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John Sunuders.
S
George Rogers.
Audrew S. Hermann ..... L. Prestou Reid
April 24, 1864. Re-enlisted,
Albert Harrington. Jehn Bailey,
July 4, 1861 ...
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Sept. 11, 1862.
Charles HI. Farnsworth
Peter Riley ..
Ang. 25, 1862.
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Ang. 15, 1862 ..
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Aug. 25, 1862 ..
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Ang. 16, 1862 ..
Irving T. Smith. Semnel Me Venn
Ang. 31, 1862 ..
Discharged February 18, 1863. Discharged June 2, 1863.
William Seeley ..
Aug. 26, 1862 .. Discharged March 18, 1863.
Martin Mndden ..
George R. Redman Alfred Redner .
Joseph F. Wagner ...
Henry Fegley .... Mark D. Pulver. Benjamin Watkins. 11 148th
April 24, 1881.
Aug. 22, 1862 .. Discharged December 14, 1864.
William A. Slawson ..... Edward Beedles.
Richard Edwards, 66
Discharged June 30, 1865. = James Donigen ..
Aug. 27, 1862 .. «
George Donnelly ... Ezron Wilson ..... 16
66
Jobn T. Watkins.
Charles P. Willsot
May 22,
Re-enlisted.
John Cleffey ... James Delen. F. M. DBy ..
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Aug. 28, 1862 ..
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Aug. 24, 1862 .. =
William H. Day.
William Edwards
John Graham ..
Jeremiah Gabn ..
Charles W. Caldwell. Charles H. Smith.
Re-enlisted.
46
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Ang. 30, 1862 .. Killed Mny 16, 1864. Ang. 22, 1862 .. Killed June 3, 1864. Ang. 28, 1862 .. Sept. 5, 1862 ... Discharged June 30, 1865.
William Carden ..
Re-enlisted.
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Jacob Mettell.
Ang. 22, 1862 .. Died Angust 10, 1864.
Jobu Finn.
K 1st Vet. Cav. Sept. 19, 1863.
Aug. 25, 1862 .. Discharged June 30, 1865.
Aug. 30, 1862 .. Discharged July 3, 1865.
William Hurtrauft
April 26, 1861.
April 26, 1861. Discharged February, 1863. July 4, 1861 ...
David Sabin
John Renger.
Courad Ten Eyck ..
Ang. 24, 1862 ..
Charles Westhoff.
Aug. 26, 1862 ..
Discharged June 30, 1865.
Aug. 30, 1862 ..
Aug. 30, 1862 .. Ang. 20, 1862 .. Killed Angust 25, 1862.
George Waterman.
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Albert R. Cooper,
John G. King
Daniel Hull.
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4 = Dee. 27, 1868 .. Leonard Hull Discharged August, 1865.
Luther E. Snellgrove .. Benjamin F. Taylor.
= Discharged February 26, 1862.
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Robert A. Aikens
Discharged September, 1862.
Joseph F. Wagner
George C. McGraw William B. Swift
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Thomas Costello.
46 44 Discharged June 3, 1865. -
July 15, 1862 .. Discharged June 28, 1865.
William E. Bishop
Clinten Pasco ...
John H. Buttells. 1
Discharged June 2, 1863. Killed May 3, 1863.
John Dunn.
Peter Haviland
Discharged March 22, 1863.
George Hill ..
Edward Hudson.
Dewitt Marvin
Ang. 6, 1862 ... Discharged Jnue 17, 1865. July 17, 1862 .. August, 1862 ... =
... Killed June 16, 1864.
Discharged June 3, 1865. Ang. 18, 1862 .. Died October 14, 1863. Aug. 12, 1862 .. Discharged July 1, 1865. August, 1862 ... Killed July 2, 1863. =
... Killed Juno 16, 1864.
Benjamin F. Lue .... I
George L. Yust ..
......
July 29, 1862 .. Discharged April 7, 1863. Aug. 11, 1862 .. Killed Jury 3, 1863.
Robert H. Brett.
Re-enlisted.
Charles H. Cole.
Discharged June 2, 1863.
James E. Stebbins
Ang. 26, 1862 .. Discharged June 30, 1865.
Aug. 22, 1862 .. Discharged June 30, 1865.
Re-enlisted.
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Charles Wheeler.
Ang. 30, 1862 .. Died January 23, 1863. Died August 15, 1864. Aug. 28, 1862 .. Discharged June 30, 1865. ¥
Sylvester Hillaker
Silas C. Mann ...
Martin Rous
Julius Seibold.
Ang. 22, 1862 .. Discharged May 19, 1865. Discharged July 25, 1865.
Discharged November 23, 1862. Discharged Jnuuary 2, 1863. Re-ealisted.
Hiram A. Morse ..
April 26, 1861. Taken prisoner. April 24, 1861. Re-enlisted.
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April 26, 1861. Died of wenuds Mey 3, 1863.
Discharged February 2, 1863.
Joseph Thempson
Louis Wilt ..
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Feb. 1, 1862. Killed May 4, 1863.
Feb. 10, 1862 .. Killed May 5, 1863.
Luther Young ....
Newtoa Vuntile.
E. Johnson Ricc ..
Samuel H. Pierce.
Aug. 13, 1862 ..
George Snyder ...
Oct. 31, 1861 ... Discharged MBy, 1863. April 26, 1861. Discharged June 2, 1863. May 1, 1861 .... Re-enlisted.
Aug. 10, 1862 .. Discharged June 10, 1865. Aug. 27, 1862 ...
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33d
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Ang. 22, 1862 .. Re-enlisted.
Ang. 27, 1862 .. Discharged February 9, 1865.
Discharged January 5, 1863.
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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
NAME.
Co.
Regiment.
Date of Enlistm't
Date of Discburge, etc.
NAME.
Co.
Regiment.
Date of Enlistm't
Date of Discharge, etc.
George H. Jones .....
T
126th 4
Aug. 11, 1862 ..
Barnard VanHousteo .....
D
16th H. Art. Nov. 18, 1863.
Abram Cadous.
=
Aug. 7, 1862 ..
Discharged June 3, 1865.
Stephen Toombs.
H
Dec. 28, 1863 ..
Discharged August 29, 1865.
Stephen Wetherlow
=
Aug. 8, 1862 ...
Discharged 1864.
Rensselaer Truax.
John L. Easton .....
M
4
Jan. 14, 1864 ..
J. H. Steits ..
George H. Stringham ...
.... L
=
Dec. 28, 1863 ..
Albert H. Pierson.
44
Ang. 4, 1862 ... August, 1882 ... Aug. 1, 1862 ... =
Killed March 31, 1865.
Joha Woolf
....
Edward Richards
L
=
=
I
50th Eng's
Aug. 19, 1862. Discharged June 29, 1865.
Jacob Senner
Alfred F. Manning ..
D
William O'Neill
Albert Whent.
B
Winfield S. Day
Joseph V. Smith,
I
Viner Tillingham
Aug. 11, 1862 .. =
Discharged March 19, 1864.
Charles H. Burch.
44
James Godfrey.
50th Eng's
= =
Discharged June 3, 1865. ¥
James E. Lambert
Madison T. Smith
Francis Bacon ....
..
44
Eugene F. Addsitt.
William V. VanBorcu ....
Martin Van Brooklin ..
44
Daniel Batem30 ...
August, 1862 ..
44
44 44
¥
Died at Washington,
Thomas N. Rice ....
C
Edwin C. Pierson ..
G
Albert Millard.
D
8th Cav. Sept. 18, 1861 ..; Discharged 1864.
Philip filliker
Charles L. Burch ..
G
Oct. 1, 1861 .... Re-enlisted.
Wakeman B. Ilenoisoo. Gideon Skaats.
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C. Beojamio Alliger
Aug. 13, 1862 .. Discharged June 3, 1865.
Walter Scott.
B. Cosgroff
Sept. 30, 1862 .. Discharged April, 1865.
James Stratton.
Sept., 1862.
William C. Maxen.
Oct., 1862. Discharged September 12, 1866.
William Young ...
G
90th
Nov. 22, 1861 .. | Re-colisted.
William Gressamer Willium Fluherity.
Sept., 1863 .. 46
44 44
C
Nov. 28, JSG1 .. Discharged 1863.
Silne W. Boynton ..
44
Discharged May 7, 1865.
George E. Picree ..
G
K
78th 75th
Oct. 11, 1SG1 ... ..
N. Christry.
...
Alfred Gant
Aug. 10, 1863 .. Discharged July 23, 1865.
John Benedict ..
C
19th
April 6, 1861 ... =
Oscar Mead.
Sept., 1863 ...
Discharged August 1, 1885.
Peter Hartruff ..
April, 1861 .. Nov. 25, 1863 .. Discharged October 2, 1865.
Jacob Sectz.
Sept., 1863 .. Discharged July 23, 1865.
Vinton F. Storey ..
C
19ch
April, 1861 .. ....
Re-enlisted.
De Witt C. Kelley
V. Finley Stoney
August, 1863 ...
William W. Duram ..
D
E. A. Johnson,
B
George Greeo.
Sept., 1863.
Patrick Roach ..
Feb. 25, 1864 .. Died May 24, 1885. Sept. 12, 1884. Discharged July 14, 1865.
Asa D. Baker.
..... F B
22d Cuv. 51st
April 2, 1864 ...
George K. Marshall
Jobn M. Drake
Dec. 16, 1863 .. Died October 22, 1864.
John Colligan ....
9th H. Art.
Sept. 12. 1864 .. =
William H. Smith.
JaQ. 28, 1864 .. Discharged July 14, 1865. Feb. 6, 1864 ....
George Smith
I
11th Cav.
Feb. 6, 1864.
Patrick Morriss .... Henry J. Ruthroff
Feb. 8, 1864 ....
Discharged July 14, 1865.
Thomas Gose
K
193d
George W. Green.
Dec. 28, 1363 ..
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Charles I. Joboson
Edwurd C. Manning ...
F 3d Cav.
Aug. 29, 1861 ..
Aug. 25, 1864 ..
Discharged June 21, 1865.
John Burke ..
9th H. Art.
Dec. 26, 1883 ... Discharged July 6, 1865.
William L. Sutherland.
Sept., 1864
Miles J. Hunt.
....
Hudson Mickley ....... D
F. William Johnson.
E
Sept. 3, 1864 ...
Discharged June 23, 1865. Miebuel Heeley
H
Sept. 1, 1864 ... Discharged June 21, 1865.
William Henderson.
James Smith.
James McConnell
George B. Wall.
John VanDenburg ..
Jumes L. Turner ...
K
Iliram A. Bennett
D
Sept.3, 1864 ... Discharged July 3, 1865.
John Murphy.
James McKeeber.
Frank Smith ..
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Jacob Weaver ... G
8th Cav. 32d
Oot. 25, 1881 ... Re-enlisted.
Nathan Catheart ..
M
John Desmond.
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Deo. 29, 1883 .. Dec. 28, 1863 .. Oct. 6, 1863 .... Sept. 28, 1863.
Discharged August 28, 1865.
Frederick Tuch.
H
75th
R. Willium Connelly.
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Died February, 1884.
Henry Bartelle.
C
Heory Burbage
Nov. 3, 1863 ...
George Patterson ...
9th Art. Navy
Sept. 23, 1851 .. Dec. 28, 1863 ... Discharged May 3, 1865. Aug. 28, 1863 .. Discharged August 14, 1886.
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Isaiah ]1. Parish
Henry Draper ..
4
Thomas Sebring.
Le Roy Brokaw
Aug. 9, 1862 ... Discharged June 28, 1865. August, 1862 ...
4
Westfield S. Decker ..
Aug. 15, 1$62 ..
Charles I. Woodruff.
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July 19, 1862 .. Sept. 4, 1864 ...
William H. Wood ......
K Peter Tressler. July 10, 1883 .. Discharged September 12, 1865.
David S. Evarts.
Edward J. Taylor.
Aug. 9, 1862 ... August, 1862 ...
Henry H. Thompson.
D
=
Oct. 12, 1881 ... Discharged December 8, 1864.
Charles H. Culver, Jr ..
K
Robert H. Tripp.
D
=
March 31, 1864 Discharged July 13, 1865. Sept., 1×61 ...... Discharged 1883.
Jobo R. Orman ...
John C. VanZandt
K Ist Vet. Cav. Aug. 26, 1863 .. ]
44
C. Morriss ...
G
Nov. 13, 1861 ..
Nov., 1861 ...... |Died November 15, 1862.
David Carroll.
Aug. 2, 1883 .... Died January 3, 1865. Oct. 18, 1863 ...
Henry Shirley ..
A
Henry D. Vao Riper.
11
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= Re-enlisted.
Charles M. Saunders ..
G
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April 25, 1861 ..
ITenry C. Pieree. Edwin J. Relyea
44
James Redding
George W. Harrington.
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Daniel W. Loring.
C
Mark D. Pulver
Ang. 6, 1883 ... Died Angust 6, 1864.'
Nicholas Doleo
D
3d Light Art. Feb. 6, 1863 .... Died October 29, 1864.
Richard Towsley ..
James Fegley
Jan. 26, 1863 .. 1863 .
Jan. 19, 1864 .. Discharged July 14, 1865. Jan. 22, 1864 .. Died October 21, 1864.
Joseph F. Berry ..
Charles E. Berry,
G
John Malone ..
Feb. 9, 1864 ....
George M. Stevens ..
C
149th
Robert H. Tripp.
D
8th Cav.
Discharged 1883. Discharged June 30, 1865.
Henry Mickley ...
44
Jan. 14, 1863 ... =
...
Jan. 22, 1863 ...
44
George K. Smith ..
Aug. 26, 1864 .. Discharged July 14, 1865. August, 1864 ... Diecharged July 14. Francis Dillen.
Oct. 29, 1861 ... Died May 22, 1864. Aug. 12, 1864 ..
Chauncy C. Rowe .... James Fenn ..... William Vincent ..
B E
Sept. 2, 1864 ... Sept. 8, 1864 ... Discharged June 23, 1865.
Sept. 3, 1864 ...! Discharged July 14, 1865. Jao. 22, 1864 .. Discharged July 16, 1665. Aug. 30, 1864 ..
William Lewis ....
William H. Furgerson ..... John J. Woolf ...
E
= Aug. 22, 1861 .. Discharged June 2, 1863.
H
Sept. 3, 1864 ... Discharged June 24, 1885.
Andrew Harmon ....
L 16tb H. Art.
Deo. 31, 1863 .. Discharged August 21, 1865. Disohurged July, 1865.
G 8th Cav. = John M. Deuel. C C. Pflukorter .. G April 26, 1861 .. | Discharged June 2, 1863. July, 1861 ...... Killed February 9, 1863. Nov. 16, 1861 .. Re-enlisted.
George Curris ...
D
James Roe ...
Isaac Stark,
46
Died September 16, 1864.
William II. Church .....
44
Charles Williams ...
44
44
Discharged December 25, 1864. Discharged June 3, 1865.
Ilarlow C. Watkins.
Aug. 7, 1862 ..
Discharged June 13, 1865. Discharged Aug. 8, 1865. Discharged June 22, 1865. 4+
John T. Mayunrd
John Saunders.
Aug. 18, 1862 .. Aug. 23, 1862 ..
Aug. 12, 1882 ..
July 22, 1882 .. Discharged June 22, 1865. August, 1862 ... Killed July 3, 1863.
T. H. Coon ..
July 16, 1882 .. Discharged June 22, 1865.
15th Eng's $5th
Sept. 6, 1864 ... 'Discharged June 13, 1865. Oct. 29, 1861 ... Re-enlisted.
James Johnson
August, 1882 ... Aug. 7, 1882 ...
Discharged June 3, 1865.
Jobo Davis ..
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lleury Ridley ...
Jan. 17, 1864 .. Discharged June, 1865.
G. W. Ackerman.
Edward A. Green,
Dec. 27, 1883 ..
Henry Kuligoer ..
August, 1862 ... Killed.
Killed July 3, 1863.
James Gove ....
Nov. 8, 1863 ... Discharged July, 1865.
Lymao Tombe.
William Marvio ...
Jobo Underwood ..
K K
11th Cav. Fch. 14, 1864 ... July, 1861. Discharged August 5, 1881. Re-culisted.
Thomas Conden.
Jan., 1884. Died a prisoner of war.
L. Newcomb.
Jeremiah Murney.
Dec. 26, 1863 ... Discharged September 29, 1865.
Byron Richards
Sept. 12, 1861 ..! Discharged May 14, 1863.
Died September 26, 1864. Died May 21. 1865.
June 17. 1863 .. Discharged Jaly 21, 1865. April, 1865. Sept., 1861 ... Feb. 26, 1864 ..
William Henry Gray .. William E. Bigelow
Charles W. Day ...
Oct. 19, 1881 ... Re-colisted.
W. John Johnson G 85th
Isaac Fairchild.
John W. Paine .... D
..
Matthew Shannon ..
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Robert Lucas.
Aug. 13, 1$62 .. Discharged June 3, 1$65. Discharged February 1, 1865. Discharged July 23, 1865. 44
Charles J. Stony ..
Richard Gregory
C. R. Deppeo ...
Died March 12, 1863.
Lawson Bigelow.
Jan. 11. 1864 .. Discharged April 22, 1864. Dec. 31, 1864 .. Killed.
Re-colisted.
Died January 15, 1863.
Discharged August 22, 1865.
William G. Jackson .... K
44
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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
PERSONAL SKETCHES.
REV. DR. GRIDLEY.
Samuel H. Gridley was born in Paris,-now Kirkland,-Oneida County, New York, on the 28th day of December, 1802. His father, though a farmer, and of mod- erate means, desired to educate him for another vocation. Accordingly, at the age of twelve years he commenced the study of the Latin language; and, as Hamil- ton College had been recently plauted in his native town, his literary inspiration was confirmed and increased. His preparation for college was much interrupted, his studies yielding annually to labors on the farm during the summer.
In 1820 a change in his religious feelings fixed his choice of a profession, and in 1822 he entered the Sophomore class in college, which he left at the end of the year by reason of impaired health. He subsequently resumed his studies under the direction of a former preceptor, and in the autumn of 1826 became a mem- ber of the Auburn Theological Seminary. He was licensed to preach the gospel in 1829, by the Oneida Association,-a body of Cougregational ministers,-and, having subsequently passed some ten months in missionary labors in Springville, Erie County, was called to the pastorate of the Congregational church of Perry, Genesee-now Wyoming-County. From 1830 to 1836 he spent with this congregation, where, by reason of the intelligence of the people, his abilities were severely tested, and necessity laid upon him for the most diligent study.
He came to Waterloo in April, 1836, and his continuance as pastor for the term of thirty-seven years may be regarded as proof of the confidence existing between minister and people.
The life and character of Dr. Gridley are well kuown. He has largely shared in efforts to preserve and honor the history of the place of his adoption,-to edu- cate the young, and promote the social clevation and happiness of the people. As a minister of the gospel, he has endeavored to study the things that make for peace, and in prosecuting his duties growing out of his relations to his own church, he has maintained a careful regard for the feelings and interests of other Christian congregations. He has been " kuowu and read of the people" as the friend and abettor of liberty, and as the unswerving opponent of oppression and slavery. When in the late civil struggle in our country, the government, turning its eye to Christian ministers and churches, asked their prayers and active sympa- thies, he stood in his lot, and, forgetting all party considerations, sustained with his influence the existing administration in its efforts to maintain the union of the States. Aud when called upon to perform funeral ceremonies over soldiers who had fallen in the struggle, he comforted the bereaved both with scriptural consolation aud with the thought that their loved ones had died in a noble cause.
Dr. Gridley has shared largely in the joys and sorrows of the people among whom he has lived. To rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep, has been the habit of his life. He has united in marriage some seven hundred conples, and conducted the burial service over some two thousand who sleep in the cemeteries of the dead. A life involving so much and so varied labor has not been spent without honor. Though not a graduate of college, the honorary degree of Master of Arts was awarded him, soon after entering the min- istry, by the Trustees of Hamilton College, and subsequently the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by the same institution. For the last quarter of a century he has held the place of a trustee both in this .college aud in the Theo- logical Semiuary at Auburn. In the more responsible services imposed by eccle- siastical bodies, he has had his full share. In the late semi-centennial anniversary of the Auburn Seminary he gave by appointment the historical address, an effort involving great and patient research, and which was received with high com- mendations by the friends of the institution.
He is now in the seventy-fourth year of his age, with bow ahiding in strength, and indulging his passion for preaching the gospel from Sabbath to Sahbath.
DR. GARDNER WELLES.
It was fitly said of the subject of this sketch, at the close of his long and honor- orable life, that "few men have spent so many years-and all of them so worthily
-in the pursuit of their profession as he who, while yet a young man, friendless and alone, established himself in Seneca County, and here gave sixty years of faithful, intelligent labor in the service of his fellow-men." Gardner Welles, son of Russell and Sarah Carter Welles, and the third of nine children, was born August 26, 1784, in the town of Gilead, Tolland County, Connecticut, in which vicinity his ancestors had resided since the emigration from England, in 1630, of Thomas Welles, from whom the family are descended.
Having received an academic education, and pursued the study of medicine for ahout two years in his native State, he came to Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York, in 1807, and completed his preliminary professional studies in the office of the late Dr. Joseph White, one of the most celebrated physicians and surgeons of his time. On the first day of November, 1809, Dr. Welles was licensed to practice medicine by the Otsego County Medical Society, and the fall and winter following attended a course of medical lectures at Columbia College, in the city of New York. In the spring of 1810, with a small supply of medicine in his saddle-bags and a hundred dollars in his pocket, the parting gift of his father. the young man started from the parental home to make his own way through life. The far west was then western New York, and into this region he came. At Canandaigua he met Dr. James Carter, who advised him to settle in the South- wick neighborhood, in the town of Junius ; accordingly, he retraced his steps, and being pleased with the location he there established himself, and became a member of the family of Major Southwick, and soon entered into a copartnership with Dr Linus Ely, which continued for about six years.
In 1813 he was married to Paulina Fuller, a resident of Galen, Wayne County, temporarily teaching in Junius, who died in 1849, beloved and regretted by all who knew her.
At the breaking out of the war of 1812 he offered his serviecs to the govern- ment, was commissioned by Governor Danicl D. Tompkins as a anrgcon of the Seventy-first Regiment of New York Infantry, went to the Niagara frontier, and remained in the service to the close of the war.
In 1816 he removed to Waterloo, at that time just beginning to give promise of a flourishing town, and the same year completed and occupied the dwelling at the corner of Main and Oak Streets, where he resided until his death.
Dr. Welles held various public positions, Justice of the Peace, Supervisor of the town, President of the village, Curator of the Geneva Medical College, and in 1839 Member of Assembly from the County. He was one of the first two Wardens of St. Paul's Church, elected in 1818, of which church he was, to his death, an exemplary and consistent member. In polities, he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian, Wright, and Marcy school; in business, a man of marked in- tegrity and fairness ; in social life, pure, kind, modest, and unassuming. For nearly half a century he was regarded as the leading physician and surgeon of this vicinity.
His unselfish love and devotion to his profession was characteristic, and en- dured to the end of his life. He was popular with the junior members of the pro- fession, to whom his kindness was uniform and invariable, and by whom he was regarded with a sincere respect and confidence. Gentle, sympathizing, and tender, with a miod filled with a strong sense of duty, and a heart warmed by the glow of a never-failing humanity, he was emphatically the friend of the poor, aud by the entire community among whom his long life was apent his memory is held in most respectful veneration. His demisc, which took place"February 18, 1872, was the result of a fall received some six weeks before, and from which he suffered intensely until released by death. We close our notice with a quotation from the annual address before the Medical Society, by the President, Dr. W. A. Swaby, at its first meeting subsequent to the death of Dr. Welles :
"To give an account of the life of our bereaved brother would far exceed my limits, for it would comprise the history of medicine in Sencca County ; and still the example would have its value, as illustrating how professional success may he attained, even in the face of adverse circumstances, by patient and faithful toil, by integrity of purpose and purity of character, and gentle and gentlemanly man- ners, and how his life of useful labor was closed in eternal- and hallowed rest.
" His death has made a void in our ranks which can never he filled, since with his life was acvered the last link that bound us to our brothers of the past.
PLATE
D. S. KENDIG.
GARDNER WELLES, M. D.
REV. AARON D. LANE.
REV. JOHN M. GUION, S.T.D.
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المعد
WATERLOO M LEN MILL
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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
" By the members of this society his death was particularly felt ; and yet not by us alone, for if the affection of friends or the prayers of a grateful community could have averted the blow, this passing tribute to his memory and worth would Jong have remained unpronounced.
"Of him it might be fittingly said, ---
" Goodness and greatness were not means, but ends ; Had he not always treasures-always friende ? The good old man ! yes, three treasures bad he : Light, Love, and Thoughts pure as infant's breath ; And three firm friends, eurer than day or night : Himself, his Goodness, and hie God."
HON. DANIEL S. KENDIG.
Among the few surviving first-born sons of Seneca County may be enumerated Daniel S. Keadig, who is a native of that portion of Waterloo known in the early day as Scauyas. He is of Swiss origin. His grandfather came from Canton Bern, Switzerland, in 1710, and his father, Martin Kendig, moved from Laneaster, Pennsylvania, to Scauyes in 1794. Leah Bear,* of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, came out to keep house for her brother, Samuel Bear, and in 1797 married Martin Kendig. On February 19, 1803, Daniel S. Kendig was born. His home was a log house, built during his infancy, upon one hundred acres of woodland purchased during the same year. This pioneer cabin served as a home until 1812, when, having bought lots in what is now Waterloo, Martin Kendig moved npon them in 1813. He erected a fulling- and carding-mill, a dwelling- house, and, in 1816-17, put up the building used as the office of the First National Bank.
School-days were passed in part under the teachings of Jabez Gorham, while the rod and line, with merry companions, gave relaxation and pleasure. Educa- tion was soon finished, and the first situation was obtained in the drug-store of Dr. Charles Stuart and Quartus Knight. Two years elapsed, and Stuart sold his interest to Caleb Loring, and Kendig returned home and assisted his father in his business. In 1821 he entered the store of Hoyt & Hunt as elerk. Hoyt sold within a year, aud Kendig remained with Hunt until the spring of 1829. In April of that year Kendig and Elijah Quimby purchased IIunt's stock, and con- tinued together two years. Kendig sold to his partner, and ran a store on his own account till 1836. He was two years in a hardware store with E. Taylor, and then resumed the sale of dry-goods till 1840, when he began, and for four years engaged in, the manufacture of linseed oil. In 1845 he gave exclusive attention to the grocery business, of which he was the founder in the village. In 1851 he took a son, Richard, into partnership, and the business was continued under the name of Kendig & Son until 1863. Mr. Kendig moved to Seneca Falls, and went into business with Mr. Ridley. He sold in 1872 to Charles Story, and retired to private life. He is now residing in Waterloo, on the same Jot purchased by him in 1825, and upon which he has resided (with the exception of two years) since 1826, within a short half-mile of where he was born.
He has been married twice. His first marriage was to Sally Maria, daughter of Major David Southwick, of Junius. Mrs. K. died in- 1861. Two of her five children are living ; a daughter is the wife of Hon. Eli T. Wilder, of Red Wing, Minnesota, and a son, Richard, is at present a merchant in Waterloo. A second marriage took place in 1867, to Miss Esther A. Palmer, who has two children- daughters : Anna, aged seven, and Ruth Elizabeth, aged three.
Mr. Kendig has been identified with the Episcopal Church since 1835, and is one of the oldest vestrymen in the parish. He is a preseut member of the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons known as Lodge 113, and became a Mason and a member of Junius Lodge in 1824. . Upon the incorporation of Waterloo he was chosen one of its first Trustees, and represented Seneca County in the Legis- lature of 1855. His political sentiments have been in cousonance with those of the Democratic party. We have briefly outlined a long and useful life. Half a century of business has left a record of fair and honorable dealing, and the eiti- zens of Waterloo have no man to-day whom they esteem more highly than Hon. Daniel S. Kendig.
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