Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Delaware County, New York, Part 92

Author: Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, pub
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Boston : Biographical Review Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 744

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where his death occurred in 1889. Myron WV. is the father of Mr. Allen of this notice. Ezra and William are thriving agriculturists, residing in Schoharie County; and David, a mason, lives in the same county. The par- ents of these children were well-to-do farmers of high moral character and good social stand- ing in their community. Both were believers in the doctrines of the Baptist church; and the mother, who survived her husband many years, almost rounded out a full century, liv- ing to celebrate her ninety-eighth birthday.

Myron W. Allen, who was born in 1827, was reared to agricultural labor, and was for many years engaged as a tiller of the soil in the town of Hancock. He has more recently become interested in mercantile pursuits, and is now a successful merchant in Binghamton, N. Y. From his union with Miss Felton, which was solemnized in 1854, four children were born, all of whom are occupying useful positions in the world, and acquitting them- selves as faithful citizens, the following being a brief record: Rosa, who married William Eberts, a dealer in real estate, residing in Binghamton; George A., a successful practis- ing physician, of Hancock; Hiram A., whose name appears above; and Theron E., who is agent for the Fargo & Wells Express Com- pany, and resides in Binghamton, N. Y.

Hiram A. Allen obtained his education in the public schools of Sullivan and Delaware Counties, and, when eighteen years old, learned the cooper's trade, which he followed continu- ously for ten years, most of the time in the town of Hancock. February 3, 1886, he mar- ried Miss Debbie E. Richart, their nuptials being celebrated in Dushore, Sullivan County, Pa., at the residence of her parents, John and Margaret (Maben) Richart. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Allen, one of whom, a lovely child of one and a half years, was taken from carth when "life and love were new," passing away in the purity and innocence of childhood. A son and daughter remain to brighten the family circle: Harry, a bright and active lad of seven years; and Eva, a little girl not yet two years old.

Mr. Allen is a man of sterling character, and is a faithful supporter of the Republican party. In 1888 he was elected to the office of

Deputy Sheriff, and has served his constitu- ents with conspicuous ability. He is still quite a young man ; and his personal friends, of whom he has a legion, predict for him a brilliant future. He is active in promoting and advancing all enterprises for the good of his community, and is in truth a public- spirited citizen. His estimable wife, who shares with him the universal regard of her neighbors and friends, is a consistent member of the Baptist church.

A RTHUR G. PATTERSON, attorney and counsellor-at-law, who is engaged in the practice of his chosen pro- fession in the village of Walton, N. Y., was born at Walton, February 22, 1868. He is of Scotch-Irish descent, and possesses many of those qualities which would tend not only to make a successful practi- tioner at the bar, but a worthy and useful citizen.

His father, George Patterson, was born near Hawick, Scotland, in 1835, and seventeen years later came to this country. He was the son of Archibald Patterson, and one of a fam- ily of seven children, the names of the others being Robert H., Ellen, John, Walter M., Agness, and James, all of whom settled in Delaware County except Ellen, who married and remained in Scotland. He became natu- ralized in 1859, and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, in pursuance of whose call he wore the blue for three years and nine months, serving in the Eighth Independent Battery of New York Volunteers. Returning to Delaware County at the close of the war. he resumed the civic duties of life; and on the sixth day of March, 1867, he married Anna Moore, and settled on a farm about four miles from the village of Walton, where he has since resided. Ten years later the death angel crossed the threshold of their happy home, and the loved wife and tender mother was borne to the realms of the blessed, leav- ing the widowed husband with six children. His second marriage, which occurred in 1881, was with Miss Emma Waters; and of the six children born of their union, three are now living; namely, Kittie, Robert, and Bessie.

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In politics he is a stanch Republican, and a man who keeps abreast of the times in the affairs of his country.

His mother, Anna (Moore) Patterson, was the daughter of James Moore, who with his wife Elizabeth came to this country from Ire- land about 1835, and settled on a farm in the town of Hamden, N. Y., where they resided for nearly fifty years. She had three brothers and three sisters; namely, Thomas, Jane, Joseph, Elizabeth, William, and Margaret, all of whom are now dead except William and Margaret, who reside at Walton, N. Y. Before her marriage she taught a district school in various parts of the towns of Ham- den, Colchester, and Walton. She was a woman of many noble qualities of heart and mind, highly respected by all, and a zealous Christian. She died at the age of thirty-six years, March 10, 1877.

His three brothers and two sisters - namely, Lizzie, William M., George W., Alvin J., and Anna M .- all reside at Walton, except Anna, who lives at Delhi, N.Y. Lizzie, who was the first to enter the state of matrimony, married George Marvin, Jr., and resides about two miles from the vil- lage of Walton.

The subject of this sketch spent his early life at his father's home on the farm, where the characteristics of industry and frugality were so instilled into him, not only by pre- cept and example, but by required practice, that early he came to realize what was meant by the stern realities of life. From the time he was old enough to help his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, from six to eight months of the year was spent on the farm. Having improved his opportu- nities for obtaining an education, when seven- teen years of age he received a license to teach school; and his first term as teacher was in the same school he had always attended. Thereafter he attended the Walton Union School, and taught school alternately, being very successful as a teacher, having. taught at different times the three largest schools in the town of Walton outside of the village.

In 1890 he was the successful candidate in the Cornell University scholarship competi- tive examination held for Delaware County ;

and, at the opening of the school in Septem- ber of that year, he entered Cornell Univer- sity School of Law, from which he graduated June 16, 1892, receiving the degree of LL. B. Entering upon an office clerkship in the law office of the Hon. A. H. Sewall, County Judge, he remained with him until he was ad- mitted to the bar, which occurred November 25, 1893.

Mr. Patterson is a Republican in politics, and a member of the United Presbyterian church. In 1893 he was elected Justice of the Peace by a handsome majority, in which capacity he has served his town now for about one year, during which time about sixty per- sons charged with the commission of crime have been before him, besides a large number of civil actions. As a court, he has proved himself an apt discerner, wholly unbiassed by fear or favor, inspiring at the same time the confidence of the people and the respect of those who come before him.

In his legal profession his industry and ap- plication are guarantees of success, and his steadily increasing practice shows the confi- dence of his clients in his ability. We pre- dict for him genuine success.

ILBERT BOGART, a veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic, now peacefully engaged in general hus- bandry and dairying in the town of Mason- ville, Delaware County, N.Y., was born in Catskill, Greene County, January 23, 1823. His parents were Peter and Mary A. (Chides- ter) Bogart, his mother being a native of Cats- kill, his father of Dutchess County, where his grandfather was an early settler. The latter, Peter Bogart, Sr., was a soldier in the War of 1812. He moved from Dutchess County to Catskill, Greene County, and set- tled on a farm which is now owned by Edgar Bogart, and which is located near the Catskill House. The land was then in a wild state. The elder Mr. Bogart cleared the farm and made a home for his family, although he only held a lease. He saw eighty-four years of life, most of them years of toilsome activity. His wife also labored and lived to a good old age. They were well-to-do people for those

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days, and reared a large family of children, all of whom have now passed away.

Peter Bogart, Jr., grew to manhood in Cats- kill. He came to Delaware County in 1836, several years after his marriage, making the journey with teams, and bringing his wife and family and all his worldly effects. He bought at first fifty acres of heavily timbered land, and, making a small clearing, built a house for their home. A man of push and thrift, he worked hard, was financially suc- cessful, and bought morc land till he pos- sessed a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He was a member of the Baptist church, and in politics was an adherent of the Republican party. He died on his homestead at the age of eighty-one, his wife having preceded him to the silent land at about sixty years of age. Of their thirteen children six are now living, as follows: Benjamin Bogart, a farmer in Sul- livan County; Gilbert, of Masonville; James, a farmer occupying the paternal homestead at East Masonville; Sarah, wife of J. Henry Beach, residing with her brother Gilbert; Abram and Jeremiah, farmers in the town of Sidney.

In the district schools of the town of Cats- kill, where Gilbert resided till thirteen years of age, he received his first schooling. He was quick to learn, and made rapid progress in his studies, which he continued in Dela- ware County after coming here with his par- ents. Teaching one term of school in Pennsylvania was a part of his juvenile experience. Ambitious, pushing, and self- reliant, he started in life for himself at six- teen, and gave his father forty dollars a year from that time till he was of age. He had worked out for a while on a farm not far from home for eight dollars a month. Thinking to do better than this, he went back to Greene County, making the journey on foot, and worked there eight months. Returning then to Delaware County, he continued thus labor- ing by the month till twenty-three years old, in 1846, when he was enabled to buy the farm of one hundred acres, where he now resides, paying fifty dollars down. A log house was on the place, only a few acres of which were cleared. Mr. Bogart has lived here nearly half a century. That he has toiled early and late,

under the summer sun and amid the winter snows, clearing and ploughing, planting and harvesting and building, and that he has been a good manager, are abundantly indicated by the appearance of his well-tilled fields and the excellent condition of his neatly-kept prem- ises. He made successive purchases till at one time he owned two hundred and thirty acres. He now owns one hundred and thirty, on which he has made all the improvements. He has devoted much attention to dairying, keeping sometimes as many as forty-five head of cattle. He now has thirty.

A true patriot, Mr. Bogart enlisted in Sep- tember, 1861, to help quell the Southern Rebellion. He served in Company E, Sixty- first New York Volunteer Infantry, under Captain David Jackson, and was in the cam- paign of Rappahannock, and in the siege of Yorktown, and in several other engagements, enduring fatigues and hardships to the detri- ment of his health. He was honorably dis- charged on account of disability in 1862; and in August, 1864, he re-enlisted in the Engi- neer Corps, in which he served until he was mustered out, after the close of the war, July 4, 1865, at Hilton Head. His experiences in the army resulted in permanent injury to his health. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 180, of Masonville.

Mr. Bogart was married, September I, 1847, to Hannah M. Beach, who was born in Connecticut, March 30, 1827. They have had five children, only one of whom now sur- vives, Will E. Bogart, born July 31, 1864. He received his elementary education at East Masonville, and at Walton; and then at Col- gate University, Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., where he is now studying for the min- istry. He was married March 11, 1885, to Anna Fuller, a native of Masonville, daughter of William Fuller, whose biography is con- tained elsewhere in this volume. The other children of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Bogart were: Amanda, who died at three years of age; Ellen, who became Mrs. John Mattison, and died at the age of twenty-one ycars; Julia, Mrs. Ezra Coon, who died at twenty-four years, leaving three children - Lillie, Clarence, and Clara - another son, Leon, having died ; and Adelia Bagart, who died at sixteen years,

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Mrs. Hannah M. Bogart, wife of Gilbert Bogart, died May 12, 1894. She was a thor- oughly estimable woman, and a member of the Baptist church, as is her husband. Mr. Bo- gart is a Republican in politics, and has al- ways taken an active interest in the welfare and progress of his town. He has served four years as Poor Master.

On another page of the "Review " may be seen a portrait of this worthy and respected citizen.

OHN GRIFFIN, now residing at Grif- fin's Corners, in Middletown, where he is well known and highly respected, was born eighty-six years ago in Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of Ezekiel and Charlotte (White) Griffin, and grandson of William Griffin, who came from England and settled on Long Island. At the time of the breaking-out of the Revolutionary War the grandfather owned a large property; but, refus- ing to take up arms against his native country, his property was confiscated. After the war he removed to Westchester County, where he died, leaving four sons : William, Jr. ; Ezekiel ; Solomon ; and John.

Ezekiel was born on Long Island, but re- moved to Fishkill Mountain. In 1833 he came to Middletown, Delaware County, and invested in a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, now belonging to the Benjamin Crosby estate. He married Charlotte White, daugh- ter of John White, a prosperous farmer. This couple had these children - Eli, Murray G., Joseph, John, Matthew, David, Eliza, Pamelia, and Alice. The father was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and an adherent of the Whig party. He lived to be seventy- two years old, his wife dying when she was fifty-eight years of age.

John Griffin received his education in the district school of Fishkill; and, after engaging in agricultural work for others for some twenty years, he at last purchased seventy-five acres of land in the town of Halcott, Greene County, where he lived for fifty years. His first wife was Hannah Miles, daughter of Isaac Miles; and they were blessed with nine children, as follows: Charlotte married Samuel Hassard,

and went to Illinois. Daniel married Betsy Hosier, and resides in New York. Margaret is the wife of Levi Streeter, and lives in Min- nesota. Charles lives in Michigan. Phebe Jane married William Griffin, of Halcott. Lewis married, and made his home in Michi- gan. Clarissa became the wife of J. Barnum. David married Harriet Cole. William is also married. The mother of these children dying, Mr. Griffin married, in 1867, Martha Jane Munger, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Munger. Samuel was the son of John Munger, a Revolutionary patriot, and was born in Dutchess County. He lived to be forty-seven years old, his wife dying when thirty-four years of age, leaving six children : Susan, who married John Frey; Phebe C., who became the wife of G. B. Stone; Mary; James E., who lives in Nebraska; Henry J. ; and Martha J. In 1874 Mr. Griffin and his wife removed to Griffin's Corners. Here at Eto Cottage, pleasantly situated about seventeen hundred feet above tide-water, three-fourths of a mile from the railway station, forty rods from post-office and churches, Mrs. Griffin accommo- dates summer boarders. Mr. Griffin has held many positions of trust, being appointed as Sheriff in Dutchess County, and is numbered in the ranks of the Republican party. In religion he is liberal in his views, advocating progress in thought as well as in action.

OHN N. ARBUCKLE, the only son of the late Hon. Daniel T. Arbuckle, County Judge and Surrogate, is to-day, at the age of twenty-six years, one of the most prominent men in the town of Delhi, where he is conducting a large coal business, is the owner of a flour and feed mill and an elevator, and is an extensive retail dealer in grain and feed. His entire life has been spent in this vicinity, his birth having occurred in Delhi, April 23, 1868.

His grandfather, Nathaniel Arbuckle, a native of Scotland, emigrated to America at the age of eighteen, and for a few years worked upon a farm in Canada. From there he came to Delhi, where he purchased a partially cleared tract of land, and engaged in farming pursuits. He married, and reared a family of

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six children, namely : Margaret, who married Henry Rice, a farmer, of Delhi; William B. ; James N. ; Daniel T. ; C. J. ; and Peter B. He rounded out a full period of seventy-five years ; and his wife, who died at the home of her son Daniel, lived to the age of threescore and ten years. Both were faithful members of the Presbyterian church of Delhi.

Daniel T. Arbuckle obtained his elementary education in the district schools of Delhi, and was fitted for college at the Delaware Academy. He entered Union College, and, after being graduated from there, began the study of law with Colonel Robert Parker, of Delhi, an uncle of Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany. After his admission to the bar he began the practice of his profession in his native town, where he soon had an extensive clientage, and continued in active practice until 1883, when he was elected to the bench of the County Court. Judge Arbuckle retained this honored position until 1888, when by reason of con- tinued ill health he retired from active life. His death occurred on March 9, 1894, at the age of fifty-seven years. In memory of his distinguished services as jurist and citizen the Delaware County bar passed resolutions of respect and sympathy, rightly speaking of Judge Arbuckle as "having discharged his duties in all the various relations in life, not only in his professional, but in his judicial career and in the ordinary walks of life, with great care, credit, honor, and honesty" ; pay- ing a tribute to "his unswerving integrity, his devotion to the interests of his clients and the discharge of public duties, his painstaking meth- ods of business, his uprightness of character, and purity of heart"; attesting "his ability as a lawyer, his fairness as a judge, and his worth as a citizen " ; deploring his early removal "at a time in life when there appeared to be many years of usefulness before him, and the future for him looked bright and promising. A good man has passed away; a wise counsellor has gone to his reward ; a kind and devoted husband and father has been called to his eternal rest ; a noble, upright, conscientious citizen has joined the great majority."

Judge Arbuckle married Elizabeth J. Peters, who was one of six children born to John and Jane (Blakeley) Peters, of Bloomville. Mr.

Peters, who is a hale and hearty man, well advanced in years, has been engaged in agricult- ural pursuits during his life, having been the owner of a good farm in Bloomville, and also carried on a brisk trade in buying and selling butter. His wife long since passed to the better world. Judge and Mrs. Arbuckle reared three children, two daughters and a son. The eldest, Agnes, who was graduated from Vassar College, is a teacher of rare ability. Jennie, the other daughter, is an able assistant to her brother, the subject of this sketch, in his extensive business, having entire charge of the books and accounts, and representing him in his absence.

John N. Arbuckle was the first child born to his parents. He received a practical educa- tion, attending primarily the village school, and later the Delaware Academy. At the age of eighteen years he entered the post-office as a clerk under Henry Davis, remaining there three years. This not being a sufficiently active calling for one of his wide-awake and alert business proclivities, he established him- self as a dealer in coal. In 1891, in company with Mr. Penfield, he purchased a mill, and shortly afterward built the elevator and store- house, and in conjunction with his coal busi- ness dealt extensively in grain and feed. In September, 1893, Mr. Arbuckle purchased the interest of his partner, and has since continued in business alone. In politics Mr. Arbuckle is a steadfast Democrat. Religiously, he belongs to the Presbyterian church, of which he is a Trustee, and of which his mother is also an esteemed member.

These three children are to Mrs. Arbuckle a great help and comfort, each and all doing everything possible to make her pathway a pleasant one. The family residence, which is beautifully situated upon an eminence over- looking the village, indicates in all of its appointments the exercise of cultivated tastes and ample means.

ARVEY B. MORENUS, a contractor and builder, residing in Walton, worthily represents the industrial interests of the town, and is one of those brave citizen soldiers to whom the

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country is so much indebted. He was born in Oneonta, Otsego County, November 28, 1841.

Mr. Morenus comes of Revolutionary stock, and is one of the eleven children born to Will- iam and Polly (Wulf) Morenus, of whom the following grew to adult life: Caroline married George Hanford, and lived in Sidney, both de- ceased. Augusta married Samuel Seeley, and moved to Dakota, where her death occurred. Elizabeth is the wife of A. J. Knickerbocker, of Hancock. Elisha first married Euphemia Hoyt, and after her death Martha Bonnell. Harvey B. is further mentioned below. Fran- ces married Miles Robinson, of Sidney. Henry W. married Amelia Groatevant. Ellen died in early womanhood. Margaret died when young. DeWitt died in infancy. The parents removed to Sidney in 1845, the father there working at the carpenter's trade. In 1867 he removed with his family to North Walton, where he died in 1879. His widow survived him, and died in Oneonta.

.Harvey B. Morenus was reared and educated in Sidney Centre, attending the district schools until twelve years old, when he began to work with his father at carpentering. In July, 1861, he enlisted in the Third New York Cavalry, and was mustered into service on the 19th of August, being soon ordered to Wash- ington. On October 21 he was in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and during the following win- ter was encamped at Poolesville, Md. In the spring his regiment was sent to Harper's Ferry, thence down to Winchester, where on March 12, 1862, it was engaged in battle. The regiment was subsequently ordered to join Burnside's expedition at Newbern, N.C., but did not reach there until after the capture of the city, May 1, 1862. On the 15th the Third New York Cavalry occupied an important posi- tion at the front in the engagement at Trent Road, and there Mr. Morenus was wounded in the right side, a ball striking his heavy Colt's revolver and shattering it in pieces, one of which entered his side, and another his arm, where it remained for twenty-seven years before being taken out. He was sent to the regimental hospital, but soon reported for duty, and was in the battle at Roll's Mills on No- vember 7, at Kinston, N.C., December 14,

at White Hall the following day, and at Goldsboro on the 16th.

Among the numerous other engagements in which he took part may be named the follow- ing. At the battle of Trent Road, March 14, 1863, he was again wounded, a musket ball passing through his left arm, disabling him to such an extent that he was given a furlough of thirty days. He rejoined his regiment, and was again in battle April 28, 1863, at Beland Cross-roads; at Warsaw, July 4; at Tarboro, July 20; at Peletier's Mills, April 16, 1864; at Chula Station, May 12, 1864, when he was wounded in the forefinger while carrying a comrade from the field; at Malvern Hill, July 27 ; and from September 29 until October 7 he was at Johnson's Farm. During one of the skirmishes of those days Mr. Morenus, whose horse was shot from under him, captured the horse of Lieutenant Smith, who was killed, and succeeded in escaping his pursuers. On October 20, 1864, he was present at the battle of Charles City Pike, and on December 12 was at South Quay. From there Mr. Morenus was sent to Norfolk, where he was placed on guard duty, and in July, 1865, he was mustered out of service as Duty Sergeant.

Returning to Sidney Centre, Mr. Morenus engaged in agriculture, but two years later sold his farm and entered into the mercantile busi- ness, which he carried on successfully for several years. In 1869 he was appointed Post- master at Sidney Centre, and also Railway Commissioner, holding both offices until 1875, when he removed to Walton, in order that his children might have the benefit of its fine edu- cational facilities. He established himself in the village as a carpenter and builder, and by his enterprise and ability has secured a large and lucrative business.

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Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Delaware County, New York, Part 92

Author: Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, pub Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Boston : Biographical Review Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 744

Author: Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, pub
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Boston : Biographical Review Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 744