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(VIII) John Jewett, senior son of Enos and Anna ( Parmelee) Johnson, was born Oc- tober 12, 1814, in Easthampton Parish, Chat- ham, Connecticut. He received a common school education in his native town. He re- moved to Burlington, Otsego county. New York, in early manhood. and later settled in the town of North Pitcher. Chenango county. New York, where he was a farmer, and died January 21, 1878. After the organization of the Republican party he was among its stanch supporters. He married, January 28, 1841, at North Smithfield. Bradford county, Pennsyl- vania, Jane L. Pierce, born July 19. 1818, in
that town, died February 9. 1883, in Norwich, New York, daughter of Abiram Pierce and his wife, Sarah Satterlee, who resided on a farm in North Smithfield, and had children : Christopher, William S., Stephen. Mary, Jane L., Amos and Emma. The second daughter, Jane L., became the wife of John J. Johnson, as above noted. Children : Julius, born Au- gust 1. 1842, lived in North Pitcher.' and died December 26, 1888: he married Henrietta Morley, and had children : Enos. Anna. John Jewett. Morley. 2. Mary. August 24. 1844, became the wife of Hon. George W. Ray, of Norwich ( see Ray Vlll). 3. Abiram Pierce, died in his twentieth year.
( The Hakes Line ).
This name in England was orginally Hake, and was derived from the name of a fish, prob- ably assumed as a surname by some fisher- man or one largely interested in sea fisheries. The hake is a species of cod, and is especially numerous in the waters washing the coast of Devonshire. There are several coats-of-arms registered in the name of Hake and Hakes, and in nearly every instance the principal fea- ture is three fish standing vertical. Arms are recorded in 1586, 1618. 1664 and 1785. In early New England annals this name is fre- quently confounded with Hawks and with the German Hach or Hake. The numerous family of Hoxey in Rhode Island is descended from one named Hakese, a German name.
( I) Solomon Hakes was born as early as 1686. probably in county Devon. England, and appears first in American records in April, 1709, at Westerly. Rhode Island, where he was propounded for freeman at a town meet- ing of that date. In May of the following year the committee made a favorable report, and he was admitted as a freeman of the town, and granted one hundred acres of land the same as other freemen. He removed to Stonington, Connecticut, at the beginning of the year 1710. and at a meeting in January of that year his earmark for stock was regis- tered. This was continued to his sons and grandsons in succession. He purchased con- siderable land, was a prominent citizen of the section, frequently appointed by the courts to positions of trust, and was alive in 1750, the last date at which he appeared. He and his wife were buried in a cemetery at a place called Milltown, one mile northwest of the village of North Stonington. He married,
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January 16, 1718, Anna, eldest child of Ebe- nezer and Anna ( Comstock) Billings, born October, 1681. Children : George, Mary, Jonathan, Solomon.
( Il) George, eldest child of Solomon and Anna ( Billings) Hakes, was born about 1719 in Stonington, where he was a farmer, and died about 1790-93. He married ( first ), May 15. 1739. Joanna Jones, of Stonington, who died before 1779. He married (second ), (c- tober 10. 1779, Sarah Coy, a widow of Pres- ton. Connecticut. Children: Richard, men- tioned below ; Solomon, born January 20, 1743: Hannah, February 4, 1745; Olive, De- cember 12, 1749; George S., January 27. 1751 ; James, March 25, 1752.
(III) Richard, eldest child of George and Joanna ( Jones) Hakes, was born April 8. J741, in Stonington, died July 5. 1815, in the town of Pitcher, Chenango county, New York. He was a farmer, and a soldier of the revolu- tion, serving as an emergency man at the battle of New London. lle was in lustrious and accumulated considerable means during the revolutionary war. intending to invest largely in Central New York lands, but the great depreciation of continental currency thwarted his plans, and he remained in Ston- ington until about 1800. Removing at this time to Pitcher, he bought a large tract of land which his sons aided in improving. He was buried in the Hinman cemetery in Pitch- er, and the following lines appear upon his tombstone :
Life is uncertain : death is sure. Sin is a wound ; Christ is a circ.
He married, August 11, 1763, in Stoning- ton, Mary Babcock, whose parentage cannot be discovered. There was a considerable branch of the Babcock family in Stonington, but her birth and parentage are not of record. Children : Mary, married Ichabod Geer : Eu- nice, lived and died in Connecticut ; Richard, a sea captain, died of yellow fever at Charles- ton, South Carolina: Jesse, died in Stoning- ton ; Amos, died 1852 in Pitcher : Solomon, clied 1867 in the same town : Ezekiel, a sailor, died at sea ; Perez, mentioned below ; Elihu, died in North Stonington, where he was a farmer ; Hannah, married Gardner T. Main, and died in Brooklyn, Connecticut.
( IV) Perez, sixth son of Richard and Mary ( Babcock) Hakes, was born in 1777, in Ston- ington, died in 1822, in Pitcher. Ile married
(first ), February, 1707, Anstes Stewart, un- doubtedly a member of the large Stewart fam- ily of Stonington, but her birth and parentage are not recorded. She lived but a few years after marriage, and Perez Hlakes married (second), July 5. 1804. Deborah, daughter of Jesse and Mollie ( Kinne) Starkweather. Chil- dren of first marriage: William, born De-
cember 25, 1798, died 1839 : Miranda, May 18, 1801, married Jesse Southard. Children of second wife: Perez, born April 11. 1800, was a farmer of Albion, New York ; Orilla, May 23. 1808, married Ephraim Brown, and died in Rochester, New York; Dennison R., men- tioned below : Mary K., January 19, 1813. be- came wife of Iloward Corbin, and resided in Plainwell. Michigan : Emily 11 .. April 16, 1815. married (first ) John 11. Oliver, (sec- ond ) Stephen B. Park, and resided in Chicago, Illinois; Susan. September 16, 1817, married John S. Baldwin, and resided in Pitcher, New York : Betsey. September 5. 1810, married ( first ) John Havens, ( second ) N. P. Hitch- cock, (third), Sanford Corbin, and died in Plainwell, Michigan.
(V) Dennison R., third son of Perez Hakes, and third child of his second wife, Deborah ( Starkweather ) Hakes, was born June 25. 1811, in Pitcher, and died August 22. 1882, on the same farm where he was born and always lived. He married, October 4, 1834, Lovinia Doran. Children: Davil M .. born December 7, 1837, was a merchant at Ana- mosa. Jowa: Catherine M., born August 31, 1840, was the wife of Burdette Blackman, of Pitcher : Lucius M .. July 7, 1843, was a farmer in Pitcher ; Elias Randall, September 9, 1845, was a farmer in Pitcher : Hascall R., June 13, 1848, was a merchant in Pitcher: Emmett, .August 14, 1850, was a farmer in that town; Frank Pierce, mentioned below.
(\']) Frank Pierce, youngest child of Den- nison R. and Lovinia (Doran ) Hakes, was born December 6, 1852, in Pitcher, where he was a merchant, and served many years as supervisor. On January 1, 1894. Frank P. Hakes and family moved to Cortland. New York, where he is engaged in real estate and insurance business. Ile is a prominent Mason and Elk : has been a member of the board of education of the city schools for twelve years, and now president of the board, which office he has held for two years. He married, Feb- ruary 8. 1871, DeEtta A. Willmarth. born February 5. 1850, daughter of James D. and
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Amanda (Stewart ) Willmarth. Children : Lena DeEtta, born February 28, 1872, and Viola E., June 29, 1875.
(VII) Lena DeEtta, senior daughter of Frank Pierce and DeEtta (Willmarth ) Hakes. became the wife of Jewett Johnson Ray, of Norwich, New York ( see Ray IX ).
BROOKS The Brooks family is one of the oldest in Massachusetts, and the ancestral home at Medford has been occupied for many generations. Governor John Brooks was born there about 1752. The family is less numerous in New York. but representatives came here in the nineteenth century. As many as ten immi- grants of this name came to Massachusetts before 1650. Thomas Brooks, of Watertown and Concord, and Joseph Brooks, of the latter town, left a numerous posterity, and are sup- posed to have been brothers of Henry Brooks, the ancestor of this line, but no documentary evidence appears to prove this.
(1) Henry Brooks was born in England. about 1600. He settled in Concord. Massa- chusetts, where he was admitted freeman, March 14, 1639, but soon afterward removed to Woburn, Massachusetts, in which town he became a prominent citizen, serving as select- man in 1649-69-71-72. His will was dated July 18, 1682, and he died April 12, 1683. The estate was left to his widow. He located in Woburn before 1649, and was a proprietor of lands near Horn Pond in that town. Janu- ary 10, 1652. He had a wife and child before coming to Woburn, and married there before March 27. 1651. Susanna. widow of Ezekiel Richardson. She was described in 1670 by an authority of that time as "An ancient and skill- ful woman, living at Woburn, famous for her attainment in medical science." Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Timothy, married, December 2. 1659. Mary Russell ; lived in Bil- lerica. 3. Isaac, married. January 10. 1665-66, Miriam Daniels : he died September 8, 1686. 4. Sarah, married, May 13. 1650, John Mou- sall. 5. Lester. 6. Joseph, born at Concord, April 12, 1641.
( II) John, eldest child of Henry Brooks, was born about 1623. in England, died in Woburn. September 29, 1691. He was probably a sol- dier of King Philip's war, in 1675-76. and in 1690, at the age of sixty-seven years, was enlisted as a member of Phipp's Expedition against Quebec. He made his will, July 29.
1690, just before he departed, and this was probated November 16 of the following year. In September, 1691, he was excused from or- dinary training because of his decrepit condi- tion, and in 1738 the town allowed a claim of his grandson for bounty due John Brooks on account of service in the colonial wars. He was one of the seven male members of the church in Woburn at its first gathering, Au- gust 14. 1642. and was one of its two original deacons until the time of his death. He was much honored in the town, serving twenty-one consecutive years as selectman, and was a commissioner for "ending small causes," equivalent to the magistrate of to-day. He married ( first), November 1. 1649. Eunice. daughter of Deacon John Mousall, a founder of Woburn, and one of the first to erect a house in that town. She died January 1, 1684. John Brooks was one of the executors, in con- nection with his brother-in-law, of the estate of John Mousall, appointed April 16, 1660. and cared for his wife's mother in her old age. The will of John Mousall made three children of John Brooks beneficiaries, and John Brooks also received land in this will, his children being residuary legatees in case Mou- sall's only son left no heirs. John Brooks married ( second ). February 25. 1684, Mrs. Mary (Champney ) Richardson, daughter of John Champney, of Cambridge, and widow of Theophilus R. Richardson, of Woburn, the latter a son of John Brooks' step-mother, the second wife of Henry Brooks. Mary ( Rich- ardson ) Brooks survived her second husband. and died August 26. 1704. in Woburn. Chil- dren of John Brooks by first wife: John, died young. Sarah, Eunice, Joanna, John, Ebenezer, Deborah, Jabez.
(111) Ebenezer, third son of John and Eu- nice (Alousall) Brooks, was born December 9. 1666, in Woburn. He was a soldier in Phipp's Expedition against Quebec, in 1600. On December 12, of that year, the selectmen allowed his wife two shillings and six pence on account of this service. His rates were "forgiven," March 2, 1696, on account of this service, and were again passed in November of the same year on account of his poverty. On November 3. 1711. Ebenezer Brooks and wife sold land in Woburn to John Buck, and probably settled in the following spring in Killingly, Connecticut, where they were re- ceived in full communion in the church, Sep- tember 2, 1716. He married. June 14, 1687,
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in Woburn, Martha Wilder. On September 2, 1716, the following children were baptized in Killingly: Ebenezer, Jabez, Eleazer, Mar- tha, Eunice. Priscilla. There were two older children, probably baptized in Woburn-Eu- nice and John.
(IV) Ebenezer (2), second son of Ebenezer (1) and Martha ( Wilder) Brooks. was born August 8, 1691, in Woburn. He removed with his parents to Killingly about the time of attaining his majority. He is probably the Ebenezer Brooks who received a deed of land in Killingly from his father and namesake, i11 1722. He signed the church covenant, No- vember 29. 1743, and is presumably the Ebe- nezer Brooks who deeded land there to his son, Ebenezer, June 19, 1733. He married, in Killingly, August 14, 1717, Sarah Childs, of Woodstock, their intention having been re- corded in Woodstock, July 27 preceding. She was probably a daughter of Benjamin (2) Childs, born in Roxbury, 1656, baptized by the apostle, Eliot, February 27, 1658, and was granted thirty acres of land in Woodstock. 1696, and soon after forty-four acres more. He married, March 7. 1683, Grace, daughter of Deacon Edward Morris, of Roxbury. He died January 24, 1724. There is a hiatus in the record of Roxbury baptisms, which show two sons of Benjamin, Ephraim and Edward. Her birth is not recorded in Roxbury, or Woodstock. Benjamin (2) was a son of Benjamin (1) Childs, who came from Eng- land, and settled in Roxbury, in 1630, a nephew of Ephraim Childs, of Watertown, and one of the thirty who contributed for the building of the church at Roxbury. He died October 14, 1678. The records of the West- field Congregational Church at Danielson, Connecticut, show that Ebenezer Brooks Jr. and Sarah, his wife, united with the church in 1718. Children of Ebenezer and Sarah Brooks, baptized at the First Church of Killingly, were as follows: Sarah, September 28, 1718; Martha, January 21, 1720: John, April 2. 1721; Ebenezer and Eliza, January 27, 1723; Elizabeth, June 27, 1725 ; Zurviah, December 29, 1728.
(\') Ebenezer (3), second son of Ebenezer (2) and Sarah (Childs) Brooks, was baptized January 27, 1723. in Killingly, where he re- sided. He was a soldier of the revolution. be- ing first a private of Captain Joseph Cady's company of minute-men, which served three days on the Lexington alarm of April 19.
1775. He enlisted May 11, of the same year, and served until November 8, in Captain Jo- seph Elliott's ( Eighth) company. Third Regi- ment, commanded by Colonel Israel Putnam. He was a member of a battalion raised in June, 1776, for recruiting Washington's army, being the third battalion of Wadsworth's bri- gade, Ebenezer Brooks serving under Captain Crosby in Colonel Sage's regiment. This or- ganization served in New York City and Long Island, and participated in the battle of White Plains. Ebenezer Brooks enlisted July 1, and served until December 13, 1780, as a recruit of the Fourth Regiment, Continental Line. He married, in. Killingly, May 4, 1757, Mary Glazier, of Brooklyn, Connecticut. In the church at North Killingly, now Putnam, the following of their children were baptized : Elizabeth, born August 28. 1758: Zelphia. March 12, 1700: Priscilla, June 13. 1762: Benjamin, May 16, 1764; Ebenezer, May 21, 1767: Samuel.
(VI) Samuel, youngest son of Ebenezer (3) and Mary (Glazier) Brooks, was born March 27, 1769, in Killingly, as shown by the records of that town ( family record, March 17). In company with John Dean, his future brother-in-law, he went to Haverhill, New Hampshire, in 1790, being then just of age. He received a deed, February 17, 1791, from John Saunders, of Newbury, Vermont. for lands in Reading, Vermont, and subsequently bought more land in the same town. He lived in Reading from 1793-94 until his death, which occurred about 1808. He was first taxed in Reading, in 1794, and thereafter up to and including 1807. The grant list for the following year is missing, but in 1809 his widow was taxed in that town. He was mar- ried in Woodstock, Sunday morning, Janu- ary 29. 1792, by Rev. Eliphalet Lyman Clark, to Eunice Dean, of Woodstock, born October 9. 1759, baptized August 10, 1766, in Rindge, New Hampshire. daughter of Rev. Seth Dean, first pastor of the Congregational church at Rindge. After Samuel Brooks' death his widow married a Crofut, of Granville, New York, and removed to the vicinity of Pitcher, New York. Children: 1. Helotia, born Feb- ruary 16. 1793, in Brooklyn, Connecticut ; married Simeon Pepper. 2. Samuel, men- tioned below. 3. Mary, May 9. 1796, in Reading : married Walliston Hawley. 4. Zil- pha, January 1. 1708, in Reading: married. June 17, 1819. David Hollister, and died in
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Chenango, near Truxton, New York, June 16, 1880. 6. Seth Dean, mentioned below.
(VII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Eunice (Dean) Brooks, was born January 3, 1795, in Reading, Vermont. He removed to New York state, where he helped to clear land in the region of Solon. He passed his life as a farmer and was a deacon in the Bap- tist church. He married Dorothy S. Leonard, also of Reading. Vermont, and their children were: Elotia. Sarah, Orville, Leander, Sam- uel, Milton, Charles Wesley, mentioned be- low. Mr. Brooks was a truly religious and upright man, and his wife was a woman of great elevation of character and beauty of life.
(VII) Seth Dean, youngest child of Samuel (1) and Eunice (Dean) Brooks, was born September 13, 1803, in Reading, Vermont, died at McGrawville, Cortland county, New York, May 25, 1877. He was reared under the watchful guidance of his mother, his father having died when he was about five years old, and acquired a limited education in the district school of his native town. During the summer months he worked on the neigh- boring farms, and before attaining his major- ity removed with his mother to Johnstown. New York, where he was apprenticed to learn the trade of combmaker. This was one of the leading industries of the Mohawk Valley at that time. Soon after reaching manhood he settled at Cincinnatus, Cortland county, New York, where for several years he engaged in the manufacture of combs on his own account and in his own shop. Owing to the employ- ment of prison contract labor in the comb in- dustry, he was obliged to abandon the business, and in the spring of 1837 removed to Mc- Grawville and began working at the carpenter trade. Later he commenced the manufacture of furniture, and maintained a wood-working shop for that purpose, and his sons, James A. and Lucius E. Brooks, became associated with him. He purchased a twenty-five acre farm for a homestead, and on this lived the re- mainder of his life. During his business ca- reer in McGrawville he contracted for the erection of many of the residences in that and adjacent towns. He also engaged in the work of remodeling the Methodist church building. of whose society he was a devoted member. He became an itinerant Methodist preacher. and was affectionately known as Elder Seth Brooks. Imbued with a spirit of religious
fervor. he became a deep reader and thinker on all religious subjects ; was a man of sterling character, and held the high esteem of all who came within the fold of his pastoral duties, in which he actively engaged until his death. Affiliated with the old-time Whigs, he was among the first to espouse the cause of the Republican party, whose principles he had long cherished. In early life he served as drummer in the Cincinnatus Military Com- panv.
He married, May 12, 1825, Cynthia Rogers Prindle, born July 19, 1802, in Ferrisburg, Vermont, died at McGrawville. April 7. 1890, daughter of Samuel (3) anl Nancy ( Dun- ning) Prindle. She was a most capable and energetic woman. a faithful helpmate to her husband, and a kind and true mother. Her American ancestor was William Prindle. a Scotchman, who settled at New Haven, Con- necticut, in 1653-54, and was a prominent land owner, and filled the office of chimney sweep in the town. His wife was Mary Desborough. Their son, Samuel ( 2) Prindle, married Dor- othy Plum, and was the father of Samuel (3) Prindle, a revolutionary soldier. who en- listed at New Milford, Connecticut, in March, 1775, for a term of nine months, and again in March of the following year for the -ame period. He served at the siege of St. John. the battle of White Plains, and other engage- ments, and was allowed a pension from March 4, 1831. to the time of his death, which oc- curred December 9. 1842, at Poultney. Ver- mont, at the age of ninety-five years. In 1777 he was engaged in the manufacture of salt at Newfield, now Bridgeport, Connecticut, and after the close of the year removed to Ferris- burg. Vermont. He married Mrs. Abigail (Mudge) Skinner, and they were the parents of Cynthia Rogers Prindle, who became the wife of Rev. Seth Dean Brooks. Children : I. James Albert, mentioned below. 2. Julia Elnora, born October 11. 1832, at Cincinnatus ; married, at McGrawville. April 10, 1863. Moses Norcott, who died February 14, 1888, son of Reuben and Elizabeth (Fuller , Nor- cott : they had children : Charles Adelbert. died in infancy, Elmer Franklin, born April 20. 1866, married, January 26, 1886, Carrie M. Carson, born January 18, 1864. in Free- town, New York, died at McGrawville. June 21. 1902, daughter of Abram and Harriet (Shuler) Carson : children : Helen Nancy, died in fifth year : Carlton Dupuy, born May
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4, 1870, in Cortland. 3. Lucius Emery, men- tioned below. 4. Mary Zilphaette, born No- vember 4, 1837, in MeGrawville; married, February 4. 1863. George J. Felt, born March 3, 1820, in Smyrna, New York, son of Horace and Susan Felt; children: i. died unnamed ; ii. Ellis David, died aged one year : iii. Cynthia Susan, born August 27, 1869, married, De- cember 24, 1885. Edwin Foreman, born June 2, 1802, in Maidstone, county Kent, England, son of Charles and Ann Susan Foreman : their children are : Frederick Duane, Adelbert, Pearl Louise, Ruth Katharine, Richard Alonzo; iv. Horace Perkins, born January 27, 1872, imarried, March 30, 1894, Anna Justina Kane, born July 30, 1877 ; their children are: Viola Eunice, Hazel Helen, Myrtle Bell, and Ethel Ramona. 5. Louise Jane, died before five months old. 6. Louesa Maria, born May 13, 1844. at MeGrawville: married, at Cincin- natus, August 16, 1862, Ilolland Wood Jr., born May 14, 1842, son of Holland and Sally ( Fish) Wood; they had two children : Edith Aminda and Eugene Bentley. The first died at the age of eleven months. The second. born February 6, 1867, married, at McGraw- ville. December 1, 1885, Flora B. Harvey, born there April 5. 1866, daughter of Edwin E. and Carrie ( Wood ) Harvey.
(VIII) James Albert, eldest child of Seth Dean and Cynthia R. ( Prindle) Brooks, was born June 8, 1830, at Cincinnatus. He early attended the district schools of that town and Fabius, New York. In 1837 he removed to Chenango settlement near Truxton, New York, and in the early part of 1838 went with his father's family to MeGrawville, where he attended the village school during the winter seasons, until twenty years of age. During vacations, and in summer, after he had at- tained suitable age, he was engaged with his father in learning the carpenter's trade. When twenty-three years old he went west and was employed as a journeyman in Cleveland, Ohio : Lockport, Illinois; Dubuque, lowa ; Winona, Minnesota ; Galena, Illinois. After two years he returned to MeGrawville for a wife, and then settled at Red Wing, Minnesota, where both engaged in teaching school, continuing for some years. Again returning to Mc- Grawville, Mr. Brooks engaged in the man- ufacture of furniture and contracting, in asso- ciation with his father, and after the deatlı of the latter he continued the same line of trade. In association with a cousin, Samuel
Brooks, he operated a saw mill, planing mill and power shop for a period of five years cast of MeGrawville. Ile continued in active business until 1905, when he retired, and now resides at Bronxville, New York, where one of his children is located. In early life Mr. Brooks was affiliated with the Methodist church, but was later an efder in the Presby- terian church at MeGrawville. While resid- ing in that place he was a member of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and Inde- pendent Order of Good Templars, and has always been an earnest Republican in matters of politics.
Ile married, at McGrawville, May 20, 1857, Sally Ophelia Palmer, born May 22, 1832, in Cortland, died November 3. 1908, at MeGraw, New York, daughter of Israel and Sophia (Haskell) Palmer ( see Haskell \'1). Chil- dren : 1. Edith Sophia, died at the age of four years. 2. Helen Ophelia, mentioned below. 3. Albert Palmer, mentioned below. 4.
Charles Israel. mentioned below.
(VIII) Lucius Emery, second son of Seth Dean and Cynthia R. ( Prindle) Brooks, was born May 26, 1835, in the town of Cincinnatus. He was two years old when the family re- moved to McGrawville, and there he resided nearly sixty years. After receiving a common school education, he attended New York Cen- tral College, at that time a flourishing institu- tion located at MeGrawville, New York. Af- ter leaving this institution he taught school for a time, and then began work in his father's furniture and wood-working shops, and con- tinued in association with his father and brother James Albert for over thirty years in the operation of this plant. Water power was used until its gradual diminution compelled its abandonment. Lucius E. Brooks devoted most of his time thereafter to painting and decorating. He is a devoted Christian and united with the Methodist church at the age of eighteen years, serving the society for many years as steward and class leader. While a lifelong Republican, his strong convictions on the temperance question have led him sometimes to vote the Prohibition ticket. He married, at McGrawville, January 1, 1860, Lydia Ann Griffith, born July 15, 1839, at East Homer, New York, died at Binghamton, New York, December 24, 1895, daughter of Joshua and Ann ( Stewart) Griffith. Chil- dren : 1. Annette Louise, born February 8, 1861 ; married, at MeGrawville, April 7. 1880,
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