Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 68

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 656

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Rev. Hugh Knox married Christina Love, believed to have been daughter of the gov- ernor of the island of Santa Lucia. They had children. Dr. Knox died at Santa Cruz, 1790. (II) Hugh (2), son of Rev. Hugh (1) and Christina (Love) Knox, was born at Santa Cruz, West Indies, in 1782. He was sent to Norwalk. Connecticut, at the age of eight years, and placed under the care and tutorship of his father's friend, Rev. Matthias Burnett, D.D. There he grew up, entered Yale Col- lege, was graduated in the class of 1800, studied law, but on account of ill health never practiced. In 1840 he removed to Troy, New York, where he died in 1858, aged seventy- eight years. He married ( first ) Henrietta, daughter of Samuel Cannon, of Norwalk, Connecticut, and sister of Le Grand Cannon, of Troy (see forward). She died in 1812. He married (second) Martha, daughter of Stephen Keeler. of Norwalk. Henrietta Can- non was the daughter of Samuel Cannon, born July 28, 1754, and his wife, Sarah ( Belden) Cannon, born January 20, 1754, and grand-

daughter of John Cannon, born 1725, died February 17. 1796, and his wife, Esther (Perry) Cannon, great-granddaughter of John and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon, great- great-granddaughter of John Cannon, a mer- chant of New York City, who married, Sep- tember 16, 1697, Marie Le Grand, daughter of Pierre Le Grand, a French merchant of New York City.

(III) John Le Grand, son of Hugh (2) and Henrietta (Cannon) Knox, was born in Nor- walk, Connecticut, November 15. 1803, died at Troy, New York, August 21. 1879. He re- ceived a good practical education in the schools of Norwalk and Troy, being sent to. the latter city in 1813. In Troy he attended Dr. Stoddard's school, and in 1820 began business life as a clerk in the dry-goods house of Southwick, Cannon & Warren. He spent seven years with that firm and then embarked in business on his own account. He became a prominent merchant of Troy and was asso- ciated at different times with Francis Mor- gan, John H. Whitlock and Gould Rockwell. He dealt in dry goods; he was highly es- teemed as a business man and as a citizen. He retired from mercantile life and was con- nected with the iron works of H. Burden & Son from 1857 to 1876, when he retired from active life. He was a Federalist, afterward a Whig, and later in life a Republican. He never was active in politics, but was always deeply interested in national and local ques- tions of the country. He married (first ) Mary M., daughter of Stephen Warren, of Troy. He married ( second ) April 25, 1839, Eliza- beth Carter, born August 6, 1813, died May 25, 1885, daughter of Charles and Jane (Car- ter ) Sigourney, of Hartford, Connecticut (see Sigourney). Children: I. Mary Elizabeth, see forward. 2. Charles Sigourney, born in Troy, May 28, 1843; graduated from Colum- bia College, A.B., 1862: now ( 1910) profes- sor of Latin at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. 3. John Hugh, see forward. 4. Stephen Warren, born in Troy, June 12, 1847. died at Hoosick, New York, July 23, 1867. 5. James Carter, born in Troy, Febru- ary 6, 1849; graduated from St. Paul's School: now ( 1910) professor in same school in English and music. 6. Henry Cannon, born in Troy, September 16. 1851, died in San Francisco, California, May 25, 1872 ; graduate of St. Paul's School.

(VII) Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Le Grand and Elizabeth Carter ( Sigour- ney) Knox, was born March 11, 1842, mar- ried Charles Edward Dudley Tibbits ( see Tib- bits ).

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Grand and Elizabeth Carter (Sigourney) Knox, was born in Troy, October 25, 1845. He graduated from Churchill Military Col- lege, Sing Sing, New York, 1862. He then engaged in the hardware manufacturing busi- ness, continuing for a period of eight years, and in 1878 engaged in the general insurance and real estate business. He is a member of the Church of Holy Cross ( Episcopal), and is an Independent in politics. He is an ex- empt fireman, retiring in 1868; trustee and secretary of Episcopal Church Home, serving in the latter capacity since 1900; and one of the founders of the Troy Vocal Society, or- ganized in 1875. He has been identified with musical circles of Troy for many years; he makes a specialty of church music, is a bass soloist, and has been connected with various choirs for forty-five years; he was formerly with St. Paul's Church and St. John's Episco- pal Church choirs, but is now (1910) con- nected with the choir of the Church of the Holy Cross, which was the first church in the United States to render a choral service. He married, September 3, 1878, in Troy, New York, Maria Talmadge, daughter of Henry A. Farnsworth.

(The Sigourney Line).

The name of Sigourney is found among that band of Huguenots who sought refuge in New England from the persecutions that suc- ceeded the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV., October 22, 1685. The an- cestor of the American branch of the family, Andrew Sigourney, or, according to the French orthography, André Séjourné, is said to have been comfortably settled at or near Rochelle, France, when the Edict was re- voked. He at once left France and went to England. Under the auspices of Governor Joseph Dudley and others, proprietors of Ox- ford, Worcester county, Massachusetts, a col- ony of Huguenots was assisted to proceed to America, where they arrived in the winter of 1686. The Sigourneys were of the company who, with their pastor, Pierre Daille, formed the settlement at Oxford in Worcester county on the banks of a stream which still retains the name they gave it, French river. His wife, whose maiden name was Charlotte Pairan, his son Andrew, a lad of thirteen years, and his daughter Susan came with An- drew Sigourney* to America. The gravestone

*The wife of André Séjourné the first, is twice referred to in Baird's "Huguenots in America," and her name given as Charlotte Pairan. Accord- ing to this book (Vol. II, p. 267) they left France for England as early as 1681, and had a child born in London in 1682, which was baptized in the French church in Threadneedle street, April 16, 1682.

of the emigrant ancestor stands in the "Gran- ary" graveyard in Boston, Massachusetts, and bears the following: "Andrew Sigourney died April 16, 1727, aged 89." Children: 1. An- drew (see forward ). 2. Susan, born in France ; married John Johnson, who was killed with his three children by Indians at Oxford, Massachusetts, 1696; she married (second) April 18, 1700, her cousin, Daniel Johonnot, of Boston, born in France. There may have been other children of the emigrant, as there was a Samuel Sigourney who married Mary Dunbar, December 1, 1723, and a Charlotte who married Peter Holman, May 26, 1719, both married by Andrew Le Mercier, pastor of the French Church, but they cannot posi- tively be identified as children of Andrew Sigourney.

(II) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) Sigourney, "the founder," was born in France, 1673. He came to America with his father in 1686, and became a distiller of Bos- ton, Massachusetts. He was one of the pro- prietors of the French Church in South Latin School street, being one with others who exe- cuted a deed, May 7, 1748, conveying the same to another society. He died in 1748, and his will, made May 20, 1736, was re- corded in Suffolk, July 7, 1748 (lib. 41, folio 148). He married Mary Germaine, born in France, March 2, 1680, died March 20, 1763- 64. Children, all born in Boston, Massachu- setts: 1. Andrew (see forward). 2. Susan- nah, married, by Rev. Andrew Le Mercier, to Martin Brimmer, born 1697, at Osten, Ger- many: eleven children. 3. Peter, died 1738; no marriage recorded. 4. Mary, married, February 20, 1734, John Baker, who came from Guernsey, or Jersey. 5. Charles, died 1711, unmarried. 6. Anthony, married Mary Waters, of Salem: (second) a widow, Eliza- beth (Whittemore) Breed. 7. Daniel, mar- ried (first) 1735. Mary Varney; (second) Joanna Tileston ; (third) Rebecca Tileston. 8. Rachel, died September 20, 1719. 9. Hannah, married Hon. Samuel Dexter, son of Rev. Samuel Dexter, of Dedham; Hon. Samuel Dexter was the ardent patriot of Boston, sev- eral times elected to the council, and as often rejected by the royal governor of the prov- ince ; upon his legacy to Harvard University the Dexter Lectureship is founded.

(III) Andrew (3), son of Andrew (2) and Mary (Germaine) Sigourney, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1702. He was married, by Rev. Andrew Le Mercier, pastor of the French Church, October 7, 1731, to Mary, only daughter of John Ronchon. Andrew Sigourney died November 4, 1762, and Mary his wife died February 28, 1772.

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Children : 1. Mary Ann, died young. 2. An- drew (4), died young. 3. Mary, married Samuel Sloan; six children. 4. Andrew (5), died young. 5. John Ronchon, married Eunice Kidder. 6. Andrew (6), died young. 7. Elizabeth, married (first) Paine ; (second) Doyle; (third)

Luckas. 8. Susanna, married John Osborn. 9. Andrew (7), born March 27, 1746, died November 23, 1767. 10. Charles ( see for- ward). 11. Martin Baker, died young. 12. Hannah, married Captain John Patten, of Biddeford, Maine (who was lost by ship- wreck at Marshfield, January II, 1783) ; she married (second) Benjamin Balch, of New- buryport.

(IV) Charles, tenth child of Andrew (3) and Mary (Ronchon) Sigourney, was born March 4, 1748, died May 20, 1806. He mar- ried (first) 1771, Sarah Frazier, daughter of Captain John Frazier and Sarah Ingraham, his wife, who bore him eight children. Mar- ried (second) February 22. 1788, Mary Greenleaf, who was the mother of eight chil- dren: I. Charles (2), died in infancy. 2. Charles (3), died in infancy. 3. George, died in infancy. 4. John, died in infancy. 5. Charles (4), see forward. 6. Maria, died in infancy. 7. Sarah, died at age of twenty-one years. 8. Henry, married (first) Rebecca Carter ; (second) Margaret M. Barker. 9. William Parsons, died at age of thirty years. 10. Harriet, died in infancy. II. Elizabeth Parsons, married George G. Channing. 12. Mary, died in infancy. 13. Mary, married J. P. Froding. 14. Ann Pearson, married William Rollins. 15. Jane Carter, married Fred A. Farley. 16. George, died at the age of nineteen years.

(V) Charles (2), son of Charles (1) and Sarah ( Frazier) Sigourney; was born July 21, 1778, at Boston, Massachusetts, died at Hart- ford, Connecticut, December 30, 1854. He was a prosperous hardware merchant and banker, and one of the founders of Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut. He mar- ried (first) May 25, 1803, Jane Carter, who bore him three children. Married (second) June 16, 1819, Lydia Huntley. Charles Sig- ourney bore a most enviable reputation, and the notices of his death, taken from the news- papers of the day, are laudatory and appre- ciative. He was sent to England to finish his education. He was a devout Christian, be- nevolent and kind. His constant companion was a New Testament printed in the original Greek, which he diligently studied. He was president of the Phoenix Bank of Hartford. He served as one of the first trustees of Trin- ity College, was warden of Christ Church, and

was a patron of various literary, educational and charitable institutions. Children : I. Charles Henry, born January 11, 1811. 2. Elizabeth Carter, married John Le Grand Knox (q. v.). 3. Jane Carter, born April 9, 1815: married, October 3, 1839, Michael Burnham. 4. Mary Huntley, married Francis T. Russell. 5. Andrew Maximilian, died at age of twenty years.

In a history of the early CARROLL church of Sudbury, Massa- chusetts, appears the follow- ing record: "March 1, 1640, Robert Carill buried his servant Edward Vines." Of the first settlers of Sudbury many remained only a short time. Jane Cumming, of Salem, Mas- sachusetts, in her will dated July 10, 1644, names among her creditors a "Mr. Carol." It is to be presumed that at this early date there was not more than one family of this name in Massachusetts, and that these two Carrols were the same, and that he was the father of Anthony and Nathaniel Caroll, of Topsfield and Boxford, and that he came to the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony about 1638-40, settled first at Sudbury, then went to Salem, where the family remained for the next hundred years. It is believed that the three Nathaniels (I, II, III) lived successively on the same farm, lying along the Ipswich river, located about eight miles from the centre of the pres- ent village of Salem. The deeds for the Car- roll farms back to 1704 indicate that the Car- rolls and Putnams were adjoining neighbors, and it was very natural that when General Israel Putnam moved to Connecticut, the Car- rolls should follow and settle in the same town of Killingly, but in the part that has since become Thompson, Connecticut. Francis, Na- thaniel and Amos, three brothers, settled in Connecticut about 1749. Francis was a cord- wainer, and had a family. Nathaniel was a tailor, and unmarried. It is with the third brother, Amos, that this record deals. The Carrolls are undoubtedly of Irish descent. The New England Carrolls were members of the Danvers church, which taken in connection with the strictly Bible names would indicate that they were of the rigid Puritan stock, whatever their foreign connections were.

(I) Robert Carroll was of Sudbury, Mas- sachusetts, 1640, and of Salem, 1644. He had sons : Anthony, born 1635, married Katherine : lived at Topsfield, Massachusetts, Nathaniel, sce forward.

(II) Nathaniel, son of Robert Carroll, was born 1638. Ile married, 1659, Mary, daugh- ter of Richard and Mary Haines, of Beverly, Massachusetts, and lived at Boxford, Massa-

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chusetts. Children : 1. Mary, born 1661, died 1682; married, 1678, Samuel Fraye, and lived at Salem, Massachusetts. 2. Nathaniel (2), see forward. 3. Samuel, born 1666, died 1701 : "a soldier of Sir Edmund Andros' army in 1688." 4. Benjamin, born 1670; married Mary -; "soldier from Beverly, Massa- chusetts." 5. Joseph, born 1674; married (first) 1695, Priscilla Preble; married (sec- ond) 1720, Rebecca Chapman. 6. Hannah, born 1677; married, 1699, Nicholas Orchow, of Salem, Massachusetts. 7. Edward, born 1680; married, 1700, Elizabeth Booth, and lived in Salem.

(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (I) and Mary ( Haines) Carroll, was born 1663, died 1724. He married, 1683, Priscilla Down- ing, and lived at Boxford and Salem, Massa- chusetts. Children : 1. Mary, born 1687, died 1710; married John Bullock, of Salem. 2. Hannah, born 1690, lived at Middle- ton, Massachusetts. 3. Nathaniel (3), see forward. 4. Samuel, born 1693; married (first) 1719, Rebecca Elliot, married (second) Aby Greencastle, of Sutton. 5. Elizabeth, born 1695; married, 1715, Samuel Woodwell. 6. Joanna, born 1697. 7. John, born 1701; married, 1723, Lydia Bayley. 8. Daniel, born 1703; married, 1727, Mary French, and re- sided in Sutton, Massachusetts.

(IV) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) and Priscilla (Downing) Carroll, was born 1691. He was a leather dresser and tanner. He married Hannah - in 1715, and re- sided at Middleton, Massachusetts. He also owned and cultivated a farm, as had his fa- ther and grandfather before him, probably the same, as these towns were successively, Salem, then Boxford was cut off, and after- ward Middleton. The same farm could have been located in all three. Children: 1. Fran- cis, born 1717; married, 1742, Sarah Lambert. 2. Nathaniel (4), born 1718; died unmarried at Thompson, Connecticut. 3. Hannah, born 1721. 4. Abigail, born 1725. 5. Amos (see forward). 6. Mary, born 1731, married Wil- liam Martin, of Salem.

(V) Lieutenant Amos, son of Nathaniel (3) and Hannah Carroll, was born in 1728, died 1792. He settled in Connecticut, at the town of Killingly, in the part now known as Thompson. He was a farmer, and after culti- vating for short periods two other farms, set- tled permanently in the Brandy Hill district on the farm known as the Fort Hill farm, and suggesting the name was an old Indian fort. He responded to the "alarm" with General Israel Putnam and his neighbors, and appears on the records as having served with the "Lexington Alarm Men." October 31, 1778,

he was commissioned lieutenant of the Sev- enth company of the Alarm List in the Elev- enth Regiment of Connecticut, by Governor Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut. Amos Carroll married ( first) at Middleton, Massa- chusetts, Mary Smith. Children : 1. Mary, born 1749, died 1816; she married Daniel Hemmingway, of Barre, Massachusetts. 2. John, born January 5, 1754 (see forward). 3. Dr. Ephraim, born 1757. died 1812; mar- ried Lucy Clark; he was a practicing phy- sician of Woodstock, Connecticut. Amos Car- roll married (second) Mrs. Lucy Hosmer Barrett, at Thompson, Connecticut. Children : 4. Abigail, born 1762, died 1840; she married Joseph Tourtellot, of Thompson. 5. Wyman, born 1765, died 1827 ; he married, 1795, Sarah Crosby, and lived at Thompson. 6. Hannah, born 1768, died 1839; she married Joshua Tourtellot, of Thompson. 7. Elijah, born 1771, died 1848; married, 1795, Pasha Smith, and removed to Dairnard, Vermont. 8. Ra- chel, born 1774, died 1819: married, 1795, Ebenezer Burrill, of Burrillville, Rhode Is- land.

(VI) John, son of Lieutenant Amos and Mary (Smith) Carroll, was born in Thomp- son, Connecticut, January 5, 1754, died 1823; he spent his boyhood days on the Fort Hill farm. He married, in Thompson, 1779, Han- nah Thayer, and later settled in New York state, at Springfield, Otsego county, where he died. Children: 1. Polly, born November 4, 1780, died 1836; she married Phineas Albert, of Springfield, New York. 2. Nancy, born 1781, died 1852; married Nathaniel Hem- mingway, of Amber, New York. 3. Ezra, born 1783, died 1844; married Rebecca Mul- let, and lived in Springfield. 4. Davis, born February 25, 1786 (see forward). 5. Kiron, born 1790, died 1813, buried at Thompson, Connecticut. 6. John, born 1792, died 1845 ; he married Susan Wheaton, and lived at Spring- field. 7. Waty, born 1795, died 1884; married Francis Sammons, of Springfield. 8. Seneca, born 1798, died 1800, at Thompson. 9. Lu- cinda, born 1801, died 1868; she married Rev. N. G. Chase, and lived at Smyrna, Michigan. (VII) Davis, son of Jolin and Hannah (Thayer) Carroll, was born in Thompson, Connecticut, February 25, 1786, died August 13, 1853. He removed to Otsego county, New York, in 1817. He was a classmate and a lifelong friend of Governor William L. Marcy, of New York, and a veteran of the war of 1812. He was a prominent well-to-do farm- er of Springfield. He married, May 17, 1811, in Thompson, Connecticut, Phoebe Tourtellot, born March 25, 1791, died August 14, 1870. Children : 1. Linus Anson, born July 31, 1812,

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died October 11, 1839; he married Rebecca L. Prine, February 2, 1836, and lived at Lee, Massachusetts. 2. Davis Loton, born Janu- ary 9, 1814, died January 27, 1877 ; he married Mary A. Ayers, July, 1842, and lived at Am- sterdam, New York. 3. Hannah Tourtellot, born August 30, 1815, died June 4, 1890; she married, January 1, 1855, Robert Yule, of Canandaigua, New York. 5. Phobe Calista. born February 15, 1819, died January 25, 1871 ; married, February 2, 1842, Stephen V. Thayer, of Broadalbin, New York. 6. Amy Janet, born February 6, 1821, died March 23, 1892; married, February 11, 1846, William Harvey Buell, of Springfield. 7. John Michael, born April 27, 1823 (see forward). 8. Lucy Etta, born February 18, 1825; married January 10, 1849, Solomon J. North- rup, of Binghamton, New York. 9. Harriet Lucinda, born April 6, 1828, died December 11, 1891 ; she married Samuel Hollister, Feb- ruary 2, 1859, and removed to Atchison, Kan- sas. IO. Seneca, born January 26, 1831, died August 17, 1893; lived at Rome, New York. II. Fidelia, born May 21, 1833, died Febru- ary 18, 1906; lived at Amsterdam and Johns- town, New York.

(VIII) John Michael, son of Davis and Phoebe (Tourtellot ) Carroll, was born in Springfield, Otsego county, New York, April 27. 1823. He prepared for college at Cherry Valley and Fairfield academies, and entered Union College in the junior class, where he was graduated with first honors, class of 1846. He took a special course in civil engineering, and was one of the three who received a spe- cial diploma and degree of C. E., in addition to the degree of A.B. he received in course. He was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society on graduation, and was a mem- ber of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity. He, however, decided upon the law as his pro- fession, and pursued legal studies with Judge Hammond, of Cherry Valley, and with Judge Cushney, of Fonda, New York. He was ad- mitted to the bar of the state of New York in 1848, and, after being in the west a short time, began practice at Broadalbin, Fulton county, New York, in 1850, where he con- tinued until 1862, when he made permanent settlement in Johnstown, New York. In 1859 he was elected district attorney of Ful- ton county, and in 1869 he was elected to the forty-second congress, where he served with marked ability on the committee of post-of- fices and post roads, and was instrumental in framing and having passed important laws re- lating to the postal service, one of them abol- ishing the franking privilege as it then ex- isted and another establishing the system of

postal cards. In the tariff revision of 1872 he succeeded in having the tariff on raw hides and skins abolished, and that on manufactured gloves continued. This was greatly to the advantage of the dominant industry of Ful- ton county, and may be said to have been the original cause of its present great proportions and prosperity. He declined renomination and positively retired from public office, devoting himself thereafter to the practice of his profession. He was an able lawyer, and a citizen of the highest standing. He was a lifelong Democrat, and a leader of the party in his district, as well as sitting in state coun- cils where he was honored and referred to on important matters affecting party interests. He was eminent in his profession, and command- ed the respect of both bench and bar. He married, December 16, 1862, Augusta Marian, born April 29, 1837, daughter of Dr. Freeman Tourtellot, of Saratoga county, New York, who survives him, and is a resident of Johns- town, New York. She is a descendant of the Huguenot, Abraham Tourtellot, of Bordeaux, France; Roxbury, Massachusetts, and New- port, Rhode Island, a merchant and a mariner, who married Mary Hernon, and had three children : Gabriel, Esther and Abraham. He was lost at sea with his eldest son, Gabriel. The descent is traced to the present genera- tion thus :

(I) Abraham Tourtellot, of Bordeaux, France, married Mary Hernon.

(11) Abraham (2).

(III) Abraham (3), married Phoebe

(IV) Esek, born 1763, died May 4, 1850, married Rebecca Swain, 1803.

(V) Dr. Freeman, born August 4, 1806, died December 14, 1868; married, April 6, 1831, Fanny Richardson, born January 13, 1805, died June 25, 1889.

(VI) Augusta Marian, married John Michael Carroll.

(VII) Frederick Linus, married Eleanor Pierson Miller.

Children of John M. and Augusta M. Car- roll: 1. Edward Tourtellot, born June 22, 1867; graduated from Union College, class of 1889, with degree of A.B., and in 1892 re- ceived the degree of A.M., in course. On graduation he was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He was a member of the Union Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. He prepared for the ministry at the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating in 1893. He took holy orders and is now rector of St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church in Amsterdam, New York. In June, 1909, his alma mater

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conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is a member of the Masonic order, and affiliated with St. Patrick's Lodge No. 4, F. and A. M., of Johnstown, New York. He married, September 28, 1898, Helle Huntley of Amsterdam. 2. Frederick Linus, of further mention. 3. John Davis, born September 16, 1874, died July 3, 1902; was a member of the class of 1896, Union College, and of the Union Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He embraced the profession of law, and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1899.

(IX) Frederick Linus, son of John Michael and Augusta Marian (Tourtellot ) Carroll, was born at Johnstown, New York, October 7, 1869. Prepared at Trinity Military Insti- tute, Tivoli, New York, whence he was grad- uated in 1886; entered Union College, being graduated A.B. in 1890, and in 1893 received the degree of A.M. in course. He prepared for the profession of law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar of the state of New York, September 15, 1892, and subsequently was admitted to practice in the United States district, circuit and supreme courts. He be- gan practice at once, in association with his father at Johnstown, New York, and has since continuously been devoted to the active prac- tice of his profession. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Protestant Epis- copal Church. His college fraternity is Alpha Delta Phi. He is prominently identified with the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, coun- cil, chapter, commandery, the Scottish Rite bodies, and the Mystic Shrine, and being a past master and trustee of St. Patrick's Lodge No. 4, F. and A. M., a past high priest of Johnstown Chapter No. 78, R. A. M., a past thrice illustrious master of Johnstown Coun- cil, No. 72, R. and S. M., and a past grand lodge and grand chapter officer. He married, October 30, 1894, Eleanor Pierson, daughter of Jacob P. and Eleanor Margaret ( Arger- singer ) Miller, of Johnstown. Children : John Miller, born June 12, 1902, and Edward Linus, born December 2, 1906.

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Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 68

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 656

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 656