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On November 4, 1885, Mr. Blue was united in marriage to Miss Julia E. Wells, a daughter of Chester A. Wells, of Trenton, New York, and a native of the same place. Their children are four in number. Malcohn C. was born De- cember 24, 1887. Ernest W., born August 3, 1890, a student in the Belmore College of Forestry in Germany, had prior to the time when he went abroad, given much attention to the study of forestry and contributed to the press a number of articles on the subject which were widely published and brought him into correspondenee with many people from all parts of the country. His article, entitled "The Passing of the Hemlocks" in Oneida county is of great value as a study in conservation. Frank A., born October 19, 1896, is a student in the Poland high school, and Arabelle, born August 14, 1898, is at home. Mr. Blue and his family attend the Presbyterian church of North Gage, and he belongs to Trenton Lodge, No. 577, I. O. O. F., of Trenton. He is a highly intellectual man, of affable and genial manner, and his friendship is valued highly by all who know him.
JOIIN EUGENE JONES.
John Eugene Jones, whose demise occurred in Utiea, on the 22d of Feb- ruary, 1908, was in the employ of the New York Central Railroad here for over thirty years. He was born at Floyd, New York, in 1842 and obtained his education in Whitestown Seminary. In early manhood he came to Utiea and here continued to reside throughout the remainder of his life with the ex- eeption of a period of three years spent in Albany. At the time of the Civil war he went to the front in defense of the Union, serving with an Oneida reg- iment for three years. Ile was in the employ of the New York Central Rail- road Company for over thirty years, acting as train dispateher, yardman and
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conductor. His long retention in the service of the corporation is unmistak- able proof of his capability and fidelity in the discharge of the duties entrusted to him. At length he retired because of impaired health and was called to his final rest on the 22d of February, 1908.
On the 9th of March, 1871, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Jones of Oneida county, her father being Morris Jones, who came to this country from Wales and turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits in Oneida county, owning two fine farms here. One of these farms is still in possession of the family. Unto our subject and his wife were born two chil- dren, namely : Morris J .; and Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Frederick Hazard. John E. Jones was a devoted and consistent member of the Bleecker Street Baptist church, exemplifying its teachings in his daily life. Though of a retiring disposition, he won the high regard and esteem of all with whom he came in contaet. A man of domestic tastes, he found his greatest enjoyment at his own fireside in the companionship of his wife and children. Mrs. Jones, who lives at No. 3 Cottage place in Utica, has a circle of friends here that is almost coextensive with the circle of her acquaintances.
JAMES H. GLASS, M. D.
Dr. James II. Glass was born June 15, 1854, at Mohawk, New York, the son of Robert and Emily (Merrill) Glass and a descendant of Rev. John Glass, the eminent English divine of the eighteenth century and of Governor John Web- ster, of Connecticut, an original proprietor in Hartford in 1626. Dr. Glass' education was acquired in the public schools and through private instructors until 1872, when he entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, about this period devoting some time to a study of the land and fresh-water shells of North America, and comparative anatomy. In 1874 he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and was graduated from that institution, now merged with the University of New York, beginning the practice of his profession at Watkins, New York, in 1878. He removed to Utica, New York, in 1880, where he now resides. In 1893 he was appointed surgeon in charge of the Faxton Hospital in Utica, a position which he still retains, devoting his attention ex- clusively to the practice of surgery. During his administration the yearly ad- missions to the Faxton Hospital have grown from sixty to over twelve hundred patients, and there have been added to the resources of the institution the Fox- Hayward Surgery, the Florence Nightingale Home for Nurses, the Williams Ob- stetrieal Pavilion and the Veeder Memorial Building, Surgery and Laboratory, while the general equipment of the hospital is essentially modern and efficient.
Dr. Glass was from 1882 to 1890 the attending surgeon at St. Luke's IIos- pital, Utica, New York; from 1886 to 1891 the physician and surgeon in charge of the Utica City Hospital; from 1888 to 1891 assistant surgeon in the National Guard ; from 1880 to 1895 attending surgeon at St. Elizabeth's IHospital, Utiea, New York, and consulting surgeon to the Utica City Dispensary since 1893 and the president of its board of trustees for many years. He was also for a num-
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ber of years the surgeon of the Mohawk division of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, his association therewith beginning in 1896. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of the State of New York and its vice president in 1908, the National Association of Rail- way Surgeons, the Oneida County Medical Society, the Medical Library Asso- riation of U'tica, and honorary member of the county societies of Schuyler, Jef- ferson and Montgomery. Ile has been delegated to represent the Medical So- ciety of the State of New York at the Massachusetts State Medical Society and the International Medical Congress which convened in Moscow, Russia, in 1897.
Dr. Glass was married in Johnstown, New York, on the 31st of May, 1882, to Anna Wells, a daughter of the late Ilon. Jolin Wells and Margaret (Stewart) Wells.
Dr. Glass is liberal in his political and religious views yet never neglectful of the duties of citizenship and appreciative at all times of practical measures making for public progress. His time, however, is largely absorbed by pro- fessional services, the nature of which and the success he achieves therein being indication of his high standing as one of the foremost surgeons of the state.
ABRAM VEDDER BROWER.
In the twentieth century, other things being equal. the men of substance are the stronger force in the progress of the world. The financial position of his father gave A. Vedder Brower a substantial start in life, bringing with it. however, large responsibilities as well as opportunities. He has fully met the former in utilizing the latter and in directing important enterprises has promoted the progress and prosperity of the district in which he has operated. U'tiea claims him as a native son, his birth having here occurred on the 10th of March, 1877. His parents were Abram Giles and Jennie Helen (Vedder) Brower, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this volume. He prepared for college at Belmont School, in Belmont, Massachusetts, and then entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1896. He left college, however, in 1899 at the close of his junior year and in the fall of that year entered the Lowell Textile School at Lowell, Massachusetts, pur- suing the second-year course in cotton spinning and completing as well the third- year course in the same year. In 1901 he accepted the position of cotton classer in the Utica Steam & Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills but a year later resigned to take up the management of family interests. He has since been a prominent figure in controlling the varied and important business investments which constitute features of the estate and in 1911 he became one of the or- ganizers of the Great Lakes Steamship Company, a consolidation of five trans-
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portation companies operating on the Great Lakes with a fleet of twenty-one freight boats. Of this corporation he was elected a director at its organization.
In the spring of 1898, being then in the sophomore year at Harvard, Mr. Brower joined the Harvard Rifles and as a member of this company volunteered his serviees in the Spanish-American war but the command was not called into active service. His political indorsement is given to the republican party but he has held no political offiee nor is he affiliated with any secret societies. He is, however, well known in various elubs and organizations having as their foundation social and other interests, being now secretary of the Fort Sehuyler Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution and a member of the Harvard Club of New York city, the Automobile Club of America, the Automobile Club of Utiea, of which he is also treasurer, the Fort Schuyler Club of Utica, and the Utiea Chamber of Commerce. He likewise belongs to the Sadaquada Golf Club and the Yahnundahsis Golf Club, both of Utica. Ile holds membership in the Dutch Reformed church.
Mr. Brower is unmarried and resides at the family home, corner of Genesee street and Cottage place, Utica.
ELMER ELLSWORTH PADDOCK.
Among the representative rural citizens of Oneida county is Elmer E. Pad- dock, one of the leading farmers of Florence township. He was born at Boon- ville, Oneida county, New York, April 30, 1861, a son of James II. and Susan Ann (Yerdon) Paddock. The father was also a native of this county, being a son of James H. Paddock, a farmer of Florence. He is still living on his farm near Florence, now in his eighty-first year. The mother, a daughter of Henry Yerdon, died in November 1905, at the age of seventy-three years. They were the parents of four children : Rosa, wife of Simon Groat, now deceased ; Almenzo, a farmer of Holland Patent ; Elmer E., of this review; and James Arthur, a farmer of North Western, New York.
Elmer E. Paddock was educated in the distriet schools of Florence, and ined on the home farm till the age of twenty-six, when he began farming on , own account. For two years he rented land and then bought one hundred and nineteen acres on section 4 of Florence township, where he has sinee made his home. To this traet he has added from time to time until it now comprises "o hundred and forty acres, and contains a large and comfortable residenee · ! spacious barns all of which he built or remodeled. He gives his attention , meipally to general farming, but also buys and sells stock to some extent, and is half owner of the cheese factory adjoining his farm. Mr. Paddoek also owns other farm lands in the vicinity, having a traet of seventy-two acres, one and a half miles from his home, which he eultivates also and is interested in other property.
He has always affiliated with the republican party and taken an active part in loeal polities. He served as town assessor for two years and has held other minor offiees. He and his family are attendants of the Methodist ehureh.
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On March 21, 1888, Mr. Paddock was united in marriage to Miss Eva Jones, the only daughter of Daniel Jones, a farmer of Florence. Four children have been born of this union : Ross E., age twenty-two; Myrtle R., age twenty, now at- tending Syracuse Business College; Daisy T., age eighteen; and Edith M., age sixteen. All are still living at home.
FREDERICK W. H. SHEFFIELD.
Frederick W. H. Sheffield, a prominent and prosperous resident of Utiea, is the vice president of the well known lumber firm of Charles C. Kellogg & Sons Company. His birth oeeurred at Saybrook, Connectieut, on the 8th of April, 1825. The family was long connected with the ministry there, Mr. Sheffield's grandfather and great-grandfather occupying the same pulpit for one hundred and eight consecutive years.
Frederick W. H. Sheffield eame to Utiea in 1850. He married Sarah Kellogg, a daughter of Spencer Kellogg. In 1858 he went to Iowa, where he remained eighteen years, actively engaged in business. In 1876 he returned to Utica, where he has since resided. He lives at 286 Genesee street.
CHARLES N. HHICHMAN, M. D.
Dr. Charles N. Hichman, a prominent and able member of the medical fra- ternity in Utica, makes a specialty of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. His birth occurred in Canastota, Madison county, New York, on the 9th of February, 1873, his parents being Michael A. and IIelen (Gibson) Hieh- man. The father, a railroad contractor, who took up his abode in Utiea in 1878, passed away in 1910. The mother, who survives, now makes her home with our subjeet.
Charles N. Hiehman obtained his early education in the Lansing street and Washington street schools and was subsequently graduated from the Assump- tion Academy of Utiea. Having determined upon a professional career, he entered the New York University School of Medicine and was graduated there- from with the degree of M. D. in 1898. Later he pursued courses in St. Cath- erine's Hospital of Brooklyn, the Contagious Hospital of Brooklyn and the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island. Opening an office in New York eity, he there remained for eight years and enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. While practicing in New York eity he served for four years as instructor on dis- eases of the nose and throat in the New York Post Graduate Medical School and has sinee made a specialty of that department of practice. Sinee leaving the eastern metropolis he has made the city of Utiea the seene of his profes- sional labors. He is a member of the alumni association of New York Univer- sity and St. Catherine's Hospital and keeps in elose touch with the onward march of the profession through his connection with the New York State Medi-
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cal Society, the Oneida County Medical Society and the Utica Medical Library Association. While in New York city he was an active member of the Washing- ton Heights Medical Society.
In politics Dr. Hicliman is an independent democrat, while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Columbus, the Royal Areanum, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also a faithful communicant of St. John's Catholic church. He is a man of easy dig- nity, frank and cordial in address and possessing that confidence and courage which rightly come from conscious personal ability, a correct conception of things and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human ac- tivities.
GEORGE EARL DUNIIAM.
For some years past, George E. Dunham has been one of the foremost citi- zens of eentral New York. He is editor of the Utica Daily Press, the only morn- ing paper published in Oneida county, and as editor of this paper Mr. Dunham has become widely known and is highly respected in the community where he resides. Ile was born in Clayville, Oneida county, New York, April 5, 1859, and his father was Moses Earl Dunham, D. D., Ph. D., while his mother's name was Harriet U. Ilughston, who died about five years after her marriage when about twenty-eight years of age. Dr. Moses Dunham graduated from Hamil- ton College in the class of 1847, and taught school for several years. He then entered the Presbyterian ministry and from 1881 to 1884 he was principal of the Whitestown Seminary, and at that time his residence was in the village of Whitesboro. Doctor Dunham's last pastorate was that of Plymouth church in Utica. He died December 17, 1898. Dr. Dunham was a forceful writer, ex- hibiting refined taste and delicacy of finish, an eloquent orator, an analytical thinker and stood in the first rank of ministers in the community.
George Earl Dunham prepared for college at Whitestown Seminary grad- uating from that institution in 1875, and from Hamilton College in the class of 1879 with the degree of A. M. For two years after leaving college he was employed by the late William Wait and by Edwin Baylies, LL. D., in assist- ing in the preparation of law books for publication at Johnstown. Ile was also on the staff of one of the local papers. Then, for a year and a quarter, he was vice-principal under his father of Whitestown Seminary, after which time he was engaged by the Utiea Daily Press as a reporter, a paper which was then in its infancy, and had existed for only about three months. He finally became city editor and since 1886 has been editor-in-chief of the paper and president of the corporation which undertakes its publication. Under his efficient manage- ment the paper has been a great success, and yet Mr. Dunham is interested in a number of other business enterprises and his counsel is sought eagerly and often on questions of polities, finanee, business, social and many other subjects. He has never been a candidate for political office, but his influence in all elections is a potent factor with which to be reckoned. He gives to every institu-
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tion with which he is connected his devoted attention and is a valuable helper in all that which is for the good of the community. Mr. Dunham does not assay to be a publie speaker, but he is always listened to with strict attention whenever he addresses his fellow citizens. At banquets and other social fune- tions he is particularly effective as presiding officer or toast-master, which posi- tions he is freqently called upon to fill.
Hle was appointed manager of the Utica State Hospital for the Insane by Governor Ilill in 1887, and has been president of the board of managers since 1905. He is a director of the Utica Trust & Deposit Company, president of the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was for two years president of the Utica Chamber of Commerce. In polities he is an inde- pendent republican and is a member of the Republican Club of Utica. Hle is a member of the Presbyterian church, of Johnstown and trustee of Westminster church, Utica. He holds a membership in the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and is a member of Oriental Lodge of Free Masons of Utiea; social diversions he finds as member of Fort Schuyler and Arcanum Clubs and the Elks of Utiea; he is on the roster of the Rome Club, also of the University Club of New York city.
Ilis aneestry is traced back to the Puritans and it is claimed that the founder of the family came over in the Mayflower or else in some other ship which reached the American continent at nearly the same time as that famous vessel. On January 9, 1884, at Utiea, he married Miss Helen L. Jones, and they had one daughter, who died in infancy in 1888.
RAYMOND M. NORTON.
Raymond M. Norton, an energetic young business man of Waterville, is the last of an old and respected Sangerfield family to retain residence in the village where he still makes his home. He was here born December 10, 1876, and is the youngest son of John Burgess and Katherine Norton. The history of the Norton family begins at the time of the Norman conquest when Le Seigneur de Norville went to England with William the Conqueror, as his constable, September 29, 1066. The French name. signifying North Village, or Northtown, was long afterward changed to Norton. Thomas Norton (twelfth generation) was the first of the family in America, settling in Boston in 1632 and later removing to Guilford, Connecticut. In 1636 Thomas Norton ( thirteenth generation) lived in Saybrook, Connecticut; Samuel Norton (fourteenth generation) lived in Durham, Connectient, and David Norton (fifteenth generation) was born in Durham in 1725 and removed to Goshen in 1746. Oliver Norton (sixteenth generation and the great-grandfather of R. M. Norton) was born in Goshen, Litchfield county, Conneetient, in 1757, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and he and his brother, Colonel David Norton, were among the first settlers of the town of Sangerfield, Oneida county, in 1793. Oliver Norton was an associate judge of Chenango county until Sangerfield was annexed to Oneida county. He was a deacon of the Presbyterian church of Waterville and died in 1838, aged
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eighty-one years. IIe belonged to the anti-slavery society. After living in the west part and later in the center of the town, he built the first brick house in the town, at the corner of the Cherry Valley turnpike and South street and he owned and operated a brick-yard until his death. In Goshen he married Martha Beach and to them were born: Hannah, the wife of the Rev. Worden, who was a Baptist minister at Montrose, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Laura Owen; George, who settled in Kentucky; Philo, who died in early life; Hunn Beach ; Mary, the wife of Alvenzo Andrews; and Harriet, the wife of Lucius Webster.
Ilunn Beach Norton, son of Oliver Norton, was born at Sangerfield Center, New York, April 20, 1799, and died at Waterville, September 13, 1879, aged eighty years. He married Rosetta, daughter of Rev. Evans and Hannah (Ma- goon) Beardsley. Her death occurred a year later and Hunn B. Norton after- ward married Harriet Burgess. Their children were: John Burgess, born April 6, 1834; Oliver; Martha Maria, born April 7, 1837; Rosetta, in 1839; Mary Clarissa, in 1841; George; and Mortimer Hunn. All are deceased with the ex- ception of Martha M.
John Burgess Norton followed agricultural pursuits and supplemented that business with the sale of agricultural implements. In 1876 he disposed of his farm to devote his energies exclusively to the latter business, which he succeeded in placing upon a firm and luerative basis. During the latter years of his life he sold his business to his son, Raymond Norton. He was a man of sterling qualities and high ideals, beloved in his family and honored among his associates. Ife was a stanch republican always, although non-partisan in his admiration of the leading men of the nation. He was well read and was a Bible student of unusul attainments. His keen, brusque comments on current events, his shrewd business insight and his unfailingly fair estimate of men made him a center of interest and respect in any assemblage. He died December 28, 1910, aged seventy-seven years. He had married Katherine Murphy, of New York city, by whom he had the following children: George Mortimer, an attorney of Utica, who married Miss Reva Nash, of Weedsport, New York; Dana Oliver, a physi- cian of Fort Collins, Colorado, who married Miss Corrine Rice, of Canton, Ohio: Raymond M., who wedded Miss Frances Janes Barstow; and Mary Har- riet Norton, who was married July 6, 1910, to II. Warren Terry, Jr., of Ossin- ing, New York, where they reside.
Raymond Manning Norton pursned his education in the Waterville high school but with the impulsiveness and irresponsibility of boyhood, he enjoyed getting ahead of his teachers more than preparing his lessons. However, ex- perience has been to him a good training school and under the guidance and di- rection of his father his business activities were developed, his worth becoming more and more recognized as a factor in commercial circles as the years passed on. As soon as he had reached a suitable age he became connected with his father in the agricultural implement business and his early interest as a young man in agricultural needs and his application of simpler deviees to lessen the labor of farm work led later to the development of that foresight which has prompted him to purchase only the best made tools and machinery. Upon his father's death, in 1910, he and his brother, George M., became successors to and pro- moters of the wholesale jobbing business, with offices and warehouse in Utica.
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Raymond M. Norton conducts a retail business in the sale of agricultural im- plements and machinery in Waterville and is now owner of a hall interest in the J. B. Norton Company, wholesale jobbers in engines, ensilage cutters and blowers, at Utiea. Their jobbing business now extends throughout the state of New York, developing within a few years from a small enterprise to one of ex- tensive proportions.
On the 24th of February, 1910, Mr. Norton was united in marriage to Miss Frances Janes Brastow, a daughter of John L. Brastow, of Onondaga county, New York, and they have a little daughter, Mary Manning Norton, born July 27, 1911. Mr. Norton is a republican and has the best interests of the party at heart. In June, 1898, he enlisted for active service in the Spanish-American war, in Company E of the First New York Regiment, from which he was hon- orably discharged in 1909. Ile now belongs to the Oscar Ross Wheeler Camp, a military association formed by the comrades of Company E. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. Ile is courteous in manner, kindly and gen- erous, and in his trade relations is quick to estimate and decide, is constantly introducing new and improved methods and withal is untiring in his develop- ment of business ideals. In a word, he forges ahead with such tremendous energy that within a few years the business, under his management, has grown from a small undertaking to one that practically covers the whole state. He is fast winning recognition in the business world for his commercial integrity, ability and sterling qualities as a business man.
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