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(III) William, son of Jonathan Jarvis, was born in Huntington about 1685. He appears to be called William Jr. to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name. He was a trustee of the town. He bought and sold vari- ons lots of land at Huntington. He gave land to his son Henry. He died in 1755 and his sons Benajah and Henry quitclaim rights to the widow. He joined the Presbyterian church, December 2, 1725. He married Me- hitable Children: Isaiah, born 1705. died 1737 : Benajah, 1710, died 1766; William, 1712, died before 1755, when his widow Zer- viah married his brother Benajah, May 7. 1755 : Henry, 1714, died 1774 ; Jonathan, men- tioned below ; Augustine, 1727 ; Eliphalet.
(IV) Jonathan (2), son of William Jar- vis, was born in 1718, died July 25. 1795. He deeded land received from his father. by deed dated 1760. He and his brother Henry had grants in the right of their father William. In 1788 he deeded land in the east end of the village to son Isaiah, lands granted to Jona- than Jarvis in 1697-1724 or to his descendants
in those rights. He married (first), January 20, 1746, Annie Brewster. He married (sec- ond ), December 1, 1765. Charity White, who died March 17, 1800, aged seventy-four years. Child by first wife: Isaiah, born May 30. 1760. Child by second wife: Timothy, men- tioned below.
(V) Timothy Jervis, son of Jonathan Jar- vis, was born October 22, 1766, at Hunting- ton, died February 3. 1843. Most of his fam- ily, if not all followed the spelling Jervis. Ile sold his place in Huntington, Long Island, to Dr. Benjamin Kissam in 1797. He married, March 14, 1795, Phebe Bloomfield, of Wood- bridge, New Jersey. born October 23. 1774. died March 14, 1856. In the spring of 1793 John W. Bloomfield. brother of Mrs. Jervis, came from Woodbridge, New Jersey, to Fort Stanwix, New York, to take charge of a tract of 1,600 acres of land in what is now the town of Lee, then owned by Mr. Mellvaine, a
relative by marriage. After his removal Bloomfield and others bought 6,000 acres of land, afterward known as the "Six Thousand Acre Tract." in Lee. After an absence of three months in New Jersey, he returned and settled with his wife at Taberg, thereby be- coming the first white settler of what is now the town of Annsville, named for his wife Ann. About 1812 Bloomfield removed to Rome, part of which was afterwards the Jer- vis homestead, and Bloomfield died there in 1849. aged eighty-four. Timothy Jervis in 1798 followed his brother-in-law into the wil- derness. There he spent the remainder of his life and died at Rome. Children: 1. John Bloomfield, mentioned below. 2. Ann Eliza, born at Huntington. December 11, 1797, died September 26, 1881 ; married, September 12. 1843, Robert C. Vail, of Rahway. 3. Susan- nah Maria, born February 18, 1800, in Rome, died May 21, 1828: married, June 24, 1817, Hon. B. J. Beach, of Rome. 4. Elizabeth, born February 22. 1804, died December 31, 1884: married, September 25, 1845. Rev. W. B. Barton, of Woodbridge. 5. Timothy Brew- ster, born February 20, 1809. died Angust 8, 1887; married ( first). May, 1837. (second ) September 26, 1867. : resided in Elmira. New York. 6. William, born at Rome, November 24, 1813, died September 7. 1886. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin : married, June 8, 1841, - -: resided in Milwaukee, Wis- consin. 7. Benjamin Franklin, mentioned be- low.
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(VI) John Bloomfield, son of Timothy Jervis, was born at Huntington, Long Island, December 14, 1795. He went to Rome with his parents in early childhood and received his primary education there in the district schools. When work began on the Erie canal at Rome, he found employment as an axman under the engineer, Benjamin Wright. Apt and ambitions to learn, skillful with his ax and other tools, young Jervis soon won pro- motion. He became rodman for the survey on a salary of twelve dollars a month. He studied civil engineering and surveying and within two years was made a resident engi- neer at a salary of $1.25 a day on a section of the canal, seventeen miles long. extending from Madison county to Onondaga, under the supervision of David S. Bates. After filling that position for two years, he was transferred to a place of greater responsibility on the canal near Amsterdam and there he served as resident engineer for two years more. In 1823 he was made superintendent of the work for fifty miles on the canal, employing and discharging all the subordinates. About 1824 Mr. Jervis had control of about a seventh of the entire canal, with more expense than the general average. It required great care. activity and diligence to maintain the canal at the rate of six hundred dollars a mile or $30,000 per annum. Unlimited authority was given him by the canal commissioner, Henry Seymour, who made occasional visits for the purpose of consulting freely on the require- ments of the work. In 1825 the canal was completed. After seven years on the canal work, Mr. Jervis resigned to take up larger cluties and received from the canal commis- sioner a kind and commendatory letter. He became assistant engineer to Benjamin Wright, then chief enginer of the Delaware & Hudson canal. The main object of this canal was to facilitate the transportation of coal from the Lackawanna valley to the city of New York and the Hudson river. Mr. Jervis examined the whole route and reported adversely against part of the plan and his mod- ifications were adopted. He also made im- portant improvements, saving expense and avoiding dangers in construction. Late in the year 1827 Mr. Jervis succeeded Mr. Wright as chief engineer and he continued on this work until 1830, when he was appoint- ed chief engineer of the railroad between Al- bany and Schenectady. the first constructed
in the state of New York. Ile was subse- quently chief engineer of the Schenectady & Saratoga railroad, for which he invented a new style of locomotive, and in some respects his design has been followed ever since for engine trucks.
In 1833 Mr. Jervis was engaged by the canal commissioners as chief engineer of the Chenango canal, ninety-eight miles long. with a hundred locks, and he originated the method of supplying the summit with water from artificial reservoirs. In 1835 the work of en- larging the Erie canal was contemplated and Mr. Jervis was employed to make surveys and estimates on the eastern section. In October, 1836, he accepted the position of chief engi- neer of the Croton Aqueduct for the New York City water supply. This aqueduct was justly ranked as the greatest engineering work of the country at that time, and Mr. Jervis won a world-wide reputation in build- ing it. He was selected as consulting engi- neer by the city of Boston in 1846, when the waterworks were being constructed, and held the office two years. The waterworks at Port Jervis, New York, a town named for him, were constructed under his supervision. The plans of the waterworks of Rome, New York, were submitted to him for approval and revi- sion. In 1847 he was made chief engineer of the Hudson River railroad, and he continued in that office until 1849, when he resigned, re- taining, however, the office of consulting en- gineer until 1850, when he went abroad for several months. On his return he was en- gaged to take charge of the construction of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana railroad, two hundred and forty-six miles in length. In 1851 he was engineer of the Chi- cago & Rock Island railroad, and in 1854 was elected its president. He was next engaged in the construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, four hundred and eighty-six miles in length, and he succeeded in bringing the financial condition of the com- pany into a sound and healthy condition. He resigned in 1863 the office of manager of this road, but continued as chief engineer until 1866. He never sought to relax his activity, believing it better for a man to wear out than rust out, and it has been said that he died in the harness. In 1868 he was made one of the first trustees in the organization of the Rome Merchant-Iron Mill Company and continued in this service until he died. About 1872 he
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was elected secretary and he kept closely in touch with the business. He was the author of two books: "Railway Property" and "The Question of Labor and Capital." In 1879 he delivered a lecture on "Industrial Economy" before the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion of Rome, when he was past eighty-three years of age. In 1878 he received the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Laws from Ham- ilton College.
At the time of his death a Rome newspaper said of him:
A good man and a valuable citizen has departed. The important and enduring works in which he has been for a lifetime engaged will live and benefit the human race long after his remains shall crumble to dust and his fame as one of the greatest of American engineers will survive the age in which he lived, while his success in the line of his profession will be recorded in history as among the most notable achievements of the times. His industry, energy and perseverance, by which he overcame all obstacles. and raised himself from the lowliest to the highest eminence in his profession, and, above all, his purity of life, honorable and high-minded spirit and Chris- tian character, ought to serve as an example and an incentive to the young men of America, and to en- courage them to emulate his virtues and to imitate such an example.
He married (first), June 3. 1834, Cynthia Brayton, born 1808, died May 14. 1839. He married (second). June 16. 1840, Eliza R. Coates, born September 14, 1810, died May 14. 1894. An infant daughter, born May 9. 1839, died the same day.
(VI) Benjamin Franklin Jervis, brother of John Bloomfield Jervis, was born July 2, 1816, died March 8, 1909. He attended the Grove Academy at Rome. New York, and at the age of seventeen years entered the employ of James Sayre as clerk in his store at Rome. In 1834 he became clerk in the Rome Bank and two years later in the Albany City Bank. Thence he went to Cazenovia, New York, as teller in the bank, and after engaging in busi- ness as a miller with his brother for a time became cashier of a bank in Cazenovia in 1850 and continued in that office for a period of fifteen years. He resigned to become audi- tor of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan Railroad Company. After fourteen years he resigned this office on account of ill health. Afterward he was secretary for the company in New York City for two years. In 1891 he retired from active life and spent his last years in Ithaca, New York.
He married (first ). August 19, 1840, Louise
M. Chandler, who died July 3. 1879. He married (second), November 28, 1882, Mar- tha, daughter of Dr. Richard and Rebecca (Jacques ) Marsh, of Rahway. New Jersey. Mr. Jervis by his first wife had one child, John Bloomfield, born December 28, 1850, died March 19, 1869.
Even before the revolution the BAKER Baker family was one of the most numerous and widely scattered in New York province. Some of the Baker fam- ilies were of Dutch ancestry, but most of them of English ancestry. According to the first federal census taken in New York state in 1790, there were no less than one hundred and fifty families and doubtless nearly a thousand persons of the name of Baker reported.
(I) Richard Baker, who settled in North- ampton, Fulton county, New York. probably came of a Baker family of Vermont and earlier of Massachusetts, but the records necessary to establish the fact are wanting. He was a farmer. He married -- Downing and had eleven children.
(II) Daniel, son of Richard Baker, was born at Northampton, Fulton county, New York, March 14. 1814, died September 2, 1889, in Dryden, Tompkins county. New York. He received his education in the dis- trict schools. In 1861 he came by rail to Cayuga and thence by team to Dryden, where he made his home and purchased a farm of one hundred acres, which he cultivated suc- cessfully the remainder of his life. In relig- ion he was a Methodist, in politics a Republi- can after that party was organized. He mar- ried, in December, 1845. in Fulton county. New York, Sarah Jane Gifford, born July 26, 1820, died July 5. 1892, daughter of Annias and Polly (Proper) Gifford, of Fulton county. Children: I, Charles, born in 1846, died of typhoid fever in the service in 1864. a soldier in a New York regiment. 2. Oscar C., born in 1848, living at Everett, Washington. 3. John, born in 1850. now living in Ithaca. 4. Eugene, mentioned below. 5. Emma, born in 1855, married Ambrose C. Atwater, of Mecklen- burg, Schuyler county, New York. 6. George W., born in 1857, living in Ithaca.
(III) Dr. Eugene Baker, son of Daniel Baker, was born in Northampton, Fulton county, New York, April 16, 1853. At the age of eight years he came with his parents to Tompkins county and attended the public
Benjamin Franklin Jervis
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schools there, and the old Ithaca Academy, from which he graduated in 1873. He entered Cornell University and was graduated in the class of 1878 with honor, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. He took a post-grad- uate course of one year in chemical and physio- logical work in the laboratories of Cornell. He studied his profession afterward at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, grad- ulating in 1882 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began to practice medicine in association with Dr. Fish at Mecklenburg. New York, and continued there two years. Since September, 1884, he has been in gen- eral practice in Ithaca, New York. He has been health officer of the city and a member of its board of aldermen. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Tompkins County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has been president of the county society two years, and was vice-presi- dent in 1894. He was Professor of Obstetrics : in the Cornell Medical School. He is a mem- ber of the Phi Kappa Sigma college fraternity and of the Order of Free and Accepted Ma- sons.
He married (first ), September 19, 1889. Mary L. Colling, born in 1850, died July 31. 1897, a daughter of Dr. A. H. and Maria ( Blockett ) Colling. Ile married ( second ). July 6, 1908, Caroline, daughter of James Austin and Caroline A. (Castner ) Pierce, of Worcester, Massachusetts. By his first wife Dr. Baker has one daughter, Louise E., born July 28, 1894. now a student in the Ithaca high school.
BUCK There were several immigrants of the Buck family from England in Massachusetts and Connecticut be- fore 1790 and their descendants are numerous in all parts of the country. According to the census of 1790 the family was numerous even then in Vermont. Abel, Benjamin (2), Dan- iel, Frances. Georgem Gold, Isaac (2), Jona- than (2), Joseph, Lemuel, Robert, Runama and Samuel (2) were heads of families and there must have been no less than a hundred persons of the name according to the first fed- eral census. A Lieutenant Jonathan Buck was prominent in Hartland, Windsor county. The families were also in Bennington and Addison counties, Vermont.
(I) Jonathan William Buck, son of one of
the Vermont pioneers mentioned above, most of whom came to Vermont from the older towns of Connecticut, was born about 1775. When still a young man he came with his family to Herkimer county, New York.
( 11) Edward, son of Jonathan William Buck, was born in Vermont, July 9, 1809, and came when a child with his parents to Herki- mer county, New York. He worked on his father's farm during his boyhood and attended the district schools. When a young man he located at Richland, Oswego county, New York, where he followed farming the remain- der of his life. Ile married (first ) Hungerford. He married ( second ) Lydia Weed. Children by first wife: George, born September, 1833: Maryetta, December II, 1834; children by second wife : Jonathan W .. mentioned below: Esther M., November 3. 1841; Henrietta, August 11, 1843; Minerva, June 7, 1845: Frederick J., December 17, 1847 : Charles F., December 8, 1849; Martha, October 25, 1852: Henry M., August 8, 1855 : Frank B., June 8, 1859 ; Albert H., 1861 : Delia A., April, 1863.
(III) Jonathan W., son of Edward Buck, was born in Richland, New York, June 9, 1839. His early life was typical of the boy- hood of the farmer's son of that period. He worked hard on the homestead in summer and attended the district school in winter. When a young man he started in life as a farmer on a leased place. For several years he was settled on the old Gardner homestead in Mexico and he made a successful specialty of his dairy. In 1875 he came to Mexico, Os- wego county, and finally to Clarks Mills, Oneida county, New York, where he now re- sides. He is a member of the Texas ( New York) Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. In politics he is a Republican. He attends the Methodist church. He married, August, 1860, Julia, born in Mexico, daughter of Stephen and Lura (Southworth ) Gardner. Of their thirteen children ten are living in 1911 : Min- nie. born June 21, 1861: William L., men- tioned below ; Edward, died in infancy ; Matie, died in infancy: Jessie, born December 7. 1860: Herbert Stephen, December 15, 1871; Grace Frances, February 15, 1874; Ray Ed- ward, mentioned below: Burt Gardner, June 7. 1879: Leverett, October 27, 1881 : Rollin, died in infancy: Lee Nicholas, born July 15, 1884; Mary Lydia, September 29, 1887.
(IV) William L .. son of Jonathan W. Buck,
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was born in Richland. Oswego county, New York, March 13, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of Mexico in that county. After leaving school he began his business career in the manufacture of cheese. In 1883 he settled on his present farm of one hundred and thirty acres, located a mile from the vil- lage of Mexico. He has one of the finest dairies of this section, equipped with all mod- ern conveniences, and his farm is highly cul- tivated and profitable. He also owns the ad- joining farm of one hundred and twenty-three acres and a house and lot in the village of Mexico. In politics he is a Republican of prominence and has always been actively in- terested in town affairs. He has been a trustee of the incorporated village of Mexico and an assessor of the town. He was elected super- visor in 1907 and re-elected in 1909 and is a prominent member of the board of supervisors of Oswego county. He is a member of Mex- ico ( New York ) Grange, Patrons of Husban- dry : of Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Mexico Chapter, No. 135, Royal Arch Masons: Central City Council, Royal and Select Masters : Lake Ontario Com- mandery. Knights Templar, of Oswego; Me- dea Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Watertown, and the Citizens Club of Mexico, New York.
He married, November 21, 1883. Nancy Gray, born at Mexico, December 7. 1863, daughter of Alonzo and Louisa ( Ball) Gray. Her father was born in Montgomery county, New York, and when six weeks old was brought by his parents to Mexico, New York. Nicholas Gray, father of Alonzo Gray, was a soldier in the war of 1812, son of John Gray, who was born in the north of Ireland. Sep- tember 14, 1762, died in 1800. John Gray married Mary Shell, who died December 15. 1845. Mrs. Buck was the only sur- viving child of her parents. Another child died in infancy. The only child of William L. and Nancy (Gray) Buck was Glenn Alon- zo, born September 19, 1886, educated in the public schools and graduated from Mexico Academy, and now associated in business with his father.
(IV) Ray Edward, son of Jonathan W. Buck, was born in Mexico, March 3. 1876. He was educated in the common schools there and at the Mexico Academy. For a time he worked at farming with his brother William L., and then entered the employ of the Wilson Canning Factory. For six years after leav-
ing the canning concern he was clerk in a grocery store and clerk in the Mexico post- office under Postmaster W. M. Richardson. In September, 1908, he embarked in business on his own account with a livery and boarding stable in Mexico and he has built up an exten- sive and growing business under the name of the Boyd House Stables. He is a member of Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free and Accepted Masons. In politics he is a Republican. He and his family attend the Presbyterian church.
He married, April 26, 1902, Florence. born in Mexico, daughter of Francis P. Mattie. Children : Carmen Gertrude and John Fran- cis.
HAWKINS The surname Hawkins is a
diminutive of Hal or Haw, nickname for Henry, thoughi the Hawkins family of The Gaer, county Mon- mouth, England, and those of Cantlowes, county Middlesex, claim origin from the fam- ily taking its name from the parish of Hawk- ing. near Folkstone. county Kent, England, of which Osbert de Hawking was owner in the time of Henry II. This family removed to Nash Court in the parish of Boughton in the same county and there remained until 1800.
The most prominent branch of the English family of Hawkins has the following coat-of- arms: Argent on a saltire sable five fleurs- de-lis quartering azure a chevron between three demi-lions rampant or. Crest: On a mount vert a hind lodged or. Many of the Hawkins families in various parts of the United Kingdom use similar arms without the quartering. Family motto. Vil Desperan- dum. Barnes says: "In Edward 3rd's reign. when the French King John was a prisoner in France, the King of Navarre declared war against the King of France and called mncn to arms from all parts and paid them out of the treasury he had amassed. The Navarrois took the towns and castles of Creil-upon-Oise. Herielle and Matconsell. After taking Mau- consell it was garrisoned by three hundred men under Babigois of Derry, an Irishman, Franklin and Hawkins, two squires of Eng- land. in 1658, and descendants have borne the arms given above commemorating the events mentioned, the saltire being used as a scaling ladder and the fleurs-de-lis being the standard of France which was taken from the castle of Mauconsell." The family at The Gaer, men- tioned above, bear the same arms: also those
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at Tredunnock ; Kelston, county Somerset, the head of the house being a baronet; also of Trewithan, Cornwall, the baronetcy being ex- tinct in 1829: also of Pennana, Cornwall. Sir John Hawkins, the celebrated naval comman- der of Queen Elizabeth, had a special coat-of- arms granted. Another Hawkins family at Herefordshire and Gloucestershire bore arms : Azure a chevron between three cenque-foils azure as many scallops argent on a chief gules a griffin passant of the field. Crest : \ demi- eagle argent. A Berkshire family of Hawkins has a similar armorial ; another in Kent bears the following : Sable a lion passant or in chief three bezants. In Devonshire : Azure a chev- ron ermine between three oak slips or. In Lewell, county Dorset, there is still another armorial.
(I) Robert Hawkins, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and came to this country in 1635 in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," giv- ing his age in the passenger list as twenty-five years and that of his wife as twenty-four. His wife was admitted to the Charlestown church. February 8, 1635-36, and he was admitted April 17, 1636. He had a house lot about the mill in 1635. In 1638 he was fined for selling a house to a "foreigner." He owned six lots in 1638 and received a grant of land in 1644- 45. He died September 11, 1704. Children, born at Charlestown: Eleazer, baptized De- cember 25, 1636: Zechariah, baptized October 25, 1639; Joseph, mentioned below.
(II) Joseph, son of Robert Hawkins, was baptized at Charlestown, Massachusetts, now part of Boston, April 3, 1642. He removed early in life to Milford, Connecticut. On June 5. 1665, he and John Brown bought Birming- ham Point, at Derby, Connecticut, consisting of about forty acres, from Alexander Bryan. In a short time Brown moved to Newark, New Jersey. About 1668 Joseph Hawkins received a grant of land from the town, north of his purchase and adjoining it; the northern boun- dary crossed the Neck from about where the Husatonic dam is now, to a little north of what is now known as the old Hawkins house, down the little brook to the Naugatuck river. He probably lived first at a house on the Point built by Thomas Wheeler, and later he built a house where the old Hawkins house is now situated, and died in 1682. Ile was called of Stratford when he made his first purchase in Derby. He married, April 8, 1668, Abigail Holbrook. Children, born in Derby: Joseph,
mentioned below ; Eleazer, December 12. 1070; Abigail, February 2, 1072: Robert, July 4, 1075, died July. 1075: Mary, June 10, 1077: John, September 28, 1679, died December 9, 1601; Lois, twin, November 6, 1681; Agnes, twin of Lois.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Haw- kins, was born in Derby, February 14, 1009. He lived on his father's homestead there. Ilis will was dated April 21, 1732, and in it he mentioned his warehouse which he left to his grandson Joseph, son of Joseph. He mar- ried, August 9, 1603, Elizabeth Gunn, of Mil- ford. Children, born in Derby : Elizabeth, April 11, 1694; Sarah, May 23, 1695; Joseph, mentioned below ; Abigail, July 1. 1698 ; Mary, April 1, 1700; Eleazer, May 30, 1701, died June 7. 1702; Moses, August 2, 1703 ; Daniel, March 9, 17 -: Eleazer, November 27, 1706; John, July 5, 1710; Miriam, December 5, 1712: Zecharialı, February 8, 1717 : Hannah, mentioned in her father's will.
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