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America N. Truair, 17th Infantry, Co. K, May, 1861, 2 years; served 6 months; re-enlisted Dec. 29, 1863; served 1 year. Lost an arm at the battle of Cold Harbor, July 3, 1864; discharged Dec. 6, 1864.
James M. Tyler, 17th Infantry, Co. K, May, 1861, 2 years. Promoted to 1st Sergeant; served full time.
John West, 9th Cavalry, Co. H, Feb., 1864, 3 years; discharged Sept., 1865.
Wm. II. Walker, 17th Infantry, Co. K, May, 1861, 2 years; promoted to Sergeant and Sergeant-Major; served out term.
Morris Warren, Ist Sergeant, 2d Mounted Rifles, May, 1861, 2 years; re- enlisted Dec .. 1863; served 1 year and 6 months; slightly wounded.
Alfred Watrous, Sergeant, 17th Infantry, Co. K, May, 1861, 2 years; served out term; re-enlisted Sept .. 1863, 3 years, and served 1 year and 9 months.
Arthur II. Watts, Ist Dragoons, Aug., 1862, 3 years; transferred to non- Commissioned Regimental Staff, Sept., 1862; appointed 2d Lieutenant of Co. F, Jan. 1, 1864; promoted to Reg. Quarter-Master, Aug. 20, 1864; dis- charged June 30, 1865.
Charles B. Whiteher, 9th Cavalry, Sept., 1864, 3 years; died at Hampton Hospital, Nov. 1864, of sickness acquired in the army. Buried in Warsaw.
Charles E. Whittam, Sergeant, 8th Artillery, Dec .. 1863, 3 years. Not heard from after going into battle at Cold Harbor, June, 1864.
Zelotes C. Wiggins, 136th Infantry, Sept. 1, 1862, 3 years; died July 4, 1864. of wounds received in battle at Gettysburg. and buried there.
Leonard Wilkin, 1st Lieutenant Ist Dragoons, Aug., 1862, 3 years; served 13 months; resigned, and honorably discharged.
Libbeus Wright, 31st N. Y. Volunteers, Dec., 1863, 3 years; served 13 months; lost an arm.
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Mortimer Wright, 31st N. Y. Volunteers, Dec., 1864, 3 years; served 13 months; lost an arm near Petersburg.
Alfred Wright, 31st Colored Infantry, Co. A, Dec. 25, 1863, 3 years; died of wounds received in battle near Petersburg, about a year after enlisting.
Oliver Wright, 31st Colored Infantry, Co. A, Dec. 25, 1863, 3 years; died of sickness near Petersburg, about a year after enlisting.
Charles T. Watkins, Corporal 17th Infantry, Co. K, May, 1861, 2 years. Promoted to Sergeant; served 2 years, and was discharged.
Wm. B. Young, 17th Infantry. Co. K, May, 1861, 2 years; served 13 months; health impaired, and discharged.
In the list of Volunteers of Wyoming county who were mustered into the service in 1862. and received the county bounty of $50, are the names of 82, of whom 5 are designated as residents of other towns; and 12 as residents of Warsaw, of whose enlistment or service there is no other record.
Besides the 194 men included in this list, there were employed outside of the limits of the town, by citizens of the town, more than 200 men to fill quotas from time to time.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
WELCOM ARNOLD was born in Granville, Feb. 23, 1795, and lived most of the time in Poultney, Vt., until 1815, when he removed to Middlebury. In January, 1817, he married Marilla Stearns, of Sudbury, Vt. They removed in 1833 to the north-east part of this town, where they now reside. They united with the Presbyterian church in Wyo- ming, of which he was an elder before his removal to this town. They had three children: Osmyn S., Anna M., and Alfred P., (inf.)
OsMYN S., born in 1817, married Martha M. Paskow, of Cayuga Co., in 1850, who died in 1856. They had two dangh- ters, Emma C., and Mary M.
ANNA M., unmarried; resides with her parents.
HORACE P. AKIN was born in Dutchess county, Oct. 28, 1794. He married Maria Wisemore, and removed to this town in 1835, and died in 186S. They had ten children:
MORGAN married Caroline Burrell, and resides in Perry. They have four children.
DE WITT married Polly Bush, of Gainesville, by whom he had three children: Adolphus, Irvin, and Maria. His wife died in 1862. He married for his second wife, Almedia La- throp, by whom he has two children, Frederick and Florence. IIe has been frequently elected to the office of Assessor.
JOHN A. married Mary Jane Conable, who died, leaving two children : Julia, who married Augustus Steele, and Wal- lace. Mr. Akin married for his second wife, Lucy Ann Stearns. Served in the war.
LEWIS married Betsey Rice, who died: and Mr. Akin mar- ried Hannah Wood, who also died; he married his third wife in Michigan.
JAMES, MILTON, AMBROSE, CHARLES, MELISSA, and HIRAM are married; ALBERT is unmarried.
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CHARLES W. BAILEY was born in Perry, March 9th, 1820, and married, June 30, 1849, Jane M. Stevens, of War- saw, who was born at Albion, Orleans county. He is a grad- uate of Meadville College, Pa. He pursued the study of Law, and was admitted to practice in 1850. Ile was elected a Justice of the Peace in this town in 1860, and Clerk of the County in 1861, after having been for several years Deputy Clerk, which office he still holds; thus having served as Clerk and Deputy ten or eleven years. He also held the office of Postmaster in this town during the administration of Presi- dents Taylor and Fillmore.
EDMUND BAINBRIDGE was born in Lawrence, N. J. Dec. 31, 1799. He married Dorcas Wiggins, of Oneida Co. N. Y. They removed to Warsaw in 1834, and settled in the north-east part of the town. They now reside in the village. They are members of the Presbyterian church. They have had twelve children, as follows :
WILLIAM W., who married Eliza Crocker, and has several children. They reside in Ohio.
ALPHA A., who married Nancy Morland, and resides in Missouri.
MINERVA F., who married Dwight Purdy, of Warsaw. They have two sons and one danghter.
FREELOVE JENNETT, who died March, 1867, aged 42.
MILTON G. married Martha Hughes, and resides in Colum- bia City, Ind.
MARY married Robert Pease, and has two daughters.
ELLEN A. married Wallace Randall, and resides in Iowa.
JULIET married Fayette Holton, and died in 1865, two months after marriage.
JAMES P. resides in Rochester.
Jennett, Francis, Eunice, and Nancy E., died young.
ELISHA BARNES was born in Bennington, Vt., and married in 1783, Anna Martin, of Granville. They removed from Granville to this town, and settled in the south-west part of the town about 1820. Mr. Barnes died March 10, 1864. They were members of the Baptist church. They had six children :
ELISHA, who married Electa Furman, of Warsaw.
CHAUNCEY married Jane Alderman, and died in Eagle.
ANNA, unmarried, lives in Middlebury.
GAMALIEL married Maria Freeman, daughter of Rev. Peter Freeman, formerly pastor of the Baptist church in this town. They have a daughter, and live in Illinois.
SAMUEL died at the age of 4 years.
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SOLON W., married Susan E. Warren, of Orangeville, and has four children: Theodore R., Cora E., Arletta, and Arthur. They reside in Middlebury.
DAVID BARNETT was born in Londonderry, N. H., in 1769. He was several years a merchant in Vermont. He married Grisey Patterson, of Londonderry, a sister of Mrs. Frank and William and Peter Patterson. They removed to Warsaw about the year 1830, and resided on East Hill until his death, Sept. 28, 1838. His occupation was that of a farmer. Mrs. Barnett died Nov. 13, 1850, in her 75th year. She was a person of vigorous mind, retentive memory, warm attachments, and decided Christian principle. She had no children. Mr. Barnett had by a former wife two daughters, now residing in Vermont.
JONATHAN BARNETT was born in Londonderry, N. II., Sept. 13, 1767, where he was married, to Ruth Merrill. He was a descendant of one of the Scotch Irish inimigrants from Londonderry, Ireland, who settled in the former town about the year 1720. He removed to this town in 1821, having been preceded by two of his sons, Amos M. and William D. He died Ang. 27, 1842. Mrs. Barnett died March 29, 1855. They had nine children, all born in Lon- donderry.
Jony was born July 6, 1795; died Oct. 20, 1805.
AMos M. was born March 5, 1797. He married Laura Dunham, of Orangeville, by whom he had six children, of whom two only passed infancy: 1. Mary. 2. Martha, who married Augustus Harrington, a practicing lawyer. They reside in this village. Mr. Barnett was a member of the Congregational church, as is also Mrs. Barnett. He died Jan. 20, 1856.
ROBERT was born Nov. 8, 1798, and married for his first wife, before his removal to Warsaw, Sally Nevins, by whom he had a son, James N., who married Sarah Painter, and has two children, Sarah Elizabeth, and Edwin P. Mr. Barnett married for his second wife, Hetty S. Foster, by whom he had a son, Robert, who served in the late war, and lost a leg in battle. [See War History.]
WILLIAM D., born Sept. S, 1800, married Elizabeth Young, of this town, in 1830. They resided in Clarkson until 1837, when they removed to Gainesville; and in 1849 to Attica, where he died, Ang. 2, 1865, and where Mrs. Barnett still resides. They had no children. He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church in Attica.
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JAMES was born March 25, 1802. He removed from War- saw to Ohio. He had three children, of whom one died in the war.
GILMAN Was born Feb. 11, 1804. He married Mary Ann Davis, who died without children. He married for his second wife, Laura Stewart, by whom he had two sons: 1. Benjamin Franklin, who married Sylvia Doty, of Attica, where they reside. They have a son. 2. Augustus, who married Laura J. Bassett. He is a merchant in Albion. Gilman Barnett and his wife now reside in this village.
JONATHAN was born Aug. 1, 1807. He removed to Will Co., Ill., where he was married. He died June 13, 1860.
DAVID was born March 9, 1810. He also removed to Illi- nois, and died at Wilmington, Sept. 4, 1838. He was at the time of his death an elder in the church of which he was a member. He was unmarried.
MARIA was born Oct. 18, 1813; died Jan. 9, 1859.
ALANSON BARTLETT was born in Bath, N. H., Dec. 31, 1802. He came to Warsaw about the year 1820, with his father, who settled in the north-west part of the town. He removed to the village, and carried on the Cabinet Making business about forty years. He married Maria Turner, who died July 26, 1857. He died Feb. 23, 1867. Both were members of the Methodist church. They had ten children:
Axx ELIZA, who died at the age of 37.
MARY E., who married O. C. Gero, and lives in New Jersey.
MARTHA M., married James Dayton; removed to Michi- gan, and died.
JAMES SPENCER, born Feb. 9, 1833; married Aug. 23, 1859, Mary P. Hitchcock, of Arcade. They had three children, Charles A., Frank Lewis, and Clayton S., died in infancy.
SARAH MARIA, married Henry Everson; they reside in Chicago.
PHIDELIA H., died in infancy.
DELIA D., married Horace Kimball, of Colden; died in 1861, leaving a daughter.
WALLACE A., born Nov. 5, 1844; served 4 years in the war, was in Salisbury prison 7 months; now resides in Wash- ington, D. C.
CLARA C., born Aug. 7, 1852.
Mr. Bartlett married Henrietta Roberts, Jan. 23, 1858.
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ETHAN E. BARTLETT was born in Bath, N. H., Dec. 17, 1804, and came to Warsaw in December, 1821. He graduated at the Western College of Physicians and Surgeons in the State of New York, and commenced practice in the village of Warsaw in the Summer of 1831. In the Fall of 1834, he removed with his family to the State of Georgia. In 1836, he " sought again the land of the free," (as he ex- presses it,) and settled in Orangeville, and practiced in that and the adjoining towns until 1848, when he again located in Warsaw, where he has continued the practice of his profes- sion, more or less, though for the last several years his attention has been bestowed chiefly on other business.
Dr. Bartlett married Elvira A. Tanner. They had five children: Nancy Ellen, who died Jan., 1869, Mary Tabitha, Sarah A. Aphia, Thomas Rush, who died April 23, 1867, aged 26, and George. Mary T. married Mr. Smith, and resides in this town.
Mrs. Bartlett died in Orangeville, Dec. 14, 1846, aged 33 years.
Dr. Bartlett married for his second wife, Phebe Foster. They had eight children. Only Celinda E., Lowell D. K., and Julins F. H., are living.
WILLIAM K. BARTLETT was born in Bath, Grafton Co., N. II., June 12, 1796. He married Elmina MeLangh- len, and removed from Chelsea, Vt., to Attica, and settled the next year in Orangeville. In 1847 or 1848, they removed to the north-west part of this town, where both died: Mrs. Bart- lett, July 19, 1857; Mr. Bartlett, June 9, 1867. They had eleven children, of whom three died in infancy.
COLUMBIA C. married Hiram Melvin, of Attica. They re- side in this town. They had four children: two, Emmet and Ida, are living.
EMMET L. resides in Chihuahua, Mexico.
AURORA ADELAIDE married Homer Melvin, of Attica. Their children are Seth H., Elmina, Aravesta, Flora, Charles.
MYRON E., born May 7, 1831; married Cordelia McFar- land, of Ohio. Children : Eugene M., Jennie E., Edith E .. and an infant daughter, living. Mr. Bartlett has for several years been, and is now, a practicing attorney in this village. YORK resides in Liverpool. England.
CosAM T. was born April 3, 1837, and married Hettie, daughter of Dr. Smith, of Attica. He is a practicing lawyer in Attica.
WILLIAM M. and STEPHEN B. live in Warsaw, unmarried.
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ELIAS R. BASCOM was born in Newport, N. H. Hc came from Benson, Vt., to Warsaw, in the autumn of 1821, and engaged in teaching vocal music. In the spring follow- ing, he engaged as a clerk in the store of Dr. Sheldon. In 1824, he married Lucy Hinman, at Castleton, Vt. About the same time he became a partner of Dr. Sheldon in trade. The partnership continued until it was dissolved by the death of Dr. Sheldon in March, 1828. Mr. Bascom continued the business until 1832 or 1833. He succeeded Dr. Sheldon as Postmaster, which office he held until 1841. He also held the office of Justice of the Peace for a term of four years, and other town offices. Mr. and Mrs. Bascom were members of the Presbyterian church. In 1848, he removed with his family to Lansing, Mich., where, a few years after, he died. Mrs. B. resides with a daughter in Iowa. They had eight children, as follows:
JAMES A., who married in Michigan, and resides there.
ELIZABETII, who married Horace Roberts, of Detroit, who was a Colonel in the late war, and was killed in battle.
LUCY JANE married Mr. Lauman, of Burlington, Iowa, and resides in that city.
ROLLIN was married, and died two or three years since, leaving a wife and one child.
ANSON learned the printer's trade, and went to the West. LOUISA is supposed to reside in Burlington, Iowa.
LEMUEL HAYNES and HORACE died young in Lansing.
WILLIAM BINGHAM was born in Lempster, N. II., Aug. 7, 1799. He married Elizabeth Roe, and after her death, Betsey Knapp, who was born Dec. 8, 1808. He re- moved to this town in 1830, where he has since resided, with the exception of two intervals, the first from 1838 to 1839; the second from 1845 to 1850. He retired, Jan. 1, 1865, from what had been the principal business of his life, Hotel-keep- ing, in which he had served the public for thirty-six years in succession. IIe was widely known and liberally patronized, having acquired the reputation of keeping a first class house. Mr. Bingham had. by his first wife two children: Mortimer, who died in infancy, and
MATILDA M., who married Daniel A. Knapp, and died Sept. 2, 1864, leaving three children, Charles M., William B., and James B.
His children by his second wife are
WILLIAM M., living in Warsaw, unmarried.
LUCIEN W., who married Lucy A. Bangs, of Georgetown, D. C., who died Aug. 15, 1867.
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HULDAI married James O. MeClure, and has two children, Ida and Frederick W. Mr. McClure commenced the Drug business in this village, April 1, 1867, in which he still con- tinnes.
MARYETTE A. is unmarried.
BENJAMIN BISHOP was born in Lancaster, N. H., Nov. 25, 1806. He came to Warsaw, West Hill, in 1824. He taught school winters for a few years, and worked at farm- ing summers, which last business he has continued to the present time. He married Lydia B. Wakefield, by whom he had eleven children: Laura, Lucy E., John W., infants, John F., James D., Etta, Antoinette, died at 3, Flora A., Charles C., Addis E., Minnie.
JAMES D. and CHARLES C. served in the late war.
SANFORD L. BOUGHTON was born August 27, 1810, and married Maria A. Roberts. He came to this village in the year 1840. He was highly esteemed for liis social and moral qualities. He ever manifested a deep interest in our public schools; and had been at the time of his death, a member of the Board of Education in this village, from the time of the incorporation of the Union School in 1853. He died Sept. 26, 1859. He had three children : William P., Ardelissa C., and Henry C.
WILLIAM P. was born May S, 1840. He completed his school course in the Academy in this village, and was em- ployed as one of its instructors. His duties as teacher were faithfully and ably discharged until compelled, by failing health, to relinquish his chosen pursuit. He died July 5, 1859, soon after he had completed his nineteenth year.
ARDELISSA C., born Jan. 19, 1844; died Sept. 28, 1862.
HENRY C., served an apprenticeship at printing in the office of II. A. Dudley, and resides in Missouri.
WILLIAM BRISTOL was born in Canaan, Columbia Co., N. Y., Aug. 19, 1775. He came to Gainesville, (then Batavia) in 1805, and assisted Wm. Peacock, a surveyor for the Hol- land Company, in surveying that township. He also cut open the north and south center road through the town. He ยท settled at "The Creek," where he resided the remainder of his life. He was appointed in 1809, and again in 1811, by the Council of Appointment, a Justice of the Peace, for the town of Warsaw, before the formation of Gainesville. He served in the war of 1812, and was Lieutenant in Capt. Isaac Wilson's company of Cavalry. He was elected the first
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Supervisor of Gainesville, in 1814, to which office he was elected at different times for five years; and was a member of the Assembly in 1823. He married Martha Stevens, of Wor- cester, Mass. Mr. Bristol died Jan. 4, 1859. Mrs. Bristol died Oct. 17, 1865. They had six children :
FRANCIS S., who married Merab Stone, and died in War- saw, July 5, 1845. They had three children, Martha M., Sarah C., and Martin.
BENJAMIN F., born June 17, 1811, married Margaret A. Davis. They have six children : Joel W., James, Theodore, Corydon, Martin F., and Benjamin F., all living in Gaines- ville. Mr. Bristol has been Supervisor of Gainesville two years; Justice of the Peace twenty years, and elected for three terms (nine years) County Superintendent of the Poor. MARY S. married John M. Lawrence. Their children were, Wm. B., who died in the war in 1863, and George D.
LAMIRA married George Harrington, and died Sept. 14, 1849. Their children are Augustus, a lawyer in Warsaw; George S., who resides in Lockport; Charles H., in Arizona Territory; and Francis S. B., in Nevada Territory.
WILLIAM. [See Sketch.]
LAURA married Corydon Doolittle, and died April 19, 1853.
WILLIAM BRISTOL, son of Wm. Bristol, previously mentioned, was born in Gainesville, March 7, 1821, and resided on the homestead of his father until the year 1868, his principal business having been that of a farmer. He has been five years Supervisor of Gainesville; several years a Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, and Deputy Sheriff; and in 1867 and 1868 represented this county in the Assembly. He removed in 1867 to this village, where he is engaged as a dealer in produce, of the firm of Hibbard & Bristol. He married, Jan. 12, 1843, Adelia M. Lockwood, and had three children, Laura L., Belle, and Caroline L. Mrs. Bristol har- ing died, he married, Jan. 8, 1857, Martha J. Jewett, by whom he has a son, William.
ISAAC C. BRONSON was born Sept. 6, 1803, in Onon- daga Co., whither his father removed from Connecticut in 1800, and thence to Ontario county in 1804. In 1823, he removed with his father to Sheldon, where the latter died the same year. He commenced the mercantile business in Shel- don, 1825, which, with the exception of two brief intervals, he has carried on, in partnership or alone, to the present time; having been interested in establishments in Sheldon, Weth- ersfield, Warsaw, and other places. In 1832 he removed
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from Sheldon to Warsaw, and associated himself with
Dr. Augustus Frank in trade. [See Merchants.] After his removal to Warsaw, he became interested also in the Leather and Shoe trade, which he carried on about ten years. He was one of the company who, in 1840, established the Woolen Factory in the southi part of the village. [See Manu- factures.] He was for several years Postmaster in this town. He was for many years joint owner of the grist-mill in the village. Ile took an active part in securing the construction of the Attica and Hornellsville railroad, and was a Director and one of the Executive Committee of the Company. In 1854 he removed to Rockford, Ill., where he has since been in the Dry Goods and Hardware trade, and is still interested in the latter, besides being engaged extensively in the cattle trade and farming. He married, Oct. 24, 1826, Calista Gates, daughter of Dea. Seth Gates, of Sheldon. They had eight children, as follows, besides Delia C., Maria E., and Charlotte E., who died in infancy.
SEYMOUR GATES, born Oct. 1, 1827, married Mary E. Gates, and is a Hardware merchant in Rockford, Ill. He had five children: Mary C., Charlotte E., d. inf., Frances E., Helen M., Willard S.
AUGUSTINE V., born Jan. 6, 1830, married Helen E. Aus -. tin. Children: Ada and Inez, twins, d. inf., and Henry A.
ARTHUR M., born Dec. 9, 1831, died May 2, 1861.
HENRY C., born Feb. 20, 1830, died Dec. 14, 1850.
CALISTA J., born Dec. 2, 1836, married George M. Smith, of Pike. Children: Frederic A., Mary C., Fannie G., Mabelle B., and Allen A.
THEODORE W., born Feb. 27, 183S.
MARY JENNETTE, born Feb. 2, 1844, married George W. Pratt, and has a son, Richard Bronson.
EMMA ELIZABETII, born Oct. 19, 1846, married Arthur D. Parker.
NEWBURY BRONSON removed to this town from Winchester, Conn., in 1838, and settled on West Hill, on the farm known as the Lyon farm. In 1855 he sold his farm, and removed to the village, where he resided until the time of his death. He was a member of the Congregational church, an exemplary Christian, and diligent in efforts for the abolition of slavery and the promotion of temperance and other objects of benevolence. He died June 6, 1861. He was born in Winchester, Conn., April 13, 1804, and mar- ried Lucy Tillotson, May 9, 1831. They had two children:
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LUCY MARIA, who married Harlow Belden. They reside in Waterloo, Iowa, and have a daughter, Anna Florine.
TILLOTSON NEWBURY, who lives in Warsaw.
EDMUND BUCK was born in Arlington, Vt., Feb. 7, 1804. He married Nov. 15, 1828, Ane Noble, who was born June, 1806. They resided in Vermont until 1831, when they removed to Warsaw. Mr. Buck purchased a farm in the south-west part of the town, on which he still resides. He has been frequently elected to responsible offices in the town. They had five children:
MARY, who married John Kane, of Eagle. They reside in this town, and have had four children: Charles, Ane, Cynthia, and John, infant.
RANSOM, who married Chloe Foster, of Wethersfield, who died, having had one child, (inf.) He married for his second wife, Helen Shipman, by whom he has a daughter, Virginia.
MARCUS married Eliza Maranville, and has a son, Elmer Ellsworth.
ROLLIN married Pamelia Maranville.
CARRIE is unmarried.
NORRIS BULL, D. D., an early minister of the Presby- terian church in this town, was born in Harwinton, Conn., Oct. 24, 1790. He was a graduate of Yale College in 1813, and graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1818. Ile came in the summer of that year to Warsaw, under the patronage of the New York Young Men's Missionary Society. Early in 1821, he was called by the Presbyterian church of Geneseo, of which he continued pastor eleven years. In 1832 he became pastor of the church at Wyoming, and during the greater part of his pastorate there, he was also Principal of the Academy. In 1836, he was invited to Clarkson, where also he had charge of a church and an Academy. At the end of six years he chose to retire from the school; and in 1846, he resigned his pastoral charge. In the autumn of the same year, he accepted an invitation from the church at Lewiston, where he died, Dec. 7, 1847. In 1845, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union College. It is believed by those best acquainted with him, that few abler men have ever lived in Western New York. His mind, richly endowed by nature, was improved by thorough cultivation and rigid discipline. His extraordi- nary ability as a debater, though seldom displayed except in ecclesiastical bodies, is universally acknowledged by all who have heard him.
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He married, June 9, 1819, Mary Ann Henry, of Sauga- tuck, Conn. They had four children.
WILLIAM BUXTON was born in Belchertown, Mass., Nov., 1783. In 1804, he was married to Lydia Smith, who was born Oct. 18, 1787. In 1811, he removed with his family from Belchertown to Orangeville, then Attica. About the year 1824, he removed to Warsaw, (West Hill,) thence to Wethersfield. After about two years' residence there, he came to the village of Warsaw, in 1831 or 1832, where he resided until his death. He had for several years previously to his last removal to Warsaw, made a public profession of his faith in Christ; and soon after his return to this town he united with the Presbyterian church. He was soon chosen as a Ruling Elder, which office he held during the rest of his life. Dea. Buxton was ever faithful in the discharge of reli- gions duties. He possessed an egnable temper and a contented mind. Thongh industrious and frugal, his acquisitions were small; scarcely less, however, than his desires. And though he had no worldly possessions to bequeath, he has transmitted to his children what they regard as of incomparably greater value, A GOOD NAME. Dea. Buxton also held for several years the office of Justice of the Peace in this town. He died Jan. 28, 1854. Mrs. Buxton died Ang., 1865. They had nine children, of whom two died young.
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