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Beach, of Buffalo, daughter of John Hoyt, and widow of Louis Beach.
(VIII) Spencer Blodgett, son of Myron Marcus and Lydia M. (Knapp) Parker, was born in Versailles, Cattaraugus county, New York, July 21, 1859. He was educated at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New York, then began the study of law at Albany Law School, from whence he was graduated LL. B., 1885. He continued his legal studies one year after graduation, and in 1888 began practice in the town of North Collins, New York. In 1892 he located at Niagara Falls, New York. In 1910 he formed a law partnership with Al- len T. Stewart, and as Parker & Stewart con- ducted a general law practice. He served as police magistrate in 1896, and is one of the wellknown influential lawyers of his city. He is a Republican in politics. He married, June 14, 1887, Emma Campbell Owen (see Camp- bell). Children: I. Alan Vreeland, born April 17, 1888; now a junior at Cornell Uni- versity ; member of Phi Delta Phi. 2. Owen Spencer, born November 20, 1889, died No- vember 10, 1895. 3. Helen Louise. 4. Capitola Josephine.
(Campbell-Owen Line).
Emma Campbell Owen Parker is a daughter of Lemuel and Josephine (Campbell) Owen, and a granddaughter of Allen Campbell, son of John Campbell, of Scotland. Many Camp- bells fought in the revolutionary war, and John Campbell was a soldier of the war of 1812. He married, 1825, Susan Maria Blood. Chil- dren : Mary Ruth, Caroline Matilda, Harvey Welcome, James Warren, William Henry Har- rison, Josephine (of whom further), John Deming, Lucy, George Lorenzo and Arpha. All are deceased except Josephine, George L. and Arpha.
(III) Josephine, sixth child of Allen and Susan M. (Blood) Campbell, married, June 16, 1856, Lemuel Owen, born in Monroe county New York, June 26, 1830, died September I, 1871, son of Robert C. Owen, born in Eng- land, and came to the United States when a boy. Lemuel's brother, Robert C. Owen, was a member of the New York senate, said to have been the youngest man ever elected to that body. Lemuel C. Owen was a graduate of Oberlin College, where he took a degree. He prepared for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, but a faulty heredity com- pelled him for physical reasons to change his
profession to that of civil engineer, surveyor and farmer. He had a farm in Conewango, Cattaraugus county, New York, on which he lived until 1868, when he settled in Randolph, same county. He taught school several years and held principalships in various schools. He enlisted in Company Thirteen, Sixty-fourth Regiment, New York Infantry, and served three years and one month with the Army of the Potomac during the civil war. He was honorably discharged with the rank of ser- geant. He was a man of fine mental equip- ment, well educated and capable. Children : I. Ina Mary, died aged twelve years. 2. Flora Josephine, born November 17, 1861, died Feb- ruary, 1891; married, July, 1888, Henry C. Pease; children: Charles Owen and Robert Campbell, both deceased. 3. Bessie Benton, de- ceased. 4. Emma Campbell, married Spencer B. Parker (see Parker VIII). 5. Mabel Louise, died 1890.
Mrs. Mary E. (King-Enos) DANIELS Daniels, of Buffalo, New York, is a descendant of John King, who came from England to the American colonies in 1645, died 1703, aged seventy-four years. He settled at Hartford, Connecticut, later at Northampton. He was deputy, 1679- 89, and captain of militia. He married (first) Sarah Holton, who died May 8, 1683; (sec- ond) Mrs. Sarah (Whiting) Mygatt. Twelve children by first wife.
(II) Thomas, son of John King, was born July 14, 1662, died December 26, 1731. He was of Hatfield and Hartford, Connecticut. He married (first) Abigail Strong; (second) in 1690, Mary, daughter of Robert Webster. Children by both marriages.
(III) Timothy, son of Thomas King and his second wife, Mary Webster, died in 1812. He married and had issue.
(IV) George, son of Timothy King, was born 1754, died November 31, 1833. He was of Windsor and Sharon, Connecticut. In 1784 he was connected with the commissary depart- ment of the Connecticut revolutionary army and after the war established a mercantile business at Sharon. He was a successful mer- chant and accumulated a large fortune. He married and had issue.
(V) Zadoc, son of George King, was born in 1780. He settled in Waterford, New York, and became prominent in business. Both he and his wife were active members of the Meth-
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odist Episcopal church. He married Thankful Mitchell, of Waterford. Children: Roxana ; Villers; Experience ; David Brainard ; Daniel Bromley ; Foster ; John Fuller ; Joseph Mitch- ell, of whom further.
(VI) Joseph Mitchell, son of Zadoc King, was born in Waterford, Saratoga county, New York, died there 1871. He was a banker and an iron manufacturer. He established the J. M. King Iron Works at Waterford, one of the large industries of Waterford. He was de- voted to his business and very successful. He married Jane Palmer. Children : Mary E., of whom further ; Catherine, died in infancy.
"(VII) Mary E., daughter of Joseph Mitch- ell King, was born at Waterford, New York, now (19II) a resident of Buffalo, New York. She married (first) December 6, 1854, Lau- rens Enos, third son of Joseph B. and Hannah Enos, of Birdsall, New York. Laurens Enos was a successful business man of Buffalo ; died January, 1871. Children: I. Grace, married Harry Hamlin, April 24, 1878; he died June 3, 1907, leaving an only son, Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, a lawyer of Buffalo, (see Hamlin). 2. Laurens, died in infancy. 3. George, died in infancy. 4. Walter M., born January I, 1871 ; killed while hunting, at the age of four- teen years.
Mrs. Mary E. Enos married (second) June 1878, Judge Charles Daniels, of Buffalo, who for many years occupied a conspicuous posi- tion at the New York bar and on the bench. He was the son of Welsh parents and was born in New York City, March 24, 1825. He died suddenly in his office at Buffalo, New York, December 20, 1897. His father was a shoemaker and of him the son learned that trade. The family subsequently removed to Toledo, Ohio, and there both parents died. At the age of seventeen years, with limited edu- cation, the boy was forced to depend upon his own efforts for a livelihood and advancement in life. While working as a journeyman shoe- maker he stopped in Canandaigua, New York, and in the court house there he one day lis- tened to a speech by the eloquent Mark H. Sibley, which made such a forcible impression upon him that he at once formed the de- termination to be a lawyer. Great as was the task he thus set before himself he attacked it with all the zeal of his ambitious nature. By reducing his expenses to the least possible amount he saved money with which to buy books and began study, working over his
studies late at night and keeping an open book on his bench before him through the day. By such persistent and unceasing study he ac- quired such a knowledge of the classics while in Canandaigua that he was permitted to fin- ish his course of law study in five years instead of seven, as was then required. As he ad- vanced in legal learning he entered the law office of Clinton & Nichols and also studied under Eli Cook, one of the former mayors of Buffalo. He was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-two years and was at once taken into partnership by Mr. Cook, with whom he remained until 1850. Ever after he continued in practice alone. From the beginning his legal career was brilliant and honorable. In 1863 he was appointed by Governor Seymour to fill the vacancy on the supreme court bench occasioned by the death of Judge James G. Hoyt. In November, 1863, he was elected to fill the unexpired term which ended in 1869. He was then re-elected for a full term of eight years, at the expiration of which he was again re-elected for the term of fourteen years. This long term of service expired in 1891. The amount of arduous labor performed by Judge Daniels as supreme court justice was enor- mous, sometimes involving the decision of five hundred cases in a year. Yet his judicial abil- ity was so great and his knowledge of law so profound that his decisions were rarely re- versed. He was appointed associate justice of the general term, first department, in 1873, by Governor Dix, and appointed to the same posi- tion in 1880 by Governor Cornell. By this time, through his settling on the trial of the canal frauds under appointment of Governor Tilden, and his decisions in the famous case against Tweed, Genet and others of the no- torious New York City ring, Judge Daniels had acquired a national reputation. In 1892 he was elected to congress to represent the Thirty-third district and was re-elected in 1894. In that body he added to his already high reputation. He was the leading spirit in founding the Buffalo Law School, in 1887, which later became the law department of the University of Buffalo. He was elected dean of the school and professor of constitutional law, both of which positions he held until his death. In private life he was held in equally high esteem, being a gentleman of entertain- ing qualities and rare charm of manner. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the old St. John Episcopal Church. He be-
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longed to numerous professional societies and delivered many addresses on other subjects than pertained to the law. His wife survives him, a resident of Buffalo, where she is well known among the earlier families and held in warmest regard.
Bennett as a surname, as a BENNETT rule, derives from Benedictus (the blessed), and is found in all European countries. There were several distinct families in England, where the family herein traced are originally found, later set- tling in Scotland, coming from thence to Am- erica and settling in the Mohawk Valley, in the state of New York. Several coats-of-arms were granted to the English families, but the Bennetts of Buffalo make no claim to their right to use armorial bearings. This particu- lar line is traced in detail in the United States, Scotland and England, to the year 1432, to the borough of Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
(I) John Benet appears in 1432 among the list of bailiffs of the city of Leicester, Eng- land. In 1446 he was mayor of that city.
(II) Edward Bennett, son of John Benet, of Leicester, married, about 1499, Margaret, daughter of Richard Swan.
(III) Richard, son of Edward Bennett, was born about 1500; married, May 8, 1529, Eliza- beth, daughter of Thomas Stevens. Children : Edward, Elizabeth, Thomas, of further men- tion ; Francis, died before November 7, 1567.
(IV) Thomas, son of Richard Bennett, was born 1532 or 1533; married, August 3, 1568, Abigail, daughter of John Emot. Children: Robert ; Henry, of further mention ; and Mar- garet, born April 9, 1570, who was the only one of the family who remained in Leicester- shire, Robert going to Derbyshire, and Henry to Northumberland.
(V) Henry, son of Thomas Bennett, was born April 9, 1570; married, June 7, 1599, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Short, of Berwick- on-Tweed. He lived in Northumberland, Eng- land, where he died August 25, 1624. Chil- dren: Thomas, of further mention; Richard and Albert.
(VI) Thomas (2), eldest son of Henry Ben- nett, was born in 1600; moved to Swinton, Berwickshire, across the Scottish border, where he married, March 5, 1623, Katherine, daughter of Cromwell Whitehead. Children : Cromwell, married Christine Robisone; Gil-
bert, died 1688; Katherine, married Malcolm Shaw; Andrew, died 1687 ; Robert, of further mention.
(VII) Robert, son of Thomas (2), Ben- nett, was born in Swinton, Berwickshire, Scot- land, May 7, and baptized May 9, 1630, died 1665; married, June 6, 1646, Jonet, daughter of James Burne.
(VIII) Captain James, only son of Robert Bennett, was born August 3, 1648; married, June 18, 1670, Isabella, daughter of Alex Cook, of Petteweim, Fifeshire, Scotland. Children : James (2), of further mention ; Alexander, born June 18, 1676, died in 1695, when James, the eldest son, was declared his heir ; he nfar- ried Elizabeth Stewarde.
(IX) James (2), son of Captain James (I) Bennett, was born May 3. 1673, in Grange, Fifeshire, Scotland. He married, June 20, 1697, Alisone, daughter of Ebenezer Buchanan of the parish of Down, Fifeshire. Children : I. Cromwell, born April 9, 1698; married Agnes, daughter of Charles Smeallie, and had four sons who emigrated to the United States, all settling in New York state, two of them, William and John, serving in the revolutionary army. 2. Ebenezer, of further mention.
(X) Ebenezer, son of James (2) Bennett, was born in Grange, Fifeshire, Scotland, Oc- tober 3, 1700. He married, June 17, 1738, Elizabeth, born June 14, 1706, in Edinburgh. Scotland, daughter of Amos Smeallie, and sis- ter of Ebenezer Smeallie, whose son, John Smeallie, emigrated to the American colonies, settled first in East Hoosick, now Adams, Massachusetts, later moved to Scotch Bush, Montgomery county, New York, where he died August 8, 1822, aged seventy years. Chil- dren; I. Amos, of further mention. 2. Francis, born February 22, 1740 ; settled in Montgomery county, New York ; married Margaret Parker. 3. Albert, born June 19, 1741. 4. Ebenezer, born September 5, 1743; was of Burlington, Otsego county; Scipio, Cayuga county ; and Locke, New York ; held public office in the two latter. 5. Thomas, born November 18, 1744; married Tabitha Wilson. 6. Henry, born May 14, 1746, a soldier of the revolution. 7. James, born October 18, 1747 ; was declared legal heir to his father, Ebenezer Bennett, the elder brothers having emigrated to foreign countries. With the sons of Ebenezer Bennett the family appears in New York state.
(XI) Amos, son of Ebenezer Bennett, is the founder of this branch in the United States.
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He was born in Grange, Fifeshire, Scotland, March 26, 1739, died about 1832. He emi- grated to America shortly before 1774, as his name appears in Montgomery session rolls of March 8, 1774, and February 14, 1782. He settled first at Williamstown, then called West Hoosick, now Hoosick, Rensselaer county, New York, removing later to Locke, then Montgomery, now Cayuga county, New York, where he and his wife both died. He served in the revolution, in the Fourteenth Regiment Albany county militia, and receipted for his pay at Hoosick, Rensselaer county, New York, January 17, 1788. He first appears in the rec- ords of Locke, April 7, 1812, when he was named as overseer of highways. He married, in Scotland, September 6, 1760, Jane, daugh- ter of Justice (died 1871) and Jane (Scott) Shaw. She died in 1871. Children : I. Jere- miah, born June 10, 1761 ; came to America with his parents. 2. Nathan, born April 3, 1762; he settled in Locke; married Lois 3. Jedediah, born March 6, 1763; came with his father to Rensselaer county, New York, where he continued to reside all his life ; he married Lucy -. 4. Joseph, born February 16, 1764, came with his father to Locke, New York; he was a farmer, and owned a saw mill; he married Nabby
5. Ira, twin with Joseph; died in infancy. 6. Elizabeth, born June 2, 1765; died May 5, 1774. 7. Joshua, born April 12, 1766; came to Locke before 1808, when he was pathmaster and overseer of highways; in 1811-13 he was constable. 8. Jonathan, born January 23, 1767; commissioner of highways and school lots in Locke, 1808; overseer of poor, 1807; justice of the peace, 1809. 9. Daniel, born March 2, 1769; married, and had issue. IO. Amos, of further mention. II. John, born April 17, 1771.
(XII) Amos (2), son of Amos (I) Ben- nett, was born June 21, 1770, died August 8, 1840, in Duanesburgh, Schenectady county, New York. He was a farmer of Braman's Corners, Duanesburgh; a rigid member of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, and a strong Democrat. He was captain of the militia com- pany, and served at Sacketts Harbor during the war of 1812. The sword he carried is preserved in the family at Omaha, Nebraska. He married Jennett Sterling, born in Scotland, May 29, 1771, died April 26, 1862, in her ninety-first year. She came to this country when a child with her parents, who settled in
the Mohawk Valley. Children : 1. James, born October 16, 1791, died October 15, 1875. 2. Amos (3), born February 4, 1793, died Au- gust 27, 1872. 3. William, of further men- tion. 4. Polly, born June 6, 1796, died Jan- uary 12, 1878. 5. John, born March 12, 1798, died November II, 1832. 6. Isabel, born No- vember 6, 1799, died January 24, 1875 ; mar- ried Henry Ellis. 7. Ira, October I, 1801, died May 1, 1879; married An- gelica Templar. 8. Sally (Sarah), July 12, 1803, died November, 1884; married a Mr. Morey. 9. Nancy, March 29, 1805, died June 19, 1880 ; married a Mr. Morey. 10. Joseph, February 13, 1807, died January 8, 1874; married Margaret Ann II. Joshua, February 24, 1809, died June 13, 1894. 12. Daniel D., October 21, 1811, died Septem- ber 23 1852. All these children grew to ma- ture years, married and reared families.
(XIII) William, third son of Amos (2) Bennett, was born in Duanesburgh, New York, May 26, 1794, died October 12, 1873. He grew to manhood on the home farm, and after his marriage settled on a farm in the same town. This he later disposed of and moved to a farm in the town of Glen, Montgomery county, later selling this and purchasing a smaller farm in the town of Mohawk, same county, where he died. His father, having no martial music for his military company, im- pressed his boys into the service, bought them drums and a fife, had them take lessons from Nicholas Harry Hill, old revolutionary music- ian of the neighborhood, and with two brothers Amos and William, as drummers, and Ira, another, as fifer, all took part in the company on training days, playing snare drums and fife. He was a Universalist in religious faith, and in earlier life a Democrat, as were also his brothers. In later life he became a Republi- can. He married, January 15, 1831, Elma Strong, born in Schenectady county, Septem- ber 3, 1809, died April 30, 1900, daughter of Solomon Strong. Children: I. Isabella, born March 17, 1832 ; married Jacob Van Epps ; re- sides in Montgomery county, New York. 2. Lewis J., of further mention. 3. Louise Janette, January 14, 1836; married Alonzo Devenbergh, of Montgomery county. 4. Sarah Ann, May 9, 1838; married John H. Vorhees ; resides in Queens, Long Island, New York. 5. Lydia Ann, February 27, 1840, died May 14, 1856. 6. Francis Marion, July 27, 1842, mar- ried Suits, resides in Montgomery
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county. 7. Jane Elizabeth, June 18, 1845 ; mar- ried John Hand; resides in Amsterdam, New York. 8. Amos (4), April 29, 1848, died September 17, 1848. 9. Amos F. (5), Feb- ruary 17, 1850; married Elizabeth Vrooman; resides in Buffalo. 10. William James, Feb- ruary 3, 1852 ; married Hannah Moore ; resides in Johnstown, New York. 11. Martha E., April 22, 1854, died May 28, 1900; married John Dockstader. 12. Maria L., April 13. 1856; married J. Vedder Morris; resides in Amsterdam, New York.
(XIV) Lewis Jackson, eldest son of Will- iam Bennett, was born on the farm in Duanes- burgh, Schenectady county, New York, July 7, 1833. He attended the public schools, and being a delicate boy was not considered strong enough for farm labor. He began business life August 27, 1849, as clerk in a grocery store at Fultonville, New York, kept by Chap- man & Smith, where he remained until January 1, 1851. From the latter date until the follow- ing April he attended the high school at Fort Plain, New York. He then returned to Ful- tonville and clerked for Starin & Freeman un- til October 1, then worked for Blood & Conyne one month in a dry goods store. November 1, 1851, he became a partner of his old employ- er, Chapman, in the firm of Chapman, Peak & Company. In the spring of 1853, he, with Mr. Chapman, purchased Mr. Peak's interest, the firm then operating until April 1, 1856 as Chapman & Bennett. Poor health then com- pelled his retirement, his interest in the firm being disposed of to William W. Kline. He then took a western trip, leaving New York on June 5. 1856, going to California, returning in October. On November 1, 1856, he re-en- tered his old firm, which was reorganized as L. J. Bennett & Company. This firm con- tinued in operation until April 1, 1866, when Mr. Bennett sold out to his partners. On May 8, 1866, he located in Buffalo, taking charge of contracts held with the state for re- pairs on the Erie canal, which work was fin- ished January 1, 1868. He then, as a member of the firm Spalding & Bennett, engaged in contracting harbor work and iron bridge building. The firm built many iron bridges for the towns of Erie county, being the pioneers in iron bridge building in the country towns. Mr. Bennett next became, in 1874, treasurer of the Buffalo Hydraulic Cement Company, of Buffalo, continuing until 1876, when he began business in the same line for himself. He pur-
chased land, erected buildings, and in March, 1877, organized the Buffalo Cement Company, of which he was the first and only president (19II). This company were successful ce- ment manufacturers for thirty years, then dis- continued manufacturing and confined their operations to real estate investment and in the development of suburban Buffalo. The Bennett-Pierce addition to Buffalo, known as Central Park, was purchased from a score of owners, laid out in streets and placed upon the market. This is now one of the city's most exclusive residential districts. Mr. Bennett has many other important business interests, both in and outside Buffalo. He is actively en- gaged at his office each day, and as energetic in prosecuting his plans as though he were a score of years younger. From boyhood he has always been deeply interested in the public school system. In 1860, while a school trus- tee of Fultonville, he led the fight that resulted in a change from the "rate bill system" to an absolutely free public school supported by tax- ation. This was probably the first district to adopt such a system. In 1861 he was ap- pointed by the state canal board collector of canal tolls at Fultonville for one year and in 1862 was reappointed. In February, 1865, he was elected supervisor, defeating Andrew J. Yates, a well known and popular Democrat. During his term of office the covered wood bridge connecting Fultonville with Fonda was carried away, March 17, 1865, and replaced with the present iron structure. During the same term the county poor farm, located in the town of Glen, was sold and a new system of caring for the county poor adopted.
Mr. Bennett is a Universalist in religious belief, and although a member of no church is a generous supporter of all. Politically, as may have been inferred, he is a Republican. He is a charter member and was the first treasurer of Fultonville Lodge No. 531, Free and Accepted Masons ; a companion of Chap- ter No. 71, Royal Arch Masons, Johnstown, New York, and a Sir Knight of Apollo Com- mandery No. 15. Knights Templar, Troy, New York. He is a life member of the Buffalo So- ciety of Natural Sciences and of Buffalo His- torical Society, formerly holding official posi- tion in both; also a member of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion. He presented the former society with a most valuable collection of fossils that is ex- hibited at their rooms, the largest and most
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complete collection in the world. He is also a member of the Buffalo Chamber of Com- merce, and one of the two hundred and fifty honorary trustees of the Lincoln Farm Asso- ciation, organized to preserve the birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln.
He married, in Johnstown, New York, Octo- ber 6, 1857, Mary F. Spalding, born June I, 1840, daughter of Andrew and Emeline (Ham- ilton) Spalding, of Johnstown, New York. Children (XV) generation: I. Leslie, born May 25, 1860, at Fultonville, New York ; edu- cated in Buffalo common and high schools, and is a graduate of the State Normal Col- lege ; he is now vice-president, secretary and assistant treasurer of Buffalo Cement Com- pany. 2. Louisa A., born May 16, 1868 ; mar- ried James P. Wood, of Buffalo, November 16, 1887; children, (XVI) generation: Helen B., Frances L., Harriet A., Mildred V., and James B.
HUNTLEY But little can be told of the American ancestor of the Huntleys of Buffalo. Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the gifted poetess and author, in her "Letters of Life," says : "He was a native of Scotland; emigrated to this country in early life and married Miss Mary Wallbridge, a woman of consistent, domestic loveliness and piety. From the comforts of his home he went forth as a colonial soldier in the war waged by our inotherland with the French and Indians. Returning from the com- paratively successful campaign of 1760, he be- came a victim of the small-pox on the way, and never more saw the home of his affections. His widow, my grandmother, is among the gentle, yet strong, images of my infancy, seat- ed by the fireside of her son (Ezekiel), in quietness and honor."
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