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He married, August 29, 1888, Carrie Eve- lina, born September 14. 1869, daughter of Warren W. and Elmira ( Crandall ) Wellman. Children of Warren W. Wellman: 1. Alice Leonora. married. 1885. Eugene Barker Se- near : children : Raymond. born November 5. 1886: Francis, November 21. 1889. 2. Carrie Evelina. married Frederick W. Gardner. 3. Grace Luella, married Ward B. Baldwin : children : Marjorie and Dorothea. Children of Fred W. and Carrie Evelina Gardner : Victor Warren, born June 5. 1889: William Frederick, August 17. 1903.
REED The Reed family of Dunkirk, New York, descend from John Reed, who was a boat builder and a sailor on the Great Lakes. He married Nancy and had a son. William A., of whom further.
(II ) Captain William .A. Reed, son of John and Nancy Reed, followed in the foot- steps of his father and became a sailor on the lakes, rising to the rank of captain. He was also a boat builder. He married Alfrida Allen. Children : 1. Alvah H., married Nel- lie Clark : children : Clark and Alice. 2. Will- iam A., married Agnes Lott, of Canada. 3. Daniel A., of whom further.
(III) Daniel A., youngest sou of Captain William A. and Alfrida (Allen) Reed, was born in Sheridan, New York, September 15, 1876. He was educated in the public schools of Sheridan, later attended Silver Creek high school, and in 1896 entered Cornell Univer- sity (Law School) from whence he was gra- duated in 1899 with the degree of LL. B. He returned for a post-graduate course of one year, and in 1900 was admitted to the New York bar. Mr. Reed made an enviable repu- tation at Cornell, both in scholarship and ath- letics. Ile earned the Cornell championship and the record for heavy weight lifting and the heavy weight wrestling championship of the university. He was a member of the Uni- versity baseball team and for two years was coach for the team. His ability as a coach was so noticeable that he was in demand by other colleges and universities. He coached the team of Cincinnati University two years, Pennsylvania State College one year and Georgetown College, Kentucky, for a time. In 1910 he formed a partnership with Rollin M. Snow, of Dunkirk, and established a law practice in that city. His legal ability at- tracted the attention of state officials and he was appointed attorney of the state excise de- partment, at Albany, a position he held sev- eral years. He is now in the practice of his profession at Dunkirk.
He is a member of the Adelti Ki fraternity and of the Quill and Dagger Society, of Cor- nell. He belongs to Irondequoit Lodge, No. 301, Free and Accepted Masons, the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was president in 1903, and of the Dunkirk Club. In politics he is a Republican and a recog- mized leader of the party in northern Chau- tauqua county.
Mr. Reed married Georgia Tichner : chil- dren, born in Dunkirk, New York: William Tichner. July 23. 1906; Ruth, October 24, 1907.
Whether this name SHUTTLEWORTH is derived from the weaver's art does not appear, but true it is that many genera- tions of the family in England were expert weavers of carpets and rugs, in fact it was a family trade. One branch of the family from Yorkshire, England, came to the United States in 1875 under contract with A. T. Stewart, of New York, then the "merchant
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prince," he to supply mill and machinery and to dispose of their entire output. The branch herein recorded seem to have followed other lines of activity, the progenitor being a farmer of Witham, Essex, England. His son Charles is the founder.
(II) Charles Shuttleworth was born in the county of Essex, parish of Witham, England. February 8, 1799, died in Springville, Erie county. New York, February 21, 1854. He learned the trade of miller. In 1832 he came to the United States, landing in New York City, August 21. He followed his trade in different parts of the United States, finally, about 1846, settling at Springville, where he followed milling until his death. He always remained a loyal citizen of England, never becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was a member of the Episcopal church both in England and the United States. He married, March 26, 1821, in England, Julia Anna Barnard, a sister of Captain Barnard, in command of one of the large English war ships. She was born July 16, 1799. Chil- dren : I. Harriet, born April 4. 1822, died June 16, 1905 ; married, October 9, 1842, Jef- ferson A. Robinson; no issue. 2. Elizabeth, born June 25, 1823, died 1896; married, No- vember 9, 1842, James Corbet ; no issue. 3. Jane, born September 11, 1824, died 1907 ; married, July 7, 1844, Jacob Baker. 4. Han- nah, born November 19, 1825, died March 14, 1841 ; unmarried. 5. Mary Louisa, born August 17, 1827, died February 12, 1877; married William Barckley: children: Han- nah, married William Brush, deceased, and 6. Charles John, of whom further. 7. Julia Emma, born September 11, 1840, died June 2, 1890; married a Mr. Gilmore and has three daughters living in the west.
(I11) Charles John, the first American born child of Charles Shuttleworth, was born in Vernon, Oneida county, New York, Decem- ber 17, 1834. He was educated in the public schools and lived in Springville, New York, from the date of the family settlement there until 1896, a period of about half a century. He was engaged in the milling business, but also owned a foundry and machine shops, which burned in 1874. and dealt largely in real estate in and around Springville. In 1896 he moved to Niagara Falls, New York, where he was in charge of machine shops and of the city water works for some time. In 1901 he came to Buffalo, where he has been
variously employed in draughting plans for machinery and other mechanical work; was in charge of the Josiah Ross shops for a time and built the lighting plant for the East Au- rora Electric Light Company. In 1877 he invented and patented a bolt for bolting flour and in 1878 organized a company for its manufacture. This company was a very suc- cessful one until the introduction of the rol- ler process of making flour, which could not be treated by the process. He has been a member of the Masonic Order for half a cen- tury, and is a Republican in politics. While living in the town of Concord (Springville) he was town clerk and collector of taxes sev- eral terms.
He married, October 25, 1859. Eliza Han- nah Holland, born June 28, 1837. died Sep- tember 14, 191I, at Buffalo, one of the ten children of George Holland, of Springville. Children : I. Elizabeth, married (first) Sam- uel W. Eddy ; child, Ruth : married (second) John P. Fiske; child, Helen. 2. Charles R., married Mabel Jackson : children: Margaret, Marian, John, ( Jack ). 3. Luther J., of whom further. 4. Mabel B. 5. Maleska G., mar- ried F. W. Street ; child, Eliza Hannah. 6. James E., married Jessie Wilson.
(IV) Luther J., second son of Charles John Shuttleworth, was born in Springville, Erie county, New York, August 11, 1865. He was educated in the public schools and at Griffith Institute. He learned the trade of machinist and later engaged in the foundry and machine business. After several years he retired from this and has since been engaged in contract- ing and building. He owns and operates a large planing mill where he does all his own mill work, and a lumber yard. He has erected many of the handsome houses and public buildings of the village and in Western New York, and in 1910 built the present station of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh rail- road in Springville. He is a Republican in politics ; was elected supervisor in 1904 but resigned on his election to the state assembly, in 1906 and in 1907. serving three terms in that body of lawmakers. He is past master of Springville Lodge, No. 351. Free and Ac- cepted Masons: past high priest of Spring- ville Chapter, No. 275. Royal Arch Masons ; member of Salamanca Commandery, No. 62, Knights Templar, and a thirty-second degree Mason of Buffalo Consistory, Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite : also a Noble of the Mys-
Luther J. Shuttleworth
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tic Shrine, Ismailia Temple, Buffalo, also a member of Western New York Past Masters Association. Mr. Shuttleworth is also affil- iated with Springville Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, September 17, 1891, Esther Reese, born September 20. 1867, daughter of John W. Reese. of Freedom, New York, whose other child, Ellen, married Arthur Ev- erett, of Castile, New York, and has a son Harry. Children of Luther J. Shuttleworth : Esther, born August 20, 1892; Richard Reese, December 13, 1895 ; Doris, September 4, 1898.
There are two distinct families
OPDYKE of Opdyke in the United States tracing from the earliest pe- riod in New Amsterdam. One of these is of pure German descent, springing from Gys- bert Op d Dyck (as he signed himself) who occupied high position in the Dutch West In- dia Company and in the early government of New Amsterdam under the Dutch occupation. He was eighth in descent from Op Den Dyck, born 1297. Magistrate of Wesel, a town on the right bank of the Rhine in the province of Rhenish, Prussia, Germany. This family settled in Holland and were, no doubt, related to the branch mentioned hereafter. The other family descend from Louris Jansen Opdyck, a Hollander. The family in Jamestown, New York, herein traced, descend from this Dutch emigrant. Beyond the indisputable fact that he was a Hollander, nothing can be told of him prior to his appearance in New Nether- land, prior to 1653.
Louris Jansen Opdyck was born in Holland, later than 1600 and prior to 1620. He mar- ried Christina - and came to New Nether- land prior to 1653, in which year he owned a residence in Albany and bought a lot at Gravesend. Long Island ; resided in Graves- end in 1655 and in New York, 1656-57 : died in 1659 at Gravesend. The Albany county records of 1654 are missing, as all those of the churches at Albany and Long Island be- fore 1660, therefore the part of Holland from which he came has not been ascertained. He wrote his name according to Dutch usage, Louris Jansen, meaning Louris, son of Jan. He was a well educated man and was pos- sessed of some means on coming to America. He continued up the Hudson to Fort Orange (Albany) where he engaged in the fur trade. His house lot. corner of Broadway and State
street, now faces the postoffice in the very heart of the business center of Albany. The records show his later residence in Graves- end and New Amsterdam (New York). HIe left three sons: Peter, Otto, Johannes.
(II) Johannes, son of Louris Jansen Op- dyck, was born 1651, died at Hopewell, New Jersey, April, 1729. His mother Christina married a second husband, Lourens Peter- sen, and the family selling their Gravesend farm removed to Dutch Kills ( Newtown) where Johannes lived until his removal to New Jersey, in 1697. He was a prosperous farmer, married, with a large family, when in 1697 he moved to New Jersey, settling in what was then Burlington county, close to what is now Lawrenceville. Mercer county, New Jersey. Johannes later purchased thir- teen hundred acres which included the site of the present village of Pennington, noted for many generations as the home of Penning- ton Seminary of the Methodist Episcopal church. He made other purchases which were deeded to Johannes Louwrensen Op Dyck. His Pennington purchase he sold for two hun- dred dollars, double what it cost him. He owned lands in Trenton, Hopewell and in other places, and during his thirty-two years residence in New Jersey he was one of the heaviest dealers in real estate. February 12. 1729, he made his will in Hopewell, leaving his property to be equally divided among his eight children then living. Two months later he died. His will is now preserved with a few others of that period in the vaults of the state house at Trenton. His burial place is unknown, as is that of his wife Katherine. Children : I. Tryntje, married Enoch An- drus, and lived at Trenton, New Jersey. 2. Engeltje, married Joshua Anderson, and lived at Maidenhead, New Jersey. 3. Annetje, married Cornelus Anderson, and lived at Hopewell. New Jersey. 4. Lawrence, married Agnes - and lived at Maidenhead, New Jersey. 5. Albert. of whom further. 6. A son, born about 1720. 7. Bartholomew, lived at Maidenhead.
(III) Albert, son of Johannes Opdyck, was born at Dutch Kills, New York, about 1685, died at Maidenhead, New Jersey, 1752. His will, made May 7, 1752, was probated Au- gust, 1752. He resided the greater part of his life in Hopewell township, New Jersey, although removing to Maidenhead a short time before his death. He is of special inter-
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est because he alone of all the immediate descendants of the original Opdyck settlers retained the Opdyck spelling, which the others changed to Updike. Albert's four sons are then the ancestors of all the Opdyckes, Op- dykes and Obdykes in the United States. He, however, departed from the family religious faith and became a member of the Baptist church. His wife was named Elizabeth. Chil- dren : 1. John, born 1710, died 1777; married Margaret Green ; he was a merchant of Am- well, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. 2. Joshua, of whom further. 3. William, born 1715, died 1789: married Nancy Carpenter ; he was a farmer of Maidenhead, New Jersey. 4. Benjamin, born 1721, died 1807: married Joanna - -; he was a farmer of Bethlehem, New Jersey. 5. Sarah, born 1724, died 1804, unmarried. 6. Catherine. 7. Frank. 8. Han- nah.
(IV) Joshua Opdyke (as he wrote it) sec- ond son of Albert Opdyck, was born in Hope- well township, Hunterdon county, New Jer- sey, about 1713, died 1789. Although the sec- ond son he inherited a double portion under his father's will. He settled away from the family home in Amwell, on the ridge that di- vides the water shed of the Delaware and Raritan rivers. He had the great love for the soil and purchased warrants for fractional parts of allotments from the Quaker "pro- prietors," and under these were surveyed and assigned to him lands in Hunterdon, Morris and Sussex counties. He also received two hundred and ninety-eight acres from his wife's father, and purchased three hundred and twenty acres in Sussex. It is not recorded that he ever sold more than one of the ten tracts he owned and it is known that he gave a farm to each of his children, during his lifetime or at his death. His homestead was a tract of five hundred acres in the Amwell forest that later became Kingwood. He built there first a log house and lived therein until he cleared off the heavy timber from some of his land, then built a stone house that is yet standing. He adhered to the Baptist church which his father had joined long be- fore in Hopewell. He is said to have been the leading spirit in founding the old school Baptist church at Baptistown, near his farm. Upon the old records of this church Joshua appears as a deacon and he or his sons fre- quently presided at the church meetings. In 1789 he was a delegate from Kingwood to
the Baptist convention at Philadelphia. He was a tall, well proportioned man of remark- ably cheerful and even temper, but firm and resolute. When the British and Hessians were committing depredations on the peaceful inhabitants of Hunterdon county, a report came that a band of the hated troopers were approaching Kingwood. Joshua loaded four guns and concealed himself along the road in- tending to fire them rapidly and create the impression that a squad was firing; but the troop turned out to be American soldiers. His two sons served in the continental army, as did six sons of his brother.
He married, in 1738, Ann, daughter of Samuel Green, the surveyor. Children : I. Richard, born about 1740, died 1825; mar- ried (first) Grace Thacher; (second) Diana B. Sutton. He was a farmer and justice of the peace of Kingwood. New Jersey. He held the latter office forty years and sat for eleven years on the bench of the court of common pleas. He was intensely patriotic and served well the colonial cause. He was famil- iarly known as "Squire Richard," was tall, dignified and reserved, wearing knee breeches and his hair in a bag, walking lame from a white swelling. 2. Luther, of whom further. 3. Sarah, married Thomas Allen, a farmer of Sussex county, New Jersey. 4. Elizabeth, married Samuel Hill, a farmer of Sussex county. 5. Margaret, married Glover, a farmer of Sussex county. 6. Frances, born 1757, died 1809; married (first) John Hoag- land; (second) Ambrose Bancroft. 7. Han- nah, born 1760, died 1821; married John Britton, a farmer of Kingwood. 8. Cather- ine, married Aaron Van Syckel, a farmer of Hunterdon county.
(V) Luther Opdycke (as he wrote it) son of Joshua Opdyke, was born March 29, 1750, (lied 1838. He lived to be eighty-eight years of age, and three of his sons passed the age of eighty. The county and state records pre- serve his doings for a period of sixty years. He was justice of the peace for fifty years, and it is said that no decision of his was ever reversed. A great part of the time he was associate judge in the court of common pleas of Hunterdon county, or in the surrogate court. He was repeatedly chosen freeholder, and continually administrator or guardian of persons and estates. He was always called "Squire Luther" and never addressed other- wise after acquiring that title. He was a regu-
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larly commissioned ensign and served through the greater part of the revolutionary war, seeing his full share of hard service and actual fighting. His father gave him two hundred acres of the old homestead farm, where "Squire Luther" built in 1770 "the old red house" in which all his children were born and in which four generations of his family lived. He gave this farm to his son George upon the latter's marriage, and in 1800 built the stone house, barn and mill at Nississacka- way, in Alexandria, where he continued to live until his death in 1838. He was a strong char- acter. He owned five or six farms ; owned and ran two mills and a distillery ; married three wives, and was on occasion a Baptist preacher. He gave or devised a farm to each of his sons and bequeathed property to his daughters. He was a deacon of the old Baptistown Bap- tist Church and always gave out the hymns sometimes preached there but more often at the Locktown church. He was a solidly built, square shouldered man, not quite six feet tall, weighing one hundred and eighty-five pounds and dressed in the old fashioned short clothes. His family Bible, yet preserved, has the entries all written by himself and shows a neat, rapid hand.
He married (first) Gertrude Hall, who was the mother of all his children. She was a daughter of Theodore Hall, born in England, settled near Philadelphia : married, in 1729, Gertrude Gordon and moved to Kingwood in 1757 and engaged in milling on the west bank of the Delaware. He was drowned by the upsetting of his canoe while crossing the river during a freshet. His wife died in 1805. aged ninety-five years. He married (second) a widow, Mrs. Ruth Sinclair, who died in 1835. He married (third) Mary Dal- rymple. Children : I. George, of whom further. 2. Joseph, born 1775, died 1855 ; married Fanny Britton; he was a farmer of Kingwood, New Jersey. 3. Rebecca, born 1779 ; married Samuel Jones, a farmer of Ca- yuga county, New York. 4. Amos, born 1781, died 1864; married Rebecca Bellis ; they were both noted for their deep piety ; he was a farmer of Everittstown, New Jersey. 5. Lu- ther, born 1784, died 1867 : married Phoebe Bellis. He moved in December, 1830, to Ca- yuga county, New York, driving through the Pennsylvania woods with the snow two feet deep. The next spring he moved to the town of Fayette, Seneca county, where he bought
two hundred and twenty acres, built a log house and cleared a farm. He died at the age of eighty-three years and is buried with his wife in Waterloo cemetery. 6. Gertrude, born 1788 : married Stoffel Snyder, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. 7. Hall, born 1792, died 1844; married Anne Hortman ; he inherited the stone house and mill at Nississackaway, where he lived and died. He owned several farms and held the office of freeholder.
(VI) George, eldest son of "Squire Lu- ther" Opdycke, was born in "the old red house" his father built in 1770 on the Kingwood farm, December 6. 1773, died June 15, 1851. His tombstone stands in the old Baptistown graveyard, where are the graves of his father, grandfather and of his wife Mary. He was a man of contented disposition, with a keen interest in passing events but with no eager- ness to take a leading hand in public affairs. His neighbors held him in great respect and said that "he knew more than all the school- masters." He was almost six feet tall, weighed one hundred and eighty pounds, had a well built figure and was a fine looking man. He was an excellent sportsman and loved to "bark" a gray squirrel with his rifle. He in- herited "the old red house" and two hundred acres of land on which he spent a quiet, peace- ful life. He enrolled in 1793 with the Hun- terdon militia; was school trustee in King- wood; overseer of the poor; assessor, and served on the grand jury.
He married, 1796, May Stout, in the Bap- tistown church. She was a daughter of Ree- der Stout, who was the handsomest man of his day, in Kingwood. Reeder Stout was a de- scendant of Richard Stout and Penelope Van Princes. He was born in Nottinghamshire, England, son of John Stout. Penelope Van Princes was born at Amsterdam, Holland ; came to America; was wrecked at Sandy Hook, safely landed but was attacked by In- dians, cruelly wounded and left for dead. She was rescued days later after great suffering and taken to New York where she married Richard Stout (her second husband) and lived to the great age of one hundred and ten years, the mother of ten children, of whom the seventh son was David, born 1669, in Middleton, New Jersey; moved in 1725 to Hunterdon county ; married Rebecca Ashton. Their son Joseph, born 1698, settled in New Brunswick, New Jersey, married Martha Ree- der. Their son, Reeder. died aged eighty-
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three years. He married Hannah Kenney, of French descent. Their daughter. Mary Stout, married George Opdycke. Children : I. Joseph, born 1797, died 1875 ; married Eliza Housel ; he was a farmer of Kingwood. 2. Sarah, born 1799, died 1835 ; married Christie Little. a miller and farmer of Pittstown, New Jersey. 3. Elizabeth, born 1800, died 1877; married John Matthews, a farmer of Mt. Pleasant, New Jersey. 4. John, born 1802, died 1871. He settled in Richland county, Ohio, where he was a prosperous farmer and stock grower. He stood six feet three inches and was never thrown but defeated many a professional wrestler. He never kept a lock or bolt on house or barn. He married Esther Little. 5. Gertrude, born 1804, died 1877; married Moses Heath, a farmer of Kingwood. 6. George, of whom further. 7. Nancy, born 18II : married John D. Scott, a merchant of New York City. 8. Fanny, born 1815 : mar- ried James Carroll, a farmer of Hunterdon county. 9. Horatio, born 1815; married Ca- therine E. Robeson. He was a farmer of Kingwood. later of Fairfax county, Virginia, where his farm lay in the track of the move- ments of both armies during the civil war. Just before the first battle of Bull Run his wheat, which was in stack, was used by the Union army for bedding their horses. After the battle he was seized by southern soldiers, but released through the kindness of an offi- cer who knew him. At the second battle of Bull Run a confederate battery was placed near his buildings which were shot to pieces and finally burned by the Union troops. He returned to New Jersey in 1862 and bought a farm in Kingwood. 10. Stout, born 1816, died 1854 ; unmarried ; he was a merchant of New York City.
(VII) George (2) Opdyke, third son of George (1) Opdyske, was born in Kingwood. Hunterdon county, New Jersey, December 7. 1805. He was born in "the old red house" built by his grandfather, and spent his early life on the farm. His usual team was a pair of young bulls and he was an expert with the rifle. When he was but sixteen years old he was made schoolmaster and taught his for- mer classmates who obeyed him very well at- ter he had flogged them into submission, having arranged with his elder brother for support in case of necessity. At the age of eighteen he entered the country store in Bap- tistown, as clerk. saved his earnings and at
the age of twenty persuaded a boyhood friend to go west. Each borrowed five hundred dol- lars from friends and by river, canal and lake made their way to Cleveland, Ohio. Here the young partners established a grocery store with some success, clearing one thousand dol- lars the first year. although compelled to as- sume and complete a canal building contract in order to secure pay for groceries sold the construction gangs. Here Mr. Opdyke con- tracted typhoid fever, nearly lost his life and was permanently weakened in constitution. Deeming Cleveland "too slow" (being then little more than a frontier trading post) the partners sold out and went south finally lo- cating in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they opened a clothing store, manufacturing their own goods. The first year the business showed a profit of six thousand dollars and rapidly increased thereafter. He remained five years in New Orleans, laying the foun- dation of his fortune, and also acquired the finished southern courtesy of manner for which he was remarkable in after life. In 1829 he made a trip to New Jersey, returning with his bride. In 1832 he closed out his busi- ness in New Orleans and moved to New York City, locating in the same business in Cherry street, later in Nassau street, opposite the old Dutch church. His residence was in Domin- ick street, then a good residence street. He continued in successful business for several years, then changed to dry goods and import- ing. He made frequent trips to Europe on business, never failing to include in his trips the Rhine and Switzerland with their inspir- ing scenery. In 1837, when the first railroad from New York City was built to Newark, New Jersey, he purchased twenty acres of land on the heights overlooking Newark and New York bays. Here he built, improved and made his residence for fifteen years. It was during this period that his mental devel- opment was most pronounced and rapid. Dur- ing the few hours of wholesale business in the city he was the model merchant, a close buyer and a keen judge of men, surrounding himself with successful young salesmen whom he re- warded with an interest in the business, keep- ing his own firm hand on the helm. As soon as he left his office for the day business was banished from his mind. On arriving at his Newark home the remaining daylight hours were spent with his family, discussing with his children the subjects of their studies, quot-
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