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He was married June 29, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth Benore, who was boin June 29, 1842, in Watertown, a daughter of John and An- geline ( Fext ) Benore, of French extraction. Three of Mr. and Mrs. Quencer's four children are now living, the second having died in in- fancy. Grace Elizabeth, the eldest, is the wife of Edward Carleton Britcher, an attorney of Syracuse, New York. Wallace Sebastian is a jeweler in Watertown. The last is mentioned at length below.
John Jacob Quencer, a successful young lawyer of New York city, is the youngest son of Sebastian and Elizabeth ( Benore ) Quencer, and was born September 24, 1872, in Watertown. His primary edu- cation was obtained in the public schools of his native city, and he grad-
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uated from its high school in 1890, being valedictorian of his class. After spending two years in the office of Farwell & Rhines, large millers of Watertown, he went to New York city in June, 1892, and took a position as student and clerk in the office of Lamb, Osborne & Petty, prominent attorneys of that city. In the fall of that year he entered the New York Law School, and was graduated therefrom in June. 1894, with the degree of LL. B. This fact indicates that he was already equipped with a capacity for hard work and mental absorption, and had little time for recreation during those two years of study and profes- sional labor combined. In March, 1895. he was admitted to the bar, and continued thereafter with his former employers until 1897, as man- aging clerk.
Mr. Quencer began an independent practice in 1897, pursuing a general line of business, and has met with deserved success. His office is located in one of the finest buildings that now adorn Broadway in the metropolis. He is somewhat active in the political work of the Democratic party in Manhattan, and is a member of the Jefferson County Society in New York. Mr. Quencer was married June 29. 1899, to Miss Caroline Isadora Mac. Alpine, a native of Hillsdale, Co- lumbia county, this state, a daughter of John and Susan ( MacArthur) Mac. Alpine, of Scotch ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Quencer have a son, Kenneth Carleton, born January 5, 1902.
BINGHAM. That heredity is not a theory but a condition is amply illustrated in many cases, but particularly in the religious char- acteristics, steady habits, energy and industry of the Bingham family of Norwich, Connecticut, which was founded by ( 1) Thomas Bing- ham, who settled at Norwich, in 1660. when he was about eighteen years old. Investigation proves that he came from Sheffield, York- shire, England, and that his father's name was Thomas. The church records of St. Peter's and the Holy Trinity church, Sheffield, England, show that Thomas Bingham and Anna Stenton were married July 6, 1631, and also show the births of seven children of this couple. The sixth child is Thomas, baptized June 5, 1642, who is the ancestor of many of the Binghams of New England and New York.
Thomas Bingham, the father, was a master cutler, and as such was a member of the Cutlers' Guild. His admission to this organization was December 21, 1614, when he was granted the trade-mark T B, combined. Sheffield was then, as it is now, a center famous for the
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cutlery it manufactured, and membership in this guild of manufacturers proves Thomas Bingham to have been a man of substance and worthy of honor among the great manufacturers of cutlery of that day and time. Among the presidents of the Cutlers' Company of Sheffield, known there as The Master Cutler, have been three Binghams, in the years 1624, 1881 and 1895, respectively. Thomas Bingham, who was one of the original proprietors of Norwich, came of a father well-to-do in the world and quite able to buy his eighteen-year-old son a share in that colony.
It seems that Thomas Bingham's mother came to America with him and that she afterward married William Backs and died in May, 1670.
Thomas was made free from Norwich by the general court in 1671 and removed to Windham, Connecticut, where he can be traced for thirty years, as sergeant, selectman and deacon in the church. He was on the first approved list of twenty-two inhabitants of Windham in 1693. He had a strip of four acres of land running to the river.
Thomas Bingham, Sr., is mentioned as grantee of one thousand acres of land in 1693. He was ordained senior deacon at organization of church at Windham December 10, 1700, an office held till his death. At the renting of the meeting house, April 19, 1703, by reason of his age and office he occupied the most honorable position-the seat at the right hand of his wife in the pew. He lived at "Hitherplace," or in the southeast quarter of the town.
He married Mary Rudd December 12, 1666. She is supposed to be the daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Rudd, of Laybrook, and his wife, who was the celebrated "Bride of Bride Brook." Thomas left seven sons, all over six feet in height. All. lived to great age and died in succession as born. They were all religious men, puritanical in principles, and very much renowned as musicians and singers.
Thomas Bingham died in Windham, Connecticut, January 16, 1729-30, aged eighty-eight, as shown by the following inscription on his tombstone: "Here lies ye body of ye Holy Man of God, Deacon Thomas Bingham, who was a man eminent for Piety, Love & Charity. He was ye son of Mr. Thomas & Mrs. Mary Bingham, Living in Shef- field. in Yorkshire. England. He died Jan. 16th, 1729-30, in the 88 year of his age." The mother's name should have been Anna, as ex- aminations of records show Mary to be incorrect.
(II) Deacon Abel Bingham, second child of Thomas and Mary
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(Rudd ) Bingham, born June 25, 1669. at Norwich, died March 25. 1745. at Windham. He lived first at Stratfield, Fairfield county, near the present Bridgeport, until about 1707, when he removed to Wind- ham, where he purchased a farm in the southern part of the town on the east side of Memeaguage Hill, May 21, 1707. He was admitted an inhabitant of the town January 12, 1708, and chosen deacon of the first church in 1729. He was selectman and held other town offices and was several times elected a delegate to the General Court. He appears to have been an honored, a respected and a pious man. His will is dated April 25. 1734. He married Elizabeth Odell, according to Windham records Mary Odell. according to Rev. Mr. Nash. They had nine children.
(III) David Bingham. ninth and youngest child of Abel and Elizabeth (Odell) Bingham, was born September 12, 1714, at Wind- ham, Connecticut. He lived at Norwich, Connecticut, and is mentioned as a tanner in his father's will. April 25. 1734. He married Hannal Bingham September 7. 1742, probably his own cousin. Had six chil- dren.
(IV) Nathan Bingham, fourth child of David and Hannal ( Bingham) Bingham, was born March 24. 1752, in Norwich, Connec- ticut, and died in 1812. The name of his first wife is not known. No children were born of this marriage. The surname of his second wife was Sabin, but there is no record of the date of the marriage. Of this union two children were born.
(V) Oliver Bingham. second son of Nathan Bingham, was born at Norwich, Connecticut. whence he moved to Lewis county, New York, and settled at Martinsburg. He was a carpenter and builder, and many of the structures he erected are standing strong and staunch, monu- ments to his memory. He married and had four sons and one daugh- ter, as follows: Alexander, who married and died in Lewis county ; Isaac: Darwin, a hardware dealer who lived most of his life at Mar- tinsburg, and died at Cainstota: Ann, who married William Adams, long time school commissioner of Lewis county: Rinaldo M., a whole- sale dealer in carriages at Rome.
(VI) Isaac S. Bingham, son of Oliver Bingham, was born March 18. 1810. at Canajoharie. New York, and educated at Cazanovia Sem- inary, from which he graduated about 1839. At an early age he em- braced the Methodist Episcopal faith, which was the creed of his par- ents, and on graduating became a clergyman. He was stationed first
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at Pamelia, and then at Carthage, Syracuse, Watertown, Adams, Rome and Fulton. After performing faithful service at these places he was elected editor of the Northern Christian Advocate, at Auburn, which place he filled four years. He then returned to the pulpit and preached at Watertown three years, and was presiding elder eight years, resid- ing at Watertown. Subsequently he was at Lowville, in Lewis county, and at Herkimer, dying at the latter place in 1893. He was a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal General Conference many times and his service in that body covered over thirty years. In politics he was a Republican and made speeches for the Lincoln ticket in 1860. He was a forceful writer and successful preacher.
Mr. Bingham married at Lowville Jane Mills, daughter of Tim- othy and Catherine Mills, natives of the Mohawk Valley country. Mr. Mills was a large farmer. He made the first brick in Lewis county. The largest brick house he built stands to-day as good as it was the day it was finished. Jane Mills was born in this house in 1821. Her parents had seven children :
Susan married a Mr. Morris and settled at Princeton, Illinois ; Roxana married Charles Chase, for whom Chase's Lake is named ; De- loss spent his life at Lowville; Dwight also lived at Lowville; Jane married Rev. Bingham: Maria married N. B. Foot and lived at Rome; Melissa married W. R. Adams, a graduate of Union College, who was principal of Lowville Academy nearly forty years and never taught in any other field than that. He died aged eighty years or more. She is the only survivor of her father's family. Jane Mills was a graduate of Lowville Academy. She died in 1895. She was a woman of supe- rior attainments, a helpful companion to her husband and a loving mother to her children.
Rev. Isaac S. and Jane ( Mills) Bingham were buried at Water- town. Their children were: Charles D., present mayor of Watertown ; Wilbur F., noted farther below : Frank M., a resident of Watertown; Jennie M., a teacher in Fults Institute at Herkimer ; and Mary S., wife of Rev. J. H. Myers, a Methodist clergyman now stationed at Malone, New York.
(VII) Wilbur Fisk Bingham, the second child of Isaac S. and Jane ( Mills) Bingham, was born March 27, 1851, at Syracuse, New York. After leaving the common schools he attended Falley Seminary at Fulton, from which he graduated in 1869. Immediately after this he went into the employ of the Empire State Life Insurance Company,
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at Watertown, New York, as a clerk. After filling that position two years he took a similar place with the Watertown Fire Insurance Com- pany, where he remained twelve years. In 1887 he went to New York city and took a position with the Sun Insurance Office, which had inti- mate business relations with the Watertown Company. In 1890 he was made assistant secretary of the Sun Insurance office, which posi- tion he has since held.
Mr. Bingham is a believer in the principles of protection and ex- pansion and votes the Republican ticket. He attends the Episcopal church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the following organizations: Watertown Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M., of which he is past master: Amity Chapter No. 160, New York city, also past high priest of Watertown Chapter No. 59, of which he was formerly a member: Watertown Commandery No. II; Central City Consistory, Syracuse ; and Mecca Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, New York city.
Wilbur F. Bingham married. in 1873, at Watertown, Sarina S. Holden, daughter of Christopher A. and Lucy (Sibley) Holden, of Watertown. The Holdens were formerly of Bennington, Vermont. C. A. Holden was a member of the firm of Goodnow & Holden, of Watertown. Two children have been born of this marriage, Anson H., a graduate of the New York Homeopathic College (1900), now a physician in New York city : and Isaac S., an artist, a designer of post- ers, with a prominent New York printing company.
CLAUDE REUBEN NOTT, treasurer and manager of the Som- erset Hotel Company of New York city, is a native of Watertown, and was bred in the hotel business. His conspicuous success is the result of his energy and close application, aided by his genial nature and naturally suave manner. His grandfather was a leading pioneer in St. Lawrence county, serving as sheriff and in other public capacities.
Reuben Nott, whose father is supposed to have been named Theo- dore, was born June 19, 1798, and died in Watertown August 31, 1863. His wife, Olive Bailey, a native of Windsor, Vermont, was born May 15. 1802, and died December 23, 1895. They were married in Ant- werp, this county, and lived several years at Somerville, a village on the northeastern border of that town, where Mr. Nott was a large farmer. He also dealt largely in cattle, and with success. His farm was on the St. Lawrence side of the county line, and he was elected
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sheriff of the county in 1853, upon which he moved to the county seat. In 1861 he took the management of the American House at Water- town, in which he was assisted by his sons, and after his death as above noted one of the sons continued it. Mr. Nott was always a Democrat in politics and was popular with all parties. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church, and he sympathized with her in religions faith. They had eight children, noted as follows: Cornelia is the widow of William James Comins, and resides in Watertown. Olive died there, unmarried. Christopher and Silas are in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Sylvester G. is at Atlanta, Ga. Copley .\. receives extended mention below. James Wallace is a druggist long known in Water- town, and Theodore is a rancher near Denver, Colorado, and has a large family.
Copley Alexander Nott, fourth son and sixth child of Reuben and Olive (Bailey) Nott, was born October 11, 1837, in the town of Rossie, St. Lawrence county, New York, where he was reared on his father's farm. After his father's death he continued the management of the American House in Watertown and subsequently kept a grocery store in that city. In 1873 he joined O. G. Staples in the erection of the Thou- sand Island House at Alexandria Bay, which they conducted jointly until 1877, when Mr. Nott sold out to his partner. At the opening of Con- gress Hall at Syracuse, in 1877. Mr. Nott was its proprietor, and he con- tinued in that capacity eighteen years. For five years thereafter he was joint proprietor with his son in the Butterfield House at Utica, and was nearly two years manager of a hotel at West Point. In 1903 he went to New York city and was manager of the Hotel Stanley, an apartment house on Forty-seventh street, one year. Since that time he has been assisting his son in the management of the Somerset Hotel, on the same street. Mr. Nott was vestryman of Grace ( Episcopal) church at Syra- cuse many years and was an attendant of Grace church at Utica, while residing there. He is a member of the Jefferson County Society in New York, and has always followed in the political precepts of his father.
.Mr. Nott was married October 7. 1863, to Miss Cora A. Clark, a na- tive of Watertown. daughter of James and Sabra M. Clark. Mrs. Nott is deeply interested in the work of the Episcopal church, in which she has always been active. Her only child, Claude Reuben Nott, receives mention in the following paragraphs.
Claude R. Nott was born December 18, 1866, in the American House at Watertown, and received his first schooling in the public school of
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that city. He subsequently graduated from the Syracuse high school, in the class of 1883. being one of the three out of thirty-six who suc- ceeded in passing the regent examinations. Until 1892 he was asso- ciated with his father in the conduct of Congress Hall at Syracuse, and from 1892 to 1896 he was manager of the Hubbard House at Clayton, the finest hotel of that place. For the five succeeding years he was joint manager of the Butterfield House in Utica, and went to Buffalo in 1901 and, during the continuance of the Pan-American Exposition, was manager of the Buckingham and Marlborough hotels.
Immediately after this Mr. Nott went to New York and for one year he was room clerk at the Park Avenue Hotel. In 1903 he as- sumed his present position, as manager of the Hotel Somerset, one of the most exclusive apartment hotels in the city. Mr. Nott is especially fitted by nature for conducting a hotel, and he is popular with his guests and employes, as well as with the owners of the property. He is a genial and intelligent man, ready to converse well on other than busi- ness topics, and is voted by his familiars to be an all-around " good fel- low." He is fond of out-door sports, and was ten years a member of Oswego Yacht Club, in whose events he was a prominent figure. He is a non-resident member of the Citizens' Club of Syracuse, an inter- ested member of the Jefferson County Society and the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association. He has been affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, but is now demitted. A busy and active man, in the prime of his powers, he finds time to secure much enjoy- ment in life, and has many years of usefulness before him, in the ordi- nary expectations. He has always been a Democrat, but takes no act- ive part in politics.
Mr. Nott was married, June 20, 1900, to Miss Grace Eleanor Slade, who was born November 22, 1877, in Syracuse, daughter of John Benton Slade, now and for many years a resident of Utica.
FRANKLIN PIERCE HAYES, well known former resident of Watertown, an active and successful business man and ardent Christian worker, was born April 27. 1861, in the town of Lyme. His grand- father. John Hayes, undoubtedly of Holland Dutch ancestry, was born in October. 1802, in Montgomery county, whence he removed to Lyme about 1855. He was a farmer in Lyme, where he died in April, 1866. Ilis wife, Nancy, was also a native of Montgomery county, born 1804, and died in October. 1864. They were Presbyterians, and reared their
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children to be good citizens. Their names in order of birth, ' were : James, Absalom, Irene, Solomon, Fidelia and John. The elder daugh- ter became the wife of Jackson Gilibins, and the junior married Harvey Bellinger.
Solomon, third son and fourth child of John and Nancy Hayes, was born July 16, 1832, in Montgomery county, and died May 19. 1870, in the village of Evans Mills. When a young man he came to Jefferson county with his father, and was a successful farmer in Lyme. In 1865 he purchased a large farm four miles north of Evans Mills, in the town of Leray, and entered upon its cultivation with his accustomed energy and intelligence. He was a well informed and progressive man, in ad- vance of his time, and worked for good roads, good schools and every practical movement for the improvement of his locality. He had just retired from farming and moved to the village of Evans Mills in March preceding his death. A highly respected citizens, his demise was wide- ly mourned. He was a faithful attendant of the Presbyterian church, and a Democrat in politics. He was determined that his children should receive the best educational advantages, and when stormy weather or deep snow seemed likely to prevent their attendance, he conveyed them to school with his team.
Mr. Hayes was married at Antwerp in 1860, to Lena Young. daughter of William and Rachel (Augsbury) Young, of old Jefferson county families. Mrs. Hayes survives her husband, and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Five of her six children are living, as noted below : Frank P. is the eldest, and receives farther mention in this article. Sophia resides with her mother, as does Lena. the fifth. The third, Arthur, died in infancy, and the fourth was also named Arthur. He is practicing medicine in Hartford, Connecticut. Will- iam. the sixth, is professor of languages in the University of Vermont, Burlington.
Franklin P. Hayes grew up near Evans Mills, on a farm, and at- tended the district school adjacent thereto. The death of his father when he was in his tenth year led him early to exertion in his own sup- port. His first venture, at the age of fifteen years, was as clerk of a general store at Evans Mills. This position he held successfully for three years, and then moved to Watertown, to secure better training. While pursuing a course in shorthand, he engaged as clerk in a dry- goods store, and pursued his studies outside of working hours. About the time of his majority he took a position in the office of H. H. Bab-
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cock Company, a large manufacturer of carriages, and continued this connection seventeen years, becoming chief assistant to the manager, Mr. Gec. H. Babcock, with the exception of three years when he was manager of the Watertown Spring Wagon Company.
In 1899 Mr. Hayes went to New York to take a position as man- ager of the tire department of the New York Belting and Packing Company, with whom he continued until 1903. For the last two years he has been manager of the New York branch of the Pennsylvania Rubber Company, with offices on Broadway, and is now secretary and treasurer of the Pennsylvania Rubber Company of New York. His long continuance in exacting and responsible positions testifies to Mr. Hayes' integrity and executive ability. As a genial, intelli- gent and courteous gentleman, he inspires confidence and draws about him business friends, while his labors in the field of morals have se- cured the respect and admiration of all who are interested in that direction.
While a resident of Watertown he was especially active in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was one of the executive managers of the local association many years. He acted as superintendent of the Stone Street Presbyterian Sunday school, and was ten years district secretary of the Young People's Society of Chris- tian Endeavor for northern New York. He is now an active worker in the Tompkins Avenue Congregational church of Brooklyn, and is superintendent of Mount Olivet Presbyterian Sunday school. He takes decided ground on questions of public policy, and is known as an efficient supporter of Republican principles in Brooklyn, the city of his home.
Mr. Hayes was married October 9, 1884, to Miss Celia Victory, a native of Watertown, daughter of Edmund and Emily Victory, for- merly of central western New York .. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes includes two sons. Ralph Victor and Carl Franklin, students of the public schools. As a representative of the successful sons of Jeffer- son, the record of Mr. Hayes is appropriately included in these annals, and may well be emulated by the youth of the land.
CHARLES LEWIS PARMELEE, born at Gouverneur, St. Law- rence county, New York, March 7, 1864, is a son of Dr. Simeon Lewis and Sarah (Jones) Parmelce, and the eighth in direct descent from John Parmelee, of Guilford, Connecticut, who was of unknown antecedents.
State Street Methodist Church, Watertown
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It is not certain whether he was of the Belgian family of Von Parme- lee which settled at Helversluys, Holland, the founder of which served under the Prince of Orange against the Duke of Alva, becoming after- ward Baron of Batavia, or whether of the Parmelin family of French Huguenot extraction which settled in Switzerland-branches of these families being now found at both places. He was one of the signers of the " Plantation Covenant " of Guilford, dated June 1, 1639.
Simeon Parmelee, the fifth in line of descent from John, served in the British army in the French and Indian war between 1757 and 1760. He enlisted in the continental army in 1775, and was with Arnold in his invasion of Canada. taking part in the capture of St. John and Montreal, and the siege of Quebec. He was stationed at Fort Stanwix and Fort Niagara at later days. He was one of the organ- izers of the town of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where his name is mentioned in the town records as " constable and collector of rates," March 20, 1775, and was one of a committee to " hire preaching " Sep- tember 15, 1775, and was " voted to read the psalm on Sabbath, and other public lectures," and was placed on a committee "to hire and enlist the men required from this town to fill up the army," December 22. 1780. He married Jemima Hopkins. His death occurred at West- ford, Vermont, May 20, 1820.
His son, Rev. Moses Parmelee, born August 10, 1788, married Hetty Chapin. He died at Enosburg, Vermont, February 21. 1838. He was a clergyman of the Congregationalist faith. He left one son and two daughters.
Dr. Simeon Lewis Parmelee, son of Rev. Moses and Hetty (Chapin) Parmelee, was born February 21, 1829, at Bangor, Frank- lin county, New York. He acquired his education at the Jericho Acad- emy, Jericho, Vermont, and subsequently attended medical schools at Castleton, and Woodstock, Vermont, graduating from the latter school in 1853 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began at Gouv- erneur, New York, and was continuously engaged in the practice of medicine there (with a short interval of interruption) from 1853 to 1876-a period of twenty-three years. Near the close of the war of the Rebellion he served as an army physician at the camp of convalescent soldiers at David's Island. near New Rochelle, New York. This serv- ice covered a period of a little less than a year.
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