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 56

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 646


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(VIII) E. Kirke, only son of Elizur Hart. was born in Albion, New York, April 8, 1841. and died there February 18, 1893. He was educated in the public schools and Albion Academy. After completing his studies he spent two years, 1856-58, in Adrian, Mich- igan, and Alton, Illinois, joining, at the latter place, General Harvey's expedition against the Mormons. Returning to Albion. he became in February, 1860, bookkeeper in the newly established Orleans County Bank, of which his father was president. He con- tinued until 1865, when he became teller of the newly organized Orleans County National Bank, that superseded the state bank. After the death of Elizur Hart, Joseph M. Cornell succeeded him as president, Mr. Hart advanc- ing to cashier. In July, 1890, Mr. Cornell died, and Mr. Hart was elected president, a posi- tion he held until his death, having been con- nected with the bank thirty-three years. In 1882, with George Elwanger, he founded the Rochester (New York) Post Express, was president of the company for several years and a principal stockholder until late in 1891. He was also a director of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company. He gave much time to the public service of his town, village and state. Originally a Republican, he was elected in 1871 a member of the house of assembly, serving on the committees of ways and means and on banks. In 1872 he became identified with the Liberals, and sup- ported Horace Greeley for president, ever afterward acting with the Democratic party. In 1876 he was nominated for congress by the Democrats of the Thirtieth Congressional district, comprising the counties of Orleans and Monroe. This district had a normal Re- publican majority of four to five thousand, but Mr. Hart was elected by nearly one thou- sand majority. He served while in congress on the committees on banking and currency and revision of the laws, making a creditable record and forming warm friendships with leading statesmen of both parties. In Albion he was for many years village trustee, member of the board of education, commissioner of beautiful Mt. Albion cemetery (where he is buried) ; was instrumental in giving the vil- lage electric lights; and was the first presi- dent of the board of managers of the House of Refuge for Women, which was located at Albion solely through his influence and per- sonal effort. When a young man he joined


the First Presbyterian Church of Albion, and for many years served as trustee. Through the efforts of himself and his cousin, John Wells Hart, both giving liberally, the erection of the present brick parsonage was made pos- sible. He also liberally supported many other charitable and philanthropic societies. A gen- uine lover of books, he possessed one of the finest private libraries in Western New York. He was the first signer on the petition to es- tablish a public library in Albion, and always took deep interest in its welfare. He was a man with warm attachments and faithful friendships, with a keen sense of justice and with a warm sympathy for the unfortunate.


He married, June 10, 1863, Louise Sander- son, of Alton, Illinois, who survives him. Children : Charles E., of whom further ; Emma Brown, graduate of Vassar College and a director of the Orleans County National Bank; Loraine Field; E. Kirke (2), graduate of Harvard University; Louise Sanderson; Mary Ann, died May 3, 1875, aged four years.


(IX) Charles E., eldest son of E. Kirke Hart, was born near Alton, Illinois, May 31, 1865. He was educated in the Albion public schools and Albion Academy. After com- pleting his studies he spent four years in the west engaged in mining and real estate enter- prises. On his return to Albion he became associated with his father in business, and on the death of the latter succeeded him as president of the Orleans County National Bank. He retained the presidency from 1893 to 1903, when he resigned and retired to pri- vate life. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the village board of education, and treasurer of the Swan Library in Albion.


He married, February 10, 1898, Eulalie Reynolds, born December 27, 1874, died March 26, 1910, daughter of Cassius M. and Jane (Ough) Reynolds, of Albion. Children : Eulalie, born November 29, 1899; Charles E. (2), July 21, 1901; Jane H., February 8, 1906; John R., March 4, 1908: Beatrice, Feb- ruary II, 1910.


HART (VII) Joseph S. Hart, ninth child


of Deacon Joseph (2) Hart (q. v.). was born in Albion, New York, February 2, 1820, died October 30, 1904. He was educated in the public schools, and re- mained his father's assistant on the farm until coming to manhood he received as a gift from the latter a farm of two hundred and


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twenty-four acres that is now partly within the limits of Albion and still owned by his widow (1912). He was a man of high stand- ing, possessing the qualities that made him universally loved and respected. He was a Republican in politics. He took little part in public affairs, finding his greatest enjoy- ment in his home and the operation of his large and finely cultivated farm.


He married, May 30, 1861, at Albion, Har- riet A. Cole, born March 17, 1834, daughter of William and Asenath ( Williams ) Cole, of Barre, New York. She survives her husband, a resident of Albion, a lady of splendid quali- ties and greatly beloved. Children: 1. Lucy Kirtland, born October 1, 1862; married John Edgerton; child: Ruth Hart, married La Verne Hey, and has a son, William Hart, born October 31, 1910. 2. Alice Josephine, born August 12, 1865 : married Dennis W. Evarts. 3. Harriet Cole, born August 26, 1867. 4. Jen- nie S., January 6, 1870. 5. Kitty Louise, May 9, 1871 ; married Myron Billings ; child : Cath- erine Hart.


JONES The Jones family appear in the early records of several New England colonies, emigrants of the name coming from England, Wales and


Ireland. The name is an honored one in American history and figures prominently in the present day. In Jamestown, New York, the name is gratefully remembered by the Jones Memorial Hospital and by the thousands of men and women who sat under the in- struction of these two noble sisters, Miss Calista S. Jones and Mrs. Sarah L. (Jones) Hall. The former was connected with Chau- tauqua county schools for sixty years, as a tablet in Jamestown high school testifies; the latter a teacher for fifty-three years, forty-nine of which were spent in the Jamestown schools. Besides his gift of a site for the hospital Or- sino E. Jones presented Jamestown with a site for a public park. The above mentioned were children of Ellick Jones by his first wife.


(I) Thomas Jones, a native of Oxfordshire, England, came with wife and children in ship "Confidence," landed at Hull, Massachusetts, 1638. Sons: Joseph, John, Abraham, Benja- min, Robert and others.


(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Jones, came to Nantucket, Massachusetts, as a fisherman, and remained there several years, then removed to Mendon, Massachusetts. He married Sarah


Howard and had issue, among whom was Abraham.


(III) Abraham, son of Joseph Jones, was born in a fort or garrison house at Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1702, died there in 1787. He married Keziah, daughter of Jotham Whit- ney, of Framingham, Massachusetts. Abra- ham Jones was a deacon of the church and noted for his piety and liberality. He was a farmer in easy circumstances. Three of liis children died in one week during an epidemic of typhoid fever. Only two of his sons grew to maturity : John and Abraham.


(IV) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (I) Jones, was born in the town of Milford, Wor- cester county, Massachusetts, May 3, 1746. After the revolution he settled in Wardsboro, Vermont, where he died. He was a soldier of the revolution. He married, October 30, 1765, Olive Bates, born in Hingham, Massa- chusetts, September 22, 1743, died aged eighty- five years, a descendant of Clement Bates, who came from Kent, England, in 1635, settling in Hingham. Children : Susan, born September 25, 1766, married Daniel Hazeltine; Laban, September 10, 1768, married Fanny Dean; Neoma, March 17. 1770, died in childhood; Whitney, March 22, 1771, married Betsey Hazeltine; Jonas, September 13, 1773, mar- ried Frances Monatt ; Solomon, of whom fur- ther ; Olive, October 29, 1778, married Elisha Winslow; Lucretia, February 3, 1783. mar- ried David Boyd; Abraham, December 13, 1786.


(V) Solomon, fourth son of Abraham (2) Jones, was born in Milford, Worcester county, Massachusetts, August 7, 1775, died in James- town, New York, August 2, 1862. He early settled in Wardsboro, Vermont, with his father, and in 1810 came to Chautauqua county, New York, settling first in the town of Ellicott, later at Carroll, now Kiantone. At one time he kept a house of entertainment in Jamestown at the corner of Third and Main streets, where his two youngest children were born. For about forty years he was a justice of the peace. He was one of the founders of the first Masonic Lodge in Jamestown and a man much respected. He married Clarissa, eldest daughter of John and Mary Hayward. She was born in Worcester county, Massachu- setts, January 15, 1781. Children : 1. Ellick, born in Wardsboro, Vermont, May 5, 1800; married (first ), July 4, 1822, Louisa, daughter of Thomas and Betsey Walkup. Children : i.


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Calista Selina, for sixty years an honored and highly useful teacher in the Jamestown schools. ii. Rufus Alonzo. iii. Elvira Statira. iv. Orsino E., gratefully remembered by his gifts to his city. v. Sarah Louisa, born March 30, 1832; married, December 1, 1852, Samuel W. Hall, who died in 1866. Mrs. Hall sur- vives her husband, a resident of Jamestown, greatly beloved and highly respected. For fifty-three years she taught in the public schools where the good she accomplished in molding the lives of the thousands of chil- dren who passed under her care eternity only will tell. By a second wife Ellick Jones had thirteen children. 2. Laura, born May 4, 1801. 3. Julia, May 31, 1802. 4. Clara, December 23, 1803. 5. Abraham, of whom further. 6. Olive, December 1, 1806, 7. Rufus, July 29, 1808. 8. Selina, August 8, 1810. 9. Whitney (the first born in Chautauqua county ) May 2, 1812. 10. Solomon, February 21, 1814. II. Louisa, May 18, 1816. 12. Ezra, October 13, 1819. 13. Mary, November 14, 1821. 14. Sid- ney, July 27, 1823.


(VI) Abraham (3), second son of Solomon and Clarissa (Hayward) Jones, was born in Wardsboro, Vermont, August 1, 1805, died May 8, 1875, and is buried in Lakeview ceme- tery, Jamestown, with his wife. He came to Chautauqua county with his parents in 1810, being then a child of five years. He learned the trade of blacksmith and also carried on farming operations. He was a member of the Methodist church. He suffered from paralysis and was helpless for more than twenty years. He married, April 13, 1828, Rebecca Fenton, born in Otsego county, New York, July 3, 1804, died in Jamestown, 1890, third daughter of Jacob and Lois Fenton, who survived him fifteen years (see Fenton IV). Children : Marshall, deceased ; Mary, deceased, married Thomas Gifford; Emory, of whom further ; Laura, died unmarried; Wilbur, a soldier in the rebellion, died in the army ; Ma- tilda, married George W. Jones; Louisa, un- married ; Ellen, married E. H. Day ; Francis S., deceased. Children born in Jamestown, New York.


(VII) Rev. Emory Jones, second son of Abraham (3) and Rebecca (Fenton) Jones, was born in Jamestown, New York, January 9, 1833, died in Syracuse, New York, Sep- tember 15, 1886. He learned the trade of blacksmith, but feeling called to preach entered college at Adrian, Michigan, and after his


graduation was ordained a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist church. He was an earn- est, faithful servant of God and did a great deal of good. He preached in different places and for the six years previous to his death was pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Syracuse. He was a tireless worker, con- sistent in his preaching and practice and en- tirely consecrated to his Master's service. No undertaking was too great or too disagreeable for him to engage in if he could gain a good result. He was known far and wide through- out Western New York for his unselfishness, his devotion to christian duty, his purity of character and his devotion to his calling. He was particularly severe in his onslaught on intemperance and infidelity, but so honest and so earnest and so consistent that he gained the respect of all, even those who totally dif- fered with him, and died sincerely lamented.


He is buried with his father, mother and sister Laura in Lakeview cemetery, at James- town.


He married, October 8, 1856, Marcia A. French, born June 11, 1839, daughter of Jar- vis and Alida (Wample) French, who sur- vives him, a resident of Springfield, Illinois (1912). Children. 1. Emma L., born Sep- tember 15, 1857; married Rev. Wilson T. Hoagland, bishop of the Free Methodist church, of Evanston, Illinois. 2. Cyrus Emory, of whom further. 3. Harvey Wilbur, of Syra- cuse, New York. 4. Ernest, of New York City.


(VIII) Cyrus Emory, eldest son of Rev. Emory and Marcia A. (French) Jones, was born in the town of .Ellicott, Chautauqua county, New York, March 16, 1863. He was educated in the public schools, and reared on the farm. At the age of fifteen years his parents removed to Syracuse, New York, where he lived until the age of seventeen years, when he went to New York City, enter- ing the employ of Charles E. Bentley, a man- ufacturer and importer of fancy goods. Two years later Mr. Jones was appointed manager, later becoming a partner. He remained in this business seventeen years in New York City. The firm established branch stores in Brooklyn and Baltimore and was a most suc- cessful one. In 1897 he came to Jamestown having disposed of his business interests in New York City. He purchased the interest of W. J. Maddock, in the Maddock, Bailey Company, later incorporated as the Bailey,


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Jones Company. In 1906 he became one of the incorporators of the Jamestown Table Company, of Jamestown, of which he is chair- man of the board of directors. He became also interested in the banking business and until 1910 was a director and first vice-presi- dent of the Union Trust Company, of James- town. His connection with journalism in Jamestown has been as one of the incorpora- tors and first president of The Morning Post Publishing Company. In 1902 he associated with William S. Bailey and John H. Wiggins and incorporated under the laws of the state of New York the Chautauqua School of Nurs- ing, with general offices at Jamestown, for the training of nurses through correspond- ence methods. This institution has had ten successful years, enrolling over twelve thou- sand students and solving the problem of a vocation for thousands of ambitious women and brought expert helpers to the aid of phy- sicians ; given the hospitals trained nurses and brought to the wife, mother and sister knowl- edge that has enabled them to intelligently care for the sick in their own households. Mr. Jones is president of the school; William S. Bailey, secretary and treasurer; Dr. J. M. Brooks, medical director.


Mr. Jones is one of the directors of the Allied Real Estate Company, of New York City ; president of the Manufacturers' Asso- ciation, of Jamestown, of which association he has been a member since its formation and in which he takes the greatest interest ; vice- president of the Allen Square Real Estate Company. He is interested in Kansas prop- erties and was one of the incorporators and builders of the Coffeeville & Independence Traction Company, in the southern part of that state. He has a fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres on Chautauqua Lake oppo- site the grounds of the Chautauqua Institu- tion, and a beautiful city home near the "Rose Gardens," consisting of five acres of ground laid out with the best possible landscape ef- fects. He is a member of the Jamestown Club, of which he is an ex-president. Mr. Jones is a member of New York State Grange and much interested in that order. About ten years ago he erected a beautiful building on the assembly grounds at Chautauqua and presented it to the grange to be used as their headquarters. This building was erected as a memorial to his father, Rev. Emory Jones, and was dedicated August 22, 1903. In poli-


tics he is a Republican ; delegate to the na- tional convention that nominated William H. Taft for the presidency and one of his orig- inal supporters from New York state.


Cyrus E. Jones married, March 26, 1891, at Bayonne, New Jersey, Mary Ella Beebe, born in Brooklyn, New York, June 25, 1868, daughter of General Ira Lovejoy and Zilpah I. (Hartt) Beebe. General Ira L. Beebe was a paper manufacturer, born in Ghent, Colum- bia county, New York, son of Roderick (2) Beebe and grandson of Captain Roderick (I) Beebe, an officer of the revolutionary army, through whose patriotic service his great- granddaughter, (Mrs.) Mary Ella (Beebe) Jones, gains admission to the Daughters of the Revolution. The name Beebe is one of great antiquity, being found in various forms of spelling as far back as Bebi, an Egyptian King of the second Dynasty, 3000 years B. C. In Roman history Quintius Baebius figures 534 A. D. The tradition in the family of French origin is very plausible. Richard and William de Boebe were of the Royal Guard of William the Conqueror and passed over to England with him and were granted manors in Warwickshire where the family lived up to the close of the Commonwealth. At East Farndon, England, John Beby was pastor of the Church of St. John the Baptist, prior to the year 1411. One branch of the English family has the right and titles to a coat-of- arms: A blue shield with golden chevron and three gold bees. Crest: A golden bee- live ( indicative of industry, vigilance and per- sistence of purpose). Motto: Suo De- fendo. The church register of St. Andrews, in the village of Broughton, Northampton- shire, England, dating from 1560, contains the names of John Beebe and his children who emigrated to America about the year 1650. John Beebe is the American ancestor, al- though he never saw the shores of this coun- try, dying on shipboard. His three sons, John, Samuel and James, landed in Boston, worked their way westward, were prominent in the early settlement of Connecticut, and from there branched out in all directions. In New York they settled in Columbia county about 1760, and from there came to Albany county. They are of frequent mention in the annals of the early wars of the colonies. John Beebe with his men marched through the wilderness to the relief of Major Talcott during King Philip's war. They were among


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the minute-men of 1776, and in the armies of the revolution as privates and officers. They fought from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, and James Beebe was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. The pension rolls of the revolution contain a number of names of the family. It is spelled Bebe, Beby, Beeby and Beebe. Children of Cyrus E. and Mary E. Jones : Madelyn, born January II, 1892; Margaret, September 14, 1893; Cyrus Emory (2), October 2, 1895; Ursula, June 14, 1897; Beebe, March 7, 1899; Roderick Beebe, March 14, 1903; Lois Mary, Novem- ber 8. 1907.


(The Fenton Line).


Rebecca Fenton, grandmother of Cyrus E. Jones, was a descendant of Robert Fenton, who is first of record in Woburn, Massachu- setts. Nothing can be told of his parentage, birthplace or nationality. There is a tradi- tion that he came from Wales. He settled in Windham, Massachusetts, about 1694, in the "North End" now Mansfield. He is of mention there in 1694, was on committee to lay out lots and "Fence Viewer." He built the first bridge across the Natchang river, so probably was a carpenter. He purchased a large tract of land and in 1702 his property was appraised at ninety pounds. He was one of the patentees of Mansfield which was set off from Windham in 1703. Between 1712 and 1730 he left Mansfield and settled in the then new town of Willington, where he died at the home of his son, at an advanced age. His wife Dorothy (written in the records as "Dorritty") was a member of both the Wind- ham and Mansfield churches. Children : Rob- ert, Francis, Samuel, Bridget, Jacob, Dorothy, Anne, Violata, Ebenezer, of whom further.


(II) Ebenezer, youngest son of Robert Fenton, the first settler, was born in Mans- field, Massachusetts, August 29, 1710. He married (first) Mehitable, daughter of Jona- than Tuttle, February II, 1740-41 ; (second) Lydia, eldest daughter of Malachi Conant, August 26, 1762. Children by first wife : Jonathan, Ebenezer, Nathan, Solomon, Lydia, Elijah. Children by second wife: Colonel Nathaniel, Jacob, of whom further ; Mehitable, Abigail, Robert, Justin or Justus Malachi, Robert.


(III) Jacob, second son of Ebenezer Fen- ton and his second wife, Lydia (Conant) Fenton, was born November 5, 1765. He mar-


ried, at Milford, and soon after removed to New Haven, Connecticut, where he engaged in the manufacture of stoneware. In 1801 he moved to Burlington, New York, where he carried on the pottery business for several years. In 1812 he moved to Mayville, Chau- tauqua county, New York, and the next year to Jamestown in the same county. In 1817 he moved to Fluvanna, where he died Janu- ary 21, 1822. At the age of fifteen years he enlisted in the continental army and served until the war ended. He married Lois Hurd, of New Milford, Connecticut, September 13, 1790. Children, born in New Haven, Con- necticut : William, died young; Henry, Will- iam A., Anna, born in Mansfield, Connecti- cut. Children, born in Burlington, New York : Seneca, Sabrina, Rebecca, of whom further; Marcus A.


(IV) Rebecca, third daughter of Jacob and Lois (Hurd) Fenton, was born in Burling- ton, Otsego county, New York, July 3, 1804, died in Jamestown, New York, 1890. She married, April 13, 1828, Abraham Jones ( see Jones VI).


Governor Reuben Eaton Fenton, born July 4, 1819, governor of New York, was a son of George W. Fenton, an early settler of Chautauqua county in 1807, son of Roswell Fenton, of Mansfield, Massachusetts; Han- over, New Hampshire; Broadalbin, New York; and near Louisville, Kentucky, where he died September 16, 1806, supposedly mur- dered, son of Jacob Fenton, of Mansfield and Norwich, Vermont, fourth son of Robert Fenton, the first settler.


The name Fillmore is of FILLMORE English origin and at dif- ferent periods has been vari- ously written as Filmer, Filmore, Fillamore, and Phillmore. Robert Filmer lived in the county of Herts in the time of Edward II. A descendant of the same name was prothono- tary of the court of common pleas in the time of Elizabeth and in 1570 was granted a coat of arms-sable, three bars, three cinque foils in chief, or. He died in 1585. His son, Sir Edward Filmer, of Little Charlton, bought an estate in East Sutton, county of Kent. He married Elizabeth, second daughter of Rich- ard Argall, whose father, Thomas Argall, was the heir of Sutton.


(I) John Fillmore, or Phillmore, first of the name in this country, was a mariner, and


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was probably the ancestor of all the Ameri- can Fillmores. He bought an estate in Ips- wich, Massachusetts, and later, November 24, 1704, in Beverly, Massachusetts. Apparently between 1708 and 1711, while on a voyage homeward bound from the West Indies, his ship was taken by a French frigate, this be- ing the time of Queen Ann's war. He was carried to Martinique, where he suffered the hardships of a close imprisonment. He was ultimately redeemed, but, according to the nar- rative of his son, he was poisoned by the French during the homeward voyage. The basis for this assertion appears to be the fact that nearly all of the prisoners died before reaching home. He married, June 19, 1701, Abigail, daughter of Abraham and Deliver- ance Tilton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. His widow married ( second) Robert Bell, and re- moved to Norwich, Connecticut, where she and her husband bought a tract of forty acres from John Elderkin Jr. Robert Bell died Au- gust 23, 1727, and Abigail, November 13, 1727. Children: John, mentioned below; Ebenezer, born in Beverly, baptized in Wen- ham, July 21, 1706; married Thankful Car- rier, in Norwich, Connecticut; Abigail, born in Beverly and baptized in Wenham, died young.


(II) John (2), son of John (I) and Abi- gail (Tilton) Fillmore, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 18, 1702. He must have been under nine years of age when his father died. His mother apprenticed him to a carpenter, but his ambition was to go to sea, and a few years after his father's death he shipped on the fishing sloop "Dolphin," Captain Mark Haskell, of Cape Ann. After arriving at the fishing grounds the sloop was overhauled by the notorious pirate, Captain Phillips. He sent a boat's crew on board the "Dolphin," and among the number young Fill- more was astonished to recognize a youth named William White, whom he had known at home as a tailor's apprentice, and who had gone to sea some time before. The pirate captain found nothing to arouse his cupidity on board the fishing sloop, but he was short- handed and was informed by White that Fill- more was just the kind of resolute lad whom he needed. He accordingly sent word to Cap- tain Haskell that if young Fillmore were sent to him, the sloop with the remainder of the crew might go free. Fillmore refused, but, upon a second demand being made, with a




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