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Children, born in Rehoboth: Jonathan, June 25. 1704, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, October 20, 1705; Hannah, October 3, 1707 : Dan, Feb- ruary 6, 1710-11 ; Miriam, August 22, 1712; Susanna, September 22, 1714. died December 8, 1715: Ephraim, January 25, 1715-16; Will- iam, born about 1717, died April 26, 1730 ; Sus- anna. June 10. 1720, died young : Deliverance,
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September 4, 1721, died May 10, 1736; Josiah, May 2, 1723 : Susanna, August 28, 1728, died May 20, 1736.
(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (I) Chaffee, was born in Rehoboth, June 25, 1704. died February 9, 1785. He married. in Ash- ford, Connecticut, June 1. 1727, Abigail Lyon, who died January 9, 1773. She was admitted to the First Congregational Church, of Ash- ford, August 5. 1733. He was admitted to the church of Rehoboth, June 6, 1725. The fol- lowing year he received from his father one hundred acres of land in Ashford, where he settled. February 23. 1729, he was admitted to full communion with the church there. Chil- dren, born in Ashford: Jonathan, April 21, 1728, died same day: Josiah, February 10, 1729; Thomas, April 8, 1731, mentioned below : Hannah, November 28, 1733: William, July 20, 1736; Susanna, September 10, 1738, died young : Abigail, December 17, 1740, died young ; Deliverance, February 7. 1742-43, died young : Jonathan, May 11, 1746; Carpenter, January 25, 1749-50, served in revolution.
(V) Thomas (2), son of Jonathan (2) Chaffee, was born in Ashford, April 8, 1731. died in Becket, Massachusetts, December 5. 1810. He married, in Willington, Connecticut, March 26, 1761, Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Reed. She was born there. Oc- tober 3. 1742, died in Becket, May 5. 1836. He was of Ashford in 1758, when he bought of James Bicknell, a fellow-townsman, fifty acres of land partly in Ashford and partly in Willington. About the time of his marriage. he removed to Willington and was of that town as late as September 17, 1783, when he bought one hundred and six acres of land in Becket. Soon afterwards he removed to Becket, where he and his wife were admitted to the First Congregational Church by letter, April 3. 1784. March 1, 1793. he was chosen, with two others, to superintend the records of the church. He was a farmer by occupation, and was known as a kind and charitable man. Children, all but the youngest born in Willington : Benjamin, born November 16, 1762; Deliverance, Octo- ber 26, 1764: Joshua, May 7, 1766: Thomas. March 15. 1768; Jonathan, March 4, 1771. mentioned below ; Lois, March 12, 1773; Na- than, February 24, 1775: Hannah, May 22. 1777: Zephaniah, October II, 1779: Caleb. July 9, 1781 ; Calvin, June 9, 1783: Abigail, April 23, 1785.
(VI) Jonathan (3); son of Thomas (2)
Chaffee, was born in Willington, March 4, 1771. He married, in Becket, November 29, 1792, Rebecca Wadsworth, born in 1774. They removed to Homer, Cortland county, New York. The date of his death is unknown. Children, probably others born in Homer : Elias, born in Becket, September 12, 1800; Seth Willard, born in Becket, August 6, 1802: Orange: Joseph : Alvin ; Jonathan B. : Thomas B., mentioned below ; Sally; Polly ; Rebecca ; Laura, married Scott, and lived in Cortland county ; Almira.
(VII) Thomas Brewster, son of Jonathan (3) Chaffee, was born probably in Connecti- cnt, about 1815. died in McGrawville, New York, June, 1881. He removed with his par- ents to New York state and settled first in Oswego, where he learned the trade of cabi- net-maker. He afterwards settled in Cort- landville, New York, and was one of the first trustees of McGrawville. Ile married Eliza, daughter of Robert and Betsey ( Reed) Wells, of White Plains, New York, born 1817, died January 17, 1909. Children : Polemas W .. lived in McGrawville: Morris B., lived in Toronto, Canada, died 1898; Thomas Jeffer- son, mentioned below.
(VIII) Thomas Jefferson, son of Thomas Brewster Chaffee, was born in Homer, March 6, 1841, died in McGrawville, Angust 7, 1879. He received a common school education, and after leaving school worked for a time in Owego in a store kept by Stores & Chatfield. He was engaged for the greater part of his life in the insurance business, and lived in Mc- Graw or McGrawville. He served in the civil war, in the Fifteenth New York Cavalry, for about a year and a half. Most of his time was served in Maryland, where he guarded Confederate troops who had been taken pris- oners. In his home town, McGraw or Mc- Grawville, he served as justice of the peace. He married Mary, daughter of Henry and Cynthia (Dunbar) Hamilton, born in Mc- Donough, New York, May 20, 1839. died No- vember 19, 1906. Children : Harry Chatfield, horn April 23, 1868. mentioned below ; Louis Sherridan. April 28. 1870, died 1892: Frances E .. August 21, 1871, married Eugene W. Rus- sell, of McGraw, farmer, children : Louis. Mer- ton. Webster. Harry Chatfield. deceased ; Thomas Jefferson, January 1, 1876, died Feb- ruary 17, 1877.
( IX) Harry Chatfield, son of Thomas Jef- ferson Chaffee, was born in McGraw. New
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York. April 23. 1868, and was educated in MIc- Graw Academy, and the Elmira School of Commerce. When eleven years of age he began work for P. H. McGraw & Son, corset- makers, and remained with them until 1901, when in company with others he organized the Empire Corset Company. Of this firm he has been secretary and director since its organiza- tion. He has been clerk of the village of Mc- Graw for fourteen years, and also president. He married, March 27, 1890, Grace E., daugh- ter of Samnel and Frances (Tripp ) Doud. of McGraw.
CHAFFEE (VIII) Polemas Wells Chaf- fee, son of Thomas Brewster Chaffee (q. v.). was born in Cortlandville, New York, January 1, 1846, and was educated in the public schools of Cortland and McGraw and at the New York Central College at McGraw. He enlisted, October 4, 1861, in Company A, Seventy-sixth New York Regiment of Volunteer Infantry in the civil war and was in the service three years, lacking three months, being discharged on account of disability in the spring of 1864. He took part in the second battle of Bull Run and in the three days at Gettysburg. He was sergeant of the guard at Gettysburg and had charge of the ammunition train. Since his return from the service, he has made his home in McGraw and has worked for the corset manufacturers of that time. He was with P. H. McGraw & Son and afterward with the Miller Corset Company. He worked for one year at Bridgeport. Con- necticut, for a corset manufacturer. In politics Mr. Chaffee is a Republican. He has served the town of McGraw for several terms as overseer of the poor. He is a member of MIc- Graw Lodge, No. 320, Odd Fellows, and of the Encampment and Canton of Cortland. He is chaplain on the colonel's staff in the Canton. He is a member of William H. Tarbell Post, No. 476, Grand Army of the Republic, of Mc- Graw, and has been an officer. In religion he is a Presbyterian.
He married, in 1888, Mary Marvin Vincent Knight, daughter of Henry and Abigail Mar- vin. By a previous marriage she had three children : Hattic Adelia Vincent, who died aged six years; Lelia Sophia Vincent, married Claude C. Hammond, of McGraw; Gertrude L. Vincent.
John Maine, immigrant ancestor, MAINE was born in York, England, 1614. and came to America, in 1629. He settled at York, Maine. He had a son, Ezekiel, mentioned below. The name was formerly spelled Mayn, Mayne and Main.
( II) Ezekiel, son of John Maine, was born in 1641, in York, and is next mentioned in Scituate, Massachusetts. In 1669 he removed to Stonington, Connecticut, and received in 1670 and 1672 land grants from that town. Subsequently he bought other land, and in 1680 received another town grant. He died there, June 19. 1719. Children : Ezekiel ; Mary, baptized July 1. 1677, died young; Jeremiah, born 1678, mentioned below ; Thomas, baptized September 22, 1679, died young; Phebe, bap- tized August 7. 1681 : Hannah.
(III) Jeremiah, son of Ezekiel Maine, was born 1678. He married, October 11, 1699, Mrs. Ruth Brown. She was baptized at Ston- ington, July 16, 1699. He was admitted to the Stonington church, May 18, 1712. On February 12. 1727, a new church was formed in what is now North Stonington, and both he and his wife were dismissed to the latter. by request. He died November 11, 1729. Chil- dren : Thomas, born July 19, 1700, mentioned below : Hannah, baptized May 17, 1702; Eliz- abeth, born February 22. 1702-03 ; Lydia, April 19. 1705; Sarah, May 19, 1706; Jeremiah, April 10, 1708; Hepzibah, March 24, 1710; Nathaniel, August 4, 1714; Anna, August 21, 1715; John, May 20, 1716; Peter, August 5, 1718.
(!\') Deacon Thomas Maine, son of Jere- miah Maine, was born in Stonington, July 19, 1700, and married there, April 20, 1720, Annah, daughter of Eleazer and Ann (Pendleton) Brown, born February 1, 1700. Her father was the son of Thomas and Mary ( Newhall) Brown, of Lynn, Massachusetts. Children, born in Stonington: Thomas. February 12, 1721; Andrew, August 5, 1723; Timothy, April 8, 1727; Joshua, April 5, 1729: Anne, July 31. 1731 : Jonas, February 7, 1735-36, mentioned below : Elizabeth, died young ; Eze- kiel, born July 8, 1742; Phebe, November 16, 1747.
(V) Jonas, son of Deacon Thomas Maine, was born in Stonington, February 7, 1735-36, clied there January 24, 1804. He married (first) at Westerly, Rhode Island, June 3,
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1756, Patience Peckham, born February 13. 1732, died July 23, 1757 or 1758. He married (second), April 14, 1760, Content, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Dewey) Bromley, died August, 1825, aged eighty-nine years. Her mother, Elizabeth ( Dewey) Bromley, was the daughter of Israel and Abigail (Drake) Dewey. Israel Dewey was the son of Thomas Dewey, immigrant ancestor, of Windsor, Con- necticut, from whom is descended Admiral George Dewey. Her grandmother, Abigail (Drake) Dewey, was a daughter of Sergeant Job and Mary (Wolcott) Drake, the latter a daughter of Henry Wolcott, of Windsor. Jonas Maine was a soldier in the revolution, Captain Hungerford's company, Colonel Sam- uel McClellan's regiment ; was appointed en- sign, November 5, 1780, discharged January 3, 178I. This regiment saw duty in New Lon- don and Groton, Connecticut. Child of first wife, born in Stonington: Sinius, March 23, 1757, died young. Children of second wife:
Content, February 7, 1761 ; Peckham, January 5, 1763, mentioned below ; Patience, March 7, 1765; Lyman, March 14, 1767; Dewey, Sep- tember 14, 1770; Jonas M., March 15, 1772; Thomas, married Hannah Chapman, born No- vember 28, 1776; Jabish Breed, July 4, 1777 ; Nancy, married John Gray ; Paul B., April 1, 1782.
(VI) Peckham, son of Jonas Maine, was born in Stonington, January 5, 1763, died at Adams, New York, June 2, 1842. He mar- ried, in 1785, Sally, daughter of John and Eliz- abeth ( Babcock) Burdick, born September 7, 1763, died at Guilderland, New York, Janu- ary 28, 1837. He was a farmer in the latter place. Children: Perez, born January 29, 1786; Jonas, April 1, 1788; John Burdick, July 15, 1790; Fanny, January 3, 1792 ; Lewis, April 3, 1795, mentioned below; Asher H., September 29, 1798; Sophia, November 8, 1799: Franklin Brown, April 5, 1802: Adam W., September 12, 1804.
(VII) Lewis, son of Peckham Maine, was born April 3, 1795, in Albany county, New York. died at Richfield, New York, Novem- ber 3. 1840. He married Catherine Van Ren- neslaer, born in Guilderland, Albany county, New York. Children: Stephen ; Samuel ; Charles M., mentioned below.
(VIII) Charles Mason, son of Lewis Maine, was born in Winfield, Herkimer county, New York, in 1832. He settled when a young man in West Winfield, Herkimer county, New
York, and has lived there since. He learned the trade of stucco working and has always followed it. He married Mabel Blowers, born 1834, in Marshall, Oneida county, New York, daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Wing) Blow- ers. Children : Stephen, lives in the west ; Allie Henry, mentioned below.
(IX) Allie Henry, son of Charles Mason Maine, was born at West Winfield, November 18, 1862. He attended the public schools of his native town and the West Winfield Acad- emy. He learned the trade of plumber and graduated from a school of sanitary plumbing and heating at Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was in the employ of G. L. Swift & Sons, of Marathon, New York, for ten years. In 1903 he came to Cortland as a partner of the Ben- nett Hardware Company and continued in the firm for five years. Since 1908 he has been in the heating and plumbing business in Cortland on his own account. His establishment is at 25 Arthur avenue and his shop is equipped with the latest apparatus and appliances. He carries in stock a large variety of plumbing supplies which are displayed in a modern and well-planned salesroom. He is agent for the Kelsey Warm Air Generator ; for the Century Furnace of Akron, Ohio; the Ideal Furnace Company of Detroit, Michigan; the Spence Hot Water Boiler, made by Pierce, Butler & Pierce, of Syracuse, and the Page Boiler, made by W. H. Page, of New York. As a con- tractor he has handled some of the most im- portant plumbing and heating contracts in this section. He is a member of the Order of Maccabees. While living in Marathon, New York, he served the incorporated village two years as a trustee. In politics he is a Repub- lican.
He married, February 7, 1886, Marcia M. Pratt, of Leavenworth, Kansas, born Novem- ber 2, 1865, daughter of Henry D. and Mary A. ( Blair) Pratt, grandaughter of Charles M. Pratt. Children : Mora M., born August 9, 1892: Kenneth Blair, June 27, 1902; Robert Rolla, March 7, 1906.
Thomas Blodgett, immigrant
BLODGETT ancestor, was born in Eng- land, of an ancient and hon- ored family, in 1605, if his age was correctly given when he sailed for America. He came in the ship "Increase," sailing April 8, 1635. with his wife, Susan, aged thirty-seven, and children, Daniel, aged four, and Samuel, aged
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a year and a half. The name is variously spelled in the early Massachusetts records. Blodget, Blodgett, Blogett, Blogget, Bloghead, Bloget, Bloggitt, Bloged, Blokwod, Bloggot and Blodgit. He was a glover by trade, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he had a grant of land March 6. 1636-37. He died in 1642. His will was dated August 10. 1641, and proved July 8, following. He be- queathed to wife, Susan, and three surviving children, mentioned below. His widow mar- ried, February 15, 1643, James Thompson, of Woburn, and died February 10, 1660-61. Chil- dren : Daniel, born in England, 1631, settled in Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Samuel, born in England, 1633-34. mentioned below ; Sus- anna, born in Cambridge, June, 1637 ; Thomas, born in Cambridge, died August 7. 1639. in infancy.
(11) Samuel, son of Thomas Blodgett, was born in England in 1633-34, and settled in Wo- burn. He was deputy to the general court, 1693; commissioner of the rate, 1692; select- man, 1681-90-93-95-96-97-1703. Savage gives the date of his death as July 3, 1693, an evident error, as he was assessed in Woburn until 1719. Paige in his "History of Cambridge," makes his death May 21. 1720, aged nearly eighty-seven years, which is consistent with the date of birth. He married, December 13, 1655. Ruth, daughter of Stephen Eggleston, or Iggleton, of Boston. She died October 14. 1703. Children, born in Woburn: Ruth, De- cember 28, 1656: Samuel, December 10, 1658; Thomas, February 26, 1661, mentioned below ; Susanna, married. December 29, 1685, James Simmonds; Sarah, February 17, 1668; Mary (twin), September 15, 1673: Martha (twin of Mary ).
(III) Thomas ( 2), son of Samuel Blodgett. was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, February 26, 1661. He married, November 11, 1685. Rebecca, daughter of John and Rebecca ( Wood ) Tidd, then of Woburn, afterwards of Lexington. She was born about 1665. died, according to Woburn records, March 8, 1750. Ile was assessed in Woburn from 1684 to 1689. He removed to Lexington some years earlier, but was not assessed in that town until 1691. He became one of the most active and prominent citizens of Lexington, and the an- cestor of the greater part of the Lexington Blodgetts. He was a subscriber to the meet- ing-house in the precinct in 1692, and both he and his wife became members of the church.
March 5, 1699, by a letter of dismissal from the Woburn church. In 1710 he was an asses- sor, and after the incorporation of the town he filled nearly every office of honor and trust. In 1714 he was chosen selectman. an office to which he was afterwards reelected; he also represented the town in the general court. At the first town meeting he was elected tythingman, which was then regarded as an office of great dignity. In Hudson's "History of Lexington" it is recorded that he gave one pound ten shillings towards the first meeting- house, and five shillings towards the purchase of Lexington Common, at a meeting held April, 1711. January 9, 1713, it was voted to build a new church, and he with four others were appointed to carry the measure into effect. He was commonly called captain. He died September 29, 1740. His will was ap- proved November 24, 1740, and mentioned wife Rebecca, sons Thomas, Joseph. Samuel, daughters Rebecca, Russell and Abigail Reed. Children, the first three recorded in Woburn : Thomas, born August 5, 1686: Rebecca, June 5, 1689; Ruth, October 14, 1694, probably died young : Joseph, September 17, 1696; Abigail, November 6, 1698, Woburn record; baptized in Lexington, November 3, 1698, Lexington record; Samuel, born June 17, 1702; in Wo- burn record of deaths; child died April 13. 1688: child, 1691.
(IV) Joseph, son of Thomas (2) Blodgett. was born, probably in Woburn. September 17. 1696, and removed with his parents when quite young to Lexington. He appears to have lived in the latter town until about thirty-five years old. but no record of assessment has been found in either town. Some time after his first marriage. in 1719, he removed to Brim- field, Massachusetts, and became a prominent citizen there. He was one of the original members of the church in 1724, and in 1736 was on a committee "to treat with the min- ister relating to his principles and all soe re- lating to ye proposals made by ye town in order to settlement & sallery." In the same year he gave four acres of land to the minister, and in 1739 petitioned the town for permission to erect a horse-shed at the meeting-house. He married (first). November 5, 1719, Sarah Stone, born in Lexington, November 9, 1700, died May 8, 1735. She was admitted to the church in Lexington, June 19, 1728. He mar- ried (second), June 29, 1738, Sarah Ingersoll, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, May 17.
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1718, died April 24, 1774. He died June 10, 1783. Children of first wife, the first five born in Lexington, the last three in Brimfield : Jo- seph, April 17, 1721 ; Sarah, November 12, 1722; Anna, April 10, 1724; Abigail, July 18, 1726; Ruth, March 1, 1728; Benjamin, June 19, 1730: Abner, June 6, 1732; Thomas, Sep- tember 26, 1734. Children of second wife, born in Brimfield: Samuel, May 17, 1739; Lydia, February 17, 1741 : Jonas, November 12, 1743; Azubah, April 12, 1746; Caleb, No- vember 24, 1748: Elijah, October 25, 1751 ; Marsena, March 4, 1754: Nathan, November 3, 1756, mentioned below : Admatha, Decem- ber 15, 1758.
(V) Nathan, son of Joseph Blodgett, was born November 3. 1756. In 1790 he was liv- ing at Western, now Warren, Massachusetts, and soon afterward appears to have moved to Whitestown, New York, then to Cortlandville. He was a soldier in the revolution from Brim- field, or Brookfield, in Captain Daniel Gilbert's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment. He came to Cortlandville in 1805, and located in lots sixty-five and sixty-six. He died there July 12, 1845. On June 7, 1781, he married Abigail Bliss, who was born August 30, 1760, died March 30, 1837. Their children were: I. Loring, born April 22, 1782, died August 30, 1865; married Nancy Salisbury, of Cort- land, December 13-16, 1810; children : i. Dor- leska, born October 6, 1811, died February 25, 1899; married Alonzo Tisdale, January 17, 1832; ii. Marvin, born July 8, 1813, died No- vember II, 1845; iii. Loring Jr., born July 25, 1815, died July 31, 1842; iv. Hiram Curtis, born January 25, 1818, died September 27. 1899, married, April 2, 1845, Mariva McGraw, of McGrawville, New York ; their children : a. Marsden Loring, born September 5, 1847, died November 14, 1862; b. Frank Morgan, born November 5. 1849, died December 1, 1872; c. Helen Mariva, born April 22, 1852, married Samuel Dewitt Noyes, of Milwaukee, Wis- consin ; they have one daughter, Bertha E., born May 15, 1883; d. Charles Herbert, born July 7, 1854, died November 14, 1871 ; e. Mary Elizabeth, born January 14, 1861, married, December 8, 1886, Charles Henry Van Tuyl, now of the faculty of the University of Chi- cago, no children : v. Abigail, born October 29. 1810, died July 26, 1820; vi. Alvira, born June 9, 1821, died January 7, 1842 ; vii. Nancy Ann, born July 14, 1824, died January 14, 1846. 2. Rachel, born July 4, 1785, died July 13, 1837 ;
married Jacob Badgley, January 31, 1808; chil- dren : Abigail, married Spencer ; Mor- gan : Laura, married Cyrus Griswold; Eliza, married Severance. 3. Lot, born Au- gust 20, 1787, died August 20, 1808. 4. Lewis, born March 10, 1790, died September 3, 1870; married, December 16, 1816, Betsy Cravath; their children were Horace and James, of Her- mitage, New York. 5. Lydia, born September 27, 1792, died February 4, 1870; married Hiram Betts, December 2, 1810; children : Samantha, married Elijah R. Stedman ; Wood- ward ; Olive ( Mrs. James A. Calvert ) ; Salina ; Elsina, married (first ) - - Bassett, ( sec-
ond) - Stout. 6. Abigail, born June 9, 1795, died March 6, 1797. 7. Franklin Benja- min, see below. 8. Eliza, born May 5, 1800, died March 26, 1893: married Levi Taggart, July 25, 1833: children : Susan Jane, married (first) William M. Richardson, of Evansville, Wisconsin, ( second) George Parr, of Boscobel, Michigan : Cornelia ; Abigail Bliss, married (first) Cyrus Griswold, widower, ( second) Albert B. Culver. 9. Dwight F., born March 31. 1808, died April 25, 1808.
(VI) Franklin Benjamin, son of Nathan Blodgett, was born January 21, 1798, died September 24, 1872. He married, November 1, 1821, Achsah Dewey. Children : 1. Orissa, born July 24, 1823, died November 25, 1842. 2. Alonzo Dwight, see forward. 3. Lewis Gay- lord, born May 14, 1827, died August 17, 1828. 4. John Randolph, born March 12, 1829, died March 24, 1873; married, October 25, 1866, Alida Ferris, of Warsaw, New York ; children : i. Elizabeth Ferris, born October 12, 1867. died August 15, 1869; ii. Louis Gottschalk, born January II, 1871. 5. Jane Amelia, born March 28, 1831 ; married, November 22, 1855, Theodore Clapp Pomeroy, M. D. ; children : i. Mary Louise, born June 15, 1857, died October 5. 1857; ii. and iii. Lewis Blodgett and Willis (twins), born June 8, 1861, Willis died April 28, 1862, Lewis B. married Frances Kinnie, May 25, 1893: iv. Harry Dwight, born May 17, 1866, married Cora Adelia Patrick, Octo- ber 20, 1890, who died October 22. 1908, leav- ing five children: William Dwight, born at Phoenix, New York, April 4, 1892 ; Helen Eliz- abeth, Phoenix, February 9, 1894; Donald Theodore, Syracuse, December 9, 1902 : Harry Frederick, Syracuse, February 26, 1903: Ed- ward Patrick, Rome, March 25, 1906. 6. Mary Louise, born April 15, 1833, died October 2, 1862; married Rev. Ova Hoyt Seymour, May
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27. 1857; children: i. Franklin Miles, born July 10, 1858, died July 7, 1861; ii. Harry Childs, born July 6, 1860, died July 8, 1861 ; iii. Randolph Blodgett, born July 24, 1862, died June 9, 1906.
(VII) Alonzo Dwight, son of Franklin Ben- jamin Blodgett, was born June 14, 1825, at Cortland, on the farm which had previously been in the family for two generations. He was educated in the common schools, and fol- lowed farming on the homestead where he was born. He married, June 13, 1860, Eleanor, born February 18, 1831, at Charlemont, Massa- chusetts, died August 23, 1902, at Cortland, New York, daughter of Obadiah and Eleanor Dickinson. Her father was born at Hatfield, Massachusetts. October 23, 1796, died at Onon- daga Valley, New York, April 23, 1879, and ner mother was born at Heath, Massachusetts, August 3, 1804, died at Onondaga Valley, Oc- tober 12, 1888. Three children were born to them: I. Edward Dwight, see forward. 2. Mary Eleanor, born May 2, 1865, died No- vember 12, 1869. 3. Frank Dickinson, born March 29, 1871 ; married Helen Marguerita Wilcox, of Oneonta, New York, August 18, 1897: children: i. Marguerita, born August 26, 1899, died December 11, 1900; ii. Doro- thy, born September 17, 1901; iii. Edward Dickinson, born September 5, 1904: iv. Rich- ard Sheridan, born October 19, 1908.
(VIII) Edward Dwight, son of Alonzo Dwight Blodgett, was born on the homestead in Cortland, New York, March 11, 1863. The farm is within the corporate limits of the city of Cortland, about a mile from the centre of the city. He attended the public schools of his native town, and the State Normal and Train- ing School at Cortland, and entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1887. For two years afterward he was city editor of the Cortland Standard. From 1889 to 1892 he was teacher of Latin and Greek in the State Normal and Training School at Cortland, a posi- tion he resigned to become secretary and treas- urer of the Cortland Standard Printing Com- pany, which publishes the Cortland Standard. Since then he had been associate editor of the daily, semi-weekly and weekly editions of this newspaper. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a member of the Presbyterian church, of which his grandparents were among the founders in 1825. He is a member of Cortland-
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