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5. Abbie Jane, born February 9, 1856, died May 4, 1902; married Llewellyn D. Cyphers, both deceased, had no children.
6. John, horn May 26, 1857 ; connected with the glove business at Johnstown in the Nor- thup Glove Company ; he married Martha Jane, born November 24, 1857, daughter of Peter Snook, born April 20, 1827, died March 5,
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1905 : he married, October 8, 1851, Alida Van Nest, born May 20, 1831. They had five children. Children of John Little: Frank, born February II, 1886; Earnest, June 19, 1888.
7. David W., born June 15, 1858; engaged in the sewing machine business at Glovers- ville : he married, December 17, 1879, Maggie Van Nest ; children : i. Elinore (Ella), born October 19, 1880; ii. Elizabeth, born January 23, 1882, married Emerson Van Duesen.
8. Seth, of whom further.
9. Henry, of whom further.
IO. Charles, born November 13, 1863; a farmer of Johnstown; married, December 1, 1886. Mary Dorn; children: i. Grace M., born September 19, 1887, died April 10, 1907 ; ii. Olive, born April 14, 1894, died May 27, 1894; iii. Charles Warren, born July 31, 1899. II. Mary, born May 25, 1865 ; married, April 16, 1891, Clarence Hoyt : children : i. Marshall, born May 15, 1892; ii. Clayton, December 16, 1894: iii. Ruth, June II, 1903.
12. Martha, born January 25, 1867 ; resides in Troy.
13. Elmer, of whom further.
14. Elvie E., born February 18, 1873 ; mar- ried. August 9. 1900, Fred Hollis, of Troy, New York; children: i. Edith Mae, born August 22, 1901; ii. Florence, born Decem- ber 31, 1903: iii. Frederick, born May 7, 1905; iv. James Walter, born November 20, 1910.
(III) Seth, eighth child and sixth son of John Calvin and Elizabeth (Van Valkenberg) Little, was born February 7, 1860. He was educated in the public school and became an accountant. He is now associated with his brothers in glove manufacture in Johnstown. He is prominent in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is past noble grand of Johnstown Lodge and present district deputy. He is also a Knight of Pythias. In the years 1900- 05 he was a member of the board of education. He is a Republican in politics. He married, June II, 1885, Ella, born March 6, 1864, daughter of Levi S. and Elizabeth (Vosburg) Dygert, and granddaughter of George Dygert. Elizabeth Vosburg was a daughter of Victor and Mary (Putnam) Vosburg. Levi S. Dy- gert married (first) Hotaling ; child, Phoebe, married John Van Nostrand and had one child, Clarence; he married (second) Elizabeth Vosburg; children: 1. Emma, born November 24, 1856, married Berry Van Deusen and had four children: Nellie; Ed- ward, married Lulu Lair ; William ; Clarence. 2. Arvilla, born April 20, 1858, married Charles Putnam : children: Levi, Earl, Jay and Floyd. 3. George, born September IO,
1860, married Matie Foote; children: Lewis, Frank, Francis, George Jr. 4. Ella, married Seth Little. 5. Anna, born May 2, 1866, mar- ried William Grimes and had one child, George, married Grace Lottridge. 6. William, born April 3, 1868, married Augusta Henry. 7. Elizabeth, born December 24, 1870, mar- ried Brayton Grinnell. Children of Seth and Ella Little : 1. Blanche Elizabeth, born March 28, 1886; married, November 4, 1906, Archi- bald A. Graff. 2. Edna M., born October 16, 1888. 3. Nina B., born Jnne 7, 1893.
(III ) Ilenry, son of John Calvin and Eliza- beth (Van Valkenberg) Little, was born in Carlisle, New York, February 13, 1862. He was educated in the public school and is now engaged with his brother in glove manufac- ture. He is a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 808, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past noble grand and past district deputy. Is an attendant of the Dutch Re- formed church. He resides in the city of Johnstown. He married, September 30, 1886, Ada, born June 23, 1862, daughter of Peter and Alida (Van Nest) Snook. Peter Snook was born April 20, 1827, died March 5, 1905; married, October 8, 1851, Alida Van Nest, born May 20, 1831. Alida was the daughter of Andrew and Catherine (Vosburgh) Van Nest. Andrew Van Nest was the son of Henry Van Nest, born 1793, died 1864. Cath- erine Vosburgh, wife of Andrew Van Nest. born 1800, died 1866; children: Myndert, Maria, Henry, Joseph, Jane Ann, Barney, Alida, married Peter Snook ; Catherine, Sarah, Harriet, Michael, John. Children of Peter and Alida Snook: 1. Catherine, born Sep- tember 8, 1853, married, February 24, 1874, Charles Argersinger, born March 22, 1852; children: i. Laura, born June 12, 1876, died February 20, 1901, married, November 14, 1896, George De Witt; left Florence, born August 8, 1899: ii. Bertha, born July 30, 1878, married, October, 1907, Fred Seism ; iii. Earl D., born June 19, 1880, died July 18, 1903: iv. Evertt, born March 15, 1882; v. Floyd, born June 17, 1884. 2. An infant, born and died August, 1856. 3. Martha Jane, married John Little. 4. Ada, married Henry Little. 5. John D., married Matie Schoen- felt, December 26, 1889: children: i. Carl Delbert, born June 9, 1891; ii. Clayton P., born September 27, 1895. 6. Jay, born June 2, 1868. Children of Henry and Ada Little : I. Jessie A., born December 25, 1887. 2. Iona H., April 27, 1894. 3. Ruth, born April 20, 1899.
(III) Elmer, son of Jolin Calvin and Eliza- beth (Van Valkenberg) Little, was born No- vember 1, 1868, in Carlisle, Schoharie county,
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New York. He was educated in the public school, and in 1876 went to live in Johnstown. He entered business life with Mason, Camp- bell & Company, continuing until 1893. In that year, in company with George S. Pitman, and as Pitman & Little, he began the manu- facture of gloves. They made a fine grade of men and women's gloves and continued in suc- cessful operation together until the death of Mr. Pitman, since which time Mr. Little has continued the business. He is now serving his third terni on the board of water commission- ers ; he is past grand of Johnstown Lodge, No. 808, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a charter member of the Improved Order of Red Men and a member of the Colonial Club. He is interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, which he sup- ports by membership, and attends the Dutch Reformed church. He married, June 12, 1889. Clara M., born April 8, 1869, daughter of Benjamin Ellis, born September 13, 1832, died April 4, 1903, son of Arnold and Polly (Lathrop) Ellis. Benjamin Ellis married, October 30, 1854, Mary C. Argersinger, born August 15, 1836, died May 21, 1903, daugh- ter of Baltus and Clarissa (Mason) Arger- singer. Benjamin and Mary C. Ellis had six children : 1. David B., born October 10, 1859; married, December 11, 1883, Annie Bulger ; children: i. John, born May 30, 1885, died May 19, 1909; ii. Bessie, born May 31, 1887, married Veeder Scott, September 28, 1910. 2. Alida C., born September 15, 1861 ; mar- ried Jacob S. Warren; children: i. Leona May, married William W. Stone and had Clara and Franklin; ii. George B .; iii. Clara, died in childhood. Children of Elmer and Clara M. Little : Alida M., born March 29, 1893, and Elmer E., January 23, 1895.
SHEPARD The family of Shepard herein considered descend from Rev. Thomas Shepard, of Eng- land and Cambridge, Massachusetts, of whom one writer said: "That gratious sweete Heav- enly minded and soule-ravishing minister Mr. Thomas Shepheard in whose soule the Lord shed abroade his love so abundantly that thousands of souls have come to blesse God for him * * " and of whom Cotton Mather said: "Let the reader now go with me and I will show him one of the happiest men that ever we saw; as great a converter of souls as has ordinarily been known in our days," and once more he says: "It was with a respect unto the enlightening and powerful ministry of Mr. Shepard that when the foundation of a College was to be laid, Cambridge, rather than any other place, was pitched upon to be
the seat of that happy seminary." He was: one of the foremost in rearing the structure. which John Harvard made possible. While little is known of his English ancestry. it is. certain that he came from the family of Shep- ard whose heraldic description is here given. Arms: Ermine on a chief sable ; three pole. axes argent. Crest : On a mont vert. a stag courant regardant proper attired argent. Motto: Nec timeo, nec spero. We give his English parentage only.
(I) William Shepard in the "little poore. towne" of Fosscut, near Towcester, North- amptonshire, England, was early apprenticed' to a helmet maker, Bland, in the same town. After finishing his years of apprenticeship he. removed to Towcester, where he resided sev- eral years. "There being no good ministry. in town," he removed to Banbury, in Ox- fordshire, "under a stirring ministry, hav- ing bought a house there for that end." There' he died in 1615. He married (first)
Bland, a daughter of his first employer. She. died in 1609, revered and beloved. He mar- ried (second) in Towcester a woman. name' unknown. Of her Rev. Thomas wrote in' his autobiography, "Who did let me see the difference between my own mother and a stepmother ; she did seeme not to love me. but tried to incense my father against me." Of his father he says, "A wise, prudent man, the peacemaker of the place, and toward liis latter end much blessed of God in his estate. and in his soule." Of his mother he says,. "My mother was a woman much afflicted, sometimes even to distraction of mind, yet was sweetly recovered agayne before she died. I, being the youngest, she did beare exceed- ing great love to me and made many prayers for me and died when I was about four years. old." He had children by both marriages.
(II) Rev. Thomas Shepard, son of William and (Bland) Shepard, was born in Towcester, England, November 5, 1605, and as he states it, "the powder treason day, and that very houre of the day wherein the Parlia- ment should have bin blown up by Papist priests, I was borne, which occasioned my father to give me the name Thomas because, he sayd, I would hardly believe that ever any such wickedness should be attempted by men agaynst so religions and good Parlament." His first schooling was under the tutorship of a Mr. Rice, of whom he writes, "Exceedingly curst and cruel and would deale roughly with me and so discouraged me wholly from de- sire of learning, that I wished oftentimes myselfe in any condition to keepe hogs or beasts rather than to goe to schoole and learne." At the age of fifteen he considered
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Ihimself "ripe for the University," and was : admitted to Emanuel College. In 1623 he took his bachelor degree, and in 1625 he fin- ished his course and was graduated with the honors of the university. In 1627 the de- gree of A.M. was conferred upon him. His :first parish was at Earles Cole, where he preached three and one-half years, receiving forty pounds yearly salary. His fame now attracted the attention of the church authori- ties (he being a non-Conformist), and De- cember 30, 1630, was ordered to appear be- fore Bishop Land in London, "closely cate- chized" and threatened with punishment un- less he ceased his "heretical preaching." He preached privately, but was greatly persecuted, until August 10, 1635, when he sailed for America, having previously, in 1634, secretly and in disguise embarked for the same desti- ·nation in a ship driven back by a storm and narrowly escaped wreck and death. After eleven weeks' passage in the ship "Defence," he landed in Boston, October 3, 1635. On October 5, same year, he settled in Newtown (now Cambridge), which was ever after his home, the site of his house now being part of the university grounds. In January, 1635- 36, the first parish church was formed, and February I, following, he was ordained its first pastor, in which office he continued until his death, August 25, 1649. He married (first) in England, 1632, Margaret Toute- ville, a kinswoman of Sir Richard Derby, Knight, born in England, 1604, died in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, February, 1635-36, of consumption contracted by a severe cold on her voyage to America. She is named a passenger on the "Defence," July 2, 1635. aged thirty-one years. He married (second ) Joanna, daughter of his friend, Rev. Thomas Hooker, buried April 28, 1646. He married (third) September 8, 1647, Margaret Bore- dale, who survived him and married ( second) November 19, 1650, Rev. Jonathan (2), son of Rev. Jonathan (1) Mitchell, who came to New England in 1635. Rev. Jonathan (2) Mitchell graduated from Harvard College in 1647, and succeeded Rev. Thomas Shepard as pastor of the first church. He became an eminent preacher and was elected a fellow of Harvard College in 1650, and died July 9. 1668, aged forty-three. Mr. Shepard was the author of several religious books and left an extensive library replete with valuable works. By his first wife Margaret he had a son Thomas (2), born in Yarmouth, England, who died in infancy, and Thomas (3). By his second wife Joanna he had children, all of whom died young except Samuel. By his third wife Margaret he had one son Jeremiah,
see forward. Thomas (3) graduated from Harvard College in 1653, and was ordained to the ministry in 1650. He settled as col- league with Zachariah Lymmes, at Charles- town, and remained in the ministry until his decease in 1667, aged forty-two years. Sam- uel graduated from Harvard College in 1658, and was settled as the third minister at Row- ley, Massachusetts, 1665. as colleague with Rev. Samuel Phillips. He lived three years and continued with the Rowley church until his death in 1668. All the sons of Rev. Thomas Shepard (1) that lived to maturity embraced the ministry as a profession.
(III) Rev. Jeremiah Shepard, youngest son and only child of Rev. Thomas Shepard and his third wife, was born in Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, August II, 1648, died at Lynn, Massachusetts, June 3, 1720. He was a grad- uate of Harvard College in 1669, and was regularly fitted for the ministry, although for several years he entered into no communion with any particular church, nor made any public profession of religion. After the early decease of his brother Samuel he was called to preach at Rowley, where he continued three years. At the end of that period an effort was made for his ordination and permanent settle- ment, to which proposition there was strong objection made on the ground that not having been identified with the church by member- ship he could not be legally qualified for or elected to so holy an office. This led to seri- ous trouble, lawsuits and an appeal to the gen- eral court. Finally he removed to Lynn, where October 6, 1680, he was ordained as the successor of Rev. Samuel Whiting, with Joseph Whiting, son of Rev. Samuel, as teacher. In this church he labored with great acceptance for forty years. His temperament was in strong contrast to his father and brothers. He was impetuous and impatient. His sermons were full of melancholy, por- traying in dark shadows always the hideous side of humanity. Newhall says "He was one of those plain, honest men who adorn their station by spotless purity of character, and he left a name to which no one can annex an anecdote of mirth and which no one attempts to sully by a breath of evil." In 1689 he was chosen representative for Lynn. He married Mary, born 1667, died March 28, 1710, daughter of Francis (2) and Philippa Wain- wright, of Ipswich, who bore him ten chil- dren.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Rev. Jeremiah and Mary (Wainwright) Shepard, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, June 16, 1681, died in Boston, November 30, 1728. He was a saddler and made several changes of residence. He
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married, May 5. 1703, Elizabeth, born in Ips- wich. August 7, 1681, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Wade, of Ipswich. Thomas Wade was one of the most promi- nent men of that town. He was town clerk, justice of the court of general sessions, cap- tain of a military company, and colonel of the Middle Essex Regiment, with authority to call out his men against the French and In- dians as occasion might require. Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Wade) Shepard were the par- ents of eight children.
(V) Thomas (2). son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Wade) Shepard, was baptized in the Second Church, Boston, September 18, 1709. He was an inn holder. He married (first) January 16, 1735, Hannah Bolter, of Boston ; (second) October 1, 1747, Susanna, widow of Joseph Hood, and daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Orms) Pike, baptized in First Church, Salem, May 17, 1719, died prior to December 8, 1759. She survived him and married (second) John Wright, of Bos- ton. By his first wife Thomas Shepard had five children ; by second wife three.
(VI) Jeremiah (2), youngest son of Thom- as (2) and Susanna (Pike) (Hood) Shepard, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1751, died August II, 1817. He removed early to Salem, where he was a hat manufacturer, and in 1802 was in the grocery business. He married, January 1, 1775, Elizabeth, born in Salem. Massachusetts, September 15, 1747, died Sep- tember, 1830, daughter of Jonathan and Eliza- beth (Saunders) Webb. They had eight chil- dren.
(VII) Stephen Webb, youngest child of Jeremiah (2) and Elizabeth (Webb) Shep- ard, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 25, 1790, died December 6, 1856. He married (first) September 5, 1813, Elizabeth Rea, born in Salem, Massachusetts, October 14, 1792, died February, 1820. He married (second) April 12, 1821, Elizabeth Tucker Mansfield, born April 8, 1799, died December 31, 1873. By his first wife he had children : Stephen Osgood, of later mention ; Sarah Rea, married Captain Daniel H. Mansfield ; Edward Wheelock, died aged twenty-six years. Chil- dren by second wife: Daniel Mansfield, born April 12, 1822; Elizabeth Tucker, died aged sixteen years; Ruth Webb, born April II, 1825 : Martha Tucker, April 6, 1827 ; Michael, May 5, 1831.
(VIII) Stephen Osgood, son of Stephen Webb and Elizabeth ( Rea) Shepard, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, August 14, 1816, died at Albany, New York, March 2, 1897. He was a prominent lawyer of Albany and interested in many business enterprises. He
married, in 1847, Lucinda, daughter of Fred- erick W. Harris, of Preble, Cortland county,. New York (see Harris). Children : Osgood H., see forward; John Rathboen, born De- cember 9, 1850, at Albany, New York ; edu- cated at the Boys Academy, and until 1880 prominently identified with the lumber in- dustry as a dealer; in 1900 he removed his residence to Ballston Spa, New York; he is a member of several clubs, among them being the Utopian, of Ballston ; he is a Republican in politics.
(IX) Osgood H., eldest son of Stephen Os- good and Lucinda (Harris) Shepard, was. born in Albany, New York, October 26, 1848. His early and preparatory education was ob- tained at the Boys Academy, Albany, after- which he entered Brown University, where he was graduated A.B., class of 1869. He decided upon the profession of law, and en- tered Albany Law School, where he was graduated LL.B., class of 1871. He is a suc- cessful and well-known practitioner, now a resident of Ballston Spa, New York. His; college fraternity is Chi Psi; his clubs, the Fort Orange of Albany, Troy of Troy, Sara- toga Golf of Saratoga Springs, and the Uto- pian of Ballston Spa.
(The Harris Line).
Lucinda (Harris) Shepard, mother of Os- good H. Shepard, was a daughter of Fred- erick Waterman and Lucy (Hamilton) Har- ris. Frederick W. Harris was a farmer of Charleston, Montgomery county, New York. In 1808 he removed to Cortland county, New York, and settled in the town of Preble, where he became a prosperous farmer and one of the large land owners of the county. His daughter Lucinda married Stephen Osgood' Shepard, and his two sons became distin- guished lawyers and prominent public men of Albany, New York.
Judge Ira Harris, the elder of the sons of Frederick Waterman Harris, was born in. Charleston, Montgomery county, New York, May 31, 1802, and removed with his parents in 1808 to Cortland county. Ile was edu- cated at Homer Academy, and in September, 1822, entered the junior class in Union Col- lege, whence he was graduated in 1824. He - at once began the study of law; first in IJomer, then with Judge Ambrose Spencer, of Albany. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and formed a partnership with Salem Dutcher, of Albany, that existed until 1842. He then' associated with Julius Rhoades. In 1844 he . was elected to the assembly from Albany county, and re-elected in 1845. In 1846 he- was a delegate to the constitutional conven -.
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tion, and elected to the state senate, resigning after having been elected a justice of the supreme court, serving in that high judicial office twelve years. In 1861 he was elected United States senator from New York in opposition to Horace Greeley and William M. Evarts. He became the intimate and trusted friend of President Lincoln, and at the end of his term retired to private life, having won the distinction of being a wise, useful Amer- ican statesman. He was connected with Al- bany Law School from its organization in 1850, and lectured to the students as duty permitted. He now accepted the call to the chair of equity jurisprudence, and devoting himself to that work until his death, Decem- ber 2, 1852. He was president of the board of trustees of Union College; president of Albany Medical College; trustee of Vassar College; one of the founders of Rochester University ; its first and only chancellor ; deacon of Emmanuel Church of Albany, and president of the American Baptist Missionary Union. He left a widow, two sons and four daughters. Colonel William Hamilton Har- ris, the eldest son, served thirteen years in the United States army as captain. Ira Harris, the youngest son, served ten years in the United States navy.
Hamilton Harris, youngest of the two sons of Frederick Waterman Harris, was born in the town of Preble, Cortland county, New York, May 1, 1820. He was educated at Homer Academy, Albany Academy, and en- tered Union College, graduating in 1841. He entered the office of his brother, Judge Ira Harris, where he prepared for the profession of law, being admitted to the bar in 1845. He began practice in Albany, and formed a part- nership with Hooper C. Van Vorst, in 1848, which existed until 1853. Later he was asso- ciated with Samuel G. Courtney, and in 1857 became a partner with Clark B. Cochrane and John H. Reynolds, which continued until severed by the deaths of his partners. Later he admitted his son, Frederick Harris, and William P. Rudd. In 1853 he was elected district attorney of Albany county, serving with great honor until January 1, 1857. He was the chief attorney for Judge Westbrook, who was tried for malfeasana in office on charges presented by Governor Roosevelt. Judge Westbrook was acquitted and the press of the day of both parties favorably remarked upon Mr. Harris' argument in vindication of his client. He was prominent in politics ; was one of the founders of the Republican party ; was chairman of state executive committee ; member of the assembly; state senator 1875, re-elected 1877; president of the board of
capitol commissions, and is called the "Father" of the measure providing for the erection of the new state capitol. He was a most elo- quent and convincing speaker, was of fine literary tastes, his home abounding in the best books, a strong friend of higher popular education, and was regent of the University of the State of New York. He married, in 1850, in Buffalo, Lucy Moody Rogers. Their son Frederick became his father's law part- ner. They had an only daughter, Lucy Ham- ilton Harris.
An examination of the records PEDDIE and registers in Prince street, Edinburg, Scotland, reveal some . interesting facts concerning the Peddie fam- ily whose descendants are many and promi- nent in the United States. The records show that they are an ancient Scottish family who were formerly called McDougald; that they rebelled against state authority ; that they possessed a claim to noble blood and had a coat-of-arms granted them, and other inter- esting facts. Tradition says the name was changed to Peddie to avoid banishment from Scotland for their rebellious acts against the laws that oppressed them. In the United States a notable member of the family was Hon. Thomas B. Peddie, whose monument in the city of Newark, New Jersey, is Peddie Memorial Baptist Church on Broad street, one of the most magnificent churches in that city. Another prominent representative of the fam- ily is Rev. John Peddie, of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. These families trace from the same ancestry as the Peddies of Montgomery county, New York. The family was founded in the Mohawk Valley after the revolution and the first settlement made in the town of Perth, Fulton county, where the Scotch emi- grants sought the rough and heavily timbered lands rather than the meadow land along the streams that attracted the Dutch to the town of Palatine, Montgomery county. Amid the surroundings more in keeping with the soil and conditions of the land they had left the Scotch emigrants throve and prospered and left a posterity that are the hardy, substan- tial citizens of that locality. Among the emi- grants to Perth was William Peddie, the founder.
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