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One child, Cornie Grace, was born to S. W. and Kate A. Johnson, February 12, 1877, and died at the age of about five years.
ALBERT FISH, a worthy and respected citizen of Watertown, now deceased, belonged to a family which has been for one hundred years resident in Jefferson county. His grandfather, Ebenezer Fish, lived in Rhode Island, and was the father of a son, Furman. The latter, in his youth, came to Jefferson county and settled on Dry Hill, in the town of Watertown. He was a farmer and combined with his agricul- tural pursuits the occupation of a tanner and currier, and operated
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a tannery several years at Tylerville. He was a prominent man in the community and took a leading part in local affairs. In 1859 he was a member of the state assembly. He married Caroline Rose. and seven children were born to them, four of whom are living. Mr. Fish died in 1890, at an advanced age, leaving a name respected by all.
Albert Fish, son of Furman and Caroline ( Rose) Fish. was born in Tylerville and received his primary education in the common schools, afterward attending the high school in Watertown. Until reaching the age of thirty, he remained at home assisting his father in the labors and management of the farm. In 1865 he went to Three Mile Bay as railroad agent, a position which he held for twelve years and at the end of that time was compelled to resign in consequence of impaired health. He was for many years a resident of Watertown. and some time since retired from active business but was closely identified with a number of the financial institutions of the city. He was one of the first di- rectors of the Stiles & Fladd Press Company and one of the incorpora- tors of the Union Carriage and Gear Company. in which he subsequently held the office of vice president and in which he was a director at the time of his death. He was one of the directors of the National Union Bank and also of the Watertown Savings Bank. He was an active member of the Baptist church at Three Mile Bay. in which he served as deacon for many years. He died December 8. 1903. at his home in Watertown.
Mr. Fish was thrice married. His first wife was Harriet Van Wort, by whom he was the father of one daughter. Carrie Maria, who is now the wife of Charles H. Hyde, of Watertown. After the death of his first wife Mr. Fish married Mrs. Nellie (Jewett) Reed, and. on being again left a widower. espoused Mary Bort Lawyer, who is still living. Mrs. Hyde is the mother of two sons and three daughters. namely: Alice Harriet, Albert Charles, Dorcas May. Margaret Eliza- beth and Wallace Theodore.
NATHAN ALDRO WHITFORD. One of the leading farmers of Jefferson county is Nathan Aldro Whitford of Adams. He traces his descent from Joshua Whitford, whose son. Jesse Whitford, moved from Madison county to Alleghany county in 1812. He was the father of a son, also Jesse Whitford. who married Olive Burdick. the grand- daughter of a Revolutionary soldier.
Nathan G. Whitford. son of Jesse and Olive ( Burdick) Whit-
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ford. was born November 5. 1819, in Alleghany county, and about 1844 moved to Rodman, where he has ever since devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Tenth Regiment New York Heavy Artillery, but at the end of four months was discharged by reason of disability, and is now a pensioner. In politics he is a Republican. He and his family are Seventh Day Bap- tists, and in the church of which they are members he holds the office of deacon. Mr. Whitford married. January 5, 1845, Charlotte Heath. who was born November 1. 1822, in Rodman. They were the par- ents of two sons: Nathan Aldro, mentioned at length hereinafter; and Jesse S., who was born in 1861. and resides on the homestead in Rod- man. He married Harriet Kellogg, and they have one daughter, Mary Jane, who was born September 8, 1886.
Nathan Aldro Whitford, son of Nathan G. and Charlotte ( Heath ) Whitford, was born September 19. 1849, in Rodman. He was trained from boyhood to the labors of a farm, and has all his life been a suc- cessful agriculturist. In March, 1897, he purchased the estate of one hundred and forty-six acres known as the Joe Hall farm, which he cul- tivates mainly with a view to the dairy business, which he conducts in the best and most successful manner. This farm is in all respects one of the first in the township. Mr. Whitford is a member of the Grange, and in politics affiliates with the Republicans. He is a mem- ber of the Seventh Day Baptist church of Adams Centre.
Mr. Whitford married, December 14. 1870, Emerette A. Wright, born January 22, 1848, in Adams, daughter of George and Delia Kel- log Wright. both now deceased. The Kelloggs are one of the old fam- ilies of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Whitford have two children: Pearley E., who was born November 3, 1871, became the wife of William Strickland, a farmer of Adams, and has one daughter. Samaria E .. born June 27, 1900: and Nathan George, who was born June 12, 1874. and is the owner of a farm of fifty-two and one-half acres, adjoining that of his father and known as the Albertus Whitford farm. Mr. Whitford is a member of the Grange, and belongs to the Masonic or- der. affiliating with a lodge in Adams. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the same church as his father.
FERNANDO DEQUELLO HUBBARD, a retired business man of Carthage, is a representative of one of the oldest families in the county and a descendant of New England colonial ancestry.
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Joel Hubbard, one of the pioneers of the town of Champion, was of Puritan ancestry, and exemplified in his life the staunch mental and moral attributes of those stern and upright colonizers of the New World. The family has been traced through Hartford and Middle- town. Connecticut. to Jefferson county. The ancestral brick mansion is still standing at Middletown, and is inhabited by a lineal descend- ant. That town now has several worthy representatives of the name.
(I) The founder of the family in America was George Hubbard, who was born in England in 1601. In 1640 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Watts, at Hartford, Connecticut, where he died March 18, 1684. His children settled in Middletown. Descendants of Nathaniel, his fifth son, are now numerous in Jefferson county. Numerous descendants of his third son, Samuel, are now found in Jefferson county, New York.
(II) Nathaniel, fifth son and sixth child of George and Eliza- beth Hubbard, was born December 10, 1652. in Hartford, and died May 20, 1738, in Middletown, Connecticut. He married, May 29, 1682, Mary Earl, who died in her sixty-third year April 9, 1732. They were the parents of ten children.
(III) Nathaniel, fourth child and eldest son of Nathaniel and Mary Hubbard, was born September 14, 1690. at Middletown, and died October 14, 1765. at Long Hill, Fairfield county, Connecticut. He was married April 12, 1716. to Sarah Johnson, who survived him and died in 1776. They had eleven children.
(IV) Noahdiah, tenth child of Nathaniel (2) and Sarah Hub- bard, was born March 14. 1735, in Middletown, where he passed his life, and died May 4. 1816. He married ( first ) Phoebe (Fairchild) Crowell, widow of Samuel Crowell. She died January 18, 1795, the mother of six children. He married. June 17, 1795, Sarah Seward, and after her death was again married June 17, 1805, to Phoebe Thayer. Five of his sons-Noahdiah. Fairchild. Bela. Stephen and Joel-were early residents of Champion.
(V) Joel, fifth child of Noahdiah and Phoebe Hubbard, was born October 30, 1772, at Middletown, and died January 1. 1851. in Champion. For some years he lived at Steuben. Oneida county, New York, where some of his children were born, and whence he removed to Champion in 1807. He was married in 1797. to Mercy Austin, who was born October 13, 1776. and died August 6, 1860, in Champion. They were the parents of thirteen children, the last three of whom died
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in infancy, two being twins. Most of these lived in Champion. Cle- ment. the eldest, died in that town, as did Laura, the second, who became the wife of Noah McNitt. Edward S .. the third. died at the age of one year and three months. The fourth, Wealthy Austin, born April I. 1803. in Steuben, became the wife of Russell Knowles, and died January 4, 1903. in West Carthage, being almost one hundred years old. (See Knowles. ) Edward S., fifth child of Joel Hubbard, died in Champion, aged seventy-six years. Joel Austin also died in Cham- · pion. Phoebe Fairchild, the seventh, married Orlo Kilborn and died in Champion. Julia Ann married Augustus Granger and died in Paw- paw, Michigan. Charles and Charille, twins, born September 5. 1813. died in Champion, the former on the 24th of March, 1884, and the lat- ter June 20, 1895. unmarried. Nearly all were noted singers.
Joel Hubbard was a man of short stature and stout build, and was blind in one eye. When he arrived in Champion, then almost a wilder- ness, he camped the first night by a spring on the farm now the prop- erty of his grandson, Joel Charles Hubbard, at Champion village. For a time he kept a hotel at the village, in a building still standing. Sub- sequently he engaged in farming two miles northwest of Champion vil- lage, where he erected a stone barn in 1829 that was one of the land- marks of the town and was destroyed by fire in 1903. He was of social nature, and fond of the game of checkers. In early life a member of the Presbyterian church, he became converted to the Universalist faith, in which he died. His memory will be lovingly cherished as long as any survive who knew him, and it is the province of this record to per- petuate it.
(VI) Charles Hubbard, ninth child of Joel and Mercy Hubbard, born September 5. 1813. in Champion, passed all except six years of his life in that town. After farming six years in the town of Trenton. Oneida county, he returned to his native town and purchased ninety acres of land adjoining his father, on which he lived until his death, which occurred March 24, 1884. A short time before his demise he added sixty acres to his domain, and the entire farm of one hundred and fifty acres is now in possession of his second son. He was a man of very quiet disposition and domestic nature, fond of music, and was able to play any composition after hearing it once. He had a very correct ear, but never received any musical education. For seven years he played the fife in the militia band, and subsequently took up the flute for the amusement of himself and friends. Kindhearted and
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social, he was universally respected. In early life a Whig, he became a Republican upon the organization of the party. He was liberal in religious matters.
He was married July 4, 1834, to Fiana Loomis, daughter of Alvin Loomis. She was born February 28, 1814, in Champion, and died January 3. 1902, near the close of her eighty-eighth year. (See Loomis.) Four of their six children grew to maturity and are now living. Elizabeth, the eldest, is the widow of Gates Scott, residing at Appleton, Wisconsin. Wealthy and Alcesta died in childhood. Joel C. is a farmer residing in Champion. Of Edwin C. and Alfred O. further mention appears below.
(\11) Edwin C. Hubbard was born July 18. 1846, in the town of Trenton. Oneida county, New York, near the village of Holland Patent. Before he was two years old his parents settled in Cham- pion, and his home has ever since been on the farm where he now lives. He attended the local district school, and aided at the same time in the tillage of the farm. after the manner of boys of his time, and cared for his parents in their old age. The farm. embracing one hundred and fifty-two acres, became his by inheritance and purchase, and has been greatly improved by its present owner. In 1884 he built what is one of the finest farm barns in the town. Its dimensions on the ground are ninety-four by forty-two feet, and the height, from basement floor to eaves, is twenty-six feet. This suffices to protect and preserve the entire product of the farm, and house a large herd of cows and other stock. Mr. Hubbard is one of the progressive farmers of the town. and is respected as such, as well as an upright citizen. Of somewhat bluff manners and reserved nature, he is ever kind and courteous, and those who pierce his reserve find a very kind and true-hearted man. He is first warden of St. John's Episcopal parish at Champion and a men- ber of Champion Grange. He has never desired or sought political office, and is independent of party organization, though classed as a Republican. Mr. Hubbard was married February 19. 1879, to Miss Marion Cutler, who was born in Fulton. Whiteside county, Illinois, September 24, 1854. and died May 16, 1904, aged forty-nine years and eight months, a daughter of William and Sally ( Ackley) Cutler, natives of Champion. William was a son of Isaac Cutler, one of the pioneer settlers of Champion.
(\'11) Alfred Oscar Hubbard, youngest child of Charles and Fiana Hubbard, was born July 21, 1848, on the farm where his brother
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Edwin C. now lives, about one mile from his present abode. His edu- cation was supplied by the district school and one winter at the Carthage high school. Up to his twenty-eighth year he remained at home, and upon his marriage in 1876 purchased the farm on which he has ever since resided. This consists of one hundred acres, which was well im- proved when he bought it, and has been well tilled and managed, as a brief statement of products will show. The crop of 1903 included near- ly one thousand bushels of potatoes, five hundred bushels of oats, and other crops in proportion. His cows yielded in 1902 an average of $71.82 per head. His herd includes only registered and high grade Holsteins, and the dairy numbered seventeen choice cows. Mr. Hub- bard believes in good bloed and good feeding, and reaps results show- ing the soundness of his judgment in these matters. He is a member and trustee of the Methodist church at Champion, and a member of Great Bend Grange, of which he was secretary three years. He has always been a Republican, but no office seeker.
Mr. Hubbard was married October 26, 1871, to Miss Huldah Ann Tripp, who was born in Montague, Lewis county, this state, daughter of Isaac and Melissa (Ensign) Tripp, natives of Champion. Mrs. Tripp died at the age of seventy-four years, and her husband now resides in the town of Denmark.
Two of the three children of A. O. Hubbard and wife are now living. Myron. horn September 19. 1873. died September 16, 1899. He was married September 12. 1894. to Dora M. Gregory, of Felt's Mills, where she now resides. She has a daughter. Ruth Irene Hub- bard, born March 31. 1898. Roy Charles, born March 2. 1882, and Ethel M., born July 14. 1884, reside with their parents.
(II) Samuel. third son of George and Elizabeth Hubbard, was born May. 1648, at Hartford, where he died November 4, 1732. He married. August 9. 1673. Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Kirby.
(III) Samuel, son of Samuel and Sarah Hubbard, was born March 27, 1678, at Hartford, and died in Farmington, Connecticut, May 19. 1745. He married, November 1, 1700, Martha, daughter of Elizur Peck. Both were buried in the Berlin cemetery. His will dated April 15, 1743. mentions " William, only son of my son. William."
(IV) William, son of Samuel and Martha Hubbard, was born March 3. 1702. at Kensington, in the town of Berlin, Hartford county. Connecticut, where he died in early life. His will, recorded in Hart- ford, was dated August 31, 1736.
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(V) William, son of William (4), married Elizabeth ( surname unknown), who was born in 1732 and died May 20, 1792, in Berlin. Their children were Sarah, Ruth and William.
(\'1) William, son of William and Elizabeth Hubbard, was born in 1761, probably in Berlin. His second son, Levi, was born there September 2. 1792, and was the first of the family to locate in Cham- pion. The latter's eldest son was born in Champion in 1821, in the pio- neer log cabin, which was replaced in 1829 by a frame house. Levi served in the Connecticut militia in August and September, 1813. in the war of 1812, which would indicate that it was after 1813 when he set- tled in Champion. It is probable that William (6) came here to spend his old age with his children, as he was then seventy years old, and here he died in April, 1845, at the age of eighty-four years. He was mar- ried, about 1788, to Mabel Kelsy, who was born February 7, 1772, and survived until March 3, 1875. exceeding one hundred and three years of life. She retained her faculties until the last, and was bright and active. Being a great reader, she was well informed, especially in the Scriptures, which she read through by rote several times. In early life she was obliged to labor diligently, in making a home for her husband and large family of children, but in the evening of her days she enjoyed a happy home, with her son in Carthage, and her life closed in quiet content. Her eldest daughter. Elizabeth, was fatally scalded in infancy, and eleven sons and a daughter grew to maturity. Zenas, the eldest, born 1789, has descendants in Georgia. Levi, already mentioned, died at Carthage October 24, 1878. Ira died in Carthage in 1871. Cyrus went to the west, and record of him is lost. Elijah was a hermit in Maine during his last days. William died in Connecticut. Harlow and Hiram are among those lost in the great west. Elizabeth (2) mar- ried Asa Frink and lived in Champion. Heman is mentioned at length hereafter. Moses died in Champion, at the age of eighty-two years. Samuel died in Carthage March 18, 1889. at the age of seventy-one. Sketch elsewhere.
(VII) Heman Ilubbard was born August 10, 1812. in Berlin, Connecticut, and was apprenticed to the trade of tinner at the age of thirteen years. Soon after this, the family moved to this county, and he remained in Connecticut for a time, and finally bought his time. After this he traveled some years as a journeyman, working in southern states and in St. Louis, Missouri, before coming to Champion. On his arrival here. he bought a farm near Great Bend, which he tilled for a
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few years and then sold. In his later years he owned and tilled a small farm near Carthage, in the town of Denmark. In 1843 he moved to Carthage and entered the employ of Hiram McCollom, as foreman of his tin shop. After a few years he bought the business, in partnership with Ralph Hooker, and it was continued, under the style of Hubbard & Hooker, until 1861, when his son succeeded Mr. Hooker and the firm became Hubbard & Son. The latter became sole owner in 1869, and the father thenceforward gave his attention to the tillage of his farm near the village. In 1853 he built the house at the corner of Bridge and Jefferson streets, West Carthage, where his widow now resides, and here he died April 7, 1888. Mr. Hubbard was a moral man, and very strict in the observance of the Sabbath. though not a member of any church organization. In politics he was always a Democrat.
He was married February 1. 1839, to Lurinda Frink, who was born April 25. 1822, in Rutland, this county, a daughter of Trustrim and Betsey (Clark ) Frink, who came from Rutland, Vermont, and set- tled in the town of Rutland when it was covered with timber, and were influential in bestowing the present name on the town. Asa Frink was their son. Mrs. Hubbard's twin sister, Lucinda, became the wife of Azrah Stone, and was a widow nearly all her life, and died January I. 1903. at the paternal home at Black River. New York. The children of Heman Hubbard and wife are four in number: Lucinda, the eldest. is the wife of Gilbert Case, residing in Chicago. Fernando D. is the second. Cornelia is the widow of Robert O'Neil. residing with her mother in West Carthage. Arman resides in the same place. He was a soldier in the Civil war. going out as a member of Company A. One Hundred and Eighty-sixth New York Volunteers, and serving nine months, until the close of the war. The regiment participated in the capture of Petersburg. Mr. Hubbard experienced no wounds or seri- ous illness during his service. He married Mary S. Warren, daughter of Orrison and Sophia ( Miller) Warren. Mrs. Hubbard was born August 18, 1845, in Champion, and died November. 1874. leaving a son, Fred W., born September 27, 1868, and died January, 1893, in Chicago. In November, 1880, he married Ann McCormick, who was born at Harrisburg, daughter of Francis McCormick. Two children of this marriage are living, namely, Fernando D. and Charles Heman.
Fernando D. Hubbard was born October 13, 1841, in Champion, and grew up in Carthage, being two years of age when his parents moved to the village, and being educated in the local school and acad-
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emy. At the age of fourteen years he entered his father's shop to learn the tinner's trade, and thereafter had the benefit of three months' school in the year until he was nineteen years old. He continued at the trade and became a partner in the business when twenty years old. Seven years later he became sole owner, and continued to operate it until 1897. This shop was located on the north side of State street, between the railroad tracks, from the time when his father entered it, in 1843.
Mr. Hubbard has been interested in various ways in the commer- cial and political life of the village, and has borne his share in its devel- opment. While conducting the tinshop, he invested in a livery business, and at one time operated a large meat market. He became the owner of frame buildings on the south side of State street. below Mechanic, which were burned in the fall of 1891, and in the following summer he erected the handsome three-story brick block which stands on the site, contain- ing two stores and offices and flats. Here he makes his home. He attends the Presbyterian church, and is a Democrat in politics, like his father before him. For the past forty-one years he has been a member of Carthage Lodge No. 158. Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, and is now probably its oldest member. He has served six years as a vil- lage trustee, was four years chief engineer of the volunteer fire depart- ment, and for a like period was president of the board of water com- missioners at the time the water system of the village was established.
He was married, October 29, 1861, to Miss Rachel Harris, who was born in Harrisville, Lewis county, New York, a daughter of Austin and Hannah ( Munger) Harris, who came from the east and settled when that locality was new. Her grandfather, Foskett Harris, cleared the site of the village of Harrisville, which was named in his honor. Austin Harris is now living there, in the ninetieth year of his age. His wife died when thirty-five years old. Mrs. Rachel Hubbard was born October 11. 1843, and died July 27, 1893. She was active in the Pres- byterian church, being especially active in mission and Sunday-school work, and always endeavoring to benefit and elevate young men. She was much esteemed and respected in the town, and her loss was widely and sincerely mourned.
(VII) Moses, tenth son of William and Mabel ( Kelsy ) Hub- bard, was born April 2, 1814. in Connecticut, and was eighteen years · Id when he came with his father and brothers to live in Champion. He was fond of hunting, and made a good share of his livelihood from the spoils of the chase. He was a famous woodchopper, and his out-
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door life must have been wholesome, as he lived to within ten days of eighty-two years. His home was in the village of Great Bend. His wife, Mary Ensign, was a daughter of Samuel and Olive Ensign, early residents of Champion. She was born August 7, 1827, and died June 28, 1879.
(VII) Samuel Hubbard, youngest son of William and Mabel (Kel- sy) Hubbard, was born in 1815-16, in Berlin, Connecticut, and was twelve years old when he came to Champion with his father. Most of his education was received before he came here, and was limited to the common schools of the day. He was a reader and became well in- formed, and was a successful farmer, which occupation he always fol- lowed. His first purchase of land was in Montague, Lewis county, where he began the subjugation of a piece of wild land. About 1850 he removed to the town of Wilna, and his first purchase consisted of six acres. To this he soon added seven more, and the next addition in- cluded eighty-five acres. He continued adding to his domain until it included, at the time of his death, nearly eight hundred acres, and besides this he bequeathed to his children cash and other personal property. He died March 18, 1889, at the age of seventy-one years. His last home was at the old "Felt sawmill place." He was an upright and con- scientious man, making the Golden Rule his religion. In politics he was always a Democrat.
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