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Mr. Howland married. September 3. 1901, Stella C. Hungerford, a member of one of the leading families of the county, the genealogy of which will be found in the sketch of Orville Hungerford, which appears elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Howland is a daughter of Elbert Hun- gerford.
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JOHN CLARKE STREETER. No one citizen of Watertown has been more strongly identified with its commercial. political and social life, during the last half-century, than John C. Streeter.
Nelson White Streeter, father of the subject of this sketch, was an early resident of the county and was long distinguished as a leading citizen of Watertown. Nelson W. Streeter was born January 10, 1804, in Goshen, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, a son of Elijah and Abigail Streeter, the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of Massachusetts. In the year 1819 Elijah Streeter settled, with his son, in Champion, this county. His wife died May 20, 1800, at the age of twenty-three years, in Massachusetts. He followed shoemaking until a short time before his death, when he moved to Watertown, and passed away at the home of his son August 21, 1830, at the early age of forty- nine years.
In the year 1821 Nelson W. Streeter was apprenticed to Thomas Peck, of Watertown, to learn the tailor's trade, which he completed in three years. He at once established himself as a tailor, and was imme- diately successful. as he was industrious, and soon accumulated means to engage quite extensively as a merchant tailor, beginning in 1830. After fourteen years he extended his business to include ready-made apparel, much of which he manufactured. After twenty years this was turned over to his son. John C. Streeter, who continued it successfully. along the lines early acquired by association in the business. One of the monuments to the business sagacity and energy of Nelson W. Streeter is found in the Streeter building, on the Public Square, which teems with the business life of the city. Being associated with the Whig party in early life, he identified himself with the Democratic party in 1856, and continued this allegiance until his life closed. Consistency was one of his most prominent traits, and he held tenaciously to a course once mapped out for himself. The esteem in which he was held is indicated by the fact that he served the city as trustee and the county as sheriff. Out of the kindness of his heart, Mr. Streeter became respon- sible, by endorsement, for much of the paper of his friends, and his son, John C. Streeter, was called upon to meet these obligations to the amount of over sixty thousand dollars, which he did, without a dollar of discount, and with no compensation from those responsible for the loss. In 1828 Mr. Streeter married Miss Aurelia A. Parsons, of Lewis county. She died January 19. 1837. leaving four children-John C., Cornelia, Aurelia and Augusta A. On October 22, 1837. Mr. Streeter married
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Eunice H. Burpee, of Lorraine, this county, who bore him one son, Henry W., for some years a practicing physician of Watertown, and who died in 1903. at Rochester, where he had been ten years engaged in successful practice.
John Clarke Streeter, son of Nelson W. Streeter, was born Novem- ber 22, 1829, in Watertown. He is the eldest of a family of four children and at a very early age was engaged in trade. For a long period he was one of the leading business men of Watertown, being distinguished not only for financial success, but also for honorable deal- ing and strict integrity of character. He was one of the first board of directors of the Watertown Manufacturers' Aid Association and served in the same capacity on the organization of the Watertown board of trade. He was one of the incorporators of the Watertown Spring Wagon Company and one of the first trustees of the Watertown Sav- ings Bank. In 1887 Mr. Streeter retired from business, but continued his interest in the many activities by means of which he sought to advance in various ways the welfare and prosperity of the community.
In the sphere of politics Mr. Streeter has always borne a prominent part, his personal popularity no less than his ability and worth being attested by the number of offices of honor and responsibility which he has been called upon to fill. In 1872 he was appointed a member of the state board of charities, and served several years in that capacity. In 1877 he was supervisor and in 1878 was elected to the mayoralty. In discharging the duties of both these offices a strict regard to the best interests of the town and city was the object to which all other considerations were subordinate. In 1885 he was appointed by Pres- ident Cleveland postmaster of Watertown. a position which he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to the government until 1889 Since 1861 he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity and has been identified with the Union Club since its organiaztion.
Mr. Streeter has been twice married and is the father of one son : Frederick W. Streeter. the present city clerk. The latter's mother. Mary, was a daughter of Stephen White, long and favorably known as a business man of Watertown. In December. 1900, Mr. Streeter married Mrs. Ella A. Phelps, daughter of the late Merritt Andrus. of Watertown.
JOHN D. COLE, M. D., a leading physician and progressive citi- zen of Alexandria Bay. Jefferson county. New York, is a native of the
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state, born in Theresa, March 28. 1857. His paternal grandfather. Allen Cole, was one of the most extensive landholders and farmers of his day in that region, owning one thousand three hundred acres of land in the vicinity of Theresa, and to him was due the honor of building the first saw mill on Crooked Creek. He was united in marriage to Hope Jane --- , who was born in the vicinity of Paris, France, and to this union was born twelve children, of whom Alanson Cole. father of Dr. Cole. is the only survivor. Mr. and Mrs. Cole were members of the Universal- ist church. Their deaths occurred, respectively, when they attained the age of sixty and fifty years.
Alanson Cole ( father ) was born in the town of Theresa, New York. whither his parents removed from Massachusetts in 1812. He was reared in West Theresa, educated in the common schools, and fol- lowed farming as a vocation, clearing the land for that purpose. He be- gan life in a log cabin, later built the first frame dwelling in that sec- tion, then added to his property by buying the Plymton farm, and then a part of the Wakefield farm, consisting of two hundred and twenty-six acres, upon which he erected a second dwelling. There he resided up to 1886, and in that year removed to the village of Theresa, where he built a fine residence in which he now leads a retired life, being in the eighty- third year of his age. He has always been considered one of the pro- gressive men of his town, aiding to a large degree both educational and religious institutions. He married Lucy Makepeace, daughter of Solo- mon and Jane Cronkhite (also spelled Kronkhite) Makepeace. Mr. Makepeace, who died at the age of eighty-six. during his early years led the life of a farmer. cleared land, built the first sawmill at Joachum, and subsequently established a general store, which he conducted for many years. He was noted throughout the county as a man of broad and philanthropic ideas, who believed in the scriptural adage that "it is better to give than to receive," and this injunction he followed out to the utmost of his ability. From his store he supplied the suffering new settlers with many of the necessaries of life, thereby alleviating much suffering incident to the hardships and privations of settlers in adverse crop seasons. Mr. and Mrs. Makepeace were the parents of a number of children, four of whom are living at the present time ( 1904) : I. Lucy, aforementioned as the wife of Alanson Cole: she was born Feb- ruary 6, 1825, was married October 27, 1844, and died August 2, 1904. at the age of seventy-nine years, after a married life of nearly sixty years. 2. Ursula, a resident of Illinois. 3. Lydia, who resides at Alexandria
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Bay and is the widow of Alfred Avery. 4. Solomon, of Alexandria Bay. 5. John, of Clayton.
Dr. Cole received his literary education at Theresa Academy, and studied for his profession in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chi- cago, from which institution lie was graduated in 1882 at the age of twenty-five. After his graduation he located in Clayton, where he re- mained in practice for two years, and on April 15. 1884, he removed to Alexandria Bay, where he has since resided, and where he has continued to conduct a large and remunerative practice. He is a member of the Jefferson County Homeopathic Medical Society. He has always taken an active interest in educational and religious affairs, and has ever been foremost in advancing the measures that have for their object the growth and development of the town and the betterment of its people. He has served as coroner of Jefferson county for two terms of three years each, as deputy collector for a period of three years, and was the first health officer to be appointed by the village board but appointed by the state board under new law ( 1904) to serve till 1908. Dr. Cole was instru- mental in the organization of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Foresters, of which he is a charter member, and also examining physician. He is also a member of Alexandria Lodge No. 297, Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has held the offices of junior and senior deacon, and junior and senior warden: a member of The- resa Chapter. Watertown Commandery, and Media Temple of the Mys- tic Shrine. He also holds membership in Hopewell Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Alexandria Bay, of the Tribe of Ben Hur, and is a member and president of the Loyal Legion. Dr. Cole is a Re- publican in politics and, like his parents, a Universalist in religion.
Dr. Cole married, May 13. 1885, Adda E. Garrison, born in Nap- anee, Ontario, daughter of William Garrison, who was born in Canada, was a prosperous agriculturist of Napanee, and died at the age of fifty years. His wife is living at the present time ( 1904), and they were the parents of six children, five of whom are now living: Mrs. Dr. Cole, Mrs. Richard Hill, T. I. Park, John, a resident of Chatham, Canada, and Edward Garrison, an editor of Winnipeg. Dr. Cole and his wife have one daughter. Lottie Grace Cole, who is now a student at St. Ga- briel's Seminary at Peekskill. New York.
PORTER. Among those names which have furnished distin- guished citizens, in military, naval and business annals, none is more
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noteworthy than this. It was established in America among the earliest, and its representatives have been excellent citizens and patriots from the beginning. In the revolution and the late civil war it was especially noted and active.
(I) Richard Porter, American ancestor of the name, was a pas- senger on the ship Susan and Ellen, which sailed from Weymouth. England, March 20 ( or 30). 1635, and was among those who settled in that year in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was a member of the church there many years, served as constable and selectman, and kept up to the standard of citizenship then in vogue. No record is found of his marriage, and he died about 1689.
(II) John Porter, son of Richard, was married, February 9, 1600, to Deliverance, daughter of Nicholas and Martha ( Shaw ) Byrum ( By- ram). He resided in Weymouth and was said to be one of the most enterprising men of his time, a useful. honored citizen, holding all the various town offices at different times. He died August 17. 1717, and his widow died September 30, 1720.
(III) Thomas, son of John and Deliverance ( Byram) Porter, was married, about 1706, to Susannah, daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Hunt) Pratt. She was born in 1684.
(IV) Ezra Porter, son of Thomas and Susannah ( Pratt ) Porter, was born September 8. 1725. and was married, in 1751. to Hannah. daughter of Joseph and Ruth ( Richards) Lovell. She was born Decem- ber 17, 1723, and died early in life. Mr. Porter subsequently married Patience, daughter of Solomon and Temperance Hathaway. She was born October 21, 1741. They lived in Weymouth.
(V) Joel Porter, son of Ezra and Hannah (Lovell) Porter, was born June 16. 1755. in Weymouth, and died in September. 1824. . He married Levina Woods, who was born in 1757, and died about 1819. In 1780 he moved to Marlboro, New Hampshire, where five of his chil- dren were born, and in 1792 removed to Dublin, an adjoining town of Cheshire county, of that state. He participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, and served two years as a soldier of the revolution. At Bunker Hill a bone in his ankle was shattered by a musket ball, but he poured rum into the wound from his canteen and continued to fight until his ammunition was exhausted and the retreat was ordered. He received a pension of twenty dollars per month during the last twenty years of his life. His children were: Joel, died in infancy : David, resided in Gil- sum. New Hampshire; Levina, married (first) Jesse Knowlton, and
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second ) Chester Lyman, of Swanzey, New Hampshire; James, subject
of another paragraph: Joel, died when twenty years old; Ezra, resided 1 in Winchendon, Massachusetts; Noah, resided in Marlboro, New Hamp- shire ; Joseph, lived in Florida, Massachusetts; Lucy, first wife of Ches- ter Lyman ; Hannah, died in Nashua, when fifty-one years old.
(VI) James, son of Joel and Levina ( Woods) Porter, was born in July. 1788, in Marlboro, New Hampshire, and married Betsey Will- iams, who was born in 1790. When a young man he spent some time in Vermont, whence he came at an early day to Norwood, this state, where he cleared up and tilled a fine farm, remaining upon it until his death. He had a large family of children, only two of whom are now living, namely : Susannah, widow of Seth Butler, residing in Como, Colorado, and Sophronia, wife of Thomas Ellison, of Colton, New York, now residing at Wanakena.
(VII) Ora Bailey Porter, son of James and Betsey (Williams) Porter. was born May 9. 1827. in Norwood, where he received his pri- mary education, afterward attending the Potsdam Academy. After graduating from this institution he engaged for some time in teaching, and subsequently spent a few years in Ohio and Wisconsin. Upon his return to Norwood he purchased the homestead farm, which he sucess- fully managed for a number of years. He was thrice married, the third wife being Caroline E. Gibson, daughter of Roswell Gibson, who re- sidled in Florence, New York, from 1840 to 1857, in which year he died ( see Gibson, VII). Mr. Porter was sixty-one years old at the time of his death, in August, 1888, and his widow reached nearly sixty-three years, passing away February 3. 1903. Both were active and respected members of the Methodist church. Their children are herewith briefly noted: Charles G., the eldest, is mentioned at length elsewhere: Bela J. is a bookkeeper in New York city: William R. was for some years employed by a hardware manufacturing firm of Bridgeport, Connecti- cut, and is now assistant mechanical engineer of the S. S. White Dental Company's works on Staten Island.
(VIII) Charles Gibson Porter, eldest son of Ora B. and Caroline E. (Gibson ) Porter, was born October 6, 1864, in Norwood, New York, and was educated in the common schools of that town. At the age of sixteen years he went to West Camden, New York, and was employed Fre and one-half years in a chair factory there. At the end of that period he moved to Theresa, New York, where he was similarly employed six years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the business and acting a
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part of the time as foreman. He was subsequently employed at Clayton and Orwell, Oswego county. In association with A. E. Olmstead, he established a factory at the latter point, but retired from the connection at the end of a year. For six months he was an employe of the Excel- sior Carriage Company, of Watertown, and returned to Orwell and re- mained two years, after which he again spent six months with the Ex- celsior Carriage Company. Subsequently he was engaged as superin- tendent for F. B. Woodbury in a chair factory at Orwell until 1893. in which year he went to Black River, this county. Since that time he has been superintendent of the manufacturing department of the H. C. Dexter Chair Company. He is now a stockholder in the plant, which employs from seventy-five to one hundred people, and much of the pros- perity of the concern is due to his ability and energy. A genial and courteous gentleman, of upright character, he enjoys the respect and esteem of employes and associates and of the community at large.
Mr. Porter united with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Orwell, and changed his membership on removal to Black River to Riverside Lodge No. 334, of that place. He has filled all the chairs, serving as noble grand in 1900, and for one year was secretary of Jef- ferson District No. 2, of the order. He is a warm supporter of Repub- lican principles and policies, but does not seek political position. He and his family are affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is active in its work, being now superintendent of the local Sabbath school.
Mr. Porter was married January 18, 1888, to Mercy A., daughter of Horace W. Moore, who has been for many years, and is still, care- taker of the Holden property at Thousand Island Park. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have a son, Earl M., born August 5, 1889. Mr. Moore and his wife. Marcelia Antoinette (Sherman), had four children, of whom three are living, namely: Horace, residing at Fine View. New York: Carrie, 'wife of W. P. Kippler, of Wells Island: and Mercy A., born March 24, 1867. now the wife of Charles G. Porter, as before noted.
REV. OSGOOD EATON HERRICK. D. D. The Reverend Doc- tor Osgood Eaton Herrick, of Watertown, is a representative of an ancient family of English origin. The ancestral history can be traced back previous to the reign of Edward the Third, and it was in 1340, during the memorial half-century when this monarch was king of Eng- land, that the estate of Leicestershire Park passed into the possession
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of the Herricks, by whom it has since been owned without interruption down to the present time.
The founder of the American branch of the family landed in 1630 in the Massachusetts colony and made his home at Salem. For nearly three hundred years his descendants have been accorded the part of good citizens and soldiers-in colonial. Revolutionary and na- tional annals.
(I) From Charles W. Upham's "Salem Witchcraft," it is learned that "Henry Herrick, who purchased the Cherry-Hill farm, of Alford, was the fifth son of Sir William Herrick. of Beau Manor Park, in the parish of Loughborough, in the county of Leicester, Eng- land. He came first to Virginia, and then to Salem. He was accompa- nied to American by another emigrant from Loughborough, named Cleveland." The name appears to be of Scandinavian origin, and has undergone many modifications in its progress from "Eirikr, Eric." to Herrick, taking the last form about the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury. "Henry Herrick was a husbandman, in easy circumstances, but undistinguished by wealth." He married Editha, daughter of Hugh Laskin, of Salem. She was born in 1614, and lived to be, at least, sixty years old. He died in 1671. They were among the first thirty mem- bers of the first church in Salem, founded in 1629. They had seven sons and one daughter. and all the sons were farmers.
(II) Joseph, fifth son and child of "Henerie" and Editha Her- rick, baptized August 6. 1645. died February. 4, 1717-18, at Cherry Hill. Upham says: "He was a man of great firmness and dignity of character and. in addition to the care and management of his large farm, was engaged in foreign commerce. * * He was in the Narragansett fight." The state of things at that time is illustrated by the fact that "This eminent citizen, a large landholder, engaged in pros- perous mercantile affairs, and who had been abroad-in 1692, when forty-seven years of age, was a corporal in the village company. He was acting constable of the place and. as such, concerned in the early proceedings connected with the witchcraft prosecutions." His title of Governor would indicate that he had been in command of a military post or district, or. perhaps, of a West Indiana colony. He married, February 7, 1666-7, Sarah, daughter of Richard Leach, of Salem. She died about 1674. and he married, about 1077-8. Mary Endicott, of Salem, who died September 14, 1706. The first bore him four children, and the second nine.
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(III) Martyn, sixth child and fifth son of Joseph Herrick, was baptized January 26, 1679-80, and died in 1739. His twin brother. Henry, died young. He settled in Lynn (now Lynnfield ). Massachu- setts. on the Burnet Brown farm, given him by his father. He mar- ried. July 17, 1710, Ruth Endicott, of Salem, and they had two sons and two daughters.
(I\') Samuel, second son and child of Martyn Herrick, was born in 1713, and died in 1792. He resided in Reading. Massachusetts. In 1742 he married Elizabeth Jones, of Wilmington, who died 1759. His second wife was a widow. Sarah ( Putnam), Whipple, and was the mother of his last four children. There were nine of the first wife's offspring.
(V) Ebenezer, ninth child and fourth son of Samuel Herrick, was born March 12, 1759, and died January 7, 1842. He settled in Marlborough, New Hampshire, in February, 1795, and there engaged in agriculture. He was married September 26, 1782, to Lydia Eaton. of Reading, who was born October 13, 1767, and died September 23. 1829. They were the parents of ten children. Ebenezer Herrick was a soldier of the Revolution.
(VI) Samuel, third son and fifth child of Ebenezer and Lydia Herrick, was born March 21, 1792, in Reading, Massachusetts, and died October 19, 1876, in Watertown, New York. He was a merchant some years at Boston and subsequently in Windsor, Vermont. He spent six years at Pillar Point, this county, whence he removed to Watertown in 1846. He was married January 1. 1817, in Windsor, Vermont, to Eliza Hayes, a sister of Dr. A. A. Hayes, a distinguished physician and chemist, and state assayer of Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Allen Hayes, many years the leading merchant of Windsor.
(VII) Osgood Eaton Herrick, son of Samuel and Eliza ( Hayes) Herrick, was born April 25. 1826, in Windsor, Vermont. In 1839 the family moved to Jefferson county, and in 1846 took up their abode in Watertown. June 15. 1851, Mr. Herrick was ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church by the late Bishop De Lancey, in Trinity church, Geneva, New York, and the same year became the first rector of Emmanuel church, Adams, New York. In 1853. he became rec- tor of Christ church, Manlius, New York, and in 1856 his field of labor was changed to the far south. In that year he became rector of St. Paul's church, Key West, Florida, an office which he held for thirteen years This included the period of the Civil war and the loyalty of Dr. Herrick,
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like that of every Union man during those dark days, was put to a severe test. Ilis courage did not falter, and throughout that time of trial he never omitted to offer in his church, unchanged, the stated prayers for the President and congress of the United States. In 1864 the story of his loyalty came to the ears of President Lincoln, who thereupon ap- pointed him post chaplain in the United States army. During his resi- dence in Key West the place was visited by several epidemics of yellow fever, and he was himself twice the victim of the dread disease. In 1870 he was ordered to Fort Warren. Boston, Massachusetts, and upon his departure from Key West General Sherman issued an order, of which the following is a part :
"To the Rev. Osgood E. Herrick, Chaplain, U. S. A., and his estimable wife, there is, probably. not a single officer or soldier stricken down, who does not feel greatly indebted for their sympathies and their kind and constant attentions.
"The arduous services of the chaplain, both as pastor and friend, among the stricken of the city, as well as in garrison, were unremitting to the extent of sacrificing his own health for the good of others. Con- trary to the advice of the commanding officer and his physician, this, officer insisted upon keeping his post in spite of ill health and continuing in the performance of every duty-official, pastoral and social-until this epidemic was stayed, and he has thereby shown how well the great mili- tary virtue of self-sacrifice combines with the highest virtues of re- ligion."
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