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(I\') Peleg, second son of James (2) Dex- ter, was born about 1714. In his will his father left him a hundred pounds sterling which he employed in a retail business. He lived during the earlier portion of his life in Providence, but did not take much part in public business. He lived to a ripe old age, dying only a year or two before the first of his great-grandchildren were born, in the
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Wear 1792. He married, but there is no record of the name of his wife or of the date of their marriage. He had a son, Gideon.
(\') Gideon, son of Peleg Dexter, was born about the year 1742. He lived for a great number of years at the house of his father, helping him in his business, and the father in his okt age lived in the house of his son. Gid- con married and had six children: William, Edward, Smith, Mercy, Freelove, Joanna.
(V1) William, eldest son of Gideon Dexter, was born about 1769. He was a beneficiary in the will of his grandfather, shortly after whose death he married. His children were: General Smith, born in 1797; Anthony, Steven, Chaun- eey, James, Daniel, mentioned below : Abigail and Charlotte. He lived in Herkimer county, New York.
(VII) General Daniel Dexter, son of Will- iam Dexter, was born February 13, 1806. He was a very successful farmer and was of un- usual intellectual power. He married Ange- line, daughter of William Briggs, of the town of Independence. Allegany county, New York, lived in that town a great many years, but died at Elmira in 1891. His children were: Seymour, of whom below ; Wallis, died at an early age ; Theodosia, died unmarried ; Lenora, married John Barney and lived at Independ- enee, Allegany county, New York.
(VIII) Seymour, eldest son of General Daniel Dexter, was born March 20, 1841, at Independence, Allegany county, New York. He attended the district schools until he was fourteen and then began to study in Alfred Academy in his native county. This was in 1855 and he continued to study there during the three winter terms that followed until he was able to enter Alfred University. He was a student in that institution until the spring of 1861, when on April 26, directly after the firing on Fort Sumter, his patriotism over- came his immediate desire for education and he enlisted at Elmira, New York, as a private in Company K of the Twenty-third Regiment, New York Volunteers. It was a two years' regiment and Mr. Dexter served his time with credit. returning to the university at the close of his term for his last year of study. He graduated in 1864 from a classical course, well equipped for his future career in the study of the law. He was then twenty-three. In 1864 he went to Elmira and entered the law office of James L. Woods, where he pursued his studies until May, 1866, when he was ad-
mitted to practice at the general term in Bing- hamton. The year that followed he spent in the office of George M. Diven as a managing elerk, at the end of which period he formed a partnership with Robert T. Turner, a promin- ent attorney in Elmira. E. C. Van Duzer was subsequently admitted to the firm. The part- nership was congenial and the firm soon com- manded a large practice.
In the spring of 1872 Judge Dexter was ap- pointed eity attorney for Elmira and success- fully discharged the duties of the office for the year. In the fall he was nominated for the assembly and was elected, being the only Republican member elected in the county from 1866 to 1883. He declined a unanimous ten- der of a second nomination. He had long ere this acquired a professional standing among the ablest lawyers in that part of the state and gained the confidence of the people of the county. This led to his nomination in 1877 for the office of county judge on the Re- publican ticket and his subsequent election. The partnership of Turner, Dexter & Van Duzer was thereupon dissolved, January 1, 1878. The term of county judge was six years, at the elose of which period Judge Dex- ter was elected and held office until August, 1889, when he resigned to accept the presi- dency and active management of the Second National Bank. A banquet was tendered to him by the bar of the county, October II, 1889, when resolutions embodying the high esteem of his professional brethren were adopted. In 1875 he organized the Chemung Valley Building and Loan Association in El- mira, of which he was elected president. In 1889 he published, through the publishing firm of D. Appleton & Company, a book on co-operative savings and loan associations, which had a sale through the United States and has had a great influence on the spread of co-operative associations. On the forma- tion of the New York State League of Co- operative Savings and Building Loan Associa- tions in 1889 Judge Dexter was made one of the vice-presidents, and in 1890 was elected president and re-elected in 1891. For three years he delivered lectures on these subjects before the advanced classes of the Elmira Re- formatory. He was a member of the Ameri- can Economie Association and read a paper before that body on the "Economic Value of Building and Loan Associations." He was a member of the American Social Science Asso-
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ciation and has read several papers before it, one of which was on "Compulsory Arbitra- tion." The degree of Ph. B. was conferred on him some years since. He was a member of the Park Church from the time he was a law student, actively working in its Sunday school. Judge Dexter was an charter member of Baldwin Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and had been a judge advocate of the state department.
Seymour Dexter died in Elmira, May, 1904, and was up to the time of his death president of the Second National Bank at Elmira and president of the National Building Associa- tion. He married, June 17, 1868, Eleanor E. Weaver, who graduated from the same institu- tion in the same class with her husband. Sbe is a daughter of Ebenezer Weaver, born May 13, 1812, at Kinderhook, New York, died at Leonardsville, Madison county, New York. Her mother was Helen Emma (Maxson) Weaver, born February 20, 1813, at Westerly, Rhode Island, daughter of William Bliss and Lucinda (La Ray) Maxson. William Bliss Maxson was a sea captain as a young man, but studied for the ministery and was a Seventh Day Baptist minister, as was his father. The first Maxson came over in 1638. Children of Seymour Dexter : Helen Maxson, born 1870, died 1872 ; Daniel Weaver, born 1872, married Nelle Johnson, lives in White Salmon, Wash- ington : Mary Seymour, born 1874, died 1884; Adelaide Ladley, born 1877 ; Luin Edgar. born 1879, married Bessie Russell, lives in Penn Yan, New York ; Emily Lenora, born in 1882, married William W. Mussina, lives at Will- iamsport, Pennsylvania.
NICHOLS According to tradition this Nichols family is of German origin, the progenitor coming early to the German settlement in Mohawk Valley. This surname is derived from the personal Nicholas, which in its German form is as common as is Nicholas in England and other countries. Several branches of the Nich- ols family are found in New York before the revolution, and the name was common in many sections. Some were from the Fairfield cotin- ty, Connecticut, Nichols family. Members of the family of this sketch we find in Herki- mer, then in Montgomery county. According to the first federal census, in 1790, there was Thomas Nichols, who had in his family two males over sixteen, one under that age and
three females, and also William Nichols, who had two sons under sixteen and three females in his family.
(I) Daniel Nichols, son of one of these Herkimer men, located at Paine Hollow, a village in the town of German Flats, in the Mohawk Valley, near Herkimer. He was a blacksmith and followed his trade there throughout his life. His wife Maria was of Scotch-Irish family. Children: Daniel, Alvy, George, David, Maria, Vashti. Libbie. Daniel Jr. was also a blacksmith and a prominent citi- zen of Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, a man of great strength and in his younger days a noted wrestler, died in early manhood, aged twenty-four, from a ruptured blood ves- sel ; his brother Alvy was killed in the service in the civil war : George died in 1908; David is mentioned below.
(II) David, son of Daniel Nichols, was born in Warren, New York, October 27, 1845, died October 9, 1910. He was educated in the public schools, and followed the trade of black- smith in his native town. He married, June 18, 1874, Elizabeth, born April 14, 1853. daughter of John Crobe, of Jordanville, Her- kimer county, New York. Children: I. Net- tie, librarian at Jordanville. 2. Harriet, born November 14, 1877; married Marcus Grant, of Columbia, son of Marcus Grant, and they have two children, Elizabeth and Marcus Grant the 5th. 3. Emma, born April 30, 1880; married Benjamin Jones, son of William H. Jones, of revolutionary stock, and they have one daughter. Edna Jones. 4. Alvah Edgar, mentioned below. 5. Edna, born 1884. died February, 1903. 6. Ross, January 13, 1887; a baritone singer, now with the Remington Typewriter Company. 7. Bessie, January 3, 1890; graduate of Schnevius Training School of New York, and now teaching at Orndorf Corners, New York. 8. Anita, born July 10, 1893, student at Richfield Springs.
(III) Alvah Edgar, son of David Nichols, was born July 3, 1882, in Jordanville, Herki- mer county. New York. He attended the pub- lic schools of his native town, and the Rich- field Springs high school, graduating in 1903. He won a scholarship to Syracuse University, but did not attend. He began his business career at Cooperstown, New York, where he opened a life insurance agency, continuing for a year, and at the same time took up the study of music. While a resident of Cooperstown he conducted the choir of the First Presbyte-
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rian Church ; in 1904 he was offered the direc- torship of the South Third Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, New York, of which Dr. Newell W. Wells is pastor, and he served in that capacity seven years, and is now ( 1912) located in the First Baptist Church of Brook- lyn. lle is also a soloist in Beth Israel Tem- ple, at Seventy-seventh street and Lexington avenue, New York City, and is also a teacher of vocal music.
The following from the Brooklyn Eagle of January 19, 1911, reviewing a concert given at the Academy of Music, speaks for itself :
A basso sure to find himself some day among the renowned is Alvah E. Nichols, of Brooklyn. His voice is exceptionally brilliant and powerful, yet pos- sessing a quality of unusual beauty and tenderness. The critics refer to his bass voice as one with bari- tone quality in the upper register, which really and merely indicates he has been trained to carry his voice high and sustain the tone without forcing. it is singular that the critics should speak of this dual bass-baritone quality in Mr. Nichols' voice, just as they did of Julian Walker's voice under whose care Mr. Nichots has placed himself for the development of his art.
The Eagle further says in speaking of Mr. Nichols' solo work in the "Oratorio." "The Nativity":
The artistic triumph of the Oratorio, however, was the singing of Mr. Nichols, whose rich bass voice, with a really baritone quality in the upper register, was effectively and artistically used. His solo, "What Star Is This?" was a splendid effort, and deserved the hearty applause which followed.
He is an Episcopalian in religion. He is a member of the Apollo Club of Brooklyn. one of the leading singing societies in the United States.
He married, April 5, 1910, at Patchogue, Long Island, Pauline MacBride, of Westtown, Orange county, New York, born July 13, 1880, daughter of Nelson and Minnie ( McMahon ) MacBride, who were married in 1879: Mr. MacBride was born November 30, 1858. and his wife was born in 1862. They had one other daughter, Edith, born 1884. Mr. Mac- Bride is a druggist of Patchogue, Long Is- land, who has been in business at the same stand for thirty years. Mrs. Nichols is at present the contralto soloist of the Emanuel Baptist Church of Brooklyn, New York.
This name is of Swedish or- LUNDBERG igin and has been identified with the history of Bing- hamton, and later with the city of New York,
where its representatives are now engaged in active life.
(1) The first of the name of whom any knowledge is obtainable in this country was John Carlson Lundberg, born in Gustafors, Zermland, Sweden. Ilis wife was Mary Jo- sephine -, parentage unknown. He was an iron and steel worker, residing all his life in Zermland, working the iron ore for which Sweden is famous. Children : 1. Andrew,
now seventy-six years of age ; resides in Zerm- land ( 1912). 2. Marie, wife of John Ekholm ; residing in Duluth, Minnesota. 3. James, re- sides in Zermland. 4. August, resident of Du- luth: 5. Olaf, resident of Duluth. 6. Charles John, mentioned below. Two others are de- ceased.
( II ) Charles John, son of John Carlson and Mary Josephine Lundberg, was born June 30, 1842, in Gustafors. He became a custom tailor. Prior to his coming to America he travelled as a journeyman in nearly all the countries of Europe, working at his trade in Paris, Berlin, London, Hamburg, St. Peters- burg and other large cities, and acquired the use of several European languages. In 1869 he came to this country and in 1876 settled in Binghamton, New York, where he prose- cuted his trade until his death, June 27, 1993. He was a Lutheran in religion ; a supporter of the Republican party in public affairs. He married, November 20. 1872, in the city of New York. Mary Chandler, born April 18, 1843. Her ancestors resided for many genera- tions near Cheshunt, county of Hertford, Eng- land. She was related to George llyde, of White Webbs Lane, Enfield, Middlesex. Her mother, Martha ( Selby ) Chandler, died Feb- ruary 12, 1853, and was buried in the ceme- tery attached to Cheshunt Church, as were also her parents, whose home was described as (ioff's Lane near Goff's Oak. Hertfordshire. Children : 1. Lillian Alice, born September 7. 1873. in New York City, died in infancy. 2. Charles, mentioned below. 3. Eva Mary, June 4, 1876. in New York City. 4. August John, mentioned below. 5. Mand Elsie, July 8, 1880, in Binghamton. Mary ( Chandler) Lundberg, mother of these children, died Jan- uary 19, 1890.
(III ) Charles, eldest son of Charles John and Mary (Chandler) Lundberg, was born October 24, 1874, in New York City. Ile was reared in Binghamton, where he passed through the public schools, including a scien-
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tific course in the high school. He served full time as machinist apprentice with Julius Schultz, of Binghamton, after which he worked as a journeyman in various shops in New Jersey and New York. Subsequently he was employed by the Binghamton Sunday Message, a weekly newspaper. In Septem- ber. 1896, he became a reporter on the New York Morning Advertiser, and when that paper went out of existence the following year he entered the service of the New York City News Association as a reporter. In this con- nection he covered practically all the channels of news in New York City for the association, a co-operative institution maintained by all ex- cept one of the city newspapers. He was em- ployed as "re-write" man and editor and in February, 1907, was appointed night manager of the New York City News Association, which position he resigned in November, 1911, to accept an editorial position with The Iron Age, of New York City. In national politics he supports Republican principles and policies. He is a member of Knickerbocker Lodge, No. 642, Free and Accepted Masons, of New York City, the New York Press Club, Advertising Men's League of New York City, and The Broome County Association in the City of New York. The organization of the last named body was his conception, and he served two terms as its secretary and one as a vice- president. Like his ancestors he adheres to the Lutheran church.
He married, February 15. 1906, at 21 West Eighth street, New York, Adelaide Jolinson. born July 23. 1874. in that city, daughter of William Henry and Julia (McDonough ) John- son. William Henry Johnson was a manager of social affairs for New York's "Four Hun- dred." a man notable in his time and line. He served as a soldier of the civil war, going to the front with the Tenth New York Volun- teers, National Zouaves, and was injured in the second battle of Bull Run. After con- valescence in Bellevue Hospital, New York. he re-enlisted in the same regiment and was appointed a second lieutenant by Governor Morgan, serving until the close of the war. His children were: Frank Henry, deceased; Mary, deceased: Harriet. Evangeline, Adel- aide, Florence, Mabel and Grace. Child of Charles Lundberg and wife: Charles Frank, born June 12, 1907.
(III) August John, second son of Charles John and Mary (Chandler) Lundberg. was
born July 15, 1878, in Binghamton. He was educated in the public schools of his home city. He acquired the trade of tailor under his father's instructions, and in 1905 came to New York City, where he has ever since been en- gaged in that occupation, engaging in business under his own name in 1912. He married, August 10, 1901, Inez, daughter of Carlos Cortesy and granddaughter of Dr. Gandolfo, who came from Merida, Yucatan, to Bingham- ton, New York, in 1810.
PRICE The Price family is represented by several immigrants in the early history of New England. David Price was made a freeman at Dorchester, Massachusetts. December 7, 1636. Walter Price, a merchant, came from Bristol, Eng- land, and was in Salem, Massachusetts, as early as 1641. Matthew Price was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1654, and William Price at Watertown, same colony, in 1657. Richard Price was a resident of Boston in 1658. There were numerous later immi- grants, some of whom were of Welsh origin; most of these are found in Pennsylvania. The Welsh name is said to have originated from the custom in that country of prefixing the syllable "Ap" to a name, signifying "son of," thus we have Ap-rice, which was readily short- ened into Price. It has been impossible to connect the family herein described with any of these immigrants, owing to the defective state of the vital records in western Massa- chusetts and northwestern Connecticut.
(I) Daniel Price was a soldier of the revo- lution, serving as a corporal in Captain Ros- well Downing's company, of Lieutenant-Col- onel Miles Powell's ( Berkshire county) regi- ment of Massachusetts troops. He enlisted July 19, 1779. and was discharged August 23 of the same year. His service was at New Haven and his compensation included four and a half days (ninety miles) travel home. The family tradition places his residence in Litchfield county, Connecticut. He may have lived over the border in Massachusetts. No record can be found concerning his wife or children excepting the fact that he had a son Daniel.
(II) Daniel (2), born February 3. 1777. son of Daniel (1) Price, is said to have come from Litchfield county. Connecticut. He set- tled on a large tract of land about four miles from the Susquehanna river in the town of
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Vestal, Broome county, New York, in 1785, being one of the seven original settlers at Vestal Center. This is a hamlet in the center of the township of that name, which was set off from the town of Union in 1823. Ile cleared up lands and engaged quite extensive- ly in lumbering.
( III ) William, son of Daniel (2) and De- borah (Cafferty ) Price, was born Septem- ber 9, 1807, in Vestal, and moved in 1859 to Loda, Illinois, where he died May 9, 1890. During his residence in Vestal he was a lum- berman and farmer. He married. December 19. 1830, in Vestal, Jane Grey Dunbar, daugh- ter of John and Harriet (Crocker) Dunbar of that town ( see Dunbar VI). She was born January 29, 1813, in New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, and died February 21, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York. Children: 1. Josiah Hawley, died in 1864, at La Porte, Indiana. 2. Joseph Castle, died in 1894, at Watseka, Illinois. 3. Harriet Minette, became the wife of Henry Weaver, of Loda, Illinois. 4. George Allan, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin Frank- lin. 6. John Daniel, died February 12, 1909. 7. William Horace, died in 1880, at Loda, Illi- nois. 8. Frederik Martin, died in 1879, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
(IV) George Allan, third son of William and Jane G. (Dunbar) Price, was born No- vember 4, 1839, at Vestal, and was educated in the public schools of that vicinity. In his thirteenth year he went to New York City, arriving there May 5, 1852, and there learned the hatter's trade. He became a soldier in the civil war, joining the Seventh Regiment of New York Militia in March, 1861, and with the regiment went to Washington in April, 1861. This enlistment was for a short term, and in November of that year he joined the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, with which he cam- paigned through Missouri and Arkansas, and in September, 1862, was discharged for dis- ability. He returned to New York in 1863, and on February 1 of the following year be- came a member of the firm of Biglow & Com- pany, hatters and furriers, of Brooklyn. In 1869 the firm name was changed to Balch, Price & Company, and he has continued in that firm until the present time, transacting a large and profitable business. There are prob- ably few men in Greater New York who have continued so long a time in the same firm. Mr. Price was appointed a civil service com- missioner by the mayor of Brooklyn in 1896,
and was elected a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1904. He is a member of Grant Post, No. 327, Grand Army of the Republic, of Brooklyn, of which he was com- mander in 1889. He is now a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, and of the following clubs: Montauk, Crescent Ath- letic, Oxford and Congregational. He is also a member of the following associations : Brooklyn League, New England Society of Brooklyn, Seventh Regiment War Veterans, Ninth Illinois Cavalry Veterans, and of the Veterans of the Fifth Company, Seventh Reg- iment.
He married, at Binghamton, New York, February 15, 1865, Adelaide A. Wentz, born November 21, 1843, in Binghamton, daughter of William and Beulah Williams Wentz. Chil- dren: 1. Henry Allan, born July 4, 1868, in Brooklyn ; married, May 2, 1895, Emily Mur- ray Hood; they have a son, Allan Murray, born May 11, 1896, in Brooklyn. 2. Frank Julian, born February 3, 1870, in Brooklyn.
(The Dunbar Line).
The name Dunbar is found very early in the history of New England, and especially in Plymouth colony, and from one ancestor have sprung nearly all who bear the name in America. The name is of Scotch origin, and those who bear it are of a sturdy, industrious race.
(I) Robert Dunbar came to America from Dunbar, Scotland, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, about 1650, bringing his wife Rose with him. She died November 10, 1700, surviving him for several years. He died Sep- tember 19, 1693. In his will, dated September 13, 1693, at Hingham, he gives "to wife Rose a living in my dwelling house, and the use of all the land which I give to my sons Joseph and James, the whole term of her keeping the name of Dunbar, and in case of John, Joseph and Peter, the home land"; to son Joshua. "the rest of my land as far as the river" ; be- queathes to James Dunbar, "the son of my son James deceased." ten pounds. He further gives to Joseph "enough apples annually from the trees in my orchard to make two barrels of cyder." To his three daughters, "Mary Dunbar, Sarah Dunbar and Hannah Dunbar, all my land on the other side of the river, share and share alike, and all my indoor mov- ables after my wife's decease." Ifis chiklren, all born in Hingham, were: John, Mary. Jo-
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sephi, James, Robert ( die'l young). Peter, Joshua, Robert ( died young ), Saran, Hannah and Benjamin.
( H) James, third son of Robert and Rose Dunbar, was born June 5. 1664. in Hingham, Massachusetts, and died in West Bridgewater. Massachusetts, in 1699. His widow married ( second ) Peletiah Smith. He was an early settler of West Bridgewater. He was mar- ried to Jane, daughter of Isaac and Mercy ( La- tham) Harris; Mercy Latham was born in 1650, and was daughter of Robert and Susan- nah ( Winslow ) Latham. Susannah Winslow was a daughter of John and Mary ( Chilton ) Winslow. Mary Chilton was the first Eng- lish woman to land on Plymouth Rock from the "Mayflower." John Winslow was brother of Governor Edward Winslow. Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar were the parents of the following children : Robert. James (died young). Elisha, Samuel, James, Captain Josiah and Jesse.
( III) Elisha, third son of James and Jane ( Harris) Dunbar. was born in 1699, in West Bridgewater, and settled in North Bridge- water, where he died in 1773. He married, in 1727, Mercy, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- beth Hayward, born 1702. Their children were: Abigail, Jacob, Lemuel, Elisha, Seth, Nathaniel, Peter and Silas.
( H\') Peter, sixth son of Elisha and Mercy ( Hayward ) Dunbar. was born 1741, in Bridgewater, and settled in Easton, Massa- chusetts. He was lieutenant in the revolu- tionary war, and died in 1817. He married. in 1764. Relief, daughter of Captain Theophi- lus Curtis, of Stoughton, Massachusetts. Chil- dren : Betsey, Abigail, Moses Curtis, Relief, Peter, Sybil. Moses, Samuel, Simeon, David, Jonathan, Asaph and Amasa.
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