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Sarah A. Castle
Reuben S. Castle
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(IV) Frederick C., son of John E. and Eliz- abeth (Tubbs) Olds, was born at Bradford, July 5, 1848. He attended the public school and the Smethport Academy. Then for three years he was clerk in the general store of Judge Brownell. After this he started his own general store at Farmers Valley, where he was also postmaster for fourteen years. In con- nection with this business he manufactured and sold lumber, and finally became owner of several sawmills. In 1899 he entered the chem- ical business at Crosby, Pennsylvania, being one of the organizers of the Heinemann Chem- ical Company ; for four years he was secretary, treasurer and manager. He is still a stock- holder and one of the directors. Wood alco- hol is the principal product. He is also a director of the Crosby Gas Company, and of the Olean National Bank of Olean, Catta- raugus county, New York; he has financial interests also in other concerns. He is a mem- ber of Olean Lodge, No. 252, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Olean Chapter, No. 150, Royal Arch Masons; St. John's Commandery, No. 24, Knights Templar ; also of Ismailia Temple, of Buffalo. In Scottish Rite Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree. When he first came to Olean in 1901 he built a beauti- ful house on Union street, but he sold this and purchased an attractive house next to the pub- lic library. He is a trustee of the First Meth- odist Church, and director and treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association, in which he is greatly interested. He was president of the commission which had charge of erecting their new building. He married Miranda Ar- nold. Child, Ethel M.
CASTLE Henry Castle came from Strat- ford to Woodbury, Connecticut, with the early settlers, and died in 1697-98. His children were: Henry, Sam- uel, Isaac, Abigail, Mary, Mercy (all baptized September, 1686) ; William, baptized July, 1688; Mary.
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(II) Isaac, son of Henry Castle, was of Woodbury and Waterbury, Connecticut. He was baptized in Woodbury, September, 1686, died in Waterbury after 1725. He married (first) Sarah - , who died February, 1708. He married (second) Joana Richardson ( whose sister Rebecca was the first white child born in Waterbury, 1679).
(III) Samuel, son of Isaac Castle, by his first wife, Sarah, was baptized in Woodbury,
Connecticut, August 9, 1707, died 1781. He married Martha Nine children.
(IV) Reuben, seventh child of Samuel Cas- tle, was born December, 1738. He married Eunice Children : Reuben ; Rebecca, baptized January 11, 1744, married, November 2, 1761, Benjamin Warner.
(V) Reuben (2), son of Reuben (1) Castle, was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, April 4, 1764. He married and among his children was a son Sheldon.
(VI) Sheldon, son of Reuben (2) Castle, was born at Woodbury, Connecticut, Septem- ber 3, 1789, died at Medina, New York, May 16, 1874. He came to New York state, settling in Parma, Monroe county, later coming to Me- dina, where he died. He was a tailor by trade. He married Elizabeth Freeman, born in Amenia, Dutchess county, New York, April 29, 1789, died November 18, 1845, in Albion, New York. Children : 1. Elizabeth Sylvina, born in Wood- stock, New York, November 21, 1816, died January 20, 1907, in Jackson, Michigan. 2. Eunice, born in Parma, New York, Novem- ber 17, 1818, died at Geneseo, New York, Feb- ruary 16, 1907. 3. Reuben S., of whom fur- ther. 4. Esther, born in Parma, New York, November 9, 1821, died in New York City, March 31, 1907. 5. Phoebe J., born April 14, 1823, died at Kalamazoo, Michigan. 6. Har- riet, born May 11, 1825, died at Waterloo, Iowa, February 2, 1910.
(VII) Reuben S., son of Sheldon Castle, was born in the town of Parma, Monroe coun- ty, New York, January 21, 1820, died at Me- dina, New York, November 29, 1909. He was educated in the public schools of Portage, New York, and began his business career in 1836, as a clerk with Grant & Ellicott, merchants at Me- dina. During the school years of 1837-38 he attended Lima Seminary. After leaving school he engaged as clerk with Grant & Turner, who had a contract with the state for building the aqueduct across the Genesee river at Portage, Wyoming county, on the Genesee valley canal. Here he spent five years. In 1844 he went to Shelby Center, Orleans county, as clerk, and about 1854 established a general mercantile business, and R. S. Castle & Company con- ducted a successful business for eleven years. In 1865 he located in Medina where he was in the grocery business for many years, living there retired from active business during his latter years. He was a Democrat in politics, and while in Shelby Center was town clerk for
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several years and postmaster, holding his com- mission from President James Buchanan. He was assessor in Medina several terms, serving over ten years; was justice of the peace of the town of Ridgway and police justice of Medina village several years. He was a well-known, useful and highly-respected citizen, a capable business man and an efficient public official. He was an attendant of the Episcopal church.'
He married, June 17, 1846, Sarah Atchison, born March 22, 1826, died January 8, 1903, daughter of Simeon Bathgate, born in Scot- land in 1788. In his native country he was a millwright. He came to the United States in 1818, coming to Medina in 1825. He establish- ed a foundry and machine shop near the canal and manufactured mill machinery until his re- tirement from business in 1850. He died in 1865. He married, in Scotland, Euphemia Atchison, died in 1869. Three of their ten children died in infancy. Sarah Atchison was their second daughter and fourth child, born in Medina in 1826; was the first white child born in that village. Children of Reuben and Sarah A. Castle : 1. George, born May 20, 1847; now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio. 2. Jessie M., September 4, 1849; now resides at the old homestead in Medina, 118 Pearl street. 3. Mary, December 13, 1851, deceased. 4. Jennie L., February 9, 1854; married William T. Murray, of Cleveland; children : Edith, mar- ried, February 11, 1883, died July 15, 1906; Helen, born August 18, 1885; Margaret, born December 31, 1889. 5. Elizabeth F., Septem- ber 28, 1856; now a resident of Washington, District of Columbia. 6. Reuben S. (2), De- cember 25, 1859, deceased. 7. William B., February 13, 1862; now a resident of Duluth, Minnesota ; married Beatrice, daughter of Irv- ing Duane Hanscom, of Marquette, Michigan, December 6, 1911. 8. Sarah, January 29, 1864, deceased. 9. Walter E., October 3, 1865, de- ceased.
DUNBAR This is one of the old and famous names of Scottish his- tory and known wherever the English language is spoken. Representatives of the family settled in the north of Ireland, and from these this branch of the family sprung. In America the name is well known. General Dunbar, Braddock's second in com- mand in his field campaign, having taken a most conspicuous part in the retreat, after the fatal field of Braddock.
(I) John Dunbar was born in Ballina, coun- ty Mayo, Ireland, about 1790, died there 1880. He married and had a son Richard.
(II) Richard, son of John Dunbar, was born in Ballina, Ireland, 1818, died 1905. In 1843 he left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic, settling in the city of Quebec, Canada, later at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he remained until 1845. In that year he came to the United States and settled in Oswego county, New York, where he died. He married, in 1850, Charlotte Norgrove, born in the north of Eng- land in 1825, daughter of John Norgrove, who immigrant from England to the United States in 1827, and in 1847 settled in Schoharie coun- ty, New York. Later he removed with his family to Oswego county. He died at sea, 1868. Children of Richard and Charlotte Dun- bar: I. George, born August 7, 1852. 2. Charles, August 8, 1854. 3. John T., April 7, 1856, a teacher in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York. 4. Alida, January 14, 1859, married James Youngs, of Oswego county, New York. 5. William Henry, of whom further.
(III) William Henry, son of Richard and Charlotte (Norgrove) Dunbar, was born at Granby, Oswego county, New York, April 22, 1864. He attended the Granby public schools, and until the age of sixteen worked on the farm. In 1880 he left the farm and worked in his brother's store at Middleport, Niagara county, afterwards going to Gasport, New York, where he clerked in a store until 1889. In that year he started as a fruit buyer and has since directed all his energies to that business. He is one of the largest buyers of fruit in that section and each year buys and markets an enormous quantity of Niagara county fruit products as well as doing business with the fruit growers in adjacent counties. He thor- oughly understands his business and is a suc- cessful man. He resides in Gasport and directs his operations from there. His facilities for handling and disposing of orchard products are complete and enable him to operate in the market, to the best advantage, both in buying and selling. He is a member of the Congre- gational church of Gasport.
He married (first), January 8, 1890, Fran- ces L. Russ, born February 6, 1867, died June 2, 1895, daughter of Franklin Russ, of Gran- by, Oswego county, New York, formerly of Onondaga county. He married (second), July 21, 1898, Mary L. Stevens, born 1870, died January 4, 1908, daughter of Theodore and
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Wilhelmina (Schultz) Stevens, of Gasport, New York. Her parents were born in Ger- many and came to the United States in 1862. Child by first marriage: Franklin Russ, born December 17, 1894; now (1911) a student at the Middleport high school. Child by second marriage : Alfred William, born June 2, 1901.
Henry L. Smith, the first member
SMITH of this family of whom we have definite information, was born at Otsego, Otsego county, New York, in 1823, died in 1887. He moved to Pike, Wyoming county, New York, where he followed the trade of a weaver of woolen goods. In . 1849 he went to California, where he remained for some time, and "struck gold." Returning to the east, he settled as a farmer in, Pike, Wy- oming county, New York, and in 1869 removed to Machias, Cattaraugus county, New York, where he opened a general store and continued for some years, until his retirement from active work. He married, in January, 1852, Cor- delia L. Adams, born April 18, 1830. Chil- dren : I. Abner A., married Frances Adams. 2. Isabella, died at the age of thirty-four, un- married. 3. Jackson H., married Elizabeth Howard; children : Howard L., Raymond P. 4. Cassar, referred to below.
(II) Dr. Cassar Smith, son of Henry E. and Cordelia L. (Adams) Smith, was born in Pike, Wyoming county, New York, October 3, 1866. He attended the public school and Pike Semi- nary, graduating from the latter in 1886. In 1891 he graduated with the degree of M. D., from the medical department of the Univer- sity of Buffalo. After practicing for three years in Pike,' Wyoming county, in 1895 he came to Olean, Cattaraugus county, New York, where he built a fine house, and is engaged in the practice of medicine. He has been presi- dent of the County Medical Society, and is a member also of the State Medical and the American Medical societies. He has been city physician of Olean, has been coroner for four- teen years, and is still serving. He is a stock- holder in the Olean Real Estate Company. His fraternal orders are the Free and Accepted Masons, Olean Lodge, No. 252; Improved Or- der of Red Men ; Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica ; and the Order of Moose. He has served as trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, March 21, 1892, Edith, born Oc- tober 3. 1869, daughter of William and Mary Emily (Velzy) Follett. Her grandfather, Na-
than Follett, born about 1803, came from Pitts- town, Rensselaer county, New York, and set- tled at Machias, Cattaraugus county, New York. He married Claris Potter. Her father, William Follett, born July 6, 1832, lived at Machias, and married, October 2, 1864, Mary Emily, born October 28, 1841, daughter of John and Lucinda (Reynolds) Velzy. Chil- dren of William and Mary Emily (Velzy) Follett : Margaret, married O. W. Pierce; Edith, married Dr. Cassar Smith; William, married Ida Spring, child, Carlisle. Children of Dr. Cassar and Edith ( Follett) Smith: Fol- lett S., born February 9, 1895; William, De- cember 20, 1900; Mary Isabelle, April 1, 1908.
SWANSON The American branch of the Swanson family was founded by Andrew John Swanson,
who came from Sweden in the year 1872, and settled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. It is the custom in Sweden that the children of a fam- ily take for a surname their father's Christian name; though it has often happened that emi- grants coming to America change this prac- tice, and following the customs of this country, assume their father's surname for their own. In the case of Mr. Swanson, the surname which he adopted was the Christian name of his stepfather; his own father, of whom he knew little other than that he was a seaman, having died when the son was too young to have any clear recollection of him or his people. The widow married again, not long after her husband's death, a Mr. Swan Johnson ; and the stepchild assumed the surname, Swan, which became in the next generation Swanson. Two other children were born of this second mar- riage : Christina M., who became the wife of C. J. Carlson, a farmer, residing in Sweden ; and Matilda, now the wife of Leonard Schultz, living in Cambridge, Ohio.
(I) Andrew John Swanson, the American immigrant, and only child of this first mar- riage, was thus the son of John and Helena (Johnson) Anderson, and was born in Hvet- land, Sweden, June 7, 1847. He was reared on a farm, receiving his early education in the district schools, and until the age of twenty- five years followed his vocation as farmer, hav- ing given the usual time to army service. De- ciding to emigrate to America he left home March 19, 1872, and about a week later sailed from the city of Gottenburg, unaccompanied by any member of his family. Landing in New
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York City in April, he came on to Western Pennsylvania and located in the village of Titusville, finding employment in railroad work. He did not remain long at this, however, but within a few weeks removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and from there to various places, wherever the work which he had in hand re- quired his presence. He continued until the year 1881 in this way, when he finally came to Jamestown, New York, entering the employ of the worsted mills of William E. Broadhead. He has remained in this business ever since, a period covering over thirty years, and has worked through the various branches to his present responsible position in the finishing de- partment, where he is assistant to the foreman. With diligent and painstaking attention to his business, Mr. Swanson soon became success- ful, and prosperity followed; he purchased a lot on Colfax street, and in 1893 erected his present residence. He has also other real estate interests on the Lakewood road, and is now one of the leading citizens of this place and held in high esteem in the community, being a member of the First Lutheran Church, and in politics a staunch adherent of the Re- publican party. He is also a member of the "Hundred Members Society," and of the old Swedish association in the city, the "Scandi- navian Temperance and Benevolent Society."
Mr. Swanson married, at Jamestown, New York, November 13, 1880, Hattie Cecilia Hul- quist, born at Tranos, Sweden, March 12, 1860, daughter of John C. and Johanna Hulquist. Mr. and Mrs. Swanson had four children, three surviving and living at the family resi- dence, No. 18 Colfax street, as follows: I. Helen C., born at Jamestown, June 10, 1884. 2. Conrad L., born at Jamestown, May 26, 1886, died 1887. 3. Enoch Carl John, see for- ward. 4. Theodore O. A., born June 23, 1894; a mechanic in the employ of the Sheet Metal Company, and a member of the Lutheran church.
Mrs. Swanson was one of seven children, her parents having been John C. Hulquist, a native of Sweden, born in 1817, died at James- town, New York, October 16, 1889, aged sev- enty-two years, and Johanna Hulquist, born in Sweden, in 1826, died at Jamestown, May, 1910, aged eighty-four years. Mr. Hulquist came to America in 1884. Their children were: I. Charlotte, married C. G. Carlson. 2. Johanna Christina, married John Larson. 3. Carl August, of Jamestown. 4. Hattie C., married Andrew John Swanson. 5. Axel A.,
who lived in Buffalo, New York. 6. Alfred Emil, of Jamestown. 7. Emma, wife of Charles Baker, of Jamestown. Hattie C. Hulquist, who became Mrs. Swanson, preceded her par- ents to America, arriving here March 27, 1880, and locating first at Warren, Pennsylvania. Within a short while she removed to James- town, and has resided here ever since. She is a woman of great refinement and charm, and a communicant of the First Lutheran Church; she is also a member of the "Hundred Mem- bers Society," and of the No. 3 Sewing Circle, and is very popular and influential among her friends.
(II) Enoch Carl John, son of Andrew John and Hattie C. (Hulquist) Swanson, was born in Jamestown, New York, January 3, 1889. He spent his early years in his native city, receiving his education at its public schools, and began his business career as an errand boy in the employ of the Proudfit Clothing Com- pany. He remained with this company for a period of six years, during which time he work- ed himself up to the position of assistant cutter in the tailoring department. After leaving their employ he went to New York and took a special course of instruction in a cutting school. Learning all that there was to be taught in this line, he next proceeded to Birm- ingham, Alabama, where he entered the em- ploy of F. J. White, merchant tailor, as cutter for the firm. After remaining here a short time he went to Parkersburg, West Virginia, accepting a similar position with the United Woolen Mills Company, and continuing with them a year, when he was given charge of their branch store at Marietta, Ohio, which he conducted for six months. His connection with the company covered in all a period of two years. In January, 1911, he returned to his native city, Jamestown, and entered into partnership with Reynolds F. Carlstrom, estab- lishing the Interstate Woolen Mills Company, custom tailoring, which makes a specialty of fifteen dollar suits and overcoats ; it also con- ducts a general business in all lines of high grade tailoring, having offices and showrooms in the Gokey Block and a manufacturing plant in the Union Block, on West Third street. Twelve hands are regularly employed by the establishment, which is doing a fine business and acquiring an enviable reputation for high class products. Mr. Swanson is highly esteem- ed in the community, and is a member of the Lutheran church; he is also interested in poli-
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tics and a member of the Republican party, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He resides at the family homestead at No. 18 Colfax street, and is one of the rising young business men of this place with a wide circle of friends.
The Smiths of Buffalo, New
SMITH York, who are herein traced. de- scend from William Heriz, of Withcock, Leicestershire, England, who, for some unascertained reason, changed his name in the time of Henry VII. from Heriz to Smith. The line descends from him under the latter name. John, son of William Smith, of Withcock, was born about 1510, and died be- fore 1555. Erasmus, son of John Smith, of Withcock, removed to Sowerby and Husbands Bosworth. He married (first) a Miss Bydd; ( second), about 1576, Anna, sister of William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England under Queen Elizabeth, and widow of Roger Cave.
(I) Rev. Henry Smith, son of Erasmus and Anna Smith, was the American ancestor of this branch. He was born 1588, and in 1636 or shortly afterward, with wife and children, ar- rived at Boston. From a letter written by his son in 1699, the following facts are taken. The letter was written by Samuel, son of Rev. Henry, to his son Ichabod :
"I was of so tender an age when my beloved father died that I can give but little of the informa- tion for which you seek. My Reverend Father was an ordained minister of ye Gospelle, educate at Cam- bridge in England, and came to ye land by reason of ye great persecution, by which ye infamous Arch- bishop Laud and ye Black Tom Tyrante (as Mr. Russell was always wont to call ye Earl of Straf- forde) did cause ye reign of His Majestie, Charles ye First, to lose favor in ye sight of ye people of England. My father and mother came over in 1636 or 1637, first to Watertown, and after a year or two to Wethersfield on ye Great River, where he became ye first settled pastor. My parents had brought both Men servants and Maid servants from England, but ye Maids tarried not but till they got married, which was shortly, for there was great scarsity of women in the Colonies. I do well remember the face and figure of my Honoured Father. He was five foote, ten inches, tall and spare of build but not leane. He was as active as ye Red Skin Men and sinewy. His delight was in sportes of strengthe, and withe his own hands he did help to reare both our owne House and Ye Firste Meeting House of Wethersfield, wherein he preacht yeares too fewe. He was well Featured and Fresh favoured, with faire Skin and longe curling Hair (as neare all of us have had) with a merrie eye and sweete smilinge Mouthe, tho he coulde frowne sternlie eno' when need was."
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This beautiful portrait of a Puritan minister causes one to wonder if we have not misunder- stood them a trifle. Rev. Henry was the first settled minister at Wethersfield, where his lot was not too happy, being "from the first a victim of suspicions most unfounded and ac- cusations the most bitter," of all which he was fully exonerated in the court. In his will, made May 8, 1648, he disposes of a little over £370. He married (second) Dorothy who survived him and married (second) John Russell, father of Rev. John Russell, who suc- ceeded Rev. Smith in the pastorate of Wethers- field, and ten years later became the minister of Hadley, Massachusetts. She survived her second husband and died at Hadley, Massa- chusetts, 1694. Children of Rev. Henry by first wife, named in his will: I. Peregrine, died unmarried before his father. 2-3. Daughters, who married and had children who are remem- bered in the will. Children by second wife: 4. Dorothy, born 1636; married (first) John, son of Rev. Adam Blakeman, of Stratford, Con- necticut; married (second) Francis Hall, of Stratford; married (third) Mark Tension, of Norwalk, Connecticut ; married ( fourth) Dea- con Isaac Moore, of Farmington, whom she survived. She was the second wife of her last three husbands. Issue by first only. 5. Sam- uel, of whom further. 6. Joanna, born in Wethersfield, December 25, 1641; married Philip Russell, son of John and brother of Rev. John Russell, February 4, 1664; she died December 28, 1664. Philip. Russell married (second) Elizabeth Terry, of Hadley, who with her son Stephen was killed by the Indians, September 19, 1677. He married (third) Mary Church. 7. Noah, born February 25, 1644, probably died before his father, there being no mention made of him in the will of Rev- erend Henry. 8. Elizabeth, born August 25, 1648; married Samuel, son of Lieutenant Sam- uel Smith.
(II) Samuel, son of Reverend Henry Smith and his second wife, was born in 1639. He grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and in 1666 was settled in Northampton, Massachu- setts, where he remained until about 1680, then his stepfather Russell being dead, he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, to take care of his aged mother. He is the writer of the letter referred to in a preceding paragraph, and thus refers to his Stepfather Russell: "But he was sometimes a little short of ye Charity which thinketh no Evil, at ye least I was wont
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to think so when his hand was too heavy on my Shoulders, and I remembered ye sweetness and ye Charity of my firste Father, but on ye whole said, he was a Goode Man, and did well by my mother and her children, and no doubt we did often try his wit and temper." Samuel Smith died at Hadley, September 10, 1703, in his sixty-fifth year. He married, about 1662, Mary, daughter of James Ensign. Children : I. Deacon Samuel, married Joanna McLathlin ; he was of Northampton, Massachusetts, and Suffield, Connecticut. 2. Sarah, married, Octo- ber 16, 1684, John Lawrence. 3. Dorothy, baptized 1667, at Northampton, married, May 30, 1687, William Rooker. 4. Ebenezer, of whom further. 5. Deacon Ichabod, born 1670; was of Hadley, Massachusetts, and Suffield, Connecticut; married, about 1692, Mary Hux- ley. 6. Mary, born January 19, 1673; married James Barnes. 7. James, born 1675; was of Hadley, Massachusetts, and East Haddam, Connecticut; married, October 26, 1698, Eliz- abeth Smith, of Hadley, daughter of Chiliab. 8. Preserved, born 1677; married, December 15, 1697, Mary Smith, of Hadley, daughter of Chiliab; he died 1713, aged thirty-six years ; his widow married (second) Peter Montague.
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