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nected with his present business. He was married in May, 1861, to Mary F. Spencer,. of Eaton, by whom he has one daughter, Nellie, now the wife of E. B. Noble, the junior member of the firm. Mr. Noble is a young man of sterling qualities, and is well known in Oneida as having a good capacity for business. He was engaged for some time in the gentlemen's furnishing business, previ- ous to the formation of the present partner- ship in 1888.
Mr. Mayne has a pleasant home on Lenox Avenue, Oneida, and also a cottage at Sylvan Beach. He has been a most successful busi- ness man, and has accumulated a handsome competency, wholly by his own energy and industry, and enjoys the confidence and es- teem of all those who know him, and espe- cially those who have had business dealings with him. He takes an active interest in everything calculated to benefit the village of his adoption. Politically, he supports the principles of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Mayne attend the Presbyterian church, of which Mrs. Mayne is a member.
ANDFORD L. CHAPEL, a com- mercial traveller with an excep- tional talent for business, was born June 27, 1842, in Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., where he still has his home. His grandfather was born in Connecticut, but re- moved from there with his wife to the town of Hamilton at an early date, purchasing a tract of land covered with timber, and build-
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ing their log house after clearing a farm. He died when his son, Peter Chapel, the father of Sandford, was but four years of age, leaving his wife to continue the struggle for life in this sparsely settled country, with three young sons and two daughters. Peter Chapel received a fair education in the primi- tive school-house of that day, and remained at home, assisting his mother and caring for her until her death.
At the time of his marriage, September 19, 1837, he purchased a farm, which is near the one now owned by our subject. He married Miss Marcia M. Gardiner, who came here with her parents from Coventry, Vt., and, settling down in his new home, became a thrifty farmer, being among the first in the town to raise hops. It is said that he always owned a good team, which shows that he was kind to dumb animals, that he took good care of his horses and cattle. Morever, he was a man who "always kept his word." May he long be held in honored remembrance! Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Chapel - Ellen A., Genoa L., and Sandford. Ellen A. married Dewitt C. Reese, farmer, of Hamilton, N. Y., March 20, 1856. Genoa L. married George B. Munson, merchant, of Hamilton, October, 1875.
Sandford L. Chapel remained on the farm until his twenty-first year, and then attended the Commercial College at Syracuse, of which Professor . D. Y. Ames was President. Here he studied the different courses of book-keep- ing, telegraphy, and penmanship, acquiring a
proficiency in these branches which enabled him to build up the wide reputation he has attained as a travelling salesman. He is not confined to any special line of goods, but sells independently, and, being thoroughly conversant with business matters and saga- cious and prudent in his dealings, has always been successful. At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Helen M. Reese, youngest daughter of S. Gillet and Mary A. (Nichols) Reese. They have four children - Mary L., Walter G., Arthur B., and Linn S. They attend the Methodist church, and are leading singers in the choir. Arthur and Linn are also very good singers.
Mrs. Sandford Chapel has a splendid voice, having wonderful compass, and comes of a long line of musicians. Her father and her sister Clarinda were celebrated musicians, achieving great reputation in this line in their travels through the country, giving concerts. Clarinda was a magnificent singer. She married George Baker, the great basso of the renowned Baker family, and died suddenly with black erysipelas after a few days' ill- ness, having sung with the "Baker Vocalists " several years. Later Helen, who was after- ward the wife of Mr. Chapel, sang in concert with her father, who formerly led the choir at Earlville. Mr. Reese also taught singing- school several years, and was leader of the choir of the Second Baptist Church of Hamil- ton until his last sickness, in March, 1872, when he died in the town of Hamilton, being seventy-two years of age, having sung all his life. His daughter, Mrs. Chapel, led the
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choir, playing the organ for several years fol- lowing his death.
There is marked musical ability in the fam- ily of Mr. Chapel, his daughter Mary having a fine contralto voice; and one of the sons, Walter, has made a considerable reputation as a composer, and is also a fine performer on the violin. He resides at home with his parents, being greatly afflicted with rheuma- tism. Mr. and Mrs. Chapel have thus nat- urally led a harmonious and charming life. Music, that most refining of all arts, has softened many a weary hour; and they have doubly consecrated their beautiful talent by devoting it to the service of worship. Mr. Chapel has taken the interest that all good citizens should in civic affairs, and does his duty at the polls as a thorough and consistent Democrat, but has no aspiration or inclination for political office. In his home circle, re- freshed with "Music and her sister, Song," he finds his greatest happiness.
EMAN A. HILL was born in Brook- field, N. Y., February 26, 1822, son of James Hill, who in 1800 came to Madison County, bought a tract of land in the town of Brookfield, and proceeded to build a log house and to clear a farm. William Hill, father of James, came to this town be- fore 1812, but later settled in the town of Eden, Erie County. He was an elder in the Methodist church, and the first regular relig- ious services in the town were held here by him. His grave is at Eden Hill. Two of
his sons remained in the town of Brookfield, and the rest went with their father to Eden. James Hill continued to work on the farm which he had purchased in Brookfield, and before his death had replaced the log house with a fine residence and good farm buildings, including a barn thirty by forty feet. He worked at shoemaking, in addition to farm- ing.
He married Miss Ardilissa Angel, whose birthplace was Exeter Centre, N. Y. Thir- teen children were born of this marriage, seven boys and six girls. Their names were : William; Jonathan; Sylvester; James and Ardilissa, twins, who died in infancy ; Sam- uel; Heman A .; James; Cylinda; Esther; Mary; Eunice; and Ardilissa. The mother died in the town.
Heman, the fifth son, stayed on the home farm until the age of nineteen, and then went to work by the month, remaining eleven years with the same employer. At the age of twenty-three he married Miss Maria Hink- ley, daughter of David and Susanna Hinkley, a native of Brookfield. After leaving his first employer, he bought a farm in the village, where he stayed for three years, afterward taking a trip to the West, upon his return from which he rented a place near his present farm. It was in this home that the first great sorrow of their lives came to them. Malig- nant diphtheria carried off in a week their two lovely daughters, Ida Vannette and Lilla May, also their grandfather New -three of the loved ones of the family - leaving Mr. and Mrs. Hill childless and fatherless. It
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was long before they rallied from this heavy stroke sufficiently to take an interest iu life again. After six years' residence at this place they bought the present beautiful home.
For many years no sorrow crossed their path. A daughter had been sent to bless them, whom they named Bertha M., when suddenly the wife and mother died on Febru- ary II, 1890, directly following the death of her sister, Miss Lois Hinkley, who had made her home many years with the family. Thus once more a double funeral wended its way from their door. Mr. Hill was indeed sadly afflicted in the loss of his wife. For nearly half a century they had met the joys and griefs of life together; and when her sum- mons came, while grieving to leave him deso- late, her face was still radiant with the blessed anticipation of meeting her angel children. Not only to her immediate family, but to the community at large, was her death a cause of the deepest mourning. With her husband she had been for many years closely identified with the Methodist church, an inde- fatigable worker. Both, being gifted with excellent musical talent, gave their services in singing the praises of God in the choir.
Mr. Hill, although over seventy years of age, still keeps up his connection with the active affairs of the church; and his judgment in financial matters is regarded with the high- est respect. He has been Steward of the church since he united with it, and has been District Steward for many years, also super- intendent and treasurer of the Sunday-school in Brookfield for three years, and Treasurer
and Clerk of the Board of Trustees. Since 1865 he has been a Director in the Brookfield Rural Cemetery, and is also its Treasurer. Mr. Hill was one of the first organizers of the Annual Fair of Madison County, has held the office of First Vice-President for many years, and has not missed a fair in forty years. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been an auctioneer, and in that capacity has trav- elled extensively in the United States.
Mr. Hill belongs to the Royal Templars, Grangers, and Odd Fellows, and in the latter organization holds the office of Vice Grand Supporter and Master. He formerly voted the Republican ticket, but from a sense of duty has latterly espoused the cause of the Prohibitionists. He is a man on whom his years have told lightly, and whose life of uprightness and integrity has endeared him to the community. His surviving daughter, Bertha M., Mrs. Orville Southworth, presides over his home. Her husband is the son of Captain Horace Southworth, a noted advocate of the cause of temperance, who was born in the town of Edmeston, Otsego County, in 1809. His great-grandfather, Constant Southworth, was one of the Pilgrims who came over in the "Mayflower." (An ex- tended sketch of the family will be found in the biography of Dr. Oscar L. Southworth, elsewhere printed in this book.)
Orville Southworth was educated in the public schools and at Whitestown. After having followed a mechanic's trade for several years, he came to live on the farm of his father-in-law. He deserves much credit for
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having brought the temperance organizations up to their present standard, and in the pres- ent strength of the Prohibition movement he can see the marked change from the days when his solitary vote was the only one cast for the cause. He has represented his dis- trict in convention on several different occa - sions. In this household, comprising Mr. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Southworth, and their two children, is found the spirit of happiness and contentment, tempered by Christian resig- nation. In the cause of religion, temperance, and good government the family are foremost in their sympathies; and their opinions on all such matters are hearkened to with deference and respect.
EFFERSON NEW, dairyman and hop- grower of the town of Lenox, was born at Clockville in 1838. His father, Simeon P. New, who was born in Columbia County, New York, in 1813, was the fifth child of the eight sons and two daughters of Elias New, all of whom are now dead but one, James C. New, in whose biographical sketch, on another page, is given an account of the ancestry of the family. Mr. Simeon P. New was a farmer, as his father had been before him. He married about the year 1835 Sarah Lynk, of Columbia County, daughter of Zachariah and Catherine Lynk, by whom he had eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom two sons and one daugh- ter are still living. They are: Jefferson, of this sketch; Joanna W., widow of Asa E. New, living in Chicago, Ill., with one son
and one daughter; and Martin V., residing in Oneida, N. Y., who has one son. Mr. New died at the home of his son Jefferson in 1860. His widow was married again, to Peter F. Mesick. She died in Columbia County, June, 1877, aged sixty-one years.
Our subject was brought up to farm life, and received the greater part of his education in the old stone school-house half a mile west of his home, finishing with one term's attendance at the Oneida Seminary. Febru- ary 7, 1861, he married Miss Marietta Van Brocklin, of Oneida, N. Y., daughter of Garret and Regina L. (Cooper) Van Brocklin. Mr. Van Brocklin died in 1882, at the age of seventy-seven. His widow still lives on the farm near Oneida, and in full possession of her faculties, at the advanced age of eighty- five years. She has had eleven children, of whom five sons and four daughters are still living.
Mr. and Mrs. New have been blessed with five children, three sons and two daughters; namely, Charles E., Sarah Regina, Herman V., and Tilden G. Their first child, an in- fant, is an angel in heaven. Of the living children, Charles E., a farmer of the town of Smithfield, married a Miss Maud Shaver, and has two daughters. Sarah married J. Will Caswell, and resides in Chicago, where the husband is connected with Marshall, Field & Co.'s mercantile establishment. They have one daughter. Herman V. is also a resident of Chicago, employed in the wholesale depart- ment of Marshall, Field & Co. Tilden G., nineteen years of age, remains at home, un-
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married and assisting in the management of the farm, which was settled in 1839. This family are all well educated, and Herman is a graduate of a business college.
Mr. Jefferson New runs a large dairy, with from twenty to twenty-seven cows, and sup- plies a great number of customers in Canas- tota with milk. For the past fourteen ycars he has been extensively engaged in hop-grow- ing, having from seven to ten acres under cul- tivation, and getting from thirty-five dollars to three hundred dollars per acre, and gather- ing as high as fourteen hundred pounds to the acre. He has one hundred and fifty acres in his farm, on which he carries on general hus- bandry. In politics he follows the course of his ancestors, who were all sterling Demo- crats. He has never sought office, but was at one time Collector of the town of Lenox. He is an Odd Fellow, and has served his lodge as Chaplain. Both Mr. New and his wife are strict and professed Presbyterians, leading Christian lives, and finding joy and comfort in their children, who, having received moral and religious training, have not ceased to walk in wisdom's ways and to show their grateful appreciation of their parents' loving care.
MOS P. DODGE, M.D., a popular and distinguished physician of Oneida Castle, N.Y., was born in Win- field, Herkimer County, N. Y., December 16, 1854. His grandfather, Rufus Dodge, was an extensive farmer and a lifelong resident of Winfield. Sanders Dodge, son of Rufus and
the father of our subject, was born in that town, and made such excellent use of his op- portunities as to be one of the best educated men in the community. He went to St. Law- rence County when a young man, and was for some years private secretary of Mr. Parish, a wealthy mine-owner. After resigning that position, he returned to Winfield, purchased a farm, and devoted his time to agricultural pursuits until his death. He married Miss Elizabeth Prescott, who was born in New Hartford, Oneida County, N.Y. Her fa- ther, Daniel Prescott, was born in the same place, and spent his entire life there as a farmer. His son, Hon. Amos H. Prescott, was a member of the State Assembly for a number of terms, and County Judge of Herki- mer for seventeen years. His son, Daniel, was also an Honorable. His grandson, Will- iam, is a member of the State Assembly at the present time. Sanders Dodge and wife were the parents of three children - Sarah, Mary, and Amos P. The father was a Democrat in politics, served as Justice of the Peace for a number of years, was the candidate of his party for the Assembly, and also for Super- visor. The mother died on the home farm.
Amos P. Dodge attended the district school in his boyhood, and later the Clinton Liberal Institute at Clinton, N.Y., where he was graduated in the class of 1872, when he at once began the study of medicine with Dr. Spencer, of Winfield. He attended medical lectures at the University of Maryland, and received a diploma from that institution. Later he attended medical lectures for one
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year in New York City, and was for a time resident physician at one of the hospitals in Albany, N. Y. Going from there to Ilion, N. Y., he practised with Dr. E. S. Walker for several months, and finally settled at Oneida Castle, where he has been actively engaged in his profession ever since. On June 29, 1881, Dr. Dodge married Miss Hattie A. Wells, a native of Oneida Castle, Oneida County, N. Y. The following little sketch of her ancestry will be of interest to the reader. Her great-grandfather, Calvin Wells, removed from Long Island, his birth- place, to Niskayuna, Schenectady County, N. Y., where he joined the Shakers, and there spent his last years. His son, Joseph Y. Wells, was young when his parents united with this community. He resided with them until he was nineteen years old, when he mar- ried a Shaker girl, and went to Oneida County to live, this being in 1818, and a few years later kept hotel, then bought a farm in the town of Lenox, Madison County, where he remained until his death. The maiden name of his wife was Sophia Thomas. His son, Calvin H. Wells, the father of Mrs. Dodge, was born in Vernon, Oneida County, N. Y., June 8, 1823. For the past thirty years he has lived at Oneida Castle, practically retired from active life. He married in 1846 Miss Adelia Brown, who was born in Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y., and was the daughter of Clark and Julia (Babcock) Brown. They reared six children; namely, Sidney, Mary, Hattie, Calvin, Marrilla, and Florence. Hat- tie, who became the wife of Dr. Amos P.
Dodge, died in 1886, leaving one child, a daughter - Marian Prescott Dodge.
Dr. Dodge occupies the position of Surgeon for the West Shore Railroad, is a member of the United States Society of Railway Sur- geons, also of the New York State Medical Association and the Oneida County Medical Society, and was Pension Surgeon from 1884 to 1888. Dr. Dodge is an able and consci- entious physician, has an excellent practice, and is one of the leading members of his pro- fession in the county. He is deserving of his success, as he has an honorable record; and his genial qualities and pleasant manner make him a welcome friend at the bedside of a patient. He takes an interest in politics, and has always supported the Democratic party.
ALBERT STANSBURY, a prom- ising and already highly successful . young business man of Canastota, belongs to an old family, several of whose mein- bers are accorded brief mention in this memorial sketch. He was born at Tunkhan- nock, Pa., December 19, 1862, son of Truxton S. Stansbury, who was born at the same place in 1828. The latter was a son of Washington Stansbury, born in Baltimore County, Mary- land, June 20, 1805, and he the son of Elijah Stansbury, whose father, William, was one of the earliest settlers of Baltimore and a sol- dier in the Revolutionary War. The veteran raised a family of four sons; namely, Abra- ham, William, John, and Elijah. The Stans- bury family trace their origin to England,
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where several of its members were prominent among the men of their time, holding posi- tions of trust in military and civil life. On arriving at years of maturity, Elijah Stans- bury married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Eak, a native of Switzerland. In 1809, tak- ing with him his wife and family, he went to Tuscarawas, Stark County, Ohio, and entered land. He died in 1813, leaving five chil- dren, three sons and two daughters; namely, Tishe, Dorcas, Washington, William, and Julia Ann. The family was kept together by the mother, who, although possessed of but limited means, toiled successfully for her children. She died at the advanced age of ninety-five years and six months. Her hus- band was a man of abilities above the aver- age, and was well educated.
William Stansbury, second son of the pre- ceding, born April 20, 1807, accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1809, and became a chair- maker and painter. The first house in Rich- mond, Jefferson County, Ohio, was painted by him. He married in 1828 Elizabeth Arm- strong, a native of Lancashire County, Penn- sylvania, born August 5, 1811, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Mckinley) Armstrong, the latter being of Irish extraction. After his marriage William Stansbury located him- self on a farm in Tuscarawas Township, Stark County, Ohio, of which place he has to the present time been a constant resident. He and his wife became the parents of eleven children, namely, John, Joshua, Josiah, Waft, Tishe, Alsina, Joseph, Mahala, and Absalom; also Elizabeth and Thomas, who died when
young. John, Joshua, and Waft reside in Indiana, the others being still residents of Stark County, Ohio. Tishe is a marble-cut- ter in Massillon. Alsina is the wife of Reuben Birchfield, of the same place. Mahala is the wife of Daniel Wilhelm, of Canal Fulton.
Washington Stansbury, like his brother William, removed to Ohio with his parents. He lived at home with his mother until the age of sixteen, when he went to Richmond, Ohio, and learned the cabinet and chair- making trade with David Johnston. In 1824 he went to Pennsylvania, and first settled at Danville, Montour County, where he worked at his trade, afterward going to Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, and from there to Wilkes- barre, Luzerne County. From the latter place he went to Tunkhannock, where in the spring of 1828 he commenced business for himself. On the 4th of September, 1828, he married Elizabeth Higgins, a resident of Wilkesbarre. She was of Irish ancestry on her father's side, and was born in the State of New Jersey on June 2, 1806. Six children were the result of this union, four sons and two daughters, as follows: Benjamin W., Aurora E., Truxton S., Henry S., George W., and Olivia E. All of these, except Aurora E. and George W., are now deceased.
The father of these children became a prominent and widely known citizen of Tunk- hannock, where, in addition to his regular trade, he carried on the business of undertak- ing for fifty - eight years. He served five years as Justice of the Peace, to which office
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he was elected in 1840, and was also chosen Coroner of Wyoming County at the first elec- tion held for that office, being later elected Associate Judge in the same county. This is the more remarkable from the fact of his edu- cational advantages having been confined to about two years' attendance at a log school- house, where he acquired but the rudiments of lettrning. His natural intelligence and con- tinued mental activity, however, supplied the lack of early opportunity, and obtained for him a high position among his fellow-citi- zens, which he occupied to the close of his life. For forty-eight years he was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, being a class leader all that time, and serving as Trustee and Steward. He was a good hus- band and father, giving his children the best schooling obtainable at that time. He died in January 17, 1891, leaving a large estate. His widow died March 20, 1892.
Truxton S. Stansbury married Armina Vosburg, of Russell Hill, Pa., daughter of Romanzo Vosburg. They resided at Tunk- hannock. He was Deputy Sheriff of his county when in the spring of 1864, on March 21, he enlisted as private in Company B, Twelfth Regiment, New York State Volun- teers. He was in the service but a few months, when he was taken prisoner at the Weldon Railroad battle, and died three days after from the hardships of prison life, when but thirty-eight years of age, leaving his widow and two sons, namely: T. Albert, the subject of this sketch, and Truxton E. Stans- bury, now a farmer in Oklahoma Territory,
residing near Reno City. The widow of Truxton Stansbury married George Shupp, who has since died, leaving her with three children. She is now the matron of the Bap- tist Academy at Factoryville, Pa.
T. Albert Stansbury was well educated in the public schools, and, when seventeen years of age, began to learn the baker's trade at Tunkhannock, serving three years as an ap- prentice, at the end of which period he started in .business for himself at Bloomsburg, Pa. In 1888 he removed to Canastota, as manager for Mrs. Joslyn, three months later purchased the business at No. 2 Centre Street, and in the spring of 1890 bought out the establish- ment of W. J. Jones. Here he is doing a large and increasing business, having won the confidence of the people by adhering to strictly legitimate methods and by close attention to the wants of his patrons. He at first did all his own work, but now employs three men in the bakery and two men on the road, his wife and another woman being fully occupied as assistants. He has an extensive trade in ice-cream, the excellent quality of this article manufactured by him having attracted the attention and won the enco- miums of his patrons. He bakes about two hundred loaves of bread per day, and a large quantity of cakes and pies. August 1, 1893, he purchased the fruit, confectionery, and tobacco business of C. Garlock at 211 Peter- boro Street. which he uses as a branch bak- ery. Here he manufactures nearly all his own candies.
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