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and many years afterward: lieutenant of the train band 1676: justice of the peace sev- eral years ; assistant, 1665-66. He became captain of militia and frequently served on committees of importance. He died April 22, 1711. He married ( first ) Concurrence Meigs, who died October 9, 1708. daughter of John Meigs, of Guilford : ( second ), De- cember 26, 1709, Deborah, widow of Henry Champion, of Lyme. She married ( third ), Richard Towner. Children, first three re- corded at Guilford. the rest in Killingworth : John, born about 1664: Elizabeth, about 1666; Concurrence. December 27, 1667; Mary, August 23. 1670: Phehe, December 24, 1672; Theophilus, January 5, 1674, mentioned below ; Abigail. April 3, 1676, died young; Henry, October 25. 1677; Mercy, June 21, 1080: Nathaniel, August 7, 1682.
(II) Sergeant Theophilus Crane, son of Henry Crane, was born in Killingworth, January 5, 1674. and died October 24, 1732. He settled in Killingworth, on the home- stead. He married. December 3. 1699, Mar- garet Lane, who died May 1, 1741. Chil- dren : Nathaniel. born January IS. 1701. mentioned below : Theophilus. December 20, 1705; Elizabeth, December 20. 1705; Mary, March 4, 1707: Margaret, September 26, 1710: Jemima, April 23. 1713 : John, March 21, 1720.
(III) Nathaniel. son of Theophilus Crane, was born January 18, 1701, and set- tled on a farm in Killingworth, given him by his father. He married, May 2. 1723, Eunice Kelsey. Children: Samuel, born February 10, 1724: Margaret, December 26. 1725; Elisha, August 28. 1728: Anna, De- cember 26, 1730; Theophilus, May 3, 1733: Ezra, March 6, 1735. mentioned below; Elizabeth, April 2, 1742; Simeon, in the revolution ; Eunice.
(IV) Ezra, son of Nathaniel Crane, was born in Killingworth, March 6. 1735. He was sergeant in Captain Peleg Kelfield's company in the campaign of 1759. in the Second Connecticut Regiment ; in the cam-
paign of 1760 was in the same company ; in the revolution was with the Seventh Regi- ment, Connecticut line. Colonel Heman Swift, commanding. June 27 to December 9. 1780, in service about Peekskill. He was a shoemaker by trade, and died in Vermont. He married Prudence Leigh, who survived him, and died in Middlebury, Vermont, aged about ninety-three, at the home of her son James. Children : James, born 1671 ; Mar- tin, September 5. 1763: Jeremiah, February 18, 1766, mentioned below: Belden; Ezra : Simeon, February 14. 1773: Asa: Aaron: Calvin ; Prudence : William, May 10. 1782. (V) Jeremiah, son of Ezra Crane, was born February 18, 1766, and died Novem- ber 11, 1814. He married Martha Good- rich, born April 27. 1767, died July 4. 1836. Children : Stephen, born April 1, 1789 : Elon, February 19, 1791: Aaron. December 30. 1793: Orrin, November 20, 1794. men- tioned below: Ammon, May 4, 1797; An- sel, November 26, 1800; William, June 24. 1803: Thurii, May 5. 1805; Calvin, Oc- tober 19. 1808.
(VI) Orrin, son of Jeremiah Crane, was born November 20, 1794, and died August. 1854. He was a drummer in the war of 1812. He went from Vermont and settled in Canton, New York. He married, Janu- ary 11, 183 -. Evalina, daughter of Elilit and Prudence (Crane) Norton. Children : Martha: William Ezra, mentioned below : Dency : Laura.
(VII) William Ezra, son of Orrin Crane, was born in Canton, New York, October 22. 1833. He was educated in the public schools, and worked on his father's farm until he came of age, when he left home and for some years was employed in a brickyard in Ogdensburg and in a saw mill in Mor- ley. He finally engaged in the produce business in Rensselaer Falls, on his own ac- count. Much of his time has been devoted to public business. For forty-four years he has been constable of the town and for more than thirty years deputy sheriff of the coun- ty. He was the first truant officer of the
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: wn of Canton, and has held this office to the present time. He is a member of Fel- : wship Lodge, No. 749, Free Masons, of Rensselaer Falls.
William Ezra Crane married, April 27. póo. Viola L., born at Denmark, Lewis County, New York, March 28, 1844, daugh- ter of Daniel and Mary ( Howe) Lake. Chil- dren : 1. Orrin, born May 9, 1862. 2. Hat- de, born May 19, 1869: died February 25. 1906: married Elam E. Hilligas, who is in
the postal service; child, Hattie, born Jan- uary 20, 1892. 3. Otis T., born May 31, 1876; ticket agent at Rensselaer Falls : mar- ried, December 29, 1897. Martha M., daugh- ter of Thomas and Melissa ( Burritt) Smith- ers, of Oswegatchie: child, Burritt Lake, Forn September 4. 1907. 4. Orrin Daniel, mentioned below.
(VIII) Orrin Daniel, son of William Ezia Crane, was born in Rensselaer I'alls, in Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York, May 9, 1862. He attended the public schools of his native place, and in 1879 came to Ogdensburg, where he was employed as clerk in various stores. He was in the em- Hoy of the firm of Calder & Murphy twelve vers, and of W. H. Young four years. He Las been in the retail clothing business in Ordensburg on his own account since 1895. and has achieved a marked success. He is director of the Business Men's Association of his native town ; member of Elijah White I. Ige, No. 590, Odd Fellows, of Ogdens- burg, and has been noble grand: is past c'Huf patriarch of Ogdensburg Encampment. No. 32; past commander of Canton Ama- ranth, No. 12, of Ogdensburg; member of Council No. 641, Royal Arcanum, of Og- Censburg. He belongs also to the Fortieth Separate Company, National Guard, State .i New York: to the Ogdensburg Club and S: John's Protestant Episcopal church. In ; ditics he is a Republican. He married, : 1883. Nellie Jane. daughter of Alonzo Haven, of Oswegatchie. Children: Guy Henry, born in Ogdensburg, April 23. 1885. whenited in the schools and academy of Og-
densburg: Florence Elinor, born in Og- densburg, July 28, 1900.
This surname, which is of Nor- WEIR man origin, is identical with that of De Vere. It has long been prominent in Scotland, and became distributed through many counties. It is claimed by the Weirs of Lanarkshire that they are descended from the De Veres, a famous baronial family founded by Bal- tredus de Vere in the reign of Malcolm IV. (twelfth century). A prominent writer on nomenclature suggests that the original pro- genitor may have resided near a fishing lo- cality, thus deriving his surname from the word weir. Many of this name have figured conspicuously as soldiers, clergymen and statesmen, and for ages they have been iden- tified with agriculture and the mechanical arts, plying their honorable calling with in- dustry, frugality and thrift. They were strict Presbyterians during the religious dis- turbances of the seventeenth century, and not a few of them migrated to the north of Ireland, whence their descendants emigrated to America.
(I) Robert Weir, born in Jackson, Wash- ington county, New York, resided in that town and had a family of eight sons and three daughters.
(II) Edwin, son of Robert Weir, was born in Jackson, in 1826. He was a mill- wright, and settling in Cambridge, Wash- ington county, on the White Creek side, he followed his trade there until his death. which occurred at the age of forty-three years, in 1860. He married Martha Jane Cowan, a native of Jackson, daughter of William Ciwan and his wife, Margaret Green. Mrs. Martha Jane Weir died in 1898, aged seventy years. Children who lived to maturity : Belle, died unmarried at age of twenty-four years: Eugene R., died in 1904. aged forty-six : Oscar B., of whom further.
(III) Oscar B .. son of Edwin and Mar- tha J. (Cowan) Weir, was born in Cam-
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bridge, New York. December 2, 1860. He began his education in his native town and completed it with a commercial course at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Possessing a natural genius for mechanical pursuits, he perfected him- self in that branch of industry by serving an apprenticeship in a machine shop at Cam- bridge. His brother, Eugene R., whose abilities lay in a similar direction, also learned the machinist's trade and both be- came skillful mechanics. From that time forward their paths lay in the same channel, and they were practically inseparable, shar- ing the successes and vicissitudes which. in turn, invariably accompany the efforts of worthy and ambitious artisans. Having mastered their trade and feeling confident of their ability, the brothers decided to try their fortune in the far northwest. and jour- neying to the Pacific coast they spent a year in Washington, which at that time had . not been admitted to the national family of states. There they found employment at their trade, and also devoted some time to prospecting. From Washington they went to San Francisco, California, where they were employed as journeymen machinists some fourteen months and. returning to New York state, they continued to ply their calling in various places. principally in shirt manufacturing plants. In 1807 they pur- chased the Plattsburgh Shirt Company's plant, and later the same year acquire I pos- session of the Keeseville Shirt Company's factory, both of which they . perated suc- cessfully until 1904. when the death of the elder brother, Eugene R., abruptly termi- nated their long and singularly devoted companionship.
After the death of his brother, Mr. Os- car B. Weir disposed of the Keeseville plant · in order to devote his time more closely to his other enterprises, which include the Mooers Shirt Company, of Movers, New York, established by him in 1809. and at the same time he incorporated the Platt -- burgh Shirt Company, of which he became
president, treasurer and general manager. The last named business, which he and his late brother revived through their able man- agement, from a state of decay into an ex- ceedingly profitable enterprise, is, in its pres- ent flourishing condition, employing a force of between two hundred and fifty and three hundred hands, and the Mooersville plant employs from sixty to one hundred. The product of these plants includes the Cluett & Peabody white "Monarch" shirts, which are recognized as standard goods throughout the United States.
Mr. Weir is actively interested in various local organizations, social, business, frater- nal, sporting, etc., being president of the Plattsburgh Kennel and the Plattsburgh Rod and Gun clubs : a member of the Mac- Donough Social and Commercial Club, and of Plattsburgh Lodge, No. 221, Protective Order of Elks. May 4. 1905. he married. in Plattsburgh, Aurilla C. Dana, born in Saranac. New York, daughter of Carlisle A. Dana and his wife. Anna Robinson, the former a cousin of the late Charles A. Dana. the famous editor of the New York Sun.
Aurilla C. Dana was a granddaughter of Hon. Daniel Dana, of Guildhall, Vermont, and a descendant in the ninth generation of William Dana, whose son, Richard, was the immigrant ancestor of the Dana family in America.
(The Dana Line).
(1) William Dana, a French Huguenot. took refuge in England to escape religious persecution, and is said to have served as sheriff of Middlesex in the reign of Queen Elizabethi.
(II) Richard, son of William Dana, ar- rived in New England about the year 1640 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A family tradition states that he was born in France and accompanied his father to Eng- land when nine years old. He received grants of land in Cambridge in 1652-65, and re- sided in that part of the town now Brigh- ton. In 16;0 he sold to Deacon Thoms Oliver his dwelling-house and sixty-seven
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acres of land. He was chosen constable in 1001, and subsequently held other town of- fices, including grand juror. He died April 3. 1690, from injuries received by falling from a scaffold in his barn. He married Anne Bullard, of Cambridge, who died July 15, 1711. Children: John ; Hannah; Sam- tel; Jacob; Joseph: Abiah: Benjamin ; Elizabeth: Daniel ; Deliverance; Sarah.
( III ) Jacob, son of Richard and Anne ( Bullard ) Dana, was born in Cambridge, December 21, 1654 : died in December, 1698. The Christian name of his wife was Pa- tience. Children: Jacob, born October I. 1679, died young : Elizabeth, married John Reed; Hannah, born October 25, 1685, married Jonathan Hyde: Samuel. born Sep- tember 7. 1694: Abigail; Jacob.
(IV) Jacob, youngest child of Jacob and Patience Dana, was born in Cambridge, in 1698. He removed to Connecticut, settling first in Pomfret and later in Ashford. He married, about 1722, Abigail Chil- dren : Experience, died young : Mary : Abi- gail; Jacob: Jeremiah: Anderson: Experi- ence : Rebecca : Sarah ; Priscilla: Eleanor.
(V) Anderson, third son and sixth child oi Jacob and Abigail Dana, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, October 26, 1735. He resided in Ashford until 1772. when he re- moved to Wyoming, Pennsylvania. and lost his life in the atrocious Indian massacre there in July, 1778. He married, at that place. June 1. 1757. Susanna Huntington. Unkren : Eunice : Daniel : Susanna : Jacob : Anderson: Azael: Sylvester: Eleazer.
(\'I) Hon. Daniel-Dana, second child and e'de-t son of Anderson and Susanna ( Hunt- wgton ) Dana, was born in Ashford, Con- Ikcticut, September 16, 1782. Settling in Guildhall. Vermont, he became eminent both as a lawyer and a jurist. He also attained Th minence in public affairs, serving as rep- rtentative to the legislature and in other i -itions of honor and trust. Judge Dana 5. arried Dolly Kibbe. Children : Persis L., 1
rn April, 1786, married Thomas Carlisle : ly. died young : Anderson: Nancy: 1
Sarah and Mary ( twins), both died young ; Sarah. died in infancy. A third Sarah : Daniel Huntington: Mary: Harriet, died in infancy ; William K. ; Harriet : Dolly Jane.
( N. B .- Anderson, eldest son of Judge Dana, married Ann Dennison, and was father of Charles Anderson Dana, who at- tained a worldwide reputation as a journal- ist : edited the "New American Cyclopedia," and served as assistant secretary of war dur- ing the rebellion. Born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8. 1819; died on Long Island, New York. October 17. 1897. )
(VIII) Carlisle, grandson of Judge Dana, married Anna Robinson, and their daugh- ter, Aurilla C., became the wife of Oscar B. Weir, previously mentioned. Mr. and Mrs. Weir have one child. Aurilla C., born June, 1910.
Robert Algie was born in Scot- ALGIE land and came to Canada, settl- ing in Montreal. Children, born in Montreal: Robert, Benjamin, men- tioned below: Martha, Jane, Margaret.
( II) Benjamin, son of Robert Algie, was born in Montreal, Canada, February II, ISII, and died in Ogdensburg, New York, December, 1865. He received his educa- tion in the schools of Montreal. In 1840 he settled in Ogdensburg, New York, where for a time he worked in the tannery of Dea- con Erastus Vilas. He established him- self in the trucking business, and finally conducted a grocery store, which he carried on until his death. In politics he was a Republican and religion a Baptist. He mar- ried, - 1842. Mary Castle, born near Hull. England. November 2. 1822, daugh- ter of William Castle. Children : 1. Robert B., dealer in cigars and tobacco, now re- tired: married Sarah Hubbard, of Ogdens- burg, and had George, Mary, Grace, Ralph, Robert, one who died young. William C .. and George Edward, both mentioned be- low: Benjamin C., proprietor of La Mode Skirt Company: Royal J., in company with his brother Benjamin.
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(III) William C. Algie, son of Benjamin Algie, was born in Ogdensburg, February 3, 1846, and was educated there in the pub- lic schools. He began to work in the tele- graph office as messenger in 1860. After two years he became a clerk in the dry goods store of M. & N. Frank and remained with this firm for ten years. In 1872 he entered the employ of J. W. Wilson, dry goods dealer at Ogdensburg, and was a salesman there for the next seventeen years. Since 1889 he has been one of the owners of the George Hall Coal Company, and is now a director and secretary of the corporation. He is well and favorably known in business circles. In politics he is a Democrat. He served one year on the board of water com- missioners. He is a member of Ogdensburg Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Og- densburg Council. 641. Royal Arcanum, and of the Century Club. In religion he is in- dependent. He married, in 1869, Martha J., born September 30, 1849, daughter of Wil- liam and Mary ( Waffle ) Hubbard, of Og- densburg. Children, born at Ogdensburg : I. Frank, 1871, died, aged fourteen months. 2. Bessie Louise, December 15, 1873: mar- ried Dr. Albert E. Haynen, dentist, oi Og- densburg; child. Ruth Howard Haynen, died February 23. 1910.
(III) George Edward. son of Benjamin Algie, was born in Ogdensburg, February 10. 1848. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. and in 1800 en- tered the dry goods store of A. G. Cadier as parcel boy. Six years later he went to New York City, where for sixteen years he was associated with the wholesale trade, and covered territory as far west as Kansas City as a general salesman. In 1882 his brothers, Benjamin C. and Royal J., entered into business in Ogdensburg, and in 1884 Mr. Algie engaged with them, the firm be- ing called Algie Brothers ( retail dry goods dealers). At this time the store was located at the corner of Ford and Isabella streets. In 1889 the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Algie conducted the business alone for a
year, then taking Jolin B. Tyo as a partner, the firm name being Algie & Tyo. Mr. Al- gie made frequent trips to New York. and his experience there as a salesman made him a very successful buyer. The firm made a reputation for carrying exclusive lines and up-to-date styles, and was successful finan- cially. In the spring of 1909 Mr. Algie re- tired from the firm to devote himself to his real estate interests. He is an active mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce, lending his aid and influence in all ways tending to advance the interests of the city. His keen powers of observation and his wonderful memory enabled him to acquire a wide knowledge of current topics, and he was ex- ceptionally well informed. He has always been devoted to his business, and his en- ergy, enterprise and honest methods have brought him success. In the development of his real estate he has sought to improve the city, sometimes even at the expense of the financial returns from his investment. and the landscape effects have been made the subject of careful consideration. He is a Democrat in politics, and in religion an Episcopalian. He married. March 12, 1884. Susie A. Green, daughter of Wildridge Green, of Oswegatchie. New York. They have one child, Deborah Green, born April 10, 1890.
Mrs. Algie was for many years head sales- lady in the millinery department in the well- known firm of J. W. Wilson & Co. before her marriage to Mr. Algie, and when Mr. Algie engaged in business it was largely through her keen foresight and executive ability that success was brought to the busi- ness he established.
HONSINGER
Emanuel Honsinger. immigrant ancestor.
born in Germany, about 1750, was educated in his native land, and when a young man came with other Ger- man people to this country before the revo- lution. He settled in Dutchess county, Ner York, and afterward removed to Alburgh
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William J. Honsinger, .M. J.
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Vermont, where he spent the later years of his life and where he died. He was a thrifty farmer. He married Mary Masten, a na- tive of Canada.
(H ) James Honsinger, son of Emanuel and Mary ( Masten ) Honsinger, was born at Alburgh, Vermont, December 1. 1795, and died at Champlain, New York, June 3. 1862. In 1820 he settled in Canada, and during the next three years conducted a farm that he owned there. In 1823 he sold out this property and bought land at Cham -. plain. Clinton county, New York, built a log house, in which he made his home while clearing the land, and followed farming there for a period of forty years, a mile and a half east of the village of Champlain. He was for a number of years lieutenant of a company in the state militia. Originally a Whig, he became a Republican after the Whig party went to pieces. He and his wife were members of the Methodist church. He married, in March, 1818. Margaret Chil- ten, born July 14. 1794, in Alburgh, daugh- ter of John R. and Nancy Chilton. Chil- dien, all but the eldest born in Champlain : William S., of whom further: Emanuel ; Mbert ; Uriah ; Caroline; Larancy.
(III) Dr. William S. Honsinger, son of James Honsinger, was born at Alburgh, Grand Isle county, Vermont. December 23. 1820. He attended the public schools at Champlain, and worked on his father's farm until he was eighteen years old. From 1838 ! I841 he was a student in the academy at St. Albans, Vermont. He commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. churchill, of Champlain, teaching the winter term in the public schools in the meantime. He graduated from the medical college at Castleton, Vermont, in June, 1846. with the degree of M. D., and began to practice his profession in association with Dr. Churchill. After a year at Champlain he located at Saranae, and in the spring of 1848 he set- leul in West Chazy and continued there un- 'd his death, having an excellent practice and winning high rank in his profession. He
had to ride as far as Plattsburgh on the south, the state line on the north, and even into the Canadian towns and westward from the lake to the distant hills. He made some- thing of a specialty of pulmonary and kin- dred diseases, and was called frequently by other physicians in consultation, especially in cases of this kind. He was one of the most skillful and successful surgeons of his day in this section. During the civil war he was called to Alexandria, Virginia, to attend soldiers from this vicinity. Dr. Hon- singer invested extensively in real estate and owned several fine farms and raised some of the most valuable stock in the coun- ty. His cattle won many premiums at the annual county fairs of this section. He was a staunch Republican, and for several years was county school commissioner when the duties of that office were such that the schools were reached only on horseback. He declined to accept any public office that would interfere with his practice. He was a member and past master of Northern Light Lodge, No. 505. Free Masons, and represented his lodge several times in the Grand Lodge.
He married. November 15. 1848, Louisa A. Hedding, born in Chazy, April 2, 1818. died in her seventy-ninth year, daughter of Judge William Hedding. Her father was a brother of Bishop Elijah Hedding, who entered the ministry before he was of age, advanced rapidly in position and influence. elected bishop of the Methodist church in 1824. the fourth bishop of this country, and died in 1852. Bishop Hedding preached of- ten in this section in 1801, when he was as- signed to the Plattsburgh circuit with Rev. Elijah Chichester. Judge William Hed- ding was well known in this county, a promi- nent merchant, and a leader in politics and public affairs. James Hedding, father of Judge Hedding, was a native of Dutchess county, New York, removed to Vermont, and thence, in 1802, to West Chazy, where he settled on what was afterwards called the MeDoncugh place on Cumberland Head.
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removing in 1805 to West Chazy: Dr. Honsinger died July 18. 1895. Children, born at West Chazy: Eva I, died young; Willis T., and Lyman L., both mentioned below.
(IV) Dr. Willis T. Honsinger, son of Dr. William S. Honsinger, was born at West Chazy, August 6. 1854. He attended the district schools and academy, and the Friars College at St. John's. Quebec. He began the study of medicine under his father's instruction, then entered the medi- cal college at Burlington. Vermont, from which he graduated at the head of his class. He then attended Bellevue Medical College, New York City, and lectures in other col- leges. He began to practice in 1875 in part- nership with his father. under the firm name of Dr. William S. Honsinger & Son. They continued together until 1880, when the senior partner retired. The junior partner continued to practice alene for ten years, and in 1899 he also retired. after twenty-five years of arduous but successful experience. He sometimes resp i.ds to emergency calls and joins in consultation when his advice is sought by cthier physicians. He kept well abreast of the advance guard in me lical re- search and had the repatation of being the best-read doctor in the county. Like his father he made agriculture an avocation for both pleasure and profit. He has a farm of twenty-four hundred acres of land in North Dakota. all under cultivation, and raises wheat. oats and barley. He is a di- rector in the Morehead National Bank of Mocrehead, Minnes ta. He also own- large mining properties in Canada, and for the past three years has been largely interested in the silver mines at Cobalt, Ontario. He has a farm of four hundred acres in Beek- mantown. New York, near Lake Champlain. and a farm of one hundred and thirteen acres in Chazy. At his Beekmantown farm he formerly had a notable herd of Holstein cattle. He raised steck from the cow Mer- cedes Julip Pietertje. wlach nade an official record at White Bear Lake. Minnesota, of
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