and among others of note, was the first original railroad wire suspension bridge which crosses the Niagara river below the falls and was completed about 1848. He became and was president of that bridge company until his death in 1862. At one time he was perhaps the largest individual land-holder in the Em-
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pire State, being a proprietor of one-third in- terest in a ninety thousand acre tract, and as many other acres in other states in the west. Politically Mr. Clark was an old-time democrat and was elected by his party to a seat in the eighteenth Congress of the United States, serv- ing there in 1823-24; but upon the sub-treas- ury issue, he was not in accord with his party and in 1840, voted for William Henry Harri- son for president. While in Congress Mr. Clark became very popular and was the leader of the New York delegation, at least at the time so styled. In 1840 he became an inti- mate and a permanent friend, socially and poli- tically of Henry Clay and other whigs of prominence, whose reputation have survived them. He was elected in 1846 to the leg- islature of New York, to compel the demo- crats to complete the enlargement of the Erie canal. When Gen. Jackson was president he invited Mr. Clark into his cabinet, by offering to him the appointment of attorney-general, but this was declined. His first wife was Lavina Crosby, who bore him four children, all sons, who became prominent in localities where they lived : Hiram C .; Lot C., who held the office of district attorney on Staten Island for eleven years and was private counsel on the island to Commodore Vanderbilt for a number of years ; Joseph B. Clark became an alderman in the city of Detroit, Michigan ; and William C., moved to Illinois, and was owner of a fine land estate.
Hiram C. Clark was educated in private schools and advanced to higher education through the aid of professors and private tu- tors. He was appointed cadet at West Point but resigned, considering that his nervous dis- position unfitted him for the strain incumbent on the routine of a successful martinct or col- lege life. From 1833 to 1837 he lived in Augusta, Ga., as assistant to his brother-in-law in a grocery store. Returning to New York he was, in 1840, admitted to the bar, and also
edited in 1849, a history of his native, Chenan- go county, and in the same year went to San Francisco California, where he remained and practiced law until 1865, when, returning to New York in 1866 he decided upon a European tour and went to London, where six out of the ten ensuing years were spent. During this so- journ abroad the columns of the San Francisco (California) Daily Bulletin, were enlivened by regular correspondence from his facile pen. Returning from England in 1872, he selected Jamestown for his future home and has since resided here devoting his attention to literary recreation, travel and newspaper correspon- dence.
On November 23, 1857, Mr. Clark was uni- ted in marriage to Mrs. Sarah Thompson, a native of Nottingham, England, and after her death, in 1869, in 1871 he wedded Jane, the daughter of Samuel Dixion, a resident of New York but who came of Scotch parentage. It should not be overlooked that while stopping in Augusta, Ga., when the Seminole war of 1835 broke out and men were scarce, Mr. Clark, then a very young man, joined the Richmond Blues, a famous organization, and served six months as a United States soldier and received 160 acres of government land. It was not, how- ever, with the sword' but with his pen, that he achieved prominence, and many articles of great merit have originated in his brain. In journalism and its circles he has been recog- nized as a prolific newspaper correspondent of his day, and among his interesting collection of papers, are letters showing correspondence and intercourse with the prominent public men of days agone. Mr. Clark is an interesting, intelligent and able man who has seen the- American Republic develop from childhood in- to its present stature. He is possessed of a store of information sufficient to fill a valuable- book of reminiscences. Mr. Clark, though pos- sessed of personal convictions in regard to poli- tics, is in no sense a politician. That is to say,
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he has never yet sat as a member of a political convention ; has never assisted a politician or himself, to obtain a nomination for public office. He regards knowledge of the law a full occu- pation for the common mind without any ad- mixture of politics. Law, divinity, statecraft, pure and separate are praiseworthy and useful ; but when amalgamated are too often otherwise, not to say, sometimes mischievous to the public welfare. His creed has been, that great char- acters may over multiply their abilities to the injury of their reputation.
A NDREW DOTTERWEICH, a public- spirited citizen, an energetic and success- ful business man, and the popular proprietor of the well-known " City Brewery" of Dunkirk, was born near the city of Bamberg, in Bavaria, Germany, September 7, 1834, and is a son of Joseph and Catherine (Scheitz) Dotterweich. Joseph Dotterweich and his wife were natives of Bavaria, and consistent members of the Cath- olic church. He was a brick manufacturer and farmer, and made a specialty of raising hops in which he was very successful. He was ener- getic and persevering, served as mayor of a vil- lage near the city of Bamberg for several years and died in 1879, aged seventy-eight years, while his widow survived him until 1887, when she passed away at the age of eighty-five years.
Andrew Dotterweich received his education in the public schools of Germany, and at twelve years of age left his father's farm to learn the brewery business. He worked in the brewer- ies of all the larger cities of Germany, where he became practically conversant and familiar with all the details of successful brewing, and received a diploma as being a scientific and prac- tical brewer. While working at the brewing business he added to the education which he had received in the public schools, by attending niglit schools. In 1857 he came to Dunkirk, and became foreman in the brewery of liis brother, George Dotterweich, who had located
in that city about 1849. He helped his broth- er to build up a large trade, while the superior quality and general popularity of their beer necessitated the frequent enlargement of their brewery plant. In 1884, at the death of his brother, George Dotterweich, who was a liberal and public-spirited citizen, he succeeded to the entire business, which lie has so conducted as to constantly increase the number of his patrons and give his beer a wide reputation.
On October 13, 1860, in Dunkirk, he married Mary Teresa Boettinger, a daughter of Albert Boettinger, who was the King's foreman of woods in Bavaria. For the purpose of bring- ing his bride to Dunkirk, he re-visited his na- tive land in the early part of the year of his marriage. To their union have been born eight children, five sons and three daughters : George A. J., Andrew Charles, Mary S., Ellen, Edward, Frank, Emma, who died at eleven years of age ; and Robert.
Andrew Dotterweich is an active democrat in politics, and an earnest member of the Catholic church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus whose corner-stone was laid June 11, 1876. He is also a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, which was organized in 1876 at Niagara Falls, and holds membership in Dun- kirk Branch, No. 21, of that organization at Dunkirk. Mr. Dotterweich owns a very hand- some brick residence opposite his brewery, be- sides some valuable real estate in the city, and two good farms between Dunkirk and Frc- donia.
The City Brewery is located on thic corner of Sixth and Dove streets, and the entire plant covers a large area of ground. The main building is a substantial three-story brick 36x110 fect with cellar and sub-cellar. A wing extending from it is 35x120 fcet. At- tached to this wing and running parallel with the main building are the brick brewery barns and a brick ice-house connected with a double walled wooden reserve ice-house, which is cap-
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able of preserving ice for five years. The area inclosed on three sides by these extensive build- ings is occupied by a drive-way, fountain and lawn. Adjacent to the brewery Mr. Dotter- weich has constructed two ice-houses 40x70 feet, and an artificial lake, of one acre in area, at a cost of over one thousand dollars, which furnishes a never-failing supply of ice. In 1890 he added two ice plants of forty tons each, and put in two boilers of fifty horse- power to his thirty horse-power engine. He also uses two smaller pumping engines, and em- ploys from twelve to twenty hands. His brew- ing and malting buildings, ice-houses, vaults, cellars and storage rooms have all been care- fully planned and built. He uses yearly twenty thousand bushels of barley and eighteen thousand pounds of native and Bavarian hops. His annual output is over seven thousand barrels of beer, which is largely used in Dun- kirk and western New York. A gentleman well acquainted with the different business enterprises of the cities of New York, says of Mr. Dotterweich and his establishment, that brewers from all other parts of the State have been unable to compete with Mr. Dotterweich, and that his beer is to-day the most popular bever- age in his section of the country. Andrew Dotterweich is popular as a citizen and a busi- ness man on account of his generosity, affability and integrity. His life has been one of activ- ity and usefulness, during which he has been remarkable for his energy, perseverance, pru- dence and business sagacity. He has been em- phatically the architect of his own fortune, and with the characteristic energy of the grand old German race, has won his way from compara- tive obscurity to a prominent position in busi- ness circles.
Homer, Cortland county, New York. Their grandfather was Stephen Price, a native of New Jersey, where he was born December 28, 1758. His occupation was school teaching, and in that capacity he went to the town of Homer where he died June 1, 1831. He bought a farm at that place which remained in the family for many years. Mr. Price gave seven years of service during the Revolutionary war. He married Elizabeth Hall and had eight sons and five daughters. Several of the former were engaged during the war ot 1812. The maternal grand- father, Abram Neff, was born in Holland, October 18, 1772. Emigrating to America he- settled in Cortland county, this State and mar- ried Eunice Beckwith, who bore him five sons- and the same number of daughters. Charles Price (father) was born April 20, 1786, in the town of Clarendon, Morris county, N. J., and came to Cortland county, this State, in 1808. In 1826 he removed to Chautauqua county and settled in Portland town. Two years later he went to Chautauqua town and in 1851 he moved into the city of Jamestown where he re- sided until his death, November 20, 1868. His early years were spent farming but later he began to do carpenter work, a trade he had mastered years before. When a young man Mr. Price was a Jacksonian democrat but after- wards turned whig and then republican. For twenty years he was a member of the Baptist church. Mary Neff was born October 18, 1792, and lived to be over ninety-one years of age. The date of her death was November 4, 1883. She married Charles Price in 1809, and became the mother of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters : Two died in infancy ; Eunice married Abel Kimberly, who lives on Lake View avenue, and is a carpenter and joiner ; Addison A., Wilson A., Anna M., married Reuben S. Green (deceased); Charles H., lives in Stockton town, this county; Cla- rissa B., wife of Jonathan Pennock, a prominent
A DDISON A. and WILSON A. PRICE are sons of Charles and Mary (Neff) Price, the former born June 26, 1814, and the latter September 24, 1816, in the town of Jamestown groceryman ; Caroline and Eveline
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were twins, the former married Phineas Cross- man, who is a real estate man of Jamestown ; the latter married Charles H. Lewis, who is a tailor in Philadelphia ; Orlando L. dicd when fourteen years old ; Silas C., married first time to Charlotte Evans and then to Sarah Sampson, and he now lives on Lincoln street, Jamestown ; Cheston B., is dead ; he married Mrs. Catherine Gaggin ; and Adam N. (dead), was twice mar- ried, first to Helen Lowe and then to Harriet Wright.
Addison A. Priee received a good education at the common schools and learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. He is a republican and has filled various city offices. He came to Jamestown in 1839, and has been actively em- ployed there ever since. In 1866 he built the residence where he now resides. He has been twice married. His first wife was Charlotte D. Green, a daughter of David Green, who lived near Mayville. They had six children : Oscar F., at present mayor of Jamestown; Caroline A., married Van Buren Weeks, a son of Liscom Weeks, of Ellery town; Henry C., married Florence Cook, a daughter of Judge Cook, of Jamestown ; Henry C., is a carpenter and lives in New York city ; Cora is the wife of Walter J. Wayt, and lives in Vancouver, B. C., where her husband is employed as a draughtsman ; Fred A., is a joiner and lives with his father ; and Clayton E., is a merchant on Main street, Jamestown, and is married to Mary Rush. Ad- dison A. Price married the second time to Cynthia A. Hiller, who is still living.
Wilson A. Price eame to Jamestown with his brother in 1839, and has been employed with him at the same trade, earpentering. In 1865 he erected the home where he now lives. Politi- cally a republican ; he married Amy E. But- ler, a daughter of Caleb Butler, in 1840, and they have one child : Charles H., who married Mary B. Kimberly. He lives at home with his father and follows the trade of a printer.
Addison A. and Wilson A. Price, are honor-
able and respectable gentlemen whose labor and minds have gone far toward developing the city of Jamestown.
D AVID E. MERRILL, a member of the widely known firm, Empire Washer Co., manufacturers of washing machines, also of the W. T. Falconer Manufacturing company, is a son of Joshua S. and Olive E. (Griggs) Merrill, and was born in the town of Sheridan, Chautau- qua county, New York, September 6, 1859. Lyman B. Merrill was born in eastern New York. He was our subject's grandfather, and follows his lineage to 1632, when Jonathan and Nathaniel Merrill settled at New London, Con- necticut, as the original locators. The family drifted into Vermont, thence to Cherry Valley, N. Y., and finally to Chautauqua county. Lyman B. Merrill was a blacksmith by trade and pursued this occupation for many years in this county. Politically he was a democrat and when eighty-nine years of age died at Laona, this county. David Griggs was the maternal grandfather. He was a native of Connecticut but came to this county in 1810, and followed farming until about 1878, when he moved to Mishawaka, Ind., and died in 1889. Mr. Griggs was a whig and republican, and served as a private in the war of 1812, participating in the engagements at Stony Point, Lundy's Lane, and the burning of Buffalo. The renowned and wily warrior, Red Jacket, was a familiar ac- quaintance of Mr. Griggs, with whom he spent many days in the forest, He was a relative of Governor Clinton, and had other eminent con- nections. After reaching the advanced age of ninety-nine years he died at Mishawaka, Ind., in 1890. Joshua S. Merrill was born in the town of Sheridan, April 12, 1835, and spent his boy hood about the village. He attended school and acquired sufficient education to carry him through life, and then learned the trade of blacksmith and carriage-maker, and worked at it in Fre- donia, Titusville, Pa., and other places, in his
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younger days. Later in life lie became an ex- tensive manufacturer of fine carriages and owned extensive works at Titusville, and Erie, Pa., where he employed about one hundred and twenty-five men. In 1854 lie married Olive E. Griggs and had a family of three children : David E., Effie M., who married Frank A. Stilson, and lives in Jamestown ; and George J., a clerk in this city. Politically he was a re- publican and was a member of the Methodist church, and the Odd Fellows ; F. and A. M., and Knights of Pythias fraternities. In busi- ness Mr. Merrill was conservative but astute, energetic and active, but careful, and was liberal- minded and public-spirited in his notions as to the administration of the government. Hc died August 23, 1877, and is buried in Erie (Pa.) cemetery, while Mrs. Merrill resides at present (1891) in Jamestown.
David E. Merrill changed his residence in youth as his father moved liis business and spent his days and attended school at Fredonia, Titusville and Erie. He graduated from the high school of the latter place and attended the Normal school at Fredonia. He began his business life as a bill clerk for a wholesale grocery firm in Erie, Pa., and was then ap- pointed paymaster's clerk in the navy. Suc- ceeding this he was attached to the signal ser- vice and was afterwards for a number of years book-keeper in various large institutions. In 1882 he came to Jamestown and soon after with a company began the manufacture of the Empire Washing machines. His company em- ploys above one hundred men and their annual product equals one hundred thousand dollars, shipments being made to all parts of the world.
In 1882, he married Anna H. Merrill, of Willoughby, Ohio, and they have one son : John Clayborne, born August 20, 1888.
Politically Mr. Merrill identifies himself with the Republican party ; he is very public-spirited and is connected with several prominent organ- izations.
H' ENRY C. KINGSBURY, a successful law-
yer of Westfield who has been in active practice in the courts of the county for nearly thirty-three years, was born at Homer, Cortland county, New York, November 6, 1830, and is a son of William and Hilpah (Winchell) Kings- bury. His grandfathers, William Kingsbury and Rensalear Winchell, were natives of Con- necticut. His father, William Kingsbury, was born in " the land of steady habits " during the latter part of the eighteenth century, served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and removed from his native State to Cortland county, New York, in the year 1817.
Henry C. Kingsbury grew to manhood at Homer where he attended the public schools for several years. He then entered Hamilton col- lege from which he was graduated in 1849. Im- mediately after graduation he commenced tlie study of law with William Northup of Homer, read two years and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New York in 1851, at twenty-one years of age. Two years later lie removed to Sherman where he practiced his profession successfully until 1859, when he came to Westfield and soon built up a good practice in the courts of Chautauqua county, whichi he has gradually increased from year to year. He is a democrat in politics. Though for that reason debarred from political office, liis fellow-citizens have honored him-with many non-partisan positions, and for twenty years he has been president of the Board of Education. He owns nearly four hundred acres of good farming and grazing land, a part of which is well adapted to grapes and small fruits.
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