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perior. Moreover, absolute justice was his sole aim and endeavor. In 1855 he published his first legal work "Bailments," which was wel- comed by the bench and bar as one of the best American works on that subject. The work has steadily grown in favor ever since, and in 1878 he revised it, citing decisions and adding new chapters. Many new and per- plexing questions had come before the courts for discussion and adjudication, concerning collateral, transportation, telegraphic mes- sages, etc. Upon these new subjects, the sec- ond edition demonstrated that he was thor- oughly informed as to the decisions of the courts. In 1857 his next work appeared, "Bills and Notes," an unsurpassed, complete treatise of great value to the lawyer and to the student. A second edition was published in 1863. In 1870 he published "Factors and Brokers." He wrote and published several es- says and biographical sketches of his asso- ciates of the bench and bar. He thoroughly understood the law and loved to elucidate its principles.
Isaac Edwards was a friend of the public school system and used his pen and influence to secure needed improvements. He lectured occasionally before the Albany Law School at the request of Professor Amos Dean. His clearness of diction, fullness of illustration and correctness of definition, proved his fitness to fill the position made vacant by Professor Dean's death, and he was unanimously chosen for the vacant chair. From that time until his death, he was the moving spirit and vital force of the Law School, delivering half the lec- tures and presiding at nearly all the courts of exemplification and instruction. The classes graduating under him were witness to the ex- cellence both of the matter and manner of his instructions. Four years previous to his death, he was chosen a member of the board of pub- lic instruction and chairman of the law com- mittee. He was not strongly partisan in poli- tics ; in his early manhood he was a Whig and later a Republican. He was useful to his party as a campaign orator, and as a speaker he was clear, logical and forcible, using nice distinctions and strong illustrations. Mr. Ed- wards was an earnest Christian, formerly a Presbyterian ; he assisted in the organization of the Congregational church in Albany, and was one of the committees to prepare its arti- cles of faith and mode of government. He is remembered not alone as a conscientious, capable lawyer, beloved instructor and success- ful author, but for his higher virtues as a man as well.
Isaac Edwards married Anna, daughter of Rev. William and Marcia ( Ames) James. She
died July 9, 1907. Children: Katharine James, Henry Ames, and Elizabeth.
(VII) Henry Ames is the only living son of Isaac and Anna (James)-Edwards.
This family was founded in EDWARDS America prior to the revolu- tion by William Edwards, of whom little can be learned further than he was born in Wales and emigrated when a young man. He settled in Ulster county, was later of Livingston Manor, Columbia county, where he married and died. His wife was a Miss Smith, and he reared a family including sons John, William, Solomon, and daughters Nel- lie, married William Hubbs, and Polly, mar- ried Thomas Hubbs.
(II) John, son of William Edwards, was born in Livingston Manor, New York, in 1791, where he was reared and educated. He set- tled in Glen, Montgomery county, New York, about 1810. He was a farmer of Montgomery county the remainder of his life, owned a good farm, and was a man of superior attainments and highly respected in the town. He mar- ried Ann Van Schaick, born on Staten Island, New York, 1790, died in Glen, 1876. John Edwards died in 1877 and both are buried in the Glen cemetery. Children : 1. William H., see forward. 2. Anna M., born March, 1818, died September 26, 1899; married Stephen Ostrom. 3. Margaret L., born October 17, 1819, dieđ January 20, 1908. 4. John V. S., born Febru- ary 17, 1822, died July 2, 1887; married Mrs. Mary (Hosford) Mitchell ; children : J. S. G., a leading citizen of Glen; Edward, Mary E. and Geddes H. 5. Eleanor E., born 1824, died unmarried October 5, 1896. 6. Thomas, born in 1827, died unmarried, 1852. 7. James, died in infancy. 8. Antoinette E., born May 22, 1831, died August 25, 1889; married James Barhyte, deceased, leaving a daughter, Julia V., who married Wright, of Cleveland, Ohio; children: Antoinette and Wright. 9. Jane, born July 9, 1833 ; married Newton Van Derveer, whom she survives, a resident of St. Joseph, Michigan ; children : i. Grace, married Anthony Canavan, of St. Joseph, Michigan; ii. Jane, married Professor George Wagner of the Northwestern University, Madison, Wis- consin ; children: Newton, Carl and Grace Wagner. After the death of Mr. Van Der- veer, his wife assumed the management of his affairs, succeeded him as director of the First National Bank, which he organized at Benton Harbor, and has proved herself a capable woman of affairs.
(III) William H., eldest son of John and Ann (Van Schaick) Edwards, was born in Glen, Montgomery county, New York, Janu-
Stemry A. Bavards
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ary 2, 1817, died June 25, 1881. He was reared on the farm, and after marriage set- tled on his own farm in Glen, where he lived and died a farmer. He married, in Glen, March 22, 1842, Eleanor S. Mount, born in Glen, April 22, 1823, died April 25, 1874, daughter of Matthias and Elizabeth (Van Vetchen) Mount. This marriage connects the Edwards family with some of the oldest Dutch blood in the Mohawk Valley. Matthias Mount, born October 5, 1787, died in his na- tive town, Glen, January 19, 1862, son of John Mount, died 1844. Elizabeth Van Vetchen was the daughter of Anthony and Mary (Fonda) Van Vetchen, the latter a daughter of Jellis Fonda, and granddaughter of Hamil- ton Fonda, born in 1701. Jellis Fonda was an early pioneer settler in Montgomery county, and a noted character in the days of the revo- lution.
Children of William H. and Eleanor S. (Mount) Edwards, born in Glen: I. Hen- rietta, born January 18, 1843, died October 5, 1861 ; married Fletcher Van Wie, left no is- sue. 2. John, born February 5, 1844, died un- married, May 5, 1900. 3. Anna M., born De- cember 14, 1845, became the second wife of Fletcher Van Wie. 4. Elizabeth, born April I, 1848, died unmarried, February 4, 1901. 5. William H. (2), see forward. 6. Louise, twin of William H., died in infancy. 7. Matthias M., August 12, 1852; married Elizabeth Ved- der, no issue. 8. Stephen O., January 22, 1855; graduated from Brown University and the Boston Law School ; member of the well- known law firm of Edwards & Angel, Provi- dence, Rhode Island; married Ellen Chace ; children : Walter A., born May 19, 1888; Helen C., born September 22, 1889; Edith W., August 14, 1890. 9. Frank, born March 7. 1857 ; a farmer of Glen ; married Hannah Van Horne; children: i. Elizabeth, born August 9, 1885; married Edward Milas, of Palmer, New York; child, Lucy; ii. Irene, born Sep- tember 25, 1889; iii. Anna, born April 9, 1893. IO. Eleanor, born December 6, 1863; married Louis E. Lounsbery, of Randall, New York, rural mail carrier ; child, Mary E., born No- vember 22, 1905. II. Seeber, born October 7, 1869; graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, is an attorney of Provi- dence, Rhode Island; married Sarah E. Gur- ney ; children : Charles G., born May 25, 1897, and William Henry, born December 5, 1898. (IV) William H. (2), son of William H. (I) and Eleanor S. (Mount) Edwards, was born in Glen, New York, May 23, 1850. He was reared on the farm, educated in the Glen schools and is one of the successful agricul- turalists of the town. He is a man of superior
mental ability and is modern in thought, keep- ing abreast of the times in all things. He is a Republican in politics. He married, in Root, Montgomery county, January 18, 1883. Mary E. Lounsbery, born in Root, March 19, 1858; educated at Hungerford Collegiate Institute ; a person of education herself, as is her hus- band, they have bestowed the same advantages upon their children, making theirs a home of culture and refinement. Mrs. Edwards is a daughter of Louis (2) and Mary A. (Martin) Lounsbery, and a granddaughter of Louis ( I) Lounsbery, of Ulster county, New York. Louis (2) Lounsbery was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 6, 1813, died in Ran- dall, Montgomery county, November 27, 1894. He was prominent in political and public life ; was port warden of New York City ; superin- tendent of canals, and filled various other pub- lic positions of trust. He married (first) Cor- nelia Van Valkenburg ; children of this mar- riage : Helen M., born November 7, 1840; John E., born November 29, 1842, died May 26, 1868; Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 7, 1844, died December 10, 1844; Jacob, born September 24, 1845, died Feb- ruary 20, 1846; George H., born February 23, 1847, died January 25, 1890; Louis, born May 12, 1850, died March 24, 1851. He mar- ried ( second) Mary A. Martin, born Novem- ber 13, 1825, died in Root, April 18, 1900; children : Williard B., born February 14, 1854. died January 20, 1891, unmarried ; Louis E .. born October 8, 1856, married (first) Isa- belle Bevins and had Leroy, Louis and Walk- er ; married (second) Eleanor Edwards, and has Mary E., born November 22, 1905: Mary E. married William H. Edwards, aforemen- tioned; Thurlow Weed, born February 6, 1860, died January 23, 1901, unmarried ; Louisa A., February 18, 1866, died December 25, 1902, unmarried ; she was a teacher in the public schools; Daisy E .. August 23. 1867, graduate of the Boston School of Oratory, is a gifted elocutionist and teacher at Fulton, New York. Children of William II. and Mary E. (Lounsbery) Edwards: I. Lucy, born April 1, 1884; is devoted to the home. 2. John L., born August 14, 1885; graduate of Worcester Academy, class of 1904, now a stu- dent at Albany Medical College. 3. Eleanor M .. born September 3. 1888: now (1910) a ·student of Cornell University, class of 1911.
The Stanton family of Co- STANTON hoes, New York, of which Edward J. Stanton is repre- sentative, descend from an Irish ancestor, William Stanton, steward of the Irish estate of Lord Tennyson, situated in Kadew, county
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Roscommon. William Stanton married and
had issue.
(II) Thomas, son of William Stanton, was born in county Roscommon, Ireland. He grew to manhood in his native county where he joined one of the patriotic Irish societies which came under the ban of the English gov- ernment. Thomas fled to France and from thence came to the United States in 1832 while still a young man and settled in Troy, New York. He died in Cohoes, New York, in 1876. He married in Troy, New York, Winifred Flynn. They were members of St. Bernard's Catholic church. They were the parents of seven children.
(III) William, son of Thomas and Wini- fred (Flynn) Stanton, born in Brunswick, Rensselaer county, New York, February 8, 1838, died at Cohoes, New York, September 28, 1905. He was educated in the public schools of the town, and on arriving at suit- able age, learned the mason's trade, including then that of the bricklayer and plasterer. When he was eighteen years of age he located in Cohoes, completed his trade and worked for several years as a journeyman. He later formed a partnership with Cornelius Houli- han, and as Stanton & Houlihan engaged in extensive building operations. They built the original Harmony Mill No. 3 and it was while excavating for the foundations of this building that the fossil remains of a mastodon were un- covered. These were carefully preserved by Mr. Stanton, and are now exhibited at the State Museum of Natural History at Albany. Dissolving the connection with Mr. Houlihan after a few years, he formed a partnership with John B. Doyle in 1880, and as Stanton & Doyle, built the reservoir known as No. 2. In 1881 the firm dissolved and was succeeded by Stanton & Neary, the new firm being Wil- liam Stanton and James Neary, who continued until 1898. The firm constructed a number of fine churches and schools, including St. Agnes' Roman Catholic church; St. John's Episcopal church ; St. James' Methodist church; the addi- tion to the Remsen Street Methodist Epis- copal church, North Side high school No. 2, and a great number of the large mills and fac- tories of Cohoes and vicinity. They also se- cured and completed many street paving con- tracts for the city and paved the first street in the city to be so improved, Willow street. In 1898 Stanton & Neary dissolved, Mr. Stanton continuing his contracting business alone. He. was a noted builder and his contracts with int- dividuals or city were faithfully executed. He was largely interested in the banks of Cohoes and in other business enterprises. For a num- ber of years he was a partner of Hugh Gra-
ham, forming the well-known grocery firm of Stanton & Graham, later disposing of his in- terest to Hugh Conway. When the Manufac- turers' Bank was organized in 1873 he was chosen second vice-president, and soon after became first vice-president. At the time of his death he was president of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, and of the Firemen's Exempt Association, a right which he gained by years of free duty as a member of Alden Hose Com- pany. He gave much time to public service of his city. When Cohoes was a village, in 1868, he was elected trustee, served for two years, and was re-elected on the expiration of his term. He also served as a deputy sheriff. He was a strong supporter of the Democratic party and was one of its leaders. He repre- sented the first ward in the board of aldermen for two years; was president of the board of education four years and served with zeal and pronounced ability in these important posi- tions. He was an active member of St. Ber- nard's Roman Catholic church for many years but later joined with St. Agnes' church when that parish was formed. He was the first president of the Young Men's Library Asso- ciation connected with St. Bernard's church. He was well known to all classes and the great attendance at his funeral was a sincere testi- monial to his popularity and to the high es- teem in which he was held. It is said to have been the largest funeral ever held in Cohoes. He married Ellen Ward, born February 26, 1842, at Hudson, New York, who survives him, a resident of Cohoes. Children : I.
Thomas, born May 6, 1864, died July 29, 1876. 2. Mary E., married Frank Ablett, of the firm of Ablett & Bowes, contractors of Cohoes; children : Helen B., Serena M., Francis D., and William Stanton Ablett. 3. William A., born January 10, 1869. 4. Margaret I., born February 5, 1874. 5. John W., graduate of St. Bernard's Academy and Albany Law School, a practicing attorney of Cohoes. 6. Edward Joseph, see forward. 7. Genevieve F.
(IV) Edward Joseph, son of William and Ellen (Ward) Stanton, was born in Cohoes, New York, May 13, 1879. He was educated at St. Bernard's Academy, Cohoes, and La Salle Institute, Troy. Deciding to become an undertaker and funeral director, he pursued a
full course in Renouard's School of Embalm- ing in New York City, graduating in 1905. For four years he worked in New York, with J. McLarney & Son, and with John Irving, prominent funeral directors and embalmers of New York, and was also employed by a New York and Brooklyn wholesale casket house. In 1900 he returned to Cohoes and established himself at No. 15 Willow street as a funeral
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director. He is a master of his business and is laying the foundation for a successful career. He is well known in the city and exceedingly popular. He is an active member of St. Ag- nes' Roman Catholic church, the Knights of Columbus, and the Cohoes Field Club. He is unmarried.
MUSSEY This name, spelled Mussey, Muzzey and Muzzy, is first of record in New England in 1635. The name is common in Maine, New Hampshire and New York, branches of the parent stock having settled in these states. The family is of English descent.
(I) Abraham Mussey and John Mussey, brothers, were passengers on the ship "John and Mary," that arrived at Boston in 1634. John Mussey was of Ipswich in 1635; re- moved to Salisbury ; died April 12, 1690.
(II) Benjamin Mussey, of Malden, son of John Mussey, of Ipswich, married Alice Dex- ter. Children : Benjamin and Joseph.
(III) Benjamin (2) Mussey, of Lexington, son of Benjamin (1) and Alice (Dexter) Mussey, married Sarah -, and among their children were Mary and John.
(IV) John Mussey, believed to be son of Benjamin (2) and Sarah Mussey, was born in January, 1689, died October 26, 1723. He married Hannah, born September, 1693, died November 29, 1748. Children : John, born 1714; Elizabeth, 1716; Reuben, see forward; Benjamin. John Mussey removed from Lex- ington to Kingston, Massachusetts, prior to 1720.
(V) Reuben Mussey, of Amherst and Dub- lin, New Hampshire, son of John and Hannah Mussey, was born in Kingston, Massachusetts, November 28, 1720, died November 20, 1788. He removed to Souhegan West, about 1750. He married, in 1743, Sarah Phelps, of Ando- ver, Massachusetts. Children: Jonathan, Dr. John, Sarah, Stewart, Reuben Dimond.
(VI) Reuben Dimond, son of Reuben and Sarah (Phelps) Mussey, was born in Kings- ton, Massachusetts, November 16, 1749; was baptized three days later; died in Pomfret, Vermont, September 25, 1819. He removed to Pomfret about 1810. His remains are said to have been stolen from his grave and never recovered. He married Sarah Straw, of Ep- ping. Children: Jonathan, John, Daniel, see forward; Reuben, a lawyer of New York; Sarah and Hannah Dimond.
(VII) Daniel, son of Reuben Dimond and Sarah (Straw) Mussey, was born July 7, 1778. He married Naomi Gage, of Merrimack, New Hampshire, and had children: Elbridge Ger- ry, see forward : Aaron, Benjamin and Sarah.
(VIII) Elbridge Gerry, son of Daniel and Naomi (Gage) Mussey, was born in Merri- mack, New Hampshire, October 10, 1812, died at Cohoes, New York, September 1, 1889. He was reared on the farm, and given the usual early common school education. He was quite youthful when he began business life as clerk in a general store at Nashua. New Hampshire. In the latter city he learned the trade of tailoring and later had his own place of business there. Subsequently he re- moved to Cohoes, New York, and for several years conducted a tailoring establishment in that city. He later engaged in the retail drug business and was in that line until his death. He was a Whig until the formation of the Republican party, and then became an ac- tive supporter of that organization. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married (first) - - - Boutwell. Children : 1. Mary. 2. Sarah, survives her husband. Coffin ; resides at Cameron Mills, New York, with daughter Sabra. 3. Harriet Augusta, married Harvey Reinhart ; two children : Addie and Effie. He married (second) April 24, 1840, Isabella Maria Mudge, born September 5, 1818, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Fenno) Mudge, grand- daughter of "Cornet" Joseph Mudge, a revo- lutionary soldier, and great-granddaughter of Deaton John Mudge, of Malden, Massachu- setts, great-great-granddaughter of George Mudge, who was a son of James Mudge, killed at Bloody Brook by the Indians during King Philip's war, and a grandson of Thomas Mudge, the emigrant, who was of Boston, Oc- tober 8, 1634. Joseph Mudge, father of Isa- bella M. and Caroline A. Mudge, came to Co- hoes, New York, in 1835. He was an expert machinist and operated a plant for the manu- facture of needles used in knitting machines. He made the first needles ever used for that purpose. His daughter Cornelia was the first woman who learned to knit on machines op- erated by water power. Isabella Maria (Mudge) Mussey died in Cohoes, March 31. 1844. Child, Josephine Isabella, born March 18, 1841. Mr. Mussey married (third) June 8. 1845, Caroline Augusta Mudge, sister of his second wife, born in Westminster, Massa- chusetts, February 21, 1823, died September 21, 1846. Child, Caroline Arabella, married John N. Thayer, of North Hampton, Massa- chusetts. Mr. Mussey married ( fourth) Sar- ah Welch ; one child, Isadora, married William Eaton. He married (fifth) Catherine Efnor. born in Saratoga county, New York, near Saratoga Springs, April 11, 1830; died in Co- hoes, New York, April 4, 1901, daughter of James and - (Bradt) Efnor. James Ef-
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nor was born at Schenectady, New York, 1799, and died at Cohoes. He was a farmer and a carpenter. Most of his life was passed in Saratoga county. His wife was a descend- ant of Aaron Bradt, an early settler in the Hudson Valley on land granted him by the Dutch government. Children of Elbridge Gerry by his fifth wife: George Elbridge, born in Cohoes, February 29, 1864; graduated from Egbert high school in 1880; spent two years at the Boston Conservatory of Music; now resident of St. Paul, Minnesota ; married Louise - --; James Edwards, see forward. (IX) James Edwards, youngest son of El- bridge Gerry and Catherine ( Efnor) Mussey, was born in Cohoes, New York, September 6, 1865. He was educated in the Cohoes com- mon schools; entered Egbert high school, graduating in the class of 1883. He entered the employ of the Manufacturers' Bank of Cohoes as messenger boy, and after five years' service was promoted bookkeeper, continuing nineteen years; December 1906, was advanced to the responsible position of teller, and so continues (1910). He is a supporter of the Republican party, and in November, 1907, was appointed civil service commissioner for Co- hoes, serving two years. Beyond attending party conventions as delegate, he has not been active in politics. He is an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Co- hoes; was assistant superintendent of the Sunday school three years, and since April, 1910, superintendent ; was a member of the board of stewards three years, and since 1909 a trustee of that church. He married, April 15, 1903, at Cohoes, Jenny Lind, born De- cember 23, 1881, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, daughter of William Lind, of Scotland, and his wife. Alice Ashworth. This is the family of Jennie Lind, the world-famed "Swedish Nightingale." Thomas Lind, her father, was a Scotchman and married a Swedish girl. He was detected in smuggling and in illicit dis- tilling, which compelled his flight to Sweden. For this reason the great singer never ac- knowledged her Scotch ancestry. John Lind, a brother of Thomas, remained in Scotland; married Elizabeth Meek and both died there, leaving issue. James, son of John and Eliza- beth Lind, was born in Scotland about 1800, died in Cohoes, New York, about 1868. He came to Upper Canada in 1847, and to Cohoes six months prior to his death. He married in Scotland, Agnes Gray and had issue. Wil- liam, son of James and Agnes Lind, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1842. died at Platts- mouth, Nebraska, January, 1882. He married Alice Ashworth in 1872 and had issue. Jenny Lind, daughter of William and Alice (Ash-
worth) Lind, married James Edwards Mussey. Children: Ranald Edwards, born April 29, 1904; Ruth Eleanor, August 23, 1906; Gay- lord Efnor, February 26, 1909.
This particular branch of the GRANGER Granger family of Cohoes, New York, was planted in the United States by David Granger, born in Acadie, Canada, in 1829, died February 8, 1878, in Cohoes, New York. He came to the United States in 1862, where he engaged in work in an axe factory. David was a son of Claude Granger, who was born and died at St. Alexander, Canada. David Granger mar- ried Rose Hughron, born in the same town as her husband, in 1828; died in 1896, in Cohoes, New York. The Granger and Hughron fam- ilies are mentioned at length in L' Abbe Tan- guay, a French standard work on genealogy.
(II) Moise Arthur, son of David and Rose (Hughron) Granger, was born in St. Alexan- der, Canada, March II, 1858. He was edu- cated in the public schools of that city, and in the night schools of Cohoes. He early began his business career, first working in the mills of Cohoes, later in a printing office for four years, clerk in a shoe store eight years, after which he bought out the business and for thir- teen years was the proprietor of a retail shoe store on Remsen street, Cohoes. In 1900 he formed a partnership with William T. Ford in the insurance business; in 1909 they dis- solved, and the firm name of M. A. Granger & Son, fire insurance and real estate, was adopted. The firm is active and does a fair share of the business of their city. Mr. Gran- ger is an active Republican, was member of the board of supervisors from the sixth ward for four years, represented his district in party convention, and was a delegate to the state convention that first placed Governor Hughes before the party as their candidate for gover- nor. In 1909 he was elected coroner of Albany county, and is now treasurer of the Cohoes Republican city committee. He is very promi- nent among the French Canadians of Cohoes, was chosen several times to represent them in the annual conventions or meetings that were formerly held in different cities. When the "Canadian Athenaeum," a social club com- posed of French Canadians, was organized largely through his efforts, he was president for two years and secretary for seven. This society flourished for several years, but chang- ing conditions operated against its existence and it disbanded. It exerted a great influence among the French people during its twenty years of existence, being literary and social, and attracting those interested in amateur
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