Genealogical and family history of northern New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume II, Part 60

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 994


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MORG.IN Preston Morgan, of an old New England family. was born in Vermont, about ISco. and died in South Colton, New York. He married Sarah --. Children : William. Solon. Sidney A .. mentioned below : Clarissa, Betsy, Matilda.


( 11) Sidney Adam, son of Preston Mor- gan, was born in 1831. in Vermont, died in South Colton, New York. 1895. When a small child he cante with his parents to South Colton, and was educated in the schools there. He always followed farming and lumbering as occupations. In politics he was a Republican, and in religion a Methodist. He married Mary Ann, born in Pierrepont. New York. now living in South Cohen, daughter of Jesse Olmstead. Children : 1. George A., mentioned below. 2. Frank, died in Potsdam. 1904.


(III) George A .. son of Sidney Adam Morgan, was born October 30, 1866. in South Colton. He was pleased in the


schools of his native town, and lived there until 1898. For two years he conducted a hotel in Newton Falls, New York, and in 1898 removed to Potsdam, where he has a large farm about a mile out of the village. He buys and sells western horses, also raises blooded horses, and carries on farming. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Oswegatchie Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, also a member of Independent Or- der of Foresters, and of Modern Woodmen of America. He married. in 1893. 1 la. daugliter of Ira Dox, of Ogdensburg. New York. They have no children.


Newton Aldrich, the first of ALDRICH the name of whom we have any information. married Kate Griffin, and among their children was Herbert G., see forward.


(II ) Herbert G., son of Newton and Kate (Griffin) Aldrich, was born in the town of Luzerne. Warren county, New York, De- cember 3. 1860. He received his early edu- cation in the Gouverneur Wesleyan Semi- nary, and was graduated in the class of 1880. Ile entered Hamilton College, Clin- ton, New York, and was graduated A. B .. class of 1884. He then entered Harvard University, where he pursued the course in the law school, and was graduated LL. B. in the class of 1888. After completing his university course he returned to Gouverneur. New York, where he associated with his father in the lumber business. He is vice- president and director of the Aldrich Paper Company, and interested in other busines- enterprises. He is a Republican in politics. and takes an active interest in public affairs. He is an attendant and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church, of Gouverneur, and a member of the Republican Club. of the City of New York. He married ( firsti, in 1890. Jennie A., daughter of James Loucks. who bore him a daughter. Ruth. He mar- riul ( second), April 20. 1905. Mrs. Ann Fish, of New York City, and has a son, Robert.


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This name is commonly sup- ried Mercy Dexter. Children: Harriet, Charlotte. Catherine and Chauncey.


SMITH posed to have originated from an occupation or trade, and in early times was very common in many Eu- pean countries. In England the family. er different branches of it, have as many as twenty-five different armorial bearing's, and among the noted individuals who have borne the name may be mentioned Sir Sidney Smith, the hero of Acre. Many others have won renown on the field of battle, and many have been men of unusual bearing and cul- ture in England. One family that emigrated early to America is of French origin. The family that became prominent in the earliest history of Rhode Island intermarried with some of the best families, including the Ar- nolds. Dexters, and also the descendants of Roger Williams. Richard Smith, a follower of Roger Williams, is said to have been the first white man to settle in Narragansett and Had many illustrious descendants. The family became numerous in all Rhode Island settle- ments, and were well represented especially in Providence and Smithfield. There have been so many of the same Christian name as to make it exceedingly difficult to trace each branch of the family to the original an- cestor. Although the names of Esek. Ar- hold and Dexter Smith occurred frequently in the early records. the family here de- scribed cannot be connected therein with the first settlers of Rhode Island. However, the names indicate connection. There were also ( ther Smiths associated with Roger Wil- liams in his settlement of Rhode Island.


( I) Arnold Smith was born in Provi- dence. Rhode Island. and died in 1850. in Hammond. New York. It is entirely presum- able that he was the Arnold Smith men- tioned in the records of Gloucester {then a part of the city of Providence ). who was Forn August 1. 1770. son of Esek and Re- newed Smith. Arnold Smith came to New York state when a young man and became a hotelkeeper, having establishments at dif- ferent times in Morristown. Rossie and Hammond, St. Lawrence county. He mar-


( H) Chauncey, only son of Arnold and Mercy (Dexter ) Smith, was born January 2. 1815. in Morristown. New York, and died April 22. 1875. He received a com- mon school education and became a farmer in St. Lawrence county. Like his father he was also a hotelkeeper; in political views he was a Democrat. He died at Gouverneur. St. Lawrence county. Chauncey Smith mar- ried Eliza E., daughter of Sylvester and . \1- mira ( Wright ) Pond, born May 30, 1817, at Addison. Vermont. The father of Sylvester. Samuel Pond, was one of the minute-men mustered near Barre, who marched April 20. 1775. under Captain Black. He was a descendant of Daniel Pond, of Dedham. Massachusetts ( 1652). Children of Chaun- cey and Eliza E. (Pondo) Smith : 1. Arnold E. 2. Augusta Minerva, born October 7. 1845: married David Proudfoot, a coal dealer of Cambridge, Massachusetts; chil- dren : David C., and Arnold S. 3. Morris Ford, born September 24. 1846: a gunmaker and inventor. living in Philadelphia; mar- ried. March 3. 1869. Harriet Taylor ; chil- dren : Elizabeth E. and Clyde.


(III ) AArnold Esek. elder of the two sons of Chauncey and Eliza E. ( Pond ) Smith. was born February 2, 1841. in Hammond. St. Lawrence county, New York, and re- ceived his primary education in the public schools of his native town. Later he went four terms to select schools and Gouverneur Academy. After teaching school a short time he located in Ogdensburg in 1861. and began studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1863. and appointed assistant postmaster of Ogdensburg, serving in 1863- 64: spent a short time in Chicago, after which he returned to Ogdensburg, and in IS6; entered the insurance office of S. H. Palmer as clerk. In 1868 he opened an in- surance agency of his own, and in 1874 purchased an interest in the business of Mr. Palmer, and for a year the firm did business as Palmer & Smith. In 1875 he took over


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the entire business, and until 1888 conducted it independently, engaging considerably as an adjuster of fire losses in northern New York. In 1888 he admitted his son as part- ner. He is now a director of the Loan As- sociation, also of the Ogdensburg Improve- ment Company. In politics he is a staunch Republican, and has hell several public of- fices, serving 1870-77 as justice of the peace. one term as alderman, one term as super- visor, three termis ( 1885-1903) as county treasurer, and also six years as member of the Board of Public Works of Ogdensburg. He is one of the representative business men of the city and an influential citizen. He has paid close attention to his business inter- ests, and has met with gratifying success. He has been highly honored by his fellow- citizens, and has fully justified the confidence placed in him. He belongs to Acacian Lodge. No. 705. Free and Accepted Masons, of Ogdensburg. Mr. Smith married. April 14. 1864. Almira Louisa, daughter of James and Mary Brown, of Ogdensburg, and they have one child. Edwin C. J.


(IV) Edwin Chauncey James, only son of Arnold E. and Almira Louisa ( Brown ) Smith, was born August 8. 1867. in Og- densburg. New York. He was educated in the city schools and Ogdensburg Academy. and became a partner in the insurance busi- ness with his father in 1888. under the firm name of A. E. Smith & Son. Since 1899 he has been deputy United States marshal. Ile is an enterprising, keen man of business. and a public-spirited citizen. Mi. Smith is a member of the Benevolent Protective Or- der of Elks. No. 772, and Knights of Pythias. No. 392. of Ogdensburg. He mar- ried. April 24. 1800. Edith F .. daughter of Robert Ives, born April 12. 1868, in Pres- cott. Ontario. Children : Arnold, born April 9. 1900: Chauncey, July 17. 1901.


William Smith, of a Connecti- SMITH eutt family. removed from that state to Shelburne. Vermont, in the spring of 1780, and settled on the shores


of Lake Champlain, on a point of land after- ward known as Quaker Smith's Point. He was doubtless a member of the Society of Friends, whence the name of the locality. This place is now owned by Dr. Seward Webb. He was probably a descendant of the Deerfield family of Smith, from which many of the Connecticut branches are de- scended.


( IE) Caleb, son of William Smith, was born in Connecticut, in 1763. He married Sally, daughter of Dr. Jacob Ruback, a Ger- man surgeon in the American army in the revolution. He deserted from the British army and finally settled at Grand Isle. Ver- mont, being the only physician in that sec- tion for many years. Caleb Smith came to Vermont with his father and made his home in Shelburne until the winter of 1796, when he moved with his family across the lake on the ice to Willsborough Point, New York, where he died November 7. 1844. Among a family of ten or twelve children was James, mentioned below.


( III) James, son of Caleb Smith, was born at Shelburne, Vermont, October 2, 1793. died at Willsborough, New York, May 15. 1871. He came with his parents in 1796, and served in the war of 1812. He settled on a farm near the end of Wills- borough Point. He was a well-to-do farmer and prominent citizen, and for many years a justice of the peace of the town. He mar- ried Julia Adsit, born August 18. 1802, died 1886. daughter of Jacob and Hannah ( Hale ) Adsit. Children: 1. Wallace, born 1820. now living at Willsborough. 2. Ira Hinckley, mentioned below. 3. Elvira. mar- ried Hiram Morehouse, who was a descend- ant of Thomas Morehouse. a pioneer at Wethersfield. Connecticut, in 1640. The widow of James Smith was a pensioner of the war of 1812.


(}\') Fra Hinckley, son of James Smith. was born at Willsborough Point. December 20. 1828. died there August 23. 1863. He was educated in the district schools of his motive town and at the Troy Conference


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Seminary at Poultney, Vermont. He worked on his father's farm when a boy and con- tinned the life of a farmer in later years. He succeeded to the homestead and his par- ents lived with him in their declining years. He was prosperous in business and promi- nent in public affairs. He was a Republican in politics, and was for a time supervisor of the town. In religion he was a Methodist. and he was trustee of the church and promi- nent in the raising of funds to build the 1853. Mary Elizabeth. born at Wills- borough. New York, January 1, 1831, died in 1895. daughter of Andrew and Sally ( Woodruff ) Morehouse. She was a de- scendant of Thomas Morehouse, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield. Connecticut. and Stamford. Children of Ira Hinckley Smith : 1. Rev. Milford Hale, born April 25. 1855 : member of the Troy conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and at pres- ent pastor of Grace church at Albany, New York; married Emma Jane Knowles, of Peru. New York, son of Dr. Ray E. Knowles, physician, practicing at Rutland. 2. Alberti Decatur, mentioned below.


(V) Alberti Decatur. son of Ira Hinck- ley Smith, was born at Willsborough, New York, May 7. 1858. He attended the dis- trict and select schools of his native town and the Elizabethtown Academy, and fol- bowed farming in his youth on the home- stead. He in turn succeeded to the farm that his father and grandfather hud owned. He established in 1886 the first creamery in Essex county and conducted it in connection with his farm until iooo, and since then has devoted his attention to his duties as super- intendent of the poor of the county. In politics he is a Republican. He was as- sessor of the town of Willsborough for six years and justice of the peace of that town for several terms. He is a member of Iro- quois Lodge, No. 715. Free and Accepted Masons, of Essex. New York, of which he is now junior warden ; of Cedar Point Chap- ter. No. 269, Royal Arch Masons, of Port


Henry; of the Whallonsburg Grange, No. 954, Patrons of Husbandry. He is well known and highly respected throughout the county. He married. April 4, 1887, Bertha Ames, of Willsborough, daughter of Ben- jamin and Hannah ( Babcock ) Ames. Chil- dren: 1. James, born February 13, 1889; attending the Rensselaer Polytechnic School of Troy. 2. Harold Hinckley, November 16. 1890. 3. Rupert (twin), December 26. 1892. 4. Ruth ( twin). December 26, 1892. August 13, 1898.


church edifice. He married. September 19. . 5. Mary. December 14, 1895. 6. Emma L.,


(The Hale Line).


Samuel Hale, first American ancestor, was born in England, A. D .. 1610. The exact date of his coming to America is not known. but he is known to have been a settler at Hartford. Connecticut, in 1637, and that he bought land on the east side of the river Connecticut in 1639. He served in the Pe- quot war, with his brother Thomas. for which he received a lot in the Soldiers' Field, and a grant of fifty acres was made to his heirs "for his services in the Pequot Warre." In 1643 he resided in Wethersfield. Con- nectient, moving to Norwalk, where he lived in 1655. While living in Norwalk he rep- resented that town in the general court in 1656-57-60. He returned to Wethersfield! in 1660, living in that part now Glastonbury, where he is reputed as having been a lead- ing man. He died there November 9. 1603. His wife's given name was Mary, thought by some to have been Mary Wells, but her maiden name is not certainly known. His ance-try is not definitely known, but at the time when the settlement of New England was begun there were in England at least three large families of Hales in different parts of the kingdom, viz: The Hales of Kent, the Hales of Hertford, and the Hales of Gloucestershire, and it is believed that Samuel, of Hartford, was descended from one of these. Contemporary with Samud Hale in this country was Thomas Hale, of Newbury, Massachusetts, and Deacon Rob-


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ert Hale, of Charleston, Massachusetts, 1630. and from these three all the Hales of New England stock are descended. They are not known to have been related. the Thomas Hale of Newbury not being the Thomas spoken of as having served in the Pequot war with his brother Samuel. Chil- dren: Martha. born 1643: Samuel, 1645: John, February 21, 1647 : Mary, 1649: Re- bekah, 1651: Thomas, mentioned below ; Ebenezer. 1601: Dorothy.


( II) Thomas, son of Samuel Hale, was born in 1653, probably at Wethersfield. He married Naomi Kilburn, most likely at Wethersfield. now Glastonbury. He died December 23. 1723. Children : Naomi, born September 20. 1680: Mary. November 20. 1682: Thomas, mentioned below : Ruth; Eunice ; Thncthy, 1692.


(III) Themas (2), son cf Thomas (I) Hale, was born Jantar: 26, 1084. He mar- ried Susannah. daughter of Nathaniel Smith. He lived at Glastonbury. Connecti- cut, all of his life. Only one child known of. Moses, mentioned belowv.


(IV) Moses, son of Thomas (2) Hale. was born at Glastonbury, Connecticut. He married Mary Edwards, of Middletown. Connecticut. He was at one time a resi- dent of Lanesboro, Massachusetts. He was one of the original proprietors of the town of Rutland, Vermont, a grant of land having been given by George the Ill., of Englan 1. to seventy men known as the "Original Pro- prietors," of the town of Rutland. This grant was something over six miles square. and contained about twenty-six thousand five hundred acres. "to be divided among them in seventy equal shares." The records of the town show that he was at one time the owner of over two thousand acres, a large part of which was within the present city of Rutland, including Main street, North and South, and all East. He left, as a family relic, his Bible to be given to "such of his descendants as should be named Moses." This Bible passed first into the hands of his son, Moses, Jr., second to Moses B., son of


Moses, Jr .. and is now a much-prized je- session in the family of S. Moses Hale, North Stockholm Station, New York, and 1 vet in a good state of preservation. It was printed in 1791. Milford Hale Smith, of Rutland, Vermont, writes: "In the old graveyard on North Main St., in the city ci Rutland. I have found four tombs with the following inscriptions: (1) Thomas Hale. B. 1755. D. Oct. 29. 1812. A. 57': (2) Ruth Hale, wife of Thomas Hale. B. 1757- D. Jan. 27. 1801. A. 44'; (3) 'Joseph Hale. son of Thomas and Ruth Hale. B. 1779. D. April. 1800': (4) 'Sarah Hale, Dau. of Thomas Hale. B. 1777. D. July 4. 1801.' 1 am unable to find the tomb of Moses Hale." The above-mentioned tombs are, no doubt. those of Thomas, the second son of Moses. and his wife and two children. Children: Mercy: Thomas, born 1755; Josiah, men- tioned below ; Asa, lived in Rutland ; Chine. died in infancy: David, moved to Boston : William, born July 1, 1767; Hial; Moses. Jr .. died 1840: Sarah.


(V) Josiah, son of Moses Hale, was born in 1757. probably at Glastonbury. Connecti- cut. He married Abigail Williams in Rut- land, Vermont. August 5. 1778. She was bern 1760. daughter of -- and Abigail ( Girley ) Williams. He lived in Rutland un- til between 178; and 1790, when he moved to Middlebury, Vermont, where he lived till 1706. in which year he moved to Georgia. Vermont. where he died July 1. ISII. His wife died January 5, 1808. Children : Han- nth, mentioned below : Elisha, born January 9. 1782: Experience, May TI, 1784: Sarah Mariah. September 29, 1786; Daniel Meses. April 21. 1701 : Josiah, Ist, August 5. 1788: Abigail. January 26, 1794: Mary, April 19. 1,06: Josiah, 2nd., June 7. 1799; Joanna. twin of Josiah. 2nd


(VI) Hannah, daughter of Josiah Hale. was born in Rutland. Vermont, March 25. 1780. She married. August 30, 1800. Jacob Adsit. His ancestry has been traced back to ore John Adsit, who settled in Lyme. Crimecticut, 1716. His son, Samuel, bern


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1719. lived in Lyme till about 1760, then moved to Stanford. Dutchess county, New York. His son, Samuel, Jr., born Stanford. 1754. served in the revolutionary war. in Peter Van Ness' regiment. He married Phoebe Perdy, 1778, and moved to Wills- la rough Point. New York. His son, Jacob. who married Hannah Hale, was born in Stanford, 1780, and served in the war ci 1812. He was a farmer and is said to have len a noted mathematician. Of his wife. Hannah, but little knowledge comes to us. She died January 20, 1805, at Willsborough Point, New York. in the prime of life. leav- ing two children. He married ( second ). at Willsborough Point, about 1806, Sally Moore, born September 6, 1787, by whom he had fourteen children : Eurinda, Louisa. Alva. Elias. James. Moses, Enos. Plebe. Mary, David. William. Harvey, Him n. Iluldia. He died in Will-borough about 1852. and his second wife about 1864. and both are buried in Will-borough cemetery, and prob- ably his first wife also. The old log hou-e in which all his children by the second wife were born is still standing. Children by first wife : Jacob, born June 21, 1801 ; Julia. mentioned below.


(WH ) Julia Adsit, daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Hale ) Adsit, was born at Wills- borough Point, New York, August 18. 1802. She married, March 31, 1819. James Smith. of Willsborough Point, ,born in Shelburne. Vermont, October 2, 1793. son of Caleb and Sally ( Rubeck) Smith. She was of a literary turn of mind and was a poet of considerable local celebrity. ( See Smith III. )


George Smith, a native of New SMITIE Hampshire, removed to Ver- mort, and after living there a few years settled in Stockholm. New York. He was a farmer all his active life. He married Abigail --. Children : Gaius An- thony. deceased : Marvin D., mentioned be- low: Russell L. : and George C., who lives in Winthrop, New York, proprieter of a livery stable and hotel.


(II) Marvin D., son of George Rufu- Smith, was born in Vermont in 1822, and died at Stockholm in 1901. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. He allowed farming in Stockholm. In politics he was a Republican, and was active and earnest in supporting the candidates and measures of his party. He was an as sessor of the town of Stockholm, and als a highway commissioner. In religion he was a Methodist. He married ( first ) Mercy B. Norton, born in Vermont, daughter of Ru- fus Norton. Her father was justice of the pcace of the town. (See Norton. ) He married ( second) Caroline (Bigelow ), widow of Chester Taylor. Children, born at Stockholm; Sarah Alice, lives in Manitoba. Canada, married Charles Maynard, 3 farmer: George Rufus, mentioned below ; Mary E., lives in South Dakota, married Horace Palmer, a farmer : Effie, died, aged nine years. Child of see nd wife : Effie .1 .. married Robert Robson, of Stockholm.


(IHF) George Rufus, son of Marvin D. Smith, was born in Stockholm. May 30. 1850. He was educated in the district scho ils there, and at the Lawrenceville Academy. During his boyhood and for some years after he came of age, he worked in his father's grist mill and shingle mill. He spent 1871 in the western states, and since 1873 has been engaged in farming. He owns farms in Winthrop, Stockholm and Pots- dam. comprising about six hundred acres of land. In politics he is a Republican. He was constable for fourteen years in the town of Stockholm, inspector of elections four- teen years, and deputy sheriff nine years. He was elected sheriff of St. Lawrence county in 1895. and took office in 1896, re- moving at that time from Stockholm to Can- ton. the county seat. Since his term of ni- fice expired in 1899 he has lived at Pots- dam Village, and devoted his time to his farming interests. In 1004-05 he was street commissioner of Potsdam : also superintend- ent of the Agricultural Society. He is a stockholler in the Senater Trousers Minu-


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facturing Company, of Potsdam, and served as vice-president and director in 19os. In 1906-07 he was superintendent of an impor- tant Corporation Company, of St. Louis, Missouri, having charge of construction of electric car lines, bridges, etc. He is a mem- ber of Raquette River Lodge, No. 213, Free Masons. of Potsdam: of Excelsior Lodge, Odd Fellows. and of the local grange. Patrons of Husbandry. He is an active and prominent member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and a leader of the boys' class in . the Sunday school. He married ( first ). September 12. 1871. Clara A. Larrabee ; (second), September 13, 1883. Susan E .. daughter of James and Louise E. ( Emery ) Curtis, and widow of Bliss Jenkins. Chil- dren of first wife: 1. Edward E., married Marie Scott. and has son George. 2. Alberta MI., born May 3. 1875. married J. H. Dale. accountant in First Mechanics Bank. New York. 3. Clara Belle. July 13. 1879. died May 19. 1898. Children of second wife : 4. Wilton . A., born June 7. 1886: real estate broker in Kansas City, Missouri: married Aroline, daughter of Henry Pert ule- ceased), of Potsdam: child, Dorothy C. born April 16, 1906. 2. Winford A., born August 18. 1888: musician: lives with par- ents : married. August 19. 1909. Winifred I ... daughter of Benjamin and Emma ( Hoyt ) Cook, of Parishville. 3. Glenn W .. born March 26. 1802. 4. Grace B .. June 18. 1894.


(The Norton Line)


Nicholas Norton, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and settled in Weymouth. Massachusetts, among the pioneers. Febru- ary 20, 1639. he bought of Richard Stander- wick. of Broadway. Somersetshire, a clothier. all the cattle in the hands of Mr. Hull in New England. He was a prominent citizen and held various town offices. He removed to Martha's Vineyard. and died there in 1690. aged eighty years. Children : Isaac, born at Weymouth, May 3. 1641 : Ja- cob. March 1. 1644 : Nicholas, mentioned be-


(II) Nicholas (2), son of Nicholas (1) Norton, was born probably at Weymouth, before 1640. He removed from Weymouth to Edgartown. Martha's Vineyard, as early as 1009. His wife. Elizabeth, died in 1690. Children, four sons and seven daughters The sons appear to have been Joseph, Nicho- las, Ebenezer, and John ( mentioned below ) He also had grandsons Nathan. Jabez. Enoch, Matthew and Solomon, among the early settlers of Edgartown.


( III ) John, son of Nicholas (2) Nor- ton, was born in 1674, and died at Edgar- town. He married there, Hepzibah, daugh- ter of Enoch Coffin: she died, aged ninety years, at Edgartown. Children : Lydia, born June 31, 1726: Anna. October 9. 1737: John, March 18, 17440: Anna, baptized No- vember 14. 1742: Mary, June 23. 1743: Frances, February 7, 1745.




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