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(The Hallock Line).
Rev. William Allen Hallock, for a number of years a resident of Jamestown, New York, died September 4, 1911, after a lingering ill- ness of nearly a year. Thus a long and active and useful career came to a peaceful end.
He was born at Plainfield, Massachusetts, August 27, 1832, where his grandfather, Rev. Moses Hallock, had been pastor of the Con- gregational church for forty-five years. Leav- itt Hallock, his father, was an energetic and capable business man, conducting a farm, a tannery and store. He also served as post- master, town clerk, justice of the peace and represented his town in the legislature of Mas- sachusetts. William Allen, named after his uncle, Rev. Dr. Hallock, for more than fifty years secretary of the American Tract So- ciety, had the advantage of a good education, having graduated from Amherst College in 1855. Meeting with an injury to his head after entering Yale Theological Seminary, he took a sea voyage to Constantinople on a sail- ing vessel and finished his theological studies at what is now the Hartford Theological Semi- nary, in 1859. He was pastor of the Congre- gational church at Gilead, Connecticut, nearly four years when he met with a serious rail- way accident which made him an invalid for nearly two years. After regaining his health he preached in Kiantone, Frewsburg, Sugar Grove and Ashville and returning to New England, served twelve years as pastor of the Congregational church at Bloomfield, Con- necticut. He returned to Jamestown, New York, in 1887 and made this his home, though the last few years were mostly spent in Porto Rico, where he found a congenial climate. He
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was an original thinker, a forceful preacher and a man of great energy, activity and en- thusiasm. All the churches that he served prospered under his administration. He was greatly interested in the Sunday school out of which grew the Pilgrim Memorial Church of Jamestown. He gave the site on which the building of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation now stands and his portrait adorns. the wall of the library.
In September, 1860, he married Clara M., daughter of William and Julia Hall. To them were born two children, Nellie Elizabeth, and William Hall. William graduated with honor from Amherst College in 1885. After several years of study in Germany he came home an invalid and died in 1894. Nellie Elizabeth graduated from Smith College, in Northamp- ton, Massachusetts, in 1885, and married Al- fred T. Livingston, M. D. (see Livingston IV).
The funeral of Rev. William A. Hallock was held from Pilgrim Memorial Congrega- tional Church, and was marked by a large attendance. Rev. George Extence, pastor of the church, Dev. Dr. Leavitt H. Hallock, pas- tor of the First Congregational Church of Lewiston, Maine, and Rev. Dr. Charles H. Small, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Jamestown, officiated. The part taken in the service by the brother, Rev. Dr. Hallock, was particularly impressive. Seldom does a minister officiate at his own brother's funeral, and it is still more unusual for a minister to deliver a last tribute over the re- mains of his own brother, who was also a minister. The tribute paid by Rev. Dr. Hal- lock to his brother was most impressive.
Grover Cleveland, son of CLEVELAND Rev. Richard Falley and Anne (Neale) Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, March 18, 1837. His father's predecessor in the pas- torate of the Presbyterian church at Caldwell was a man greatly beloved by his congrega- tion, who had recently died, and, as tribute of respect to this good man, Mr. and Mrs. Cleve- land named their boy after him, Stephen Gro- ver. In later life he dropped the name Ste- phen and became known only as Grover Cleve- land.
During Grover's boyhood, his father held various pastorates, notably at Fayetteville, Clinton and Holland Patent, New York, where
he died when Grover was sixteen years old. At fourteen years of age, Grover left school to go to work in a store at Fayetteville, re- ceiving the salary of $50 for the first year and $100 for the second. The death of his father ended his hopes of a university education. His elder brother William was then engaged as a teacher in the Institution for the Blind in New York. He secured for Grover a position in that institution as a clerk and bookkeeper at a salary considerably larger than the coun- try store had been able to pay. Grover re- mained in New York for about a year when he determined to try his fortunes in the west. He started for Cleveland, Ohio, a city named for a member of his family. He stopped at Buffalo to visit his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, who then owned a large stock farm on Grand Island. Mr. Allen was celebrated as a breeder of shorthorns, and was at that time preparing a descriptive catalogue called the "American Shorthorn Herd Book." He gave Grover em- ployment in the preparation of this book, and soon afterward secured for him an opportunity to study law in the office of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers. Four years later, in 1859, he was admitted to the bar, but he remained with Rogers, Bowen & Rogers as their managing clerk until 1862. The following year he was appointed an assistant district attorney for Erie county. At about this time he was drafted for war service, but being obliged to support his mother and sisters, he was unable to go. He was so short of funds, however, that he had to borrow the money to hire a substitute, and it was some years before he was able to repay this loan. He had two bro- thers in the military service, and his decision to remain at home and take care of his wid- owed mother and his sisters was not only jus- tifiable, but usual with families in similar cir- cumstances at that time.
At the expiration of his term as assistant district attorney in 1865, he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for district attorney. His opponent was Lyman K. Bass, who later became his law partner. He was defeated by only 602 plurality, running somewhat better than other candidates on the Democratic ticket. Five years later some of his friends proposed him as a candidate for congress, but the choice of the convention fell upon William Williams. In order to strengthen the ticket as much as possible, it was thought desirable to find a popular man for sheriff, and the party
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managers asked Mr. Cleveland to take the place. He did not care for it, but accepted as a party duty. His standing in the com- munity at that time may be judged by the fact that the leading Republican newspaper referred to him as "the ablest and most popu- lar of the younger members of the bar in Erie county who affiliate with the Democracy." The nomination, however, was not obtained without opposition. The two rivals whose names were presented to the convention were George W. Nickles and Darius A. Hovey, both representing the country towns. Cleve- land received 66 votes, Nickles 37, and Hovey II. Mr. Cleveland's Republican opponent was Colonel John B. Weber, who was defeated by 403 plurality. The term of the office was three years, and Mr. Cleveland performed its duties with credit. After retiring as assistant district attorney he had formed a law partner- ship with Isaac V. Vanderpool, and in 1869 he entered the firm of Lanning, Cleveland & Folsom. After the expiration of his term as sheriff he formed a partnership with Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell, under the firm name of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. He con- tinued with this firm until he was elected mayor in the fall of 1881, and it had then come to be known as one of the leading law firms in the city. Buffalo in 1881 was suffer- ing from ring rule, which had its seat princi- pally in the board of aldermen. There was much complaint about extravagance and politi- cal favoritism. There had been several in-
vestigations. The street commissioner had been removed from office on charges of a fail- ure properly to perform his duties, and there was a general feeling that the time was ripe for reform. Mr. Cleveland, always interested in public affairs, suggested to some of the
Democratic leaders that, if desired, he would
run for alderman in the ninth ward, where
he boarded. The salary of an alderman was
then only $250 a year. The office would have required a considerable sacrifice of Mr. Cleve- land's time, virtually without compensation, but he believed he could be of some use in
improving existing conditions.
The active
leader of the Democratic party at that time
was Charles W. Goodyear, while John C.
other friends of Mr. Cleveland believed that headed a rival faction. Mr. Goodyear and Sheehan, who was the then city comptroller,
he was suited to a higher office than alder- man, and proposed that he run for mayor.
The convention, however, was in the control of Mr. Sheehan, but he declined a renomina- tion for comptroller, thereby allowing Mr. Cleveland not only to have the unanimous nomination for mayor, but to have as an asso- ciate on the ticket his friend, Timothy J. Ma- honey, who was named for comptroller. Mr. Cleveland had the united support of his own party and also of a large element among the Republicans. Two Republican newspapers promptly indorsed him, while the one which remained in opposition could find nothing worse to say about him than that he was "a wealthy old bachelor who is pretty well thought of." His Republican opponent was Milton E. Beebe, the president of the board of aldermen. In addition to the local issues, the canvass was considerably helped by the Stalwart-Halfbreed war then raging in the Republican party, and he was elected by 3,620 plurality. Within a few weeks after his in- auguration Mr. Cleveland had established his reputation as a reform mayor and particularly as a vetoing mayor, despite the fact that the council was controlled by his own party. There were no less than fifty-five vetoes of importance during the scant ten months that he remained in office, not mentioning many minor ones. His very closest friends were un- able to influence where he believed the public interests were opposed to their requests. The so-called "Plain Speech Veto" was the most famous of all, wherein he rejected a street- cleaning contract which had been awarded for $100,000 more than the lowest bid. The mes- sage derived its popular name from the fol- lowing passage: "This is a time for plain speech, and my objection to the action of your honorable body, now under consideration, shall be plainly stated. I withhold my assent from the same because I regard it as the cul- mination of a most barefaced, impudent and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people, and worse than to squander the public money." The veto had the desired ef- fect in securing a proper award of the con- tract. Moreover, it attracted attention to Mr. Cleveland throughout the state and contribu- ted more than any other one thing to making him his party's nominee for governor. As the time for the fall campaign approached,
Cleveland clubs sprang up all over Buffalo and in many other parts of Western New York. His friends were able to take to the state convention a solid delegation of forty-
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three men from the western counties. After two ballots had been taken without result, the convention stampeded to Mr. Cleveland. He carried the state by the then unprecedented plurality of 192,800 votes.
With his election as governor his Buffalo career virtually came to an end. His life here had been given solely to work and politics. He never had any other home here than his law office and his boarding house. While the best social privileges, the homes of wealth and refinement were open to him, he preferred to remain a hermit so far as anything outside of law and politics were concerned. He did not return to Buffalo after the expiration of his term as President.
STONE John Stone, immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He set- tled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and was buried there October 25 or 26, 1743. The church records, kept by the Indian Apos- died * tle, Rev. John Eliot, says "Goodman Stone * * an old Kentish man not of the church yet on his sick bed some had hopes of him." He left children and the land of his heirs is mentioned in the proprietors' list, but their names are not known. Pope thinks Thomas Stone, who married at Boston, De- cember 4, 1639, Mary Cragg, was a son per- haps. Daniel and Mary Stone, of Boston, had a son Daniel, died February 27, 1660; the wife Mary died August 8, 1658, and Daniel himself died in 1687.
John Stone, of Boston, perhaps another son of John Stone, had a wife Sarah; their son John died September 12, 1661. John and Mary Stone had a daughter, Sarah, at Bos- ton, September 16, 1659. John Stone died in 1664.
(II) Nicholas Stone may have been a son or grandson of John Stone, of Roxbury. No connection can be established with the other pioneers, Simon and Gregory, of Watertown, John, of Salem, and John, of Lynn. Nicholas Stone married Hannah -. Children, born at Boston: Hannah, January 8, 1651 ; Josiah, mentioned below : Hopestill, January 7, 1655; Abigail, November 20, 1658; Elizabeth, Sep- tember 25, 1661 ; Benjamin,' February 7, 1663. married Joanna and had Joanna, John, Sam- uel and Abigail.
(III) Josiah, son of Nicholas Stone, was born in Boston, February 4, 1653. died in 1717. He married Mary -. Children,
born in Boston: Mary, August 4, 1686; Sa- rah, May 3, 1688; Eliza, December 22, 1689 ; Luke, August 30, 1692, lived in Boston ; Joy, March 2, 1699; Benjamin, December 2, 1701 ; Daniel, mentioned below ; Abigail, January 29, 1705.
(IV) Daniel, son or nephew of Josiah Stone, of Boston, was born about 1703. He went to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, when a young man, and married there, January II, 1725-26, or May 11, 1726 (both records given in vital records of town), Mary Wood. That he was closely related to Daniel, Josiah and Samuel Stone, of the adjacent town of Fram- ingham, appears probable from the similarity of names in the families, and the location of their homes. Their descendants went to Rut- land about the same time also. Children, born at Hopkinton: Martha, born November 12, 1726; Josiah, mentioned below; Daniel, De- cember 6, 1732 (see Josiah below) ; Benja- min, January 9-16, 1742; Sarah, June II, 1745 ; Samuel, June 13, 175I.
(V) Josiah (2), son of Daniel Stone, was born at Hopkinton, July 29, 1730. At the time of the death of his brother Daniel both were living in Rutland, west wing, now Oak- ham, Massachusetts. In the probate papers the brother is called Daniel Jr. and Josiah was appointed administrator of Daniel's estate on petition of the widow Hannah, December 3, 1759. The inventory was filed March 21, 1760, and the account, April 3, 1764. His father Daniel was a surety on his bond. This probate record clears up an old problem of genealogists, due to the large number of Dan- iels and Josiahs in this family. Josiah (2) Stone received from his father by deed dated March 9, 1762, land in Oakham on the New Braintree line (vol. 43, P. 408). John and Sarah Stone witnessed this deed. Josiah Stone lived in Oak- ham from about 1759, when he came there with his father and brother and perhaps others of the family. He married there (In- tention dated March 12, 1760) Mary San- ford, of Western (record both at Warren, formerly Western, and at Oakham). He re- moved from Oakham some time prior to the revolution, for we find that he and his son Benjamin were both in the revolution from Colerain. The year of Josiah's service is not given, but he was for eight months in the Fifth Hampshire County Regiment under Col- onel David Field (Mass. Soldiers and Sailors
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in the Revolution, vol. XV, p. III). He was probably the Josiah Stone, of Brookfield, who served on the Lexington alarm in Captain Itli- amar Wright's company and later in 1775 in Captain Sylvanus Walker's company, Colonel Timothy Danielson's regiment; Brookfield was near Oakham. Josiah Stone also served without doubt under Captain Walter McFar- land, who was of Hopkinton, in Colonel Howe's regiment, June 24, to October 30, 1780.
Josiah Stone and wife Mary exchanged land with Stephen Minot by deed dated Sep- tember II, 1762. He had bought land of Mi- not, July 20, 1762, in Oakham. He bought land of John Barr, of New Braintree, October 20, 1763 (see Worcester Deeds, vol. 48, pp. 57 and 471). He bought of Josiah Crosby land in New Braintree, June 10, 1763. Land owned in common by Josiah Stone, Joseph Tidd and David Gilbert was divided March 24, 1766. He was called of New Braintree district, but was living in what is now Oak- ham. Children of Josiah and Mary Stone, born at Oakham: I. Anna, July 19, 1761. 2. Benjamin, April 10, 1763; was a soldier from Colerain in the revolution in 1779, aged sixteen, and in 1780, aged seventeen (p. 86, Mass. Soldiers and Sailors, vol. XV) ; settled at Cazenovia, near Syracuse, New York ; died July 5, 1839, aged seventy-six, at Ballina, near Cazenovia, New York. 3. Eli, not recorded ; lived and died at Northville, New York ; mar- ried Deborah Cambell. Born at Colerain : 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born June 13, 1775. 6. Huldah, born September 16, 1779. According to the census of 1790 Eli (Elias in census) Benjamin and Josiah had families in Colerain and these only of the Stone surname.
(VI) Joseph, son of Josiah (2) Stone, was born in Colerain, Massachusetts, July 13, 1772, died August 19, 1841, in Luzerne, New York. He settled, between 1802 and 1808, in Luzerne, New York, and was deacon of the Baptist Church there. He married (first) Abigail Call, of Colerain, born March 19, 1776, died June 5, 1838. He married (second) Widow Sage. Elizabeth Call, sister of Abi- gail (Call) Stone, married Jacob Randall and they were the great-grandparents, on the ma- ternal side, of Fred C. Stone, mentioned be- low. Children of Joseph and Abigail Stone, born in Colerain : Adin, born October 18, 1795 ; Alpha, May 15, 1797; Achsah, July 20, 1799,
died June 26, 1814; Daniel, mentioned below ; Olive, February 20, 1804; Lydia, March 13, 1806, died May 17, 1808; Joel, May 24, 1808; Lydia, January 18, 1810; Rufus, December 14, 1813, died July 19, 1815; Achsah, June 5, 1816; Rufus, November 13, 1817, died March 31, 1889, at Jamestown, New York; Huldah, June 15, 1821.
(VII) Daniel (2), son of Joseph Stone, was born at Colerain, November 17, 1801, died in the town of Poland, Chautauqua county, New York, February 7, 1875. He attended the public schools of Colerain and Luzerne. After his marriage in Luzerne he removed to Chau- tauqua county, settling first in the town of Stockton, later in Dexterville (now East Jamestown) ; he later owned a farm of ninety- eight acres in the town of Poland. He was a man of strong character, peace-loving, but when thoroughly aroused it was said of him that "he was hard to handle." He was of a powerful, athletic build, with a quick wit, as anecdotes told of him testify. He was greatly disappointed that he was refused enlistment in the army during the civil war on account of his age. While he never advised any of his sons to enlist, three of them served in the Union army. He married, September 18, 1823, at Luzerne, New York, Velonia Rolph, born in Corinth, Saratoga county, New York, February 28, 1806, died in the town of Poland, Chautauqua county, New York, October 14, 1890, eldest daughter of Benja- min and Asenath (Cook) Rolph. Stephen Rolph, her grandfather, came from England about 1770 to avoid service in the English army. Abigail Temple, sister of Henry, father of Charlotte Temple, came with him. They were married immediately on reaching New York. They settled in New England. near the Vermont-Massachusetts boundary line, but after five years Stephen was obliged to flee to avoid recapture by the British sol- diers, and was never again heard from. It is believed he joined the revolutionary army under an assumed name and was killed. Chil- dren of Daniel and Velonia (Rolph) Stone : I. Henrietta, born October 28, 1824; married Ashael Allen. 2. James Hadley, born April 21, 1828, killed by cars, September 27, 1888; unmarried. 3. Thomas Benjamin, born De- cember 17, 1832, in Stockton, New York .; married Margaret A. Millspaugh. 4. Harri- son Columbus, born June 24, 1835. at Levant ; married Thankful Seekins. 5. Caroline, born
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January 25, 1838, in Jamestown ; married ( first) Sanford Bunce; (second) Joseph W. White. 6. William Seward, of whom further. 7. Abner Almon, born October 30, 1842, in James- town; married Asenath Ann Fisher. 8. Nor- man Ormandus, of whom further. 9. Levi Madison, born December 5, 1847, in town of South Valley; married Florence Covey. 10. Lana Thayer (adopted) born June 1, 1856.
(VIII) William Seward, fourth son of Daniel and Velonia (Rolph) Stone, was born in East Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York, June 25, 1840. He was educated in the public schools, and grew up on the farm. He followed farming in different localities for several years, and in 1889 came to Jamestown, where for several years he engaged in a gen- eral teaming business. He served nine months in the civil war, enlisting August 23, 1864, in Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery, being honorably dis- charged at Norfolk, Virginia, June 21, 1865, at the close of the war. He is a Republican in politics, and is now living a retired life in Jamestown. He married, March 27, 1862, at Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, Mary Elizabeth, born March 3, 1840, at Lu- zerne, New York, daughter of Jonathan Nourse Kellogg, for many years a pilot on the Hudson river, later a farmer; died in East Randolph, Cattaraugus county, aged eighty years ; he married (first) Martha Ran- dall ; (second) Mrs. Ann Pope Lindsey. Mrs. Mary (Kellogg) Stone is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children of Wil- liam Seward Stone: 1. John Nelson, born at Randolph, New York, March 19, 1863; mar- ried, Louise A. Page, September 8, 1903. 2. William Henry, born at Randolph, July 14, 1864; married, in Jamestown, August 18, 1887, Nellie Snow ; children : Rulan W., born June 23, 1888, died August 12, 1893; Roland E., June 18, 1895; Bethel E., December II, 1897. 3. Fred Clayton, of whom further. 4. Edith Maria, born at French Creek, Chautau- qua county, New York, October 1, 1874 ; mar- ried, at Jamestown, September 10, 1896; Bur- ton M. Gay; children : William Burton, born June 29, 1902; Marian Elizabeth, February 28, 1904.
(IX) Fred Clayton, third son of William Seward and Mary Elizabeth (Kellogg) Stone, was born in Napoli, Cattaraugus county, New York, October 19, 1868. When he was one year old his parents moved to French Creek,
where they remained eight years, then lived in town of Randolph and in Poland. In 1889 he made permanent settlement in Jamestown. Fred Clayton Stone was educated in the pub- lic schools of these towns and at Chamberlain Institute, finishing with a course at Jamestown Business College. After settling in James- town he entered the government postal service as letter carrier, continuing thirteen years, then served for some time as clerk in the Jamestown postoffice. During this latter pe- riod he took up the study of ophthalmology, later entering the Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology, from which he was graduated in June, 1906. He located in Warren, Pennsylvania, where he successfully practiced his profession for four years. He then returned to Jamestown, where he is es- tablished at 202 Main street. He is a skilled optometrist and commands a liberal patron- age. He is a member of the Chautauqua County Optometric Society, the Optical So- ciety of the State of New York, and the Am- erican Optical Association. His fraternal bodies are: Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Accepted Masons; Western Sun Chapter, No. 67, Royal Arch Masons ; Jamestown Com- mandery, No. 61, Knights Templar. He be- longs in his father's right to James Hall Camp, Sons of Veterans. He is a Republi- can in politics, and a member of the Episcopal church. He married, at Jamestown, August 15, 1891, Adelaide Miriam Blanchard, born in that city, December 18, 1871. She was educated in the public schools, graduated from the high school, and for some years prior to her marriage taught in the Jamestown schools. She is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a daughter of Silas Wright and Maria (Keyes) Blanchard, of Jamestown (see Blanchard-Keyes). Children of Fred C. Stone: Fred Kellogg, born Sep- tember 4, 1892; Robert Keyes, December 24, 1893.
(The Blanchard-Keyes Line).
Mrs. Adelaide M. (Blanchard) Stone de- scends maternally from Robert Keyes, who came to America about the year 1633, settling at Watertown, Massachusetts. He died at Sudbury, 1647. His widow Sarah married (second) in 1664, John Gage. Children of Robert Keyes: Solomon, Sarah, Peter, Re- becca, Phebe, Mary, Elias, of whom further ; Mary.
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(II) Elias, youngest son of Robert and Sarah Keyes, born May 20, 1643, resided in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He married Sarah, daughter of John Blanford, or Blanchard. Children : Elias, John, James, Sarah, Thomas. (III) Elias (2), son of Elias (1) and Sarah (Blanford or Blanchard) Keyes, born No- vember 15, 1666, resided in Marlboro, Massa- chusetts, with a family, 1696-1702. All rec- ords were destroyed at the burning of the court house at Lancaster, Massachusetts, ren- dering it impossible to give further details of this generation.
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