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(VI) Liberty, son of Levi and Bathsheba (Babbett) Pierce, was born in Spencer, Mas- sachusetts, October 19, 1774, died in Burling- ton, New York. February 8, 1864. He re- moved from Massachusetts to New York, set- tling in Otsego county, where he was one of
the hardy pioneers of the town of Burlington. Here he bought and cleared land, wresting a farın from the forest and compelling the wilds to retreat before cultivated fields. He was a Baptist in religion. He married, June 29, 1797, at Peru, Berkshire county, Massachu- setts, Lydia Beals, born March II, 1774, in Abington, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, died September 2, 1852. She came from a prominent revolutionary family that figured especially well at the battle of Bunker Hill. Children: Gordon, Orin, Gaylor, Vador, Duane (of whom further), and Enoch. All these sons reached the ages seventy to ninety years except Enoch, who died at the age of twenty-one years.
(VII) Duane, fifth son of Liberty and Lydia (Beals) Pierce, was born in Burling- ton, Otsego county, New York, January II, 1809, died in Buffalo, New York, October 20, 1881. He was educated in the district schools, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to his Uncle Isaac Pierce, of Berkshire county. Massachusetts, to learn the trade of carpen- ter, joiner and millwright. After gaining an expert knowledge of these callings he returned to Otsego county, where he worked at his trade and for several years operated a saw mill and sash, door and blind factory. In 1838 he removed with his family to Herki- mer, New York, where he built a cotton mill at Van Hornesville, for an operating com- pany. In 1841 he again removed with his family to Plum, Venango county, Pennsyl- vania, traveling by the Erie canal to Buffalo, thence to Erie, Pennsylvania, by steamboat, finishing his journey by team. He built many of the early saw, flouring and woolen mills in Northwestern Pennsylvania, where he also owned and conducted a farm. In 1827 he retired from active life and removed to Buf- falo, New York, where he died. In politics he was a Republican, and in religious faith a Universalist. He married, January 23, 1833, at Hartwick, Otsego county, New York, Mary Morse, born in Burlington, Otsego county, January 21, 1817, daughter of Nathaniel Morse, a pioneer settler of Otsego county, who came there from Connecticut. Nathaniel was a son of Stephen, son of Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1), son of William, son of Anthony Morse, the emigrant ancestor, born in Marl- boro, Wiltshire, England; came to America in 1635, settling at Newbury, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Morse inherited a large farm from
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his father Stephen, and was a prominent farmer of Otsego county. Children of Duane and Mary (Morse) Pierce: I. Maryette, born January 30, 1834, died in Van Hornesville, Herkimer county, New York, February 17, 1840. 2. Amelia M., born January 19, 1836, died January 20, 1900; she married, April, 1857, Thomas Tipton; one son, Ray Pierce Tipton. 3. Ray Vaughn, of whom further. 4. Franklin Duane, of further mention. 5. John Edmund, born June 10, 1857, died July 18, 1881, after a brief but promising busi- ness career; married, November 28, 1879, Louise M. Whicher, of Buffalo, New York.
(VIII) Franklin Duane, son of Duane and Mary (Morse) Pierce, was born February 22, 1853. He was educated in the Buffalo high school and Williams Academy. His pro- fessional education was obtained at the Eclec- tic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, gradu- ated, M. D., class of 1875, and at the Uni- versity of the City of New York, Medical College, class of 1878. He practiced medicine in Buffalo, New York, from 1875 to 1886, except one year spent at University Medical College, New York, and in hospitals practic- ing medicine and surgery. From 1886 to 1900 he conducted a private sanitarium at Union Springs, New York. From 1900 to 1903 he practiced medicine in Syracuse, New York. In the latter year he located in Jack- son county, Alabama, and engaged in the de- velopment of coal and timber lands, and is now (1911) so engaged, being vice-president and manager of the Pierce Development Com- pany. He is a member of the Unitarian church, and of Warren Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Union Springs, New York. He is a Republican in politics ; he has never sought public office. He married (first) April 17, 1876, in Buffalo, New York, Ida J. Con- stantine, born in Hamilton, New York, Sep- tember 13, 1854, died June 5, 1877, in Buf- falo, New York, daughter of James and Helen Constantine; her father was a veteran of the civil war. Other children of James and Helen Constantine are: Charles, Frederick, Nellie, Lafayette and Myrtie May, who mar- ried Professor Frank Fosdick. Franklin Duane Pierce married (second) May 26, 1879, in Brooklyn, New York, Alice Baker, born in Connecticut, May 3, 1854, daughter of Daniel and Anna Baker, whose children are: William N., Alice, Caroline, Amanda and Ida Louise. Daniel Baker was a veteran of the
civil war, serving from New York state. Child of Mr. Pierce by first marriage : Frank- lin Duane Pierce (2), born May 31, 1877; was graduated from Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, New York, at about the age of sixteen, and from Union Springs high school a year later. He entered the Medical Department of Syracuse University, whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1904, and later from New York Post-Graduate Medical School. He specializes in ear, nose and throat diseases, and has taken post-graduate and special courses in different noted institutions. In 1904 he became connected with the World's Dispensary Medical Association at the In- valid's Hotel, of which he is now (1911) in charge. He is director of the Pierce Develop- ment Company. He is a member of the Na- tional and State Eclectic Medical Society, member of the Liberal Club and other organi- zations. He is an enthusiastic sportsman, de- voted to the sports of the forest and stream. His passion is for firearms of improved makes and kinds, of which he has an unusually fine collection. He is an independent Republican, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married, July 21, 1904, Louise Julia, daughter of George W. Boxall, retired, of Buffalo. Child : Duane Boxall, born at Buf- falo May 12, 1907.
(VIII) Dr. Ray Vaughn Pierce, son of Duane and Mary (Morse) Pierce, was born at Stark, Herkimer county, New York, August 6, 1840.
His preliminary education was obtained in private and public schools, after which he entered the Eclectic Medical College of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, whence he was graduated, M. D., class of 1862. He began the prac- tice of his profession at Titusville, Pennsyl- vania, where he remained four years. In 1867 he removed to Buffalo, New York, where he embarked in the manufacture and sale of proprietary medicines. He was remarkably successful in business and later, as a logical outgrowth of his large business, established in Buffalo The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute. The entire business is now com- bined, and is known everywhere as the World's Dispensary and Medical Association, of which Dr. Pierce is president. He has written and published several household medi- cal works, and innumerable essays and treat- ises on medicine and health. He has not only attained professional distinction but has
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reaped honors in civil life. In 1877 he was elected state senator from the Thirty-first district, Erie county, serving as chairman of the Committee on Public Health, canals and railroads. At the expiration of this term in the state senate he was elected representative in Congress, serving in the Forty-sixth Con- gress. Politically, Dr. Pierce is a Republi- can.
He has many other business interests, in- cluding the Pierce Development Company of Jackson county, Alabama, heavily interested in timber and mining properties. He owns three hundred acres of the original tract in the Berkshires, to which his ancestor Levi came nearly a century and a half ago with his family and household effects, drawn by an ox team. This farm has not been in the family continuously, but was purchased by Dr. Pierce, who takes great pride in possess- ing a part at least of the ancestral acres. He married Mary Jane Smith. Children : Valen- tine Mott, of whom further. Hugh C. and Ralph Waldo, both further mentioned below ; Ida Belle, died aged eighteen years; Oakley Pierce and Franklin, both of whom died in infancy.
(IX) Dr. Valentine Mott Pierce, eldest son of Dr. Ray Vaughn and Mary J. (Smith) Pierce, was born in Chapmanville, Pennsyl- vania, August 7, 1865.
He was educated in the Buffalo Classi- cal School, Harvard University (A. B., class of 1888), Buffalo University Medical Department, M. D., 1891. He practiced in the hospitals two years and in the Surgical Institute, Buffalo, and in 1893 became man- ager of the World's Dispensary and Medical Association, and is also secretary of that cor- poration. He is also president of the Pierce Glass Company; president of the Charter Bond Company of New York City; president of the Pierce Development Company of Jack- son county, Alabama, a corporation devoted to coal mining and lumbering. He is a Re- publican in politics, and was especially active in the Mckinley and Roosevelt campaigns. He is a member of the Masonic order, and of Theta Delta Chi. His clubs are: The Hasty Pudding of Harvard; Buffalo, Ellicott, and Harvard, of Buffalo; Automobile, Advertisers, Yacht and Launch, of Buffalo; the Genesee Association of New York City ; Harvard Club of New York City; and Western New York Medical Association. He married, February
5, 1910, at New York City, Matilda Louise, daughter of John Kamerer.
(IX) Hugh C., second son of Dr. Ray Vaughn and Mary J. (Smith) Pierce, was born in Buffalo, New York, May 8, 1875. He attended Heathcote School of Buffalo, Peeks- kill Military Academy, Lawrence Scientific School and Harvard University, graduating therefrom as an electrical engineer. In 1905 he was elected president of the American En- gine Company of Boundbrook, New Jersey, where he now resides, being an extensive dealer in real estate. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Plainfield Hunt Club and the Harvard Club of New York City. He married, March 1, 1907, Jessie Per- kins, of Brooklyn, New York. No children.
(IX) Ralph Waldo, third son of Dr. Ray Vaughn and Mary J. (Smith) Pierce, was born in Buffalo, New York, November 6, 1883. He was educated in Heathcote School of Buf- falo, Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Phillips Andover Academy, Massachusetts. and Bryant & Stratton's Business College, Buffalo. In 1902 he became associated with his father in business, entering the advertis- ing department, later in the accounting de- partment of the World's Dispensary and Medical Association. In 1904 he was elected treasurer and director of the corporation and chosen advertising manager. He is also treasurer of the Pierce Development Company of Jackson county, Alabama, and treasurer of the Pierce Coal and Lumber Company. He is a member of the Society of Natural Science, Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo Poultry Association, the Buffalo Business Men's Club, Buffalo Club, Country Club, Au- dubon Club and Automobile Club. He mar- ried, July 27, 1904, Florence M., daughter of John C. Kingston, of Buffalo. Children : Ray Vaughn and Mary Jane Pierce.
Thomas Woodford, immi- WOODFORD grant ancestor, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came among the early settlers to Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. He was in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1632. In 1633 he was one of the party led by Rev. Thomas Hooker to Hartford, of which he became one of the founders. During his stay there he took an active part in the affairs of the colony, serv- ing at various times as town crier, fence viewer and in other offices. He married,
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March 4, 1635, Mary Blott. In 1654 he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he be- came a proprietor, and where he died March 6, 1667. He is mentioned among the settlers of Springfield in 1636 in the Compact. His will was dated April 26, 1665, and proved March 26, 1667. He bequeathed to daughter Mary and her children; daughters Hannah and Sarah; sons-in-law Isaac Sheldon and Nehemiah Allen. Children : Hannah, married Samuel Allen; Joseph, mentioned below ; Sarah, married Nehemiah Allen; Mary, mar- ried Isaac Sheldon.
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Woodford, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. He moved to Farmington, Connecticut, where he acquired a large tract of land. He died there in 1701 and was buried in what was known as Cider Brook cemetery. He mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Re- becca (Olmstead) Newell. Children : Mary, died in 1723; Rebecca, married John Porter ; Esther, died in 1742; Sarah, died in 1750; Hannah, married Thomas North; Joseph, mentioned below; Elizabeth, born 1682; Su- san, married Deacon Anthony Judd; Abigail, born 1685.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) Wood- ford, was born in 1677 in Farmington, in the Society of Northington, now Avon, Con- necticut, and settled in what is known as Nod, where he owned a large tract of land and was a farmer. He died in 1760 and was buried in Cider Brook cemetery. He was one of the organizers and a prominent mem- ber of the church. He married (first) in 1699, Lydia Smith ; married ( second) Sarah Garrett, widow, born in 1668, died in 1769, over a hundred years old. Children : Child, died in infancy, 1702; Lydia, born 1702, died 1723; Mary, 1704, died in childhood; Jo- seph, 1705. Children of second wife: Eliza- beth, 1707; Mary, 1709; Rebecca, 1711; Sam- uel, 1712; Sarah, 1714; Rebecca, 1716; John, mentioned below ; Susanna; William, 1722.
(IV) John, son of Joseph (2) Woodford, was born in Northington, Connecticut, in 1718. He married, July 1, 1723, Sarah, born June 23, 1729, daughter of Amos and Saralı ( Pettibone) Phelps. Amos Phelps was born at Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1708, died June 11, 1777, served in revolution for three months in 1776, Fourth Regiment; his wife Sarah was daughter of John and Mary (Buell) Pet- tibone; his father was Joseph Phelps, born
at Windsor, Connecticut, August 20, 1667. Joseph Phelps, father of Joseph Phelps, was born in England in 1629 and lived at Dor- chester, Massachusetts, and Windsor ; he mar- ried, September 20, 1660, Hannah, daughter of Roger Newton ; William Phelps, immigrant and father of Joseph Phelps, was baptized at Tewksbury Abbey Church, England, August 19, 1599, son of John and Dorothy Phelps. John Woodford died in 1802 at Avon. He was called captain.
(VI) James Woodford, grandson of John Woodford, was born about 1786 in Connecti- cut. (In 1790 Elijah, Joseph, William Jr., Dud- ley, Samuel, Selah, William and Isaac were heads of families in Farmington, Hartford county, Connecticut, and one of them was father of James.) James Woodford settled early in life in Onondago county, New York, and followed farming. He married Cynthia Edson. Children: Harriet, Laura, Eliza, Es- ther, Grove, Alanson, William, mentioned be- low.
(VII) William, son of James Woodford, was born February 18, 1807, at Onondaga Hill, Onondaga county, New York, died April 2, 1885, at Millville, Orleans county, New York. He received his early education in the public schools, and for a time followed farming on his father's homestead. After- ward he settled at East Shelby, Orleans county, where he bought a farm. He married (first) Margaret Bent. He married (sec- ond) Dolly Ann (Smith) Wood, a widow, in 1843. She was born in Saratoga county, and died in Millville, New York. Children by first wife: I. George, born September, 1834, died in 1902. 2. James, born in December, 1837. Children by second wife: 3. Celia J., born May 12, 1844 ; married Lorenzo D. Gif- ford and had Frances C., married Anson G. Wilbur, of Hartford, Connecticut, and An- son E. Gifford, who died aged eight years. 4. Ella A., born October 12, 1845; married John Wood, of Savannah, New York. 5. Charles J., born October 7, 1847; living in California. 6. Eugene E., mentioned below. 7. Myrta M., born March, 1856, died in in- fancy.
(VIII) Eugene E., son of William Wood- ford, was born March 4, 1851, at Millville, Orleans county, New York. He was edu- cated there in the public schools. He assisted his father on the farm until 1870, when he became a clerk in the general store of George
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Smith at Knowlesville, New York. After six years in this position he returned to assist his father and continued on the homestead until April, 1883. From that date until 1903 he conducted a general store on his own account at Knowlesville. Since 1903 he has lived at Knowesville, retired from active business. In politics he is a Democrat, and from 1886 to 1890 he was postmaster of Knowlesville by appointment of President Cleveland. He at- tends the Presbyterian church of Knowles- ville. He is a member of Medina Lodge, No. 336, Free and Accepted Masons; and of the City Club of Medina.
He married (first ) March 28, 1878, Carrie M. daughter of Andrew Stanley. She died June 25, 1898. He married (second) December 13, 1899, Cora A., born November 5, 1864, daughter of Ezra S. and Elizabeth (Warren) Perry, of Knowlesville, granddaughter of Abel Perry, and descendant of a revolutionary soldier and pensioner. Her father was an elder in the Presbyterian church. By his first wife Mr. Woodford had one child, Laura E., born at Millville, New York, February 12, 1882, now teaching at Knowlesville union school, graduate of the Medina high school and of Nebraska University, of Lincoln, Ne- braska, class of 1903.
MORRIS Samuel Joseph Morris, immi- grant ancestor, was born in Wales. He married, in Wales, and came to this country when a young man. The public records reveal little of his his- tory. In 1790 the census of Rhode Island shows that the family had left Rhode Island, for the only head of a family of this name was Charles Morris, of Warwick. William Mor- ris, perhaps a son of Charles, married, July 5, 1798, Deborah, daughter of Amos Greene, of Warwick; William Morris lived at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Elizabeth Morris married, August 30, 1798, Samuel Bennett, at Warwick. According to family tradition the Morris family was all killed by the Indians. One account states that the massacre was by Narragansetts near Nantucket. It seems more likely, however, that the family had gone to western New York before or during the revo- lution and that the family was killed there during the revolution, when the Indians were fighting on the British side.
(II) John, son of Samuel Joseph Morris, is said to have been the only one of the family
to escape from the Indians. He was saved, we are told, by white settlers who concealed him in the woods. He was brought up on a farm near the New York-Pennsylvania line. He worked at farming in his youth and was educated in the common schools. He finally located at Olean, New York, and engaged in business as a tavern keeper. He used to tell of seeing his mother's scalp among others the Indians had taken during the massacre, recognizing it by the red hair. His birth- place was Newport, Rhode Island, but the records show no trace of the family, and doubtless they lived but a short time in New- port. He married (first) Matilda Decker. He married (second) Children by first wife: John; Samuel Dexter, mentioned below; Matilda. Child by second wife: Emma, married - Jones and is now liv- ing in Waverly, Kansas.
(III) Rev. Samuel Dexter Morris, son of John Morris, was born July 28, 1815, died January 24, 1887. He was the first white child born in Olean, New York. His parents were then living on a boat on the Allegheny river. He received his education in the dis- trict schools. He was converted early in life, joined the church, and disliking the na- ture of the tavern business for various rea- sons, he left his father and engaged in farm- ing, studying at night and in spare time to qualify himself as a preacher. He taught school in various places, working on a farm during the summer. At length he was li- censed to preach by the Baptist denomination. He traveled extensively and preached in many localities. He had charges in Smethport, Port Allegany, Eldred, and in several smaller towns of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He was widely and affectionately known as Elder Morris. For many years his home was at Eldred, Pennsylvania, later at Delevon, then Holland, New York, where his last years were spent, but he died at Olean after an ill- ness of only a few weeks. He was a staunch Whig and afterward a Republican.
He married, in May, 1837, Elizabeth Knapp, born November 12, 1818, died September 2, 1902. Children : I. Matilda, born August 19, 1838, died February 9, 1910; married Henry Cohoon. Their son Vinton married Anna Everett and had children : Robert, Win- throp, Claude, Mary, Gertrude, Hazel and Angie Cohoon; their daughter Effie married Myron Love and had children : Edith, Charles
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and Gladys Love. 2. Ann Elizabeth, born November 4, 1841, died March 13, 1885; married David Hull. Their son Frank mar- ried Edith Phendorf and has children : Gen- eva, Dudley, Catherine and Chrystal; their son Guy William had three children. 3. John, born May 4, 1844; at eighteen years of age he engaged in the civil war, joined the fam- ous Pennsylvania Bucktails and participated in sixteen battles; died in 1865 from exposure and hardship. 4. Mary Margaret, born Jan- uary 23, 1847; married (first) Sylvanus Oviatt and had children : Myrtie, married Dan- iel Fisher and had Raymond and Roydon Fisher; Dolly, married Laverne Palmer and had Frank, Mercy, Arthur, Allie and Doris Palmer; Grace; Will. She married (second) Peter Creighton. 5. Emma, born September 18, 1849; married John Feller and had a daughter Emma Feller. 6. Annette, born April 3, 1852; married Charles Bishop and had children : Lena, Morris, Bessie, Eugene, Earl, Leona and Alowena Bishop. 7. Jacob Eugenio Kincaid, mentioned below. 8. Car- rie, born September 18, 1860; married, May 5, 1886, Martin Ferrin, born August 3, 1862, and had Elizabeth, born July 2, 1903.
(IV) Jacob Eugenio Kincaid Morris, M. D., son of Rev. Samuel Dexter Morris, was born November 23, 1856, at Eldred, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of his native town and Friendship Academy. He studied his profession at the University of Buffalo and in 1879 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He practiced medicine for seven years in Eldred, and then removed to Olean, New York, where he continues in general practice, making a specialty, however, of surg- ery, and in later years has devoted himself entirely to surgical cases. He has taken an active interest in public affairs. In 1886 he was health officer of Eldred for two years. For several years he was a member of the board of education at Eldred, and for fifteen years of the board of education of Olean and its president for two years. He is a member of the County and State Medical societies, and American Medical Association. He is a trus- tee of the Methodist Episcopal church and superintendent of its Sunday school. He is a member also of Olean Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the various Masonic bodies including the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry; also of Lodge No. 471, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, July 2, 1881, Sarah F. Gilling- ham, born May 22, 1858, daughter of Charles and Caroline (Ault) Gillingham, and grand- daughter of John Gillingham. Her father died August 29, 1905; her mother was a daughter of Samuel Ault. Charles Gilling- ham, only brother of Mrs. Morris, was born October 26, 1862, and was associated with his father in business after he left school. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Morris: 1. Charles Dexter, born January 22, 1883; graduate of the Olean high school, and of Yale College, A. B., 1906, and after holding a fellowship one year at Yale entered the newspaper busi- ness in New York City and now holds an important position with the Associated Press ; he married, November 26, 1908, Araminta Miles and has one child, Richard Miles, born November 22, 1910. 2. Raymond Bartlett, born March 19, 1885 ; graduate of Olean high school and Yale College, A. B., 1907, graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, 1916; interne one year in the hospital of the United Protestant Infirmary of Baltimore; now a partner in his father's business under the firm name of ,Morris & Morris. 3. Caro- line Elizabeth, born December 19, 1893. 4. Margaret, August 7, 1895.
JEWELL Thomas Jewell, immigrant an- cestor, was born in England about 1600, and it is thought that he was of the same stock as Bishop John Jewell, who was born in the north of Devon- shire in 1522, died in 1571. The surname was formerly written Jule, Joyell, Jewell, and in various other ways. Thomas Jewell came over in the ship "Planter" in April, 1635, when he gave his age as twenty-seven in the ship register. He settled at Mount Wollaston, now Braintree, Massachusetts, and was granted land there for three heads, twelve acres, upon the covenant of three shillings per acre, April 24, 1639. He died in 1654. His will was proved July 21, 1654, bequeath- ing to his wife and children. Administration was granted to Grisell, widow of Thomas, July 21, 1654, but October 5, 1655, she being about to marry Humphrey Griggs, William Needham and Thomas Foster were appointed executors and Griggs agreed to bring up the Jewell children. She was soon left again a widow and was appointed administratrix of Humphrey Griggs, August 18, 1657. She married afterward John Gurney Sr., Henry
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