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the Toby-town cemetery. He married, in Ire- land, Elizabeth Cowan, and they were the parents of the following children, probably not given in order of birth: Thomas and Sarah, born in America ; the others, including William, mentioned below, born in Ireland.
(II) William, son of George and Elizabeth (Cowan) Curran, was born in Ireland. He came to America with his parents when he was eight years old. When he grew up he became a carpenter. He married Betsy Bush, in Dutchess county, New York, and their chil- dren were: Obadiah Bowne, see forward ; Isaac, settled in Springfield, Illinois ; Walter, settled in Ithaca; David, settled in Fond-Du- Lac, Wisconsin: George, lived in various places, but died in Ithaca; William, died young ; Martha and Mary, went west ; Eliza- beth, married Joseph Camp; and Cornelia. married Mr. Grimshaw, of Quincy, Illinois.
(III) Obadiah Bowne, son of William and Betsy (Bush) Curran, was born in Hurley, Ulster county, New York, in September, 1812, died at Ithaca, December 31, 1877. When he was about five years of age his parents re- moved to Ithaca, which was his home the re- mainder of his life. In his youth he clerked for W. A. Woodward, and in 1835 he started the drug store of which he was the proprietor until his death. When the Ithaca Savings Bank was incorporated in 1868, he became its secretary and treasurer and served as such until his death. Some of his account books are preserved in the archives of Cornell Uni- versity, and are models in bookkeeping and penmanship. He was postmaster during Pres- ident Buchanan's administration, but was a Republican from war times. He was very methodical, persevering and constant in his business habits, with a high sense of honor and an unswerving integrity, and no man among the merchants of Ithaca had a clearer record or a fairer name. His life was an ac- tive and useful one, and the void left by his sudden death was long felt by those who thoroughly knew and appreciated him.
He married Mary Mitchell, and at his death he was survived by three children, two daugh- ters and a son, among the former being Mar- tha, wife of John Barr Lang ( see Lang II ).
Henry Silsbee, immigrant an- cestor, was born in England SILSBEE before 1618, and is supposed to have come to this country in company with
Mr. Samuel Sharpe in 1039. The first men- tion of him appears on the records of Salem, Massachusetts, and is as follows: "25 day of the 5th moneth 1639 Henry Sillsby Mr. Sharpes man is receaued an Inhabitant with- in this Jurisdiction, & there is graunted to him halfe an acre of land neere the Cat Coue for a Howse plott."
Savage says that he was of Ipswich in 1647. October 16, 1651, being then of Ipswich, he bought the dwelling house of Thomas Coates, of Lynn, together with six acres of land near Stacy's brook, and upon the same day, some thirty acres of arable and pasture land, ap- parently not far from the home lot. On April 7, 1660, he bought of John Hathorne an old house and three acres bounded west with his own land, and March 16. 1670-71, he bought more land from the town. Part of this es- tate is still cultivated by a descendant. He is described as a "shoemaker" by occupation. and though never very prominent in town af- fairs, he was frequently a witness, overseer or assessor in the wills of his neighbors. Jan- uary 8, 1692, it was voted that Henry Silsbee "should sit in the deacon's seat." He mar- ried (first ) Dorothy who was the mother of all his children. She died Septem- ber 27, 1676, and he married ( second ) Novem- ber 18, 1680, Grace Eaton, widow of Jonas Eaton, of Reading. His will was signed March 17. 1698-99, and proved December 16, 1700. Children : Henry; Nathaniel, born about 1651; Mary, married Zachery Marsh ; John, died before June 26, 1676; Jonathan, married, January 1, 1673, Bethiah Marsh ; Jonathan, mentioned below ; Samuel, died Oc- tober, 1687; Ephraim, died before March, 1729; Hannah, died January 8, 1682; Sarah, married, February 25. 1682, Joseph Collins.
( II) Jonathan, son of Henry Silsbee, in- herited from his father the house and lot which the latter had bought of John Hathorne, and in December 25, 1708, sold the same to- gether with four acres to Ephraim Stasey. The same month he sold more of the family land, and later removed to Windham county, Connecticut, where he was active in 1731 in the formation of the parish of Scotland. In 1740, he was assigned to a front seat in the new meeting house of Scotland parish. He married, January 1, 1673. Bethiah Marsh, a sister of Zachery who married Ephraim's sis- ter Mary. Children: Sarah, born December 5. 1674: Child, February 16, 1676, died the
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same day; Jonathan, mentioned below ; Beth- iah. April 12, 1680, died May 16, 1681 ; Eliza- beth, August 2, 1685; Hannah, October 3. 1687.
(III) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) Silsbee, was born March 16, 1677-78. He set- tled at Scotland, Connecticut. From him are descended many of the families in central Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. Lydia Silsbee married at Scotland, January 18. 1739. Samuel Palmer ; Henry Silsbee married there Bethia Lasell; Samuel Silsbee married there November 5. 1746, Elizabeth Wood- ward; Mary Silsbee married March 5, 1752. Simon Wood. These were children and grandchildren of Jonathan, who married in the adjacent town of Colchester, Connecticut. April 26, 1733, Abigail Randall. Jonathan Silsbee was seated in the first pew of the Scotland (town of Windham) Church in 1740, and was one of the petitioners for the setting off of the parish of Scotland from Windham.
(IV) Enos, son of Jonathan (2) Silsbee, ac- cording to the weight of evidence. settled first in Westchester county, New York, and mar- ried there. in 1761. Deborah Bennet. Some of the family went from Windham to Stam- ford, Fairfield county. Connecticut, and to the adjoining county, Westchester, New York. Abijah Silsbee was in Stamford in 1792. Enos went northward and located in Orange coun- ty. He was a soldier in the revolution in the Fourth Orange County Regiment, and ac- cording to the first federal census he had in his family at that time two males over sixteen and five females.
(\') Enos (2). son of Enos (1) Silsbee, was born probably in Westchester county. New York, about 1765.
He settled, at some time before 1790, in Northumberland county. Pennsylvania, and according to the federal census had in his fam- ily besides himself two males under sixteen and three females, probably three or four young children, under five. The females may have included sisters. He probably lost some of these children as but one son, born as early as 1790, is known to have survived. He mar- ried, in 1786. -. Children : John. 1700: James, mentioned below: Deborah. 1795 ( doubtless named for her grandmother ). They lived at Wayne and Pembroke, Pennsylvania.
(VI) James, son of Enos (2) Silsbee, was born in Pembroke. Pennsylvania. He mar-
ried and among his children was Alfred Till- ston. mentioned below.
(VII) Alfred Tillston, son of James Sils- bee, married and among his children was Henry Cogswell, mentioned below.
(VIII) Henry Cogswell, son of Alfred Tillston Silsbee, is a resident of Elmira, New York.
Miles Kehoe was born in Wick-
KEHOE low, Ireland. in 1834. the only son of Michael and Sarah Ke- hoe. His parents, accompanied by their two children, Miles and Mary Kehoe, the latter born in Wicklow, 1832, married Charles Cur- ran, and died in Oswego, in 1864, without is- sue, emigrated to this country in 1851. The parents died in Oswego, New York, in 1865
and 1868, respectively. Miles Kehoe completed his education here at the night commercial school. His first engagement was in the lum- ber business, remaining as foreman for a num- ber of years, when he started as wholesaler and importer of wines and liquors, which busi- ness was later moved to the present address, 51 East Bridge street, where he continued until his death in 1901, the business being con- tinued to the present time by his sons. He was interested in vessel and real property here. He was alderman from 1871 to 1874. inclu- sive, representing the ward of his residence. the second. He was also a member of the Old Guards, which later became the Forty- eighth Regiment, and was must :red out senior lieutenant shortly before that company became the Forty-eighth Separate Company.
In July. 1864. he married Catherine, daugh- ter of John and Mary (Waters) Aiken (both born in Kilkenny, Ireland ). residents of Os- wego, their children being: Catherine, men- tioned above: Mary E .. deceased: John M .; Thomas F .: Miles, deceased: James L., de- ceased : George W .. deceased. Mlrs. Kehoe, who was born in Oswego, in 1840, died March 6. 1911. leaving two sons, John M. and Thom- as F .. the former of Washington, D. C., and the latter of New York City.
Thomas Francis, son of Miles and Cather- ine (Waters) Kehoe, was born in Oswego. Oswego county, New York, February II. 1869. He attended the public schools there, and when a boy of seventeen years moved to New York. Ile continued his studies here. attending the night high schools. Cooper In- stitute, and graduated from the New York
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Law School. 1902. He has been in the patent law business from 1800 up to date ( 1912). Ile was with Surrogate Arnold, of New York county, during the year 1895 as secretary, and was also with his father in the lumber business up to 1895. He is a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association. lle married. in New York City, November 27, 1887, Caro- lina Susan Baley, born in London, England, March 11, 1869, daughter of John llull and Emma Marian ( Hull) Baley, both of whom came from London to Newark, New Jersey. They were the parents of five children, all born in London : Carolina Susan, Elizabeth, Emily, John and Fred. Mr. and Mrs. Kehoe have one child, Emily, born in New York, June 20, 1889.
TAYLOR The surname Taylor is a very common and ancient English family name, derived from the occupation of the progenitors, as Smith, Ma- son, Carpenter. The name is found also pretty generally in Ireland. A branch of the family settled in the north of Ireland at the time of the grants to the Scotch and English Protestants, from whom the race of Scotch- Irish, so called, are descended. John Taylor, gentleman, of Cambridgeshire, was granted fifteen hundred acres of land in the precinct of Loughter, county Cavan, Ulster, in 1610.
(1) John Taylor, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, in 1639, died October 17, 1713, in Hadley. He settled first in Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained only a few years. In 1662 he removed to Hadley, Massa- chusetts, and made application for land there in June of that year. Probably in 1666 or 1667 he sold this first grant of land and bought Governor John Webster's homestead lot. Here he lived until his death in 1713. April 5. 1699, he was granted a lot in Pine Plain addition to Iladley, and in 1703. with seventy-eight others, drew lots for wood lands adjoining Hadley, in what is now Amberst. John Tay- lor drew one hundred and three acres. He married, December 12, 1666, Mary, daughter of Thomas Selden, of Hartford, who died in 1655. She died January 7, 1713. Children : Esther, born December 9, 1667: John, men- tioned below : Thomas, June 5, 1672 : Stephen. 1074: Mary, October 12, 1676, died young ; Thankful, 1680: Jacob, 1685 : Samuel. Decem- ber 3. 1688; Ebenezer, March 1, 1607.
(II) John (2), son of John ( 1) Taylor, was
born in Iladley, January 6, 1670. He was a highly esteemed and influential man in the or- ganization of the First Church in South Had- ley. Ilis name appears, with John Alvord and Samuel Smith, on the church committee appointed at the first meeting of the South Parish, March 12. 1733. He was living in 1744 in South Hadley, and his wife was living in1 1743. He married, February 9. 1004, llannah, daughter of Samuel Gillet, an original settler of Hadley. Children: John. born May 3, 1695: Joseph, March 20, 1697, died August 6, 1698; Joseph, mentioned below ; Hannah, January 24, 1701 ; Samuel, November 17. 1703; Twins, born and died 1704; Joshua. April 14, 1706: Mary, 1708; Moses, May, 1709: Aaron, October, 1712.
(Ill ) Joseph, son of John (2) Taylor, was born December 6, 1608, at South Hadley. He was living in 1764. He married, December 21, 1727, Dorothy, daughter of William Rooker. who was prominent in Hadley. Children : Jo- sephi, born April 2, 1732; William, April 18, 1735: Twins, May 9. 1737 : Eunice, April 30, 1741 ; Amos, mentioned below : Joseph, June 0, 1744.
(IV) Amos, son of Josephi Taylor. was born in South Hadley, about 1742, died at Chester, June 7, 1832, aged ninety years. Ile settled after 1790 on East river, a little above the village of North Chester. Mas- sachusetts. "This family was among the most prominent and highly esteemed of the many estimable families who settled in town." He married -, who died at Chester, January 2, 1816, aged seventy-three. Children: Dr. Amos, settled in Warwick: Colonel William, mentioned below : John, resided at Kinney Brook neighborhood. In 1790 thie census shows that he had in his family at South Hadley three males over sixteen, one son im- der that age, and five females.
(\') Colonel William Taylor, son of Amos Taylor, was born about 1770. He was colonel of militia. He succeeded to the liomestead at Chester and was a prominent and influential citizen. He married ( first) Lucy Stevens, April 6, 1797, daughter of John Stevens : ( sec- ond) November 24, 1813, Nancy, widow of Dr. Abram Holland. Children of first wife, born at Chester: Otis, January 21. 1798; Washington, May 7. 1800; William, December 2, 1801: Sally, November 13. 1803; Eliza. December 26, 1805; Sally, May 21, 1809; Hannah Stevens, March 10, 1811; Hannah
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Stevens, February 8, 1812; Lucy Stevens, twin of Hannah Stevens. Children of second wife: Nancy, July 26, 1815; William E., mentioned below; Charles C., September 23, 1820; Amos S., January 7, 1826.
(VI) William E., son of Colonel William Taylor, was born in Chester, April 22, 1818. He received his education in Hampden county public schools during the winter terms of three months, and worked on the farm the remainder of the time. In the fall of 1832 a brother-in-law took him as errand boy and later as clerk in his general merchandise store. Besides the store he ran a large manufactur- ing plant, a cotton mill, and other industries, and there William E. spent three years until the spring of 1835, when he went to New York City. He remained there during the years 1835-36, and then spent another year in the store at Chester. In 1837, the time of the great financial panic, his brother sent him out on the road with goods and a team, as he felt lie could not afford to hire help in the store. He was so successful in his sales that he keep it up for seven years, travelling through western and southern New York. In 1845 he bought a cotton factory in Adams, Massachusetts, in which the experience of his brother-in-law, Thomas F. Plunkett, was of great assistance, and he conducted this large factory until the spring of 1852. In Septem- ber, 1852, he moved to Binghamton, New York, and started a grocery and provision store on the corner of Court and Washington streets, in partnership with Edwin Jackson under the firm name of Taylor & Jackson, and shortly after started the wholesale grocery business and they were the pioneer merchants in this business in Binghamton. Later this partnership was dissolved and he went in part- nership with D. S. Ayers, W. S. Weed and N. M. Stowers under the name of Taylor, Weed & Company. In 1860 as a side issue he engaged in the woolen cloth business and continued in this until 1867 when he disposed of same to Hallock & Cary. He was a strict and successful man in business, and a worthy and helpful citizen. He was vice-president of the City National Bank for twenty years, and one of the first board of directors, on which he remained until his connection with the bank ceased. He was one of the first directors of the Susquehanna Valley Bank, and from the organization of the Binghamton Trust Company he had been on the executive
committee and a director. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows from 1841, and a charter member of the Im- proved Order of Red Men. He and his fam- ily were members of the First Presbyterian Church.
He married, May 15, 1846, Eliza M. Story, of Cooperstown, New York, daughter of Jedediah Story (see Story VI). From 1854 they resided on Court street. They had two children: 1. Mary Eliza, married Albert E. Smith (see Story VI). 2. Hattie Story, mar- ried Robert S. Phelps, of Binghamton, N. Y.
(The Story Line).
(I) William Story, immigrant ancestor of the Ipswich family, was born in England, in 1614, of an ancient family. He was a car- penter by trade, and when he passed the ex- amination to go to New England, April 8, 1637, was in the employ of Samuel Dix, a carpenter and joiner, coming from Norwich, England. Story settled at Ipswich, of which he was a proprietor as early as 1642. Andrew Story, father or brother, was a proprietor in Ipswich in 1635, served in the Pequot war, and had a grant of land from the town in 1639.
William Story was a commoner; he sub- scribed to the Major Denison fund in 1648; had a share and a half in Plum Island in 1664; was a voter in Ipswich in 1679, when he is called "senior." He sold land in Ips- wich, February 12, 1643, and bought land, January I. 1655, of William Symonds and John West, adjoining a tract he had previously bought of Robert Kinsman, seven acres of which was originally granted to Jolin Wedge- wood. Story was surveyor of highways in 1663. He owned land in the Chebacco dis- trict, November 10, 1652. He was given per- mission to set up a mill on the Chebacco river in 1671. He signed the loyalist petition in 1668, and also the Proctor petition. His wife Sarah deposed in 1668 that she was forty years old, fixing her birth year as 1628. Chil- dren: William, married, October 25, 1671, Susannah Fuller : Mary; Samuel, mentioned below; Hannah, born August 19, 1662; Seth, 1646, soldier in King Philip's war; perhaps others.
(II) Samuel, son of William Story, was born at Ipswich, about 1660. He married Elizabeth He removed to Norwich, Connecticut, about 1722, and his inventory, dated 1726, includes a wood lot in Ipswich.
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He left five sons living. His son Ephraim was deceased. Children, born at Ipswich : Ann, March 21. 1691, married Proc- tor ; Ephraim, October 22, 1692; John, men- tioned below ; Solomon, March 13, 1696; Ste- phen, October 7, 1097 ; Elizabeth Nidden ( ?) ; Mary Andrews; Dorothy Day; Hannah Knowlton : Margaret Choate ; Samuel.
(III) John, son of Samuel Story, was born at Ipswich. June 19, 1694. In 1737 he and his brother Samuel were among the largest tax payers of Norwich.
(IV) The family lived in Norwich, Preston and vicinity. Jonathan Story was among the Separatists in Long Society in 1752. Ezekiel sold a house for a parsonage in 1773. Solo- mon Story, married, July 30, 1752, at Preston, Dorcas Brown. Amos Story married, Septem- ber 17, 1755. Hannah Reynolds. Solomon Story married, July 29, 1773, Dorothy Rude. The census of 1790 does not give the families by towns, but in New London county, mostly in Preston, there were the following heads of families : Ephraim (2), Henry, James, Will- iam, Solomon, Mehitable, Jonathan, Ebenezer. (\') Jedediah, descendant of William Story (I), was born in New London county, Con- necticut, March 12, 1777, died May. 27, 1823. He came from Connecticut before 1812, and settled at Cherry Valley, New York, and after- ward in Cooperstown, New York. By trade he was a hatter, in Norwich, Connecticut. He married, September 14, 1800, Eunice Leach (see Leach IV), born July 1, 1777, died Janu- ary 9, 1845. Children: George, born Novem- ber 19, 1803, died November 28, 1877; Mary, November 27, 1806, married George Brad- ford : Jedediah, September 7, 1810, died May 27, 1823; Henry, September 8, 1811, died Oc- tober 13, 1831 : Fanny, February 14, 1816, died May 25, 1883, married ( first ) Judge Ab- bott, (second) Henry Hall; Joshua Hunting- ton, August 4, 1818, died March 4, 1871; Eliza M., mentioned below.
(VI) Eliza MI., daughter of Jedediah Story, was born May 27, 1820. She married, in 1846. William E. Taylor (see Taylor VI). Children : I. Mary Eliza, married Albert E. Smith, son of Judson and Cynthia (Hammond) Smith : children: Elizabeth T. Smith; Frederick William Smith, married, 1909, Elsie Cluer, re- sides in New York City : Story Herbert Smith, died in 1878; Frank Albert Smith. 2. Hattie Story, married Robert S. Phelps, of Bingham- ton, New York.
(The Leach Line).
(I) Thomas Leach, immigrant, was born probably in England, in 1652, died in 1732. He settled in Norwich, Connecticut. He mar- ried ( first) Abigail Haughton, who died be- fore 1693; (second) Mary Minor, born about 1665, daughter of Clement and Frances ( Wil- ley) Minor ; (third) in 1706, Mercy Crocker, widow of John Crocker. By the first wife he had Sarah, born July 7, 1684, and by the sec- ond and third wives ten more children.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Leach, married. in 1712-13, Mary Munsell, of New London, and she married (second) Lieutenant Jeremiah Chapman.
(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Leach, was born at Norwich, in 1715, died in 1793. He married, in 1739, Sarah, born 1720, died 1768, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah (Bingham) Reynolds. Children, born at Norwich: Elijah, 1744 ; Lois, 1746; Jeremiah, mentioned below; Sarah, born and died in 1752: Jedediah, born 1754: Joseph, 1760; Sa- ralı, 1763.
(IV) Jeremiah, son of Thomas (3) Leach, was born at Norwich, in 1749. He lived at Norwich and New London. He married Eu- nice Hughes. Children : Philip, baptized in 1775 ; Eunice, born July 1, 1777, married, Sep- tember 14, 1800, Jedediah Story (see Story \') ; Jeremiah, married Beyset Gelding, of Mansfield, Connecticut.
James Peters, the first of the PETERS line here under consideration of whom we have definite informa- tion, was a farmer in Lafayette, New Jersey. He married Mary Betts, who died October 23, 1853. Children: Kate, Betsey, Jane, Cath- erine, William, Lucy, Jeremiah, Henry, Lewis, Caroline.
(II ) Henry, son of James Peters, was born in Lafayette, New Jersey, where he followed farming all his active life, and died at the age of fifty years. He married Eliza Miller. Chil- dren: Laura, Leander, Angie, Charles H.
(III) Charles H., son of Henry Peters, was born at Lafayette, New Jersey, July 5, 1858. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town. He became a milk messenger on the Morris & Essex railroad and filled this position for three years. He went west and remained a year, and from 1887 to 1890 was milk messenger on the Lehigh & Hudson railroad. He resigned to accept the
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position of general route agent on the Lacka- wanna & Western railroad and its branches. While filling this office he went to Chenango Forks, and on March 10, 1898, shipped the first three cans of milk ever sent to New York City from points north of Binghamton, New York. He was associated with R. E. Wes- cott, who had a contract with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad to handle the milk. Mr. Peters was the pioneer in estab- lishing the "long haul" in milk shipping on that railroad. He made his home in Chenango Forks until 1907 when he removed to Bing- hamton. He held his position with the rail- road company until 1899, when he engaged in the milling business and has continued in it to the present time. In addition he has for a number of years conducted an extensive re- tail coal business in Binghamton. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He is a member of all the Masonic bodies to the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. He is also a mem- ber of the Binghamton Club and the Knockers Club.
Mr. Peters married, July 17, 1907, Isabella Elizabeth, born at Towanda, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1876, daughter of Dr. Skiles MIc- Keehan Woodburn ( see Woodburn IV). Mr. and Mrs. Peters have one child, Margaret Eliza, born December 7, 1909.
(The Woodburn Line).
Woodburn is an ancient surname of Eng- land and Scotland, derived from the name of a locality. During the persecution of the Scotch Presbyterians by the English in 1685. John Furgushall and George Woodburn were shot to death by Nisbet and his party. On their gravestone in Finnick, Scotland, is writ- ten: "When bloody prelates, once this na- tion's pest, contrived that curs'd self-contra- dictory test, these men for Christ did suffer martyrdom. And here their blood lies waiting till he comes." A branch of the Woodburn family went from Scotland to Ulster, north of Ireland. The New England Woodburns are probably all descended from John Wood- burn, who was born in Scotland or Ireland about 1700 and came with the Scotch-Irish to Londonderry, New Hampshire, a few years after the settlement of 1718. With him came a brother David.
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