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author. At the time of his decease he was pre- paring a fifth series of readers.
Ile was an enthusiastic lover of music, and he and Mr. Bradbury taught the children in the public and Sunday schools of New York City to join in chorals. He was in favor of the adoption of music in the public schools, and began the movement by inserting a few musical selections in his readers. His first, second and third readers were translated into the German and Spanish languages. Mr. San- dlers was one of the founders of the New York State Teachers' Association, and was recognized as an authority on matters per- taining to educational advancement. He took a deep interest in the fortunes and principles of the Republican party, but in 1884 cast his vote in favor of Grover Cleveland. He was a member of the Forty-second Street Baptist Church in New York City.
Ile married, in New York, August 2, 1842, Elizabeth Barker, born June 25, 1811, at White Plains, New York, died October 20. 1001, in New York City, and both Mr. San- ders and wife are buried in the vault of C. W. Sanders at Cortland, New York. She was a daughter of John and Anna ( Barton) Bar- ker, of White Plains. Children : Charles Wal- ton, mentioned below ; Henry Martin. men- tioned below : Grace Antoinette, born May 13. 1853. died May 27, 1857.
( IX) Dr. Charles Walton ( 2) Sanders, eld- est son of Charles Walton (I) and Elizabeth ( Barker) Sanders, was born in New York City, March 26, 1847.
He received his primary education in the public schools of New York City, sup- plemented by a course in Homer Academy, from which he graduated. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Joseph W. Howe. pro- fessor of surgery in the University Medical College of New York City, entering the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1875, and receiving his degree of M. D. therefrom March 1, 1878. He began the practice of his profession, having an office on West Thirty- sixth street until 1880, when he removed to East Fifty-third street, his present location. and has continued in active practice there for over thirty years. He stands high in his pro- fession, where he has won an enviable repu- tation. He is a member of the New York County Medical and New York Physicians' Mutual Aid societies. He is prominent in so- cial and fraternal circles, and has a wide cir-
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cle of sincere friends. In political views he favors the principles of the Democratic party. He served six years, during the administra- tions of President Cleveland, as medical ex- aminer and pension surgeon. In religious matters he is a Baptist, and he is affiliated with the Masonic order. He is a member of Chancellor Walworth Lodge, No. 271, Free and Accepted Masons ; was exalted in Lafay- ette Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Rahway, New Jersey, and received the degree of knighthood in St. John's Commandery, No. 9. Knights Templar, at Elizabeth, afterwards af- filiating with Columbian Commandery, No. 1, of New York City. He also belongs to Mecca Temple, Mystic Shrine, of that city.
Dr. Sanders married, August 19, 1868, Ella A., born at Cortland, New York, January 13. 1849, daughter of Raymond and Elmira (Greenman ) Wickwire ( see histories of Wickwire and Greenman families contained elsewhere in this work). Children: 1. Grace Elizabeth, born at Rahway, New Jersey, Au- gust 18. 1870; graduated from Vassar College in 1890; married (first ) November 7, 1894, John Hicks (2) Macy, born in New York City. October 18, 1867, son of John Hicks (1) and Sarah (Archer) Macy, died Feb- ruary 25, 1903. They became parents of two children : John Hicks (3), born September 22, 1895, and Grace Elinor, born August 30, 1897. On April 11, 1906, Mrs. Grace Elizabeth Macy married (second ) David Holcomb Keefer, of Atlanta, Georgia. 2. Mary Noxon, born in New York City. November 6, 1876; graduated from Vassar College in 1896; October 19, 1898, married William Henry Hayes. A. B .. A. M., who received his degrees from Colum- bia College in 1896-97: he was born in New York City, March 28. 1876, son of Jacob and Mary (Louderback ) Hayes. They became parents of three children : Ethel Sanders, born June 12, 1901 : William Henry Jr .. May 3. 1903. Grace, March 1, 1907. 3. Ethel Blanche. born in New York City, February 28. 1879; married, April 20, 1898, William Stocking Gould. born September 4. 1875, at Buffalo, New York, son of Charles A. and Adelaide (Stocking) Gould. They became parents of four children : Helen Sanders, born June 18, 1900: William Stocking Jr .. September 12, 1903 : Marian Ethel, January 18, 1906; Henry Sanders, August 5. 1909.
(IX) Rev. Henry Martin Sanders, D. D., second son of Charles Walton and Elizabeth
(Barker ) Sanders. was born in New York City, November 20. 1849. He received his early education in the public schools, and in 1868 was admitted to Vale College, from which institution he graduated in 1872, with degree of A. B. He subsequently entered Union Theological Seminary, and graduated therefrom in 1876, shortly afterward receiv- ing a call to the pastorate of the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church at Yonkers, New York, where he resided until 1881. From 1882 to 1888 he served as pastor of Central Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, and from 1891 to 1901 was pastor of the Madison Avenue Church. During the years 1889-90 he traveled extensively through foreign coun- tries. In political views he is a Republican. He belongs to Sigma Chi fraternity and the Philothean Association. He is a trustee of Union Theological Seminary, Vassar College and Colgate University. Socially he is a mem- ber of the Union League and Yale clubs.
He married, November 20, 1882, Eleanor, born May 16, 1849. died August 5. 1905. daughter of Theron R. and Maria E. Butler. One child, Maria Butler. born September 17, 1885, died November 3, 1888.
Samuel Guile, immigrant ances- GUILE tor, lived at Dedham for short time, and also seems to have been one of the first settlers of Newbury. In 1640 he was one of the twelve who settled at Paw- tucket, now Haverhill, Massachusetts, and in 1642 he was made a freeman by the general court. He had land at Little River in 1650, and in 1652 he received ten acres in the sec- ond division. In 1658 he received land in the third division and also entered an agreement for the support of a blacksmith. He married. September 1, 1647, Judith, daughter of James Davis, who immigrated from Marlborough, England. He died February 21, 1683. His will was dated February 16, 1683. His de- scendants still own part of his estate. Chil- dren, born at Haverhill: Samuel, August 30. 1648; Judith, April 2, 1650: John, mentioned below : Hannah, February, 1654, died young ; Saralı. March 1, 1657-58; James, August 27, 1660; Ephraim, March 21, 1661-62.
(II) John, son of Samuel Guile, was born at Haverhill, December 8, 1652. He was ex- ecutor of his father's will. In 1678 he was made freeman at Newbury. By trade he was a house carpenter. In 1686 he charged Lieu-
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tenant Johnson in open town meeting of try- ing to take in "near forty or fifty acres" of his land at Flaggy Meadow by changing the bounds, and it was found by a committee that he and twenty others had been trespassing on town ways. Int 1694 he sold the town some of his land. In 1700 he moved to Preston, Connecticut, and in a deed of 1718 he is called of Providence, Rhode Island. On March 31, 1726, Joseph Guile, of Providence, was made administrator of the estate of John Guile, of Providence.
John Guile married Widow Sarah Sut- ton. Children, born at Haverhill, except the last : John, September 16, 1682, died March I, 1683-84; Judith, June 13, 1684; Samuel, mentioned below ; Hannah, March 5. 1687-88, died May 10, 1688; Benjamin, June 13, 1689; Sarah, June 11, 1692; Elizabeth, March (, 1694: Joseph, April, 1095.
( III ) Samuel (2), son of John Guile, was born at Haverhill, May 18, 1685-86. It is possible that he moved to New York state during the later years of his life. He mar- ried Mary Goppy, of Preston. Children, born at Preston: Marcy, April 2, 1708; Mary, February 23, 1710; Jolin, mentioned below : Abraham, mentioned below.
(IV) John (2). son of Samuel (2) Guile, was born at Preston, July 10, 1712. He mar- ried, November 5. 1735. Sarah Hodge. Chil- dren, born at Preston : Samuel, July 17, 1736; John, April 6, 1738, died young : John, men- tioned below: Sarah, May 8, 1742: Eunice. March 21, 1744: Elisha, December 9, 1745; Abel. January 3. 1747-48; Lois, February 6, 1750: Huldah, July 24, 1752.
(V) John (3), son of John ( 2) Guile, was born at Preston, January 19, 1739. He moved with his family to Florida, Montgomery coun- ty, New York, and his first wife died here about 1775. With his second wife and fam- ily he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and later returned again to New York. He married ( first ) January 4, 1760, at Preston, Sarah Rea. and (second) Freelove Elliot. He is said to have had sixteen children. Children by first wife, born at Preston: Asa, January 12. 1760; Henry. September 25. 1762; Levi, August 9, 1764 ; Rea, January 9, 1766; Sarah. May 20, 1768: Joseph, January 19, 1770; Mary, January 19, 1770, died May 5, 1771. Children of second wife: Stephen, born July 26, 1776: William ; Freelove : Asenath ; Sally ; Daniel, said to have lived on the Mohawk
river in Herkimer county, New York: Sam- uel.
(IV) Abraham, son of Samuel (2) Guile, was born at Preston, July 5, 1714. He mar- ried (first ) June 11, 1741, Lydia Rea, and she died October 19, 1746. He married ( sec- ond) April 21, 1747, Silence Herrick. Child by first wife, born at Preston : Lydia, born July 28. 1743. Children by second wife, born at Preston : Mary, March 13, 1749. died young ; Joseph, mentioned below ; Anne, August 28, 1754, died young ; Mary, December 25, 1756; Anne, November 15, 1759.
(V) Joseph, son of Abraham Guile, was born at Preston, December 10, 1751. He lived in Chenango county, New York, and in Port- land, Chautauqua county. Children, born at Preston : William, December 8, 1781 ; Sim- eon, December 4, 1783 ; Daniel, April 25. 1786; Sarah, August 22, 1788; Henry.
HEATON Pomeroy Heaton, the immi- grant ancestor, came from Wales to America and settled in New Jersey.
(II) Dr. Charles E. Heaton, son of Pom- eroy Heaton, was born at Elbridge, New York, November 6, 1837. He received his education in the public schools and Syracuse high school, and was graduated from the Ec- lectic Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. He then practiced at Black River for two years. After this he went to Mexico, Oswego county, New York, where he prac- ticed until 1888, and during this time he took a course in Buffalo Medical College. He next removed to Baldwinsville, New York, where he has a large practice. He is a member of the New York State Medical Society and of the Onondaga County Medical Society. He has been trustee of the village, and forty years a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, which he attends. He is a member of Seneca River Lodge, No. 160, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Riverside Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In politics he is a Republican. He married Sarah, daughter of Robert F. Gates, of Fernwood. Children: Willis C .. born September 15, 1861, lawyer, and now surrogate of Rensselaer county ; Earl Gates, mentioned below.
(III) Dr. Earl Gates Heaton, son of Dr. Charles E. Heaton, was born at Mexico, Os- wego county, New York, March 17, 1874. He was educated in the public schools there, grad-
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uating from Baldwinsville high school, and Syracuse University. He was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1896, and then began prac- tice in Oswego. New York, continuing for one year, until 1898, when he removed to Bald- winsville, where he now has a large and suc- cessful practice.
Dr. Earl G. Heaton is a member of the Cen- tral New York Medical Society and the On- ondaga County Homeopathic Medical Society. He has been trustee of the village since 1910. He is a member of Seneca River Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Modern Woodmen of America, and of the Maccabees. In 1898, he married (first) Laura, daughter of Charles Taggart, of Baldwinsville. She died October 6, 1903, and he married (second) Mabel E., daughter of T. Mitchell Toll, of Baldwinsville, in 1906. Child by first wife: Lois, born 1901. Children by second wife : Charles, born February 14, 1908; Charlotte, January 2, 1910.
Thomas Lord, immigrant ancestor,
LORD was born in England as early as 1590. He was one of the early set- tlers of Hartford, Connecticut. He married, in England, Dorothy who died at Hartford at the advanced age of eighty-seven years in 1678. All their eight children were born in England and came with them to this country, Children : Richard, born 1611; Thomas, 1619, settled at Wethersfield; Ann, 1621; William, mentioned below ; John, 1625; Robert. 1627. a sea captain ; Irene, 1629; Dor- othy, 1631.
(II) William, son of Thomas Lord, was born in England in 1623. died May 17. 1678. He came with his parents to Hartford, and settled in the part of Saybrook, Connecticut, which is now called Lyme. He married
Children: William, born October, 1643, set- tled in East Haddam: Thomas, December, 1645. settled in Lyme; Richard, May, 1647, settled in Lyme: Mary, May, 1649; Robert, August, 1651 ; John. September, 1653; Joseph, September, 1656; Benjamin; Daniel; James, mentioned below ; Samuel; three daughters.
(III) James, son of William Lord, was born about 1665-70. He settled in Lyme, Connec- ticut.
(VI) James (2), great-grandson of James ( I) Lord, was born in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1794-95. The lack of records prevents the
tracing of the immediate ancestry. He re- moved to Castleton, Vermont, where he died. according to his gravestone there, September 15, 1835, aged forty-one years. He married, March 9, 1820, Elizabeth (Goodwin ) Rogers. Children : Henry Bird, mentioned below ; Anne, born June 7, 1824, died July 9, 1844.
(VII) Henry Bird, son of James (2) Lord, was born January 18. 1821, in the town of Antrim, Dutchess county. New York, where his parents lived for a time, removing to Cas- tleton, Vermont, when he was a child. He attended the public schools and the Castleton Academy.
In 1836, after his father died, he re- moved from Castleton to Ludlowville, Tomp- kins county, New York, where he found employment as clerk in the general store of Henry L. Burr & Company. He was admit- ted to the partnership in 1849 and in 1858 he bought out the interests of Henry L. Burr and with James H. Burr formed the firm of Lord & Burr. He withdrew from the firm in 1866 to accept the position of cashier of the First National Bank of Ithaca, New York, and filled this office with ability and fidelity for a period of thirty-five years, and retired after a long and honorable career. December 31, 1901. He has been for many years a director and vice- president of this bank. Mr. Lord is now, at the age of ninety-one, living in Ithaca, enjoy- ing excellent health. Few men are better known and none more respected and esteemed in the community. Not only in financial cir- cles and business, but in public life, he has won distinction. Under the old village char- ter. Mr. Lord was a village trustee and he assisted in drafting the city charter of Ithaca. He was supervisor of the town of Lansing for six terms, and became a prominent and influ- ential member of the county board of super- visors.
He represented his district in the as- sembly at Albany for 1864-65, and served in 1864 on the military committee and on revi- sion and on the committee of towns and coun- ties. In 1865 he was a member of the ways and means committee of the house, and chair- man of the committee on charities. In poli- tics he has always been an Independent. He has been a trustee of Cornell University since 1876, and is a member of the Cornell- Library Association and the Congregational church, of which he has been an elder and for many years a trustee.
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LANG John Barr Lang, who has figured conspicuously in the political life of Ithaca, serving for six times in the capacity of mayor, a tribute to his ex- cellent traits of character, and his talent for performing important official duties, is a de- scendant of a Scotch and French ancestry. The ancestral history and legends of the Langs and MacArthurs are colored with Gaelic romance and highland life, enriched with the wit and religious fervor, the patriot- ism and valor that have furnished themes for scholar, poet, preacher, orator and historian, wherever civilization has become established and Gaelic literature has followed.
(1) Cornelius Lang, father of John Barr Lang. was a native of Paisley, Scotland. where he was reared and educated. He served as a cotton mill superintendent in his native land. from whence he emigrated to this coun- try, locating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he pursued his vocation. Later he re- moved to Paterson, New Jersey, and subse- quently to Stockport, near Kinderhook, New York, on the Hudson, and to Great Barring- ton, Massachusetts. He married Ann Mac- Arthur, in Glasgow, Scotland, her native city.
( II) John Barr Lang was born in Stock- port. New York, in December. 1833, and. when three years of age his parents removed to Great Barrington. Massachusetts. He at- tended the "Plains School" in that famous vil- lage, until he was twelve years old, and then began his active career, serving as clerk in a general store there, remaining for five years. He then served as apprentice in a machine shop in Hartford, Connecticut, remaining from 1850 to 1853. when he removed to Phil- mont. Columbia county, New York. In 1854 he returned to Ilartford as a machinist in shops owned by Joseph S. Curtis. Mr. Lang again removed to Philmont in 1859, and while a resident there his mechanical propensities found a field of activity. He constructed of steel a shoe-pegging machine to Le run by hand. This was made from a wooden model design by a Methodist clergyman. Although this hand machine was found too slow to meet the demand of the rapidly progressing Yankee trade, it became the basis for the pegging ma- chinery that in a short time effected a decided revolution in the shoe manufacture industry in America.
In 1861, the first year of the civil war. Mr. Lang removed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
where he took charge of the machinery in a larger factory that made the cloth now so famous in the annals of our country, and for- ever perpetuated in the poetry of our land, the cloth worn by the "boys in blue" of the Union army. Here he remained until the end of the war and the demand for blue cloth- ing had decreased to small proportions. It was while on a visit to Ithaca, with his wife. in March, 1865. that he was induced by her brother, James Patterson, to visit and inspect the machine shops then in operation at that place. This inspection resulted in a partner- ship being formed between Mr. Lang and James Reynolds, the owner of the shops at that time. This partnership was not consum- mated until the latter part of the year, when Mr. Lang removed to Ithaca and took up his permanent residence. This was the beginning of his successful career as a leader in the in- dustrial life of the community. In 1870 the Reynolds & Lang plant was removed to No. 117, II9, 121 East Green street, and is now one of the extensive manufacturing industries of the city.
Upon Mr. Reynold's death in 1891 his wid- ow became owner of his property and carried on his business until she died in 1894, at which time Mr. Lang purchased the Reynolds share in the plant, including the real estate it occupies. In 1902 he admitted to partnership his son-in-law, Ernest D. Button, and the firm is now Lang & Button. Its special output is traction engines of such modern design and stability that they are in demand in and ship- ped as far away as Greece, Mexico and the British possessions. When the Reynolds & Lang partnership was first formed a contract was made with Judge Wells, who owned the village waterworks. A rotary pump was af- fixed by the firm to an artesian well that ex- isted near the southern corner of the present Blood building, at 109 North Tioga street. The water from tlie well was pumped into the water mains and distributed to the peo- ple of the village who depended on it for a water supply. After two years the pump was removed to the Holliston shops, now the loca- tion of the Driscoll Brothers & Company's planing mills and carpenter shops.
Mr. Lang has been a trustee and treasurer of the First Baptist Church for many years, and has served well and faithfully in this capacity. One of his intimate friends said of him, "John Lang's genuine practical re-
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ligion has been applied to his business affairs. and has held him from amassing larger wealth. He makes his charges with the Golden Rule. When his silent heart lies on the bier, before the altar of his church, his eulogist will not find it convenient to direct attention to the floral display around the cas- ket. The raiment of the departed soul will be more beautiful than the wilting leaves and fading hues of bud, blossom and foliage."
During Mr. Lang's incumbency of the of- fice of mayor he was noted for his just and impartial administration of the affairs of that office : he favored both parties equally in his appointments of committees, and in many ways demonstrated his fairness in this respect. He recommended the framing of city work contracts so that only Ithaca workmen should perform city labor, thus avoiding the importa- tion of cheap workmen into the city to com- pete against home labor. The city contracts were drawn according to his commendation, and gave great satisfaction to the laboring men of Ithaca. It was during his administra- tion and at his recommendation that the pur- chase of property from the St. John estate was made by the city for the city hall annex. He continued Jared T. Newman in the office of city attorney, and was in close and friendly relations with every member of the city's of- ficial boards and commissions during his term. and at the close of 1897-98 he extended his compliments to them all for their courtesy and co-operation. Among the improvements made by the city under Mayor Lang's ad- ministration were: The grand abutments and brick-paved bridge of Six Mile Creek, for Cayuga street, were built, and three thousand feet of twenty-four inch sewer mains were laid, from Linn street through Tompkins street and thence to Fall Creek, which re- moved an old cause of complaint by many inhabitants. The finance commission reported in 1898 through its chairman, Professor Rob- ert H. Thurston, that 18,670 square yards of concrete and brick pavements had been con- structed during that year at a cost of $45 .- 000 being 50 per cent. more brick paving than any other administration had procured in pro- portion to the sum expended. His foresight and practical knowledge was amply proven in various cases. He vetoed a resolution of the common council to expend $4,000 in open- ing the Ithaca end of the West Shore Boule- vard, but he approved a later resolution to
expend $2,000 for that purpose. The actual cost of the work when completed was $1.950. The opening of the Boulevard was a great source of pleasure to the city, and did much toward developing the section on the west shore of the lake. Another instance of the wisdom of Mr. Lang's advice, but in this case disregarded by the common council to the loss and detriment of the city, was in regard to the old Cayuga street iron bridge. that was removed to Plain street. He urged that they have it so reconstructed that no rods or under- trusses should be left below the roadway to be struck by ice when the frozen creeks were breaking up. His position was not sustained by the aldermen, and in consequence the ice swept the bridge away and ruined it, in 1901. and there are now only stone abutments to show where it once stood.
Mr. Lang is a stockholder and was one of the directors for several years of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, and did much to aid in securing its success. He is treasurer of the East Lawn Cemetery, and for fourteen years was a member of Cayuga Fire Com- pany, No. 1. and still follows its career in the fire department with unabated interest.
In boyhood Mayor Lang had the privilege of an acquaintance with President Van Bu- ren, and to him he made a solemn promise that he would become "a good citizen." This promise he has kept to the very letter, and it has been said of him that he never con- sciously utters a word or performs an act discreditable to his progenitors, to his coun- try or to himself. And he has also done work to elevate the moral and advance the ma- terial conditions of Ithaca.
Mr. Lang married ( first ) in 1855. Frances Patterson, of Glastonbury, Connecticut ; she died in 1897. He married ( second ) in 1900. Martha, daughter of the late Obadiah Bowne Curran, of Ithaca (see Curran III ).
(The Curran Line).
(I) George Curran, immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Curran family, was a na- tive of Drumneria, Armagh county, Ireland. By occupation he was a weaver of linen, with mills at Cork. He with his wife and family left Ireland on account of religious persecu- tion, coming to America in 1794. They lived for a time in Ulster county, New York, then moved to Caroline, Tompkins county, New York. He and his wife are both buried in
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