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(VII) Harriet, only surviving child of John L. and Caroline (Hubbell) Van Valkenburgh, was educated at the Albany Female Academy. A memento of her school days is a set of Mrs. Heman's poetical works, earned for ex- cellence in English composition. For twenty- five years she was her father's valued assistant and sole business manager, during his long pe- riod of incapacity from ill health, and to her aged mother she was not only a devoted
Jarret Van Valkenburgh
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daughter, but her confidential friend and ad- viser. Her life has been spent in the service of others. Five old people have been the ob- ject of her loving care. She is a lifelong mem- ber of the Church of the Messiah, and has always been an active worker in the Sunday school and choir. The rectory building was her gift to the parish, given in memory of her father and aunt, so was the ground for the parish house. She is the capable administratix of the Van Valkenburgh estate and resides at the old homestead in Rensselaer.
PLATT This name, sometimes written with one t and sometimes with an additional e, means: "An open, level piece of land." The family name is frequently found in England. In the records of the Heraldry office in London it is called "the ancient and honorable family of Platt." The first ancestor of the greater part of those who bear the name in the United States was Richard Platt, who came from the middle of England. He came to America in 1638 and settled at New Haven, Connecticut, but in 1639 threw in his lot with the seventy-six who formed themselves into a church organization, August 22 of that year, and founded the town of Milford, nine miles west of New Haven. He was chosen a deacon of the church in 1669. He is on the list of free planters, owned much land, and was a man of consequence. He died in 1684. . His estate inventoried six hundred pounds sterling. His wife Mary is recorded as dying January, 1676. He left one of his heirs a legacy "towards bringing up his son to be a scholar." He was married in Eng- land, and is first recorded in Milford, Novem- ber 20, 1639, as having "four in family." He probably brought four children from England with him: Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah, for the first baptismal record is of Epenetus, bap- tized July 12, 1640. Subsequently were bap- tized, Hannah, October 1, 1643; Josiah, 1645; Joseph, 1649. John settled in Norwalk, Con- necticut : Isaac and Epenetus at Huntington, Long Island; Josiah and Joseph remained at Milford, the first home of the family. Mary married (first) Luke Atkinson; (second) Thomas Wetmore; Sarah married (first) Thomas Beach; (second) Miles Merwin; Hannah married and resided in Norwalk. It is from Richard and Mary Platt that the Platts of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Waterford, New York, descend, but the connecting links have not yet been found. Frederick, who fol- lows, is of the third generation in America, but will be treated as the first of the line that follows.
(I) Frederick Platt, who is the head of the
Saybrook branch of the Platt family, and the first ancestor of the Waterford family that can be named with certainty, is believed to have settled at Killingworth, Connecticut, about 1690. There are no very early records. He married Fox, of New London, Connecticut. Children: 1. Samuel, settled in Putchaug, now Westbrook, Connecticut. 2. Ebenezer, settled in the same locality ;- married Dorothy Post. 3. Obadiah, see forward. 4. Mary, married Samuel Stevens, of Killing- worth. 5. Lydia, married David Kilsey.
(II) Obadiah, third son of Frederick and (Fox) Platt, was born in 1709. He located in the western part of the town of Say- brook, called by the Indians "Pettipaug," now Winthrop, Connecticut. He died at the age of sixty-four. He married Hannah Lane, of Clinton, Connecticut. Children: 1. Captain Dan, see forward. 2. Joseph, born 1740; was a soldier in the French and Indian war. 3. Noah, born 1742; married (first) Lucretia Chapman ; ( second) Mrs. H. Wright. 4. Han- nah, married William Hill. 5. John, born 1746; married Lucy West ; had five sons and seven daughters; he lived to be ninety-one years of age. 6. Elizabeth, married Benjamin Burr; she lived to be ninety years of age. 7. Sarah, married Isaac Post ; died at age of seventy-eight. 8. Mary, born 1753; married Michael Spencer ; died at age of seventy-eight. 9. Lydia, born 1756; married Josiah Post ; died at age of eighty.
(III) Captain Dan, son of Obadiah and Hannah (Lane) Platt, was born in 1735. He served in the revolutionary army, where he gained his rank. He married, January 12, 1763, Jemima Pratt, and died aged eighty- eight years. Children: 1. Dan, see forward. 2. Jemima, died at age of twenty years. 3. Hannah, born 1769; married John Lane. 4. Joseph, died young. 5. David, born 1777 ; married Lydia Wilcox. 6. Sarah, born 1781 ; married (first) George Havens; (second) Bela Stannard. 7. Lucretia, born 1785; mar- ried Gaylord Coan.
(IV) Deacon Dan (2), son of Captain Dan (I) and Jemima (Pratt) Platt, was born in Madison, Connecticut, June 21, 1764, died aged over seventy-eight years. He married (first) Catherine Lane, December 20, 1787; (second) Mrs. Cynthia Evarts, of Madison. Children : 1. Joseph, see forward. 2. Jemima, married Jonathan Scranton. 3. Hezekiah Lane, married Sarah Mills. 4. Dr. Dan, born 1795 ; married (first) Abby Lathrop ; he mar- ried twice afterwards, and located at Key West, Florida. 5. Catherine Lane, born 1797; married (first) John Buckingham; (second) Gilbert Gaylord. 6. Austin, born 1799; mar-
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ried Eliza Henchman. 7. Abigail, married Jeremiah Russell. 8. Ezra, died in New York, aged twenty-five years. 9. Eunice, born 1805, unmarried. 10. Harriet, died in New York. aged twenty-three years.
(V) Joseph, son of Deacon Dan (2) and Catherine (Lane) Platt, was born in Madison, Connecticut, in 1789. He studied law and was an associate in legal practice with the father of Chief Justice Waite. He married Lydia Pratt. Children: 1. Joseph Curtis, see for- ward. 2. William Henry, married Emily Ma- bel Hopkins, of Naugatuck, Connecticut ; chil- dren: i. George Hopkins, married Frances Elowell; ii. Amelia Lydia, died young ; iii. William Henry, married Ida F. Drury ; iv. Emily M., married Dr. L. C. Millspaugh ; v. Catherine S., married Albert E. Jenkins.
(VI) Joseph Curtis, son of Joseph and Lydia (Pratt) Platt, was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, September 17, 1816, died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1887. He was a merchant of Fairhaven, Connecticut, but later a manufacturer of iron. In 1846 he removed to Scranton and became one of the members of Scranton and Platt, iron manufacturers, a firm which finally grew into the great Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company. They were among the very first to use coal in this country for smelting purposes. The enterprise and success of the company re- sulted in the building up of the city of Scran- ton. Mr. Platt married, April 2, 1844, Cath- erine Serena Scranton, died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1887, daughter of Jona- than Scranton, of Madison, Connecticut. The earlier Scrantons had settled in Pennsylvania and the city of Scranton was named in honor of the family, who were potent factors in its foundation and development. Mr. Platt was public-spirited and influential. His "Remi- niscences of the Earlier History of Scranton," an address delivered before the Lackawanna Institute of History and Science was a valu- able narrative of enterprise and venture, show- ing how the foundations of the city's pros- perity were laid. He was instrumental in giving the city its present name, Scranton. Children: 1. Joseph Curtis, see forward. 2. Ella Jemima. 3. Frank Elbert, of Scranton ; married Elizabeth Augusta Skinner ; children : Joseph Curtis, Margaret S., Philip S., and Leonard.
(VII) Joseph Curtis (2) son of Joseph Cur- tis (1) and Catherine Serena (Scranton) Platt, was born at Fairhaven, Connecticut, January 9, 1845. He was graduated at Phil- lips Andover Academy, class of 1862, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1866, with the degree of civil engi-
neer. Later in life he was a member of the board of trustees of this institution. His early life was spent in Scranton, where he added to his knowledge of civil that of mining engi- neering. He also was interested in iron manu- facture. He stood high in his profession, and as consulting engineer had charge of the con- struction of the Franklin Furnaces in New Jersey, then considered a very large and im- portant iron manufacturing plant. In 1875 he removed to Waterford, New York, where he died July 7, 1898. He was in active business in Waterford as a manufacturer for nearly twenty years. He was president of the Mo- hawk and Hudson Manufacturing Company, formerly the Eddy Valve Company, and own- er of the Button Boiler Company. He retired from active business life in his last years and returned to his profession of civil and consult- ing engineer and in preparing technical essays for the scientific journals. He was a success- ful man in both his business enterprises and his profession. He was a man of the highest principle, and followed his convictions with outspoken candor. He was a Republican in political belief, although not active in party work. He was outspoken in his condemna- tion of the liquor traffic, and almost single- landed fought the curse in his town. Not- withstanding that, it was said that he had the respect of the saloon men to a greater degree than any man in Waterford. He was a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church and took a deep interest in its welfare and work. He was a trustee, chairman of the finance com- mittee and for several years superintendent of the Sunday school.
He married, December 8, 1869, Katharine Judd Jones, of Penn Yan, New York, born April 28, 1847, daughter of Ebenezer Backus Jones, born in Troy, New York, September 5, 1808, died May 24, 1892, and his wife, Lucy (Judd) Jones, born in Rhinebeck, New York, 1812, died September 1, 1889. Mr. Jones was in the iron business at Penn Yan a successful man of high character. He was a son of Ebenezer Backus, of Troy. Lucy Judd was a daughter of Uri Judd, of Wood- bury, Connecticut. Children of Joseph Cur- tis and Katharine (Kate) Judd (Jones) Platt : I. Frederick Joseph, born at Franklin Fur- nace, New Jersey, July 23, 1871 ; he was grad- uated at Cornell University with degree of civil engineer, class of 1892, and is a mem- ber of Kappa Alpha fraternity of that insti- tution ; he married Jessie Blair and has sons : Joseph Curtis, Austin Blair, Frederick. Mr. Platt is an electrical and civil engineer, located in business at Scranton, Pennsylvania. 2. Llewellyn Jones, born at Franklin Furnace,
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New Jersey, July 23, 1873, died July 15, 1876, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 3. Elbert Scran- ton, born December 26, 1876; graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; resides in Troy ; married Angelica Schuyler Thompson, and has a son, Elbert Scranton. 4. Edward Howard, born November 5, 1878, died in in- fancy.
The earliest traces of the Mead
MEAD family are to be found in a his- tory of "The Norman people and their existing descendants in the British Do- minions and the United States of America," published in London, England, 1874. From that volume, it appears that the name Mead is the English form of the Norman "de Po- ato," which, translated into the English, is Mead, Meade, Mede and Meads. In 1635 there arrived in Massachusetts many ships from England, and among those arrivals is found the name of "Goodman" Mead (called Gabriel Mead). He is the ancestor of the Massachusetts branch. The most recent dis- coveries strongly indicate that he was accom- panied by his brother, William Mead, ances- tor of the Greenwich, Connecticut, Meads, from whom the family in Troy descend.
William and "Goodman" Mead sailed from Lydd county, Kent, England, in the ship "Elizabeth" in April, 1635. The Mead coat- of-arms, to which it is believed they were en- titled, is thus described: Sable, a chevron be- tween three pelicans, or vuln, gules crest ; an eagle displayed ; motto, "Semper peratus"- always ready. Goodman Mead remained in Massachusetts. William, however, followed the tide of emigration, which at that time was toward the Connecticut valley. The first Eng- lish settlement was made at Windsor in 1633, and another settlement was made about the same time at Wethersfield, where William Mead settled first, and in 1641 he removed to Stamford with others from Wethersfield. De- cember 7, 1641, "William Mayd (Mead) re- ceived from the town of Stamford a homelot and five acres of land." This William is the ancestor of the Fairfield county, Connecticut, family, although family tradition declares that John Mead was also one of those of eastern New York, western Vermont and Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was born about 1600. He married in 1625, and died in Stamford, Con- necticut, about 1663. There is no record of his wife, but there is of his three children. 1. Joseph, see forward. 2. Martha, born 1632; married John Richardson, of Stamford. 3. John, born about 1634; married Hannah Pot- ter ; died February 5, 1699.
(II) Joseph, son of William Mead, was
born 1630, died May 3, 1690. He married Mary Brown, of Stamford; children : I. Zach- arias, died in 1703, unmarried. 2. Josephlı (2), see forward. 3. Daniel, born 1659; married Hannah 4. Elisha, born about 1661, died 1727; married, in 1683, and had issue. 5. Richard, born 1664. 6. Mary.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) and Mary (Brown) Mead, was born about 1657, died in 1714. He married Sarah Reynolds ; children: 1. Sarah, born November 3, 1695; married, August 14, 1718, Benjamin Steb- bing; eight children. 2. Joseph (3), born May 3, 1698. 3. Theophilus, born July 3, 1700, died 1760; married Abigail Westcott, and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut; eight children. 4. Jeremiah, born August 6, 1702, died 1742; married, 1725, Hannah St. John, his oldest son, Captain Thaddeus, was killed in the French and Indian war. 5. Zachariah, born March II, 1704, died 1761 ; married, but left no issue. 6. Nehemiah, see forward. 7. Israel, born March 14, 1708; married and left issue.
(IV) Nehemiah, son of Joseph (2), and Sarah (Reynolds) Mead, was born January 20, 1706, died 1784. He married Mehitable -, and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut. Children: Joseph, David, Zachariah, Nehe- miah, Deborah, Mary, Lydia and Abijah.
(V) David, son of Nehemiah and Mehita- ble Mead, married Isabella Knapp and had issue. He resided in Westchester county, New York.
(VI) David (2), son of David (1) and Isabella (Knapp) Mead, was born in 1762, died March 22, 1836. He was a soldier of the revolution, enlisting in the Fourth Regiment of the New York troops, under Colonel James Holmes; also served in the Second Regiment, Dutchess county militia, Colonel Abraham Brinkerhoff, and in the Fourth Westchester militia, Colonel Thaddeus Crane. After the war he settled in the town of Coeymans, Al- bany county, New York. He married, in 1787, Sarah Williams, born 1760, died June 2, 1849. She was a sister of David Williams, one of the captors of Major Andre, the Brit- ish spy, so closely connected with Benedict Ar- nold and his treasure. Five children.
(VII) David (3), son of David (2) and Sarah (Williams) Mead, was born in Coey- mans, Albany county, New York, January 17, 1795, died February 18, 1857. He was buried in the Mead burying ground, but afterward was removed to Onesquetha cemetery, as was his father David (2). He was a farmer of Coeymans. He married in that town Eliza- beth Norris, born there July 13, 1797, died May 12, 1873, and had isstie.
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(VIII) Zachariah, son of David (3) and Elizabeth (Norris) Mead, was born in the town of Coeymans, Albany county, New York January 26, 1823, died in Troy, New York, January 6, 1898. He was a farmer and mer- chant in Coeymans and Troy, removing to the latter city in 1880. He was a Democrat in politics until the last few years of his life. He was an active and useful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, January 23, 1846, Mary Townsend, born March 9, 1824, died January 6, 1898. Chil- dren: I. Charles Edward, born January 9, 1847; married Mary White; resides at Pat- tens Mills, Washington county, New York ; two children, Mabel and Myrtle (twins). 2. Frank P., born July 29, 1852 ; married Eliza- beth Allen ; children: Henry, Felter, Mary, married Frank Van Zile. 3. Gurdon Crippen, born August 10, 1859, died July 11, 1889 ; one son, Gurdon Ira, a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. 4. Zachariah (2), see for- ward.
(IX) Zachariah (2), youngest son of Zachariah (I) and Mary (Townsend) Mead, was born in the town of Coeymans, Albany county, New York, May 5, 1863. He was educated in the public schools and New Balti- more Academy. He resided in New Baltimore between ages nine and seventeen years, and at the latter age went to Troy, New York, where he has since been engaged in the collar business, having been connected with several of the leading factories of the city. He was foreman of the cutting department of the William Barker Company for twenty-three years. On February 15, 1909, he engaged with Hall, Hartwell & Company, where he occupies the position of superintendent of the collar department. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Holy Cross Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Masonic order, is past master of Evening Star Lodge, and a Royal Arch Mason of Hudson River Chapter. His clubs are the Masonic of Watervliet and the East Side of Troy. His patriotic ancestry has gained him admission to the Sons of the American Revolution. He married, April 30, 1883, Charlotte, daughter of George H. Coon, printer and publisher of the Troy Whig, and his wife, Charlotte (Vos- burgh) Coon (see Coon). They have one daughter, Edna Louise Mead, married Horace E. Baxter, a native of Troy, New York.
(The Coon Line).
Through her mother, Charlotte (Vosburgh) Coon, Mrs. Charlotte (Coon) Mead descends from Abel Camp, of Barre, Vermont, born January 21, 1729, died April 20, 1820, aged
ninety-one years. Abel Camp enlisted in the colonial army in the war of the revolution as a private, and was credited to the town of Cornwall, Connecticut. He joined the army August 27, 1781, in Captain James Stoddard's company of General David Waterbury's bri- gade. This brigade was raised for the pur- pose of defending a portion of the Connecticut coast. Later he joined Washington at Phil- lipsburg, and was also for some time under Heath's orders on the Westchester line. Three of his sons, Abel, Joel and Gould Camp, served as soldiers in the Connecticut militia throughout the same campaign.
(II) William, son of Abel Camp, was born April 9, 1764, died July 6, 1860. He married, November 9, 1785, Abigail Raymond, born December 1, 1767.
(III) John Raymond, son of William and Abigail (Raymond) Camp, was born Septem- ber 29, 1793, died July 19, 1864. He married, February 28, 1816, Lucy Drew Camp, born November 21, 1791, died May 27, 1862.
(IV) Angeline, daughter of John Raymond and Lucy Drew (Camp) Camp, was born November 7, 1816, died March 6, 1842. She married Abram Vosburgh, of Glenville, New York, who died July, 1882.
(V) Charlotte, daughter of Abram and An- geline (Camp) Vosburgh, was born September 3, 1837, died September 23, 1903. She mar- ried, January 1, 1857, George H. Coon, of Troy, New York, born October 29, 1835, died June 23, 1899. Children : Angeline, born Oc- tober 13, 1857; Charlotte, see forward; Ray- mond Schuyler, born November 27, 1863 ; Jo- seph Mulford, born April 2, 1874.
(VI) Charlotte, daughter of George H. and Charlotte (Vosburgh) Coon, born April 26, 1860, married Zachariah Mead (see Mead IX).
In the year 1619 the Virginia FRISBIE Company of London sent over to their colony in America more than one thousand two hundred settlers, among whom were a number of French Huguenots. Richard Frisbee or Frisbie was one of the latter. His son Edward many years later was 'driven out of Virginia because he was a Puri- tan, and July 7, 1644, he settled in the new town of Branford, on north shore of Long Island sound, colony of New Haven. For several generations the history of the Frisbies was the history of Branford. Edward and his son John were leaders in the church, town and colony during their lives. January 20, 1667, "Edward and John Frisbee" were two of the signers of the "New Plantation and Church Covenant," at Branford. (See "Colchester,"
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p. 151.) Edward Frisbie had sons: John, Caleb, Ebenezer, and probably others; these sons married and had large families. Several of the family served in the revolutionary war and many went out from Branford to settle in other and distant parts. The branch of the family under consideration begins with Rus- sell, a descendant of Edward Frisbie, born in Branford, Connecticut, about 1775. He mar- ried and reared a large family, among them Russell (2). His wife lived to the great age of one hundred and four years.
(II) Russell (2), son of Russell (1) Fris- bie, was born in Branford, Connecticut, 1807, died 1903. He was a man of wealth and en- gaged in those lines of investment common to men of wealth. He was a Whig during the existence of that party and intensely anti- slavery in his convictions. At the formation of the Republican party he became an ardent supporter. He was a veteran of the civil war and served with General Butler at New Or- leans, Louisiana. He was captain of the gov- ernor's bodyguard of Connecticut, and raised the first company of infantry in Washington, D. C., of which company he was chosen and commissioned captain. He married Jane Cor- bin, of Roxbury, New York, who bore him seven children, among them being Chester Corbin, see forward.
(III) Chester Corbin, son of Russell (2) and Jane (Corbin) Frisbie, was born in Bran- ford, Connecticut. He was educated in the schools of Connecticut, and after completing his studies, moved to Pennsylvania, where he started in drilling oil wells; later became an independent operator ; subsequently was super- intendent of a coal mine; finally became a traveling salesman. He settled in Elmira, New York, where he engaged in business. He is now a resident of New York City, where he is engaged in the real estate business. He is a Republican politically, and an attendant of the Congregational church. He married Clara, born in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, daughter of Miles Barnet, whose ancestors came to America about 1640. Children: I. Clara L., born in Elmira, New York, now re- siding in New York City. 2. Helen Chester, deceased. 3. Miles Russell, see forward.
(IV) Hon. Miles Russell, son of Chester Corbin and Clara (Barnet) Frisbie, was born in Elmira, New York, November 22, 1880. His early and preparatory education was ob- tained in the common and high schools of his native city and at Wesleyan Academy, Massa- chusetts. He entered Union University, where he was graduated, class of 1900. Deciding upon the profession of law, he studied in the offices of Hon. John B. Stanchfield, of El-
mira, and supplemented this with a course at Albany Law School. He stood the test of an examination before the state board of examin- ers and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1903. He at once began the practice of law, locating in Schenectady, New York, forming a partnership with Benjamin Terk under the firm name of Frisbie & Terk. After a year the firm was dissolved and Mr. Frisbie has since continued alone the general practice of his profession. During his entire life as a voter he has been a loyal member of the Re- publican party and has served with distinction in several appointive and elective positions to which he has been chosen by his party. In 1903-04-05-06 lie was clerk of the senate, pub- lic health committee, clerk of railroads, con- nected with the geological survey, and 1906 was elected to the legislature and re-elected in 1907, receiving for the office an unusually large vote on both occasions. In the two ses- sions he was honored with membership on important committees and proved a valuable legislator. He served on the committees on general laws, claims, soldiers' home, cities, public lands and forestry. While in the legis- lature he drew up the new charter for Sche- nectady and forced the investigation of the National Guard of the state and revision of the military code. He was an earnest and effec- tive supporter of the policies of Governor Hughes. He served on the special committee for revising the laws of the state. In the elec- tions of 1908 he was defeated on the local option issue which he favored. This was not agreeable to his constituents, who the previous year had elected him by a majority of two thousand six hundred. During 1908 he served one hundred days in the National Guard, a body that has always taken a great interest in and for whose betterment he used his best efforts while in the legislature. Hon. Miles R. Frisbie retained his legal business in Sche- nectady, where he is now in practice. He or- ganized and was president of the Young Men's Republican Club of Chemung county, and is a member of the executive committee of the Schenectady County Republican Club. In fraternal relations he is an Elk. His col- lege fraternity is the Delta Chi; his social clubs the University and Mohawk. He is a member of Park Congregational Church of Elmira, but an attendant of State Street Pres- byterian Church in Schenectady. He married, at Schenectady, June 19, 1906, Clara, born in that city, daughter of Charles Holtzmann, born in Alsace, Germany, 1852, came to the United States in 1867, spent two years in New York City, and is now a merchant of Schenectady. He married Anna Reaber and
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