History of Herkimer county, New York, Part 72

Author: Hardin, George Anson, 1832-1900, ed; Willard, F. H. (Frank Hallett), b. 1852, joint ed
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1028


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Worden, Jefferson, Russia, was born in Remsen, Oneida county, March 23, 1838. His father was Isaac, a son of John Worden, who was for many years a resident of Oneida county, afterwards coming to Russia. His wife was Rebecca Clyde, a native of New England, by whom he had five sons. Mr. Worden died about 1848. and his wife died in 1862, at the age of 102. Isaac Worden was born in Oneida county, and there married Asia Nichols, a native of that county. They had eleven children. Mr. Worden was a farmer and lumberman. His wife died about 1840 and he married Desire Clough, by whom he had one child. Mr. Worden died in 1877, and his second wife in 1887 Subject came to Russia at the age of twenty-one. In 1859 he married Lavina Farley, a native of Prospect, born in 1843. They had six sons and six daugh- ters. Mr. Worden is a farmer and lumberman. He has always been a Democrat.


Wheeler. IIenry H., Winfield, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of West Winfield, is one of the firmu of C. D & H. H. Wheeler, proprietors of the Unadilla Valley stock farm. He was for some time a member of the board of education of this town. He was born at Leonardsville, December 29, 1857, and settled in West Winfield, about 1870. He married Julia Tyler, and they have four children : Harry D., Louise W., Stuart T. and Agnes Il. Wheeler. Henry II. is a son of Jolm O. Wheeler, the cashier of this bank, and for many years of the bank at Leonardsville. He married Rebecca, a daughter of Dennis llardin, who for many years was supervisor of Brookfield, Madison county. He was also a prominent banker and politician, having been member of Assembly from his distriet.


Williams, Stillman, Winfield, dairy farmer of Winfield, was born November 23, 1830. lle is a son of Anthony Williams, a native of Rhode Island, born April 15, 1799, who came to this town with his father, Festus Williams, who was one of the first settlers of Columbia, near Miller's Mills. His father was John, a Bap- tist minister of the Revolution, and chaplain under General Washington. Stillman Williams married, 1860, Lydia King, and they have eight children living: Jane, Nellie, Mary, Hortence, Alberta, Ada, Stillman, jr., and Henry Williams,


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Wheeler, Charles D., Winfield, was born in Leonardsville, Madison county, April 18, 1859, and settled in Winfield in 1880. He was supervisor of Winfield in 1887. He is vice-president of the First National Bank of West Winfield, and is the senior member of the firm of C. D. & H. H. Wheeler of the Unadilla Valley Stock Farm. He married, December 2, 1879, Fanny A. Spencer, and they have two sons : Henry Hill and Frederick Spencer. Charles D. is a son of John O. Wheeler, the cashier of First National Bank of West Winfield, and he is a son of Prentiss Wheeler. Charles D. Wheeler was postmaster of West Winfield from 188] to 1884. He is a member of Winfield Lodge 581, F. & A. M., Richfield Springs Chapter 222, R. A. M., Utica Commandery K. T., No. 3, and the Syracuse Consistory. He was for some years editor and proprietor of the West Winfield News. At the age of fifteen he en- tered the West Winfield Academy and remained two years. In 1875 he entered the Grammar School at Clinton, and graduated in the class of 1877. His father, John O. Wheeler, present cashier of the First National Bank of West Winfield, was for several years cashier of the First National Bank at Leonardsville, Madison county. His mother was Rebecca E. Hardin, daughter of Dennis Hardin, a prominent banker and politician formerly of Brookfield, Madison county, N. Y.


Wadsworth, Joel, Winfield, was born in New Hartford, Oneida county, November 5, 1800. He was a son of Timothy, a native of Connecticut, one of the first settlers of Oneida county ; who when he came to this locality found but two or three small houses. He settled in the eastern part of the town of New Hartford, where he died November 15, 1847. Lydia, his wife, died June 11, 1848. Joel Wadsworth settled in Winfield about 1833 and has lived in this town ever since. He has been strictly a temperance man all this time. He belongs to the First M. E. Church of West Winfield. His father had six sons and six daughters. They were all members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. There are but three of them living : Joel, Nancy, and Maria. Mr. Wadsworth attends the M. E. church, having been a member since 1825, and is a very active worker. Joel Wadsworth married first, Sarah Goodier, who died January 22, 1861. She was the mother of four children : Hester Ann, who married Albert Crumb; George H., who married Henrietta Stout; Emily H., who married Alvin Day, and Lizzie H., who married Dr. Orrin Wilcox. He married second, Roxey (Beals) Dunham, who died March 6, 1883. His third wife was Lucretia Peck, the widow of Alexander Dewey. She was married to Mr. Wadsworth April 17, 1884.


Wood, Palmer M., Herkimer, was born in the town of German Flats, Jannary 18, 1839, in which vicinity his ancestors located early in the century, originally coming from New England. Mr. Wood was educated in the schools of this vicinity and those of Columbia and Warren. He followed farming until 1880, having purchased 155 acres of land in the spring of 1860. In 1868 he married Jennie M. Ward. a daugh- ter of Artemas Ward, and has a family of four daughters and two sons. Mr. Wood has been identified with political matters in a marked degree, being the accredited manager of Warner Miller's campaign. In 1879 he was elected Herkimer county clerk, which office he held for six years. In 1881 he was chairman of the Republican county committee, holding this position until 1887, and in 1878 was chairman of


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the Board of Supervisors. Mr. Wood is a Mason and identified with other local and benevolent institutions. He is largely interested in real estate in Herkimer and also at Kettle Falls, Washington, and is largely engaged in the coal and wood traffic here.


Lovenheim, I. N., Little Falls, conducts a variety establishment in the village of Lit- tle Falls. IIi, stock consists of dry goods, crockery, fancy goods, honse furnishings, etc., and a good trade is enjoyed and several assistants are employed. The business was inaugurated in 1888. The senior member of the firm (which consists of I. N. Lovenheim & Brother), is in Europe at the present writing. Ilis house enjoys a first class reputation for liberal dealing with the public of Herkimer county.


Hurlbut, George II., Newport, was born in the town of Norway, November 1, 1826, a son of William H. and Chloe (Hull) Hurlbut. She was a native of Newport and a daughter of Joseph Hull. She was born January 1. 1800, and died November 13, 1870. William H. Hurlbut eame to Newport at about twenty years of age, but re- turned to Norway and remained till 1867. He died in Newport in 1887 in his ninety- fourth year. He had three children, William D., George H. and IIorace L., all married. The grandfather and grandmother were Presbyterians, the former being associate judge of Herkimer county. William H. was a son of Daniel and Hannah (Cole) Hurl- but, who came from Connecticut and settled in Salisbury. George II. married Harriet O. Scott in September, 1852, and they have one daughter, Clara B. Mrs. Ilurlbut died September 12, 1866, and Mr. Hurlbut married second, Mary L. Scott, on June 12, 1868. They have two sons, George E. and larry II. The subject of this sketch is a merchant, also a member of Newport Lodge No. 155. of which he acted as secretary for nineteen years. He was also junior warden. He is a Republican and postmaster of Newport under Garfield and llarrison. He has held the offices of supervisor, town clerk, president and trustee of the village several years. He was a member of the Board of Education five years, and a member of the Republican county committee in 1891.


Zoller, Jacob. Little Falls, was born in Minden, Montgomery county, N. Y. He es- tablished himself in business over forty years ago in the produce and provision lines in Montgomery county. He was one of the first who commenced to lime eggs, in which he has been engaged since his entrance into the business. Mr. Zoller is now located on East Mill street, where he has extensive warehouses and facilities. He conducts a wholesale cheese, egg, butter and pork packing business.


Spall, Jacob, Russia, was born in Germany, August 17. 1840, a son of George Spall, a native of Germany, born 1810. The wife of George was Mary Spall, by whom he had five children. He came to the United States in 1884 and settled in Trenton, Oneida county. Here he remained two years and then went to Russia and settled on the farm now owned by Jacob. Here he remained until his death in 1882. The first wife of George Spall died in 1867, and his second wife in 1887. He was sixteen years of age when he came with his parents to America. In 1867 he married Lana Smeary, hy whom he had six children : Jolin, George, Henry, Jacob, Fred and Willie, all of whom are living. Mr. Spall has two hundred acres of land and keeps a large dairy. In politics he is a Republican.


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Snell, Joseph L., Ohio, was born in Rensselaer county, near Troy, of 1827. Ilis father was Robert Snell jr., a native of Massachusetts, who came when a young man to Rensselaer county, and there married Maria Mykell, a native of Troy, and had five children. Mr. Snell was a millwright by trade. In 1843 he settled on the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch, and there lived and died. He was a Democrat and a Mason, and was commissioner of highways three years. His death occurred September 8, 1872, and that of his wife February 20, 1867. Robert Snell, grandfather of the subject, was in the war of 1812, and his great-grandfather was in the Revolu- tionary war. Joseph L. Snell was reared and educated in the city of Troy. At the age of sixteen he came to Ohio. October 14, 1849, he married Lana A. De Long of Washington county, who bore him three children : Mary E., Harriet M., and Ruth A. March 30, 1858, Mrs. Snell died, and he married Violette Pooler, of Russia, and had by her one child, Ella E. Mr. Snell is a farmer, and also works at the carpenter trade. He is a Democrat and has been highway commissioner one term.


Thorp, John J., Litchfield, proprietor of the Cedarville Hotel, was born in Rural Grove, Montgomery county, September 26, 1848, and settled in Danube in 1859. He is a son of; Prof. Joshua Thorp, who spent most of his life in teaching. He was for some time principal of the academy at Onondaga Valley, N. Y., and also of the High School at Watertown. Ile was a very successful teacher and lecturer, and was in the war of the Rebellion. Ile was a son of Ebenezer Deacon Thorp, one of the pioneer settlers of Root, Montgomery county. John J. Thorp married Ella Young, of German Flats, and they have four children living : Benjamin F., Raymond J., Mabel J., and Ethel Thorp. Professor Joshua Thorp married Miss Catharine Shull the daughter of Jacob Shull of Daunhe, Herkimer county, New York. She was the mother of John J. and Louisa A. Thorp.


Meagher, John, of Little Falls, is a native of Ireland. He was born in 1835 and came to America in 1846. He learned the trade of tanner in Boston. In 1853 he went into business in Boston, which he gave up during the crisis of 1860. He then went west and took a position in Rockford, III. In 1875 he moved to Chi- cago, becoming superintendent for Ingle Brothers. Subsequently he was super- intendent for Gray, Clark & Co. for five years. After filling other responsible posi- tions he became superintendent for J. S. Barnett in 1888, and has done much toward attaining the high name the leather of this factory possesses. In 1853 Mr. Meagher married Mary Slattery and they have six children hving, two sons and four daugh- ters. Both sons work in the tannery with their father, Thomas F. having charge of the up stairs.


Senior, Frank, Little Falls, is a native of that village. He was born in the year 1862. IIis father was of English descent and was a co-partner of Titus Sheard in the house of Senior & Sheard, manufacturers. Frank Senior was educated in the schools of this village and in 1876 commenced working for Mr. Sheard at three shillings per day. He worthily upheld the reputation of his house and after successively passing through all departments, was through merit admitted to a partnership in the Titus Sheard com- pany, when but twenty-one years of age, of which he is now treasurer. Mr. Senior is


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identified with local social, political and benevolent institutions such as Elks, Royal Arcanum, fire and police commissioners, etc., and is an honorary member of the fire department. He married Elizabeth Herbert of Franklin county and has two children.


Smith, John H., Little Falls, was born in England, coming to this country when but four years old, with his parents. They located at Sandy Hill, Washington county. Here John secured his educational advantages and learned the paper-making trade. In 1852 he went to California where he was signally successful returning in 1800 to Little Falls and establishing a shoddy mill. In 1864 he commenced the manufacture of knit stockings; in 1864 he moved his plant to Watertown; in 1868 he sold the Watertown mill and returned to Little Falls, and in 1887 built his present splendid plant on Moss island, which site he purchased. He employs fifty-five hands manufac- turing wool extracts aud shoddy and has two sons both assisting him in the manage- ment of the enterprise. Ile married a daughter of Col. Leonard Boyer of Little Falls and has four children living.


()'Rourk & Hurley, dealers in drugs, oils, paints, etc., Little Falls, commenced busi- ness in April, 1892. Mr. John Ilurley is a native of Little Falls and has always been in the drug line. Ile graduated from the Albany College of Pharmacy in 1885 and is a member of the New York State Pharmaceutical Society. He is a Republican in pol- ities and treasurer of the Republican club. At the present age of thirty-one he has by his own industry and ability advanced himself to his present prosperous condition. His wife is a sister of Mr. O'Rourke, the senior member of the firmn, who is also a young man, and a member of the fire department and the Republican party. He was book- keeper for Lintner & Babcock for ten years prior to the formation of the present part- nership.


Frateschi, Paola, German Flats, is a native of Italy, and has been in this country twenty years. Ile has been very successful in business, and owns one of the finest blocks in Ilion. In 1875 he married Mary Dellaca, and they have one child.


Ingraham, Fernando C., Salisbury, was born in Mayfield, Montgomery county, April 23, 1811. He learned the trade of harness-making early in life with his father, and when eighteen years of age left home and established a shop for himself at Union Mills. This he conducted until ISGI, when he bought the Empire House at Salisbury Centre, which he has since owned and run. He married Angeline North of Montgom- ery county, and they have eight children, six of whom survive. Mrs. Ingraham died a year ago. He has served as deputy sheriff, justice of the peace, etc.


Ward, Hiram, Stark, was born on the farm where he now resides, March 30, 1826, a son of John A. and Catherine (Shaffer) Ward; his grandfather was a pioneer of Stark, who was born March 20, 1744, and served in the Revolutionary War as a private. He raised four sons and three daughters, and died on the farm in 1822. John A. Ward was born October 17, 1792, served in the War of 1812; he was a Whig and a Republican He died in 1857, aged sixty-five, his wife died in 1869, aged seventy-five years. They had seven children : Maria (deceased), Levi (deceased), Liza Ann (deceased), David, Hiram, Ephraim and Daniel are now living. Hiram lived with his parents and took


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charge of the farm which he now owns, buying out the other heirs. In politics he is a Republican. He married, December 31, 1857, Marinda Bronner, daughter of Frederick and Eliza (Shaul) Bronner. Her father served as supervisor, was a Republican. They had eleven children. Her grandfather, Frederick Bronner, was a pioneer of Stark. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Ward have had two children : Charles H. and Libbie M.


Wightman, Abel G. (deceased), was born in Warren July 21, 1832, a son of Timothy and Phila (Bronson) Wightman. The grandfather was Allen, whose ancestors came from the Isle of Wight. Allen was born in Connecticut and came here about 1800, and settled east of Jordanville, where he resided until his death. His wife was a Miss Ran- dall, and they raised four sons and two daughters. Timothy A., was born in Warren in 1800. He was a justice and was a Republican. He was twice married; his first wife bore him two children : Mary Mix and our subject. His second wife was Cath-


arine Sanford, who died in July, 1882. Subject received a district and academic educa- tion, and was an active Republican. In early life he went to Illinois and Utah, and speculated in stocks. He was also a surveyor. He returned to Warren and engaged in farming ; and in later days he followed the saddler's business. He died September 23, 1883. He married, January 5, 1865, Jane L. Sanford, born September 11, 1837, a daughter of Rodney and Catherine O. (Mix) Sanford, a descendant of the Sanfords who landed at Plymoth Rock. He was born at New London, and was a soldier in the Revolution. He was at New York at the evacuation and followed the sea for many years. In November, 1800, he came with his family to Warren, and located on ninety acres, one mile west of Jordanville. His wife was Lavinia Egerton, who bore him nine children : Joseph, Kingsbury, Asa, Giles, Ralph, Ezra, Rodney, Lavinia and Laura. Rodney was born in Connecticut February 17, 1794, and died in 1852, aged fifty-eight. He was a colonel of militia. He owned 160 acres at his death, and his wife survives. She was born in Columbia March 28, 1816, daughter of John and Margaret (Ovendorff) Mix of German Flats.


Willoughby, Daniel C., Russia, was born in Newport in 1819. His father was James, a son of Westel Willoughby. James was born in Massachusetts in 1773. His wife was Annie Cole, a native of Massachusetts, by whom he had two sons and ten daughters, of whom two daughters and subject only are living. Mr. Willoughby came to Norway in 1795, where he built the first house and barn. During the winter seasons be made spinning wheels. His brother, Dr. Westel Willoughby, was one of the original professors of Fairfield Seminary, and was the founder of Willoughby College of Ohio. He prac- iced medicine in Herkimer county many years. His wife was Salle Cole, an aunt of Daniel C. James Willoughby died in 1856, and his wife in 1854 at the of seventy-six years. Daniel C. has lived on the farm where he was born sixty-eight years. In 1840 he married Caroline M. Carpenter, a native of Cold Brook, born in 1823. Her parents were Daniel and Temperance (Warfield) Carpenter, natives of Russia. To subject and wife were born four children ; Eliza A. (deceased), Edward A., Marcilla F. and Flora E. Edward A. resides at Rome, N. Y., and is general manager for R. M. Bingham of that place. Marcilla F. is the wife of Thomas R. Irwin of Poland. Flora is the wife of Irving D. Adams of Poland. In 1886 Mr. Willoughby came to Poland and has since


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lived a retired life. In politics he has always been a Republican and is a temperance man. He has assisted in the Baptist church at Poland.


Young, Charles, Mohawk, was born in Stark December 27, 1856. He received an academic education, then took a course in the Utica Business College. He returned to the farm for a few years and was then engaged in general merchandise transactions in Bethel till 1879, when he came to Mohawk and became identified with the Broomhall M.lling & Malting Company, Ltd., manufacturers of patent roller flour, etc., of which company lie is director and general manager. Mr. Young married Mattie L. Lewis of Herkimer, and they have two daughters. He is identified with the Masons, holding office as W. M., and is trustee of the village board, of which body he was elected clerk. He is also clerk of the school board, and a member.


Schooley, Andrew, Litchfield, is a machinist, carpenter, jomer and millwright. He was born in this town May 27, 1814, a son of James Schooley, a native of Pittstown, Rensselaer county, who settled in this town in 1804, and died December 8, 1863, aged seventy-four years. Andrew Schooley read law with Charles O'Conner of New York city in 1848. Ile married Emma Winegar, and they have three children : Warren H., Stella 1., and James A. They have lost one son, Charles C. Stella 1. married Dayton D. Prescott of Norwich Corner, and they have four children : Fanny F., Walter D., Arthur A. and Eva Estella. Mrs. Emma Schooley is a daughter of Isaac Winegar of this town, but he died in Genesee county, N. Y., he left eight children. James Schooley married Amy Young, they had six children : Andrew, Mary, Caroline, James L., Ed- ward B. and Catherine Schooley, the last is dead, the others are living. Amy Young came from Rhode Island, town of Scituate.


Snyder, J. A., Middleville, was born in Somerset, Pa., September 4, 1855, moved to Illinois in the spring of 1864, and resided west until 1880, when he came to New York State and to Herkimer county in 1882, where he has resided ever since, with the ex- ception of two years spent in Albany and Montgomery counties. Mr. Snyder com- menced working in the knitting-mill in Illinois at the age of thirteen, has followed the business ever since, and is now the superintendent of the Nelson Mill at this place. October 24, 1889, he married Flora M. Casler of Little Falls, and they have one child, Moldred Eleanor, born October 15, 1891, at Middleville.


Loomer, Aaron P., Dolgeville, was born in Fulton county. ITis early life was spent on a farm, and he has always dealt in horses and cattle. Twenty-six years ago he be- came proprietor of the Empire House in St. Johnsville. This he ran for five years, then took charge of the Rickwood near Johnstown. This hotel he kept for three years, then moved to Little Falls and took charge of the Bettel Ilotel. After keeping this hotel one year he moved to Dolgeville and has since conducted with but one slight inter- mission the Loomer Ilouse. Mr. Loomer has been twice married and has three children, all boys. Mr. Loomer has served as justice of the peace six years, and is an extensive real estate owner, and owns a farm in Stratford.


Crist, D. B., Fairfield, was born in Fairfield, and his father removed to Middleville when D. B. was quite young. IIe was in the mercantile business for five years and


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in the flour and feed business for three years before he took up farming. He occu- pies one of his father's dairy farms of 180 acres. His father still lives in Middleville. In 1883 Mr. Crist married Miss Nettie Jackson, and they have a family of two sons. He is a Republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. His father's name is Morgan C. Crist.


Spoor, James H., Stark, son of Gilbert and Nancy (Link) Spoor, natives of Danube, was born September 9, 1844, in Danube. He received a district school education. At twenty he left home and began life on his own account. Lived ten years in Little Falls; and for the past seven years has lived on 218 acres of land in Stark, which he works on shares. He is a Republican, and married July 8, 1864, Elda Jones, born in Stark, daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Snell) Jores, natives of Danube and Stark ; who are members of the M. E. church. They are the parents of three sons and two daugh- ters, and of English origin. Jacob Jones was a son of William, a pioneer of Danube. James H. has seven children : Frank, who died at nineteen ; Nettie, Fred, Ada M., Nellie, Ross and Callie, who died at seven months. They are Universalists.


Lotridge, George H., Little Falls, was born in 1811 and has lived on his present farm all his long life. He and his two brothers, both of whom are dead, lived on adjoining land for over half a century as men grown, and had everything in common. They owned 750 acres of land. Mr. Lotridge married, January 30, 1838, Mary Rankin, and they have four daughters. The youngest, Mary, lives at home. One is the wife of Hamer Petrie, one the wife of R. M. Rankin and one of Mr. Houpt. Mr. Lotridge has been commissioner of highways and is a member of the Grange. His father and mother were born in Montgomery county, and his grandfather, Seeber, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The latter was wounded at Oriskany and was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life, though he lived to the age of 104 years. The parents of George HI. came to these parts when the section was a wilderness, and he can relate many interesting anecdotes of their early experiences in the wilds.


Loftis, John, Frankfort, was born in Frankfort, September 8, 1844, being the youngest of six children of John and Bridget Loftis, who emigrated to this country from the Emerald Isle in the year 1832. The subject of this sketch was but three years old when his father died, and the care of rearing and educating the children to frugality, respect and usefulness was the sacred heritage of their courageous and de- voted mother, who, surviving her husband for a third of a century, died in 1883, at the golden age of seventy-three years. Of this family James and Thomas were volun- teers in the Union army, the former dying in the service of his country, while the latter now resides at Frankfort village. April 22, 1880, John Loftis was united in marriage to Catharine McCann, of Utica, N. Y. They have two sons: Charles W. and James F. Loftis. Early in life Mr. Loftis learned the carpenter trade, and for several years prior to 1867, was occupied as a carriage maker, at which time he engaged in the mercantile business as a retail goocer. In 1876 he erected the large and commodious building he now occupies, the upper floor of which is Loftis Hall. By close attention and strict integrity Mr. Loftis has built np an extensive mercantile business, and now is one of the foremost merchants of Frankfort village. In politics Mr. Loftis is a Democrat and has served the town as supervisor during the years 1886-7-8,




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