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( III) John B. Dillenback, oldest of the family of Baltus, mar-
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ried Susanna Moak. He became a resident of Herkimer county, in the neighborhood of Little Falls, where he owned a large farm. His chil- dren were: Peter, married Delilah Shull: John, born December 15, 1796, married Catherine Snyder; Fanny married David Hammond; Jacob, born 1803, married Catherine Ostrander: Solomon, born March I. 1805, married Amy MeMullen: William, December 24, 1807, mar- ried Margaret Ann Jenkins ; Hannah married William Jenkins: Amy, born May 7. 1809. married Jacob Bort : Susan married Jacob Klock, and (second) Edward Freeman : Mary married Nicholas Lawyer.
John B. Dillenback and the entire family became residents of Jeffer- son county in about 1830, with the exception of John, who remained at the old homestead in Herkimer county. Of the sons, Jacob settled in the town of Pamelia, Peter in Alexandria, and Solomon and Will- iam in Orleans near Stone Mills.
(IV) Solomon Dillenback grew to manhood in Herkimer county, and was married in Canajoharie to Amy McMullen. He continued on the home farm until about 1830, when he moved to Jefferson county. He purchased over one hundred acres near Stone Mills, in Orleans, which he cultivated twenty years. This he sold, and subsequently he tilled a farm belonging to Alexander Coplay, at Chaumont. Late in life he bought a small farm at Omar, where he died December 27, 1863. His wife passed away February 12. 1860. They were Meth- odists in religion. and were among the most upright citizens of the community. Mr .. Dillenback was a Whig in early life, and was one of the most ardent supporters of the Republican party, but did not care for official station.
Of the family of Solomon Dillenback and Amy McMullen, fol- lowing is the record: Adelia, born November 11, 1830. married Erwin S. Collins : Alvah, February 27. 1833. died December 24. 1864. mar- ried Amelia McCombs. George, October 31, 1835. married Ellen Hoxie: Mary Martha, born February 22, 1838. died April 1, 1896, married Milton Keech. John. April 17, 1840, died April 27, 1841. John Wesley, May 9. 1842, married Pauline Herring: Lewis Spencer, December 3. 1844. married Harriet C. Close; Emily Celestia, Novem- ber 16, 1847. married William Frost.
Of the surviving members of this family. Adelia resides at Omar : George at Chaumont; John W. at Watertown': Emily C. at Dexter, and Lewis Spencer in New York city. Of the male members. George was engaged in the live stock commission business in Albany for sev-
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eral years, subsequently removing to New York, where he conducted the same business until 1900, when he returned to Jefferson county. John Wesley was a volunteer in the Tenth New York Artillery, a regiment raised in Jefferson county during the Civil war. Shortly after going to the front he was commissioned a captain in the Army of the James, and at the close of the war was commissioned in the regular service, subsequently rising to the rank of major. Major Dil- lenback was chief of artillery during the Santiago campaign of the late Spanish war, retiring in 1900 after thirty-seven years' service. His wife is a daughter of William Herring (see Herring).
(V) Lewis Spencer, fifth son and seventh child of Solomon and Amy Dillenback, was born near Stone Mills, in the town of Orleans, and grew up there on a farm. After a course in Falley Seminary at Fulton, New York, he took up the study of medicine with Dr. Jewett of Chaumont. In his nineteenth year he went on board the United States monitor " Mahopac," as hospital steward, and was with the North Atlantic squadron at Hampton Roads. James river, Bermuda Hundred and Dutch Gap. After one year at the latter place he was offered the appointment of chief clerk of the commissary department, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, Army of the James, which he accepted and continued in this position until the fall of Petersburg and Rich- mond. On the night of the surrender of the Confederate army at Ap- pomattox, he issued supplies to it.
On returning to his home, Mr. Dillenback became a traveling salesman, covering twenty-three states twice a year, in the interest of the Northfield Knife Company, of Northfield, Connecticut, and con- tinned three years. He was subsequently with the Corning Iron Works at Albany, as shipping clerk. While there he became associated with his brother. George Dillenback, in the live stock commission business at West Albany and continued about seven years. In 1876 he trans- ferred his headquarters to New York city, and added hay to his list of products. For some years he was a member of the firm of Close & Dillenback, but now operates with Charles J. Austin, under the title of L. S. Dillenback & Company. He is a large exporter of sheep and cattle to Mexico and the West Indies, and also deals in the home cattle market extensively, together with hay and other produce. He is a sound business man, and has achieved success by industry, and the ex- ercise of upright methods in business, thus securing the confidence of shippers over a wide area. Mr. Dillenback is a Free Mason of high
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degree. afhliating with Capital City Chapter. No. 242, and Palestine Commandery. De Witt Clinton Council. R. & S. M., and the local Tem- ple. N. M. S., of Albany. He was a member of the Colonial Club of New York during its existence, but has joined no other on account of not residing in the borough of Manhattan. His home is in River- dale, one of the most beautiful suburban sites on the New York Cen- tral railroad.
He was married in 1876, to Miss Harriet C. Close, who was born in Fremont, Ohio, daughter of Perry and Sarah L. ( Britton) Close. of Pennsylvania Dutch and New York ancestry. One son completes the family of Mr. Dillenback, namely, George Perry, born February 19. 1881.
JAY WILLIAM WALDO, one of the most substantial framers of the town of Champion. is descended from an old New England family, which has given many good citizens to the state and nation.
(I) Tradition traces the origin of the name to France, but noth- ing positive is known of its planting in England. The first of record in this country was Cornelius Waldo, born about 1624. and died Janu- ary 3, 1700-1, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The town records give the year of his death as 1701, and the tombstone places it 1700, due, perhaps, to the difference between old style and the new. The first reference to him is found in the Essex county court records, May 6. 1647. As he was "farmer" for John Cogswell, senior, whose daughter he married, and correspondence by John Cogswell, junior, refers to Cornelius Waldo's mother, living at Berwick, in England, it is probable that the latter came from the same district and the families were acquainted in the mother country. By a town order February 14. 1664, in Ipswich, he was granted a share and a half in lands belonging to inhabitants of Plum Island, Castle Neck and Hog Island, and it is probable that lie settled in Ipswich soon after his arrival in the colony. He married Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Cogswell, who was born in 1624. in Westbury Leigh, county of Wilts, England, and came with her parents to New England in the ship Angel Gabriel, which sailed from Bristol May 23. 1635. This vessel was flung upon the shore at Pemaquid in a gale. August 15. and several of her passengers and crew were lost. John Cogswell was a native of the same place as his daughter, and his wife was a daughter of Rev. Will- iam Thompson, vicar of Westbury parish, by his first wife. Phillis.
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The marriage of Cornelius Waldo occurred previous to January 2, 1051, as indicated by a deed of that date. His wife survived him, dying December 25, 1704, aged eighty years. It is indicated by records of Ipswich and Chelmsford that they moved from the former to the latter town in the autumn of 1665. and he bought land in Chelmsford August 12, 1670. The next year he bought a mansion near the Chelmsford "meeting house," and here is where he died, without doubt. In 1678 he was elected selectman in Chelmsford, and was made a deacon in the first church of Dunstable, in 1685. In 1600 he kept a licensed tavern in Chelmsford. and in 1698 he was again chosen as selectman of that town. He was an extensive landowner, and disposed of his property to his sons and son-in-law, Edward Emerson, the last conveyance bearing date of August 4. 1699. His children were : Eliza- beth, John, Cornelius, Daniel, Martha, twin sons buried three days after birth, Deborah, Rebecca, Judith, Mary and Jonathan.
(II) John, eldest son of Cornelius and Hannah Waldo, died April 14, 1700, at Windham, Connecticut. The date of his birth is not recorded. but it is probable that he was born in Ipswich, and it must have occurred as early as 1654-55. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, serving under Captain Thomas Wheeler in the "Quaboag fight," August 2, 1675. and receiving a wound in that struggle. For this service he was credited four pounds, and he is again credited one pound, 12s and Iod, for service under the same commander, at Groton, February 29. 1676. In 1682, with his brother Daniel he was among the mounted guards employed by the town of Dunstable. He repre- sented the town of Dunstable in the general court in 1689. Previous to this time he was a half owner, with Mr. Jonathan Tyng, in a grist mill on Nacooke brook. In 1695 his name appears among the in- habitants of ward four, Boston, and two years later he sold a mill and five acres of land in Hingham to Nathaniel Beale. On November 29. 1697, he purchased of John Broughton, in Windham, a grist mill, dwelling house and one acre of land, for thirty-five pounds. On Jan- uary 3. following, he was admitted a freeman in Windham, and the next day bought for thirty pounds au allotment of a thousand-acre right in Windham, from Richard Egerton. of Norwich. On the day of his admission he was made one of a committee, with Joseph Hall and John Backus, to gather the rate and agree with workmen to build a meeting house. A deed of land sold by him in Chelmsford, in 1697, shows that his wife, Rebecka, was a daughter of Samuel Adams. The
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inventory of his estate places its value at 292 pounds and seven shil- lings, from which was deducted, for debts and funeral expenses, 29 pounds, five shillings and six pence. In 1710 his widow married Deacon Elizer Brown, 01 Canterbury, Connecticut, formerly of Chelms- ford, Massachusetts, and she died in Canterbury, September 17, 1727, having been then a widow seven years. Her mother was Rebecca (Graves) Adams, of Charlestown, where the death of her eldest child is recorded, in 1677. In 1716 one-half of the grist mill was sold to Ephraim Sawyer, of Hansfield, who purchased the other half in 1734. The children of John and Rebecca Waldo were: Rebecca, John, Cathi- erine, Edward, Rebecca (2), Ruth, Sarah and Abigail.
(III) Edward, second son of John Waldo, was born April 23. 1684, in Dunstable, Massachusetts, and died August 3, 1767, in Wind- ham. He was educated in the Boston schools and taught school several years in Windham. He lived in that part of the town now Scotland. and built a house in 1714, near the county line, which is still standing and inhabited by a descendant. Scotland parish, the third Windhan society, was established in May, 1732, and at the first meeting, June 22. Mr. Waldo was moderator, and made one of the society committee. On September 20 he was placed on a committee to secure a minister, and on June 25, 1735, he was one of the committee, with John Bass and Joseph Meacham, to agree with suitable men to build a meeting house. March 27 of the next year he was on a committee to provide a permanent minister. November 19, 1734, he was chosen deacon, with Nathaniel Bingham. He and his wife were members of the Wind- ham church in 1726, and were transferred formally to the Scotland church October 22, 1735. He was a strong supporter of the separatist movement begun in 1746, and with his wife and three sons became a member of the separate church in that year. He was one of the signers of a petition, dated April 16, 1653, praying for the benefit of the "toleration act." Ten years later he was restored to his former standing in the first church. Mr. Waldo represented the town at general court in 1722, 1725 and 1730. He was confirmed a lieutenant in October, 1722, and in 1726 filled that position in the company com- manded by Captain Eleazer Carey. He was the owner of numerous parcels of land in Windham and Norwich. In 1735 he gave most of his land to his sons, Edward and Shubael, and in 1748 sold part of the remainder to "his loving son" Zacheus. Deacon Waldo married, first. Thankful, daughter of Deacon Shubael and Joanna ( Bursley ) Dim-,
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mock, of Mansfield, Connecticut. She was born in March, 1682, in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and died December 13, 1757. in Windham. Both she and her husband were buried in Palmertown cemetery, Scot- land. His will shows that his second wife's name was Mary, and she is supposed to have been a daughter of Elisha and Rebecca ( Doane) Paine, of Eastham, Massachusetts, who moved to Canterbury, Con- necticut, in 1700. She was the widow of Robert Freeman at that time. Thomas, father of Shubael Dimmoek, was a prominent man in Barn- stable, Massachusetts, where he lived from 1640 to his death in 1659. The children of Edward and Thankful Waldo were: Shubael. Edward, Cornelius, Anne, John, Bethuel, Thankful, Joannah, Zacheus and John (2).
(IV) Shubael, oklest child of Edward Waldo, was born April 7, 1707, in Windham, and died May 12, 1766, in Alstead, New Hamp- shire. He lived in that part of Norwich, Connecticut, now Lisbon, and was chosen "lister" at a town meeting December 31, 1736. Ile sold his farm there in 1738, and bought an estate in the northeast corner of Mansfield, March 19, 1738-9, to which he added more land in 1739, 1745 and 1753. In 1754 and 1763 he conveyed land to his sons, Samuel and Edward, in all these transactions being named as of Mansfield. About 1769 he moved to Alstead. New Hampshire, where he passed the balance of his days. May 22, 1769, he purchased from Timothy Delano, for three hundred pounds, Lot 4 in the fifth range, and part of Lots 3 and 4, in the second range. In August of the same year he sold one half of these lands to his son, Edward, and subsequently deeded parcels to his sons, Daniel and Calvin. Having disposed of most of his property in life, he died intestate, and his estate was inventoried at twenty-three pounds, six shillings and eight pence, all personal. The town meetings of Alstcad were frequently held at his house, and he was elected selectman in 1772. He was married October 14. 1730, at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Alden) Allen, of that town. She was born in 1712. in East Bridge- water, and died September 6, 1799, at the home of her son, Abiathar, in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Her children were Samuel, Shubael, Abia- thar. Jesse, Jonathan, Thankful. Edward. Daniel, Mary, Abigail, Beulah, Ruth, Rebecca, Ruth ( 2) and Calvin.
(V) Shubael, second son and child of Shubael and Abigail Waldo, was born January 10, 1733. in Lisbon, Connecticut, baptized on the twenty-fifth of the following month, and died September 4,
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1807. in Herkimer, New York. Records of AAlstead, New Hampshire, show that he was with his father in that town, whence he moved to this state. He was married October 2, 1754, in Mansfield, Connecticut, to Priscilla, daughter of Samuel and Betty Smith, of that town. She was born January 4, 1734, in Colchester. in that state. Mr. Waldo's first child was born in Mansfield. He was a tanner by occupation, and lived in several places. His children were: Tabitha, Joseph, Nathan, Calvin, Jaram, Shubael and Elizabeth.
(VI) Jaram, fourth son and fifth child of Shubael and Priscilla Waldo, was born in May, 1772, in Herkimer, and died in 1841, at Great Bend, this county. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and a respected citizen. He was married at Rossie, St. Lawrence county. New York, to Lois Kinne, who was born in 1775, and died in 1855, in Rutland, this county. Their children were named: Sally, Jonathan Haskell. Shubael. Daniel, Harriet. Huldah, Sophia, Avastia and Nancy.
(VII) Avastia, daughter of Jaram and Lois Waldo, became the wife of Samuel Fulton ( see Fulton, IV ).
(V) Jonathan, fifth son and child of Shubael and Abigail Waldo, was born August 17. 1738, in what is now Lisbon, Connecticut, and died July 17. 1821, at Western, New York. He was a Baptist preacher, and lived many years in Vermont, whence he was compelled to move by losses due to the depreciation of Continental money, after the close of the Revolution. He was married, May 25. 1762, to Ann Palmer, whose parentage is unknown. She was born September 26, 1742, and died March 11, 1804. probably at Western. Their children were: Jonathan. David, Gershom, Mary, Allen, Anna, Phipps, Anna ( 2). Abiathar and Abigail.
(VI) Jonathan, first child of Jonathan ( 1) and Ann Waldo, was born April 11. 1763. and died February 5. 1833. at Western, this state There he engaged in agriculture and passed his life. He was a private in the Sixteenth New York militia, under Colonel Lewis Van Woert, and was in the field from August 13. 1779, until November 30. 1780. He was married ( first ) March 2. 1786, at Western, to Lucy, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Mattison, of Shaftsbury, Vermont. She was born April 26, 1769. and died March 12, 1821, at Western. Mr. Waldo married ( second ) January 14. 1823. at Western. Diadama, widow of Ezra Barnard, whose maiden name was Porter. With his two wives, he was buried in the cemetery at Western. On September 23. 1795. he
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bought seven hundred and three acres of land at Western, and this gives an idea of the date of his removal thither. The children of Jonathan ( 2) and Lucy Waldo were: Jonathan, Lucy, Allen, Thomas Mattison. Pamela, Anna, Phips. Ira. Sarah, David Jonathan and Isaiah Asa (twins), and Laura. Children of Diadama ( Porter) Waldo: Ira and Susan. Pamela Waldo married. October 5. 1819, at Western, David, son of Philip and Louise ( Utley ) Smith. David Smith was born October 13. 1793. at Western, and died February 25, 1864, in Watertown, where his wife passed away July 14. 1870. They were farmers and lived at South Champion until old age, and were buried there.
(VII) Jonathan 13), son of Jonathan (2) and Lucy Waldo, was born January 19. 1787. at Shaftsbury, Vermont, and died April 29. 1841, in Rutland, this county. He was a farmer in Western, later in Rutland, where he had nearly three hundred acres, and married Mary, daughter of William Olney. of Stillwater. New York. She was born June 30. 1790. at Stillwater, and died April 16, 1867, in South Champion, where both are buried. She was married in 1844 to Isaac Myers, of Stillwater, where she subsequently lived until old age. The children of Jonathan and Mary Waldo were: William Olney, Allen, Mary Olney. Theodore. and Mortimer-the last two being twins. Jonathan Waldo (3) was affiliated with the Methodist church.
(VIII) William Olney, first child of Jonathan (3) and Mary Waldo, was born March 10, 1813. in Western, and died April 30, 1850. in Rutland, where he held part of the paternal homestead, dividing it with his brother Alleit. The latter died there July 29. 1878, aged sixty- four years, mne months and four days. Mary O. married Elon Brown. and died in Champion January 25. 1859. aged thirty-nine years. Theo- dore is now living in Rutland, and Mortimer died March 12, 1888, in the town of Watertown, where he was a farmer, aged sixty-seven years, two months and four days.
William Olney Waldo continued farming on the homestead in Rut- land until his death, April 30, 1850, at the early age of thirty-seven years. He was married March 8, 1843, at Martinsburg, New York, to Jane, daughter of Luke Searl, of Martinsburg. The last-named was born March 3, 1797, and died November 9, 1866. His wife, Alma Cook, was born June 5, 1801, and died December 14. 1890. Jane Searl was born April 20, 1821. and died March 6, 1864. William O. and Jane Waldo had two children. The eldest. Jay William. is mentioned at length here- inafter : and the younger. Rebecca, born in Rutland, died April 28. 1873.
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aged twenty-three years, while the wife of her cousin, Charles Waldo, son of Allen Waldo, in Rutland. She left a son, Allen Waldo, now a bookkeeper in the office of Viles & Robbins. Chicago.
(IX) Jay William, elder child of William O. and Jane Waldo, was born October 25, 1846, in Rutland, where he grew up, attending the district school within sight of his present residence, until he was seven- teen years old. Having been endowed by nature with a sound mind and body, he developed into a successful farmer and man of business, commanding the respect of his fellows. By studious habits he has become well informed, and bears no mean part in the life of his day. At the age of twenty years he took charge of the paternal homestead, and soon after bought out his sister's interest in the same. This patrimony of one hundred and fifteen acres he still holds, together with two hundred and fifty acres in the town of Champion, which he purchased soon after his marriage. For a period of fifteen years he operated a sawmill at Tyler- ville, and made butter on a large scale nineteen years. Subsequently he gave attention to the manufacture of cheese, having a factory on his farm, which was consumed by fire in the summer of 1903. He keeps ninety head of Holstein grade cattle, and milked sixty-two cows in the season of 1903. While not affiliated with any religious organization, Mr. Waldo endeavors to conform his life to the golden rule, and his harmonious relations with mankind at large indicate approximate suc- cess. He is an independent Democrat, and exercises considerable influ- ence in the conduct of town and county affairs. He served as supervisor of Rutland four terms, with satisfaction to his constituency.
Mr. Waldo was married February 26, 1867, to Miss Margaret Matilda Bush, who was born January 22, 1846, in Turin, Lewis county. She is a daughter of George and Martha C. ( Speed) Bush. A daughter and a son came to Mr. and Mrs. Waldo, namely, Martha J. and George William. The former died April 27, 1885, aged seventeen years, two months and eighteen days. . The latter is his father's assistant on the home farm. He was born February 16, 1874, married Elizabeth Plank, and resides with his father.
George, son of Jonathan and Matilda (Pelton) Bush, was born November 26, 1817, in Turin, New York, and died January 14, 1892, in Champion. His first wife, Martha C. Speed, was born January 17, 1815, and died March 2, 1864, aged forty-nine years. Mr. Bush subsequently married Mary L. Ely, who died February 28, 1902, at the age of sixty- one years. six months and twenty-five days. Mrs. Waldo is the only one
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of her mother's children now living. her sister Mary having died in early life.
NOAH CHAMBERLAIN, an industrious and successful citizen of Carthage, has conquered the way to success from very humble begin- nings. He was born May 31, 1858, in the city of Montreal, Canada, a son of Theophile and Clotilde ( Marcile ) Chamberlain, of French descent. The parents died in Montreal at the ages of fifty-six and forty-three years, respectively. For nearly a quarter of a century the father was a trackman on the line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, and for a few years subsequently was employed in the Montreal freight house of the same road. The parents were faithful members of the Roman Catholic church, in which they reared their children. The family was large, but only four of the children grew to maturity. The eldest. Clotilde, is the wife of Lewis Dagas, residing at Otter Lake, near Ottawa, Canada. Harriet married John Cumberland, and resides at St. Lambert, province of Quebec. Noah is the fourth, of whom further mention occurs here- inafter. Isaac died June 17, 1887. at the age of twenty years.
Noah Chamberlain remained in his native city until he was eighteen years old, receiving instruction from the good priests of the "Brothers School." In 1876 he came to Carthage, and has ever since been a resi- dent of this place, where he is reckoned among the substantial citizens. For the first two years he worked as a trackman on the local railroad. receiving ninety cents a day as wages. Upon this he married, and with the aid of a faithful helpmeet has prospered and reared a family of bright and promising children. He soon learned the trade of carpenter, and for twenty-two years has been a contractor and jobber in building. He has constructed many of the homes of Carthage, and has contributed his share in various ways to the growth and progress of the village.
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