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he learned the trade of printer, remaining five years. He then spent a year on the Bradford Era. In 1883 his father's health failed and the son gave up his own business, returned to Little Valley and became an assistant in the hardware store. In 1884 he was admitted a partner in J. W. Sweetland & Son. The firm bought the Dinsmore block, extended their lines and conducted a most successful business. On the death of John Wesley Sweetland, in 1884, the firm was reorganized as S. L. Sweetland & Company, his mother being the company, continuing until 1907, when the firm was dissolved. In May, 1909, Mr. Sweetland established a store for the sale of tobacco, school supplies, etc., which he still continues. He is a Republican in politics and was town clerk of Little Valley, 1884-89, and is now again holding that office. He served as school trustee two years, and was a member of the board of commissioners that established the Water and Electric Light Plant in Little Valley. He is a member of the Con- gregational church, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, January 4, 1879, Ella R. Bailey, born March 10, 1856, daughter of Gamaliel and Marietta (Evarts) Bailey, whose children were: Austin, married Frances Henderson ; Oel, married a Miss Milks ; Ella R., Norman, Grant, Cortes, Cora and Claude. Children of Seneca L. Sweetland : I. Lee Wesley, born June 9, 1882 ; graduate of Little Valley high school ; was for a time bookkeeper in the Lit- tle Valley Bank, now cashier in the main office of the Oliver Typewriter Company, at San Francisco, California. He is a member of the Masonic order and a young man of good busi- ness ability. 2. Seneca Lewis Jr., born De- cember 28, 1883; graduate of Little Valley high school; member of the Masonic order, and a farmer.
Edwin, son of Otis Hitch- HITCHCOCK cock, was born in 1831, died 1910. He came to the town of Randolph, Cattaraugus county, New York, when a boy, and, after attending the public school, worked at farming. He was thrifty and in due course of time became a land owner. He owned a farm of one hundred and sixty-six acres on which he established a dairy. He prospered in business and became one of the substantial men of his town. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers'
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Mutual Insurance Company, a member of the school board and a most influential, public- spirited citizen. He was an Independent in politics, and while a liberal supporter of all churches gave particular allegiance to none.
He married Ellen, daughter of Peter Ben- son, who survives him, a resident of Randolph. Children : I. Luella J., married George Ropps : children : Ruth, Louis and Lee. 2. Clarence, married Lizzie McGinity; children : Genevieve and Gertrude. 3. Charles. 4. Alvin E. (of further mention). 5. Otis, married Vail Anderson: children : Harold; Edward, married Ella Parsons and their children are Helen, Leo and Arthur ; Paul ; Glenn, married Addie Cool and their children are Louise, Rob- ert, Marian and Maud ; Rebecca, married Guy Porter and their children are Lyman, Elva and Laura.
(III) Alvin E., fourth child and third son of Edwin and Ellen ( Benson) Hitchcock, was born on the Hitchcock homestead farm in Randolph, January 25, 1868. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and worked on the farm after completing his studies. He saved his earnings and invested in a machine for baling hay and began business for himself. He prospered and soon began buying loose hay, pressing it and shipping to market. As his business became more profitable he ex- tended his operations to the buying and sell- ing of livestock of all kinds. He was a good buyer and by close attention developed a prof- itable business. He later took in a partner, established a livery and bought a hotel prop- erty, operating both for several years. The firm then dissolved. his partner taking the livery and Mr. Hitchcock the hotel business. He has large farming interests that he oversees, and is also the popular host of the Farmers' Hotel in Randolph, a resort much frequented by automobilists and the traveling public. The hotel is well kept and caters to a liberal patronage.
Mr. Hitchcock is well known in the county and has a host of warm friends. He is liberal in his benefactions, public-spirited and pro- gressive, aiding in all that is for the benefit of his town. He is a member of the Congrega- tional church, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Repub- lican ; served three years as trustee of the vil- lage corporation and three years as deputy sheriff.
He married, May 5, 1897, Ida Anderson,
born November 17, 1879, daughter of Augus- ·tus and Christina Caroline (Carlson) Ander- son, and granddaughter of August Anderson, from Sweden. Children: Raymond Walter, born June 4, 1898; Herbert A., May 5, 1902.
The earliest traces of the Mead MEAD family are to be found. in a history of "The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Domin- ions and the United States of America," pub- lished in London, England, 1874. From that volume, it appears that the name Mead is the English form of the Norman "de Poato," which, translated into the English, is Mead, Meade, Mede and Meads. In 1635 there ar- rived in Massachusetts many ships from Eng- land, and among those arrivals is found the name of "Goodman" Mead (called Gabriel Mead). He is the ancestor of the Massachu- setts branch. The most recent discoveries strongly indicate that he was accompanied by his brother, William Mead, ancestor of the Greenwich (Connecticut), Meads, from whom the family in Troy descends. William and "Goodman" Mead sailed from Lydd, county Kent, England, in the ship "Elizabeth" in April, 1635. The Mead coat-of-arms, to which it is believed they were entitled. is thus de- scribed : Sable, a chevron between three peli- cans, or vuln, gules, crest : an eagle displayed : motto, Semper paratus (always ready). Goodman Mead remained in Massachusetts. William, however, followed the tide of emi- gration, which at that time was toward the Connecticut valley. The first English settle- ment was made at Windsor in 1633, and an- other settlement was made about the same time at Wethersfield, where William Mead set- tled first, and in 1641 he removed to Stamford with others from Wethersfield. December 7. 1641, "William Mayd ( Mead) received from the town of Stamford a homelot and five acres of land."
This William is the ancestor of the Fairfield county, Connecticut, family, although family tradition declares that John Mead was also one of those of eastern New York. west- ern Vermont and Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was born about 1600. He married, in 1625, and died in Stamford, Connecticut, about 1663. There is no record of his wife, but there is of his three children. 1. Joseph ( see forward). 2. Martha, born 1632; married John Richardson, of Stamford. 3. John, born
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about 1634; married Hannah Potter: died February 5, 1699.
(II) Joseph, son of William Mead, was born 1630, died May 3, 1690. He married Mary Brown, of Stamford ; children : 1. Zach- arias, died in 1703, unmarried. 2. Joseph (see forward). 3. Daniel, born 1659; married Hannah . 4. Elisha, born about 1661, died 1727; married, in 1683, and had issue. 5. Richard, born 1664. 6. Mary.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Mary (Brown) Mead, was born about 1657, died in 1714. He married Sarah Reynolds ; children : 1. Sarah, born November 3, 1695 ; married, August 14, 1718, Benjamin Stebbins ; eight children. 2. Joseph, born May 3, 1698. 3. Theophilus, born July 3, 1700, died 1760; married Abigail Westcott, and settled in Nor- walk, Connecticut ; eight children. 4. Jeremiah, born August 6, 1702, died 1742; married, 1725, Hannah St. John; his oldest son, Cap- tain Thaddeus, was killed in the French and Indian war. 5. Zachariah, born March II, 1704, died 1761 ; married, but left no issue. 6. Nehemiah (see forward). 7. Israel, born March 14, 1708; married and left issue.
(IV) Nehemiah, son of Joseph (2) and Sarah (Reynolds) Mead, was born January 20, 1706, died 1784. He married Mehitable -, and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut. Children : Joseph, David (see forward), Zachariah, Nehemiah, Deborah, Mary, Lydia and Abijah.
(V) David, son of Nehemiah and Mehitable Mead, was born 1714 ; married Isabella Knapp and settled in Westchester county, New York. Sons : David (2), Michael (see forward), and others.
(VI) Michael, son of David and Isabella (Knapp) Mead, was born in 1740. He settled in Vermont, where he followed farming. He married Tryphena Burton. Children : Isaac, born December 20, 1760; Silas, born May 6, 1762; Lydia, May 20, 1763; Rufus, October 15. 1764; Ezra, August 9, 1766; Tryphena, October 10, 1767 ; Solomon, January 30, 1769 ; Michael (of further mention) ; Lydia, Janu- ary 12, 1772; Mary, October 13, 1773 ; Sophia, April 13, 1775 : Dorcas, December 16, 1777: Peter, March 27, 1779: Cynthia, September 4, 1780.
(VII) Michael (2), son of Michael (I) and Tryphena ( Burton ) Mead, was born in Ver- mont, died March 7, 1834, at Ovid, Seneca county, New York. He owned several large
farms, most of which he cleared from the vir- gin timber. He married Abigail, daughter of Moses and Mary (Seeley ) Cole, born 1783, died April 28, 1853, at Somerset, New York. Children : Ezra C. (of further mention) ; Be- linda, born December 18, 1803; Lewis, No- vember 14, 1805; Fannie, March 2, 1808; Henry, May 28, 1811; Stephen (of further mention ).
(VIII) Ezra C., son of Michael (2) and Abigail (Cole) Mead, was born March II, 1802, at Ovid, Seneca county, New York. He received his education at the country schools, and worked on his father's farm until a young man. After his marriage he and his wife journeyed from Seneca county to West Som- erset, Niagara county, behind a yoke of oxen. Here he purchased a farm of one hundred and eight acres, which he devoted to general farming. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was one of its strongest financial supporters. 3 In politics he was a Democrat. He married, October 11, 1820, Jane, daughter of James and Hannah Nelson, born June 11, 1803, died August 8, 1887. They had eleven children, eight of whom ar- rived at maturity. Children: Lydia, born February 22, 1822; Hannah, March 7, 1825 ; Philina, July 22, 1824; Abigail, April 15, 1827 ; Michael, June 11, 1829, married Mary E. Mil- ler ; George W., April 6, 1831, married Julia Clark: Henry, August 29, 1833; Ezra Jr., June 16, 1835, married Lodena Rising ; Jane R., May 30, 1837, married Josiah D. Webster ; Anna E., May 3, 1839, married Andrew Stickles; M. Mandana, August 9, 1844, mar- ried Dudley H. Mead (see Mead).
(VIII) Stephen, son of Michael (2) and Abigail (Cole) Mead, was born February 28. 1819, at Ovid, New York, died January 18, 1898, at Somerset, New York. He was edu- cated in the district schools of Ovid, and be- fore attaining his majority settled in Somer- set, after purchasing a farm of seventy-five acres. Here for a time he tried general farm- ing and afterward devoted his time to raising live stock and fruit farming. Finally he sold the farm, purchased another, and in time be- came a large land owner. During war times he dealt with considerable profit in wool. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a Democrat. He married Phœbe Prime, of Allegany county, in 1840. Chil- dren : 1. Homer D., born 1842, died June 30, 1902 : married Julia Van Wagoner. 2. Dud-
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ley H. (of further mention). 3. Augusta, born 1846, died December 14, 1872. 4. Ele- nora, died at the age of eight years. 5. Helen, married S. Delos Davis.
(IX) Dudley Henry, son of Stephen and Phœbe (Prime) Mead, was born at Somerset, New York, October 20, 1843. He was edu- cated in the district schools of his native town and was also at Albion high school. At this time he was living at home, and at the age of eighteen became a dealer in live stock, which business he still continues. In 1878 he pur- chased the old Mead homestead of one hun- dred and eighteen acres, which had been oc- cupied and cultivated by his father for fifty years. He has fifty acres of his farm in fruit, the remaining sixty-eight acres he devotes to general farming. He is also the owner of an- other sixty-acre farm. He is a trustee and strong supporter of the Somerset Methodist Episcopal Church, a member of Somerset Lodge, No. 639, Free and Accepted Masons, and a Democrat. He married, April 21, 1886, at Somerset, New York, M. Mandana Mead, seventh daughter of Ezra C. and Jane (Nel- son) Mead, of Somerset.
CORSON The Corson family settled in . York county, Maine, and east- ern New Hampshire, in the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time the Scotch-Irish were coming in large num- bers to this section. The name was often spelled Courson and Coursen, perhaps because of the Scotch way of pronouncing the word.
Ichabod Corson, who settled at Rochester, New Hampshire, was a soldier from that town in the French and Indian war in 1759; was an assessor in 1767 and on the committee to recruit volunteers for the continental army in 1779, though in 1775 he had refused to sign the association test. Joshua Corson, of the same family, was a sergeant, and Ebenezer Corson was a private from Rochester in the revolution. In 1790 Ichabod Corson, with two males over sixteen, two under sixteen, and one female, was living at Rochester, and David Corson was also head of a young family in that town. In 1790 no less than eleven families, presumably of the same stock, were reported in the census, viz: Nathaniel, John, John, Ichabod, Aaron, Daniel, Isaac, John, Lemuel, Samuel and Samuel. There were none of the name at Hallowell, now Augusta, and none in Lincoln county, in which Augusta
is situated. Ebenezer and Samuel Corson, both of Maine, served in the revolution. (See "Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution," p. 19, vol. IV.) Aaron Corson came to Lebanon, Maine, from Rochester, New Hampshire, about 1769; his brother Samuel came about 1760 and died in 1785. Aaron Corson was a corporal in Captain Jedediah Goodwin's com- pany of Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's regi- ment, in 1776. He was an original settler of the farm lately owned by William A. Corson. He had sons, John and Enoch, and a daugh- ter, Dorcas. John Corson and Moses Corson, of Lebanon, near relatives of Aaron and Sam- uel, were also soldiers in the revolution. (See pp. 13-14, "Lebanon in the Revolution.")
(I) Dexter Foster Corson, a descendant of the Maine pioneers of this family, settled in Augusta, Maine. He was born in Maine in 1812, died in 1888 at Monroe, Wisconsin. He was an extensive dealer in lumber at Augusta, and was engaged in the harness and saddlery business at Monroe. In politics he was a Re- publican ; in religion, a Methodist. He was a highly respected citizen. He married (first) Deborah Norton. The name of his second wife is not known.
(II) Frederick Wallace, sixth child of Dex- ter Foster Corson, was born September 17, 1847, at Augusta, Maine, died October 2, 1907, at Lockport, New York. He was taken by his parents to Monroe, Wisconsin, when three years of age and attended the public and high schools of Monroe. When he was twenty-one he went west with a party of thirty, which settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he is counted among the founders of that town. After three years he engaged in the printing business and became manager of the Elk Point Leader, of Elk Point. In 1871 he purchased the Mound City Patriot, which he conducted for two years. He then sold out and returned east. He was for a time on the staff of the Citizen, of Rome, New York, then was man- ager of the Republican, of Johnstown, New York, and afterward of the Ogdensburg Ad- vance. In 1883 he purchased the Wappinger Falls Chronicle, which he edited and published for seven years. In 1890 he sold it and in the same year bought the Courant, of Newcastle, Pennsylvania. He later disposed of that paper and came to Lockport, New York, where, in association with Obadiah C. Cutler, he pur- chased an interest in the Union-Sun. After a three years' partnership, he purchased Mr.
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Cutler's interest and those of the other owners. thus becoming sole owner of the Union-Sun. He remained proprietor and editor of this, one of the most influential newspapers of Niagara county, until his death. While jour- nalism was his chosen profession and the greatest interest in his life, Mr. Corson was also an influential, most capable man of busi- ness. He founded the Corson Manufacturing Company, incorporated in 1906. This com- pany was organized to do a general printing business and for the manufacture of folding boxes of all kinds. This enterprise .. one of the largest of its kind in western New York, has been a very successful one, and is now managed by Egbert Corson, son of the founder.
Mr. Corson was also at the time of his death a director of the H-O Company, of Buffalo. His life was a useful, busy one, and he won success by timely, well-directed effort. He was a Democrat in politics and in the com- munities mentioned exerted a wide, deep and lasting influence in behalf of his party and for the good of all the people. He held various public offices of trust and responsibility in his different places of residence, and, always de- serving, always secured public confidence and respect. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church and a liberal supporter of all public charities. He was a prominent mem- ber of the Masonic Order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter and Genesee Commandery of Knights Templar. His club was the Ellicott, of Buf- falo.
He married, September 9, 1873, Alice H. Carr, daughter of Egbert Eugene and Cor- nelia Alice (Loomis) Carr, of Rome, New York. Children: 1. Egbert, born November 30, 1884; educated in the public schools, Lock- port high school and the University of Penn- sylvania. Upon the death of his father he left college and assumed the management of the Union-Sun and of the Corson Manufactur- ing Company. Under his management both have been very successful and grown to greater proportions. He is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Benevolent Protec- tive Order of Elks, and of the Town and Country Club and Tuscarora Club, of Lock- port. 2. Marjorie, born February 13, 1890, at Marlboro-on-the-Hudson; educated in the Lockport high school, at the Castle, Tarry- town. New York, and Buffalo Female Semi- nary.
Mrs. Alice H. (Carr) Corson, since the death of her husband, has been president of the Corson Manufacturing Company and pub- lisher of the Lockport Union-Sun. She is an editorial writer of ability and versatility, her political leaders being widely quoted by other editors throughout the country. Her ideals are high and her purpose, the public good. She is a member and an ex-president of the New Century Club; member of the Study Club and of the City Federation of Lockport. The family home is at 261 Genesee street, Lockport.
Eleven centuries ago a sol- DICKINSON dier of fortune named Ivar made his appearance at the court of Halfdan Huilbein, king of Norway. He had been a shepherd boy, captured one day by a band of Northmen and carried away by sea. He drifted into a life of adventure and became a great favorite at the Norwegian court. The king made him general of his army and in 725 gave him his daughter Euri- thea in marriage, with the title Prince of the Uplands. When the king died the son of Ivar became heir to the throne and during his minority Ivar was regent. This son, Eystein, reigned until 755 and was succeeded by his son, Harold Harfager. Rollo, a prince of this line, overran Norway in 910. His sixth and youngest son, Walter, received the castle and town of Caen, as an inheritance. His great- grandson, Walter de Caen, accompanied Will- iam the Conqueror to England at the time of the conquest. From this nobleman the Dickin- sons, of Ely, in Cambridge, England, de- scended, thirteen generations of direct descent later. The name passed through many changes, Dykonson, Dykinson, Dykensonne, Dickerson and Dickinson being the more com- mon forms. William Dickinson, of the four- teenth generation, settled in Ely, Cambridge- shire, England, and married, 1594, Sarah Stacey. Their son, Nathaniel, is the Ameri- can ancestor of this branch of the Dickinson family.
(I) Nathaniel, son of William Dickinson, was born in Ely, England, 1600. He married, in 1630, at East Bergolat, Suffolk county, England, Anna, widow of William Gull. They emigrated to America and in 1636 or 1637 settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Nathan- iel was one of the leaders in that colony, and deputy. In 1647 he removed to Hadley,
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Massachusetts, where he was deacon of the church and first recorder of the town: also selectman. assessor, town magistrate and a member of the first board of trustees of Hop- kins Academy. He died at Hadley, June 16, 1676. He married a second wife, Anne By first marriage he had ten children.
(II) Joseph, son of Nathaniel Dickinson, the emigrant, was born 1632 and was slain in King Philip's war, September 4, 1675. He married Phobe Bracy. Five children.
(III) Deacon Nathaniel (2) Dickinson, son of Joseph Dickinson, was born May 20, 1670. He married Hannah White. Nine chil- dren.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Deacon Nathaniel (2) Dickinson, was born in Hatfield, Massa- chusetts, November 7, 1699. He married, April 2, 1724, Mary Smith. Five children.
(V) Noah, son of Jonathan Dickinson, was born about 1729, died March 28, 1815. He served in the revolutionary war with the rank of lieutenant. He married (first), April 28, 1757, a kinswoman, Mary Dickinson, who died June 1. 1791. He married (second) Su- san Ward. Children by both wives.
(VI) Philemon, son of Noah Dickinson, was born August 20, 1761, in Dutchess county, New York. On February 2, 1800, he with his brothers, John and Samuel, moved to the town of Bolton, Warren county, New York. He married Martha Trumble, born September 1, 1774; children of Philemon and Martha were : Lyman, born October 11, 1793 : Debora, August 28, 1795 ; Sarah, February 26, 1796; Silas, December 30, 1800; Electa, Au- gust 20, 1802; Hosea, February 9, 1803; Rachel, October 3, 1805; James, November 16, 1807; Eliza, January 11, 1811 ; Emma, April 13. 1813; Barber, September 4, 1815. (An- other son of Noah Dickinson, a brother of Philemon, moved to Cherry Valley, New York, about 1798; no trace of him after that time.
(VII) Hosea, son of Philemon Dickinson, was born in Bolton, Warren county, New York, February 9, 1803. Moved to town of Yates, Orleans county, New York, about 1825 ; about 1836 he moved to Newfane, Niagara county, New York, where he died December 2, 1848; he owned a small farm on the Bate- man road, just south of the Ridge road. He married (first), January 21, 1828, Sophronia R. Stockwell, born 1805, died January 18, 1836. The children of Hosea and Sophronia
R. were : 1. Daniel, born December 1, 1828, died March, 1903, at Charlotte, Eaton county, Michigan. He married Hannah Levings, at Albion, New York ; their children were : Mar- vin, Deone, widow of Frank Mikesel, and Luron D., all now residing at Charlotte, Eaton county, Michigan. 2. Emarilla, born July 21, 1830, died at Charlotte, Michigan, May, 1888. Joseph, born June 24, 1832, at Lyndonville, Orleans county, New York, moved to Cali- fornia about 1856, employed on the Leland Stanford estate, at Mayfield, California ; he is married and has four daughters : Maude, Jose- phine, Emma and Lillian, now living with their parents. 3. Sophronia, born December 4, 1835, at Lyndonville, New York, where she now resides; in March, 1859, she married Dr. Nathan P. Johnson, who died January 9, 1888. In 1837, Hosea Dickinson married (second) Joanna Lindsey, of Newfane, New York, who was born December 25, 1813, died March 27, 1888, in Newfane, New York; their children were: 4. George, born May 23, 1838, died as the result of an accident while working in a factory at Chicago, and was buried in New- fane, New York. 5. James, mentioned below. 6. Adelaide, twin of James, born August 13, 1843. at Newfane, New York, married Ste- phen S. Wilson, in December, 1863, who died in 1902; she now resides in Newfane, New York; their children are: Allen, Emma and Burt, all married and live with their families in Newfane, New York.
(VIII) James, son of Hosea Dickinson, born August 13, 1843, died in the town of Somerset, New York, January 16, 1907; buried in Wright's Corners Cemetery, New- fane, New York. He married, August 4, 1864, Harriet J. Branch, youngest daughter of Jef- ferson Liberty and Sarah (Meader) Branch, who was born in Warren county, New York, June 11, 1846, and now lives in the city of Lockport, New York. James Dickinson re- ceived a good education, and after reaching manhood taught school during the winters and boated on the Erie canal during the sum- mer. He began to accumulate and judiciously invested his savings in Niagara county farms, of several of which he became the owner. On one of these, the Philip Hoag farm of ninety- six acres, lying in the town of Somerset, he made his home and cultivated general crops. This farm is now owned by his son, Jay L. He was a thrifty, industrious man of high standing in his town. He was a Democrat.
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