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(III) Captain Jonathan Latimer. son of Captain Robert (2) Latimer, was born about
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1698. He settled in New London, and was like his father a wealthy landholder. Ile was captain and major in the colonial wars. He owned a large tract of land in Chesterfield. inherited from his father, and another on the west side of the Niantic river, now in the town of East Lyme. The site of a dwelling-house on the latter tract of land, formerly occupied by one of his sons, was in 1882 still visible, and a spring from which water was taken to supply the house is still known as "Latimer Spring. A ledge of almost perpendicular rocks lying along the west bank of the river has been called "Latimer's Rock," and a beautiful white sand beach at Black Point in Lyme, formerly owned by him is still called "Latimer's Beach." He married. April 6. 1721, Borodell, daughter of George Denison, and great-granddaughter of Jonathan and Lu- cretia Brewster. Children: Anne, born about 1723: Jonathan, mentioned below : Elizabeth. September 16, 1726: Mary, April 16, 1729: Amos, December 5, 1730: Robert, February 26, 1732; Henry, February 28, 1737: Daniel, August 16, 1739: John. December 21, 1741 ; Borodell or Boradel. baptized February 21, I744.
(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Captain Jona- than ( I) Latimer, was born March or May 27, 1724, in Chesterfield Society, Montville, Connecticut. He lived in New London in Chesterfield Society, on land which he had inherited from his father. He served in sev- eral campaigns against the French on the northern frontier, and during the revolution was much of the time in the field of service. He was colonel of the Third Regiment of militia in Connecticut at the time of Arnold's raid on New London in 1781, and at that time was censured for not taking a more active part in bringing forward the forces under his command to meet the enemy.
Colonel Latimer with seven sons removed from Montville to Tennessee about 1790. They moved in an emigrant wagon drawn by oxen, and took with them articles and provi- sions for use on the way. He himself did not live to reach his destination, but died on the journey and was buried at the place where he died. The sons settled in that state and became the ancestors of numerous descendants now living in the western states. It was a tradition in the family that Colonel Latimer and six of his sons measured forty-two feet, and their descendants have always been noted
for their height and stalwart, muscular frames. He married Lucretia Griswold, born March 26. 1731. Children: Hannah, September 19, 1747; George, July 29, 1749: Borodell. De- cember 13, 1750, died young : Jonathan, April 12, 1753: Borodell, April 12, 1755 : Wetherel. March 18. 1757 ; Charles, June 20. 1759: Rob- ert. November 2, 1760: Nicholas. June 8, 1763; Griswold, September 8, 1764: Joseph, mentioned below : Nathaniel, February 25, 1768; Daniel, May 4, 1771.
(V) Joseph, son of Jonathan (2) Latimer, was born January or June 8, 1766, in New London. Ile moved with his parents in 1790 to Tennessee. He was a large real estate owner. In 1833 he moved to Abbington, Illi- nois, where he died about 1846. aged seventy years. He married. November 10, 1796. Anna Dobbins, born in Lancaster county. South Carolina, May 10, 1776. She also moved to Tennessee when quite young. Children : Mary, Borodell, Elizabeth, Jonathan, men- tioned below: Sarah, May 13, 1805: Alex- ander. George G., John C .. David T., Susan- nah P.
(VI) Jonathan (3), son of Joseph Latimer. was born in Tennessee in 1801, died in Ab- bington, Illinois, about 1866. He moved there about 1832. and was an extensive real estate owner. Ile was a builder and pro- moter of railroads, built manufacturing plants, owned many stores, and many men were un- der his employ. He was active in public life, and was very influential because of the large number in his employ. He married Nancy West, born in 1801, died in 1888, daughter of Jacob and Bathsheba ( Cooper ) West, of North Carolina. Children: Jacob, William. James, Joseph. Jonathan C., mentioned be- low ; Emily, Louise, Mary, Anna, Clara.
(\H) Jonathan Cohimbus, son of Jona- than (3) Latimer, was born May 5. 1842. in Abbington, Knox county, Illinois. Hle at- tended the public schools, AAbbington high school. and graduated from Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois. Ite studied his profes- sion at the Harvard Law School and was graduated in 1866. From that time until 1872 he practiced law in Chicago, Illinois. He came to Tioga Center, New York, in 1872 on ac- count of the ill health of his wife's parents. and took charge of large real estate inter- ests. He has followed farming in this town to the present time and now owns two thou- sand acres of land and large herds of cattle.
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In 1863 he enlisted in Company E, Seventy- first Illinois Regiment, for one hundred days, and was on guard duty most of the time. He was a non-commissioned officer of his regi- ment. He has always taken an active part in public affairs in the town of Tioga; served in the board of supervisors eight terms. in 1887-88 represented his district in the state assembly and served on important commit- tees ; was chairman of the committee on print- ing and member of the committee on ways and ineans, and for twenty-five years was president of the union school board of Tioga. In politics he is a Republican. He is a promi- nent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a trustee and for thirty years has been superintendent of the Sunday school.
He married, May 10, 1870, Angeline Del- phine, born at Tioga Center, New York, De- cember 6, 1835, daughter of Ira and Sarah (Forman) Ransom, adopted daughter of Will- iam Ransom (see Ransom VI). Children: I. Angie, born May 3, 1872, in Chicago ; married Elisha Lee, assistant general manager of the Pennsylvania railroad; children: Jonathan Latimer, Dorothy and Elisha Lee. 2. Sarah, born October 26. 1874, died May 7, 1875. 3. Clara V., born May 20, 1876; married Clar- ence Lyman Collins (2), of Cleveland, Ohio, president of the Reliance Motor and Electrical Supply Company ; children : Emily Robert and Clarence Lyman Collins (3).
(The Ransom Line).
(I) Robert Ransom, American progenitor, was born in England, where the family was prominent from early times, especially in Ips- wich, in Kent. Sussex and other eastern coun- ties. He came to this country before 1654 and settled in Plymouth, Massachusett. He was a member of the church and was admit- ted a freeman in 1657, but he rebelled against the bigotry and intolerance of the Puritan government and was often in court in his younger days. He resided at Sandwich for a time, and was there in 1654 as apprentice of Thomas Dexter Jr., who treated him harsh- ly and whom he had before the court. After- ward he bought his time of his employer. He was in court in 1665 charged with fencing a piece of common land, evidently a charge based on some land title dispute, and also for calling William Hawkins a rogue, which perhaps was the truth. In 1669-70 he was in court for striking John Tilson, and there
is nothing to prove that Tilson did not deserve a thrashing. In the same year he was ar- rested for airing his unfavorable opinion of the governor. One could not criticize public officers and ministers with impunity in those days. In 1673 John Andrews was arrested for assaulting him and he was again in court for using abusive language. He was once arrested for selling rum without a license- inn-keeper's-and he was in the same com- pany as many of the most prominent men of the colonies. In 1691 he had trouble with John Doty. All these cases, which the geneal- ogist has hunted up, merely show that Ransom was somewhat turbulent and independent, and had a good old English temper and flow of language. He probably had an unhappy child- hood, for he came here an apprentice without relatives, as far as we can learn. His mas- ter was cruel. But in later life he was quiet and respected, an officer of the town and a man of property. His children intermarried with some of the most prominent families. In later years he lived at Lakeville, Middle- borough, Plymouth county, now the town of Plympton. In 1686 he deeded land to his son Robert Jr. He was a highway surveyor in 1675. He married Susanna -. Chil- dren : Mathew, born at Sandwich about 1661 ; Joshua, about 1663 ; Robert, mentioned below ; Hannah, Mercy, Samuel, Mary.
(II) Robert (2), son of Robert ( I) Ran- som, was born about 1668 at Lakenham (Lakeville), now Plympton, then Middlebor- ough, Massachusetts. He married, in 1689, Anna, daughter of Deacon Waterman, of Halifax. She survived him and administered his estate. The estate was divided March 13,
1723-24. His descendants scattered widely, in Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecti- cut, and Western New York, and also in the vicinity of Saugerties and Poughkeepsie, New York. Children, born at Middleborough : Abigail, June 7, 1691 ; Samuel, 1693; Robert, mentioned below ; Lydia, February 26, 1700; Ebenezer, September 6, 1702; Mary, June 9, 1705; Joseph, December 23, 1709; Anna, No- vember 18, 1711; Deborah, May 3. 1714.
(III) Robert (3), son of Robert (2) Ran- som, was born in Middleborough, September 15, 1695. He married (first) August 30, 1719. Sarah Thomas; (second) in 1729, Sa- rah Chyles (Childs). Among their children was Samuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Captain Samuel Ransom, son of Rob-
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ert (3) Ransom, was born at Middleborough or Plympton, April 10, 1738. He settled in Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecticut, where he was living as early as May 6, 1756, when he married Esther Lawrence. His wife was born in 1738 in Windham county, Connecti- cut. In 1758 the town of Norfolk was set off from Canaan and here he bought land and lived until he removed to the Wyoming Valley with the Connecticut settlers in 1773 and on this farm all his children, except the youngest, were born. The farm was near Doolittle Pond. He was evidently prosper- ous and influential. In less than six months after coming to the Wyoming Valley he was established as a prominent and leading citi- zen and was elected selectman of the town of Westmoreland and also surveyor of highways. He was active in the controversy over land titles due to the conflict in jurisdiction between Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Ile was cap- tain of a company in the revolution, August 26, 1776, in Westmoreland county, Pennsyl- vania, and served in New Jersey and Penn- sylvania in 1777-78. He was commissioned captain of the Third Company. Twenty-fourth Regiment of Connecticut militia (in Pennsyl- vania, then part of Litchfield county). He hauled the first logs for the fort at Garrison Hill, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and he was commissioned captain by congress, August 26, 1776, of the Second Independent Company, attached to the Connecticut line. The com- pany joined Washington at Morristown, New Jersey, and was first under fire in January, 1777, at the battle of Millstone, New Jersey, under General Dickinson. He took part in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown. Bound Brook and Mud Fort and other lesser engagements. In October, 1777, his company was reduced by casualties to sixty-two men. During the winter they were with the main army in camp at Morristown. In the follow- ing June he resigned to assist in protecting his home in the Wyoming Valley against the British and Indians under General John But- ler. He reached home on the morning of the massacre, July 3, 1778, and volunteered under General Zebulon Butler. In the battle he was with Whittlesey's company on the ex- treme left. He was one of the eleven officers killed. Every captain of the six companies was found dead at the front of the line. The place where they fell is about a mile above the Wyoming station of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad station and very nearly on the line of the tracks. Captain Ran- som's body was found near Fort Wintermoot with a musket ball through his thigh, his head severed and his whole body scarred with gashes. His name heads the list of the killed on the monument erected to the memory of those who fell. The town of Ransom in Lack- awanna county was named for him. His house was burned and his family iled, but afterward returned and claimed their land.
His widow married (second ) Captain James Bidlack Sr. and is said to have returned to Norfolk, Connecticut, where she probably died. Children, born at Canaan, now Norfolk, except youngest : Sarah, August 23, 1757; Samuel, September 28, 1759; George Palmer, January 3, 1762 ; Sybil, February 5, 1764; Es- ther, March 12, 1766; Lovisa Laurence, May 28, 1768; William, mentioned below; Mary, May 20, 1772: Lois, March 20, 1775, at or near Plymouth, Pennsylvania.
(V) William, son of Captain Samuel Ran- som, was born May 26, 1770, at Canaan, now Norfolk, Connecticut, died January 8, 1822. He married, in 1792, Rachel Brooks, at Tioga Center, New York. She was born February 18, 1776, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, died May 29, 1857, at Tioga Center, daughter of James and Mary (Johnson ) Brooks. She married ( second ) about 1840, Arthur Frink. Children, born at Tioga Center, New York : Ira, mentioned below ; Sybil, born August 14, 1794: David, October 14, 1796: Benjamin, September 26, 1799; William, April 9, 1801 ; Rachel, August 23, 1803; Charles, September 19, 1805; Printice, September 17, 1807: Har- riet, August 15, 1809; Charlotte, April 13, 1811 ; Mary Johnson, November 24, 1812.
(VI) Ira, son of William Ransom, was born at Tioga Center, New York, December 4, 1792, died June 1, 1848, at Wysox. Penn- sylvania. He married, at Nichols, New York, January 22, 1814, Sarah Forman. born at Nichols, November 5, 1795, died at Brook- lyn, New York, May 14, 1872. She married ( second ) Abiel C. Campbell, April 16, 1858. Children, born at Tioga Center: Susan Emily, December 1, 1815; Miles Forman, February 1, 1817; Esther Caroline, April 15, 1819; Elizabetli Frances, April 26, 1821 ; Hy- att Clark, October 12, 1823; Sarah Ann, No- vember 29, 1825 ; Harriet Eliza, May 16, 1828; David William, June 4, 1830; Angeline Del- phine. December 6, 1835, married, May 10,
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1870, Jonathan Columbus Latimer (see Lati- mer VII).
Alexander Thompson, pro-
THOMPSON genitor of this family, was
born, according to an old family Bible. December 19, 1718, died March 7, 1788. He married Martha who died April 29, 1789, aged sixty-six years.
(II) Samuel son of Alexander Thompson, was born in 1744, died August 13, 1808. He married Elizabeth , who died May 5, 1820, aged seventy-four years. Children : Leonard, mentioned below; Luther, Calvin, David.
(III) Leonard, son of Samuel Thompson, was born August 23. 1788, died April 17. 1842. With his brothers Calvin and Luther he came to Cortland county, New York, in 1800, and settled on the hill between Cortland and McGrawville, among the earliest settlers of that section. He cleared a farm and fol- lowed agriculture for an occupation. He be- came a leading citizen and was justice of the peace for a number of years and by virtue of his office member of the town board. He mar- ried, May 18, 1817, Sally Van Valkenburg. born November 20, 1788, died March 26, 1865 (see Van Valkenburg VI). Children : 1. Caroline, born February 4, 1818; married Joel Lewis, of Blodgetts Mills. 2. Eliza J., No- vember 30, 1819; married Samuel E. Welch, a prominent merchant of Cortland. 3. James S., mentioned below. 4. Alonzo G., January 19, 1831 ; settled in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and was a hardware merchant there; died April 18, 1900.
(IV) James S. Thompson, son of Leonard Thompson, was born in Cortlandville, New York. June 28. 1823, on the homestead, died at Spafford, Onondaga county, New York. October 3, 1892. For a number of years he lived in Virgil, New York, and he made his home for six years in Broome county in the same state, but finally located at Spafford in Onondaga county, where he was living at the time of his death. Throughout his active life he was a farmer. In religion he was a Con- gregationalist, and in politics a Republican. He married, January 5, 1852. Eliza Jane Houpt, of Dryden, New York, born Septem- ber 9, 1823, died October 5, 1907, daughter of Philip T. and Mary Houpt. Philip T. Houpt was born in Huntington, Pennsylvania. Octo- ber 9, 1777, died November 10, 1866; his wife
Mary was born August 22, 1778, died Novem- ber 12, 1855: they were married September 12, 1802, and had children : Lewis, born July 18, 1803; Anna, February 16, 1805 ; John, No- vember 22, 1806; Andrew, January 22, 1808; Alpheus F., August 29, 1811; Henry H., March 4, 1814; Parley, June 1, 1817; Eliza Jane, mentioned above. Children of James S. Thompson: 1. Sarah Frances, born July 10, 1854, died August 2, 1862. 2. George Alonzo, June 27, 1858, of Homer, New York: mar- ried, January 19, 1880, Rose Mott, of Scott, New York; children: Ethel A., Guy Lester, Earl H., died in infancy, and Glenn A. 3. Charles Eugene, mentioned below. 4. Fred- erick Elliott, September 5. 1866, died October 28, 1910; married Belle Barber, of Scott. New York ; children : Viola and Harold B.
(V) Charles Eugene, son of James S. Thompson, was born at Virgil, New York, January 3, 1864. He received his education in the district schools and at Homer Academy. He began his business career as clerk in the general store of his uncle, Samuel E. Welch, of Cortland, and continued there for four years. For several years he was in charge of the books in the office of the Elmira Re- formatory. Returning to Cortland in 1888, he entered the employ of the Howe Ventilat- ing Stone Company. From 1892 to 1902 he was in charge of the bookkeeping at the large wholesale house of the T. H. Wheeler Com- pany, a branch of the G. H. Hammond Com- pany, in New York City, and during the fol- lowing two years he was manager of the fac- tory of Keator & Wells, wagon builders, at Cortland. He then engaged in his present business as real estate and insurance broker at Cortland and in this business he has been very successful.
He is chairman of the board of supervisors of the county and has represented the second ward of the city of Cortland for a number of years. In politics he is an active and influ- ential Republican. He is a member and past master of Cortlandville Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons ; past high priest of Cortland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; member of Central City Council, Royal and Select Mas- ters ; past commander of Cortland Command- ery, Knights Templar; member of Syracuse Consistory ; of Mecca Temple, Mystic Shrine, of New York City, and has attained the thirty- second degree in Masonry. He is also a mem- ber of Cortland Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
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and of the fire department, of which he was chief engineer for two years, and he is at present treasurer and a member of Hitchcock Hose Company. Since its organization in 1881 he has been a member of the First Con- gregational Church, for many years one of the trustees, and at present treasurer of the society and superintendent of the Sunday school.
He married, January 19, 1888, Minna B. Stanton, of Georgetown, Madison county, New York, born October 25, 1864, daughter of Albert C. and Susan ( Brown ) Stanton. They have one daughter. Gladys E., born De- cember 28, 1892.
(The Van Valkenburg Line).
(I) Lambert Van Valkenburg, immigrant ancestor, came to New Netherlands from Hol- land. He married Annatje - In 1645 he bought a house and twenty-five morgens of land in Manhattan. In 1654 he was settled in Veverwyck, New York, and died before 1697. His widow died September 17. 1704. His heirs owned a house and lot in 1703 bounded west by the burying ground, north and east by the highway at what is now the corner of Green and Beaver streets. Children : Jocham, mentioned below : Lambert, baptized at New Amsterdam, July 21. 1650.
(II) Jocham, son of Lambert Van Valken- burg, was baptized at New Amsterdam, No- vember 4, 1646. He was living in Kinder- hook, New York, in 1720. He married ( first ) Eva Hendricks Vrooman, who died in 1705. and (second) February 23, 1713. Jannetje Mingaal, widow of Lambert Van Alsteyn. Children : Johannes, mentioned below : Hen- drick. Abraham, Bartholomew, Lambert, Isaac, Forn July 4. 1686; Jacobus. April 4, 1689 : Jocham, June 5, 1692 : Engeltie, June 5, 1695.
(III) Johannes, son of Jocham Van Val- kenburg, was born about 1680. He married Child, Hieronomus, mentioned be- low.
(IV) Hieronomus, son of Johannes Van Valkenburg, married Marytje Van Buren. Children: Ariantje, baptized June 17, 1739: Margaretta, baptized July 31. 1743: Peter, baptized June 12. 1748; Joachim ; Solomon.
(V) Solomon, son or nephew of Hierono- mus Van Valkenburg, was born about 1740. In 1790, according to the first federal census, he was living at Watervliet, Albany county.
New York, and had in his family two males over sixteen, two under sixteen, and six fe- males. Joachim, doubtless a brother, was also of that town and had a sou under sixteen and five females in his family, and one slave. According to this census we find Herman and Joseph Van Valkenburg in Schoharie: James, Lambert and Isaac in Catskill; Abraham and Tonannes in Hurleytown, Ulster county, and Levi at Granville.
(VI) Solomon (2), son of Solomon (1) Van Valkenburg, was born about 1765 at Watervliet, or near there, died June 20, 1845. Ilis wife Sarah died August 1, 1840. Chil- dren : Sally and Caroline, twins, born Novem- ber 20, 1788; Sally married Leonard Thomp- son (see Thompson III) : Charlotte, born February 13, 1789: James, October 29. 1704: Alanson, March 30, 1798 ; Alonzo G., October 23. 1799.
This is an old New Eng-
HOLDRIDGE land name found chiefly in Connecticut where it was prominently identified with the settlement of Stonington, Groton and other towns in that vicinity. The family does not seem to be a large one and is little found outside of that section. Owing to the lack of records it is impossible to trace this family to the original ancestor.
(J) The first one known was Elisha Hold- ridge, born December 30, 1783, probably in Groton, Connecticut, but his birth is not re- corded there. He was among the early settlers of Groton, Tompkins county, New York. Here he remained a short time, removing to Montrose, Pennsylvania, about 1808. In the spring of 1822 he purchased a farm in Spen- cer. Tioga county, New York, and in 1837 he moved to Genoa, Cayuga county. New York. where he remained until his death. March 28. 1852. He married. April 27. 1806. Mary Shoff, born April 23, 1785, died March 5. 1855. Children : Sally, Mary, Felix, Amos, Pamelia, Jessie, Austin. Samuel. Adeline. Will- iam. Samuel resided in Hillsdale, Michigan.
( Il ) Amos, second son of Elisha and Mary (Shoff ) Holdridge, was born July 13, 1813. in Montrose, Pennsylvania, died July 9, 180}, in Spencer, New York, where he was a farmer and captain in the state militia. Ile married. January 28. 1841. Wealthy Loring, born April 22, 1816. in Spencer, died there, March 18. 1903, daughter of William Loring, a native
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of Connecticut. Children : Edgar Parker and William Augustus, both mentioned below.
(III) Edgar Parker, elder son of Amos and Wealthy (Loring) Holdridge, was born November 17, 1841, in Spencer. His elemen- tary educational training was gained in the district school, and this was supplemented by a course at Owego Academy, from which he was graduated, and among his classmates were some who subsequently became the greatest statesmen and most successful business men of the state, among whom were United States Senator Thomas Platt, General Benjamin F. Tracy, General Isaac S. Catlin and John D. Rockefeller. After graduation Mr. Holdridge passed one year at a very small salary in pur- suit of a business training as salesman, and on attaining his majority he engaged in busi- ness on his own behalf, becoming a member of the hardware firm of Bean, Stanbrough & Holdridge at Candor, and was later a promin- ent clothing merchant of Owego. Before 1890 he removed to New York City and was shortly associated with the well known firm of Hoff- man Brothers, then among the most active and leading real estate brokers in the city, and through the efficiency of Mr. Holdridge some of the largest and most successful deals of this concern were effected. On January 7, 1898, the firm of Holdridge & Ward was formed, the junior member being Francis E. Ward, with headquarters at 4 Warren street. During the existence of this firm many im- portant real estate transfers were consum- mated. one of them being a four-million dol- lar deal in Fifth avenue property, when Dean E. A. Hoffman and the firm of Hoffman Brothers acquired new buildings in the vicin- ity of Eighteenth street. The firm of Hold- ridge & Ward was dissolved November I. 1902, and Mr. Holdridge immediately estab- lished the firm of Holdridge, Dennis & Pres- ton, including Warren E. Dennis and Louis B. Preston with Mr. Holdridge as president. After two years this firm was dissolved and Mr. Holdridge entered the field alone. For five years he made a specialty of selling in- vestments and speculative properties along the line of Broadway and Wall street, Fifth ave- nue and adjacent thoroughfares. During this period he sold for Henry Corn, the builder, some of the best investment property on Broadway and Fifth avenue, including several prominent corners, to the value of more than five million dollars. He sold among other
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