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Robinson, Josiab, private, 1G1st N. Y. Inf., Co. HI ; must. Oct. 3, 1864, one year ; served two years in 35th N. Y. Inf .; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Robinson, Samuel, corp., 161-t N. Y. Inf., Co. 1] ; enl. Aug. 21, 1862, three years ; pro. to corp., Feb. 9, 18G1; died at Port Hudson, La., July 14, 1863.
Winship, Wesley, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. HI ; must. Oct. 3, 1864; died Jan. 9, 1865, on steamer John H. Dickey, on the Mississippi River, which col- lidled with the steamer John Raine.
Towsley, Wu. Harrison, 1.1st N. Y. Inf. ; must. Oct. 3, 1864, one year.
Hardy, Win., private, 9th N. Y. H. Art., Co. E; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year; wounded in battle of Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, in left thigh ; disch. July G, 1865.
Hardy, Adrian (2d), private ; ent. March 10, 1862, three years; detailed as nurse in hospital, serving three years ; re-enl. April, 1864, in 33d Co., 2d Bat , Vet. Res. Corps, for three years ; pro, to sergt. about Sept. 1, 1865.
Towsley, Charles Alanson, private, 1Gist N. V. Inf., Co. II; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three years; disch. for disability, June 15, 1865.
Towsley, Amos Hubbard, private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Co. HI ; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three years; died July 7, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La., of chronic diarrhoea. Prentice, Francis, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. B ; enl. Sept. 14, 1861, three years; died at Alexandria, Va., Sept. IG, 1862, nod buried at that place.
Barnard, Horace, private, IGIst N. Y. Inf., Co. HI; enl. Ang. 27, 1564, one year ; disch. Sept. 20, 1863.
Calkins, Charles, private, 1G1st N. Y. Inf., Co. II; must. Oct. 27, 1862, three years; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Wentworth, Angustus HIall, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Aug. 26, 1861, three years.
More, Ira, private, 97th N. Y. Regt., Co. G ; drafted for three years ; died Sept. 24, 1864, near Petersburg, Va.
IJealy, Eleazer, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. C; onl. Dec. 25, 1863, three years. Bessee, Ransom Philip, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. HI ; enl. Ang. 20, 1862, three years ; died at Elmira, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1862.
Springer, Redmond, private, IGIst N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three . years; died June 18, 1864, nt Vicksburg, Miss., of chronic diarrhoea.
Brown, Frederick D., private, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; must. Oct. 3, 1864, one year. Gee, Edward, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; must. Oct. 3, 1864, one yenr.
Whitemao, Jacob, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. HI ; must. Oct. 3, 1864, one year; died at Vicksburg, Miss., March 29, 1865, of typhoid fever.
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Sargent, Sumner, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. K; enl. Aug. 30, 1861, three years; disch. Feb. 23, 1863.
Newman, Hosea, private, 161st N. Y. Iof., Co. II ; en]. Ang. 20, 1862, three years ; disch. June 26, ISG3.
Lilly, Manley, quivate, IGIst N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; must. Oct. 27, 1862, three years ; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Hladley, Wm. Wallace, private, 76th N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; drafted July 18, 1863, for three years ; in battle of the Wilderness, and taken prisoner, May 6, 1864 ; sent to Lynchburg and Danville, Va., Andersonville, Ga., Florence, S. C. ; prisuner seven months ; disch. Sept. 8, 1805.
Hilburn, Charles Bratzman, corp., 86th N. Y. Inf., Ce. K ; en]. Sept. 9, 1861, three years ; pro. to corp., Oct. 1862; wounded at second Bull Run and in the Wilderness, in right leg ; taken prisoner June 14, 1864 ; prisoner at Libby, Andersonville, Columbia, and Florence ; disch. April 27, 1865.
Hilburn, Wm. Harrison, private, &Gth N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 6, 1861, three years ; died Dec. 12, 1863, at Alexandria, Va., from wound in the head re- ceived at Mine Run ; buried at Jasper, N. Y.
Talmadge, Andrew Murphy, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Aug. 21, 1862, three years.
Craig, William Ilemy, sergt., 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 20, 1862, three years ; pro. to sergt., July 1, 1863; disch. Sept 20, 1865.
Tayler, Sheldon Goodrich, private, 16th N. Y. H. Art., Cu. C; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three yeara; died at Wilmington, N. C., March 28, 1865; first enl. in 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. K, March 7, 1862; disch. March 20, 1863.
Butler, Israel, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Aug. 17, 18GI, three years ; re-enl. Dec. 30, 18G3; disch. July 4, 18G5.
Walker, Byron, private, 8Gth N. Y. Int., Ce. B; eal. Sept. 9, 1861, three years ; wounded at Gettysburg in left arm, July 2, 1863; re-enl. March 4, 1864 ; taken prisoner Nov. 1, 1864, in front of Petersburg; prisoner at Rich- mond, Va., four montha; disch. June 6, 1865.
Green, Seeley Delos, private, 22d N. Y. Cav., Ce. G; enl. Feb. 15, 1864, three years; served in 64th N. Y. Regt., Co. G, eighteen meaths ; wounded at Antietam ; disch. Aug. 12, 1865.
Van Fleet, Gustavus, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. 1; enl. March 28, 1864, three years; died at Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 29, 1864, of chronic diarrhea.
Sibley, Sumucl Franklin, private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Co. E; en]. Feb. 20, 1864, three years.
Barnes, Chester, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Dec. 25, 1803, three years. Ellis, Thomas, private, 1GIst N. Y Inf., Co. C; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three yeara; died at St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 15, 1864, of quick consumption.
Kirtland, Jebo D., private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; must. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; disch. Sept. 20, 18G5.
Darrow, Daniel Webster, 1Glst N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; enl. Ang. 29, 1862, one year. Hutchinson, Albert, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Aug. 29, 1864, one year ; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Woodward, Moses F., private, IGIst N. Y. Inf., Ce. A ; must. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; disch. Aug. 28, 1865.
Green, George Myron, private, 22d N. Y. Cav., Co. G; enl. Dec. 14, 1863, three years ; taken prisoner June 29, 1864 ; died at Salisbury, N. C., Dec. 2, '64. Menroe, Andrew Jackson, private, 22d N. Y. Cav., Co. G; en]. Dec. 14, 1803, three years; died at Andersonville, Ga
Craig, James A., 161st N. Y. Iof., Cu. HI; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years; trans. to Battery A, at Tortugas, Oct. 1865.
Gesper, William A., private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year : disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Myers, William H., omst. Oct. 4, 1864.
Chase, Francis M., muat. Sept. 28, 1864.
York, Charles W., 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; must. Oct. 3, 1864.
Schanck, Emory, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; enl. Feb. 29, 1864, three years; died Aug. 27 or 28, 1864, on the transport Merrimoc, at sea.
Ketchum, Robert Morris, private, SGth N. Y. Inf., Co. B; must. Sept. 9 er 10, 1865, three years ; disch. Sept. 11, 1864.
Talmadge, Ira Stephens, private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; en1. Aug. 28, ISGI, three years; disch. Sept. 1863, at Baton Rouge.
McMindes, Ezra, private, 34th N. Y. Inf., Co. E; enl. May 5, 1861, two years ; died Oct. 9, 1862, at Annapolis, Md.
Jackson, Levi, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Sept. 12, 1861, three years; died at Washington, D. C., Aug. 28, 1862, of typhoid fever.
Broughton, John, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Oct. 10, 1861, three yeara; died at Washington. D. C., March 19, 1862.
Yreman, William, private, 1G1st N. Y. Inf., Co. Il; en]. Aug. 19, 1862, three years; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Baines, Levi, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. HI ; amst. Oct. 27, 1862, three years.
Marlatt, Wn. Henry Martin, corp., IGIst N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Aug. 19, 1862, three years ; pro. to corp., Ang. 1, 1864 ; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Cushman, Luciua Curtis, private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Co. Il ; enl. Ang. 20, 1862, three years; volunteered te assault Port Iludson, May 27, 1863, and re- ceived a wound in thigh ; died at New Orleans, Dec. 13, 1863, of typhoid fever, and buried at that place.
Woodward, Thurlow Houston, private, 136th N. Y. Inf., Ce. C; eul. Ang. 30, 1862, three years ; disch. Nov. 1, 1865.
Rauer, Jeremiah, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Sept. 7, 1861, three years ; disch. Sept. 13, 1864
Woedward, Philo Putnam, private, 8Gth N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Oct. 5, 18GI, three years ; disch. Oct. 17, 1864.
Wood, Charles, private, SGth N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Ang. 14, 1862, three years ; wennded at battle of Wilderness, Nov. 27, 1863 ; disch. June 28, 1865.
Wyckoff, Elias, private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Ce. II ; enl. Aug. 19, 1862, three yeara ; disch. Ang. 1863.
Freeland, James, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; must. Oct. 27, '62, three years. Freeland, Clark, private, IGIst N. Y. Inf., Ce. Il; must. Oct. 27, 1862, three
. years ; died at Fort Wood, New York harbor, Dec. 1862.
Quick, Francis, private, 107th N. Y. Iof., Ce. F; enl. July 26, 1862, three years ; wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; taken prisoner; at Libby prison eighteen days; disch. Aug. 23, 1865.
Alvord, Rufus Lee, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 6, 1862, three years; disch, May 13, 1865.
Sibley, Ilosea, private, 1GIst N. Y. Iof., Co. Il ; en]. Ang. 22, 1862, three years ; killed in action at Cox's Plantation, La., July 14, 1863.
Jennings, Samuel Washington, corp., 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. H ; en1. Aug. 26, 1862, three years ; wounded at Mansfield, La., April 2, 1864 ; disch. May 20, 1865. Mulhollon, Wni., private, Co. E, 34th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. May, ISGI, two years; disch. June, 1803 ; re-enl. in 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. I, Jan. 15, 1864, for three years ; wounded at the explosion of a magazine at Mobile, Ala., May 25, 1865, in both shoulders ; disch. Oct. 18, 1865.
I'helps, Milo, private, 111th N. Y. Inf., Co. G ; en]. July, 1801, three years; taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, Sept. 1862, and paroled ; disch. Feb. 1804.
Hutchinson, Wm. Edwin, private, 102d N. Y. N. G., Co. B; en]. Sept. 12, 1864, one hundred days; disch. at New York City, Nov. 13, 1864.
Dibble, Calvin, private, 1GIst N. Y. Int., Co. 11 ; en]. Aug. 5, 1862, three years; wounded at Donaldsonville, La., July, 1863 ; disch. March 8, 1864.
Prentice, William Reed, capt., 161st N. Y. Iof., Co. 11; enl. Aug. 21, 1862, three years ; pro. to sergt., Oct. 27, 1862; to Ist lieut., July 14, 1863; to cept., Sept. 16, 1863 ; disch. at Tortugas, Sept. 20, 1865.
Dennis, Christopher, private, 1GIst N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Ang. 21, 1862, three years ; disch. Sept. 20, 1865.
Haven, lliram, private, 33d N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. April, 18G1, two years ; died at New Orleans, La., of chronic diarrhoen, Sept. 15, 1864.
Raymond, John, private, 2dl Yet. Cav., Co. G ; enl. Ang. 1863, three years; dischi. June 3, 1863.
Raymond, Frederick, private, 2d Vet. Cav., Co. G; enl. Aug. 1863, three years. Raymond, Charles, private, 14th U. S. Regulars, Co. E, three years; wounded in ankle in battle of Weldon Railroad, Va.
Raymond, Josiah, private, 2d Vet. Cav., Co. G, three years ; died at New Orleana, La., June 17, 1864, of smallpox.
York, James Arcelius, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Ce. G; enl. Oct. 10, 18Gì, three years ; probably killed at battle of the Wilderness, Va., May 10, 1864.
Erskins, Joseph, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. G; eul. Oct. 10, 1861, three years; died at Washington, D. C., May 24, 1864, of smallpox.
Lason, George Washington, sergt., 76th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Sept. 25, 18Gì, three years ; taken prisoner at battle of the Wilderness, May, 1864 ; pris- oner seven months at Andersonville, Ga., and Florence, S. C .; wounded in the aim in battle of Fredericksburg; re-enl. Jan. 1, 1864; traos. to 147th Regt., Co. A, March, 1865 ; disch. June 9, 1865.
Davis, Benjamin Franklin, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Aug. 20, 1862, three years ; disch. June 14, 1865, at Barrancas, Fla.
Sanford, Daniel Tudd, sergt., 89th N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. Sept. 7, 1861, three years; pro. to bergt., Sept. 17, 1862; wounded in groin at Wire Bettom Church, May 20, 1864; disch. Dec. 6, 1864.
Butler, Jonas, private, 26th N. Y. Iuf., Co. H ; enl. May, 18GI, three years ; miss- ing after the battle of South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862.
Matteson, Gilbert, private, 141st N. Y. Inf., Co. I1 ; eol. Aug. 1862, three years ; disch. July, 1865.
Eves, Philander.
Matteson, Samuel, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. 11; enl. Aug. 1862, three years ; disch. Feb, 1864.
Starr, Elbert Augustus, private, 141st N Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three years; wounded July 20, 1861, Peach-Tree Creek ; disch. March 15, 18G5. Sherwood, Myron 1., must. Sept. 19, 1864, one year.
Cornelius, Ira, 1Gist Regt .; amust. Sept. 19, 1804, one year.
Craig, Willis Edward, major, 1G1st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 18, 1862, three years; pro. to maj., Sept. 16, 1863; disch. Oct. 16, 1865.
Bruner, George, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. K, three years.
Morey, Charles, 107th N. Y. Iuf., Co. K, three years ; wounded June 17, 1863. Raymond, William, private, 22d N. Y. Cav., Co. G; must. Feb. 2, 1864, three years; died at Andersonville, Ga.
Alliger, John Matthias, private, 74th N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. May, 1861, threo yeara; died of wounds received in battle of Williamsburg, Va., May 7, 1862, and buried at Williamsburg, Ya.
RESIDING IN JASPER AND WENT FOR OTHER TOWNS.
Hollenbeck, David, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E ; en]. Sept. 13, 1864, one year ; vied Feb 6, 1865, of typhoid fever at 5th Corps hospital, City l'oint, Va. Talbot, Jarvis (20), private, 189th N. Y. Inf., Co. A ; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year ; disch. June 20, 3865.
Dennis, Daniel Walker, private, 9th HI. Art., Co. E; en1. Sept. 15, 1864, one year ; wounded at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, in right hand; disch. July 22, '65. Stevens, John, private, 141st N. Y. Inf., Co. H; enl. Aug. 19, 1862, three years ; wounded in thigh, May 15, 1864, at Resacu, Ga .; disch. March 4, 1865. Matteson, Luther, private, 12th Vet. Res. Corps, Co. 1; enl. Nev. 7, 18Gì, three years ; first enl. in Co. G, 86th N. Y. Regt .; disch. March 13, 1864; re-enl. March 5, 1865 ; wounded at Gettysburg in his right arm, also at Spottsyl- vania C .- H. iu bis right arm ; disch. Inly 14, 1865.
PHOTOS BY @ MAWI ATT WOODHULL N Y
Cordelia Stearns
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HENRY STEARNS.
Henry Stearns was born in the town of Framingham, Mass., Aug. 19, 1809. His grandfather Stearns, with two brothers, emigrated from England during the early part of the last century ; one settling in New Hampshire, a secoud in Con- neetieut, and the direct ancestor of Mr. Stearns in Massa- chusetts, where he lived to be upwards of one hundred and two years of age. His father, Timothy Stearns, was a native of Massachusetts; married Mary Look, of Framingham ; was a shoemaker by trade ; in early life commenced carrying mail between Boston and Woreester on horseback, and subsequently ran a stage between those two places. He died in middle life, and when the subject of this sketch was only three years of age, leaving a wife and seven children, viz. : George, Mrs. Alvah Curtis, Mrs. Nelson Stowe, Charles, William, Henry, and Tim- othy. The mother survived her husband some fourteen years, and died in Medford at the age of about sixty. Of these children, only Charles, of New Jersey, and Henry are living.
Mr. Stearns spent the time from cleven to sixteen years of age with Richard Fiske, of Framingham, on a farm, receiving the opportunities of the common school and the academy at Framingham for an education. He served an ap- prenticeship in the cabinet and undertaking business with Frederick Van Dorn, of Lowell, Mass., for five years, elosing upon reaching his majority, when he went to New York City and worked as a journeyman for one year, and afterwards one year in Cincinnati, Ohio, and two years in Newark, N. J. He married, in 1833, Cordelia, daughter of Rev. Clark Robinson, of Bath, this county. Her father was a native of Vermont, and
was a grandson of Dr. Robinson, of Williams College, Mass. He was a elergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was minister for some fifty years, and died at the residence of his daughter, in Jasper, Jan. 28, 1877, at the age of eighty- five. Her mother, Celinda S., was daughter of Benjamin Sprague, of Rhode Island, and died in Bath, at the age of forty- seven.
Mrs. Stearns was born in the town of Bath, Sept. 2, 1816. Their children are George, Charles, Mrs. Eugene H., Cramer, and William H. After their marriage, Mr. Stearns spent a short time in the town of Howard, in the cabinet business ; was in Boston for ten years, and settled in Buffalo, where he established the cabinet business, and with the exception of two years, spent in the drug business in Newark, N. J., remained in Buffalo for some fourteen years, when by fire he lost his entire property.
In the year 1857 he removed to the town of Jasper, and began again in a small way, and after three years, by close at- tention to business and strict economy, was enabled to estab- lish himself as an undertaker and cabinet-maker, which interests have gradually inereased until the present time. Mr. Stearns since his settlement here has been generally successful, yet often called upon to favor the needy, which he does with a liberal hand. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stearns are supporters of the church and kindred interests ; she being a member of the Second Advent Church and Mr. Stearns an attendant of the service of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Stearns is identified with the Republican party, and in- terested in all matters of local reform and improvement.
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Williams, Alfred, corp., 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year ; pro. to corp., Oct. 10, 1864; disch. July 11, 1865.
Sanford, l'eter Thomas, private, 2d Vet. Cav., Co. G; enl. Dec. 21, 1863, three
years ; died at Morganzia, La., Oct. 15, 1864, of chronic diarrhea. Yorke, Elias, Ist Pennsylvania Rifles or Buck-tail.
Eves, James. 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. 1861.
Quick, Richard, private, 2d Pennsylvania Cav., Co. L ; en]. July 4, 1862, three years : prisoner of war about thirteen months at Belle Isle, Anderson- ville, and Charleston and Florence, S. C.
Horn, John Carpenter, private, Ist l'ennsylvania Rifles, Co. E; enl. 1861, three years ; disabled by sunstroke, May 7, 1862; disch. Sept. 15, 1863.
Bnrtoo, Eli William, private, 85th N. Y. Inf., Co. A ; enl. Sept. 25, 1864, one year; disch. July 17, 1865.
Bartoo, Smith, private, 85th N. Y. Inf., Co. A; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; disch. July 17, 1865.
Vanskiver, Jonathan Peter, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 8, 1864, one year.
Broughton, Charles, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. G; enl. Jan. 21, 1864, three years; wounded in thigh in the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; disch. June 27, 1865.
Johnson, Daniel Rufus, corp., 141st N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one year; served in 34th N. Y. Tuf. about sixteen months; trans, to 60th N. Y. Regt. ; disch. July, 1865.
Dennis, George Washington, private, 1G1st N. Y. Inf., Co. I, three years ; died at New Orleans, La., Sept. 4, 1864, of remittent fever.
Springer, Eli Barnard, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. C: enl. Jan. 13, 1864, three years ; trans. to Battalion A about Sept. 20, 1865, at Fort Jefferson, Fla. Van Orsdale, Allen Augustus, 2d sergt., Ist l'enn-ylvania Rifles, Co. A ; en]. May 50, 1861, three years ; disch. June 1, 1862.
McMindes, Charles, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. II; enl. Oct. 16, 1861, three years ; disch. Oct. 17, 1864.
IIardy, George Adrian, private, 9th N. Y. II. Art., Co. E; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one year ; must, out July 20, 1865.
Marsh, Edward William, private, 161st N. Y. Inf., Co. IL ; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one year ; died Feb. 1, 1865, at New Orleans, La., of chronic diarrhoea.
Stewart, Ilomer, private, 179th N Y. Inf., three years ; disch. for disability, Sept. 1864.
llamill, George Washington, private, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. July 19, 1862, three yunrs ; disch. June 14, 1865.
Spencer, Asa, corp., 136th Pennsylvania Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 5, 1862, nine months; must. out at llarri-burg, la.
Phillips, James Hiram, private, 51st N. Y. Inf., Co. A ; enl. Sept. 3, 1863, three years ; first entered the 109th N. Y. Inf .; trans. to 51st N. Y. Inf. ; wounded in front of Petersburg, June 17, 1864 ; disch. Aug. 1865.
Phillips, George F., private, 109th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Ang. 9, 1862, three years; disch. June 8, 1865.
Rawson, Andrew Hubbard, private, 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. G ; en]. July 23, 1863, three years; pro. to q. m .- sorgt., March 1, 1864.
Rawson, Edgar Samuel, private, 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav., Oo. G; enl. Aug. 25, 1863, three years.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
DEA. THOMAS WHITING
was born in Lyndeboro', N. H., April 30, 1802. He was the fifth in a family of eight children of Oliver and Hannah Whiting, who arrived at maturity. Thomas was about thirteen years of age when his father died. His mother remained on the homestead, and carried on the farm until her death, at the age of sixty. Of their children only one son is living,-Oliver, now a resident of the town of Jasper.
Mr. Whiting remained at home with his mother until he reached his majority, except a year or two, when he worked out. In 1826 he came with others to the town of Jasper, Steuben Co., looking for a place to settle, and before returning purchased one hundred and sixty acres of tim- bered land in Jasper, which property he subsequently eleared and lived upon until his decease.
Returning to New Hampshire he married, Oet. 16, 1828, Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Cram, both natives of Lyndeboro', N. H1. Sarah Cram's mother died when she was only thirteen months old, and she resided with her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Woodward, until her mar-
riage. She was born June 12, 1804. Immediately after their marriage they removed to Jasper, traveling with horses and carriage the entire distance and being fourteen days on the way, reaching their new home in Steuben County late in the fall of 1828.
At this time there were only a few scattering settlers in the town, and no school-houses nor churches. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting were closely identified with all the local im- provements of the town. Most of his land he cleared and prepared for cultivation and erected buildings for farming purposes.
Thomas Whiting
He was a man of reading, and well informed in the events of his time. For some three years he was school commissioner of the town, and, although often solicited to accept public offices in the town, he preferred the quiet of business and its independence to political honors. llc was formerly a member of the Whig party, and an active exponent of its principles ; was strongly opposed to human bondage, and was one of three in the town who first voted the Anti Slavery ticket. After the formation of the Republican party he became a supporter of its platform. Mr. Whiting and his wife were attendants of the Presby- terian Church before leaving New Hampshire, and Mrs. Whiting was a member of the same, and she was among the organizers of the Presbyterian Church at Jasper, and Mr. Whiting became a member of the same in 1832, and was ordained one of its ruling elders, Sept. 12, 1847. Ilis real worth and close relations with the church endeared him to all its members. As a friend and neighbor he had but few equals ; was constant, kind, and a man of correct moral habits and strict integrity in all his business relations. He died Oet. 31, 1878. His wife still survives.
They reared a family of six children, three of whom are living : Mrs. William Schanek ; Oliver, who married Martha A. Prentice, of Jasper; and Cynthia. !
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LINDLEY.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
THE town of Lindley was formed from Erwin, May 12, 1837. It lies upon the southern border of the county, east of the centre, and is bounded by Erwin on the north, Ca- ton on the east, the Pennsylvania line on the south, and Tuscarora on the west. The east and west parts of Lindley are elevated and hilly uplands, divided by the deep valley of the Tioga River, which is about one mile wide, and bounded by steep hill-sides from 400 to 600 feet high. The soil on the hills is a heavy, shaly loam, and in the valleys a rich alluvium. A large portion of the surface of the hills is still covered with forests, from which lumbering has been extensively carried on.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The first settlement of this town was made upon the Tioga Flats, by Colonel Eleazer Lindsley, in the year 1790. Mr. Lindsley was a native of New Jersey, and had been an aetive officer of the " Jersey Blues" during the Revolu- tionary war. Previous to 1790 he had ridden through the Genesee country to find a tract of land where he might es- tablish himself and gather his children around him. The unhealthiness of the region around Seneca and Canandaigua Lakes prevented his settling in that region, and he chose a tract less promising for agricultural purposes, but one that promised freedom from the diseases to which the more fer- tile northern plains were subject.
His colony consisted of about forty persons, who, with their goods, were transported to the Susquehanna. At Wilkesbarre these were transferred to boats and poled up the river, while the horses and cattle were driven along the trails or rude roads npon the banks. They arrived at their place of destination June 7, 1790. Plows were made, and the river-flats were immediately broken. These flats were covered with rank grass, bordered by higher land covered with Indian corn-hills, which had been hilled up year after year, until so prominent as to be yet seen where undisturbed. It was on these corn-lands the first crop of the pioneers was raised. The season was too far advaneed for corn, but a great harvest of bnek wheat was seeured. Buckwheat, corn, milk, and game constituted their food the first winter. " Old Pomp," a negro belonging to Col. Lindsley, made himself useful by pounding buckwheat in the dug-out top of a stump, with pestle hung like an old-fashioned well-sweep, from the time the ice closed the river in autumn until spring removed the impediment, and allowed the trans- portation of grain in canoes to Shepard's mill at Tioga Point, fifty-two miles down the river. Old Pomp seems to have been something of a hunter as well as a miller, killing three bucks at one shot as they were feeding upon the moss in the river, and being kicked over a log and into the
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