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(V) Otis Dwight, son of DeWitt Milton Patrick, was born in Bonus. Boone county, Illinois, December 5, 1855. He came to Cuy- ler, New York, with his parents when he was one year old, and attended the public schools there, the State Normal School at Cortland, and the Eastman Business College at Pough- keepsie, New York, from which he was gradu- ated in the class of 1876. After working for
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a time as clerk in a Truxton store and for two years on his father's farm. in 1880 he en- gaged in business in partnership with Frank L. Hilton, of Truxton, under the firm name of Hilton & Patrick, as general merchants. In 1890 he bought the interests of his partner and continued in business alone for a year, when he sold the store, and, in partnership with Mr. Hilton. under the name of Hilton & Patrick Company, engaged in the wholesale produce business at Cuyler. The firm has been prosperous and stands high in the esti- mation of the community.
Mr. Patrick also transacts a general insur- ance business and holds a commission as notary public. He is financially interested also in the Bryant Furniture Company, and is secre- tary and manager of the Truxton & Cuyler Telephone Company. The firm bought the hotel property and converted it into store buildings and in 1892 established the Truxton Last Company. He has always taken an in- terest in town affairs and polities, and is an influential Republican. He was for two years town clerk and for six years county clerk. He is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470. Free and Accepted Masons, of Cortland ; the Royal Arch Masons, of Cortland : the Knights Templar, of Cortland : Katurah Temple, Mys- tic Shrine, of Binghamton, and of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, of Cort- land. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, February II, 1880, Louise F. Kenney, of Truxton, daughter of Oscar J. and Submit (Lewis) Kenney. Children : I. Josephine Louise, born February, 1888: mar- ried Charles McGraw. manufacturer, of Mc- Graw, New York. 2. Donald DeWitt, born April 21, 1895.
( The Risley Line).
(I) Richard Risley, American immigrant, is believed to have descended from the Ris- leys, of Lancashire. England. The surname is spelled Rysley, Wrisley, and in various other ways in the ancient records. The coat- of-arms of the Lancashire family is described : Argent an eagle sable preying upon an infant swaddled gules. bended argent. Crest: An oak tree sable, thereon a raven perched proper. The name de Rysley is found before 1326 in Lancashire. The family is thought to be of Norse origin, though doubtless the English branch came with the Norman conquerors.
He came to this country in the ship "Griffin." sailing from Downs, July 15, 1633, when about twenty years old, and landed at Boston. September 4. 1633. He settled with Hook- er's colony in Cambridge, and went with them to Hartford, of which he thus became one of the founders. He died at Hockanum, Con- necticut, in October, 1648. His land was on the south side of Little river on the west side of a road running from George Steele's mill on Little river south to the Great swamp. He served under Major John Mason in the Pe- quot war in 1637. He married Mary and she married ( second ) Will Hills, of Hart- ford. Children : Child, whose name is not known ; Sarah ; Samuel, baptized November I, 1645 : Richard, mentioned below.
(II ) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Ris- ley, was born in Hartford and baptized Au- gust 2, 1648. He was prominent in Hock- anum for seventy-five years, and owned much land: was admitted a freeman in 1669; was fence viewer for the east side in 1687-88- 92-93-94-95-97-98. He and his wife were members of the Hartford Church, and three of their children, whose names are obliterated, were baptized in May, 1687. Children, born at Hartford: John; Samuel, mentioned be- low ; Thomas, died in New Jersey ; Nathaniel, Jonathan, Richard, Jeremiah, Charles, Mary, baptized April 23. 1693, and Hannah, bap- tized April 12, 1695.
(III) Samuel, son of Richard (2) Risley. was born about 1680. He was a freeman be- fore December 23, 1703: fence viewer for Hockanum, 1703-07-12. In 1713 he moved to Glastonbury. He deeded land to his sons and bequeathed more in his will dated May 9. 1752, and proved April 6, 1756. He married. August 1. 1704, Rebecca Gaines. Children : Samuel, Richard, David, Job, mentioned be- low: Oliver, Thomas, Rebecca, Ruth, Sarah.
(IV) Job, son of Samuel Risley, was born in 1714 at Glastonbury, died in 1798. He was a soldier in the revolution in 1777. He mar- ried (first) Mary Bidwell, who died April 15. 1742; married (second) Beriah Fox, born 1721. died July 2, 1811. Children by second wife: John, born March 3. 1743; Reuben. mentioned below; Benjamin, September 26, 1747 ; Beriah, November 21, 1749: Noah, No- vember 21, 1752; Mary, June 30, 1754; Es- ther, March 5. 1756; Samuel, October 21, 1759: George, March 21. 1762: Joseph, July 30. 1765 : Abigail.
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{\') Reuben, son of Job Risley, was born June 5. 1745. at Glastonbury, died in 1811. He was a soldier in the revolution from Con- necticut in 1777, third corporal under Lieu- tenant Andrus, Sixth Company. Sixth Regi- ment of Militia. He married, April 14, 1768. Merey Miller, born 1735, died June 23. 1817. Children : Reuben. 1769: Mercy, 1771 : Susie, 1773: Waite, mentioned below : Jemi- ma. 1777: Roxie, 1779; Noah, 1781 : Roger E., 1784: Content, 1786: Truman, 1788. died young : Truman. September, 1790.
(VI) Waite, son of Reuben Risley, was born in 1775. The records of his family are very incomplete. He married Polly Couch. Two of his children were: Reuben. born 1809, married Harriet M. Andrews : Sa- bra. born March 20, 1825. married DeWitt M. Patrick ( see Patrick {\').
LORING Deacon Thomas Loring. immi- grant ancestor, came from .1x- minster. Devonshire, England. December 22, 1634, with his wife and two sons, and settled in Dorchester. Massachu- setts. in 1635. and later at Hingham. Massa- chuetts, where he was a deacon of the church of which Rev. Mr. Peter Hobart was the pastor. In 1641, when Hull was made a town- ship, he and his family were among the first to settle there, and there they lived the re- mainder of their lives. He married Jane Newton. Children: Thomas, mentioned be- low : John, born at Axminster, Devonshire. England. December 22, 1630: Isaac, baptized January 20, 1639, died February 9. 1639; Jo- siah, born 1637 and baptized January 9, 1642 : Joshua, baptized January 9, 1643, died in in- fancy : Benjamin, baptized November 19. 1644.
(II) Thomas (2). son of Deacon Thomas (1) Loring, was born in England about 1629. Ile was made freeman in 1673 and was select- man of Ilull. Massachusetts, in 1671 and 1675. His will, dated December 24. 1678, was proved March 12. 1679, and his heirs divided the property, November 7, 1702, the estate being appraised at six hundred and forty-five pounds. On June 26, 1674. Thomas and John Loring, husbandmen, received a lot from Governor Leverett, of Boston, situated at the south end of Boston, embracing Pine street. "45 feet in breadth. and 200 feet in length. bounded on the west with the new highway leading to Roxbury, on the south by the land
of Daniel Turrellsen, which was formerly Mr. Coleburn's, on the east by the old highway on the seaside, and on the north by the high- way laid out by the said Leverett between his parcel of land and the land of Peter Bennett, together with all the rights of the said Lever- ett south upon the flats to the eastward of said land 45 feet in breadth down to the low water mark.
Hon. William Cushing, a descendant of this branch of the Loring family, was first chief justice of Massachusetts in 1781, nominated by Washington as successor of William Jay in the United States Court : he was the most famous of all the Cushings; it has been said that the "Cushing family has furnished more judicial officers for the state and union than any other which exists."
Thomas Loring married Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Jacob, of Hingham. December 13, 1657. She married (second) Captain Stephen French, of Weymouth, and she died October 20, 1720. Children : Hannah, born August 9, 1664, married Rev. Jeremiah Cushing, of Scit- uate, in 1685 : Thomas, mentioned below : De- borah, March 15. 1668, married Hon John Cushing, of Scituate : David, September 15, 1671, settled at Barnstable: Caleb, June 9, 1674. settled at Plymouth : Abigail, February 5. 1676, died February 1. 1678.
(III) Lieutenant Thomas (3) Loring, son of Thomas (2) Loring, was born July 29. 1667. In 1702 he purchased an estate in Dux- bury. Massachusetts; in 1710 he had forty acres of common lands from the town, and in 1712 a grant of one hundred and fifty-six acres.
In March, 1604. he was on the grand jury in the trial of an Indian, who was con- victed of murder and sentenced to death. In 1710 he was town treasurer : in 1714 was se- lectman : in 1717 was deputy to the general court, and probably the second of the name ever in the legislature. He died at Duxbury, December 5. 1718, and his heirs settled the estate, January 28. 1724. According to the inventory of his estate he had three negroes valued at one hundred pounds, an estate val- ned at five hundred pounds, and a farm in Bridgewater. His widow died November 30, 1755. age seventy-eight. He married, April 19. 1699, Deborah, daughter of Hon. John Cushing, of Scituate. Children: Thom- as. Joshua. Nathaniel, mentioned below : Ben- jamin, born October 12. 1708: Hannah, De-
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borah, married, February 18, 1728, Sylvester Richmond, of Little Compton, Rhode Island. (1\') Nathaniel, son of Lieutenant Thomas (3) Loring, was born August 21, 1704. He married, 1736, Priscilla Bailey, and settled at Pembroke, Massachusetts. Children: Debo- rah, born June 3, 1738; William, mentioned below : Nathaniel. January 20, 1743; Sarah, June 17, 1746: Abigail, March 15, 1749; llan- nah, February 18, 1751 ; Priscilla, July 21. 1756.
(V) William, son of Nathaniel Loring, was born October II, 1741, died October 18, 1815. In 1776 he served in Lieutenant Joshua Al- den's company, Colonel Mitchell's regiment, on the alarm of Bristol, Rhode Island. He lived in Duxbury. He married, January 8, 1767, Althea Alden, born September 5. 1735. died April 2, 1820, daughter of Captain Sam- uel Alden, and a descendant of John and Priscilla (Mullen ) Alden, of the "Mayflower." Children : William, mentioned below ; George, born February 2, 1770: Ichabod, April 14. 1772: Joshua, December 5. 1774 : Samuel, No- vember 3, 1775: Alden, 1780: Sophia. 1783 : Clarissa. 1785: Bailey, December 10, 1786.
(VI) William (2), son of William (1) Loring, was born at Duxbury, May 9, 1768, died in Duxbury. He was a justice of the peace. In 1798 excise duty was levied on his carriage. He married Judith Little, of Pen- broke, Massachusetts, December 18, 1794. Children, born at Duxbury: William Little, mentioned below : Judith, born October II, 1801, married George B. Standish ; Emeline, January 8, 1806, married Alfred Rogers, of an ancient family which possessed large tracts of land in Pembroke and Marshfield ; Bailey Hall, June 2, 1809.
(VII) Dr. William Little Loring, son of William (2) Loring, was born June 15, 1796, at Duxbury, died at his father's house in Dux- bury. July 2, 1842. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1819, and was a physician. Ile lived at Springfield, Massachusetts. He married Lucy W. Smith, of Hanover, Massa- chusetts, born November 12, 1796, died May 12. 1860. Children: 1. Benjamin W., men- tioned below. 2. Lucy W., born 1822, died in Scranton, Pennsylvania; married Rev. Samuel Logan, a Presbyterian clergyman. 3. Ruth, went to San Francisco in May. 1850. 4. Maria F., born 1826; married James Cars- well, of Barstow, Georgia. 5. Bailey H., born 1828, died in California. 6. Georgia Eliza.
born 1834, died in Scranton ; married Rev. Henry Van Nuys, pastor of First Presby- terian Church at Goshen, Indiana. 7. Sophia B., born 1836; lives in Barstow, Georgia ; married Rev. Dr. William Taylor, a Presby- terian clergyman at Mt. Jackson, Pennsyl- vania, and she has been a missionary to Syria.
(VIH ) Lieutenant Benjamin William Lor- ing, son of Dr. William Little Loring, was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, October 19. 1821, died in Owego, New York, December 5. 1902. He served in the civil war for five years in the volunteer navy for the mainte- nance of the Union. Ile was acting master at first and then promoted to the rank of lieu- tenant for gallant services. The late Rear- Admiral John Rodgers, who commanded the gunboat "Galena" on the James river, re- ported to the navy department upon the four- hour action of that vessel at six hundred yards with Fort Darling, May 15, 1862, as follows : "Acting Master Benj. W. Loring handled his division with great bravery. The port side of his after gun was three times manned afresh, all the men having been twice either killed or disabled." Captain Rodgers was transferred to the new monitor "Weehawken" in 1863. and at his request Lieutenant Loring was also transferred. On April 7, on the occa- sion of the first attack on Fort Sumter, the "Weehawken" led the line of battle. Lieuten- ant Loring, who was in charge of the turret division, sighted the first shot fired at that fort- ification after the Confederate possession. The turret of the "Weehawken" showed signs of disarrangement during this action, and Lieu- tenant Loring went out in the midst of shot and shell to find out the cause. He found a rope jammed by the enemy's shot between the turret base and its rim. He tried in vain to dislodge the rope, and finally passed an end of it into the turret, where it was released by means of a short tackle. He was the inventor of two improvements which made the inter- vals between discharges of the guns two and one-half minutes, instead of seven minutes. making one monitor do the work done before by three. On June 17 in Warsaw sound, Georgia, he sighted five shots at the Confed- erate ram, "Atlanta," which was a counterpart of the historic "Merrimac," and four of them struck vital places and brought down her flag in five minutes from the opening round. The "Atlanta" intended to raise the blockade. sweep the coast, the Potomac river, and an-
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chor before Washington. Admiral Dupont reported on this action saying : "1 cannot close this despatch without calling the attention of the department to the coolness and gallantry of Acting Master Benj. W. Loring, especially recommended by Capt. Rodgers. I trust the department will consider his services worthy of consideration." On September 8, 1863, the "Weehawken" grounded under the walls of Sumter and at low tide her hull was exposed. It drew a terrible fire from several Confeder- ate batteries on Sullivan's Island. The "Wee- hawken" beat to quarters and engaged Fort Moultrie exclusively, Lieutenant Loring sight- ing the guns. His second fifteen-inch shell entered an embrasure, dismounting a Colum- biad, killing sixteen men and wounding twelve others. At high tide the vessel floated, all the time exposed to the continuous fire from the Confederate batteries. Lieutenant Lor- ing, then executive officer, directed operations from the turret top. The following are ex- tracts from a letter by Admiral Rodgers, now on file in the navy department: "] wish to recommend to your favorable notice. Acting Master Benj. W. Loring, who was with me on James River in the 'Galena' and who at my request was ordered to the 'Weehawken.' I have a very high appreciation of Mr. Loring's merit as an officer. He is brave, cool, per- fectly temperate in conduct and habits, atten- tive to his duty and ready with ingenious de- vices to meet any unexpected difficulty. In case the service should be permanently aug- mented from the volunteer navy, I do not know a man who would do more credit to the regulars."
Lieutenant Loring preferred not to enter the regular navy, however. In 1864 he was captured and for six months endured the hor- rors of a rebel stockade in Texas, of a county jail and other detestable places used for pris- oners of war, where half his fellow-prisoners lost their lives. He kept his health and was subjected to special attention to insure his safekeeping. He was once tied with cords. He was kept in the guard house at night with a special sentry standing over him, threaten- ing him with death, and he was cast into a dungeon with ball and chain, like a convicted felon in medieval ages. Twice he escaped. The second attempt was made in November. 1864, and in twenty-five days he covered five hundred miles in the pathless Texas wilder- ness, guided only by the sun. During twenty-
one days he waded in water from ankle to waist depth in a flat. overflowed country, flooded by ten days of constant rain, day and night. He had to swim sometimes, often breaking the ice from the surface. He rafted across rivers and bayous. Slowly and pain- fully he made his way through the swamps and canebrake in eastern Texas and western Louisiana, subsisting mainly on parched corn until he reached the Union lines at Brashier, now Morgan, Louisiana. He was in a pitiful condition. Every toenail was worn or torn from his feet, which were a mass of blisters, and his constitution was irreparably injured. At the close of the war Lieutenant Loring entered the revenue cutter service and attained the rank of first lieutenant. When ordered before the examining board for promotion to the rank of captain, he failed to meet the physical requirements and was placed on wait- ing orders. A special bill in the fifty-fifth con- gress to allow his promotion passed the sen- ate, May 20, 1897, but did not pass the house, and he was retired with the rank of lieutenant. He was in the audience of Ford's Theatre the night that Lincoln was assassinated there, and was one of the four men who carried the wounded president to the house in which he died.
He married, August 2, 1866, Nellie Cohoon, born February, 1842, in Madison, Lake county, Ohio, daughter of Frederick and Nancy ( Car- penter ) Cohoon. Her parents were natives of Hartford, Connecticut. Children : 1. Benja- min W., mentioned below. 2. John Alden, born March 6, 1871, a naturalist : was field naturalist with Colonel Roosevelt on his Afri- can expedition for the Smithsonian Institu- tion ; has been connected with the United States Biological Survey, Smithsonian Insti- tution and New York Zoological Society, and in various capacities as naturalist. ; has trav- eled in every state and territory in the United States. and in Europe, Asia and Africa. Hle was sent by the American Bison Society to Oklahoma and South Dakota to select suitable locations for two national buffalo preserves. He is a member of the Biological Society of Washington, American Ornithologist Union, Camp Fire Club of America, and American Bison Society. 3. Bessie Logan, born June 12. 1877, died October 19. 1880. 4. Nano Glad- den, born April 17, 1879. 5. Infant son, born August 15, 1869, died October 5. 1869.
(IX) Benjamin William (2), son of Lieu -.
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tenant Benjamin William (I) Loring, was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, May IO, 1867. He attended the public schools of Owego, New York, and was graduated from the Owego Free Academy in 1886. He be- gan the study of law in the office of Judge Charles E. Parker, of Owego, and he was afterward a student in the office of S. J. O'Hart. He was admitted to the bar in No- vember, 1889, at Syracuse, and since then has been in general practice at Owego. His of- fice all this time has been in the Old Owego Free Academy, in the same room in which he went to school in his youth. He has taken an active part in public affairs, and is a prom- inent Republican. He was justice of the ses- sions one year, police justice twelve years, justice of the peace eighteen years, and served the incorporated village as clerk for five years. He is a member of Sasana Loft Tribe, Im- proved Order of Red Men, and of Smith Camp, Sons of Veterans, of Halsey Valley, New York.
He married. April 21. 1897, Marie de Belle- rive, daughter of Dr. Edward A. and Mary (Camp) Mayor, of Owego. Children: Lina Maria, born March 9, 1907; Priscilla Alden, April 20, 1910.
This name is of Scotch origin,
SMYTH and is of comparatively recent importation to this country, hav- ing come by way of Ireland, where so many of the Scotch blood have grown up to be- come, later, American citizens. The family herein described was early located in south- ern New York, where it still has numerous able representatives.
(I) Alexander Smyth, born in the latter half of the eighteenth century, was of Scotch ancestry, and resided in county Derry, Ire- land, where his ancestors took part in the famous defense of Londonderry in 1689-90. being among the supporters of the Prince of Orange, later King William, who sup- planted the Catholic rule in Ireland by that of the Protestant. He died in Aghiadocy, Ire- land, November 5, 1851. He married Jenny Wilson. also descended from Scotch ances- tors, who were among the defenders of Lon- donderry. Both were buried at Garvagh. They had six children : I. James. 2. Catherine, married William Boyd, of Drummern, Ire- land. 3. Mary, wife of James Smith. of Brooklyn, New York. 4. Alexander, many
years master mechanic of the Pennsylvania railroad, died in Titusville, Pennsylvania. 5. William, mentioned below. 6. Jane.
(II) William, third son of AAlexander and Jenny ( Wilson) Smyth, was born June 19, 1819, in the town of Garvagh, county Derry, Ireland, and received a thorough classical edu- cation, after which he entered the Royal Academic Institute at Belfast, from which he was graduated in 1842, taking second honors in the Greek and moral philosophy classes. Subsequently he spent two years at Edinburgh University, under the tutelage of the noted Rev. Dr. Chalmers, and graduated in Divinity from there. For three succeeding years he was employed as a private tutor, and after this was principal of a classical school of county Derry. Having decided to settle in America, he sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1847, in the ship "Warren," Captain Stan- ton, commander. After a voyage of six weeks and three days he arrived in New York, No- vember 27, of that year, and after a short time was employed in newspaper work on the New York Sun and New York Observer. He settled at Owego, New York, March 4, 1848, and was engaged by the trustees of Owego Academy as principal. Entering upon this position. April 12, 1848, he continued until June, 1854, when he resigned on account of ill health. The most successful period in the history of the academy was that under his administration, when the management found it necessary to add three departments and six assistants were employed, with an average at- tendance of two hundred and fifty pupils. In company with others, Mr. Smyth purchased the Owego Advertiser in 1853, and the name was changed to the Southern Tier Times, the first number under that name being published June 2, 1853. Later Mr. Smyth purchased the interests of his associates and became sole owner and proprietor, issuing the first number under this condition, June 29, 1854. The name of the paper was changed to the Owego Times, June 7, 1855. In 1872 Mr. Smyth ad- mitted his son, William A. Smyth, as partner. and from that time to the present the paper has been published under the name of Will- iam Smyth & Son. In 1857 the senior was elected school commissioner of Tioga county and re-elected in 1860 by a majority of one thousand and twelve votes. In the same year he was appointed village clerk ; served in 1863-64 as trustee of the village and was presi-
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dent from 1865 to 1867. In the latter year he was appointed justice of the peace, and in 1872 represented Tioga county in the as- sembly. In December of that year he was appointed deputy superintendent of the state insurance department, which office he held three years, being acting superintendent for one year, following the resignation of (). W. Chapman. During his incumbency a rigid examination of insurance companies was be- gun and resulted in the indictment of the off- cers of the Security Life Insurance Company of New York. Pending their examination frauds were discovered and Acting Superin- lendent Smyth energetically pressed the case, securing the indictment and conviction of its president, this being the first instance in the history of life insurance in this state where the president of a company was convicted.
Mr. Smyth always took a commendable in- terest in the material development of the vil- lage of Owego, and many improvements were consummated during the time he served as president. Among these may be mentioned the purchase of the first steam fire engine. In 1862-63-64, he was chief engineer of the village fire department, which organization owes much of its present efficiency to his en- ergy and enterprise. In 1881 he was elected president of the village for the fourth time. and during this term he secured a free bridge across the Susquehanna river. This had ex- istel as a toll bridge for a period of fifty years, and was one of the greatest obstruc- tions to the material progress of the village and its growth in population. With the assis- tance of many of the most progressive citi- zens, he succeeded in completing a fund of twenty-five thousand dollars in cash, or equiv- alent securities, which was paid to the bridge company on the last day of his term, securing thereby a warranty deed to the town of Owego. Mr. Smyth was active and efficient in bringing about the organization of the Re- publican party in the state. lle was chair- man of the Whig delegation from Tioga county at the Syracuse convention in 1856, and with Hon. John \. King, president of that convention, marched from Corinthian Hall to Whiting Hall, where a combination of the Free Soil Democrats and Anti-Slavery Whigs resulted in the birth of the Republican party. On December 16. 1884. Mr. Smyth was ap- pointed by President Harrison postmaster of Owego, and held this position four years. In
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