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JUDSON SHEFFIELD WRIGHT-Said the "Journal of Education" under date of Dec. 9, 1920:
The fact that President Judson S. Wright, of Fal- coner, led the State campaign for legislative action culminating in the most remarkable achievement through salary increase, in the world's history. was to make him appreciated to the limit by all New York teachers. Incidentally Mr. Wright was on No- vember 2. elected to the State Assembly, and the Fal- coner district has asked him to take a leave of absence during the legislative session and then return to the Superintendency of the Sixth Supervisory District of Chautauqua County.
For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Wright has been identified with the educational life of the village of Falconer, Chautauqua county, and New York State. He has left an indelible impress upon his times, and he is widely and favorably known as one of the leading educators of New York, for his reputation is state-wide as the foregoing quotation shows, although Teachers' State Salary bill is but one of the measures he has ably championed in behalf of the teachers of his State.
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Mr. Wright is a grandson of Daniel Wright, an early settler of the town of Villenova, Chautauqua county, N. Y., in whose honor the village of Wrights Corners was named, and there he built the first hotel. Daniel Wright was succeeded in Villenova by his son, Daniel (2) Wright, a farmer and influential citizen. Daniel (2) Wright married Florence Sheffield, born in the town of Cherry Creek, and they were the parents of Judson Sheffield Wright, the principal character in this review.
Judson S. Wright was born in the town of Villenova, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1868. He attended the public school at Wrights Corners, advancing to Go- wanda High School, going thence to the State Normal School at Fredonia. N. Y., there taking a four years' classical course and graduating with honors, class of 1892. The following September, Mr. Wright began his long connection with the public schools of Falconer, and Chautauqua county. For ten years, 1892-1902, he was principal of Falconer public school, then for nine years was successively elected commissioner of the third of three supervisory districts into which the schools of the county were then divided. On Jan. 1, 1912, he was elected superintendent of the sixth supervisory district, the num- ber of districts into which the schools of the county are divided having doubled. The sixth district includes the villages of Falconer, Celoron, Sinclairville, Cassadaga, Stockton. Gerry, Bemus Point, and the district schools in the surrounding country. That responsible position Mr. Wright yet holds (1920), and in addition to the duties of his office has been active in village and county affairs, tto: only as an educator, but as a business man and citizen.
He was one of the organizers and one time president of the Field & Wright Furniture Company, of James- town. N. Y., and held similar relation to the Falconer Milling Company ; he was also one of the founders and is a member of the board of directors of the First Na- ti nal Bank of Falconer. For ten years he was president of the incorporated village of Falconer, and in 1920 was elected representative from the First Chautauqua district and is serving in the present Legislature (1921). In politics he is a Republican, and in religious connection affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal church of Fal- : :. his interest in that church active and helpful.
'ir. Wright came into State prominence through his interest in legislation affecting public schools and teach- er., he becoming a leader in the greatest legislative edu- cational campaign ever conducted in the State. He adt cated and energetically worked for the passage of the Teacher,' State Salary bill, the Public Moneys bill, th . Tra hers' Actuarial Retirement Fund bill, and the Normal Schools Reorganization bill. Ile was masterful in planning, alert in meeting emergencies, good natured ut.der fire, and skillful in managing political forces in the profession and in the Legislature. He was one time Ir Ment of the Chautauqua County Teachers' Associa- f. bld the same high office in the New York State A ociat: a of School Commissions, and in the Teach- (',' A ciation of New York, an association that rep- poort about 58,000 teachers throughout New York State It was at the annual meeting of the last named a nation, held in Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 22-24, 1920, that the teacher, of the State made a free-will offering of a magificent sum of money to President Wright in
appreciation of the winning battle he had fought for in their behalf; another honor was conferred upon Mr. Wright in April, 1920, in his appointment by Governor Smith to represent the State of New York at the Na- tional Educational Conference held at Washington, D. C. During the period of war between the United States and Germany, 1917-18, he was very active in committee work and participated in all Liberty Loan, Red Cross, United War Work and Community Chest drives. In fraternal relation he is affiliated with Chadakoin Lodge, ' Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Falconer.
Mr. Wright married, at Forestville, N. Y., June 22, 1903, Effa L. Manley, born there, daughter of Francis S. and Hannah ( Shearer) Manley, her father born at Plattsburg, her mother at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Mr. Manley came to Chautauqua county when a young man, and engaged in farming until his retirement. He mar- ried Hannah Shearer, in Forestville, and there they re- sided until death. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents of two daughters: Marjorie Florence, now a student at Oberlin College, Ohio; and Genevieve Elizabeth, a Fal- coner High School student, preparing for college.
The foregoing reveals Mr. Wright as a man thoroughly devoted to the cause of public education, a cause to which he has given all the mature years of his life. Falconer, Chautauqua county, and New York State schools and school teachers have felt the benefit of his intelligent interest and his devotion to practical ideas and ideals as regards schools and their relation to the public good, and for his manful stand in behalf of fair salaries for teachers.
BAILEY TABLE COMPANY-This is one of the oldest woodworking establishments in the city, having been founded at Silver Creek, N. Y., over forty years ago, when Beman P. Sold began the manufacture of mar- ble top tables, subsequently moving to Jamestown, and beginning the manufacture of the same product. Seven years later, however, the business was sold to a company which was formed under the name of Beman, Breed & Phillips, with the following directors and stockholders : J. M. Beman, Charles Breed and Hurley L. Phillips. In 1886 the name was changed to Morgan, Maddox & Com- pany, and later was again changed to Maddox, Bailey & Company. In 1898 the company was incorporated under the name of Bailey-Jones Company.
The company long ago discontinued the manufacture of marble top tables and began making all wood tables. The superior quality of their goods met with the approval of the trade, and the business grew to extensive propor- tions. Their product is of the highest grade, tables and dining room suites. The company has two large build- ings, one six-story and one five-story, besides kilns and lumber storage sheds. The plant is located at Winsor and Harrison streets, and is equipped with all the latest steam and electric equipment. It employs nearly 300 people. In 1904 the company name was again changed to the Bailey Table Company, and now has the following officers: President and treasurer, B. M. Bailey; vice- president, Milton Bailey; secretary, William S. Bailey ; assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, N. W. Bailey ; the first three of these are the company's directors. The company is a member of the Manufacturers' Association of Jamestown.
Frank D Barney.
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FRANK DURAND BARNEY-This ancient fam- ily was denominated from the town of Berney, near Wałlingham, county of Norfolk, where they were seated about the time of the Conquest and have ever since been of considerable note. In some ancient writings which belonged to the Priory of Byham :
(I) A Roger de Berney is found mentioned as Lord Berney ; also
(II) Sir Henry de Berney, Knight, his son, whose son, (III) Richard de Berney, by Catherine, daughter of Roger Gygney, Esq., had issue,
(IV) Richard de Berney, who lived at Berney, 1268, and was father of
(V) John de Berney, who resided chiefly in the city of Norwich, had his capital messuage there, called Berney's Inn, which was another of the same name that came into the family with the estates at Reedham by marriage very soon after this time, and has continued in it ever since. This John de Berney married Joan, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Witchingham, Esq. He left issue by her,
(VI) John de Berney, who resided at Witchingham. He was one of the citizens for Norwich in the Parliament held at York, 9 Edward III, also he, with Robert Clare, Esq., were the king's commissioners before an inquest was taken upon a writ of ad quod damnum concerning the fee of the castle of Norwich, 19 Edward III. In the follow- ing year he was elected one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of Norfolk, as he was again, two years afterwards, 22 Edward III, together with the said Robert Clare, Esq., and were allowed £14 Ios for thirty-four days' attendance. He also served in Parliament, 31 Ed- ward III, and for attending thirty-two days had £6 8s allowed for his expenses. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Bartholomew Batman, and his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Peter Bedingfield, Esq. He left two sons, Robert and Thomas.
(VII) Thomas de Berney, second son of the above mentioned John Berney de Witchingham, who was after- wards knighted, married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Caston, knight, of a very ancient family seated at Reedham, in Norfolk, at the time of the Con- queror's survey. By this marriage, besides several other estates and lordships, he had the manor of Reedham, whither he removed in the reign of Edward III from Witchingham, which continued the seat of his elder brother, Sir Robert, and his descendants, as above men- tioned, and Reedham became the seat of this branch of the family.
(VIII) John Berney de Reedham, his son and heir, married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Her- ringham, Knight, and died anno 1410, leaving issue three sons.
(IX) Thomas Berney de Reedham, the eldest son by Eva, daughter of John Clipsby, Esq., left issue :
(X) John Berney, of Reedham, who married Cath- arine, daughter of Osbert Munford, of Hockwold, whose son and heir,
(XI) John Berney de Reedham, married (first) a daughter of Richard Southwell, Esq., and afterwards a daughter of John Wentworth, of Suffolk, leaving issue:
(XII) John de Berney, of Reedham, whose first wife was Margaret, daughter of William Reade, of Beccles, in Suffolk, and his second wife, Alice, daughter of Rich-
ard Joyner, and relict of Paul Syndor, of Kent, Esq .; he died 1557, leaving issue.
(XIII) Henry Berney de Reedham, who, in the reign of Philip and Mary, removed the old seat of the family which stood near the church at Reedham, into the park there, in which he built a magnificent house and made very large gardens, anno 1577, calling it Park-hall in Reedham. He died 1584, having a numerous issue by Alice, his first wife, daughter of Roger Appleton, of Comb, in Essex, and Agnes, his second, who was daugh- ter of Walter Clarke, of Hadley, in Suffolk, England, and heiress of her brother Edward.
(XIV) Sir Thomas Berney de Reedham, Knight, his eldest son and heir, was high sheriff of Norfolk, 7 James I, 1609, and died 1616, leaving issue by Juliana, daughter of Sir Thomas Gaudy, of Redenhall, in Norfolk, Knight, one of the justices of the Common Pleas; several chil- dren.
(XV) Sir Richard Berney de Reedham, the third son of Sir Thomas, by his two elder brothers dying without issue became his heir, and was created a Baronet, May 5, 1620, the eighteenth of James I. He was high sheriff of Norfolk the twentieth of the same king, 1622, and died 1668. By Anne, daughter of Michael Smallpage, of Chi- chester in Sussex, Esq., besides four daughters he had five sons. He left all his estates at Reedham and elsewhere belonging to the family to his second son, Richard Berney de Reedham, Esq., who was twice high sheriff of Nor- folk, 14 Charles II, 1662, and also the twenty-second of the same king, 1670.
(XVI) Sir Thomas Berney, of Norwich, Bart, eldest son of Sir Richard, by Sarah, his second wife, daughter of Thomas Tyrrel, of Essex, Esq., Governor of Land- guard Fort on the restoration of Charles II, had several children.
(XVII) Sir Richard Berney, of Kirby Bedon, Bart, his chief son and heir, who married Dorothy, daughter of William Branthwayte, of Hethel, Esq., had a numer- ous issue. Sir Richard died 1706, and was succeeded in title and estate by his eldest son and heir.
(XVIII) Sir Richard Berney, of Kirby Bedon, who died unmarried 1710, at the age of twenty-two years, hy which means the title and estate descended to
(XIX) Sir Thomas Berney, of Kirby Bedon, his next brother, who married Elizabeth, only daughter and heir- ess of Simon Folkes, of Suffolk, Esq., by Elizabeth, his wife, who was daughter and one of the co-heiresses of Samuel Hanson, of the Island of Barbadoes, Esq., by whom a plantation called Hanson's in that island came into the family. He died 1742, and left issue only two sons, Hanson, his successor, and Richard; four other children died in their infancy.
(XX) Sir Hanson Kirby Bedon, the twentieth male heir in a lineal descent from Roger de Berney, succeeded his father, Sir Thomas, in title and estate.
The family bears arms as follows :
Arms-Quarterly, first, per pale azure and gules, a cross engrailed ermine; second, gules, a chevron argent, between three eagles displayed of the second; fourth, argent, on a canton gules a cross or. In the honor chiefpoint an inescutcheon argent, charged with the hands of Nestor.
Crest-A plume of six ostrich feathers, alternately azure and gules.
Motto-Nil temere neque timore.
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Branches made their homes in other parts of England, and Edward Barney, of Bradenham, Bucks county, Eng- land. in his will dated 1043. makes a bequest to his son Jacob "if he is living at the time of my death and come over to England." This son Jacob was, from all indi- cations, the ancestor of the first Barneys of America, and came from Swansea, Wales, to Salem, Mass., about 1630. He resided in that town, where he was a tailor, was made freeman, May 14, 1034, and was representative to the General Court in 1635-38-47-53.
(I) Jacob Barney, his eldest son, became a Baptist minister, founded churches at Charlestown and Swansea, Mass .. and was among the founders of the First Baptist Church of Boston in 1668. He moved from Salem, Mass., and resided in Bristol (now Rhode Island), and Reho- both, Mass., where his will was made July 13, 1692, and proved Feb. 20, of the following year. He was twice married, first to Hannah Johnson, and second to Ann Witt.
(II) Joseph Barney, son of the second marriage of Jacob (2) Barney, was born in Salem, March 9. 1673, resided for a time in Swansea, and later in Rehoboth, where he died Feb. 5, 1731. He was a lieutenant in the militia. He married Constance Davis, and had eight children, the second Daniel.
(III) Daniel Barney, born in 1697, married Alice (or Freelove) Wheaton, daughter of Ephraim Wheaton, and granddaughter of Elder Robert Wheaton, and had chil- dren, the second, Constant.
( IV) Constant Barney, born in 1731, married Hannah, surname unknown, and moved from Rehoboth, Mass., to Arlington, Vt. He served in the American army in the Revolutionary War.
(\') Daniel Barney, born June 17, 1766, married Polly Aylsworth, horn Sept. 7, 1770, daughter of Abel and Freelove ( Matteson ) Aylsworth. Abel Aylsworth was "an Ensign in Seth Warner's Regiment, and went to Quebec in 1776 with General Montgomery." Children of Daniel and Polly ( Aylsworth) Barney : Ruth, born Sept. 20, 1790; Abel, born Feb. 4. 1792; Sophia, born Oct. 24, 1793: Betsey, born Sept. 24, 1795; Judiah AyIsworth, of whom further : Asa Cromwell, born March 24, 1799; Roswell A., born March 4, 1801 ; Benjamin F., horn Jan. 9. 1803: Ann, horn Aug. 25, 1804: Arza S., horn Aug. 25, 1806: Norman W., born May 14. 1808; Polly, horn Aug. 16, 1813.
(VI) Judiah A; Isworth Barney was born in Vermont, Sept. 12. 1707. He married, March 8, 1831, Philura Cuni- mings, born Nov. 20, 1806. Children : Charles, born Jan. 8. 1832: Daniel, of whom further; Asa Cromwell, born Sept. 26, 1835 : Eliza Ann, born Aug. 10, 1845.
(VII) Daniel Barney, father of Frank Durand Bar- ney, was born in Summer Hill, Cayuga county, N. Y., Aug 23, 1833. He attended the district school and later ar companied his parent- to Chautauqua county. It is in- to time to note that Daniel Barney cut wood for twenty- for rent a cord at Elm Flats, now Hartfield. Subse- quently he went West to Minnesota, where he bought a farm. which later became the property of his son. Later, in 1993, he caine Eat and settled in Chautauqua county. He married, March 12, 1862, Mariett Lucinda Durand, born !farch 30, 1830. daughter of Nathan and Ursula (Gri wold) Durand, her mother a daughter of William Gri wold, a tavern keeper at Sheridan, Chautauqua
county, in the picturesque days of the stage coach, and who fought in the War of 1812. William Griswold mar- ried Zylpha Bush, born June 22, 1790, who bore him ten children, as follows: Ursula, born May 25, 1810, mar- ried Nathan Durand; William B., born April 28, 1812; Juliet C., born Oct. 12, 1814; Albinus A., born April 23, 1818; Dewitt C., born March 2, 1821; Otho E., born Nov. 3, 1823; Lewis M., born Dec. 20, 1825; Malvina, born June 20, 1828; Garafilia, born Sept. 8, 1830; and Merritt W., born May 12, 1835. Nathan and Ursula (Griswold) Durand were the parents of three children : Juliett Clorinda, born July 2, 1835, married Edwin Her- rick, and had three children, Dora, Roy and Edwin ; Franklin Wesley, born July 22, 1837, died in 1844; Mari- ett Lucinda, married Daniel Barney, and to them was born one child, Franklin Durand, of whom further.
In 1856, Daniel Barney went to Mankato, Minn., where he spent six years preempting land, after which he re- turned East and married. In 1863, with his wife, he again went to Minnesota, and there lived until 1883. In this latter year they came East and took up their resi- dence again on the Durand homestead, where the re- mainder of their lives were spent. The Durand home- stead in Chautauqua county came into the possession of the family through the Holland Land Company, and the original deeds to the property are now in the possession of Frank Durand Barney, of Westfield. He also holds the original deed and land of the Barney homestead in Minnesota, the document signed by Abraham Lincoln, on March 25, 1862, in behalf of the United States Govern- ment. The family of Durand traces to Dr. John Durand, who married in Stratford, Conn., Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bryan, and great-granddaughter of Alexander Bryan. He came to Derby, Conn., about 1685, his resi- dence being near Edward Wooster's at Derby village. He had a son, Joseph, born Dec. 20, 1709, died 1792, who married, in 1734, Ann Tomlinson. They had a son, Isaac, born Aug. 14, 1745, died in Stratford in 1825. He fought in the Revolution, being listed in the militia from Derby, Conn. He married, and his wife, Sarah, died April 27, 1827, aged eighty years. Isaac Durand was the father of Fisk Durand, grandfather of Mariett Lu- cinda Durand, who married Daniel Barney. Fisk Durand was born in old Milford, Conn., in 1766, and died in Westfield, N. Y., in 1836. He was on the pension roll of Chautauqua county in 1831 for the service of musi- cian. He was the father of Nathan Durand, born in Connecticut, an early pioneer and surveyor of Chautau- qua county, where, in Westfield, he died in 1839. He married, as previously stated, Ursula Griswold. The Durand family has borne arms as follows : Gules-A lion rampant or, in the dexter paw a cutlass argent hilted of the second. Crest-A yew tree proper.
(VIII) Frank Durand Barney, son of Daniel and Mariett Lucinda (Durand) Barney, was born at Vernon Center, Blue Earth county, Minn., May 14, 1860. His early education was obtained in the West, where he re- mained until he was sixteen years of age, and in 1883 he came to Westfield, N. Y., entering the Westfield Acad- emy. After graduation from the Academy he studied engineering for a short time in Cornell University, sub- sequently taking a post-graduate course in Westfield Academy, and then entered Clark & Perrin Commercial College of Buffalo. His active life began as manager
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of the farm of 200 acres at Westfield, belonging to his grandfather, Nathan Durand, which he has since oper- ated along general farming and dairying lines, with a considerable acreage devoted to grape growing. He also manages a farm in Minnesota, which had been owned by his late father, and is now owned by himself and mother, and on its 300 acres he conducts general farming and stock raising. During this time, in addition to his agri- cultural work, Mr. Barney also taught in the schools of Westfield for a number of years.
Mr. Barney has been prominent in social and fraternal circles, and is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 219, Free and Accepted Masons, of Westfield; Westfield Chapter, No. 239, Royal Arch Masons, of Mayville; Jamestown Council, Royal and Select Masters; and Dunkirk Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Dunkirk. His political stand is independent, and he is a member of the Univer- salist church. Mr. Barney is numbered among the most successful farmers of Chautauqua county, has a wide acquaintance in the district, and is held in high regard for qualities of responsible citizenship.
JESSE HENRY SMITH, an enterprising and suc- cessful agriculturist of Panama, Chautauqua county, N. Y., and one of the public-spirited residents of that town, is a descendant of one of the first settlers of that county, and therefore is worthy of mention in a work of this description.
Jesse Smith, grandfather of Jesse H. Smith, and the early settler above mentioned, was born in Raymond, N. H., March 19, 1792, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Dolloff) Smith. In early life, Jesse Smith came to Jamestown, N. Y., accepted the position of teacher in the village school, which he acceptably filled, and took an active part in the affairs of the village. Later he removed to Panama, N. Y., and established a select school called the Academy in a building situated where the Union Cemetery is now located. After several very successful years of teaching, he retired and moved to Riceville, Pa., where he purchased an extensive farm and also erected a grist mill, conducting the latter successfully for many years. In later life, he returned to Panama, N. Y., and purchased property, upon which he erected two store buildings, which he rented advantageously, and he was very influential in village affairs up to the time of his death. During his residence in Jamestown, Mr. Smith married Emily Dix, who accompanied her parents to that town from the State of Vermont. Twelve children were born of this marriage, six of whom grew to years of manhood and womanhood, namely: Gilbert, Clement, Henry Dix, Helen, Jennie, Alice. All are now deceased, and Jesse H. Smith, son of Henry D. Smith, is the only descendant now living in Chautauqua county.
Henry Dix Smith, father of Jesse H. Smith, was born in Poland, N. Y., July 22, 1830. He received a good education in the schools of Panama and Jamestown, N. Y., and after completing his studies he acted for a time as agent for stone pumps. After the removal of his father to Riceville, Pa., he became interested in the grocery business and conducted a store in Pleasantville, Pa., for a number of years, then moved to Jamestown, N. Y., where he conducted a grocery store in partner- ship with another man, continuing in that line of work until his death, June, 1877, the business being settled by
his widow Mary (Nelson) Smith, whom he met during his residence in Pleasantville, Pa., where she was acting in the capacity of school teacher. They were married in Eagle, Wyoming county, N. Y., July 25, 1875, and their only child, Jesse Henry, of further mention, was born during their residence in Jamestown, N. Y. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Smith and her child went to live with her mother in Bliss, N. Y., and for three years she taught in a school in that vicinity. At the ex- piration of that period of time, she became the wife of Eaton Smith, of Panama, N. Y., a cousin of her first husband, and a son of Benjamin and Eunice (Dix) Smith, who were among the first settlers of Panama, coming on horseback from Vermont, the mother carrying her baby, Emeline, in her arms. Mrs. Smith by her sec- ond marriage became the mother of one child, Helen Gail, born in Panama, Aug. 31, 1882. Eaton Smith died September, 1901, and in April, 1911, Mrs. Smith became the wife of Joseph G. Hill, of St. Cloud, Fla. For ten years prior to that event, Mrs. Smith made her home with her son, Jesse H. Smith, in Panama.
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