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Foster, Aaron Stiles, Dolgesville, a nephew of Matt Foster, of sharpshooting fame, was born in Salisbury April 1, 1822. He received a common school education in the
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schools of this vicinity and assisted his father until his seventeenth year. After this he worked at the carpentry trade until 1847, when he became engaged in the lumber traffic until 1879. He then moved to Dolgeville to build the wool factory of Alfred Dolge. Mr. Foster married Hannah, daughter of Peter Getman, and they have two sons and two daughters living, baving lost a son and a daughter. A. S. Foster was him- self in his youth a noted dead shot, being able to bring down game with his rifle when on the wing. Ile has served in Fulton county as highway commissioner and justice of the peace. His ancestors participated in the War of the Revolution and the War of 1812. On his mother's side he is a descendant of the Talcotts.
Fenner, A. G., Fairfield, was born in Fairfield December 24, 1823, and has been a farmer all his life. His grandfather, Daniel Fenner, settled here from Massachusetts, and his father, George Fenner, was also a native of the place. The farm consists of 100 acres (old survey) and a dairy of twenty-six cows. Mr. Fenner married M. A Wetherwax in 1848, and they have five children living. Mr. Fenner is an independent in politics, and a member of the grange.
Fenner, Calvin, Fairfield, was born on the farm where he now lives August 4, 1804, and has been a farmer all his life. His father came from Massachusetts in 1792. In 1829 Mr. Fenner married Rhoda Ann Harvey, and they had five children, three of whom survive. Mrs. Fenner died in 1882. Mr. Fenner is the oldest living resident of Fairfield, and has voted at every presidential election since 1825. His brother, Joseph Fenner, was a soldier at Sackett's Harbor, and in the War of 1812. Our subject is the owner of a farm of 200 acres and a herd of forty-five cows.
Fields, John, supervisor of Fairfield, is a native of Westmoreland, Oneida county, and has been a farmer all his life. He has resided on his present place for nine years. In 1873 he married Adeline Todd. His father and mother both came from England. Mr. Fields is an active and influential Democrat, and was elected supervisor of Fairfield in the spring of 1892. He was assessor when living in Newport, and is a member of the grange and Royal Arcanum.
Fowler, D. R., Dolgeville, was born in East Springfield, Otsego county, N. Y. He received a good education in the schools and academy of this vicinity, and afterwards clerked for a few years. In 1887 he came to Dolgeville and established his present general mercantile concern. Mr. Fowler's family is of New England descent (Connect .- icut), and his father and mother are both living at the old home in East Springfield. D. R. Fowler married Miss Ella Vandusen. They have one child, a girl. He is a suc- cessful and enterprising business man, and a reliable and progressive citizen.
French, Morris F., Warren, was born in Warren, September 22, 1850, a son of Lnther L. and Isabel (Culver) French. He was educated in the district, select and higher schools, also attended the Winfield academy. He taught school six terms. At twenty-one years of age he began for himself, working with his father six years. He then purchased thirty-five acres of his grandfather's homestead in Warren, and in March, 1881, bought and located on 170 acres, where he now resides. He now owns 205 acres, and in politics is a Republican. September 18, 1878, he married Mary E.
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Ingalls, born in Hartwick, Otsego county, a daughter of Allen and Hulda (Windsor) Ingalls, now residing in Middlefield. Subject had three children: Harry D., Leonard 1. and Robert L. Luther L French was born in Plymouth, Litchfield county, Conn., August 23, 1810, a son of Ebenezer W. and Lucy (Darrow) French, both of Connecti- cut. In 1814 E. W. French moved to Galway, Saratoga county, then to Oneida county, and in 1830 located on the farm where our subject now resides, where he died July 1, 1865. He was a Whig and a Republican, and a deacon in the Presbyterian church. He was three times married. His first wife was Sarah Bassett, by whom he had four children : Prosper, George Roxanna and Sarah. His wife was born May 30, 1774, and died October 26, 1804. His second wife was Lucy Darrow, born March 12, 178], who died June 16, 1842, leaving seven children : Lucy, Mary, Luther L., Amond J., Elizabeth J., David W. and Julia A. His third wife was Mariah Bairdsley. She died November 18, 1882, and was born February 8, 1794, in New York. Luther L. French received a district school education, and being the oldest son had to help his father. At the age of twenty he hired out for $12.50 per month, which was consid- ered extra wages. In the spring of 1840 he bought fifty acres, where he resided until 1890, when he let the farm to his son, Eseck W., and moved on his father's old home- stead. February 27, 1839, he married Isabell Culver, born in Westfield, Chautauqua county, July 15, 1817, a daughter of Harmon and Elizabeth (Campbell) Culver of Eng- lish and Scotch origin. Subject and wife have had eight children, three of whom died in childhood, Orton G., Lucelia J. and Edward (). The other five are as follows: Samuel D., Mary E., Morris F., Louisa C., wife of Fenmore R. Stratton, and Eseck W. Luther L. and wife have been life members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. French is a strong Republican. Samnel D French enlisted in Company F, 121st regiment, in 1861, serving through the war. Six months after enlistment he was transferred to signal corps, in which he was a lieutenant. He resides in Iowa.
Green, William J., Winfield, a farmer and feed merchant, was born on the farm where he now lives, April 2, 1847, a son of Jared J., who was born in Winfield, Sep- tember 17, 1804, and died May 20, 1878. He was a son of William Green, who came from Connecticut, and settled in Winfield at an early day. The mother of William J. Green was Lucy P. (Randall) Green, who was born April 17, 1809, and died October 27, 1891. William J. married Florence L. Jones, January 2, 1878. She was a daugh- ter of Daniel Jones, of Brookfield, Madison county. They have one son, Fred J. The farm first settled by William Green is in the northeastern part of the town and is now owned by two of his grandchildren, William J. Green and Nettie L. Brown.
Goodier, Henry W., Litchfield, owns a grain and dairy farm of 120 acres, and has been one of the assessors of this town for five years past. He is a member of Sauquoit Lodge, No. 150, F. & A. M .; Oneida Chapter, No. 57, R. A. M .; and Fort Schuyler Council, No, 404 Royal Arcanum, also a member of the Litchfield Grange, No. 664. He was born in the same house in which he now lives, July 18, 1854, and married September 18, 1881, Xena V. Prior. They have two sons, L. Raymond, born Sep- tember 7, 1887, and ITarold Prior, born November 15, 1892. Henry W. was a son of Henry Goodier, who was born on the farm north of this, which was settled by his
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father, Aaron Goodier, the first settler on that farm and one of the first of the town. Xena V. Goodier was born in Paris. Oneida county, September 25, 1864. She is a daughter of Philo Prior, who died at Cedar Lake, December 31, 1892, aged fifty-three years.
Gird, Emma L., Litchfield, a native of this town, born on the farm where she now lives, is a daughter of John Gird, who was a native of Trenton. He came here about 1812, with his mother, from New York city. He was a son of Henry Gird, who was publisher of a newspaper in New York city, who came from Wesford, Ireland, and was a colonel in the English army. He settled in Warrington, and bought a place of George Washington, which is still in the family and occupied by his granddaughter, Mrs. Frankland. The mother of John Gird, was Mary, daughter of Richard Smith, who settled at C'edar Lake farm, now owned by the Sewell Morgan estate. The mother of Emma L. Gird was Laura, daughter of Sylvanins King, a native of Monson, Massachusetts. He was a descendant of William King, who caine over in the Mayflower. William King, one of that family, was the first Governor of the State of Maine. There are now living seven children of John and Laura Gird : Henry S., Mary H., Richard, Mrs. II. P. Martin, L. John, William K., and Emma L. Gird, the last of whom occupies and conducts the farm for the estate.
Garline, Charles, Warren, was born in Verona, Oneida county, December 5, 1850, a son of Nicholas and Mary A. Garline, natives of Germany. The former came to the United States about 1843, and located in Oneida county, where he resided until his death, in the spring of 1883, aged seventy-three years. He is of Catholic faith, and a Republican in politics. He was twice married and had three children: Seaman, Charles and Mary. The latter died at nine years of age. His wife died in 1854. She was born in Germany and her father was a Mr. Miller, who came to the United States about 1835. Nicholas Garline married for his second wife Margaret Shoemaker, who came from Germany. Charles Garline received a common school education and has made his own way in life since fifteen years of age. At twenty he began for himself on the canal, which he followed for two years. In 1873 he came to Warren, and in 1874 began as cheese maker, which 'he continued four years. In the spring of 1879 he bought the Cullen cheese factory, which he has operated since, making on an average 100,000 pounds a year. He is now assessor, and has also served as collector and constable. He is an active Democrat, and a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Grange. He married in 1876, Alice C. Ball, who was born in Litchfield, daughter of Horatio and Roxie (Manning) Ball, natives of Herkimer county. Sub- ject has three children : William S., Leon F. and Charles H.
Green, Nelson L., Warren, was born in Danube, January 14, 1853, a son of Herki- mer and Emily T. (Wolcott) Green. The grandfather, Dr. Felix Green was a son of Ambrose, and was born in Rhode Island, a pioneer of Danube, where he lived nearly all his life. He married Elma Lester, and had seven children: John, William, Felix, Anna, Polly, Elizabeth and Ruth. He held various town offices. Felix lived on the Hudson river near Albany, and early came to Danube. He was an active Whig and Republican and served in nearly all the town offices. He was a Free Mason, and died
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July 18, 1857, aged eighty-one. Ilis wife died in 1859. She was Lana Herkimer, and was born in Danube, a daughter of George Herkimer, who was a brother of Gen- eral Nicholas IIerkimer, whose wife was a daughter of General Schuyler. Of thirteen children Felix reared ten : Alida, Jane, Mary, IIelen, James, George, Charles, Herki- mer, Augustus, John. Herkimer Green was born in Danuhe, November 20, 1811. In 1870 he moved to Cayuga county, and in 1882 removed to his present home in western Warren, on a farm of 248 acre. He has reared two children : John H., who was born in Danube in Angust, 1846, married Nellie Wartman. Subject's mother was born in Shoreham, Vermont, daughter of Seamon and Huldah (Kellogg) Wolcott. Nelson K. Green was reared on a farm and received a common school education supplemented by a course in the Academy at Little Falls. He has followed farming, is an active Republican, and married Mary O., daughter of John N. and Rebecca (Soule) Smith. They had three children : George II., Elma R., and Emily E. John H. Green received his education at Little Falls academy, and then at Hamilton college, graduating in the class of '74. He has taught school, and was admitted to the bar of Cayuga county. He has served in town offices as a Republican, and is now a farmer in Warren. He has the old loek of the door of General Herkimer's house, also a chair of his, and other pieces of furniture which belonged to the general. George Green, brother of Herkimer, is a physician at St. Johnsville, and John Green is a prominent physician at Sharon Springs.
Goodier, James G., Frankfort, one of eleven children of Aaron and Abigail (Kendall) Goodier, both of Litchfield. The grandfather, Rev. Aaron Goodier, elergyman, was born in England and educated for the ministry, preaching there for several years. He came to this country when thirty-five years of age and was during his active life a minister of the Gospel, living in the town of Litchfield, where he was a large land owner. Abigail Kendall, the mother, was a daughter of Ammi Kendall, contractor, a native of Massa- chusetts. James G. was married May 1, 1872, to Mary A. Slaughter of Litchfield. Until 1888 he lived in Litchfield when he moved to the village of Frankfort where he now lives. He is justice of the peace and does a real estate and collecting business.
Goodale, G. A., German Flats, was born in Mohawk, May 26, 1846. He first started in the grocery business in Richfield and was afterwards assistant shipper in the agricultu- ral works in Ilion for fifteen years. He spent five years in the painting trade and conducted a meat market for four years. He has been in his present grocery and confectionery business in Mohawk about a year. In 1868 he married Anna M. Dodge. Mr. Goodale is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics a Prohibition- ist.
Guiney, John & Company, Little Falls. This firm consists of John Guiney and Benja- min O. Sullivan, and was established in 1859, for the purpose of retailing liquors in Little Falls. Both members of the firm were born in Ireland and have, since es- tablishing business here, made a host of friends and built up a large and lucrative trade. They are influential members of the A. O. U. W.
Golden, D. N., German Flats, was born in Columbia, April 14, 1830. His father, Benjamin, was a trunk maker. Mr. Golden was connected with various hotels
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during the many years of his life and had government contracts on the canal, of which he was at one time section superintendent. He has of late acted as travel- ing salesman. His marriage occurred in 1858, and he has three children: Cora E. Hilts, Harvey M. Golden, assistant cashier in the Mohawk bank, and Frank M., who resides in Chicago, Ill.
Greene, Willis, Danube, was born on the old farm in Danube, September 17, 1846. He received a liberal education in Fairfield Seminary and at Fort Edward. Mr. Greene owns fifty-four acres of land on the river road, Danube, and follows the occupation of market gardening, in which he has been very successful. His wife was Margaret Le Row, and they have one child, a son. This branch of the Greene family descent is traced from General Greene of Revolutionary fame.
Gardinier, Albert, Danube, was born on the old farm upon which he still lives and owns, April 19, 1834. This land was bought by his grandfather who lived and died upon it and is buried in the old burying ground on the farm. His father, John Gardin- ier, also lived, died and is buried here. Albert Gardinier received a good education in the schools of this vicinity and has served the town of Danube as assessor several terms. He married Fanny Burrell of Herkimer county and they have three sons and three daughters. He is a successful farmer and has about two hundred acres of fine dairy land and keeps on an average fifty head of cattle besides other stock.
Griswold, G. W., Fairfield, was born in Fairfield, August 3, 1806, and has been a farmer all his life. His ancestors came from Saybrook, Conn., in 1780, and have resided in these parts ever since. His grandfather was in the Revolutionary war. In 1835 Mr. Griswold went to Newport, and fifteen years ago settled in Middleville. He has taken great interest in public and educational affairs all his life, and is a very intelli- gent and highly esteemed citizen. He is one of the oldest men in Herkimer county.
Getman, Sanford, German Flats, was born in German Flats, March 23, 1833, a son of Jacob Getman, a farmer. At the age of ten years Mr. Getman entered the Armory, at the old shop, and five years later he started the first bus line here. This he sold at the opening of the war and went into the flour and feed business. In 1860 he married Julia E. Lyman. He has always been an ardent Democrat, and has served as super- visor and assessor nine years.
Gerhart, Louis, Dolgeville, was born in Germany, June 28, 1852. He received a good education in the schools of Germany, and in 1870 came to this country. After working on a farm for some time, Mr. Gerhart learned the mason trade, and worked in this industry for seventeen years, after which he purchased a very desirable property in Dolgeville, opposite the Cottage Hotel, and established his present liquor business, which he has since most successfully conducted. Mr. Gerhart married Miss Wagner. They have two children, a boy and a girl.
Gibson, Burr, Ohio, was born in Ohio, September I, 1865. He is a son of Samuel and Susan Gibson, whom we have mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. In 1867 he married Addie Case, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of George and Mary Case, of Ohio. To Mr. Gibson and wife
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two children have been born, Willie and Nora, both living. Mr. Gibson is a farmer and Democrat.
Guenther, George, Dolgeville, was born in Germany, November 18, 1848. After securing a good education in the schools there he learned the machinist trade in Saxony, at which trade he worked for some years. In 1877 he came to America and entered the employ of Alfred Dolge as superintendent of the machinist department, which posi- tion he still holds. Mr. Guenther married Miss Annie Dolge, a sister of Alfred Dolge. They have one child, a boy. Mr. Guenther is a member of the school board, aid society, Royal Arcanum, Building and Loan Association, Odd Fellows, etc.
Gray, C. B., Ohio, was born in Norway, March 29, 1845, a son of Lathan, who was a son of Lathan Gray, of Connecticut The latter married Amy Brown in 1791 and bad seven daughters and two sons. Lathan, jr., was born in Lebanon, Conn., April 21, 1800. His wife was Julia A. Pendleton, by whom he had two sons. In 1828 he went to Norway, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a manufacturer of lumber and furniture. In 1831 Mrs. Gray died and in 1836 he married Catherine, (laughter of Benjamin and Sarah Bensley, early settlers of Newport. Mr. Gray and wife had two sons and one daughter. Mr. Gray's second wife died in 1855, and he married third, Mary A., daughter of Asa Vickery, of Russia. Mr. Gray was a Demo- erat and a Free Mason, and was supervisor. The village of Gray was named in his honor. He died in 1884 and his last wife died in 1890. Subject received a common school education. In October, 1890, he married Melissa E. Figert, daughter of William and Jane (Elsie) Burberry, natives of England, who had eight children. In 1854 Mr. Burberry and wife came to America and settled in Ohio, N. Y., where Mrs. Burberry died on May 9, 1887. Mr. Burberry was a manufacturer of brick and tile, and died in Norway in 1870. The first husband of Mrs. Gray was Charles Figert, a native of Ohio, by whom she had one child, Charlotta. Mr. Figert died November 10, 1887. In 1890 Mrs. Figert graduated from the Cortland Normal school. Mr. Gray is a Demo- erat and has been supervisor three years. He is a member of Newport Lodge, No. 458, F. and A. M., of Little Falls, Commandery No. 26, Ilion Chapter, No. 236.
Harter, Aaron, Herkimer, was born in New Herkimer, October 29, 1816. His father, Nicholas Harter, settled here in 1812. Mr. Harter owns 255 acres of farm land, be- sides a large amount of other property. He has fifty-five head of stock and conducts a dairy farm. Mr. Harter has been a very successful farmer. He has served as jus- tice of the peace and is a staunch Democrat. His wife, who is seventy-four years of age, is an energetic and most careful lady and has aided him most materially in his successful transactions in life. They live on the old farm on the Steuben road.
Helmer, Samuel, Dolgeville, was born in the town of Manheim, February 8, 1820, and has always lived on the farm which he purchased from his father. It contains 150 acres of fine dairy land and upon it he keeps about twenty-five head of cattle besides other stock. Mr. Heliner has four children living, two boys, Hannibel and Dwight, and two girls, Mrs. Annie Bracket, and Mrs. Engene Snell. Helmer's ancestry is of German descent. His grandfather was in the war of the Revolution, and his father in that of 1812 at Sackett's Harbor. His son, Dwight Helmer, assists him on the farm,
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and his other son, Hannibel Helmer, is engaged in the meat business in Dolgeville. Both sons have received an academic education.
Hyer, Otis H., Little Falls, is a native of Rensselaer, N. Y. He has been in the woolen manufacturing line for thirteen years and is an expert. He was five years in Pittsfield, Mass., and after three years' absence returned to the same firm. He was two years in Woonsocket and four years in Providence, R. I., then with the Rhode Island Knitting Company in Berwick three years. After a short stay in Fonda, N. Y., he returned to Little Falls and is one of the superintendents of Mackinnon's Mill. Mr. Hyer served his country in the war of the Rebellion in Company K, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment and participated in the battles of Petersburg, Lynchburg and Piedmont, in the last of which he was wounded and taken prisoner and passed eleven months in Andersonville prison. He was under fifteen years old when he enlisted. He is a Re- publican.
Hall, Dr. Horace, Little Falls, is a native of Princeton, Ind. Ifis father was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana and also Lieutenant-Governor of the State. Horace enlisted as private in the Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, Company K., and after the close of the war was minstered out as captain of the company. Dr. ITall has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession of dental surgery since his grad- nation about twenty years ago. He married Miss Hattie E. Scutt of Almena, but has no family. His office is located at No. 596 East Main street. The doctor enjoys a lead- ing patronage with the first families of Little Falls and Herkimer county.
Hose, Wallace, Little Falls, was born in St. Johnsville, Montgomery county, N. Y., receiving an excellent education in the schools of this county and the Cazenovia Semi- nary. IIis earlier business experience was in mercantile transactions, he having been engaged in this line in St. Johnsville for two years, and at Fort Plain; after which he entered the employ of H. M. Bnrch, with whom he remained seven years. He then accepted a position with Titus Sheard as bookkeeper, eventually being admitted a member of the concern in which he now holds the position of secretary of the company. Mr. Hose is a member of various local, social and benevolent institutions. He married Edith I. Sheard and they have one child.
Hunt, T. E., of the township of Little Falls, owns one of the best farms near the village and is a prosperous and progressive farmer. He is also a veteran of the late war, having enlisted in the Tenth Missouri Infantry, but was subsequently transferred to the Fifteenth and then to the Seventeenth New York Regiments, and served with the Army of the Potomac. He is a prominent Grand Army man, and a member of the Grange. Mrs. Hunt was the first white child born in De Kalb county, Illinois.
Harrid, George, Danube, was born in England, February 16, 1839; he has lived in this country about thirty-eight years and has owned his farm of forty acres of land, lying on the Odesa Creek, for nearly twenty-seven years. He married Mary Finale and they have four children, two sons and two daughters. He is an excellent farmer and a thorough and honorable man.
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House, Squire, Little Falls, was born in this county and received a common school education in the Jordanville district school. In 1861 he enlisted in the Thirty-fourth New York Volunteers and served two years in the Rebellion, participating in many of the leading battles and engagements which occurred during this period. Hle was en- gaged for two years after the war in cutting marble, and in 1865 he established a gen- eral merchandise store upon the eanal. Mr. House gives employment to from ten to twenty hands eutting wood. He has cleared over three hundred acres of wood in this vicinity. He is of Mohawk Dutch descent and of Revolutionary antecedents, Ilis wife was Cornelia Orendorf of Fort Herkimer, by whom he had two children, a son and a daughter. His wife died October 28, 1892.
Halling, Theodore C., Little Falls, was born in Little Falls, February 7, 1862. IIIs father was born in Germany and came to this country in his youth. He was for many years a leading tailor and draper in this village before his death. Theodore C. was educated at Little Falls Academy, and was for many years manager of a clothing store in Ithaca, N. Y. He married Rose Lampman, and they have one child. Mr. Halling is now conducting a tobacco, cigar and confectionery establishment opposite the Met- ropolitan Hotel, Little Falls.
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