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Samuel E. Sturdevant, September 18, 1861, Second Lieutenant ; discharged November 28, 1862.
Hartwell B. Compson, Sergeant, September 28, 1861 ; February 17, 1865, was Major.
Milton Reynolds, Sergeant, September 30, 1861; June 12, 1865, was Second Lieutenant.
Henry A. Bull, September 28, 1861, Corporal; promoted Sergeant-Major.
George Shaffer, September 25, 1863, Corporal; discharged for disability, 1863. William A. Whitehead, September 26, 1861, Corporal; discharged for disa- bility, 1862.
Privates .- Robert Bailey, September 30, 1861.
Charles Burtch, September 30, 1861 ; mustered October 10, 1861.
Daniel Burbank, October 5, 1861; mustered October 28, 1863 ; promoted Corporal.
Edward Costello, November 18, 1861 ; deserted 1862.
Samuel Englor, September 30, 1861 ; mustered in October 10, 1861.
Nelson E. Evaus, October 1, 1861 ; October 21 was mustered; re-enlisted De- cember 1, 1863 ; promoted Sergeant.
Lucius I. Fuller, September 20, 1861; mustered October 10, 1861; trans- ferred to Invalid Corps.
Stephen B. Griggs, September 28; mustered October 10, 1861 ; taken prisoner May, 1864; paroled ; discharged.
George Hopkins, October 8, 1861 ; mustered October 21; discharged for dis- bility.
Daniel King, September 23, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, March, 1862.
Andrew J. King, September 30, 1861 ; discharged for disability.
Chester A. King, October 1, 1861 ; promoted Sergeant.
Miles Knickerbocker, September 25; killed at Jack's Shop, Virginia, 1862. Henry D. Lewis, September 20; discharged for disability, April, 1862.
William A. Long, September 25; killed at Black and White Station, 1864. Amandus Miller, September 21 ; appointed Corporal Bugler.
Charles Minor, October 2, 1861,
Caleb Pierce, September 24, 1861.
John Pruyn, September 30, 1861. George R. Redman, September 24, 1861 ; discharged for disability, 1863.
John Snyder, September 25, 1861 ; taken prisoner June 30, 1864 ; paroled ; died at Baltimore.
Leonard Stewart, September 24, 1861; deserted, 1862.
Jacob Simmedley, September 24, 1861; discharged for disability, May 30, 1862.
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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Horton Travis, September 7, 1861; taken prisoner at Spottsylvania Court- House; died at Andersonville.
R. M. Taylor, September 19, 1861.
Isaac Tewksherry, November 4, 1861 ; taken prisoner at Spottsylvania. Francis Tibbles, November 4, 1861.
I. Newton Wilcoxen, September 18, 1861; mustered and oath administered October 10, 1861; enlisted in Third Artillery ; promoted First Lieutenant; dis- charged February 3, 1865.
Peter Bockoven, August 3, 1862 ; promoted Corporal; died in Washington, District of Columbia, 1863. Joseph Eggleston, August 30, 1862. Michael Knight, August 28, 1862 ; promoted Sergeant. Mortimer D. Sisson, August 27, 1862. Lyman Wilson, August 30, 1862. John Rogan, March 13, 1865. William Wicks, March 24, 1865. William Byron, March 24, 1865. Elmer Halsey, March 27, 1865 ; discharged June 27, 1865. Charles Glazier, March 27, 1865. Henry Wunderli, April 3, 1865. Ajoh R. Palmer, April 5, 1865. Harvey Weed, April 5, 1865. Byron G. Davis, April 7, 1865. John Burns, April 7, 1865. John McCoy, April 10, 1865. Morgan Nichols, April 10, 1865. Owen Nugent, April 10, 1865. John Laurence, April 10, 1865. James Ryan, April 10, 1865. Thomas Mackin, April 10, 1865. Thomas R. Rogers, April 10, 1865. Thomas Drumgoold, April 11, 1865. Owen McGraw, April 11, 1865. John Durim, April 11, 1865.
THIRD ARTILLERY.
Thomas A. Deverell, Angust 30, 1862. Burt Silsby, February 5, 1863; discharged for disability, March 26, 1865. William H. Coffin, December 14, 1863. Charles Pixley, Company I, December 15, 1863. Thomas McDonough, January 26, 1864, Company A. William Smith, February 9, 1864, Company A. Thomas McGraw, Company A, January 26, 1864. Thomas Burns, Company A, January 27, 1864. Thomas Casey, Company A, February 9, 1864. Michael Clary, February 16, 1864. John Burke, Company A, February 16, 1864. John Slowman, February 19, 1864. John Shay, February 20, 1864. William J. Morgan, February 22, 1864. Edward Fitzgerald, February 23, 1864. Francis Morrison, February 9, 1864.
Franklin B. Latham, February 26, 1864; died of consumption at Newbern, North Carolina.
James Mead, Company D, February 27, 1864. Abram B. Cherry, February 29, 1864, Company I. George W. Howe, Company B, February 29, 1864. Thomas Bannan, August 23, 1864.
James C. Bachman, Company D, September 3, 1864. Samuel Edmonds, September 3, 1864, Company A. John Kienardt, September 3, 1864. Allen Copperthwait, September 3, 1864. John Leach, September 3, 1864. Warren A. Pierce, September 3, 1864. James Spier, September 3, 1864.
William P. Crowell, September 3, 1864. William H. Failing, September 3, 1864; discharged July 18, 1865. Annas Petre, September 5, 1864. Nelson L. Bates, September 6, 1864. Michael Holden, September 5, 1864. Henry Gabriel, September 9, 1864. Thomas Kennedy, September 9, 1864.
David Chapman, September 14, 1864.
Thomas Millington, Company D, September 15, 1864.
John M. West, September 16, 1864.
NINTH ARTILLERY.
Company F .- Charles O'Neill, December 12, 1863.
Alfred E. Helmer, December 15, 1863. William H. Wheeler, December 15, 1863.
Laurence Carroll, December 16, 1863. Thomas Roe, December 16, 1863. Benjamin Zimmer, December 16, 1863. James M. Bachman, December 16, 1863. Patrick Rogers, December 16, 1863; discharged from hospital July 13, 1865. Patrick Curran, December 16, 1863. James Carroll, December 16, 1863. John D. English, September 3, 1864,
Edwin Mecorny, September 5, 1864. Samuel Winslow, September 5, 1864. Thomas Ryan, September 15, 1864.
FIRST ARTILLERY.
Hiram Stout, September 3, 1864, Company A. Aruse Beyes, September 3, 1864.
TWENTY-SECOND CAVALRY.
Charles Brusee, enlisted November 18, 1863. Freeman Brusee, November 18, 1863.
SIXTEENTH CAVALRY.
George Morris, enlisted September 7, 1864; mustered September 9, 1864.
TWENTY-FIFTH CAVALRY. James T. Hood, September 7, 1864; mustered September 9, 1864.
PLATE XL VII.
-> JASON SMITH<> TYRE.
WILLIAM KLINE TYRE.
HENRY MOSES.
Nor in the contest for political and official supremacy, nor atoid the clash of resounding arms, but in the pursuit of an honest livelihood by the eweat of his brow as a black- smith, in the wilds of Central New York, does Henry Mosen appear in the records of Seneca County's pioneers and aged men. He was born near Philadelphia, at the historic lo- cality of Valley Forge, on Angust 16, 1784, and attained his majority in a spot where memories are thick with scenes of unfaltering devotion to principle in the midst of the most rigorous privations. Migrating with the tide to the lake region of Central New York in October, 1608. he began to exercise huis calling as a smith in a shop built by Colonel Mynderse, and located about half way between Bridgeport and Seneca Falls. Seven years passed and found him at the old stand ; but in the eighth he removed to Caynga Bridge and erected a shop of his own, where he worked at intervale for years. Aware that real wealth lies in the soil, ho pur- chased, on Lot No. 9 of the Reserve, a farm of one hundred and eighty acres, upon which some clearing had been done. The rush of emigration swept past his door, and belatod
travelers sought lodging, and he was induced to open a public house on April 1, 1813. The canal drew away the travel, the hugo wagons ceased to run, and the packets be- came popular; then Mr. Moses closed his tavern, in 1833, and gave exclusive attention to his farm. Time marked bim with infirmity and protracted his life, and to his son he gave the charge of a valuable estate, and rolieved hie mind from anxiety and care. From his earliest recollection he has approved Democracy, end stood by it till the present. Interested in the movements of the day, bo delights in perusing his favorite sheet, the Albany Argus. In religioo, be cherishes the faith of the Universalist, aod valuee edn- cation, as is proved by the opportunities freely bestowed upon his descendants. On Deceint .: 12, 1810, he was volted in marringe to Catharine, daughter of Ludwig Stofflet, who,
BENJAMIN MOSES. SENECA FALLS.
after nearly a half-century of wedded life, died on June 5, 1857, and was buried in the Bridgeport Cemetery. fix children grew to inntulity,-four sone and two daughters. One, Benjamin, realdes upon the homestead, a beautiful and valuable ploce; a second, Peter, occupies the Stofftet farin In Fayette, where orchard-like forest trees rear high thett branches, supported by trunks which have witnessed the changes of sixty years; Franklin, a third, has his home upon the River Raisin, Michigan ; and a fourth is a traveler. One daughter, married, lives in Michigan : the other lies In the grave-yard noar her mother.
Mr. Moses has done with care, and serenely enjoys the present with no apprehension of the future. To him is opened for retrospection, with clear intellect aod vivid memory, the long, open vistas of the past, while yet with interest is scanned and noted the movements of the present. A venerable old man, at the age of ninety-three, be has come down to us as a relic of a former generation; furnishing dates and facta, he attrsts e knowledge of past events, and of a period when a wonderful transformation was progressing here. It is hard to realize that he whose portrait is neen in this work-a mno in full enjoyment of facultles
HENRY MOSES. TAKEN IN HIS 93º YEAR.
and physical powers~was in his prime when along the Albany Turnpike, from across the old Cayuga bridge, where ruins mark ite route arross the lake, poured a constant tido of settlers, who have cleared up States and gone to rest-where troops matched by to take their part in the Ningara campaign; and of all the men in rank perhaps thero is but here and there a solitary survivor. Truly, Mr. Moses is a souvenir of the pio- Deer age, an example of longevity and thorough honesty, andit is Atly represented in the roll of his County's oldest liviog ploneor settlers.
In vain the grandchild thinks to realize the former life In no regard can there be found - imilitude ; even his sons, Benjamin, born May 13, 1833, and Peter, years before, look as into an obscurity upon log-built bomes, rude furniture, home-made dress, manuni Inbor, and long pedestriao journeys, while living to-day upon the floeet farnie, in comfortable homes, with all the mechanicol appliances which have lightened the labore of the agricultorist and increased his capacity for production.
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HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
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PERSONAL SKETCHES.
D. B. LUM.
David B Lum.
It is always a pleasure to place upon the page of history passing incidents in the life of as estimable a person as he whose name appears at the head of this sketch.
D. B. Lum was born at Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey, September 19, 1805. When one year of age, he came with his parents to Seneca Falls, where he still resides. He has lived to see the little cluster of buildings of 1806 changed to the beautiful and thriving village, and the country round about trans- formed from a wilderness to a land that blossoms like the rose. He early learned the hatter's trade, and hy economy and a strict attention to business succeeded in gaining a competency of this world's goods. Mr. Lum, possessed of that mod- esty that always commands respect, has never forced himself upon the people as a claimant for public honors, though several times elected to the office of vil- lage trustee, discharging the duties with satisfaction to all and credit to himself. It is something remarkable that, in his long and active life, he has not sought for nor held a town office for a period of forty years. He has manifested much interest in matters of history concerning his village and county, and-was instru- mental in the organization of the " Historical Society of Seneca Falls," of which he is President. Mr. Lum has ever heen governed hy a conscientious regard for his obligations, and for the demands which every one owes to society and religion, notwithstanding his ever-present love for the humorous in life and the enjoyment of social pleasures.
THE REV. DOCTOR JOHN M. GUION,
the subject of this brief sketch, has supplied a valuable lesson not only to those of like profession hut to society in general. John Marshall Guion, son of Elijalı
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Guion, was born in New York City, on February 22, 1801. He is descended from those Huguenots of France who were so inflexible for religious right and illustrious for their nobility of character. His ancestors emigrated from France and settled at New Rochelle, in 1689.
Dr. Guion entered Columbia College in 1822, and four years later, having gradu- ated, immediately hegan a course of theological study at the New York Theolog- ical Seminary, which course was completed in 1829. These seven years were devoted to one objeet, the sacred ministry, and during the same season in which his preparation was completed, he was ordained deacon, and immediately took charge of the parish at Palmyra, in this State. Having been advanced to the priesthood in 1830, he took charge of St. Mark's Church in the city of New York, remaining there until 1832, when his marriage to Elizabeth Ives Whea- ton, daughter of John R. Wheaton, of New York, was solemnized.
Removing to Connecticut, the parishes of Saybrook, Meriden, and New Britain were successively placed in his charge, for various periods, up to 1853, when he accepted a call to St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Maryland, and there remained until the destruction of the church edifice, by fire, during the following year.
In 1855, Dr. Guion came to central New York, having been called to the rec- torship of Trinity Church, at Seneca Falls. For twenty-one years the rector of this parish, he has won the affection of those who have attended his ministrations, and though recently retired from active service, his occasional presence in the pulpit is a source of gratification to those who have known him long only to deepen their regard for his personal merit and consistent teachings. In 1865 the degree of S. T. D. was conferred by his Alma Mater, Columbia College, an honor most worthily hestowed. The lesson taught by this brief record is one of quiet, unostentatious perseverance.
TYRE.
THE town of Tyre, having a large portion of its surface a waste of swamp, and the remainder a jungle of forest, presented few attractions to those who early Bought homes for life in this part of the just-formed Onondaga County. They were met by sufficient obstacles apart from the depressing and unhealthy influ- ence engendered by the immediate presence of an extended tract of stagnant water. Even at this late day, when the appliances of art are so numerous, and land has grown so valuable, the Montezuma Marshes remain unredeemed. How, then, save by the trap and rifle, could a living be gained in such & locality ? Nevertheless, the soil of higher ground once cleared, was fertile, rude tillage pro- duced ample yield, and there were those who did not want resolution to enter upon the work. The history of a strictly rural town deals in little else than a chronology of settlement and a genealogy of pioneers. The present dwellers upon Tyre's Military Lots must feel an interest in knowing who preceded them upon their farms, and the grandson looks with satisfaction upon his grandsire's simple record. Plying the axe, the bush-hook, and the grubbing-hoe, the trees were felled, and the land was cleared aod put in crop. Steadily men came in and settled, sometimes an entire lot, again an hundred acres only. . Habitations built of trunks of trees, rude, warm, but comprising but a single room, were raised, and chinked and plastered with clay. These log houses, as they were called, were the homes of settlers for many years. 'A sort of communism prevailed by which united effort accomplished the raising, the rolling, the harvesting, and the work upon highways. A strange, but inherent, ready adaptation to circumstances smoothed the toilsome routine of labor, and continued association wove about the cabin and its surroundings the sense of ownership, interest, and home. When the first ad- venturous acttler came upon what is now Tyre, of Seneca, it formed a part of that wilderness comprehended in Washington, of Onondaga. His name was Ezekiel Crane, of Eastern New York. To him is ascribed the honor of erecting the first white man's dwelling and barn, and planting for the first crop of potatoes in that locality. Upon Lot. No. 48 Crane set out, in 1794, the first orchard, and many of those wellnigh centenarian apple-trees are still living. In the spring of the following year, Mr. Crane brought on his wife and four children, and as the years began to pass and settlements to thicken, obtained the rewards of industry. His half-lot seemed not enough, and he was out in search of land to purchase, when unhappy fate led him to the cabin where he met his tragic death. This one event, linked with early associations, has made a durable impress upon the mind, and at each allusion the whole scene reappears to the few who bore a part,-the appearance of Duroc, the apprehension of evil, the night capture of the murderer, the death of Crane, the execution of the Indian,-all seem to pass in panoramic view upon the memory. The estate of Crane passed to his children, and the homestead is now the property of P. Smith. Lewis Winans settled on the other half-lot about 1803. Asher Halsey is reported to have come from New Jersey in 1798, and with Crane were several relatives, among them the Degarmos, Peter and Ezra, and Stephen Crane. The next settler was Asa Smith, from Vermont. It was a long, slow, tedious journey that he made with a cart and yoke of oxen in 1802, and when he had cleared a patch of ground, sown some wheat, and raised a cabin upon his one hundred acres of Lot No. 36, he returned East and passed the winter. On April 12, 1803, Smith arrived at his clearing with a family consisting of a wife and six children; but one of these was a son, Jason Smith, who atill lives on the old homestead, and is the source of our information, and the present oldest male inhabitant in Tyre. Caleb Woodworth had bought Lot No. 36 of Colonel Livingstone some time prior to 1802, and sold a sixth, as we have stated, to Asa Smith. Woodworth moved upon his lands in 1805, and there sojourned till the occurrence of his death, five years later. Elder Samuel Messenger bought of Woodworth a part of his farm in 1807. This minister was the pioneer of the Baptists, and while he ministered to wants spiritual, he did not forget to labor physically upon his tract. Eight years clapsed, and he sold out and went West. The four hundred acres of Woodworth were divided among heirs, and in time passed to other handa. The third prominent settler in Tyre was Thomas W. Roosevelt, of New York City. Thomas received from hia father a gift of title to Lot No. 47. At Aurelius, Cayuga County, he mar- ried Miss Betsy Cook, and in 1803 took up & home in the forest with her and
his infant son, Nelson. Of an aristocratic and educated family, he had acquired. a knowledge of surveying, and was soon frequently called to exercise his skill in laying off farms taken from the lots. He sold off all his lot excepting one hun- dred and seventy-eight acres, which Peter M. Westbrook now owns and occupies. In 1804, John Hutchins, of Albany County, bought a farm from the northwest corner of the lot, and partly paid for it by clearing land. Roosevelt gave him two acres for.clearing one. Hutchins sold out in 1811 to George Nearpass, and went out West; the heirs of Nearpass are present occupants. Roosevelt entered the army in 1812, and in 1814 was an officer in a Seneca company; he fell in action near Erie, and was buried in the military cemetery at Buffalo.
Lot No. 35, owned by Daniel Cady, a lawyer at Johnstown, Montgomery County, was settled by Moses Marsh, of New Jersey, in 1804. Marsh bought from Cady one hundred and fifty acres from the northeast part of the lot, cleared it up, and lived upon it till 1835. Dying, it passed to his son, Orra, who in turn passing away, it came to Reuben, his son, and present owner. Marsh, in 1810, sold the west half of his tract to Simcon Cuddyback, a present resident upon his old purchase. Nicholas Traver, from Vermont, had lived a year at Aurelius, and, in 1807, bought one hundred and fifty acres of Cady, and moved on. He was a sawyer by trade, and long rao a saw-mill on Black Brook. He died and left his property to his son Thomas, who died in 1836, and in turn left it to Nicholas Traver, Jr., the present owner. Mr. Sackett, of Skaneateles, owner of Lot No. 61, sold the east half to Samuel Lay, of Connecticut. Lay located in 1809, died in 1830, and his estate was separated into a number of farms and held by his descendants. The west half was sold to Amos Nicholas, who came in 1811, and died about 1828, when the farm passed to his son, Alexander H. Nich- olas, the present possessor. Beginning at the northwest corner of the tract, the lots were numbered to the east line, and Lot No. 7 is seen to be the northwest corner lot of the present town of Tyre. The reader will follow us from lot to lot, and test the accuracy of an old pioneer's recollections, and, if a resident of the locality, find many an old acquaintance brought to memory. Upon Lot 7, Samuel North became an occupant in the year 1806. He was a minister of the Metho- dist denomination, and the earliest of his sect in that section. There were no churches nor school-houses in those days, and his pioneer services were held at the houses of Royal W. Dunham, Elijah Chalker, and others. A score of years elapsed, and Rev. Dunham had seen a church erected in Tyre City, and preached therein ; his death occurred in 1826. Robert Harper, from Orange County, became part owner of the lot. He occupied the northeast corner for ten years, then sold out and moved elsewhere. A third purchaser was Malcolm Little, from Ireland. M. Little, his son, lives on the same farm cleared by the father many years ago. The title to Lot No. 8 was a matter of doubt and dispute. It was said to belong to a soldier, who, dying, left no claimant. About 1810, & man named John Roberts, from New Jersey, came on, squatted upon the lot, and laid claim to one hundred and fifty acres; his example was followed by Richard Thomas and several others. Giles Howland came into the neighborhood in 1822, bought ont the squatters, gained a title, and built a saw-mill on White Brook.
. A prominent physician for many years in Tyre, and an owner of Lot No. 9, was Dr. James Magee, who settled upon the northern part in 1811. Dr. Magee was from Washington County, and exerted no small influence in the affairs of that part of the County. He was out in the war of 1812, and died about 1852. His old farm is now owned by Daniel B. Gay, of Seneca Falls. Ebenezer Munson, of New Jersey, moved upon the lot in 1822. He has been colonel of militia, and still lives upon his farm, a prominent and respected citizen. Through a por- tion of this lot the Canandaigua Outlet enters Seneca County, the lands upon whose banks are rich in elements of vegetation. Lot No. 10 is swamp-land, which will yet become the most valuable and productive farming portion of the town. The Canandaigua Outlet cuts off the northeast portion of the town. Much of this ground is under water, but higher ground in the left centre is occupied, and has long been known as Crusoe Island. Here, on Lot No. 11, came Smith Ward, from Scipio, Cayuga County, in the year 1806, and laid claim to half the lot. This was s favorite resort for hunting-parties, and the scene of events recorded in Seneca history. Upon the line of the canal, Ward found himself favorably
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PLATE XLVII
ROBERT L. STEVENSON.
ROBERT L. STEVENSON, son of James and Martha Stevenson, was born in the city of Al- bany, January 25, 1807. His parents were of Scotch descent. His father was born in Ireland, and was an oficer in the Irish rebel army, and came to this country as a refugee in the year 1798. The aubject of this aketch came to Seneca County with his father in March, 1812, and located on the farm where he now residea. December, 1829, he united in marriage with Elizabeth Marsh, daughter of Benjamin Marsh, of Tyre. They passed nearly half a century ir each other's companionship, and on the 7th day of July, 1873, Mrs. Stevenson passed away Mr. Stevenson married his present wife, Sarah P. Burroughs, June 7, 1875. She is a daughter of Thos. Burroughs, one of the early settlers of Varick. Mr. Stevenaon was an influential member of the First Presbyterian Church, of
ROBERT L. STEVENSON.
Tyre, and at present is a worthy member of the Presbyterian Church at Seneca Falls. In politics he is identified with the Democratic party, and has officiated in varioua official capacities. Has served as Supervisor a number of years, also Director of the Poor, and repre- aented the County in the State Legislature in 1845. He manifested much interest in the prosecution of the late rebellion, and was, atrictly speaking, a war Democrat. Mr. Ste- venson, together with Thomas W. Compaon, was early appointed a committee for the pur- pose of raising men and money. He was Super- visor of the town in the year following the war, and managed its affairs during this critical period in a very satisfactory manner. Mr. Stevenson is pleasantly located on one of the finest farms in the County, and has the un- bounded esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
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