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USA > New York > Tioga County > History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York > Part 173
USA > New York > Tompkins County > History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York > Part 173
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IIngh Casney, Co. E, 161st N. Y. S. V.
Michael Madden, 1G1st N. Y. S. V.
Amasa Morey, Co. E, 161st N. Y. S. V.
Henry More, corp., Co. E, 1G1st N. Y. S. V .; enl. Ang. 30, 1862, three years; in battles of Plane Shore, Port Hudsou, Coxe's Plantation, Sabine Cross- Roads ; wounded at siege of Spanish Fort.
Jacob Newkirk, Co. E, 161st N. Y. S. V.
Hugh O'Neill, Co. E, 16Ist N. Y. S. V.
Daniel A. Remington, Co. E, 161st N. Y. S. V.
Leander Redner, Co. E, 161st N. Y. Vols.
Phineas R. Stephens, Co. E, 1GIst N. Y. Vols.
William Switzer, Co. E, 161st N. Y. Vols.
James R. Sloan, Co. E, 161st N. Y. Vols ; enl. Aug. 30, 1862, three years ; in bat- tles at Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, and Coxe's Plantation.
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Marvin D. Stillwell, private, 16Ist. N. Y. Vols. ; enl. Oct. 18, 1862. Bradwell D. Ferry, Co. E, 16Ist N. Y. Vols.
David E. Turner, Co. A, 16Ist N. Y. Vols. Jonathan Vanvloet, Co. E, 161st N. Y. Vols.
William Van Wormer, private, Co. E, 16Ist N. Y. Vols. ; enl. Aug. 29, 1862, three years; in battles of Resaca, Dallas, and Peach-Trec Creek.
Henry Wells, Jr., Co. E, IGIst N. Y. Vols.
Chester Wilson, private, Co. E, 161st N. Y. Vols. ; enl. Sept. 1862, three years. A. J. Swartont, private, 14th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Jan. 2, 1864, three years; in battles of Petersburg, Lanrel Hill, Spottsylvania, Cold Ilarbor, and the Wilder- ness ; wounded before l'etersburg.
Abram Davy, private, Co. D, 10th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Dec. 26, 1863, three years. William W. Swift, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Dee. 24, 1864, three years.
Thomas IIavens, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Dec. 29, 1864, three years.
Porter Densmore, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Dec. 29, 1863, three years.
George Grant, Jr., 14th II. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; in battles of Spottsylvania and the Wilderness; taken prisoner; in prison at Rich- mond and Andersonville.
Robert Kennedy, 14th 1I. Art .; enl. Jan. 2, 1864, three years; in battles of Spottsylvania and the Wilderness; was taken prisoner; in. prison at Richmond and Andersonville.
Reuben S. Brown, 14th H. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years; in battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor; wounded at Petersburg. Archibald Dresser, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years.
Irving Arrance, 14th II. Art. ; enl. Jan. 2, 1864, three years.
Ilarrison Flatfield, 14th II. Art .; cnl. Jan. 2, 1864, three years.
Robert Swartout, private, 14th II. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; in battles of the Wilderness, Slaughter-Pen, North Anna, and Petersburg. Ira Ring, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
Scott Ellis, 14th II. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
William Bains, private, 14th II. Art .; enl. Jan. 2, 1864, three years; in battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Laurel Hill, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Winchester, and Cedar Creek.
Thomas Jefferson, colored troops; enl. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Charles Hollister, 75th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Dec. 14, 1863, three years. Charles P. Harvey, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years.
James M. Reynolds, private, 10th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Nov. 5, 1861, three years; in battles of Brumdy Station, Gettysburg, Shepherdstown, Mine Run, and Todd's Tavern, and at the surrender of Gen. Lee.
Albert D. Davey, 10th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years; in thirty-three battles.
Abram B .. cker, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. Daniel P. Budd, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
William Ross, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
Benjamin Bond, 50th N. Y. Eng; enl. Dec. 31, 1864, three years. Edward Doland, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years.
Miller Thompson, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years.
William II. Delamater, private, 14th H. Art. ; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years ; in battle of the Wilderness.
Ira II. Ferrell, 14th H. Art .; onl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years. Cornelins L. IlIll, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years. John Bassett, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. Matthew Dames, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Dec. 20, 1864, three years. Matthew McConnell, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 10, 1864, three years. Wmt. II. Simpson, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Dec. 30, 1864, three years. David Horton, 50th Eng. ; enl. June 7, 1864, three years.
Wm. W. Bowers, private, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 2, 1864, three years ; in bat- tles of Lynchburg and Bolivar Ileights. Isaac Adamy, 5th N. Y. Art .; cnl. Jan. 2, 1861, three years. Levi F. Staight, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864.
Jacob C. Smith, 50th Eng. Corps. ; enl. Dec. 31, 1864, three years ; died at Rap- pahannock Station, April 12, 1864.
Wm. J. Case, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 10, 1864, three years; in battle of Piedmont. Ira F. Cornell, private, 50th Eng. Corp. ; ent. Jan. 4, 1863, three years ; wounded in thigh at battlo of Antietam. James Wightman, private, 50th Eng. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1863, three years. James Post, 50th Eng. Corps ; enl. Dec. 31, 1864, three years. Isaac H. Nivison, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; onl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. George W. Brown, 14th II. Art .; enl. Dec. 31, 1864, three years. HIoraco Dates, 10th N. Y. Cav. ; ent. Dec. 20, 1863, three years. Edward Stillwell, 5th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years; in battles of Piedmont, Lynchburg, Snicker's Gap, and Winchester. Edwin Porry, private, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. Henry White, 50th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. Geo. Il. Dickens, 14th II. Art .; enl. Dec. 30, 1863, three years. John L. Dox, 14th II. Art .; enl. Dec. 30, 1863, three years.
Goo. W. Jackson, 5th II. Art. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; in battle of Lyncli- burg.
Winton Lee, 1.1th II. Art .; enl. Jan. 3, 1864, three years. Abraham Horn, 5th N. Y. Art. ; ent. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
George B. Loomis, 5th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. De Witt Voorhis, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Albert R. Graham, 5th N. Y. Art. ; ent. Dec. 28, 1863, three years. Jolın A. Butts.
Charles A. Benson, 50th Eng. Corps; enl. Jan. 4, 1861, three years.
Daniel Palmer, 86th N. Y. S. V .; enl. May, 1861, three years; disch. Jan. 1864; re-enl. Feb. 15, 1864 ; in battle of Fair Oaks.
Hilbert S. Clawson, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; eul. Jan. 5, 1863, three years. Lewis Barton, 11th II. Art. ; enl. Dec. 17, 1863, three years.
Simeon B. Brown, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
Stephen R. Bassott, 5th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. I, 1864, three years. Spencer C. Stillwell, 5th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; in battles of Piedmont, Lynchburg, Snicker's Gap, Winchester, and Martinsburg.
Erastus Page, 50th Eng. ; eul. Jan. 4, 1864, three years.
Win. E. Updyke, 16th N. Y. Art .; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years.
Theodore Remington, 14th II. Art. ; enl. Dec. 21, 1864, three years.
Isaac M. T. Coats, private, 5th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. George W. Carson.
John Carson. Francis S. Vosburg.
Michael Dolan, corp., Co. A, 89th N. Y. S. V .; enl. Sept. 17, 1861, three years; in battles of Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Hanover Court-House, Sulphur Springs; wounded in the battle of Antietam.
De Mott Van Buskirk.
Charles Cutter.
Daniel F. Everts, private, 4th N. Y. Art .; enl. Feb. 25, 1864, three years; in battles of Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Reams' Station. Edward Havens, 4th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Feb. 26, 1864, three years.
James M. Miller, private, Co. A, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Ang. 19, 1861, three years. William N. Gordon, 89th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feb. 16, 1864, three years.
Edwin S. Kellogg, Co. A, 89th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 20, 1861, three years; in
battles of Sonth Mills, Sonth Mountain, Fredericksburg, Fort Wagner, Cold Harbor, and Pleasant Valley.
Martin Van Buren, 179th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feb. 20, 1864, three years.
Colman M. Byran.
Ilerman II. Slaight, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Ang. 30, 1861, three years ; in battle of Fredericksburg.
Jacob B. Story. John W. Banck.
Isaac V. L'Amoreanx.
James A. Gerow, private, Co. A, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Dec. 5, 1861.
Edward S. Pierce.
Lewis Emmonds, private, 10th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Dec. 8, 1861, threo years; in battles of Brandy Station and Culpepper.
Elial Osborn, private, 50th N. Y. S. V .; enl. Ang. 19, 1861, three years.
Lewis S. Updyke, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. March 29, 1864, three years.
Joseph Pruden, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Aug. 1861, three years ; in battle
of Fredericksburg.
Thomas Powers.
Samuel Pruden, private, 23d N. Y. Inf .; enl. March, 1861, two years ; in battles of Cold IIarbor, White Oaks, Seven Pines, and Petersburg.
Cyrus Bower.
Daniel M. Scarles, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Feb. 15, 1864, three years.
Albert Root, 14th H. Art. ; enl. Jan. I, 1864, three years.
William M. Westcott, 50th Eng ; cnl. Aug. 20, 1864, one year.
Nelson Egbert, private, 10th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Aug. 13, 1864, ono year ; in battles of Boyd's Town, Plank-Road, Stony Creek, Three Creeks, and Hatcher's Run.
John G. Stillwell, private, Ist Vet. Cav. ; enl Ang. 29, 1864, one year.
Jonathan Fletcher, Ist Vet. Cav .; enl. Aug. 30, 1864, one year.
Gilbert Bement, 137th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 30, 1864, one year.
Asa Foster, 50th Eng .; enl. Ang. 30, 1864, one year.
De Witt C. Gerow, private, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, ono year.
Watson D. Cameron, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year.
George W. Ball, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year; in battlo of Petersburg.
Parker W. Ilalsey, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year. William Matthews, 50th Eng .; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year. Enoch Moore, private, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year. Leander F. Osborn, private, 50th Eng .; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year. Morfield IInston, privato, 50th Eng. ; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year. Franklin Jackson, 50th Eng .; enl. Sept, 3, 1864, one year. Artlınr Conklin, 50th Eng. ; enl. Sept. I, 1864, one year. Hudson C. Armstrong, private, 50th Eng .; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year. Edson Billings, private, 50th N. Y. Eng .; ent. Sept. 1, 1864, one year. l'hilip A. Baum, 1st N. Y. Cav .; enl. Ang. 31, 1861, one year. Henry Owen, sergt., 50th Eng .; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year. Anson Murphy, private, 50th Eng .; eul. Aug. 31, 1864, one year.
Rufus W. Johnson, private, 50th Eng. ; enl. Aug. 31, IS64, one year. Emory A. Johnson, 50th Eng .; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Isaac Hays, private, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 24, 1864, one year. Arlo Brown, 50th Eng. ; onl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year. Gilbert T. Sears, 50th Eng .; ent. Ang. 30, 1864, one year. Robert C. Morgan, 50th Eng. ; enl. Sept. 1, 1861, one year. Benjamin Rolling, 50th Eng. ; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, one year. Lewis Dickens, 50th Eng. ; ent. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. l'anl M. Morgan, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 22, 1864, one year. Duncan Teryberry, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 22, 1864, one year. Henry V. Boyce, 50th Regt .; enl. Aug. 22, 1864, one year. Isnac M. Slater, 50th Eng .; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year. Egbert P. Lissons, private, 50th Eng. ; eul. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Albert S. Bowers, private, 50th Eng .; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. George P. Egbert, 50th Eng .; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Daniel J. Gerwe, 50th Eng. ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year.
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Salathiel Osborn, private, Ist Vet. Cav .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Jonathan Gordon, Ist Vet. Cav .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Clarence Wallenbeck, private, 179th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Francis Harvey, 179th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Edwin Atwood, 5th H. Art. ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Francis Gardner, 5th Eng. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Lewis C. Beers, 1st N. Y. Vet. Cav ; enl. Sept. 8, 1864, one year. John Gordon, Ist Vet Cav. ; enl. Ang. 14, 1862, three years. James McKarman, 3d N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. James Gorman, 25th ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Burney Guernsey, 137th Inf .; enl. Sept. 9, 1864, one year. Bradley Rogers, private, Ist Vet. Cav .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Harvey B. Chapman, 179th Inf .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Charles W. Rathbone, private, Ist N. Y. H. Art. ; enl. Sept. 7, 1864, one year. Charles M. Green, 179th Inf .; enl. Sept. 8, 1864, one year. Lawrence Loomis, 4th N. Y. H. Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Henry Huff, 50th Eng. ; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year. Isaac R. Harten, 185th Inf .; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one year. William Rezer, 50th Eng .; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year. Peter Rolfe, 50th Eng. ; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year. Charles N. Billings, 10th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 10, 1864, one year. Asa L. Middaugh, 6th N. Y. H. Art .; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one year. Gilbert N. Miller, Ist Vet. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year. Masten Gregory, 1st Vet. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 10, 1864, one year. William Honzer, 50th Eng. ; enl. Sept. 19, 1864, one year. John M. Lewis, 10th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Sept. 19, 1864, one year. Corydon Lears, 16th N. Y. Bat. ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Albert Ransom, Ist Vet. Cav .; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Burr Gaskell, 50th Eng .; enl. Sept. 30, 1864, one year. George Wheeler, private, 87th; enl. Oct. 1861, three years; died Dec. 7, 1861, of typhoid fever.
Sanl C. Benham, sergt., Co. I, 34th Inl .; enl. May, 1861, two years; pro. 2d sergt .; in the battles of Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' Fight, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville ; taken prisoner at White Oaks, Savannah.
William II. Van Dyne, 2d sergt., Co. I, Ist Conn. Cav .; enl. Aug. 25, 1864, three years ; in battles of Mount Jackson and Cedar Creek.
Otis Ballou, 2d sergt., Ist Conn. Cav., Co. I; enl. Aug. 25, 1864, three years ; in battles of Waynesborough, Ashland, Dinwiddie Court-House, llarper's Ferry, Five Forks, High Bridge, and Appomattox Court-Honse. Twenty-seven drafted and substitutes.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
PHILO AND JOIN C. SACKETT.
The name of Sackett has for the past century held a respectable position in local and national history. Without entering further into the genealogy of the family than to mention the father of the subject of this sketeh, a record is produced of which the existing generation may well be proud. Buel Sackett was born on the 28th of July, 1763, and was the son of Benjamin Sackett. He (Buel) married Sally Earl Beach, who was born May 27, 1761. They were among the pioneers of Columbia County, this State, Philo, their second son, having been born at New Lebanon, in that county, on the 13th of June, 1788. On the 6th of January, 1814, he married Gratia, daughter of Sands and Mary Perkins, she being a native of Rhode Island, where she was born Jan. 16, 1787. Immediately subsequent to his marriage Mr. Saekett settled at Nassau, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., where he resided until 1828, when he removed into the town of Hector, of which he was a resident until his death, which occurred October 12, 1863, he then being in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His father, Buel Sackett, mentioned above, was a soldier of the Revolution, and did duty at the execution of Major Andre, and he himself was in the service of his country, and held a commission in the war of 1812.
In all his relations he sustained, as husband, father, patriot, citizen, and Christian, his life was eminently char-
acterized by a firmness of purpose, and by a conscientious devotion to the principles of truth and right. Though a life-long Democrat, and an ardent supporter of such men as Jackson and other illustrious names that have passed into history, he ever cherishing a veneration for the principles which he early espoused, yet he had no fellowship with modern Democracy, and the last public act of his life, eight days before his death, and which will be held in grateful remembrance of him, was his vote in favor of a resolution condemning the action of the South in the war of the Re- bellion, and deprecating slavery in all its aspects,-as the sentiment of the Baptist Church of Bennettsburg, of which he was a member, in their annual letter to the Association.
Mrs. . G. Sackett, the widow of this exemplary Christian of whom we have just written, was converted to the Bap- tist Church at the age of fourteen years. She held the sacred relation of wife and mother for nearly fifty years, and on the 10th of September, 1869, six years after her beloved husband went to his reward, she followed. " Truly, the memory of the just is blessed !"
John Clark Sackett, the fifth son of this worthy couple, was born at Nassau, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Dee. 6, 1821. He finished his education at the Ithaca Academy. His business was lumbering and farming. On the 19th of Sep- tember, 1848, he married Rebccea E., daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Bloomer, who was born at Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., Jan. 12, 1826. They had four children, namely : Seneca Bloomer, born Dec. 3, 1851, married to Luey B., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wright, Sept. 16, 1874 ; Willis Perkins, born June 17, 1855; Grace Elizabeth, born May 30, 1859 ; Annie Burt, born Aug. 14, 1866.
John C. Sackett is a member of the Prohibition party, and was the first candidate of that party for member of Assembly in this county. He is a member of the Baptist Church of Bennettsburg, and has been one of its deacons for more than thirty years. He is at present a member of the Board of Excise for the town of Heetor. He is an up- right and honest man, and a good eitizen.
ABRAHAM L. SNYDER
was born in the town of Hector, March 3, 1829, being the youngest sen of Isaac and Saralı E. Snyder, who emigrated from the town of Knowlton, Sussex Co. (now Warren Co., N. J.), in 1823. They both died, and their remains re- pose, in the town of their adoption. He was brought up on his father's farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits as his principal avocation all his life.
On the 18th of February, 1856, he united in marriage with Marion H., daughter of Thomas and Maria Van Court, they having also been early settlers of Hector, having moved from Hornellsville, Steuben Co., in 1837, where Mrs. Suyder was born on the 16th of October, 1836. Five children were born to them, namely: Joseph J., born Dcc. 11, 1856; Katie E., born Sept. 19, 1859, married Herman Van Vleet, of Lodi, Seneea Co., N. Y .; Ellsworth, born May 11, 1864; Clarence F., born May 4, 1866; Hermio L., born Feb. 22, 1873. Both Mr. and Mrs. Suyder are
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members of the First Presbyterian Church of Pcach Orchard. Politieally, he is a member of the Republican party, but has never sought nor held any town office. When married he purchased a farm of forty-three acres, and has since added thereto, until he now has one of the finest and best cultivated farms in Sehuyler County, containing two hun- dred acres, upon which he now resides.
For the last twenty years Mr. Snyder has taught musie, his serviees having been sought after within a radius of fifty miles. His musical talent is natural, he having had no advantages of a musical education.
DAVID JONES
was born in Dutehess Co., N. Y., June 17, 1808, being the son of Ward and Janc Jones, with whom he removed to Covert, Sencca Co., this State, in 1811. He moved with his father to the town of Heetor, in 1816, loeating on lot No. 19. He received a common-school education, and remained on his father's farm until his marriage to Hannah, daughter of John and Luey Rudy, April 10, 1831. The Rudys emigrated from Philadelphia, Pa., to Ulysses, Tomp- kins Co., N. Y., at an early day, where Hannah was born Nov. 19, 1812. Their family numbered five children, of whom two are deceased. Those now living are Mary, born Feb. 10, 1833, married J. Fletcher Stillwell, of Hee- tor; Minor T., born March 8, 1843; Luey J., born July 17, 1847.
Mr. Jones was a member of the Republican party, but never held any offiee. He never affiliated with any partieu- lar religious organization, but for all that was a truc Chris- tian and honest man. He originally settled on a fifty-aere lot, but by industry and economy aeeumulated a niee prop- erty, consisting of one hundred and seventy-six aeres of land, with good substantial improvements, all of which he made himself. After reaching the allotted threeseore years and ten, he died Jan. 7, 1878, deeply lamented by his friends and sincerely mourned by his relatives.
ELNATIIAN WIXOM.
Among the successful practical farmers of the town of Hector, none stand higher in the estimation of the com- munity than does Elnathan Wixom. His residenee in the town extends over half a century, so that lic rightly belongs to the pioncers, to whom is due, in a marked degree, the present agricultural and financial importance of the town. He was born in Kent, Dutehess Co., N. Y., July 12, 1809, and was the eldest son of a family of fifteen children of George and Mary Wixom, both of whom were natives of the same county. In the days of his boyhood the advan- tages of education were limited, a brief attendance at the public schools constituting all in the way of learning he received. In 1816 his father moved to Covert, Seneea Co., N. Y. When old enough to work, he hired out by the month. In 1828 he came to Heetor, where he engaged to work for Caleb Carman, with whom he continued for cigh-
teen years. On the 12th of February, 1836, he married Lydia, daughter of Caleb and Annie Carman, who was born in Hector, Oct. 16, 1816. By this union he had two children,-Caleb, born April 5, 1838, and Annie, born May 10, 1840. Ilis wife died Jan. 20, 1841, and he sub- sequently married Martha, daughter of William and Phebe Carman, who was born in Heetor Aug. 22, 1813. Two children were born to them,-William, born Aug. 2, 1845, and Charles, born Dee. 6, 1847.
In 1845, Mr. Wixom purchased a farm of 158 acres, for which he went into debt $2000. By industry and economy he was enabled to pay for this, and added thereto until at one time he owned over 400 acres, which he has redueed, by sale or otherwise, to 274 aeres. Among other virtues, Mr. Wixom justly prides himself on the fact that he has never used either intoxieating liquors or tobaeeo, but has been temperate in all things, and henee enjoys a robust constitution, and earries the weight of threescore and ten years without any appearance of decrepitude. In politics he is independent, formerly affiliating with the Republican party. In religious sentiment he adheres to the good old doetrines of the Society of Friends, of which both he and his estimable wife are devoted members.
As citizen, husband, and father, Mr. Wixom has faith- fully performed the duties pertaining to those exalted sta- tions in life ; and by personal integrity and individual rectitude has won for himself a reputation as ereditable as it is imperishable.
WILLIAM HI. JEFFERS
was born in the town of Hector, Feb. 4, 1827, and is the youngest son of ten children of Henry and Lavonia Jeffers, who emigrated from Dutehess Co., N. Y., and settled in Heetor in the year 1815. They both died in this town,- Mr. Jeffers April 18, 1849, and his widow January 12, 1862. William H. received a common-school education, and has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits, being now considered one of the best practical farmers of lis town. On the 20th of February, 1860, he married Miss Jane L., daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Bloomer, who was born Nov. 8, 1830. They have had no children, but have adopted two,-Josephine, aged ten, and Mary, aged twelve years,-from the Howard Mission, of New York City, whom they bring up as though they were their own children. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers are both members of the Baptist Church of Trumansburg, with which Mr. J. has been connected these thirty years. He belongs to the Re- publican party, but has never sought nor held any office, preferring to oeeupy the post of honor, which is said to be the private station. He has been very temperate in his habits, never using tobaeeo or indulging in intoxieating beverages. About seven years ago he built the fine resi- dence in which he now lives, furnishing the plans from which it was constructed himself. It stands upon the old homestead farm upon which he moved in 1831, fifty-eight years ago. Mr. Jeffers is a man who wields a powerful influenee as a moral and upright eitizen, a good neighbor, and a true Christian.
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HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS,
Photo. by Crum.
DR. M. D. HAWES.
NATHAN WAIT.
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
MONTOUR.
THIS town was the last one organized in the county, and owes its erection to the desire of the citizens residing around and doing business at Havana, to equalize the board of supervisors, and to lull, for a time at least, the bitter struggle for the location of the county-scat at Watkins, in- augurated in 1857, and consummated a decade later .* The geographical location of the town is in the southwest- ern part of the county. In extent it is 3} miles wide by 6 miles long, and contains about 12,297 acres of land. Its surface is broken by abrupt hills which, on its western and eastern borders, rise to a height of several hundred feet. From the highlands in the southeast corner can be obtained a glorious view, surpassed by no scenery in the State, and fairly comparable with that of Venice and Switzerland. The soil is a fertile gravelly loam, mixed with elay. Close on its western border flows Catharine's Creek, the inlet to Seneca Lake, which in its course unites with MeClure's, Catlin's, and Mill Creeks on the east, and by Fall Creek on the west, giving many valuable water-privi- leges (which are generally utilized), and making altogether quite a respectable stream on its entry into Sencea Lake. The name of the town is from Catharine Montour, f whose village was located within its borders.
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