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Mr. Tibbits is an independent thinker po- litically, a Republican in sympathy, but more interested in securing good, clean government than in mere party success. When in March, 1894, Robert Ross was foully murdered at the polls, Mr. Tibbits was one of those who signed a call inviting their fellow citizens to assemble in order to express their indignation and to "show by their presence and words their love for the fair name of our city and their appre- ciation of any efforts which may be made to bring the guilty parties, whoever they may be, to speedy justice." He was a member of the committee of one hundred formed as a result of this great meeting to see that justice be done. He also took a part in the forma- tion of the National Municipal League, and has been a member of its executive commit- tee since its organization.
Mr. Tibbits married, June 8, 1865, Mary
Elizabeth, daughter of John Le Grand and Elizabeth (Sigourney) Knox. (Sce Knox.) She died July 16, 1875. Children : 1. Sarah Bleecker, born November 15. 1866. 2. George, born February 22, 1868, died April 29, 1875. 3. John Knox, born January 13. 1870; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord. New Hampshire ; Yale College, B.A., class of 1892; Exeter College, Oxford, England ; he is an Episcopal clergyman at Concord, New Hampshire. He married, April 12, 1910, at Montreal, Canada, Marguerite Vinton Harris, daughter of Arthur H. and Saidee (Lambe) Harris, of that city. 4. Dudley, born Oc- tober 4, 1874, died May 24, 1875.
(VII) William Badger, youngest son of George Mortimer and Sarah ( Bleecker) Tib- bits, was born at Hoosac, New York, March 31, 1837. He was named for a great-great- uncle, William Badger, who was a soldier of the revolution. His early life was passed in Troy and Hoosac, where, and at a boarding school in Utica, he received his preparatory education. He then entered Williams College, but left there for Union College, where he graduated in 1859, an oration being accorded him at commencement, while his classmates honored him by choosing him as one of their two class marshals. He was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. After graduating he studied law for a time, and then entered busi- ness, having a one-third interest in the Samp- son & Tibbits Scale Company. He was thus engaged when on April 15, 1861, President Lincoln's first call for troops was published in the Troy papers, and on that day he volun- teered his services and obtained authorization papers for raising a company. This company, known as Company G, was accepted April 23, 1861, and was the color company of the Sec- ond Regiment, New York State Volunteers, which left Troy for the front May 18, 1861. He was mustered in as its captain, May 14, 1861. His services during the ensuing sev- enteen months are best explained in the fol- lowing letter and recommendation :
Headquarters, Carr's Brigade, Sickles' Division.
Camp at Fairfax Seminary, Va., Oct. 18. 1862. General: I have the honor to recommend the promotion of Captain William B. Tibbits, Second New York Volunteers, to be major vice George W. Wilson, resigned. Captain Tihbits is the senior and one of the only two original captains left with the regiment. He has been with it on every picket, march, and reconnaisance, and in every skirmish and battle. and at Big Bethel, Fair Oaks, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Bristow, and Bull Run. At Bristow he particularly distinguished himself, and was bon- orably mentioned for gallant and meritorious service at Bull Run. His vast experience, un -- daunted courage, and excellent judgment well qual- ify him for the position for which I have the
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honor to recommend him. I have the honor to be Your most obedient servant.
JOSEPH B. CARR, Brig. Gen. U. S. A.
To Brigadier-General Thomas Hillhouse,
State of N. Y., Albany, N. Y.
This recommendation was duly honored and Captain Tibbits was commissioned major under date of October 13, 1862. On May 23, 1863, Major Tibbits took part in the battle of Chancellorsville, and his conduct was thus spoken of in a letter by General Mott: "Major Tibbits was in command of the Second New York Infantry in the brigade that I command- ed at Chancellorsville. He acted in a gallant and meritorious manner, leading his regiment in several desperate charges against the enemy. I take pleasure in recommending him to the department as a worthy and deserving officer, having served in the field during the war." The term of the Second Regiment ex- pired the following year, and Major Tibbits was mustered out with the regiment in Troy, May 23, 1863. June 17, 1863, he procured authorization papers to raise a cavalry regi- ment to be known as the Griswold Light Cav- alry, to serve for three years unless sooner discharged. About the time this regiment was fully recruited, a number of prominent citizens of Troy presented him with a sword suitably inscribed with their appreciation and the names of the battles in which he had fought.
On January 24, 1864. he was mustered in as colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, New York Cavalry (Griswold Light). Colonel Tibbits received honorary mention and prom- ise of promotion. At the battle of Piedmont in the following June, Major General Stahel rode up and in the presence of his regiment thus addressed Colonel Tibbits: "I have to compliment you and your gallant regiment for the magnificent charge they made upon the field to-day." Subsequently the same officer confirmed this opinion in a most complimen- tary letter dated August 29, 1864. Colonel Tibbits was recommended for promotion by his division commander, Brigadier General A. N. Duffie, in a communication addressed to Major General David Hunter, on August 5, 1864, in which he says: "This officer has served under my command since June 10, 1864, and I have found him on all occasions a competent, faithful and gallant officer. He has on several occasions distinguished himself in action. His meritorious conduct has com- manded the admiration of myself and his com- mand." This recommendation was indorsed by General Hunter, and the deserved recog- nition of Colonel Tibbits' conduct was made still more complimentary by being read on
dress parade to each command in General! Hunter's command. On November 17, 1864,. the War Department conferred on Colonel Tibbits the rank of brevet brigadier-general, to date from October 21, 1864. General Tib- bits served throughout the war and afterwards was ordered west, and it was not till Septem- ber, 1865, that he received permission to re- turn home. He was made a full brigadier- general and received the rank of brevet major- general, U.S.A. He was mustered out of the service under General Order No. 168, to date from January 16, 1866.
In 1867 he represented the interests of the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Ma- chine Company at the International Exposi- tion, in Paris, and at the invitation of the Em- peror, Napoleon III., took part in the great review held in Paris that summer, as a mem- ber of the Emperor's staff. General Tibbits was for many years a great sufferer from in- juries received during the war. He died Feb- ruary 10, 1880. He was one of the most in- trepid spirits that the great civil war devel- oped, quick and skillful in action, never at a loss to decide promptly at the critical mo- ment, and never shirking a duty. It was said of him that he begged the privilege to charge when others were even unwilling to obey or- ders to advance.
(VIII) Le Grand Cannon, son of John Bleecker and Amelia Abby (Cannon) Tibbits, was born in Troy, New York, January 13, 1854. He was educated in private schools in Troy and New York City and at Union Col- lege. He engaged in the real estate business, which he has since followed, and took upon himself the entire management of the Tibbits estate at Hoosac. At the present time and for the past sixteen years he has been a di- rector of the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Company of Hoosick Falls. After his father's death he occupied the old Tibbits country seat at Hoosac, but spends considerable of lis time in Europe. He has served as supervisor for his county, and was a member of the state senate, 1896-98, per- forming very effective work, being elected on the Republican ticket. He conceived and orig- inated the committee of safety, 1895, and has taken an active part in reforms that have been and are being carried out. He is a mem- ber of the National Guard, serving as inspec- tor of Third Brigade, 1883, on staff of Gen- eral Oliver (now assistant secretary of war), with rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is a mem- ber and senior warden of All Saints Episco- pal Church, Hoosac, and trustee of Hoosac school. He is a member of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons, the Troy Club, Kappa Alpha
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fraternity, and the Legion of Honor, becom- ing a member of the latter by hereditary right in 1880.
He married, October 8, 1890, Elizabeth Barrett Folger, of San Francisco, California, daughter of James Arthur and Ellen (Lough- lin) Folger, the former having been a son of William Folger, and a descendant of Peter Folger, of Nantucket, and the latter a repre- sentative of a Vermont family.
(VIII) Edward Dudley, son of John Bleecker and Amelia Abby (Cannon) Tibbits, was born at Troy, New York, July 7. 1859. His parents removed to Hoosac when he was a few months old, but they spent their winters mostly in Troy and New York City. He was educated by private tutors, attended St. Paul's School, Concord, Massachusetts, entering in 1870, graduating in 1878, and entered the sophomore class of Williams College, graduat- ing with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 1881. He then traveled abroad for a short time, and in June, 1885, graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York City. He was ordained deacon October 10, 1885, at All Saints Church, Hoosac, by Rt. Rev. W. C. Doane, D.D., Bishop of Albany, and served as deacon of that church until 1886. The fol- lowing two years he spent abroad, traveling in Egypt and the Holy Land, spending a con- siderable part of this time in studying at Ox- ford, England, taking a special course in the- ology. He returned to Hoosac, New York, July, 1888, and was ordained priest, Decem- ber 29, 1888, in All Saints Cathedral, Albany, by Bishop Doane, of which cathedral he was appointed honorary canon, which position he has continuously held. He was chaplain to Bishop Doane during the Bishops' Conference in London, June and July, 1888. After be- coming a priest he was appointed rector of All Saints Parish, Hoosac. He established two missions, one at Bayntonville and the oth- er at Raymertown, both in New York, build- ing churches at both places. He also estab- lished a day parish school, which in 1892 was changed to a choir school for boys, called "All Saints Choir School." This work developed into the present Hoosac School for Boys, which in 1903 was incorporated, having a regular board of directors or trustees, to which was given some sixty-five acres, to- gether with the buildings, including the stone church, which now constitutes the plant of "Hoosac School." It has accommodation for about seventy-five boys, receiving boys be- tween the ages of eleven and nineteen, and is a preparatory school for college; at the pres- ent time (1910) it has ten instructors. The school has an excellent reputation, and the
boys enter eastern colleges direct from this school, subject to the rector of school. In 1907 Trinity College, Connecticut, tendered Dr. Tibbits the degree of Doctor of Letters, and in 1908 Williams College conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was appointed by Bishop Doane a delegate from the Diocese of Albany to the Pan-An- glican Congress, which met in London, Eng- land, June, 1908, but he could not accept on account of his work in the school. In 1910 he was appointed by the Board of Missions a delegate to the World's Missionary Congress at Edinburgh, Scotland, but had to decline this honor, as it met before the commencement of Hoosac School. He is a member of Delta Psi, and of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. His vacations are generally spent in travel abroad.
(The Noyes Line).
(I) Rev. William Noyes, rector of Choul- derton, county Wilts, England, matriculated at University College, Oxford, November 15, 1588, age twenty years, and was graduated A.B., May 31, 1592. He married Anne Ste- phens, daughter of Nicholas Stephens, Esq., of Burdrop Manor, Wiltshire. She was in- terred at Choulderton, March 7, 1657, aged eighty-two years. He died about 1622. Their sons, Rev. James and Deacon Nicholas Noyes, in March, 1634, embarked for New England, in the "Mary and John" of London, with their cousin, Rev. Thomas Parker.
(II) Rev. James Noyes, son of Rev. Wil- liam and Anne (Stephens) Noyes, was born in Choulderton, Wiltshire, England, in 1608. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Ox- ford, August 22, 1656, but did not graduate. He died at Newbury, Massachusetts, October 22, 1656. He came to America, as stated, and after short stays at Medford and Watertown went with some friends to Newbury, where his cousin, Thomas Parker, desired him to assist in teaching the free school. He was much loved and honored in Newbury. He was very learned in the tongues, and in Greek excelled the most. He was the author of a catechism (still in use) and highly esteemed in the ministry. He had a grant of land on which he built a house, about 1645. in which he, his family and Thomas Parker lived. This house is still standing (1910), and has never known any owner but a Noyes, and is New- bury's proudest show place. He married, in England, in 1634, Sarah Brown, of South- ampton. Children: 1. Joseph, born in New- bury, October 15, 1637; first appears in Sud- bury records, February 16, 1662; selectman twenty-eight years; constable; justice of the
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peace ; owned many slaves; was twice married and had eight children. 2. Rev. James, of Stonington, Connecticut; graduate of Har- vard, 1659; founder and trustee of Yale Col- lege ; married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton : seven children. 3. Rev. Moses, of Lyme, Connecticut ; graduate of Harvard, 1659; fellow of Yale, 1706; first minister of Lyme, Connecticut, where he preached fifty years ; married Ruth, daughter of John Picket, and granddaughter of Elder Brewster, of Plymouth Colony; five children. 4. John (see forward). 5. Thomas, of New- bury ; a prominent man in colonial affairs : selectman ; served, during the French and In- dian wars in different grades, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel; married (first) Martha Pierce, (second) Elizabeth Greenleaf. 6. Deacon William, of Newbury; prominent in church affairs ; served during the Indian wars in Captain Thomas Noyes' company of "snow shoe" men; married Sarah Cogswell; nine children. These are the six sons of Rev. James and Sarah (Brown) Noyes; they had three daughters: Sarah, the eldest, and third child, died young; Rebecca, the sixth child. married John Knight: Sarah, the ninth and youngest child, married John Hale.
(III) John, of Boston, fourth son and fifth child of Rev. James and Sarah (Brown) Noyes, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, June 3, 1645. died November 9, 1678. He was made a freeman of Boston in 1675. He was second sergeant of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company, 1678, and consta- ble in 1675. He was a cooper by trade. He married, in 1671, Sarah Oliver (see Oliver ). Children, born in Boston: 1. Sarah, August 20. 1672. 2. John, married Susanna Ed- wards; he was fourth sergeant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1699; en- sign, 1704; he was a goldsmith. 3. Dr. Oliver (see forward).
(IV) Dr. Oliver Noyes, youngest child of John and Sarah (Oliver) Noyes, was born in Boston, 1675, died March 16, 1721. He was a graduate of Harvard, 1695, A.M., 1721. He was a physician of Boston and Medford, Mas- sachusetts, but found time to engage in other matters that concerned the welfare of his town. He was one of the projectors of the Long Wharf; was one of the proprietors of "Pejepscott" (Brunswick, Topsham and Brunswick, Maine). He was an officer of the "Ancient and Honorable," 1699; selectman, 1708-1I, and from 1719 to 1721, and held other offices. He was a representative to the general court, 1714-16-19-29. His estate in- ventoricd £17,193.
Dr. Oliver Noyes married (first), 1702,
Ann, daughter of Governor Belcher; (sec- ond) February 6. 1718, Mrs. Katherine ( Eyre, Eire, Evers) Jeffries, born July 20, 1694. died May 6. 1760, daughter of John and Catherine ( Brattle) Eyre, who were married May 20, 1680, and had children: Katherine. Bertha and John Eyre. Dr. Oliver Noyes died March 16, 1721.
John Eyre was the youngest son of Simon Eyre, a surgeon of Watertown, Massachu- setts, who came to America in the ship "In- crease," from London, embarking April 15, 1635, with wife Dorothy, aged thirty-eight, and children: Mary, aged fifteen; Thomas thirteen ; Simon, eleven : Rebecca, nine ; Chris- tian, seven; Ann, five; Benjamin. three: Sarah, three months. John, his youngest son, was born in Massachusetts, probably at Wa- tertown. Simon was representative, select- man and clerk of the town.
Catherine Brattle, wife of John Eyre, was a daughter of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Tyng) Brattle, of Boston. Elizabeth Tyng was a daughter of Captain William Tyng. a merchant of distinction in Boston, who came to America in the "Nicholas," chartered by himself at London. He arrived in Boston, July 3, 1638. He was representative, 1639- 44, and 1647; treasurer of the colony, 1640- 44; captain of the militia company of Brain- tree, Massachusetts, where he removed in his latter days, and which he represented in the federal court, 1649-51. His widow (Jane, his third wife) survived him. His first wife was Ann Brown; his second, Elizabeth, daughter of Rowland Coytmore. Elizabeth Tyng. eld- est daughter of Captain William Tyng, was born in England, 1638; married, in 1656, Captain Thomas Brattle, and they were the parents of Elizabeth, wife of John Eyre, the parents of Katherine Eyre (Jeffries) Noyes, second wife of Dr. Oliver Noyes. Children of Dr. Oliver and Ann (Belcher) Noyes, born in Boston: 1. Ann, married (first) Azor Gale; (second) Rev. Mather Byles. 2. Oliver, died young. 3. Oliver, died young. 4. Sarah, mar- ried (first) Pulcifer ; (second)
Bridgham. 5. John, died young. 6. John, died young. Oliver, only son of Dr. Oliver and his second wife, Katherine (Eyre) (Jef- fries) Noyes, was born in Boston, Massachu- setts, December 8, 1720. He married (first) Ann - -; (second) Saralı Badger, born 1747, died 1788, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Baxter) Badger, who were married at Charleston, South Carolina, 1743. Jonathan Badger died at Providence, July 31, 1774.
(VI) Sarah, daughter of Oliver and Sarah ( Badger) Noyes, married Hon. George Tib- bits. (See Tibbits).
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(The Oliver Line).
(I) Thomas Oliver (gentleman) was born in Bristol, England, where he died in 1557. He married Margaret -, and had issue, a son and daughter.
(II) John (merchant), second child and only son of Thomas and Margaret Oliver, was born at Bristol, England, died there and was buried in St. Stephen's churchyard, January 31, 1598. He married, August 28, 1557, at the same church, Elizabeth Rowland. Issue, six sons and four daughters.
(III) Thomas (2) (surgeon), fourth child and second son of John and Elizabeth (Row- land) Oliver, was born at Bristol, England. in 1582, baptized at St. Stephen's Church, April 14, 1582, died at Boston, Massachusetts, 1657. He married Anne -, who died at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, May, 1635. They came to Boston with children (six sons and two daughters), June 5, 1632, in the ship "Lion." He was one of the founders of the First Church (now in Chauncey place). He mar- ried (second) at Boston, Anne -, who died December 20, 1662.
(IV) Peter (merchant), fourth child and son of Thomas (2) and Anne Oliver, was born in Bristol, England, about 1622, died in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, April 11, 1670. He was one of the founders of the old South Church, and in 1669 commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married, about 1642, Sarah Newdigate, of Boston, who died October 9. 1692. They had five sons and three daughters.
(V) Sarah, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Newdigate) Oliver, married John Noyes. They were the great-grandparents of Sarah Noyes, wife of Hon. George Tibbits, of Troy, New York.
(The Knox Line).
The family name of Knox has a territorial origin, being derived from the Celtic word "Cnoc," signifying a small hill. About the year 1266 Johanne de Cnok is named as a wit- ness in a charter of the lands at Ingleston, Renfrewshire, Scotland. In 1328 two pay- ments from the exchequer of King Robert the Bruce were made to Alanus del Knoc. Those bearing the name of Knox in his day derive lustre from being connected with the race which produced John Knox, the illustrious Scotch reformer, to whom Englishmen are in part indebted for the Protestant character of their Book of Common Prayer, and Scotsmen for a reformation so thorough as to perma- nently resist the encroachments of an aggres- sive sacerdotalism. By three centuries he an- ticipated the parochial system of education, now the law of England, and by nearly half
that period he set forth those principles of civil and religious liberty which culminated in a system of constitutional government. The family in Scotland, Ireland and England, are prominent all down the years of recorded hap- penings in those lands, in ecclesiastical, civil and military life. They have held the high- est positions in both church and state. Ma- jor-General Henry Knox, of the revolution, descended from the Belfast, Ireland, family. Alexander Knox, a powerful and elegant wri- ter, was of Londonderry, Ireland. He was a personal friend of the founder of Method- ism, John Wesley. Hugh Knox, of the Scotch family of Ranfurlie, settled in the parish of Donagheady, county of Londonderry, Ireland, during the latter half of the seventeenth cen- tury. He had sons and grandsons prominent as divines, and one of this family, George Knox, was a West Indian proprietor, mer- chant and ship owner. He spent part of his life in the West Indies, but returned to Lon- don, England, where he died. The supposi- tion is strong that Rev. Hugh Knox, who died on the island of Santa Cruz, was connected with this Irish branch of the family. Santa Cruz was also known as Saint Croix. Alex- ander's "Princeton in the Eighteenth Cen- tury" says : "He settled at Saint Croix, where he spent the remainder of his days."
(1) Rev. Hugh Knox came to America in 1751. Dr. Rodgers, becoming interested, es- tablished a school of which Mr. Knox (said to have been educated at the University of Glasgow) became the head. While thus en- gaged an event happened that moulded the whole of his after life. He became acquainted with a number of young men who were accus- tomed to meet on Saturday afternoons for a frolic. On one of these occasions one of the party cried out to Knox: "Come, Parson," (a title they had given him on account of his grave manner, and withal a great admirer of Dr. Rodgers' preaching). "come, Parson, give us a sermon." At first he declined. but being pressed, gave an exact imitation of Dr. Rod- gers and almost verbatim the sermon he had preached on the previous Sunday. As he pro- ceeded, his auditors, who began to listen in merriment, became deeply serious, and the speaker himself was overwhelmed with a sense of his sin. The next morning, overcome with remorse, he fled from the place. Soon after he went to Newark and applied for admission to the college at Princeton, then the College of New Jersey. He related his whole previous course and his repentance and was admitted. His course in college was all that could be desired. After his graduation from Prince- ton, class of 1754, he studied theology with
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President Burr, and was ordained by the Presbytery of New York in 1755, and was sent to the island of Saba (Dutch West In- dies, eighteen miles northwest of St. Eusta- cius, of which it is a dependency; it contains fifteen square miles), as pastor to the Dutch Church of the island. At his ordination he preached a sermon on the "Dignity and Im- portance of the Gospel Ministry," which was published by the unanimous request of the Presbytery. In 1772 he resigned his church at Saba and settled at St. Croix (Santa Cruz), one of the largest of the virgin isles of the West Indies, forming with St. Thomas and St. John a Danish colony, where he spent the remainder of his days as minister of the Reformed church there. The celebrated Alex- ander Hamilton was placed in early boyhood under the instruction of Rev. Knox, and formed a strong attachment for him, while he in return watched and assisted with the ut- most fidelity the development of the wonder- ful powers of his pupil. They kept up an ac- tive correspondence in after life, and two of Rev. Knox's letters are preserved in the first volume of Hamilton's works. Rev. Knox re- ceived his A.M. degree from Princeton, 1754. and in 1768 from Yale, and his degree of D.D. was conferred by the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Knox published (ac- cording to Dr. Miller) five or six volumes, chiefly sermons. Two volumes of his ser- mons, printed in Glasgow in 1772, are in the library of the college at Princeton. (From Alexander's "Princeton College in the Eight- eenth Century.")
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