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ter of Dr. Richard Charles, of Angelica, New York. Children: Charles, see forward; Harry Francis, Ira Davenport,. John O.
(III) Charles, son of Martin (2) Adsit, was born in Hornell, New York. He was ed- ucated in Germany, attending the Dresden Gymnasium and Technical School and Leipsic University. After spending five years in study abroad he returned to the United States. His health being impaired he obtained a position as manager of a plantation in the Hawaiian Islands, remaining there until 1867, when he returned and entered the First National Bank of Hornell as cashier. On the death of his honored father, Charles Adsit became presi- dent of that institution, a position he yet fills. He is a man of large activities, being half owner and an official of the Fassett Lumber Company ; president of the Hornell Traction Company; president of the Merrill Glove Company ; president of the Kettle Falls Land Company, and has business interests in Cali- fornia. He was president of the New York State Bankers' Association and an ex-vice- president of the National Bankers' Associa- tion. He is a Republican in politics and a member of Christ Episcopal Church, Hornell, of which he has been vestryman twenty years and senior warden: His clubs are the Union League of New York City and the Hornell Country, of which he is president.
He married, June 3, 1877, Susan Glasgow Larkin. Children: I. Henry, see forward. 2. Susan Glasgow, born 1881, died 1887. 3. Lynn Magruder, born February 27, 1883; graduate of Princeton University, 1904, B. S., also degree of C. E .; now a mining engineer of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He married, in June, 1905, Ethel Swan, of Louisville.
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(IV) Henry, eldest son of Charles Adsit, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, January 30, 1880. His early and preparatory education was obtained in the public schools and in pre- paratory schools in England and the United States. He entered Princeton University, graduating in 1902 with the degree of A. B. He chose the profession of medicine and was graduated M. D. from Johns Hopkins Medical College, Baltimore. He spent four years at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, special- izing in operative surgery, particularly genito- urinary. He practiced for a short time at Hor- nell, then located in Buffalo, where he is now in successful practice. Dr. Adsit has contrib- uted many able articles on special subjects to
the medical press of both the United States and Germany. He stands high in his profes- sion, and articles from his pen are welcomed by the profession. He is a member of the American Medical Association; New York State Medical Association; Erie County Med- ical Association; the American Medical So- ciety ; Buffalo Academy of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Historical Society. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church, and an Inde- pendent in politics. His clubs and social or- ganizations are: The Knights of Columbus, University Club of Princeton; Princeton New York City (non-resident) ; University, Saturn, Country and Automobile of Buffalo; Country of Hornell and Country of Baltimore (non- resident).
He married Susanna Peachy Poythress Brown, a descendant of four old Virginia families, one of which traces lineally to the Indian princess, Pocahontas. Children: John Wilcox Brown, born in Baltimore, Maryland; Susanna Glasgow.
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BUTTERFIELD dates its arrival from Normandy in the twelfth century. In the United States the common spelling of the name is Butterfield, though in- stances are found of Botfield, of direct Ger- man extraction, and occasionally Boteville; the French form. The name Botevyle occurs in the Roll of Battle Abbey.
(I) Benjamin Butterfield, from whom the American family chiefly descends, came from England to Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1638. He probably married in Eng- land and brought his family with him. His name appears among the first town orders of Woburn, and in 1643 he was made a freeman. In 1645 his name appears on the Woburn tax list. In 1652 the inhabitants of Woburn pe- titioned for leave to explore the west side of the Concord river. The committee's report was, "a very comfortable place to accommo- date a company of God's people." In 1653 he headed a petition for a tract of six miles square in the explored territory known to the Indians as Naamkeek, which means "a fishing place." The tract was occupied in 1654 by Benjamin Butterfield and his associates, and the next year was incorporated as Chelms- ford. The line between the Indians and the whites was run "on the east side of Butter- field's highway, and was marked by a ditch :"
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on this highway he located his farm and built his house, somewhat within the present limits of ward four, Lowell. In 1656 he is named as one of the citizens of Chelmsford to whom the Governor Dudley farm of fifteen hundred acres was conveyed. In 1656 he obtained forty-two acres of intervale out of the two hundred and forty-one acres granted that year to Chelmsford. Three of his sons were among the grantees of Wamesit. His first wife, Ann, died at Chelmsford, May 19, 1661. He married (second), June 3, 1663, Hannah, widow of Thomas Whittemore. His first two children were born in England, the others in Woburn : Jonathan, Mary, Nathaniel, Samuel, Joseph.
(II) Joseph, youngest son of Benjamin and Ann Butterfield, was born in Woburn, Mas- sachusetts, August 15, 1649, died in 1720. His estate inventoried £300. He married, Febru- ary 12, 1674, Lydia, daughter of Joseph Bal- lard, one of the first settlers of Andover. Chil- dren: Joseph, Benjamin, Tabitha, Isaac and Jacob (twins), Anna.
(III) Benjamin (2), son of Joseph and Lydia (Ballard) Butterfield, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in 1680, died at or near his home at Frances Hill (now West- ford) 1715. He was a sergeant of militia. He married Elizabeth Fletcher. Children: Ben- jamin, William, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary, Deborah.
(IV) Benjamin (3), son of Benjamin (2) and Elizabeth (Fletcher) Butterfield, was born in that part of Chelmsford which is now Tyngsboro, May 25, 1702. He was an ensign in the militia. He removed to Brattleboro, Vermont. He married Keziah Patterson.
(V) Benjamin (4), son of Benjamin (3) and Keziah (Patterson) Butterfield, was born May 15, 1726, died December 7, 1804. He was captain of a New York militia company, and was afterward a lieutenant in Colonel Seth Warner's famous regiment of "Green Moun- tain Boys." He married (first) Susanna Spalding, and (second) Lois Herrick.
(VI) Captain Ezra Butterfield, son of Ben- jamin (4) Butterfield, was born in Westmins- ter, Massachusetts, October 21, 1749, was reared in Brattleboro, Vermont, and died in Dummerston, Vermont, January 6, 1825. He was a farmer and carpenter, and a captain of militia. He married Martha Hadley, a native of Westford, Massachusetts, who was born January 29, 1760, died at the age of eighty-two
years. Their children were: Ezra, Ebenezer, Zenas, Susanna, Samuel, Martha, Cyrus, Nabby, Levi, Benjamin and three who died in childhood.
(VII) Deacon Zenas Butterfield, son of Captain Ezra and Martha (Hadley) Butter- field, was born February 22, 1782, in Dum- merstown, Vermont, where he spent his entire life on a farm adjoining his father's home- stead, and died August 29, 1829. A man of deep religious convictions, he left the faith of his ancestors (who were Congregationalists) and united with the Free Will Baptist church, in which he was for many years a deacon. He married Sally (Sarah) Turner, of Putney, Vermont, who died at the age of eighty-nine years. The Turner family was descended from John Turner, who was a passenger in the "Mayflower," and either he. or his son mar- ried a granddaughter of Elder Brewster. Children of Deacon Zenas and Sally (Turner) Butterfield : Alanson, Diantha, Zenas, Hannah, Sarah, Ezra T., Thomas, Betsy, Lucy V.
(VIII) Zenas (2), son of Deacon Zenas (1) and Sally (Turner) Butterfield, was born in Dummerston, Vermont, August 10, 1807, died in the town of Mansfield, Cattaraugus county, New York, April 16, 1878. He settled in New York state, locating first at Farmington, and then came to Cattaraugus county by wagon and team, settling in Mansfield, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he cleared and improved, becoming one of the substantial men of the town. His first farm he later exchanged for another, still known as the "Butterfield Place." He was a man of in- dustry and thrift, bearing a most excellent rep- utation as an upright citizen. He married, in 1830, Chloe Wilson, born August 29, 1805, daughter of Reuben and Mary ( Manly) Wil- son. Reuben Wilson was born in Vermont, in 1774, son of Captain Ezekiel Wilson, who was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, was a cap- tain in the revolutionary army, and married, about 1766 or 1767, Sally Turner, of Reho- both : he was son of Benjamin Wilson, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Sprague, a noted Indian fighter. Children of Zenas and Chloe (Wilson) Butterfield, born in Mansfield, Cattaraugus county, New York: I. Morris W., born June 12, 1832, died in East Otto. New York, February 6, 1911; he married (first) Abigail Riddle, who bore him two children : Horace Greeley and Gertrude; married (second) Flavia Boyce, who bore him
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four children : Herbert B., Alice C., Glenn W., Helen ; married (third) Nancy Bebee, of East Otto, New York. 2. Marshall K., born Sep- tember 17, 1833, died in Redwood Falls, Min- nesota ; married Lucy Griffith, of East Otto, New York; children: Mina W., born Octo- ber 20, 1855; Zenas G., born November 21, 1861 ; Edith C., born April 8, 1875. 3. Reu- ben Hadley, of whom further. 4. Lucy A., born August 6, 1842. She was educated in the common schools, Randolph Academy, Cat- taraugus county, and Springville Academy, Erie county, New York. She was a teacher in the common and high schools in Cattarau- gus county for ten years or more. She mar- ried David N. Brown, a prominent citizen of Gowanda, New York, June 18, 1872; he died in Otto, New York, in February, 1905. Chil- dren: Chloe Gertrude, born April 8, 1877; Olive Nichols, born August 10, 1881.
(IX) Reuben Hadley, son of Zenas (2) and Chloe ( Wilson) Butterfield, was born Oc- tober 25, 1836, in the town of Mansfield, Cat- taraugus county, New York. He was educat- ed in the public schools, and began busi- ness life in the store of Darling & Wilson, in which his uncle was a partner. He remained there two years, after which he was with W. E. Hunt at Otto for four years, then in the drug and grocery business as clerk for two years, and then established a general grocery business in partnership with his two brothers, continuing for ten years. In 1878 he located in Little Valley, where until 1904 he was en- gaged in general merchandising, in which year he sold to A. G. Whiting and retired from active business life. . He was one of the in- corporators of the Cattaraugus County Bank, in which he served as vice-president. He re- sides in Little Valley, his daughter, Blanche D., making her home with him since the death of her husband. He has led an active busi- ness life and well deserves the success that attended his efforts.
Mr. Butterfield married, August 9, 1866, Emily D. Kenyon, born March 26, 1837, daughter of Horace and Delia (Lake) Ken- yon, who were early settlers in the town of New Albion, Cattaraugus county, New York, coming there from Otsego county, New York. She was educated in the common schools and Conference Seminary at Charlotteville, Scho- harie county, New York. They were the par- ents of one child, Blanche D., born February 26. 1870, married Dr. Edwin A. Milling. of
Buffalo, New York, who was born in 1868, died in the town of Stockton, New York, De- cember 19, 1903.
Early records of the Rider fam-
RIDER ily are wanting and little can be told further than that they were residents of Connecticut. One of the branches settled in Mansfield, Connecticut, and from it the Cattaraugus county, New York, branch descends.
(I) Milford Rider, of Connecticut, set- tled in Cohoes, Albany county. New York. where descendants yet reside. His wife's name was Martha. Children : George M., of whom further; Matie, Elizabeth, Charles (deceased), married Nancy Bryant and had Lloyd A. and Marguerite J .; Jennie (deceased), married Fred Pride and had a daughter Christine.
(II) George M., son of Milford Rider, was born in Trenton, Oneida county, New York. September 15, 1844. He was a child of three years when his parents came to Cattaraugus county and purchased a farm about one mile south of Ellicottville. He was educated in the public schools, Ellicottville union school and Alfred Academy. He taught for a number of terms and was principal of the Ellicottville union school three terms. In the fall of 1864 he went to Albany to attend the law school. but instead enlisted in the Ninety-first Regi- ment, New York Volunteers, as a private, serving until the close of the war. He was wounded in the arm at the battle of the Wil- derness and after coming out of the hospital was honorably discharged. Returning home he again took up the study of law under the law firm of Scott & Laidlaw, and in June, 1871, was admitted to the bar. Shortly after- ward he located in Gowanda, New York. where he formed a law partnership with C. C. Torrance, under the firm name of Torrance & Rider. After one year this firm dissolved. Mr. Rider returning to Ellicottville, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. He was a law partner of Hon. C. P. Vedder. from 1876 to 1884. In 1883 he was elected district attorney of Cattaraugus county and re-elected in 1886. He was a most efficient prosecutor and made a fine record during his six years incumbency of the office. In 1892 he was appointed a special agent of the United States treasury department and sent abroad to examine American consulates. He was
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president of the village and president of the school board. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a Republican in politics.
He married Anna Martha, daughter of Fred Mallory. Children: I. Charlotte, married Charles B. Loomis, and has a son Stewart. 2. Milford W., married Capitola Tarar; chil- dren: Helen and Georgia. 3. Fred C., of whom further.
(III) Fred C., youngest son of George M. Rider, was born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, New York, October 20, 1876. He was educated in the public schools. Deciding upon the profession of law, he read with his father, with Henry Donnelly, and his brother, Milford W. Rider. He then entered the law school of the University of Buffalo, whence he was graduated, and later admitted to the bar. He was in business at Ellicottville with his father, and after the death of the latter succeeded to his legal business, and still continues in active practice. He has been elected justice of the peace three terms, and was for a time clerk in the war department at Washington. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masonic order and is a Republican.
The Van Brocklins of VAN BROCKLIN Middleport, New York, all descend from early
Dutch ancestors, the first of whom to settle in Northern New York was Cornelis Teunissen Van Brocklin, ancestor of the Van Brocklins of Middleport, New York, came from Hol- land with his brother, who later went to Vir- ginia. Cornelis T. went northward and was one of the early settlers of Beverwyck (Al- bany) in 1631. He was a magistrate of Bever- wyck, and an Indian trader.
(I) Garrett (Gerritt) Van Brocklin was a soldier of the revolution, serving with the Tryon company militia. He was a signer of the association test, and an organizer of the third and fourth battalions of militia from the Mohawk Valley district. He was commission- ed ensign, August 26, 1775, and reappointed, June 25, 1778, and was commissioned second lieutenant, March 8, 1781. He owned a large amount of land in the Mohawk Valley in the counties of Schenectady and Montgomery. He married Anna Hilts.
(II) Alexander, son of Garrett and Anna (Hilts) Van Brocklin, was born at Caughna- waga, Montgomery county, New York, Octo-
ber 4, 1776. He lived at Oneida Castle, re- moving from there to Chautauqua on Lake, On- tario, where he bought a two hundred acre tract from the Holland Patent Company, later selling his farm and removing to Canada, where he died at Long Point. He married Sarah J. Cady.
(III) John, son of Alexander and Sarah J. (Cady) Van Brocklin, was born at Taberg Furnace, Oneida county, New York, May 10, 1801, died at Middleport, New York, January 28, 1883. He had but three months schooling in the district school, having to fight life's battle for an existence from his earliest boy- hood. His father was engaged in the foundry business and the lad early learned what hard work meant. As he grew in years he con- tinued in the same business. He built the first foundry at Barnegat, Orleans county, which he operated, later erecting the first one built at Londonville, in the same county. In the fall of 1839 he located in Middleport, Niagara county, New York, where he built a foundry and manufactured many of his own patents. He invented many articles of value, among them being a cleave for plows that was in use as long as wooden beam plows were made. Another valuable patent was a machine for making carriage bolts, which is still the basic principle upon which the bolt machines of to- day operate. About 1860 he retired from the foundry business and engaged in the sale of patent rights until his death. He was engaged during the war in the transportation of am- munition for the use of the American army. Although a man of little education he pos- sessed unusual native ability and inventive talent. He was a good business man and made a success of his life. He married Delilah Bentley. Of their ten children only two are living, a daughter Cynthia, and Daniel.
(IV) Daniel, son of John and Delilah (Bentley) Van Brocklin, was born at London- ville, Orleans county, New York, December 25, 1829. He was educated in the public schools of Londonville, spent one winter at the Academy at Yates Center, and one winter at the Western Reserve Institute at Kirkland, Ohio. He worked with his father in the foun- dry, removing with him to the different places he operated, then working in various parts of the country, finally settling in Canada. After quitting the foundry business he purchased a fine span of horses, and with his father trav- elled about the states selling patent rights. He
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. later separated from his father and purchased a canal boat and for one season boated on the Erie canal with little success from a financial point of view. In the following winter he se- sured a contract from the New York Central railroad which netted him sufficient capital to go west. He purchased a tract of timber land at Willoughby, Ohio, which he cleared, con- verting the trees into lumber. Later he again joined his father in selling the rights to use the patented bolt machine. Later they went to Canada, settling at Welland, then Merrittsville, where they built and operated a foundry for eighteen months. Daniel disposed of his inter- est at the end of that time, and in 1854 return- ed to New York, settling at Middleport, where he purchased a foundry owned by his brother. He continued in the foundry business until 1870, then opened a hardware and house fur- nishing store, which he conducted for a few years, disposing of that to his son, William I. Van Brocklin. He then purchased a farm in the town, and after operating that a few years retired from active life, retaining now only a general oversight of his farm, and looking after his numerous tenant's properties, in Mid- dleport. He has spent an unusually active life, as the foregoing record shows, and has im- proved every opportunity. His long and busy life has not incapacitated him, but at eighty- two years he is still active and vigorous. He is a member of the Universalist church, and for forty years has been connected with the Masonic order. In politics he is a Republican, and served as trustee of the village corpora- tion of Middleport.
He married (first) Elizabeth Ewing, of Mid- dleport. He married (second), in Chicago, Illinois, Angelina G. Baker, born 1841, daugh- ter of Judge Alden S. Baker. Children of first marriage, one died in infancy : William I., born June 7, 1856, married Adelaide Robinson ; Ida E., born February 9, 1863, married George Nash ; children, Leon, married Adcal Davis; Daniel; Carrie, married Samuel Westbrook, and has Winifred. Child of second marriage: Mary E., born December 12, 1882, married Dr. Almon Dewhurst, and has Elizabeth.
Lawrence Litchfield, the LITCHFIELD common ancestor of all of the name who claim a New England origin, was very early in Amer- ica, but dates cannot be given. The Rev. John
Lathrop in 1634 arrived in the ship "Griffin," with a church and colony of "Kentish Men" from Egerton, in Kent, England, and settled with them at Scituate, Massachusetts. With this company Lawrence Litchfield had numer- ous connections which he never forsook and who never forsook him. He must have been, at their arrival, a young man and unmarried. Here he is presumed to have remained until 1640. The first mention of his name on any records is in 1640 when he was received a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company of Boston. In 1643 his name appears in Barnstable records on a list of those able to bear arms. About 1645 he returned to Scituate, having a wife and two children. In 1648 his name occurs in the will of Thomas Dennis, of Scituate, and there are references to him in the Scituate records to show he lived there until his death in 1657. Children: Ex- perience (a son), Remembrance, Dependance, Josiah.
(II) Josiah, son of Lawrence Litchfield, was born in 1647, at Scituate, Massachusetts. He was a land owner of Scituate and seems to have possessed a goodly estate. He married, February 22, 1671, Sarah, daughter of Nich- olas Baker, pastor of the First church in Scit- uate. Children : Hannah, Sarah, Josiah, Nich- olas, Experience, Judith, Samuel.
(III) Nicholas, son of Josiah and Sarah : (Baker) Litchfield, was born, in Scituate Massachusetts, February 7, 1680. He became a prominent public citizen, representing Scit- uate in the general court in Boston, 1738-41. He married Bathsheba Clark, daughter or niece of Thomas Clark, who came from Plymouth to Scituate in 1674, and is believed to have been the great-granddaughter of Thomas Clark, mate of the "Mayflower." Children : Experience, Josiah, Nicholas, Bath- sheba, James, John, Israel, Eleazer, Susanna, Isaac, of whom further; Thomas.
(IV) Isaac, tenth child of Nicholas and Bathsheba (Clark) Litchfield, was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, 1719. He married (first), 1743, Lydia Cowing; (second), 1758, Hannah Hersey. Children: Barnabas, Isaac, Hannah, Abner, Hersey, Caleb, Simeon, of whom further; Canterbury, Celey, Desire, Stephen.
(V) Simeon, sixth child of Isaac and his first wife, Lydia (Cowing) Litchfield, mar- ried, February 4, 1793, Lucy Hatch. Children :
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Lucy, married (first) Robert Cook; (second) Asa Litchfield, Simeon, of whom further.
(VI) Simeon (2), son of Simeon (1) and Lucy (Hatch) Litchfield, was born April 10, 1795. He married Hannah Richards and had a son, Noah Simeon.
(VII) Noah Simeon, son of Simeon (2) and Hannah (Richards) Litchfield, was born about 1841. He settled in Cattaraugus county, New York, where he engaged in agriculture. He married Jane Morris, born in Clarkstown, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, March 16, 1841, died April 4, 1903. Her father died at the early age of thirty-nine years, leaving six sons and two daughters to care for their mother, who with the sublimest faith gathered together the family and set out across the then wide and dangerous Atlantic in order to give them the benefits of a free country. She arrived in Buffalo, New York, in 1850, where with her family she remained four years, then removed to Centreville, New York. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Litchfield: Walter Morris, of whom further ; Royal S., married Mary Howe; chil- dren, Ernest and Geraldine.
( VIII) Walter Morris, son of Noah Simeon and Jane ( Morris) Litchfield, was born March 4, 1863, in Sandusky, Cattaraugus county New York. He was educated in the public schools and at Ten Broeck Academy, whence he was graduated, 1879, after pursuing a classical course. He decided upon the pro- fession of medicine, entered the medical de- partment of the University of Buffalo, receiv- ing his degree of M. D., class of 1886. He be- gan practice at Franklinville, later locating at Cuba, New York. In 1907 he moved to Inde- pendence, Kansas, where he engaged in bank- ing and in the oil business for two years. He then returned to New York state, locating in Salamanca, his present home. Dr. Litchfield stands high in his profession and keeps abreast of all modern medical discovery. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church.
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