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(VIII) Daniel Edwin, second son of Lu- ther W. and Elsie ( Perkins ) Whitmore, was born January 6, 1825, in Columbus. He re- ceived his primary education in the local schools. He graduated at the State Normal
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College, Albany. in 1846, and during the greater part of his early life was engaged in teaching. For some time lie was employed at Homer Academy, after which he was prin- cipal of schools at Canandaigua and at Mara- thon, New York. He was one of the organ- izers of the First National. Bank at Mara- thon and of the Cortland Savings Bank. For fifteen years he was school commissioner of Cortland county, longer than any other man that ever held that office in the state, and also filled other important educational positions, including that of president of the board of education at Marathon and of the Marathon Union School and Academy. He was super- intendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school of Marathon for more than seventeen years, and was very active in the support and man- agement of the church. In the absence of the pastor he often read sermons from the pulpit. As representative of the Peck estate he was trustee of the fund employed in es- tablishing the public library at Marathon. He was three years supervisor and chairman of the county board ; for many years filled the office of justice of the peace, and in 1875 was a member of the state legislature ; politi- cally he acted with the Republican party. In 1853 he located in Marathon and there he engaged in mercantile business, about 1873, continuing until his death, March 2, 1900, at the age of seventy-five years. He also con- ducted a fire insurance business.
He married, July 9, 1850, Lydia Miranda Shattuck, born April 23, 1824, in Cincinnatus, New York, daughter of David and Esther (Bailey) Shattuck. She died October 18, 1906, in Marathon. She was a pupil of her future husband at one time and later a teach- er, and was teacher in the Baptist Sunday school at Marathon more than forty years. continuing until eighty years old. The bell now in use by the Baptist church of Marathon was presented by her. Children : Daniel W .. mentioned below ; Frank E., born June 6, 1867: David L., mentioned below.
(IX) Daniel Webster, son of Daniel Ed- win and Lydia M. ( Shattuck ) Whitmore, was born September 25. 1853. in Phelps, On- tario county, New York. The first twenty years of his life were passed in Marathon, Cortland county, New York, where he at- tended the public school and the Marathon Academy. He later pursued a course at the State Normal School. Cortland. New York,
in the meantime teaching three terms of school to secure means of paying for his own edu- cation. His first term was taught in the Wightman district and the two following at Texas Valley. It has always been a source of pleasure for Mr. Whitmore to recall the fact that several of the pupils in his first school insisted upon attending his school at Texas Valley in the two succeeding winters. paying tuition for this privilege in preference to the free schooling of their home district. In 1873 he went to New York where he en- gaged as clerk in the produce business with his uncle on Warren street, and since 1879 has continued in the same line at the same place. In 1886 he became the head of the firm of D. W. Whitmore & Company. In 1883 he took up his residence at Mt. Ver- non, New York, where he built a home for himself and family and soon thereafter be- gan building houses for rent and sale. He has been a rather extensive operator in real estate, and is regarded by the citizens of Mt. Vernon as an encyclopaedia of information regarding local property. Hours before the average business man has taken the morning train for the metropolis he could be seen driving about town looking after personal interests and gathering up-to-date informa- tion concerning local improvements. He has always taken a warm interest in the social and moral progress of the suburb and has naturally been selected by his contemporaries to fill positions of trust and responsibility. In 1894 he was elected an alderman representing the fifth ward of Mt. Vernon, upon the Re- publican ticket, running largely ahead of his ticket in the voting, and served during the years 1895-96. He served two terms. four years, as president of the municipal civil ser- vice commission under appointment from Mayor Brush, and has been repeatedly urged to become a candidate for mayor, which he has steadfastly declined. In speaking of him in this connection Mayor Brush said: "He is a man of the higliest integrity, a staunch supporter of civic righteousness. and would make tis an ideal mayor." He was appointed by Mayor Fiske a member of the non-partisan commission to revise the charter of MIt. Ver- non, and by Mayor Howe chairman of a com- mittee of fifteen representative citizens to or- ganize a chamber of commerce of the city of Mt. Vernon. He is a director in several of the strongest financial institutions in New
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York City and Westchester county. He was vice-president of the Bank of Mt. Vernon and declined the presidency of the Mt. Vernon Trust Company, although he has served as chairman of the executive committee of this company since its organization. He is a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Irving National Exchange Bank of New York City, and for many years has been a member of a similar committee of the Fidelity Trust Company of New York, of which he is now chairman. For fourteen years he has been a trustee of the East River Savings Bank of New York. For many years he has been a member of the New York Mercantile Ex- change and served on its most important con- mittees. At the time of his election as a di- rector of the Irving National Exchange Bank the Mt. Vernon Daily Argus spoke of him as follows: "He is one of our most conser- vative and trusted citizens and very promin- ent in social and financial circles. His many friends will be pleased to learn of the new position of honor and trust to which he has just been elected."
He is a member of the New York Athletic Club: Westchester County Chamber of Com- merce: Cortland County Society of New York (of which he was president one year). He is a member of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church of Mt. Vernon ; has served as vice-president and president of its board of trustees and for years was a member of the committee on conference entertainment of the New York east conference.
Mr. Whitmore married, March 25, 1879, in Homer. Emily F. Watrous, horn December 17. 1853. in Virgil, daughter of Nelson and Harriet ( Norton ) Watrous, of Homer. Mrs. Whitmore was one of the successful teachers of the Cortland Academy at Homer. New York. Their eldest child, George Byron, was born in Brooklyn. The others, Daniel Web- ster and Helen Marie, were born in Mt. Ver- non. The first is now a surgeon of the United States navy. serving on the flagship of the At- lantic fleet, the "Connecticut." Daniel W. is associated with his father in business. The daughter is a student of Mt. Vernon high school.
(IX) David Luther, youngest son of Dan- iel Edwin and Lydia M. (Shattuck ) Whit- more. was born July 7, 1850, in Marathon. where he was early a student of the public schools and subsequently attended the State
Normal School at Cortland until he reached the age of nineteen years. In the meantime he taught two winter terms of school. Ile was early employed in assisting his father in the mercantile business, and spent consider- able time in the purchase of butter and eggs in the surrounding country. In the spring of 1880 he went to New York City, where he entered the employ of his uncle, the late George B. Whitmore, in the produce commis- sion business, with which he has since been continuously identified, having been for the last fifteen years a partner of his brother, in the firm of D. W. Whitmore & Company. This is now one of the largest and most suc- cessful wholesale produce houses of the me- tropolis. For more than twenty years he has resided in Mt. Vernon, New York, and has been actively identified with its growth and development as a city. He takes a keen and intelligent interest in public affairs and in 19IC was elected an alderman of the city. representing the fifth ward, by a very hand- some majority. Also served a term upon the city board of education. Like all of his family he is affiliated with the Republican party, and is a member of the official board of the Ches- ter Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. He has long been an active member of Clinton Hook and Ladder Company, of which he was two years foreman, and was a charter mem- ber of the Westchester County Wheelmen.
He married, April 26, 1888, Rosalie Rees, a native of Brooklyn, daughter of David and Rosalie (Smith) Rees, of that city, a descend- ant of an English family which was long es- tablished at Greenpoint, Long Island. They have two daughters, Florence Lydia, born January 4, 1889 : Gertrude Rees, February 14. 1900.
BALDWIN In records incident to the conquest of England the name of Baldwin appears in the Battle Abbey, and one of the name is known as early as 672. The Earls of Flan- ders bearing the name date from the time of Alfred the Great. Baldwin 2d married Els- touth, daughter of Alfred, and Baldwin 5th married the daughter of Robert of France. and their daughter Matilda married William the Conqueror. Surnames, however, were not used in England until long after the Con- quest. Baldwin de Hampden. of the time of the Conquest, became John Hampden, the pa-
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triot of the English revolution. The name is found in Denmark, Flanders and in Nor- mandy, and other parts of France. The Bald- wins of the United States came largely from county Bucks, England, where the name "John Baldwin" is of frequent historical men- tion in successive generations, as is Henry and Richard. In New England we have Rich- ard Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, before 1639: Richard Baldwin, of Braintree, 1637; John Baldwin, of Stoughton, Connecticut, 1638; John Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, 1639: Nathaniel Baldwin, of Milford, 1639; Joseph Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, 1639, and of Hadley. Massachusetts. subse- quently ; Henry Baldwin, of Woburn, Massa- chusetts, 1640: John Ballwin, of Billerica, Massachusetts, 1655, and John Baldwin, of Norwich, Connecticut, the immigrant progeni- tor of Judge Simeon Eben Baldwin (q. v. ). Yale University has on its alumni rolls over eighty-three Baldwins.
(I) Richard Baldwin held the Manor of Dundridge in Aston-Clinton, Buckingham- shire. England, early in the sixteenth century. His will was proved in 1552-53, and his heir was Henry Baldwin.
( II) Henry, son of Richard Baldwin, re- sidled on the Manor at Aston-Clinton which is in the Hundred of Aylesbury and Deanery of Wendover, four miles east of Aylesbury, on the road from London-through-Traing. Dundridge and the Chapel Farm were in that part of Aston-Clinton called Saint Leonards and remained in the family until 17418 when it was sold to Edward Darrell. Henry Bald- win married Aliee King and had four sons and four daughters. His will, dated January 2, 1599. mentions his children as follows: Agnes, Jane, wife of James Bonus; Mary, wife of Richard Salter; Richard, who inher- ited the Manor ; John, Robert. Sylvester, men- tioned below.
(III) Sylvester, youngest son of Henry and Alice ( King) Baldwin, was born about 1565 at Dundridge. He married Jane Welles in 1590, and died previous to 1632. His chil- dren were: Harry, buried in 1594; John, not living in 1632; Henry, inherited Dundridge ; Richard; William; Sylvester, mentioned be- low. These sons were born between 1590 and 1600.
(IV) Sylvester (2), sixth son of Sylvester ( I) and Jane (Welles) Baldwin, was born about 1600 at Aston-Clinton and lived at Saint
Leonards, near Dundridge. where he owned the Chapel Farm. Ile was the executor of the will of his uncle, Richard Baldwin. who died without issue in 1636, leaving the Manor to Henry, son of Sylvester Baldwin, and brother of the executor, who was also the residuary legatee. Soon after this Sylvester ( 2) Baldwin emigrated to America. In July. 1638, with his wife Sarah and six children, he sailed for America in the ship "Martin" with the New Haven Company. Sylvester Baldwin died in mid-ocean, July 31. 1038. Hle married, in 1620, Sarah Bryan, and when the ship arrived in Boston, she and her son Rich- ard were appointed executors of her husband's will by the court of assistance. There was a large estate and the widow and children de- cided to remain in America and settled, as they had intended, at New Haven, where in 1643 Mrs. Baldwin was rated one of the wealthiest proprietors. Subsequent to that year she married ( second ) Captain Astwood and removed to Milford, Connecticut, where she died in 1669. Captain Astwood died in London in 1654. Sylvester (2) Baldwin's children were born and baptized at Aston- Clinton : 1. Sarah, baptized April 22, 1621 ; married, 1638, Benjamin Fenn, of Milford, Connecticut. 2. Richard, mentioned below. 3. Mary, baptized February 28. 1024, died in 1024. 4. Mary. baptized February 19, 1025: married, 1640, Robert Plum, of Milford. 5. Martha, baptized April 20, 1628. 6. Ruth, born in 1630. 7. Samuel, baptized January, 1632. died in 1632. 8. Elizabeth, baptized January 25. 1633, died in 1633. 9. John.
(V) Richard (2), eldest son of Sylvester (2) and Sarah ( Bryan) Baldwin, was hap- tized August 25, 1622, and was about six- teen years old when the family came to Amer- ica. He was well educated for his time, prob- ably by his uncle, Henry Baldwin, who was an attorney, and was often representative to the general court of the New Haven Colony. Fle first appears on the Milford records, No- vember 20, 1639, being in the list of those free to engage in planting. He joined the church there. May 9, 1641. and was very often on committees engaged in the public service. In 1646 he had Home Lot No. 2, consisting of three aeres, on the west side of the Wepa- wang river. On December 31, 1646, he was miade chairman of a committee of five to equalize the lots then divided, and on the 28th of January following. half of Beaver
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pond was granted to him and Thomas Tib- bals, provided they drain the pond. On May 20th of that year and June 22d of the follow- ing year he received further grants of land. On January 8, 1648, the grant of Beaver pond was ratified by the town as the drainage had been accomplished according to contract. In 1662 Richard Baldwin received a further grant of marsh land. He was prominent in the settlement of the town of Derby and ap- pears often in the records of that town, where June 10, 1655. he was a sergeant of militia and served on a committee of four to treat with the Indians for the lands at Pauguset (Derby). He was empowered to call meet- ings and otherwise act in the interest of the town, and purchased much lands from the In- dians. In 1657 he kept the ordinary and was a member of the general court of Milford from 1662 to 1664, in which latter year the New Haven Colony was joined with the Con- necticut Colony, Mr. Baldwin being a mem- ber of the committee which arranged for this consolidation. In 1651 he was ensign of a company to go against the "Duch," for which company Milford furnished twenty-one men. He also served as town clerk of Milford, and died July 23. 1665. He married, in 1642, Eliz- abeth Alsop, of New Haven. His widow married ( second ) William Fowler. Children : Elizabeth, Saralı, Temperance, Mary. Theo- philus, mentioned below ; Zachariah, Martha. Barnabas.
(VI) Theophilus, son of Richard (2) and Elizabeth (AAlsop) Baldwin, was born April 26. 1659, in Milford, where he resided and clied before June 22. 1698, on which date his estate was appraised. He married, in Mil- ford. February 8. 1683. Elizabeth Campfield. perhaps a daughter of Thomas Campfield, of that town. She married ( second) January 6, 1705. John Merwin. Children: Martha, Abi- gail. Theophihuis, mentioned below : Hezekiah.
(VII) Theophilus (2), elder son of Theo- philus (1) and Elizabeth (Campfield ) Bald- win, was born about 1694 in Milford. He was among the first to settle at New Milford. where he was admitted to the church. June 19. 1727, and died May 1. 1745. He resided on what is now Park Lane in New Milford. was many years captain of the militia and served seven years as a member of the state assembly. He married, June 5. 1722. Je- rusha Beecher, born September, 1705. She married (second) David Noble, and died Au-
gust 22, 1790, at the age of eighty-four years and eleven months. Children: Jerusha, Eliz- abeth, Theophilus, Martha. Hezekiah, Isaac. Israel, Asahel (Asel). mentioned below ; David, Anne.
(VIII ) Asahel, fifth son of Theophilus ( 2) and Jerusha ( Beecher ) Baldwin, was born June 27, 1739, in New Milford. He resided on a farm west of this village. He married, August 13, 1766, Esther, born August 30, 1746, daughter of Samuel and Grace ( Buck ) Baldwin, descendant of Joseph Baldwin, of Milford, through his son Daniel, Samuel, Samuel, who was the father of Esther. Chil- dren: Anne, Sarah, Esther. Joel, Phoebe, Asahel, mentioned below ; Israel, Lucretia, Isaac.
(IX) Asahel (2), second son of Asahel ( 1) and Esther ( Baldwin ) Baldwin, was born April 24, 1777, in New Milford, where he made his home until about 1816. He then removed to Meredith, Delaware county, New York, where he took up and cleared land and made a farm on which he lived to the time of his death, about 1861. He was an active mem- ber of the Baptist church, and in politics a Whig. He married there, March 24. 1803. Tryphene, born April 16, 1779. daughter of Samuel Beebe and Hannah ( Fairchild ) Buck, of New Milford. Children: Lura. married Nehemiah Bunnell; Almon, married Emeline Tuttle : Elijalı: Ormon, mentioned below : Joel, married Angeline Hill; Lucy, married William Cook: Sylvester, died aged nineteen years.
(X) Ormon, son of Asahel (2) and Try- phene (Buck) Baldwin, was born December 23. 1808, in New Milford, died in Cortland- ville, New York, November 26. 1878. He was a small boy when the family removed to the state of New York and he received such education as the frontier district schools pro- vided. For a time he engaged in farming in Delaware county, subsequently in Truxton, Cortland county, and in Broome county. In September, 1852, he removed to Cortlandville and there passed the remainder of his life. He was an industrious and energetic man, conscientious in principles, and was a member of the Methodist church. He was a Whig in politics and an Abolitionist, a position which required considerable strength of character in his day. He married. about 1837, Mary Anne Robinson, born January 26, 1819. in Hamden, Delaware county, New York, died at Cort-
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landville, May 12, 1867. daughter of Eben and Mary Anne ( Franklin ) Robinson. Children : I. Mary Anne, born November 7. 1838, died November 25, 1890; married ( first ) William Braybrook; (second) Dr. Henry Gazley. 2. Charles Edwin. born June 16, 1840, died May 20, 1910. 3. Eben R., mentioned below. 4. Sanford Warham, born September 8, 1844: resides in Ithaca, New York. 5. Sarah Maria. born February II. 1847: is the widow of Wells Miles: she resides in Cortland. 6 Esther Elizabeth, .born August 2, 1851, died March 18, 1887; married ( first ) Chauncey P. Murphy ; (second) Smith Clark.
(XI) Eben Robinson, second son of Ormon and Mary A. ( Robinson ) Baldwin, was born June 29, 1842, in Delhi, Delaware county, New York. He was educated in the district schools there and in Cortland county. He at- tended school at Port Oram and Groton Acad- emy, where he remained two years. In early life he engaged in farming, and was subse- quently in the lumber business for a dozen years or more. The greater part of his life has been passed at Cortland and vicinity, and since 1802 he has been retired from active life. lle is a Republican in political princi- ple, but in recent years has supported the Pro- hibition ticket, and is a member of the Aletho- dist church.
He married (first ) August 15, 1865, Caro- line Hays, born July 6, 1846, in New Wood- stock, New York, died June 23, 1891. He married (second ) Julia F. Benedict, of Mc- Lean, Tompkins county, New York, daughter of Albert and Lucy ( Hunt ) Benedict. There are two sons, both of the first marriage: I. Leonard De Witt, born May 20, 1866; an at- torney, practicing in New York and residing in East Orange, New Jersey. He married Gertrude, daughter of John K. Van Wag- goner, of Ulster county, New York, and has
children : Cynthia, Franklin. Mosher and Grace. 2. Arthur J., born August 26, 1868; he is an attorney, practicing in New York City. He married Frances Smiley, of Minne- waska, New York. Children: Morgan Smi- ley. Donald Robinson and Dorothy.
The surname Slaughter SLAUGHTER is found spelled in a va- riety of ways. The Con- necticut family seems to have spelled the name Slafter in the earliest generations. John Slafter or Slaughter came from England or
Wales about 1680 to Lynn, Massachusetts, and thenee to Connecticut. The name is found but five times in Lynn records and there it is spelled Slafter. After the family removed to Connecticut, in the deeds and town records of Mansfield, Willington and Tolland, the spell- ing is also generally Slafter ; but some of the descendants have modified the name to Salter. In Rhode Island a branch of this family spelled the name Slaughter, Slatter, Slater and Slatar, but these variations are partly due to misspelling of town clerks. In the early church records of Mansfield the name is with- out exception spelled Slaughter and there is a uniform tradition that it was commonly pro- nounced as if it rhymed with daughter. Slaughter is an old England surname, while the spelling of Slafter is not found. It is likely that the name was in some cases pro- nounced Slafter, however, and hence the na- tural change of spelling to conform to pro- nunciation, a change that is found in many other surnames.
The children of John Slafter were: Mary. born November, 1688; Anthony, about 1690: Elizabeth, about 1693; Samnel. August, 1696: Joseph, about 1698; Sarah, about 1700; Moses. about 1702: Abigail, about 1704 ; Ben- jamin, about 1706. Their descendants have been carefully traced by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, and there is no reason to think that any of them are the ancestors of the Slaugh- ter family mentioned below.
Tradition states that the Slaughter family of New York is connected with that of Vir- ginia, a brief account of which will be given. The coat-of-arms of the Virginia family has been in use from the first settlement, a copy is found on a seal to a bond of William Slaughter as sheriff, in 1685, and corresponds to the coats-of-arms of the Slaughters of counties Gloucester and Worcester, England. It is described by Burke: Arms, a saltire aztire, and its simplicity indicates great an- tiquity.
In the early deeds and records of Virginia we find the name of Slaughter as early as 1635. when John Slaughter took out a patent for land, May 30, 1635. Again we find an old will of Francis Slaughter. taken from records in the State Library of Virginia, men- tioning his mother-in-law ( meaning step- mother ) Margaret Upton, his brother-in-law. Colonel Moses Fauntleroy, his wife Elizabeth, and friend, Humphrey Booth. In the will of
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this Margaret Upton, widow of Lieutenant John Upton, March 8, 1655. is a bequest to Francis Slaughter of 800 acres of land. Fran- cis was presumably son of John. Robert Slaughter, a generation or two later, had sons Robert and Francis by his wife, Frances Ann Jones, and they were church wardens of St. Mark's, the register of which is the oldest manuscript in Culpeper county, Virginia. The parish was established in 1730 and the county in 1748.
The New York family may have descended from the Virginia immigrant but in a geneal- ogy of the descendants of Robert and Fran- ces, sons of Robert, Isaac, the first settler in New York, cannot be found. Henry Slaugh- ter, of this family, was governor of New York state in 1691. He died August 2, 1691. An- other member, John Slaughter, was a settler on the Low patent in 1726, town of New Windsor, New York.
(I) Isaac Slaughter is said by family tra- dition to have descended from an immigrant from Wales to Virginia, a description which identifies John Slaughter, the Virginia immi- grant, closely enough. Isaac's parentage is not known. He was born in 1735. died Feb- ruary 16, 1838. He was a soldier in Wash- ington's army during the revolution, how- ever. and encamped with his regiment at Newburg. New York. He took part also in the battles of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. and served in the northern campaign. After the war he received a pension. He settled in the town of Wallkill after peace was declared, but subsequently removed to Shawangunk. Ul- ster county. New York, in 1803. and bought two hundred acres of land in the southeast corner of the town of Wallkill, occupied ever since by his family and descendants. In 1817 he bought the farm in what is now Hamp- tonburg and settled there in 1819. spending the remainder of his life there. He married twice and had nineteen children, nine by his first wife and ten by his second wife. His second wife was Jane ( McBride) Slaughter. born June 17. 1776. Children of second wife : Joseph, born October 13, 1794, died February 25, 1873 : Benjamin, April 1. 1796, died Octo- ber 4. 1841 : Nancy, December 27. 1798, died in 1828: Archibald, February 19. 1800. died January 6, 1868: Fanny A .. January 7. 1802, died in 1859: De Witt, mentioned below : Sa- rah J .. February 28, 1806; Harriet. 1809: William Harrison. July 6, 1815, died March
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