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(II) John J. second child of John and Sophia ( Kraver ) Domser, was born in Lew- is. September 11. 1866. He attended the public schools of his native town. After
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the death of his father. 1883, he assisted in the working and management of his father's farm until in the spring of 1889 he went to Redwood, Jefferson county, New York, and made cheese there for six months, and the following year began manufacturing cheese in Lewis county, an occupation which he followed exclusively until 1898. In 1899 he became actively interested in the tele- phone service, inaugurating his entrance into ยท that business by organizing the Constable- ville and West Leyden Telephone Company (incorporated ), with a capital stock of two thousand five hundred dollars, and construct- ing a line in the town of Lewis for the con- venience of farmers and cheese manufac- turers. Later in the same year he was in- strumental in organizing the Black River Telephone Company, capitalized at twenty- five thousand dollars, with F. C. Myers. president ; S. C. Capron. secretary: Bene- dict Gautner, treasurer: John J. Domser. manager, and F. A. Harrington. David Swancotte. F. C. Myers. S. C. Capron and Philip Domser as directors. With the estab- lishment of this company lines were extend- ed to Constableville, Boonville and Rome : and in 1900 the work of extension was con- tinued from Boonville to Port Leyden. Ly- ons Falls and Lowville. In the latter part of that year the Lowville exchange was established. and by November 1. 190I. twenty-eight telephones had been installed in that section. Lines were also extended to Castorland to connect with Croghan. Copenhagen and Carthage. During this era of prosperity Theodore B. Baselin became interested in the enterprise and acted as its president from igor to 1905. Continuing the march of improvement, lines were ex- tended into Oneida. Herkimer, Jefferson and Oswego counties, thus securing connection with the cities of Rome. Utica, Watertown. Syracuse and Oswego. The company now operates sixteen exchanges and has about three thousand two hundred telephones in use. It has five thousand seven hundred and fifty miles of No. 12 iron wire and
five hundred and twenty miles of No. 10 copper wire in use, which is carried on twenty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-five poles. Most of which are cedar. It employs thirty-eight lady operators and about twenty-one men. The list of officers of the present organization is as follows: President and treasurer, Charles W. Pratt. of Boonville : vice-president. Dr. W. A. Kel- ley, of Lowville : secretary, George S. Reed. of Lowville : manager, John J. Domser, of Lowville: and in addition to the above. W. F. Hayes, of Constableville: William F. Karlen and H. B. Belknap, of Boonville : F. P. Lansing, of Copenhagen: P. F. Thompson, of Henderson: O. D. Perry, of Adams, and M. J. Salsburg. of Lacona. are directors. As will be seen by the above. Mr. Domser has, for the past eleven years. been exclusively engaged in promoting. im- proving and developing the telephone ser vice in his section of the state. His strenui- ous efforts to provide the public with the most efficient service obtainable are heart- ily appreciated. and it is safe to assume that the same progressive policy which has thus far characterized the company's man- agement, will continue to be maintained. In politics Mr. Domiser is a Democrat. In
his religious faith he is a Roman Catholic. being a member of St. Peter's Church, Low- ville, and his society affiliations are confined to the C. J. McMorrow Council, Knights of Columbus, in that village.
The surname Beman is a BEMAN shortened form of spelling the ancient French surname and place-name. Beaumont, though the fami- ily of this name has been in England many centuries. We find the name variousy spelled Beman. Bement. Bemond, Beaman. Bemont, and Beaumont, and there is no uni- formity of spelling in branches of the fam- ily even at the present time. There were early pioneers of this family in New Eng- land, all possibly brothers. Gamaliel Be- man, aged twelve, came in the ship. "Eliza-
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beth and Ann," in May, 1635. settled in Dorchester, and later in Lancaster. Massa- chusetts. William Beman was born in Eng- land in 1612, and came to New England in 1635. in the ship. "Elizabeth." settled at Salem, Massachusetts, where he was living in 1640, removed to Scituate, Massachu- setts, and finally to Saybrook. Connecticut. John Beman, brother of Wilham. came in the same ship, and lived at Salem and Scitu- ate.
(I ) Simon, probably brother of Gamaliel. William and John Beman, was born in Eng- land, about 1630. He settled in Springfield. Massachusetts, where he marriedI. December 15. 1654. Alice Young. He died in 1676. and she died October 8. IF08. Children. born at Springfieldl: Simon. removed to Deerfield. 1605: John, born April 12. 1657. mentioned below: Daniel. March 15. 1059. died 1741 : Thomas, horn December 20. 1660: Josiah. February 4. 1662. married Lydia Warner: Mehitable, died August 16. 1670: Benjamin. August 20. 16;1. married Hannah Higgins: Samuel, June II. 1973. settled at Windsor : Abigail. married Oba- dich Baldwin: Alice. married Nathaniel Baldwin: Ruth, married Samuel Miller : Mary, married Ensign John Miller.
(Il) John. sen of Simon Beman. was born at Springfield. April 12. 1657. died December 27. 1084. He was the first set- tler on the lot now owned by his descend- ants in Enfieldl. Connecticut. then adioin- ing Springfield. He came to Enfield in 10 82. and died there two years later. His inver - tory. dated January 25. 1084. was fuel b' his widow Martha Children: John. mar- ried, October 20. 1606-07. Abigail Eggles ton, who was appointed administratrix at Enfield. September 4. 1704: William, men- tioned below: Edmund. married. 1700. Prudence Morgan, recently, 1703. Priscilla Warner.
(III) William, son of John Beman, was born about 1685. died 1720. His will was dated January 12. 1728-20. and presented for probate September o. 1720. He mar-
ried. 1707. Hannah, daughter of Captain Samuel Terry, and he settled in the east part of Enfield. Children: William, set- tled at Wethersfield; married Phebe and had a large family: Ebenezer, born 1723: Joseph, 1725. settled in Enfield : Han- nah: Samuel, born 1730. mentioned bel ay: Sarah. The mother was appointed guardi- an of Samuel and Joseph in 1734.
( IV ) Samuel, son of William Beman, was born in Enfield. in 1730, and died in 1821. He removed to Vermont, and served in the revolution in Captain Nathan Smith's om- pany in August. 1777. and was with Ar- nold's expedition against Canada.
(\') Nathan, son of Samuel Beman, was born about 1757. in Vermont. He settled in Manchester. Bennington county, Ver- mont, and afterwards removed to Shore- ham. Vermont. He was a soldier in the revo- lution. in the same company with Hawes and Jerry Beman. 1777-80, in the regimen of Colonel Seth Warner, of New Han- shire. Nathan Beman was also in Captain Gideon Ogmsby's company in March. 1780: in Captain Thomas Barney's company. C :- onel Ira Allen's regiment, of Vermont. in 1782-83, and sergeant from July to Vo- vember. 1781. in Captain Daniel Comstock's company of Vermont. Nathan Beman, while a mere youth, piloted Colonel Ethan Al- len's troops across Lake Champlain an through the wilderness to the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. He died in 1846 and is buried at Chateaugay. New York.
(VT Samuel, son of Nathan Beman, was born in Vermont. He married Children: Theodore T. S .. mentioned be- low : Minerva, married James Hilliker.
(VII) Theodore T. S. son of Sempre! Beman, was born at Plattsburgh. New York, die in 1865. He was a civil engineer by profession, and for many years was eli- ployed in the United States const and geo- detic survey. He was one of the engineers who surveyed and laid out the Northern Ogdensburg Railroad, now part of the Ru land Railroad system, operating in Fromthe
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county, New York. He married Nancy E., he organized the Twenty-seventh separate daughter of General David Erwin. They lived at Chateaugay, New York. Mrs. Be- man died in 1873. Children: Minerva S. ; Sarah Alzina: Charlotte Amelia: Samuel A., mentioned below : Millard F.
(VIII ) Judge Samuel A., son of Theu- dore T. S. Beman, was born in Chateau- gay. New York. August 21, 1843. He attended the public schools of his native town and took a course at the Franklin Academy. In 1862 he began the study of law in the offices of William P. Cantwell at Malone, New York, continuing until he was admitted to the bar in 1865. In 1864 he was appointed deputy postmaster at Malone. under Dr. Calvin Skinner, then serving as surgeon in the Union army. In 18os he entered partnership with William D. Bren- nan, then county treasurer, and afterward a member of the assembly for three suc- cessive terms. In 1868 Mr. Beman was elected district attorney of Franklin county and re-elected for several terms, serving al- together for nine years. When Mr. Bren- nan died in 1881, Mr. Beman was elected to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Brennan. He was in the legislature during the memorable contest resulting in the election of Warner Miller as United States senator. In 1889 he was elected county judge and held that office until 1908. Judge Beman is one of the most influential and prominent Republicans of this section. He served his party often as delegate to judicial and state conven- tions. His legal practice is among the best in the county. As a jurist he has taken high rank. Dignified, learned, just, he commands the respect of all persons having business in his court and especially of the lawyers who practice there. The unanimous nomination and election for the third term was a tribute to his high reputation as a judge, his popu- larity as a man and his fairness, courtesy and impartiality to all men, regardless of politics, creed or condition.
Judge Beman has been distinguished in still other fields of activity. In July, 1871,
company of the New York State National Guard, and was its first captain. serving with ability until April. 1884, and bring- ing his command to rank with the best in- dependent companies in the state. He was one of the prime movers in the work that brought the Franklin County Agricultural Society to its present condition of prosperity. He was at one time president of the Third National Bank, and attorney and general counsel for the Northern Adirondack Rail- road Company. He was made a Mason in Frontier Ledge. No. 579, of his native town, Chateaugay, afterward joining Northern Constellation Lodge, of which he was wor- shipful master for seven years. He is a member of Northern Constellation Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and a member of Franklin Commandery, Knights Templar, of Malone. Judge Beman has traveled ex- tensively both in this country and abroad. In 1873 he visited Europe and later made a tour of the southern and northwestern states. In 1891 he made a trip to the west- ern coast, partly on business and partly for rest and pleasure. In religion he is an r Episcopalian.
Judge Beman married. June 1, 1876. An- nette Elizabeth, born October 14. 1847. daughter of Sidney W. Gillett.
Charles E. Snyder, of Herki- SNYDER mer. New York, lawyer, was born in town of Cherry Val- ley. Ot-ego county, New York, November 23. 1863. He was educated at Cornell U'hi- versity, receiving degree of B. S., 1885: ad- mitted to the bar. 1887, and became head of the law firm of Snyder. Cristman & Earl. He was connected with the building of the Hohawk & Malone Railway, resident at- torney for the New York Central & Hud- son River Railroad Company, secretary and attorney of the Raquette Lake Railway Company, Raquette Lake Transportation Company. Fulton Chain Railway Company. Fulton Navigation Company, and the Them-
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as ITide & Leather Company ; vice-president and general counsel of East Creek Electric Light & Power Company, director of Herki- mer National Bank, Mark Manufacturing Company, Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association. and trustee of Herkimer Free Library. Hle is much interested in the future and pres- ervation of the Adirond ick forest, where he is the owner of Cascade Lake. on which he has a summer home. He married, No- vember 28. 1888. Eva A. Smith, of West Winfield. New York. They have two chil- uren, David E., born July 12, 1890 inow at Cornell University 1. and Evalanna, born July 16. 1895.
Mr. Snyder is descended from the sturdy German Palatine stock of the Mohawk Val- ley, being the son of David W. Snyder, of the town of Minden. Montgomery county. and Mary A. Harter: grandson of Peter Suyder and Mary Miller. of Minden, Mont- gomery county, and of John and Ann Har- ter, of the town of Herkimer ; great-grand- son of William Snyder, who was in the battle of Plattsburgh in the war of 1812. and Maria ( Yorden ) Snyder, and of -- Mil- ler, of Minden. Montgomery county. and Laura ( Robinson) Miller, of Fairfield. Her- kimer county, New York, and of George Lawrence Harter and Catherine Weaver. and of Philip Harter and Mary Ann Bell, of the town of Herkimer. New York: great- great-grandson of Peter Snyder. a lieuten- ant in Colonel Vrooman's regiment in the revolutionary war, who came from Colum- bia county to Minden. Montgomery county. where he died, and --- Smith, his wife: and of - Yorden and --- Hoffnail, his wife, of Minden, New York, and of Law- rence Harter, a revolutionary soldier in Colonel Peter Bellinger's militia regiment. being a prisoner from June 21 to December 14. 1782. and Catharine, his wife, and of Jacob Weaver. a revolutionary soldier in Bellinger's regiment. and Eva Frank, his wife; a great-great-great-grandson of Lawrence Harter and Appolona, his wife. both Palatine settlers and patentees of Bur-
nettsfield patent : and of Timothy Frank, a lieutenant in Colonel Peter Bellingers's regi- ment in the revolutionary war. and Anna Elizabeth Bellinger, his wife, sister of Col- onel Peter Bellinger; great-great-great- great-grandson of John Conrad Frank, a captain in the colonial militia, and Elizabeth, his wife. and of Peter Bollinger.
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MERRIMAN Merriman was born in Wiltshire. England, in 1533. . He had a brother Samuel, who died young. ( II ) Theophilus (2). son of Theophilus ( I) Merriman, was born in Maidstone. Kent. between 1573-80. He lived in Canter- bury. He married Hannah --. Children: Nathaniel. Calch and Moses.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Theophilus ( 2) Merriman, was born in Tenderden. Kent. England. June 2. 1615. died in Wallingford. Connecticut. February 23, 1003. He settle ! in New Haven, Connecticut, in long, and was an original settler in Wallingford in 1670. He was captain of troops. 1675 : dep- uty. 1600 to 1085. He married (first ) Abi- gail Olney, in England, in 1049: (second ) in 1680. Jane Lines, in Hadley. Massachu- setts. Children: 1. John, born September 26, 1651. 2. Hannah, May 16. 1052. 3 Abigail. April 18. 1654. 4. Mamre, July 12. 1657. 5. John, February 28, 1059. 6. Sam- uel. September 29. 1662. 7. Caleb, May. 1665, mentioned below. S. Moses, 166 ;. 0. Elizabeth. September 14. 1609. 10. Anna. died young.
( IV) Caleb, son of Nathaniel Merriman. was born in May. 1665, at Wallingford, and served as deputy to the general court there. He married (first ) Mary Preston. Children : 1. Moses, mentioned below. 2. Adoniram. 1600, died. aged eleven. 3. Judith. 1601.
(V) Moses, son of Caleb Merriman, was born at Stratford, Connecticut. June 13. 1689. died there in 1761. There is a tradi- tion in his family that the name was form- erly Merrill. According to Dr. John Mer- riman's record under date of 1800. he mar-
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ried Martha Beach in Guilford, in 1718. and it also records his birth in Bristol, Connecti- cut. He was captain of a troop. Another record gives the date of his death as 1751. Children: 1. Benjamin, born August I, 1720, mentioned below. 2. Ruth, died young. 3. Sarah, died young.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Moses Merriman, was born in Guilford. August 1, 1720. He married. December 25. 1741. Susanna Crit- tenden, born May 8. 1720, died October 7. 1780. He died August 8. 1813. Children : I. Amos. 2. Abram, born October 19. 1747. 3. Benjamin.
(VII) Amos, son of Benjamin Merriman, was born in 1742 at Guilford. Connecticut, or vicinity. He and his brothers settled at Richmond. Massachusetts. In 1790 Amos, Benjamin and Abraham were heads of fami- lies in Richmond. Berkshire county, Massa- chusetts. Amos had three males over six- teen, one under that age, and seven females in his family. Amos was a private in the revolution in Captain Joseph Raymond's company. Colonel David Rosseter's regi- ment. Brigadier-General Fellows' comman 1. in 1780.
(III) Amos (2), son of Ames' (r) Merriman, was born in Richmond. lout 1765. He removed to Springfield, Mas-a- chusetts.
(IN ) Lyman, son of Amos (2) Merri- man, was born in Springfield. September 25. 1700. died in 1808. He settled on a farm in Herkimer. New York. removing about 1820 to Somerville in St. Lawrence county. New York. He married Sally Hawkins, bern February 10. 1705. in Con- necticut. Children: 1. Chester T., born in Herkimer. October 30, 1816. 2. Eliza Ann, born in Herkimer. April 2. 1818: married Gilbert Waite. of Somerville. 3. Laura A., born in Somerville, August 15. 1820: married David W. Baldwin. 4. Lyman, men- tioned below.
(X) Lyman (2), son of Lyman (I) Merriman, was born in Somerville. May 20. 1823, died December, 1803. He was
educated in the public schools of his native town and at Gouverneur Wesleyan Semi- nary. He learned the trade of blacksmith and followed it for a time at Somerville. Then he was clerk, and finally proprietor of a general store in Somerville. In 1865 he settled in Gouverneur where he bought a farm and spent the remainder of his days. In politics he was first a Whig. later a Re- publican : in religion he was a Universalist. He married. May 11. 1850. Caroline, born at Somerville. March 18. 1831. died Janu- ary. 1001, daughter of Orrin and Julianna ( McCollmm) Freeman. Children: I. Charles A., mentioned below. 2. Fre'eric Jay. mentioned below. 3. Minrie L., born March 28. 1859. died July 28. 18,0. 4. Chester D .. December 11, 1862; lives on the homestea 1 at Gouverneur : married Min- nie Carpenter: children: i. Harold. born August 17. 1886; if. Laura Louise. Decem- her 10, 1892: iji. Alice, February 5. 1895 ; iv. Chester C .. August 5. 1897: v. Pauline E., January 30. 1899.
( X) Charles Adelbert, son of Lyman ( 2) Merriman, was born in Somerville. February 26. 1851. He received his edu- cation in the common schools and at Wes- layan Seminary at Gouverneur. He began his career as bookkeeper for Copley .A. Nott. of Watertown. New York. Subsequently he engaged in the insurance business on his own account at Ogdensburg. New York. He represented the New York Life Insur- ance Company as general agent for ten years, and a number of the leading fire in- stirance companies, which he continues to represent at the present time. He was one of the founders of the Edgar A. Newell Company, and has been treasurer of the corporation from the first. His home is in Og'ensburg. He is a director of the Busi- news Men's Association and chairman of the committee on transportation. Ile is a member of Acacian Lodge, No. 705. Free and Accepted Masons; of Ogdensburg Chapter. No. 63. Royal Arch Masons: of Ogden-burg Commandery, No. 54. Knights
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Templar, and of Media Temple, Mystic Shrine. of Watertown, New York. He is a Republican and has served as supervisor, representing ward one of Ogdensburg in the board. He and his family attend the Episcopal church. He married. May II. 1881. Cora A .. born January 10, 1857. daughter of Gates and Roxanna ( Clements ) Curtis, of Ogdensburg. Children : 1. Min- nie C .. born July 20. 1882: graduate from Miss Baird's School for Girls, Norwalk. Connecticut. 2. David C., November 3. 1889; attended Staunton Military Academy, Staunton. Virginia: also Phillips-Exeter Academy, Exeter. New Hampshire. 3. Ly- man Gates, October 6, 1895.
(XI) Frederic Jay, son of Lyman ( 2) Merriman, was born in Somerville. July 9. 1856. His boyhood was spent in the towns . i Rossie, and Gouverneur, whither his par- ents moved when he was seven years old. He attended the public schools at Gouverneur and the Wesleyan Seminary. At the age of nineteen he became a school teacher. When he came of age he began the study of law in the office of MeCartin & Wil- liams. of Watertoy n. and continued as clerk and student for four years and a half. He was admitted to the bar January 9. ISSO. He was law clerk for H. M. Wilbur. prac- tring also on his own account for a year and a half. and later with Henry M. Pur- cell. the city recorder. for a similar period. He opened an office in Madrid, New York. in 1884. and has practiced there since then. He is a Republican, and has been promi- sent in public life. He was clerk of the o mmittee of printing and of the committee on militia of the New York assembly in 1879. He was appointed September 1. 1890, hy A. von Landburg. deputy collector of internal revenue for the third division of the twenty-first district, consisting of the counties of Franklin. St. Lawrence. Jeffer- son and Lewis, an office he filled to the satis- fraction of both public and government, with great credit to himself. He was supervisor . i the town of Madrid for five years. He
was appointed postmaster at Madrid, April 15, 1902. reappointed February 5, 1905, and April 27, 1909. and during this time has raised the office from fourth to third class and established the rural free delivery for the country districts. He is president of the board of education, and has been for nine years a school trustee. He helped to incorporate the Madrid Woolen Mills in 1893, and is secretary of the corporation. He was one of the founders and is now a director of the Madrid Bank. He incor- porated the Madrid Telephone Company in 1GO6, and was president of the corporation until it was sold to the Bell Telephone Com- pany. He is also president of the Dr. Wil- liams Fly and Insect Destroyer Manufactur- ing Company, incorporated in 1907. and Secretary of the Wright Convertible Chair Company, organized in 1909. He is a rethed member of the state militia, having served five years in the Thirty-ninth Sepa- rate Company, attaining the rank of cor- poral. He is a member of Acacian Lodge. No. 705. Free and Accepted Masons: : i Ogdensburg Chapter, No. 63. Roval .Arch Masons; of Ogdensburg Commandery, No. 54. Knights Templar ; Media Temple, Mys- tic Shrine, of Watertown; also of St. Law- rence Lodge of Perfection. Order of the Eastern Star: of the Independent Order of Foresters of Madrid : of Aurega Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Rebekah Lodge. He married. September 2. 1886, Edith F., born July 8. 1864, daughter of Oliver C. and Meline Viles Robinson. of Madrid: graduate of Madrid high school. They have one daughter. Jessica Viles, born at Madrid. May 23, 1800, graduate of the Madrid high school and of St. Lawrence University.
MURPHY The family of Murphy of Copenhagen and Lewis county. New York, was founded by John Murphy, one of the most indomitable, energetic. deserving Irishmen that ever landed on our shores, and his
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wife. Julia Quinn Murphy, who shared with him the hardships of an emigrant pioncer. John Murphy was the son of a well-to-do Irish farmer, and one of a family of four sons and two daughters. These sons at one time owned a go al deal of property in Ire- land, but got inte litigation, which consumed a large part of it. John was a native of county Meath, Ireland, where he married Julia Quinn and had children : Philip. Mary. Nancy. Patrick and John. He sailed from Dublin for the United States. April 30. 1830, on the ship "Hope of Harrington." with 812 other emigrants. They landed in New York and. proceeding northward. set- tled in Carthage. Lewis county, New York. where he arrived July 2. 1830. his earthly possessions consisting of $1.50 in cash. But he had a stout heart and was full of energy and ambition. He obtained work as a farm hand on the farm then known as the Me- Allen and Snell. now as the Dyder farm. at $8 per month, and after his day's work was done would go out nights and thresh grain for the neighboring farmer-, using the old- time flail. He continued this laborious life for eight years, practicing the strictest economy. The pair of Irish brogans he brought with him were carefully treasured during the warmer months and did winter service for four years. A pound of tea (cost $2) was so sparingly used that it lasted seven months. During the eight years as a farm laborer he only lost seven days. He and his wife were devout Cathe les, and walked the nine miles to church in Carthage every Sunday morning. she wearing the cali- co dress bought on Saturday, made up by her own skillful hands, and doing duty for many following Sundays. At the end of eight years his SI.50 had considerably in- creased. He had supported his family, had $360 in cash. two young cows, a calf and an ox. He now had a start in the world; he invested his money in a small farm of about fifty acres near Copenhagen, which he cultivated and added to little by little until he owned seven hundred acres of improved
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