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ces of honor and trust. He married Sarah, daughter of Matthew Mitchell, a native of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, who emigrated to America from Bristol, England, in 1635, coming in the ship "James." Samuel and Sarah Sherman were the parents of nine children.
(III) Benjamin, eighth child of Samuel and Sarah (Mitchell) Sherman, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, 1662, died there in 1741. He married Rebekah Phippeny, born 1664, died 1739. They were the parents of eight sons.
(IV) Samuel (2), fifth son of Benjamin and Rebekah (Phippeny) Sherman, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, 1705. He married Mrs. Martha Gold, 1728, of Fairfield, Con- necticut, and had issue.
(V) Elijah, son of Samuel (2) and Mar- tha (Gold) Sherman, was born 1754, died 1844. He was of Woodbury, Connecticut, and served in the revolution as a private. He was a large manufacturer of shoes, employing many men both in making of hand-made shoes and in the tannery where he tanned the leather used in his shop. He was also owner of a large farm which he cultivated. In 1797-98 and again in 1806-07 he was elected a mem- ber of the Connecticut legislature from Wood- bury. While a member he introduced a bill which became a law, allowing poor debtors a certain amount of property which was exempt from seizure: "A cow, a pig, beds sufficient for the family" and other necessities. In 1790 he was made a Free Mason. The Episcopal church in Woodbury was erected with the contributions of seventy members, of whom Elijah Sherman was one. The parish was prosperous until the breaking out of the revo- lution, when its usefulness was greatly hin- dered by the hostility of the public mind to everything "English." In an agitation over the adoption of the state constitution by the church he became involved and ultimately abandoned the society to become a Methodist, and for twenty years worshipped with a few others in his own house, later a church of that denomination being erected on his own prop- erty, adjoining his homestead, which still is the church parsonage. He was a leading member and was elder or local preacher. He married Nancy Northrop, born 1758, died 1818, a great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Northrop, who came from England in 1637, one of the "Eaton and Davenport Company of good character and fortune," who came in the ships "Hector" and "Martin," and settled at New Haven, later settling the town of Milford, Connecticut. His wife was Mary Norton, who came to Milford from Wethers-
field with the Rev. Peter Prudden and his party.
(VI) Anna, daughter of Elijah and Nancy (Northrop) Sherman, was born 1789, died 1846. He married, 1814, Joel Pierce, born 1793, died 1847. They were the parents of ten children, of whom Emily Augusta, young- est, became the wife of Judge Judson S. Lan- don. (See Landon VI.)
CURTIS Henry Curtis came to New England in 1635, in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," and set- tled at Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1636, later removing to Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he was a pro- prietor in 1639. In deeds he is styled "wheel- wright." He testified in a lawsuit to the effect that he was twenty-seven years of age when he landed in America. He married, about 1640, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Guy, of Upton Gray, Southamptonshire, England. He came to New England in 1638 in the ship "Confidence," and settled at Watertown, Mas- sachusetts. Henry Curtis died in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1678. His widow Mary sur- vived him until December 3, 1682. Children, all born in Sudbury: I. Lieutenant Ephraim, was a noted scout and hunter, trader, and soldier in King Philip's war; there is no record of his marriage. 2. John, born in 1644, died unmarried in Sudbury, December 31, 1678. 3. Joseph, see forward.
(II) Joseph, youngest son of Henry and Mary (Guy) Curtis, was born at Sudbury, July 17, 1647, died there November 26, 1700. In 1675 he served in the Mt. Hope campaign in King Philip's war under Captain Thomas Prentice. He married, in Sudbury, February 5, 1667, Abigail Grout, born in Sudbury, Octo- ber 14, 1655, died April 28, 1745, daughter of Captain John and Sarah (Bushy-Cakebread) Grout, of Sudbury. Joseph Curtis was a farmer, and an inventory of his estate shows, besides other property, "two farms lying in Woster, the farm containing two hundred and fifty acres and a fifty acre lot." Children, all born in Sudbury: 1. Abigail, married, about 1705, Captain John Goulding. 2. Ephraim, see forward. 3. Mary, born December 25, 1686; married, December 14, 1710, Thomas Stone. 4. Joseph, July 15, 1689 ; was one of the founders of Medway, Massachusetts, where he died January 21, 1754. 5. Sarah, married, December 28, 1715, Jonathan Smith.
(III) Ephraim, son of Joseph and Abigail (Grout) Curtis, was born in Sudbury, Sep- tember 4, 1680, died in his native town, No- vember 17, 1759. His gravestone in East Sudbury (now Wayland) states that he was
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justice of the peace, major of a regiment and many years representative in the general court. In 1741 he was appointed a special justice of the court of common pleas. He married, May 10, 1705, Mary, born February 18, 1682, died February 22, 1761, daughter of David and Susannah Stone, of Sudbury: Children, all born in Sudbury : I. Ephraim, settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he died Jan- uary 1, 1748; married Mary Rice, of Sud- bury. 2. Captain John, see forward. 3. Mary, married, December 20, 1732, Ensign Jason Gleason. 4. Susanna, married Lieutenant Jonathan Carter. 5. Major Joseph, born De- cember 22, 1721, died October 6, 1791; in 1757 he was lieutenant of the first "foot com- pany" of Sudbury ; in 1771 he was captain of the first company of horse, and October 26, 1778, appears with the rank of major in Cap- tain Nathaniel Maynard's muster roll; mar- ried (first) Jane Plympton ; (second) Abigail Baldwin, both of Sudbury ; fifteen children. 6. Lieutenant Samuel, born June 1, 1724; in 1758 he served as lieutenant under Captain Samuel Dakin in the expedition against Crown Point, and was killed July 20, 1758, in the engagement at Halfway Brook, near Fort Ed- ward, New York; married (first) Jerusha Cutting ; (second) Hannah Nichols ; five chil- dren.
(IV) Captain John, son of Ephraim and Mary (Stone) Curtis, was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, September 20, 1707. He set- tled in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he died June 29, 1797. He served as captain of the company for the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757, and was a signer of the "Troy protest" in 1774, but afterwards recanted and was admitted to favor. From 1754 to 1774 he kept a tavern in Worcester. He married (first) June 4, 1729, Rebecca, born January, 1709, died March 24, 1755, daughter of Ben- jamin and Elizabeth (Newell) Whight, of Sudbury. He married (second) November 13, 1755, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Prentice and widow of Daniel Robbins, of Lancaster. Children, all by first wife, and all born in Worcester except the first: 1. Jona- than, died young. 2. John, married Elizabeth Heywood. 3. Jonathan, died young. 4. Sarah, died young. 5. Elizabeth, born December 28, 1738. 6. William, died young. 7. Rebecca, died young. 8. Joseph, died young. 9. James, see forward. 10. Mary, married Deacon John Chamberlain. II. Sarah, married Captain William Jones. 12. William, served in the revolution. 13. Joseph, served in the revolu- tion. 14. Tyler, born April 28, 1753.
(V) James, son of Captain John and Re- becca (Whight) Curtis, was born in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, September 8, 1746, died January 19, 1879, in Princeton, Massachusetts, where he had settled. He married, in Shrews- bury, Massachusetts, May 24, 1770, Sarah, born June 25, 1749, died September 19, 1787, daughter of Captain Abraham and Dinah (Rice) Eager, of Shrewsbury. Children: I. Azubalı, baptized in Worcester, January 20, 1771. 2. Sophia, married, January I, 1795, Samuel Smith. 3. Elizabeth. 4. James, see forward. 5. Tyler, married, March 18, 1802, Mary Ann Flagg. 6. Eager. 7. Sarah.
(VI) James (2), son of James (r) and Sarah (Eager) Curtis, was born about 1775- He married, in Massachusetts, Mary Andrews, and lived at Lenox, Massachusetts. Children : I. Henry, see forward. 2. George. 3. Almira, married Harvey Mosher. 4. Roxana, died March 28, 1827. 5. Laura, married Churchill, and had a daughter Isabel, who married Judge Baldwin, of Michigan. 6. Mary Ann, married James Harvey Martin.
(VII) Henry (2), son of James (2) and Mary (Andrews) Curtis, was born near Lenox, Massachusetts, 1803, died in Troy, New York, 1855. He settled in Troy when a young man and at once engaged in the dry goods business. He remained in mercantile life all his active years, and became one of the prominent dry goods merchants of Troy. He was a Universalist in religious faith, and a Democrat in politics. He married, in Troy, Salona B., second daughter of Elkana and Sarah McCoon (Barrows) Wilmarth, of Troy, who had other children: Almira, Leander, Celia, married John Sayles, and Mercy Ann, married Joseph Henry Todd. Henry and Salona B. (Wilmarth) Curtis had children : I. Jennie, born 1842, died 1873 ; married Leon- ard H. Buckland, who died in 1905; child : Harriet, married George Beeson and had two children. 2. Clement, died June 3, 1846. 3. Charles Henry, see forward.
(VIII) Charles Henry, only son of Henry (2) and Salona B. (Wilmarth) Curtis, was born in Troy, New York, September 30, 1847. He was educated in the, public schools, and in 1866 entered the employ of S. A. House & Sons, where he learned the art of collar cut- ting. He was with that firm seventeen years, and has now been connected with the firm of Fellows & Company in the capacity of cutter for a like number of years. He is a member of the Universalist church, where he has served as deacon since 1895, trustee since 1900, and in 1910 was chosen president of the board. He is a Republican in politics. He served three years in the New York National Guard, Twenty-fourth Regiment. He married, July 5, 1868, Gertrude Lucille Mabee, of Troy.
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Children, all born in Troy: I. Frank Charles, see forward. 2. George Henry, born August II, 1872; educated in the public schools, grad- uating from the high school, class of 1891; since 1898 he has been employed in the county clerk's office as recorder ; he is a member of the East Side Club, Rensselaer County Re- publican Club, Royal Arcanum and Chamber of Commerce. 3. Jean Gertrude, educated in the public schools and Emma Willard School. 4. Harvey Otto, born February 22, 1878, died December 25, 1882. 5. Harold Edwin, born November 20, 1887; educated in the public schools; entered Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute, where he was graduated C. E., class of 1909; he is now located in Boston, Massa- chusetts, as assistant engineer of inspection de- partment of the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies.
(IX) Frank Charles, son of Charles Henry and Gertrude Lucille (Mabee) Curtis, was born June 3, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of Troy, graduating from the high school in 1888. He studied law with George A. Mosher, of Troy, who after his admission to the bar admitted him to a law partnership in 1893, which was dissolved in 1910. He makes a specialty of patent law, confining his practice exclusively to patents and patent causes. He was United States commissioner, 1906-07. He is secretary and director of the Luxury Sales Company, and director of the Stockwell-Purser Realty Com- pany, both of Troy. He was a member of Troy Citizens' Corps, Sixth Separate Company (now Company A), Second Regiment, from 1893 to 1899, and is now an active member of the senior company of the Citizens' Corps. He is an active Republican, and his club is the Pafraets Dael. He is a member of the New York State and Rensselaer County Bar asso- ciations, Rensselaer County Republican Club, and Chamber of Commerce. He married, June 27, 1908, Marie Josephine Leduc, of Schenectady ; one child, Gertrude, born June 24, 1910.
This family was of Greene CURTIS county, New York, at an early date in the history of that county. The first of our record is Silas Cur- tis, a cooper, who died in Durham, Greene county.
(II) Gilbert, son of Silas Curtis, was a farmer for many years. He learned from his father the trade of a cooper, and worked at that at intervals when he could be spared from his other labors. He later in life moved into Durham, Greene county, where he kept a ho- tel on the main street of that town, where he
died. He married Atline Stevens, born in Durham, where she also died. Children: I. Edgar Silas; see forward. 2. Charles G., twice married ; his second wife was Catherine Hayes, who bore him Charles (2), Frances Olive, Edwin. He was a real estate dealer of Los Angeles, California. 3. Montgomery G., a merchant of Troy.
(III) Edgar Silas, eldest son of Gilbert and Atline (Stevens) Curtis, was born in Dur- ham, Greene county, New York, February 2, 1832, died in Troy, New York, June 24, 1904. He was educated in the schools of Durham and Harpersfield, New York. He was taught the cooper's trade by his father and followed that trade until he located in Troy in October, 1852. He entered there into partnership with his cousin, Mortimer Stevens, and for several years they conducted a livery and general teaming business. The partnership was later dissolved, Mr. Stevens retiring from the firm. Mr. Curtis conducted the business alone until his death. He was a Republican in politics, but took no active part in city affairs. He was a Mason and was a member of King Solomon Lodge of Masons, also Apollo Com- mandery, Knights Templar, and a thirty-sec- ond degree Mason. He was devoted to his business and his home, a man with many friends and greatly respected. He was con- nected with the Baptist church and the choir of that church. He married, at Hobart, Dela- ware county, New York, February 5, 1855, Frances Augusta, born in Hobart, December 10, 1836, daughter of Samuel and Laura (Taylor) Wilcox, both natives of Hobart, where they died at ages of seventy-two and eighty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar S. Curtis were parents of one son, Samuel Gil- bert : see forward.
(IV) Samuel Gilbert, only child of Edgar Silas and Frances Augusta (Wilcox) Curtis, was born in Troy, New York, December 30, 1857. He was educated in the Troy schools, and at an early age began the development of his musical talent under the instructions of his mother, herself an accomplished musician and capable instructor. After mastering the art as far as her capacity would allow, he went to Germany, where for three years he studied under foreign masters. Returning to Troy, he began teaching, and is known far and wide as a master of his art. Professor Curtis is a member of the Baptist church in Troy, and in politics an independent Demo- crat. He married Lura, daughter of Alex- ander McChesney, born 1834, died 1864, and granddaughter of Henry McChesney, of Brunswick. Professor and Mrs. Curtis have a son, Harold Cornwell, born December 7,
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1891, a graduate of Troy Academy and a student of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
This family early appears in BECKER the records of New Amsterdam and the Hudson Valley. Their course may be marked in their northward mi- gration from New Amsterdam by descendants still to be found in the cities and towns along the river. They are found in the earliest rec- ords of Beverwyck and Albany counties, where there have been many men of promi- nence bearing the name.
(I) Jan Jurianse Becker (Bekker) in 1656 was clerk at Fort Casimir (on the Delaware). He sold liquor to the Indians, which brought him into conflict with the authorities. In 1660 he was deprived of the office and went to New Amsterdam, where in the same year he had leave to "keep a school." In 1663 he was an inhabitant of Greenbush (Rensselaer) ; after- wards was notary public and schoolmaster for the youths of Beverwyck and "esteemed very capable that way." He was city chamberlain, 1686, and was an attorney, as the early records show. He made his will August 3, 1694, in which he speaks of son Johannes and daughter Martina (wife of Willem Hogan), who was made administratrix of his estate, December 16, 1697.
(II) Johannes, son of Jan Jurianse Becker, married Anna Van der Zee and had children: Marken, Hilletje, Johannes, see forward, Hil- letje (2), Storm, Gerritt, Elizabeth Albertus, Annatjie and Pieter.
(III) Johannes (2), son of Johannes (1) and Anna (Van der Zee) Becker, married Sara Van Arnhem and had children: Johan- nes, Abraham, see forward, Cornelia, Isaac, Nicholas and Cornelius.
(IV) Abraham, son of Johannes (2) and Sarah (Van Arnhem) Becker, married Eliza- beth Van der Zee. He settled in what is now the town of Westerloo, Albany county, New York, prior to the revolution, where he was known among the very earliest settlers.
(V) Willem (Wilhelm), son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Van der Zee) Becker, was bap- tized March 12, 1781. He was a farmer of the town of Guilderland, Albany county. He married Sophia McMichael. Children : Peter, John, Alexander, Nicholas, Angelica, Maria, Eliza, George, William, Henry.
(VI) John, son of Wilhelm Becker, was born on the homestead farm in Guilderland, 1814, and followed the business of a general farmer in that town all his life. He married, 1838, Margaret Ogsbury, daughter of one of Guilderland's pioneer families. Children: I. David, married Emma Keenholts. 2. Angel-
ica, married Silas Hilton. 3. Abram, see forward. 4. Edward, married Alida Crounze. 5. Sanford, married Jennette Ogsbury.
(VII) Abram, son of John and Margaret (Ogsbury) Becker, was born on the old Becker homestead in Guilderland, 1843, died in Albany, New York, 1892. He was edu- cated in the town schools, and for many years followed farming. In 1877 he located in Al- bany, where his later years were passed. He married, 1864, Hester, daughter of Henry P. Shaver, who was the only son of Peter Shaver, of Guilderland, and a grandson of Henry Shaver, who was born February 14, 1758, and served in the revolutionary war as an enlisted soldier of the First Regiment, New York Continental Line, under Colonel Goosen Van Schaick, and in the Fifteenth Regiment, Al- bany County Militia, under Colonel Peter Vrooman. He married Alida Bradt. Peter Shaver, son of Henry and Alida (Bradt) Shaver, was born in New Scotland (then Bethelehem), Albany county, New York, July 19, 1795, died in Guilderland 1886. His par- ents settled in Guilderland when he was eight years of age, and his subsequent life was passed within a few miles of his birthplace. He served as a private in the war of 1812, and was a man of prominence in his town. He was an active worker in the Whig party and attracted the attention of such men as William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed. Many lucra- tive public positions were offered him, but were always declined. From 1842 to 1846 he represented Guilderland on the board of Al- bany county supervisors, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1846. Al- though possessed of little education beyond that obtained in the little log schoolhouse of his early days, he had gained by close observa- tion and reading a fund of information that made him a most formidable opponent in de- bate or argument. He was of unusually sound judgment and a wise counsellor. He had ob- tained a good knowledge of law and was often chosen as referee in important cases. He married, in 1817, Catherine Banker, daughter of Hon. Cornelius H. Waldron. Children : Henry P., father of Hester (Shaver) Becker, and Hester. Children of Abram and Hester (Shaver) Becker: I. Allen J., born June 16, 1865; married Elizabeth Bryan, and has a daughter, Jessie Isabelle. 2. John Austin.
(VIII) John Austin, second son of Abram and Hester (Shaver) Becker, was born in Guilderland, Albany county, New York, Octo- ber 31, 1867. He was educated in the city schools of Albany, finishing with the high school. He began his business career as clerk with a firm of grain merchants, and has since
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devoted himself to that business. In 1891 he began as an independent dealer in Albany, and so continues. He has been successful in his undertakings and has attained a high position in commercial and financial circles. He is director of the First National Bank, trustee of the Exchange Savings Bank, both of Albany, and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. He married, January 9, 1901, Minnie Belle, daughter of David and Elizabeth Skinner. Children: Elizabeth Skinner, born November 7, 1901 ; John Austin (2), January 2, 1906.
BECKER The family in Amsterdam bear- ing this name is of compara- tively recent settlement. For many generations the family has been native to the Rhine Province or state of Hesse-Hom- burg, now a part of the great German Empire. Their native town was Meisenheim. During the Napoleonic wars this town furnished many men who fought against the French, among them some of the Becker family. One of the sons, Henry, enlisted in the German army and in battle received a wound from which he never recovered.
Charles Becker, a brother of Henry, and father of Henry Becker, of Amsterdam, New York, was born in Meisenheim, Hesse-Hom- burg, Germany, in March, 1797. When six- teen years of age he was forced to join the French army and do battle against his kindred and native land. At the earliest opportunity he deserted from the French army and reached his own home safely. He at once enlisted in the German army in the same regiment his brother Henry had joined some time previous. He proved himself a brave and faithful sol- dier and served three years in defense of his country. For bravery in battle he was pro- moted to be sergeant. After the war closed he was presented with a silver medal inscribed "for faithfulness to duty," and on the reverse side a profile of the Prince. This is a treas- ured heirloom of the family. After peace was declared he returned to his native province and engaged in farming and stock raising, making a specialty of sheep. He was a good business man and secured a competence which he used for the comfort and education of his children. He was a man of piety and probity, well known and highly respected. He was for many years one of the electors of his vil- lage, it being their duty to select persons to fill the town offices. He married a girl of his own province, Mary Conrady, born there of French parents. She was of a superior fam- ily, one of the family being a brave soldier and the incumbent of some high official posi- tions under the German government. Charles
Becker died in 1881; his wife died in 1851. Children: 1. Margaret, born about 1834; she was the first of the family to come to the United States ; she settled in New York City about 1850; there she met and married Ed- ward Bolkard, a native of Bavaria, Germany ; he was a wealthy real estate operator of New York, where he died in 1892; his wife died August 18, 1906, without issue. 2. Marie, born in Meisenheim, where she always lived; she married (first) Peter Schneider ; (second) Peter Dalkner, a prominent man of the town; during the Franco-Prussian war he was en- gaged in supplying goods to the commissary department of the German army; he became quite a wealthy man ; they were the parents of two children; by her first marriage Marie Becker had two children, both of whom came to the United States: Nicholas, a prominent man of New Jersey ; Joseph, went west, where trace has been lost. 3. Caroline, born 1838, deceased ; she married Peter Ammann, of Meisenheim, and left two sons: Jacob and Henry Ammann, both married and residents of New York. 4. Katherine, born 1840, died at age of eighteen in her native town. 5. Jacob H., born 1843; became a prominent business man of Heidelberg, Germany; mar- ried a lady of rank in that city; they have several children, one of whom is a staff officer in the German army. 6. Henry, see forward.
Henry, progenitor of the Amsterdam fam- ily under consideration, youngest son of Charles and Mary (Conrady) Becker, was born in Meisenheim, Hesse-Homburg, Ger- many, August 14, 1847. He received a good education in his native land, which he left at age of seventeen, sailing from Bremen in 1865 in the ship "Hannsa," that was later lost at sea. He settled in New York for a time with his sister Margaret, who was the first of her family to emigrate and was living in New York City. He learned the cabinetmaker's trade and remained in New York until 1873, when he removed to Amsterdam, New York, and engaged in business. After some years in that city he embarked in the hotel business and for seventeen years was so engaged, after which he retired. He became prominent in local political affairs, affiliating with the Re- publican party. He served seven years as sewer commissioner, seven years as assessor, and for six years has been alderman from the first ward. He is a member of Amsterdam Lodge, No. 134, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, 1871, in New York City, Katherine, born there September 17, 1849, daughter of Jacob and Louisa (Weber) Bucher, both of German birth. Mr. Bucher, born in Würtemburg, Germany, came to the
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