USA > New York > Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume II > Part 5
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114
(IV) Edward (3), son of Ebenezer and Anna Spaulding, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, March 8, 1708. He resided in Nottingham, New Hampshire, where he deeded land with his wife Elizabeth in 1766. Children : Levi, of further mention ; Elizabeth, born November 26, 1741; Lucy, June 27, 1744; Esther, August 11, 1747 : Sarah, April 6, 1754.
(V) Captain Levi Spaulding, son of Ed- ward (3) and Elizabeth Spaulding, was born in Nottingham West (now Hudson) New Hampshire, October 23. 1737 ; died at Plain- field, Otsego county, New York, March I, 1825. After leaving the home farm he set- tled at Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, continu- ing his New Hampshire residence until about 1800, when he removed to Plainfield. New York, where he died twenty-five years later.
523
NEW YORK.
He was a prominent man in his town, serving as selectman in 1768 and 1774; moderator of town meetings, 1781-82-85-86-91 ; representa- tive to general court at Concord, 1784, being the second man to be selected for that office from his town. He served in the revolution- ary war as captain, Third Regiment Volun- teers. This regiment was engaged at the battle of Bunker Hill, where Captain Levi Spaulding was in command of his company, and history relates that the New Hampshire troops ren- dered gallant and efficient service. He was at the battle of Trenton, and at Valley Forge during that terrible winter of 1777-78. He was afterwards transferred and came under the immediate command of General Washing- ton, serving throughout the war, and wit- nessed the final surrender at Yorktown. He received an honorable discharge and was in receipt of a captain's pension until his death. He married (first) Anna Burns, (second) Lois Goodrich, December 30, 1778; of his eleven children, eight were by his first wife. Children : 1. Betsey, born November 18, 1759;
married - Holt. 2. Olive, April 8, 1762; married Lovell Lewis, and removed to Lewis- ton, New York. 3. Edward, of further men- tion. 4. George, born September 14, 1766; came to his death by drowning, while yet a young man. 5. Martha, born April 6, 1768; married (first) Joseph Knight, of New Ips- wich, New Hampshire; (second) April II, 1793,- - Emerson. 6. Esther, born July 7, 1770. 7. Levi (2), born January 25, 1772; killed by being thrown from a sleigh, Feb- ruary 26, 1824; married Clara Godard, and left issue: Ruth, David, Levi, Dana, Nancy, Levi Burns, Clarissa and Sylvester. 8. John, born about 1774; married Putnam ; they both lived to the great age of ninety-eight years, dying the same year, in Marlow, New Hampshire; children: John, Putnam and Nehemiah. 9. Benjamin Goodrich, born Sep- tember 9, 1779. 10. Sewall, born March I, 1782; settled in Plainfield, New York, where he died August 1, 1825 ; married, January 3, 18II, Nancy, daughter of Amos and Phoebe (Covey) Burdick; children: Louisa, Amos Burdick, Salome and Melissa. II. Lois Good- rich, born February 16, 1784; married Stephen Abbott ; settled at Nashville, New York, where he died about 1864; she after 1870.
(VI) Edward (4), son of Captain Levi and his first wife Anna (Burns) Spaulding, was born in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, No-
vember 18, 1764; died in Alexander, New York, September 14, 1845. He was a farmer, and an early settler at Plainfield, Otsego county, New York ; later removed to Summer Hill, Cayuga county, and thence to Alexander, Genesee county, New York, where both he and wife died. He married, October 30, 1788, Mehitable, born September 25, 1770, died July 31, 1838, daughter of Rev. Sewall Goodrich, of Lyndeboro, New Hampshire. Children : I. Anna Burns, born September 15, 1789, mar- ried (first) George Gray, died 1814; of Sum- mier Hill, New York, April 25, 1808; married (second) August 20, 1817, Loren Hodges; died October 1, 1846. 2. Phebe Putnam, born September 1, 1791; died November 26, 1821 ; married, April 28, 1808, Sheffield Burdick, died November 26, 1821. 3. Mehitable, born November 16, 1793; married Samuel Crosby. 4. Nathaniel, born August 28, 1795; soldier of war of 1812, enlisting from Summer Hill; received a pension for his services, which con- tinued until his death; was a manufacturer of joiners' tools ; married (first) Susan Stage, of Groton, New York; ( second) Julia Bradley Milliken; (third) Esther Jane Johnson ; re- sided in Ithaca and died in Newfield, New York, December 13, 1871; by his three wives had eleven children. 5. George, born Novem- ber I, 1797; married, February 13, 1828, Olive Selover, born November 21, 1802; died November 18, 1862. 6. Elbridge Gerry, born 1802, died young. 7. Lucy, born May 20, 1804; married, January 16, 1823, Clark Hammond. 8. Warren, born November 10, 1806; married (first) May 8, 1827, Caroline Stillson, of Auburn, New York; (second) November 20, 1859, Lavinia Chesley, at Burlington, Calhoun county, Michigan; ten children, all by first wife. 9. Elbridge Gerry (2), of further men- tion.
(VII) Elbridge Gerry, son of Edward and Mehitable (Goodrich) Spaulding, was born February 24, 1809, at Summer Hill, Cayuga county, New York ; died May 5, 1897. When about twenty years of age he commenced the study of law in the offices of Fitch & Dibble, Batavia county, New York, also teaching school and acting as recording clerk in the county clerk's office during the first two years in order to meet his necessary expenses. In 1832 he entered the law office of Hon. Harvey Putnam, of Attica, where he continued his law studies until his admission to the Genesee county har. In 1834 he removed to Buffalo,
524
NEW YORK.
New York, where he continued the study and practice of law, being connected with the law firm of Potter & Babcock. At the May term of the supreme court in 1836 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of New York state as an attorney and solicitor in chancery. In 1836 he formed a law partner- ship with George R. Babcock, and later with Heman B. Potter, continuing until 1844, and later was associated with Hon. John Ganson, with whom he continued until 1844. During his legal career he enjoyed an extensive and lucrative practice, but he is best known for his public life and services. In 1836 he was ap- pointed city clerk of Buffalo, and in 1841 was elected alderman, serving as chairman of the executive committee. In 1847 he was elected mayor of Buffalo. Among the important meas- ures inaugurated during his administration was the adoption by the state of the Erie and Ohio canal basins for enlarging harbor and docking facilities at Buffalo, the organization of the Buffalo Gas Light Company, for light- ing the city, and the adoption of an extensive system of sewerage. In 1848 he was elected to the house of assembly, serving as chair- man of the committee on canals. In Novem- ber, 1848, he was elected a member of the thirty-first congress, which met December, 1849. He supported on every ballot Robert C. Winthrop for speaker ; served on the commit- tee on foreign relations ; opposed the exten- sion of slavery on all occasions ; supported the policy of President Taylor in admitting Cali- fornia as a free state; and opposed the Fugi- tive Slave law and the compromise measures adopted in 1850, which received the approba- tion of President Fillmore, who succeeded after the death of President Taylor. In 1853 he was elected treasurer of New York state, and ex officio a member of the canal board, serving two years from January 1, 1854. As a member of the canal board he approved the plans and let contracts for enlarging the Erie and Oswego canals. He opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854; took an active part in organizing the Republican party ; was for several years a member of the state central committee, and in 1860 was an active member of the congressional executive com- mittee in conducting the campaign which re- sulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. In 1858 he was elected to the thirty-sixth congress; re-elected in 1860, serving four years on the ways and means
committee. As chairman of the sub-commit- tee of ways and means he drafted the national currency bank bill, and originated the legal tender act for the issue of treasury fundable notes, to circulate as money, which he intro- duced in the house of representatives, De- cember 30, 1861. He advocated it as a war measure, and opened the debate upon the bill in an exhaustive speech, showing the impera- tive necessity of the measure to sustain the army and navy. While severely criticised, the arguments he presented have never been suc- cessfully controverted, and had great influence in carrying the bill through congress. Nearly all the most important loan laws for carrying on the war originated with the sub-committee of ways and means, of which Mr. Spaulding was chairman. In 1869 he issued a financial history of the war entitled "History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued during the Great Rebellion." In a letter to him dated August 3, 1869, Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, said, in reference to this his- tory, "In all our early financial trials, while the war was most menacing, you held a posi- tion of great trust, giving you opportunity and knowledge. The first you used at the time most patriotically, and the second you now use for the instruction of the country." After the close of the civil war, Mr. Spaulding re- tired from public life, devoting his time to his banking and business interest until his final retirement. He had been engaged in banking since 1852. In 1864 he organized the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Buffalo, owned a large majority of the stock, and was its president until his death.
Proud of his revolutionary ancestry, Mr. Spaulding erected in 1875 a monument in Buffalo dedicated to the honor of the Spauld- ings who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill, of whom there were seven, as shown on one side of the monument :
LEVI SPALDIN
Joseph
Thomas
Jonas
Uriah
Eben
John
William
Ebenezer
1775
1875
June 17 100 years of progress.
Mr. Spaulding spent his last years in quiet retirement at Buffalo, enjoying his beautiful home, with surroundings in accord with his cultivated tastes. He was a member of the
525
NEW YORK.
church and of many of the city's leading civil, charitable and philanthropic organizations. He married (first) September 5, 1837, Jane An- toinnette Rich, who died August 6, 1841. He married (second) September 5, 1842, Nancy Selden Strong, who died May 4, 1852; mar- ried (third) May 2, 1854, Delia Strong, widow of Clark Robinson. Children, all by second marriage: I. Charlotte, born July 17, 1843 ; married, February 27, 1866, Franklin Sidway ; residence, Buffalo, New York. 2. Edward Rich (see forward). 3. Samuel Strong, born in Buffalo, New York, June 26, 1849; mar- ried, October 15, 1875, in Buffalo, Annie Mar- garet Watson, born September 30, 1852 (see Watson) ; children : i. Marion, born November 24, 1876; married, May 23, 1899, William G. Meadows, born November 1, 1870 ; child : Wil- liam G. (2), born March 4, 1901; Samuel Strong (2), born October 30, 1902; Rufus Watson, born July 28, 1908; Ann, born No- vember 28, 1909. ii. Charlotte, born November II, 1879; married, May 5, 1908, Langdon All- bright, born December 15, 1880; children: Charlotte, born January 15, 1910; Harriet, twin of Charlotte. iii. Elbridge Gerry, born August 2, 1881 ; educated at St. Mark's Pre- paratory School, Southboro, .Massachusetts ; Yale University, Sheffield Scientific School, graduating class of 1905; now of firm of Spaulding & Spaulding, wholesale dealers in coal and coke; member of Saturn, Country, and Auto clubs of Buffalo, and Yale Club of New York City ; married, November 3, 1909, Marion, only child of W. Caryl and Grace (Keeller) Ely. iv. Stephen Van Rensselaer, born February 24, 1884; educated at St. Mark's, Southboro, Massachusetts; now of firm of Spaulding & Spaulding; member of Saturn, Country, and Auto clubs of Buffalo ; married, December 29, 1906, Marion, born August 27, 1884, daughter of Thomas C. and Lizzie (Atwater) Perkins.
(VIII) Edward Rich, son of Elbridge Gerry Spaulding, was born in Buffalo, New York, November 7, 1845. He was educated in the city schools, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. At about the age of eighteen he entered the Farmers & Mechanics Bank, founded by his father, became cashier, and rose to the presidency. He also became presi- dent of the Buffalo Gas Light Company and held this office until its consolidation into the present company in 1897. This year practi- cally marked his retirement from active busi-
ness. He retained his Buffalo residence, but occupied it only about two months a year, passing most of his time in Santa Barbara, California, where he built a handsome home. On Saturday, April 4, 1908, he was injured in a runaway accident in Santa Barbara, Cali- fornia, and died April 8th. Later the remains were conveyed to Buffalo and entered in the family lot at Forest Lawn cemetery. He mar- ried, January 6, 1875, Mary Tenney, daughter of Amos A. Blanchard, of Buffalo, and grand- daughter of Major William Tenney, of Hano- ver, New Hampshire. Children : Bertha, born November 27, 1875; Edward Blanchard, born October 31, 1879, died March 4, 1880; Harry Blanchard, of whom further; Samuel Strong, born January 1, 1884; Albert Tenney, July 25, 1886; Ruth Tenney, September 15, 1887; Ed- ward Selden, March 7, 1891.
(IX) Harry Blanchard, son of Edward Rich and Mary Tenney (Blanchard) Spaulding, was born in Buffalo, New York, October 19, 1881.
He was prepared at the Thatcher School, Ojai Valley, California, then entered Yale Uni- versity, where he was graduated, class of 1905. His business life began with the Bell Tele- phone Company, with whom he spent one year, connected with the purchasing department. He was then elected treasurer of the John R. Keim Mills Company, of Buffalo, remaining in that connection until February, 1910, when the company sold their mills and business. In the same month and year Mr. Spaulding was elected treasurer of the Long Grate Bar Com- pany, engaged in the manufacture of revolving and rocking boiler grates. He is an Inde- pendent in politics, and a member of the Pres- byterian church. His clubs are the Saturn, Auto, Country of Buffalo, Yale of New York City, and the Elihu of New Haven. He mar- ried, October 3, 1908, Mary Louise, born Jan- uary 27, 1887, daughter of Harry T. Randall, cashier of the Manufacturers and Traders Bank of Buffalo.
(The Watson Line).
John Watson died in 1728; he was of North Kingston, Rhode Island. May 14, 1683, he took John Straight for an apprentice "to serve sixteen years from the first of March last to learn his master's trade of tailoring." In 1687 he was constable; 1688, grand juror; 1690, conservator of the peace; 1690, deputy. He married (first) Dorcas Gardiner : (second)
526
NEW YORK.
Rebecca Gardiner, supposed to have been sister of his first wife; six children.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Dorcas Gardiner, was born July 22, 1676; died November 18, 1772. He was of South Kings- ton, Rhode Island ; was deputy, 1718-21-22-23- 24-25-26; married, April 8, 1703, Hannah Champlin ; died October 31, 1720; seven chil- dren.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) and Han- nah (Champlin) Watson, was born March 13. 1710 ; married
(IV) John (4), son of John (3), was born May 23, 1737; married, October 17, 1764, Desire Wheeler, born November 27, 1748.
(V) Rufus, son of John (4) and Desire (Wheeler) Watson, was born 1774; died 1856; married Mercy Stanton, born May 22, 1784; died March 16, 1835.
(VI) Stephen Van Rensselaer, son of Rufus and Mercy (Stanton) Watson, was born June 13, 1817 ; died January 15, 1880; married, Jan- uary 7, 1847, Charlotte Amelia Sherman.
(VII) Annie M., daughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer Watson ; married Samuel Strong Spaulding.
STOCKTON The first person bearing the Stockton name to come to this country was Rev. Jonas Stockton, M. A., who with his son Timothy, then aged fourteen years, came to Virginia in the ship "Bona Nova," in 1620. He was for many years incumbent of the parishes of Elizabeth City and Bermuda Hundred, and be- came the founder of a numerous family of de- scendants, many of whom have become dis- tinguished. His cousin Prudence, daughter of Rev. John Stockton, rector of Alchester and Kingholt, married, June 18, 1612, Edward Holyoke, of Tamworth, later of Lynn, Massa- chusetts, and became the foundress of the Holyoke family in America. The next Stock- tons to emigrate was, according to Hotten's "Lists," Thomas Stockton, "aged twenty-one," who sailed from London to Boston in the ship "True Love," September 16, 1635. Of him nothing more is known. Finally, Richard Stockton, the founder of the family at present under consideration.
(I) Richard Stockton was found in Charles- ton, Massachusetts, as early as 1639, where he is witness to a deed. The next reference to him is among the original patentees named in the charter of the town of Flushing, Long
Island, where he appears to have been a prom- inent man, being rated among the rather well- to-do citizens of the place, taking a prominent part in the controversies between the town and Governor Peter Stuyvesant on religious matters, holding the lieutenancy of the Horse Guard of Flushing, and declining, with the consent of Governor Niccolls, an election to the same position in the Foot Guard. Between 1670 and 1680 he became converted to the tenets of the Society of Friends, and selling his Long Island property he removed to Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he purchased twelve hundred acres of land from George Hutchinson, where he lived until his death, between January 25, 1705-06, and October 10, 1707, the dates of the executing and filing of his will. He mar- ried Abigail - -, who survived him, being alive April 14, 1714, and who, there is some reason to suppose, may have been his second wife. Children,, all probably born in New England or Long Island: Richard, John, Job, Abigail, Mary, Sarah, Hannah and Elizabeth.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) Stockton, was born about 1650 or 1660, died in Piscataway, Middlesex county, New Jersey, between June 25 and August 15, 1709. His father took him with him to Springfield town- ship, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he remained until after his marriage, when he re- moved to Piscataway. Later he bought from William Penn the famous fifty-five hundred acres on which the town and university of Princeton now stand, making his residence on a part of it. In 1705 he was commissioned by Lord Cornbury, ensign of the militia com- pany of Springfield and Northampton town- ships, under Captain Richard Ellison, and in June, 1709, he became one of the trustees of the Stony Brook Friends' meeting house. He married, at Chesterfield monthly meeting, No- vember 8, 1691, Susanna (Witham) Robinson, born in Whitby, November 29, 1668, died April 30, 1749, daughter of Robert and Ann Witham, of Whitby, Yorkshire, England, and widow of Thomas Robinson, of Crosswicks. After her second husband's death she married (third) Judge Thomas Leonard, of Princeton. Chil- dren, all born in Piscataway: I. Richard, April 2, 1693, died March, 1760; married Hester Smith, of Jamaica, Long Island ; chil- dren : John and Ruth. 2. Samuel (of whom further). 3. Joseph, May 5. 1697, died 1770; married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Amy
527
NEW YORK.
(Whitehead) Doughty; children : Daniel, Joseph, Doughty, Samuel, John, Amy, Eliza- beth, Mary, Sarah, married Richard, son of Joseph and Mary (Farnsworth) Stockton. 4. Robert, April 3, 1699, died in 1744-45 ; mar- ried (first) ; (second) Rebecca Phillips, of Maidenhead; children: Robert, Thomas, Job, Susanna, Eunice, Elizabeth, Sarah. 5. John, father of Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration of Independence ; he married, February 21, 1729, Abigail, daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Stockton) Phillips, of Maidenhead, who was born October 9, 1708. 6. Thomas, born 1703.
(III) Samuel, son of Richard (2) and Susanna (Witham) (Robinson) Stockton, was born February 12, 1694-95, died 1739. He inherited five hundred acres of his father's estate and lived the life of a country gentle- man. He married (first) Amy, daughter of Jacob and Amy (Whitehead) Doughty ; ( sec- ond) Rachel, daughter of Colonel Joseph and Ruth (Horner) Stout. Children by first mar- riage, Samuel and Amy ; by second marriage : Joseph, who remained loyal to the King dur- ing the revolution; went to the Bermuda Islands, where he founded the Bermuda branch of the family; Richard Witham (of whom further) ; Jacob; Rachel; Ann, married Rev. Andrew Hunter, father of the famous revo- lutionary chaplain.
(IV) Richard Witham, second son of Sam- uel and Rachel (Stout) Stockton, was major of the Sixth Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists). He was surprised with sixty-three privates of his command and taken prisoner, February 18, 1777, by Colonel John Neilson, and was sent in irons to Philadelphia by order of General Putnam. To this course General Washington protested, he considering Major Stockton should be treated as a prisoner-of- war, not as a felon. He was tried and later accompanied the Tory refugees to New Bruns- wick, taking with him four of his sons and a daughter. Richard Stockton, of Somerset county, New Jersey, was advertised August 28, 1779, as "a fugitive now with the enemy," probably the same person. He married Mary Hatfield, daughter of Joseph Hatfield, of Eliz- abeth, New Jersey. He became one of the original patentees of Parrtown, later St. John, New Brunswick, where he died. He had twelve or thirteen children, and the eldest son was Charles Witham (of whom further).
(V) Charles Witham, son of Major Richard
Witham and Mary (Hatfield) Stockton, was born at Princeton, New Jersey, July 16, 1756, died at Walton, New York, December 1, 1822. He married (first) January 14, 1779, at New- ton, New Jersey, Elizabeth North, born Jan- uary 13, 1764, died July 18, 1805. He married (second) Elizabeth Coleman, born February 4, 1777, died April 14, 1848. He had thirteen children by his first wife, six by his second.
(VI) Dr. Charles Lewis Stockton, second child of Charles Witham and his second wife, Elizabethı (Coleman) Stockton, was born in Walton, New York, January 15, 1815, died in Capeville, Virginia, May 23, 1874. He was reared in the family of Erastus Root, who was the husband of his eldest sister. Erastus Root was born in Hebron, Connecticut, March 16, 1773, died suddenly in New York City, while en route for Washington, D. C., December 24, 1846. He was a member of the state assembly, 1798-1802, and many terms subsequently ; a Democratic representative in the eighth, eleventh, fourteenth and twenty-second con- gresses, 1803-05-09-11-15-17-31-33 ; state sena- tor, 1818-22-30; lieutenant-governor of the state, 1823-25, and again state senator, 1841- 45. He was the author of "Addresses to the People" (1824).
Dr. Stockton was educated in the public schools and Delhi Academy, Walton, Delaware county, New York, after which he matriculated at Fairfield Medical College, Herkimer, from which he was graduated at the age of nineteen years. For four years he was engaged in mer- cantile business with his kinsmen, the St. Johns, in New York. He then renounced business life and took up the study of medicine with his brothers, William Severyn and Rich- ard Witham Stockton, the latter a surgeon in the war of 1812, received his degree of M.D., and practiced his profession in Chautauqua county, New York, and in the states of Ohio and Indiana. On horseback, with saddle bags filled with drugs and medicine, he traveled through the states of Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, treating such cases as he met with on his journeyings. After a few years spent in this migratory fashion he returned to New York, settling at Ripley, where he married. He again took up his rov- ing life; he spent six years in the state of Indiana, going from there to Ohio, thence to Virginia, where he remained until his death. He was a man of decided talent and brilliant qualities, but so filled with the spirit of travel
528
NEW YORK.
and adventure that he was not content to settle and work upward to the high positions he was qualified to fill. He was a strong Abolitionist, his southern life having enabled him to see slavery as it existed in the cotton states in its worst form. He supported the Republican party for many years, but subsequently, dur- ing the reconstruction period, was affiliated with the Democracy. He married, January 16, 1837, Sarah Shaeffer, of Oneida county, New York, born May 23, 1820, died at Buffalo, New York, October 11, 1900. Children : Caro- line Elizabeth, born January II, 1838, died in March, 1841; Henry Eugene, born August 9, 1839, died on the same day as his sister, Caro- line E .; Mary Gertrude, born January 5, 1846; Emma Adalaide, March 15, 1848; Charles Gleason (of whom further).
(VII) Dr. Charles Gleason Stockton, only son of Dr. Charles Lewis and Sarah (Shaeffer) Stockton, was born in Ohio, August 27, 1853. His early education was under private tutors in Virginia and Ohio, after which he prepared for college at West- field Academy, New York. He decided on the profession of medicine, entered the medical department of the University of Buffalo, whence he was graduated M.D., class of 1878. For ten years he was engaged in general prac- tice in the city of Buffalo. Since 1888 he has been Professor of Medicines in the University of Buffalo ; was surgeon of the Seventy-fourth Regiment, New York National Guard, with the rank of major ; past president of the Medi- cal Society, State of New York, and Buffalo Academy of Medicine; for ten years state medical examiner for the Royal Arcanum ; for three years physician at the Penitentiary ; house physician at the Buffalo General Hospi- tal; attending physician since 1888; consulting physician at the Erie County Hospital, Ernest Wende Hospital, Sisters' Hospital, and at the New York State Hospital for Crippled Chil- dren, at Tarrytown, New York. Dr. Stockton is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and of the Saturn and Park clubs of Buffalo.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.