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(VI) Henry, eldest son of Joseph and Te- mima (Forbes) Brewer, was born at East Hartford, Connecticut, April 25, 1809: died at Cortland, New York, August 13, 1891. He was educated in the schools of East Hart- ford and Cortland. coming to the latter town
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with his father in 1820, being then eleven years of age. He commenced work in the paper mills where his father was superintendent, and later learned the harness inaker's trade and in 1834 established shops in Cortland, continuing in business there until about 1881, when he retired from active business. He was a cap- able man of affairs and prospered. He was a well known, highly respected citizen of Cort- land, where his busy life was spent. He held various positions of trust and honor in the town, among them being charter trustee of the State Normal School, trustee of Cortland Academy, and trustee of Cortland Rural Ceme- tery. In religious faith and connection he was a Presbyterian, and guided his life in strict accordance with his religious profession. In political faith he was a Democrat. He mar- ried, June 4, 1839, Mary A. Lee, of Lyme, Connecticut, born August 14, 1814, died in Cortland, May 9, 1880: daughter of Richard Lee of Lyme, Connecticut. Children : Henry Lee, born .April 27. 1840, died October 7. 1875: Charles Forbes, born November 28, 1842, died April 8, 1859: Richard Wells, born January 20, 1848, died September 1, 1865: Joseph, born July 4, 1849, died March 15. 1854; Edward Hill, of whom further.
(VII) Edward Hill, youngest son of Henry and Mary .\. ( Lee) Brewer, was born in Cortland. New York, September 5, 1851. He was educated in the village schools, finishing at the Cortland State Normal School. He learned his father's trade, and for several years was associated with him in business, and then started a small shop for the manufacture of carriage trimmings. In 1884 he founded the Cortland Carriage Goods Company, of Cortland, under the firm name of E. H. Brewer & Company, incorporated under the present name in 1897. Mr. Brewer has al- ways given his personal attention to the busi- ness both as the head of the original firm and as the first and only president of the cor- poration. His energy and executive ability have carried him from the small shop to his present position as head and principal owner of one of the largest and most important con- cerns in the United States, manufacturing car- riage and automobile hardware and trimmings. The plant in Cortland has a capacity for the manufacture of the equipment for fifteen hun- dred top-buggies daily, in addition to a great quantity of carriage and automobile equip- ment. Mr. Brewer is one of Cortland's most
public spirited citizens, and is interested in other important activities in the city and else- where. He is vice-president and director of the Crandall & Stone Company of Bingham- ton, New York; vice-president and director of the Cortland Forging Company ; vice-presi- dent of the Cortland Co. Traction Co .; direc- tor of the National Bank of Cortland; also of the Second National Bank of Cortland; a trustee of Rollins College, Winter Park, Flor- ida ; president and director of the Cortland County Hospital, which owes much to his en- ergetic efforts. Ile is a member of the Pres- byterian church, and a Republican in politics.
He married, October 16, 1878, Eda Aroa, daughter of Morris and Phæbe Strong ( Pom- eroy ) Ainslie, of Onondaga Valley, New York. Children : 1. Mabel Aroa, born August 2, 1879; graduated from Smith College, class of Igo1; married, October 28, 1908, Dr. R. Paul Hig- gins, of Cortland ; child: Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 21, 1910. 2. Henry, born January 31, 1882; died January 29, 1883. 3. Edward Ains- lie, born January 29, 1883; graduated from Yale, class of 1907; treasurer of the Crandall & Stone Co., of Binghamton, New York ; mar- ried Bess Spaulding, of Binghamton, New York, June 1, 1911. 4. Robert Lee, born Sep- tember 17. 1884; graduated from Yale, class of 1907 : sales manager of Cortland Carriage Goods Company ; married, October 13, 1909. Sarah Cornelia Marsellus, of Syracuse, New York : child : Robert Lee ( 2), born November 10, 1910. 5. Eda May, born May 8, 1888; graduate of Smith College, class of 1911. 0. Donald Ainslie, born October 22, 1892. 7. Lee, born March 30, 1894.
The name Gardner is un-
GARDNER doubtedly of Latin origin. In Latin it is Gordianus, in Ital-
ian, Gardena, in French, Des Jardine. . \ knight, Des Jardine, came into England with William the Conqueror, and the name has been known there from that time.
(I) George Gardner, immigrant ancestor. was born about 1601, in England, and came to Rhode Island as early as 1638. That same year he was admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck. In 1639 he was free- man, in 1641-42 senior sergeant, in 1644 en- sign. In 1660, he with others, was witness to a deed given by an Indian to several in- habitants of Newport, Rhode Island, of land which comprised what is now the city of West-
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erly, Rhode Island. October 28, 1662, he was commissioner from Newport at a court held at Warwick, Rhode Island, and in 1675 he was juryman.
Fle married, between 1641 and 1045, Hero- dias, widow of John Hicks. She was born in England and her maiden name was Long. She declared before the general assembly of Newport that when she was between thirten and fourteen years old her father died, and she was sent to London, where she married privately John Hicks. The marriage took place in the under church of Paul's, called St. Faith's Church. She then came to New Eng- land with her husband and lived for two and one-half years at Weymouth, Massachusetts, thence coming to Rhode Island. Soon after coming to the latter place she and her hus- band quarrelled, and he went away to the Dutch, taking with him most of her estate, which had been sent her by her mother. Her mother and brother both lost their lives and money in the service of the King. After her desertion by John Hicks, she became the wife of George Gardner. Testimony as to her mar- riage to the latter was given by Robert Stan- ton, who declared that one night at his house both of them said before him and his wife that they did take one the other as man and wife. In May, 1658, two years after the ad- vent of Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, who were the first missionaries of the society of Onakers who landed in the colonies, Herodias Gardner, with a small child in her arms, left her home in Newport and walked sixty miles through the wilderness to Weymouth, Massa- chusetts, to deliver her testimony. She was arrested and taken before Governor Endicott, who addressed her in harsh terms, and com- manded that she and her attendant should each receive ten lashes on their naked backs. While this cruel sentence was being inflicted. she held her child, and protected it with her arms from the lash of the executioner. After the whipping, which was with a threefold whip of cords, she was kept for fourteen days longer in prison. When her sentence was over she knelt down and prayed the Lord to for- give them. George Gardner died in Kings- town, Rhode Island, 1679. Children : Benony, mentioned below : Henry. George. Nicholas, William, Dorcas, Rebecca, married, as his sec- ond wife, John Watson.
(II) Benony, son of George Gardner, died in 1731. He may have been born about 1647.
from the fact that in 1727 he gave his age in testimony as upwards of ninety. In 1671 he took the oath of allegiance. In 1679 he, with forty-one others, of Narragansett, signed a petition to the King, praying that he would "put an end to these differences about the government thereof, which has been so fatal to the prosperity of the place." He married Mary - -, born 1645, died November 16, 1739, at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Children : Stephen, mentioned below; Nathaniel, died 1734; William, born 1671 ; Bridget ; Isaac, Jan- uary 7, 1687-88.
( III) Stephen, son of Benony Gardner, was born at Kingstown, Rhode Island, in 1667, died February 9, 1743, at Bozrah, New London county, Connecticut, buried in the Gardner burying ground. He moved to Norwich, Con- necticnt, before 1736, though he was in South Kingston in 1731. He owned land at Bozrah, Colchester and Montville, Connecticut. He bought the Great Pond near Norwich. He married, about 1700, Amy Sherman, born Oc- tober 25, 1681. Children: 1. Amy, born June 13, 1701; Lydia, October 10, 1702; Stephen, February 24, 1704; Benjamin, mentioned be- low ; Peregrine, mentioned below ; Daniel, De- cember 14, 1709; Sarah, October 25, 1711; Hannah, May 2, 1713; Mehitable, May 22. 1715; Abigail. July 9, 1717; David, June 28, 1720: Jonathan, April 18, 1724.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Stephen Gardner, was born at South Kingston, Rhode Island, April 18, 1706, died in Connecticut in 1776. In his will dated February 13, 1762, proved May 7, 1776, he bequeathed to Content, his wife, and to Ezekiel, Simeon, Margaret Cong- don, Benjamin, Sherman, Desire and Content, his children. His son Benjamin was a soldier in the revolution and appears to have been an early settler in Ontario county with Peregrine, mentioned below. In 1790 Benjamin Gardner at Genesee town, Ontario county, New York, had three males over sixteen, one under that age and five females in his family.
(IV) Peregrine, son of Stephen Gardner, was born at South Kingston, Rhode Island, January 24, 1707. He settled in Montville, Connecticut, near Norwich. He married Su- sanna, daughter of John and Mary ( Hazard) Robinson. Children : Stephen, born August I, 1734: Mary, March 14, 1736; John, May 9, 1737, married Elizabeth Mumford (he was taken prisoner at Wyoming, July 17, 1778, loaded with plunder, and when he fell from
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fatigue was tortured to death by the Indian squaws ) ; Peregrine, mentioned below ; Ruth, October 25, 1742; Robinson, November 27, 1743: Hannalı, December 10, 1745 : William, August 13, 1747.
(V) Peregrine (2), son of Peregrine ( I) Gardner, was born at Montville, Connecticut, March 12, 1739-40. He was a soldier in the revolution in the Wyoming Valley Regiment in 1777 when he gave his age as thirty-seven years, his height five feet, eleven inches. He was called of Wyoming ( Pennsylvania) and of Plainfield, Connecticut, on the rolls of Cap- tain Simeon Spaulding's company, most of whose men were originally of Norwich and vicinity. He was in Captain Hyde's regiment at times from 1777 to 1781. In 1781 he was called of Westmoreland on the roll of Cap- tain Spaulding's company of Wyoming Val- ley. He was in the service in 1782-83, and doubtless was at the surrender at Yorktown. According to the history of Ontario county, Benjamin Gardner settled at Canandaigua in 1789. and one of the first storekeepers was Samuel Gardner.
(VI) Gardner, son of Benjamin. Samuel or Peregrine Gardner, was born prob- ably in Connecticut, and settled with his pa- rents in Ontario county, New York, before 1789. Children : John, Malachi, Samuel, Charles, mentioned below ; Betsey, Phebe.
(VII ) Charles, son of --- Gardner, was born in Hopewell, New York, about 1819. died in 1883. Both Benjamin and Samuel Gardner were early settlers in this town. He was a miller by trade. He married Maria Washı- burn, born in Hopewell. Ontario county, New York, about 1819, died in 1800, daughter of Jonathan Washburn. Children: 1. Charles, lives in Gorham, New York. 2. John, men- tioned below. 3. Mary, married Nelson An- gell, of Hopewell, New York : children : Adel- bert. Lewis and Clarence G. Angell.
(VIII ) John, son of Charles Gardner, was born in Hopewell, Ontario county, New York, April 26, 1854. His education was received in the public schools. During his boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and he followed farming for seven years on his own account. Since then he has been a miller. He operated a mill for a time at Livonia, New York, and for seven years or more at Canandaigua. Thence he removed to Baldwinsville, New York, and for twenty years was in the milling business there. Since 1907 he has had charge
of the Wickwire Roller Mills at Cortland. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. Hle married, October 30, 1879, Ida Trembly, born in South Bristol, Ontario county, New York, daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Green ) Trem- bly, granddaughter of John Trembly. Lydia Green was a daughter of Henry Green, and his father, William Green, was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Children of John and Ida Gardner : 1. John Trembly, mentioned be- low. 2. Grace, born April 6, 1883, died June, 1885. 3. Charles Hovey, born April 13, 1885 ; educated in public schools of Baldwinsville. New York, graduated from Albany Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1907, and is now in practice with his brother, in law firm of J. T. & C. H. Gardner. 4. Lucas Smith, born December 18, 1888: is in employ of city engineer.
(IX) John Trembly, son of John Gardner. was born in Livonia, Livingston county, New York, July 20, 1880. He attended the Bald- winsville public schools, and entered Syracuse University, from which he graduated in 1903, in the law department. He was admitted to the bar the same year. and during the next two years was in the employ of the legal de- partment of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. For three years he was manager of the Title Insurance Com- pany, with offices in Jamaica, New York, and at the same time was financially interested in a contracting business. Since 1907 he has been engaged in the general practice of law at Cortland, New York, in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of J. T. & C. H. Gardner. He is a member of Seneca Lodge, No. 160, Free and Accepted Masons, of Baldwinsville, and of the Delta Chi frater- nity. In religion he is a Methodist, and in politics a Republican.
The name of Woodford is
WOODFORD of English origin and was probably adopted as a pa tronymic by one who lived at a ford in the woods. It was prominently identified with the first settlement of Massachusetts and Con- nectient, and was active in the early settle- ment of Central New York. Though not numerous in this country, the descendants have typified the New England character of industry, thrift and moral progress.
(I) Thomas Woodford was born in I in-
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colnshire. England, and was among the pio- neers at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hle was in Roxbury in 1032, and in 1033 joined the party of Rev. Thomas llooker, which settled in Hartford, where he became one of the founders. During his stay there he took an active part in the affairs of the colony, serv- ing at various times as town crier, fence viewer and in other offices. He is mentioned among the settlers of Springfield in the compact of 1630. In 1054 he was one of the proprie- tors of Northampton, Massachusetts, settling there in that year, and died March 6, 1667. His will, executed April 26, 1665, was proved twenty days after his death. He married, March 4. 1035, Mary Blott. Children : Han- nah, married Samuel Allen : Joseph, mentioned below : Sarah, married Nehemiah Allen. His will also mentions a daughter Mary.
(HI) Joseph, only known son of Thomas and Mary (Blott) Woodford, was born in Hartford, and in 1665 settled at Farmington, Connecticut, where he acquired a large tract of land and died in 1701. His body was buried in what is known as the Cider Brook cemetery. He married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca ( Olmstead ) Newell. Children : Mary, married Thomas Bird, of Farmington, and died in 1723: Rebecca, wife of John Porter ; Esther. married Samuel Bird, and died in 1742: Sarah, married Nathan Bird, and died in 1750: Hannah, married Thomas North ; Joseph. mentioned below : Elizabeth, born 1682, married Nathan Cole, of Newington : Susan, wife of Deacon Anthony Judd : Abigail, born 1685. married Caleb Cole, and died in 1730.
(Ill) Joseph (2), only son of Joseph ( 1) and Rebecca ( Newell) Woodford, was born in 1077. in that part of Farmington, known as the Northington Society, now Avon, Con- nectient, died in 1760, and was buried in Cider Brook cemetery. lle settled in the district known as Nod, where he owned a large tract of land and engaged in agriculture. He was one of the organizers and a prominent mem- ber of the Northington Church. He married ( first ) in 1699, Lydia Smith: ( second) in Simsbury, February 14, 1745, Widow Sarah Garrett, born 1668. died 1769, over one him- dred years old. His first child died an infant in 1702. The others were: Lydia, died about one year old : Mary died in childhood ; Joseph, born 1705; Elizabeth. 1707. married Thomas C'ase : Mary, 1709, married Isaac North ; Re-
becca, died young ; Samuel. 1712; Sarah, 1714; Rebecca, 1716; John, mentioned below ; Su- sanuah ; William, 1722.
(IV) John, third son of Joseph (2) and Lydia (Smith ) Woodford, was born in 1718, in Northington, died in 1802 at which time the district was known as Avon. He bore the military title of captain and was undoubtedly a farmer. He married Sarah, daughter of Amos and Sarah ( Pettibone ) Phelps, born June 23, 1729, a descendant of William Phelps, the first of the family in this country, bap- tized at Tewksbury Abbey Church, England, August 19, 1599, son of John and Dorothy Phelps. Joseph, son of William Phelps, born in England in 1629, lived at Dorchester, Mas- sachusetts, and Windsor, Connecticut. He married (first) September 20, 1660, Hannah, daughter of Roger Newton. Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( 1) and Hannah ( Newton) Phelps, was born August 20, 1667, at Windsor, Con- necticut, and married (third ) Mary, daughter of Richard Case. Amos, son of Joseph ( 2) and Mary ( Case) Phelps, was born in 1708, in Simsbury, Connecticut, died June 11, 1777. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving in the Fourth Connecticut Regiment in 1776 for a period of three months. He married, July 1, 1723, Sarah Pettibone, and they were the parents of Sarah, wife of John Woodford. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Woodford: John, born 1744: Roger, 1746; Ezekiel, 1748, died 1823: Charles, 1751. died 1819; Delightful, married a Thompson, died 1855 ; Bissell, men- tioned below : Rosanna, 1757, married Josiah Wilcox : Dorothy, 1758, married Thomas Grid- ley : Levi. 1762: Amos, 1765.
(V) Bissell, fifth son of John and Sarah ( Phelps ) Woodford, was born 1754, in Farm- ington. Connecticut, died at Candor, New York, September 3, 1835. He resided in Con- necticut until 1825, when he removed to Can- dor to join his children. He was a soldier of the revolutionary war and is probably the Captain Woodford mentioned in the revolu- tionary rolls of that state. He married De- lightful Thompson and had children : Cynthia. married David Caldwell; Susan, wife of Mat- thew Lewis : Chauncey, Romeo, Diadama, Ira, Cyrus.
(VI) Chauncey, eldest son of Bissell and Delightful ( Thompson) Woodford, was born October 14, 1782. in Farmington, Connecticut, died June 30, 1856, in Candor, New York. He grew up on the home farm in Connecti-
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cut, and settled at Candor in his twenty -sec- ond year. He was one of the pioneer settlers of that town; he built a log house at West Candor, in 1804-05, and later built the large, commodious farm house now occupied by his grandson, Asahel H. Woodford, at West Can- dor. He married, November 21, 1803, Nancy, daughter of Asa North, of Farmington, born June 3, 1785, died February 27, 1866, in Can- dor. Children: 1. Asahel, born July 14, 1804. died May 12, 1849. 2. Emily, May 12, 1800; married Hiram Smith. 3. Diana, December 18, 1809: married Ogden Smith. 4. Louisa R., February 19, 1815: married Joseph Mat- thews. 5. Elbert C., January 8, 1823 ; married Sarah Dunham and had children: E. Jerome and Emma T., who married C. N. Day. o. George, mentioned below.
(VHI ) George, youngest child of Chauncey and Nancy (North) Woodford, was born .April 3, 1826, in West Candor, where he passed his life and died December 22. 1890. He was born in the house built by his father and always lived there. He was a member of the state militia in the days before the civil war, and during war time he dealt extensively in agricultural implements. lle was a pro- gressive. up-to-date and successful farmer. The home farm consisted of some one hundred and fifty acres, all cleared by his father and himself. He married, May 20, 1847, Mary, daughter of William and Hannah ( Tracy ) Loring, born June 24, 1824. in East Spencer, New York, now living at West Candor. Chil- dren: 1. Asahel Horace, mentioned below. 2. Adelaide MI., married Charles F. Andrews and has a son George, who married Edna Bush and has a son Luther. 3. Charles George, mentioned below.
(VIII) Asahel Horace, son of George and Mary ( Loring) Woodford, was born August 6, 1851, in West Candor, on the farm cleared by his grandfather in the early years of the last century, and in the house built by him. He received a common school education and has always engaged in agriculture with suc- cess. By purchase he has added to the an- cestral estate, and is now the owner of several hundred acres in and about West Candor. . \ progressive and industrious farmer, the suc- cess of his methods is demonstrated by his fine house and farm buildings and the neat and thrifty appearance of his farms. He mar- ried, October 7, 1875, Harriet Wright, of Oaks Corners, Ontario county, New York, daughter
of Charle- and Philomela ( Cooper ) Wright. They have a daughter Mabel, born February 2, 1880, now a teacher in New Rochelle, New York.
(\ 111 ) Charles George, son of George and Mary ( Horing ) Woodford, was born .August 31, 1850, at West Candor, in the house built by his grandfather. lle was educated in the district schools, Candor Academy, and a busi- ness college in Binghamton, New York. For some years he was employed as clerk in dry goods stores at Owego and Binghamton, New York, Amboy, Illinois, and Waverh, New York. In 1886 he entered the First National Bank in Owego as teller and assistant cashier, in which capacities he has continued until the present time. \ capable and efficient business man. he has been called upon to fill various positions of trust and responsibility. After serving a term as treasurer of the village of Owego he was two successive terms of three years each treasurer of the county of Tioga, beginning with January, 1906. He is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church of Owego and of the Local Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married. February 4. 1883. Anna M., born in Owego, daughter of Francis and Mary Ann (Elliott ) Chitry. This name was originally French and spelled Chicatree. They have one son, Elliott Woodford, born May 16, 1897, in Owego.
(III) Eleazer Hill, son of John HILL Hill ( q.v. ), was born at Dorchester. Massachusetts, June 20, 1664. He settled in Sherborn, Massachusetts, with others of the family among the early settlers, and was a taxpayer as early as 1684. He drew land in Sherborn in 1606 and died prior to 1730. In 1715 he drew land in New Sher- born, afterward called Douglass. in Worces- ter county, Massachusetts, and in 1730 forty- three acres of land in Douglass were drawn in his right. His wife Sarah died July 6, 1699. Children, born at Sherborn: Eleazer. men- tioned below: Sarah. November 30, 1600: Solomon, December 27, 1601.
(IV) Dr. Eleazer (2) Hill. son of Eleazer ( I ) Hill, was born in Sherborn. January 1. 1688. As Eleazer Jr. he drew land in Dong- lass in 1715 and 1730, but he made his home in Sherborn and practiced there. He mar
ried, August 18. 1711. . Children, born in Sherborn : Asa, February 20. 1712-13 : William. mentioned below : Joseph. August 23. 1-18:
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Rebecca, March 6, 1721-22, married (first) Joseph Cousins, and ( second ) Patrick Shays, October 30, 1765, the father of Daniel Shays, who became famous as the leader of Shays Rebellion ; Elizabeth, January 30, 1723-24; Ruth, February 20, 1726-27 ; Daniel, February 22, 1732-33, died September, 1735.
(V) William, son of Dr. Eleazer ( 2) Hill, was born at Sherborn, June 23, 1715. He set- tled in his native town. He married there, February 19, 1740, Joanna, born August 28, 1715, daughter of John and Joanna Sawin, of Sherborn. Her father was born June 26, 1689, in Sherborn, son of Thomas Sawin, born September 27, 1657, at Watertown, Massa- chusetts, married Deborah Rice, born Febru- ary 14, 1659-60, daughter of Mathew and Martha (Lamson) Rice, of Sudbury, grand- daughter of the pioncer, Edmund Rice. Thom- as Sawin was a millwright on Chestnut Brook, Sherborn, where he had a home lot assigned to him, May 13, 1679, and he built the first mill in the town. Afterwards he re- moved to the adjoining town of Natick. John Sawin, father of Thomas Sawin, was son of Robert Sawin, of Boxford, county Suffolk. England; he was a pioneer at Watertown; married Abigail Manning. William Hill died in September, 1775. Children of William and Joanna (Sawin) Hill, born at Sherborn : Su- anna, January 26. 1741-42, died young: Mir- iam, February 14. 1743-44: Zedakiah, October 4. 1746: Daniel, mentioned below; Jesse, No- vember 15, 1749; Susanna, about 1756; at Hol- liston, formerly part of Sherborn, Joanna.
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