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(IV) Elihu, youngest son of Moses and Elizabeth Scott, was born in 1764. in Bernardston, was married October 17. 1792. to Han- nah Andrus, of Guilford, Vermont, daughter of Lieutenant Nehemiah and Hannah ( Fox) Andrus. He died April 22, 1840, aged about
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seventy-six years, and his wife survived until March 24. 1851. He was a farmer in Bernardston, and a member of the Congregational church. His children were: Zorah, Oreb, Henry, Philena, Roxana, Emerancy Climena and James Sullivan.
(V) Henry Scott, third child of Elihu and Hannah, was born October 2, 1790, in Bernardston. In 1812 he was a member of Captain David Strickland's company, Lieutenant Colonel Longley's regiment of infantry militia, stationed at Camp Commercial Point, Dorchester, going as a substitute for his brother, Zorah. After the war, being then eighteen years old, he left home and went to Newport, Herkimer county, New York, where he learned the carpenter's trade. About 1826 he came to Rutland, in this county, and was engaged in building for some ten years. He purchased a farm near Black River, on which he lived until 1859. He then retired from active labor and moved to Watertown, purchasing a place on upper State street, where he con- tinned to reside until his death, April 7, 1802. He took the premium offered by the Agricultural Society for the best kept farm, on several occasions. The stone walls built by him upon his Rutland farm, five miles in length, are still standing. The Methodist church being the only one near him after he came to this county, he united with it, and con- tinued a faithful member through life. Mr. Scott was a trustee of the Methodist church at Black River, elected in 1845, and was assessor and commissioner of highways of the town of Rutland. In politics he was independent in early life, and was among the founders of the Repub- lican party. He was married January 2, 1823. to Margaret Pierce, daughter of Nathaniel Pierce, a soldier of 1812, and his wife, Renewed Weeks. Nathaniel Pierce was the seventh child and sixth son of Ben- jamin Pairce (or Pearce), who came from England (his ancestors being French) and settled in life at Halifax. Vermont, having pre- viousiy married Margaret Allen, in Boston, and lived some years at Exeter, New Hampshire. He was a soldier of the Revolution, in Col- onel Samuel Fletcher's regiment of Vermont militia. The children of Henry and Margaret ( Pierce) Scott are accounted for as follows : Emerancy Climena married Sidney Sternburg, and their descendants are now found in Oswego county. Martha Ann was three times mar- ried. Her first husband was John Scott, the second Henry Sternburg, and the third Henry A. Seott. She now resides, a widow, in Colerain, Massachusetts. Sherman Wooster is now a resident of Estervan, Assiniboia. Canadian Northwest Territory. Charlotte Pierce married
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Warren W. Johnson, whom she survives, now residing on State street, Watertown.
(VI) Ross Clark Scott, fifth and youngest child of Henry and Margaret Scott, was born October 19, 1838, in Rutland, and had just attained his majority when he moved with his parents to Watertown. His early education was supplied by the public schools of his native county, and he prepared for college at the Gouverneur Wesleyan Semi- nary. In 1860 he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ence, from Genesee College, then located at Lima, New York, and which is now Syracuse University. After leaving college he studied lai with Bagely & Wright, attorneys of Watertown, and in 1863 he was admitted to the bar. From that time until his death he was engaged in the active practice of his profession except when his time was fully occupied with the duties of public office. He served as town clerk, justice of the peace, and as a member of the common council of Watertown, and in 1868 was appointed clerk of the surrogate's court. In the fall of that year he was elected special surrogate, and served in that capacity until 1877, when he was elected surrogate of Jefferson county. He held this office for three terms of six years each, retiring from office in 1895. During these long years of public service he enjoyed as high regard as a man as he won as an official. . He joined the Methodist Church when a boy, and continued this relation through life, acting as trustee of the State Street Church twelve years. He was one of the leaders of the Republican party in the county. He was con- nected with various financial interests in Watertown, and was for a long period of years a director of the National Union Bank and secre- tary of the Jefferson County Savings Bank, which positions he held at the time of luis death. In 1864 he became a member of Neptune Hose and Steamer Company No. I of the Watertown Fire Department, and was soon afterward elected a director of the company. In 1865 he was made secretary, and held that office at the time of his death. He was historian of the department, and had, probably, seen a longer term of continuous service than any other fireman in the state. In 1895 he was elected as the first president of the Jefferson County Volunteer Firemen's Association, and served three successive terms. He was a trustee of Syracuse University, and vice president of its Alumni Association in 1876-7. In 1873, this institution conferred upon him the degree of Master of Science. His affability and kindliness made him popular among any body of men with whom he was thrown, and his manage-
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ment added materially to the progress of any movement with which he was connected.
Mr. Scott married Fannie A., daughter of Judah and Almira (Smith) Lord (see Lord, VII). Three sons were born to the couple, namely : Evarts Lord, in 1866, who died in his tenth year ; Allyn Ross, November 23. 1874: and Charles Henry, August 15. 1882.
Mr. Scott died at his home in Watertown. September 20, 1898, and in his death the city lost a sterling citizen, and Jefferson county one of its best known public men. His widow survived until Sep- tember 1. 1903. when she passed away peacefully at her Watertown home. Their mortal remains were deposited in beautiful Brookside cemetery. Watertown.
LORD. This is among the oldest New England names, and has had to do with the formative period in the history of many localities in the United States, including this county, where it has numerous creditable representatives.
(I) The first of record in America was Thomas Lord, a smith, who sailed April 19, 1635. from London, England, in the ship Eliza- beth and Ann, being then fifty years old. He was accompanied by his wife. Dorothy, aged forty-six, and children: Thomas, aged sixteen ; Aun. fourteen: William, twelve: John, ten: Robert, nine: Ayme, six; and Dorothy, four. An adult son, Richard, was one of the passengers in the same ship. They located at Newtown (now Cambridge), Mas- sachusetts, but soon removed to Hartford. Connecticut, where father and son were among the original proprietors. Thomas Lord's home lot was on Little river (now Park river ). about where Wells street is now located, and Richard's was the next lot west. The parents were married in 1610. and the mother died in 1676. No record exists of the father's death. Mrs. Lord's will was sealed with the coat-of-arms of Laward, which name was shortened between 1380 and 1635 to Lord. Richard Lord was distinguished as an Indian fighter and was the first to organize a troop of horse for offensive action in the Indian wars. His son was subsequently secretary of the colony. Thomas, the second son, was a physician. the first in the colony, and was em- ployed under contract by the general court to treat the people of the Connecticut river settlements. He was to receive fifteen pounds sterling from the general treasury, and his fees were regulated by law, according to distance traveled-twelve pence in Hartford and up to
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eight shillings to Middletown ( then called Mattabeseck). This was in 1652, and he was exempted from trainings, watching and warding, but not from "finding armes," according to law. He died in 1662.
(II) William, third son and fourth child of Thomas and Dorothy Lord, was born in 1623, in England, was reared in Hartford, from the age of fifteen, and settled in early manhood in that part of old Saybrook which is now called Lyme, where he died May 17, 1678. His children were: William, Thomas, Richard, Mary. Robert, John, Joseph, Benjamin. Daniel. James and Samuel, beside three daughters whose names are not recorded.
(III) Thomas, second son of William Lord (1), born 1645, settled in Lyme, Connecticut, married Mary Lee, and died 1730.
(IV) Joseph, son of Thomas and Mary Lord, was born 1697, in Lyme married Abigail Comstock, and died 1736.
(V) Joseph, son of Joseph and Abigail Lord, was born 1730, in Lyme, and married Sarah Wade. He served as a soldier of the Revolution, in the Connecticut militia, and died 1788.
(VI) Captain Elisha Lord, born 1764, in Lyme, married there, January 25, 1786, Lydia Hayes. He died in Woodstock, Vermont, December 11, 1818, aged fifty-four years. He was a private in Enoch Reid's company of the First Connecticut militia, commanded by Colonel Josiah Starr, and in Captain David Beebe's company. Colonel Roger Enos' regiment. Subsequently he was captain of the Fourth Company, Third Regiment, Vermont Infantry Militia, First Brigade, Fourth Division. On May 29, 1788, he bought of Jonathan Grout one hundred acres of land, three and one-half miles south of the court house in Woodstock, Vermont, where he lived until his death. His children were: Phoebe. Fanny, William, Betsey, Azubah. Elisha, Elisha (2), Judah, Lydia, Henry and Louisa. Their mother died April 19, 1813, and on October 28, 1813, he married Mrs. Lydia (Fay) Upham, who bore him two daughters and a son-Julia Maria, Laura Lavina and Albert Elisha.
(VII) Judah Lord, fourth son and eighth child of Elisha and Lydia Lord, was born July 2, 1802, in Woodstock, Vermont, where he grew to man's estate. While yet a youth lie was employed in making plows, and in 1820 he came to Brownville, in this county, to join an older brother, Colonel William Lord, long a prominent citizen of that town. Here Judah Lord wooded the first plow constructed in northern New York, in his brother's establishment. In 1823 he came to Water-
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town and purchased land on Sewall's Island and built a shop where the works of the Bagley & Sewall Company are now located. He began the manufacture of plows and other tools, and continued success- fully until his plant was washed away by a freshet. He rebuilt at once, and was subsequently driven out of business by fire. From 1828 to 1835 he lived at Juhelville, and then moved to Brownville. From 1839 to 1841 he lived on a farm in the town of Hounsfield, and then re- turned to Watertown. He had retained his property on Sewall's Island, and now took up his residence there, being employed for some years as a pattern-maker by one of the imanufacturers of the town. In 1847 he rented ground on Beebe's Island and again began the manu- facture of plows and various agricultural implements, and the business grew rapidly under his skillful hands. After three years his nephew, Gilderoy Lord, and Mr. Frank Gregory became associated with him, forming the firm of J. & G. Lord & Company. With enlarged capital a shop was built, and a large variety of products was turned out. Mr. Lord invented a rotary stove, which was made by the firm and largely sold in this section. He also made many improvements in plows, and in mowing machines, and the "Young America" mower was an im- portant part of the output, which included wood furnaces. The plows are still made in the same shop. by George Lance. In 1865 Judah Lord sold out to his nephew, and soon after joined with Judge Charles D. Wright, John Sheldon and the inventor, in making the Davis sewing machine, Mr. Lord acting as superintendent of the plant. Failing health finally compelled him to retire from active business, and he died Febru- ary 29. 1876, at his home, on State street, in Watertown. He was thoroughly possessed of the Yankee ingenuity which will undertake to make "anything anybody else can make," and also had the habits of industry and steady application which have made his confreres pre- eminent all over the world. That he was not easily disheartened is shown by his frequent resumption of business, after being once almost ruined by flood and twice by fire. An unassuming but public-spirited citizen, he was genial and lovable by nature, and was respected by all. For more than forty-four years he was a member of the Methodist church, and was one of the charter members of the State Street con- gregation and long one of its trustees, serving also as steward. In 1831-2 he was drum major of the Continental Band, a local organiza- tion. A Whig in early life, he became a Republican upon the organiza-
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tion of the party. He was justice of the peace in the town of Pamelia about 1832, and a trustee of the village of Brownville in 1837.
Mr. Lord was married September 22, 1825, to Miss Almira, daughter of Benjamin and Polly ( Morris) Smith, who came from Chester, Vermont, and settled in the town of Hounsfield, this county. Five daughters were born to Judah Lord and wife. Mary Jane, Sep- tember 6, 1826, resides in Watertown, the wife of James DeLong. Cornelia Juhel, April 14, 1829, the first child born in Juhelville, was named by Madame Juhel. She died at the age of twenty-five years. unmarried. Frances Louisa, August 10. 1831, died when one year old. Lydia Caroline. June 23, 1834. resides in Watertown, having been long the companion of her younger sister. Mrs. Ross C. Scott (Frances Amelia). who was born December 25. 1841 ( See Scott, VI).
STERNBERG FAMILY. The first of the Sternberg's to arrive in America was one Lambert, in 1703. He came from Saxony, Ger- many, and settled in Albany county, New York. Of his history but little is known except that he had four sons-Nicholas, Lambert, Adam and David. The family record of Nicholas, in German text, is in pos- session of Jerome L. Sternberg, of Erie, Pennsylvania, and as rendered into English at that time, is as follows:
Nicholas Sternberger, born January 13. 1723: imarried Catherine Rickart, October 4, 1758. to whom were born the following named children : Lambert, born August 22, 1759: Elizabeth, born May 22, 1761 ; Catherina, born July 9, 1763 ; Nicholas, born November 30, 1765 ; Johannes, born February I, 1768; Piffer (Peter) born June 30. 1770; Marcus, born March 12, 1773; Adam, born March 21, 1775: Abraham, born March 3, 1777; David, born July 7. 1779.
Of the other three brothers no authentic history has been obtain- able, except that of J. H. Sternberghi, an extensive manufacturer of Reading, Pennsylvania, who claims to be the great-grandson of Adam.
.The occupation of Nicholas was that of farmer and dealer or spec- ulator in landed property. There is now in possession of the descend- ants of Nicholas Sternberger the original grant of nine thousand acres of land to the Sternbergers and others in Schoharie county (then known as Albany county), and which grant was called New Dorlock. The patent is dated 1766, and bears the seal of King George III. The name also appears upon the records in the comptroller's office of New York on an account of persons who were qualified to the losses Suis-
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tained on said landed property by the army of the revolution. In the office of the secretary of state he is recorded as having served in the Albany county inilitia, Fifteenth Regiment, in the war of the revolu- tion. A section of the above nine thousand acres grant is now owned and occupied by the descendants of Johannes, who was the son of Nicholas, and is located in Seward, Schoharie county. In the history of Schoharie county the Sternbergs have the credit of building the first grist or flouring mill. The original translation of the name from German into English was Sternberger. but Rev. Levi Sternberg, D. D., who was a grandson of Nicholas, declared that Sternberg was a better translation than Sternberger, and, being a very learned man of his day, his spelling has been adopted by the generations following. He was principal of the Hartwick Seminary, Otsego county, for many years, and father of George M. Sternberg. surgeon-general of the United States army and navy. General Sternberg was born June 8, 1838; was appointed assistant surgeon May 28, 1861; was appointed surgeon- general May, 1893, and continued to perform the duties of that office until retired, about 1902.
Jerome L. Sternberg, to whom the writer owes much for his assistance in compiling this history, is a banker of Erie, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Abraham, who was the son of Johannes (now called John), who was the son of Nicholas. His mother, with her son, now resides upon a section of the original grant from King George to the Sternbergs and others, bearing date of 1776, and located in Seward, Schoharie county.
Abraham, son of Nicholas, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born March 3, 1777. He married Margaret Stern- berg, born February 25, 1777, in the town of Palatine, Montgomery county. To them were born the following children: I. David, born May 23, 1801 ; died March 4, 1803. 2. Caty, born May 12. 1803, died May 21, 1813. 3. Archibald, born May 20, 1805; died December 25, 1889. 4. Darwin, born July 11, 1807: died August 4. 1827. 5. Gabriel, born March 10, 1810 (record of death has not been obtained). 6. Margaret, born July 23, 1813 : died February 13, 1845. 7. Eliza- beth, born February 2, 1816; yet living with Elias G. 8. Maria, born July 2, 1818, died June 5, 1889.
Dr. Abraham Sternberg was a skillful physician, with a large prac- tice at the time of his death, which occurred February 6, 1833, at the early age of fifty-six years.
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Archibald, father of Elias, was born May 20, 1805. He received his education in the common and select schools of Montgomery county. At an early age he commenced teaching school, and for nine consecu- tive years he taught in the district in which his father resided. During this time he studied medicine with his father, and at an early age as- sisted his father to amputate a limb. The ghastly appearance of the removed limb haunted his mental vision so that he was unable to sleep for many days, and on this account he was dissuaded from the further study of medicine. About this time he was elected town clerk of the town of Palatine. Being the oldest son he assumed the care of his father's family after his death, and on account of his inability to follow the medical profession, as mentioned above, he came to Jefferson county and purchased a farin, to which he moved in the spring of 1835 with his wife and family of four children, his mother, one brother and two sisters. Here he spent the remainder of his life in the pursuit of agriculture. Being an expert penman and accountant, he was much employed by the people of the vicinity and surrounding towns to settle up accounts and mortgages of long standing, and to draft deeds, wills, contracts, etc. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity ; was master of the Stonemills Lodge for many years, and afterward organized a lodge at Depauville, of which he was master for a number of years. He took great interest in all matters connected with Masonry, and by request frequently took charge of funerals of deceased brothers. Mr. Sternberg and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, and he was one of the committee to build the Union Church at Perch River of which he was deacon and trustee to the time of his death.
Mr. Sternberg married Maria Brower, of the town of Palatine, Montgomery county, and to them were born the following children :
I. Darwin, born February 7, 1829; died February 16, 1830.
2. Lany Ann, born July 2, 1830; married Charles Calkins, and to them were born two daughters, Eva and Addie; died June 8, 1884
3. Luther G., born August 7, 1832; married Martha Zimmer- man, and to them were born two children, Emma and Perlie. He now resides upon his farm in the town of Brownville.
4-5. Margaret and Abraham D. (twins) horn December 11, 1834. Margaret married Henry Witt, and to them were born three children, Lambert, Abraham and Almira. She is still living upon the old Witt homestead in the town of Brownville.
Abraham D. Sternberg was educated in the common and select
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schools of the town, at the Jefferson County Institute, and at the State Normal School in Albany. He taught school in Watertown for a number of years. He studied law with the firm of Brown & Beach, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in Watertown. In politics he was a Democrat, and was often engaged to speak at political meet- ings in the county. He was an interesting speaker. of fine personal figure and commanding address. He assisted in recruiting the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers for service in the war of the rebellion, of which regiment he was appointed major. He was nominated for sheriff of Jefferson county upon the Democratic ticket in 1887. The Republican majority on the state ticket that year was 1.346, yet Major Sternberg was defeated by only eighty-three votes. He was a man of great force and energy. Whether he was hoeing a row of corn upon his father's farm, engaged in a wrestling match (of which he had many in his younger days), or trying a lawsuit before a stupid justice of the peace, he could brook no defeat. He married Sarah Smith. April 15, 1889. and to them was born a daughter, Ethel. June 20, 1890. He dicd February 18. 1891.
6. Elias G., mentioned hereinafter.
7. Mary, born August 14. 1839; married G. A. Bradner, and to them was born one son Brayton, who now resides in Syracuse. She died February 13, 1858.
8. Sarah, born July 27, 1842. She taught school a number of terms. She married A. L. Grant, and to them was born one son, Alva. They now own and occupy the old Sternberg homestead in the town of Brownville.
9. Almira, born November 1. 1847, married Stephen Smith, and to them were born three children-Sada, Ward and Herman. She died in June, 1893.
Mrs. Sternberg. the mother of this family, passed away June 6, 1876, and the death of Mr. Sternberg occurred December 25. 1889. Both are remembered with love and gratitude by their children and grandchildren, and with sincere affection and respect by those who enjoyed their friendship.
Elias G., son of Archibald, grandson of Abraham, great-grandson of Nicholas, and great-great-grandson of Lambert Sternberg, who came from Germany in 1703. was born May 6. 1837. upon his father's farm. where he resided until he was seventeen years old. His opportunities to this time for an education were very meagre, the nearest school being
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about three miles distant. The years of his youth were therefore occu- pied in assisting his father to clear the farm of its dense forest, and to raise the crops necessary for the support of a large family. The only source for recreation or enjoyment for a boy in those days was in hunt- ing or trapping, and his only source of income was the sale of pelts thus obtained for the purchase of traps and ammunition. An event of his youth which is most vivid in his recollection occurred when he was about twelve years old. While standing upon a platform in his father's barn, in the act of gathering eggs, the scaffolding gave away and he was precipitated twelve feet upon the bare barn floor. For many hours he was unconscious, and for many days in the balance between life and death, and it was many months before he regained his usual good health and vigor which has served him so well during his eventful life. At the age of seventeen he commenced the study of grammar at the Jefferson County Institute in Watertown. He roomed and boarded himself at the rear of the institution, in a building which was erected to accommodate students who were unable to hire their board, and which was known by the very appropriate name of "Pancake Hall." He attended school here during the winter terms for about three years. working upon his father's farm during the summers. At the age of twenty he taught school. At the age of twenty-two he attended the State Normal School at Albany for one year of two terms of five months each. At the closing exercises of each term he was chosen by the liter- ary society of the school to deliver the oration. He taught school for a number of years in Watertown and other towns of the county, during which time he took great interest in the proper management and disci- pline of schools, and was a successful teacher. He frequently lectured upon scientific and educational subjects at school picnics and other gatherings. He was one of a committee to build a Good Templars' hall at Perch River, and he was chosen chief templar for a number of terms. He furnished substitutes in the war of the Rebellion for himself. his brother Luther and many others. He also assisted his brother Abraham D. in recruiting the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Regi- ment, of which he was appointed major. About this time he purchased a farm of one hundred and forty acres adjoining his father's old home- stead, and gave his attention to agriculture. He was one of the first to own and operate a haypress in Jefferson county. He purchased large quantities of hay and grain, which he shipped to the markets in the eastern cities. In 1873 he purchased two hundred acres in addition
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