History of Jefferson County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 48

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 862


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THE FATHER MATHEW TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY was organized in March, 1871, and has now a membership of one hundred and twenty, and a cadetship of sixty boys between the ages of ten and fourteen years. The presi- dents of the society have been as follows : 1871-72, Father Hogan ; 1872-73, Henry L. Stimson ; 1873-74, John Bemis ; 1875-76, James McManus; 1876-77, James Muldoon. The present officers are James Muldoon, presi- dent ; Robert Tough, vice-president; James McManus, secretary ; James Hogan, corresponding secretary ; John Burns, treasurer; John O'Brien, sergeant-at-arms.


MILITARY.


The 35th battalion of the 16th brigade of the 4th di- visiou of the National Guards, State of New York, has its division- and brigade-headquarters in Watertown, and the roster of the same is as follows :


DIVISION STAFF.


Major-General, Tilley R. Pratt, Watertown.


Assistant Adjutant-General, C. H. Von Brakle, Watertown. Inspector-General, Joseph Mullin, Jr., Watertown.


Engineer, Charles Waite, Jr., Watertown. Judge Advocate, A. H. Sawyer, Watertown. Surgeon, John H. Benton. Inspector Rifle Practice, Lewis F. Phillips, Watertown.


Ordnance Officer, HI. II. Wray, Watertown. Quartermaster, R. H. Huntington.


Commissary of Subsistence, A. H. Hall.


Major and A. D. C., Romaine Freeman.


Major and A. D. C., J. Edw. Massey.


Captain and A. D. C., Norris W. Mundy.


BRIGADE STAFF.


Brigadier-General, Bradley Winslow, Watertown.


Inspector-General, Geo. McComber, Watertown. Surgeon, J. Mortimer Crawe, M.D., Watertown. Inspector Rifle Practice, H. D. Babbitt, Watertown.


Ordnance Officer, F. D. Hill.


Quartermaster, E. M. Gates, Watertown.


Commissary of Subsistence, O. G. Staples, Watertown.


Captain and A. D. C., Wallace Gleason.


BATTALION STAFF.


Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding, Alfred J. Casse, Watertown. Major, John Ward, Watertown. Adjutant, Andrew J. Moore, Watertown. Quartermaster, J. Chase, Jr., Watertown. Commissary of Subsistenee, G. B. Huntington, Theresa. Surgeon, James D. Spencer, M.D., Watertown.


Inspector Rifle Practice, Wm. L. Palmer, Watertown.


Chaplain, Rev. J. W. Putnam, Watertown.


Q. M. Sergeant, George H. Wood, Watertown.


Armorer Sergeant, Richard Smith, Watertown. Drum-Major, Andrew W. Menck, Watertown. Band-Leader, Thomas Forrester, Watertown.


The battalion comprises four companies, whose location, officers of the line, and numerical strength are as follows : Co. A, Watertown, 2d Lieut. Commanding, Marvin J. Dillenbeck ; 86 muskets. Co. B, Watertown, Capt., John A. Inglis ; 1st Lieut., John J. Hartigan ; 2d Lieut., J. Nelson Webb ; 77 muskets. Co C, Watertown, Capt., Jas. R. Miller ; 1st Lieut., John L. Phelps ; 2d Lieut., Thornton J. Corwin ; 76 muskets. Co. D, Theresa, Capt., Jerome Cooper ; 1st Lieut., Joseph Howland ; 2d Lieut., Warren F. Swan; 63 muskets. The battalion numbers about 450 officers and men, including the brigade and division staff and musicians.


The battalion musters for drill and review four times per year, at Watertown. The last review was held September 25, 1877, and included, besides the companies before named, another company from Lowville (Lewis county), under command of Capt. Henry E. Turner. The manœu- vring of the battalion, and also the company movements, were very creditably executed, and the marching in review in the field was cspecially fine. The exercises in the manual of arms showed a commendable degree of proficiency. The battalion is armed with the Remington repeating rifle, and if ever called upon to do active service in the field of war, it would seem as if its record should be a brilliant one. A splendidly drilled and equipped drum-corps, under com- mand of Drum-Major Menck, and the finely uniformed and skillful Watertown City Band, by their soldierly bearing and excellent music, added not a little to the esprit of the occasion.


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THE " WATERTOWN RIFLE ASSOCIATION" was organ- ized in 1876. It has a very excellent rifle range fitted up and equipped with funds appropriated by the State, for which appropriation the militia have the right of the range for two days in each week for rifle practice. The ordinary rules and regulations of rifle club practice have been adopted by the association, and the different ranges up to and ineluding six hundred yards. The range is on Brad- ley street, on the north side of the river. The present offi- cers of the association are as follows: President, W. F. Belknap; Vice-President, Capt. James R. Miller; See- retary, Sherwood D. Andrus; Treasurer, A. L. Upham ; Range Superintendent, C. B. Fowler. The club-rooms are in Winslow block.


SOCIAL.


" The Watertown Pioneer Club" was organized in 1872, by eighteen young gentlemen of the eity who east their first presidential vote that year (and for the successful ean- didate). They camped out on Grindstone island the season of 1872 for ten days, and at so trifling an expense for the amount of pleasure gained, they organized a permanent club, and purchased an island in the St. Lawrence, in the town of Alexandria, and in the spring of 1873 erected a club-house costing $1000, and kept open house for all comers during the season. Their hospitality was lavishly bestowed, and the end of the season found their expense account largely augmented thereby. Nevertheless, the club-house is occupied each season by more or less of the number, and much real physical benefit is gained from the relaxation enjoyed on the island. The officers of the club first chosen remain unchanged at the present time, and are as follows : President, Dexter Van Ostrand; Viee-Presi- dent, C. H. Herriek ; Secretary, C. A. Harger; Treasurer, A. L. Upham ; Trustees, Dexter Van Ostrand, C. A. Har- ger, M. H. Sternbergh.


" Watertown League of Friendship," Wm. A. Portt, A. M .; W. A. Lyttle, secretary. Organized, -.


" Waverly Association," organized -; A. M. Knicker- bocker, president ; Robert P. Oakes, secretary.


SPORTING,


" Watertown River Park Association" was organized 1863 -64. The association purchased fifty-five aeres of land ad- joining the grounds of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society, on the banks of Black river, in 1865, and laid out a mile course and erected buildings, and have held two " meetings" yearly, until 1876, where some fine exhibitions of speed have been given. The present officers are John C. MeCartin, president ; J. Stears, Jr., secretary.


" Watertown Base Ball Association," organized in 1873. W. D. V. Rulison, president ; Chas. A. Settle, secretary. This association is one of the constituents of the New York State Base Ball Tournament Association, which latter body was organized April 4, 1876, by delegates from the Base Ball Associations of Syracuse, Watertown, and Herkimer. The president of the Watertown Association is the present secretary of the State Association. Three tournaments have been held by the Watertown Association.


" Jefferson Sportsmen's Club," Dr. Wmn. R. Trowbridge, president ; A. M. Kenyon, secretary. "State Park Club,"


Chas. S. Hart, president; A. W. Wheeloek, secretary. " Field and Forest Club," C. Partello, president ; W. H. Matson, secretary.


A DISASTROUS FLOOD


in the Black River valley occurred on the 21st, 22d, and 23d days of April, 1869, occasioned by the breaking away of the State damn of the North Lake reservoir, which eov- ered an area of 5000 aeres. Upon the breaking of the dam, the waters rushed into and down the valley,-bearing dismay and leaving ruin in their pathway. . Messengers were dispatched in breathless haste to inform the dwellers and manufacturers in the valley of the impending flood, and means were at onee instituted to strengthen the State dam at Forestport, so as to enable it to resist the torrent ; but all to no purpose. Though the structure was deemed proof against any assault by flood, it proved but as a straw against the combined rush of waters and the accumulated débris of rafts and forest-trees. Huge logs, sixty feet long, were turned end for end in the seething mass, like toys, and as the rafts broke up and jammed, their constituent logs were peeled, splintered, and broken into fragments like scantling. The loss was immense in the valley, nearly every dam on the river, from the break to the mouth, being carried away, with more or less damage to the manufactories themselves. The water-works were suspended in Water- town, by reason of the carrying away of a portion of the wheels operating the foree-pumps, and with the exception of the Cataraet and Gill's mills, which continued to work, every manufacturer on the river in the city was obliged to shut down, being more or less damaged. The Remington Paper Company and Bagley and Sewall were but little if any damaged. The losses in the city were estimated at half a million by the Daily Reformer of April 22. The only dam in the city not carried away was Taggarts' and Davis', and that was saved only by reason of the south wing going out, the rush of water taking away a portion of the Eagle mill, situated thereat. The State was obliged to pay heavy damages to property-owners in the valley, much litigation ensuing in consequence of the flood.


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


JOHN A. SHERMAN.


The subject of this sketeh was born in the town of Rut- land, Jefferson County, June 13, 1809. He is the eldest son of Alfred Sherman, and grandson of Dr. Abel Sher- man, who was a native of Massachusetts, and whose anees- tors were among the early settlers of the New England States, and of English deseent. His mother, Susan Hull, was an adopted daughter of Roswald Woodruff, who came to Jefferson County when it was a trackless wilderness, and was one of its pioneer men.


His grandfather, Dr. Abel Sherman, was a physician by profession, and removed from Brimfield, Massachusetts, to Clinton, Oneida county, New York. He only remained there a few years, and removed to Jefferson County, town


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of Rutland, in the year 1803, and settled upon two hun- dred and twenty acres of timber land, which, in the course of time, he cleared and made tillable. He was the first sheriff of the county, and among its earliest pioneers.


Alfred Sherman, father of John A. Sherman, was a far- mer by occupation, and in comfortable circumstances ; but, during the War of 1812, as contractor of the army, lost most of his property.


Crippled for want of means, he was unable to give his children the advantages of anything more than a common- school education. At the death of his father, 1827, John A., being then seventeen years old, took charge of his father's farm, and supported the family, which consisted of his mother and six children.


At the age of twenty-three, and in the year 1832, he married Miss Julia Ann Larned, of Rutland, and in the year 1834 purchased a dairy of twenty cows, and opened the dairy business for Jefferson County, and at the close of that year sent his cheese, packed in salt-barrels, to New York, taking twenty-one days for shipment by the canal, and only brought six cents per pound when in mar- ket. This was the first dairy of cheese manufactured in Jefferson County. He soon became a dealer in butter and chcese, entering into partnership with Henry Hopkins, of Rutland, shipping to New York ; and in the year 1844 he opened the produce business in that city, shipping mostly from Jefferson and adjoining counties. This business he continued in connection with his farming at home for some seven years. Returning to Rutland township, he gave his entire attention to farming, and became one of the first intelligent and judicious tillers of the soil in the county.


In the fall of 1856 he removed to Watertown city, and purchased the property known as the Washington Hall block, which he still retains. In the year 1855 he was made a director of the Agricultural Fire Insurance Com- pany, of Watertown, New York, and upon the death of its first president, John C. Cooper, he was elected president of that company. He is also a stockholder and director in the Watertown Fire Insurance Company.


In politics John A. Sherman was originally a Democrat of the old school, but became a warm supporter of the Union at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and has since held firmly to the principles of the Republican party.


He was elected to the office of supervisor by the Dem- ocratic party in the town of Rutland, before removing to the city, and was president of the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County.


To Mr. and Mrs. Sherman was born one daughter, named Caroline, who married David S. Marvin, of Ohio, and re- sides with her father in Watertown city.


Mr. Sherman is officially connected with some of the banks of the city, and is classed among the representative and judicious business men.


An engraving of Mr. Sherman's residence and surround- ings, corner of Stone and Massey streets, will be found in connection herewith.


JOSEPH MULLIN.


The subject of this sketeh was born August 6, 1811, near Dromon, county of Down, Ireland. He was the youngest of eleven children of John and Martha Mullin. Part of the family emigrated to the United States about 1820, and the rest shortly thereafter, and settled first at Brownville, and soon after in Watertown, where his home has been ever since.


About 1826 he entered the printing-office of Theron Parsons & Co., of Watertown, as an apprentice, and con- tinued with them until the dissolution of the firm and transfer of the paper to Mr. Hovey, one of the firm. He was then employed to work upon the newspaper published by him. While in the employ of Mr. Hovey, Mr. Parsons established a paper at Adams, and, by the consent of Mr. Hovey, he went to aid Mr. Parsons in getting out his first paper. He remained there only a few weeks, and returned to Watertown, and for several months worked for Alden Abbey on a paper published by him in that place. At an early age he entered Union Academy, at Belleville, of which Mr. Charles Avery was principal.


By the advice of his teachers and friends he commenced the study of the languages, with a view of entering college, and ultimately studying law. Acting upon their advice, he entered the junior class of Union College in the fall of 1831, and graduated in 1833. During the same year he was employed as principal of Union Academy, and served in that capacity one year. Returning to Watertown, he engaged in the Watertown Academy for a short time, but left it and commenced the study of law with Hon. T. C. Chittenden, of Adams, where he remained until Septem- ber, when he returned to Watertown as principal of the academy.


In 1836 he entered the law-office of Messrs. Sterling & . Bronson, of Watertown, and remained with them until the fall of 1837, when he was admitted to practice, having previously studied law with Messrs. Rogers, Mason & Co., and also with Mr. Eldridge, of Belleville.


Immediately after his admission he entered into partner- ship with Messrs. Sterling & Bronson, and remained with them about two years, and at the expiration of this time opened an office of his own in Watertown.


In January, 1839, he married Miss Lydia M., daughter of the Hon. Egbert Ten Eyck, of Watertown. Judge Ten Eyek had previously been, and subsequently was, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson County.


To Mr. and Mrs. Mullin have been born five children,- three daughters and two sons. The eldest son, Anthony Ten Eyck, entered the navy in 1861 as third assistant engineer. On the 19th of September, 1877, after being absent for two years on the United States steamer " Rich- mond," he came home on a visit, and died almost instantly the same day. The youngest, Joseph Mullin, Jr., is prac- ticing as an attorney- and counselor-at-law in Watertown.


Joseph Mullin was appointed Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner, and Commissioner in Bank- ruptcy under the bankrupt act of 1841.


In 1846 he was elected member of Congress, and repre- sented the Jefferson district in the XXXth Congress. In


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1857 he was elected a justice of the Supreme Court in and for the fifth judicial district, New York State. He was re-elected to the same office in 1865 and 1873 without opposition. He received from the trustees of Hamilton College, and also from the trustees of Union College, the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1870 he was appointed by the governor presiding justice of the general term in and for the fourth judicial department, and was reappointed after his last election in 1873. He is now in his sixty- seventh year of age, having been an active attorney for twenty years, and justice of the Supreme Court subse- quently for the same number of years.


JENERY T. GOTHAM.


The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Watertown, March 10, 1813. He was son of Colonel John Gotham and Nancy Penniman. In his father's family there were four children, of whom Jenery was eldest son. His father was a native of New Hampshire, and his grandfather was of English birth, and emigrated with his brother to America to avoid the draft into the English army.


His father came to Jefferson County and settled in Watertown when he was about twenty-one years of age. This was about 1804. At the age of twenty-three, and in the year 1805, his father married Miss Nancy Penniman, of New Hampshire, who was born in the year 1781.


Together they began life for themselves in an almost trackless wilderness, and commenced clearing off the forest and making the land tillable. In the year 1812 he enlisted as corporal, under Captain Lampson, to defend the frontier of the Empire State against the attacks of the British, and was in the battle of Sacket's Harbor. At the close of the war he actively engaged in the State Militia Rifle Com- pany, and was regularly promoted until he received the title of colonel.


He came to a premature death, being drowned in Lake Ontario November 15, 1840, at the age of fifty-seven years.


The subject of this memoir lived at home until he was twenty-six years of age, at which time he married Miss Caroline Hutchinson, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Hutchinson, of Saratoga county, and their forefathers came originally from New England, and were of English descent. After four years, and in the year 1843, he removed to Lewis county and settled on a farm, but remained only three years, and returned to Watertown village, and remaining there only a few years, removed to the place where he now resides and has been for the past twenty-eight years. An engraving of his residence, under the portraits of himself and wife, will be found on another page of this work, showing the results of a life of labor and toil by himself and wife.


To Mr. and Mrs. Gotham were born three children, viz., John H., Zeruah, and Darwin B. Gotham. All are living. John H. married Miss Cyntha Kelsey ; have one child, and live in the town of Watertown. Zeruah married Merrit Fish ; have four children, and reside in Rutland. Darwin B. married Miss Lizzie Mallet; have one child, and reside in Watertown city.


Hle is a Democrat in politics, has been an active and industrious man, and is honored and respected by all who know him. He is now in his sixty-fifth year.


JOHN G. HARBOTTLE.


The subject of this sketch was born in Trenton, Oneida county, New York, June 4, 1819. He was son of John Harbottle and Sophia Vassar. His father was born in the county of Northumberland, England, March 9, 1779, and at the age of twenty-two, and in the year 1801, emigrated from England and settled at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, New York. His mother was sister of Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, New York State, and daughter of James and Annie Vassar, of English birth. Sophia Vassar, his mother, was born in the county of Norfolk, England, December 11, 1784, and emigrated to America with her father and family when she was twelve years of age, and in the year 1796. The Vassar family are of French descent, and this line of the family left France dur- ing the early part of the eighteenth century, and settled in England.


· His father was married May 10, 1806, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Engaged soon after in the manufacturing of cloth, and is said to have been the first man in this State who carded wool by machinery. Following the clothing business, he was located severally at Oriskany, Trenton, Oneida county, Chittenango, Madison county, Mottville, Cayuga county, and in 1833 settled in Watertown, New York. He died in 1843. His wife died in 1861. John Guy was sixth son and eighth child of his father's family of eleven children, and was fourteen years of age when the family settled in Watertown. Returned to Poughkeepsie, remaining four years, and learned the tin-smith trade, came back to Watertown 1838, and for some six years was fore- man for Norris M. Woodruff & Son, in the same business. Afterwards for the Coopers, and in the year 1852 estab- lished business for himself. Receiving no assistance pecu- niarily, by economy and judicious management has become one of the most successful business men of the city.


In politics Mr. Harbottle is a Republican. In persuasion he is connected with the Baptist church, uniting with that body at the age of nineteen. Always taking a very active part in the councils of that body, and having held the office of deacon for many years.


At the age of twenty-two he married Mrs. Victorine R. Huntington, daughter of Lathrop Huntington, of Water- town. Of this marriage was born one son, George Vassar, who died at the age of fourteen. The wife and mother died 1843. For his second wife he married Miss Marcia Ann Crydenwise, daughter of John Crydenwise, of Otsego county, and of German descent, May 28, 1848. Of this marriage were born eleven children, of whom only three are living, viz. : John Clark, Edward Guy, and Frank Vassar, all living at home. An engraving of the residence and sur- roundings of Mr. Harbottle will be seen on another page of this work, together with the engraved portraits of himself and wife, showing something of the result of a life of labor and toil.


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AUTTLE


P. G. Kys


The subject of this sketch was born in Acworth, New Hampshire, February 24, 1774. He was a lincal descendant, of the sixth gener- ation, of Solomon Keyes, who emigrated from England as early as 1653, as his name is found on the Newbury, Massachusetts, records of this date.


Judge Keyes, as he was called, was without early educational priv- ileges, and, like many of his contemporaries, was being launched upon the world unaided and alone. He had a powerful frame, a well-bal- anced brain, and a sanguine temperament. At the age of fifteen he struck out into the busy world for himself, and, with his brother Fred- cric, went into the pine regions of Saratoga county and engaged in the lumbering business on North river. After some time he returned to New Hampshire, and in the year 1796, November 20, married Miss Lucinda White, a young lady of more than ordinary ability. In the year 1799 he, in company with his brother, William Keyes, and Amos Stebbins, came by the way of Montreal and Kingston, and settled in the town of Rutland, this county, and their names are among the first, with one single exception, who purchased land in that town. Now settled with his wife and young son, Perley G. Keyes (whose portrait is found above this sketch), he began clearing off the forest, which to the men of that day was pastime.


That part of the county was then known as Survey 3 of the " Black river tract." The town people being met together for town purposes, it was agreed that he who should furnish liquor for the party should have the honor of naming the town. Mr. Keyes proposed to take the honor, and named the town Rutland. He was early appointed justice of the peace. Although with neither lawyer or school-master learning, he had that native talent and good sense that he acquitted himself as a conservator of the peace, and fitted him to be the leader of a political party in northern New York. In 1805 he was ap- pointed one of the judges of the county court with Joshua Bealls. In 1808 he was appointed sheriff of Jefferson County, and removed to Watertown in the fall of 1809, exchanging one hundred and thirty- five acres of land in the town of Rutland for fifty-five acres fronting on Washington street, with Dr. Isaiah Massey, and getting $1000 to boot.


He was appointed collector of the port of Sacket's Harbor in 1814, and held the office for four years, and elected State senator the same ycar, and held that office for four years. Was re-elected for a second term in 1824. Becoming a member of the council of appointment,


he began to exert that controlling influence in the politics of the State which made him the head and front of his party.


In 1831 he was recommended by Martin Van Buren, Silas Wright, Jr., and others, to the office of governor of Wisconsin Territory, then about to be created. The political activity and firmness of Judge Keyes, for a long series of years, was only equaled by the remark- able clearness and power of his native mind. In this State there are few men whose services for his friends, in our heated and frequent conflicts, are to be remembered with more gratitude or less regret than his. But the best evidence offered in his favor is that, in the midst of the most bitter conflicts, he twice returned to the legislature from a district where other Republican candidates failed.




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