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(VI) Frank Ellsworth, son of Isaac (2) Holmes, was born October 22, 1863. He re- ceived his early education in the New Berlin Academy, and at the age of sixteen began the study of music. In 1881 he went to Port Henry, New York, where he was engaged in band and orchestra work and in furnishing music at summer resorts in the Adirondacks for four seasons. He was also employed as clerk in the postoffice. In 1883 he went to Boston to complete his musical education at the New England Conservatory of Music, and while there played in a noted orchestra under the leadership of E. N. Catlin. In 1884 he conducted a band and orchestra in partnership with T. B. Brooks, who was afterward leader of the famous Chicago Marine Band. In 1885 Mr. Holmes moved to Port Henry and became superintendent of the Telephone Company; in 1887 he returned to New Berlin and became a partner of S. L. Morgan, under the firm name of Morgan & Holmes, in the fire insur- ance business. Mr. Morgan died in 1890, and the business was continned by Mr. Holmes until July, 1896, when he sold the agency and organized the Preferred Fire Insurance Com- pany, of which he has since been secretary and manager. I. L. Richer is president, and A. D. Sprague, treasurer of the company. The insurance company does a large business throughout the state, having in force insurance to the amount of $9,000,000. Mr. Holmes was postmaster of New Berlin from 1898 to 1910. In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem- ber of Phoebus Lodge, No. 82, Free and Ac- cepted Masons: of Hillington Chapter, No. 224. Royal Arch Masons: of Norwich Com- mandery, No. 47. Knights Templar ; of Zi- yara Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Utica, and of the Odd Fellows. He married, August 13. 1889, Cora A., daughter of Frederick and Nancy ( Wilkinson) Jones. They have no children.
PEARSALL
Henry Pearsall, the immi- grant ancestor, was one of the early settlers of Hemp-
stead. Long Island. He died in 1667. He mar- ried Ann . Children: Nathaniel, men- tioned below: Daniel. George, Thomas. He had sons-in-law, Timothy Halstead and John and Joseph, sons of Michael Williams.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Henry Pearsall, was a farmer and blacksmith. One of the first mentions of him in the records is August 28.
1675, when, as clerk, he reported the total val- uation of the tax list for Hempstead. In Oc- tober, 1676, with others, he attended "an in- dignation meeting" in Hempstead to resist the supposed intrusion on Cowneck of John Corn- well, who, being authorized by Governor An- dros, was making a settlement on the west shore of Cowneck, a little south of what is now Sand Point; the inhabitants of Hemp- stead did not know that the governor had granted the land to John Cornwell. Nathaniel Pearsall, with Adam Mott and others, began to pull down the house being built, and were fined for the action. Not long after, Nathaniel became a member of the Society of Friends, for in 1689-90, in the disputed administration of Leisler, when writs were issued by the governor calling a provincial assembly, the third provincial assembly under the English administration of the province, to meet in New York, April, 1690, he was elected as a repre- sentative from Queens county ; but when he attended the assembly he refused to be sworn in, faithful to the Friends' testimony against oaths, and was not allowed to take his seat. In March, 1691, new writs were issued for a new assembly, and he was again chosen, with John Browne, another Friend, as his colleague, and again he refused to be sworn in and was not admitted. llis will was dated October 20, 1703. He married, about 1674. Martha, daughter of Captain John Seaman; she died September 6, 1712, and he died October 6, 1703. Children: Nathaniel, born January 27, 1676, died January 30, 1679; Thomas, men- tioned below: Martha. born December 10. 1681 ; Hannah, March 22, 1684, died June 20, 1689: Sarah, July 1, 1686: Elizabeth, Octo- ber 28, 1688: Hannah, February 14, 1690; Phebe, December 20, 1693, died March 14, 1703: Samuel, February 18, 1695; Nathaniel, September 11. 1699: Mary, April 30. 1703.
(III) Thomas, son of Nathaniel Pearsall, was born June 18, 1679. He lived at Hemp- stead Harbor, where he was a prosperous and diligent man, one of the Friends, as was his father. His will, made a few months before his death, was dated August 9, 1759. He, as well as his father, owned negro slaves, and be- queathed them in their wills to their wives. To his son Thomas he left the estate at Hemp- stead Harbor. He married, November 25, 1708, Sarah Underhill, who was eight years younger than he. He was nearly thirty years of age when he married, and eighty-one when
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he died. Sarah was daughter of John Under- hill, of Killingworth, and his wife, Mary Prior. Children : Son, born and died August 29, 1709; Thomas, mentioned below; Nathaniel, born September 2, 1712; Sarah, January 6, 1714; Phebe, March 7, 1717 ; Martha, July 9, 1719; Hannah, December 17, 1721 ; Samuel, Novem- ber 16, 1724; Mary, July 24, 1727.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Pearsall, was born August 18, 1710. Children : Israel, born November 27, 1733; Thomas, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, February 22, 1737 ; Mary, March 29, 1742 : Martha, Novem- ber 23, 1743.
(V) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Pearsall, was born August 20, 1735. He re- moved to Afton about 1787. He and his sons Henry, Samuel and Mott, were early settlers of Bainbridge, Chenango county. Henry Pear- sall married Ann Simmons, or Seamons; chil- dren : Amos, married Clarissa Nichols ; Aaron, married Alice Searles; Smith, married Polly Searles, and had William and Hiram ; Samuel, married Sally Thompson; Abigail, married Ansel Phinney: Henry, married Samantha Norton.
Thomas Pearsall settled in the south part of lot 71, on the place occupied later by the widow of his son Robert, and died there. Samuel lived on the north line of Bainbridge, where his grandson James afterward lived, and had children, Samuel and Amos. Samuel's farm adjoined Henry's. Mott, another brother, lived on the west side of Thomas Pearsall's farm.
(VI) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) Pearsall, was born about 1765 on Long Island, and came with the family to Bainbridge and acquired 200 acres of land there. He married (first ) - Sutton ; (second) By his first wife he had children : William Sutton, Thomas, Joseph, Gilbert, Nathaniel, Robert, Sally, married William Bush; Amy, married Asa Warner; Phebe, married Albert Neally. By his second wife he had one child. David.
(VII) William Sutton, son of Thomas (4) Pearsall, was born in Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York, in 1796, and died in Apa- lachin, New York, April, 1870. He was edit- cated in the public schools in his native town, and when a young man followed farming there. Abont 1833 he and his brothers, Thomas, Gilbert, Nathaniel and Robert, came to Apalachin from Chenango county. AVil-
liam purchased two hundred acres of land there and built a saw mill in 1836. He en- gaged in lumber business on a large scale, ex- tending his operations eventually into Hooper's Valley and on Rea Island, and for a time be and his brothers virtually controlled the lum- ber business of this section. In partnership with his brother Gilbert he built grist mills at Apalachin and Hooper's Valley in 1840, at a cost of about $6,000 each. The local mill was 50 by 60 feet, had four sets of millstones and was the largest in this vicinity. Mr. Pearsall was prominent in the settlement and develop- ment of the town. When he came to the place it was hardly more than a camp. He was influential and interested always in pub- lic affairs, but refused public offices and trusts. In religion he was a Universalist. He mar- ried Eliza Balcolm, daughter of Samuel and Polly (Knapp) Balcolm, and sister of Judge Ransom Balcolm, justice of the supreme court two terms, died in Binghamton, New York. She was a native of Oxford, New York. Chil- dren: I. George Thomas. 2. Jane E. 3. Martha. 4. Cornelia. 5. Ransom S., of whom further. 6. Uri, died in infancy. 7. Uri B., served in the civil war in the Thirty-eighth Wisconsin Regiment, enlisting as a private ; commissioned lieutenant, and was on staff of General W. T. Sherman ; commanded a regi- ment with rank of lieutenant colonel ; was in engineering corps in the Red River expedition ; promoted to brigadier-general by brevet ; set- tled in Fort Scott, Kansas, and was elected county treasurer ; appointed quartermaster at Fort Leavenworth National Soldiers' Home (where he died), an office in which his son Charles succeeded him. 8. Mary E., living at Leavenworth, Kansas. 9. Charles W.
(VIJI) Ransom Sutton, son of William Sutton Pearsall, was born in Apalachin, New York, January 23, 1838. He attended the public schools of his native town and the acad- emies at Owego, Oxford and Binghamton, New York. He engaged in business when he was eighteen years old in partnership with his father, and in 1863 he and his brother George bought the business of their father. After continuing it two years they sold it and en- gaged in lumbering. In the same year the floods caused him to lose heavily, and he went out of the lumber business. He has continued in diversified business ever since, and also conducted a farm. He has taken a keen inter- est in town affairs. In 1884 he was elected
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justice of the peace, and was re-elected in 1888, serving eight years on the town board, and proving himself a just and capable mag- istrate. He was postmaster of Apalachin dur- ing the second administration of President Cleveland. He is one of the overseers of the poor of the town of Owego. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a Presbyterian. He is a member of Els-Kwa-Ta-Wa Tribe, Im- proved Order of Red Men, No. 261, of \pa- lachin.
He married, February 22, 1865, Adaline V. Billings, born January 1, 1846, in Apalachin, daughter of Clinton and Ann (Goodsell ) Bil- lings. Children: 1. Grace L., born December 20, 1865; clerk in the insurance department, Albany, New York. 2. William Clinton, born January 22, 1869; inspector of immigration, New York City. 3. Anna L., born June 27, 1871 ; married Edgar S. Lane, of Endicott, New York ; child, Mildred P., born January 1, 1902. 4. Emily Gertrude, born July 15. 1879; stenographer in the excise department, Albany, New York.
Abial Baker was born in Penn-
BAKER sylvania. He came to Rhode Island about the time of the be- ginning of the revolution. His name does not appear in the provincial census of 1774 in Rhode Island, but he was a soldier in the rev- olution from Providence, in Rhode Island, a private in Captain Dexter's company, Colonel Lippett's regiment, in September, 1776. In 1790 he was living in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and according to the first federal cen- sus taken in that year he had four sons under sixteen and three females in his family. He married Louise Swan, born 1751, died 1847, aged ninety-six years, daughter of Duty Swan, of Attleborough, Massachusetts. Children : Abial, Esek, Hiram, Lemuel, mentionel below ; William, Arnold, Polly, married Silas Whip- ple : Elizabeth, and a daughter who married Philemon Fuller.
(Il) Lemuel, son of Abial Baker, was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island. During the war of 1812 he served on a privateer under the command of James De Wolf. He was drowned at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1844, and buried in that city. He married Rebecca Brownell, of an old Rhode Island family, born 1798, died in Owego, New York, May 17, 1872, and buried in Owego, New York. Chil- dren born in Rhode Island : 1. Hiram A., born :8-C
December 11, 1817, died in Owego, New York. 2. Harriet M., born October 27, 1819, died at Syracuse, New York; married Justice B. Pease. 3. William, born November 27, 1821, died in Owego, April 9, 1879. 4. John D., mentioned below. 5. Charles AV., born August 22, 1826, died in DeKalk, Illinois. 6. Albert A., born April 23, 1829, died July 21, 1901, in Huntsville, Alabama. 7. George, born July 28, 1831, died in Sterling, Illinois. 8. Emeline E., born September 30, 1833; mar- ried Amos Ross, died in Muskogee, Oklahoma, January, 1912. 9. James Russell, mentioned below. 10. Mary, April 6, 183-, died in Owego, New York.
(III) John D., son of Lemuel Baker, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, May 31. 1824, died in Springfield, Long Island, Jan- uary 2, 1876, buried in Owego. He came to Owego at an early day, and lived there dur- ing the remainder of his life except the last two years, spent in Springfield, Long Island. By trade he was a carpenter, and for many years he was in business as a contractor and builder in Owego. He married Julia A. For- syth, born in Owego, New York, May 26. 1828, died October 11, 1897, daughter of Elisha and Wealthy (Lawrence) Forsyth.
(IV) Francis Marion, only son of John D. and Julia .A. ( Forsyth) Baker, was born at Owego, New York, March 26, 1846. He at- tended the public schools of his native place and AAmes' Business University, Syracuse, New York. For a time he worked at the car- penter's trade in the employ of his father, but the business was distasteful to him and he turned to more congenial pursuits. In Feb- ruary, 1864, he entered the employ of the Eric railroad as clerk in the freight office under John C. Worthington. He was promoted to the rank of chief clerk in this office, and Sep- tember 1, 1872, was appointed station agent of the Southern Central railroad at Owego, New York. He resigned this position Novem- ber 1, 1882, to become general superintendent of the Addison & Northern Pennsylvania railroad, and continued to discharge the chuities of this office with ability and efficiency until he resigned to accept the appointment of rail- road commissioner of the state of New York. made by Governor Levi P. Morton, December 17, 1896, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Michael Rickard. He was reappointed by Governor Frank S. Black. In 1895, by ap- pointment of Governor Morton, he was a
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member of the commission representing the state of New York at the Cotton States Ex- position at Atlanta, Georgia, and was elected treasurer of the commission. While superin- tendent of the Addison & Northern Pennsyl- vania railroad, he was also from 1887 to 1891 in charge of the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba rail- road, as agent for the receiver. In the winter of 1894-95 he superintended the construction of the Darien & Western railroad, of which he was general manager. From 1886 to 1896 he was general superintendent of the Gaines Coal Company, and during those years he was also freight and passenger agent of the Addi- son & Northern Pennsylvania road. In 1895 he established his son, George H. Baker, in the hardware business in Owego, in partner- ship with George S. Chatfield. Mr. Chatfield died the following year, and since then the father and son have continued the business under the firm name of Frank M. Baker & Son.
In politics Mr. Baker is a steadfast Repub- lican, and he has always been greatly interested in public affairs. He was a member of the council of the incorporated village of Owego in 1873-74-76-79-80, and president in 1877. In 1881 he was elected school commissioner of Owego, and served three years. In 1909-10 he was again president of the village of Owego. Ile has for many years been promi- nent in the fire department of Owego. For three years he was president of the board of trustees of the Owego fire department, and in 1881 was chief engineer. He was instrumental in organizing the State Firemen's Association, of which he was secretary from 1874 to 1884. and president in 1884-85. In 1893 he was the leading spirit in organizing the Central New York Volunteer Firemen's Association, of which he was president from the first. He is treasurer of the Firemen's Home at Hudson, New York. In addition to his other numer- ous official and business interests he is treas- urer of the Glenn Mary Sanitarium, of Owego, and vice-president of the Tioga National Bank of Owego. He is a member of Ahwaga Lodge of Free Masons, of Owego, of the Baptist church, and president of the village Cemetery Commission.
Hle married, in 1860, Mary E. McQuigg, born in Owego, New York, May 13, 1846. chied January 6, 1911, daughter of Jesse and Mary E. McQuigg. Their son, George Ho- bart. born in Owego, August 28, 1871, was
educated in the public schools; he is junior partner of the firm of Frank M. Baker & Son ; he married Fannie D., daughter of Gil- bert E. and Dell ( Ingersoll) Webster; chil- dren: Marion Esther, born May 6, 1893; Frank M. (2), May 13, 1896.
(III) James Russell, son of Lemuel Baker, was born in Tioga, Tioga county, New York, August 26, 1837. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. His life has been spent in Tioga and in the adjoin- ing town, Owego, where he owns several large farms, and vahtable real estate in the village of Owego. Besides his large agricultural inter- ests he conducts an extensive ice business, sup- plying the town of Owego for the past twen- ty years or more and employing twenty hands throughout the year. He is a prominent citi- zen, and has been on the board of assessors for forty years in succession. Ile is a mem- ber of Tioga Lodge, No. 335, Odd Fellows, and of Ahwaga Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Owego. In politics he is a Repub- lican.
He married, January 3. 1874. J. Belle Decker, born at Dundaff, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1852, died at Owego, December 4, 1891, danghter of Peter Decker. Children: I. Ella J., born May 21, 1875: married Thomas S. Millard, of Owego; children : James Milas, born June 2, 1901; Florian D., January 23, 1905: Francis Baker, November 13, 1907. 2. Edward, born August 13, 1877 : farmer ; mar- ried, August 25, 1897, Bertha Hecock ; chil- dren : Lillian, died in infancy : Everett, born May 11, 1899; Nellie, August 19, 1901 ; Har- old, September 9, 1906. 3. Delos, born August 6, 1879; engaged in the ice business : married, October 2, 1902, Emma Billings ; children : Raymond, born October 13, 1903; Delos and DeForrest, twins, May, 1907. 4. James N., born October 27, 1881 ; an electri- cian with the R. Hoe Printing Press Manufac- turing Company, of New York; married Winifred Arthur. 5. Harry E., born Septem- ber 3. 1883 ; engaged in the ice business ; mar- ried, June 8, 1902, Lela M. Vandervoort ; chil- dren : Russell, born June 9, 1903, died Octo- ber 23, 1907 ; Ella, born August 13, 1905 ; Le- roy, born August 27, 1907: Emma, February 27. 1900. 6. Bertie, born January 19, 1886, died October 20, 1887. 7. Arthur D., born October 14. 1888; student at Ann Arbor, Michigan, taking a special course in electricity.
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SIMS Joshua Sims was a native of the town of Cockermouth, England, and lived and died in England. He was a woolen manufacturer. He had four sons, William, Joshua, Joseph, mentioned be- low, and Daniel, and one daughter.
(II) Joseph, son of Joshua Sims, was born in county Cumberland, England, about 1809, and died in New York City in 1871. Like his father, he was a manufacturer of woolens and made fine blankets. He also owned graphite mines and manufactured lead pencils. In 1847 he came to this country and spent the rest of his days in New York City. He was asso- ciated with the firm of Brown & Gudit, con- tractors, of New York City. He married, in England, Jane Cass, born in England, about 1812, died in New York City in 1866. Chil- dren : Daniel, mentioned below ; Joshua (de- ceased ), Joseph William (deceased), John, who was lost at sea in a hurricane at Samoa Islands, in the Pacific; Mary.
(III) Daniel, son of Joseph Sims, was born at Braithwaite, county Cumberland, in the north of England, December 20. 1839. He came to America with his parents when he was eight years old, and attended school in Eng- land and in New York City. He began his business career as clerk in a bank, and contin- ued in the banking business for over sixteen years. In 1876 he went west, and for a num- ber of years was in the creamery business. Since 1893 he has been with the Standard But- ter Company of Owego, New York, as book- keeper. He has taken an active part in pub- lic affairs and has been honored with various offices of trust and responsibility. He was tax collector, trustee of the incorporated village. and is a member of the board of education and president of the library board of the Coburn Free Library, and served on the buikling com- mittee in charge of the erection of the new library building. In politics he is an Inde- pendent.
He married. January 31. 1864. Frances N. Shultz, born at Red Hook. Dutchess county, New York, July 23. 1842, daughter of Ben- jamin D. and Julia E. ( Stanton ) Shultz. granddaughter of Edward and Julia ( Hollis- ter) Stanton. Children: 1. Grace C., born in New York City, October 13, 1865: married C. S. Hammond, of New York, map manu- facturer ; children : Dean C., Robert and Helen. 2. Joshua A., born May 30, 1867, died May 18, 1872. 3. William M., born September 11.
1872 ; a draughtsman in Owego Bridge Works. 4. Lucy S., born February 15, 1878. 5. Ruth E., born June 5, 1880; married Charles 1 .. Raymond, bank clerk of Owego.
LEONARD
John Leonard was of Knole, county of Kent, England. He was born in 1479 and died in
1556.
(Il) John (2), son of John ( I) Leonard, was also of Knole, county Kent, England. He was born in 1508 and died in 1590.
(III) Samson, son of John (2) Leonard, was the eleventh Baron of Dacre. He was born in 1545 and died in 1615. He married Lady Margaret Fienes.
(IV) Sir Henry Leonard, son of Samson Leonard, was twelfth Baron of Dacre. He was born in 1569. He married Lady Chriso- gona, daughter of Sir Richard Baker, of Sis- singhurst, county Kent. England.
(V) Richard, son of Sir Henry Leonard, was thirteenth Baron of Dacre, seated at Chevening. He died in 1630. He married Lady Anne, daughter of Sir Arthur Throck- morton ; (second) Dorothy, daughter of Dud- ley, Lord North.
(VI) Thomas, son of Richard Leonard, was of Pontipool, Wales.
(VII) James, son of Thomas Leonard, of Pontipool, Wales, was born in Great Britain, and came to America about 1645. He settled first in Lynn and later in Taunton, Massachu- setts. He was the first to establish iron works in America, at Saugus, near Lynn. He was not living in 1691.
(VIII) Captain James Leonard, son of Richard Leonard, was born about 1643, and died November 1. 1736. He lived in Taunton. He married (first ) Hannah , who died February, 1674; (second) Lydia, daughter of Anthony Gulliver, of Milton. She died July 24. 1705. He married (third) Rebecca -, who died April 3, 1738.
( 1X) Stephen, son of Captain James Leon- ard. was born at Taunton, December, 1680. and died in 1741. He was a judge of the court of common pleas. About 1722-3 he settled in what was then called Hammer, Hunterdon county, New York: Hammer is now Morris, New York. In 1724 he was judge of the commission in Morris. He married Mary --. Children : Zephaniah, born 1704, was major of militia, judge, etc .: Mary, married Sam- uel - ; Joshua, mentioned below : Huldah,
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married Philip Halley, of Taunton ; Rev. Silas, graduate of Yale College, 1736, ordained at Gorham, Connecticut ; Paul.
(X) Joshua, son of Stephen Leonard, was a bloomer and master iron worker. He died in 1760. He married Sarah -. Children : Zephaniah, Paul, Silas, mentioned below ; Stephen, Mary, Martha.
(X1) Silas, son of Joshua Leonard, was born in 1756, in Parrippany, New York, and died in Owego, New York, September 29, 1832. During his first years in business he was engaged on a large scale in the manufac- ture of leathern knee breeches in New York. Later he moved to Massachusetts, then to Towanda, Pennsylvania, and in 1803 to Owego, New York, where he lived the rest of his life. While in New York he lived on Wall street, about halfway between East river and Broadway. He married Joanna Gregory, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and she died in Owego, September 27, 1816, aged fifty-five. Children : Seth G., Milton, General Harry C., died February 20, 1844, aged forty-four ; Stephen B., mentioned below ; daughter, died and buried in Towanda.
(XII) Stephen Banks, son of Silas Leon- ard, was born on Wall street, New York, April 15, 1793. The house in which he was born stood on the ground now occupied by the Cus- tom House. He died in Owego, New York, May 8, 1876, where he came when he was ten years old. In 1806 he entered the printing office of Judge Mack, who printed the Amer- ican Farmer. Later he went to Albany and worked in the job office of Solomon South- wick, in order to learn more of the art of printing. He returned to Owego in 1813. buying the American Farmer. In 1814 he changed the name of the paper to the Owego Gazette, and published it until 1835, when he was elected to congress, where he served for two terms until 1841. From March 11, 1816. until May 15, 1820, he was postmaster of Owego, and also held that position from No- vember 20, 1844, until April 18, 1849. Ile was village trustee in 1822-23, in 1854-56 he was supervisor, and during the administration of President Buchanan he was deputy United States marshal. In 1816 he established the first stage route from Owego to Bath, and be- fore that time he had carried the first mail through Tioga county on horseback in order to deliver his newspapers. He helped to ob- tain the incorporation of Owego Academy. He
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