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1839 he opened a paint store, in partnership with his brother, John K. Derby, which they conducted for twenty years. Mr. Derby con- tinued in active business until several years prior to his death, when he retired, having secured a competency through energy and ju- dicious real estate investment. He was an in- valid for many years preceding his death. He was a man of high character and held the con- fidence and respect of all who knew him. He was actively interested in public affairs, held various town offices, including that of street commissioner. He belonged to the Royal Temp- lars of Temperance, and advocated the cause of Prohibition. In earlier years and until well along in life he was a Republican, but later supported the candidates and principles of the Prohibition party. He was converted at the age of eighteen years, under the preaching of Elder Rexford, of the Freewill Baptist Church, afterward joining the Wesleyan Methodist Church, at Jamestown. He continued an earn- est, active member of that denomination as long as they maintained a church in his city. He never joined any other church, but wor- shipped with and was liberal in his support of the Free Methodist Church. It is noted that he was a subscriber to the "Wesleyan Meth- odist," from about the date of its first publica- tion until his death.
He married, December 17, 1840, Huldah Elizabeth Trask, born September 22, 1817, died at Jamestown, New York, March 1, 1910, aged ninety-two years. She was born in Pen- field (now Webster), Monroe county, New York, daughter of Elijah and Azubah (Mc- Farlin) Trask. Elijah Trask was born in 'Rhode Island, and came to Monroe county, New York, April 15, 1791 ; he settled at Busti, Chautauqua county, in 1831, where he con- ducted a farm and followed his trade of shoe- maker. He married, January 18, 1815, Azubah McFarlin, born June 24, 1797, died May 3, 1883; he died May 22, 1873. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Trask: Azubah S., born December 9, 1815; Huldah Elizabeth, married Silas S. Derby ; William E., born April 16, 1819; George O., January 3, 1821 ; Polly Ann, April 10, 1823 ; Hannah Irene, February 1, 1825; Silas B., April 25, 1827; Leander W., March 25, 1829; Benjamin A., November 11, 1831 ; Chauncy M., September 15, 1833; Gardner S., October 26. 1835; Martha D., May 2, 1838. Huldah Elizabeth, second child, came to Jamestown
when fourteen years of age. With the excep- tion of a few months it was ever afterward her home. She was, for many years, a mem- ber of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was later destroyed by fire. It was, however, as a woman devoted to her family that she was best known. She was the last survivor of the family of twelve children, and retained, in a remarkable degree, her faculties until the last. After she attained great age her birthdays were always celebrated by the family and were grand occasions. Owing to her poor health her ninety-second birthday was not celebrated in the usual manner, yet many came just the same to offer congratulations, while the mail brought numerous letters and cards. That day she visited, in her chair, a photograph gallery and had her picture taken with a great-great- niece. During the preceding summer she ac- complished considerable sewing and embroid- ery. She retained her sense of sight and hear- ing to the last. She died the following March.
Children of Silas S. and Huldah E. (Trask) Derby, all born in Jamestown: I. Agnes D., born March 21, 1844; was educated in the public schools and Jamestown Academy; at the age of eighteen years she opened a private school in Corry, Pennsylvania, which was the first Protestant school in that town; her life has been mainly devoted to the care of her aged parents, whose memory she reveres ; she is an active member of the Free Methodist Church, of Jamestown, and secretary of the official board; she is a highly-esteemed and well-loved lady. 2. Sylvia A., born May 17, 1849; was educated in the public schools and Jamestown Academy; she married, June 16, 1873, Darwin E. Hayward; children : i. Earl Derby Hayward, born May 28, 1874, now a resident of Aberdeen, South Dakota, employ- ed in' the United States postoffice, he mar- ried Minnie Cottrell, child, Geraldine W .; ii. Lynn D. Hayward, born November 4, 1880; after completing his education he enlisted in the United States navy, and served four years. Mrs. Hayward resides with her sister Agnes D. and attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
George Alonzo, son of George N. King, who was adopted by Silas Stephen Derby, was ap- pointed United States marshal at Shanghai, China, where he is now located; he married and has George H. and Stephen S., living, and Agnes, deceased; they reside at Shanghai. China.
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DAHLSTROM This family is of Swedish birth and ancestry, and, although of comparatively recent settlement in the United States, has se- cured a firm and lasting place in the business history of their adopted land. Charles Peter Dahlstrom, the founder of the family in the United States, was a son of Lars Peter Dahl- strom, born on the Island of Gotland, Sweden. Lars Peter Dahlstrom was a man of education and held important rank in the Swedish Mili- tary Organization. He was tactical instructor for several years, until his retirement. He then purchased a farm, on which he has since resided. He is also a prominent member of the Swedish Lutheran church, holding official positions, and is now treasurer. After his son's successful settlement in the United States Mr. Dahlstrom Sr. visited him, but, after a lengthy visit, returned to the land of his birth, where he now resides. He married and had the following children : 1. Olga, married Cap- tain Hjelmer Osteman, and has Ehrich and Sbea. 2. Charles Peter, of further mention. 3. Andries Frederick, born 1875, died 1907; he married and left issue. 4. Ervid, born 1879, died 1907; both he and his brother, Andries F., came to their death by accidental drowning, at the same time; he married Dika Hamerstrom, and left issue. 5. Laura.
(II) Charles Peter, son of Lars Peter Dahl- strom, was born on the Island of Gotland, Sweden, September 4, 1872; died in James- town, Chautauqua county, New York, April 10, 1909. He was educated in Sweden ; attend- ed the public schools of Gotland, until he was twelve years of age, then went to Stockholm, the capital, where he entered a school of tech- nology, and completed his education. He had an inventive mechanical mind, and after learn- ing the trade of tool and die maker came to the United States, in 1890. He was a skillful mechanic, and was a natural inventor, having, from early youth, been noted for his genius in devising improvements on machinery, and in contriving special attachments. He found work at his trade in Buffalo, New York, where he worked for several years, being three years with the Spalding Machine & Screw Company, where he invented several devices and took out some important patents. He was held in the highest esteem by his employers, and, after leaving them and working in Chicago and Mil- waukee for a time, they induced him to return
to Buffalo. After a short time, however, he again left and went to Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, where, for nine months, he was with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Com- pany. Here he formed a personal acquaint- ance with George Westinghouse, the great in- ventor, and these two men of similar tastes and talents were ever afterward friends. In 1899 he located in Jamestown, New York, and entered the employ of the Art Metal Construc- tion Company, having a five years' contract with that company. During this period he in- vented a metallic door, which later brought him fame and wealth. In 1894, having obtain- ed his patents on the door, he severed his con- nection with the art metal company and organized the Dahlstrom Metallic Door Com- pany, with a small plant in Jamestown, on a single floor of the Gokey building. This door at once met with public favor, its special adap- tation to high buildings and hotels being quick- ly recognized. By its use fires in buildings can be confined to the rooms in which they origin- ate and much loss of life and property be averted. So rapid was the rise of the company that they were soon compelled to erect a four- story brick plant, on Buffalo street, and, be- fore it was finished, additions were planned and even begun before the main building was completed. The door was adopted almost uni- versally, by all construction companies, and has steadily increased in favor. The plant is perhaps the largest and most important in Jamestown. Mr. Dahlstrom took personal and active part in the business, which he lived to see in most successful operation. He had great influence with men, and the happy faculty of making his employees his friends. He was held in the highest esteem among his business associates, and was consulted on important me- chanical matters, by those who knew him only by reputation. The ideas he advanced and proved are still held valuable in the mechanical world, where his death was deeply deplored. Letters of sympathy and regret, at his death, were sent the family by individuals and asso- ciations, who keenly felt the loss of so valuable a counselor. The employees of the factory petitioned that they be allowed to refrain from work and attend the funeral in a body, which was done. Many noted personages, from a distance, attended the services, and the various civil and patriotic orders attended in a body. The funeral services were held at the Lutheran
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church, and the body laid at rest in Lake View Cemetery.
A peculiar characteristic of Mr. Dahlstrom, who was a very quiet reserved man, was his friendliness for every person connected with his plant, from the humblest to the highest, all felt him their friend. He was a member of the Lutheran church; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mt. Tabor Lodge, and of Jamestown Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Polit- ically he was a Republican. His residence, in Jamestown, was a beautiful modern mansion, on Second street, which his family continues to occupy.
He married, at Jamestown, New York, Oc- tober 20, 1900, his pastor, Rev. Julius Lincoln, officiating, Anna Elfrida Phillips Petersen, born in Stockholm, Sweden, March 10, 1873, daugh- ter of John Phillips and Matilda (Fagerstrom) Petersen. Her father was born in Sweden, May 1, 1839, died August 27, 1878. He was by trade a stonemason, a member of the Luth- eran church, and a man highly respected in his community. He married, in 1863, Matilda Fagerstrom, born December 21, 1841, died April 2, 1904. She was a devoted Christian mother, and, with her husband, is buried in the new cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden. Their children were: 1. Augusta, married John Burk- land, of Jamestown, New York, and has Mar- garette and Vivian. 2. Anton Phillips, mar- ried Augusta Ax, and has Peirede and Rose. 3. Amanda, married Charles Johnson, of James- town, and has Norman and Chester. 4. Anna Elfrida Phillips, married Charles P. Dahlstrom. 5. Elma, a nurse in the Woman's Christian As- sociation Hospital, at Jamestown. These chil- dren of John Phillips Petersen, after coming to the United States, dropped the Petersen, taking their father's middle name as their surname, and are known as Phillips. Anna Elfrida Phil- lips Petersen was educated in the schools of Stockholm, and, after coming to the United States, March 6, 1892, took special instruction in English. A brother and two sisters had preceded her, and these she found in James- town. She is a woman of devoted Christian character and held in the highest esteem by a large circle of friends. In 1900 she married Charles P. Dahlstrom, whom she survives. Children, both born in Jamestown, New York : Phyllis Matilda Margarette, born July 13, 1901; Frederick Phillips, born September 7, 1903.
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HALL the name Hall, who came to New England, at an early date, was John Hall, who came from Coventry, Warwickshire. England, in 1630, to Charlestown, Massachu- setts, probably in the fleet with Governor Win- throp. Coventry is about ninety-five miles northwest of London. It is not known whether he had a family then or not, but probably not, as he must have been not over twenty-one years of age. His name is nineteenth on the list of church members of the First Church, of Charlestown, at its organization, July 30, 1630. There was then no church in Boston, but, in 1632, a majority of its members, being then on that side of the Charles river, they caused its removal, and it became the First Church, of Boston. The remaining members organized a church in Charlestown, November 2, 1632, con- sisting of sixteen men, their wives and three unmarried men. Among this number was John Hall and his wife Bethia. He was made a freeman, May 14, 1634. There is little doubt that he resided in Barnstable in 1640. He was recorded as able to bear arms in 1643, and Mr. . Paine, the historian of Harwich, Massachu- setts, said that John Hall was an inhabitant of Barnstable after 1647, and that he was a resi- dent of Yarmouth in 1653. Barnstable and Yarmouth joined each other and were both incorporated as towns in 1639. That part of Yarmouth where John Hall lived was set off as a separate town in 1793, and named "Den- nis." It is supposed he moved on the Hall homestead, in Dennis, in 1641. He was a man of good character, but held little public office. As to the number of children had by John Hall. of Yarmouth, it is believed that he had twelve sons, although the names of but ten are known. A great deal of oral testimony goes to prove that there were twelve sons and no daughters. Five of these were probably the children of his first wife, Bethia, but a record is found of only two, which are among the baptisms at Charles- town, John and Shebar. The children, baptized at Yarmouth, beginning with Joseph, were the sons of the second wife, Elizabeth. John Hall made his will, July 15, 1694, and it was pro- bated August 29, 1696. In it he mentions eight sons. He died July 23, 1696, and was buried on his farm.
Children : 1. Samuel, birth date not known. but probably before the birth of John, and there might have been two others born before
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1637, of whom no mention is made. Samuel married Elizabeth Pollard, of Barnstable, who. survived him, and married (second), April 27, 1699, Nathaniel Jones. They had no children, and Samuel willed his property to his widow and seven brothers, John, Joseph, Nathaniel, Gershom, William, Benjamin and Elisha. 2. John, born in Charlestown, 1637, was baptized March 13, 1638, died in Yarmouth, Massachu- setts, October 14, 1710. He married Priscilla Bearse, and had nine children. 3. Shebar, bap- tized December 9, 1639, died young. Children by second wife, baptized in Yarmouth : 4. Jo- seph, July 3, 1642, died May 31, 1716. He settled in Mansfield, Connecticut, as did others of the family. He left no children. 5. Benja- min, died in infancy. 6. Nathaniel, baptized February 8, 1646. He was a distinguished military officer ; fought, as captain, under Colo- nel Church, September 10, 1689, in defense of Falmouth, Maine, and, November 19, 1689, it was ordered that Captain Nathaniel Hall take charge, as commander-in-chief, of the forces that are left for the defense of Scarborough, Falmouth and Saco, Maine. He was a landed proprietor of Harwich, Massachusetts, before 1700, an innkeeper in Yarmouth, where he re- sided many years; he also practiced medicine to some extent ; he resided in Hingham, Massa- chusetts, and finally removed to Lewiston, Pennsylvania, near the Delaware river, where he was said to be living in 1716. He married Anna, daughter of Rev. Thomas Thornton, of Yarmouth; no issue. 7. Gershom, baptized March 5, 1648, died October 31, 1732. He was a millwright ; removed to Harwich, Massa- chusetts, was chosen selectman in 1710, and held office for thirteen years. He was chosen representative to the general court in 1712, and continued in office three years. He mar- ried (first), about 1668, Bethia, daughter of Edward Bangs, (second) Martha Bramball, of Hingham; had five children. 8. William, bap- tized June 8, 1650, died June 11, 1727. He re- moved to Norwich, Connecticut, afterward to Mansfield, where he held the rank of captain, and died. He married Esther or Hester, the name being given three ways in the records, but without a surname. They had four chil- dren. 9. Benjamin, baptized May 29, 1653, died August 7, 1737 (found dead in his bed). He was a soldier of the Second Narragansett Expedition. He settled in Harwich, Massa- chusetts, later in Mansfield, Connecticut. He married, February 7, 1678, Mehitable, daugh-
ter of James Matthews, of Yarmouth. Three children are recorded. 10. Elisha, of further mention.
(II) Elisha, youngest child of John Hall, the immigrant, and his second wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1655. Dr. Savage says that "Ben- jamin and Elisha Hall were living in 1733, eighty years of age." In 1716 he was called Ensign Elisha Hall, and lived in Dennis, the east precinct of Yarmouth. He was chosen representative of Yarmouth, in 1703, and con- tinued in office for five years. He married
Lydia Children : 1. Ebenezer, married Mehitable Eldridge, and lived in Yarmouth ; three children. 2. Elisha, of further mention. 3. Tabitha, born December 18, 1683. 4. Judah, born September 18, 1685; married and had seven children. 5. Bathsheba, born about 1687; married, October 27, 1709, Joseph Crowell. 6. Phebe, born March 3, 1689. 7. Job, born Sep- tember 10 or 14, 1691. 8. Sylvanus, born May 17, 1693.
(III) Elisha (2), son of Elisha (1) and Lydia Hall, was born June 16, 1682, and lived in Yarmouth. He married Mary Hawes or Howes. He had three sons and seven daugh- ters. The names of sons only are given: I. Elisha, of further mention. 2. Joshua, born April 18, 1717, died February 24, 1800; mar- ried, October 4, 1744, Temperance Nye, and had ten children. 3. Stephen, born July 26, 1719.
(IV) Elisha (3), eldest son of Elisha (2) and Mary (Hawes or Howes) Hall, was born August 26, 1710, died in Hopkinton, Massa- chusetts, February 25, 1794. He removed to Hopkinton, about 1740, where he followed the occupation of a farmer. He married, in 1742, Elizabeth Young. Of his eight children but two reached years of maturity, John and Will- iam.
(V) William, son of Elisha (3) and Eliza- beth (Young) Hall, was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, June 1, 1753; died in Dover, September 28, 1828. He settled in the town of Wardsboro, now Dover, Vermont, where he followed farming. He served in the revolu- tionary war, in Captain Baker's Upton com- pany, and afterwards held a captain's com- mission in the Vermont militia. He married, August 29, 1781, Abigail Pease, born May 3, 1759, at Upton, Massachusetts, daughter of Josiah and Lydia Pease. After the death of her busband she went to Chautauqua county, New York, and resided with her sons. She
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was thrown from a carriage and injured, from the effects of which she died at the home of her son Elisha, in Jamestown, September 21, 1836. Their children were : 1. Samuel, of fur- ther mention. 2. Lydia, born June 24, 1784, died May 29, 1785. 3. Lydia, born December 10, 1785, died March 9, 1865, in Jamestown, New York; married, September 26, 1805, Eben- ezer Davis, born May 18, 1779, died January 9, 1846. 4. Lewis, born July 29, 1788, in Dover, Vermont, died March 4, 1871, in same place; married, December 31, 1811, Lucy Beals, born June 4, 1788, died July 14, 1827. 5. James, born July 16, 1790, in Dover, Vermont, died in Kiantone, New York, August 21, 1846; he married (first), in Dover, Vermont, Polly Cheney, born March 14, 1791, died October 31, 1828, in Kiantone; married (second), Sep- tember 4, 1829, Abigail Tyler Cheney, born February 13, 1803, died April 1, 1830; married (third), October 10, 1830, Maria Cheney, born July 12, 1806, died January 17, 1903, in James- town, New York. 6. Mary, born January 5, 1792, in Wardsboro, Vermont, died October 13, 1846, in Utica, New York; married Imri Perry, born in Wardsboro, Vermont, March 19, 1787, died in Kiantone, June 17, 1864, son of Abner and Anna ( Phipps) Perry. 7. Will- iam, born August 17, 1793, in Dover, Vermont, died July 6, 1880, in Jamestown, New York; married. July 4, 1828, Julia, born May 31, 1802, died January 18, 1888, in Jamestown, New York, daughter of Solomon and Clarissa (Hayward) Jones. 8. Josiah, born March 16, 1795, died April 1, 1877, in Warren, Pennsyl- vania; married, May 16, 1828, Eunice Payne Berry, who died July 15, 1876. 9. Abigail, born March 2, 1797, died December 17, 1797. 10. Elisha, born December 19, 1799, died No- vember 1, 1853. in Warren, Pennsylvania ; mar- ried Mary D. Foote. 11. Irene, born Decem- ber 13, 1801, died October 12, 1827, in Wards- boro, Vermont; married Silas Dexter. 12. Orris, born September 22, 1804. in Wardsboro, Vermont, died November 3, 1881, in Warren, Pennsylvania ; married, August 10, 1830, in Warren, Eliza Knox Hackney, born February 18, 1809, died March 15, 1885. Between the vears 1812 and 1820 six of these sons, Samuel, James, William, Josiah, Elisha and Orris, set- tled in Chautauqua county, New York, or in the neighboring county across the Pennsylvania line, Warren, where they engaged in lumbering along the Allegheny river and tributary streams. (VI) Samuel, son of William and Abigail
(Pease) Hall, was born December 19, 1782, in Wardsboro, Vermont, died in Busti, New York, October 22, 1859. He resided in Wards- boro until 1814, when he settled on a farm in Busti, where his death occurred, also that of his wife. They purchased the farm of the Holland Land Company, and it is still in the possession of the family. He also engaged in lumbering. He married, in Wardsboro, Ver- mont, Susanna Davis, born October 31, 1783, died July 25, 1858, daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Chapin) Davis. Children: 1. Sam- uel Davis, born August 1, 1806, in Wardsboro, Vermont, died April 10, 1866, in Warren, Penn- sylvania ; married, October 23, 1831, in Warren, Louisa Ballard, born in Wardsboro, October 29, 1812, died in Warren, September 2, 1894. 2. Elona, born December 26, 1807, in Wards- boro, died May 25, 1838, in Warren ; married, in Busti, New York, Aury Aylesworth. 3. Edson, born May 23, 1810, in Wardsboro, died March 9, 1843, in Busti; married Minerva Marvin, born June 1, 1808, died November 29, 1844. 4. Deborah Chapin, born February 16, 1812, in Wardsboro, died August 1, 1836, in Jamestown, New York; married, July 3, 1831, Nathan Lazelle Sears, who died January 5, 1887, in Gibson City, Illinois. 5. John Adams, of further mention. 6. Chapin, born July 12, 1816, in Busti, died September 12, 1879, in Jamestown, New York ; married, November 2, 1837, Susan Bostwick, born July 16, 1817. 7. James Monroe, born October 26, 1824, in Busti, died there, May 1I, 1837.
(VII) John Adams, son of Samuel and Sus- anna (Davis) Hall, was born in Wardsboro, Vermont, December 27, 1813; died in James- town, New York, January 29, 1886. He was an infant in arms when his parents settled in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York, where his boyhood days were passed. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and shared with his father the labors of the farm until he was sixteen years of age. He then located in War- ren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, where, for eighteen years, he was engaged in merchandis- ing. Ten years of this time he was postmaster of Warren. In 1849, at the solicitation of his parents, he closed out his Warren interests at a sacrifice, and returned to the old homestead, in Busti, to care for his aged father and mother, an act of filial love and devotion that speaks the character of the man. He remained in Busti until 1872, engaging much in public life and in farming. During the civil war he held
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the position of clerk of the committee on claims, in the national house of representa- tives. While in Washington he was able to be of great assistance to soldiers and their fam- ilies, in various ways, which service he cheer- fully rendered. During this period he wrote much for the press, under the non de plume "Paul Pry." He was a talented writer, and articles, from his trenchant pen, were widely copied and favorably commented upon. In 1872 he removed from Busti to Jamestown, New York, where, for a few years, he again engaged in mercantile business. In 1876 he purchased, from Davis H. Waite, the James- town Journal, which he edited, in association with his son, Frederick Perry Hall, as business manager, later as partner. Under their capable management the Journal took front rank among the newspapers of Western New York, and ob- tained well-deserved popularity. Mr. Hall, while always a leader in his party (Repub- lican) and a moulder of public opinion, never sought political office for himself, nor would he ever allow himself to be a candidate for other than an occasional local office. He served three years on the Chautauqua county board of supervisors, and, at the time of his death, was a member, for a second term, of the James- town board of education. He was a man of the strictest integrity and unflinching courage, never declining an issue, and strong in his ad- vocacy of whatever he believed to be right and true.
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