Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 76

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


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and removed to a farm in Collins, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died May 19, 1868. 6. Esther, born 1798; married Au- gustus C. Fox; died at Springfield, Illinois, 1882. 7. Hiram, born 1800; when a boy lived in the family of Dr. Cyrenius Chapin, who had a great fondness for him. On the night of the British attack, Dr. Chapin hurried to join his regiment, leaving Hiram, a boy of thirteen, the task of escorting his two young daughters in their flight to his farm in Hamburg, on foot, ten miles away. Dr. Chapin wished to edu- cate Hiram for a physician, but he preferred to go into business. He formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Orlando Allen, and became very successful. He built the Frontier Mills at Black Rock and was connected with several of the leading business and financial institutions of the city. He was mayor of the city in 1835 and again in 1839. He married Maria Fowle, of Northampton, Massachusetts. His health was broken by the business panic of 1836-37. and he died May 1, 1840, aged forty. 8. Lucy Ann, born 1805, drowned May


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20, 1823, in Buffalo Creek, in which she was thrown from an overturned carriage. 9. Mar- illa, married Orlando Allen. 10. Mary, mar- ried George Burt.


(IX) Samuel (2), eldest son of Captain Samuel (1) and Esther (Wells) Pratt, was born at Westminster, Vermont, in 1787. He was seventeen years old when his father emi- grated to Buffalo, but he did not immediately accompany the family, being then employed in a store at Townshend, Vermont. Here, in 1806, he married Sophia Fletcher, born in 1788, daughter of General Samuel Fletcher, of Townshend, a distinguished revolutionary soldier, legislator and judge. Samuel follow- ed his father to Buffalo in 1807, bringing his wife and infant son, Samuel F. He traveled with a trading caravan in charge of his brother Asa, who had been sent to Boston to buy goods. He entered into the same business as his father, associating himself with Captain Benjamin Caryl, under the firm name of B. Caryl & Com- pany. His store was nearly opposite that of his father. Later he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Elijah Leech, under the name of Pratt & Leech. His house stood on what is now the northeast corner of Main and Eagle streets. When Buffalo was captured by the British, December 29-30, 1813, Mr. Pratt's family fled with others to the Hamburg road. His house and store, with nearly all his pos- sessions, were burned. He remained behind, keeping in hiding in the neighborhood of the farm house on Ohio street. He was once fired on by the Indians near the foot of Michigan street, and a companion by his side was killed. Mr. Pratt's losses in this disaster were made worse by broken health, and he never again en- gaged in business on his own account. In 1818 he went to St. Thomas, Canada, to take charge of a store for his former employer at Town- shend, Vermont, Mr. Bigelow, but his health continued to fail and he returned to Buffalo and died there, August 7, 1822. His widow died March 19, 1862, aged seventy-four years.


Children : 1. Samuel Fletcher, born at Town- shend, Vermont, May 28, 1807; was brought to Buffalo when an infant and educated in private schools here. When twelve years old he left school to join his father at St. Thomas, Canada, where he remained in the employ of Bigelow & Goodhoe until after his father's death. Returning to Buffalo he secured em- ployment in the hardware store of George and Thaddeus Weed. He received eight dollars


a month, of which he gave six dollars to his mother. In 1826, when only nineteen, he was taken into partnership. After various changes in the firm, Mr. Pratt, in 1836, bought the Weed interests. As Pratt & Company this house became one of the most famous busi- ness establishments in Buffalo. He joined William P. Letchworth to form the firm of Pratt & Letchworth, for the manufacture of saddlery hardware, in 1848. In 1844 he be- came the first president of the Buffalo Gas- light Company and continued to hold that posi- tion until his death in 1872. He was one of the founders of the Buffalo Female Academy (Buffalo Seminary) in 1851, serving as its first president and remaining on the board of trus- tees until his death. He was a very thorough and careful business man and very highly re- spected. While he refused several times to become a candidate for mayor, he consented in 1844 to serve as an alderman from the second ward. During the civil war he was treasurer of the citizens' committee of three. He joined the First Presbyterian Church when eighteen years old, and sang in its choir until a few years before his death. He married, in 1835, Mary Jane Strong, of Paterson, New Jersey. He died April 27, 1872. Shortly before his death he provided for the following public be- quests : Buffalo General Hospital, $10,000; Buffalo Orphan Asylum, $10,000; building fund of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, $10,000; Home for the Friendless, $5,000. In addition he gave $30,000 to found a pro- fessorship at Hamilton College. Children: i. Jeannie, born 1841 ; married, 1860, William J. King, of Providence, Rhode Island; died Sep- tember 24, 1872, leaving three children. ii. Helen, married, February 27, 1872, Frank Hamlin, of Buffalo; died in Paris, January 17, 1873.


2. Lucius H., of whom further.


3. Sophia C., born 1810; married Dr. Gor- ham F. Pratt (not a relative).


4. Pascal Paoli, born in Buffalo, September 15, 1819. He was educated in the village schools and at Hamilton Academy, now Col- gate University, in Madison county, and Am- herst Academy, Amherst, Massachusetts. At sixteen he began work in the hardware store of his brother, Samuel F. Pratt, and upon be- coming of age was taken into partnership, the firm becoming, first, S. F. Pratt & Company, and later Pratt & Company. E. P. Beals afterward entered the firm. The business was


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continued until 1885 unchanged except for the death, in 1872, of S. F. Pratt. Originally limited to retail trade, it extended on whole- sale lines until its operations reached beyond the Mississippi. He was a member of the firm of Pratt & Letchworth, formed by his brother and William P. Letchworth, in 1848, to manu- facture saddlery hardware. In 1857 he form- ed the Buffalo Iron and Nail Company, build- ing a blast furnace and rolling mill at Black Rock. This company with its allied concerns, the Fletcher Furnace Company and the Tona- wanda Furnace Company, employed from five hundred to eight hundred men and was large- ly instrumental in building up the northern part of the city. Mr. Pratt believed in manu- facturing as a matter of public spirit as well as of private profit and he believed in Buffalo as a manufacturing center. He was a liberal em- ployer and held the respect of his workmen as well as of his fellow-citizens. In 1856 he founded the Manufacturers' and Traders' Bank, becoming its vice-president and director. He succeeded to the presidency in 1885 and held that position until 1901, when he retired on account of advancing years, and his place was taken by his son-in-law, Robert L. Fryer. He was also one of the founders of the Bank of Buffalo, and a director of the Bank of At- tica, an original trustee of the Fidelity Trust and Guaranty Company, now the Fidelity Trust Company; a director of the Buffalo Street Railway Company; a director of the Buffalo Gaslight Company, and a director of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was for many years president of the Buffalo Clearing House Asso- ciation. He was one of the originators of the Buffalo park system, serving as first president of the park commission from 1869 to 1879. During this time the parks were laid out and the essential work of establishing them was done. In 1883 he served with Luther R. Marsh, of New York, and Matthew Hale, of Albany, on the commission to appraise the land for the state reservation, at Niagara Falls. The awards amounted to about $1,500,000. Originally a Whig, he became a Republican upon the foundation of the party, but would never consent to run for public office, except that he was presidential elector in 1872. He was an ardent Union man during the war, contributing liberally for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers. He became the first presi- dent of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 26 -W


tion, to which he was a generous contributor. He was president for twenty years of the Buf- falo Seminary and was one of the founders and a life member of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. He served as trustee of the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, trustee of Forest Lawn Ceme- tery, vice-president of the Civil Service Re- form Association, president of the board of trustees of the North Presbyterian Church, and vice-president of the Presbyterian Union. He was a charter member of the Buffalo Club and a member of the Ellicott and Falconwood clubs. In his early years he belonged to Eagle Engine Company No. 2, and was an original member of the Volunteer Firemen's Benev- olent Association, and a member of the Buf- falo Exempt Volunteer Firemen's Association. He was a very active member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He married, Sep- tember 1, 1845, Phoebe, daughter of Frederick Lorenz, a prominent glass and iron manufac- turer, of Pittsburgh. Children: i. Katherine Lorenz, married John Miller Horton. ii. Fred- erick Lorenz, married Jeannie Williams. iii. Annie Lorenz, married John S. Chittenden. iv. Melissa Dodge, married Robert L. Fryer. v. Samuel Fletcher. vi. Emma, married Dr. Charles Sumner Jones. vii. Edward Pascal, married Annette Perrine. Pascal P. Pratt died June 18, 1905.


5. and 6. Two daughters, died in infancy.


(X) Lucius Hubbard, second son of Sam- uel (2) and Sophia (Fletcher) Pratt, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 6, 1809, died July 24, 1876. He settled on a farm in the town of West Seneca, New York. He married (first) Cynthia Harriet Weed, born August 15, 1815, died March 3, 1843. Three children : Two died young. 3. Louise Caroline, mar- ried Henry H. Martin; child, Edith, married Booth Clarkson and has Cynthia. He married (second), April 21, 1844, Susan Romney Beals, born February 22, 1819, at Canandaigua, New York, daughter of John W. Beals. Children : 4. Lucius Henry, of whom further. 5. Ed- ward Beals, born January 26, 1846; married, July 10, 1879, Lisette, daughter of Francis C. Branch, of Buffalo. Children, born in Buf- falo: i. Isabella K., born November 27, 1880. ii. Lisette, February 1, 1885. iii. Lucius Fran- cis, July 10, 1888. 6. Julia R., born January 21, 1848; married (first), May 17, 1871, John Turton, died September 29, 1871. Married (second), October 11, 1888, George Macnoe, died January 6, 1897; child, George (2), born


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July 23, 1889. 7. Sophia Fletcher, born Janu- ary 17, 1850; now of Dansville, New York. 8. Susan, born May 12, 1852, died April 10, 1910; married, September 17, 1874, Sylvester Henry Clark. 9. Samuel Chapin, born Octo- ber 6, 1854; married (first), July 2, 1884, Elizabeth M. Smith, died July 17, 1896. Mar- ried (second), February 3, 1904, Kathryn Townsend Campbell, born January 14, 1878. Children (first marriage) : i. Charles Smith, born March 21, 1888. ii. Avery Lucius, Tune 14, 1896. 10. Elizabeth (Lizzie), born July II, 1858; married, May 5, 1885, Clarence S. Hammett. Children: i. Gertrude, born Sep- tember 16, 1887. ii. Marjory, April 8, 1890. iii. Sherman L., November 16, 1895. iv. Ed- ward Rumsey, August 28, 1897.


(XI) Lucius Henry, eldest son of Lucius Hubbard and his second wife, Susan Romney (Beals) Pratt, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 24, 1845. He was educated in the public schools of Buffalo, and after com- pleting his studies engaged in mercantile life. In association with his brothers, Samuel C. and Edward B., formed the wholesale and re- tail hardware firm of Pratt Brothers. Lucius H. continued in the hardware business all his active years, retiring in 1906. Several years of his life were spent away from Buffalo, partly in Ohio and Michigan, but the greater part of his life has been spent in the city of his birth. He was an able, successful man of business, possessing unusual executive ability and courage, which aided by wise. conserva- tive methods, carried him through his long business career and won him success. He is a Republican in politics, and an attendant of the Unitarian church. He married, March 17, 1868, Ella A. Hadley. Children: 1. Henry Hadley, of whom further. 2. Clarence Lowell, born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, March 21, 1882, died in Buffalo, March 7, 1900. 3. Ella Almira, born in Buffalo, March 23, 1885, died there September 20, 1891.


(XII) Henry Hadley, eldest son of Lucius Henry and Ella A. (Hadley) Pratt, was born in Detroit, Michigan, December 19, 1873. He was educated in private schools in Bellefon- taine, and after the return to Buffalo finished in the State Normal School. His early busi- ness life began as a clerk in a wholesale hard- ware department store, where he remained two years. At about the age of twenty-one years he began contracting the installation of power plants, both steam and electrical. He


continued in this business until about 1896, when he closed it out. For the succeeding three years he was with the Worcester Iron Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts, as salesman. Returning to Buffalo he engaged with the Bruce McBeth Company for several years, and in 1906 became manager of the Buffalo office of the DuBois Iron Works. He now represents the same company over the territory comprising Western New York, Northern Pennsylvania, Ohio and adjoining districts, while representing the power equip- ment manufactured by the DuBois Iron Com- pany. Mr. Pratt has been in private business as a dealer since 1906. His business is large, well organized and successful. He also repre- sents in New York territory, lying west of Syracuse, the Terry Steam Turbine Company, the Morehead Manufacturing Company and G. L. Simonds Company. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in poli- tics an independent Republican. He is a mem- ber of the National Association of Stationary Engineers, the United Commercial Travelers Association, and during his three and one-half years residence in Williamsville, New York, has been actively interested in Hutchinson Hose Company, of that village, having been elected president in January, 1911. He is also a member of the Williamsville Club, Amherst Business Men's Association, and the Automo- bile Club, of Buffalo.


He married, October 29, 1901, Katherine E., daughter of William Nagle, a contractor and oil manufacturer, of Buffalo. Children : Clarence Nagle, born October 25, 1902; Kath- erine Nagle, born January 12, 1905.


HERRICK This family was among the earliest in Massachusetts, and is now widely disseminated throughout the United States. The name ap- pears to be of Scandinavian origin, and has undergone many modifications in its progress from Eric to Herrick, taking the latter form about the middle of the seventeenth century. An early American generation of the family here under consideration took the Herrick form of the family name.


(I) Henry Herrick, the patriarch of this family in America, was the fifth son of Sir William Herrick, of Bow Manor Park, in the parish of Loughborough, in the county of Les- ter, England, in 1604. He came first to Vir- ginia, and shortly removed thence to Salem,


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in Massachusetts, and was accompanied by an- other immigrant from Loughborough named Cleveland, who was the ancestor of all of that name in this country. Mr. Herrick became a member of the First Church at Salem in 1629, and his wife Elizabeth about the same time. Charles W. Upton's "Salem Witchcraft" says: "Henry Herrick was a husbandman in easy circumstances, but undistinguished by wealth, and was a dissenter from the established Church, and a friend of Higginson, who had been a dissenting minister in Lester." He married Editha, daughter of Hugh Laskin, of Salem. She was born in 1614, and lived to be at least sixty years old. He died in 1671. They were among the first thirty who founded the First Church in Salem. Children and dates of baptism: Thomas, birth not recorded ; Zach- arie, December 25, 1636; Ephraim, February II, 1638; Henry, January 16, 1640; Joseph, of whom further; Elizabeth, July 4, 1647; John, May 25, 1650; Benjamin, no record, died about 1677.


(II) Joseph, fifth son and child of "Hen- erie" or Henry and Editha (Laskin) Herrick, was baptized August 6, 1645, died February 4, 1718, at Cherry Hill, a farm which had been purchased by his father from one Alford. Upton says: "He was a man of great firmness and dignity of character, and in addition to the care and management of his large farm was engaged in foreign commerce. * * * He was in the Narragansett fight." The state of things at that time is illustrated by the fact that "this eminent citizen, a large landholder, engaged in prosperous mercantile affairs and who had been abroad in 1692, when forty-seven years of age, was a Corporal in the Village Company. He was acting constable of the place, and as such concerned in the early proceedings connected with the witchcraft prosecutions." His title of governor would indicate that he had been in command of the military post or district, or perhaps of a West India Colony.


He married (first), February 7, 1666, Sarah, daughter of Richard Leach, who died 1674. Children : 1. Joseph, of whom further. 2. Ben- jamin, born January 1, 1669, died February 7, 1670. 3. John, January 25, 1670-71. Joseph Herrick married (second), about 1677, Mary Endicott, of Salem, who died September 14, 1706. Children : 5. Henry, baptized January 26, 1679-80. 6. Martyn, twin of Henry. 7. Benjamin, baptized 1680, died young. 8. Try- phena, born November 16, 1681. 9. Rufus,


November 21, 1683. 10. Tryphena, April 9, 1685. II. Elizabeth, October 16, 1686. 12. Ruth, April 29, 1688. 13. Edith, February 20, 1690. Joseph Herrick married (third), Janu- ary 28, 1707, Mary, widow of Captain George March, of Newbury, Massachusetts, who sur- vived him.


(III) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph ( I) and Sarah (Leach) Herrick, was born April. 2, 1667, died September 11, 1749. He settled on the farm given him by his father, in the northwest corner of Beverly, Massachusetts, near the Menham line. Thence he removed to Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he kept a tavern, and thence to a farm on Mine Hill, Topsfield, Massachusetts. He gave a lot for a burying ground, about one-half mile south of Agawam river, Massachusetts, March 13, 1739. Prior to 1696 he married Elizabeth -, who died September 30, 1748. Chil- dren : I. Israel, born September 30, 1696. 2. Benjamin, of whom further. 3. Nehemiah, baptized 1702. 4. Mary, baptized 1706. 5. Joseph, baptized 1709.


(IV) Benjamin, second son and child of Joseph (2) and Elizabeth Herrick, was born at Beverly, Massachusetts, April 14, 1700, died 1773. He settled on farms at Beverly and Wenham, Massachusetts, given him by his father. He removed to Gaye's Ferry, Methuen, Massachusetts. He married, November 27, 1720, Lydia Hayward. Children: I. Israel, of whom further. 2. Edward, born June 6, 1724. 3. Lydia, born March 18, 1726. 4. Nathaniel, born May 26, 1727. 5. Hannah, born May 24, 1728. 6. Anna, born February 21, 1730. 7. Benjamin, baptized February 24, 1732. 8. Nehemiah, baptized February 9, 1735, died 1737. 9. Nathaniel, baptized October 31, 1736. 10. Joseph, baptized June 24, 1739, died young. 11. Ebenezer, baptized June 24, 1739, died young. 12. Thomas, born August 3, 1741. (V) Major Israel Herrick, eldest child of Benjamin and Lydia (Hayward) Herrick, was born December 3, 1721, died September 14, 1782, in Massachusetts. In all he resided at Topsfield, Methuen, and Boxford, Massachu- setts, and Lewiston, Androscoggin county, Maine. He entered the army as a lieutenant in 1745, and served in nineteen calls in the French and Indian war, and left the army in 1763, a brevet-major. He also served in the war of the revolution, and fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was taxed in Topsfield, Massachusetts, and owned property there. He


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married (first) Mary Bragg, born October 24, 1723, died June 24, 1748. Children : I. Joseph, born September 21, 1746, died September, 1748. 2. Israel, December 4, 1747; served in revolutionary war, and died in service. He married (second), January 29, 1749, Abigail Kilham, of Boxford, Massachusetts, born No- vember 3, 1725, died February 8, 1817. Chil- dren : 3. Joseph, of whom further. 4. John, born July 9, 1752. 5. Elizabeth, August 19, 1754. 6. Mary, February 24, 1756. 7. Eli. 8. Samuel. 9. Abigail, October 12, 1761.


(VI) Joseph (3), eldest child of Major Israel Herrick by his second wife, Abigail (Kil- ham) Herrick, was born in Methuen, Massa- chusetts, September 14, 1750, died September 17, 1820. He removed from his native home to Lewiston, Maine, in 1772, and from thence to Greene, Androscoggin county, Maine, in 1780. He owned seven farms at different times in the above mentioned place, and was a successful man. He served as justice of the peace, and kept an inn on the old stage route between Portland and Augusta. He took great interest in the cultivation of fruit, and also was the first to introduce Spanish merino sheep in the state of Maine. He married, October 17, 1775, Mercy Preston, born April 14, 1747, died August 16, 1820, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Scules) Preston. Children : 1. Eliz- abeth, born July 16, 1776. 2. Joseph, Decem- ber 23, 1777. 3. Jedediah, January 9, 1780. 4. Nathaniel, of whom further. 5. Seth, March 12, 1783. 6. Samuel, December 11, 1784. 7. Henry, April 11, 1789.


(VII) Nathaniel, fourth child and third son of Joseph (3) and Mercy (Preston) Herrick, was born'in Greene, Maine, July 26, 1781, died September 21, 1828. He lived for a time in Granby, Vermont, and left there in 1815, set- tling at French Creek, Pennsylvania, where he built a sawmill. He was a prominent man in his day. He married, November 16, 1795, Sarah Cheney, who died April 24, 1868, came to Chautauqua county, New York, and settled in French Creek. Children : 1. Nathaniel, born August 20, 1796. 2. Royal, December 5, 1797. 3. Abiah, September 11, 1799 ; married Andrew LaMott. 4. Sarah, August 28, 1802. 5. Nehe- miah, of whom further. 6. Ruth, August 16, 1806, died October, 1860. 7. George F., De- cember, 1812; homoeopathic doctor in Belle Plains, Scott county, Minnesota. 8. Seth, Oc- tober 15, 1815, died October 6, 1823. 9. Har-


vey, February, 1818, died September 27, 1823.


(VIII) Nehemiah, fifth child and fourth son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Cheney) Her- rick, was born in Granby, Vermont, May I, 1804, died at Jamestown, New York, Febru- ary 17, 1877. He was a farmer. He mar- ried, December 27, 1827, Eliza Leet, whose father, Captain Anson Leet, was a pioneer set- tler at and owner of Leet's Point, now known as Point Chautauqua. Children : I. Cordelia, born September 18, 1828; married, October 28, 1857, H. K. Branch, of Jamestown; no children. 2. Emily, May 1, 1830. 3. Anson Leet, of whom further. 4. Eliza Maria, March 24, 1836.


(IX) Anson Leet, third child and only son of Nehemiah and Eliza (Leet) Herrick, was born May 10, 1834, at Wattsburg, Pennsyl- vania, died April 9, 1910, at the family home, 405 Windsor street, Jamestown, New York. His parents lived for about four years at Wattsburg, where he was born. While he was an infant the family returned to the old home at French Creek, Pennsylvania (but a short distance from Wattsburg), and in 1839. when he was about five years old, the family re- moved to Jamestown, New York, where he re- ceived his education in the district schools and academy, and where he resided from that time until his death. He was a farmer for a period of twenty-seven years. He made his home upon one farm, a tract of about twenty-one acres, on what was called Tiffanyville, and for about two years on a farm at Westfield. About 1888 he removed to his late residence, where he lived until his death. He gave his attention to nursery work, in which he was very successful, until 1887, when he engaged in the real estate and loan business. He was of a retiring nature with a remarkably high standard of business integrity, was generous, kind and unselfish, of most temperate habits, bore all burdens and afflictions without a mur- mur of complaint, and was held in the highest esteem, and beloved by all.


He married, March 19, 1861, at Jamestown, New York, Elizabeth Ann Devoe, born near Fredonia, New York, May 10, 1839, daughter of William Devoe, whose other children were Richard, who served in the army in the civil war, and died in Jamestown ; and Alonzo, who was born in August, 1836, and died November 19, 1910. Children of Anson Leet and Eliza-


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beth Ann (Devoe) Herrick : Elmer Seth, born March 20, 1862; Hiram Vorce, of whom fur- ther; Charles William, of whom further; Ab- bie Lois, born February 18, 1870, died Febru- ary 23, 1889.


(X) Hiram Vorce, second child and son of Anson Leet and Elizabeth Ann (Devoe) Her- rick, was born in Westfield, Chautauqua coun- ty, New York, April 21, 1864. He obtained a good practical education, passing through the Jamestown high school, and taking a thorough course in the Jamestown Business College. He began his active career as bookkeeper for the J. R. Newman Bedspring Manufacturing Com- pany in Jamestown, and after the death of Mr. Newman, in 1888, became senior partner in the business, under the firm name of Herrick, Johnson & Company. He disposed of his in- terest in 1894, and in the January following removed with his family to Westfield, New York, and then purchased the flour and feed mill known as the Westfield Mills. In 1905 he returned to Jamestown, and purchased the homestead, 112 Curtis street, where he has since resided. He is a Republican in politics, and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a mem- ber of Summit Lodge, No. 219, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Crown Chapter, No. 128, Or- der of the Eastern Star (Masonic) ; and the Royal Arcanum, all of Westfield.




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