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become general in the United States for many reasons, but particularly because it was right. Children : Charles Tillotson, born June 25,. 1854; Gage Eli, mentioned below; Frank Parker, September 11, 1859, died March 11, 1880; Bessie Mabell, March 3, 1862 ; all born at Smithville Flats.
(VIII) Gage Eli, son of Charles Parker and Mabell M. ( Tillotson) Tarbell, was born Sep- tember 20, 1856, at Smithville Flats. He was educated at Clinton Liberal Institute, where he graduated in 1876. He taught school one year. and then commenced the study of law at Greene, New York. Was admitted to the bar at the general term of the supreme court in Ithaca, New York, in 1880, and soon there- after located at Marathon, Cortland county, New York, and practiced in state and United States courts until 1884, when he removed to Binghamton, New York, to become general agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society for the southern tier of counties. In 1886 he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as state agent for the same company, and from there was. transferred to Chicago, January 1, 1889, to be- come a partner in the management of the Equitable for the northwestern department, embracing nine states. The growth of the business under his management was so great that two years later he was appointed resident secretary of the company, his headquarters re- maining at Chicago, and in 1893 was elected third vice-president of the Equitable Life As- surance Society and removed to New York, where he had charge of the agencies through- out the United States and Canada. In 1899 he was elected second vice-president, a position which he held until he resigned in 1907. The growth of the Equitable's business under his management was phenomenal and attracted world-wide attention. He still remains a di- rector of the society. Since 1907 he has been operating in real estate. He has also been connected with other large financial institu- tions, including the Mercantile Trust Company and the Equitable Trust Company, of New York.
Some years before the death of his parents, with a view to making their remaining years as comfortable and interesting as possible, Mr. Tarbell purchased the old homestead at Smith- ville Flats and several adjoining farms and in- stituted a vigorous and progressive system of improvement thereon. This included the con- struction of new model, up-to-date buildings,
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the installation of underground drainage, a large modern poultry plant, the systematic ro- tation of crops, the building of macadam yards and macadam roads, a modern creamery, an extensive boarding-house with all conveniences for the help. etc. The farm has been stocked with pure bred Guernseys, Dorset and Shropshire sheep. Angora goats, Cheshire hogs, and various kinds of poultry. It now consists of some two thousand acres and is regarded as one of the show places of Chenango county. In fact, good judges have pronounced the farm build- ings among the most complete, modern and sanitary in the United States.
Mr. Tarbell married, December 21, 1881, Ella, daughter of George L. and Louisa Swift, of Marathon, New York. Children: Swift, born November 30, 1882; Louise, February 18, 1886.
Also written Clarke, Clerk, CLARK Clerke and Clearke, is a name of great antiquity in England. Orig- inally any person who could read and write was given the name, and it came to be the sur- name of learned persons generally, but partic- ularly of officers of ecclesiastical courts and parish churches who were entrusted with re- cording and preserving the records. In medie- val days the name was one to be respected, hence it is of frequent use in Domesday Book, either written in one of the various spellings given above or Clericus, "clerk or clergyman," "one of the clerical order." In the early settle- ment of New England by the English Puri- tans, 1625 to 1640, we find men of the name who became founders of large and distin- guished families, not only in the New Eng- land Colonies, but in Virginia, Maryland and New York, the name in the southern section of the United States generally adopting the spelling with a final "e." The most numerous of the Christian names appears to have been William, with John, Thomas and Samuel in abundant evidence. Irish emigrants
to America have added to the name either from Scotch-Irish or from the families of O'Clery or O'Clersach, not only common but distin- guished names in the Emerald Isle and literally indicating "the son of the clerk."
(I) Samuel Clark appeared in Wethersfield in 1636, "one of the company of restless and dissatisfied men" numbering twenty who for- sook the colony and bound themselves, May
16, 1640, to establish for themselves a home at Rippowamus, now Stamford, Connecticut. Samuel Clark was born about 1619 in Devon- shire, England, and his name appears on each of the first three lists made of settlers in Wethersfield. They purchased the land at Stamford from the Indians, for thirty pounds, in July, 1640. The first assignments of land were made October 19, 1641, and Samuel Clark was allotted seven acres. He appears among the lists of that town to the end of 1642 and is supposed to have lived in Milford, Connecticut, in 1669. Thence he moved to Hempstead, Long Island, was in New Haven in 1685, and died about 1690. He married Hannah, daughter of Rev. Robert Fordhan, and seems to have had a large family of chil- dren. Nothing is definitely known of these except sons, Samuel and William.
(II) William, son of Samuel and Hannah ( Fordham) Clark, was born in 1645 in Stam- ford, died in Bedford, New York, 1712, aged about sixty-seven years. He was one of the original proprietors of part of the township of Bedford, Westchester county, New York, hav- ing been associated with fifteen others in the purchase from the Indians of the land where Bedford now stands, on the twenty-third of December, 1680. In 1690 thirty-one inhabi- tants were in the township, two of whom bore the name of William Clark, probably being father and son. On the last deed given by the Indians is the name of Nathan Clark, the son of William, as witness ; this was July 24, 1703. Bedford was often called "the hop lands." There were many conveyances of land to Wil- liam Clark Sr., but there is no mention of his wife. although it is certain he had three sons, William, Nathan and Joseph.
(III) Nathan, second son of William Clark, was born about 1666, and was one of the twenty-nine landholders of Bedford to whom Queen Anne confirmed twenty-three thousand acres of land, April 8, 1704. He is named among the freeholders of Bedford in 1714. June 22, 1700, "the town by maiger vote doth mack choice of Richard Holmes and Nathan Clarck for survairs, for this year ensewing." At the time of making his will, April 29, 1726, he was too feeble to sign his name and must have been near death. He married (first) about 1700, - Clemence, who died about 1709. He married (second) about 1710, Children of first wife: Stephen, Na- than, Silvanus, Sarah, Elizabeth and Martha,
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twins, died young. Children of second wife: Jehicl, Joseph, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Deborah, Abigail, Esther, Comfort.
(IV) Joseph, son of Nathan Clark and his second wife, was born in March, 1713, in the town of Bedford, New York, where he died of paralysis, April 18, 1791. After his marriage he settled at Copp's Bottom, about one mile west of the village of Bedford, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days. He married, in 1735. Sarah, daughter of Jacob Smith; she died in April, 1796, having sur- vived him about five years. They were brought up together as neighbors. Children: Ezra, James, Abigail, Anna, Joseph, Nathan.
(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and Sarah (Smith) Clark, was born in 1753, in Bedford, died there in 1821, aged sixty-eight years. He married Hannah Clock, of Stam- ford, Connecticut, born 1760, died in 1825, aged sixty-five years. Her name is on the records of the Presbyterian church of Bedford in 1786. They had thirteen children, ten of whom reared families, among whom were: Bertha, Ezra, John, died young : Clara, Phoebe, Lewis, Hannah, John, Joseph, Anna, Ira.
(VI) Ezra, son of Joseph (2) and Hannah ( Clock) Clark, was born September 15, 1779, baptized 1786, in Bedford, died May 24, 1858, at Sidney, Delaware county, New York. He settled in Sidney in 1810, being one of the earliest to locate in that town, where he cleared up land and engaged in agriculture. Ile mar- ried (first). in May, 1799, Polly Banks, born January 23, 1779, died May 5, 1806, in Bain- bridge, New York. He married ( second), April 26, 1807, Marv Foote, born September 24, 1776, died May 8, 1858, in Sidney. There were four children of the first marriage and siv of the second, namely: Samuel, Sally, Hiram, Mary, Elizabeth R., Joseph Footc, Susan. Harriet, Henry A., Catharine J.
(VII) Joseph Foote, son of Ezra and Mary ( Foote) Clark, was born July 1, 1810, in Bain- bridge. died June 25. 1877, in Binghamton, New York. He resided many years at Smeth- port, Pennsylvania, was subsequently in Brad- ford and Shippen, same state, and passed his last years at Binghamton, New York. Hc married, September 26, 1833, Laura Louisa Phelps, born August 29, 1809, daughter of Roger (2) and Anna ( Jones) Phelps. of Hebron. Connecticut (sce Phelps IX). Chil- dren: Theodore Mortier, Junius Randolph,
Charles Ludolf, Edward Kissam, Ellen Clar- issa and Mary Elizabeth, all born at Smethport except Mary, who was born at Shippen.
(VIII) Edward Kissam, son of Joseph Foote and Laura Louisa ( Phelps) Clark, was born January 1, 1841, at Smethport, Pennsyl- vania. He was admitted to the bar, 1862, and settled at Binghamton, New York. He mar- ried, June 12, 1867, Martha Jane Seymour, of Vestal, Broome county, New York, born May 28, 1846, daughter of Charles and Han- nah (Halsey) Seymour, of that town. Chil- dren: Roger Phelps, born March 14, 1859; Laura Louisa, January 8, 1872; Charles Sey- mour, June 13, 1873, died in his third year; Anna Whitman, August 30, 1875; Joseph Foote, July 1, 1878; Edward Kissam, July 14, 1880: Vernon Seymour, November 17, 1882 ; Florence Evangeline, May 27, 1885, died in her sixth year ; Mary Elizabeth, July 10, 1887 ; Lewis Seymour, March 29, 1890.
(The Phelps Line).
The Phelps family dates from Lombardy, northern Italy, where the ancestors were called Wolf. In the eleventh century they migrated to Germany and changed the name to Guelph. In the sixteenth century they crossed to Scot- land and the name became Phelps. The Royal House of Hanover, to which Queen Victoria belonged, was of the Wolf lineage, and her father has been distinctly traced back to the city of Padua. The English seat of the family was in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and be- neath the old Abbey Church there remain the lettered tombstones of the ancestors. The name has been variously spelled Philps, Phe- lipps, Phelpes, Philipp, Philippes, Philipps, Phellips, Phillippes, Phillipp, Phellips, Phyl- ippes, Phelyp, Phelpse and Felpes. The word Phelps has its root Pilos, Greek for friend. The escutcheon of the American branch was "per pale, or and argent a wolf salient azure with anorle of eight crosses-crosslet and fitchie and gule, crest a wolf's head crased, azure collard or, the collard charged with a martlet sable." Interpreted this is supposed to mean : The parting per pale indicates that a fortifica- tion had been placed by ancestor in face of an enemy. The wolf signifies courage and endur- ance, the crosses-crosslets fitchie being em- blems of the second crusade, shows that it was in that campaign the arms were earned. The martlet on the crest is the martin or swallow
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of Palestine, and infers that the ancestor has been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in ad- dition to having been in the second crusade.
(I) James Phelps was born about 1520. The name of his wife was Joan. According to the prerogative court of Canterbury, admin- istration was granted on his estate, May 10, 1588. His children, baptized in the Tewkes- bury Abbey church, were: William, Thomas, George, Alice, Edward, Keneline, Richard, Robert.
(II) William, eldest son of James and Joan Phelps, was born August 4, 1550. His wife was Dorothy ( surname unknown). Adminis- tration was granted on his estate, September 28, 1611, and his wife died in 1613. Children : Mary, Mary, Thomas, who was the progen- itor of the Irish Phelps; Dorothy, William, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, George.
(III) William (2), second son of Wil- liam (1) and Dorothy Phelps, was born August 19, 1599, and emigrated to the new world, sailing from Plymouth, England, March 30, 1630, in the ship "Mary and John," Captain Squeb, with one hundred and forty passen- gers, landing at Hull, Massachusetts, May 30, 1630. With him was his wife and six children. The original intention of the party was to land on the bank of the Charles river, but a misun- derstanding arose between the captain and his passengers and they were unceremoniously put ashore at Hull, where they had to shift for themselves. The cruel captain, however, had to settle in damages for the uncivil act. William Phelps was made a freeman, October 19, 1630, served on the first jury impanelled in New England, September 27, was made constable, was one of the committee to estab- lish the boundary line between Boston and Roxbury, was on a committee to see about the enlargement of Boston, and in 1635 was mem- ber of the general court. That year he went with Rev. Mr. Warham and his parishioners to settle Windsor, Connecticut, which was first called New Dorchester. He was one of seven appointed by the Massachusetts company, for it was then supposed it belonged to the Massa- chusetts government, to govern the colony. It was later learned that the colony was out of the Massachusetts jurisdiction, and the several colonies in Connecticut met at Hartford and adopted a constitution. In the work of draft- ing this document William Phelps had a part. The principles enunciated in that constitution form the body of the organic law of Connecti-
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cut today. These simple pioneers in the wil- derness builded better than they knew. He held the office of magistrate fourteen years, and was one of the committee to treat with the Phenicke Indians. His residence in Windsor was on the road running northerly and later continued to Poquonock and a short distance north of the mill in the mill-river valley. He was drowned out in the great flood of 1639, after which he moved to the highlands. Marks of the cellars of the old house may still be seen. The first wife of Mr. Phelps died in 1635, before he left Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married (second), in 1638, Mary Dover, who was a passenger on the same ship with him.
(IV) Timothy, youngest son of William (2) Phelps, was born September 1, 1639. He was his father's successor on the homestead in Windsor, purchased from the Indians. He was made a freeman, May 2, 1664, and in May, 1690, was chosen lieutenant in the "Trained Band," and promoted to captain six years later. In 1695 he went to the "Great Falls" in Massachusetts, against the Indians, having then the rank of sergeant in the colonial troops. The general court commissioned him lieuten- ant in 1707, under Colonel William Whiting, in Captain Matthew Allyn's company, in Queen Anne's war. He died in 1719. He married, March 19, 1661, Mary, daughter of Edward Griswold, of Killingworth, Connecticut. She was born in Windsor, baptized October 13, 1644, died some years before her husband. Their children were: Timothy, born Novem- ber 1, 1663; Joseph, mentioned below; Will- iam, February 4, 1669: Cornelius, April 26, 1671 ; Mary, August 14, 1673 : Samuel, Janu- ary 29, 1675; Nathaniel, January 7, 1677; Sarah, December 27, 1679; Abigail, June 3, 1682: Hannah, August 2. 1684 ; Anne, October 2, 1686; Martha, November 12, 1688.
(V) Joseph, second son of Timothy and Mary (Griswold) Phelps, was born Septem- ber 27, 1666, in Windsor, died August 30, 1716, nearly fifty years old. He owned a large amount of land in Hebron, Connecticut, and probably removed there late in life, about 1710, some of his children at that time being located there. His will was made two weeks previous to his death and was probated in Hartford. His widow was appointed an exec- utrix and ten children were mentioned. The inventory of the estate made in October, 1716, gives the ages of most of the children: Ed- ward. eighteen ; John, sixteen ; Mary, thirteen :
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Abel; Ichabod, nine. Samuel and William Phelps were appointed guardians, while the mother was appointed guardian for Jonathan and Abigail. Joseph Phelps married, Novem- ber 18, 1686, Sarah, daughter of John and Phillury (Thrall) Hosford. She was born on the same day as her husband in Windsor. Her father, John Hosford, was a man of con- siderable property and had a large family. At his death he left to Mrs. Phelps one hundred pounds. She died probably in Hebron. Chil- dren: Sarah, Mary, Joseph; Abigail, died young ; Edward, Reneni, John, Abel, Daniel, Ichabod, Jonathan, Abigail.
(VI) John, fourth son of Joseph and Saralı (Hosford) Phelps, was born September 20, 1703, in Windsor, and settled in Hebron, where he died February 10, 1796. He married (first ) February 11 or 14, 1725, Anna, daughter of Obadiah and Mindwell (Phelps) Hosford, born February 23, 1705, in Windsor, died in Hebron, 1740. Her mother was of the sixth generation in descent from George Phelps. He married (second) in 1742, Mindwell Hos- ford, sister of his first wife. There were six children of the first marriage and four of the second, namely: Aaron, died young : Anna ; John; Sarah, died young; Amos: Roger ; Aaron ; Mindwell; Sarah ; Nathan.
(VII) Captain Roger Phelps, fourth son of John and Anna (Hosford) Phelps, was born December 24, 1738, and baptized January 4, following, in Hebron, where he settled and was a farmer. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving eighteen days as lieutenant on the Lexington alarm and afterward enlisted again in Hebron, February 22, 1809, in his seventieth year. He married, April 24, 1760, Abigail Filer, born April 10, 1733, in Hebron, where she died January 22, 1825, in her ninety-sec- ond year. Children: Mary: Roger : Abigail, died young ; Susannah ; David ; Abigail ; Anna.
(VIII) Roger (2), eldest son of Roger (I) and Abigail ( Filer ) Phelps, was born Octo- ber 7, 1762, in Hebron, died there September 8. 1846. He was a prominent citizen of his town, serving many years as selectman and several times as representative in the state legislature, and was delegate to the convention for revising the state constitution. He mar- ried, February 1, 1787, Anna, born March 20, 1765, in Saybrook, died February 2, 1821, in Hebron, daughter of Ezekiel Jones. Children : Anna, Betsey, Maria, Henry Jones, Rachel, Clarissa. Roger L., Laura and Louisa (trip-
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lets, the last named two died young ) and Laura Louisa.
(IX) Laura Louisa, youngest child of Roger (2) and Anna (Jones) Phelps, was born Au- gust 29, 1809, in Hebron, died April 28, 1882, in Binghamton, New York. She married, Sep- tember 26, 1833, Joseph Foote Clark, whom she survived nearly five years ( see Clark VII).
Maurice Lane, the first of the fam- LANE ily in this country, was born in Ire- land. During the great emigration from Ireland to America, in the middle of the nineteenth century, he came with his family, being then well advanced in years. He died in this country. Children: Thomas, mention- ed below : Catherine ; Mary ; Nora : Ellen, and Johanna.
(II) Thomas Lane, son of Maurice Lane, was born in county Clare, Ireland, in 1824; died in Lafayette, New York, in February, 1889. He came to this country with the fam- ily in 1848, and with the exception of ten years, which he spent in Cayuga county, New York, he lived the rest of his life at Lafayette, New York, and was engaged in farming. He mar- ried Mary Horan, born in Ireland, about 1837, (lied July 5, 1887, daughter of John Horan. Children: 1. John. 2. Maurice. 3. Michael V., mentioned below. 4. Ellen, married James Conan, of Lafayette. 5. Anna, married John Shea, and lives in Cortland, New York. 6. Mary Agnes, died young. 7. Thomas B., re- sides at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
(III) Michael V., son of Thomas Lane, was born in the town of Newhope, Cayuga county, New York, December 9, 1866, and was edu- cated there in the public schools. From the age of eighteen to twenty-two he followed farming. In 1888 he came to Cortland and was in the employ of the Cortland Wagon Company from that time until 1895. He then began to learn the trade of plumbing in the employ of T. T. Bates, and after working as a journeyman for a number of years, in 1904 embarked in business on his own account, in partnership with Mr. Cronan, under the firm name of Cronan & Lane. The firm carried on a plumbing and heating business in Cortland. Afterward he did business under the firm name of the Lane Plumbing and Heating Company for two years. In 1908 the business was in- corporated under this name and Mr. Lane is now secretary, treasurer and general manager of the corporation. The company does a gen-
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eral plumbing, heating, gas fitting and tinning business, and carries a full line of pumps, pipes and fittings, sheet-iron, tin conductors and eave-troughs. In the showrooms are speci- mens of the latest styles in porcelain and other bath tubs, sinks, urinals, and also the most efficient apparatus for heating. A specialty is made of the Spencer steam and water heat- ers. The plant is at 9 East Court street. The company was the first in the city to use an automobile delivery wagon in its business. It has been well said that there is not a more thorough and practical man than Mr. Lane in this line of business. He is not only well versed in every branch of the science and trade of plumbing, heating and ventilation, but his personality attracts business, and his efficient and honorable methods of carrying out con- tracts of all kinds, large and small, serve to retain customers once secured.
Mr. Lane is a member of the board of police commissioners of the city of Cortland, and vice-president of the Emerald Hose Company. He is a member of the Catholic Men's Benev- olent Association, the Knights of Columbus, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, in 1900, Agnes J. Keenan, of Summer Hill, New York. Children, born at Cortland: Mary Agnes, born in 1902; Theresa Frances, born 1904; Elmer Michael, born 1907.
CARVER It is said the surname Carver is derived from the occupation of wood carving, and some of the work in the cathedrals of East Anglia is at- tributed to the progenitors of this Carver fam- ily. The names Adam Le Carver or Karver, and Richard le Kerver, are in the Hundred Rolls, and various Carver families in later centuries are found in England. John Carver, first governor of Plymouth colony, New Eng- land, was son of James Carver, of Lincoln- shire, England. A nephew of John Carver, Robert, son of Isaac Carver, was born in Bos- ton, Lincolnshire, England, in 1594, and set- tled early at Marshfield, Plymouth colony. Richard Carver, the third of the family coming with the pioneers of New England, was sixty years old when he sailed April 11, 1637. Rob- ert was the only one having male descendants in this country. It appears likely that the fam- ily of this sketch is of the same English stock. · (I) Richard Carver was born at Draycott,
England. He married and among his chil- dren was Richard, mentioned below.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Car- ver, was born in Draycott, England. He was educated in his native place and learned the trade of mason there. He came to this coun- try, in 1867, and settled at Skaneateles, New York, where he followed his trade for many years. In religion he is a Methodist. He married Mary Williams, born in England, daughter of Robert Williams. She died in 1891. Children : Lillie, deceased; William J .; Egbert J. ; George R. ; Ivah M. ; Harry E.
(III) Egbert J., son of Richard (2) Car- ver, was born at Skaneateles, New York, July 20, 1873. He was educated there in the public schools. He learned the trade of mason, and since 1900 has made his home in Fulton, New York. He had charge of the mason work on the Battle Island mill; then took the contract for building the mason work on the Fulton public library building. He also was the mason contractor of the hospital buildings at Fulton, and of the new savings bank building. He has been very successful in business, and be- sides the public buildings mentioned has had many important contracts for residences and other structures in Fulton and vicinity. He is one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church of Fulton. In politics he is a Pro- hibitionist, and in 1905 was the candidate of his party for the office of mayor of Fulton. He married, September 9, 1903, Lena, daugh- ter of Sanford Wells, of Fulton. Children : Mary L., born September 6, 1905 ; Richard W., July 20, 1907.
Noah P. Newell, descendant of
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