Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 71

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

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thirty-four years. He married ( second) Ella Fairchild, born August 8, 1831, died Decem- ber 26, 1889. Children of first marriage: 1. De Witt Humphrey, of further mention. 2. John D., born February 28, 1844; enlisted in Eighteenth New York Volunteers, 1861, and served two years; joined the Sixty-first New York Volunteers in 1864, served until end of civil war and was discharged as captain; he located in Buffalo, New York, in 1875, where he first engaged in the hide and leather busi- ness, later in real estate and insurance. He married Bridget Lomassey; children : Ilarry G., Elizabeth L., Margaret N., Nellie, Mary R. and Charles J. 3. Mary, born February 18. 1846; married George Young, October, 1866, and in 1870 moved to Bay City, Michi- gan: children: Frank P., born October 21, 1868, died May 9. 1909; May A., born Febru- ary 15. 1876. 4. Frank W., who in early man- hood located in Summit, Michigan, where he died unmarried. August 25. 1883. aged thirty- four years, two months, four days. Children of second marriage: 5. Nellie, resides in Al- bany, unmarried. 6. Anna, married Charles O. Britton, of Hartford, Connecticut. 7. Car- rie, married Dr. Arthur Van Loon, a promi- nent physician and surgeon of Albany.

(II) De Witt Humphrey, eldest son of John and Ruth A. (Hughes) Phillips, was born in Albany, New York, August 18, 1840, died November 24, 1903. He was educated in the public schools, and began his business ca- reer as a clerk. After several years spent in various clerical positions, about 1869 he formed a partnership with Chester F. Bouton, and as Bouton & Phillips established and con- ducted a wholesale flour and feed business at No. 317 Broadway. The firm was a successful one for years, but later met with reverses. It dissolved and Mr. Phillips for the re- mainder of his days successfully engaged in the real estate business in Albany. He was a Republican in politics, a man of high moral sentiment, and very devoted to his family. He married, in Albany, Rachel Crounse, born in Guilderland Centre. Albany county, New York, April 17, 1843, died in Albany, Decem- ber 23, 1895. Her parents removed to Al- bany when she was a small child, and she was educated in the city schools and the Albany Female Academy. She was a devoted mem- ber of the First Congregational Church of Albany, and a useful worker in the church. She was a daughter of Conrad A. and Maria ( Mesick) Crounse, and a granddaughter of Abraham Crounse, who was born in the town of Guilderland, May 28. 1796, a descendant of Frederick Crounse, born in Germany, 1716, of Polish ancestry, came to America in 1740, and

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settled among the early pioneers of the town of Guilderland. His farm was about two miles from the present village of Altamont. Albany county. New York ( see Crounse gene- alogy). Abraham Crounse, a son of Con- radt Crounse, born March 23, 1775, and Mar- garet (Livingston ) Crounse, born November 8. 1775. was a successful farmer and owned a fine property in Guilderland, Albany county, New York, in the Indian Ladder region of the Helderberg mountains. He died at the age of eighty-nine years, having been a life-long member of the Lutheran church. He married Magdalene Shaver, whose death preceded his own about one year at the age of eighty- eight. They had a family of five sons, includ- ing Conrad A., who was born on the Guilder- land homestead, December 7, 1818. He re- moved to Albany a few years after his mar- riage in Guilderland to Maria Mesick, of the same town. In Albany he engaged in busi- ness as a retail clothing merchant. continuing until within five years of his death, when he retired and made his home in Altamont, where he died February 1, 1902. His wife. born January 3. 1826, died in Albany, March 3. 1881. He was a Republican, a consistent member of the First Congregational Church of Albany, and greatly esteemed for his upright, manly character. Their only child, Rachel, married De Witt Humphrey Phillips, and had children : 1. Schuyler Crounse, of further men- tion. 2. Blanche, born March 25. 1870, died November 27. 1871.

(III) Schuyler Crounse, son of De Witt Humphrey and Rachel (Crounse ) Phillips, was born in Albany. New York, August 29. 1868. He was educated in the common and high schools of the city, supplemented by a course in the Albany Business College. His early business life was spent in clerical posi- tions in the city. In 1888 he accepted a posi- tion in the office of the Brandow Printing Company of Albany, and later became mana- ger of the commercial department, remaining with the company for a period of eighteen years. December 1. 1906, he was appointed by the Hon. Otto Kelsey. Superintendent of Insurance of the state of New York. as head of the printing and purchasing division of that department. which important position he most capably fills. He is a most careful and efficient official. Ile is a trustee, treasurer, and active worker of the First Congregational Church of Albany, a Republican in politics, and a member of Masters Lodge, No. 5. Free and Accepted Masons. He married, in Al- bany, June 22, 1892, Katharine I. Remington, born in Glens Falls, New York, February 9, 1867, daughter of William Remington, lum-

berman and prominent business man of Glens. Falls and Albany, born in Vermont, May 19, 1820, died in Glens Falls, New York. Novem- ber 17, 1892. He married Charlotte T. Wicks, born January 22. 1835. died July 6, 1872. He was of the English Remington family, noted inventors and gun manufactur- ers. Katharine I. ( Remington) Phillips was educated at the Albany Female Academy, and is an active worker in the women's clubs and guilds of the city. She is a member with her husband of the First Congregational Church and interested in church and benevolent work. Child : Blanche Crounse Phillips, born August 26, 1903.

WARREN The emigrant ancestor of the Warrens, of Troy, New York, was Richard Waring. who ar- rived in Boston on the ship "Endeavor." ac- companied by his young son, Richard, in 1664, and shortly afterwards settled on Long Is- land. He spelled his name Waring, and as such was one of the original proprietors of Brookhaven, Long Island, in 1665. The name Warren and Waring are both used by the de- scendants of the Warrens in this country, al- though it is distinctly proven that in England they are two separate families, their ancient armorial bearings being totally different, which is conclusive.

The first Warren who came from Norman- dy to England was William de Warrene, who was a near relative of the Conqueror, and who married the king's daughter Gundredd. The name "Warrenne" came from Varenne, a district in Normandy, not far from Dieppe. in which the family had a property and a castle called "Bellencombre" (the fair mound ). part of which was standing in 1832. He was Will- iam of Varenne, or Warrene. There were eight Earls of Warren and Surrey. The great cradle of the Warrens was in Cheshire, al- though from that they migrated to different parts of England.

The pedigree of Richard Warren, the emi- grant. taken from the Herald's Visitations of Devonshire and from parish registers, viz. : Richard Waring, Emigrant, was the son of Christopher Warren, a clergyman, vicar of llsington, Devon., and died there October, 1626. He married June 15, 1613. Alice, daughter of Thomas Webb, of Sydenham. Devon., and had issue. He was the son of William Warren, married Anne, daughter of Thomas Mable, of Calstock, in Cornwall. He was the son of Christopher, who was a church warden in that parish in 1543-4, and son of John Warren, of Headborough, parish of Ashburton, Devon., and so runs back in a

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direct line to William de Warrene, first Earl of Warrene and Surry, etc., who married Gundredd, daughter of William the Con- queror.

Richard Waring, the emigrant, owned large tracts of land on Long Island. In a deed still extant, he conveyed to his son Edmund two pieces of land in Huntington, containing the proviso that he should never sell them with- out first offering his brothers an opportunity to purchase.

(H) Edmund, youngest son of Richard Waring ( Warren) was born at Brookhaven, or Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1673, died August 5, 1749. He removed from Hunting- ton, Long Island, to Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1703, and owned a large tract of land on Roton Hill and Five Mile River. He built a pier in the harbor of Norwalk, which leads to the inference that he was engaged in mer- cantile pursuits, probably a lumber merchant, as he made large purchases of timber land. At his death at the age of seventy-six, he was survived by his entire family, wife, eight sons and "four loving daughters," to whom he be- queathed a considerable landed estate. He married, October 6, 1698, Elizabeth Bouton, born 1679, daughter of Jean (John) Bouton, a Huguenot, born in France, 1615, came to America 1635, died at Norwalk, Connecticut, 1704. John Bouton married, January 1, 1673 (third wife), Mary Stevenson, who bore him four children, Elizabeth being the third, and tenth child of her father. The name Bouton has had various spellings, namely : Boughton, Bowten. Bowtin, Boutin. Edmund and Eliza- beth ( Bouton) Warren had twelve children, all but the youngest born in Oyster Bay, Long Island; Edmund, born September 16, 1700; Isaac, June 13, 1702; John. December 21, 1704: Solomon, April 24. 1707 ; Mary. Decem- ber 22, 1708; Nathan, February 6, 1711 ; Ja- cob, January 15, 1713: Michael, July 16, 1715. married Elizabeth Scofield; Eliakim, of fur- ther mention : Elizabeth, March 8, 1720: Abi- gail, April 19, 1723; Hannah, born in Nor- walk, Connecticut, September 7, 1725. The ancient tombstones of Edmund and his wife were found at Norfalk, Connecticut, in 1862.

(Il]) Eliakim, son of Edmund and Eliza- beth ( Bouton) Warren, was born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, July 8, 1717, died at Nor- walk, Connecticut, August 5, 1779. He was probably associated with his father and broth- ers in business, but the records do not give any information as to his occupation or busi- ness. He married, December 7, 1738, Ann, daughter of John Reed (2) of Norwalk, and great-granddaughter of John Reed (1), an officer in the army of Cromwell. John Reed

(I) died in New England at the advanced age of ninety-eight. Children, born in Nor- walk, Connecticut : Zaccheus, October 19, 1741 ; Jesse, June 14, 1744; Eliakim, of fur- ther mention. At a meeting of the Associa- tion of the Western churches ( Congrega- tional ) of Fairfield county convened at Mid- dlesex, June 6, 1744, Edmund and Eliakim Warren were the chosen Middlesex delegates, and their wives were at that time added to the church by letters of recommendation. A Nor- walk cousin, Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and great-grandson of Edmund (1), was a personal friend of Major-General Joseph Warren, and showed with pride the General's sword, left in his keeping, calling the Revolu- tionary hero his "cousin." This Joseph (2) was in 1798 the owner of the Norwalk and New York packet line, which comprised two sloops-"Griffin" and "Republican."

(IV) Eliakim (2), son of Eliakim (1) and Ann (Reed) Warren, was born February 9, 1747, died September 4, 1824. It is with Eliakim (2) that the Troy history of the fam- ily begins. Eliakim married his neighbor, Phebe Bouton, daughter of Esaias Bouton, January 17, 1771. Before his marriage he had belonged to the Congregational church, but his wife, Phebe Bouton, was an ardent Epis- copalian and persuaded him to join that church. In 1787 he was elected vestryman of Saint Paul's Church, Norwalk, and there is extant the record of an auction of pews where he and others tossed pennies for seats. Elia- kim had three sons-Esaias, Nathan and Stephen. On the advice of Esaias they de- cided to remove to Troy, a thriving village at the head of navigation on the Hudson river. The Warren family sailed out of Norwalk harbor in May, 1798, and made the entire trip to Troy by water. They had just had a sail- ing vessel built for them at Rowayton, a sloo named "The Three Brothers." It was fifty feet kcel, twenty feet beam, and sixteen feet hold, and rated sixty-four tons. In 1796 Esaias, the eldest son, had purchased a lot on East River street, between First and Albany streets. Trov, and there erected a two-story wooden building for a dwelling and store. Eliakim and Esaias, with the second son, Na- than, engaged in merchandising under the firm name of Esaias Warren & Company. In 1799 the firm removed their business to the west side of River street (now No. 217), and began a retail and wholesale business in dry goods, groceries and hardware. A feature of their business was the purchase and shipping of wheat and country produce. They safely invested their profits in real estate. After three years residence in Troy, April 6, 1801,

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Eliakim sold out the old Norwalk property and employed the proceeds in his sons' inter- ests. Esaias being the eldest and now twenty- seven years of age, took the lead in all mat- ters, and their early prosperity was largely due to his enterprise and sagacity. Troy at this period contained three hundred houses and one thousand eight hundred and two inhabi- tants. In due time Eliakim Warren retired from the firm and his place was taken by his third son, Stephen. Eliakim Warren was a devout Christian and believed that a share of his fortune should be devoted to the service of God. This was one of his articles of faith and he so taught his sons. In Troy he found no Episcopal church. For two years, how- ever, Sunday services had been held accord- ing to the Book of Common Prayer. Phil- ander Chase, a young graduate of Dartmouth College (later Bishop of Ohio) had been sent up regularly from Albany by Dr. Ellison, the rector of Saint Peter's parish and an English- man, to minister unto the little band of Epis- copalians. But Phebe Warren was a noble woman, and owing to her initiative and per- severing effort Saint Paul's Church was built in 1804 on the northwest corner of Third and . Congress streets, and according to her darl- ing wish was modeled exactly after Saint Paul's Church at Norwalk. Trinity Church, New York City, contributed two thousand dollars to its erection. Rev. David Butler, of Reading, Connecticut, was chosen rector by the vestry, and in his letter of acceptance he said: "I shall endeavor to make myself ready to remove with my family whenever it may be convenient for Mr. Warren to come down in his vessel." Dr. Butler in his youth had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was a man of learning and ability, and sat as deputy from the diocese of New York state in the General Convention of 1820 and in several succeeding conventions. He was a man of commanding presence and aristocratic manner, and wore until the close of his life the small clothes, buckled shoes and long- skirted coat of the carlier period. He served his people faithfully for thirty years. One part of Saint Paul's Church was quaintly de- nominated "Norwalk," as there sat the War- rens, Boutons, Kelloggs, Crafts, and Cannons. The Warren family Prayer Book was on the altar. At the first recorded administration of the Holy Communion, three lay members par- took thereof, Eliakim and Phebe Warren and Lemuel Hawley. In 1813 the number of regular communicants had increased to cigh- ty-four, and in 1824 a new and larger church (the present Saint Paul's) was erected on the northeast corner of Third and State streets. 1

Mr. Warren was one of the first two elected wardens (senior), Jeremiah Pierce being the junior warden, and he continued to hold this office until his death. In 1815 his wife, Phebe (Bouton) Warren, formed in the parish a Saturday sewing class for poor girls, which she conducted until her death in 1835. It was then carried on by her daughter-in-law, Mary, wife of Nathan Warren. From this sewing class grew the later "Church of the Holy Cross."

Mr. Warren lived a life of great usefulness and was universally loved and respected. He never had a lawsuit, and avoided religious controversy. When the British attack was made on Norwalk during the Revolution he joined with his townsmen in the defence of their homes and beat the British off, not, how- ever, until nearly all the dwellings. were burned. A tablet erected by the vestry in Saint Paul's Church is inscribed, "In memory of Eliakim Warren, senior warden of this church from its organization in 1804 until his death. To his zeal and munificence the con- gregation, under God, is indebted for its ori- gin and prosperity. He died September 4, 1824, aged seventy-seven years." The vestry also erected a tablet inscribed. "In memory of Phebe Warren, relict of Eliakim. She died January 17, 1835, aged eighty years. A moth- er in Israel. She supported and conducted a sewing class for the children of the poor." Eliakim married, January 17, 1771, Phebe Bouton, born March 5, 1754, died January 17, 1835, daughter of Esaias and Phebe ( Bixby) Bouton. of Norwalk. Children : Esaias, of whom further ; Hannah, born July 19, 1773, died January, ,1775; Hannah, born August 30, 1775, died June, 1776; Nathan, of whom fur- ther : Stephen, of whom further.

(V) Esaias, eldest son. of Eliakim (2) and Phebe (Bouton) Warren, was born in Nor- walk, Connecticut, October 16, 1771, died in Troy, New York, April 19, 1829. Prior to attaining his twentieth year he was sent out as supercargo of a vessel of his father's, and made several trips to the West Indies and up the Hudson to Albany and Troy. It was thus he was first made aware of the advantages Troy offered to men of enterprise and capi- tal. On his return he persuaded his father and brothers to remove to Troy, where within a short period of time the entire family was established, and this city is still, over a cen- tury later, the family seat. After the with- drawal of their father from the firm of Esaias Warren & Company, aforementioned, the brothers continued in business until March 5, 1822, when A. J. Rousseau was admitted. On March 1, 1827, the firm was dissolved, the

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Warrens retiring, and Rousseau, Richards & Company succeeding. The Warrens were successful business men. Esaias Warren was president of the Troy Bank from 1811 to 1829; mayor of Troy from 1820 to 1828; trus- tee of the village, 1814 to 1816, and senior warden of Saint Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, succeeding his father, who died in 1824, and continued until his death. After the great fire of 1820 lie was active in relief measures for the impoverished people. In his civic official positions he was conservative and honorable, conducting the business of the public with the same care and good judgment that characterized his private business affairs. Politically the family was and had been Fed- eralists, having no preference for public of- fice. As written at the time of his death, Esaias Warren was "an unostentatious and ex- emplary citizen, a vigilant and faithful chief magistrate of the city, and was distinguished for persevering industry in whatever he un- dertook." Esaias Warren married, January 16, 1796, Lydia Scofield, born in Norwalk, Connecticut, April 4, 1772, daughter of Ger- shom and Lydia (Bell) Scofield, the former named born in Norwalk, Connecticut, No- vember 2. 1750. an officer in the Revolution- ary war. Children ; George Bouton, of whom further : Eliza Ann, born March 22, 1801. married. 1827, John Paine: Phebe, born Sep- tember 6, 1804, married April 17, 1849, Ben- jamin Ogle Tayloe, of Washington; D. C .; Lydia, born December 27, 1808, married, 1833, Alfred Brooks, of Medford, Massachu- setts, died 1836; William Henry, born July 29. 1814, died April 6, 1815.

(VI) George Bouton, eldest son of Esaias and Lydia (Scofield) Warren, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. September 25, 1797, died in Troy, New York, May 8, 1879. He was but an infant when the Warrens removed from Norwalk to Troy. While yet a young man he became a partner in the dry goods firm of Southwick, Cannon & Warren. He acquired large property interests in Troy and was prominently connected with many leading enterprises of that city. When the Troy City Bank was incorporated in 1833 he was chosen director, and on retiring from mercantile life became president, serving from 1844 to 1857. He was a director in the Troy Insurance Com- pany, the Troy Gaslight Company, and presi- dent of the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad Company until his death. He manifested more than usual interest in political affairs, He served as alderman from the third ward. 1835 to 1842, and in 1844 was elected to the state legislature. In 1846 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Whig party for congress. He

was a great lover of nature, an enthusiastic ornithologist, possessing a rare and valuable collection. He was a member of the Episcopal church and an exemplary Christian. His standing among the early business men of Troy was of the highest. Ile married ( first ) Mary Myer Bowers. December 15, 1823, born in Cooperstown, New York, February 7. 1804. died in Troy, August 25, 1851, daughter of John M. Bowers, born September 25. 1772, died February 27. 1846, a resident and large land owner of Cooperstown. John M. Bow- ers married Margaretha Martha Stewart Wil- son, born in Landsdowne, New Jersey, April 15. 1778, daughter of Robert Wilson, an of- ficer who served in the siege of Boston, 1775, and granddaughter of Colonel Charles Stew- art, commissary general of issues and on the staff of General Washington during the Revo- lution. She died in Cooperstown. February 6, 1872, aged ninety-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Bowers were the parents of nine chil- dren, of whom Mary Myer ( Bowers) Warren was the eldest. Mr. Warren married ( sec- ond) Emily ( Bowers) Collins, of Coopers- town. Children of the first marriage : I. John Esaias, born January 18. 1827 : married, 1852, Charlotte Crain (born July 4, 1836, died April II, 1903), died in Brussels, July 6, 1896. As a young man he was attached to the American Legation in Spain, and later to the United States Legation in Brazil. He pub- lished two books, "The Attaché in Spain" and "Para." He was mayor of St. Paul, Minne- sota, 1860, and afterward resided for many years with his family in Chicago, Illinois. Children : Mary Narina, born April 4. 1855. married Georges Moreau, died in Paris, No- vember 14. 1895: Paul Warren, born August 16, 1859, married March 26, 1891, Hedwig Von Behr. 2. George Bowers, of further mention. 3. Charles Stewart, born 1830, died 1833. 4. Charles Stewart, born 1834. 5. Mary Bowers, born February 27, 1836, mar- ried October, 1860, John A. Manning ; chil- dren : Jane Brinsmade: George Warren, de- ceased, married Julia Southgate: William Henry, married Frances Morton : John A., married Edith Baker: Mary Emily: Charles Stewart. deceased.

(VII) George Bowers, son of George Bouton and Mary Myer ( Bowers) Warren, was born in Troy, New York, June 9. 1828, died in that city October 8. 1905. He was edu- cated in private schools, and for a time attend- ed Union College, but was compelled to re- linquish a college education on acount of ill health. He was never actively engaged in business beyond caring for his private prop- erty interests, although he was for some years

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extensively engaged in the wool business. He served the city in various capacities, and was interested in many of the leading institutions of Troy. In 1853 he was president of the Young Men's Association. In 1861-62 he was mayor of Troy, and successfully met the try- ing conditions of that troublesome period. He was secretary of the Troy & Albia Horse Railway Company, organized January 21, 1866. He was a director of the United Na- tional Bank for many years and later was chosen president, holding that office until the time of his death, and also was president of the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad Com- pany. He was active in the Young Men's Association and Lecture Lyceum, and a mem- ber of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church. In politics he was a Democrat.

He married, April 29, 1856, at Washing- ton, D. C., Eugenia Phebe Warren Tayloe, daughter of Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, of Wash- ington. D. C., and Virginia, where he had large estates. Mr. Tayloe was born in An- napolis, Maryland, May 21, 1796, in the home of his maternal grandfather, Governor Benja- min Ogle, of Maryland. His father, Colonel John Taylor, owned an estate of four thou- sand acres, Mt. Airy, of Richmond county, Virginia, and in 1801 built for himself a win- ter residence, the "Octagon House," on New York Avenue, in Washington, D. C. Here, after the burning of the White House by the British in 1814, President and Mrs. Madison took up their residence and remained over a year. The Treaty of Ghent, 1815, was signed in this house. Mr. Tayloe died in Rome, Italy, February 25, 1868, where he was trav- eling for his health. He was not engaged in any business save that connected with his landed interests in Washington, D. C., and his cotton plantations in Virginia and Alabama. He was an old-fashioned Whig in politics, and an Episcopalian in religious faith. He married Julia Maria Dickinson, born in Troy, November 19, 1799, daughter of John D. Dickinson. They had six children, of whom Eugenia Phebe was the fifth.

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Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 71

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