Commemorative biographical record of Dutchess County, New York, Part 56

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1354


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On October 8, 1873, Mr. Humphrey was united in marriage with Miss Mary Vignes, who was born in Kingston, May 20, 1850, a daughter of John Vignes, of that city, who was of French descent. Mr. Humphrey is a stanch Republican, and takes an active inter- est in all matters relative to the welfare of his community. In 1884 he was elected alder-


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man for the Sixth ward, and served two terms; also two terms on the water board, and at the present time represents his ward in the board of supervisors. Socially, he belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and both he and his wife are members of the Reformed Dutch Church, of which he is also a member of the Consistory.


TSAAC VINCENT, SR., father of Mrs. Phoebe A. Wing, was born January 26, 1781, in the town of Unionvale, Dutchess Co., N. Y., son of Gilbert and Phoebe (Vail) Vincent, both also natives of Dutchess county, and highly respectable farming people. In religious faith they were members of the Society of Friends. They had a family of thirteen children, named respectively: Isaac, Absalom, Rebecca, La- vina, Jonathan, Leonard, Thomas, Margaret and Elizabeth (twins), Richard. Michael, Phebe Ann, and Hepsibeth. Of these, Mar- garet married John Potter, and had two chil- dren-Jane, who married Theron Thompson, and Thomas, who was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and died of wounds received at the battle of Antietam. Elizabeth married Jonathan Huestis, and had two children-Eg- bert, married to Mariette Williams (they had three children, and both are now deceased), and Jane, married to Isaac Mabbett (they have no children: Mr. Mabbett is deceased, and his widow resides in Chicago).


Isaac Vincent, the eldest in the above men- tioned family of thirteen children, in I So7 mar- ried Martha Duncan, who was born at Dover, Dutchess county, in 1788, and died October 30, 1873. Isaac was a merchant, and opened the first store at Chestnut Ridge; he was also a farmer, and accumulated a considerable amount of property. Altogether he was a man of no small influence in his day, too busy to accept office, though a strong Whig and Re- publican. He was the first postmaster at Chestnut Ridge, and when advanced years came upon him he handed the office over to his son Edgar, at whose death Mrs. Phoebe A. Wing took charge thereof; it has been in the family the long period of eighty years in all. The record of the children born to Isaac and Martha (Duncan) Vincent is as follows:


(1) Horatio N. was born September 16, 1808, and died unmarried, May 27, 1862.


(2) David was born March 10, 1810, and died February 5, 1887. He married Phoebe Preston, who was born November 3, 1817, and


died September 20, 1856; they had three chil- dren-Isaac, born May 16, 1847, died January 25, 1889; Martha, born July 13, 1849. died July 16, 1874; and Obed, born in 1855, died July 13, 1892 (he married Ella Vincent, and had one daughter, Hazel). Obed was a Re- publican in politics. Isaac, Jr., son of David, married Mary E. Albro, and had three children -Phoebe Ann, David D., and Martha A. (now Mrs. John A. Gaffney ). Martha, daughter of David, married Stephen Moore, and had one son-David, a merchant and farmer at Cloe Valley; he married Minnie Vincent, and they have two children-Edna M. and Vincent.


(3) Gilbert, born March 14, 1812, married Mary Van Wyck, October 2, 1856, and they had two children- Horatio N., born January 1, 1859, died March 14, 1860; and Phoebe A .. born May 1, 1861 (she married John L. Beld- ing. and had two children-Vincent, born Au- gust 26, 1879, died June 26, 1880, and John L., born April 16, 1882; their mother, Phæbe, died August 26, 1884). Gilbert Vincent died September 23, 1875.


(4) Edgar, born December 1, 1813, re- ceived a liberal common-school education, and became a leading business man, was a Repub- lican in politics, and a leader in his party. In 18- he was elected to the State Assembly; was also county clerk six years, and, as already stated, was postmaster at Chestnut Ridge, in addition to which he filled many minor offices, all with the same degree of ability and integ- rity characteristic of him. No man had a wider acquaintance than Edgar Vincent, and none was more deserving of the high esteem in which he was held by all classes in the com- munity, He died unmarried, May 14, 1874, deeply regretted by all who knew him.


(5) PHOEBE A., the youngest daughter and child of Isaac and Martha (Duncan) Vincent, was born at Dover, Dutchess county, Novem- ber 4, 1818. She was married in 1840 to Obed Wing, who was born August 2, 1817, and died January 17, 1882. They had no family, but reared from childhood Martha Pray, a daughter of George and Nancy (Baker) Pray, who, at their death, gave Martha to Mr. and Mrs. Wing, and she became as dear to them. as if she was their own daughter. She has three brothers: Elias N., George and Seward, and one sister, Ida ( now Mrs. Charles Duncan). Mrs. PICEBE A, WING is in many ways a re- markable woman, there being few of her age who can boast of her wonderful vitality and


EDGAR VINCENT.


'ISAAC VINCENT.


Ofed Wing


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brightness. To-day, with the assistance of Miss Pray, she is conducting a large farm with all the ability and acumen of many a man of half her years, and ever since her brother Ed- gar's death, up to September, 1895, she was the efficient and courteous postmistress at Chestnut Ridge. Far and wide she is known and respected, and the wish of all is that she may be spared many years of usefulness and beneficence.


J EDEDIAH 1. WANZER. The Wanzer family, which has held an influential posi- tion in this region for many generations, is of old pioneer stock, and the hardy virtues of their ancestry are well exemplified in their numerous descendants.


The first of the line was Abraham Wanzer (1), who lived at Horse Neck, on Long Island Sound, in the town of Greenwich, Conn., about 1700. He was married first to Abigail Husted, of that place, who died several years before him. He afterward married Deborah Classon, who survived him several years. He had two children by his first wife, Anthony and Moses (1), and by his second wife, one child, Deborah. Later in life he moved with his family to the town of Sherman, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.


Moses Wanzer (1) was born at Horse Neck, about the year 1722. He married Elizabeth (Benedict) Knapp, of Danbury, Conn .. and lived and died on the farm in Sherman owned, in 1870, by Abram Wanzer, their grandson. They had eight children: (I) Abram (2), (II) Nicholas, (III Moses (2), (IV) Ebenezer, (V) Abigail, (VI) Husted, (VII) Elizabeth, and (VIII) John.


(I) Abram Wanzer (2) lived in New Mil- ford, Conn., and had a large family. His eld- est son, Zebulon, married Sybil Wing, whose father was killed at a raising of a sawmill at Oblong. They lived on a farm near New Mil- ford, Conn., and had four children, as follows: (I) Michael went to Iowa when a young man, married and had two children, who, being orphaned at an early age, were taken in charge by their uncle Elihu, living at Macedon, N. Y., but later returned to the West. (2) Elihu, son of Zebulon, married Tammy Eddy at Quaker Hill, and removed to Macedon, N. Y .. where they resided in 1873. They have no issue. (3) Elizabeth married Ward Bryant, and lived in Amenia, Dutchess county. They


had eleven children: Laura, Calvin, Elihu, James, Amos, Sarah, Jane, Ezra, Phebe, Reu- ben, and Coralie. (4) Jane married Luther Bencroft, and lived near Macedon Locks, New York.


Moses Wanzer, the son of Abram (2), mar- ried Sally Akin, daughter of Benjamin Akin, of Pawling, Dutchess Co., N. Y., they lived in Sherman, Conn., and had fifteen children- Nicholas Akin, Phebe, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Martha, Jane, Anna, Sarah, Lydia, Moses, Margaret, Edward, Mary, Harriet, Martha- of whom, Sarah Wanzer married Mr. Congdon, and lived in Beekman; her son James attended Cornell University, and died about the year 1872. Lydia married James Haight, lived at Chappaqua, N. Y., and had two daughters. Margaret married Dr. Holcomb, of New York City, where they were living in 1873: Moses, Jr., a farmer, married the daughter of Ezra Haight, of Chappaqua, N. Y. ; Edward A. mar- ried a daughter of Akin Taber, a farmer of Pawling; Harriet lived to maturity; ( the others died young).


(II) -- Nicholas Wanzer, son of Moses, Sr., married Phebe Miller, and lived in the town of New Milford, Conn. He had no children.


(III)-Moses, son of Moses, Sr., married Sarah Hill, and moved to Vermont. They had seven children: Hill, Nicholas, Moses, John, Amy, Betsey and Sarah. Of these, Moses lived at Bath, Long Island, and later moved to Illinois, where he died about 1879. He was engaged in the clothing business in New York City. He had several children, among whom was a son named Moses, who, when a young man, went to Illinois, married and had several children. He lived in or near McHenry county.


(IV)- Ebenczer, son of Moses, Sr., mar- ried Betsey Hendrick, and lived in or near Brookfield, Conn. He had seven children: David, Phebe, Anna (3), Ebenezer, Ira, Hiram and William. Of these, David never married, and lived and died in the old homestead. Phebe married Lewis, son of Thomas Havi- land, and lived in the town of New Milford, Conn .; they had two children: Ebenezer Wanzer Haviland and Betsey P. Ebenezer married Betsey S. Wheeler, and a daughter of theirs, Betsey P. Haviland, married Robert Post, of Long Island, and settled at Quaker Hill, in Pawling, N. Y., where they now live. They have three children Edmond Phebe and Isaac. Anna (3) married David


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Merritt, and lived on Quaker Hill, N. Y .; she died young: they had two children, who died in infancy. Ebenezer married Lucy, daughter of William Leach, settled near Brookfield, Conn., and had three children -- William L .. Phebe L. and Betsey. Ira married Laura Hayes, of New Fairfield; he was the author of an arithmetic, which was esteemed as a valuable work; they had five children-David, Levi, Mary, Flora and Betsey. Hiram died


young. William married Hannah, daughter of Zachariah Ferris, of Jerusalem, Conn., and lived in or near New Milford, Conn .; they had four children Charles, Hannah, Ellen and Anna; of these. Charles married Carrie Tread- well, and had three children -- William D., Minnie and Alice.


VI -Husted Wanzer, son of Moses, Sr .. born March 3, 1762, for his first wife married Lucy Leach, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Marsh, Leach, of Sherman, Conn. She died 25th of 12th month, 1797, and for his second wife he married Mary, daughter of Stephen Osborn, of New Milford, Conn., who did not live long. He then married, for his third wife, Florilla Pepper, daughter of Dan and Sarah Pepper. of Sherman, Conn. Ilusted Wanzer had five children-three by the first marriage, (1) Daniel, (2) Elizabeth, (3) Ebenezer, one by the second marriage, (4) Nicholas, and one by the third marriage, (5) George. (1) Daniel married Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Haviland, of Oblong, or Haviland Hol low, and they had seven children-Husted, Haviland, John, Richard, Henry, Isaac and Ann. 12 Elizabeth Wanzer was born 12th of 5th month, 1793, married Henry, son of Edward Briggs, of Quaker Hill, and had four children-Annan, who married Polly Akin; Edward, who died single; Husted, who mar- ried Elizabeth Wanzer, and Henry, who mar- ried Almira Haws. (3) Ebenezer, born De- cember 20, 1795, married Sarah, daughter of Amos and Esther Irish, of Quaker Hill, Dutchess county, in 2d month, 1820. She died on the 20th of December, 1823, and in 6th month, 1825, he married Esther Irish, sis- ter of his first wife. She died on 3d of 10th month, 1838; and on 20th of 8th month, 1842, he married Eliza Boughton, daughter of Thad- deus and Lucy Boughton, of Victory, Cayuga county. Hle had nine children, of whom, two were by the first marriage: Lucy, born 15th of Sth month, 1821, died 22d of 2d month, 1842; and Elias, born 12th of 12th month, 1823,


died in September, 1896 the married Hannah Haight, and had two sons). The children by


the second marriage were: Sarah, born 7th of 6th month, 1826; Charles J., born 26th of 2d month, 1828; James M., born 9th of 9th month, 1829; Elizabeth B., born 12th of 7th month, 1831 ; Caroline, born 29th of 4th month, 1835; Daniel H., born 3d of 12th month, 1837; and Mary, who only lived to be some thirteen years of age. (4; Nicholas, born January S. 1804, and died 27th of 10th month, 1875 ; mar- ried Almira, daughter of Jedediah and Lydia Irish, of Quaker Hill, N. Y., and settled in New Fairfield, Conn. They had the follow- ing children: Jedediah I., our subject; Eben- ezer H., born December 24, 1831, and died unmarried October 31, 1855: Mary Jane, born June 21, 1834, married Harvey H. Barnum, February 6, 1854; Gilbert, born April 27, 1836, died October 11, 1861, unmarried; Henry B., born July 9, 1839, first married April 3, 1861, Sylvia D. Sheldon, who died August 21, 1863, and he married for his second wife Phoebe J. Haynes; John L., born August 8, 1843, died January 13, 1844; and Elizabeth B., who was born October 11, 1847, and died December 6, 1879, married Perley M. Cummings, and had three children, one of whom died in infancy: Cora Emily, born June 13. 1876; and Ralph H., born October 4, 1877. (5. George Husted Wanzer, born February 8, 1820, was the only child of the third marriage of Husted Wanzer, and lives on the homestead at Sherman, Con- necticut.


(VII) Elizabeth, the seventh child of Moses, Sr., married Thomas Haviland, a resident of Leach Hollow. They had eight children- Horace, Willis, John, Jane, Elizabeth, Phebe, Nancy and Sophia. Of these, Horace married Eunice, daughter of Ichabod Leach, of Leach Hollow, and settled in that place, where he followed the blacksmith's trade; he had one son, Israel, who married Abby, daughter of Zachariah Ferris. Willis Haviland, for his first wife, married Phebe Searing, and settled at Hartsville, Dutchess county, where her death occurred; they had three daughters, Sarah Eliza (married to Philip (son of Isaac Merritt, of Millbrook, N. Y.); Mary, who never mar- ried, and Harriet. Willis Haviland, for his second wife married Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Hart. John Haviland married Mary Ann Ferris, daughter of Zachariah Ferris, and lived near New Milford, Conn .; they had one child-Jane Ann, who married Gersham Gid-


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dings, but nothing is known of their issue. Jane Haviland married Simeon Hinmon, of New Milford, Conn. : nothing is known of their issue; she died and he afterward moved to Seneca county, N. Y. Eliza Haviland married Ira Leach, son of William Leach, and lived and died at Leach Hollow, Conn .; they had two children, whose names are not known. Phebe Haviland remained single.


(VIII) John Wanzer, youngest son of Moses and Elizabeth (Knapp) Wanzer, lived in New Fairfield, Conn. He married Grace Swords, and their children were: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ithamar, Abigail, Amittai, Elizabeth, John Jay, Francis D. S., Abbie Jane, and Willis H. Of these, Abraham married (first) Anna Leach, and (second) Phebe (Haviland) Hathaway. Isaac Wanzer married (first) Eliza Treadwell, and (second) Cornelia Tread- well; children by first marriage: Jabez, Grace, Jane Ann, John, Lucy Eliza, and Andrew; children by second marriage: Elizabeth, Mar- garetta, George Munson, Sarah C. and Grace. Jacob Wanzer married Phebe Leach, and had children: Lucy Ann, Mary, Abigail, Merritt L., Jane and Julia. John Jay Wanzer married Ann Eliza Dennison. Francis D. S. Wanzer married Lucia S. Osborn, and had children: Harriet A., Sarah, Mary E., Abbie Jane, Richard D., Franklin, Thalia Grace, George and Lottie E. Willis H. Wanzer lived on his father's homestead in New Fairfield, Conn. ; he married (first) Lydia Ann Leach, and (sec- ond) Sarah Ann Kellogg, and had children: Henry J., Hanford Kellogg, Willis H., Jr., Lydia Ann and Rachel Sophia. (Willis Wan- zer represented New Fairfield in General As- sembly of Connecticut in 1855, 1858 and 1873). Amnittai Wanzer married Homer J. Leach. and had children: Daniel Francis and Abbie Jane. Elizabeth Wanzer married Andrew A. Skid- more, and had children: Elizabeth, Jane S., Andrew A. and James W.


Amos Irish, the maternal great-grandfather of our subject, was a son of Joseph, who was a son of Jedediah, of one of the early families of Rhode Island. Amos was born in Pawling, May 20. 1757, waseducated there and engaged in farming. He was a birthright Friend. He married Esther Irish, a cousin, who was born May 2, 1757, and they had ten children, whose names with dates of birth are as fol- lows: Jedediah, 31st of Sth month, 1780: Ruth, 4th of 7th month, 1782; Rachel, 27th of 5th month, 1784; Joseph, 22d of 3d month,


1786: Charles, 14th of 4th month, 1788; Cynthia, 20th of 5th month, 1790; David, 20th of 6th month, 1792: Jonathan, 23d of 8th month, 1794; Esther, 22d of 2d month, 1797; and Sarah, 13th of 9th month, 1799. Of these children all lived to a good old age, excepting Cynthia, who died young. They married as follows: Jedediah-Lydia Hoag; Ruth-Abram Wing; Rachel Warren Giles; Joseph married (first) Miss Dorland, and (second) Jane Stevenson: Charles-Rhoda Ketcham; David-Martha Titus; Jonathan married (first) Ruth Chase, and (second) Han- nah Tallman; Esther-Ebenezer Wanzer; and Sarah-Ebenezer Wanzer.


Jedediah Irish, grandfather of our subject on the maternal side, was born in or near the town of Pawling, Dutchess county, and spent his lifetime there, dying September 4, 1818. He was educated in the common schools of that town, and taught school for many years. He married Lydia Hoag, who was born Sep- teinber 20, 1792, and they had seven children, who married as follows: Amos-Matilda Giles; Cynthia-Nathan O'Banks; Almira-Nicholas Wanzer; Martin -- Mary A. Haviland; Rebecca -Gilbert Jennings; Jane-John Lawrence; and Willis-Phoebe Haviland.


Almira Irish, mother of our subject. was born January 13, 1807, in the town of Sher- man, Conn .. educated there, and married Nicholas Wanzer, of Pawling. She died Sep- tember 21, 1861.


David Irish, father of our subject's present wife, was born in thetown of Pawling, and edu- cated in the common schools. He was always engaged in farming, and also followed surrey- ing. He was a Friend, and a minister in the Friends Society. He married Martha Titus, daughter of William and Mary (Cock) Titus. farmers of Orange county, N. Y. He died October 2, 1894. at the age of ninety-two, and his wife passed away February 22, 1873, aged eighty-four. They had three children: (1) William Irish, born in Pawling, April 16, 1820, engaged in farming. He married Miss Annie Quimby, who was born on the Ist of 2d month, 1825, daughter of Aaron and Phebe Quimby. and had one son --- David A. Irish, born 3d of 8th month. 1850, in Pawling, where he en- gaged in farming. He married first Miss Phebe M. Ilallock, by whom he had no issue. For his second wife he married Miss Henriette Hallock, a sister, and by her he had one child, who died in infancy. (2) Mary Irish was


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born in Pawling, June 7, 1824, and married | of 1864 65 he sold the farm and returned east David I. Wing, a farmer in that town. They Tto Knowlesville, N. Y.). Later he went to Danbury, where he again engaged in survey- ing, and in 1867 purchased the farm upon which he now resides, and which comprises 300 acres of valuable land. had four children: Elizabeth, born 12th of 5th month, 1848; Martha T., 3d of 2d month, 1850: Phebe P., 27th of 7th month, 1853: Caroline, 25th of 7th month, 1860; Elizabeth married Edward Ryder; Martha re- mained single; Phebe married Edward Wilcox; Caroline remained single. (3) Phebe T. Irish (present wife of our subject) was born in Pawl- ing, September 1, 1828, and educated there. She married (first ) Joseph Pierce, Jr., a farmer of Westchester county, N. Y., by whom she had four children: (1) William, born June 12, 1853, died in infancy. (2) Annie S. married Charles Irish, and they have two children Mary S. and Frederick. (3) Joseph D., born June 27, 1857, died March 6, 1893; became a farmer; he married Jennie L. Jones, daughter of Edward and Caroline Jones, and they had one child -- Edward H. Pierce. (4) Henry, born in Pawling, June 7, 1859. was educated there, graduated at Cornell College, and be- came a civil engineer; he is now in the employ of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Co .; he married Miss Mary L. Hyatt. of Ithaca, and they have no issue. The father of this family, Joseph Pierce, Jr., died in November, 1858, and his widow, seven years later, married our subject.


Jedediah I. Wanzer, the subject proper of this sketch, is a native of New Fairfield, Conn., born May 13, 1829. He grew up on a farm, and had such schooling as fell to the lot of the average farmers' sons of that day. At the age of twenty-one he joined a surveying party as chain-bearer in making the survey for the Danbury & Norwalk railroad. In this ca- pacity he worked for two years, and in that period prepared himself for the position of a civil engineer, which for ten years he followed as an occupation. In the spring of 1852 he went west and engaged in surveying in Illinois and lowa, through the spring and summer, and that fall he had charge of and completed a division of the C. B. & Q. R. R., west of Aurora, Ill., the work requiring one year; was next engaged in similar work on the C. N. W. R. R., west of Dixon, IN. In 1856 he re- turned to Western, N. Y., and, as assistant engineer, superintended the widening of the Erie canal, west of Albion, N. Y. On the completion of this work in 1859, he again went west, purchased a farm in Clinton coun- ty, Iowa, on which he settled. In the winter


On May 6, 1858, Mr. Wanzer was married to Miss Frances Arabella Sawyer, daughter of John F. and Mary J. (Gilbert) Sawyer, both natives of Vermont, the former born June 2, 1802, and the latter on March 25, 1823. John F. Sawyer had five brothers, who were Baptist ministers. The Sawyers trace their ancestry back to one Thomas Sawyer, who was born in England in 1615, and in 1639 came to America, settling in Lancaster, Mass., in 1647, in which year he married Mary Houghton. His death occurred September 12, 1706, To our subject and wife were born: Henry S. (at Lyons, Iowa), May 28, 1859, who married Lillie Jones (they have two chil- dren-Helen, born April IS, 1883. and Harry Jay, born February 28, 1889); and Helen A. born (at Lyons, Iowa) August 29, 1860, died June 16, 1885; she married Frank E. Cole, May 25, 1882. (They have two children: Emery, born April 30, 1883, and Esther W., born December 30, 1884). On February 2, 1865, Mrs. Wanzer died, and on May 14, 1866, Mr. Wanzer married (for his second wife) Phoebe T. (Irish) Pierce, the widow of Joseph Pierce, Jr.


Our subject is one of the substantial men of the community; is the possessor of a fine tract of land above referred to, and has a fine home. In 1870, on the organization of the Savings Bank at Pawling, he was one of the original members, was made secretary of the same, and served as such until 1888, when he was made president, which position he now sustains with the bank. In politics he was a Republican through the Civil war; in 1872. he voted for Horace Greeley, and has since affiliated with the Democratic party.


N EWTON HEBARD, cashier of the First National Bank of Amenia, has for many vears been connected with the financial inter- ests of that place. He is a native of Dutchess county, born at Poughkeepsie, October 14. IS37, and is descended from Capt. Robert Hebard, who was born in England in 1737, at an early date becoming a resident of Dutch- ess county, where he died May 17, 1798. He


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married Miss Lydia -, who was born in 1737, and died August 21, 1819. They be- came the parents of seven children: Reuben ; Benjamin, who was born April 1, 1765, and died April 24, 1837; Daniel, the grandfather of the subject of this review; Robert, who died May 24, 1855, at the age of eighty years, ten months and four days; Ruth, who died Janu- ary 28, 1808; Sarah; and Lydia, who died January 6, 1788, at the age of eighteen years.


The birth of Daniel Hebard occurred June 1, 1766, and on reaching manhood he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Capt. Colbe Chamberlain. She was born June 25, 1769, and died August 27, 1796. They had three children: Salina, who was born April 1. 1790, and died May 22, 1847; Aurelia, who was born August 17, 1792, and died June 27, 1858; and John J., the father of our subject. After the death of his first wife, Daniel Hebard married her sister, Letitia Chamberlain, and they became the parents of eight children: Frederick, born January 20, 1798, died February 13, 1799; Henry, born October 16, 1800, died October 20, 1885; Ed- ward, born November 22, 1807, died Septem- ber 28, 1880; Susan, born May 14, 1809, died died January 10, 1810; Charles, born October 17. 1810, died December 15, 1845; Elias Nixon, born January 14, 1814, died August 17 of the same year; Frederick, born Septem- ber 5, 1820, died May 21, 1896; and Susan, born February 17, 1824, is the widow of Col. Henry Rundall (deceased). The father of this family died January 6, 1841.




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