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On the 1st of September, 1897, Dr. Grant was married to Miss Lillian Clark, a daughter of Eli Clark, of Oneida, New York. Their little danghter, Priscilla, is the life and light of their home, which is situated at 321 Genesee street. Dr. Grant belongs to Faxton Lodge, No. 697, F. &. A. M., and the high principles of manhood and citizenship, of brotherly kindness and helpfulness, which the craft inculcates find expression in his life.
EDWARD JUDSON MILLSPAUGHI.
Edward JJudson Millspaugh, who, as the head of the firm of Millspaugh & Green, represents the coal supply of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company for eentral New York, was born in Richmond, Richmond county, Staten Island, New York, June 20, 1861, and is the eldest son of Dr. Isaac Little Millspaugh and Deborah Barron Mundy, his wife. His ancestors originally came from Hol- land and settled in Orange county, New York, the first, so Far as known, being Peter Van Miltzpacht, in 1720. The name in its Americanized form has been Millspaugh for several generations. Dr. Isaac L. Millspaugh was born in Wall- kill, New York, February 1, 1827, and is a prominent physician and surgeon in Richmond, Staten Island, where his wife, Deborah Barron Mundy, was born May 11, 1836. She died there July 7, 1890.
Edward J. Millspaugh was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the age of eighteen years became a clerk in a hardware store in New York city. He subsequently accepted a position in the purchasing department of the New York Central Railroad. In these capacities he developed those excellent business qualifications which have contributed so materially to the success of all his subsequent efforts. On the 1st of January, 1887, he came to Utica as assist-
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ant to Jesse L. Eddy, then the resident sales agent for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, and on January 1, 1890, he was appointed to succeed him. On the Ist of June of the latter year he founded the firm of Millspaugh & Green. The company which this firm has since represented as sales agent handles more than one-third of all the coal shipped into central, western and northern New York and Upper Canada. The business was incorporated in 1905, under the name of the Millspaugh & Green Company, and they now have offices in Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Cleveland, and handle coal in Ohio, Indiana and Ken- tueky. In both Syraense and Rochester they do both a wholesale and retail busi- ness, while at Utica their business is wholesale exclusively, this being the chief distributing eenter for their district. Mr. Millspaugh is the president of this company.
From his connection with this vast business he is more prominently identified with the coal supply of Oneida county and adjacent territory than any other citizen within the province of this volume and is, therefore, justly entitled to a place in local annals. Outside of these interests, which command his chief atten- tion, he is actively connected with various other enterprises of local and general importance. He was one of the incorporators in 1890 of the Utica Cold Storage & Warehouse Company, a very successful corporation, and has continuously served as a member of the board of directors. He is also president of the cor- poration carrying on business under the name of the Millspaugh, Green, Me- Murich Company, with offices in Detroit ; is a director and member of the execu- tive committe of the Oneida National Bank; is secretary of the MeMillan Book Company of Syracuse ; and vice president of the Utica Fixture Company, which manufactures fixtures for gas and electric lighting. He is a member of the Oneida Historical Society of Utica, vice president of the Fort Schuyler Club and a director and secretary of the International Heater Company.
On June 20, 1887, Mr. Millspaugh was married to Miss Anna Bell Mase, of Matteawan, Dutchess county, daughter of Hon. Willard II. Mase, who for five successive years represented his district in the state legislature, was the prime mover in securing the location of the State Hospital for Insane Criminals at Matteawan, New York, and was largely instrumental in organizing and establish- ing the State Lunacy Commission. They have one son, Francis Corwin Mills- pangh, born in Utica, November 16, 1890.
LOUIS MAYO MARTIN.
Lonis Mayo Martin, who has been engaged in the practice of law in Clinton since 1889, was born in Madison county, New York, on the 26th of November, 1862, and is a son of Marshall W. and Lizzie L. (Hankins) Martin, the father a native of Kirkland, Oneida county, and the mother of Madison county, this state. The Martins have long been residents of this county, the grandfather, John L. Martin, having located here about 1840.
The elementary education of Louis Mayo Martin was obtained in the district schools of his native county, following which he attended the high school of Ham-
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ilton and the grammar school of Clinton. After laying aside his school books Mr. Martin engaged in teaching for a time, his first school being at the Franklin Iron Works, where he remained until 1858, during which time he also studied law in the office of Charles R. Carruth, of Clinton. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1889 and immediately established an office in Clinton, but the first year he practiced he was also principal of the village school. In 1890 he with- drew from school work entirely, henceforth devoting his entire attention to his profession.
Mr. Martin was married in Clinton to Miss M. Louise Foucher, of New York city, their union being solemnized in August, 1890. Mrs. Martin is a daughter of Vietor and Mary Elizabeth ( Burlingame) Foucher, the father a native of France and the mother of Clinton. Mrs. Foucher is a direet descendant of Al- bert and John Burlingame, who settled in Connectieut in 1784. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin has been born one child, Alice Lucile.
Fraternally Mr. Martin is connected with the Masonie order, being a mem- ber of Clinton Lodge, No. 169, F. & A. M., the Maccabees and the Sons of St. George. IIe also belongs to the Clinton Hook & Ladder Company, of which he was president for several years, and the Skenandoah Club, having also been president of this organization. Mr. Martin has always participated in political activities, and at the present time is president of the village of Clinton. He is also president of the board of trustees of the Clinton high school, which office he has filled for twelve years ; he was justice of the peace of the town of Kirkland for eight years, which position he resigned when elected member of the assembly from the second Oneida district, serving as a legislator for three years, from 1900 to 1903. In 1901, 1902, 1905, 1906 he was deputy attorney general of the state of New York, under attorney-generals John C. Davies and Julius M. Mayer. His political views accord with the principles of the republican party, for whose candidates he always casts his ballot. Mr. Martin is one of the progressive, pub- lie-spirited citizens of the town, who is contributing his quota toward the devel- opment of a higher sense of civie responsibility.
FRANK J. DE BISSCHOP.
The name of the Rome Hollow Wire & Tube Company, of 244 East Dominiek street, is each year becoming more generally known, the result in a large meas- ure of the efforts of its president, Frank J. De Bisschop, who has had an ex -. tensive experience and is an acknowledged leader in this line of business. He is a native of Bayonne, New Jersey, born January 12, 1879, being a son of Andrew and Wilhelmina (Lamar) De Bisschop. Mr. De Bisschop, Sr., moved with his family to Southington, Connecticut, and there the son received his preliminary education in the publie schools. He then spent a year at a private preparatory school, after which time he matriculated at Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland. where he spent one and one-half years, paying especial attention to metallurgy.
F. J. DE BISSCHOP
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The first employment of Mr. De Bisschop, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, was with the Waterbury Clock Company of Waterbury, Connec- ticut, as foreman of a department. Here he gained valuable practical experi- ence that assisted him materially as he advanced to positions of larger respon- sibility. Ilis next employment was with IIolmes, Booth & Hayden, manufac- turers of brass and copper. Ile remained with this firm two years and then accepted a position with the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Company, also manufacturers of brass and copper. After seven years with this con- cern he resigned to become superintendent of the Rome Tube Company, a branch of the Rome Brass & Copper Company, and one year later went to Hastings-on-Hudson as superintendent of the seamless tube mill of the Na- tional Conduit & Cable Company. This position he held for one year, at the end of which time he returned to Rome, having been appointed superintendent of the Rome Metal Company, a position which he filled with great acceptability. Having acquired an interest in the company, he was after two and one-half years elected president and manager of the Rome Hollow Wire & Tube Com- pany, an enterprise which is apparently destined to become under its present energetic management one of the most important concerns of the kind in the country.
On the 7th of August, 1901, Mr. De Bisschop was married to Miss Ida May Spender, a daughter of Albert and Sarah Spender, of Waterbury, Connecticut, but now of Milford, Connecticut. One child, Lois, has been born to this union. Mr. De Bisschop is not a member of any clubs or fraternal organizations but takes an active interest in the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a lover of mathematics and has taught classes in that branch in the Rome Young Men's Christian Association. His religious belief is indicated by membership in the First Presbyterian church. In his business he has always used strictly honorable and straightforward methods and his success has been largely due to his known integrity of character and his ability in a calling for which he is by nature and training especially adapted.
SYLVESTER DERING.
Sylvester Dering, identified at different times with the practice of law, with manufacturing interests and now with the insurance business in Utica, was born in New York city but during his boyhood days was brought to Utica by his parents, Dr. Nicoll IIavens and Frances (Huntington) Dering. At the usual age he entered the public schools and continued his studies in the aead- emy in Utica, following which he pursued a course in civil engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1859. Holding in view the purpose of engaging in the practice of law as a life work he then entered the Law University of Albany and received his degree in 1863. He then practiced his profession until 1866, when he turned his attention to the lumber and mill business in which he continued until 1888. In that year he removed to Malone, New York, where he Vol. II-20
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conducted a paper and pulp mill for ten years. The different changes in his business connections represented a gradual development and growth in his business activities and opportunities and the success which for many years crowned his efforts permitted of his practical retirement upon his return to U'tiea. However, in the field of insurance he is still active.
At different times Mr. Dering has been prominent in connection with publie service. In 1863 he served as adjutant of the Forty-fifth Regiment of the New York State National Guard and in August of the same year was appointed by Governor Horatio Seymour as brigadier general of the New York State Na- tional Guard, continuing in active service with the state militia for twenty- three years. In local affairs his activity has constituted a force for public prog- ress and improvement and his influence has always been found on the side of advancement and practical reform. For six years he was clerk of the com- mission for the erection of a new court-house in Oneida county and in 1863 and 1864 he represented the third ward of the city of Utica on the board of supervisors of this county.
Mr. Dering was married in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1864, to Miss Ella Virginia Bristol. a daughter of Willis Bristol, president of the New Haven County National Bank. Two sons were born of this marriage: Nicoll Havens, now deceased ; and Brinley Sylvester, at home. The social position of the family is a prominent one and Mr. Dering is a leading member of Fort Schuyler Chap- ter of the Sons of the Revolution. He joined the New York society in 1896, qualifying through his great-grandfathers. Thomas Dering and Benjamin Hunt- ington, and is now regent of the local chapter. Mr. Dering is a member of the Oneida County Ilistorical Society and was its treasurer for thirteen years. Ilis entire life has been characterized by an orderly progression which has brought him from the field of limited undertaking to one of large activity in business cireles and white never stimulated by a vaulting ambition he has not hesitated to venture where favoring opportunity has led the way.
JUDSON GILES KILBOURN, M. D.
Dr. Judson Giles Kilbourn is a surgeon of Utica where he has practiced for more than a quarter of a century. He was born in Plainfield. Otsego county, New York, January 11, 1860, and is a son of Francis S. and Agnes Smith Kil- bourn. At the usual age he became a pupil in the public schools of his native town and later attended the West Winfield Academy but graduated from the Sauquoit Academy in the class of 1879. He had little hesitaney in making the choice of a profession and studied for nearly two years in the office and under the direction of Dr. James F. Huntley of West Winfield. New York, after which he matriculated in the university of the city of New York as a medical student and was granted his professional degree upon graduation in March, 18-4. In July of the same year he began the practice of medicine in Utica but for the past ten years has specialized in surgery. He served as house physi- cian to St. Luke's hospital. physician to the Utiea city dispensary and surgeon
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to the Utica General, St. Elizabeth's and Faxton hospitals. At the present time he is on the surgical staff of St. Luke's hospital and is surgeon to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Companies. IIe is a member of the Utiea Library Asso- ciation, the Oneida County Medical Society, the New York State Medical So- ciety, the American Medical Association, the New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons and the Fort Schuyler and Areanum Clubs.
In 1889 Dr. Kilbourn was married to Miss Nella E. Armstrong of Plain- field. New York, and they have one son, David Giles, born June 30, 1897.
FREDERICK J. BREITHAUPT.
A well known and capable young business man of Deerfield township and supervisor of Oneida county is Frederiek J. Breithaupt, whose birth occurred in this county on the 1st of March, 1878. His parents were Julius Edward and Emma (Sittig) Breithaupt, the father a native of Baden, Germany, and the mother of Albany, New York. Julius E. Breithaupt came to Deerfield in 1875 and engaged in the plumbing and tinning business in Utica, continning to be identified with that activity until his death on the 20th of December. 1894. He had attained high rank in the Masonie fraternity, having passed the thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite, and belonged to Oriental Lodge, No. 224, A. F. & A. M .; and Oneida Chapter, No. 57, R. A. M. Hle was also a member of Skenandoah Lodge No. 95. 1. O. O. F., while in polities he was a democrat. Mrs. Breithaupt passed away on the 30th of December, 1903. They were the parents of six children as follows: Flora, the wife of Thomas Gleason, of Utica; Emma, who became the wife of William Gately of Syra- euse ; Mary, who is a resident of Utica; Julius; Charles; and Frederick .I .. our subject. The parents were both laid to rest in Forest Hill cemetery. Utica, New York.
Reared at home Frederick J. Breithaupt acquired his education in the publie and high schools and one of the business colleges of Utiea. After the completion of his education he learned the plumber's and tinner's trade with his father with whom he continued to be associated until the latter's demise, following which he assumed the entire management of the business which he is still conducting at No. 88 North Genesee street, Utica.
In 1901, Mr. Breithaupt was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Augusta Brower, who was born in Utica, New York, on the 18th of April, 1877, and is a daughter of Jacob and Angusta Brower, who have long been residents of Marcy township. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Breithaupt have been born two sons: Fred- erick C., whose birth occurred on the 4th of February, 1902; and Alton Brooks Parker, who was born on the 20th of July. 1904.
Fraternally Mr. Breithaupt is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding membership in Oneida Lodge, No. 70. I. O. O. F .; and the I. O. R. M., St. Regis Tribe; he also is a member of the Eagles. IIe is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, having enlisted on the 13th of July,
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1×95, in the Two Hundred and Third New York Volunteers and was mus- tered out on the I5th of May, 1899. Through his membership in the United Spanish War Veterans and Spanish War Encampment he maintains relations with his comrades of the field. He is also identified with the Master Builders' association of I'tica. For sixteen years he has been a member of the Deer- field Volunteer Fire Department, of which organization he was chief for sev- eral years, and has been sent as a delegate to the State Firemen's conventions five times.
Ever since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Breithaupt has taken an active and helpful interest in politics, giving his support to the candidates of the democracy: At the age of twenty-two years he was elected township clerk, which office he held for three terms, and in 1907, at the expiration of his period of service, he was elected county supervisor for Deerfield township of which office he is still the incumbent. He is very popular with his constituency and has several times been sent as a delegate to the various democratie conventions. Mr. Breithaupt has demonstrated both as a business man and a public official that he is possessed of more than average ability and all who know him feel assured of his success in either a commercial or political career.
ALBERT EDSON STAFFORD, M. D.
Dr. Albert Edson Stafford, enjoying a large and Incrative practice as a member of the medical profession in Whitesboro, has been a resident of that village since August, 1902. He was born in Plattsburg. Clinton county, New York, April 30, 1877, and is a son of Rufus Eugene and Ella M. (Ford- ham) Stafford, both of whom were natives of Clinton County, New York. The father was a farmer by occupation and under the parental roof Albert E. Stafford spent his youthful days, acquiring his early education in the dis- trict schools. He prepared for college in the Plattsburg Normal and in prep- aration for the practice of medicine in 1897 entered the medical college at Syracuse, New York, being graduated therefrom with the M. D. degree in 1901. He afterward spent a year as interne in the Hospital of the Good Shep- ard at Syracuse and the broadening experiences there proved very valuable as a preparation for the duties which have since devolved upon him in the grow- ing practice that has been accorded him since he came to Whitesboro in August, 1902. His success has steadily grown, his practice inereasing in volume and importance as the years have gone by. He is faithful and conscientious in the performance of all his professional duties and has the confidence not only of the general public but also of his professional brethren as well. He is resident physician of the Whitesboro Sanitarium and keeps in touch with the progress of the profession through his membership in the American Medical Association, New York State Medical Society and Oneida County and Utica Medical Li- brary Societies. He has been health officer for Yorkville. Whitesboro and the township of Whitestown for the past eight years.
DR. A E. STAFFORD
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On the 15th of September, 1903, Dr. Stafford was married to Miss Lillian Cooke, a daughter of John and Mary Cooke. In addition to his home in Whitesboro Dr. Stafford has a lodge on Lake Champlain where he spends his vacations with a motor boat on the lake and in fishing. He is a typical man of the present day, eagerly alive to all the interests and issues of the times, and keeps well informed on the political questions of the moment, giving his allegiance to the republican party. He served for two terms as a trustee of Whitesboro but is not a politician in the sense of office-seeking. He belongs to the Whitesboro Sportsmen Association and is prominent in Masonic circles, holding membership in Oriskany Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Syracuse Consistory, A. & A. S. R .; and Utica Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is reported as one of the leading citizens of the community whose interests are of a varied kind and whose cooperation may always be counted upon as a help- ful element in public progress.
ERASTUS ZENAS WRIGHT.
Among the long established families of Oneida county the Wright family ocenpies a prominent place, an early member of this name having arrived in central New York soon after 1799, coming from Massachusetts into the wilder- ness which covered the section now known as Oneida county. It was through these pioneers, possessing the simple virtues of fearlessness, energy and per- sistence that New York state was settled. They prepared the way and the present generation reaps the benefits of their self-sacrifice and toil.
The pioneer member of the Wright family to come to America was Samnel Wright of Wrightsbridge, Essex county. England, who settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1639. In 1653 he moved his large family to Northampton, Massachusetts. At the close of the 18th century, Zenas Wright, a direct descendant, left Northampton, going to Oneida county, and in 1816 to Utica, where, with his wife Malinda Beech he resided for fifty years, both passing away in 1866. Zenas Wright was a tanner and for many years filled the office of justice of the peace, gaining a wide reputation on account of his able administration of the duties of that position. Of their four daughters, one, Huldah Beech remained in Utica, marrying George Strong Dana, junior mem- ber of the firm of Dana & Son. In 1829, their son, Erastus Zenas was born, who, for more than 82 years was a highly respected citizen of Utica. IIe died July 10, 1911.
Erastus Zenas Wright received his preliminary education in private schools and laying his studies aside, entered the employ of Dana & Com- pany, hardware dealers, whose business was established in 1801. He was made a member of the firm in 1859 and the title was changed to Wright, Dana & Company. It is now the oldest hardware firm in the United States and has conducted business at the same location for one hundred and ten years. Mr. Wright was also identified with other interests and for thirty-
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five years past was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank.
In May, 1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Julia Adelaide Butler. a daughter of Asa Alanson and Mary (Mosher) Butler. of Sauquoit. The Butlers were also early settlers of Oneida county, having arrived at New Hartford in 1791 from Middleton, Massachusetts. Four children came to bless the U'nion of Mr. and Mrs. Wright: Mabel, who married W. Henry Esser; Elizabeth Butler, the wife of Willis N. Mills; Julia Henrietta, who married J. De Peyster Lynch : and Benjamin Ilager.
Mr. Wright was closely connected in his active years with movements for the promotion of the publie good. ile was one of the organizers of the l'tica Art Association and the Utica Park Association but has never sought any publie office. Entirely unassuming, he preferred the quiet walks of life, al- though never backward in assisting his friends in securing coveted honors. In former years he was an ardent devotee of the rod and gun. and he and his faithful dog were often to be seen wending their way along streams and in unfrequented places in Oneida county. He was a valued member of the Masonic order whose benevolent principles have found in his heart a generous response. and his life was largely directed in accordance with its kindly teachings.
WILLIAM G. MAYER
While living retired from business cares. William G. Mayer, of Waterville, New York, has been and is prominently associated with the public life of the community and with many activities which have more than local sig- nificance and value. His influence is always found on the side of progress and improvement and his labors have at all times been of a practical ehar- acter, productive of substantial and beneficial results. Ile was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio. August 15, 1850. a son of Frederick J. and Pauline C. Mayer. The father was a graduate of the University of Heidelberg. Germany, but was compelled to flee from his native country to America because of his con- nection with the revolution of 1848-a movement that brought Carl Sehurz and many eminent sons of Germany to the new world. Mr. Mayer became a resident of Cincinnati and was soon recognized as a prominent and influential citizen there. President Lincoln appointed him postmaster of the city.
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