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 90

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

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(XVI) Isaac Lewis, son of Dr. Christian F. L. Endress, was born in Easton, Pennsyl- vania, September 14, 1810, died in 1870. He was educated in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. When his family left Penn- sylvania for Western New York he entered the law office of Judge Ewing, of Trenton, New Jersey, where he remained about one year. He then went to Rochester and entered the law offices of Messrs. Rochester & Ford and later was in the offices of Messrs. Bar- nard & Hill. Eventually he was admitted to the bar at Rochester, where he initiated the practice of his profession and whence he re- moved to Dansville in 1832. He continued to reside at Dansville during the remainder of his life, and as a lawyer obtained an enviable reputation and lucrative practice. For some thirteen years he was associated with Judge John A. VanDerlip in the practice of law, under the style of Endress & VanDerlip. He was an old line Whig as a young man, and after the formation of the Republican party transferred his allegiance to that organiza- tion. He was appointed to the office of judge in 1840 by Governor William H. Seward : was

presidential elector in 1856; was elected a member of the state constitutional convention ; was a delegate to the National Republican nominating convention of 1868; and was sev- eral times a member of the Republican state committee. He was president of the board of trustees of Dansville Seminary, and for a number of years was one of the town rail- road commissioners. He was a member of the vestry of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, and it may be said concerning him that his charities knew only the bounds of his opportunities. He was a brilliant lawyer and business man, always fair and square- minded in his dealings with his fellowmen, and was ever held in the highest esteem by all with whom he came in contact.

He married, October 29, 1849, Helen Eliza- betlı Edwards, daughter of William and Ma- ria (Fitzhugh) Edwards, the former of whom was a direct descendant of Pierpont Edwards, a brother of Jonathan Edwards. Maria Fitz- hugh was a daughter of Colonel Perregrine and Elizabeth Crowley (Chew) Fitzhugh, the former of whom was an aide to General Washington. Colonel Fitzhugh was a son of the distinguished Colonel William Fitzhugh, born January 16, 1721, died February II, 1798; at one time commander of all the Brit- ish forces in America; married Mrs. Anne Rousby, neé Frisby.

Children born to Judge and Mrs. Isaac L. Endress : I. Anna Maria, born September 26, 1850; married James M. Edwards, a prominent banker at Dansville. They reside at the old Endress Homestead and have two children, Helen and Katharine. 2. Elizabeth Chew, born October II, 1852. 3. William Fries, mentioned below.

(XVII) Colonel William Fries Endress, son of Isaac Lewis and Helen Elizabeth (Ed- wards) Endress, was born August 2, 1855, at Dansville, New York. He was educated in the United States Naval Academy, at An- napolis, and in the Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute, of Troy, New York. He followed his chosen profession, civil engineering, for a time, but gave it up soon after his marriage, in 1879, and removed to Jamestown. Here he purchased the old established coal and building material business of J. Baldwin Jr., with which line of enterprise he has contin- ued to be identified during the long interven- ing years to the present time (1912). He is also the president and sole owner of the Chau-

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tauqua Refrigerating Company of Jamestown, combining an ice and cold storage plant with the coal and building material business. He is now a member of the firm of Endress & Mitch- ell, wholesaling coal through Western New York and North-Western Pennsylvania. In the early eighties he owned and operated a soft coal mine at Hilliards, Butler county, Pennsylvania, and for many years was a job- ber and wholesaler of soft coal. In 1886, when natural gas was piped into Jamestown, thus destroying temporarily the coal business, he devoted his attention to the development of electric lighting, then in its infancy, organiz- ing and building the plant of the Jamestown Electric Light & Power Company. He even- tually disposed of his interests in the electric business at Jamestown and was induced to visit the island of Cuba in the interest of the Thompson-Houston Electric Company, made up of New York and Havana capitalists. He succeeded in introducing the "luz electrica," and was instrumental in lighting up the cities of Havana, Matanzas, Cardenas, Puerto Principe, and many of the great sugar plan- tations. After a two years' residence in Ha- vana he returned to Jamestown, where, he found the coal business much improved by the decreased consumption of gas.

During his residence in Cuba. Colonel En- dress became proficient in the Spanish lan- guage and familiarized himself with Spanish methods. While there he contracted yellow fever, from which he recovered, thus making him immune from that epidemic. It will thus be seen that, when the Spanish-American war broke out, in 1898, he was wonderfully well equipped for service in the United States army. On the inception of that conflict, he at once offered his services to the government, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel on Governor Black's staff. Throughout the five months of the war, including the campaign in Porto Rico, he served as aide to General Guy V. Henry and he has many gratifying evidences of the latter's appreciation of his valiant services. He held superior rank to any officer from Jamestown and was the only one to see foreign service.

Colonel Endress is an officer of the Military Order of the Porto Rican Expedition, and by inheritance is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and is also a mem- ber of Camp Porter, United Spanish War Veterans. About 1900 he became interested

in association work, seeing the great benefits to the retail dealer which should come from organized effort. To his efforts can be traced the splendid success now enjoyed by the New York and Pennsylvania Association, of which he was president for five terms. He was an important factor in the organization and de- velopment of the International Council and in 1905 was elected, unanimously, to be the executive head of all organized retail coal merchants in the United States and Canada.

Colonel Endress resides at the old Newland place, 500 Pine street, Jamestown, New York. This is considered one of the finest homes in Jamestown. He has always been identified with St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he is now junior warden.

He married, August 27, 1879, Dora Eliza- beth, daughter of Charles B. Willey, of Dans- ville, New York. Children: 1. Captain Will- iam Fitzhugh, mentioned below. 2. Helen Elizabeth Chew, born October 18, 1895; now in attendance at the National Cathedral School, at Washington, D. C.

(XVIII) Captain William Fitzhugh En- dress, U. S. A., son of Colonel William Fries Endress, was born July 17, 1880. He was graduated at West Point, in 1905, and is now head of the Engineer School, Washing- ton Barracks, D. C. He married Abbie Van Buren Wright, November 20, 1908, and they have two children : William Fitzhugh Jr. and James Wadsworth.

RICHARDSON There were four broth- ers, Ezekiel, Samuel, Thomas and James Rich- ardson, who came to America within a few years after the founding of the Plymouth col- ony. They were sons of Thomas and Kath- erine (Durford) Richardson, who lived at West Mill, Herts county, England. The mar- riage date of Thomas Richardson and Katlı- erine Durford is recorded as August 24, 1590. Ezekiel, the eldest of the four brothers, came in the fleet with Winthrop in 1630. Samuel and Thomas followed in 1636. They were men of the middle class of life, of discretion and piety. James settled in Chelmsford. Eze- kiel, Thomas and Samuel lived first at Charles- town, and a little later were associated with Captain Edward Johnson in the founding of Woburn. Samuel was already married at the time he left England, and had two chil- dren born at West Mill: Samuel in 1633, and

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Elizabeth in 1635. The date of his admis- sion to the church at Charlestown was Feb- ruary 18, 1637-38, and he was admitted a free- man at Charlestown, May 2, 1638. He re- moved to Woburn in 164I. It was the custom among the Puritans of New England, when a new church was to be founded, to designate seven men of eminent piety and sound judg- ment to be the "seven pillars" of the new or- ganization. They constituted the nucleus of the church and had the responsibility of de- ciding what other members should be added. It was also their duty to lay out the new town which was to be formed in connection with the church and make all needful arrangements for the same. The seven commissioners ap- pointed by Charlestown to establish the new church at Charlestown Village, afterward Wo- burn, included Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas Richardson. The fact that all three brothers attained this distinction so soon after their arrival in the colony testifies to the esteem in which they were held by the community. The three brothers settled on a road which re- ceived from them the name of Richardson Row. It is now within the limits of Win- chester. Their names, of course, are recorded among the original members of church at Woburn, which was the twenty-third church founded in the Massachusetts colony. Sam- uel's house was occupied by several genera- tions of the family and was at one time the scene of an Indian massacre, but that was not in his time. Samuel's birth date is very closely fixed by the fact that he was baptized at West Mill, England, December 22, 1602 or 1604. He died at Woburn, March 23, 1658. His wife's given name was Joanna and she died in 1666. Their children, besides those already mentioned, were: Mary, born February 25, 1637-38; John, November 12, 1639; Hannah, died in infancy ; Joseph, July 27, 1643; Samuel (2d), May 22, 1646; Stephen, August 15, 1649; Thomas, died in infancy.

(II) Stephen, fourth son of Samuel and Joanna, married, at Billerica, January 2, 1674- 75, Abigail, daughter of Francis and Abi- gail (Read) Wyman, of Woburn, who was born about 1659. They lived at Woburn. Stephen became a freeman in 1690, and died March 22, 1717-18. His widow died Septem- ber 17, 1720. Their children were: Stephen, born February 20, 1675-76, died 1718; Fran- cis, died in infancy ; William, born December 14, 1678; Francis, born January 15, 1680-81 ;

Timothy, died in infancy ; Abigail, born No- vember 14, 1683, married March 9, 1702-03, John Vinton; Prudence, born January 17, 1685-86, married Lieutenant Samuel Kendall, died in 1720; Timothy, born January 24, 1687-88, died June 1, 1717; Seth, born Janu- ary 16, 1689-90; Daniel, born October 16, 1691; Mary, born May 3, 1696; Rebecca, born June 10, 1698 ; Solomon, born March 27, 1702. (III) William, the third son of Stephen and Abigail (Wyman) Richardson, married, September 15, 1703, Rebecca, daughter of John Vinton, of Malden, and later of Woburn, who was born March 2, 1650, married August 26, 1677, Hannah Green, and died February 5, 1687-88. He was the son of John Vinton of Lynn, ancestor of the Vinton family in America, who came to this country probably prior to 1640. Little is known about him, but the family is believed to have been of French origin and to have been naturalized in Eng- land from the early part of the seventeenth or the latter part of the sixteenth century. Re- becca Vinton was born March 26, 1683. Will- iam Richardson was a husbandman, and lived at Woburn till 1709 or 1710, when he re- moved to Charlestown End, now the town of Stoneham. On December 25, 1710, he bought land from the proprietors at Attleboro, Massa- chusetts, and about 1718 he removed thither. His death is not recorded. The children of William and Rebecca (Vinton) Richardson were: Rebecca, born August 4, 1704, died October 28, 1788; Hannah, born October 28, 1706; Abigail, born April 18, 1709, married, August 8, 1728, John Shepard, died Novem- ber 27, 1730; William, born April 17, 1712, married Mary Coy ; Stephen, born September 7, 1714, married, November 11, 1736, Hannah Coy ; Mary, born April 18, 1717, died unmar- ried, November 1, 1797; John, born Novem- ber 27, 1719; Joanna, born September 17, 1722.

William Richardson, son of Vinton Rich- ardson, and a descendant of William and Re- becca (Vinton) Richardson, was born at At- tleboro, Massachusetts, January 5, 1820. When he was an infant his parents removed to Pennsylvania, traveling overland by wagon. After a short residence there they removed to De Witt, Onondaga county, New York, where Mr. Richardson's boyhood was spent on a farm and where he obtained a common school education. The Erie canal was then in process of construction, and for several

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years Mr. Richardson was employed by one of the contractors on repair work between Syracuse and Chittenango. Later he helped to build the reservoir at Cazenovia, and after- ward was engaged in dredging operations at Detroit. From an employee he developed into a contractor, and his business rapidly grew to large proportions. He constructed a large piece of the embankment for the Great West- ern railroad. He carried on the first dredg- ing work ever done on the St. Clair flats in the Detroit river. He dredged out the chan- nel at Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1854 he had the contract for enlarging the Erie canal be- tween Tonawanda and Black Rock. He had many commissions from the United States government for improving harbors on the Great Lakes. He removed to Buffalo in 1850, where he gradually became active in both business and public affairs. He was a director of the People's Bank and of the Niag- ara Bank. He was a member of the board of supervisors for three years, and repre- sented the old eleventh ward in the board of aldermen from 1884 to 1887. It has been justly said of him that he never found it necessary, in order to achieve success, to depart from the pathway of integrity and honor. Having acquired a competence, he retired from active business in 1890. He be- came a member of Grace Episcopal Church, and was for many years one of its vestry- men. He is still living (1912), in his ninety- third year. He married, in November, 1852, Anne O'Day (originally spelled O'Dea), daughter of Michael and Anne (O'Dea) O'Day. She died February 21, 1912, aged eighty-one years. Children : Ida, married Charles R. Huntley, of Buffalo; May ; Eliza- beth, twin of May, married Charles E. He- bard (q. v.), of Buffalo; Walter William, mentioned below.

Walter William, son of William and Anne (O'Day) Richardson, was born in Buffalo, March 11, 1873. He was educated in the public schools and at the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, from which he was graduated in 1891. He entered business with the Buf- falo Natural Gas Fuel Company, was elected a director and manager in 1905, and was elected president of the Buffalo United Nat- ural Gas Company in 1908. He is president of the Franklin Natural Gas Company, vice- president of the Natural Fuel Gas Company of New Jersey, president of the Salamanca

Gas Company, vice-president of the Provincial Natural Gas Fuel Company of Ontario, presi- dent of the Commercial Natural Gas Com- pany, director of the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company, director of the Springville Nat- ural Gas Company, president of the California Natural Gas Company, and director of the People's Bank of Buffalo. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of Grace Episcopal Church; a member of the Masonic order, thirty-second degree, and of all local lodges and chapters; a member of the Buffalo, Elli- cott, Accacia and Automobile clubs and of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, and Manufac- turers' Club.

He married, September 30, 1900, May, daughter of Frederick Ogden, vice-president of the Banner Milling Company of Buffalo. Children : William Frederick, died Novem- ber 21, 1905; Ruth Anne; John Walter, born May 23, 1906, died November 4, 1909.

Elizabeth Richardson, third HEBARD daughter of William and Anne (O'Day) Richardson (q. v.), married, October 5, 1888, Charles Edgar, son of George Frederick Hebard, born in Con- necticut, in 1825, died in Buffalo, New York, 1881. He was an officer of the United States navy, and after his retirement spent several years on his plantation in the West Indies. A few years prior to his death he came to Buffalo. He was a Democrat and an Episco- palian. He married Susan Gillespie.

(II) Charles Edgar, son of George Fred- erick Hebard, was born in Buffalo, New York, December 10, 1855, died in Ashtabula, Ohio, December 10, 1908. He was educated in the public schools of Buffalo and at Cheshire, Connecticut. He was for several years super- intendent of the Buffalo branch at Picando, Mather & Company, shippers of coal and iron ore, with principal offices at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1904 Mr. Hebard was transferred to the superintendency of the branch at Ashtabula, Ohio, continuing until his death in 1908. He was vestryman of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Buffalo, later removing his member- ship to Grace Church. In Ashtabula he was a member of St. Peter's. During his Buffalo residence he enlisted and served in the Sev- enty-fourth regiment, New York National Guard. He was a prominent member of the Masonic order, holding the thirty-second de- gree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and in

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the York Rite held the degrees of Master Mason, Royal Arch Mason and Knight Tem- plar. He also was a Noble of Ismailia Tem- ple, Mystic Shrine. He hield membership in all Buffalo Masonic bodies. Politically he was a Republican. He was a man of high character, good business capacity, and was held in high regard in business, fraternal and social circles. After his death Mrs. Elizabeth Hebard, his wife, returned to Buffalo, where she now resides. Children, all born in Buf- falo: I. Margaret, married, December 18, 1909, James M. Helsdom, of Buffalo; now with the Williams Coal Company ; child : Eliz- abeth Ann. 2. Henry Dalton, born August · 12, 1893 ; graduate Lafayette high school, class of 1909; took a post-graduate course, 1910; now with the Natural Gas and Fuel Company of Buffalo. 3. George, born May 31, 1896.

IRWIN The Irwins of Buffalo descended from an Irish progenitor, Will- iam Irwin, who came to the Uni- ted States early in the eighteen century, being then a lad of fourteen years. He settled in Dutchess county, New York. His ancestors were of Scottish birth and settled in the north of Ireland about 1650. William Irwin was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and was a relative of the Earl of Antrim. He came to America with an elder brother, who later returned to Ireland to receive some property to which he had fallen heir. On coming again to America, he sailed on a ship bound for Bal- timore and he ever afterward lived in Mary- land. William Irwin was seventy-five years of age when the American revolution broke out. He was a strong Whig, a friend of Gen- eral Washington, and acted with the patriots in an advisory capacity, but was too old for military service. On account of the troubles of the times, he was obliged to leave Dutchess county for the more quiet region west of the Hudson. He settled in Orange county, five miles west of Newburgh, where he died about 1787, aged eighty-six years. He married (first) Elizabeth McClane, who bore him a son, Joseph. He married (second) Jane Hoff- man. Children: Robert, married Mary Pell; James, mentioned below; William, married Jane Ennis ; Allen, married Esther Townsend ; Mary, married Samuel Wickman; Margaret, married Jacobus Ickmoody ; Elizabeth, mar- ried Joseph Simmons.

(II) James, son of William and Jane

(Hoffman) Irwin, was born in Dutchess county, New York. He married Margaret Patten. Children: William Patten, men- tioned below; Robert, Israel, James, Jane, Ann, Elizabeth, Allen, John.

(III) William Patten, son of James and Margaret (Patten) Irwin, was born in Dutch- ess county, New York, February 21, 1789, died in Sodns, Wayne county, New York, where most of his life was passed. He was a farmer and a breeder of fine stock. He was colonel of a regiment of Wayne county militia in the old "general training" days and was a man of prominence in the county. He married Mehetable Hayward, a descendant of the Pilgrim Hayward. Children: Theodore, who was a leading banker and business man of Oswego, New York; Dudley Martin, men- tioned below; David Wickham, Daniel Pat- ten, William P., Frances Mary, Eliza Maria, Theresa Mehetable, Evelina Margaret, Har- riet Ann.

(IV) Dudley Marvin, son of William Pat- ten and Mehetable (Hayward) Irwin, was born in Sodus, Wayne county, New York, March 17, 1829, died January 24, 1860, at Al- bany, New York, as a result of an accident on the New York Central railroad at Tarry- town. He married, January II, 1859, at Ful- ton, New York, Mary Elizabeth Miller, born in Hillier, Upper Canada, December 9, 1837, died at Fulton, New York, April 22, 1866, aged twenty-eight years. Her mother was a Townsend of Connecticut.

(V) Dudley Marvin (2), son of Dudley Marvin (1) and Mary Elizabeth (Miller) Ir- win, was born at Fulton, New York, June 10, 1860. He was educated in a private school at Oswego, New York, and at Lafayette Col- lege, Easton, Pennsylvania. He did not com- plete his college course, but in 1898 Lafayette conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts, Mr. Irwin having continued his studies and earned his degree while engaged in busi- ness. He was for many years the junior part- ner in the firm of Irwin & Sloan, grain deal- ers. In 1896 he was located in Chicago, and in 1898 he made his permanent home in Buf- falo, New York, where his interests are now largely centered. He handles grain in im- mense quantities and in that trade is regarded as an expert. He is also largely interested in other fields of activity. He is vice-president of the Great Lakes Construction Company, which executes many government contracts

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for piers and breakwaters along the lake coasts. It also has contracts for sections of the new Erie barge canal. He is president of the United Producers' Company, which owns and operates oil wells in Pennsylvania and Illinois. He is a director of the American Savings Bank, the Buffalo General Hospital and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. He is a man of energy and public spirit, holding high position in the commercial world. He is a Republican, but thoroughly independent in political action. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian and a vestryman of Trinity Church, Buffalo. His college fraternity is Zeta Psi. He belongs to the Ellicott, Buffalo, Saturn, University, Country and Automobile clubs of Buffalo, and to the Grolier Club of New York.

He married, December 14, 1892, Jennie, daughter of William Marsh, of Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey. Mr. Marsh died in July, 1892. Mrs. Irwin is a graduate of Madame de Silva's Young Ladies' School of New York. She is a granddaughter of An- drew H. Reeder, of Easton, Pennsylvania, who was appointed in 1854 the first governor of the territory of Kansas. He was a Demo- crat, but the conduct of the "border ruffians" shook his partisanship. After his removal by President Pierce he was chosen by the Free State party as territorial delegate to congress. In 1856 he and James H. Lane were chosen United States senators by the Free State party, but congress refused to recognize the election. He and General Nathaniel Lyon were the first brigadier generals appointed by President Lincoln, but he was too far ad- vanced in life to accept. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin are: Katherine Penn Gaskill, Theodore Hayward, Gwendolyn Reeder, Dud- ley Marvin (3).

This well-known Scotch MACDONALD name is widely spread over the English-speaking world. The family with which we have now to deal is of that Scotch-Irish stock which is so prominent in American life and history. Their family home had long been in Scotland, previous to the time of emigrating to Canada. (I) Donald MacDonald, the founder of this family, was born in Cumberland, Ontario, Canada, died about 1870, his death due to drowning, by an accident in rafting. He was engaged in the lumber business. He married

Margaret Mclaughlin, whose family are old settlers in the Ottawa valley, Ontario. Child, Peter Daniel, of whom further.

(II) Peter Daniel, son of Donald and Mar- garet (Mclaughlin) MacDonald, was born near Rockland, Russell county, Ontario, in 1858, died February 14, 1899. He attended the public schools and the high school, also the Collegiate Institute at Collingwood, Sim- coe county, Ontario. He received a teacher's diploma of the highest grade, and took first class honors in Queen's University in his year. Successively he was principal of the George street school, the Mutchmor street school, and the First avenue school, all in Ottawa ; he was engaged in this work nine years. He also had public service, as political secretary to William C. Edwards, then a member of the house of commons, now a senator in the Dominion parliament. He was an active Baptist, a mem- ber of the First Baptist Church in Ottawa, many years librarian of the Sunday school, and much interested in Sunday school work. He married, in February, 1884, Janet Lamb, daughter of Alexander and Janet (Lamb) MacLean. Her father was born in 1824, in Abau, Scotland, died August 17, 1906; he lived at Thurso, Labelle county, Quebec, and was for twenty-five years secretary of the town council. Her mother was a member of an old Scotch family from Sterling, Scotland, long settled at Ottawa valley. Children : I. Norman Alexander, of whom further. 2. Wilford Donald, born February 21, 1887 ; with the Saskatchewan Lumber Company, Sas- katchewan; a member of the Baptist church; married Jean MacTavish, a graduate of the London Normal School ; her parents were de- scendants of the Selkirk pioneers. 3. Er- nest Stanley, born March 12, 1889; lives in Buffalo, and is with Spencer Kellogg & Sons. 4. Everett John, born May 2, 1891; lives in Buffalo, and is office manager for the Empire State Ring Company. 5. Stewart Kenneth, born in 1893; lives at Crooked River, Sas- katchewan, and is with a lumber company. 6. Herbert Keith, born in 1895; lives at Crooked River, is with a lumber company.

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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 90

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

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