Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 6

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

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(IX) Ephraim Evander, son of Nathaniel and Electa F. (Sprague) Eddy, was born March 13, 1829, died June 17, 1867. He was a lifelong resident of Jamestown, with the ex- ception of a few years spent in Titusville and Tidioute, Pennsylvania. He was engaged, all his active life, in the hotel business, both in Jamestown, New York, and in Pennsylvania. He married, October 4, 1853, Betsey A. Cowan, born December 3, 1830. Children: 1. Frank Cowan, born January 2, 1855. 2. Wilton Na- thaniel, born November 8, 1858, died October 7, 1879, when about to enter his junior year in

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Yale College. 3. Harry, born May 14, 1863, died July 17, 1864. 4. Elton Ephraim, of fur- ther mention.

(X) Elton Ephraim, youngest son of Eph- raim Evander and Betsey A. (Cowan) Eddy, was born in Jamestown, New York, March 22, 1866. He was educated in the public schools and Jamestown Business College. When he arrived at legal age he engaged in the business of fire insurance, a line of activity he still con- tinues. He has a well-established agency, and represents standard companies of New York and Massachusetts. He is a man of quiet tastes, reserved manners and thorough-going business methods. He served, for six years, in the "Fenton Guards," New York National Guards, ranking as a corporal. He was honor- ably discharged in September, 1892. Mr. Eddy is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons; Western Sun Chapter, No. 67, Royal Arch Masons ; James- town Exempt Firemen's Association, and Cha- dakoin Boat Club, of Jamestown, of which he is now commodore, having been elected in 1910. He is a Republican, but takes little active part in politics, and is an attendant of the Congregational church. He married, at Jamestown, June 8, 1892, Achsah S. Hiller, born April 28, 1870, died December 22, 1909. She was educated at the University of Michi- gan, Ann Arbor, and, for four years prior to her marriage, taught in the public schools of Jamestown. She was a woman of superior gifts, a willing worker in the church and charit- able causes, an attendant of the Congregational church, and highly esteemed in her city. Child, Wilton Nathaniel, born in Jamestown, April 17, 1893; now a student in the junior class of Jamestown high school, member of the Con- gregational church and Chadakoin Boat Club.

Achsah S. (Hiller) Eddy was a daughter of John D. and Libbie M. (Smith) Hiller, of Jamestown and Smiths Mills, New York. John D. Hiller was a son of John T. Hiller, of Smiths Mills, Chautauqua county, New York. He was born at Smiths Mills, October 16, 1833. He was educated in the public schools, Fredonia Academy and the State Normal Col- lege, at Albany, New York, graduating from the latter with honors, class of 1855. In 1857 he married and began mercantile life at Smiths Mills, where he continued nineteen years. In 1877 he removed to Jamestown, New York, where he resided until his sudden death, No- vember 5, 1887, from concussion of the brain,

caused by falling and striking his head on the stone walk. He led an active public life. In 1864-65 he was clerk of the town of Hanover, Chautauqua county. During 1868-69 he was a member of the board of supervisors of Chau- tauqua county, and, in 1873-74 was a member of the New York house of assembly. He was a man of commanding presence, and mind culti- vated by constant study.

He married, 1857, Libbie M., daughter of Rodney B. and Achsah (Blodgett) Smith, of Smiths Mills, and a sister of Major Hiram Smith. She survived her husband, who also left two daughters: Mrs. A. W. Niblock, of Bay City, Michigan, and Achsah S., wife of Elton Ephraim Eddy, of Jamestown.

CRISSEY This is a local name in Nor- mandy, and came into England with William the Conqueror. It is found on the roll of Battle Abbey, and it appears in various forms in subsequent Eng- lish records. In America it is not a common name, yet it may be found in nearly every state. (I) Mighil Cresse (as he wrote the name, one of twenty-three different forms of the fam- ily name) came from England, with his brother William, in 1649, landing at Salem, Massachu- setts. In 1658 he said he was thirty years old. He lived, for a time, in the family of Lieuten- ant Thomas Lathrop, who, with sixty of his soldiers, fell in the battle of Bloody Brook, near Deerfield, September 18, 1675. From June, 1652, to May, 1663, he lived in the fam- ily of Joshua Ray, at "Royal Side," Salem, now Beverly. He married, in 1658, Mary Bachelder, born in Salem, in 1640, daughter of John and Elizabeth Bachelder, of "Royal Side." She was baptized at Salem, April 19, 1640, and died in August, 1659. He then removed to Ipswich, and married, April 6, 1660, Mary, born there, May 2, 1641, daughter of Mark Quilter. He died in Ipswich, in April, 1670. Child by first wife, John, of whom further. Children by second wife : Mighil, William and Mary. Mary, his widow, survived him and removed, in 1671, to Rowley, Massachusetts, where she died May 7, 1707.

(II) John Crissey, only child of Mighil Cresse, by his first wife, was born at "Royal Side," Salem, Massachusetts, in August, 1659. After the death of his father he lived with his Grandfather Bachelder. In 1675 he chose in court his uncle, Joseph Bachelder, as his guar- dian. He was a tailor, and resided at "Royal

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: 1665, daughter of John and Mary el Gaines, of Ipswich. She died at Si le, " April 4, 1751. Children Mary : ri yong ; Sarah ; John (2d) ; Joseph ; Job. Benjamin : Hannah ; Abigail :

; Daniel, sixth child and fourth son of i.d Sarah (Gaines) Crissey, was born .. Massachusetts, July 11 1698. He removed to New Hampshire. as sev- bir seas did. and, in 1740, to Connecti- . were trace's lost. He married, October Sarah Ingleson, of Salem. Children: \ hom further: Ruth, died young : 4th : Sa. ah : Daniel ; Joseph : Fhzabeth ; Ebenezer : Anna.

, John (2). ellest son of Daniel and . ingleson ) Crissey, was born in 1721. Massachusetts. He removed to New tre. settling in the town of Bath. In wem to Fairfax, Vermont. He was -ebgios man, and wa, leader of the " I service held for worship in that 1. Jane. 1790. The meeting was held in 55.0. John Crissey conda ting the serv- He his son James constituted the choir. ... . Martha Davenport. ( holdren : John. For'd Samuel, Nathaniel and Sylvanus. :: . la t named settled in Stockton, Chau- : anty. New York, and Sylvanus later ". .; farther west.

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Side," on land formerly owned by his Grand- father Bachelder. He was deacon of the Sec- ond Church, at Beverly. His grave is marked by a slate stone, inscribed: "Here lyeth the body of Deacon John Cresy, who died July ye 22nd, 1735, in ye 76th year of his age." His will, dated June 12, 1734, was probated Au- gust 18, 1735. He married Sarah, born No- vember 23, 1665, daughter of John and Mary (Tredwell) Gaines, of Ipswich. She died at "Royal Side," April 4, 1751. Children : Mary; John, died young ; Sarah ; John (2d) ; Joseph ; Daniel; Job; Benjamin; Hannah; Abigail ; Noah.

(III) Daniel, sixth child and fourth son of John and Sarah (Gaines) Crissey, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 11, 1698. He probably removed to New Hampshire, as sev- eral of his sons did, and, in 1740, to Connecti- cut, where trace is lost. He married, October 20, 1720, Sarah Ingleson, of Salem. Children : John, of whom further; Ruth, died young; Mary Ruth ; Sarah; Daniel ; Joseph ; Elizabeth ; Richard; Ebenezer ; Anna.

(IV) John (2), eldest son of Daniel and Sarah (Ingleson) Crissey, was born in 1721, in Salem, Massachusetts. He removed to New Hampshire, settling in the town of Bath. In 1790 he went to Fairfax, Vermont. He was a very religious man, and was leader of the first public service held for worship in that town, in June, 1790. The meeting was held in a log cabin, John Crissey conducting the serv- ice, while his son James constituted the choir. He married Martha Davenport. Children : John, James, Gould, Samuel, Nathaniel and Sylvanus. The three last named settled in Stockton, Chau- tauqua county, New York, and Sylvanus later removed farther west.

(V) Samuel, son of John (2) and Martha ( Davenport) Crissey, was born in Vermont, March 2, 1771, died in Stockton, New York, March 1, 1848. He came from Fairfax, Ver- mont, to Stockton, New York, in 1815, and took up one hundred acres of land. In 1816 he settled in the northern part of the same town, on lot No. 30, comprising a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, which he cleared and improved, making it his residence until his death. He was one of the founders of the Baptist church, in Delanti, and occasionally filled the pulpit, being a deeply religious man. He married, in 1799, Lucy Grosvenor. Chil- dren : I. Almira, married Ethan Cooley ; child, Genevra, married Mortimer Ely. 2. Harlow,

of whom further. 3. Jason, died 1875; mar- ried Roxana, daughter of Rev. Washington Winsor; children: Mary, married Lucien C. Warren: Dr. Sardis Crissey; Jirah, and Ed- ward. 4. Lucy, married Chauncey Winsor, of Delanti; children : Wealthy Ann, married Hiram Lazell, of Stockton; Washington, a merchant of New York. 5. Cynthia, married Zalmon Jennings, and removed to Pennsyl- vania. 6. Martha, died at age of twelve years. 7. Samuel, married Julia Grant ; children : Lucy, married Cassius Perrin; Forest; Myra, mar- ried George Putnam.

(VI) Harlow, son of Samuel and Lucy (Grosvenor) Crissey, was born December 18, 1802, at Fairfax, Vermont; died April 30, 1892, in Stockton, New York. He was a farmer, and a man greatly beloved and re- spected. He married Anna Shepard, Novem- ber 2, 1826. They celebrated their golden wed- ding, and, ten years later, November 2, 1886, their sixtieth anniversary, when one hundred and fifty people, including children, other rela- tives and friends, assembled to honor the event. They lived together six more years, making sixty-six years of married life. Anna Shep- ard was born at Ashfield, Massachusetts, March 29, 1807, died August 29, 1894, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Cobb) Shepard, of Mas- sachusetts; she was a first cousin of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke ( Massa- chusetts ) College. Children : 1. Newton, born April 6, 1828; now a resident of Jamestown, New York, retired from business; married Cynthia Miller; children: Charles M., de- ceased; Anna L .; Mary R .; Jennie C., mar- ried S. B. Burchard. 2. Samuel S., born Au- gust 13, 1833 ; resided at Fredonia, New York, where he died July 28, 1911 ; married (first) Mary Leonard, (second) Ella Kingsbury ; chil- dren by first wife: Jay, George, Howard; child by second wife: Newton K., deceased. 3. Seward M., born April 9, 1839; now a resident of Jamestown, New York; married Lucy A. Wood; children : Belle A., married Frank A. Wilcox; Minor S., married Grace Relf. 4. Elverton B., of whom further.

(VII) Elverton B., son of Harlow and Anna (Shepard) Crissey, was born in Stockton, New York, June 23, 1843; died at Jamestown, New York, February 29, 1908. He was educated at the public schools of Stockton and at Fre- donia Academy. He first engaged in teaching, following his profession in Stockton and Brock- ton, New York, and Marengo, Illinois. In the

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spring of 1870 he removed to Missouri, buying a tract of land at King's City, near St. Joseph, and resided there seven years, having formed a strong liking for his adopted state, and that ever remained with him. He was widely and favorably known, and was called to the office of county assessor. Returning to Brockton he resumed his old profession, teaching for a time, but later located in Sinclairville, where he engaged in the milling business. In 1882, in association with Joy Love, he organized a bank, under the firm name of E. B. Crissey & Com- pany, bankers. Soon followed the organiza- tion of another bank at Cherry Creek, in 1890, where he resided for a year. He then removed to Jamestown, where he organized the Farm- ers' & Mechanics' Bank, from which he later withdrew to organize the Union Trust Com- pany. A few years later he sold his interest in the last-named institution, and became head of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank, which position he retained until his death. He also retained ownership of the Cherry Creek Bank, and, besides, organized the firm of E. B. Cris- sey & Company, bankers, at South Dayton, and the First National Bank, at Falconer. The private bank of Crissey & Crissey, at Little Valley, New York, which he also organized, was later managed by his son, Harlow J. Crissey.

Mr. Crissey was recognized as a wise, con- servative financier, and a man of great public spirit. He possessed a tender heart, and cher- ished warm sympathy for those in distress, and an instinctive desire to assist those in need. He served his city as a member of the board of public works, and rendered efficient service. He was most liberal in his donations to all worthy objects, especially to the Associated Charities, which he aided in organizing, and in which he always held official position. He was of a cultured, refined nature, a lover of books, especially of the poets, and delighted in his home and library, which was well stocked with the choicest literature. He was inde- pendent and liberal in his views, both political and religious ; was connected with the lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows, and deeply inter- ested in all that conduced to the social or ma- terial betterment of his city.

The resolutions adopted by the institutions, with which Mr. Crissey was connected, breathe a spirit of love and respect that is unusual. From the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank :

There was about Mr. Crissey a personality which drew men to him, and it was to him they went in their hours of adversity as in their moments of suc- cess. His advice and his encouragement comforted and aided them in their adversity, as did his con- gratulations cheer them in their success. His love for children was marked; his interest in the young man, starting out on life's journey, prompted him to extend much material assistance. He was a believer in men. and in all that was characteristic of the man.

From the resolutions adopted by the First National Bank of Falconer :

Mr. Crissey was a man of wide experience, rare ability, and one in whom sympathy had to do with judgment. Many a young man, in this community. looks back to the aid and counsel of this man as the starting point of his success.

From resolutions of the Associated Char- ities :

Realizing keenly our loss of so sincere and prac- tical a friend, we desire to place on record our deep appreciation of his helpful consideration and assist- ance, and of his willingness, amidst his many duties. to give of his time and ability to the furtherance of the work of this association, in which he was so deeply interested.

In the diary presented by Mr. Crissey to the customers of the bank he had caused to be printed the following :

He has achieved success who has lived well, laugh- ed often, and loved much; who has gained the re- spect of intelligent men and the love of little chil- dren ; who has left the world better than he found it; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty, or failed to express it; who has always look- ed for the best in others, and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a bene- diction.

In his banking operations he was unusual. During the last thirty years of his life he organized seven banks, and, at the last, was manager of four large and prosperous financial institutions. Yet he was not possessed of a ruling desire to make money. When a friend suggested to him that it would be easier for him to make impersonal investments in gen- eral securities, rather than in individual loans. he answered, "My business is not first of all to make money; it is to do good in this com- munity." Among the many tributes paid him there was often this: "I could not have kept my home if he had not helped me": or. "He helped me send my children through school," and similar expressions. Yet he did nothing

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with a view to popularity-it was his love of humanity. His interest was so fresh and gen- eral, his personality so strong and full of the joy of living, that he will be remembered as a man who did not grow old. He was singularly attractive in conversation and in public speak- ing, with a keen quick wit, and a mind well stored with the best in literature. Absolutely reliable himself he stood for what was right, even if the penalty might be personal loss or possibility of being misunderstood.

Mr. Crissey married, January 2, 1867, at Sinclairville, New York, Mary Langworthy, born there, March 29, 1844, daughter of Jacob and Cornelia (Love) Langworthy. Cornelia Love, born in Gerry, New York, died Decem- ber 24, 1891, aged seventy-five years and eight months, daughter of John and Mary Love. John Love came to New York from Vermont, and located near Sinclairville. Jacob Lang- worthy was born in Washington county, New York, September 30, 1806, died October 4, 1883, son of James and Rhoda (Shaw) Lang- worthy. He came to Chautauqua county when he was eighteen years old, later purchased a farm of two hundred acres, one and a half miles west of Sinclairville, where he lived a suc- cessful farmer's life until his death. The fam- ily attended the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Langworthy was a man of high character, beloved by all who knew him. He married, March 6, 1834, Cornelia Love. Children : Ellen, died at age of fifteen; John, died April 19, 1896; Janet, died aged eleven; Mary, married Elverton B. Crissey; Lewis, of Cherry Creek; Emily, died aged twenty-two months; Charles, died aged thirty-three years. Jacob was the second son of James Langworthy, a farmer of Washington county, New York. He came to Chautauqua county a few years before his death, and made his home with his children. He died September 4, 1846, aged sixty-five years. He married Rhoda Shaw, who died July 27, 1847, aged sixty-eight years. Chil- dren : Joseph, Jacob, Albert, Alonzo, Lavina, Lydia.

Children of Elverton B. and Mary (Lang- worthy) Crissey : I. Lena Cornelia, born Janu- ary 12, 1868; married Frank Merz, president of the Union Trust Company, of Jamestown; children : Lucy A., Elizabeth L., Margaret C., Francis C. 2. Harlow Jacob, born Julv 15, 1870; now president of Citizens' Trust Com- pany, of Fredonia, New York; married Jessie Blackstone; children : Rachel V., Eleanor V.,

Caroline F. 3. Lucy Love, born July 17, 1873; married Henry P. Robertson, president of H. P. Robertson Furniture Company, of James- town; children: Mary Crissey, Lucius Elver- ton. 4. Harold Elverton, born October 26, 1883; now vice-president of Farmers' & Me- chanics' Bank, of Jamestown.

Mrs. Mary (Langworthy) Crissey survives her husband. She is a resident of Jamestown, New York, where she is held in the highest esteem.

It may be said of the late Lucius WARNER Bolles Warner, without detract- ing aught from any other whose name stands high on the rolls of Jamestown's useful citizens, that his honesty, integrity, his career of industry, his public-spirited services and liberal contributions for the development and prosperity of his town, furnish an example that may be followed by every young man that aspires to a position of thrift, usefulness and respectability.

Lucius Bolles Warner, son of Ephraim and Mary Spencer (Miner) Warner, was born at Millington, Middlesex county, Connecticut, March 3, 1828. He located in Jamestown, New York, in 1850, where he was, for five years, engaged in the manufacture of furni- ture. This not proving profitable he turned his attention to the lumber trade, erected a plan- ing mill on Allen street, which was destroyed by fire ; later bought a planing mill and a lum- ber yard, on Baker street, south of the outlet. and continued there in successful business until his death. For over half a century Mr. War- ner was identified with the business interests of Jamestown, and held intimate relations with many important enterprises. He was at the head of a very large and prosperous business of his own, was connected with the First Na- tional Bank, the Jamestown Street Railway Company, Lake View Cemetery Association and many others, also president of the James Prendergast Library. No man did more to advance the material interests of the city. The Warner block, in the business section of the city, was one of his methods of showing his faith in his adopted city. Starting from a modest beginning he acquired ample fortune and honorable position. In the earlier days of this community, when character was being given to the municipality and its institutions; he was one of the controlling and directing spirits, and his influence was always exerted

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for good. He was a liberal supporter of the church, and lived a pure Christian life. He served on the board of education, and was always a warm friend of the cause of better opportunities for the children. For many years he was a supporter of the First Presbyterian Church. In political faith he was a Repub- lican, but took no active part in political affairs nor desired any office, but unsolicited he held a number of offices of public trust, in which he rendered good service. He was highly re- garded as a financier, and was regarded as a safe and disinterested adviser. He held the goodwill and respect of the citizens of James- town, while his relations with his employees were of the friendliest nature. He was of strong individuality, self-reliant, even temper- ed on trying occasions and uniformly kind to all.

Mr. Warner married, in Jamestown, Decem- ber 14, 1854, Mary Minerva, born May II, 1836, daughter of Rev. William D. and Mi- nerva (Densmore) Henry, the former of whom was born April 24, 1807, died September, 1896, a minister of the Congregational church, and the latter born 1806, died December 16, 1888, daughter of Thomas and Lydia ( Belden) Dens- more, of Seneca Castle, near Geneva, New York. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Warner, living at the present time ( 1911 ) : I. Frederick Henry, born May 13, 1863. 2. Mary Eliza- beth, born November 30, 1866; married, Feb- ruary 6, 1890, Robert Newland Marvin (see forward), sixth child of Judge Richard Pratt and Isabella (Newland) Marvin.

Mr. Warner died at Jamestown, New York, February 14, 1905. His memory is warmly cherished there, where he was well known for over a half a century. The funeral services were held at the family residence, on Forest avenue, and a large concourse of friends gath- ered to pay their final respects to a man esteem- ed by all. The several organizations, of which he was a member, were represented by delega- tions of members, among them being the Lake View Cemetery Association, the James Pren- dergast Free Library Association, the James- town Street Railway Company and the First National Bank. The employees of the Warner Mill attended the service in a body. In his address the Rev. Dr. Otis A. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, gave a touch- ing and tender eulogy. The remains were laid to rest in Lake View Cemetery.

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Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 6

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