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(VIII) Daniel Arthur, son of Joseph and Susan R. (Congdon) Hazard, was born No- vember 15, 1858, died March 6, 1906. He was a farmer of the town of Napoli. He married,
October 8, 1879, Ida E., daughter of Eben Sibley ; children : Leland Arthur, George The- odore, Mary Ida and Robert Lincoln.
(VIII) Theodore Lincoln, son of Joseph and Susan R. (Congdon) Hazard, was born at Napoli, New York, September 9, 1860. A graduate of Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New York, 1880; of Homoeopathic medical department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor, 1883, and Chicago Homoeopathic Med- ical College, 1895. He practiced in 1883-84 at Salamanca, New York, then for eight years at Anamosa, Iowa, since which time he has been located at Iowa City, Iowa. In 1892 he was appointed assistant to the chair of materia medica in the College of Homoeopathic Medi- cine, State University of Iowa, and in 1902 was appointed lecturer in pediatrics, which position he still holds. He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, of the Hahnemann Medical Association, Iowa, and of the Central Homoeopathic Medical As- sociation, of Iowa, and is president of the last. named. He is an Independent Republican in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and of the Masonic order, including the Commandery, Shrine and of the Order of
the Eastern Star. He married (first) January . 3. 1883, Clara C., died June 15, 1906, daugh- ter of Archibald Merrill. He married (sec- ond) October 20, 1908, Mrs. Sara C. McCord. Children by first marriage: Charles Merrill, born December 21, 1885, M. D., 1910; Arch- ibald Merrill, born October 10, 1887, C. E., 1908; Philip Lee, born December 16, 1890, student of civil engineering.
(VIII) William Henry, son of Joseph and Susan R. (Congdon) Hazard, was born in Napoli, Cattaraugus county, New York, August 22, 1866. He attended the public schools of Napoli and Randolph, completing his education by a two years' course at Cham- berlain Institute. In April, 1886, he entered the employ of the Salamanca National Bank as bookkeeper. He remained with the bank twenty-one years, holding all the intermediate positions until he reached that of vice-presi- dent. When the bank was re-organized as the Salamanca Trust Company he was in charge of the business details incidental thereto, and when the Trust Company was ready for business Mr. Hazard was chosen cashier, continuing until August 1, 1907, when he resigned. In this long asso-
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ciation with the officials of both bank and trust company he had thoroughly established himself in their regard, and on leaving he was presented with a most appreciative set of reso- lutions, expressing the sentiments of his associates. On leaving the bank he formed the firm of W. H. Hazard & Company, which succeeded to the real estate and insurance business of Vreeland & Company, an agency founded in 1880 by Hon. Edward B. Vreeland, and the second of the kind established in Cat- taraugus county. Mr. Hazard has always taken an active interest in public affairs, and has aided in all efforts to advance the interests of Salamanca. He served two years in the village council and nine years on the board of education. He is a successful business man and deservedly popular. His business is not confined to local points, but is state wide. He handles a great deal or outside farm and vil- lage property, and has built up an organiza- tion that transacts a large business. He is a director of the Salamanca Trust Company, vice-president of the Sterling Furniture Com- pany, director of the Ashworth-Odell Worsted Mills, secretary of the Fancher Furniture Company, president of the board of trade, president of the park commission and inter- ested in other village activities. He is promi- nent in the Masonic order, being past master of Cattaraugus Lodge, No. 239, Free and Accepted Masons; member of Sal- amanca Chapter, No. 266, Royal Arch Masons, Salamanca Commandery, No. 62, Knights Templar; Ismailia Temple, Order of the Mys- tic Shrine, of Buffalo, and past district deputy grand master of the thirty-ninth Masonic dis- trict. He is a member of the Congregational church, and for many years superintendent of the Sunday school. Politically he is a Re- publican.
He married (first) June 24, 1890, Emma B. Brown, born August 22, 1869, died August 17, 1904, daughter of Charles D. and Addie (Ken- nicott) Brown, and granddaughter of James Brown. He married (second) June 12, 1906, Elizabeth Kennicott, daughter of Robert Cul- ver. Child of first marriage: William Henry (2), born June 1, 1897. Child of second mar- riage: Robert Culver, born September 10, 1908.
Elizabeth Kennicott (Culver) Hazard was born in Boulder, Colorado, October 26, 1867, great-granddaughter of Noah Culver, who set-
tled in the town of Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York, in 1823, coming from Chautauqua county. He had sons Noah, Eli- phalet and Lyman, who were well known among the early settlers. Lyman Culver was born in Livingston, Connecticut, married Emily Hull. Their son, Robert Culver, was born in Little Valley, March 6, 1830, died No- vember 28, 1906. He was educated in the public schools and Randolph Academy. He was a farmer, and with his father was en- gaged in the lumber business, rafting their logs down the Allegheny river to Pittsburg. At the age of twenty-three he engaged in mercantile business in Chicago, Illinois, and was also a member of the board of trade. In 1860 he went to Colorado, settling at Boulder. where he was engaged in mining, erecting the first quartz mill in that district. He also was interested in farming and stock raising. In 1890 he returned east and located in Baltimore, Maryland, where he engaged in the real es- tate business, and later was in the same busi- ness in Savannah, Georgia. He was a Repub- lican and a Unitarian. He .married Annie Kennicott, of New Albion, New York, born January 31, 1835, died June 18, 1896, daugh- ter of John Anson Kennicott, a native of Rens- selaer county, New York, who settled in New Albion, January 12, 1821. He was the first town clerk, holding that office seventeen years. He was elected to several important offices in the old town of Little Valley, being justice of the peace for forty years. His wife was Sophronia Chapel. Children of Robert and Annie (Kennicott) Culver: Robert Lyman, died aged eighteen years; Elizabeth Kennicott. married William H. Hazard; John Kennicott. Edward Hull, died in infancy ; Mary Emily.
While there are Searle records
SEARLE in all the New England states showing the family to have been seated in America during the early colonial period, definite descent from any of them can- not be traced to Elisha Searle, of Madison county, New York. The most likely theory is that he was a descendant of Andrew Searle. of Rowley, Massachusetts, through the New Hampshire branch.
(I) Elisha Searle was born 1781, died 1852. He was a harness maker by trade and also en- gaged in farming in Madison county, New York. He married (first), in 1807, Lucy Wit-
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ter, born December 28, 1785, died 1833. A family tradition is that both were orphans at the time of their marriage. She died shortly after their removal to Chautauqua county, New York. He married (second) Betsey Park. The children of Elisha and Lucy Searle were all born in Madison county. The Chautauqua county home was in the town of Villenova, where Elisha settled in 1832, on lot twenty-two, and where his death occurred twenty years later. Children (not in order of birth) : Nelson, died in Madison county ; Wellington, married Azuba Nichols; Nathan, married Lucy Nichols and lived in Cattaraugus county; Frederick, mar- ried Lora Hilliard; Tyler H. (of further men- tion) ; Alvira, married Benjamin Vincent; Emeline, married Chauncey R. Smith.
(II) Tyler H., son of Elisha and Lucy (Witter) Searle, was born in Brookfield, Madi- son county, New York, July 29, 1822, died in Villenova, New York, February 6, 1904. He was educated in the public schools, and grew up on the Villenova homestead a farmer. He acquired ownership of the home farm and cultivated it all his life in connection with other business enterprises. For ten years he was superintendent in Leonard's Mills, and for six years was justice of the peace. He was a Re- publican in politics, and a man of high char- acter. He married Jane Ostrom. Children: William E. (of further mention) ; Fred, mar- ried Minnie Terry ; Adolphus.
(III) William E., son of Tyler H. and Jane (Ostrom) Searle, was born in Villenova, Chau- tauqua county, New York, October 22, 1850, on the homestead erected by his grandfather. This property he now owns and will never allow to go out of the family, if in his power to prevent. He was educated in the public schools and Forestville Academy. For some time after completing his studies he taught school. Later he became clerk in the dry goods store of Amos Dow & Son, remaining four years. He then established a dry goods store in East Randolph, which he successfully oper- ated for eleven years, then sold out the entire stock, good will and fixtures. He was asso- ciated with M. V. Benson in organizing the People's State Bank of East Randolph, and in 1890 was elected cashier of the bank, a posi- tion he yet fills (1911). He is a capable, trust- ed official, and a thoroughly posted financier. He is a director and treasurer of the Montreal River Lumber Company and interested in other
concerns of a minor character. He is a Re- publican in politics.
He married, April 19, 1877, Lelia E. Wood- ford. Children : 1. Robert T. (of further men- tion). 2. Wilmah Woodford, married Walter L. Holdridge ; child, Helen. 3. Helen Jennette.
(IV) Robert T., only son of William E. and Lelia E. (Woodford) Searle, was born in East Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New York, January 10, 1881. After attending public school he entered Chamberlain Institute, graduating at the end of a commercial course. He then entered Cayuga Military Academy at Aurora, New York. This school was discontinued in February which prevented Robert T. from graduating the following June. He then enter- ed the New York Military Academy at Corn- wall-on-the-Hudson, remaining, however, but a short time.' He finished with a post-graduate course at Chamberlain Institute. After com- pleting his studies he was appointed assistant cashier of the People's State Bank of East Randolph, a position he held continuously until January, 1911. The first four years he was constantly employed in the bank, since then as a supply to fill his father's place during sick- ness or absence from any cause. In 1903 Rob- ert T. purchased an interest in the Nansen Supply Company, at Nansen, Pennsylvania, to which enterprise he gave personal attention until called back for six months. He still re- tains his interest in the Nansen Company. In August, 1904, he become interested in the "Original Bath and Hotel Company," of Mt. Clemens, Michigan, and was for one year manager of the same. In August, 1905, he returned to Randolph and engaged with T. E. Adams, as clerk. February 1, 1906, the T. E. Adams Company was incorporated with Rob- ert T. Searle as secretary and treasurer. He is also a director in the People's State Bank, of East Randolph. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and of Elm Creek Lodge, No. 359, Free and Accepted Masons. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, June 20, 1904, Florence Crow- ley Adams, born May 19, 1881. Children : Roberta, born May 13, 1905; William Adams, June 10, 1906; Mary Lenett, March 7, 1910.
Whitney as a surname owes WHITNEY its origin to the ancient but obscure parish of Whitney, on the confines of Herefordshire, England, near
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the border of Wales. It lies in the valley Wye, which is here a mountain torrent subject to sudden and destructive rises. This circum- stance affords a probable explanation of its name, Whitney being perhaps taken from the Anglo-Saxon word, kwit, white, and ey, water, and so literally meaning white water. There is no record of Whitney in Herefordshire prior to Domesday Book, which places it in the hun- dred of Elsedune, and spells the name Witenie. The family was of consequence in England and bore arms: "Azure a cross chequy, or and sable. Crest : A bull's head couped sable, arm- ed argent, the points gules. Motto: Magnani- miter crucem sustine."
The earliest of this family in New England was Henry Whitney, born in England, about 1620. No record of him is found prior to October 8, 1649, when he was associated with two others in buying three-fourths of William Salmon's land, at Hashamommock, in Southold, Long Island. The town records of Hunting- ton, Long Island, show that he was an inhabit- ant of that place, August 17, 1658. While at Huntington he built a gristmill or "corne mill" for Rev. William Leverich, with whom he had a difference over it. The evidence shows him to have been a frank, outspoken man, once fined for speaking his mind too freely before the court. His last appearance on Huntington records is January 25, 1661, as witness to a will. Soon after this he removed to Jamaica, Long Island, where he bought a home lot. His name appears several times on Jamaica rec- ords. He next appears at Norwalk, Connecti- cut, in 1656, on July 24, when he entered into a contract with the town to "make, build and erect a goode and sufficient grounde corne mill." October 11, 1669, he was one of thirty- three named in "a true and perfect list of all the freeman appertainge unto the plantation of Norwake." His name last appears February 20, 1672-73. He probably died in the autumn of 1673. His will is dated June 5, 1672, and his estate inventoried at two hundred and fifty- five pounds. Nothing is known of his wives further than the second was a Widow Ketcham. His will mentions only a son John and "my beloved wife."
(II) John, son of Henry Whitney, was probably born before his father went to South- old, as he was of full age, January 20, 1665- 66. He settled with his father in Norwalk, Connecticut; followed his business of miller and millwright; succeeded him in the posses-
sion of the mill and homestead, and married. He built a fulling mill at Norwalk, which he gave April 14, 1707, to his son, John (2). He sold his son John the gristmill. John recon- veyed the whole property to his father three days before his death (John (2) ), and a month later the father secured the fulling mill to the widow, during the minority of her son. He finally sold the gristmill to his son Joseph, who agreed to pay his father's debts and give him one-half of half of all the grain taken in toll during his father's life, "if demanded" and "to maintain his mother, Elizabeth Whitne (if she survive), honorably during her natural life, if she remain ye saide John Whitne's widow." He died in Norwalk, 1720. He married, March 17, 1674-75, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith. She was a member of the First Con- gregational Church in Norwalk, in 1725, and was living April 3, 1741, when her son, Joseph, in a codicil to his will, provided for her sup- port. They had eleven children : John, Joseph, Henry, Elizabeth, Richard, Samuel, Anne, Eleanor, Nathan, Sarah and Josiah.
(III) Nathan, ninth child of John Whitney, was born at Norwalk, Connecticut. He mar- ried, about 1715, and settled at Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he took the freeman's oath, December 9, 1728, and was living there in 1739. There is no record of the date of death of Nathan or wife. He married Sarah
Children : 1. Mary, married her cousin, Isaac Keeler. 2. Eliasaph, married (first) Mary Bishop. 3. Eliakim, married (first) Mary Beachgood, (second) Mary Choram. 4. Sarah. 5. Nathan, died young. 6. Nathan. 7. Seth, a residence of Yorktown, Westchester county, New York; his house was attacked by Tories during the revolution, and in its defense he stabbed one of the attackers in the breast with. an old bayonet he had mounted on a staff. In revenge they clubbed him over the head and left him for dead, but he recovered. The staff and bayonet are yet kept in the old house. He mar- ried (first) Elizabeth (second) Anna Smith. 8. Josiah. 9. Jeremiah (of further mention). 10. Uriah, tradition says that he was a sailor in early life; served in the revolu- tion and was captured at White Plains : mar- ried . (first) Sarah Platt, (second) Martha Platt. II. Ann.
(IV) Jeremiah, ninth child of Nathan Whit- ney, was born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, Sep- tember 18, 1731. He removed with.his father to Cortlandt's Manor, now Yorktown, West-
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chester county, New York, as early as 1747. Tradition says he also resided sometime in Putnam county, New York, and served in the revolutionary war. He was a farmer, but his grandson, Isaac Lounsbury Whitney, says: "He was a Methodist preacher. I have been at his home a week at a time and went with him to church. He lived in a log house on Con- necticut mountain ; at that time I was six years of age." He is said to have had two, perhaps three wives, but the name of only one, Eva Youngs, has survived, and owes its preserva- tion to the fact that it was engraved on one of her pewter plates, which is yet preserved in the family. Jeremiah Whitney died in 1810. Chil- dren by first wife : 1. Jeremiah (of further men- tion). 2. Josiah, served five years in the revo- lution and was wounded at Fort Montgomery ; married Esther Weeks. Children by second wife, Eva (Youngs) Whitney: 3. James. 4. Martha, married John Van Ness. 5. Elias, married Judith Wood. An obituary notice says: "Mr. Whitney has been married seventy years; was the father of ten children, the grandfather of forty-seven, great-grandfather of eighty-seven, and great-great-grandfather of six children." He made a profession of re- ligion and was baptized by immersion when eighty-eight years old. He died at ninety-two and is buried with his wife in the Baptist burial ground in Garden street, Poughkeepsie, New York. 6. Phebe, married Rev. Silas Constant, a Presbyterian minister.
(V) Jeremiah (2), eldest son of Jeremiah (1) Whitney, was born in Westchester county, New York, died and was buried in Dutchess county, New York, at place and date unknown to his descendants. He lived in Fredericks- town, New York, also in Fishkill. He was a farmer. Married (first) Sarah Lee, who died December 25, 1809, (second) Sarah Irene Ste- phens. Children of first wife: I. Joseph L. (of further mention). 2. Jeremiah (3), mar- ried Susan Ressegule, of Connecticut; they lived in Fishkill, Milo, Beekman, Reading and Tyrone, all in New York, and in Bingham, Pennsylvania, where he died. 3. Betsey, born in Dutchess county, New York, 1788; married Stephen Jayne, and settled in the state of Ten- nessee. 4. Sarah, born in Dutchess county, April 17, 1790; married (first) William New- ton, (second) Bartholomew Tarney ; they lived at Strakey and Milo, New York, where she died September 4, 1822. 5. Margaret, born in
Dutchess county, in 1794; married Seth Chase, and removed to the state of Indiana.
(VI) Joseph Lee, eldest son of Jeremiah (2) Whitney, was born in Dutchess county, New York, September 15, 1785, died in Sar- dinia, New York, November 17, 1847. After his marriage he dwelt in Putnam until 1812; at Aurelius, New York, until 1814; near Penn Yan, New York, about fourteen years ; at Jeru- salem, New York, a short time; at Reading, New York, about three years; in Pulteney, New York, about five years; finally settled in Sardinia, where he died. He married, Novem- ber 23, 1806, at Fishkill, New York, Phebe, born April 2, 1790, daughter of Jacob and Rachel (Green) Mead. She died at Machias, Cattaraugus county, New York, October 12, 1867. Both are buried in Sardinia. Children : 1. Drusilla, born at Frederick, now Kent, New York, May 5, 1808; married Benjamin Run- yan; removed finally to Sardinia, New York, where they died. 2. Jacob Lee, born in (now) Putnam county, New York, April 25, 1810, died in Milo, New York, September 17, 1819, and was buried at Penn Yan. 3. Silas Jeremiah, born in (now) Putnam county, New York, February 12, 1812; settled in Pulteney and Sardinia, New York, finally in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus county, where he died: married, at Pulteney, New York, May 29, 1837, Issa- binda Bootes, of Lodi, New York. 4. Sarah Margaret, born at Aurelius, New York, May 18, 1814, died unmarried, at Machias, New York. 5. George Harmon, born at Milo, New York, January 1I, 1817; married at Pulteney, where he lived eight years, then removed to Waterford, Pennsylvania, where he died Octo- ber 15, 1871 ; he married, January 7, 1839, Jo- ana McLane, born in Benton, New York, No- vember 6, 1816; was living in Waterford, Pennsylvania, in May, 1875. 6. Joseph Mead, born at Milo, New York, September 19, 1819; married, at Ashford, New York, January 21, 1844, Arabella Howe Warner, born at Plain- field, New Hampshire, February 7, 1815, died at Great Valley, New York, December 26, 1865, and is buried at Ellicottville. They lived at Sardinia, Ashford and Otto, New York, and at Great Valley, fourteen years. In 1866 he moved to Humphrey, Pennsylvania. 7. Mary Van Pelt, died at the age of thirteen, at Pul- teney, New York. 8. Almira Jane, born at Milo, New York, August 26, 1825; married, at Arcade, New York, October 15, 1848, Lewis
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Asa Freeman, born at Walworth, New York, August 22, 1825. 9. Phebe Rachel, born at Jerusalem, New York, December 12, 1827; married, at Ellicottville, New York, February 14, 1852, Henry Le Dioyt, and removed to Magwoketa, Iowa. 10. Benjamin Franklin (of further mention). 11. Issabinda Louise, born at Pulteney, New York, January 23, 1834; married, at Pike, New York, May 9, 1854, Andrew Martin Keller, a veteran of the civil war ; lived at Olean, New York.
(VII) Benjamin Franklin, tenth child of Joseph Lee and Phebe (Mead) Whitney, was born at Reading, New York, April 28, 1830, died in 1906. He was a cooper by trade; dwelt after his marriage nine years in Sardinia, New York, then settled on a farm in the town of Yorkshire, Cattaraugus county, where he re- mained nine years; then removed to Machias, same county, where he died. He was a mem- ber of the Baptist church, and a man well thought of in his neighborhood. He married, at Arcade, New York, July 6, 1854, Lurinda Adeline Haggerty, born in Ellisburg, New York, July 13, 1834, daughter of Reynolds and Sarah Ann (Perkins) Haggerty. Children : I. William B., born at Sardinia, New York, Sep- tember 3, 1857 ; married Lucinda Bowen ; child, Harry, married Myrtle Stady. 2. Charles El- bert, born April 23, 1863, died May 18, 1864 3. Burt Allen (of further mention). 4. Annah Mary, born at Machias, New York, September 5, 1875; married Albert G. Braun; children : Clifford A., Margaret and William.
(VIII) Burt Allen, third child of Benjamin Franklin and Lurinda Adeline (Haggerty) Whitney, was born in the town of Yorkshire, Cattaraugus county, New York, June 14, 1867. He was educated in the public schools and the academic department of the State Normal School, at Brockport. After completing his studies he was clerk for a year before going in partnership with his brother and purchasing the general store at Colden, New York, which he operated successfully for five years. He then sold his interest and located in Machias, where he established a general store and oper- ated it for six years. He then sold out and settled in Little Valley and took up photog- raphy. He has been very successful and has gained a high reputation for his work. He has a large, well-appointed studio where he does all kinds of fine work pertaining to the photog- rapher's art. He has taken an active interest in public affairs and gained for himself a host
of warm friends. He has been president of the village corporation, 1910-11, and is still in office. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Congregational church. He is affiliated with Lodge No. 812 and Chapter No. 266, of the Masonic order, and with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, June 14, 1892, Louise E., born November 16, 1869, daughter of Frederick and Kathryn (Keller) Frantz. Frederick Frantz was born in Alsace, now a province of Ger- many ; came to Madison, Indiana ; a baker by trade; in 1861 located in Colden, Erie county, New York, where he is now living, and where he followed farming, later becoming proprietor of the hotel in Colden village. He was an as- sessor of Colden; a Democrat and a member of the German Lutheran church. Kathryn (Keller) Frantz was born in Schfausen, Swit- zerland, September 24, 1844, came to Carroll- ton, Kentucky, with her parents, George and Elizabeth (Matzinge) Keller, in the year 1852; then came to Madison, Indiana. She married Frederick Frantz, November 28, 1858. Chil- dren : 1. Louis, married Mae Allen; children : Gertrude, Allan and Genevieve. 2. William F., married Eva Sugden; child, Leland S. 3 .- Louise E., married Burt A. Whitney. 4. Fred- erick W., married Mamie Snachell. 5. Albert E., married Harriet Stowell; children : Carle- ton S., Maxwell S. and Kathleen S. 6. Fran- cis J., married Adele Mosher ; child, Lillian A. Child of Burt A. and Louise E. Whitney : Kathryn L., born January 7, 1907.
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