Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 2

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 680

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Jersey, where he purchased land and developed a fruit farm. He married Lydia Harris, of Gouverneur, April 17, 1823. She was born July 4, 1803, died November 30, 1843. Chil- dren : 1. Iantha Ann, born in Gouverneur, New York, May 8, 1825; married (first) Hiram Bigelow ; one son, Alfred H. Bigelow, born August 31, 1844; enlisted July 15, 1861, Com- pany H, Second Minnesota; shot and killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863 ; she mar- ried (second) William McQueen ; he died 1899; she died October 31, 1907. 2. Volney Homer, of further mention. 3. William Berkeley, born at Gouverneur, New York, June 22, 1829, died at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, June 22, 1885. 4. Washington Graham, born in Gouverneur, New York, March 26, 1831. 5. Cordelia, born in Gouverneur, New York, January 4, 1833. 6. Calista, born in Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio. September 23, 1834. 7. Edwin J., born near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 26, 1837. 8. Henry Harris, born at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, July 11, 1839, died December 1, 1876. 9. John, born at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, October 11, 1840, died March 8, 1853. 10. Luther, twin, born at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, October 5, 1843. 11. Lydia, twin of Luther.

(IX) Sergeant Volney Homer Porter, son of Israel Washington and Lydia (Harris) Por- ter, was born in Gouverneur, New York, March 15. 1827. He lived near Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin. He crossed the plains to California, in 1850, returned home, in 1853, by way of Nica- ragua, thence by steamer to New York. On August 21, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Twenty-eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volun- teers, in which regiment he served until the close of the war, being mustered out of service at Brownsville, Texas, August 23, 1865. He was appointed first sergeant of Company K. January 22, 1864. At the battle of Helena, Arkansas, July 4, 1863, he fired the first gun, which was a signal for the opening of the con- flict. From five o'clock in the morning until one o'clock in the afternoon the confederates made continuous attacks, all of which were re- pulsed, with considerable loss. Twenty per cent of the entire confederate force were kill- ed, wounded or captured. Soon after the war he removed, with his family, to New Jersey. and engaged in fruit farming. He lived for many years in the little village of Forest Grove. and died at Clayton, New Jersey, February 23. 1905. He married Adelia E. Jackson, at Mil- waukee. Wisconsin. July 1. 1855. She was

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born at Underhill, Vermont, December 18, 1836, and died at Forest Grove, New Jersey, August 3, 1889. Children : Charles Riel, born July 3, 1856, lives at Vineland, New Jersey ; Hattie Minetta, December 20, 1859, lives at Clayton, New Jersey ; Hubert Elmer Volney, of further mention ; Arthur Jackson, June 23, 1866, lives at Brooklyn, New York.

(X) Hubert Elmer Volney, son of Sergeant Volney Homer and Adelia E. (Jackson) Por- ter, was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, No- vember 21, 1861. He removed, with his par- ents, to Forest Grove, near Vineland, New Jersey, April, 1869. He began his education in the public schools of New Jersey. When seventeen years of age he engaged in the gro- cery business, in which he continued for two years. He entered Pennington Seminary and Collegiate Institute, in the fall of 1880, from which institution he was graduated from its scientific department, in 1885, and awarded the Ronan gold medal for oratory. He took a partial course at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the degree of Master of Accounts was conferred upon him by Eastman National Business College, of Poughkeepsie, New York, August 2, 1887. He taught in the public schools of New Jersey, and at the Bap- tist College, Woodstock, Ontario. He was elected president and principal of the James- town Business College Association, limited, Jamestown, New York, June 18, 1892, and re- elected thereafter each year until the present time (1911). This institution was founded by E. J. Coburn, in October, 1886. Several lead- ing business men of Jamestown, becoming sat- isfied that the business interests of this city demanded the promotion of a business college in this community of sufficient financial strength to insure a thorough and comprehensive course in business and shorthand, gave to the school their financial support, and, in August, 1889, brought about its incorporation as a business college with authority, under the laws of the state, to issue diplomas to its graduates. The following men were named in the certificate of incorporation : Robert N. Marvin, Edgar P. Putnam, W. H. Proudfit, W. A. Hallock, Elliot C. Hall, John J. Aldrich, Eleazer Green, W. A. Warriner. Fred P. Hall. For many years the located in the Gokey block, corner 1 West Third streets, until the big 14, 1910, which totally destroyed igs in the center of the city. Im- .owing this disaster the board of

directors of the college determined to erect a school building of their own. On the top floor of this handsome structure the business and banking departments of the school and a gen- eral classroom are located. On the second floor may be seen the general business office, private office of the president, consulting room, and the shorthand and typewriting departments. The ground floor and basement are chiefly occupied by the auditorium of the school, where lectures, concerts, entertainments, athletic and social functions may be enjoyed. The building is thoroughly ventilated, made comfortable in cold weather by the latest and most approved hot water system, lighted by electricity, and, on every floor, are toilet conveniences and sani- tary drinking fountains. The business office and several departments of the school are con- nected by intercommunicating telephones, and the entire building is equipped with the most modern and up-to-date business equipment. In- dividual desks and comfortable seats are pro- vided for each student. In the classroom large tablet arm chairs are in use, and a survey of the building throughout will reveal the most convenient, comfortable and practical fixtures obtainable. Being fireproof, with two wide stairways on opposite sides of the building, leading down from the top floor, every possible personal danger of fire has been eliminated. The interior plans are the result of long years of experience, and so nearly perfect are they for the needs of a business college that many school men and others familiar with the schools of the country have pronounced this new build- ing the most complete and the most nearly ideal of any structure thus far evolved for commercial school purposes. The board of directors of the school at present is as follows : H. E. V. Porter, president; Elliot C. Hall, vice- president; Arthur J. Porter, secretary and treasurer; Richard Humphrey Vipan, O. Emil Lawson.

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years president of the Erie Conference Ep- worth League, and two years president of the Fourth General Conference District Epworth League, embracing seven conferences. He was elected representative from the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Jamestown, to lay elec- toral conference of the Erie conference, held in Jamestown, in September, 1899, and again elect- ed to represent this church, in the same capacity, in Warren, Pennsylvania, in September, 1903. For eighteen years a member of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, of Jamestown, and, for four years, president of the association, during which time the new building of the association, at a cost of $60,000, was erected. He is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and Mt. Tabor Lodge, No. 780, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the Spanish-American war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Separate Com- pany, National Guard of New York, and was appointed corporal and later sergeant. Con- tinuing in the state militia he received the ten- year service medal, in 1908.

He married Grace Estelle Townley, of James- town, New York, January 26, 1893. She was born in Brockwayville, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1871, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Jennie Margaret Townley. Children, born in James- town: Carolyn Margaret, July 19, 1898; John Townley, May 10, 1909.

HAZELTINE The orthography of the name of this numerous family, Hazeltine, Hasel- tine, Hazelton, has varied to suit the. ideas of the various descendants of Robert and John Hazeltine, who landed at Salem in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, in 1637, and settled in the county of Essex, upon the Merrimack river. They came from York- shire, England, where the name had sometimes been written Hazelden, with a colony of sixty families, under the leadership of their pastor, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. The Hazeltines were of importance in England, for their coat-of-arms is recorded in the College of Arms or Heraldry. They, with the members of the colony with which they came, were of those to whom the name of Puritan was originally given in de- rision, but which they willingly accepted and to which they and their descendants have added distinction. It is with the descendants of John that we have to do in the following narrative.

(I) John Hazeltine was one of the first three settlers of that part of Rowley, Essex coun- ty, Massachusetts, afterwards incorporated as Bradford. He gave the people of Bradford an acre of land for a "meeting house." He lived, for a time, in Haverhill, across the Merrimack river, in New Hampshire, but returned to Brad- ford about 1660. He married Joan Auter, of Biddeford, England, but whether before or after his settlement in Massachusetts is uncer- tain. The date of his marriage, as well as that of his birth, is not exactly known. He died December 23, 1690, said to have been seventy years old. His will was probated March 31, 1691. He had four children, three sons and one daughter, the oldest son being Samuel (see forward).

(II) Lieutenant Samuel Hazeltine, son of John Hazeltine, was born December 12, 1645. He served in the King's colonial army, in the Indian wars of that period. He married Deb- orah, daughter of Peter Cooper, of Rowley, December 28, 1670. He lived in Bradford, on a part of his father's homestead. He died in 1717. He had four sons and three daughters. His oldest son Samuel died young. His sec- ond son was John (see forward).

(III) John (2), son of Lieutenant Samuel Hazeltine, was born March 28, 1678. He lived at Bradford and married Abigail Ross, August 21, 1701. The date of his death is not known, but it was doubtless before 1715, for, in that year, his widow, Abigail Hazeltine, of Rowley, had real estate transactions. He had three sons and one daughter. His second son was Abner (see forward).

(IV) Abner, son of John (2) Hazeltine, was born June 19, 1705. He settled in Men- don, Worcester county, Massachusetts. He married, February 10, 1730, Elizabeth Raw- son, daughter of Rev. Grindal Rawson, of Mendon. Thus early the descendants of the original immigrants, Robert and John, began their journeyings westward, in the endeavor to go forward to possess all the land which ceased not until the Pacific ocean was reach- ed, for they are now in all states of the Union. Abner Hazeltine lived in Mendon until his death, which occurred just before the birth of his only child, Abner,. The Rev. Grindal Rawson, father of Elizabeth, wife of Abner Hazeltine, was the son of Edward and Rachel (Perne) Rawson. Edward Rawson, the pro- genitor of the Rawson family in America, was born in Dorsetshire, England, April 15, 1615.

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He came to the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1637, and settled in the town of Newbury. He was the secretary of the colony, from 1651 to 1686, and was an influential man in the colony. He was a direct descendant of Sir Edward Rawson, who lived in the reign of one of the Henry's, one of the Kings of England, and was a man of military skill and experience. His wife Rachel was a niece of Edmund Grin- dal, successively Bishop of London and of York, and Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of England in the reign of Elizabeth.

(V) Abner (2), son of Abner (1) and Elizabeth (Rawson) Hazeltine, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, November 5, 1731. He married Martha Goss, of that town, whose maiden name was Robbins. He lived in the towns of Mendon and Upton, and owned and sold lands in both towns. He moved to Wards- boro, Vermont, in 1795, where he died in 1816. While a citizen of Massachusetts.he served in the King's colonial army, was a private in Major John Hazeltine's company, and his name appears on the muster roll of 1755, and also . on muster roll dated March, 1756, of a com- pany in his Majesty's service, Captain John Dalrimple, in the expedition to Crown Point. His oldest son, but third child, was Daniel ( see forward).

(VI) Daniel, son of Abner (2) Hazeltine, was born at Mendon, December 20, 1761 ; died in Chautauqua county, New York, June 18, 1828. He married, May 8, 1788, Susannah Jones, of Milford, Worcester county, Massa- chusetts, daughter of Abraham Jones Jr., of Milford, who served in the revolutionary war, at "Lexington Alarms," in Captain William Jennison's company, of Mendon, also in the Eleventh Regiment of Connecticut, Colonel Ebenezer Williams, also served in New York, in Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Wessenfel's regiment, raised in the defense of New York: Daniel Hazeltine himself served in the revolu- tionary war, in Colonel Sprout's Massachusetts regiment, also in Captain Ephraim Hartwell's company of guards, also in Colonel Tyler's Massachusetts regiment. He first settled in Wardsboro, Vermont. Subsequently, about 1820, he removed to Jamestown, New York, following his eight sons there. His sons, Laban Hazeltine, M. D., Abner Hazeltine and Daniel Hazeltine, settled in Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York, in 1815. Dr. Laban Hazeltine was the first physician in southern Chautauqua. He married Content Flagler, of Dutchess coun-

ty, and had two sons who grew to maturity. Gilbert Wilkinson Hazeltine, M. D., and Rich- ard Flagler Hazeltine, whose son, Laban Hazel- tine, M. D., is now (1911) a practicing physi- cian and surgeon in Jamestown. With him is his son, Edward Hazeltine, M. D. Daniel Hazeltine's second son was Abner (see for- ward).

(VII) Abner (3), second son of Daniel Hazeltine, was born at Wardsboro, Windham county, Vermont, June 10, 1793. He was a teacher in the common schools, fitted for col- lege, under the instruction of his pastor, and was graduated from Williams College in 1815. The same year he removed to Jamestown, New York, where he taught school while he was studying for his profession, under the direction of Jacob Houghton and Samuel A. Brown. He engaged in the practice of law in Chau- tauqua county, New York, and adjacent county of Warren, Pennsylvania, until his decease. December 20, 1879. He was one of the found- ers of the First Congregational Church, in Jamestown, in 1816, and of the Jamestown Academy, was its secretary and one of the trustees until it was merged in the Union free school and became the high school of that city. He was elected to the assembly of 1829, and again to that of 1830, was elected member of the twenty-third congress, and again of the twenty-fourth congress, district attorney of Chautauqua county in 1847, and judge of Chautauqua county in 1859.

Abner Hazeltine married (first), September 21, 1819, Polly Kidder, born at Wardsboro, Vermont, April 1, 1798, died October 14, 1832. Children; Charles Goddard, born October 12. 1820, died June 24, 1880; Harriet Newell, March 23, 1822, died June 16, 1901 ; Lydia Kidder, October 13, 1824, died October 6, 1825; Henry Martyn, August 28, 1831, died March 15, 1899. Abner Hazeltine married (second), July 21, 1834, Matilda Hayward, of Pomfret, Windham county, Connecticut. She was born at the above-mentioned place, July 22, 1799, died April 1, 1877. Children : Abner. born March 18, 1836 (see forward) ; Lewis Hayward, M. D., December 7, 1838, resides at Detroit, Michigan ; Mary Matilda, March 21. 1843, married DeForest Weld, a sketch of the Weld family appears in this work also.

(VIII) Åbner (4), third son of Abner (3) Hazeltine, was born at Jamestown, New York, March 18, 1836, was prepared for college at the Jamestown and Cherry Valley, New York.

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academies, was educated at Williams College and the Albany Law School. Admitted to the bar of the supreme court of New York, De- cember, 1860, and subsequently admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, and in the district and circuit courts of the United States. He joined his father in the practice of law at Jamestown, and continues in active practice at the age of seventy-five. He has been post- master of the city of Jamestown, district attor- ney of Chautauqua county, and police justice of the city of Jamestown. He was appointed United States commissioner in 1879, which office he still holds. He is a Congregationalist, a Free Mason of the degree of Knights Temp- lar, member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, because of the military services of his grandfather and great-grandfather, and is secretary of the Chautauqua County Historical Society.

He married, April 25, 1867, Olivia A. Brown, who was a granddaughter of Samuel Benedict, a soldier in the revolutionary war from Con- necticut. His children are :

(IX) Mary Emogene, daughter of Abner (4) Hazeltine, was born at Jamestown, May 5, 1868. She was prepared for college en- trance at the Jamestown high school, and was graduated at Wellesley College, in 1891. After graduation she engaged in teaching in the high schools of Connecticut, after which she took up the work of librarian, was librarian of the James Prendergast Free Library, at James- town, for twelve years, when she was called to be preceptress of the Wisconsin Library School, at Madison, Wisconsin, which is an integral part of the University of Wisconsin. Her duties are to direct the instruction given in library science, and to superintend the exami- nation of the libraries of the state, under the authority of the State Library Commission. She was the first woman president of the New York State Library Association, of New York. She is a member of the Society of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution.

(IX) Ray Thomas, son of Abner (4) Hazel- tine, born at Jamestown, New York, August 24, 1871, was educated in the public schools of Jamestown and at Cornell University. He is a postal clerk, in charge of the postal car on the Erie railroad. He was married to Mabel Molloy, September 17, 1894, and has one daughter, Margaret, born at Jamestown, New York, No- vember 30, 1895, a student in the Jamestown high school.

Authorities and Bibliography: Genealogical Sketches of Robert and John Hazeltine and their Descendants, Portland, Maine, 1892. The Rawson Family, mem- oirs of Edward Rawson, with genealogical notices of his descendants; first edition published by the family, Boston, 1849; revised edition by E. B. Crane, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1875; same, condensed, in III. New England Genealogical Register, pp. 201-208, 297-330 (Boston, 1849). Massachusetts Colonial Rec- ords, vol. 93, p. 177, and vol. 94, p. 50. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors. Annals of Mendon. History of Milford. Year Book of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Year Book of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Childs' Gazetteer of Ver- mont. History of Chautauqua County, New York (Young), Buffalo, 1875. Centennial History of Chau- tauqua County (The Chautauqua History Company), 1904, i. vol., 611. Early History of the Town of Elli- cott, Chautauqua County, New York (G. W. Hazel- tine, M. D.), Jamestown, 1887, passim.

DERBY The Derbys of Jamestown, New York, descend from Phineas Der- by, a native of England, who

came to the American colonies, settled in the state of Vermont, where he followed farming all his days. He served in the continental army, and held political office in his adopted state. He married and had issue, including a son Joseph.

(II) Joseph, son of Phineas Derby, was born in the state of Vermont, died in Warren county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1837. He remained in Vermont until he reached man's estate, then removed to Genesee county, New York, where he married. After a few years spent in New York state he removed to War- ren county, Pennsylvania, where he followed his trade of stonemason, in connection with farming. He married, in Genesee county, New York, Elizabeth, daughter of R. Kenyon, born in Rhode Island, but a settler in Genesee coun- ty, New York, residing near Batavia. Chil- dren of Joseph and Elizabeth Derby : Phineas ; Sylvanus, died in 1886; John K., born Febru- ary 9, 1816; William R., of Warren, Pennsyl- vania, died in 1891 ; Silas Stephen, of further mention.

(III) Silas Stephen, fifth son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Kenyon) Derby, was born in Clark- son, Monroe county, New York, April 29, 1820; died in Jamestown, New York, March 22, 1901, after an illness of six years and seven months. He was educated in the public schools of the town, resided for a time in Warren county, Pennsylvania, and, at the age of eighteen years, settled in Jamestown, New York, which was his home for sixty-two years. He was a painter and decorator by trade. In

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Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 2

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1912 Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 680

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 680