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WAR OF 1861-65.
Ashdown Arthur.
John R. Britton, enl. Jan. 10, 1864, 77th Regt., Co. "; trans, to Vet. Bat., 77th Regt.
Ira Billingham, enl. Jan. 25, 1864, 13th Art, Co. F.
Nelson Batt, enl. July 26, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch. June 19, 1863, with regiment.
Courtlandt Backman, enl. March 1, 1862, 22d Regt., Co. A ; disch, June 19, 1863. James II. Brott, enl. May 2, 186;1, 220 Regt., Co. A ; Ist lient .; resigned.
Benjamin Bace, onl. Sept. 1861, 44th Regt .; killed at Fairfax Court-House.
Charles Bice, enl. May 2, 1861, 224 Regt., Co. A ; prisoner Bull Run ; ex-drum- mer; discharged ; re-enlisted in the Navy ; served full time in both. D.ed of consumption two years after the war.
Joseph Black, killed.
Sylvester Black, died in hospital,
Martin Cody, onl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch.
William Curtis, ent. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A ; pro, sergt .; disch. June 19, 18G3.
Jubn W. (lute, enl. July 29, 18GI, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch.
Hiram (Inte, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; 2d lient., pro. Ist lient. ; wounded at Bull Run, and died from effects of the wound.
Patrick L'onway, killed in action.
Henry Dummer, enl. Ang. 5, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. IL.
John Ingan, enl. Ang. 11, 1962, Hoth Regt., Co. Il.
Abram Devitt, enl. May 2, 18G1, 2_d Ragt .. Po, A; disch, June 19, ING3.
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A. L. Estabrook, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; Ist sergt .; pro. 21 lient. ; Ist lient .; captain ; disch. Jan. 19, 1863.
J. H. Francisco, en). May 2, 1861, 22 Regt., Co. A; pro. corp. ; disch. June 19, 1863.
James Frazier, enl. May 2, 1861; wounded at Antietam; disch. for wounds.
James H. Gettings, eul. Aug. 11, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. II.
Thomas Il. Glavin, 8th Infantry, Regular Army.
John Halpin, enl. Aug. 11, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. H.
Lawrence Higgins, enl. Ang. 12, 1862, 115th Reg., Co. H.
James I. House, enl. Ang. 12, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. 11.
Baker Honsinger, enl. Aug. 12, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. II.
Patrick Hussey, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; wounded at Bull RnD ; dis- charged for disability.
Henry W. Hart, en]. May 2, 1861, 220 Regt., Co. A ; disch. June 19, 1863.
Joseph Harriman, onl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; lost an arm at Bull Run ; . disch. for woundls in April, 1863.
Samuel Johnson, enl. May 2, 1861, 221 Regt., Co. A; captured at Bull Run; ex- changed ; pro. sergeant ; disch. June 19, 1863.
Charles N. Kilby, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A ; disch. for disability. Daniel Lavery, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch. with regiment June 19, 1863.
Edward Lavery, pul. May 2, 1861, 220 Regt., Co. 1 ; disch, June 19, 1863.
Oscar E. Little, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch. for disability.
Patrick Morrissey, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch. June 19, 1863.
I'atrick McCall, enl. May 2, 1861, 220 Regt., Co. A ; pro. to corp., sergt., 2d lient .; disch. June 19, 1863; re-enl. March 29, 1865 ; ap. capt. 192d Regt., Co. K .; disch. Sept. 28, 1865.
John Murray, enl. July 26, 1861; wounded, and died from effects at Sontli Mountain.
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John M. Martratt, enl. March 29, 1862, Co. B, 93d Regt .; re-enl. March 29, 1864; disch. JJune 29, 1865.
Matthew H. Martratt, enl. Ang. 25, 1862, 169th Regt., Co. C; pro. to corp .; sergt., on field; lost his right arm at Cold Harbor; disch. July 27, 1865. Patrick McCartey, enl. Nuv. 11, 1858, in the U. S. Marine Corps; disch. Feb. 23, 1863; re-enl. Jan. 13, 1564, Co. G, 16th N. Y. Il. Art .; wounded Oct. 7, 1864; disch. Ang. 28, 1865.
Charles E. Martratt, enl. Feb. 1, 1864; was drummer of Capt. John D. Sher- ward's Co. D, 93d Regt., N. Y. S. Vols .; was wounded at Petersburg; was disch. on the 29th day of June, 1865, by reason of G. 0. 158, Il. Qrs. 1. of P., June 22, 1865.
Charles Ogden, enl. Jan. 26, 1864, 13th Art., Co. E.
Benjamin O. Connor, enl. 30 Inf., Regular Army ; served five years.
George H1. Parkinan, enl. Jan. 8, 1864, 13th Art., Co. E.
James W. Parks, enl. Jan. 14, 1864, 13th Art., Co. F.
George W. l'orter, enl. March 1, 1862, 224 Regt., Co. A; disch. June 19, 1863. Edwin Porter, enl. March 1, 1862, 221 Regt., Co. A ; disch. for disability.
J. G. Porter, enl. March 1, 1862, 22d Regt., Co. A; killed at South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1863.
Samuel 11. Peters, enl. 1861 ; was wounded at Spottsylvania C .- H., May 12, 1864; was killed at South Side R. R., 1864; was color sergt. Co. C, 93d Regt., N. Y. S. Vols.
Newton Peters, enl. 1861; re-enl. 1864; was drummer Co. C, 93d N. Y. S Vols. ; was disch. June 29, 1865.
George L. Rogers; term of service, three years.
Oliver Shaw, enl. Sept. 26, 1861, 77th Regt., Co. G; lost in action May 10, 1864. Ezra T. Stone, enl. Aug. 4, 1862, 77th Regt., Co. C.
Harrison A. Stone, enl. March 1, 1862, 221 Regt., Co. A ; disch. June 19, 1863. Martin Slatterly, enl. March 1, 1862, 22d Regt., C'o. A ; disch. June 19, 1x63.
Ralph A. Savage, enl. March 1, 1862, 22d Regt., Co. A; wounded at Bull Run ; disch. for wounds.
John W. Schofield, 22d Cav. ; pro. to hosp. steward.
Charles A. Schofield, enl.
John Singleton, shot through the left lang, and still lived.
Charles W. Shepherd, enl. Dec. 16, 1863, Co. 11, 4th Regt., H. Art .; captured on the Weldon R. R., Aug. 25; died at Salisbury prison, Jan. 25, 1864.
Henry Simpson, enl. Sept. 8, 1861, 6th Regt., N. Y. V. Cav., Co. D; disch. July 24, 1862; re-enl. Jan. 5, 1864, in the 3d Regt., N. Y. Art., Co. B; disch. July 13, 1865.
Duane Shepherd, enl. Aug. 26, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. HI; disch. July 21, 1863. John Tenbroeck, enl. Sept. 1861, 44th Regt .; pro. to Ist lieut .; once supposed
to be killed by concussion of air; was placed in the pit for burial, but revived in time to escape being covered.
John Il Van Order, enl. Ang. 12, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. 11.
James Van Order, enl. Jan. 12, 1864, 13th Art., Co. F.
Barna Vaudekar, enl. May 2, 1861, 224 Regt., Co. A ; disch, June 19, 1863.
Joseph C. Vandewerker, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Kegt., Co. A; disch. June 19, 1863.
Schuyler Vandekar, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A ; disch. for disability.
William Van Antwerp, eul. May 2, 1561, 224 Regt., Co. A ; wounded, and disch. at Antietam.
T. B. Vandekat, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A ; sergeant ; died in hospital. John H. Vandewerker, enl. Dec. 14, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; died in hospital.
Jesse White, enl. U. t. 12, 1861, 77th Regt., Co. F ; Ist lieut ; disch. for disability, Feb. 1863.
Martin Welsh, enl. Jan. 19, 1864, 13th Art., "o. E.
Joseph Wright, enl. Jan. 18, 1864, 13th Art., Co. E.
Elward White, enl. May 2. 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch. June 19, 1863.
Giles B. Wood, enl. May 2, 1861, 220 Regt., Co. A; wounded at Antietam ; disch, June 19, 1863.
Lewis Wells, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; disch. Juue 19, 1863; re-enl. Feb. 1864; disch. Ang. 16, 1866.
Daniel G. Waldron, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; discharged.
William Welch, enl. May 2, 1861, 224 Regt., Co. A.
Ira M. Wilson, enl. May 2, 1861, 220 Regt., Co. 1; pro. to sergt .; disch. June 19, 1863.
Lemand Wager, enl. May 2, 1861, 221 Regt., Co. A ; disch, for disability.
John Wright, enl. May 2, 1861, 22d Regt., Co. A; killed at South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862.
Edward Welch, enl. March, 1865, 102d Regt., Co. C; disch. Sept. 1865.
Lewis B. Wells, enl. June 15, 1863, 13th Cav., N. Y. S. Vols. ; killed March 3, 1864, near Vienna Station, Va.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
REV. STEPHEN BUSHI.
The Rev. Stephen Bush was a native of the town of Nassau, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. His parentage was of true New England stock. His grandfather, Major Abijah Bush, was active in the Revolutionary struggle. One of the three campaigns in which he served was that which made the famous retreat before Burgoyne up the St. Lawrence and south by Lake Champlain, which terminated at the battles of Bemuus' Heights, in this county, in the surrender of Bur- goyne and his entire army.
The subject of this sketch laid the foundation of his education in the common schools, where, at the age of thirteen, he became proficient in arithmetic, and by listening to the instruction in algebra given to a young man he ac- quired some knowledge of that science.
The loss of a faithful Christian mother now threatened to change the entire course of his life. She had devoted him to study, but at the age of fourteen, while a member of the Troy Practical School under Prof. C. H. Anthony, he was induced to leave the school to commence the trade of coach-making with his nnele, James Gould, of Albany. Ilere he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, spending all his leisure hours in study or in works of Chris- tian labor, for he was active in most of the benevolent eu- terprises of the city. Ile was among the founders of the Young Men's Association, of Albany, whose library afforded him an opportunity to make advances in English literature. A member of the Second Presbyterian church, he was engaged in the work of Sabbath-school instruction, and for some years attended as teacher four sessions each Sabbath : two at the Mission House, Spring street ; one in the after- noon at the Almshouse; and in the evening one at the Sabbath-school for colored people.
Having finished his trade and earned a few hundred dollars, he went to Massachusetts and completed his studies preparatory to college. His plan was to enter Union Col- lege at the beginning of junior year and take the previous studies at the academy. But, by the advice of the prin- cipal, the Rev. Mr. Hall, he spent freshman and sophomore year at Williams College. At the close of this year, having gone through all his examinations with a good record, and with a commendatory letter of dismission frou Dr. Hop- kins, he entered Union College, where he was graduated in 1845, the semi-centennial year of the college. He next went to Princeton Theological Seminary, where he took the
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complete course of three years, and in 1848 was ordained to the ministry by the presbytery of Albany, in the same church of which he was a member, the Rev. Dr. Sprague's.
Having been appointed some months before as a mission- ary of the Presbyterian Board to the kingdom of Siam, he was married in June to Miss R. Arabella Fassett, the daughter of Amos Fassett, an honored elder of the First Presbyterian church of' Albany. Not long after they sailed from Boston for their eastern home.
The next day after sailing they bid adieu to the light- houses of Cape Cod and their native land, and never saw land again until they neared Sumatra, and sailed between it and Java through the straits of Sunda to make the harbor of Batavia. Here they spent four weeks studying the Malay language and becoming acquainted with the capital of Netherlands India. Afterwards a voyage of a thousand miles among the islands of the Indian archipelago brought them to Singapore, an English seaport on the British highway to China, where they spent six weeks, also in the study of Malay. An opportunity now offered to go directly to Bangkok in one of the ships belonging to the king of Siam, and another thousand miles of ocean travel was safely accomplished, and they found themselves sailing up broad Meinam to the city of Bangkok.
On the evening of their arrival an incident occurred of special interest. The reputation of Mr. Bush in science and philosophy had preceded him, and Siam's future king, Chow Fa Yai, hearing of his arrival, came with his royal retinue to make the acquaintance of Mr. Bush, and talk philosophy with the new missionary. Thus began a friend- ship which lasted while Mr. Bush remained in Siam, and bore fruit after the prince became king.
Chow Fa was himself the first scholar in his kingdom, and always ready to acquire knowledge. Some years after, when death had called Mrs. Bush to a higher sphere, and disease was warning him to leave his ehosen home for a time, he wrote the king a letter expressing his desire to leave for a season. The king sent a royal barge to convey him to the palace, and, after giving him a pleasant au- dienee of two hours, presented him with many tokens of his friendship, not the least of which was a substantial bag of silver coin " to aid in travel when he should reach home."
In 1853, Mr. Bush arrived in New York somewhat im- proved by the voyage, and found again a pleasant home with his eldest brother, Walter R. Bush, of Albany.
While here in quest of health, he was induced to min- ister to the Presbyterian church at Cohoes for a number of Sabbaths, and this resulted in another change in his life- work.
He was invited to make a home for a time in the family of Mr. Joshua Bailey, and nearly two years after received the adopted and only daughter of Mr. Bailey as his wife. He now remained in charge of this church for about seven years, when he resigned his pastorate to travel abroad. The commencement of the war delayed. this for a time, and in the interval he served the churches in the vicinity, and with his father-in-law built their pleasant home in Water- ford, where they moved in 1865.
Mr. Bush and his wife afterwards visited Europe, and,
returning in 1867, he for six years had charge of the Pres- byterian church on Green island, where his brother is interested in the extensive car-works of Gilbert, Bush & Co. Since the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Joshua Bailey, the cares incident to the management of his estate have devolved upon Mr. Bush, preventing his taking an- other charge; but he serves the church as opportunity offers, preaching frequently, and enjoying society in con- pany with his amiable wife.
Mr. Bush has enjoyed rare facilities of travel, both at home and abroad, made many pleasant acquaintances in different parts of the world, and bids fair to enjoy the evening of life in his beautiful home surrounded by all the blessings which wealth, friends, and a happy family ean bestow.
JOSHUA BAILEY.
Joshua Bailey was not an ordinary man. Naturally en- dowed with strong characteristics and capabilities of a high order, he had the qualities to make him a leader of others in most things that engaged his attention. Ile might in a true sense be called a radical man, for he did not think in the ordinary channels of other men. He was a man of strong originality.
Born in East Hampton, Conn., in the year 1800, his father three years after sought a new home for his family in Meredith, Delaware Co., N. Y., when Joshua, the youngest son, early began the work of life by farming, manifesting even at this early age an ability to manufacture by adding two or three small enterprises to his farming operations.
His oldest brother, Timothy, likewise was possessed of strong mechanical abilities and tastes, so that when it was proposed to him, in 1832, to make a machine or loom to knit by power, he succeeded in doing so. When his first knitting-machine was so far completed that it would knit by a crank, he invited Joshua to join him, and they, to- gether, in a room in Albany, N. Y., finished one frame, which was the humble foundation of a branch of Ameri- can industry that at this time occupies so conspicuous a place among truly American enterprises.
When the success of this first frame was assured, Joshua returned to Delaware county, sold his farm and shops, and with five thousand dollars, the avails of his accumulations there, joined his brother and Mr. Egberts, a merchant of Albany, who had proposed the work to Timothy Bailey, in a firm to manufacture knit goods. A company had been formed to utilize the water-power of Cohoes Falls, of whom Stephen Van Rensselaer, the last patroon, was a prominent member. He had heard of the invention in Albany, and often called in to talk with the Messrs. Bailey, and watch the progress of the machine; and when completed he pro- posed that they go to Cohoes for the necessary power, which they did. And here, side by side, in that towu of manu- factures, began two important inventions in American machinery, viz., the engine-lathe by Wilkinson, and the knitting-machine by Bailey.
Occupying at first only a part of a building then eom- pleted, the company multiplied knitting-machines and en- larged their business, until it was regarded as prominent among the varied manufactories of Cohoes.
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Timothy Bailey afterwards retired from the firm with about twenty thousand dollars, while Mr. Egberts and Joshua Bailey continued together, and, as they found, had but just begun to reap the reward of their persevering labor. For a few years prosperity followed them at every step, and they were enabled to build another, and then a third mill of larger capacity, for the same object. Finally, about 1850, each having acquired more than a competency, the firm was dissolved, and its interests divided.
Mr. Bailey, taking one of the mills, ran it for a year or two alone with great success. He then organized a company, to whom he sold one-half the interest, that he might be par- tially relieved from care. He was now able to live in all the comfort which a successful business career warranted. In 1854 he was induced to take the presidency of another company for knitting purposes, and personally superintended the building of what was described as the largest knitting- mill in the world, being three hundred and five feet long, seventy-five feet wide, part of it six stories high, and run- ning thirteen sets of machinery. Mr. Bailey was the author of various improvements at almost every step of the new business, and contributed largely by his energy and perse- verance in making the enterprise successful.
Among the improvements due to him there are perhaps none more important than that of heating buildings by steam ; for there is no question that he was the first to in- troduce the system as a practical utility in this country. Somewhere about the year 1845, feeling the need of some better system of heating the factory than the stoves then in use, he conceived the idea of using steam in pipes. But the question arose how far steam could be carried through pipes before condensing. This question he found no one to answer, after seeking in vain in New York and Philadelphia. He then sought parties in Boston who dealt in pipe, and whom he finally induced to furnish pipe to him if he would experiment. The drawings for the pipes were made by him, sent to Boston, pipes received, a boiler put up, and all completed. It proved an entire success, and those pipes did good service for over twenty years. The system was copied by the Boston firm, until the heating of buildings by steam with pipes became common.
In 1857 the new system of water-works for the supply of the growing town was commenced, and Mr. Bailey was active as one of the chartered commissioners in its construction.
In 1862 he was called to mourn the loss of his lovely and accomplished wife, as he had a few years before mourned that of an only and promising son. And now his family con- sisted of himself, his adopted daughter, and her husband. His wife had been one of Connecticut's fairest daughters, born and reared in the pleasant old town of Glastenbury, near Hartford.
His residence in Cohoes having beeome almost sur- rounded by mills, he longed for a pleasanter home with more extensive grounds elsewhere, and the location for this was found in this county, in the town of Waterford, on what was known as a part of the old Van Schoonhoven estate. He purchased about twenty acres, a place of charmn- ing natural beauty, and erected a residence worthy of him- self, and where he might spend his remaining years in Jeisure and comfort.
He was religiously educated and a Christian man from his youth. He was a member of the Presbyterian church in Cohoes, as were also his wife, son, and daughter, whose husband was its pastor for a number of years. Mr. Bailey was one of the original members of this church, and cher- ished its growth and development with a warm heart, and as he increased in wealth often made it the recipient of his generous bounty. When he removed to Waterford in 1865, he identified himself with the same branch of the Christian church there, of which he was a regular attendant, and an active and liberal supporter. Ile was made president of its board of trustees as a mark of respect for his character and generosity.
Mr. Bailey was modest, unassuming, and even retiring. He loved the society of the young, and was never happier than when his pleasant home was filled with company, or when in his carriage surrounded by children. He spent ten pleasant years in his Waterford home, and on January 21, 1875, was called to join his beloved wife and son, leaving the bulk of his earthly estate to those who had been children to him for many years, and to whom he had been a kind and loving father.
HON. IIUGH WHITE.
The Hon. Hugh White was a native of Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y., where he was born on the 25th day of December, 1798. He was a son of Judge Hugh White, and a brother to Canvass White.
His early education was completed at Hamilton College, where he was graduated in the year 1823. Ile subse- quently entered upon the study of the law in the office of Col. Charles G. Haines, of New York city, but being a man of great energy and enterprise, he soon tired of the dull lucubrations of Blackstone and Coke on Littleton, and turned his attention to business pursuits, engaging in agri- culture, manufacturing, and contracting on public works.
In 1825 he located in Chittenango, Madison Co., N. Y. In 1830 he removed to Waterford, Saratoga Co., near the village of Cohoes, from which time he was identified with the business interests and subsequent growth of that place. Together with his brother, Canvass White, he planned the extensive works of the Cohoes company, and had charge of the same for many years. He also, in con- nection with other prominent men in New York and Al- bany, began the establishment of the works of the Harmony company. In each of these enterprises, as well as in many others in which he was engaged during his long and useful life, he manifested superior executive ability, and a deter- mination of character which aimed to, and did, successfully accomplish whatever he undertook.
On April 10, 1828, Mr. White was united in marriage to Maria Mills Mansfield, of Kent, Conn. This lady is a daughter of William P. Mansfield and Sarah ( Mills) Mans- field, and was born on the 5th day of February, in the year 1808. Mrs. White is still living at the date of this writing, May, 1878, a lady of rare culture and attainments, and of many lovable qualities of heart and soul. The result of this union was seven children, of whom two, a son and
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daughter, still survive,-the Hon. Wm. M. White, of Liv- ingston Co., N. Y., and Mrs. Win. W. Niles, of Fordham, Westchester Co., N. Y.
The Hon. Hugh White was a man of wide reputation. In the field of politics he obtained honorable distinction. Ile was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States in 1844, by his constituents of this district, then consisting of Saratoga, Schenectady, Fulton, and Hamilton counties, and was subsequently re-elected twice, finishing his official career in 1851. He arose to a prominent place in the House. Being a man of few words, but of great influence and power, he was especially useful in the performance of committee work, where his rare ex- ecutive skill, excellent discriminating powers, and sound judgment made him a valuable counselor. Ile also occu- pied a high social position in Washington. He was ac- companied by his wife and his daughter, Florilla, whose perfect beauty, grace, and refinement attracted universal admiration, both at the presidential levees and in the ele- gant rooms of her father, where she and her mother re- ceived the foremost gentlemen and ladies of the day. To the extreme grief of a large circle of friends, Miss White was early removed from earth.
At the time of his election to Congress he was a member of the Whig party, but he subsequently affiliated with the Republican party, whose principles he ever adhered to and supported with all the firmness of character and tenacity of purpose for which he was peculiar. He was a steady oppo- nent of the institution of slavery, believing in the equality of all human beings, and in a broad construction of our national constitution in that particular. He was earnest in support of all war measures, and contributed freely, by money and personal influence, towards the suppression of the Rebellion.
In his business and church affiliations Hugh White evinced the same breadth of character and general useful- ness that he manifested in his political career. At the time of his death, which occurred on Oct. 6, 1870, at the age of seventy-two, he was a trustee of the Presbyterian church at Waterford, where he went up for many years to worship God, and toward the erection of which he contributed with open-handed liberality. He lived a life of earnest, consist- ent " walking before God." He was also, at the time of his death, president of the Saratoga County National Bank, of Waterford, to which position he was elected in June, 1870, succeeding John Cramer. On the 5th of June, 1860, he was elected a director of this bank, and on June 14, 1864, was chosen vice-president. Resolutions expressive of his high character and many excellent qualities, as well as of sincere grief at his departure, and condolence with his fam- ily, were adopted by the board of directors on the day suc- ceeding his death.
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