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He married, September 30, 1903, Minnie, born in Taylor, daughter of Lucian and Ella (Holmes ) Birdlebough. Children : Ruth, Harold, Mahlon, Nellie Elizabeth.
No name has been more vari- CARLEY ously spelled in the early rec- ords and by different branches of the same family than that of this family. We find Carley, Carly, Carlie, Corley, Corly, Corlie, Curly, Curley, Kerley, Carlile, Kerly, Carsley and others. It seems that the immi- grant's name was really Carlisle, or Carlyle, as now spelled, an ancient English surname. (I) William Carley, or Kerley, immigrant ancestor, born in England, was in Hingham as early as 1637 ; was an early settler and one of the first planters at Hull, Massachusetts, May
20, 1642 ; had land on Pedock's Island in 1642, and about 1642-43 bought land in Sudbury and settled there. He was admitted a free- man, May 26, 1647 ; was one of the founders of Lancaster, 1653; became a proprietor of Marlborough, 1657, and shared in the first division of land there. He lived in Marl- borough, and for several years was one of the selectmen; was appointed by the general court to lay out a tract of land between Con- cord, Lancaster and Groton. He died about July, 1670. His will, dated July 26, 1669, bequeaths to sons, William and Henry Ker- ley, and John Devall. Certain goods which came to him by his last wife were appraised by Nathaniel Joslin. He married (first) He married (second) at Sudbury, Oc- tober 6, 1646, Hannah King, who died March 12, 1658. He married (third) May 31, 1659, Bridget, widow of Thomas Rowlandson. He married (fourth) June 14, 1662, Rebecca, widow of Thomas Joslin. Children : Will- iam; Mary, married, October 6, 1647, Rich- ard Smith; Henry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry, son of William Carley, born about 1632, came with his father to Hing- ham. He married (first) November, 1654, Elizabeth, daughter of John White. His wife, sister of the famous Mary Rowlandson, wife of the minister, was killed, with two children, William and Joseph, in King Philip's war, February 10, 1676, at the massacre at Lan- caster, when Mrs. Rowlandson was taken captive. Henry Carley married (second) April 18, 1676, Elizabeth How, of Charles- town. He went to Marlborough, and there spent the remainder of his days; was captain of the local military company and active against Governor Andros' tyranny. He died December 18, 1713, and his wife, April 26, 1710. Children of first wife: Henry, born 1658; William, January, 1659, killed 1676. Bartholomew, mentioned below; Hannah, born July, 1663; Mary, May 4, 1667, at Sud- bury; Sarah, January 28, 1668; Joseph, March, 1669, killed 1676; Hannah, at Sud- bury, January 8, 1670; Martha, December, 1672. Children of second wife: Hannah, born 1678; married, March 23, 1798, Zerub- babel Eager; Mercy. May 2, 1681, married, November 10, 1708, Joseph Rice.
(III) Bartholomew, second son of Henry and Elizabeth (White) Carley, born about 1660, settled in Sudbury, and seems to have spelled his name Carlile, or had it spelled by
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the town clerk thus for him. He was a pro- prietor of Leicester, but there is no record of his moving there. He had wife, Hannah, and children, born in Sudbury; James, May 24, 1686; Hannah, December 25, 1687 ; Peter, mentioned below; Joseph. Probably others.
(IV) Peter, son of Bartholomew and Han- nah Carley, was born about 1690 in Sudbury or Stow, or vicinity. In a deed dated Octo- ber 27, 1736, to William Brown Jr., of Lei- cester, from Peter Carley, of Leicester, a tract of land is conveyed that Peter states "was laid out to me upon ye acct. of a part of division upon right granted my father Bartholomew Carley in Leicester." This land, probably his homestead, was northerly of land laid out to Lieutenant Thomas Newell, on Boble's brook, bounded by land of Edmund Taylor and by common lands, some sixty acres in the tract. Peter was called a laborer. He died in 1746, intestate, his son Joseph admin- istrator. The date of appraisal was August, 1746. The estate was nominal, having no real estate. Ichabod Stratton, of Hardwick, was surety of Joseph Carley's bond. A branch of the Marlborough family settled at Bolton, Massachusetts, and James Carley, of Bolton, died while a soldier at Cape Breton.
(V) Joseph, son of Peter Carley, born in Leicester, Massachusetts, February, 1718, died at advanced age, March 10, 1810. He lived at Leicester and Spencer, Massachusetts. He married, February 7. 1750, Sarah, sister of Colonel Seth and Elijah Washburn Sr., of Natick. Children: I. Joseph, born Decem- ber 7, 1751, at Leicester. 2. Hannah, May 26, 1753, at Leicester. 3. Sarah, April 3, 1754, at Leicester. 4. Peter, born about 1756; married, July 9. 1778, Rebecca Dana, of Na- tick ; settled in Natick; removed to Hancock, 1789 or 1790. 5. Cyrus, November 7, 1758. 6. Jonathan, March 16, 1760, at Spencer. 7. Phebe, April 17, 1762. 8. Mary, May 23, 1764. 9. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 10. Elijah, born at Spencer, May 21. 1771; re- moved to Hancock at the same time as his brother Peter; married, September 3, 1795, Agnes, daughter of Hugh Grimes; removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, thence to Chel- sea, Vermont.
John Washburn, ancestor of Sarah (Wash- burn) Carley, was in Duxbury as early as 1632, coming from Evesham, Worcestershire, England, an ancient town situate on the river Avon ; was one of the original proprietors of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, died before 1690. His son, John (2) Washburn, came in the schooner "Elizabeth Ann," from London, 1635; was one of the orginal proprietors of Bridgewater ; married, 1645, Elizabeth, daughter of Experience Mitchell. His son, Joseph Washburn, probably lived in Bridge- water. His son, Joseph (2) Washburn, was a blacksmith; settled in Bridgewater; re- moved to Kingston. or Plympton, Massachu- setts, as early as 1728; to Middletown, Con- necticut, 1739-40, and finally to Leicester, Massachusetts, 1745; ancestor of the Wash- burns of Leicester, Natick and Worcester, father of Sarah, wife of Joseph Carley.
(VI) Ebenezer, son of Joseph Carley, was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, February 12, 1767. His early life was spent in his native town in the section now Spencer. Af- ter the revolution he removed to Unadilla, Otsego county, New York, whence he re- moved about the year 1800 to Marathon, Cortland county, New York. His was the second family to locate in that town. He was captain of the first militia company organized in that section of the country. His home was on the west side of the river. He married Joanna Swift, born in 1764, died May 13, 1831. Children, mentioned in the will of Ebenezer, who died at Marathon, July 12, 1814: Alanson, mentioned below; Orrin; Rachel, married Silas Wilder : Eleanor, mar- ried John Smith : Ellen; Hannah, married Nathan Herring: Hepsibath ; Polly, married Miles Ransom. A copy of the will is in the possession of A. A. Carley, mentioned below.
(VII) Alanson, son of Ebenezer Carley, was born June 6, 1797, in Unadilla, New York, died at Marathon, that state, April 8, 1879. When he was but two years old he removed with his father's family to the town of Marathon, then a dense and rugged wilder- ness. His home in early childhood was on the Carley homestead situated on the west side of the river, lately occupied by Mrs. Esther A. Hunt. In those pioneer days the public schools were open during short winter terms, and during the remainder of the year the boys were kept hard at work in the clearing of the forests and cultivation of the new farms. Like the other boys of this section, he had consequently a very limited amount of school- ing, but he managed by taking advantage of such opportunities as were at his command to round out his education and to qualify him-
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self for the important offices of trust and responsibility with which in after years he was honored. As justice of the peace and supervisor he was for many years a member of the town and county boards, and as a mag- istrate he won a reputation for judicial abil- ity, learning and fairness. In 1828 he was elected to the New York state assembly and represented his county creditably. In 1840 he was elected sheriff of the county and served his term in that office. As one of the projectors of the Syracuse & Binghamton railroad, he was active in its organization and in supervising its construction, serving on the board of directors until it was in suc- cessful operation. It was part of his duty to purchase for the company the rights of way in the southern part of Cortland county and the northern part of Broome county, and from his own private funds he built the rail- road station at Marathon. He also built Hotel Lynde in that town, formerly known as the Carley House. later as Rogers House, and was one of the first merchants, estab- lishing the first dry goods store in town in the thirties and conducting it with notable success until 1857, and becoming one of the most successful business men of the town. For a long time he was the owner of the Marathon Flouring Mills, and in partnership with his son, A. A. Carley, enjoyed a large and profitable business. For many years he was a director of the First National Bank of Cortland. During the stirring scenes of the civil war he was active in public affairs and was postmaster of the town of Marathon. He was one of a number of loyal citizens who pledged themselves to support the famil- ies of volunteers during their absence and the pledge was strictly fulfilled. He was pos- sessed of a kind heart, an amiable and bene- volent disposition, and was popular among all classes of citizens. In his younger days he was a Whig in politics, but when the Repub- lican party was formed and the Whig party dissolved, he became active and prominent in the new organization. In religion he was a Universalist, but he gave generous financial support not only to the church he attended but to all denominations in the town.
He married, in February, 1818, Sally, daughter of Thomas and Hester Cortright, of Union, Broome county, New York. She was born May 15, 1799, died October 5. 1872. She was a very amiable and capable woman and
was greatly respected and beloved by all for her kind, benevolent and christian virtues. Their children : I. Louisa, born December 27, 1818, died March 10, 1839. 2. Ezekiel Clark, born June 23, 1820, died September 23, 1894. a lifelong resident of Marathon. 3. Nancy, born April 12, 1822, married Dr. E. H. Barnes, and died June 9. 1846. 4. Polly Ann, born September 8, 1823, died April 10, 1841. . 5. Mersena, born March 5, 1825, mar- ried Dr. Barnes after the death of her sister Nancy, his first wife, and Mersena died Janu- ary 4, 1874. 6. Eleanor, born July 14, 1827, died July 23, 1857; married Washington Wheeler. 7. Hester, born February 10, 1829, died February 18, 1830. 8. Esther A., born December 4, 1830, died May 12, 1909; mar- ried Daniel Delos Hunt (see Hunt IV). 9. Albertis Alanson, mentioned below. IO. Sally, born June 10, 1835. died December 6, 1836. II. Sarah Jane, born March 3. 1837; married C. C. Adams, of Marathon. 12. Cas- sius Clay, mentioned below.
(VIII) Alburtis Alanson, son of Hon. Alanson Carley, was born at Marathon, Janu- ary 6, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Marathon and in Homer Acad- emy. Ile spent his boyhood on his father's farm and in his country store. In 1854 he embarked in the dry goods and general store business at Marathon and continued until 1860. During the next three years he manu- factured barrel staves. In December, 1863, he became manager of the Marathon Mills, which his father owned. and he operated them until 1876 under the firm name of A. Carley & Son, conducting a large and profitable busi- ness. He has valuable farming interests in the town of Marathon. He has been living in Cortland since May. 1885. His time is occupied largely with his private affairs, but he has devoted considerable attention to pub- lic matters and has held important offices of trust and honor. In 1881-82 he represented the district in the New York state assembly. In the first year he served on the commit- tees on banks, affairs of villages, charitable and religious societies and public lands and in the second term he was a member of the com- mittee on affairs of cities and banks. He was supervisor of the town of Marathon before coming to Cortland. He has been a director of the First National Bank of Cortland since 1879, and is now vice-president. From 1886 to 1890 he was chairman of the Republican
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county committee of Cortland county and in every campaign carried his ticket to success without a single failure. Since he has been a member of the board of education of Cort- land and served as president of the board.
He was for many years a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church of Marathon and later of the church at Cortland, and was treas- urer of its building committee. He is an un- affiliated Free Mason. He is vice-president of the Yale Land and Improvement Com- pany of Cortland. Able, upright and public- spirited, Mr. Carley takes rank among the foremost business men of the town and com- mands the confidence and respect of the entire community.
He married, October 22, 1884, Anna ( Brockett ) Feeter, born in Herkimer county, New York, daughter of Zenas and Candace ( Salisbury ) Brockett. Her father was noted philanthropist in his day, son of Amos Brockett, of Wolcott, Connecticut. By her first husband, Mrs. Carley had one son, Frank Brockett Feeter, who married Ella C. Loucks, and their children are: John M., Elizabeth M., Alburtis Carley, Norman L. and Marian Anna Feeter.
(VIII) Cassius Clay, son of Hon. Alanson Carley, was born in Marathon, July 23, 1844. Being the youngest son, he remained on the farm with his father and mother and cared for them in their declining years. In early life he had made plans for a collegiate educa- tion but at the age of eighteen he was obliged by the force of circumstances to leave school. and he began to work in the postoffice, his father then being the postmaster. After his father's term expired he became bookkeeper in the mill which his father operated under the firm name of A. Carley & Son, his elder brother, Alanson A., being the junior partner. In 1876 his father Alanson A. retired and he with his elder brother, Ezekiel Clark, formed a partnership and conducted the business until 1879, when he retired from the firm and since then has devoted his attention exclusively to the conduct of two farms. Mrs. Carley is the owner of two hundred acres in Freetown. He made a specialty of thorough-bred Jersey cattle and had at that time the only herd of that stock in the county. Poultry was also a specialty and he became an authority on the subject.
For many years he was judge of live stock at the Broome county fair. His home
is in the village of Homer. In politics he is a staunch Republican.
He married ( first), in 1869, Mercy A. Tar- bell, born in 1846, at Freetown. New York. He married (second), in 1886, Alrs. Annette (Eades) Glover. Children of first wife : Leon Alanson, mentioned below : Daniel Arvine, died aged four years. Child of second wife: Oliver Eades, born September 27, 1892.
(IX) Leon Alanson, only surviving son of Cassius Clay and Mercy A. (Tarbell) Car- ley, was born November 19, 1871, in Mara- thon, and early attended the public schools of that town. Imbued with an ambitious spirit, he took the janitorship of the school building where he attended, and under the Regent's College entrance course, he prepared for col- lege and entered Syracuse University at the age of seventeen years, graduating in 1892 with the degree of A. B., being the youngest member of his class, and its president at grad- uation. After graduation he pursued the study of law in the office of Lewis & Crowley, of Syracuse, for two years, and also engaged in newspaper work, thus aiding in meeting the expense of his education. In 1894 he was ad- mitted to the Syracuse bar. During his asso- ciation with Lewis & Crowley, he was identi- fied with the famous Wilson brothers murder trial, and subsequently became associated with Everett P. Turner in the practice of law at Syracuse, under the firm name of Carley & Turner. This association continued until 1901, when it was dissolved. Mr. Carley then removed to New York City and opened a law office at No. 257 Broadway, and subsequently was associated with the law firm of Straley & Hasbrouck, of which firm he became junior partner in 1904. Upon the death of the senior member. John A. Straley, in 1907, the firmn was dissolved and Mr. Carley continued practice independently, being still located at No. 257 Broadway. He conducts a general practice. making a specialty of corporation law. For some years he resided in New York City, then removed to Montclair, New Jersey, where he continued to make his home until 1909, when he removed to the adjoining town of Cald- well. He is at present president of the Men's Club of the Churches of Caldwell, and chair- man of the transportation committee of the Board of Trade of that place. Mr. Carley holds membership in the West End Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church of New York City, where he has been active in church and Sun-
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day school work, and served as president of the Men's Club. He is now an attendant of the Congregational church at Montclair, being superintendent of its Sunday school. He is chairman of the committee of twenty-five on excise matters. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity of Syracuse Univer- ity, and of the following clubs: New York Hardware, Caldwell Club, Montclair Club. and Montclair Athletic Club, of Montclair, New Jersey; Cortland County Society of New York, and the Syracuse University Associa- tion. During his residence in Syracuse, he was a member of the Forty-first Separate Company, National Guard, State of New York. Mr. Carley is a believer in out-of-door life, and is well known for his long walks. He often covers forty and fifty miles a day. He devotes considerable time to courses in psychological research in New York Univer- ity and Union Theological Seminary, and is author of a work on psychology which will soon come from the press.
He married, September 5, 1901, at Homer, New York, Mrs. Jennie Hortense (Olney) Newton, widow of Frank M. Newton, of Ho- mer, and daughter of Rev. Eugene and Emma J. (Miller) Olney, of Homer, born November 4, 1875. Her father was many years pastor of the First Congregational Church of Homer. Children: Mercie Lucile. born July 31, 1902 : Leon Alanson, November 21, 1906: Mortimer Peary, December 21, 1909.
William Haviland, immi- HAVILAND grant ancestor, was born in England, and came thence about 1650 to Newport, Rhode Island, of which he was a freeman, May 17. 1653, and a commissioner to the general court at Ports- mouth, elected May 21. 1656. He removed in 1667 to Flushing, Long Island, where he purchased a hundred acres of land on what is now Little Neck. He married, while at Newport, Hannah, daughter of John and Horod (Long) Hicks. They had four sons : I. Joseph, had land granted at Hempstead in 1688; removed to Westchester, New York, in 1695, and to Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1709, and he died there in 1724. 2. Benjamin, bought land at Harri- son's Purchase, Rye, New York, December 27, IZII ; became a Friend at Flushing as early as 1701 and was a Quaker minister : died at Rye. July or September. 1726. 3.
John, with wife Sarah and son John was liv- ing in Flushing in 1698: was church warden at Hempstead and captain of militia ; died at Hempstead, October 11, 1740. Ilis will men- tions wife Sarah and children. John, Benja- min, Luke, Joseph, Peter, Jane, Mary, Sarah, Bridget. 4. Jacob, mentioned below.
(II) Jacob, son of William Haviland, was a resident of Flushing. Long Island, in 1703, and afterward removed to Rye, Westchester county, New York. He was warden of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church of Rye, in 1715- 16-1724. He and his wife Mary sold to Thomas Haviland, his nephew, two hundred acres in Harrison's Purchase, Rye, and three acres on Mennisink Island, December 27, 1732, for seven hundred and twenty pounds. Children: Jacob, mentioned below ; Joseph. William, and perhaps other children.
(III) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) Havi- land, was born about 1710. He doubtless lived in Rye, New York, with his parents. He removed to Oblong, Dutchess county, New York. He was probably a member of the Society of Friends, like many others of the family, and the Quaker records of Ob- long show that his son John removed from Valley Preparatory Meeting (Society of Friends) to Saratoga, February 17, 1787. Jacob bought land in Oblong, now Dutchess county, also in Putnam county, in 1731. Children: John, mentioned below: James, born September 12, 1748, died August 21, 1811 ; removed to Saratoga; married Martha and had children: Charles, John, Inger- son, Hannah, Martha, Esthier, Elizabeth, Sa- rah, Asenath. (Charles was born September 26, 1777, and had a son Charles Jr., born May 12, 1800, at Hoosick, New York, mar- ried Laura Smith, of Canada, and removed to Michigan. She was born December 20, 1808, died after 1894, was a Quaker and spent her life in benevolent work, helping slaves to escape before the civil war and she wrote a book entitled "A Woman's Life Work," which is almost as interesting as "Uncle Tom's Cabin." )
(IV) John, son of Jacob (2) Haviland, was born in Dutchess county, New York, about 1740. He was a Quaker, and removed to Saratoga in 1787. According to the cen- sus of 1790. John Haviland was living at Hoosick and had one female in his family. James Haviland. his brother, had three sons under sixteen and five females, and Garrison,
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his son, mentioned below, had one son under sixteen and two females in his family. The homestead was in West Hoosick, Rensselaer county. He married Sarah Garrison.
(V) Garrison, son of John Haviland, was born at Oblong, Dutchess county, New York, March 10, 1767, died at Hoosick, Rensselaer county, New York, October 20, 1820. He married, about 1788, Catherina Harten, born January 17. 1766, died November 1I, 1851, at Hoosick. He was buried on the farm now owned by Stephen J. Haviland, of West Hoo- sick. Children : William, born September 23, 1786; Anna, July 13, 1789; Sarah, Octo- ber 4. 1791 ; Harten, January 6, 1794; Gar- rison, mentioned below ; John, July 10, 1803; Asenath, November 18, 1805; Pheba ( Phebe), April, 1809.
(VI) Garrison (2), son of Garrison (1) Haviland, was born at West Hoosick, New York. August 15, 1800. He was educated in the district schools of his native town and followed farming all his active life. He was a very strong man mentally and physically, and a leader in society. He married Aurilla Chapman, born February 29, 1810, daughter of John and Annis Chapman. Children : John G., of West Hoosick, born August 10, 1828: William C., of Pompey Hill, born Au- giist 3. 1832: Stephen J., of West Hoosick, born January 4, 1838; Norman H., mentioned below.
(VII) Dr. Norman H. Haviland, son of Garrison (2) Haviland, was born in West Hoosick, Rensselaer county, New York, Octo- ber 6. 1844. His childhood was spent on his father's farm of two hundred and forty acres at West Hoosick, and he attended the public schools there. Afterward he was a student at the Wallace private school at Hoosick Falls, and at the Folsome School, from which he graduated in 1866. He took charge of his father's farm in the spring of 1866 and conducted it for two years. During 1868 he began to study medicine with Dr. Carpenter, of Troy, New York, and afterward continued under the instruction of Dr. E. J. Marsh, of Hastings, New York. He then attended the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and was graduated March 14, 1872. He practiced during the summer of 1872 in association with Dr. I. B. Earl, of Sy- racuse, and in October of that year entered the Homoeopathic Hospital College of Cleve- land, now known as the Cleveland University
of Medicine and Surgery, and was graduated February 12, 1873, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He opened an office at Spen- certown, New York, and soon established an excellent practice. In the spring of 1876 Dr. Haviland removed to Fulton, New York, where he has since then enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He took the practitioner's course of the New York Homeopathic Medi- cal College and Hospital in the spring of 1905. He acted as health officer for the town of Volney for a number of years, and was one of the members of the board of managers of the Albert Lindley Lee Memorial Hospital, also visiting physician to the same. He was the first president of the Fulton Academy of Medicine; in 1876 he joined the Oswego County Medical Society; in 1880 became a permanent member of the New York State Medical Society ; and is also a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, Oswego County Homoeopathic Medical Society, Medico-Chirurgical Society of Central New York. In religion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church; in politics, a lifelong Republican. He de- clined the nomination of mayor for the city of Fulton in 1911.
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