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George P. Carr, son of Clark M. Carr, by his second wife, was born in Buffalo, N. Y. He served as captain in the Union army during the War, and at its close was appointed by Presi- dent Johnson parish judge in Louisiana : while occupying this position he met his death in a mysterious manner, probably a victim of the intense political feeling rife at that time. He possessed literary talent and was the author of two books of poems : "The River of Life," and " The Contest."
Clark Family.
Abraham Clark, Jr., father of Alanson Clark, Esq., of this town, was born in the town of Gloucester, Providence county, R. I., June 14, 1790, being the fifth in a family of ten children, was married to Alice Blackmar, who was born in Thompson, Windham county, Conn., April 24, 1795, Feb. 18, 1816; resided in his native town till November, 1818, when, with his family consisting of his wife and one child, he emigrated "west " to what was then the town of Concord, Niagara county, N. Y. "Taking up" a piece of land containing one hundred acres, part of lot fourteen, range eight, township seven, being about one mile from Langford postoffice, in what is now the town of North Collins: he afterwards sold his claim and removed to land situated in the the same town, part of lot twelve, township seven, range eight; here he resided till his wife died, July 2, 1853 : shortly after this he disposed of his farm to his sons, Lyman and Alanson.
AApril 29, 1854, he was again married to Mrs. Julia M. Wright, and removed to the cast part of the town on the Genesee road, near the present Concord line ; remaining here but a short time he removed to Evans Center, Erie county, where he continued to reside till his death, April 25, 1864; he and his first wife were both active members of the F. B. church.
By his first wife he had ten children, as follows :
Lyman, born in Gloucester, R. I., Nov. 16, 1816; married to Emily, daughter of Abram Conger, of Shirley; now lives at
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Princeton, Green Lake county, Wis .; previous to his removal he was for some time Justice of the Peace, and was Supervisor of the town of North Collins in 1856-7.
Anna, born in Collins, Erie county, N. Y., May 7, 1819; died Oct. 16, 1822.
Emily, born March 6, 1822; died Nov. 13, 1838.
Alanson, born April 3, 1824.
Hiram, born June 4, 1826.
Alban, born March 19, 1829; is married and lives at Prince- ton, Wis.
William, born April 19, 1831 ; died in Princeton, Wis., Oct. 3, 1863.
Susan, born May 26, 1833 ; died Oct. 7, 1834.
Julia A., born Feb. 12, 1836; died Feb. 13, 1854.
Henry Clay, born July 13, 1839; died May 3, 1853.
By his second wife :
Julia Clayanna, born Aug. 3, 1855 ; lives in Buffalo with her mother and half sister, Mrs. Eunice Dole.
Alanson, fourth child of Abraham Clark, has always resided within the limits of this history, being the only one of his fath- er's family now a resident of this State, except the half sister just mentioned who resides in Buffalo. He was married at Hamburg, N. Y., by Esquire White, Feb. 26, 1854, to Flora Palmerton (born Aug. 6, 1831), daughter of William Palmer- ton, a brother of Joshua and Henry Palmerton, all of whom were early settlers of the town of Collins, Joshua having settled near Collins Center in the Spring of 1810, the others following soon after. The Palmertons came from Danby, Vt., and are supposed to be of English origin.
William Palmerton married Floranna Delezenne, who was, as her name indicates, French descent ; they had eleven children, four of whom, Betsey, Nathan, Flora and John, are residents of this county.
Delezenne Palmerton, the eldest, lives at Muskegan, Mich.
George Edward Palmerton went to California during the gold excitement, and has not been heard from in twenty-five years, and is supposed to be dead.
The other members of the family not mentioned are now deceased.
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Their children are as follows:
Willis Gaylord, born Nov. 10, 1854. Riley Hiram. born Feb. 4, 1857. George William, born May 26, 1858.
Mr. Clark lives one-half mile east of Woodward's Hollow (which is his postoffice), on what has ever been known as the Genesee road, is a farmer, and owns a dairy farm of 275 acres.
Willis Gaylord Clark graduated at the Oberlin, O .. Commer- cial college in August, 1874; has taught school considerable, and in the Fall of 1881 was a candidate for School Commis- sioner in the third district of Erie county. He holds the office of Justice of the Peace, to which he was elected in 1882.
Jonathan O. Canfield.
Jonathan O. Canfield, was born Sept. 30, 1811, in Ulster county, N. Y. His father, Jonathan Canfield, was a minister. His mother's maiden name was Mercy Holly. When Mr. Can- field was nine years old, the family moved to Boston, N. Y., where they lived twelve years; they then removed to Genesee county, where they lived six years ; they next removed into this town, where Mr. Canfield has since resided. The follow- ing is Mr. Canfield's family record :
PARENTS.
Jonathan Canfield, born Nov. 6, 1765 ; married July 15, 1787 : died Dec. 9, 1851.
Mercy Holly, born April 9, 1771 ; died Nov. 25, 1855.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
Silvanus, born May 11, 1788; married Feb. 17, 1815, to Abigail Wood ; died June 7, 1848.
Josiah, born Sept. 14, 1789 ; married March 13, 1814, to Mary Crosby ; died June 22, 1854.
Sillick, born Sept. 12, 1791 ; married Jan. 22, 1814, to Susan- na Tousey ; died Sept. 20, 1865.
Wealthy, born Oct. 22, 1793 : married Dec. 26, 1819, to Josh Baker ; died Dec. 21, 1824.
Mylo, born Oct. 7, 1796; married Jan. 1, 1826, to Electa Landon ; died March 13, 1826.
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Watee, born March 31, 1799; married Nov. 13, 1853, to Hiram Moore ; died December, 1855.
Sally, born May 31, 1801 ; died Aug. 27, 1826.
Rebecca, born June 18, 1804; married Nov. 1I, 1827, to John B. Landon ; died May 14, 1874.
Jane, born July 28, 1807 ; died Sept. 17, 1809.
Oliver, born Oct. 22, 1809; married May 17, 1837, to Lau- rilla Hopkins; died May 10, 1865.
Jonathan O., born Sept. 30, 1811 ; married first, Sept. 7, 1843, to Elvira Horton; second, May 15, 1877, to Elizabeth Waterman.
CHILDREN.
*Ray H., born July 16, 1844; married 1873 to Lydia Booth.
Moses H., born Nov. 2, 1847; married 1872 to Melissa McCullor.
G. Bruce, born June 21, 1850 ; married 1874 to Kate Brooks. Paul, born Sept. 21, 1855.
*Ray H., is a graduate of Eastman's Business College.
Vincent M. Cole's Statement.
I was born Sept. 19, 1814; came to this town in 1817 ; my wife's name was Julia Squires, daughter of Seely Squires ; she was born in Concord, and died in 1840; I was married to my present wife, Catherine Ostrander, in 1842 ; am a farmer. My father's name was Aaron Cole ; my mother's maiden name was Sarah C. Gates. My father was left an orphan at an early date, and removed to Concord in 1817, and lived with Orrin Sibley one Winter, and then built a log house on a farm of fifty acres, one-half mile east of Orrin Sibley's. He moved into the log house and went to Hamburg and got a pig and brought him home under his arm, and put him in a pen near the house. One night the pig squealed and mother went out and found a bear at the pen. She got a fire-brand and threw at him and he left. Soon after the bear came again and mother drove him off, and left some fire burning near the pen ; but the bear came a third time and got the pig, and killed and eat him up. Some of the neighbors built a bear pen of logs, near where the Vos- burg cheese factory now stands, and caught two young bears. The wolves used to kill our sheep and we could not keep sheep
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unless we put them in a close pen at night near the house. There was plenty of wild game in the woods, our dog killed several deer alone, when the snow was deep and the crust would bear the dog. When he killed one he would come to the house and we would follow him back and get the deer. We had all the venison and bear meat we wanted. We planted and raised a good crop of corn among the logs and stumps, by planting the corn with an old axe. They had three children :
Lizette, born in Concord in 1842, married Thomas Upham. Ella, married Addison Lonsbury.
John is a dentist and lives in Collins Center.
Almon D. Conger.
Mr. Conger was born in Danby, Vermont, Jan. 12, 1815 ; of Quaker ancestry. He was a son of Noah Conger and Hannah Griffith Conger. Mr. Conger came to Collins in 1838, where he resided until 1877, when he removed to Springville. While a resident of Collins he was engaged chiefly in farming, but for some years past his business has been loaning money and buy- ing and selling real estate. He was Assessor in Collins twenty- one years. Mr. Conger was a brother of the Hon. Anson G. Conger. He was married in 1839 to Sophronia Potter, daugh- ter of Peter Potter, formerly of Granville, N. Y. They have had six children, viz. :
Noah, born April 26, 1841 ; died, April 27, 1873.
Hannah M., born Aug. 31, 1844.
Lydie E., born Nov. 7, 1847 ; died July 8, 1868.
Andrew W., born June 5, 1850 ; married Florence Clark, daughter of Timothy Clark, and resides on the homestead farm in Collins.
Albert E., born Oct. 24, 1857.
Jessie M., born Dec. 15, 1859: married Russell F. Bryant . resides in Springville.
Mr. Conger is, in the full acceptation of the term, " a self- made man." He began his successful career in humble cir- cumstances, and by his own unaided efforts he has secured to himself and posterity a very handsome competence. He informs the writer that the first money he possessed he earned of a neighboring farmer by chopping by the month, and that
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in his early years he made it a rule to lay up something each year over and above his expenses.
George D. Conger.
Mr. Conger was a son of Abram Conger, who was one of four brothers that came to Collins in the Spring of 1817. He (Abram Conger) was married in June, 1830, to Anna Hunt. Four of their children are now living, viz .:
Emily married Lyman Clark; reside at Princetown. Wis.
Mary Jane married Charles Bartholomew ; reside in North Collins.
Fidelia married John Goodell ; since died.
George D. Conger was born Dec. 10, 1842, in Collins. His time until eighteen years of age was spent on the farm and attending school. On the 8th of August, 1861, he enlisted in the Forty-Fourth New York Volunteers, Company A : was corporal, and took part in every engagement in which his regi- ment was engaged in, except an interval of six weeks in July and August, 1862, when he was confined in the hospital. He was slightly wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg : was mus- tered out of the service Oct. 12, 1864. He was married Feb. 16, 1865, to Diantha Sampson, and engaged in farming in Con- cord. He has at present upon his farm fifty acres of apple orchard. In the Spring of 1883, he moved to Springville, N. Y., and became a dealer in carriages, wagons, agricultural implements and farm produce. He has one daughter, Cora May, born Aug. 10, 1869.
James Curtis.
James Curtis was originally from Willington, Conn. He came to Concord in 1832, from Onondaga county, and located on lot forty-three, township seven, range six, on Sharp street, buying his land of Jonathan Mayo. He married Mary Marcy, a cousin of Governor Marcy of New York. They had four chil- dren :
Zebadiah married Lovice Hall, and died in Concord, about 1840.
Nancy Maria married Erastus Mayo, and died about 1849.
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leaving seven children, viz .: William, Louisa, James, Minerva, Rufus, Cornelia and Della.
William T. married Charlotte. Williams first, and Angeline Williams second. He died in 1882, in Aurora, Erie county ; no children.
Origin D. Curtis.
Origin D. Curtis was born June 27, 1818, in Onandaga county and came to Concord in 1831 ; was married the Fall of 1839 to Lucy Mayo. He lived in Concord till the Spring of 1850, when he moved to Machias ; to Otto, N. Y., in 1864, and back to Springville in 1872. In the Spring of 1881, he went to the Red River valley, Polk county, Minnesota, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land. He is a farmer and car- penter by occupation. He has eight children, viz .:
Mary C. married L. B. Churchill.
Julia L. married James Jackson ; reside in Waupaca, Wis.
Dora married William H. Jackett ; reside in Mansfield. Cat- taraugus county.
Jonathan V. married Adda Chase ; reside in Salamanca, N. Y. Henry married Estelle Stanbro; reside in Concord.
Edwin married Ida Widrig : reside in Springville. Willis H. married Rosa Barse ; reside in Polk county, Minn. George married Etta Widrig ; reside in Springville.
Mr. Curtis' father, James Curtis, died in Machias,, Cattarau- gus county, in 1863. His wife died in Concord about 1878.
Robert Curran.
Mr. Curran was born in Dundalf, Ireland, in 1780; came to Ulster county, N. Y., when thirteen years of age; from there to Tioga county, N. Y., and to the north part of Concord in 1821, where he resided until his death, in 1865. Mr. Curran was one of a family of seven. When he came to Concord, Bos- ton corners was called Torrey's corners, and there were but three frame houses on the Boston road in the vicinity of the corners. Mr. Curran had five children :
Mrs. A. P. Ellis of East Concord.
Caroline, who died in 1861.
William Curran, Esq., of Boston.
Hiram and Mary Curran, also of Boston.
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James F. Crandall.
James F. Crandall was born March 20, 1797, in Newport, Rhode Island. His father, William Crandall, followed the ocean, and was captain of a merchant vessel that sailed from Newport. James F. married Maria W. Edwards, who was born in Newport, R. I., also. They came to Concord in 1821. Mr. Crandall was a weaver by trade and worked in a factory in Rhode Island. He worked in a factory after he came here, and also kept hotel several years, and was engaged in trade in this town and Aurora. He died in Spingville, April 20, 1873, aged seventy-six years. His wife, Maria W. Edwards, died May 20, 1855.
Their children were :
George E.
Sarah G., born July 16, 1819, in Rhode Island ; married Major Wells and died here about 1844.
Abajail P., born Feb. 13, 1822, here ; married A. H. Wing, lives in Chicago.
Emeline, born May 15, 1824, here; married D. G. Vorce ; died in Chicago about 1877.
Augustus, born June 2, 1831, here.
Augusta, born June 2, 1831, here ; married William Murray ; died in California about 1865.
George E. Crandall.
George E. Crandall was born in Providence, R. I., July 16, 1816. Came to this town with his parents in 1821. He was married to Polly M. Harvey in Springville, Dec. 22, 1836. He has resided in Springville about sixty-two years. He is a prac- tical jeweler, and has carried on the business many years. He has also carried on the gunsmith business, and has sometimes been engaged in farming.
His children are :
James F., born Oct. 25, 1837; married Clara Tillotson ; resides in New York city, is a jeweler.
Norman E., May 24, 1849 ; married Ursula Hammond ; resides in Ashford, is a farmer.
Lemuel G., born July 30, 1843 ; married Loretta Hunt ; she died in 1877 ; is a jeweler.
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Nelson H., born May 29, 1845 ; married Antoinette Casey ; they have one child, Bianca ; resides in Springville and is a jeweler.
Ellen M., born June 12, 1847 ; married William R. De Puy : resides at Sea Cliff, L. I. ; he is a lawyer.
George A., born Sept. 17, 1847; married Sarah Dorsey ; resides at Holland ; he is a jeweler.
William C., May 20, 1853.
Ebenezer S. Cady, Statement.
Ebenezer S. Cady was born in the town of Chatham, Colum- bia county, N. Y. Came to the village of Springville in 1858 : is a carpenter and joiner ; was married at Schuyler, Herkimer county, N. Y., in 1840, to Miss Mary Oyer, who was born in 1817 at Schuyler, Herkimer county, N. Y. My father, Arnold Cady, was born at Chatham, Columbia county, and served as volunteer of marines in defence of the New York harbor in the war of 1812. My mother's maiden name was Sarah Hunt. She was born in Washington, Vt. Grandfather's name was Ebenezer Cady ; he was a Captain in the war of the Revolu- tion. Grandmother's maiden name was Chloe Beebe. She was born in Connecticut. The house my grandfather built in Chatham in 1761 and '62, was built of pine timber, was taken down in 1824 and the timber used in building the Presbyterian meeting house in the village of Spencertown, Columbia county, N. Y. In this house my grandfather's two sons and five daugh- ters were born. The outside doors were made of pine boards, two thicknesses, cut into horizontally about half-way of their height, and at night barred on the inside with a stick. On the farm was an oak grove where the people assembled on the Sab- bath to worship (they were Presbyterians), until they built a church on his farm, the first church in Chatham. This building was moved to Chatham four corners, a distance of one and one- half miles. The building was put on runners and under the runners small sticks were placed for rollers, and many ox teams were hitched to each of the runners and in that way the build- ing was drawn to the spot and for many years the followers of the lowly Nazarene met at this humble church and offered their devotions to the God of Abraham, till finally later gen-
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erations have sold the old church for a sheepfold, and built another church exhibiting more pride than piety.
They had six children :
Lucy A., born in 1840 and died in 1872.
Sarah J., born in 1844 ; married Newela French.
Maryette, born in 1847 and died in 1850.
Cassius M., born in 1850 and died in 1871.
Ellen G., born in 1853; married Gardner Berry.
William S., born in 1856 and lives in Kalkaska, Mich.
James A. Cranston.
Arnold C. Cranston, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Rhode Island March 17, 1799, and ·was married about 1821 to Miss Selinda, who was born in Massachusetts July 20. 1804. They came here from Madison county, N. Y., in 1834, and settled a few miles north of Springville on the farm now owned by his son, James A., where he lived until his death in 1869, which was caused by the falling of a limb of a tree which he was felling. His wife died Aug. 2, 1877. They had four children, all but one of whom were born in Massachusetts :
Monroe, born April 1, 1822 ; died in 1822.
Almeda G., born Feb. 17, 1825 ; married Lysander Needham. Harriet L., born Nov. 22. 1833 ; married Wilbur Stanbro.
James A. Cranston was born Aug. 27, 1828, in Massachu- setts, and came with his parents to Concord in 1834. He is a carpenter and joiner and worked at his trade a great many years, but at the present time confines himself exclusively to farming. He was married in 1857 to Miss Polly M. Wilcox, They have four children :
Fred. A., born in 1859; married Jennie Widrig, and lives in East Concord.
Mary, born in 1865. Nellie, born in 1867. Lemuel, born in 1869.
Calkins Family.
Elisha Calkins and wife (Elizabeth Cross) came from Ver- mont and settled in Clinton county, N. Y. In the Fall of 1828 they moved to Buffalo ; not liking the low lands in the vicinity
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they only stayed through the Winter, and in the Spring of 1829 came to the town of Colden and settled on a farm on South hill. Their family consisted of eight children, Olive, Polly, William, Moses, Sally, Harrison, John and Betsey. The girls married and settled in Colden ; two of them are still living there, Mrs. Thomas Buffum and Mrs. Jesse Hedges.
Moses married Elizabeth Abbott, and settled on the hill ; he is now living at Colden village, but very feeble; he has one son, A. C. Calkins, living in Buffalo.
John married Susan Southworth, of Boston, and lived on a farm on the hill. In the Fall of 1856 was kicked by a horse and died of injuries received, leaving two sons, John D. and Earl, who are now living at South Bend, Ind.
Harrison married Elizabeth Cunningham, of Concord, and lived on the hill near Glenwood; he died of consumption in 1853, and left one son, Hon. Elisha C. Calkins, now living at Kearney City, Nebraska.
William A. cleared a farm in the town of Concord, attending the Springville academy in 1833, when Parsons was Principal His health failing, he went down to Staten Island and taught school one year, and married Eliza Randolph Rollo, of Staten Island ; he came back and went to farming on his farm in Con- cord and lived there about five years, sold out and moved into the town of Colden, where he is still living. He had five chil- dren, two sons (dying in infancy) and three daughters :
Jane Rollo married Harry Foote.
Maria married A. C. Calkins, and lives in Buffalo.
Julia married A. J. Sweetapple and lives in Elma.
Frederick Crary.
Mr. Crary was born in Wallingford, Rutland county, Vt., in 1802. His grandfathers, William Crary and John Sweetland, were both soldiers of the Revolution, the latter taking part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. C. first came to the region then called Concord about 1819; subsequently, about 1820, in the capacity of a showman, he accompanied the first elephant that was ever exhibited in Springville. He was first mar- ried in Scipio, Cayuga county, N. Y., to Wealthy Ann Durkee.
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She dying, he was married a second time to Louisa Richmond, by whom he had children as follows:
Marion, who died at six years of age.
Charles S., who served as Captain of Company F, One Hun- dred and Sixteenth regiment New York State volunteers during the Rebebellion he died in Springville in March, 1865.
Ann, married Andrew Neff ; resides in Ashford, N. Y.
Charlotte, married Eugene Mills, and afterwards died, leav- ing two daughters.
While a resident of Sardinia Mr. Crary served three terms as Justice of the Peace, and one term in Springville.
Cyrus Cheney.
Cyrus Cheney came here from Massachusetts about 1816. He married Rebecca Sawyer and lived here a number of years and then went back to Massachusetts. When gold was dis- covered in California he went there and remained a few years and died soon after he returned. They had three children, Abigail, Sally and Augustus.
Isaac B. Childs.
Isaac B. Childs was born Oct. 13, 1823, in the town of Con- cord, and has always resided in this town, and by occupation a cooper and farmer. Was married to Marsha A. Brown, who was the mother of his two children : Ellen M., wife of George B. Baker and Charles F. Childs. She died Nov. 22, 1861. His second wife, Mary Ann Jones, died March 12, 1866, leaving no children. His third wife, Emily Pratt, mother of Lowell Childs, died Feb. 10, 1873. He was married to his present wife, Catherine Oyer, March 10, 1875. His father's name was Lewis Childs ; his mother's maiden name was Deborah Starks, daughter of Jedediah Starks. His father removed from Deerfield, Mass., in 1832, and settled on the farm now owned by George Weeden, once and one-half miles north-west from Springville and worked at coopering. He also opened and worked a stone quarry on his farm and for many years furnished stone for a large number of the buildings in Springville and surrounding country. He subsequently sold his farm and removed to
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Springville, where he continued to reside until the time of his death, in 1853. His mother died July 5, 1873.
Ellen M. Childs was born March 21, 1850.
Charles F. Childs was born June 18. 1854.
Lowell Childs was born Feb. 3, 1873.
Colburn Family.
Orlin Colburn was born at Charlestown, Montgomery county, N. Y., June 13, 1816. When a boy six years of age, he came with his parents to Collins, May 20, 1822. The family moved into an old log school-house, situated on what is now called "Scrabble Hill;" In 1837 he was married to Miss Jane Pea- body, who died in 1847, leaving a family of five children, all of whom are dead except one. Erastus Colburn was born Dec. 25, 1841. He enlisted at the commencement of the war, served four years and came home unhurt. In 1867 he married the daughter of Captain Davis, of Erie, Pennsylvania, and in 1868, emigrated to Marysville, Kansas, where he has since been engaged in farming.
Ezra Colburn, the second son of the family, enlisted in 1861, was taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness and died from starvation at Libby prison.
Orlin Colburn married his second wife, Sarah Ackley, of the town of Persia, Cattaraugus county. Farming has been the principal occupation of his life. Has five children by his sec- ond wife, viz : John C., born May 2, 1850, married Mary A. Hawks in 1874. They have three children.
Caswell C. resides at Wheeler Hollow, N. Y.
O. J. Colburn was born May 6, 1852, in Concord, N. Y., was married in 1379, to Mary E. Morton, who was born Sept. 3, 1856.
Peter Colburn was born April 29, 1854; married Mary A. Sutherland, in 1868.
Lowell M. Cummings.
Lowell M. Cummings was born in 1847, in the town of War- ren, Mass. Came to Springville in 1870, where he was married in 1870, to Miss Kate Emmons, daughter of Dr. Carlos Em- mons.
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His father's name was John F. Cummings; his mother's maiden name was Julia Graves. His grandfather's name was John G. Cummings ; his grandmother's maiden name was Sarah Burroughs. ,
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