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(VI) Daniel, son of William Hill, was born in Sherborn, May 1, 1748. He was a soldier in the revolution, serving in Captain Joseph Morse's company, Colonel John Paterson's regiment, from April 24 to August 1. 1775. credited to the town of Natick, according to the official rolls. As the births of some of his children were recorded in Natick, he must have lived there during the revolution. He took part in the battle of Bunker Hill and is said to have served several years in the revo- lution. He removed to Sangerfield. New York, then to New Hartford, New York, and finally to the town of Fenner, Madison county, in that state, where he spent his last years and where he died. He was a farmer. He married (first) (intention dated at Natick. April 12. 1777) Jane Whitney, of Dedham. Massachusetts. He married (second) January I. 1785, Alice Gross, born April 8, 1767, of an
old Cape Cod family, who died April 24, 1843. Children of first wife: Miriam, born April 22, 1778; Sabry, April 28, 1779; Sarah. Children by second wife, born in New York state: Stephen, January 31, 1786; Alice, Sep- tember 18, 1787, died December 20, 1847 ; Dan- iel, July 16, 1789; Johannah, November 13, 1791; Jabez. November 18, 1794; Polly, Janu- ary 11, 1797, died March 24, 1860; William. January 12, 1799: John, mentioned below ; Elsie, June 29, 1803; Betsey, April 28, 1805 ; Abigail, July 11, 1808, died February 1, 1842; Almira, January 19, 1810.
(VII) John, son of Daniel Hill, was born in New Hartford, Oneida county, New York, March 8, 1800. He went with his parents to Lenox, Madison county, when he was seven years old. He was educated in the district schools. In 1824 he married Isyphene Annas and moved to a farm that he owned in the town of Fenner, Madison county. He became a well-to-do farmer and prominent citizen. He held various offices of trust and honor. He was loan commissioner, justice of the peace and supervisor of the town. In 1833 he bought a country hotel called the Baldwin House, on the old stage line from Chittenango to the Chenango Valley. In 1837 he bought the Oran S. Avery farm in Perryville and the Dekeman Mill and moved thither. It has been said of him :
With large natural endowments, a keen, incisive intellect united with rare vigor and much natural heroism, he was peculiarly fitted to become a leader among men. which within his sphere he was. His courage and energy were simply wonderful and ir- repressible. He was active, full of life, indefatigable in labor, honorable in his dealings, prompt and ac- curate in his executive ability. Few possessed such instructive penetration of character. Men in trouble seemed instinctively to turn to Mr. Hill for counsel, sympathy and help. A man with ways positive, di- rect and unmistakable, he had the capacity to stamp his personality upon whomever he came in contact with and therefore was widely known throughout Madison county. It was never in his heart to do deliberate wrong to anyone and many can testify that they have been helped on in their life battle by his sympathy and aid. As a father he was emi- nently kind and paternal, for his daughter especially. he exhibited a love that was chivalrous and beau- tiful.
He was a kind son, caring for his aged parents with thoughtful love, in their last years. He was prominent in social life, as well as in business and politics, and generous in his hospitality. His long and useful career ended September 23, 1879.
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His wife, Isyphene ( Annas) Ilill, was a daughter of Oliver Annas, who came with the pioneers to Nelson, Madison county, from Vermont, and afterward bought and cleared a farm in Fenner, where Isyphene was born June 30, 1800. Oliver Annas married Aphena Aldrich, of an old family of Mendon, Worces- ter county, Massachusetts. Both Annas and Aldrich families were Quakers, rigid in prin- ciples and of exemplary life. The daughter was brought up in the old way, learning to sew, spin, weave and make patchwork. She was eighteen years old, when she married Jolin Hill, September 19, 1824. It has been well said of her:
A true and loving helpmeet to the man with whom she chose to walk life's rugged pathway, combining a rare sweetness with great firmness of disposition, she was a helmet of safety for her somewhat spirited family to rely upon, in all differences exercising a remarkable wisdom in protecting each from the faults and weakness of the other, thereby producing a harmony of which she was ever the strongest, sweetest note. . They united in many a noble self-sacrifice and gave generously to their family the advantages of which they had been deprived, encour- aging their improvement with loving admonitions.
She joined the Methodist Episcopal church at the age of thirteen. She died October 27, 1887. Children of John and Isyphene Hill : I. John W., born August 11, 1825, in Fen- ner, Madison county, New York; a lawyer and farmer of McPherson, Kansas. 2. Mary born December 14, 1826, in Fenner ; married Q. A. Ballou, son of Colonel A. Ballou, No- vember 9, 1846, and she died June 9, 1858, leaving a daughter Camilla, who married Judge T. W. Harrison, of Grand Island, Ne- braska. 3. Mason, born June 18, 1828, . in Fenner; a lawyer and farmer of Nachotalı, Wisconsin. 4. Flaville, born December 14. 1829, in Fenner: married, January 5, 1853. Captain C. P. Morey, a resident of Buffalo, New York ; she died October 2. 1910. 5. Isy- phene, born November 23, 1831; married, April 6. 1854. John Haywood, son of William Haywood, of Sullivan. 6. Webster, born De- cember 7, 1833, in Fenner : a farmer of Perry- ville, New York. 7. Nancy, born May 7, 1836, in Fenner : married, January 6, 1856, Captain FI. G. Morey; died April 5, 1874; resident of Buffalo. 8. Norman B., mentioned below. 9. Nellie, born November 21, 18440, in Perryville : married, September 25. 1860, M. N. Moot. son of Colonel D. B. Moot, of Lenox. 10. Rose, born June 10, 1845 : married, December
2, 1863, Oren F. Britt, of Sullivan ; died April 7, 1879.
(VIII) Norman B., son of John Hill, was born in Perryville, New York, January II, 1838, died there January 8, 1889. Ile was educated in the public schools, and always fol lowed farming for his occupation. He served the town as justice of the peace and super- visor and took a prominent part in public af- fairs. In religion he was a Methodist, in politics was a Republican. lle married, Feb- ruary 7, 1860, Mary, born September 6, 1840, daughter of Smith and Laura (Doxtader ) Keyes, of New Boston, New York. Children, born at Perryville: 1. John, born March I, 1862; sheriff of Madison county; married (first) Inez Hall; ( second) Jessie Ransom ; children by first wife: Irma and Gladys. 2. Fred Crosby, mentioned below. 3. Carrie, born August 22, 1864; married (first) Elmer E. Shaut; ( second ) Theodore F. Hyatt, of Perryville ; child by first marriage, Norma Hill Shaut.
(IX) Fred Crosby, son of Norman B. Hill, was born in Perryville, Madison county, New York, June 28, 1863. He attended the public schools and Yates Academy at Chittenango, New York, graduating in the class of 1883. For one year he taught school in Madison county. He assisted his father in the work of the farm until he attained the age of twenty-one years. In October, 1884, he be- gan to read law in the office of Judge Parker at Owego, New York, and in January, 1885, he was appointed clerk of the surrogate's court. He was admitted to the bar, Septem- ber 22, 1887, and on the first of January following he opened an office in Owego for general practice. He formed a partnership in January, 1900, with John M. Parker under the firm name of Hill & Parker and since then has continued in practice as senior member of this firm. In religion he is a Baptist, in poli- tics a Republican, and in 1911 was made chair- man of the Republican county committee of Tioga county.
He married, August 20, 1890, Grace, born October 18, 1863, daughter of Joseph and Helen ( Baldwin) Hibbard. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have no children.
England for five hundred years be-
HYDE fore the first of the Hyde immi- grants left their native land to make a home in the New World had recorded
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among the chief actors in her history notable men bearing the name of Hyde. Coming down to times contemporaneous with the exodus of the adventurers bent upon making new homes and renewing their fortunes in Massachusetts and Virginia, we find in English history that Sir Nicholas Hyde was chief justice of the King's Bench in 1626; that Sir Robert Hyde was chief justice of court of common pleas in 1600; and that Sir Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, was lord chancellor at the Restora- tion, 1660. Sir Edward was grandfather of Queen Mary 2d, and of Queen Anne, and of Edward Hyde (Lord Granbury ), provincial governor of New York.
In the records of Massachusetts and Vir- ginia the name appears variously as Hide. Hides and Hyde, and among the immigrant progenitors of the different American famil- ies we have: Samuel Hyde, who at the age of forty-seven embarked at London on the ship "Jonathan," in the spring of 1639, for New England, settled at New Cambridge ( Newton ) about 1640, and was admitted as a freeman, May 2, 1619. He was one of the first deacons of the church at Newton, and his wife, Temperance, survived him, as did his younger brother, Jonathan, who married Mary French, and after her death married Mary Rediat. Jonathan had nineteen children, and was grandfather of Jonathan Hyde, of Pom- fret, Connecticut, 1714, who had six sons and was the progenitor of most of the Hydes of Connecticut, especially of Pomfret and Canter- bury. Another progenitor, Humphrey Hyde. came from England to Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1655, and was an extensive landholder. Edward Hyde was born in England about 1650, and was sent out to North Carolina in 1711 as governor of the province ; he was in- strumental in restoring order between the rival governments established in the province, be- tween the Anglican and Quaker factions, and by aid of the governor of the province of Vir- ginia. Thomas Corey, the governor, by the will of the Quakers, was expelled forcibly, and this action. added to his affording protection from the Indians through the victory over the Tus- caroras ncar Newberne in 1712, gained him much popularity. About 1750 John Hyde came from England to Richmond, Virginia, and his descendants are found in all the southern states. For the purpose of this sketch, how- ever. we have to do with William Hyde, who appeared in Newton, Massachusetts Bay Col-
ony, in 1033, and in Hartford Colony in the Connecticut valley, in 1036, and his name is recorded on a monument erected in the ancient burial ground of that city as one of the original settlers.
(I) William Hyde, the immigrant last des- ignated, had lands granted to him in the Hart- ford Colony in 1636, and was probably a mem- ber of the party of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who migrated from Roxboro and Newton. As to the fact of his coming from Newton (or New Cambridge, as the place was first called ) where the brothers, Samuel and Jonathan Hyde, afterwards settled, there is no evidence that they were of the same family. although dis- tantly related. The relationship cannot be fixed, as the ages of the three immigrants cannot be definitely fixed. Samuel was forty- seven years old before he left England, and his brother Jonathan was much younger, and William was old enough to be deacon in the church at New Cambridge in 1033; his son Thomas was born in Hartford. probably in 1637, soon after the arrival of his father in that place. William Hyde and his family re- moved from Hartford to Saybrook, and his daughter married there in 1052, and he became one of the original proprietors of Norwich in 1660, where he was a man of considerable importance among the first settlers, and was frequently a selectman of the town. He died in Norwich, January 6, 1681. The name of his wife is unknown. His eldest child, Hes- ter, was probably born in England, and she was married in Saybrook, as early as 1652. to John Post.
( II) Samuel, second child and only son of . William Hyde. the immigrant, was born in Hartford Colony, and was married in June. 1659, to Jane, daughter of Thomas Lee and his wife, who bore the surname of Brown. This Thomas Lee came from England in 1641 with his wife and three children, and died on the passage, and his widow and children settled in Saybrook, one of the children be- ing named Thomas, and his sister Sarah mar- ried John Large and settled on Long Island. Samuel and Jane ( Lee) Hyde settled in Nor- wich, Connecticut. in 1660. Ile was a farmer and an original settler of Norwich, and his daughter Elizabeth was the first white child born in the town. He had land assigned to him at Norwich West Farms, and died there at the age of forty years. in 1677, leaving eleven children, and John Berchard became
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their guardian by order of the court. These children were all born in Norwich, Connecti- cut, in the following order : Elizabeth, August, 1660, married Lieutenant Richard Lord; Phoebe, January, 1663, married Matthew Gris- wold ; Samuel, mentioned below ; John, Decem- ber, 1667, married Experience Abel; William, January, 1670, married Anne Bushnell ; Thomas, July, 1672. married Mary Backus ; Sarah, February, 1675, died the same year ; John. May, 1677, married Elizabeth Bushnell.
(III) Samuel ( 2), eldest son of Samuel ( 1 ) and Jane (Lee) Hyde, was born in Nor- wich, Connecticut, in May, 1665. He married, December 10, 1690. Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Calkins, and granddaughter of Hugh and Ann Calkins. Hugh Calkins, the immigrant, born in Chepstow, England, 1600, came from Monmouthshire, England, to Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, about 1640, resided in Lynn and Gloucester, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, removed to New London, Connecticut, and finally settled in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1660, and represented the town in the general court of Connecticut. Samuel and Elizabeth ( Calkins) Hyde lived in Wind- ham, Connecticut, until 1700, when they re- moved to Lebanon, where he died November 6, 1742, leaving a widow and ten children. The first four of these children were born in Windham, and the last six in Lebanon ; Sam- uel, September 10, 1601, married Priscilla Bradford; Daniel, August 16, 1694, married Abigail Wattles: Sarah. December 20, 1696, married Ebenezer Brown; Caleb, April 9. 1699, married Mary Blackman; Elizabeth, baptized December 12, 1703, married Rev. Timothy Collins : Elijah, mentioned below ; Ebenezer, who was married twice ; Lydia, born about 1710. married Jonathan Metcalf ; David. baptized March 22. 1719, married Althea Bradford: Anne, who was married twice.
(IV) Elijah, fourth son of Samuel (2) and Elizabeth (Calkins) Hyde, was born in Le- banon, Connecticut, 1705. He married (first ). November 12, 1730, Ruth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Leffingwell ) Tracy, of Nor- wich, settled at Norwich West Farms, now Franklin, Connecticut, and in 1742 removed to Lebanon, where his wife died October 15, 1773. aged sixty-two years. He married ( sec- ond) Mercy Coleman, a widow, May 3. 1774, and she died August 3. 1783, without issue by him ; he died at the homestead in Lebanon, August 10, 1783. Children of Elijah and Ruth
( Tracy ) Ilyde: Andrew, born in Norwich, Connecticut, September 10, 1732, married Ilannah Thomas; Elijah, January 17, 1735. married Mary Clark ; Eliphalet, May 4, 1737, died November 4, 1743; Caleb, mentioned be- low; Zina, April 2, 1741; Ruth, January 21, 1743, died March 29, 1743; Eliphalet, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, May 9, 1744; married (first ) Naomi Flint, ( second ) Abigail Wash- burn; Moses, September 11, 1751. married Sara Dana: Ebenezer, November 20, 1753, married Lucy Huntington ; Ruth, May 5, 1750, married Captain Andrew Huntington.
(V) Caleb, fourth son of Elijah and Ruth (Tracy) Hyde, was born July 29, 1739, at Norwich West Farms (now Franklin), died December 25, 1820, at Lisle, Broome county, New York. In 1769 he settled at Lenox, Massachusetts, and took an active part in the revolutionary war. The names of himself and his brother Moses appear in the proceed- ings of a meeting at Lenox in 1774 in oppo- sition to British aggressions. As captain of a company in Colonel Eaton's regiment, Ca- leb Hyde marched May 20, 1775, from Lenox, on an alarm at Ticonderoga. In February, the following year, he was commissioned second major of Colonel B. Symond's second Berkshire county regiment of Massachusetts militia, and in December, that year, was ap- pointed major of the regiment. In April. 1777, he was commissioned first major of Colonel John Brown's third Berkshire county regiment of Massachusetts militia, and in the following February, was appointed lieutenant- colonel of the regiment. He was also lieuten- ant-colonel of Colonel David Rossiter's de- tachment to reinforce the army under General Stark at Saratoga. ( Roll dated at Pittsfield. ) He was subsequently sheriff of Berkshire county and removed to Lisle, New York, about 1790 (what is now called the Hyde set- tlement ), and became one of the leading pub- lic men of that part of the state. He was major general of militia, and was elected senator from the western district of New York in 1803. In February, 1804, he was chosen by the legislature as one of the mem- bers of the council of appointment. He mar- ried, in 1761, Elizabeth Sacket, born Novem- ber, 1742, at Oblong, a niece of Admiral Rich- ard Sacket. She died January 6. 1806, and he survived her nearly fifteen years. Their first children were a pair of twins, born at Lebanon, Connecticut, and died unnamed.
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The others were: Charles, Caleb, Chauncey, Calvin, Elijah, John, Ebby, Clarissa, Eliza- beth. Ruth, Prudence, Harriet, Melinda.
(VI) Ebby, seventh son of Caleb and Eli- zabeth ( Sacket) Ilyde, was born January 17, 1781, at Lenox, died near Marshall, Calhoun county, Michigan. He resided for many years in Lisle, New York, where he was a magistrate and colonel of militia. In 1825 he removed to Ovid, New York, and eleven years later to Fredonia, where he was a farmer, and again served as magistrate. He removed from Fredonia to Michigan, living there for some years before his death. He married. September 3, 1804, Elizabeth, born March 29, 1782, in Richmond, Massachusetts, daughter of Deacon M. and Dorcas (Peck) Osborn, of that town. She died August 22, 1838. at Fredonia.
(VII) Dr. Frederick Hyde, son of Ebby and Elizabeth (Osborn) Hyde, was born January 28, 1807, at Whitney Point, Broome county. New York, died at Cortland. New York, October 15, 1887. As a youth Fred- erick Hyde attended district school, and be- fore the completion of his fifteenth year he began teaching such a school. Following this he taught school in winter, and attended school at other periods of the year, and ultimately taught throughout the year. In the winter of 1831, while teaching, his home was in the fam- ily of Dr. Hiram Moe, of Lansing, New York, and there he commenced the study of medicine which he afterwards pursued in the office of Dr. Horace Bronson. of Virgil, Cortland county, New York. After attending one course of lectures in the Medical College at Fairfield, New York, he was licensed by the Cortland County Medical Society in 1833 to begin practice. He continued his studies, however, until the fall of 1835, riding on horseback over the hills of Virgil and adjoin- ing towns with his preceptor, thus making a practical study of his profession. In 1835 he returned to Fairfield, took another course of lectures, and was graduated in 1836. Soon after his graduation he settled in Cortland, and entered into partnership with Dr. Miles Goodyear, at that time the leading medical practitioner of the town, and one of the first graduates of Yale Medical School. Dr. Hyde occupied various positions of honor and trust, both medical and civil. In 1854 he was ap- pointed to the chair of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in Geneva Medical College, and
one year later was transferred to the chair of the Principles and Practice of Surgery. This position he filled seventeen years, and on the establishment of the college of medi- cine at Syracuse University in 1872, and the abandonment of Geneva Medical College, he took a similar position in the Syracuse Insti- tution, and continued to hold it until the time of his deatlı, the later years there being dean of the faculty. In 1847 he attended as dele- gate the first meeting of the American Medi- cal Association, and in 1865 was chosen presi- dent of the New York State Medical Society. In 1876 he was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia, and nine years later to the same congress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, also to the British Medical Association at Belfast, Ireland. In 1887 he attended the International Medical Congress at Washington. Dr. Hyde read many papers, largely on surgical topics, be- fore the various professional societies he at- tended. For seventeen years he was president of the board of trustees of Cortlandville Acad- emy, and after 1876 was president of the local board of Cortland Normal School. He was president of the Cortland Savings Bank from 1876 to 1889.
He married, January 24, 1838. Elvira, old- est daughter of Dr. Goodyear. Children: Au- gusta and Miles Goodyear. The daughter was graduated at Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1862, and resided thereafter at Cortland until her death in May. 1894. For a number of years she taught painting in oils and water colors in her native place, and for several years prior to her death gave instruction in china and tapestry painting. Various meri- torious productions, testifying to her skill in the practice of the art so loved by her, beau- tified her Cortland home.
(VIII) Dr. Miles Goodyear, only son of Dr. Frederick and Elvira (Goodyear) Hyde. was born in Cortland, and prepared for col- lege at the academy in that place. In 1861 he entered Yale College and four years later was graduated with honors from that insti- tution ; his rank in scholarship making him a inember of Phi Beta Kappa. After gradu- ating from Yale he studied medicine with his father, and received the degree of M. D. from Geneva Medical College in 1868. Meanwhile for a time he had been principal of the acad- emy at Moravia, New York. Upon receiv- ing his medical degree he located in Cortland
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for the practice of medicine, and thus con- tinued nearly twenty years. In 1872 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical de- partment of Syracuse University. In 1871 lie was appointed adjunct professor of anatomy in that institution and held the position four years, ultimately resigning as its demands in- terfered with his practice. He was elected president of the Cortland County Medical Society in 1875, and again the succeeding year, and was county delegate to the Ameri- can Medical Association. For a number of years he was surgeon for the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira railroad, and local surgeon of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad for several years.
He is the author of numerous professional papers and one of these "On Preventing the Deformity in Certain Fractures of the Hand" was published in pamphlet form. Without solicitation on his part Dr. Hyde was made the candidate of the Democratic party for member of assembly from Cortland county in 1885, but his party being largely in the mi- nority he was not elected. After suffering from a long and painful illness, partial em- bolism in the lower limbs, Dr. Hyde removed to New York City in 1888, and retired from active practice of his profession. Since he removed to New York he has written "The Story of a Day in London," of which three editions have been published ; a magazine ar- ticle, "A Lesson in Brook Trouting ;" a mono- graph. "The One Time Wooden Spoon at Yale," which was printed in a bound volume ; "The Girl from Mexico and Other Short Stories and Sketches," of which two editions were published : "Mary Markam," a novel ; * He has also prepared several historical arti- cles, and has delivered addresses before the Cortland County Society of New York City ; the Medical Alumni of Syracuse University, and the Playgoers Club of New York. Dr. Hyde was long identified with the Yale Alumni Association, and for some years with the Yale Club of New York, and is now a member of the Delta Kappa Association of New York. In 1890 he was engaged in office work with the Broadway Cable Construction Company, and later had charge of that com- pany's employment business. During Presi- dent Cleveland's second administration, and part of the succeeding one, he was in the * "The Confession and Letters of Terence Quinn McManus." a book of fiction, in 191.
private office of the appraiser of the port of New York, where he maintained the first rank for efficiency. Attacks of rheumatisin made it advisable for him to resign.
In a memoir of Dr. Frederick flyde, Dr. Caleb Green, of Ilomer, New York, says of the son, "Ile then entered upon the practice of his profession with the ambition to excel. How he succeeded we all well know. He be- came expert in the departments of obstetrics and enjoyed a large service in that way. It is not pleasant to reflect that one upon whom so many in the community depend for advice and help in the hour of trial should be com- pelled to withdraw from the duties of his profession, when so fully competent for the performance of those duties."
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