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(IV) Eli, son of Elias (2) Keyes, married Mary Wheelock in 1732 and resided in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Children : Eli, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Mary, Ezra.
(V) Eli (2), eldest son of Eli ( I) and Mary (Wheelock) Keyes, was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, March 24, 1733. He married, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, April 1, 1762, Hannah Howe, and in 1803 was living in New Hampshire. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving as a private in the Massa- chusetts line. His first enlistment was for three years in the Sixth Worcester County Regiment, Captain Wheeler's company, Col- onel Thomas Nixon, and in December, 1779, enlisted "for the war" in Captain Heywood's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Calvin Smith, Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. The rec- ords show him on duty at various places dur- ing the entire war. Children: Ezra, Daniel, Azubah, Abigail, Sally, Nathan.
(VI) Ezra, eldest son Eli (2) and Hannah (Howe) Keyes, was born in Holden, Massa- chusetts, January 27, 1763, died in Reads- boro, Vermont, December 29, 1841. At the age of sixteen years he enlisted and served in the revolutionary army. He married, De- cember 6, 1792, Hannah Knowlton, born Au- gust 13, 1770. Children : Eli, Sally, Ruel, of whom further ; Hannah, Polly, Ezra, Heman, Daniel, Nathan, Azubah, Lawton.
(VII) Ruel, second son of Ezra and Han- nah (Knowlton) Keyes, was born June 22, 1797, died in Kiantone, Chautauqua county, New York, December 22, 1870. He settled in New York state in 1823, first in the town of Perry, in Genesee county, and two years later in Kiantone. He was a farmer, and at one time owned a saw mill on Stillwater Creek.
When quite an old man he kept the toll gate on the "old plank road" at Kiantone,
and while trying to collect toll from two drunken ruffians was run over, and died from the effects of a blow on the head from the hoof of the horses they were driving. He married, in 1823, Hannah Bottum, of Shafts- bury, Vermont. Children: I. Lucretia, died unmarried, February, 1862, aged thirty-six years. 2. William, died in 1854, aged twenty- six years ; unmarried. 3. Lyman Bottum, born 1830; married Adelia Burt; he served in the civil war as a private in Company F, Third Regiment, New York Volunteers. 4. Alfred, born June 15, 1834; resided in Jamestown, New York, now deceased; unmarried. 5. Mary Ann, born November 10, 1836; mar- ried, April 9, 1862, Edwin R. Kimberly. 6. Maria, of whom further.
(VIII) Maria, youngest child of Ruel and Hannah (Bottum) Keyes, was born in Car- roll, New York, February 2, 1844. She mar- ried, May 19, 1870, at Jamestown, New York, Silas Wright Blanchard, who is of Huguenot descent and who comes from a family many times represented among the Massachusetts soldiers in the war for independence. He was born at Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, October 15, 1846, son of Lorenzo and Miriam (Hill) Blanchard. He came to James- town with his sister when about eighteen years of age, and for a number of years was employed by the firm of Allen & Grandin, afterward Allen & Preston, in the manufac- ture of woolen cloth. Later he engaged in the manufacture of furniture, being senior member of the firm of Blanchard & Miller, one of the pioneer firms in that business. Blan- chard & Miller later sold out to Norquist & Nord, now one of the oldest firms in their line in the city. Mr. Blanchard was then engaged for four years as letter carrier in the Jamestown postoffice (1885-89), since when he has been engaged in the grocery business in Jamestown, in farming at Ken- nedy, Chautauqua county, and now resides in Jamestown. In his younger days he was a member of the original Rescue Fire Com- pany of Jamestown, receiving a certificate of honorable discharge after seven years' service.
The children of Silas Wright and Maria (Keyes) Blanchard, ninth generation : I. Adelaide Miriam, born December 18, 1871, at Jamestown; married, in that city, August 15, 1891, Fred Clayton Stone (see Stone IX). 2. Earl, born April 11, 1879.
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STONE (VIII) Norman Ormandus
Stone, son of Daniel (2) Stone (q. v.) was born in the town of Carroll, Chautauqua county, New York, August 4, 1845. He has devoted his atten- tion to the occupation of farming from which he has derived a comfortable livelihood. He is an Independent in politics. He enlisted, September 1, 1864, in the Thirteenth New York Heavy Artillery, New York Volunteers, for term of one year; he served nine months and twenty days; was sick in hospital three months, and was honorably discharged, June 25, 1865. He was married (first) July 3, 1867, in Napoli, at the residence of his bro- ther, William S. Stone, by the Rev. Dr. Baird, to Oril A. Newton, born April 19, 1845. in New Albion, Cattaraugus county, New York, daughter of Jesse and Louisa (Puddy) New- ton, and great-granddaughter of Lord Venn. She died March 5, 1907. Anna Venn was the daughter of Lord Venn; she married
Puddy ; children : Lisher, Jared, Louisa, Lucy and Charles. Children of Jesse and Louisa (Pnddy) Newton: Caroline, Edwin, Angus- tine, Reuben, Truman, Oril and Harlin New- ton. Mr. Stone married (second) August 4, 1908, Katherine M., daughter of Patrick K. and Mary (McInerney) Kane. Children of first wife: I. Cleon C., born August 11, 1869, in Poland, New York, died April 5, 1908, bur- ied at Clark, New York, in the same cemetery in which are interred the remains of his pa- ternal grandparents and his mother. He mar- ried, October 16, 1897, Ida M. Peck, at the home of William Peck, at Helena, Ohio; chil- dren: Beatrice Goldie, born September II, 1898; Gladys Vieanna, born August 20, 1901 ; Hila Amena, born January 10, 1904; Floy Oril, born August 22, 1906; the widow and children reside in Helena, Ohio. 2. Claude De Val, mentioned below. 3. Hila Louise, born May 23, 1873 ; married Merritt L. Jones, July 25, 1895; died November 13, 1900; had one daughter, Hazel, born July 28, 1896, died July 8, 1900.
(IX) Claude De Val, son of Norman Or- mandus Stone, was born in the town of Po- land. Chautauqua county, New York, Decem- ber 29, 1870. He attended the district school, the high school of Jamestown, and the Cham- berlain Institute, Randolph, New York. He is recognized as a progressive farmer, taking every advantage of raising the standard of farming. He owns and occupies the farm
purchased in 1850, by his grandfather, Daniel Stone ; the original house (built of logs) erect- ed by his grandfather was destroyed by fire, after which a frame house was erected, a portion of which was moved to another part of the farm and is now owned by a neighbor, the part remaining being destroyed by fire, July 3, 1895. He was at one time engaged in the oil business, drilling a number of wells. He was one of the original stock- holders in the Ivory Telephone Company, which was later sold to the Home Telephone Company of Jamestown, New York. Mr. Stone is a Republican in politics, and at the present time (1912) is serving his second term as constable. He is a member of James Hall Camp, No. III, Sons of Veterans, of James- town, New York; Order of Owls, Jamestown; Local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Frews- burg, in which he has taken an active inter- est, and Carroll Farmers Club. He is one of the enterprising, substantial residents of the community, honorable and straightfor- ward in his dealings with his townspeople and neighbors.
Mr. Stone married, August 19, 1903, at the home of the bride's parents, in Carroll. New York, Cora Allene, born in the town of Carroll, Chautauqua county, August 17, 1882, daughter of Clarence Henry and Belvera Sarah (Mccullough) Love, who were the par- ents of five children, namely: Cora Allene, Reuben Van Rensselaer, Ethel Lillian, George Henry and Claribel. Mr. Love is a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Stone was educated in the district schools, is a member of the Baptist church of Frewsburg, Friendship Club, the Ladies' Aid Society, and is also a member of the local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Frewsburg, New York, and Carroll Farmers' Club.
POLER The first settlement of the Poler family in New York state was made in Saratoga county; from there they spread to other localities. the branch herein recorded settling in Orleans county. Simon Poler was born in 1778, died in Orleans county, New York, January 8, 1868. He resided in Saratoga county until 1830, when he removed to Orleans county. where he purchased of the Holland Patent Company a farm in the town of Shelby on the Salt Works Road, containing one hun- dred and eighty acres covered with forest and
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thicket. Here he resided thirty years, clear- ing his farm and developing it into a very productive property, which is still in the pos- session of the family. He was a man of un- tiring energy, and was particularly noted for his unusually fine wheat crops. He married Fanny Sayles. Children: 1. John S., born in Saratoga county, New York, October, 1820, died at Washington, D. C., March 28, 1899, being at the time in government employ. 2. Avery, of whom further. 3. George. 4. Mary, born July 10, 1831, died March 12, 1895. 5. Albert H., born 1845.
(II) Avery, second son of Simon and Fanny (Sayles) Poler, was born in Saratoga county, New York, September 12, 1823, died in the town of Shelby, Orleans county, New York, September 18, 1890. He came with his parents from Saratoga county in 1830 to Shelby, where he attended school in the win- ter and assisted his father on the farm until he attained the age of twenty-one. In 1845 he took the management of one of his father's farms, continuing its cultivation until 1852. In that year he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty acres of Joseph Pixley. He cultivated this property and resided there until his death. He was also a noted wheat grower, although he carried on general farm- ing. He was a man of good standing, an attendant of the Baptist church, and a strong Democrat in politics. He married Nancy D. Blair, born June 13, 1825, died May 7, 1910. Children: I. A. Blair, of whom further. 2. Anna M., born November 8, 1853. 3. Re- becca, born July 23, 1855. 4. Fraley, born July 6, 1857. 5. Frederick, April 13, 1859. 6. F. Marion, of whom further. 7. Emmet J., of whom further. 8. Nancy, April 30, 1870.
(III) A. Blair, son of Avery and Nancy D. (Blair) Poler, was born in the town of Shelby, Orleans county, New York, on what is known as the "old Ashton farm," Novem- ber 8, 1851. He was educated in the town schools, Medina public school, Nunda Acad- emy, completing his studies with a course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. He re- mained on the home farm after finishing his school course until his marriage, when he pur- chased a property in Medina. Here he re- sided until shortly after his father's death in 1890, when he returned to the homestead where he yet resides. He has a well-improved, productive farm, twenty-five acres of which is devoted to the culture of pears and apples.
He is a member of the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; The City Club of Medina ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Medina, and the Ridgeway Reading Club. He is an attendant of the Universalist church, and an Independent in politics. He married, March 4, 1885, at Medina, New York, Flora J. Fuller, born January 9, 1857, daughter of Darwin and Rosalind I. (Weld) Fuller ( see Fuller VI). Children: 1. Jessie Irene, born October 27, 1887; married, September 17, 1910, J. Cornelius Possom, of Millville, New York. 2. Darwin, born April 1, 1890; mar- ried, January 11, 1911, Zoie Compton, born September 15, 1889.
(III) F. Marion, son of Avery and Nancy D. (Blair) Poler, was born in the town of Shelby, Orleans county, New York, August I, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Shelby; Medina Academy and the State Normal School at Brockport, New York. He was his father's assistant on the farm and later worked the homestead farm on the share plan, continuing this until 1889. He then came to Medina and entered the employ of the A. L. Swett Iron Works, as office man and traveling salesman. He spent most of his time on the road until 1895, when he re- signed, and for two and one-half years was employed in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to Medina, New York, in May, 1898, and on the organization of the A. L. Swett Iron Company was elected secretary, a position he yet fills (1912). Since 1904 he has also been general manager of the company's plant at Medina. He is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, at Me- dina, Council and Commandery at Lockport. He is an Independent in politics, serving on the board of education. In religious faith he is a Baptist and for several years was clerk of the church at Medina.
He married, February 28, 1894, Edith, born October 10, 1874, daughter of Emmons and Amelia (Alderman) Edson, of Spencerport, New York. Children : Emmons Edson, born January 23, 1908; Christine Hamilton, May 31, 1910.
(III) Emmet J., son of Avery and Nancy D. (Blair) Poler, was born September 15, 1863, in the town of Shelby, Orleans county, New York. He attended the district schools of his native town and Medina Academy. After he left school he went west and spent several years in various occupations. Returning to
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his native town, he assisted his father on the homestead. In 1892 he became connected with the Central Foundry at Medina and afterward with the A. L. Swett Iron Com- pany for which he is at present a traveling salesman. In religion he is a Baptist, and in politics a Democrat. He married, June 30, 1892, at Medina, Lena A. Swett, born October 12, 1864. Children: Frances D., born May 17, 1893 ; E. Carroll, September 19, 1894 ; Donald, June 21, 1896; Justin, May 10, 1899, died March 27, 1901; Norman, January 23, 1905.
(The Fuller Line).
The first of the Fuller family of whom there is record is Jepotha Fuller, of Ulster county, New York, a private in the revolution, serv- ing in the Second Regiment, Ulster county militia. He married Sarah Daggett, March 10, 1736, and had issue.
(II) Amos, son of Jepotha and Sarah (Dag- gett) Fuller, was born September 14, 1739. He was a resident, perhaps a native, of Little Nine Partners, Dutchess county, later a pion- eer farmer of the town of Petersburg, Rens- selaer county, New York, where he settled in the wilderness, cleared a farm and ended his days. He married and had sons : Lewis and Daniel.
(III) Daniel, son of Amos Fuller, was born January 9, 1763. He married Rhoda Prin- dle, born March 13, 1764. They had issue.
(IV) Ezra, son of Daniel and Rhoda (Prin- dle) Fuller, was born in Rensselaer county, New York, February 19, 1793. He settled in South Berlin, Rensselaer county, where he re- sided until his marriage, then removed to Or- leans county, where he followed farming un- til death. He married Mary Godfrey, born February 20, 1794.
(V) Darwin, son of Ezra and Mary (God- frey) Fuller, was born May 13, 1831, at Rodmansville, Jefferson county, New York, settled in Orleans county, where he became wealthy and influential. He married. Sep- tember 30, 1850, Rosalind I. Weld.
(VI) Flora J., daughter of Darwin and Rosalind I. (Weld) Fuller, was born January 9, 1857; married, March 4, 1885, A. Blair Poler (see Poler III).
BROADHEAD The late William Broad- head, Jamestown's "grand old man," and foremost manufacturer, stood forth as a central figure
in the business life of Jamestown for more than half a century, and to his discretion, fore- sight and superior ability is due the splendid success that crowned his efforts. In addition to his business interests his energies were devoted to the furtherance of many enter- prises which had for their object the uplift- ing of man and the promulgation of higher standards among humanity. Honorable in business, loyal in citizenship, charitable in thought, kindly in action, true to every trust confided to his care, his life was the highest type of christian manhood.
William Broadhead was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, February 17, 1819. He served an apprenticeship at the trade of weaver in his native county, and later worked with his father in the village smithy until he decided to emigrate to the United States, be- lieving that the prospects for advancement were better there than in his native land. Accordingly in January, 1843, he set sail, set- tling first in Busti, New York, where his uncle, Rev. John Broadhead, was residing. Seeing that Jamestown offered a much more favorable opening for a good mechanic, he sought employment there and found it in the shop of Safford Eddy, but being too ambitious to remain long a day laborer, he was ever on the lookout for something more profitable, and soon formed a partnership with Adam B. Cobb. The firm of Cobb & Broadhead, scythe snath manufacturers, continued nine years, when it was dissolved, Mr. Cobb continuing to make snaths and grain cradles, and Mr. Broadhead purchasing an axe factory, where he manufactured axes and forks.
Later Mr. Broadhead engaged in another field of labor, opening a clothing store, taking his eldest son, Sheldon B. Broadhead, into partnership with him, and subsequently he gave his younger son, Almet N. Broadhead, an interest, under the firm name of William Broadhead & Sons. Their business increased rapidly until they soon had the largest mer- chant tailoring establishment in the county, drawing patronage from Dunkirk, Warren, Salamanca, and other nearby towns.
In 1872, Mr. Broadhead, accompanied by his wife and eldest daughter, visited his na- tive place and found the little village de- veloped into thriving manufacturing town. His early interest in weaving was rekindled by the signs of prosperity and success due to these mills, and he returned to Jamestown,
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New York, thoroughly impressed with the feasibility of establishing a mill for the manu- facture of dress goods, and to him in a large measure is due the fact that Jamestown is to- day a progressive and prosperous manufac- turing city. Although past his fiftieth year he entered into this project with all the energy of youth, united his own capital with that of others and the result was that within two years there were two worsted mills in Jamestown, instead of the one first planned, both of which have made Jamestown goods famous through the length and breadth of the land. There are many living at the present time who will recall the discouragement under which he labored and the predictions of disaster which were freely made by pessimists. The first mill was operated under the style of Hall, Broad- head & Turner. This mill, devoted to the manufacture of alpaca, was owned by them for eighteen months, at the expiration of which time Mr. Broadhead retired. Shortly afterward he built a mill for the manufacture of similar cloth, having for partners his two sons, and for a time their attention was given to the manufacture of ladies' dress goods, their salesmen traversing nearly every state in the Union. He also built the Meadowbrook worsted mills at Falconer, which was con- ducted in connection with the Broadhead mills in Jamestown.
As Mr. Broadhead foresaw, these mills con- tributed immeasurably to the growth and pros- perity of the city, and considerable of the rapid increase in population is due to their continued demands for skilled workmen. Though controlled by different owners most of the worsted mills of Jamestown, with all their wealth and importance, owe their origin to Mr. Broadhead. He outlived most of the men who had been associated with him in es- tablishing the textile industry in Jamestown, and he was justly proud of this great busi- ness development achieved in less than forty years, and his name is known far and wide as synonymous with business enterprise and in- tegrity. Later the Broadheads, father and sons, engaged in extensive street railway en- terprises, being the leading promoters of the Jamestown Street railway which his son, Al- met N. Broadhead, later controlled. They built business blocks, established the Rose Gardens, and in every way manifested their interest in the home town, Mr. Broadhead having been a director and vice-president of
the First National Bank of Jamestown. Mr. Broadhead's large manufacturing interests naturally made him a believer in a protective tariff and consequently he was always an ar- dent Republican, although he never sought nor held public office.
The father and sons were a unit in purpose and business. Their success has been a con- stant commentary upon their good manage- ment and the good will that pervaded their establishment. Fairly well educated for busi- ness life, these sons were successes from the start, interested in each other's welfare and both feeling it a duty to guard well their father's interests, they were bound by the strongest earthly ties and are exemplifying in conduct what they proposed in words.
In his native town, Mr. Broadhead belonged to the Wesleyan Methodist church and was superintendent of the Sunday school. On set- tling in Jamestown he joined the Methodist Episcopal church as the nearest like the Wes- leyan. During the exciting period before the civil war, when the Methodist Episcopal church took a stand in favor of slavery, a number of staunch Abolitionists, among them Mr. Broadhead, left the church and formed a Wesleyan Society. When after some years, the church building having been destroyed by fire, the organization was given up, Mr. Broad- head became a member of the First Congre- gational Church, where he was an active member up to the time of his decease, con- tributing liberally to its support.
On October 27, 1887, a banquet was given by the employees of the Broadhead Worsted Mills, in the Sherman House, welcoming Mr. Broadhead home from England and the con- tinent. At the head of the table were seated Mr. Broadhead, President Edward Appleyard and the invited guests of the evening. At each plate was a buttonhole bouquet, a toast card and a very handsome souvenir menu card, the covers of which showed in lithograph a portrait of Mr. Broadhead with suitable in- scription and on the reverse a picture of the mammoth worsted mills of William Broad- head & Sons. The greeting to Mr. Broadhead was delivered by President Appleyard, who then presented, on behalf of the employees, a very handsomely engrossed copy of the ad- dress, in a rich frame of oak; the designing and pen work of which was done by Richard E. Toothill, the designer in the mills. Mr. Broadhead responded to the greeting. The
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toast was delivered by Dr. G. W. Hazeltine; it was "Our Honored Guest." This was fol- lowed by a toast to "Our City" by Mayor Oscar F. Price; a toast, "Jamestown's Pio- neer Citizen," by C. R. Lockwood; a toast, "The Bar," by Judge Richard P. Marvin, and a toast, "The Board of Trade," by Orsino E. Jones; a toast, "Our Local Industries," by Hon. Jerome Preston; a toast, "Our Coun- try," by Jerome B. Fisher, and Frederick Hyde spoke for "The Press."
On February 15, 1900, Mr. Broadhead was signally honored by his fellow citizens at a great banquet given in the Sherman House in honor of his eighty-first birthday, which was to come two days later. The most promi- nent men of Jamestown sat down at the ban- quet tables and noted men came from other places to honor the Jamestown manufacturer and city builder. The banquet was one of the notable events in the city's history, and Mr. Broadhead's worth as the developer of great enterprises that had exerted powerful influences in the growth of the city were re- ferred to by brilliant speakers.
Mr. Broadhead married, October 29, 1845. Lucy Cobb, born March II, 1825, at Schroon, Essex county, New York, daughter of Adam B. and Thetis (Bishop) Cobb. Children: I. Sheldon Brady, who married, in 1870, Mary Woodworth. 2. Herwood, who died at the age of seven years. 3. Almet Norval, who married, in 1886, Margaret Allen Bradshaw. 4. Mary T., who married, in 1878, Adna H. Reynolds Jr., and died in February, 1894. 5. Stella Florine. 6. Mertie M. Mrs. Broad- head. while interested in every project that was worthy, and for the best interests of all. was quiet and retiring, and her church, the First Congregational, with which she united many years ago, its various societies, and the Jamestown Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, were the only organizations with which she was identified at the time of her death, which occurred January 17, 1908. She was charitable but most unostentatious in her charities, and few outside of those to be benefited knew of the extent of her gifts. She was a woman of gentle ways, of kindli- ness, of sweet disposition, but of great strength of character, and her influence and example will be long remembered and cher- ished.
Mr. Broadhead passed away May 21. 1910. aged ninety-one years, three months, four
days. To few men are given the years of health and activity that were allotted to him, and fewer still have made better use of those years. Although he had long since passed the scriptural span of life, almost to the end he maintained his mental and physical vigor in a marked degree. The news of Mr. Broad- head's death was received throughout the city with genuine sorrow, for all who knew him respected him for his sterling qualities and splendid character.
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