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(VIII) Charles Vernon, son of Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Cornell) Hopkins, was born in Catskill, New York, December 1I, 1872. He was educated at St. Paul's school, Con- cord, New Hampshire, entered Yale Univer- sity, where he was graduated in the class of 1896. His residence is at Catskill, New York, but much of his time is spent in travel at home and abroad.
(The Pell Line).
The Pells of New York trace to a remote English ancestry from the ancient family of that name in Lincolnshire. Rev. John Pell, rector of Southwick, Sussex, England, mar- . ried Mary Holland and had sons Thomas and John. The manor of Pelham, New York, containing nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six acres of land was so constituted in favor of "Thomas Pell, Gentleman." In 1687
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the estate at Pelham was more fully made into a manor by Governor Dongan in favor of John Pell, nephew and heir of Thomas, and son of Dr. John Pell, of London.
(II) Rev. John (2) Pell, son of Rev. John (1) and Mary (Howland) Pell, and brother of Thomas, First Lord of the Manor, was born at Southwyek in Sussex, England, 1611, died 1685. He was Cromwell's minister of Switzerland; was a famous linguist and math- ematician, invented the sign for division ; was domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of Can- terbury ; he was a Doctor of Divinity and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He married, 1632, Ithmaria (Tamar or Athama) Regi- noilles.
(III) Major John (3) Pell, only son of Rev. John (2) and Ithmaria (Reginoilles) Pell, was born in London, Middlesex county, England, February 3. 1643. By the will of his Uncle Thomas he became proprietor of Pelham and Second Lord of the Manor. He arrived in Boston in 1670 with a letter of in- troduction to Governor Winthrop from Lord Brereton. He took possession of the estate which on October 20, 1687, was changed to "The Lordship and Manor of Pelham" by Governor Dongan of New York. He was a member of the provincial assembly for West- chester county, New York, 1691-95: captain of horse, 1684; major in 1692, in the French and Indian war, and judge of the court of common pleas for the county. He is said to have been cast away and drowned in his pleas- ure boat which foundered in a gale off City Point sometime in 1702. He died intestate. He married, 1684-85, Rachel, daughter of Philip Pinckney, one of the first ten proprie- tors of East Chester and a lineal descendant of the Pinckneys of Pinckney Manor, Nor- folkshire, England. He had two sons and two daughters.
(IV) Thomas, son of Major John (3) and Rachel (Pinckney) Pell, was born at Pel- ham Manor, New York, in 1686, died at the Manor house, 1739. He was the Third Lord of the Manor, and became invested with the inheritance and legal rights of his father. He married Anna Children mentioned in will after "my beloved wife, Anna Pell," are Ann Broadhurst, Joseph, John, Thomas, Joshua, Philip, Caleb, Mary Sands, Sarah Palmer, Beersheba. His eldest son, Joseph, Fourth Lord of the Manor, died in 1776, leav- · ing five sons who died without issue, save John, who had six sons who died without is- sue, the last being Richard Moore Pell, who died at the Manor in 1868.
(V) Joshua, fourth son of Thomas and Anna Pell, was born at Pelham Manor, New
York, about 1710, died 1781. He married Phoebe Palmer. Among their children are Joshua (2), Benjamin, of whom further.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Joshua and Phoebe (Palmer) Pell, was born at Pelham Manor, New York, about 1750, died in New York City, March 4, 1828. He was a merchant of New York City. He married, November 25, 1778, Mary Ann, daughter of John Ferris, of Grove Farm, Westchester county, New York. He had several sons. His daughter Maria married Jacob Treadwell Walden.
(VII) William Ferris, son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Ferris) Pell, was born at Pel- ham Manor, New York, 1780, died in New York City, October 28, 1840. He was a mer- chant of New York, 1808-40, and founded the famous auction firm of Pell & Company. He purchased the "Garrison" ground estate at Ticonderoga. He married, November 17, 1802, Mary, born in London, England, 1783, died in New York, October 3, 1848, daughter of Morris and Ann Shipley, of England. He had sons : Clarence, Duncan, Morris, of whom further : Walden, Alfred Sands, and James K. They succeeded their father in business and were remarkable as a family for their fine physical development, three of them standing six feet tall, and were well propor- tioned. Duncan Pell was lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island, and his son Duncan was a colonel of the civil war on the staff of Gen- eral Burnside. Alfred Sands Pell married Adelia, daughter of Colonel James Duane, first mayor of New York City after the rev- olution and a judge of the United States su- preme court.
(VIII) Morris, son of William Ferris and Mary (Shipley) Pell, was born in New York City, 1810, died in Flushing, Long Island, 1881. He was associated with Pell & Com- pany and made his home in Flushing. He married, March 12, 1830, Mary R., daughter of John H. Howland, born 1774. died 1849. a prominent shipping merchant of New York City : he married Sarah, born 1781, died 1847 daughter of Thomas and Anna (Rodman) Hazard, of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
(IX) John Howland, son of Morris and Mary R. (Howland) Pell, was born in New York, December 23, 1830, died at Yonkers, New York. He was mustered into the Uni- ted States service as second lieutenant, Com- pany K, Fourth Regiment, New York Vol- unteer Infantry, August 17, 1861, promoted first lieutenant, May 3, 1862, captain of Com- pany A, (same regiment), October 14, 1862; resigned January 2, 1863. He married Caro- line Hyatt.
(X) Mary Howland, daughter of John
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Howland and Caroline (Hyatt) Pell, married :Samuel C. Hopkins (see Hopkins VIII).
The Kennedy family of
KENNEDY Johnstown, who are herein
recorded, descend from "Thomas Kennedy, who was born in the county of Down, Ireland, and came to America prior to the war of the revolution, settling at Ball- ston, Saratoga county, New York, where he took up and improved a farm. He suffered from the ravages of the Indians, and was once captured and taken prisoner by the Indians to Canada. They also captured his wife and babies, but finding them troublesome left them 'by the roadside. The mother and children found their way back home, and later the family was reunited. Thomas Kennedy was the father of eight children. He died March 14. 1835, in his one hundred and first year.
(II) James, youngest son of Thomas Ken- nedy, was born on the Saratoga county home- stead farm, August 11, 1794, died in West Galway, Saratoga county, February 7, 1875. He was a farmer by occupation. He was a prominent citizen, represented liis district in the state legislature, and served as an officer in the war of 1812. He married Lucinda Grin- nell. of Saratoga county, New York, born 1794, died December 8, 1877. Children : I. Ezra Thomas, born June 19, 1817, died De- cember 23. 1885. 2. Lauren O., born Janu- ary 18, 1818, died December 22, 1891 : was a lumberman and merchant; married Caro- line Cook, born 1821, died 1896; children: Mary, deceased ; Stewart D., deceased ; James, deceased : Madison B., of Chicago, Illinois ; Edward C., of New York City ; Harvey L., of New York City ; Jane Elizabeth, deceased. 3. Lucinda, born October 12, 1821, died Septem- ber 8, 1905 : married Daniel Stuart. 4. James .C., born 1822, died 1873. 5. Harvey, born 1826, died 1889. 6. Martin, born 1829, died 1904: married Elizabeth Ann Clark. 7. Wil- liam Logan, mentioned below.
(III) William Logan, youngest child of James and Lucinda (Grinnell) Kennedy, was born in Saratoga county, New York, October 25, 1838, died in New York City, March 28, 1893. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for many years, associated with his brother Harvey ; his business life was spent in Wall street. He married Margaretta Edwards, born in Johnstown, New York, Oc- tober, 1840, died in Brooklyn, New York, July, 1890. Children : I. William Logan, mentioned below. 2. Harvey Edwards, mar- ried (first) Elizabeth Miller ; (second) Kath- .erine Van Sicklin: (third) Mrs. Elizabeth A. (Ray) Stevenson. 3. Daniel Edwards, mar-
ried Elizabeth Lord; children: Daniel Ed- wards, and Elizabeth Lord.
(IV) William Logan (2), son of William Logan (1) and Margaretta (Edwards) Ken- nedy, was born in Johnstown, New York, Jan- uary 12, 1867. He attended the Anthon gram- mar school in New York City, and afterwards Johnstown Academy, remaining three years, where he prepared for college. He entered Union College, graduating therefrom with the degree of A.B., class of 1888. After leaving college he settled in New York City, where in the offices of his uncle, Harvey Kennedy, he mastered the details of stock and bond brokerage. At the age of twenty-three years he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and since 1890 represented himself on the floor of the exchange. He is also a member of the New York Produce Exchange. He is a successful man of affairs. He is an independent Democrat in politics, and a mem- ber of the National Democratic Club of New York. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Johnstown, of the Colonial and Ant- lers clubs, and of the Delta Upsilon frater- nity. He married, October 3, 1893, Margaret Elizabeth Smith; children: I. William Lo- gan, born March 26, 1895. 2. Edwin Oliver, January 31, 1900. Mr. Kennedy and family reside at 142 West Seventy-fourth street, New York City, but maintain a summer home at his birthplace, Johnstown, New York.
(The Smith Line).
Margaret Elizabeth (Smith) Kennedy is a daughter of Horace Edwin Smith, LL.D., and granddaughter of Dr. Roger Smith, born of English parents in Massachusetts, removed to Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire, where he studied and practiced medicine until he re- moved to Greenbush, New York, where he was hospital surgeon at the General Hospital at Greenbush Cantonment appointed in 1812 by President Madison. After the war was over he located in Weston, Vermont, where he practiced his profession until his death. He was a cultured, educated gentleman, and emi- nent in his profession. He married Sallie Dodge, of English and Welsh parentage, and on the paternal side of the same ancestry as the well-known philanthropist, William E. Dodge. She bore him two sons and three daughters. Asa D. Smith, D.D., LL.D., the eldest son, was for twenty-nine years pastor of a Presbyterian church in New York City, and for thirteen years president of Dartmouth College.
(II) Horace Edwin Smith, youngest son of Dr. Roger and Sallie (Dodge) Smith, ob- tained his early education in the public schools
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and in private academies in Vermont and Massachusetts. He taught school while pur- suing his studies, and later read law at Broad- albin, New York, gaining admission to the New York bar, January 12, 1844. He rose rapidly in his profession, and in quick stic- cession was admitted to the superior and su- preme courts of New York, and to all state and federal courts in both New York and Massachusetts. Later he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States. He retained his Fulton county pri- vate practice, which was both lucrative and extensive, until 1847, when he removed to Boston and entered into partnership with Henry B. Stanton, whose wife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a daughter of Judge Daniel Cady, the eminent lawyer of Johnstown, New York, and a warm personal friend of Mr. Smith. After a few months Mr. Stanton's health failed, and his extensive practice fell to Alr. Smith. While in Boston he won some notable legal battles, one in particular bring- ing him added fame as a great lawyer. In this case he was opposed by Rufus Choate, and after a three weeks' battle won his case. He became prominent in politics and sat in the Massachusetts legislature in 1851-52. In the latter year he declined a nomination to congress. In 1854 he removed to New York City, where his first wife died in 1860. In 1861 he returned to Johnstown, New York. He was a member of the constitutional con- vention of New York, held in Albany in 1867- 68, and was one of the corporators of the "Centennial Board of Finance" appointed in connection with the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, held in 1876. He resumed the practice of law in Johnstown, and in the sum- mer of 1879 was elected dean of the Albany Law School, succeeding Professor Isaac Edwards. He held the position of dean for ten years, and in those years en- larged the buildings and added to the general tone of the college, which ranks among the oldest and best institutions of its kind in the United States. As dean of the faculty the management devolved upon him, and in addition he lectured on the law of per- sonal property, contracts, commercial law, common law, pleading, torts and medical jur- isprudence, and other special lectures. In June, 1880, Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He has written and lectured considerably upon legal and kin- dred topics. Ile was interested in many things outside his profession, which he adorned. He was first president of the John- stown Historical Society, was an elder of the Presbyterian church, and high in the councils
of the general assembly. He used tongue and pen in behalf of improved reformatory meas- ures, for benevolent enterprises and in the great political contests of his day. He stood second at the Fulton county bar only to the noted Judge Daniel Cady. He died in 1902.
Horace Edwin Smith married (first) a daughter of George Mills, of Broadalbin, Fulton county, New York, who bore him a son and three daughters. He married (sec- ond) Agnes, daughter of George Davidson, of Johnstown, New York, who bore him one son. He married (third) Jeanie Oliver, daughter of Richard Davidson, of New York,. and Margaret Oliver (Amos) Davidson. Jeanie Oliver (Davidson) Smith was born at Troy, New York ; is a contributor to Brit- ish and American periodicals and author of several works of poetry and fiction ; is a mem- ber of the Society of American Authors and the Aldine Literary Society of Johnstown. She is the mother of two daughters: Agnes Temple (Mrs. Charles Sidney Robbins), of Johnstown, New York, and Margaret Eliza- beth (Mrs. William Logan Kennedy).
The Ludlows of Columbia LUDLOW county, New York, spring from Gabriel Ludlow, of Eng- lish birth and ancient lineage, son of Ga- briel and grandson of Thomas Ludlow. Ga- briel Ludlow, the ancestor, was born at Cas- tle Cary, November 2, 1663. He came to New Netherland in 1694, and became promi- nent in business and public life. He was an early merchant of New York City and in 1699 clerk of the colonial assembly. He was an active churchman, vestryman of Trinity Epis- copal Church. He married, April 5, 1697. Sa- rah, daughter of Rev. Hanmer, one of the first rectors of Trinity Church. They had twelve children, among whom three sons: Henry, of further mention ; Gabriel, married (first) Frances Duncan, (second) Elizabeth Crommelin ; William, married Mary, daugh- ter of Captain George Duncan.
(II) Henry, son of Gabriel, the founder, and Sarah (Hanmer) Ludlow, was born in : New York City, where he was educated and spent his active business life. He was a well- known merchant of that city. After his re- tirement from business he removed to Clav- erack, where he died. Ite married and had issue.
(III) William Henry, son of Henry Lud- low, was born in New York City in 1740, died at Claverack, Columbia county, New York, 1803. He was associated with his - father as a merchant of New York, later suc- ceeding him. He invested in lands in west-
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ern New York, and also purchased a large tract at Claverack on which he built, in 1786, a large colonial mansion, where he resided un- til his death. He was a man of wealth and influence. He married and had several chil- dren, two only surviving him, William Broughton, of further mention; and Maria, married James Flemming.
(IV) William Broughton, son of William Henry Ludlow, was born at the Claverack Mansion, Columbia county, New York, in 1788, died there in 1865. He was well-educa- ted and grew to manhood on the homestead to which he succeeded after his father's death. He was the owner of eight hundred acres at Claverack and also agent for the Livingston estate. He lived the quiet life of a wealthy country gentleman, his greatest passion prob- ably being the breeding and development of horses. He married, about 1807, Julia Mor- ris, grandniece of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. They had ten children. Lewis Morris, born in Morrisania, Westchester county, New York, 1726, a grad- uate of Yale College in 1746, interested in ag- ricultural pursuits, elected to congress in 1775, member of the committee to devise means for supplying the colonies with the munitions of war, sent west to influence the Indians to leave the British and make com- mon cause with the colonists, resumed his seat in congress in 1776, afterwards served in the state legislature. He died in his native town, January 22, 1798.
(V) Robert Morris, son of William Broughton and Julia (Morris) Ludlow, was born at Claverack, Columbia county, New York, June, 1812, died in 1892 at his Claver- ack home. He lived on the Ludlow homestead farm but spent most of his business life in New York City, where he was engaged in business. He founded Ludlow's Express, the first baggage express company in the city. He was a man of large interests, railroad, ex- press and mercantile. He was a Democrat and a member of the Episcopal church. He married, in 1845, Mary Livingston, born 1813, died 1861, youngest daughter of Robert and Harriet (Livingston) Fulton (see Fulton II). Child, Robert Fulton, of further mention.
(VI) Robert Fulton, son of Robert Mor- ris and Mary Livingston (Fulton) Ludlow, was born June 25, 1846, in New York City. He was educated in the schools of Claverack, New York City, and at Hudson Academy. He was employed for a time in a bank in Wall street, but he was not partial to a business career. He possessed artistic talent which he developed under the best masters, including William Morgan, the famous artist of New
York City. He is a well-known portrait and landscape artist, and has done many master- pieces that have been exhibited and won com- mendation from connoisseurs in art. Among his best known paintings are, "Sunnyside," the home of Washington Irving as he built it. This was exhibited at the Academy of Design in 1889. "Mt. Vernon," the home of Wash- ington ; "Washington's Headquarters at New- burg"; "Birthplace of Robert Fulton" at Lan- caster, Pennsylvania ; "The Clermont," Ful- ton's first steamboat ; (the latter two pictures, together with the compass used by Fulton on his first trip, were exhibited at the Maritime Exhibition at Bordeaux, France, in 1907, held in honor of Robert Fulton), and many others of high artistic value. Among the handsome decorations of the palatial Hudson river steamboat "Robert Fulton" are six portraits of famous men, painted by Mr. Ludlow. He is an untiring worker and entirely devoted to his art. His home at Claverack is a fine mansion of colonial style, built by his great- grandfather, William Henry Ludlow. It is surrounded by tall pines and fine locusts, some of them having been there long before the mansion was built. It contains priceless relics of the ancestor whose name he bears, includ- ing the original painting of Robert Fulton. There are also many of Fulton's paintings and sketches done while in London a student under the great artist, Benjamin West, and later while a miniature portrait artist in the same city. Mr. Ludlow is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and other professional societies and clubs in- cluding the Columbia County Association of New York City. He has been a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Claverack, and since 1890 senior warden. He is a Democrat in politics.
He married, February 23, 1893, Catalina, daughter of Abraham Fonda Philip, born at Claverack, New York, 1825, died there Octo- ber 22, 1888, a farmer of Claverack, where he owned a large tract of land. He was an active Republican, but a great admirer of President Cleveland, whom he supported with vote and influence in all his political battles. He was an elder of the Dutch Reformed church and superintendent of the Sunday school. He married Alida Rossman, born January 30, 1830, who survives him, a resi- dent of Claverack. She is a daughter of Dan- iel and Charlotte (Wilcox) Rossman. Chil- dren : Catalina, married Robert Fulton Lud- low: Frances, married Frank R. Webb, of Hudson. Abraham Fonda Philip was a son of William Philip, son of George Philip, of Columbia county, born 1752, died 1806, served
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in the revolutionary war as captain in the commissary department, Albany Company Eighth Regiment. William Philip, son of Captain George Philip, was a merchant of Claverack, surveyor, and a woolen manufac- turer at Philmont : he was born, lived and died at Claverack, an active Democrat, and a member of the Dutch Reformed church. He married (first) Christina Storm, born 1788, died 1819 ; married (second) Catalina Fonda, born 1797, died 1882, daughter of Lawrence (2) Fonda, a farmer of Claverack, son of Lawrence (1) Fonda, of Claverack. William and Catalina Philip had two children : Emma Philip : Abraham Fonda Philip, married Alida Rossman. They were the parents of Catalina Philip, wife of Robert Fulton Ludlow. They have no children. Mr. Ludlow divides his time between his country residence at Clave- rack and his city home in New York.
(The Livingston Line).
Mary Livingston (Fulton) Ludlow, wife of Robert Morris Ludlow, was the youngest daughter of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first steamboat, and his wife Harriet (Livingston) Fulton, who was the daughter of Walter Livingston, a descendant in the fourth generation of Robert Livingston, First Lord of Livingston Manor, the lordly domain in Columbia county, granted him by his sovereign. The line of descent is as follows: Rev. John, Robert, Philip, Robert, all of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. (V) Walter, son of Robert and Maria (Long) Livingston, was born November 27, 1740, died May 14, 1797. He built and re- sided in his handsome mansion "Tiviotdale" in Columbia county. He was a member of the provincial congress, 1775; deputy com- missary general of northern department, 1775 ; member of assembly 1777-78-79; speaker of assembly, 1778, commissioner of the United States treasury, 1785. He married, 1769, Cor- nelia, daughter of Peter and Gertrude (Schuyler) Schuyler. She was baptized July 26, 1746, died 1822.
(VI) Harriet, daughter of Walter and Cor- nelia (Schuyler) Livingston, was born 1786, died 1824. She married Robert Fulton (see Fulton II).
(VII) Mary Livingston, daughter of Rob- ert and Harriet (Livingston) Fulton, married Robert Morris Ludlow (see Ludlow V).
(VIII) Robert Fulton, son of Robert Mor- ris and Mary Livingston (Fulton) Ludlow, married Catalina Philip.
(The Fulton Line).
Mary Livingston (Fulton) Ludlow was the youngest daughter of Robert Fulton, the
famous inventor. The Fultons are an Irisha family, descendants of Scotch ancestors. The. American line follows Robert Fulton, who. came to America from Kilmeny, Ireland. He· settled in the township of Little Britain, Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, in the town, now city, of Lancaster. Here he became promi- nent. He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian church; charter member of the Juliana Library, the third library established in America, and interested in all departments of town life. August 23, 1759, he bought a brick dwelling on the northeast corner of Penn Square, afterward Center Square, where he lived until 1765. He had purchased a farm in 1764, containing three hundred and ninety-four acres, on Conawago Creek, to. which he removed in 1765. He was. not successful as a farmer and soon returned to Lancaster. During the per- iod on the farm his afterwards famous son, Robert, was born. In 1844 the township of Little Britain was resurveyed and a new township erected and called "Ful- ton" in honor of the inventor. Not long ago the present owner rebuilt the Fulton farm- house, but preserved some of the old features, the original fireplace and the room in which the inventor was born. Robert Fulton, father of the inventor, married Mary, daughter of Captain Joseph Smith, and sister of Colonel Lester Smith.
(II) Robert (2), third child of Robert (I) and Mary (Smith) Fulton, was born on the farm in Little Britain, Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, November 14, 1765, died February 24, 1815. He was early left an orphan, his father dying when he was three years old. He early developed unusual talent and from 1782 until 1786 studied drawing and portrait painting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1786 he went to London where he placed himself under the instruction of the famous American painter, Benjamin West, also a na- tive of Pennsylvania, Chester county. Ben- jamin West at that time was president of the Royal Academy. After leaving Mr. West's studio as a pupil, he opened one of his own and did miniature portrait painting. In 1796 lie published a treatise on "Canal Naviga- tion." From 1797 to 1804 he displayed his ingenuity in various projects and inventions. He was the proprietor of the first panorama exhibited in the city of Paris. He experi- mented on a plunging vessel and interested the great Napoleon in the submarine idea. He also was interested in torpedo experiments and in 1804 was invited by the British gov- ernment to make torpedo trials. In 1806 he returned to New York, where with the help
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