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(V) Caleb, fourth son of Elijah and Ruth (Tracy) Hyde, was born July 29, 1739, at Norwich West Farms (now Franklin), died December 25, 1820, at Lisle, Broome county, New York. In 1769 he settled at Lenox, Massachusetts, and took an active part in the revolutionary war. The names of himself and his brother Moses appear in the proceed- ings of a meeting at Lenox in 1774 in oppo- sition to British aggressions. As captain of a company in Colonel Eaton's regiment, Ca- leb Hyde marched May 20, 1775, from Lenox, on an alarm at Ticonderoga. In February, the following year, he was commissioned second major of Colonel B. Symond's second Berkshire county regiment of Massachusetts militia, and in December, that year, was ap- pointed major of the regiment. In April. 1777, he was commissioned first major of Colonel John Brown's third Berkshire county regiment of Massachusetts militia, and in the following February, was appointed lieutenant- colonel of the regiment. He was also lieuten- ant-colonel of Colonel David Rossiter's de- tachment to reinforce the army under General Stark at Saratoga. ( Roll dated at Pittsfield. ) He was subsequently sheriff of Berkshire county and removed to Lisle, New York, about 1790 (what is now called the Hyde set- tlement), and became one of the leading pub- lic men of that part of the state. He was major general of militia, and was elected senator from the western district of New York in 1803. In February. 1804, he was chosen by the legislature as one of the inem- bers of the council of appointment. He mar- ried, in 1761, Elizabeth Sacket, born Novem- ber, 1742, at Oblong, a niece of Admiral Rich- ard Sacket. She died January 6, 1806, and he survived her nearly fifteen years. Their first children were a pair of twins, born at Lebanon, Connecticut, and died unnamed.
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The others were: Charles, Caleb, Chauncey, Calvin, Elijah, John, Ebby, Clarissa, Eliza- beth, Ruth, Prudence, Harriet, Melinda.
(VI) Ebby, seventh son of Caleb and Eli- zabeth (Sacket) Hyde, was born January 17, 1781, at Lenox, died near Marshall, Calhoun county, Michigan. He resided for many years in Lisle, New York, where he was a magistrate and colonel of militia. In 1825 he removed to Ovid, New York, and eleven years later to Fredonia, where he was a farmer, and again served as magistrate. He removed from Fredonia to Michigan, living there for some years before his death. He married, September 3, 1804, Elizabeth, born March 29, 1782, in Richmond, Massachusetts, daughter of Deacon M. and Dorcas (Peck) Osborn, of that town. She died August 22, 1838. at Fredonia.
(VII) Dr. Frederick Hyde, son of Ebby and Elizabeth (Osborn) Hyde, was born January 28, 1807, at Whitney Point, Broome county, New York, died at Cortland, New York, October 15. 1887. As a youth Fred- erick Hyde attended district school, and be- fore the completion of his fifteenth year he began teaching such a school. Following this he taught school in winter, and attended school at other periods of the year, and ultimately taught throughout the year. In the winter of 1831, while teaching, his home was in the fam- ily of Dr. Hiram Moe, of Lansing, New York, and there he commenced the study of medicine which he afterwards pursued in the office of Dr. Horace Bronson, of Virgil, Cortland county, New York. After attending one course of lectures in the Medical College at Fairfield, New York, he was licensed by the Cortland County Medical Society in 1833 to begin practice. He continued his studies, however, until the fall of 1835, riding on horseback over the hills of Virgil and adjoin- ing towns with his preceptor, thus making a practical study of his profession. In 1835 he returned to Fairfield, took another course of lectures, and was graduated in 1836. Soon after his graduation he settled in Cortland, and entered into partnership with Dr. Miles Goodyear, at that time the leading medical practitioner of the town, and one of the first graduates of Yale Medical School. Dr. Hyde occupied various positions of honor and trust, both medical and civil. In 1854 he was ap- pointed to the chair of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in Geneva Medical College, and
one year later was transferred to the chair of the Principles and Practice of Surgery. This position he filled seventeen years, and on the establishment of the college of medi- cine at Syracuse University in 1872, and the abandonment of Geneva Medical College, he took a similar position in the Syracuse Insti- tution, and continued to hold it until the time of his death, the later years there being dean of the faculty. In 1847 he attended as dele- gate the first meeting of the American Medi- cal Association, and in 1865 was chosen presi- dent of the New York State Medical Society. In 1876 he was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia, and nine years later to the same congress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, also to the British Medical Association at Belfast, Ireland. In 1887 he attended the International Medical Congress at Washington. Dr. Hyde read many papers, largely on surgical topics, be- fore the various professional societies he at- tended. For seventeen years he was president of the board of trustees of Cortlandville Acad- emy, and after 1876 was president of the local board of Cortland Normal School. He was president of the Cortland Savings Bank from 1876 to 1889.
He married, January 24, 1838, Elvira, old- est daughter of Dr. Goodyear. Children: Au- gusta and Miles Goodyear. The daughter was graduated at Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1862, and resided thereafter at Cortland until her death in May, 1894. For a number of years she taught painting in oils and water colors in her native place, and for several years prior to her death gave instruction in china and tapestry painting. Various meri- torious productions. testifying to her skill in the practice of the art so loved by her, beau- tified her Cortland home.
(VIII) Dr. Miles Goodyear, only son of Dr. Frederick and Elvira (Goodyear) Hyde, was born in Cortland, and prepared for col- lege at the academy in that place. In 1861 he entered Yale College and four years later was graduated with honors from that insti- tution; his rank in scholarship making him a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After gradu- ating from Yale he studied medicine with his father, and received the degree of M. D. from Geneva Medical College in 1868. Meanwhile for a time he had been principal of the acad- emy at Moravia, New York. Upon receiv- ing his medical degree he located in Cortland
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for the practice of medicine, and thus con- tinued nearly twenty years. In 1872 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical de- partment of Syracuse University. In 1871 he was appointed adjunct professor of anatomy in that institution and held the position four years, ultimately resigning as its demands in- terfered with his practice. He was elected president of the Cortland County Medical Society in 1875, and again the succeeding year, and was county delegate to the Ameri- can Medical Association. For a number of years he was surgeon for the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira railroad, and local surgeon of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad for several years.
He is the author of numerous professional papers and one of these "On Preventing the Deformity in Certain Fractures of the Hand" was published in pamphlet form. Without solicitation on his part Dr. Hyde was made the candidate of the Democratic party for member of assembly from Cortland county in 1885, but his party being largely in the mi- nority he was not elected. After suffering from a long and painful illness, partial en- bolism in the lower limbs, Dr. Hyde removed to New York City in 1888, and retired from active practice of his profession. Since he removed to New York he has written "The Story of a Day in London," of which three editions have been published : a magazine ar- ticle, "A Lesson in Brook Trouting :" a mono- graph, "The One Time Wooden Spoon at Yale," which was printed in a bound volume : "The Girl from Mexico and Other Short Stories and Sketches," of which two editions were published ; "Mary Markam," a novel ; * He has also prepared several historical arti- cles, and has delivered addresses before the Cortland County Society of New York City ; the Medical Alumni of Syracuse University, and the Playgoers Club of New York. Dr. Hyde was long identified with the Yale Alumni Association, and for some years with the Yale Club of New York, and is now a member of the Delta Kappa Association of New York. In 1890 he was engaged in office work with the Broadway Cable Construction Company, and later had charge of that com- pany's employment business. During Presi- dent Cleveland's second administration, and part of the succeeding one, he was in the
* "The Confession and Letters of Terence Quinn McManns," a book of fiction. in 19II.
private office of the appraiser of the port of New York, where he maintained the first rank for efficiency. Attacks of rheumatism made it advisable for him to resign.
In a memoir of Dr. Frederick Hyde, Dr. Caleb Green, of Homer, New York, says of the son, "He then entered upon the practice of his profession with the ambition to excel. How he succeeded we all well know. He be- came expert in the departments of obstetrics and enjoyed a large service in that way. It is not pleasant to reflect that one upon whom so many in the community depend for advice and help in the hour of trial should be com- pelled to withdraw from the duties of his profession, when so fully competent for the performance of those duties."
He married. June 30, 1870, at Solon, New York, Julia Elizabeth, daughter of General John William Boyd, and granddaughter of Major General Samuel G. Hatheway. Chil- dren : Frederick William and Lavina Hathe- way, both born at Cortland. Lavina H. was married in February, 1911, to John Adolph Hegardt, and son. Englebert Hyde Hegardt, was born in November, 1910.
BUTTS The family of Butts is of ancient English descent, and inherited property at Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk county, for many generations, from before the time of Edward II. to that of James 11. In the church of Shouldham Thorpe are many monuments of the family. A merchant family of the name flourished in the city of Norwich during the thirteenth cen- tury and the two following centuries, and were frequently called upon to represent their fellow-citizens in the parliaments of the period. The last who held office was John Butts, Es- quire. sheriff in 1456 and mayor from 1402 to 1471. He died in 1475. A Sir William Butts, of Ryburgh, was the physician to Henry VIII., and died in 1545. In the old records the name was spelled Butt and Butts.
(I) Thomas Butts. immigrant ancestor. came from Norfolk county, England, May 18. 1660, and lived in Portsmouth and Little Compton. Rhode Island. He bought land in Portsmouth. November 16. 1662, and October I. 1666. He bought land in Dartmouth No- vember 20, 1668, and in 1682 was in Little Compton. He was granted a division of land in Dartmouth October 27. 1685. His will was dated December 28. 1702, and proved Febru-
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ary 2. 1703. He married Elizabeth , who survived him. Children : Zaccheus, born 160 ;: Idido, mentioned in his father's will. but nothing further is known of him; Moses, mentioned below ; Hepsibah, married. Decem- ber 26, 1695, William Earle.
( II) Moses, son of Thomas Butts, was born July 30, 1673, in Little Compton, Rhode Island, died June 9. 1734. He married about 1699, -- Children : Thomas, October 18, 1700: Zaccheus, June 27. 1702: Abraham, November 23. 1704; John, mentioned below ; Anna. March 28. 1709; Elizabeth, December 5. 1719: Hepsibah. December 19, 1722.
(III ) John, son of Moses Butts, was born August 31, 1707, died about 1797. He mar- ried. October 26. 1727, at Tiverton, Rhode Island. Alice. daughter of Gershom and Sarah ( Alott ) Wodell, born April 18, 1705. Soon after his marriage he removed from Rhode Island and settled in the easterly part of what is now the town of Washington. Dutchess county, New York, then called Crom Elbow Precinct. October 4. 1748, he purchased a tract of land there, containing two hundred acres, of Isaac Thorn, one of the earliest set- tlers. He owned this land until his death, and the locality is still known as "Butts Hollow." There is a tradition in the Butts family that he took this land in payment of wages for carpenter work on a house built for Isaac Thorn at the rate of an acre of land for a day's work. The original deed is now in the possession of a descendant, Mr. W. J. De Witt Butts, of Rochester, New York. His will was dated June 26, 1783, and divided his lands between his sons, Thomas and Aaron. Children : John: Samuel, born May 9, 1730; Richard, March 16. 1732: Gershom. Septem- ber 12. 1734: Ruth. May 26, 1737: Susanna. July 26, 1739; Moses, March 4, 1744 : Sarah. January 4. 1746: Aaron, mentioned below ; Thomas. July 22, 1751.
(IV) Aaron, son of John Butts, was born August 13. 1749. died June 17. 1833. He married, January 3. 1775. Mary Hustis, born March 3. 1755, died February 28, 1840. He lived at "Butts Hollow," and his wife was from Chestnut Ridge. Later in life he divided his lands between his sons. Nicholas and Stephen, and removed to Union Vale, where he died. Children : Samuel, born November 16, 1775: Jonathan, September 17. 1777: Sarah, Decem- ber 5. 1779: Jacob, February 5, 1782: Nicho- las, January 30. 1785: Stephen, June 1. 1787 ;
Rachel. August 10, 1789; Phebe, March 9, 1792 ; Mary, November 25, 1796; Reuben, Au- gust 28, 1798; Hustis, April 14, 1801, died August 19, 1820.
(V) Jabez Butts, believed to be nephew of Aaron Butts, was of this New York branch of the family. He had a son Lyman C., ac- cording to the history of Wayne county.
(VI) Lyman C., son of Jabez Butts, was born in New York state. He came from the eastern part of New York to Wayne county, New York, in 1838, and for several years re- sided near the town of Savannah. He then went to Cortland county, where he lived until 1856, when he bought a farm at Sodus, New York, near the town of Joy, and spent the remainder of his days there. He was prom- inent in public affairs, especially active in anti- slavery work, and a useful citizen. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Pliny Porter, of On- ondaga county. Children: Susan, married General A. J. Warner, of Marietta, Ohio; Helen MI .. married Selden Granger, of Cleve- land. Ohio: Henry H., died in the civil war : George C., of Marietta, Ohio, married Ida Rice, of Marietta, Ohio; Frank L., succeeded to the homestead; Porter Pliny, mentioned below.
(VII) Porter Pliny, son of Lyman C. Butts, was born in the town of Pompey, Onondaga county, New York, February 25, 1838. Like his father he was educated in the public schools, and followed farming for his occu- pation. He was in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, when President Lincoln called for troops and he was one of the first to enlist for the civil war, being in Washington on duty, April 19, 1861. After his term of enlistment, in 1862 expired, he came to Sodus, New York, where he resumed farming. His farm is south of the village of Sodus. He was a member of the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He died in 1906. He married Fanny Jane, daugh- ter of Jacob Andrews. Children: Watson Andrews. mentioned below ; Henry Porter. born April 8, 1870: Raymond K., February 25, 1873.
(VIII) Watson Andrews, son of Porter Pliny Butts, was born at Sodus. Wayne county, New York, May 16. 1867. He attended the public schools and the Sodus Academy. He then taught school for several terms. In 1887 he came to Fulton as clerk in a shoe store, and continued in that position until 1890, when he formed a partnership with Mr. Shat-
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tuck and . bought the F. E. Goodjon store. In February, 1900, he bought out his partner and since then has continued in the retail shoe business without a partner, building up a large and flourishing business. He was president of the Fulton Chamber of Commerce for two years, secretary one year and director for many years. He is a trustee of the Fulton Savings Bank, has served as member of the Fulton board of education. For ten years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a member. He is also a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144. Free and Accepted Masons; of the Masonic Club; the Knights of Pythias, and the Pathfinder Boat Club. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, in 1892, Bertha Adele, born in Michigan, daughter of William and Eliza Rose, of North Rose, New York. Children : Lela Natalie, born May 6, 1900; Porter Will- iam, August 31, 1902; Selden Watson, Octo- ber 21. 1906, died August 18, 1909.
The Winters family was WINTERS prominent in New York prov- ince long before the revolu- tion. According to the first federal census, taken in 1790, there were no less than eigh- teen families of Winters, scattered through the various counties. The names of the heads were: Abijah, Christopher, Isaac (2), Jacob, Joseph (3), Levi. Matthias (2), Michael. Moses, Peter and William (2). Five of these families were in Ulster county. There were three Josephs, one in Suffolk county, one in New York City and one in Dutchess county. In Orange county John Winters lived at Hav- erstraw in 1790. and had in his family three males over sixteen, one son under sixteen and two females.
(I) Joseph Winters, of this New York fam- ily, was born, lived and died in Orange county, New York. He lived to the age of ninety-six years and his wife to one hundred and four years. He married Children : By- ram, Joseph, Oscar, Thomas.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( 1) Win- ters, was born in Orange county, New York, April 2, 1820, died at Smithboro, Tioga town- ship, Tioga county, in 1887. He came to the town of Tioga from Orange county in 1860 and lived there the remainder of his life. He was a farmer, also a general merchant, con- ducted a creamery, and at the time of his
death was postmaster at Tioga Center. In religion he was a Baptist, in politics a Demo- crat. He married ( first) Julia A., daughter of Isaac Carpenter, of Orange county. He married (second ) Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter, sister of his first wife. His widow died in 1903, aged seventy-eight years. Children by first wife: Sarah, born May 1, 1840, married William Cole, of Candor; Judson B., men- tioned below ; Joseph E., a physician in New York City. Children by second wife: John, deceased; Julia, born June 15, 1853, married Edward J. Johnson, of Waverly; Edgar, a druggist, of Buffalo, New York; Carrie, married Hiram Horton, of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia; Byram Lee, mentioned below; Kate, born March 18, 1868, married George L. Free- land, of Passaic, New Jersey ; Harry B., born October 15, 1870, superintendent of State Farm, Albany.
(III) Judson Beebe, son of Joseph (2) Winters, was born in Minisink, Orange county, New York, April 21, 1844. He at- tended the public schools and was a pupil when his father was a teacher. During his boyhood he followed farming, and when a young man taught school. In 1864 he became a bookkeeper in the store of Robert Cameron. After five years with this employer he worked two years in a dry goods store. In 1871 he took charge of a hotel at Williamsport, Penn- sylvania, the Herdick House, now the Park Hotel, and continued there for four years. In 1875 he returned to Owego and in part- nership with Charles H. Hyde he bought the grocery business of Robert Cameron & Sons and continued the business under the firm name of Hyde & Winters, dealing in groceries and produce. From 1891 until 1896 he con- tinued the business alone. After selling out in 1896 he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he leased oil lands and remained for two years in the oil business. In 1898 he went to Montana and engaged in the fire in- surance business until 1905, and since then he has been the proprietor of a flourishing real estate and insurance business at Owego, New York. He has been active in politics and has been president of the village of Owego. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Baptist church.
He married, in 1868. Emily D. Smith, of Smithboro, daughter of James W. and Abi- gail (Taylor ) Smith. They have no children. (III) Byram Lee, son of Joseph (2) Win-
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ters, was born at Smithboro, Tioga county, New York, September, 1865. He was edu- cated in the schools of his native town, in the Doylestown Seminary, Pennsylvania, the Peddie Institute, New Jersey, Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, Massachusetts, and studied law at Columbia University, from which he grad- uated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1888. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in New York City for fourteen years. In 1902 he came to Smithboro to im- prove the old homestead. The farm then con- sisted of 160 acres. From time to time he has added to the acreage until he now has 800 acres under cultivation, supporting a herd of 125 cattle. His dairy is stocked with thor- oughbred registered Holsteins and Jerseys, and is one of the finest in the state. Many of his cows have a record of 1.100 pounds of milk a year. The milk from his dairy is shipped in bottles sealed on the farm and sold as certified by the Kings County Medical Com- mission. He has thoroughly modern barns and all the improved machinery for farm work. Besides his own handsome mansion, he has eight houses on the farm for employees. He makes a specialty of raising seed oats. In
IgII he sold a crop of 4,000 bushels for $1.25 a bushel and in the same season raised a thou- sand tons of ensilage and 360 tons of hay. In addition to the care of this farm, Mr. Win- ters is owner and proprietor of The Waverly Free Press. In 1906 he bought The Tioga County Record and The Owego Daily Record and a Waverly newspaper. consolidating the three under the name of The Waverly Free Press-Record. His printing plant includes two linotype machines, three job presses and sev- eral large cylinder presses. His office is one of the best equipped and most modern in ar- rangement and fittings of any of its size in the state. He owns the Waverly Opera House. He is president and one of the larg- est stockholders in the Chamber of Commerce, which has seventy-three acres of land on which the railroads and switches are located in the village of Waverly, and individually he also owns twenty-three acres of this tract. In politics Mr. Winters is a Republican. He represented the district in the assembly at Al- bany in 1905-06. and was renominated by ac- clamation. While in the assembly he served on committees on general laws, military af- fairs and taxation. He is one of the managers of the Rome Custodial Asylum. He is a mem-
ber of the order of Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of Smithboro; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Smithboro, and the Improved Order of Red Men, of Tioga Center. He is a prominent member of the Baptist church.
He married, August 25, 1908, Susan R. Reynolds, of Syracuse, New York, daughter of Dr. Frank and Lucy ( Rapelyea) Reynolds. They have one child, Byram Lee, Jr., born in Syracuse, New York, July 3, 1911.
John Mark, of an old German MARK family, was born in Altfassen, Germany, February 12, 1819. He came to this country with his parents when he was twenty-nine years old. The family located at South Dansville, Steuben county, New York, where his parents are buried in the Catholic cemetery about three miles from South Dansville village. His father was a farmer at South Dansville, and his son John followed the same occupation. He had a hun- dred acres of land, which he cleared and on which he followed farming all his active life. He was a Roman Catholic in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He was school commis- sioner of the district for a number of years. He was a member of St. John's Society. He died August 12, 1901, and he and his wife were both buried in the Catholic cemetery at Perkinsville, New York.
He married, in 1850, at South Dansville, Anna Marie Derrenbecher, born in Exweiler, Germany, August 5, 1829, died August 26, 1898. She came to this country with her par- ents, John and Helen Derrenbecher. Her par- ents also settled at South Dansville. Chil- dren: Anthony, Margaret, Kate, John Jr .; Jacob, Peter, William, Helen, Mary, Anna, Dr. Alexander, mentioned below.
(II) Dr. Alexander Mark, son of John Mark, was born at South Dansville, Steuben county, New York, August 5, 1872. His boy- hood was spent on his father's farm and he attended the Rogersville Union Seminary, Dansville high school, and the Hornell Busi- ness College. from which he was graduated in 1892. He studied medicine for two years under Dr. J. D. Mitchell at Hornell, New York, and in the fall of 1896 entered the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1899. He began to practice at Osceola. Pennsylvania, in 1899 and continued until 1905 when he came to Elmira. New York, where he has
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