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During the Fifty-fourth Congress, Speaker Reed named Mr. Hooker chairman of the important Rivers and Har- bors Committee. His bill passed by big majorities by both houses of Congress, and over the President's veto won for him many warm compliments. In one of his appropriation bills during his term as chairman of this committee, was included a generous appropriation for the Dunkirk harbor with which most important improve- ments were made. In 1898, before he had completed his last term in Congress, Governor Black appointed him a justice of the Supreme Court for the Eighth Judicial District. This ended his political career, and upon the expiration of this term in 1913, he practiced law and en- gaged in business as a manufacturer of sand glass in Pennsylvania.
Most of Judge Hooker's time after his retirement from the bench was spent in Fredonia, where his genial nature and pleasing manner won all hearts. He was sympathetic and responsive to every reasonable appeal, and during the last few years of his life took deep interest in the affairs of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with Forest Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Fredonia. In 1899 Hamilton College conferred upon him the honorary de- gree LL. D.
Judge Hooker married, Sept. 11, 1884, Etta Elizabeth Abbey, who survives him, youngest daughter of Chaun- cey and Elizabeth (Chase) Abbey, her father one of Fredonia's strong business men of an earlier day, bank president and eminent citizen, who died in 1894. Eliza- beth (Chase) Abbey died March 28, 1855. Mrs. Hooker is a member of Benjamin Prescott Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of Trinity Episcopal Church. She is of the eighth generation of the Abbey family in America, descent being traced from John Ab- bey, who was of Salem, Mass., Jan. 2, 1 38. Judge and Mrs. Hooker were the parents of two children, born in Fredonia : Sherman Abbey Hooker, secretary of the Benjamin Franklin Institute, New York City; Florence Elizabeth, married Eben D. Moon, of Elkhart, Ind., and they are the parents of three sons: Warren DeWitt, Eben DeWitt, Jr., and David Brownell Moon.
Two tributes from the press of Western New York close this review of a valuable life. Buffalo "Times" (in part only ) :
Many years ago we were present in court when Judge Hooker sentenced to death a young man who had been convicted of murder. The magistrate showed more emotion than did the defendent. The carefully restrained but distinctly evident sorrow of the Judge, his pallor, his manifest sense of the tremendous and melancholy responsibility he was wielding left an im- pression which has never been effaced. It was a memorable example of human feeling in exercising the powers of justice, and was consonant with the breadth of vision Judge Hooker showed in afterward granting that unfortunate young man a new trial.
It seems to us that this incident is more typical of Justice Hooker than anything that could be conveyed in an editorial of the conventional kind.
Jamestown "Journal" (closing paragraph) :
And now, some years after the days of his activity, when he goes to his long rest after a strenuous life, when he has laid down the burdens which he courage- ously bore so many years, we pay tribute to his genius, and join with those who sorrow at his passing from the realm of the living to take his place in the silent chambers of the dead.
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CHAUNCEY ABBEY-A quarter of a century has elapsed since Chauncey Abbey walked Fredonia's streets, but his memory is still green and monuments to his memory are found on every hand. Nearly forty years prior to his passing he organized with others the Fre- donia Bank, a State institution, which later became the Fredonia National Bank, of which Chauncey Abbey was the able president during the last twelve years of his life. Beginning life on a farm, he was very successful as an agriculturist, and as the years passed he broadened and expanded until his activities touched nearly every de- partment of Chautauqua county life. His life was a successful and a useful one, for it was not given up to selfish ends er ignoble purposes. He prospered, but it was not at the expense of others, and his wealth was both rightly acquired and rightly used. Seventy-nine were the years of his life, and from the age of eight years he was a resident of Chautauqua county, and from arrival at legal age a landowner.
This surname is variously spelled, Abbe and Abbey being the commoner forms. The origin of the word as a surname is self-evident. the first to bear it taking ad- vantage of the nearness of his home to the abbey to allont that word as his surname. The family in England bore arm .: Gules, five fusils in fesse, between three scallop she'ls. Crest: On a wreath of three colors of the shield. gules and argent, an eagle's head erased or.
Chauncey Abbey traced his descent through six gen- erations of New England ancestors to John Abbey, who, tradition says, was of Norwich, Norfolkshire, England. John Abbey was admitted an inhabitant of Salem, Mass., Jan. 2. 1636, and allotted an acre of ground "for an house" and "three acres of planting ground." He had other lands granted him in Salem, and is mentioned in the Wer ham records in 1643; was a constable in 1660, and according to Savage was at Reading, Mass., in 1685. He died about 1600, aged not far from seventy-four years. His first wife, Mary Abbey, who died Sept. 9, 16-2, was the mother of Samuel Abbey, through whom Chauncey Abbey traced his descent.
Samuel Abbey was born about 1650, in Salem or Wen- ham. Mass, died in Windham, Conn., in March, 1607-08. He wa a landowner and surveyor of Wenham, lived in Salem Villar. bought and sold several tracts of land in E wey county, Mass., prior to Dec. 21, 1697, when he was adnited an inhabitant of Windham. Conn. Hc married, a: Windham, Mass,, Oct. 12, 1672, Mary Knowl- tin, who fervived him and married a second husband, \': ham Ma hell. D. cont is traced to Chauncey Ab- 1 : the woh Ebenezer Abbey, son of Samuel and Mary
L'egeyer Abbey was born in Salem Village, Mass., 1 ly 21. 16 22, dier Der. :. 17:8. He was of Norwich, atd Wirdham, Conn' and in 1725 was a mem- Har.t .: church. He i traced by his land fran . j . and may have lived at Mansfield, as he there refri d. 0 1 29, 170 ;. Mary, daughter of Jo hua Allen, . . : M: - Gold early wither They were the parents d'Ident, de cent being traced in this branch hr l sk allet child, Ebenezer Abbe ;.
born in Windham, Conn., 1 ' 5. 1-0 Hemarried Abigail, urname unknown, Fol 22 1;26 and they were the prest of even chil-
dren, descent being traced through the sixth child, John Abbey.
John Abbey was born in Windham, Conn., Aug. 23, 1743, died in Bellows Falls, Conn. He was a soldier of the Revolution, serving with the Connecticut Line. He married, April 27, 1708, Dorothy Bugbee, and they were the parents of David Abbey, the founder of the family in Chautauqua county, N. Y., and grandparents of Chauncey Abbey.
David Abbey was born at Bellows Falls, Conn., in 1789, died in Chautauqua county, N. Y., in 1876. He was a farmer all his life, and owned land in various places. He located in the town of Villenova (now Arkwright), Chautauqua county, N. Y., in 1823, and there resided many years. He married, in New England, Hannah Woods, born in Bennington, Vt., daughter of Nathan Woods, a Revolutionary soldier, and descendant of John Woods, born in England about 1610, one of the first set- tlers of Sudbury, Mass. David and Hannah ( Woods) Abbey were the parents of seven children: James Parker; Chauncey, mentioned below; Abial, Hannah, John, David, Jr., and a child who died young.
Chauncey Abbey, second son of David and Hannah (Woods) Abbey, was born in the town of Virgil, Cort- land county, N. Y., April 1, 1815, died in the village of Fredonia, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1894. He was eight years old when brought to Chautauqua county by his parents in 1823, and until reaching man's estate remained at the home farm in the now town of Ark- wright. He was educated in the district schools, and developed marked ability as a mathematician. In 1836 he left home and began life on his own farm, having become the owner of a choice tract of 194 acres. in the town of Arkwright, near the village of the same name. He gave particular attention to the improvement and cultivation of his farm, and in course of time brought it to the very highest condition of productiveness. He spe- cialized in stock-raising and dealing, and in addition to fertile fields, his farm was also noted for its fine stock. He easily grew into leadership among the farmers of his district, and that, in a community remarkable for its fine farms and prosperous farmers. His cattle dealing began when he was a young farmer anxious to increase his income through other means than by actual cultivation of the soil. It is related of him that after making some small ventures he determined to go in heavier and went to Ellicott to bid up the large herd of cattle Mr. Pren- dergast annually placed upon the market. He looked so young that Mr. Prendergast advised him not to buy, but be satisfied with a farmer's gains, and not take a cattle drover's risks. But the young man persisted and bought the entire herd, clearing over a thousand dollars in the transaction. Many times afterward he bought the Pren- dergast herd, but was never again burdened with the owner's good advice. For many years each farmer pro- duced a herd of cattle for the market, and there was hardly a farm in the county but Mr. Abbey sometime vi ited and usually did some business. He imported cattle from the West, principally to replenish Chau- tauomna dairies, and found markets for hi, cattle at home and abroadl.
So heavy were his transactions and so abundant was his capital that he became a purchaser of commercial
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paper and other securities, becoming practically the banker for entire townships, in which the highest form of security known was Chauncey Abbey's word. He became familiar with all forms of business, drew wills, settled estates, acted as guardian and safeguarded the investments of minors and others. He was literally con- sulted by hundreds in matters of deep importance to them, and the advice they sought was always freely given. Besides his own home farm at Arkwright, which he never sold, he owned and improved a farm in Ohio, and several valuable Chautauqua county tracts, for he was a firm believer in the future agricultural greatness of the county and in the value of Chautauqua lands as an investment.
While he was the best known financier in the county, it was not until 1856 that he formed regular banking connections. In that year, with Stephen M. Clements and others, he organized the Fredonia Bank under the State laws, and in 1865 reorganized and incorporated it under the newly enacted National banking laws as The First National Bank of Fredonia. He was a heavy investor in the stock of both banks, always a member of their boards of direction, and from 1882 until his death, in 1894, was president of The First National. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and in poli- tics a Republican.
Mr. Abbey married (first) Elizabeth Chase, who died March 28, 1855, aged thirty-eight years, daughter of Stephen Chase, of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, N. Y. They were the parents of four children: Hannah, died young ; Rubie Lavinia, a resident of Fredonia; Rosa E., married (first) Manly M. Sessions, (second) Herbert A. Peirce; Etta Elizabeth, widow of Judge Warren Brew- ster Hooker, whose sketch precedes this.
The rise of Chauncey Abbey from farmer boy to financier is well worth contemplation, and his character proves difficult to analyze. He was ambitious, but not to a degree unusual, and it is not easy to find the exact characteristic which won success. He was a keen ob- server of men. To the man struggling manfully with adversity his strong arm was outstretched, but drones and adventurers, wasters of fortunes and opportunities, and betrayers of trusts never successfully applied to him. He was a bold, energetic, self-reliant man, following more than most men the suggestions of his own judg- ment and conscience. He listened to others but decided for himself. He generously aided every public enter- prise to make men better and happier. He had the frankness and geniality that attached to him his busi- ness associates and neighbors. In a business career of more than sixty years his integrity was never questioned. He faithfully discharged every trust confided in him. He was a wise man from the lessons of life and the book of nature to him was ever open.
HARRY BENJAMIN HOPSON-The founder of the Hopson line of this record was Sergeant John Hop- son, the name appearing in early records as both Hopson and Hobson, variations persisting to the present. Ser- geant John Hopson was born in England in 1610, and it is believed that he came to America in the "Globe" in 1635, probably accompanying his father, John Hop- son, who settled at Rowley, Mass. Sergeant John Hop-
son located at Guilford in the Connecticut colony, and there he died July 3, 1701. He was three times married, his first wife, Sara, died Sept. 9, 1669; his second, whom he married Dec. 3 (or 9), 1672, Elizabeth, died in 1683, daughter of Edward Shipman, of Saybrook, Conn .; his third, Elizabeth Alling, daughter of John Alling, of New Haven, born Sept. 11, 1653. The children of his first marriage were: John, born March 16, 1666, and Francis, who died young; of his second: Elizabeth, born Jan. 27, 1674, married Comfort Starr; and Abi- gail, born Dec. 17, 1677, died young; of his third: Sam- uel, of whom further.
(II) Lieutenant Samuel Hopson, son of Sergeant John and Elizabeth (Alling) Hopson, was born in Guil- ford, Conn., Jan. 10, 1684, lived in that town all of his life, and died Dec. 21, 1771. He married (first) Jan. 20, 1709, Mary Fowler, born about 1681, died Oct. 17, 1717, daughter of Judge Abraham Fowler; (second) Ann Leete, daughter of Governor William Leete, of Guilford, Conn.
(III) Samuel (2) Hopson, son of Lieutenant Samuel (1) Hopson, was born in Guilford, Conn., Oct. 21, 1710, and died in Wallingford, Conn., May 3, 1789. He grew to manhood on the homestead in the northern end of the town, and in 1760 moved to Wallingford, where he engaged in agricultural operations for the remainder of his life. He married, in Guilford, about 1733, Mercy Collins, born in Guilford, Jan. 19, 1707, died in Walling- ford, Conn. Children: Clement; Linus, of whom fur- ther; Samuel, born July 29, 1738; Ashel, born April 12, 1743; Rue, born Aug. 12, 1745; Simeon, born Oct. 14, 1747; Alvanus, born April 9, 1752; and Avis.
(IV) Linus Hopson, son of Samuel (2) Hopson, was born about 1736, in Guilford. He was in the Colonial army during the Revolution, served at Boston, and rose to the rank of lieutenant. He was for a time a resi- dent of Wallingford, Conn., and later moved to Free- hold near Albany, N. Y. He married, about 1766, Mar- tha Shattuck, born in Middletown, Conn., April 15, 1746, died probably in Freehold, Albany county, N. Y., daughter of Timothy and Desire (Hall) Shattuck, granddaughter of Rev. Benjamin and Martha (Sher- man) Shattuck, and Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Curtis) Hall, of Wallingford, great-granddaughter of William and Susanna (Randall) Shattuck, of Woburn, Mass.,
and Joseph and Elizabeth (Winship) Sherman. (See Shattuck V). Children : Philo, of whom further ; Lyman, born May 30, 1769; Sherman, born June 19, 1772; Linus, born Oct. 20, 1777; and Jason, born May 19, 1781.
(V) Philo Hopson, son of Linus Hopson, was born in Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 16, 1767. He lived for a time after his marriage in the place of his birth, then moved to Chautauqua county, N. Y. From Chautau- qua county he went to Virginia, and there all trace of him was lost. He married, in Branford, Conn., Dec. II, 1791, Anna Norton, who died in Chautauqua county in 1809. (See Norton XVIII.). Children: Stephen, Linus, Lyman, Sarah, born in 1801, Harry, and Philo, Jr.
(VI) Lyman Hopson, son of Philo Hopson, was born in Wallingford, Conn., in 1799. He was a lad of ten years when the family moved to Chautauqua county, locating near Hartfield, and in this vicinity he became a land owner and farmer, his death occurring in 1853. He married, in 1823, Nancy Barnhardt, born in Som-
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erset county. Pa., in 1707, died in Hartfield, N. Y., in 1858. daughter of Peter and Molly (Boyer) Barnhardt. Children: Martha, born in August, 1824: Amy Pris- ci la, born Nov. 1. 1825: Eliza Ann, born in 1828; Nel- son. of whom further: John and Peter (twins), born in 1830.
(VII) Nelson Hopson, son of Lyman Hopson, was born in Hartfield, Chautauqua county, N .Y., June 27, 18:2, and died Oct. 5. 1900. one hundred years after his grandiather first came to Chautauqua county. He was a successful and substantial farmer, and both he and his wife were members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church of Mayville. Politically he was a Prohibitionist, and did active work for the party. He married. March 20. 1852, Marilla Fuller, born Dec. 12. 1828. died at Mayville, April 8, 1913. daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Fuller. Chil- dren. all born in Hartfield. N. Y .: Nancy Viola, born March 17. 1853; Newell Philo, born Feb. 18, 1855: Harry Benjamin, of whom further; and Jane, born Sept. 28, 1868.
(VIII) Harry Benjamin Hopson, son of Nelson Hop- son, was born in Hartfield, Chantanqua county, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1857. He attended the district school until his fourteenth year, when he entered the Fre- donia Normal School, where his sister Nancy Viola had graduated at an earlier date. The four children of Nelson and Marilla (Fuller) Hopson all attended the Fredonia Academy, and the daughters graduated from the Frelonia Normal School. It has been characteris- tic of the Hopson men to marry at an early age, and Harry B. Hopson was no exception. In 1870 he mar- ried Adelaide J. Gleason, oldest daughter of Charles and Lucy Ann ( Slocum) Gleason.
Mr. H pson engaged in the wholesale ice business : Mayville at about this time, and established one of .he ille-t and largest businesses of its kind on Chau- t . ua Inhe. building three different plants. all at the h 1 of the lake. This enterprise came to employ more men then alm -t any other concern, and the firm of H . n & Carlson, later known as the H. B. Hopson Ice Com; ny, has survived many other natural ice busi- : .. . i this region. In 1892 Mr. Hopson and his Er der pur ha ed the old Sweet farm, a large grape i'm 'wy miles rast of Westfield. in 1903 he became the Prendergast homestead, a grape farm of 1.0 terek, on the east side of the main road of West- lle o'ten delighted in telling his friends that r à s all boy he had driven by this beautiful home h:, father, and had resolved that at some time he id own this place. The beautiful old house is of pr .. ..! Jacobein architecture, and is situated on the air'e ci the road facing Lake Erie, approached t- 'gh an avenue of magnificent old maples. It is 1. ... ; Rowan Place, from the English name of the r ...; in a h tree. found on the grounds in front of the Iler" Mr. Hopson made his home until his tra"! in 1912.
Mr Hepien wa a staunch Democrat, and although he Id 1 . care for politics, be filled many offices of tree in the village of Mayville, then his home. He was a c . menicant of St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Wir world, and in the Masonic order was a member of lodge, chapter, commandery, and consistory. Ile was
highly esteemed not only in his own community, but throughout Chautauqua county and Western New York, where he was well known. He possessed a magnetic personality, which not only endeared him to his family and his many loyal friends, but cansed him to be highly regarded in a large circle of acquaintances. Aside from his business he was a man of many interests. He was passionately fond of music and the stage, and always felt himself fortunate to have lived in the days of Booth, Barrett, Mccullough, Clara Morris, and their contem- poraries. From his mother's family, the Fullers, he inherited a great love for fine horses, and preferred sit- ting behind his little Kentucky bred pacer than driv- ing an automobile. He enjoyed the reputation of being the most genial and affable man among his friends, in his clubs, and in fraternal organizations, but one of his strongest characteristics was his independence and his extreme aversion to all sham and pretense wherever and whenever it was met.
Mrs. Hopson, who survives him, was educated in the grammar and high schools of Mayville and afterward took a course in elocution. She was a member of the Episcopal church, and later adopted the Christian Sei- ence faith, now (1920) being first reader in the Chris- tian Science church in Westfield. She was a lady of culture and refinement, a lover of nature and art, and a member of Patterson Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution. Children of Harry Benjamin and Ade- laide J. (Gleason) Hopson, all born in Mayville: 1. Lucy Marilla, of whom further. 2. Sarah Rowena, born Aug. 22, 1884, educated in the public schools of West- field, Darlington Seminary, at West Chester, Pa., and the Philadelphia School of Design; she married John Calvin Powers, a business man of New York City, and they reside in East Orange, N. J .: they are the parents of one child, Mary Adelaide. 3. Maude Viola, born July 30, 1886, educated in Westfield schools, Vila Con- vent School, of Erie, and Painesville College for Women; lives at home. 4. Harold Sherman, born Oct. 26, 1892, educated in Westfield schools and the Col- lege of Technology, of Troy, N. Y. 5. Harry Benja- min, Jr., born Dec. 28, 1897, educated in public schools and St. John's Academy at Manlius, N. Y .; associated with Doubleday, Hill & Company, of Pittsburgh; mar- ried Margaret Belmont. 6. Charles Gleason, born May 29, 1900; attended Westfield schools, now a student in the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
(IX) Lucy Marilla Hopson was born March 2, 1882. She is a graduate of Mayville High School and Buffalo State Normal schools. She married Thomas W. Us- borne, who was born in Westfield, N. Y., April 21, 1881, son of William and Martha (Van Ness) Usborne. Mr. Usborne attended the Westfield schools, and after grad- nation from the high school entered the National Bank of Westfield in the capacity of clerk. He rose to the office of teller, and after twelve years resigned to accept the cashiership of the National Bank of North East. This responsible position he filled until 1912. He re- signed in this year because of the death of his father- in-law, and his appointment as executor and trustee of the estate of Mr. Hopson. Ile has faithfully adminis- tered this estate to the present time, to the complete satisfaction of those most intimately concerned, and has labored diligently in their interest. Mr. Usborne has
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given much time and study to the breeding of Guernsey cattle, and is first vice-president of the Guernsey Cattle Association of Western New York. He is active in many circles in Westfield, and is president of the Cham- ber of Commerce, where his progressive beliefs and ideas have resulted in benefit to his city, and vice-presi- dent of the Western New York Guernsey Cattle Club. He is a member of the Episcopal church. Mr. Usborne showed a special aptitude for music when quite young, and during his early school life it was with difficulty that he was not permitted from neglecting his studies to practice on various band instruments. During his later school period he took up the study of music in a serious way on his own account, devoting much time to the study of music, musicians and harmony, and later settled down to playing his favorite instrument, the slide trombone, which instrument he has played ever since, professionally and otherwise. Much to his re- gret his other duties do not permit of his devoting as much time to music as he would like. Mrs. Usborne is a member and ex-secretary of Patterson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Westfield, and is a charter member of the Ladies' Library Society of Westfield. She is interested in civic affairs and cur- rent events, inherits a talent for elocution from her mother, and is fond of genealogical research, having contributed valuable material to the family records.
(The Shattuck Line).
(I) William Shattuck was born in England, 1621, and died in Watertown, Mass., Aug. 14, 1672. He married, 1642, Susanne , who died in Watertown, Dec. II, I686.
(II) William (2) Shattuck, son of William (1) and Susanne Shattuck, was born in Watertown, Mass., in 1653, and died Oct. 19, 1732. He married. 1678, Susanna Randall, born in Watertown, Mass., died May 8, 1723, daughter of Stephen Randall.
(III) Rev. Benjamin Shattuck, son of William (2) and Susanna (Randall) Shattuck, was born in Water- town, Mass., July 30, 1687, died in Littletown. Conn. He graduated at Harvard, June 17, 1700. He engaged to teach grammar school and taught until 1715. He studied Divinity and was ordained, and became first minister of Littletown, Conn., Dec. 25, 1717. He mar- ried, 1709, Martha Sherman, born Sept. 1, 1689, in Wa- tertown, Mass., died in Littletown, Conn., daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Winship) Sherman. Joseph Sherman was a son of Captain John and Martha (Por- ter) Sherman, the latter named a daughter of Rodger and Grace (Colledge) Porter. Elizabeth (Winship, Sherman was a daughter of Edward Winship, of Cam- bridge.
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