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Mr. Dunlap was married February 13, 1877, to Miss Belle M. Smith, who was born January 9, 1849, in Lamartine, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin. Her father, Andrew Smith, born 1813, was a native of New Hampshire. He was a schoolmate of John Wentworth, one of the early mayors of Chicago, known to all his associates as "Long John." Mr. Smith could see no advantages in the muddy marsh which Chicago then occupied, and pushed on to Wisconsin, where he could buy solid agricultural land. He became the owner of a large farm, and died there, December 12, 1893, aged eighty-four years. Two children
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complete the family of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, namely : John Norris and Ruth M. The son graduated in 1903 from the Cheltenham Military Academy at Ogontz, Pennsylvania, and the daughter is a student, resid- ing with her parents.
Mrs. Dunlap was one of six children, of whom five are living, she being the eldest. They are: Mrs. Annis, living in Minnesota; Fred, of Lamartine, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin: Mrs. Ed. Crosby, of Lake Charles, Louisiana: Mrs. John Kellogg, of Eden. Fond du Lac county. Wisconsin. The mother of this family is living on the old homestead at Fond du Lac. Her father was from Granby, Connecticut, and died at the age of sixty years. Mrs. Dunlap's grandmother was a Dorwin.
DANIEL DWIGHT LYON, an energetic and successful business man of Watertown, esteemed as a citizen, is a native of the city, whose development and growth are sources of pride and satisfaction to him, as to many others of her loyal citizens. His ancestors came from Leeds, England, and were early in Rhode Island. Dr. Benjamin Lyon, a na- tive of Rhode Island, was born April 5. 1770, and died October 24, 1826, in Russia, Herkimer county, this state. His father is supposed to have come from Leeds, England. He was married in 1801. to Mar- garet Duncan, who was born December 23. 1780, of Scotch ancestry, and died July 5. 1820, 111 Oppenheim, New York, where Dr. Lyon prac- ticed medicine all his active life. She was the mother of nine children. Dr. Lyon married. May 26, 1822, Rosannah Hall, who died in Russia, New York, leaving four children. The children of Margaret (Duncan) Lyon were: Charles W., Elenor. Julia Ann, Eliza, Charlotte, Mary, Frances, John and George Duncan. Those of Rosannah (Hall) Lyon were: Margaret M., Lucretia C., and Benjamin and Elisha, twins.
Charles W. Lyon, eldest child of Dr. Benjamin Lyon, was born March 4. 1802, in Oppenheim, Fulton county. this state, and died Feb- ruary 1. 1866, in Ogdensburg. He lived some years at Hammond and established a trucking business here about 1840, which has since been conducted, in tuin. by his son and grandson. He was married. May 15, 1822, to Lydia Woodin, who was born April 18. 1799. in Herkimer county, and died February 27. 1837, in Hammond, being the mother of seven children. On June 24. 1837. Mr. Lyon married Sally Taplin, who died within a year. He was married. February 22, 1841. to Par- thenia Chase, who was born February 6. 1805. and died June 25. 1853.
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having borne four children. September 11, 1853. Mr. Lyon married Harriet Turner, born May 5, 1821, who bore him two children, and now resides in Watertown. Following appears brief mention of Mr. Lyon's children: Eleanor Cornelia is the widow of Fred Litzenthaler, residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. James Bela, died in Watertown. Sarah Eliza, widow of William Gleason, lives in Chicago. Ann Maria, wife of Gilbert Burnham, died at Coopersville, Michigan. Lydia Rebecca dicd early. Lucretia Sylvia, widow of Justus Ferguson, lives in Coop- ersville, Michigan. Benjamin George, died in boyhood. Margaret E., eldest of Parthenia (Chase) Lyon's children, died unmarried. Mary J. died in childhood. Frances .\. is the wife of William C. Easterly, of Watertown. George S. did not survive the period of childhood. Charles W. died at the age of eight years, and William H. is a resident of Wa- tertown.
James B. Lyon, eldest son and second child of Charles W. and Lydia (Woodin) Lyon, was born October 13. 1824. in Herkimer county, and died February 27, 1891. in Watertown. He was a very estimable man and useful member of society. He carried on the busi- ness established by his father in Watertown, where he was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of its choir. He married, January 26, 1851, Martha, daughter of Sanford and Elizabeth (Garey) Rickerson, who survives him and resides in Watertown. aged seventy-two years. Of their eleven children, five are now living, namely: Mary, wife of George Balmer, of Min- neapolis, Minnesota : George W., a resident of Watertown; Daniel D .. mentioned further below : Carrie C., Mrs. William Hatch, of Syracuse : and Frances B., wife of John Kirkpatrick, of Tamworth, Ontario. Five died in childhood. Addie V., wife of John Donaldson, died in Water- town, leaving a son, Charles Lyon.
Daniel D. Lyon, son of James B. and Martha ( Rickerson) Lyon, was born July 20, 1857, in Watertown, and received his education in the public schools of the village and city. He spent eighteen years in Dakota, where he took up land before it was surveyed. During most of his stay in the west he conducted a mercantile business at Rapid City, and returned to Watertown in 1885. 'Thirteen years later he took charge of the trucking business established more than sixty years ago by his grandfather, which he has since conducted in such a manner as not only to maintain it in its former flourishing condition but to greatly in- crease and strengthen its profits and connections. In 1899 he added
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the storage business, renting an abandoned malt house, on Court street, and this feature of the business has grown greatly and is still increas- ing. He employs about a dozen men and several teams of his own, and does an extensive freight transfer business, handling many carload lots. Mr. Lyon is not actively engaged in politics, having little time to spare from the demands of his business, but he is ever ready to act the part of a good citizen and never fails to show an interest in every project hav- ing for its object the welfare of the community. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, affiliating with Watertown Lodge No. 222, of Watertown.
Mr. Lyon marricd, June 20, 1900, Dora, daughter of Edward and Laura (Perkins) Ball, and granddaughter of Charles Ball, a farmer, who resided near Boonville. Laura Perkins was born at Boonville, a daughter of James Perkins.
WILDER. Numerous representatives of this name are now found in Jefferson county, and descendants bearing other names are also found. The name is a most ancient one, and was prominent in England long before the Puritan movement to New England.
Thomas Wilder, son of John, grandson of John, and great-grand- son of Nicholas Wilder, was of Shiplake, Oxon, proprietor of the Sul- ham estate, in Berkes county, England. His wife's name was Martha.
Sulham House and Church are of peculiar interest to the Wilders. The Sulham estate is the inheritance given by Henry VII. to Nicholas Wilder in April, 1497. Around that church lie the remains of the suc- cessive inheritors of the estate. Four of the line have been rectors of the parish. John, the grandson of Nicholas, and grandfather of the emigrant ancestor, Thomas, first above-named, married the only daugh- ter and heiress of Thomas Keates, Esquire. He built the Sulham house. It was given, in 1582, by entail, to William Wilder, their son. It has ever been in the possession of the Wilder family, and is now occupied by John Wilder, D. D., rector of the parish, who on his accession to the rectorship greatly improved the church and grounds.
(I) On the list of passengers of the ship Confidence, which sailed in 1638 from Southampton for Massachusetts Bay, were Widow Mar- tha Wilder and daughter, Mary. It is represented that they landed at Hingham. The town records show that the town made grants of land to Martha and Edward Wilder. Thomas Wilder and wife Martha, of Shiplake, had children; John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Edward and Mary.
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Thomas Wilder (2), son of Thomas and Martha, born in 1618. married (in 1640-1) Anna - He was received into the church at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1640, and was made a freeman in the following year. He was a man of good Christian character and business talents and while in Charlestown was connected with positions of trust. In 1659 he removed, with his family. to Nashawena, now Lancaster, Massachusetts, and was a leader in the town until his death, in 1667. His widow died in 1692. Their children were: Mary, born June 30, 1642; Thomas, September 14. 1644; John. 1646: Elizabeth, 1648; Nathaniel. November 3. 1650.
(II) Thomas (3), son of Thomas and Anna Wilder, born Septen- ber 14, 1644, married (June 17, 1668) Mary Houghton. Mr. Wilder was executor of his father's will, and succeeded to his estate in Lan- caster. His eldest child known was born in 1680, and it is thought not improbable that other children were lost in Indian massacres. Those known were: James, born in 1680; Joseph, July 5. 1683 : Mary, Janu- ary 22, 1685; Elizabeth, in 1687; Anna, in 1689; Sarah, in 1691.
(III) Joseph, second known son and child of Thomas and Mary Wilder, married, in 1702, Lucy Gardner, who was born in 1679, daugh- ter of Captain Andrew Gardner. Mr. Wilder, though he had only or- dinary advantages for obtaining an education and means of culture, was a man of great intellectual power. At an early day he was judge of the courts in the province of Maine, then a part of Massachusetts. In 1720, 1725-6, he was a representative in the general court, and in 1732 he was appointed judge of the common pleas court for Worcester county, and from 1741 until his death he was its chief justice. In 1739 he was made judge of probate for Worcester county, which office he also held until his death. He was a man of incorruptible piety and integrity, and left his impress upon the church and the community to a most remark- able extent. His four sons were all cminent men. They were: Thomas, born 1704; Andrew, December 28, 1706; Joseph, December, 1708; Ca- leb, 1710.
(IV) Thomas, eldest son of Joseph and Lucy Wilder, married, in 1730, Mary White, eldest daughter of Deacon Josiah and Abigail (Whitcomb) White. She was born March 31. 1707, in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and died there at the age of eighty-four years. Mr. Wilder settled in the northwestern part of the "New Purchase," now Leominster, as a farmer, and was a successful one. His children were born as follows: Mary, September 12, 1733; Sarah, May 10, 1735;
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Thomas, September 15, 1737; Anna, June 10, 1739; Abel, September 7, 1741, Eunice, in 1743; and Joseph, of Winchendon.
(V) Thomas, eldest son and third child of Thomas and Mary Wilder, married, in 1759, Abigail Carter, born March, 1741. They set- tled in Winchendon, where they resided until the contest with England, which ended in the revolution, waxed warm and portended war, when they returned to Leominster. Their children were: Abel; Peter An drew, August 12, 1761 ; Elizabeth, born 1762; Vashti, 1764; Lucretia, in 1767; Abigail, David and Susannah.
(VI) Abel, eldest child of Thomas and Abigail Wilder, born September 7, 1760, in Winchendon, Massachusetts, and passed his life as a farmer in East Charlemont, Franklin county, Massachusetts, where he was the owner of about one hundred and fifty acres on the Deerfield river. For many years he acted as justice of the peace, and was a man highly respected by his neighbors. His wife, Dorothy Kemp, was a native of New Hampshire, and died . April 14, 1839, having survived her her husband more than fourteen years. He passed away January 29, 1825. They had two sons and four or five daughters. The younger son, Peter Wilder, lived and died in East Charlemont. He was twice married, and had a son and a daughter. The son was a soldier in the civil war and lost his life in the country's service.
(VII) Abel Wilder, elder son of Abel and Dorothy Wilder, was born September 7, 1793, in East Charlemont, Massachusetts, and was reared upon his father's farm there. He was married, October 23, 1817, to Miss Hannah Johnson, who was born November 3, 1795, in Colerain, Massachusetts. He continued farming in East Charleniont until 1856, when he removed to Watertown, New York, and lived in retirement troni active life, on account of failing health, until death terminated his pilgrimage, December 12, 1865. His demise was probably hastened by the death of his wife, which occurred May 20, of the same year. She was a member of the Presbyterian church at Charlemont, but he never avowed any particular religious faith. He was a Whig in early life, and espoused the name of Republican on the organization of the party of that name. A man of upright character, he lived a quiet and peaceful life and attained more than the allotted years of man. A brief men- tion of his ten children follows: Nancy Maria became the wife of Ken- drick Ware and lived and died in Buckland, Massachusetts. Emily Au- gusta married William Weeks, of Ware, Massachusetts, and died in 1847. Moses Johnson died while a resident of Palmer, Massachusetts.
Jefferson County Court House, Watertown, N. Y.
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Wales Tylster is a resident of Spencer, Massachusetts. Adelia Melissa died in Paris, Illinois, March 15, 1900, being the wife of John Cushman. Charles Henry lett home when seventeen years of age. and was last heard of at Marysville, California, more than forty years ago. Lucy Ann, wife of Noadiah E. Smith, died in Mittineague, Massachusetts, January 12, 1897. George Joslin is mentioned at lengthi below. Frank- lin Abel died February 1, 1896, at Lansingburg, New York. Anna Miranda resides in Watertown, New York, the wife of Franklin M. Parker.
(VIII) George J. Wilder was born January 3, 1835. in East Charlemont, Massachusetts, and passed his early years upon a farmi there, receiving his education in the district school. Despite his limited opportunities he has become a well informed man through reading and observation and has filled a useful position in society. At the age of sixteen years he left home and found employment in a woolen mill at North Amlierst, Massachusetts, and was later a cotton mill worker at Mittineague, same state.
In 1855 he became a resident of Jefferson county, settling on a farm in the town of Watertown, and continued as a tiller of the soil and in kindred vocations until 1899, when he moved to Carthage. For a long period he operated a cheese factory in Watertown. For a long term of twenty-eight years he served as justice of the peace in that town, was many years a school trustee, and was a member of the board of health from the time that institution was first maintained in town until his re- moval to Carthage. Since his location in the latter place he has acted as shipping clerk at the Carthage Sulphite Pulp Mill. The Republican party was organized in the year that Mr. Wilder attained his majority. and it has ever received his earnest support. For many years he has affiliated with the fraternity of Free Masons, being a member of Rod- man Lodge No. 506. A. F. and A. M. : Watertown Chapter No. 49, R. A. M .; Watertown Commandery No. 1I, K. T .: and Media Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. of Watertown.
Mr. Wilder was married, January 14, 1857, to Miss Marcia Vic- toria Sheldon, a native of Watertown, daughter of Tilly R. Sheldon, of that city. The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Wilder are living, as follows: Emma Augusta, wife of Charles A. Tolman, of Watertown (see Tolman) : Mark S., secretary of the West End Paper Company, of Carthage : George D., proprietor of a saw and grist mill at East Rod-
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man, this county ; Franklin P., secretary of the Carthage Sulphite Pulp Company : and Mabel, unmarried, and residing with her parents.
(IX) MARK SHELDON WILDER, one of the most active business men of Carthage, was born July 7, 1862, in Watertown, New York, son of George J. Wilder. Mark S. Wilder grew up on a farm in Watertown, attending the district school and the Watertown high school. In the meantime he performed the home duties usually expected of farmers' sons, and was early introduced to habits of industry and thrift. At the age of twenty years he left the farm and engaged as bookkeeper for the Davis Sewing Machine Company, then located in Watertown. After remaining in this position two years he went to Adams, in 1885 as bookkeeper in the Adams National Bank. Having developed a ca- pacity for bank work, Mr. Wilder came to Carthage, May I. 1887, be- coming one of the organizers of the Carthage National Bank, in which he continued as cashier for the first fifteen years of its existence, and is now vice president. In the meantime he has been an active factor in the organization and successful establishment of many industries, both here and in other parts of the state. With Iton. James A. Cutterson he established the Carthage Machine Company, of which he was vice pres- ident. He was vice-president and director of the Carthage Pulp Com- pany and the Champion Paper Company, both of which he was instru- mental in organizing, and was secretary and treasurer of the West End Paper Company, one of the latest industries established at Carthage. He was also a director of the Malone Paper Company, of Malone, New York. and the De Grass Paper Company, of Pyrites, same state. He was one of the organizers and assisted in building the Glenfield & West- ern Railroad, of which he was secretary and treasurer. All of these have been in successful operation from their inception, a testimonial to the sagacity and business capacity of Mr. Wilder and his associates. In 1904 he sold his interest in all these industries, except the West End Pa- per Company, and retired from official connection with that.
In the multitude of his business cares Mr. Wilder does not forget the demands upon a patriotic and progressive citizen. He is a friend of education, and is serving as trustee of the Carthage school district. He has been an elder and trustee of the First Presbyterian church of Car- thage for a number of years, and is a sound Republican in political prin- ciple. While he is content to leave official position to those who may de- sire it, his conusel is appreciated by his fellow citizens. He is a men- ber of Carthage Lodge No. 158, and Carthage Chapter No. 259. Water-
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town Commandery No. II and Media Temple, all of the Masonic fra- ternity, and endeavors to inculcate, by example, the teachings of this noble order.
Mr. Wilder was married. October 18, 1887, to Miss Marietta May Converse, who was born October 18, 1865, in Woodville, town of Ellis- burgh, this county, a daughter of James F. and Marietta ( Bull) Converse (see Converse). Her mother died very soon after her birth, November 17. 1865, and her father is now a resident of Woodville. Two chil- dren have been given to Mr. and Mrs. Wilder : Harry Converse, born December 8, 1892, and Helen, February 6, 1901.
(IX) FRANK PARKER WILDER, secretary and treasurer of the Carthage Sulphite Pulp Company, and an active promoter of other industries, was born August 5, 1873, in the town of Watertown, this county. He attended the district school of his native locality, and the high school and Northern Business College, of Watertown. He re- mained upon the paternal farm until he attained lis majority, assisting in the usual labors of rural life, and left school at the age of eighteen years. For the four years succeeding his majority he represented the Liggett-Myers Tobacco Company of St. Louis, as traveling salesman through the New England states.
He assisted in the formation of the Carthage Sulphite Pulp Com- pany in 1898, was elected its secretary and two years later became treas- urer, and has filled these positions since with satisfaction to his asso- ciates and advantage to the business. Since his coming to Carthage Mr. Wilder has been active in the promotion of industries that are a credit and benefit to the village, employing a large number of people. He is a stockholder of the Champion Paper Company, the West End Paper Company, the Glenfield & Western Railroad Company, and the De Grass Paper Company, in all of which he is a director except the last. He fills a useful place in the social life of the place, is a member of Carthage Lodge and Carthage Chapter of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Presbyterian church. He supports Republican principles in governmental affairs, but is no politician, content to leave official posi- tions to others.
He was married, December 15. 1898, to Miss Bessie Marguerite Bence, who was born November 17, 1881, in Chicago. where her father was then in business. Her parents, Lyal B. and Grace (Linden) Bence, are members of old Jefferson county families, and now reside in Carthage. For many years Mr. Bence was engaged in the cigar and tobacco trade in
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Chicago. One son enlivens the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilder, born September 6, 1901, and named Lyal George.
GILBERT BRADFORD, late of Watertown, who died April 4, 1885, at his home in that city, was among the most enterprising and public-spirited citizens of the town. He was a scion of an historic family, which furnished the second governor of Plymouth colony, and exemplified the energy, industry, probity and natural ability for which our New England ancestors were noted.
(1) The first of the name, of whom record is here known, was William Bradford, of Austerfield. England, who died January 10, 1596.
(II) William, son of William Bradford (1), married Alice, daughter of John Hansom, and died in July, 1591.
(III) William, son of William Bradford (2), was born in 1588, in Austerfield. Yorkshire, England. About 1608 he went to Holland, and was among those who set out from that country in 1620, on board the historic Mayflower, to settle the Puritan colony across a broad ocean. He was accompanied in this voyage by his wife, whose maiden name was Dorothy May. This lady never reached shore, being accidentally drowned on the seventh of December, 1620, during the absence of her husband with an exploring party, in the wilderness adjoining Cape Cod Bay. With the exception of five years, Mr. Bradford was chosen governor of the colony from 1621 to 1657, the year of his death. He was one of the most efficient in directing and sustaining the new settle- ment, and a writer of those times said of him: " He was the very prop and glory of Plymouth colony, during the whole series of changes that passed over it." He was married August 24, 1623. to Alice Southworth, a widow whose maiden name was Carpenter. She came to Plymouth in the ship Anne, and was among the most highly respected residents. dying March 26, 1670, at the age of eighty years. She was the mother of three children-William, Mercy and Joseph Bradford. Governor Bradford died May 9. 1657, and was lamented by all the New England colonies as a common father. The bodies of himself and wife were entombed at Plymouth.
(IV) William Bradford (4). son of Governor William, was born June 17, 1624, and married (first ) Alice Richards, (second) widow Wiswall, and (third ) Mrs. Mary ( Wood) Holmes. His biographer says : "Mr. Bradford was, next to Miles Standish. a chief military man of the colony. In Philip's war he was commander-in-chief of the Plym-
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outh forces and often exposed himself to all its perils. At the Narra- gansett Fort fight, he received a musket ball in his flesh, which he car- ried the remainder of his life. In that desperate, midwinter encounter, when both parties fought for their very existence, nearly a thousand Indians fell a sacrifice, and about one hundred and fifty of the English were killed or wounded." In the war with the Indians Mr. Bradford held the rank of major; and was assistant treasurer and deputy gov- ernor of Plymouth from 1682 to 1686, and from 1689 to 1691; and in the latter year he was one of the council of Massachusetts. His residence was in Kingston, Rhode Island, on the north side of Jones river. He died February 20, 1703-4. His children, of the first mar- riage, were: John. William, Thomas, Samuel, Alice, Hannah, Mercy, Melatiah, Mary and Sarah; of the second marriage: Joseph, Israel, Ephraim, David and Hezekiah.
(V) Samuel Bradford, fourth son of William Bradford (4), was born in the year 1668 and in 1689 married Hannalı Rogers, who bore him seven children. He had the title of "Lieutenant," and lived in Duxbury, about one-third of a mile northeast from the mouth of Island creek. After filling numerous local offices, he died in April, 1714, aged forty-six years.
(VI) Peres Bradford, third son of Samuel and Hannah Brad- ford, was born December 28, 1694, and resided at Attleboro, Massachu- setts, where he died June 19, 1746. in his fifty-second year. He was a student at Harvard College in 1713. and was later a member of the council of Massachusetts. His wife, Abigail Belcher, bore him nine children.
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