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(IX ) Corwin, son of Morean D. Burgess, was born in Marathon. February 11, 1850. Ile attended the public schools of his native town. At the age of twenty, July 5. 1870, he entered the employ of the Syracuse, Bing- hamton & New York Railroad Company as helper in the station at Marathon. He be- came assistant station agent and in course of time agent of the Delaware & Lackawanna Company which afterward secured control of this line. 11e had charge of the coal business of the railroad at Marathon, was agent of the United States Express Company, and manager of the local Western Union Tele-
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graph Company. After nearly thirty-seven years in the railroad business, in 1906 he em- barked in business on his own account and built a large coal elevator along the line of the Delaware & Lackawanna railroad. He has been very successful in both wholesale and retail trade as a coal dealer. During President Cleveland's administration he was postmaster at Marathon. He has followed his father in politics and is an influential Democrat. He is a member of Marathon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, is popu- lar in social and business circles, and highly esteemed by all classes in the community. He married, in 1880, Hattie A. Rogers, of Upper Lisle, New York, born August 30, 1854, daughter of Moses and Frances (New- ell) Rogers, granddaughter of John V. Rog- ers, great-granddaughter of John Rogers, of New London, Connecticut, descendant of one of the early settlers of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess have no children.
BRIGGS Jolın Briggs, immigrant ances- tor, was born in 1609, died in 1690. In 1638 he was one of those admitted as inhabitants of the island of Aquidneck. On April 30, 1639, he was one of twenty-nine to sign the following : "We, whose names are underwritten, do ac- knowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his Majesty, King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body poli- ticke, unto his laws, according to matters of justice." He was made freeman, March 16, 1641. On October 5. 1643, he was directed to go to every house to see what arms were defective. On August 24, 1643, he bought a house and lot of John Hall, of Portsmouth. He was assistant in 1648 and commissioner for uniting the four towns of Rhode Island. August 31, 1654. In 1649 he was licensed to keep an ordinary. He served as commis- sioner in 1654-55-56-59-61-62-63. He was made freeman in 1655, and on May 25, 1665, was on a committee to build a cage and stocks. In 1656 he was juryman, and deputy to the general assembly in 1664-65-66-68-69. He deeded to his son Thomas and wife Mary, March II, 1679, a quarter of a share (thirty- five acres) in Dartmouth, and on October 14, 1679, he deeded one-half a share in Dart- mouth to his eldest son John. His will was dated April 19, 1690, and proved November 16, 1690. To his son Enoch he left all his
estate, as the sous Jolin, Thomas and Will- iam, and daughter, Susanna Northway, had received their shares; to his son Job he left live stock. His wife died in 1690. He lived at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Children : John, born 1642; Thomas: William, men- tioned below: Susanna; Job; Enoch.
( II) William, son of John Briggs, of Portsmouth, was born in 1650 at Portsmouth, Little Compton, Rhode Island, died May 12, 1716. He was a member of Captain Peleg Sanford's horse troop, August 10, 1667. He was made freeman, April 30, 1672. His will was dated April 3, 1716, and proved July 2, 1716, his wife Elizabeth and son Job being the executors. He left to his son Job his dwelling house and farm; to William the land north of a certain line and Job the south side ; to Job the live stock; to daughter Susanna the house and land occupied by Thomas Waite; to daughter Deborah Head, twenty pounds ; to daughter Elizabeth Woodman one hundred pounds; to son William, thirty pounds and some household goods; and to wife ten pounds per annum to be paid by Job and her choice of rooms, use of house- hold stuff and maintenance for her four ser- vants. He married, in 1680, Elizabeth, born in 1653, died in 1716, daughter of John and Mary (Borden) Cook. Children: Susanna, born April 9. 1681 ; John, November 13, 1685 ; William, January 1I, 1688; Elizabeth, De- cember 27, 1689 ; Thomas, September 5, 1693 : Deborah, September 5, 1693: Job, mentioned below.
(III) Job, son of William Briggs, was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, August 3, 1696, died February 28. 1739. He lived at Little Compton until about 1731, when he removed to Portsmouth. He married, in 1715-16. Mary - , who died June 23, 1769. Children, born at Little Compton: Oliver, December 16, 1716: William, April 24, 1718; Joseph, January 4, 1720 ; Jeremiah, 1721 ; De- borah, 1723; Bathsheba, 1724; Elizabeth, 1726; Walter or Warren, 1728; Lovet, 1730. Born at Portsmouth: Job, July 26, 1732; George, mentioned below; Elizabeth, Novem- ber 18, 1735; Mary, January 15, 1738; Job. April 5, 1739; Ann, April 22, 1740; Hannalı, March 14, 1741-42.
(IV) George, son of Job Briggs, was born at Portsmouth, April 4, 1734. He settled in Warwick as early as 1756. He was an ensign in the Rhode Island militia, August 8, 1763.
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In the census of 1774 he is reported from Warwick as having eight sons and three daughters. He was admitted a freeman of Warwick in May, 1758. He moved to Easton, Albany county, New York, in 1782, thence to Smyrna, Chenango county, New York, in 1790.
He married (first). at Warwick, Han- nah, widow of John Wightman, March 8, 1756. He married ( second) Sarah Wells, sister of John Wells, of Goshen, New York. He married (third), about 1780, Lydia - Children by first wife: Stephen, born No- vember 5, 1757; John, November 4, 1758; Giles, February 7, 1761. Children of second wife: George, April 29, 1767, lived in Ply- mouth, New York, died in 1835: Elizabeth, February 13, 1769, died October 11, 1769; Elizabeth; Arnold, March 23, 1770, died in 1770 : Isaac, September 20, 1771 ; Sarah, Jan- uary 20. 1773. Children of third wife: War- ren, mentioned below ; Rufus, born 1783, died 1863: Mary, married Stephen Austin, and moved west.
(\') Warren, son of George Briggs, was born at Smyrna, New York, September 17, 1782, died October 14. 1854. He married, about 1807, Tryphosa Gardner, of Worthing- ton. Massachusetts, born August 26, 1788, died August 13, 1841. He moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred. Children: 1. Senaca, born May 2. 1808, died in 1871. 2. Sidney, August 16, 1809. 3. Eras- tus. mentioned below. 4. Rosalinda. Septem- ber 30, 1812; married Hugh Gillispie and moved to Florida. 5. Julia, November 2, 1815: married Alonzo L. Bennett and had seven children. 6. Vining. November 27, 1817, died March 18, 1826. 7. Sarah C., June 12, 1821 ; married Carlos Greenleaf and had three children. 8. George W., July 3, 1819; married Diantha Francis and died in 1873 at Delavan, Wisconsin : had four sons and one daughter. 9. DeWitt C., September 13. 1823, married Charlotte West. 10. Semantha, Sep- tember 14, 1825 : married Charles Wilcox and had two children. II. Lycitria or Jeanette, May 5, 1828. died November 1, 1845. 12. Tryphosa or Leonora, March 22, 1831 ; mar- ried William Champlain, of Minnesota. 13. LaFayette. September 27, 1832, died March 27. 1833. 14. LaFayette, born January 25, 1834 ; married Almira Smith and has daugh- ter Maggie and son Frederick: lived at 74 Pineapple street, Brooklyn, New York.
(VI) Erastus, son of Warren Briggs, was born February 7, 1811. At an early age he came to the town of Oxford, Chenango county, New York. He taught school in South Oxford and afterward in Kentucky. He died in LaPort, Iowa. He married Children: 1. Edwin R. D., clergyman, Mil- ford, New York. 2. Ira E., court stenog- rapher, Erie, Pennsylvania. 3. Herbert, in the appellate division of the supreme court, Brooklyn, New York. 4. Elizabeth, died in 1909 ; married - Moorehouse. 5. Marion, married - Fish. 6. Oscar E., mentioned below.
(VII) Oscar E., son of Erastus Briggs, was born in South Oxford, New York, Feb- ruary 12, 1840, died at Binghamton, New York, May 30, 1908. He was educated in the public schools. For thirty-five years he made his home in Binghamton and was en- gaged in business there as a promoter and insurance agent and broker. During the civil war he served in the New York Volunteer Militia.
In politics he was a Prohibitionist and for some years he conducted a newspaper of this party. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Julia E. Loomis, born in Brisban, Chenango county, New York, 1850, daughter of Daniel B. and Ruth A. (Williams) Loomis. They had a son, Ralph Eugene, mentioned below.
(VIII) Ralph Eugene, son of Oscar E. Briggs, was born at Binghamton, New York, February 19, 1874. He attended the public schools of his native place and graduated from the Binghamton high school. He stud- ied stenography and typewriting for his pro- fession and he has been a shorthand reporter and court stenographer since completing the course at school.
In 1905 he came to Owego, New York, and has resided there since, and in 1906 he opened a school of stenography and typewriting in that town. He is a justice of the peace of the town of Owego and has taken an active part in public affairs. He is a member of the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, January 10, 1898, Evelyn Caster Graham, of Centralville, Maryland. daughter of Rev. Thomas and Martha (Thurston) Graham, granddaughter of Robert Graham, of Maryland. They have had one child, Ruth Dorothy, born October 10. 1903. died Sep- tember 30, 1904.
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BROWN Thomas Brown, immigrant an- cestor, was born in 1628, and settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He married Mary, youngest child of Thomas and Mary Newall, of Lynn. Children : Thomas, mentioned below; Mary, born Feb- ruary 10, 1655. died May 18, 1662; Sarah, August 20, 1657, died August 1, 1658; Jo- sepli, February 16, 1658; Sarah, September 13. 1660, died April 2, 1662: Jonathan, born and died April 12, 1662: John, removed to Stonington : Mary, born July 26, 1666; Jona- than, February 11, 1668; Eleazer, .August 4, 1670, removed to Stonington: Ebenezer, March 16, 1672, died young : Ann and Grace (twins) born February 4, died February 7, 1674: Daniel, February 1. 1676, removed to Stonington.
(II) Thomas (2) son of Thomas (1) Brown, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, died December 27, 1723. He settled in Ston- ington, Connecticut, soon after his marriage. He married. February 8, 1677. Hannah Col- lins, at Lynn. Children, born in Stonington : Samuel, December 8, 1678: Hannah, Decem- ber 3. 1680: Mary, May 26, 1683: Jerusha. December 25. 1688: Sarah, July 11, 1689; Thomas, February 14, 1692: Elizabeth, May 9. 1694; Daniel, mentioned below ; Priscilla. January 30. 1699: Humphrey, September 16, 1701.
(III) Daniel, son of Thomas (2) Brown, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, Octo- ber 9. 1696. He married Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Palmer) Breed, June 21, 1721. They were married by Rev. Henry Ford, of Preston. Children, born in Stoning- ton : Samuel, October 14. 1722: Daniel, March 20. 1725: Walter. February I. 1728: Amos, October 28, 1730 ; Desire, July 5, 1733; Christopher, March 12, 1736: Nathan, men- tioned below : Nehemiah, July 11, 1740.
(IV) Nathan, son of Daniel Brown, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, June 20, 1738. He married Lydia Dewey, September 17. 1761. Children, born in Stonington: Ly- dia, March 8, 1762; Nathan, mentioned be- low : Charles, February 6, 1767: Esther. May 1. 1771 : Deborah, August 14, 1773: Dudley, December 16, 1774; Joseph. March 16, 1778; Avery, May 28, 1780: Theodore, April 16, 1786: Polly. February 7. 1789.
(V) Nathan (2) son of Nathan (1) Brown, was born in Stonington. Connecti- cut. June 18, 1765. He married -. Chil-
dren: Ephraim, Charles, mentioned below ; Nathan.
(VI) Charles, son of Nathan (2) Brown, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, about 1798, died in Pharsalia, New York, about 1875. He came to New York state with his parents when very young. He was a farmer by occupation, and lived and died in the same section where his father was one of the early settlers. He married Paulina Brown. Chil- dren : Charles Dennison, William R., men- tioned below ; Loren, Charlotte, Frances, Roy. Mary.
(VII) William R., son of Charles Brown, was born in Pharsalia. New York. January 16, 1827. He is still living on the same place where he was born. He is a farmer by oc- cupation. He married, November 25, 18.48. Elizabeth, daugliter of Jesse Wrench, born in England, February 6, 1828, died March 18, 1907. She came to America with her fatlier when she was only a year old. Chil- dren: Charles; Calvin S., mentioned below ; Ida, married Patter, died 1910: Alice. married Ross Bliven : Lottie, married Rich- ard Davis; Lillie May, died young.
(VIII) Calvin S., son of William R. Brown, was born in Pharsalia. New York, March 25, 1860. He received a common school education. He became a farmer and followed that occupation in his native town until 1905, when he removed to the village of Cincinnatus, New York, where he has lived since. He has served the town as road com- missioner and superintendent in the past, and has recently been re-elected to the latter po- sition. He married, Jime 22, 1878, Nettie. born in Lincklaen, New York, April 25. 1858. adopted daughter of Alfred and Susan Ben- nett. Her own parents were Sidney Brenen- stuhl and Elizabeth Sampson. Her father was killed in the civil war. Children: Ross B., mentioned below: Alfred Bennett, men- tioned below : Pearl, born May 20, 1885. mar- ried Jay Nourse, a teacher in the public schools, Cincinnatus.
(IX ) Ross B., son of Calvin S. Brown, was born in Pharsalia, New York, January 17, 1879. He was educated in the schools of his native town and in Cincinnatus Academy. He was interested in farming until 1911, when he formed a partnership with his brother, Al- fred B., under the firm name of Brown Broth- ers. for the sale of farm machinery, imple- ments and country produce. In addition to
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this store in Cincinnatus, they have also a sim- ilar business in South Otselic, New York. Mr. Ross B. Brown has charge of the store in the latter place. He married, December 23. 1898, Beulah, daughter of Truman and Edna ( Robbins ) Brown. Children : Velma E., born November 23, 1900; Ross B., February I. 1902; Rowena Elizabeth, July 1, 1904; Winifred Beulah, October 23, 1907.
(IX) Alfred Bennett, son of Calvin S. Brown, was born in Pharsalia, April 15, 1881. He was educated in the town schools and at Cincinnatus Academy. After leaving school he taught school for a time, and in 1902 came to Cincinnatuts and entered the employ of Bol- ster & Company, dealers in farm implements. In 1905 he went into business of the same sort for himself. He dealt largely in farm machinery, implements, wagons, carriages, harness, etc. Until 1911 he did business un- der the name of A. B. Brown, but in Janu- ary of that year he took into partnership his brother, Ross B., and is now carrying on the business under the firm name of Brown Brothers ( see above). Besides his regular business, he has large farming interests. In politics he is a Democrat. He has been jus- tice of the peace for four years, and has re- cently been elected to a second term as super- visor of the town. The town is strongly Re- publican, but elected him the second time by a largely increased majority, which speaks well for his personal popularity. He is a member of Cincinnatus Lodge, No. 706, Free and Accepted Masons, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Maccabees, and the Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
He married, September 30, 1903, Minnie, born in Taylor, daughter of Lucian and Ella (Holmes ) Birdlebough. Children : Rutlı, Harold, Mahlon, Nellie Elizabeth.
CARLEY No name has been more vari- ously spelled in the early rec- ords and by different branches of the same family than that of this family. We find Carley, Carly, Carlie, Corley, Corly, Corlie, Curly, Curley, Kerley, Carlile, Kerly, Carsley and others. It seems that the immi- grant's name was really Carlisle, or Carlyle, as now spelled, an ancient English surname.
(I) William Carley, or Kerley, immigrant ancestor, born in England, was in Hingham as early as 1637; was an early settler and one of the first planters at Hull, Massachusetts, May
20, 1642 ; had land on Pedock's Island in 1642, and about 1042-43 bought land in Sudbury and settled there. Ile was admitted a free- man, May 26, 1647 ; was one of the founders of Lancaster, 1653; became a proprietor of Marlborough, 1657, and shared in the first division of land there. He lived in Marl- borough, and for several years was one of the selectmen ; was appointed by the general court to lay out a tract of land between Con- cord, Lancaster and Groton. He died about July, 1670. His will, dated July 26, 1669, bequeaths to sons, William and Henry Ker- ley, and John Devall. Certain goods which came to him by his last wife were appraised by Nathaniel Joslin. He married (first) -. He married (second) at Sudbury, Oc- tober 6, 1646, Hannah King, who died March 12, 1658. He married ( third ) May 31, 1659, Bridget, widow of Thomas Rowlandson. He married (fourth) June 14, 1662, Rebecca, widow of Thomas Joslin. Children: Will- iam; Mary, married, October 6, 1647, Rich- ard Smith ; IIenry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry, son of William Carley, born about 1632, came with his father to Hing- ham. He married (first ) November. 1654, Elizabeth, daughter of John White. His wife, sister of the famous Mary Rowlandson, wife of the minister, was killed, with two children, William and Joseph, in King Philip's war, February 10, 1676, at the massacre at Lan- caster, when Mrs. Rowlandson was taken captive. Henry Carley married ( second ) April 18, 1676, Elizabeth How, of Charles- town. He went to Marlborough, and there spent the remainder of his days; was captain of the local military company and active against Governor Andros' tyranny. He died December 18, 1713, and his wife, April 26, 1710. Children of first wife: Ilenry, born 1658; William, January, 1659, killed 1676. Bartholomew, mentioned below ; Hannah, born July, 1663; Mary, May 4, 1667, at Sud- bury; Sarah, January 28. 1668; Joseph, March, 1669, killed 1676; Hannah, at Sud- bury, January 8, 1670; Martha, December, 1672. Children of second wife: Hannah, born 1678; married. March 23, 1798, Zerub- babel Eager: Mercy. May 2, 1681, married, November 10, 1708, Joseph Rice.
(III) Bartholomew, second son of Henry and Elizabeth (White) Carley, born about 1660, settled in Sudbury, and seems to have spelled his name Carlile, or had it spelled by
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the town clerk thus for him. He was a pro- prietor of Leicester, but there is no record of his moving there. He had wife, Hannah, and children, born in Sudbury; James, May 24, 1686 ; Hannah, December 25, 1687 ; Peter, mentioned below; Joseph. Probably others.
(IV) Peter, son of Bartholomew and Han- nah Carley, was born about 1690 in Sudbury or Stow. or vicinity. In a deed dated Octo- ber 27, 1736, to William Brown Jr., of Lei- cester, from Peter Carley, of Leicester, a tract of land is conveyed that Peter states "was laid out to me upon ye acct. of a part of division upon right granted my father Bartholomew Carley in Leicester." This land, probably his homestead, was northerly of land laid out to Lieutenant Thomas Newell, on Boble's brook, bounded by land of Edmund Taylor and by common lands, some sixty acres in the tract. Peter was called a laborer. He died in 1746, intestate, his son Joseph admin- istrator. The date of appraisal was August, 1746. The estate was nominal, having no real estate. Ichabod Stratton, of Hardwick, was surety of Joseph Carley's bond. A branch of the Marlborough family settled at Bolton, Massachusetts, and James Carley, of Bolton, died while a soldier at Cape Breton.
(V) Joseph, son of Peter Carley, born in Leicester, Massachusetts, February, 1718, died at advanced age, March 10, 1810. He lived at Leicester and Spencer, Massachusetts. He married. February 7, 1750, Sarah, sister of Colonel Seth and Elijah Washburn Sr., of Natick. Children: 1. Joseph, born Decem- ber 7. 1751, at Leicester. 2. Hannah, May 26, 1753. at Leicester. 3. Sarah, April 3, 1754, at Leicester. 4. Peter, born about 1756: married, July 9. 1778, Rebecca Dana, of Na- tick ; settled in Natick; removed to Hancock, 1789 or 1790. 5. Cyrus, November 7, 1758. 6. Jonathan, March 16, 1760, at Spencer. 7. Phebe, April 17, 1762. 8. Mary, May 23, 1764. 9. Ebenezer, mentioned below. IO. Elijah, born at Spencer, May 21, 1771; re- moved to Hancock at the same time as his brother Peter: married, September 3, 1795, Agnes, daughter of Hugh Grimes; removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, thence to Chel- sea, Vermont.
John Washburn, ancestor of Sarah (Wash- burn) Carley, was in Duxbury as early as 1632, coming from Evesham, Worcestershire, England, an ancient town situate on the river Avon : was one of the original proprietors of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, died before 1690. His son, John (2) Washburn, came in the schooner "Elizabeth Ann," from London, 1635; was one of the orginal proprietors of Bridgewater ; married, 1645, Elizabeth, daughter of Experience Mitchell. His son, Joseph Washburn, probably lived in Bridge- water. His son, Joseph (2) Washburn, was a blacksmith; settled in Bridgewater: re- moved to Kingston, or Plympton, Massachu- setts, as early as 1728; to Middletown, Con- necticut, 1739-40, and finally to Leicester, Massachusetts, 1745; ancestor of the Wash- burns of Leicester, Natick and Worcester, father of Sarah, wife of Joseph Carley.
(VI) Ebenezer. son of Joseph Carley, was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, February 12, 1767. His early life was spent in his native town in the section now Spencer. Af- ter the revolution he removed to Unadilla, Otsego county, New York, whence he re- moved about the year 1800 to Marathon, Cortland county, New York. His was the second family to locate in that town. He was captain of the first militia company organized in that section of the country. His home was on the west side of the river. He married Joanna Swift, born in 1764, died May 13, 1831. Children, mentioned in the will of Ebenezer, who died at Marathon, July 12, 1814: Alanson, mentioned below; Orrin; Rachel, married Silas Wilder : Eleanor, mar- ried John Smith: Ellen; Hannah, married Nathan Herring: Hepsibath ; Polly, married Miles Ransom. A copy of the will is in the possession of A. A. Carley, mentioned below.
(VII) Alanson, son of Ebenezer Carley, was born June 6, 1797, in Unadilla, New York, died at Marathon, that state, April 8, 1879. When he was but two years old he removed with his father's family to the town of Marathon, then a dense and rugged wilder- ness. His home in early childhood was on the Carley homestead situated on the west side of the river, lately occupied by Mrs. Esther A. Hunt. In those pioneer days the public schools were open during short winter terms, and during the remainder of the year the boys were kept hard at work in the clearing of the forests and cultivation of the new farms. Like the other boys of this section, he had consequently a very limited amount of school- ing, but he managed by taking advantage of such opportunities as were at his command to round out his education and to qualify hin-
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self for the important offices of trust and responsibility with which . in after years he was honored. As justice of the peace and supervisor he was for many years a member of the town and county boards, and as a mag- istrate he won a reputation for judicial abil- ity, learning and fairness. In 1828 he was elected to the New York state assembly and represented his county creditably. In 1840 he was elected sheriff of the county and served his term in that office. As one of the projectors of the Syracuse & Binghamton railroa 1, lie was active in its organization and in supervising its construction, serving on the board of directors until it was in suc- cessful operation. It was part of his duty to purchase for the company the rights of way in the southern part of Cortland county and the northern part of Broome county, and from his own private funds he built the rail- road station at Marathon. He also built Hotel Lynde in that town, formerly known as the Carley Ilouse. later as Rogers House, and was one of the first merchants, estab- lishing the first dry goods store in town in the thirties and conducting it with notable success until 1857, and becoming one of the most successful business men of the town. For a long time he was the owner of the Marathon Flouring Mills, and in partnership with his son. A. A. Carley, enjoyed a large and profitable business. For many years he was a director of the First National Bank of Cortland. During the stirring scenes of the civil war he was active in public affairs and was postmaster of the town of Marathon. He was one of a number of loyal citizens who pledged themselves to support the famil- ies of volunteers during their absence and the pledge was strictly fulfilled. He was pos- sessed of a kind heart, an amiable and bene- volent disposition, and was popular among all classes of citizens. In his younger days he was a Whig in politics, but when the Repub- lican party was formed and the Whig party dissolved, he became active and prominent in the new organization. In religion he was a Universalist, but he gave generous financial support not only to the church he attended but to all denominations in the town.
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