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(IV) Gerrit Symouse (Simon), son of Henricus and Elizabeth (Wemp) Veeder, was "justice of sessions" (judge) ; lived at and owned "Veeder's Mills"; died February 18, 1836. He married Janneke Ten-Eyck, of Eso- pus, January 12, 1782. Children : Henricus, born April 27, 1783; Cornelise, December 12, 1785, died December 23, 1787 ; Mattheus Ten- Eyck, May 21, 1788; graduate of Union Col- lege: died June 9, 1824; Abram, see for- ward; John, September 8, 1794, died Septem- ber 23, 1872; Elizabeth, January 26, 1798; Cornelia Blaudine, May 22, 1801.
(V) Abram, son of Judge Gerrit Simon and Janneke (Ten-Eyck) Veeder, was born in Schenectady, New York, died at the age of eighty-four years. He inherited the family lands of "Veeder's Mills" and lived there all his life. He was a member of the First Dutch Reformed Church, and a Democrat in poli- tics. He married Margaret Vedder, who died about 1880, aged eighty years. They had one son, see forward.
(VI) Gerrit Simon (2), only son and child of Abram and Margaret (Vedder) Veeder, was born in Schenectady, New York, July, 1839, died there April 17, 1902. He succeeded
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his father in the ownership of "Veeder's Mills" and the milling business. He became a wealthy and influential man of the city ; member of the First Reformed Church, and politically a Democrat. He married Cather- ine Schermerhorn, born in Schenectady, New York, 1844, died there March 5, 1907. She was a member of the First Dutch Reformed Church with her husband. She was the daughter of Nicholas and Susan (Chishem) Schermerhorn and granddaughter of Abraham and Catlyntje (Clement ) Schermerhorn. Ab- raham was the son of Abraham, son of Arent, son of Ryer, son of Jacob Janse Schermer- horn, born in 1622 in Waterland, Holland. It is said, although her father in 1654 was liv- ing in Amsterdam, Holland, Jacob Janse came to Beverwyck early and prospered as a brew- er and trader. In 1648 he was arrested at Fort Orange by Governor Stuyvesant's orders on a charge of selling arms and ammunition to the Indians. He was removed a prisoner to Fort Amsterdam, where he was sentenced to banishment for five years with the confisca- tion of all his property. By the interference of some leading citizens the first part of the sentence was not enforced, but his property was all lost to him. These proceedings against Schermerhorn later formed a ground for com- plaint against Governor Stuyvesant to the Holland States General. Jacob Janse made his will May 20, 1688, and seems to have re- trieved his fortunes for his estate, amounting to fifty-six thousand guilders, very large for the times. His wife was Jannetie Segerse, daughter of Cornelius Segerse Van Voor- houdt. His descendant, Nicholas Schermer- horn, was a hay and grain dealer of Schenec- tady, and treasurer of Schenectady county. He was prosperous and well known. Another descendant is William G. Schermerhorn, pres- ident of the Citizens' Trust Company, Sche- nectady. Gerrit Simon Veeder was the father of four children: 1. Abram G., see forward. 2. William S., born 1864; a coal dealer of Schenectady ; married Ida M. Groat and has a son Harold. 3. Nicholas I., born 1872, died January 9, 1909; lie was associated with his father and brother in the lumber business ; married Catherine Weldon, of Amsterdam; no issue. 4. Garrett S., born 1878; member of the real estate firm of Gardner Veeder & Company ; married Blanche Taylor, of Glen's Falls.
(VII) Abram G., eldest son of Gerrit Si- mon and Catherine (Schermerhorn) Veeder, was born in Schenectady, New York, March 12, 1863. He graduated from the high school and at once entered business life. For sev- eral years he was a land viewer and timber
buyer, traveling over the timber belt and buy- ing tracts of standing timber. He gained a wide experience and was an excellent judge of values as represented in such transactions. In 1901, in company with his father, brother, and Leonard and William H. Brown, he leased a lumber yard and purchased the business on Dock street, Schenectady, and engaged in the wholesale and retail lumber business. Their yards are now very extensive and the bus- iness done by the firm is enormous. They trade under the firm name of Veeder & Brown, and are favorably known in the com- mercial world. His business is skillfully con- ducted along best modern lines, Mr. Veeder giving it personal direction. Mr. Veeder and his wife are attendants of the First Re- fornied Church of Schenectady, which has long been the family church. He is a Demo- crat in politics, but not active. He married, in Glenville, Cora Bradt, born in the town of Rotterdam, Schenectady county, New York, 1868, daughter of Aaron B. and Catherine E. (Gregg) Bradt, granddaughter of Aaron and Eliza C. (Vedder) Bradt, and great-grand- daughter of John A. and Willempie (Mebie) Bradt. John A. Bradt (Johannes, son of Abraham) was fifth child of Abraham Bradt and his wife, Sarah Van Petten. Abraham was the eleventh child of Arent and Catarina (Mebie) Bradt. Arent was the eldest son of Samuel and Susana (Van Slyck) Bradt, and the maternal grandson of Jacques Cornelise Van Slych, "the founder." Samuel was the son of Arent Andriese Bradt, one of the first proprietors of Schenectady in 1662, about which time he died leaving a widow and six children. His wife was Catalyntje, daughter of Andries De Vos, deputy director of Rens- selaerwyck. After the death of her husband the grants of land in and about Schenectady allotted to him were confirmed to her. She married (second) Barent Janse Van Ditmars, who was killed in the massacre of 1690. In 1691 she married (third) Claas Janse Van Bockhoven. One of the children of her first husband (Bradt) was Ariantje, who married the first Ryer Schermerhorn, and daughter, Cornelia, married Jan Poolman and with him suffered death in the Indian massacre of 1690. Abram G. and Cora (Bradt) Veeder are the parents of three children: 1. Carl W., born 1890; now a freshman in Union University, class of 1913. 2. Mabel, born 1892; student in the high school. 3. Raymond B., born 1902.
The first Wilder known in his-
WILDER tory was Nicholas, a military chieftan in the army of the Earl of Richmond at the battle of Bosworth
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in 1485. The fact that Wilder is a German name. and that it is quite common in Ger- many, would indicate that he was one of those who came with the earl from France and landed at Milford Haven. On April 15, 1497, King Henry VII. gave his friend as a token of favor a landed estate with a coat-of-arms. The family seat was at Shiplake until 1777, when Henry Wilder, LL.D., sold Shiplake House on the west bank of the Thames and purchased Purley Hall, two miles from Sut- ham and six miles from Reading, Berkshire county, England, and which is still the family seat.
(I) Thomas Wilder, of the fourth genera- tion from Nicholas Wilder, was born and died at Shiplake. He died in 1634. His widow, Martha Wilder, left Shiplake in May, 1638, for the American colonies. The presumption is strong that Martha was the widow of Thomas Wilder, of Shiplake, England, and that Thomas Wilder, of Charlestown, Mas- sachusetts, was the son of Thomas and Mar- tha Wilder. In the year 1638 there were in the colony of Massachusetts Bay five persons of the name of Wilder, supposed to be of one family. In 1638 the ship "Confidence" sailed from Southampton with emigrants for Massa- chusetts Bay, and in the list of passengers was the widow, Martha Wilder, and her daughter Mary. There were already there Thomas, Elizabeth and Edward Wilder, who are believed to have been the children of Thomas and Martha Wilder, whom the wid- owed mother had sent with friends to the colonies while she disposed of her effects, set- tled her business and after a short time fol- lowed them.
(II) Thomas (2) Wilder, emigrant ances- tor, was made a freeman in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1651, having been received into the church in March, 1640. He filled positions of trust, and was a man of Christian character and business capacity. In 1659 he removed with his family to (now) Lancaster, where he resided until his death in 1667. He was elected selectman of Lancaster in 1660, holding the office until death. He owned a farm of five hundred acres near the center of the present town of Lancaster, which he left by will to his widow Anna, three sons, Thomas (3), John, Nathaniel, and daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Thomas (3) and his mother were the executors. Until 1710 the descendants of Thomas Wilder. the emigrant, were all in the immediate vicinity of Lan- caster, which then embraced the larger part of what is now Leominster, Sterling and Clin- ton, so that a residence in any part of these towns does not imply a removal. Many of
the name still occupy the farms held by their forefathers.
(III) John, son of Thomas (2) and Anna Wilder, was born in 1646. He married, in 1673, Hannah - At the Indian war he fled from Lancaster to Charlestown, where two of his children were baptized. It is sup- posed that he returned to Lancaster after the war was over, but the time of his death is not known. He was one of the original pro- prietors of Worcester, Massachusetts, but it is not known that he ever resided there. He had four sons and two daughters, most of whom lived in South Lancaster (now Clin- ton), from which it is believed the family home was there. He owned a good deal of land, and was a farmer. Children: John, see forward; Thomas, married Sarah Sawyer ; Hannah, died September 26, 1728; James, born 1681; Ebenezer, married Mary - -; died December 25, 1728; Anna, married Jos- eph Willard, a colonel commanding a fort at Brattleboro, Vermont.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) and Han- nah Wilder, was baptized July 12, 1673. He was a farmer of Lancaster. He married Sa- rah Sawyer. Children : Jonas, married Eunice Beaman; Josiah, married Prudence Keyes ; Mary, married William Richardson ; Hannah, born March 4, 1708; Jonathan, see forward ; John, married Prudence Wilder; Thankful, born April 15, 1715; William, married Sa- rah Sawyer.
(V) Jonathan, son of John (2) and Sa- rah (Sawyer) Wilder, was born October 15, 1710. He was a farmer of Lancaster, Mas- sachusetts, where he was born and died. He married, in 1738, Zerviah Houghton. Chil- dren: Silas, died in childhood; Silas (2), of Sterling, Massachusetts ; married Elizabeth Sawyer, and had issue: Martha, born Feb- ruary 16, 1751 ; Hannah, born March 22, 1753, died 1845; Calvin, of Lancaster, married Su- key Celandine, and had issue; Elihn, see for- ward: Martha, born November 3, 1761.
(VI) Elihu, son of Jonathan and Zerviah (Houghton) Wilder, was born February II, 1760. He was a farmer of Lancaster and of Sterling, where he died. He was also a manufacturer of bricks, and in a small way established the business carried on by later generations. He was an active member of the Unitarian church. He married Prudence Manning. Children: I. Jones, born May 7, 1791, died November, 1861 ; succeeded to the homestead farm, and continued the brick- making business founded by his father ; mar- ried Arethusa Manning; his cousin; chil- dren: i. Mark, married Nancy J. Stoddard; ii. Salem, married Betsey S. Shaw; iii. Emily;
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iv. Fordyce, twice married; v. Eliza, married James P. Wickes; vi. Adaline A., married Charles D. Newton ; vii. Jones Warren, mar- ried Jane E. Raymore. He was for many years connected with the Butterick Company. He became president of the company, and lived to see it develop from a very small beginning to a great and prosperous corpora- tion. George Wilder, his son, is the present head of the company, and a resident of New York City. 2. Spencer, see forward. 3. Pru- dence, married Smith, a farmer of Princeton, Massachusetts. 4. Flavel, married, March 2, 1827, Laura Taylor, in Rindge, New Hampshire, and removed to Denmark, Lee county, Iowa, where he became a wealthy farmer and died in old age, leaving six chil- dren. 5. Anna, married Ebenezer Smith. 6. Mahala, married Stacey Lindsey, a merchant of Prescott, Massachusetts, where both died in old age, leaving issue. 7. Ivory, born De- cember 21, 1804, married, April 8, 1830, Louisa Wilson. He was a farmer and ho- tel proprietor of Princeton, Massachusetts, and died at the age of eighty years, leaving four children.
(VII) Spencer, son of Elihu and Prudence (Manning) Wilder, was born in 1798, died in Sterling, Massachusetts, 1866. He succeeded to the brick manufacturing business of which he was the third generation to operate. He enlarged and extended the business, opened new fields or markets, and was very suc- cessful in his undertakings. He retired in his later years to a farm near Sterling, where he died. He was one of the best known men in the state, and ranked high in business cir- cles. He married Harriet Rugg, born in Sterling, Massachusetts, March 30, 1801, died there August 23, 1892, eldest of the thirteen children of Luther and Ruth (Jewett) Rugg. Luther Rugg was born April 12, 1770, died at the age of ninety-two years. He was the son of Amos, born March 20, 1746, and Sarah, his wife, born September 13, 1749. Of the children born to Luther and Ruth (Jewett) Rugg, nearly all grew to years of maturity, married and had issue. They are: Harriet, married Spencer Wilder; Mason ; Luther (2) : Amos; Ruth; Eliza : John A .; Adolphys; Augustus R .; Prentiss M., father of Judge Alfred P. and Oliver Rugg, of Worcester, Massachusetts. The children of Spencer and Harriet (Rugg) Wilder are: I. Harriet, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, died in St. Louis, Missouri; married Ander- son Arnott, a leading liveryman and public man of St. Louis ; he carried on a most ex- tensive business, and was known all over the Mississippi Valley ; he furnished all the equip-
ages used at the funeral of President Lincoln at Springfield, and was in charge of that por- tion of the ceremonies; he was born in Vir- ginia. 2. Jane, died in young womanhood, un- married. 3. Spencer Augustus, see forward. Two children died young.
(VIII) Spencer Augustus, only son of Spencer and Harriet (Rugg) Wilder, was born in Rutland, Massachusetts. He obtained his early education in the public schools, and completed his studies at Leceister and Mun- son academies, and Powers' Institute at Barn- stable, Massachusetts (or Barnstead). He adopted teaching as his profession, and for several years taught at Northfield, Massachu- setts, and elsewhere. Failing health obliged him to abandon that line of work, and he went west to St. Louis, where he remained five years. In 1867 he became associated with the Butterick Company, and began the work of introducing their patterns and spe- cialties to the western trade. They were com- paratively new and unknown at that time, but through hard work and intelligent effort Mr. Wilder met with an abundant success, and did much to establish in popular favor this now strong and prosperous company. He traveled constantly for seven years for the company, and then retired from their employ. In 1871 he settled in Schenectady, where he established a dry goods and millinery store,
which he conducted until 1890, when he re- tired from active business. He is a Republi- can in politics. He married, November 6, 1870, Mary Vedder, born in Rotterdam, Sche- nectady county, New York, in 1834, died in Schenectady, October 6, 1890, a daughter of one of the oldest of the Dutch families of the Mohawk Valley. She was a member of the First Reformed Church of Schenectady, and a most capable business woman. She was her husband's trusted business associate, and contributed in a marked degree to his successful business career. Mr. Wilder has no children. He resides in Schenectady, at 17 North Ferry street. His life has been an active, useful one, and the success he has attained financially has been fairly won and richly deserved.
The first of the Whitcomb WHITCOMB family to settle permanent- ly in America is believed to have been John. He was long supposed to have been the son of Symon Whitcombe, but this has been proved erroneous, and no di- rect proof of his parentage has been found; there are, however, strong reasons for be- lieving that he was the second son of John and Anne Harper Whitcomb. If this theory
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be correct, then John had a direct line of an- cestry to the time of Henry IV. and was en- titled to the coat-of-arms of the Berwick Whitcombs.
John Whitcomb, immigrant ancestor, ap- pears on the records in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, 1633. In 1640 he removed to Scitu- ate, where he owned a farm of one hundred and eight acres, and after 1646, when he became one of the Cohasset partners, he owned the lands which that transaction brought. In Scituate he was constable, a very important office in those days. He was made a freeman after "joining" the church, which was probably in 1635 at Dorchester. Dispos- ing of his lands in Scituate, he removed to Lancaster in 1654. He already owned prop- erty there and acquired more. John Whit- comb had married in England, Frances - ", who died in Lancaster, Massachusetts, May 17, 1671. Children: Catherine, James, John (2), Robert, Jonathan, see forward; Abi- gail, Job, Josiah and Mary.
(II) Jonathan, son of John and Frances Whitcomb, was probably born in England, died in Lancaster, Massachusetts, February, 1690. He served on a jury in Scituate, Feb- ruary 16, 1655, and must have been at least twenty-one at that time. He removed to Lan- caster with his father in 1654, and exercised the rights of a freeman there, where his after life was spent. He acquired some property there. He married, November 25, 1667, Han- nah -+, who survived him two and one- half years, when she was slain by the Indians. Children: Hannah, Jonathan, see forward ; Hannah, Abigail, Elizabeth, Katherine, Ruth, Mary and John.
(III) Jonathan (2), eldest son of Jonathan (1) and Hannah Whitcomb, was born in Lan- caster, Massachusetts, February 26, 1669, died April 10, 1715. (One record gives him as a twin of Hannah.) He married Mary (Blood) Joslin, of Lancaster, between 1685 and 1689. He married (second), Deborah Scripture, of Groton, September 4, 1710. Chil- dren: Jonathan (3), see forward; Joseph, Nathaniel, Hannah, Martha, Ephraim, Mary, Benjamin and Lydia.
(IV) Jonathan (3), eldest son of Jona- than (2) and Mary (Joslin) Whitcomb, was born about 1790, died around 1770. He had nine lime kilns, was a tanner, currier, black- smith, shoemaker, and made coffins. By a deed made October 20, 1716, he is named "Cordwainer." He married at Groton, Mas- sachusetts, May 15, 1716, Deliverance, daugh- ter of James Nutting and granddaughter of Jolın Nutting, and to them were born the fol- lowing children: Jonathan, William, Oliver,
Elizabetlı, Tamer, Lydia, Job, see forward; Martha and Jotham.
(V) Job, seventh child of Jonathan (3) and Deliverance (Nutting) Whitcomb, was born April 16, 1730. He is said to have been a soldier of the revolution, but his record is not yet found satisfactorily, although there is a record of Job Whitcomb serving in Cap- tain Obadiah Beal's (Cohasset) company for five days, marching to Dorchester, March 4, 1776. There are about fifty Whitcombs whose names appear under the heading of Whitcomb and Whitcombe. As this was a common spelling of the family name, it proves their loyalty and patriotism without doubt. He married (first) May 2, 1757, -; (second) March 6, 1769, Abigail Whitney. He may have had a third wife as Templeton records mention "Jemima, daughter of Job and Mary Whitcomb." By these wives he had twelve children: Simeon, Olive, Levi, Reuben, Dille (see forward), Susana, Jemi- ma, Achsah, Mille, Jemima, Abigail and Job.
(VI) Dille, fifth child of Job Whitcomb, was born in Wendell, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 7, 1766, died July 12, 1808. He was married in 1791-92 to Mercy Moore, born in Wendell, March 8, 1772, died in Berlin, St. Clair county, Michigan, January 27, 1854. The descendants of Dille Whitcomb have us- ually been Congregationalists in religious be- lief and Republican in politics. Children: I. Mary, born July 2, 1793, died 1878. 2. John, February 6, 1796; lived and died in Michigan. 3. Levi (see forward). 4. Lucinda, June II, 1800; married Fox; died January 2, 1901, having passed the century mark in age. 5. Dille, August 30, 1802, died unmarried, 1822. 6. Mercy, May 19, 1805, died August 27, 1876. 7. Elmira, May 6, 1808; married Elmore Draper ; died April 9, 1900, aged ninety-two. These two sisters retained their mental and physical vigor to a remarkable degree until their last brief illness.
(VII) Levi, third child of Dille and Mer- cy (Moore) Whitcomb, was born in Hampden county, Massachusetts, March 18, 1798, died in Montgomery county, New York, November II, 1886. He learned the trade of shoemaker, and left Massachusetts in 1841-42 and went to New York state, working at his trade in the various Erie canal towns and cities. He settled for a time at Johnstown and Fon- da, finally on a farm in Montgomery coun- ty, where he ended his days. He was a mem- ber of the old Wyckoff Church; in politics a Republican. He was a man of "Sturdy honesty and upright life." He married (first) October 1, 1822, Anna Maria Miller, of Fon- da, New York, who died June 3, 1840. He
Caloiro whitcomb
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married (second) December 15, 1844, Phebe Ann Hall, of Montgomery county, New York. She survived her husband and lived to be very old, leaving a daughter Jane, now wife of Peter Cline, of Amsterdam, New York. Chil- dren of Levi by his first wife, Anna M. Mil- ler: I. Luther, born April 30, 1830; mar- ried, August 15, 1854, Jane Ann Rulison ; he enlisted in the Union army as a private, was promoted first lieutenant for bravery on the field of battle; returned from the war and later went to the Black Hills; what his fate was has never been learned. 2. Mary Eliza- beth, April 29, 1835; married John Ouder- kirk; she died two years after the birth of her only child, Annie, who later married a Mr. Baker, and died leaving several children. 3. Calvin, see forward. 4. Jennie, November I, 1847 ; married, March 2, 1875, Peter Cline.
(VIII) Calvin, third child of Levi and Anna Maria (Miller) Whitcomb, was born in Johnstown, New York, February 22, 1838. His parents moved to Glen and he was edu- cated and resided in Glen until 1866, when he located in Amsterdam. He worked as a clerk there for five years. In 1871 he es- tablished a grocery store on the south side, then Port Jackson, now ward five of city of Amsterdam. He remained in business there until 1889, when he retired with a competence. He has always been a Republican, known as an active, shrewd leader of his locality. He was postmaster at Port Jackson for many years and served as supervisor of schools in both town and city of Florida. Both Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb are Baptists. Calvin Whitcomb married in Glen, Montgomery county, September 20, 1865, Harriet Mount, born in Glen, February 1, 1841, daughter of Jacob and Susan ( Pickering) Newkirk, both born in Glen. Children: I. Beecher, born February 22, 1867, died August 24, 1869. 2. Frazier Calvin, May 27, 1871 ; was educated in public schools and at Amsterdam Academy ; is a "newspaper man," associated for some time with the Amsterdam Morning Sentinel; married, August 18, 1901, Carrie C., daughter of W. Max Reid, prominent business and literary man of Amsterdam. 3. Lillie, Septem- ber 8, 1874; married, July 23, 1898, J. Henry Palmatier, superintendent of the Axminster rug department of the Stephen Sanford Mills at Amsterdam. Jacob Newkirk, father of Mrs. Whitcomb, was born July 7, 1808, died 1879. He was a contracting carpenter and builder. Susan Pickering, his wife, was born August 10, 1810, died 1898. They were mar- ried June 2, 1828. Both were members of the Dutch Reformed church. They were the parents of twelve children: I. Mary, born
1829, died March 31, 1847. 2. Jane, July 30, 1830; married Isaac T. Davis, a farmer ; they reside in Glen. 3. Stephen, March 12, 1832, died September 17, 1833. 4. Antoinnette, June 30, 1833, died 1902; married Lewis Shutts, also deceased. 5. Alonzo, September 27, 1834, drowned in the Mohawk. 6. Catherine, May 26, 1839; widow of William B. Shutts. 7. Harriet Mount, February 1, 1841; (Mrs. Calvin Whitcomb). 8. Hannah, October 13, 1843, died February 20, 1845. 9. Andrew, September 10, 1845 ; married Anna Quacken- bush. 10. Abigail, October 10, 1847; married Harmon Clizbe Quackenbush; now of Fort Hunter, New York. II. Justice A., July 30, 1849; married William H. Doubleday, now of Johnstown, New York. 12. Newton B., March 29, 1859; married Theodosia Harvey. Jacob Newkirk, grandfather of Mrs. Whit- comb, was a carpenter and builder at an early- date in Montgomery county, where it is sup- posed both he and his wife were born. She was Jane Poole. Some years after marriage they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where both. died, aged about seventy-seven.
WEED The earliest mention of this fam- ily is of Jonas Weed, who came. with the fleet of 1630 and was made a freeman, May 18, 1631. He was dis- missed from the church of Watertown to that of Wethersfield, March 29, 1636 (Savage vol. IV, page 51). He was of Stamford, Fair- field county, Connecticut, in 1642, and re- mained until he died, in 1676, his estate being inventoried June 5 of that year. He names in his will four sons, John, Daniel, Jonas and Samuel ; four daughters, Mary, Dorcas, Han- nah and Sarah. His widow Mary died early in 1690.
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