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toward better conditions. He was the friend of weak churches, and accepted calls from such, giving to their service all his energy and talent. His work was for his Master; not for personal gain or advancement. He was a church builder, and many beautiful and costly edifices stand as monuments to his faith- ful labors. He was beloved of his congre- gations, and served some for many years. He married, August 24, 1837, Lydia Ann Hart- man, born November 4, 1817, died August 8, 1898. She was a woman of strong character and a worthy helpmeet. Both are buried in Green Hill cemetery, Amsterdam. Children: I. Jacob Hartman, born October 4, 1838, died August 21, 1840. 2. James H., June 28, 1840, died in 1891 ; served through the civil war as private in the One Hundred and First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; at the battle of Stone River he was captured and confined for a long time in Libby Prison, thence sent to a military hospital, and near the close of the war was discharged on ac- count of disability. He was broken in health, and was never strong afterward. He mar- ried, in 1868, Mattie Coleman ; children : Irv- ing, Kent, Howard and Florence. 3. Sarah J., March 18, 1842, died June 18, 1845. 4. Martin Luther, October 19, 1845, educated at Wittemburg (Ohio) College, and when but seventeen enlisted in the Seventeenth Ohio Battery, served out his full time, re-enlisted, and served until the close of the war. He saw much hard service, but escaped uninjured. He became a noted jurist, was supreme judge of the fourth judicial district of New York, and is now a leading lawyer of New York City and Amsterdam. He married, Septem- ber 10, 1874, Helen Shuler, of an old Mont- gomery county family ; children : Davis ; John K., deceased; Anna, wife of William Godfrey, of San Francisco, California; Winifred and Elizabeth. 5. George B., born October 4, 1848; superintendent of knitting mill, Ams- terdam ; married, October 23, 1872, Josephine Van Brocklin; sons : Edward J., Charles F., George B. (2d) and Raymond. 6. Charles, see forward.
(IV) Charles Stover, M.D., youngest child of Rev. Martin J. and Lydia Ann' (Hartman) Stover, was born February 28, 1851. He pre- pared for college at Seneca Falls, New York, and in 1871 entered Cornell University, where he remained two years. He then entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the degree of M.D. with the class of 1880. He located in Amsterdam, New York, where for the first three years he was a partner of Dr. William H. Robb, one of the oldest established physi-
cians of the city. At the end of that period he began practicing alone, and is now one of the best known and most skillful physicians of the Mohawk Valley. He is connected with the city, county, state and national associa- tions of his profession, has served in the county and state officially, in 1910-11 as presi- dent of the Medical Society of State of New York, and in 1908 and 1910 was a delegate to the American Medical Association at Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. He is a Master Mason of Artisan Lodge, No. 84, of Amsterdam, has taken the chapter and council degrees, and is a Knight Templar of St. George Commandery, Schenectady. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Amsterdam. His social clubs are the Fort Johnson and Antlers, both of Amsterdam. Dr. Stover takes an active in- terest in the affairs of his city and the benefit of his professional knowledge and experience is given to various institutions for the relief of suffering mankind. He is a member of the Amsterdam Board of Trade: trustee of New York State Hospital for Incipient Tubercu- losis at Ray Brook, New York ; is trustee and on the staff of the City Hospital as consulting physician, and professionally represents lead- ing insurance companies of his city. He is unmarried.
LUNN The Lunn family of Schenectady, New York, are of English ances- try. Through maternal lines they are connected with the great writer, Thomas Carlysle, and in America with the Alden fam- ily of "Mayflower" and Massachusetts fame. Thomas Lunn, a native of Lancaster, Eng- land, was a soldier in the English army, served under the Duke of Wellington and was en- gaged at the battle of Waterloo, witnessing and aiding in the downfall of the great Na- poleon.
(I) Richard Lunn, son of Thomas Lunn, and the founder of the American branch under consideration, was born in Lincolnshire, England, and when a young man came to the United States, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, later removing to the state of Iowa. He mar- ried Martha Aldrich.
(II) Martin, son of Richard and Martha (Aldrich) Lunn, was born in Wyoming, Iowa, September, 1849. He was well educated and became a journalist. He is now (1908) liv- ing a retired life in Denver, Colorado. He married Martha, born 1853, daughter of John
Bratton. Children: William, George Rich- ard, Thomas, Pearl, Lillian, Harrison.
(III) George Richard, son of Martin and Martha (Bratton) Lunn, was born in Lenox,
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Iowa, June 23, 1873. He was educated in the public schools and entered Bellevue College at Bellevue, Nebraska, one of the educational in- stitutions of the Presbyterian church in that state. He was graduated with the degree of Master of Arts from that college, class of 1897. He entered the University of New York and received from that institution in 1900 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He en- tered Princeton Theological Seminary, where after a year's study he abandoned his work and enlisted in the Third Nebraska Regiment for service in the Spanish-American war. This was in 1898. The Third Nebraska Regi- ment was a part of the Seventh Army Corps under General Fitz Hugh Lee, stationed at Jacksonville, Florida. Though retaining his place among the enlisted men he consented at the colonel's request to act as assistant chap- lain and improve the opportunity for Christian work among the thousands of young men in camp. After leaving the army he returned to his studies at Princeton, but a severe illness, the result of his soldier experience, necessi- tated his giving up theological study for a time. During the following year he filled the pulpit of the Bedford Presbyterian Church at Omaha, Nebraska. He then took a special course of study, covering two years' work at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he was graduated in May, 1901. He had in the meantime married, and after graduation, with his wife, he travelled for four months through the countries of southern Europe. On his return to the United States he became assistant pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York. The pastor at that time was Dr. Gregg, with whom he labored most successfully for about three years. In 1904 he accepted a call from the First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, New York, the oldest church organization in that city, and the fifth church of that denomination established in the United States. The oldest records of the church bear date of 1680, but the congregation organized previous to that date. He was pastor of this church until his resignation, January 1, 1910. After his resig- nation he established the People's Church, and is holding (1910) services in the Mohawk Theatre in answer to a demand of a petition signed by fifteen hundred representative men. In 1905 Union College of Schenectady con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Di- vinity, "in recognition of inspiring leadership, of ability already proved, and rich in promise of large service to humanity."
Dr. Lunn is an easy, graceful and forceful speaker, and his sermons are prepared with a
scholarly care which a cultured audience read- ily and thoroughly approves. He is a lecturer of high repute and in demand for lectures upon his favorite themes, "Socialism and the Church," and "Religion." Dr. Lunn is thor- oughly in sympathy with and an earnest ad- vocate on the platform and through the press of the newer theological thought as advocated by Union Theological Seminary of New York, "Christian Socialism." He contends that "Christianity must not only concern itself with cleansing human hearts, but must also cleanse human environment.". That "The transformation of the individual and the simul- taneous transformation of environment is the only program worthy of a full and vital Chris- tianity." He is a close student of economics and has contributed many able articles that have appeared in the Homiletic Review, The Christian Intelligencer, The Christian Social- ist, and the New York daily press. He is a deep thinker and has the uncommon faculty of seeing both sides of a vital question. He is a believer in "organized labor," and while believing that strikes are "terrible under any circumstances," yet contends that "At times there is nothing left for workers to do, how- ever undesirable they may be," believes that "Accidents should be charged to the industry in which they occur," and "accident insurance maintained and charged to operating cost of a given plant," that "The human machine is worthy and entitled to the same protection as the machine of iron or steel." His early training and environments all tended to carry him into the Republican party and make him a believer in the doctrine of "Protection for American industries." The change of con- ditions, he now asserts, makes protection un- necessary and robbery. "If the workingman is to be protected let there be a duty on emi- gration." His solution of the labor problem is "Industrial Democracy, when the users of the tools of production shall be the owners thereof." In 1906 Dr. Lunn published his book, "Thoughts to Inspire Life of Every Day." His "The Church and Socialism" ap- peared in the Homiletic Review in February, 1909, and carried much favorable comment. We quote: "Socialism is simply another form of that great revival of the religious life which had its beginning in the eighteenth century and which taught that all men had value and dignity before God." His address, "Religion," delivered before the New York State Confer- ence of Religion, concludes thus: "Too much of our religion has been sending men up to Heaven for post-mortem bliss, rather than in- spiring these men to consecrate their every effort to bring that holy city, the New Jeru-
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salem, down to earth here, to exert its benefi- cent influences for all that means human in spiration and betterment." He lectures a great deal before Chautauqua and church as- sociations on subjects mentioned under the titles of "Socialism, a Menace or a Promise, Which?" "The Evolution of Industry," "De- mocracy or Despotism; Which?" "Two Sides of Christianity." In addition to his pulpit, platform and literary engagements, Dr. Lunn is secretary of the City Mission Society of Schenectady and of the Historical Society; trustee of the Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Sagamore Sociological Con- ference and of the Christian Socialist Fellow- ship.
He married, May 17, 1901, in Brooklyn, New York, Mabel, daughter of Frank and Mabel Carrington (Raymond) Healy. Mr. Healy is a director of the United States Leather Company, and connected with several banking and industrial corporations of New York. Children: 1. George Richard (2), born 1901. 2. Mabel Carrington, 1902. 3. Elizabeth Healy, 1904. 4. Raymond Healy, 1907.
From the "New England STANTON Historical and Genealogical Register" it is learned (vol. II, p. 113) that on January 2, 1635, Thomas Stanton took passage for Virginia in the mer- chantman "Bonaventure," and that he re- corded himself as being twenty years old. There was a John Stanton in Virginia prior to 1635, and from 1652 to 1658 there are rec- ords of a Robert Stanton, of Dorchester, Mas- sachusetts, and of a Robert Stanton, of New- port, Rhode Island, a Quaker, who died 1672, aged seventy-three years. His descendants are numerous in the United States, and many of them still adhere to the Society of Friends. Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's great war secre- tary, was a direct descendant of this Robert of Newport. There is no evidence that Thomas and Robert Stanton were related or even ac- quainted, or in fact that Thomas was related to any Stanton then in America. The records in New London that might have told who he was and from whence he came were destroyed in 1781 by Benedict Arnold when he sacked and burned that town. Thomas did not long remain in Virginia. In 1636 he is on record in Boston, Massachusetts, as a magistrate. He next appears in connection with the Pequot war. Miss Caulkins says: "The services of Mr. Stanton as interpreter during the Pequot war were invaluable." In De Forest's "His- tory of the Connecticut Indians," he says : "Some time in April ( 1637) a small vessel
arrived at the fort (Saybrook, then com- manded by General Lion Gardner), having on board Thomas Stanton, a man well acquainted with the Indian language, and long useful to the colonial authorities as interpreter." He was one of the magistrates in the trial of John Wheelwright at Boston, October 3, 1637. He now married, and in February, 1639, is num- bered among the one hundred and twenty- seven property holders of Hartford, Connec- ticut, with his father-in-law, Dr. Thomas Lord, who held the first medical license granted in the New England colonies. He came to Amer- ica with Dorothy, his wife, April 29, 1635, in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann." From this time Thomas is of frequent mention in the records as Stanton, Staunton and Steynton. The name is compounded of two Anglo-Saxon words-Stan, meaning stone, and Ton, mean- ing town: Stonetown, or Stanton. His name appears on all Indian deeds and transactions of that period between 1636 and 1670. He was required to be present wherever a court conference or treaty was to be held. In 1649 he had permission to erect a trading house on Pawtatuck, with six acres of ground and a monopoly of trade on the river for three years. He probably went to Pequot in 1651 and took up his permanent residence in Stonington in 1658. In March, 1652, he was granted three hundred acres laid out in a square upon the river, next his former grant of six acres. In 1659 Chief Cassawashitt deeded to him the whole of Pawtatuck Neck, and the small islands that lay near it, known as "The Hom- mocks." This grant was confirmed by the court 1671. He removed his residence in 1658 to Wequetequock Cove, two and one- half miles from Stonington. He was the third settler there. This territory then belonged to the Massachusetts plantation, and was called Southington, Suffolk county, Massachusetts. In 1662 Charles II gave Connecticut a new charter that included Southington. In 1665 the name was changed to Mystic, and in 1667 the final change was made to Stonington. Per- haps the prominence and numbers of the Stan- tons had something to do with selecting a name so much like their own in etymology and meaning. In 1665 he was commissioner with authority to hold a semi-annual court at New London, the county seat. In September, 1666, the first court ever held in the county was assembled. The commissioners or judges were Major Mason, Thomas Stanton and Lieuten- ant Pratt. He was now continually in public office; the last honor to come to him was in 1666, when he was elected a member of the general assembly of Connecticut, to which he was re-elected each year until his death in
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1677. He continued useful in Indian affairs, although largely superseded as interpreter by his sons, who all spoke the Indian dialect and were much in demand. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Stoning- ton, which he helped to organize. His son-in- law. Rev. James Noyes, was first pastor of that church. His long, active, useful and honorable life ended December 2, 1677. He is buried in the old family burying ground on the east side of Wequetequock Cove, about halfway between Stonington, Connecticut, and Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1637 he mar- ried Ann, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Doro- thy Lord, of Hartford, Connecticut. She died 1688, surviving her husband eleven years. Children : 1. Thomas (2), born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1638, died April 11, 1718; he was a farmer and Indian interpreter ; married Sarah, oldest daughter of Captain George Denison ; seven children. 2. Captain John, see forward. 3. Mary, born 1643; married Sam- uel Rogers, November 17, 1662; nine chil- dren. 4. Hannah, married Nehemiah Palmer, November 20, 1662; six children. 5. Joseph, born 1646, in Hartford, Connecticut ; was as- sistant magistrate; married, June 19, 1673, Hannah Mead; two children; married (sec- ond) Hannah Lord; two children; married (third) Prentice; three children. 6. Daniel, born 1648, died in the Barbadoes before 1688; left son Richard. 7. Dorothy, born 1651 ; married Rev. James Noyes, September II, 1674; seven children. 8. Robert, born 1653; married Joanna Gardiner, November 12, 1677 ; eight children. 9. Sarah, born 1655; married (first) Thomas Prentice ; four children ; she married (second) William Denison; three children. 10. Samuel, born 1657; married Borodell Denison, June 16, 1680; three chil- dren.
(II) Captain John, second son of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton. was born in Hart- ford, Connecticut, 1641, died October 31, 1713, in Stonington, Connecticut. He and John Minor in 1654 were selected by the court of commissioners to be educated for teachers of the Gospel to the Indians, but both ultimately left their studies and engaged in other pursuits. In 1664 he was the first re- corder of Sothertown. February 18, 1675, he was commissioned captain of one of the four Connecticut regiments in King Philip's war. He served with distinction, and was in com- mand at the capture of Canoncliet, the chief sachem of the Narragansetts. He married, 1664, Hannah Thompson, either daughter or sister of Rev. William Thompson (2), who was son of Rev. William Thompson (I), of Braintree, Massachusetts. Before his death
Captain Jolin divided his real estate among his sons. Children: John (2), see forward ; Joseph, married Margaret Cheeseboro ; Thom- as, married his cousin Anna Stanton ; Ann, died aged seven years; Theophilus, married Elizabeth Rogers; Dorothy, born 1680, died "in travail," April 28, 1699.
(III) John (2), son of John and Hannah (Thompson) Stanton, was born in Stoning- ton, Connecticut, May 22, 1665. He was a farmer on lands in Preston, Connecticut, given him by his father. His will, dated Feb- ruary 13, 1747, was admitted to probate in Norwich, Connecticut, July 8, 1755. His wife Mary - and son Jabez were the executors. Births of children, recorded in Preston : 1. John (3), born November 13, 1706; married Desire Denison, 1735 ; ten chil- dren. 2. Daniel, see forward. 3. Joseph, born February II, 1710; married Abigail Freeman, 1737; nine children. 4. Lydia, born July 15, 1712; married Daniel Leonard, August 9, 1733. 5. Robert, born February 20, 1714; married, 1741, Mary Lester ; five children. 6. Hulda, born June 3, 1716. 7. Jabez, born December 19, 1718; married, September 9, 1745, Sarah Moiss ; eleven children. 8. David, born October 22, 1720; married, 1755, Sarah Kimball. 9. Mary, born September 1I, 1722. 10. Sarah, born January 20, 1724. II. Sam- uel, born June 20, 1726; married, November I, 1754, Mary Palmer ; eight children.
(IV) Daniel, son of John (2) and Mary Stanton, was born in Preston, Connecticut, June 8, 1708. His will is dated February 22, 1775, and he was then in a dying condition. He was a farmer of Preston all his days. He married (first) Dinah (one authority says Stark, another says Galusha; there is strong probability that her name was Stark). She was the mother of ten of his children, and died after 1754. He married (second) Mary Clark, mother of his last child. Chil- dren, all born in Preston: I. Daniel (2), born 1738, died before his father. 2. Huldah, born 1740 ; married Judah Burton. 3. Amasa, born 1742, died young. 4. Elias, born 1744, died young. 5. John (3), see forward. 6. Lydia, born 1748; married Abel Bennett. 7. Lucy, born 1750 ; unmarried. 8. Elisha, born Octo- ber, 1752; married, 1781, Anna Rust. 9. Eli- jah, born 1754. At the age of fourteen he en- listed in the revolutionary army and served throughout the war. He was for a time the body servant of General Washington. He was captured and confined in the prison ship "Jersey." After the war he settled near Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York, and died in 1832. He married Lucy, daughter of Abi- jah Goodell, of Long Island, and had ten
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children. 10. Lois, married Adin Palmer. II. Daniel (2), born September 15, 1764; mar- ried (first) Sally Jackson ; (second ) Mehit- able Morton ; he was a farmer and carpenter, a Methodist and a Democrat; he died in Granby, New York, August 4, 1830.
(V) John (3), son of Daniel and Dinah (Stark or Galusha) Stanton, was born in Preston, Connecticut, November 16, 1746. In 1790 he moved to Charlestown, Montgomery county, New York, where his wife died. In 1815 he went with his son, Captain Amasa, to Hornby, Steuben county, New York, where he died March 16, 1818. He was a farmer and large land owner. He married, January 14, 1774, Huldah Freeman, born October 9, 1757, in Preston, Connecticut, a descendant of Jo- seph Freeman, who settled in New London, Connecticut, in 1698. After the death of his wife Huldah, John Stanton went to Connec- ticut, and married a second wife, name un- known. She died soon and left no issue. Children : 1. John (4) Warren, born July II, 1775, died January 27, 1850 ; married Hannah Corbin, in Charlestown, New York; (second) Sally Gile, and had seven children. 2. Dan- iel (2), born April 15, 1781, died in Copen- hagen, New York, January 26, 1859 ; he was a Free Communion Baptist, a Republican and a farmer ; he married Dorcas Corbin, February 2, 1806; six children. 3. Elisha, born April 25, 1783, died February 22, 1848, in Hornby, New York; he was a farmer and merchant, a Baptist, and a Whig; married Salvina Tracy; six children. 4. Abijah, born Febru- ary 13, 1785; died unmarried, in Hornby, New York, April 15, 1810. 5. Captain Amasa, born June 6, 1788, died December 28, 1843. In 1815 he removed to Steuben county, New York, cut his own road six miles from Painted Post, New York, taking the first team of horses into the town of Hornby. He was a deacon of the Baptist church, and a man of influence. He married, in Charlestown, New York, Dimmis Brown, who died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the home of her son Judson, September 13, 1878. They had seven children. 6. Lucy, the first child born of his family in Charlestown, New York, the others all born in Preston. She was born Septem- ber 7, 1791, married Dr. Hosea Palmer, and lived in Hornby, New York. She died in 1829, leaving a son, Dr. Alex. Palmer. 7. Huldah, born August 21, 1793, died April 16, 1857; married Isaac Hill; six children. 8. Freeman, see forward. 9. Sallie, born June 21, 1798, died August 6. 1839, in Charlestown, her birthplace : married Nathan Kimball ; four children.
(VI) Freeman, youngest son of John and
Huldah (Freeman) Stanton, was born in Charlestown, Montgomery county, New York, March II, 1796, died in Middleburgh, Scho- harie county, New York, July 3, 1870. Ile was a merchant of the village of Middleburgh, where he had a successful business career. He retired to a large farm which he owned near the village, where he died. He was an inti- mate friend of Governor Bouck, of New York, General Jay Cady, and David Cady Smith. When Governor Bouck was appointed to the United States treasuryship at New York City he would not accept until his friend Stanton had promised to go with him as his assistant. He married, August 3, 1820, Maria, daughter of Abraham Lawyer, granddaughter of Johanns, who landed in America June 10, 1710. She was baptized April 3, 1798, and died May 3, 1869. Children, all born in Mid- dleburgh: 1. George Smith, born May 26, 1821, died April 17, 1890; succeeded his father in business at Middleburgh until 1859, when he removed to Albany, New York, later to South Norwalk, Connecticut ; married, Au- gust 20, 1851, Julia Hollenbeck, of Albany ; three children. 2. Charlotte Cady, born Octo- ber 30, 1822, died at age of six years. 3. Abraham Lawyer, see forward. 4. Louisa C., born April 9, 1826, died, unmarried, March 26, 1882. 5. Jay Cady, born March 23, 1828; killed in battle, September 8, 1862, a soldier in Seventy-sixth Regiment, New York Volun- teers. 6. John L., born April 26. 1830, died July 29, 1877 ; married, September 8, 1859, Adelia L. Borst, born 1838, now living (1910) in Middleburgh ; one child, Belle. 7. Alonzo Page, born June 2, 1832, died September 24, 1885, in Woodlawn, California, unmarried. 8. Charlotte Cady, born September 7, 1834 ; mar- ried James Foland; lived in Penn's Grove, New Jersey ; no issue. 9. Sarah Ann, born October 16, 1836, died November 6, 1894; married, March 24. 1862, Barent V. Kniskern ; daughter Alice, married Schuyler Vroman, of Middleburgh, and had Harold and Schuyler Vroman. 10. Helen A. H., born December 21, 1839; married, October 24, 1864, Andrew McHench, now of Fargo, North Dakota, and had two sons.
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