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Mr. Fisher was united in marriage at the Hotel Gotham. June 28, 1913, with Ethel Breon Jones, dangh- ter of Louis Breon and Marietta (Carolin) Jones, of that city. They are the parents of one child, Robert, born March II, 1915.
DANIEL E. FISHER, son of Jerome Bonaparte and Julia E. ( Hatch) Fisher (q. v.), was born in Jamestown, March 1, 1884. He attended the Jamestown public schools, and while there was a member of the High School Lyceum, representing the school on debat- ing teams and interscholastic speaking contests. He played on three high school football teams, and was captain of the team in 1902. After leaving high school, he attended the Jamestown Business College, and then for several years worked in the oil fields of Ohio and Oklahoma. In 1910, he received a serious injury in the hip, returned to Jamestown, and following a protracted illness. died Sept. 13. 1917, at the Jones Hospital, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Jamestown, N. Y.
Daniel F. Fisher, to a marked degree, inherited his father's personal magnetism, generosity and ability to mix with men and make friends, and his untimely death was sincerely mourned.
CAPT. REUBEN FENTON FISHER is one of Jamestown's younger business men who have given a good account of themselves both as business men and : Quizen. He won his captain's commission during the World War, but since his return from the army has been reeim.mis ioned as captain in the United States Ofer" Pesare Corps, which gives him a living daim to the rank. Captain Fisher is a son of Judge
Jerome Bonaparte Fisher, whose passing in 1919 caused a genuine wave of sorrow to sweep over Chautauqua county, for Judge Fisher was one of the best known men of Chautauqua county and past grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States. A deep admirer of Governor Reuben E. Fenton, and in honor of his friend, he named his youngest son Reuben Fenton Fisher.
Renben Fenton Fisher was born in Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1888. He attended Jamestown public schools and Holbrooks Military Academy, finishing his courses at the latter school in 1908. He was a member of the football teams and rowed on the Chadakoin Boat Club crews against Chautauqua crews in 1905-06-07. He entered Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, whence he was graduated in the mechanical engineering department, class of 1911. In that year he entered the employ of the Art Metal Construction Company of Jamestown, resigning in 1916 to become associated with the Jamestown Shale Paving Brick Company. After a year with that company war broke out between the United States and Germany; Mr. Fisher applied for the first officers' training camp and was commissioned first lieutenant of the ordnance department in May, 1917, reporting for active duty in October, 1917, and in June, 1918, was commissioned captain in the United States Army. He was honorably discharged and mus- tered out of the United States service, March 10, 1919. He was recommissioned captain of the Officers' Re- serve Corps, United States Army, May 14, 1919, and now holds that commission (May, 1920).
After his return from service in March, 1919, Captain Fisher became general manager of the Monarch Re- fillable Fuse Company, of Jamestown, N. Y. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1916 and 1917 was a mem- ber of both the city and county Republican committees. He is a Master Mason of Mt. Moriah Lodge, a com- panion of Western Sun Chapter, and a sir knight of Jamestown Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a member of Jamestown Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Alpha Zeta and Chi Phi fraternities; Yale Engineering Society, Chadakoin Boat Club, Moon Brook Country Club, and a member of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mr. Fisher married, in Germantown, Pa., May 21, 1919, Helen B. Moore, daughter of Henry R. and Blanche W. ( Bartram) Moore. To Mr. and Mrs. Fisher has been horn one child, Sarah Moore, July 15, 1920.
MRS. SUSAN M. (CLELAND) ISBELL-The first Cleland in the town of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, N. Y., to appear upon the records as a land owner was John Cleland, Jr., who, in March, 1813, bought lot 53, township 4, range II, according to the survey of the Holland Company. This does not in- dicate the true date of the Cleland settlement in the town, however, as he had arrived there in March, 1810, and two of the Cleland brothers, Nathan and Oliver, came in the spring of 1811. Later, the entire family of John and Thankful (Faton) Cleland came from Otsego county, in the southern central part of New York State, and settled on now section 12, town of Charlotte. This John Cleland, Jr., was a son of John and Thankful
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(Eaton) Cleland, and a grandson of James Cleland, the American ancestor, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to New England in 1750. John Cleland, Jr., was the father of Byron Cleland, and the grandfather of Susan M. Cleland, now Mrs. Henry Isbell, who with her husband resides on their farm in Charlotte, the town to which more than a century ago her ancestors came to join with the forces of civ- ilization in wresting from the forest farms, homes, and communities. Clelands from the first bore well their part in this great work, and those representing the pioneers of a century ago bear equally well their part in twentieth century life.
(1) James (2) Cleland, the American ancestor, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, came to New England in 1750. He was the son of James (1) Cleland, a man of wealth and education in Edinburgh, and undoubtedly his son was given educational advantages in accordance with his father's position in the city. James (1) Cleland married a Miss Bruce, and at the time of the birth of their son James (2) they were residents of Edinburgh. After the coming of James (2) Cleland to this country in 1750, he located in Boston, Mass., and in that State passed the remainder of his life. He married Thankful Wilder, and they were the perents of seven children: Samuel, Thomas, James, a soldier of the Revolution; John, of further mention; Helen, Molly, and Hannah.
(II) John Cleland, son of James (2) and Thankful (Wilder) Cleland, was born in Massachusetts, Feb. 16, 1758, and lived in Plainfield, in that State; he was a soldier of the Revolution, serving two years, 1778- 1780, in the company commanded by Captain Thomas, of Colonel Milk's regiment. During his service he was orderly to General Putnam and saw considerable active service. He married, in 1780, and in 1807, with his wife and family of eight children, moved to New York State, locating first in Otsego county. In the spring of ISII two of his sons, Nathan and Oliver, made the long journey to Chautauqua county, where their brother John had preceded them in March, 1810, and being pleased with lands and conditions, made a favorable re- port, and in the fall of the same year John Cleland and his family found his sons in what is now the town of Charlotte. The long journey of 300 miles was made in wagons, eighteen days being consumed ere the desti- nation was reached. The homestead farm which they selected was a tract of 300 acres on lot 54, section 12, east of present Charlotte Center, where, with the aid of stalwart sons, a clearing was soon made and eventually the entire tract was brought under cultivation. The first settlement was made in Charlotte in 1809, and in March of the next year John Cleland, Jr., was on the ground, the forerunner of his family who came the next year-thus the claim, to be pioneers of the town, is fully substantiated.
John Cleland married, in East Windsor, Conn., April 27, 1780, Thankful Eaton, of an old Connecticut family, born April 12, 1757, died at the homestead in Charlotte, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1844, aged eighty- seven years. John Cleland died Feb. 16, 1827, aged sixty-nine years, and both were buried in the Pickett Cemetery, a plot of ground given to the neighborhood by John Pickett, off the original Pickett farm. Children of John and Thankful (Eaton) Cleland: Beriah, born
Nov. 15, 1781; Edna, born June 28, 1782; Samuel, born Sept. 1, 1784, died in infancy; James, born Sept. 26, 1786, died in infancy; Samuel (2), born May 14, 1788; Thankful, born April 22, 1790; John and James (2) (twins), born Feb. 19, 1792; Oliver, born Oct. 25, 1793; Nathan, born March 5, 1795; Martin, born April 10, 1797.
(III) John (2) Cleland, son of John (1) and Thank- ful (Eaton) Cleland, was born in Plainfield, Mass., Feb. 19, 1792, died in Charlotte, Chautauqua county, N. Y., and was buried in Pickett Cemetery. He was brought to New York State by his parents in 1807, re- maining with them in their sojourn in Herkimer and Otsego counties, until the spring of 1810, when he made the long journey through the scarcely settled country to Chautauqua county, finally settling in what is now Charlotte. He took up a tract of 120 acres on lot 54, and in the records is given as a purchaser of lot 53, township 4, range II, of the Holland Land Company's survey, in 1813; when the remainder of the family came in 1811, they too, settled in Charlotte, making a very important addition to the male population of the town. John (2) Cleland continued active in farm life until incapacitated by the weight of the years which he carried. The Cleland brothers, Samuel, John, Oliver, and Nathan, were men of great strength and endur- ance and also were men of strong character and upright life. All lived to be very old men, and at the time of publishing Young's "History of Chautauqua County." 1875, their ages were thus given : Samuel, eighty-seven; John, eighty-three; Oliver, eighty-one; Nathan, the youngest of the four, lived to be ninety-two. The line of Nathan Cleland is traced in this work in reviews of the lives of Dr. Charles S. Cleland, and of his brother, Owen M. Cleland.
John (2) Cleland married, April 12, 1812, Hannah Pickett, born Feb. 13, 1795, died Feb. 9, 1873. and was buried in Pickett Cemetery. She was of the Pickett family of Charlotte, the first settler in the town being John Pickett, who built the first log house in the town, and with his brother, Daniel Pickett, and Arva O. Austin, were the only families who passed the winter of 1809-10 in the town. John Pickett is credited with being third on the list of purchasers of land from the Holland Land Company, his purchase being made in 1800, township 4, range II, lot 62. He was unmarried at the time, but his brother Daniel came with his family in the fall of 1809, and settled upon lot 63. He was a brother-in-law of Arva Taylor, who also built a log cabin on lot 63, these early settlers all being related, John Cleland soon becoming one of the family, his wife, Hannah, a daughter of Daniel Pickett. The Picketts were from Columbia county, N. Y., later resi- dents of Chenango, whence they came to Chautauqua. John and Hannah (Pickett) Cleland were the parents of: Darius, born July 28, 1813; Augustus, born May 22, 1816; Emily, born Aug. 9, 1818; Marilla, born Nov. 28, 1820; John Wilder, born April 16, 1823; Hannah, born May 18, 1825; Byron, of further mention.
(IV) Byron Cleland, youngest son of John (2) and Hannah (Pickett) Cleland, was born at the homestead in the town of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1830, died at his home in the village of Cassa- daga, in the town of Stockton, April 9, 1916, an octo-
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genarian. He attended the district schools near his home in Charlotte, also the old Fredonia Academy. He was very well educated for those years. He followed school teaching for a number of years, beginning at the age of sixteen ; he taught several years in the South before the Civil War. After his marriage he returned to the old homestead to take care of his parents, which he did until their death, remaining on the farm as long as he could work a farm, then moved to Cassadaga, on a small farm, and there spent the remaining years of his long and useful life. He was a farmer all his life. He died at the age of eighty-six, and was buried in Cassadaga Cemetery, beside his first wife and two sons.
Byron Cleland married ( first) Sept. 22, 1856, Lu- cinda E. Hill, of Cherry Creek, Chautauqua county, N. Y., who died Aug. 22, 1894, and is buried in Cassadaga Cemetery. They were the parents of: I. Jennie V., born Feb. 14, 1858, died Aug. 14, 1890; she married, Oct. 31. 1880, Edgar Collor, of Lowell, Mich. 2-3-4. John. James, and Jason (triplets). born June 26, 1861, the last-named dying in infancy; John and James grew to manhood and both died Jan. 28. 1883. 5. Susan M., of further mention. Byron Cleland married (second) Mrs. Lucy Gree.
(V) Susan M. Cleland, youngest daughter of Byron Cleland and his first wife, Lucinda E. (Hill) Cleland, was born at the home of her parents in Charlotte, Chau- tauqua county, N. Y., June 25, 1865. She was educated in the public schools and followed teaching for a num- ber of years before her marriage, Dec. 1, 1886, to Erie P. Pickett, a farmer of Charlotte, who died Jan. 24, 1906, leaving two children: Fern, wife of Walter Lamkin, of Fredonia, N. Y .; Ralph Alanson, a farmer of the town of Stockton; he married Myrtle Bussing. Mrs. Susan MI. (Cleland) Pickett married (second) Henry Isbell. born Oct. 22, 1860, in Pittsburgh, Pa., a son of Richard and Ansty (McCarthy) Isbell, his father born in England. died in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools of Pittsburgh, and after leaving school entered the employ of the Buffalo Southwestern Railroad, continuing until 1 07, becoming a foreman of construction. In 1907, Mr. Isbell gave up his work with the railroad and came to Charlotte, where he purchased a farm of forty acres, which he cultivates and causes to produce abun- dantly. Mr. Isbell married (first) Anna Densen, who died at Cherry Creek, N. Y., leaving two children : Jennie, who married Bey Fox, a farmer; and Nellie, who married Walter B. Hall.
Mrs. Isbell is a member of the Baptist church and active in church work. Mr. Isbell is a Democrat in politics. a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of the Maccabees.
CHARLES MORRIS WAITE-Since the organiz- atr :. of the Conewango Valley National Bank, Jan. I, 1907. at Conewango Valley village, Mr. Waite has been t assistant ca-hier and cashier successively. Cone- wango Valley village lies on both sides of the line between Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, the bark building being on the Cattaraugus side, Mr. Warte' home on the Chautauqua side. Mr. Waite is of New England ancestry, his father, Galusha Miner Waite, being of Vermont birth and parentage. Galusha
M. Waite, a lumberman and farmer, settled in the town of Poland. Chautauqua county, N. Y. He married Jane Bunce, who was born in Cattaraugus county, N. Y.
Charles M. Waite, son of Galusha M. and Jane (Bunce) Waite, was born in the town of Poland, Chau- tauqua county, N. Y., March 5, 1855. He was educated in public schools, and the Chamberlain Institute at Randolph, N. Y., and began his business career imme- diately after graduation. He taught school for one term, then accepted a position as clerk in the store of Aldrich & Pratt, at Kennedy. About three years later Mr. Pratt withdrew and Mr. Waite and Orlando Sweet- land entered the firm with Mr. Aldrich, under the firm name of Aldrich, Sweetland & Waite. After a short time spent with this firm, Mr. Waite went into business for himself at Watts Flats, and later took a position as a salesman with B. F. Lounsberry. After a short period in the employ of Mr. Lounsberry, Mr. Waite entered the office of the Breed Furniture Company, of Jamestown, which position he left to enter the employ of the Chautauqua County National Bank as teller, where he remained for eight years. He then became associated with C. F. Munson, of Jamestown, a manu- facturer of wooden mantles, then, in partnership with H. A. Doring and M. E. Town, began the manufacture of mattresses. Two years later he returned to the bank, which in the meantime had become a trust com- pany, and later reorganized and known as the National Chautauqua County Bank, its present name. Here he remained for eight years, when, his health failing, he assumed charge of the farm of Charles M. Dow, in Randolph. About eighteen months later, in January, 1907, Mr. Waite accepted a position as assistant cashier with the Conewango Valley National Bank, which was then being reorganized. Upon the death of Horace Wells, cashier, Mr. Waite succeeded to that position, which position he now holds.
Mr. Waite married, Oct. 8, 1876, in Kennedy, Chautau- qua county, N. Y., Carrie Aldrich, daughter of George A. and Huldah S. ( Eaton) Aldrich. Mrs. Waite died in January, 1907, leaving two sons: George Burton, born in 1878, who married Elizabeth Bentley, and they reside in Jamestown, and have one child, a daughter, Carrie; and James Aldrich, born in 1880, who married Josephine Colenso, and they reside in Jamestown, and are the parents of two children, Alice and Robert.
GLENN D. CLARK-Among the successful and re- spected citizens of Ellicott township, Jamestown, Chautauqua county, N. Y., should be mentioned Glenn D. Clark, a member of one of the old families of the neighborhood, and a son of Cary and Laura H. (Cole) Clark, lifelong residents of the place. Cary Clark was apprenticed to a local shoemaker to learn the trade when but twelve years of age, and after five years of training engaged in the same line of business on his own account, following the same for many years.
Glenn D. Clark was horn Feb. 7, 1881, at Jamestown, and as a boy attended the public schools of the city. For a number of years Mr. Clark has been engaged in the plastering and brick laying business. He is well and favorably known to his fellow-citizens and enjoys an enviable reputation among them for his honesty and for the accommodating spirit and skill with which he
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discharges his duties, and his public-spirited interest in the community. He is a Republican in politics, and takes a keen and intelligent interest in the vital ques- tions and issues of the times. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and in religious belief is a Methodist, he and the members of his family attending the church of that denomination at James- town.
Glenn D. Clark married, Sept. 28, 1902, at Bemus Point, N. Y., Gladys Gates, born at Fluvanna, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1883, a daughter of Albert C. and Corinnie (Brown) Gates, of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of two children : Cecil G., born Aug. 9, 1903, at. Jamestown, N. Y .; and Lester F., born May 16, 1905, at Fluvanna.
HENRY C. DRAKE-Among the representative citizens of Fredonia must be numbered Henry C. Drake. During his residence in this town he has become closely and influentially identified with her leading interests, and no movement looking toward better things for Fredonia is without his generous support.
Henry C. Drake was born in Mayville, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1873, the son of the late Dexter M. and Helen (Kirk) Drake; the Drake family being Stockton pioneers, and the Kirk family settling in the town of Charlotte about the year 1816. His youth was spent in Sinclairville, where he attended the public school, and he later was graduated from Jamestown Business College. The five years following he was a reporter on the Jamestown "Journal," subsequently returning to Sinclairville, where he conducted the "Leader-Commercial" for three years, going thence to Fredonia to work on the "Censor." At this time he returned to his chosen profession of shorthand re- porting, and was appointed court stenographer for Chautauqua county in 1905, which position he still holds (1921). Mr. Drake has always extended his aid and cooperation to any cause or movement which in his judgment makes for progress in any department of the town's and county's life. He is not self-seeking or am- bitious for political honors, but he was thrice elected unopposed to the position of president of the village of Fredonia. He was a member of the school board for two terms. He also is justice of the peace of the town of Pomfret, having been elected to that office in 1902. During the World War he was chief clerk on the Draft Board No. I, of Chautauqua county. He is a past master of Forest Lodge, No. 166, Free and Ac- cepted Masons.
Mr. Drake married, Oct. 14, 1896, Ada F. Tate, of Fredonia, N. Y.
EDWIN R. HOPKINS, M. D .- Among the promi- nent men of Chautauqua county who have been identi- fied with the medical profession for a great number of years is Dr. Edwin R. Hopkins, who has accom- plished results which rebound greatly to his credit. He is one of those scholarly physicians whose deep research into the fields of medicine has peculiarly fitted him for the practice of his chosen career. That tribute of re- spect and admiration which is justly given to those men who have worked their way to positions of prominence
in the community is due him, and his ability is amply attested by the success he has achieved.
Ezra Hopkins, father of Dr. Edwin R. Hopkins, was a farmer late in life. He married Catherine Johnson, and they were the parents of nine children: Edwin R., mentioned below; Emily E., Franklin E., Josephine L., Alfred, Byron J., Ida M., wife of - Wolcate, of Sherman ; Grant S., and Katherine M.
Dr. Edwin R. Hopkins was born May 21, 1848, in Westfield, N. Y., the son of Ezra and Catherine (John- son) Hopkins. He attended the public schools in West- field and Westfield Academy. Choosing the medical profession, he entered the medical department of the University of Buffalo, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, class of 1877. After serving an interneship at the Buffalo General Hospital, he was appointed resident physician there for one year, and then came to Silver Creek, where he opened an office and has since been actively engaged in his pro- fession here, devoting much of his time to surgery and general practice. Dr. Hopkins stands high in his pro- fession in Chautauqua county, and his counsel in sur- gical and important medical matters is sought and his influence is always exerted for good. When he oper- ates it is for the benefit of the patient, it is not for his gratification nor for the fee. He has always had an instinctive love for his work, the good he could do his fellowmen, and he has never swerved from duty.
Professionally, Dr. Hopkins is a member of the Chautauqua County Medical Society, and fraternally, he affiliates with the Free and Accepted Masons. It is with the Republicans that he casts his vote, and no man has more at heart the welfare and true progress of the community. For a number of years Dr. Hopkins has been a constant, faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his activities and interest in good work knows no bounds.
REV. EDMUND J. O'CONNOR, S. T. B .- Father O'Connor came to Silver Creek as pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in 1912, being ap- pointed by Bishop Colton, and has won his way to the hearts of his people, and to the esteem of those who are familiar with the man and his work.
Rev. Edmund J. O'Connor was horn near Guelph, Ontario, Canada, there spending his youth and acquiring his early education in Guelph schools. He later entered St. Mary's College, at Montreal, Canada, and also was a student at Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. He next entered Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y., whence he was graduated in philosophy and science courses in 1902, receiving the degree B. A. The succeeding five years were spent in divinity study at North American Theological College in Rome, Italy, there being awarded the baccalaureate degree of Sacred Theology, and or- dained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church by Cardinal Respighi, in the Roman Basilica of St. John Lateran, May 25, 1907.
After ordination he returned to the United States, locating in Buffalo, N. Y., where he was assigned by Bishop Colton to the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Delaware avenue (the present site of the new St. Jo- seph's Cathedral), as assistant to Rev. James F. Mc-
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Gloin. After five years of faithful service there, he was appointed, May 5, 1912, by Bishop Colton, to the pas- torate of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, at Silver Creek. Chautauqua county, N. Y., because of his especial fitness to the post, a parish, whose congregation had been largely increased by the settlement in the com- munity of a large number of Sicilians.
SIMON JOSEPH KARIN-Among the prominent attorneys of Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, N. Y., where he has an office in the Lake Shore National Bank build- ing, should be mentioned Simon Joseph Karin, a native of the city of Buffalo, born Aug. 25, 1877, a son of Michael and Ann (Culligan) Karin. The elder Mr. Karin is a native of County Claire, Ireland, and his wife of Manchester, England. They both came to this coun- try when young people and were married at Dunkirk, where Mrs. Karin's people were residing. Shortly after their marriage they went to Buffalo, where they resided a number of years, and later they removed to Dun- kirk, where they are now residing. Mr. and Mrs. Karin are well known here and are members of the Roman Catholic church, and politically strong Demo- crats.
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