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GLADMAN George Gladman was born in England in 1801, and died in Canada in 1863. He was a leading factor in the Hudson Bay Company. and spent most of his life in Canada and Brit- ish North America. He married Harriet Vin- cent, a granddaughter of Governor McNabb.
(11) Henry, son of George Gladman, was born at Moose Factory, on James Bay, British North America, October 21, 1834. He was well educated, and studied for the ministry. Ile started to go to England to complete his preparation for the ministry, when he was taken sick and returned to Upper Canada. Afterward he became associated with the Hon. F. C. Wood, in the management of the county clerk's office in County Victoria, Ontario, Can- ada, and was later appointed postmaster of
Lindsay, Ontario, holding that office for thirty- five years. He married Melissa Rientord. Children : George J., born 1864; Harry E., 1870; Dr. Everett Aldrich, mentioned below : William L., 1877, died in infancy ; Cyril R. A., born 1879; Clifford L., 1881 ; Victor L., 1887.
(III) Dr. Everett Aldrich Gladman, son of Henry Gladman, was born in Lindsay, On- tario, Canada, October 25, 1875. He was edu- cated there in the public schools and at the Collegiate Institute at Lindsay, from which he was graduated in the class of 1894. He then began to study his profession at McGill Med- ical College, Montreal, and was graduated with the degree of M. D. C. M. in 1898. He spent six months in the hospital at Montreal and an- other six months as interne in Royal Victoria Hospital at Montreal. After passing the state examination in New York, he entered upon the practice of his profession at Fulton, Os- wego county, November 8, 1899, and has con- tinued with great success in general practice to the present time. He is a member of the Fulton Academy of Medicine, the Oswego County Medical Society. the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons, of Fulton, the Pathfinder Club, and the Os- wego County Club. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and in religion a Presbyterian.
SNYDER The Snyder family was among the early settlers of New Jer- sey. In partnership with Nicolas Saym, Jacob Peter Snyder bought 1,300 acres of land in Amwell township, New Jersey, of Elizabeth Estaugh, in 1748. Jacob Peter Sny- der was a cordwainer and citizen of New York in 1737. The Snyders also settled early in Pennsylvania, and the names in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are similar, indicating that the two branches of the family were related. According to the family tradition, the family described in this article are descended from the New Jersey branch. Two brothers, we are told, settled in New Jersey, but the records of the first generation have not been found.
(I) Jacob Snyder, probably the first settler, married Polly Leigh.
( II) Henry, son of Jacob Snyder, was born in 1790, and died April 3, 1862, aged seventy- one years ten months. He married Rachel Dunlap, who died April 8, 1859, aged seventy years eight days. Children, born at Boylston,
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New York : Ransom, mentioned below ; Han- nah; Jacob; Garret H .; William; Gardner : Amy, now living at Mannsville, New York.
(III) Ransom, son of Henry Snyder, was born at Boylston, New York, February 23. 1829. He was a farmer throughout his active life. In religion he was a Wesleyan Methodist. and in politics a Republican. Ile was a sol- dier in the civil war, enlisting in Company E. One Hundred and Eighty-ninth New York Regiment Volunteer Militia, in 1864, and mus- tered out in June, 1865, after the close of the war.
He married, October 1, 1848, at Boylston. New York, Abigail Calkins, born May 26, 1829, at Boylston, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Sophronia (Shaver) Calkins, grand- daughter of John and Syphronia ( Overhizer ) Shaver. Through the Overhizer ancestry, tra- dition says the family descends from May- Hower stock. Ransom Snyder died January 31, 1875, at Orwell, New York, and his widow married at Orwell, April 21, 1880, Simon Pruyn. She died at Lacona, New York, about thirty years later. Children of Ransom and Abigail ( Calkins ) Snyder : Brainard DeForest, mentioned below: James Gardner, born June 23. 1849; Ivonett, March 30, 1855: Ransom Henry, February 13, 1860; Carroll Daniel, Oc- tober 7. 1873. died February 7, 1875.
(IV) Rev. Brainard DeForest Snyder, son of Ransom Snyder, was born in Boylston, Os- wego county, New York, August 13, 1850. died January 2, 1911, at Mannsville, New York. He attended the public schools, and at the age of eighteen entered Whitestown Semi- nary, in which he paid his own way. He was converted in his fourteenth year under the pas- torate of Rev. John M. Waite, of the Wes- leyan Methodist Church, which he afterward joined, and at sixteen he was superintendent of a Sunday school. At the age of seventeen he determined to enter the ministry of his chosen denomination, and two years later had made such progress in his studies that he was licensed to exhort, and thereupon he began his life work in his native town. Practically his whole life was devoted to the church. He entered the ministry April 5. 1874, in the Syracuse Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, continuing to preach in this conference for a period of seven years in three different par- ishes. In April. 1881, he was received in the Northern New York Conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church upon his credentials
from the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and taken into full communion April 13. 1883. His appointments were Orwell, Gilbert's Mills, Brookfield and Leonardsville, Port Leyden, Remsen, Philadelphia, New York, Heuvelton. Alexandria Bay. Norwood, Pulaski and Min- etto-eleven different charges, during a period of twenty-seven years. Including his ministry in the Wesleyan Church, he served thirty-four years in fourteen parishes, in all of which he was an acceptable preacher, and a capable organizer, demonstrating business ability as well as evangelical zeal, which strengthened the churches of which he had charge. The off- cial organ of the Northern New York Confer- ence of 1911 says of him :
"There was promptness and immediateness in Brother Snyder's methods. His mind was quick to act and grasp the situation. His faith never flagged. Hope strengthened his courage. He was cheerful under all circumstances. His manliness was appar- ent. He always aspired to do his best. His appoint- ments give an idea of the work he did. Temporal affairs as well as spiritual were cared for. Evidences of his handiwork can be found on his charges. * * *
"During his last year at Minetto, 1908, his vocal organs became so impaired that he was compelled to succumb to the inevitable. He retired to his pleasant home in Mannsville, New York, hoping by rest and medical attention to recover and resume work. But a very uncommon disease fastened itself upon him, of which he died, viz: Chronic bulbar paralysis, involving a progressive symmetrical paraly- sis of the lip. adjacent facial muscles, tongue, etc., which terminated in exhaustion hy starvation. Dr. J. C. Severance, his physician, says the remarkable feature of the case was the Christian fortitude shown by Brother Snyder through the weeks, months and years of his sufferings; and adds, 'this comes far short of the truth.'
"Our dear brother closed his busy life in great peace and Christian triumph on Monday evening, January 2, 1911. The funeral services were held at his home Thursday noon, Jannary 5. District Super- intendent Rev. C. E. Miller presided, whose address was full of sympathy. Rev. W. M. Hydon read the Holy Scriptures, and Rev. S. S. Davis offered prayer Rev. Frederick Maunder read appreciative resolu- tions from the Pulaski official board. Minetto was represented by a delegation and floral tokens. Cheerful tributes to a friend and brother were added by Rev. George Dermott and the writer. Rev. C. V. Haven, of Mannsville, spoke of Brother Snyder as a helpful companion and sympathetic friend; and with Mrs. Haven sang. The interment was in the Primitive Cemetery, near Mexico, New York."
In politics Mr. Snyder was a Republican. He married, August 20, 1873. Olive Di Ette Wyman, born at Orwell, New York. August 5, 1856, and died January 22, 1881, at Mallory. New York, daughter of Rastus D. Wyman and
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Mercy Ann ( Smith ) Wyman, granddaughter of Perley Wyman, of Orwell. Children : Fred W., mentioned below : Nila J., born August 6. 1878, at Prattville, New York, died there March 4. 1879: Nila Etta, born December 25, 1880, at Lacona, New York, wife of Fred A. Austin, children, Julia and Helen.
(V) Fred W., son of Rev. Brainard De- Forest Snyder, was born at Taylor, Cortland county, New York, December 13. 1875. He attended the public schools, Fairfield Seminary and Military Academy, and Ives Seminary of Antwerp, New York. At the age of nineteen he began working for the Northern Christian .Advocate, of Syracuse, New York, as book- keeper and stenographer. Three years later he began work with the Fulton Paper Com- pany of Fulton, New York, and held various positions of responsibility and trust with this company, and afterward with the Eureka Paper Company, the Granby Paper Company, and the Victoria Paper Mills Company, all of Ful- ton, New York, and all closely associated in ownership and management. In 1902 he pur- chased a part of the stock of W. S. Royce ( deceased ) in the Victoria Paper Mills Com- pany and became secretary of the corporation. In 1908 he was elected vice-president and treas- urer, and since then has devoted his time ex- clusively to this company.
The Victoria Paper Mills Company was organized March 20, 1880, Forest G. Weeks. Charles S. Eggleston and Edwin R. Redhead being the incorporators and first board of di- rectors. The No. 2 Mill, erected in 1850 by Monroe & Case, was the only mill of the com- pany in the beginning. From time to time the plant was enlarged and new capital was added to the corporation. Mr. Royce died in 1902. In 1893 the company began to manufacture paper bags in a small way, and soon introduced machinery and developed this department into one of great value and importance. In 1908 printing presses were added to the equipment of the bag factory. From 1898 to 1908 the owners of the Victoria Company were finan- cially interested in the development of the Eureka, Fulton and Granby Paper companies at the west end of the lower dam at Fulton. The specialties of the company at present are rope papers, plain and printed flour sacks, sugar bags, nail bags, manilla and No. 2 white tissue papers, the daily output amounting to from fifteen to twenty tons. In 1910 the com-
pany celebrated its thirtieth anniversary of successful business.
Mr. Snyder is a Republican, though he is independent of his party in local politics. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144. Free and Accepted Masons; high priest of Fulton Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons ; deputy master of Fulton Council, Royal and Select Masters; past patron of Elizabeth Chapter, No. 105. Order of the Eastern Star, and is past assistant grand lecturer of the Twenty- fourth District, Order of the Eastern Star, State of New York. He is also a member of Lake Ontario Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar, of Oswego, and of the Masonic Chib. of Fulton, New York.
He married, at Philadelphia, New York, Oc- tober 21, 1897, Frankie Scram, born at Phila- delphia, New York. July 26, 1876, daughter of George Henry and Margaret Emma ( Mosher) Seram. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have no chil- dren.
( III) James Garrett, son of GARRETT John W. Garrett (q. v.), was born in Lysander, New York, November 12, 1839. died June 4, 1908. He was a farmer. In politics he was a Democrat. lle was a member of the Ancient Order of American Workmen, and of the Grange, Pat- rons of Husbandry. He married Elizabeth Blakeman, who died in July, 1909. Children : Ovid J., mentioned below : John O .: Hattie ; Frank B.
(IV) Ovid J., son of James Garrett, was born at Granby, Oswego county, New York, December 8, 1866. He received his education in the public schools, and then worked on a farm until he was twenty-six years of age. For one year afterwards he was engaged in the creamery business at Weedsport, New York, and in 1894 removed to Baldwinsville. Here he continued in the creamery business, forming a partnership with Mr. Fisher, which continued for two years, after which he bought out Mr. Fisher's interest, and in 1896 formed a partner- ship with John E. Snell. The firm name is Garrett & Snell, and their business is large and very successful. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He is a member of Mohegan Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Mod- ern Woodmen of America. He married, 1894. Zoe, daughter of James and Matilda Buttler. Children : Ruth, Mildred, Olive.
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The name Eldredge is spell- ELDREDGE ed variously Eldridge, El- dred, Eldredge, and on old records sometimes Eldrech. The name existed in England before the Conquest by William the Norman. It is of Saxon origin and was borne by several of the Saxon kings before the Conquest. Eldred was king of Chester in 951. At the time of the Conquest the Archbishop of Canterbury was an Eldredge, who cursed the Norman Conqueror. The family had lands in Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Gloucester,
Shropshire and Yorkshire in 1085. John Eld- redge, born in 1552, was of Great Saxham, and was subsequently in Suffolk, where he died in 1632. He was a merchant and exten- sive traveler, and one of the founders of Vir- ginia, a director many years of the Virginia Company. He had four sons and two daugh- ters, and it is presumable that the early New England immigrants (William, Robert, Sam- uel, John and Nathaniel) were connected with his family. Practically all families of that name in this country are descended from one of three immigrants, who settled in Massachu- setts before 1650. Robert Eldred. or Eld- redge, came to New England as a servant to Nicholas Sympkins, and was transferred to Thomas Prence for three years, May 25, 1639, was among the list of those in Plymouth able to bear arms in 1643, settled in Yarmouth ; his wife was Elizabeth Nickerson. Another im- migrant, William Eldredge, was living in Yar- mouth in 1645, with his wife Ann. The other immigrant, Samuel, mentioned below, was, ac- cording to B. C. Goodhue, of the firm of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, architects, 170 Fifth avenue, New York City, the son of Thomas Eldredge. Thomas Eldredge married a daugh- ter of Colonel John or Robert Bolling, of Vir- ginia. Robert Bolling's wife was a daughter of Thomas Rolfe and Potthress (Indian) and granddaughter of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who died at Gravesend, England.
(I) Samuel Eldredge, the immigrant ances- tor of this branch of the family, was a resi- «lent of Medford, Massachusetts, before 1651. In 1652 he deposed before the court that he was thirty-two years old. In 1646 he was a resident of Cambridge, and in 1659 in Rumney Marsh, later Chelsea. He removed to Kings- ton, Rhode Island, in 1668, and was of Wick- ford, over which Connecticut claimed juris- diction. He served as constable there and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Ar-
tillery Company of Boston. October 8, 1674, he was granted by the general court at Hart- ford "the sum of twenty nobles for his good service in doing and suffering for this colony." On December 18, 1675, he was at Richard Smith's garrison house just before the Narra- gansett swamp fight, as related by Captain Ben- jamin Church, who says that they went on a night adventure with him, surprising and cap- turing eighteen Indians. In 1697 he deeded to his son John a house and a hundred acres of land with a right on the other side of Pequot Path. He died about 1697. He married Eliz- abeth Children: Elizabeth, born Oc- tober 26, 1642; Samuel, October 28, 1644; Mary, June 16, 1646; Lieutenant Thomas, Sep- tember 8. 1648: James, died about 1687 ; Dan- jel, mentioned below : John, died 1724.
( II) Daniel, son of Samuel Eldredge, was born in Kingston, Rhode Island, and died Au- gust 13, 1726. In 1702 he was a captain, and 111 1707 removed to Stonington, Connecticut, and April 6 that year, his wife and five chil- dren were baptized there. His will, proved August 14. 1726, names wife Mary, sons James. Thomas and Daniel, and daughters Abigail, Mary, Freelove, Hannah and Sarah. He married Mary - who died abont 1726. Children: Abigail, born August 19. 1688 ; Daniel, mentioned below : Mary, Decem- ber 6. 1601 : Freelove, March 25, 1695, died young : James, December 5, 1696; Thomas, February 2, 1699: Freelove, March 29, 1701 : Hannah. March 20, 1705; Sarah, Jannary 29. 1706; Richard, April 9. 1712.
(HI1) Captain Daniel (2) Eldredge, son of Daniel ( 1) Eldredge, was born March 20, 1690, and died in Groton, Connecticut. He married, June 26, 1711, Abigail Fish, of Gro- ton, born 1690, daughter of Samuel Fish, of New London, and granddaughter of John Fish, of Lynn and Sandwich, Massachusetts. Among their children were: Charles, born November 17, 1720: Christopher, and Hallam. She was admitted to the church in Stonington, Septem- ber 23, 1716. In Wheeler's "Homes of Our Ancestors" ( 1903), page 78, the Eldredge homestead is described : "The Eldredge house, later the Elisha Bennet house, owned by him. is still standing, low and brown, on the old road from the head of Mystic to Wolfe's Neck, set back a little from the gaze of the traveller, cozily sheltered by some old apple trees whose boughs hang shelteringly over this old land- mark with its broad stone doorsteps which
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have been trodden by so many feet in bygone days, for here came Captain Daniel Eldredge, then called Eldred, from Rhode Island, in 1704. as the town records and Joshua Hemp- stead's records show, and here, at the road church, his children were baptized and he un- doubtedly built this house. Some of his chil- dren went back to Kingstown ( Rhode Island ) and James is recorded there."
(IV) Christopher, son of Daniel (2) and Abigail (Fish) Eldredge, was born in 1724. and lived upon the paternal homestead at Wolfe's Neck. He married, in Kingstown, Mary Hempstead, born about 1725, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary ( Hallam) Hempstead. The Hempstead family was founded by Rob- ert and Johannah ( Willie ) Hempstead, who settled about 1645 in New London, where Rob- ert Hempstead died in 1655. His son Joshua. born June 16, 1649, resided in New London, and married Elizabeth Larrabee. Their only child, Joshua (2), born September 1, 1678. was very prominent in the town for fifty years following 1708, and died in 1758. He was the author of the "Hempstead Diary," which gives much information regarding the history of the town and times. He had wife Abi- gail, and they were the parents of Nathaniel Hempstead, born January 6, 1700, in New London. He married Mary Hallam, and they were the parents of Mary Hempstead, wife of Christopher Eldredge. The latter built a large and very fine house for that day, about 1756, in the center of the district known as Wolfe's Neck, two miles north of old Mystic. Chil- dren born there : Christopher, mentioned below : Mary, born 1761 ; Hallam and probably others.
(V) Christopher (2), oldest son of Christo- pher (1) and Mary ( Hempstead ) Eldredge. was born May 20. 1756, at Wolfe's Neck, and died December 2, 1785. He was wounded in the face in the fight at Groton, Connecticut, where his brother was also in service; their sister Mary was first to enter the fort after the fight to minister to the wounded. He was master of his own vessel, and lost his life at sea. He married Sarah, daughter of Elisha Satterlee, born February 1. 1759. in Connecti- cut, and died September 12, 1841. After her husband's death she returned to her father's house and remained until 1800, when she re- moved to the home of her son Christopher, in Binghamton, New York, and there spent the remainder of her life, living forty-six years a widow. They had sons John, Hallam and
Christopher. The first, John, born 1766, mar- ried, in 1789, Susanna Chesboro, born May 18, 1769 ; he was killed at Groton Bank by a fall from a vessel. Hallam, born 1783, in Ston- ington, settled in 1808, at Natchez, Mississippi. where he died in 1814; he married there Eliz- abeth Armstrong, of Natchez; children: I. Mary Ann, married ( first ) David Alexander, of Natchez : ( second ) Samuel R. Montgomery. of the same place; she died at Binghamton,. New York, October 31, 1877. 2. Laura, died 1833. 3. James, died 1815, both in Natchez. (VI) Captain Christopher (3) Eldredge. third son of Christopher (2) and Sarah ( Sat- terlee ) Eldredge, was born June 10, 1785, in Stonington, and settled at Binghamton, New York, in 1804. He had an excellent education and his handwriting was very fine. He was an extensive reader and his mind was broad- ened through his own study and observation. Besides cultivating a farm he was a merchant and dealer in lumber, and for more than fifty years was prominent in the business life of Binghamton. His life was exemplary. In hi- Bible, the Fifteenth Psalm, wherein David de- scribes the citizen of Zion, was found mark- ed at such a period of his life as to suggest that it was to be the rule of his conduct, and the same Psalm was marked in his Prayer Book. and, indeed, ample proof of the practical Chris- tianity of the man was given in his daily life. for "though he promised to his loss, he made his promise good." Although he took a keen interest in public affairs, he was averse to hold- ing public office and never accepted but one. After the Fifth Ward in which he lived was added to the incorporated village of Bingham- ton he was elected president of the village. Many stories are told of his success as a hunter in the fields back of Court House Hill, now in ' the heart of the city, and he was very fond of hunting and fishing. \ vigorons constitution, assisted by wholesome exercise and rational living, allowed him to reach an advanced age. He died in his eighty-first vear, October 14, 1861. To the Protestant Episcopal church, of which he was a communicant, and of which at the time of his death he was a vestryman, he gave his time and money freely. He married Olive, fourth daughter of Joshua (2) and Hannah (Green ) Whitney. of Binghamton (see Whitney ). Children: 1. Hallam, born February 10. 1810, died October 31, 1810. 2. Jane, born November 21. 1811 : married No- vember 21. 1831, James S. Hawley : children :
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Sarah, Christopher E., married May Wright ; Jane, married James Curtis and had James, Jane, Olive and Helen Curtis; Charles, who married Carrie Mersereant. 3. Hallam (2), born August 12, 1813, died August 25, 1813. 4. Sarah, twin of Hallam, died August 28, 1813. 5. Charles, born October 6, 1814, died July 3. 1866; married Pamela Janet Waterman ; chil- dren : Olive, married John Haviland; Jane, married Baron Egmont Von Treskow ; Thomas, married Caroline Frederica Lauren- celle Eldredge ; Pamela Jane, married Joshua M. Fiero; Charles, married Ida Sanford. 6. James, born December 31, 1817 ; married, 1862, Charlotte B. Tompkins Eldredge. 7. Robert, born April 20, 1820, died 1844. 8. Hallam (3), mentioned below. 9. John, born June 16, 1824, died December 21, 1868. 10. Henry. twin of John ; married, 1849, Mary T. Cox. II. Hobart, born December 15, 1825, died Decem- ber 15, 1860; married Charlotte Backus Tomp- kins. 12. William, born December 19, 1827, died January 27. 1865.
(VII) Hallam, son of Christopher (3) Eld- redge, was born December 16, 1821, in Bing- hamton, New York. He attended the public schools of his native town and entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1841 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Taking up law for his profession, he became a student in the office of Judge Bos- worth, of New York City, and in the course of time was admitted to the bar, after which he removed to Natchez, Mississippi, established himself in the practice of law, and became prominent at the bar, and as a Democratic leader in politics. In 1859 he returned to Bing- hamton, and continued to practice there a time, then retired, and died there February 20, 1893. He married. December 19, 1851, Ann Eliza- beth Zane. Children. I. Mary, married (first) James H., son of James H. and Alfreda ( Bos- worth) Withington; (second) Charles E. Hickey, of Binghamton.
WHITNEY The surname Whitney was originally a place name. The parish from which the family takes its name is located in County Hereford, England, upon the extreme Western border, ad- joining Wales, and is traversed by the lovely Wye river. The name of the place doubtless comes from the appearance of the river, mean- ing in Saxon, white water, from hwit, white. and cy, water. The coat of arms of the Whitney
family of Whitney is: Azure, a cross chequy or and gules. Crest : A bull's head couped sable. armed argent, and points gules. The English ancestry of John Whitney, the immigrant who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, has been established by Henry Melville and presented in an exquisitely printed and illustrated vol- ume. Very few American families have their English genealogy in such well authenticated and satisfactory form. An abstract of the English ancestry is given below.
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