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the practice of law, which he continued until his death.
In politics he was a Democrat of the Stephen A. Douglas type, and throughout the civil war was a strong Unionist. Though he never sought office, he was found to be a safe and disinterested assistant in party councils and served for many years on town and county committees. He was at one time one of the supervisors of the town and was justice of the peace for twenty-three years. He was also notary public. During his term of office the honesty and justice of his decisions were never questioned, and the dignity with which he presided over his court, and the order which he insisted upon in it, tended to raise the standard of the office in the county at large. He was a man of more than ordinary ability and of high attainments, honorable and straight- forward in all his dealings, of excellent busi- ness instincts, and possessed of the confidence of his fellow-citizens. He was keenly inter- ested in the improvement of the village of Marathon, and added much to its architectural beauty by the erection of several buildings, notably, in 1886, a three-story business block on Main street. The ground floor of this building is devoted to stores, the second to offices, and the third to a public hall, equipped with a stage and scenery. The use of this hall has been free for all public entertainments. In 1898 he also erected one of the handsomest residences in the village. Besides these build- ings he has also improved other dwellings in the town. In religion he was a Methodist and an ardent worker in that church.
He married Mary, daughter of Richard and Mary (Hinkley) Smith, born in Fabius, New York. Her father, Richard Smith, was from New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in his day was a well-known sea captain. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Mary (Hink- ley) Smith, was born in Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Mrs. Hulbert is one of the best musicians in Central New York, and was for several years organist of the Methodist church in Marathon. She has continued her husband's plans for improving the property and adding to the prosperity and appearance of the village. Mr. Hulbert died March 12, 1900.
(The Roe Line).
(III) Nathaniel (2) Roe, son of Nathaniel (1) Roe (q. v.), was born in 1700, and died in 1789. He married Elizabeth Phillips, born
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1702, died 1788. Children : Phillips : James, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, William, Han- nah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Deborah.
(IV) James, son of Nathaniel (2) Roe, was born in Kingston, New York, April 4, 1744. He was a soldier in the revolution. He mar- ried, October 19, 1770, Elizabeth Elting. Chil- dren: James, Elizabeth; John Elting, men- tioned below; Sylvester, Ann, William, Na- thaniel, Rachel; Peter, grandfather of the author, E. P. Roe.
(V) John Elting, son of James Roe, was born in Kingston, in 1774. He married and among his children was Sylvester, mentioned below.
(VI) Sylvester, son of John Elting Roe, was born in 1801. He married -
and among their children was Mary, born 1831, married Jerome Hulbert ( see Hulbert VII).
GLOVER Thomas Charnick Glover, of an ancient English family, lived and died in Lancashire, Eng- land, leaving sons Thomas, mentioned below, and Charnick.
(II) Thomas, son of Thomas Charnick Glover, was born in Lancashire, England, about 1760. He came to this country at the age of eighteen years with his brother Char- nick, and at the close of the revolutionary war settled in Schoharie county, New York, among the pioneers, and followed farming there dur- ing the remainder of his life. He had three sons, Henry, John and Jacob, and four daugh- ters.
(IV) Ilenry, grandson of Thomas Glover, was born at Sharon, Schoharie county, New York, September 19, 1811, died at Troups- burg, New York, March 28, 1865. He married Eliza McDowell, born at Otego, Otsego county, New York, March 1, 1814, died February 3. 1887, at St. Paul, Minnesota. Children: 1. Charles, born May 14, 1835: married Ruth Morey. 2. Jeanette, September 1, 1836, died January 14. 1875 : married William J. Loucks. 3. Margaret, February 18, 1838; married Alonzo H. Haxton. 4. Martha, November 25. 1839 : married William Chase. 5. Henry, April 8, 1840, mentioned below. 6. Matilda, April 22, 1843; married R. McElroy. 7. Lucy Ann, October 16, 1844: married Samuel Olmstead. 8. George W., December 13, 1845; married Harriet Tiffany. 9. William, September 25, 1847, died September 18, 1887 ; married Delia
Holt, a widow. 10. Maryetta, November 4. 1851 ; married Lafayette Stowe ; she died about one year after marriage.
(V) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Glover, was born at Skaneateles Junction, Onondaga county, New York, April 8, 1840. He re- ceived his education in the public schools. In his younger days he lived in Texas Valley, Cortland county, New York, and followed lumbering. For the past forty-four years, however, he has made his home in the town of Lisle, Broome county, New York, and has followed farming. He is a staunch Democrat and has served as deputy sheriff. He married Mary Loesa, born December 7, 1848, died April 17, 1911, daughter of Joseph Sparrow, who came of a prominent Cape Cod, Massa- chusetts, family. Her mother was Azubah (Close ) Sparrow. Children : 1. Clyde V., born June 11, 1878, died November 28, 1879. 2. F. Ray, born November 8, 1880, engaged in the poultry business at Lisle, New York : mar- ried Grace L. Glezen. 3. Harold Jay, men- tioned below.
(VI) Harold Jay, son of Henry (2) Glover, was born in Lisle, Broome county, New York, March 29, 1885. He attended the public schools of his native town and graduated from the Lisle high school and from the Lowell Business College, at Binghamton, New York. IIe began the study of law in the office of Attorney Paige, of Lisle, and began his law course in the Law School of Syracuse Univer- sity. Because of his health he was compelled to give up his studies at the university, and, in February, 1906, he entered the office of Milo C. Paige. He was admitted to the bar in Oc- tober, 1903, and remained as law clerk in the office of Mr. Paige for a short time. He came to Marathon, New York, in February, 1909, and opened an office. Since then he has been in general practice in that town, and he also has an insurance business in connection with his legal practice. In politics he is a Demo- crat and he has been the nominee of his party for assemblyman in the district, which com- prises Broome county. He is member of the State Bar Association.
"Ile beareth gules two chev- PARSONS rons ermine between three eagles displayed or: By the name of Parsons. Crest: An eagle's head erased at the thigh, standing on a leopard's head-gules." Such is the distinction which
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Charles I., in 1634, bestowed upon his faithful subject, Sir Thomas Parsons, bart., of Great Milton, or Great Torrington, the immediate ancestor of the founder of the family of that surname in America, and himself a descendant of an English family of great antiquity, dating to Walter Parsons, of Mulso, Ireland, 1290, and back of him in England to the time of the Conquest, for the Parsons of Ireland went there from England.
Cornet Joseph Parsons, son of Sir Thomas Parsons, bart., and said to have been an officer in the English army, sailed from Gravesend, England, July 4, 1635, in the barque "Trans- port," Edward Walker, master, for Boston, and next appears with William Pynchon's col- ony of planters who founded a settlement at Agawam, now Springfield, Massachusetts, in the year 1636. On July 15, of the same year. his name appears as witness to a deed of cession from the Indians of the Connecticut valley to Pynchon's company, conveying to them all the lands in the region of Springfield, for the "consideration of eighteen yards of wampum, 18 coats, 18 hatchets, 18 hoes and 18 knives"; but the consideration was fair. for William was a just man and they who com- prised his company of planters were all just and honorable men and none others were ad- mitted inhabitants of his plantation. Cornet Joseph Parsons was born in Great Torrington. near Exeter, Devonshire, England, and on his voyage to New England was accompanied by his brother Benjamin and others of the family. but it is with him and his descendants that we treat particularly in these annals. He was a man of considerable importance in the planta- tion at Agawam and Springfield, and, in 1642, he was one of the founders of the new planta- tion at Northampton and one of the first pur- chasers of Indian lands there in 1645. He was a fur trader and had the sole right of barter and traffic in furs in the valley, for which right he paid annually the sum of twelve pounds. He accumulated a large estate in lands and goods. He died October 9, 1683. He married, November 26, 1646, Mary, daugh- ter of Thomas and Margaret ( Ford ) Bliss, of Hartford, Connecticut. Children : Joseph, born November, 1647: Benjamin, 1649, died same year ; John, August 14, 1650 ; Samuel, January 23. 1653, settled in Durham, Connecticut ; Ebenezer, May 1, 1655, killed by Indians in King Philip's war, September 8, 1675; Jona- than, June 6. 1657 ; David, April 30, 1659, died
young : Mary, June 27, 1661, accused with the heresy of witchcraft and tried before the court of assistants, Boston, May 13, 1692, and ac- quitted of the charge: Hannah, August 1, 1663; Abigail, September 3, 1666, married John Cotton ; Hester. December 24, 1672.
(I) Timothy Parsons, a descendant of Cor- net Joseph Parsons, was born April 7, 1801, died in the village of Maine, New York. April 18, 1877. He came to the above-mentioned village in 1837, from Otsego county, New York, and lived there most of his life, He was a farmer and wagon maker by trade. lle mar- ried, May 24, 1821, Deborah Knott, born May 17. 1805, died March 1. 1881. Children: Eunice Amanda, born May 16, 1822, died March 3, 1879: married Abe Curtiss; Delos Timothy, October 5, 1823, died young ; Will- iam Albert ; Sally, February 5, 1827, died Feb- ruary 15, 1911 ; Henry, deceased ; Walter, de- ceased ; Maria, deceased ; Melissa, married M. D. Newton, lives in Downey, California ; Eva, October 24, 1847, married Frank M. Perry. lives at Whitney's Point, New York.
( II) William Albert, son of Timothy Par- sons, was born in Butternuts, Otsego county, New York, May 1, 1825, died July 12, 1905. He removed with his parents to the town of Maine, Broome county, New York, when twelve years of age. He received a common school education and became a farmer. He was actively engaged in farming for about forty years, but during the later years of his life was retired. He also had a sawmill. In politics he was at first a Republican, and later a strong Prohibitionist. In religion he was a Baptist, as were all of his family. He mar- ried, January 27, 1848, Cynthia Maria, daugh- ter of Adin and Emily L. ( North) Ross, born in Candor, Tioga county, December 28, 1830, died March 30, 1904. Children: 1. Clarence A., born June 3, 1849; married, in 1872, Ade- laide MI. Poole, of Oswego, New York: is a court stenographer in the United States court, and lives at 415 West One Hundred and Fifty- fourth street, New York City : children : Harry K., deceased : Charles E., Grace Isabelle, Clar- ence A., Eva Louise, Robert M., Florence Ade- laide. 2. M. Eva, born June 22, 1855, a teacher in Ilion, New York. 3. Minnie R., born De- cember 3. 1861, died July 23, 1891 ; married Andrew J. Doughty. 4. Son. born May 15. 1864, died in infancy. 5. Bert Ross, men- tioned below.
(III) Bert Ross, son of William Albert
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Parsons, was born in Carolina, Tompkins county, New York, August 2, 1872, and was educated in the schools of his native town, the Candor Free Academy, and the Waverly high school. After leaving school he was for sev- eral years a bookkeeper. In 1894-95 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Gamble, of Waverly, and, in 1896, entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio,' from which he graduated in 1899. He then re- turned to New York and passed a successful examination in the University of the State of New York. In August, 1899, he removed to Marathon, New York, and commenced the practice of his profession. He has made his home there since. He has been coroner of Cortland for nine years. He is a member of the Cortland County and State Medical soci- eties. He is also a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows; the Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Marathon, also of sev- eral college fraternities. In politics he is a Re- publican, and in religion a Methodist. He married, October 4, 1899, Rosabelle Springer, of Tioga county, daughter of George and Ruth Elizabeth ( Stevens ) Springer. Children : Harry D., born March 8, 1904; Russell G., Septem- ber 25, 1907.
John Fish, immigrant ancestor, is FISH believed to have come to this country as early as 1637, and to have settled first in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1655 he was located in New London, Connecticut, and be- tween the above-mentioned dates, lived prob- ably in Stratford, Connecticut. He had a home lot and about six acres of land there, which he sold, September 29, 1655, to John Willcockson. The location of this lot is shown on a map drawn by Rev. Benjamin L. Swan, and print- ed in the "Hawley Record," page 432, where it is marked as belonging to John Willcockson. The same year, he removed to New London, and remained there for a short time. In 1668 he had lived in Stonington, Connecticut, long enough to become an inhabitant of that town. This required a two years' residence. At that time he was one of the forty-three inhabitants to whom a house lot was granted. His allot- ment was No. 5, and was retained by him during his life. August 6, 1674, he was act- ing town clerk at a town meeting. In 1675 he was one of three hundred volunteers from Connecticut, in King Philip's war, and, in 1700, received for his services a grant of land
in the town of Voluntown, which had been set aside for the Indian war volunteers. As he had then been dead for a number of years, the grant came into the possession of his son Sam- uel, who in his will divided it between his own sons, Moses and Aaron. It is still owned by their descendants.
August 22, 1679. John Fish was chosen and unanimously voted school-master for the town of Stonington, to instruct children in reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar. December 5, 1680, he was admitted a member of the Con- gregational church of Stonington. He was a land surveyor and laid out many of the public grants of Stonington. In this work his brother- in-law, Gershom Palmer, was associated with him during the years 1680-81. By grant and purchase, he became proprietor of consider- able tracts of land in Groton and Stonington and other neighboring towns. He married (first ) - Eland, who belonged to an an- cient and honorable family of Yorkshire, Eng- land. August 25, 1681, he married Widow Hannah (Palmer ) (Hewitt) Sterry. She was a daughter of Walter and Rebecca (Short) Palmer, and married, April 26, 1659, Captain Thomas Hewitt, who was a sea-faring man. and never returned from one of his voyages. In 1670 she petitioned the general court for permission to marry again, and, on December 27, 1671, married (second) Roger Sterry. The latter died before 1680, and she married (third), as above stated, John Fish. Children of John Fish, all by first wife: John; Jona- than ; Samuel, born 1656, mentioned below ; Mary. The records of the Congregational church at Stonington show the baptisms of Samuel, Mary and John, March 13, 1680, all of whom were adults at that time.
(II) Samuel, son of John Fish, was born in 1656, according to his gravestone record, it is supposed in New London, and died February 27, 1733. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and received, in 1700, as a return for his military service, a grant of land in Voluntown. This grant he afterwards bequeathed to his son Samuel. He married (first) Sarah - who died December 11, 1722, aged sixty-two years. Ile married (second) Widow Dorothy (Wheeler) Smith. Both he and his first wife are buried in the old Packer burying-ground in Groton, Connecticut. Children : Samuel, bap- tized April 18, 1695, mentioned below ; Mary, baptized April 18, 1695; David, baptized April 18, 1695, married, March 30, 1721, Grace Pal-
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mer ; Margaret, baptized April 18, 1695, mar- ried Gideon Cobb; John, baptized November 8, 1696, married, July 19, 1726, Esther John- son, died July 4, 1782.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Fish, was baptized April 18, 1695, died January 20, 1724. He married Sarah Children : Captain John, born about 1712; Captain Dan- iel, 1714; Sarah, married - Morse ; Eliz- abeth, married · Rose ; Samuel, mention- ed below ; Jane, married Rev. Timothy Wight- man.
(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Fish, was born about 1720, at Stonington. The rec- ords of his family are not available, but it is thought that he was the father of Elias, men- tioned below. In 1790, according to the first federal census, there were ten families of Fish in New London county. Aaron and Sprague Fish were neighbors; Samuel, John and John Jr. lived in the same vicinity, and Nathan and Sands. The size of the families and ages of children indicate that Nathan, Ambrose and Aaron were probably a generation older than the others. John, John Jr., Samuel, Ebenezer, Sands, Sprague and Elias had no sons over sixteen years in their families. Elias is men- tioned below.
(V) Elias, son or nephew of Samuel (3) Fish, born 1760-65, had one son under sixteen and two females in his family, in 1790. The names next his on the census, which was evi- dently taken according to residence, were those of Joseph Holley and Increase Stoddard. He was a sea-faring man, and followed the sea for many years, also working at the trade of ship- carpenter. In later life he settled in Otsego county, New York, where, after farming some years, he died. Children : Samuel, Gurdon, Jerry, Eldridge; Laura, born 1803, married Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, son of Dr. Elnathan Judd, of Paris, New York, and they lived, for many years, as missionaries in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands ; Sybil, married James Tracy.
(VI) Eldridge, son of Elias Fish, was born November 22, 1798; died October 10, 1865, in Cortland county, New York. He lived at Schuyler Lake, Otsego county, New York, and at Solon. He was a lay preacher, or exhorter, in the Methodist Episcopal church, an earnest Abolitionist, and a man of strong convictions and strict piety. He followed farming for a vocation. He married, August 27, 1821, Bet- sey Taft, born at Schuyler Lake, August II, 1800, died May, 1871, daughter of Daniel
Taft. a descendant of Robert Taft, of Mendon, Worcester county, Massachusetts, from whom President Taft also descends. Children: I. Prosper W., born July 26, 1822, died in Cali- fornia, August 16, 1901. 2. Eunice, born Sep- tember 8, 1824, died October, 1861. 3. Laura, born September 9, 1826, died May, 1898. 4. Bessie, born 1831 ; married Barnett. 5. Edwin R., born March 4, 1835, died in the service in the civil war, November 3, 1863. 6. Susan A., born July 9, 1838, died January 8, 1899. 7. James Elias, mentioned below.
(VII) Rev. James Elias Fish, son of Eld- ridge Fish, was born in Solon, Cortland county, New York, August 28, 1842. He attended the public schools at Solon and McGrawville, and then studied for the ministry. From 1888 to 1896 he was engaged in evangelistic work, and, in the meantime, studied, in order to prepare for the ministry, and, in 1897, was ordained in the Congregational church, at Lester, Broome county, New York. He was pastor of the Con- gregational church, at Lester, until October 21, 1901, and since then he has supplied churches at Lapeer, Cincinnatus, Whitney's Point and Cortland, New York. He was one of the first to volunteer in response to the call of Presi- dent Lincoln, at the beginning of the civil war, and, September 9, 1861, he was mustered into the service, in Company A, Tenth New York Cavalry. His regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac, and he took part in the battles of Fredericksburg, Brandy Station, Mid- dleburg, Gettysburg, and others of importance. He was discharged for disability, in October, 1863.
Mr. Fish studied medicine for two years and a half, when a young man, and afterward he continued his experiments, until he perfect- ed the formula, which, for the past thirty years, he has had on the market under the trade name of Wormwood Ointment. The business of manufacturing the proprietary article has become one of the leading industries of the town of Marathon, and the product has a large sale in all parts of the country, and testimonials of its worth have been received from many different states. Mr. Fish is a member of Hiram Clark Post, No. 154, Grand Army of the Republic, of Marathon. In poli- tics he is an independent.
He married (first), February 3, 1864, Alice E. May, born August 2, 1845, died February 2, 1886, daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Rose) May. He married (second), March
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27, 1888, Mattie L. Pierce, of Hamilton, Madi- son county, New York, daughter of William and Charlotte ( Way ) Pierce, of Otselic Cen- ter, Chenango county. Children of first wife: I. Edwin, born February 10, 1865, resides in Buffalo; married Emma Kern, and has two children-Alice and Alva. 2. Frederick U., born February 21. 1867, an artist, lives at Canastota, New York: married Lizzie Harri- son, daughter of Rev. George Harrison, and has one child-Earl. 3. Vinnie, born May 4, 1876; married Charles Morgan, of Toledo, Ohio, son of General Morgan ; child-Charles Morgan. 4. Bessie, born August 28, 1882; married Arthur Stolberg : no children.
BOUTON The name Bouton is of French origin, and from 1350, for two centuries, the court records of France abound with the name. Nicholas Bou- ton, who bore the title of Count Chanilly, Baron Montague de Naton, was born about 1580, and was the father of Harard and John, twins, and Noel, all of whom were Huguenots and refugees during the persecutions of the Protestants by the Catholics. Noel afterwards returned to France, where he distinguished himself, and was subsequently made Marshal of all France.
(I) John Bouton, immigrant ancestor, sail- ed from Gravesend, England. July. 1635, and landed in Boston, Massachusetts, in December of that year. He was then aged twenty. He lived first in Boston, then in Watertown, and early in the settlement of Hartford, Connecti- cut, removed there. In 1651 he removed again to Norwalk, Connecticut, where he became an influential citizen. In 1671, and for several years after, he was a representative in the general court of Connecticut, and held other offices in Norwalk. He married Alice
who survived him, and married ( second) Mat- thew Marvin, as his second wife. Her will was dated December 1, 1680, and mentioned her son, John Bouton ; daughters, Bridget Kel- logg, Abigail Bouton, Rachel Smith, and grand- children, Ruth and Rachel Bouton, and Sarah Brinsmead. Among their children were: John, mentioned below ; Richard, born about 1639, died in Norwalk, June 27, 1665, married Ruth -: Bridget, born about 1642, married, in 1660. Daniel Kellogg, lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
(II) John (2), son of John ( 1) Bouton, married (first) Abigail, daughter of Matthew
Marvin, by a first wife. She was born at Hartford, about 1640, and was living in 1680, when she was mentioned in the will of her step- mother, Alice Marvin, formerly wife of John Bouton (1). He married ( second ) Mary Steven- son. He lived in Norwalk. His will was dated December 25, 1705, and he died between that date and February 18, 1706-07. In his will he mentioned wife Mary, sons John, Matthew, Joseph, Thomas, Richard and daughters Rachel, Abigail, Mary and Elizabeth. Children, born in Norwalk: John, September 30, 1659, mention- ed below ; Matthew, December 24, 1661 ; Rachel, December 16, 1667: Abigail. April 1, 1670; Mary, May 26, 1671; Joseph, about 1674; Thomas, about 1676; Elizabeth, 1679: Rich- ard, 1680.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Bouton, was born in Norwalk, September 30, 1659. died before January 2, 1704-05. His estate was divided November 21, 1705, among "six children living." The sixth was probably Dan- iel. Matthew, his brother, and John, his son, were administrators. He settled in Norwalk, where he owned land jointly with his brother Matthew, which he sold, January 25. 1693. The town records of Danbury show that he owned land there, and those of New Canaan that he was among the constituents of the Society of that place. He married
Children : John, over twenty-one at time of inventory, married Saralı, daughter of Jakin Gregory, mentioned in his grandfather's will; Abigail, born 1689: Mary, 1692; Na- thaniel. 1695: Eleazer. 1701-02; Daniel, 1705.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of John (3) Bouton, was born in Norwalk, 1695. He was one of the constituents of New Canaan. In his will, dated 1775, he makes no mention of his son John and daughter Rebecca, who probably died before that date. He married (first) Hannah
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