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Probably no dairy in Central New York is attracting more attention from people inter- ested in fancy stock than this. The farm was for years in possession of the Wickwire Brothers and was known far and near as the "Wickwire" farm. It now enjoys just as great prominence as the "Peck" farm, and it is an interesting fact that at one time it was owned by Moses Kinney, a greatgrandfather of Mr. Peck.
Having in view the creation of a model dairy farm, Mr. Peck began at once to rearrange and enlarge the barns, which with the erection of three silos gives him ample room to carry on the dairy business with the least possible expense. With the buildings in readiness he began the formation of a dairy that has become famous over a wide territory. It is at the pres- ent time composed of seventy-six grade Hol- steins, and the amount of milk obtained from them is enormous, as will be seen farther along in this article. The stables are white as lime can make them, and they are kept very neat, a feature that counts for much in the disposal of milk.
Sixty-eight cows are milked and the amount they produce is the test of their value. At the present time the yield from the sixty-eight
cows is one thousand five hundred and fifty quarts, or an average of forty-nine pounds a day to a cow. This gives a sum total of nearly three thousand three hundred pounds each day.
Of course some of the cows are greater pro- ducers than others, and a few individual rec- ords will be interesting. One of the herd gives ninety-one pounds a day, two others eighty- five pounds each, and fifteen others an average of seventy pounds each, and it may be well to state that only two milkings are made in a day. Thirty of the cows produce an average of sixty pounds a day, or twenty-eight forty-quart cans. These figures seem startling, and they are startling to one not familiar with present-day dairying, and they place the Peck herd among the leading dairies of the state.
The amount of feed consumed by this dairy is another interesting feature, for to produce such extraordinary results the cows must be well fed and watered. In round numbers the entire herd is given the following ration daily : One thousand one hundred pounds of mixed grain, one thousand pounds of cabbage, six hundred and fifty pounds of hay and one thou- sand five hundred and fifty pounds of ensilage. The cows are all watered in the stalls. The milk goes daily to McGrawville, where it is cooled and then shipped to New York.
To keep up the high standard of his dairy Mr. Peck is continually buying and selling, and the calves he hires raised to the age of three years by outside parties whose land is not as valuable as his is. He has customers for his stock all over the country, and especially on Long Island is the demand for cows from "Peck's clairy" very great.
Notwithstanding the large amount of feed consumed by his stock, Mr. Peck raises an ample supply and really has more ensilage than he can use. Some of the land raises fine tim- othy hay, but instead of feeding this he sells it and buys alfalfa. What new seeding he does is entirely to clover instead of timothy. By reason of the large quantity of fertilizer he has, the land yields heavy crops, and Mr. Peck buys the best of seed obtainable. For instance, last year he sent to Wisconsin for twenty-five bushels of a species of heavy yielding oats, paying fifty dollars, or two dollars a bushel. The yield on nine acres was eight hundred bushels, while the ordinary crop of our com- mon oats is about fifty bushels to the acre. And now Mr. Peck is selling part of these oats at one dollar and a half a bushel for seed.
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Mr. Peck has established one of the largest, if not the largest, market of the highest grade Holstein cattle in the state of New York.
He is a member of Vesta Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Baptist church, and was superintendent of the First Baptist Church Sunday school for five years.
He married. December 26, 1889, Gertrude M., daughter of Ephraim and Louisa ( Hender- son ) Smith, of Cortland, and sister of his brother's wife. Children: Elizabeth L., born in Solon, 1893; Stanley, died aged eighteen months; Lawrence (twin), born in Cortland, December 18, 1902; Leslie, twin of Lawrence.
SANDS Captain James Sands, the immi- grant ancestor, is said to have come from Reading, Berkshire, England. He was born in England, in 1622. The history of Block Island asserts that he was son of Henry Sands ( Sandis or Sandys ), of Boston, the first of the name in this country, but it appears more likely that the two were brothers. Henry was at Rowley in 1639, and admitted a freeman October 6, 1640; returned to Boston before 1648, when he assigned a quarter interest in the ship "Welcome"; died in 1651. His first child was born in 1638. according to the records.
Captain James Sands is said to have come first to Plymouth, in New England. The his- tory of Block Island relates in detail the story of his contract to build a house for the famous Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, in 1642, after she was exiled from Boston. He abandoned the job, after a threatening visit from the Indians, and Mrs. Hutchinson and her entire household were slain in the house afterward. Eastches- ter, where the house was located, could be reached by vessel from Long Island sound. Sands had a grant of land next the "round meadow," in Portsmouth, October 5, 1643, and he bought more land in 1654. He was a free- man in 1655, and a commissioner of Rhode Island in 1657, but on account of illness could not serve. He was one of the original settlers of Block Island (or New Shoreham), Rhode Island, and. in 1661, received Lot No. 12, in the north part of the island, in the first division. In 1664 he was ordered to come before the governor of Rhode Island to qualify as con- stable or conservator of the peace at Block Island, the government of which Rhode Island assumed. Ile was the first deputy to the gen- eral assembly. In 1670 he and four others
were appointed to make a rate and assess taxes there. In 1671 he sold his property at Ports- mouth. During King Philip's war he was assistant warden. A large storehouse was garrisoned by him and the women and children of the island gathered there for safety. Three French privateers landed a force on the island, July 3, 1689, plundered the inhabitants, killed their cattle, etc., making headquarters in the house of Sands, "which was large and ac- comadable for their purpose and not far from the harbor." His will, with codicil, dated Feb- ruary 24, 1695, was proved May 6, 1695, his wife Sarah named as executrix. To his chil- dren he bequeathed four hundred acres of land, fifty-six head of cattle, three hundred sheep, horses, thirty swine, a negro woman, house, barn, mill and considerable other per- sonal estate. His widow Sarah gave the negress Hannah, March 9, 1699, to her grand- daughter, Sarah Sands, daughter of Edward; the negress Sarah to granddaughter, Catherine Niles ; a negro boy to grandson, Sands Ray- mond, and a negro girl Rose to granddaughter, Elizabeth Raymond, the slave girls to be free at the age of thirty, the boy at thirty-three. The widow's will was dated October 17, 1703, and proved June 13, 1709, bequeathing considerable personal property to children and grandchil- dren. His gravestone is standing at Block Island. He died March 13, 1695. He mar- ried Sarah Walker. In religion he was a Bap- tist and a friend of Roger Williams. He was the first freeman on the island and the fore- most citizen, the first deputy to the general court and he procured the citizenship of the islanders and procured the town charter. Three of his four sons removed to Cow Neck, now Sands Point, on Long Island on the sound, though they kept their farms on the island and returned every spring to shear their sheep. Children : 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, married, February 14, 1671, Nathaniel Niles. 3. Mercy, married, April 29. 1683, Joshua Ray- mond. 4. James, married Mary Cornell ; willed rights in Goshen, Orange county, New York. 5. Samuel, lived at Cow Neck, will proved in Rhode Island, 1716. 6. Edward, born 1672, died 1708.
( 11) John, son of Captain James Sands, was born in 1652, and died at Cow Neck, Long Island, March 15, 1712; married Sybil Ray, horn March 19, 1665, died December 23. 1733, daughter of Simon and Mary (Thomas) Ray. lle was deputy to the general assembly in
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1678-80-90; captain in 1680, and freeman in 1684. In 1696 he removed from Block Island to Cow Neck. He and his wife are buried in the family lot, which he gave for the purpose of a burial ground. He bought his farm at Cow Neck, in 1691, of Richard Cornell, of Rockaway, adjoining the farm of his brother, Samuel Sands. Children: John, mentioned below; Nathaniel, born 1687: Edward, 1691; George, 1694: Mary, 1697; Catherine, 1700; Dorothy, 1703; Abigail, 1708.
(III) John (2), son of Captain John (2) Sands, was born in Block Island, January 22, 1683-84, and died on the homestead, Cow Neck, August 15, 1763. The gravestones of both John and wife are preserved in the Sands burying-ground at Cow Neck. He lived at Cow Neck until ten years after his marriage and then moved to the interior of Cow Neck. where he lived until about 1733, when he re- moved to his father's homestead, which he purchased from his brother Nathaniel. He married at Newport, Rhode Island, September 9. 1706, Catherine, daughter of Robert Guth- rie. She was born on Block Island, June 24, 1690, and died at Cow Neck, February 10, 1769. His will was dated February 27, 1759. and was proved September 30, 1763. Chil- dren (authority, Bunker's "Long Island Gene- alogies") : 1. John, born 1708 ; married (first). in 1734, Elizabeth Sands ; (second). 1736, Eliz- abeth Cornell. 2. Robert, December 26, 1710; died unmarried, April 12, 1735. 3. Edward. January 17, 1711-12; ancestor of all the pres- ent families of this surname on Block Island. 4. Mary, 1715. died March 15, 1724. 5. George, 1717. died young probably (not the George who died January 15, 1777). 6. Anne, March 16, 1719; married ( first ) Christopher Dean ; ( second) David Brooks. 7. Nathaniel, No- vember 30, 1721, died 1783; married Mercy Sands. 8. Joshua, March 22, 1725, died 1787. 9. Simon, July 12, 1727, died 1782: married (first) Catherine Tredwell, (second) Sarah Sands. 10. Gideon, October 22, 1729 ; married Mary Sands. II. Mary, born about 1731-32 : married Samuel Gifford. 12. George, men- tioned below. 13. Benjamin, November, 1735. died 1824; married Mary Jackson. ( Some records from "Descent of Comfort Sands").
(IV) George, son of John (2) Sands, was born April 17. 1733, at Sand Point, and died in Middletown, Delaware county, New York, August 8, 1816. He married Jemima, daugh- ter of Abel and Ruth Smith. He settled at
Middletown, Delaware county. where he fol- lowed farming. Among his children was Abel, mentioned below.
(V) Abel, son of George Sands, was born April 9, 1758, and died at Middletown, New York, June 11, 1821. He married Elizabeth Brooks, of Poughkeepsie, New York, and she (lied September 8, 1825, aged fifty-seven years. Children: Edward; Isaac; George H., men- tioned below, and several daughters.
(VI) George H., son of Abel Sands, was born in Middletown, June 5, 1792, and died there, February 24, 1849. He was educated in the district schools and followed farming. He was also a general merchant, postmaster of the town, and justice of the peace. In his younger days he was active and prominent in the state militia, rising to the rank of colonel in command of his regiment. He was espe- cially zealous in promoting the welfare and assisting in the development of the town and region in which he lived. By his first wife, he had several children. He married (second) Jane, daughter of Samuel and (Yaple) Smith, born May 4, 1817. She is now living with her son in Cortland, at the advanced age of ninety-four years. Children of second wife: 1. Ellen Jane, living with her brother. George S. Sands. 2. George S. (posthumous), men- tioned below. Jane ( Smith) Sands married (second) Chancy Keator, by whom she had two children: Mary Alida, deceased wife of William J. Walker, and Livia Elizabeth, wife of Clark Olds, of Erie, Pennsylvania.
(VII) Hon. George Smith Sands, son of George H. Sands, was born in Middletown, August 19, 1849, and attended the public schools there. He was afterward a student at Andes Collegiate Institute, Andes, Delaware county, and Delaware Academy, at Delhi, New York; in 1867-68 he attended the Cortland- ville Academy, and in the winter of 1868-69 he was employed in the First National Bank of Cortland, whither the family removed in April, 1867. The experience and training he received in the bank he found of incalculable value to him in later years. At the opening of the State Normal School. in Cortland, he was en- rolled as one of the first students, and he pur- sued the classical course there until May, 1870. when. deciding to study law, he became a stil- dent in the office of M. M. Waters, Esq. In due course he was admitted to the bar, No- vember, 1873. During the vacation of 1869 he was employed in the large store of James
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S. Squires & Company. In 1873 he was elect- ed town clerk, holding the office for two years ; in 1876 he was elected justice of the peace, and reelected in 1880, serving for six years and executing the important duties of this office as magistrate and member of the town board with fidelity and ability. He resigned in 1883, in order to devote his entire attention to his practice, which had grown rapidly in the meantime. In politics Mr. Sands has always been a Repub- lican. In 1896 he was prominently mentioned as one of the candidates for the Republican nomination for justice of the supreme court, in the sixth judicial district. Mr. Sands re- luctantly accepted the nomination for member of assembly at the convention in 1898, when the party was divided by factional strife, and was elected. In recognition of his services as a wise and able legislator he was renominated the following year, and was reelected by a united party. In the legislature he supported all party measures, although he disagreed with the majority of his party in some very import- ant measures on which caucus action was not taken. As a member of the committee on codes, claims and federal relations, he was re- quired to devote much of his time to the pre- liminary examination of proposed laws and he became known as one of the few who gave such work conscientious attention. Codes com- mittee stands fourth in the list of importance in the assembly. In his second term he served on the special statutory revision committee, judiciary and other important committees. He is trustee of Cortland Savings Bank.
Mr. Sands is a member of Cortlandville Lodge of Free Masons, No. 470; of Cortland Chapter, No. 194, Royal Arch Masons; and has served several terms as master of his lodge and has been assistant grand lecturer in this district. His home is on Main street, Cort- land. He is unmarried.
PHELPS The surname Phelps is a varia- tion of the spelling of Phillips, meaning son of Philip, in the case of the original ancestor using it. The spelling of the surname has been varied and a number of different family names are traced to the same origin. One family of the Phelps claims to be descended from the Guelph fam- ily of Germany, to which Queen Victoria be- longed, but no proof in the records has been found to establish the claims. Some branches of the American family of Phelps are descend-
ed from the ancient Phelps family of Tewks- bury, Gloucestershire, England. The ancient coat-of-arms is described thus: Sable, lion chained and rampant. Various branches of the family bear coats-of-arms in England.
(I) James Phelps, progenitor of most of the Americans of this surname, was born about 1520, and is supposed to have been a brother of Francis Phylppe, of Nether Tyne, Stafford- shire, England. He married Joan -- , who was given permission to administer on his estate, May 10, 1588. Children, baptized in the Tewksbury Abbey Church, England : Will- iam, August 4, 1560, mentioned below ; Thomas, August 10, 1563; George (Giles), September 5, 1566; Alice, December 24, 1572, married, June 21, 1595, John Hope ; Edward, May 10, 1578; Keneline, October 16, 1580; Richard, October 16, 1583; Robert, July 18, 1594; Nich- olas.
(II) William, son of James Phelps, was baptized at Tewksbury Church, August 4, 1560, died probably in 1611. He married Dor- othy -, who administered his estate, and died in 1613. Children, baptized at Tewks- bury: Mary, September 4, 1587, died young ; Mary, April 23, 1588 ; Thomas, June 24, 1590; Dorothy, February 29, 1595; William, August 19, 1599; James, July 14, 1601; Elizabeth, May 9, 1603; George, mentioned below.
(III) George, son of William Phelps, was born at Tewksbury, England, about 1606. He came to New England with his brother Will- iam, sailing from Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, in the ship "Mary and John," four hundred tons, Captain Squab, with one hun- dred and forty passengers, and landing at Nan- tasket, now Hull, Massachusetts. He was one of the original thirty settlers at Dorchester with his brother, and was a member of Rev. Mr. Warham's church. He had a grant of six acres of land there, January, 1632. He was elected one of ten men to order the affairs of the colony for one year. He was admitted a freeman, May 6, 1635. In the fall of 1635 he was one of the founders of Windsor, Con- necticut. His home there was at the junction of Farmington and Great rivers, the latter now the Connecticut, the second lot south of Loomis property, and a very desirable farm. He had an orchard of a thousand trees. He married (first), in 1637, Philury, daughter of Philip Randall. Her father was born in Eng- land, and emigrated to New England in the ship "Mary and John" with his father, Good-
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man Randall, was in Dorchester in 1630, and in Windsor in 1635. She was a member of Rev. Mr. Warham's church, and died in Wind- sor, April 29, 1648. He married (second) Widow Frances Dewey, November 16, 1648. Her first husband was Joseph Clark. He re- moved to Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1670, and was a juror at Hartford and Springfield. His will is dated June 6, 1687. Children of first wife, born at Windsor : Isaac, August 26, 1638; Child, died 1647 ; Abraham, January 22, 1641; Child, died 1647; Abigail, died 1649; Joseph, born June 24, 1647. Children of sec- ond wife : Jacob, February 7, 1650, mentioned below ; John, February 15, 1651-52 ; Nathaniel, December 9, 1653.
(IV) Jacob, son of George Phelps, was born in Windsor, February 7, 1650. He married, May 2, 1673, Dorothy, daughter of John and Dorothy (Lord) Ingersoll, born Hartford, 1654; died Westfield, Massachusetts. Her father, John Ingersoll, came from England to Hartford, in 1651, and was of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1666; Westfield, 1668-69. He married three times. Dorothy Lord was the daughter of Thomas Lord, gentleman, and Dorothy ----- , of England, and was one of the first and most prominent families of Hart- ford. Jacob Phelps settled in Westfield, and died there, October 6, 1689. His widow mar- ried second Mr. Root. Children, born in West- field : Dorothy, October 18, 1674, died Febru- ary 2, 1675 ; Dorothy, May 20, 1675; Hannah, November 26, 1677; Israel, April 3, 1681 ; Benjamin, January 8, 1683-84; Joseph, August 5, 1686; Jedediah, mentioned below.
(V) Jedediah, son of Jacob Phelps, was born in Westfield, December 7, 1688. He mar- ried Elizabeth Janes, who died in Lebanon, Connecticut, April 10, 1757. He settled in Lebanon, with three of his brothers, and from 1708 to 1711 the land records show several purchases of real estate in Lebanon. He died there, February 13, 1752. Children, born in Lebanon : Elizabeth, December 3, 1709; Abi- gail, November 4, 1710; Jacob, April 16, 1713; Paul, mentioned below; Silas, January 27, 1720; Jeremiah, June 26, 1724; Lucy, June 26, 1725; Jedediah, June 20, 1727.
(VI) Paul, son of Jedediah Phelps, was born in Lebanon, April 25, 1717. He was a farmer by occupation, and settled in Lebanon, where he died April 13, 1752. He married, December 11, 1740, Jerusha, born in Lebanon,
December 6, 1720, died there, March 17, 1752, daughter of William and Mercy (Bailey) Dewey. Children, born in Lebanon : Jemima, August 13, 1741; Zerviah, October 8, 1742; Jerusha, May 29, 1744; Lurany, August 30, 1746, died young; Paul, October 19, 1748, mentioned below; Lurany, January 14, 1751.
(VII) Paul (2), son of Paul (1) Phelps, was born in Lebanon, October 19, 1748. He married (first) Zerviah, daughter of John and Sarah (Huntington) Calkins. He married (second) Theodosia Root. He settled first in Lebanon, and after the death of his first wife removed to Mansfield, Connecticut. Thence he went to Westfield, Massachusetts, and then to Pennsylvania, where he died. He is re- ferred to in the will of his father, dated No- vember 22, 1762. The Mansfield town records give the baptism of Jedediah, October 3, 1784, with the foregoing six children, "all of the household of Paul and Zerviah Phelps." Chil- dren, born at Lebanon: Anna, September I, 1768; Simeon, October 4, 1771 ; Zerviah, No- vember 16, 1773; Elijah, October 1, 1775. Chil- dren, born at Westfield: John, May 18, 1779; Solomon, April 25, 1781 ; Jedediah, baptized October 3. 1784; Paul, baptized May 21, 1786, according to Mansfield church records, men- tioned below.
(VIII) Paul (3), son of Paul (2) Phelps, was born in Mansfield, January 30, 1786. He settled first in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and later in Palmyra and Walworth, Wayne county, New York. He traveled on the road with a tin peddler's cart for many years, and was also a farmer. He married, February 21, 1809, Freelove Wait, born October 5, 1785. Chil- dren: Phebe, born December 29, 1809; Per- milia, August 12, 1811 ; Philinda, August 9, 1812, married Orswin Shapley; Philo, men- tioned below ; Lucy Ann, April 25, 1818, mar- ried Wooster Howard; Lyman, December 27, 1819; William Bowen, June 14, 1822; Arsena Ann, September 24. 1825; Henry James, De- cember 5, 1827, died June 7, 1828.
(IX) Philo, son of Paul (3) Phelps, was born September 14, 1815, at Shaftsbury, Ver- mont, died in Cortland, New York, September 6, 1886. He is supposed to have come to Cort- land with his parents when quite young. He received a common school education, and worked for the Cadeys in Dryden, New York, for a number of years. He came to Cortland before the railroads were built there, and did
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contract teaming and trucking. He also dealt in butter and produce, which he took over the road to Albany. Syracuse and Binghamton. He was actively engaged in this work until within two years of his death. He was a Re- publican in politics. He married. September 9, 1837. Rachel, daughter of Royal and Eunice (Atwater ) Shapley, born in Virgil, New York, June 29, 1814, died June 17, 1892. Children : I. Andrew S., born September 27, 1838, soldier in the civil war : lives in Joliet, Illinois, manu- facturer. 2. Mary E., April 8, 1840, deceased. 3. William E., October 21, 1841, deceased. 4. Amanda J., June 5, 1843, died March 9. 1844. 5. Byron M., November 30, 1845, with Benton Lumber Company, Cortland : married, 1868, Nellie Barber : children : Herbert J., born Oc- tober 7. 1870: Webb Barber, June 3, 1881. married Nettie A. Waldo, daughter. Lucy G., born March 28, 1908. 6. Frances A., October 18, 1847, died September 7. 1904: married (first ) Patrick Mallory, (second ) James E. Lombard. 7. John Homer, mentioned below. 8. Frank A .. February 14, 1854, mentioned below. 9. Emily L., November 6, 1858; mar- ried L. R. Lewis.
(X) John Homer, son of Philo Phelps, was born in Cortland, August 13, 1849. He was educated in the district schools and at Cortland Academy. As a young man he worked on a farm, and learned the trade of carpenter. He worked at the latter trade for some years. went to work for the Benton Lumber Com- pany, of Cortland, in 1879, and has been with them since. He is the superintendent and foreman of the plant, and a stockholder in the company. He has been chief engineer of the fire department in Cortland and was its first paid chief. He is a member of the Methodist church. He married, June 29, 1874, Olive L. Hakes, born in Fabins, New York, June 22, 1851, daughter of Jesse and Catherine (Jones) Hakes. Children : 1. Nora, born March 6, 1875. lives at home. 2. Earl M., October 30, 1876, mentioned below. 3. Bertha Lazette, October 18, 1882, died March, 1883. 4. Frances, Sep- tember 13, 1883: married Delmer S. Rowe, of Cortland ; son, John Phelps. 5. Jesse Hakes, mentioned below.
(X1) Earl M., son of John Homer Phelps, was born in Cortland, October 30, 1876, and was educated in the public schools of Cortland. and in the Normal School there. He also took a course in dairy hushandry at Cornell Uni- versity, and then went into the milk business
in Cortland. He handles also butter, cheese and eggs, and has continued in the business for about ten years. He is a member of Cortland- ville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cortland. In religion he is a Meth- odist. He married, December, 1902, Jessie Price, born in Liverpool, New York, May 24, 1874, daughter of William Joshua Taylor and Mary Ann (Leiff) Price. Her father was born in Poulshot, Wiltshire. England, Septem- ber 10, 1839, came to America in 1846, with his parents, returned to England, and, in 1855, returned to America again. He served through the civil war and now lives in Liverpool, New York. He married Mary Ann Leiff, of Liver- pool, New York, born February 27, 1845, died December 5. 1901. Their children were : Lil- lian, Sidney and Jessie. Children of Earl M. Phelps: Marion, born December 20, 1903 ; Earl M., October 1, 1905; Florence. May 23. 1907: John Homer, January 22, 1909.
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