Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y. 1684-1890, Part 63

Author: Child, Hamilton, 1836- [from old catalog] comp; Horton, William H., [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., The Syracuse journal company, printers and binders
Number of Pages: 1384

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Henry Washburn, son of Samuel and Hannah ( Howard) Washburn, was born in Williams- town, Mass., in 1780. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Baxter ) Brooks. in 1802, by whom he had three sons and four daughters, of whom Henry, Jr., born in Lee, Oneida County, in 1808, came with his father to Ellisburgh in 1816, and located where George A. Washburn now lives. Henry, Jr., married Juline, daughter of Abner and Esther ( Clark ) Brooks, in 1834, by whom he had three sons and two danghters, namely: George A. and J. Stewart, of Ellisburgh; Caroline (Mrs. Cyrus Wood), of Sandy Creek; Betsey, who died in 1862, aged 17 years; and Henry (. George A. Washburn was born in 1835, and was reared upon a farm. He married Louisa F., daughter of Peter and Eliza (Skelton) Gilbert, in 1860, and they have had three sons and one daughter, viz .: Ferdinand, who died in infancy; Edward, who was born in 1862: Kittie: and Byron A. The children all reside with their parents. Mr. Washburn is a dairyman and farmer, and occupies the homestead.

James Converse, from Rupert, Vt., located in Ellisburgh, near the Wardwell settlement, about 1818. He married Polly Love, by whom he had two sons and 10 daughters, of whom Electa ( Mrs. Simeon Martin ), Lonisa (Mrs. David Warren , and W. Foster reside in Ellisburgh. The latter was born in 1839. and was reared upon a farm. He married Mary E., daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Bovee) Decker, and they have had children as follows: Anna Elveretta (Mrs. Fred R. Lee), Emily Esther, Willie A (deceased ). Eva L. (Mrs. Benjamin R. Woodruff), Lena Elizabeth, Endora (deceased), and Racine H. Mr. Converse is a farmer.

Benjamin Jackman, son of Sammuel and Sarah ( Merrill ) Jackman, was born in Massachin- setts in 1802, and in 1818 came to Jefferson County and engaged in farming. He married Sarah, daughter of Stephen and Patience (Buel) Post, in 1823, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. Daniel L., son of Benjamin, was born in 1843, and grew up upon a farm. In 1861 he enlisted in the late war and served in Co. H, 34th Regt. N. Y. Vols., and in Co. D, 13th N. Y. Cav., and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Sonth Mountain, and others, and was taken prisoner at Fisher's Hill. In 1863 he married Kate, daughter of Patrick and Mary ( Crotty) Colligan, and they have one son and two dangh-

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ters, viz .: Abi Sibyl, born in 1869; Timothy, born in 1873; and Eva May, born in 1882. Abi S. was educated at Adams Collegiate Institute, and early in life evinced ability in literary work. In 1885, at the age of 16 years, she published her first work, A Silver Ray, a book of nearly 300 pages. This volume was well received by the public, as was also her second effort, entitled A Golden Sunset, published in 1888.

William Rury was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1793. and in 1819 came to Ellisburgh and located where Frederick Rury now resides. He married Lavina, daughter of Daniel Cook, by whom he had four sons and five daughters, of whom three sons, John, Daniel L., and Fred- erick H., reside in this town. Mr. Rury died in 1880. His son John, born in 1823, was reared upon a farm and learned the coopers' trade. He married Miriam, daughterof Samuel F. and Zerah (Barney) MeNitt, of Clayton, September 8, 1847, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, viz .: Madison, who died in 1862. aged 12 years; Emma A. (Mrs. John M. Millard), of Ellisburgh; Ernest N., who died in 1871, aged seven years; and Frank, Mrs. Rury died in 1889. Mr. Rury resides in the village of Ellisburgh.

William Wardwell was born in England in 1604, and immigrated to America with the early Pilgrims, as we learn that he was a member of the First Congregational Church in Boston, organized in 1633. His son Urial, who settled in Bristol, R. I., in 1681, married Grace Gid- dings. Among their children was Joseph, the father of John Wardwell, who married Phebe, daughter of Samnel Howland, who was the son of Jabez, who was the son of John and Eliza- beth, daughter of Gov. John Carver, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. The children of John and Phebe Wardwell were John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Phebe, Susanna, Mary and Eliza- beth (twins), Samuel (a sea captain), Tabitha, Daniel, Allen, and Allen, 2d. Samuel, born in 1755, married Lydia Wardwell (his second consin) in 1777, and of their 12 children, Daniel was born in Bristol, R. I., in 1791; graduated from Brown University in 1811; in 1812 located in Rome, N. Y., where he studied law with Judge Hathaway, and with Gould & Sill, of Whites- boro; was admitted to the bar at Jefferson County Common Pleas in 1814; practiced in Rome until about 1820, when he removed to Jefferson County; was appointed side judge by Gover- nor Yates; elected member of Assembly in 1825, '26, and '27; elected member of Congress three successive terms, commencing in 1830; and was again chosen member of the legislature in 1837. He married Hetty, danghter of Newton and Abigail (Moxey) Mann, in 1815, and their children were Abby, who married Robert B. Doxtater, in 1836, and died in Rome, N. Y., in 1884; Henry, who was born in July, 1819: Newton M., of Adams; Julia D., who died in 1831; Samnel and William W., who reside in Rome; Charles H., who died in Mannsville, in 1859; John H., of Michigan; and Edward H., of New York city. Mrs. Wardwell died in 1858, and for his second wife Judge Wardwell married Laetitia W., daughter of Willard and Hannah (Wager) Smith, of Adams, in 1859, who now resides with W. W. Wardwell, of Rome. In poli- tics Judge Wardwell was a Jacksonian Democrat, and in all his political and business transactions was noted for his integrity. He became a resident of Rome about 1860, where he closed his long and well-spent life, at the home of his son, William W., in March, 1878, aged 87 years.

Samuel Wardwell, born in Ellisburgh in 1823, was educated at Union and Mexico acade- mies; studied law with A. Z. McCarty and Judge Calvin Skinner; was admitted to the bar in 1847; was engaged in practice at Pulaski for a number of years; about 1850 became cashier of the Hungerford National Bank of Adams; and in 1853 became cashier of the Fort Stanwix Bank, at Rome. In 1875 he organized the Bank of Rome, which in 1879 was reorganized as the Farmers National Bank of Rome, Mr. Wardwell serving as its cashier to the present time. He married Mary A., daughter of John B. and Mary (Enos) Stillman, in 1848, and they had five children. namely: Hetty M., Minnie E .. Daniel W., John S., and Charles E.

William W. Wardwell was born in Mannsville in 1834; elerked in his brother's store several years; in 1854 removed to Rome and engaged in the grocery business with H. L. Stillman, with whom he continued until about 1860, when he engaged in the hardware business with his brother Samuel, in which business he is now engaged. He married Elizabeth W., daughter of Willard and Hannah (Wager) Smith, in 1860. He is a thorough business man, and is identified with many of the manufacturing interests of Rome.

Sunuel Wardwell, Jr., son of Samnel and grandson of John, was born in Rhode Island in 1788. and located in Ellisburgh abont 1828. He married Hannah C. Monroe, in 1810, and they had four sons and three daughters, viz .: William M., who died in Mannsville in 1881; Han-

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nah C., who married Albert Taylor and died in 1838; Abbie M., who married E. O. Grenell, of Ellisburgh; Lydia, who married J. I. Steele and died in 1874; Samuel, of Ellisburgh; and Charles H. and Allen M., of Mannsville. Samuel Wardwell, son of Samuel, Jr., was born in Bristol, R. I., in 1819, and came to Mannsville with his father. He learned the tanners' and curriers' trade, at which he worked about 12 years, when he engaged in farming. He mar- ried, first, Betsey Wright, and their children were Charlotte, Mabel, Bertha, and Renben S. After the death of his first wife, in 1847, he married Cordelia N., daughter of Allen and Pal- myra (Smith) Remington, in 1849, by whom he has a daughter, Gertrude (Mrs. J. Saxe), of Mexico, and a son, Charles A. The latter married Lena E., daughter of Deloss and Harriet (Hudson) Bettinger, in 1875, and they have a daughter, Abbie M. Mr. Wardwell was ap- pointed postmaster at Mannsville in 1885, where he now resides. He is engaged in farming with his son Charles A.

David Smith, one of the pioneers of Ellisburgh, married, first, Charlotte Salisbury, and their children were Willard, Charlotte (Mrs. William Jones), Harriet (Mrs. Henry Wager), Priscilla, and Olivia (Mrs. Russell Jones). For his second wife Mr. Smith married Mrs. Eliz- abeth Salisbury, and their children were Mary (Mrs. Rev. Isaac Hunt), of Adams, and Clarissa (Mrs. Rev. Ward Hunt), also of Adams. Willard Smith married Hannah, daughter of Henry Wager, and their children were Henry, who died young; Laetitia, who married Daniel Ward- well in 1859; Charlotte W., who married O. E. Herrick; David, who died in Michigan in 1889; and Elizabeth, who married William W. Wardwell, of Rome, in 1860.

Charles Hollister came to Ellisburgh at an early day. He served as captain in the War of 1812, participated in the battle of Sackets Harbor, and was subsequently promoted to colonel. He married Pliny Lewis and reared a large family, most of whom settled in the West. The youngest son, Lewis E., born in 1845, went on the lakes at the early age of 14 years, and at the age of 25 was master of a merchant vessel. He married Ida F., daughter of Albert and Bet- sey (Snow) Fuller, in 1865, and they have two danghters, Alice A. and Edna L. Alice A. mar- ried Byron Bossinger, October 4, 1888. Mr. Hollister resides at Belleville.

Miss Marietta Holley, whose well-known nom de plume is " Josiah Allen's Wife," was born in the town of Ellisburgh, and still has her country home here, in the same place, although a fine new residence has taken the place of the little cottage into which her father and mother moved the day they were married. Miss Holley's home is in the midst of a beautiful country, between the two villages of Pierrepont Manor and Adams, and from the windows of her study and the pleasant verandas a fine view of Lake Ontario is obtained. Six generations of the Holley family have lived and died in this place-quite an unusual occurrence in an American family. Miss Holley's first book, My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's, was published in 1873. Since then she has published seven books, in order as follows: Samantha at the Centennial, My Wayward Pardner, Miss Richards's Boy, The Mormon Wife, an illustrated poem, Sweet Cicily, Samantha at Saratoga, and a book of poems. She is a very busy writer, and has sev- eral books now unfinished upon which she is at work. It is said that her work commands about the largest price of any American writer. The genius of this gifted writer, while it deals with all phases of life with a freedom and wise insight of sympathy that seems born of familiarity and experience, sprang and developed to its broad proportions remote from the re- alities her masterly pen so graphically delineates. And what a wonderful, all-embracing pen it is! instinct with strong sense, pregnant with kindly satire and tearful pathos, combined with a subtle, whimsical humor. It was in the peaceful, uneventful retirement of a country home, by the side of an invalid mother, that Marietta Holley, while yet a child, began her life work.

Benjamin Durfee, a native of Rhode Island, came to Ellisburgh about 1820, and engaged in farming. He married Sarah A., daughter of Abner and Phebe (Estes) MeCumber, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. One son, Abner M., born in 1824, spent his early hfe upon a farm, and at the age of 16 years commeneed to learn the blacksmiths' trade. He mar- ried Fidelia, daughter of Charles and Susan Scott Baker, in 1847, the result of this union being two sons and two daughters, viz .: Emma, who died at the age of two years; Catherine J .; Abner M., Jr., of Syracuse; and Charles, who resides with his father. Mr. Durfee's wife died in 1870, and for his second wife he married, in 1874, Alice B., daughter of John and Mary ('Thomson) Spicer, and widow of Bradford K. Hawes. His daughter Catharine J. married Nathan C. Shaver, who died in 1889. She has two children, Florence B. and Clarence B.

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Mr. Durfee has been trustee of Union Academy for more than 20 years. He is a blacksmithr and dealer in agricultural implements, and resides in Mannsville.

Amos Hudson, son of William and Ruth (Shumway) Hudson, was born in Oxford, Mass., in 1786, and in 1820 came to Ellisburgh and located on the place now occupied by Lucien F. Hudson. He had born to him five sons and two daughters, viz .: Lucien F., of Ellisburgh; Jndge Sanford A,, of Fargo, Dak .; Louisa, who died in 1845; Bijah and Elisha (twins), prac- ticing physicians, of Stockton, Cal .; Celia (deceased), who married Rev. Oscar F. Park; and Daniel F., who died in New York at the age of 20 years. Mr. Hudson engaged in the manu- facture of axes, scythes, and other edged tools, and died in 1830. His wife died in 1856. Lu- cien F. Hudson was born in 1810, and at the age of 12 years commenced work in the shop with his father. He soon became an expert scythe and axemaker. and after the death of his father was entirely competent to conduct the business. He married Adeline, daughter of Ezra and Polly (Frazier) Stearns, in 1835, who bore him four sons and three daughters, viz .: George S., Mary A., Ezra H., Alice (Mrs. H. E. Root), Louisa (Mrs. Fred Jaycox), and Fred E. Mr. Hudson was a member of a militia company for 20 years, and attained the rank of captain. He was called with his company to French Creek during the Patriot war. Though advanced in years, he retains to a remarkable degree the vigor of youth, and from "early morn till (lewy eve " the hammer of industry repcats the "anvil chorus" of 60 years ago. While his family has grown up in prosperity, he occupies the cheerful home of his youth, on Hudson street. George S. Hudson was born in 1835, and learned the cabinetmakers' trade. He is now engaged in the manufacture of furniture at Ellisburgh. In 1862 he married AliceJ., daugh- ter of Alfred Matteson, and they have two sons, William L., born in 1863, and Louis E., born in 1865, and an adopted daughter, Mary C., aged 19 years. Mary A. Hudson married James Colon, of Ellisburgh, in 1865, and their children are Celia A. and F. Lyell. Ezra H. Hudson, born in 1840, married Mary E., daughter of Benjamin F. and Sophronia C. (McKec) Wilds, in 1866, by whom he has had a son, Herbert H., who was born in 1869, and died May 1, 1888, and a daughter. Isadore Malvina, born in 1871. He is a blacksmith with his father. Lucien F. Hudson, Jr., born in 1846, is a painter by trade. He married Addie, daughter of John and Polly (Galley) Bassinger, in 1876, and they have a daughter, Ruby Louisa, born in 1877. Fred E. Hudson was born in 1853, and is a wagonmaker by trade. He married Maria, daugh- ter of James and Cynthia (Snow) Ramsdell. in 1871, and they have two sons, Sanford R., born in 1872, and Charles A., born in 1875.

Calvin Harrington, a native of Berlin, Rensselaer County, N. Y., located in Ellisburgh about 1820. He married 'ancy Arnold, by whom he had four sons and five daughters, viz .: Harvey, Adolphus, Deloss, Edwin, Julia A. (Mrs. Levi Goodenough), Louisa (Mrs. Alonzo Brown), of Lorraine, Alma (Mrs. Alvin Cook), of Port Ontario, Diana (Mrs. Milo McCune), of Ellisburgh, and Betsey (Mrs. Harmon). Calvin Harrington was drowned in the mouth of Sandy Creek. Deloss Harrington married Roxia, daughter of Joseph and Pearly Howard, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, viz .: Jerome J., Cordelia ( Mrs. Cyrus Gardner), of Sandy Creek, Henry C., of Ellisburgh, and J. Franklin, of Port Ontario. Jerome J. Harring- ton was born in 1836, was reared upon a farm, and for 22 years ran a threshing machine. He- married Betsey E., daughter of Simeon B. and Eleeta (Converse) Martin, in 1860, by whom he had a daughter, who died in 1872. He resides with his father on the homestead farm on road 93.

Demetrus Davis, son of John, was born in 1807, and when a young man came to Ellisburgh .. He married Caroline, daughter of John and Abigail (Paul) Clark, in 1829, and they had nine sons and two daughters. Demetrus died in 1883, and his wife in 1870. William U. Davis, his son, was born in 1830. He married Sarah S., danghter of Joseph and Mary (Wiles) McKee, in 1851, by whom he has two sons and a daughter, viz .: Foster L., born in 1852; Frank P., born in 1857; and Mary L. The latter married Fenn Bishop, in 1884, and they have a daughter, Leah Pearl, born in 1888. Frank P. married Julia, daughter of Gustavus H. and Clara Noble Johnson, in 1878. William U. has served his town as assessor. He is a cattle drover and farmer, and resides on road 120.

Aaron R. Eastman, son of Enoch and Sarah (Rising) Eastman, was born in Rupert, Vt., in 1799, and died in 1868. He married Eunice, daughter of Asa Woolson, in 1822, and about the same time located in Ellisburgh. Cyrenius F. Eastman, son of Aaron R., was born in 1824. When seven years of age his parents removed to Hannibal, Oswego County, where he was reared upon a farm, and learned the coopers' trade. He married Ann E., daughter of Milton

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and Margaret (Nelson) Wilson, in 1847, and they had a son, Legrand De Forest, born in 1853, who is now married and resides in Fulton, N. Y. His wife died in 1870, and the same year he married Marion M., daughter of Amos and Hannah (Dean) Wood. Mr. Eastman returned to Ellisburgh in 1882, and now occupies the A. E. Wood farm, at Woodville.

Samuel J. Andrus was born in Ellisburgh, August 5, 1823, and was reared upon a farm. He married, first, Elizabeth, danghter of Eli Farr, in 1850, and she died in 1858. For his see- ond wife he married Laverna Stillman, of Union Square; and for his third wife Marion B .. daughter of Eben and Sally (Bronson) Abbott, in 1861. Mr. Andrus has kept hotel in Can- den, N. Y., and Saginaw, Mich., and is now proprietor of the hotel at Pierrepont Manor.

Oren W. Graves, son of Joseph and Cynthia (Tousley) Graves, was born in Adams in 1811, where he was reared upon a farm. He came to Ellisburgh in 1823, and in 1840 married Irene. daughter of John and Catharine (Shaft) Cook, who bore him five sons and five daughters, viz .: Clark J .; De Etta E. (Mrs. Harris T. Perkins), of Ellisburgh; Amelia C. (Mrs. D. W. White), of Cape Vincent; Jennie E. (Mrs. William O. Lyman ), who had five children-Minnie, Arthur, Claude, Oscar E., and Jessie-and died in 1886; Oren W., Jr .; Emeline O. (Mrs. Edgar Fish). of Ellisburgh; Eveline (Mrs. Elias Spicer); Charles H., who married Carrie E., daughter of I. F. and Helen E. (Farr) Towsley, in 1883; Walter E., of Ellisburgh; and Fred A., of Adams Center. Walter E. Graves was born in 1858. He married, in 1880, Eva C., daughter of Abram and Elizabeth (Pitcher) Jewett, by whom he has a daughter, Irene Elizabeth, born in 1884. Mr. Graves is a farmer.

Ira Caster, with his wife, Chloe Loomis, came from Redfield, Oswego County, and located in Ellisburgh about 1823, on the farm on road 40 now occupied by G. Tousley. Of his four sons and five daughters, Charles H. was born February 19, 1816, and was reared upon a farm. He married Abbie H., daughter of Timothy and Anna (Chamberlain) Cornwell, in 1842, the union being blessed with two sons, Charles H., Jr., and Edwin I. Charles H., Jr., born in 1845, married Emeline A., daughter of Hiram and Ursula (Tremain) Buell, in 1867, by whom he had a daughter, Minnie, born in 1875. His wife died in 1881, and for his second wife he married Marion E., daughter of Jacob and Maria (Osborn) Ackley, in 1882. Edwin I. Caster was born in 1849. He married Sarah Jane Bemis, in 1870, and they have an adopted daughter. Charles H. Caster, Sr., died April 19, 1886. The Caster brothers own a saw and grist-mill and box factory, and are also farmers and reside at Wardwell.

John Decker located in Ellisburgh about 1823. He married Phebe Sturdevant, by whom he had four sons, viz .: William H., of Syracuse; Isaae W., of Ellisburgh; James, who died in Infaney; and John D., who was a soldier, and died in the service. Mr. Decker died in 1861. Isaac W. Deeker was born January 8, 1838, and spent his early life upon a farm. He enlisted in Co. K. 24th Regt. N. Y. Vols., and at the close of his term of service returned to Ellisburgh. He married Lodema, daughter af Stillman and Eliza (Boyt) Kibling, in 1865, and they have a son, Edward J., born in 1870. From 1866 to 1872 Mr. Deeker was proprietor of a meat mar- ket, and from 1872 to 1881 was a produce dealer. He is now commissioner of highways, is engaged in farming, and occupies the Kibling farm on road 108.

Roswell Kinney, son of Henry and Sarah (Gale) Kinney, was born in Rensselaer County in 1802, and was reared upon a farm. He chose the medical profession as his life work, grad- uated from Castleton (Vt.) Medical College in 1823, and in the spring of 1824 located in Mannsville. He married Abigail MI., daughter of Newton and Abigail (Moxey) Mann, in 1827, and three sons and three daughters were born to them, namely: Sidney R., who died in Rome, in 1861; Julia, who married George W. Bond, of Syracuse; H. Herbert, who married Sarah B. Shepard, and died in Mannsville in 1869; Sarah, who married E. R. King, of Troy; George W. G., who resides in Rome; and Mary, who died in infancy. George W. G. Kinney was born in Mannsville in 1836, was educated at the Jefferson County Institute, and located in Rome in 1856, where he engaged as clerk in Fort Stanwix Bank, remaining there several years. In 1867 he entered the firm of Lewis, Searles & Kinney, in the insurance, real estate, and banking business. but subsequently left that firm and engaged in the same business alone. In 1867 he married Jennie V. Barnard, widow of Charles Stokes, and they have had three children, namely: George, who died in infancy; S. Wardwell, born in 1873; and Lottie M., born in 1879. Mrs. Kinney has one daughter, Lizzie Barnard Stokes, by her first husband. Dr. Roswell Kinney was one of the first members and an active worker in the Congregational Church at Mannsville. He was kind and sympathetic in his nature, and lived an exemplary Christian life, dying at the

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home of his daughter, Mrs. G. W. Bond, May 2, 1874. Edward Herbert Kinney is engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York city.

Dr. Bezaleel Mann, an eminent physician of Attleboro, Mass., was a Revolutionary soldier. He had four sons, three of whom adopted their father's profession, and one, Dr. Herbert Mann, was a surgeon on board the privateer General Arnold, which was wrecked near Plymouth Harbor on Christmas day, 1778, when 100 men, among whom was Dr. Mann, perished by the cold, 66 of whom were buried in one grave, at Old Town, Mass. Dr. Mann was interred in the family burying-ground, and upon his tombstone was inscribed the following: " And now, Lord, God Almighty, just and true are all thy ways; but who can stand before thy cold ?" On- of the brothers, Newton Mann, located in Whitesboro in 1806, and engaged in mercantile pure suits, and was also interested in the manufacture of cotton goods with the late S. Newton Dex- ter. In 1825 Mr. Mann located in Mannsville and became the first postmaster of that village, which was named in his honor. He married Abigail Moxcey, in 1792, by whom he had a son and two daughters, viz .: H. B., born in 1793, who died in 1830; Hetty, who married Daniel Wardwell; and Abby, who married Dr. Roswell Kinney, a leading physician of Mannsville. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Mann enjoyed 60 years of wedded life, and are now " sleeping the centu- ries away." An elegant granite monument marks the resting place of the Wardwells, the Manns, and the Kinneys, at Mannsville. H. B. Mann married Julia Doolittle, of Whitesboro, who died at the home of her son, Dr. J. P. Mann, of New York city, in 1872, aged 80 years. Their children were Mehetable W. (Mrs. Littlejohn), Josiah M., John P., and George D. John P. Mann studied medicine with Dr. Roswell Kinney, and after graduating practiced with Dr. Kinney in this town and Adams for a few years, when he located in New York city as a spe- cialist in the treatment of deformities. He married Ann Furman, of Syracuse, and they have one daughter, Prestonia, who is a highly accomplished young lady. Dr. Mann has an exten- sive practice.

Jolın Wilds, son of John and Sarah (Babbitt) Wilds, was born in Norton, Mass. He mar- ried Lydia, daughter of John and Lydia (Bassett) Newcomb, who bore him three sons and four daughters. Mr. Wilds located in Ellisburgh in 1824. His son Benjamin F., who was born in 1803, was a shoemaker by trade. He married Sophronia C., daughter of Horace and Clarissa (King) McKee, in 1828, who bore him a son and four daughters, viz. : Horace M., Harriet (Mrs. Charles Hill), Pamelia (Mrs. T. G. Brewster), Mary E. (Mrs. E. H. Hudson), and Melvina (Mrs. Charles Hawley). Horace M. Wilds was educated at Union Academy and at the State Normal School, and subsequently taught school a number of years. He has served as justice of Sessions, justice of the peace, and town clerk. In 1868 he married Frances L., daughter on George and Tabethy (Martin) Chamberlain. He is now engaged in mercantile business if Ellisburgh.

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Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y. 1684-1890, Part 63

Author: Child, Hamilton, 1836- [from old catalog] comp; Horton, William H., [from old catalog] ed Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., The Syracuse journal company, printers and binders Number of Pages: 1384

Author: Child, Hamilton, 1836- [from old catalog] comp; Horton, William H., [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., The Syracuse journal company, printers and binders
Number of Pages: 1384