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a general course, covering a period of three years. After completing his studies in 1870 he went to Corry, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in a bank. In 1877 he located in Baltimore, Maryland, where in association with John Thompson he established the firm of John Thompson & Company, dealing in dairy products. They continued in success- ful operation until 1892 when Mr. Thomp- son retired. Mr. Harmon continued the busi- ness under the firm name of E. Harmon & Company until 1899, when he retired and the business was closed out. He then became a member of R. B. Stewart & Company, of Baltimore, dealers in produce, fruits and gro- cers' specialties, continuing until 1905, when he withdrew and formed the firm of Cook, Harmon & Company, of Baltimore, dealing in the same lines. This is an incorporated company of which Mr. Harmon is vice-presi- dent and treasurer. He is also president of the Manchester Produce and Fruit Products Company, of New York City, manufacturers of evaporated fruits, etc. Mr. Harmon is a successful business man, of sterling character and high standing. He is a Democrat in poli- tics, and a member of the Protestant Episco- pal church. He is a member of the Masonic order in Baltimore and in Corry, Pennsyl- vania, where Clarence Commandery of Knights Templar is named in honor of his half-brother, Clarence Gillette Harmon. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Order of United Ameri- can Mechanics and the Royal Arcanum.
He married (first) April 30, 1878, Helen Chase, born November 3, 1858, died Decem- ber 30, 1878. He married (second) Septem- ber 27, 1881, Minnie House, born July 26, 1856, died January 12, 1910. Mr. Harmon maintains his residence at Ellicottville, where all his hours "off duty" are spent. This has been the family home since 1832.
This surname is derived from CURTIS a Norman French word Curteis or Curtois, meaning courteous, civil. The family settled very early in Kent, England. The coat-of-arms of the family of Kent and Sussex is: Argent, a chevron sable between three bulls' heads cabossed gules. Crest: A unicorn passant or between four trees proper. The pedigree of this family is traced as far back as Stephen Curtis, of Ap- pledore, Kent, about 1450. Several of his
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descendants were mayors of the town of Ten- terden from which came some of the first settlers of Scituate and Roxbury, Massachu- setts. Four Curtis brothers settled in Scituate -Richard, William, John and Thomas. Thomas Curtis went to York, Maine; John appears to have left no descendants, while those of William and Richard are numerous in Massachusetts and Connecticut. There are three distinct families of this name in Con- necticut early records, and two men, John and Thomas Curtice (Curtis), were among the early settlers of Wethersfield, Connecti- cut. Some of the descendants of this branch spell the name Curtis, the Stratford branch descendants retaining the double "s".
(I) Thomas Curtice, born in England, 1598, settled in Connecticut about 1636. He had a home lot of six acres by the common on High street, Wethersfield, Connecticut, purchased of Richard Montague, February 20, 1659, and also a meadow and other lands granted later. He practiced medicine, and was relieved by an order of the general court May 21, 1657, from "training, watching and warding during the practice of phissicke." He was a man of good reputation, a freeman in Wethersfield in 1669, and doubtless before that, and at the time of his death had a large estate for those days, viz., £717. He died November 13, 1681, in Wethersfield, Connec- ticut. His wife's name was Elizabeth -
-. Children: John, born January 1, 1639; James, September 15, 1641; Joseph, of whom further : Samuel, born April, 1645; Isaac, 1647 : Ruth, married Hon. Eleazer Kimberly, secretary of the colony; Elizabeth, married John Stadder.
(II) Joseph Curtis, third son of Thomas and Elizabeth Curtice, was born March 31, 1644; died December 31, 1683. In 1681 he was surveyor of highways, and also served as haywarden. He owned land and made several transfers. He married, February 8, 1674, Mercy Children : Meribah, died aged ten ; Joseph Jr., of whom further ; Henry, born September 2, 1676; Mary, September 2, 1677; Sarah, September 28, 1679; Thomas, December 24, 1680; David, November 29, 1682.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Mercy Curtis, was born in Wethersfield, Con- necticut, and died there December 31, 1765, aged about ninety-two years. He married Dorothy Edwards, December 7, 1708, born
September, 1681, died April 18. 1760, daugh- ter of Joseph and Sarah Edwards. Children : Dorothy, baptized August 21, 1709, married, November 12, 1746, Oliver Atwood, a chair- maker, residing in Newington, Connecticut, 1776; Katherine, baptized December 31, 1710, married at Hartford, April 21, 1737, Daniel Hinsdale; Joseph, baptized January 25, 1712; Daniel, born March 29, 1715; Sarah, baptized May 26, 1717; Zachariah, of whom further ; Joseph, born December 12, 1721.
(IV) Zachariah, son of Joseph (2) and Dorothy (Edwards) Curtis, was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, September 13, 1719, died in Dorset, Vermont, May 14, 1805. He bought land in Goshen, 1749, and moved to Redhook-on-the-Hudson, in Dutchess county, New York, in 1750. From there he moved to Dorset, Vermont, where he pur- chased a tract of land one mile wide and six miles long. He was twice married, his first wife being Mary Ann - She died and he married Lena, daughter of Jacob W. Wheeler, of England. By his first wife he had thirteen children; by his second wife he had twelve. Several of his sons served in the Continental army. Twenty-one soldiers by the name of Curtis appear on the Ver- mont revolutionary rolls. Names of some of his children: Josiah, of whom further; Joshua, born 1742; Salathial, 1743; Elias, 1745; George, April 6, 1797, died Septem- ber 4, 1867 (father of Henry C. Curtis, the shirt manufacturer of Troy. New York) ; Horace, Lewis and John.
(V) Josiah, son of Zachariah Curtis, died at Elbridge, New York, in 18 . He was a farmer by occupation. He was religious, and a noted student of Holy Writ. He served in the revolutionary war from the state of Vermont, as a sergeant of Captain Nathaniel Smith's company, Colonel Ira Allen's regi- ment of militia. He moved from East Dor- set, Vermont, to Elbridge, New York, about 1805, where he resided until the time of his death. He was a very patriotic man. He always wore Union blue. He married Tam- son Gale, of Holland Dutch ancestry. Chil- dren: Walter, Hamilton, Heman, Minerva, and Alonzo Mead Curtis, of whom further.
(VI) Alonzo Mead, son of Josiah and Tamson (Gale) Curtis, was born 1817, and died May 22, 1890. He was a resident of Elbridge, Onondaga county, New York, where in his former years he was a school
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teacher, later turning his attention to agri- culture. He was twice married. Children by first wife: Arthur, Edward and Jennie E. Children by second wife (Electa A. Townsend Curtis) : Heman De .Lett, born 1866; Clara B., 1868; Jessie W., 1871; Fred Mead, '1874; Don Allen, 1876; Frank George, of whom further; Caroline V. Curtis, born 1884. Electa Adelaide (Townsend) Curtis was born in Auburn, New York, April 17, 1846; died in Jamestown, New York, August, 1900.
(VII) Frank George, son of Alonzo Mead and Electa A. (Townsend) Curtis, was born August 8, 1878, on a farm in the town of El- bridge, Onondaga county, New York. He received his early schooling in a country school, and later education in Jordan Free Academy, Jordan, New York; Jamestown High School, Jamestown, New York, and Cornell University, having graduated from Jamestown High School and Cornell Univer- sity. He is now a practicing attorney in Jamestown, New York, where he has been so engaged since January 15, 1904. On Janu- ary 1, 1905, he became assistant district at- torney of Chautauqua county, New York, which office he filled until June 1, 1906. In September, 1908, he married Harriet C. Smith, of Jamestown, New York.
(The Townsend Line).
Philetus Edward Townsend, born June 4, 1818, son of Marcus Townsend (of whom further), was the father of Electa A. Town- send Curtis. He married Caroline Dodge, daughter of Don C. Dodge (of whom fur- ther). His children were: George E., born 1844; and Electa Adelaide, born 1846, men- tioned, and Virginia A. Townsend, born 1848 ; and one other child who died in infancy. Philetus Edward Townsend was a railroad contractor, and for some years the warden of Auburn Prison, at Auburn, New York.
Marcus Townsend, born September 8, 1784, was a son of Zephaniah Townsend. In 1806 he married Mary Bemus, daughter of Eph- raim Bemus, of whom further. Mary Bemus was born December 9, 1786. Children of Marcus and Mary (Bemus) Townsend: Ju- liana, Roxana, Elijah, Martha, Martin, Phi- letus Edward (mentioned above) ; Mary and Sarah.
Zephaniah Townsend (first name some- times spelled Zepheniah) lived at Esopus-on-
the-Hudson. He was a descendant of the Townsends who settled at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1622. They were descendants of Sir Lodovic (Townsend) Townshend, a knight of Normandy, who came into Eng- land with William the Conqueror in 1066. This family has furnished leading men for England from 1066 to the present. The Oys- ter Bay Townshends were Quakers.
Zephaniah Townsend was a revolutionary soldier. He served as a sergeant in Captain Myrick's company of Rangers from New York. This company was active from the early beginning of the revolution. He was later a corporal in Captain Elijah Townsend's company, of Colonel Morris Graham's regi- ment of New York militia, revolutionary war. At another time he served in Captain Heze- kiah Mead's company of Ludington's regi- ment, New York. He married Sarah Woo- din, an English girl. Children: Marcus, mentioned above; Richard, Nathan, George, Emily, Angeline, Betsey and Kate.
Don C. Dodge, great-grandfather of Frank G. Curtis, moved from Dorset, Vermont, to Geddes, New York, where he was one of the first settlers. He was in the war of 1812 in the United States Commissary Depart- ment, operating between Oswego, New York, and Syracuse, New York. He married Electa Curtis, born July 5, 1793, a daughter of Jo- seph Curtis, of whom further. He died in 1832. He was a merchant and a son of Thomas Dodge, of whom further. Don C. and Electa (Curtis) Dodge had children : Caroline (Dodge) Townsend (mentioned above), and George Dodge.
Thomas Dodge, father of Don C. Dodge, was a revolutionary soldier. He served through most of the war, and at one time was a fifer in Captain Jotham White's com- pany, of Colonel Samuel Fletcher's battalion of Vermont troops, revolutionary war. He was with Washington's army a part of the time, and spent one winter at Valley Forge. He was a cousin of Colonel Ethan Allen, of Vermont.
Joseph Curtis, a son of Zachariah Curtis (before mentioned), lived in East Dorset, Bennington county, Vermont. He was a sol- dier, serving through most of the revolution- ary war with different Vermont companies, mainly under Colonel Ira Allen and Colonel Stephen Pearl. Joseph Curtis held the ranks of corporal, sergeant and orderly sergeant
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He also served in the war of 1812. He was . iam, died unmarried; Jonas; Elizabeth. Chil- born at Nine Partners, Amenia Precincts, dren of second wife: Hannah, born June 16, 1634; Elihu, January 24, 1636; Nehemiah, November 27, 1637; Moses, April 6, 1640; Benjamin, May 30, 1642; Gershom, men- tioned below ; Rebecca. Dutchess county, New York, January 28, 1759, and died December 27, 1833, at Dorset, Vermont. He married at Manchester, Ben- nington county, Vermont, March 4, 1784 (Adelia) Delia, daughter of Timothy Mead. She was born May 18, 1766.
Timothy Mead, father of Delia Mead, who married Joseph Curtis, a son of Zachariah Curtis, was a revolutionary soldier. He was at one time a member of Captain Thomas Bull's company, Colonel Ira Allen's regiment, Vermont militia, revolutionary war. Timothy Mead Jr. also served in the same company ; also Timothy Mead (3d), served in the same company.
Ephraim Bemus, father of Mary (Bemus) Townsend, served as a sergeant in Captain Solomon Strong's company, Fifth Connecti- cut Regiment, commanded by Colonel Phillip B. Bradley, revolutionary war. He married Ann Bolyn, of pure Scotch ancestry. She was a member of the famous Scotch family of that name. Ephraim Bemus lived at Esopus-on-the-Hudson.
PALMER Walter Palmer, the immi- grant ancestor, was a citizen of Charlestown, Massachu- setts, as early as 1634, and May 14, 1634 was made freeman there. There is a tradition that he came from County Nottingham, Eng- land, and that Abraham Palmer, also of Charlestown, and a freeman at the same time, was his brother. He owned considerable real estate there, and received land in the first di- vision in 1637 and again in the division of 1643. He was among those who met to pre- pare for the new settlement at Seacuncke, af- terwards Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and settled there. At this time he gave the value of his estate as £419. He was deputy to the general court from Rehoboth, and in 1653 moved to what is now Stonington, Connecticut. He bought land from Governor Haynes on the east bank of the Nequetequoc river. His whole tract of land contained about twelve hundred acres. His will was dated May 19, 1658, and proved May 11, 1662. He died in Stonington, November 19, 1661. He mar- ried (first) in England, Ann -; (second) Rebecca Short, a member of Rev. John Eliot's church in Roxbury. Children of first wife: Grace; John, died unmarried; Will-
(II) Gershom, son of Walter Palmer, was baptized in Charlestown. On June 5, 1684 he received from his brothers, Nehemiah, Moses and Benjamin, five hundred acres of land in Stonington, as his share of his father's es- tate.
On May 3, 1693, there was laid out to Lieutenant Gershom Palmer, first, fifty acres, then one hundred acres, and again, fifty acres. On November 20, 1711, he received four hun- dred acres of land in the purchase of Catta- peset. In this deed he is called Deacon. Most of this property he distributed to his sons before he died. He married (first) in Stonington, November 28, 1667, Ann, daugh- ter of Captain George and Ann (Borodel) Denison. She was from a fine old English family, and from her Mrs. Palmer inherited such stately manners that she was called "Lady Ann." She was born May 20, 1649, and died in Stonington, 1694. He married (second) Elizabeth, widow of Major Samuel Mason, of Stonington. Her maiden name was Peck, and she was from the Rehoboth family of that name. Gershom Palmer died September 27, 1718. Children of first wife: Mercy, born 1669; Gershom, baptized Sep- tember 2, 1677; Ichabod, baptized Septem- ber 2, 1677; William, mentioned below ; George, baptized May 29, 1680; Rebecca, baptized 1682, died young ; Ann, baptized May 20, 1682; Walter, baptized June 7, 1685; Elihu, baptized May 6, 1688, died young ; Mary, baptized June 8, 1690; Rebecca, bap- tized July 1, 1694.
(III) William, son of Deacon Gershom Palmer, was baptized April 25, 1678. On May 9, 1716, he received by deed from his father lands at Puckhunganuck, which on his death were to go to his three sons-William, Elihu and Wait. He was living in 1728, when he gave rights in two parcels of land to his three sons. He married, January 10, 1701-2, in Stonington, Grace, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah (Avery) Minor, born in Ston- ington, September, 1683. They lived first at Tangwonk and moved later to Punhungue- nuch Hill, in North Stonington. Children: Grace, baptized June 27, 1793 ; William, born
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March 1, 1705; Elihu, baptized December 6, 1706; Wait, mentioned below.
(IV) Elder Wait Palmer, son of William Palmer, was baptized in Stonington, May 27, . 17II. He lived on Pendleton Hill in Ston- ington, and was active in church interests there. On April 10, 1772, he sold to his son Wait the farm where he lived, on condition that the latter give to him and his wife one- half the profits yearly during their lives. He married, 1727, Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and Ann (Pendleton) Brown, born Novem- ber 28, 1703. Children: Wait, born May 5, 1728; Amos, mentioned below ; Israel, Janu- ary 16, 1730; Isaac, September 15, 1732; Mary, May 4, 1735; Content, January 27, 1736-7; Ebenezer, January 21, 1738-9; Elihu, March 10, 1741.
(V) Amos, son of Elder Wait Palmer, was born August 27, 1729. On November 21, 1784, he bought seventy acres of land in Exe- ter, Rhode Island, and on April 6, 1793, eighty-three and three-quarters acres in Ash- ford, Connecticut. In the census of 1774 of Rhode Island he had a family of four males over sixteen, five under sixteen, two females over sixteen and three under sixteen years of age. His son Amos had one male over sixteen, two under sixteen, one female over sixteen years of age; he married Mary Aus- tin, daughter of Ezekiel Elder Palmer, late of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, February 15, 1770. He married, November 5, 1749, Mary York. Four of their sixteen children were Baptist ministers. Children, order of birth not known: Amos; Uriah, born 1753; Asa- hel, mentioned below; Joel; Stephen, born August 22, 1758; Ziba: Bossell, born 1762; Ezra ; Phineas, born October 19, 1765; Ben- jamin ; Ezra; Desire; Comfort: Hannah ; Polly ; Ellen.
(VI) Asahel, son of Amos Palmer, was born January 22, 1755. He lived in Han- cock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. In 1790 he had at Hancock four sons under six- teen and two females. Among his sons were Amos, mentioned below, and Nathan, who settled in Canada.
(VII) Amos (2), son of Asahel Palmer, was born in Berkshire county, April 11, 1789, and died in Fredonia, New York, in 1836. He moved from Massachusetts to New York state, settling first in Madison county, and in 1827 in Chautauqua county, at Fredonia, ried, March 4, 1808, Dorcas Burlingham,
He was also engaged in distilling. He mar- ried, March 4, 1808, Dorcas Burlingham, born in Windsor, now Cheshire, Massachu- setts, and died June 25, 1851. Children : Al- vinza, mentioned below ; Nelson (John Hora- tius Asahel Nelson), born 1811, died un- married, July 13, 1878; Alonzo, born at Will- iamstown, Massachusetts, April 17, 1813, died May 27, 1895, married Harsha Terwilliger, who died March 20, 1908, in her eighty- seventh year; Levi, June II, 1815, at Will- iamstown, died in Cattaraugus county, New York, September 10, 1897, married Elizabeth Tichnor; Stephen, November 20, 1819, died at Fredonia, May 23, 1873; Charles Leland, born in Easton, Madison county, New York, February 21, 1821, died in Fredonia, April 7, 1836; Orange, born in Easton, New York, October 7, 1823, died in Fredonia, October 13, 1861, married Lucy Comstock, who died May 1, 1876, aged fifty-seven years.
(VIII) Alvinza, son of Amos Palmer, was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, April 21, 1809. He came to Chautauqua county with his father, settling in the town of Arkwright, New York, where he died Sep- tember 22, 1892, at the age of eighty-three years five months one day. He married Nancy Sellew, who died April 17, 1892, aged seventy-seven years eleven months. Children, born in Arkwright, New York: Alonzo, born February 7, 1835. now a resident of Ark- wright, married Elizabeth Clinton; George H., «mentioned below; Sarah P., married George Corey ; Charles, died unmarried : Ste- phen, resident of Stockton, New York; Frank, resident of Fredonia, New York, mar- ried Mrs. J. Raney ; Lucy P., married (first) Orling W. White, (second) Frank Healey ; Orange, resident of Arkwright.
(IX) George H., son of Alvinza Palmer, was born in Arkwright, Chautauqua county, New York, January 26, 1842, and died in Fredonia, New York, January 17, 1901. He was elucated in the public schools of Fre- donia, where he lived most of his life. He was a butcher and cattle dealer. He mar- ried Jane A. Hills, of Villenova, Chautau- qua county, New York, daughter of Hoel and Harriet (Dye) Hills. Children, born in Fre- donia : Nelson J., mentioned below ; George A., married Mary Wolleben.
(X) Nelson J., son of George H. Palmer, was born in Fredonia, New York, March 15, 1874. His early education was received in
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the public schools; his preparatory education at the State Normal School, from which he was graduated. He then entered the Buffalo University Law School, where he was gradu- ated, Bachelor of Laws, class of 1899. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1899, and at once began the practice of law in Fre- donia. forming a partnership with William S. Stearns. The firm of Stearns & Palmer continued until 1902, when Mr. Palmer moved to Dunkirk, New York. He continued his professional career with Joseph C. White as partner until 1904, when the firm dis- solved, since which Mr. Palmer has practiced alone. He is well versed in the law, skillful in its application, has high standing among his professional brethren, and the confidence of his clients. He is an ardent Republican, and an active worker for party success. In 1909 he was elected city attorney of Dunkirk, which office he now capably fills. He has also been since 1902 continuously, village attorney of Fredonia. He is a member of the Protes- tant Episcopal church and of the Masonic order, belonging to Forest Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Dunkirk Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He is also an Odd Fel- low, of Olympia Lodge, No. 602, and an Elk of Dunkirk Lodge, No. 922.
He married, June 10, 1903, at Fredonia, Katherine Gertrude Washington, born at Lockport, New York, daughter of George and Katherine (Kennedy) Washington, and granddaughter of George Washington, born in Virginia between 1800 and 1812. Child : Robert Nelson, born in Dunkirk, April 30, 1904.
This distinguished family is ENDRESS of extremely ancient lineage. Im Hof, a baronial race, spreading out into many branches, is still flourishing in the principal lines, namely, the Swabian, the Franconian and the Italian, with many subdivisions. In the records of the twelfth century it is frequently found under the name of "de Curia," or "in Curia." As early as the thirteenth century it divided itself into two prinicpal branches, which assumed different arms. The elder branch remained at the original seat of the race, in the city of Laningen, in Swabia (now Bavaria) where a village called Imhoff may yet be found.
(I) Johann Im Hof, called Johann (2) who died A. D. 1341, is the progenitor from
whom all the race is descended. He dwelt upon his estates at Laningen and procured through his wife, Anne Von Gross, citizen- ship in Nuremburg. He was adopted among the families capable of holding the office of senator. He had issue.
(II) Konrad, married and had issue.
(III) Konrad (2), died in 1449. He had issue.
(IV) Johann (3), born in 1419, died in 1499. He had issue.
(V) Johann (4), born in 1461, died in 1526. He was burgomaster of Nuremburg ; married and had issue.
(VI) Johann (5), born in 1488, died in 1526. He married and had issue.
(VII) Andreas, otherwise called Endres, was born about 1490, and was a member of the senate, or Rath, of Nuremburg, in the year 1530. As senator he attended the Diet of Augsburg and is styled "Herr Endress im Hoff" by Saubertheim in his History of the Augsburg Diet, written in 1631. He married and had issue.
(VIII) Endress, born about 1513, married and had issue.
(IX) Nicholas Endress, removed from Nuremburg to Wertheim, on the north bank of the Mayn river, about 1560.
(X) 'Peter, son of Nicholas Endress, born about 1569, was judge of the criminal court of the district.
(XI) Nicholas (2), son of Peter Endress, was born in 1603. He married and had issue.
(XII) Andress, son of Nicholas (2) En- dress, born in 1634, married and had issue.
(XIII) Philip Jacob, son of Andress En- dress, born in 1682, died in 1762.
(XIV) John Zachariah, son of Philip Ja- cob Endress, was born in 1726 and was edu- cated in the University of Tubingen, now the University of Wirtenburg. He was an extensive traveler ; was captured in the Medi- terranean sea by Corsairs of Algiers, the fam- ous sea pirates of that day, and sold into captivity in Algiers. Subsequently a Neapoli- ton merchant (a Roman Christian) redeemed him into freedom, took him to Italy and fur- nished him with means to return to his na- tive land. In 1766 he came to America and located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he accumulated considerable property near the corner of Vine and Third streets. He was an officer in the continental army in the war for independence, was captain of the Philadel-
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phia Guards, and as a result of his action in the federal cause his buildings were burned to the ground when the British occupied the city. He died in 1810 and was buried at Easton, Pennsylvania. He married, Septem- ber 13, 1768, Mrs. Maria (Henrici) Sansfelt, a widow, of French-Huguenot extraction. They had a child, Christian Frederick Lewis, mentioned below.
(XV) Dr. Christian Frederick Lewis En- dress, son of John Zachariah Endress, was born in Philadelphia, March 12, 1775. He was graduated in the University of Pennsyl- vania, which institution honored him with the title of Doctor of Theology in 1820. Through- out most of his lifetime he was connected with Trinity Lutheran Church, pastor from 1815 to 1827 at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. About 1814, with his friend, Colonel Nathan- iel Rochester, he removed to Dansville, New York, where they purchased large tracts of land. Subsequently Colonel Rochester went further on and established the city which now bears his name. Dr. Endress did not remain in Dansville but returned to Pennsylvania, lo- cating at Easton, where he died September 27, 1827. In 1801 he married Margaretha Fries. They had a son, Isaac Lewis, men- tioned below.
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