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In 1895, though not an active candidate un- til the day of the county convention, and then not upon his own initiative, he was nominated for surrogate of Washington county by the Republican convention. One of the most ex- citing campaigns ever known in the county followed, resulting in his election by a ma- jority of over sixteen hundred. Of his record as surrogate there was no dissent. A news- paper bitterly hostile, politically, said, "Politi- cal friend and foe alike concede that Mr. Ingalsbe has made a model official." Upon as- suming office he instituted six entirely new series of record books, revolutionized a sev- enth, adopted improved methods for the filing of papers, introduced the card index system, prepared and issued about one hundred dif- ferent blank forms for use in surrogate's court, systematized the work of the office, in-
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creased its efficiency and greatly elevated the standard of the court. Personally, his incum- bency of the office involved so great a sacri- fice that a year before the expiration of his term, though deeply appreciative of the favor with which his conduct of the office had been received, alike by the bar and the people, he declined to be a candidate for re-election.
Upon his admission to the bar, Mr. Ingals- be engaged in the general practice of the law. In 1885 his practice had become so large that he began limiting his efforts to the more con- genial lines of legal work, and this led im- mediately to the establishment of an extended and lucrative practice in corporation, probate, administration, real property, commercial and banking law. From that time forward he has had charge of the legal work of a great number of the most important private and cor- porate interests in his vicinity. He has been prominent as counsel or stockholder or both in the organization of nearly every one of the business corporations at Sandy Hill. He is widely known as a skilled draftsman of wills, and of intricate legal papers. His prac- tice in surrogate's court, except during the years of his incumbency of the office of sur- rogate, has been large and constantly in- creasing.
Mr. Ingalsbe has been active in business af- fairs since his election as a director and coun- sel of The Sandy Hill National Bank in 1884. He has held these positions continuously since that time. In 1899 he was elected vice-presi- dent of the bank, and in 1905 its president. During all these years this institution has been the largest bank of deposit in Washing- ton county. For many years he was a direc- tor and the secretary of the Sandy Hill Elec- tric Light and Power Company, of the Spring Brook Water Company, and a director and the counsel of the Glens Falls, Sandy Hill & Fort Edward Street Railroad Company. He is now a director and counsel, and the secre- tary of the Imperial Wall Paper Company, a director and vice-president of the Progressive Pulp and Paper Company, and of the Lake Champlain Pulp and Paper Company, a direc- tor and the president of the Adirondack Mo- tor Car Company, and is beside a director in various other corporations, and interested as a partner in several lines of business, in the management of all of which he takes an ac- tive interest.
Mr. Ingalsbe's identification with learned and purposeful societies has been extended. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Bimetallist Association, the American Anti- Imperialist League, the Harvard Law School
Association, the Union College Alumni As- sociation for Northeastern New York, the American Historical Association, the Ameri- can Bar Association, the American Political Science Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and several other like associations. For several years he was a member of the Local Council for New York State of the American Bar Association. He has been a member of the executive committee of the New York State Bar Association con- tinuously since 1893. Since its organization in 1899 he has been a trustee and vice-presi- dent of the New York State Historical As- sociation, and for several years he has been the chairman of several of its most important committees, including the committee on pro- gram.
Loving his profession and giving it no stint- ed allegiance, irresistibly attracted by the keen rivalries of business and giving them prodigally of his strength, Mr. Ingalsbe has enjoyed most of all, his garden and his books. His private library is one of the largest in Northern New York, and amid the duties of an exacting profession and the activities of business, he has still found time for extensive reading, painstaking study and the prepara- tion of many papers and monographs along attractive lines, and thus has preserved the mental poise of the student and many of the habits of the scholastic recluse.
Mr. Ingalsbe married, September 20, 1876, Franc E. Groesbeck, of Sandy Hill, New York, born October 19, 1854, a daughter of Nath- aniel Barnet, and Lydia A. (Kingsley) Groes- beck. She was of the fourth generation from Nathaniel Barnet, and from Jonathan Kings- ley, both soldiers of the revolution, and also of the fourth generation through her Grand- mother Kingsley from Maurice Wells, a Quaker from the Providence plantations. The Groesbecks were early Dutch settlers in Schaghticoke, with revolutionary records. The Barnets came to New York from Rhode Isl- and, and Jonathan Kingsley from Swansea, Massachusetts. He was a representative of the celebrated English family of that name, of which Canon Charles Kingsley was a inember. Mrs. Ingalsbe graduated at Temple Grove Seminary in 1874, afterward teaching for two years in the Sandy Hill Union School. They had one child.
(VI) Grenville Howland, only child of Grenville Mellen and Franc E. (Groesbeck) Ingalsbe, was born in Sandy Hill, November 8, 1878, and died in that place, February 26, 1910.
His early and preparatory education was ac-
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quired at the Glens Falls and Phillips Exe- ter academies. He entered Harvard College in the class of 1902. At this time his phys- ical condition was ideal, but serious illnesses culminated in an almost complete breakdown during his senior year, though he graduated with his class. He chose law as his life work, and immediately upon graduation he com- menced its study in his father's office, with little expectation, however, on the part of his friends that he could pursue it. The greater part of the next two years he spent at Sara- nac. Residing with his parents in Sandy Hill he then assumed charge of the paternal home- stead in South Hartford, carrying it on for five years with great success. He made a thorough study of farming ; became a breeder of high grade Jersey cattle and Berkshire swine ; introduced new methods of tillage hus- bandry and a systematized rotation of crops. During the same time he engaged in the lum- ber business as a member of the firm of Nich- ols & Ingalsbe, with headquarters at Wells, Vermont, and acquired a half interest in the Empire Coal Company at Sandy Hill. His other business enterprises were the Adiron- dack Motor Car Company, of which he was the vice-president, and the Progressive Pulp and Paper Company of Plattsburg, which he served as secretary. He was a member of the Kingsbury Club, the Alumni Associations of Phillips Exeter Academy and of Harvard College and the New York State Historical Association.
In politics he was a Republican, though never a strong partisan. He was widely read, and though a successful farmer and man of business, his tastes were ever those of the scholar. He was a man of culture, a lover of good literature, and a close student of world politics. He was unostentatious and retiring, but all who knew him liked him, and marvelled at his wealth of information. I11 health alone, apparently, prevented him from attaining high and worthy distinction among the world's workers, in whose ranks he longed for placc.
Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, All pledged in coming days to forge Weapons to guard the State.
"Mr. John Rogers, minister of ROGERS the Gospel, was the first mar- tyr in Queen Mary's reign, and was burned in Smithfield, February 4, 1555. His wife with nine small children and one at the breast followed him to the stake; with which sorrowful sight he was not in the least daunted, but with wonderful patience died
courageously for the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
The maternal ancestry of Mr. John Rogers, the martyr, has been traced from English records from Charlemagne down through William the Conqueror, Henry I, Henry II, King John, Henry III, and Edward I. John Rogers was born in Deritend, England, in the parish of Aston. near Birmingham, about 1500, burned at Smithfield, England, February 4, 1555; married Adriana de Weyden, from Antwerp. They were the parents of nine chil- dren.
Rev. William Witherell of Maidstone, Eng- land, schoolmaster, Mary, his wife, three chil- dren and one servant, came into America in the "Hercules". The certificate is dated March 14, 1634-35. The mother of Rev. Wil- liam Witherell was a daughter of John Rog- ers, the martyr .* John Rogers, father of John Rogers, of Marshfield, Massachusetts (with whom the American history begins) was a brother of Rev. William Witherell's mother. It has been said that he with his wife and child came to this country with them, in the "Hercules."
The Rogers family of England bore arms : Argent, a chevron, gules, between three roe bucks, passant, sable, attired, and gorged witlı ducal coronets, or. Crest : On a mount, vert, a roebuck, passant ; proper, attired and gorged with a ducal coronet, or, between two branch- es of laurels, vert. Motto: "Nos nostraque Deo." (Us and ours to God).
(I) John Rogers was born in England, and came in the "Hercules" with his father and mother. He died in Marshfield, Massachu- setts, May, 1661. He was made a freeman of Marshfield, and lived in that town several years. He married Frances Watson, died 1687, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Wat- son. Children, named in the order given in his will. dated February 1, 1660: John, Jr., of whom further; Joseph; Timothy; Ann Hudson; Mary, and Abigail.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) and Fran- ces (Watson) Rogers, was born in England, about 1632, died May 7, 1717. Hc requested membership with "the Religious Society of Friends, or the People called Quakers," in 1660: he took the oath of freeman in 1657, and is often mentioned in the public records for nearly sixty years after that date. In 16x2 he was selectman of Marshfield. In common with other of his peculiar faith he
*Jaffes Rogers, a great-grandson of the mar- tyr, brought his Bible to this country when he came in 1635, aged twenty years, in the ship "In- crease." This relic has been fully established by its historical connection with every family through which it has passed. It is in the Alfred University of New York State.
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suffered persecutions because of his religious views. He married (first), October 8, . 1656, Rhoda, daughter of Elder Thomas King, of Scituate, born October II, 1639, died about 1662. He married (second) about 1663,
Elizabeth , died September 13, 1692. He married (third) Elizabeth
died May 9, 1705. Children, born in Marsh- field, by first wife: 1. John, baptized August 23, 1657. 2. Thomas, of whom further. 3. Rhoda, baptized August 3, 1662, died young. Children by second wife: 4. Abigail, born November 3. 1663. 5. Mary, March 10, 1665, baptized April, 1665. 6. Johanna, born Octo- ber 7, 1667. 7. Elizabeth, May 19, 1669.
(III) Thomas, son of John (2) and his first wife, Rhoda (King) Rogers, was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, December 25, 1659; married, June 6, 1712, Bethiah Ewell, born March 3, 1682-83, died January 23, 1756, daughter of Gershom Ewell, of Scituate, and his wife Mary. They were married in a pub- lic Friends' meeting, according to the good order maintained amongst Friends. Thomas died March 6, 1745-46, leaving children, all born in Marshfield: Rhoda, May 28, 1713; John, of whom further ; Thomas, October 28, 1716: Bethiah, September 29, 1718.
(IV) John (3), son of Thomas and Bethiah (Ewell) Rogers, was born in Marsh- field, December 19, 1714; married, December 29, 1737, Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Backus) Wing. She was born March 7, 1709-10, died February 16, 1790, a descendant of Rev. Stephen Batchilor, whose daughter Deborah married Rev. John Wing, and is mother of the "Wing family of America Incorporated." The old homes of her three sons John, Daniel and Stephen Wing are situated in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. John Rogers died September 5, 1791, leaving children, all born in Marsh- field: John, December 21, 1738; Wing, June 14, 1740, of whom further; Joseph, January 26, 1742-43; Elizabeth, August 11, 1746; Ste- phen, February 7, 1748-49.
(V) Wing, son of John (3) Rogers and Sarah (Wing) Rogers, was born June 14, 1740. He became one of the pioneer settlers of the town of Danby, Vermont, settling there in 1770. His early home there was a log cabin standing in the midst of a small clearing, surrounded by dense forests that were filled with wild creatures ever ready to do them harm. He encountered all the difficulties and endured all the privations of a pioneer set- tler, being a resolute, fearless man, of a robust constitution that was equal to any task. He was somewhat eccentric, but of strong char- acter and great industry, becoming one of
the most wealthy men of his town. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and was one of the founders of the Danby meeting. He was a member of the proprie- tors' meeting in 1776, and one of the commit- tee to lay out land in the fourth division. With his strong mental powers, united with a readiness of performance and a familiar knowledge of his duty, he was often called upon to fill some office of the town. He was prominently identified with the measures taken by the inhabitants for the general safety of the town during the revolutionary war. He was selectman four years from 1776, and a grand juror in 1786. In 1790 he was elected a member of the Vermont legislature, then holding its session at Castleton, Vermont, and was reelected for the years 1791-2-3. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Nathan Smith, who inherited from his father, Caleb Smith, a farm of two hundred forty acres with a log house. The young couple planned to build a one-story frame dwelling, Wing Rogers hearing of this, invited his daughter to make him a visit. He brought out of a closet two large wooden bowls filled with tar- nished silver dollars and asked her to help him polish them. When the task was fin- ished he handed Elizabeth seven hundred shin- ing coins, saying, "Now build the house two stories." The house was built two stories in 1779, according to date engraved on the thumb-piece of the door-latch. He married (first) April 4. 1764, Deliverance, daughter of John and Sarah (Booth) Chapman. He married (second) Mercy Hatch ; (third) Re- becca Sherman; (fourth) Hannah Titus. Children: 1. Deliverance, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth, died 1817, aged fifty years ; married Nathan Smith, died 1824, aged sev- enty-one years. 3. Augustus, died January 14, 1836, aged thirty-six years ; married Anna Bartlett. 4. Asa, married Mary Rogers ; set- tled in upper Canada. 5. Rufus, settled in upper Canada; married Lydia Rogers. 6. Lydia. 7. Wing. 8. Mary. 9. Lester. 10. John. 11. Stephen. 12. Ruth. John, Ste- phen and Ruth died without marriage : their estates were settled by Moses Rogers, of Lynn, Massachusetts, who inherited their property.
(VI) Deliverance, only child of Wing and Deliverance (Chapman) Rogers, was born January 15, 1766, and was six months old when his mother died. When he was four years old his father removed to Danby, Ver- mont, where he was educated and grew to manhood. He later settled in Washington county, New York, where he became a very large land owner and prosperous farmer. He
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was the first manufacturer of cheese in Wash- ington county, and made the first shipments to the city markets. On his two thousand acres of land he maintained herds of cattle numbering many hundreds. After the war of 1812 he purchased many farms with their cattle and all improvements, selling them when warranted by their increased valuation. In 1818 he bought the "Hall Farm" from Dr. Hall, who purchased it from Benajah Hill, who built upon it a colonial mansion in 1805. He bequeathed the "Hall Farm" to his grand- son, Deliverance Rogers (2), to perpetuate his name. He was an able, active, intellectual man, handsome in form and feature, with beautiful white hair curling down over his shoulders. Both he and his wife were birth- right members of the Society of Friends; she was a dignified, intellectual woman, and served as clerk of the Danby monthly meeting of women Friends for twenty years. Deliv- erance Rogers died at the "Hall Farm," May 1, 1849. In his will he left one thousand dol- lars to be held in trust for the public schools, to be divided between three school districts, Granville, Middle Granville, and North Bend ; this is known as "the Rogers Fund." He set- tled each of his daughters upon farms valued at ten thousand dollars each, excepting Cyn- thia, who preferred cash and settled in Mun- son. Ohio. The remainder of his property he willed to his son David, whom he had pre- viously settled upon the "Hall Farm," and who with his wife Hannah cared for his father and mother until their death. He mar- ried, December, 1788, Judith Folger, born November 26, 1768, died December 15, 1854, daughter of Daniel Folger, a sea captain of Nantucket, and his wife, Judith Worth. Chil- dren: 1. Rispah, born March 10, 1790, died September 9, 1792. 2. Cynthia, born May 24, 1792; married Jacob Bartlett, died July, 1871. 3. Sarah, born April 3, 1794, died July 13, 1796. 4. Daniel Folger, born March 16, 1796, died February 19, 1826; married Lydia Hemaway, April 16, 1817. 5. Ruth, born January 19, 1799; married Daniel Bartlett, died November 15, 1841. 6. Dinah, born No- vember 13, 1801 ; married David Allen, died February 9, 1860. 7. David, of whom further. 8. Wing, born July 20, 1806, died October 15, 1823. 9. Eliza, born September 9, 1809; married Stephen Dillingham, died October 19, 1883. 10. Mary Folger, born May 6, 1813; married Richard Barker, died May 30, 1834.
(VII) David, seventh child of Deliverance and Judith (Folger) Rogers, was born in Danby, Vermont, June 28, 1804. He removed with his parents to the "Hall Farm" in the town of Granville, Washington county, New
York, when he was about fourteen years of age. He became a large land owner and suc- cessful farmer and a well-known breeder of fine horses. On his farm of twelve hundred and fifty acres he maintained a herd of one hundred cows of the best dairy breed and' eight hundred merino sheep. He was a large manufacturer of cheese, and during harvest season employed a large force of men, there being no farm machinery in that day to lighten and simplify the labor of the harvest field. He refused to hold any public office other than that of pathmaster, which he held for many years. He was diligent, upright and gener- ous, and at "Hall Farm" extended a pleasant and abundant hospitality. He died there Sep- tember 8, 1861, and is buried in the Friends' burying ground in Granville. He married, in Granville, New York, in Friends' meeting, September 13, 1826, Hannah, daughter of Stephen and Amy (Tucker) Dillingham. She died in Granville, April 5, 1885. Amy (Tuck- er) Dillingham was a greatly beloved minister of the Society of Friends, and there is a me- morial to her in a book entitled "Memorials Concerning Deceased Friends," published by direction of the yearly meeting of the Friends of New York, 1859. Hannah (Dillingham) Rogers was one of the noted, noble women of Washington county, where her life of eighty- one years and five months was passed. She was a recommended and greatly beloved min- ister of the Society of Friends, and lived a consistent Christian life, filled with deeds of philanthropy and benevolence that endeared hier to all. She built and presented to the Granville Monthly Meeting of Friends a school house in which the youth of the meet- ing would receive a fine English education. She was a delightful entertainer, "and her beautiful countenance was a delight to be- hold." Children, all born in Granville, New York: I. Judith, born June 14, 1827, died February 28, 1830. 2. Wing, born April I, 1829, died February 11, 1830. 3. Ruth, born December 20, 1830 ; married Hon. Ervin Hop- kins, October 4, 1849. They celebrated their golden wedding, October 4, 1899; the souve- nirs were twenty-dollar gold pieces. Ervin Hopkins was son of Ervin and Catherine (Campbell) Hopkins. He was a successful farmer of Granville, a member of the New York state legislature in 1863. He removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he was a member and operated on the Chicago Board of Trade. He died without a will, leaving a large prop- erty. Ruth (Rogers) Hopkins was tall, well- proportioned and of a commanding presence, her head crowned with beautiful white hair. She was a consistent disciple of the faith
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of her childhood, and always acknowledged the obligation of her birth membership of the Society of Friends. They had three children : David Rogers, born August 3, 1850, married Leona C. White; Hannah Louise, born De- cember 10, 1854, married Charles P. Cogge- shall : Ervin, Jr., born February 2, 1859, mar- ried Sibyl Marie Hitt. 4. Amy Dillingham, born September 28, 1832, died March 16, 1836. 5. Stephen Dillingham, born July 10, 1834, died April 7, 1847. 6. An infant, born and died same day. 7. David Wing, born April 27, 1836; he enlisted August 21, 1862, in Company K. 123d Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, for three years or the war. He served with the Army of the Poto- mac, and was in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, was promoted to second lieutenant for gallantry at Chancellorsville. Governor Seymour said of hint: "Mr. Rog- ers must have a lieutenant's commission, for he is one of the best-looking soldiers I have seen in my chambers, and I will have that fighting Quaker commissioned for meritorious service." He was honorably discharged June, 1865. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Texas. He died in San Antonio, November 11, 1902, and was buried with all the honors of war by soldiers under command of General Fred D. Grant. His wife, Cordelia (Sprague) Rogers, was a staff officer of the state department of Texas Wom- en's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic, being department secretary; she was also a national aide at the encampment held in Saratoga Springs, September, 1907. She held high rank in the order of the East- ern Star. She died in Santa Rosa hospital, San Antonio, November 26, 1908; children : David, Edith, Charles, Mabel and Zoe; the two latter dying young. 8. Eliza Rogers, born February 1, 1839, died December 5, 1841. 9. Deliverance, born February 18, 1841; married, August 28. 1862, Antoinette A., daughter of John and Lydia Ann ( Harris) Bishop : child: Flora Rogers, married Par- ker J. Staples. He married (second) August 7. 1877, Carrie, daughter of James E. and Phoebe (Woodard) Pratt: children: Ma- bel, Dorothy and Ruth. 10. Hannah Eliza. of whom further. II. Peter Folger, born April 16, 1846, died June 2, 1846. 12. Ste- phen Otis, born July 20. 1847, died November 9, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York.
(VIII) Hannah Eliza, tenth child of Da- vid and Hannah (Dillingham) Rogers, was born November 23, 1843. She married (first) April 11, 1861, Leonard C. Thorne, son of Samuel C. and Maria (Hoogland) Thorne. He was born December 9, 1833, died in Gran-
ville, New York, March 3, 1878. Children : I. Stephen Rogers, born June 17, 1863, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a charter member of the Gold Mining Exchange ; char- ter member of the Equity Investment Society ; member of Thorne & Company, real estate brokers, and conducted a successful business in San Francisco, California. He was a part- ner of Valentine Hush, the well-known Fruit- vale capitalist, in the brokerage business. He was also a director in the Citizens' Building and Loan Association, serving in that capacity for many years. He was also secretary of the Syndicate Investment Company of San Fran- cisco. He married, in San Francisco, Cali- fornia. December 27, 1887, Mary Agnes Tol- son, daughter of John R. and Ann Eliza Tol- son, died in Oakland, August 28, 1908. 2. Leonard C., born November 27, 1872, in Granville, New York; admitted to the bar of New York state July 6, 1899, also admitted to practice in the United States district and' circuit courts : is a member of the New York State Bar Association. 3. Bertha Ginevra. born August 21, 1877, in Granville ; married, February 8, 1899, Fred Charles, son of Charles Albert and Eliza Melissa (Dunham) Sheldon. He was born June 27, 1872, in North Adams, Massachusetts, and is a manu- facturer and dealer in roofing slate. Bertha Ginevra Sheldon is a communicant of the Epis- copal church, and a graceful leader in society.
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