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WILLIAM HENRY HALPIN, who for a decade and a half has been actively and prominently identified with the realty and insurance interests of New Jersey and New York, his operations for a number of years having been conducted principally on the west side of the bor- ough of Manhattan, is a native of Watertown, Jefferson county, born
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December 2, 1867. His parents are Robert and Margaret (Welch) Halpin, the former a native of St. Lawrence, Jefferson county, and the latter a member of an old and honored family, long resident in Ogdens- burg, St. Lawrence county. New York. Her grandfather. Louis Ken- nedy, chopped down the first trees on the site of Ogdensburg. Her father, Louis Welch, was killed while an American soldier in the Mexi- can war. Robert Halpin was born in Depeyster. St. Lawrence county, and devotes his entire attention to agricultural pursuits. He is one of the upright Christian men of the community in which he resides, in the town of Oswegachie, near Ogdensburg. He is a son of Henry Halpin, who was also a farmer, and came to this country from Kings county. Ireland, his birthplace. His wife, Ellen, was a native of Ire- land, and they were married in New York state.
William H. Halpin, after completing his education, began his act- ive career as a commercial drummer. and later on became an engineer. but neither of these occupations were entirely suited to his tastes and inclinations. He then turned his attention to the real estate business, purchasing tracts of land in the state of New Jersey, which were di- vided into lots whereon were erected modern and attractive residences which greatly enhanced the natural beauty of the localities, and thus farms and woodlands were converted into pretty villages. Subsequently he established an office at 85 Eighth avenue, New York city, where he is now conducting an extensive business along these lines. also deriv- ing a large income from the insurance business, which is carried on in conjunction therewith. His integrity, business capacity and intelligence are beyond question, and the success he has achieved has been the di- rect result of his own ambition and effort. He is a man of fine literary taste, and is the possessor of a library which is both large and well se- lected. He is a member of the Jefferson County Society.
He was married May 20. 1897. to Mary Broderick, a native of New York city, daughter of Irish parents.
HON. GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAGLEY, one of the influential and well known business men of Watertown, who has been prominently identified with the commercial. political and social interests of Jefferson county since early manhood. is president of the Bagley & Sewall Com- pany and the Newton Falls Paper Company, and now in his declining years, enjoys the high regard and esteem of all with whom he has been brought in contact either in public or private life. He was born in
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Watertown July 22, 1826, a son of Bernard and Zurviah ( Gates) Bag- ley.
Bernard Bagley was born in Durham, Greene county, New York, November 5. 1791, removed from thence to Jefferson county in the year 1812, and for several years thereafter was engaged in teaching school and building roads in Antwerp. In 1816 he changed his place of resi- dence to Watertown, the county seat, began reading law in the office of Charles E. Clarke and was admitted to the Jefferson county bar in 1826. He possessed the characteristics requisite for a successful career as an attorney-at-law, and therefore his clientage was one of the most extensive and select in the county. Prior to entering the profession of law he was engaged as a surveyor. He served as a member of the legis- lature, was one of the twenty-two trustees appointed at the incorporation of the Jefferson County Savings Bank, April 5, 1859, and also filled a similar position for the North Watertown Rural Cemetery, which was laid out in 1838. He married Zurviah Gates, daughter of Jacob and Zurviah ( Harris) Gates. He died at his home in Watertown, June 26, 1878.
The common schools of Watertown afforded George A. Bagley ex- cellent opportunities for acquiring a practical education, which qualified him for a life of usefulness and activity. He began the study of law in his father's office, and was admitted to practice before attaining his majority, but not finding this congenial to his tastes and inclinations, he soon abandoned it and in 1853 entered into partnership with Edmund Q. Sewall and George Goulding. The business, which was known as the Bagley & Sewall Machine Works, is the outgrowth of the foundry and machine shop established by George Goulding in 1823, and from this small beginning have developed the vast structures which cover almost two acres of land and furnish almost constant employment to more than four hundred mechanics. The plant is located on Sewall's island, a locality noted for the number and magnitude of its manufac- tures, is devoted exclusively to the manufacture of iron machinery, and its products are sent to all parts of the civilized workl. Mr. Bagley has always been a potent factor in the Republican politics of Watertown, served as trustee and president of the village of Watertown, was a mem- ber of the board of supervisors and during the year 1874 served as chairman of that body, and from 1875 to 1879 was a member of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses.
In 1858 Mr. Bagley married Sabine P. Clark, daughter of Colonel
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Ambrose W. Clark. Their children are: Jessie, wife of Virgil K. Kel- log : Carrie, wife of Stuart D. Lansing : Madaline : and Ambrose Bagley, the last associated with his father in business. Mrs. Bagley is a mem- ber of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church of Watertown, and takes an active and prominent part in the work of the various societies con- nected with the same.
WALTER LLEWELLYN WEBSTER. stock broker, New York, is descended from William Webster, of county Wexford, Ireland, who perished in the revolution in that country in 1798. He adhered to the English party, and was killed in the outbreak of that period. The tra- dition has been handed down that William Webster was taken to Wex- ford bridge with his family one Sunday morning and there in presence of his wife and children was wounded, held up on three pikes till he was dead, and his body was thrown into the river which runs below. The wife and family were driven from the locality and sought refuge in America. After a voyage of three months they reached Canada, and later settled in the rear of township of Lansdowne, that is, in the part of the township farthest from the St. Lawrence river.
At the date of settlement William Webster (2), son of William who died in Ireland, was ten years old. Here the mother and children made a farm in the woods which covered the country at that time. Will- iam was a very industrious and shrewd man and before his death owned about a thousand acres of land. In addition to the usual farming indus- tries he added dairying, in which he was successful. He was the father of children, viz. : Edward, who settled in Toronto: Robert, who set- tled in Newborough: David, who went to California; John, who settled at Athens, Ontario: William (3), the father of Walter L. Webster of this sketch: Mary, who married Jonathan Johnson, of Lansdowne : and Elizabeth, who married David B. Johnson, of Chicago. William ( 2) died at the age of ninety-one. and his wife at the age of fifty-five.
William Webster (3). son of William (2), was born in Lans- downe, Settlement of Oak Leaf. July 22, 1831, and grew up on his father's farm, where he remained until his marriage, when he engaged in business on his own acount. He had a part of the homestead farm of his father, all of which he acquired. There he lived till he retired in 1880, and removed to Kingston, where he now resides.
Ile married. in 1855. Miss Patience E. Connors, who was born at Oak Leaf in 1832. She and her sister, Amy N., afterward Mrs. Peter
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Johnson, were left orphans when the former was about ten years old. The parents were natives of county Wexford. Ireland, and came to Canada when young, probably about the year 1808. Ten children were born to William Webster and his wife. Harmon, the eldest, died at fifteen years of age: Eva married John W. Barker, and lives in Mani- toba ; Amy married John A. Meyer, and lives in Forfar, Ontario: Da- videna became the wife of Thomas M. Barker and resides in Vancouver, B. C. : Albert died in infancy, as did the next child ( unnamed ) : William F. lives in Kingston: Walter L. is a citizen of New York: Edward S. lives in Kingston. Ontario: Matthew lives in Ottawa. Mrs. Patience Webster died January 21. 1905.
Walter L. Webster, the eighth child of William and Patience E. (Connors) Webster, was born in Lansdowne, July 30, 1871, and spent his youth with his parents. At the age of eighteen he went to Manitoba. where he engaged in farming a year and a half. Recognizing that the education he had received at his early home was not sufficient, he at- tended the public and also normal school at Boissevain for a time, and then taught a year and a half. Tiring of the west and thinking he could do better farther east, he went to Kingston and started in mercantile life, but soon after went to Clayton, Jefferson county, New York, where he entered the employ of W. A. Webster as a bookkeeper. This place he filled a year, and then took the position of assistant to the cashier of the First National Bank of Clayton, New York. After a year in that position he came to New York city, and was a bookkeeper for a brokerage firm in Wall street. After two years' work at the books he was promoted to the place of cashier, which place he left two years later, and bought a seat on the Consolidated Stock Exchange, August I, 1901. He then went into business for himself and has enjoyed the sticcess which thorough preparation and good judgment should bring to their possessor.
In politics Mr. Webster is a Republican. He is a member of Com- monwealth Lodge No. 409, F. & A. M., of Brooklyn, and of Fort Green Council of the Royal Arcanum.
March 5. 1900, he married Gertrude H. Rees, daughter of Captain William and Cornelia J. ( Angel) Rees, of Clayton. New York. Cap- tain Rees was a lake captain and accumulated a competency about the time of the Civil war in the United States. He died in 1900. Mrs. Rees survives him. Mr. and Mrs. Webster have one child. Rees. They are members of the Episcopal church, and reside in Brooklyn.
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DR. DWIGHT L. HUBBARD. a leading member of the medical profession in New York city, is a native of Jefferson county, a son of Dr. George N. Hubbard, who achieved great success in the practice of medicine at Carthage. The family is of ancient lineage, having been traced from time of William, the Conqueror, in England. This line seems to be entirely independent, in this country, of another which has many representatives in and about Carthage. Their first American an- cestor was from Wakefield, in Yorkshire, while the first of this line came from Somersetshire. A remarkable coincidence is found in the fact that they were born about the same time and bore the same Chris- tian name.
(I) George Hubbard, born about 1600, was of Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England, and came to America about 1633, and spent a short time at Concord, Massachusetts. He soon settled in that part of Wethersfield. Connecticut. now the town of Glastonbury. Lands were assigned him, a portion of which was in possession of his descend- ants quite recently. Mr. Hubbard married Mary Bishop. He was a man of considerable note in the colony and, at its commencement. he made a deposition concerning the purchase from the Indians of the land of Wethersfield, by the General Court, which was ordered to be printed. He was a member of the first General Court in 1638, and in several subsequent years. In 1644 he removed to Milford and, in 1648, to Guilford. He had four sons and five daughters.
(II) John, eldest son of George Hubbard and Mary Bishop, was born about 1630 in England. He married Mary Merriam of Con- cord. Massachusetts, about 1650, and four of his children were born in Wethersfield. About 1660, he was one of a company including thirty heads of families that went with Rev. John Russell to Hadley. Massachusetts, and he was there made a freeman March 26, 1661. Five children were born to him in that town. In 1692 he moved to Hatfield, and there died at the home of his youngest son in 1702. His children were born as follows: Mary, June 27. 1651: John. April 12, 1655: Hannah. December 5, 1656: Jonathan, January 3. 1659: Daniel, March 9, 1661; Mercy, February 23, 1664: Isaac, January 16, 1667; Mary, April 10, 1660; Sarah, November 12. 1672.
( III) Isaac, seventh child and youngest son of John and Mary ( Merriam) Hubbard, was born January 16, 1667. in Hadley, and died in Sunderland, Massachusetts, Angust 7, 1750, in his eighty-fourth year. He married Annie Warner, daughter of Daniel Warner, who died June
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26, 1750. Mr. Hubbard lived in Hatfield until 1714, when he moved to Sunderland. He was a deacon of the church in the latter town, and was a member of the council that installed the famous Jonathon Edwards as pastor at Northampton. His children were: John, Isaac, Mary, Daniel, Hannah, Jonathan, Joseph and David.
(IV) David, youngest child of Isaac and Annie ( Warner) Hub- bard, was born March 9, 1712, in Hatfield, and died 1787 in Sunderland. He was married in 1743, to Miriam Cooley, and their children were: Moses, born 1744; David, 1748; Gideon, 1751; William, 1754; Miriam, 1755, and Elijah, 1757.
(V) Elijah, youngest child of David and Miriam (Cooley) Hub- bard, died in 1834. He married Abigail Clapp of Sunderland, and they had children named : Moses, Zebuna, Elijah, Hannah, Tabitha, Abi- gail, David, Martha and Miriam. He was a private in the Revolution- ary army, and was among the pioneer settlers of New Lebanon, New York. where he died. No record of his wife is found. He was a farmer and shared in the toils and hardships of those who paved the way for the enjoyment of civilization by their descendants in the Empire state.
(VI) Elijah (2), son of Elijah and Abigail (Clapp) Hubbard, was born in New Lebanon, New York, about 1799, and lived there until old age, engaged in shoemaking. Ilis first wife, Zilpah Northrup, died at the age of about forty years, in New Lebanon, and he subsequently married Eliza B. Dixon. She died in 1870, aged seventy years at West Carthage. He affiliated with the Presbyterian church until late in life, when he joined the Baptist church at Carthage. He was a Democrat in early life, but affiliated with the Republican party upon its formation. He died in Carthage in January, 1871, aged seventy-two years.
(VII) George Northrup, only child of Elijah (2), and Zilpalı (Northrup) Hubbard that survived the period of childhood, was born January, 1826, in New Lebanon, and grew up there. He attended a local select school and was companion and classmate of Samuel J. Til- den. He studied medicine one year in the office of Dr. Dwight Wright, of New Lebanon, and attended one course of lectures at Albany Medi- cal College. As a means of defraying the expense of procuring medical training, he opened a select school at Antwerp, Jefferson county, and conducted it two years. This was the beginning that led to the estab- lishment of Ives Seminary, long a noted preparatory school. After leaving Antwerp, he completed his medical studies at Albany Medical College, from which he graduated in 1854.
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After practicing a short time at Harrisville, he removed to the vil- lage of Natural Bridge and, thence, in 1862, to Carthage. Here he grew to be the loved family physician, and was highly successful in the healing art, continuing to minister to a growing and extensive list of patients until his death. Of retiring disposition and most kindly nature, he was greatly respected wherever known, and his success was as much due to his benignant personality as to the effect of his remedies. He was a close student, and kept ever in touch with the advancement of medical science. Ile served several years as coroner. An active and influential member of the Baptist church, he wielded a high moral power in the community. He affiliated with Carthage lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity, and acted with the Republican party.
Dr. Hubbard was married in 1850. in Wilna, to Amelia Ellen Osborn, who was born March 2, 1825, at Scotch Plains. New Jer- sey, a daughter of Jonathan and Amelia (Van Duersen) Osborn. When Mrs. Hubbard was seventeen years old, her parents moved from New Jersey to Wilna, where Mr. Osborn was a farmer. He died there February 28, 1857, at the age of sixty-five years. . All of his older chil- dren died in childhood, Mrs. Hubbard being the oldest one born in New Jersey to survive. She died in September, 1880, at Carthage. Ann Judson, the second, was the wife of Solomon Slater, and died in Tyring- ham, Massachusetts, June 8, 1884. Spencer Cone Osborn, next younger, was a farmer in Wilna, and passed his last six years near Lin- coln, Nebraska. Abram Coles Osborn, another son, is a Doctor of Divinity and is president of Benedict College, an institution for the edu- cation of colored people at Columbia. South Carolina, maintained by the Baptist Home Missionary Society. Thomas Ward Osborn died in New York city in 1899, and Mary Elizabeth, the youngest, is the wife of Dr. S. L. Merrill, of Carthage ( see Merrill, VII).
Jonathan Osborn was a son of John Osborn, who was born June 6. 1754, at Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and died November 30, 1848, in his ninety-fourth year. He enlisted in the New Jersey 'militia, was pro- moted to corporal and sergeant, and participated in the battle of Mon- mouth, June 28. 1778. His wife, Mary Darby, was also patriotically active during the Revolution. She was born November 1, 1756, and died at the age of ninety-four years.
Dr. George N. Hubbard and his wife were the parents of three sons and one daughter, two of whom died in childhood. George Elijah was born February 28, 1857, and died March 18. 1893, in New York city.
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He was educated at Carthage high school and Madison University, and pursued his medical studies in the University of the City of New York, and engaged in the practice of medicine in New York until his demise.
(VIII) Dwight L. Hubbard, youngest son of Dr. George N. and Amelia E. (Osborn) Hubbard, was born August 28, 1860, in Natural Bridge, New York, and was reared in Carthage. He attended the public schools of that village, graduated from Hungerford Collegiate Institute in 1880, and pursued the medical course of the University of Vermont, from which he was graduated in 1883, with the degree of M. D. For two years he was principal of the West Carthage schools, and continued medical reading and practice with his father.
He removed to New York city in 1885 and at once began an active and successful practice, which drew to him the attention of his contem- poraries and the public in his vicinity. For eight years he was located on West Thirty-third street, and since then has been established on West Ninety-fourth street. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, the New York County Medical Society, New York County Medical Association, American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society and a charter member of the West End Medical Society.
Besides carrying on a large and exacting practice of his profession, Dr. Hubbard has been busied most of his time as a teacher in various scientific institutions of New York. He was for a period of thirteen years assistant surgeon of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, from which position he has recently resigned; was five years instructor on diseases of the Nose and Throat at the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital of New York; has been twelve years attending physician of the New York Institution for the Blind; and was four years dean of the New York Dental School, until failing strength admonished him to diminish his responsibilities and labors. He is a member of New York Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, the Jefferson County Society in New York, and of Albion Lodge No. 26, R. & A. M., and Metropoli- tan Chapter No. 140, R. A. M., of Manhattan.
Dr. Hubbard was married March 31, 1887, to Amelia O. Slater, who was born July 18, 1861, in Wilna, daughter of Solomon Garfield and Anna Judson (Osborn) Slater, of that town. Solomon Slater was a son of Captain Eber Slater of Tyringham, Massachusetts, and his wife Salome Garfield, and descended from one of the oldest American fami- lies. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Hubbard are named: Dwight Gerald, Judson Slater and Marion. All are now students in school.
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LESLIE CYRUS YORK, manager of the personal accident and health departments of the United States Casualty Company of New York, is one of the self-made sons of Jefferson of whom she may well be proud. He is a scion of old American stock, and exemplifies the sturdy character which has made the American pre-eminent in every department of life, at home and abroad.
William York, a pioneer settler of the town of Philadelphia, New York, was born in 1795 in the town of Galway, Saratoga county, New York. In 1815 he was married to Prudencia Danforth, who was born August 4, 1800, in Albany county, the daughter of a large contractor. In 1829, Mr. York located in the town of Philadelphia, this county, and built a log house on the road still known as Galway street. Here lie cleared up land and developed a farm, on which he lived until his death. In 1840, a Baptist church was formed in Philadelphia, and among the charter members were William and Henry York. William York was an influential member of the community and a saintly man. He was survived many years by his widow, who continued to reside on the homestead until her demise, August 16, 1883. Their children were: Stephen V. R., who died at the age of seventeen years; Francis D., who died in Philadelphia in 1883; Mary, who became the wife of Harlow Frink, of Philadelphia and, after his death, married Albert Allen, and died at the home of her son in California; William J. receives further mention in succeeding paragraphs; Eliza, wife of Daniel H. Schofield, of Philadelphia; Stephen, who died at the age of eighteen years; Eunice, Mrs. Dexter Bennett, residing in Philadelphia; Francis, who married Hannah Heyworth and died in Philadelphia.
William James York, eldest son and second child of William and "Dency" (Danforth) York, was born June 21, 1833, in Philadelphia, and received his education in the public schools and at Fairfield Semi- nary. After spending a year or two at building bridges in the west, he was engaged for a short time in farming and also kept a hotel at Red- wood. Subsequently he became proprietor of the Philadelphia grist mills, in partnership with Henry D. Ford, and they operated them ten years. It was chiefly as a dealer in live stock that he was known, and his reputation extended over several states and into Canada. Because of his extensive dealings in stock, he became known by the familiar nickname of "Chuck," a sobriquet which clung to him through life, so that his real name was almost forgotten by many. Besides buying cattle largely in Canada, he was stationed for some time at Cincinnati
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and also at Chicago, from which cities he forwarded an average of twenty carloads a day to New York. A genial and popular man, he was actuated by strong convictions, and exerted a large influence in the direction of local affairs. In early life he was a member of the Baptist church, but affiliated with the Congregationalists in his last years. He was a member of the local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity, and was an ardent Democrat in political principle. At a little over seventy-one years of age Mr. York passed away July 19, 1904, at his home in Philadelphia.
He was married in the spring of 1862 to Margaret M. Mosher, a daughter of Cyrus and Julia A. (Coon) Mosher, the former a native of Stillwater, Saratoga county, and the latter of Whitesboro, Oneida county, this state. Mrs. York was born January 30, 1842, in Phila- delphia. Two children were given to William J. York and wife, namely : Leslie C. and Nellie L. The latter is the wife of J. Frank Larue, a well known attorney and public official of Philadelphia.
Leslie C. York attended the public schools in Philadelphia and Red- wood, Jefferson county, until twelve years of age, after which he main- tained himself by his own labors. For one season he was newsboy on the steamer Faxton, plying on the St. Lawrence river. For three years he was employed in the general store of A. A. Holmes, at Redwood, and during the next two years worked in the store of W. G. Holmes in Philadelphia. After spending a year in the dry goods store of A. Bush- nell & Company, at Watertown, he returned to Philadelphia, and was a clerk nearly two years in the store of D. H. Schofield.
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