Commemorative biographical record of Dutchess County, New York, Part 75

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


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After a term of hospital attendance in Lon- don, England, Dr. Cruse started private prac- tice in New York City, later at Tarrytown, N. Y., and in 1876 took up his residence at Wappingers Falls, N. Y., where he has made his permanent home, although for a year he was absent in England and France, and later in Florida, traveling. For a time also he held the post of professor of genito-urinary diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, Ill., and in 1886, after competitive civil-service examination, was appointed Med-


ical Examiner at Washington, D. C., in the Pension Office. After serving for awhile in Washington, he resigned his position, and has since given all his energies to his Dutchess county practice.


On November 3, 1883. Dr. Cruse was mar- ried to Florence S. Warhurst, of Brooklyn, N. Y., she being a daughter of Thomas War- hurst, the veteran dramatic agent. They have had two children, boys, one, Thomas Gal- braith, born in 1893, died in 1895: the other, Creighton, born in 1896, survives.


The Doctor is an independent in politics, is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Foresters of America, of various professional organizations, of the Dutchess Club, of Pough- keepsie, of the Chi Psi Alumni Association of New York City, and of the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital Internes. He is surgeon to the Foresters, to the Hudson River Stone Supply Co., and from 1885 to 1893 served the village as health officer, during which time he was zealous and impartial in his efforts to en- force strict isolation of persons suffering from contagious diseases. At one time Dr. Cruse gave a big slice of his time to writing papers for medical journals and others-original papers and criticisms. Two of his productions have been honored with prizes. One, on " Rupture of the Bladder," took the one-hundred-dollar prize of the Alumni Association of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and was published in the Medical Record in 1871; the second, on "Injuries which happen to the Wrist Joint." especially dislocations and fractures, received the one-hundred-dollar prize of the New York State Medical Society for 1874, and was pub- lished in the volume of transactions of the So- ciety for that year.


Dr. Cruse, although not in the metropolis, has won an enviable reputation as an up-to- date operative surgeon, and the great esteem in which his abilities are held by his profession- al brethren is the best testimony to his worth.


M ILLER BROTHERS is the name of a well-known firm of Poughkeepsie, Dutch- ess county, dealers in marble and granite, whose place of business is located at Nos. 100 and 102 Market street. In 1894 Philip and Valentine M Miller formed a partnership, since which time they have conducted their present business with remarkable success, combining


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the virtues of energy and perseverance with excellent judgment and industrious habits.


Valentine Miller, father of our subject, was born in Germany in 1825, and was there reared to habits of thrift and economy, which principles characterized his whole life. Hop- ing to better his financial condition, he, in 1855, emigrated to the New World, locating finally at Poughkeepsie, where he first worked with Peter Joy in the bluestone business. Not long afterward he became a member of the firm of Nellson & Miller, in the marble business, which connection continued until the death of Mr. Nellson, when Mr. Haxby was received as a partner. On the latter's death, the firm became Miller & Van Wyck, which so continued until Mr. Miller was called from earth, in August, 1877.


Valentine Miller married Elizabeth Dilge, also a native of the Fatherland, and a family of eight children were born to them: Feier- abend and Peter, residents of Poughkeepsie, where the former is in the butchering business; Phillipina, deceased; Philip and Valentine M. (who comprise the firm of Miller Brothers), and Maggie (wife of John Hall, a coal dealer), Kate, (wife of Valentine Hall), and Jacob (a printer), all of Poughkeepsie. The mother of these died in August, 1893; the father was a prominent member of the Lutheran Church, thoroughly identified with its interests, and in politics he affiliated with the Republican party. Both he and his wife were highly respected and esteemed as valuable members of the com- munity.


PHILIP MILLER, the senior member of the firm of Miller Bros., was born at Poughkeep- sie January 17, 1861, and in the city schools acquired his education, subsequently learning the marble business with his father. In 1891 he went to Jersey City, where he was em- ployed in that line until 1894, when he re- turned to Poughkeepsie and formed the part- nership with his brother, Valentine M., in the marble and granite business at their present location on Market street, since which time they have done an extensive business.


Philip Miller was married to Miss Mamie Kuhner, a member of the Zither Club.


VALENTINE M. MILLER, the junior mem- ber of the firm of Miller Bros., was born April 18, 1864, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he received his education. He wedded Miss Cath- erine Laufersweiler, and one daughter, Viola May, has been born to them. Valentine M.


Miller is a member of the order of Chosen Friends and of Fallkill Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.


Although still young men, the Miller Broth- ers are very liberal and public-spirited men, taking a foremost position in every movement or enterprise promising to accrue to the bene- fit of the people in general. In politics they follow in the footsteps of their father, and hold an equally high position in the regard of their fellow citizens.


R ICHARD BRIMSON CARY (deceased). Few among the business men of Dutchess county, past or present, have devoted to com- mercial life as many years as did the subject of this biography. Born November 26, 1814, in East Fishkill, he began his mercantile career at the age of twenty-one, and not until the early part of 1896 did he lay aside his active responsibilities.


His ancestry is an honorable one. His pa- ternal grandfather, Joseph Cary, was a soldier in the Colonial army during the Revolutionary war, and enjoyed the unique distinction of having first seen the light February 22, 1732- the day and year of Gen. Washington's birth. The parents of our subject, Isaac and Nancy (Burrow) Cary, were highly respected residents of East Fishkill, and he and a younger brother, Uriah, constituted the family.


Richard B. Cary's early education was such as the district schools of the locality af- forded in his day, and although they do not compare favorably with those of to-day, yet he managed to secure a good foundation for later progress through reading and observation. His first business venture was in a general merchandise store at Johnsville, N. Y., in part- nership with William Pierce, and on the dis- solution of the firm seven or eight years after- ward Mr. Cary went to Glenham, N. Y., the manufacturing village between Fishkill village and Matteawan, and carried on a similar busi- ness for three years, with Thomas Burroughs as a partner. Mr. Cary then moved to Fish- kill village, where he and Jacob G. Van Wyck opened a general store, and after a time Mr. Cary purchased Mr. Van Wyck's interest, and for many years continued the business alone. During the past twenty-five years he was a commercial traveler, representing a firm of paper manufacturers; but failing health com-


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pelled him to retire, and he died a few months after, August 25, 1896.


Mr. Cary was married October 22, 1844, to Miss M. Garetta Washburn, daughter of Jarvis and Hettie (Fuller) Washburn. Mrs. Cary passed away December 26, 1891, in her sixty-fifth year, mourned as a loving wife and mother, and by many as a cherished friend. They had five children: Jarvis, Edgar, Mary, Frank and Arthur, of whom all are living ex- cept Frank, who died in infancy, and Edgar, who died at the age of thirty-six years leaving a widow and two daughters. Politically Mr. Cary was a Republican, but he did not take an active share in party affairs.


E DWARD BRAMAN, of Hyde Park, Dutchess county, is the representative of a well-known family there, connected with the Sextons, Van Vliets, and others, whose gen- ealogies are of unusual interest.


The name of Braman first appears in New England in 1653, at Taunton, Mass., where the first settlers were mostly from Somerset- shire and Devonshire. The name belonged to Plymouth, in Devonshire, in that day, but there were also Bramans in London and Chi- chester, then and later. Thomas Braman, of Taunton, 1653, is believed to be the ancestor of all bearing the name in this country.


The immediate ancestor of the family, who came to live in Dutchess county, was James Braman, of North Kingston, R. 1. He also owned lands in Voluntown and Preston, near Norwich, Conn., and about 1733 he took up his residence in Voluntown, where he died about January 1, 1741, leaving, by his wife Eliza- beth, seven children: Elizabeth, b. March 2, 1730; John, b. April 12, 1731; James, b. October 13, 1732 ancestor of the Bramans of Richfield, N. Y.): Anna, b. August 28, 1734; Thomas, b. May 25, 1736; Benjamin, b. June 6. 1738, unmarried; and Esther, b. Febru- ary 1, 1741. Of these, John and Thomas died in Dutchess county. Thomas, after serving in the "old French war" he was at Fort Edward in August. 1756), bought land near Old Attlebury, in Stanford, in 1761 and 1765. His wife, Anna, born December 21, 1735, died February 9, 1799. He died 26.


1 808 (tombstone injured), and they were buried in the ground he gave for a church long since extinct. He left no children, but made his nephew, Braman Barlow, his principal heir.


John Braman, eldest son of James and Elizabeth, was born in North Kingston, R. I .. April 12 (O. S.). 1731, and died at Hyde Park September 6, 1810. He married, Feb- ruary 5, 1763, Eunice, eldest daughter of Ben- jamin Adams, of Lexington, Mass., baptized June 3, 1731, died August 15, 1774. They had five children: Anna, b. December 6, 1763, d. 1846, second wife of the Hon. Ben- jamin Fitch, of Pawlet, Vt .; Cyrus, b. No- vember 28, 1766 [ See below]; Lucy, b. June 14. 1768, d. August 20, 1796, first wife of Benjamin Fitch, above mentioned; Eunice, b. September 15, 1770, d. November 21, 1836, m. Samuel Palmer, of Preston; and Mary, b. May 18, 1772, d. 1809, m. Job Wickes, of Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y. John Braman settled in the East, or "Long Society," of Norwich (which was set off to the adjoining town of Preston in 1786), near the junction of the Quinebaug and Shetucket rivers. After a residence of forty years in a very pleasant lo- cality, all his children being married, he sold his property there, in order to make his home with his only son, with whom he removed to Clinton, now Hyde Park, in April, 1800.


Cyrus Braman, born at Norwich, Novem- ber 28, 1766, died at Hyde Park, October 10, 1850. He first married, on December 26, 1793. Elizabeth Dunbar, only child of Capt. Joseph Teel and Elizabeth Searle, born at Charlestown, Mass., July 9, 1775. died at Hyde Park December 4, 1801. Her mother was of the family of the Rev. John Scarle, of Stoneham; and her father was descended from one of the oldest families of Malden, Mass. Capt. Teel fought at Bunker Hill, and was in the Massa- ' chusetts Line in the succeeding war, was pres- ent at White Plains and at Burgoyne's surren- der, etc. At one time he was a paymaster. He died at his son-in-law's house, at Hyde Park, February 14, 1843, aged ninety-eight years. He was long an elder in the Reformed Dutch Church. Cyrus Braman married, sec- ond, on April 11. 1802. Mary, born February 27, 1772, died October 26, 1849, only surviv- ing daughter of Samuel Hitt and Ruth, his wife, daughter of William and Magdalena ( Woolsey) Dusenbury, of Harrison's Purchase. Westchester county. The Dusenbury home- stead was in the family nearly a century and a half. It was later owned by Benjamin Halli- day and, since, by the Hon. Whitelaw Reid. Samuel Hitt was the only child of Samuel Hitt, of Harrison (then a part of Rye), who


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died in 1742, when the son was only a year old. He received a classical education, and inherited a considerable estate, which was much diminished by the vicissitudes of the Revolutionary days, as he lived " between the lines" and suffered from both sides. His daughter was old enough to remember some of the events of those troublous times.


After the war he removed to Dutchess county, and for some years lived on the place, late of Elias Butler, then the property of Judge David Johnston, of Lithgow. Here his wife died, March 20, 1807, aged sixty-one; he died August 3, 1810, aged sixty-nine. By his first wife Cyrus Braman had four children: Joseph Teel, b. January 29, 1796, d. August 1, 1869, unmarried. Elizabeth Dunbar Teel, b. June 22, 1797, d. January 16, 1875; m. in 1816 John Church, of Yates county, N. Y. John Adams, b. January 18, 1799, d. September 13, 1886, unmarried; some time a merchant in New York and Syracuse. Cassandana, b. October 24. 1800, d. December 12, ISO1. By his second wife he had seven children: Ruth Hitt, b. January 8, 1803, d. in New York December 8, 1846; m. in 1821 William Elsworth, of New York, afterward of Hyde Park, and had four children. Mary Smith, b. March 8. 1805, d. May 12, 1881, unmarried. Samuel Hitt, b. January 20, 1807, of whom mention will presently be made. Catharine, b. February 12, 1809, d. in Poughkeepsie, Jan- uary 30, 1890; became the second wife of William Elsworth; no children. Cyrus, b. March 17, 1811, d. June 1, 1812. Phebe Ste- venson, b. May 23, 1813, d. August 15, 1861, unmarried. William Henry, b. December 27, 1815, d. in New York February 24, 1876; he was a merchant in New York; he mar- ried Sarah, daughter of John W. Elsworth, and sister of William Elsworth, and by her (who is living, 1897) had one child, Adelaide, who married Dr. William Brinck, now of New- burg. Cyrus Braman was educated at a high school at Norwich. After his first marriage he lived in Norwich for several years, but in 1796 Joseph Teel bought property in Rhinebeck (afterward owned by Freeborn Garrettson, Jr., and since by the Astors), and this led to the removal of the Braman family to Hyde Park. In November, 1799, Cyrus Braman bought of Phinehas Eames " Lot No. 2," of the Hyde Park Patent. This had belonged to Anna Magdalen Valleau, wife of Lucas Lesier (com- monly called " Madame Lesier "), sister to the


wife of Dr. John Bard; and thus an heir of Peter Fauconnier's estate. She built the stone house, part of which stood until 1894. At an early date this place was named " Belgrove ", perhaps by Madame Lesier. In 1800 Mr. Braman bought the adjoining farm, " Lot No. 3." of Capt. Samuel Cook, both purchases comprising together 212 acres, with a frontage of about half a mile on the river. This was his home for fifty years. In 1824 he built barns, still standing, considered a marvel of convenience in their day; and in 1832 he built a new residence, having a fine river and moun- tain view. He was a Federalist, and later a Whig, but was averse to taking any part in political affairs. He died at the age of eighty- four, and his portrait shows him a man of venerable and dignified appearance. In 1853 his executors sold the estate to his son-in-law, William Elsworth, who died here in 1870, aged seventy-four, leaving three sons, Cyrus B., William H. and Eugene. His executors sold, in 1873, to Nathaniel P. Rogers.


Samuel H. Braman was born at Belgrove, January 20, 1807, and died there June 16, 1846. He married, May 16, 1832, Helen, daughter of Cornelius Van Vliet, Jr., of Staats- burg, and Mary Russell, born at Staatsburg, June 22, 1807, and died there October 1, 1857. They had six children: (1) Edward (now of Hyde Park), b. December 13, 1833. (2) Caroline, b. May 20, 1836, m. Samuel J. M. Sexton. (3) Hiram Van Vliet (of Pough- keepsie. and No. 321 Clinton avenue, Brook- lyn, late importer, of New York), b. June 12, 1838, m. Irene Barlow, daughter of Charles Thomas Newcomb, of Pleasant Valley; and Elizabeth A. T. Sexton, and has had seven children-Helen Elizabeth (died in infancy), Mary Newcomb (m., June 11, 1896, to Francis L. Noble, counselor at law, of New York), Charles Francis (died aged fourteen years), Irene Moir, William Reginald [died aged three years), Hiram Van Vliet, Jr. (d. April 8, 1896, aged eighteen years), and Emily Louise. (4) Emily Bailey (living at Hyde Park), b. Sep- tember 22, 1840. (5) Samuel H., Jr., b. April 13, 1842, d. February 14. 1869. (6) Helen, b. November 13, 1845, d. May 27, 1864. Samuel H. Braman took some interest in military affairs. He was a captain, major and finally colonel of the Eighty-fourth Regi- ment of Militia. His sons all went early to New York, and (later with their sisters) made their home there many years.


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The ancestry of the SEXTON FAMILY* is fully set forth in Stiles' " Ancient Windsor." The first of the name who came to live in Dutchess county was the late Samuel J. M. Sexton, of Hyde Park. His line of descent from the first George Sexton, of Windsor, Conn., and Catharine, is: Capt. Joseph (1666 1742) and Hannah Wright; Joseph, Jr. (1694- 17 ). and Sarah Parsons; Deacon Joseph (1726 1819) and Rebecca Chapin; Joseph (1753-1823) and Hannah Cadwell, of Wilbra- ham and Monsoon, Mass., whose eldest son was Francis Sexton, born at Wilbraham. No- vember 22, 1779; a merchant in New York, where he died August 7, 1839; he lived many years at No. 28 Dey street, where all his chil- dren were born. Ile married, December 14. 1809, Sarah Mills, born March 10, 1792, died September 21, 1862, daughter of William Ross and Johanna, his wife, daughter of Capt. Alexander Leslie (who was lost at sea) and Sarah Tufts ( who married, second, John Mills, of New York ). Mrs. Leslie-Mills came of a


distinguished ancestry. She was a daughter of the Rev. Joshua Tufts and Abigail Ellery (cousin of William Ellery, signer of the Dec- laration of Independence), both of whom died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1766. Her grandfather, the Rev. John Tufts, of Newbury, Mass , was the first to publish a collection of psalm tunes in New England, thereby greatly improving the singing in Churches. He was son of Capt. Peter Tufts, of Mediord, and Mercy, daughter of the Rev. Seaborn Cotton, of Hampton (son of the Rev. John Cotton, of Boston, by Dorothy, daughter of Gov, Simon Bradstreet, and Anne, his wife (the poetess). daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Mrs. Mills Sarah Tufts) was born November 24. 1744, and died in New York, September 19. 1810. She lived in New York during the British occupation, being then a widow, and with her bounty relieved the wants of many unhappy prisoners of war confined there. She and her husband were prominent members of the Brick Church, and she was very active in benevolent and charitable works, and a co- worker with the celebrated Mrs. Isabella Gra- ham. Mr. Mills died in 1815.


Francis and Sarah M. Sexton had sixteen


"The arms of Sexton, called "of London," by Burke. are: " Argent, three chaplets in bend gules, between two bendlets of the last Crest, out ( f a ducal coronet or a dexter arm in armour em- bowed proper, garnished of the first, holding in the gauntlet an anchor sable, Anke and cable or." An ancient seal engraved with the above crest has come down, as an heirloom, to the present S. B. Sexton, of " Torhands" and it furnished an appropriate design for his private yacht signal.


children, eight of whom died young. Those who survived were: (1) Sarah Mills, b. De- cember 30, 1810, d. at Hyde Park November 23. 1872; m. John H. Newcomb, of Pleasant Valley, and late in life of Hyde Park, and left two surviving children, Thomas, and Johanna, now widow of Walter Allen Seymour. The first of this family in the county was Thomas Newcomb, who bought " the greater part " of Lot No. 8, Great Nine Partners, His son, Zaccheus, built the well-known " Brick House," and Thomas, son of the latter, was father of John H. and Charles T. Newcomb [See Newcomb Genealogy, by J. B. Newcomb]. (2) Francis William, b. 1812, d. 1849, unmar- ried. (3) Elmira, b. 1815, d. 1865; m. John Mills Tufts, of Woodbridge, N. J., and left no surviving children. (4) Johanna, b. 1818, d. 1883, unmarried. (5) Elizabeth Ann Tufts, b. October 17, 1819, d. January 20, 1889; m. (first) Charles Thomas Newcomb, of Pleasant Valley, and (second) Col. Charles Stiles Phelps, of Brooklyn [See Stiles' "Ancient Windsor"]. By her first husband she had Irene B., m. H. V. V. Braman, and Mary E., who died unmar- ried. (6) Mary Jane, b. 1823, d. 1885; m. Charles Morgan, of New York. (7) Emily H., m. William Moir, of New York. (8) Samuel John Mills, b. August 11, 1832, d. at Hyde Park May 3. 1873. Samuel J. M. Sexton married, May 30, 1866, Caroline, daughter of Samuel H. Braman, of Hyde Park, and had one child: Samuel Braman Sexton, now of "Torham," Hyde Park, born July 19, 1869; married at Grace Church, New York, Novem- ber 2, 1893, Jean Hunter Denning, daughter of the late Edwin James Denning, of New York.


The name of VAN VLIET can be traced very far back in the annals of the Netherlands. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and later, several of the name achieved distinction in the fields of literature and art, and in mili- tary and civil life, the relation of which is not here necessary. That branch of the family which settled in this country came from the diocese or Province of Utrecht. Their ar- morial bearings, as given by Reitstap, are "D'or, a trois losanges de gules: Casque couronnĂ©: Crest, une tĂȘte et col du chein braque de gules." In the Documentary His- tory of New York [Vol. II, Colonial Docu- ments] is an account of the powder used by the authorities in New Amsterdam, giving some interesting glimpses of passing events.


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On July 18, 1661, Governor Winthrop arrived in New Amsterdam, to proceed to " Father- land," in the "Trouw"; July 21 the ships "Arent," ". Hope " and " Trouw " sailed hence for Fatherland, and eighteen pounds of powder were fired. The "Trouw" sailed again, on her return to New Amsterdam, March 21, 1662, under the command of Capt. Jan Jansen Bestevan, and arrived on June 13, following, when six pounds of powder were fired. Among the passengers on this voyage were Adrian Gerritsen, agriculturist, from the Province of Utrecht, with his wife and five children, aged thirteen, twelve, eleven, eight and seven years. That he was the Adrian Gerritsen, or Adrian Gerritsen Van Vliet, who shortly after appears at "the Esopus" (Kingston), there can be no doubt. At marriage some of his children are recorded as " geboren in 't Stigt Van Uytrecht " (born in the Diocese of Utrecht). In the Indian attack of June, 1663, a daughter of Adrian was one of the prisoners taken, but was soon recovered with the rest. On April 28, 1667. Adrian signed, with others, reasons for being in arms. By grant and purchase Adrian became the owner of several parcels of land in Kingston and the adjacent parts of Ulster county [See Doc. Hist. of N. Y. ; Sylvester's Hist. of. Ulster County; Schoonmaker's Hist. of Kingston; N. Y. G. & B. Record, 1871, p. 145, &c. ]. On September 1, 1689, at Kings- ton, "Gerritt Van ffliett" and "John Van- ffliett " (sons of Adrian) took the oath of alle- giance; but it is recorded that "Arre Gerritt Van ffliett " and " Derrick Van Vliet " (his other son) did not appear. [Doc. Hist. of N. Y., Vol. I., p. 173]. The wife of Adrian was Agatha Jans Spruyt, doubtless a descend- ant of the ancient family of Spruyt, of Kriek- enbeck and Utrecht. She was frequently a witness at baptisms in Kingston. Their five children were: (1) Gerrit, or Gerard, ancestor of the Fishkill branch. (2) Jan (or John) married Judith, daughter of Frederick Hussey, an English settler and large landholder at Kingston; most of this branch remained in Ulster county, but one son, Frederick, settled, in 1725, in Somerset county, N. J., where his descendants write the name "Van Fleet. " Vice-Chancellor Abraham Van Fleet, recently deceased, was a descendant of Thomas, son of this Frederick Van Vliet. (3) Dirck [See farther on, "line of Dirck Van Vliet "]. (4) Geertruyd married Gysbert Crom, of Marble- town, the owner of a large estate there, and a


brother of Floris Willemse Crom, of Flatbush, Long Island, patentee of the " Crom Patent ", at Haverstraw. (5) Machteld married (first) Barent Van Borsum, son of Egbert Van Bor- sum, of New York [See N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record, 1895-96], and (second) Jan Jacobsen Stol, son of Jacob Jansen Stol, one of the earliest magistrates at the Esopus. [The wife of Jacob was Geertruyd Andriese Van Does- burg. She married (second) Aert Martensen Van Doorn; then she died, and he married Aeltie Lansing, widow of Gerard Slegtenhorst, and mother of Elizabeth Slegtenhorst, wife of Nicholas William, son of Governor Stuyves- ant. ]




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