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tic Shrine, of Binghamton: and of the Cash- mere Grotto, No. II. He attends the Metho- dist Episcopal church.
He married (first) January 16, 1876, Flor- ence Raymond, died November 29, 1884, daughter of Isaac and Eliza (Swartwood) Raymond. He married (second), January 12, 1886, Harriet Wilson, of Chemung, daughter of Robert and Marion Wilson. They have no children.
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WHITMORE chiefly used in England and by many of the de- scendants in this country. Others employ the form Whittemore, and by some descendants the name is spelled Wetmore. It has been traced back in England to the twelfth century, as the result of research made by T. J. Whitte- more, chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Louis railroad. This labor em- ployed several years at considerable expense and infinite pains to secure accuracy. The name has been conspicuous in this country through public service and high private char- acter of many who bore and bear it.
(I) The Whitmores of Staffordshire, Eng- land, were originally termed de Botrel. The name of the father of William de Botrel and his brother. Peter de Botrel, is unknown. William had a son William.
(II) Peter de Botrel, of Staffordshire, had a son Radulph or Ralph.
(III) Ralph de Botrel married twice. His son William by the first wife married Avisa de Whitmore. William (IV) had a son Reg- inald (V) who had a son Robert (VI), who had a son Robert (VII). This is not the American line. That descends from the sec- ond wife, by her son Ralph de Botrel and not by Rad Fitz Wetmore, an illegitimate son. Rad had a son Will le Burgvyllon.
( IV) Ralph de Botrel had a son, Sir John. (V) Sir John de Whitmore married Agnes and had at least three sons; John, Lord of Whitmore, founder of what the gen- ealogists call the Caunton line : William, mar- ried Alice Fenners, had son Philip (VII), founded what is called the Claverly branch ; Ralph.
(VI) John (2) Whitmore, son of Sir John ( I) de Whitmore, married Margerie
(VII) Richard, son of John (2) Whitmore, married Susannah, daughter of Sir Philip Draycote, of Painesley, Knight, and had : Jane,
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married John Blunt ; Mary, married John Gif- ford; Beatrix, married John Chetwind ; Chris- tina, who married Richard Fleetwood; and Philip.
(VIII) Philip, son of Richard Whitinore, married Thomasine, daughter of Richard Oli- ver, and had a son Richard.
(IX) Richard (2), son of Philip Whitmore, married (first) a daughter of Sir Ralph Ba- got ; married ( second) a daughter of Richard Deveraux; married (third) a daughter of Si- mon Harcourt, probably of Ellenhall, Staf- fordshire, and by his third wife had son Nich- olas.
(X) Nicholas, son of Richard (2) Whit- more, married Annie, daughter of Thomas Aston, of Tixall, Staffordshire, and had : Mary, married William Lusone ; Anthony.
(XI) Anthony, son of Nicholas Whitmore, married Christina, daughter and heir of Nich- olas Vaux, and had : Joan, William.
(XII) William, son of Anthony Whitmore, had a son John.
(XIII) John (3), second son of William Whitmore, in the reign of Henry VI., married (first) Alice, daughter and heir of Robert Blyton, of Caunton, county Notts; married (second) Katherine, daughter and heir of Robert Compton, of Hawton ( Visitation of York, 1563), and had: William ; Robert, who was the heir.
(XIV) Robert, son of John (3) Whitmore, of Caunton, married (first) Catherine, daugh- ter of George Claye, of Finningly, county Notts (Visitation of Yorkshire) and had son William, the heir. who married a daughter of John Ridley. William, of Rottenham, died in 1568. Robert Whitmore married (second) Alice Atwoode, of Harlington, Bedfordshire. He died at Caunton in 1540. By this mar- riage the children were: Richard, died with- out issue, 1559; John, living in 1545; Charles died 1568; Thomas, living in 1559; Rowland, living in 1591; James, Randall, and three daughters. Thomas Whitmore, of Hitchin, was the son of Edmund, or Rowland, son of Robert. Hitchin is the parish where the immi- grant, Thomas Whitmore, was born, and he was the son of another Thomas Whitmore, as will be seen later.
(XV) Charles, son of Robert Whitmore, died in 1568. He lived in Tuxforth, county Notts. His children were: William, died 1582, in county Notts ; John, supposed to have lived in Staffordshire and died 1571 ; Robert,
died 1608; Richard, died 1578; James, died 1614; Thomas, the elder, died 1649; Roger, of Hitchin ; Christopher, of county Bedford, died 1640; four daughters and a posthumous child supposed to be George. Three of the sons spelled the name Whittamore, three spelled it Watmore, and one Whitmore, the spelling that has prevailed in England.
(XVI) Thomas, son of Charles Whitmore, lived in Hitchin, county of Hertford, Eng- land. He had wife Mary. His two sons immigrated to New England ; Thomas to Mal- den, Massachusetts, and John to Stamford, Connecticut. Thomas, of Malden, is the an- cestor of most of the American Whittemores. John Whitmore, of Stamford, had a daughter Elizabeth and son John Whitmore, who was of age in 1649, lived at Stamford and Mid- dletown, Connecticut.
(The American Line).
(I) Thomas (2) Whittemore (as the name appears in the records of Cambridge, Water- town and other Massachusetts neighborhoods ) was born at Hitchin and came to New Eng- land in 1639 or 1640. He had a child born in England in the first named year, and in the latter year he signed a petition at Charles- town, Massachusetts. He soon removed to the "Mystick Side," later known as Malden, in that part of the town which is now Ever- ett. He bought land of John Cotton in 1645 which adjoined his home lot and is now in the city of Everett, and continued in the fam- ily until May 1, 1845, a period of two hun- dred years. The site of his first dwelling house is known. He died there May 25, 1661. and his will was proved one month later. He was thrice married, but the name of his first wife is unknown. He married ( second ). April 14, 1623, in England, Sarah Deardes, who was buried November 17, 1628. His third wife, Hannah, was born 1612, and after his death married (second) June 3, 1663, Benjamin Butterfield, of Chelmsford. Massa- chusetts, and was still living in 1680. His first child, Thomas, received his portion of his father's estate in England and there remained. He subsequently gave the same name to an- other son in this country. Children: Sarah, Mary, Thomas, Daniel, John, died young ; Nathaniel, John (all born in England). Eliza- beth, Benjamin, Thomas, Samuel. Pelatiah, Abraham. The first, baptized April 14, 1616, was a child of the first wife. There were two
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of the second and the others were children of the third wife.
(II) Daniel, second son of Thomas (2) and eldest child of his second wife, Sarah (Dear- des) Whittemore, was born July 31, 1633, in Hitchin, died May II, 1683, on the pater- nal homestead on "Mystick Side" which he inherited, and bequeathed to his sons, Dan- iel and John. His will was nuncupative, and was not proved until nearly two years after his death, and his widow was made adminis- tratrix. He married, March 7, 1662, Mary, daughter of Richard Mellins, of Charlestown. She died May 11, 1683. Richard Mellins re- moved from Charlestown to Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a free- man. September 7, 1639. Daniel Whittemore's children : 1. Daniel, born April 27, 1663; re- sided in Charlestown and Malden; died Sep- tember 21, 1756, and left his homestead to his son Daniel. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Thomas. March 5, 1667. 4. Mary, February 15, 1669. 5. Nathaniel, February 7, 1670.
(III) John, second son of Daniel and Mary (Mellins) Whittemore, was born February 12. 1665, died in Malden, 1730. His whole es- tate was valued at five hundred and three pounds and his widow, Ruth, was appointed administratrix. April 3, of that year. He mar- ried, in 1692. Ruth, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Hobart) Bassett, of Bridgewater. Massachusetts. Joseph Bassett was a son of William Bassett, and came over in the ship "Fortune" in 1621. lived in Duxbury, Massa- chusetts, in 1637, and was deputy to the gen- eral court in 1640-41-42-43-44. He joined Governor Bradford and others in the pur- chase of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and re- moved to Bridgewater, where he died in 1667. Children of John Whittemore: 1. John, men- tioned below. 2. Jeremiah, born in 1695, in Malden : lived in Weston and died in Con- cord, Massachusetts. 3. Benjamin, married Sarah Kendall. 4. Patience, married Timothy Lamson. 5. David. April 6, 1706; resided in Boston. 6. Deborah, March 1. 1708. 7. Pela- tiah, October 30. 1710: resided in Dunstable.
(IV) John (2) Whitmore, eldest son of John (I) and Ruth ( Bassett) Whittemore. was born September 12, 1694, in Malden, and settled in Leicester, Massachusetts, before 1730. He was a farmer there, and was dea- con of the church in 1735. His wife bore the name of Rebekah, and their children were : John, born August 26, 1721 ; Nathan, August
6, 1723; Rebecca, May 23. 1725 ; Phebe, Oc- tober 26, 1727 ; Nathaniel, September 22, 1732; James, mentioned below.
(V) Lieutenant James Whitmore, youngest child of John (2) and Rebekah Whitmore, was born December 16. 1734. in Leicester, where he died in 1811, in his seventy-seventh year. He married, in that town, December 3, 1761, Dorothy Green. Children : James, born October 31, 1762; Phebe. April 9. 1765 ; married Samuel Waite; Dolly, June 6. 1767, died unmarried; Samuel, mentioned below ; Katie, January 1, 1772, died unmarried ; Clark. December 25, 1776. resided in Worcester ; John, resided in Ohio; Joseph, February 9, 1786, died 1859, in Leicester.
(VI) Samuel, second son of Lieutenant James and Dorothy (Green) Whitmore, was born September 15, 1769 (family records say September 24) in Leicester, and settled early in life in Columbus, Chenango county, New York, where he was a farmer. Having lost a leg. he was employed many years keeping a toll gate. He married there. March 2, 1791, Anna Blackman.
(VII) Luther W., only son of Samuel and Anna (Blackman) Whitmore, was born Octo- ber 23, 1792, in Columbus, where he passed his life, being a successful farmer and large landholder. On retiring from active life he removed to the village of Columbus, and died there. He was well educated for his time, and taught school when a young man. He married, March 17. 1822. Elsie Perkins, and they had children as follows: I. Samuel Per- kins, born October 19, 1823. married and had three sons. 2. Daniel Edwin, mentioned be- low. 3. Ann Fidelia, married Nicholas Richer. now living in Columbus, has one son. I. L. Richer, of New Berlin. 4. Augustus Caesar, born February 19. 1829; no heirs. 5. John Lewis, born August 29, 1830; married and has two daughters in Wabasha. Minnesota. 6. George Byron, born June 29, 1834; for- merly in business at No. 89-91 Warren street, New York : married and has one daughter. 7. Henry Irving. born August 17. 1836. 8. Lee Hamilton, May 3. 1840 : married and has three sons. 9. Alice Jane, born September 18, 1843.
(VIII) Daniel Edwin, second son of Lu- ther W. and Elsie ( Perkins) Whitmore, was born January 6, 1825, in Columbus. He re- ceived his primary education in the local schools. He graduated at the State Normal
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College, Albany, in 1846, and during the greater part of his early life was engaged in teaching. For some time he was employed at Homer Academy, after which he was prin- cipal of schools at Canandaigua and at Mara- thon. New York. He was one of the organ- izers of the First National Bank at Mara- thon and of the Cortland Savings Bank. For fifteen years he was school commissioner of Cortland county. longer than any other man that ever held that office in the state, and also filled other important educational positions, including that of president of the board of education at Marathon and of the Marathon Union School and Academy. He was super- intendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school of Marathon for more than seventeen years, and was very active in the support and man- agement of the church. In the absence of the pastor he often read sermons from the pulpit. As representative of the Peck estate he was trustee of the fund employed in es- tablishing the public library at Marathon. He was three years supervisor and chairman of the county board ; for many years filled the office of justice of the peace, and in 1875 was a member of the state legislature ; politi- cally he acted with the Republican party. In 1853 he located in Marathon and there he engaged in mercantile business, about 1873, continuing until his death, March 2, 1900, at the age of seventy-five years. He also con- ducted a fire insurance business.
He married, July 9. 1850, Lydia Miranda Shattuck, born April 23, 1824, in Cincinnatus, New York, daughter of David and Esther (Bailey) Shattuck. She died October 18, 1906, in Marathon. She was a pupil of her future husband at one time and later a teach- er, and was teacher in the Baptist Sunday school at Marathon more than forty years, continuing until eighty years old. The bell now in use by the Baptist church of Marathon was presented by her. Children : Daniel W., mentioned below: Frank E., born June 6. 1867; David L., mentioned below.
(IX) Daniel Webster, son of Daniel Ed- win and Lydia M. ( Shattuck ) Whitmore. was born September 25, 1853. in Phelps. On- tario county, New York. The first twenty years of his life were passed in Marathon, Cortland county, New York, where he at- tended the public school and the Marathon Academy. He later pursued a course at the State Normal School. Cortland. New York,
in the meantime teaching three terms of school to secure means of paying for his own edu- cation. His first term was taught in the Wightinan district and the two following at Texas Valley. It has always been a source of pleasure for Mr. Whitmore to recall the fact that several of the pupils in his first school insisted upon attending his school at Texas Valley in the two succeeding winters. paying tuition for this privilege in preference to the free schooling of their home district. In 1873 he went to New York where he en- gaged as clerk in the produce business with his uncle on Warren street, and since 1879 has continued in the same line at the same place. In 1886 he became the head of the firm of D. W. Whitmore & Company. In 1883 he took up his residence at Mt. Ver- non, New York, where he built a home for himself and family and soon thereafter be- gan building houses for rent and sale. He has been a rather extensive operator in real estate, and is regarded by the citizens of Mt. Vernon as an encyclopaedia of information regarding local property. Hours before the average business man has taken the morning train for the metropolis he could be seen driving about town looking after personal interests and gathering up-to-date informa- tion concerning local improvements. He has always taken a warm interest in the social and moral progress of the suburb and has naturally been selected by his contemporaries to fill positions of trust and responsibility. In 1894 he was elected an alderman representing the fifth ward of Mt. Vernon, upon the Re- publican ticket, running largely ahead of his ticket in the voting, and served during the years 1895-96. He served two terms, four years, as president of the municipal civil ser- vice commission under appointment from Mayor Brush, and has been repeatedly urged to become a candidate for mayor, which he has steadfastly declined. In speaking of him in this connection Mayor Brush said: "He is a man of the highest integrity, a staunch supporter of civic righteousness, and would make us an ideal mayor." He was appointed by Mayor Fiske a member of the non-partisan commission to revise the charter of Mt. Ver- non, and by Mayor Howe chairman of a com- mittee of fifteen representative citizens to or- ganize a chamber of commerce of the city of AIt. Vernon. He is a director in several of the strongest financial institutions in New
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York City and Westchester county. He was vice-president of the Bank of Mt. Vernon and declined the presidency of the Mt. Vernon Trust Company, although he has served as chairman of the executive committee of this company since its organization. He is a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Irving National Exchange Bank of New York City, and for many years has been a member of a similar committee of the Fidelity Trust Company of New York, of which he is now chairman. For fourteen years he has been a trustee of the East River Savings Bank of New York. For many years he has been a member of the New York Mercantile Ex- change and served on its most important com- mittees. At the time of his election as a di- rector of the Irving National Exchange Bank the Mt. Vernon Daily Argus spoke of him as follows: "He is one of our most conser- vative and trusted citizens and very promin- ent in social and financial circles. His many friends will be pleased to learn of the new position of honor and trust to which he has just been elected."
He is a member of the New York Athletic Club : Westchester County Chamber of Com- merce: Cortland County Society of New York (of which he was president one year). He is a member of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church of Mt. Vernon ; has served as vice-president and president of its board of trustees and for years was a member of the committee on conference entertainment of the New York east conference.
Mr. Whitmore married, March 25, 1879, in Homer, Emily F. Watrous, born December 17. 1853. in Virgil, daughter of Nelson and Harriet ( Norton ) Watrous, of Homer. Mrs. Whitmore was one of the successful teachers of the Cortland Academy at Homer, New York. Their eldest child, George Byron, was born in Brooklyn. The others, Daniel Web- ster and Helen Marie, were born in Mt. Ver- non. The first is now a surgeon of the United States navy, serving on the flagship of the At- lantic fleet. the "Connecticut." Daniel W. is associated with his father in business. The daughter is a student of Mt. Vernon high school.
(IX ) David Luther, youngest son of Dan- iel Edwin and Lydia M. (Shattuck) Whit- more. was born July 7, 1859, in Marathon, where he was early a student of the public schools and subsequently attended the State
Normal School at Cortland until he reached the age of nineteen years. In the meantime he taught two winter terms of school. He was early employed in assisting his father in the mercantile business, and spent consider- able time in the purchase of butter and eggs in the surrounding country. In the spring of 1880 he went to New York City, where he entered the employ of his uncle, the late George B. Whitmore, in the produce commis- sion business, with which he has since been continuously identified, having been for the last fifteen years a partner of his brother, in the firm of D. W. Whitmore & Company. This is now one of the largest and most suc- cessful wholesale produce houses of the ine- tropolis. For more than twenty years he has resided in Mt. Vernon, New York, and has been actively identified with its growth and development as a city. He takes a keen and intelligent interest in public affairs and in 1910 was elected an alderman of the city. representing the fifth ward, by a very hand- some majority. Also served a term upon the city board of education. Like all of his family he is affiliated with the Republican party, and is a member of the official board of the Ches- ter Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. He has long been an active member of Clinton Hook and Ladder Company, of which he was two years foreman, and was a charter mem- ber of the Westchester County Wheelmen.
He married. April 26, 1888. Rosalie Rees, a native of Brooklyn, daughter of David and Rosalie (Smith) Rees, of that city. a descend- ant of an English family which was long es- tablished at Greenpoint, Long Island. They have two daughters, Florence Lydia, born January 4, 1889 : Gertrude Rees, February 14, 1900.
BALDWIN In records incident to the conquest of England the name of Baldwin appears in the Battle Abbey, and one of the name is known as early as 672. The Earls of Flan- ders bearing the name date from the time of Alfred the Great. Baldwin 2d married Els- touth. daughter of Alfred, and Baldwin 5th married the daughter of Robert of France. and their daughter Matilda married William the Conqueror. Surnames. however, were not used in England until long after the Con- quest. Baldwin de Hampden, of the time of the Conquest, became John Hampden, the pa-
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triot of the English revolution. The name is found in Denmark, Flanders and in Nor- mandy, and other parts of France. The Bald- wins of the United States came largely from county Bucks, England, where the name "John Baldwin" is of frequent historical men- tion in successive generations, as is Henry and Richard. In New England we have Rich- ard Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, before 1639; Richard Baldwin, of Braintree, 1637; John Baldwin, of Stoughton, Connecticut, 1638; John Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, 1639; Nathaniel Baldwin, of Milford, 1639: Joseph Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, 1639, and of Hadley, Massachusetts, subse- quently ; Henry Baldwin, of Woburn, Massa- chusetts, 1640; John Baldwin, of Billerica. Massachusetts, 1655, and John Baldwin, of Norwich, Connecticut, the immigrant progeni- tor of Judge Simeon Eben Baldwin (q. v. ). Yale University has on its alumni rolls over eighty-three Baldwins.
(I) Richard Baldwin held the Manor of Dundridge in Aston-Clinton, Buckingham- shire, England, early in the sixteenth century. llis will was proved in 1552-53, and his heir was Henry Baldwin.
( II) Henry, son of Richard Baldwin, re- sided on the Manor at Aston-Clinton which is in the Ilundred of Aylesbury and Deanery of Wendover, four miles east of Aylesbury, on the road from London-through-Traing. Dundridge and the Chapel Farm were in that part of Aston-Clinton called Saint Leonards and remained in the family until 17448 when it was sold to Edward Darrell. Henry Bald- win married Alice King and had four sons and four daughters. His will, dated January 2, 1599. mentions his children as follows: Agnes, Jane, wife of James Bonus: Mary, wife of Richard Salter; Richard, who inher- ited the Manor ; John. Robert. Sylvester, men- tioned below.
(III) Sylvester, youngest son of Henry and Alice (King ) Baldwin, was born about 1565 at Dundridge. He married Jane Welles in 1590, and died previous to 1632. His chil- dren were: Harry, buried in 1594: John, not living in 1632: Henry, inherited Dundridge ; Richard; William; Sylvester, mentioned be- low. These sons were born between 1590 and 1600.
(IV) Sylvester (2), sixth son of Sylvester (I) and Jane (Welles) Baldwin, was born about 1600 at Aston-Clinton and lived at Saint
Leonards, near Dundridge, where he owned the Chapel Farm. He was the executor of the will of his uncle, Richard Baldwin, who died without issue in 1636, leaving the Manor to Henry, son of Sylvester Baldwin, and brother of the executor, who was also the residuary legatee. Soon after this Sylvester (2) Baldwin emigrated to America. In July, 1638, with his wife Sarah and six children, he sailed for America in the ship "Martin" with the New Haven Company. Sylvester Baldwin died in mid-ocean, July 31. 1638. He married, in 1620, Sarah Bryan, and when the ship arrived in Boston, she and her son Richi- ard were appointed executors of her husband's will by the court of assistance. There was a large estate and the widow and children de- cided to remain in America and settled, as they had intended, at New Haven, where in 1643 Mrs. Baldwin was rated one of the wealthiest proprietors. Subsequent to that ycar she married ( second) Captain Astwood and removed to Milford, Connecticut, where she died in 1669. Captain Astwood died in London in 1654. Sylvester (2) Baldwin's children were born and baptized at Aston- Clinton : 1. Sarah, baptized April 22, 1621 ; married, 1638, Benjamin Fenn, of Milford, Connecticut. 2. Richard, mentioned below. 3. Mary, baptized February 28. 1624. died in 1624. 4. Mary, baptized February 19, 1625; married, 1640, Robert Plum, of Milford. 5. Martha, baptized April 20, 1628. 6. Ruth, born in 1630. 7. Samuel, baptized January, 1632, died in 1632. 8. Elizabetli, baptized January 25, 1633, died in 1633. 9. John.
(V) Richard (2), eldest son of Sylvester (2) and Sarah (Bryan ) Baldwin, was bap- tized August 25, 1622, and was about six- teen years old when the family came to Amer- ica. He was well educated for his time. prob- ably by his uncle, Henry Baldwin, who was an attorney, and was often representative to the general court of the New Haven Colony. He first appears on the Milford records, No- vember 20, 1639, being in the list of those free to engage in planting. He joined the church there. May 9, 1641, and was very often on committees engaged in the public service. In 1646 he had Home Lot No. 2, consisting of three acres, on the west side of the Wepa- wang river. On December 31, 1646, he was made chairman of a committee of five to equalize the lots then divided, and on the 28th of January following, half of Beaver
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