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WILNA.
Adams, HI. IT., Broker, b. N. Y., s. 1819, p. o. add. Carthage.
Browu, R. R., Merchant and Notary Public, b. N. Y., s. 1822, p. o. add. Carthage. Branangh, Saml., Tanner, Carthage, b. Ireland, s. 1870, p. o. add. Carthage. Burns, Luke, Farmer and Dairyman, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1831, p. o. add. Car- thage.
Barr, Wesley, Real Estate and Insurance Agent, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1836, p. o. ndd. Carthage.
Becker, Barton, Farmer und Dairy, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1836, p. o. add. Ster- lingville.
Brewster, Joseph L., Farmer, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1845, p. o. add. Antwerp. Coughlin, Jero., Associate EI. Carthage Republican, Carthage, b. Canada, s. 1865, p. o. nldl. Carthage.
Chase, L. G., Ed. and Prop. Carthage Republican, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1876, p. o. ndd. Carthage.
Coburn, Mrs. W. M. (retired), Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1839, p. o. add. Carthage. Cathell, Rov. J. Everist, Pastor of Grace Church, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1876, p. o. add. Carthage.
Clark, Jno. W., Dealer in Ready-Made and Custom-Made Clothing and Gents' furnishing goods, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1865, p. o. add. Carthage.
Clearwater, Danl., Farmer and Dairyman, Carthage, D. N. Y., s. 1841, p. o. add. Carthage.
Collins, P., Farmer, Carthage, b. Ireland, s. 1827, p. o. add. Carthage.
Copp, J. II., Physician and Surgeon, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1863, p. o. add. Nat. Bridge.
Carter, W. B., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1845, p. o. add. N. Wilna.
Crowner, States, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1829, p. o. add. Carthage.
Cowau, Herman, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1819, p. o. add. Carthage. Canfield, William, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1836, p. o. add. N. Wilna. Chadwick, .1. Il., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1841, p. o. add. Wilna. Crimps, Peter, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1827, p. o. add. Natural Bridge.
Cunnnins, Richard, Je., Blacksmith, b. St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., s. 1842, p. o. add. Carthage.
Carpenter, W., Insurance Agt., b. llerk. Co., N. Y., s. 1862, p. o. a.Id. Carthage. Davis, Gen., Boating and Carpentering, b. Jefferson Co., N. Y., s. 1833, p. o. add. Carthage.
Dodge, Loriston, Farmer and Dairy, b. Conn., s. 1839, p. o. add. Sterlingville. Derby, Harley, Farmer and Dairy, b. Vt., s. 1828, p. o. add. Sterlingville. Dawley, J. II., Farmer and Dairy, b. N. Y., s. 1824, p. o. add. North W. P. O. De La Fleur, M. E. (retired), Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1844, p. o. add. Carthage. Francis, C. E., Morchant, 53 State st., Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1836, p. o. add. Carthage.
Fulton, John C., Att'y and Counselor-at-Law, Carthago, b. N. Y., s. 1844, p. o. add. Carthage.
Fedigan, Rev. J. J., Pastor St. James' Church, Carthage, b. Ireland, s. 1874, p. o. add. Carthage.
Fledenburg, Geo. C., Prop. of Hlateh House, Carthiago, b. N. Y., s. 1841, p. o. add. Carthage.
Fitzsimons, A., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1847, p. o. add. Carthago.
Fargo, Lewis, Prop. of Hotel, Farmer and Dairy, b. N. Y., s. 1826, p. o. add. Wilna.
Fulton, Simeon, Farming, h. Vt., s. 1810, p. o. add. Carthage. Foley, Poter, Farming, b. Iroland. s. 1832, p. o. add. Carthago.
Farley, lames T., Farming, b. N. Y., s. 1845, p. o. add. Carthage.
Fulton, E. F., Farming, b. N. Y., s. 1823, p. o. add. Carthage. Frasier, Mary, Farming, b. Muss., s. 1836, p. o. add. Carthago.
Gilbert, George, Att'y and Counselor, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1854, p. o. add. Carthage.
Gallagher, Richard, Mufr. and Dir. in Furniture, Carthage, b. Ireland, s. 1817, p. o. ndd. Carthage. 41
Goodale, L. J., Land Agent, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1816, p. o. add. Carthage. Graham, David, Farmer, b. England, s. 1819, p. o. add. Wilna. Graham, Mary A., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1815, p. o. add. Wilna.
Graham, James C., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1832, p. o. add. Wilna.
Gates, Julius K., Sawyer, b. N. Y., s. 1836, p. o. add. Cartlenge.
Gites, Mrs. Dolly, Farming and Saw-mill, b. N. Y., s. 1856, p. o. add. Carthage. Gates, Crinson, Farming, b. N. Y., s. 1830, p. o. add. Carthage.
Galvin, James, Stock Dealer, Carthage, b. Ireland, s. 1835, p. o. add. Carthage. Green, Albert R., Wagon and Carriage Mnfr., Carthage, b. Renss. Co., N. Y., s. 1837, p. o. add. Carthage.
Hickey, James, Farmer and Dairym in, Carthage, b. Iroland, s. 1839, p. o. add. Carthage.
Hastings, Joseph, Farmer, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1817. p. o. add. Wilna. Hanson, Nath., Farmer and Dairy, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1837, p. o. add. Ster- lingville.
Ilatch, Mrs. S. E., Proprietress of Levis House, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1837, p. o. add. Carthage.
llolcomb, O., Retired, Carthage, b. N. Y , s. 1815, p. o. add. Carthage. Hubbard, II., Retired, Champion, b. N. Y., s. 1802, p. o. add. Carthage.
Hubbard, Geo. W., Farmer, b. N. Y .. s. 1845, p. o. add. North Wilna.
Hooker, Mrs. P. M., Retired, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1836, p. o. add. Carthage. .lohnson, F. B., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1837, p. o. add. Carthage.
Hendrickson, S. C., Farmer, b. Long I., 8. 1850, p. o add. North Wilna.
Kilby, A. E .. Att'y and Counselor-at-law, Carthage, b. Long 1., s. 1846, p. o. add. North Wilna.
Keyes, Samuel, Farmer, b. Long I., s. 1820, p. o. add. North Wilna.
Levis, O. S. (retired), b. N. Y., s. 1835, p. o. add. North Wilna. Loomis, C. Il., Merchant, b. N. Y., s. 1853, p. o. add. North Wilna.
Loomis, Manly, Manfr of Carriages, Wagons, ete., b. N. Y., s. 1817, p. o. add. North Wilna.
Loomis, Eher, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1816, p. o. add. Sterlingville. Lanpheare, II. K., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1839, p. o. add. Carthage.
Lanpheare, Fanny, Farmer, b. Mass., s. 1836, p. o. add. Carthage.
McCoy, John F., Tanner, Carthage, b. Penna., s. 1876, p. o. add. Carthage. Myers, E. H., Banker, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1852, p. o. add. Carthage.
Miller, J. II., Physician and Surg., Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 18-, p. o. add. Carthage. Merrill, E. M., Druggist, Carthage, b. N. Y., 8. 1836, p. o. add. Carthage.
Mason, M. P., Mfr of Maproller Feather Dusters, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1857, p. o. add. Carthage.
Main, Thos. F., Farmer and Dairy, b. N. Y., s. 1823, p. o. add. North Wilney. Main, Parish, Farmer and Dairy, b. N. Y., s. 1841, p. o. add. North Wilucy. Norton, J. L., Merchant, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1866, p. o. add. Carthage. Nie, Warren, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1824, p. o. add. Carthage.
Nutting, Lonisa D., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1820, p. o. add. Natural Bridge.
Nutting, Maria, Farmer, b. Vermont, s. 1820, p. o. add. Natural Bridge.
O'Neil, Mich'l, Wagon and Carriage Mfr., b. E. Troy, s. 1876, p. o. add. Carthage. l'enniman, Guy, Farmer, b. E. Troy, s. 1851, p. o. add. Wilna. Pierce, Charles, Farmer, b. E. Troy, s. 1824, p. o. add. Carthage. Pool, David, Farmer, b. E. Troy, s. 1821, p. o. add. Natural Bridge. Pennington, A. O., Farmer, b. E. Troy, s. 1846, p. o. add. Antwerp. Peden, Jas. T., Physician and Surgeon, b. N. Y. City, s. 1858, p. o. add. Carthage. Rugg, Martin, Retired, Carthage, b. N. Y. City, s. 1828, p. o. add. Carthage. Riley, Patrick, Farmer, b. Ireland, s. 1824, p. o. add. North Wilna. Stewart, A. Y., Merchant, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1823, p. o. add. Carthage. Smith, Mrs. II. B., Milliner, Carthage, b. Mass., s. 1841, p. o. add. Carthage. Stanard, La Fayette G., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1824, p. o. add. Carthage. Stanard, Geo. W., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1829, p. o. add. Carthage. Sarvay, Mrs. Phila, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1822, p. o. add. Carthage. Symons, F. O., Farmer, b. Vt., s. 1836, p. o. add. North Wilna. Smith, Alonzo, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1824, p. o. add. Carthage. Schreer, F. A., Farmer and Blacksmith, b. Prussia, s. 1855, p. o. add. Wilna. Tooley, Brooks, Farmer, b. Vt., s. 1828, p. o. add. North Wilna. Ward, James (retired), Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1804, p. o. add. Carthage. Willis, J. E., Postmaster, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1830, p. o. add. Carthage. Wood, Jolin B., Merchant, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1871, p. o. add. Carthage. Ward, F. B., Dealer in Lumber, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1838, p. o. add. Cartbage. Welch, Peter, Farmer, Carthage, b. Ireland, s. 1819, p. o. add. Carthage. Welch, H. J., Attorney-at-Law, Carthage, b. N. Y., s. 1863, p. o. add. Carthage. Wood, Simeon, Cooper, b. N. Y., 8. 1812, p. o. add. North Wilna. Wood, Jonathan (retired), b. N. Il., s. 1833, p. o. add. North Wilna.
White, Mary, Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1839, p. o. add. Wilna.
Wood, Rev. J. A., Farmer, b. N. Y., s. 1847, p. o. add. North Wilna.
WORTH.
Bullock, Leonard, Farmer, Retired, b. Jeff. Co., N. Y., s. 1817, p. o. add. Worth- ville.
Cornell, Edward, Farmer, Lumberman, b. Leeds Co., Canda, s. 1849, p. o. add. Worth Centre.
Gillett, Albert. S., Farmer and Saw-Mill, b. Herk. Co., N. Y., s. 1830, p. o. add. Worthville. Grimshaw, Ilenry L., Farmer and Dairyman, b. Oneida Co., N. Y., s. 1840, p. o. add. Worthville.
Kellogg, S. B., Grist- and Saw-Mill and Supervisor, b. Jeff. Co., s. 1847, p. o. add. Worthville.
McCargor, lames, Farmer and Dairyman, b. Antrim, Ireland, s. 1847, p. o. add. Worth ville.
McCargor, Margaret, Wife of James MeCargor, b. Cheshire, Eng., s. 1847, p. o. add. Worthville.
Mills, Geo. N , Farmer, b. leff. Co., N. Y., s. 1835, p. o. add. Worth Centro.
Pickert, E., Farmer and Dairyman, b. St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., s. 1874, p. o. add. Worthville
Sloan, Isaac, Farmer and Dairyman, b. Antrim, Ireland, s. 1855, p. o. . add. Worthville.
Turner, Gordon, Farmer and Dairyman, b. Lewis Co., N. Y., s. 1847, p. o. add. Barnes' Corners.
Van Camp, lacob, Farmer and Dairyman, b. Montgomery Co., N. Y., 8 1824, p. o. add. Worthville.
Wilcox, Levi, Farmer and Dairyman, b. Jefferson Co., N. Y., s. 1826, p. o. add. Worthville.
SUPPLEMENT.
PERSONAL SKETCHES RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR INSERTION WITH TOWN HISTORIES.
VOLNEY STOW HUBBARD .* (WATERTOWN CITY.)
Volney Stow Hubbard was born in Adams, Jefferson Co., N. Y., on Dee. 15, 1818. His ancestors were among the first settlers of the New England States. They came to America at an early period in the settlement of the coun- try. The subject of the present mnemoir was the eldest son of Claudius Hubbard, Esq., who was born in Middletown, Conn., May 24, 1791. He served his country with dis- tinction in the War of 1812, and subsequently held several offices-civil, religious, and military-with honor, adding thereto the refining influences of a Christian life. He died May 21, 1873, aged eighty-two years. He had three sons, two of whom, William C. and Silas M., devoted theni- selves to the gospel ministry. William C. served his coun- try in the War of the Rebellion, as chaplain of a regiment he assisted in raising, with honor to his country and with credit to himself.
The name Hubbard is an ancient one, having been traced back to the Saxon kings. Bela Hubbard, the grandparent of the subject of this memoir, descended in direct line from George Hubbard, of Glastonbury, England, who was born about the year 1600, at the elose of the reign of Queen . Elizabeth or the beginning of the reign of King James the First. He (George) settled in Glastonbury, Conn., on the lands assigned him there, a portion of which are still occupied by his descendants. He was a member of the first general court, in 1638, and several subsequent years.
The genealogy of his family has been preserved, but it is too extended to admit of particular notice in these pages. Naomi Stow, the wife of Bela Hubbard and grandmother of V. S. Hubbard, was sister of Silas Stow, afterwards so well known as Judge Stow, of Lowville, Lewis county, who was one of the first white men who came into this section previous to the first white settlement, in 1798. Naomi, grandmother of the subject of this paper, was, as is seen, a member of that branch of the famous Stow family in this country. Silas Stow, prospeeting in this, then wilderness, region, fell in with Messrs. Stors and Noadiah Hubbard ncar the present site of Carthage, in 1793, being five years before any white settlement was made. Some members of the family have been persevering enough in their biographieal researches to be able to show conclusively that our branch of the Stow family descended in a direct line from Sir Thomas More, prime minister of England in the time of Henry the Eighth.
But the purpose of this sketch is more especially with the life of Volney Stow Hubbard, of Watertown, Jefferson Co., N. Y. On arriving at an age of helpfulness to his parents, he was occupied in the summer season with work on the farm, and sent to the common school of the place in . the winter. This course of life continued until about the age of seventeen, when young Hubbard was found suffi- eiently advanced and thorough in his education to avail himself of the advantages of the first Teachers' Institute held in the county ; on leaving which his qualifications were found to be fully adequate to the teaching of a public school, and obtaining a certificate, he immediately entered upon that vocation, returning to the farm in the summer months, reviewing his studies in the fall to improve his qualifications, and teaeling winters, rising higher and higher in his profession, and commanding each winter an increase of compensation. On arriving at twenty-one his growing desire for a higher order of attainments induced him to leave the farm and pursue his studies in the Black River Institute, at Watertown, where he continued most of two summers, when his reputation as a successful teacher and disciplinarian induced the Board of Trustees of one of the Watertown eity schools, noted for its rough and turbu- lent element, to engage him at a salary unusually large for that period. He continued to teach that school and others very suecessfully up to the opening of the State Normal School at Albany, when, being still unsatisfied with his scholastic acquirements, and being desirous of the best methods of imparting instruction and the highest order of qualifications, he went to that institution, where he graduated with the highest honors .in the first graduating elass in the year 1845. Returning, he resumed his profession under a State Normal graduate's diploma, and was eminently suc- cessful in elevating the standard of the public schools, thereby rendering them more popular and desirable than private or select schools. In consideration of the long term of service, the diligence, patience, and success of Volney S. Hubbard as a teacher and in the formation of character, who shall say that he may not have done as much good as others who have been more conspicuous in the councils of their country ? But long service in this vocation creates a desire for relaxation, and the subject of our sketeh, having now arrived at an age when a decision for the future had to be made, took an extended trip through the country, in order to settle more clearly in his own mind the how and where he would settle for business and for life. He visited the eastern States and cities, the southern and western, return- ing by the way of St. Louis, Chicago, and the northern
* See residence, business-block, and portrait among the illustra- tions of Watertown City, facing page 153.
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lakes, acquainting himself with the business, elimate, soil, and productions of nineteen or twenty States of the Union. He reached home satisfied that there was no place he had seen where good health and the prospects of a business life were more promising than in Watertown. Here, in the spring of 1850, he invested the savings of his school-teach- ing in the mercantile business, and now for nearly thirty years he has perseveringly and energetically occupied him- self in trade, acquiring an enviable competence, and giving to his family the best advantages of culture and travel the country affords. In the year 1868 he built a fine briek block on Publie Squarc, bearing his name and beautifying the locality in which his store is now located, and where, with his temperate habits and robust health, he is appar- ently vouchsafed a long future of prosperity and public esteem.
ASHLEY TANNER .*
(ALEXANDRIA.)
Deacon Benjamin Tanner, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1779. He moved to Tyringham, Mass., where he married Polly Pettingell, a worthy Christian woman. Together they labored, obtaining as a reward of their industry a goodly property. They subsequently moved to Otsego county, New York, where Mr. Tanner purchased a farm. He afterwards moved to Mullet Creek, in Alexandria, Jefferson County, and settled his sons on farms near his own. He was a carpenter by trade, and the first to follow that avocation north of the Black river. He not only built all the houses and barns in the vicinity dur- ing his time, but built the first church edifice, and organized the first Baptist church, and located the first burying-ground in the town. He died in 1839, aged 60 years ; his wife, Polly, survived until 1866, being 92 years and 9 months old at her deccase.
The family of Deacon Tanner embraced fifteen children, of whom six died in infancy. The others all lived to ad- vanced ages, and five are still living.
Ashley Tanner, the eldest son, was born in Tyringham, Mass., April 26, 1793. At the age of twenty-one, and while a resident of Otsego county, New York, he married Miss Susan Smith. In February, 1819, they came to the town of Alexandria, in this county, with his father and family, and six other families who were seeking homes in the western wilderness. And a wilderness they found it ! They had to shovel snow for five miles in order to reach their destination, which attained, they hastily crected a log
hut, and built a fire in the centre, to keep from freezing. On arising from their humble beds the following morning they found six inches of snow on the floor of their domi- cile ! They passed through incredible hardships, but dur- ing the ensuing six years made a comfortable home. They built, and for eighteen years kept for the entertainment of the public, the first hotel north of the Black river, and also dealt in provisions and black salts very extensively. Mr. Tanner helped to survey all the roads in Alexandria and Orleans. He was also engaged in the lumber business for a time with D. C. Calvin.
Mr. Tanner's family consisted of nine children, six daughters and three sons, of whom four died of consump- tion. Ashley Tanner died of heart-disease, Feb. 18, 1867, aged seventy-nine years.
Susan, wife of Ashley Tanner, was born in Otsego county, New York, March 30, 1796, and died of apoplexy, June 13, 1864. A true Christian woman, whose memory is still fresh, although
"She sleeps in the valley."
LOREN STONE.
(ANTWERP.)
Andrew Stone, father of Loren Stone, was born in New Hampshire, and came to New York State in the year 1817, at the age of twenty-one years. He worked on a farm in the town of Rutland two years. He afterwards purchased 150 acres of wild land in the town of Antwerp, for which he paid two dollars per acre, and in 1819 moved on to the same. He married Hannah Shurtliff. They moved into the town with what few effects they possessed, the only guide to their new home being marked trees, as no road had been laid out. Their nearest neighbor was Zalman Pool, who resided half a mile from them. He died in 1833, leaving a wife and seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the oldest son. His widow still lives in the village of Theresa.
Loren Stone was married to Jane E. Stinson, of St. Law- rence county, in 1846, and has had four sons and three daughters. One of his daughters, Sarah J., married G. W. Augsbury, of the town of Alexandria. For thirty years Mr. Stone lived on the old homestead, which he pur- chased of the heirs, leaving it, in 1874, to reside in a fine dwelling he owns in the village of Theresa. By hard labor, strict economy, and good management, he has amassed quite a fortune for a farmer. He is a worthy man in every respect, possessing a large amount of enterprise and energy, which he has ever put to the best advantage. Portraits of this gentleman and his estimable wife ean be seen elsewhere in this work.
* See portraits on page 275.
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ERRATUM.
In the account of the murder of Sarah Conklin, on page 501, the year is omitted. It should be 1875.
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