History of Cayuga County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 66

Author: Storke, Elliot G., 1811-1879. cn
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 762

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Mrs. Sanderlin died March 16th, 1531. She was a member of the Baptist Church in Elhridge, where she attended. Those who knew her remember how perfectly she exemplitied the traits of the lov- ing christian wife and mother.

On the 16th of May, 1835. Mr. Sunderlin married Margaret Glass. She is the daughter of James and Christina (lenkenson] Glass, of Onondaga county, N. Y. She was born on the 16th of June. 1:09. ller parents were natives of the North of Ireland. Her father enme to America in 1802, and in 180> he went back to his native country and married, and returned to the land of his adoption the same year. They were farmers and linen manufacturers in Ireland, bot in this country they followed farming, Margaret was the first child in a family of six, all of whom are now living, except the second, Joseph J., who was a prominent merchant in Syracuse, N. Y., and who died March 28th. 1878.

To Mr. Sunderlin, hy his last wife, wero born seven children. Their names are givon here in the order of their birth: Joseph G .. born June 9th, 1836; married February 5th, 1868, to Jane E. Whit- man, of Sennett; she died May 11th, 1877. Ruth A., born September 21st, 1837; married October 19th, 1859, to John S. Austin, of Sennett. James H., born March 16th, 1839; married November 10th, 1869, to Jennie E. DePuy, of Owasco; died November 8th, 1877. Charles B., horn May 16ith, 1841; married November 1st, 1876, to Mary E. Bowen, of Sennett. Frances L., horn June 26th, 1843; died August 25th, 1846. Elvin W., horn January 5th, 1848; married December 11th, 1872. to Josephine A. Meech, of the town of Brutus. Christina, born September 3d. 1849; married November 23d, 1870, to Stephen C. Cottle, of Sennett.

Mr. Sunderlin was for a number of years Assessor of his town, and held other offices of responsibility during his life, but was never an aspirant for public place. He was reticent in speech and reserved in manner; a man of few words and those were generally to the point. He was a man of quick apprehension and strong - convictions, e loving husband and father, a good neighbor and kind friend: above all, he was a bright example of an earnest und devoted christian. lle was a Baptist, and belonged to that church in Elbridge many years. In 1840, he united with the church in Sennett, and was a consistent and honored member thereof until he died. He gave liberally in aid of the ereetion of the stone church, which was finally replaced by the present handsome edifico, which he helped to build, giving generously of his means for that purpose.

Towards the close of his life. Mr. Sunderlin was painfully afflicted by a disease of the eyes-a cataract formed in each of them, and in the Fall of 1822 he submitted to an operation, performed by Dr. Ujulegraff, of Elmira, N. Y , understood to be one of the most skill feil surgeons in the State, but, unfortunately, it, destroyed his sight. He bore his great misfortune without complaining, cheer- filly and with resignation. During the closing years of his life. when this terrible infirmity confined him to his residence, his faith- ful, noble wife, and, indeed, his entire family without exception, were unremitting in their attention to him, and vied with one an- other in their efforts to mitigate his sufferings. For a few years before his death he loved and enjoyed greatly to visit around among his children, and it was when on a visit to his daughter. Mrs. Austin, that the death messenger came to him. On a Saturday night he was seized with a congestive chill, and died the following Thursday, March 18th, 1875, of typhoid pneumonia. His remains were brought home, and his funeral took place at the church in the village of Sennett. The sermon was preached by Rev. P. D Itoot, his beloved pastor. The text was from Ecclesiastes, 8th chapter. 8th verse. Perhaps the best eulogy upon him is the simple testimony of a neighbor, a life-long friend "lle was an honest

His widow, who is now passing her declining years with her de- voted son, Elvin. who lives in the old home, has been a Baptist siore 1830. She united with the church in Sennett with her husband. Her children (with the exception of Mrs. Austin, who had previously joined the church,) were all baptized at the same time and place by the Itev. William Duubar, and united with the church on the Sunday following.

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JACOB N. WALDRON.

MRS. ELIZABETH WALDRON.

JABOB N. WALDRON was born in the town of Sennett, Cay- uga County, N. Y., on the 4th day of September, 1828. He is a son of Edward and Clarissa [Mandeville] Waldron. His father, who was a farmer, was born in Haverstraw, Rockland county, N. Y., September 10th, 1800, and came to Onondaga county with his parents in 1810. He was a man possessed of sterling qualities of mind and heart. His principles were high and honorable and his habits correct and exemplary. He was the unrelenting foe of intemperance, and it is said of him that he could not be induced to sell a bushel of grain or a cord of wood to be used in the production of any kind of liquor that would intoxicate, thus illustrating that one's principles should be maintained not only by word but also by precept and example. He always manifested a strong in- terest in the cause of Christianity. His death occurred on the fourth of September, 1850. His wife was born in Or- ange county, N. Y., November 4th, 1800, and settled with her parents in Cayuga Co., in 1813. They were married the 17th of November, 1825, and settled in the town of Sennett, Cayuga County, about 1828. Mrs. Waldron, who is still liv- ing at the time of writing this sketch, is a pure-minded, large-hearted, Christian woman. They had seven children, na mely: John, Jacob N., Sarah, Charles, Clark, Cornelia, and Edward, all living. Jacob N. has followed farming all his life. He is the present Supervisor of his town. He has been elected to that office eight successive times. In politics Mr. Waldron is a staunch Republican and a firm supporter of the principles and objects of his party. He possesses, in a marked degree, those qualities that characterize the useful citizen, the good neighbor, the filial son and the kind and indulgent parent.

On the 15th of April, 1856, he was joined in marriage with Elizabeth Green, who was born in Jordan, Onondaga Co., N. Y., the 10th of June, 1835. She was a daughter of Salmon and Amy [Edmunds] Green, natives of Cheshire, Mass. Her father, who was an architect and builder by trade, was born June 21st, 1801, and died July 4th, 1850. He was possessed

of many of the virtues and few of the faults of mankind, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him for his moral worth, high character and strict integrity. Her mother was born January 25th, 1801, and died March 20th, 1874. They settled in Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1824. Mr. and Mrs. Green had seven children, as follows: Eli, Amy, Elizabeth, deceased, Sarah, Francis, deceased, Benton and Robert.

In the death of Elizabeth, which occurred on the 27th of January, 1877, Mr. Waldron lost a wife whose life was of au exceptionally pure and noble character. She was a faithful and loving companion, a woman of rare moral excellence and genuine Christian worth. She had clear and conscientious views of truth and duty, and an unswerving loyalty to that which she believed to be right. She was habitually reserved and undemonstrative in manner and was excelled by none in the performance of those little acts of kindness and affection that tend so fully to brighten and beautify the lives of those about us. When but sixteen years of age she joined the Presbyterian Church in Jordan and after her marriage and settlement in Sennett she united with the church there, and until she died was a loved and honored member thereof.

By charity and fidelity to all her obligations to others she strove to manifest her love to her God. Her piety was un- obtrusive, but it was the moving spring of all her actions. It made her humble and self-distrustful, but it was constant as a perennial spring in its flow, and as beautiful as the banks of a tropical stream in the flowers that adorn life's pathway. Her memory, fragrant and precious, is cherished by a fond family and a large circle of appreciative friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Waldron had seven children, (two of whom are dead, ) named in the order of their birth, as follows: Jacob, born June, 1858, died at the age of two years and three months; Frances, born 1860, died at the age of five years; Clara A., born February 28th, 1864; Mary, born October 10th, 1871; Elizabeth, born April 16th, 1873; Jolm B., born March 15th, 1875; Grace, born January 19th, 1877.

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EARLY SETTLEMENTS.

Arthur Stevenson came in from New Jersey, previous to the war of 1812, and settled in the village, where he kept a tavern. He afterwards moved to the farm owned by the heirs of Col. Pratt, of Mentz, two miles west of the village, where he died November Ist, 1821, aged seventy years. His son Arthur is living in Weedsport.

Rev. Edy Mason, from Cheshire, Massachu- setts, and Horace, Daniel and John Sunderlin, from Vermont, came in about 1812. Mason set- tled where his son Edwin now lives. He died on the homestead July 28th, 1864, aged seventy- seven years. Horace Sunderlin married Amos Bennett's daughter, and settled where his son Elvin now lives, and died there March 18, 1875, aged seventy-eight years. Daniel settled in the village, where he died February 13th, 1832, aged thirty-eight years. John, who was a young man, removed about forty years ago to Livings- ton county, where he died. Horace's children living are, Orson, in Syracuse; Joseph, Elvin, Charles, Ruth, wife of John Austin, and Kate, in Sennett ; Judith, wife of Alex. Everts, in Jordan ; and Christina, wife of Stephen Cottle, in Brutus.

Henry Polhemus, son of Cornelius, came in from New Jersey, about 1813, and settled in the village, on the place now owned by the heirs of Mason Healy, near where he kept a tavern several years. He removed to Auburn about 1827, and engaged in distilling and afterwards in mercan- tile business, and died there about 1871.

Cornelius Polhemus came in from New Jersey in 1815, and settled a mile south-east of Sennett, where Edward Munson now lives. He came in with his family, all of whom are dead. He died in the town February 8th, 1839, aged eighty-four years.

Dr. Curtis C. Cady came in from Hinsdale, Massachusetts, in 1815, and settled in the village, where his son Dr. C. C. Cady now lives. He married Philomelia, daughter of Ebenezer Enos, of Oxford, Chenango county, in 1815. He prac- ticed medicine till his death January 18th, 1862, aged sixty-nine years; was Supervisor of Sen- nett one year ; Member of Assembly in 1837; and County Superintendent of Poor some twenty years. His children living are Ebenezer E., a lawyer in Auburn ; Elizabeth Lucinda, widow of Grove Bradley, who is living in Lysander, with her daughter Ellen, wife of Enos Smith ; Mari-

etta, wife of Martin C. Remington, in Weeds- port ; and Dr. C. C. Cady, in Sennett.

Deacon John Warn came in from the eastern part of the State about 1815, and settled in the east part, three miles from Sennett, where Thos. Ogden, his son-in-law, now lives. He subse- quently removed to where Sheldon Turner, an- other son-in-law, now lives, about a mile east of Sennett, and died there October 20th, 1868, aged eighty-two years. His children living are, Sarah, wife of Sheldon Turner, Mrs. Thomas Ogden, and George, in Sennett ; Catharine, now Mrs. Hubbell, in Elbridge ; and John T. and Eliza- beth, in Michigan.

Hezekiah Webster, from Connecticut, also came in about 1815, and bought the place of Hezekiah Freeman, on which he settled, and died May 20th, 1835, aged sixty-nine years. Cicero, his son, is living in Brutus, and Goodwin, and another son, in Connecticut. His daughter, the widow of William Emerson, and her children, Emerson and Flora, are living on the homestead.

TOWN OFFICERS .- The first town meeting was held at the house of Ebenezer Phelps, April 3d, 1827, and the following named officers were elect- ed : Stephen Dwinell, Supervisor ; John Free- man, Clerk; Edward Root, Martin Bowen and Ezra Bingham, Assessors ; Ezra Leonard and Ebenezer Healy, Overseers of the Poor; Joseph Bacon, John Miller and Chester Treat, Commis- sioners of Common Schools ; Samuel Hunter, Elisha W. Sheldon and Amaziah Dibble, Trus- tees of Public Lands ; William G. Gifford, Ashbel Chapman and Peter Douglass, Commissioners of Highways ; John S. Twiss, Asa K. Buell and Sylvester Willard, Inspectors of Common Schools ; Hezekiah G. Webster, John Page, Jr., and Ezra Leonard, Constables; H. G. Webster, Collector.

The present officers (1879) are :

Supervisor-Jacob N. Waldron.

Clerk-Edmund D. Fellows.

Fustices-B. C. Leonard and Millard B. Co- burn.

Assessors-Charles S. Miller, Andrew J. Man- roe and Henry M. Shelters.

Commissioners of Highways-Ansel E. Hoyt, A. W. Bowen and Harry B. Hoyt.

Overseers of the Poor -- Milliard B. Coburn and Wm. Radcliff.

Inspectors of Election-Henry D. Crossman, Myron W. Sheldon and Elvin W. Sunderlin.

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TOWN OF SENNETT.

Constables-Clare Sheldon, David H. Wiggins, and George W. Delafountain.

Collector-Edgar J. Robinson.

Game Constable-T. H. Smith.

Excise Commissioners-F. Emerson Webster, John Relph and Lambert V. Gonsolus.

At an election held November 5th, 6th and 7th, 1827, the following votes were cast :

For William Thompson, for Senator 155

For George B. Throop, "

IO1

For Consider King, for Mem'r of Assembly_159 For Elijah Austin, -159 =

For Israel Phelps, =

_150

For Asa N. Burnham, .. -158

For Henry R. Brinkerhoof,

4 4 _IO'

For William H. Nobles,

-105

For Philo Sperry,

_106

For Gardner Kortright,

_IO7

For Edward Root, for Justice of the Peace. .159

For Chester Treat,

151

For Howard Soule,

.144

For Stephen Dwinell,

IIO

For Daniel Sennett,

- 103

For Benj. Horton,

IOI

For Lyman Doty,

.- 98

For William G. Gifford,

= __ 100

COUNTY POOR HOUSE .- The county poor house is located on a farm of ninety-six acres, all of which is under cultivation, about a mile and a quarter south-west of Sennett and three and one-fourth miles north-east of Auburn. It is built of brick, is four stories high with the basement, is one hundred feet front, with two wings, each seventy feet, and, with the farm, is valued at $20,000. It was built about twenty years ago. The stock on the farm consists of eleven cows, two heifers, two horses, six hogs and fifty fowls. The present number of inmates is eighty, which is the average number, and about equally divided as to sex. About thirty are capa- ble of manual labor, but not of earning a liveli- hood. The present keeper, B. K. Murphy, was appointed March Ist, 1878. The whole expense in and about the house, for the year ending No- vember Ist, 1877, including keeper's salary, pay of hired man and woman, physician, insurance on buildings, repairs of buildings, fences, &c., to- gether with all necessary food and clothing for inmates, was $7,741.99. The house is provided with a beautifully-shaded and well-kept lawn, and the whole external appearance of the premises presents an air of neatness.

SENNETT VILLAGE.

SENNETT is situated in the north part of the the town, on the New York Central Railroad, by which it is distant six miles from Auburn, and is surrounded by a splendid farming country. It contains two churches, (Baptist and Methodist Episcopal,) a district school, with two depart- ments and two teachers, (the building, which is of brick, was erected in 1871, and is an unusual- ly fine one for a village of its size,) one hotel, (kept by Loren Tyler, a grandson of Gideon Ty- ler, who settled in Auburn at an early day and gave to Tyler's spring in that locality its name, who bought the property of Samuel Green, April 5th, 1869,) a cheese factory, two blacksmith shops, (kept by Wm. Wright and James Drake,) two wagon shops, (kept by Sidney Wright and Matthew Relph,) three stores, and a population of about 200.

MERCHANTS. - The first merchants were Ru- fus Sheldon and Chauncey Lathrop, who opened a store in 1795, and also kept a distillery, and did business till 1817, when they dissolved, Sheldon going out. Lathrop continued alone about two years, when he admitted James White to part- nership, and after two or three years he sold out to White and went to Victory. White did busi- ness alone three or four years, and sold his goods to a man named Wright, who added to his stock of goods brought from Skaneateles, where he for- merly kept a store. Dr. Curtis C. Cady bought out Wright about 1829, and continued till 1833, when he sold to Winslow Kenyon, from Venice, who, in 1861, transferred his stock to his daugh- ter, Mrs. C. L. Sheldon, who still carries on the business. Jacob Bagley opened a store about 1837, and kept it four or five years. A man named Isham, from Auburn, opened a branch store about 1843, which he kept about two years. John Freeman opened a store about 1851, and kept it four or five years. He died here March Ioth, 1862, aged seventy-seven years. A man named Lilly, from Onondaga county, kept a store one year, in 1860. Wm. Bluff came in from England some twenty years ago, and in 1873, opened a store, which he still keeps. Lewis H. Bradley, who opened a store in 1872, removed to Auburn in 1875, and returned here in April, 1878. 'He was associated with Peter Hood dur- ing his first stay, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Bradley & Hood.

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Touty elrady

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DR. CURTISS C. CANY. SR., wasborn in Dalton, Massachusetts, on the 4th day of April, 1792. His parents moved to llinsdale, Massa- chusetts, when he was but seven years old. and that place was his heme until he was twenty-one. There he received his early educa- tion, and the knowledge of his profession. He settled in what was then Brutus. Low Sennett. Cayuga County, N. Y .. in 1815, where he practiced medicine until the time of his death. which occurred the 18th of January, 1:62. In 1815, he married Philomena Enos, & DA- tive of Oxford. Chenango county, N. Y. She was born April ith, 1799, and came to L'aynga County in 1812. She was a devoted Christ- ian wife and mother, and died the 2d of September, 18:5, rich in the esteem of all who knew her. The result of this union was five children, three daughters and two sous. namely : Elizabeth Lncin- de. Ebenezer Enos. now & prominent and successful attorney in Au- burn, Curtis C., Juliette, (died in 1860,) And Mariette Amelia.

Dr. Cady. Sr., duriog bi- life held many places of trust and re- sponsibility both by election and appointment. In 1828 he was ap- pointed Postmaster, which positien he held notil 1843. To 1833 he was appointed superintendent of the Poor. This office he held until 1842. "He was elected to the Assembly in 1:36, and was elected Sn- pervisor of hia tuwn for one year. He was President of the County Medical Society many years and when he died.

In politics he was a Democrat. Io religions sentiment he was & Bap- tist, and was a member of that Church when he lived in Hinsdale, but did not unite with the Church in Sennett. He was & liberal supporter of it. however. and contributed largely of his mean- to different de- nominations, in aid of the canse of Christ. fle was kind and lib- eral to the poor, of & tinly sympathetic nature, he made the joys and sorrows of his friends his own, receiving their confidence but to retain it. His cheerful countenance and disposition made bis presence in the sick room & source of comfort and consolation to his patients, and the kind remembrance in which his memory is held, shows that he not only enjoyed but was eminently worthy of the; name of friend.

Dr. Cady was & thorough business man. and during his life be ac- quired a large property, which, at his death, was left to bis children. Curtis C., the third child, was born in Sennett, on the 27th of September, 1819. His advantages for an education were such as wers afforded by the common schools of his town, and so thorough- ly did he improve his opportunities, that at the age of fliteen be was the teacher of a school in Victory. He taught school three winters. At the ag: of 17 he commenced the study of medicine. And from 1839 to 1842 he attended lectures at the Medical College of Fairfield, and Geneva, N. Y., three term- of sixteen weeks each. In 1841 be commenced the practice of medicine in big uative town, and in 1842 entered into co-partnership with his father, and they coutinned together in business eighteen years.

Dr. Cady, Jr., bas practiced medicine nearly forty years with a success rarely met with. His practice extends to the different towns bordering on his own and even into and beyond the city of

Auburn. He has now virtually retired from his profession, being neither desirous of, nor able to bear the hardships of & country practice.

As was the case with his father he never could refuse to respend to the calls of the poor aud needy. Always indulgent to those in bis debt, he never in a single instance tried to enforce the collec- tion of an account, and his books now show & balance in his favor amounting to many thousands of dollars of neconuts made during the last forty years. He las never been an aspirant for public of- fice, although on many occasions earnestly solicited to accept po- sitions of trust and as often and always firmly declining to do so. In politice he is a staunch Democrat, and a warm advocate of the principles of his party. In r-liglous sentiments he is a Baptist.

On the 29th of October, 1851. he was united in marriage with Sarah S., daughter of Calvin and Sophronia [ rnos ] Rumsey, of the town of Victory. Her parents were married in 1830. They had two.children, Sarah S., the oldest, was born May 2d. 1833. und Curtis C., of Port Byron, the second, was born the 2tith of April. 1835. Mrs. C'ady ie & conscientious, upright christian wife and mother. She joined the Baptist Church in Victory the year she was married, and by letter united with the Church in Sennett when she settled there.

Her father was born in ISI7, and died in 1848. April 29th. He was an exemplary Christian. a man nf sterling qualities of mind and heart, and one who dared todo right. With those who knew him. his word was as good as his bond. His father Joseph was among the earliest settlers in Victory, and was when he died the oldest man in the town. Mrs. Cady's mother was born In the town of Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., in 1811, and came to Victory with her pa- rents in 1817. Sue is the second child of a family of eleven children. Her father Roswell Enos, was born at Chenango Point now Blug- hamton. N. Y .. in 1781. He was married to Submit Newcomb, In 1807. He was a justice of the peace, supervisor and Member of As- sembly, and was mainly Instrumental in securing the division of the town of Cato and the formation of the towns of Ira. Conquest And Victory from the portion taken therefrom. He died in Wood- stock, Illinois, April 18th. 1859.

Mrs. Cady's mother, after the death of her hushand, married Mr. David A. Taylor, of Washington county, N. Y. They now reside in Montezuma, Cayuga County.

To Dr. And Mrs. Cady have been born four children, named in the order of their birth as follows : Ida L., born November 12tb. 1852. She was married ou the 13th of September. 1871. to Munroe J. Fisk of Huntington. Massachusetts. He was born the 31st ol July, 1848, and died in Kearney, Nebraska, Angust 28th. 1877. Ebenezer E., born February 27th. 1856, died August 8th. 1857. Jay B., horn De- cember 21st, 1×58, died December 5th, 1870. and Grace, born July 19th. died in infancy. Mr. And Mrs. Fisk had one child, little Gracie Myrtle, born October, 13th, 1575, and died July 24th, 1876. Her re- mains lie beside those of her father in the family lot in the Ceme- tery at Sennett.

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Ebert". Healy

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DEACON EBENEZER HEALY.

AN EARLY lineal ancestor of this family was William Healy, who emigrated from England among the early pilgrims (1630-35) and settled first at Roxbury, Mass., removing afterwards to Cambridge, of which Newton then formed a part. Little is preserved concern- ing him except that he was five times married.

One of his sons, Nathaniel Healy, was boru at Newton, Mass., in 1659, and was killed by the Indians in 1734, aged seventy-five years. His ninth child was John Healy, great-graudfather of Colonel Geo. Healy, late civil engineer bere, but now of Rochester, Minnesota. John Healy was born at Newton in 1698, and died there in 1783. aged eighty-five years. He had eleven children : John. the sixth child, had thirteen children, six sons and seveu daughters, of whom Ebenezer Healy was the fourth, and was born in Newton, Mass., February 3d, 1768, and died in Sennett, September 22d, 1857, aged nearly ninety years.

The latter came to this County in 1793, and with Deacon Morley bought the undivided west half of lot No. 8 in the old township of Aurelius, now Sennett, paying for the same one pound currency, or $2.50 per acre.

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History of Cayuga County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 66

Author: Storke, Elliot G., 1811-1879. cn Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason Number of Pages: 762

Author: Storke, Elliot G., 1811-1879. cn
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 762